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    "ocrText": "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\nDigital Library Collections\nThis is a PDF of a folder from our textual\ncollections.\nCollection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers,\n1966-74: Press Unit\nFolder Title: Press Releases - November 1967\nBox: P8\nTo see more digitized collections visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library\nTo see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories\nvisit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection\nContact a reference archivist at: [email protected]\nCitation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing\nNational Archives Catalogue:\nhttps://catalog.archives.gov/\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-1-67\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the State\nof California will offer a $1,000 reward for information leading to the\narrest and conviction of the person responsible for the killing of Police\nOfficer Robert H. Keller in Huntington Park October 5, 1967.\nThe action by the Governor is authorized under Section 1547 of the\nPenal Code in cases where a police officer, acting in the line of duty,\nis killed or assaulted with a deadly weapon, or by means of force likely\nto produce serious bodily harm.\nIt was requested by the City Council of Huntington Park.\nOfficer Keller was killed while attempting to apprehend a burglar\nin a Huntington Park store. He had been employed by Huntington Park for\n15 months prior to his death.\nKeller, 25, was married and had a 4 month old daughter.\n# # #\nJAK/588\nOF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, Californi\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.1.67\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSACRAMENTO--Governor Ronald Reagan today continued the stay of\nexecution of Robert Lee Massie through Nov. 14, 1967.\nMassie's execution had previously been stayed so he could be avail-\nable as a witness in the murder trial of John Robert Vetter in Los\nAngeles County, as requested by Vetter's attorneys.\nVetter's trial is still continuing, and the Governor said he had\nlengthened the stay to insure Massie's availability should further\ntestimony be required, or his presence be needed in any way to afford\na fair trial.\nThe Governor's Legal Affairs Secretary, Edwin Meese III, had con-\nferred with the Los Angeles Superior Court judge trying the case and\nwith the Attorney General's office, and said all officials have\nagreed on this course of action.\nMassie, 25, was convicted in Los Angeles Superior Court of the\nfirst degree murder of Mrs. Mildred Weiss during an armed robbery\non Jan. 7, 1965.\nPB/589\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-1-67\nSacramento--Gov. Ronald Reagan today announced that he will\ndeclare a state of disaster in Southern California Counties affected\nby recent major fires where such action is requested and justified.\nGov. Reagan has been asked to make such a declaration by\nLegislators and Boards of Supervisors from Los Angeles, Orange and\nSan Diego Counties.\nCharles Sampson, Director of the California Disaster Office,\nwill contact the Chief Administrative Officer of each county to\nverify these requests.\nGov. Reagan also announced that he will call a special session\nof the Legislature, concurrent with the one beginning November 6,\nto consider legislation affording tax relief to fire damage victims.\nThe special call was requested by Orange County officials.\nA Constitutional provision adopted in 1964 permits the Legisla-\nture to authorize Boards of Supervisors and other local taxing\nagencies to provide for reassessment of property damaged by fires\nor other catastrophes.\nThe proclamation calling the special session will be issued\nearly next week.\n# # #\nJAK/590\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nCacramento, Californi\nContact:\nPaul Bec..\n445-4571\n11.2.67\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today announced a new program to\ncoordinate and control the State's massive and extensive automatic data\nprocessing operations.\nThe Governor signed an executive order establishing the Office of\nManagement Services. It will consist of a small group of skilled data\nprocessing specialists under the direction of a management coordinator.\nThe coordinator will be named shortly. The office will be under\nthe jurisdiction of the Secretary of Business and Transportation,\nGordon Luce.\nGovernor Reagan noted that the state now spends $34 million ann-\nually in data processing, which he said has been estimated as being\n$10 to $15 million too high.\n\"I am told that these short-range savings can be achieved within\ntwo to three years,\" the Governor said, adding: \"The new program will\nbe coordinated closely with the cities and counties of California to\nassist them in this ever-growing field.\"\nThe decision to set up the Office of Management Services was made\nafter extensive study of the state's current program by state officials\nand by members of the Governor's survey on Efficiency and Cost Control.\nThe Office of Management Services will be charged with developing\npolicy recommendations on data processing for approval by a new com-\nmittee--the State Automatic Data Processing Policy Committee. The\ncommittee will approve recommendations formulated and proposed by the\nOffice of Management Cervices.\nCommittee members are Lt. Governor Robert Finch, chairman; Earl\nCoke, Secretary of Agriculture; Norman B. Livermore, Secretary of\nResources; Spencer Williams, Secretary of Health and Welfare; Gordon\nP. Smith, Director of Finance; Andrew R. Lolli, Director of General\nServices, and two representatives of private industry. Representatives\nof the Legislature and other Constitutional Officers also will be\ninvited to join the committee.\n-1-\nUnder the plan, after the committee has approved policy recommenda-\ntions of the Office O₂ Management Services, the Lepartment of General\nServices will be charged with implementing the approved recommendations.\n\"We will lean heavily on Bob Finch to advise us on this ADP organi-\nzational concept since he has been working in this important area al-\nready,\" the Governor said.\nThe Office of Management Services will have these key functions:\n1--To develop plans for overall consolidation and optimum utiliza-\ntion of automatic data processing systems for state government.\n2--To work closely with and coordinate with the recently established\nIntergovernmental Board on Automatic Data Processing which was set up to\nwork with local governmental agencies.\n3--To serve as an advisor to the state on matters pertaining to\ninformation systems and data processing.\nGovernor Reagan said the short-range plan should be ready for the\napproval of the Committee before the end of the year. Development of\nthe long-range plan and implementation of the short-range plan will be\naccomplished at the same time.\n\"The Office of Management Services and the Policy Committee also\nwill be asked to develop recommendations on procedures to protect the\nright of privacy of the individual as to information which will be\ncontained in state computers. I fully support this important princi-\nple,\" the Governor said.\nIn signing the executive order, Governor Reagan said that there\nhas been a rapid advance in the technology of data processing and\n\"these advances offer an opportunity to improve the efficiency, res-\nponsiveness and economy of governmental activities.\n\"Many of the present-day functions of government require the\nstorage, manipulation and rapid retrieval of extremely large masses of\ndata. Applying ever-increasing numbers of people to these functions\nis very inefficient. We must apply the emerging technology of auto-\nmatic data processing to be both efficient and effective.\n\"Maximum benefits from this technology can only be obtained if all\nstate managers acquire knowledge of the capabilities of automatic data\nprocessing and seek ways to use it effectively in their areas of\n-2-\n\"Each department ..3ad is requested to give fall cooperation to the\nOffice of Management Services and also to take the initiative within\nhis own department in determining how automatic data processing can\nbe effectively applied.\n\"The State Personnel Board, together with all other departments of\nstate government, shall sponsor, encourage and conduct management and\ntechnical training programs in automatic data processing.\n\"The State Personnel Board is further charged with the responsibility\nfor continuing review of the recruitment, selection classification and\ncompensation of the personnel required for the highly complex and\nrapidly changing data processing requirements of state government,\"\nGovernor Reagan said.\nPB/591\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.2.67\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has accepted\nthe resignation of California Youth Authority Director Heman G. Stark,\neffective January 31, 1968.\nAllen F. Breed, Administrative Superintendent of the Northern\nCalifornia Youth Center in Stockton, was named as Stark's successor.\nHis appointment, which requires Senate confirmation, is for the un-\nexpired term ending March 15, 1968. He will receive $23,500 annually.\nIn a letter to Stark, Governor Reagan expressed regret at losing\nStark's \"wise counsel and dedicated leadership,\" and congratulated him\nfor an \"outstanding record of achievement and service to the people of\nCalifornia.\"\n\"The fact that the California Youth Authority is held in the high-\nest esteem,\" Governor Reagan continued, \"is a tribute to your creativity\nand administrative ability. This position of honor was confirmed by\nthe recognition afforded your organization in the Report of the\nPresident's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of\nJustice.\n\"On behalf of the people of the state of California, I extend\nour appreciation for your fine work.\"\nBreed, 47, a graduate of the University of the Pacific, joined the\nDepartment of Youth Authority in 1945 as a group supervisor for the\nStockton Arsenal Camp. A career civil servant, he has served as\nAssistant Chief of the Division of Institutions, Superintendent of the\nFricot Ranch School and Superintendent of the Preston School of Indus-\ntry. He was appointed to his current position in 1965.\nHe has worked as a consultant in juvenile corrections to the\nstates of Nevada and Alaska and the federal government.\nBreed, a Republican, is a member of the National Council on Crime\nand Delinquency and the National Assn. of Training Schools and\nJuvenile Agencies.\nAmong his other civic activities, he is a member of the board of\ndirectors of the Stockton YMCA and the Stockton Family Service Agency.\nHe is a member and licensed lay reader at St. Johns Episcopal Church,\nLodi.\nBreed, his wife and three children reside at 1410 Edgewood Drive,\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n445-4571\n11.2.67\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan has appointed Imperial City\nCouncilman James M. Bucher and Arthur Carver Bowen, a Glenville\nrancher, to the State Soil Conservation Commission, effective Nov. 8.\nThe appointments, which require senate confirmation, will expire\nMay 27, 1971. They will receive travel expenses.\nBucher, 36, succeeds Sam Chinn of Salinas. He is a Republican and\nwill be the cities' representative.\nBowen, 37, who was prominent in the formation of the Lake Isabel\nRecreation Commission, succeeds Frank J. Douglass of Vacaville as the\nrecreation representative. He is a Republican.\nJAK/593\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.2.67\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment\nof Robert W. Mintie, Los Angeles businessman, to the California Com-\nmission on Aging.\nMintie, 41, succeeds Dr. John F. Crouthamel, formerly of Ontario,\nwho resigned when he moved out of state. Mintie, a Republican, will\nserve at the pleasure of the Governor and will receive travel expenses.\nJAK/594\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.2.67\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today praised action by the\nHouse of Representatives in Washington which recognized California's\nneed for setting strict standards for the control of air pollution.\n\"Every member of this state's delegation to Congress and both\nSenators were behind California's determination to include a provi-\nsion in the Air Quality Act of 1967 which enables California to set\nand enforce standards stricter than those proposed for other areas\nof the nation,\" the Governor said.\n\"They are to be commended for their fight to help make Calif-\nornia's air clean and on behalf of the people of this state, I want\nto express my appreciation for the hard work and united front that\nCalifornia has presented in both the House and in the Senate.\n\"The pioneering advances that California has already made in\ncontrolling air pollution can now proceed and the citizens of this\nstate can be assured that we will continue to move forward to help\nsolve a major problem that poses a potential disaster to the people\nof this state.\n\"Now that the Congress has recognized the vital need for strict\nair pollution controls in California, I am hopeful that the state, the\nfederal government and the automobile industry will cooperate in\nhelping keep our air clean,\" Governor Reagan said.\nPB/595\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-3-67\nSacramento--Gov. Ronald Reagan has named Dr. Norman Nichols,\nMariposa County Health Officer, as the Board of Medical Examiners'\nRepresentative on the Fifth District Review Committee.\nNichols, 46, a Republican, succeeds Dr. John East, Merced.\nHis term will expire September 1, 1971 and he will receive $25\nper diem plus travel expenses.\nNichols is Chief of Staff of John C. Fremont Hospital,\nMariposa and a director of the Mariposa County Tuberculosis\nSociety.\n# # #\nJAK/596\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-3-67\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nNovember 6 - November 9, 1967\nMonday, November 6\n10:00 a.m.\nDepart Residence by car\n11:30 a.m.\nSpeech: California Grocers Association;\nAnaheim Convention Center\n12:00 Noon\nDepart Anaheim by car\n10:00 p.m.\nDepart Santa Monica Airport, chartered plane\n11:00 p.m.\nArrive Sacramento - (Old Airport)\nTuesday, November 7\n3:00 p.m.\nMeeting: Antonio T. Santos, Grand Master,\nand other members of Legionarios del Trabajo\nin America i Governor's office\n6:45 p.m.\nDinner: Republican Legislators; Sutter Club\nWednesday, November E,\n11:30 a.m.\nMeeting: Dr. Max Rafferty; Governor's office\n5:00 p.m.\nDepart Old Airport, chartered plane\n6:00 p.m.\nArrive Santa Monica Airport\n7:30 p.m.\nReception: California Institute of Technology;\nAmbassador Hotel, Los Angeles\n8:00 p.m.\nDinner and Speech: Embassy Room, Ambassador\nHotel. Black tie.\n10:30 p.m.\nDepart Santa Monica Airport, chartered plane\n11:30 p.m.\nArrive Old Airport, Sacramento\nThursday, November 9\n11:00 a.m.\nMeeting: Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, State\nTreasurer, Governor's office. 14 bonds\nissued under the 1909 India Basin Bond\nAct will be chosen for redemption.\n12:00 Noon\nLuncheon: Students from Buck Meadows school\n(Groveland, California); Governor's office.\n# # #\nJAK/597\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-6-67\nSacramento--Gov. Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment\nof Ed Gray as Assistant Press Secretary.\nGray, 32, a Republican, has been employed by Pacific Telephone\nin San Francisco as Employee Information Supervisor for the past\neight months.\nPrior to joining PT&T in Sacramento in 1963 he was a United\nPress International reporter in Madrid, Spain for two years.\nHe served as press representative to the Governor's inaugural\ncommittee in Sacramento, November, 1966 -- January, 1967.\nHe is a graduate of Modesto High School (1953) and Fresno\nState College (1957).\nGray is a past member of the Sacramento Press Club and the\nClub de Prensa in Madrid. He is also a member of the Commonwealth\nClub of California, San Francisco, and Sigma Delta Chi, national\njournalism fraternity.