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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1970
Page
3
A small storage shed off La Salle Canyon Road burned yesterday afternoon destroying lumber a stepladder and a motorcycle seat while another motorcycle shed and contents were saved. Cause under investigation. Also reports on the Lompoc Valley Kennel Club general meeting for tonight at 7 30 in City Hall with speaker Sol Lefkowitz and dog show film.
Graveside services for Carrie J. Martin 93 will be held tomorrow at Carpinteria District Cemetery with Rev. John Imbach presiding. She leaves two sons Gilbert and William, a daughter, six grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements by Welch-Ryce Associates Mor tuary Santa Barbara.
Licenses issued in Lompoc include Donnie Lee Thompson and Belinda Bristow. Milton Neidig Jr and Eleanor Probst. Stephen Yeaple and Susan Walter. Hans Roodschild and Evelyn Reynolds. John Lee and Jennifer Burroughs. Martin Brantley and Christine Polsin. Martin Knight and Cynthia Dutra. Barry Roth and Nancy Miller. Jessie Hoskins and Janet Steele. Joseph Foss and Karen Simpson. Dennis Barr and Barbara Anderson. James MacLeod and Barbara Roush. Burglaries at Lompoc Junior High snack bar reported. juveniles allegedly stole snacks and ice cream.
Public Guardian May Morrison Heap and a three person staff relocate from the Courthouse into space next to the supervisor on the fourth floor. Judge Floyd C. Dodson's bid for a seventh court triggers the move with the personnel office also shifting. Bedrock aim is temporary occupancy by Wednesday.
Thomas W. Hall of Ponaganset High School asked two days of paid emergency leave after his wedding. Education Commissioner William P. Robinson rejected the claim, ruling the wedding did not qualify as an emergency under state policy.
Incumbents tout library funding, street and park improvements and tax stability while opposing widespread urban renewal. Candidates argue federal money use, fire station funding, storm drains, crime and education programs, and city services including a televised council meeting plan.
Spec. 4 Charles E. Waller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Waller of Lompoc, earned the Army Commendation Medal while serving with the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam. As a clerk-typist with Company D, 65th Engineer Battalion near Cu Chi, he was cited for meritorious service. He joined the Army in August 1968 and was last stationed at Fort Campbell Kentucky.
The Board of Supervisors unanimously denied a request by the Sheriff’s Civil Service Commission to place on the November ballot an initiative ordinance amendment to compensate commissioners. Supervisor Curtis Tunnell said pay would imply paying all others, echoed by Supervisor Francis Beattie, who called compensation ridiculous and warned it would open Pandora’s box. Current pay is mileage at 10 cents a mile and meals. no compensation exists in the ordinance.
Principal figures in a Southern California refuse company surrendered to the sheriff after bench warrants were issued following secret grand jury indictments. The four surrendered men face counts of violations of state and federal tax and corporations codes, with arraignment postponed to April 20. A fifth warrant remained unserved.
In Ellwood the Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 to reopen the hearing for a proposed multi million dollar mobile home project by Newport Beach developer P G Westgraven. The plan seeks a 516 unit complex after earlier denial and a request for reconsideration.
Two supervisors blame Board of Supervisors chair George H. Clyde for not informing them about a UC Regents agenda item on Isla Vista riots. Clyde apologizes stating stress and delegation, while noting UC President Hitch plans a commission to study the causes of the disturbances and the March 19 regents appearance.
The board voted 3 to 2 to defer action until the Santa Barbara City Council acts on a request by the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District to later increase the current 5 cent transit tax levy. Transit district counsel Frank Sarguis argued the act’s section requiring supervisors and city council approval has no basis. The city council meets Tuesday to consider the request, with a cautious wait and see stance favored by Supervisor Callahan and supported by Tunell and Beattie.
Sheriff's deputies arrested a 17 year old high school sophomore on suspicion of burglarizing the Village Pump Room last Wednesday. About $70 of the $165 stolen from the Vandenberg Village tavern has been recovered. The suspect was handed to juvenile authorities and was being questioned after attempting to exchange coins for cash in a Lompoch business Thursday.
The statement notes that beside Indian corn, the potato stands as the Americas' key food plant contribution to global agriculture, highlighting its significance alongside corn.
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