County eyes legal move against welfare travel rule
Assistant county counsel said the board will file a state appeal challenging a law allowing welfare payments during up to 11 months outside the United States. The case centers on a county woman in Vancouver who appealed a prior termination of Old Age Assistance payments.
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United States
Dana Smith
Board of Supervisors
Vancouver
B.C
State Department of Social Welfare
Smith
Joe J. Callahan
Tem
England
Canada
Philippines
Appeals Board
City council asks for study on business license tax
Lompoc City Council asked the finance department to study a proposed business license ordinance change that would ease the tax for low income businesses while raising rates for higher income firms. The hearing was continued to Oct 21 due to absent council members.
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Lompoc
Finance Department
City Hall
Brooks Speight
Richard Jacoby
Art Scott
Jim Longtin
Ralph Patey
Patey
Kammerer
Charlotte Benton
Senate hearing details profit scheme in Vietnam service clubs
Witnesses testified that Sgt Major William Wooldridge and associates formed Maredem Co to route profits from Vietnam service clubs through a self serving corporation. The firm reportedly earned 1.2 million in 11 months with 131 761 in profit, amid allegations of kickbacks and embezzlement by the sergeants and other officers. The subcommittee’s second week of hearings covered the alleged scheme and related misconduct.
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Bellino
Marehem
Maredem Co
Subcommittee
Army
Wooldridge
Pentagon revokes 1968 Distinguished Service Medal
The Pentagon announces the removal of Maj. Gen. Carl C. Turner’s Distinguished Service Medal awarded at his 1967 retirement as provost marshal. Turner later became chief of U.S. Marshals and resigned under fire six months later amid investigation fallout.
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Washington
UPI
Pentagon
Carl C. Turner
Senate
Army Service Clubs
Turner
Army
U.S
Opposition Mounts to Haynsworth Supreme Court Nominee
Top Republican leaders join opposition as Sen. Griffin and Sen. Smith urge against Clement F. Haynsworth nomination. White House maintains support and confidence in confirmation. Critics cite potential conflicts of interest and judgment concerns from the 4th Circuit.
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Washington
UPI
Senate
Nixon
Clement F. Haynsworth
Supreme Court
White House
Haynsworth
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
GOP
Griffin
Senate Judiciary Committee
Smith
Abe Fortas
4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Judiciary Committee
Supreme Court of the United States
Trucker Rescued After Lompoc Crash Blocks Roadway
Firemen freed 64 year old Frank Zimmerman from a wrecked Lompoc Casmalia Road truck after over an hour of effort. He was in satisfactory condition at Lompoc Hospital with a fractured left leg and a lacerated left arm. The one am crash spilled 12 tons of lima beans along a six inch deep swath.
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Lompoc- Casmalia Road
Frank Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Lompoc-Casmalia
Constellation Road
Lompoc
Lompoc - Casmalia Road
F St
Lompoc Hospital
California Highway Patrol
Senators push bipartisan call for faster pullout from Vietnam
A UPI report says Senators Frank Church and Mark Hatfield will introduce a bipartisan resolution demanding a speedier U S pullout and full disengagement from Vietnam. The measure lauds Nixon’s 60,000 troop withdrawal as a start but warns troops could stay eight to ten years at the current pace amid rising antiwar criticism ahead of a major nationwide protest.
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Washington
UPI
Treasury
David M. Kennedy
Nixon
Labor Department
United States
South Vietnam
Frank Church
Idaho
Mark O. Hatfield
Ore
Vietnam
Back to School Nights Attract Large City Crowds
City events draw good crowds as residents attend Back to School nights. City Attorney Jim Longtin verifies the city museum association by-laws are legal, saying he drafted them for the organization under review by Mayor MacClure.
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Jim Longtin
MacClure
City Museum Association
Coastal Outlook With Cooler Late Week
Skies stay mostly cloudy through Thursday with a cooler trend. Highs reach mid 60s to 80s inland, lows in the 40s, and westerly winds at 10 to 15 mph. Tidal readings show high tides around 5.3 and 5.1 feet and low tides near 0.5 to 0.9 feet on Thursday.
Four rescued from sub trapped on ocean floor
Four men aboard the Deep Quest were trapped on the ocean floor for more than 12 hours as its propulsion line fouled the propeller. A two man Nekton mini-sub rescued them, reaching the surface at 3 50 a m PDT. The crew, led by Robert Worthington, were reported unharmed though chilled and hungry.
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San Diego
UPI
Deep Quest
Quest
Robert Worthington
Lockheed Corp
Research Sab
Navy
Coast Guard
Nekton
General Oceanographic Co
Los Angeles
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Theodore D
Sam) Bass
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Redstone Arsenal
Huntsville
Ala
RIO DE Janiero
Cuba
Rio
Cruzeiro Do Sul Airlines
Amazon River Valley
Belem
Manaus
Georgetown
Guyana
Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Mary Jo Kopechne
Edward M. Kennedy
Kennedy
High Court
Edgartown
James A. Boyle
Legion of Honor
Paris
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
Georges Pompidou
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
Michael Collins
Madrid
Trucker
CHP
Zimmerman Trucking Co., of
Donald E. Saner
Marshall E. Way
William Pinebrook
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