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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
Contact: Paul Beck
# 73
445-4571 2.1.68
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has proclaimed
the month of February as AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH.
Text of the proclamation follows:
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS
Americans celebrate the birthdays of two great
presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln
during February; and
WHEREAS
Our nation's history is the sum of our art and
science, our philosophy and politics, our religion and
law, which woven together make the fabric of American
life as we see it today; and
WHEREAS
A deep appreciation of our history, has bound Americans
together in common citizenship as a result of common
shared dreams, common convictions, a sense of kinship
and fraternity; and
WHEREAS
It is through an appreciation for history that present
generations can best honor our debt to the wisdom,
faith, and sacrifice of those who came before us;
NOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do
hereby proclaim the month of February as AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the Great
Seal of the State of California
to be affixed here this twenty-
second day January One Thousand
Nine Hundred Sixty Eight.
Governor
ATTEST:
Secretary of State
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OFFICE OF THE GOVER
RELEASE: In diate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
# 74
445-4571 2.1.68
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Loyalton newspaper publisher
Harold B. Wright and Virgil B. Kingsley, a Los Angeles funeral home
operator, to four-year terms on the State Board of Funeral Directors
and Embalmers.
The posts pay $25 per diem plus travel expenses.
Wright, 63, replaces Hugh Marvin Tiner of San Diego. Kingsley, 56,
succeeds Charles Anspach of Bakersfield. The terms of Tiner and
Anspach expired.
Wright, is editor and publisher of the Sierra Booster. He is a
former president of the Loyalton Chamber of Commerce and is a past vice
president of the Loyalton Rotary Club.
He resides at Box 458, Loyalton.
Kingsley, a past president of the California Funeral Directors'
Association, is a partner and secretary-treasurer of Gates, Kingsley
and Gates, Inc., a southern California mortuary chain.
He is a founding president of the Los Angeles County Funeral
Directors' Association; is a past president of the Santa Monica
Kiwanis Club; and is president and chairman of the Santa Monica
Chapter of the American Red Cross.
He resides at 222 - 22nd Street, Santa Monica.
Both appointees are Republicans.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.1.68
Governor Reagan will make a special announcement in his office
at approximately 4:00 p.m. today, February 1st. Press coverage is
invited.
PB
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
# 75
445-4571 2.1.68
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the resignation of State
Director of Finance Gordon P. Smith, effective March 1.
Governor Reagan has appointed Caspar W. Weinberger as Smith's
successor.
Smith, 50, during his 13 months as finance director, was the
architect of Governor Reagan's first two state budgets, including the
one that will be sent to the legislature on Monday. He was responsible
for carrying out the governor's "cut, squeeze and trim" fiscal policies
and for developing his tax policies.
Smith, a former vice president of the management consulting firm
of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, said he is considering several firm offers.
"The time has come for me to make a decision regarding the future
of my career. This decision can best be made if I am no longer a
part of the state government," Smith said.
In accepting the resignation, Governor Reagan said, "I am
reluctantly and with regret accepting the resignation of Gordon Smith
as state finance director.
"Gordon is, in large measure, responsible for having put our
state's fiscal house in order. He has done a fine job for this
administration and has performed a great service for the people of
California at great personal sacrifice to himself and his family.
"I understand his need and desire to return to private life and I
am grateful for the time he was willing to take from his career and give
to the service of this administration.
"I appreciate, too, the fact that he has agreed to stay on until
March 1 in order to provide for an orderly transition of the functions
of this post," Governor Reagan said.
Weinberger, 50, is a San Francisco attorney, veteran lawmaker and
expert on government.
He headed the governor's task force on governmental reorganization
which was formed after the governor's election.
Weinberger, who was graduated from Harvard University with a B.A.
and LL.B., is a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Heller, Ehrman,
White and McAulliffe.
He served in the state Assembly from 1952-58 and was chairman of
the Government Organization Committee. He also has been chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee and has been active in numerous civic
affairs as well as qovornmental matters
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
# 76
445-4571
2.2.68
Governor Ronald Reagan today named attorney Howard B. Turrentine
to the San Diego County Superior Court bench.
Turrentine, 53, succeeds Judge Edgar B. Hervey who retired
December 4, 1967.
A Republican, Turrentine is a 1939 graduate of the University of
Southern California law school. He has conducted a private law practice
in San Diego since his admission to the state bar in 1939, with the
exception of World War II service in the U.S. Navy.
He is a former president and director of the San Diego County
Bar Association and three years ago served on the state bar committee
for the Unlawful Practice of Law.
He is married, has three children, and resides at 717 Armada
Terrace, San Diego.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
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445-4571 2.2.68
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Fremont attorney M.O. Sabraw
to the municipal court bench of Alameda county's Fremont-Newark-Union
City Judicial District.
The post was created by the 1967 legislature and pays $23,000
annually.
Sabraw, a 41-year old Republican, has been engaged in private
practice in Fremont for the past 12 years. He is a partner in the
legal firm of Quaresma, Sabraw and Avera.
Following graduation from the University of California's Boalt
Law School in 1953, Sabraw went to work as a deputy district attorney
in Sonoma County.
Active in civic affairs, Sabraw has been a member of the Fremont
Board of Education since 1964 and served as its president from 1965-67.
He was on the board of trustees of the Washington Union High School
District from 1963-64. For the past six years, he has served as a
director of the Fremont Chamber of Commerce, and is a former president
of the Central Fremont Businessmen's Association.
Sabraw is a past president and currently a director of the Washingto
Township Bar Association. He is a former director of the Southern
Alameda County Bar Association.
He is married, has four children, and lives at 1225 Arnold Court
Fremont.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571 2.2.68
# 78
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
FEBRUARY 5, 1968
through
FEBRUARY 12, 1968
Monday, February 5
4:00 p.m.
Picture for Chinese New Year (Governor's Office
Tuesday, February 6
9:30 a.m.
Press Conference
2:00 p.m.
Brief presentation by Cyril Magnin, Trevor
Roberts and Dan London of the San Francisco
Port Authority (Governor's Office)
Wednesday, February 7
1:00 p.m.
Acceptance of Report of Governor's Survey on
Efficiency & Cost Control (Press Conference
Room)
3:00 p.m.
Brief greetings to Assemblyman Wakefield and
Downey City Council
Thursday, February 8
10:00 a.m.
Depart for San Francisco
11:45 a.m.
Arrive Fairmount Hotel for Governor's
Industrial Safety Conference Luncheon
(Noon Speech)
2:00 p.m.
Depart for Sacramento
Friday, February 9
11:00 a.m.
Courtesy call by Senator Tom Kuchel
(Governor's Office)
11:45 a.m.
Greet General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of
the Selective Service System (Governor's
Council Room)
3:10 p.m.
Depart Sacramento Metropolitan Airport for
Los Angeles
4:00 p.m.
Arrive Los Angeles (Overnight-Los Angeles)
Saturday, February 10
7:00 p.m.
Governor's Ball sponsored by the Trustees of
Los Amigos del Pueblo, Grand Ballroom,
Beverly Hilton Hotel (Overnight-Los Angeles)
Sunday, February 11
No public appointments scheduled - overnight
Monday, February 12
LINCOLN's BIRTHDAY
Afternoon
No appointments scheduled - return to Sacrament
(Overnight-Sacramento)
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: Imm iate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named six persons, including three
municipal court judges, to the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench.
The posts pay $25,000 annually.
Named were:
--Municipal Judge Harold C. Shepherd, 64, of the Los Angeles
Judicial District.
He succeeds Judge Harry Pregerson who was appointed to the
federal bench.
Shepherd, a Republican, is a 1936 graduate of Southwestern
University law school. He became a Los Angeles County Superior Court
commissioner in 1941, and was appointed a municipal court judge in 1952.
He is a former chairman of the Seminar Committee for Municipal
Courts of the Conference of California Judges; served as a member of the
Municipal and Justice Courts Advisory Committee to the Judicial Council
in 1964; and is currently a member of the Judicial Council.
He and his wife Lois live at 2035 Kenilworth Avenue, Los Angeles.
Municipal Judge John L. Donnellan, 50, of the Whittier Judicial
District.
He replaces Judge Walter Odemar who retired.
Donnellan, a Republican, is a 1941 graduate of the Kent College of
Law, Chicago. He practiced law briefly in Illinois before reporting
for active duty with the U.S. Marines in 1942.
He practiced law in California from 1947 until 1950 when he
was appointed a Los Angeles county deputy district attorney.
He was named to the municipal court bench in 1955 by Governor
Goodwin J. Knight and was subsequently elected to the post in 1958 and
1964.
Donnellan is a former chairman of the Municipal Court Judges
Association of Los Angeles county and served as a member of the Los
Angeles County Special Study Commission on Judicial Procedure from
1960-61.
He is married, has two daughters, and resides at 14225 Eastridge
Avenue, Whittier.
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Judge Raymond hoate, 48, of the South Ba Judicial District.
He succeeds Judge Joe Raycraft who retired.
Choate, a Democrat, is a 1948 graduate of the University of
Southern California law school. He has served as a municipal judge
since his appointment in 1965. He was admitted to the state bar in
1949 and was engaged in private law practice until becoming a judge.
He served as a deputy public defender from 1949-57.
He is a former president of the South Bay Bar Association; and
is a member of the Torrance Rotary Club and Harbor District Welfare
Planning Council.
Choate is married, has four children, and lives at 1211-5th Street,
Manhattan Beach.
--D. Sterry Fagan, 40, chief of the special investigations
division of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
He replaces Judge Roger A. Pfaff who retired.
Fagan, a Republican, is a 1953 graduate of the University of
Southern California law school and has served as a deputy district
attorney for Los Angeles county since 1954 except for a brief period
in private practice.
For the past several years, he has headed up a division which
processes all allegations relating to misconduct in office of
public officials and organized crime.
Fagan is married, has three children, and resides at 5249 Leghorn
Avenue, Van Nuys.
--Norman R. Dowds, 47, a 1943 graduate of the University of
Southern California law school.
He succeeds Judge Donald Hamblin who retired.
A Republican, Dowds has been a partner in the Los Angeles legal
firm of Schultheis, Laybourne and Dowds since 1956.
Dowds has been active for years in the work of the state bar,
the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
He has participated for seven years in state bar disciplinary work
as an examiner. He is a one-time chairman of the Los Angeles County
Bar Association Committee on Psychiatric Department of Superior Court.
He is married, has three children, and lives at 2330 Cumberland
Road, San Marino.
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John R. Allport, 54, a 1939 graduate of the U.C.L.A. law
school.
He replaces Judge David Coleman who retired.
Allport, a Repbulican, has been engaged in private law practice
since 1939, except for four years during World War II when he served
in the U.S. Navy.
He is a member of the Association of Southern California
Defense Counsel, the American Board of Trial Advocates, American
College of Trial Lawyers and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
He is married, has four children, and resides at 28106 West
Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: Im diate
Sacramento, Califor. a
Contact: Paul Beck
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Governor Ronald Reagan said today his budget for the next fiscal
year includes $4 million extra for research and treatment of mental
retardation.
He also noted that the waiting list for care of the mentally-
retarded has been cut by 40 percent in the past year.
"Reducation Reduction in the incidence of mental retardation through research
is the ultimate answer to this problem that affects thousands of
Californians," the governor said.
"For that reason, I have earmarked $1.4 million in new funds to
staff the research facilities for mental retardation that are to be
opened at the Neuropsychiatric Institute in Los Angeles."
The governor also asked $1.5 million additional for a full year's
funding of a special training program for the retarded at Camarillo
State Hospital. Objective of the unit is to enable the retarded to live
in a sheltered environment outside the hospital or to support themselves
in the community. With the opening of the unit this fiscal year, 500
beds were made available at Fairview and Pacific State Hospitals for
retarded youngsters in need of hospitalization.
"An additional $1.1 million was requested to increase the level of
care for patients at the hospitals for the retarded," Governor Reagan
said.
"The additional funds should insure that we maintain the commanding
lead that California has in the treatment of the mentally retarded,"
he said. "The latest federal statistics show that California's
expenditures per mentally retarded patient under treatment are by far
the highest of any large state."
The waiting list has been cut from a total of 1,537 on January 1.
1967 to a total of 917 currently despite the addition of more than
1,000 names to the list in the course of the year. the governor said.
A breakdown of the list showed that a year ago there were 815
persons awaiting hospitalization compared with 455 now; 156 waiting for
nursing home care compared with 87 now; and 546 waiting for residential
care compared with a current total of 375.
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"This achievement has been made possible by several factors",
Governor Reagan said.
"Among these are the new units for mentally retarded opened at
Camarillo and Agnews State Hospitals, the direct placement efforts
of the regional diagnostic centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco,
and the increased effort to place hospital patients on 'leave' in
privately-owned residential care facilities in or near the patient's
home community."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.5.68
Governor Reagan's birthday will be celebrated tomorrow (February 6)
in the Governor's Council Room at 4:30 p.m.
Press coverage is invited.
PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.6.68
# 81
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Richmond Chief of Police,
Charles E. Brown, to the State Women's Board of Terms and Parole.
Brown, 51, will fill the unexpired term of the late James
English of Palm Springs. The term will end March 15, 1969.
Brown's appointment to the $8,000-per-year post will become
effective February 15, 1968.
A Democrat, Brown has been a police officer for 24 years. He
worked his way through the ranks from a patrolman to police chief in
13 years. He has been Richmond chief of police since 1955.
Brown is a graduate of F.B.I. National Police Academy in
Washington D.C. He holds a teaching certificate for instructing law
enforcement classes at the junior college level.
He has held several committee chairmanships in the State Peace
Officers' Association during the past 12 years, and is a former
president of the Contra Costa County Police Chiefs' Association.
Brown is also a past president of the Bay Area Traffic Executives'
Council and the Bay Counties Peace Officers' Association.
He is married, has two children, and resides at 4848 Morwood
Drive, Richmond.
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RELEASE: Ir. diate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.6.68
# 82
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Stanley E. McCaffrey,
president and executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Area Council,
Inc., to the State Commission on Government Organization and Economy.
The post pays necessary travel expenses.
McCaffrey, 50, is a past vice president of the University of
California (1956-60) under Robert Gordon Sproul, and is a former
executive manager of the California Alumni Association.
He joined the San Francisco Bay Area Council as its first full-
time president in 1961. The council is devoted to the civic and
economic development of the nine-county Bay area.
He is a past president and charter member of the Peralta Junior
College District board of directors. He also serves on the board of
governors of Golden Gate College, San Francisco.
He succeeds Thomas W. Caldecott of Oakland who resigned.
McCaffrey, a Republican, will serve at the pleasure of the
governor.
He resides at 172 Alvarado Road, Berkeley.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVE
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RELEASE: In diate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.6.68
# 83
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Assemblyman Charles J. Conrad
and nine other prominent Californians to the American Revolution
Bicentennial Commission of California.
