Police seek link between Tate murder and La Bianca killings
Homicide squads fan out across Los Angeles exploring possible connections between the Sharon Tate murder and the La Bianca killings in Silverlake. Both scenes show ritualistic motifs with hooded victims and carved markings, though authorities warn a link may not exist.
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Vernon Scott
UPI
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Sharon Tate
Leno la Bianca
Rosemary
Silverlake
Walt Disney
Miss Tate
Benedict Canyon
la Bianca
Jay Sebring
Tate
Home use permits cover wide range of activities in 1969
In Lompoc 1969 home use permits ranged from piano teaching to an import export mail service and portable fire alarm work. The rule limits occupations to residents, with no outside employees or extra storage, and fees totaled 2550 dollars with half from a 25 dollar business license per permit.
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Rennie L. Adam
Lompoc
Clint Sherrod
Planning Commission
Commission
Sherrod
FBI reports no prints of girl found slain here
The body of a young girl found Aug 3 near Lompoc shows no fingerprints matching those taken from the victim, suggesting she never had prints. Sheriff’s Detective Harry Looney leads the investigation, reviewing evidence as leads remain scarce and ties to similar crimes in San Jose have not yet materialized.
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Lompoc
FBI Crime Lab
Harry Looney
Looney
Gresco Quarry
Lompnc
San Jose
Astronauts Prepare for Huge Public Tribute
Space Center Houston reports astronauts Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins enjoy brief family time after moon soil exposure. They will face a grateful nation with ticker tape parades and a banquet as Apollo 11 first lunar landing heroes.
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Lunar Receiving Laboratory
Inmates still held in cells at FCI strike continues
Inmates in the industrial section of the Federal Correctional Institution remain in their cells after a sit down strike entered its third day. Warden Joseph Bogan cited a paid delay dispute resolved as an error but said proceeds to withhold work due to new grievances. Tear gas was used after workers refused to move from the mess hall area. no injuries reported.
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Federal Correctional Institution
Joseph Bogan
Bogan
City Building Activity Up in July Lompoc Records 82536
Lompoc plans and building department data show July marked the first 1968 rise in construction value at 82536 dollars. A single commercial project topped the month by 48360 dollars, with July total surpassing last year's by 11000, while alterations to 13 residences added 31356 and small jobs for a sign and a commercial alteration brought 1820 and 1000 respectively. By year to date through July 1968 total construction reached 71233.20 dollars, including a single family dwelling valued at 12301.20 and 22 residence alterations totaling 54798 dollars.
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Lompoc
Cincinnati Tornado Kills Four in Half Century Event
The first Cincinnati tornado in over 50 years killed four people and left a $7 million trail of destruction nine miles long. Some 460 families were homeless as 700 Ohio National Guardsmen patrolled to prevent looting and aid cleanup. Governor Rhodes and Mayor Ruehlmann toured the damage amid appeals for federal disaster assistance.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Ohio National
Nixon proposes basic income plan to overhaul welfare
President Nixon calls for total welfare reform with a federal basic income for poor American families in all states. He ties the plan to work incentives, proposes seven steps costing about four billion dollars more annually, and shifts OEO toward social science research and pilot programs.
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San Clemente
Calif
UPI
Nixon
Congress
House
Senate
Office of Economic Opportunity
OEO
White House
America
Wold
Senate approves strict gas warfare controls
The Senate unanimously backs the toughest Congress has ever set on gas and germ warfare weapons. An amendment to a $20 billion military procurement bill passes 9 to 0, creating strict standards for transporting and storing these agents, with Pentagon support easing controversy.
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Senate
John Bill Washington
UPI
Congress
Pentagon
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
House
Defense Department
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
Oldest district resident sought for Pioneer Days honor
The Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce seeks the oldest living native of the 4th Supervisorial District for recognition during Pioneer Days. Nominations due by Aug 14 noon at the chamber office. A plaque will be presented at the hoe-down on Saturday Aug 16 at Chestnut between H and I Streets. birthdate proof such as a family Bible accepted.
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Lompoc Valley
Chamber
Chestnut
H and I Streets
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Disneyland
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Eugene Ruehlmann
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Reading
Joann Lee
The
Red Cross
Sylvester del Corso
Ohio
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Delbert
Rodney
Zelphia Taylor
Williamsburg
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Thomas J McIintyre
D - NH
Laird
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