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    "ocrText": "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\nDigital Library Collections\nThis is a PDF of a folder from our textual\ncollections.\nCollection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers,\n1966-74: Press Unit\nFolder Title: Press Releases - November 1968\nBox: P9\nTo see more digitized collections visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library\nTo see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection.\nContact a reference archivist at: [email protected]\nCitation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing\nNational Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Imm diate\nSacramento, Californi\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.1.68\n#641\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nNovember 4, 1968\nthrough\nNovember 10, 1968\nMonday, November 4\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nTuesday, November 5\n10:30 a.m.\nArrive polling place to vote, 1417 San Remo,\nPacific Palisades\nEvening\nGovernor and Mrs. Reagan will be at Century\nPlaza Hotel (Republican Headquarters)\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nWednesday, November 6\na.m.\nDepart for Sacramento Metropolitan Airport\n1:30 p.m.\nPRESS CONFERENCE\n2:30 p.m.\nCalling by lot of India Basin Bonds with\nIvy Baker Priest, Governor's Office\nOvernight - Sacramento\nThursday, November 7\n11:30 a.m.\nSigning of U.S. Marine Corps 193rd Birthday\nProclamation, Governor's Office\nOvernight - Sacramento\nFriday, November 8\na.m.\nDepart Sacramento Metropolitan Airport\nfor Los Angeles\nEvening\nWAIF Ball - Beverly Hilton Hotel\nSaturday, November 9\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, November 10\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: I' ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.4.68\n#642\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today commended the California Department\nof Employment personnel who operate the Youth Opportunity Center in\nSacramento for what he called service above and beyond the call of duty\nin assisting the unemployed to find jobs and rebuild their self-respect.\n\"When a state employee literally gives a man looking for a job the\nshirt off of his back so that that man can make a decent impression on\na perspective employer, I would say that was above and beyond the call\nof duty.\n\"That is exactly the kind of thing the State Department of Employ-\nment personnel have been doing down at the Youth Opportunity Center and\nPeter Weinberger and I just want them--and the people of this state--\nto know how much their attituee toward their fellow man is appreciated.\n\"\nThe governor's praise for the staff of the Youth Opportunity Center\nwas contained in a letter which was delivered personally by Weinberger,\nwho is the director of the California Department of Employment.\nMany of the applicants who come into the Youth Opportunity Center\ndo not have decent clothes, much less the money for car fare, haircuts,\nor any of the other items which so often affect the outcome of a job\ninterview.\nRecognizing this, employees in the Youth Opportunity Center began\ndigging into their own pockets to assist job applicants in getting off\non the right foot for their job interviews.\nIn addition, employees in the center established a \"clothes closet\"\nstocked with shirts, ties, jackets, dresses, shoes, socks and other\nitems of wearing apparel which they donated.\nThe clothes closet idea came about after one of the men in the\noffice exchanged his own shirt and necktie for the T-shirt which a\nyoung job applicant was wearing so that the youngster could make a more\nfavorable impression at his job interview.\nIn his letter, Governor Reagan expressed his appreciation and that\nof the people of California for what he described as a fine example of\ncreative activity of citizens trying to help solve the problems of other\ncitizens.\n\"At a time in history when too many people do not want to 'get\ninvolved, the personnel of the Youth Opportunity Center have demon-\nstrated a genuine interest and concern for their fellow man.\n\"I am proud of them and I commend them for taking such a personal\ninterest in their jobs and in their fellow citizens, 11 the governor said.\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Im\ndiate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n#643\n445-4571\n11.4.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today elevated municipal court judges\nRafael H. Galceran of El Monte and Carroll M. Dunnum of Downey to the\nLos Angeles County superior court bench.\nThe new posts pay $30,572.\nGalceran, a 47-year-old Republican, succeeds the late Judge\nVernon Spencer. Dunnum, 51, replaces Judge John F. Aiso who was\nappointed to the District Court of Appeal by Governor Reagan.\nGalceran, a resident of Rosemead, has served as judge of the\nmunicipal court in the El Monte Judicial District for the past 13\nyears. He was named to the job in 1955 and was twice reelected. He\nwas elected presiding judge in the El Monte Judicial District this year.\nHe is a 1948 graduate of the University of Southern California\nLaw School and is a former chairman of the Los Angeles County Municipal\nCourt Judges Association.\nGalceran is also a former president of the Rosemead Kiwanis Club\nand the El Monte High School Alumni Association. He has headed local\nfund drive campaigns for such organizations as the community chest,\nRed Cross and March of Dimes.\nHe served as an aircraft commander and flight leader in Europe\nduring World War II and earned such honors as the Air Medal and Three\nOak Leaf Clusters. He was a staff judge advocate for the U. S. Air\nForce's 146th Fighter Interceptor Wing during the Korean War. He\ncurrently holds the rank of colonel and deputy wing commander of the\n146th Military Aircraft Wing, California Air National Guard in Van Nuys.\nGalceran is married and has three children. He lives at 8840\nGuess Street, Rosemead.\nDunnum, a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has lived in California\nsince 1934. He is a graduate of the Loyola School of Law and is now\nserving his fifth term as presiding judge of the municipal court in\nthe Downey Judicial District. A Republican, he was appointed to the\nbench in 1961.\nHe is a former president of the Downey Union High School District\nBoard of Trustees. He was elected to the first city council of the\nnewly incorporated City of Downey and served as mayor for three terms.\nHe has also been a leader in such community activities as the\nUnited Fund Drive, Boy Scouts and Rotary International.\n- 1 -\nDunnum's wife,\niscilla, is a practicing i orney and is\ncurrently serving as mayor pro-tem of Downey, the first woman ever\nelected to this post.\nAmong his major accomplishments, Judge Dunnum organized a number\nof committees within the Downey Municipal Court to promote efficiency\nand fair and speedy trials to all persons.\nThe Dunnums have three children and reside at 8342 Cole Street,\nDowney.\n#####\nEJG\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: In diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-4-68\n#644\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Long Beach mattress\nmanufacturer Marion Wyatt to a four-year term on the California\nAdvisory Board of Furniture and Bedding.\nThe job pays $25 per diem plus expenses.\nWyatt, a 61-year-old Democrat, was first appointed to the\nboard in 1963. His new term will expire June 30, 1972.\nHe is president of the Acme Mattress Factory in Long Beach where\nhe has been in business for the past 37 years.\nHe lives at 5101 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach.\n####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEI\n:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.4.68\n#645\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has named J. Russell Bobbitt, Sr. of\nSan Bernardino to the State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers.\nThe post pays $25 per diem plus expenses.\nBobbitt, part owner of the Bobbitt Memorial Chapel in San\nBernardino, is a 61-year old Republican. He succeeds Lon E. Peek of\nHuntington Beach who resigned.\nBobbitt is a past president of the San Bernardino Chamber of\nCommerce, Lions Club and 20-30 Club. He is currently serving as\nchairman of the San Bernardino Fire Department Commission.\nHe lives at 1813 South Pacific Avenue, Oceanside.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEA\n:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.4.68\n#646\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Riverside attorney\nJames H. Krieger as a member of the California Advisory Committee to\nthe Western States Water Council.\nThe job pays necessary expenses. He will serve at the pleasure\nof the governor.\nKrieger, a 55-year old Republican, is a partner in the Riverside\nlaw firm of Best, Best and Krieger.\nA graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, he has long\nbeen interested in water and resources development. He coauthored a\ntext on \"Ground Water Management\" which was published in the California\nLaw Review. He has also drafted a number of legislative bills including\nthe California Water Replenishment District Act which became law in\n1955. This was the first legislation of its type to be enacted in\nthe United States.\nFor the past ten years, Krieger has served as chairman of the\nSouthern California Water Conference. He is also a member of the\nNational Reclamation Association and the American Water Works\n:\nAssociation.\nHe lives at 4420 Third Street, Riverside.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN(\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-4-68\n#647\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has named Arcata\nlumberman Herbert A. Peterson, Jr. as a member of the District Forest\nPractice Committee of the Coast Range Pine and Fir Forest District.\nThe job pays necessary expenses.\nPeterson, a 45-year-old Republican, replaces Robert H. Barrett\nof Eureka who resigned. Peterson will serve at the pleasure of the\ngovernor.\nPeterson is chief forester for the Simpson Timber Company,\nArcata. In his position, he is responsible for the forest management\nof more than 250,000 acres of California timberland.\nHe is a graduate of Oregon State University, with a degree in\nforestry, and has had nearly 20 years of experience in forest manage-\nment. He is also a member of the Arcata City Council.\nHe lives at 2066 Olson Court, Arcata.\n# # # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: I ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-4-68\n# 648\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has named Quentin W. Best of Los Angeles\nto the California Museum of Science and Industry board of directors.\nThe post is non-salaried.\nBest, a 67-year-old Republican, is president of Consolidated\nRock Products in Los Angeles. He will fill the unexpired term of\nPierre Salinger of Los Angeles who resigned. The term will end\nJanuary 15, 1970.\nBest, a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has resided in Southern\nCalifornia since 1922.\nHe is a past president of the National Ready Mixed Concrete\nAssociation, the Southern California Rock Products Association and\nthe Home Show of Southern California, Inc.\nHe is also Western Committee Chairman of the American Horse\nShows Association, Inc.\nHe lives at 1655 Rancho Avenue, Glendale.\n# # # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE:\nI\nediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.5.68\n#649\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today deplored the actions of a small\ngroup of campus militants who yesterday illegally occupied the adminis-\ntration building at San Fernando Valley State College and held hostage\nsome three dozen college personnel for several hours.