The commission was created by the 1967 legislature to head up
and coordinate California's observance of the bicentennial of the
American revolution which will take place from 1975-83.
The legislation calls for the governor to appoint 10 persons,
including the commission chairman. An additional five commissioners
are appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, and five by the Assembly
speaker.
Governor Reagan's appointees are:
--Assemblyman Charles J. Conrad, 58, of the 57th assembly dis-
trict. Conrad, a Republican and a direct descendent of James Wilson,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, will serve as
commission chairman.
Conrad has served in the state legislature for the past two
decades and is chairman of the Assembly Committee on Interstate
Cooperation.
--Sally B. Altick of Menlo Park, a Republican. Mrs. Altick is
the wife of Robert L. Altick, Jr. She resides at 298 Gabarda Way,
Menlo Park.
--John A. Davis, 75, of La Mesa. A Republican, Davis is a
retired businessman and an active community leader. He has been
appointed La Mesa's official representative at San Diego's 200th
anniversary celebration in 1969. He lives at 9565 Alto Drive, La Mesa.
--Verna M. Hall of San Francisco, a Republican. Miss Hall is a
trustee of the Foundation for American Christian Education. She
resides at 2946 25th Avenue, San Francisco.
--Donald M. Dozer, 62, of Santa Barbara. A Republican, Dr. Dozer
is a history professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
He lives at 421 Mira Monte Drive, Santa Barbara.
--Eleanor R. Lyon, a Republican. She is the wife of Harvey B.
Lyon. Mrs. Lyon has long been active in community affairs. She
resides at 492 Staten Avenue, Oakland,
--John McCarty, 55, president of the Rule Company, a Los Angeles
insurance brokerage firm. He is a Democrat and resides at 1075
Lagunita Road, Pasadena.
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--William L. Shaw, 58, of Sacramento. A Republican, Shaw is a
state deputy attorney general assigned to the State Military
Department and the Department of Employment. He is also judge advocate
of the California National Guard Association. He resides at 3701
College Avenue, Sacramento,
--Robert F. Beaver, 60, of Los Angeles, He is president and
owner of Willard-Brent Company, Inc., general contractors. A
Republican, Beaver lives at 1235 Margarita Drive, Fullerton.
--Gretchen W. Thomas, a San Rafael Republican. She is the wife
of Edwin W. Thomas, Jr. She resides at 447 Fairhills Drive, San Rafael
The governor's appointees receive necessary expenses and serve
at his pleasure.
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MEMO TO TI
PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contict:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.6.68
C-O-R-R-F-C-T-I-O-N
In Release No. 83 dated today, please correct Page 1,
sixth paragraph as follows:
Conrad has served in the state legislature for the
past :wo decades and is a former chairman of the Assembly Com-
mitt e on Interstate Cooperation.
NEWS from
Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control
P.O. Box 931, Sacramento, Calif. 95804
O. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510
2.6.68
For Release P.M.'s of Wednesday
Background: Cooperation of
February 7, 1968 (PLEASE GUARD
State Employees an Important
AGAINST PREMATURE RELEASE)
Factor in Survey's Success
Sacramento--Much of the success of an undertaking with the scope
of the Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control, says the
survey's report presented to Governor Ronald Reagan, "can be attributed
to the excellent working relationship between state employees" and
survey personnel.
Recognition of the need for employee cooperation was implicit in
the original executive order authorizing the survey.
In the order, issued February 20, 1967, Governor Reagan directed
"each officer and employee of this state to furnish the consultants
and their representatives complete information and to give (them)
every assistance in the performance of their duties."
Response of state employees to the work of the survey was
immediate, Survey Chairman O. Kenneth Pryor reports. "Not only did
they supply the necessary background materials to aid the survey teams,
but they presented ideas and suggestions for many beneficial improvements
embodied in the final report of the survey."
Typical of reactions encountered by survey members was the comment
of one state employee when the team completed its work in his department:
"When this started, I thought it would be another head-hunting
routine. I can't say that I really like your finding some things that
I should have known all along, but you people went about your work
trying to help us, and that has never happened before."
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MEMO TO THI
RESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
2.6.68
The summary report of the Governor's Survey on Efficiency and
Cost Control will be presented to Governor Reagan by O. Kenneth
Pryor, survey chairman, at 1 p.m., Wednesday, February 7. Members
of the survey executive committee and members of the governor's
cabinet will be available after the presentation in press conference
room 1190 for questions.
Copies of the summary and other material will be given to the
press today for Wednesday P.M.'s release.
Press coverage is invited for the Wednesday presentation and
following press conference.
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NPWS from
Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control
P.O. Box 931, Sacramento, Calif. 95804
O. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510
2.6.68
For Release P.M.'s of Wednesday,
February 7, 1968
Some Survey Recommendations
(PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE
Already Put Into Effect
RELEASE)
Sacramento--the Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control,
which presented its summary report and recommendations to Governor
Ronald Reagan today, already has been instrumental in effecting savings
for California's taxpayers and suggesting management changes in the
state's governmental agencies.
Most survey recommendations require action by the state administra-
tion or the legislature for implementation before they can result in
actual dollar savings.
But in the course of the survey's intensive months-long study of
most of California's state agencies, suggestions were made and accepted
by agency staff members which resulted in considerable savings to the
state's taxpayers.
For example Survey Chairman O. Kenneth Pryor reported, a planned
10-story state office building will not have to be built.
The survey's work on state office space was used by the Department
of Motor Vehicles and the California Highway Patrol to find the room
they needed in existing buildings. The survey findings, in fact, show
a proposed new 10-story office building will not be needed before 1980,
if at all. Savings: $4.3 million, plus annual interest and maintenance
costs of $400.00.
In another instance, Chairman Pryor reported, the survey suggested
mailing annual vehicle registration renewal notices a month earlier to
help avoid a work overload at deadline time.
The early receipt of license fees also could earn an extra
$185,000 in interest, the survey estimated. A bonus this year was that
mailing 12-million renewal notices preceded the one-cent postal rate
increase and may have saved $120,000.
In a third instance, the Department of Water Resources, by
adopting the survey team's recommendations, was ahle to reduce the
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cost of a proposed history of the California Water Project by $600,000.
Other preliminary recommendations by the survey which are already
in effect or under consideration include these examples, large and small:
a study of office space utilization, it was determined
that the state was assigning, over-all, at least 25 percent more office
space per employee than does industry in general. Py applying industrial
standards, two state office buildings currently under construction will
now house more than 3,000 employees instead of the 2,138 originally
planned.
--A two-color printing press less than four years old was scheduled
to be replaced at a cost of $34,000 because it had never performed
satisfactorily. A survey team showed how the press could be brought
up to standard performance for $7,000, thus saving $27,000.
--The State Printing Plant cannot exonomically handle the printing
of business cards for state personnel. This work could be done by an
outside contractor instead, for a saving of $20,000 annually.
--In one state office more than 200,000 rarely-used correspondence
files for 1965 were being maintained. Throwing out these files meant
a $12,000 savings.
--In studying telephone use, a survey team found several unused
desks, vacant for many months but each with a telephone still in service.
In addition to these and other examples of savings already in
effect, the survey studies have brought about organizational changes.
One such series of changes, announced by Governor Reagan last
November, concerned the Department of Water Resources and dealt primarily
with program development and control, construction contract administratio.
and related matters.
Another survey recommendation resulted in establishment last
November of the Office of Management Services, under the jurisdiction
of Business and Transportation Agency. Charles P. Smith, formerly
senior technical advisor to management for System Development Corp. of
Santa Monica, was subsequently named director of the new office.
The office, consisting of a small group of data processing
specialists, has the task of developing plans for over-all consolidation
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and optimum utilization of automatic data processing systems for state
government.
In signing the executive order creating the new office,
Governor Reagan took cognizance of the rapid advance in the technology
of data processing and said "these advances offer an opportunity to
improve the efficiency, responsiveness and economy of governmental
activities."
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
PERCENTAGE INCREASES
The DECADE 1957 to 1967
%
%
125
120%
125
100
100
75
70%
75
50
50
39%
34%
25
25
0
0
Total Employment Civilian
Population
10 state
Fund
*Based on constant (1967) dollar
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
POPULATION and
GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES*
PERCENTAGE INCREASES
%
The DECADE 1957 to 1967
%
250
250
247%
200
200
150
138%
150
98%
100
88%
100
50
39%
50
0
0
Population
Social Welfare
11/11 to
All Others
* Based on constant (1967) dollar
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
GOVERNOR'S SURVEY ON
EFFICIENCY AND COST CONTROL
POTENTIAL SAVINGS
State Funds:
Millions
General and special funds
Potential savings-
Annually
$233
One-time
22
Capital funds
Reduction (or cancellation)
of planned expenditures
for facilities
153
Long-term deferment of
capital expenditures
118
County and Local Funds:
Potential annual savings
67
Federal Funds:
Potential annual savings
92
NEWS from
February 6, 1968
Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control
P. O. Box 931, Sacramento, California 95804
O. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510
For Release: PM's of
Wednesday, February 7, 1968
Background Information on the
(PLEASE GUARD AGAINST
Governor's Survey on Efficiency and
PREMATURE RELEASE)
Cost Control
Sacramento - Governor Ronald Reagan recognized the need to
conduct a thorough examination and evaluation of the management and
administrative practices of all operating sectors of California state
government.
The need was clear: Costs of state government have been increas-
ing far faster than the state's population. California's population
increased 39 percent in the past 10 years, while the number of state
government employees rose by 70 percent.
In dollar terms, general fund expenditures of state government
increased 120 percent, even after adjusting for inflation.
As a result of this disproportionate growth, state government--
the largest business in the state in terms of expenditures and number
of employees--was spending more than it received.
Governor Reagan met the problem by issuing an Executive Order
February 20, 1967, authorizing the Governor's Survey on Efficiency
and Cost Control and appointing O. Kenneth Pryor as chairman.
From the beginning, as set forth in the Executive Order, the aim
of the Survey was to conduct "such studies and investigations as
necessary to determine how the services of the State of California
may be provided its citizens in the most efficient, expeditious and
economical manner
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The pattern for such a survey was similar to that used regularly
by business throughout the nation to identify trends which cannot be
allowed to continue without putting their operation into the red.
More recently, state governments in Ohio, Washington, Oklahoma,
Michigan and Wisconsin have adopted the management survey technique.
Governor Reagan held luncheons with business and community
leaders in Los Angeles and San Francisco early in 1967. He asked the
business and professional communities to supply manpower and support
for a "citizen's" survey, at no cost to the state.
Some 280 firms, organizations and individual citizens provided
support for the work of the Survey. A non-profit corporation was
formed to channel funds from the supporting groups into the Survey
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and maintain the "no-state-cost" status of the efrort.
After the governor's Executive Order announced the survey in
February, 1967, the organizing work began in earnest. By the end of
March a seven-man executive committee had been formed under Pryor
to carry out the organizational work.
Study teams were assigned to state departments when the proper
number of members with the required type of background could be
recruited and made available. Most teams were at work by mid-May,
1967, and many of their studies were completed by the end of August.
From September on, the remaining work was concerned mainly with
editing and correlating the numerous reports. This was done by
members of the executive committee, who reviewed the findings and
recommendations with supervisory and management groups of the state
departments concerned.
Survey team members devoted a total of approximately 17,000 man-
days to the study.
Each study team, after analyzing basic documents on the state
department being surveyed--such as department budgets, annual reports,
legislative analyst's budget reviews, and audits--scheduled inter-
views with the department head and his key employees.
A tentative work schedule was set up, based in part on the study
teams' analysis of budgets and audits, and partly on what the state
department head or his key staff members suggested as possible areas
for investigation.
On the average, about 16 weeks were spent in indoctrination,
interviewing, visiting work sites and making analysis of departmental
processes.
From the beginning, the Survey did not propose to cover all state
activities. There was no intent to study the legislative or judicial
branches of the state government.
The Survey devoted its efforts to covering most of the executive
branch activities. A small number of offices--such as the State
Treasurer's office, the Office of Economic Opportunity and the
Secretary of State's office--were not analyzed because of the lack
of time and manpower.
The only office of major size that was not surveyed was the
State Board of Equalization.
The survey did not endeavor to abolish or create state programs
or establish state policy. Instead, it investigated the management
and administration of existing programs and state functions to make
them more efficient a. -4 improve the quality of St vice given the
public for its tax dollar.
The final Summary Report and Recommendations, which brings
together the various study team reports on those state activities
surveyed, consists of 149 numbered pages of text containing the
Survey's major analysis and summarizing approximately 2,000 recom-
mendations for 60 departments or agencies.
Presentation of the Summary Report and Recommendations formally
was made to Governor Reagan by Pryor and the executive committee
today (2/7/68).
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NEWS FROM
Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control
P.O. Box 931, Sacramento, Calif. 95804
O. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510
2.6.68
For Release P.M. of Wednesday,
Background: Who Were Members of
February 7, 1968 (PLEASE GUARD
Governor's Survey on Efficiency
AGAINST PREMATURE RELEASE)
and Cost Control?
Sacramento--The Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control
consisted of 250 highly qualified executives, management specialists
and professional people representing most sectors of the state's
business and professional life.
In the process of working toward its objectives, members of the non-
partisan Governor's Survey devoted over 17,000 man-days to their
efforts. Some 280 business and industrial firms, organizations, and
individuals supported the survey, many of them furnishing executives
and staff people on a full-time volunteer basis.
Chairman of the survey was O. Kenneth Pryor, of Hillsborough,
retired managing partner of Price Waterhouse & Co., national firm of
certified public accountants.
Pryor was assisted by a seven-man executive committee. To
conduct the background work of the survey, state government operations
were divided into seven areas, with a study team headed by a member
of the survey's executive committee assigned to each.
Executive committee members and their areas of study were:
--Frank Cleary (education), of Los Angeles, formerly director of
corporate systems and procedures, Aerojet-General, now assistant
comptroller, ITT-Gilfillan.
--Jay Davis, Jr. (public safety and regulatory), of Monrovia, vice
president, Southern Counties Gas Co.
--Harold B. Haught (agriculture and resources), of Sacramento,
vice president and general manager, Northern Counties area, Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
--A. Howard McHarg (health and welfare), of San Mateo, management
consultant, department on organization, Standard Oil Co. of California,
--Marshall G. Mustain (executive and fiscal), of Oakland,
management consultant, department on organization, Standard oil Co.
of California.
--Ralph W. Seely (transportation), of Hillsborough, vice president
sales, western area, United States Steel Co.
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--William H. Spurgeon III (corrections and institutions), of
Newport Beach, former vice president, Irvine Co., now project manager,
Vernon division, Bechtel Corp.
Director of manpower and finances for the survey was Holmes Tuttle,
of Los Angeles, assisted by Joseph W. Cochran III, Pebble Beach.
