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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 - May 1973\nBox: P14\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/\nMay 1, 1973\nGovernor Reagan today made the following statements in\nanswer to reporters' questions regarding Assembly Speaker\nMoretti's request for a televised debate on the Governor's\nproposed Revenue Control and Tax Reduction Program.\nQuestion:\nAre you going to accept Speaker Moretti's challenge\nto debate the tax limit plan on TV?\nGovernor:\nI am not quite sure what it is he means in debating.\nIf he means to debate simply the request that we have made that the\nlegislature allow the people to vote on this issue that could be\nthe shortest debate in history and I doubt if anyone would want to\ngive it very much air time because it is simply a matter of opinion.\nHe doesn't think the people should be allowed to vote on this and\nI believe they should.\nQuestion:\nWhat about the merit of the plan itself?\nGovernor:\nThe merit? It has been introduced to the legislature.\nThere is a legislative process which he has jealously guarded and\nwhich he says is being assailed by this proposal and there it is now\nthey can have all the committee hearings, all the open hearings, all\nthe research into this program it is possible to have in the normal\nlegislative process. He really should stick with that.\nQuestion:\nYou won't debate him?\nGovernor:\nI don't see any reason to debate him.\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nSacramento, Californi 95814\nMEMO T THE PRESS\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-2-73\nGovernor Reagan will respond to charges made by Assembly Speaker\nMoretti, regarding the governor's tax program, at 11:45 a.m. today\nin the governor's office.\nPress coverage is invited.\n#####\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 5814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-2-73\n#246\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced appointments of four new\nmembers to the Council on Intergovernmental Relations and the\nreappointments of six current members.\nNew members include: James Stearns, secretary of the Agriculture\nand Services Agency. Stearns fills the vacancy created by the expiration\nof Caspar Weinberger's term. Weinberger, former director of the\nDepartment of Finance, is now secretary of Health, Education and Welfare\nin President Nixon's administration.\nEarl W. Brian, M.D., secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency, who\nreplaces James M. Hall, former secretary of the Human Relations Agency.\nHall is now a vice president of MCA, Inc., in Universal City.\nFrank J. Walton, secretary of the Business and Transportation Agency,\nwho replaces Gordon Luce, former secretary of Business and Transportation\nand now president of the San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association.\nByron James of Piedmont, a business management consultant, who\nreplaces James C. Haugh of San Diego.\nStearns, Dr. Brian, Walton and James are all Republicans.\nCurrent members reappointed to the council are: Lieutenant Governor\nEd Reinecke, State Controller Houston Flournoy, and Norman B. Livermore,\nJr., secretary for the Resources Agency. All three are Republicans.\nAlso reappointed was Clifford R. Anderson, Jr., a Pasadena attorney,\nwho was redesignated chairman of the council. He is a Republican.\nOther members reappointed were Wesley McClure, a Democrat and city\nmanager of San Leandro, and Ruth A. Green, director of social services\nof the Health Care Services Corporation in San Diego. She is a\nRepublican.\nCouncil members receive their necessary expenses.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ:\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-2-73\n#247\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Fred N.\nFowler, M.D., of Stockton, as a member of the Stockton State Hospital\nDisordened\nAdvisory Board for the Mentally Retarded. He also announced the\nreappointment of John W. Palmer to the board.\nDr. Fowler, 35, replaces Kazuo Orimo, M.D., of Stockton. Dr.\nOrimo's term has expired.\nA Republican, Dr. Fowler is a psychiatrist at the San Joaquin\nGeneral Hospital in Stockton. He is a native of Hollywood and a 1959\ngraduate of the University of California at Los Angeles. He received\nhis medical degree in 1963 from the California College of Medicine at\nLos Angeles, now the medical school of the University of California at\nIrvine.\nPalmer, a 50-year old Republican, was first appointed to the board\nin December 1970. He is an executive with the Turlock Fruit Company.\nTerms of both members will expire January 16, 1975.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses.\n####\nAppointees' addresses:\nJohn W. Palmer\nFred N. Fowler, M.D.\n1717 Hawkeye Road\n4207 Cliff Drive\nTurlock, California 95380\nStockton, California 95201\nWaltha\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON LD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-2-73\n#248\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Harold A.\nDel Ponte of Klamath to a four-year term as a member of the California\nRegional Water Quality Control Board for the North Coastal Region.\nThe region includes Del Norte, Siskiyou, Humboldt, Trinity,\nMendocino, Sonoma and parts of Modoc and Lake Counties.\nDel Ponte, 56-year old Republican, replaces Herbert A. Peterson,\nJr., of Arcata, Peterson resigned.\nA member of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors from 1953-72,\nDel Ponte is a 1939 graduate of Washington State University with a BS\ndegree in forestry.\nHe is a past president of the North Coast Supervisors Association\nand a past president of the supervisors unit of the Redwood Empire\nAssociation.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses.\n####\nAddress:\nHarold A. Del Ponte\n101 - 169 Interchange\nPost Office Box 35\nKlamath, California 95548\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROA D REAGAN\nRELEASE: ediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-2-73\n#249\n&\nPress\nI have called you here today to read the text of a letter I have\njust sent to Speaker Moretti and to discuss a number of the false\ncharges he has made about the Revenue Control and Tax Reduction Program\nI have proposed.\nHere is the text of my letter to Bob Moretti:\n\"Dear Bob:\n\"Thank you for your letter regarding a televised debate on our\ntax reduction program.\n\"As I see it, the only issue presently before the legislature\nand the people is whether or not the people themselves should be allowed\nto vote on a program to control and reduce their tax burden. You do not\nbelieve they should be allowed to do this and I believe they should. A\ndebate on what is apparently a simple difference of opinion between us\nwould be the shortest debate on record.\n\"Public debates are an effective means of clarifying complicated\nissues for the public, or for comparing candidates for office. Deciding\nwhether the people should be allowed to vote or not is hardly a\ncomplicated issue, and I'm not a candidate for office so there really\nis no need to air our difference.\n\"I'd still like to give you a briefing on the program--I think\nif you understood it, you'd like it as much as you did the welfare\nreform.\n\"You are disturbed, for example, that the refund of the surplus\nmight benefit unfairly those of higher income. You'll be pleased to\nknow that almost half the people, those at the lower end of the earning\nscale, will have no income tax liability at all, and there will be no\nrebate at all for corporate income tax or capital gains.\nBest regards,\nRONALD REAGAN\nGovernor\"\n#####\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californi\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-2-73\n#250\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of two\nmembers to the board of directors of the 27th District Agricultural\nAssociation, sponsor of the Shasta District Fair, and two members of\nthe 33rd District Agricultural Association, sponsor of the San Benito\nCounty Fair.\nReappointed to four-year terms on 27th District board were William\nF. Candrian and Dr. Conrad J. Ferreira, both of Redding.\nCandrian, 57, manager of the Wells Fargo Bank in Anderson, was\nfirst appointed to the b - rd in 1969.\nDr. Ferreira, who has a private veterinary practice in Redding, has\nserved on the board since 1962.\nReappointed to the 33rd District board were Fulton J. Picetti, Jr.,\nand John P. Ohrwall, both of Hollister.\nPicetti, 56, operates an insurance firm in Hollister, He has served\non the board since 1969.\nOhrwall, 72, is superintendent of Almaden Vineyards, Cienega. He\nhas been a member of the board since 1945.\nAll four of the appointees are Republicans. Their new terms will\nexpire January 15, 1977.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses.\n######\nAddresses:\nWilliam F. Candrian\nDr. Conrad J. Ferreira\n4951 Alta Camino Drive\nPost Office Box 958\nRedding, California 96001\nRedding, California\nFulton J. Picetti, / Jr.\nJohn P. Ohrwall\n91 Blosso Lane\n1781 Cienega Road\nHollister, California 95023\nHollister, California 95023\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR DONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE Immediate\nSacramento, Califor a 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\n916-445-4571\n5-2-73\n#251\nThe attached is a series of comments, prepared by Governor\nReagan's Task Force on Tax Reduction, keyed to the 34 summary comments\nof the legislative analyst published on Monday, April 30.\n- 1 -\n#251\nPost:\n1. We find no valid basis for the argument that Californians pay 44\npercent of their incomes in federal, state and local taxes (Pages 1-8).\n2. The 44 percent tax burden estimate is misleading and highly inflated\nbecause many types of receipts have been erroneously classified as taxes,\nbecause the income base used to make this calculation is too small, and\nbecause the calculations ignore economic reality when they assume none\nof our tax collections is shifted to taxpayers in other states or\nnations. (Page 8).\n3. The governor has erroneously classified the following types of\nreceipts as taxes in order to obtain his 44 percent burden figure:\n1) Admissions to University basketball and football games;\n2) University book store receipts and board and room charges;\n3) Private donations to the University;\n4) Highway bridge tolls;\n5) Employee retirement contributions\n6) Local airport receipts;\n7) Local hospital charges;\n8)\nU.S. Postal receipts;\n9) U.S. natural resource receipts;\n10) The sale of agricultural products by the federal government.\n(Pages 3-5)\nTask Force Comments:\nPoints 1, 2 and 3.\nFor reasons totally obscure, the legislative analyst makes much of\nthe distinction between taxes and revenues in his report, while repeatedly\nsubstituting \"taxes\" for \"revenues\" in his reading of the governor's\nmessage of March 12, 1973, to the legislature. In fact, the governor\nstates that \"this year, 1973, it is estimated that combined government\nrevenues - Federal, state and local - will be more than 43 percent of\nCalifornia's total personal income.\" (Page 1 of Message). Similarly,\nfable 1 and Figures 1 and 2 (pp. 29, 30, 33 and 34 of Message refer\nexplicitly to \"Government Revenues, from Californians.\"\nIn certain contexts, a distinction between taxes and revenues is both\nappropriate and informative. As a measure of the annual resource command\nof government, however, revenues is at least as meaningful as any other\nmeasure currently available.\n- 2 -\n#251\nIn emphasizing the distinction between taxes and revenues, it is the\nlegislative analyst, not the governor, who conveys the impression that\nall taxes are pernicious and burdensome (...\"a compulsory payment\n\"\nPage 3). By contrast, this amendment acknowledges and serves the desire\nby Californians to fund a viable state government, partially supported by\ntaxes levied on themselves, partially supported by revenues from other\nsources.\nIt is the legislative analyst, not the governor, who seems unclear\nas to the issue: shall government continue its historical erosion of\nindividual free choice.\nThe ratio of revenues to personal income is but one of several ways\nto measure the significance of government. The legislative analyst\nprefers to use \"Net (National) Product,\" and that, surely is his privilege\nHowever, there is no possible justification for claiming that his measure\nis better or more meaningful to California voters in assessing the\nimportant balance between private and public spending.\nMoreover, his argument here is spurious. First, by his own\nadmission (Page 7), \"separate estimates of net state product are not\ncalculated for California.\" Even if one were to accept as a better\nmeasure the ratio of revenues to net state product, one could not compute\nit from available data.\nUnable to proceed with this computation, the legislative analyst\nproceeds to offer as a measure the ratio of revenues to gross state\nproduct based on estimates prepared by the UCLA Business Forecasting\nProject. By his own admission, the legislative analyst considers this\nan inferior measure.\nBy contrast, the state personal income estimates utilized both in\nthe governor's Message and in the computation of the state tax revenue\nlimit are available in publications of the U.S. Department of Commerce.\nSecondly, whatever the measure employed, the lesson is the same:\nthe growth of government, both absolutely and relative to the economy,\nhas been rapid. In the absence of direct action by the citizenry,\ncontinuation of this growth promises to make government the dominant\npervasive factor in the life of every man, woman and child.\nAs to the issue of tax shifting, the legislative analyst correctly\npoints out that some portion of taxes levied on California businesses is\nexported to residents of other states and nations, through higher prices\nand reduced earnings on investments, However, for reasons inexplicable\nto the task force, he fails to recognize that taxes paid by non-California\nbusinesses are exported in identical fashion to Californians and thereby\nbecome part of the burden borne by Californians.\n- 3 -\n#251\nPost:\n4. The governor's state tax burden estimate is 41 percent higher than\nthe revenue figure in his own budget (Page 3).\nTask Force Comment:\nPoint 4: Everything included in the estimate of total state revenues is\nincluded within the budget. The legislative analyst errs in referring\nonly to the budget summary and its associated revenue table, schedule 2.\nSchedules 4, 5 and 6 contain the remainder of state revenues, including\nfederal payments to the state.\nPost:\n5. The governor's tax burden estimate has been grossly inflated by\nincluding corporate taxes in tax collections, while excluding\nundistributed corporate profits from the income base (Page 5).\nTask Force Comment:\nPoint 5: As noted above, the ratio of revenues to California personal\nincome is only one possible measure. Even so, any adjustment for retained\ncorporate earnings attributable to Californians would be largely\nde minimus. Computations using the legislative analyst's own reported\nU.S. data (pp. 6-7) - California data being unavailable - suggest for\n1969-70 that revenues to personal income plus undistributed corporate\nincome would approximate 42.2 percent. By comparison, then, the measure\nof 44.7 percent reported by the governor hardly can be characterized as\n\"grossly inflated\" (p. iii). The legislative analyst's argument here is\ntherefore largely spurious.\nPost:\n6. The Tax Foundation's estimate of total tax burden is 32.6 percent\n(Pages 1,8).\nTask Force Comment:\nPoint 6: The legislative analyst expresses bafflement (page 2) as to\nthe difference between (1) revenues collected from Californians as a\npercentage of state personal income and utilized by the governor in his\nMessage and (2) U.S. taxes as a percentage of U.S. Net National Product\nand utilized by the Tax Foundation. His bafflement is puzzling in the\nextreme to the task force. First, the distinction between \"revenues\" and\n\"taxes\" seems clear enough even without the legislative analyst's detailed\nreconciliation, as does the distinction between California State personal\nincome and U.S. Net National Product. Secondly, Californians enjoy higher\nincomes than are enjoyed by residents in many other states. As a direct\nresult, the average California family surrenders to the federal government\na larger portion of its income than does the average U.S. family. As such\nthe Tax Foundation's reported computation clearly understates the tax\nburden borne by Californians.\n- 4 -\n#251\nIn any case, as noted above, whatever the measure employed,\ngovernment has grown faster than the economy from which it draws its\nsupport---and the burden imposed on the citizen has grown commensurately,\nWith this, not even the legislative analyst can disagree.\nPost:\n7. The governor's forecast that state revenues will total $47.1 billion\nby 1989-90 assumes that tax rates will be repeatedly increased in the\nfuture (Pages 8-16)\n8. During the 1960s, state expenditures increased faster than revenues\ndue to rapid increases in higher education enrollments, expansion of\nmedical assistance, and growing welfare costs. At the present time, these\nstate expenditure programs are growing at more moderate rates (Page 12)\n9. Our workload projections of state costs for the next four years\nindicate that these expenditures can be financed without increasing\nstate tax rates (Page 12)\n10. The governor's report does not explain why he assumes repeated tax\nrate increases will be enacted in the future (Page 14).\nTask Force Comment:\nPoints 7, 8, 9, 10; The legislative analyst both acknowledges and\ndocuments the increasing state tax burden borne by Californians, both via\nhigher rates and via larger tax bases, particularly since the outset of\nthe 1960s. The governor's Message merely projects this historical pattern\nto 1989-90. By the legislative analyst's own calculations (Page 13),\nthe governor's projected growth is somewhat more modest than that\nexperienced during the period 1961-74. In what sense, then, is it \"highly\nspeculative\" (Page 9) to assume that tax rates will be increased in future\nyears given historical record referred to by the governor and detailed by\nthe legislative analyst?\nWere it not for a nagging suspicion that a similar analysis performed\nin 1959 would have failed to foresee the tax rate increases of the 1960s,\nthe legislative analyst's \"workload projections\" would be comforting.\nHowever, in the present context, such projections and speculations\nare neither here nor there. The proposed amendment is designed to assure\nCalifornians that the historical growth of California state and local\ngovernment will be slowed.\n- 5 -\n#251\nPost:\n11. The governor's February 8, 1973, press release indicated that\npersonal income taxes would be reduced ten percent on a permanent basis.\nThe initiative proposes a 7.5 percent credit and allows the legislature\nto modify (or eliminate) this credit (Page 17).\n12. The initiative proposes a one-time 20 percent income tax credit,\nbut it also contains language which allows a lesser amount if the General\nFund surplus is insufficient to fund the full credit. (Page 18).\nTask Force Comment:\nPoints 11 and 12: The reduction from 10 percent to 7.5 percent was to\ninsure that, even if personal income tax revenues are not quite as high\nas expected, a significant income tax cut can be implemented. This\nprovision, as well as the provision for a credit of up to 20 percent,\nis indicative of the built-in flexibility and augmentation of the\nlegislative responsibility for tax control to be found throughout the\nproposed amendment.\nPost:\n13. The governor's press release referred to the 1973-74 tax limit base\nas $9.8 billion, or 8.75 percent of personal income. These figures are\nobsolete. The governor's office now estimates that the tax base is\n$9.3 billion, or 8.34 percent of personal income (Page 18).\nTask Force Comment:\nPoint 13: The governor's message did not identify the figure $9.8 billion\nas limited state tax revenues for 1973-74. Footnote (2) for Figure 3\nand Table 3 on page 47 of the governor's Message to the legislature\nindicates clearly that the $9.8 billion figure would be decreased by the\namount of excluded user fees which, at that time, had not been fully\ndefined. The task force currently estimates limited state tax revenues\nin 1973-74 as approximately $9.3 billion. This estimate is not, and\ncannot be, final until passage of the budget.\n- 6 -\nPost: (Point 14)\n#251\n14. There are major inconsistencies between (a) the items used by the\ngovernor to estimate tax burden on Californians, (b) the items included\nas revenue subject to the proposed expenditure limitation, and (c) the\nitems included as revenue in the governor's budget. These inconsistencie\nhave not been explained. (Pages 20 22)\nTask Force Comments:\n14. There is no inconsistency.\nIn computing the ratio of combined government revenues Federal,\nState and local to personal income, intergovernmental transfers must\nbe attributed only once either to the level of government funding the\ntransfers or to the recipient government, but not both.