Bedlam at Vandenberg Primary Care as workload increases
At Vandenberg Air Force Base Hospital the Primary Care clinic struggles with a staff shortage leaving one physician to handle up to 30 000 eligible patients. Hospital leaders blame regular turnover and temporary gaps while praising assistants and visiting doctors who help keep care moving.
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Sue Edelman
Bedlam
Waitin Hospital
Vandenberg Air Force Base Hospital
William J. Lawson
Mary Carlson
Jack Hudock
K.J. Cote
Armed Service Post
Navy
Army
Air Force
Albert Angell
Vandenberg
Lawson
Malfunction Triggers North County Power Outage
Insulators on power poles in Cat Canyon caused an outage affecting about 8 000 PG and E customers in Santa Barbara County. Power was restored in under 90 minutes with Santa Ynez Solvang Buellton Ballard Los Olivos Los Alamos and Sisquoc briefly affected. Hospitals switched to backup power. alarms triggered at four businesses in Lompoc.
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Vaughn Proctor
Cat Canyon
Santa Barbara County
Pacific Gas and Electric
Santa Ynez
Solvang
Buellton
Ballard
Los Olivos
Los Alamos
Sisquoc
Lompoc
Mission Hills
Vandenberg Village
Lompoc Hospital
Santa Ynez Valley Hospital
Weather outlook with fog and sun across week
Low clouds and local fog night through midmorning especially south portion. Otherwise fair with mostly sunny afternoons through Friday. Highs near 70 at beaches to 80 inland. Overnight lows 52 to 62. Friday tides high 4.3 feet at 12:17 a.m. and 5.3 feet at 12:01 p.m. Low tides 1.6 feet at 5:52 a.m. and 0.7 feet at 6:53 p.m.
Amateur mechanic stops car to inspect transmission linkage
An amateur mechanic tries to halt a Mission Hills driver to inspect the vehicle’s automatic transmission linkage. He crawls under the car to carry out the inspection.
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Mission Hills
Few gripes at Shuttle EIS hearing
Lompoc residents heard Air Force officials address concerns over the Space Shuttle program at Vandenberg AFB. The three hour session covered sonic booms and archaeological site preservation, with questions wrapping up as officials outlined mitigation plans and potential regional economic impacts. The first orbiter launch was slated for December 1982.
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Lompoc Valley
Vandenberg
Air Force
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Lompoc Civic Auditorium
Alan C. Smith
Paul Kelley
University of California, Irvine
Kelley
California
San Miguel Island
Vandenberg Afb
Lompoc
Bruce Beebe
Beebe
EIS
Santa Barbara
STS
Lompoc Economic Development Association
Charles Carmichael
VAFB
General Council On Environmental Quality
Col
Thomas Sumner
Department of Defense
House OKs neutron bomb research
The House voted 297 to 109 to proceed with neutron weapon research under Energy Research and Development programs for the 1978 fiscal year, defeating an amendment to ban it. President Carter urged approval to keep options open after further study, while Rep. Weiss called the idea inhumane and a risk of wider nuclear war. Rep. Wilson defended the measure, stressing it remains in research only and would require further approval before production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
House
Carter
Thedore Weiss
D-N.y
Charles Wilson
D-Calif
Congress
Military Doctors Leave for Private Practice Amid Shortages
A Vandenberg physician explains why nearly 20 years in the Air Force led to retirement plans and a shift to private practice The shortages of manpower and money push many doctors to leave while some still see value in military medicine The article notes recruitment efforts and retention rates and contrasts civilian and military work control and compensation.
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Sue Edelman
Vandenberg
Air Force
Albert Angell
Armed Forces
Angell
Department of Defense
Congress
Capt
WAFB
Dr. Jones
Ronald Reider
Internal Medicine
Jerry Erickson
Erickson
Washington
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Strategic Air Command
SAC
Charles Signorino
Vafe Hospital
North County
House Oks Neutron Bomb Research
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