Warren King & Associates Inc., Chicago management consulting firm,
provided consultation services,
Job levels of the 250 survey members ranged from middle manage-
ment to corporate officers. Professional backgrounds represented a
wide range of business management, civil and mechanical engineering,
data systems and procedures, finance, personnel, law, medicine,
architecture, purchasing, agriculture and various other specialities.
Managerial and professional talent of the scope represented on
the survey team could not have been retained on a project basis. In
addition to the contribution of executive talent by businesses and
industries, many companies and individuals made monetary contributions
to defray expenses of the study. The entire project, in fact, was
conducted by a non-profit cerporation, without cost to the state.
Survey team members were instructed to confine their efforts to
reviewing organization structures and management practices. They
did not attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of specialized
professional activites (teaching, for example).
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NEWS from
ebruary 6, 1968
Governor's Survey on fficiency and Cost Control
P.O. Box 931, Sacramento, California 95804
O. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510
For Release: P.M.' 's of
Wednesday, February 7, 1968
(PLEASE GUARD AGAINST
PREMATURE RELEASE)
Sacramento--Recommendations designed to increase the efficiency
of state government, reduce and control costs, and in general give
the people of California more effective service for each tax dollar
were contained in the report of a statewide citizens' study group
presented to Governor Ronald Reagan today.
The report, based on a 10-month-long effort of the governor's
Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control, summarizes some 2,000 specific
recommendations for streamlining and improving the quality of work of
most state departments and agencies.
O. Kenneth Pryor, chairman of the Survey, said in presenting the
149 page summary report to Governor Reagan that the "Survey team's
recommendations can lead to very large savings for the state if they
are fully implemented by the state administration and the legislature".
Many suggestions, developed during the study stages of the Survey,
have already been put into effect by state agency staffs, Pryor added,
and plans are being made to accomplish others.
The report declares that Survey recommendations have the potential
of reducing costs and avoiding expenditures of general and special
funds by an estimated amount of $233 million annually and could gener-
ate a one-time savings of $22 million.
In addition, the Survey says its "recommendations would reduce,
or forego altogether, planned expenditures for facilities in the
amount of $153 million". Another $118 million in capital spending
could be put off for a considerable time.
Besides savings in state funds, the Survey estimates its recom-
mendations could result in reduced costs and cost avoidance to county
and local governments of $67 million a year, and in federal funds of
about $92 million a year.
Pryor, in his presentation of the Survey report to Governor
Reagan, stressed that the suggested program for improvement is complex
and can only be accomplished over a period of years.
In some areas, such as systems analysis, program budgeting and
automatic data processing, it actually would be necessary to incur
some additional costs in the nature of "seed money" for equipment or
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staff reorganization before the potential long-range savings could be
realized.
No wholesale "meat ax" elimination of state employees would
result from implementation of the Survey recommendations, Pryor
emphasized. Where economies in personnel or reassignment of responsi-
bilities are suggested, the results generally could be obtained by
normal attrition or turnover in state employee ranks, he said.
"Much of the dollar savings proposed in the Survey take the form
of costs which can be avoided in the future, rather than specific
cuts in present spending", Pryor said.
General fund expenditures of the California state government
increased 120 percent in the past 10 years, even after adjusting for
inflation, while population increased only 39 percent.
These facts were the background for Governor Reagan's Executive
Order, issued February 20, 1967, authorizing the Survey on Efficiency
and Cost Control.
Some 280 business firms, organizations, and individual private
citizens provided support for the Survey "task force". A non-profit
corporation was formed to channel funds from the supporting groups
into the Survey, which thus was carried out at no cost to the state
itself.
About 250 Survey team members, working under Chairman Pryor and
a seven-man executive committee, carried out the actual studies, which
were generally concentrated in a 16-week period during the spring and
summer of 1967. Work since that time has consisted of discussions of
recommendations with state employees and writing and editing the
Survey team reports on the many governmental agencies and activities
examined by the task force.
The Summary Report presented today to Governor Reagan is a
compilation of dozens of separate reports prepared by the teams.
Altogether, more than 2,000 recommendations were made by the Survey
for changes in organization, methods and procedures. The separate
reports were furnished directly to departments and agencies.
"The Survey did not endeavor to abolish or create state programs,
or to establish state policy", Pryor said. "Instead, it investigated
the management and administration of existing programs and state
functions to make them more efficient and improve the quality of
service given the public for its tax dollar", he said.
Detailed office-by-office investigations by the Survey teams
developed important recommendations for organization changes and
paperwork simplification to speed work flow and amprove communications.
Some of the greatest impact on government procedures could come
from Survey recommendations for greater centralization and standardiza-
tion of such broad state functions as office space allotment, data
processing, purchasing and warehousing, and operation of the state's
fleet of 26,000 vehicles.
"State employees themselves played a large and active part in
carrying forward the work of the Survey", Pryor declared. "Not only
did the state / workers, : at all levels, supply necessary background
materials to aid our teams, but they presented ideas and suggestions
for many beneficial improvements embodied in our final report".
Although most of the recommendations of the Survey will require
long-range implementation in the form of action by the state adminis-
tration and the legislature, many ideas formulated during the course
of the Survey already have been put into effect by state agency staffs.
Pryor was joined in the presentation of the Survey Report to
the governor and his cabinet by members of the Survey's seven-man
executive committee.
Members of this committee, each of whom headed a major area of
the Survey, were: Frank Cleary, Los Angeles; Jay Davis, Jr.,
Monrovia; Harold B. Haught, Sacramento; A. Howard McHarg, San Mateo;
Marshall G. Mustain, Oakland; Ralph W. Seely, Hillsborough; and
William H. Spurgeon, III, Newport Beach.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he had appointed
Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch as chairman of the California Council
on Criminal Justice.
The council, which was established by the State Legislature in
1967 through legislation authored by Sen. George Deukmejian (R-Long
Beach), will serve as the statewide planning and coordinating
organization for the development of state and local resources in
crime prevention and control.
The governor appointed the following persons as members of the
council:
Louis P. Bergna, district attorney of Santa Clara County;
Allen F. Breed, director of the Youth Authority;
Bernard J. Clark, sheriff of Riverside County;
Dr. C. Robert Guthrie, chairman, Department of Criminology,
California State College at Long Beach;
Dr. William W. Herrmann, operations research scientist, System
Development Corporation, Santa Monica;
Edwin Meese III, legal affairs secretary to the governor;
Gene S. Muehleisen, executive officer, Commission on Peace
Officer Standards and Training;
John D. Nunes, public defender of Alameda County and member of
the State Bar Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure;
Raymond K. Procunier, director of Corrections;
Thomas Reddin, chief of police, Los Angeles;
Harold W. Sullivan, commissioner of the California Highway Patrol;
Spencer Williams, administrator of the Youth and Adult Corrections
Agency and chairman of the Board of Corrections.
The governor has scheduled the first meeting of the council to
take place on Wednesday, February 14, at 10:15 a.m. in the Capitol.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Norman T. R. Heathorn of
Oakland and W. Daniel Larsen of San Diego to four-year terms on the
Contractors State License Board.
The appointments require Senate confirmation and pay $25 per
diem plus travel expenses.
Heathorn, 31, succeeds Joe Herman of Los Angeles.
Larsen, 40, replaces D. N. Schneider of Fullerton. Both outgoing
members' terms expired.
Heathorn, a Republican, is vice president of N. V. Heathorn, Inc.,
an Oakland mechanical contracting firm. He is a graduate of Piedmont
High School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He resides at 4834 Haley Drive, Castro Valley.
Larsen owns and manages his own general contracting business.
He is a 1951 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
He resides at 1405 Savoy Circle, San Diego.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed his first bill of the 1968
legislative session.
The bill (AB 232-Fenton) corrects errors in the description of
districts contained in the 1967 congressional reapportionment act
(chapter 2, statutes of 1967, 2nd extraordinary session).
The bill passed the Assembly on a 63-1 vote and won unanimous
Senate approval.
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Governor Ronald Reagan has proclaimed the week of February 10 -
18 as NATIONAL NEGRO HISTORY WEEK.
Text of the proclamation follows:
WHEREAS
Citizens throughout California will be observing
the period of February 10th to 18th as the 53rd
annual National Negro History Week, sponsored by
the Association for the Study of Negro Life and
History; and
WHEREAS
This period will be a fitting time for all Californians
to contemplate the significant contributions which
Negro citizens have made in science, industry,
government, and the professions to the enrichment
and advancement of our multi-racial culture: and
WHEREAS The Authors' Study Club, the Los Angeles branch
of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and
History, is sponsoring appropriate observances in
California;
NOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do
hereby proclaim the period of February 10th to 18th NEGRO
HISTORY WEEK in California and urge that all Californians
take advantage of this opportunity to learn of the roles
and contributions of the American Negro in the development
of the United States and the State of California.
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Governor Reagan said the plan for local tax relief came about as
a result of a meeting with representatives of the County Supervisors'
Association. He said he would meet again early next week with state
financial experts and County Supervisors Assn. representatives to
complete final details of the plan.
The property tax relief proposal is the first part of major tax
reform legislation he will submit to the legislature. Additional tax
reform measures are now being prepared, Governor Reagan said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he will propose legislation
early next week designed to give meaningful property tax relief to
Californians.
The measure will be the first in a series of proposals he will
recommend to the legislature aimed at reforming the state's tax
structure.
"There can be no question in the mind of any citizen of California
that meaningful property tax relief is absolutely vital," the governor
said.
"Therefore, I will submit legislation early next week which will
give this relief to the already overburdened property taxpayer.
"I will at that time urge the legislature to adopt this plan on
its merits without regard to partisanship," Governor Reagan said.
Key element in the plan is that while it will provide for local
property tax relief, it also will furnish an improved revenue source
for county government, the governor said.
In general, the proposal calls for one-half cent of the present
state sales tax to be funneled to the counties. Counties currently
receive only a small portion of the state sales tax. The legislation
to be introduced will specify the formula under which the half-cent
will be distributed to the counties.
At the same time, the legislation will provide that the counties
will give up small subventions that are now being paid to them by the
state.
The net result will be approximately $155 million in additional
funds for the counties, permitting the counties to then use the $155
million to reduce local property taxes.
"This plan provides for a very significant way to give property tax
relief to our citizens," the governor said, "because it funnels the
money into the counties which in turn must pass these benefits on to
their taxpayers."
The plan also will improve financial management of both the state
and the counties by reducing the cost of administering small subventions
from the state to county governments. It will put state-local government
financial relationships on a more sound basis, the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today called on employers around the
state to help him mount a vigorous campaign aimed at securing jobs
for California young people this summer.
In an open letter to employers in private industry and state
and local government, the governor warned that the state "faces a
major problem this summer because there are more than 400,000 young
adults, 16 through 21 years of age, who will be looking for work.
"Many of these young people", he said, "come from poverty areas
of our state".
Governor Reagan urged a "vigorous summer job campaign for all
youth directed by private industry in partnership with government.
"Private industry and state and local government have a vital
interest in putting California youth to work productively and profit-
ably", he said.
To implement the job campaign effort, the governor said he will
appoint a "blue-ribbon" committee from private industry.
"This committee will devise ways and means to overcome barriers
to the summer employment of youth in the private sector. It will
work with business and industry to develop a summer job opportunity
campaign utilizing the skills, talents, and abilities of California's
younger workers", Governor Reagan said.
State agency heads are being asked to provide budgetary resources
along with job planning and identification of summer jobs for youth,
his letter said.
The governor said he has asked Peter Weinberger, director of
the Department of Employment, to serve as a focal point of the summer
job campaign.
Weinberger's staff will offer assistance and support to the
Blue Ribbon Private Industry Committee. In addition, offices of the
State Employment Service will serve as community job centers for the
summer job campaign.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named four persons, and reappointed
another, to terms on the California State Fair and Exposition board
of directors.
The governor also designated Ralph A. Nissen of Williams as
president of the board until February 1, 1969. Nissen was appointed to
a four-year term as a board member last February by Governor Reagan.
Nissen replaces Robert Setrakian as president.
Setrakian whose term on the board expired February 1, is
succeeded by Orval L. Bane, 66, of Fresno. Bane served as the
governor's representative in Fresno until the regional office was
closed last December 31.
Bane has been engaged in ranching and the cattle feeding busi-
ness since 1950. He was also in the land management and banking
business from 1921-55. For the past 12 years he has been a Fresno
real estate broker.
He is a Republican and resides at 23328 East Kings Canyon Road,
Reedley.
Bane and two other persons were appointed to four-year terms on
the board. They are Woodrow A. Miller, 54, of Colton, and Katherine
H. Haley of Ventura.
Miller, owner, manager and developer of Miller's American Honey
Company, served as a consultant and adviser to three U.S. Secretaries
of Agriculture--Clinton Anderson, Charles Brannan and Ezra Taft Benson.
Miller is a Republican and resides at 185 Laurel Street, Colton.
He succeeds Harold J. Powers of Elk Grove whose term expired.
Miller has already served a one-year term on the board. The
term expired February 1.
Mrs. Haley, a rancher, is a member of the board of the
California Shorthorn Breeders' Association and was elected in 1967 to
the non-profit board of the California Exposition. She is currently
serving in her 10th year as a director of the Ventura Community
Memorial Hospital. She is a Republican and lives at Route 1, Box 747,
Ventura. Mrs. Haley replaces Dorothee C. Mull of Sacramento, whose
term expired.
Named to a one-year term on the board was Fred D. Corfee, Jr.,
of Sacramento, 38 year old Republican. Corfee operates a dry-cleaning
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firm in Sacramento. He is a director of the Sacramento Rotary Club
and is treasurer of the World Affairs Council of Sacramento. He is
also a director of the Sacramento Area Mental Health Association. He
lives at 3614 Brockway Court, Sacramento, and replaces Woodrow Miller.
Governor Reagan reappointed Conrad J. Ferreira, 46, of Redding
to a one-year term on the board. He has owned the Redding Veterinary
Hospital in Redding for some 21 years. He is a member of the California
State Veterinary Medical Association, the American Veterinary Associa-
tion and the Cattlemen's Association of Redding.
A Republican, Ferreira lives at P.O. Box 958, Redding.
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GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
February 12, 1968
through
February 17, 1968
Monday, February 12
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
5:00 p.m.
Return to Sacramento-Western #658
6:00 p.m.
Arrive Sacramento Municipal Airport
Tuesday, February 13
1:30 p.m.
Press Conference
2:45 p.m.
Presentation of Annual Report by
Boy Scouts, governor's office
Wednesday, February 14
VALENTINE'S DAY
10:30 .m.
Greetings to members of the
California Council of Criminal
Justice, governor's council room
4:00 p.m.
Meeting with Governor Raymond
Shafer of Pennsylvania, governor's
office
Overnight-Sacramento
Thursday, February 15
10:30 a.m.
Depart executive residence
for San Francisco
12:30 p.m.
