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A2 LOMPOC RECORD (Lompoc, Calif.) Tuesday, September 9, 1 997 About town Dlood donon arc needed; supply short i I Good Neighbor Day is Wednesday LOMPOC Lompoc Valley Florist and Avenue Flower Shop celebrate Good Neighbor Day Wednesday. Beginning at 8:30 a.m., Lompoc Florist will give away roses in bunches of a dozen free to anyone who visits the shop at 129 North A St. People are asked to keep onje for themselves and give another to 11 other people Co-sponsors of Lompoc Valley Florist Good Neighbor Day are Sue Wagner, realtor, and Mary Walsh 08 East West Health Clinic. Avenue Flower, ,608 West Ocean will have roses in bunches of dozens available beginning at 7:30 a.m. They will be given away as long as the supply Girl Scouts are now accepting registrations LOMPOC The Tres Condados Girl Scout Council, Valley of the flowers Service Unit, is now accepting registration from girls between the ages of 5 and 17.

Open registration will be at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 2800 Harris Grade Road, from" p.m. Wednesday. Volunteer adult leaders are also needed. If interested in volunteering, call Rhonda Watts at 736-7786.

Annual bridge tournament slated LOMPOC the 27th annual Lompoc Valley of the Flowers Sectional will be at the Anderson Recreational Center, 125 West Walnut Sept. 19, 20, and 21. Friday and Saturday games begin at I and 7 p.m. Sunday's' Swiss Teams begin 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

All games are strati-. fied, giving newer players a chance to win master points. Coffee, tea and snacks will be available. Low- cost shot clinic slated for dogs and cats LOMPOC A low-cost rabies vaccination and other inoculation cluv ic for dogs and cats will be 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Animal Shelter, 1501 West Central Ave. This clinic is co-sponsored by Animal Placement Assistance CAPA and the Animal Health and Regulation. Dogs must be a leash and cats must be in containers. For more information, call 737-4463.

Dr. Jean Michels to speak on Sports Injuries LOMPOC Lompoc Hospital District Foundation will present the first of the 1997 Fall Lecture Series 7 p.m. Wednesday in the. Hickory Street Cafe of the Lompoc Hospital. Dr.

Jean orthopedic surgeon, will speak on "Sports you prepared for the consequences?" The lectures are free charge. For more information, call 737-3309. 'I tt 'V 1 I "-s; 1 5 i i i I I fn j' 1 'mfT -v Obituary 1 Scout becomes Eagle Tony CorderoLompoc Rocord Mary Frances Irelan SOLVANG A memorial service for Mary Frances Irelan, 70, of Solvang will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997, at Loper Chapel in ballard.

Interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Ballard. Mrs. Irelan was born Nov. 14, 1926 in rural Webb City, and resided in the Santa Ynez Valley for the past 22 years. She died Saturday, Sept.

6, 1997, at her home in Solvang. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Harold Irelan of Solvang; -three sons, Dennis. Don and David Irelan; three daughters, Karen Olynger, Emily Link and Jane Lindberg; 14 grandchildren; and one great-grandson. The family has requested that contributions be made in her memory to a favorite charity or the Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara or the American Cancer Society. Arrangements are under the direction of Loper Funeral Chapel.

Josh McGinnis of Boy Scout Troop 394 has become an Eagle Scout. He has been a Scout while living in several places, including Georgia, New Mexico, Kentucky and Germany. His leadership positions have included senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, instructor and patrol leader. He has also attended and taught at a week-long junior leader training course. He has earned 27 merit badges.

Awards Josh has won in school include honor roll, Presidential Fitness, DARE essay winner, Most Valuable and Most Inspirational JV Soccer Player and freshman homecoming prince. Festal soruDC loops am fill (sonpstiDKopiii Dy A.J. DICKEF Associated Presi nRTROTT Th Amcricmn Red Cross issued national appeal for blood donations, warning that two-thirds of it regions have less than two days' supply of a critical donor type. Twenty-five of 38 regions across the country have no more than 1 12 days supply of type blood, said Michael Fulwider, a spokesman at Red Cross headquarters in Virginia. Type blood is especially valued.

