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    "ocrText": "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\nDigital Library Collections\nThis is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections.\nCollection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers,\n1966-74: Press Unit\nFolder Title: Press Releases - April 1972\nBox: P13\nTo see more digitized collections visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library\nTo see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection\nContact a reference archivist at: [email protected]\nCitation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing\nNational Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-4-72\n#182\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced his appointments to the new\nEconomic Development Commission. The commission, created by Senate Bill\n1407 (Lagomarsino, R-Ojai) and passed by the 1971 legislature, will be\nchaired by Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke and will develop programs to\nincrease jobs and long-term employment opportunities for Californians.\nThe governor appoints ten members from business and industry to the\n17-man, bipartisan commission, which replaces the old commission on\ntourism and visitors services and the Industry and World Trade Commission.\nThree members are appointed from both the Senate and Assembly.\nGovernor Reagan's appointments include Robert F. Smith, president of\nPhillips-Ramsey, Inc. in San Diego; Ernest J. Loebbecke, chairman of the\nboard of TI Corporation (of California) in Los Angeles; Thomas L. Lowe,\nchairman of the California Chamber of Commerce Economic Development\nCommittee and president of the Newhall Land and Farming Company, Valencia;\nJack H. Vollbrecht, president of Aerojet-General Corporation, El Monte;\nL. W. Lane, Jr., president and publisher of Sunset Magazine (Lane\nPublishing Company), Menlo Park; and Paul Ely, general manager of\nMicrowave Division of Hewlett Packard Company in Palo Alto. All are\nRepublicans.\nThe governor's other appointees include: Jerry Fine, attorney at\nlaw, Fine and Pope in Los Angeles; Cyril Magnin, chairman of Joseph\nMagnin, Inc., San Francisco and president of the San Francisco Port\nCommission; John Royal, secretary-treasurer of the Fisherman Union #33\nin San Pedro; and Robert F. Six, president of Continental Airlines, Inc.,\nin Los Angeles. All are Democrats.\nCommission members serve without compensation and will meet regularly\nat least once every three-month period. They will advise the Department\nof Commerce and develop programs to further the economic development of\nthe state.\nLieutenant Governor Reinecke said that one of the first functions of\nthe commission will be to implement programs to strengthen weak spots in\nthe California economy.\n\"One of our first priorities will be to alleviate unemployment\nparticularly as it affects minorities and those in low and unskilled\noccupations,\" Reinecke said, \"Our efforts in world trade and tourism\nwhich both employ vast numbers of low-skilled workers, could be singularly\neffective in creating jobs for that portion of our work force,\"\n- 1 -\n#182\nThis is the first commission in California to investigate the total\neconomic picture of the state and implement a course of action, Reinecke\nsaid.\n\"We only have four years in which to show positive results or else\nthe commission will be disbanded by law. It is our hope that this\ncommission will become a model for counties to adopt, and to restore\nCalifornia's competitive role among the other states,\" Reinecke said.\nAn executive director for the commission is expected to be named\nsoon.\n#######\nWAS\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-3-72\n#183\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have\nbeen signed:\nAB 36 - Lanterman\nValidates organization, boundaries, acts, proceedings,\nChapter 41\nand bonds of counties, cities, and specific districts,\nagencies and entities. The First Validating Act of\n1972.\nAB 75 - McAlister\nAuthorizes the Director of General Services to convey\nChapter 22\nan easement for 1.8 acres of Agnews State Hospital\nproperty to Santa Clara County.\nAB 91 - Ketchum\nRevises quality, size, and maturity grades and\nChapter 42\nstandards for potatoes. The bill authorizes the\nDirector of Agriculture to establish, by regulations,\nquality, size, and maturity grades and standards of\npotatoes above the United States No. 2 grade.\nAB 174 - Lewis\nAuthorizes the governing board of any school district\nChapter 31\nor the county superintendent of schools to conduct\nfield trips or excursions during the school year to\nany foreign country, rather than to a foreign country\nadjoining the United States, and to the District of\nColumbia.\nAB 249 - Campbell\nTransfers the Intermediate Care Program from the State\nChapter 32\nDepartment of Social Welfare to the Department of\nHealth Care Services.\nAB 314 - Lanterman\nClarifies procedures relating to the examination of\nChapter 23\ncriminal defendants by regional centers for the\nmentally retarded.\nAB 338 - Meade\nRequires that persons meeting designated qualification\nChapter 28\nbe permitted to take the examination for a certificate\nof registration as an optometrist.\nAB 532 - Hayden\nAppropriates $1, 476, 100 from funds in the Reserve\nChapter 29\nAccount of State Construction Program Fund for\nallocation to the West Valley Joint Junior College\nDistrict for site acquisition.\nAB 801 - Barnes\nPreserves until July 1, 1973, University of California\nChapter 33\nand State College nonresident tuition exemptions for\ncertain dependents of military personnel stationed\nin California.\nAB 1021 - Warren\nAppropriates $200,000 to Judges' Retirement Fund for\nChapter 34\npayment of benefits to retired judges.\nSB 39 - Alquist\nAmends the Santa Clara County Transit District Act\nChapter 30\nby deleting the taxing and bonding authority of the\ndistrict; also increases and raises the membership of\nthe advisory commission to the transit district board.\nSB 63 - Way\nAppropriates $2,167,897 to the Department of the\nChapter 25\nYouth Authority to augment to the Budget Act of 1971\nfor special probation supervision programs at the\nlocal level.\nSB 69 - Wedworth\nExempts from sales and use tax those meals furnished\nChapter 19\nin specified out-of-home care facilities. The bill\nalso exempts certain family foster homes from the\npayment of license fees.\nSB 172 - Mills\nSpecifically authorizes the governing boards of school\nChapter 20\ndistricts to conduct field trips for school bands to\ncountries adjoining the United States. The bill also\nauthorizes school district governing boards to conduct\nspecified school trips to the District of Columbia as\nwell as to other states and certain foreign countries\n- 1 -\n#183\nSB 223 - Teale\nAuthorizes the assessment, levy and collection of\nChapter 21\nschool district taxes for a reorganized school\ndistrict in Modoc County for which documents\npertaining to the boundaries of the district have\nbeen filed by February 3, 1972.\nSB 271 - Bradley\nChanges the operative date of certain provisions\nChapter 26\nauthorizing government agencies to charge fees for\nfiling or recording documents.\nGovernor Reagan also announced today the following bill has been\nvetoed.\nSB 228 - Alquist\nEnacts new provisions relating to the preparation of\nthe impartial analyses of ballot measures, the\nprinting of ballot pamphlets, the contents of ballot\npamphlets and the preparation of ballot pamphlet\nappendices. The bill provides that the legislative\nanalyst rather than legislative counsel shall prepare\nthe impartial analysis of each ballot measure, and\nthat the legislative counsel shall prepare ballot\npamphlet appendix.\nREASON FOR VETO:\n\"There appears to be no compelling justification for\nthe changes proposed by SB 228. The bill would shift\nthe responsibility for analyses of ballot measures\nfrom the legislative counsel to the legislative\nanalyst. At present the analyst only prepares a\nfinancial analysis if a measure has fiscal effect.\nUnder SB 228, the analyst would do the 'legal'\nanalysis as well, and combine it with his financial\nanalysis. It is essential that responsibility for\nthe preparation of the 'legal' analysis of ballot\nmeasures rest with those with the necessary legal\nexpertise. I believe that the legislative counsel\nis better equipped to prepare such analyses. The\nbill also repeals provisions which seem useful, such\nas the format for ballot pamphlet titles, analyses,\nand arguments. I am also concerned by the repeal of\nElections Code Section 3566.3, which requires the\nlegislative analyst to analyze a measure in great\nfiscal detail. Instead, he is required to treat\nfiscal effects in more general terms by this bill.\nPerhaps the 'urgency' aspects of this bill have\nprovided too little time for debate and reflection\non its merits. There is nothing in the present law\nto warrant such hasty action.\n\"Accordingly, I am returning the bill unsigned,\"\nthe governor said.\n# # # # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nR\nRELEASE:\nediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-4-72\n#184\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced that the number of persons\nkilled and injured on California's streets and highways, the number of\nfatal highway traffic accidents and the mileage death rate all decreased\ndramatically in 1971.\nHe said that while there were increases in the number of licensed\ndrivers, the number of vehicles on the highways and the number of miles\ntraveled during 1971, there was a 7.6 percent decrease in fatal traffic\naccidents and the mileage death rate continued the downward trend that\nbegan in 1965 by reaching a new all-time low of 3.6 deaths per 100 million\nmiles of travel.\nAlong the 14,678 miles of the state highway system, there were 3.19\ndeaths per 100 million miles of travel, a decrease of 16 percent from 197C\nThe governor said that a combination of state and community grant\nprograms administered by the office of traffic safety, along with\nvigorous law enforcement, and 178 miles of new freeway construction\nand special highway safety improvements, contributed to the new safety\nrecord.\nHe also credited the success to increased awareness of the importance\nof traffic safety by local government through programs for the improvement\nof the roadway environment and short and long range plans for corrective\naction plus the cooperation of private organizations and their support of\nhighway safety programs.\nWhile the overall accident rates were decreasing, however, the number\nof pedestrians killed in unincorporated areas increased by .8 percent to\n265; the number of bicyclists killed on all roads increased by 9.5 percent\nto 95 and the number of motorcycles involved in fatal accidents increased\n1.7 percent to 485.\n\"In the months ahead, the Business and Transportation Agency, our\nOffice of Traffic Safety and research analysts in the California Highway\nPatrol and the Department of Public Works will study the 1971 report in\ndetail to seek ways of further reducing the accident toll, he said.\nThe figures released by the governor show that 4,462 persons, or 439\nfewer than 1970, died in traffic accidents. There was also a decline of\n1,166 fewer persons injured in traffic accidents in 1971 from the 1970\ntoll of 241,598.\n- 1 -\n#184\nThe total number of fatal accidents in 1971 was 3,953 as compared\nwith 4,277 in 1970.\nThe report also showed that in 1971 vehicle registrations increased\nto 14,236,816, the number of licensed drivers increased to 12,130,000\nand total miles traveled increased to 122,564,000,000.\nThe registration of motorcycles increased 8.3 percent in 1971, from\n561,621 to 608,108. In 1960, total motorcycle registration was 75,590.\nOther categories in which there was an improvement in the safety\nrecord included a decrease of 14.5 percent in the number of pedestrians\nkilled within city limits (525); fatalities involving multi-vehicle\ncrashes, a decrease of 8.7 percent, and a 6 percent decrease in the\ndeath rate on California's freeways.\n######\nWAS\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-5-72\n#185\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:\n\"I regret having to inform you that our efforts to provide a\nresponsible state budget containing the tools we must have to reform\nwelfare and keep a close eye on the government's purse strings are\napparently going to be opposed by the Democratic leadership in the Assembly.\n\"Choosing to play games with your hardearned tax dollars, they have\npadded by hundreds of millions of dollars the budget we submitted. We can\nonly hope that the Senate, and later a conference between both houses,\nwill restore fiscal balance and responsibility.\n\"Besides voting to use up an anticipated revenue reserve which we\nbelieve must be held as insurance against any tax increase in the\nforeseeable future, they have moved to cripple our whole program of\nwelfare reform.\n\"Federally financed welfare rights attorneys so-called\npoverty\nlawyers are doing their best to hamstring and tie up our welfare\nreforms in court. The Democratic Assembly leadership has responded by\nwiping out our own welfare legal staff.\n\"They have also removed from our welfare department's jurisdiction\nthe so-called fair-hearing process for recipients. This will keep the\ndepartment from dealing more quickly with a huge backlog of cases in which\ntoo many undeserving people will continue to draw welfare while truly\nneedy recipients are subjected to endless and unfair hearing delays.\n\"The funds we need to continue development of an electronic data\nprocessing system designed to catch welfare cheaters and track down\nabsent fathers who push their families onto welfare also have been\ntorpedoed.\n\"As though this were not enough, they have removed dozens of auditors\nfrom the Department of Finance men who apparently are too successful at\nmaking recommendations for cost savings in government.\n\"Tomorrow, the entire Assembly will vote on this budget. Reality\ndemands that the Republicans, who haven't enough votes to change it, let\nit go to the Senate.\n\"To block passage would only delay the budget process to no avail.\n\"I can only hope the Senate will exercise leadership and statesmanship\nin passing a budget which retains the necessary tools to assure that\nwelfare remains under control and allows the Director of Finance to\ncontinue his close watch on the purse strings.\"\n######\nE.TG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-5-72\n#186\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Hollis G. Best, an attorney,\nand reappointed Paul Paul, a retired rancher, to four-year terms on the\n21st District Agricultural Association (Fresno District Fair).\nBest, 45, who lives at 332 West San Carlos Avenue, Fresno, will\nsucceed Wilbert E. Aalto of Reedley, whose term has expired.\nPaul, 76, who lives at 5414 East North Avenue, Fresno, has served\non the board since 1960.\nBest is a Republican. Paul is a Democrat.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ.\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-5-72\n#188\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Robert I. Lauffer,\neditor of the Camarillo Daily News, to a three-year term on the\nAdvisory Board for the Mentally Disordered at Camarillo State Hospital.\nLauffer, 40, who lives at 1825 Kendall Avenue, Camarillo, has\nserved on the board since 1970. He is a Republican.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n#######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-5-72\n#189\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. Jerold J. Behnke,\nAssociate Professor of Physical Sciences at Chico State College's School\nof Natural Sciences, to a four-year term on the California Regional\nWater Quality Control Board for the Central Valley Region.\nDr. Behnke, 37, a Republican, will represent recreation and wildlife\non the board. He succeeds the late Vernon L. Rue of Modesto.\nDr. Behnke lives at 1059 Via Verona Drive, Chico.\nMembers of the board receive necessary expenses.\n#######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californi\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-5-72\n#190\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of five\nmembers to the seven-man State Transportation Board.\nThey are: Alton M. Clem, 351 Marcella Way, Millbrae, business\nmanager of the Operating Engineers Union, Local 3, San Francisco, a\nDemocrat. Clem was appointed to a one-year term.\nThomas H. Hughes, 2116 Bel Air Avenue, San Jose, a San Jose attorney\nand member of the State Aeronautics Board. He is a Republican. Hughes\nwas appointed to a one-year term.\nFred C. Jennings, 740 Via Zapata, Riverside, a Riverside businessman\nand California State Highway Commissioner. He is a Republican. Jennings\nwas appointed to a two-year term.\nAubrey E. Austin, Jr., 587 East Channel Road, Santa Monica, president\nof the Santa Monica Bank. He is a Republican. Austin was appointed to\na three-year term.\nRichard R. Brown, 480 Horizon Hills Drive, E1 Cajon, president of\nBrown Tool Engineering Company and member of the El Cajon City Council.\nHe is a Republican. Brown was appointed to a three-year term.\nAustin and Brown have served on the board since its creation in\n1969, and Clem since 1971.\nThe Board reviews plans for overall state-wide transportation\nincluding the California highway system, the State Aviation Master Plan\nand regional transportation plans developed by such organizations as the\nSan Francisco Bay area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the\nTransportation Planning Committee of the Southern California Association\nof Governments, the San Diego Comprehensive Planning Organization and the\nSacramento Regional Area Planning Commission.