\nHe also commended highly the responsible and courageous handling\nof the situation by Paul B. Blomgren, acting president of the college.\n\"I wish to commend President Blomgren for his responsible and\ncourageous actions in coping with this difficult and dangerous\nsituation,\" the governor said.\n\"I know I speak for the people of California in expressing their\ngratitude for his leadership during the crisis. The fact he made it\nclear that decisions will not and cannot be made in response to\ncoercion and violence and also the fact that he set in motion appro-\npriate disciplinary procedures deserve the respect of all of us.\n\"When, in a free society, a group of members of SDS and BSU, or\nanyone else, can literally kidnap and hold captive human beings--\nthreatening some with knives--and particularly at an institution of\nhigher learning, we are confronted by a repugnant and dangerous ex-\npression of totalitarianism.\n\"I have personally called President Blomgren to express my\ndeep appreciation and admiration for the way he handled the situation.\n\"The action of President Blomgren and the firm leadership of\nState College Chancellor Glenn Dumke in ordering the suspension of\nBlack Panther George Murray from San Francisco State College are ap-\nplauded, I am sure, by the overwhelming majority of Californians.\n\"President Blomgren said only this morning: \"I sincerely request\nstrong support of the campus community and general public for the\nmore than 18,000 students of all races who wish to continue to obtain\nan education in a responsible manner. Equal support must be given to\nthe college personnel who are doing their best to see that such an\neducation becomes a reality.'\n\"Those who stand up for the values of our society,\" Governor\nReagan said, \"must, indeed, have the support of all of us.\n\"Too many-including students and faculty members--have been too\nsilent too long. It is time we all stood up to be counted,\" the\ngovernor said.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Im ediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-6-68\n#650\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has proclaimed the month of November\nas COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MONTH. Text of the proclamation follows.\n\"WHEREAS The Community Development Plan of the California\nJaycees is a three-fold program to encourage citizen\nparticipation in community improvements; produce\nchange and improvement and creates new and meaningful\nopportunity for leadership training; and\n\"WHEREAS The California Jaycees have pledged to actively\nsupport projects to assure community growth and\nprosperity; and\n\"WHEREAS The Human Resources sector of the Community Develop-\nment Plan stresses education, which includes 'stay\nin school\" campaigns; job opportunities to broaden\nthe industrial base for employment; and the improve-\nment of communication channels between different\nsocio-economic levels of the community; and\n\"WHEREAS Community Development is a major emphasis program of\nthe citizens of the State of California in the\nfurtherance of civic pride and community awareness;\nand\n\"WHEREAS Community Development is a fine example of citizens\nproducing creative projects to help themselves and\ntheir communities,\n\"NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do\nhereby proclaim the month of November, 1968 as COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT\nMONTH urging all Californians to cooperate with the Jaycees of\nCalifornia to actively promote growth and participation in Community\nDevelopment.\"\n####\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOP\nRELEASE:\nImm\nliate\nSacramento, Californi\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.7.68\n#651\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today proclaimed November 10 as the\n193rd Anniversary of the U. S. Marine Corps and urged all Californians\nto honor the Marine Corps, past, present and future, with appropriate\nceremonies.\nText of the proclamation follows:\n\"Whereas on November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress passed\na resolution creating the Marine Corps, to consist of two battalions\nfor service as landing forces with the fleet; and\n\"Whereas Marines have participated in all wars of the United\nStates since the Revolution, being in most instances first, or among\nthe first to fight, having executed more than 300 landings on foreign\nshores and serving in every major U. S. Naval action since 1775; and\n\"Whereas 75,000 or more Marines are on active duty in the State\nof California, with 15,000 additional Marine Reservists; and\n\"Whereas armed with the weapons of modern warfare, the Marine\nCorps faces the challenges of the future, as it has throughout almost\ntwo centuries, the true measure of its ability in meeting these\nchallenges lying not in numbers or weapons, but in the glowing record\nof those who have bequeathed to it an untarnished legacy of military\nachievement the priceless heritage of a proud band of men,\n\"Now therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, governor of California, do\nhereby proclaim November 10, 1968 as the 193rd anniversary of the\nU. S. Marine Corps, urging that all Californians honor the Marine Corps,\npast, present and future, with appropriate ceremonies.\"\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Imm iate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-6-68\n#652\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Ferndale rancher Joseph Russ III\nas a member of the State Fish and Game Commission.\nRuss, a 59-year-old Republican, replaces Henry E. Clineschmidt\nof Redding who resigned.\nThe post pays $10 per day on commission business, plus expenses.\nRuss served as chairman of the Fish and Game Committee of the\nCalifornia Cattlemen's Association for six years. In this position\nhe developed a statewide policy on fish and game matters and worked\nclosely with state and federal agencies on the subject.\nHe has also been chairman of the Predatory Animal Control\nCommission of Humboldt County for 16 years, working closely with the\nU. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the State Department of Agriculture.\nRuss is currently a member of the Rabies Control Advisory\nCommission.\nIn 1964, he was selected as \"Livestock Man of the Year\" by the\nGreater San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.\nHe originated and served for six years as chairman of the\nHumboldt County Department of Forestry. He is also a past president\nof the California Woolgrowers' Association and a former director of\nthe National Woolgrowers' Association.\nRuss attended both St. Mary's College and the University of\nCalifornia at Davis where he majored in animal husbandry.\nHe ranches some 25,000 acres in Humboldt County. His address is\nOcean House, Ferndale.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nCor Eact: Paul Beck\n44: -4571\n11.8.68\n#653\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced that the State of\nCalifornia will not return Edgar Eugene Bradley to Louisiana, as\nrequested in extradition proceedings addressed to the governor's office.\nThe decision was based upon insufficient showing by Louisiana\nthat Bradley had been in that state between August, 1963, and November 22\n1963,\nthe period during which the extradition documents alleged\nthat Bradley violated a Louisiana statute \"relative to conspiracy with\nothers to murder John F. Kennedy.\"\nLouisiana had based its request on the premise that Bradley had\nbeen in that state during August, 1963, and thus proof of this allega-\ntion is an essential legal requirement before Bradley could be returned\nas a fugitive.\nEdwin Meese, legal affairs secretary to the governor, held a\nlengthy hearing on June 26, during which the attorney for Bradley pro-\nduced sworn testimony that Bradley had not been in the State of\nLouisiana prior to April of 1965.\nMeese said the governor's decision was made after a thorough\nreview of all the evidence in the case, consultation with the attorney\ngeneral's office and the exchange of correspondence with the district\nattorney's office in New Orleans.\nLouisiana officials were given the opportunity to present witnesses\nto substantiate the allegations that Bradley had been in Louisiana\nduring 1963, but declined to do so, Meese said.\nThe decision did not involve a consideration of the issue of guilt\nor innocence but was confined to the requirements of extradition law.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Sun y, November 10\nSacramento, Californ\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.8.68\n#654\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following message in\nrecognition of Veterans Day, November 11:\n\"Whereas at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, a cease- fire on the\nWestern Front ended World War I; and\n\"Whereas on November 11, 1919, President Wilson issued a\nproclamation stating, in part 'To us in America the reflections\nof Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of\nthose who died in their country's service and with gratitude for\nvictory; and\n\"Whereas in 1926 Congress adopted a resolution directing\nPresident Coolidge to issue an annual proclamation calling upon the\npeople to observe the day; and\n\"Whereas after World War II it was recognized as a day of\ntribute to the dead of that conflict as well as of World War I, the\nday being renamed Veterans Day by President Eisenhower and Congress\nin 1954, proclaiming it as honoring the dead of the Korean conflict and\nWorld Wars I and II; and\n\"Whereas the 200 million people of the United States include\nthe bloodlines of all the world, and as our blood came from every\ncorner of the globe, so has it been spilled in almost every corner,\nbled into a field called Flanders, the sands of Africa, a place\ncalled Omaha Beach, splashed on a rock named Corregidor, on the\nbleak slopes of Pork Chop Hill and now in the rice paddies and jungles\nof Vietnam; and\n\"Whereas men died to make the world safe for democracy; men died\nto push back the evil darkness of tyranny without God where man's\nmorality was measured by the size of the club he carried; and our\nyoung men die today because of an equally evil force which threatens\nthe freedoms and dignity of man in every land,\nof\n\"Now, therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, governor / California, do hereby\nurge all Californians to remember the honored dead of World War I and\nII and the Korean War on Veterans Day, November 11, 1968, and further\nurge all Californians to pay particular tribute to our young men\nfighting and dying to preserve the freedom of a small nation in\nSoutheast Asia and to pause and offer our moral and spiritual strength\nto those men who some would have us forget; and further to work and\npray for an honorable peace to end all wars and threats of war.\"\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.8.68\n#655\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nNovember 11, 1963\nthrough\nNovember 17, 1968\nMonday, November 11\nVETERANS DAY\nAfternoon\nReturn to Sacramento\n7:30 pm\nArrive Firehouse Restaurant for California\nState Police Association Dinner\n(Overnight - Sacramento)\nTuesday, November 12\n11:45 am\nPictures for California Anti-Litter Campaign\nand Welcome Wagon (Governor's Office)\n(Overnight - Sacramento)\nWednesday, November 13\nMorning\nDepart Sacramento Metropolitan Airport for L.A.