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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 - February 1969\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 GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.3.69\nAn advance preview of Governor Reagan's\nfilmed \"Report to the People\" on the budget\nwill be shown at 1:30 p.m. today in the\nGovernor's Council Room.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nMEMO TO THE\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-3-69\nGovernor Reagan's press conference of\nTuesday, February 4, has been cancelled and\nrescheduled for 9:30 a.m., Thursday, February 6.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Back\n445-4571\n2-3-69\n#59\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Napa Valley farmer Cecil E.\nHerrick to a four-year term on the Regional Water Quality Control Board,\nSan Francisco Bay Region.\nHerrick, a 61-year-old Democrat, replaces Grant Burton of Walnut\nCreek whose term expired.\nThe governor also reappointed Ercole Caroselli, 47, of San Francisco,\nCaroselli, a Democrat, was first named to the board in 1966. He is an\nexecutive of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses.\nHerrick serves as Napa County representative for Sunsweet Growers,\nInc., and is a member of the organization's board of directors.\nHe is also a director of the Larkmead Cooperative, a group of\ngrape growers in Napa County.\nHe is a director of the Valley Farm Labor office in Dixon and the\nNapa County Farm Supply.\nHe farms 350 acres of land in Napa County, including prunes,\ngrapes and pears.\nHe and his wife, Florence, have two children and live at\n6296 St. Helena Highway Napa.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-3-69\n#60\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named attorney Robert J. Soares to\nthe municipal court bench, Ventura Judicial District.\nThe post pays $28,126 per year.\nSoares, 37, succeeds Judge Edwin Beach who was named to the\nsuperior court.\nSoares is a 1958 graduate of the University of California's Boalt\nHall Law School in Berkeley.\nHe worked as a deputy district attorney in Ventura County from\n1959-61. Since then, he has been engaged in the private practice of\nlaw in Ventura.\nHe served as secretary of the Ventura County Bar Association in\n1963 and was a director of the organization the following year.\nHe was also a member of the board of directors of the Ventura\nCounty Legal Aid Association from 1962-64.\nSoares is married, has six children, and lives at 610 West Eucalyptu\nStreet, Ojai. He is a Republican.\n#######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck,\n445-4571\n2-3-69\n#61\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has authorized State\nDepartment of Motor Vehicles Director Verne Orr to extend the regular\nrenewal period for / vehicle registration in California by 10 days-until\nFebruary 14--as a special convenience to persons directly affected by\nrecent flood conditions in the state.\nThe governor's action pushes the new deadline to 5 p.m.,\nFebruary 14, instead of the midnight deadline February 4.\nVehicle registration for 1969 began last December 2.\nGovernor Reagan said many persons whose property was damaged or\ndestroyed as a result of recent heavy rains in the state have been\nunderstandably delayed in their efforts to meet the February 4 deadline.\n\"I join with Verne Orr in hoping that this extension will provide\nflood victims sufficient additional time to meet this requirement,\" \"\nhe said.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ.\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-3-69\n#62\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Los Angeles County Deputy\nDistrict Attorney Roy L. Norman to the municipal court bench, El Monte\nJudicial District\nThe post pays $28,126 per year.\nNorman, a 40-year-old Democrat, succeeds Judge Rafael Galceran who\nwas elevated to the superior court.\nNorman, a 1958 graduate of the Loyola University Law School, has\nbeen a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles since 1959.\nHe is a member of the California Bar Association, the Los Angeles\nCounty Bar Association, the Citrus Bar Association and the Deputy\nDistrict Attorneys' Association.\nHe took his B.S. Degree from the University of California at Davis\nin 1953 and served in the California National Guard from 1948-51.\nNormun is married, has two children, and lives at 1426 Hedgepath\nAvenue, Hacienda Heights.\n#######\nEJG\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.4.69\nFor your information and coverage, Governor\nReagan will sign papers relating to the initial\nallocation of $3 million in federal funds for\nflood relief in a ceremony in his office today\nat 2:15 p.m.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nTHE\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-4-69\n#63\n?\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed the follow-\ning bills:\nAB 22 - Moretti\nPermits state agencies to transmit funds\n(Chapter 2)\nreceived which were intended as payment of a\nlocal tax to the local government entitled to\nsuch funds. The bill will enable the Board of\nEqualization to transmit to the city of\nLos Angeles city sales tax receipts erroneously\nremitted to the board. Present law requires\nthat such erroneous payments be returned to the\ntaxpayer.\nAB 184 Dunlap\nFacilitates the transfer of city assessment and\n(Chapter 4)\ntax collecting functions by extending the time\nwithin which a city may file its transfer\nordinance with the county. The extension\nprovided for in the bill is permissive and\nrequires acceptance by the county board of\nsupervisors. The bill also permits a city to\nrequest the county to only prepare a secured\nroll in the first year of transfer and there-\nafter both secured and unsecured rolls. The\ncounty tax collection for a city is to be on\na calendar-year basis, where city collection was\npreviously on calendar-year basis.\nAB 221 Sieroty\nPermits candidates for the Los Angeles Junior\n(Chapter 3\nCollege Board of Trustees to list their occupa-\ntions on the ballot. The bill's provisions are\neffective until July 1, 1969.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nSacramento, Califor\nContact:\nPaul Be\n445-4571\n2-4-69\n#64\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named seven persons to the state's\nnewly created Social Worker and Marriage Counselor Qualifications Board.\nThe appointments pay $25 per diem plus expenses and require Senate\nconfirmation.\nThe new board, created by the 1968 legislature, combines the former\nState Board of Social Work Examiners and the old Advisory Committee on\nMarriage, Family and Child Counselors.\nThe governor will appoint two additional members to the board at\na later date.\nNamed were:\nRosalio F. Munoz, 55, supervisor of special services for the\nLos Angeles City Board of Education. He is a Democrat.\nMrs. Pearl H. Miller, Director of Medical Social Service for the\nDepartment of Medical Institutions, San Diego. Mrs. Miller, a Republican,\nhas held the post since 1949.\nAlbert L. Seltzer, 38, of Sacramento. Seltzer, a Republican, is\nchief of the Field Services Bureau of the State Department of Health\nCare Services.\n-Mrs. Norah E. Irvine, a member of the staff of Kingsview Hospital,\nReedley. Mrs. Irvine, a Republican, is a graduate of the University of\nCalifornia at Berkeley in the field of social work. Her husband,\nWilliam, is a Reedley area citrus farmer.\n-Reverend Lloyd S. Saatjian, 34, pastor of the Palm Springs\nMethodist Church. A Republican, he has lived in Palm Springs since 1966.\nRichard A. Battaglia, 35, office manager of the Alan Baker Company\nof San Francisco, a plating supplies firm. He is a Republican.\nJames J. Rue of Downey, a 44-year-old Republican. Rue, who holds\na Ph.D. degree in Speech Pathology from the University of Southern\nCalifornia, is president and clinic director of the Sir Thomas More\nMarriage and Family Clinic.\nMunoz and Mrs. Miller were members of the Board of Social Work\nExaminers. They and Battaglia will serve terms ending in 1972.\nSeltzer and Rev. Saatjian will serve until January, 1971.\nThe terms of Mrs. Irvine and Rue will expire January 15, 1970.\n#######\nEJG\n# 65\nUnused\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: 1 ediate\nSacramento, Californ a\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-5-69\n#66\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has reappointed California\nFarm Bureau Federation President Allan Grant as president of the State\nBoard of Agriculture.\nThe governor's action enables Grant to continue as an ex-officio\nmember of the University of California Board of Regents.\nGrant, 62, has served as president of the Beard of Agriculture\nsince January 15, 1967.\nHe is in his sixth year as president of the State Farm Bureau\nFederation.\nIn a letter to Grant, the governor said, \"I know you will continue\nto guide the Board in the same able fashion that you have in the past. II\nA Republican, Grant has been an elected member of the American\nFarm Bureau Federation's board of directors from the Western Region\nsince 1963.\nHe received his education at Montana State and U.C.L.A. in\nagricultural economics.\nHe and his wife, Irene, have five children. They farm some 1200\nacres, including field crops and permanent pasture, in the Visalia area.\nThey now make their home in Oakland at 351 Hanover Street.\n########\nEJG\nOF\nTHE\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-5-69\n#67\nCalifornia's disabled veterans, primarily those returning from the\nVietnam War, have a unique opportunity to participate in a remarkable\neducational or job training experiment, Governor Ronald Reagan announced\ntoday.\nUnder the program, those veterans qualifying under Section 1012,\nMilitary and Veterans Code, would attend Napa Junior College or pursue\nvocational training courses at other educational facilities in the Napa\nUnified School District.\nVeterans taking advantage of the program would be housed in a\nmodern dormitory and enjoy free use of all other facilities at the\nVeterans Home of California at Yountville.\nAll meals, medical and hospital care, and transportation would be\nincluded in the package.\nPensions or compensation being paid to the veterans would be\nretained by them. The burden of financing their education through\nafter-school-hours work would be eliminated and full time could be\ndevoted to study.\n\"The majority of these young men are eager to resume their\ninterrupted educations or in receiving vocational training to prepare\nthem for a business career,\" Governor Reagan said. \"Generally, G.I.\nBill allowances are insufficient to allow them to attend school full\ntime without working to supplement their incomes.\"\nCalifornia disabled veterans who are interested in the program\nshould contact their local County Veterans Service Officer or write\nto the Department of Veterans Affairs, P. O. Box 1559, Sacramento 95807.\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE UP 106 COVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, Californi\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-5-69\nGovernor Reagan will hold a special\npress conference at 2:30 p.m. today,\nWednesday, in the Press Conference Room,\n1190.\n# # #\nOFFICE\nor\nacramento, Califo\nia\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-5-69\nC-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N\nThe Governor's press conference is now\nscheduled for 3:15 p.m.\nThank you.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Imme Late\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-5-69\n#68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:\ntwo weeks,\n\"During the past\nthe campus of the University of\nacts of\nCalifornia at Berkeley has been the scene of/violence, disorder and\nintimidation caused by a coalition of dissidents and criminal\nanarchists who have attempted to close down the University and who\nhave interfered with the educational activities of faculty and\nstudents.\n\"The campus has attempted to function normally, but\n/during this period, students have been assaulted and severely\nbeaten as they attempted to attend classes, streets and sidewalks\nproviding access to the campus have been physically blocked, classes\nhave been disrupted, arson and fire bombings have occurred and\nUniversity property has been destroyed.\n\"These conditions have resulted in clear and continuing\nviolations of the law and the disruption of peace and order on the\ncampus.\n\"On several occasions the local police and the sheriff's\ndepartment have been required to respond to the campus to assist\nUniversity police in controlling the riotous conduct and restoring\norder. The threats and demands of the dissidents, combined with\nintelligence information obtained by law enforcement authorities,\nindicate that these students and off-campus revolutionaries intend to\ncontinue their lawless activities.\n\"I am informed by the Sheriff of Alameda County that these\ncampus disorders have seriously depleted the law enforcement resources\nof Berkeley, Alameda County, and the surrounding cities, particularly\nin view of the number of personnel committed to other campus distur-\nbances in the past as well as the serious crime situation in the\nsurrounding communities. The sheriff has, therefore, requested that\nState assistance be provided to support and reinforce the Sheriff's\nDepartment in maintaining order on the Berkeley campus.\nAs of this time, the mobilization today of state and local law\nenforcement officers has prevented the reoccurrence of serious dis-\norders and has restored the campus to a more normal academic\ncondition.\n-1-\n#68\nAn educational atmosphere must be maintained so that the\norderly educational processes can go forward. The lives and safety\nof students and faculty, and the property of the University, must be\nprotected. The campus must be free of violence, threats and\nintimidation.\nAt the request of the sheriff of Alameda County and with the\nconcurrence of university officials, I am taking the following action:\n(1) Pursuant to the authority of Section 1580 of the California\nDisaster Act, I am proclaiming a state of extreme emergency on the\ncampus and in the surrounding area of the University of California\nat Berkeley\n(2) I am authorizing the commissioner of the California\nHighway Patrol to provide all necessary manpower and assistance to\nthe sheriff of Alameda County to insure the protection of the safety\nof persons and property on the Berkeley campus, and I am directing\nthat this assistance continue as long as may be necessary.\n(3) I am sending a special message to the legislature,\nrequesting the enactment of emergency legislation to accomplish the\nfollowing:\n(a) To provide that any student who is suspended or expelled\nfrom a state university, college, junior college, or high school, and\nwho thereafter enters the property of a public educational institu-\ntion without permission of the chief campus officer, or his\nrepresentative, is guilty of criminal trespass.\n(b) To provide that any student of a public educational\ninstitution who is convicted of a criminal offense arising out of a\ncampus disturbance, shall be dismissed from that institution and\nshall be ineligible for admission or readmission to any state school\nor college for a period of at least one year.\n(c) To provide that any faculty member or other employee of\na public educational institution who is convicted of an offense\narising out of a campus disturbance shall be dismissed and shall be\nineligible for further employment in a state school or college without\nspecific review and authorization by the governing body of such\ninstitution.\n(d) A bill to prohibit a person from bringing or possessing\na loud speaker system or voice amplifier on the premises of an\neducational institution without permission of the chief campus\nofficer or his representative. -2-\n#68\nLegislation on some of these subjects has Liready been\nintroduced. The remainder will be prepared immediately. I am\nasking that all of these bills be enacted as urgency measures, so\nthat they will take effect immediately upon passage and approval by\nme.\nThese actions will clearly indicate that the State of\nCalifornia is determined to exercise its responsibility to maintain\nlaw and order on the campuses of our University as well as all other\neducational institutions. But law enforcement agencies cannot\naccomplish this alone.\nhave declared\nUniversity officials/that any student who is identified or arrested\nas participating in a campus disturbance will be immediately placed\non interim suspension, and if he is found guilty of such an offense,\nprompt action will be taken to remove him from the University.