\nThe board was created in 1969 to provide the governor, the\nlegislature and the Secretary of Business and Transportation with a broad\noverview of the effectiveness and compatibility of public transportation\nprograms in relation to other activities and private enterprises.\nThe appointments announced today are part of a reorganization process\nrequired by recent legislation that provides for staggered terms in order\nto ensure continuity of operation.\nThe full board consists of seven appointed members and two ex-offici\nnon-voting members from the Senate and Assembly. The present ex-officio\nmembers are Assemblyman Wadie Deddeh and Senator Alfred E. Alquist.\nMembers receive basic travel expenses.\n#####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-6-72\n#191\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed three new Los Angeles Judicial\nDistrict Municipal Court judges to succeed judges who have been elevated\nto the Los Angeles County Superior Court.\nThe new municipal court judges are Los Angeles County Deputy District\nAttorney Robert E. Devich, Deputy Attorney General Warren H. Deering and\nVan Nuys attorney Armand Arabian.\nDevich, 45, a Democrat, succeeds Judge Pat Mullendore; Deering, 48,\na Republican, succeeds Judge Leslie Light, and Arabian, 38, a Republican,\nsucceeds Judge Richard Gadbois, Jr.\nA member of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office since\n1965 he is a former patrolman and detective with the Beverly Hills Police\nDepartment.\nHe is a graduate of the University of Portland in Oregon and earned\nhis law degree from Southwestern University in Los Angeles.\nActive in the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, he is an\nofficer of the Mexican-American Lawyers Club and is a member of the\nCriminal Courts Bar Association, American Bar Association, the Salesian\nBoys Club, the American Judicature Society and the Narcotics Prevention\nAssociation.\nDevich is married and has two children. The family home is in\nCanoga Park.\nDeering, a member of the attorney general's office since 1958, is\nthe deputy in charge of Administrative Law for the Department of Justice\nin the Los Angeles area.\nHe previously served as legal counsel for the Department of Alcoholic\nBeverage Control in Southern California and as legal counsel for the\nState Real Estate Commissioner.\nA graduate of Northwestern University, he holds law degrees from\nNorthwestern and the University of Southern California.\nHe is a charter member of the Administrative Law Bar Association, a\nmember of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association and\nthe Peace Officers' Association of Los Angeles County, and a member of the\nboard and a visiting lecturer of the Western State University College of\nLaw in Anaheim. He lives in Los Angeles.\nArabian, who has been in the private practice of law in Van Nuys\nsince 1963, is a former Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles County.\nHe is a graduate of Boston University College and holds law degrees\nfrom the University's School of law and from the University of Southern\nCalifornia.\nArabian is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of\nCalifornia, Los Angeles County and San Fernando Valley Bar Associations,\nthe Criminal Courts Bar Association, the American Judicature Society, the\nAmerican Trial Lawyers Association, Legion Lex and the Association of\nDeputy District Attorneys. He and his wife Nancy have two children. The\nfamily lives in Tarzana.\nThe new judges will receive annual salaries of $32,273.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVE!\nR\nSacramento, California\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-6-72\nCORRECTION\nIn Release No. 191 dated today Warren H. Deering was identified\nas Deputy Attorney General. He has been Chief Assistant Attorney General\nfor Special Operations, with offices in Los Angeles, since December, 1970.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-6-72\nGovernor Reagan will make a major policy address\nto the Long Beach Joint Service Clubs luncheon tomorrow outlin-\ning a broad, long-range program he is proposing to preserve and\nenhance California's priceless environmental and scenic resources\nin the years ahead, including the protection of the state's\nmagnificent coastline.\nThe speech, an important \"state of the state\nmessage on the environment,\" is scheduled for delivery shortly\nafter noon at the Lafayette International Ballroom, 140 Linden\nStreet, Long Beach.\nThe governor's press office will provide an\nadvanced text to members of the Capitol Press Corps this after-\nnoon for flat release in Friday PMs.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: F1 lay P.M.s\nSacramento, California\nApril 7, 1972\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-6-72\nPLEASE GUARD AGAINST\n#192\nPREMATURE RELEASE\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today outlined a far-reaching 10-point\nprogram to protect and preserve California's priceless environmental\nand scenic resources---without crippling industry and the jobs they\nprovide or stunting the growth of economic development in the state.\nIn a major policy address on \"the state of the state's environment\"\nbefore the Long Beach Joint Service Clubs, the governor announced the\nfirst phase of a balanced, common sense program which will protect\nCalifornia's magnificent coastline, extend the war against air, water\nand waste pollution and \"preserve the best of our environment in a way\nthat is compatible with the goals and philosophy of a free society.\n\"We can no longer tolerate the philosophy of deplete and be damned\nbecause our natural resources constitute the single greatest asset we\nhave to improve our lives and the generations which will follow us,\"\nhe said.\n\"We can do what has to be done, but we need not resort to the\npolitical pollution born of hysterical pollution which will appear as\nProposition 9 on the June ballot.\"\nReferring to \"the flack of the doom-criers\" and \"exaggerated claims\nand cries of alarm about the environment\" by \"those today willing to\nmake freedom the first down payment in a crash program,\" the governor\nsaid:\n\"We must consider the adverse environmental impact of every major\nactivity in our society and find reasonable, workable ways to minimize\nthat impact, but without at the same time bringing economic development\nto a sudden and catastrophic halt. We must control pollution and\npreserve the best of our environment in a way that is compatible with\nthe goals and philosophy of a free society.\"\nThe governor's proposed program would:\n--Create a State Department of Environmental Protection which\nwould include a new solid waste management program to be coordinated\nwith existing air and water pollution control efforts;\n--Enlarge the statewide air quality program to assist local\ngovernment in implementing federal and state standards on stationary\nsources of pollution, including state matching financial assistance;\n-1-\n#192\n-Emphasize the importance of local government and the necessity\nfor environmental decisions to be made, where possible, at that level\nof government closest to the people who are most affected by the use\nor development of a particular natural resource;\n--Produce a comprehensive Environmental Goals and Policy Report,\ndesigned to identify areas of critical environmental concern and to\nprovide planning guidelines to protect all of the state's natural\nresources;\n-Establish a State Power Plant Siting Council;\n--Call for coastal legislation this year which would assist local\ngovernment to identify specific areas of environmental concern and\nprovide procedures for protecting these areas against unnecessary\nencroachment;\n--Broaden the coordination of the Joint Resources-Transportation\nCommittee established to minimize the environmental impact of highway\nconstruction to include social, economic and urban concerns;\n--Seek emergency legislation this year to provide the state with\nstatutory authority to regulate forest practices;\n--Recommend a major bond issue for 1974 to provide additional\nfunds to carry on park and beach development.\nThe governor pointed out that protecting and enhancing the\nenvironment has become an emotional issue. \"Today, we deal with three\nkinds of pollution: actual, hysterical and political. The last two\nfrighten our people and dilute our legitimate efforts to preserve the\nplanet,\" the governor said.\nResponsibility for controlling air pollution in California is\nshared by all levels of government, but the primary responsibility for\nenforcing minimum state and federal standards of air quality on\nstationary sources rests with local agencies, he said. But he noted\nthat almost half of the state's 58 counties lack a sufficient tax base\nto fully support the minimum standards they are required to meet.\nIn recognizing this problem, and to assure an orderly implementa-\ntion of air quality standards, he said he is seeking legislation this\nyear that would include matching state financial assistance for local\ngovernments so they will have the necessary funds to finance effective\nprograms without putting an unreasonable burden on local property\ntaxpayers.\n-2-\n#192\nThe governor said the proposed legislation would also require\nadequate local programs in every county where air quality standards\ndo not meet minimum standards. And it would offer each county the\noption of either operating its air quality control program alone,\noperate the program in combination with other counties, or contract\nwith the state for a minimum program.\nHe announced that the State Office of Planning and Research would\nsoon release a comprehensive Environmental Goals and Policy Report,\ndesigned to identify areas of critical environmental concern, and to\nprovide planning guidelines to protect such resources as the coastline\nand other areas of statewide importance.\n\"In drafting the Environmental Goals and Policy guidelines,\"\nGovernor Reagan said, \"We worked within a framework of basic principles\nthat I believe are both necessary and essential. They are:\n\"That environmental decisions should be made, where possible,\nat the level of government closest to the people who are most affected\nby the use or development of the particular natural resource involved;\n\"That state government should intercede in local matters only\nwhere it is necessary to mediate a jurisdictional dispute or where the\nenvironmental problem is of such magnitude that it has significant\nstatewide importance;\n-\"That state government should assist local government in\ncarrying out its responsibility to protect the environment through\ntechnical assistance, and by providing information necessary to imple-\nment effective safeguards.\n\"We also believe state government should take steps to assure that\nin the environmental decision-making process, an equal opportunity is\noffered for all opinions to be expressed and thoroughly considered.\"\nThe governor said that one of the major environmental goals in\nthe forthcoming report involves protection of coastal resources. He\nsaid the policies and guidelines would be implemented at the local level\nto the maximum extent possible.\n\"The ports in our major cities constitute a tremendous part of\nthe state's total economic activity, providing jobs for thousands of\npeople,\" he said. \"The beaches, coves, rocky cliffs and the tidelands\nrepresent an almost priceless recreational, scenic resource. Some\nenvironmental doom-criers would have us believe they are so far gone\nthat only a declaration of state or national emergency can save them.\nThis is hysterical pollution and it has resulted in a very real threat\nof political pollution.\"\n-3-\n#192\nOf the 1,072.7 miles of California coast, he said 412 miles\nalready are in public ownership. \"This does not mean we should write\noff the other 650 miles or pave them over.\"\n\"The environmental quality of our coastline can be preserved and\nenhanced without unduly infringing on its economic development.\"\nGovernor Reagan said a good example of the controversy between\neconomic needs and preservation of natural resources is the question\nof power plant siting.\n\"There are three principal ways of generating electrical energy:\nthrough the burning of fossil fuels, hydro-electric generating\nfacilities (dams) and through nuclear energy. All three methods are\nnow under attack in one way or another.\"\nPointing out that California's energy requirements may double in\nthe next 10 years, the governor said:\n\"The cleanest method of generating electrical power is through\nthe use of nuclear facilities. As we phase out the use of fossil fuel,\nnuclear energy will have to replace it. This will require the\nestablishment of an orderly process for the selection and approval of\npower plants.\"\nHe proposed a Power Plant Siting Council in the state government\nwhich will have the responsibility of evaluating the environmental\nimpact and designating approved locations after giving full considera-\ntion to necessary environmental safeguards.\nThe governor also proposed the creation of a new State Department\nof Environmental Protection that would include a new and more effective\nprogram for the management and disposal of solid wastes.\n\"Instead of fragmented, single-purpose agencies, we should develop\nour pollution control efforts in a more coordinated manner because in\nmany cases, one form of pollution affects another,\" he said. \"If you\nsolve the garbage problem by burning it, you add to air pollution.\nDump it at sea and you create another problem.\"\nGovernor Reagan noted that five years ago he directed the secretar-\nies of the Resources and Business and Transportation agencies to set up\na joint committee (Joint Resources-Transportation Committee) to end\nwhat had been a continuing hassle over highway routings. He said the\ncommittee has been working effectively to protect the environment in\nhighway planning.\n-4-\n#192\n\"Last year,\" he said, \"we also adopted a major new policy of\ncoordinating our highway planning with local agencies to protect\nCalifornia's entire coastal zone against all unnecessary freeway\nconstruction. These efforts have resulted in freeways being rerouted\nto avoid unnecessary encroachment of the California seashore. Now I\nam asking these two agencies to include in their coordination some\nbroader considerations in such areas as social, economic and urban\nconcerns.\"\nThe governor said the State Supreme Court last year outlawed the\nstate's forest practices laws which was akin to \"tossing the baby out\nwith the bath water.\"\n\"With the heavy logging and fire hazard season fast approaching,\nwe are in the dangerous position of having no state statutory authority\nto regulate forest practices,\" he said. \"I have asked the legislature\nto approve emergency legislation to fill this gap until it can develop\nlong-range forest practice regulations.\"\nGovernor Reagan pointed out that a comprehensive 20-year plan has\nbeen drafted expanding and developing the state's park system. The\nmajor goal, he pointed out, is to provide a range of facilities that\nwill attract visitors in all seasons, reduce over-crowded conditions\nand, when the system is completed, insure that every California citizen\nwill be within two hours driving distance of a major park or beach\nno matter where he lives.\n\"The so-called windfall that results from the switch to income tax\nwithholding this year will be divided so that $235 million goes back\nto the taxpayer in a 20 percent rebate,\" he said, \"and part of the\nremainder will provide $35 million to reimburse local governments for\nmaintaining land in open space preserves. In addition to these funds,\nwe plan to recommend a major bond issue in 1974 to provide additional\nrevenue to carry on this long-range park and beach development.\"\n# # #\n-5-\nCEW\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-6-72\n#193\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has asked state authorities to complete\nsurveys of frost damage to agriculture in four Central Valley counties\nas rapidly as possible.\nThe governor made the request following a meeting Wednesday\nafternoon (April 5) with Assemblymen Kenneth L. Maddy of Fresno,\nErnest N. Mobley of Madera and Fresno counties and Gordon W. Duffy\nof Kings and Tulare counties.\nDuring the meeting, officials of the State Office of Emergency\nServices (OES) said they have received requests for disaster\nproclamations from Stanislaus, Fresno, Placer and San Benito counties.\nOther counties affected by the severe freeze in March have indicated\nto OES that on completion of their own damage surveys, they plan to\nrequest disaster proclamations by the governor.\nSurveys are now in progress by OES into the extent of the losses\nin the four counties which have asked for gubernatorial disaster\nproclamations.\nUnder state law, the governor cannot proclaim a disaster area\nuntil requested by the county board of supervisors and the extent of\nthe damage is confirmed by OES.\n-\nOES officials pointed out that a final estimate of the damage in\nthe four counties may not be available for some time but that every\neffort is being made to complete the surveys at the earliest possible\ndate.\n# # #\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-7-72\n#194\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of James\nM. Hicks, Director of the Kern County Building Inspection Department,\nas Chief of the Division of Codes and Standards in the Department of\nHousing and Community Development.\nHicks, 55, will receive an annual salary of $23,148. He succeeds\nWalter Dahl of San Rafael, who has resigned.