Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archiveArchive Home
The Lompoc Record from Lompoc, California • 1
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

The Lompoc Record from Lompoc, California • 1

Publication:
The Lompoc Recordi
Location:
Lompoc, California
Issue Date:
Page:
1
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

lompocAmecord Eitoblished In 1875 Published Daily Except Sunday FRL. JULY 3. 1970 LOMPOC RECORD, LOMPOC, CALIF. 10c per copy; $2.25 per month NO. 73 Demos remain firm to stop State budget SaCRaMENTO (UPI) Demanding more money for schools in exchange for their votes, Senate Democrats today stymied passage for the third straight day of Gov.

Ronald Reagan's record $6. 59 billion state budget. Senate Democrafic leader George Mos-cone said he is prepared to wait indefinitely for Reagan to agree to the swap. "If it takes months, I'm ready to do it," the San Francisco lawmaker told newsmen Thursday night after the Senate refused toiapprove the spending package on the second attempt "I have to believe we'll stand fast." But Republicans scheduled a reconsideration vote on the defeated bill for today. Sen.

Fred.Marler, R-Redding, the floor manager for lt, said he was "optimistic" of gaining final passage. The on a 25-13 vote, rejected the expenditure program five hours after the Assembly' approved it on a 62-15 vote. It takes 27 votes to pass a budget in the upper h6use. GOP leaders considered sending an ambulance for 'bedridden Sen. Richard J.

Dolwig of Atherton, but decided against the play. They thought it might encourage a Democrat to switch his vote. A compromise version of the budget written by a second conference commit tee proposed $102 milUon more for schools and cdrtaln guarantees in state financing that Democrats also demanded. Specifically, the compromise says the state will pick up additional weW fare costs to counties caused by increased caseloads. It also provides that any money vetoed out of the budget by the governor would revert to the state school fund.

But Moscone ndted the language does not force the administration to spend the money. He said that could take another appropriation bill unless such a mandate is into the budget. The spending program compromise also guarantees to the 100,000 state employes, who went to work as usualduring the budget impasse, will be paid along with any other debts the state rang up while it was budgetiess. The situation was nearly identical to last year, only then it was Assembly Democrats who demanded and got more money from Reagan In the budget altera three-day holdout. This year, Senate Democrats want at Two injured as cycle hits deer Walter Charles Reedy, 26, and Linda Reedy, 25, both of 117 N.

suffered minor injuries early today when their motorcycle struck and killed a deer at Ocean Avenue and Street. Reedy was treated at Lompoc Hospital for a sprained ankle and Linda for multiple bruises and abrasions at the same hospital. Both were released after treatment. I Police alerted the animal shelter for removal of the dead carcass of the deer. In another accident, Robert Graber, 22, of Vandenberg Air Force Base, escaped injury when he lost control of his car at the entrance of Lions Inn, Street and "Central Avenue, and hit a palm tree." i Graber's car sustained major damage, according to Lompoc police reports.

The accident occurred at 2a.ni. today. Police said the car sideswiped an electric pole before hitjing the tree. least another $160 million for hard-pressed school districts, and say their real goal is $282 million in new aid. Brush fire burns in Mission Hills A brush Are which started at approximately 10 a.m.

this morning was burning seemingly out of control in Mission Hills on a ridge behind Calle Nueva Ave. County fire units were stationed on the ridge in order to protect homes. Homeowners were hosing down their roofs although the fire appeared to be heading in an easterly, southerly direction away from tm? Some witnesses stated that the Are apparently started with youths playing with a fire or smoke bomb in the wooded area. Six county fire units from Vandenberg Village and Buelltoo were on the line behind the homes fronting on Calle Nueve. Fire officials had alerted the City of Lompoc Fire Department and other more distant county fire stations.

The fire apparently erupted along a ridge that runs east and west behind the homes on Calle Nueve. Witnesses told Record reporter that Westerly winds were blowing the Are in an easterly direction. Fire officials said there was no danger to the homes as long as the wind remained the same. Officials said the flames would pro bably top the idge and continue in a south-erly direction into an uninhabited area. The only faciUty immediately in danger was a water tower that stands on the top of the ridge about a hundred yards southerly of the row of homes.

Witnesses told the Record the fire started at the westerly terminus of the ridge as it ended at Via Lato and then raced east fanned by strong breezes. Home owners along Calle Nueve were watering their rooftops as a precauUon against the possible changing of the wind. Some of residents car rfeggar-. den hoses over their rear fences and were spraying the flames. Small animals such as field mice and other unidentified animals were fleeing the flames toward the channel that runs to the rear of the homes on Calle Nueve.

There were no reported in juries and no damage to structures as firemen continued to fight the flames at noon today. High holiday death toll predicted By United Press International Vacationers drove the nation's highways today seeking fun and relaxation over the Fourth of July weekend. Between 560 and 660 of them instead would find death, the National Safety Council said. And, the council predict, ed, between 27,000 and 31,000 would suffer disabling i juries. The holiday began for the council at 6 p.m., local time Thursday and ends midnight Sunday.

Council President Howard Pyle said that during a normal 78-hour weekend at this time of year the count mounts to about 510 persons dead in traffic accidents. Last year's three-day Independence Day weekend accounted for 609 deaths, council records show. "Motorists must take special care to drive defensively" over the holiday, Pyle said. 2 U.S. artillery slams Cambodia Fireworks extravaganza tomorrow SAIGON (UPI) U.S.

artillery uear the South Vietnamese border pounded targets in Cambodia in the first three days following the withdrawal of all American forces from the neighboring country, mlUtary sources said tonight. It was continuing tonight. The disclosure followed an announce ment that 46 Vietnamese civilians were killed when their boat struck a Communist mine In a river gear the Demilitarised Zone in the worst such incident of the war. A terrorist attack in the Mekong Delta killed another five civilians. Military sources said the artillery fire, which has been hitting "specific targets" 5 to 10 miles inside Cambodia would continue as part of the American policy of interdicting Communist supply and communications lines across the border.

