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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1969
Page
3
Daily records cancellation notice changes the Lompoc event to January 8 with sessions from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Santa Barbara County Health Department.
Two car collision near Maple Avenue and R Street left Lillie Moore and Rose Marie Cadena with minor injuries. Arrests include Richard Myers for arson at Artesia School. Items stolen include tools, a camera, headrests and tape cartridges from local residences and offices. Fire damaged alfalfa stock and a transformer caused a power outage.
Police report a theft of a stereo tape deck from William Dewayne Howe at 1404 W. Pear Ave. The vehicle was parked near the Veterans Memorial Building last week and items valued at 63 dollars were taken.
A 14-member team of physicians paused in San Francisco en route to Vietnam where they will provide 60 days of civilian medical care for the wounded and sick. The group, the 700th Volunteer Physicians for Viet Nam, comes from 11 states and Nigeria and includes four doctors returning for a second tour.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover warns that crime will likely rise in the 1970s with student disorder on campuses, though new legal tools promise stronger enforcement against organized crime. He notes violent crime may increase but cites immunity for witnesses and electronic surveillance as improving prospects for law and order.
Vice President Spiro Agnew narrowly dodged a four inch bottle of explosive powder thrown by about 100 Filipino youths near the U S embassy in Manila as he began a 23 day Asian tour. Police arrested one suspect and two other devices caused no damage. Agnew greeted guests later and visited Malacanang Palace amid heavy security.
U S B52 Stratofortresses struck within a mile of the Cambodian border in the heaviest overnight raids in five weeks. The nine waves dropped about 900 tons on suspected guerrilla bivouacs as ground forces reported 46 Communist deaths from a prior day air strike.
State employees of the executive branch gave Gov Arch Moore a television with three 14 inch screens allowing him to watch three channels at once. The gesture follows a day of closing stock listings and other brief notices in Charleston.
In Messina Sicily a five year old in Lompoc California received a metal toy that turned out to be a 1940 hand grenade. Armament experts later exploded it and found it in working order. A separate Lompoc report recalls a church organist hearing a radio broadcast intrude during a Christmas service, attributed to a faulty oscillator, with the minister calling it a mixed media midnight Mass.
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