\nPresident of the International Conference of Building Officials,\nHicks has served in his Kern County post since 1966.\nA licensed architect, he is active in the Counties Association of\nBuilding Officials, the American Institute of Architects, the Kern\nBonsai Society and other civic and service organizations.\nHe is a graduate of Glendale College and the University of\nSouthern California.\nHe and his wife Betty have a daughter. The family home is at\n2700 Crest Drive, Bakersfield.\nHicks, who will serve at the pleasure of the department's director,\nis a Republican.\n#######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER!\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-7-72\n#195\nGovernor Ronald Reagan said today that the sales of California's\npersonalized license plates, which support ecology programs, have\nincreased more than 50 percent during the past four months.\nSince December, when application blanks were mailed to all motor\nvehicle owners in the state along with the annual registration renewal\nnotices, more than 23,000 motorists placed orders for the plates.\nThis has increased the number of the personalized plates on the\nroad from 45,000 sets last November to more than 68,000 today.\nApproximately $1 million in revenue from the sale of the special\nplates are being used in the fiscal year 1971-72 for a variety of\nenvironmental protection programs that range from improving scenic\nvistas along roadside stops to the preservation of wildlife reserves and\nendangered groves of trees.\nAnticipated revenues of nearly $2 million have been earmarked for\nthe ecology-oriented program in the governor's 1972-73 budget.\nThe plates may be purchased from the Department of Motor Vehicles\nfor an initial fee of $25 with a yearly renewal fee of $10. For an\nadditional $12, the plates can be transferred to other vehicles.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nR\nMEMO TO THE\nRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-7-72\n#196\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nApril 10, 1972\nthrough\nApril 16, 1972\nMonday, April 10\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, April 11\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWednesday, April 12\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nThursday, April 13\nNoon\nCSEA Institute on Government, Cal Expo.\nRemarks.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nFriday, April 14\n2:00 p.m.\nGrand Opening of headquarters of the\nCalifornia Committee for the Reelection\nof the President, 1670 Wilshire Bculevard,\nLos Angeles. (For details call Jack Easton,\n213-484-8404.)\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSaturday, April 15\n2:30 p.m.\nDedication of Hathaway House (home for\nmentally retarded children), 840 North\nAvenue 66, Los Angeles\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, April 16\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-10-72\n# 197\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today proclaimed a state of emergency in\nsix Southern California counties in the wake of an outbreak of\nNewcastle Disease affecting poultry and exotic birds. The viral\ndisease is usually fatal to birds but is harmless to man.\nThe proclamation, issued in response to the economic plight of\nthe hard hit California poultry industry, will open the door for\neconomic assistance and tax relief.\nIn his proclamation, Governor Reagan cited the magnitude of the\nepidemic which, he noted, \"is beyond the control of the services,\npersonnel, equipment, and facilities\" of the affected counties.\nIn carrying out a cooperative emergency program with the USDA,\nwho will cover the growers for 100 percent of the poultry and exotic\nbird loss, the state will furnish supporting services and other\nresources, including those of the State Department of Agriculture\nand the State Office of Emergency Services.\nUnder applicable federal laws, USDA has already declared the\naffected counties \"emergency areas,\" paving the way for federal\nfinancial assistance expected to ultimately run between three and\nfour million dollars for the loss of an estimated two million birds.\nThe six counties are: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Diego,\nSan Bernardino and Ventura.\n# # #\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE. Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n#198\n445-4571\n4-11-72\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today nominated Chief Assistant Attorney\nGeneral Herbert L. Ashby as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal,\nSecond Appellate District, Division 5.\nHis nomination, to succeed Justice William A. Reppy who will retire\neffective May 15, has been submitted to the Commission on Judicial\nAppointments for confirmation.\nAshby, 42, a Democrat, has served as Chief Assistant Attorney General\nfor the Criminal Division, since January 2, 1971.\nIn the post, he was responsible for representing the state in all\ncriminal appeals and the cases under his supervision constituted 56 per\ncent of all appeals disposed of by opinions from the Appellate Courts.\nPrior to his appointment in the attorney general's office, Ashby\nserved for a year as Assistant Secretary of the Human Relations Agency.\nHe previously served for five years as Ventura County Counsel and\nfor five years as a Deputy District Attorney and Assistant District\nAttorney of Ventura County.\nAshby is a member of the California Council on Criminal Justice and\nthe council's Judicial Process Task Force. He also serves as a member\nof the Advisory Board to the Joint Legislative Committee for Revision of\nthe Penal Code.\nA graduate of the University of New Mexico, he earned his law degree\nfrom the University of San Francisco.\nHe was on the Dean's Honor Roll at the University of New Mexico\nSchool of Law and was the 1957 winner of the Nathan Berkan Award at the\nUniversity of San Francisco.\nAshby and his wife Marion have three children. The family lives at\n4331 Marshall Avenue, Carmichael.\nDivision 5 of the Second Appellate District, located in Los Angeles,\nincludes the counties of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis\nObispo.\nAssociate Justices receive an annual salary of $42,097.\n####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Wednesday, April 12\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Bock Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-11-72\n#199\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today urged the National Institute on\nAlcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to approve a state plan he is proposing\nwhich would provide more than $2.3 million in federal funds to\nCalifornia counties to combat alcoholism.\nThe governor's plan explains the need for proposed county alloca-\ntions totaling $2,332,000, and would provide a mechanism to establish\na network of county operated alcohol abuse programs.\n\"Alcoholism in California is a major medical and social problem\nthat is increasing at an accelerating rate,\" the governor said.\n\"Estimates indicate that one out of every 12 adult Californians--over\none million individuals--is an alcoholic.\n\"While deaths attributable to alcoholism still rank 10th among all\ncauses of mortality in California, there has been a sharp increase in\nthe number of deaths due to excessive drinking among people 35 to 64\nyears old. Alcoholism is the fourth leading cause of death among this\nproductive age group.\n\"Recent studies indicate that drinking drivers are involved in\n36 percent of all highway traffic fatalities in the state and in 20\npercent of the injury accidents.\n\"In terms of cost to the taxpayer, the burden is astronomical.\nEstimates range from $400 million annually for business and industry\nto $150 million for counties and municipalities,\"\nThe governor's proposed plan provides a basic framework for\nstatewide comprehensive planning for the prevention, treatment and\nrehabilitation of alcohol abuse and alcoholism in California. It\nprovides the guidelines for county planning agencies to develop local\nplans for the integration of private, voluntary and public prevention,\ntreatment and rehabilitation services in the local community.\nUnder the governor's proposal, Los Angeles County ($915,000),\nSan Francisco ($290,650), and Alameda ($136,240) would receive the\nlargest shares of the federal grant with 37 other counties receiving\nvarying amounts to a minimum of $10,000. (See attached list of\nproposed allocations.)\nFederal funds have been appropriated under provisions of the\nComprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment and\nRehabilitation Act of 1970 for a nationwide program.\n-1-\n#199\nIn California's plan, Governor Reagan proposed that $85,000 be\nallocated to the State Department of Education for a statewide alcohol\neducation project that would place increased emphasis on prevention of\nalcohol abuse and alcoholism.\nHis plan proposes $27,000 for the State Department of Rehabilita-\ntion to provide additional technical consultation for developing new\nlocal alcoholism programs.\nThe plan also calls for the creation of the State Alcoholism\nAdvisory Council which would receive $8,000 for consultation and\nsupportive services.\nGovernor Reagan said he supported passage of the federal\nalcoholism legislation. He also noted that California has maintained\nan active alcoholism control program in its major communities since\n1956.\nGovernor Reagan has designated the Human Relations Agency,\nheaded by Secretary James M. Hall, to implement the state plan when it\nhas received federal approval.\n# # #\n-2-\nCEW\nCounty Formula Grant allotments are as follows:\nCOUNTY\nAMOUNT\nLos Angeles\n$ 915,200\nSan Francisco\n290,650\nAlameda\n136,240\nSan Diego\n95,850\nSanta Clara\n71,320\nSacramento\n69,880\nOrange\n69,770\nSan Bernardino\n66,120\nFresno\n56,030\nSan Mateo\n46,920\nContra Costa\n45,640\nSan Joaquin\n45,640\nRiverside\n39,710\nKern\n32,740\nVentura\n25,610\nSonoma\n23,600\nMonterey\n23,360\nSanta Barbara\n21,420\nTulare\n20,820\nMarin\n17,900\nSolano\n17,620\nStanislaus\n15,500\nSanta Cruz\n12,300\nMerced\n12,270\nYolo\n10,500\nNapa\n10,100\nImperial\n10,000\nButte\n10,000\nSan Luis Obispo\n10,000\nKings\n10,000\nHumboldt\n10,000\nPlacer\n10,000\nShasta\n10,000\nMadera\n10,000\nEl Dorado\n10,000\nYuba\n10,000\nTuolumne\n10,000\nLake\n10,000\nSiskiyou\n10,000\nMendocino\n10,000\nTOTAL\n$2,332,710\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-12-72\n#200\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Criminal Justice Specialist\nRobert C. Alexander as Chief of the newly-created Bureau of Automotive\nRepair in the Department of Consumer Affairs.\nAlexander, 39, who will serve at the pleasure of the governor, will\nreceive an annual salary of $22,584.\nAt the same time, Donald G. Livingston, Director of the Department\nof Consumer Affairs, announced the appointment of John F. Goodman, a\nSacramento aeronautical engineer with a background of personnel manage-\nment and automotive technology, as Alexander's deputy with an annual\nsalary of $18, 576.\n\"With the appointment of\n/ Bob Alexander, who is an experienced investigator with a thorough\nknowledge of the automotive industry, and John Goodman, who is also\nexperienced in the automotive and technological fields, the\nconsumers of California will have an expert team working to protect them\nagainst dishonest and unethical automotive repair dealers,\" the governor\nsaid.\nAlexander, a Democrat, has served as a Criminal Justice Specialist\nin the State Department of Justice since 1970.\nHe previously served for six years as Chief Investigator of Public\nLiability Claims in the State Department of Public Works and has been a\nspecial investigator for the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and\nthe State Department of Employment.\nBefore he entered state service he was an insurance investigator\nand a mechanical foreman for an automotive shop and an automobile\nmechanic.\nAlexander has attended the University of California at Riverside\nand Long Beach City College. He is married and lives at 850 Coronado\nBoulevard, Sacramento.\nGoodman, 49, a Republican, a veteran of more than 20 years in the\naerospace field and the automobile business, lives at 3009 La Via Way,\nSacramento. He and his wife have two children.\nAlexander's appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.\n####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-12-72\n#201\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today hailed a decision by the U.S. Supreme\nCourt which will save California taxpayers as much as $7 million a month\nby preventing welfare recipients with significant outside incomes from\nreceiving aid to which they are not entitled under provisions of the\nstate's 1971 welfare Reform Act.\nThe order, handed down last night in Washington, D.C., has no\neffect on the truly needy on welfare--those recipients who have little\nor no outside income. They will continue to receive the increased aid\nbenefits provided in the new Welfare Reform Law which amounted to a\n30 percent monthly raise in grant for a family of four.\nGovernor Reagan called the U. S. Supreme Court's stay of the\nCalifornia Supreme Court decision \"a welcome sign, one which will\nenable the nation's top court to carefully examine the merits of this\nprovision of our Welfare Reform Act--a law passed by the legislature\nafter the most thorough debate and consideration of welfare reform by\nboth the executive and legislative branches in recent California history.\n\"This administration's insistence that those in the greatest need\nof welfare assistance--the truly needy--receive increased grants,\nwhile others with substantial outside incomes be removed from the rolls,\nwas at the very heart of our welfare reform program.\n\"The U. S. Supreme Court's order will finally enable California\nto implement this provision of our new law as the legislature intended.\n\"In addition, it will result in a future savings to California\ntaxpayers amounting to some $7 million a month.\n\"Unfortunately, however, because the State Supreme Court blocked\nthe full effect of this provision of the law, California taxpayers will\nhave been forced to spend unnecessarily some $56 million in additional\nwelfare funds--$56 million in hard-earned tax dollars which otherwise\ncould have been saved,\" the governor said.\nIt was the State Supreme Court which, only hours before the\nWelfare Reform Act was to go into effect October 1, blocked the entire\nportion of the new law which increased grants to the truly needy while\nreducing or eliminating aid to higher income welfare recipients.\nThen, two months later, in December, the state court reinstated\nthat part of the section of the new law which increased aid payments to\ntruly needy families with no outside income. The payments were ordered\nretroactive to October 1.\n-1-\n#201\nHowever, the state court's December ruling declared invalid that\npart of the section in question which would have decreased or cut off\ngrants to those receiving both welfare payments and substantial outside\nincome at the same time.\n\"It is entirely possible that we would not have experienced an\nincrease in the state's welfare rolls in February had the State Supreme\nCourt not blocked this provision in the new Welfare Reform Act,\" the\ngovernor said.\nUntil February, the number of people on welfare had been declining\nsteadily in California.\nState Social Welfare Director Robert Carleson noted that the State\nCourt's precipitous actions in late September and December created a\ngreat deal of confusion and unnecessary red tape at both the state and\ncounty levels where welfare is administered.\nAccording to Carleson, it will not be possible to send notices,\nas required by federal law, in time to reduce most of the May payments\nto recipients affected by the U.S. Supreme Court's order.\nCarleson said he is notifying the counties today to begin reviewing\ntheir own caseloads in order to identify those recipients who would be\ndropped from the rolls or receive a reduced grant.\n# # #\n-2-\nEJG\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES\nOCTOBER TERM, 1971\nNO. 71-982\nJAMES M. HALL, et al.,\nPetitioners,\nV.\nVIRGINIA VILLA, et al.,\nRespondents.\nAPPLICATION FOR STAY OF JUDGMENT\nEVELLE J. YOUNGER, Attorney General\nJEROLD A. PROD,\nDeputy Attorney General\n600 State Building\nLos Angeles, California 90012\nTelephone: (213) 620-2954\nAttorneys for Petitioners\n1\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES\n2\nOCTOBER TERM, 1971\n3\n4\nNO. 71-982\n5\n6\n7\nJAMES M. HALL, et al.,\n8\nPetitioners,\n9\nV.\n10\nVIRGINIA VILLA, et al.,\n11\nRespondents.\n12\n13\n14\nAPPLICATION FOR STAY OF JUDGMENT\n15\nTo the Honorable William O. Douglas, Associate\n16\nJustice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Circuit\n17\nJustice for the Ninth Circuit:\n18\nPetitioners, James M. Hall, Secretary, Human Relations\n19\nAgency, State of California, and Robert B. Carleson, Director,\n20\nDepartment of Social Welfare, State of California, pray that\n21\nan order be entered staying the judgment of the California\n22\nSupreme Court entered on January 10, 1972, pending a final\n23\ndetermination of the matter by this Court. In support of this\n24\napplication, petitioners respectfully show as follows:\n25\n1. The California Supreme Court on January 10, 1972,\n26\nissued its Peremptory Writ of Mandate commanding that AFDC\n27\ngrants be computed by deducting nonexempt outside income from\n28\nthe standard of need, and ordered retroactive payments on that\n29\nbasis to October 1, 1971. Villa V. Hall, 6 Cal. 3d 227.\n30\n2. The United States Supreme Court in Jefferson V.\n31\nHackney, No. 70-5064, is presently preparing to decide for the\n1.