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1966-74: Press Unit
Folder Title: Press Releases - April 1973
Box: P14
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR NALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, Califor a 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-2-73
#183
Dorothy Allison Evans, 35, wife of William A. Evans, Governor
Reagan's legislative assistant, died early Monday morning at Sutter
Memorial Hospital in Sacramento.
Mrs. Evans had suffered from lupus disease for a number of years.
Funeral arrangements are being finalized by A. L. Moore & Son,
of Phoenix, Arizona.
The family asks that remembrances be sent to the Bonnie Bernard
Denn Chapter of the National Lupus Foundation, 4126 Pacific Coast
Highway, Torrance, California 90505.
Mrs. Evans was born February 25, 1938, in Phoenix. She graduated
from Stanford University and taught one year in the history department
of West Phoenix High School prior to her marriage.
Survivors include her husband and son Wil of 2952 - 14th Street,
Sacramento; her parents Mr. and Mrs. William L. Allison, Jr., Phoenix;
a sister Virginia Biszantz of Rancho Santa Fe, California; and a
brother William L. Allison III, Corona Del Mar, California.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROL LD REAGAN
RELEASE: 1. ediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-2-73
#184
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the following bills have
been signed:
AB 131 - Burton
Chapter 10
Provides that a previously enacted law that is
repealed as of a prescribed date is revived if a
later enacted statute that deletes or extends the
date of repeal is chaptered before such date.
AB
206 - Vasconcellos Provides that an apportionment may be made under
Chapter 14
the State School Building Aid Law of 1952 for the
rental of temporary school buildings necessary to
house pupils temporarily displaced by the rehabilita-
tion or replacement of the only school of a district.
AB 317 - Priolo
Appropriates $200,000 from the Bagley Conservation
Chapter 15
Fund to the Department of Parks and Recreation for
the acquisition of certain lands in the city limits
of the City of Los Angeles near the community of
Pacific Palisades for the State Park System.
AB 387 - Moretti
Appropriates $8,806,500 to the Department of Education
Chapter 11
to replace the possible loss of certain federal social
See Release #170
service funds for child care programs in the 1972-73
fiscal year.
AB 651 - Lewis
Broadens the definition of revenue bonds to include
Chapter 12
obligations of redevelopment agencies. The bill also
provides that interest on refunding and refunded
bonds may be paid from the proceeds of the refunding
bonds or the investment of such proceeds.
SB 77 - Way
Appropriates $689,880 to the Department of Food and
Chapter 13
Agriculture in augmentation of the 1972-73 support
budget for continuation of the State Meat Inspection
Program.
SB 301 - Bradley
Deletes certain posting requirements relating to
Chapter 9
earthquake safety standards in buildings leased or
rented by community college districts.
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-2-73
#185
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
R. Thomas Allen as his assistant legal affairs secretary.
Allen, 30, a native of Santa Barbara, comes to the governor's
legal staff from the Sacramento County Public Defender's Office. He
joined the Sacramento County office in 1970 as an assistant public
defender.
Prior to his assignment as a public defender, Allen was an instructor
in contractors licensing law at the Humphreys College School of Law in
Stockton. He is also a former deputy legislative counsel with the
Legislative Counsel Bureau in the State Capitol.
Allen is a 1965 graduate of California State Polytechnic College in
San Luis Obispo with a BS degree in business administration. He received
his law degree from Humphrey's College in 1970.
Last year, Allen was a guest lecturer for the University of California
at Los Angeles extension department in Sacramento, lecturing on the topic
administration of criminal justice.
Allen and his wife Pamela live at 1028 - 40th Street, Sacramento.
A Republican, he will receive an annual salary of $19,008.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO' LD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-2-73
#186
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed three new members to the
California Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board.
New members include, Hubert B. Bruns, a member of the Alpine County
Board of Supervisors from Fredericksburg; Richard S. Stewart of
Skyforest; and Robert E. Reardon of Mammoth Lakes.
Bruns, a Democrat, succeeds Albert Troost of Grass Valley, whose
term has expired. He has been a member of the Alpine County Board of
Supervisors since 1941, and is a former chairman of the board.
Stewart, who is a Republican, replaces James B. Filson of June Lake.
Filson's term has expired. He is a member of the California Water
Pollution Control Association, and the Mammoth Advisory Council.
Reardon, a Republican, succeeds Harry J. Dunlop of Placerville,
who resigned and his term has expired. Reardon owns and operates the
Tyrolean Lodge in Mammoth Lakes.
The three new members were appointed to four-year terms.
Board members receive their necessary expenses when on official
business.
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Appointees' addresses:
Hubert B. Bruns
Rt. 1, Box 327
Fredericksburg, Calif.
Richard S. Stewart
Dick Stewart Agency
P.O. Box 3
Skyforest, Calif. 92385
Robert E. Reardon
P.O. Box 423
Timber Ridge Estates
Mammoth Lakes, Calif. 93546
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO' LD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-2-73
#187
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Mrs. Artemis G. Henderson of La Jolla as judge of the Municipal Court
in the San Diego Judicial District.
Mrs. Henderson, a Democrat, succeeds Judge Harry P. Bowman who has
retired.
A native of Great Falls, Montana, Mrs. Henderson is a former
deputy city attorney of San Diego.
Mrs. Henderson is a 1964 graduate of California Western University
at San Diego, and received her law degree from the University in 1966.
She is a former professor of criminal law at Western State College
in San Diego, and taught business law at California Western University.
Mrs. Henderson is the first woman prosecutor hired by the San Diego
City Attorney's Office. She was also the first woman to be given the
position of chief trial attorney in the Ford Foundation supported
Defender's Inc.
She has two minor children. Mrs. Henderson will receive an
annual salary of $33,481.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON LD REAGAN
RELEASE: mediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-2-73
#188
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
William J. (Joe) Kurtz as executive officer of the Office of Special
Services in the state's Health and Welfare Agency.
Kurtz, 50, is the former acting director of the state Department
of Public Health succeeding Dr. Louis F. Saylor, who retired in 1971.
The Office of Special Services was created by the legislature
(AB 1202, McCarthy) in 1972 to coordinate and assist offices, councils,
commissions and boards within the Health and Welfare Agency.
Kurtz, a Republican, is a 1952 graduate of Riverside Junior College
and attended the University of California at Berkeley majoring in public
administration.
He was named assistant director of the state Department of Public
Health in 1969 and was appointed chief deputy director the following year.
Kurtz and his wife Gwen have two children. They make their home
in Davis. He will receive an annual salary of $31,500.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California 5814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-2-73
#189
Plans to assure that Californians have an opportunity to
vote on Governor Reagan's tax limitation program next November moved
ahead today when Attorney General Evelle Younger filed with the
Secretary of State those documents necessary to enable signature
gathering to begin on initiative petitions.
The attorney general's action was the result of a request by
Dr. Norman Topping, chairman of Californians for Lower Taxes, who had
previously filed a copy of the initiative constitutional amendment
with the attorney general's office.
The documents include titling for the initiative and a 100-word
summary of its major provisions, including a statement of the financial
impact of the plan on the state.
Dr. Topping said petitions are now expected to be printed,
mailed and in the hands of those citizens who will conduct the signature
gathering campaign by early next week. Some 520,806 valid signatures
on petitions will be required for the initiative to qualify.
In a parallel move, the legal language of a constitutional
amendment--embodying the governor's proposal--has been introduced in
the legislature. If the legislature, itself, chooses to place this
constitutional amendment on the November ballot, circulation of the
initiative petitions will be halted.
Here is the titling, and text of the 100-word summary, of the
initiative:
TAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS
"Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Limits state expenditures;
restricts use of defined surplus revenue to tax reductions, refunds, or
emergencies. Eliminates personal income tax for lower income persons;
reduces others' 1973 or 1974 tax up to 20 percent, from surplus, and
subsequent year rates 7½ percent. Requires two-thirds legislative
vote for new or changed state taxes. Limits local property tax rates
except school districts'. Requires state funding of new programs
mandated to local governments. Provides for tax and expenditure limit
adjustments when functions transferred. Contains special indebtedness
obligation provisions. Allows local tax rate and expenditure limit
increases upon voter approval. If the proposed initiative is adopted
undefined additional financing from state sources in the approximate
amount of five hundred sixty eight thousand dollars ($568,000) on a
one-time basis and two hundred thirty six thousand dollars ($236,000)
annually thereafter will be required for state administrative costs."
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Gray
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON D REAGAN
MEMO TO T
PRESS
Sacramento, California 5814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-2-73
#190
At the request of Mayor John Reading of Oakland, Governor
Ronald Reagan has invited representatives of those governmental entities
affected by the recent killing freeze of several million eucalyptus trees
in the East Bay hills to a meeting in the governor's office Wednesday,
April 4.
The meeting is being held after several weeks of cooperative
efforts between state agencies and those local governments which are
directly affected.
The purpose of the meeting will be to develop a joint plan
between the state and these local governmental agencies aimed at
reducing the potential fire hazard caused by the dead trees and forest
underbrush.
Those invited to the meeting include Mayor Reading of Oakland;
Warren Widener, mayor of Berkeley; Alfred Dias, chairman, Board of
Supervisors, Contra Costa County; Joseph Bort, chairman, Board of
Supervisors, Alameda County; John Harnett, manager, East Bay Municipal
Utilities District; Richard Trudeau, manager, East Bay Regional Park
District; Richard H. Bartke, mayor of El Cerrito; and William H.
Hildebrand, assistant director, Civil Defense, Alameda County.
Also joining the governor will be members of the governor's
staff and leaders from the departments of state government which will
be participating in the effort.
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Gray
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-3-73
#191
Governor Ronald Reagan today nominated three members to the state
Transportation Board in the Business and Transportation Agency. The
nominations must be confirmed by the state Senate before the appointments
can be made.
Nominees for four-year terms include Irving J. Symons of Sonora
and William R. Lucius, a city councilman of Healdsburg. Thomas H. Hughes
of San Jose was nominated for reappointment to the board. All three
are Republicans.
Symons, 65, will replace William S. Briner of Tahoe City. Briner
has resigned. Symons, a Sonora businessman, is a 1928 graduate of the
University of California at Berkeley with an AB degree in economics.
He is a past regional vice president of the California Chamber of
Commerce and vice chairman of the Highway and Transportation Committee,
Lucius, 58, succeeds Alton M. Clem of Millbrae who has resigned.
He is a 1951 graduate of the University of Chicago and a retired
colonel with the United States Marine Corps. He was elected to the
Healdsburg City Council in 1966 and served as mayor in 1970.
Hughes, 42, has served on the board since April, 1972. He is a
1953 graduate of William College in Williamstown, Massachusetts;
received a Masters Degree in geology in 1957 from Stanford University,
and earned his law degree at Stanford in 1960. He has been in private
practice during the past 10 years.
Board members receive their actual and necessary expenses.
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Appointees' addresses:
Irving J. Symonds
Thomas H. Hughes
88 West Bradford Avenue
2116 Bel Air Avenue
Sonora, California 95370
San Jose, California 95128
William R. Lucius
915 Sunset Drive
Healdsburg, California
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-4-73
#192
Governor Ronald Reagan and East Bay officials today announced the
development of a joint state-local plan aimed at significantly reducing
in the months ahead the fire danger caused by a recent killing freeze of
eucalpytus trees in the hills east of Oakland.
Final details of the long range plan, worked out after several weeks
of close cooperation between local government in the affected areas and
various state agencies and departments, were concurred in today at a
meeting in the governor's office which was held at the request of Mayor
John Reading of Oakland.
Governor Reagan said the plan is designed to make the best, most
effective use of both local and state resources in order to realistically
alleviate the potential fire hazard to public and private property in the
East Bay hills, as a consequence of the freeze.
Here are the basic outlines of the ongoing, joint local-state project
1) Governor Reagan will immediately declare a state of emergency
throughout the affected area.
2) The governor also will ask the President to declare the
threatened portions of the East Bay hills a disaster area. If this is
granted, local residents can apply for federal help, including low-
interest loans, to assist them in clearing their property of potential
fire hazards such as dead trees, brush, debris, and fallen bark from the
trees.
3) Those state and local governmental agencies affected will
establish a joint operations center to coordinate fire prevention
activities and to insure an immediate, maximum response in order to.
control and suppress any fires which might occur.
4) The California Division Forestry will incroase its fire
fighting capability throughout the hazard area to back up other
governmental agencies.
5) The state will establish a fire prevention headquarters base in th
fire hazard area and assign Ecology Corps crews, with full equipment, to
cut about 12 miles of fuel breaks through the hills to make sure that any
fires which might occur in the future can be quickly and safely contained
and suppressed.
6) Local entities will continue their organization of volunteer
efforts at the local level to reduce potential fire dangers in the area,
particularly on private property.
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#192
7) The state will detail National Guard units and equipment,
plus hauling equipment from other departments of state government such
as Public Works and the Division of Forestry, to augment the work of
local agencies and volunteers in transporting away debris, brush and
other ground fuel which have been gathered on both public and private
property.
8) Local governmental agencies will enforce all fire prevention
ordinances within their own jurisdictions.
9) The state will implement strong fire prevention regulations
on all state-owned property within the fire hazard area.
10) Local agencies already have assigned the overall project top
priority, including the commitment to make the maximum use of local
resources in dealing with the problem, provision of additional. water
supply for fire suppression, and the control of access to critical
hazard areas.
Governor Reagan stressed that the joint local-state effort will
reduce the potential fire hazard in the area of the dead eucalyptus
trees to a level below that which has existed in previous years.
Fire prevention experts have noted that much of the fire danger
in such areas results from forest underbrush and debris, and the plan
calls for the removal of this type of material in the future.
It is for this reason that the removal of such ignitable material
is such a key part of the joint local-state effort.
Joining Mayor Reading and the governor at the meeting were:
Warren Widener, mayor of Berkeley; Warren Boggess, member, Board of
Supervisors, Contra Costa County; Loren Enoch, County Administrative
Officer, Alameda County; John Harnett, manager, East Bay Municipal
Utilities District; Richard Trudeau, manager, East Bay Regional Park
District; Richard Brown, City Manager, E1 Cerrito; William H. Hildebrand,
assistant director, Civil Defense, Alameda County; Gary A. Tate, East
Bay Regional Park District; Robert Kearney, fire chief, City of Berkeley;
Ray B. Hunter, director, State Department of Conservation; Ross Dunwoody,
State Division of Forestry; Herbert Temple, director, Office of
Emergency Services, State of California; Robert Vickers, deputy director,
Office of Emergency Services, State of California; Ford B. Ford, deputy
secretary, Resources Agency, State of California; Edwin Messe III,
Executive Assistant, Governor's Office; Herbert Ellingwood, Legal Affairs
Secretary, Governor's Office; and Assemblyman Ken Meade, Oakland.
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Gray
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-4-73
#193
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of San
Francisco attorney Frank P. Adams, and the appointment of newspaper
publisher Dean S. Lesher as trustees of the California State University
and Colleges.
The appointments are for eight year terms and require a two-thirds
vote in the Senate for confirmation. Trustees receive necessary
expenses.
Adams, 64, has been a trustee since March 7, 1972. A native of
the Bay Area, he earned his A.B. degree at Stanford University and his
law degree at the University of California, Berkeley. He is in private
law practice in San Francisco and also an officer and director in
several small firms.
He is married to the former Analisa Nora Bosche and they are the
parents of four children. Adams is active in numerous civic and service
clubs, including the San Francisco Commonwealth Club and the University
Club. He is a past president of the California Republican Assembly.
Lesher, 70, of Orinda, replaces Alec L. Cory, of La Mesa, whose
term expired. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland and
earned his law degree at Harvard Law School. Lesher is president and
managing officer of seven newspaper organizations publishing 24 newspaper
in California.
Prior to entering the newspaper business, Lesher practiced law in
Kansas City, Missouri and was general counsel for an insurance firm.
Lesher, whose first wife passed away two years ago, was recently
remarried. He has three grown children of his own and is now the
stepfather to four daughters.
Both men are Republicans.
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Appointees' addresses are:
Frank P. Adams
Dean S. Lesher
781 Highland Avenue
7 Oaks Circle
Piedmont, California 94611
Orinda, California
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO' D REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-5-73
#194
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of Mrs.
Erna M. Poliak, of Palm Springs, and Mrs. Emmett W. (Doris) Bray of
Trona (San Bernardino County) to the Patton State Hospital Advisory
Board for the Mentally Retarded.
Mrs. Poliak, a Republican, has served on the board since December
16, 1970. She is chairman of the Riverside County Mental Health
Advisory Board and vice chairman of the Riverside Comprehensive Health
Planning Council.
Mrs. Bray, a Democrat, has served on the board since August 11,
1972. She is the publisher of the weekly newspaper Trona Argonaut and
a correspondent for the San Bernardino Sun. She is a member of the San
Bernardino County Mental Health Advisory Board and a past president of
the Trona Business & Professional Women's Club.
Both appointments are to three year terms. The position pays
necessary expenses.
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Appointees' addresses are:
Mrs. Erna M. Poliak
Mrs. Emmett W. (Doris) Bray
227 Via Los Palmas
84639 11th Street
Palm Springs, California 92262
Trona, California 93562
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-5-73
#195
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of San
Francisco labor leader Dale Marr and Watsonville construction executive
Leo R. Westwater, to the Industrial Safety Board in the Department of
Industrial Relations.
Marr replaces Virgil L. Collins of South Gate, and Westwater
replaces Alan R. Bailey, of Los Angeles. The terms of both appointees
had expired. The appointments are to four year terms and members
receive $28 per day while on official duty.
Marr, 56, a Democrat, is the vice president of Operating Engineers
Local Union No. 3 in
San Francisco, a 31-year member of the union,
his duties are in the field of safety, training and negotiations.
He is on the State Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and
Health and is a member of the executive committee of the National Safety
Council. Married for 35 years, he has three children and four grand-
children.
Westwater, 71, is the vice president and secretary for the Granite
Construction Company and also holds several corporate offices in related
companies. A 1926 graduate of the University of California, he moved
to Watsonville in 1930 and became Safety Engineer for Granite Rock,
Central Supply Company, and Granite Construction Company, three related
companies.
Westwater declined to state his political affiliation. He is
married and the father of two children.
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Appointees' addresses are:
Dale Marr
Leo R. Westwater
1275 Aspen Drive
149 Martinelli
Pacifica, California 94044
Watsonville, California 95076
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNER RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-5-73
#196
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of California
Institute of Technology professor Charles F. Richter, Ph.D., as the
geophysicist on the State Board of Registration for Geologists and
Geophysicists.
Dr. Richter, 73, a Republican, is professor emeritus, Seismology
at the Pasadena Institution. He is the founder of the Richter Magnitude
Scale, used worldwide to measure the size of earthquakes.