\nHe and his wife, Monique, reside in Concord (Contra Costa\nCounty). They have two children.\n# # #\nEG/598\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nCortact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-6-67\nSacramento--Gov. Ronald Reagan has named Ross Barrett, president\nof Foster and Kleiser Advertising in Los Angeles, and Thomas W.\nSefton, president of the San Diego Trust and Savings Bank, as members\nof the Intergovernmental Council on Urban Growth. They will serve\nfour year terms.\nThe council which serves as an advisory commission on inter-\ngovernmental relations to the Governor and the State Legislature,\nacts as a vehicle for the development of coordinated approaches to\nurban problems and assists in the formulation of urban policy.\nBarrett, a Reoublican, will serve as Council chairman. He is\nthe author of \"Executive Time Studies,\" a management training book\npublished by Prentice-Hall.\nPrior to joining Foster and Kleiser in May 1958, Barrett was\npersonnel vice president for the Byron Jackson Division of Borg-\nWarner, headquartered in Los Angeles. During World War II, he was\nassistant director of press, radio and advertising for the nation's\nfirst War Bond campaign.\nHe is affiliated with numerous civic and business organizations,\nincluding: The Boys' Clubs Foundation of Southern California, serv-\ning as president; Board of Trustees, Northrop Institute of Technology;\nBoard of Trustees, Mead Foundation; Board of Directors, Boys' Clubs\nof America; Advisory Council to the District Attorney, Los Angeles\nCounty; Board of Directors, Traffic Audit Bureau; Board of Governors,\nInstitute of Outdoor Advertising; Chairman's Advisory Council,\nOutdoor Advertising Association of America, Inc.\nSefton, a native San Diegan and a Republican, is a member of the\nAmerican Institute of Banking; is a past president of the Clearing\nHouse Association and presently a member of its Executive Committee,\nand is a member of the Bank Public Relations and Marketing Association.\n- 1 -\nCivic organizations in which he is active include: The San Diego\nSociety of Natural History, Army Navy Academy, San Diego Symphony\nOrchestra Association, San Diego Convention and Visitors' Bureau,\nthe Ambassadors' Club and San Diego Rotary Club.\nHe is president of the J. W. Sefton Foundation; was selected as\nSan Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce \"Boss of the Year\" in 1961, and\n\"Executive of the Year\", 1966-67 by the San Diego Chapter of the\nNational Secretaries Association.\nHe has also accepted invitations to serve as a director of the\nPacific Coast Banking School and as a member of the Board of Trustees\nof the Catalina Island School for Boys.\n# # #\nEG/599\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ:\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.7.67\nMembers of the newly formed State Park and Recreation Commission\nhave been appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan.\nThe nine appointments--which require Senate confirmation--were\nannounced in the wake of legislation (Senate Bill No. 1301) which\ncombined the State Park Commission and State Recreation Commission.\nThe appointees were drawn from among members of the two former\ncommissions.\nNamed to terms which expire January 15, 1968, were Darwin A.\nHolway who has served as president of the Park commission and Nicholas\nRoosevelt of the Recreation Commission. Both are Republicans. Holway,\na former president of the First Western Bank and Trust Company of\nLos Angeles, resides in Santa Barbara. Roosevelt, whose career has\nincluded roles as a newspaperman, author and diplomat, lives in Big Sur.\nDaniel D. Villaneuva, a Democrat who has been serving on the\nRecreation Commission and Margaret W. Owings of the Park Commission\nwere named to terms which expire January 15, 1969. Villaneuva, a\nformer Los Angeles Rams professional football player now with the\nDallas Cowboys, makes his off-season residence in Sepulveda. Mrs.\nOwings of Big Sur, was active in efforts aimed at preserving a 72-mile\nstrip of the Monterey coast for conservation purposes.\nDr. Horace Parker and Harold L. Zellerbach, both of whom have been\nserving on the Park commission, were appointed to terms ending\nJanuary 15, 1970. They are Republicans. Parker, a retired Balboa\nIsland veterinarian, has been active in conservation circles in the\ndesert area. He is a member of numerous conservation organizations,\nincluding the Sierra Club. Zellerbach, a Bay Area paper corporation\nexecutive, resides in San Francisco.\nAppointed to terms ending January 15, 1971, were Leah F. McConnell\nof Redding, Harry E. Sokolov of Beverly Hills, and Leonard S. Thomson\nof Taft, all Republicans.\nMrs. McConnell and Sokolov have served on the Recreation commission.\nThomson has been a member of the Park commission. Mrs. McConnell and\nher husband reside in Redding and operate the Shasta Ski Lodge.\nSokolov, an attorney, is executive assistant to Richard D. Zanuck, vice\npresident in charge of production at 20th Century Fox. Thomson is in\nthe stock brckerage business in Taft and formerly was associated with\nthe Honolulu Oil Corporation. He is a member of the Save-the-Redwoods-\nLeague, the Sierra Club and other outdoor and conservation groups.\n# # #\nEG/600\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.7.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has appointed Robert J. Daneri of Kings\nBeach,, Lake Tahoe, and Walter W. Rollins of Bishop to four-year terms\non the Regional Water Quality Control Board, Lahonton Region.\nBoth are Republicans.\nDaneri, a 41-year old businessman, is a member of the North Tahoe\nPublic Utilities District, North Tahoe Lions Club and Chamber of\nCommerce.\nRollins, 58, is serving his second two-year term as mayor of\nBishop, where he operates an electrical contracting business. He is\na district deputy governor of Lions International and a member of the\nBishop Chamber of Commerce.\nDaneri succeeds Francis Longo of Truckee. Rollins replaces\nDr. Victor H. Hough of Bishop.\n# # #\nEG/601\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO'\nRELEASE: Imme\nate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.7.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has appointed Dr. Dwight H. Murray, 40,\nof Napa to a four-year term on the District Review Committee for the\nFirst District, Board of Medical Examiners.\nThe first district generally covers the central and north coastal\nareas from San Benito County to Del Norte County. It was one of five\ndistricts created by the 1965 legislature.\nMurray, who succeeds Dr. John B. Schaupp of San Francisco, took\nhis internship and surgical training at the University of California\nand is presently on the University's San Francisco Medical School\nfaculty as an assistant professor of clinical surgery.\nHe is a Naval Reserve commander, attached to the Marine Corps.;\na member of the American College of Surgeons, the San Francisco\nSurgical Society and the Commonwealth Club of California.\nA Republican, Murray resides at 1084 Ross Circle, Napa. He and\nhis wife Jeanne have two teenage children.\nHe will receive $25 per diem, plus expenses.\n# # #\nEJG/602\n1. Establish a Department of Health Care Services and adopt a\nrevised organization plan designed to achieve the objectives\nof good management, consolidate related functions, improve\ncontrols and develop essential information.\n2. Revise the fiscal intermediary operations through redesigned\nfunctional specifications and require the maintenance of\ncurrent detailed operating procedures. Under the terms of\nnew contracts, the fiscal intermediaries should prepare, and\nthe Medi-Cal administrators should approve, operating proce-\ndures and manuals for both the internal operations of the\nintermediary and for instruction to service providers.\n3. Improve coordination and direction of the fiscal intermediaries\nand establish regular reporting conferences to be attended by\nsenior executives of the fiscal intermediaries and the state\nadministrators to review the status of operations and resolve\nmutual problems.\n4. Improve expense allocation and control procedures used by the\nfiscal intermediaries. Each fiscal intermediary should be\ndirected to adopt expense accounting procedures which clearly\nidentify and control all charges to Medi-Cal operations. A\ndetermined and concentrated effort is needed to reduce dupli-\ncation in the present processing operations and improve cost\ncontrol procedures.\n5. Revise management and fiscal control procedures of the program\nto provide current and adequate accounting and statistical data,\nincluding reports by types and date of service, case and\nrecipient experience data, experience reports for each pro-\nvider of service, and management information reports. Such\ninformation is not currently available and is essential for\neffective and efficient program management.\n6. Revise the eligibility and claim validation system to include\na uniform state-wide coding system to identify all eligible\npersons. Adopt use of a standard identification card\n(similar to the astic card used by retail nd service\ncompanies for credit transactions). The system would also\nhave an eligibility sticker attached to the back of the card\nto assure currency of eligibility status.\n7. Revise the claims processing system as outlined in a detailed\nreport, using more advanced principles of systems analysis,\ndesign and programming. Expand use of data processing equip-\nment in this high volume operation.\n8. Require that a vendor submit bills within 60 days from date of\nservice with provision for necessary exceptions. Change the\ninstructions and legislations which now allow the vendor to\nhave up to six months in which to submit bills for services\nrendered. The extended period now allowed makes it extremely\ndifficult to develop timely statistical and accounting data.\nIn addition, it contributes to the difficulties of eligibility\nverification and prevention of duplicate payments.\n9. Organize and conduct a continuous medical review of physicians\nand hospitals where statistical data shows significant devia-\ntions in patterns of medical practice from those generally\nrecognized and utilized.\n10. Negotiate individual \"usual and customary\" fee structures with\nphysicians. This procedure would provide a reasonable and\nrealistic control of high cost physicians and generally\nstabilize the cost of physicians services to the program.\n11. Control elective surgery available under the Medi-Cal program\nby making such surgery subject to prior review by state approved\nreview committees. There is substantial evidence of surgical\nprocedures in this category which do not appear to be within\nthe intended scope of Medi-Cal legislation.\n12. Review medical justification for \"long stay\" or extended care\nMedi-Cal patients in county and general hospitals to materially\nreduce unnecessary utilization of hospital benefits.\n13. Reduce the average length of stay in acute care hospitals through\nimproved controls, more reliable control data and by working\nclosely with the Hospital Assn. of California.\n14. Increase appropriate use of alternative facilities and services\nwhich can be used in place of acute and general hospital care\nthrough improved controls and closer surveillance.\n15. Improve hospital and nursing home operating efficiency by\nestablishing an \"Incentive and Sanction Fee\" plan for payment\nof claims to hospitals and nursing homes.\n16. Improve controls to assure enforcement of current Medi-Cal\nregulations on nursing home utilization and effect reduction\nin nursing home stays, making use of alternate type care.\n17. Revise formulary and regulations on prescription drugs and\nmedical supplies to reduce over-utilization, waste and ex-\ncessive costs currently being experienced by this program.\n18. Improve controls on dental service to reduce non-essential\nand duplicate services. Expand requirements for prior\nauthorization and provide state control over this function.\n19. Appoint state consultants to assume the responsibility for\nall Medi-Cal prior authorization and authorization functions\nto replace the County Consultants on Medi-Cal functions.\nSignificant improvements in control on utilization and over-\nspending in the program can be expected.\n20. Improve controls and revise guidelines on the issuance of eye\nglasses and hearing aids to eliminate unnecessary service and\nprevent duplications.\n21. Establish a program for rental rather than purchase of\nassistive devices such as wheel chairs, hospital beds, and\nother major appliances for home use as benefits of the program.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.7.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today outlined a series of recommendations\nhe has received to improve management and fiscal control of the Medi-\nCal program which are designed to produce \"substantial\" savings in its\noperation.\nThe recommendations--among the first to be made by the Governor's\nSurvey on Efficiency and Cost Control are being put into effect\nimmediately wherever possible. Other recommendations will be presented\nto the Legislature in January for action.\n\"These recommendations point the way to substantial savings in the\nMedi-Cal program which, as has been repeatedly pointed out, has\nexperienced serious financial difficulty,\" Governor Reagan said.\n\"This study greatly justifies my faith that the leaders of\nbusiness and industry in California can make major contributions to a\nmore efficient and economical state government.\n\"It is vital to the economic health and prosperity of California\nand its taxpayers that state government be conducted in a businesslike\nand economical manner. Only in this way can the taxpayers of this\nstate be assured that they are receiving full value for their money.\"\nIn accepting the recommendations from A. Kenneth Pryor, chairman of\nthe Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control, the governor\nthanked the volunteer businessmen's group for the 5,320 man-hours\ndedicated to the study since February 20.\nAdditional studies by the task force, composed of more than 200\ntop executives from private business and industry, are nearing completion\non subjects covering virtually all phases of state government.\nIn summarizing the recommendations, the survey report said:\n\"Implementation of these recommendations will result in cost savings\nto the Medi-Cal program primarily through improvements in the control\nand administration of the program.\n\"Since the amount of potential savings under the various recommend-\nations will depend to a large extent on the method and degree of\nimplementation, and due to the difficulty in relating estimated savings\namounts to specific recommendations without overlap, no specific dollar\namounts are being projected even though they will undoubtedly be\nsubstantial.\"\n-1-\nProposals recommended included negotiated fees for physicians,\ntight controls on elective surgery, reductions in Auspital and nursing\nhome stays, cuts in drug wastes, quicker billings, improved control\nprocedures by the fiscal intermediaries and creation of a Department\nof Health Care Services.\nThe governor said he intends to designate a person whose duties\nwill be to implement the recommendations and begin putting the Medi-Cal\nprogram on a sound basis. At the same time and as part of the\n\"Creative Society\" concept, an advisory group of experts will assist\nthose responsible for the program and its continued improvement.\nIn its report, the survey team said that when the Medi-Cal program\nwas conceived in 1965, massive problems of administration and operation\nwere either completely misunderstood or grossly underestimated. The\nprogram suffered from insufficient managerial experience, deficient\norganizational and operational planning, and the lack of reliable and\ntimely accounting and statistical data.\nThe Survey Team said the Medi-Cal program has experienced serious\nfinancial difficulty since its beginning.