City police open house set for National Police Week
Lompoc City officials invite the public to a Wednesday open house at the police plant on South D Street with tours at 11 am 1 pm 4 pm and 7 pm A narcotics film will screen after the 7 pm tour Air Security Police will showcase sentry dogs and guests will view firearms narcotics materials equipment and a command vehicle The event includes briefings by Police Chief Ray Robertson and Asst Chief James D Smith and tours of records detention booking and communications areas nearby fires in Vandenberg Village and on N Street caused minor damage from matches and a bottle finger injury to Bruce Lundy 16 required finger extraction by rescue staff
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South D Street
Lompoc
Air Force Military Police
Ray Robertson
James D. Smith
Mel Ramos
Vandenberg Village
Venus Ave
Vandenberg Village Development Co
N St
Jasmine Ave
Bruce Lundy
Bruce
S. R St
Senate weighs Cambodia troop withdrawal and antiwar push
Senate leaders clash over an amendment to force Nixon to pull U.S. troops from Cambodia by July 1. Supporters include McGovern and civil rights groups while Scott doubts votes exist. Campus protests and a Nixon pledge frame the showdown as Foreign Relations moves to advance the Cambodia cutoff measure.
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Washington
Senate
House
George McGovern
D-S.d
U.S. Capitol
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Welfare Rights Organization
United Farm Workers
George A. Wiley
NWRA
Gilbert Padilla
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
State Department
Colgate University
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Colgate
Trustees Board
Hamilton, N.Y
Cambodia
Nixon
Foreign Relations Committee
Uncertain Federal Funds Discussed at Lompoc Board Meeting
Lompoc Unified School District will hold a regular board meeting at 3 30 p m to review federal funding uncertainties. Assistant business manager Joe Carlin reports Washington trips on May 4 and 5 and estimates a possible 1 8 million impact versus prior years over 2 million.
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Lompoc Unified
Joe Carlin
Washington
Personnel Commission
Robert Thompson
Refinery blast kills five workers in Philadelphia plant
An explosion and fire at the Atlantic Richfield refinery in South Philadelphia killed five workers and wounded at least 27. Fire officials described the blaze as the worst seen in 30 years, with flames rising fifty feet and smoke spreading over the area.
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Philadelphia
UPI
Atlantic Richfield Oil Co
James McCarey
Weather Outlook With Mild Conditions Through Tuesday
Fair weather continues through Tuesday with some afternoon and evening cloudiness. Highs in the 60s to low 70s, lows in the 40s, and northwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Tides on Tuesday show high tides at 2:56 am and 6:44 pm and low tides at 10:56 am and 11:26 pm.
Vandals Target Flower Power Garden Fence on W Ocean Ave
A vandalism incident reports a white picket fence torn down at the Flower Power garden on W Ocean Avenue. A mother and two children were gathering litter along the Lompoc Casamba Road Saturday while bystanders observed the disturbance and a separate note mentions mothers being taken out to dinner.
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W. Ocean Avenue
Lompoc - Casamba Road
Antiwar actions to continue after Kent State protests
Washington UPI reports antiwar forces plan to extend actions on two fronts. They aim to spread the student strike to organized labor and back a campaign to elect peace candidates to Congress while protesters return to hometowns.
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Washington
UPI
White House
Congress
Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
Kent State University
Capitol Hill
House
Ron Young
New Mobilization Committee
Vietnam
Lincoln Memorial
National Guard Association
Vietnam river boat armada arrives in Phnom Penh
An armada of South Vietnamese river boats arrives in Phnom Penh under Cambodian air cover. The 110-vessel flotilla includes LSTs and LCTs, with 30 American ships at Neak Luong and some vessels continuing upriver toward Kopmong Chang.
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Phnom Penh
UPI
Mekong
Neak Luong
Nixon
Cambodia
Saigon
U.S
LST
Vung Tau
South Vietnam
Water district weighs revised state water pricing ahead of 1980 delivery
Water district board in Santa Ynez rejects portions of Edmonston’s report and favors delaying state water delivery until 1980 to save about 17.3 million dollars. Stetson projects county costs 26.7 million 1971 1980 for 1976 start, while 9.3 million would apply for 1980 delivery. District plans a tax to favor users and delay reply to Taxpayers Against the Lompoc Dam until June meeting.
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Water District
Thomas Stetson
Robert Edmonston
Edmonston
Santa Ynez
Water District Board
Stetson
Lompoc
Students Return As Protests Persist Across Campuses
Thousands of college students returned to classes after closures tied to antiwar protests and Kent State killings. Demonstrations continued at numerous campuses. Wisconsin and Marquette saw arrests and tear gas, while California and Northwestern prepared to reopen with cautious expectations.
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Cambodia
Kent State University
UAW Chief Reuther Mourned by Nation's Workers and Leaders
UPI reports Walter P. Reuther, 62, longtime UAW president, died in a Lear jet crash near Pennington Michigan along with five others. James Blackwell, a 24 year UAW member, mourns Reuther as a man who did more for workers. The crash occurred during instrument approach in fog and thunder showers. A seven member NTSB team began investigation. The death comes ahead of crucial auto contract talks.
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Penston
Mich
UPI
James Blackwell
United Auto Workers
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Blackwell
University of Michigan Hospital
Reu
Ther
May
Reuther
Detroit
William Wolfman
National Transportation Safety Board
Russell Abbott
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Rhoda Casto
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
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Lsis
Cam
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Madison
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Milwaukee
Wis
John P.raynor
Marquette
Iowa
Robert Ray
National Guard
Wash
Ington
University of Iowa
Northwestern University
Evanston
New Jersey
Princeton
Rutgers
Ohio
Kent State
Robert White
California
Ronald Reagan
UCLA
Charles E. Young
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