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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1975
Page
4
The Assembly Housing Committee unanimously approved a $1 billion housing construction and rehabilitation plan for low and middle income Californians and a $5 million bill to guarantee loans for blighted areas. Gov Brown seeks to boost home building with SB2 and related programs.
Federal authorities in Mexico broke up a major narcotics operation arresting 18 suspects and seizing drugs worth about 20 million dollars on the U.S. market. Raids in Tijuana Ensenada and Culiacan yielded 21 tons of marijuana 23 pounds of heroin 5.5 million amphetamine tablets and 88 pounds of amphetamine powder. Investigators said the ring processed amphetamine powder in Ensenada shipped from Culiacan and smuggled drugs into the United States.
UPI reports nationwide potato farmers face bankruptcy as prices drop to the lowest since the Great Depression. Idaho, a leading producer, hires illegal Mexican labor to cut costs amid rising input prices and inflation. Farmers warn shortages and high production costs threaten the industry.
Four workers were found dead in an under river tunnel after a methane gas blast halted rescue efforts. Investigators probe whether a faulty telephone contributed to the explosion while four other workers were hospitalized.
The Senate Governmental Organization Committee approved SB44 by Sen. David A. Roberts 6 to 4 sending the measure to the Finance Committee. The bill would require agencies to register information gathering systems with the secretary of state and grant public access to files with exemptions for law enforcement and medical data. Opponents include UC and SF State. objections focus on penalties for unauthorized disclosures and risks to faculty confidentiality in personnel records. Roberts says the bill aims to fix misinformation in files and improve system protections.
Sacramento UPI reports legislation to grant reporters special parking privileges while covering a story failed in the Senate Transportation Committee. The bill SB735 by Sen. George Moscone was rejected on a 43 to 1 vote, one vote short of the required majority.
A violent Texas tornado struck Coleman wrecking homes and businesses and killing an elderly minister and his wife. Governor Briscoe sent National Guard aid as additional twisters caused damage from Texas to Florida and New Jersey with injuries reported in Oklahoma and New Jersey.
Placer County supervisors vote 3-2 against a proposal to shelter 400 refugees including former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky in an abandoned tuberculosis sanitarium. Raymond S Thompson cites local hunger as reason. Jack Ward of Food for the Hungry Inc. blames prejudice and war frustration for the defeat.
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