\nThe University has also expressed their intent to deny the\nuse of campus facilities to any individual or group seeking to incite\nor encourage the disruption of the education process.\nThis combined action by State and local officials and the\nUniversity administration must continue as long as may be necessary,\nuntil the University campus is fully restored to the educational\npurpose for which it is supported by the people of California.\n# # #\n-3-\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Imme iate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-6-69\n#69\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has signed an\nExecutive Order which directs the director of Conservation and the\nstate forester to immediately assist Santa Barbara County officials\nin their efforts to prevent damage from the oil slick off the coast.\nThe governor noted in the Executive Order that the sheriff\nof Santa Barbara County had requested assistance in meeting the\nemergency and that state law authorizes the state forester to\ncooperate with local agencies, using conservation camp inmates and\nwards in the protection of property.\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Imm\niate\nSacramento, Californ.\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-6-69\n#70\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today proclaimed a state of disaster\nfor San Diego County resulting from extremely severe weather\nconditions which started December 20, 1968.\nThe governor acted at the request of the chairman of the Board\nof Supervisors.\nThe proclamation noted that extremely severe weather, freezing\nand other conditions indicate a state of disaster in the county.\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVEP\nRELEASE:\nnediate\nSacramento, Califor\na\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.6.69\n#71\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reluctantly accepted the resignation\nof Robert H. Volk as State Commissioner of Corporations.\nVolk, 36, joined the administration early in 1967.\nIn a letter to the governor, Volk said he accepted the governor's\nappointment to the $25,000-a-year post two years ago to accomplish a\nnumber of goals, including revision of the state's previously archaic\ncorporate securities law.\n\"I committeed at that time to devote to the job the number of\nyears necessary to achieve those goals,\" he said.\n\"These objectives, with some good luck and most importantly your\ncontinued interest and support, have now been accomplished.\"\n\"Since it has always been my intention from the beginning that I\nwould return to the private sector\nupon completion of the job, I am\nherewith submitting my resignation to become effective upon its\nacceptance by you,\" Volk's letter said.\nPrior to joining the state, Volk practiced law in Los Angeles.\nGovernor Reagan, in \"reluctantly\" accepting his resignation,\npraised Volk for the \"truly outstanding contribution you have made to\nthis administration, and to the people of California. The extremely\nable and energetic leadership you have provided as commissioner of\ncorporations has gained the admiration of us all.\n\"Your unprecedented accomplishments in the Department of Corpora-\ntions will continue to serve as an example of how dedicated leadership,\nsuch as yours, can help cut through red tape and bring efficiency and\neconomy to government.\n\"While we will surely miss you here in Sacramento, I want to make\nit clear that we are all wishing you the best of luck as you return to\nprivate life. \"\nThe history-making revision of the State Corporate Securities Law\nwhich Volk drafted and helped guide through the legislature last year\nhas been praised as the most modern and effective state securities\nregulation in the United States. It insures a proper balance between\nnecessary regulation and investor protection.\nVolk noted that experience to date under the new law reflects a\nreduction in filings before the Department of Corporations in an amount\nequal to 66 and two thirds percent of prior filings before the\ndepartment. Savings to the state in personnel required to process such\nas well as the savings to industry by reduction of the regulatory burden,\nfilings,/will run into many millions of dollars over future years.\nThe new law also enables California to provide investors with\ngreater protection against fraud as well as proper remedies in the\nevent of fraud.\n-1-\n#71\nThrough the application of modern business practices, Volk was\nable to reduce the staff of the Department of Corporations from 430\npersons in February 1967 to 288 at present.\nBy summer, the staff is expected to be further reduced, to\napproximately 206 employees less than half the number in the\ndepartment when Governor Reagan assumed office, Volk said.\nIn his letter to the governor, Volk added:\n\"I am deeply indebted to you for the confidence and trust that\nyou have placed in me by appointing me to this position and for your\ninspiration and support which has enabled me to do the job that we\nboth believed was so necessary. My experience in government and my\npersonal experience with you over the past two years have been the\nmost interesting and dynamic of my life. They have provided me with a\nnew outlook and new horizons which will substantially shape my\nfuture. It has indeed been a most rewarding two years.\n\"While I am concluding direct service as part of your administration,\nI hope that you will always include me among your supporters and as\npart of your team and that you will not hesitate to call upon me for\nsuch services or assistance as I may be able to render in the future.\"\n# # #\n-2-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-6-69\n#72\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed Modesto attorney\nNorman S. Reid to the Modesto judicial district in Stanislaus County.\nHe succeeds Judge Frank Pierson who was elected to the Superior\nCourt. The post pays $28,126 a year,\ne\nReid, a Democrat, is a native of Reedly and attended Fullerton\nJunior College, received his B.A. from Fresno State College in 1954. and\nhis LLB from Hastings College of the law in 1957.\nHe has been engaged in the private practice of law for more than\n10 years and is a partner in the firm of LaCoste, Keller, Reid and\nAzevedo.\nReid, 40, is married and has one son. He resides at 2101 Park\nRidge Drive, Modesto.\n########\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-7-69\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nCopies of the Capital Outlay Budget and the salaries and\nwages supplement are now available in the governor's press office.\n########\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO₂,\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-7-69\n#73\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today proclaimed the week of February\n9 to 16, 1969, as Negro History Week. Text of the proclamation is\nas follows:\nWHEREAS\nOur Authors Study Club, the Los Angeles Branch of the\nAssociation for the Study of Negro Life and History,\nhas sponsored Negro History Week Celebration in California\nfor twenty-one years; and\nWHEREAS\nThis period will be an appropriate time for all Californians\nto reflect the magnificent contributions which Afro-American\ncitizens have made to science, music, art, government and\nthe professions; and\nWHEREAS\nThe Association for the Study of Negro Life and History\nbegan the celebration of National Negro History Week on\nFebruary 7, 1926,\nNOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do hereby\nproclaim February 9 to 16, 1969, as NEGRO HISTORY WEEK and urge all\nCalifornians take advantage of this opportunity to promote an\nappreciation of the Negro's past, to encourage and understand his\npresent status and to enrich the promise of the future by learning\nmore of the accomplishments of the Negro in the development of the\nState of California.\n#########\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Imm 'iate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-7-69\n#74\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today proclaimed the week of February\n9 to 15, 1969, as Electrical Week. Text of the proclamation is as\nfollows:\nWHEREAS\nThe inventive genius of Thomas Alva Edison has advanced\nthe frontiers of American science and the welfare of\nall mankind, and by creating industries employing millions\nof people, has added greatly to the technology upon which\nAmerica's preeminence rests; and\nWHEREAS\nThe state of the world reveals that this nation needs\nto maintain a strong scientific position; and\nWHEREAS\nIn this age of limitless scientific horizons, our country's\nneed for men inspired by the example of Edison has never\nbeen more urgent; and\nWHEREAS\nThrough extensive research and continuing improvements,\nthe electrical industry helps lead the way to new\nadvantages in the daily life and the economic progress\nof California,\nNOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do hereby\nproclaim February 11, 1969 as Edison Science Youth Day, and the week\nof February 9 to 15, 1969 as Electrical Week, and urge the citizens\nof California to participate in this occasion.\n########\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: 1. mediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-7-69\n#75\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nFebruary 10, 1969\nthrough\nFebruary 16, 1969\nMonday, February 10\n11:45 A.M.\nDepart for El Dorado Hotel for Military Department\nLaw Enforcement Orientation Conference on Riot\nControl. (Remarks)\n3:00 P.M.\nPresentation to Governor Reagan of Boy Scout\nAnnual Report, Governor's Office.\n6:30 P.M.\nArrive Jonas Salk School, 2950 Hurley Way, for\nSports Hall of Fame Banquet.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, February 11\n9:30 A.M.\nPRESS CONFERENCE\n10:00 A.M.\nBrief appearance to accept Traffic Safety Task\nForce Reports, Governor's Council Room.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWednesday, February 12\nHOLIDAY\nThursday, February 13\n10:00 A.M.\nArrive Cal Expo for Sierra-Cascade Tall Tale\nTellers breakfast.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nFriday, February 14\n10:30 A.M.\nDepart Sacramento Municipal Airport for Orange\nCounty Airport.\n11:30 A.M.\nArrive Orange County Airport - proceed to\nNewporter Inn.\nNoon\nCrime Prevention Luncheon, Jamboree Room,\nNewporter Inn. (Speech)\n1:30 P.M.\nProceed to Newport Harbor High School - 600\nIrvine Avenue, Newport Beach.\n2:00 P.M.\nQuestions and Answers with students of Newport\nHarbor High School.\nApprox.\n2:50 P.M.\nDepart for Santa Monica.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSaturday, February 15\nNo Appointments Scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, February 16\nP.M.\nReturn to Sacramento\nOvernight - Sacramento\n####\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVEF\nR\nRELEASE:\nIr\nediate\nSacramento, Califor\na\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.10.68\n#76\nGovernor James A. Rhodes of Ohio and Governor Nelson A.\nRockefeller of New York today were named co-chairmen of the policy\ncommittee of the Republican Governors' Association.\nAt the same time, Governor Louie B. Nunn of Kentucky was named\nchairman of the RGA's campaign committee which will work for the\nelection of Republican candidates in the only two states with\ngubernatorial elections this year Virginia and New Jersey.\nThe appointments were announced jointly by Governor Ronald Reagan\nof California, the RGA chairman, and Governor Raymond P. Shafer of\nPennsylvania, RGA vice-chairman. Governors Reagan and Shafer were\nelected to their RGA positions at a meeting of Republican governors\nin Palm Springs in December.\nGovernor Rhodes moved into the chief executive's chair in Ohio\nsix years ago after serving as auditor of the state for 10 years.\nGovernor Rockefeller had served as chairman of the policy committee\nuntil last May. He resigned after he announced his intention to seek\nthe Republican presidential nomination. The position was then taken\nover by Governor Shafer.\nGovernor Nunn's election in November of 1967 broke a 20-year\ndemocratic gubernatorial reign in Kentucky. Governor Nunn managed\nthe successful campaigns of the state's two Republican senators\nJohn Sherman Cooper and Thruston B. Morton in 1956, 1960 and 1962.\nItalso was announced that Buehl J. Berentson, formerly the\nregional director in the 11 western states for the Republican\nCongressional Campaign Committee, has become executive director of\nthe Republican Governors' Association.\nBerentson had worked with the GOP Congressional Committee for\nthe past four years. From 1960 to 1964, he served as administrative\nassistant to Congressman Jack Westland, whose 2nd congressional\ndistrict in Washington covered the northwestern part of the state.\nBerentson was born in Anacortes, Washington, on February 24, 1925\nand grew up there. During World War II he served in the Navy in the\nPacific Theater.\nAfter he received his B.A. degree from Pacific Lutheran University\nin 1951, Mr. Berentson became involved in insurance and real estate\nand the investment business in his home town. Berentson, his wife,\nVerna, and their six children will move to Washington, D.C.\nIt also was announced that Mrs. Margaret Hughes, who has served\nas office manager of the RGA, assumes the new position of\nadministrative secretary.\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO.\nRELEASE: In Ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-10-69\n#77\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today praised Assemblyman Newton R.\nRussell for withdrawing as a candidate for the congressional seat\nvacated by Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke.\n\"Newt's decision to withdraw was an extremely difficult one\nfor him because his chances of winning the election for Congress\nwere excellent.\n\"However, he has put aside his personal ambitions for the\nbenefit of all the people of California and his party. His decision\nto remain in the Assembly in these very critical times should earn\nhim the respect of every citizen.\n\"I applaud Newt for making this personal sacrifice and wish\nhim well in the future. It is men such as this who have made our\nstate great. I know his action today will be long remembered by\nthe voters of his district as well as by Californians both in and\nout of government.\"\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nMEMO TO THE RESS\nSacramento, Californi\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.10.69\nA surprise birthday party will be held\ntoday for Governor Reagan in the\nGovernor's Council Room at 4:30 p.m.\nYour attendance will be welcome.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Be\n445-4511\n2-11-69\n#78\nA strong recommendation that the California Highway Patrol continue\nits random motor vehicle inspection program instead of adopting mandatory\nperiodic inspection was made today to Governor Ronald Reagan in a report\nfrom the Governor's Committee on Traffic Safety.\nThe report was the result of a two-year study by six subcommittee\ntask groups appointed by Governor Reagan in 1967.\nIn addition to motor vehicle inspection, the groups studied driver\nlicensing requirements; driver education and training; alcohol and drugs;\nemergency medical services and public education and communications.\nAt the same time, Governor Reagan announced the appointment of\nDonald D. Doyle, San Francisco insurance executive, as new chairman of\nthe Governor's Committee on Traffic Safety.\nDoyle replaces Thomas G. McGuire, vice-chairman of the board,\nIndustrial Indemnity Company, who has served as chairman of the Governor's\nCommittee for the past two years. McGuire, who requested Doyle as his\nreplacement, has agreed to continue to serve on the Committee.\nThe committee report pointed out that summary findings on the\neffectiveness of the CHP random inspection showed a reduction in the\npercentage of vehicles in violation of equipment requirements.\nIt indicated that California's programs were equally effective,\nand in some instances, more effective, than the mandatory periodic\ninspections required in most other states.\nIn commenting on the report during this morning's meeting in\nSacramento, State Secretary for Business and Transportation Gordon C.\nLuce, told the committee that the State is planning to expand the\ninspection of commercial vehicles to the point where the CHP would\ninspect about half the commercial fleet in California every year.\nHe stated that the random inspection of the more than 9 million\npassenger vehicles in California is reaching about one-and-one-half\nmillion vehicles a year. Another one-and-one-quarter million are\ninspected as the vehicles are stopped for moving violations.\n\"In addition to vehicle violations,\" Luce pointed out, \"the random\ninspection picks up violators who otherwise would have gone undetected,\nsuch as drunk drivers, or drivers with expired or suspended licenses.