\n\"The program was inaugurated on a crash basis in the spring of\n1966 without an adequate management organization and without the\nestablishment of operational plans and properly designed systems and\nwithout recognition of the complexity and size of the program and its\ncosts.\n\"Partially as a result of the rapid increases in the number of\neligible recipients, utilization of the program and unit costs of\nservices, there has been a recurring series of major problems which\ntogether with the day-to-day administration placed a heavy burden on\nthe staff.\n\"Insufficient time and effort were available for planning, develop-\ning and implementing the necessary longer-range improvements to assure\nthat the program was brought under control and operated with reasonable\nefficiency.\"\nThe report noted that in recent months progress has been made in\n\"devising and installing controls designed to reduce utilization and\ncost\" but that for the most part, \"these devices are still too new to\nevaluate their effectiveness. Their principal shortcoming appears to\nlie in a piecemeal approach.\n\"The time has come to launch a comprehensive attack on all fronts,\nto develop a complete plan which will serve not only the needs of the\npresent, but also of the future.\n\"This attack will require an optimum combination of expertise and\nlatest available scientific business methods.'\nRecommendations for improvements are:\n(see attached)\n# # #\nPB/603\n-2-\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: J ediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.8,67\nThree Southern California municipal court judges--all Democrats--\nhave been appointed to Superior Court judgeships in Los Angeles County\nby Governor Ronald Reagan.\nThey are:\nMunicipal Judge Charles H. Woodmansee, 44, of the Los Angeles\nJudicial District.\nJudge Burch Donahue, 47, of the Inglewood Judicial District.\nJudge Francis X. Marnell, 46, of the San Antonio Judicial\nDistrict.\nThey succeed Judges Lloyd S. Nix, Donald A. Odell and Allen T.\nLynch who have retired.\nWoodmansee\nA 1951 graduate of the University of Southern California Law\nSchool, he also attended George Washington University Law School from\n1947-50.\nHe served as deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County from\n1952-57.\nWoodmansee was first appointed to the bench in 1957 as judge of the\njustice court, Malibu Judicial District, by the Los Angeles County\nBoard of Supervisors.\nAfter election to the same post the following year, he succeeded\nto the office of municipal court judge in Los Angeles as the result of\nannexation proceedings. He has been elected to that office ever since.\nHe is a member of the Santa Monica and Los Angeles County Bar\nAssociations; is a member of the Conference of California Judges\nCommittee on Liaison with the Press and Television; and was chairman of\nthe Los Angeles Municipal Court Building Committee in 1963.\nHe is married and has five children ranging in age from five to 20\nyears. Their residence is 172 Tigertail Road, Los Angeles.\nDonahue\nDonahue, 47, received his law degree in 1945 from the Loyola\nUniversity Law School in Los Angeles. He was engaged in general law\npractice in Inglewood until 1958 when he won election as municipal judge\nthere. L He was reelected without opposition in 1964.\n-1-\nHe is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity; the\nInglewood and South Bay Bar Associations; the Lay Advisory Board of\nDaniel Freeman Hospital; Alpha Sigma Nu, an honorary scholastic\nsociety; the Loyola University Athletic Board of Control; and the\nUniversity's 200 Club. He is also a past president of the Inglewood\n20-30 Club, and for 12 years was chairman of the Lennox-Inglewood March\nof Dimes.\nHe and his wife, Aileen, reside at 9706 11th Avenue, Inglewood.\nThey have four children, ages 22 to three and one half.\nMarnell\nMarnell, 46, is a 1950 graduate of the Loyola University Law\nSchool in Los Angeles. Following 10 years of private law practice in\nHuntington Park, he became commissioner for the San Antonio Judicial\nDistrict in 1961. In late 1961 he was elected a municipal judge in the\ndistrict and was reelected in 1964. For the past three years he has\nbeen presiding judge for the district.\nHis career has also included service as Huntington Park City\nProsecutor during an overall two-year period, and appointment as\nJudge Pro Tempore of the San Antonio Judicial District for civil and\nsmall claims by appointment of three judges. In 1957, he helped to\nform the Voluntary Public Defender's Office in the San Antonio Judicial\nDistrict to expedite indigent misdemeanor cases.\nHe is a member of the State Bar, Federal District Court Bar,\nSoutheast Bar Association, Knights of Columbus, Toastmasters Interna-\ntional, the Huntington Park Coordinating Council, the Phi Delta Phi\nLegal Fraternity and Phi Eta Sigma, National Honorary Scholastic\nFraternity.\nHe and his wife, Elaine, have six children. They reside at\n3467 Flower Street, Huntington Park.\nThey will each receive a $25,000 annual salary.\n# # #\nEJG/604\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-8-67\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nREVISED\nNovember 10-12\nFriday, November 10\n8:00 a.m. (pst)\nDepart Sacramento Municipal Airport\n(old Airport) by chartered jet\n10:00 a.m.\nArrive Boeing Field, Seattle\n10:30 a.m.\nArrive Olympic Hotel, Seattle. Proceed with\nGovernor Evans to second floor meeting room.\nPress availability.\n11:30 a.m.\nGovernors Reagan and Evans attend reception\nin Williamsburg Room, Olympic Hotel\n12:15 p.m.\nGOP fund raising luncheon in Grand Ballroom,\nOlympic Hotel\n1:45 p.m.\nLeave hotel for Boeing Field\n2:15 p.m.\nDepart for Portland, Oregon by chartered jet\n2:45 p.m.\nArrive Portland International Airport\n3:10 p.m.\nArrive Sheraton Motor Inn.\n3:15 p.m.\nPress Availability, Washington Room,\nSheraton Motor Inn\n6:40 p.m.\nReception, Grand Ballroom, Sheraton Motor Inn\n7:25 p.m.\nArrive Convention Hall, Memorial Coliseum\nGOP fund raising, Speech\nOvernight\nSheraton Motor Inn\nSaturday, November 11\n8:00 a.m.\nDepart Sheraton Motor Inn by car for Albany\n9:15 a.m.\nArrive Al Rey Motel, Albany.\n9:30 a.m.\nParade begins\n10:30 a.m.\nDismount at courthouse steps. Return to Motel\n12:30 p.m.\nDepart for Oregon State-USC football game\nby car at Corvallis Stadium\n1:05 p.m.\nArrive Stadium for pre-game ceremony and game.\n6:40 p.m.\nDepart Motel with Governor McCall for reception\nElks Lodge, Albany\n- 1 -\n7:20 p.m.\nDepart reception, Elks Lodge, drive to\nNorth Albany Junior High School for\nVeterans Day Program\n7:55 p.m.\nProgram begins. Distinguished Service Awards\nBanquet\n9:45 p.m.\nGovernor Reagan delivers Veterans Day Address\nOvernight\nAl Rey Motel\nSunday, November 12\n10:35 a.m.\nArrive McNary Field, Salem\n10:40 a.m.\nDepart McNary Field, chartered jet\n1:00 p.m.\nArrive Sacramento Municipal Airport (Old\nAirport)\n# # #\nEJG/605\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n445-4571\n11.8.67\nSacramento-- solution to the short-term financial problems of\nthe State Water Project was proposed today by Governor Ronald Reagan\nand legislative water leaders.\nThe proposal would require enactment of two bills which would\nmake an additional $64 million available for State Water Project con-\nstruction through 1972. This would enable the State Department of\nWater Resources to continue construction with minimum delay.\nAnnouncement of the plan followed a meeting Tuesday attended by\nGovernor Reagan, administration officials, Sen. Gordon Cologne, chair-\nman of the Senate Water Resources Committee, and Assemblyman Carley V.\nPorter, chairman of the Assembly Water Committee.\nThe proposed solution would not require additional appropriations\nduring the next two fiscal years, but would make the $64 million avail-\nable for construction over the next five years by the passage of two\nbills.\nUnder one, the $11 million annual appropriation of tideland oil\nand gas revenues, which now requires an equal sum in water bonds to be\nset aside for future facilities, would be transferred to the Central\nValley Water Project Construction Fund, without the bond reserve\nrequirement. The bill would carry an urgency clause.\nBy deleting the requirement for \"offset\" of bonds to a reserve\naccount, the Department of Water Resources estimates that an additional\n$22 million would be freed for construction in the next two years.\nThe current requirement for offset of Burns-Porter Act bonds will\nexpire about that time.\nThe second would provide that commencing with fiscal year 1970-\n71, the tideland oil and gas revenue appropriation to State Water\nProject construction would be increased from $11 million to $25 mil-\nlion, annually.\nThe increased deposit for State Water Project construction dur-\ning three fiscal years would add $42 million to available Project\nfunds.\n-1-\nThe plan would continue a reserve for construction contingencies,\nand for uncertainties associated with the Department's construction\nplans for the Peripheral Canal. Water Resources Director William R.\nGianelli has said that he considers a reserve to be \"absolutely nec-\nessary\".\nGov. Reagan said the plan is an acceptable answer to the short-\nterm problems of financing State Water Project construction through\n1972.\n\"If the Legislature adopts the two bills I will sign them into\nlaw,\" Reagan said. \"Ultimately, a supplemental bond issue probably\nwill be required to complete all facilities of the State Water Pro-\nject. But, it appears wise that we defer such a bond issue until the\nmagnitude of the long-range financial problem can be more accurately\npredicted.\"\nIn order to assure delivery of water to Southern California\nwater-contracting agencies on schedule, the Department had proposed\nto defer construction of 15 Project facilities which were not essen-\ntial to water delivery if additional funds could not be found.\nWhen the additional funds are assured, the Department of Water\nResources will review the 15 projects mentioned for deferral based\non priority recommendations made by the California Water Commission.\nPB/606\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.9.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has appointed Alfred J. Bonturi of\nHollister and Eugene E. Brendlin of San Luis Obispo to four-year terms\non the Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Coastal Region.\nThey replace Gabriel DeLeon of Arroyo Grande and Huber C. Hilton\nof Santa Clara.\nBonturi, 42, an orchard farmer, is a director of the California\nCanners and Growers, a director of the local Sunsweet organization, a\npast president of the San Benito County Farm Bureau and a former\nchairman of the local Soil Conservation District. He resides at\n600 Orchard Road, Hollister.\nBrendlin, 56, is president of the Brendlin Rice Company in\nSanta Maria, a director of Atascadero Guarantee Savings and Loan\nAssociation, president of the Atascadero Water District, manager of\nthe California State Polytechnic College Foundation, a past president\nof the Atascadero Rotary Club, and a member of the South San Joaquin\nRegional Health Planning Committee of the Commonwealth Club. He is\nalso a former teacher of vocational agriculture. He resides at\n5520 Vida Street, Atascadero.\nBonturi and Brendlin are Republicans. They will receive necessary\nexpenses while on official duty.\n####\nEJG/607\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.9.67\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nThe Governor's Council Meeting will be held as scheduled on\nThursday, November 9, at 3:00 p.m. in the Governor's council room.\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.10.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today urged Californians to observe\nDiabetes Week November 12-18 by having themselves and their families\ntested for the disease.\nIn a statement, the governor said:\n\"Because early detection of diabetes can, in most cases, enable\npersons with this disease to continue to lead active, productive lives,\nI urge all Californians to have themselves and their families tested\nfor it. The test is simple and quick. Of the millions of people in\nour country who have diabetes, some 1,600,000 are not even aware of\ntheir condition. 11\n# # #\nEJG/508\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-10-67\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nNovember 13-17,1967\nMonday, November 13\nNo public appointments at this time\nTuesday, November 14\n9:30 a.m.\nPress conference\n5:00 p.m.\nDepart Sacramento by car for San Francisco\n6:15 p.m.\nArrive Red Room, Bohemian Club, San Francisco,\nDinner - California State Bar Board of\nGovernors\nOvernight\nSacramento\nWednesday, November 15\n2:00 p.m.\nMeeting with John Reading, Mayor of Oakland,\nGovernor's office\n2:45 p.m.\nPicture with Mike Drakulich, YMCA Youth\nGovernor - Governor's office\nThursday, November 16\n3:00 p.m.\nDepart Sacramento Airport (old Airport) for\nSanta Monica\n4:00 p.m.\nArrive Santa Monica - proceed to Biltmore\nHotel\n7:30 p.m.\nProceed to Reception for Youth Opportunities\nFoundation Scholarship Fund Banquet\n8:00 p.m.\nDinner - Speech (Black Tie optional)\nOvernight\nLos Angeles\nFriday, November 17\n8:30 a.m.\nDepart for Camarillo State Hospital\n10:00 a.m.\nArrive hospital for meeting of the California\nCouncil for Retarded Children and tour\n11:30 a.m.\nDepart hospital\n6:45 p.m.\nDepart Santa Monica Airport for Palm Springs\n7:15 p.m.\nArrive Palm Springs Airport - proceed to\nHoliday Inn Riviera\n7:30 p.m.\nArrive Mediterranean Room Patio for reception\nprior to Riverside-San Bernardino fund raiser\n8:00 p.m.\nDinner - Speech\n9:45 p.m.\nDepart Hotel for Palm Springs Airport\n10:00 p.m.\nDepart for Santa Monica Airport\n10:30 p.m.\nArrive Santa Monica\nOvernight\nLos Angeles\n# # #\nPB609\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Imm_diate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.13.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Donald F. Pinkerton of\nFairfield to the Technical Coordinating Committee of the State Water\nQuality Control Board.\nPinkerton, a 35-year-old Fairfield city councilman operates a\nhardware firm.\nA Republican, he was chosen \"outstanding young man of the year\nfor 1964\" by the Fairfield-Suisun Junior Chamber of Commerce.\nIn 1965, he received Solano County's first \"Friend of 4H\" award.\nHe is a past president of the Fairfield-Suisun Chamber of Commerce,\nand is a member of the Solano County Farm Bureau, the Elks and Kiwanis\nClubs, and Moose Lodge.\nHe succeeds Kerry N. Mulligan of St. Helena.\nThe appointment provides for necessary travel expenses.\n# # #\nEJG/610\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO.\nRELEASE: Im. diate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.13.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has appointed Harry Crebbin of Yreka and\nGeorge A. Dinsmore of Fortuna to four-year terms on the North Coast\nRegional Water Quality Control Board. Both are Republicans.\nThey succeed George L. Deck of Santa Rosa and J. Dwight O'Dell\nof Fortuna.\nCrebbin, 62, is manager of the Yreka Chamber of Commerce,\nsecretary of the Yreka Planning Commission, secretary for the Inter-\nCounties Chamber of Commerce of Northern California, and secretary of\nthe Associated Chamber of Commerce of Siskiyou County. He resides at\n610 Jackson Street, Yreka.\nDinsmore, 37, has been general manager of the Humboldt Bay\nMunicipal Water District since September. Previously, he served ten\nyears as Fortuna's director of public works and city administrative\nofficer. He is a member of the Humboldt County Civil Service Commission,\nHumboldt Bay Development Commission and the Eel River Water Association.\nA native of Humboldt County, Dinsmore and his family reside at 1130\nVista Drive, Fortuna.\nThe appointments provide for necessary travel expenses.\n# # #\nEJG/611\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-14-67\nSacramento--Gov. Ronald Reagan today announced a major breakthrough\nin his continuing efforts to secure legislative approval of a plan to\npermanently take the selection of judges out of politics.