Lompoc Gravediggers Still Using Picks and Shovels
Kenneth Kane is a longtime gravedigger at Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery where three workers still rely on picks and shovels though automatic units exist nearby. The crew handles 34 by 7.8 foot and 37 by 7.10 foot graves five feet deep with precise measurements to fit pre cast walls. Interments average 115 to 120 annually, and the 20 acre plot has room to spare with undeveloped acreage and a long history dating to the 1870s.
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Kane
Santa Maria
Ballard
Lompoc
Gilbert Gonzales
Japan
Rio de Janeiro
Oil Slick Threatens Vancouver Beaches After Ship Collision
A British freighter the Erawan and the Japanese Sun Diamond collided early Tuesday tearing a 30 foot hole in the Erawan. About 200 tons of fuel oil spilled into Vancouver harbor drifting toward city beaches with no injuries reported.
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Vancouver
B.C
UPI
Erawan
Vancouver Harbor
Brown wins press coverage in California political clash
Secretary of State Edmund G. Brown Jr. faced a dispute over press access at a Reagan administration lunch while criticizing Reagan's tax proposal. Brown insisted on public discussion, while an official argued the meeting was private. The association voted to open the doors and Brown urged transparency. Brown attacked the ballot measure as harmful to consumer protections.
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Reagan Administration
Brown
Ronald Reagan
John Wolfe
Consumer Affairs Department
Executive Officers Association
Wolfe
Reagan
Reagan plan to reassure welfare recipients on grants
The Reagan administration launches a publicity drive to prevent fears of cuts to aid for the aged blind and disabled starting Jan. 1. Officials say public messages and direct mail are considered as state officials prepare to implement their own supplemental aid plan for about 500,000 recipients, after the Senate killed a bipartisan increase.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
California
Senate
Boyle in Critical Condition After Alleged Suicide Attempt
Former United Mine Workers president W A Tony Boyle remained on life support at George Washington University Hospital after an apparent overdose. Dr Milton Gusack said his chances of survival were minimal as federal charges awaited in Pittsburgh over the 1969 Yablonski slaying.
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Pittsburgh
Joseph A
Jock”’ Yablonski
All 40 California senators should run next year
Assemblyman Bob Wilson urged the California Supreme Court to have all 40 state senators stand for re election next year due to reapportionment. He warned that if only even numbered districts vote, some voters would skip a senator for six years amid boundary changes and shifting districts.
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Sacramento
UPI
Bob Wilson
D-La Mesa
State Supreme Court
Wilson
Senate
California
Custodian Outsmarts Tire Prank At Newark High
George Pagan, a school custodian, used a forklift to lift 52 tires stacked around the flagpole and unbolt the hinged pole. The students, believed to be seniors, offered him an honorary student card after he freed the flag and tires.
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Newark
UPI
George Pagan
Pagan
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Lompoc Evergreen Cemetery
Rudy Paramo
Lewis Heredia
Kenneth Kane III
Kenneth Kane Jr
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Pine
Linden
H’ Street
Holser & Bailey
Pine Avenue
Alamo Mart
Alamo Pintado Shopping Center
Solvang
Elizabeth Starr Figure
West Ocean Ave
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Social Welfare Department
Health and Welfare Agency
Tony Browne
Health and Welfare
Earl Brian
Boyle
Vanity Fai
Vanity Fair
Dacron
Renoir
Ocean
Moore Charge
POC Records
W. Walnut
North
H ST
West Ocean &R Street
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