\"\n- 1 -\n#78\nThe task force on Emergency Medical Services recommended to\nGovernor Reagan that the State Department of Public Health coordinate\nEmergency Medical Services at the regional and state level.\nThe group also urged that counties establish central communications\nand dispatch networks for emergency ambulance service.\nLuce said his Office of Transportation Safety, with assistance from\nthe Federal Highway Safety Bureau, is funding a study now to determine\nemergency medical deficiencies and needs statewide.\n\"When this study is completed late this year, we will be able to\nattack the problem meaningfully.\"\nLuce said that nationwide, 20,000 lives from all types of accidents\ncould be saved annually by modernizing all elements of the traffic crash\nresponse.\n\"Another researcher has calculated that 50 to 75 percent of rural\nhighway deaths would not have occurred if prompt and experienced\nemergency medical services had been available.\" \"\nThe Alcohol and Drugs Subcommittee reported to the Governor the\nneed for more stringent law enforcement under the existing Implied\nConsent Act and recommended passage of the presumptive limits bill which\nwas introduced by Assemblyman Craig Biddle (R-Riverside) in January.\nThe presumptive limits law would set 0.10 percent blocd-alcohol\ncontent as the limit at which a driver is presumed to be impaired. The\nbill is part of Governor Reagan's legislative package this year.\nThe report also stressed that \"much more should be done by way of\ntreatment and education to effectively sober up the nearly one million\nexcessive drinkers in California.\n\"Until this is done, thereby reducing the number of manhours they\nare driving while drunk on our streets and highways, there will be a\ntremendous gap in California's Traffic Safety Program.\"\nDoyle, a Contra Costa County Assemblyman from 1952 through 1958,\nwas co-author of the Short-Doyle Community Mental Health Act which has\nbeen credited with reducing the population in state mental institutions.\nHe did not seek reelection in 1958 in order to devote full time to\nhis insurance brokerage firm in Oakland. He now is chairman, Northern\nDivision, Marsh and McLennan, Inc., of California.\n- 2 -\n#78\nFor the past two years, Doyle has served as vice-chairman of the\nGovernor's Committee and has long been active in the traffic safety\neffort.\nHe presently is a Director of the Greater San Francisco Chamber of\nCommerce, is vice-president of its Governmental Affairs Committee and a\nmember of its Legislative Affairs Committee. He also is a Director of\nthe National Safety Council.\nMcGuire has served San Francisco Community Chest as campaign\nchairman (1949), vice president and a director (1950-52) ; San Francisco\nChamber of Commerce, as a director (1950-53) ; and San Francisco Better\nBusiness Bureau, as a director (1951-56). He has also been president\nof Stanford Associates, and a member of the Board of Regents of\nSt. Mary's College. He is currently a director of Transamerica Capital\nFund, Inc., and recently was elected to the Board of Directors of Great\nWestern Financial Corporation and Great Western Savings and Loan\nAssociation, and First Savings and Loan Association.\nHe is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the California Traffic\nSafety Foundation, and a director of the National Safety Council.\n########\nPB\n- 3 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-11-69\n#79\n3\nGovernor Ronald Reagan tomorrow (Wednesday, February 12) will\npresent to Letterman General Hospital, Presidio of San Francisco, the\nfirst in what he hopes will be a series of Certificates of Accreditation\nto military hospitals qualifying for a new program designed to relieve\nthe shortage of Vocational Nurses in California. The program will also\nassist returning veterans to more effectively put into practice medical\nskills learned in the service.\nThe presentation is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at the hospital.\nWith the granting of the Certificate, military personnel graduating\nfrom prescribed courses at Letterman will be immediately able to take\nState Licensing Examinations for Vocational Nursing (called Practical\nNursing in some parts of the country). Prior to the development of the\nnew program, and the granting of this first certificate to Letterman\nGeneral Hospital, it was necessary for the serviceman or woman completing\nthe courses to have 34 months' experience before taking the examination.\nThe new program is a joint effort by the California Department of\nProfessional and Vocational Standards, the State Board of Medical\nExaminers, and the Licensed Vocational Nurses and Psychiatric Technicians\nBoard.\nThe concept is a direct result of the Allied Health Conference\nconvened by Governor Reagan in July, 1968, and has the full support of\nthe California Department of Veterans Affairs and key medical and\nnursing groups. The purposes of that Conference included a study of the\nproblems of proliferation of licensing Boards and the development of\nmethods which would enable medical corpsmen and other service personnel\nwith medical training to more effectively utilize their skills upon\nreturning to civilian life.\nGovernor Reagan especially commended Lieutenant Colonel Edna M.\nPerrin, Army Nurse Corps, Presidio of San Francisco, for her role in\nhelping to bring about Letterman General Hospital's accreditation with\nthe Licensed Vocational Nurses Board following the Allied Health\nConference.\n- 1 -\n#79\nThe Governor also noted the excellent spirit of cooperation demon-\nstrated by the public and private sectors in working out this approach\nto solve the shortage of vocational nurses and the problems of a large\nnumber of returning veterans.\nHe called the new accreditation program an important first step\nin what he hopes will be a series of Certificates being awarded to other\nmilitary medical facilities throughout California.\nThe Governor also said he has high hopes for additional positive\nsteps in the field of licensing, allied health and the problems of the\nreturning veteran to be forthcoming from last year's allied health\nConference.\nScheduled to take part in the award presentation at Letterman\nGeneral Hospital are: Major General Charles H. Gingles, Commander,\nLetterman Hospital; Lieutenant Colonel Edna M. Perrin, Director, Clinical\nSpecialists School; Colonel Charlott L. Nowlan, Chief Nurse; Colonel\nMarshall E. McCabe, Chief of Professional Services; Colonel William\nWegner, Chief, Administrative Services; Henry Shine, Jr., Director,\nCalifornia Department of Professional and Vocational Standards;\nArthur J. Costamagna, Chief Deputy Director, California Department of\nProfessional and Vocational Standards; Sister Mary Anita, President,\nLicensed Vocational Nurses and Psychiatric Technicians Board; Mr. Joseph\nZem, Licensed Vocational Nurses and Psychiatric Technicians Board;\nMiss Mary- Ellen Wood, Executive Secretary, Licensed Vocational Nurses\nand Psychiatric Technicians Board; Dr. Genest D. de L'Arbre, State Board\nof Medical Examiners.\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nSacramento, California\nMEMO TO THE - RESS\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-11-69\nThe first in a series of \"State-of-the-Agency\" messages will be\npresented by Resources Agency Secretary Norman B. Livermore at a press\nconference in Room 1190, State Capitol, Thursday, February 13, at\n9:30 a.m. Appearing with Livermore for the presentation will be\ndepartment directors within the agency.\nYou will recall that Governor Reagan, in his \"State-of-the-State\"\nmessage last month, said that such messages from the agencies would be\nissued subsequently.\nFollowing presentation of Livermore's message, as well as brief\ncomments by his department directors, the session will be opened to\nquestions from the press.\n#########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE:\nediate\nSacramento, Californ.\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#80\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named three persons to four-year terms\non the State Board of Agriculture.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses.\nNamed were:\n--E. C. (Bill) Mazzie, 56, operator of Mazzie Farms, Arvin.\nMazzie, a Republican, succeeds John J. Kovacevich of Bakersfield.\nMazzie is a director of the Western Growers' Association of\nCalifornia and Arizona, the Potato Growers' Association of California,\nthe National Potato Council and the California Tax Board.\nHe is an advisor to the Melon and Potato Advisory boards and is a\nmember of the Kern County and State chambers of commerce.\nHe operatoes a grower-shipper organization which does business\nthroughout the United States and Canada. He is also president of the\nAgricultural and Chemical Company at Edison, Globe Farms, Inc.,\nNanawalle Estates, Ltd., of Hawaii, Butte Valley Farms, Inc., and\nNanawalle, Inc. He is vice president of Hawaiian Resort and Recreation,\nInc., Nalei Hotel, Inc., Hilo, and the Calzona Box and Lumber Company\nof California.\nHe and his wife, Lorraine, live at 5263 Kent Drive, Bakersfield.\n--Charles B. Christensen of Likely (Modoc County), a 46-year-old\nRepublican. Christensen, a cattle rancher, replaces Harvey A. McDougal\nof Rio Vista.\nChristensen is a former president of the California Cattlemen's\nAssociation and served as a director of the American National Cattlemen's\nAssociation from 1959-66.\nHe is a former chairman of the Western Regional Beef Council and\nserved as cattle representative to the National Grazing Committee in 1954\nHe was a member of the Modoc County Board of Supervisors from\n1952-64 and was president of the Modoc Council of Natural Resources in\n1954. He has served as chairman of the State Advisory Board to the\nBureau of Land Management since 1954. In 1961, he was a member of the\nAdvisory Commission to the State Fish and Game Commission.\nHe is a graduate of Modoc Union High School and attended the\nUniversity of California at Berkeley.\nHe is married and has two daughters. His address is P.O. Box 43,\nLikely.\n- 1 -\n#80\n-Wesley N. Sawyer, 60, a Waterford dairy farmer. Sawyer, a\nRepublican, succeeds Milton Natapoff of Los Angeles.\nSawyer, a graduate of College of the Pacific, Stockton, is president\nof the California Milk Producers' Association.\nHe is a past president of the California Holstein-Friesian\nAssociation and is currently a member of the board of directors of the\nHolstein-Friesian Association of America.\nHe is a director of the Memorial Hospital Association of Stanislaus\nCounty and is a member of the Stanislaus County Faxm Bureau and Grange.\nHe is an alternate to the California Beef Council and is a member\nof the California Cattlemen's Association.\nHe is a director of the Federal Land Bank Association of Modesto\nand serves as Chairman of the Central Coast Producers' Milk Council.\nHe is also a member of the Central Coast Milk Stabilization Control\nBoard.\nHe and his wife, Maida, live on a 1,500 acre ranch where they raise\nmilking cows, steers, cattle forage and walnuts.\nTheir address is Diamond S Ranch, 600 Roberts Ferry, Waterford.\nOutgoing members' terms on the board expired,\n#######\nEJG\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: 1 ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck,\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#81\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named six persons to the newly formed\nState Environmental Quality Study Council,\nThe posts pay necessary expenses. Appointees will serve at the\npleasure of the governor,\nThe council was created by the 1968 legislature (SB-710) to explore\nmeans of improving the quality of California's physical environment.\nThe legislation requires that the council make yearly progress reports\nto the governor on its findings.\nNamed were:\nChester Morris, 36-year-old Marysville attorney. He is a\nRepublican and lives at 1112 Buchanan Road, Yuba City.\n-Arthur F. Pillsbury, 64, of Los Angeles. Professor Pillsbury,\na Republican, is director of the Water Resources Center at U.C.L.A.\nHe resides at 3266 Colby Avenue, Los Angeles.\nFrank J. Tysen of Santa Monica, a 36-year-old Democrat. Dr. Tyser\nis program director for the Institute of Urban Ecology at the University\nof Southern California. He lives at 803 San Vicente, Santa Monica.\nHelen B. Reynolds of San Francisco, president of the California\nRoadside Council, an organization dedicated to the conservation of\nscenic resources. A Democrat, she resides at 1030 Lombard Street,\nSan Francisco.\nSamuel A. Egigian, 47, president of the Southern District of\nRefuse Removal Council, Montebello. Egigian, a Republican, lives at\n5326 South Adele Avenue, Whittier.\nDavid L. Baker, a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors\nBaker, a 50-year-old Republican, will serve as chairman of the new\ncouncil. He lives at 9452 Royal Palm Boulevard, Garden Grove.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californi\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#82\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named J. Robert Springer of Pasadena\nand Edward M. Curran of Canoga Park to four-year terms on the State\nVeterans' Board.\nThe appointments require Senate confirmation and pay $20 per diem,\nplus expenses.\nSpringer, retired president of Pan American Laundries, Inc., of\nBurbank, succeeds William E. Allen of Turlock. Curren, program con-\ntroller for the North American Rockwell Corporation, replaces Byron B.\nGentry of Glendora. Both outgoing members' terms expired.\nSpringer, a 54-year-old Republican, is a past president of the\nCalifornia Laundry Owners' Association and served two terms as a vice\npresident of the Glendale Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the\nGlendale Civil Service Commission for five years and was its chairman\nfor one term.\nHe and his wife, Myra, have three children. They live at 4033\nAlta Vista Drive, Pasadena.\nCurran, 46, is chairman of the Third District Mayor's Community\nAdvisory Council, Los Angeles, and is president of the Orcutt Park\nBaseball League. He served as aide-de-camp to the national commander of\nthe Veterans of Foreign Wars from 1961-63 and was national chairman of\nthe Second Marine Division Association in 1966.\nHe is also a director of the Cub Scouts in Canoga Park.\nHe lives at 20362 Stagg Street, Canoga Park.\nHe is = Republican.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#83\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Maynard Munger of Fresno,\na retired wholesale produce company executive, to a four-year term on\nthe State Highway Commission.\nThe appointment requires Senate confirmation and pays necessary\nexpenses. Munger succeeds William S. Whitehurst of Fresno whose term\nexpired.\nThe governor also announced he has reappointed Fred C. Jennings\nof Riverside. Jennings' term, like that of Munger, will expire\nJanuary 15, 1973.\nJennings, a 61-year-old Republican, was first appointed to the\ncommission in November, 1966. He is president of Sun Gold, Inc., of\nRiverside and is a graduate of U.C.L.A. He is a former president of\nthe Riverside Chamber of Commerce.\nMunger, 66, retired last year as president of the Hobbs-Parsons\nCompany, a large Fresno wholesale produce firm. He had been an employee\nof the company since 1931.\nHe was a director of the United Warehouse Company from 1939-60 and\nwas on the board of directors of the Liberty Dried Fruit Packing Company\nfrom 1927-46. He was a partner in the Boothe Fruit Company from 1932-46\nLong active in civic affairs, Munger is a former president of the\nFresno City-County Chamber of Commerce, Fresno Rotary Club and the\nFresno YMCA. He is a past director of the Fresno United Givers' Plan\nand the Fresno Convention Bureau.\nHe currently serves as vice president of the Fresno Community\nHospital and is chairman of its building committee.\nHe is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and\na Republican. He is married, has two sons, and lives at 4150 North\nFruit Avenue, Fresno.\n#######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#84\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Anthony R. Pierno of Brea\nas the new state commissioner of corporations.\nThe appointment requires Senate confirmation and pays $25,725\nper year.\nPierno, a 36-year-old Republican, has served as deputy corporations\ncommissioner for the State of California in Los Angeles since August 1,\n1967.\nHe replaces Robert H. Volk who resigned to accept a position in\nprivate business.\nPierno, an attorney, completed his undergraduate studies at\nWhittier College in 1954 and received his law degree from Stanford\nUniversity in 1959. While in law school, he was a member of the\neditorial board of the Stanford Law Review.\nHe served in the U.S. Army from 1954=56.