Dangers of Lompoc Wye Intersection At City Council Meet
City Council rated the Lompoc Wye traffic hazard following three weekend crashes that killed a Vandenberg Village woman and injured five others. Mayor MacClure called the intersection poorly engineered and urged signals and safety measures, announcing a Safety Council meeting at 7 30 p m at the Chamber of Commerce office tomorrow.
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Lompoc Wye
Robert D. MacClure
MacClure
Wye
Vandenberg Village
Lompoc
Robert MacClure
Lompoc Safety Council
Chamber of Commerce
Funds released for farm damage in California floods
Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin released 2 million dollars in federal grants to flood damaged farmlands across 14 disaster counties. Lompoc and Santa Ynez valleys will share, with funds covering debris removal, erosion control, vegetative cover, and restoration of irrigation and conservation structures.
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Clifford Hardin
California
Lompoc
Santa Ynez
Washington
Charles M. Teague
Teague
Hardin
Assassination attempt on Saigon premier thwarted by police
In Saigon prime minister Tran Van Huong, 65, escaped unharmed as terrorists fired on his car in a downtown running gun battle. Two attackers were captured, one in a South Vietnamese army uniform, and a deadly antipersonnel bomb was found. The incident coincided with U.S. Marines beginning their pullout from the A Shau Valley after a six week operation claimed to kill at least 1,500 Communists.
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Saigon
VPI
Tran van Huong
Huong
U.S
A Shau
Soviets Close All Routes to West Berlin
The Soviet Union blocks the three land routes to West Berlin for a second time since the 1948 49 blockade to protest West German presidential elections held in Berlin. The ballots by East and West German electoral college members fail to produce a president on the first two tries, with Defense Minister Gerhard Schroeder favored on the third ballot as Heinemann is unlikely to win.
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Berlin
UPI
West Berlin
West Germany
Heinrich Luebke
Gerehard Schroeder
Gustav Heinemann
Helmstedt
East Germany
Apollo 9 astronauts transfer to lunar lander in first US pressurized tunnel
Two Apollo 9 crewmates James McDivitt and Russell Schweickart crawled from the command ship to the lunar module for a nine hour orbital test as David Scott remained aboard. Schweickart reported nausea but felt better later and officials kept the spacewalk plan under review. The event marked the first US astronauts transfer between spacecraft via a pressurized tunnel, a historic milestone compared with the Soviet Soyuz exchange.
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AL Rossiter JR
UPI
Space Winter Space Center
Houston
James A. McDivitt
Russell L. Schweickart
David R. Scott
Schweickart
McDivitt
Space Agency
United States
Earth
Divorce trends in Lompoc area tied to SAC life and youth
A staff report details how military presence around Lompoc Vandenberg AFB influences divorce actions, with 41 percent of county filings from the area in 1968 and an average of one divorce action every 33 hours among local cases. It notes a young, transient population and factors such as finances, drinking, and infidelity, plus anecdotes from local attorneys. A separate item covers a $500000 bond election for a new city fire station to be funded if approved, with design by Kruger Benson Ziemer and location at I Street and Maple Avenue, estimating 13,500 to 16,000 square feet and costs of $300000 to $350000.
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Wilma Jack
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Lompoc
Vandenberg Afb
Vandenberg
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara-Goleta
Terrill Cox
Lawrence Grossman
James Finley
Norbert Baumgarten
Gene Huseman
Gary Dunlap
Ned Tucker
California
City Planning Department
I Street
Maple Avenue
Brooks Speight
Speight
Council halts funding dispute over Miguelito School power line
At a City Council meeting the panel rejected paying for an underground power line for the Miguelito School project. Officials debated whether government agencies should bear utility costs like developers. Construction may be delayed pending further talks and legal review.
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Asnag
Miguelito
Brooks Speight
Clinton Sherrod
Richard K. Jacoby
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F. G
Phil) Macias
Central Coast
Bureau of Reclamation
Lake Cachuma Reservoir
Macias
Solvang-Cachuma
van Huong
Sidel
ASC
George Cotsenmeyer
Bank of America
Cotsenmeyer
Bill Witmer
del Mar Farms
Apollo
Artists’ Association
City Coon
Kruger-Benson-Ziemer of
Santa Barbara
By Wohl
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