\n1\nfil\n25\ntime the question of whether\nstate can compute AFDC\n2\nwelfare grants by deducting nonexempt outside income from a\n3\nfigure lower than the standard of need. Petitioners herein\n4\nhave filed a brief amicus curiae on behalf of the State of\n5\nCalifornia urging affirmance of the decision of the Texas court\n6\nbelow, holding that grants may be so computed. Jefferson V.\n7\nHackney has been argued and submitted for decision.\n8\n3. Petitioners have filed in this Court a Petition\n9\nfor Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of\n10\nCalifornia entitled Hall V. Villa, October Term, 1971, No.\n11\n71-982.\nThe intent of the California Legislature and all\n12\nconcerned state officials in passing the Welfare Reform Act\n13\nof 1971 was that all increases in grants would be balanced by\n14\ndecreases in grants. (See Affidavit of Robert B. Carleson,\n15\nparas. 4-8 and 10 attached hereto as Exhibit A.) The California\n16\nSupreme Court in its decision approved the grant increasing\n17\nfeatures of the statute (s) involved, but struck the main cost\n18\nreducing feature: the deduction of nonexempt outside income\n19\nfrom the schedule of maximum payments to compute cash grants.\n4. The increased cost of compliance with the decision\n20\nof the California Supreme Court (above budgeted amounts as\n21\ncontemplated by the Legislature) is $100,000,000.00 per fiscal\n22\nyear, or $8,333,333.33 per month, of which fifty percent\n23\nrepresents federal costs and the remaining fifty percent state\n24\nand county costs. (See Affidavit of Robert B. Carleson, para.\n25\n9, Exhibit A attached hereto. )\n26\n27\n5. On February 7, 1972, petitioners herein applied\n28\nfor a Stay of Execution of the Judgment to the California\nSupreme Court. On February 23, 1972, the application for stay\n29\n30\n1. Attached hereto please find a copy of the petition.\n31\n2.\n1\nwa\ndenied. (A copy of the order 3 attached as Exhibit B.)\n2\n6. The jurisdiction of this Court to review the case\n3\non petition for certiorari rests upon 28 U.S.C. section 1257(3).\n4\nJurisdiction to issue the stay requested is granted by 28 U.S.C.\n5\nsection 2101(f).\n6\n7. Reasons for seeking certiorari: In determining\n7\nthe appropriateness of a stay of a mandate pending certiorari\n8\nproceedings in this Court, a Circuit Justice must inquire as\n9\nto whether any of the matters proposed to be raised in the\n10\npetition for certiorari are \"sufficiently debatable to lead to\n11\nthe belief that at least four members of the Court would vote\n12\nto grant certiorari\" or some form of interim relief. Edwards\n13\nV. United States, 76 S. Ct. 1058. Petitioners submit that there\n14\nare at least three major issues to be raised in the petition for\n15\ncertiorari which warrant a stay under this standard:\n16\n(a) The principal issue in the case is presently\n17\nbeing litigated before this Court. The California Supreme\n18\nCourt, in determining that nonexempt outside income of a\n19\nrecipient of Aid to Families With Dependent Children (42 U.S.C.\n20\n§ 601) can be deducted only from the unadjusted standard of\n21\nneed in computing welfare grants, has undertaken to decide an\n22\nissue presently before this Court in Jefferson V. Hackney,\n23\nNo. 70-5064. The state court purportedly based its decision\n24\nin large part on this Court's decision in Rosado V. Wyman,\n25\n397 U.S. 397 (1970) and section (a) (23) of the Social\n26\nSecurity Act.\n27\nThis Court has not yet decided the question of whether\n28\na state can deduct nonexempt outside income from a figure lower\n29\nthan the unadjusted standard of need to compute welfare cash\n30\ngrants.\n31\nThe granting of a writ of certiorari is called for\n3.\n1\nto sure that the ruling of this irt regarding grant computa-\n2\ntion, whatever it may be, will take effect uniformly in all\n3\njurisdictions. (See petition attached hereto, pp. 6-7.)\n4\n(b) The question of permissible methods of welfare\n5\ngrint computation is of enormous fiscal and social concern to\n6\nall levels of government and all needy citizens. The decision\n7\nbelow has held that welfare grants can be computed in only one\n8\nway. All nonexempt outside income of a recipient must be\n9\ndeducted from the unadjusted standard of need. The result is\n10\nthat California must base all fiscal planning related to welfare\n11\nadministration on the unhappy fact that it may not deduct\n12\nnonexempt outside income from the state's maximum aid table\n13\nand distribute the resultant savings to needier recipients\n14\n(with little or no nonexempt outside income) in the form of\n15\nincreased grants. Should certiorari not be granted, the fiscal\n16\nimpact of the decision in California would be enormous.\n17\nThe issue presented herein concerns the latitude and\n18\ndiversity of methods available to the several states in\n19\napportioning limited ans scarce resources among large numbers\n20\nof needy people. The decision on the question presented in\n21\nthis case will affect not only California but every state that\n22\nfaces fiscal problems related to welfare administration. (See\n23\npetition attached hereto, pp. 7-8.)\n24\n(c) The decision of the court below conflicts with\n25\nthis Court's interpretation of 42 U.S.C. section 602 (a) (23)\n26\nThe court below misapplied Rosado V. Wyman, supra, 397 U.S.\n27\n397, in a fundamental way. The court noted that section\n28\n402 (a) (23) of the Social Security Act \"\nhas the effect\n29\nof requiring the States to recognize and accept responsibility\n30\nfor those additional individuals whose income falls short of\n31\nthe standard of need as computed in light of economic realities\n4.\n012\n1\nan to place them among those el ble for the care and training\n2\nprovisions II See Villa V. Hall, 6 Cal. 3d 227, 234 (1971)\n3\n(emphasis added). This quote, coupled with the hypothetical\n4\nexample at 6 Cal. 3d 234-35 (pp. 10-11 of appendix A to the\n5\npetition attached hereto), indicates that the California court\n6\nthought Rosado commanded that money payments must be awarded\n7\nto newly eligible families with income in addition to inclusion\n8\nin care and training provisions of the program. The quoted\n9\nlanguage clearly does not require a money payment to all\n10\nfamilies eligible for some aid as measured by the standard of\n11\nneed.\n12\nThe California Supreme Court compounded its error\n13\nby mistakenly assuming that petitioners automatically exclude\n14\nfrom eligibility for inclusion in care and training provisions\n15\nof the program anyone who is marginally needy but not entitled\n16\nto a money payment. See 6 Cal. 3d 235.\n17\n8. Irreparable injury to petitioners. In considering\n18\nthe question of a stay, consideration should be given to\n19\nbalancing the harm and injury which each party may suffer.\n20\nVirginia Petroleum Jobbers Ass'n V. Federal Power Comm'n, 259\n21\nF.2d 921, 925 (D.C. Cir. 1952). However, intertwined with this\n22\nbalancing process is a necessary determination of the public\n23\ninterest. Sawyer V. U.S. Steel Co., 197 F.2d 582 (D.C. Cir.\n24\n1952). \"Courts of equity may, and frequently do, go much\n25\nfurther both to give and withhold relief in furtherance of the\n26\npublic interest than they are accustomed to go when only\n27\nprivate interests are involved. \" Virginia Railway Co. V.\n28\nSystem Federation, etc., 300 U.S. 515, 552 (1937). Moreover,\n29\npetitioners submit that there is a substantial question con-\n30\ncerning the correctness of the decision of the court below.\n31\nIf petitioners are correct, the Judgment should be stayed to\n5.\nA\n1\n\"p\nent irreparable injury\nthe public resulting from\n2\na promature enforcement of a determination which later may be\n3\nfound to have been wrong. II Scrions-Howard Radio, Inc. V. FCC,\n4\n316 U.S. 4, 9 (1942).\n5\nIn this case, the factors to be weighed against each\n6\nother in balancing the harm each party may suffer are the\n7\nnonrecoverable loss to the public on the one hand, and a delay\n8\nin receipt of increased payments to some recipients with non-\n9\nexempt outside income on the other.\n10\nIf the decision of the court below should be found\n11\nto be incorrect, the wrongful loss to the public would accrue\n12\nat the rate of $100,000,000.00 per year, or $8,333,333.33 per\n13\nmonth (see Exhibit A, para. 9). These costs, if prematurely\n14\npaid out in error, would be virtually totally unrecoverable.\n15\nSee generally Goldberg V. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254, 274-75 (1970),\n16\nJustice Black dissenting.\n17\nOn the other hand, the only injury that would be\n18\nvisited upon petitioners if a stay is granted and the decision\n19\nbelow is eventually upheld, is a delay in receipt of somewhat\n20\nincreased welfare payments for those recipients with substantial\n21\nnonexempt outside income.\n22\nIt is respectfully requested that the stay issue \"to\n23\nprevent irreparable injury\nto the public resulting from\n24\nthe premature enforcement of a determination which may later\n25\nbe found to have been wrong. 11 Scripps-Howard Radio, Inc. V.\n26\nFCC, supra at 9.\n27\n28\n29\n30\n31\n6.\ns\n1\nWHEREFORE, petitioners pray that the judgment of\n2\nthe Supreme Court of the State of California issued on January 10,\n3\n1972, be stayed pending final disposition of this matter by\n4\nthe United States Supreme Court.\n5\nDATED: March 17, 1972.\n6\nRespectfully submitted,\n7\nEVELLE J. YOUNGER, Attorney General\nJEROLD A. PROD,\n8\nDeputy Attorney General\n9\n10\nBy\nJEROLD A. PROD\n11\nDeputy Attorney General\n12\nAttorneys for Petitioners\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n26\n27\n28\n29\n30\n31\n7.\n1\nEV\nLE J. YOUNGER. Attorney Gener.\nthe State of California\n2\nHEROLD A. PROD, Denuty Attorney General\n217 West First Street\n3\n600 State Building\nLos Angeles, California 90012\n4\nTelephone: (213) 620-2954\n5\nAttorneys for Defendants.\n6\n7\n8\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA\n9\n10\nVIRGINIA VILLA, et al.,\n)\n)\n1.1\nPetitioners,\n)\nNo. Civ. SAC 7907\n)\n12\nV.\n)\n)\n13\nJAMES M. HALL, as Secretary,\n)\nAFFIDAVIT OF\netc., et al.,\n)\nROBERT B. CARLESON\n14\n)\nRespondents.\n)\n15\n)\n16\nSTATE OF CALIFORNIA\n)\n) SS\n17\nCOUNTY OF SACRAMENTO\n)\n18\n19\nROBERT B. CARLESON, being duly sworn, says:\n20\n1. I am the Director of Social Welfare of the State of\n21\nCalifornia and a defendant in the above-captioned action.\n22\n2. As Director of Social Welfare, I was a participant\n23\nin negotiations during July and August 1971 between members of the\n24\nCalifornia Legislature and leaders of the Executive Branch of the\n25\nGovernment of California, and their respective staffs, which\n26\nresulted in amendments to Senate Bill 796. Senate Bill 796, as so\n27\namended, was enacted into law with only minor changes as the\n28\nWelfare Reform Act of 1971 (Chapter 578, Statutes of 1971).\n29\n3. Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450(a), which\n30\nwas amended by Section 28 of the Welfare Reform Act of 1971, was\n31\nthe subject of negotiations and conferences between members of the\n-1-\nEXHIBIT A\nLe\n1\nlature and the Executive Brai\nin which I actively\n2\nparticipated.\n3\n4. The deduction of non-exempt income from a payments\n4\nstandard, rather than from a needs standard, as the basis for\n5\ndetermining the amount of AFDC cash grant, was established in\n6\nWelfare and Institutions Code Section 11450(a) as a result of the\n7\nsaid negotiations and conferences in order to establish a more\n8\nequitable distribution of AFDC monics by reducing grants to\n9\npersons with significant outside income, thus permitting an\n10\nincrease in grants to recipients with little or no outside income.\n11\n5. During the said negotiations and conferences, the\n12\nChairman of the Assembly Welfare Committee, other legislators, and\n13\nlegislative staff members, represented that the table which is now\n14\nincorporated in Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450 (a) had\n15\nbeen established so as to balance increased grants to persons with\n16\nout outside income with the decreases in grants to persons with\n17\noutside income which would result from determining the amount of\n18\ncash grant by subtracting non-exempt income from the table of\n19\nmaximum payments, rather than the minimum basic standards of\n20\nadequate care (\"needs\" standard) which was used under existing law.\n21\n6. During said negotiations and conferences, it was\n22\nagreed and clearly understood by all that the higher table con-\n23\ntained in Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11452 would be\n24\nthe basis of determining basic eligibility for the AFDC program.\n25\nThe amount and extent of each AFDC Benefit would be determined\n26\nby the rules and provisions applicable to each benefit. The\n27\nCalifornia Office of the Legislative Counsel and Office of the\n28\nAttorney General were consulted and concurred during said negotia-\n29\ntions that under federal law the higher standard would apply to\n30\nbasic eligibility with the amount and extent of AFDC benefits to\n31\nhe determined by the provisions applicable to each such benefit.\n-2-\n1\nOn September 2, 1971, I instructed all California counties by\n2\ntelegram (confirmed by letter dated September 3, 1971) as to the\n3\nuse of the two tables contained in Section 11450 (a) and 11452.\n4\nIt is my opinion that the legal issues raised by the intended\n5\nuse of the two tables have not been adversely ruled upon by any\n6\ncourt and that the California Supreme Court's opinion in the\n7\nsubject action neither recognizes this issue and procedure nor\n8\nrules thereon.\n9\n7. During said negotiations and conferences, legislator\n10\nand staff members indicated that to insure that California would\n11\nbe able to establish a supplemental payment standard at the\n12\nhighest possible level consistent with maximum fiscal protection\n13\nto California under the so-called \"hold harmless\" provision of\n14\nSection 503 of H.R. 1, the omnibus welfare bill pending in the\n15\nCongress of the United States, the table of maximums had been\n16\nfixed so that increases in grants would be balanced with decreases\n17\nin grants.\n18\n8. I am informed by members of my staff, and I believe,\n19\nthat representations that the grant increases to be effected by\n20\nSection 11450 (a) were to be offsct by grant reductions effected\n21\nby said section were made by legislators and staff members at\n22\npublic legislative hearings on Senate Bill 796 following said\n23\nnegotiations and conferences.\n24\n9. I am informed by the Chief of the Program Estimates\n25\nBureau of the Department of Social Welfare, and I believe, that\n26\nthe fiscal effect of the decision of the court in Virginia Villa V\n27\nHall is an increase over budgeted amounts in total expenditures\n28\nfor AFDC of $25 million for calendar year 1971, an increase of\n29\n$75 million for fiscal year 1971-1972, and an increase of\n30\n$100 million for fiscal year 1972-1973. The non-federal (state\n31\nand county) share of these figures is 50 percent.\n-3-\n1\n10. The effect of the decision of the court in\n2\nVirginia Villa v. Hall is to contravene the legislative intent\n3\nthat the increases in grants which would be effected by Welfare\n4\nand Institutions Code Section 11450(a) were to be equal to\n5\ndecreases in grants effected by said section, and that there be\n6\nno increase in total expenditures for AFDC.\n7\nDATED: February 5 5 , 1972.\n8\n9\n10\nROBERT B. CARLESON\n11\nDirector of Social Welfare\n12\n13\nSubscribed and sworn to before me\n14\n1972. this 57h day of Firthary\n15\n16\nLeanne Notary M.Berry Public\n17\n18\nLOANNE M. BERRY\nNOTARY PUBLIC - CALIFORNIA\n19\nSACRAMENTO COUNTY\nMy commission expires Aug. 1, 1975\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n26\n27\n28\n29\n30\n31\n-4-\nDOCKET\nLA.\n876\nSAC.\nNo.\n7907\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA\nIN BANK\nFILED\nPE,\nVILLA ET AL\n: 23 33 1972\nV.\nG.E. BISHEL, Clerk\nD. F, Deputy\nHALL ET AL\nApplication for stay of execution of judgment is DENIED.\nThis order is final forthwith.\nWridit\nChief Justice\n20731 5.52 IM SPO\nEXHIBIT B\n1\nIN\nT.E\nRM\n2\nOCTOBER RIG 1971\n3\n4\n1.0. 71-960\n5\n6\n7\nJAMES M. HALL, et al.,\n8\nPetitioners,\n9\nV.\n10\nVIRGINIA VILLA, et al.,\n11\nRespondents.\n12\n13\nCERTIFICATE OF SERVICE\n14\n15\nI, JEROLD A. PROD, hereby certify that I am a\n16\nmember of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States\n17\nand that as such, one of the attorneys for the petitioners\n18\nherein. I further certify that on MARCH 17, 1972, I\n19\ndeposited a copy of the APPLICATION FOR STAY OF JUDGMENT\n20\nin the United States Mail at Los Angeles, California, in an\n21\nenvelope with postage prepaid and addressed to:\n22\nSTEVEN J. COLE\nDANIEL S. BRUNNER\nColumbia Center on Social\nLegal Aid Foundation of\n23\nWelfare Policy and Law\nLong Beach\n401 West 117th Street\n363 West Sixth Street\n24\nNew York, New York 10027\nSan Pedro, California 90731\n25\n26\nVALERIE VANAMAN\nRALPH SANTIAGO ABASCAL\nLegal Aid Foundation of\nSan Francisco Neighborhood\n27\nLong Beach\nLegal Assistance Foundation\n236 West Third Street\n1095 Market Street, Suite 302\n28\nLong Beach, California 90312\nSan Francisco, California 94103\n29\n(Counsel for Respondents)\n30\n31\n1.\n1\nHOT\nERWIN W. GRISWOLD\nLMOT HASTINGS\nSolicitor General\nDepartment of Health,\n2\nDepartment of Justice\nEducation and Welfare\nWashington, D. C. 20530\n330 Independence Avenue, S.W.\n3\nWashington, D. C. 20201\n4\nSaid service is in compliance with paragraphs 1 and\n5\n3 of Supreme Court rule 33. All parties required to be served\n6\nhave been served.\n7\nDATED: March 17, 1972.\n8\n9\n10\n11\n12\nJone\n13\n14\n15\n16\n17\n18\n19\n20\n21\n22\n23\n24\n25\n26\n27\n28\n29\n30\n31\n2.