The sources said the artillery fire from U.S. 105mm, 155mm and eight inch guns had been directed against specific targets and would not be used as harassment shelling as it is in some parts of South Vietnam. Officials of the Nixon administration had said earlier that American air strikes against supply and communications arteries would continue after the American troop withdrawal, which was completed last Tuesday. "This is the same idea as air inter- duct ion," one high ranking source said. "It is against identified' targets clearly identified targets." The source said the big guns also were being used in support of South Vietnamese units operating in Cambodia.

They said about 1,000 artillery rounds were fired into Cambodia on Wednesday and Thursday and that the shelling continued today. Building volume in city down Building volume in the City of Lompoc rounded out the fiscal year, June 30 at $913,243, down about $50,000 from last fiscal year, a Building for the month of June totaled $92,953, up almost $20,000 from the total for June 1969. The calendar year building volume beginning on Jan. 1, totaled $318,149 as of June 30. There were 18 building permits is-sued during June 1 for a single family residence, 13 for residential alterations, 2 for commercial alterations, 1 for a sign and one for miscellaneous construction.

N. Vietnamese move forces for quick Cambodia attacks An estimated 10,000 holiday mfnded men, women and children are expected to jam Huyck stadium tomorrow night for the fire department's annual Fourth of July fireworks spectacle. The U.S. landing on the Moon and other patriotic scenes will highlight the colorful display, according to Fire Chief John Baker. Admission is $1 for adults and 50 cents for youngsters under 12 yeas of age, and students with student body cards.

Action will begin at dusk in the stadium on West College Avenue. I 4 ft Most Valley food markets and some businesses in Vandenberg Village Shopping Center will remain open through the day tomorrow, but commercial establishments will be closed for the local ob-servance of the Fourth 6f July. The Record will not publish tomorrow, according to J. Donald Adam, publisher. All governmental offices lncludihg city, county and federal faculties will give their employes a day off.

Thtre will be no home delivery of mail and the business counter at the Post Office on West Ocean Avenue wlU be closed. The public library wlU be closed tomorrow, but be opened Sunday, I to 5 p.m. Police and Sheriff's personnel wiU maintain regular law enforcement Banks and savings institutions as usual will be closed all day tomorrow. Safeway markets in Lompoc and Vanl denberg VUlage will be open tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Williams Bros. Markets on both East and West Ocean Avenue wUl be open from 10 aan. to 7 p.m. Jordanos Market in Lompoc Shopping Center will keep the same holiday schedule of 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Some stores in Vandenberg VUlage Shopping Center wlU remain open tomorrow during the day. SAN' CLEMENTE (UPI) -North Vie, nam has moved about 30 per cent of its forces from South Vietnam into Cambodia to stage quick attacks against the Unequipped Cambodian army, U.S. mili-tary strategists say. In a background briefing last Friday lor a group of news executives, a Pentagon spokesman said the North VieW namese forces were aftved from toe HI Corps area around Saigon and the Mekong Delta. Weather Landscape assistance may Iced be as of other agencies In effect, the official said, the battle has moved from South Vietnam to Cambodia.

Under rules of the briefing, the official could not be named and his remarks could not be published until Thursday, after the President's foreign policy speech. However, it was disclosed earlier that the three officials in the briefing were Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Nixon's foreign policy adviser; Lt. Gen.

John Bogt of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and William Sullivan, a deputy assistant secretary of state. The official said the Communists hoped to move quickly against the Cambodian forces while they still were ill-equipped and in the early stages of training. The official said the North Vietnamese forces now were in the process of consolidating their position in the northern portion of Cambodia and American bomb, ing raids would be concentrated in this area. Glimpses Cloudy at times'through Saturday with night and morning coastal overcast. High both days in 70s near ocean and near 100 Inland.

Low tonight 55 to 65. North-west winds 10 to 15 miles-per-hour afternoons. Saturday tides High tide of 3.7 feet at 12:38 p.m. Low tides of minus 0.8 feet at 5:50 t.m. and 2.5 feet at 4:44 p.m.

Sunday tides High tide of 3.7 feet at 1:08 p.m. Low. tides of minus 0.6 feet at 6:26 a.m and 2.5 feet at 5:26 p.m. Monday tides High tide of 3.8 feet at 1:38 p.m. Low tides of minus 0.4 feet at 6:56 a.m and 2.6 feet at 6:08 p.m.

In a letter of direction to the commission and the committee, Dustin W. Griffith, assistant to the city administrator, noted that "several cities in California have been successful in their efforts to solid assistance from other governmental agencies" for such pro jects. Griffith also wrote: "The successful completion of a highway landscaping project between Lompoc and Vandenberg AFB would be a significant contribution to this community." The City Council has asked the Lompoc BeautUication Committee and the Parks and Recreation Commission to investigate the possibility of landscaping the main transportation route between the city and Vandenberg AFB. At the suggestion of Council man E.C. Stevens, the city council asked the two groups to check into the possibility of the city, county, state and federal governments working together to finance and accomplish the work for such a beautification project.

First "cook-your-own" steaks being served out of the La Purisima Inn. Campers, trailers crowding the high ways. Beach parks reported overflowing for holiday weekend. John and Edie Alexander still talking about high temperature in King City yesterday as they returned from Vancouver vacation..

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the The Lompoc Record
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About The Lompoc Record Archive

Pages Available:
381,652
Years Available:
1875-2024