Six Awards Bestowed at Vandenberg Ceremony
At Vandenberg Major General William C. Garland presented six medals to officers and enlisted personnel from the Strategic Aerospace Division. Colonels Park and Jones received the Legion of Merit and first oak leaf cluster respectively, for service in Wiesbaden and the Middle East and Africa. Bronze Star honors went to Kreigh, Palmer, Lewis, and Mulholland for actions in Southeast Asia.
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Vandenberg
William C. Garland
List
Strategic Aerospace Division
Oakley K. Park
392Nd Aerospace Medical Group
Wiesbaden
Germany
Edward R. Jones, Jr
392 Communications Squadron
Middle East
Africa
Southeast Asia
David L. Kreigh
United States Air Force
Jone
Defense Communications Systems
Kreigh
Palmer
Lewis
Mulholland
Navy Ensign Johnson Completes First Solo Flight
Navy Ensign Ted C. Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Charles E Johnson and husband of Penny McCauley has made his first solo flight in a T34 Mentor trainer after five months of training at Saufley Field Pensacola. He will continue 13 months of advanced flight training toward Wings of Gold.
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Ted C. Johnson
Charles E. Johnson
N. 6Th St
Lompoc
Penny A. McCauley
Kerth Road
St. Louis
Saufley Field
Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Pensacola, Fla
Pensacola, Fla
Navy
Teddy C. Johnson
N. Sixth St
Naval Aviation Schools Command
U.S. Naval Air Station
Pensacola
Fla
Highway 1 Closure and October Highway Tax Allocation
Highway 1 remains closed for repair. An October apportionment of highway user taxes totaled 65,199,272 distributed among the state, cities and counties. Lompoc City received 17,527.87, with county shares and state highway expenditures also specified.
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Houston S. Flournoy
Santa Barbara County
Lompoc
Allan Hancock College Instructor Joins Pacific Coast English Committee
John Miles head of the Allan Hancock College English Department was elected to the Executive Committee of the Pacific Coast Conference on English in the Two Year College. The six member panel oversees annual conferences for junior college English instructors across California Hawaii Arizona Utah and Nevada. Miles noted the group aims to define and explore issues improving English teaching in two year colleges and his election marks the college's first representation on the inter-state council.
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John Miles
Allan Hancock College
Miles
California
Hawaii
Arizona
Utah
Nevada
Earth hides meteor scars with water and air makeup
NASA expert Donald Gault explains Earth shows far fewer large impact craters than the Moon or Mars due to atmosphere and oceans erasing scars. He notes about 50 craters identified recently including Rieskassel in Germany and Charlevoix near Quebec, with sedimentation and rock similarities masking true origins.
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Duston Harvey
Mountain View
Calif
UPI
Mother Earth
Earth
Moon
Mars
Space
Lunar
Mariner
Donald Gault
Planetology
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ames Research Center
Gault
Arizona
Rieskassel
Germany
Charlevoix
Quebec
Canada
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United States Coast Guard Academy
Stephen M. Riddle
Lompoc High School
Riddle
Nval
Stockholm
UPS
Highway 1
AHC
Holland American
Dave Rodreick
Knez
North Side
Rhythm II
E. Main
Santa Maria
Bennett Music Company
Bennett
Science Today
Tion
Mississippi Basin
Banton
Orig
Orion
S-M-L-Xl
Moon Landing
Toys
Thingmaker Toys
TONKA
Penn-Prest
Fire Dept
Tefion
Shop Penney's
Kapok
Holiday
Lompoc Shopping Center
Orson
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