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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1972
Page
3
In Tucson a masked robber known as the Red Bandana Bandit turned out to be Larry Brown, a 20 year old service station worker. Though police once feared a vigilante era threat, the suspect was stopped after a string of weekly supermarket heists.
President Nixon retains policy control over Vietnam war actions but lets subordinates pick airstrike targets in North Vietnam, unlike Lyndon Johnson. White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler says Nixon will stay involved in monitoring the Communist offensive in the south and the retaliatory strikes in the north.
President Nixon named John W. Warner as secretary of the Navy succeeding John H. Chafee who resigned to seek a Rhode Island Senate seat. Frank P. Sanders becomes undersecretary, moving up from assistant secretary for financial management. Sanders, 52, previously staff member of the House Appropriations Committee for 19 years.
The American Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians urged FDA approval of Medroxyprogesterone Acetate, a long lasting injectable contraceptive, for sale and use in the United States with precautionary instructions though it is currently used only experimentally here. It is used in over 60 countries.
Obituary for Betty Faye Keller 33 of Lompoc died after a long illness born November 18 1938 in Monte Vista Colorado. Funeral Monday 2 pm at McPeek Mortuary Chapel survivors include her two children Beverly Jean Budd Cindy Lee Budd and her mother Bonnie Castor. HALLEIN Austria UP I fireman Rudolf Segart's attic mattress fire gutted his house. firefighters fought the blaze for hours.
John McKenzie will present a 1812 mission life tableau at the Lompoc Valley museum annual dinner April 15 at 7 p.m. in Vandenberg Village Inn. Reservations via 687-1331. The Santa Barbara Channel City Club's Louis Lancaster will speak at the Santa Barbara County Chapter meeting. The Red Cross hosts Monday 6:30 p.m. at Chapter House 2707 State St inviting all volunteers and the public.
The County Employees Assn. asks the Board of Supervisors to begin wage and fringe benefit bargaining for 1972 73 pay levels. The package calls for a four day work week option, withdrawal from Social Security study, unemployment compensation, and safety and health fixes at Santa Barbara General Hospital.
Lompoc Valley residents are invited to a Sunday good old days picnic and a 60 piece Strategic Air Command Band concert at Miguelito Park. Entrance and music start at 2 30 p.m. Families should bring picnic lunches. The event aims to revive a local Sunday concert and promote the upcoming Flower Festival. Miguelito Park lies three miles south of Lompoc on Miguelito Canyon Road.
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