Classified school workers seek 13 percent pay hike
Lompoc Unified School District faces a 13 percent salary increase demand from classified employes plus fringe benefits costing an estimated 440000. The board will receive the requests at a public meeting as a prelude to bargaining under new state law with possible July 1 deadlines and additional costs for health life and holiday benefits.
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Lompoc Unified School District
California School Employer Association
CSEA
2000 Spectators See 4-H Exhibit Day at Nojoqui Falls Park
The 32nd annual Santa Barbara County 4-H Exhibit Day drew about 2000 spectators to Nojoqui Falls Park south of Solvang. Top livestock exhibitor was 16-year-old Joann Young who won the fat Angus trophy and the round robin showmanship title amid competition in five animal categories. Judges and exhibitors from Santa Ynez and Lompoc valleys earned numerous medals across livestock, breeding, and craft divisions, with prize ribbons and trophies awarded before the day ended.
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Nojoqui Falls Park
Solvang
Santa Barbara
King Merrill
Santa Ynez
Santa Barbara County
Nojoqui Falls
Lompoc
Joann Young
Gordon Young
Santa Ynez Valley High School
Santa Ynez Valley
Erik Barquist
Lucky Clover
Los Olivos
Ronnie Cline
Swine
Ford in strategy meetings to offset Reagan challenge
President Ford convened aides to revise campaign plans amid possible primaries losses to Ronald Reagan in Nebraska and Michigan. A new Gallup poll shows Carter leading Ford 52 to 43, with Humphrey ahead of Ford, while Carter edges toward the Democratic nomination.
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Ford
Ronald Reagan
Nebraska
Michigan
Jimmy Carter
Hubert Humphrey
Carter
Patrick Caddell
Georgia
Caddell
United Auto Workers
Leonard Woodcock
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany
West Virginia
Connecticut
Rogers Morton
Kentucky
Tennessee
Arkansas
Holland
Grand Rapids
Maine
New Hampshire
Morris Udall
Plains
Udall
Henry Jackson
Jackson
Pennsylvania
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Cbs-Tv
Face the Nation
Maryland
Wyomin
Brown
New Jersey
Nevada
Reagan
Kansas City
New York City
Madison Square Garden
City utility bills to rise with sewer rate increase
Lompoc officials announce higher charges for city utilities with a $2 sewer rate hike for single family homes bringing the base to $10 a month, plus 5 percent boosts in water and rubbish services and a solid waste charge up to $3.15. The changes, approved in 1974, reflect rising operation costs and inflation as the sewer project nears completion in 177.
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Robert O. Vincent
Lompoc
$200 Million Suit Looms Against Johns Manville in Lompoc
Oakland attorney Steven Kazan announces a $200 million lawsuit against Johns Manville in California Superior Court, likely Santa Barbara, on behalf of 20 former workers and survivors alleging fraud deceit and civil conspiracy over asbestos exposure since 1951. He seeks $10 million punitive damages per plaintiff and malpractice claims against plant physician Dr Milton Duncan, with potential expansion to more plaintiffs. Local 146 Chemical Workers Union aided Kazan and more clients may be interviewed in the coming weeks.
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Johns Manville
Lompoc
California
Santa Barbara
Steven Kazan
Oakland
Kazan
Milton Duncan
J-M
Dr. Duncan
Kazan's Law Corporation
Pittsburg
Bay Area
Contra Costa County
Duncan
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Robert Thompson
ITA
R King Merrill
Debbie Ryan
Buellton
Nojoqui Park
SOS Coalition of Parents
Anne Sweet
Lompoc Unified
Sweet
SOS
Miguelito
la Mesa
David D. Wulfrange
Edwin J. Walsh
Sue Heckman
Marcia Rose Toomey
Donald R. Adams
Carricuburu
Roberta Blanchard
Jerry Williams
Rodney Williams
Wayne Smith
Wendy Janssens
Allan Jones
Debbie Weld
Cara Weld
Alice Larson
Janice Pata
Westside
Lydia Gartrell
Hilltop
Tamra Lopez
Jeff Pratt
Lisa Houghtaling
Rabbit
Maria Mitchell
Frank Costa, Jr
United Press International
Stan Tulledo
Chemical Workers Union
Moose Lodge
The
Lodge
Becca Stewart
Lions Club
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