Aid Sought to Extend Foreign Aid Until Decision Made
House leaders pressed a plan to keep foreign aid flowing through the end of the current session. Chairman George Mahon urged passage of a resolution to extend funding until late 1971 or possibly January 3, 1972. The Senate had earlier voted to kill the program, but committees discussed a compromise to revive it at about 2 to 2.5 billion dollars annually through June 30.
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UPI
House
Congress
George Mahon
D-Tex
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Defense Department
Mahon
Rules Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House Banking panel backs retroactive wage approval
The House Banking Committee voted 16 14 to require the Pay Board to approve retroactive wage increases frozen during the current economy slowdown. The panel backed broadening Nixon administration powers and extending control through May 1, 1973, with retroactive pay for pre freeze contracts.
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Washington
UPI
House Banking Committee
Nixon
Wholesale prices ease for October amid Nixon price freeze
The Labor Department reports a 0.1 percent drop in the wholesale price index for all commodities in October, the second straight decline since Nixon's price freeze. Seasonally adjusted data show a 0.1 percent rise, while raw farm products rose 0.7 percent and processed foods fell 0.4 percent. The industrial commodities index held steady.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Nixon
British Troops Battle Gunmen in Belfast Unity Flats
More than 1,000 British soldiers sealed off Unity Flats in Belfast in an hours long clash with gunmen firing from churches and a cemetery. Police say at least one gunman was killed and two officers wounded as troops expanded the sweep to Londonderry and other Catholic areas amid renewed August violence.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Unity Flats
Londonderry
Andersonstown
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic
Donegal Street
St. Ennoch's Presbyterian Church
Crumlin Road
Glenravel Street
Planners approve subdivision requests near Vandenberg Village
The County Planning Commission approved a tentative map for a 41 lot subdivision by Vandenberg Village Development Co and rezoning a 17.7 acre parcel west of the Vandenerg Village Golf Course. Opponent W N Harris urged delaying further urbanization until water quality improves.
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Vandenberg Village
Harris
Lompoc Valley
Ed Everett
County Health
State Real Estate Board
U Unlimited Agricultural District
Aldebaran Ave
Vandenberg Utility Co
Key water commission meeting on proposed rate hike
A city water commission meeting is set for 1 p.m. at City Hall to consider a three-man committee’s recommendation on raising the monthly water bill. Earlier staff proposed about 20 percent, but leaks from the committee suggest possible results from no hike to 10 or 15 percent.
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City Water Commission
Cranston Attacks Dole Over Oil Sanctuaries Bill
Sen. Alan Cranston accuses Interior official Hollis Dole of distortion as hearings proceed on a bill to create six federal oil free sanctuaries off California. Cranston says the department misreads the legislation while Dole argues for balancing resource development with environmental protection and maintaining federal control over offshore leases.
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Washington
UPI
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Interior Department
California
Cranston
Hollis M. Dole
Dole
Senate Minerals, Materials and Fuels
Frank E. Moss
Utah
Gordon Allott
R-Cole
Allott
Congress
Cabrillo students explore digital computers in class
Cabrillo High School students Bernard McGivney and Hal Singer lead a district wide program introducing a modestly sized digital computer. Tim Little, a science oriented sophomore, explains how the computer translates factors into binary language and how talking with it relies on pre programmed material. The article notes the device’s memory limits and the enormous potential of tape based programs.
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Cabrillo High School
Bernard McGivney
Hal Singer
Tim Little
Tim
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