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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1977
Page
6
Five men seek the Republican nomination for governor as the party holds a fall convention in San Diego. At news conferences hospitality suites and poolside events candidates woo volunteers and press as staff plastered signs around the convention complex.
A charter plane carrying six members of a California family and three others crashed in the Cascade Mountains near Skykomish. The pilot and all six passengers died, leaving four children orphaned. Federal investigators probed the Saturday wreck in good weather.
In a crowded field all five oppose the Panama Canal treaty. Four back a ballot measure to outlaw strikes by public employees and a separate measure to bar homosexuals from teaching. Each candidate claims to be the one to beat Governor Edmund G Brown Jr, with Sen John Briggs leading on the anti homosexual teaching proposal and Ed Davis signaling possible candidacy.
A pickup trying to beat a crossing signal was struck by the Chicago St Petersburg Floridian near Lant City Florida. Ten people including seven children died in the wreck and subsequent fire. Witnesses said crossing lights were active and the whistle blown. The train resumed its trip about two hours later.
The FBI assists Manhattan police in tracking over $1 million in gems tied to the deaths of two Manhattan diamond dealers and a third disappearance. Missing stones include $300,000 carried by Abraham Shafizadeh and diamonds feared in the Kronenberg case in Florida.
Several hundred farmers and families staged a four mile farm implements rally from Arapahoe to the Dawson County fairgrounds to publicize the financial plight of farmers. Speakers urged action nationwide and to lobby Washington, including the Department of Agriculture, in a protest labeled a farm strike.
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr signed a spate of bills to take effect in 1978 including a senior citizens property tax deferral measure, permit reform to streamline reviews, and health department revamps. The tax deferral allows eligible homeowners 62 or older with low income to postpone taxes, paid with state interest when the home is sold.
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