Fare cuts approved for Lompoc Transit System service
The Lompoc Transportation Committee approved a fare reduction from 50 to 25 cents with coupon discounts and set a 50 cent fare to the Federal Correctional Institution. Service to FCI to run seven days weekly, with first month showing fare complaints and calls for more buses and better routes.
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Lompoc
Federal Correctional Institution
City Transportation Committee
FCI
Dean Crowder
Community Actions Committee
Transportation Committee
City Hall
Jack Lam
Crowder
January bid eyed for highway project in Lompoc area
State Department of Transportation plans a January bid on a $204000 improvement of Highway 246 from Seventh Street east to the junction with Highway 1. Frank Gregory, district transit chief, cited a mixed Santa Barbara County picture and noted the project as a bright spot amid broader maintenance needs. Paul Thompson received the chamber's Citizen of the Quarter for his library service and bicentennial work.
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Vaughn Proctor
State Department of Transportation
Seventh Street
Department
Lompoc
Lompoc Valley
Ocean Avenue
Gregory
State Highway Commission
Commission
Harley Craig
Craig
Robinson Bridge
Cebada Canyon Road
Chamber
Paul Thompson
Thompson
Rain Storm Ravages Lompoc Bean Crops
The northward storm drenched Lompoc and the Solvang Santa Ynez Valley with heavy rain early today. Lompoc gauges show 0.25 inch in 90 minutes and a season total of 3.26 inches, the highest for this time of year. Bean crops and flower seed crops suffered severe losses as bean brokers bought what they could, with Lompoc Warehouse manager Oscar Cook reporting $146,000 in bean sales yesterday.
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Lompoc
Solvang
Santa Ynez
Oscar Cook
Lompoc Valley
Cook
Ford vows no veto of Dill providing for civic center
City officials in Lompoc welcomed assurances from President Ford on signing the Public Works Employment Act to fund urban projects. Officials plan to file four EDA grant applications totaling about 2.725 million for a new city hall, reservoir, storm drains, and fire station renovation, citing 11.2 percent local unemployment and a favorable approval formula.
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Lompoc
Ford
Congress
House
Senate
Gene L. Wahlers
The
Record Today
Economic Development Administration
Wahlers
EDA
Thousands of off duty officers protest at City Hall
About five thousand off duty police officers with some spouses and children gathered at City Hall in a loud orderly demonstration over stalled contract talks with Mayor Beame. Police Commissioner Codd watched as officers chanted Codd must go and Beame must go citing pay raises and a plan to add ten work days a year.
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New York
UPI
City Hall
Michael Codd
Codd
California cadet at US Coast Guard Academy stands out
Tricia Edman of Cabrillo High School is the academy’s only female cadet from California in the Class of 1980. She manages the football team, belongs to an award-winning platoon, sails aboard the Tall Ship during bicentennial events, and plays bells in the marching band.
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Tricia Edman
Lompoc
United States Coast Guard Academy
Robin Gallagher
Rhode Island
California
New London
Conn
Milton Edman
Oakridge Road
Cabrillo High School
Uscg Academy
Rick Farrell
Alan Probst
Edman
New York City
Yankees
California Angels
Miami
Charleston
Eagle
South Carolina
Academy
Coast Guard Academy
Soviets launch peace campaign in Lebanon
Soviet diplomat Vladimir Salkan announced a diplomatic initiative to bring peace to Lebanon after meeting President Elias Sarkis at Baabda Palace. Syrian forces overran Sarkis’s hometown as fighting intensified with Christian rightists firing mortars into Muslim areas amid Palestinian guerrilla activity.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Vladimir Salkan
Elias Sarkis
Baabda
Soviet Union
Salkan
Sarkis
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Carter Targets Ford Vacations In 1976 Campaign
Carter at a Portland Maine breakfast criticized Ford for golf trips funded by corporations and free travel while denying wrongdoing. He invoked FDR Truman and Kennedy as he contrasted himself as listening to the American people. Ford’s camp urged Carter to explain acceptance of free flights and trips during Georgia governorship. Concurrently, Middle East tensions included Soviet mediation moves over Lebanon and Syrian offensives against Palestinian forces near Beirut, with Shibaniya and Ras El Maten reporting heavy fighting.
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United Press International
Jimmy Carter
Ford
Carter
New England
Portland
Maine
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
John Kennedy
Fdr
Herbert Hoover
Washington
William I. Greener
Greener
Lockheed
Britain
Israel
Georgia
Ismail Fahmi
Paris
Soviet Union
Shibaniya
Sarkis
Beirut
Ras el Maten
Tunney backs J M Lompoc health study for workers
U S Senator John Tunney telegrammed NIOSH director on September 22 voicing strong support for a health hazard evaluation at the Johns Manville plant in Lompoc. Local 146 of the International Chemical Workers Union urged NIOSH funding, citing asbestos and silica related deaths and asking for direct funding through Cal-OSHA to speed the study.
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U.S
John Tunney
National Institute For Occupational Safety and Health
Johns- Manville
Lompoc
Jack Albertine
Tunney
Albertine
Washington, D.C
John F. Finklea
NIOSH
International Chemical Workers Union
I-M
Local 146
Dr. Finklea
Finklea
Division of
Industrial Safety
Occupational Health Branch
State Department of Health
Cal-Osha
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Carol DeWitt
Pine Ave
Jake
Chamber of Commerce
Lam
Crooder
Santa Ynez Valley
San Francisco
Oakland
Central
Dill
Civic
Tricia
Stan Tulledo
J-M
Hector Blejer
OSHA
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