Move to revive dam project sits on hold in Lompoc
Lompoc Water Commission tabled a bid to urge the City Council to reevaluate the dormant Lompoc Dam and Reservoir. Bureau of Reclamation official Phil Macias outlined a possible cost free reevaluation under new laws but by December 1. The move requires signatures from the City Council Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District and the County Water Agency.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc
Water Commission
Phil Macias
Santa Barbara
Bureau of Reclamation
Macias
Santa Ynez River
Commission
Edward J. Diaz
William Cooper
Arnold Robinson
Dibblee A. Poett
Guerrillas Fly Hostage Diplomats From Paris Embassies
Five Palestinian guerrillas and six hostages depart Paris by Syrian Arab Airways Caravelle after seizing the Saudi embassy. A TV audience watches liftoff as officials say the plane heads toward Europe, with four women released en route. No injuries reported. Interior Minister Marcellin expresses relief.
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Paris
UPI
France
Jordan
Syrian Arab Airways
le Bourget
Geneva
Turin
Italy
Raymond Marcellin
Cholera Death Toll Rises in Italy as Outbreak Eases
Italy reports a 19th cholera death, a 58 year old in Torre Annunziata near Naples, as officials say the worst may be over. Officials note 10 deaths in Naples and Bari, 1 near Rome, 562 hospitalized with 149 confirmed. mussel ban cited.
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Naples
Italy
UPI
Torre Annunziata
Vieste
Bari
Rome
Ferruccio de Lorenzo
Cotugno Hospital
Naples Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Bay of Naples
Dawn House faces funding squeeze from state policy shift
Dawn House in Lompoc, a drug rehabilitation center, may lose most welfare clients after the state Department of Mental Hygiene tightened grants. Only Aid to the Totally Disabled recipients qualify under a $9,444 grant, reducing participants from about 30 to one. Director Jerry Lodes says the policy shift threatens program viability and prompts calls for diversification and possible separate state funding. Washington stalemate note ends with bipartisan Congress push for cooperation with the White House.
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Dawn House
Lompoc Valley
Steve LA Rue
State Department of Mental Hygiene
Jerry Lodes
Lodes
ATD
Department of Mental Hygiene
Marvin Messex
Former UMWA Chief Indicted for 1969 Slayings
W A Tony Boyle former president of the United Mine Workers of America was charged by Pennsylvania with murder and indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy in the 1969 killings of reformer Joseph Yablonski his wife and daughter. He was arrested by FBI agents and taken to an undisclosed location.
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Washington
UPI
W.A
Tony” Boyle
United Mine Workers of America
UMWA
Pennsylvania
Joseph A
Jock’’ Yablonski
Boyle
FBI
Boy 7 Fatally Struck Waiting for School Bus East of Santa Maria
A seven year old boy Rafael Torres was killed when he darted into the path of a car on Highway 176 while awaiting a school bus. Aubry Burgess 58 of Bakersfield was driving west behind another vehicle. The boy’s mother had just accompanied him and a younger brother to the bus stop minutes earlier.
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Santa Maria
Rafael Torres
Highway 176
Dominion Road
Marian Hospital
California Highway Patrol
Aubry Burgess
Bakersfield
CHP
Rafael
Nixon vetoes minimum wage bill to raise to two twenty
President Nixon vetoes the bill to lift the minimum wage from 1.60 to 2.20 saying it would fuel inflation and harm low income families. He acknowledged the need for a higher wage but argued the current measure would do more harm than good.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
House
America
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R-Ill
GOP
San Clemente
Uftian
Albert
Cathedral Oaks
Gloria D. Petersen
Goleta Valley Community Hospital
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