Editorial on Highway Rules and Mobile Home Widths
The California Assembly Transport Committee voted 10 to 1 to allow 1d-foot-wide mobile homes in 12-foot lanes. The piece notes proxy votes, questions arithmetic, and urges committee members to attend to provide real evidence before deciding, stressing the decision is too important for proxy votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Assembly
Transportation Committee
California Highway Patrol
State Department of Public Works
Automobile Club of
Southern California
Trailer Coach Association
Highway Patrol
Public Works Department
Automobile Club
Mountain rescue teams face department control choice
Los Angeles County supervisors weigh moving civilian mountain rescue units from the sheriff to the fire department. Rescues are a fire department function and the fire service has paramedics helicopters and evacuation gear. The sheriff seeks training badges and guns, but a transfer could save $750,000 and put rescues under fire department oversight.
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Los Angeles
Sheriff’s Office
Fire Department
Sheriff's Office
Letters to the Editor on vitamins and Brezhnev remarks
Readers critique FDA rules on high potency vitamins and warn of overregulation. A Long Beach letter questions policy and cites biblical guidance while an Anaheim note defends American freedoms and reflects on bread, meat, and gratitude.
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Food and Drug Administration
Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Anaheim
Meade death penalty plea and abortion proposal prompt debate
Mary Ellen Laughlin of Los Alamitos cites Ken Meade's call for public executions and contrasts it with a proposed media display of abortion to educate the public. The letter argues for graphic demonstrations to expose the consequences of crime and abortion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bdors
Ken Meade
Unnecessary flights prompt call for fewer daily transcontinental trips
At Long Beach, officials note an airline advertises 40 transcontinental flights daily with over 20 more similar services. A direct airport query shows most planes run only one third to two thirds full. The question arises if significant fuel could be saved by reducing flights.
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Long Beach
Lou Hogan
Navy chiefs confront Symington on ship transfers bases
Senate Armed Services hearings led by Sen. Stuart Symington probe ship transfers and base closings. He denounced Navy officials as evasive, pressed for detailed statements, and accused the Nixon administration of duplicity. Rhode Island and Massachusetts lawmakers pressed for full disclosure on base closures and costs.
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Stuart Symington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Sen
Symington
Gary Cooper
Missouri
Armed Services Committee
John C. Stennis
D.miss
Navy
John Warner
Naval Operations
Adm
Elmo Zumwalt
Washington
Defense
Zumwalt
Frank P. Sanders
William P. Clements
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
House
Philip W. Noel
Donald Dwight
John C. Pastore
D.R
Appropriations
Commerce
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
Pastore
Nixon
Defense Department
McGovern
Nixon Committee
Zomwalt
Melvin Laird
Elliot Richardson
Senate
Richardson
Edward Kennedy
D.mass
Congressional
Thomas P. “Tip
CLA
James Schlesinger
Schlesinger
William Clements
Norfolk
Charleston
Mayport
Claiborne Pell
U.S
NATO
Margaret Heckler
R.mass
Air Force
Sen. Symington
Heckler
Fernand St. Germain
D-R.l
Democratic Caucus
Carl Albert
D.okla
House Armed Services Committee
Edward Hebert
D.la
St. Germain
Albert
Hebert
Nixon privacy costs spark public show of expense
The piece argues the White House and General Services Administration account for 1.3 million dollars in improvements at Nixon’s San Clemente and Key Biscayne residences including landscaping, heating, electrical work, and a helicopter pad. It notes questions linger over funding, calls for accountability, and criticizes the administration’s reluctance to justify personal-like expenses from public funds. The author links the issue to Watergate and urges prompt bill payment and transparency.
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White House
San Clemente
General Services Administration
San Clemente House
Key Biscayne Place
Nixon
Key Biscayne
Army Corps of Engineers
Ed Flynn
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FDA
Pell
Subic Bay
Sen. Kennedy
Still &O
San Clemente and
Secret Service
James Reston
New York
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