\n12:15 pm\nStatler-Hilton Hotel, Hartford Room, for\nCounty Supervisors' Association Luncheon\n(Speech)\nAfternoon\nReturn to Sacramento\n(Overnight - Sacramento)\nThursday, November 14\n3 pm\nGovernor's Council Meeting - Dr. C. Northcote\nParkinson is speaker\nAfternoon\nDepart Sacramento Metropolitan Airport\n6:30 pm\nArrive San Diego Airport - proceed to Kona Kai\nfor National Conference of Editorial Writers\n(Speech)\n(Overnight - Los Angeles)\nFriday, November 15\nNo public appointments scheduled\n(Overnight - Los Angeles)\nSaturday, November 16\nNo appointments scheduled\n(Overnight - Los Angeles)\nSunday, November 17\nAfternoon\nReturn to Sacramento\n(Overnight - Sacramento)\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: l...unediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.13.68\n#656\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Long Beach attorney\nGeorge R. Johnson to the State Coordinating Council for Higher\nEducation.\nHe also reappointed Lorenzo N. Hoopes of Oakland and\nWilliam C. Bark of Stanford to four-year terms on the council.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses and are subject to Senate\nconfirmation.\nJohnson, a 51-year old Republican, will fill the unexpired term\nof the late Arthur G. Coons. The term will end November 1, 1969.\nHoopes, a Republican, was first appointed to the council last\nJanuary. He is a food chain executive in Oakland.\nBark, a Democrat, is a professor of history at Stanford\nUniversity. He has served on the council since September, 1967.\nJohnson, a 1937 graduate of the University of California, also\ntook his law degree from Cal in 1940.\nHe served as a special agent for the FBI from 1942-45.\nHe is a former president of the Long Beach Bar Association, the\nLong Beach Chamber of Commerce and the Long Beach Navy League. He\nserves as counsel to the local Better Business Bureau; is a trustee\nof the Long Beach Memorial Hospital, and is a director of the Los\nAngeles Chamber of Commerce.\nHe lives at 4603 Virginia Road, Long Beach.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: lmmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.13.68\n#657\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Bakersfield attorney\nGeorge A. Brown to the Kern County Superior Court bench.\nThe judicial post, created by the 1968 legislature, pays\n$30,572.\nBrown, a 51-year old Republican, has been engaged in private\nlaw practice in Bakersfield since 1949.\nHe is a 1948 graduate of the Stanford University Law School.\nHe completed his undergraduate work at the University of California,\nBerkeley, where he graduated as president of his class in 1940.\nDuring World War II, he served four years in the U. S. Army,\nmost of which was spent overseas. A recipient of the Bronze Star,\nhe left the service as a major in 1945.\nHe is a past delegate to the Conference of State Bar Delegates\nand has served on a number of State Bar committees.\nBrown is a former president of the Kern County Bar Association.\nHe is also a past president of the U. C. Alumni Association of Kern\nCounty and the Kern County YMCA.\nHe is a former trustee of the Stanford Alumni Association of\nKern County and has served as a director of the Bakersfield United\nCommunity Fund for three years.\nHe is married and has four children. He resides at 6604\nMt. Hood Drive, Bakersfield.\n# # #\nEJG\nSacramento, Californi\nContact:\nPaul Bec\n445-4571\n11.14.68\n#658\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement in\nconnection with the closure of San Francisco State College:\n\"I was shocked, indeed apalled, to learn of the shutdown of the\nSan Francisco State College campus.\n\"For a school administration to deliberately abandon the leader-\nship invested in it by the people of this state--at the expense of the\nvast majority of students intent on receiving an education--is an\nunprecedented act of irresponsibility.\n\"It is clear that the administration, in its obvious quest for\nwhat was considered an easy way out, ignored other options which were\navailable to assure the orderly continuation of the educational process.\n\"It was an act of capitulation--surrender, if you will=-to a\nsmall, unrepresentative faction of faculty and student militants\ndetermined to substitute violence and coercion for orderly grievance\nprocedures available to all.\n\"Indeed, without the vehement encouragement, support and even\ndirection of certain members of the San Francisco State College faculty,\nthis tragic situation could not have taken place.\n\"The fact is, the people of this state will not and cannot toler-\nate the shutdown of one of their own institutions of higher learning\nas a consequence of the violent tactics of a small coalition of\nactivists who would burn and destroy to accomplish their selfish ends.\nIndeed, to get its way, this militant faction would virtually resort to\ndestroying the college.\n\"It is absolutely essential that the campus be reopened to classes\nwith dispatch.\n\"I have justtalked with Chancellor Glenn Dumke and Theodore Merriam,\nchairman of the State College Board of Trustees, who informed me that\nthey are calling a meeting of the Board of Trustees for Monday to take\nup this issue. I, in turn, assured them that they have my full support\nin their efforts to restore order on the campus.\n\"It must be said that the campus administration itself contributed\nin no small measure to the unfortunate events of the past few days by\nearlier having publicly opposed an order by Chancellor Dumke calling\nfor the removal of a self-professed advocate of violence from the\nstate college faculty. Remembering that the chancellor's order merely\nimplemented a decision in September by the Board of\n-1-\n#658\nTrustees, it must also be recalled that the administration of the college\nimproperly represented the directive as unjust--hence further kindling\nthe fires of violence on the campus.\n\"What is most tragic about this is that a majority of student\nsupport was\nfinding its voice in repudiating those\nwho were using the campus as a staging area for insurrection.\n\"I want to make it perfectly plain that as long as I am governor,\nour publicly supported institutions of higher education are going to\nstay open to provide educations for our young people. The people of\nthis state, the people who pay the bills, want it that way. And, that\nis the way it will be.\n\"Professors are paid to teach, not to lead or encourage violent\nforays which only result in physical harm to persons and property. If\nthey refuse to honor the trust our citizens have placed in them they\nshould look for work elsewhere.\n\"And, as I have said before, if students--including members of\nthe BSU and SDS--are unwilling to abide by the rules of the college, they\nwill have to get their educations somewhere else.\"\n# # #\n-2-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul BE\n445-4571\n11-15-68\n#659\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Oakland attorney Harold B. Hove\nand San Leandro Municipal Judge Gordon L. Minder to the Alameda County\nSuperior Court bench.\nThe judicial posts, created by the 1968 legislature, pay\n$30,572 per year.\nHove, a 53-year-old Republican, has been engaged in private law\npractice since 1953. A 1940 graduate of Gonzaga University Law School,\nSpokane, Washington, he worked as a special agent for the F. B. I.\nfrom 1940-45. He was a private investigator in Oakland from 1946-53.\nHe is a former Alameda city councilman and served on the Alameda\nPension and Retirement Board in 1954. He has also been a member of the\nlocal draft board (number 50) for the past six years.\nHe is married, has three children, and lives at 700 Paru Street,\nAlameda.\nJudge Minder, 55, is a 1942 graduate of the University of\nCalifornia's Boalt Hall school of law. A Republican, he is a past\npresident of the Alameda County Bar Association and the Southern\nAlameda County Bar Association.\nHe is also a former president of the San Leandro chapter of\nthe American Red Cross, the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce and Junior\nChamber of Commerce. He was named San Leandro's outstanding citizen\nin 1951.\nHe served as a commanding officer of two minesweepers in the\nU.S. Navy during World War II.\nHe is married, has three sons, and resides at 911 Arbor Drive,\nSan Leandro.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Be\n445-4571\n11-15-68\n#660\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today elevated five superior court judges\nto the State Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District.\nThe posts were created by the 1968 legislature and pay an annual\nsalary of $36,687. The appointments must be confirmed by the State\nCommission on Judicial Appointments.\nNamed were:\nRobert S. Thompson, a 50-year-old Republican. Thompson, a 1942\ngraduate of the U. S. C. Law School, was named to the Los Angeles\nSuperior court in 1966 after serving for nearly two years as a municipal\ncourt judge.\nHe served as an officer in the U. S. Air Force during World War II\nFrom 1946-65 he was engaged in private law practice, except for two\nyears when he worked as chief assistant U. S. attorney in Southern\nCalifornia.\nThompson lives at 707 North Oakhurst Drive, Beverly Hills.\nDonald R. Wright, 61, a 1932 graduate of the Harvard University\nSchool of Law. A Republican, he was elected to the Los Angeles Superior\ncourt in 1960 after having served as a municipal court judge in\nPasadena during the previous seven years.\nHe has been a member of the State Judicial Council for the past\ntwo years and is a native of Fullerton. He is married and resides at\n1010 Laguna Road, Pasadena.\nHarold W. Schweitzer, a 57-year-old Republican, and a member\nof the Los Angeles Superior Court since 1952. He was a municipal\ncourt judge from 1947-52.\nHe is a 1935 graduate of the U. S. C. Law School and served as\nan officer in the U. S. Army during World War II. He is married and\nhas a son. He lives at 135 White Oak Drive, Arcadia.\nGerold C. Dunn, 57, a 1938 graduate of Stanford University Law\nSchool. A Republican, Dunn was appointed to the Los Angeles Superior\ncourt last December.\nHe began his legal career as a special deputy to the Los Angeles\nCounty Counsel. From 1940-67 he was engaged in private law practice.\nHe is a former president and director of the Association of\nSouthern California Defense Counsel.\nHe is married, has a son and daughter, and resides at 109 North\nMcCadden Place, Los Angeles.\n- 1 -\n#660\nWilliam Reppy, a 56-year-old Republican, of Oxnard. Reppy\nhas served on the Ventura County Superior Court bench since 1955.\nA graduate of the U. S. C. Law School, he was engaged in private legal\npractice from 1937-55.\nHe served as a research assistant for the State Supreme Court\nfrom 1966-67 and was clerk for the Supreme Court from 1967-68.\nHe is married and has two sons. He lives at 340 Deodar Avenue,\nOxnard.\n# # # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califor\na\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-15-68\n#661\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today commended the University of California\nMedical School at Davis for the planned increase in class size it has\nachieved \"in order to help meet the health needs of both the state\nand nation.\n\"This action, by America's newest medical school, has been taken\nvoluntarily without any request for additional funds or faculty, the\ngovernor said.\nHe noted that the Association of American Medical Colleges\nrecently urged the nation's medical schools to increase the output of\nphysicians. \"The UCD Medical School, \" he said, \"is among the first\nto have accepted this challenge. And, they should be congratulated\nfor it.\nI hope that other medical schools in California will follow\ntheir lead, = he said.\nGovernor Reagan noted that UC Davis, with Chancellor Emil M. Mrak\nand Dean C. J. Tupper of the School of Medicine, opened its medical\nschool on the compus in record time and at a minimum cost.\n\"The University of California and the Davis Campus should be\napplauded and thanked for the full effort being expended in providing\na forward looking service to the people of the state. Their efforts\nin developing a school of medicine more rapidly than ever before, and\nin doing so effectively, efficiently and economically, are in the best\ntradition of our concept for a creative society, he said.