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2 SafiU Maria, Times, Saturday, March 6, 1976 VAFB lets $2.5 million For the record fr. also was charged with attempting to rob another woman at knifepoint in the same area. IH.O'ITKK A thief unlocked a car at Stowas-ser Pontiac-Cadillac, 711 N. Broadway, between Monday and Tuesday and stole a sun roof valued at $550, Santa Maria police reported. Building materials valued at $220 were stolen from Michael Towbes Construction Co.

from a building site at 1300 Valley Oak, Santa Maria police reported. Police said the theft occurred between Feb. 28 and March 2. I 1 11 I I s' sp CALKNMR The Guadalupe Recreation Commission invited interested citizens and girls interested in running for queen of the annual Elks Recreation Foundation rodeo to a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9.

The meeting will be in the American Legion building. Girls interested in competing for rodeo queen should be juniors or seniors in high school or of college age. An enchilada sale Sunday, March 7, will benefit St. Joseph High School Spring Queen Cathy and King Craig Eisenbarth. The enchiladas will be $1.50 and will be delivered.

To order call 925-0584 or 925-7576. The Santa Maria Chapter of the Tom Hayden for U.S. Senate campaign will hold a rummage sale the second week of March. Donations are needed and can be picked up at your home by calling Kim Hill at 7-1229 or Jim Woodgard at 2-4456. COl ACTIONS Luis Hernandez, 23, plead innocent in superior court Wednesday to a charge of selling heroin, and a pretrial conference was set for April 2.

Hernandez was one of 13 persons arrested on heroin sales charges Jan, 29 by county narcotics task force agents. i. 1 UWattsMtLat A toilet and the one-half of a bathroom wall are the only remnants of a building recently torn down along South Broadway near Betteravia Road. Times photo by Jack Eddy Full-time named in marine advisor tri-counties area Obituaries Mark ('. Pennington.

Mark C. Pennington, 28, of Encinitas, died Friday. He was a native of California and resided in Santa Maria. He was a military veteran of the Vietnam war. Survivors include his father, Earl L.

Pennington of Lakeside; three sisters, Mrs. Linda Austin of Atascadero, Mrs. Leslie Martinez of Hollywood, and Mrs. Robin Ochoa of El Cajon; a maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lucy Tiedeman of Glendale and a paternal grandmother Mrs.

Ona Underwood of Costa Mesa. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Lakeside Funeral Chapel, Lakeside. Burial wilt be in Lakeside. Pair arrested for burglary SANTA MARIA An 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old male juvenile were arrested on suspicion of burglary Tuesday night inside the Columbia Records warehouse, 705 S.

Western Avenue, Santa Maria police reported. Officers responded to the warehouse at 6:32 p.m. after a silent alarm was activated. Booked at the Santa Maria Sheriff's Substation was Miguel Ybarra 18, 201 W. Taft St.

The juvenile was released to his parents. Police said the burglars entered the warehouse by prying back sheet melal siding on the front of the building. Police jail murder suspect SANTA MARIA City police assisted the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office Thursday by arresting a 24-year-old Santa Rosa man on suspicion of attempted murder, and assault with a deadly weapon. Booked at the Santa Maria Sheriff's Substation on the charges and held for Sonoma County authorities was Timothy Frederick Andreas. He is wanted in connection with the stabbing and beating of a female acquaintance in Santa Rosa, police reported.

in contracts VANDENBERG AFB Two contracts totaling nearly $2,500,000 have been awarded recently by the Space and Missile Test Center (SAMTEC) at Vandenberg AFB. General Dynamics Corporation, Electronics Division, of San Diego, was awarded a $37,700 contract for expansion of the Magnetic Tape Dubbing Matrix used by the Western Test Range in support of launches from Vandenberg. Aydin Energy Systems, Inc. of Palo Alto, was awarded a $2,386,620 contract for modernization of the Command Control Transmitter network used at Vandenberg. The Command Control Transmitter network enables Missile Flight Controllers to take action in event of an errant missile, before that missile could endanger life or property.

Three jailed for false prescriptions SANTA MARIA Three persons were arrested by Santa Maria police Thursday on suspicion of obtaining drugs with forged prescriptions at Parsons Brothers Rexall Drugs, 733 E. Main. About 2:30 p.m., officers arrested Dolores Louise Allman, 43, 142 Pier Pismo Beach, on the forged prescription charge. That arrest, police, stemmed from a forged prescription report received from the store on Feb. 25.

