City Water Rate Increase Approved by Commission
The water rate committee recommended a 20 percent increase and a half rate for erations with Mixsell pushing the motion. The commission accepted the committee report and approved Mixsell’s motion to raise rates while dropping a 12 cent tax-rate proposal. The panel urged quarterly income and expenditure statements and city guidance on commission duties. A final item about funding annual depreciation of Water Department assets drew scrutiny after adjournment.
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Joe Mixsell
Mixsell
City Council
Water Department
Cannikin test prep on Amchitka Island holds hopes for blast
Preparations for the 5 megaton Spartan device on Amchitka Island neared completion as workers sealed the 5 matter shaft and filled it with gravel. If weather and court rulings permit, the detonation is planned for Saturday with a small group, including Atomic Energy Commission Chairman James R. Schlesinger, awaiting in a bunker 23 miles away. Greenpeace protesters aboard Greenpeace Too expect delays but may not reach the island before the blast.
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Amchitka Island
Alaska
Atomic Energy Commission
James R. Schlesinger
Rachel
Schlesingers
Ground Zero
Greenpeace
Amchitka
Court to hear pleas against nuclear test on Amchitka Island
The Supreme Court plans a rare Saturday session at 9 30 a m EST to hear environmentalists argue to delay the five megaton underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island set for 5 p m EST, with New York attorney David L Sive for opponents and AEC Solicitor General Erwin Griswold for the government.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
U. S
Amchitka Island
David L. Sive
New York
Erwin N. Griswold
Atomic Energy Commission
Nixon
AEC
High Court
Pentagon Papers
E. Whittington
Court debated Cannikin test as Amchitka launch looms
A morning meeting warned a Saturday hearing may occur unless a court delays or a presidential order halts Cannikin underground test on Amchitka Island. The Spartan warhead sits 6000 feet underground and would exceed Hiroshima in power. Authorities reject environmental risk claims while conservation groups urge postponement for full data disclosure.
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Amchitka Island
Aleutian
Alaskan
United States
Hiroshima
Warren E. Burger
White House
AEC
White House overhauls CIA leadership structure
The White House announced a broad reorganization placing CIA Director Richard Helms under wider community wide intelligence duties while reducing his operational powers. Lawmakers divided yet cautious, with critics calling for better coordination and urging caution on the nuclear test plan amid antiwar protests and public vigils.
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Mahon
Bombing targets Belfast border post as violence rises
Extremists blew up a Rossleigh customs post on the border with the Republic. A Royal Navy recruiting office in Belfast was bombed injuring a couple and four children. A senior off duty army officer was seriously wounded by a sniper in Anderstonstown.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Rossleigh
Irish Republic
Brian Faulkner
Britain
Royal Navy
City Hall
Army
Belfasts
Anderstonstown
Michael Mealyer
Mealyer
Rossleagh
Faulkner
London
$135 Million Grain Sale to USSR Averts Dock Objections
Washington reports a $135 million sale of corn oats and barley to the Soviet Union after union leaders agreed to load the grain on Soviet ships. The deal, by Continental Grain Co and Cargill, may ease farm prices amid high yields and could pave broader U.S.-Soviet trade as Maurice Stans plans a Moscow visit.
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Washington
UPI
Russia
U. S
Agriculture Department
Continental Grain Co
New York
Cargill, Inc
Minneapolis
Nixon
Andrew Gibson
Great Lakes
Cyclone shifts course toward East Pakistan coast
A new cyclonic storm from the Bay of Bengal veered north northeast away from Orissa after a week that saw at least 10 000 dead. Weather officials in New Delhi said the storm was 210 miles south of Calcutta and could strike the Sundarbans coast in West Bengal or East Pakistan by evening if the current path holds.
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New Delhi
India
West Bengal
East Pakistan
Lompoc Key Club Initiation Stir Mirth During Band Trip
Mitchell Gullitson wearing only a bathing suit sat in a high art room window at Lompoc to ring a bell as part of a Key Club initiation. The Cabrillo band, en route to a Merced band review, surprised Paso Robles residents by practicing in streets during a dinner stop.
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Mitchell Gullitson
Lompoc High
Merced
Paso Robles
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Washington Post
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R-Mass
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D-Mass
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Holmdahl
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Moscow
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