First donor in Lompoc pledges seedling to beautify city
Bettye McCrosky, the first Lompoc resident to pledge to the City Beautification Commission, received a Monterrey pine seedling for her support. Twenty three pledges have been made. more seedlings will be handed out as supply arrives from Sacramento. A citywide event on December 5 at the Veterans Memorial Building will feature prizes, entertainment, hors d oeuvres, and an art exhibit.
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Bettye McCrosky
Lompoc
George Cotsenmeyer
City
Monterrey
Sacramento
McCrosky
L Owly
Chamber of Commerce
Lompoc Boys Club
City Hall
Knez Studios
City Beautification Commission
Gloria Wagner
Veterans Memorial Building
Pizza Palace
Central Coast
Vandenberg Afb
Scenic Highway Plan Advances Between Las Cruces and Lompoc
The Board of Supervisors moved to designate a 20 mile stretch of State Highway 1 as a State Scenic Highway, sending the plan to the State Scenic Highway Advisory Committee for a Dec. 3 decision before final approval in Sacramento.
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Board of Supervisors
Las Cruces
Lompoc City
State Scenic Highway Advisory Committee
Sacramento
Britt Johnson
California Roadside Council
Lompoc
Paradise residents fear loss of Paradise homes in forest land move
Paradise homeowners urge the Board of Supervisors to mediate with the U S Forest Service over possible termination of year round occupancy and potential land exchange. 144 homesites on about 50 acres in the upper Santa Ynez Valley face a Dec 1 restriction and long term lease terms.
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Santa Ynez Valley
Forest Service
Swann
Paradise Properties
Paradise
Grant
Closing Stocks Reported by Rohrbaugh and Co
Closing stock quotations listed include Alcan American Can Ford Motor General Dynamics General Electric General Motors International Paper Johns Manville Lockheed Sears Roebuck Southern Pacific SoCal Edison Standard Oil of California and other major names. Rapid American and Telex 914 appear among the figures with a 267% 68s reading.
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Alcan
Alum
Benes
American Air
Bethlehem
City Investing
D.W.G. Corp
Eastman Kodak
Ford Motor
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Motors
General Telephone
Dee RI Fnso
Imperial Corp
International Paper
Ete
Bo Heen
Johns-Manville
Lear Siegler
Litton Indus
Lockheed
McDonnell- Douglas
Penn-Central
Phillips Pet
Rapid American
Rapid Amer, Wts
Sears Roebuck
SoCal Edison
Southern Pacific
Sperry Rand
Stand Oil of
Calif
Stand Oil
Telex
American Legion Post 56 Social Evening and Dinner
American Legion Post 56 announces a monthly social on November 27 with a free ham dinner at 7 30 p m at the Veterans Memorial Building. A 1 donation supports the Legion Rehabilitation Program.
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American Legion Post 56
Legion
Veterans Memorial Building
Planning Commission blocks mortuary zoning near Ocean Avenue
The Planning Commission denied a bid to rezone areas around Ocean Avenue and A Street for a mortuary. Commissioner Merrijane Pritchard led the denial citing ongoing citywide zoning studies. Shoemaker may appeal. Bevilacqua had previously ruled mortuaries not allowed in DC zone.
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Planning Commission
Ocean Avenue
Merrijane Pritchard
Commission
C-C
Convenience Center
C-2- A
Pete Shoemaker
Walnut Avenue
Shoemaker
Nicholas Bevilacqua
Theresa Acin
N. B St
Committee Eyes Christmas Tree Recycling for City Compost
The Lompoc Recycling Committee discussed kicking off a city campaign to mulch and reuse thousands of post holiday Christmas trees in a new municipal compost heap. A written resolution was drafted for the Dec 7 City Council meeting as the panel weighs a tree mulching party and parade.
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Lompoc
Art Scott
FCI
Scott
Beatrice Hough Formerly Stillman Dies in Baltimore
Funeral services were held in Woodstock Virginia for Mrs Beatrice Hough formerly Beatrice Stillman of Lompoc. She died November 14 in Baltimore Maryland and is survived by Floyd W Hough two daughters one son five grandchildren and her brother Clinton A Stillman of Lompoc. She came to Lompoc with her family in 1915 and was a graduate of Lompoc Senior High School where she met and married her husband.
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Woodstock
Beatrice Hough
Beatrice Stillman
Lompoc
Baltimore
Floyd W. Hough
Clinton A. Stillman
Erwin F. Stillman
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Nixon
Rohrbaugh and Co
Constellation Road
Lompoc Record
Textron
Times-Mirror
TransAmerica
Travelers
Union Oil
United Aircraft
U.S. Steel
Westinghouse
Woolworth
Dow Jones
Trans
Util
Daily Record
North A
Pacific Test Range
Strategic Air Command
Air Force
Minot N.D
William M. Perry
Lompoc Valley
By Vaughn Proctor
Vandenberg Tours
Central Avenue
Bush Avenue
James Flegge
Safe & Lockwork
Hugh Lompoc
Avco
Avco Financial Services
N. “Hh
W. Main St
Santa Maria
Church of Christ
North O Street
Virgil L. Leach
Bos
Patti Orr
New England
Virginia
North H Street
Regent
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