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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1970
Page
3
A reader confesses addictive love for a mistreating partner and questions how to end it. Abby advises leaving and praying for strength, then addresses a wife neglecting her mother and a church audience issue with disruptive babies, suggesting blunt directness and nursery solutions.
Lompoc High School records show burglary loss increasing to 1300 dollars from an earlier estimate of 900. Principal Bob Paisola reports 41 blazer jackets missing plus two sideline parkas, with police continuing to investigate. The District Office of Congressman Teague will be open in Lompoc Wednesday for constituent assistance.
Navy Lieutenant (junior grade) Donald W. Peltier II, husband of Laura Burkett of Lompoc, is at the U.S. Naval Destroyer School in Newport Rhode Island. After graduation in February he will serve as a department head in the Destroyer Force. Marine First Lieutenant Bert A. Stevenson, son of Mrs. Rod Atkinson of Lompoc, received the Bronze Star Medal with combat “V” at Concord California. He earned the award for meritorious service with the Ninth Marine Amphibious Brigade in Vietnam from August 1968 to August 1969. Stevenson aided in rescuing a wounded Marine near Phu Bat, led a four-man air evacuation, and later held key supply and command roles.
Patricia A. Parker, 21, of North Hollywood, filed a paternity suit in Los Angeles Superior Court seeking medical expenses and 1000 a month in child support. The hearing is set for August 28. Presley, 35, is touring Las Vegas with wife Priscilla and their 2 year old daughter Lisa.
Robert Henry Whitten 68 died Friday at Lompoc District Hospital. Services Monday at 2 pm at McPeek Family Chapel with Rev. Kenneth Boyd officiating. Interment at Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery. Born August 7 1902 in New York City. Survived by widow Marguerite of Lompoc daughter Frances Spanne of Lompoc son Robert M Whitten of Kingsport Tennessee and three grandchildren Laura Spanne Michael Spanne and Robert Whitten. He was a retired mill and lumber businessman from Chavannex Texas and active in Masonic Lodge Shriner and Rotary Club.
Major General Garland presided as Colonels Gosdin Dettinger Crahen and others received Oak Seaf Cluster Air Force Commendation Medals for staff weather support and medical care improvements. Crahen earned Legion of Merit leaves. Captain Taylor earned Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal. Sergeants Duncan Dearmont DeGatterelly Cable earned Bronze Star and Meritorious Service Medal for Vietnam era service.
A Paris bookshop facing the city council’s dispute over its display changed its storefront sign from erotic books to art library. The store sits opposite a boys’ school on Avenue de la Motte-Picquet, and the alteration follows official concerns about local sensitivity.
Funeral services for Charles Eugene Durham, former Lompoc resident and FEC employee, will be Monday at 2 p.m. in Santa Barbara. burial in Goleta Cemetery. Survivors include his wife Carolyn, seven children, mother Ida Smith, two brothers, and one grandchild. Also noted is the death of Christa Marianne Brossman, 37, in Lompoc with burial at Bethany Lutheran Church cemetery. survivors include husband Evan Brossman and five children. Arrangements by McDermott Crockett and McPeek Family Mortuary.
GAINSBOROUGH England Nancy Brumby spent about 125 on 800 tea packages hoping for a car prize. Thursday she was notified she won a $20 transistor radio in the contest.
Superior Judge Arden Jensen indicated he would not dismiss about 1 500 signatures on the El Capitan Ranch referendum petitions amid a contest by Jules Berman. The trial continued to Monday at 10 a.m. in the Santa Barbara Courthouse with rulings supporting County Clerk J E Lewis that enough valid signatures were collected to require county supervisors to act.
County supervisors plan to approve an ordinance banning unauthorized motorized use on private land to curb noise nuisances from motorcyclists. The proposal, backed by Supervisor Joe J. Callahan, exempts government and permitted private activities. The measure faces possible legal challenges over related rezoning actions and a referendum effort.
Mehnga S. Sanghera owner of Sangera Buick Pontiac in Lompoc tops a 22-dealer Southern California Arizona field with 255 percent of sales goals earning him and his wife a week's European trip aboard a chartered jet. They will tour Switzerland France Great Britain and Holland.
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