Rioting Parents Oppose Busing as Schools Open
Protesters in Pontiac and Birmingham clash with police over court ordered desegregation. About 25 arrests in two days at Pontiac bus depot and eight white and one black student injured at Lincoln Junior High. Mobile Alabama reports 6 300 of 68 000 Mobile students reassigned for desegregation. A National Action Group leader calls for school closings. Whitmer resists.
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Mich
Lincoln Junior
Boston
Mobile
Ala
Alabama
Birmingham
City Hall
Federal
Nashville, Tenn
Casey Jenkins
Charles Lindly
Rapid City
S.D
Lindly
Lehman L. Brightman
United Native Americans
Irene McCabe
National Action Group
NAG
Dana Whitmer
Whitmer
Enrollment Drop Seen Reversing Soon in District
District official Alice Milligan notes enrollment fell by over 1000 from early forecasts but expects a sharp rebound in coming weeks. Holidays this week likely caused the drop, with Cabrillo and Vandenberg AFB schools most affected by a younger base population and fewer children in upper grades.
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Alice Millgan
Cabrillo
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Nixon Declines to Extend Wage-Price Freeze
President Nixon said the 90 day wage price rent freeze will not be extended beyond November 13 while signaling a need for post freeze stabilization. He set a goal of 100 million jobs in ten years and urged Congress to pass the proposed 5.9 billion in tax cuts to spur hiring. He pledged temporary stabilization and outlined plans to work with business labor agriculture and Congress on a program to reduce unemployment and curb inflation.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
America
House
Business, Labor, Agriculture
Lompoc Record shifts to Saturday morning edition and redesign
The Lompoc Record announces a move to a Saturday morning publication starting Sept 18 delivering at 8 a.m. with Friday night deadlines for news and sports. A Vistas supplement and TV guide will accompany the new format and readers will see updated editorial and sports pages. Targeted deadlines include 10:30 p.m. Friday for regular news and 11 p.m. for sports. Classifieds shift to Friday noon for Saturday ads and 5 p.m. Friday for Monday ads.
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Lompoc
Adam
Lompoc Council Reverses Budget Decisions on Trucks
The Lompoc City Council, in a 4-1 vote, ordered immediate purchase of a fire pumper truck, reversing a prior budget plan to pay 60 percent this year and 40 percent next. The panel also voted to stall a refuse packet truck purchase, reversing a previous budget decision. Mayor Art Scott opposed the pumper purchase, citing the moratorium and pending Nixon freeze exemptions.
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Ray McCuen
Lompoc
Nixon
Gene Wahlers
Art Scott
Charlotte Benton
Booby Trap Kills British Explosives Expert Near Belfast
A fake bomb device rigged with a booby trap exploded at Castlerobin near Belfast, killing a British army explosives expert and seriously injuring two other soldiers. The Irish Republican Army militant wing claimed responsibility for setting the trap.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Army
Irish Republican Army
Castlerobin
Hurricane Fern Deepens As It Heads Toward Texas Gulf Coast
Fern strengthened to about 90 mph and moved northward through the Gulf of Mexico toward a landfall tonight near Galveston. Residents evacuated, shelters prepared, and a hurricane watch extended into Louisiana as an Air Force plane mapped the storm center nearby.
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Galveston
Tex
UPI
Fern
Gulf of Mexico
Paul Jacob
Galveston County Red Cross
National Weather Service
Gayleston
Louisiana
Brownsville
Vermillion Bay
Air Force
Merrijane Pritchard Heads New North H Street HQ
Glimpses show Merrijane Pritchard at her new North H Street headquarters beside Chris Cass' office while Nicholas Bevilacqua attends Parks and Recreation meeting in track shoes. Chamber officials finalize plans for tonight's annual installation banquet as local weather remains fair through Friday with coastal fog and cooler winds. Highs in the 80s, 70s near beaches, nights in the 50s, with northwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Friday tides include two high tides at 3 14 am and 2 26 pm, lows at 7 38 am and 10 20 pm.
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Merrijane Pritchard
Chris Cass
North H St
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