Stanford Business Conference
Luncheon, Grand Ballroom, Fairmont
Hotel. Speech
2:15 p.m.
Depart for Sacramento
Overnight-Sacramento
Friday, February 16
3:10 p.m.
Depart Sacramento Metropolitan
Airport-new airport
4:00 p.m.
Arrive Los Angeles
Overnight-Los Angeles
Saturday, February 17
Noon
Regents Luncheon, University of
California, Riverside
2:00 p.m.
Business session
Overnight-Los Angeles
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Joseph A. Vargas, South El Monte city councilman, and Hubert F.
Laugharn, Jr., Beverly Hills insurance man and builder to the El
Pueblo del Los Angeles State Historical Monument Commission.
Vargas and Laugharn, both Republicans, will serve three-year
terms. Vargas replaces John P. Elsbach, and Laugharn succeeds
Robert J. Gomez, Jr., whose terms expired. Both are from Los Angeles.
The appointments pay expenses while on official business.
El Pueblo de Los Angeles Commission is an organization consisting
of members appointed by the state, city and county of Los Angeles.
Purpose of the commission is to acquire, develop and operate a
historical monument in the vicinity of Olvera Street in downtown
Los Angeles as part of the state park system.
Vargas, who operates a wholesale-retail food business, has
been a councilman in South El Monte since the city was incorporated
in 1958. He served two terms as mayor. He is a director of the
League of California Cities and a member of the Valle Lindo School
Board. He lives at 1227 North Potrero Avenue, South El Monte.
Laugharn has cattle interests in Mexico in addition to his
insurance and construction businesses. He attended the University
of Southern California and was a transport Pilot during World War II.
He is a member of Rancheros Visitadores and the Saddle and Sirloin
Club.
Laugharn lives at 126 South Lorraine Boulevard, Los Angeles
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Sacramento attorney Gordon A.
Fleury to the Commission on California State Government Organization
and Economy, succeeding Caspar Weinberger of San Francisco who resigned
to accept the post of State Finance Director.
Fleury, 51, is associated with the law firm of Wilke, Fleury and
Sapunor of Sacramento.
A native of Glendale, he was graduated from Hastings College of
Law with an LLB in 1939 and also attended Sacramento Junior College.
He was an assistant district attorney for Sacramento County from
1941-42 and was a legal assistance officer during World War II.
Fleury served in the State Assembly from 1949-55 when he was
appointed to the Superior Court. He left the bench in 1958 to enter
private practice. He is a Republican.
As a member of the so-called Little Hoover Commission, Fleury
serves at the pleasure of the governor and receives travel expenses
for official duties.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Orange County Supervisor
David L. Baker and Redondo Beach physician Merle H. Boyce to four-
year terms on the Intergovernmental Council on Urban Growth.
The posts pay necessary travel expenses.
Baker, 49, succeeds George W. Wakefield of Los Angeles. Boyce,
41, replaces Warren M. Campbell of Northridge. Both outgoing members'
terms expired.
Baker, a Republican, is chairman of the Southern California
Association of County Supervisors and serves as president of the
Southern California Association of Governments. He is a member of
the President's Commission on Urban Problems and is a board member of
the County Supervisors' Association of California.
He resides at 9452 Royal Palm Boulevard, Garden Grove.
Boyce, a specialist in plastic surgery, is a 1955 graduate of
the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, Los Angeles. He
elected to become an M.D. in 1962. He is a Republican.
He lives at 28220 Ella Road, Palos Verdes.
Governor Reagan also reappointed the following persons to terms
ending November 21, 1971:
--San Leandro City Manager Wesley McClure. A Democrat, McClure,
52, was first appointed to the council in 1963.
--Gordon Luce, Transportation Agency administrator.
-Spencer Williams, Health and Welfare Agency administrator.
-Norman Livermore, Resources Agency administrator.
Houston Flournoy, State Controller.
-Robert Finch, Lieutenant Governor.
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Governor Ronald Reagan has named James D. Clark, executive
director of the San Diego County Economic Development Corp., and
George V. Caldwell, a Santa Monica export-import businessman, to four-
year terms on the Southern California World Trade Center Authority.
The posts pay necessary travel expenses.
Clark, 54, replaces Kenneth D. Frye of San Diego. Caldwell, 53,
succeeds Robert W. Prescott of Los Angeles. Both outgoing members'
terms expired.
Clark, a Republican, has been a real estate developer in
San Diego for many years. A graduate of the Northwestern University
School of Commerce, he served during World War II with the U.S. Army.
He has headed the County Economic Development Corp. since 1965.
He is president of the Lendale Company and serves as a director of
the San Diego Trust and Savings Bank.
Clark is a former vice president and director of the California
Real Estate Association, and was. president and director of the
San Diego Symphony Association.
He lives at 4274 Randolph Terrance, San Diego.
Caldwell, a political independent, has traveled widely in
connection with his import-export business. A graduate of the
University of Utah, he established an export-import company dealing
in micro-electronic devices in 1946. The company, Micro-Electron,
Inc., grew into the largest independent firm of its kind, and is now
a subsidiary of Transitron, Inc.
Caldwell's current import-export trade deals primarily in
graphic arts supplies.
He resides at 236 Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Pepperdine College Vice
President William J. Teague to a four-year term on the Western Inter-
state Commission for Higher Education.
The appointment requires Senate confirmation. It pays necessary
travel expenses.
Teague, 40, succeeds Foster Hall Sherwood of Los Angeles whose
term expired.
A Republican, Teague has served as Pepperdine's vice president
since 1959. He was executive assistant to the president of Abilene
Christian College from 1952-57.
He holds a Masters Degree from Columbia University (1959),
and earned a Doctor of Education Degree from U.C.L.A. three years
ago.
He resides at 5451 El Dorado Drive, Huntington Beach.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named dentists Lewis E. Martin of
Downey and Robert D. Lawson of Upland to four-year terms on the
State Board of Dental Examiners.
The posts pay $25 per diem plus travel expenses.
Martin, 39, succeeds William B. Ryder of Belvedere. Lawson, 36,
replaces Clifford F. Loader of Delano. Both outgoing members' terms
expired. The new appointees are Republicans.
Martin is a 1958 graduate of the U.S.C. dental school where he
served as an instructor for four years. He is a charter member and
vice president of the Downey Dental Society, and currently serves
as a director of the Downey Chamber of Commerce.
He lives at 7711 Cecilia Street, Downey.
Lawson, a graduate of the U.S.C. dental school currently serves
as chief of the dental staff of San Antonio Hospital, Upland. He
is an executive councilor of the Tri-County Dental Society.
He has been engaged in private practice for the past 10 years.
Lawson resides at 2370 North Euclid Avenue, Upland.
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Sacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan said today that he has
reluctantly accepted the request of Gordon A. Fleury that his name be
withdrawn for appointment to the Commission on California State Govern-
ment Organization and Economy.
Fleury, 51, a former state legislator and former superior court
judge in Sacramento, had been named to succeed Caspar Weinberger to
the "Little Hoover Commission" post.
However, Fleury told the governor that, "I respectfully request
you withdraw my appointment.
He told the governor the post "was too important for it to be-
come embroiled in partisanship" and that the best interests of the
people of California would be served by his withdrawal.
"It is extremely regretable that a man of unquestioned principles
and such long service to his fellow citizens has been subjected to such
partisan attacks," Governor Reagan said in accepting Fleury's letter
of withdrawal. "It is unfortunate that some people who cannot find real
issues to bring before the public, must resort to this type of
harrassment and deprive the state of a man devoted to public service."
"Mr. Fleury has had a long record of public service and his
experience would have been of great value to the Little Hoover Commission
However, I understand his position and regret that he was forced to
make this decision," the governor said.
Fleury told Governor Reagan that he "sincerely appreciated your
thoughtfulness in allowing me the opportunity to devote some of my
time to public service, but feel that for all concerned it would be
best if I did not accept your present offer."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Los Angeles County Public
Defender Antonio E. Chavez to the municipal court bench, Los Angeles
Judicial District.
The post pays $23,000 annually.
Chavez, 41, replaces Judge Harold Shepherd who was elevated to
the Superior Court bench.
A Democrat, Chavez has worked in the Los Angeles County public
defender's office since 1963, and has headed the department's East
Los Angeles office for the past two years.
He is a 1959 graduate of the Loyola University law school in
Los Angeles and was admitted to the State Bar in 1960.
Chavez worked his way through law school while supporting a
wife and five children.
From 1949-53, he taught high school in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
He then moved to Southern California and worked days for the
Lockheed-California Company in Burbank while completing a full-time
law course at night.
Prior to joining the public defender's office, he was engaged
in private law practice in Los Angeles.
Chavez is a former director of the Los Angeles Convention
Bureau, and serves on the board of the Pop Warner Football Organiza-
tion in South Pasadena.
He served in the Marine Corps during World War II.
Chavez and his family reside at 4411½ Van Horne Avenue,
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Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Walter T. Rodman,
manager of the California Beef Council, and Edgar D. O'Brien, a
retired Wells Fargo Bank vice president, to four-year terms on the
1-A District Agricultural Association's board of directors. The
appointees reside in Woodside.
The posts pay necessary travel expenses.
Rodman, 51, has served on the board since March 20, 1967; O'Brien,
since March 3, 1964. Both are Republicans.
Rodman lives at 25 Smoke Tree Lane. O'Brien resides at 2180
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Governor Ronald Reagan today urged passage of a bill which
would secure basic rights for rank and file members of organized
labor.
The bill, introduced today by Republican Assemblyman Charles
J. Conrad of Sherman Oaks, requires a written secret ballot to
approve collective bargaining agreements and authorize strikes.
Governor Reagan called legislative approval "necessary to
insure union members greater control over the affairs of their
unions and to end minority control of some unions."
Conrad, a member of the Screen Actors' Guild, noted that the
essential elements of his bill are contained in the Guild's consti-
tution and bylaws. Governor Reagan, a former president of the Guild,
was a leader in the battle to secure the secret ballot provision for
individual guild members.
The bill is intended to supplement federal law, not displace it.
This serves to eliminate any constitutional question, Conrad said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named H. Herbert Jackson, a Sacramento
lawyer and firmer assistant district attorney, to the Commission on
California State Government Organization and Economy.
Jackson, a 32 year old Republican, replaces Gordon A. Fleury of
Sacramento who yesterday asked that his name be withdrawn for appoint-
ment to the "Little Hoover Commission" post. Governor Reagan
reluctantly accepted Fleury's request.
Jackson, a former football star at the University of California -
Berkeley, and C.K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento, graduated
from Hastings Law School, San Francisco, in 1961.
He then joined the Alameda county district attorney's office
where he worked one year as an assistant district attorney before
coming to Sacramento. He was an assistant district attorney here for
two years prior to opening his own Sacramento law office in 1964.
Two years ago he became a partner in the Sacramento legal firm
of Evans, Jackson and Kennedy.
Jackson is married, has three children, and resides at 2809-14th
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Sacramento - Governor Ronald Reagan said today he has sent tele-
grams to every member of the University of California Board of Regents
and all trustees of the state college system explaining the state
funds available for their 1968-69 budgets.
"Certain information should be available to you concerning the
budgets," the governor's telegram said, pointing out that "these
budgets have been given top priority for available state funds."
Governor Reagan noted that the amount available in state general
fund spending for the coming fiscal year which is subject to
executive discretion totals $107 million.
"Of that amount, $72 million or 67 percent was allocated to the
Deiversity and the state colleges," the governor said.
He also pointed out that of the total of $60 million required
for capital outlay, $53 million or 88 percent was allocated for
higher education.
"If higher education has received the same budgetary alignment as
all other departments and agencies," the telegram said, "the budget
of the university would have been $11.7 million less than it is. The
state colleges would have received $28.1 million less.'
Governor Reagan added that in order to make the increased budgets
possible for higher education, "we also are asking for a $10 million
cut in the increase of welfare programs and a $66 million cut in
Medi-Cal."
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Sacramento - Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that Gerald
Shearin, vice chairman of the new State Air Resources Board, has
been advised of a 90-day extension of federal hearings on smog controls.
The extension to May 15 was granted by John Gardner, secretary
of Health, Education and Welfare.
The hearings, which began January 15 in San Francisco, are to
clarify California's right to set its own auto emission standards.
The waiver would allow time for legislative action and Air Resources
Board hearings on vehicle emission standards to be applied in
California.
The extension was requested by the Air Resources Board at its
initial meeting last week in Sacramento.
Governor Reagan said California must be permitted to continue
its fight to solve vehicle air-pollution problems without federal
interference.
"We must be given the freedom to set stricter standards for
vehicles than the present or proposed standards set by the federal
government," he said.
The governor declared that California's unique weather and car
density problems, recognized in the provisions of U.S. Senator George
Murphy's amendment to the federal act, clearly entitleCalifornia to
special consideration.
"Our Air Resources Board and its predecessor, the Motor Vehicle
Pollution Control Board, have led the way and set the pattern for
regulation of vehicle-caused air pollution. We cannot allow our
efforts to be sidetracked," the governor said.
He commended the new board for its actions and urged them to
continue the fight for clean air in California.
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MONDAY, February 19
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FRIDAY, February 23
MONDAY, February 19
10:30 a.m.
Depart Santa Monica Airport for Sacramento
Municipal Airport
11:30 a.m.
Arrive Sacramento Municipal Airport
Noon
Senator Hotel. Intergovernmental Council on
Urban Growth - remarks. LUNCHEON
2:45 p.m.
Picture for statewide Easter Seal Drive,
Governor's Office
TUESDAY, February 20
9:30 a.m.
Press Conference
2:45 p.m.
Picture with Assemblyman Frank Murphy for the
National Security Seminar, Governor's Office
WEDNESDAY, February 21
2:00 p.m.
Presentation of Freedom Awards by SertomaClub,
Governor's Office.
2:30 p.m.
Courtesy meeting with Governor Diaz of Baja
California, Bill Gianelli, and representatives
of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California, Governor's Office.
THURSDAY, February 22
Washington's Birthday - no appointments
FRIDAY, February 23
9:45 a.m.
Meeting with Dr. Max Rafferty, Governor's Office
11:00 a.m.
Picture for Sacramento Service Club Luncheon,
Governor's Office.
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Sacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that ade-
quate funds to provide for necessary additional aid to the counties
for the crippled children program will be authorized.
Our surveys of the needs of the counties for additional fund-
ing have been taken and their requests are being checked to determine
much
exactly how / will be necessary for a deficiency appropriation,
the governor said.
He emphasized that it has been impossible until now to deter-
mine the specific amount that must be appropriated because information
from the counties has just been received at the governor's request
and is in the process of being compiled.
"As I have repeatedly told the people of California, this
administration fully supports the crippled children's program and
has and will continue to make every effort to see that it not only
takes care of the needs of crippled children but also is run as an
efficient program," the governor said.
