Flower Festival in Lompoc Nets a Record 140000
Flower Festival activities in Lompoc totaled about 140000, a record, with food and game booths contributing roughly 72000 to local service groups. The Queen's Contest and carnival earned 23675 and 27868 respectively, while the art show brought in about 15000.
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Sue Edelman
Moose Club
Flower Festival
Festival Committee
Chamber of Commerce Building Fund
Chamber
Howard Whitaker
Whitaker
Ryan Park
Lompoc
Santa Barbara County
Queen
Lompoc Chamber Banquet Reservations Open
Reservations are open for the annual Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce installation and awards banquet at the Royal Coach Restaurant on Thursday July 7 at 7 30 p m A social hour precedes the event Seating is first come first served Chamber President Al Pico will hand the gavel to Ray Gerrity for the new year The Man and Woman of the Year will be named including the Vandenberg AFB Airman of the Year award listed with nominees and selections by separate committees
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Lompoc Valley
Lompoc
Chamber of Commerce
Vandenberg Air Force Base
New sorting system shifts mail sorting to Santa Barbara
Lompoc Post Master Perry W. Martin says outgoing mail is now sent to Santa Barbara for machine sorting, with incoming mail to follow on city and rural routes. He notes 75,000 pieces handled daily and a staff reduction from 96 to 75 as the system aims for efficiency despite possible delays from the extra stop.
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Lompoc
Perry W. Martin
Santa Barbara
Martin
Vandenberg
Lompoc Teen Burns From Sparked Gasoline Fire
A Lompoc 16 year old boy received burns on his right leg Thursday when a motorscooter spark ignited spilled gasoline in a driveway. John David Morrison was treated at Lompoc Hospital and released. His brother Ronald, 12, helped extinguish the flames with a garden hose. Other incidents include a Solvang man and passenger injured in a Highways 154 246 crash and a Mission Hills motorcycle crash with injuries. Postal service layoffs and zip code sorting changes were announced affecting Santa Barbara central coast offices. John Mitchell, former attorney general, began menial clerical duties at a federal prison camp eight days into his Watergate sentence.
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Lompoc
John David Morrison
Orchid St
Lompoc Hospital
Morrison
John’s
Kevin Patrick Merrill
Solvang
Laura Lee Haney
Cachuma Camp
California Highway Patrol
CHP
Merrill
Haney
Montgomery
Ala
UPI
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Maxwell Air Force Base
Closing cattle prices at Santa Ynez Valley Sales yard
Beef prices recorded Thursday at the Santa Ynez Valley Sales yard show cutters and tanners 22 to 25 cents, bolls 30 to 35, yearling heifers 32 to 36, yearling steers 37 to 39, commercial cows 27 to 30, utility cows 25 to 27, steer calves 40 to 44, and heifer calves 32 to 36.
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Santa Ynez Valley
Infant Tiffany Moore Graveside Service Set in Chester SC
Graveside funeral services will be held Wednesday at Chester Evergreen Cemetery in Chester South Carolina for Tiffany M. Moore infant daughter of S Sgt Horace Moore and Mrs Moore of 409 Nutmeg St Vandenberg AFB The infant died the day she was born She is survived by sister Scarlet grandfather John W Moore and grandmother Pauline Wilson Local arrangements are by Lompoc Funeral Home.
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Chester Evergreen Cemetery
Chester
South Carolina
Tiffany M. Moore
Horace Moore
Nutmeg St
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Scarlet
John W. Moore
Pauline Wilson
Lompoc
State Public Utilities Commission orders General Telephone rate cut
The commission approves a 15.7 million, 2.6 percent rate reduction for General Telephone Company of California effective mid July. Residential one family rates fall to 5.45 in LA exchanges. business rates drop to 7.25 in LA area. A roughly 10 million dollar refund to customers is required as part of the decision with August 12 deadline for the refund plan.
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General Telephone Company of California
State Public Utilities Commission
PAC
Pacific Telephone
Los Angeles
Greater
PUC
MLS
Landowner challenges access as county plans canyon road use
Landowner Fred Bates objects to public use of a disputed road near Solvang claiming it is private and has been used for nearly 50 years. OEQ heard a four parcel split proposal by James Gravitt and neighbors urged a circulation plan before approving further lot divisions amid area development.
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County Department of Transportation
Fredensborg Canyon
Solvang
Fred Bates
Fredensborg Canyon Rd
Office of Environmental Quality
Bates
OEQ
James H. Gravitt
Chalk Hill
Santa Ynez
Negative declaration approved for Santa Maria wildcat oil well
The county OEQ approved a negative declaration for a R L Burns Corporation wildcat oil well southeast of Santa Maria near Clark Avenue and Bradley Road. Environmental Specialist Alan Manee warned of possible hydrogen sulfide odor in worst case weather, but neighbors voiced no objection amid pending tract maps and semi urban development.
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County Office of Environmental Quality
OEQ
Santa Maria
R.L. Burns Corporation
City of
Clark Ave
Bradley Rd
Alan Manee
Manee
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Los Alamos Park
Lompor Calfornia
Act of Congress
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California Corporation
North H St
A James McCollum
Harry J Crompe
Rene Adam
Tom Conner
Vega
Detiroy W Adam
Margaret
Marilyn Oliver
Anne Moran
California Newspaper Publishers Association
California Press Association
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Calfornia Newspaper
Youth Foundation
Santo Barbera County
California Newspaper Publishers, —Ass'n., Inc
Dan Rider
Daily Record
Ronald
Francisco Torres
Gala
Mission Hills
Postal Service
Central Coast
San Luis Obispo
Lang and Co
Constellation Road
American Air Amer
At&t
Beth
Boeing
Boise Case
Braniff Air
Chrysler
Sol Denny's
Disney
Eastman Kodak
Exxon
Ford
Martin Marietta
Northrop
Ox Pac. Gas & Elec
Pac. Tel
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RCA
Rockwell Int
Sambos
Sears Roebuck
Cal. Edison
Sperry Rand
Standard Cal
TelePrompTer
Texaco Transamerica
Transco
TRW
Union Oil
United Tech
Varian
Westinghouse
Zapata Corp
Indust
Westside Furniture
Ocean
William W. Kirchwehm, Dpm
California
Jor
Ph. Deon, R Dick
National Clearinghouse For Poison Control Centers
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Pacific
Oxnard
San Fernando
Long Beach
Santa Monica
San Bernardino
Palm Springs
Covina
Tat General
Walcott Schley
Jesus
Valley Chapel
North N Street
Starbuck Mortuary
Viva Knievel
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Patrick Wayne
Eas
Gemini Cinema
Northside
Irwin Winkler
Robert Chartoff
Woody Allen
Diane Keaton
Tony Roberts
Annie Hall
Norman
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