Ag Center to close in June amid federal cuts
Lompoc's Agriculture Research Center will shut down in June after federal budget reductions. Four of five staffers will transfer to Fresno to support agricultural pollution efforts in California's San Joaquin Valley. The facility, opened in 1957, produced research and papers and aided local farmers with crop breeding and soil rainfall studies.
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Lompoc
Agriculture Research Center
Fresno
California
San Joaquin Valley
Paul Nixon
Agriculture Service
Lompoc Valley
Nixon
H Street
Chestnut Avenue
Paul Lawless
Bob McCormick
Larry Pittman
Lawless
Dorothy McKeen
Federal Agriculture
Way says GOP upset over ouster as Senate pro tem
Sacramento UPI report notes Howard Way claims GOP leaders and donors are outraged by Jack Schrade’s ouster of Way as Senate president pro tem. Way says grassroots pressure may prompt primary challenges and loss of party funding. Also included are forecast showers and tides for the area with cooler temperatures.
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Sacramento
UPI
Howard Way
Jack Schrade
Senate
GOP
Way
California
Exeter
Schrade
Old Guard
Lompoc officials host tri county law briefing and ads clinic
Councilman Arthur Scott attends the tri county law enforcement briefing in Lompoc. Ralph Patey outlines a free business advertising clinic at 7 30 tonight in the Veterans Memorial building. Paul Thompson and five library staff return by charter from Sacramento after a day long state library tour. Deputies capture 35 head of cattle diverted onto Bailey Road and Highway 246 near Lompoc.
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Arthur Scott
Lompoc
Ralph Patey
Chamber of Commerce
Veterans Memorial Building
Paul Thompson
Sacramento
Bailey Road
Highway 246
Israel broadens air strikes as Thant warns of new Middle East danger
Israeli planes bombed missile sites 19 miles south of Cairo in a deep strike, the first in five days. Thant at the United Nations warned that only strong measures can avert a new catastrophe. Golda Meir called for peace talks as equals and restoration of the cease-fire, blaming Nasser’s stance for ongoing hostilities.
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Cairo
Egypt
U.N
Thant
New York
Middle East
Moscow
United Nations
Security Council
Israel
Nasser
Bickmore resigns county post
County Petroleum Engineer David K. Bickmore of Santa Maria resigns his $15 228 a year county post after stating suspension damaged his reputation. Supervisors accepted his resignation unanimously as Bickmore cited new conflict of interest concerns and lingering questions from an investigation that followed his reinstatement.
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Board of Supervisors
David K. Bickmore
Santa Maria
Bickmore
Curtis Tunnell
Tunnell
Johnson
Reinecke Sees Reagan Pursuing Re election Bid
Lt. Gov Ed Reinecke states Gov Ronald Reagan will run again, saying they will campaign as a coordinated team. He notes Reagan has not disclosed his decision, while planning joint campaign photos and a unified ticket with Spencer Roberts.
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Reinecke
Reagan
Sacramento
UPI
Ed Reinecke
Ronald Reagan
California
Senate
Jack Schrade
Schrade
Howard Way
Exeter
Delta
Tujunga
Robert H. Finch
Finch
Nixon
Spencer - Roberts
Liberal strategy shifts as Carswell vote faces delay
Senate liberals may delay G Harrold Carswell confirmation by tying it to the Voting Rights Extension bill. Judiciary Committee advances the nomination 13 to 4, allowing debate to start February 27, while March 2 votes loom on the rights measure. NAACP leader calls Carswell a white supremacist despite committee praise.
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Carswell
Clarence Mitchell
Washington
NAACP
United States
U S seeks new ban on biological weapons at Geneva talks
At the Geneva Disarmament Conference the United States urged immediate negotiation of a treaty banning production possession and use of biological weapons. Russia demanded a blanket prohibition of all chemical and biological arms with no verification. Gerard C. Smith and Alexei A. Roschin presented rival positions as the session opened after a three month recess. Smith argued separating chemical and biological arms. Roschin urged complete prohibition of both. Western officials hope for a biological only agreement but acknowledge chemical arms complicate talks.
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Geneva
UPI
United States
Russia
Gerard C. Smith
Alexei A. Roschin
Smith
Roshchin
City council race grows filings in Lompoc
Two more candidates, Mayor Robert MacClure and banker George Cotsenmeyer, filed papers for the April 14 Lompoc city council election joining Floyd Dunlap and E C Stevens. Other potential contenders include Henry Ramirez Brooks Speight Sol Lefkowtiz and Councilman Richard Jacoby who has yet to declare. Nominations close Thursday at noon. MacClure and Cotsenmeyer were endorsed by local figures such as Edward Lilly Nelson Carter H L Campbell William A Paulin and Kenneth R Wright among others.
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Lompoc
Wilma Thomas
Robert MacClure
George Cotsenmeyer
Floyd Dunlap
Civil Service
E. C. Stevens
Allan Hancock College
Henry Ramirez
Brooks Speight
Sol Lefkowitz
City Planning Commission
Richard Jacoby
MacClure
Edward H. Lilly
Nelson Carter
H. L. Campbell
William A. Paulin
Stanley Glover
Epimenio P. Lopez
John B. Vilkaitis
Minnie F. Vilkaitis
Bernard Swisher
Roy M. Ford
Cotsenmeyer
Kenneth R. Wright
Harold G. Thompson
Andrew McGrath
Lawrence Grossman
Mary J. Braun
Elizabeth K. Hoblister
Frank A. Silva
K. L. Halfhill
Edward R. Wallace
Lompoc Real Estate Holds Steady Amid 1968 69 Shifts
Lompoc real estate held its own through 1968 despite soaring interest rates and rising construction costs. Brokers report fewer sales in 1969 but ongoing housing shortages, with rental units nearly exhausted and vacancies dropping from 25 percent in 1965 67 to about five percent now.
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Lompoc Real Estate
Harry J. Crompe
Lompoc Valley
Jerry Gray
Village Realty Company
Vandenberg Village
Mission Hills
Art Scott
Central Coast Realty
Scott
FHA
Harley Craig
Lompoc
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Putnam Livermore
San Francisco
United Press International
Golda Meir
Khesset
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Khartoum
Lee Kincannon
Department of Justice
S. R. Evans
Morro Bay
Ray Robertson
Tri-County
Ventura
Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
State Department of Justice
National Crime Information Center
California Highway Patrol
U.S
Cotsenmoyer
William Culberson
Culberson Realty
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