Library board president resigns in Lompoc after new library opens
Luella Keyes resigns as trustee and president of the Lompoc Library Board effective immediately. She cites exhaustion from guiding the new East North Avenue library to completion and plans to spend more time with family. No successor named. remaining trustees include Fick Grossman Manseau Steiger.
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Luella Keyes
Lompoc
Keyes
Gilbert Martin
Andrew Carnegie
South H Street
Friends of the Public Library
California Librarian
The
Record
Library Board
Ronald Fick
Lawrence G. Grossman
Russell Manseau
Gail Steiger
Apollo 9 returns safely as moon goal nears in four months
Apollo 9 ends a 10 day Earth orbital mission with a splashdown in the Atlantic near the Bahamas. James McDivitt David Scott and Russell Schweickart later reflect on a successful flight paving a May orbit and July lunar landing.
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AL Rossiter JR
UPI
Space Winter Space Center
Houston
James A. McDivitt
David R Scott
Russell L. Schweickart
Atlantic Ocean
McDivitt
Guadalcanal
Coral Isles
Bahamas
Maine
Mission Control
Terry White
Roger
United States
Europe
Scott
Schweickart
Cape Kennedy
Local planner blasts state over Gaviota traffic hazard
Robert C. Lilley of Lompoc accuses state authorities of allowing a dangerous traffic situation at Gaviota as the county planning commission delays action on a $750,000 Macco Corp tourist complex. He cites trucks parked on highway shoulders near the Gaviota store and cafe, urging safer passage at night and in fog.
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Gaviota
County Planning Commission
Robert C. Lilley
Lompoc
Lilley
State Highway Patrol
Macco Corp
Newport Beach
Seacoast
Bridge at 3th Street Opens March 24 to Ease Traffic
Officials announce the two lane temporary Bailey bridge at 3th Street will be completed March 18 with approach roads finished by March 24. Traffic congestion on H Street is expected to diminish when the 13th Street bridge opens. A permanent 13th Street bridge is under construction after floods washed away nearby bridges, with replacement plans due this week.
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3Th Street
H Street
13Th Street
Surf
FCI
Maj Gen Gerald W Johnson to Command Local Division
Maj Gen Gerald W Johnson will take command of the local Strategic Aerospace Division on April 1 at Barksdale AFB replacing Maj Gen Paul K Carlton who moved to SAC. Col George Pfieffer serves as acting commander until Johnson arrives. Johnson, born in 1919 in Kentucky, is a WWII ace with 16 air to air victories.
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Gerald W. Johnson
2Nd Air Force
Barksdale Afb
1St
Strategic Aerospace Division
Johnson
Paul K. Carlton
SAC
George Pfieffer
Owenton
Eighth Air Force
56Th
Lou Ann Schaefers
Omaha
Neb
Carlton
William GB. Mortensen
Hawaii
Presidential adviser urges no on Sentinel
Dr. Donald F Hornig, former White House science adviser, urged President Nixon to skip deploying the Sentinel ABM system. He warned the plan would impair U.S. security and cited testing and cost concerns.
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James R. Killian
George B. Kistiakowsky
Eisenhower
United States
Nixon
Ziegler
Soviet Union
Three dead gray whales raise alarm over Santa Barbara oil slick
In San Francisco UPI reports three gray whales found dead on Northern California beaches within a week. Dr. Robert Orr of the California Academy of Science warns the Santa Barbara oil spill could cause a major catastrophe to marine life as whales migrate along the Pacific coast toward Baja California and back toward the Arctic.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
Santa Barbara
Robert Orr
California Academy of Science
Ocean Beach
Orr
Pacific
Arctic
Baja California
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Paris
South Vietnam
Ballyhoo
U.S
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Vietnam
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Kiem
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Pham Dang Lam
Lodge
Lam
Southeast Asia
Laos
Cambodia
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Schwickart
Atlantic
David A. Miller
Commissaryman 2.c
Virginia Beach
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Earth
al Worden
Santa Ynez
Riverside Drive
Ronald L. Ziegler
White House
Library
Pixies
By Wohl
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