Benny the space monkey dies after early return from orbit
Benny the space monkey died in Hawaii moments after midnight local time following a 21 day mission to study long spaceflight effects. NASA cited a deteriorating condition and low body temperature as factors. Autopsy has begun, with the capsule splashing down 25 miles north of Kauai after a rainstorm.
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Edward Inouye
Honolulu
UPI
Benny
America
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Kauai
County Supervisors Ramp Up Effort to Hold 1969-70 Tax Rate
County supervisors began a push to keep the 1969-70 tax rate at 2.32 dollars while facing possible drastic cuts to the proposed budget. They trimmed 2000 dollars from their department and considered deleting the county's 39020 dollar share of a proposed crime lab from the district attorney's budget if a 50000 dollar federal grant does not materialize.
Viet troops begin home as attacks loom in Vietnam
The first 25 000 U S troops withdraw from Vietnam leaving Saigon retreat and a predicted wave of Communist attacks. Rockets hit a shipyard near Saigon lighting the capital, while ground fighting lulls continue. Allied officials expect a third phase of the summer offensive before the monsoon.
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Walter Whitehead
Saigon
UPI
U.S
Vietnam
McChord Air Force Base
Wash
Nixon
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
Dr Sam Sheppard testifies on prison torture tale
Dr Sam Sheppard describes ten years in prison and torturous confinement in the hole. He testifies before a Senate subcommittee about being chained with log chains and neck chains and placed between two doors for six days. He was convicted in 1955 of murdering his wife Marilyn in Bay Village, freed in 1964, and later acquitted in a retrial.
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Sheppard
Sam Sheppard
Senate
Marilyn
Bay Village
Macco court hearing postponed to July 21
A Superior Court hearing in the Hollister estate case against Macco Realty Corp was continued to July 21 by Judge John T. Rickard. The action seeks restraining order against mass development of 14 000 acres of Hollister Ranch near Gaviota over oil and gas lease questions. Dr Hollister and related trusts hold mineral rights with high estimated value.
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Clinton B. Hollister
Macco Realty Corp
John T. Rickard
Willard McEwen
Santa Barbara
Dr. Hollister
Macco
Hollister
Gaviota
Hollister Estate Co
Cal-L Exploration Co
Macco Corp
Jensen Named New Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge
Judge Arden Jensen of Solvang Justice Court was named by Governor Reagan to fill a Santa Barbara County Superior Court vacancy created by Judge W Preston Butcher's retirement. He is expected to assume duties around September 1 and will earn about $30 500. Jensen also maintains a law practice and served as a Santa Barbara Justice Court judge. He was one of 14 candidates who participated in a bar association plebiscite.
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Solvang
Arden Jensen
Santa Barbara County
Jensen
Reagan
Santa Barbara
John Rickard
W. Preston Butcher
Justice Court
Santa Barbara Bar Association
Ocean Avenue
H Street
Cypress Avenue
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Savings and Loan Association
FEC Wins 1.8 Million Space Launch Support Contract
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization awarded Federal Electric Corp a 1.8 million contract for maintenance operations installations and test evaluation of ground communications for space launch activities of the 6595th Aerospace Test Wing at Vandenberg AFB. The Western Test Range extends to the Indian Ocean and supports about 10 launches monthly. Base officials announced the 250th Minuteman ICBM test firing as an example of heavy space traffic at the facility.
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Air Force
Space and Missile Systems Organization
Federal Electric Corp
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
6595Th Aerospace Test Wing
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Federal Electric
Free World
Minuteman
Federal plan to boost home lending by five year loans
Sacramento federal official Preston Martin unveiled a Nixon plan to stabilize the home building market by offering 5 year long term loans to the 5,000 savings and loan members. The policy, effective immediately, aims to free more funds for home and apartment borrowers and should indirectly influence high interest rates.
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Sacramento
UPI
Preston Martin
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Martin
Savings and Loan Association
Downtown Lompoc at a crossroads as vacancies rise
Downtown Lompoc faces a thinning storefronts and empty lots at Ocean Avenue and H Street. Residents and merchants cite competition from centers and shifting shopping patterns, with Moore's department store and two drugstores among few thriving businesses while several corners remain vacant and parking remains a debated fix.
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Ocean Avenue
H Street
Mission Hills
Vandenberg Village
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara
Moore
I Street
Howard Moore
Lompoc
G Street
Street
Flood district budgets show tax increases across zones
County Flood Control and Water Conservation District directors approved 1969-70 budgets with raises in several zones due to heavy winter flood expenditures. Zones in Bradley Goleta Guadalupe Los Alamos Lompoc South Coast and Santa Ynez hike levies while Winter floods and debris removal drive costs. concerns over deficit financing and limited revenue prompt planning to finish river work and debris hauling.
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County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
Bradley
Goleta
Guadalupe
Los Alamos
Lompoc City
James Stubchaer
Lompoc Valley
Stubchaer
Carpinteria
Montecito
Santa Ynez
Stubbner
Weather Outlook with Tides Inland Warmth
Overcast conditions persist through Wednesday with inland clearing late mornings and afternoons. Highs reach the 60s near the coast and 70s to 80 inland, with tonight's lows in the mid 50s and west winds 10 to 15 mph in the afternoons. Wednesday tides show highs of 3.2 and 5.7 feet at 8 56 am and 7 32 pm with lows of 0.3 and 2.5 feet at 2 20 am and 12 50 pm.
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D-Miss
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Blastoff
Neil A. Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin E. Aldrin
Congress
Alaska
Coast and Geodetic Survey
North American
Chutach
Kenai
Anchorage
Portage
Ushagat
Afognak
Kodiak
Montague Island
Angus Bull
Robert Phelps
Howard Stauffer
Keith Smith
Los Angeles
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Bob Gaston
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Random House
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