\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-13-72\n#202\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Allen F. Breed to a\nsecond four-year term as director of the Department of Youth Authority\nand chairman of the Youth Authority Board.\nThe job, which includes both functions, pays $30,000 annually and\nrequires Senate confirmation.\nBreed, 51, was first appointed to the post February 1, 1968 to fill\nthe unexpired term of Heman Stark who had retired.\nHe is a career civil servant who had been administrative\nsuperintendent of the Northern California Youth Center in Stockton prior\nto his appointment as director of the Youth Authority.\nBreed joined the Department of the Youth Authority in 1945 as a\ngroup supervisor for the Stockton Arsenal Camp. He later served as\nassistant chief of the Division of Institutions, superintendent of the\nFricot Ranch School and superintendent of the Preston School of Industry.\nHe has also worked as a consultant in juvenile corrections to the\nstates of Nevada and Alaska and the federal government.\nA graduate of the University of the Pacific, Breed served three\nyears overseas with the United States Marine Corps. He was a major at\nthe time of his discharge in 1945.\nBreed and his wife Virginia have three children. They make their\nhome at 1410 Edgewood Drive in Lodi.\n######\nCEW\nTELEPHONE STATEMENT\n4-14-72\n(Space Shuttle)\n\"I am just delighted that the National Aeronautics and Space\nAdministration has selected California for a major role in the\nspace shuttle program,\" Governor Ronald Reagan said today. \"I\nknow that Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke has been burning a lot\nof midnight oil in an attempt to convince NASA that Vandenberg\nAir Force Base--because of its existing space-related facilities--\nwould be an ideal location for the space shuttle program.\nApparently he did a good selling job.\n\"The space shuttle program will mean hundreds of millions of\ndollars to California's economy in terms of jobs and payrolls.\nI am just as pleased as I can be. nd Reinecke deserves the lion's\nshare of the credit for it.\"\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-14-72\n#203\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed four new members to the Topics\nAdvisory Committee of the Federal Aid for Urban Systems Act.\nThe new members, whose positions on the committee were authorized\nby 1970 legislation, will serve at the pleasure of the governor.\nWith other committee members they will serve as advisors to the\nstate's urban program to provide cities and counties with a greater voice\nin determining how federal funds will be spent to upgrade local streets\nand highways.\nThe new members are David G. Grayson, manager of the Highway\nEngineering Department of the Automobile Clubs of Southern California;\nGeneral Manager Jack R. Gilstrap of the Southern California Rapid Transit\nDistrict; General Manager B. R. (Bill) Stokes of the Bay Area Rapid\nTransit District, and Robert E. Nisbet, attorney for the Alameda-Contra\nCosta Transit District.\nGrayson, who lives at 1538 Hillcrest Avenue, Glendale, will represent\nhighway users. He is not affiliated with a political party.\nGilstrap, who lives at 199 San Miguel Road, Pasadena, will represent\nthe Southern California Rapid Transit District. He is a Republican.\nStokes, who lives at 51 Tiger Tail Court, Orinda, will represent\nBART. He is a Republican.\nNisbet, a resident of 9 Tamalpais Road, Berkeley, will represent the\nCalifornia Association of Publicly Owned Transit Systems. He is a\nDemocrat.\nCommittee members receive necessary expenses.\n####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-14-72\n#204\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Mrs. Lysbeth A. Brinker of\nSan Jose and Mrs. Joyce M. Gleeson of Burlingame to fill unexpired terms\non the California Advisory Board to the Bureau of Employment Agencies\nin the Department of Consumer Affairs.\nMrs. Brinker, owner of a San Jose employment agency, will succeed\nSamuel M. Levin, of Berkeley who resigned. His term ends in June, 1973.\nShe lives at 50 Washington Street, Santa Clara.\nMrs. Gleeson, who owns a San Mateo employment agency, will succeed\nM. C. (Keith) Keithley of La Mesa, who has resigned. His term also ends\nJune, 1973.\nShe lives at 3088 Alcazar Street, Burlingame.\nBoth appointees, who will represent industry on the board, are\nRepublicans.\nCommittee members receive per diem and expenses.\n# # #\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n4-14-72\n#205\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation formally author-\nizing an additional 405 positions--including additional custodial\npersonnel and an expansion of psychiatric treatment capabilities--for\nCalifornia's correctional institutions.\n126\nThe measure, AB 123 sponsored by Assemblyman William M. Ketchum\nof Paso Robles, adds $2,063,221 to the current state budget to cover\nsalaries for the new employees. The bill was approved by the legislature\non a unanimous vote.\n\"These positions were urgently needed,\" Governor Reagan said, \"to\nprovide greater protection for correctional officers, other members of\nthe prison staffs and inmates, while at the same time, permitting a\ncontinuation of rehabilitative programs in the face of a more difficult\nand dangerous prison population.\"\nThe additional 405 positions were authorized on the basis of\nrecommendations submitted to the governor by the State Board of\nCorrections. The board conducted a special study of prison violence\nand made recommendations for additional staffing in a report issued last\nOctober.\nThe governor noted that changing patterns of sentencing, including\nprobation and the increasing number of parolees, have resulted in\naltering the character of the state's prison population.\n\"Roughly 50 percent of the men in prison are there today for\nhomicide, robbery, rape or assault,\" the governor said. In 1960 only\na third of the inmates in state institutions were sentenced for crimes\nof violence.\n\"This change has been reflected by a sharp increase in the number\nof correctional staff and inmates killed or injured by prisoners.\n\"Seven correctional staff were murdered in 1971 compared with two\nin 1970, and a total of four during the previous 17 years. The increased\nviolence made it clear that additional security and psychiatric treatment\nstaff was needed.\"\nMore than 85 of the new positions are for the expansion of\npsychiatric treatment programs at the California Medical Facility at\nVacaville and the California Mens Colony at San Luis Obispo.\n# # #\nCEW\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-14-72\n#206\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nApril 17, 1972\nthrough\nApril 23, 1972\nMonday, April 17\nNoon\nRemarks and 0 & A to Loyola University\nstudents, Los Angeles\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nTuesday, April 18\nNoon\nUCLA-TV closed circuit interview, UCLA\n2:30 p.m.\nInterview by student panelists, Claremont\nCollege, Claremont\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWednesday, April 19\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nThursday, April 20\n10:30 a.m.\nPRESS CONFERENCE\nOvernight - Sacramento\nFriday, April 21\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - - Los Angeles\nSaturday, April 22\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, April 23\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-14-72\n#207\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of John\nK. Geoghegan as executive secretary of the newly created Commission\nfor Economic Development.\nThe new commission, created by the 1971 legislature, consists\nof 17 members, including 10 appointed by Governor Reagan, six appointed\nby the legislature and Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke as chairman.\nIt was created to provide continuing bipartisan legislative,\nexecutive and private sector support to broaden the economic base of\nthe state's economy, create more jobs for Californians and to provide\nadditional revenues for local and state governments.\nLt. Governor Reinecke announced that the first organizational\nmeeting of the commission has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 19,\n1972, in the Los Angeles Airport Marina Hotel beginning at 9 a.m.\nGeoghegan who has served as executive secretary of the State\nEnvironmental Quality Study Council since February of 1970, is a\nformer city manager of Union City.\nHe is a graduate of the University of California at Santa\nBarbara.\nGeoghegan, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of\n$20,500.\nHe and his wife have two children. Their home is at 6841\nWestmore Way, Carmichael.\n# # #\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-17-72\n#208\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Dr. Carl L. Vitalie, a\nMarina Del Rey pharmacist, and Dr. James R. Gates, chief pharmacist of\nthe Sierra Vista Hospital in San Luis Obispo, to four-year terms on the\nCalifornia State Board of Pharmacy.\nDr. Vitalie, who lives at 3811 Ocean Front Walk, Marina Del Rey,\nand Dr. Gates, who lives at 125 Serrano Heights, San Luis Obispo, have\nserved on the board since 1968. Both are Republicans.\nBoard members receive $25 per diem while on official duty.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-17-72\n#209\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Chairman Edward Walker\nto a four-year term on the Narcotic Addict Evaluation Authority.\nWalker, 58, a former inspector with the Los Angeles Police\nDepartment, has served on the authority since 1968 and as its chairman\nsince 1970.\nWalker, a Democrat, receives an annual salary of $12,600.\nHis home is at 16832 Bolero Lane, Huntington Beach.\n#######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-17-72\n#210\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today released the following statement:\n\"The President has promised to get us out of Vietnam with honor,\nas soon as the maximum opportunity for the South Vietnamese to preserve\ntheir own liberty has been achieved certainly in a matter of months.\nHe has taken all the necessary steps to do just that.\n\"The North Vietnamese do not want to let us leave with honor and\ncertainly do not want to allow time for vietnamization to work.\n\"The savage escalation of the war, aimed at preventing vietnamizatior\nis apparently their answer to the President's invitation to peace. It\nis a calculated gamble on their part which attempts to force the\nAmerican people to abandon the South Vietnamese to the heartless\nterrorism of the North, to turn away from the plight of our prisoners\nof war, and to endanger the lives of nearly 100,000 American military\npersonnel, mainly noncombat troops, still remaining in Vietnam.\n\"The bombing of military targets in the North is the only recourse\navailable to the President and the only way in which he can protect\nthose Americans still remaining in South Vietnam.\n\"It is imperative that the vast majority of Americans who agree\nwith the President's position use every means at their disposal to\ncontact the White House and the Congress to express their support by\nletter and wire, so that we may show the continuing concern of the\nAmerican people for our fighting men, as well as for the people of\nSoutheast Asia.\"\n#######\nCEW\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-17-72\n#211\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today proclaimed a state of emergency in\n13 Northern and Central counties in the wake of severe frost and hail\ndamage to crops and asked President Nixon to declare the counties a\ndisaster area,\nThe proclamation by the governor opens the door to business and\nproperty tax relief for the hard-hit growers whilea disaster proclamation\nby the President would provide additional economic aid through FHA,\nsmall business loans and unemployment benefits.\nActing in response to requests from the boards of supervisors in\nthe 13 counties, the governor, in his proclamation, pointed out that\nthe agricultural loss \"is beyond the control of the services, personnel,\nequipment and facilities of the affected counties.\"\nThe loss to agriculture has been estimated to $103 million with\nFresno County reported to be the hardest hit with a loss of $35 million,\nprimarily to the grape industry.\nOther agricultural commodities damaged by the freeze and hail in\nlate March were peaches, citrus fruits and nuts.\nIn addition to Fresno, the counties are Kings, Tulare, Stanislaus,\nTehama, Placer, Nevada, San Benito Kern, San Joaquin, El Dorado,\nMerced and Madera.\n#######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-17-72\n#212\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named six women business and civic\nleaders and a 19-year-old accounting clerk and Headstart volunteer\nworker, to the Commission on the Status of Women.\nThe 19-year-old appointee is Mrs. Deborah (Debbe) Fontana, who\nworks for a North Hollywood insurance company, and has served as a\nvolunteer worker with the Headstart Program and the Guadalupe Center\nCatholic Youth Organization in Canoga Park.\nThe other appointees include Mrs. Rowena Taylor, a partner in a\nSanta Barbara travel agency; Mrs. Geraldine V. Rickman, Chief Consultant\nof the Rockefeller Counseling Institute in San Diego; Mrs. Betty Wing\nConcannon, a Woodside realtor; Dr. Dorothy M. Ford, a consultant to the\nLos Angeles County School District; Marilyn L. De Rose, president and\nmanager of a Fullerton business services firm, and Mrs. Anita Miller,\na Sacramento civic leader and president of the California Division of\nthe American Association of University Women.\nMrs. Taylor, a partner in the Adventure Travel Agency of Santa\nBarbara is also active in the Children's Home Society of Santa Barbara,\nShe and her husband, Charles, president of the Santa Barbara Chamber of\nCommerce, live at 201 Cedar Street, Santa Barbara.\nMrs. Rickman, who has had wide experience in business and civic\naffairs, has also served as an Administrative Services Officer for the\nUniversity of California at San Diego and as an assistant to the Provost\nof Muir College and an Administrative Secretary to the Chancellor.\nShe and her husband Charles live at 6783 Alvarado Road, San Diego.\nMrs. Concannon, a partner in a real estate development company,\nhas a background in business, public relations and radio and television.\nShe and her husband George have six children. The family home is at\n3730 Tripp Road, Woodside.\nDr. Ford, who has served as a consultant in business and distributive\neducation for the Los Angeles County Schools since 1955 is also a field\ncoordinator and chief instructor for the Administrative Leadership for\nWomen in Program in Relations with Industry Division at the University of\nSouthern California. She is a past president of the National and\nCalifornia Federations of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. She\nlives at 7902 South Sargent Avenue, Whittier.\n- 1 -\n#212\nMiss De Rose, in addition to business activities, is second vice\npresident of the California Federation of Business and Professional\nWomen's Clubs. She lives at 411 North Adams Avenue, Fullerton.\nMrs. Miller, who is active in numerous Sacramento civic and service\ngroups, is a graduate nurse and a past president of the Sacramento County\nMedical Auxiliary. She and her husband, Dr. John Miller, have two\nchildren. They live at 3028 Huntington Road, Sacramento.\nAll of the women are Republicans.\nTheir appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.\nMembers of the commission will receive expenses.\n#####\nWAS\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-18-72\n#213\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Roy E. Dodson, Jr., Director\nof Water Utilities for the City of San Diego, to a four-year term on\nthe State Water Resources Control Board, subject to Senate confirmation.\nHe will represent sanitary engineers on the board, succeeding\nNorman B. Hume of Pasadena, who did not seek reappointment.\nDodson, who has served as director of water utilities since 1970\nbegan his career with the San Diego Water Department in 1944.\nHe previously served as Associate State Sanitary Engineer of Oregon\nand as a sanitary engineer for Contra Costa County and a water\npurification engineer for the City of San Francisco.\nHe is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers,\na Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of\nthe American Water Works Association, the American Public Works\nAssociation and the American Public Health Association.\nA native of San Diego, he is a graduate of San Diego State College\nand earned his engineering degree from the University of California at\nBerkeley.\nDodson and his wife Eleanor have three sons. His home is at\n1226 Alexandria Drive, San Diego.\nAs a member of the board he will earn an annual salary of $25,000.\nHe is a Republican.\n#######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER OR\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, Califor.\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-20-72\n#214\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today accepted the resignation of James M.\nHall, secretary of the Human Relations Agency, and a member of the\ngovernor's cabinet, \"with extreme regret and reluctance.\"\nHall, 38, resigned to accept a senior executive position with MCA,\nInc., in the corporate headquarters at Universal City, Los Angeles. His\nresignation is effective June 30.\n\"Jim Hall has been one of the most respected members of this\nadministration,\" Governor Reagan said. \"His counsel will be sorely\nmissed by all of us.