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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1972
Page
3
Mrs. Truman and their daughter Margaret Daniel faced the end at hospital as doctors warned death could come within hours. Truman’s flag was lowered to half staff at hospital, home, and library, while world leaders and citizens paid tribute to the former president as a “great man.”
In Sacramento an $8,000 device named Myra the Monster, resembling a woman's posterior, roams waterbeds to simulate sleeper stresses. The state Bureau of Furniture and Bedding Inspection uses the machine to assess durability and safety of water filled mattresses.
CHP reports a Santa Maria man, Arturo Herrera 19, killed in a Highway 166 crash. His brother Felimon 23 injured. Four others hospitalised after a head on collision on Highway 154. Other minor injuries from separate crashes across Lompoc and Santa Barbara.
The Lompoc Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at City Hall to consider Thelma E. Wilson's plan to establish a home for the elderly at 835 North R Street. They will review architectural guidelines, state sign program, and a proposed abandonment of a narrow B Street land strip between Ocean Avenue and an alley. The meeting starts at 7 30 p m and was postponed from Monday due to Christmas Day.
United Press International reports Christmas scenes across the globe. In Bethlehem bells ring peace as East and West Berlin reunite families, Pope Paul VI speaks of justice and peace, Philippines drops martial law curfew for a festive night, and Vietnam workers call Christmas a workday amid aerial duties.
Police investigated a disturbance at a Veterans Memorial Building youth dance Friday where Officers James Hall and Vernon Stevens suffered minor injuries from flying objects. One man was arrested on a plain drunk charge and two youths were taken into custody for possession of alcohol.
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