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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1973
Page
3
UPI reports heavy U S airstrikes across South Vietnam and the strongest Communist shelling in a month as the cease-fire looms within three days. Officials say fighting will continue until the cease-fire at 8 a m Sunday takes effect, despite the impending date.
Phil Regan 56 pleaded innocent in Superior Court to three counts for offering bribes to County Supervisor Frank Frost to sway a Tyrolian Village rezoning. The indictment also cites a related bribe attempt to Santa Barbara PR consultant Kenneth Palmer, Frost’s intermediary. Regan remains free on 10000 bail.
Federal Judge John J. Sirica rebuked defense lawyers for McCord and Liddy in the Watergate case calling their argument ridiculous. He refused McCord’s bid to frame his defense as spying to protect Nixon and others from harm amid the DNC breakin trial in Washington.
Rosary will be recited tomorrow at 7 30 p m in McPeek Family Mortuary Chapel Mass Saturday at 10 a m at Queen of the Angels in Mission Hills for Richard Francis Cunningham 38 who died Tuesday at Travis Air Force Base Interment with full military honors at Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery He was born in 1934 in Illinois and lived in Mission Hills 3657 Via Lato He retired January 1972 from the Air Force as a tech sergeant Prior to this he served in the 10th Aerospace Defense Squadron Vandenberg Air Force Base He belonged to American Legion Post 125 and Lompoc Moose Lodge 1036 He is survived by his widow Carolyn of the home address his mother Mrs Francis Cunningham of Illinois and a brother Michael Cunningham Jr of Illinois Friends may call at McPeek from 4 p m to 8 p m this evening and all day Friday.
Funeral services are pending at the McPeek Family Mortuary Chapel for Ralph G. Siemons 74 who died yesterday at Lompoc District Hospital. He was born in 1898 in Missouri and was a resident of Montana visiting Lompoc. His widow Ida of Montana. Further details will appear in the Record.
North Vietnamese artillery pounded near Quang Tri as U S air raids and shelling hit Communist positions nationwide. A curfew began in Binh Dinh Province as cease-fire talks loomed, with soldiers killed and wounded in Quang Ngai and Ben Cat engagements.
UPI reports major Vietnam War casualty figures from 1961 to 1973. U S combat dead total 45933 with 153300 hospitalized and 150316 nonhospitalized wounded. Missing 1340. Prisoners 589. Noncombat deaths 10298. South Vietnamese battle deaths 183528. Other allied dead 5225. Communist combat deaths about 925000. Civilians 415000 dead 935000 injured. U S cost about 105 billion.
The Lompoc Valley Boys' Club Board appoints David McKay Barlow as the new executive director. Barlow, a BYU graduate in youth leadership, previously volunteered as program director in Provo and is from Santa Monica. He is married to Lorraine Jex and has two daughters. He is a LDS Church member who served a two year mission in New York.
In Sacramento the legislature held a brief session despite a national day of mourning for former President Lyndon B. Johnson and protected lawmakers 30 a day expense allowances for members.
The County Planning Commission met to address pyramid zoning that allows mixed residential and commercial uses across Goleta Valley, Santa Ynez Valley and Summerland areas. Members pushed for a report by Feb 28, weighing commercial industrial park designations and refined M-1 B rules amid calls for tighter controls and alignment with state zoning laws.
The Parks and Recreation Commission meeting for last night was not held due to a lack of a quorum as several commissioners did not attend.
President Nguyen Van Thieu told about 1,000 police officers in Saigon that a one man one vote poll could occur in six months as international supervisors oversee the vote under the cease fire. He noted the Viet Cong may seek village or legislative ballots while Thieu urged readiness to defeat the Communists.
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