O-positive, found in 39 percent of Americans, can be trans1-fused into anyone with positive blood types, some 86 percent of the population. O-negative, found in only 6 percent of Americans, can be given to any patient. There was none to be found Monday morning in Detroit, headquarters of the Southeastern Michigan region. "I've been here five and a half years and this is the worst it's ever been. I've been out of by 2 p.m.

just about every day," said Jeff Weathers, regional director of hospital services. "I bite my nails a lot-Indeed, summer shortages have affected 30 regions, from the Pacific Northwest to Puerto Rico. A year ago, experts said, some 8 million Americans were donating 14 million pints of blood every year. But they represent less than 5 percent of those healthy enough to give, and advocates blame everyone else's unwillingness on everything from the fear of AIDS to the aging of patriotic Americans who began donating in World War II. Blood is perishable, good for only 42 days, so hospitals need a constant supply.

Critical shortages usually occur from mid-July through Labor Day, and" again ih late December and early "We're not at a crisis period nationwide," said Eric Slayton of the American Association of Blood Banks. "We're in a spot emergency. There are specific areas around the country that are seeling acute shortages." In Portland, the Pacific Northwest region appealed for type as well as Rh-negative types and AB. "No patient has gone without blood. We're juggling hospital inventories," regional spokeswoman Donna Neely said.

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Bean noted that Global Package Link- has helped his company expand its international sales. Runyon called on the businesses that, use mail service to lend a hand on the competition. "In the coming year we are going to have to fight together to protect the mail. Otherwise, our products will be stifled, our progress halted and the future of the mail endangered," he said. Runyon pointed out that on-time service by the post office has improved sharply in recent years, while the agency has posted a $3 fer $11.3 million from OSHA's proposed $336 million budget fell short.

The Republican chairman of the Appropriations panel that crafted the bill, Rep. John Porter of managed to persuade more than 50 GOP lawmakers to oppose the amendments, OSHA has reformed and cutting its budget "would do harm to the priorities we have set in the bill." The first, to transfer the money to vocational training, went down 237-160. The second, moving the money to a program for disabled House conservatives want federal spending slowed further billion profit over the last two years and expects to clear another $1 billion this year, allowing it to reduce outstanding debt. Runyon told the business officials the post office is instituting hand-held scanners and by the end of next year will be able to track and confirm delivery of Express Mail and Priority Mail, surface parcels and international shipments. He also released a report of a blue-ribbon panel formed last year to look at the future of the post office.

The committee urged that the Postal Service seek new growth children, fell, 240-157. The conservatives began their go-slow tactics when the bill was brought up lastThursday. On Friday, they failed, in a 260-167 vote, to trim $4 from spending for enforcement of federal wage and hour laws. Democrats accused Republicans of trying to kill the bill by piling on amendments. "We obviously have a filibuster by amendment here," said Rep.

David Ob ranking Democrat the Appropriations Comn ii NIGHTS 81 lpm Ml. I1 II II If II areas, aggressively control costs, invest in technology and work with Congress for new laws governing the agency. The Postal Service must have the ability to more quickly reagt to changing market conditions," Vice President Frank W. Delfer, a panel member, said in prepared remarks. A congressional committee has been considering revamping the laws governing the agency.

Runyon is hoping to win the ability to" more easily change rates, sidestepping the current complex process than can delay new rates for 10 months or more. "There is a small band of members on that side of the aisle who are determined to never let this bill see the light of day." But Rep. Mark Souder, insisted" they only wanted to discuss the issue of government priorities and not kill the bill. Gen. Adm.

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week. GOP conservatives who say their party leaders gave up too much in reaching the balanced budget agreement with President Clinton picked this one of the largest of the 13 annual spending bills, to talk about what they say is backtracking in the Republican goal of cutting federal programs. On Monday, they targeted the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, the agency that imposes and enforces workplace safety rules. Republicans have long complained that OSHA burdens businesses with unnecessary and expensive regulations. But two amendments to trans Used DISCOUNT PjEQE It looted nod to Metvyn' In Mission Plua By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON With 21 days left before the new fiscal year begins, House conservatives dis-; -gatisScd with federal, levels were slowing action on a bill to fund $80 billion in labor, education and health programs.

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