Downtown Lompoc's Downtown Heart Shows Resilient Vitality
Vaughn Proctor assesses Lompoc's downtown as a viable hub of business and government. The piece cites thriving anchors like Moore's Department Store and Kammerer's, plus city facilities and historic landmarks, while noting aging storefronts and parking struggles. Absentee ownership and parking are examined as factors influencing renewal. The author argues civic involvement and public concern are crucial to rejuvenation.
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Vaughn Proctor
Lompoc
Moore’s Department
Kammerer’s Hardware and Gifts
Olson Drug
Braun Pharmacy
Walnut Plaza
Dry Cleaners
Perozzi Hardware
Stalker’s Men and Ladies Apparel
Justice Court
Future
Vandenberg Air Force Base
H Street
I Street
Ocean Avenue
H and I Streets
H and G Streets
Ocean and
Walnut Avenues
Cypress Avenues
G Street
Ocean and Walnut Avenues
County road improvements hearing in Santa Barbara
Hearings began today in Santa Barbara on a proposed county road project valued at 296,770 dollars. The plan includes full traffic signalization at the Lompoc Wye intersection and improvements to a half mile of Miguelito Road just south of Lompoc city limits as part of the Fourth district package.
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Santa Barbara
Lompoc Wye
Miguelito Road
Lompoc
Governor signs fund bill boosting Lompoc district aid
Gov. Ronald Reagan signed a law stopping the withholding of federal impacted aid from districts, with Lompoc Unified projected to gain 500000 upfront, about a quarter of its 2 million annual federal support from Van Denberg AFB. The measure, if effective July 1 1969, could unlock salary increases for 1969-70 amid other stalled bills. Supervisors Beattie praised the plan as a traffic fix, proposing 145000 for Miguelito Road improvements and related projects including Central Avenue and Floradale Avenue upgrades, right of way costs, and anticipated expressway development.
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Ronald Reagan
Lompoc Unified
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Soviet warships approach U S coast near Cape Kennedy
A Soviet naval task force 260 miles southeast of Jacksonville moved southwest toward Cuba with six ships shadowed by U S Navy planes and ships. Washington arranged flights for reporters to view the area as the closely watched build up marked the closest Soviet warships to the mainland. In Paris, Viet Cong rebuffed Thieu's plans for free elections, denouncing them as a United States maneuver and vowing to press for Saigon's overthrow while talks continue at the Paris peace conference.
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Donald H. May
Jacksonville
Fla
UPI
Cuba
U.S
Cape Kennedy
Independence
Thomas J. Gary
Navy
Paris
Viet Cong
Nguye van Thieu
South Vietnam
United States
Saigon
Hanoi
Washington
Nixon
Thieu
Moe Wi Calgon
David T. Dellinger
Glimpse of New Telephone Books Distributed in Valley
Glenn Givens presents his wife with two chipmunks for her birthday as sun worshipers hope the sun continues through the weekend amid reports of new telephone books being distributed across the valley.
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Valley
Glenn Givens
Coastal Weather Forecast with Tidal Details
Fair conditions with coastal fog and inland clearing in the afternoon. Northwest winds 2 to 12 knots. High 63, low 53. July 12 tides: high 3.5 at 11:08 a.m. and 6.0 at 9:26 p.m. Low tides 0.5 at 4:20 a.m. and 2.7 at 3:08 p.m.
Ten die in Michigan farm fire at Posen home
Edward Gralewicz, the sole survivor, fled a 120 acre farm in Posen Michigan after a late night blaze. The fire killed his father, sister and her husband, eight nieces and nephews, and others in the household. Investigators suspect faulty wiring in a laundry room sparked the blaze tearing through the 70 year old farmhouse.
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Posen, Mich
UPI
Edward Gralewicz
Garlewicz
Gralewicz
Posen
Administration rejects compromise on ABM clash in Senate
In Washington, the Nixon administration again refused to bargain with ABM opponents as Sen. George Aiken signals a possible compromise. With 49 opposed, 48 in favor, and three undecided, the Senate faced a tight vote on funding for Safeguard deployment.
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John Hall Washington
UPI
Nixon
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
George Aiken
R-Vt
Aiken
Eith
Dirksen
ABM
Sens
John J. Williams
R-Del
Winston Prouty
Thomas J. McIntyre
N.H. Prouty
McIntyre
Court reverses conviction of Spock and three others
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the anti draft conspiracy convictions of Benjamin Spock and three others. Spock and Michael Ferber were freed permanently while new trials were ordered for William Sloan Coffin Jr. and Mitchell Goodman. The court cited First Amendment free speech protections and noted errors in jury questions.
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Boston
UPI
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Benjamin Spock
Spock
Harevard
Michael Ferber
Buffalo
N.Y
Yale
William Sloan Coffin Jr
Mitchell Goodman
Bailey Aldrich
Frank M. Coffin
Ferber
U.S. Atty
Herbert F. Travers
John Wall
U.S. denies secret Thailand military treaty claim
The State Department rejects charges of a secret defense pact with Thailand beyond SEATO, noting a 1965 agreement to defend Thailand against communist aggression without SEATO consent while affirming SEATO duties remain in force. The plan requires mutual U.S. and Thai approval to take effect.
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Dean Rusk
SEATO
Thailand
United States
Rusk
Thanom Kittikachorn
U.S
State Department
Thanat Kohman
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Francis H. Beattie
Beattie
Central Avenue
Union Sugar Avenue
Floradale Avenue
Lompoc-Casmalia Road
Pine Canyon
Cong
Thieus
Florida
North Vietnam
Dellinger
Vietnam
New York
Robert MacClure
Arthur Bonnell
Harry Frisby
Southern California
James Brightwell
City of
Elks Lodge
Bonnell
Frisby
G.R.C.D.A
Michigan
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
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