\nHe was admitted to the State Bar in 1960 and was engaged in the\nprivate practice of law until his appointment as deputy corporations\ncommissioner.\nPierno is a member of the American Bar Association, the State\nBar of California, and the Los Angeles, Orange County and Whittier bar\nassociations. He also serves on the Corporations Committee of the\nState Bar.\nHe is a former chairman of the board of directors of the Rio Hondo\nCouncil of Camp Fire Girls, Inc., and has served on the Capital Funds\nCommittee of the North Orange YMCA.\nHe and his wife. Beverly, have four children and live at 1263\nOakcrest Avenue Brea.\n#########\nEJG\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul B\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#85\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named eight persons to the newly\ncreated California Job Development Corporation Law Executive Board.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses. Appointees of the governor will\nserve at his pleasure.\nThe board was created by the 1968 legislature (AB-109) to oversee\nand encourage the development of job development corporations in\neconomically disadvantaged areas of the state.\nNamed were:\n--Ralph N. Larson, 74, chairman of the board of Commonwealth\nNational Bank, San Francisco. A Republican, Larson is also president\nof the Morris Plan Company of California. He lives at 230 Clinton Road,\nPacifica.\n--G. R. Ruddell, 48, the mayor of Visalia. He is owner of the\nVisalia Granite and Marble Works. A Republican, he is also a director\nof the Mineral King Savings and Loan Association and a member of the\nadvisory board of the San Joaquin Valley National Bank. He lives at\n1309 Beverly Drive, Visalia.\n--J. Ralph Stone of Santa Rosa, president of Santa Rosa Savings\nand Loan Association. He is a 58-year-old Republican and lives at\n1925 Alderbrook Street, Santa Rosa.\n--Harold E. Levitt, 53, of Los Angeles. Levitt, a Republican,\nis vice president of Dempsey-Tegeler and Company, Inc., an investment\nfirm. He lives at 701 Chapala Drive, Pacific Palisades.\nRobert C. Lindsey, 50, president of the Yolo Transportation\nCompany of San Jose. A Republican, he lives at 1344 Avalon Street,\nSan Jose.\nGeorge Medina, a 38-year-old Democrat, and editor of Las Americas,\na San Francisco Spanish language newspaper. He lives at 2974 - 26th\nStreet, San Francisco.\n--Hilliard Hamm, 41, editor and publisher of the Metropolitan Gazette\na Compton area newspaper. He resides at 19327 Northwood Avenue, Compton.\nHe is a Republican.\n-Charles E. Nichols of Sacramento, a member of the executive board\nof the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. A\nDemocrat, he lives at 53 Moonlit Circle, Sacramento.\n#######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER'\nRELEASE: I ediate\nSacramento, Californ.a\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#86\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Charles O. Doud, a La Canada\nstockbroker, to a four-year term on the California State Athletic\nCommission.\nThe post pays $25 per diem plus expenses.\nThe governor also announced he has reappointed Alberto C. Diaz,\nof Downey, editor and manager of the Belvedere Citizen, to a four-year\nterm on the commission. He was first appointed in January, 1964.\nA Democrat, Diaz, 51, has long been active in community affairs\nin the Belvedere-East Los Angeles area. He has three sons and lives\nat 8400 South Rives Avenue, Downey.\nDoud, a 36-year-old Republican, succeeds Douglas Hayden of\nOakland whose term expired.\nDoud is a graduate of U.C.L.A. where he was an All-America tackle\non the football team in 1953.\nHe was a jet pilot in the U.S. Air Force from 1955-58.\nFor the past three years he has been a member of the staff of\nLehman Brothers, a Los Angeles investment firm.\nHe is treasurer of the Serra Club of Pasadena and is a past\npresident of Teamsters International. He is also a former member of the\nU.S. Air Force Academy Athletic Association; the U.C.L.A. Varsity\nLettermen's Club; and currently serves as a member of the board of the\nJunipero Serra Boys' Club.\nHe is married, has five children, and resides at 4254 Chevy Chase\nDrive, La Canada.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nR\nRELEASE: 1 ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#87\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of George\nV\nV. Castagnola of Santa Barbara to a four-year term on the 19th District\nAgricultural Association's board of directors. The association operates\nthe Santa Barbara National Horse Show and Flower Show.\nThe governor also reappointed Warren M. Underwood, of Santa Barbara,\na 63-year-old Democrat, to the board. Underwood, who serves as\nsecretary-treasurer of the Meat Cutters' Union Local 556, was first\nappointed in 1960. He lives at 4968 Cathedral Oaks, Santa Barbara.\nCastagnola, 60, succeeds Milton Weinstein of Santa Barbara whose\nterm expired. A Republican, Castagnola is a part owner in the Santa\nBarbara restaurant, \"The Harbor.\"\nHe is also engaged in land developing in the Santa Barbara area.\nHe is married, has two children, and lives at 900 Jimeno Road,\nSanta Barbara.\n#######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californi\nContact:\nPaul Bec\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#88\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named the following persons to the\nState Intergovernmental Board on Electronic Data Processing.\nThe board was created by the 1968 legislature to establish goals,\npolicies, and priorities in order to insure the most effective and\neconomical flow of data across government lines. The first of its type\nin the country, the board is also intended to promote the use of standards\nfor information system design and information exchange in order to speed\nthe automatic flow of data, and to eliminate duplication of effort at\ndifferent levels of government.\nThe posts are unsalaried. Appointees will serve at the pleasure\nof the governor.\nNamed were:\n--Verne Orr, director of the State Department of Motor Vehicles,\nSacramento.\n-John Tooker, special assistant to the secretary of the State\nResources Agency, Sacramento.\n-Bernard P. Donnelly, assistant to the secretary of the State Human\nRelations Agency, Sacramento.\n--Raymond S. Long, deputy director of the State Department of\nAgriculture, Sacramento.\n-Paul J. Anderson, a member of the Riverside County Board of\nSupervisors, Riverside.\n-Howard W. Campen of San Jose, county executive of Santa Clara\nCounty.\n-Ignazio A. Vella of Sonoma, a member of the Sonoma County Board\nof Supervisors.\nGilbert R. Marguth, Jr., mayor of the City of Livermore.\nWilliam F. Cornett, Jr., Fullerton city administrator.\n--Takuji Tamaru, chief of data processing for the City of Los\nAngeles.\n--James H. Corson of Burlingame, executive secretary of the\nCalifornia Association of School Administrators.\n-Gary Webber of Ontario, a member of the Ontario-Montclair School\nDistrict Board of Trustees.\n- 1 -\n#88\nNamed as alternate members of the board were:\nMark Sanstrom, assistant secretary of the State Business and\nTransportation Agency, Sacramento.\nA. Alan Hill, assistant to the secretary of the State Resources\nAgency, Sacramento.\nWalter L. Barkdull, assistant to the secretary, State Human\nRelations Agency, Sacramento.\nJerry Fielder, deputy director of Agriculture, Sacramento.\nJohn F. McGinnis of San Rafael, a member of the Marin County\nBoard of Supervisors.\nPaul R. Deats, a member of the Long Beach City Council.\nFerdinand J. Kiesel, superintendent of the San Juan Unified School\nDistrict, Carmichael.\nOf the above, Tamaru and Kiesel are Democrats. The remainder are\nRepublicans.\n#######\nEJG\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-13-69\n#89\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named C. Leland Rice, a Fortuna\nrancher, to the Humboldt County Board of Superviscrs, Second District.\nThe post pays $9,600 per year. The appointment will end at the\nnext general election.\nRice, 61, succeeds the late Melvin Bareilles.\nRice, a Republican, is a 1930 graduate of the University of\nCalifornia at Berkeley and has ranched in Humboldt County since 1953.\nHe is a director of the Humboldt County Farm Bureau and the\nHumboldt County Cattlemen's Association.\nPrior to moving to Fortuna, he farmed in the Hanford area and was\non the Kings County Board of Supervisors from 1948-52.\nHe is married and has four children. His address is P.O. Box 873,\nFortuna.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Imm liate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571 2-13-69\n#90\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Senator John L. Harmer,\n(R-Glendale) as chairman of the State Advisory Commission on Indian\nAffairs.\nThe post pays necessary expenses. Harmer will serve at the\npleasure of the governor. He succeeds Senator William E. Coombs\n(R-Rialto) who resigned the chairmanship.\nHarmer and his wife, Carolyn, have adopted a nine-year-old Mojave\nIndian girl named Esther under a foster child program sponsored by his\nchurch. The young girl, Esther, lives with the Harmers and their four\nchildren except for a six-week period each summer when she returns to\nher Indian family on the reservation.\nHarmer has long been interested in Indian affairs. During his\nundergraduate study at the University of Utah, where he majored in\nhistory, Harmer participated ina number of research projects involving\nthe Indians of the American Southwest.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nR\nRELEASE: mediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-14-69\n#91\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement,\non learning of the death of Oakland Tribune Political Writer Dave Hope:\n\"It is difficult to express how very, very sad Nancy and I were\nto learn of the death of an old friend, Dave Hope.\n\"He was an extremely able and perceptive writer, a man of mature\njudgment whose dedication to the principles of integrity and responsi-\nbility in reporting placed him in the very elite of his profession.\nHe commanded the respect and esteem of all of us.\n\"He loved his work. Those with whom he worked loved him. We\nhave all lost a friend.\"\n(Hope died of a heart attack today in Oakland. He was 65. He worked\nfor the Oakland Tribune as its political writer for 32 years. A native\nof Sweden, he previously worked for the Livermore Journal and Herald,\nthe San Francisco Examiner, and the Oakland Times. He joined the\nTribune staff in 1937).\n#######\nEJG\nDEPARTMENT OF REAL E.ATE\nRELEASE: Immediate\nBurton E. Smith, Real Estate Commissioner\n445-3996\n2-14-69\nState Department of Real Estate activities presently performed by\nthe San Bernardino and Santa Ana branch offices will be transferred to\nthe Department's office in Los Angeles, Real Estate Commissioner\nBurton E. Smith announced today.\nThe changes are to be effective on April 1, 1969.\nSmith stated this and other changes in the Department's operations\nrelating to local service will save approximately $45,000 per year.\nHe further stated his experiences elsewhere (the Oakland office of the\nDepartment was moved to San Francisco last year) convinced him the\nDepartment could render better service to subdividers, real estate\nlicensees and the general public by operating from larger offices where\nlegal and other technical personnel are already employed to assist in\nlicensing and complaint investigation functions.\nAlso effective April 1 will be a transfer of subdivision processing\nactivities from the San Diego branch office of the Department to Los\nAngeles, where all other Southern California subdivision law enforcement\nactivities are presently concentrated.\nA plan to close the Fresno office, Smith said, has been shelved due\nto the long distance from Fresno to the nearest other office of the\nDepartment and because ways have been found to effect local economies\nto bring the cost of the operation of this office into near balance with\ncosts were the area to be serviced from the Sacramento or San Francisco\noffices of the Department.\nCommissioner Smith further stated that the decision was not made\nuntil an opportunity to study cost figures was given to all concerned\nand public hearings were held in Fresno, San Bernardino and San Diego.\nHe said he was proud that the Department as a part of Governor Reagan's\nadministration had been able to effect these and other economies. none\nof which is resulting in any layoffs of personnel or reduction in\nservice to licensees or the general public.\n#######\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nSunday A.Ms.\nSacramento, California\nFebruary 16\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-14-69\n#92\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today that 53 city and county\npark projects totalling $7,247,611 have been approved and placed in his\nbudget from funds made available under the 1964 State Park Bond Act.\nWith this allocation, $37.6 million of the $40 million provided for\nlocal projects under the bond act will have been appropriated. Most of\nthe remainder is earmarked for the 11 counties which have projects\npending but have not yet completed the required county-wide recreation\nplan.\nUnder the bond act, money is apportioned to the counties on the\nbasis of population, but a minimum of $75,000 is reserved for each county\nregardless of size or population.\nSince the bond act passed in November 1964, some 191 projects from\n88 local agencies have been approved. This represents acquisition of\n93 park properties totalling 23,842 acres and development of camping.\npicnicking, boating, and other facilities on 119 acres totalling\n15,107 acres. Projects have included beaches, deserts, forests, and\nriver banks. They have ranged from 4,700-acre Toro Park in Monterey\nCounty to an acre and a half at Fort Crook Historical Museum in Shasta\nCounty. Beautification of a dump, and conversion of a garden mansion\ninto a public park are among the diverse projects made possible by this\nBond Act program.\nSome 5153 acres for acquisition and 3819 acres for development are\nincluded in the 53 projects from 23 counties requested in the Governor's\n1969-70 budget. Listed below are the 53 projects by county:\nAcquisition\nand/or\nAmount\nApplicant and Project\nDevelopment\nRequested\nAcreage\nDel Norte County\nFLORENCE KELLER REGIONAL PARK\nDev.\n$46,000\n29\nKern County\nKERN RIVER STATE PARK\nDev.\n$184,370\n60\nKings County\nCORCORAN REGIONAL PARK\nAcq.\n$50,000\n180\nLos Angeles County\nVERDUGO MOUNTAINS SCENIC DRIVE AND\nAcq.\n$246,600\n290\nCONSERVATION PARK AREA\nCity of Glendale\nGANESHA PARK ADDITION\nDev.\n$25,503\n60\nCity of Pomona\n- 1 -\n#92\nAcquisition\nand/or\nAmount\nApplicant and Project\nDevelopment\nRequested\nAcreage\nEL DORADO PARK (EAST) ADDITIONAL\nDev.\n$114,659\n418\nDEVELOPMENT\nCity of Long Beach\nMONROVIA CANYON PARK\nDev.\n$9,485\n88\nCity of Monrovia\nSTOUGH PARK\nDev.\n$179,576\n100\nCity of Burbank\nTORRANCE REGIONAL PARK ADDITION\nAcq.\n$39,414\n1\nCity of Torrance\nSANTA MONICA STATE BEACH LANDSCAPING\nDev.\n$27,800\nCity of Santa Monica\nOAK GROVE COUNTY PARK\nDev.\n$228,895\n63\nGRIFFITH PARK\nDev.\n$985,716\n55\nCity of Los Angeles\nMarin County\nBAY FRONT COUNTY PARK\nAcq.\n$86,250\n98\nMariposa County\nMARIPOSA CREEK\nAcq.\n$75,000\n114\nMendocino County\nLOW GAP REGIONAL PARK\nDev.\n$73,850\n260\nMerced County\nMERCED COUNTY CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT\nDev.\n$38,000\n10\nPROJECT\nNapa County\nOLD BALE MILL\nDev.\n$9,000\n1\nOrange County\nMILE SQUARE REGIONAL PARK - STAGE II\nDev.\n$212,500\n62\nUNIVERSITY REGIONAL PARK STAGE II\nDev.\n$212,500\n50\nFULLERTON DAM REGIONAL PARK\nDev.\n$75,000\n126\nLAGUNA NIGUEL REGIONAL PARK\nDev.\n$29,000\n27\nPlacer County\nMcBEAN MEMORIAL PARK\nDev.\n$20,000\n27\nCity of Lincoln\nRiverside County\nMcCALL MEMORIAL PARK\nDev.\n$106,250\n87\nVALLEY HI PARK\nAcq.\n$67,000\n50\nBOGART PARK\nDev.\n$108,000\n334\nSAN JACINTO RIVER PARK\nAcq.\n$62,500\n100\nSacramento County\nCARMICHAEL PARK\nDev.\n$33,750\n38\nCarmichael Recreation and Park District\nSan Bernardino County\nBIG BEAR REGIONAL PARK\nAcq.\n$125,000\n50\nCALICO GHOST TOWN REGIONAL PARK\nDev.\n$75,500\n350\nCOPPER MOUNTAIN REGIONAL PARK -\nDev.\n$35,000\n50\nPHASE II\n- 2 -\n$92\nAcquisition\nand/or\nAmount\nApplicant and Project\nDevelopment\nRequested\nAcreage\nSan Diego County\nSWEETWATER RESERVOIR REGIONAL PARK\nAcq.\n$389,500\n1,300\nGuajome Regional Park\nAcq.\n$1,000,000\n640\nLOS PENASQUITOS REGIONAL PARK\nAcq.\n$1,000,000\n565\nSan Joaquin County\nLODI LAKE MUNICIPAL PARK\nAcq.\n$63,360\n58\nCity of Lodi\nSOUTH COUNTY REGIONAL PARK\nA&D\n$160.000\n150\nB & L RANCH OAK GROVE ADDITION\nA&D\n$106,650\n170\nSan Luis Obispo County\nATASCADERO COUNTY PARK\nA&D\n$38,600\n61\nSANTA RITA RESERVOIR RECREATION AREA\nDev.