He is a graduate of Stanford University, earned his doctoral degree
at California Institute of Technology, and was a Fulbright Research
Scholar at Tokyo (Japan) University. He is a fellow in the Geological
Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the Royal Astronomical
Society (London), and the Royal Society of New Zealand.
The position, which pays $28 per diem and expenses, was established
by 1972 legislation, which also added "geophysicists" to the name of the
board. The appointment is to a four year term.,
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Appointee's address:
Charles F. Richter, Ph.D.
594 Villa Zanita
Altadena, California 91001
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON LD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-5-73
#197
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
Markham E. Salsbury, of Altadena, and the appointment of John W. Lowe,
of Sonora, to the State Board of Forestry.
Salsbury, 72, has served on the board since March 28, 1969. He is
a self-employed consulting civil engineer dealing prima: ily in flood
control and water assignments. From 1927 to 1959, he served in various
engineering positions with the Los Angeles County Flood Control District
and in 1959 he was appointed chief engineer.
the
He is a graduate of/California Institute of Technology where he
earned his B.S. degree in civil engineering. He is chairman of the
Watershed Fire Council of Southern California and a member of the Los
Angeles County Watershed Commission.
Lowe, 46, a Republican, is the Southern Regional Manager of the
Fibreboard Corporation, lumber and plywood division. Since his
graduation from the University of California, Berkeley, where he
majored in labor economics and forestry, he has been employed in various
fields of the lumber industry.
He is a director of several companies and service and fraternal
organizations. He is married and the father of two children.
Board members serve four year terms and receive actual and necessary
expenses.
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Appointees' addresses are:
Markham E. Salsbury
John W. Lowe
2005 East Skyview Drive
Route 1, Box 880-H
Altadena, California
Sonora, California 95370
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR 1 NALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-6-73
#198
Pacific Palisades Governor Ronald Reagan today literally took
his revolutionary plan to limit and reduce state taxes directly to the
people.
In an unprecedented effort to insure that Californians have an
opportunity to vote on the plan at a special statewide election later
this year, Governor Reagan carried the first voter petition house to
house through a Pacific Palisades neighborhood ringing doorbells and
gathering signatures.
Never before in California's history has any governor personally
led a petition drive aimed at countering legislative inaction in order
to give the people the taxpayers the right to limit, indeed even
reduce, the amount of money the state can take from their earnings in
taxes.
Last month, Governor Reagan submitted the proposed constitutional
amendment to the legislature, but certain legislative leaders have made
it clear they have no intention of letting the people vote on the issue.
The governor has said that if the legislature decides to let the
election take place, he will halt the petition campaign.
In officially opening the signature gathering effort today,
Governor Reagan noted that a grass roots petition drive by citizens
will be moved into full swing starting next week across the state.
The goal will be to collect some 800,000 signatures by the first week
in June to insure that the plan qualifies for the ballot. Only in
this way can the people be sure of voting on it at a special statewide
election November 6. Some 520,000 valid signatures are required for
the measure to qualify for the election. The petition drive will be
headed by Dr. Norman Topping, President Emeritus of the University of
Southern California, who is chairman of a statewide citizens group
called Californians for Lower Taxes, sponsor of the initiative.
The governor's initiative constitutional amendment, if approved
by the voters in November, will:
--Provide a 20 percent rebate on 1973 state income taxes, by
returning most of the state's current $852 million one-time surplus
to the people. (The governor also is urging the legislature to
statutorily defer a one-cent increase in the state sales tax from
June 1 until next January. This also would be funded out of the one-
time surplus which was made possible, in large part, by the huge savings
from welfare and Medi-Cal reforms sponsored by the governor.)
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--Slash income taxes 7½ percent, on an on-going basis, beginning
January 1, 1974, and thereafter. (This will be possible because of
the savings the state will continue to make in the years ahead from
the welfare and Medi-Cal reforms).
--Exempt any individual earning less than $4 thousand per year,
and any family (husband and wife) with a joint income of less than
$8 thousand per year, from having to pay any state income tax whatsoever
in the years to come.
--Limit and gradually reduce the percentage of the people's
earnings (total state personal income) which state government can take
in itself over the next 15 years. This will reduce the state's present
tax share of about 8.75 percent of total personal income in California
down to about 7.15 percent in 1989. This represents a 20 percent
reduction in the share of the people's earnings the state will be taking
in taxes over the next 15 years and will amount to a cummulative savings
to the taxpayers of about $118 billion money which otherwise will be
siphoned off by state government. In fact, during the same 15 year
period, if the plan is approved by the voters, the cummulative savings
in taxes to the average family of four in California will total
$17,756.
While requiring that the state must gradually take a smaller
and smaller share of the state's total personal income in taxes each
year, the constitutional tax limit will nevertheless enable the state
budget to double in ten years or actually triple in 15 years to
$27.4 billion in 1989, in order to not only keep pace with population
growth and inflation, but also to provide the state with additional
revenues to innovate any programs to meet possible needs.
While
the state will need a cummulative increase in revenues of about 118
percent to keep up with growth and inflation, the state budget can
increase by nearly 200 percent under the tax limit, providing substantial
fiscal leeway is created and expanded state programs are justified.
On the other hand, if the state fails to impose a limit on the
revenues it can take in taxes in the years ahead, California's total
state budget will be five times larger in 1989 than it is today or
$47.1 billion 15 years from now. This will mean that the percentage
of total state personal income which the state is taking from the people
in taxes will be 12.25 percent, or more than five percent above what
will be taken by the state if the limit is approved, by 1989. In other
words, the tax limitation will assure that the people will be able to
keep for themselves, to spend as they wish, five cents more on the
average dollar earned by 1989.
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Again, the cummulative savings to the taxpayers over the next
15 years, if the limit is in effect, is projected to total $118 billion--
money the taxpayers can put back in their pockets to spend as they wish.
--Set maximum local property tax rates, by incorporating provi-
sions relating to this which were passed by the legislature last year
in SB 90, the school finance-property tax measure sponsored by Governor
Reagan.
--Provide safeguards against shifting costs from the state to
local governments. This means that if the state should mandate a program
on local government, the state will have to provide the revenues to pay
for it.
Governor Reagan noted that today, government federal, state and
local is keeping nearly 45 cents of the average dollar earned by the
people for itself. Before 1930, government was taking only about 15 cents
Only 20 years later, in 1950, that 15 cents had doubled to 30 cents.
In only the next 15 years, projections show that government's
share of the people's income will have increased to almost 54 cents
on the dollar more than half of the people's earnings.
"If we as Americans allow that trend to continue, it is only a
matter of time before we'll have nothing of our earnings to spend for
ourselves. The spectre of such utter dependence on government should
be frightening to every citizen who values our traditional values of
self-reliance and our productive free enterprise way of life.
"I am convinced that California has an unparalleled opportunity
to show the way to the rest of the nation- the way to reverse the
trend we have been a witness to.
"This initiative can help to make that possible," the governor
said.
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INITIATIVE MEASUR TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO E ELECTORS
The Attorney General has prepared a title and summary of the chief purposes and points of the proposed
measure, as follows:
TAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Limits State expendi-
tures; restricts use of defined surplus revenue to tax reductions, refunds, or emergencies. Eliminates per-
sonal income tax for lower income persons; reduces others' 1973 or 1974 tax up to 20%, from surplus,
and subsequent year rates 7½%. Requires two-thirds legislative vote for new or changed State taxes. Limits
local property tax rates except school districts'. Requires State funding of new programs mandated to local
governments. Provides for tax and expenditure limit adjustments when functions transferred. Contains spe-
cial indebtedness obligation provisions. Allows local tax rate and expenditure limit increases upon voter
approval. If the proposed initiative is adopted undefined additional financing from State sources in the
approximate amount of Five Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand dollars ($568,000) on a one-time basis and
Two Hundred Thirty Six Thousand dollars ($236,000) annually thereafter will be required for State ad-
ministrative costs.
To Honorable Secretary of State of California:
on January 1, 1973, less a credit of 7½. Single individuals whose
adjusted gross income is less than $4,000.00 and married couples
The undersigned hereby proposes that the Constitution of the
and heads of households whose adjusted gross income is less than
State of California be amended by adding Article XXIX and
$8,000.00 shall bear no State personal income tax. The Legislature
petitions the Secretary of State to submit this proposal to the
shall, by statute, implement the tax reduction required by this Section
electors of California for adoption. The text of the proposed
as to application to non-resident and fiscal year taxpayers and as to
measure is as follows:
"The People of the State of California do enact as follows:
credits in computing liability. The provisions of this subdivision (b)
may be modified by statute passed by roll-call vote entered in the
"The Constitution of the State of California is amended by adding
Article XXIX, to read:
journal, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring. If
this Article becomes effective after December 31, 1973, then this
ARTICLE XXIX
subdivision shall apply to 1975 and thereafter instead of 1974 and
REVENUE CONTROL AND TAX REDUCTION
thereafter.
SECTION 1. Declaration of Purpose.
The people of the State of California declare it is in the best
SECTION 5. State Tax Revenue Limit Adjustment by Election.
interests of the State to effect an orderly reduction of their tax
The State Tax Revenue Limit may be increased or decreased by a
burden, without shifting costs to local government, by enacting this
designated dollar amount by a majority vote of the people at a
Constitutional provision to:
Statewide election approving a measure placed on the ballot by the
(a) Limit and reduce State taxes.
Legislature by a roll-call vote entered into the journal, two-thirds of
(b) Provide for refunds to the taxpayers of surplus State revenues,
the membership of each house concurring, or placed on the ballot
(c) Limit Local Entity property tax rates,
as an initiative statute pursuant to Article IV of this Constitution. A
(d) Establish funding procedures for Emergency Situations, and
measure so approved shall take effect the day after the election,
(e) Require voter approval of taxes which exceed the limits set
unless the measure provides otherwise.
forth in this Article.
SECTION 6. Emergency Fund and Emergency Appropriations.
SECTION 2. State Tax Revenue Limit; Tax Surplus Fund; 20%
(a) A Special Emergency Fund of not more than 0.2% of the State
Tax Refund.
Personal Income shall be established and maintained by the Legis-
(a) There is a State Tax Revenue Limit determined as provided in
lature. Money appropriated to the Special Emergency Fund shall be
this Article.
from State Tax Revenues and shall be subject to the State Tax
(1) If State Tax Revenues for any fiscal year exceed the State Tax
Revenue Limit.
Revenue Limit for that fiscal year, the excess shall be transferred to
(b) Upon the Governor's declaration of an Emergency Situation
the Tax Surplus Fund, which is hereby established.
and the exhaustion of such emergency funds as may be available
(2) The Tax Surplus Fund shall be used only for one or more of
from the Federal Government, the Legislature may make appropria-
the following purposes:
tions to meet the Emergency Situation from the Special Emergency
(i) For tax refunds or reductions;
Fund or, if that fund is exhausted, either from the Tax Surplus Fund
(ii) For approved Emergency Situation appropriations under
or from State Tax Revenues derived from a specific tax increase or a
Section 6 of this Article.
specific new tax designated for the Emergency Situation and enacted
(3) The Legislature shall minimize accumulations within the Tax
in accordance with Section 4 of this Article. Any tax so enacted shall
Surplus Fund by making periodic tax refunds or reductions as per-
remain in effect no longer than two years, unless its continuation is
mitted by this Article.
approved by a majority of the votes cast for and against its contin-
(b) On the effective date of this Article, the Controller shall deter-
uance at a Statewide election.
mine the amount of surplus in the General Fund as of the end of
fiscal year 1972-73 and shall designate such portion of the surplus as
SECTION 7. Local Taxes.
is necessary and available to effect the refund of subdivision (b) (1)
(a) The Maximum Property Tax Rates of each Local Entity are set
hereof.
at the rates levied for the fiscal year 1971-72 or for the fiscal year
(1) The surplus so designated shall be utilized for a refund by
1972-73, whichever is the higher. The Maximum Property Tax Rates
means of a credit of 20% of personal income taxes for the calendar
for a Local Entity created after the effective date of this Article shall
year 1973, excluding taxes on capital gains on assets held for more
be established by the electorate of the Local Entity at the time of its
than one year, items of tax preference, estates and trusts, or in such
creation.
lesser percentage as the Director of the Department of Finance shall
(b) To permit adjustment of the Maximum Property Tax Rates
certify is available for such refund. Single individuals whose adjusted
set in subdivision (a) of this Section, the Legislature shall enact
gross income is less than $4,000.00 and married couples and heads of
statutes, within the general intent of this Article, to permit:
households whose adjusted gross income is less than $8,000.00 shall
(1) Maximum Property Tax Rates to be increased or decreased
bear no personal income tax. If this Article is effective on or before
to reflect cost variations due to cost-of-living or population changes
December 31, 1973, then this paragraph shall apply to the 1973 tax-
not offset by assessed valuation changes or to allow for other special
able year. If this Article becomes effective after December 31, 1973,
circumstances creating hardship for individual Local Entities.
then this Section shall apply to the 1974 taxable year.
(2) Maximum Property Tax Rates to be increased or decreased
(2) If, prior to the effective date of this Article, a statute is enacted
when authorized by the electorate of the Local Entity, or if there is
providing the refund as set forth in subdivision (b) (1) of this Section,
no electorate, then as provided by the Legislature.
such statute shall be deemed compliance with the requirements of this
(3) Maximum Property Tax Rates to be increased by a four-fifths
subdivision (b) to the extent such refund is provided.
vote of the governing board of a Local Entity, to secure revenue to
(3) The Legislature shall, by statute, implement the tax refund re-
defray the costs of an Emergency Situation affecting the Local Entity,
quired by subdivision (b) (1)as to application to non-resident and fis-
but any such increase shall remain in effect no longer than two years,
cal year taxpayers and as to credits in computing liability.
unless its continuation is approved by the Local Entity's electorate.
(4) State Tax Revenue for purposes of computing the State Tax
(c) All property taxable by Local Entities and School Districts,
Revenue Limit as here defined shall not be reduced by refunds made
except personal property specially classified for the purpose of assess-
pursuant to this subdivision (b).
ment and taxation pursuant to the provisions of Section 14 of Article
XIII of this Constitution, shall be assessed at a uniform percentage of
SECTION 3. Appropriation Limit.
full value established by the Legislature. If that percentage is any
No appropriation shall cause an expenditure during any fiscal year
figure other than twenty-five, the maximum rates prescribed in sub-
of State Tax Revenues for that fiscal year in excess of the State Tax
divisions (a) and (b) of this Section shall be converted into new maxi-
Revenue Limit for that fiscal year, other than for tax refunds or, pur-
mums by multiplying them by twenty-five and dividing them by the
suant to Section 6 of this Article, for Emergency Situations. Subject
new assessment percentage. Full value, as used herein, means fair
only to such exceptions, any such expenditure in excess of the State
market value or such other standard of value as is required or author-
Tax Revenue Limit is prohibited. The Legislature shall, prior to any
ized under this Constitution.
other appropriation, first make provision for the payment of the prin-
(d) No Local Entity or School District shall impose, levy or collect
cipal and interest on the indebtedness of the State.
any tax upon or measured by income, or any part thereof, except as
SECTION 4. State Tax Adjustments; Personal Income Tax
authorized by the Legislature by a statute passed by a roll-call vote
Reduction.
entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership of each house
(a) The imposition of any new tax or the change in the rate or
concurring. This subdivision (d) shall not be construed to prohibit
base of any tax by the Legislature shall be by statute passed by
the imposition, levy or collection of any otherwise authorized license
roll-call vote entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership of
tax upon a business measured by or according to gross receipts.
each house concurring, except for tax refunds or reductions by
appropriations specifically declared to be out of the Tax Surplus
SECTION 8. Protection of Local Entities and School Districts from
Fund which shall be by statute passed by a vote of the majority of
State-Imposed Costs.
the membership of each house.
(a) After the effective date of this Article, no new program, or
(b) For 1974 and thereafter, the State personal income tax liability
increase in level of service under an existing program, shall be man-
of taxpayers shall be determined at rates no higher than those in effect
dated to Local Entities or School Districts by the State until an
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e Local Entities or School
10 of this Article.
Districts the costs of the mandated program or service, but no appro-
(b) Beginning the fiscal year 1989-90, or with a fiscal year in
priation for payments to Local Entities or School Districts shall be
which the State Tax Revenue Limit Income Quotient is no greater
required if such program or increase in level of service under a pro-
than 0.0700, the Legislature, by statute passed by roll-call vote en-
gram is determined by the Legislature to be applicable generally to
tered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership of each house con-
private entities or individuals, as well as to Local Entities or School
curring, may terminate further reduction in the State Tax Revenue
Districts.
Limit Income Quotient. Thereafter, the State Tax Revenue Limit
(b) The Legislature shall enact statutes to establish procedures
Income Quotient shall be maintained at the level reached in the fiscal
for implementing this Section consistent with the following principles
year in which such statute is enacted; however, annual reductions
and directives:
may be reinstated by statute passed by roll-call vote, two-thirds of
(1) The performance of functions or services not required to be
the membership of each house concurring.
performed prior to a mandate to the Local Entity or School District
(c) If the statistical series used to determine the Consumer Price
shall be considered a new program or increase in level of service.
Index, State Personal Income and State Population, as defined in
(2) The increased workload under an existing program, the imple-
Section 16 of this Article, are recomputed by or succeeded by new
mentation of statutes existing at the effective date of this Article or
series reported by the United States Department of Commerce or the
the definition of a new crime or change in the definition of an existing
United States Department of Labor or a successor agency of the
crime by statute shall not be considered a mandated new program or
United States Government, the State Tax Revenue Limit Income
a mandated increase in level of service.
Quotient or State Tax Revenue Limit Population-Inflation Quotient
shall be re-derived in accordance with the recomputation or new
SECTION 9. Maintenance of Local Property Tax Relief.
series, and the re-derived quotient shall be used in computing the
(a) If the State reduces local property tax relief by decreasing the
State Tax Revenue Limit for the fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year
specific unit amount, rate or percentage established by statute for
in which the quotient was re-derived.
payments made under formula to Local Entities or School Districts
from that in effect upon the effective date of this Article, the State
SECTION 13. Bonds and Pensions.
Tax Revenue Limit shall be decreased by an amount equivalent to
(a) Nothing in Section 3 or in any other provision of this Article
the decrease in payments to Local Entities or School Districts.
shall limit the taxes levied or otherwise to be levied or appropriations
(b) The adjustment to the State Tax Revenue Limit required by
made for the payment or discharge of any indebtedness of the State
this Section shall be made in the first fiscal year of the decrease of
and the interest thereon heretofore or hereafter authorized by vote
payment described in subdivision (a) of this Section. Such adjustment
of the electors, or State notes or other securities issued in anticipation
shall remain in effect for each subsequent fiscal year.
of the collection of taxes, and all bonds or other indebtedness of the
State shall be payable from taxes of any kind or character which may
SECTION 10. Adjustments for Program and Cost Transfers.
be levied by the State without limitation of rate or amount.