\n\"I am particularly indebted to Jim for the major role he had in\ndeveloping our welfare and Medi-Cal reform programs of 1971. As secretary\nof the agency which includes the Department of Social Welfare, he provided\nthe day-to-day leadership that culminated in the reform of California's\nrunaway welfare system.\n\"When I appointed Jim secretary of the Human Relations Agency, there\nwere more than 2.2 million persons on welfare in California, and the\nrolls were increasing by 40,000 a month. Welfare spending was in excess\nof $2.5 billion a year.\n\"Today, as a result of the reforms, welfare has been turned around\nin California. Jim Hall was one of the major architects of the welfare\nreform program. He has earned the gratitude of all Californians for his\nwork and dedication in bringing under control this massive and complex\nproblem.\n\"At the same time, California's Medi-Cal program was brought under\ncontrol. Again, Jim Hall was one of the guiding forces who helped us put\na stop to the uncontrolled spending of a mammoth program.\n\"Jim's accomplishments in a little over 15 months as secretary of\nthe Human Relations Agency will not soon be forgotten in Sacramento.\nAlthough I have reluctantly accepted his resignation, I am proud of him\nand wish him good fortune in the future. MCA is getting an outstanding\nman. If\nIn his letter of resignation, Hall expressed his appreciation to the\ngovernor for the opportunity to serve the state.\n- 1 -\n#214\n\"The personal satisfaction I have had in serving the people of this\nstate as a member of your administration has been the greatest experience\nof my life,\" Hall said. \"I believe in what you are doing as the governor\nof the largest state in our land, and I am grateful for the opportunity\nto have contributed in some small way to your many successes.\"\nHall joined the administration in 1967 as California superintendent\nof banks, supervising the activities of state chartered banks and trust\ncompanies with assets of more than $12 billion.\nIn addition, he was actively involved in programs to assist minority\nbusinessmen in the state as administrator of the Small Business Assistanc\nProgram Law, as a member of the California Job Development Corporation\nLaw Executive Board, and on a national level as a director of the\nOpportunity Funding Corporation, a federally sponsored corporation aimed\nat promoting minority businesses.\nHall joined Governor Reagan's cabinet as secretary of the Business\nand Transportation Agency in January of 1970 succeeding Gordon C. Luce\nwho resigned to become president of a San Diego savings and loan\nassociation. He was named secretary of the Human Relations Agency in\nDecember, 1971 following the appointment of Lucian B. Vandegrift to the\nButte County Superior Court bench.\nA native of San Diego, Hall holds a BA degree in economics from\nthe University of California at Berkeley and a law degree from the\nUniversity of California's Boalt Hall.\nHe is a member of the Order of the Coif, an honor granted to the\ntop 10 percent of law graduates. He is also a member of the American\nand California bar associations\n######\nCEW\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVE OR\nRELEASE: J ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-20-72\n#215\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today accepted an award from the\nNational Society of Professional Engineers on behalf of the California\nState Water Project.\nThe award, presented by William F. Jones of San Francisco,\npresident of the California Society of Professional Engineers, named\nthe State Water Project as one of the nation's top 10 engineering\nachievements of 1971.\n\"The State Water Project is the largest and most complicated\nengineering feat of its kind ever attempted by man,\" the governor\nsaid.\n\"On behalf of the people of California, I am very pleased and\nhonored to accept this national recognition.\n\"The project has been operating for the past decade and, each\nyear, continues to increase in the beneficial production of a firm,\nclean water supply, flood control protection, recreation, and fish\nand wildlife enhancement to Californians living in all areas of our\nstate.\"\nIn his presentation of the award plaque to Governor Reagan,\nJones pointed out that the National Society of Professional Engineers\nhad recognized the State Water Project as the first statewide water\nresources development in the country, and the largest single water\ndevelopment in the world to be financed at one time.\n\"It is unique,\" said Jones, \"in that it is the first water\nproject ever to have been designed and constructed with recreation\nand fish and wildlife enhancement as primary purposes rather than\nsecondary happenings.\"\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Ir ediate\nSacramento, Californ\n1\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n4-20-72\n#216\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today congratulated the Salk Institute\nof San Diego on receiving a $400,000 research grant from the National\nCancer Institute.\nThe project, which will include a Nobel Prize winner on its\nstudy team, is designed to study ways of protecting the body against\ncancer.\n\"The fight against this terrible disease is one of the most\ncritical health problems of our time. And, I am very pleased and\nproud that the Salk Institute, one of California's most important\nresearch facilities, has been given a major role in the national\neffort to develop more effective ways of combatting cancer,\" the\ngovernor said.\n\"Man has conquered many diseases through the dedicated effort\nof the world's scientific community. The Salk Institute's motto,\n'Basic Research--Key to Health' sums up the tremendous role research\nmust play in improving the nation's health,\" he added.\n# # #\nEJG\nFrom:\nAlfred G. Kildov\n714-453-4100\nSALK INSTITUTE AWARDED $400,000\nFOR RELEASE:\nBY NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE\nThursday, Apr. 20, 197:\nThe NIH National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland announced\ntoday that it has awarded The Salk Institute, San Diego, California, a\n$400,000 one-year contract for research to study factors responsible\nfor protecting the body against cancer.\nSixteen scientists and support personnel at The Salk Institute will\nparticipate in the study, which will be coordinated by Dr. Edwin Lennox\nand Dr. Robert Holley, the latter a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Pro-\nject Officer on the contract is Dr. Robert J. Huebner, chief of the Viral\nCarcinogenesis Branch of the National Cancer Institute, a component of\nHEW's National Institutes of Health.\nFour. separate projects are planned under the contract. The first is\na study of ways in which tumor cells can be modified and used to stimulate\nnatural defenses against cancer.\nThe second project will investigate characteristics of the cancer\ncell's surface that enable it to escape from the animal's immune defense\nsystem.\nThe third study will analyze the factors in blood serum that are\nvital for the growth of both normal and cancer cells.\nThe fourth project aims to develop a \"chemical vaccine\" against tumors.\nPage 2\nProjects one and two will be directed by Dr. Lennox and Dr.\nRenato Dulbecco, with major assistance from Dr. Garth Nicolson on\nthe second.\nThe other two projects will be directed by Dr. Holley, with Dr.\nDietrich Paul and Dr. W. Tom Shier providing major assistance on pro-\njects three and four, respectively.\nAll of the research will be conducted at the Institute in San Diego,\nCalifornia.\nThe Salk Institute was founded 11 years ago as an institute where\nscientists would perform basic research in the biological sciences. Today,\nthe staff numbers nearly 300, of whom 85 are independent investigators.\nStudies under way range from research into individual cell surface pro-\nperties to studies of how children acquire language. Included are major\nresearch programs in neurobiology, reproductive biology, immunology,\nvirology and the origins of life.\nThe Institute's Council for Biology in Human Affairs is investi-\ngating many aspects of the impact of science and technology upon mankind.\n##\nTHE SALK INSTITUTE BOARD OF TP EES\nLEO H. BARTEMEIER, M. D.\nDR. SAMUEL B. GOULD\nROBERT MANNING\nMedical Director Emeritus\nChairman of the Commission\nEditor in Chief\nThe Seton Psychiatric Institute\non Non-Traditional\nTHE ATLANTIC MONTHLY\nStudy\nHONORABLE DAVID L. BAZELON\nJOHN J. McCLOY\nChief Judge, United States Court\nHARRY E. GREEN\nPartner\nof Appeals, District of Columbia\nSenior Vice President and\nMilbank, Tweed, Hadley &\nCircuit\nGeneral Counsel\nMcCloy\nContainer Corporation of\nH. STANLEY BENNETT, M. D.\nAmerica\nGLENN McHUGH\nSarah Graham Kenan Professor of\nInvestment Counsel\nBiological and Medical Sciences\nDR. ARMAND HAMMER\nThe University of North Carolina\nChairman of the Board\nFRANKLIN D. MURPHY, M. D.\nOccidental Petroleum Corp.\nChairman of the Board and\nWILLIAM BERNBACH\nChief Executive Officer\nChairman and Chief Executive Officer\nJEROME S. HARDY\nTimes Mirror Company\nDoyle Dane Bernbach Inc.\nPresident\nThe Dreyfus Corporation\nGREGORY PECK\nGOVERNOR ANDREW F. BRIMMER\nProducer and Actor\nBoard of Governors of the\nDR. ROBERT W. HOLLEY*\nFederal Reserve System\nResident Fellow\nThe Salk Institute\nDR. FRANK A. ROSE\nEDGAR M. BRONFMAN\nChairman of the Board\nPresident\nMASARU IBUKA\nUniversity Associates, Inc.\nDistillers Corporation-Seagram's Ltd.\nPresident\nSony Corporation, Japan\nJONAS SALK, M. D.\nDR. FREDERIC de HOFFMANN\nDirector and Resident Fellow\nPresident\nHONORABLE JACOB K. JAVITS\nThe Salk Institute\nThe Salk Institute\nUnited States Senator\nNew York\nJOSEPH ELLIOTT SLATER\nRUDOLPH J. DREWS\nPresident\nChairman of the Board\nDR. SEIJI KAYA\nThe Anderson Foundation\nand Chief Executive Officer\nPresident Emeritus\nThe Aspen Institute\nForemost-McKesson, Inc.\nTokyo University, Japan\nSAMUEL B. STEWART\nCOY G. EKLUND\nANTONIE T. KNOPPERS, M. D.\nSenior Vice Chairman\nExecutive Vice President\nPresident\nof the Board\nEquitable Life Assurance Society\nMerck & Co., Inc.\nBank of America\nFERDINAND T. FLETCHER\nDR. EDWIN S. LENNOX\nC. A. TATUM, JR.\nPartner\nResident Fellow\nPresident and Chief\nHiggs, Fletcher & Mack\nThe Salk Institute\nExecutive Officer\nTexas Utilities\nDR. DONALD N. FREY\nAMBASSADOR SOL M. LINOWITZ\nChairman of the Board\nSenior Partner\nDONN B. TATUM\nBell & Howell\nCoudert Brothers\nChairman of the Board\nWalt Disney Productions\nDR. JOHN W. GARDNER\nSALVADOR E. LURIA, M. D.\nChairman\nSedgwick Professor of\nDR. PAUL D. WURZBURGER\nCommon Cause\nBiology\nPrivate Industrial\nMassachusetts Institute of\nInvestment\nTHEODORE E. GILDRED\nTechnology\nPresident\nLomas Santa Fe, Inc.\nMALCOLM MacNAUGHTON, JR.\nPresident\nMELVIN A. GLASSER\nWilsey, Bennett and Company\nDirector, Social Security Department\nInternational Union-U.A.W.\nPresident: Dr. Frederic de Hoffmann\nDirector: Dr. Jonas Salk\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: I ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-20-72\n#217\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Deputy Attorney General\nRonald M. George and Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner\nEverette M. Porter to the Los Angeles Judicial District Municipal Court.\nGeorge, a Democrat, will succeed Judge Peter Giannini and Porter,\na Republican, will succeed Judge Robert Nye, both of whom have been\nelevated to the Los Angeles County Superior Court.\nA member of the Attorney General's office since 1969, George is a\ngraduate of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and\nInternational Affairs and earned his law degree from the Stanford\nUniversity School of Law.\nHe is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar\nAssociation and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.\nGeorge and his wife Barbara have two sons. The family lives in\nBeverly Hills.\nPorter, who has been a superior court commissioner since 1965, has\nalso served as Judge Pro Tem of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, a\nReferee of the Los Angeles County Juvenile Court, a member of the Los\nAngeles Police Commission and a member of the California Adult Authority.\nHe is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Los\nAngeles Lawyers Club, the Los Angeles Bar Association, the American\nJudicature Society and the State Bar of California.\nPorter is a graduate of Chapman College and earned his law degree\nfrom Southwestern University. He has also completed post graduate\ncourses at Los Angeles State College and the University of Southern\nCalifornia School of Law.\nHe and his wife Ida live in Los Angeles.\nGeorge and Porter will receive annual salaries of $32,273.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, Califor.\n1\nMEMO TO HE PRESS\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\nCORRECTION\nRELEASE #214 - DATED APRIL 20\nThe second sentence in the fourth paragraph on page 2 should read\nas follows:\nHe was named secretary of the Human Relations Agency in\nDecember, 1970 instead of December, 1971.\n######\nCEW\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Ir ediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#218\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Eldon H. Haskell, a\nSanta Barbara businessman, and reappointed Robert P. Rowe, a Santa\nBarbara florist, to four-year terms on the 19th District Agricultural\nAssociation (Santa Barbara National Horse Show and Flower Show).\nHaskell, whose address is Post Office Box 4188, Yankee Farm Road,\nSanta Barbara, succeeds Gretchen W. Erlich of Santa Barbara, who did\nnot seek reappointment.\nRowe, who has served on the board since 1941, lives at 814 Cambridge\nAvenue, Santa Barbara.\nBoth appointees are Republicans.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#219\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Dr. Robert M. Lochtie,\na Eureka veterinarian, and William T. Cosgrove, a Kneeland rancher, to\nfour-year terms on the Board of the 9th District Agricultural\nAssociation (Redwood Acres Fair).\nDr. Lochtie, who lives at 5915 Elk River Road, Eureka, and Cosgrove,\nwhose address is P.O. Box 14, Kneeland, have served on the board since\n1968. Both are Republicans.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE or THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gra\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#220\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Ralph T. Filson, a\nretired agricultural teacher, and Leslie E. Wolbert, a retired utility\ncompany electric superintendent, to four-year terms on the Third\nDistrict Agricultural Association (Silver Dollar Fair in Butte County).\nFilson, a Democrat, lives at 227 West Third Street, Chico and\nWolbert, a Republican, lives at 5800 Pickett Lane, Paradise.\nFilson has served on the board since 1944 and Wolbert has been a\nmember since 1968.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVE\nDR\nRELEASE: 1 ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd. Gray'\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#221\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Dr. Marvin R. Poston,\nOakland optometrist, to a four year term on the State Board\nof Optometry in the Department of Consumer Affairs.\nDr. Poston, a Democrat, has served on the board since 1964.\nHe lives at 567 El Pintado Road, Danville.\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#222\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Kenneth E. Foster,\na Madera insurance agency owner, to a four year term on the\nboard of the 21st District Agricultural Association (Madera\nDistrict Fair).\nFoster, a Republican, has served on the board since 1968.\nHe lives at 2012 National Street, Madera.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\nOFFICE OF THE GOVEI\nR\nRELEASE: I ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#223\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Harry E. Sands, an Auburn\nfuneral' director, and Mrs. Verlene C. Shipp of Newport Beach\nto four year terms on the State Board of Funeral Directors and\nEmbalmers in the Department of Consumer Affairs.\nSands who lives at 1308 Lincoln Way, Auburn, previously\nserved on the board from 1967 to 1970.\nMrs. Shipp, a Newport Beach housewife and civic leader, will\nserve in a newly-created position for public members.\nShe and her husband Robert live at 2752 Bayshore Drive,\nNewport Beach. They have three sons.\nBoth appointees are Republicans.\nBoard members receive $25 per diem.\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE RESS\nSacramento, Califori\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#224\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nApril 24, 1972\nthrough\nApril 30, 1972\nMonday, April 24\n3:15 p.m.\nPresentation of Centennial Medals to Governor\nReagan commemorating the Centennial of the\nModoc Indian War, Governor's Office\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, April 25\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWednesday, April 26\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nThursday, April 27\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nFriday, April 28\n9:00 a.m.\nCalifornia Rural Fire Association, Sacramento\nInn. Brief remarks.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSaturday, April 29\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, April 30\nDepart for Republican Governor's Conference -\nWhite Sulphur Springs, West Virginia\n(Overnight - West Virginia)\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERI\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#225\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Mrs. Katherine F. Kaplan\nof Los Angeles, a psychiatric social worker, to the Board of Behavioral\nScience Examiners in the Department of Consumer Affairs.