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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1969
Page
9
The tax reform measure details personal exemptions rising to 750 by 1973, standard deduction increases, and low income allowances. It includes social security boosts, surtax changes, investment credits and moving expense rules, plus capital gains, minimum tax, and loophole narrowing. A separate Flint purse snatching report notes a would‑be thief leaping a fence after a failed theft Christmas Eve.
The Haight Ashbury hippie wave faded from public view yet persists across San Francisco and California. Readers learn about alternative schools and free universities, hitchhiking surging to 10 000 daily rides, hundreds of hippie communes, and new community switchboards. Prices and internal tensions are noted as youth live on lean budgets.
A revived Doble steam engine design will power a Bay Area transit bus in a 750000 dollar emissions test to assess steam propulsion as a smog solution. The one year study will compare hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide reductions and may lead to more steam buses if funds allow.
The Board of Supervisors approved filing a proposal with HUD to fund a government services study of the South Coast from Goleta Valley to Carpinteria Valley. The study would include Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland, and Goleta Valley, with total costs around 200000 dollars and federal support of about two thirds. Public officials note state surveys may aid the effort and data from them could reduce local costs.
Frank J. Chilberto, formerly assistant manager at Security Pacific National Bank Lompoc, becomes manager of the Vandenberg Village Branch succeeding Kenneth L. Skeate who moves to Simi Branch in Ventura County. Chilberto joined the bank in 1959 and serves as budget chairman for the Lompoc Valley Flower Festival.
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