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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1941
Page
1
A gasoline station manager proudly showed maps to a cross country traveler only to learn the man planned to hitchhike. In UR TOWN a Cancer Control drive ends with three missing small cans, prompting speculation that a curious thief sought the can’s contents or the thrill of theft.
Lompoc residents will host a July 4 rodeo after the Lompoc Santa Barbara County Rodeo association accepted a finance report and plans to raise the necessary funds through donations. The move follows a grounds relocation from Miguelito canyon and a declined loan underwritten by private individuals.
The Lompoc Municipal Band will perform Wednesday at 7 30 p m at the flagpole, directed by Herbert Swanson. The series will feature military marches, with bi monthly programs and an urging for townspeople to attend. Band members include Jerry Laubly Kaslon Zoller Elton Jameson Richard Ray Jimmy Sloan Lester Enga Wayne James Jack Rios Charles Bodger Fred Christensen Joe Trigueiro Bill Zvolanek Bob Lower Bob Murray Jimmy Moore Pete Vial Ambrose Pensa George Sumter Jack Hudson Jim Galanos Lawrence Armstrong Bobby Mercer Bill Jorgensen Bud Olson Don Margurt Pierce Rios Isadore Sil vera Jack Dimock Chan Crandall Lewis Graton Vernon Freiley.
Bicycle licenses are issued at the city clerk and police announce plates available. About 350 licenses are needed to meet demand as distribution continues for several weeks before enforcement of the bicycle licensing ordinance begins.
This piece argues that the War department plans to make Jesus Maria a large army camp site near Lompoc and warns of both benefits and potential drawbacks. It urges local groups Rotary Legion Kiwanis and the Chamber of Commerce to organize a planned response to manage housing and services.
The Lompoc High School band travels to Santa Barbara for the annual band festival. Morning rehearsals, a 2:30 parade and 3:00 courthouse concert feature two numbers The Thunderer and Trumpeters Three. A 6:30 five minute stunt and an ROTC number are planned. Proceeds fund the local band, with tickets from band members or Mrs Lester Enga.
County health officials urge those with mumps to contact a physician as 26 cases are reported. Symptoms appear 12 to 26 days after exposure with fever and swollen throat glands.
Property owners with damaged sidewalks received notices from the city street department urging immediate repairs. The action follows a city council directive given weeks earlier to the street superintendent to address sidewalk conditions.
Narrator travels from Washington to Philadelphia visiting Independence Hall Betsy Ross House and more. They recount encounters with FDR relatives, tall stairways and long baths, and courtesies in the Capitol including a lunch in the House restaurant and meetings with congressmen Elliott and Hinshaw.
A.M.A. reports the death of Millard Hoyle of Hollister from a heart attack while driving on the Island. Mrs Hoyle travels home with the remains as mourners recall Hoyles friendship and the couple’s happy voyages. The writer notes road damage in the Lompoc district and appeals to Coast Guard and Navy for funding to repair Arguello and Concepcion roads amid national defense needs.
The Los Vaqueros de los Ranchos set a three day trek May 23 to 25 at Ted Chamberlain’s ranch in Los Olivos valley. Riders from Santa Maria, Nipomo, Guadalupe and Los Alamos meet at the Frank Ward ranch on Friday for lunch before rides to Chamberlain’s with meals served nightly.
Johns Manville stockholders in New York approved a retirement plan to supplement Social Security. The plan covers regular plant and salary employees with two or more years of service, across 7500 eligible in the organization, with potential start July 1 pending SEC approval. It includes phased retirement for workers over 63 and extended benefits for those over 68.
Two Lompoc high school athletes James Sloan and Kaslon Zoller qualified for the CIF finals to be held at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Sloan is a pole vaulter and Zoller a hurdler, having led their team to victory in the divisional finals in Oxnard, marking a first for their program.
Rotary Club members from Lompoc traveled to Guad alupe for an inter-city meeting. Hazel Hurst spoke on the Hurst Foundation in Monrovia that trains seeing eye dogs. Attendees included Harry Buckman Charles Laubly L. D. Moe H. R. Brooks Earl Calvert Dale Wood Alex Main L. C. Huseman M. R. Pattee H. A. Hobbs Clarence Ruth G. T. Gunderson Ray Stalker Howard Sperber E. A. Vaughan Ray Swartz and C. D. McCabe.
War department selects nine sites for camps to be used if Congress raises the army above 1,418,000. The Santa Maria Lompoc area is among them, with surveyors testing feasibility for a new camp not an air base.
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