\nThe School of Medicine accepted its first class of 48 students in\nSeptember and will accept 52 students in the fall of 1969.\n\"If all 100 of the medical schools across the nation admitted\nfour extra students, as Davis will do, this would be comparable to\nfour new 100-student schools opening in the fall, \" Governor Reagan said.\nStudent and faculty groups at UCD acted on resolutions at\nindependent meetings Tuesday evening and Dean Tupper endorsed their'\nrecommendations Wednesday afternoon.\n\"Dean Tupper informs us that the social awareness of the faculty\nand students will make the task of shoehorning four more students into\nthe existing program just that much more rewarding. He should be very\nproud. I know I am, \" the governor added.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, Californi\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.15.68\n#662\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nNovember 18, 1968\nthrough\nNovember 24, 1968\nMonday, November 18\nOffice Appointments\n(There is a possibility that Governor Reagan\nmay attend the State College Board of\nTrustees' meeting in Los Angeles)\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, November 19\nOffice Appointments\nWednesday, November 20\n11:30 a.m.\nSigning of Mexican-American Education Month\nproclamation, Governor's Council Room\np.m.\nDepart Sacramento Metropolitan Airport for\nLos Angeles\n7:00 p.m.\nCouncil of State Governments Dinner,\nAmbassador Hotel. Speech.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nThursday, November 21\nNoon\nNational Broadcasters Editorial Conference\nand National Radio and Television News\nDirectors Association Luncheon, Beverly-\nHilton Hotel. Speech.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nFriday, November 22\na.m.\nDepart Santa Monica Airport for San Diego\n9:00 a.m.\nBoard of Regents' meeting, University of\nCalifornia at San Diego\np.m.\nReturn to Los Angeles\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSaturday, November 23\nNo appointments scheduled\nSunday, November 24\n6:30 p.m.\nVince Scully Testimonial Dinner, Beverly\nHilton Hotel\nOvernight - Los Angeles\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, Califor\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-15-68\n#663\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has \"regretfully\naccepted\" the resignation of retired Coast Guard Admiral Ned Sprow\nas director of the State Department of Harbors and Watercraft.\nThe resignation will become effective December 1. Sprow was\nappointed to the $22, 575-a-year-post last spring.\n\"I have regretfully accepted the resignation of Ned Sprow.\"\nthe governor said. \"I want to publicly thank him for the excellent\nservice he has rendered to this administration and to the people of\nCalifornia during the past year and a half. His willingness to leave\nthe comforts of retirement to serve in this post has constituted a\nfine example of responsible citizenship. If Governor Reagan added.\nEchoing the governor's sentiments, Norman B. Livermore Jr\nsecretary of the State Resources Agency, said:\n\"I also want to express my deep appreciation to Ned for his\nimportant contribution to state government and to the department he\nhas headed. We will miss him. I wish him every success in the future\nNamed to succeed Sprow was Robert C. Walker of La Mesa. Walker.\na 42-year-old Republican. has had broad administrative experience\nin the fields of public relations and advertising for the past\n18 years.\nDuring the past three years he has operated his own public\nrelations firm in San Diego.\nHe is a co-founder with Dr. Gaylord Parkinson, former Republican\nState Central Committee chairman, of an organization called\n\"Republican Associates\" composed of more than 1,000 San Diego area\nbusiness and professional men and women.\nLivermore said, \"I look forward to working closely with\nBob Walker in the Resources Agency.\n\"Over the years he has demonstrated outstanding management\nqualities and administrative skills which will provide continued\nleadership in the Department of Harbors and Watercraft.' \"\nWalker is married and has three children. He plans to move his\nfamily to Sacramento next month.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.16.68\n#664\nGovernor Ronald Reagan said today that the San Francisco State\nCollege campus must be recpened to classes on Tuesday.\nHe expressed confidence that the State College Trustees will\nexercise their responsibility to the people of California by taking\nwhatever measures are necessary to see that this is accomplished\nwhen they meet in emergency session Monday in Los Angeles.\n\"The citizens of this state are now looking to the Trustees for\nleadership--leadership which was abandoned by the administration of\nthe college in its decision to shut down the campus last Wednesday,\"\nhe said.\n\"Because the Trustees are accountable to the people of Cali-\nfornia, I am confident they will exercise their responsibility in\nthis matter,\" he added.\nGovernor Reagan also disclosed that he has received a detailed\ninvestigative report on conditions at San Francisco State College which\npreceded the closure of the school.\nThe confidential report--compiled by special investigators\nassigned to the governor's office \"verifies the fact,\" he said,\n\"that the shutdown was unnecessary to protect persons and property,\nand that law enforcement support was available to keep the campus open.\"\n\"I have also received full assurance from police officials that\nthey can provide the support necessary to maintain order at the\nschool when it reopens,\" he added.\nThe governor said his report included observations by personnel\nassigned to cover the scenes of violence on the campus during the\n10 days prior to the shutdown as well as information from police\nreports and several law enforcement agencies, including the\nSan Francisco Police Department, the State Department of Justice and\ncampus police.\n\"It is essential,' he said, \"that firm leadership be reestablished\non the campus so that the college may return to its academic function,\nSO that a proper atmosphere for study and research may be regained on\na permanent basis.\n\"By capitulating to a small group of faculty and student trouble-\nmakers, the San Francisco State College administration showed a woeful\nlack of understanding of the divisive tactics which were used to\n-1-\n#664\ndisrupt the campus. This apparently further contributed to their\ncomplete inability to successfully thwart the objectives of the\nlawbreakers.\n\"Anyone who allows the criminal element to achieve its\nobjectives- in this case, the closing of a major educational\ninstitution--fails in his duty to society as a whole.\n\"Certainly, no responsible administrator could allow a small\ngroup of dissidents--intent on using violence and coercion to achieve\nits ends--to disrupt the educational activities of 13,000 students and\nfaculty members who wish to preserve the educational process.\n\"The administration's abdication of its responsibility by shutting\ndown the campus amounted to contempt for the principles of firm\nleadership which the people of this state have a right to expect\nfrom campus officials whose salaries are paid with taxpayers' money.\"\nHe said his investigative report shows that major police\nofficials were not consulted in advance concerning the closure of\nthe campus, and did not concur in the need for this action. \"It was\nstrictly an administrative decision of the San Francisco State College\nstaff,\" the report said.\n\"Forces sufficient to meet the requirements of any campus\ncontingency will continue to be immediately available in the future--\nas they have been in the past--when requested by the college administra-\ntion,' the governor said.\nThe governor emphasized that in addition to reopening the campus,\nappropriate disciplinary action must be taken against all individuals--\nfaculty members, students and non-students--who participated in or\nencouraged the disruptive tactics which preceded closure.\n\"Also, any discussion of student complaints should take place only\nthrough regular channels of communication,\" he said, \"and only after\nthe college has reopened, order has been restored and educational\nactivities resumed.\"\nGovernor Reagan said his report showed that only 80 to 100 \"hard-\ncore militant agitators\" were causing the trouble. They included\nfaculty members, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) and Students\nfor a Democratic Society (SDS), and approximately 20 off-campus members\nof the BSU and Black Panthers.\nThe detailed report also indicated that during the 10-day period,\nmore than a dozen arrests were made on charges ranging from assaulting\n-2-\n#664\npolice officers to arson and possession of an explosive device.\nCertain phases of the violence were well-organized, the report\nsaid. It cited the movement of groups into buildings at set times on\nvarious floor levels, the igniting of fires in such places as rest\nrooms and trash barrels, the shattering of windows, and damage to school\nfurniture and walls.\nIn addition to such arson and vandalism, a number of classes were\ndisrupted by harassment teams, the report said. The tactics of these\nteams were designed to make it appear that more persons were participat-\ning than were actually present.\n\"All of this was done in the name of violence with one, single\nobjective in mind capitulation by the campus administration and\nclosure of the school,\" the governor said.\n\"Obviously, the administration was aware of that objective. Why,\nthen, did they choose to ignore it? Why, then, did the college leader-\nship fail to take the steps necessary to maintain order on the campus?\n\"The answers are clear,\" the governor said. \"The administration\nchose to abandon its leadership, to take the easy way out, to capitulate\nto the threats of a relative handful of activists at the expense of\nthe vast majority of students and faculty intent on preserving the\neducational process.\n\"As governor of California, my responsibility to the people is\nclear: to assure that law and order is preserved at our state-\nsupported institutions, including the colleges and university.\n\"The responsibility of the Trustees is also clear: to see to it\nthat whatever steps are necessary be taken to reopen the campus at\nSan Francisco State College; to see to it that our young people are\nable to resume their educations free of violence and disruption.\" \"\n# #\n-3-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.18.68\nGovernor Reagan spent the night at his residence in Los Angeles.\nHe will be attending the Board of Trustees meeting this\nmorning.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO..\nMEMO TO THE 1. ASS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.18.68\nGovernor Reagan will arrive at Sacramento\nMunicipal Airport this evening at approximately\n6:15 p.m.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califorr\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.10.68\n6665\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed four persons to the\nmunicipal court bench in Los Angeles.\nThe posts pay $28,126 per year.\nNamed were:\n-Deputy Attorney General Jack E. Goertzen, a 37-year old\nRepublican. Goertzen has served in the state attorney general's\noffice since 1957, the year he was admitted to the California Bar.\nHe succeeds Judge Howard E. Crandall who retired.\nGoertzen, a 1957 graduate of the U.S.C. Law School, is a native\nof Los Angeles.\nHe is married, has four children, and lives at 4326 Beeman\nAvenue, Studio City.\nHerbert J. Adden, Jr., a 42-year old Whittier lawyer. Adden,\na Republican, is a 1951 graduate of the U.S.C. School of Law. He has\nbeen engaged in general law practice since then.