Lompoc Posts Strong Jump in Taxable Sales Across Sectors
State Board of Equalization figures show Lompoc taxable sales rising from 1972 to 1973 with total city sales reaching 48.207 million and Santa Barbara County totaling 701.301 million. Service stations, auto dealers, and auto supply stores led gains while apparel stores were the only local losers. statewide growth stood at about 11.6 percent after adjustments.
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Lompoc
State Board of Equalization
Santa Barbara
Apparrel
Seven held in Zebra racial cult killings
San Francisco police arrest seven young black men in dawn raids tied to the Death Angels, a statewide terror group blamed for 80 murders since 1970. Mayor Alioto says members recruit in jails, operate with wing insignia, and target whites in random street shootings and heavy blade assaults across California.
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San Francisco
UPI
Joseph Alioto
Death Angels
Alioto
California
Transcripts raise questions on Nixon Watergate role and clemency
Edited White House transcripts show Nixon weighing hush money for Watergate defendants and rejecting clemency proposals while claiming no knowledge of the break in until reports June 17 1972. White House summary blames false testimony but critics urge access to full tapes for impeachment inquiry.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Nixon
National Democratic Party
John W. Dean III
House Judiciary Committee
Milk Industry
International Telephone & Telegraph
Howard Hughes
United States
Coastal Fog Lingers With Inland Cooling This Week
Coastal areas stay enveloped in fog or low clouds through Thursday with slightly cooler inland. Today and Thursday high temperatures reach the upper 50s at the coast and around 60 inland. Tonight lows in the 40s. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoons. Tides: highs 4.1 ft at 8 12 am and 5.3 ft at 8 06 pm. lows 0.5 ft at 2 18 am and 0.4 ft at 2 07 pm.
Nixon to contest Jaworski tape subpoena in court
President Nixon will fight in court rather than comply with Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski’s subpoena for 64 Watergate related taped conversations. James D. St. Clair said the edited transcripts released to the House Judiciary Committee suffice for possible trials and cited plans to seek a Sirica ruling to quash the order.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Leon Jaworski
James D. St. Clair
St. Clair
House Judiciary Committee
White House
Jaworski
House
John J. Sirica
House Committee
Federal District and Appellate
Page Ade
Archibald Ox
Cox
Miguelito School Closure Plan Faces Strong Hearing Protest
About 300 people, mainly Miguelito School supporters, filled Clarence Ruth School as PTA and parents urged keeping Miguelito open. Speakers cited enrollment, safety routes on Olive Avenue, and potential tax effects while criticizing proposed savings of 94 000 dollars and questioning alternatives.
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Vaughn Proctor
Karl Braun
Clarence Ruth
Miguelito School
Ruth
Miguelito
Braun
Levi Biggs
PTA
Biggs
Eugene Frankhouser
Samuel Ledgerwood
Olive Avenue
Hapgood School
Bud Thacker
Frankhouser
Hapgood
Ledgerwood
Miguelito Channel
Thacker
Hancock College
Lompoc
Kissinger Mission Backed by Sadat Amid May Day Rally
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat defends Henry Kissinger's Middle East peace mission during talks with Kissinger in Cairo. Sadat calls hostile Arab leaders sick and juvenile politicians as Kissinger seeks a Syria Israel troop disengagement and a cease fire backed by Soviet and Algerian support.
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Alexandria
Egypt
UPI
Anwar Sadat
Henry A. Kissinger
Middle East
Sadat
Kissinger
Henry
Cairo
Helwan
Nancy
Jerusalem
Syria
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Larry Green
Dwight Stallings
Thomas Manney
Edgar D. Burton
Manuel Moore
Clarence Jamison
Manney
William ‘‘Bill
E. C. Stevens
Peter W. Rodine Jr
Dn.j
Judiciary Committee
Elks Lodge
Rick Rea
Donna Riley
Cabrillo High
Paula LaRiva
Ted Heath
Lompoc High
Brian Hutchinson
Vandenberg Junior
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