\nThe Amendment defines and distinguishes State Tax Revenuesand\nExcluded State Revenues. Among the components of Excluded State Revenues\nare intergovernmental transfers. Together, State Tax Revenues and\nExcluded State Revenues equal the revenues available to state government.\nPost: (Points 15, 16)\n15. The governor's constitutional initiative, which adds Article 29,\ndoes not limit state revenues. It does limit state expenditures, based\non a declining percentage of personal incomes of Californians. To exceed\nthe expenditure limitation, Article 29 requires the assent of the\ngovernor and a two-thirds vote of each house of the legislature. Without\nthe assent of the governor, this initiative prohibits the legislature,\non its own motion, from exceeding the expenditure limitation, even if it\nacts by a two-thirds vote of each house. (Pages 23, 36, and 37).\n16. This initiative recommends, but does not require, the legislature\nand the governor to refund to the taxpayers those revenues which exceed\nthe expenditure limitation. (Page 35).\nTask Force Comments:\n15., 16.\nThe proposed Amendment is a limit on State Tax Revenues.\nSection 2(a) (3) effectively requires the legislature either to\nrefund accumulations in the Tax Surplus Fund or to adjust tax rates\nand/or tax bases so that net taxes borne by California taxpayers remain\nwithin the Tax Revenue Limit.\nSection 3 dealing with appropriations is designed to facilitate\nand guarantee to Californians that the limit will be observed.\nTo allege that, because of Section 3, the amendment is an expendi-\nture limit is a perversion of fact and intent.\n-7-\n#251\nPost: (Point 17)\n17. Under emergency conditions, the governor and the legislature can\nincrease taxes to fund expenditures in excess of the limitation, but\nsuch tax increases will expire two years after their enactment, unless\nin the interim they are approved by a majority vote of the electorate.\n(Page 37)\nTask Force Comments:\n17.\nThis provision of the proposed Amendments provides the flexibility\nto state government to meet an emergency but not to permanently increase\nthe tax burden under the guise of an emergency situation.\nPost: (Points 18, 19)\n18. As a result of the restrictive language in Section 9 (a) of\nArticle 29, there will be an incentive for the state to reduce the senior\ncitizens' property tax assistance, and the renters' tax credits. No\nparallel incentive will exist for the state to reduce the homeowners'\nexempion or the business inventory exemption, for, if the legislature\nreduces them, the expenditure limitation will be commensurately decreased.\n(Pages 41, 42)\n19. Due to the restrictive language in Section 10 (a) of this initiative,\nthe state will have no incentive for increasing senior citizens' property\ntax assistance, renters' tax credits, the business inventory and the\nhomeowners' exemptions, because these property tax relief programs are\nwithin the expenditure limitation, and any increases would have to be\nfunded by reducing other state programs. (Pages 42, 43)\nTask Force Comments:\n18, 19. The legislative analyst is in error.\nThere will be no more incentive to the legislature to reduce senior\ncitizens' property tax assistance and renters' tax credits than to\nreduce education or any other program. Indeed, to the extent these are\ntreated as tax reduction, the incentive to decrease such assistance is\nsignificantly less than for other state programs. As the legislative\nanalyst acknowledges, any pressure on the legislature to reduce property\ntax relief achieved by subventing funds to local entities or school\ndistricts, is eliminated by the proposed Amendment's provisions for\ndecreasing the State Tax Revenue Limit dollar for dollar.\nFurthermore, the legislative analyst seems to labor under the\nmisunderstanding that increased funding for one program requires\ndecreased funding for other programs. This is not true. As California's\neconomy continues to grow, there will be more funds available to state\ngovernment each year than during the prior year. Also, as the legislative\nanalyst points out, some of the high cost programs seem to be growing\nmore slowly.\n-8-\nPost:\n#251\n20.\nArticle 29 does not authorize an increase in the expenditure\nlimitation if the federal government shifts costs to the state. (Page 44)\nTask Force Comments:\n20. It would be unsound policy to leave the State Tax Revenue Limit\nto the whim and caprice of the federal government by allowing the federal\ngovernment automatically to shift program costs to the state.\nClearly, the state must retain the independent authority to determine\nwhether such a transfer of program costs is justified and if so where\nthat program would fit among the state's list of priorities. In any\ncase, the people, through referendum, may adjust the limit.\nPost:\n21. Under article 29, the legislature has the option of reducing the\ngasoline tax rather than cutting general fund expenditures in order to\nstay within the expenditure limitation. (Page 46)\nTask Force Comments:\n21. The legislature retains full authority and flexibility to decide\nthe most appropriate mix of taxes. This provision applies to all taxes,\nnot just to the gasoline tax; it does not change present conditions.\nPost:\n22. Article 29 will provide an incentive for the legislature to\nappropriate the least possible amount annually for capital outlay,\nbecause the appropriation counts towards the limitation for that year,\neven though the funds will be spent over several years. This in turn\nmay lead to substantive inefficiencies in the planning, budgeting,\nand contracting process for construction needs. (Page 47)\nTask Force Comments:\n22. Inaccurate.\nIt is true that an appropriation for capital outlay counts toward\nthe limits for that year. It is inaccurate, however, to conclude that\nthis will impose disincentives for capital outlays or produce ineffi-\nciencies in planning, if anything, this requirement should produce more\nprecise and accurate capital outlay appropriations and procedures.\nPost:\n23. Article 29 probably makes it possible for the legislature, and does\nmake it possible for local governing bodies, to increase, without a vote\nof the electorate, the maximum local property tax rates. Local govern-\nment's authority in this regard is a substantial loosening of the\nmaximum property tax rate limits established by Chapter 1406 of 1972\n(SB 90). (Pages 49, 50)\n-9-\n#251\nTask Force Comments\n23. There is no basis for the statement that the controls on the\nmaximum property tax rates in SB 90 are \"loosened\" by this Amendment.\nIn fact, this being a Constitutional Amendment, these property tax\ncontrols are not subject to future legislative change, as are the\nprovisions of SB 90.\nPost:\n24.\nIf the state authorizes local government to impose income taxes,\nArticle 29 requires a two-thirds vote of the legislature rather than a\nmajority vote, but if the state authorizes local government to increase\nlocal sales taxes, or other excise taxes, only a majority vote of the\nlegislature is required. (Page 51)\nTask Force Comments:\n24. The Amendment provides a new level of protection against imposition\nof an income tax at the local level. Other kinds of non-property local\ntaxes are unaffected by the Amendment.\nPost:\n25.\nThe governor's initiative makes several substantial policy changes\nin existing law (Chapter 1406 of 1972 - SB 90) regarding the reimburse-\nment of local governments for state mandated programs.\n(a) If a state mandate applies to private persons, groups, or\norganizations as well as to local government, Article 29 does not\nrequire the state to reimburse local government for the mandate.\n(b) The state is not required to reimburse local governments for\nall additional mandated costs under Article 29 because it\nexcludes from the state's obligation additional costs caused by\nincreases in workload.\n(c) Article 29 does not require the state to reimburse local\ngovernment for the cost of statutes defining a new crime or\nchanging the definition of an existing crime. (Page 56)\nTask Force Comments:\n25.\n(a) Where the state legislature enacts a provision applicable to\npeople and organizations generally, including local governments, such as\nemployee safety rules, etc., it need not reimburse local government for\nthe attendant costs any more than it would reimburse a private employer,\n(b) Normal workload increases at the local level are properly the\nresponsibility of the local government and usually are accompanied by\nincrease in the tax base from which payment for such additional workload\ncan be derived.\n(c) The state must have the complete flexibility to rearrange the\nstructure of the criminal statutes without regard to cost differentials\nthat may accure. Crime prevention and control is an overriding state\nconcern\n-10-\n#251\nPost:\n26. The requirement in Article 29 that the state reimburse local\ngovernments for additional state mandated costs contains major flaws.\n(Pages 55, 56)\nTask Force Comments:\nPoint 26.\nInaccurate. The provisions of Article 29 clearly protect local\ngovernment from costs created by state action. Historically, programs\nhave been legislated on local governments or otherwise, the costs of\nwhich have not been ascertained or even thoroughly considered. That\nthis provision will require precision and self-discipline on the part\nof the state is not a detriment but a benefit of the program.\nFurthermore, the state legislature is given the necessary authority\nand responsibility to enact statutes implementing the state-mandated\nprogram provisions.\nPost:\n27. Article 29 creates a strong possibility that government costs will\nbe shifted from the state to the local taxpayer and in particular to\nthe local property and sales taxpayer.\nTask Force Comments:\nPoint 27.\nInaccurate. This is an unsupported, outlandish assumption.\nThe \"shield\" for local government provided by Section 8 precludes the\nstate passing program costs on to the local governments, also, limita-\ntions are placed on the local property tax rates and on imposition of\na local income tax. Every precaution has been taken to prevent net\ntax increases to the taxpayer, recognizing that it would little benefit\nthe taxpayer if a reduction on the one hand resulted in a greater\nincrease on the other.\nPost:\n28. If this limitation plan had been adopted in 1966, state expenditures\nin 1973-74 would be $2,351 million, or 25.5 percent, below the governor's\n1973-74 budget. (Page 64)\n29. This reduction can be assumed to have eliminated the following\nexisting state programs:\n(a) The homeowners' property tax exemption.\n(b) The senior citizens' property tax assistance.\n(c) The business inventory exemption.\n(d) The renter tax credit.\n(e) The sharing of cigarette tax revenues with cities and counties.\n(Pages 66, 67)\n-11-\n#251\nPost:\n30. In addition to these eliminations, the following reductions would\nhave been made in other state programs:\n(a) State support for local schools would have been reduced by\n$740 million, or 30.4 percent.\n(b) Higher education support would have been reduced by $134 million\nor 15.7 percent,\n(c) Social welfare support would have been reduced by $125 million,\nor 14.6 percent.\n(d) The Department of Health's budget would have been reduced by\n$147 million, or 15.3 percent.\n(e) And, $123 million would have been cut from other state budgets.\n(Pages 71-73)\nTask Force Comments:\nPoints 28, 29, 30.\nAlthough the proposed Amendment says that the percentage of personal\nincome represented by state tax revenues need not fall below 7 percent,\nthe legislative analyst starts his calculations at 6.22 percent and\nreduces this to 5.66 percent in 1973-74. Further, he ignores the\nAmendment provisions related to property tax relief exclusions from\nthe limit and what the effect of these would have been on the legisla-\nture's actions in 1966 and 1972, or more realistic estimates based upon\nthe actual wording of the Constitutional Amendment would be that if\nthe program had begun in 1967-68, the budget for 1973-74 would be\napproximately $900 million less than it is without limitation, and the\nlegislature would have had to pare its increased spending by approxi-\nmately 9 percent during the six-year period.\nThe legislative analyst is assuming that the stated programs would\nhave been structured, with the Amendment in effect, exactly as they\nwere without the amendment. The assumption is naive and reflects\ninadequate analysis of the actual provisions of the Amendment.\nThe tax plan does not refer to any program. Increased or decreased\nappropriations for particular programs remains solely within the power\nof the legislature. We can only infer from the programs singled out\nby the legislative analyst that these are the ones he might be inclined\nto recommend that the legislature cut.\n-12-\n#251\nPost:\n31. If the governor's expenditure limitation plan is adopted, then\nstate workload expenditures will have to be reduced by either $79 million\nor $420 million in 1974-75, depending upon whether the governor's\nprogram (SB 238) to return the current surplus is enacted. By 1977-78,\nthe required reductions in expenditures will be either $672 million\nor $1,099 million. (Pages 82, 83)\nTask Force Comments:\nPoint 31.\nThe legislative analyst's projections of future growth seem to be\nat odds with his earlier statements about the reduced growth rate of\nhigher education, medical assistance, and welfare. Also, his projec-\ntions of lower education cost growth seem to be at odds with the actual\ndownturn of enrollment experienced in the past two years.\nPost:\n32.\nIt would appear to be imprudent for the legislature to enact\nthe governor's program (SB 238) to return the current surplus to the\ntaxpayers, or any other measure (such as changes in revenue accruals)\nwhich significantly reduces the initiative's 1973-74 limitation base,\nbecause such actions will magnify expenditure reductions in the future\nto the point of impracticality. (Page 83)\nTask Force Comments:\nPoint 32.\nLegislative amendments to SB 238 are being prepared which will\nhave the effect of not lowering State Tax Revenues by deferral of the\nsales tax increase.\nPost:\n33. State expenditures will be reduced to the 7.0 percent of personal\nincome level much faster than the governor predicted. The governor's\nreport indicated that it would take about 15 years to reach the\nindicate\ninitiative's goal. Our estimates /that this \"goal\" will be reached in\neither the 8th or 11th year, which means that expenditures will decline\nfaster than the governor anticipated. (Page 83)\nTask Force Comments:\nPoint 33.\nState tax revenues as a percentage of personal income will be\nreduced at the same rate--1/10 of 1 percent every year--no matter at\nwhat level the program begins. If revenues for 1973-74 are less than\n8.5 percent, the 7 percent figure will be reached before the fifteenth\nyear, at which time the legislature may terminate further reductions in\nthe State Tax Revenue Limit Income Quotient.\n-13-\n#251\nPost:\n34. Budget Act expenditure categories will bear the brunt of reductions\nunder the governor's limitation. In 1977-78, workload expenditures in\nthis category will be reduced by either 12.2 or 19.9 percent, depending\nupon whether SB 238 is adopted by the current legislature. (Page 87)\nTask Force Comments:\nPoint 34.\nThe legislative analyst seems to imply that the legislature cannot\nor will not change the laws that it has passed. Again, the legislature\nhas total flexibility in the establishment of priorities for the\nexpenditure of funds and can be counted upon to act responsibly in\nthe face of a limited budget.\n# # #\n-14-\nCEW\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-3-73\n#252\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nDonald A. Brown of Truckee and the reappointment of Phillip L.\nPersoneni, Sr., as members of the board of directors of the 17th\nDistrict Agriculture Association, sponsor of the Nevada County District\nFair.\nBrown, 30-year-old Republican, replaces Lester E. Hadley of Truckee,\nHadley's term has expired. A native of Reno, who has lived in Truckee\nsince 1944, Brown is a member of the Truckee-Donner Chamber of Commerce\nand the Truckee Downtown Merchants Association.\nPersoneni, 69, has been a member of the board since 1969. A\nRepublican, Personeni is a farmer. He is a former director of the\nSierra Nevada Memorial Hospital and a state delegate from the Nevada\nCounty Farm Bureau.\nBoth appointments are for four-year terms.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses.\n#####\nAddresses:\nPhillip L. Personeni, Sr.\nDonald A. Brown\nRt. 1, Box 13841\nP.O. Box 114\nNevada City, California 95959\nTruckee, California 95734\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEASE: II\ndiate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-3-73\n#253\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today asked key administration officials\nto begin discussions with legislative leaders regarding the evacuation\nof the west wing of the State Capitol Building.\nHe designated James Stearns, Secretary of the Agriculture and\nServices Agency, to head a team composed of top representatives of the\nDepartment of Finance, Department of General Services and the Governor's\nOffice to meet with leaders in the legislature to jointly work out\nmutually satisfactory procedures for evacuating the century old structure\nwithout unduly disrupting the legislative process.\nThere is overwhelming agreement in the legislature and the\nadministration that the building must be evacuated because it is no\nlonger earthquake-safe.\n######\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-3-73\n#254\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nWatsonville attorney Richard W. Kessell as a Judge of Santa Cruz\nCounty Municipal Court. The post was created by the 1972 legislature.\nJudge Kessell, a 42-year old Republican, has been in private\nlaw practice since 1960 with the law firm of Wyckoff, Parker, Boyle\n& Pope. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley,\nSchool of Law.\nHe is married to the former Doris E. Wilson and they are the\nparents of three daughters.\nHe will receive an annual salary of $33,481.\n# # #\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO\nE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-3-73\nGovernor and Mrs. Ronald Reagan will host 39 former prisoners of\nthe Vietnam War at a private dinner on Friday, May 4, at 10475 Bellagio,\nLos Angeles.\nThe Bill Wilson residence will be used instead of the Reagan\nresidence because of the large number of guests (total 85).\nThe former prisoners, their wives, dates or guests, are expected\nto arrive at 6:00 p.m.\nBecause the dinner is private, no press will be permitted inside\nthe residence. However, because of the general interest in the former\nprisoners' activities, reporters, photographers, and cameramen may\nwitness and record their arrival.\nRudy Garcia, assistant press secretary to Governor Reagan, and\nNancy Reynolds, special assistant to the governor, will be available to\nanswer press queries.\nThumbnail sketches of the former prisoners attending the dinner\nwill be available.\n######\nGarcia\nPOW RETURNEES ATTENDING\nGOVERNOR AND MRS. REAGAN'S RECEPTION\n4 May 1973\nWIFE OR\nNAME AND GRADE\nBRANCH OF SERVICE\nGUEST'S NAME\nBEDINGER, Henry J. - Lieutenant\nNavy\nWife (Laura)\nBLACK, Cole - Commander\nNavy\nAlone\nBRAYTON, Allen - Lieutenant *\nAir Force\nGuest\nBRILL, Arthur - Major *\nMarine Corps\nWife (Barbara)\nBUTLER, Phillip N. - Lieutenant Commander\nNavy\nAlone\nCAMEROTA, Peter P. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Joy)\nCHAMBERS, Carl D. (Dennis) - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Joanne)\nCHAUNCEY, Arvin R. - Commander\nNavy\nAlone\nCLOWER, Claude D. - Commander\nNavy\nWife (Maurene)\nCONSUN, James C. - Major\nAir Force\nWife (Mary)\nCUSIMANO, Samuel B. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Peggy)\nDiBERNARDO James V. - Captain\nMarine Corps\nWife (Sharon)\nENSCH, John C. - Lieutenant\nNavy\nWife (Kathryn)\nFULTON, Richard J. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (George)\nGELONECK, Terry M. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Jane)\nGIROUX, Peter J. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Mareyn)\nHANSON, Gregg 0. - 1st Lieutenant\nAir Force\nMother and\nFather\n(Mr. and Mrs. Omar\nHanson)\nHENDERSON, Alexander\nCivilian\nWife (Margret)\nHILDEBRAND, Leland - Major\nAir Force\nWife (Evelyn)\nKULA, James D. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Jane)\nLe ,ANC, Louis E., Jr. - MSGT\nAir Force\nWife (Brenda)\nRECEPTION 4 May 1973 - -(cont'd)\nLEWIS, Earl G., Jr. - LCDR\nNavy\nWife (Suzane)\nLOGAN, Donald K. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Nancy)\nMARTINI, Michael R. - 1st Lieutenant\nAir Force\nWife (Mary)\nMAURER, David - Lieutenant *\nAir Force\nGuest\nMEYER, Lewis E. Jr.\nCivilian\nWife (Gayle)\nMOBLEY, Joseph S. - Lieutenant\nNavy\nMother and\nFather\nMOLINARE, Albert - Lieutenant\nNavy\nWife (Karen)\nOLSEN, Robert F.