News in Brief from Lompoc and Camp Pendleton
In Los Angeles two state narcotics agents admitted drinking beer and spirits before a dawn raid that ended with the accidental shooting of Heyward Dyer, 22, in a Vernon apartment. In Camp Pendleton the Fifth Marine Division was deactivated with a 15-gun salute as flags were retired under budget-cut orders.
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UPI
Lynwood
Heyward Dyer
Whittier
Dyer
Vernon
Frank Sweeney
Century Bowl
Camp Pendleton
Fifth Marine Division
Leonard F .Chapman Jr
Henry W. Buse
Fleet
Court convenes in bar with topless dancers
In Beverly Hills a municipal court sat in a nightclub named the Phone Booth as four dancers performed topless acts in view of Judge George Zucker. Sheri Balch 23 Kathy Pease 25 and Jean Chanel 28 swayed in negligees while the owner Walt Robson faced charges of aiding the act.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Beverly Hills
George Zucker
Sheri Lee Balch
Zucker
Sheri
Miss Balch
Manuel H. Miller
Kathy Pease
Jean Chanel
Walt Robson
California lawmakers weigh ban on drug sale and manufacture
Sacramento Republican Assemblyman William Campbell warned the Legislature may ban the sale and manufacture of dangerous drugs if drug makers refuse to testify. He said two leading manufacturers have declined to appear at a hearing in Sacramento on October 22, led by his Assembly Health and Welfare Subcommittee, as it seeks industry cooperation to curb illicit distribution.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
William Campbell
Assembly Health and Welfare
Campbell
California State Colleges budget requests push to 335.6 million
The Board of Trustees proposed a 1970-71 support budget of 265.3 million and recommended a larger total over 30 million higher to 335.6 million with supplemental requests. The higher figure is seen as the minimum to maintain enrollment and academic quality across the 19 campuses. The resolution prioritizes maintaining standards, faculty workloads, benefits, student services, and administration, with automatic data processing improvements listed among top needs.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Board of
California State Colleges
Television x ray standard set for sets after next year
Federal register proposes a limit of 0.5 milliroentgen per hour two inches from TV sets to curb emissions with color sets cited as the offenders. The rule aims to apply to all sets produced after January 1 and follows earlier studies by government scientists.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Register
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Kidnapped Arroyo Grande Teacher's Aide Found Safe
A 17 year old Arroyo Grande teacher's aide Kirsten Anderson was found bound and gagged in a women's restroom at a Vacaville ballpark after a 28 hour kidnapping. She told police the kidnapper identified himself as Robert and headed north from Arroyo Grande toward San Jose before leaving her at the park. Police and FBI questioned her and she planned to return home.
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UPI
Kirsten
Kitty’’ Anderson
Arroyo Grande
Calif
California
Anderson
Peter Pan
San Francisco
FBI
Miss Anderson
San Jose
Premier to lead Czechoslovak group to Moscow visit
Premier Oldrich Cernik announced a Prague delegation would travel to Moscow in the coming days signaling Kremlin approval of the post Dubcek regime. Parliament approved emergency laws penalizing protests against Communist policy as leaders resigned and party loyalists took power.
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UPI
Oldrich Cernik
Moscow
Kremlin
Alexander Dubcek
Cernik
Czechoslovakia
Dubcek
Josef Smrkovsky
Smrkovsky
Social Security benefits face higher costs of living links
In Washington Rep Wilbur Mills questions automatic benefit hikes tied to inflation as hearings probe the Nixon plan for a 10 percent rise next March. The proposal would lift the payroll tax base from 7800 to 9000 and adjust the base income with future increases.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Wilbur D
Mills
D-Ark
House
Ways and Means
Nixon
Laird Sees 60 Percent Vietnam Troop Withdrawal Feasible
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird says about 60 percent of U S troops in Vietnam roughly 300000 can be withdrawn in under two years. He declined to set a timetable, noting 505600 U S forces in country on Oct 9 with just over 300000 in combat roles.
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Washington
UPI
Melvin R. Laird
U.S
Vietnam
Laird
National
Pentagon
Welfare plan opens Treasury to unprecedented dollar flow
Rep. Ullman blasted the Nixon administration welfare proposal during House Ways and Means hearings. Finch defended a family assistance plan costing 4.4 billion, 400 million more than Nixon’s Aug. 11 estimate, with benefits for the working poor for the first time. Ullman warned the package is open ended and does little to curb rising aid to dependent children costs.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Treasury
al Ullman
D-Ore
Robert H. Finch
House
Ways ‘and Means Committee
United States
Finch
Ullman
Chicago Eight trial heats up with flag protest at court
In Chicago the defense table displayed a large Viet Cong flag while Abbie Hoffman and Rennie Davis argued with a U.S. marshal over the banner. Judge Julius Hoffman urged order as Dellinger read Vietnam war names and a protest mood persisted during the conspiracy trial. A separate Sacramento hearing urged a single state atomic agency to oversee California nuclear development amid rising power demand.
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Chicago
UPI
U.S
Rennie Davis
Abbie Hoffman
Thomas Foran
William Kunstler
Foran
Dwane Oklepek
Sacramento
California
John V. Briggs
R. Fullerton
Briggs
Joint Legislative Committee On Atomic Development and Space
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