\nAdden has played an active role in community affairs, having\nreceived such honors as the Award for Community Service for serving\nas Whittier Community Chairman - United Fund in 1964; Award for Out-\nstanding Club Leadership as president of the East Whittier Kiwanis\nClub in 1965; Award for Outstanding Community Service as division\nchairman of the Support for Churches Committee sponsored by Kiwanis\nInternational in 1966. He is also a former secretary, treasurer and\npresident of the Whittier Bar Association.\nHe is married and has two children. He resides at 1422 California\nPlace, Whittier.\nKenneth E. Vassie, 35, commissioner of the Inglewood Municipal\nCourt since last year. Vassie, a Democrat, was graduated from the\nLoyola University School of Law in 1962.\nHe worked as Inglewood city prosecutor and assistant city\nattorney from 1962-67. He has also been vice president of the\nInglewood Bar Association and has been an instructor of business law\nin the Adult Education Division of the Inglewood Unified School\nDistrict for the past three years.\nHe is married and has a daughter. He lives at 620 West Ellis\nAvenue, Inglewood.\n-1-\n#665\n-Albert D. Matthews, Los Angeles County Superior Court com-\nmissioner since 1962. Matthews, a 45-year old Democrat, has served as\na judge pro tempore during the past six years and has heard over\n32,000 domestic relations and other cases. In 1961, he was a referee\nfor the State Unemployment and Disability Appeals Board, writing over\n1,000 decisions.\nHe graduated \"cum laude\" from the Howard University School of\nLaw in 1954 and worked as a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney\nfrom 1953-61. He was an associate professor of law at the San Fernando\nValley Law School from 1964-66.\nHe is a director of the Southern California Baptist Convention\nand the Henderson Community Center in South Los Angeles.\nMatthews is married, has a daughter, and lives at 2105 West\nCorydon Street, Compton.\nAdden, Vassie and Matthews will assume judicial posts created\nby the 1968 legislature.\n# # *\n-2-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: 2 p.m. Tuesday\nSacramento, California\nNovember 19\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.18.63\n#666\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today accepted \"with gratitude and a deep\nsense of pride\" a landmark report on transportation in California\nwhich was prepared by a task force of 24 state business and transpor-\ntation leaders.\nHe called the 50-page report \"an excellent first step--indeed, a\ngiant step--toward improving coordination and planning of the state's\noverall transportation system to better meet the needs of all Cali-\nfornians during the crucial years which lie ahead.\"\nThe governor appointed the task force team in the spring of 1967\nto define the state's present and future transportation problems and\nto suggest ways in which state government might provide greater\nleadership for meeting the challenges of the future in this area.\n\"I want to express my deep appreciation to Chairman\nWilliam L. Pereira and the members of the transportation task force\nfor the many thousands of hours they gave to this extremely important\nproject. It was a huge undertaking,\" he said, \"and one which has\nrequired a great deal of energy and effort on their part.\n\"Their report makes an immense contribution to the knowledge this\nadministration must have in order to meet its continuing responsibilities\ntoward the people OF California in the important area of comprehensive\ntransportation development and planning,\" he said.\nSecretary of Business and Transportation Gordon C. Luce commented:\n\"The task force has met our objectives and identified our most\nserious deficiency the inability to define and evaluate adequately\nour transportation requirements and problems.\n\"In an effort to save the taxpayers' money, we should carefully\nconsider the steps the report recommends. Certainly we should first\ndevelop the machinery that can place the state in a position to\nassume its transportation responsibilities before we ask the people\nto pay for costly programs.\n\"I will suggest that the administration propose legislation to\nimplement many of the steps recommended in this report and--specifically--\nadopt the establishment of a Transportation Board to serve in an\nadvisory capacity and a State Planning Office.\n-1-\n6666\n\"We are now working on some of the report's suggestions and\nhave already accomplished others. Included are: a master plan for\ngeneral aviation airports; a model for rapid transit financing;\nplanning for joint use of transportation corridors; financial assistance\nfor mass transit districts, and coordinated joint park and highway\ndevelopment.'\nAmong members of the task force to comment on the report were:\n--Harmer Davis, director, Institute of Transportation and Traffic\nEngineering, University of California:\n\"Many states, and the federal government, have been talking a\ngreat deal recently about improving and coordinating transportation.\nThere has also been much talk about greater local participation in\ntransportation planning and decision-making.\n\"These objectives are desirable and urgent, but they are not\nattained just by talk nor by fiat. There has to be brought into being\na capability for doing those things that will, in fact, lead to better\ntotal transport performance, to improved coordination among the\ndiverse segments of transport activity, and to more workable means of\nincorporating local objectives in transport development programs.\n\"No one as yet has really been able to accomplish what is desired\nor needed. California is again faced with developing and pioneering\nan approach without precedent.\n\"The main thrust of the task force recommendations is to lay the\nbasis for meeting these objectives.\"\n--Robert Irwin, assistant to the general manager, TRW Systems,\nsaid:\n\"I think all the members of our task force would agree with me\nthat the findings and recommendations presented in our report represent\nonly a start toward the finding of solutions to our transportation\nproblems, not the solutions themselves. This is a most necessary\nbeginning, however, if we hope to develop long range solutions to the\nproblems which will face us in the future as well as at the present\ntime.\n\"From my point of view as an aerospace systems engineer, the basic\nfoundation of state level policy and organizational structure which\nwe have recommended is the logical first step in the realization of a\ntruly integrated system of transportation services in California.\nWithout this foundation, we will be unable to bring to bear the\n-2-\n#666\navailable resources of science and technology which must be utilized\nif we hope to solve our transportation problems in coming decades.\"\n--Councilman Ernani Bernardi, City of Los Angeles:\n\"It has reinforced my opinion that our present policy of frag-\nmenting, more pointedly our 'everyone for himself' approach to pro-\nviding basic government services is the root cause of much of our\nconfusion, resulting in effective solutions to our problems of\nurbanization despite the enormous public expenditures.\n\"If the recommendations embodied in our final report result in\ndenting the iron curtain that separates and divides government even\nslightly, it will have been worth all of the time and effort. I am\nhopeful that it will do more.\" He went on to state: \"An ordered,\nobjective, overall program geared to mesh all components in a balanced\napproach is the only way we can insure equity and utility at the local\nlevel.\n\"Only the state government has the means and the authority. The\nonly question is does it have the foresight and the will?\"\n--Neil Petree, chairman, executive committee, Barker Brothers,\ncommented:\n\"The development of the highway, road and street systems in the\nState of California has, as you know, particularly interested me for\nmany years. The manner in which the state highway system has been\nplanned, financed, constructed and maintained is an example of what\ncan be achieved on a state-wide basis. The most important recommenda-\ntion of the task force is that the governor propose legislation to\ncreate a California Transportation Board. This is a recognition of\nthe state's role in transportation. I realize that this board will\nnot be able to correct all of the problems that are enumerated in\nthe report of the task force. However, with the help of the State\nTransportation Planning Office, a considerable amount of coordination\ncan be achieved.\n\"I am pleased that the task force report recognizes that the\npresent highway funds created by the gas tax should not be diverted.\nAs fine as our state highway system is, the task force recognized\nthat all of the funds now raised by the gas tax would be needed to\ncomplete the system and that perhaps this money would not be\nsufficient.\"\n-3-\n#666\nMembers of the task force team also included:\nJ. Floyd Andrews, President\nFrancis T. Fox, General Manager\nPacific Southwest Airlines\nLos Angeles Department of Airports\nAlbert W. Bayer, President\nJohn P. Fraim, Jr., President\nA. W. Bayer and Associates\nMutual Broadcasting Corporation\nDr. Arnold O. Beckman, President\nHerbert Hoover, Jr.\nCalifornia State Chamber of\nConsulting Engineer\nCommerce\nB. F. Biaggini, President\nJohn McDonnell\nSouthern Pacific Company\nPresident, Board of Directors\nAlameda-Contra Costa Transit\nRichard R. Brown, Mayor\nDistrict\nCity of El Cajon\nEdwin S. Moore, Executive Vice\nAsa V. Call, Honorary Chairman\nPresident\nPacific Mutual Life Insurance\nCalifornia State Automobile Associa-\nCompany\ntion\nDr. Richard D. DeLauer\nWilliam L. Pereira, F.A.I.A.\nVice President and General Manager\nWilliam L. Pereira & Associates\nTRW Systems Group, TRW Inc.\nHenry Roloff, Executive Vice President\nNils O. Eklund, Jr., Vice Pres.\nPacific Coast Association of Port\nKaiser Industries\nAuthorities\nAlbert J. Eyraud, President\nWade Sherrard, Managing Director\nSouthern California Rapid Transit\nCalifornia Trucking Association\nDistrict\nShermer L. Sibley, President\nAdrien J. Falk, President\nPacific Gas and Electric Company\nS. F. Bay Area Rapid Transit\nDistrict\nJames M. Udall, President\nJames M. Udall, Inc.\nJohn V. Vaughn, President\nDartell Laboratories Inc.\n-4-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-18-68\nGovernor Reagan will officially accept the report of his\nTask Force on Transportation tomorrow at a ceremony in the Governor's\nCouncil Room at 1:45 p.m.\nFollowing his brief statement of acceptance, members of the Press\ncan ask questions of members of the Task Force team who will also be\npresent.\nSee attached release.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.18.68\n#667\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Los Angeles businessman\nJacob M. Stuchen to a four-year term on the State Commission on Fair\nEmployment Practice.\nThe governor also reappointed Santa Barbara attorney Pier A.\nGherini to the commission.\nThe posts pay $50 per day spent in the performance of duty,\nplus necessary expenses.\nStuchen, a 68-year old Republican, is chairman of the board of\nMaple Industries, Inc., Los Angeles. He replaces Dwight Zook of\nRolling Hills whose term expired.\nStuchen, a Beverly Hills city councilman, is a graduate of\nthe University of Toronto and the Osgood Hall Law School, Toronto.\nHe was the recipient of the 1967 Man-of-the-Year Award from\nthe Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce and has received many other\nhonors for civic, social welfare and philanthropic service. Last\nyear he served as chairman of the Christmas Seals campaign and was\nmayor of Beverly Hills in 1966.\nHe is presently president of the Beverly Hills B'nai B'rith; is\na trustee of the Jewish Community Foundation and the President's Council\nat Brandeis University.