\nCivilian\nGuest (Linda\nMcCoy)\nRUSSELL, Kay - Commander\nNavy\nWife (Kathleen)\nSEEK, Brian J. - 1st Lieutenant\nAir Force\nWife (Gail)\nSHANKEL, William L. - Lieutenant Commander\nNavy\nWife (Mary Ann)\nSHATTUCK, Lewis - Lieutenant Colonel\nAir Force\nAlone\nSM Fred * - Lieutenant Commander\nNavy\nWife (Betty)\nSTAFFORD, Hugh A. - Commander\nNavy\nGuest\nSTARK, William R. - Commander\nNavy\nWife (Shirley)\nSTIER, Theodore G. - Lieutenant\nNavy\nWife (Yolando)\nSTIRM, Robert L. - Lieutenant Colonel\nAir Force\nWife (Loretta)\nTRIEBEL, Theodore - Lieutenant Commander\nNavy\nWife (Carol)\nWARD, Brian H. - 1st Lieutenant\nAir Force\nGuest\nWOODS, Brian D. - Commander\nNavy\nWife (Paula)\nYOUNG, Myron A. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Sidney)\n*POW HOSPITAL COORDINATORS - NOT RETURNEES\n4\nLIEUTENANT HENRY J. BEDINGER, UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE\n(File No. 724275) (Radar Intercept Officer)\nHenry James Bedinger was shot down on November 22, 1969, while on\na reconnaissance mission in an F-4 (Phantom II) of Fighter Squadron\nONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE, operating from the USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64).\nLieutenant Bedinger was born on March 30, 1945, in Philadelphia,\nPennsylvania. He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York,\nin 1967 with a bachelor's degree. He was in the Aviation Reserve Officer\nCandidate Training program there and was commissioned Ensign in 1967.\nFighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE was his first duty assignment.\nHis home of record is Hatboro, Pennsylvania. His wife Laura\ncurrently lives in San Diego, California. His father, Henry Bedinger,\nlives in Abington, Pennsylvania, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bedinger,\nlives in Hatboro, Pennsylvania.\nCOMMANDER COLE BLACK, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 594387) (Pilot)\nCole Black was shot down June 21, 1966, while on a combat mission\nover North Vietnam. Assigned to Fighter Squadron TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN,\noperating from the USS HANCOCK (CVA-19), he was flying an F-8 (Crusader).\nHe was born November 28, 1932, in Lake City, Minnesota. He enlisted\nin the Navy in 1950, and through the Integration Program (enlisted to\ncommission) was commissioned Ensign in 1955. Prior to duty with Fighter\nSquadron TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN, he served with Fighter Squadron SIXTY-TWO\nin Jacksonville, Florida.\nCommander Black's wife, Billy Jo, lives in San Diego, California\nwith their sons Ricky and Billy. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cal Black,\nlive in Lake City, Minnesota, his home of record.\nnot bringing wife\n10\nLIEUTENANT COMMANDER PHILLIP N. BUTLER, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 647398) (Pilot)\nPhillip Neal Butler was shot down on April 20, 1965, while on an\narmed reconnaissance flight over North Vietnam. He was flying an\nA-4 (Skyhawk) of Attack Squadron TWENTY-TWO operating from the USS\nMIDWAY (CVA-41).\nLieutenant Commander Butler was born August 11, 1938, in Tulsa,\nOklahoma. He attended the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma,\ngraduated from the Naval Academy, and was commissioned Ensign in 1961.\nAttack Squadron TWENTY-TWO was his first duty assignment.\nLieutenant Commander Butler's wife Karen and daughter Diane live\nin Del Mar, California. His mother, Mrs. Effie M. Butler, lives in Tulsa,\nOklahoma, which is Lieutenant Commander Butler's home of record.\nbringing wife\nPAO 3-1-55\nCAPT CAMEROTA\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- Captain Peter P. Camerota, 28, was a\nprisoner of the North Vietnamese for over two months.\nCaptain Camerota will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif., and will\nbe admitted on \"in-patient\" status at the USAF Medical Facility where\nhe will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary, and\nreorientation.\nThe captain was listed as missing in action on Dec. 22, 1972, when\nhis B-52 aircraft was struck by a surface-to-air missile while engaged\nin a night combat mission over North Vietnam. He was the electronic\nwarfare officer on the aircraft. He was changed to captured status on\nJan. 27, 1973, when his name appeared on the list provided the U.S.\nby Hanoi. He was on temporary duty at U-Tapao Afld, Thailand when\nshot down.\nBorn in Philadelphia, Penn., June 21, 1944, Captain Camerota\ngraduated from Drexel Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree in\n1967. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force in\nSeptember 1967, after attending officers training school. He completed\nnumerous training assignments prior to his assignment to March AFB\nin December 1969.\nCaptain Camerota's wife, Joy P., has been notified of his scheduled\nreturn. She resides in Sunnymead, Calif.\n-30-\nnew\nCaptain Carl D. Chambers\nWife: Joanne D. - Resides in: Yuba City, CA\nCaptain Chambers was born 7 March 1941 in Santa Monica, CA. He\nattended San Jose State College receiving an MBA degree in 1965. He\nentered the Air Force in June 1965, immediately underwent pilot training\nand served in several Air Force assignments until his assignment to SEA\non 7 March 1967. He was assigned to the 559 Tac Ftr Sq, Cam Ranh Bay\nAB, Vietnam, when his F-4C was struck by hostile fire on 7 August 1967,\nwhile flying a mission over North Vietnam. He was subsequently captured\nand interned by the North Vietnamese.\nCOMMANDER ARVIN R. CHAUNCEY, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 614788) (Pilot)\nArvin Roy Chauncey was shot down on May 31, 1967, while on a\ncombat mission over North Vietnam. Assigned to Attack Squadron\nTWO HUNDRED TWELVE, operating from the USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA-31),\nhe was flying an A-4 (Skyhawk).\nCommander Chauncey was born on November 10, 1935, in Shreveport,\nLouisiana, and enlisted in the Navy in 1955. He entered the Naval Avia-\ntion Cadet program and was commissioned Ensign in 1956. Among his duty\nassignments were the Anti-air Warfare Training Center, San Diego,\nCalifornia and Squadrons in Florida and California.\nCommander Chauncey's wife, Bonnie, and sons, Michael and Thomas,\nlive in La Jolla, California. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Chauncey,\nlive in San Fernando, California. Commander Chauncey's home of record\nis Glendale, California.\nnot bringing wife\nCOMMANDER CLAUDE D. CLOWER, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 605476) (Pilot)\nClaude Douglas Clower was shot down November 19, 1967, while\non a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an F-4\n(Phantom II) of Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE, operating from\nthe USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43).\nCommander Clower was born November 30, 1930, in Belsoni,\nMississippi. Following his graduation in 1955 from Lamar State College\nof Technology, Beaumont, Texas, with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical\nEngineering and Industrial Engineering, he enlisted in the Army. He\nthen entered the Naval Aviation Officer Candidate program and was com-\nmissioned Ensign in 1956. He received a master's degree in Meteorology\nfrom the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in 1964. Among\nhis duty assignments were the USS TICONDEROGA (CVA-14) and Fighter Squad-\nron EIGHTY-FOUR at Oceana, Virginia.\nHis wife, Maurine, and daughter, Virginia, live in San Diego,\nCalifornia. His mother, Mrs. Virginia Robbins, lives in Tupelo,\nMississippi. Commander Clower's home of record is Beaumont, Texas.\nPAO 2-22-23\nMAJ CONDON\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- Major James C. Condon, 38, was a\nprisoner of the North Vietnamese for over two months.\nMajor Condon will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif., and will\nbe admitted on 'in-patient' status at the USAF Medical Facility where\nhe will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary, and\nreorientation.\nThe major was listed as missing in action on December 28, 1972.\nOn December 27, while on temporary duty at Andersen AFB, Guam,\nMajor Condon, a B-52 Navigator, departed the base on a night combat\nmission over North Vietnam and was shot down over the target by\nenemy fire. Later that day Radio Hanoi announced the major's capture.\nBorn in Dayton, Ohio, April 8, 1934, he graduated from Dayton High\nSchool in 1952. He entered the Air Force on October 5, 1954 as an\naviation cadet for navigator training and was commissioned a second\nlieutenant on December 14, 1955. He held a number of assignments at\nvarious Strategic Air Command (SAC) bases from that time until\nassignment to March AFB on April 8, 1971. This included a tour in\nThailand.\nMajor Condon's wife, Mary J., and four children, have been notified\nof his scheduled return. The children, James B., age 13; Krista L., 12;\nMary E., 10; Kelly J., 6, and Mrs. Condon reside in Riverside.\n-30-\nPAO 3-1-56\nCAPT CUSIMANO\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- Captain Samuel B. Cusimano, 26, was\na prisoner of the North Vietnamese for over two months.\nCaptain Cusimano will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif., and\nwill be admitted on \"in-patient\" status at the USAF Medical Facility\nwhere he will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary, and\nreorientation.\nThe captain was listed as missing in action on Dec. 28, 1972, when\nhis B-52D aircraft was struck by enemy fire while on a combat mission\nover North Vietnam. He was the copilot on the aircraft, which had\ntaken off from Andersen AFB, Guam. He was changed to captured\nstatus on Jan. 27, 1973, when his name appeared on a list of captured\npersonnel provided the U.S. by Hanoi.\nBorn in Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 21, 1946, he graduated from the\nUniversity of Alabama with a B.S. degree in 1968. He received his\ncommission as a second lieutenant, ROTC graduate, in May 1968 and\nentered active duty in July of that same year. He served on numerous\nassignments until April 1971 when he was assigned to March AFB.\nCaptain Cusimano's wife, Peggy A., Riverside, has been notified\nof his scheduled return.\n-30-\nCAPTAIN JAMES VINCENT DIL ARDO\nCaptain Dibernardo was captured on Feb 3, 1968 in South Vietnam\nwhile serving with Armed Forces Radio, MACV, Hue City.\nHe was captured when City of Hue, RVN was overrun by enemy\nforces during the Communist Tet Offensive of 1968.\nCaptain Dibernardo entered the U.S. Marine Corps, April 6, 1953.\nHe was born Oct 18, 1934, in Fulton, New York. He is married\nand has two sons and three daughters.\nHometown & State: Mission Viejo, California\nLIEUTENANT JOHN C. ENSCH, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 694331/1320) (Radar Intercept Officer)\nJohn Clyde Ensch was shot down August 25, 1972 on a combat strike\nmission over North Vietnam. He was in an F-4 (Phantom II) of Fighter\nSquadron ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE, operating from the USS MIDWAY (CVA-41).\nLieutenant Ensch was born November 7, 1937 in Springfield, Illinois.\nHe enlisted in the Naval Reserve in June 1964, and was commissioned\nEnsign in May 1965.\nHe previously served in the U.S. Army and Army Reserve.\nLieutenant Ensch's wife Kathryn and their three daughters Elizabeth,\nRebecca, and Christine live in San Diego, California. His mother, Mrs.\nHelen L. Ensch lives in Springfield, Illinois. Lieutenant Ensch's\nhome of record is Springfield.\nPAO 2-23-29\nCAPT FULTON\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- Captain Richard J. Fulton, 26, was a\nprisoner of the North Vietnamese for over eight months.\nCaptain Fulton will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif., and\nwill be admitted on 'in-patient' status at the USAF Medical Facility\nwhere he will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary,\nand reorientation.\nThe captain was listed as missing in action on June 13, 1972.\nWhile on a combat mission over North Vietnam, his flight of F-4Es\nwas attacked by enemy Mig-21 aircraft. He was forced to eject\nwhen his aircraft was hit by an air-to-air missile and caught fire.\nThe mission was launched from Udorn Afld, Thailand. He was\nsubsequently captured and interned by the North Vietnamese.\nBorn in Wadsworth, Ohio, November 17, 1946, he graduated\nfrom Arizona State University in 1969 as an officer trainee and was\ncommissioned second lieutenant on December 22, 1969. His\nnavigator training was completed at Mather AFB, Calif., April 1971\nand specialized training at George AFB, Calif., in May 1971. He\nwas assigned to Udorn on January 15, 1972.\nCaptain Fulton's wife, George A., a daughter, Andrea L., age 2,\nhave been notified of his scheduled return. They have been residing\nin Mesa, Ariz.\n-30-\nCAPTAIN TERRY M. GELONECK, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE\nCaptain Geloneck was identified MIA 20 December 1972, identified Prisoner\nof War 22 December 1972. Captain Geloneck was born 5 April 1944 in Detroit,\nMichigan. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1967 receiving a\nBS degree. Commissioned a 2LT on 27 May 1967 he had several assignments before\nbeing assigned to Williams Air Force Base for pilot training in May of 1969.\nUpon completion he was transferred to Beale Air Force Base, California. On\n22 December 1972 while on temporary duty with the 43rd Strategic Wing, Anderson\nAir Force Base, Guam, Captain Geloneck as aircraft commander of a B52 departed\nAnderson Air Force Base on a night combat mission over North Vietnam. The\naircraft was downed in the target area and although beeper signals were heard, voice\ncontact could not be made with any of the crew members. Captain's Geloneck's\nstatus was changed to captured on 22 December 1972 after Hanoi news releases\nconfirmed his capture. The status of co-pilot 1LT William Y. Arcuri, the\nnavigator 1LT Michael R. Martini and the gunner, Staff Sergeant Roy R. Madden, Jr.\nwas also changed to captured on 22 December 1972 for the same reasons. The\nremainder of the crew are still carried in a missing in action status. CPT\nGeloneck's wife June and son has been notified of his scheduled return.\nPAO 2-14-5\nCAPT GIROUX\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFORMATION)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF., 15 Feb -- Captain Peter J. Giroux, 28,\nRiverside, was repatriated with his family today after nearly\ntwo months as a prisoner of the North Vietnamese.\nCaptain Giroux arrived at March from Travis AFB, Calif.,\nthe initial point of entry for all returning Air Force personnel.\nHe is being admitted on'in-patient' status at the USAF Medical\nFacility here where he will undergo additional medical treat-\nment, if necessary, and reorientation with his family\nThe captain was listed as missing in action on December 22,\n1972 after his B-52 aircraft was hit by surface-to-air missile\nfire while on an operational mission over North Vietnam. He\nwas subsequently captured and interned by the North Vietnamese.\nBorn in Trumansburg, N.Y., the captain entered the Air Force\nin January 1967, and served in a number of assignments prior to\nhis assignment to March AFB in February 1970. He was assigned\non temporary duty to U-Tapao AB, Thailand in August 1972.\nThe captain will remain in a specially prepared area at\nthe March AFB medical facility until released on leave to await\nfurther assignment, or discharge from the service.\nCaptain Giroux's wife, Mareyn A., resides in Riverside and\nshe has been notified of his return home. His mother, Mrs.\nVeronica D. Giroux, resides in Trumansburg, N.Y.; his father is\ndeceased.\n-30-\nPAO 2-23-32\n1ST LT HANSON\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- First Lieutenant Gregg O. Hanson, 25,\nwas a prisoner of the North Vietnamese for over eight months.\nLieutanant Hanson will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif., and\nwill be admitted on 'in-patient' status at the USAF Medical Facility\nwhere he will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary, and\nreorientation.\nThe lieutenant was listed as missing in action on June 13, 1972.\nWhile on a combat mission over North Vietnam, his flight of F-4Es\nwas attacked by enemy Mig-21 aircraft. He was forced to eject when\nhis aircraft was hit by an air-to-air missile and caught fire. The\nmission was launched from Udorn Afld, Thailand. He was subsequently\ncaptured and interned by the North Vietnamese.\nBorn in Chicago, Ill., July 30, 1947, he graduated from Arizona\nState University in 1968. He entered the Air Force on July 17, 1969\nas an officer trainee and was commissioned a second lieutenant on\nJanuary 23, 1970. He completed pilot training at Williams AFB,\nAriz., February 1971 and several advance training courses just prior\nto assignment at Udorn on October 21, 1971.\nLieutenant Hanson is single, however his parents, Mr. and Mrs.\nOmar L. Hanson, Thousand Oaks, Calif., have been notified of his\nscheduled return.\n-30-\nALEXANDER HENDERSON\nCIVILIAN\nAlexander Henderson was captured on January 31, 1968 at Hue,\nSouth Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. He was employed as an\nInstallation Manager by Pacific Architects & Engineers of Los\nAngeles, California at the time of his capture.\nMr. Henderson was born November 8, 1923 in Glasgow, Scotland.\nHe served two tours in the U. S. Army Air Corps--1942-46 and 1947-51.\nHis wife, Margret, lives in Spring Valley, California, They\nhave four children. His parents, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Henderson Sr.,\nlive in McDonald, Ohio.\n#\nPAO 2-23-34\nMAJOR HILDEBRAND\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- Major Leland L. Hildebrand, 34, was a\nprisoner of the North Vietnamese for over 14 months.\nMajor Hildebrand will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif., and\nwill be admitted on 'in-patient' status at the USAF Medical Facility\nwhere he will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary, and\nreorientation.\nThe major was listed as missing in action on December 18, 1971,\nafter pursuing a Mig aircraft into North Vietnam where he had to\neject from his aircraft. His status was changed to captured on\nDecember 21, 1971 after a radiophoto release from Hanoi. His\ntakeoff had been from Udorn AB, Thailand.\nBorn in Butternut, Wisconsin, June 3, 1938, he entered the Air\nForce as an aviation cadet on July 25, 1958. He received his\ncommission on July 6, 1959 and served in numerous assignments\nprior to assignment at Udorn on October 25, 1971. The major\nreceived a B.G.S. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1970.\nMajor Hildebrand's wife, Evelyn, and two sons, Leland L., II,\nage 11 and James A., 9, have been notified of his scheduled return.\nThey reside in Tucson, Ariz.\n-30-\nPAO 2-23-38\nCAPT KULA\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- Captain James D. Kula, 26 on\nJanuary 5, was a prisoner of the North Vietnamese for over seven\nmonths.\nCaptain Kula will arrive here from Travis AFB. Calif., and\nwill be admitted on 'in-patient' status at the USAF Medical Facility\nwhere he will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary,\nand reorientation.\nThe captain was listed as missing in action on August 1, 1972.\nWhile on a combat mission over North Vietnam, his flight of F-4s\nwas attacked by Mig aircraft. He was forced to eject when his\naircraft was hit by an air-to-air missile. The mission was\nlaunched from Da Nang AB, Vietnam. He was subsequently\ncaptured and interned by the North Vietnamese.\nBorn in Manchester, New Hampshire, January 5, 1947, and\ngraduated from the Air Force Academy a second lieutenant on\nJune 4, 1969. He served numerous assignments prior to his April\n29, 1972 assignment to Da Nang.\nCaptain Kula's wife, Jane A., who resides in Anaheim, Calif.,\nhas been notified of his scheduled return.\n-30-\nPAO 2-24-47\nMSGT LEBLANC\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nSenior\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. --Master Sergeant Louis E. LeBlanc Jr.,\n37, was a prisoner of the North Vietnamese for more than two months.\nSergeant LeBlanc will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif., and\nwill be admitted on \"in-patient\" status at the USAF Medical Facility\nwhere he will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary, and\nreorientation.\nThe sergeant was listed as missing in action on Dec. 22, 1972 when\nhostile fire downed the B-52 in which he served as tailgunner. He was\nsubsequently listed as captured when his internment was confirmed on\nDec. 26, 1972. He was on temporary duty at U-Tapao AB, Thailand at\nthe time. His home station was March AFB.\nBorn in Woonsocket, R.I., Oct. 15, 1935, Sergeant LeBlanc\nentered the Air Force on May 10, 1954. He was assigned to March AFB\non Dec. 22, 1969, until his temporary duty in Southeast Asia, beginning\nAug. 30, 1972.\nSergeant LeBlanc's wife, Brenda V., and their four children,\nMary T., 13; Louis E. III, 12; Nannette K., 11; and George E., 9,\nhave been notified of his scheduled return. They reside in Sunnymead,\nCalif.