City Eyes Funding for Reservoir and Storm Drains
City officials seek state grants to fund at least one project including a three million gallon reservoir with about 600000 dollars available and two storm drains with an estimated 375000 dollars. A new city hall is discussed but unfunded. plans are reviewed for a possible 1 to 1.5 million dollar grant request.
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Lam
Lompoc Storm
Chestnut Avenue
H Street
Walnut
Lefkowitz
Pine Avenue
County
Nyerere backs Kissinger push on Rhodesia settlement
Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere endorsed Kissinger's African shuttle diplomacy. He said movement toward a constitutional conference is underway with Smith expected to publicly accept majority rule. A provisional government and cease-fire could follow, with a deadline for full transition. Kissinger met Nyerere in Dar Es Salaam after arriving from Zambia.
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Dar ES Salaam
UPI
Julius Nyerere
Rhodesia
Henry A. Kissinger
Nyerere
Kissinger
U.S
Smith
United States
Zambia
Astronaut Aldrin discusses battle with alcoholism and happiness
Former astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin tells a Lompoc audience how depression and alcohol struggled with his moon‑landing fame. He credits wife Beverly for treatment, urges public education on alcoholism as illness and notes industry losses from absenteeism.
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Edwin A
Buzz) Aldrin
Earth
Aldrin
Lompoc
Stan Tulledo
Edwin E
Lompoc Civic Auditorium
National Association For Mental Health
Beverly
Research and Engineering Consultants, Inc. of
Los Angeles
Lompoc Center Logs 1486 Pupils in Second Week
Hancock College Lompoc Center reports a seat count of 1486 in its second week at the old Miguelito School. Walter Conrad says 577 seats for 30 day classes and 909 for 37 evening offerings, with prior Hapgood School figures, and notes seat count measures use counts for statistics rather than actual enrollment. Catalog work for spring courses is underway.
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Lompoc
Hancock College
Old Miguelito School
College Board of Trustees
West Olive Avenue
Walter Conrad
Conrad
Hapgood School
Brothers arraigned in Lompoc on attempted murder charge
John Louis Campos and Jesse Campos were scheduled for arraignment in Lompoc Municipal Court on attempted murder charges after a shooting of a Lompoc student. Both brothers, 22 and 23, are held in the Lompoc Jail on 25000 bail. Purcella, 27, is in satisfactory condition at Lom poc Hospital with two gunshot wounds after being shot in his front yard last Friday. A 17 year old suspect was later taken into custody in Eugene Oregon.
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Lompoc
John Louis Campos
Jesse Campos
South K St
Joseph Harry S. Truman Purcella
North Y St
Purcella
Campos Brothers
Eugene
Ore
Eight of 14 Chino escapees recaptured
Fourteen youths escaped from the California Youth Authority detention facility in Chino amid a riot that wounded two officers. By dawn eight inmates were in custody after searches in a 50 acre cornfield. three were found early, five nearby, while authorities continued perimeter rounds.
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CHINO
UPI
California Youth Authority
San Antonio Community Hospital
Upland
Two Killed In California 46 Crash Near Paso Robles
Two men from Santa Maria, driver Steve Adulfo 62 and passenger Sim Tabin 73, died when their car left California 46 east of Paso Robles struck 60 feet of guard rail and rolled down an embankment. The crash occurred near California 41 at Cholame en route to Bakersfield. Both victims died at the scene.
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Paso Robles
UPI
Here
California 46
The
California Highway Patrol
Steve Adulfo
Sim Tabin
Santa Maria
CHP
Bakersfield
California 41
Cholame
First Presidential Debate Set Across Four Networks
The first Ford versus Carter debate will be aired on four national channels with Edwin Newman moderating. Questions come from James P. Gannon Elizabeth Drew and Frank Reynolds. panelists serve only for the first exchange. League rules on televised audience reaction remain unresolved.
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Washington
UPI
Edwin Newman
NBC News
Ford
Jimmy Carter
James P. Gannon
The
Wall Street Journal
Elizabeth Drew
New Yorker
Frank Reynolds
ABC News
League of Women Voters
Newman
Inflation Rises 0.5 Percent in August Sustaining 6 Percent Pace
The Labor Department reports August CPI up 0.5 percent for the third straight month led by clothing gasoline fruits and vegetables with annual inflation at 6 percent. Real earnings fall 0.3 percent for the month and 0.6 percent year over year as prices for apparel autos and energy climb.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Ford
Japan plans dismantling secret MIG Foxbat angers Russia
Moscow protests cited by Tass after Japan moves to dismantle a top secret MIG 25 fighter flown there by a Soviet defector. Akahata said Tokyo knew the landing did not violate Japanese airspace and warned the action is illegal. The aircraft is being examined by Japanese and American experts as the defector is questioned in the United States.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Japan
Tass
Akahata
Japanese Communist Party
Tokyo
United States
Car bombing kills two in Washington
In northwest Washington a car bomb killed Orlando Letelier, 44, former Chilean foreign and defense minister and U.S. ambassador, and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, 25, a Transnational Institute of Policy Studies staffer. Letelier, a critic of Chile's dictatorship, had recently had his citizenship stripped. Police reported the blast near 23rd and Sheridan NW, close to the Romanian and Irish embassies. no suspects were named as multiple agencies investigate.
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Washington
UPI
Chile
United States
Salvador Allende
George Washington University Hospital
Orlando Letelier
Allende
Hope fades for 10 missing after British ship collision
The Defense Ministry said hope is abandoned for 10 seamen believed trapped when the minesweeper Fittleton sank after a collision with the Frigate Mermaid. The death toll rose to 12 as divers failed to hear any response from the airlock.
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London
UPI
Defense Ministry
Fittleton
North Sea
Netherlands
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AHC Lompoc
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Fir Avenue
South C Street
Terry Silvey
Russia
Inter-American Development Bank
James A. Abourezk
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Senate
Letelier
23Rd
Sheridan Pl
Sheridan Circle
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