"I also would like to point out that a year ago I authorized
another emergency deficiency appropriation to meet the needs of
crippled children after a determination was made that funds actually
were needed.
"It has consistently been the position of this administration
that no child would be denied assistance because of insufficient
appropriations made when the budget was considered and passed.
"It also is important to note that for the first time, the
1967 legislature wrote restrictive control language into the budget
bill--an action over which this administration had no control.
"As soon as all the figures are compiled from the counties--
who also must appropriate additional funds--are obtained, I will
authorize the legislature to proceed with an emergency deficiency
appropriation bill," Governor Reagan said.
During the current fiscal year, state general funds appropriated
for the crippled children's program amounted to approximately $9.8
million. Another $1.1 million in federal funds brought the total
to $10.9 million exclusive of the county's share.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named two ranchers--Martin J.
Newkom of Yuba City and Charles C. Messick of Marysville-- to four-year
terms on the 13th District Agricultural Association's Board of
Directors.
The poats pay necessary travel expenses.
Newkom, 32, succeeds James F. Davis of Yuba City. Messick, 32,
replaces Robert L. Peckinpah, also of Yuba City.
Both outgoing members' terms expired.
The new appointees are Republican.s
Newkom resides at 510 South Barrett Road, Yuba city. Messick
lives at 7652 B. Plantz Road, Marysville.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Orange County Planning
Director Forest S. Dickason and E. Sheldon Dunlap, a member of the
South Gate Planning Commission, to the State Planning Advisory
Committee.
The posts pay actual and necessary travel expenses. Appointees
serve at the pleasure of the governor.
Dickason, 40, succeeds Milton Breivogel of Beverly Hills.
Dunlap, 67, replaces Donald G. Savage of Alhambra. The two outgoing
members resigned.
A Republican, Dickason has served, as Orange County Planning
Director since 1964. He entered county service in 1953 as a member
of the Orange County Planning Department staff.
He is a former president of the Orange County Employees'
Association and has served as president of the Planning Directors'
Association of Orange County.
He is married, has two children, and resides at 1984 Lemnos
Drive, Costa Mesa.
Dunlap, a Republican, has been a member of the South Gate
Planning Commission since 1956, four years as chairman. He is a
past president of the Southern California Planning Congress and
currently serves on its executive board.
Last year, he was appointed chairman of the General Plan
Committee for the Los Angeles County Association of Planning Officials.
He is married, has two children and lives at P.O. Box 2056,
South Cate.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named chiropracters Rudy A. Fahlbusch
of Pacific Beach and Irvin T. Lathrop of Napa to three year terms on
the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
The posts pay $25 per diem plus travel expenses.
Fahlbusch, 43, succeeds Donald Brownell of San Diego who resigned.
Lathrop, 42, replaces Carl E. Remelin of Santa Ana whose term expired.
Fahlbusch, a Republican, has served as president of the San Diego
County Chiropractic Society. He resides at 1766 Grand Avenue, Pacific
Beach.
Lathrop, a Republican, is a past president of the Napa Masonic
Civic Club and is a member of the High-12 Club of Napa. He lives
at 1124 Larkin Way, Napa.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named John H. Woolsey, Jr., of
Santa Rosa to a four-year term on the Board of Examiners in Veterinary
Medicine.
The post pays $25 per diem plus travel expenses.
Woolsey, a 44-year old Republican, succeeds Dario H. Marioni of
Sonoma whose term expired.
Woolsey is a 1949 graduate of Kansas State University's veterinary
college. He operates his own veterinary practice in Santa Rosa and
resides at 716 High Street, Sebastopol.
He is a past president of the Redwood Empire Veterinary Association
and is a member of the American Veterinary Association.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Davis area ranchers Nanele F.
Arnold and Harry J. Whitcombe to four year terms on the 40th District
Agricultural Association's board of directors.
The posts pay necessary travel expenses.
Mrs. Arnold and her husband, William, raise sheep and horses. She
replaces Wallace L. Edson of Knights Landing.
Whitcombe, 52, succeeds Leroy L. Leonard of Woodland.
Both outgoing members' terms expired.
Mrs. Arnold, a Republican, is a charter member of the Davis League
of Women Voters and is a director of the Yolo County TB and Health
Association. The Arnolds reside at Route 1, Box 2120, Davis.
Whitcombe, a nationally-knowm bee breeder, is a past president
of the Davis Chamber of Commerce and a former city councilman. A
Republican, he also served nine years as chairman of the Davis Housing
Authority and was chosen Davis' "citizen of the year" in 1961.
He lives at 740 Oak Avenue, Davis.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named William T. Kirby of Merced
and Loneua Waterson of Hilmar to four-year terms on the 35th District
Agricultural Association's board of directors.
The posts pay necessary travel expenses.
Kirby, 49, replaces John F. Collins of Merced. Waterson, 42,
succeeds John E. Lundquist of Hilmar. Both outgoing members' terms
expired.
Kirby, a Republican, operates the Kirby Manufacturing Company of
Merced. He is a director and past president of the Merced County
Chamber of Commerce. He is also a former president of the Merced
County Farm Equipment Dealer Association.
He resides at 2059-E Brookdale Drive, Merced.
Waterson, a Republican, owns and manages Farmers' Lumber Yard
in Hilmar. He is chairman of the Hilmar Community Hall Improvement
Committee and is a former president of the Hilmar Chamber of Commerce.
He lives at P.O. Box 248, Hilmar.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Newcastle orchardist,
Howard K. Nakae, to the State Board of Forestry.
The governor also reappointed San Ardo cattleman, Paul Aurignac,
to the board.
Both appointees' terms will expire January 15, 1972.
The posts pay necessary expenses and are subject to Senate
confirmation.
Nakae, a 49-year old Democrat, replaces Brigadier General
Frank C. Meyers of Fallbrook whose term expired.
Nakae serves as a first vice president of the Placer County
Farm Bureau and is secretary of the Placer County Agricultural
Commission. He is also a director of the California Fruit Exchange
and is a past president of the Placer chapter of the Japanese-American
Citizens League.
He resides at Route 1, Box 321, Newcastle.
Aurignac, 58, owns a cattle and grain ranch. A Republican,
he is a member of the executive committee of the Monterey County
Water Commission and is a past member of the Board of Forestry's
advisory committee on range management.
He lives at P.O. Box 298, San Ardo.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Walter J. Holmdahl of Lompoc
and William F. Luton, Sr. of Los Alamos to four-year terms on the
37th District Agricultural Association's board of directors.
The posts pay necessary travel expenses.
Holmdahl, 56, succeeds G. T. Gunderson of Lompoc. Luton replaces
Harrell E. Fletcher of Santa Maria. Both outgoing members' terms
expired.
Holmdahl, a Republican, farms some 4,000 acres in grain and
flowers, and also raises cattle. He is a former member of the Lompoc
Unified School Board. He resides at P. O. Box 1084, Lompoc.
Luton is a former member of the 37th District Agricultural
Association's board of directors, having served for seven years. He
is a Republican and lives at Rancho San Juan, Los Alamos.
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Parks and Recreation Department Director William P. Mott will
make a 15-minute presentation on recreational development in the
Oroville Dam area at Wednesday's regular 9:30 A.M. press briefing in
Room 1190. He will use visual displays in his discussion.
Cameras are welcome.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Mrs. Patricia C. Gaard of
Modesto and A. Verne Crowell of Turlock to four-year terms on the
38th District Agricultural Association's board of directors.
The posts pay necessary travel expenses.
Mrs. Gaard is the wife of Modesto Dentist Richard Gaard. She
succeeds Ernest LaCoste of Modesto.
Crowell, 51, replaces Kennard C. Bratten of Denair.
Both outgoing members' terms expired.
Mrs. Gaard, a Republican, is a livestock leader for the Stanislaus
Community 4-H Club, and has been active for some time in connection
with the junior livestock sale held in conjunction with the Stanislaus
District Fair.
She lives at 923 Melinda Lane, Modesto.
Crowell, a Republican, is a dairy farmer and has served as a
Turlock Union High School trustee for the past nine years.
He is a Republican and resides at 1201 West Monte Vista Road,
Turlock.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Christine F. Lalanne of
Porterville and Mildred H. Reed of Palo Alto to the State Public
Library Development Board.
The governor also reappointed Margaret M. Troke of Stockton and
Eileen Mary Kenyon of Los Angeles to the board.
The appointments are for four-year terms.
Mrs. Lalanne succeeds John Kenyon MacDonald of Ojai who resigned.
Mrs. Reed replaces Edward A. Wight of Berkeley whose term expired.
Mrs. Lalanne, a Republican, has been a trustee of the Porterville
Public Library since 1962. She resides at 7 West Laurel Avenue,
Porterville.
Mrs. Reed is a past PTA president and has been active in
volunteer work, particularly in connection with school board elections.
She is a Republican and lives at 762 DeSoto Drive, Palo Alto.
Mrs. Troke, a Democrat, is director of library services for the
Stockton and San Joaquin County Public Library. She is a past
president of the California Library Association and serves as a member
of the Library Advisory Committee to the County Supervisors'
Association of California.
She lives at 825 West Euclid, Stockton.
Mrs. Kenyon, a Republican, is vice president and acting chairman
of the Los Angeles Public Library Commission. She is also an active
member of the Action Development Committee of the American Library
Trustees' Association.
She lives at 12943 Dickens Street, North Hollywood.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Coachella Valley Water
District Assistant General Manager Keith H. Ainsworth to a four-year
term on the Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board.
The governor also reappointed Needles Deputy County Assessor
Harold A, Workman, 60, to a term on the board ending September 30, 1971.
Ainsworth, a 45 year old Republican, succeeds Paul A. Mitchell
of Brawley whose term expired.
Ainsworth joined the Coachella Valley Water District as a
hydrographer in 1948. In successive promotions, he moved to chief
hydrographer, assistant watermaster, watermaster and became assistant
general manager in 1958.
A 1945 graduate of Utah State University, he has participated
actively in civic affairs in the Indio area for many years.
He resides at 81960 Lancer Way, Indio.
Workman, a Democrat, is a former president of the Needles Chamber
of Commerce and Lions Club. He lives at P.O. Box 237, Needles.
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# 118
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Fred Yasukochi of Ventura,
president of the Ramirez and Feraud Chili Company, Inc., to the
31st District Agricultural Association's board of directors.
The governor also reappointed Paul E. Pecht, 45, of Oxnard to
the board.
Terms of the appointments will expire January 15, 1972.
The posts pay necessary travel expenses.
Yasukochi, 47, replaces Edith Camarillo Rouce of Camarillo,
whose term expired.
Yasukochi, a Republican, has served as president of the Ventura
Civic Improvement Commission and as a director of the Greater Ventura
Chamber of Commerce.
He resides at 774 Colina Vista, Ventura.
Pecht, also a Republican, is an Oxnard citrus farmer. He is
a director of the State Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Board and
is a director of the United Pest Control Board of the Coastal Growers
Association.
He was first appointed to the board November 29, 1967.
He resides at 4500 North Rose Avenue, Oxnard.
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RELEASE: Immediate
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Contact: Paul Beck
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# 119
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed a letter authorizing emergency
legislation to provide additional funds for the crippled children
program.
The legislation would earmark a deficiency appropriation for
those counties requesting necessary additional aid for the program.
In signing the letter, Governor Reagan reaffirmed his support
for the crippled children program.
"WE are making, and will continue to make, every effort to
assure that the program not only takes care of the needs of crippled
children, but that it is run as an efficient program."
The governor noted that last year he also authorized an
emergency deficiency appropriation when it was made clear that
further funds were required.
"It has been this administration's position from the time the
budget was considered and passed that no child should be denied
needed medical assistance because of insufficient appropriations,"
he said.
He recalled that the 1967 Legislature wrote restrictive control
language into the budget bill.
"We have made available to the counties all the funds the
Legislature appropriated for this purpose. However, we now find
that the needs have become greater than the counties anticipated,"
he said.
The governor said the legislation he authorized today is
designed to meet the needs of the program in counties where a
deficiency exists.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.20.68
Parks and Recreation Department Director William P. Mott will
make a 15-minute presentation on recreational development in the
Oroville Dam area at Wednesday's regular 9:30 A.M. press briefing in
Room 1190. He will use visual displays in his discussion.
Cameras are welcome.
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# 120
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Sacramento attorney Lloyd
Allan Phillips, Jr. to the municipal court bench, Sacramento judicial
district.
The post pays $23,000 annually.
Phillips succeeds Judge Oscar Kistle who was elevated to the
Superior Court.
Phillips, a 1952 graduate of Hastings College of Law, has been
engaged in private practice in Sacramento for the past 15 years. He
operates his own law office at 901 H Street.
He is a member of American Bar Association, State Bar Association
and Sacramento County Bar Association. Three years ago he was named
by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors as a member of a five-
man study committee to review and revise the Sacramento County Charter.
Phillips, 41, is a Republican and served in the U.S. Army Air
Corps during World War II.
He and his wife, Eugenie, have two children and reside at 807
Columbia Drive.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
2.21.68
Effective immediately, the regularly scheduled
briefings at 9:30 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
are cancelled. When special occasions arise, ample
notification will be given.
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# 120
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that the renal dialysis
program at two regional centers in the state is being expanded to
better serve the needs of persons requiring urgent treatment.
He said the expansion will increase considerably the number of
patients at both centers.
The northern center will be able to provide treatment for 35
patients--nearly twice as many as the 18 it can currently handle.
The southern center's patient load will be increased from 20 to 33
persons.
"This expansion will insure that no patients will be deprived
of necessary treatment for lack of sufficient funds, " Governor Reagan
said.
He said he has directed the Department of Finance to make
$67,280 in emergency funds available immediately to the northern
center, in San Francisco. This decision was made in keeping with a
previous conversation with Assemblyman Leo Ryan, the governor noted.
He said that the southern center in Los Angeles will need an
additional $54,524 for expansion, after allowing for patient collec-
tions including Medi-Cal. This amount will be covered through exist-
ing county option provisions of Medi-Cal and will require no specific
action at this time, the governor explained.
The San Francisco center is operated under a contract with the
University of California board of regents. The center at Los Angeles
is administered by the Los Angeles County Hospital under a contract
with the county board of supervisors.
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RELEASE: Immediate
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Contact: Paul Beck
# 122
445-4571 2.21.68
Governor Ronald Reagan today named F. Herbert Hoover, director
of Pomeroy Art Galleries in San Francisco, to the California Arts
Commission.
The post pays necessary travel expenses.
Hoover will fill the unexpired term of James L. Lyons of
San Francisco who recently resigned to take a position as the
commission's executive secretary. The term expires July 1, 1968.
Hoover, a 38-year old Republican, has headed the Pomeroy firm
since 1965. He was previously a piano and singing teacher in San
Francisco. He is also a free-lance writer in the field of art and
music.
A 1952 graduate of Maryville College in Tennessee, Hoover is
president of the California Heritage Council.