\n-30-\nLIEUTENANT COMMANDER EARL G. LEWIS, JR.,\nUNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE\n(File No. 683095) (Radar Intercept Officer)\nEarl Gardner Lewis, Jr., was shot down on October 24,\n1967, on a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying\nin an F-4 (Phantom II), of Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED\nFIFTY-ONE, operating from the USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43).\nLieutenant Commander Lewis was born on September 13,\n1940, in Stowe, Pennsylvania. He received a bachelor's\ndegree in Mathematics from Southeast Missouri State College,\nCape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1964. He had enlisted in the\nNaval Reserve the preceding vear, entered the Aviation\nOfficer Candidate program, and was commissioned Ensign in\n1964. Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE was his first\nduty assignment.\nLieutenant Commander Lewis' wife Suzane and son Earl,\nIII, live in San Diego, California. His parents, Mr. and\nMrs. Earl G. Lewis, Sr., live in Cape Girardeau, Missouri,\nwhich is Lieutenant Commander Lewis' home of record.\nPAO 2-24-40\nCAPT LOGAN\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- Captain Donald K. Logan, 26, was\na prisoner of the North Vietnamese for more than seven months.\nCaptain Logan will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif., and\nwill be admitted on \"in-patient\" status at the USAF Medical Facility\nwhere he will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary,\nand reorientation.\nThe captain was listed as missing in action on July 5, 1972,\nwhen an enemy air-to-air missile downed the F-4 in which he was\nweapons system officer on a strike escort mission over North\nVietnam. He was assigned to Korat AB, Thailand at the time.\nHis status was changed to captured on Aug. 25, 1972, when the\nNorth Vietnamese released a list of captured U.S. personnel:\nBorn in Glendale, Calif., Dec. 6, 1946 Captain Logan in\n1969 obtained a B. A. degree from San Fernando Valley State\nCollege, Northridge, Calif. He entered navigator training in\nJune 1970 and after receiving his navigator rating in March 1971,\nhe was assigned to George AFB, Calif., until his assignment to\nSoutheast Asia in November of that year. He was promoted to the\ngrade of captain during his internment.\nCaptain Logan's wife, Nancy L., has been notified of his\nscheduled return. She and their daughter, Julie A., 1, reside in\nSepulveda, Calif.\n-30-\n5 Jan 73\n1st Lt Michael R. Martini, 573-64-7878FV, MIA 20 Dec 72, PW 22 Dec 72\nWife as Hary II. and one Bon Ge Reside at Besle AFB. CA\nLt Martini was born 17 Sep 46 at Pittsburgh PA. He graduated from the\nUniversity of California at Los Angeles CA In 1970, receiving a BA dagree\nin mathematics. He was commissioned 8 2d Lt on 22 Jun 70, and was assigned\nto the 3535 Nav Tng Wg. Mather AFB CA on 18 Jul 70. After completing\nnavigation bombing training, he was assigned on 30 Nov 71 to the 744 Bomb\nSq, Beale AFD CA. On 22 Dec 72, while on temporary duty with the 43 Strat\nWg, Andersen AFB, Guan, Lt Martini, as navigator on a n-52, departed Anderson\nAFB on a night combat mission over North Vietnam. The aircraft was downed\nin the target area, and although beeper signals were heard, voice contects\ncould not be made with any of the crew members. LL Martini's status was\nchanged to captured on 22 Dec 72, after Hanoi news releases confirmed his\ncapture.\nThe status of the aircraft commander, Capt Terry M. Gelonock: the copilet,\nlot Lt William Y. Arcuri; and the gunner, SSgt Roy Hadden, Jr., was also\nchanged to captured, based on Hanoi news releases. The status of the\nelectronic warfave officer, Capt Craig A. Paul, and the radar navigator,\nCapt Warren R. Spencer, 10 missing in action.\nLIEUTENANT JOSEPH S. MOBLEY, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 701867) (Eombadier/Navigator)\nJoseph Scott Mobley was shot down while on a combat\nmission over North Vietnam, June 24, 1968. He was flying\nin an A-6 (Intruder) of Attack Squadron THIRTY-FIVE, opera-\nting from the USS ENTERPRISE (CVA-(N)-65).\nLieutenant Mobley was born October 16, 1941, in Indian-\napolis, Indiana. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy\nin 1966. Attack Squadron THIRTY-FIVE was his first duty\nassignment.\nHis wife Cheryl is living in Manhattan Beach, California.\nHis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thodore M. Mobley, live in Redondo\nBeach, California, and Lieutenant Mobley lists Manhattan Beach,\nCalifornia, as his home or record.\nwill accompany\nLIEUTENANT ALBERT R. MOLINARE, UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE\n(File No. 742629) (Pilot)\nAlbert Ric Molinare was shot down April 27, 1972, while\non a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an F-4\n(Phantom II) of Fighter Squadron FIFTY-ONE, operating from the\nUSS CORAL SEA (CVA-43).\nLieutenant Molinare was born September 30, 1945, in Glendale,\nCalifornia. He received a bachelor's degree in Psychology from\nSan Diego, State College, San Diego, California, in 1968. While\nthere, he enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966, entered the\nAviation Reserve Officer Candidate program, and was commissioned\nEnsign in 1968. Fighter Squadron FIFTY-ONE was his first duty\nassignment.\nLieutenant Molinare's wife Karen lives in San Diego,\nCalifornia, his home of record. His father, Vincent A. Molinare,\nlives in Point Loma, California, and his mother, Mrs. Phyllis A.\nEldridge, lives in San Diego, California.\nCOMMANDER KAY RUSSELL, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 563567) (Pilot)\nKay Russell was shot down May 19, 1967, while on a combat mission\nover North Vietnam. He was flying an F-8 (Crusader) of Fighter Squadron\nTWO HUNDRED ELEVEN, operating from the USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA-31).\nCommander Russell was born September 19, 1934 in Stephenville,\nTexas. He received a bachelor's degree in Economics from Rice Institute,\nHouston, Texas, in 1956, and a master's degree in operations research\nfrom the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in 1965. He\nwas commissioned through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps\nprogram at Rice Institute, and had served in Antisubmarine, Utility,\nand Training Squadrons before his assignment to Fighter Squadron TWO\nHUNDRED ELEVEN.\nHis wife Kathleen, son Todd, and daughter Tracy live in Miramar,\nCalifornia. His mother, Mrs. Charles J. Russell, Jives in Corsicana,\nTexas, which is Commander Russell's home of record.\nwill mde with Starks\nPAO 2-24-44\n1ST LT SEEK\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- First Lieutenant Brian J. Seek, 25,\nwas a prisoner of the North Vietnamese for more than seven months.\nLieutenant Seek will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif., and\nwill be admitted on \"in-patient\" status at the USAF Medical Facility\nwhere he will undergo additional medical treatment, if necessary,\nand reorientation.\nThe lieutenant, a weapons systems officer, was listed missing\nin action on July 5, 1972, when an enemy air-to-air missile downed\nhis aircraft during a strike escort mission over North Vietnam. He\nwas assigned to Korat AB, Thailand at the time. His status was\nchanged to captured on Nov. 13, 1972, when his internment was\nconfirmed.\nBorn in Los Angeles, Dec. 5, 1947, Lieutenant Seek received\na degree in Geology from Arizona State University and earned a\ncommission as second lieutenant in the Air Force on February 12,\n1970. His assignment to Southeast Asia was his firstsafter completing\nseveral training courses.\nLieutenant Seek's wife, Gail M., has been notified of his\nscheduled return. She resides in Phoenix, Ariz.\n-30-\nLIEUTENANT COMMANDER WILLIAM L. SHANKEL, UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE\n(File No. 664281) (Pilot)\nWilliam Leonard Shankel was shot down December 23, 1965, while on\na combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an A-4 (Skyhawk)\nof Attack Squadron NINETY-FOUR, operating from the USS ENTERPRISE\n(CVA (N) -65).\nLieutenant Commander Shankel was born June 14, 1939, in Angela\nCamp, California, and attended San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton,\nCalifornia. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve, entered the Naval\nAviation Cadet program, and was commissioned Ensign in 1962. He\nreported to Attack Squadron NINETY-FOUR in 1963.\nLieutenant Commander Shankel is single and lists San Andreas,\nCalifornia, as his home of record. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur\nM. Shankel, live in Jackson, California.\nLT COL\nMajor Lewis W. Shattuck\nParents: Mr. and Mrs. Wesley A. Shattuck Reside in: Mesa, AZ\nMajor Shattuck was born 25 July 1932 in Portland, OR. He attended\nWashington State College, Pullman, Washington during 1952; however,\nin October 1952, he entered the Air Force and was assigned to pilot\ntraining. In October 1954, he was commissioned a second lieutenant\nand underwent further pilot training. A number of assignments followed\nand on 27 February 1966, he was assigned to SEA, to the 354 Tac Ftr Sq,\nTakhli AB, Thailand. On 11 July 1966 while flying a combat mission over\nNorth Vietnam, his F-105 was struck by hostile fire. He was subsequently\ncaptured and interned by the North Vietnamese.\nCOMMANDER HUGH A. STAFFORD, UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE\n(File No. 614922) (Pilot)\nHugh Allen Stafford was shot down August 31, 1967, while\non a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an\nA-4 (Skyhawk) of Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE,\noperating from the USS ORISKANY (CVA-34).\nCommander Stafford was born February 23, 1935, in Aiken,\nSouth Carolina. He attended St. John's College, Annapolis,\nMaryland, and Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, and\nreceived his commission through the Naval Aviation Cadet\nprogram in 1956. He has served in Utility and Attack Squadrons.\nHis wife Roberta lives in Hong Kong and his mother, Mrs.\nFanny A. Daane, lives in Cambridge, Maryland, which is his home\nof record.\nnot sure who will accompany ??\ncar stafford - wife or date\nwant, overnight !!\nCOMMANDER WILLIAM R. STARK, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 619808) (Radar Intercept Officer)\nWilliam Robert Stark was shot down May 19, 1967, while on a\ncombat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying in an F-4\n(Phantom II) of Fighter Squadron NINETY-SIX, operating from the\nUSS ENTERPRISE (CVA(N)-65.\nCommander Stark was born May 28, 1930, in Michigan City, Indiana.\nHe attended Stetson College, De Land, Florida, and received a master's\ndegree from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in\n1964. He enlisted in the Navy in 1948, attended Officer Candidate\nSchool in 1957, and was commissioned Ensign. He served on the staffs\nof the Commander, Carrier Division ONE and Commander, Naval Air Force,\nPacific. He was also assigned to an Attack Squadron based at Whidbey\nIsland, Washington, and to the Naval Academy as an instructor.\nCommander Stark's wife Shirley, daughter Susan, and mother,\nMrs. Gladys L. Stark, live in Coronado, California. His home of\nrecord is St. Petersburg, Florida.\nwill ride with Russells\nLIEUTENANT THEODORE G. STIER, UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE\n(File No. 669500) (Radar Intercept Officer)\nTheodore Gerhard Stier was shot down November 19, 1967, while\non a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying in an F-4\n(Phantom II) of Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE, operating from\nthe USS CORAL SEA (CVA-43).\nLieutenant Stier was born June 5, 1940, in Appleton, Wisconsin,\nand attended Pasadena Community College in California. He enlisted in\nthe Navy in 1963, and received his commission through the Aviation\nOfficer Candidate program in 1964. Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED\nFIFTY-ONE was his first duty assignment.\nHis wife Yolanda, and daughter Stefanie live in San Diego,\nCalifornia. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Stier, live in\nMenasha, Wisconsin, Which lis Lieutenant Stier's home of record.\nLicutenant Colonel Robert L. Stirm\nWife: Loretta F. - 4 children Reside in: Foster City, CA\nColonel Stirm was born 23 March 1933 in San Francisco, CA. He attended\nthe University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, prior to entering aviation cadet\ntraining on 18 September 1953. He was commissioned a second lieutenant on\n3 November 1954. Colonel Stirm completed a tour of duty in The Netherlands\nand served in a number of assignments until he was assigned to the 333rd Tac\nFtr Sq, Takhli AB, Thailand, on 3 November 1967. During a combat mission\nover North Victnam on 27 October 1967, his F-105D aircraft was struck by\nhostile fire. He was subsequently captured and interned by the North\nVietnamese.\nLIEUTENANT COMMANDER THEODORE W. TRIEBEL, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 678686) (Pilot)\nTheodore Wallace Tricbel was shot down August 27, 1972, while on\na reconnaissance escort mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an\nF-4 (Phantom II) of Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE operating\nfrom the USS MIDWAY (CVA-41).\nLieutenant Commander Triebel was born November 12, 1941 at Coco\nSolo, Canal Zone and graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1960.\nHe had duty in a Fighter Squadron based at Miramar, California and\nwith the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing at Holloman Air Force Base, Ala-\nmogordo, New Mexico, before reporting to Fighter Squadron ONE HUNDRED\nFIFTY-ONE.\nLieutenant Commander Triebel's wife Carolyn, sons Tobin and Jacob\nand daughter Gretchen live in San Diego, California. His parents,\nRear Admiral (Ret.) and Mrs. Charles O. Triebel, live in Vienna,\nVirginia, which is Lieutenant Commander Triebel's home of record.\nPAO 2-25-51\n1ST LT WARD\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- First Lieutenant Brian H. Ward, who\nwill be 25 on April 10, was a prisoner of the North Vietnamese for\nmore than two months.\nLieutenant Ward will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif.,\nand will be admitted on \"in-patient\" status at the USAF Medical\nFacility where he will undergo additional medic treatment, if\nnecessary, and reorientation.\nThe lieutenant was listed as missing in action on Dec. 27, 1972,\nwhen he, as weapons systems officer, and his aircraft commander,\ndeparted Udorn Airfield, Thailand, in an F-4E fighter-bomber on an\noperational mission over North Vietnam. All contact was lost. When\nfuel exhaustion time had elapsed, and they had not returned to base,\nthe crew was listed as missing. Search efforts failed to establish\nany contact with either of the downed men. Lieutenant Ward's status\nwas changed to captured on Jan. 3, 1973, when Hanoi news releases\nconfirmed his capture.\nBorn in Bethesda, Maryland, April 10, 1948, Lieutenant Ward\nearned a BA degree from San Diego State College in 1970. Commissioned\na second lieutenant in June of that year, he completed navigational\ntraining at Mather AFB, Calif., and operational training at Homestead\nAFB, Fla. On May 11, 1972, he was assigned to Da Nang AB, Vietnam.\nCOMMANDER BRIAN D. WOODS, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 618063) (Pilot)\nBrian Dunston Woods was shot down September 18, 1968, while on\na combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an A-7 (Corsair)\nof Attack Squadron NINETY-SEVEN, operating from the USS CONSTELLATION\n(CVA-64).\nCommander Woods was born on March 23, 1932 at the Fleet Air Base,\nCoco Solo, Canal Zone. He attended the University of California at\nLos Angeles, and enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1950. He entered the\nNaval Aviation Cadet program, and was commissioned Ensign in 1957. He\nserved at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland; with\nAttack Squadrons based at Miramar, California, and a Training Squadron\nat Meridian Mississippi; and on board the USS MIDWAY (CVA-41) and\nUSS YORKTOWN (CVS-10).\nCommander Woods' wife Paula lives in Lemoore, California with their\nchildren: Christopher, Michael, and Cathleen. His parents, Rear\nAdmiral (Ret) and Mrs. Ralph W. Woods, live in Coronado, California.\nCommander Woods' home of record is San Diego, California.\n1st Pow to return to CONUS !!\nneeds overnight and flight back to\nLemoore\nPAO 2-25-53\nCAPT YOUNG\nPRESS HANDOUT (BACKGROUND INFO)\nMARCH AFB, CALIF. -- Captain Myron A. Young, 27, was\na prisoner of the North Vietnamese for more than four months.\nCaptain Young will arrive here from Travis AFB, Calif.,\nand will be admitted on \"in-patient\" status at the USAF Medical\nFacility where he will undergo additional medical treatment, if\nnecessary, and reorientation.\nThe captain was listed as missing in action on Oct. 12, 1972,\nafter a strike escort mission over North Vietnam. An enemy\nsurface-to-air missile downed his F-4E fighter-bomber. He\nwas subsequently captured and interned by the North Vietnamese.\nHe was serving his second tour at Korat AB, Thailand at the time.\nBorn in Calistoga, Calif., July 11, 1945, Captain Young,\nearned a B.A. degree from Sacramento State College, before\nentering the Air Force in 1967. He was first assigned to Southeast\nAsia on Jan. 31, 1970. In February 1971 he returned to George AFB,\nCalif., for further training in the F-4 and returned to Korat AB\nin November 1971.\nCaptain Young's wife, Sidney J., has been notified of his\nscheduled return. She resides in Middletown, Calif.\n-30-\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ.\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-3-73\n#255\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Sacramento attorneys Rothwell\nB. Mason, Allen P. Fields and Leighton Hatch as judges in the Sacramento\nCounty Municipal Court. They fill the three new judicial posts created\nby the 1972 legislature.\nJudge Mason, 45, is a partner in the law firm of Crow, Lytle,\nSchleh & Mason. After serving in the U.S. Navy as a carrier pilot from\n1945 to 1949, he entered George Washington University in Washington, D.C.\nwhere he earned his A.B. degree.\nHe became an FBI agent from 1951 to 1954, while also attending\nFordham University, where he earned his law degree in 1956. He was\nin private business from 1954 to 1963 when he was appointed assistant\nU.S. Attorney in Sacramento. He has been in private law practice\nsince 1968. He is married to the former Barbara Lee Cochran.\nJudge Fields, 41, is a native Sacramentan and is president of the\nlaw firm of Fields, Klein & Smith. After graduating from the\nUniversity of California, Berkeley, Boalt School of Law, he was a\nSacramento County Deputy District Attorney for one year before\nentering private law practice in 1961.\nHe also graduated from Sacramento Junior College in 1951 and\nattended Stanford University for one year, then served two years on\nactive duty as an Army military policeman in Korea. He earned his\nB.A. degree in 1956 at Sacramento State College. He is married to\nthe former Selma Eileen Mundt and they have two children.\nJudge Hatch, 44, a native of Oakland, was the director of the\nDepartment of Consumer Affairs from 1969 to 1971. Prior to that, he\nwas the presiding officer of the State Office of Administrative Procedure\n(now the Office of Administrative Hearings). He left state service in\n1971 and presently is in private law practice.\nHe earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Santa Clara\nand began his law studies there, but was called to active duty with the\nU.S. Army and served as a First Lieutenant in the artillery in the Korean\nWar. He earned his law degree at the University of San Francisco in\n1954.\nJudge Hatch served two years as Contra Costa County deputy district\nattorney, five years as staff counsel for railroad companies, then\nentered private practice in San Francisco. He is married to the former\nLynn H. Fjelstad and they have four children.\nAll three judges are Republican.\nAs municipal court judges, they will receive an annual salary of\n$33,481.\n# # #\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-4-73\n#256\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of\nJames L. Pettis of Marysville, and Robert J. Storm of Yuba City to the\n13th District Agricultural Association board of directors. The\nassociation operates the Yuba Sutter Fair.\nPettis, 45, has been a member of the board since March 4, 1969.\nA graduate of the University of Southern California in 1949, he now\noperates an auto dealership. He and his wife, Sarah, have three\ndaughters.\nStorm, 42, has been a member of the board since September 26,\n1967. He is the manager of the Federal Land Bank Association of Yuba\nCity. He attended Yuba College and is a graduate of the University\nof California College of Agriculture in Davis.\nBoth appointees, whose terms expire January 14, 1977, receive\nnecessary expenses. Pettis and Storm are Republicans.\n######\nAppointees' addresses:\nJames L. Pettis\nRobert J. Storm\n716 Ellis Roard\n924 Sanborn Road\nMarysville, California 95901\nYuba City, California\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR P NALD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californ. a 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-8-73\n#257\nActing Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the appointment of\nAndrew G. Robertson as director of the Department of Mental Hygiene.