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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1969
Page
3
Due to today’s holiday for city employees the commission deferred its monthly meeting to tomorrow night at 7 30 in the City Council chambers. The agenda includes a progress report on the Ryan Park master plan and a discussion of the swimming pool program by instructors.
A fire inside a 16 foot trailer owned by Eugene Priddy at 916 W Date caused about 200 dollars in damage. Fire officials say the blaze started accidentally when 14 year old Eugene Priddy Jr lit a match to look inside the dark trailer.
Janet Fast 57 of Paso Robles and Nathan Whitmire 5 of Vandenberg Village suffered minor injuries Friday in a two car crash at the Wye intersection north of Lompoc. Fast treated at Lompoc Hospital while Nathan seen by a private physician. The Whitmire car carried Newman Whitmire 31 of Vandenberg Village as driver and passenger.
Lompoc fire crews extinguished a small grass fire Sunday afternoon at Ocean Way and W Street, preventing spread to nearby structures. No injuries were reported. Fire officials labeled it as a brief grass blaze with quick containment.
Ranchers from Santa Barbara County are expected at an 8 p.m. tax protest meeting in Lompoc Grange Hall to hear Ronald Welch on assessment standards. More than 200 ranchers and property owners may attend with representatives from Lagomarsino and MacGilvray present.
Two men claiming to be officers stopped Louis Martin, handcuffed him, checked his wallet for identification, and left in a car with $950. Real police later unhandcuffed Martin.
The Santa Barbara County Fair launches its 200 Years of Progress tomorrow in Santa Maria with Kids Day activities at noon and a full six day schedule through July 27. Highlights include livestock judging, a Maid of Santa Barbara County pageant, horse shows, stage shows, auctions, and exhibits from 4H Future Farmers of America dairy and cultural displays plus a Destruction Derby and fireworks.
United Press International reports an artillery and tank engagement near Suez City amid renewed fighting after a Sunday Israeli raid. Egypt claims 19 Israeli jets shot down, a claim Israel contests, as Nasser meets top commanders and journalists cancel travel to Suez.
The House Appropriations Committee voted sharp reductions across programs including state and local police aid and student aid restrictions, while approving 956 million for Commerce and 2.534 billion for NSA related agencies. The panel backed shipbuilding subsidies and preserved FBI funding with added agents and staff.
Sharon Sites Adams, 39, who sailed solo from Yokohama to California in Sea Sharp II, was sighted five miles off Point Arguello after 66 days at sea. She aims to land in San Diego and become the first woman to sail Pacific alone from Los Angeles to San Diego.
Alfonso Bermudez 73 died at Goleta Valley Hospital Friday. Rosary at 8:00 tonight at McPeek Family Mortuary followed by a 9:00 a.m. Mass at La Purisima Catholic Church officiated by Father John Fitzgerald. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. Born in Mexico he worked at Badger Seed Co. and lived in Lompoc 30 years at 510 St. St. He is survived by two daughters Mary Morales and Vera Heredia both of Lompoc, two brothers Pastor of Pomona and Delfino of Lompoc, 22 grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.
Police said burglars ransacked the Holloway Medical Building at 604 E Ocean Avenue on Friday night seeking drugs but settled for a microscope valued at about 500 dollars and an adding machine worth unknown. Several entry attempts occurred before success and a quantity of non narcotic preparations was reported missing. The break in was discovered by lab technician Mary Summers.
Ralph Ginzburg said he would appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn lower court orders to pay Barry Goldwater $75,000 for a 1964 Fact Magazine article. The piece cited psychiatrists claiming Goldwater was not psychologically fit for the presidency.
About 50 protesters from the National Welfare Rights Organization demonstrated near a model lunar lander at NASA's Space Center in Houston. They urged better distribution of space funds to the poor and clashed briefly when NWRO leader Hulbert James argued with NASA writer John Harrison who offered to donate $30.
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