Heavy rains hit Southern California from tropical Kathleen
A mass of moist air from Kathleen brings 4 to 7 inches of rain to mountain and desert areas of Southern California. Lompoc Valley reports .12 inches while Solvang records .20 inches as flood risk rises and roads may close. The Weather Service warns of flash floods and impassable roads near mountains.
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California
Kathleen
National Weather Service
Santa Barbara County
Mountain
Cachuma
Lompoc
Solvang
Weather Service
San Diego
Baja California
Nevada
Utah
Arizona
New Mexico
Los Angeles Civic Center
Final tax revision bill okayed by panel
A House Senate tax bill reaches final form after three years of work. The measure preserves 17.3 billion in cuts through 1977 and adds tax revenue floors as estate tax relief expands. It broadens exemptions, alters generation skipping trusts, and faces presidential signature despite opposition over foreign tariff provisions.
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Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Ford
Israel
Middle East
House-Senate
Congress
Corningman chosen new hospital administrator
William Diebner, former administrator of Corning Memorial Hospital, was selected by the Lompoc District Hospital board to become administrator. Diebner, 46, will assume duties by December 1 after serving 24 years in Navy Medical Service Corps and holding prior roles at Doctors Hospital in San Diego.
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Frank Signorelli
Lompoc Hospital
William Diebner
Corning
California
Calif
Lompoc
Jane Flaherty
Ken Wicks
Wicks
Diebner
Corning Memorial Hospital
Doctors Hospital
San Diego
Navy
George Washington University
Naval School of Hospital Administration
Red Bluff
Toxic-laden truck leak prompts evacuations near Lompoc
A tanker carrying 35,000 gallons of nitrogen tetroxide leaked from the rear flange near Highway 1 five miles south of Lompoc. Evacuations were ordered for Cabral, Romain and Turner ranches and a Vandenberg AFB fireman was hospitalized as a precaution. Air Force technicians mitigated the spill and moved the truck to base as the investigation continued.
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Air Force
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vaughn Proctor
Michael Marko
Pacific Intermountain
Highway 1
Lompoc
Air Force Fire and
Gresco Road
Cross Creek Ranch
California
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
Denver
Vandenberg Afb
Jalama Road
Deadly midair collision over Yugoslavia kills 171
A British Airways jet and an Inex-Adria DC9 crashed at 30 000 feet above near Zagreb. The disaster killed 171 people including 54 passengers and nine crew on the BA flight and 108 on the Yugoslav plane. Wreckage spread across farm fields. witnesses reported explosions and disintegration.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
UPI
British Airways
Havec
Zagreb
Yugoslav Republic of Croatia
London
Istanbul
Vrbovec
North county judges defend SMART diversion program
Santa Maria Municipal Court Judge John Gudmunds says north county judges will continue diversions under alcoholic rehabilitation as the SMART program remains legal. He notes the program existed before the Gregorio law and cites its aim to curb drinking by counseling and complete abstinence.
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Santa Maria
John Gudmunds
North County
Gudmunds
Robert Eckhoff
Terrill F. Cox
Lompoc
Santa Barbara
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