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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1972
Page
3
Mayor Art Scott asked the Board of Supervisors to cooperate with Lompoc on a north entrance beautification project. He cited a landscape plan by the City Beautification Commission and Division of Highways, estimating total costs around 6000 dollars and proposing a county city cost share.
County Superior Court reporters ask for a raise from 13 500 to 14 242 to 17 640 annually based on a new survey. The proposal accompanies discussions by the Board of Supervisors on increasing five supervisors salaries from 12 000 to 18 000 a year starting in 1973. The 13 500 figure was set in 1968 by a Santa Barbara Bar Assn. committee and adopted by the supervisors.
NASA will launch ESRO's Thor Delta 17 the largest European scientific spacecraft yet built. The 1,038 pound box shaped craft carries seven experiments from six European institutions to study high energy emissions from stellar galactic and solar sources unseen from Earth. The mission will be controlled from Darmstadt ESOC in Germany.
The Valley Playhouse of Lompoc will stage the comedy at 7:30 tonight in La Purisima Hall corner of Street and Olive Avenue Parts are still open for all ages across teens and up State hands set decorators and other help are needed.
A letter from John R. Holden to Chip Seeger outlines the proposal for a national cemetery at Vandenberg Air Force Base and notes hearings on bipartisan legislation to create a VA controlled national cemetery system. It says many bills seek specific sites and cautions approval is unlikely this session.
The dismissal of Sheriff Capt. Joel B. Honey triggers a hearing likely to last six weeks as Smelzer broadens the record. Honey's lawyers may present claims of political retaliation by Sheriff John W. Carpenter tied to Honey's backing of ex FBI agent Tom Thornton in the 1970 race.
The County Parks Commission plans a rare meeting in Lompoc next Thursday to discuss capital expenditures totaling about half a million dollars. Members will tour South Coast park facilities and conclude the visit in the County Building at 133 South St at 2 p.m. The agenda includes leases for off road vehicles, the Nojoqui Falls lease, Elwood Pier, and a 10 acre Toro Canyon Road site, with lunch to follow at an undetermined location.
The Record presents closing stock quotations via Rohrbaugh and Co at 3865 F Constellation Road Lompoc RE 3-3551.
Word of the death was received in a Sacramento hospital after a brief illness. Zena M Ball 83 born June 7 1888 Nebraska came to California as an infant near Lompoc taught school there before marriage to George N Ball in 1909. She leaves four daughters a son two brothers twelve grandchildren twelve great grandchildren four nieces and a nephew. Interment Tulocay Napa. Rosary Friday 7 p.m. at McPeek Chapel Mass Saturday 8 30 a.m. Sas Purisima.
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