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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1972
Page
3
The Daily Record reports an invitation to bid on nine wood buildings and one metal building at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Sealed bids close December 18 with details at the Real Estate Office Building 11439 Utah and Iceland Avenues.
The Record lists closing prices and volumes for a broad set of stocks led by Allied companies. Notable figures include American Can at 31% and Ford Motor at 75% with a closing volume of 22,570,000 shares and several gains across sectors.
Two top Santa Ynez Valley breeding farms, Flag is Up Farms and Westerly Stud Farms, are offered for sale. Westerly Stud follows the death of Fletcher Jones, wealthy owner and head of Computer Sciences Corp. The asking prices are expected to be in the millions, with no firm figures yet.
In a 30 round barrage by 122mm rockets at Bien Hoa Air Base, a small boy was killed and 14 others wounded. Among the injured were four Americans, two airmen and two Marines, plus four Vietnamese airmen and six civilians. The attack also damaged a Vietnamese helicopter, five Skyraiders, and hit the air freight terminal.
Environmentalists bankers and developers joined to push a compromise bill after a state Supreme Court ruling in the Friends of Mammoth case extended the Environmental Quality Act to private projects. The Senate on a voice vote accepted amendments that mollified concerns and boosted passage chances for Assemblyman John Knox’s measure.
The Lompoc City Council will meet at 9 a.m. in City Hall to discuss how to use 238000 in federal revenue sharing funds approved by President Nixon. Each council member has proposed ideas for the money and a decision is expected in the morning session.
United Press International reports Capt Townsend overruled by PA system during racial disorders aboard USS Kitty Hawk while Cmdr Cloud clashed with him. Courts-martial proceed against 21 black sailors from the crew after Oct 12 13 disturbances on the carrier en route from the Philippines.
Nathan L. Giles Jr., 22, of Omaha Nebraska, died early today after leaping from an overpass onto Highway 101 in Santa Barbara. Police called it an apparent death by own action. Giles was dead on arrival at a nearby hospital after 1 a.m. Three witnesses saw him straddle the railing and plunge about 25 feet to the pavement. Two hours earlier, a CHP officer had cited him for hitchhiking on the freeway about a mile away.
Services for Maude Neva Hekel 85 die Thursday in Santa Maria followed by burial in Quasqueton Cemetery Iowa. Survivors include husband Raymond, daughter Camilla Kruger, brother Frank Mason and others. Separate notice notes Susan Garcia 30 died in Concord and requests memorials to cancer society or March of Dimes. Also a brief Gov Gilligan quips about not buying a state lottery ticket in Ohio.
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