Revenue sharing funds urged for social programs
Citizens urged the City Council to redirect part of the 1977 78 revenue sharing funds toward social programs. The hearing featured critics like Harry Crompe of the Lompoc Valley Drug Abuse Council and Alberta Morgan urging youth and drug prevention services, while officials favored funding police and fire salaries. A second hearing is planned during the June 6 budget review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert O. Vincent
Bob Livingston
Harry Crompe
Lompoc Valley
Alberta Morgan
Helen Elliott
Sidney Smith
Hospice of Santa Barbara, Inc
June Ryan
Lompoc
Livingston
Charlotte Benton
Carter to Sign Tax Bill Aimed at Saving Money and Creating Jobs
President Carter pledged to sign Congress approved tax legislation. The measure creates a permanent $4 billion tax cut via higher standard deductions, simplifying returns for about 50 million taxpayers and relieving 3.3 million low income filers from federal income tax.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Congress
White House
Los Angeles
United Auto Workers Union
Mission Hills Parents Form School Patrols
Mission Hills residents organize a 22 member patrol to deter vandalism at Los Berros School after $3000 in losses this year. Patrols span day and night with dogs and near neighbor phone chains to alarm the sheriff for trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Plummer
Los Berros School
Mission Hills
Plummer
Sheriff's Department
Zeke
Panel okays county split legislation in Senate
The Senate Local Government Committee approved SB702 requiring voters be informed of potential tax increases budgets for proposed counties and maximum tax rates and mandating asset division. A companion bill would allow state reimbursement for formation costs, with a population threshold of over 500000. Roberts defended the changes to protect the counties being divided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
UPI
Senate
David Roberts
Los Angeles
Roberts
Carter pledges national health plan early next year
President Carter promised to submit a national health insurance plan early next year and said welfare must be redesigned. He warned hard choices are needed to balance the budget by 1981, and pressed for energy program support while facing liberal and labor criticism.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Carter
United Auto Workers
George McGovern
Washington
California
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
UAW
Auto Workers
Supervisors Back Mission Preserve Effort
In a 4-0 vote with Chairman Harrell Fletcher abstaining the Santa Barbara County supervisors urged state support to preserve the La Purisima Mission surrounding agricultural area. Robert Hedlund said citizens favored acquisition of development rights to protect the rural setting while owners could remain on the land. The board also urged Planning Commission to set appropriate zoning for the lands amid questions about non agenda item handling. The State Finance Committee was weighing the matter that week.
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Harrell Fletcher
la Purisima
Lompoc Valley
Robert Hedlund
Citizens’ Advisory Committee
Hedlund
Planning Commission
Fletcher
Santa Maria
State Finance Committee
Saudi Arabia Maintains Oil Price Control Policy
Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani insists Saudi Arabia will keep prices low despite reports of a possible compromise with OPEC peers. He says no discussion on unifying prices occurred and that losses from the Abqaiq fire are small while calculations continue.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Saudi Arabia
Yamani
Abu Dhabi
Zayed Ben Sultan al Nahyan
United Arab Emirates
Emirates
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Iran
Iraq
Middle East
Abgaiq
Saccharin threat energized by Nader critiques FDA stance
A coalition led by Ralph Nader and several scientists and congressmen argues saccharin poses cancer risk with as little as two cans of diet soda daily. They defend Canadian rat studies showing bladder cancer from high saccharin intake and challenge industry claims of needing 800 cans daily. The FDA has ordered saccharin off the market pending drug-store reintroduction.
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Washington
UPI
Ralph Nader
Gressmen
Food and Drug Administration
Nader
NATO ministers back Carter plan to boost defense spending
NATO defense ministers in Brussels approved President Carter’s proposals to raise defense spending by 3 percent annually for hardware upgrades. They endorsed an emergency program to strengthen defenses against conventional attack within 12 to 18 months and a long term plan for broader alliance cooperation to counter Soviet forces in the 1980s. All 13 nations present supported the spending rise, though France and Greece did not participate in NATO military activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carter
Central Valley
Fresno
Auto Workers
White House
Jody Powell
Powell
Brussels
Belgium
UPI
NATO
Defense Ministers Conference
France
Greece
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