To maintain a balance between the tax burden and the cost of
(b) Nothing herein contained shall limit any indebtedness or liabil-
specific government programs at the State and local level, and to
ity of Local Entities or School Districts which has been duly author-
further accomplish the purposes of this Article, the Legislature shall
ized by a vote of the electors thereof. All taxes or assessments required
enact statutes consistent with the following principles and directives:
to be levied or collected for the payment of indebtedness so incurred
(a) If the Legislature enacts a specific property tax relief measure
may be levied upon all property subject to taxation or special assess-
funded by State Tax Revenues or if, by order of any court, the costs
ment by the Local Entities or School Districts without limit as to rate
of a program are transferred from Local Entities or School Districts
or amount, and the Maximum Property Tax Rates applicable herein
to the State, the State Tax Revenue Limit may be increased, provid-
shall not apply to the payment of indebtedness so incurred. The Maxi-
ing the Maximum Property Tax Rates of affected Local Entities or
mum Property Tax Rates applicable to Local Entities shall not be
the then existing tax rates of affected School Districts are commen-
applicable to obligations to levy taxes under the Improvement Bond
surately decreased.
Act of 1915 or to the authority of Local Entities or School Districts
(b) If the costs of a program are transferred from the State or
to levy and collect taxes to pay for Local Entities or School Districts
Local Entities or School Districts to the Federal Government, the
State Revenue Limit or the Maximum Tax Rates of affected Local
retirement and pension benefits pursuant to laws which have been, or
Entities or the then existing tax rates of affected School Districts
may in the future be, approved by the voters.
shall be commensurately decreased.
SECTION 14. Severability.
(c) If the costs of a program are transferred to or imposed on
If any portion, section, subdivision or clause of this Article, or the
existing or newly created Local Entities by Federal Law or the order
application thereof to any entity, person or circumstance, be declared
of any court, the Maximum Property Tax Rates of affected Local
unconstitutional or held invalid or deemed unenforceable for any
Entities may be commensurately increased, pursuant to such specific
reason, the remaining portions of this Article and the application of
conditions of State approval in each case as the Legislature may
such portions to other entities, persons or circumstances, shall not
impose.
be affected thereby.
(d) If the costs of a program are transferred between existing or
newly created Local Entities or School Districts, the Maximum
SECTION 15. Implementing Statutes.
Property Tax Rates or the then existing tax rates of each shall be
(a) The Legislature, by statute, shall establish procedures for elec-
commensurately adjusted.
(e) If Federal taxes are reduced on condition that the State in-
tions required by this Article, shall appropriate funds for any State-
crease expenditures by an amount equivalent to the Federal reduc-
wide special election called pursuant to this Article and shall enact
tion, the State Tax Revenue Limit may be increased by such amount.
any other statutes necessary to carry out the provisions of this Article.
(f) The adjustments required by this Section of the State Tax
(b) The Legislature, by statute, may determine the fund or funds
Revenue Limit, the Maximum Property Tax Rates or the then
from which transfers to the Tax Surplus Fund, as established by sub-
existing tax rates in the case of School Districts shall be made in the
division (a) of Section 2 of this Article, shall be made, unless this
first fiscal year of transfer or operation. Such adjustment shall
Constitution restricts the use of a designated fund to other specified
remain in effect for each subsequent fiscal year.
purposes. In the absence of statutory provisions, transfer to the Tax
Surplus Fund shall be from the State General Fund.
SECTION 11. Economic Estimates Commission.
(a) There shall be an Economic Estimates Commission consisting
SECTION 16. Definitions.
of the State Controller; the Director of the Department of Finance
(a) "State Tax Revenue" means the revenue of the State from every
or an appointee of the Governor as designated by him; and a
tax, fee, penalty, receipt and other monetary exaction, interest in
designee appointed by the Legislature who is not a member of the
connection therewith, and any transfer out of the Tax Surplus Fund
Legislature, selected in a manner provided by the Joint Rules of
other than for tax refund, except Excluded State Revenues are not
the Legislature. The Commission shall act by a vote of two-thirds
part of State Tax Revenues.
of its membership. The Commission Chairman shall be designated
(b) "Excluded State Revenues" means
by the Governor. The Commission shall utilize the resources of
(1) The following receipts:
existing State agencies in carrying out its duties.
(i) intergovernmental transfer payments;
(b) The Commission shall determine and publish. prior to April 1
(ii) contributions and deposits to, receipts of, income of and
of each year, the State Tax Revenue Limit for the following fiscal
proceeds of capital transactions of Employment Trust Funds;
year by making and publishing all necessary estimates and calcula-
(iii) revenue derived from a specific tax levied as permitted in
tions as provided in this Article. If this Amendment is not effective
Section 6 to the extent such revenue is used to meet an Emergency
prior to April 1, 1974, the Commission shall determine the State
Situation;
Tax Revenue Limit for fiscal year 1974-75 as soon after enactment
(iv) proceeds from the sale or issuance of State bonds or notes;
as it can act. If it does not act prior to July 1, 1974, the State Tax
(v) grants and contract income for projects or research sponsored
Revenue Limit for fiscal year 1974-75 shall be the amount of the
and funded by non-governmental agencies;
State Tax Revenue as here defined for fiscal year 1973-74. The
(vi) internal fund transfers such as inter-fund or inter-agency
Commission shall also determine and publish such estimates of the
transfers, revenue, reimbursements. abatements, advances, loans,
State Tax Revenue Limit as are necessary for the orderly and proper
repayment of loans;
development of State budgets. If the Commission does not act to
(vii) proceeds from the sale of investments and the redemption of
determine the State Tax Revenue Limit before July I of a fiscal year,
matured securities;
the State Tax Revenue Limit for that fiscal year shall remain the
(viii) proceeds from the sale of real and personal property;
same as for the previous fiscal year.
(ix) gifts, donations, bequests to the State;
(x) endowment income;
SECTION 12. Computation of State Tax Revenue Limit.
(xi) service fees and charges derived from projects which are fi-
(a) The State Tax Revenue Limit for a fiscal year shall be com-
nanced by revenue bonds secured solely by the revenue of such proj-
puted as the dollar sum of
ects to the extent that such fees and charges are used for the payment
(1) the greater of the following:
of principal and interest on such bonds;
(i) The dollar amount derived by multiplying together the State
(2) The following fees:
Tax Revenue Limit Income Quotient for the specified fiscal year
(i) proceeds from the activities of the University of California and
and the State Personal Income for the calendar year in which the
the State University and College System, including, but not limited to,
specified fiscal year commences; or
student tuition and fees and post-secondary education income derived
(ii) The dollar amount derived by multiplying together the State
from housing, parking, food service, student union fees, book stores
Tax Revenue Limit Population-Inflation Quotient, the State Popu-
or similar enterprises;
lation for the calendar year in which the specified fiscal year com-
(ii) non-commercial fish and game fees, assessments and other
mences and the Consumer Price Index; plus
revenues;
(2) the dollar amount increase or decrease to the State Tax Revenue
(iii) service or use fees levied by the Department of Parks and
Limit authorized for that fiscal year pursuant to Sections 5, 9 and
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Recreation:
entity established thereafte
cal Entity does not include a School
(iv) income from environmental license plate
District.
(v) revenue derived from State-owned parking lots and garages;
(i) "School Districts" means the entities specified as parts of the
(3) Fees which meet all of the following criteria:
Public School System in Article IX, Section 6, of this Constitution
(i) the service or product for which the fee is paid is generally
and includes Community Colleges but does not include the State
available from a non-State source, or the fee is collected solely to
University and College System.
regulate a non-commercial, non-professional, non-criminal activity
(j) "Estimated State Tax Revenues" means the dollar amount of
other than those referred to in Article XXVI;
State Tax Revenues as estimated by the Economic Estimates
(ii) the fee collected is used to defray all or part of the costs of the
Commission.
State in providing the service;
(k) "State Personal Income" means the estimate made by the
(iii) the payer of the fee receives the benefit derived from payment
Economic Estimates Commission of the dollar amount that will be
of the fee; and
reported as Total Income by Persons for the State of California for
(iv) are designated by statute as Excluded State Revenues.
the specified calendar year by the United States Department of
(c) "Intergovernmental Transfer Payments" means dollar amounts
Commerce or successor agency in its official publications.
received by the State of California from the Federal Government or
(1) "State Tax Revenue Limit Income Quotient" means:
any Local Entity or School District except those taxes, fees and penal-
(1) For the fiscal year 1974-75, the number derived by:
ties imposed by the State and collected by the Local Entity or School
(i) Dividing the sum of Estimated State Tax Revenues for the
District for the State.
fiscal year 1973-74 by the State Personal Income for the calendar
(d) "Employment Trust Funds" means the Unemployment Fund,
year 1973, and
Unemployment Administration Fund, Unemployment Compen-
(ii) Subtracting 0.001.
sation Disability Fund, Old Age and Survivors Insurance Revolving
(2) For each fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year 1974-75, the
Fund, Uninsured Employers Fund, State Compensation Insurance
number derived by:
Fund, State Employees Contingency Reserve Fund; and the Public
(i) Dividing the State Tax Revenue Limit for the previous fiscal
Employees Retirement Fund, Teachers Retirement Fund, Judges
year by the State Personal Income for the previous calendar year, and
Retirement Fund, Legislators Retirement Fund and other similar
(ii) Subtracting 0.001.
retirement funds.
(m) "State Population" means the estimate made by the Economic
(e) "Expenditure." As used herein, an expenditure occurs at the
Estimates Commission of the number that will be reported as Total
time and to the extent that a valid obligation against an appropria-
Population of the State of California for the specified calendar year
tion is created. For the purpose of capital outlay in connection with
by the United States Department of Commerce or successor agency
this Article, a valid obligation shall be considered to have been
in its official publications.
incurred when the Legislature appropriates the funds.
(n) "Consumer Price Index" means the number reported as the
(f) "Emergency Situation" means an extraordinary occurrence
Consumer Price Index for the United States (Base Year 1967 = 100)
requiring unanticipated and immediate expenditures to preserve the
by the United States Department of Labor, or successor agency of
health and safety of the people.
the United States Government, for the most current month in its
(g) "Maximum Property Tax Rates" means the property tax rate
latest official publication.
or rates and ad valorem special assessment rate or rates for any
(o) "State Tax Revenue Limit Population-Inflation Quotient"
Local Entity.
means the number derived by dividing:
(h) "Local Entity" means any city, county, city and county, char-
(1) The Estimated State Tax Revenue for the fiscal year 1973-74 by
tered city, chartered county, chartered city and county, taxing zone,
(2) The State Population for the calendar year 1973 as multiplied
special district or other unit of government encompassing an area less
by the Consumer Price Index available to the Economic Estimates
than the entire State, or any Statewide district, or any combination
Commission at the time it computes the State Tax Revenue Limit
thereof in existence on the effective date of this Article or any such
for fiscal year 1974-75.
CIRCULATOR INSTRUCTIONS
Please read carefully. If you have any questions call your local regional coordinator or Californians for Lower Taxes (916) 441-10
1. WHO MAY SIGN THIS PETITION? Any registered voter residing in the county where this petition is circulated. Note: Signer must be a regis-
tered voter. However, a single invalid signature will not invalidate the rest of the petition.
2. WHO MAY CIRCULATE THIS PETITION? Any registered voter. (Obtain signatures only in the county where you live.)
3. HOW ARE SIGNATURES AND DATES WRITTEN OR AFFIXED? Signer should sign in the same manner as he or she signed when registering
to vote. If signer cannot remember his or her signature as it appears on the voter registration rolls, have him or her sign FULL FIRST NAME, MIDDLE
INITIAL (if any) and LAST NAME along with titles such as "Jr." or "III," etc. Women need not indicate "Miss" or "Mrs."
Address should be written legibly, complete with street, place, way or other designation.
NOTE: ADDRESS MUST BE WHERE SIGNER IS REGISTERED TO VOTE; not necessarily where he or she is presently living.
4. NEVER USE DITTO MARKS. It will invalidate signature. Always include DATE and ZIP (If known).
5. CIRCULATOR MUST SIGN the declaration on every petition he or she turns in.
6. MAY THE SAME PERSON BE BOTH SIGNER AND CIRCULATOR? Yes. However, circulator may sign only one petition.
7. HOW ARE PETITIONS TO BE RETURNED? Your petitions will be picked up by a committee worker in approximately two weeks whether
completely filled in or not. Should they not be collected within this time call the person who provided your petitions or the central office at
(916) 441-1053.
ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO HELP-SPREAD THE WORD-GET SIGNATURES.
INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO THE ELECTORS
The Attorney General has prepared a title and summary of the chief purposes and points of the proposed
measure, as follows:
TAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Limits State expendi-
tures; restricts use of defined surplus revenue to tax reductions, refunds, or emergencies. Eliminates per-
sonal income tax for lower income persons; reduces others' 1973 or 1974 tax up to 20%, from surplus,
and subsequent year rates 7½%. Requires two-thirds legislative vote for new or changed State taxes. Limits
local property tax rates except school districts'. Requires State funding of new programs mandated to local
governments. Provides for tax and expenditure limit adjustments when functions transferred. Contains spe-
cial indebtedness obligation provisions. Allows local tax rate and expenditure limit increases upon voter
approval. If the proposed initiative is adopted undefined additional financing from State sources in the
approximate amount of Five Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand dollars ($568,000) on a one-time basis and
Two Hundred Thirty Six Thousand dollars ($236,000) annually thereafter will be required for State ad-
ministrative costs.
COUNTY
REGISTERED ADDRESS
DATE ZIP
Precinct
NAME (As Registered)
USE
(Never use Ditto Marks)
(Never Use Ditto Marks)
Number
Registered
Date
1 Sign
Address
/
/
73
(If Known)
(Print)
City
Zip
Registered
Date
2 Sign
Address
/
73
(If Known)
(Print)
City
Zip
Registered
Date
3 Sign
Address
/
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INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO THE ELECTORS
The Attorney General has prepared a title and summary of the chief purposes and points of the proposed
measure, as follows:
TAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Limits State expendi-
tures; restricts use of defined surplus revenue to tax reductions, refunds, or emergencies. Eliminates per-
sonal income tax for lower income persons; reduces others' 1973 or 1974 tax up to 20%, from surplus,
and subsequent year rates 7½% Requires two-thirds legislative vote for new or changed State taxes. Limits
local property tax rates except school districts': Requires State funding of new programs mandated to local
governments. Provides for tax and expenditure limit adjustments when functions transferred. Contains spe-
cial indebtedness obligation provisions. Allows local tax rate and expenditure limit increases upon voter
approval. If the proposed initiative is adopted undefined additional financing from State sources in the
approximate amount of Five Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand dollars ($568,000) on a one-time basis and
Two Hundred Thirty Six Thousand dollars ($236,000) annually thereafter will be required for State ad-
ministrative costs.
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DECLARATION OF CIRCULATOR
I am, and during all the time while soliciting signatures as hereinafter set forth was, a qualified and registered elector of the County (or City
and County) of
and of the State of California; I am the person who circulated the attached and foregoing
section of the initiative petition of which said section is a part and who solicited the signatures to the said section; I have circulated said section
within the above named County (or City and County) of the State of California; all of the signatures to the attached section were made in my
presence and upon the date shown after each signature and were solicited by me within the above named County (or City and County) of the
State of California; to the best of my knowledge and belief, each signature is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to
be; that all signatures to said section were secured by me; that my residential voting address at the time of execution of this declaration is
as shown below, and that this declaration is executed in the State of California.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
(Do not sign, as circulator, until you send in petition.)
SIGNATURE OF PETITION CIRCULATOR
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Page 4 of 4
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON D REAGAN
MEMO I THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-9-73
C-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N-S
For the record, in press release #198, dated 4-6-73, the
following corrections should be made:
Page 2, Paragraph 3 --
earnings (total state personal income) which state
government can take in taxes over the next 15 years.
Page 2, Paragraph 4 --
While requiring that the state must gradually take a smaller
and smaller share of the state's total personal income in taxes each
year, the constitutional tax limit will nevertheless enable the state
budget to double in ten years and actually triple in 15 years to
$27.4 billion in 1989, in order to not only keep pace with population
growth and inflation, but also to provide the state with additional
revenues to innovate new programs to meet public needs. While the
state will need a cumulative increase in revenues of about 118 percent
to keep up with growth and inflation, the state budget can increase by
nearly 200 percent under the tax limit, providing substantial fiscal
leeway for creating and expanding state programs where justified.
# # #
Gray
OFFICEEOF GOVERNOR RO' LD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-6-73
#199
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
April 9, 1973
through
April 14, 1973
MONDAY, April 9
11:45 am
Meeting with Poly Royal Queen and group of Cal Poly
Students (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)
(Overnight - Sacramento)
TUESDAY, April 10
11:15 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
Noon
California Manufacturers Association Luncheon,
Woodlake Inn. Remarks.
6:00 pm
POW Dinner at Executive Residence, Sacramento
(Overnight - Sacramento)
WEDNESDAY, April 11
11:00 am
POW Tax Exemption Bill Signing, Governor's Office
(Overnight - Sacramento)
THURSDAY, April 12
No public appointments scheduled.
(Overnight - Sacramento)
FRIDAY, April 13
T.V.
10:00 am
Interview at KFSN Radio in Fresno
2:30 pm
Interview, KNBC-TV, 3000 West Alameda, Burbank
(Overnight - - Los Angeles)
SATURDAY, April 14
AM
California Republican Assembly, Royal Inn,
Anaheim. Remarks.
PM
Depart for Phoenix for Easter Vacation
(overnight - Phoenix)
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN
MEMO 1 THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-6-73
Governor Ronald Reagan will tour the Rancho Murietta property from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 7. At 3 p.m., he will be
interviewed by Bill Best at San Jose's KNTV-TV studios.
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO
LD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-6-73
#200
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the a ppointment of Salvador
J. Espana, Jr., of Sacramento, as the Director of the State Office of
Economic Opportunity. He replaces Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., of Loomis,
who resigned last month.
Espana has been the Deputy Director for Operations of the State
OEO since October 1971. He has been working at OEO since March 1967.
as a program analyst except for a 15 month period in 1968-69 when he
served as assistant to the governor for community relations.
"Sal Espana has been instrumental in ensuring that the federally
funded programs in California were effective and efficient," stated
Governor Reagan, "his experience and knowledge, gained during the past
six years, will ensure that the OEO continues to be responsive to the
needs of Californians," added the governor.
Prior to entering state service, Espana was manager for eleven years
of the West Side Growers Association in Los Banos. He is a partner in
a restaurant business and several other business ventures. During the
Korean War, he served four years on active duty with the U.S. Navy.
The 42-year-old Republican is married, the father of three children,
and lives at 1225 58th Avenue, Sacramento. He was born in Codora,
(Colusa County), California.
He will receive an annual salary of $26,148 as director.
