Beattie harbors anger over Sheriff's strike threat
Supervisor Francis H. Beattie returned from a San Luis Obispo trip and blasted the Sheriff's deputies' strike threat. He cited wage gains since 1960 and noted a possible $839 monthly top for deputies in 37 years. The Sheriff's Relief and Benefit Association voted 120 to 7 to strike if salary and pension demands aren’t met.
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Francis H. Beattie
Board of Supervisors
Beattie
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara County
Sheriff's Relief and Benefit Association
Sheriff's
Curtis Tunnell
Raymond Johnson
Lompoc
Sheriff's Association
John DaFoe
Johnson
Santa Barbara
Dana Smith
Smith
Planning Commission to hear new home use permit requests
Lompoc Planning Commission meets Monday to consider two home use permit requests and a parking variance for an off street lot at Lompoc Plaza. Deborah J. Evans seeks piano and organ instruction at 1625 EK Pine Ave in R-1 zoning. Charles Ramos requests a telephone answering with janitorial services at 1300 E Cypress Ave. Lorand West seeks a parking variance for a major chain store at Pine Ave and H Street Plaza. The meeting also covers landscaping rules at commercial sites and a sign ordinance feasibility study, plus a county rezoning referral and agriculture preserve proposal near Floradale Ave.
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Lompoc
Plaza Shopping Center
Pine Avenue
H Street
Agnew and Tunney trade charges in California Senate race
Vice President Spiro Agnew labels Rep. John V. Tunney a radical liberal during a Republican fundraiser in California. Tunney responds by accusing Agnew of extremism and redirects to domestic issues while Agnew coins the phrase nattering nabobs of negativism. A separate Santa Maria civil suit seeks 1.6 million dollars over the July 4 death at Santa Maria Speedway. The complaint names the speedway, operator J T Simpkins, the Lompoc Slo Pokes club, and landowners as defendants, alleging track negligence.
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San Diego
UPI
Spiro T. Agnew
California
U.S. Senate
John V. Tunney
George Murphy
Tunney
Gene Tunney
Santa Maria
Charles Lawrence Grossini
Santa Maria Speedway
Pauline Grossini
E. Lemon Ave
Huseman and Longtin
Lompoc
J. T. Simpkins
Grossini
Lompoc Slo Pokes Motorcycle Club
Simpkins
Hurricane Ella Strikes Mexican Coast Evacuations Underway
Hurricane Ella struck the Mexican coast near El Chamal and Pesca with 125 mph winds as authorities evacuated more than 9,000 residents from low lying areas. Red Cross reports show Port Isabel and South Padre Island refugees moved to Brownsville and nearby cities. Weather outlook includes cooler inland temps and tidal notes through Monday.
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San Fernando
Mexico
UPI
Ella
el Chamal
Pesca
Brownsville
Tex
Red Cross
Port Isabel
South Padre Island
Western powers pledge no force to free hijacked airline
Swiss Foreign Minister Pierre Graber said the United States and Israel authorized a crisis council to publicly deny any military action to free hostages held by Arab guerrillas at a Jordan desert airstrip. Negotiations are led by an International Red Cross team. tensions eased after denial was relayed to the guerrillas.
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Amman
UPI
TWA
Swissair
BOAC
International Red Cross
Jacques Freymond
Israel
Cairo
Britain
United States
US State Department
Baghdad
Washington
Yigal Allon
Tel Aviv
Jordan
Hussein
Red Cross
West Germany
Switzerland
Berne
Pierre Graber
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
Graber
U.S
Bombers and fighters defend key South Vietnamese base
U S bombers and jets pounded Jungles near a vital South Vietnamese base as a large-scale Communist assault loomed. In the coast bombardment, USS Lloyd Thomas gun mount explosion killed three sailors and wounded ten. fighter sorties and artillery strikes reduced enemy positions while Marines prepared for withdrawal from Starlight era.
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Saigon
Vps
U.S
Lloyd Thomas
South Vietnam
Navy
Air Force
O'Reilly
Laos
Ripcord
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FCI
Ontario
Little Boy
Bill Leary
Montana
S. Viet
Vietnam
7Th Marine Regiment
Korea
Chu Lai
Federal Correctional Institution
Jerry Lee Wade
Lloyd Cecil Hicks
Wade
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