\nThe \"Judicial Selection Plan\" to be introduced in the Legislature\nearly next year represents complete agreement between the Administra-\ntion, the State Bar and the Judicial Council of California.\n\"I am very hopeful this plan will receive quick and favorable\naction from the Legislature,\" the governor said.\n\"As you know, one of my campaign pledges was aimed squarely at\ntaking the appointment of judges out of politics. Plans were submitted\nat the last legislative session by both this Administration and the\nState Bar, but legislative approval was not forthcoming.\n\"Now, however, we have agreed on a unique plan of action that\nassures the people of California that only those who are qualified will\nbe named to the bench. No longer will judicial selections be deter-\nmined on the basis of partisanship.\n\"I want to thank the State Bar and the Judicial Council for work-\ning with us in developing this plan for the benefit of all Californians.\"\nUnder the plan, a six-member commission would be created to\nnominate candidates for appellate court judgeships. This commission\nwould be composed of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who\nwould serve as chairman; one Superior Court judge appointed by the\nGovernor: two lawyers appointed by the State Bar, and two laymen\nappointed by the Governor.\nFor trial court judges, five six-member commissions would be\ncreated--one in each Appellate Court District. These commissions\nwould be composed of a justice of the District Court of Appeal\nelected by his colleagues who will serve as chairman: one Superior\nCourt judge appointed by the Governor; two lawyers appointed by the\nState Bar and two laymen appointed by the Governor.\n- 1 -\nEach trial court commission would be supplemented by up to two\nadvisory members who would not have a vote. The advisory members\nwould consist of a representative of a local bar association who\nwould be chosen by the governing body of that local association; and,\nif the Superior Court judge who is a regular member of the commission\nis not from the county where the vacancy occurs, a judge of that\ncounty designated by the Governor.\nIf there is more than one recognized bar association in the\ncounty, the bar association to be asked to supply the representative\nwill be designated from time to time by the commission itself.\nAll commission members, except the Chief Justice, would serve\nfour-year staggered terms. They would be paid necessary expenses.\nEach commission would submit three names to the Governor for\neach judicial vacancy. However, for Superior Courts in counties with\na population exceeding 700,000, five names would be submitted to the\nGovernor for each vacancy. The Governor would then select the\njudicial appointee from the names submitted by the commissions.\n# # #\nPB/612\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO...\nRELEASE: Imme late\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.14.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has proclaimed\nthe week beginning November 12 as RETARDED CHILDREN'S WEEK. The\nproclamation follows:\nWHEREAS\nMental retardation is not a disease but an\nimpairment of the mind, characterized by less\nthan normal intellectual development; and\nWHEREAS\nMany mentally retarded persons can adjust to\nsociety and develop skills which can enable\nthem to lead productive lives; and\nWHEREAS\nBecause of the great demands on government's\nlimited resources, we must continue to ask\nthe independent sector for assistance in deal-\ning with this problem; and\nWHEREAS\nPublic knowledge and understanding of this\nserious affliction are imperative if we are to\nfind solutions for the prevention of mental\nretardation and the education of its victims;\nand\nWHEREAS\nDuring November the California Council for\nRetarded Children and seventy local units of\nthe National Association for Retarded Children\nare carrying on an educational campaign;\nNOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do\nhereby proclaim the period beginning November 12 as Retarded\nChildren's Week and urge the citizens of California to parti-\ncipate SO as to learn what they can do to assist the victims\nof mental retardation.\n# # #\nJAK/613\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-14-67\nSacramento--Gov. Ronald Reagan today appointed five Southern\nCalifornians to the Superior Court bench in Los Angeles County.\nFour of the judicial posts were created by the 1967 State\nLegislature.\nNamed were:\nMax F. Deutz, 50, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of\nPollock and Deutz since 1962.\nRobert Firth, 49, for the past 12 years a member of the Pomona\nLaw firm of Nichols, Stead, Boileau and Lamb.\nJohn H. Rice, 58, a Democrat and a partner in the Los Angeles\nlaw firm of Wright, Wright, Tolton and Rice.\nLloyd S. Davis, 52, assistant county counsel, Los Angeles, since\n1966.\nJames F. Healey, Jr., 53, a Los Angeles attorney\nDeutz, Firth, Davis and Healey are Republicans.\nDavis succeeds Judge Philbrick McCoy who has retired.\nThe appointments pay $25,000 annual salary.\nDeutz\nA 1941 graduate of the University of Southern California Law\nSchool, he has for the past five yearsspecialized in civil litigation\nin State and federal courts, particularly business disputes and land\nslide and land subsidence matters. He has been admitted to practice\nbefore the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Claims, U.S. Tax Court,\nU.S. Customs Court, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, U.S.\nCourt of Military Appeals, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the\nU.S. District Court.\nDeutz went to work as a law clerk to Chief U.S. District Judge\nPaul J. McCormick of Southern California in 1942. He served as\nAssistant U.S. Attorney from 1947-53, and was chief of the civil\ndivision from 1953-57. He became Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney in\nFebruary 1957 until his move to private practice in 1962. He was a\nmember of the legal department of the Forest Lawn Company for one\n- 1 -\nyear prior to becoming a partner in Pollock and Deutz.\nHe is a member of the State Bar, Los Angeles County Bar Associa-\ntion, American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, National\nLawyers Club, American Judicature Society, American Society of Inter-\nnational Law, the National Council of Juvenile Court Judges, and in\n1966, was president of the University of Southern California's Legion\nLex. He is a past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the\nFederal Bar Association, a past chairman of special local administra-\ntive committee number 2 of the State Bar and is currently a member\nof its committee on Federal Courts. He is also a past chairman of\nthe Los Angeles Bar Association's Committee on Federal Rules and\nPractice.\nHe resides at 2417 Nottingham Avenue, Los Angeles.\nFirth\nA 1948 Harvard Law School graduate, he has served for approxi-\nmately 10 years on various administrative committees of the California\nState Bar, both as a member and chairman. He is a lecturer on legal\nethics for \"Bridging the Gap,\" a series for newly licensed attorneys\nsponsored jointly by the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the\nLos Angeles Daily Journal. He is a member of the American Bar\nAssociation, Los Angeles County Bar Association and Pomona Valley\nBar Association.\nAfter being admitted to law practice in California in 1949, he\njoined the legal staff of Meserve, Mumper and Hughes, and the Fluor\nCorp.\nIn 1950, he joined the Pomona legal firm of Nichols, Cooper and\nHickson, predecessor to his present firm.\nHe is married and has three children ranging in age from 12 to\n21 years. He and his family reside at 1105 Oak Knoll Drive, Pomona.\nRice\nA 1935 graduate of Yale Law School, Rice was engaged in private\npractice in Pennsylvania prior to joining the Reconstruction Finance\nCorp. in Washington in 1938 where he served as counsel in connection\nwith the Rubber Reserve Program. He later became general Counsel.\nHe and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1948 where he became Regional\nCounsel for the Reconstruction Finance Corp. In 1950, he returned to\nprivate practice in Los Angeles. - 2 -\nOrganizations to which he belongs include the Los Angeles County Bar\nAssociation and the State Bar.\nHe is married and has two children. They reside at 475\nBellefontane Avenue in Pasadena.\nDavis\nDavis is a 1939 graduate of Stanford Law School. He has been\nadmitted to practice before the State Supreme Court and U.S. District\nCourt.\nHewas Deputy County Counsel in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1963,\nwas Chief Trial Deputy between 1963 and 1966, and has served as\nAssistant County Counsel since June of 1966.\nHe is a member of the State Bar, the Los Angeles County Bar\n=\nAssociation, and the Association of the Southern California Defense\nCounsel.\nHe served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Trial\nLawyers Section of the Los Angeles Bar Association between 1965 and\n1967. He has been a member of the Local Government Committee of the\nLos Angeles Bar Association since 1965. For the past five years he\nhas served on the Committee on Standard Jury Instructions, Civil,\nof the Los Angeles County Superior Court.\nDavis is married and has four children, ages nine through thir-\nteen. They reside at 2016 Edgewood Drive, South Pasadena.\nHealey\nHe received his law degree in 1942 from Southwestern University.\nHe was admitted to legal practice in California four years later. He\nhas also been admitted to practice before federal courts and the U.S.\nSupreme Court.\nHealey is a member of the American Bar Association, State Bar,\nLos Angeles County Bar Association, the Law Society and Chancery Club.\nHe is a past president of the Southwest Los Angeles Bar. Healey is\nalso a past commander of the Wm. D. Hawkins Post of the American Legion,\nand is currently a member of the organizations Allied Post.\nHe is married and resides at 5316 Harcourt Avenue, Los Angeles.\n- 3 -\n# # #\nEJG/614\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Imm iate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.14.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today signed a proclamation adding to\nitems that may be considered at the special session of the legislature\na proposal that would correct a technical error in the state income tax\nlaw.\nThe governor said he was expanding the special session so that\nthe legislature may correct a \"serious loophole\" in state income tax\nprovisions that created unintended benefits for a large number of\ntaxpayers.\nGovernor Reagan emphasized, however, that he will not approve\nof any other legislation which would affect California's tax laws\nexcept a law to correct the technical error.\nThe technical error, the governor said, poses a serious threat\nto state revenues. Martin Huff, executive officer of the State Fran-\nchise Tax Board, said it is difficult to estimate the revenue loss\ninvolved.\nThe problem in the existing tax law can be corrected for the\nincome year 1967 if it is passed by the legislature, signed by the\ngovernor and filed with the Secretary of State\nHowever, corrective legislation is needed immediately, the\ngovernor said, because serious administrative problems would result\ninvolving lead time required for form redesigning, printing and\ndistribution after the corrections are made.\nIn addition, the processing of assessment notices on returns\nfiled on the present basis would represent an additional administrative\nburden and failure to correct the law would pose more problems for\ntaxpayers filing their returns.\nThe law change is needed because adoption of the new \"tax credit\"\nsystem changed the definition of taxable income to eliminate the inclu-\nsion of personal exemptions and dependent credits as a deduction from\ngross income.\nThe income averaging provision of the personal income tax law\nrefers to \"taxable income.\" The changes made earlier this year by the\nlegislature drastically affected the eligibility to use the income\naveraging provisions, allowing many more individuals to minimize their\ntaxes.\nGovernor Reagan, in urging the legislature to correct the\ntechnical flaw, noted that it was an inadvertent error made when the\nincome tax law was revised by the 1967 session of the legislature.\n# # #\nPB/615\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNC\nRELEASE: Imi. liate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.15.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today praised delegates to the\nCalifornia State Employees Association convention in Los Angeles for\ndefeating a bid to remove a no-strike pledge from the organization's\nconstitution.\nIn a statement, the governor said:\n\"I am immensely pleased by the delegates' overwhelming vote to\nkill a resolution that would have removed their no-strike pledge.\nThe decision once again confirms the high degree of dedication and\nsense of responsibility our state employees bring daily to their\ntasks as servants of the people of California.\n\"By expressing themselves so decisively on such an important\nmatter, the delegates have clearly demonstrated that the best interests\nof our citizens is the first interest of state employees. As public\nservants, our continuing commitment must be to the smooth functioning\nof government. As holders of a public trust, the people of California\ndepend on us to provide state services without interruption. This\ndecision reaffirms the determination of our employees to assure that\nthis principle is just as valid today as ever. Again, let me express\nto the delegates my great admiration for this action.\"\n# # #\nEJG/616\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSa cramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445 - 4571 11.15.67\nThe state is taking steps to aid the Department of Defense\nin eliminating racial discrimination in housing available to\nmilitary personnel in California, it was announced today.\nRepresentatives of the State Fair Employment Practice\nCommission, which administers California's fair housing law, met\nwith commanders of all Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine bases in\nthe state last week to work out means of implementing the far-\nreaching federal order which requires all off-base housing\naccommodations for servicemen to be offered on an equal opportunity\nbasis.\nUnder the order, issued earlier this year by Secretary of\nDefense Mc Namara, military commanders have already surveyed all\nliving accommodations near their bases containing five or more\nunits to determine those available without discrimination.\nBase commanders have been instructed to confer with land-\nlords reluctant to adopt open housing policies.\nDuring four days of meetings (Nov. 6 - 9) with 300 top-\nlevel military personnel, including major base commanders in\nSan Diego, Long Beach, Sacramento and San Francisco, F.E.P.C.\ncommissioners and staff discussed procedures the state agencies\nwill follow in supporting the military anti-discrimination program.\nF.E.P.C. Executive Officer Peter R. Johnson said the\nF.E.P.C. \"will work in special, affirmative ways to assist military\ncommanders in educating, informing, conferring with, and otherwise\npositively approaching those landlords whose units at present are\nnot, for whatever reason, open on an equal opportunity basis.'\nThe Department of Defense indicated that California is\nan anti-discrimination target area because of its high concentration\nof military personnel - 102,000 families living off-base.\nF.E.P.C. Commissioners appearing at the four meetings were\nMrs. Stella Sandoval, John Anson Ford and C.D. Dellums. Represent-\ning Secretary McNamara were Department Under-Secretary Jack\nMoskowitz and It, Gen. J. P. Lampert.\n####\nPB 617\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.15.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has named Morton Colvin of San Rafael\nas chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board. The appoint-\nment becomes effective December 1.\nHe replaces William Kaplan as chairman. Kaplan will remain\nas a board member.