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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1975
Page
3
UPI reports the Joint Economic Committee estimates 1975–80 output loss at 1.45 trillion dollars nearly matching GNP. The panel urges large deficit spending to spur recovery with mortgage subsidies and public service jobs while warning against stoking inflation.
In Los Angeles area plants McDonnell Douglas workers vote 74 percent against a new contract due to an inadequate pension plan and missing cost of living clause. The rejection sustains a nationwide IAM strike involving 7,000 of 19,000 members, while St Louis negotiations continue without progress.
The Chicago Tribune reports Patricia Hearst, the newspaper heiress turned fugitive, may be in a farming area 20 miles southwest of Boise Idaho. Authorities in Idaho and the FBI deny locating Hearst near Boise and describe the report as unverified with no knowledge of the farmhouse meeting plan.
Snow flurries and a new front hit the Sierra Nevada after a weekend storm that dumped up to three feet of snow and closed I 80 and US 50. Avalanches blocked traffic at Colfax and Echo Summit delayed travelers heading to California. CHP lifted controls and warned of slick patches and minor coastal flooding.
In Washington the 90th Gridiron Club dinner featured a circus motif as government and press elites gathered. Helen Thomas became the first woman inducted into the Gridiron, and Betty Ford and Happy Rockefeller attended as officials wives at the event.
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. supports extending collective bargaining and the right to strike to California's 1.9 million public workers while warning against strikes and urging a climate that avoids labor disputes. He notes workers seek fair pay within state limits and cites SB275 debate.
In Mogadishu, France's ambassador to Somalia Jean Gary was kidnapped at gunpoint by gunmen demanding the release of two alleged agitators jailed in France. Officials said police surrounded the area as diplomats awaited a full report, marking the first such kidnapping of a French diplomat since 1960s era incidents.
H R Haldeman tells CBS News Nixon once considered destroying the tapes but he advised against it. He says more unpublished tapes will show Nixon as a strong leader most of the time. The interview aired for 25,000 dollars, with a second segment to follow.
A 26-year-old Pacific Palisades man, John S. Purviance, was electrocuted when a gust pushed his hang glider into power lines along the Pacific Coast Highway after launching from Carbon Canyon cliff. He died at the scene in Malibu.
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