Health warning over sewage flow into Santa Ynez River
Lompoc officials say a malfunction allowed effluent from Mission Hills facility to reach the Santa Ynez River upstream of the Floradale Avenue bridge. About 800 homes served. tests pending Monday. Health officials urge public to stay out of affected river area.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc Utility Services Co
Santa Ynez
Mission Hills
H Street
City of
Lompoc
James Brightwell
Sanitation Department
James Smitherman
Paul Rice
Rice
McLaughlin Road
McLaughlin
County Health Department
Regional Water Quality Control Board
Santa Barbara
Jones
State Department of Public Health
Department
la Purisima Canyon
Caltrans
California Highway Patrol
Regional Board
Smitherman
Kuwait Accepts Arab Summit to Aid Palestinians
Kuwait agreed to attend an Arab summit proposed by Egypt to help Palestinian forces in Lebanon. Kuwait's Deputy Premier Sheikh Jaber Al-Ali said Kuwait would join any meeting to support Palestinians and end fratricide in Lebanon. The summit, involving Lebanon Syria PLO Saudi Arabia and Egypt, may be held in Jeddah to seek speedy, protective solutions.
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Cairo
UPI
Kuwait
Egypt
Lebanon
Sheikh Jaber Al-Ali
Middle East
Sheikh Jaber
Syria
Palestine Lil
Ation
Saudi Arabia
Ismail Fahmi
al Ahram
Jeddah
Red Sea
Fahmi
Beirut
PLO
Syrian Christian forces press Palestinian pockets in Lebanon mountains
Syrian and Christian forces closed in on Palestinian resistance in Lebanon's central mountains. The Palestinians lost Hammana Mtein and Aintoura, cutting off main lines of defense while the front along Jabel El Knisse remained contested. Spokesmen said pockets are being wiped out as tactics shifted to mobile infantry.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
Syria
Hammana
Mtein
Aintoura
Jabel el Knisse
Congress vows session to avert PWEA pocket veto
House and Senate leaders pledge to stay in session beyond the weekend to prevent a pocket veto of the Public Works Employment Act appropriations bill. The funds would back Lompoc projects including a new city hall at Floresta Park, a reservoir, storm drains, and fire station rehab. President Ford has not signed the $3.7 billion bill. Lagomarsino warns a veto is possible.
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Lompoc
House
Senate
Congress
PWEA
Floresta Park
Lompoc City
Ford
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
Ford says golf treks not improper
President Ford defended golfing trips as guest of corporate executives while in Congress saying there was no impropriety and any discussions of government matters were casual. He listed U S Steel Bethlehem Steel Aluminum Corporation of America and Firestone Rubber as hosts and noted friends’ comments might have been helpful to him as a Michigan congressman.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Congress
Oval Office
Michigan
White House
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Aluminum Corporation of America
Firestone Rubber
Massive baleen whale fossil found in Lompoc quarry
Paleontologists led by Dr. Lawrence G. Barnes recover a 10 to 12 million year old baleen whale skeleton from Gresco diatomite quarries in Lompoc. The fossil, nearly 80 feet long when complete, requires careful plastic cement wrapping and extensive plaster and burlap support.
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Grefco
Gresco, Inc. Dicalite Division
Lompoc
Lawrence G. Barnes
Natural History Museum of
Los Angeles County
Barnes
Dicalite
James Darrah
Jerry Long
Don Goodhew
Dr. Barnes
Goodhew
California
Medicare fee increases raise hospital and nursing home costs
The government announced a 19 percent base rise in Medicare hospital fees and extended stay charges effective January 1. Beneficiaries will pay the first 124 dollars of a hospital bill, up from 104 dollars. For long stays, daily costs rise to 31 dollars on days 61 to 90, and 15.50 dollars per day for skilled nursing care from day 21 to 100.
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Washington
UPI
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Medicare
Ford signs veteran pension hike at White House ceremony
President Ford signed two bills increasing veteran benefits to offset rising living costs. The first provides an eight percent boost to disability and survivor benefits, effective immediately, while the second extends an eight percent pension increase for about 2.3 million veterans and dependents through 1976 with a further seven percent rise starting January 1.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
White House
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Gresco
Carilynn Brewer
Mark Richard Johnson
Ocean Avenue
Gary Ingraham
Oakdale
Modesto
Sidon
Tripoli
Medicare Hospital
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