Water history frames Lompo Narrows Dam idea for Santa Barbara County
Editor notes the county’s long waterquest from Gibraltar tunnel and Cachuma project to a proposed Lompoc dam. Historical records show 1905 survey conclusions, 1920 Gibraltar completion, 1940 cost sharing report, 1944 plan for Lompoc reservoir, and 1946 County Water Agency endorsement emphasizing regional cooperation and future financing.
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Santa Barbara County
S. B. Leppencott
Hydrographics Branch
U.S. Geological Survey
Santa Ynez
Gibraltar
County Board of Supervisors
Bureau of Reclamation
Lompoc
County Water Agency
T. A. Twitchell
Cachuma-Gibralter
Twitchell
Showdown Expected Over Lompoc Narrows Dam Vote
Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District directors prepare for a decisive vote on a controversial resolution about the Lompoc Narrows Dam. The May 7 meeting saw a 2 1 outcome urging state agency action on the Feather River project and a flood control study upstream, with directors to approve, reject, or modify the resolution tomorrow night.
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Santa Ynez
Narrows
Richard Henning
Division 1
Lompoc
Wil
Kiam Laranjo
Buellton
Virgil Phelps
Phelps
Bureau of Reclamation
Charles Sudden
Andrew Petersen
Solvang Santa Ynez
Sudden
Key County Water Agency
Petersen
Robert M. Edmonston
Edmonston
Southcoast
Sagunto St
Phil Macias
Bureau
Santa Barbara County
Water District Board
Water Agency
Lompoc Valley
Santa Barbara
Key Water Agency
Protesters Routed At Stanford Amid SRI Traffic Blockade
About 40 antiwar demonstrators in Stanford California attempted to block access roads to a Stanford Research Institute branch. Police cleared barricades after 40 officers arrived. protesters regrouped and were chased off across an open field. A temporary restraining order barred entry to SRI grounds for 27 individuals and others.
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Stanford, Calif
UPI
Stanford Research Institute
Pagé Mill Road
SRI
Stanford Industrial Park
Santa Clara County
Apollo 10 Astronauts Sleep Well Amid Thruster Noise
Apollo 10 crew Commander Thomas Stafford John W Young and Eugene Cernan report a good night's sleep despite thruster thumps as they head toward the moon aboard Snoopy. They plan color TV transmissions and test equipment for the first U.S. manned lunar landing due in July.
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Edward K. Delong
UPI
Space Winter Space Center
Houston
America
Thomas P. Stafford
Stafford
John W. Young
Eugene A. Cernan
Moon
Rogers says U S policy in Asia unchanged by Nixon
Secretary of State William P. Rogers told about 200 American diplomats and their wives on the Bangkok embassy lawn that there has been no basic shift in U S policy toward Asia under the Nixon administration only a change of tone He said Nixon will not back away from responsibilities in Asia and will not quit the region.
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Stewart Hensley
Bangkok
UPI
William P. Rogers
U.S
Asia
Nixon
Rogers
Leonard Unger
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
Southeast Asia
Congress weighs six month tax surcharge extension
Congress opens debate on extending the 10 percent income tax surcharge through year end amid pressure for spending cuts and targeted relief for the poor. Mills warns extension hinges on tax relief while Mansfield calls for $10 billion in new cuts to the budget.
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Congress
Frank Eleazer Washington
UPI
House
Ways and Means Committee
Nixon
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Mills
U.S. News and World Report
Senate
Ike Mansfield
Mansfield
Mayo
Johnson
Leary s conviction upset by high court
The eight member Supreme Court overturned the federal narcotics conviction of Dr Timothy F Leary former ard psychologist famed for LSD research. He was found guilty in Laredo Texas of transporting illegally imported marijuana and failing to pay a $100 per ounce transfer tax. The Court struck down a provision that allowed presuming illegal importation from possession. The ruling suggested Leary had a valid defense claiming tax payment would have exposed him to self incrimination.
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Charlotte Moulton
Leary
Hill battle rages at Hamburger Hill in Vietnam
A helicopter borne force of 600 Allied troops reinforced American paratroopers in the Hamburger Hill battle in the A Shau Valley near Laos. Casualties on both sides rose as a dawn push reached within 50 yards of the summit before darkness halted the assault.
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Saigon
UPI
Hamburger Hill
U.S
Paris
A Shau
Laos
Lamb
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Stanford
Young Americans For Freedom
YAF
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Vandenberg
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Robert Speers
Robert P. Mayo
Hanoi
Vietnam
Rodney
Teddy
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