\n$40,000\n220\nShasta County\nFORT CROOK MUSEUM\nDev.\n$35,000\n1½\nANDERSON RIVER PARK\nA&D\n$60,000\n304\nTURTLE BAY\nCity of Redding\nDev.\n$51,600\n206\nSiskiyou County\nDUNSMUIR CITY PARK\nDev.\n$40,000\n12\nDunsmuir Recreation District\nHAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY PARK\nDev.\n$24,420\n57\nMT. SHASTA CITY PARK\nDev.\n$10,580\n26\nMt. Shasta Recreation District\nSolano County\nTWIN SISTERS PARK\nA&D\n$68,000\n100\nMORROW ISLAND AQUATIC PARK\nA&D\n$71,000\n100\nLAGOON VALLEY\nA&D\n$70,000\n50\nLAKE SOLANO PUTAH CREEK TRAIL\nA&D\n$7,000\n3\nHUNTER HILL REGIONAL PARK\nA&D\n$56,250\n50\nSonoma County\nJENNER-RUSSIAN GULCH COUNTY PARK\nAcq.\n$150.000\n300\nMOUNT HOOD COUNTY PARK\nAcq.\n$75.705\n359\nSutter County\nLIVE OAK RECREATION AREA\nDev.\n$38,000\n13\nVentura County\nBEARDSLEY PARK\nAcq.\n$109,828\n60\nTotal Acquisition\n$3,940,247\nTotal Development\n$3,307,364\nTotal\n$7,247,611\n#######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Ii\ndiate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-14-69\n#93\nGOVERNOR\"S SCHEDULE\nFebruary 17, 1969\nthrough\nFebruary 23, 1969\nMonday, February 17\nOffice appointments\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, February 18\n1:30 pm\nPRESS CONFERENCE\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWednesday, February 19\nOffice appointments\nOvernight - Sacramento\nThursday, February 20\n10:00 am\nBrief remarks to Project\nUnderstanding - Department\nof Resources (Governor's Office)\n11:30 am\nBrief remarks to San Diego\nChamber of Commerce\n(Governor's Office)\nFriday, February 21\nRegents Meeting -\nUniversity of California\nat Berkeley\n(Overnight - Los Angeles)\nSaturday, February 22\nNo appointments scheduled\n(Overnight - Los Angeles)\nSunday, February 23\npm\nNo appointments scheduled\nReturn to Sacramento\n(Overnight - Sacramento)\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-14-69\n#94\nR.\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today sent the following telegram to\nPresident Richard M. Nixon:\n\"I note with great satisfaction your urgent request of Secretaries\nHardin and Schultz to study and advise concerning whether the\nTaft-\nHartley Act should be extended to farm workers.\n\"The availability of food is vital to all of us. Your concern with\nits production and distribution is, of course, shared by me.\n\"The present national agricultural labor controversy requires the\nattention you are giving to it. I respectfully suggest that the problem\nrequires more than the study of the applicability or non-applicability of\nthe Taft-Hartley Act--it warrants an in-depth study of the problems\nfacing the producer and farm labor and a search for a dispute settling\nprocedure for agriculture which goes beyond the industrial concept.\n\"I believe that applying the principles of the National Labor\nRelations Act to farming is unwise. It is self-evident that such factors\nas crop perishability and weather require an approach that will achieve\na balance of union and farmer bargaining power so necessary to reach\nfair decisions and avoid loss of food and fibre in the public interest.\n\"Social and labor management problems are basic issues in the\npresent grape boycott activity. This is a national problem which\njustifies the national attention you are giving to it. I respectfully\nsuggest you use your influence to request all parties involved in the\npresent agricultural labor controversy to withhold all activities until\nthe facts become available from your study group and recommendations\nfor solutions are available.\"\n#########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-17-69\n#95\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named La Mirada Mayor Edward J.\nLeClair to a four-year term on the Regional Water Quality Control Board,\nLos Angeles Region.\nThe post pays necessary expenses.\nLeClair, a 47-year-old Republican, succeeds Mayrant D, McKeown\nof Long Beach whose term expired.\nThe governor also announced he has reappointed Lester L.\nLouden, supervisor of the Division of Sanitary Engineering for the Los\nAngeles City Department of Water and Power. Louden, a 55-year-old\nDemocrat, was first appointed in September, 1961. He lives at\n1036 South Windsor Boulevard, Los Angeles.\nLeClair, voted \"Citizen of the Year\" for 1967 in La Mirada,\nhas been a city councilman since 1964.\nHe works as an engineer for North American Rockwell, Inc.\nHe is a past president of the La Mirada Homeowners' Association\nhas served as a trustee of the La Mirada Southeast Mosquito Abatement\nDistrict and as a director of the County Sanitation Board.\nA veteran of World War II, LeClair holds a number of medals,\nincluding the Purple Heart.\nHe lives at 15933 Bluefield Avenue, La Mirada.\n#########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-17-69\n#96\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named three persons to four-year terms\non the Fairview State Hospital Board of Trustees.\nThe appointments require Senate confirmation and pay necessary\nexpenses.\nNamed were:\nCharles C. Palmer 48, assistant superintendent of business\nservices for the Huntington Beach City School District. Palmer. a\nRepublican, succeeds Demetrius S. Stylianou of Santa Ana.\nPalmer, who holds an M.A. Degree from Whittier College (1958), has\nbeen in his present school district assignment since 1965. He previously\nserved as administrator in charge of business, and as business manager\nin the Huntington Beach City School District.\nHe is a past president of the Huntington Beach Elementary Teachers'\nAssociation and currently serves as legislative chairman of the Orange\nCounty Teachers' Association.\nHe is married, has four children, and lives at 1701 Kings Road,\nNewport Beach.\n--Mrs. Jo Emma Ballard of Garden Grove. She is the wife of Reece\nBallard, an investigator.\nMrs. Ballard, a Republican, replaces Ven Fahrney of Los Alamitos.\nShe is president of the Women's Division of the Garden Grove Chamber\nof Commerce and is a charter president of the Garden Park Hospital Guild.\nShe is also secretary and a director of both the Garden Grove\nEmergency Welfare Association and the G rden Grove Coordinating Council.\nMrs. Ballard and her husband have a son. They live at 9712 Shannon\nStreet, Garden Grove.\n--Thomas E. Blackman, 36, a Long Beach schoolteacher. A Republican,\nBlackman succeeds Norman J. Meyer of Costa Mesa.\nBlackman, a teacher at Stanford Junior High School, Long Beach,\nholds a Masters Degree in General Secondary Education from Colorado\nState College.\nHe is a captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and was graduated\nsix years ago from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in\nWashington, D.C. after having studied \"the Economics of National Security.\nLast year, he was president of his junior high school faculty. He lives\nat 421 Baryl Cove Way, Seal Beach.\nTerms of the outgoing members expired.\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: I ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-17-69\n#97\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Cal-tech Professor Clarence R.\nAllen of Pasadena and Karl V. Steinbrugge, a San Francisco structural\nand earthquake engineer, to four-year termson the State Mining and Geo-\nlogy Board.\nThe appointments require Senate confirmation and pay necessary\nexpenses.\nAllen and Steinbrugge will fill two newly-created positions on the\nboard which was expanded from five to seven members by the 1968 legis-\nlature.\nAllen, a 43-year-old Democrat, received a Masters Degree in Geophysics\nin 1951, and a Ph. D. in Structural Geology and Geophysics in 1954, both\nfrom Cal-tech, Pasadena.\nHe began his teaching career as an assistant professor at the\nUniversity of Minnesota in 1954. The following year, he joined the\nCal-tech faculty.\nLast year, he served as chairman of the National Science Foundation's\nEarth Sciences Advisory Panel. He has also been chairman of the State\nDepartment of Water Resources' Consulting Board for Earthquake Analysis\nsince 1965.\nHe lives at 1160 Cordova Street, Pasadena.\nSteinbrugge, 49, heads the Earthquake Department of the Pacific Fire\nRating Bureau, San Francisco.\nHe is a director and former president of the Seismological Society\nof America and is chairman of the U.S. National Committee for the Inter-\nnational Association for Earthquake Engineering.\nHe also serves as president of the Earthquake Engineering Research\nInstitute and was a member of the Institute's team which was sent to\ninvestigate the 1960 Chilean earthquakes. H\nHe is a past director of the Structural Engineers Association of\nNorthern California.\nSteinbrugge is a 1941 graduate of Oregon State University where he\nreceived a B.S. Degree in Civil Engineering. He is a lecturer in the\nCollege of Environmental Design (Department of Architecture) at the\nUniversity of California, Berkeley. He is a Republican.\nHe lives at 6851 Cutting Boulevard, El Cerrito.\n#####\noffice\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-17-69\n#98\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has reappointed\nRalph Nissen of Williams as chairman of the California Exposition and\nFair Executive Committee for the coming year.\nNissen, who has been chairman since February 1, 1968, will\ncontinue to serve in that capacity until February 1, 1970.\nA veteran Colusa County rancher, Nissen, 57, was first named to\nthe Fair Board for a four-year term February 1, 1967.\nHe was regional director of the California Farm Bureau for five\nyears and served as a vice president for four years.\nHe is a Republican.\n#########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Imm iate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571 2-17-69\n#99\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Agriculture\nand Services Sacretary J. Earl Coke to serve as assistant t) the governor\nfor cabinet affairs.\nCoke will serve in this capacity on a temporary basis. He will be\nspecifically charged with coordinating the work of the cabiret which\nprovides the channels of communication and policy guidance for the\nexecutive departments and agencies which are directly responsible to the\ngovernor.\nThe governor said Coke will perform many of the functions previously\nhandled by Cabinet Secretary Win Adams, who has left the governor's office\nto serve as executive assistant to Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke.\nHe pointed out that the interim cabinet appointment was made at the\nsuggestion of Executive Secretary Edwin Meese III as a means of strength-\nening the liaison between the governor's staff and the cabinet, and to\nrefine cabinet procedures which have been developed during the past two\nyears.\nThe administration's \"cabinet concept\" was introduced by Governor\nReagan in 1967 to improve the overall management of the executive branch\nof government.\nCoke will continue to serve as secretary for Agriculture and Services.\nHe originally joined the Reagan administration in 1967 as director of\nAgriculture and was named secretary when that post was established in\n1968 as part of the governor's reorganization plan.\nCoke is a former assistant secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower\nadministration.\nA native of Downey, Coke received a bachelor of science degree in\nagriculture from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctor\nof science degree from Clemson University's College of Agriculture.\nHe served as an agronomist in the Agricultural Extension Service of\nthe University of California from 1923 to 1935 and was vice president and\na member of the board of directors of Spreckels Sugar Co., San Francisco,\nfrom 1935 to 1949.\nFrom 1949 to 1955 Coke was director of the University of California\nExtension Service but took a leave of absence in 1952-53 to serve in the\nEisenhower administration.\n-1-\n#99\nDuring his term as assistant secretary of Agriculture, Coke had\nresponsibilities for five agencies of the department--Agricultural\nResearch Service, Agricultural Extension Service, the U.S. Forest\nService, the Soil Conservation Service and the Farmers Cooperative Service\nCoke was vice president of the Bank of America in charge of agri-\ncultural activities and loans from 1955 to 1965 when he became president\nof Consolidated Agricultural Industries.\nHe is married to the former Ella Elizabeth O'Kelly. They have two\nsons and a daughter.\n#####\n-2-\nPB\nSPECIAL ELECTION TO FILL TWENTY-SEVENTH\nCONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT SEAT VACATED BY CONGRESS-\nMAN ED REINECKE WILL BE HELD APRIL 29, 1969,\n(This information released to AP, UPI, Los Angeles\nTimes, Sacramento Bee, Union via phone (PB) Monday,\nFebruary 17, P.M.)\n--ra\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE:\nI\nediate\nSacramento, Californ.\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-18-69\n#100\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named clinical psychologist\nC. Norman Jacobs of Santa Barbara to a four-year term on the State\nPsychology Examining Committee.\nThe post pays $25 per diem plus expenses.\nJacobs, 43, succeeds Richard E. Worthington of La Jolla whose term\nexpired.\nThe governor also announced he has reappointed Sumner B. Morris,\ndirector of the Counseling Center at the University of California, Davis.\nMorris, a 46-year-old Republican, was first appointed in July. 1964.\nHe received his A.B. Degree from Simpson College, his M.A. Degree from\nthe State University of Iowa and his Ed. D. from Stanford University.\nHe lives at 807 Sycamore Lane, Davis.\nMorris' new term will expire June 30, 1972.\nJacobs, a Republican, holds a Ph.D. in Education and Psychology.\nHe has been engaged in private practice in Santa Barbara since 1960.\nHe served as the director of guidance and a school psychologist\nfor Santa Barbara County Schools for four years.\nHe is a visiting lecturer at the University of California at\nSanta Barbara.\nJacobs is married, has three children, and lives at 1761 Glen Oak\nDrive, Montecito.\n####### #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: I ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-18-69\n#101\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Deputy\nAttorney General Richard K. Turner as his assistant legal affairs\nsecretary\nHis salary will be $17,000 per year.\nTurner, 30, is a 1963 graduate of the University of California's\nBoalt Hall Law School and has been a member of the State Attorney\nGeneral's staff for the past six years.\nHe has headed the attorney general's Administrative Law Section in\nSacramento since last July. As a deputy attorney general, he was\nassigned to the Criminal Section for one and one half years and to the\nCivil Section for three years.\nHe completed his undergraduate work in Political Science at\nStanford University in 1960 and received a B.A. Degree.\nWhile in law school he worked as a clerk in the Boalt Hall library\nand as an editorial assistant for California Continuing Education of\nthe Bar. As a law student, he was the recipient of a number of awards,\nincluding the Walter Dinkelspiel Fellowship in Law, a summer fellowship\nto the Boalt International Legal Studies Workshop in 1962 and the Boalt\nHall Top Evidence Scholar in 1963.\nTurner is a member of the State Bar; the American Bar Association.\nincluding its Section on Administrative Law; the Sacramento County Bar\nAssociation; the Boalt Hall and Stanford alumni associations.\nHe is a former director of the Sacramento County Barristers' Club.\nHe and his wife, Robin, have two children. They live at 2740\nMontgomery Way, Sacramento.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nMEMO TO THE PF SS\nSacrámento, Californi\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-19-69\nThe second in a series of \"State of the Ag ency\"\nmessages will be presented by Human Relations Set retary\nSpencer Williams at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, February 20,\nin News Conference Room 1190.\nAppearing with Williams will be department\ndirectors within the agency.\nThe State of the Agency message is conforming\nwith the governor's announcement in his State of the\nState message that each agency submit a report of its\nactivities to the legislature.\nWilliams and the department heads will make\nbrief presentations and then will be open to questions\nfrom the press.\nWhile the session will produce news of immediate\ninterest, it is also anticipated that it may be of\nassistance to the press by providing information on a\nbackground basis.\nThe message will be for Friday A.M.s release.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-20-69\n#102\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today praised the California Jaycees for\ntheir \"leadership and initiative\" in forming a statewide Service Alliance\ndesigned to stimulate and coordinate citizen action in dealing with\nhuman problems at the community level.