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LOMPOC RECORD Wednesday, October 20, 2004 A3 StateNation Killer whales headed south for chum Donations for children The Breakout Youth Group of North Avenue Baptist Church is taking donations for the Marks House as part of the annual Make a Difference Day. Items needed to benefit needy children include new or used children's books, videos, DVDs, games, and TVVCR combos, as well as pillows, blankets and canned goods. Items can be dropped off from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 23, at Vons North, or at Read More Books in the Longs Shopping Center.

Fund-raising raffle A Macey Wallace Memorial fund-raiser is underway to raise money to assist the family in paying for medical expenses. Raffle tickets are being sold for $50 for the chance to win a 2004 Harley-Davidson Softail Standard FXSTI (silver and fuel injected). Tickets may be purchased between 9 a.m. and noon Saturday, Oct. 23, at CoastHills Bank, or by sending a check made out to Tonya Baird at 105 North Lompoc, 93436, to receive tickets by mail.

Homecoming tailgate party A "tailgate" party with free food and beverages for the first 250 participants will kick off the 2004 Allan Hancock College homecoming activities from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23., at the Santa Maria campus Student Center. For more information, contact Pauline Jamison at 922-6966 ext. 3229.

1 if 1 7 1" (J i EL-. JiWiV.tl.Vfim.k'IA".'!)'.,') SEATTLE (AP) Washington state's resident killer whales with two newborns in tow are heading south for the fall "chum festival," says a whale researcher in the San Juan Islands. If the orcas had departed a week earlier, they could have run into dangerous pollution from the oil spill near Tacoma, noted Ken Balcomb at the Center for Whale Research. "Hopefully they'll skirt the spill," Balcomb said Tuesday. "As long as the whales don't swim through it and inhale it," they should be OK.

Researchers attributed the deaths of several Alaska killer whales to the 1989 11-million-gallon oil spill from the tanker Exxon Valdez in Prince William Sound. Orcas are at risk from such spills because they have no sense of smell, Balcomb said, and newborns would be especially vulnerable. "It could have been plus two and minus two in one day," he said. "It isn't good for adults either but little babies you can imagine putting your baby in a fume-filled room. It wouldn't be good for them." The calves their white patterns still the orange-y shade of newborns were born over the past 10 days to two members of L-pod, which with J- and K-pods makes up the so-called southern resident population.

The births to females L-27 and L-43 bring the state orca population to 85 not counting L-98 or Luna, living alone in Canada's Nootka Sound. That's well below the 99 counted in 1995. The orcas, designated a depleted population under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act and endangered under state law, are believed Four hikers missing in Sierras A mother whale, top, and her calf, center, are flanked by another adult whale, all part of the southern resident killer whale community in Puget Sound, are seen as they swim through Active Pass, British Gilumbia, Sunday, Oct. 17; Hie orcas, designated a depleted population under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act and endangered under state law, are believed vulnerable to pollution, declining salmon runs, vessel traffic, including whale-watching boats and other human encroachment. the point that they're reproducing that counts." It appears all three pods are bound for salmon in the south Sound, though only J-pod has been confirmed in the area.

There'd been no sightings yet of K- and L-pod, Balcomb said, "but they were all here yesterday and none of them seem to be here now." How do the whales know the chum are running? "Oh, they're just wise," he said. "They've been doing this for thousands of years. They know they're there. They echo-locate and find them." Recent runs of chum have been at "historical highs," he said. State elections officials said they'll have a final tally late this week or early next week.

Carol Dahmen, spokeswoman for Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, declined to speculate whether the numbers might set a state record, saying registrations still need to be combed for fraud. County registrars also cautioned that up to two-thirds of registrants are often reregistering with a new address. Stanislaus County authorities, still processing the last-minute rush Tuesday, reported 10,000 more registrations for this year's election than the November 2000 presidential contest. Nearly 800 were from military members stationed in other states and overseas, said Registrar Lee Lundrigan. 1 i i tf' A ttJ I W7 AP I'Hlll' Killer whales, actually a kind of dolphin, are found in all the world's oceans.

Their habits vary. U.S. coastal and transient populations tend to live in small groups and feed mostly on marine mammals seals, sea lions and whales. The region's inland populations the northern residents live in Canada live in larger groups and eat fish. On the Internet: Center for Whale Research: www.whaleresearch.com NOAA Fisheries: http:www.nwr.noaa.gov Fisheries and Oceans Canada: http:www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca registrations Lundrigan and others also reported dramatic rises in absentee voting for this year's election.

Stanislaus County, Lundrigan said, has 55,264 permanent absentee voters this year compared to 1,500 in the November 2000 presidential election. Rosas said 140,000 Santa Clara County residents will vote absentee, "the highest number we've ever had." As in previous years, Democrats still hold the edge in registrations. In September, Democrats represented 43.2 percent of voters. Republicans represented 35 percent, while 17 percent declined to state a party affiliation. On the Net: California Secretary of State: http:www.ss.ca.gov FRESNO (AP) Rescuers searched through the snow in the Sierra National Forest on Tuesday looking for four hikers from Santa Cruz who went missing Sunday.