\nRobertson, 58, and a Republican, has been chief deputy director of\nthe department's Office of Administrative Management since 1968.\nHe succeeds William E. Mayer, M.D., who has been appointed chief\ndeputy director of the new Department of Health.\nRobertson will head the department until July 1 when the departments\nof Mental Hygiene, Public Health and Health Care Services become part\nof the new single Department of Health under the directorship of\nJames M. Stubblebine, M.D.\nA former member of the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors,\nrepresenting the Lake Tahoe district, Robertson has served as a\nconsultant to the states of Arizona, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts,\nMichigan, New York, North Carolina and the American Hospital Association\non costing mental health care and data processing systems.\nHe is a former business administrator of the Mendocino State\nHospital at Talmage, California. He attended the University of California\nat Berkeley.\nRobertson and his wife have two married children. They make their\nhome in El Macero. He will receive an annual salary of $34,125.\n######\nAppointee's address:\nAndrew G. Robertson\n3308 Middle Golf Drive\nEl Macero, California 95616\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califor a 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-8-73\n#258\nActing Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the reappointments of\nByron E. Denholm, D.V.M., of Fallbrook and Wilson C. Kelly, D.V.M., of\nStockton to four-year terms as members of the Board of Examiners in\nVeterinary Medicine.\nThey were first appointed to the board in 1969.\nDr. Denholm, 41-year-old Republican, is a graduate of the Kansas\nState University School of Veterinary Medicine and has been licensed to\npractice in California since 1957. He has been in private practice in\nFallbrook for the past 81/2 years.\nHe is a member of the San Diego County Veterinary Medical Association\nthe American Animal Hospital Association and the American Veterinary\nMedical Association.\nDr. Kelly, who is also a Republican, received his veterinary degree\nfrom Colorado State University. He completed his undergraduate studies\nin animal science at the University of California at Davis. He has been\nin general practice since 1952. He is a past president of the Delta-\nStockton Humane Society and the North San Joaquin Veterinary Medical\nAssociation.\nBoard members receive $28 per diem and their necessary expenses\nwhen on official business.\n#####\nAppointees' addresses:\nByron E. Denholm\nWilson C. Kelly\n819 Stone Post Way\n12250 N. Lower Sacramento Road\nFallbrook, California 92028\nLodi, California 95240\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEASF\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-9-73\n#259\nActing Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the appointment of\nJerry W. Green as director of the Department of Health Care Services\n(HCS).\nGreen, 40, chief deputy director of the department's program and\nservices branch, succeeds Dwight M. Geduldig, newly appointed director\nof the Department of Human Resources Development.\nA Republican, Green will be director of HCS until July 1 when the\ndepartment, along with the departments of Public Health and Mental\nHygiene become part of the new single Department of Health.\nGreen, who was born in Oklahoma but raised in Napa, is a 1959\ngraduate of Sacramento State University, and has been chief deputy\ndirector of HCS since January of this year.\nPrior to becoming chief deputy director at HCS, he held a similar\nposition with the state Department of Public Health. He has also\nserved as an auditor with the Local Allocation Division in the state\nDepartment of Finance.\nGreen will receive a yearly salary of $31,500.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-11-73\n#260\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nMay 14, 1973\nthrough\nMay 20, 1973\nMonday, May 14\n11:00 a.m.\nState Labor Federation Legislative Conference,\n(AFL-CIO), Woodlake Inn. Speech.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, May 15\n10:30 a.m.\nPRESS CONFERENCE\n5:00 p.m.\nBrief appearance at reception for Senator Clare\nBerryhill, Governor's Mansion, 16th & H Streets\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWednesday, May 16\nNoon\nMayors' and Councilmen's Legislative Institute\n(sponsored by League of California Cities), Elks\nClub. Speech.\nOvernight - - Los Angeles\nThursday, May 17\n7:00 p.m.\nOrange County Lincoln Club Dinner, Monte Carlo\nRoom, Newporter Inn, Newport Beach. Speech.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nFriday, May 18\n11:00 a.m.\nDedication of completion of California State\nWater Project, Perris Dam, near Riverside.\nRemarks. (For further information, call\nCandy Johnson, 213-620-3731)\nEvening\nUniversity of California, Riverside Citizens'\nUniversity Committee 1973 Annual Awards Banquet,\nUniversity Commons, Riverside. Brief remarks.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSaturday, May 19\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, May 20\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-11-73\n#261\nActing Governor Reinecke today announced the following bills have been\nsigned:\nAB 41 - Lanterman\nEnacts the First Validating Act of 1973 which validate.\nChapter 38\norganization, boundaries, acts, proceedings, and bonds\nof counties, cities, and specific districts, agencies,\nand entities.\nAB 59 - Davis\nPermits the taking of crabs in Districts 6, 7, 8,\nChapter 39\nand 9, between December 1st and August 31st,\nrather than December 1st and July 15th.\nAB 197 - Brown\nEliminates a conflict with provisions of the\nChapter 40\nAdministrative Procedure Act concerning the\neffective date of regulations promulgated by agencies\nin the Department of Consumer Affairs.\nAB 201 - Russell\nMakes non-substantive amendments to the Military\nChapter 41\nand Veterans Code.\nAB 299 - Ingalls\nIncludes within the definition of an authorized\nChapter 35\nemergency vehicle, any publicly owned vehicle operate\nby peace officer personnel of the state park system\nor by the peace officer personnel employed and\ncompensated as members of a security patrol of a\nschool district while carrying out the duties of\ntheir employment. The bill also deletes the re-\nquirement of special permits from the Commissioner\nof Highway Patrol for operation of emergency vehicles\nby peace officers of the stateppark system who use\nsuch vehicles for law enforcement work.\nAB 351 - Lewis\nIncludes the collection, treatment, and disposal\nChapter 42\nof sewage, waste, and storm water, and the fixing and\ncollecting of rates and charges therefor within the\nexpress powers of the Mojave Water. Agency. The bill\nalso ratifies, confirms, and validates all proceeding:\ntaken for authorization of bonds of an improvement\ndistrict of the agency, including for the collection,\ntreatment, and disposal of sewage, waste, and storm\nwater, and authorizes the issuance of such bonds.\nSB 30 - Biddle\nPermits use of any allocation to the City of Redlands\nChapter 33\nfrom the Aeronautics Account in the State Transporta-\ntion Fund in the 1973-74 fiscal year and subsequent\nfiscal years, up to $33,562, for that portion of such\nobligations incurred in prior fiscal years which woul\nhave been eligible for an allocation from the fund\nduring such prior fiscal years.\nSB 78 - Mills\nPermits owners of land within the Canebrake County\nChapter 36\nWater District and the Johnsville Public Utility\nDistrict, as well as registered voters of the dis-\ntricts, to be members of the board of directors of\nthe districts.\nSB 82 - Collier\nExtends the date by which documents relating to\nChapter 37\ncertain boundary changes of specified local agencies\nmust be filed with government agencies for assessment\nand tax purposes during the 1973-74 fiscal year. It\nfurther requires a local agency filing documents under this act to reim-\nburse any other local agency for costs incurred by the agency by reason\nof this enactment.\nSB 361-Rodda\nRevises the procedure for establishing separete\nChapter 34\ngoverning boards for a community college district\nand a unified district haveing an a.d.a. of 100,000\nor more as of October, 1971, heretofore having a\ncommon governing board, by requiring members, after\nan election to establish separate boards, to choose\nby June 1, 1973, rather than December 31, 1972,\nwhich of the two boards they will serve.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nSacramento, California 95814\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-15-73\nMrs. Ronald Reagan will visit the Arden Memorial Convalescent\nHospital, 3400 Alta Arden Expressway, on Tuesday, May 15, beginning\nat 2:30 p.m. Mrs. Reagan's press secretary, Mrs. Nancy Reynolds,\nwill be available to assist the press.\nPress coverage is invited.\n#####\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-15-73\n#262\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:\n\"I have the opportunity to announce a unique decision affecting\nT\nMay\nfederal and state relations. Today the federal Environmental Protection\nAgency has announced itwis giving full authority to the state Water\nResources Control Board to run the water pollution control program in\nCalifornia.\n\"This is a solid example of the return of autonomy to a level of\ngovernment closer to the problems involved and in a better position to\nprovide solutions. As a matter of fact, direct authority for\nimplementation of water quality control laws is with the nine California\nregional boards. This is an outstanding example of citizen participation\nin implementing state and federal law.\n\"Our water pollution control system in California is the finest in\nthe nation. We have had significant successes in San Diego Bay, Los\nAngeles Harbor, San Francisco Bay and Lake Tahoe, and the action taken\nby EPA will allow us to continue our efforts to clean up these and other\nCalifornia waters.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-15-73\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement\nat the beginning of his press conference remarks:\n\"Now that the Watergate controversy is under federal investigation,\nand is before a grand jury, the courts and the Senate, I will make no\nfurther statement regarding any of the allegations or any of the\nindividuals involved.\n\"Actually, the purpose of these press conferences is, and should\nbe to discuss California state issues, particularly those relating to\nstate government. Therefore I will not comment on subjects not\nrelated to California about which I have no personal knowledge.\"\n########\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californi 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-15-73\n#263\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of three\nnew members to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board,\nSanta Ana region, and reappointed two members.\nNew members appointed to four-year terms were Edward H. Willits of\nCorona, Charles E. Schmidt of Calimesa, and E. Ray Quigley, Jr., of\nIrvine.\nWillits, 52-year-old Democrat, succeeds Andrew L. Holtz of\nHuntington Beach. Holtz did not wish to be reappointed. Willits is\npresident of the Corona Foothill Lemon Co. He is a director of the\nTemescal Water Company and a former director and vice president of the\nCorona Heights Water Company.\nSchmidt, a 64-year-old Republican, fills the unexpired term of\nJ.W. Watkins of Redlands. Watkins has resigned. Schmidt, general\nmanager of the Redlands Laundry and Linen Supply Co., is a former\nnational field technical supervisor with the Wyandotte Chemicals\nCorporation, and is a former member of the Redlands Water Quality Control\nAdvisory Committee.\nQuigley, 39, an Irvine city councilman and a Republican, represents\nthe city as its delegate to the Orange County Local Agency Formation\nCommission and is its alternate delegate to the Orange County Sanitation\nDistrict. He is a commercial airline pilot.\nReappointed to the board to four-year terms were John D. Fett of\nHemet and Mrs. Paul (Ruth J.) Anderson of Riverside.\nFett, 40-year-old Republican, has been a member of the board since\n1972. A geologist, he is a principal with Earth Sciences Associates in\nPalo Alto and Hemet. He is a former member of the faculty of the Lamont\nGeological Observatory at Columbia University in New York City, and was\non the staff of the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Californi\nat Los Angeles.\nMrs. Anderson, a Republican, has served on the board since 1970. She\nis a former president of the League of Women Voters and one of the founder\nof the Tri-City Conservation League, She is also a charter member of the\nRiverside County Parks Commission.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses when on official\nbusiness.\n#####\nAppointees' addresses:\nEdward H. Willits\nE. Ray Quigley, Jr.\nRuth J. Anderson\nP.O. Box A\n18751 Via Palatino\n4946 Brockton Avenue\nCorona\nIrvine 92664\nRiverside 92506\nCharles E. Schmidt\nJohn D. Fett\n187 Harruby Drive\n26745 Meridian Street\nHemet 92343\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californi 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-15-73\n#264\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nRobert L. Harvey as chief of the Division of Consumer Services in the\nDepartment of Consumer Affairs.\nHarvey, 36, has been staff counsel for the division since\nNovember, 1971. He succeeds Raymond M. Reid, Jr., who has resigned to\nbecome executive secretary to the state Board of Medical Examiners.\nPrior to joining the Department of Consumer Affairs, Harvey was\nchief of the Bureau of Employment Agencies. He joined state service in\n1969 as assistant to the secretary of the Human Relations Commission.\nHarvey also has served the state as an attorney with the Department\nof Employment. He is a native of Hutchinson, Kansas, a graduate of\nWashburn University in Topeka and received his law degree in 1964 from\nGolden Gate College in San Francisco.\nHe and his wife Virginia have one child. They make their home at\n4252 North River Way in Sacramento. He will receive an annual salary of\n$22,584.\n#####\nAppointee's address:\nRobert L. Harvey\n4252 North River Way\nSacramento, 95825\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-15-73\n#265\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nJames E. Stretch of Hillsborough and John M. Cage of Los Altos as\nmembers of the California Job Development Corporation Law Executive\nBoard.\nStretch, 53, fills the vacancy created by the resignation of\nWilliam T. Stephens, Jr., of San Diego. A Republican, Stretch is vice\npresident of the Pacific coast operations of the Metropolitan Life\nInsurance Company in San Mateo.\nHe served the company as a supervisor and division supervisor of\nfield training prior to becoming a vice president. He was born in\nColumbus, Georgia, and is a graduate of Young Harris College at Young\nHarris, Georgia.\nCage, 63, is manager of special projects for the Hewlett-Packard\nCompany at Palo Alto. He succeeds Richard W. Heldridge of Carmichael\nwho has resigned. An Independent, he is a graduate of Iowa State College\nat Ames, Iowa. He is a former head of the Electronics Department at\nPurdue University.\nHe has been with Hewlett-Packard since 1956 where he has been\ndirector of development, manager of the Audio-Video Engineering\nDepartment and general manager of the Mechrolab Division.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses when on official\nbusiness.\n#####\nAppointees' addresses:\nJames E. Stretch\nJohn M. Cage\n130 Country Club Drive\n740 Arroyo Road\nHillsborough, California\nLos Altos, California 94022\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR P ALD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californ. 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-15-73\n#266\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nHamilton F. Wilson of Glendora as a member of the State Board of\nCosmetology. The term will be for four years.\nWilson, 45-year old Republican, is director and coordinator of\nVocational Education at Citrus College in Azusa. He succeeds Anthony\nVazzoler of Los Angeles. Vazzoler's term has expired.\nHe is a 1965 graduate of Citrus College and holds a teaching\ncredential in cosmetology from the University of California at Los\nAngeles.\nBoard members receive $28 per diem when on official business.\n#####\nAddress:\n430 Marcile Avenue\nGlendora, California 91740\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR F ALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ_ 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-15-73\n#267\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of eight\nmembers to the board of directors of various district agricultural\nassociations in California.\nThe districts and their members reappointed, include:\n--28th District, sponsor of the San Bernardino County Fair,\nBernard M. Scheppers of Rialto, and Roger J. Hartwick of Barstow.\nScheppers, 57, a Democrat, has been a member of the board since 1961.\nHartwick, 66-year old Republican, has served on the board since 1948.\n--35th District, sponsor of the Merced County Fair, Hubert J.\nTrindade of Merced, and Manuel F. Azevedo of Gustine. Trindade, 53, a\nDemocrat, has been on the board since 1961. Azevedo, 74, a Republican,\nhas served since 1969.\n--36th District, sponsor of the Dixon May Fair, Robert C. Gill of\nDixon, and Jack L. Olmstead of Fairfield. Both are Republicans. Gill,\n48, has been on the board since 1969. Olmstead, 36, has served since\n1969.\n38th District, sponsor of the Stanislaus County Fair, John C.\ndeBoer of Oakdale, and Vernon S. Thornburg. Both are Republicans.\nDeBoer, 56, has served since 1969, and Thornburg has been on the board\nsince 1946.\nThe eight members were reappointed to four-year terms. They\nreceive their necessary expenses when on official business.\n######\nAddresses:\nBernard M. Scheppers\nRoger J. Hartwick\n842 North Oakdale\n26207 Community Boulevard\nRialto, California 92376\nBarstow, California 92311\nHubert J. Trindade\nManuel F. Azevedo\nPost Office Box 2366\n111 West Avenue\nMerced, California 95340\nGustine, California\nRobert C. Gill\nJack Ll Olmstead\n915 Sievers Way\nRoute 1, Box 224\nDixon, California 95620\nFairfield, California\nJohn C. de Boer\nVernon S. Thornburg\n5967 Hinds Road\n2831 North Walnut Road\nOakdale, California 95361\nTurlock, California 95380\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nSacramento, California 5814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-15-73\n#268\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Mrs.\nNorman (Virginia R.) Talmage of Villa Park as a member of the Certified\nShorthand Reporters Board in the Department of Consumer Affairs.\nThe appointment must be confirmed by the State Senate.\nMrs. Talmage, court reporter for the Orange County Superior\nCourt, succeeds Lecil J. Slaback of Silverado. Her term has expired.\nA Republican, Mrs. Talmage is a certified shorthand reporter.\nShe was first appointed official court reporter for the Orange County\nSuperior Court in 1957.\nShe attended Whittier College and received a law degree from\nWestern State University College of Law at Anaheim in 1971.\nMrs. Talmage is a member of the California Court Reporters\nAssociation. Mr. and Mrs. Talmage have five adult children. She will\nreceive $28 per diem when on official business.\n# # #\nAddress:\n10312 Via Corta\nVilla Park, California\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-16-73\nBecause the League of California Cities has\nchanged the location of its legislative institute,\nGovernor Reagan will address the mayors and council-\nmen today at 11:45 a.m. at the Senator Hotel.\n# # #\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-16-73\n#269\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nWalter H. (Hans) Henrich of Redding as a member of the state Fire\nAdvisory Board.\nThe appointment requires confirmation by the state Senate.\nHenrich, 40, fills the vacancy created by the resignation of\nChief Requa of Sacramento. Requa has resigned.\nA Republican, Henrich is chief of the Cascade Fire Department in\nRedding. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany and was a member of the\nFrankfurt-Schwanheim Fire Department for eight years.\nHenrich has been a member of the Cascade Fire Department since\n1967. He is president of the Shasta County Fire Chiefs' Association\nand a member of the Shasta Junior College Fire Science Advisory\nCommittee. He holds a teaching credential in fire service.\nBoard members receive their actual and necessary expenses when on\nofficial business.