\nFormation of the California Service Alliance was announced today by\nRob Reifschneider, president of the California Jaycees. The ^lliance\nwill promote, coordinate and evaluate volunteer, service-oriented\nactivities at the local level, wherever needed.\nReifschneider said the Service Alliance will be made up of\nrepresentatives from major service, fraternal and women's organizations\nas well as leaders in the fields of business, labor and the professions.\nThe statewide alliance will function only to promote the creation of\nlocal service alliances. Local Jaycee chapters will serve as catalysts\nin helping to form the local alliances, he said.\nGovernor Reagan said. \"The service alliance approach dovetails\nperfectly with the basic concepts of the Creative Society in providing\na common sense way of more effectively marshaling available community\nresources to help solve human problems.\n\"I commend the Jaycees for the leadership and initiative they have\ncontributed to this project which recognizes the need for coordinated\naction at the local level, the governor said.\nReifschneider said local service alliances will audit the scope and\neffectiveness of community projects already underway, assess community\nneeds, solicit participation in local service projects by groups not\ncurrently involved, and begin new and coordinated programs.\n\"Our principal goal is to make the thrust of volunteer community\nactivities more effective,\" Reifschneider said.\n\"The service alliances will seek to eliminate inefficiency and\nduplication of effort--factors which often characterize local service\nprograms, \"he said.\n\"The local service alliances will work to achieve an overview of\ncommunity efforts, therefore resulting in more effective direction of th\ntotal energies of community service programs in areas of special human\nneed. Continued lack of coordination,' Reifschneider said, \"will only\nprolong the hit-and-miss, trial-and-error approach which has bogged down\nmany community programs in the past.\"\nThe first meeting of the California Service Alliance has been\ntentatively set for Friday, March 14, at 9:30 a.m. in the Governor's\nOffice.\n#########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-20-69\n2\npress\nIn response to several/telephone requests today, Associate\nPress Secretary Ed Gray issued the following statement regarding\nthe University of California at Berkeley campus crisis:\n\"Governor Reagan has requested the National Guard to make\nwhatever preparations may be necessary to provide assistance to\nlaw enforcement officers if it should be necessary at Berkeley\nFriday.\"\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-21-69\n#103\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nFebruary 24, 1969\nthrough\nMarch 2, 1969\nMonday, February 24\n6:00 p.m.\nWine Institute Champagne Reception at\nEl Dorado Hotel\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, February 25\n9:30 a.m.\nPress Conference\np.m.\nDepart for Los Angeles\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nWednesday, February 26\nTrustees' meeting, Los Angeles\np.m.\nDepart Los Angeles for Washington. D.C.\nOvernight - Washington, D.C.\nThursday, February 27\nNational Governors' Conference, Washington, D.C.\nOvernight - Washington, D.C.\nFriday, February 28\na.m.\nDepart Washington, D.C., for Roanoke, Virginia\n2:20 p.m.\nKeynote address to Virginia Republican Party\nNominating Convention.\nDepart Roanoke for Atlanta, Georgia.\n8:30 p.m.\nRepublican fund-raising dinner, Dinkler Plaza\nHotel, Atlanta. Speech.\np.m.\nDepart Atlanta, Georgia, for Los Angeles\nOvernight - Los Angeles\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nSacramento, Californi\nMEMO TO THE - ESS\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-21-69\nADDITION TO GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nSaturday, March 1\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, March 2\np.m.\nDepart Los Angeles for Sacramento\nOvernight - Sacramento\n#######\nEJG\nOFF CE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-21-69\n#104\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today called the appointment of Richard\nLyng as assistant secretary of agriculture in Washington D. C. \"an\noutstanding choice, one which is certain to further enhance the quality\nand mission of the U. S. Department of Agriculture during the months\nand years to come. \"\nAnnouncement of Lyng's appointment to the Federal post was made\ntoday in Washington. He has been a key figure in the Reagan administra-\ntion during the past two years, first as deputy director, and later as\ndirector, of the State Department of Agriculture.\n\"Dick Lyng is a man of great executive talent and administrative\nskill who knows the needs of the agricultural community and who has\ndone a truly first-class job for the people of California since this\nadministration assumed office,\" the Governor said.\n\"While we will surely miss him here in Sacramento, our immediate\nloss will certainly be the nation's gain.\n\"His new appointment is an outstanding choice, one which is certain\nto enhance the quality and mission of the U. S. Department of Agriculture\nduring the months and years to come.\n\"The fact that the new administration in Washington has drawn so\nwidely on the abilities of persons serving in California state\ngovernment is a source of great pride to all of us. It surely points\nto the wealth of talent and quality of service being rendered by members\nof the administration here.\n\"I have extended my sincere best wishes and congratulations to\nDick on his new appointment. We look forward to continuing our close\nworking relationship with him in his new capacity at the federal level,'\nthe Governor said.\nIn a note to the Governor, Lyng said:\n\"I view this change with mixed emotions. It has been a high honor\nand privilege to be a part of your administration, which is accomplishing\nso much for California. It has been a source of great pride and\nsatisfaction, also, to play an active role in California agriculture,\nsurely the most dynamic and productive in the world. All of this I\nshall miss more than I can say.\n-1-\n#104\n\"However, the opportunity to be of service to agriculture on a\nnational scale is one I feel I must accept. It is my hope that, in the\nyears ahead, I shall be able to justify the confidence of those whose\nfaith in me has led to this new appointment.\n\"My deep thanks and respect for the job you are doing for all\nCalifornians. Again, it has been an honor to be a member of your team, \"\nLyng told the Governor.\nLyng, 50, joined the administration in Sacramento March 10, 1967,\nas deputy director of agriculture. He previously headed the Ed J. Lyng\nCompany, Inc., of Modesto, a wholesale and retail seed firm.\nA successful agricultural businessman with a lifetime of work in\nthe processing and marketing of agricultural crops, he was promoted to\ndirector of Agriculture last September.\nPrior to joining state service, he was a charter member and\nserved as president of the Stanislaus County Taxpayers Assn., and\nhas been a director of the California Crop Improvement Assn.\nHe is a former president of the California Seed Council and\nthe California Seed Association. While president of the Greater Modesto\nChamber of Commerce, he worked for the betterment of farm-city\nrelations.\nLyng was graduated cum laude in business administration from the\nUniversity of Notre Dame. He served 30 months in the South Pacific\ntheater with the U. S. Army in World War II.\n###\nEJG\nFebruary 21 1969\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nFROM:\nKAI R. MARTENSEN, EXECUTIVE OFFICER\nCALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE\nGOVERNOR'S OFFICE\nSACRAMENTO 95814\n916/445-9156\nGovernor Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch today pre-\nsented to Terry A. Francois, chairman of the Bay Area Regional Law\nEnforcement Advisory Board, the first planning money distributed by\nthe California Council on Criminal Justice.\nThe $10,000 award is the first of the $1.3 million made available to\nCalifornia under the provisions of the federal Omnibus Crime Control\nand Safe Streets Act of 1968. The remaining 10 regions in California\nare scheduled to receive similar planning grants in the near future.\nThis award is the first installment of $113,275 made available to the\n9 Bay Area counties to identify local law enforcement needs and problems,\nprepare a list of programs and priorities, and develop an action program\nfor 1969-70. Attending the ceremony was vice-chairman of the regional\nadvisory board Charles J. Prelsnik, sheriff of Santa Clare county;\nadvisory board member Thomas J. Cahill, chief of police, San Francisco:\nand Contra Costa county supervisor James Kenny, president, Association\nof Bay Area Governments. The Bay Area regional board has already started\nwork developing the comprehensive regional plan. Assisting the board\nare 8 task forces which include education and training; law enforcement;\njudicial process; corrections, juvenile delinquency; narcotics, drug,\nand alcoholic abuse; organized crime; and riots and disorders. These\ntask forces are made up of local officials of the various criminal\njustice agencies, educational institutions, and interested citizens.\nThis regional plan will be submitted to the California Council on Criminal\nJustice. The council will prepare a statewide comprehensive criminal\njustice plan and will submit this plan to the federal Law Enforcement\nAssistance Alministration, Department of Justice. Once this plan is on\nfile, California will receive $2.3 million to fund criminal justice\naction programs.\n- 1 -\nFebruary 21. 1969\nREGION V TASK FORCE CHAIRMEN\nB. Earl Lewis\nEducation and Training\nFoothill Jr. College District\n21250 Stevens Creek Road\nCupertino, California 95014\nEdward Kriens\nLaw Enforcement\nCity Hall, 3300 N. Main Street\nPleasant Hill, California 94565\nLeonard Dieden\nJudicial Process\nSuperior Court, Dept. V1, 7th Floor\n1225 Fallon Street\nOakland, California 94612\nDr. Richard Korn\nCorrections\nDept. of Criminology\nUniversity of California\nBerkeley, California 94705\nSidney Friedman\nJuvenile Delinquency\nJuvenile Prob. Dept.\nSanta Clara County\n840 Guadalupe Park Way\nSan Jose, California 95110\nRonald L. Usher\nNarcotics, Drugs, and Alcoholic\nCorte Madera Town Hall\nAbuse\nTamalpais & Willow\nCorte Madera, California 94925\nBarton Collins\nOrganized Crime\nChief of Detectives\nSan Jose Police Dept.\nSan Jose, California\nRobert Cazadd\nRiots and Disorders\nCity Hall\n1421 Washington Street\nOakland, California 94612\n########\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Imr\niate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-24-69\n#105\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named San Jose labor official\nHenry T. Gunderson to a four-year term on the State Board of Education.\nThe appointment requires Senate confirmation and pays necessary\nexpenses.\nThe governor also announced he has reappointed Dr. John R. Ford\nof San Diego to a four-year term on the board.\nFord, a 45-year-old San Diego physician and civic leader was first\nappointed January 25, 1968. A Republican, he is a 1943 graduate of\nAndrews University, Barren Springs, Michigan. He received his M.D. from\nthe Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1947. He is married,\nhas four children, and lives at 2534 Imperial Avenue, San Diego.\nGunderson, a 60-year-old Democrat, has been manager of the Electri-\ncal Industry Trust Fund of the Electrical Contractors of Santa Clara\nand San Benito counties since 1958.\nIn 1964, he organized the Professional and Coordinators Association\nfor building trades apprenticeship programs in California and served as\nits first chairman. Four years earlier, he organized and sponsored a\nbiennial Electrical Apprentice Instructors' Institute at San Jose City\nCollege to upgrade the work of apprenticeship instructors.\nHe currently serves as president of the board of trustees of the\nSan Jose Unified School District. In 1966, he was president of the\nSan Jose City College Board of Trustees.\nGunderson was a member of the Santa Clara County Grand Jury in 1957\nand was on the San Jose Vocational Education Study Committee in 1955.\nHe served for 13 years as president of the San Jose Area Building\nand Construction Trades Council.\nHe lives at 2077 Ellen Avenue, San Jose.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, Californ\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-24-69\nCORRECTION\nPlease add to fifth paragraph of Release #105 issued today the\nfollowing sentence, Gunderson succeeds Bishop Gerald Kennedy of\nHollywood, whose term expired.\nThe first paragraph of same release should be changed to read:\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Henry T. Gunderson, President\nof the San Jose Unified School District Board of Trustees, to a four-\nyear term on the State Board of Education.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: T ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-24-69\n#106\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Joseph N. Reynolds of Glendale\nand Edwin J. Ropes of Woodlake to four-year terms on the State Board of\nDental Examiners.\nThe posts pay $25 per diem plus expenses.\nReynolds, a 54-year-old Republican replaces Herman B. Maltz of\nHermosa Beach. Ropes, 59, succeeds Jack J. Kimbrough of San Diego.\nThe terms of both outgoing members expired.\nReynolds and Ropes are dentists.\nReynolds has practiced in Glendale for 29 years. He is a 1938\ngraduate of the U.S.C. School of Dentistry and served as a dental\nofficer in the Navy during World War II.\nHe is a past president of the Gateway Kiwanis Club of Glendale and\nlives at 1511 Glenmont Drive, Glendale.\nRopes, a Republican, is a graduate of the U.S.C. School of Dentistry\nand has practiced in Woodlake since 1932.\nHe is vice president of the California Dental Service Corporation\nand serves as vice chairman of the State Advisory Commission for\nSeasonal Agricultural Workers. He is also active in the Tulare County,\nCalifornia, and American dental associations.\nRopes is a former chairman of the Woodlake Recreation Commission\nand is a past president of the Tulare County Chamber of Commerce and\nWoodlake Rotary Club.\nHe lives at 33707 Road 180, Visalia.\n##########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO'\nRELEASE: Ir ediate\nSacramento, Californi\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-24-69\n#107\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Harlan J. (Jack) Johnson,\nmanager of the Division of Farm and Home Purchases (Cal-Vet) of the\nDepartment of Veterans Affairs, as acting director of the department.\nHe replaces James E. Johnson who resigned to accept an appointment\nto the U.S. Civil Service Commission in Washington, D.C.\nH. J. Johnson, 48, joined the Veterans Affairs Department in Los\nAngeles in 1945. Four years later, he was named manager of the Division\nof Farm and Home Purchases in Fresno.\nHe was transferred to Sacramento as division credit manager for\nthe Department in 1954, was promoted to assistant division manager in\n1956 and to division manager in 1960. He was also designated assistant\nsecretary of the Veterans' Finance Committee in 1960.\nHe has served as manager of the Cal-Vet program for the past\neight years.\nHe enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941 and was honorably\ndischarged as a first lieutenant in 1945. During the war, he was an\nairplane mechanic, flight engineer and pilot. He flew 32 combat missions\nwith the 8th Air Force in England in 1944.\nA Republican, he is a member of the American Legion and Veterans\nof Foreign Wars.\nHe and his wife, Maxine, live at 1670 Del Dayo Drive, Carmichael.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE:\nIm\ndiate\nSACramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-24-69\n#108\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named three persons to four-year\nterms on the State Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind.\nThe posts pay $25 per diem plus expenses\nNamed were:\nRobert J. Acosta, 29, an instructor at Chatsworth High School.\nHe succeeds James B. Garfield of Hollywood.\nAcosta, a Democrat, was selected as one of America's ten out-\nstanding young men last year He is a graduate of California State\nCollege at Los Angeles and is in his second year of teaching at\nChatsworth High School. He previously trught at Manteca Union High\nSchool for three years.\nHe is an honorary member of the Granada Hills Jaycees and is on\nthe executive committee of the California Council for the Blind.\nHe lives at 9927 Desoto Avenue, Chatsworth\nHarrison C. Alper, 50, a special representative for the San Carlos\ninvestment firm, Waddell and Reed, Inc. He replaces John H. Hebner\nof North Hollywood.