CB craze grips Lompoc as radio boom grows nationwide
Local CB enthusiasts in Lompoc describe a rapid spread of citizen's band radio since December of last year. Dealers report rising sales, lax licensing and a shift in daily life with 2000 operators in the valley. The FCC notes easy access and a trend toward hobby talk as watching TV wanes.
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Jim Sweeney
Lompoc
Tom Rush
Tommy Yager
CB Communications
Federal Communications Commission
Rush
FCC
Jerry Darrah
Lompoc Valley
Valley of the Flowers CB Club
Teacher orientation underway without annual luncheon
Vaughn Proctor reports orientation for new teachers is under way in the district with no festive opening luncheon this year. Five new teachers join about 501 faculty members as fall term approaches, a reduction from past years due to arithmetic. Mel Kranseler, longtime luncheon chair, notes the meal was suspended for the first time since 1959.
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Vaughn Proctor
Mel Kranseler
Kranseler
Chamber of Commerce
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Florence Jacobson
Lompoc High School
Mary Huseman
Roland I. Lane
California Conciliation Service
Lane
Fresno
Ford orders full report on Kelley gift charges
President Ford instructed Attorney General Levi to file a report on allegations that FBI Director Clarence Kelley accepted gifts from subordinates and services from the FBI. Kelley acknowledged gifts and said he informed investigators of a window valance and portable cabinet installed at his apartment by the FBI three years ago.
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Ford
Kelley
Washington
UPI
Edward Levi
FBI
Clarence M. Kelley
White House
Ron Nessen
The
Nessen
Levi
Legislature Ends Session After Last Minute Bills Pass
California lawmakers adjourn after a marathon 15 hour session over 300 measures cleared. Gov Brown receives SB42 creating term certain sentences replacing indeterminate terms for felons, plus repeal of automatic judges raises and parts of coastal protection package.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Brown
Alfred E. Long
Monterey Park
Senate
Assembly
Jack Knox
Richmond
Robert Nimmo
Ratascadero
Nightowl Brown
John Nejedly
Walnut Creek
Evelle J. Younger
Heated clash over county fire dept budget cuts
Acting Fire Chief Robert Halliburton opposed proposed budget slashes and a 66 hour work week at a county work session. University of California Santa Barbara officials and civic groups warned that cuts could endanger service and even close UCSB fire station. Supervisors postponed decisions until September 7 as contract talks with the firefighters union proceed with a state conciliator possible.
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Dick Praul
Robert Halliburton
Board of Supervisors
North County
University of California, Santa Barbara
UCSB
Afl-Cio
Michael Bennett
Tom McCarthy
Halliburton
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