Vandenberg AFB Economic Impact Top $73 Million for 1970
A brief 1970 economic impact report shows Vandenberg Air Force Base contributing over 73 million dollars to the regional economy. The two page release to Lompoc and Santa Maria chambers notes 6,000 military personnel, 2,000 civil servants, and 5,000 contractors, plus detailed base consumption and construction figures.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Chambers of Commerce
Lompoc
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara County
Civil Service
Vandenberg
Isla Vista probe may bolster county damage claims
A heavily critical Attorney General report on Isla Vista riot policing could influence multimillion dollar claims against the county. Federal Grand Jury findings in Los Angeles and shifts in insurance coverage loom as officials weigh civil rights lawsuits and future prosecutions.
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Dick Praul
Isla Vista
Federal Grand Jury
Los Angeles
Younger
David D. Milner
Bombers and tanks strike ridge near DMZ in revenge attack
U S fighter bombers and tanks supported a ground assault on a ridge straddling the DMZ after Communist rockets hit Fire Base Charlie 2 to sundown Friday. The attack left 30 U S troops dead and 50 wounded, the heaviest U S casualty toll since March.
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Saigon
Upz
U.S
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Khe Sanh
Mary Ann
Central Highlands
Shau
Cambodia
High Command
Charlie 2
Senate set to vote on draft extension plan for Vietnam
Senate leaders reached a deal to bring to an early vote a two year draft extension tied to pay boosts. The plan would bar draftees from Vietnam after December 31 1971 and faces a potential filibuster by Senator Gravel.
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Washington
Sen
Gaylord Nelson
D-Wis
Vietnam
California Space Shuttle Bid Gains Congressional Support
Assemblyman MacGillivray said he traveled to Washington with Lt. Gov. Reinecke to press for a California space shuttle program. He cited support from Rep. George Miller and Sen. Alan Cranston, while some lawmakers questioned the program’s ties to SST.
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Assembly
Don MacGillivray
Congress
Washington
California
George P. Miller
Alameda
Science and Aeronautics Committee
MacGillivray
Department of Defense
NASA
DOD
Ed Reinecke
Reinecke
Assemblyman
U.S
Alan Cranston
Senate
Stalin
Drug abuse lecture series to continue in Lompoc Valley
Rev Richard Harris announces the second public lecture on drug abuse in Lompoc Valley. The session Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the High School cafeteria features Judge Terrill Cox Probation Officer Ed Lewis Attorney Bruce Sharpe and a police representative discussing courts probation police and defense perspectives along with a Sedatives film.
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Lompoc Valley
Richard Harris
Drug Abuse Coordinating Council
Harris
Justice Court
Terrill Cox
Ed Lewis
Bruce Sharpe
Investigation
Lompoc
Nixon Fires Up Nation at Lyndon Johnson Library Dedication
President Nixon accepted the $18.6 million Lyndon B. Johnson Library on behalf of the people and praised its insights into a pivotal era. more than 3,800 guests and a national TV audience attended as 800 security personnel guarded the ceremony amid protests. A Texas barbecue followed on the library grounds at the University of Texas.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
United States
Texas Rangers
Secret Service
National Archives
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Kent
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Robert Kelly
Robinson Memorial Hospital
Ravenna
Ohio
Kelly
Kent Commons
John W. Carpenter
Attorney General’s Office
Carpenter
Fresno
Calwa
Bank of America
Mercant Association Credit Bureau
Salinas
Bonday
Vietnam Ridge
South Vietnam
Arnold Stallman
Shenandoah
Stewart Kellerman
Stallman
Lompoc City Hall
Garry Marrow
Downey Police Department
Richard Baldivier
N.Y
New York
Harlem
New York City
Patrick V. Murphy
Murphy
M’‘Gillivray
San Rafael
Calif
Josef Stalin
Willia W. Peters
Svetlana Alliuyeva Stalina
Peters
Ladybird
University of Texas
Bud McCann
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