Lompoc Faces Funding Cut Weighing Wastewater Plant Plan
City officials scramble after Nixon administration withholds 6 billion of 11 billion Congress funded for wastewater plants in 1973 and 1974. Lompoc had approved a 1.5 million bond for a regional plant with 80 percent federal state grant.
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Lompoc
Congress
California
George Cotsenmeyer
Gene Wahlers
San Francisco
Brown and Caldwell, Engineering Consultants
Nixon S. Viet seek summit as Thieu envoy flies to Washington
South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu dispatches envoy Nguyen Phu Duc to Washington to press for a Thieu Nixon summit and a cease fire deal. Washington remains doubtful a meeting will occur. Communist China urges U S to sign the cease fire as drafted. Hanoi criticizes delays. Thieu seeks withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops. Four-power talks resume with Kissinger Tho negotiations.
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Nguyen van Thieu
South Vietnam
Nguyen Phu Duc
Washington
Thieu
Nixon
Saigon
China
United States
Vietnam
Hanoi
Chou En-lai
Peking Radio
Chi Peng-fei
Duc
Paris
le Duc Tho
White House
Henry A. Kissinger
Pissaser Tho
Laos
Cambodia
Kissinger
Tho
Phew Hoang Duc Nha
Pham Dang Lam
Viet Cong
Nguyen Thi Binh
California approves $25 million early childhood revamp
Gov Ronald Reagan signed a $25 million bill designed by state schools chief Wilson Riles to revitalize early childhood education. The program starts in 1973 74 for kindergarten to third grade, with a preschool path possible by 1975 76 pending legislative approval.
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Sacramento
UPS
Wilson Riles
California
Ronald Reagan
Rainy weather forces cutback in Vietnam bombing raids
U S officers order a reduced fighter-bomber campaign near the DMZ as heavy rains limit visibility. An accidental bombing near Hoi An raises death toll to 21, with field reports suggesting up to 24 or more. Despite weather, B 52s dropped about 1800 tons over the DMZ while North Vietnamese targets remained contested.
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Saigon
Upz
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
U.S
Hoi An
Guam
Thailand
Vietnam
Nixon names Peter Brennan to be labor secretary
President Nixon selected Peter J. Brennan, a New York City union leader and head of the New York Building Trades Council, to serve as labor secretary in his second term. Brennan will replace James D. Hodgson as cabinet selection announcements continue.
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UPI
Nixon
New York City
Peter J. Brennan
Brennan
James D. Hodgson
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
New York Building Trades Council
Organized Labor
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Labor Department
Arthur J. Goldberg
United Steelworkers Union
John F. Kennedy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Martin Durkin
Plumbers Union
Durkin
Goldberg
Supreme Court
New York
Hodgson
Meany
Reagan Calls for Showdown on Tax Bill
Gov. Ronald Reagan pressed for a final showdown over his property tax relief school aid bill as the legislature neared adjournment. The package would raise sales and corporate taxes to fund $670 million in property tax cuts, $332 million in new school money, and renter tax credits, with Senate passage uncertain.
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Reagan
Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Edwin Meese III
Mexico
Assembly
Bob Moretti
D-Van Nuys
Board puts off decision on teacher project
The school board tabled the teacher project committee issue for three months amid a plan to add staff administrators and concerns from the Lompoc Education Association about committee makeup. A principal veto on some programs was noted as a problem while administrators’ input was deemed helpful though not necessarily a vote. The committee will meet soon to shape the idea.
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Vaughn Proctor
Glen Wegner
Wegner
David Manship
Lompoc
Manship
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