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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1969
Page
3
Closing stock quotes are presented by Rohrbaugh and Co with many major names and percent moves. In Jackson California Esther Hamilton wins council permission to ride her horse downtown for a fee at parking meters amid a 1906 sidewalk ban. In Margae England a lion at Safari Park Zoo roars at night driving residents to distraction. two lionesses were moved into the cage to calm the lone male.
Hearing before Sen. Ribicoff’s subcommittee highlights Vietnam’s currency black market and fragility of its economy. Witnesses warn that with troop withdrawals the United States faces continued heavy economic aid into the 1970s to prop up Vietnam’s finances and prevent collapse.
Obituary briefs report Milton Scudder McDowell 53 died at Travis AFB with funeral at McPeek Chapel and burial with military honors at Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery. Retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, longtime Vandenberg civilian mathematician, survivor details and cancer society tribute. Also notes on Hiram M Morrell and Carl Clinton Sorenson funerals in Santa Maria with services and memorials. Mentions Kerekes Wall Street economist and UPI brief on Haynsworth Supreme Court nomination pressure and seven Republican senators. Potluck dinner announced for Forest of America at 514 S I Street with a meeting to follow.
Harry August Kammen, 52, of 925 E Oak Ave, escaped injury when his car left Highway 1 a mile north of the Wye, striking a tree. The vehicle sustained major damage, per the California Highway Patrol report.
The sheriff's office said a burglary at Arthur E. Bradish's home at 267 Aldebaran Ave. Van denberg Village led to theft of a .22 rifle valued at 250 and 1 200 rounds of ammunition plus two walkie talkies and a BB gun. Total loss estimated at 390. Missing items reported yesterday.
The California Youth Council for Retarded Children will host a car wash Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Arco service station on W Ocean Avenue near the Williams Bros shopping center to raise funds for a Christmas party for retarded children. Officers include Joe Conelly elected president of the Tri Counties Air Conditioning and Sheet Metal Contractors Association, Lou Hartman as vice president, and Carl Artran as secretary treasurer.
UPI reports 113 Americans and 497 South Vietnamese killed in Vietnam last week, the highest weekly toll in two months. The figures push Allied deaths past 700,000, with fighting along the Cambodian border and near the DMZ.
Two Polish youths about 20 armed with a toy pistol and cans claimed as bombs hijacked a LOT Airlines Antonov 24 en route from Wroclaw to Warsaw. They forced a landing at Vienna Schwechat Airport where 18 passengers and 4 crew were removed. Officials differed on whether the cans held live explosives.
The Santa Barbara County planning commission, in a near unanimous vote, approved preserving about 251 acres of Beattie holdings west of Lompoc from urban encroachment. Attorney Lawrence Grossman defended the family’s 6,000 acres as essential for farming, noting industrial sites lie along the railroad and the airport. The panel also recommended rezoning to 40 acre general agricultural district to align with preserve status.
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