Reagan vows to back water wage raises
SACRAMENTO Fh Gov Ronald Reagan says he will support wage increases this year and next year for State Water Project employees but the strike continues to back demands. A spokesman said Reagan would strive for a 12.5 percent raise this year and support another next year, while workers argue they are 21 to 26 percent behind private and other public sector pay. The State maintains raises require the 1972-73 budget approval by the legislature, with a June 15 deadline. About 500 employees are involved in a walkout that began Monday. Officials say water delivery remains operating. the project serves Northern California to dry Southern California.
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Ronald Reagan
Reagan
State Personnel Board
California
Bob Friesan
California State Employer Association
Colorado
Friesan
Assembly Ways and Means
Department of Water Resources
Munitions blast kills six women in isolated incident
Sheriff Syl van Ladner described the blast as highly powerful, with powder impact likened to a 2,000-pound bomb. Firefighters faced danger overnight, planned chemical drops over the James area were halted as the fire burned out in the complex leaving only brush and timber fires. Authorities had considered aerial operations but canceled them.
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Sylvan Ladner
James
Jones bumper sticker printing options in Long Beach area
A reader asks about printing a bumper sticker and lists Long Beach Satterlee Instant Printing and Pres s to Printers in Seal Beach as possible print partners. Prices for six stickers start at about 86 or 7 with camera ready copy, but most shops require a minimum run of 500 stickers and design work can raise costs.
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Action Line
Jones
Joneses
Long Beach
Satterlee Instant Printing
Village Rd
Electric Ave
Seal Beach
Impounded Insurance Change Prompts Loanholder Notice
A 1963 loan holders impound plan shifted by Gibraltar Savings and Loan forces payment into an impound for fire insurance. Pioneer allowed self insurance earlier, but Gibraltar’s billing system reprogram now requires impounds for all 0 percent loans. Mortgage counselors can arrange self payment since the loan is near payoff, with a spokesman noting Gibraltar’s main office.
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Gibraltar Savings and Loan Association
Tay
Gibraltar
Joan Company
M. M
Lynwood
Cat Rock at Newport Harbor Entrance Beach
A San Bernardino reader asks about Cat Rock in Corona del Mar, Newport Beach. For years a colony of stray cats shelters in caves on the 25-foot conical rock near the harbor entrance and park area. Residents feed the cats daily, and the site overlooks Corona del Mar Beach, Newport Harbor, and the ocean.
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San Bernardino
Newport Harbor Entrance Channel
Corona Tei Mar
Corona del Mar
Abere Cat Rock
Big Corona del Mar Beach
Newport Harbor
Ocean
Entrance Channel
Pierpoint Landing
Long Beach Harbor
Cat Rock
Cerritos Man Arrested in Wife's Bridge Leap Death
James A. Hutchings of Cerritos, unemployed, was arrested in San Diego on suspicion of inducing his wife Jewel Hutchings to jump from the Coronado Bay Bridge. She died Wednesday afternoon, with an autopsy pending. Hutchings is held for murder investigation after detectives found evidence including a check to him in her possession.
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Cerritos Waldec
San Diego
Coronado Bay Bridge
Mission City
James A. Hutchings
Andy Sh
Mur
Jewel Hutchings
Hutchings
Press-Tele
Coronado Island
Bob Walker
Nixon and Soviet reach naval traffic accord at Moscow summit
Nixon and Soviet leaders sign a naval traffic accord to avoid incidents at sea and test special signaling between fleets. But Nixon was absent for the formal signing with Warner and Gorshkov as sessions continued. Officials call the pact a significant step toward improved relations while noting ongoing talks on arms and trade and Hanoi’s nervous responses.
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Warner
Gorshkov
Ted Pens
Ronald L. Ziegler
White House
Soviet Union
Vietnam
William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger
Kremlin
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Alexei N. Kasygin
Andrei A. Gromyko
Hiegler
Brezhnev
Jeader
Kissinger
Gromyko
Hanoi
Moscow
U.S
Explosion forces emergency landing of jetliner to Miami
A San Chile Airlines Boeing 727 made an emergency landing in Jamaica after an explosion in a restroom aboard the jet, injuring no one and causing cabin pressure issues. The flight was bound for Miami.
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Miami
Pupi
San Chile Airlines
Wero
Jamaica
Hostages Freed After SAA Jet Hijack in Africa
Two hijackers on a South African Airways Boeing 727 released all 58 passengers and crew after detaining them and demanding money. Lebanese suspects with Ethiopian passports negotiated as security and officials, including President H. W. Kamuza Banda, were involved. The plane, hijacked before landing in Johannesburg, zigzagged via Salisbury and the Indian Ocean to Blantyre.
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Blantyre
South African Airways
HW. Kamuza Banda
South-Central Africa
Johannesburg
Salisbury
Rhodesia
Thug Seizes Hostage to Trade for Jet and Escape
A gunman forced officials at a Dallas airfield to help him steal a jet and captured a radio newsman in the car at Love Field. He asked for uppers to stay awake during the plan. Separately, Helen Hartness Flanders, 82, widow of Senator Ralph E. Flanders, died, famed for collecting early New England ballads and Vermont Folk Songs.
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Dallas
Fuqua
Love Field
Springfield
Helen Hartness Flanders
U.S
Ralph EB. Flanders
New England
Vermont
Viet war clashes widen with renewed North Vietnamese attacks
Red forces launched broad assaults across South Vietnam while U S and South Vietnamese air strikes hit Hanoi targets. Hanoi Radio accused US raids near civilian sites and dike systems as savage acts of war. U S Command reported 270 raids on Wednesday destroying bridges and power plants in Hanoi Hai Phong area. Losses included two jets and several aircraft downed, with casualties in the south. Kontum and Quang Tri battles reported as government troops clash with North Vietnamese forces in the central highlands.
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U.S. Command
My Canh
Quang Tri
Commmunist
Kontum
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