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:
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-9-73
#201
Governor Ronald Reagan today called the attention of Californians
to the observance of National Action for Foster Children, this I week
I
describing it as "an excellent opportunity to refocus community attention
on foster care needs and programs.
"I know that many of our communities in this state have made plans
to improve public knowledge of foster care in various ways during this
coming week," the governor said, "and I urge citizen support of those
plans.
"The benefits of foster care programs to society as well as to home-
less children have been well established in California for many years.
There always seems to be a need for more foster parents, and this is an
excellent chance for communities to make these needs known to people who
might be able to take part."
There are an estimated 31,000 foster children in California at the
present time, ten per cent of the nationwide figure. An estimated 1,200
children become potential foster care placement cases every month in the
state.
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN
RELEA
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-9-73
#202
Governor Ronald Reagan today anoounced the appointment of Mrs. Marie
E. Haff, of Burlingame, to the Collection Agency Advisory Board in the
Department of Consumer Affairs. She will fill the unexpired term of
Stanley H. Kragen, of Stockton, who resigned. The term expires June 30,
1973.
Mrs. Haff, a Republican, is the manager of the Credit Bureau of San
Mateo and Burlingame, a position she has held since 1954. The firm
a
employs a staff of 32 men and women in the operation of/credit reporting
agency and two licensed collection agencies.
A native of San Francisco, she attended schools in the Bay Area,
including College of San Mateo and the University of California Extension
San Francisco. She currently serves as vice dean and member of the
Board of Trustees of the Western Management Institute.
She served as director of the Associated Credit Bureaus of
California and in 1967, served as president, the first woman to be
elected. Mrs. Haff, a widow, =is the mother of three daughters.
Board members receive $28 per diem and expenses. Full term
appointments to the board are for four years.
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Appointee's address:
708 Burlingame Avenue
Burlingame, California 94010
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-9-73
#203
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of San Jose
social worker Konrad Fischer, M.S.W., to the Board of Behavioral Science
Examiners. He will fill the unexpired term of Albert L. Seltzer, of
Carmichael, who resigned. The term expires June 1, 1974.
Fischer, 46, a Democrat, is the co-founder and chief clinical
social worker of the Valley Psychiatric Medical Clinic in San Jose. He
is a 1954 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with an
A.B. in psychology. He also earned his M.S.W. in psychiatric social work
at U.C., Berkeley.
He is a consultant to the Santa Clara County School Districts and
and
Health Department,/the San Jose Police and Juvenile Probation Departments
He is married and the father of three children.
The appointment to the board requires Senate confirmation. Board
members receive $28 per diem. Full term appointments are for four years.
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Appointee's address:
19168 De Havilland Drive
Saratoga, California
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-10-73
#204
Governor Ronald Reagan today named business and economics
professor, Dr. Edward Hill Barker, of San Luis Obispo, as the new
State Savings and Loan Commissioner.
Dr. Barker was the dean of the School of Business and Social
Sciences at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
prior to accepting the appointment.
He succeeds Michael F. B. MacBan, of Los Angeles, who resigned
last March 1, to return to private business.
Dr. Barker, 57, a Republican, will serve at the pleasure of
the governor. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.
A graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles in
1937, he earned both his master of science degree in public
administration and his Ph.D. in economics at the University of
Southern California. He was professor of business economics and
marketing at USC School of Business from 1956 to 1971 prior to being
named dean at Cal Poly.
Dr. Barker is a member of the board of directors of Methods
Research Associates of Santa Ana, senior research associate of the
National Research Center of Los Angeles, and consultant to Boyle,
Hart, Lovett and Dean. He was also a past consultant to the
California Credit Union League.
He is married and the father of four children. As savings and
loan commissioner, he will receive an annual salary of $31,500.
# # #
Address:
Michael F. B. MacBan
597 Jeffrey Drive
San Luis Obispo
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROALD REAGAN
MEMO .) THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-10-73
Governor and Mrs. Ronald Reagan will host twenty eight former
prisoners of war at a private dinner tonight, April 10, at the executive
residence, 1341 45th Street, Sacramento.
The former prisoners, their wives, dates or guests, are expected
to arrive at the residence at 6:00 p.m.
Because the dinner is private, the press will not be permited
inside the residence. However, reporters, photographers, and cameramen
may witness and record the arrival of the ex-POWs at the residence.
Thumbnail sketches of the former prisoners attending the dinner
will be available.
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Garcia
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turnees
POW RETURNEES ATTENDING
GOVERNOR AND MRS. REAGAN'S RECEPTION
APRIL 10, 1973
WIFE OR
NAME AND GRADE
BRANCH OF SERVICE
GUEST'S NAME
ANDREWS, Anthony E. - Captain
Air Force
Alone
BERNASCONI, Louis H. - Lt. Col.
Air Force
Guest
BOYER, Terry L. - Captain
Air Force
Guest
BRACE, Ernest
Civilian
Son - Ernest Jr.
BUTLER, WILLIAM H. - Captain
Air Force
Wife (Julie)
CHAMBERS, Carl D. Captain
Air Force
Wife (Joanne)
DANIELS, VERLYNE W. - Commander
Navy
Guest (Julie Geary)
ESTES, Edward D. - Commander
Navy
Wife (Betty)
FLYNN, Robert J. - Lieutenant Commander Navy
Wife (Kathy)
FORD, David E. - Major
Air Force
Wife (Eldora)
FOWLER, Henry P. - Captain
Air Force
Wife (Christiane)
*FRANCO, Thomas - Captain
Navy
Wife (Odie)
GOTNER, Norbert A. - Major
Air Force
Wife (Ida)
GOUGH, James W. - Senior Master Sgt
Air Force
Wife (Dianne)
HANTON, Thomas J. - Captain
Air Force
Wife (Patricia)
HICKERSON, James M. - Commander
Navy
Guest (LT Susy Hyatt)
HOFFMAN, David - Lieutenant Commander
Navy
Wife (Mary)
Parents: Mr. & Mrs.
Wesley Hoffman
LEONARD, Edward W. - Major
Air Force
Alone
LEWIS, Frank D. - Capt.
Air Force
Wife (Wynne) & Mother
LESESNE, Henry D. - Lieutenant
Navy
Wife (Linda)
Commander
MC MURRAY, Frederick C. - Captain
Air Force
Wife (Judith)
*MILLER, Monte B. = Colonel (Dr.)
Air Force
Wife
WIFE OR
NAME AND GRADE
BRANCH OF SERVICE
GUEST'S NAME
MONTAGUE, Paul J. - Major
Marine Corps
Wife (Shirley)
NAGAHIRO, James Y. - Lt Colonel
Air Force
Wife (Alice)
NICHOLS, Aubrey A. - Lt Commander
Navy
Wife (Wanda)
PENN, Michael G. LTJG
Navy
Wife (Carol)
PROFILET, Leo T. - Captain
Navy
Wife (Joan)
RIDGEWAY, Ronald L. - Sergeant
Marine Corps
Alone
RUDLOFF, Steve - Lieutenant
Navy
Wife (Marie)
SCHWEITZER, Robert J. - Commander
Navy
Wife (Gwen)
STIRM, Robert L.
Lt Colonel
Air Force
Wife (Loretta)
WELLS, Kenneth R.
Captain
Air Force
Wife (Candace)
*POW HOSPITAL COORDINATORS, NOT RETURNEES
Captain Anthony C. Andrews
Wife: Sandra C. Resides in Weehawken, NJ
Captain Andrews was born on 15 November 1940, in Chico, CA. He attended
the University of Southern California, receiving a B.S. degree in 1963.
Entering the Air Force in September 1963, he served in a number of Air
Force assignments until his assignment to SEA on 15 August 1967. He Was
assigned to the 34 Tac Ftr Sq, Korat AB, Thailand, when his F-105 was
struck by hostile fire on 17 October 1967, while flying a combat mission
over North Vietnam. He was subsequently captured and interned by the
North Vietnamese.
17 January 1973
Lt Col Louis H. Bernasconi, 572-40-3338FR, MIA 22 Dec 72, PV 26 Dec 72
Mother - Maria V. de Father - Louis M. - Reside in Napa, CA
Daughter - Katherine A. - Resides in Northridge, C/1
Col Bernasconi was born 21 May 31 in Napa, California. On 22 Dec 72
Col Bernasconi, while on temporary duty with the 307 Strat Wg, U-Tapao
Afld, Thailand, departed U-Tapao Afld as the navigator/bombardier of
a B-52 on a night combat mission over North Vietnam. The aircraft
was downed over the target area and, though beeper signals were heard,
voice contact could not be established with any of the crew members.
The hostile environment prevented search and rescue efforts. Col
Bernasconi's status VOB changed to captured on 26 Dec 72 after Hanoi
news releases confirmed his capture
The status of the aircraft commander, Lt Col John H. Yuill, the copilot,
Capt David I. Drummond, and crew members Maj William W. Conlee and 1st
Lt William T. Mayall, was changed to captured on 26 Dec 72 for the
above reason. The status of the gunner, SSgt Gary L. Morgan, is missing
in action.
Captain Terry L. Boyer
Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Boyer - Reside in: Visalia, CA
Captain Boyer was born 22 September 1938, South Gate, CA. He attended
Fresno State College, Fresno, CA, receiving a B.S. degree in 1965.
Entering the Air Force in August 1965, he served in a number of Air
Force assignments until his assignment to SEA on 1 October 1967. He
was assigned to the 497 Tac Ftr Sq, Ubon Afld, Thailand, when his F-4
was struck by hostile fire on 17 December 1967, while flying a combat
mission over North Vietnam. He was subsequently captured and interned
by the North Victnamese.
Captain William W. Butler
Wife: Julie A. - 2 children Reside in: San Rafael, CA
Captain Butler was born 29 November 1941 in Grass Valley, CA. He attended
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, receiving a B.A. degree in 1963.
Entering the Air Force in March 1964, he served in a number of Air Force
assignments until his assignment to SEA on 31 July 1967. He was assigned
to 469 Tac Ftr Sq, Takhli AB, Thailand, when his F-105 was struck by
hostile fire on 20 November 1967, while flying a combat mission over
North Victnam. He was subsequently captured and interned by the North
Victnamese.
COMMANDER VERLYNE W. DANIELS, UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 554745) (Pilot)
Verlyne Wayne Daniels was shot down on October 26,
1967, while flying an A-4 (Skyhawk) on a strike mission
over North Vietnam. He was executive officer of Attack
Squadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE, operating from USS CORAL
SEA (CVA-43).
Commander Daniels was born April 23, 1930 in Reamsville,
Kansas, enlisted in the Navy in 1948, entered the Naval
Aviation Cadet program, and was commissioned Ensign in 1952.
He served in Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE from 1952
to 1955 as well as during the tour of duty on which he was
shot down. He was also assigned to a number of other Attack
Squadrons and to the USS KEARSARGE (CVS-33). He received a
bachelor's degree in nautical science from the Naval Post-
graduate School, Monterey, California, in 1966.
Commander Daniels is single. His home of record is
Stockton, California, and his brother, Maurice Daniels, lives
in Ness City, Kansas.
COMMANDER EDWARD D. ESTES,
UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 605484) (Pilot)
Edward Dale Estes was shot down on January 3, 1968 while on
a strike mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an A-4
(Skyhawk) of Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED TWELVE, operating
from the USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63).
Commander Estes was born on May 16, 1934, in Marionville,
Missouri, and received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from
Southwest Missouri State College, Springfield, Missouri, in 1955.
He enlisted in the Navy that year, entered the Aviation Officer
Candidate program, and was commissioned Ensign in 1956. He
served in Attack Squadron THIRTY-FIVE and at the Bureau of
Naval Personnel, Washington, D.C.
His wife, Bette, and sons, James and David, live in Lemoore,
California. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Estes, live in
Purdy, Missouri, which is Commander Estes' home of record.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER ROBERT J. FLYNN, UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 636219) (Bombardier-Navigator)
Robert James Flynn was shot down August 21, 1967 while
returning from a mission over North Vietnam. He was fly-
ing in an A-6 (Intruder) of Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED
NINETY-SIX, operat ing from the USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64).
The plane was attacked by a North Vietnamese MIG near the
Chinese border. Lieutenant Commander Flynn was interned in
the Peoples Republic of China.
Lieutenant Commander Flynn was born September 15, 1937,
in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He attended the University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and enlisted in the Naval
Reserve in 1965. He entered the Naval Aviation Cadet
program and was commissioned Ensign in 1960. He served in
Attack Squadrons based at Whidbey Island, Washington, and
Oceana, Virginia.
His wife Mary, son Robert, and daughter Elizabeth live
in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas A. Flynn, live in Sun City, Arizona. Lieutenant
Commander Flynn's home of record is Houston, Minnesota.
Captain David E. Ford
Wife: V. Eldora - 5 children Reside in: Sacramento, CA
(total children: 8) Three daughters reside in Columbus, OH.
Captain Ford was born 25 July 1935 in Melrose, MA. He graduated from
Melrose High School, Melrose, MA in 1953. Captain Ford enlisted in the
Air Force in December 1953 and was commissioned from Officer Candidate
School, Lackland AFB, TX in June 1962. lle served in a number of Air
Force assignments until his assignment to SEA on 16 August 1967. He
was assigned to the 11 Tac Recon Sq, Udorn Afld, Thailand, when his
RF-4C aircraft was struck by hostile fire on 19 November 1967, while
flying a photographic reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. He
was subsequently captured and interned by the North Vietnamese.
Captain Henry P. Fowler, Jr.
Wife: Christiane 1. - Resides in: Palo Alto, CA
Captain Fowler was born on 6 March 1939 in Washington, D.C. He
graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D. C. in
1964 and received a B.A. degree. On 13 November 1964 he entered
Officer Training School, graduated in February 1965 and was
commissioned a second lieutenant. He attended and completed pilot
training school prior to his assignment to SEA on 20 December 1966.
He was assigned to the 433 Tac Ftr Sq, Ubon Afld, Thailand, when
his F-4C aircraft was struck by hostile fire on 26 March 1967, while
flying a combat mission over North Vietnam. Captain Fowler was
subsequently captured and interned by the North Vietnamese.
2 Pobruary 1973
Hockert A. Cotner, 515-28-773572, HIA 3 Feb 71, PM 2 Feb 73
In R. and three children reside in Sacramento CA
No.)
Gobner was born 14 Jun 35 in Kangas City 53. Ne grad-
unted from the University of Wichita in 1958 receiving a
despee. Commissioned 2 2d Lt on 24 Jan 53 in the USAF
Reserves, be entered active duty or 18 Mar 59. Maj Gotner
completed navigator training at Harlingen AFB TX in Dec 58.
Numerous assignments followed, and, on 13 Oct 69, in
preparation for an assignment to Southeast Asia, he entered
additional navigation training for the F-4 aircraft. Upon
completing the training, he was assigned to Thailand on
9 Jul 70, At 1044 hours, 3 Feb 71, Major Gotner, as the
weapons systems operator, and his aircraft commander, LtCol
Robert L. Standerwick, Sr., departed Ubon Airfield, Thailand
in an F-4D aircraft on a combat mission over Lacs. When the
two officers failed to report off their first pass, several
attempts to contact them by radio were made but were unsuc-
cessiul. Shortly thereafter, both officers reported they
were on the sround. Voice contact with Col Standerwick
was lost at 1135 when he reported that he had been hit by
hostile fire. Voice contact was lost with Maj Gotner on
5 Feb 71 due to his radio batteries becoming weak. The
search for both officers was terminated at 1830, 8 Feb 71,
when emergency electronic beeper signals from Maj Cotner
ceased. H13 name appeared on the list of personnel captured
in Laos presented to our government on 1 Feb 73. The list
made no mention of the fate of Col Standerwick.
17 January 1973
MSgt James 11. Cough, FR567-42-3485, MIA 28 Dec 72, PV 3 Jan 73
Wife: Dianne i. and two children - Reside in Mather AFB, CA
MSgt Cough vas born 26 Jun 34 in Stuart, OK. llc graduated from
Fresno, CA High School in 1952. Ho enlisted in the Air Force
14 Feb 52. Throughout his career he has been a turret systems
mechanic and aerial gunnt : on bomber aircraft. On 27 Dec 72, while on
temporary duty at Andersen AFB, Cuan, Sgt Gough, as aerial gunner of a
D-52D aircraft, departed Andersen AFB on a night combat mission over
North Vietnom. Approximately 8 hours later, on 28 Dec 72, his aircraft
was downed over the target by enemy fire. Later that day Radio Hanoi
announced the capture of Maj James C. Condon, Capt Frank D. Lowis and
MSgt James V. Cough. No further information has been received concern-
Lug the remaining crewmen, Maj Allen L. Johnson, Capt Samuel B.
Cusimano and lot Lt Bennie L. Fryer.
27 November 1972
Capt Thomas J. Hanton, 231-58-6333FV, MIA 27 Jun 72, PV 25 Aug 72
Wife: Patricia D. - Resides in Sacramento CA
Captain Hanton was born 30 June 1949 in Sacramento CA. He graduated
from California State College at Long Reach CA in 1967 with a BA in
Economics. He entered t'e Air Force on 16 November 1967 as an officer
trainee and vas commissioned second licutenant on 16 February 1968. llc
completed Navigator training in March 1969 and Electronic Warfare
Officer training in October 1969 at Mather AFB CA and Combat Crew
training at George AFD CA in July 1970. lle was assigned as veapons
systems officer with the 9th Inc Ptr Sq, Hollowan AFB KM from 30 July
1970 until his assignment to the 4th Tnc Ftr Sq, Da Mang Aprt, Republic
of Vietnam on 15 January 1972. Captain Hanton was reported missing in
action on 27 June 1972 when the F-4E aircraft he was weapons systems
operator aboard crashed while on an operational mission over North
Victnam. Voice contact was established with both crew members after
they reached the ground. During rescue operations contact was lost
with Captain Hanton. Captain Hanton's status cas changed to captured
25 August 1972 after his name appeared on 0 list released by the North
Vietnamese to a representative of Senator Kennody.
The aircraft commander, Captain Aikman was rescued and returned to
military control.
COMMANDER JAMES M. HICKERSON, UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 561065) (Pilot)
James Martin Hickerson was shot down on December 22, 1967, while. on
a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an A-7 (Corsair) of
Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED FORTY-SEVEN, operating from the USS RANGER
(CVA-61).
Commander Hickerson was born February 14, 1934, in Lenoir, North
Carolina. He received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1956, and was
commissioned through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program
there. He served in a Fighter Squadron; with the THIRD Marine Air Wing,
Fleet Marine Force, Pacific; and at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent
River, Maryland.