About 6:20 p.m., officers returned to the store and arrested Ronald Lee Bartel, 20, 5755 Bond, Fresno, and Mary Teresa Haycock, 20, 685 E. Colegio, Goleta on suspicion of obtaining drugs with a forged prescription and conspiracy. All three persons were booked at the Santa Maria Sheriff's Substation on the alleged charges. CAC offers free income tax assist SANTA MARIA Free aid in the preparation of both state and federal income tax forms will be provided by trained volunteers sponsored by the Community Action Centers in Santa Maria and Lompoc. In Santa Maria the help will be available from 6 to 8 p.m.

Thursdays. March 18 and April 1 and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, March 6 and 20 and April 3. These sessions will all be in the Community Action Center, 802 E.

Main St. The Lompoc meetings will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays, March 11 and 25 and April 8 and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays, March 13 and 2v and April 10, all in the Lompoc Community Action Center, 118 S.

St. Comet LOS ANGELES (UPI) The early bird can catch the comet. Comet West, discovered by astronomer Richard M. West of the European Southern Observatory, can be seen for the next few days at about 5 a.m. PST due east and scientists say it will give a better show than Comet Kohoutek.

"It's a nice surprise for people who get up early," said Dr. Ed Krupp of the Griffith Park Observatory. "Its as bright as some of the brighter stars, but not as bright as the brightest stars like Sirius. "It's the best comet I've seen since (Comet) Bennett in 1970." Accusation SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey heatedly accused a prosecution psychiatrist Friday of trying to "fix" Patricia Hearst's case by convincing her parents she should try to make a deal with the government.

Dr. Joel Fort of San Francisco denied the charge, but admitted he had urged Randolph and Catherine Hearst to try to avoid the "agony" of a public trial if it were in any way possible. Richards has devoted most of his time to identifying problems, and then planning and conducting workshops to help alleviate them. Types of problems Richards is concentrating on for the future include sea urchin resources and diminishing fishery resources, which is a problem up and down the West coast. He also plans to conduct research in other areas.

Anyone wishing to voice ideas for workshops or be added to a mailing list for a Marine Advisory Newsletter may telephone or write Richards. In his main-based Santa Barbara office (P.O. Box 126, zip 93102), the phone number is 963-4269. Persons calling from San Luis Obispo may leave a message at his field office there, 543-1550, ext. 241.

Ventura area residents may telephone 648-6131, ext. 2284. The project also puts out information packages, including a Directory of services for Mariners (California and Hawaii), fishing business management, cost sheets for commercial trawlers and crabbers, medical care for commercial fisherman, fishery loans, storage techniques and the newsletter. Recreational and education in the schools pamphlets also are available. Bringing oceanography to the classroom is something Richards said he hopes to do after he has become settled.

Cooking, tide pooling and other interest areas for young people will be offered in programs as well. Dewees has been affiliated with recreational projects in California including rearing salmon for San Francisco Bay and building an artificial reef which was placed off Santa Barbara. Other such projects may be instituted here. Richards is looking to the future in each of his areas of responsibility and said he hopes to establish himself as an integral part of the tri-counties and a person to whom everyone can go when in need of marine-related information. Hy KA Till PKOPI.KS Times Staff Writer SANTA BARBARA Land advisors have been around for a long time in California, where production of food and fiber from the ground is a major part of commerce.

Today, as the United States looks to the sea for more and more commodities, the need for a marine advisor in the coastal area has become apparent. John Richards has been named to fill a newly established marine advisor position for Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties. This first-time position is funded by the federal government through Sea Grand, a University of California cooperative agricultural extension service. "It's like land grant only with marine products," Richards said. Richards' job is to "identify local problems and try to solve them educationally," said Christopher M.

Dewees, California stale extension marine sources specialist. "One to one contact with fisherman on the docks and by mail and telephone will be a main part of the job." Dewees said. A U.C.S.B. graduate in zoology, the new marine advisor also plans to work with sports fisherman, consumers, educators, youth groups, fish processors and others interested in marine resources and related subjects. Richards will work "to provide information to help others make decisions" in marine related disputes and will try "to get both sides together to talk problems out," Dewees said.