\nColvin, a 43-year-old Republican, was appointed to a four-year\nterm on the board by Governor Reagan February 1. He had served as a\ntrial referee on the board from October 1962 until the appointment.\nFrom 1960 to 1962 he was area counsel for the Department of\nAlcoholic Beverage Control and for two years prior to that served\nas law enforcement coordinator with the State Division of Forestry.\nFrom 1950 until he entered state service, he was engaged in\ngeneral law practice in San Anselmo and San Rafael.\nA native of San Francisco, Colvin received his LL.B from\nHastings College of Law of the University of California and was\nadmitted to the State Bar in 1949.\nColvin is married and has three children.\nBoard members receive an annual salary of $25,000.\n# # #\nEJG/618\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.17.67\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nNovember 20-26\nMonday, November 20\nNoon\n-Lunch with Jewish leaders at Jewish Federation\nBuilding, 590 North Vermont, Los Angeles\n6:00 P.M.\nReception for Assemblyman Campbell at California\nCountry Club, 1509 South Workman Mill Road,\nWhittier\n7:30 P.M.\nDepart for Los Angeles Airport\n8:25 P.M.\nDepart Los Angeles Airport for Sacramento\nMetropolitan Airport, PSA Flight #789\n9:30 P.M.\nArrive Sacramento\nTuesday, November 21\n3:15 P.M.\nPicture with Senator Lagomarsino presenting\nsurfing plaque, Governor's Office\n4:00 P.M.\nPresentation by Sen. Harmer of 60-pound turkey\nWednesday, November 22\n10:30 A.M.\nTour of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory,\nLivermore\n2:00 P.M.\nDepart for Oakland Airport\n2:40 P.M.\nDepart Oakland Airport for Los Angeles, PSA\nFlight #248\n3:40 P.M.\nArrive Los Angeles Airport\nThursday, November 23 - Sunday, November 26\nNo public appointments scheduled\nSunday, November 26\n4:40 P.M.\nDepart Los Angeles Airport for Sacramento\nMetropolitan Airport, Western Airlines #658\n5:40 P.M.\nArrive Sacramento\n# # #\nEJG/619\nOffice of the Governor\n(ELEASE:\nimmediate\nsacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n45-4571\n11.20.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan expressed \"disappointment\" today over\na California Supreme Court ruling which in effect requires the state\nto eliminate 160,000 medically indigents, mostly aged, from the\nMedi-Cal program.\nThe court ruling shifts care of these persons to the counties\nand will cost the state $70,000,000 in federal funds.\nGovernor Reagan said the court \"which has substituted its\npolicy views for those of our medical experts, must now bear the\nburden for disruption of the Medi-Cal program.\"\nThe governor said he is exploring with legislative leaders the\nadvisability of calling a special session of the Legislature to find\nmeans of resolving the problem.\n\"Even though we haven't yet had an opportunity to fully study\nall the ramifications of the decision,\" the governor said, \"I regret\nto say that it appears from a first reading that the ruling will\nseriously jeopardize our ability to provide life-saving medical care\nfor the needy.\"\nGovernor Reagan said that in view of the court order, it is now\nup to the Legislature to find a way for the state to run the program\nwithin existing funds if we are to avoid eliminating life-saving\nservices to the medically indigent.\nThe regulations issued by the administration, he said, were\ndesigned to provide the maximum in life-saving services and without\ncutting people out of the program. These regulations, he added, were\ncarefully drafted after a study by the 11-member health review and\nprogram council.\nThe governor noted that in his dissenting opinion, Justice\nMarshall McComb accused the court of invading the powers of the\nexecutive and legislative branches.\nJustice McComb said, \"It is not the business of this court to\npronounce policy,\" and the \"Constitution does not authorize the court\nto sit in judgment on the wisdom of the actions of the legislative\nand executive branches.\"\n-1-\nJustice Louis H. Burke agreed with Justice McComb in a\nseparate dissent. He said the court may not \"superimpose its own\npolicy judgment upon the agency in the absence of an arbitrary and\ncapricious decision.\"\nGovernor Reagan added that \"the majority opinion means an added\nburden will be placed on our property taxpayers and an added expense\non many of our older citizens.\"\n\"The effect of this decision,\" he said \"is going to force us\nto completely remove 160,000 needy from our program of medical\nare\nassistance. These/people who have been able to stay off the welfare\nrolls, or work their way off welfare, but now they will be forced\nback to the charity wards and free clinics while the 1,200,000 persons\nwho are completely dependent on welfare payments will still be able\nto purchase unlimited medical services on the open market at the\nexpense of the state.\n\"In addition, the result of the ruling is to deny the people\nof California $70 million worth of medical services that the federal\ngovernment would have paid for under our own program.\n\"It is common knowledge that when the Medi-Cal program was\nconceived in 1965, the massive problems of administration and operation\nwere either completely misunderstood or grossly underestimated,\" the\ngovernor said.\n\"Since this administration has been in office, extremely serious\nproblems which could financially ruin the state have been uncovered,\nand a tremendous amount of work by experts in the medical care field\nhas been done in an effort to make this program realistic.\n\"We have made positive efforts to assure continued medical\ntreatment for those who truly need it. At the same time, we have paid\noff an accumulated Peficit of the past and\nkeeping within the\nfunds appropriated by the Legislature.\n\"Our plans to protect the fiscal integrity of the state were\nbased on the best advice and most knowledgeable opinions available\nanywhere and we are continuing to improve management and fiscal\ncontrol of the program,\" the governor said.\n# # #\n-2-\nEJG/620\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.20.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Federal Bankruptcy\nReferee Donald R. Franson of Fresno to the Fresno County Superior\nCourt bench. The appointment pays an annual salary of $25,000.\nFranson, a Republican, has served as judge of the bankruptcy\ncourt for eight central California counties during the past two years.\nHe was engaged in private law practice in Fresno for 12 years\nprior to being named to the federal post.\nFranson, 41, received his law degree from Hastings Law School\nin San Francisco. He is licensed to practice in California and before\nall federal courts, including the U. S. Supreme Court.\nHe is a former deputy district attorney in Fresno County (1952).\nHe served in the U. S. Naval Reserve during World War II as a\nseaman and aviation cadet.\nFranson is a member of the California Bar Association, the\nAmerican Bar Association, American Judicature Society, Fresno County\nBar Association, Fresno County Taxpayers Association, Fig Garden\nSpartan League, San Joaquin Country Club, Fresno Downtown Club, Fresno\nRotary Club and the Seminar Committee of the National Bankruptcy\nConference in Washington, D.C.\nHe and his wife, Irma, have five children ranging in age from\n17 to 7. They reside at 4451 North Wilson Street, Fresno.\n# # #\nEJG/621\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA\nRELEASE: Immediate\nCONTACT: PAUL BECK\n445 - 4571 11.20.67\nSacramento - Merced City Assistant Civil Defense Director and\nAirport Manager Joseph R. Crotti has been named director of the\nState Aeronautics Board, the Governor's Office announced today.\nHe replaces Clyde P. Barnett who has served as director\nsince 1955. Barnett has been asked to stay on as deputy director of\nthe board.\nIn his new job, Crotti will earn in the range of $17,700.00\nto $19,512.00. He will serve at the pleasure of the governor.\nCrotti, a 44 year old Democrat, has served as Merced\nAirport manager and city assistant civil defense director the past\neight and one-half years.\nExcept for a two year assignment with the City of Merced\nEngineering Department from 1953-54, Crotti worked from 1946-59\nas a member of the Merced Fire Department.\nHe was promoted to deputy fire chief in 1954, responsible for\nadministration of the fire department budget, engineering, training\nand coordination of civil defense activities.\nHe served with the U.S. Navy during World War II as a\ncommunications specialist in the pacific.\nCrotti has also acted as Merced City Manager Pro Tempore\nsince 1964.\nHe is a 2nd Vice President of the California Association of\nAirport Executives, and has been a member of the American Association\nof Airport Executives. The United States Civil Defense Council\nand the Executive Committe of the Annual West Coast Antique Fly-in\nsince 1959. He is also on the Merced Chamber of Commerce's Board\nof Directors and is secretary of the Merced Rotary Club.\nCrotti is married and has two children. They reside at 1740\nShirley Street, Merced.\n#####\nPB:622\nFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-20-67\nSacramento--Gov. Ronald Reagan today issued the following state-\nment concerning rioting on the campus of San Jose State College.\n\"My office has been called today by San Jose State faculty\nmembers and disturbed public officials regarding the rioting at\nSan Jose State College and an apparent growing disregard for law\nand order 0.1 that campus.\n\"I have no sympathy for those who would use riots and violence\nto press their views on others and who refuse to grant to others the\nsame righ If of freedom of speech and dissent they insist on for\nthemselves.\n\"What has happened today at San Jose State is inexcusable. Once\nit has been established who is to blame, those persons must be\npunished. If college students are involved in these criminal vio-\nlations they should be severly disciplined and subject to expulsion.\nIf it is established that faculty members participated in or\nencouraged such activity, they have forfeited their right to teach.\n\"To advocate firm action is not political interference in our\nhigher education system. Such action is necessary to preserve that\nsystem.\n\"I said once before, and it is still true, somebody has to speak\nfor the 20 million decent, law-abiding citizens of California. Some-\nbody also has to speak for the overwhelming majority of college\nstudents who are working hard to obtain an education and who have\na right to study, undisturb by frequent disruptions and disorders.\n\"It is time that those the people have elected, and those they\nhave selected to run their public institutions put an end to such\nirresponsible actions.\n\"If we don't, the people will find someone who will.\"\n# # #\nPB/623\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nRELEASE: Immediate\nContact: Paul Beck\n445 - 4571 11.21.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named an Arnold real-estate man Allen L.\nBullard to the 39th District Agriculturial Association's Board of\nDirectors.\nMr. Bullard, a republican, succeeds the late John Guttinger\nof San Andreas whose term would have expired January 15, 1968.\nMr. Bullard resides in Meadowmont Village, Arnold, Calaveras\nCounty. The appointment pays necessary travel expenses.\n#####\nPB:#624\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO.\nRELEASE: Imme Late\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.21.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Fresno attorney Leland\nM. Edman as a member of the State Adult Authority.\nThe job pays $20,500 annually.\nEdman, 45, will fill the unexpired term of the late Harry M.\nKamp of Kentfield. The term ends March 15, 1969.\nA Republican, Edman has been engaged in private law practice in\nFresno since 1957. He had previously served for three years as\nFresno County deputy district attorney.\nEdman is a graduate of Madera Union High School and Fresno\nState College. He went on to receive his law degree from Hastings\nCollege of Law in San Francisco and was admitted to the California\nBar in 1953.\nHe is co-chairman of the Public Administrator Special Committee\nto the Fresno County Bar Association, a member of the Scottish Rite\nand the American Arbitration Association. Edman is also a past\npresident of the Fresno State College Laboratory School PTA and was\nactive as advancement committee chairman at district and council level\nfor the Sequoia Council, Boy Scouts of America.\nFrom 1957-61 Edman was an instructor of criminal law at\nHumphreys College of Law in Fresno.\nHe is married and has three children ranging in age from 11-4.\nThey reside at 1650 West Browning Avenue, Fresno.\n# # #\nEJG/625\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-21-67\nGovernor Reagan will hold a press conference at 1:30 p.m. today.\n# # #\nPB/\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-21-67\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following\nstatement:\n\"Ladies and gentlemen, today I have added to the call of the\nSpecial Session of the Legislature a request that it clarify existing\nlaws which will permit this administration to properly administer\nCalifornia's Medi-Cal program.\n\"This action is needed because of a ruling yesterday by the\nState Supreme Court. That ruling, in effect, tells us we must remove\n160,000 medical indigents from the Medi-Cal program before we can\nreduce any part of the program.\n\"If we must do this, the state will lose $70 million in federal\nfunds and this in turn will throw the burden of caring for the medi-\ncally indigent right back on the property taxpayers of each county.\n\"The changes we are seeking will simply permit the administration\nto proceed with adjustments proposed in the program last fall that\nwould have enabled the state to meet its bills and live within funds\nappropriated fo:: the program by the legislature.\n\"Under those adjustments, all persons on the program would have\nbeen assured of life-saving medical services. Under the court ruling,\nthose services will be denied to 160,000 medical indigents.\n\"It is essential, if life-saving medical services are to be\nretained for all our citizens, that the administrator of the program\nbe given the flexibility to enable him to reduce services before\neliminating pecple.\n\"If the court's ruling is not changed by the legislature as I am\nconfident it will be, the cost to the taxpayers of Los Angeles County,\nfor example, could amount to many additional millions.\n\"Now state taxes will be required if we are not given the\nrequired administrative flexibility in running this program.\n\"Furthermore, under the Supreme Court ruling, the Medi-Cal program\ncannot be soundly administered because of the court's definition of\n\"feasible\" a phrase used repeatedly in the majority opinion. If\nthat phrase, as it appears to, means \"if possible,\" unreconcilable\nconflicts will be created in the administration of the program and\nthe state cculd be faced with endless litigation attacking every\nadministrative decision involving Medi-Cal.\n-1-\n\"Two justices ote vigorous dissents to t.. majority opinion.\nJudge Marshall McComb accused the court of invading the powers of\nthe executive and legislative branches and Judge Louis H. Burke said\nthe court may not 'superimpose its own policy judgment upon the agency\nin the absence of an arbitrary and capricious decision.'\n\"I agree fully. The ruling went beyond the traditional concept\nof separation of powers of the executive, legislative and judicial\nbranches.\n\"The court has disrupted the Medi-Cal program and seriously\njeopardized needed medical treatment for many Californians.\n\"That responsibility is the courts.\n\"But my responsibility and the legislature's is to the people\nof this state and it is therefore up to us to find a way to run\nthe program within existing funds without eliminating life-saving\nservices to the medically indigent.\n\"The Supreme Court's ruling guarantees an annual tax increase\nfor Californians.\n\"Now the legislature has the chance to say to the Supreme Court:\n'Get out of our store. We are running our own shop.'