\n#####\nAppointee's address:\n5121 Cedar Road\nRedding, California\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO ALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: mmediate\nSacramento, Californi_ 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-16-73\n#270\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments to\nfour-year terms of Sol R. Baker, M.D., of Bel Air, and John E. Connolly,\nM.D of Irvine as members of the Cancer Advisory Council\nDr. Baker, 72-year-old Democrat, was first appointed to the council\nin 1959. Born in London, England, he received his undergraduate,\nmasters and medical degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit.\nDr. Connolly, a native of Omaha, graduated from Harvard College in\n1945. He received his medical degree from Harvard in 1948.\nA Republican, Dr. Connolly is a professor and chairman of the\nDepartment of Surgery at the University of California Medical School\nat Irvine. He formerly was an assistant professor of surgery at\nStanford University School of Medicine, and was surgical registrar and\nresearch assistant at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in\nLondon, England.\nCouncil members receive their necessary expenses.\n######\nAppointees' addresses:\nSol. R. Baker, M.D.\nJohn E. Connolly, M.D.\n1580 Stone Canyon Road\n5135 Altoona Lane\nBel Air, California 90024\nIrvine, California\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-16-73\n#271\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of\nCharles W. Hostler, Ph.D., of Newport Beach and W. Daniel Larsen of\nSan Diego to four-year terms as members of the Contractors' State\nLicense Board.\nThe board positions were created during the 1972 legislative\nsession under the provisions of AB 1385, introduced by Assemblyman John\nQuimby, D-Rialto. The appointments require confirmation by the state\nSenate.\nBoth are Republicans.\nHostler, 53, is president of the Hostler Investment Company in\nNewport Beach. He is a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force.\nHe is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles;\nreceived a Masters degree in international affairs from Georgetown\nUniversity in Washington, D.C., and a Masters degree in Middle Eastern\nStudies from American University, Beirut, Lebanon. He received his\ndoctorate in political science and economics from Georgetown University.\nLarsen, 45, is vice president and general manager of the\nF. E. Young Construction Company in San Diego. He is 1951 graduate of\nthe University of California at Berkeley with a BS degree in civil\nengineering.\nHe is a past president of San Diego Chapter of the Associated\nGeneral Contractors of America. He is married and has two daughters.\nBoard members receive $28 per diem and travel expenses when on\nofficial business.\n#####\nAppointees' addresses:\nCharles W. Hostler\nW. Daniel Larsen\nSuite 426\n1405 Savoy\n1221 West Coast Highway\nSan Diego, California\nNewport Beach, California 92660\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: mediate\nSacramento, Californi 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n3-16-73\n#272\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nStanley P. Golde of Oakland as judge of the Alameda County Superior\nCourt.\nGolde, 45, succeeds the late Frederick M. Van Sicklen, who died\nApril 21.\nA Democrat, Golde has been in private practice in Oakland since\n1953. He is a member of the law firm of Golde, Strellis and Hall.\nGolde, who was born in St. Louis, is a 1949 graduate of the\nUniversity of California at Berkeley and received his law degree from\nthe University's Boalt Hall in 1952.\nJudge Golde is a former president of the Criminal Courts Bar\nAssociation of Alameda County, and is a member of the Special Committee\non Crime Control for the State Bar of California.\nIn 1969, he was appointed to the California Inter-Agency Council\non Drug Abuse, and was named by the state's attorney general to a\nspecial task force on riot and crime control.\nJudge Golde and his wife Patricia have three minor children. He\nwill receive an annual salary of $36,393.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-16-73\n#273\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Oakland\nDeputy Chief of Police, Raymond C. Brown, as a member and board chairman\nof the California Adult Authority and the reappointment to the board\nof Leland M. Edman, Fresno attorney, and James H. Hoover, of Placerville.\nBrown, 49, succeeds Henry W. Kerr of Newport Beach, who has\nserved as chairman since February, 1968. Kerr, who has served on the\nboard since 1967, will continue to serve as a member. Brown fills a\nposition on the board which had been authorized but unfunded.\n\"Henry Kerr has served ably and well as chairman for the past\nfive years,\" stated Governor Reagan. \"He has been firm and fair in\ncarrying out his responsibilities and the people of California are\nfortunate that Henry has agreed to continue to serve as a member of\nthe board.\"\nThe new chairman, who has been Oakland Deputy Chief of Police for\nthe past seven years, first joined the Oakland police department in 1947\nas a patrolman. He holds adult teaching credentials and a certificate\nin Public Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.\nHe taught part-time in the Oakland Unified School District from 1949 to\n1967.\nBrown is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation\nNational Academy in Washington, D.C. He is married and the father of\nthree sons. He is a Republican.\nEdman, 50, a Republican, has been engaged in private law practice\nin Fresno since 1957 and formerly served as Fresno County deputy district\nattorney for three years. He is a graduate of Fresno State College and\nearned his law degree from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco.\nEdman, who has served on the board since November 21, 1967, is\nactive in numerous civic and service organizations in Fresno. He also\nwas an instructor in criminal law at Humphreys College of Law in Fresno.\nHe is married and has three children.\nHoover, a 44-year old Republican, was first appointed to the\nboard on May 23, 1969. He is the personnel training coordinator at the\nCalifornia Institute for Men at Chino, a position he has held since 1966.\nHe first joined the State Department of Corrections as a correc-\ntional officer in 1956. As a correctional sergeant in 1962, he helped\nopen the California Rehabilitation Center at Corona which pioneered the\nstate's first Narcotic Rehabilitation program.\nHoover serves on the Chino City Advisory Committee and is a\ndirector of the Chino Council of Social Services. He is married and the\nfather of thirteen children.\nThe chairman of the adult authority board receives an annual\nsalary of $27,562.50 Board members receive $26,250 per annum. Board\nmembers serve four year terms and the appointments require Senate\nconfirmation.\n########\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-16-73\n#274\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of\nFrank W. Turnbull, and Richard L. Huston, both of Huntington Beach,\nto the 32nd District Agricultural Association Board of Directors.\nThe association operates the Orange County Fair.\nTurnbull, 53, has served on the board since December 15, 1971.\nHe is the senior vice president and general manager of the Roadcraft\nManufacturing and Leasing Corporation in Gardena.\nHuston, 37, has been a member of the board since March 18, 1969.\nHe operates an independent newspaper distribution agency in Huntington\nBeach. He is married and the father of two children.\nBoth are Republicans.\nBoard members serve four year terms and receive necessary\nexpenses.\n#######\nFrank W. Turnbull\nRichard L. Huston\n10152 Crailet Drive\n5842 Meadowbrook Drive\nHuntington Beach, California\nHuntington Beach, California\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-16-73\n#275\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of San\nFrancisco industrialist Donald G. Ellis to the Solid Waste Management\nand Resource Recovery Advisory Council. He fills a position created\nby the 1972 legislature and serves at the pleasure of the governor.\nHe will receive $28 per diem and expenses.\nEllis, 53, Republican, is vice president of the Industrial\nChemical Division of Stauffer Chemical Company in San Francisco. He\nis a 1941 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and during\nWorld War II was a Naval Aviatory.\nHe is married to the former Ruth P. Jones and they are the\nparents of three grown children. They live at 140 Camino Sobrante,\nOrinda.\n######\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmmediate\nSacramento, Californ: 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-17-73\n#276\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nDavid B. Swoap as director of the state Department of Social Welfare.\nSwoap, 36, who has been acting director of the department since\nMarch of this year, succeeds Robert B. Carleson. Carleson resigned to\nbecome special assistant for welfare matters to Casper W. Weinberger,\nsecretary for Health, Education and Welfare in Washington, D.C.\nA native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Swoap was assistant secretary to\nthe state Personnel Board prior to joining the Department of Social\nWelfare. He was also the district coordinator for state Senator\nHoward Way, R-Exeter.\nSwoap served as a consultant to the state Senate Fact Finding\nCommittee on Labor and Welfare, and was an assistant administrative\nanalyst with the office of the legislative analyst assigned to reviewing\nthe social welfare budget.\nHe is a 1959 graduate of Denison University, Granville, Ohio, with\na B.A. debree in government. He received his M.A. degree in government\nfrom Claremont Graduate School in 1961.\nSwoap is an elder in the St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church of\nNorth Highlands; member of the board of the Sacramento Chapter of the\nWorld Affairs Council, and a member of the board of the Sacramento Valley\nYouth Services Program.\nHe is single and will receive an annual salary of $31,500.\n#####\nAppointee's address:\nDavid B. Swoap\n3613 Winthrop Court\nNorth Highlands 95660\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROMAD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-18-73\n#277\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Sherwin\nL. Memel, of Los Angeles and the reappointments of doctors Paul J. Dugan,\nof Roseville, and Harold E. Wilkins, of Downey to the State Board of\nMedical Examiners in the Department of Consumer Affairs.\nDr. Dugan, 42, a Republican, has served on the board since March\n24, 1969. A 1956 graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Maryland, he\ninterned at William Beaumont Army Hospital, El Paso, Texas, from June\n1956 to July 1957. He was a physician in residence at DeWitt Army\nHospital, Virginia, from July 1957 to April 1958; and at Friends Hospital.\nPhiladelphia, Pa., from July 1959 to June 1960.\nDr. Wilkins, a 49-year-old Republican, has served on the board\nsince March 25, 1969. A 1947 graduate of the Medical College of Virginia,\nhe completed his internship and residency at Boston City Hospital,\nBoston, Mass., between 1947 and 1951. He was an assistant instructor\nof medicine at Boston University from 1950-51 and has served as an\nassistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Southern\nCalifornia since 1955.\nMemel, 43, a Democrat, replaces S. Stephen Nakashima of San Jose,\nwhose term on the board has expired. He is president of Woodcrest\nAssociates, Inc., a company engaged in corporate financing. He earned\nboth his B.A. degree and law degree at the University of California at\nLos Angeles.\nMemel, a recognized expert in health law, will represent the\ngeneral public on the board. He has served as executive director and\nlegal counsel for numerous health and hospital organizations. He is\nmarried and the father of two boys and two girls.\nBoard members serve four year terms and receive $28 per diem.\n######\nAddresses:\nPaul J. Dugan, M.D.\nSherwin L. Memel\n1432 Tiffany Circle\n2611 South Beverly Drive\nRoseville, California 95676\nLos Angeles, California 90067\nHarold E. Wilkins, M.D.\n9850 Hasty Avenue\nDowney, California 90240\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC .LD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nnediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-18-73\n#278\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of\nMichael Chrisman of Visalia and Antonio Nunes of Tulare, to the 24th\nDistrict Agricultural Association board of directors. The association\noperates the Tulare County Fair.\nChrisman, 29, a Republican, has served on the board since March\n7, 1969. A graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in\nagriculture, he is in the ranching business with his father. He is a\ndirector of the California Cattlemen's Association, chairman of the\nTulare County Planning Commission and a member of the board of governors,\nCouncil of California Growers. He is married and the father of one son.\nNunes, a 57-year-old Democrat, has served on the board since March,\n22, 1961. A Tulare dairy farmer, he is also active in numerous civic,\nservice and professional organizations and in 1968 was named Tulare\nCounty Farmer of the Year. He is married and the father of two sons\nand four daughters.\nBoard members serve four year terms and receive necessary\nexpenses.\n#####\nAddresses:\nMichael Chrisman\nAntonio L. Nunes\n11599 Avenue 340\n20439 Road 124\nVisalia, California 93277\nTulare, California 93274\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR R \\LD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-18-73\n#279\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have been signed\nAB 44 -L.Greene\nProvides that the Director of the Department of Health\nChapter 31\nCare Services may by regulation provide for fixed\nartificial dentures for conditions which preculde use\nof removable dental prostheses.\nAB 293-Antonovich\nRequires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to\nChapter 32\nallow, for the 1972-73 school year, use of a divisor\nof 174 in computing average daily attendance for\napportionment purposes for school districts maintaining\nschools for 174 days because of the declaration of\nJanuary 25, 1973, as a day of mourning relating to\nthe death of President Lyndon B. Johnson.\nAB 297 - Berman\nDeletes the requirement that a vehicle overtaking and\nChapter 50\npassing another vehicle proceeding in the same direc-\ntion, return to the right-hand side of the roadway be-\nfore coming within 100 feet of any vehicle approaching\nfrom the opposite direction.\nAB 385 - Keene\nShortens the silver salmon commercial fishing season\nChapter 26\nfrom a period between April 15th and September 30th\nto a period between May 15th and September 30th until\nOctober 1, 1974, and to a period between June 1st and\nSeptember 30th for the succeeding two years, and lower:\nthe minimum length of silver salmon which may be taken\nduring such periods to 22 inches in length. The bill\nspecifies that such season shall revert to a period\nbetween April 15th and September 30th and that the\nminimum length shall revert to 25 inches during the\nseason next following a finding by the Director of\nFish and Game that such evaluation indicates that as\na result of this act there has been substantial harm\nto the silver salmon resource.\nSB 29 - Grunsky\nRequires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to\nChapter 29\ncontinue authorization of a specified pilot program\nfor education of severely mentally retarded pupils\nbetween the ages of three and five years. The present\nprogram will terminate on June 30, 1973. The bill\nlimits expenditures to $155,000 during the 1973-74\nfiscal year and provides for reports on the efficacy\nof the pilot program. The program will terminate on\nJune 30, 1974.\nSB 33 - Gregorio\nClarifies the law with respect to the authority of the\nChapter 43\nMayor of San Francisco to make appointments which in\nother jurisdictions are made by city selection commit-\ntees. The bill changes the term of office for the\nchairman and vice chairman of a city selection commit-\ntee from two years to a period set by rules and\nregulations of the committee, but not less than one\nyear nor more than four years.\nSB 34 - Harmer\nExtends the increase in maximum tax rate for community\nChapter 44\ncollege districts for lease agreements until June 30,\n1978.\nSB 38 - Whetmore\nProvides that with respect to city councils any refer-\nChapter 30\nence to \"councilman\" or \"councilmen\" shall also include\n\"councilwoman\" or \"councilwomen.\" The bill provides\nthat a female member of a city council may designate\nherself \"councilwoman.\"\nSB 154-Lagomarsino\nRequires a three-fourths vote of all members of the\nChapter 45\nState Building Standards Commission, present and\nvoting, but not less than six affirmative votes, to\nadopt and publish amendments to the State Building\nStandards Code on an emergency basis. The bill require:\nthe commission to make a specified finding in order to\nadopt and publish such amendments on an emergency basis.\n-1-\n#279\nSB 221 - Grunsky\nRequires the county of residence to reimburse the\nChapter 46\ncounty spperintendent of schools wherein education\nis being provided by that office for costs of\neducating pupils residing in licensed children's\ninstitutions or family homes.\nSB 243 - Beilenson Sets forth procedures for an application for an\nChapter 47\nalcoholic beverage license other than retail license\nby a limited partnership which is required by law\nto file periodic reports with the Securities and\nExchange Commission.\nSB 270-Lagomarsino\nPermits the Santa Maria Airport District to employ\nChapter 48\nairport policemen, with the approval of the Santa\nMaria City Council. The bill requires such policemen\nto be approved by the Santa Maria Chief of Police and\ncertified, pursuant to specified provisions of law,\nby the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and\nTraining before assuming their duties.\nSB 300 - Collier\nTransfers the administration and operation of the\nChapter 49\nAbandoned Vehicle Trust Fund from the Department of\nPublic Works to the Department of the California\nHighway Patrol.\n#####\nWalthall\n-2-\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nSacramento, Califor\n95814\nMEMO T THE PRESS\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-18-73\n#280\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nMay 21, 1973\nthrough\nMay 28, 1973\nMonday, May 21\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, May 22\n7:00 p.m.\nCalifornia Federation of Women's Clubs Banquet,\nHilton Hotel, San Francisco. Speech.\nOvernight Sacramento\nWednesday, May 23\nNoon\nPicture with legislature on west steps of\nCapitol.\nOvernight . Los Angeles\nThursday, May 24\n7:00 p.m.\nNapa County Republican Fundraising Dinner,\nNapa Fairgrounds. Speech.\nOvernight Los Angeles\nFriday, May 25\n2:00 p.m.\nGroundbreaking for the Didi Hirsch Community\nMental Health Center, 4760 Sepulveda Boulevard,\nLos Angeles. Brief remarks.\n5:00 p.m.\nReception for Assembly candidate Bob McClennan,\nLos Amigos Country Club, 7295 Quill Drive,\nDowney. Brief remarks.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSaturday, May 26\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, May 27\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nMonday, May 28\nMemorial Day\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight Los Angeles\n######\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR.\nIALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-21-73\n#281\nGovernor Ronald Reagan expressed shock and sorrow today when\ninformed of the tragic death of Assemblyman Robert W. Crown of Alameda.\nGovernor Reagan said:\n\"Although Bob and I disagreed on many issues over the years,\nwe were always able to sit down and discuss them without acrimony.\nHe was a dedicated public servant and an articulate spokesman for his\npoint of view.\n\"I am shocked at his tragic death. Mrs. Reagan and I join his\ncolleagues and many friends in mourning his loss.\"\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\n\"ednesday A.M.s\nSacramento, Californi 95814\ny 23, 1973\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-22-73\n#282\nGovernor Ronald Reagan said today that those legislators who have\nrefused to place the administration's proposed tax limitation amendment\non the November ballot are guilty of \"an arrogant denial of the\ndemocratic process.\"\nIn remarks prepared for delivery to the California Federation of\nWomen's Clubs Tuesday evening (May 22) at the Hilton Hotel in San\nFrancisco, the governor said that \"many of those who are talking the\nloudest in the legislative chambers don't even believe their own words.\nThey have admitted to us that while they will continue to block the\npeople's right to vote on this, they really can't find anything wrong\nwith our proposal.\"\nThe governor's proposal is in the form of a constitutional amendment.\nIt would give a rebate of up to 20 percent on 1973 state income taxes,\nprovide a 7½ percent ongoing state income tax cut starting next January\nand constitutionally limit and gradually reduce the percentage of the\npeople's earnings which the state can take in taxes in the next 15 years.\nHe has asked the legislature to let the proposal be voted on by the\npeople at a special statewide election in November.