During the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps as
a 1st lieutenant.
He and his wife, Margaret Pomeroy Hoover, reside at 801 Chestnut
Avenue, San Francisco.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sacramento, California
Contact:
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445-4571
2.23.68
123
Sacranento--Governor Ronald Reagan announced today the administra-
tion has adopted in principle the staffing standards for state mental
hospitals set in 1967 by the California Commission on staffing
Standards.
Implementation of the standards, the governor said, would be
carried out in phases consistent with sound hospital and management
practices.
Governor Reagan said he has instructed Spencer Williams, Secretary
of Human Relations, and Dr. James Lowry, Director of the Department
of Mental Hygiene, to set up a timetable for putting the standards
into effect.
The governor said the 1952 standards should be replaced by the
new standards because they have become obsolete in the light of medical
progress and particularly because of the increased emphasis on local
treatment of the mentally ill.
"We will begin putting these new standards into effect partially
with funds saved by economies in the department," the governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced selection of a broad-based
slate of delegates and alternates committed to his favorite son candidacy
for president at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach in
August.
California Republican voters will vote on the delegation at the
primary elections June 4.
"The delegates and alternates I have selected represent a cross-
section of all elements of the Republican Party in California," Governor
Reagan said.
"All are committed to the best interests of the Republican Party in
California and in the nation. They have agreed, without exception, to
support my favorite son candidacy at Miami Beach in order to assure
California a major voice in the selection of the Republican nominee for
President.
"California is the largest state in the union and a unified dele-
gation can and will insure that we have a role commensurate with our
ize."
Governor Reagan said he has named William French Smith, a Los
Angeles attorney who resides in San Marino, as delegation chairman.
State Republican Chairman James Halley was named vice-chairman.
"Because of the limits placed on the size of the delegation-86
delegates and the same number of alternates--and the way the law states
they must be selected, we were unable to name to the delegation all
those Republicans who deserved places on it," Governor Reagan said.
"I appreciate the understanding of those we were forced to leave off."
Following is the list of delegates and alternates
Congressional District
Delegate
Alternate
1
Mrs. Goldie Mae Evans
Jack Ashby
2065 Elizabeth Way
2210 Soda Canyon Rd.
Santa Rosa
Napa
Joseph Russ, IV
Mrs. Marjorie C.
Ferndale
Boynton, 711 Willow,
Ukiah
2
Hon. Eugene A. Chappie
Robert B. Kutz
Placer County
2619 Burnap Avenue
Cool
Chico
Carl McConnell
Joseph L. Frice, M.D.
Happy Camp
Price Ranch
P. O. Box 528
Cottonwood
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Congressional
District
Delegate
Alternate
3
Hon. Frank M. Jordan
Edouard C. Thys
3720 Robertson Avenue
1441 40th Street
Sacramento
Sacramento
Lt. Gov. Robert H. Finch
*Vern W. Cartwright
820 Southwick Way
1976 13th Street
Sacramento
Sacramento
Mrs. Jacqueline B. Keas
4340 Figwood Way
Sacramento
4
William O. Adams
George F. Newton
208 Toyon Drive
Route 1, Box 906
Woodland
Vacaville
Jack H. Clifford
Ralph A. Nissen
Route 1, Box 20
P. O. Box 216
Kelseyville
Williams
5
Paul Hanson, Jr.
B. John Buggato
1637 Taylor Street
2346 Jones Street
San Francisco
San Francisco
Edward H. Gauer
Earl Sun Louie
798 Market Street
1255 Jackson Street
San Francisco
San Francisco
6
*Jaquelin H. Hume
*Sherman Chickering
3355 Pacific Avenue
3525 Washington
San Francisco
San Francisco
Marco Hellman
Charles Michals
3515 Pacific Avenue
71 Via Cheparro
San Francisco
Greenbrae
Arch Monson
*Frank M. Woods
2825 Broadway
2414 Gough Street
San Francisco
San Francisco
*Thomas C. Reed
Miss Emily G. Pike
Pomeroy Road
1800 Broadway
Ross
San Francisco
7 & 8
Frank P. Adams
Thomas J. Miles
781 Highland Avenue
3251 Grove
Piedmont
Oakland
Gardiner Johnson
Chester L. Fankhauser
329 Hampton Road
609 South P Street
Piedmont
Livermore
William F. Knowland
Lowell Berry
1000 Guilford Road
5401 Broadway Terrace
Piedmont
Oakland
Hon. Don Mulford
Kenneth L. Thompson
145 Hillside Avenue
2641 La Cuesta
Piedmont
Oakland
*Mrs. Evva B. Stivers
21753 Vallejo Street
Hayward
9
Stephen Nakashima
Mrs. Gertrude C. McDonald
645 North Fifth Street
310 Orchard Drive
San Jose
Fremont
Mrs. Betty Swenson
James J. Viso
10828 Ridgeview Avenue
2196 Diane Drive
San Jose
Santa Clara
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Congressional
District
Delegate
Alternate
10
Mark Guerra
Mrs. Margaret L. Leete
590 Sunnyoaks
12184 Melinda Circle
Campbell
Saratoga
Hon. George W. Milias
Leonard Ware
497 N. Carmel Street
2600 El Camino Real
Gilroy
Palo Alto
11
*James W. Halley
Trevor C. Roberts
529 W. Poplar
190 Encinal Avenue
San Mateo
Atherton
Dr. Edward Havard
Bruce T. Mitchell
60 Mulberry Lane
165 Redwood Drive
Atherton
Hillsborough
Leland Kaiser
*Mrs. Lucile C. Hosmer
82 Elena Avenue
520 Elm
Atherton
San Carlos
12
Hon. Donald L. Grunsky
Hon. William M. Ketchum
130 Rogers Street
Route 1, Box 40
Watsonville
Paso Robles
Hon. Burt L. Talcott
Karl von Christiersen
163 Lorimer Street
45 Carmel
Salinas
Salinas
13
Mrs. Betsy Bromfield
Mrs. Katherine H. Haley
744 Winding Creek Avenue
Rancho Mi Solar
Santa Barbara
10409 Santa Ana Road
Ventura
Sen. Robert J. Lagomarsino
Harold R. Ward
509 Crestview Drive
256 Toro Canyon Road
Ojai
Carpinteria
14
William K. Houston
Mrs. Virla R. Krotz
1 Robert Road
44 Monte Vista Road
Orinda
Orinda
Mrs. Juanita Wentner
Mrs. Eunice L. Evans
80 Via Robles
15 White Oak Drive
Walnut Creek
Lafayette
15
Mervine Amerine
Carter (Pat) Dunlap
Route 2, Box 783
1460 W. Alpine
Oakdale
Stockton
Hon. Robert Monagan
Mrs. Harriet Peterson
1317 El Portal Drive
1457 Holly Drive
Tracy
Tracy
16
O. L. (01e) Bane
Arthur R. Tirado
23328 E. Kings Canyon Road
5226 N. Sequoia Drive
Reedley
Fresno
John D. Hix
Melville Willson
544 E. Clinton Avenue
4137 N. Van Ness Blvd.
Fresno
Fresno
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Congressional
District
Delegate
Alternate
17, 19, 20,
Mrs. Margaret M. Brock
Sidney R. Barlow
21, 22, 23,
1424 Club View Drive
1130 Hillcrest Drive
26, 28, 29,
Los Angeles
Beverly Hills
30, 31
(11 Districts)
Asa V. Call
Stephen C. Bilheimer
609 Mountain Drive
142 So. Rockingham Ave.
Beverly Hills
Los Angeles
*Athalie Clarke
Alfred Bloomingdale
1127 S. Orange Grove Blvd.
131 Delfern Drive
Pasadena
Holmby Hills
Charles E. Cook
Fritz B. Burns
5149 Alta Canyada
365 South Hudson Avenue
La Canada
Los Angeles
*Roy Crocker
Tirso del Junco, M.D.
1015 Highland Avenue
1570 San Pasqual
South Pasadena
Pasadena
Theodore Cummings
Gabriel C. Duque, Jr.
911 N. Hillcrest
121 Fremont Place
Beverly Hills
Los Angeles
Justin Dart
444 N. Faring Road
Los Angeles
John Despol
Jack B. Lindsey
5285 Village Green
2500 Roscamere Road
Los Angeles
Bel Air
Charles Ducommun
Mrs. Isadene McCall
237 Strada Corta Drive
343 Bayshore Avenue
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Leonard Firestone
Robert B. McLain
10375 Wilshire Boulevard
127 North Hudson Avenue
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Wendell Handy
Robert C. Mardian
13714 South Wilmington
3325 Trevan Road
Compton
Pasadena
Earle Jorgensen
Ferdinand Mendenhall
960 Bel-Air Road
13830 Chandler Blvd.
Los Angeles
Van Nuys
Assemblyman Frank Lanterman
C. C. Moseley
4420 Encinas Drive
1636 Summit Ridge Drive
La Canada
Beverly Hills
Mrs. Angela Lombardi
J. Neil Reagan
1945 W. Mountain
1132 Chantilly Road
Glendale
Los Angeles
Thomas P. Pike
Robert O. Reynolds
1475 Circle Drive
12712 Parkyns
San Marino
Los Angeles
Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest
Fred E. Rhodes
435 South Curson Avenue
530 Orange Grove Circle
Los Angeles
Pasadena
Governor Ronald Reagan
Martin A. Samuelson
1669 San Onofre Drive
1250 Hillside Road
Pacific Palisades
Pasadena
Henry Salvatori
William Sesnon
457 Bel-Air Road
707 N. Maple
Los Angeles
Beverly Hills
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Congressional
Delegate
Alternate
District
17, 19, 20,
Taft Schreiber
Forrest N. Shumway
21, 22, 23,
1160 Tower Road
501 No. Rockingham Ave.
26, 28, 29,
Beverly Hills
Los Angeles
30, 31
(11 Districts) Hon. H. Allen Smith
Mrs. Camilla C. Spear
1818 Verdugo Loma Drive
470 Columbia Circle
Glendale
Pasadena
Charles Soderstrom
James M. Woods
1553 S. Pacific Avenue
4329 South Broadway
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Holmes Tuttle
Roland Rich Wooley
637 So. Hudson Avenue
10315 Woodbridge
Los Angeles
North Hollywood
Jack Warner
Mrs. Toshi Yamamoto
1801 Angelo Drive
253 So. Gerhart Avenue
Beverly Hills
East Los Angeles
William A. Wilson
10475 Bellagio Road
Los Angeles
18
E. C. "Bill" Mazzie
Grant B. Potter
5236 Kent Drive
785 Saginaw Avenue
Bakersfield
Dinuba
Hon. Howard Way
Mrs. Bette Cutbirth
708 East Cedar
1133 Panorama Drive
Exeter
Bakersfield
24
*William French Smith
Clifford R. Anderson, Jr.
1256 Oak Grove Avenue
2046 S. Oak Knoll
San Marino
San Marino
*Hon. Glenard P. Lipscomb
Mrs. Virginia Braun
704 Lindaraxa Park
1585 Orlando Road
Alhambra
Pasadena
Joseph M. Crosby
1524 Via Del Ray
South Pasadena
Houston I. Flournoy
755 W. 10th Street
Claremont
25
Robert Beaver
Robert Sasine
1235 Margarita Drive
600 Elinor Drive
Fullerton
Fullerton
Travis L. Manning
William F. McColl, M.D.
1421 Latchford
1333 S. Hillward Drive
Hacienda Heights
West Covina
27
Honorable Ed Reinecke
Hon. Newton R. Russell
9664 Tujunga Canyon Blvd.
6407 Chaffee Street
Tujunga
Tujunga
Hon. Charles Conrad
*Vincent Seekins
13444 Moorpark
2206 N. Parish Place
Sherman Oaks
Burbank
L. Thaxton Hanson
9816 Belmar Avenue
Northridge
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Congressional
District
Delegate
Alternate
32
Hon. George Deukmejian
George R. Johnson
5366 E. Broadway
4603 Virginia Road
Long Beach
Long Beach
Mrs. Ann Bowler
Mrs. Dorothy Goodknight
177 Rivo Alto Canal
42 LaLinda Drive
Long Beach
Long Beach
33
W. Reed Sprinkel
Robert J. Bierschbach
7706 Calle Casino
1418 Mira Monte Drive
Cucamonga
Redlands
J. Steve Williams
Woodrow Miller
1002 W. Marshall Blvd.
185 Laurel Avenue
San Bernardino
Colton
34
Mrs. Alberta W. Campbell
Richard A. Aschieris
5891 Los Angeles Way
7811 Turbo Street
Buena Park
Long Beach
Walter Knott
David L. Baker
8281 Beach Boulevard
9452 Royal Palm
Buena Park
Garden Grove
35
Dennis Carpenter
2138 Bonaire Way
Newport Beach
Coalson Morris
Mrs. Marquita Maytag
708 N. West Street
7780 Starlight Drive
Anaheim
La Jolla
*Edward Mills
Hon. Robert E. Badham
2526 Riviera Drive
1320 Antiqua Way
Laguna Beach
Newport Beach
Charles K. Fletcher
2940 Ocean Front
Del Mar
36 & 37
C. Arnholt Smith
Mrs. Eleanor R. Ring
2293 Juan Road
801 Tolita Drive
San Diego
Coronado
Burt F. Raynes
Robert C. Jackson
299 Hilltop Drive
4310 Arista Street
Chula Vista
San Diego
Mrs. Evelyn C. Roberts
530 Silvergate Avenue
San Diego
Victor R. Lundy
Richard R. Brown
1203 Willow
480 Horizon Hills
San Diego
El Cajon
*Gordon C. Luce
7181 Encelia Drive
La Jolla
38
William E. Norris
4542 Beacon Way
Riverside
Mike Schultz
Robert L. Simpson
765 Yucca Drive
510 Marilyn Street
El Centro
Brawley
Mrs. Mary Lou Carpenter
9303 Avenue Miravilla
Beaumont
* (AL) - At large
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RELEASE:
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A.M.'s,
Sacramento, California
February 25, 1968
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.23.68
PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE
RELEASE
# 125
Sacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today announced a comprehensive
program aimed at continued improvement in the level of care for
patients at state hospitals for the mentally ill.
"It is apparent that if California is to remain in the forefront
among the states in its treatment of the mentally ill. continued
efforts must be made to stay abreast of new methods a nd changing
standards," the governor said.
"We intend to keep moving forward with the emphasis on modern,
local treatment so that the mentally ill can resume their role as
useful and productive citizens."
The governor said the decision to broaden the mental health pro-
gram--accelerated since early last year--was made after a complete
review of the mental health program.
Proposed improvements range from higher staffing standards
to better maintenance and upkeep of hospital facilities.
