Lompoc Valley Chess Club Premier Championship Preview
The Lompoc Valley Chess Club hosts its first club championship for the Johns Manville perpetual trophy on a two day Swiss format in Lompoc at 105 N. H St. Entries cost 3 dollars for adults and 2 for juniors with half the fee refundable after all games. Winners earn a dedicated trophy and inscriptions, plus runner up and junior awards.
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Lompoc Valley
Thomas Stuermer
Rueben
Sam Martinez
Thane Lundberg
Sam
John Reveles
Thane
Vandenberg Village
California
Alekhine
Tim Bum J. McCaffrey
White
Cuyama Residents Protest Sheriff and Fire Protection
New Cuyama valley taxpayers including the Women's Club and Mrs. R W Manley protest perceived gaps in law enforcement and fire service. The Board referred the letters to Sheriff James W. Webster and County Fire Chief Vic Mohr for response, with Fifth District Supervisor Curtis Tunnell offering a personal answer.
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Cuyama Valley
Women's Club of
Cuyama
R.W. Manley
James W. Webster
Vic Mohr
Fifth District
Curtis Tunnell
Om and Mrs Om Dope Faith in a Dope Religion
A New York writer meets Mr and Mrs Om a 25 year old man and 17 year old woman who live together without marriage. They are black and white, drug users who proclaim a “religion of happiness” through speed and other narcotics. They describe a culture of escapism as thousands imitate them, while the observer calls them sick and harmful.
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New York
NEA
St. Marks Square
Mrs. Om
God
Jesus God
Buddha God
Jesus
Buddha
Lower East
Manhattan
Oshkosh
Oms
The
Paradox
Small P
Canada
Maryland
Cesspool
Amerika
Nixon
Kent State
Naked Grape
Ohio cannons repaired by Amish in statehouse display
State Public Works Director Alfred Gienow enlisted the Amish to replace rot damaged wooden wheels on four Civil War cannons on the statehouse grounds. They agreed to charge 800 dollars total, or 100 dollars per wheel, a deal Gienow called fair though noting you do not find cannon repair shops in the Yellow Pages.
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Columbus, Ohio
UPI
Alfred G. Gienow
Statehouse
Gienow
Women aquanauts fault pollution after undersea stay
Five women aquanauts spent two weeks 50 feet below the Virgin Islands as part of the Tektite 2 project. They praised the habitat life support and reported pollution as their main gripe, urging people to stop dumping garbage offshore.
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Washington
UPI
Virgin Islands
Postal reform prospects strained by pressure, PMG clashes
Conferees from the House and Senate struggle in the third week to resolve differences on turning the post office into an independent agency with a five member rate commission. Interference from the Postmaster General and from bulk mailers fuels deadlock as talks risk collapse.
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U.S. Postal Service
UPI
PMG
Winton M. Blount
Capitol
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Board
Welch
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago
Kwakiutls
Xumtaspe
British Columbia
Jett
Sherry
Vivian Welch
Brenda
Tammy
By Tom Tiede
Thurs
Lompoc
Sylvia Earle
Los Angeles County Museum
Margaret Ann Lucas
University of Delaware
Renate True
Tulane University
Ann Hartline
Alina Szmant
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
San Diego
Interior Department
Walter J. Hickel
Conservation
Miss Lucas
Air
House
Gerald R. Ford
Senate
Postal Rate Commission
Congressional
Solvang
S. Y. V. Historical Society
Lompoc Plaza
Dacron
Campus
Cyute
Bom
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