Paul Bargetto, 47, a member of the Soquel family that owns Bargetto Vineyards, his brother-in-law Frank Horath, 45, and their sons, Michael Bargetto, 20, and Dominic Horath, 16. began their hike Friday at Courtright Reservoir, in a remote area northeast of Fresno. The group was supposed to return Sunday and family members became worried when they hadn't heard from them by late Sunday night. More than a dozen rescue specialists from Fresno County Sheriffs Department found the hikers' car where it was left Friday. More than two feet of snow has fell in the mountain-pus area, preventing helicopters from aiding the search efforts.

The rescue team is trying to hike the same route the miss ing group was supposed to take but have been hampered by the snow. "They left at daylight Monday and have been heading to the lake ever since," Lt. Bob Miller told the San Jose Mercury News. "They're literally fighting their way through a blizzard. It's almost whiteout conditions, and we're concerned about our own crew." Paul Bargetto's sister, Rita, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the group had two two-person sleeping bags and food to survive through the weekend.

A winter storm warning was expected to remain in effect for the southern Sierra Nevada north of Kern County through Wednesday morning. The nighttime temperatures' in the area was expected to drop into the 20s. "We truly believe that if they did the right thing and sat through the weather, they're all right," Miller said. "You don't want to attempt to walk out and get lost." Elections officials see dramatic rise in voter vulnerable to pollution, declining salmon runs, vessel traffic possibly including whale-watching boats and other human encroachment. L-27 has had four other calves, none of whom are still alive, Balcomb said.

One lived 10 years, the others three to five. L-43 has two living calves. The births are good news, but not a sure bet. "The calves don't really count till they become sexually Balcomb said. Killer whale development roughly parallels that of humans, with sexual maturity coming in the early teens.

"They're just mouths to feed now, but if they grow to makers, while also eyeing special new taxes for emergency rooms, a $3 billion bond for stem cell research and new rules making it harder to sue businesses. Locally, they'll pick hundreds of officials to run schools, cities and counties, and decide initiatives ranging from a public safety tax in Los Angeles County to high-rise towers on the bay shore of Redwood City. County registrars said they've never seen such a frenzied surge of people wanting to vote, with thousands of registrations arriving from Californians on military duty overseas and thousands more from partisan voting drives and so-called "bounty hunters" paid to register voters. Many voters endured long lines and rain to register for a deadline coming 15 days before the election. Los Angeles County ed 43,687 registrations Monday, reaching 3.9 million with thousands still to process.

Registrar Conny McCormack called it "significantly greater activity" than four years ago. Obituaries 1 SACRAMENTO (AP)-A riveting, tight presidential race and 16 California ballot propositions ranging from gambling to reforming "three-strikes" sentencing laws is driving a "dramatic" record-breaking hike in voter registrations for the Nov. 2 election. The California secretary of state's office reported Tuesday up to 40,000 new registrations daily across California in the final two weeks before Monday's deadline to register. County registrars, still scrambling to enter thousands of new registrations into computer databases, said the final count will likely far exceed the state's previous record of 15.7 million registrants for the November 2000 presidential election.

"I think in this one you have the issue of what's going on nationally and internationally, as well as what happened in the 2000 election," said Elma Rosas, spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County registrar's office. "This is definitely democracy." Californians will vote for president and U.S. senator, choose 53 congressional representatives and 100 state law Leslie Mcintosh Leslie Weber "Mac or Chick" Mcintosh, born May 3, 1918, in Tanglewood, Texas, died Sept. 21, 2004, at the age of 86, at the Convalescent Care Center. He was preceded in death by his parents, brothers, and sisters.

He is survived by his wife, Rosemary Bennett Mcintosh, also a resident at CCC; a sister, Maxine Medlin, of Texas; another sister, Oveta Knouse, of Texas; two sons, Bruce and Robert, both of Lompoc; daughter-in-law Camille (Mrs. Bruce); six grandchildren and 16 grandchildren. Mcintosh was an aircraft assembler and welder for Lockeed from 1939 to 1944, and was in the U.S. Army Infantry from 1944 to 1946, serving in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. He was at the Battle of the Bulge and was a survivor of Bastone, being one of the "Battling Bastards of Bastone." Mcintosh worked for Lockheed in Palmdale until 1959 when he transferred to the missile division at Vandenberg Air Force Base and moved to Lompoc.

He retired from Lockheed in 1 974, was owner of Mac's Second Hand Shop, and later Mac's Hobbies, where he sold supplies for his beloved RC model airplanes. He was an avid guitar player VOTE ROBERT CUTHBERT LOMPOC CITY COUNCIL and played with many local bands in Lompoc over the years, the last being the Last Bloomers. Mcintosh was very involved in the Lompoc Valley Fliers and the Wing Busters both RC airplane clubs. He belonged to the VFW, Half Century Club and American Legion, where he and his wife sponsored the Flower Festival candidate who made queen one year. He coached Little League, Babe Ruth, and American Legion Baseball, and then when his two sons outgrew those, he started a semi-pro baseball team called The Lompoc Merchants for older boys and young men.

Some of the young men he coached have gone on to major league baseball careers. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 212 East Central Ave.

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