\nStuchen is a former chairman of the Beverly Hills Planning\nCommission and United Crusade. He is also a past trustee of the\nBeverly Hills YMCA and was treasurer of the United Jewish Welfare\nFund Campaign for 1964-65.\nHe lives at 1114 Wallace Ridge, Beverly Hills.\nGherini was first appointed to the commission in April, 1967.\nHis new term will expire in mid-September, 1972.\nA Republican, he served as chairman of the Board of Freeholders\nwhich drafted the Santa Barbara city charter, and has been active in\ncommunity affairs for many years.\nHe lives at 1807 Mira Vista, Santa Barbara.\n# # #\nEJG\nOF\nTHE\nGOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\neate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.19.68\n#668\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement in\nDohenty\nconnection with a meeting he had with James Dougherty president of\nthe BART Board of Directors, and Directors Garland Graves and Harry\nLange:\n\"I have just met with the three members of the Board of Directors\nof the Bay Area Rapid Transit District who are with me here.\n\"The meeting was an extremely constructive one--one which produced\nvery substantial agreement on the part of all of us who participated--\nthat financing of the BART deficit should come from an emergency,\nshort-term half cent sales tax increase in the three counties involved.\n\"On the basis of our conversation today, I am now prepared to say\nthat this administration will actively support such a sales tax\nproposal during the forthcoming regular legislative session.\n\"I have asked Senator Lew Sherman to introduce legislation to\naccomplish this purpose as an urgency measure in January. He has very\ngraciously agreed to carry the legislation.\n\"The three BART directors have assured me that we will have the\nfirm backing of the BART Board in this action.\n\"I am also confident that we will be able to count on broad\ncommunity support for the sales tax approach.\n\"This is clearly a matter of extreme urgency. There is no question\nbut that a solution to the financing problem is imperative.\n\"Certainly, in my mind, the sales tax approach is the only\nfiscally sound one with which to effect a solution.\n\"The fact is that already the state is contributing $180 million\ntoward the financing of BART. The addition of a half cent sales tax\nwould provide sufficient emergency funds to make up what they have\ncertified to be the deficit which is faced.\n\"The advantage of the sales tax approach in these three counties\nis that the deficit could be made up within a period of approximately\n4 and 1/2 years, at which time the tax would end. This is similar to\na measure adopted a few years ago which helped finance highway and\nbridge repair caused by disastrous floods in Northern California.\"\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, Californ\nMEMO TO THI\nRESS\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-19-68\nCORRECTION\nOn Press Release No. 668, dated 11-19-68, please correct the\nname of the BART Board of Directors' president. It should read\nJames Doherty.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californi.\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-19-68\n# 669\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Deputy District Attorney\nT Bruce Iredale and attorney Robert J. Cooney to the San Diego\nMunicipal Court bench.\nThe posts, created by the 1968 legislature, pay $28,126 per year.\nIredale, a 46-year-old Republican, is a 1950 graduate of Hastings\nLaw School in San Francisco. He has been a deputy district attorney\nin San Diego since 1953. He served in the same capacity in San Luis\nObispo County from 1952-53.\nHe currently holds the rank of major in the U. S. Air Force\nReserve.\nA native of Norwich, England, he has lived in California since\n1924. He received an A. B. Degree in international relations from the\nUniversity of California at Berkeley in 1945.\nHe is married, has two children, and resides at 827 Amiford Drive,\nSan Diego.\nCooney, 40, is a 1952 graduate of the University of Montana and\nreceived his law degree from the University of San Diego in 1958.\nHe has been engaged in private law practice in San Diego since\n1961. He served as a deputy San Diego city attorney from 1959-61.\nHe is Insurance Committee chairman of the San Diego Bar Association\nand serves as manager and vice president of the Cajon de Oro Little\nLeague.\nHe is married, has four children, and lives at 4521 Hillview Drive,\nLa Mesa.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ:\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.20.68\n#670\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named four persons to the Orange\nCounty Municipal Court bench.\nThe posts pay $28,126 per year.\nNamed were:\nWalter E. Smith, a 39-year cld Republican. Smith, an Orange\nattorney, is a 1958 graduate of the U.S.C. Law School. He received\nhis B.A. Degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1951.\nHe currently works as a receiver for the Orange County Superior\nCourt. In 1963, he was elected as a trustee of the Fullerton Union\nHigh School and Junior College District.\nHe is married, has two daughters and lives at 501 Green Acre\nDrive, Fullerton.\nFenton E. Jones, 56, a Huntington Beach lawyer. A Republican,\nJones is a 1949 graduate of the U.S.C. Law School and has been\nengaged in private legal practice since then.\nHe is a director of the Huntington Beach Rotary Club and served\nas president of the University Club of Long Beach from 1958-59. He\nis currently vice president of the Orange County Chamber of Commerce\nand has served as a director of the organization since 1964. He has\nalso been a director of the Fountain Valley Chamber of Commerce since\n1955.\nHe is married, has three children and resides at 2818 South\nRene Drive, Santa Ana.\nKenneth M. Smith, a 40-year old Republican and Newport Beach\nattorney. Smith received a B.A. Degree from Stanford University in\n1950 and took his law degree at the school in 1952.\nHe is a member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Cali-\nfornia Defense Counsel Association and the Newport\nHarbor Bar\nAssociation.\nHe is married and has three children. He lives at 2020 Tustin\nAvenue, Newport Beach.\n-J. Edgar Thomson Rutter II, 37, a Newport Beach lawyer. Rutter,\na Republican, is a 1952 graduate of Princeton University. He re-\nceived his law degree from U.S.C. in 1955 and has been engaged in\nprivate legal practice since then.\nHe is a member of the Orange County Bar Association and has\nserved on its Unauthorized Practice Committee.\nHe is married, has four children, and lives at 121 Via Havre,\nNewport Beach.\nRutter replaces Judge William Christensen who retired.\nThe other three appointees will occupy judicial posts created\nby the 1968 legislature.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-20-68\n#671\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has named attorney Nick J. Drobac as a\njudge of the Santa Cruz County Superior Court.\nThe job, created by the 1968 legislature, pays $30,572 annually.\nDrobac, a 41-year-old Santa Cruz lawyer, is a 1954 graduate of\nthe University of Colorado Law School. He received his A. B. Degree\nin 1951 from Stanford University.\nHe served as district attorney of Santa Cruz County from 1957-62.\nHe was a deputy district attorney in the county from 1955-57.\nDrobac, a Republican, was president of the Santa Cruz County\nBar Association last year.\nHe served in the U. S. Army from 1945-46.\nHe is married, has two children, and lives at 1604 Wilshire Drive,\nAptos.\n#####\nEJG\nGOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nuaLe\nSacramento, Califorr\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-20-68\n#672\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named two persons to the State\nMarine Research Committee and reappointed two other members.\nThe jobs pay necessary expenses.\nThe new appointees are John J. Royal, 46, of San Pedro, and\nJohn G. Peterson, a 50-year-old San Francisco Republican.\nRoyal, a Democrat, replaces John Hawk of Belvedere. Peterson\nsucceeds Arthur H. Mendonca of Berkeley. The terms of Hawk and\nMendonca expired.\nGovernor Reagan also reappointed Dr. Wilbert M. Chapman and\nRobert E. Chapman, both of San Diego, to four-year terms. Dr. Chapman,\n58, was first named to the committee in 1960. He is director of\nmarine resources for the Ralston-Purina Company. Robert Chapman, 51,\nwas appointed in 1963. He is an executive of Westgate-California\nFoods in San Diego. Both are Republicans.\nRoyal has been executive secretary-treasurer of Fisherman's Union\n33, I.L.W.U., South Palos Verdes, since 1957. Over the past 10 years\nhe has served in an advisory capacity to various state and federal\nagencies in the field of commercial fishing. He has been a member of\nthe Fisherman's Union for the past 22 years. He served as Inter-\nnational Representative for the I.L.W.U. in 1956.\nHe lives at 1044 West Oliver Street, San Pedro.\nPeterson is president of the Washington Fish and Oyster Company\nof California in San Francisco. He is a former director and regional\nvice president of the National Fisheries Institute; served as a\ndirector of the American Seafood Distributors' Association and vice\npresident of the California Seafood Institute last year; and has been\na member of the Governor's Advisory Commission on Ocean Resources for\nthe past year.\nHe lives at 570 Laurent Road, Hillsborough.\nThe terms of Royal and Peterson will expire October 1, 1971.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Bet..\n445-4571\n11,20.63\n#673\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has named attorney\nEarle J. Gibbons to the Bakersfield Municipal Court bench.\nThe judicial post, created by the 1968 legislature, pays\n$28,126 per year.\nGibbons, a 39-year old Democrat, is a 1961 graduate of the\nU.C.L.A. School of Law. Prior to entering law school, he taught\nhigh school English in Bakersfield. He serves as a charter member\nand president=elect of the Westchester Kiwanis Club. He is also a\nformer member and current director of the Kern County U.C. Alumni\nAssociation.\nHe is a member of the Board of the Salvation Army and serves\nas a director and secretary of the Kern County Young Life Committee.\nIn 1966, he was chairman of the American Bar Association's\nmembership drive in Kern County and served as chairman of the Law Day\nSchools Committee for the Kern County Bar Association in 1965.\nHe received the Bronze Star during the Korean War.\nGibbons is married, has four children and lives at 195 South\nGarnsey Road, Bakersfield.\n# # # # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-20-68\nGovernor Reagan will sign a proclamation today recognizing the\nperiod between November 15 and December 15 as \"Californian-Mexican\nAmerican Education Month\" in the state.\nThe document will be signed at a ceremony in the Governor's\nCouncil Room at 11:30 a.m.\nTaking part in the ceremony will be Ernest Garcia of Redlands,\npresident of the Association of Mexican-American Educators (AMAE);\nEdward Moreno, past president of the Association and Sam Alvid,\nchairman of the organization's Proclamation Committee.\nAnother 75 representatives from AMAE chapters in California will\nalso attend, including several couples dressed in colorful costumes\nwho will put on an exhibition of native folk dancing.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califor a\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-20-68\n#674\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named San Bernardino police officer\nManuel Quevedo, Jr. and attorney James M Shumway to the State\nAlcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board.\nThe posts pay $14,000 per year and require Senate confirmation.\nThe appointees will serve at the pleasure of the governor.