\nShe will fill the unexpired term of Noah N. Irvine of Reedley who\nhas resigned. The term ends in June, 1973.\nMrs. Kaplan will represent clinical social workers.\nShe and her husband Joseph, an assistant professor of physics at\nthe University of California at Los Angeles, live at 1565 Kelton Avenue,\nLos Angeles.\nShe is a Republican.\nBoard members receive $25 per diem and expenses.\n#######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#226\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. Harold H. Lindner,\npresident of the San Francisco Medical Society, to the District Review\nCommittee for the First District of the Board of Medical Examiners.\nDr. Lindner, who has also served as Medical Advisor to the\nDepartment of Social Services for the City and County of San Francisco\nsince 1939, will fill the unexpired term of Dr. Henry A. Brown of\nBurlingame, who has resigned. The term ends in September, 1973.\nDr. Lindner will represent county medical associations on the\nboard.\nA Republican, he lives at 73 Santa Paula Avenue, San Francisco.\nBoard members receive per diem and expenses.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERI\nRELEASE: I. ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#227\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Howard F. Ross, a Carmichael\nphysical therapist, to the Physical Therapy Examining Committee in the\nDepartment of Consumer Affairs.\nRoss will fill the unexpired term of Robert A. Teckemeyer of\nSanta Rosa, who has resigned. The term ends in January, 1973.\nRoss, a Republican, lives at 3320 Edgar Lane, Carmichael.\nHe will receive $25 per day whileon official duty.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#228\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. Roy E. Mason, Jr., a\nPlymouth veterinarian, to fill an unexpired term and reappointed two\nother directors to four-year terms on the 26th District Agricultural\nAssociation (Amador County Fair).\nDr. Mason, whose address is Route 1, Box 28A, Plymouth, will fill\nthe term of Walter H. Steiner of Plymouth, who resigned. The term ends\nin January, 1975.\nReappointed were Miss Louise A. Hall, P.O. Box 461, Sutter Creek,\nan Amador County High School instructor, who has served since 1956, and\nSheldon D. Rodman, P.O. Box 155 Pine Grove, a realtor, who has served\nsince 1971.\nDr. Mason is a Democrat. Miss Hall and Rodman are Republicans.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n#####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERI\nRELEASE: SATURDAY A.Ms.\nSacramento, California\nApril 22, 1972\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#229\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Long Beach Chief Deputy\nCity Prosecutor Carl T. Zeiger to the Long Beach Judicial District\nMunicipal Court.\nHe will succeed Judge Ellsworth Beam who has been elevated to the\nLos Angeles County Superior Court.\nZeiger, 53, a Republican, has served as Chief Deputy City Prosecutor\nof Long Beach since 1956. He joined the office in 1953 as a deputy\ncity prosecutor after serving a year as a Deputy City Attorney in\nLos Angeles.\nA native of Long Beach and a graduate of local schools, he holds a\ndegree in economics from the University of California and earned his\nlaw degree from Loyola University School of Law.\nZeiger is a member of the State Bar of California, the Long Beach\nBar Association, Phi Delta Phi Legal fraternity and other professional,\ncivic and service organizations.\nHe and his wife Jeanne have four sons. The family home is in\nLong Beach.\nZeiger will receive an annual salary of $32,273.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: S URDAY A.Ms.\nSacramento, Califor\nApril 22, 1972\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#230\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Santa Ana Municipal Judge John\nL. Flynn, Jr., to the Orange County Superior Court and appointed Santa\nAna attorney John C. Teal to succeed him on the Central Orange County\nJudicial District Municipal Court.\nJudge Flynn, 45, a Republican, will serve on a newly-created\nSuperior Court bench. He will receive an annual salary of $35,080.\nTeal, 46, a Democrat, will earn an annual salary of $32,273.\nNamed to the municipal court in 1970 by Governor Reagan, Judge Flynn\npreviously was a partner in a Los Angeles law firm for six years and has\nserved as Deputy City Attorney in Los Angeles.\nHe is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and\nearned his law degree from Southwestern University.\nTeal, who has been engaged in the private practice of law in Orange\nCounty since 1963, has also served as an Orange County Deputy District\nAttorney and as a Judge Pro Tem on the North Orange County, West Orange\nCounty and Central Orange County Judicial District Municipal Courts.\nHe has also served on the Fullerton Parks and Recreation Commission\nand is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, the State Bar of\nCalifornia, the California Trial Lawyers and Orange County Trial Lawyers\nAssociations and the American Bar Association.\nTeal is a graduate of the University of Southern California and\nearned his law degree from Loyola University.\nHe and his wife Patricia have three children. The family lives\nin Fullerton.\n######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVE\nDR\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-21-72\n#231\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement\nfollowing a meeting with San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson:\n\"Mayor Wilson gave me a complete and detailed briefing on\nthe situation as it now stands.\n\"The Republican Convention Site Selection Committee will meet\nsoon to decide whether they will need to move the site, or leave it\nin San Diego.\n\"Mayor Wilson is convinced, as am I, that the people of\nCalifornia and the City of San Diego have done everything they\npromised and have the ability to live up to their obligations.\n\"The Republican National Committee's problems apparently\ngo beyond that, to considerations of San Diego costs versus\nthose of Miami Beach, the committee's relationship with the\nSan Diego Sports Arena management, and the growing size of the\nroom requirements over original estimates.\n\"While neither the State nor the City can do anything\nabout costs and specific contractual arrangements of the National\nCommittee, Mayor Wilson and I nevertheless will do all we can to\ninsure that the Republican National Committee remains fully aware\nof the city's ability and determination to fulfill its obligations.\nThe relative importance of these other factors--over which the\ncity has no control--is up to the committee to decide.\"\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-24-72\n#232\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed John D. Fett, a\nHemet geophysicist and hydrogeologist and J. W. (Jay) Watkins,\na Redlands concrete plant owner, to fill unexpired terms on the\nCalifornia Regional Water Quality Control Board for the Santa Ana\nRegion.\nFett, who lives at 26745 Meridian Street, Hemet, will fill\nthe unexpired term of E. Dana Brooks of San Bernardino, who has\nresigned. The term ends in September 1973.\nWatkins, who lives at 619 Palo Alto Drive, Redlands, will\nreplace Robert A. Daily of Anaheim, who has resigned. The term\nends in September of 1973.\nFett will represent water supplies on the board while Watkins\nwill serve as the industrial waste representative.\nBoth appointees are Republicans.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nSacramento, California\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-24-72\nCORRECTION\nRelease #232 dated 4-24-72---the third paragraph should read:\nWatkins, who lives at 619 Palo Alto Drive, Redlands, replaces\nthe late Robert A. Daily of Anaheim.\n#######\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-24-72\n#233\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Joseph Cervetto of\nSan Francisco to the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays\nof San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun, subject to Senate con-\nfirmation.\nCervetto, president of a San Francisco building maintenance\ncompany, is active in San Francisco civic affairs and yachting\nclubs. He succeeds the late J. Warnock Walsh of San Francisco.\nCervetto, a Republican, resides at 561 Greenwich Street,\nSan Francisco.\nMembers of the board receive salaries not to exceed $300\nper month and expenses.\n####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVEI OR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSac ramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-24-72\n#234\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Bryan P. DuVall of\nAtascadero and reappointed Roy P. Ferrari of Nipomo to four year\nterms on the board of the 16th District Agricultural Association\n(San Luis Obispo County Fair).\nDuVall, a bank manager, who lives at 5355 El Verano, Atascadero,\nsucceeds E. E. (Dick) Fleck of Paso Robles, whose term has expired.\nFerrari, a dairy rancher of Route 1, Day Street, Nipomo, has\nserved on the board since 1965.\nDuVall is a Republican. Ferrari is a Democrat.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: In. diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-24-72\n#235\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Santa Ana Municipal Judge\nWalter E. Smith to a newly created Orange County Superior Court.\nJudge Smith, 43, a Republican, will earn an annual salary of\n$35,080.\nNamed to the Central Orange County Judicial District Municipal\nCourt by Governor Reagan in 1968, Judge Smith was previously engaged\nin the private practice of law in Orange County for 10 years.\nHe has also served as a trustee of the Fullerton Union High School\nand Junior College District and as a trustee of the North Orange County\nJunior College District.\nJudge Smith is a graduate of Compton Junior College and the\nUniversity of California at Berkeley and earned his law degree from the\nUniversity of Southern California.\nHe is married and the father of two daughters.\nThe family lives in Fullerton.\nThe new court was created through 1971 legislation.\n#######\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nR\nMEMO TO THE\nESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-24-72\nGovernor Reagan will visit the Fourth Brigade of\nthe California Cadet Corps at 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 25,\nat El Camino High School.\nThe governor will review an honor guard of cadets,\nobserve a leadership class being conducted by a cadet\ninstructor and will participate in a question and answer\nsession with the 200 cadets of the brigade.\nThe brigade includes units from the Sacramento,\nRoseville and Auburn areas. The cadet corps has 73\nschools throughout California participating with 3,900\ncadets enrolled.\n# # #\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-24-72\n#236\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Joseph E. Shreve, a\nPalmdale realtor, and reappointed Frank A. Lane, a Lancaster builder-\ndeveloper, to four-year terms on the board of the 50th District\nAgricultural Association (Antelope Valley Fair).\nShreve, a Democrat, succeeds Frank W. Owens of Leona Valley, whose\nterm has expired.\nShreve lives at 39053 Juniper Tree Road, Palmdale.\nLane, a Republican, has served on the board since 1968. He lives\nat 5800 West Avenue L, Quartz Hill.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n######\nWAS\nTELEPHONE STATEMENT\n4-24-72\nThe following statement was issued by Governor Reagan in\nresponse to a challenge by John Ashbrook to a face-to-face\ntelevised debate:\n\"I don't believe a debate with someone who, by his own\nadmission is not a serious candidate, would serve any useful\npurpose.\"\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-25-72\n#237\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. Robert A. Bennett,\nCurriculum Specialist in the Language Arts Department of the\nSan Diego Unified School District to the new Curriculum Development\nand Supplemental Materials Commission in the Department of\nEducation.\nThe Commission, created by 1971 legislation, will make\nrecommendations on courses of study in pre-school, kindergarten,\nelementary and secondary public schools to the State Board of\nEducation.\nDr. Bennett, a Democrat, is a past president of the National\nCouncil of Teachers of English and the author of several books\non education and language.\nHe holds degrees from the University of California, the\nUniversity of Minnesota and Florida State University.\nHe is married and the father of four children. His home\nis at 6612 Golfcrest Drive, San Diego.\nMembers of the commission serve four year terms and receive\nnecessary expenses.\n#####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: I ediate\nSacramento, Califor.\na\nContact: John Tooker\n445-4831\n4-26-72\n#238\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today recommended to the legislature the\ncreation of a Department of Environmental Protection to be the focal\npoint for pollution abatement activities and programs of state government.\nThe governor's proposal is included in California's first\nEnvironmental Goals and Policy Report which he submitted to the\nlegislature today.\n\"This landmark report provides environmental goals and policies for\nall levels of government in the state for use in planning future growth\nand development,\" Governor Reagan said.\n\"It contains basic principles which set forth in concise language\nthe roles of state and local government in dealing with environmental\nconcerns. The report makes it clear that there can be only one overall\nenvironmental goal in California, and that is to create and maintain a\nproductive harmony between man and his environment.\"\nThe report is the result of legislation approved in 1970.\nThe report is divided into four sections:\nEnvironmental Pollution Prevention\nEnvironmental Resources Protection\nEnvironmental Resources Planning\nMaps\nThe environmental pollution section probes the root causes of\nspecific areas of concern and contains detailed goals and specific policie\ndesigned to achieve the stated goals. The diversity of environmental\nvariables found throughout California was a major consideration in\ndeveloping goals flexible enough to meet the total needs of all citizens\nin the state, says the report.\nAreas of concern dealt with air, land use, noise, pesticides,\npopulation, solid waste, transportation, and water. They were chosen to\nillustrate specific action areas to which all levels of government must\ndirect their immediate attention.\nThe environmental resources section identifies specific areas of\nstatewide concern for eight categories of environmental resources:\n- 1 -\n#238\n--Scientific, scenic and education resources\n-Wildlife habitats\nForest and agriculture\nOpen space surrounding metropolitan areas\nBeaches, lakes and riverbank access\nConnecting links for recreation\nHistoric, archaeological and cultural resources\nLands of hazardous concern\nGoals and policies found in the environmental resources section\nrelate directly to the environmental resources planning section by\nidentifying potential areas of statewide concern.\nThe environmental resources planning section details the need for\nall levels of government to plan their activities within a conceptual\nframework, described in the report as the \"SEE\" concept. SEE, according\nto the report, simply means that decision-makers should examine the social,\neconomic and environmental impact of a proposed action or project prior\nto reaching a final decision.\nThis section contains the major recommendations of the report\npertaining to land use, and to a preventive action approach to\nenvironmental problems.\nIn recommending the new Department of Environmental Protection,\nGovernor Reagan also proposed the establishment of the Environmental\nResources Protection Plan. He termed the plan \"a realistic approach to\nprotecting the state's significant land and water resources.\nAccording to the report, placing administration of the Resources\nProtection Plan in the new department will increase the state's ability\nto provide data and technical assistance to all levels of government in\nthe state.\nGovernor Reagan also proposed that an Environmental Protection\nControl Board be created with the responsibility to set, implement and\nenforce pollution standards.\nThe map section assembles up-to-date information never before brought\ntogether in one state document, according to the report. The maps portray\nthose areas that are of particular environmental concern in California.\n######\nNOTE: For additional information contact John Tooker, director, Office\nof Planning and Research, 445-4831.\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-26-72\n# 239\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Vallejo attorney Alfred\nW. Newman to a four year term on the Educational Innovation and\nPlanning Commission in the Department of Education.\nThe new commission was created by 1971 legislation to\nassist the State Board of Education and the Department of Education\nin the planning, development and improvement of educational programs.\nNewman, who is active in numerous civic, service and professio\norganizations, has served as president of the California School Boards\nAssociation, a member of the State Department of Education Commission\non Equal Opportunities in Education and as president of the Vallejo\nCity Unified School District board.\nHe lives at 1414 Mariposa Street, Vallejo.\nHe is a Republican.\nCommission members receive necessary expenses.\n#####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVEP\nR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, Califor\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-26-72\n#240\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Chairman Henry W.