His wife Shirley lives at Lemoore, California. His father, James
Hickerson, lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, and his mother, Mrs. Faye
Hickerson, in Lenoir, North Carolina. Commander Hickerson's home of
record is Atlanta, Georgia.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER DAVID W. HOFFMAN, UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 659133) (Pilot)
David Wesley Hoffman was shot down December 30, 1971, while on a
combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an F-4 (Phantom II)
while attached to Carrier Attack Wing FIFTEEN, operating from the USS
CORAL SEA (CVA-43).
Lieutenant Commander Hoffman was born March 18, 1941, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1962 and
received a master's degree in Operations Research from the Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in 1971. Prior to joining
Carrier Attack Wing FIFTEEN, he was assigned to a Training Squadron in
Florida and a Fighter Squadron in Miramar, California.
Lieutenant Commander Hoffman's wife Mary and son David live in San
Diego, California, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley L. Hoffman live
in Wayne, Pennsylvania. His home of record is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
MAJ EDWARD W. LEONARD, JR., MIA 31 MAY 68, PW 2 FEB 73
WIFE: PATRICIA A. AND DAUGHTER RESIDE IN COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.
MAJ LEONARD WAS BORN 9 AUG 38 IN PORTLAND, OR. HE, GRADUATED FROM THE
AIR FORCE ACADEMY ON 8 JUN 60, RECEIVING A BS DEGREE AND BEING
COMMISSIONED A 2d LT. HE COMPLETED PILOT TRAINING IN OCT, 61 at
VANCE AFB, OK., AND HAD ASSIGNMENTS AT DYESS AFB, TX. AND RHAIN MAIN AB
GERMANY PRIOR TO BEING REASSIGNED TO THAILAND ON 12 MAY 67. AT 1704
31 MAY 1968, MAJ LEONARD WAS A PILOT OF AN A-1H IN A FLIGHT OF FOUR
WHICH DEPARTED NAKHON PHANOM APRT, THAILAND, IN SUPPORT OF SEARCH AND
RECOVERY PERSONNEL ATTEMPTING TO RESCUE A DOWNED US NAVY PILOT IN
SOUTHERN LAOS. SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING IN THE SEARCH AREA, MAJ LEONARD'S
AIRCRAFT WAS HIT BY HOSTILE FIRE AND HE WAS SEEN TO PARACHUTE INTO THE
AREA OF THE ENEMY FIRE. HE RADIOED THAT HE WAS TAKING EVASIVE MANEUVERS,
HOWEVER, SUBSEQUENT RADIO CONTACT COULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED. RECOVERY
OF THE NAVY PILOT WAS EFFECTED. MAJ LEONARD'S NAME APPEARED ON THE
LIST OF PERSONNEL CAPTURED IN LAOS PRESENTED TO OUR GOVERNMENT ON
1 FEBRUARY 1973.
17 Jan 1973
Capt Frank D. Lewis, 308-48-2235FV, MIA 28 Dec 72, PW 3 Jan 73
Wife: Wynne G. and daughter - Reside in Fair Oaks, California
Capt Lewis was born 16 Jun 44 in Boston MA. He graduated from Purdue
University with a BS degree in 1967. He entered the Air Force as an
officer candidate 5 July 67 and was commissioned 2nd Lt 29 Sep 67. Ile
completed pilot training in Oct 69. After completing pilot training
he served a combat tour flying F-4 aircraft with the 435 Tac Ftr Sq,
Ubon Airficld, Thailand. lle was assigned to the 441 Bomb Sq, Mather
AFB CA in Nov 70 and it was from there that he was placed on temporary
duty at Andersen AFB, Guam. On 27 Dec 72, Capt Lewis and five other
crew members departed Andersen AFB in a B-52D aircraft on a combat
mission over North Vietnam. Approximately 8 hours later, on 28 Dec
72, his aircraft was downed over the target by enemy fire. Later that
day Radio llanoi announced the capture of Maj James C. Condon, Capt
Frank D. Lewis and MSgt James V. Gough. No further information has
been received concerning the remaining crewmen, Maj Allen L. Johnson,
Capt Samuel B. Cusimano and 1st Lt Bennie L. Fryer.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER HENRY D. LESESNE, UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 629552) (Pilot)
Henry Deas Lesesne was shot down on July 11, 1972,
on a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an
A-4 (Skyhawk) of Attack Squadron FIFTY-FIVE, operating off
the USS HANCOCK (CVA-19).
Lieutenant Commander Lesesne was born on February 13,
1935 in Florence, South Carolina. He received his bachelor's
degree in History from The Citadel, Charleston, South
Carolina, in 1958. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve, entered
the Aviation Officer Candidate program, and was commissioned
Ensign in 1959. Prior to joining Attack Squadron FIFTY-FIVE,
he had assignments with squadrons on both East and West
Coasts.
Lieutenant Commander Lesesne's wife, Linda and daughters
Elizabeth, Lisa and Victoria live in Lemoore, California.
His mother, Mrs. Emma L. Lesesne, lives in Columbia, South
Carolina, which is Lieutenant Commander Lesesne's home of
record.
1 February 1973
Capt Frederick C. McMurray, 518-50-5739, MIA 12 Sep 72, Fl 29 Jan 73
Wife: udits A. and three children - Reside in Coeur d'Alene, ID with
his parents
Capt McMurray was born on 13 Apr 45, Hastings, Nebraska. He graduated
from the University of Idaho in 1967. From 2 Oct to 21 Dec 67 he attended
the Officer Training Course and on 22 Dec 67 was commissioned a 2d Lt in
the USAF. He completed navigator training at Mather AFB, CA. in May 1969.
He was assigned as weapons systems officer, F-4 aircraft, Seymour Johnson
AFB, N.C. when he was placed on temporary duty to Ubon Afld, Thailand. On
12 Sep 72, Capt McMurray, as the weapons systems officer of the number three
aircraft in a flight of four F-4Es; was on an operational mission over &
heavily defended area in North Vietnam. Just prior to reaching the target
area, his aircraft was hit by a missile from a MIG aircraft. Two parachutes
were seen and voice contact was made with the aircraft commander. However,
contact W3S soon lost and further search and rescue efforts were unsuccessful.
The names of both Capt McMurray and his aircraft commander, Capt Rudolph U.
Zuberbuhler, appeared on the list of captured personnel presented to our
Government on 27 January 1973.
BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR PAUL JOSEPH MONTAGUE
MAJOR PAUL J. MONTAGUE 38, WAS CAPTURED NEAR PHUBAI, SOUTH VIETNAM
MARCH 29, 1968, UPON THE CRASH OF THE CH46A HELICOPTER OF WHICH HE WAS
PILOT. AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE, HE WAS A MEMBER OF MARINE AIR GROUP
36. HE FIRST JOINED THE ARMED FORCES IN AUGUST 1952. MAJOR MONTAGUE'S
WIFE MRS. S.J. MONTAGUE (SHIRLEY) AND THEIR ONE SON AND TWO DAUGHTERS RESIDE
IN SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA. RANK AT TIME OF CAPTURE - CAPTAIN. PRESENT RANK
MAJOR. HE RANKED FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1968.
1 February 1973
It, Col James Y. Nagahiro, 576-24-7944FV, MIA 21 Dec 72, PW 29 Jan 73
Wife: Alice, K. and four children - Reside in Spokane, Washington
Col Magahiro was born 17 Apr 32 in Honolulu, HI. He left the University
of Hawaii in 1952 after completing 65 semester hours. He entered the Air
Force 25 Mar 53 and began observer/nuvigator training as sa aviation cadet
May 53. He was commissioned 2d Lt in Jun 54. He completed pilot training
in Jul 57 and served in a number of assignments within SAC until his
assignment to Fairchild AFB, WASH in Jan 72. On 21 Dec 72, while on
temporary duty at Andersen AFB, Guam, Col Nagahiro, as aircraft commander
of a B-52, departed Andersen AFB on a night combat mission over North
Vietnam. The aircraft was downed in the target area and a beeper signal
was heard immediately afterwards. Later, more beepers were heard but
voice contact could not be made with any of the crew members. Col Nagahiro's
name appeared 03 the list of captured personnel presented to our Government
on 27 Jan 73.
The status of the navigator, Capt Lynn R. Beens, was changed to captured
effective 22 Dec 72 after Hanoi news releases confirmed his status as
captured. The status of the remaining crew members, Lt Col Keith R. Heggen,
instructor pilot, Major Edward E. Johnson, co-pilot, Captain Donovan K.
Walters, electronic warfare officer, and A1C Charles J. Bebus, gunner, is
missing in action.
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER AUBREY A. NICHOLS, UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 678463) (Pilot)
Aubrey Allen Nichols was shot down May 19, 1972, while
on a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an
A-7 (Corsair II) of Attack Squadron FIFTY-SIX, operating
from the USS MIDWAY (CVA-41). a
Lieutenant Commander Nichols was born January 4, 1940,
in Tucson, Arizona. He graduated from the United States
Naval Academy in 1964. Among his duty assignments were
squadrons in California and Texas.
His wife Wanada and sons Loren and Bradley live in
Lemoore, California. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde P.
Nichols, live in El Paso, Texas, which is Lieutenant Com-
mander Nichols' home of record.
LIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) MICHAEL G. PENN,
UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE
(File No. 761608) (Pilot)
Michael Gene Penn was shot down August 6, 1972 on a strike mis-
sion northeast of Haiphong. He was flying an A-7 (Corsair II) of
Attack Squadron FIFTY-SIX, operating from the USS MIDWAY (CVA-41).
Lieutenant Penn was born on March 13, 1946 in Dallas, Texas.
He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1969, entered the Aviation Of-
ficer Cadet program and was commissioned Ensign in 1970. Prior to
joining Attack Squadron FIFTY-SIX he served in Attack Squadron ONE
HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE.
Lieutenant Penn's wife Carolyn and son Derek live in Lemoore,
California, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer G. Penn, live in
Littleton, Colorado. Lieutenant Penn's home of record is Fort
Worth, Texas.
CAPTAIN LEO T. PROFILET, UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 506413) (Pilot)
Leo Twyman Profilet was Commanding Officer of Attack Squadron
ONE HUNDRED NINETY-SIX from the USS CONSTELLATION (CVA 64). He
was shot down August 21, 1967, while flying an A-6 (Intruder) on
a combat mission over North Vietnam.
Captain Profilet was born July 29, 1928 in Cairo, Illinois.
He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1948, and received his
commission under the Aviation Midshipman program in 1950. He
served at the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, aboard
the USS TARAWA (CVS-40), with the Operational Test and Evaluation
Force, and in squadrons based on both the East and West Coasts.
His wife Joan lives in Palo Alto, California with their
children Jana, 18; Joseph 17; and Leo, Jr., 14. Another daughter,
Cathy, is married to William Matthews of Mountain View, California.
Captain Profilet's home of record 1s Cairo, Illinois.
BIOGRAPHY OF SGT RONALD LEWIS RIDGEWAY
SGT RONALD L. RIDGEWAY 23, WAS CAPTURED IN THE VICINITY OF KHE SANH,
SOUTH VIETNAM FEBRUARY 25, 1968. THE PATROL OF WHICH HE WAS A
MEMBER, WAS AMBUSHED BY ENEMY TROOPS. AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE,
SGT RIDGEWAY WAS A MEMBER OF 1ST BATTALION 26TH MARINE REGIMENT
THIRD MARINE DIVISION. HE JOINED THE MARINE CORPS IN APRIL 1967. SGT
RIDGEWAY IS THE SON OF MR. LEWIS RIDGEWAY OF SHEPHERD, TEXAS AND
MRS. MILDRED RIDGEWAY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
RANK AT TIME OF CAPTURE PVT FIRST CLASS. PRESENT RANK SERGEANT.
TO RANK FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1969.
LIEUTENANT STEPHEN A. RUDLOFF,
UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 698501) (Radar Intercept Officer)
Stephen Anthony Rudloff was shot down May 10, 1972, while on a
combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying in an F-4
(Phantom II) of Fighter Squadron NINETY-TWO, operating from the
USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64).
Lieutenant Rudloff was born February 19, 1945, in Brooklyn,
New York, enlisted in the Navy in 1964, and was commissioned through
the Aviation Officer Candidate program in 1965. His duty assignments
included the Naval Plant Representative Office, St. Louis, Missouri,
and a squadron based at Miramar, California.
His wife, Marie, sons, Geoffrey, Adrian, and daughter, Allyson,
live in San Diego, California. His mother, Mrs. Mary J. Rudloff,
lives in Brooklyn, New York, which is Lieutenant Commander
Rudloff's home of record.
COMMANDER ROBERT J. SCHWEITZER,
UNITED STATES NAVY
(File No. 571894) (Pilot)
Robert James Schweitzer was shot down January 5, 1968, while
on a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an A-4
(Skyhawk) of Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR,
operating from the USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63).
Commander Schweitzer was born February 25, 1932, in Pottsville,
Pennsylvania, enlisted in the Navy in 1950, and was commissioned
through the Naval Aviation Cadet program in 1953. He served in
several squadrons based in California, on the staff of the Commander
in Chief, Pacific Fleet, and at the Bureau of Naval Personnel.
His wife, Gwendolyn, and sons, Karl and Eric, live in Meadow
Vista, California. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Schweitzer,
live in Oreland, Pennsylvania. Commander Schweitzer's home of
record is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
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Sacramento, Californi
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Ed Gray, Press Secretary
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4-10-73
#205
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of Mrs.
Sylvia S. LeSage to another term on the State Board of Cosmetology.
The San Mateo housewife has served on the board since July 1969.
She is past chairman of the San Mateo Garden Club and is active
in civic affairs in San Mateo County. She is a graduate of the Burroughs
School of Business in Los Angeles.
Mrs. LeSage, a Republican, will receive $28 per diem and expenses.
Her term on the board will expire June 1, 1976.
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Appointees address:
1231 Lawrence Expressway
Sunnyvale, California
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROWALD REAGAN
RELEASE: E: Immediate
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Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-10-73
#206
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Mrs.
Lily (Joseph D.) Cuneo to the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Contro
Board. She replaces Mrs. Jean Auer, of San Francisco, who resigned.
The term expires September 9, 1976.
Mrs. Cuneo, a Republican, is a housewife and partner in the Malvino
Furniture Company, in San Francisco. She is married to Joseph D. Cuneo,
retired executive of the Schlage Lock Company.
She is a member of the board of directors of the San Francisco
Opera Guild, Art Institute, Opera Association, Salesian Boys Club,
Guide Dogs for the Blind, and Children's Hospital.
Mrs. Cuneo will represent the general public on the board. Members
receive necessary expenses.
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Appointee's address:
3819 Jackson Street
San Francisco, California 94118
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
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4-10-73
#207
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Mrs.
Dorothy J. (Henry A.) Datter, of Santa Maria, to the Vocational
Rehabilitation Appeals Board. She replaces Mrs. Rose Resnick, whose
term has expired.
Mrs. Datter, a native of Pasadena, attended Pasadena City College
and the University of Wisconsin. She is presently a medical transcriber
for Marian Hospital in Santa Maria.
She is a member of the board of directors ofthe Santa Barbara County
Society for Crippled Children, Children's Home Society, Visiting Nurse
Services, and Committee of Health, Education and Welfare.
She has received numerous honors for her public service and was
named Woman of the Year in 1966 by the Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce.
Mrs. Datter, who became blind, in 1956, will represent the blind
people on the board. The post, which pays actual and necessary expenses,
requires Senate confirmation.
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Appointee's address:
3210 Santa Maria Way
Santa Maria, California
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-16-73
#208
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of Mrs.
Sue B. (Harold c.) Ely, of Tulare, and the appointment of Fresno dentist
Jack M. Ramos, to the Porterville State Hospital Advisory Board.
Mrs. Ely, a Republican, has served on the board since November 16,
1972. The Tulare housewife is a member of the State Scholarship Board
for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and a past president of the Tulare
Women's Club. She is a charter board member of the Tulare Senior Citizen
Organization.
Dr. Ramos, 47-year-old Democrat, replaces Jay M. Akin, of Merced,
whose term expired. A native of Fresno, he graduated from Fresno State
College in 1950 and earned his D.D.S. at the University of the Pacific
in 1954. During World War II, he served with the U.S. Navy.
He is married to the former Marie J. Rojas and they have two
daughters. Ramos is President of the Fresno Association for the
Mentally Retarded, Cabrillo Club, and professional dental associations.
Board members serve three year terms and receive necessary expenses.
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Appointees' addresses:
Sue B. Ely
Jack M. Ramos, D.D.S.
848 Dickran Drive
946 North Van Ness
Tulare, California 93274
Fresno, California 93728
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN
MEMO TO IE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-11-73
Governor Reagan will be the guest of the Northern
California Radio and Television News Directors Associa-
tion today at a luncheon at Posey's, backroom.
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Gray
OFFICE OF LOVERNOR NALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
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Sacrament , California 95814
Ed Gray, ress Secretary
916-445-4571
4-11-73
#209
Governor Ronald Reagan today named the members of a special task
force whose responsibilities during the next six months will be to take
a careful, comprehensive look at the multi-faceted structure of local
government in California and recommend ways to make it more efficient,
more responsive and less costly to the taxpayers.
The task force will be under the overall direction of Lt. Governor
Ed Reinecke who will head a steering committee comprised of members of
the governor's cabinet to provide policy guidance to the task force
members. Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., 31, former director of the state Office
of Economic Opportunity, will serve as chairman of the task force itself
(previously announced).
Governor Reagan said he is asking the task force members to take a
hard, close, analytical look at the entire structure of local government.
"Then, ask yourselves: if you were starting all over again, how would
you structure local government to make it the most efficient, most
responsive and least costly instrument of the people at the local level?"
The governor emphasized that the task force---known as the Governor's
Task Force on Local Government--- is not intended as a move toward another
layer of government such as some proposals for regional government.
"That would merely compound the problem by creating more government.
On the other hand, some counties may today be either too big or too small
to effectively deal with the problems and needs of the 1970s than they
were when county lines were first drawn in the horse and buggy era of
the last century."
He said many of the 58 counties in California were formed and the
boundary lines drawn more than 100 years ago when California was a much
different, far less populated, place than it is today.
"Today, California has some 5,800 units of government below the state
level, including 58 counties, 407 incorporated cities, more than 1,100
school districts and almost 4,200 special districts performing one or more
services, In the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area alone, there are more
than 800 separate taxing jurisdictions, each with a responsibility for a
specific service. and each authorized to levy taxes to support its
operations.
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"The average citizen is not even aware of al. chese different units
of governme it. The only time he gets a first-hand knowledge of their
existence is when he has a complaint about service, or more likely when
he receives his property tax bill. When they are looking at that long
list of governmental units which their tax dollars are taken to support,
many citizens must wonder whether they are getting their money's worth,
and whether all these different layers of government are really
necessary," the governor said.
"The reform and modernization, indeed the streamlining, of local
government is, and should be, one of our top priorities. And, it is this
major task which the members of the task force will be tackling in the
months ahead, he added.