The program includes these key points:
1. -Establishment of two additional Mental Retardation Regional
Centers;
2. -Junking of the obsolete 1952 standards for staffing hospitals
for the mentally ill and adoption in principle of the standards set
forth in 1967 by the California Commission on Hospital Standards.
Implementation of these standards will be in phases consistent with
sound hospital and management practices;
3. --Creation of a Board of Medical Visitors for each state mental
hospital to insure on-going surveys of each institution;
4. -Inspection of hospital buildings by the Department of
the General Services to assure their proper maintenance;
5. Insurance Inspections to Spencer Williams, secretary of Human Relations,
to determine why there are major quality variances among the mental
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hospitals and to find out why some are not operated as well or as
efficiently as they should be;
6. --Action aimed at determining at the earliest date what
hospital facilities should be phased out or eliminated in the light
of basic changes in the patient load because of greater emphasis on
local care and treatment;
7. -Implementation of a program to eliminate gradually out-dated
functions such as farming operations at some of the hospitals;
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8.--Phasing out of surgical facilities at some of the hospitals,
particularly where better treatment for patients can be obtained
nearby at less cost;
.--Immediate establishment of standards requiring 70 square
feet of space per patient bed. For the past three decades, the
state's standard for each patient has been less than 55 square feet.
The 70 square feet standard is the nationally-accepted standard;
10.--Adoption of clear-cut and definitive goals for the treat-
ment of the mentally ill and the mentally retarded. These goals have
been acclaimed by leaders in the mental health field;
11.--Re-evaluation of the budget for mental health in the light
of the most up-to-date information available, based on need as well
as resources available;
12. --Renewed instructions to Dr. James Lowry, director of the
Department of Mental Hygiene, that he has now as he has had in the
past year complete discretion in maintaining the staffing require-
ments and levels for care of patients;
13. --Streamlining of administrative functions within the depart-
ment aimed at greater efficiency which can be reflected in better
care for patients;
14. --Creation of an advisory committee to the governor on mental
health.
"Under this program, 11 the governor said, "we will be able to
proceed on a solid basis for even more improvements in the programs
at our mental hospitals--improvements in situations that have needed
improving at our mental hospitals--improvements in situations that
have needed improving for years.
"We have always known that problems in our mental hospitals go
beyond mere budgetary factors. Many of the economies we have achieved
over the past year--coupled with greater emphasis on local treatment
financed in large measure by the state--will now permit us to devote
more of our resources for the more difficult cases remaining in our
hospitals.
"We cannot be satisfied with outmoded programs. Rather, we must
continue moving forward with a positive and progressive plan--one
which expands and further implements the concept of local care for
the mentally ill wherever possible.
"Many of the problems of our mental hospitals permitted to grow
in seriousness over the years are now catching up with us. But, as
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I have repeatedly told the people of California, the time is long
overdue for action designed to stop the warehousing of the mentally
ill. We must concentrate on helping them lead productive lives,"
the governor said,
In addition to the 14-point program outlined above, Governor
Reagan also listed these steps which already have been taken to
continue improving the mental health program:
1.--A departmental budget of $224,029,323 for the next fiscal
year--up a net of $6,923,161 from the current fiscal year;
2.--Actual program expenditures up by more than $9 million with
some of the additional costs offset by savings resulting from the
decline in the number of patients;
3.--Substantial increases in state appropriations for local treat-
ment programs under Short-Doyle. The budget for the coming fiscal
year calls for increasing state assistance to local mental health
programs by $4.6 million to a total of $29.5 million--a record 58
percent increase in Short-Doyle funding alone during the course of
the Reagan administration;
4.--A $4 million increase in funds for research and treatment of
mental retardation;
5.--Significant reductions in the waiting list for care of the
mentally retarded. Despite 1,000 names added to the list in the past
year, the waiting list has been reduced 40 percent. The number
requiring hospitalization has been cut from 815 to 444. Despite this,
the state retarded hospital population of 13,470 on January 25, 1968
was only 242 higher than the same date a year ago;
6.--A decline in the mental hospital population to 19,779 as of
January 24, 1968 or 3,319 fewer patients than on the same date a year
ago;
7.--An increase in the mental hospital staff-patient ratio over
the July 1, 1966 level--the highest in the state's history up to that
time;
8.--An increase of 356 new positions in next year's budget for
the treatment of mentally retarded. This represents the largest and
most significant increase in staffing for the mentally retarded in
history.
9.--An increase of 168 additional treatment positions in next year's
budget for the mentally retarded and mentally ill programs in hospitals
for the mentally ill.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
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445-4571
2.23.68
C-O-P-R-E-C-T-I-O-N
In Release No. 125, dated today, please correct Page 1,
Paragraph numbered 5 to read:
5.--Instructions to Spencer Williams, etc.
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LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ROBERT H. FINCH
February 23, 1968
Contact: Charles McKenney - 445-9533
FOR SUNDAY AM'S RELEASE
"California is well underway in a major effort to make the many
placement
available state and federal manpower training and / programs more
responsive to the special needs of the hardcore unemployed," Lieutenant
Governor Robert Finch said today.
Finch noted that Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh in a press release
has promised to introduce legislation to develop a coordinated system
for manpower programs by creating a new bureau.
"I'm pleased the Speaker has recognized the problem," Finch said.
"But apparently he has forgotten that the legislature took action last
year to do just the job he proposes."
The Lieutenant Governor pointed out that the legislature passed
and Governor Reagan signed legislation creating the California Job
Training and Placement Council composed of legislators, department
heads and members of industry and labor.
"I think the council's interim report of February 14 indicates we
are well on our way with legislation already introduced," Finch said.
Joining Lieutenant Governor Robert H. Finch two weeks ago at a
bi-partisan Capitol news conference in presenting the Council interim
were
recommendations legislator Council members Senator Mervyn Dymally
(D., Los Angeles), Chairman of the Senate Social Welfare Committee, and
Assemblyman Bill Greene, (D., Los Angeles) along with the authors of
Council supported legislation Assemblyman Eugene Chappie (R., Cool),
Chairman of the Assembly Social Welfare Committee and Assemblyman Bill
Campbell, (R., Los Angeles).
Highlighted in the Council's report were recommendations for an
intensive coordinated effort to place welfare recipients in meaningful
jobs and training programs, and creation of more small business and
employment in California by means of the Job Development Corporation
and
(CAL-JOB).
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"Apparently the Speaker wants to create a new division, adding to
the proliferation of existing government agencies in the manpower field.
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As part of the govern S reorganization plan sub tted to the
Legislature it is proposed to consolidate functions, in order to respond
more directly to the special needs of the hardcore unemployed," he
added.
Assemblyman Eugene Chappie, (R., Cool), Chairman of the Assembly
Social Welfare Committee, said, "the Social Welfare Committee has
already introduced a major bi-partisan bill, AB 210, geared to replace
a welfare check with a pay check. Both Democrats and Republicans on
our Committee have attended extensive hearings and have given serious
study to this problem in putting our bill together. I hope the Speaker
will at least consult with our Committee before introducing legislation
which could damage the cooperative program we have already developed."
Assemblyman Bill Campbell (R., Los Angeles) said, "I have already
introduced legislation, AB 109, endorsed by the Job Training and
Placement Council, to provide opportunities and employment in dis-
advantaged areas. This bill would create the California Job Development
Corp. (CAL-JOB) which will utilize private capital to make loans for
small business growth and jobs in economically disadvantaged areas.
Unfortunately, just setting up a new bureau as the Speaker suggests
is not the way to make jobs. The approach taken in my bi-partisan
bill is to encourage private financial institutions to make job
creating loans. I hope the Speaker will support this legislation."
Finch said, "the Speaker's bills are not yet ready for introduction
so we do not have specific proposals before us, but we welcome his
support for the recommendations of the Job Training and Placement
Council which are summarized below."
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Support for special programs to aid returning Vietnam veterans.
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Multi-use of military camps, such as Camp San Luis Obispo,
for the training of underprivileged youth
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Untie federal strings on job training programs
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Place welfare recipients in meaningful jobs and training pro-
grams, thereby substituting a pay check for a welfare check.
This concept would be implemented by the program of the
Assembly Social Welfare Committee, AB 210, authored by
Assemblyman Eugene Chappie (R., Cool) as well as by efforts of
state agencies in developing "work incentive" programs.
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Create more business and employment in California, especially
in poverty areas, through use of private financing by means of
the Job Development Corporation (CAL-JOB) as proposed in Assem-
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Upgrade vocational education programs and relate them to
occupational needs.
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Achieve cooperation and coordination of job training and
placement programs through the Cooperative Area Manpower
Planning System.
Utilize non-professional indigenous personnel from the community
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Support and assist the California Businessman's Advisory Com-
mittee in its program to expand industry.
Encourage greater efforts to create new California products.
Support tax and other incentive legislation to encourage
private enterprise to enter into the training of disadvantaged
persons.
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Plan summer programs well in advance so that they are not
crash programs but provide meaningful employment and training.
Expand the current MDTA demonstration bonding program and make
it permanent.
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Establish committees on local levels to provide feedback of
information to the Job Training and Placement Council as to
the effectiveness of training programs in meeting local needs.
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Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
2.23.68
RELEASE: Immediate
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MONDAY, February 26
through
SATURDAY, March 2
MONDAY, February 26
2:00 pm
Presentation of medal to Walter Shannon -
Director, Department of Fish and Game - by
representatives of the National Rifle Asso-
ciation, Governor's Office.
2:30 pm
Brief greeting to high school students from
Oxnard, Governor's Office.
3:00 pm
Picture with Sacramento draft board appointee
and Mexican consul, Governor's Office.
TUESDAY, February 27
1:30 pm
Press Conference
WEDNESDAY, February 28
10:00 am
Remarks to Public Affairs Council, Governor's
Council Room.
11:30 am
Presentation of Distinguished Service Award
to Hamilton Air Force Base as California
Employer of the Year in hiring the handicapped,
Governor's Office.
1:30 pm
Remarks to members of the Junior College
Board of Governors, Governor's Council Room.
THURSDAY, February 29
11:00 am
Presentation to Bob Nordskog of Jacket for
his winning the National Championship of the
National Association of Power Boat Classics,
Governor's Office.
1:30 pm
Raising of Red Cross Flag in front of Capitol
(West Steps of the Capitol)
FRIDAY, March 1
11:00 am
Meeting with California State College Student
Body Presidents (Governor's Council Room)
SATURDAY, March 2
8:00 pm
Camellia Ball, Hotel El Dorado
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2,26.68
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named public accountants Roy E.
Reynolds of Norwalk and Robert E. Grice of Encinitas to four-year
terms on the State Board of Accountancy.
The posts pay $25 per diem while on official duty, plus travel
expenses.
Reynolds, 45, succeeds Wilbur J. Schraner of Sherman Oaks.
Grice, 47, replaces Irving Rosen of San Francisco. Both outgoing
members' terms expired.
Reynolds, a Republican, has operated his own public accounting
firm in Norwalk since 1949. A graduate of the University of Kansas,
he is a consultant to the board of directors of Rotary, International;
is a former member of the Norwalk-La Mirada School Board: and has
served as a Norwalk city councilman.
He resides at 3144 Val Verde, Long Beach.
Grice, a 1941 graduate of San Diego State College, is a partner
in the Encinitas accounting firm of Grice and Lund. Active in
community affairs, he is also a member of the board of directors of
Young Life, a national organization serving teen-age youth. He is
a Republican.
He resides at 5 North Lane, Del Mar.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.26.68
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Sacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today named Edward B. Hutchinson,
deputy director of General Services, as his Special Assistant to
coordinate the implementation of recommendations made by the Governor's
Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control.
All department heads and other key personnel in state government
have been notified of Hutchinson's temporary assignment and have been
asked to cooperate with him "to assure the successful completion of
this important project," the governor said.
In naming Hutchinson to the special job, Governor Reagan said,
"There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that those recommendations
contained in the Survey that are workable will be put into effect.
"A tremendous amount of time and talent was put into the Survey
and I have no intention of now letting their recommendations sit on a
shelf and gather dust.
"We are going to make every effort to implement as many recommen-
dations as possible in order to continue making state government more
efficient," the governor said.
He will work with and report to the Cabinet under the direction
of Cabinet Secretary Win Adams.
Hutchinson, 37, was named deputy director of General Services in
January, 1967. Prior to his appointment, he was a Palo Alto real
estate developer.
A graduate of Stanford University, Hutchinson is a veteran of the
Korean War and in late 1965 served as director of transportation of
the American Christmas Train and Trucks--a relief program for the people
of Vietnam.
Under his direction, more than 50 boxcars and 7,000 truckloads of
supplies were gathered from throughout the United States and distributed
to the Vietnamese people in January and February of 1966.
Hutchinson is married and has four children.
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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
Sacramento, California
Contact: Gordon Smith
445-4141
2.26.68
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sacramento--A hastily-contrived bill passed at the end of the last
regular legislative session in 1967 without detailed study may cost
the State of California $60-$70 million more this year than estimated
by its author, Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh.
State Finance Director Gordon Paul Smith disclosed the "glaring
Unruh blooper" in letters to the Senate Finance Committee and the
Assembly Ways and Means Committee.
The bill, AB 272, was estimated by Unruh to cost the state $145
million this fiscal year.
However, because it changed and complicated the formulae for
distributing state funds to the school districts, it was impossible for
the Finance Department to get accurate figures on actual costs until
very recently, Smith said.
Another problem, he said, was that the bill was amended in a
conference committee during the closing hours of the 1967 regular
session without members of the Finance Department present to assist in
estimating costs.
"It is my hope," Smith said, "that the legislature will take
whatever steps are necessary to correct the Unruh-sponsored law.
Unfortunately, it is another classic example of hastily rushing into
a new and expanded program without knowing what the costs will be."
Smith noted that the same Unruh-sponsored bill had already
required a special session of the legislature to correct an error
caused when the conference committee--again acting hastily--left out
some technical language. That error was corrected during a special
session last September.
"I trust that Mr. Unruh will accept responsibility for the error
in estimating the costs of his bill," Smith said. "Now is the time
for him to really show the people of California that he is interested
in their welfare by admitting his mistake and correcting it."
Smith cited a letter Unruh wrote to Governor Ronald Reagan on
August 8, 1967--four days after the legislature adjourned--urging the
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governor to sign AB 272. It said, in part:
"Assembly Bill 272, the major school financing bill of the 1967
legislative session which I authored, has received final approval and
is awaiting your signature. This measure will provide $145,000,000
of additional public school financing during the current fiscal year,
more than has ever been provided in a single year by a California
legislature."
Unruh's letter also emphasized that AB 272 was sufficiently
financed by last year's revenue bill. The letter said:
"I should mention that both of the amounts appropriated by the
bill for new public school support and for property tax relief are
fully contained in the revenue measure passed by the legislature
earlier this year."
The bill, according to Unruh's letter, "made major revisions in
the formulas apportioning" state aid to the schools--formulas which
Smith charged were hastily drawn with either no concern or no knowledge
for the actual costs.