\n\"The legislature has the opportunity to clarify what the\nSupreme Court seemingly is confused about.\"\n# # #\n-2-\nPB/626\nOFFICE OF THE GOVEF\nR\nMEMO TO THE P.\nSS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.21.67\nC-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N\nPlease correct the 9th paragraph of Governor Reagan's\nstatement on Medi-Cal issued today to read as follows:\n\"New state taxes will be required\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nContact: Paul Beck\n445 - 4571\n11.21.67\nState college chancellor Glenn S. Dumke and Donald Hart,\npresident of the State College Board of Trustees, will meet with\nGovernor Reagan at approximately 4:00 p.m. today to discuss rioting\nat San Jose State and the general state of unrest on several state\ncollege campuses.\nThe two officials are flying to Sacramento at the Governor's\nrequest for the meeting.\nThey will be available for pictures beforehand and to the\npress afterward if they so desire\n#######\nPB/\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nRELEASE: IL diate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.21.67\nJames H. Grubbs, a Sacramento variety store operator, has\nbeen appointed to the Folsom Lake Bridge Authority by Governor\nRonald Reagan.\nIn the post, Grubbs, 50, will receive necessary travel expenses\nand serve at the pleasure of the governor.\nThe Folsom Lake Bridge Authority was created by the 1967\nlegislature. It is governed by a board consisting of two members of\nthe Placer County Board of Supervisors, two members of the El Dorado\nCounty Board of Supervisors and one member appointed by the governor.\nGrubbs is chairman of the Placer County Republican Central\nCommittee and is a member of the GOP State Central Committee.\nHe is a past president of the Town and Country Village Merchants\nAssociation and is currently a member of its board of directors. Grubbs\nis also a former chairman of the Placer County Recreation Commission.\nHe is married and resides at 7542 Lakeshore Drive, Roseville.\n# # #\nEJG/627\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nRELEASE: Immediate\nContact: Paul Beck\n445 - 4571 11.22.67\nCharles P. Smith, senior technical advisor to management for\nSystem Development Corporation in Santa Monica, has been named\ndirector of the State's newly formed Office of Management Services,\nthe Governor's Office announced today.\nThe office, established by executive order of the Governor\nearly this month, will operate under the jurisdiction of the Business\nand Transportation Agency. Smith, will report to\nGordon Luce, agency administrator.\nThe office will consist of a small group of skilled data\nprocessing specialists who will control and coordinate the State's\nmassive and extensive automatic data processing operations.\nThe decision to set up the Office of Management Services\nwas made after an extensive study of the State's current program\nby State officials and by members of the Governor's Survey on\nEfficiency and Cost Control. The new office will be charged with\ndeveloping policy recommendations on data processing for approval\nby a new committee known as the State Automatic Data Processing\nPolicy Committee. The committee-comprised of Lt. Governor Finch,\nthe four agency administrators, the directors of the Finance and\nGeneral Services departments, and two representatives from private\nindustry -- will approve recommendations formulated and proposed by\nthe Office of Management Services. Representatives of the Legislature\nand other Constitutional Officers have been invited to join the.\ncommittee.\nFinch, the committee chairman, said the selection of Smith\nas director \"will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the\nState's growing involvement in the important field of data processing\"\nDuring his six and one half year assignment with System\nDevelopment Corporation, Smith has been responsible for coordination\nand application of systems analysis and information sciences for\nvarious levels of government.\nHe holds an AB Degree in political science and an MA Degree\nin sociology from the University of Arizona. He also earned an\nMA in public administration from the University of Southern\nCalifornia. He has nearly completed the requirements of a doctoral\ndegree in public administration from the University of Southern\nCalifornia.\nSmith, 35, se\ned as a parole agent for t\nCalifornia Youth\nAuthority from 1959-61. He was a lieutenant in the Pima County\n(Arizona) Sheriff's Department from 1956-59 and edited a weekly\nnewspaper in Tucson from 1954-56.\nDuring his career he has taught courses in political science,\nadministrative behavior and history on a part-time basis at the\nUniversity of Southern California, George Washington University and\nLong Beach City College.\nHe served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War.\nSmith is married and has five children. He and his family\nreside at 1091 Palisair Place, Pacific Palisades.\nPerry Stauffer, 53, will become deputy director of the new\noffice, Smith said.\nStauffer has been director of automation for the Department\nof Motor Vehicles since 1964. During this period he has managed\nthe creation, installation and operation of one of the largest\ncomputer systems in the world. Stauffer previously served for 16\nyears in the State Controllers, nine of which he was assistant\ndeputy state controller. He was also principal research analyst for\nthe State Legislative Budget Committee for three years.\nIn announcing the new program, November 2, the Governor\nsaid that once the Automatic Data Processing Policy Committee\nhas approved policy recommendations from the Office of Management\nServices, the Department of General Services will be charged with\nimplementing the approved recommendations.\nThe Governor outlined three key functions the Office of\nManagement Services will have:\n1--To develop plans for overall consolidation and optimum\nutilization of automatic data processing systems for state\ngovernment.\n2--To work closely with and coordinate with the recently\nestablished Intergovernmental Board on Automatic Data Processing\nwhich was set up to work with local governmental agencies.\n3--To serve as an advisor to the State on matters pertaining\nto information systems and data processing.\nIn signing the executive order creating the new office, the\nGovernor said that there has been a rapid advance in the technology\nof data processing and \"these advances offer an opportunity to\nimprove the efficiency, responsiveness and economy of governmental\nactivities\"\n#####\nEJG/#628\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nSacramento, California\nRELEASE: Immediate\nContact: Paul Beck\n445 - 4571 11.22.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Norman B. Hume, director\nof the Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation, and Edward F. Dibble,\na Redlands consulting engineer, to the newly formed State Water\nResources Control Board.\nThe appointments require Senate confirmation.\nThe new board was created by the 1967 state legislature to\nreplace the former State Water Rights Board. Under terms of the\nlegislation (AB 1630 the three members of the Water Rights Board\nare carried over to the Water Resources Control Board. They are\nGeorge B. Maul, William A. Alexander and Ralph Mc Gill. Maul's\nterm will expire January 15, 1971, Alexander's on January 15, 1970\nand Mc Gill's on January 15, 1969.\nMaul, appointed by Governor Reagan to the Water Rights Board\nlast March, subsequently was made chairman of that board. He will\ncontinue as chairman of the new board. Board members earn an annual\nsalary of $20,500.\nHume, 63, is a registered civil engineer. A Republican,\nhe has been Los Angeles Sanitation Bureau director since 1959.\nFollowing completion of study at the California Institute of\nTechnology in 1925, he began his career as a topographic draftsman\nin the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering. In 1946, he was promoted\nto civil engineer in charge of the basic design section for the\n$245 million Hyperion Treatment Plant project. Less than two years\nlater, he became assistant director of the Sanitation Bureau.\nHe is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers\nand was president of the organization's Los Angeles section in 1964.\nHe is currently serving on the Society's Solid Waste Committee.\nHume is a member of numerous other civic and professional associations\nand has received a number of distinguished commendations and awards\nfor accomplishments in his field.\nHe resides at 2700 Deodar Circle, Pasadena.\na degree\nDibble, 52, is a 1938 graduate of Cornell University with/\nin mechanical engineering. For the past 21years he has been\nmanager of the San Bernadino Water Conservation District in Redlands,\nIn this post, he has been primarily concerned with water problems\nof Santa Ana River.\n-1-\nHe has also managed the San Gorganio Pass Water Agency since\n1961.\nDibble, a Republican, is president of the California Water\nResources Association, a position he has held since 1964.\nHe and his wife June reside at 1425 West Fern Avenue,\nRedlands. They have four children.\nHume's term will last through January 15, 1968.\nDibble's will expire January 15, 1969.\n########\nEJG/629\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Imm nice\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.22.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced completion of a series\nof recommendations submitted by his Survey on Efficiency and Cost\nControl for economies in the State Water Resources Department.\nThe governor also outlined actions already taken by the depart-\nment in implementing a number of the recommendations.\nOther survey team proposals are now being reviewed in detail\nby Department of Water Resources Director William R. Gianelli and will\nbe put into effect as soon as practicable.\nGovernor Reagan summarized the recommendations as dealing\nprimarily with program development and control, construction contract\nadministration and related matters. Subjects ranged from a proposal\nfor cost sharing with local agencies to a suggestion that coffee break\ntime be better controlled.\nAccording to Survey Chairman O. Kenneth Pryor, many of the ideas\ncontained in the recommendations came from the Department of Water\nResources itself.\nThe governor noted that \"some of the recommendations go beyond\nthe department and will require inter-departmental consideration for\naccomplishment. Two require legislative action.\"\nHe welcomed the suggestions as being \"thorough and detailed.\n\"It is yet another example of the 'Creative Society' in action-\nbusinessmen from the independent sector contributing their time, energy,\nknowledge and experience to the betterment of government.\n\"The team effort will be of valuable assistance in this\nadministration's determined effort to provide essential services at a\ncost the taxpayer can afford.\"\nAmong the recommendations were two suggesting sharing of project\ncosts between state and local agencies, rather than having the state\npay the total bill, for projects that are locally oriented. The survey\nasked for expansion of the policy adopted by Gianelli in requiring local\nagencies to share costs of activities conducted by the department\nprincipally for the benefit of the local area. Fifty percent financial\nparticipation by local entities would be \"appropriate,\" the survey team\nsaid.\n-1-\nOne recommendation for legislative change concerned extension\nof the schedule of fees enarged dam owners for inspections by the\ndepartment's Safety of Dams Division. This would result in additional\nrevenue to the department approximating $400,000 per year, making a\nsavings of that amount for the state's General Fund. The department\nhas prepared and will propose legislation to change the fee schedule,\nthe governor said.\nPossible one-time savings of $500,000 to $1 million could be\nachieved by developing and adopting a system of planning programming\nand budgeting. The department has operated on a program budget basis\nfor several years.\nRecurring annual savings of $2.5 million per year were estimated\nby the survey as a probable result of the adoption of three recommend-\nations it made about the organization and staffing of a new division in\nthe department to operate and maintain the State Water Project. Two\nof the recommended moves have already been made, Gianelli told the\ngovernor. The department is already moving on a third which looks\ntoward a minimum operating staff when at full level in 1972, he added.\nThe survey team noted that \"for the past several years, the\ndepartment has operated in an environment where emphasis was directed\nalmost completely toward building the California State Water Project\nto the highest quality and on time. Cost has been a secondary\nconsideration. Apparently the attitude has been that this is a 'grand'\nproject and must be a showpiece.\n\"The new directorate is trying to alter this to bring cost into\nproper perspective with quality and time. But, to change basic\nattitudes is difficult and this effort should be pursued with vigor.\"\nThe governor outlined those actions already taken by the\ndepartment in implementing a number of the team's recommendations.\n--The department eliminated its two top civil service jobs as\npart of a top-level reorganization early this year which accomplished\nsavings of about $100,000 annually. Additional organizational changes\nare under way for planning and general fund operations. The changes\nwill increase savings due to consolidation, elimination of some\npositions, and more efficient management. Stronger central control\nover the work programs will also result.\n-2-\n--The departmen\nestablishing a line or\nation for the\nDivision of Operations in its physical operation and maintenance of\nby\nthe State Water Project. It will be completed / January. Fewer\nemployees will be required to manage and operate the project than had\nbeen expected, and improved internal management will result from the\nreorganization.\n--The department is establishing a division engineer level\nposition to head the new Operations Division, and will recruit nationally\nfor a man with actual operating experience.\n--The department has reduced the number of regional districts\nfrom five to four, effective by phase-out between January and July.\nThe elimination of a number of administrative and engineering positions,\nwithout layoff through normal attrition, will result in substantial\nsavings up to $1 million annually.\n--An immediate ceiling of 4,700 employees--600 less than\npreviously authorized--has been placed on total positions through\n1968-69, accomplishing a $7 million reduction in the annual budget.\nIn addition, a specific personnel management plan is being developed to\nreduce design and construction manpower as construction requirements\nof the State Water Project phase out.\n--The department has initiated tighter control cn expenses such\nas travel, printing, copying machine use, office equipment purchases,\nsupplies, etc. Savings of $20,000 to $25,000 are being accomplished\nin the use of copying machines alone. Substantial savings have\nresulted from the reduction of non-essential travel, for such activities\nas conventions and meetings where the state's need for attendance is\nnot clear. Total savings would reach $150,000 annually by establishing\nan attitude of economy in the department.\n--The department has established the policy of not initiating\nengineering investigations which are financed by the General Fund and\nwhich are primarily for the benefit of local areas until financial\nparticipation on a matching basis is forthcoming from local agencies.\nA number of ground water investigations starting next year will be\njointly financed, saving about $250,000. Within two years, it is\nanticipated all local oriented investigations will be under the matching\nfunds principle.