In addition to the steering committee and the task force itself,
the overall effort will include participation by the Council on
Intergovernmental Relations, and advisory committees to be made up of
local government officials, public administrators, representatives of
the academic community, and private citizens. Currently, at the
governor's request, the Council on Intergovernmental Relations is
conducting public hearings on this subject throughout the state. The
results of these hearings will be compiled and then submitted to the
task force for consolidation with its own study material.
The goal of the Local Government task force effort will be to
recommend a comprehensive plan and provide it to the governor, the
legislature, local government officials, and the citizens they serve so
that they can modernize and streamline their own governmental structures
to more effectively and efficiently meet the growth needs and changing
requirements of all the people of California in the years to come.
Those who will serve on the governor's task force on local government
include:
Earl J. Strathman, 58, a former County Administrator in Alameda
County.
He previously worked in the Los Angeles County Administrator's
office and served as director of the University of South Dakota's
Government Research Bureau.
He is a past president of the County Personnel Administrator's
Association of California, a former director of the Western Governmental
Research Association and a former vice-president of the American Society
for Public Administration.
Strathman is a Democrat. He will receive $100 per day, plus necessary
expenses.
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John D. Phillips, 64, who has over thirty years' experience in
municipal government as both a city manager and city attorney. He
recently retired after serving for seven years as city manager of
Pasadena. Previously, he was city attorney and later, city manager of
Berkeley.
Phillips is a past president of the city manager's department of
the League of California Cities and is a former Regional vice-president
of the International City Management Association. Phillips also helped
to form the Association of Bay Area Governments.
He is a Republican. He will receive $100 per day plus necessary
expenses.
-Charles D. Hobbs, 39, with experience in various areas of state
and local finance, operations management, and computer-based information
systems.
Most recently, he served as a member of the governor's tax reduction
task force and as special consultant to the governor for tax and spending
programs.
He was formerly deputy director for operations in the state
Department of Social Welfare and was one of the principal architects of
the California Welfare Raform Program.
Prior to joining state government, Hobbs was engaged for 12 years in
managing the design, development and operation of computer-based
information systems for military, commercial and public applications.
He is a Republican. He will receive $140 per day plus necessary
expenses.
-Allen Hyman, 30, an economist with special interest in the fields of
urban and transportation economics. He has an AB and MA from UCLA and
expects to complete work for his Ph.D. from that institution this year.
Hyman's experience includes work as a Research Economist for the
state Office of Economic Opportunity and Southern California Edison Compan
and as an instructor in finance and economics at the University of
Southern California. He is a Democrat. He will receive $75 per day
plus expenses.
Gregory C. Krohm, 26, an economist who recently completed work for
his Ph.D. at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has
a B.A. in Economics from Loyola University of Chicago. His special areas
of interest have been urban economics and the economics of crime. Krohm's
dissertation topic was an economic analysis of city annexation policy.
His political affiliation is independent. He will receive $75 per
day plus necessary expenses.
Hawkins, the task force chairman, holds a Doctorate in Political
Science from the University of Washington where he specialized in the
area of local government. He will be paid an annual salary of $28,875.
He is a Republican.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ONALD REAGAN
Sacramento, Califor 1a 95814
MEMO 'IV THE PRESS
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-12-73
Edwin Meese, III, executive assistant to the governor, and other
members of Governor Reagan's staff, will hold a background (on the
record) briefing, and answer newsmen's questions, regarding the use of
the new state jet, this afternoon at 3:30 in the governor's office
(conference room). We are asking that there be no sound-on-film or
broadcast tape recorders during the briefing itself but Mr. Meese will
be available for radio and television interviews immediately after the
briefing.
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Gray
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
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Sacramento, Californ:
95814
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4-12-73
#210
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
William G. Cagney, of Carmel, to another term on the Agnews State
Hospital Advisory Board for the Mentally Retarded. He has been a
member of the board since December 16, 1970.
Cagney, a 61-year-old Democrat, is theretired Superintendent of
Schools for San Benito County, a position he held for 25 years. He
earned degrees at St. Mary's college in Moraga and the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles.
Board members serve three-year terms and receive necessary expenses.
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Appointee's address:
William G. Cagney
P.O. Box 385
Carmel, California
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON D REAGAN
RELEASE:
:
ediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-12-73
#211
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Clifton L. Allen of Upland as judge of the newly created San Bernardino
County Superior Court.
Allen, 48, has been judge of the San Bernardino Judicial District
Municipal Court, West Valley division, since April of 1970. The county's
new Superior Court was created by the legislature last year.
A Republican, Allen is a 1948 graduate of Beloit College, Beloit,
Wisconsin. He received his law degree from DePaul University, Chicago,
in 1951.
He is a former president, vice president and secretary-treasurer
of the Pomona Valley Bar Association. He is presently a member of the
board of the San Gabriel Valley Neighborhood Legal Aid offices, and the
San Gabriel Valley Lawyers' Reference Service.
Allen and his wife Virginia have two children. He will receive an
annual salary of $36,393.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-13-73
#212
Governor Ronald Reagan today called a special election for
July 10, 1973 to fill the unexpired term of Assemblyman Robert T. Monagan
in the 12th Assembly District, San Joaquin County. The primary election
will be held June 12.
Monagan's resignation was official April 9. He is now assistant
secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-13-73
#213
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
San Luis Obispo educator James R. Barlow to another term on the
Camarillo State Hospital Advisory Board for the Mentally Retarded.
He has been a member of the board since December 16, 1970 and his new
term extends to December 1975.
Barlow, 47, a Democrat, is the administrator for special education
services in the County Office of Education. He was past chairman of
the Coordinating Council for Mental Retardation Service and was also
former chairman of the Tri-Counties Regional Center for Mental
Retardation Services.
He earned both his B.S. and M.A. degrees at California State
Polytechnic College, San Luis Obispo, with majors in administration and
guidance/counseling, He is married and the father of two children.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Appointee's address:
James R. Barlow
544 Princeton Place
San Luis Obispo, California 93401
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-13-73
#214
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the nomination of Superior
Court Judge James H. Hastings as associate justice of the Court of
Appeal in the Second Appellate District, Division Five, in Los Angeles.
The nomination must be confirmed by the Commission on Judicial
Appointments. The commission is composed of Chief Justice Donald Wright
of the state Supreme Court; Attorney General Evelle J. Younger, and
Parker Wood, senior presiding justice of the Second District Court of
Appeal.
Hastings, 55, succeeds Justice John F. Aiso of Los Angeles. Aiso
has retired.
A Republican, Hastings has been judge of the Superior Court in Los
Angeles since May, 1972.
Hastings, who was born in Los Angeles, is a 1940 graduate of the
University of Southern California. He earned his law degree at USC in
1948, following service with the U.S. Navy during World War II. He is
a retired captain with the naval reserve.
In addition to his private practice prior to his appointment to
the Superior Court bench, Hastings taught business law at USC, and real
property law at Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles.
Hastings and his wife Margaret have three sons. The family home
is in Palos Verdes Peninsula. He will receive a yearly salary of
$43,672.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-13-73
#215
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 115 - Karabian
Provides special personal income and inheritance tax
Chapter 19
benefits for POW's, MIA's and those who died as a
result of service in Vietnam.
AB 208 - Greene, L. Increases from $30 million to $45 million the amount
Chapter 22
of funds available to the State Allocation Board for
the purpose of making supplemental loans to those
school districts which do not have sufficient local
funds to meet the matching requirements of the State
School Building Aid Law as it pertains to the replace-
ment of structurally inadequate facilities.
AB 224 - Keene
Makes January 25, 1973, a day to be deemed regularly
Chapter 25
attended by pupils in the public schools for average
daily attendance purposes, except with respect to
schools where the day had previously been set aside
by the district governing board or county superintend-
ent as a holiday or part of a vacation period or other
regular school closure period, or with respect to a
school which was scheduled to be in session less than
176 days for the 1972-73 school year.
AB 498 - Meade
Allows a registered voter to vote in his precinct even
Chapter 23
if he moves from that precinct within 30 days before
an election.
SB 50 - Holmdahl
Permits the Education Code provision relating to the
Chapter 24
advance of funds to school districts to replace loss
of specified federal "impact aid" to be operative
before commencement of the 1973-1974 fiscal year.
SB 81 - Song
Repeals provisions of law that permit civil arrest
Chapter 20
and imprisonment in those cases which the court has
granted a judgment for money and issued a writ of
execution for its collection where the defendant does
not comply with the court order.
SB 86 - Kennick
Authorizes the Director of the Youth Authority with
Chapter 18
the approval of the Director of Finance, to contract
with a county to furnish temporary detention facilities
and related services for juveniles in the custody of
the county probation officer.
SB 117 - Bradley
Increases the exemption from property taxation for a
Chapter 16
blind veteran on his home owned by a corporation of
which he is a shareholder from $5,000 to $10,000.
SB 136 - Grunsky
Makes technical amendments to legislation enacted in
Chapter 21
1972 relating to the payment of workmen's compensation
benefits by employers to the state.
SB 190 - Grunsky
Extends from 120 days to 180 days the time preceding
Chapter 17
the annual meeting of the State Bar within which the
Board of Governors shall elect its officers for the
next ensuing year.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR
R
ALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-13-73
#216
Governor Ronald Reagan today named R. Palmer Henington of Blythe
and announced the reappointments of Lee J. Escher of Coachella and
Jack J. Fleming of Brawley to four-year terms as members of the
California Regional Water Quality Control Board for the Colorado River
Basin Region.
Henington, 55, replaces George D. Werden of Blythe. He attended
College of the Desert at Palm Desert, majoring in turf management.
He is a member of the California Turf Grass Association, National
Agronomy Association and the National Arborist's Association.
A Republican, Henington is mayor of Blythe's Manpower Commission.
Escher, 43, a Republican, was first appointed to the board in
February, 1969. He is a 1952 graduate of the University of Arizona.
An oil company wholesale distributor, Escher is a director of the
Coachella Valley Economic Development Association.
Fleming, a 52-year-old Republican, has been a member of the board
since 1969. He is a 1949 graduate of California Polytechnic College at
San Luis Obispo. He is a past president of the Brawley Elementary
School Board, and is secretary of the California Beet Growers Association
(District No. 9).
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Appointees' addresses:
Lee J. Escher
R. Palmer Henington
44-841 Sherwood Drive
731 Seville Lane
Indio, California
Blythe, California
Jack J. Fleming
P.O. Box 222
Brawley, California 92227
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-13-73
#217
Governor Ronald Reagan today named two new members and announced
the reappointments of two present members to the board of directors of
the 49th District Agricultural Association which operates the Lake
County Fair.
Named to the board for the first time were Mrs. Don (Dorothy A.)
McCrea of Clearlake Highlands, and Mrs. O'Day A. Robertson of
Middletown. Both are Republicans.
Mrs. McCrea replaces Ernest J. Steen of Lakeport, whose term has
expired. Her term will expire in January, 1976.
Mrs. Robertson fills the vacancy created by the resignation of
Laurence G. Warner of Lower Lake. Her term will expire January, 1974.
Reappointed to four=year terms were Jackson I. McCabe of Upper Lake
and James L. Shinn of Lakeport.
McCabe, a rancher, is a member ofthe board of trustees of the
Upper Lake Union Grammar School, and a member of the Lake County
Committee on School District Organization. He is also a director and
vice chairman of the Lake County Farm Bureau.
Shinn, a Republican, is Lake County clerk-recorder. He was first
elected to the post in 1962.
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Appointees' addresses:
Dorothy A. McCrea
James L. Shinn
P.O. Box 366
P.O. Box 425
Clearlake Highlands, California
Highway 20
Nice, California 95464
Jackson I. McCabe
P.O. Box 111
Mrs. O'Day A. Robertson
Middle Creek Road
P.O. Box 25
Upper Lake, California 95485
Middletown, California 95461
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-13-73
#218
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
April 16, 1973
through
April 22, 1973
Monday, April 16
EASTER VACATION
Phoenix, Arizona
No public appointments scheduled
Tuesday, April 17
7:30 p.m.
Conference of State Bank Supervisors Annual
Banquet, Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles.
Speech.
10:00 p.m.
Return to Phoenix
Overnight - Phoenix
Wednesday, April 18
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Phoenix
Thursday, April 19
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Phoenix
Friday, April 20
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Phoenix
Saturday, April 21
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Phoenix
Sunday, April 22
p.m.
Return to Los Angeles
Overnight - Los Angeles
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-17-73
#219
State offices will be closed from 12 noon until 3 p.m. on Good
Friday, April 20, 1973, Governor Reagan's office announced today
The Court of Appeal in San Francisco Monday issued a Writ of
Supersedeas which permits the governor to give state employees the
traditional time off with pay. The time off has been given traditionally
to allow state employees to attend church services on Good Friday.
The San Francisco court ruling stayed a ruling April 6 by the
Alameda County Superior Court that said it was unconstitutional for
the state to give a religious holiday off with pay.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-18-73
#220
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced he has signed
legislation eliminating some of the inequities resulting from the
passage of Proposition 20, the California Coastal Zone Conservation Act
of 1972.
The measure, SB 256, introduced by Senator James R. Mills (D-San
Diego), specifically exempts any person from having to get a permit
under the coastal zone act if they had already received a permit from a
city or county and had started construction prior to November 8, 1972,
when Proposition 20 was approved by the voters.
Under Proposition 20, permits on developments from the Coastal Zone
Commission were required after April 1, 1972.
"I am extremely pleased to sign this measure into law because it
removes many of the inequities and uncertainties hanging over permit
requirements of coastal developments that were already under way prior
to the approval of Proposition 20,' Reinecke said.
"It was unfair to those individuals who had received building
permits after April 1 of last year and prior to the approval of
Proposition 20 on November 8, who had substantial investments and had
begun construction, to require them to stop their projects and apply for
another permit.
"The uncertainties of the permit requirements are eliminated by this
new law, and I am confident that the objectives of the coastal zone act
will be better served."
The bipartisan measure also clarifies the law to state that filing
fees collected by the various coastal zone commissions will be used to
offset their operating costs.
The bill, containing an urgency clause, became effective with
Reinecke's signature.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, Cali ,rnia 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-20-73
#221
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 146 - Burke
Revises the exemption from certain constractual
Chapter 27
limitations of contracts for electronic data-
processing work entered into by any school dis-
trict in a county with a population in excess of
1,400,000 to apply where no regional educational
processing center was in operation on July 1, 1972
SB 256 - Mills
Specifically exempts any person from a permit
Chapter 28
requirement of the California Coastal Zone
Conservation Act of 1972 for any development,
if such person, prior to November 8, 1972, rather
than April 1,1972, relying on a city or county
permit, commenced construction and performed
substantial work on the development and incurred
substantial liabilities for work and materials
necessary therefor.
The bill specifies that all permit application
filing fees and reimbursements for expenses shall
be credited and appropriated to the California
Coastal Zone Conservation Commission for
expenditure to support the operation of the
commission and regional coastal zone conservation
commissions.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californ:
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-20-73
#222
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
April 23, 1973
through
April 29, 1973
MONDAY, April 23
7:30 pm
1/2 hour live interview with Governor Reagan on his
tax limitation-reduction plan, KCRA-TV, Sacramento.
Overnight - Sacramento
TUESDAY, April 24
10:30 am
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:00 a.m.
Presentation of Legion of Merit Award to Assemblyman
Bob Nimmo, Governor's Office.
Overnight - Sacramento
WEDNESDAY, April 25
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight Sacramento
THURSDAY, April 26
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
FRIDAY, April 27
Noon
Association of California Water Agencies Luncheon,
Woodlake Inn, Sacramento. Remarks.
Evening
Young Americans for Freedom Dinner, Huntington-
Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena. Remarks.
Overnight - Los Angeles
SATURDAY, April 28
public
No/appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
SUNDAY, April 29
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
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Gray
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ONALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Califor La 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-23-73
#223
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the names of the doctors
who have been appointed or reappointed to one of the five District
Review Committees of the State Board of Medical Examiners.
The Review Committees, each composed of five doctors, handle
cases referred to them by the board involving statement of issues,
regarding applications, accusations or charges brought against a
doctor, and if appropriate, recommends penalties the board should impose.
Committee members serve four year terms and receive $28 per diem.
Selected to the committees are:
-First District (San Francisco and North Coast area): Dr.
Frederick P. Shidler, 59, a Republican, of 1840 White Oak Drive, Menlo
Park, was reappointed. He has served since October 6, 1969.
Dr. BertrandA. Vipond, 49, Republican, of 418 9th Street, Crescent
City, was reappointed. He has served since October 3, 1969.
-Second District (Los Angeles area): Dr. Paul D. Yates, 52, a
Republican, of 844 Hermosa Avenue, Hermosa Beach, was reappointed. He
has served since October 3, 1969.
Dr. Donald F. Brayton, 60, a Democrat, Director of Continuing
Education in Health Sciences at UCLA, replaces Dr. John B. Dillon, of
Los Angeles, whose term expired. Dr. Brayton lives at 9400 Readcrest
Drive, Beverly Hills.
-Third District (Sacramento Valley area): Dr. Jay O. Gibson, 53,
Republican, of 572 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico, was reappointed. He has
served since October 3, 1969.
-Fourth District (San Diego area): Dr. Ralph M. King, 61,
Republican, whose address is P. O. Box 166, Pine Valley, was reappointed.
He has served since October 3, 1969.
-Fifth District (Central Valley area): Reappointed were Drs.
James F. Donovan, of #2 San Dimas Square, Bakersfield, and Robert J.
Rife, of 3006 Fresno Street, Fresno. Both are Republicans and have
served on the committee since October 3, 1969.
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-24-73
#224
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Modesto attorney Frank C. Damrell, Jr., and Los Angeles television
personality Mrs. J. Douglas (Treesa Way) Drury, to the Consumer Advisory
Council. The positions, adding two public members to the council, were
created by the 1972 legislature.
Damrell, 35, a Democrat, is a member of the Modesto law firm of
Damrell and Damrell. He worked in the Consumer Fraud Unit as a deputy
in the State Attorney General's office in San Francisco from 1965 to 1966
and was consumer fraud deputy in the Stanislaus County District Attorney'
Office from 1966 to 1968.
A 1961 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he
earned his law degree at Yale University in 1964. He was elected as the
first president of the Consumer Federation of California in March 1972,
and is a member of the board of directors of the California Farmer
Consumer Information Committee.
Treesa Drury, a Republican, is the Consumer Affairs Director for
Station KHJ-TV in Los Angeles. She first began reporting consumer
affairs in the late 1950s in Michigan and became known in the Los Angeles
area as a consumer affairs authority through her radio reports on the
Los Angeles radio station KFWB.
Mrs. Drury was a member of Governor Reagan's Consumer Fraud Task
Force from December 1970 to March 1973. She belongs to twenty-one
consumer and public affairs oriented organizations and is on the board
of directors of the Los Angeles-Orange County Chapter of the California
Federation of Consumers.