Although based in Santa Barbara, Richards will split his time equally among the three counties. "I'll go where the action is and spend blocks of time in San Luis Obispo and Ventura to assure devoting one-third of my time to each county," he said. Since assuming the responsibilities for the position, Johnny Daniel Juarez, 35, plead innocent in superior court Tuesday to charges of selling heroin and possession of the drug. A criminal readiness and settlement conference was set for April 2, and a motion that Juarez be released on his own recognizance was denied. He was among 13 persons arrested by county narcotics task force agents on heroin sales charges Jan.

29. Raymond Robert Duranzo, 64, Fresno, was sentenced to a minimum of five years in state prison Tuesday in superior court. Probation was denied. Durazo plead guilty to a robbery charge in January. He was arrested by Santa Maria police in December on suspicion of robbing an Arroyo Grande woman of her purse at knifepoint in the 200 block of South Broadwav.

He oops ti A pancake breakfast to benefit St. Joseph. High School king and queen candidates Claire San-i filippo and John Donati will take i place Sunday. Breakfast will be served from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

i in St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church parish hall. Cost will be $1.50 for adults and $1 for children less than 12 years 8 I old- I $: Barbecued chicken, beans, $. salad and french bread will be sold to benefit St. Joseph High I School king and queen can- didates Claire Sanfilippo and John Donati today from noon to 5 8 p.m.

in front of Security Pacific iji National Bank, South Broadway. i Cost will be $2.50 per plate. For delivery persons may telephone Sanfilippo, 7-5129, or Donati, 5- 6959. A story in Friday's Times 8 listed incorrect days for the I events. Cafeterias have new prices here SANTA MARIA New prices will take effect Monday for cafeteria meals in the Santa Maria Elementary School District.

Prices will be 50 cents for children's meals, 20 cents for children's reduced price meals, 5 cents for children's milk (half-pint size only), 90 cents including tax for adults' meals and 15 cents including tax for adults' milk (one-third of a quart). Asst. Supt. Rodney G. Rojas said the changes will be the first step making the cafeteria program self-supporting.

Rojas said that state legislation now permits use of Meals for Needy Students Fund monies to assist in cafeteria-related office expenses. Rojas said there is a .05 cafeteria override assessment which the district can levy to help finance the operation. ir i 4r 1. News in brief Bombings SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Terrorists have claimed responsibility for two bombs that exploded in San Francisco and in Palo Alto, causing about $80,000 damage but no injuries. The first blast Friday caused damage at an unoccupied recreation room at a San Francisco Housing Authority building and the second, more powerful, device did $75,000 damage to a laboratory at the Hewlitt-Packard plant in Palo Alto.

Entrenched MOSCOW (UPI) 'General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and the elderly men who have ruled the Soviet Union for more than a decade are more firmly entrenched than ever. Only Agriculture Minister Dmitry Polyansky lost his place in the ruling all-male Politburo the price he had to pay for a disastrous 140 million-ton grain harvest last year. Polyansky, 58, who remains as agriculture minister, took on the job in 1973 in which, as one diplomat said, "no one can look good." He also kept his place on the Central Committee. Abolished LONDON (UPI) Britain has abolished the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, a move that threatened to provoke renewed violence in the embattled province. The 78-member convention was abolished Friday after majority Protestants successfully blocked the minority Roman Catholic community from any role in a government of Northern ireland.

Northern Ireland political leaders, who had urged Britain to continue the convention, predicted a new upsurge of violence by gunmen on both sides. Light bulb WASHINGTON (UPI) A newly invented light bulb the government is helping prepare for the market promises consumers lower electric bills, fewer burned fingers and vastly increased convenience. Energy Research and Development Administration officials said the bulb will use about 70 per cent less power and may bum up to 10 years. -oyiJ33 WALT ROSEBROCK Publisher WILLIAM S. THOMAS Executive Editor DICK COSGROVE Advertising Director JERRY BYRNE Circulation Manager DON A.

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Janice Edwards, police said, was driving in the Preisker area about 2:27 a.m.- Thursday when a man in another car rammed her car, causing it to run off the road. When Edwards got out of her car, said police, the man struck her in the face. She underwent surgery at Marian Hospital. Police said the man is a former acquaintance of Edwards..