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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1974
Page
2
Ventura County leaders consider backing extended commuter rail from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles with Oxnard as a mid point and Santa Barbara further along. Los Angeles County allocates four million dollars to start in county rail operations.
The article describes life at a 32 man minimum security camp housing Watergate figure Kalmbach and other nonviolent offenders. It outlines daily routines, work details from furniture making to hog tending, mail calls, counts, and the mix of inmates by race and background.
Solvang Festival Theater debuts with Once Upon a Mattress and two PCPA shows King Lear and Taming of the Shrew. Belita Moreno shines as Winifred while Carol Brolaski improves Queen Aggravain. seating is 600 with a thrust stage and outdoor acoustics perform well. The project is community funded as Allan Hancock College's Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts mounts summer repertory at the site. Curtain 8:30, tickets $136.
Harvey Roberts, 60, remained in Marian Hospital’s ICU with gunshot wounds after a police confrontation yesterday that ended when officers felled him following a hostage incident involving his attorney Buddy Jaquith and a legal secretary. Officer Dan Shiner, 28, was wounded but recovered at home. Roberts had gone to Jaquith’s office during a bitter divorce dispute and reportedly carried a pipe bomb device filled with black powder that was not detonated.
The County Fire Fighters Union seeks a cost of living based raise tied to the CPI and comparisons with Ventura Kern and Santa Barbara salaries. If the Supervisors reject, the union may move to put the measure on the ballot or seek voter approval through petitions. A recent court order bans picketing while the union seeks about 505000 in a related suit.
Services are pending at Starbuck Mortuary for Edward M. Barrus 55 who died this morning at Lompoc District Hospital after a sudden illness. Funeral services are pending at Gregory McPeek Mortuary for William B. Fackler 47 who died yesterday at Lompoc District Hospital. Ida Baker Funeral services for Mrs Ida O Baker 81 will be held Monday at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier. Mrs Baker died Wednesday in a Santa Barbara hospital born in 1893 in Texas and had lived in the area seven years. She had been living with her ...
The notice indicates that arrangements for Robert Holden are being handled under the direction of Gregory McPeek Mortuary.
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