Massive Woodstock fete ends amid tragedy and mud
Thousands trudged home from the Wood stock Music and Art Fair in White Lake New York as two youths died and hundreds injured. One 17 year old crushed by a tractor sleeping bag incident. another undetermined fatal drug overdose. Medical teams treated about 3000 people with 400 drug reactions. Helicopters airlifted injured to hospitals. traffic was rerouted amid heavy crowds and rain.
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Allan Parachini
White Lake
N.Y
UPI
Raymond R. Mizsak
Trenton
N.J
Long Island
Catskill Mountains
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
Festival Field
Obituary for Bryan C. Finch Dies in Los Angeles Accident
Bryan Clark Finch 60 died Aug 14 from injuries in a July 27 Los Angeles auto crash. Funeral 1 p.m. tomorrow at Douglas Mortuary El Segundo. interment Inglewood Cemetery. Survived by wife Virginia, children Ward, Roger, Mona Lee Mason, sister Hazel Summers and Glendora Rush. homem Saunders?
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Douglass Mortuary
el Segundo
Bryan Clark Finch
Los Angeles
Virginia
Finch
Poppy
Church of Christ, Latter Day Saints
Joseph Randall
Inglewood
Holyoke
Colo
Vandenberg Afb
Lockheed Corp
Ward
Lancaster
Roger
US Navy
Mona Lee Mason
Hazel Summers
Portland
Ore
Glendora Rush
Ford pickup winner announced in Lompoc affair
Ray Eford, 1508 W Cherry, won the 1956 Ford pickup drawn by Flower Festival Queen Dawn Ebbert for the Lompoc Boys Club. A correction notes misaddress in a domestic incident at 327 N J St involving Mrs Pete Organo. Police reorganized emergency numbers to RE 62583 and RE 62584 with RE 68550 kept for true emergencies. Ronald Menejes treated for accidental gun wound at Lompoc Hospital. Two Sonoma men, Charles Minter and Earl Crumbliss, died when their light plane crashed near San Luis Obispo after running out of gas.
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Lompoc Boys Club
Ray Eford
W. Cherry
Flower Festival
Dawn Ebbert
N. J St
Pete Organo
Police Telephoneslomnoc Police Department
Ray Robertson
Ronald Menejes
Walnut Ave
Lompoc Hospital
Menejes
San Luis Obispo
UPI
Sonoma
Here
Charles Minter
Earl R. Crumbliss
875 Acre Brush Fire Rages Near Saugus California
Wind driven blaze in San Francisquito Canyon charred 875 acres of watershed. Fire crews from Forest Service and Los Angeles County Fire Department aided by four aerial tankers and four helicopters contained the fire on Sunday. No homes threatened though a power line feeding the San Fernando Valley was briefly shut down before being bypassed. In Rowher Canyon a smaller fire burned five acres, about 15 miles east. The incidents occurred in the foothills of the Angeles National Forest about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
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Saugus
UPS
San Francisquito Canyon
Here
Forest Service
Los Angeles County Fire Department
Rowher Canyon
Angeles National Forest
Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
Major suspended by AF in nuclear guard case
San Francisco UPI Major Donald Tidwell of the Air Force was relieved of duties at Hamilton AFB pending investigation after he allowed three men with psychiatric problems to guard a stockpile of nuclear missiles. Tidwell cited a guard shortage and warned that hippies might target the weapons.
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San Francisco
UPI
Air Force
Hamilton Air Force Base
Michael Stublarec
Donald Tidwell
Robert V. Ballou
Corvallis
Ore
Robert D. Carrow
Novato
Ballou
Carrow
Dr. Strangelove
William M. Leopold
Tidwell
Haight- Ashbury
Cycle club fete ends quietly in Lompoc
About 100 Viking Motorcycle Club members held a dance at Veterans Memorial Building in Lompoc. Police noted a quiet event with private citizens expressing concern as cyclists rode the streets. The club had an exempt license and paid 47.50 for police protection. permit filed by George Deeghly, club located at 703 N A St.
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Viking Motorcycle Club
Veterans Memorial Building
Locust Avenue
Lompoc
George Deeghly
N. A St
Castro Cuba Mexico rift over hijacked planes escalates
Fidel Castro’s Cuba yanks toward a diplomatic clash with Mexico over hijackers. Mexico vows tough anti hijacking laws and seeks extradition while Havana refuses, triggering strains with Latin America’s lone ally for Cuba.
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Terrance W. McGarry
Mexico City
UPI
Fidel Castro
Mexico
Latin America
Organization of American States
OAS
Cuba
Havana
Castro
United States
Colombia
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz
Congress
Closing Stock Quotations From Lompoc Record Aug 18 1969
Closing stock prices and closing volume listed for numerous companies led by Alcoa, Ford, GM, IBM, RCA, Sears, Texaco, Westinghouse, and U.S. Steel. Market sectors include rails and utilities with totals shown for closing volumes.
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Lompoc, Calif
Mon
Lompoc
Rohrbaugh and Co
Constellation Road
Alcon
Times-Mirror
TransAmerica
Union Oil
United Aircraft
Uniroyal
U.S. Steel
Westinghouse
Woolworth
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Bryan C. Finch
William Abruzzi
Abruzzi
SLO
Hursley
England
IBM
Slim
Harry Looney
West Coast
San Jose
Looney
Jane Doe
Rome
Denton A. Cooley
Houston
Tex
Philip Blaiberg
Cooley
Blaiberg
Winnie Baughman
Daisy Ave
Highway 1
Rose Marie Duarte
Thousand Oaks
J.C. Haley Burke
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Baughman
Eugene Cohig
College Ave
California Highway Patrol
Cohig
America
Huntsville
Ala
Mexicana Airways
Jose Caberga
Maria Munoz
Prensa Latina
Yucatan
Antonio Carrillo Flores
Alcoa
American Air
American Motors
At&t
Anaconda
Bendix
Bethlehem
Chrysler
Dupont
Basman Kodak
Ford Motor
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Motors
General Telephone
Imperial Corp
International Paper
It&t
Johns- Manville
Lockheed
McDonnell-Douglas
Minnesota Mining
Penn-Central
Brooks
Pg&e
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