\nAlper, a Republican, is married and has three children.\nHe resides at 149 Kelton Avenue, San Carlos.\nMrs. Kay Roberts, wife of Assistant State Treasurer Bruce Roberts,\nof Sacramento. She succeeds Mrs. Julie K. Rifkin of Sacramento\nMrs. Roberts is a 1959 graduate of California State College at\nLos Angeles in Home Economics. She was reared by a blind mother, Mrs.\nDorothy Scott, who was the first appointee to the State Board of Guide\nDogs for the Blind under Governor Earl Warren. Mrs. Scott served on\nthe board from 1947-62.\nMrs. Roberts and her husband have three children and live at\n2800 Sierra Boulevard, Secramento She is a Republican\nBoth Acosta and Alper are blind and are guide dog users\nThe terms of the outgoing board members expired.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN R\nRELEASE:\nIm\ndiate\nSatramento, Califor. a\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-24-69\n#109\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Garberville Lumber company\nowner Mal Coombs and Samuel B. Nelson, general manager of the Southern\nCalifornia Rapid Transit District, to four-year terms on the State\nWater Commission.\nTie appointments require Senate confirmation and pay $50 per\ndiem, plus expenses.\nCoombs, a 56-year-old Republican, succeeds Edwin Koster of\nSmartville, Nelson, 66, is a former state director of public works\nin the Reagan administration. He replaces Norris Poulson of La Jolla.\nTerms of the outgoing commission members expired.\nCoombs owns and operates the Coombs Lumber Company of Garberville.\nF 1932 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley,\nhe served for six years, in the 1930s, as director of parks and rec-\nreation for San Mateo County.\nHe entered the lumber business in 1946. He has been a director\nof the 11-county Eel River Association since 1959 and is a former\nmember of the Humboldt Unified School District Board.\nHe lives at 328 Whitmore Avenue, Redway.\nNelson, a Republican, served as director of public works in\nSacramento for one year prior to becoming general manager of the\nSouthern California Rapid Transit District\nHe previously was general manager and chief engineer of the\nIos Angeles Department of Water and Power and worked in the department\nfor 35 years.\nHe lives at 19543 San Jose Street, Northridge.\n#####\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: I-mediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-24-69\n#110\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named James E. Stratten of San\nFrancisco, administrative representative to the California Youth\nAuthority Board, to a four-year term on the board.\nThe appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.\nStratten, a 56-year-old Republican, will succeed John W. Brewer of\nSan Rafael whose term expires March 15.\nStratten's salary will be $20,500 per year.\nThe governor also announced he has reappointed Mrs. Paula A.\nTennant of Susanville. Mrs. Tennant, an attorney, was first named to\nthe board last October 15. She is a Republican.\nStratten was named to the Education Commission of the States early\nin 1967 by the governor. He has twice represented California at White\nHouse conferences on education, and in 1964 served as a panelist.\nHe holds an A.B. Degree from Talladega College, Alabama, and an\nM.A. Degree from Columbia University, New York.\nHe was the first Negro to be appointed to the San Francisco Grand\nJury, in 1947.\nHe is a former member of the Governor's Advisory Commission on\nChildren and Youth, and in 1950 represented California at the White\nHouse Conference on Children and Youth.\nHe has served as a member of Local Draft Board Number 37 since 1949.\nIn 1961, Stratten was named to the San Francisco Board of Education.\nHe was elected to the board in 1962 and became its president two years\nlater.\nHe has been director-at-large of the California School Boards\nAssociation. He has served as a director of the Fillmore Merchants\nand Improvement Association for a number of years and was a member of\nthe San Francisco Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Agency for six years,\nin the 1950s.\nHe lives at 662 15th Avenue, San Francisco.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Imr liate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-25-69\n#111\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:\n\"Good morning.\nI would like to open today's press conference with a few comments about\na subject I first talked of several weeks ago when floods and mudslides\ncaused tremendous damage and left hundreds of Californians homeless.\n\"As you may recall, after I toured the areas I suggested the\ncitizens of California extend a helping hand to their neighbors. I\nsaid then that while government can do much to help, the real effort\nhad to be made by the citizens themselves- that it was time to again\ntry the traditional \"barn raising\" spirit of our past.\n'Well, today I am very happy to tell you of one example of that\ntradition.\n\"It occurred last Saturday night in Ontario-- 'sunshine ball' held\nto help those in West San Bernardino County who were hit by flood waters.\nMore than 1,000 persons attended the ball and the money still coming in\nis slated for flood relief work coordinated by the Cucamonga District\nDisaster Foundation which was formed specifically for flood relief.\n\"Entertainers like Jack Benny, Buddy Ebsen, Herb Jeffries, Monty\nMontana, and Don Loper donated their time and talents to help make it\na success.\n\"But the 'sunshine ball\" is just part of what's being done in West\nSan Bernardino County. A help-your-neighbors project was led by the\nmayors, councilmen, supervisors, chambers of commerce and service clubs\nof the entire west end of the county. From the beginning, local citizens\ntook families into their homes, provided food, blankets and clothing,\nTrucking companies and private operators drove into the flooded area,\nrescuing people, taking food and supplies with them. Local builders\nand contractors are still distributing equipment to help open private\ndriveways and roads and remove debris.\n\"Service club members, high school and college athletes, church\nmembers, a Tri-High group from Ontario and the West End Sing Out group\nare and have been literally digging mud, rocks, and silt out of homes\nand are helping salvage furniture. While it was a total community\neffort, I would like to single out Mayor and Mrs. Howard Snider of\nOntario for particular praise. Their efforts helped put it all together.\n- 1 -\n#111\n\"I mention what's been done in west San Bernardino County not as\nthe only example because there have been tremendous efforts throughout\nthe state to lend a helping hand. In Los Angeles, for example, last\nweekend police asked for volunteers to fill sandbags. So many responded\nthat they had to turn workers away.\n\"Now, there probably still are some who believe that government must\ndo it all--that nothing can be accomplished without government.\n\"Well. government can help. But what's been happening in San\nBernardino county proves that local initiative and a help your neighbor\nattitude is the way to really help people in need.\n\"I salute them and all Californians who have not forgotten the\nspirit that made this state and nation so great.\"\n#######\nPP\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOI\nRELEASE: Immed te\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-25-69\n#112\n2\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has directed all\nagencies of State government, including the National Guard, to make\navailable whatever assistance is necessary to local government in\nmeeting the present crisis brought on by heavy storms this week in\nCalifornia.\nHe designated the California Disaster Office as the overall\ncoordinator of the state's efforts.\nThe governor said, \"I have today asked all agencies and\ndepartments of the State of California to make available the full\nresources of state government wherever necessary in order to assist\nlocal communities hit by floods, earth slides and other weather-\nrelated problems.\n\"Major General Glenn C. Ames, commander, state military forces,\nhas assured me that he will make national guardsmen available to any\narea where their assistance is needed and requested by local\nauthorities,\" the governor said.\nGeneral Ames reported that guardsmen have already been ordered\nto duty in the Upland area of Southern California, at the request of\nlocal police, to assist in evacuation and to guard against looting in\nvacated areas.\nIn addition, a number of National Guard armories are now being\nused to house flood victims in various parts of the state.\nCrews from conservation camps throughout California have also\nbeen dispatched to assist in evacuation, sandbagging of river levees,\nsnow removal and other relief operations.\nThe California Disaster Office said the state was making available\nquantities of cots and blankets to a number of Red Cross evacuation\ncenters in the state.\nThe State Highway Department is continuing its snow removal\noperations in mountainous areas and is redoubling efforts to repair\nroads damaged by flooding and mudslides.\nThe Department of Water Resources, in cooperation with the U.S.\nArmy Corps of Engineers, is continuing round-the-clock surveillance\nof the river levee system in central California and the control of\noverflow from reservoirs.\n-1-\n#112\nIn addition, t. Disaster Office is coordin ing the use of\nhelicopters from the U.S. Marine Corps and Air Search and Rescue\nUnits for evacuation and relief purposes.\n\"This week's storms, like those in past weeks, are causing\ntragic losses. in time, energy and property for thousands upon\nthousands of Californians. I call upon the citizens of this state\nto lend support and assistance to members of their communities whose\npersonal lives are being so adversely affected, on a neighbor-to-neighbor\nbasis. All of us have an opportunity to help,\" he said.\n# # #\n-2-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, Californ.\nMEMO TO THE - RESS\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\nThe third in a series of \"State of the Agency\" messages will be\npresented by Business and Transportation Secretary Gordon C. Luce at\n9:30 A.M., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, in Room 1190 of the Capitol.\nDepartment directors within the agency will appear with Luce.\nThe State of the Agency message conforms with the governor's\nJanuary State-of-the-State Message in which he said that each agency\nwould submit a report of its activities to the legislature.\nLuce and department heads will make brief presentations. The\nsession will then be open to questions from the press. While the\nsession will produce news of immediate interest, it is also anticipated\nthat it may be of assistance to the press by providing information on\na background basis.\n##########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE:\nI\nediate\nSacramento, Californ.\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n#113\n445-4571\n2-26-69\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named L. Arthur Moore of Bakersfield\nto a three-year term on the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners.\nThe post pays $10 per diem, plus travel expenses.\nMoore, a 58-year-old Republican, succeeds John L. Bolenbaugh of\nPasadena whose term expired.\nMoore is a 1940 graduate of the College of Osteopathic Physicians\nand Surgeons at Los Angeles and has practiced in Bakersfield for the\npast 25 years.\nHe is a member of the Bakersfield Optimist Club and Chamber of\nCommerce. He is also a member of the Osteopathic Physicians and\nSurgeons of California and the Academy of Applied Osteopathy.\nHe lives at 323 18th Street, Bakersfield.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: T mediate\nSacramento, Californ_\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#114\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Ernest N. Kettenhofen of\nSan Anselmo to a four-year term on the Board of Governors of the\nCalifornia Maritime Academy.\nThe post pays necessary expenses.\nKettenhofen, a 51-year-old Republican, was first appointed in 1960.\nHe is a former chairman of the Marin County Board of Supervisors\nand is a past president of the board of directors of Marin General\nHospital.\nHe is a member of the Welfare Task Force Board of Marin County and\nthe Marin County Employment Retirement Board. He is vice president of\nthe College of Marin Foundation.\nKettenhofen is currently serving on the Grand Jury and is a member\nof the Mental Health Advisory Board of Marin County.\nHe is a 1941 graduate of the California Maritime Academy and\ncaptained five ships during his maritime service.\nHe lives at 78 Alta Vista Avenue, San Anselmo.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Ir ediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#115\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Bruce K. Hotchkiss of Tracy\nto a four-year term on the State Board of Funeral Directors and\nEmbalmers.\nThe post pays $25 per diem, plus expenses.\nHotchkiss, a 55-year-old Republican, succeeds C. C. DeYoung of\nStockton whose term expired.\nHotchkiss owns and operates the Hotchkiss Mortuary in Tracy.\nHe is a 1935 graduate of the San Francisco College of Mortuary\nScience.\nHe lives at 1360 East Street, Tracy.\n######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Ir\ndiate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#116\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Wilson C. Kelly of Stockton\nand Byron E. Denholm of Fallbrook to four-year terms on the State Board\nof Examiners in Veterinary Medicine.\nThe posts pay $25 per diem, plus expenses.\nKelly, 47, succeeds Jack L. Kohler of Oakland. Denholm, a\n36-year-old Republican, replaces Robert F. Burns of Lemon Grove. Terms\nof the outgoing members expired.\nKelly, a Republican, operates the Pacific Avenue Animal Clinic in\nStockton. He received his veterinary degree from Colorado State\nUniversity. He completed his undergraduate studies in animal science\nat the University of California at Davis.\nHe is a past president of the Delta-Stockton Humane Society and\nthe North San Joaquin Veterinary Medical Association.\nHe lives at 12250 North Lower Sacramento Road, Lodi.\nDenholm took his veterinary degree at Kansas State University and\nbegan his practice at Fallbrook in 1957. He has been a member of the\nHouse of Delegates of the California Veterinary Medical Association for\nfour years. He is also a director of the San Diego County Veterinary\nMedical Association.\nHe resides at 819 Stone Post Way, Fallbrook.\n#########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Im' diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#117\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named State Fish and Game Department\nDirector G. Raymond Arnett to a four-year term on the Pacific Marine\nFisheries Commission.\nThe post pays $10 per diem, plus expenses.\nArnett, a 44-year-old Republican, succeeds Walter T. Shannon.\nArnett replaced Shannon recently as director of the Department of Fish\nand Game after Shannon retired. Shannon also retired from the Fisheries\nCommission.\nThe appointment requires Senate confirmation.\n#########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#118\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today elevated Municipal Judge Harman G.\nScoville of Westminster to the Orange County Superior Court bench.\nThe post pays $30,572 per year.\nScoville, 46, succeeds Judge R. M. Crookshank who retired.\nScoville, a Republican, is a graduate of the Stanford University\nSchool of Law. He has been a municipal judge in the West Orange County\nJudicial District since May, 1967.\nHe was previously engaged in private practice in Orange County for\n12 years. He began his legal career in Los Angeles in 1951.\nScoville served as judge pro tem of the Superior Court two weeks\nper year from 1962-67.\nHe is a former president of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce and\nthe Westminster-Midway Rotary Club. He was chairman of the board of\nthe Westminister National Bank from 1966-67.\nHe is a former president of the Orange County Bar Association and\nwas for five years on its board of directors.\nHe is married, has five children, and lives at 15711 Butterfield\nStreet, Westminster.\n#######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Imm iate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#119\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Willard E. Pratt of Arcata to\na four-year term on the Regional Water Quality Control Board, North\nCoastal Region.\nThe post pays necessary expenses.\nPratt, a 53-year-old Republican, succeeds Francis M. Douglas of\nEureka whose term expired.