Prizes Revealed for 1972 Lompoc Flower Festival
Festival officials unveiled prizes totaling over 3000 dollars for the Lompoc event. The grand prize is an 11 day West Indies cruise for two on the Holland America SS Nieuw Amsterdam, with a Miami flight to board in Florida. Second to fourth prizes include a 16 inch color TV, a dishwasher, and a component stereo. Winners are to be announced June 25 at Ryan Park. Ticket sales begin Monday as queen candidates start campaigns, running through May 29.
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Lompoc
Terry Dorsey
West Indies
Holland America Lines
Nieuw Amsterdam
Miami
Fla
Dorsey
Incumbent O'Brien ruled off ballot in primary race
The California Court of Appeals in Los Angeles denied a writ to reinstate Patrick J. O'Brien on the June primary ballot. O'Brien, 69, sought to overturn a Superior Court ruling ordering the Santa Barbara-Goleta district clerk to remove his name, amid a dispute with the County Employees Assn. over retirement eligibility and age 70.
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Court of Appeals
Second Appellate District
Los Angeles
Santa Barbara-Goleta
Patrick J. O’brien
O’brien
James T. Lindsey
J. E. Lewis
Lompoc Agencies Approve Auto Yard Plan and Air Force Launches
The County Planning Commission approves Alfred Perry's auto wrecking yard in a planned district south of Olive Ave. and west of Badger Road. Separately an Air Force Minuteman with a NASA reentry vehicle launches from Vandenberg AFB. A realtor appeal on a lot split is approved after denial for parcel sizes. A Titan III B Agena satellite launch occurs from Vandenberg. 4 H Field Day schedules shift to 10 30 a m at Santa Ynez High School due to entries. Peter Martinez, 26, is treated at Lompoc Hospital after a motorcycle crash in the Santa Ynez Riverbed near Highway 246.
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County Planning Commission
Alfred Perry
Lompoc Valley
Olive Ave
Badger Road
Santa Ynez High School
Peter Robert Martinez
South St
Santa Ynez
Lompoc
Martinez
Three Vandenberg Village men charged in motorcycle parts theft
Deputies arrested Vincent Hughey 19 Ronald Dennis 18 and Raymond Eakes 23 after seizing thousands of dollars in stolen motorcycle parts from a garage. Eakes and Dennis faced charges of possession of stolen property altering motor numbers and narcotics paraphernalia. Bail set at 4925 for two and 4300 for Hughey.
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Vandenberg Village
Vincent Jeffery Hughey
Ronald William Dennis
Uranus Ave
Raymond Timothy Eakes
Hercules Ave
Hughey
Eakes
Dennis
California lawmakers halt clock to push 850 more bills
In Sacramento legislators paused the March 15 deadline, adding about 850 measures to reach just over 4,000 for the year, well below last year’s 5,711. Clerks counted 423 bills and constitutional amendments introduced Thursday despite the stop, with additional resolutions filed.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
Senate
Clerk disqualifies candidate for Third District supervisor
County Clerk J E Lewis announced late Thursday that Jenny Perry of Goleta Valley Santa Barbara newspaperwoman is disqualified as a candidate in the June Primary for the Third District supervisor. Perry had 24 signatures on her nomination papers but only 18 were valid with a possible 19th could be later found valid still leaving the required 20 signatures unmet.
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J. E. Lewis
Jenny Perry
Goleta Valley
Santa Barbara
Lewis
Perry
Daniel G. Grant
Lyn McClurg
Mideast plan called minefield reflecting U S CIA plot claim
An Egyptian confidant cites King Hussein’s semiautonomous Palestinian state plan as a CIA plot with ties to Israel and the State Department. Heikal notes 1972 as a year of conspiracies, mentioning a Soviet arms guarantee for Egypt and dubious diplomacy. Proceeds from a local enchilada sale aid youth chess programs.
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Anwar Sadat
Hussein
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Mohammed Hassanein Heikal
Cairo
al Ahram
Heikal
American
Central Intelligence Agency
Bank robber shot self after police trace getaway car
Santa Barbara crime scene ends when Clifford F. Dodgen II, a former bus driver, shot himself in his car after officers traced his getaway. He entered the Santa Barbara National Bank on Coast Village Road, asked for money, fled, and died at Cottage Hospital. It was the fourth bank robbery in the area in recent months.
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Santa Barbara
Clifford F. Dodgen, II
East Cabrillo Blvd
Santa Barbara National Bank
Coast Village
Dodgen
Cottage Hospital
William Norton
Brenda Cook
Isla Vista
Montecito
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Jack Steinmann
State Parks and Recreation Department
Floyd Campbell
Nojoqui
Bill Byer
Hans Christian Anderson
Bud Elliott
Miguelito
Ryan Park
AIR Force
Vandenberg Afb
NASA Research and Development Program
Western
Harley Craig
Daily Record
Planning Commission
DeWolf Ave
Central Ave
Air Force Space and Missile Test Center
P.S
Harry Morris
E. College Avenue
UFE & Casualty
Cold Turkey
Jack
Gary
Jim
Sportsman’‘S
Happy Hour
Lompoc Valley Bowl
East
Ocean Avenue
Mideast
U.S
United Press International
American State Department
Sadat
Soviet Union
Russia
Egypt
Israel
Kremlin
Mrs. Perry
Lompoc Valley Chess Foundation
James Flegge
Foundation
Santa Barbara County Chess League
Cabrillo and
Lompoc High School
H. T. Bennett Music Co
East Main
Santa Maria
Leslie Mayer
Dee Sudbury
West Ocean Avenue
Jeryll Sawyer
Beattie Motors
North H Street
Calif
Lompoc, Calif
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