Japanese guard claims 23 Americans killed in Hiroshima blast
Hiroshi Yanagida, a former Kempeitai officer, says 22 Americans were killed instantly and one died next day in Hiroshima prison camps after the 6 August 1945 atomic bombing. He cites three camps and notes dogtags were kept by occupiers. Pentagon officials have not confirmed the claim.
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California Wins Federal Crime Fighting Funds Boost
The federal Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act provides 9.2 million dollars to California as the final installment of 17.3 million for the year. Santa Barbara County agencies seek 70 thousand for a six man Isla Vista patrol, seminars funding, and 17 thousand for a police planning officer. San Luis Obispo County gains funds to upgrade police communications as both counties plan a two county agreement for potential satellite crime labs. Governor Reagan lauds the plan as a continued war on crime.
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Isla Vista
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Ronald Reagan
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San Luis Obispo County
Brian McBride
CCCJ
Viet Cong broadcast quotes U.S. Marine who defected
The Viet Cong aired claims that John M. Sweeney of M Company 3rd Battalion 9th Regiment 3rd Marine Division, once beaten by a commander, joined the Viet Cong 17 months ago. Sweeney, in Hanoi, said he would go to Sweden for an antiwar campaign and praised Vietnamese aid and friendship while condemning Washington.
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Lompoc Record Functions As Daily Local Paper
The Lompoc Record published daily except Sundays and Christmas Day under Superior Court Decree No. 47065 and is distributed by mail at $2.25 per month. It lists staff including Publisher J. Donald Adam, Editor Gaylen Jackson, and various department heads.
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Lompoc Record
Lompoc Record Publications
Kenneth L. Adam
J. Donald Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Gaylen Jackson
Minuteman II Launch From Vandenberg AFB Reported
A Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from Vandenberg AFB at 11:55 p.m. by a combat crew from the 341st Strategic Missile Wing based at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, sent down the Western Test Range. In Santa Maria a woman Deloris Bartholomew was treated for injuries after an assault and theft by three strangers who fled in her 1966 Cadillac. Police described the suspects as two men and a woman met in a Santa Maria bar and driven to the Lompoc Fact Bar, where the assault and theft occurred shortly before 24.00 today. Vandalism damaged sections of the Village Country Club Golf Course last night with a car, the second such incident in a week. earlier damage was about $1,000 to five greens.
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English evangelist to open three day seminar at Valley Chapel
Rev. David Chamberlain from England will speak Friday 7:30 p.m. to Sunday 11 a.m. at Valley Chapel 125 N. N St. Public invited. Chamberlain trained at St. Albans 948 A.D. and joined Billy Graham’s team in London. He has served in the Royal Air Force and conducted ministry across Europe the Middle East and the Americas.
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Funeral services set for Rosie Mae Friend 68
Obituary notes Rosie Mae Friend 68 died Wednesday. Services Monday at 10 a.m. in McPeek Family Mortuary Chapel with burial in Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery. She lived at 117 But. survived by husband Jessee of Lompoc and sisters Mrs. Grady Deprest and Mrs. Bonnie Morries of Missouri.
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Nine killed in Golden Gate Bridge crash
A head on collision on the Golden Gate Bridge killed nine people and left one critically injured. Traffic was blocked for over an hour amid witnesses describing gruesome scenes and CHP officials declaring it the worst crash in the bridge's 33 year history. The victims were not immediately identified.
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Plan commission to consider music use permit in Lompoc
Lompoc Planning Commission meets Monday to review Marilyn L. Haines request for a home organ teaching use permit at 600 E Locust Ave in R-1 zoning. The panel will set July 27 hearings on C-2-R pre zoning of 34 acres north of the Wye and go with shopping center parking variance, Goodyear sign variance, and a joint Solvang meeting with the county planning commission July 22.
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Wye
Lompoc Plaza
Goodyear Tire, Co
N. H St
County Planning Commission
Solvang
Legislators to Tour Vandenberg and Dunes Area
Assemblyman W Don MacGillivray will lead five to eight legislators on a fact finding tour of Vandenberg Air Force Base and the Oceana Dunes, accompanied by newsmen. The mission aims to study California coastal natural resource control with military handling of the Dunes segment. Details on the base portion and press invitation remained uncertain.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Oceana Dunes
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Dunes
Manson defense ready to accept jury
After four weeks of jury selection a seven man five woman panel was tentatively seated. Defense says it is willing to accept the jury while prosecutors weigh their 11th challenge. Judge Older must rule on a defense attack against the jury system.
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Manson
Bugliosi
Charles H. Older
Irving A. Kanarek
Kanarek
Blind Lompoc Man Graduates With Honors From Contra Costa College
William C. Elsey, a 1958 Lompoc High School graduate blinded by a homemade rocket at 18, earned top honors at Contra Costa College El Cerrito with a 3.87 GPA. He plans further studies at Sonoma College, moves with his wife Mary and children Elis II and Carol to Petaluma, and reflects on nine months at an Abbany orientation center for the blind and a 30 day guide dog program in San Rafael with Bonita the lab. He uses multiple tape recorders and studies up to 12 hours a day, finding focus without sighted distractions.
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Bonita
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