Crib death prompts UPI report on SIDS crisis and legislation
Sacramento article notes SIDS kills about 1000 to 1500 babies yearly in California and 10,000 nationally. It covers a California Senate bill AB409 requiring autopsies in suspected crib deaths, better parent support, and data sharing, plus personal stories including the Smiley and Grape families. It also mentions four Lompoc Valley youths entering the U S Air Force Academy.
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Sacramento
UPI
Trish
John Smiley
Elsinore
Smiley
George Grape
United States
California
State Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Robert W. Crown
Alameda
Senate Health and Welfare Committee
Assembly
Crown
Bill Lockyer
D-Alameda
Lockyer
Grape
Sacramento County
U.S. Senate
Abraham Bergman
Seattle
Sids Foundation
Smileys
Bergman
Cadets Complete Survival Training and Parachute School
Cadets finished a three week water and combat survival and prisoner-of-war course. Cadet Heidmans earned basic airborne qualification after five jumps at Fort Benning Georgia. They join Cabrillo and Lompoc high school graduates and will be commissioned in June 1976 with BS degrees. The Air Force Systems Command Junior Officers Council elected Captain Stirling president and Lt Zgliczynski vice president with Captain Swilley as recorder. All are from the Space and Missile Test Center.
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Air Force
Heidmans, Baker and Jones
Cabrillo High School
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Lompoc High School
Frank Stirling
Jim Zgliczynski
Paul Swilley
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Space and Missile Test Center
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