Counties reaffirm water pact in joint SLO and SB meeting
San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties reaffirmed commitment to the state water program. Beattie noted rising costs and the need for supplementary water, with SB requesting 97 700 acre feet and SLO 25 000. Officials urged building Lompoc Dam and Reservoir and conserving local water supplies ahead of future aqueduct needs.
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Vaughn Proctor
San Luis Obispo County
Santa Barbara County
Francis H. Beattie
San Luis Obispo
Beattie
Joe Callahan
Curtis Tunnell
Dan Grant
George Kading
Sue Thresher
Normal Caldwell
Tunnell
Santa Barbara
Lompoc
Central Valley
Santa Ynez
Stolen credit card search spans across western stores
Police and store managers pursue recovery of thousands of blank credit cards and embossing equipment stolen from Addressograph Multigraph Co. in Sacramento. Lt. Howard Jernigan says no cards have been used yet and no arrests made as investigators and credit managers brace for the holiday rush.
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UPI
West
Howard Jernigan
Addressograph Multigraph Co
Jernigan
Nevada
Ray Jones
Montgomery Ward
Third Soviet spaceship returns safely to earth
The Soyuz 8 crew Vladimir Shatlov and Alexei Yeliseyev landed in central Asia after five days in space along with Soyuz 6 and 7 crews. Tass reported the three-craft mission achieved its aims including experiments in cold welding weather research and geology.
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Moscow
UPI
Tass
Karaganda
Central Asia
Space Center
Pavel Belyayev
Soyuz 8
Vladimir Shatlov
Alexei Yeliseyev
Shadlov
Yeli- Seyev
Space Troika
Izvestia
Baikonur Space Center
Nixon urges nationwide restraint to fight inflation
President Nixon told a Friday radio audience that curbing inflation will be painful and unpopular. He urged monetary restraint by government, business, labor and consumers to slow a 6 percent annual rise through August. He warned some will feel the cost more directly but said slowing prices serves all Americans.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Nation
Lyndon B. Johnson
Fed
Eral
White House
Afl-Cio
Park Chung-hee wins third term backing in South Korea
President Park Chung-hee secured an overwhelming approval of a constitutional amendment allowing a third four year term. With 92 percent of votes counted, 7,047,552 favored the amendment while 3,325,610 opposed. Opposition alleged fraud amid clashes with police on campuses. Park promised continued modernization and stability.
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Seoul
UPI
Park Chung - Hee
Park
New Democratic Party
Song Won- Young
Democratic Republican Party
North Korea
Zodiac Threat Forces Bay Area School Bus Escorts
Armed Bay Area police ride on select school buses after Zodiac, the killer who boasted of shooting tires and targeting children, sent a blood soaked cloth from cabbie Paul Stine and warned of more bloodshed. Authorities coordinate across Napa Solano and San Francisco regions to locate the suspect.
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San Francisco
UPI
San Francisco Bay Area
Paul Stine
Presidio Heights
Stine
Napa County
Sausalito
Bay Area
State Attorney General’s
Vallejo
Napa and
Solano County
Sheriff's Offices
River quality program delayed to February meeting
The Central Coastal Regional Water Quality Control Board postponed consideration of specific Santa Ynez River Basin water quality programs until the February board session. K R Jones said local districts asked for more study before implementation and that hearings might be held in Lompoc to minimize travel. The delay also cites concerns over irrigation water recirculation in Monterey and Solvang and mentions a potential ban on water softeners in Lompoc.
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Santa Ynez River
Central Coastal Regional Water Quality Control Board
K.R. Jones
Lompoc
Jones
Th Basin
Monterey
Solvang
Four Americans Killed in DMZ Ambush by North Koreans
North Korean infiltrators ambushed a U.S. Army truck in the DMZ western sector, killing all four soldiers aboard with grenades and small arms. The attackers fled before Allied troops arrived. names of the dead were withheld pending family notifications.
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Seoul
Upz
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
U.S
North
South Korea
United Nations
Banmunjon
U.N
U.S. Army
U.S. 2Nd Infantry Division
Sea of Japan
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