\nQuevedo, a 47-year-old Republican, replaces Robert Wagner of\nNewport Beach. Shumway, also 47, succeeds Donald Tuttle of Sacramento.\nQuevedo has served as commander of the San Bernardino Police\nDepartment's Office of Community Relations for the past two years.\nFrom 1965-67, he headed the department's Juvenile Bureau.\nHe joined the San Diego Police Department in 1946.\nHe is a navy veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict,\nis married and has two children.\nQuevedo is a former president of the San Bernardino Police Benefit\nAssociation and is a past commander of American Legion Post 709.\nHe has also served as co-chairman of the Mexican-American Cancer\nProject in San Bernardino County.\nHe lives at 1371 West Ninth Street, San Bernardino.\nShumway, a Republican, is a former assistant administrator of\nthe State Health and Welfare Agency and served on the State Unemploy-\nment Insurance Appeals Board for a brief period this past Spring\nprior to resigning to run for Congress in the 4th Congressional\nDistrict,\nHe is a graduate of University of Illinois and received his law\ndegree from Stanford University.\nHe worked as Solano County Counsel prior to joining state service.\nHe lives at 19 Willotta Way, Suisun.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, Califo\nia\nMEMO TO TH PRESS\nContact:\nPaul L-ck\n445-4571\n11-20-68\nCORRECTION\nOn Release #674, dated 11-20-68, substitute the following third\nparagrap'i.\nQuevedo, a 47-year-old Republican, replaces Donald Wagner of\nNewport Beach. Shumway, also 47, succeeds Robert Tuttle of Sacramento.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califor\na\nContact:\nPaul BL.K\n445-4571\n10-20-68\n#675\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Eugene N. Babb of San Francisco\nas a member of the Pilotage Rate Committee for San Francisco, San\nPablo and Suisun Bays.\nThe post is non-salaried.\nCaptain Babb, a 60-year-old Republican, will fill the unexpired\nterm of Tracy J. Mauldin of Alameda who resigned. The term will end\nJune 30, 1971.\nBabb has been a bar pilot for the Port of San Francisco for the\npast eight and one half years. He has worked as a shipmaster, marine\nsuperintendent and bar pilot in the San Francisco Bay Area for some\nfour decades.\nHe lives at 1880 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact;\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.20.68\n#676\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Mariposa County Supervisor\nFrank L. Long, Jr. as a member of the State Planning Advisory Committee.\nThe post pays necessary expenses. Long, a 42-year old\nRepublican, replaces John M. Mayfield who resigned.\nLong will serve at the pleasure of the governor.\nHe was elected to the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors last\nyear and also serves as president of the Mountain Counties Water\nResources Association.\nHe has been a cattle rancher and breeder in the Mother Lode for\ntwo decades.\nHe is married and has two sons. His address is Star Route,\nMariposa.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califor\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11.20.68\n#677\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today elevated municipal court Judge\nMaxwell M. Willens to the San Joaquin County Superior Court bench.\nThe judicial post, created by the 1968 legislature, pays\n$30,572 annually.\nWillens, a 59-year old Republican, is a 1930 graduate of\nSouthwestern University Law School in Los Angeles. He was admitted\nto the State Bar the same year at the age of 21.\nHe served as assistant district attorney in San Joaquin County\nfrom 1935-44. He was engaged in private law practice until 1962\nwhen he was named to the municipal court in Stockton.\nDuring the past six years, he has served as a judge pro tem of\nthe superior court in Stockton and Los Angeles.\nHe is married and has two sons, one a Los Angeles lawyer and\nthe other an assistant basketball coach at the University of the\nPacific.\nWillens is a former president of the San Joaquin County Bar\nAssociation, the Stockton Eagles, 20-30 Club, Stockton Junior Chamber\nof Commerce and local lodge of the B'nai B'rith. He is also a\ndirector of the Stockton Boys' Club.\nHe currently is serving as chairman of the Seminar Committee\nof the California Conference of Judges.\nHe lives at 1249 West Stratford Circle, Stockton.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califo\nia\nContact:\nPaul b.ck\n445-4571\n11-22-68\n#678\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Los Angeles County Superior\nCourt Commissioner James F. Nelson to the municipal court bench,\nLos Angeles Judicial District.\nThe post, newly created by the 1968 legislature, pays $28,126\nper year.\nNelson, 41, is registered as a non-partisan. He is a 1953\ngraduate of the Loyola University School of Law. He received his\nB. A. Degree in 1950 from U.C.L.A.\nHe is a former deputy LAS Angeles County district attorney\n(1954-56) and served as a referee in the Juvenile Department of the\nLos Angeles Superior Court from 1965-67.\nHe was a co-author of the 1966 edition of the Juvenile Court\nManual of Policy, Practice and Procedure.\nHe has worked as commissioner of the court since March, 1967.\nNelson is a co-founder of the Citrus-Pomona Community Relations\nCommittee and has served as chairman of the Juvenile Court Annual\nSeminar Committee.\nHe is married and has two children. They live at 3628 Westridge\nAvenue, Covina.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-22-68\n#679\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today promoted Kirk West, a key Resources\nAgency official over the past 13 months, to the position of State\nDeputy Director of Finance.\nAt the same time, Finance Director Caspar Weinberger announced\nthe elevation of his present deputy director, James S, Dwight, Jr.\nto the post of Chief Deputy Director of Finance. Dwight, 34, has\nserved as deputy director since January 2, 1967.\nWest, 31, was born in China, the son of an American protestant\nmissionary. He has served as assistant to the secretary of the\nResources Agency, Norman B. Livermore, since October, 1967. In this\njob, his responsibilities have included coordination of both adminis-\ntration policy in the resources area and legislative programs.\nHe was research director for the Republican State Central\nCommittee from 1963-66 and served as senior consultant to the\nAssembly Minority in Sacramento until taking the $20, 500-per-year\nResources Agency post.\nWest is a 1954 graduate of Medford, Oregon, High School. He\nreceived a B. A. Degree in political science from Stanford University\nin 1958 after which he worked for approximately one year as an\ninvestigator for the Oregon Medical Board.\nHe resumed his university studies in 1961 and, as a Falk\nFoundation Fellow, received an M. A. Degree in political science the\nfollowing year from the University of California at Berkeley.\nDwight assumes a post previously held by Charles E. Dixon who\ntook a year's leave of absence as Stanislaus County administrative\nofficer to serve as chief deputy director of the department. Dixon\nreturned to his county job on October 1.\nDwight, a certified public accountant, is a 1956 graduate of the\nUniversity of Southern California. He was employed by Sunkist Growers,\nInc., Los Angeles, from 1958-67. He joined the firm as a chief\naccountant and worked himself up through the ranks to the position of\ncontroller before joining the Reagan administration.\nHe will continue to receive $26,796 annually as chief deputy\ndirector of finance. West will also earn $26,796 per year.\nBoth men are Republicans.\nWest will officially assume his new duties December 1.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE COVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-22-68\n#680\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nNovember 25, 1968\nthrough\nDecember 1, 1968\nMonday, November 25\na.m.\nDepart Los Angeles International Airport for\nSacramento Metropolitan Airport.\nNoon\nComstock Club Luncheon, Martinique Room,\nSacramento Inn. Speech.\nOvernight - Sacramento.\nTuesday, November 26\n9:45 a.m.\nSigning of a giant Christmas card for\nservicemen in Vietnam, Governor's office.\n11:30 a.m.\nPresentation of live Thanksgiving turkey\nby California Turkey Growers Association\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWednesday, November 27\na.m.\nDepart Sacramento Metropolitan Airport for\nLos Angeles International Airport.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nThursday, November 28-\nSunday, December 1\nNo public appointments scheduled.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, Californ\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.25.68\nDue to the urgent nature of events on the San Francisco State\nCollege campus, Governor Reagan will today attend the State College\nBoard of Trustees meeting in Los Angeles. All appointments which\nwere scheduled for today in Press Memo No. 680 are cancelled.\nGordon Luce, State Business and Transportation Secretary will\naddress the Comstock Club luncheon at the Sacramento Inn, replacing\nGovernor Reagan.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califor\na\nContact:\nPaul Be K\n445-4571\n11-25-68\n#681\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Hillsborough attorney\nG. Brooks Ice to the San Mateo municipal court bench.\nThe post, created by the 1968 legislature, pays $28,126 per year.\nIce, a 57-year-old Republican, is a 1951 graduate of Hastings\nLaw School, San Francisco. He took his A. B. Degree from San Jose\nState College in 1936 and received a general secondary teaching\ncredential from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education\nin 1937.\nHe worked as a California Highway Patrol officer from 1937-42\nand served in the U. S. Army four years during World War II.\nIn 1946, he returned to the Highway Patrol. He also took law\ncourses part time. In 1948, he left the patrol to devote full\nattention to the study of law and was admitted to the State Bar in 1951.\nHe became a San Mateo County deputy district attorney in 1952\nand four years later joined the San Mateo law firm of Monaco and Ice\nas a partner. The firm is now called Monaco, Ice and Reeve.\nIce is a past adjutant of the San Mateo American Legion post and\nserves as a member of the Panel of Hearing Officers of the American\nArbitration Association.\nHe is married and lives at 1509 Black Mountain Road, Hillsborough.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.25.68\n# 682\nGovernor Ronald Reagan said today he has reluctantly agreed to\naccept the resignation of William P. Clark Jr. as his executive\nsecretary, effective next January 31.\nThe governor also announced he plans to appoint Clark as a superior\ncourt judge in San Luis Obispo County where the Clarks will reside on\ntheir cattle ranch near Paso Robles.\nClark, a 37-year old attorney and rancher, has served as a key\nmember of the Reagan administration since its beginnings first as\ncabinet secretary and, for the past 15 months, as executive secretary\nto the governor.\nReagan said he has selected his legal affairs secretary, Edwin\nMeese III, to replace Clark as executive secretary. Meese has served\nas legal affairs secretary since early in 1967.\nThe governor called both Clark and Meese \"outstanding young men\nof great executive ability men who have brought responsible leader-\nship to the administration and dedication to their key tasks in\ngovernment.\"\nOf Clark, he said:\n\"I have long been aware of Bill's desire to return to Paso Robles\nand the ranch.\n\"From the very outset, Bill made it plain that he intended to work\nin state government for approximately eight months.\n\"At my personal insistence, he graciously agreed to extend his stay\nin Sacramento.