\n\"It is an arrogant denial of the democratic process for a few\nlegislators to say the people must not even be allowed to vote on\nsomething as fundamental as their right to their own earnings,\" he said.\nThe governor cited \"the nitpicking and carping criticism\" of\nlegislators who have refused to let the issue be placed on the ballot\nand said \"the same complaining voices\" who opposed his welfare reforms -\n\"the doom criers who have been so consistently wrong, are at it again\"\nin opposing his tax limitation-reduction measure.\nGovernor Reagan also pointed to the \"attempts to confuse\" the\npeople on the issue by saying the proposal would tie the legislature's\nhands in the future, place the state in a fiscal straitjacket, and raise\ntaxes at the local level.\nHe categorically denied the charges.\n\"Those who say the Tax Control and Tax Limitation Plan won't work\nor that it will raise your local taxes are the same ones who said the\nwelfare reforms wouldn't work and that property taxes would have to be\nraised if the welfare changes went into effect.\"\n-1-\n#282\nThey were wrong, he said. \"Forty-two of our 58 California counties\nwere able to lower their taxes because of the reforms,\" he added.\nHe called charges that the administration's proposal will benefit\nthe rich at the expense of the poor \"spurious\" and \"demogogic.\"\nThe governor pointed to a case cited by \"our legislative leader\"\nof an individual \"who would only get a $2.50 rebate from the surplus\nwhile another would get $250. Well, possibly there would be such cases.\nBut the man who would get $2.50 only had a $12.50 tax bill to begin\nwith. The one getting $250 owed $1,250 and after his rebate he'll still\nowe $1,000 while the other individual will owe only $10.\n\"Again, let me point out this is not a case of government largesse--\nof handing out charity or gifts. We are talking about the return--\nas fairly as it can be worked out-of over-payments the people made.\n\"As one of our cabinet members, Frank Walton, said the other day:\n'If you overpay your utility bill, the company returns the over-payment\nto you. It doesn't divide it up among your neighbors.'\nHe emphasized that if the constitutional amendment is approved in\nNovember by the people, families with earnings of $8,000 or less will\nget a 100 percent rebate on their 1973 state income tax and they will\npay no state income taxes in the future.\nThe governor is leading an initiative petition drive to place the\nconstitutional amendment on the ballot, but he says he will halt the\ndrive if the legislature lets the people vote on it at a special\nstatewide election later this year.\n# # #\n-2-\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN\nMEMO TC HE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-45-71\n5-23-73\nNatalie Randolph (Natasha) Collier has a 2:20 p.m. date today,\nWednesday, May 23, with Governor Reagan in the Cabinet Room. Natasha,\n2½ weeks old, daughter of Senator and Mrs. Randolph Collier, will have\nher picture taken with the Governor. The occasion is the 2nd anniversary\nfor the Colliers. Governor Reagan will present Natasha with a gift.\nPress coverage is invited.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR\nNALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-23-73\n#283\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of Ray\nL. Stoyer, of Irvine, and the appointments of James J. Poet of San Diego\nand Alton E. Allen of Laguna Beach to the San Diego Regional Water\nQuality Control Board.\nStoyer, 56, gnneral manager of the Irvine Ranch Water District,\nhas been a member of the board since March 5, 1968. He was formerly\ngeneral manager of the Santee County Water District and was a member\nof a five-man Industrial Development Commission which serves as an\nadvisory committee to the City of El Cajon and the San Diego County\nBoard of Supervisors. He is also a member of the board of directors\nof the California Water Pollution Control Association.\nPoet, 53, is president of Culligan Soft Water Service and Water\nConditioning Company. He is a 1941 graduate of New Jersey state College\nin Montclair, New Jersey. During World War II, he served in the U.S.\nNavy and is now a retired Commander in the Naval Reserve. He is\nmarried and the father of two girls and one boy.\nAllen, 75, a retired vice president of Security Pacific National\nBank, is a former Orange County Supervisor. He represented the fifth\nsupervisorial district. During his eight-year term as supervisor,\nAllen served two terms as chairman of the board. He also was a member\nof the board of directors of the Orange County Flood Control District.\nAll the appointees are Republicans.\nBoard members serve four year terms and receive necessary expenses.\n# ####\nAppointees' addresses:\nJames J. Poet\nRay L. Stoyer\n1795 La Jolla Rancho Road\n17706 Oak Tree Lane\nLa Jolla, California 92037\nIrvine, California\nAlton E. Allen\n2535 Temple Hills Drive\nLaguna Beach, California 92651\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-23-73\n#284\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of three\njudges to the Los Angeles County Municipal Court. The new judges are\nMarion E. Gubler, of Glendale, to the Burbank Judicial District, Eugene\nJ. Long, of Long Beach to the Long Beach Judicial District, and James\nE. Satt, of Encino, to the Los Angeles Judicial District.\nJudge Gubler, 43, a partner in the Burbank law firm of Rogan and\nRadding, replaces Judge Archie Walters, who retired. He is a 1958\ngraduate of the University of Utah with a B.S. degree in accounting,\nwhere he also earned his law degree. He worked as a tax attorney in\nthe Los Angeles office of the Internal Revenue Service before entering\nprivate practice. He is married and the father of six children.\nJudge Long, 49, a Long Beach resident for the past forty years,\nreplaces Judge Charles T. Smith, who retired. Long is associated with\nF. Henry NeCasek in a general law practice. He attended Loyola\nUniversity in Los Angeles for one year and the University of Notre Dame\nfor three years then returned to California to earn his law degree at\nSouthwestern University in Los Angeles. He is married and the father\nof four boys and two girls.\nJudge Satt, 52, will replace Judge Paul Roest, who is retiring\neffective June 4, 1973. He attended the University of Idaho in\nPocatello, the University of Southern California and earned his law\ndegree from Loyola University School of Law in Los Angeles. He has\nbeen in private law practice since graduation from law school. He is\non the board of trustees of West Valley Community Hospital Foundation\nand president of the Encino Chamber of Commerce. He is married and\nhas one son.\nThe three new judges are Republicans.\nMunicipal court judges receive an annual salary of $33,481.\n#######\nGarcia\nState of California\nOF\nGOVERNOR'S OFFICE\nSACRAMENTO 95814\nCALIFORNIA\nRONALD REAGAN\nGOVERNOR\nMay 23, 1973\nMr. Walter J. Quinn\nActing Deputy Auditor General\nRoom 400, 1100 K Building\nSacramento, California 95814\nDear Mr. Quinn:\nPursuant to your request for information con-\ncerning Governor Reagan's Tax Reduction Task\nForce, including the cost to the State of\nCalifornia for funding the task force I\nam\npleased to provide the attached\nsummary.\nThis will serve as the answer to all the other\nrequests that have been made to various agencies\nand departments of the Executive Branch for\ninformation regarding State funding for the\ntask force.\nSincerely,\nEduca Whomes\nEdwin W. Thomas.\nAdministrative Officer\nto the Cabinet\nAttachment\nState of California\nMemorandum\nTo\n8\nGovernor Ronald Reagan\nDate :\nMay 23, 1973\nSubject\n00\nReport on Tax Reduc-\ntion Task Force\nFunding\nFrom\n:\nBusiness and Transportation Agency\nOffice of the Secretary\n1120 N Street, Sacramento, (916) 445-1331\nAttached is the report you requested relating to the funding of\nthe Tax Reduction Task Force. I recommend that this report be\nforwarded to the Auditor General.\nWaltor\nFrank J. Walton\nChairman, Steering Committee,\nGovernor's Tax Reduction Task Force\nAttachment\nSTATE SUPPORT FOR GOVERNOR REAGAN'S\nTAX REDUCTION TASK FORCE\nIntroduction\nLast September, Governor Reagan established a Tax Reduction Task Force\nfor the purpose of reviewing, in depth, the entire tax and public financing\nsystem in California, including a comprehensive analysis of methods for re-\nducing the cost of government programs and spending at the state level.\nHis charge applied to, and was intended to cut across, the operations\nof all departments in state government to determine those areas where fur-\nther economies and cost reductions could be made to reduce the heavy tax\nburden on the people.\nHe requested that the Task Force utilize existing state resources and\nordered all departments to give full cooperation to this activity as a top\npriority of his administration.\nThe Governor designated Business and Transportation Agency Secretary\nFrank J. Walton to act as Chairman of the Task Force Steering Committee.\nThe Steering Committee, which had the responsibility for guiding the\nTask Force and monitoring its progress, included as members: Robert C.\nWalker, Special Assistant to the Governor, John T. Kehoe, Director of the\nState Department of Consumer Affairs, James E. Jenkins, Assistant to the\nGovernor and Director of Public Affairs, Edwin Thomas, Administrative\nOfficer to the Cabinet, Lawrence R. Robinson, Jr., Director of the State\nDepartment of General Services, and H. Herbert Jackson, a member and former\nchairman of the Little Hoover Commission.\nLewis K. Uhler, then assistant secretary of the Human Relations Agency,\nwas selected to chair the Task Force itself.\nRichard E. Kazen, Chief of the Division of Research and Assistance of\nthe State Department of Housing and Community Development, and Charles D.\nHobbs, Deputy Director of Operations of the State Department of Social\nWelfare, also were chosen as full-time Task Force members.\nThe Charge\nIn addition to its review of the entire state and local public financ-\ning system, the Governor asked the Task Force to recommend a plan for reduc-\ning the tax burden shouldered by Californians. The Task Force inquiry was\nstructured to include, but not be limited to:\n1) Ceilings on Taxation and Spending - Explore methods of externally\nimposing upon state government a limitation on the total tax \"take\".\n-1-\n2) Reduction of Government Programs - Analyze methods for reducing\nthe cost of governmental programs and spending levels at the state, county,\ncity and special district levels. Attention to be given to the interrela-\ntionship with federal programs and spending. Mechanisms to be developed to\ninsure adequate internal incentives to expenditure controls.\n3) Tax Refunds to the People - Identify sources of refunds, analyze\ncash reserve requirements, develop procedures whereby program savings,\ngovernment efficiencies, etc., can be translated into refunds to the people.\n4) Types and Combinations of Taxes - Through the application of proper\nprinciples of taxation, identify that combination of state wealth and taxes\nwhich will optimize California's competitive position with respect to other\nstates and nations.\n5) Education Finance - Explore various alternatives available.\n6) Review bonding programs and total indebtedness of California.\n7) Review and analyze all other aspects of taxation which the Task\nForce deems significant.\nConsistent with this charge the Task Force devoted a considerable amount\nof time to working with individual departments and with outside economists\nwho were available for this purpose. To accomplish the charge, people and\nservices were contributed from various departments, on either a full-time or\nart-time basis, to help achieve these goals.\nThe expertise which resulted from the efforts of the Task Force made it\npossible to develop the comprehensive revenue control and tax reduction pro-\ngram which the Governor has offered to the Legislature and the people of\nCalifornia. The project also will result in a wide range of other recommend-\nations to reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of state government.\nTask Force Support\nA number of operating departments and agencies within the administra-\ntion, including the Governor's Office, have, at various times, provided\nassistance to the Task Force members in the form of informational data,\ntemporary personnel, and resources. This is no different from the manner\nin which other task forces formed by the Governor during the course of the\nadministration have been supported in the past---including those on govern-\nment efficiency and cost control, welfare reform, public safety, and education\nThe Governor's ability to effectively utilize the administrative resources\nof the Executive Branch is essential if he is to meet his responsibilities\nto solve state problems and innovate new programs to meet public needs.\nAt the time the Task Force was formed, space was made available by the\nState Department of General Services. Other departments assisted with\nsupplies, equipment, telephones, travel, etc. Such in-kind equivalents\nhave been provided in the total amount of $13,588 (see breakdown in exhibit,\nage 8).\n-2-\nTwo departments made funds available to the Task Force under contract:\nState Department of Social Welfare\n$ 30,000\nState Department of Housing and Community Development\n750\nIt is important to note that these are administrative funds only. No\nwelfare recipient has been denied any benefit as a result of this support.\nBecause persons on welfare pay various kinds of taxes--sales, property,\nexcise, etc. to the extent that the total burden of state taxes is reduced\nover time through the Governor's Revenue Control and Tax Reduction Program,\nsuch recipients will benefit. And, in light of the program's benefits to\nlow income families and individuals, the level of support provided to the\nTask Force by the Department of Social Welfare seems fully justified.\nThe Task Force did not possess the accounting/administrative capacity\nto handle funds and requested assistance. The Health and Welfare Agency\nresponded and established an account for the Task Force in the same depart-\nment which handled the agency's finances the State Department of Health\nCare Services. For the sake of ease and simplicity, current bills of the\nTask Force have been paid for out of the State Department of Health Care\nServices revolving fund, subject to reimbursement out of the funds provided\nby the State Department of Social Welfare and the State Department of Housing\nand Community Development pursuant to contract.\nVarious departments loaned or otherwise paid for the personnel costs of\nindividuals who worked full or part time on the Task Force. The approximate\nvalue of such loaned or contributed personnel services (estimated through\nMay 15, 1973) is $116,980, consisting of $105,652 in salaries plus $11,328\nin personnel administrative overhead.\nPersonnel Expenditures\n(Expenditures for salaries, personnel administrative overhead,\nand travel for the Task Force are as follows)\nBasic Task Force\nThe salaries for the following individuals (calculated to May 15, 1973)\nare set forth below:\nLewis K. Unler, Special Assistant to the Governor and Special Consultant\nto the State Department of Human Resources Development, and Chairman of\nthe Tax Reduction Task Force (1-1-72 until 5-31-73).\nResponsible for overall management and direction of the Task Force.\n**Special Consultant paid out of\nHRD administrative funds,\n$22,464\nCharles D. Hobbs, Special Consultant to the Governor for Tax and Spend-\ning Programs (9-1-72 to 11-30-72) and Special Consultant to the State\nDepartment of Human Resources Development (12-1-72 to 5-15-73).\nResponsible for collection and analysis of data on State tax and\nspending programs, development of a design for limiting State taxes\nand spending, analysis of the Unemployment and Disability Insurance\nFunds, analysis of the State personal income tax, development of\nincentives for government to reduce costs and control program growth.\n-3-\n*Funding by Governor's Office\nand HRD administrative funds\n$23,279\n*Mr. Hobbs served as a full-time member of the Governor's\nStaff (Special Assistant) from 9-1-72 to 11-30-72, and\nhe was funded out of the Governor's Office budget in the\namount of $7,224. From 12-1-72 to 5-15-73, he was under\ncontract as a consultant to the Department of Human Re-\nsources Development and was paid in the amount of $16,055.\n/**HRD was and is a major source of much of the State income\ntax and Unemployment and Disability Fund information needed\nby the Tax Reduction Task Force. In fact, HRD, which admin-\nisters the withholding of State income tax, would be the\nfirst Department to be affected if the Task Force's recom-\nmendations are implemented through approval of Governor\nReagan's Revenue Control and Tax Reduction Program. The\nfunding by HRD is entirely appropriate because HRD has had\na primary stake in making sure that the Task Force received\ntimely and accurate State income tax data during its\ndeliberations.\nRichard E. Kazen, Chief of the Division of Research and Assistance,\nState Department of Housing and Community Development.\nResponsible for task development, work product control, liaison with\nexternal resources, etc.\nHousing & Community Development\nadministrative funds.\n$16,121\nDiane K. Sekafetz, Secretary I, State Department of Human Resources\nDevelopment (9-1-72 to 5-31-73).\nPaid out of HRD administrative\nfunds\n$7,290\nAdditional Assistance\nAs the work of the Task Force increased, additional assistance was found\nto be necessary.\nThe following persons assisted the Task Force on a full-time basis for\nthe periods listed, on Loan and supported by their Departments as indicated,\nto perform the activities described.\nSharon Young, Research Assistant, 10-1-72 to 5-31-73, Governor's Office.\nGeneral research support\n$ 7,800\n-4-\nWendy Potter, Operations Research Specialist I, State Department of\nHuman Resources Development (10-15-72 to 3-9-73).\nAnalysis and development of data regarding the incidences of taxes\nand government expenditure patterns with respect to California\nfamilies by various income levels.\n$ 2,563\nDouglas A. Sloane, Associate Regulations Analyst, State Department of\nSocial Welfare (12-1-72 to 5-15-73).\nAdministrative support, statistical analysis, report preparation, etc.\n$ 6,259\nLinda Miller, Senior Stenographer, State Department of Social Welfare\n(12-1-72 to 5-15-73).\nGeneral secretarial support.\n$ 4,037\nVirgil Woods, Associate GPA, State Department of Social Welfare (2-1-73\nto 5-15-73).\nResearch evaluation and recommendations with respect to Unemployment\nInsurance, Disability Insurance contingency funds, State personal in-\ncome tax, revenue sharing, etc.\n$ 4,389\nRichard Piper, Associate Management Auditor, State Department of Finance\n(2-1-73 to 4-6-73).\nFiscal, budgetary and statistical research providing data for the tax\nlimitation plan legislation.\n$ 2,822\nLinda Bernheim, Supervising EDP Analyst, State Department of Social\nWelfare (11-1-72 to 5-15-73).\nAnalyze Federal, State and local revenue and expenditure data for\nCalifornia and other states and assist with projections and projec-\ntion models.\n$ 6,828\nIn addition to the salaries, there is an allocated cost of 12 percent\nfor personnel administrative overhead which amounts to $11,328. This over-\nhead includes such items as State contributions to the Employee Retirement\nSystem, group medical insurance, vacation and sick leave allowance, etc.\nTravel expended by the above individuals totals approximately $8,000,\npaid from the following sources: $2,084, Housing & Community Development\nin-kind contribution; $1,300, Human Resources Development contract #73004457;\n$500, Governor's Office; and $4,116 from the $30,750 fund in Health Care\nServices.\nAdvisors and Consultants\nImmediately upon commencement of the Task Force activities, the need\nor consultants and advisors to the Task Force was evident. Some of those\npersons who volunteered their assistance to the Task Force are:\n-5-\nArmen Alchian, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, UCLA;\nMartin Anderson, Ph.D., Senior Fellow (Public Policy), The Hoover'\nInstitution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford;\nPatrick M. Boarman, Ph.D., Director of Research, Center for Interna-\ntional Business (affiliate of Pepperdine College), Los Angeles;\nJames Buchanan, Ph.D., Economist, Chairman of Center for Study of\nPublic Choice, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,\nBlacksburg;\nGlenn Campbell, Ph.D., Director of The Hoover Institution on War,\nRevolution and Peace, Stanford;\nHarold Demsetz, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, UCLA;\nPhoebus Dhrymes, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, UCLA;\nPeter Drucker, Ph.D., Management Consultant, Member of the Faculty of\nClaremont Graduate School, Claremont;\nMilton Friedman, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Chicago;\nJay Tontz, Ph.D., Chairman, Economics Department, California State\nUniversity at Hayward;\nNorman Ture, Ph.D., Tax Consultant and Economist, Washington, D.C.