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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1972
Page
3
The Lompoc Planning Commission will review a minor subdivision and revisit the Hogg Brothers rezoning east of the city tonight. A follow up study session on land use zoning and revised parking standards is planned after the meeting at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall.
Apollo 17 crew Eugene Corman Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt ride the 363 foot rocket carrier from the VAB as the last moon mission prep signals the end of the mobile launcher era. The crew will log over a million miles before a December splashdown. A second item notes a separate police report about $290 in SPEED AUTO parts at 1412 W Walnut Ave.
Parents of tenth graders are invited to a 7 00 p m preview in the high school cafeteria on September 5. Materials will be displayed and a panel including the principal district curriculum director a nurse a counselor a physician and a minister will discuss the six week Family Life Education unit and answer questions. The unit covers human reproduction and venereal disease prevention and cure. Absent a parent request students will be scheduled into the course during 1972 73.
The last U S combat unit in Vietnam departed last week reducing U S troop strength to 37,700 in South Vietnam. An additional 300 Air Force personnel and 1,200 soldiers were withdrawn as President Nixon nears a new pullout plan expected to cut about 14,000 more troops.
Cal Poly Extension will offer about 30 courses in engineering architecture education home economics and sciences this fall. The program operates at eight Central Coast communities from Sept 25 to Dec, with registration at first class. Tuition is 16 dollars per quarter unit for lectures and higher for labs.
Exchange Building Corporation announced a $2 million neighborhood shopping center to serve west Goleta Valley. The University Village Plaza on Storke and Pacific Oaks roads will open by mid 1973 with tenants including Jordanos Market and Thrifty Drug, plus 25 000 square feet for retail and office space. It marks the first large shopping center in the area as part of the University Village master plan since 1964 featuring a wood textured Pacific Northwest design.
The Record notes a county road expansion linking Phelps Road and Cathedral Oaks with the Ellwood Interchange. A plaza center is due for a fall signing, Archs Arendt-Mosher-Grant chosen, Coldwell Banker handling leasing for stores. A 14 acre site will host a regional center on 80 more acres, integrating agriculture, housing, recreation and jobs. London reports BBC Radio London invites nudists for a discussion next month to add realism.
Dr. DeBakey leads a Santa Barbara Ventura County Heart Association symposium with Drs Hoffman Sherry and Reynolds. Topics include Mechanical Support and Coronary Disease Surgical considerations and National Health Services with early physician registration urged due to limited space.
Ronald Wayne Davis 14 died Friday in Anaheim. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 11 am in the McPeek Family Chapel with interment at Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery. Bishop Carrol Reisch will preside. Born in 1958 in Torrance, he lived in the area 10 years and attended Orcutt Junior High where he played in the band. Survivors include his parents George Ward and his wife of Anaheim, a sister Geraldine, two step brothers William Ward of Santa Barbara and Gary Ward of Lompoc, a step sister Linda Kogan, and grandmothers Julia Stover of Grover City and Ruth Tharpe of San Pedro.
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