Smith said the governor was advised to sign AB 272 on the basis
of Unruh's statement that revenues to pay for it were sufficient and
on the advice of the State Department of Education.
The finance director pointed out that because of the many changes
in school formulas contained in AB 272, his department authorized
emergency funds to the Department of Education so the formulas could
be re-programmed to permit the Department of Education to provide the
first principal apportionment of new state money to the school districts
by February.
Preliminary estimates of the Finance Department indicated a
possible deficit, Smith said, but the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, in a letter dated January 3, 1968, requested Finance to
use the legislative estimates until a more accurate computation would
be available in February.
In his budget message, Governor Reagan noted that a deficit in the
school aid program was possible.
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the schools must be met even though insufficient revenue is appropriated.
Therefore, the money must come from the General Fund.
Smith said the Department of Education has officially notified his
department that the first principal apportionment exceeded the
statutory authorization under the law plus the use of a $10 million
reserve provision.
Thus, a budgetary deficit caused by miscalculations in the Unruh
bill will probably amount to about $70 million in the General Fund for
1967-68. However, the potential impact on the 1968-69 budget, Smith
said, would be an additional $82 million, which is not contained in
the budget, for a total of $152 million.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
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Governor Ronald Reagan today issued a policy statement contain-
ing the broad outlines of an overall master plan to improve the
effectiveness of the State of California's electronic data processing
(EDP) services.
The policy statement was approved last week by the California
State Electronic Data Processing Policy Committee, headed by Lt.
Governor Robert H. Finch.
Governor Reagan said the committee's policy guidelines "provide
a sound approach for resolving problems resulting from uncoordinated
planning and use of state government electronic data processing
services."
The statement emphasizes the concept that EDP should be utilized
at a minimum cost consistent with the level of service required, and
that EDP operations should be consolidated functionally, to the extent
practicable, into several strategically located centers.
The initial master plan will apply to all State government
entities with the exception of the legislature, the judiciary, the
University of California and the state colleges. However, an ultimate
master plan will consider the needs of all three branches of govern-
ment, depending on their desire and requirements.
The policy statement makes clear that while full consideration
should be given to the needs of individual agencies, the interests of
state government as a whole are paramount.
Development of the master plans will include:
--Methods and specifications for state-wide procedures and
standards.
--Criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of EDP operations,
including costs and benefits.
--Provision for intergovernmental information exchange.
--Geographic relocation of certain facilities.
--Balancing workload among remaining facilities.
--Operational use of equipment on a three-shift, seven-days-per-
week basis.
Consolidation of equipment will primarily involve that of the
state. The balance will be leased.
The policy statement calls for the Department of General Services
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to maintain a facility to handle EDP requirements that are in excess
of those that can be handled by major facilities, Contracts will
also be negotiated with private industry for computer time or consult-
ing services as required.
Excess or unusable equipment will be sold or released.
Evaluation of skills required to meet the needs of the master
plans will be made, and necessary adjustments in the data processing
staff effected.
The plans call for close liaison with the State Personnel Board
with the ultimate goal of upgrading state EDP personnel resources to
meet modern equipment innovations,
Development of the master plans will include efforts to achieve
greater compatibility of equipment or systems. In addition, particular
attention will be paid to the issue of confidentiality and security
of information. This will involve top-level elected, exempt and civil
service officials, the policy statement says.
The Office of Management Services will be responsible for
developing the master plans which will be reviewed by the Intergovern-
mental Board on Electronic Data Processing and approved by the State
Electronic Data Processing Policy Committee.
The plans will be implemented by the Department of General
Services, working in close coordination with the Office of Management
Services and the operating departments.
The Electronic Data Processing Policy Committee includes
California's elected constitutional officers, the governor's four
agency secretaries, the directors of the Departments of Finance and
General Services and three representatives of private industry.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
# 130
445-4571 2.27.68
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed William C. Whitaker and
Russel P. Smith of Tulelake to four-year terms on the 10-A District
Agricultural Association's board of directors.
The association operates the Tulelake-Butte County Fair.
The posts pay necessary travel expenses.
Whitaker, 35, was first appointed June 15,1967. Smith, 35, was
appointed to the board July 8, 1958.
Whitaker, a Republican, resigned as manager of the Tulelake-
Butte County Fair last year to accept appointment to the board. He
had served as fair manager since 1953. Whitaker is editor of
Spudman Magazine, a journal for potato growers and processors.
He lives at Box 532, Tulelake.
Smith raises purebred registered angus stock, is a cattle breeder
and raises certified seed potatoes. A Republican, he ranches in
both Butte Valley and Tulelake.
He resides at Route 1, Box 68, Tulelake.
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MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
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In press release #130 dated today, please alter
the second paragraph to read:
The association operates the Tulelake-Butte
Valley Fair.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2,27.68
MEMO TO THE PRESS
The organizational meeting of the new 15-member Board of
Governors of California Community Colleges will be held tomorrow
(Wednesday, February 28) at 2 P.M. in the Governor's Council Room,
State Capitol. Coverage by news media is invited.
Governor Ronald Reagan will deliver the charge, and the group
will select its officers. The new Board is scheduled to take over
administration of California's community colleges on July 1.
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Representatives of the California Constitutional Revision
Commission will meet briefly with Governor Reagan tomorrow at
3:45 P.M. in the governor's office. Pictures permitted.
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
# 131
445-4571 2.28.68
Governor Ronald Reagan today named retired rubber company
executive William H. Ryan and James H. Yant, a Sacramento physician,
to four-year terms on the 52nd District Agricultural Association's
board of directors. The board operates the Sacramento County Fair.
The jobs pay necessary expenses.
Ryan, 66, replaces Dan Donovan of Carmichael. Yant, 60, succeeds
James M. Mills of Sacramento. Both outgoing members' terms expired.
Ryan, a Republican, worked as Sacramento district manager for the
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company until he retired. He and his wife
are ardent horse owners and breeders. They are interested particularly
in quarter horse breeding and racing and are members of the Pacific
Coast Quarter Horse Association and the Pacific Coast Horse Racing
Association.
Ryan currently serves as a director of the California State
Tire Dealers' Association.
He resides at 1061 Appollo Way, Sacramento.
Yant, a surgeon, is a 1931 graduate of the University of
Michigan Medical School. For the past several years he has served
on the Citizens' Booster Committee for the California State Fair
Horse Show and Horse Fair.
He is a former president and director of the Sacramento County
Medical Society and now serves as administrative director of the
Sacramento Medical Foundation Blood Bank.
He lives at 4950 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Carmichael.
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445-4571 2.28.68
Sacramento--Gov. Ronald Reagan today commended the Nevada legislature,
Governor Paul Laxalt and State Senator Coe Swobe for enactment of
legislation to protect Lake Tahoe.
"I wish to pay tribute to Governor Laxalt and Senator Swobe for
their outstanding leadership in securing an agreement on the Tahoe
legislation with key California officials and then guiding the
measure through the Nevada legislature.
"Now it is up to the California legislature to complete the job.
The portion of the legislation which constitutes the proposed bi-
state compact must be enacted by the California legislature exactly
as is. We should conform our legislation to theirs to form a
valid compact which can then be ratified by Congress."
Governor Reagan called the measure "a highly significant
achievement in the battle to save Lake Tahoe."
"This legislation is a meaningful first step toward planning and
protecting the magnificent Tahoe Basin. It also preserves local
home rule and has my wholehearted support," Governor Reagan said.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
2.28.68
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Governor Reagan will hold a press conference limited to 15
minutes at 3:00 p.m. today.
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571 2.29.68
# 133
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Ida May Jacobson, a Visalia
rancher, and retired creamery company manager Walter Hooper of Lindsay
to four-year terms on the 24th District Agricultural Association's
board of directors.
The association operates the Tulare County Fair.
The jobs pay necessary expenses.
Mrs. Jacobson and her husband, Arden, raise cotton and cattle.
A Republican, she replaces Mary Virginia Richmond of Tulare.
Hooper, a 57 year old Democrat, succeeds Louis Milakovich of
Visalia.
Both outgoing members' terms expired.
Mrs. Jacobson serves as vice president of the Visalia Community
Council and has long been active in civic affairs.
She and her husband reside at 34597 Road 140, Visalia.
Hooper, now retired, operated the Sequoia Creamery in Lindsay
for over 20 years. He is a member of many community service organiza-
tions including the Lindsay Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce.
He is also a former two-term Lindsay city councilman and currently
serves as a director of the Tulare County Chamber of Commerce.
He lives at 276 South Harvard, Lindsay.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Thelma M. Newlon of Williams
to a four-year term on the 44th District Agricultural Association's
board of directors. The board operates the Colusa County Fair.
The governor also reappointed Leon W. Etchepare of Maxwell to
the board for another four-year term. Etchepare, a 48-year old
Democrat, was first appointed March 25, 1956.
The posts pay necessary expenses.
Mrs. Newlon, a Republican, has long been active in 4-H work
and has helped at the floriculture building of the Colusa County
Fair for the past 12 years. She is the wife of Dan Newlon.
She succeeds Helen Ann Thomas of Colusa whose term expired.
She resides at Route 1, Box 91, Williams.
Etchepare, a rice, wheat, barley and alfalfa farmer, is president
of Caladino Farm Seeds, Inc., a statewide seed cooperative, He is
= former trustee of the Maxwell Grammar School.
He lives at 614 West Oak Street, Maxwell.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Orland realtor Robert W.
Howard to the 42nd District Agricultural Association's board of
directors. The board operates the Glenn County Fair.
The governor also reappointed Jack M. Case of Willows, owner of
the Westside Tractor and Equipment Company, and Arthur A. St. Louis,
a Hamilton City farmer, to four-year terms on the board.
The posts pay necessary expenses.
Howard, a 50=year old Republican, will fill the unexpired term
of the late J. King Mederos of Willows. The term will end
January 15, 1969.
Howard operates his own real estate business in Orland and has
served often as an auctioneer at junior livestock sales in the area.
He is president of the Glenn County Board of Realtors and first vice
chairman of the Glenn County Chamber of Commerce.
He lives at P.O. Box 35, County Road 14, Orland.
Case, 55, is a Republican and a former Willows city councilman.
He is a former chairman and past member of the Glenn County High
School District Board of Trustees.
He resides at 630 Jefferson Street, Willows.
St. Louis, 54, farms wheat, barley and corn at his Hamilton
City ranch. A Democrat, he is chairman of the Hamilton City Elementary
School Board.
He lives at P.O. Box 487, Highway 32, Hamilton City.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Wilbert E. Aalto of Reedley
to the 21st District Agricultural Association's board of directors.
The board operates the Fresno District Fair.
The governor also reappointed retired Fresno rancher Paul Paul,
72, to the board. He was first appointed in 1960.
Both appointments are for four-year terms.
The jobs pay necessary expenses.
Aalto, a 52-year old Republican, succeeds Thomas F. Lopez of
Fresno whose term expired.
Aalto works as a salesman for the Martens Chevrolet Company in
Reedley. He is also active in the real estate business.
He has served as a member of the Reedley Planning Commission
since 1948 and is secretary of the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement
District which he helped organize.
Aalto is a former chairman of the Reedley booth at the Fresno
District Fair and has helped to gather fruit for the display for many
years.
He is also a past president of the Reedley Chamber of Commerce.
He resides at 1331 F Street, Reedley.
Paul, a retired rancher with farms in Fresno and Madera counties,
also worked as an insurance agent in Fresno for four decades. He
is a Democrat.
He lives at 5414 East North Avenue, Fresno.
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445-4571 2.29.68
Governor Ronald Reagan has proclaimed the week of March 4, 1968,
as INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION WEEK.
Text of the proclamation follows:
WHEREAS
Industrial education in the California public schools
is designed to educate youth and adults of our country
to become useful citizens and productive skilled
workers in business, industry, health services, and
technical occupations; and
WHEREAS
Industrial education has made a major contribution to
the economic and general well-being of the individual
as well as to the economic development of our state
and nation; and
WHEREAS
Industrial education will continue to provide leader-
ship in developing better citizens and more trained
manpower to meet the needs of our changing technology:
and
WHEREAS
The Bureau of Industrial Education, State Department
of Education, is holding its 30th Annual Conference
on Industrial Education in Santa Barbara on
March 5, 6, and 7, 1968; and
WHEREAS
The California Industrial Education Association is
holding its 39th Annual State Convention in Ventura
on March 8 and 9, 1968;
NOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do
hereby proclaim the week beginning March 4, 1968, as INDUSTRIAL
EDUCATION WEEK.
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Contact:
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Governor Ronald Reagan today released figures showing that his
1968-69 full support budget for the University of California and the
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greater increase for each
state colleges provides/substantially
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full-time equiva-
lent student than for the average of the past 10 years.
He said the new support budget--which includes salary increases
for faculty and staff personnel--provides:
--$184 more for each student at the University than budgeted
for the current fiscal year, or a 6.2 percent increase. This compares
with an average yearly increase of $66 per student, or 2.6 percent,
over the past 10 years.
--$116 more per student at the state colleges than the 1967-68
budget, or a 9.11 percent increase. This compares with an average
annual increase of only $60 per student, or 6.66 percent, during the
past 10 years.
The figures are based on enrollment during the academic year,
not summer sessions.
Governor Reagan said his $280 million 1968-69 support budget
for the University represents a $25.7 million increase over the
previous budget, or 10 percent more. He said this compares with an
average annual increase of $16.9 million, or 11.4 percent, for the
institution over the past decade.
Yet, the number of students at the University next year will
rise only 3.5 percent above the current level. This increase, he
said, represents roughly only a third of the annual enrollment
increase at the University over the past 10 years of 8.6 percent.
The governor said that during the past decade, the average
annual increase in the full support budget for the state colleges has
amounted to $14.66 million, or 17.7 percent a year. However, he
pointed out that his new support budget represents an 18 percent rise
over the previous year's allocation, or a $40.9 million increase.
He said the increases per student at both the university and
colleges "are truly substantial indeed."
He said, "Those who have been vehemently flailing at the alleged
lack of concern for higher education in California are simply ignoring
the facts.
"This administration must operate state government within the
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limits of available funds, and the plain fact is that we have given
higher education the top priority in next year's budget.
"In fact, had higher education received the same budgetary
alignment as all other departments and agencies of state government,
the University budget would have been $11.7 million less than we
allocated. The state colleges would have received $28.1 million
less, " he said.
The governor pointed out that in order to make the increased
budgets possible for higher education, "we are asking for substantial
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cuts in the cost of welfare and Medi-Cal."
The governor noted that in addition to the large support budget
for the University and state colleges, he has allocated another $91.5
million for capital outlay, exclusive of bond funds.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
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MEMO TO THE PRESS
The swearing in ceremony for Cap Weinberger is at 9:45 a.m.
Friday, March 1, in the Governor's Office.
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