\n-3-\n--The department has established a tight review and control of\nautomobiles, including the expeditious transfer of venicles from one\nconstruction site to another as needs of the project require. This\nhas resulted in a drastic reduction in the purchase of new automobiles,\nalready saving $270,000. In addition, the department has abolished\nits headquarters vehicle pool and restricted the use of vehicles\ngenerally, at a savings of $20,000 this year and $12,000 annually.\nAn additional $97,000 has been saved by cancelling the proposed\npurchase of 19 office trailers.\n--The department has initiated a policy of reducing the number\nof vehicles equipped with two-way radio equipment to those which are\nrequired for speedy communications in construction and operation work.\nThe savings to date total $139,000.\n--The department has reviewed design work on project units\nremaining to be constructed and has eliminated those features which\nare not essential to the proper operation of the project- features\nsuch as visitors' facilities and elaborate operations and maintenance\ncenters.\n--The department has revised construction contracts and\nspecifications to provide flexibility should the department desire to\nmake a major reduction in the scope of work as a result of changed\ncircumstances. Legislation will be proposed to provide the authority\nto terminate contracts. Savings could run to millions of dollars before\nconstruction is complete.\n--The department has reviewed and changed its plans for recording\nthe history of the project and for preserving plans and specifications\nused in construction. About $800,000 has been trimmed from the program,\noriginally expected to ccst $1.2 million.\n--The department is in the process of terminating its contract\nwith the Division of Highways for rights-of-way and acquisition. The\nexisting department staff, through a phase-out of the highways contract,\ncan handle the remaining work load at a savings in overhead of about\n$75,000 per year.\n--The department has eliminated certain review requirements in\nconnection with construction change orders, and has delegated more\nauthority to field engineers, thereby facilitating changes that must be\nmade.\n--The department is establishing a program evaluation unit report-\ning to the director. It will act in critically reviewing all programs\nwithin the department to determine whether they are justified and\nwhether the level of activity is proper. In this way, the department\nexpects to eliminate or reduce the level of activity in programs as\ntheir objectives are met, or approached.\n# # #\n-4-\nEJG/630\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californi\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.22.67\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed San Francisco\nAssistant District Attorney Janet Aitken and attorney Walter F. Calcagno,\nalso of San Francisco, to the municipal court bench.\nBoth are Republicans. The appointments pay $23,000 annually.\nBoth judicial posts were created by the 1967 state legislature.\nCalcagno, 48, has been engaged in private law practice in San\nFrancisco since 1948. He is a graduate of the University of San\nFrancisco Law School.\nHe is a member of the State Bar, the San Francisco Bar Associa-\ntion and American Bar Association.\nCalcagno resides at 215 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco. He\nis married and has six children.\nMiss Aitken was appointed deputy district attorney in San\nFrancisco in 1947. She is a 1942 graduate of the San Francisco Law\nschool. During World War II, she worked in the office of the U.S.\nNavy's general counsel in Washington, D.C.\nSince 1961, she has been a delegate from the San Francisco Bar\nAssociation to the Conference of Delegates to the state bar. In 1964\nand 1965 she served as a director of the San Francisco Bar Association.\nShe resides at 1100 Gough Street, San Francisco.\n# # # #\nEJG/631\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-24-67\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nNovember 27, 1967\nthrough\nDecember 2, 1967\nMonday, November 27\n1:00 p m.\nMeeting with representatives of County\nSupervisors Association of California\n(Governor's Office)\n1:45 p.m.\nBrief meeting with Ricardo Thearello,\nController General of Bolivia. (Governor's\nOffice)\nTuesday, November 28\n9:30 a.m.\nPress Conference\n11:30 a.m.\nPresentation of medals to Heidi Kingsbury by\nGeneral Ames\n2:00 p.m.\nMeeting with representatives of the\nSierra Club (Governor's office)\nWednesday, November 29\n2:30 p.m.\nSigning of contract between power companies\nand the state (Governor's office)\nThursday, November 30\n11:00 a.m.\nArrive San Francisco, St. Francis Hotel\nfor National Conference of State Legislative\nLeaders - Speech.\n12:15 p.m.\nLuncheon - Mural California Room (Governor\nChaffee of Rhode Island to speak)\n2:00 p.m.\nDepart for Sacramento\nFriday, December 1\n10:00 a.m.\nDepart Sacramento (Old Airport) for San Diego\n11:30 a.m.\nArrive San Diego Airport - proceed to\nUniversity of California for Regents meeting\nAfternoon\nDepart San Diego Airport for Oakland\nArrive Oakland Airport - proceed to Claremont\nCountry Club for fund-raising reception\n7:15 p.m.\nDepart for Kaiser Center\n8:00 p.m.\nDinner - Kaiser Center - East Bay GOP fund-\nraising - Speech\nOvernight\nSacramento\nSaturday, December 2\nNo public appointments scheduled\n# # #\nPB/632\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Imme Late\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.27.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has named attorney Robert E. Dauber and\nMunicipal Judge Francis Estudillo to the Riverside County superior\ncourt bench.\nBoth judicial posts were created by the 1967 State Legislature.\nEstudillo's appointment becomes effective April 1, 1968; Dauber's\nis immediate.\nDauber, an independent, has been engaged in private practice\nsince 1952. He is currently senior partner in the Riverside law firm\nof Thompson and Colgate.\nDauber, 44, is a graduate of the University of Buffalo and took\nhis law degree from the University of Syracuse in 1952.\nHe is a member of the Riverside County Bar Association, the\nState Bar, Defense Research Institute and the organization of the\nSouthern California Defense Counsel.\nDauber is married and has a son. He resides at 5419 Pinehurst\nDrive, Riverside.\nEstudillo, 52, a municipal judge in the Riverside Judicial\nDistrict for the past 15 years served from 1946-52 as judge of the\nRiverside Police Court. Following his discharge from the Army Air\nCorps in 1945, he entered private practice with his father, the late\nMiguel Estudillo, former California state senator and Riverside city\nattorney. He later formed a partnership with his father and brother,\nRex Estudillo.\nHe received his law degree from Southwestern School of Law.\nA Republican, Estudillo is a member of the Riverside County\nBar Association, Conference of California Judges, and is secretary of\nthe Board of Trustees of the Riverside County Law Library.\nEstudillo is married and has a daughter. He resides at 3203\nPachappa Drive, Riverside.\n# # #\nEJG/633\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, Califor. a\nRELEASE: Im diate\nContact: Paul Beck\n445 - 4571\n11.27.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Edward A. Rodeman of\nVictorville to the 28th District Agricultural Association's board\nof directors.\nRodeman, a 60-year old Republican, fills the unexpiredterm\nof Charles E. Toole of Ontario who has resigned. The term ends\nJanuary 15, 1970.\nRodeman served on the same board from 1957-61.\nHe is president of Rodeman's Inc., a Victorville men's\nstore.\nRodeman is a former president of the Victorville Rotary\nClub and Victor Valley Chamber of Commerce.\nThe job pays necessary travel expenses.\nHe is married and has two sons. They reside at 726 Fox\nAvenue, Apple Valley.\n###########\nEJG/634\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Imme Late\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.27.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Kenneth R. Rearwin, resident\nvice president of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith in San Diego,\nto a four-year term on the Coordinating Council for Higher Education.\nHe replaces Robert Setrakian of Kentfield.\nThe appointment pays necessary travel expenses and requires\nSenate confirmation.\nThe Coordinating Council for Higher Education was created in\n1960 as part of the state's master plan for higher education. The\n15-member council is an advisory agency established to assure a\nbalanced growth of the programs and facilities of various segments of\nthe state's higher educational system.\nRearwin, a 54-year-old Republican, joined Merrill Lynch 18 years\nago and opened the firm's La Jolla sales office in 1952. He has been a\nvice president of the organization since 1959.\nIn 1963 he was appointed to the California State Committee on\nContinuing Education and was reappointed to a second term in 1965.\nFrom 1964-66, he served on the San Diego County Mental Health\nService Advisory Board. He was appointed to the San Diego County\nPlanning Commission and was elected to the board of directors of the\nSan Diego Taxpayers Association in January, 1966.\nFor the past two years, Rearwin has served as chairman of the\nSan Diego Chamber of Commerce education committee. From 1965-66 he\nwas a member of the Mesa College Advisory Committee and the San Diego\nCounty Council on Economic Education.\nIn 1960, Rearwin was named to the U. S. Chamber of Commerce\nEducation Committee, and was reappointed to that post through 1965.\nHe is married and has three children.\nHe resides at 7325 Remley Place, La Jolla.\n# # #\nEJG/635\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nContact: Paul Beck\nRELEASE: Immediate\n445 - 4571\n11.27.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has named Newport Beach Yacht\nbroker David L. Fraser to the State Yacht and Ship Brokers Commission.\nFraser, a Republican, holds the rank of commander in the\nU.S. Naval Reserve.\nA yacht broker for the past two decades, he is a member\nof San Francisco's St. Francis Yacht Club, the Newport Harbor Yacht\nClub and Transpacific Yacht Club of Los Angeles.\nFraser, 46, holds a BS Degree from the Citadel.\nHe is married and has three children. He resides at\n600 St. James Place, Newport Beach.\n######\nEJG/636\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramonto, Californi\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.27.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed members of the Capitol\nBuilding and Planning Commission.\nThe commission is responsible for coordinating the orderly\ndevelopment of state buildings and facilities in the Capitol area of\nSacramento.\nThe commission consists of 13 members appointed by the governor\nand who serve at his pleasure.\nTwo members of the commission have been reappointed. They are\nWilbur F. Brand Jr. of the real estate firm of Jones & Brand & Hullin,\nInc., and Albert M. Dreyfuss, a Sacramento architect. Both are\nRepublicans.\nOther new appointees include:\n--Edouard Thys of The Thys Company. A Republican, he is a\nprominent local businessman.\n--Grant D. Caywood, a Republican, of the architectural firm of\nCaywood and Nopp.\n--Elwood F. Maleville, a Republican, manager of the Sacramento\nInn and one of its original developers. He owns the Coral Reef\nRestaurant and the Coral Reef Lodge and Apartments.\n--Lee A. Watters, a Sacramento architect. He is a Democrat.\n--Robert W. Witter, a partner in Dean Witter & Company, a local\ninvestment firm. He is a Republican.\n-Carl B. Swanson, a Republican, and assistant to the president\nof the California Liquid Gas Corporation, Sacramento.\n--Sooky Lee, a Sacramento architect. He has no party affiliation.\n--Gordon Stafford, a Democrat, and Sacramento architect.\n--Robert U. Grant, a local civil engineer. He is a Republican.\n--Charles A. Adams, an account executive with Schwabacher and\nCompany in Sacramento. He is a Republican.\n--Walter F. Fehr, vice president of Capitol Outdoor Signs, Inc.,\nof Sacramento. He is a Republican.\nThe California Capitol Building and Planning Commission was\ncreated in 1959. Three of the members are appointed from a list of\npersons nominated by the mayor of Sacramento and three from a list\nnominated by the chairman of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors.\nThe commission coordinates activities of the state, city and\ncounty of Sacramento in fulfillment of the Capitol Area Plan, a program\nadopted by the legislature in 1961. The plan is a guide for future\nstate policy in the expansion of the state's physical plant, and in\nlocating needed buildings and other facilities in the Capitol area.\n# # #\nEJG/637\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nRELEASE: Wednesday\nContact: Paul Beck\nNovember 29, 1967 a.m.s\n445 - 4571 11.28.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today that he will propose\nlegislation next year to ease the financing difficulties of local\nmass transportation systems.\nThe enabling legislation would permit local residents to\napprove ways of raising local transportation funds. Funds could\nbe raised through such sources as a sales tax on gasoline, increased\nmotor vehicle in lieu tax, or a utility tax.\nIn the case of special districts, such as BARTD (Bay Area\nRapid Transit District), where the people have already voted on a\nmethod of financing, it would be up to the legislature to recognize\nthe situation and make allowances for it.\n\"All suggested revenue sources for these funds would have to\nbe explored. Legislation permitting this could possibly be similar\nto Frank Lanterman's bill of last session with the modification\nthat county voters be given the right to decide, \" Governor Reagan\nsaid. Lanterman has already indicated he will sponsor such\nlegislation.\nCiting the urgentfinancial needs of SCRTD (Southern California\nRapid Transit District) in the south and BARTD in the north, the\ngovernor said provisions must be made to finance these billion-\ndollar mass transit systems with revenues other than the local\nproperty tax which is now the sole revenue source.\n\"The beleaguered property owner already bears an immense burden.\nIt is extremely doubtful that he should be asked to, or would accept,\nfurther property tax increases. Therefore, without alternative\nsources of financing, no matter how meritorious a mass public\ntransportation project may be, it faces almost certain rejection\nbecause the property tax well is drying up\", Governor Reagan said.\n\"Both my Secretary of Business and Transportation, Gordon C.\nLuce, and I agree that the state should take the leadership in\ngiving local government the financial tools to solve its transporta-\ntion problems. However, we do not intend to take a position on\nwhich mode or system is the best, since the people should make\nthis decision.\n-1-\n\"By requiring local voter approval, rather than merely imposing\na tax throughout the state, we can be assured that the tax would\nbe assessed only when and where a need is shown to exist. This\nproposal would allow local government to develop supplementary\ntransportation and alleviate localized problems of congestion,\nmass public transit, and air pollution.\n\"Rural counties would not be burdened with taxes they do not\nwant or need. Urban voters would have a chance to veto unsound\nprojects. It is also possible that Los Angeles and the bay area\nhight choose to utilize different methods of taxation.\n\"Rough estimates indicate that a four per-cent gasoline sales\ntax, if approved by local voters, would annually raise $13 million\nin the three bay area counties and $40 million in\nLos Angeles\nCounty. A one percent in lieu tax increase would yield equivalent\nrevenue. The effect of such additional revenue would be to provide\nextensive relief to property taxpayers in the two critical rapid\ntransit districts.\n\"Figures prepared by SCRTD showed that financing their\n$1.5 billion project with property taxes alone would result in a\nmaximum tax increase on a $20,000 home of $20.35. If the gasoline\nsales tax revenue were available to finance construction costs,\nthe property tax increase on the same $20,000 home would be\nreduced from $20.35 to $7.17.