Council members receive actual and necessary expenses and serve
four year terms.
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Addresses:
Frank C. Damrell, Jr.
Mrs. Treesa W. Drury
3448 Wycliff Drive
9520 Amoret Drive
Modesto, California
Tujunga, California 91042
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-24-73
#225
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Ernest J. Farinha of Auburn to the board of directors of the 20th
District Agricultural Association. The association sponsors the
annual Auburn District Fair.
Farinha, 43, replaces Sally E. Semas of Auburn, who has resigned.
A Republican, Farinha has been active in 4-H activities in Auburn
and is a member of the Auburn Fair Boosters Association.
His term will expire January 15, 1976.
Board members receive their necessary expenses when on official
business.
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Appointee's address:
Ernest J. Farinha
Route 2, Box 2283
Auburn, California
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califorr
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-24-73
#226
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Robert C. Lindsey of San Jose
to the Real Estate Commission and announced the reappointments of
Arthur S. Leitch of San Diego and Laurance H. Wilson of Fresno.
Lindsey, a 54-year-old Republican, fills the vacancy created by
the death of Grant B. Potter of Dinuba. His term will expire January 15,
1977. He is a graduate of Long Beach Junior College and took extension
courses at the University of California at Los Angeles.
He has been president of the Yolo Transport Company in San Jose
since 1962. Lindsey is a former member of the California Women's Board
of Terms and Parole, and is a member of the advisory board of the
Salvation Army.
Leitch, 61, a Democrat, was first appointed to the commission in
June, 1969. He is a former president of the California Real Estate
Association and served four terms as a member of the organization's
executive committee. He is also a past president of the San Diego
Realty Board, and is a director of the E1 Cajon Valley Board of Realtors.
Wilson, 65, has served on the commission since 1969. A Republican, he
is a past president of the California Real Estate Association and is a
former vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards.
He attended Fresno State College and has served as a lecturer in
University of California extension courses on investment and syndication.
He is also a former member of the University of California Real Estate
Advisory Committee.
Leitch and Wilson were appointed to four-year terms.
Commission members receive their actual and necessary expenses.
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Appointees' addresses:
Arthur S. Leitch
Robert C. Lindsey
91 Bounty
1344 Avalon Drive
San Diego, California 92102
San Jose, California 95125
Laurance H. Wilson
4932 North Wishon Avenue
Fresno, California 93704
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR NALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-24-73
#227
Governor Ronald Reagan today presented the Legion of Merit Award
to Assemblyman Robert P. Nimmo, a Colonel in the California Army
National Guard. The Legion of Merit Award is the second-highest
non-combat honor the United States Army can bestow.
Nimmo won the honor for "exceptionally meritorious service" while
assigned as United States Property and Fiscal Officer for the Califomia
National Guard from October 3, 1970 to September 30, 1972.
Until just recently, Nimmo commanded the 115th Support Group
headquartered in Roseville. He is a former World War II bomber pilot
and has been active with the California Army National Guard since 1946.
He was elected to the state legislature in November 1972 to
represent the people in the 29th Assembly District in Kern and San Luis
Obispo Counties.
The commendation cited Nimmo for the "highest degree of profes-
sional knowledge, dedication, and aggressive leadership," and praised
his "distinguished performance of duty throughout his military career."
Nimmo's Legion of Merit certificate is signed by the Secretary
of the Army Robert F. Froehlke and Lieutenant General Richard G.
Stilwell, Commanding General of the Sixth Army.
Assemblyman Nimmo and his wife, Patricia, have three daughters.
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MEMO TO THE PRESS:
Presentation ceremony will be at 11:30 am instead of 11:00 am,
as was previously indicated, today in the Governor's Office.
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-24-73
#228
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
Holtville insurance executive Ronald A. Lane to another three-year
term on the Fairview State Hospital Advisory Board. He has served
on the board since December 16, 1970.
Lane, 35, a Republican, is a special agent for the New York
Life Insurance Company, specializing in group medical plans, hospitali-
zation, health and accident insurance. He is a former member of the
Comprehensive Health Planning Association of San Diego and Imperial
counties.
Board members serve three year terms and receive necessary
expenses.
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Address:
1348 Worthington Road
Holtville, California 92250
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR R
ALD REAGAN
RELEASF
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-24-73
#229
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
Elsinore businessman T. Lewis Cionni and Riverside attorney Dallas S.
Holmes to the 46th District Agricultural Association board of directors.
The association operates the Farmers Fair of Riverside County.
Cionni, a 54-year-old Democrat, is the manager of the Laundry,
Dry Cleaners and Dye House Workers Health Spa #2 in Elsinore. He has
served on the board since April 24, 1969.
A native of Newcastle, Pennsylvania, he spent seven and one half
years in the Navy before settling down in Southern California. He is
married and has one daughter.
Holmes, 32, a Republican, is a member of the Riverside law firm
of Best, Best & Krieger. He was graduated com laude in 1962 from
Pomona College and earned his Master's degree in Economics in 1964
from the University of London, England, School of Economics.
He graduated from the University of California Boalt School of
Law in 1967 and entered private practice. From 1969 to 1972 he was
executive assistant to Assemblyman (now Senator) W. Craig Biddle of
Riverside. Holmes is married to the former Patricia McMichael and they
are the parents of two sons.
Board members serve four year terms and receive necessary
expenses.
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Addresses:
T. Lewis Cionni
Dallas S. Holmes
32281 Riverside Drive
5288 King Street
Elsinore, California 92330
Riverside, California 92506
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secret. y
916-445-4571
4-24-73
#230
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced President Richard Nixon
has signed legislation providing emergency loans to farmers and growers
in 17 California counties affected by the March freeze and the drought
of June 1972.
The bill, introduced by Representative William B. Alexander
(D-Arkansas), amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.
Under the bill's authority, farmers and growers in the designated
counties may be eligible for the emergency loans, which have a one
percent interest rate and $5,000 forgiveness feature. Loan applications
must be filed with local Farmers Home Administration offices no later
than May 8, 1973.
The counties were earlier designated natural disaster areas by
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz as a result of the extreme weather
conditions.
The counties designated disaster areas include El Dorado, Fresno,
Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Nevada, Placer, San Benito, San Joaquin,
San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Tehama, Tulare, Santa Clara
and Santa Barbara.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-24-73
#231
Governor Ronald Reagan will meet with members of the California
Advisory Commission on Marine and Coastal Resources Wednesday at the
commission's final meeting, in the governor's council room at 10 a.m.
Governor Reagan said the commission had indicated a desire to
terminate its activities prior to the end of the current fiscal year.
Proposition 20, approved by the voters last November, eliminated the
need for the commission.
"The commission is to be commended. The people of the state should
be thankful for the expert advice given on the complex problems of
ocean and coastal management activities,' the governor said.
Commission chairman Robert B. Krueger said resignations of CMC
members will be handed in after the meeting.
The commission now has a membership of 28, including six legislators
The agenda for tomorrow's meeting includes comments by Chairman
Krueger and by committee chairmen of the commission; comments by
Secretary for Resources Norman B. Livermore, Jr.; and comments and a
presentation by Governor Reagan.
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MEMO TO PRESS:
Governor Reagan is scheduled to be at the meeting at 10:45 a.m.
Walthall
4/24/73
The following statement was released by phone to
AP and UPI:
"As of today, some 11,130 concerned citizens
in California had contributed-- in small denominations
of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 15 dollars more than $140,000 to
help reduce taxes and keep them down. The average
contribution has been about $10.
"Because this is a broadly-based, grass-roots
citizen effort, the name of every citizen contributor
and his contribution- no matter how small it is-- will
be made public (by Californians for Lower Taxes) when
campaign receipts and expenditures are filed, in
accordance with the law.
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Gray
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Califor. 1 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-25-73
The Madera Chamber of Commerce and artist Connie Prochold will
present the governor with a picture painted by Miss Prochold of the
geographical center of California today at 11:15 am in the governor's
office. Press coverage is invited.
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Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR T NALD REAGAN
RELEAS
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-25-73
#232
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the a ppointment of Paul
F. Dauer of Sacramento as the Director of the Office of Administrative
Hearings, in the Department of General Services. He replaces Donald R.
Wagner of Newport Beach, who resigned.
Dauer is presently working in the Chief Counsel's Office in the
Department of General Services as principal legal advisor to the Office
of Procurement. He first entered state service in September 1965 as
associate legal counsel in the Department of Water Resources. He moved
to General Services in 1971 after an eleven month assignment as Senior
Assistant City Attorney for Santa Barbara.
The 33-year-old Republican attended Ripon (Wisconsin) College for
two years and was graduated from the University of California, Santa
Barbara in 1962 with a B.A. degree in economics. He earned his law
degree at the University of Michigan in 1965, finishing in the top one
third of his class.
Dauer is married and the father of one child. The family resides
in Sacramento.
The appointment, which requires Senate confirmation, is effective
May 1, 1973. The position pays an annual salary of $23,940.
######
Garcia
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secre ry
916-445-4571
4-25-73
#233
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Harold E. Watts of Sacramento as superintendent of the California
Conservation Center at Susanville.
Watts, 52, succeeds William G. Black who has retired. The
appointment is subject to confirmation by the state Senate.
A Republican, Watts has served 26 years in the Department of
Corrections. He has been assistant deputy director of the Management
Services Division since 1970.
Prior to becoming assistant deputy director, Watts was business
manager for a number of correctional facilities including the California
Rehabilitation Center at Corona; Deuel Vocational Institution at Tracy;
California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi; California Institution
for Women at Frontera, and the Southern Conservation Center at Chino.
Watts was also in charge of procurement and services at the
Correctional Training Facility at Soledad.
A native of Los Angeles, Watts attended Glendale Junior College
and has completed numerous police science courses at Chaffey College,
Alta Loma, Bakersfield College, and Delta College in Stockton.
He and Mrs. Watts have five children.
Watts will receive an annual salary of $24,540.
######
Appointee's address:
Harold E. Watts
865 Maidu Lane
Susanville, California
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secre.ary
916-445-4571
4-25-73
#234
Governor Ronald Reagan today named four new alternate members to
the Intergovernmental Board on Electronic Data Processing.
The new alternates are Gordon F. Snow, assistant to the secretary
of the Agriculture and Services Agency; Walter P. Mendoza, manager,
Automated Information Services of the Department of Justice; Charles W.
Farrell, director, Health and Welfare Agency's Consolidated Data Center,
and Laurence J. Turner, chief, Division of Computer Systems, Department
of Water Resources.
Snow replaces the late Jerry Fielder, director, Department of
Agriculture; Mendoza replaces R. L. Smith, who is no longer with the
Department of Justice; Farrell replaces Walter L. Barkdull of the
Department of Corrections, and Turner replaces A. Alan Hill, who is no
longer with the Resources Agency.
Alternates to the 14-member Board on Electronic Data Processing
receive no extra compensation.
######
Appointees' addresses:
Gordon F. Snow
Charles W. Farrell
3101 North El Macero Drive
42 Starglow Circle
El Macero
Sacramento
Walter P. Mendoza
Laurence J. Turner
6800 Shalimar Way
8204 Rensselaer Way
Citrus Heights
Sacramento
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califor
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-25-73
#235
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced approval by the U.S. Depart-
ment of Labor of California's occupational safety and health plan.
The plan was submitted by the state under the provisions of the
federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
"Approval of California's plan assures ongoing and even better
protection of our working men and women, Governor Reagan said. "I wish
to commend all those who took part in the task of meshing the federal
criteria with the state's existing industrial safety program which was a
model for the nation."
The state plan was developed under the direction of an advisory
committee appointed by the governor. It originally was submitted to the
regional office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA) last September and was resubmitted in December after being
returned for modification. Approval was authorized by Assistant Labor
Secretary John Stender after detailed study and review.
Under the terms of the federal act, state inspectors will enforce
state industrial health and safety laws and federal inspectors will
enforce federal laws during a transition period of three to four years.
The state will assume complete jurisdiction at its conclusion.
Approval of the plan also made the state eligible for 50 percent
federal funding of its occupational safety and health activities.
Application already has been made for a $5 million grant.
Legislation has been introduced both in the Assembly, by
Assemblyman Jack R. Fenton (D-Montebello) and the state Senate by
Senator Fred Marler (R. Redding) to implement provisions of the state
plan.
######
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR NALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Califor a 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-25-73
#236
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of five new
members to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board for the
Los Angeles Region which includes Los Angeles County and part of Ventura
County.
The new members include Gayle T. Martin, city manager of Manhattan
Beach; Ira R. Calvert of Azusa; Stanford V. Smalley of Palos Verdes
Estates; Milton R. Beychok, Huntington Beach, and Mike N. Repovich of
Pasadena.
Martin, 54, who declines to state his political preference, fills
the vacancy created by the resignation of Edward J. LeClair of La Mirada.
Martin has been city manager of Manhattan Beach for 16 years. He has a
BS degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado and a
Masters Degree in public administration. He is a rear admiral in the
U.S. Naval Reserve.
Calvert, a 62-year-old Republican, replaces Lester Louden of Los
Angeles. Louden has resigned. Calvert is secretary-manager of the Azusa
Valley Water Company. He is director of the Upper San Gabriel Valley
Water Association, and past president and director of the San Gabriel
Valley Municipal Water District,
Smalley, 42, is a Republican, and director of administration for
the Teledyne Life Insurance Company in Los Angeles. He is chairman of
the City Planning Commission of Palos Verdes Estates. Smalley has a BS
degree in engineering from the University of California and a Masters
Degree in business administration.
Beychok, 50-year-old Democrat, replaces Allan Harris of San Gabriel
who has resigned. Beychok is manager of environmental engineering for
Fluor Engineers and Constructors, Inc., of Los Angeles. An expert in
refinery and petrochemical plant wastewater treatment, Beychok holds a
BS degree from Texas A&M in chemical engineering. He is a member of the
Water Pollution Control Federation.
Repovich, 53, a Republican, replaces William B. Burr, Jr., of Ojai.
Burr has resigned. Repovich is the owner and manager of an apartment
complex in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College.
Board members receive their necessary expenses when on official
business.
#####
Addresses:
Walthall
Gayle T. Martin
Stanford V. Smalley
645 14th Street
2724 Via Anita
Manhattan Beach 90266
Palos Verdes Estates 90274
Ira R. Calvert
Milton R. Beychok
Mike N. Repovich
P.O. Box W
17142 Courtney Lane
465 Orange Grove Circle
Azusa 91702
Huntin
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE Immediate
Sacramento, Califo la 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-25-73
#237
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Norman B. Hume of Sacramento and
Robert W. Wickenden of Alturas to four-year terms on the California
Regional Water Quality Control Board for the Central Valley Region. He
also announced the reappointments to four-year terms of Charles E. Glick
of Visalia and Vernie Raven of Dos Palos.
The Central Valley Region includes the counties of Modoc, Shasta,
Tehama, Plumas, Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Lake, Sutter, Yuba, Sierra, Nevada,
Placer, Yolo, Solano, Sacramento, E1 Dorado, Amador, Calaveras,
Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare,
Kern and Alpine.
Hume, 68-year-old Republican, replaces Richard D. Andrews of Fresno.
Andrews has resigned and his term has expired. Hume is the former
director of the Bureau of Sanitation in the Los Angeles Department of
Public Works. He also served from 1967-72 as member of the state Water
Resources Control Board.
Wickenden, 57, a Democrat, fills the vacancy created by the
resignation of Marvin E. Ray of Modesto. Wickenden is a former senior
sanitary engineer with the state Department of Public Health, and is
presently city engineer of Alturas in addition to his private engineering
practice. He is the former county engineer for Modoc County and served
as director of the county planning commission.
Glick and Raven, both Republicans, were first appointed to the
board in March, 1969. Glick is a past president of the Corning Memorial
Hospital and the Colusa County Historical Society. He is one of the
founders of Early California Foods, Inc., of Los Angeles.
Raven, 69, is a Dos Palos area farmer. He is chairman of the board
of directors of the Dos Palos Drainage District and is a director of the
Poso Soil Conservation District.
The posts pay necessary expenses.
######
Appointees' addresses:
Charles E. Glick
Norman B. Hume
2611 Fairview Drive
2730 Morley Way
Visalia 93277
Sacramento 95825
Vernie Raven
Robert W. Wickenden
Raven Bros. Ranch
1505 Juniper Street
Rt. 1, Box 64
Alturas 96101
Auburey Road
Dos Palos 93620
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immedi
Sacramento, Californ's 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secrt Try
916-445-4571
4-26-73
#238
Governor Ronald Reagan has proposed an increase in the 1973-74
State Parks budget by $91, 599 to assure opening this summer of 4,000
acres of new park system lands in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Under normal budget scheduling, funds for the project would not have
been available for at least another year, the governor noted.
"We couldn't allow 4,000 acres of recreational open space within
the city limits of Los Angeles to lie unused even for one season when
the need there is so great, " the governor said. "This way we can provide
limited use while long-range plans are being made for more permanent
development.
"The opportunity came to us this spring when the California State
Parks Foundation acquired a key parcel that will connect with other lands
the state has purchased or been given over the past few years."
The 1,700 acres of new property acquired by the foundation is
adjacent to the Topanga Canyon areas already owned by the state park
system.
The new lands will be opened for picnicking, hiking, horseback
riding, and other day-use activities shortly after July 1, according to
William Penn Mott, Jr., director of the California Department of Parks
and Recreation.
The legislature must act upon the augmentation in considering the
1973-74 budget.
The $91,599 will provide two rangers and a maintenance man, plus
seasonal help for peak use periods. It will also pay for two four-wheel
drive vehicles, a small fire pumper truck, and sanitary and other
equipment necessary for operation of a park.
######
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californ:
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-27-73
#239
(Here is some additional information which Governor Reagan will
incorporate in his speech today to the Association of California
Water Agencies luncheon at the Woodlake Inn, 12 noon)
Governor Reagan announced that a poll of its members by the
National Federation of Independent Business in California shows that
93 percent of those businessmen surveyed support his initiative
constitutional amendment to reduce taxes and limit the share of the
people's earnings which the state can take in taxes in the years ahead.
The National Federation of Independent Business is made up,
in part, of thousands of small and medium-size businesses in California.
Here are the latest results of the NFIB survey conducted
recently among its members in California:
1.
QUESTION:
What is your opinion of
FOR
AGAINST
dispensing the current
$850 million surplus in
4,746
525
this manner (the manner
86%
9%
proposed by Governor Reagan) ?
2.
QUESTION:
What is your opinion of this
5,147
269
income tax rate reduction
93%
5%
(7.5% ongoing) ?
3.
QUESTION:
What is your opinion of this
5,170
262
total program (the governor's
93%
5%
Initiative Constitutional
Amendment) ?
4.
QUESTION:
What is your opinion of
4,955
390
placing the law on prop-
89%
7%
erty tax limitations (per
SB 90) in the State Con-
stitution?