\nThe governor also announced he has reappointed Sonoma County\nAdministrator David L. Nichols. A Democrat, Nichols has served on the\nboard since 1966.\nHe lives at 2254 Beverly Way, Santa Rosa.\nPratt is research manager for the Arcata Redwood Company. He holds\na Masters Degree in Forestry from the University of Washington (1946)\nand was an officer in the U.S. Army during World War II.\nHe has worked for the Arcata Redwood Company since 1962. From\n1959-61 he was corporate secretary-treasurer of the California Redwood\nAssociation, San Francisco.\nHe resides at 68 East 12th Street, Arcata.\n#######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: I ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#120\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Brawley farmer Jack J. Fleming\nand Coachella businessman Lee J. Escher, to four-year terms on the\nRegional Water Quality Control Board, Colorado River Basin Region.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses.\nFleming, 48, succeeds Nick A. Pricola of Brawley. Escher, a\n39-year-old Republican, replaces Water D. Scott of Blythe. Terms of the\noutgoing members expired,\nFleming, a Republican, is a 1949 graduate of California Polytechnic\nCollege at San Luis Obispo. He is president of the Brawley Elementary\nSchool Board and serves as secretary of District Nine of the California\nBeet Growers' Association.\nHe lives at 603 South Third Street, Brawley.\nEscher, a 1952 graduate of the University of Arizona, is an oil\ncompany wholesale distributor. He is a director of the Indio Rotary\nClub and the Coachella Valley Economic Development Association.\nHe resides at 44-841 Sherwood Drive, Indio.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: ediate\nSacramento, Californ.\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#121\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has named Pasadena attorney Mortimer\nFranciscus to the municipal court bench, Pasadena Judicial District.\nThe post pays $28,126 per year.\nFranciscus, 43, succeeds Judge Thomas LeSage who was elevated to\nthe Superior Court.\nFranciscus, a Republican, is a 1953 graduate of U.S.C. Law School.\nHe completed his undergraduate studies at Occidental College.\nHe worked as an assistant U.S. attorney from 1954-57 and since\nthen has been engaged in private practice in Pasadena.\nHe has served as president of the Central Improvement Association\nof Pasadena and is a former district chairman of the Camp Fire Girls.\nHe is married, has three children, and lives at 2155 New York\nDrive, Altadena.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#122\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has elevated Municipal\nCourt Judge Lawrence S. Mana to the San Francisco Superior Court.\nHe succeeds Judge Edward Molkenbuhr who retired.\nThe post pays $30,572 per year.\nMana, a Republican, is a native San Franciscan. He received his\nAB degree in 1938 from Saint Mary's College and three years later\ngraduated from the University of California's Boalt Hall School of Law.\nPrior to his appointment to the municipal court in 1962, he served\n19 years in the office of the San Francisco City Attorney. He was\nchief deputy city attorney for five and one half years.\nFollowing graduation from law school, he spent one year in\nprivate practice before entering military service. He served in the\nU.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps during World War II.\nHe is a member of the North American Judges Association, American\nJudicature Society and California Conference of Judges.\nMana, 51, is married and resides at 964 Union Street, San Francisco.\n#######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNC\nRELEASE: Ir\ndiate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-27-69\n#123\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Harry J. Dunlop of Placerville\nand Albert Troost of Grass Valley to four-year terms on the Regional\nWater Quality Control Board, Lahontan Region.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses.\nDunlop, 48, is manager of the El Dorado County Irrigation District.\nHe succeeds John M. Bernard of Auburn.\nA non-partisan, he is a graduate of the University of California\nat Berkeley and has been in his present El Dorado County assignment\nsince 1955. He is secretary of the El Dorado County Water Commission\nand is a member of the Society of Mechanical Engineers.\nHis address is Route 2, Box 84, Placerville.\nTroost, 69, worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company in various\nnations in Europe and Central and South America for 32 years prior to\nretiring in 1952 when he was a director and executive vice president\nof Shell in the West Indies.\nSince settling in California the same year, he has raised hereford\nCOWS on his ranch in Grass Valley. He has been active in community\naffairs and served from 1966-67 on the county grand jury.\nHe replaces William A. Alpers of Crowley Lake.\nHis address is Route 1, Box 637, Grass Valley.\n#######\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-26-69\n#124\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Karl von Christierson of\nSalinas to the California Bicentennial Celebration Commission.\nThe appointment requires Senate confirmation and pays necessary\nexpenses.\nChristierson, 52, will serve at the pleasure of the governor.\nHe succeeds William F. Knowland of Piedmont who resigned.\nA Republican, Christierson is vice president of Major Farms, Inc.\nof Salinas, a vegetable grower-shipper firm.\nHe is a past president of the Monterey Bay Area Boy Scouts of\nAmerica and is a former mayor of Soledad.\nHe is also a former trustee of the Soledad Elementary School\nDistrict and is a past director and founder of the California Tomato\nGrowers' Association.\nHe lives at 1370 Byron Drive, Salinas.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Im' diate\nSacramento, Califor\n1\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-27-69\n#125\n(AB 687)\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today endorsed legislation/introduced by\nAssemblyman Carley V. Porter (D-Compton) which authorizes the State\nWater Resources Control Board to adopt regulations governing the use\nof oil dispersing materials\nCo-authors include: Assemblymen Don MacGillivray (R-Santa\nBarbara), Ken McDonald (D-Ventura), George Milias (R-Los Gatos) and\nSenators Gordon Cologne (R-Indio) and Robert Lagomarsino (R-Ventura).\nAssemblyman Porter, chairman of the Assembly Committee on Water\nand a leading advocate of modernizing the State Water Quality laws\nexplained that present statutes do not provide authority for any\nstate agency to regulate the use of chemicals or other substances\nused for oil cleanup.\nThe governor commented, \"It is essential that oil spills be\nremoved as quickly as possible to minimize any damage to fish and\nwildlife and other beneficial uses made of the affected water and to\nadjacent land.\"\nAssemblyman Porter explained that the bill would authorize the\nState Water Resources Control Board to adopt regulations governing\nthe testing, licensing and use of chemicals or other substances for\nremoving, dispersing or otherwise cleaning up oil in any waters of\nthe state.\nThe actual use of the approved materials, he added, would be\nsupervised and enforced by the Department of Fish and Game. Any\nviolation of the regulations would be a misdemeanor.\nQil drilling and handling operations within or adjacent to the\nwaters of our state make it essential that a state agency be formally\nauthorized to regulate the use of potentially hazardous material.\nThe Bill was drafted by the State Water Resources Control Board\nand the Department of Fish and Game.\n# # #\nEJG\nor THE COVERNOR\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-27-69\n#126\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Glendale businessman E. Litton\nBivans and William O. Weissich, a San Rafael attorney, to eight-year\nterms as trustees of the California State Colleges.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses.\nBivans, 60, succeeds Paul Spencer of San Dimas. Weissich, 48,\nreplaces Louis Heilbron of San Francisco. Terms of the outgoing members\nexpired. The new appointees are Republicans.\nBivans operates the Bivans Corporation of Los Angeles, a leading\ndesigner and manufacturer of automatic machines for forming and filling\npaper boxes used in industry. He founded the firm in 1944.\nHe is a former director of the American Management Association and\nserved as chairman of the organization's Exhibitor's Advisory Committee\nfrom 1966-67.\nHe has been a member of the Education Committee of the Packaging\nMachinery Manufacturers' Institute since last year. He is a founder and\ndirector of the San Gabriel Valley Business and Professional Association.\nLong active in community affairs, he is a past president of the\nLos Feliz Kiwanis Club and was lieutenant governor of Division III of\nKiwanis for California, Nevada and Hawaii in 1967.\nHe has been a member of the Advisory Curriculum Committee of Pasadena\nCity College since last year.\nFor the past three years, he has been a member of the board of\ndirectors of the Recreation and Youth Services Planning Council in\nLos Angeles County. He has also been a director of the Tri-Parks -\nCoordinating Council since 1964.\nHe is a former president of the Woodcraft Rangers youth service\nagency and has served on its board of directors for the past 15 years.\nBivans was Youth Service Division vice chairman of the owelfare\nPlanning Council, Los Angeles Region, from 1957-59. He is also a\nformer chairman of the organization's Pre-Military Education Committee,\nand Agency and Area Study Committee.\nA native of Elberta, Utah, he graduated from El Dorado County High\nSchool, Placerville, in 1925 and from Sacramento Junior College in 1928.\nHer completed his undergraduate work at the University of Oregon in 1931.\nFrom 1933-36 he worked as an auditor for the State Board of\nEqualization in Sacramento and Modesto. He was a public accountant in\nModesto from 1936-40 and worked as a mechanical design engineer in\nLos Angeles from 1940-44. He received a mechanical engineer's license\n#126\nfrom\nthe State of California in 1948.\nHe and his wife, Gail, have a son and daughter and two foster\ndaughters. Both foster daughters, Viki and Debi, are attending their\nfirst year at Glendale College.\nHe and his family live at 1617 Cleveland Road, Glendale.\nWeissich, a 1946 graduate of the University of San Francisco Law\nSchool, was appointed district attorney of Marin County in 1953. He\nwas subsequently elected to the post in 1954 and was re-elected in\n1958. He resigned in 1960 to enter private law practice in San Rafael.\nHe is a partner in the firm of Weissich and Lachelt.\nHe began his legal career in 1946 as a lawyer in Marin County and\nSan Francisco. He became an assistant district attorney in San Rafael\nfour years later and served in that capacity until his appointment as\ndistrict attorney.\nWeissich is a former president of the Marin County Bar Association\nand the Marin County Peace Officers' Association. He is a past vice\npresident of the District Attorneys' Association of California and served\nas a member of the legislative committees of both the District Attorneys'\nand State Peace Officers' Associations.\nHe served in the U. S. Army in World War II.\nHe is also a member of the State Bar of California, the American\nTrial Lawyers' and California Trial Lawyers' associations and the\nAmerican Legion.\nHe and his wife, Rosemary, have three children, and reside at\n211 Locust Avenue, San Rafael. Their oldest daughter, Jill, is a\n1968 graduate of San Francisco State College. Their son is a freshman\nat the University of San Francisco.\n-2-\nEJG\nsacramento, California\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nContact:\nPaul Book\n445--4571\n2-27\nActing Governor Ed Reinecke will hold a brief press conference\nin Governor Reagan's Office shortly after 4:15 p.m. today with respect\nto action yesterday by the State Board of Trustees in Los Angeles.\n##########\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nRELEASE: Im. diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-28-69\n#127\n?\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he has wired the following\nmessage to Senate president pro tem Hugh M. Burns and Assembly Speaker\nRobert Monagan:\n\"The disaster damage to California streets and highways is now\nmounting as the storms continue to take their toll. This damage is\nreaching proportions where existing state and local highway funds may\nnot be adequate to provide the necessary relief.\n\"Statewide totals are now estimated to exceed $65,000,000 with\nadditional storms forecast.\nAt the present time we anticipate an\nestimated $17 million may be available from federal sources.\n\"While we continue our efforts to utilize existing funds to meet\nthis emergency, I would like to meet, at your convenience on Monday,\nwith the leadership of both houses of the legislature to consider the\nneed for a short-term gas tax measure as a way to meet the emergency\nof the current flood disaster problem.\"\n##########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVEP OR\nRELEASE:\nmediate\nSacramento, Califor 1a\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2-28-69\n#128\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today elevated Chief Deputy Director of\nAgriculture Jerry W. Fielder to director of the State Department of\nAgriculture, replacing Richard E. Lyng who resigned to accept an appoint-\nment in the Nixon Administration.\nFielder, a 53-year-old Republican, has served as chief deputy\ndirector of the department since last October.\nHe will earn $25,000 per year in his new post and report to\nEarl Coke, secretary of Agriculture and Services.\nA career agriculturist and native Californian, Fielder was\ngraduated from the University of California at Davis in 1939 with a\nBachelor of Science degree in agronomy.\nFollowing graduation, he was assistant manager of the Blythe\nAlfalfa Growers' Association and then served two years as a naval\nofficer on a destroyer during World War II.\nIn 1946 he established the Dixon Dryer Company, an alfalfa pro-\ncessing and dehydrating company with offices and plant in Dixon.\nIn 1960 he organized the Delta Dehydrating Corporation with its\nplant located at Clarksburg, and in 1963 he established the North\nAmerican Dehydrating Corporation with plant location at Rocky Ford,\nColorado. Both companies produce and process dehydrated alfalfa\nproducts and sugar beet pulp.\nFielder, who lives in Dixon, served his community on the city\ncouncil and various civic organizations. He also served two years as\npresident of the UC Davis Alumni Association and is a charter director\nand president of the Cal-Aggie Alumni Foundation.\nHe is a former member of the Agricultural Advisory Council of the\nUniversity of California, was president of that body for one year, and\nis a past president of the American Dehydrators' Association.\nCurrently, Fielder is in his seventh year as a member of the U.S.\nDepartment of Agriculture Grain and Forage Crops Research Advisory\nCommittee; is the secretary-treasurer of Trans-World Agricultural\nDevelopment Corporation, and is a past president of the California\nGrain and Feed Association.\nHe and his wife, Mary Margaret, have two children---a daughter,\nMrs. Russel Durkee of Martinez, and a son, Jerry M. Fielder, a senior\nat U.C.L.A.\n########\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOP\nMEMO TO THE P⁺ SS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2-28-69\n#129\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nMarch 3, 1969\nthrough\nMarch 9, 1969\nMonday, March 3\nNoon\nComstock Club Lunch, Martinique Room, Sacramento Inn.\nSpeech.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTuesday, March 4\n1:00 p.m. Brief remarks to members of Automobile Manufacturers\nAssn., Senator Hotel\n1:30 p.m.\nPRESS CONFERENCE\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWednesday, March 5\nNoon\nAgricultural Council of California, 50th Anniversary\nluncheon, Sacramento Inn. Speech.\nOvernight - - Sacramento\nThursday, March 6\n2:15 p.m. Brief greetings to group of 13 foreign military\nofficers representing China Republic, Korea Republic,\nBrazil, Venezuela, Spain, Philippines Republic, Peru,\nThailand and Vietnam Republic.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nFriday, March 7\nA.M.\nDepart for Los Angeles\nNoon\nLunch at Century Plaza with Governor Miller of Alaska\nand Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce for Alaska Travel\nand Trade Fair\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSaturday, March 8\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, March 9\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\n# # #\nEJG"
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