\n\"If utilized in the three BARTD counties, Alameda, Contra Costa\nand San Francisco, the gasoline sales tax or in lieu revenue would\neliminate any need for a property tax increase to finance the\nexisting BARTD deficit now estimated to be from $60 to $170 million. \"\nLuce has been asked to implement the governor's proposal by\nundertaking discussions leading toward specific legislation which\ncan be introduced as an urgency matter in January.\n####\nPB/638\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Imme iate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.28.67\nThe following speech was delivered today by Robert J. Keyes,\nassistant to the Governor for community relations, before the Rancho\nCordova Rotary Club:\n\"I have been active in athletics on a competitive basis for\nthe past 17 years playing on ten championship teams including track,\nbasketball, baseball, football and rugby. I was named All-American\nin football, All-City and All Conference in baseball and All-Southern\nCalifornia in rugby.\n\"I hear of riots and more riots and now the boycotting of the\n1968 olympic games. I cannot sit idly by and see young men used as\ntools by those who would use their brother, whether it be for political,\npersonal or other advantage.\n\"This nation has long been unequal in terms of advancement for\nminorities, and the Negro in particular. While total equality is still\nlacking, opportunity is available for everyone providing they understand\nthat dignity must be earned and responsibility maintained.\n\"I'm an American and have worked tirelessly with conviction to\nearn all 100 percent of that title. I cherish and would die, if\nnecessary, to defend that heritage for myself and my fellow man.\n\"Athletics is one of the fields which has proven that Negro\nathletes are as good as any other race. It's also contributed more\nto the Negro cause than any other single tool.\n\"Americans, black and white, are fighting and dying in Vietnam so\nwe may have freedom of speech, press and peaceful assembly. They will\nnot permit the deadly enemy, Communism--which they are gallantly fighting\nagainst--to infiltrate our society. These men aren't there by choice\nbut to make available to all Americans the things we don't appreciate,\nincluding their effort.\n\"There are many men in the military that are good enough and\nwould love to participate in the olympics, but instead choose to defend\nour option to participate in American life. Unfortunately, many today\nare casting a shadow of doubt on what our men in Vietnam are fighting\nand dying to achieve.\n\"Individuals like Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Archie Moore, Ray\nRobinson, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown,\nBuddy Young and many others achieved and added prestige to the cause\nof all Negro athletes. Their achievements were made by the sweat of\ntheir brow.\n-1-\n\"Don't get me wrong. It wasn't easy, but in ything worthwhile\ntakes continuous hard work.\n\"Today, opportunities for the Negro are unlimited but there are\nthose who would like us to think we are still in bondage with no oppor-\ntunity and a dubious future. It's unfortunate that the chip has remained\non their shoulders for some two hundred years, blinding them and\nthreatening sorely the successes enjoyed by many Negro athletes.\n\"We must acknowledge the tremendous debt owed to those who fought\nand still are fighting for civil rights throughout the United States.\nHowever, because of rioting and other forms of lawlessness, I am prompted\nto ask, 'Where are militants leading us now?'\n\"It is incumbent on all of us to assess and focus properly on\nthe 'future' the militants are so graciously promising us. 'What is\nour ultimate goal?' Return to the bread lines or a dependency on\nhandouts which are never more than enough to keep you down and pacified?\n\"Our ancestors were betrayed into slavery by black tribal chiefs.\nIt's because of their spiritual and intellectual dishonesty that our\nso-called militant leaders are now so ready to repeat history. This\nindicates a lack of faith in America, but deep down inside they have\nno faith in themselves or their own people.\n\"The militants are confused and have lost sight of what our\nforefathers fought for and what we are still fighting for today. They\nhave failed to grasp why we were permitted to garner our many victories.\n\"Automation is rapidly eliminating the need for untrained and\nunskilled labor and society does not wish to pay the increasing cost\nof maintaining the black ghetto. The real tragedy of it all is that\nthe so-called militant leaders are confused and unable to comprehend\nthat today the needs of white Americans are the same as black Americans\nand one cannot progress without the other.\n\"It's high time for the militants who call themselves leaders\nto understand that America is ready to help us help ourselves. We, as\nNegroes, must let America know we accept their helping hand. But we\ndeplore and will not accept hand-outs which lead to the suppression and\noppression of all Negroes.\n\"I urge all Americans to join me in exploring our consciences,\nthen each should assess the value of his decision in terms of how it\nwill affect the progress of his fellow man, his family and future\ngenerations.\"\n# # #\n-2-\nPB/639\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER1\n&\nRELEASE: ...ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.29.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan said today his administration will \"lead\nrenewed efforts to break the current stalemate\" on Colorado River\nlegislation.\nIn a letter to Raymond R. Rummonds, chairman of the Colorado\nRiver Board of California, the governor said he will contact Arizona\nGovernor Jack Williams in the \"very near future\" in a move to reopen\nnegotiations between the two states.\n\"I have become increasingly concerned over the serious impasse\nthat has developed relative to Colorado River legislation and with the\nadverse impact that this stalemate is having on other programs in\nCalifornia and on reclamation throughout the West,\" the governor's\nletter said.\nHe said that the Colorado River situation and advice from water\nleaders throughout California have persuaded him that \"this administra-\ntion must step in and lead renewed efforts to break the current\nstalemate.\n\"I am convinced that we can improve California's position through\nnegotiation,\" the governor said.\n\"We must do all in our power to further augment the inadequate\nsupplies of the Colorado River and must provide the optimum protection\npracticable for existing economies in California until the river is\nactually augmented.\"\nGovernor Reagan said Water Resources Department Director William\nR. Gianelli will have overall responsibility for the direction of\nnegotiations toward a solution. His letter also noted the \"extensive\nand valuable expertise\" which Colorado River Board members and staff\nwill be able to contribute to the important effort.\n\"I am determined that California continue to speak with one voice\nin these negotiations,\" the governor said.\nAt issue are two major considerations:\na) The need to include language in proposed federal legislation\non the Central Arizona Project which would lead to an augmentation of\nthe river's water supply; and\nb) The need to establish a method by which shortages will be\napportioned among the Colorado River Basin states if the flow of the\nriver is insufficient to meet entitlements.\n# # #\nEJG/640\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Imn. diate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.29.67\nA contract for the sale of power from the Oroville-Thermalito\ncomplex was signed today by officials of the State of California and\nthree electric utilities---Pacific Gas & Electric Co., Southern\nCalifornia Edison Co. and San Diego Gas and Electric Co.\nUnder this 50-year contract, the companies will pay the state\na minimum of $16,150,000 annually for the output of the two powerplants\nwhen they go into full operation about April 1969.\nThe figure of $16,150,000 is based upon 2.1 billion kilowatt-\nhours of energy and 725,000 kilowatts guaranteed dependable capacity.\nIf more energy is produced, the payments will be increased\naccordingly.\nThe energy to be generated at the Oroville complex is more than\nthe total used by the cities of Oakland and Berkeley combined---1.997\nbillion kilowatt-hours per year.\nGovernor Ronald Reagan, at the signing ceremonies in his office\nthis afternoon, said he was \"very pleased with the final arrangement.\"\nAgreement on the price was reached late in August, and technical details\nwere ironed out in subsequent negotiations.\n\"This is an excellent example of effective cooperation between\nthe state and free enterprise,\" the governor said. \"The contract will\npermit the state to make a greater revenue bond issue than had been\nanticipated, and hopefully will provide us with about $250 million in\ncapital outlay funds--$40 million more than previously estimated,\" he\nadded.\nThe governor and William R. Gianelli, director of the Department\nof Water Resources, signed the contract on behalf of the state.\nGianelli noted that negotiations had been carried on for more\nthan a year before the successful conclusion was reached.\nRobert H. Gerdes, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. chairman,\ncommented: \"The contract signed today brings together in cooperation\nfor the public benefit the state and principal investor-owned electric\nutility companies of California. This cooperative arrangement will\nprovide maximum power revenues to the state, benefiting both water users\nand taxpayers. We are pleased that our participation helps finance the\ngreat California State Water Project, which is essential to the economic\ndevelopment of the state.\"\nSigning for the companies, in addition to Gerdes, were Joseph\nF. Sinnott, president of San Diego Gas & Electric Company, and William\nR. Gould, vice president of Southern California Edison Company.\n# # #\nEJG/641\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-29-67\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan has appointed Paul E. Pecht,\nan Oxnard citrus rancher, to the board of directors of the 31st\nDistrict Agricultural Association and Ventura county fair.\nThe job pays necessary travel expenses.\nPecht, a Republican, will fill the unexpired term of Carlos Levy\nof Oxnard who has resigned. The term expires January 15, 1968.\nPecht, 45, resides at 4500 North Rose Avenue, Oxnard. He is\nmarried and has three children.\nHe serves as a director on the State Chamber of Commerce Agri-\ncultrual Board, and is a director of the United Pest Control Board\nof the Coastal Growers Association.\n# # #\nEJG/642\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-29-67\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today named Nancy Banning\nCall of Beverly Hills to the California Arts Commission.\nShe will fill the unexpired term of the late Francis M. Sedgwick\nof Santa Ynez. The term ends July 1, 1969.\nThe appointment requires Senate confirmation and pays necessary\ntravel expenses.\nMrs. Call is a member of the Los Angeles Board of Education's\nadvisory committee on cultural resources. She also serves as\nfinance committee chairman for the Los Angeles Junior League's\nJunior Arts Center and Gallery.\nA graduate of Stanford University, she is married to Dr. Richard\nW. Call, an internist with the Union Oil Company.\nThey reside at 617 North Alta Drive, Beverly Hills.\n# # #\nEJG/643\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.29.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has reappointed Dr. Gregory C. Murray,\na Los Angeles surgeon and clinical professor at the University of\nSouthern California Medical School, to a four-year term on the District\nReview Committee for the Second District, State Board of Medical\nExaminers. The post pays $25 per diem plus expenses.\nThe Second District Review Committee is one of five in the\nstate which assist the State Board of Medical Examiners on disciplinary\nmatters.\nDr. Murray, a 44-year old Republican, is a member of the American\nCollege of Surgeons, the Los Angeles Surgical Society, the American\nBoard of Surgery and the Blue Shield Trustee Board. He is also a\nmember of the Los Angeles County Medical Society Council and is a\nformer president of the Society's Metropolitan District.\nHe received his M.D. Degree from the Howard University School\nof Medicine.\nDr. Murray is married and has three children. They reside at\n4007 Hepburn Avenue, Los Angeles.\n# # #\nEJG/644\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.29.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today signed a bill (SB-3) authorizing\nboards of supervisors to provide for reassessment of property damaged\nor destroyed by fires in four Southern California counties from\nOctober 8-November 6.\nThe counties--Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Ventura--were\nproclaimed disaster areas by the governor earlier this month.\nThe bill specifies that damage to property must be in excess\nof $1,000, full cash value.\n# # #\nEJG/645\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO.\nRELEASE: Imme Late\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.30.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has named Dr. John G. Fast, a Riverside\nphysician, to a four-year term on the District Review Committee for\nthe Fourth District, State Board of Medical Examiners. He is a\nRepublican.\nThe Fourth District Review Committee is one of five in the\nstate which assist the State Board of Medical Examiners on disciplinary\nmatters.\nDr. Fast, 51, replaces Dr. Vincent P. Carroll of Laguna Beach\nwhose term has expired.\nThe appointment pays $25 per diem plus expenses.\nDr. Fast received his M.D. Degree from the University of\nMinnesota. He is a past president of the Riverside County Medical\nAssociation, past chief of staff of the Riverside Community Hospital,\npast vice president of the Tri-County Surgical Society, and is on\nthe board of directors of the Riverside Downtown Optimist Club.\nHe has practiced in Riverside for the past 17 years.\nHe is married and resides at 6969 Brockton Street, Riverside.\n# # #\nEJG/646\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: mindiate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.30.67\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed San Leandro attorney\nGordon L. Minder to the municipal court bench of the San Leandro-\nHayward Judicial District.\nThe post, newly created by the 1967 legislature, pays $23,000\nannually.\nMinder, a Republican, has practiced law in San Leandro for the\npast 21 years. A 1936 graduate of the University of California at\nBerkeley, he received his law degree from the University's Boalt Hall\nin 1942.\nDuring World War II, he was a commanding officer of two mine-\nsweepers for the U.S. Navy in the Aleutian Islands area.\nMinder, 54, was admitted to the State Bar in 1946. He is senior\npartner in the San Lenadro law firm of Minder, Chandler and Bruner.\nThree years ago he was admitted to practice before the U. S.\nSupreme Court.\nMinder is a former president of both the Southern Alameda County\nBar Association and the Alameda County Bar Association. He has also\nserved on the board of directors of the Legal Assistance Center of\nWashington Township.\nHis civic activities include: past president of the San Leandro\nchapter of the American Red Cross; past president of the San Leandro\nChamber of Commerce; former president of the San Leandro Junior\nChamber of Commerce; member of the County Citizens' Committee to\nform the Bay Area Rapid Transit District; past president of the\nSan Leandro Rotary Club; and was named San Leandro's \"outstanding\ncitizen\" in 1951.\nHe is a member of the board of directors of the San Leandro\nRepublican Assembly. Minder also serves on the boards of directors\nof the Commercial National Bank of San Leandro and the Western Title\nand Guaranty Company.\nHe is married, has three sons, and resides at 911 Arbor Drive,\nSan Leandro.\n# # #\nEJG/647"
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