\nIn addition, the services of outside consultants and specialists were\nrequired by the Task Force. The following persons were retained under con-\ntract to the Task Force. These contracts were reimbursable from the $30,000\nin Department of Social Welfare administrative funds described above.\nNeil Bersch, CPA, Senior Partner, Touche, Ross & Co.\nMr. Bersch reviewed the Unemployment Insurance Fund, personal income\ntax structure and the general budgetary and accounting process within\nthe State. Total amount of the contract, covering expenses only, not\nto exceed\n$\n500\n(claimed as of 5-1-73, $410.90)\nJeffrey Davis, Consultant, California Research Consultants.\nMr. Davis assisted with the development of the Revenue Control and\nTax Reduction Program. Total amount of the contract, covering ex-\npenses and compensation for a five-month period, not to exceed\n$ 5,000\n(claimed as of 5-1-73, $4,980.50)\nRoger Freeman, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolu-\ntion and Peace.\nDr. Freeman provided consultation on, and analysis, of education fi-\nnance and management; assisted with design and development of the\nRevenue Control and Tax Reduction Program. Total amount of the\ncontract, covering expenses and compensation, not to exceed\n$ 2,500\n(claimed as of 5-1-73, $2,500)\nJeanette May, graduate student, University of California, Davis.\nMiss May provided statistical analysis with respect to State and lo-\ncal taxation, past, present and future, State and local expenditures,\nbudget analysis and tax limitation analysis. Total mount of contract,\ncovering expenses and compensation, not to exceed\n$ 1,560\n(claimed as of 5-1-73, $760.50)\n-6-\nWilliam Niskanen, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy,\nUniversity of California, Berkeley.\nProfessor Niskanen provided advice and consultation regarding the\nRevenue Control and Tax Reduction Program, the State personal income\ntax, analysis of personnel incentives and motivation and Federal/State\ntax/spending relationships. Total amount of contract, covering ex-\npenses only, not to exceed\n$ 500\n(claimed as of 5-1-73, none)\nW. Craig Stubblebine, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Claremont Graduate\nSchool.\nProf. Stubblebine provided advice and consultation regarding the\nRevenue Control and Tax Reduction Program, analysis of State personal\nincome tax and other specific assignments as designated by the Task\nForce Chairman. Total amount of contract, covering expenses and\ncompensation, not to exceed\n$ 2,000\n(claimed as of 5-1-73, $2,000)\nConclusion\nThe pooling of resources from the administrative budgets of the depart-\nments of state government to provide for task forces to deal with special\nresearch and problem solving efforts is a necessary and proper function of\nthe Executive Branch in the management of our state government. The use of\nsuch task forces for priority projects has been an innovative approach used\nby this Administration for the benefit of all Californians.\n-7-\nAPPROXIMATE TOTAL SUPPORT OF\nTAX REDUCTION TASK FORCE\n$\nIN KIND\nPERSONNEL*\nBusiness & Transportation Agency\n(Dept. of Housing & Community\nDevelopment)\n$ 750\n$ 2,444\n$ 16,121\nHealth and Welfare Agency\n(Social Welfare, Human\nResources Development)\n30,000\n2,700\n71,185**\nAgriculture and Services Agency\n(Dept. of General Services)\n-0-\n7,044\n-0-\nResources Agency\n-0-\n-0-\n-0-\nGovernor's Office\n-0-\n500\n15,524\nepartment of Finance\n-0-\n-0-\n2,822\nTotal\n$30,750\n$13,588\n$105,652\nPersonnel administrative overhead\n11,328\nGRAND TOTAL $161,318\n*It is impossible to calculate precisely the value of contributed time.\nMany individuals assisted the Task Force during evenings and on weekends,\nas well as during the regular workday. The figures set forth in the\n\"Personnel\" column are good-faith estimates.\n**Includes $1,300 in travel costs claimed under HRD Contract #73004457.\n5-23-73\n-8-\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-24-73\n#285\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Visalia attorney Frederic A.\nJacobus to the Tulare County Superior Court bench.\nThe judicial post, newly created by the 1972 legislature, pays\n$36,393 annually.\nJacobus, 50, is a 1947 graduate of the University of California's\nBoalt Hall School of Law. He was a member of the legal staff of the\nSanta Fe Railway Company from 1948-53. He has since been engaged in\nprivate law practice in Visalia.\nHe served in the U. S. Army in World War II and was wounded in\naction in Normandy, France in 1944 while a member of the 79th Infantry\nDivision.\nJacobus, a Republican, is a past president of the Tulare County\nBar Association; helped found the Tulare County Legal Service Association:\nis a past member of the board of trustees of Valley Children's Hospital\nin Fresno; and is a Century Club member of the Boy Scouts of America and\nY.M.C.A.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-24-73\n#286\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have\nbeen signed;\nAB 129 -L.Greene\nDeletes the requirement that the State Board of\nChapter 60\nRegistration for Professional Engineers transmit to\neach county recorder lists of all land surveyor\nlicenses issued, suspended, or revoked by this board.\nThe bill also deletes the requirement that the board\nfile a copy of the roster and supplemental roster of\nregistered professional engineers with clerk of each\ncounty in the state.\nAB 176 - Townsend\nPermits any county conducting a \"mobile intensive care\nChapter 61\nparamedic\" pilot program to provide training to person\nother than county employees or employees of a fire\nprotection district within the county, either at the\nfull cost or at a reduced fee to the extent that\nfederal funds are made availabl e to reimburse the\ncounty for such training costs.\nAB 216 - Townsend\nAuthorizes the governing board of a school district\nChapter 51\nor the county superintendent of schools that operates\nor jointly operates a regional occupational center or\nprogram to establish and maintain classes outside of\ntheir respective jurisdictions for such center or\nprogram.\nAB 238 -MacDonald\nDeletes obsolete Education Code provisions relating\nChapter 62\nto the district retirement salary plan.\nAB 277 -McAlister\nPermits the governing boards of school districts to\nChapter 63\nschedule junior high and high school classes so that\npupils may attend school for less than regular number\nof schooldays in a week as long as total attendance\nin a five schoolday period is at least 1,200 minutes.\nAB 281 - Cline\nPermits a flashing amber lamp on a vehicle transporting\nChapter 64\nan extra legal load being operated under a permit\nissued by the Department of Public Works and on\nvehicles transporting integral loads.\nAB 305 - Chappie\nRequires the State Controller to disburse the fees\nChapter 65\ncollected for off-highway vehicles semi-annualy\ninstead of monthly.\nAB 416 - MacGillivray Authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to\nChapter 66\nsuspend or revoke the license issued to a dealer,\ntransporter, or manufacturer of motor vehicles if\nthe department determines that such person has been\nconvicted, rather than has committed and been convic-\nted, of a felony or of a crime involving moral\nturpitude.\nAB 21 - Grunsky\nProvides that an innocent spouse filing a joint\nChapter 52\nreturn may be relieved from taxes, interest and\npenalties from omitted income in certain designated\ncases of omissions by the other spouse and declares\nsuch provision shall apply to all taxable years subject\nto the provisions of the Personal Income Tax Law not\nclosed by the statute of limitations, res judicata or\notherwise. California law presently exempts the\ninnocent spouse.\n-1-\n#286\nSB 40 - Way\nRequires private school employees to be tested and\nChapter 54\nfound free of active tuberculosis within sixty days\nof their initial employment. Thereafter, tests every\nfour years will be required for both volunteers and\nemployees of private schools. Employees transferring\nfrom one school to another are exempted from this\nrequirement if they can certify a successful examina-\ntion within the last four years. Private schools can\nalso require more frequent tests upon the recomenda-\ntion of the local health officer.\nSB 79 - Mills\nAmends a retirement allowance formula added to the\nChapter 55\nCounty Employees' Retirement Law of 1937 by 1972\nlegislation. The formula is optional to the county.\nThe amendment would remove a provision excusing a\nmember from further contribution after 30 years of\nservice and also remove the 75. percent of final\ncompensation maximum allowance which could be paid\nunder it.\nSB 84 - Rodda\nAppropriates $4,038,000 from the Motor Vehicle Account\nChapter 53\nin the State Transportation Fund to the Department of\nMotor Vehicles to provide for the repair of the\ndepartment's fire-damaged headquarters.\nSB 87 - Bradley\nChanges the names of the Santa Clara County Flood\nChapter 56\nControl and Water District Act and the Santa Clara\nCounty Flood Control and Water District to the Santa\nClara Valley Water District Act and the Santa Clara\nValley Water District, respectively. The bill also\nauthorizes the district board to adopt regulations\nto provide that in excusable or justifiable\ncircumstances the penalty for failure to register\na water-producing facility or file the required water\nproduction statements may be reduced or waived.\nSB 132 - Beilenson Revises the Automotive Repair Act to reduce from 60\nChapter 57\nto 30 the days available for an automotive repair dealer\nto request a hearing before Bureau of Automotive\nRepair after denial of an application for registration\nThe bill also specifies that an automotive repair\ndealer may not commence work, nor shall charges\naccrue before the customer's consent to commence\nwork has been obtained.\nSB 287 - Biddle\nAllows physicians and surgeons to be appointed to\nChapter 58\nhospital medical staffs either annually or biennially.\nSB 356 - Biddle\nDeletes the prohibition against any person employed\nChapter 59\nby a school district as a specialist teacher from\nengaging in supplementary nonschool employment during\nthe regular academic year established in the district.\n# # # # #\n-2-\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nSacramento, California 95814\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-25-73\n#287\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nMay 28, 1973\nthrough\nJune 6, 1973\nMONDAY, May 28\nMemorial Day\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nTUESDAY, May 29\n1:30 p.m.\nMinority Appointee Workshop, Woodlake Inn,\nSacramento. Brief remarks.\n5:30 p.m.\nBrief appearance at Oakland Raiders\nReception, Senator Hotel.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWEDNESDAY, May 30\nNoon\nState Women's and Men's Club Luncheon,\nSenator Hotel. Speech.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTHURSDAY, May 31\nRepublican State Central Committee\nEvening\nFundraising Dinner and \"Evening of\nEntertainment\" honoring Governor and\nMrs. Reagan, Century Plaza Hotel,\nLos Angeles.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nFRIDAY, June 1\n2:00 p.m.\n50th Anniversary Program of the Naval\nTraining Center of San Diego, Naval\nTraining Center. Remarks.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSATURDAY, June 2\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSUNDAY, June 3\nthrough\nWEDNESDAY, June 6\nNational Governors' Conference,\nLake Tahoe, Nevada.\nOvernight - Sacramento\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-29-73\n#288\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nMelvin L. Bradley of Los Angeles as his assistant for community relations.\nBradley, 35, a native of Texarkana, Texas, replaces Robert J. Keyes,\nwho resigned recently to enter private business.\nSince 1970, Bradley has been on a contract with the governor's\noffice for community relations, and has been responsible for liaison\nbetween the governor's office and south central Los Angeles.\nPrior to his state assignment in Los Angeles, Bradley was a deputy\nsheriff in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department from 1963-69.\nWhile attending Los Angeles City College, Bradley was a clerk with\nthe U.S. Post Office and assisted in training new personnel. He\nattended City College two years and will receive a B.S. Degree in\nUrban Studies later this year from Pepperdine University.\nBradley also is a graduate of the Lumbleau School of Real Estate\nin Los Angeles.\nA Republican, he and his wife Ruth have four minor children.\nThey will make their home in Sacramento when the current school term ends\nBradley is a member of the NAACP, the Kedren Community Health\nCenter Advisory Committee and the Watts Skill Center Advisory Committee.\nHe will receive an annual salary of $20,000.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: (mmedia te\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-30-73\n#289\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bill has\nbeen signed:\nAB 137 - Gonsalves\nDelays the scheduled increase in the rates of\nChapter 67\nthe state's sales and use taxes from June 1,\n1973 to July 1, 1973. Legislation enacted\nin 1972 provided for an increase in the sales\nand use tax rate from 3-3/4 percent to 4-3/4\npercent effective June 1, 1973.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-31-73\n#290\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today \"regretfully\" accepted the\nresignation of one of his top aides, William A. Evans, who has served\nas the governor's representative with the legislature since 1969.\nGovernor Reagan called Evans \"one of the ablest men in the\nadministration, a person of great personal integrity whose talents\nhave enabled him to serve with distinction in the very difficult role\nof maintaining an effective liaison between my office, the cabinet and\nthe legislature.\"\nAs the governor's chief legislative assistant, Evans has been\na key advisor to the governor and his cabinet on legislative matters.\nAnd, as a member of the governor's senior staff, he has been a regular\nparticipant in the policymaking meetings of the cabinet and staff.\n\"I am sorry to see Bill leave. He has done an outstanding job.\nAnd, while regretfully accepting his resignation, I know that in his\nreturn to the private sector he will continue to be an immense success\nin all his endeavors. He has my best wishes and hopes for a wonderful\nfuture,\" the governor said.\nThe resignation is effective July 1.\nEvans joined the administration as assistant legislative\nsecretary and liaison with the Assembly. Last July he was promoted to\nlegislative assistant to the governor.\nA native of Phoenix, he is a 1960 graduate of Stanford University.\nHe also studied law at the University of Arizona.\nBefore joining state service, he was a sales representative for\nthe national business division of the Xerox Corporation, and was in the\nmanagement training program of Union Bank.\nEvans is returning to private business in Southern California\nand Arizona.\nIn announcing the resignation, the governor named John S. Tooker,\ndirector of the State Office of Planning and Research, to replace Evans\nas legislative assistant to the governor.\nTooker, 38, is a graduate of the University of California at\nDavis.\n-1-\n#290\nBefore joining state service as special assistant to the\nsecretary of the Resources Agency in January, 1968, Tooker was a member\nof the staff of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, from 1963-67. In\nhis chamber capacity, he served as department manager and secretary of\nits agriculture committee. Later, he became secretary of the chamber's\nWater and Power Committee and Southern California Water Conference. As\ndepartment manager, he was responsible for all agricultural and water\nand power activities of the chamber.\nSince becoming a member of the administration he has had wide\nresponsibilities in the legislative field. From January, 1968 to\nMarch, 1971, he was legislative coordinator for the Resources Agency\nwhich included analysis and development of legislative programs for\nthe administration.\nHe became deputy director of the State Office of Planning and\nResearch in March, 1971, and was later promoted to director of the office,\nwhich serves as the long-range planning staff for the governor and his\ncabinet.\nUnder his direction, the Office of Planning and Research has\ndeveloped guidelines for preparation and evaluation of environmental\nimpact statements and has revision currently under development;\ndeveloped a work program for the Environmental Goals and Policy Report\nand a two-year land use study; prepared a draft Environmental Goals\nand Policy Report for the governor; carried out numerous specific\nresearch assignments in non-natural environmental areas; and formed a\n19-unit coordinating body for statewide land use planning activities.\nTooker and his wife Joan have two children and reside in\nSacramento. He is a Republican.\nIn his new job, his annual salary will be $28,875.\n# # #\n-2-\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, Californ.. 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-31-73\n#291\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of\nFrank McCrary, of Davenport, and Carl R. Hansen of Watsonville, to the\n14th District Agricultural Association board of directors. The\nassociation operates the Santa Cruz County Fair.\nMcCrary, a 44-year old Republican, is a Davenport lumberman\nand has served on the board since April 8, 1969. A native of Santa\nCruz County, he has been a rancher and lumberman in the area for a\nnumber of years. He owns and operates the Big Creek Lumber Company.\nHansen, 35, a Republican, has served on the board since March\n29, 1966. The Watsonville businessman is the owner and operator of the\nKrystal Ice-Oxygen Equipment Company.\nBoard members serve four year terms and receive necessary\nexpenses.\n####\nAddresses:\nFrank McCrary\nCarl R. Hansen\nSwanton Road\n170 Via Venito\nDavenport, California 95017\nWatsonville, California 95076\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR R\nALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-31-73\n#292\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nLong Beach businessman John E. Filbert to the State Board of Dry\nCleaners in the Department of Consumer Affairs. He will represent\nwholesale plant owners and replaces the late Frank S. Shank of San Jose.\nFilbert, 62, a Republican has been in the dry cleaning business\nsince he began. working part time after school and weekends. He worked\nfor Petri Cleaners from 1935 to 1961 when he went into business for\nhimself. He is the owner of El Dorado Cleaners in Long Beach.\nHe was president of the California Drycleaners Association in\n1971-72 and currently is chairman of the board of the California\nFabricare Institute.\nThe appointment to the four-year term requires Senate confirma-\ntion. Board members receive $28 per diem.\n#####\nAddress:\n6047 Lewis Avenue\nLong Beach, California 90805\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-31-73\n#293\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of\nDonald L. Lederer, of Willows, and Robert W. Howard, of Orland, to the\n42nd District Agricultural Association board of directors. The\nassociation operates the Glenn County Fair.\nLederer, 42, a Republican, has served on the board since\nApril 1, 1968. He is a rancher and is the president of the Glenn County\nWool Growers Association. He is married and the father of four children.\nHoward, a 55-year-old Republican, has served on the board\nsince February 27, 1968. He operates his own real estate business in\nOrland. He is president of the Glenn County Board of Realtors and a\ndirector and former first vice chairman of the Glenn County Chamber of\nCommerce.\nBoard members serve four year terms and receive necessary\nexpenses.\n######\nAppointees' addresses:\nDonald L. Lederer\nRobert W. Howard\nRoute 1, Box 228\nP. O. Box 35\nWillows, California 95988\nCounty Road 14\nOrland, California\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR Rt\nALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n5-31-73\n#294\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nMiss Linda Canon, of San Diego, to the Vocational Rehabilitation Appeals\nBoard. She will fill the unexpired term of Tom B. Pearson, of Del Mar,\nwho resigned. The term expires December 24, 1973.\nMiss Canon, who is confined to a wheelchair, will represent\nthe physically handicapped. She has attended San Diego City College,\nSan Diego State University, the University of Hawaii and California\nWestern University in San Diego. She holds a certificate in commercial\nart.\nShe is a member of the Sheltered Workshops of San Diego and\nserved on the board of directors in 1965. She is a founder and\ncurrently president of Los conquistadores, an organization of physically\nhandicapped concerned with finding possible solutions to the problems of\nthe disabled.\nMiss Canon is a Republican. Board members receive actual\nand necessary expenses.\n####\nAddress:\n3445 Dickens Street\nSan Diego, California 92106\nGarcia"
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