\nKerr of Irvine and Curtis O. Lynum of San Mateo to four year terms\non the Adult Authority, subject to Senate confirmation.\nKerr, retired assistant commander of the Los Angeles Police\nDepartment's detective bureau, was appointed to the authority in 1967\nand became its chairman in 1968.\nLynum, a retired special agent of the F.B.I., has served\non the authority since 1967.\nKerr, who receives an annual salary of $26,250, lives at\n18835 Tabor Drive, Irvine.\nLynum, who lives at 644 West Hillsdale Blvd, San Mateo,\nearns an annual salary of $25,000.\nBoth men are Republicans.\n####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE:\nEMLARGOED FOR RELEASE\nSacramento, California\n4:30 P.M. THURSDAY,\nContact:\nEd Gray\nAPRIL 27, 1972\n445-4571\n4-27-72\n#241\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today proposed to the legislature a $14.3\nmillion statewide program to curb the abuse of narcotics and dangerous\ndrugs in California.\nThe proposal, to be sponsored by Senator George Deukmejian\n(R-Long Beach), places heavy emphasis on community based treatment and\nrehabilitation programs, education and a new system of diverting first-\ntime drug offenders away from jails and prisons.\nIn announcing his comprehensive program, Governor Reagan said:\n\"The use of drugs continues to be a scourge of our society. No\nvenom could be more deadly than drug addiction. It claims its victims\nin countless personal tragedies, destroys individuals, tears families\napart, and weakens the moral fiber of a people whose greatest resource\nand hope for the future is its youth.\"\nIn the care and treatment of drug abuse offenders, Governor Reagan's\nprogram would:\n--Install drug specialists in county welfare offices to direct\nthose persons in need of help to the proper agency for care, treatment\nand rehabilitation.\n--Develop a new criminal diversion system to move first-time drug\nabusers out of the criminal justice system and into local rehabilitative\nprograms.\n--Facilitate development of local programs that will provide\ndetoxification services, hospital care, methadone treatment, counseling\nand social services.\nIn the area of drug abuse prevention, the plan calls for:\n--Maintaining the attack on pushers and suppliers by close\ncoordination with the Federal Drug Abuse Smuggler Strike Force.\n--Reduce overprescription of drugs by working with county and state\nmedical associations.\n--Developing a statewide approach to problem solving by using the\nconcerted participation of groups and individuals, public and private\nagencies, all levels of government, volunteers, business and industry.\nThe governor's plan for expanding education and training programs\nthroughout the state, proposes:\n- 1 -\n#241\n--Developing and implementing expanded drug education courses for\nkindergarten through grade 12 students.\n-Establish training courses for teachers and other occupational\nand professional groups.\n--Developing drug abuse programs for radio, television and newspaper\ndistribution.\nIn pointing out the need for a more comprehensive attack against\ndrug abuse, Governor Reagan said:\n\"In 1970, there were over 1300 deaths in Los Angeles county alone\nfrom overdoses of drugs. The number of admissions to state hospitals\nbecause of drug abuse increased 1000 percent in the last decade.\n\"And more than 36,000 minors and 99,000 adults were arrested for\noffenses involving drugs in 1970. That represents increases of 2200\npercent for minors and 450 percent for adults in the last 10 years.\n\"Drug abuse is a community-wide problem and it will never be\nresolved except by a community-wide attack. The state will solidly\nsupport local efforts, but the initiative, the basic development of\nplans, the identification of targets and needs, must be made by the\ncommunity, and must reflect an expression of the community as a whole.\"\n#######\nCEW\n- 1 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER JR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-28-72\n#242\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Victorville City\nCouncilman Terry E. Caldwell and reappointed Robert J. Daneri,\na Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe, businessman to four year terms on the\nCalifornia Regional Water Quality Control Board for the Lahonton\nRegion.\nCaldwell, Southeast District Manager for Continental Telephone\nCompany, will represent municipalities on the commission. He succeeds\nWalter W. Rollins of Bishop, whose term has expired.\nDaneri, a member of the North Tahoe Public Utilities Commission,\nhas served on the board since 1967, representing water supplies.\nCaldwell lives at 14319 Augusta Drive, Victorville. Daneri's\naddress is P. O. Box 1145 Kings Beach. Both are republicans.\nCommissioners receive necessary expenses.\n####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-28-72\n#243\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Mrs. Sheridah Gerard,\nSanta Barbara civic leader, to the California Regional Water Quality\nControl Board for the Central Coastal Region.\nMrs. Gerard, a Democrat, succeeds Mrs. Jean Auer of Santa\nBarbara who resigned to accept an appointment on the board for\nthe San Francisco Region.\nA former children's librarian, Mrs. Gerard is past president\nof the Santa Barbara League of Women Voters and chairman of the\nLeague's State Study on Water.\nShe and her husband William live at 324 E. Mission Street,\nSanta Barbara.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\nHer term is for four years.\n#####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-28-72\n#244\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Raymond D. Johnson\nof Santa Barbara and Alfred F. Smith of Davis to the State Building\nStandards Commission, subject to Senate confirmation.\nJohnson, Administrative Officer for the County of Santa Barbara,\nhas served on the commission since 1970, representing local government.\nHe lives at 202 East Pedregosa Street, Santa Barbara.\nSmith, president of a development company, has served on the\ncommission since 1968, representing contractors. He is in the process\nof moving to Davis from Los Angeles.\nBoth men are Republicans.\nCommissioners serve for four years and receive necessary\ntravel expenses.\n# # # #\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO.\nMEMO TO THE Plass\nSacramento, California\nContact: Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-28-72\n#245\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nMay 1, 1972\nthrough\nMay 7, 1972\nMonday, May 1\n3:15 p.m.\nConvention of the Chamber of Commerce of the\nUnited States, Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.\nSpeech.\nReturn to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia,\nand Republican Governor's Conference\nOvernight - - West Virginia\nTuesday, May 2\nRepublican Governor's Conference\nOvernight - - West Virginia\nWednesday, May 3\nReturn to Los Angeles\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nThursday, May 4\nNoon\nNBC Affiliates Meeting, Century Plaza Hotel,\nLos Angeles. Speech.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nFriday, May 5\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - - Los Angeles\nSaturday, May 6\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, May 7\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-28-72\n# 246\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Charles Brunel\nChristensen, a member of the State Board of Agriculture and a\nModoc County Cattle rancher, as State Director of Agriculture.\nChristensen, 49, who began his career as a working cattleman\nat his family's ranch in Likely, Modoc County, and became a national\nagricultural leader, succeeds the late Jerry W. Fielder of Dixon in\nthe $30,000 a year post.\nAn advisor to three United States Secretaries of the Interior,\nChristensen last year was presented with the U. S. Department of the\nInterior's \"Conservation Service Award\" the highest honor the federal\nagency can confer on a private citizen.\nThe award was made for his contributions to public land\nmanagement, water resource conservation and other environmental\naccomplishments.\nAppointed to the State Board of Agriculture in 1969 by Governor\nReagan, Christensen was named California's \"Livestock Man of\nthe Year\" in 1970.\nHe is a past president of the California Cattlemen's Association\nand a past director of the American National Cattlemen's Association.\nHe has also served as chairman of the Western Regional Beef\nCouncil, as a cattle representative to the National Grazing Committee,\nand as a member of the Modoc County Board of Supervisors, as president\nof the Modoc Council of National Resources and as chairman of the\nState Advisory Board to the Bureau of Land Management.\nHe was graduated from Modoc County schools and the University\nof California at Berkeley where he earned an All-Coast rating as a\nvarsity center on Stub Allison's football team.\nDuring World War II, Christensen enlisted as a private with the\ninfantry, rose to the rank of captain and won a Silver Star and four\nbattle stars with the 42nd Rainbow Division.\nHe and his wife Barbara have two daughters. The family\nlives on their ranch at Likely.\nHe is a Republican.\nThe appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.\n#####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-28-72\n# 247\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed five members to\nthree year terms on the Board of Osteopathic Examiners in the\nDepartment of Consumer Affairs.\nThey are Dr. Crichton C. Brigham, P.O. Box 126, Gualala, who\nhas served since 1963; Dr. Ruth I. Gotsch, 211 Arbolado Drive, La\nSelva Beach, a member since 1967; Dr. Herbert C. Templeman, 811\nEast Myrna Drive, Port Hueneme, who has served since 1965; Dr.\nKing H. Harger, P.O. Box 722, Valley Center, a member since 1968;\nand Dr. L. Arthur Moore, 428 17th Street, Bakersfield, a member\nsince 1969.\nAll are Republicans.\nBoard members receive $25 per diem while on official duty.\n#####\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nEd Gray\n445-4571\n4-28-72\n# 248\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named four new members and\nreappointed two other members to four year terms on the California\nState Communications Advisory Board.\nThe new members are Chief Reginald E. Moorby of the Burlingame\nFire Department, Sheriff Duane H. Lowe of Sacramento County, Director\nof Communications Vernon D. French of Solano County, and Sacramento\nPolice Chief William J. Kinney.\nReappointed were Commissioner Harold W. Sullivan of the\nCalifornia Highway Patrol and State Fire Marshal Al Hole, both\nof whom have served on the board since 1967, representing respectively\nstate law enforcement and fire fighting agencies.\nMoorby, who will represent city fire services, succeeds William\nJ. Taylor of Burbank, who has resigned.\nLowe will represent county sheriffs, succeeding James W.\nWebster of Santa Barbara\nFrench will represent fire services succeeding Robert A.\nMason of Monte Sereno, whose term has expired, and Kinney will\nrepresent city police, succeeding Richard O. Morrison of Claremont,\nwhose term has expired.\nSullivan, Hole and French are Republicans. Moorby, Lowe\nand Kinney are Democrats.\nMembers of the board receive necessary expenses.\n# # # #\nWAS\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califorr\nContact: Paul Beck Ed Gray\n445-4571\n4-28-72\n#249\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced release by the California\nDepartment of Fish and Game of a significant environmental study of the\nTrail Peak - Cottonwood Basin area which lies in Inyo County (some 20\nmiles east of the town of Lone Pine).\nThe report expresses concern about the serious degradation of\nthe home habitat of the golden trout, the state fish. Increased human\nand automobile use is posing serious threats to the habitat of this\nworld renowned fish, the propagation of which is completely dependent\non wild brood stock in the Cottonwood Lakes basin.\nThe report urges the agreement and cooperation of the United\nStates Forest Service in instituting measures by way of limiting\nautomobile and visitor impact so that the critical trout habitat and\nwild mountain sheep area will be protected for posterity.\nBy letter to federal Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz, the\ngovernor called attention to this problem from the point of view of\nthe United States Forest Service which is the major landowning agency\nserved by the Cottonwood basin access road.\nRoads which encroach upon the wilderness, the governor said,\nneed careful study because of the need to protect the fragile, world-\nrenowned High Sierra wilderness area.\n# # #\nEJG\nState of California\n#38-72\nDepartment of Social Welfare\nApril 28, 1972\nContact:A. J. Cooper\n445-2077\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSACRAMENTO -Preliminary figures indicate California's welfare rolls\nincreased 23,600 during March, Welfare Director Robert B. Carleson reported\ntoday.\nCarleson said the increase is the direct result of harassment of the\nState Social Welfare Department by so-called poverty lawyers, welfare rights\norganizations, and rulings by two California courts blocking key elements of\nthe Welfare Reform Act of 1971.\n\"I am convinced there would have been no caseload increase at all\nin February or March (1972) if the California Supreme Court had not inter-\nvened at the time the new welfare reform law was scheduled to go into effect\nlast October 1--thereby effectively striking down a provision which was\nintended to prevent welfare recipients with significant outside incomes from\nreceiving aid to which they were not entitled under the Welfare Reform Act.\"\n\"Fortunately, the California Supreme Court decision was overruled\nby the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month. However, the original welfare\nreform law provisions cannot now be reinstated until June.\"\n\"As a result\", Carleson said, \"California taxpayers will have been\nforced to spend unnecessarily some $56 million in additional welfare funds\nwhich otherwise could have been saved.'\n\"In addition,\" Carleson said, \"the continued blockage by Sacramento\nSuperior Court Judge B. Abbott Goldberg of the State's earnings clearance\nsystem -- another key element of Governor Reagan's welfare reform program --\nPage 2\nhas made it impossible for the State to remove many thousands of ineligible\npersons from the welfare rolls.\"\nThe earnings clearance system was designed to determine recipients'\nactual income as compared to their declared earnings in order to prevent\nfraud and assure that only those persons truly eligible for welfare actually\nreceive it.\nA partial study of the welfare rolls in January, which was halted by\nthe Sacramento County Superior Court order, revealed that 48 percent of the\nrecipients checked had unreported income that would have reduced their grants\nor made them ineligible for welfare.\nAlthough the earnings clearance system was declared \"consistent with\nfederal law and policy\" in a brief filed in the Sacramento Superior Court by\nthe U. S. Attorney on behalf of the federal Department of Health, Education\nand Welfare, Judge Goldberg Thursday refused to permit the State to resume\nchecking welfare recipients' incomes.\nCarleson said Judge Goldberg's ruling would be immediately appealed\nto the Third District Court of Appeals in Sacramento.\n\"It is the taxpayers and the honest welfare recipients who are really\nbeing hurt by Judge Goldberg's intransigence,\" Carleson said. \"The cost\nto the taxpayers is unfair, and the reputations of honest recipients\nsuffer. 11\nCarleson pointed out that the earnings clearance system does not\nviolate federal regulations on confidentiality of welfare information.\nRecipients' declared income is checked with the Department of Human Resources\nDevelopment's record of earnings submitted by employers for unemployment\ninsurance purposes.\nPage 3\n\"The information is available,\" Carleson said, \"and no one outside\nthe State sees it. We are just using a simplified system to verify our\nfigures. 11\nHe said the State expects to win the case on appeal \"because the\nsystem is totally fair.\" \"But in the meantime,\" Carleson said, \"millions\nof taxpayers' dollars will be lost because of the delay and they can never\nbe recovered.\"\n\"If the March figures prove out, this will be the smallest increase\nfor the month of March during the last five years and the smallest percentage\nincrease in the last eight. And it is a solid indication that the welfare\nreforms enacted last year are working to keep welfare under control.\"\nThe 23,600 increase between February and March of this year\ncompares with an increase of 49,000 for the same period in 1971 and\n62,000 for March of 1970.\nWith the March figures included, California's welfare rolls\nwill contain 2,160,299 people, compared with 2,136,726 in February and\n2,293,909 in March of 1971. The total includes those on general home relief,\nfunded entirely by the counties.\nVirtually all of the increase over February was in the Aid to\nFamilies with Dependent Children Programs, according to Carleson. The largest\nAFDC increase, 15,500, was in the Family Group classification of single\nparent families.\n\"Even with the March increase,' Carleson said, \"the total number\nof welfare recipients is down by 133,600 compared to a year ago. This\nrepresents $186 million in savings.' 11\n\"A comparison with the projections of where our caseload would have\nbeen without welfare reform shows that in March we had 563,300 fewer persons\non the rolls than we would have had without welfare reform.\""
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