\n\"He has contributed much to the success of state government during\nthe past two years. His performance as executive secretary has been\noutstanding. He is one of the brightest and ablest young men I have\never had the pleasure of knowing.\n\"His qualities of leadership and the balanced judgment he has\ndemonstrated in state service will serve the San Luis Obispo County\njudiciary exceedingly well. It is a well-known fact that he commands\nthe respect of the legal profession, having built up a successful law\npractice in Ventura County during the 10 years prior to joining this\nadministration.\n\"I will miss him, and I know I express the sentiments of the rest\nof my staff in this regard.\"\n\"At the same time, I realize that his responsibilities in Sacrament\nhave required a great deal of time and sacrifice especially in terms\nof family interests and personal commitments.\n#682\n\"For this reason, I am reluctantly accepting his resignation.\nAnd, while I am pleased that he has agreed to remain on as executive\nsecretary through January, I am also happy that he will be able to\ncontinue to render service to the people of this state as a member of\nthe judicial bench.\n\"Bill's dedication--and that of others like him in this\nadministration to the principles of good government through citizen\nparticipation in the governmental process--is a continuing source of\ninspiration to me.\n\"I am extremely proud of the way so many members of the\nadministration have given of their time and energies to see to it\nthat state government truly works for the good of all the people,\"\nthe governor said.\nClark commented: \"I am proud to have been a part of the new\nconcept which Governor Reagan has given to state government, that of\nbringing the best talents of business, industry and the professions\ndirectly into the functions of government.\n\"It has been a signal pleasure for me,\" he said, \"to work for the\ngovernor during these past two years. It has been the most exciting,\nmost rewarding period of my life, a time I will always remember and be\nthankful for.\"\nAmong Clark's major contributions to the administrative function\nof the executive branch were the establishment of procedures designed\nto reduce the size of memoranda and reports between the governor's\noffice and the agencies and departments; and refinements in the\ndecision-making process.\nAs cabinet secretary he also played a key role in writing and\nimplementing recommendations to reorganize the executive branch.\nMeese, 36, is a 1953 graduate of Yale University. He received\nhis law degree from the University of California's Boalt Hall in\nBerkeley in 1958.\nPrior to joining the Reagan administration, he served as Alameda\nCounty deputy district attorney for seven years. He was a member of\nand\nthe Senior Criminal Trial Staff, worked as a legislative liaison\nrepresentative and legal advisor to the Alameda County Grand Jury.\nIn 1965, he was selected as one of the \"Five Outstanding Young\nMen of California\" by the State Junior Chamber of Commerce.\nAs legal affairs secretary, Meese's duties have included the\nhandling of all interstate and international extraditions, advising\nand assisting the governor in matters of executive clemency, liaison\nwith legal and law enforcement agencies and organizations, staff\nresponsibility in criminal justice matters, coordination of emergency\nplanning and operations, and supervision of the community relations\nand local government functions of the governor's staff.\n#682\nHe serves as a member of the State Bar's Special Committee on\nCrime Control and the Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure.\nHe is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Center for the\nStudy of Criminal Justice at the University of California, Davis, and\nrepresents the governor on the California Council on Criminal Justice.\nFrom 1965-67, Meese was a member of the University of California\nSchool of Law.\nHe lives with his wife and three children in Carmichael.\n# # #\n-3-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.26.68\nGovernor Reagan is attending the\nBoard of Trustees' meeting in Los Angeles\ntoday.\nAll scheduled office appointments have\nbeen cancelled.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-27-68\n#683\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named San Rafael attorney Edward W.\nMcGuire to the Marin County Superior Court bench.\nThe job, created by the 1968 legislature, pays $30,572 per year.\nMcGuire, a 44-year-old Republican, served as Marin County Counsel\nfrom 1960-63. He was a deputy district attorney for five years in\nSan Rafael prior to being selected as assistant Marin County counsel\nin 1957.\nA 1950 graduate of the University of San Francisco Law School,\nhe has been a partner in the San Rafael legal firm of Bagshaw,\nMartinelli, Weissich and Jordan since 1964.\nMcGuire is a former vice president (1965) and president (1966) of\nthe Marin County Bar Association. He has also been a director of\nUnited Cerebral Palsy of Marin, the Marin Symphony Guild and the\nTuberculosis and Health Association of Marin.\nHe is married, has three children, and resides at 1 Rosebank Lane,\nKentfield.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n#684\n445-4571\n11-27-68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Redwood City attorney\nRobert F. Kane to a newly-created position on the San Mateo County\nSuperior Court. The post pays $30,572.\nKane, 42, is a Republican and partner in the law firm of Kane,\nThrasher & Galligan.\nA native of Denver, he is a World War II Navy veteran and was\ngraduated from the University of San Francisco with a law degree in\n1952. He also attended Menlo Park Junior College, San Mateo Junior\nCollege and U.S.C. He has been associated with several law firms\nsince his graduation,\nKane is a member of the San Mateo County Bar Association, the\nState Bar, the American Bar Association, International Society of\nBarristers and presently serves as a member of the administrative\ncommittee of the State Bar on disciplinary matters.\nHe lives at 2125 Ensenada Way, San Mateo, is married and has\nfive children.\n#####\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Im. diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n#685\n445-4571\n11-27-68\nSan Joaquin County District Attorney Laurence Drivon was named\nby Governor Ronald Reagan today as a municipal court judge in the\nStockton judicial district. He succeeds Judge Maxwell M. Willens, who\nwas elevated to the superior court.\nDrivon, 55, was graduated from Stanford with an A.B. in 1935 and\nreceived his law degree after study at University of California School\nof Jurisprudence and San Francisco Law School.\nHe was a deputy district attorney in San Joaquin County from\n1946 to 1950 when he was named chief trial deputy. He was assistant\ndistrict attorney from 1955-59 and named district attorney in 1959\nby the board of supervisors. He was elected in 1962 and re-elected in\n1966.\nDrivon is a member of the state bar, the American Bar Association,\nAmerican Judicature Society, National District Attorneys' Association,\nCalifornia Peace Officers' Association, and a past president of the\nSan Joaquin County Bar Association and the California District Attorneys'\nAssociation.\nHe has been active in numerous civic affairs and is a member of\nthe commonwealth Club of San Francisco and the California Judicial\nMerit Plan Committee.\nA republican, he is married and has five children. He resides at\n3024 North American Street, Stockton.\nIn 1967 he was awarded the distinguished service placque from the\nCalifornia District Attorney's Association. The post pays $28,126\nannually.\n######\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN..\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11-27-68\n#686\nSanta Barbara attorney Floyd Cummings Dodson was named today by\nGovernor Ronald Reagan to the superior court in Santa Barbara County,\nreplacing Judge Percy Heckendorf who retired in September.\nDodson, 44, is a native of Lockhart, Texas, and is a navy veteran\nof World War II. He attended Texas A & M and U.C., Berkeley, and\nreceived an LLB from Hastings College of the Law in 1952 and a JD in\n1967.\nHe has been engaged in the private practice of law since 1953 and\nsince March, 1962 has been a partner in the law firm of Haines and\nDodson.\nDodson is a member of National State, and County Bar Associations\nand the American Trial Lawyers Association.\nHe lives at 200 Olive Mill Road, Santa Barbara. He is married\nand has five children. He is a republican. The post pays $30,572.\n#####\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Im liate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.27.68\n#687\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following Thanksgiving\nDay message:\n\"We have much to be grateful for on this Thanksgiving Day.\n\"\nFor the continued blessings of liberty;\n=\nFor a precious national heritage;\n\"\nFor the challenge of a future filled with justice and peace;\n=\nFor the privilege of expressing our thanks to a Creator who\ngives meaning and substance to life;\n\"\nFor the love of family and friends;\n\"\nFor the brave men and women who serve our nation overseas,\nand especially to those who even now are risking their lives for the\npreservation of freedom on the battlefields of Vietnam;\n\"\nFor the responsibilities we owe to the rule of the law,\nwhich responsibilities, in turn, make our freedoms possible.\n\"For all of this and so much more, we are very grateful this\nday. \"\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n11-29-68\n#688\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Santa Paula attorney\nEdwin F. Beach as a superior court judge in Ventura County. He replaces\nJudge William Reppy, who was elevated to the district court of appeal.\nBeach, 44, was born in Lima, Peru and has been a California\nresident for the past 38 years. He is a World War II army veteran.\nHe attended Pasadena Junior College and received his law degree\nfrom U.S.C. Beach has spent nearly 18 years in active general practice\nof law in Santa Paula and in 1958 was elected judge of the Santa Paula-\nFillmore-Piru Judicial District (justice court) and now serves frequent-\nly as judge pro tempore in Ventura County Municipal Court.\nHe is a member of the American, California, and Ventura County Bar\nAssociations, a former president of the County Bar and a member of the\nState Bar Committee on legislation and the American Bar's section on\njudicial administration. He also is a member of the American Judicature\nSociety and has taught law at Ventura Junior College.\nBeach is a member of the Santa Paula Elementary School Board, a\nmember of the Commonwealth Club of California and has been active in\nnumerous community and civic affairs.\nA Republican, he is married and has seven children. He lives at\n1500 Say Road, Santa Paula.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n11.29.68\n#689\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nDecember 1, 1968\nthrough\nDecember 8, 1968\nSunday, December 1\nP.M.\nDepart Los Angeles International Airport for\nSacramento Metropolitan Airport\nMonday, December 2\n11:45 a.m.\nSigning of Giant Christmas Card sponsored by Tulare\nChamber of Commerce for boys in Vietnam, Governor's\nOffice\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, December 3\n9:30 a.m.\nDepart Sacramento Municipal Airport for Orange\nCounty Airport\n11:00 a.m.\nSecretaries of State Conference, Disneyland Hotel,\nAnaheim. Remarks.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nWednesday, December 4 -\nSaturday, December 7\nREPUBLICAN GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE,\nPALM SPRINGS\nSunday, December 8\n8:00 p.m.\nConvention of California School Boards Association\nand California Association of School Administrators,\nDisneyland Hotel, Anaheim. Remarks\n# # #\nEJG"
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