5.
QUESTION:
What is your opinion of
5,091
328
granting this permission
92%
6%
(to meet contingencies
which may arise periodic-
ally; to allow the state
to shift specific tax bur-
dens while maintaining the
limit on the total tax burden; and to re-
quire a 2/3 vote of the legislature and
approval by the governor for any increase
in state taxes, per the góvernor's initiative) ?
The headquarters of the National Federation of Independent
Business is located in San Mateo, California, telephone 415-341-7441.
# # #
EJG
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Califor
a
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secr ary
916-445-4571
4-27-73
#240
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
April 30, 1973
through
May 13, 1973
Monday, April 30
Noon
Brief appearance at World Affairs Council Luncheon
honoring ex-POW, Lew Shattuck, Crystal Room, Bilt-
more Hotel, Los Angeles. Brief remarks.
12:15 p.m.
Executive Directors Association of Independent
California Colleges and Universities Luncheon,
Gold Room, Biltmore Hotel. Remarks.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Tuesday, May 1
3:00 p.m.
Visit by the "El Cid" Musical Group of Mexican-
American children (students in 9th to 12th grade
from Calexico) who will sing for Governor,
Governor's Office.
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, May 2
Noon
District Kiwanis Convention Luncheon, Senator Hotel,
Sacramento. Remarks. (Governor will arrive at
about 12:45 p.m.)
4:00 p.m.
Videotaping of one-half hour interview on Governor's
proposed tax reduction-limitation program, KFMB-TV,
San Diego.
7:30 p.m.
State Convention of California P.T.A., San Diego
Community Concourse. Speech.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Thursday, May 3
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, May 4
10:00 a.m.
Swearing-in of Solid Waste Management Board,
Governor's Office
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, May 5
10:00 a.m.
Azusa-Pacific College Commencement Exercises, Azusa.
Speech.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, May 6
Depart for New York
Overnight - New York City
Monday, May 7 - Tuesday, May 8
No appointments scheduled
Overnight - New York City
Wednesday, May 9 - Friday, May 11
Republican Governor's Conference, Park Lane Hotel,
New York City
Overnight - New York City
Saturday, May 12
Evening
"The Business Conference" Banquet, The Homestead,
Virginia. Remarks.
Overnight - Virginia
Sunday, May 13
Return to Los Angeles
Quernight Los Angeles
EJG
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secre :y
916-445-4571
4-30-73
#241
Governor Ronald Reagan this morning proclaimed a state of
emergency in Sacramento and Placer counties because of the damage
caused this past weekend when 22 railroad cars loaded with 250 pound
"Mark 81" bombs began exploding in the Southern Pacific Railroad Yard
near Roseville.
The governor's action will make property tax relief available to
individuals and businessmen affected by the explosions.
In expressing his shock over the disaster, Governor Reagan, added:
"I join all Californians in being grateful to God that there
apparently were no deaths despite the destructive force of the explosions
"I also want to commend local, county and state agencies, along with
the private citizens and volunteer organizations for their response to
an extremely dangerous situation. I am sure they held down the number
of injuries," the governor said.
The California Office of Emergency Services, assisted by the local
governments and the state Office of Architecture and Construction reports
the following preliminary revised damage assessment:
Private Damage
10 homes destroyed @
$2,145,000.00
$18,000 each.
$ 200,000.00
50 homes major struc.
damage @ $5,000 each
250,000.00
75 homes major damage @
$3,000 each
225,000.00
200 homes major to minor
damage @ $750.00 each
150,000.00
20 ranch/out buildings
damage @ $1,000 each
20,000.00
10 commercial buildings
damage @ $100,000 each
1,000,000.00
650 homes/buildings glass
damage @ $500.00 each
320,000.00
Personal property damage
$ 500,000.00
Total Private Damage
$2,665,000.00
Public Damage
$ 280,000
2 schools
250,000.00
1 fire station
30,000.00
Total Public Damage
$ 280,000.00
Utilities - no report at this time
Railroads - no report at this time
Debris and Wreckage Clearance
$ 550,000.00
Public and Private Property
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#241
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company has opened a claims office
at 601 Douglas Boulevard, Roseville, telephone 916-782-3708, where the
company will process claims from individuals who suffered losses because
of the explosions. Southern Pacific has informed the governor's office
they "want victims of the disaster to be quickly and justly compensated."
Investigations into the cause of the disaster are being conducted
by the federal Department of Transportation and Southern Pacific.
######
Walthall
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-30-73
#242
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of Mrs.
William (Wynona W.) Wright of Napa to a three-year term as a member
of the Advisory Board for the Mentally Retarded at Napa State Hospital.
Mrs. Wright was first appointed to the advisory board in 1970.
A Republican, she is a past president of the Napa Council for
Retarded Children and treasurer and member of the executive board of
the Napa Community Work and Training Center for the Handicapped. She
is also chairman of the Foster Grandparent Advisory Council at Napa
State Hospital.
Advisory board members receive their necessary expenses when on
official business.
#####
Address:
1622 Shasta Avenue
Napa, California 94558
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN
RELEASE,
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi_ 95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-30-73
#243
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appoinment of Richard
H. Svihus, M.D., director of the Health Services Agency of Santa Cruz
County, as a member of the State Solid Waste Management and Resource
Recovery Advisory Council.
The appointment, which expires July 1, 1976, requires confirmation
by the State Senate.
Dr. Svihus, a 42-year old Republican, is a 1952 graduate of the
University of California at Berkeley. He graduated from the University
of California Medical School in San Francisco in 1955. He also holds
Masters and Doctorate Degrees in public health from Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore.
A native of San Francisco, Dr. Svihus is a diplomat to the American
Board of Preventive Medicine in Public Health and the National Board of
Medical Examiners.
Dr. Svihus is a former district health officer of the Contra Costa
County Health Department, 1965-68.
Advisory Council members receive $28 per diem and travel expenses
when on official business.
####
Address:
121 Seaborg Place
Santa Cruz, California 95060
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Ed Gray, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
4-30-73
#244
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of eight
members to the board of directors of various District Agricultural
Associations.
Members reappointed and their districts, include:
18th District, which sponsors the Eastern Sierra
Tri-County Fair, Nick W. Mandich, Sr., a Democrat from Bishop, and
William F. Manahan, a June Lake Republican;
--23rd District, sponsor of the Contra Costa County Fair, Robert D.
Gromm, Sr., a Republican from Bethel Island, and Vance W. Perry,
Walnut Creek, who is a Republican;
--39th District, sponsor of the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping
Frog Jubilee, J. L. (Ike) Moore, an Angels Camp Republican, and
Robert L. Maben, a Republican from Martell;
-45th District, sponsor of the California Mid-Winter Fair at
Imperial, James F. Tuttle, an Imperial Republican and R. Lom Thompson
a Republican from El Centro.
Members receive their necessary expenses when on official duty.
####
Appointees' addresses:
Nick W. Mandich, Sr.
William F. Manahan
Mandich & Fowler Streets
Post Office Box 205
Bishop, California 93514
June Lake, California 93529
Robert D. Gromm, Sr.
Vance W. Perry
Prince Harbor Trailer Park
1638 Main Street
Post Office Box 447
Post Office Box 43
Bethel Island, California
Walnut Creek, California 94597
J. L. (Ike) Moore
Robert L. Maben
Star Route
Star Route
Angels Camp, California
West Point, California 95255
James F. Tuttle
314 North G
Imperial, California 92251
R. Lom Thompson
Walthall
1900 West Main Street
El Centro, California 92243
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Ed Gra" Press Secreta
916-44 4571
4-30-73
#245
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement
regarding a report by Legislative Analyst A. Alan Post on the governor's
proposed revenue control and tax reduction program:
"It is not at all surprising to me that Mr. Post doesn't favor
this effort to reduce and limit taxes. Nor should it come as a surprise
to anyone who has observed his continuous support for his bossès'
higher government spending proposals and expansion of government control.
"His dire predictions have increasingly supported the big spenders
in the legislature who have consistently opposed this administration's
efforts to clamp down on spending, and this may be the reason why Mr.
Post's fiscal predictions have turned out to be so wrong.
"Even though Mr. Post's office was envisioned as a non-partisan
check against excessive spending by state government, his forebodings
of fiscal chaos unless the state spent more money and increased taxes
have missed their targets completely.
"Here are some examples of the horrendous errors Mr. Post and
his staff have made.
"Rather than the $712 million budget deficit which he predicted
in 1971, we now have a budget surplus of between $700 million and
$850 million which has resulted in large part from our welfare reforms.
"He said our reforms would not work and that they would not
affect or reduce state spending. He couldn't have been more wrong.
These reforms, in fact, dramatically reversed the skyrocketing welfare
burden on the people.
"For the first time in the state's history our welfare caseload
has dropped by more than quarter of a million persons, compared to the
40,000 recipients we were adding each month to the roles before the
reforms went into effect.
"Last year he challenged our welfare savings estimates as being
too high and said delays in implementing the new welfare reform law by
welfare rights groups were very likely to transform the administration's
planned savings into increased costs. Yet, as the California Journal
pointed out later, Mr. Post's early caseload estimate was wrong and
the Department of Social Welfare's was right.
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#245
"Instead of the huge tax increase he had proposed, the state is
now in the healthiest financial condition in many years without the
new and higher taxes he had said were necessary. We even have a huge
surplus which the state doesn't need, and which I propose to return to
the people.
"He also labeled the budget I proposed for fiscal 1971-72 'the
Property Tax Increase Act of 1971.' Yet when the counties had set
their tax rates for the following fiscal year, 42 of our 58 counties
reported reductions in their basic ounty tax rates.
"Last year he charged that our budget had short-changed education,
Yet state support for public schools this fiscal year is some 48.6
percent more than it was in fiscal 1966-67. And, as a result of the
passage of SB 90, state support for our public schools in the coming
fiscal year will be nearly 93 percent more than the state provided in
fiscal 1966-67, despite the fact that projected enrollment for fiscal
1973-74 will be only 5.7 percent higher than in fiscal 1966-67. The
fact is state aid to our schools has increased almost three times as
much as enrollment growth, plus inflation, during that period.
"For one who has been so wrong in his predictions to again parrot
the precursors of misery and ruin who not only oppose our efforts to
cut taxes, but also have consistently urged higher and higher spending
levels, is very difficult to understand.
"We simply cannot continue to tax and spend, spend and tax the
people's earnings without disastrous consequences The day of
reckoning is at hand. We dare not ignore the lessons of history.
"It is my responsibility as governor to try and reduce taxes
not only this year, but on a permanent basis. Mr. Post seems to feel
the state should have unlimited taxing authority, and his efforts to
decry the details of our program are consistent with that philosophy.
"I believe there must be a limit on this authority, if our free
economy and our private enterprise system is to survive.
"The fact is, taxes are already too high. The carefully drawn
plan we have proposed with the help of some of America's leading tax
experts and economists can and will reduce taxes and reverse the
upward spiral toward an ever increasing tax burden in the years ahead.
"Again, I am extremely disappointed that Mr. Post has chosen to
abandon the interests of the taxpayers and has instead embraced the
policy positions of those free-spending leaders in the legislature by
whom he is employed."
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"ocrText": "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\nDigital Library Collections\nThis is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections.\nCollection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers,\n1966-74: Press Unit\nFolder Title: Press Releases - April 1973\nBox: P14\nTo see more digitized collections visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library\nTo see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection\nContact a reference archivist at: [email protected]\nCitation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing\nNational Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR NALD REAGAN\nRELEAS\nImmediate\nSacramento, Califor a 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-2-73\n#183\nDorothy Allison Evans, 35, wife of William A. Evans, Governor\nReagan's legislative assistant, died early Monday morning at Sutter\nMemorial Hospital in Sacramento.\nMrs. Evans had suffered from lupus disease for a number of years.\nFuneral arrangements are being finalized by A. L. Moore & Son,\nof Phoenix, Arizona.\nThe family asks that remembrances be sent to the Bonnie Bernard\nDenn Chapter of the National Lupus Foundation, 4126 Pacific Coast\nHighway, Torrance, California 90505.\nMrs. Evans was born February 25, 1938, in Phoenix. She graduated\nfrom Stanford University and taught one year in the history department\nof West Phoenix High School prior to her marriage.\nSurvivors include her husband and son Wil of 2952 - 14th Street,\nSacramento; her parents Mr. and Mrs. William L. Allison, Jr., Phoenix;\na sister Virginia Biszantz of Rancho Santa Fe, California; and a\nbrother William L. Allison III, Corona Del Mar, California.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROL LD REAGAN\nRELEASE: 1. ediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-2-73\n#184\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced that the following bills have\nbeen signed:\nAB 131 - Burton\nChapter 10\nProvides that a previously enacted law that is\nrepealed as of a prescribed date is revived if a\nlater enacted statute that deletes or extends the\ndate of repeal is chaptered before such date.\nAB\n206 - Vasconcellos Provides that an apportionment may be made under\nChapter 14\nthe State School Building Aid Law of 1952 for the\nrental of temporary school buildings necessary to\nhouse pupils temporarily displaced by the rehabilita-\ntion or replacement of the only school of a district.\nAB 317 - Priolo\nAppropriates $200,000 from the Bagley Conservation\nChapter 15\nFund to the Department of Parks and Recreation for\nthe acquisition of certain lands in the city limits\nof the City of Los Angeles near the community of\nPacific Palisades for the State Park System.\nAB 387 - Moretti\nAppropriates $8,806,500 to the Department of Education\nChapter 11\nto replace the possible loss of certain federal social\nSee Release #170\nservice funds for child care programs in the 1972-73\nfiscal year.\nAB 651 - Lewis\nBroadens the definition of revenue bonds to include\nChapter 12\nobligations of redevelopment agencies. The bill also\nprovides that interest on refunding and refunded\nbonds may be paid from the proceeds of the refunding\nbonds or the investment of such proceeds.\nSB 77 - Way\nAppropriates $689,880 to the Department of Food and\nChapter 13\nAgriculture in augmentation of the 1972-73 support\nbudget for continuation of the State Meat Inspection\nProgram.\nSB 301 - Bradley\nDeletes certain posting requirements relating to\nChapter 9\nearthquake safety standards in buildings leased or\nrented by community college districts.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californi 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-2-73\n#185\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nR. Thomas Allen as his assistant legal affairs secretary.\nAllen, 30, a native of Santa Barbara, comes to the governor's\nlegal staff from the Sacramento County Public Defender's Office. He\njoined the Sacramento County office in 1970 as an assistant public\ndefender.\nPrior to his assignment as a public defender, Allen was an instructor\nin contractors licensing law at the Humphreys College School of Law in\nStockton. He is also a former deputy legislative counsel with the\nLegislative Counsel Bureau in the State Capitol.\nAllen is a 1965 graduate of California State Polytechnic College in\nSan Luis Obispo with a BS degree in business administration. He received\nhis law degree from Humphrey's College in 1970.\nLast year, Allen was a guest lecturer for the University of California\nat Los Angeles extension department in Sacramento, lecturing on the topic\nadministration of criminal justice.\nAllen and his wife Pamela live at 1028 - 40th Street, Sacramento.\nA Republican, he will receive an annual salary of $19,008.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO' LD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-2-73\n#186\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today appointed three new members to the\nCalifornia Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board.\nNew members include, Hubert B. Bruns, a member of the Alpine County\nBoard of Supervisors from Fredericksburg; Richard S. Stewart of\nSkyforest; and Robert E. Reardon of Mammoth Lakes.\nBruns, a Democrat, succeeds Albert Troost of Grass Valley, whose\nterm has expired. He has been a member of the Alpine County Board of\nSupervisors since 1941, and is a former chairman of the board.\nStewart, who is a Republican, replaces James B. Filson of June Lake.\nFilson's term has expired. He is a member of the California Water\nPollution Control Association, and the Mammoth Advisory Council.\nReardon, a Republican, succeeds Harry J. Dunlop of Placerville,\nwho resigned and his term has expired. Reardon owns and operates the\nTyrolean Lodge in Mammoth Lakes.\nThe three new members were appointed to four-year terms.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses when on official\nbusiness.\n######\nAppointees' addresses:\nHubert B. Bruns\nRt. 1, Box 327\nFredericksburg, Calif.\nRichard S. Stewart\nDick Stewart Agency\nP.O. Box 3\nSkyforest, Calif. 92385\nRobert E. Reardon\nP.O. Box 423\nTimber Ridge Estates\nMammoth Lakes, Calif. 93546\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO' LD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-2-73\n#187\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nMrs. Artemis G. Henderson of La Jolla as judge of the Municipal Court\nin the San Diego Judicial District.\nMrs. Henderson, a Democrat, succeeds Judge Harry P. Bowman who has\nretired.\nA native of Great Falls, Montana, Mrs. Henderson is a former\ndeputy city attorney of San Diego.\nMrs. Henderson is a 1964 graduate of California Western University\nat San Diego, and received her law degree from the University in 1966.\nShe is a former professor of criminal law at Western State College\nin San Diego, and taught business law at California Western University.\nMrs. Henderson is the first woman prosecutor hired by the San Diego\nCity Attorney's Office. She was also the first woman to be given the\nposition of chief trial attorney in the Ford Foundation supported\nDefender's Inc.\nShe has two minor children. Mrs. Henderson will receive an\nannual salary of $33,481.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON LD REAGAN\nRELEASE: mediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-2-73\n#188\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nWilliam J. (Joe) Kurtz as executive officer of the Office of Special\nServices in the state's Health and Welfare Agency.\nKurtz, 50, is the former acting director of the state Department\nof Public Health succeeding Dr. Louis F. Saylor, who retired in 1971.\nThe Office of Special Services was created by the legislature\n(AB 1202, McCarthy) in 1972 to coordinate and assist offices, councils,\ncommissions and boards within the Health and Welfare Agency.\nKurtz, a Republican, is a 1952 graduate of Riverside Junior College\nand attended the University of California at Berkeley majoring in public\nadministration.\nHe was named assistant director of the state Department of Public\nHealth in 1969 and was appointed chief deputy director the following year.\nKurtz and his wife Gwen have two children. They make their home\nin Davis. He will receive an annual salary of $31,500.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 5814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-2-73\n#189\nPlans to assure that Californians have an opportunity to\nvote on Governor Reagan's tax limitation program next November moved\nahead today when Attorney General Evelle Younger filed with the\nSecretary of State those documents necessary to enable signature\ngathering to begin on initiative petitions.\nThe attorney general's action was the result of a request by\nDr. Norman Topping, chairman of Californians for Lower Taxes, who had\npreviously filed a copy of the initiative constitutional amendment\nwith the attorney general's office.\nThe documents include titling for the initiative and a 100-word\nsummary of its major provisions, including a statement of the financial\nimpact of the plan on the state.\nDr. Topping said petitions are now expected to be printed,\nmailed and in the hands of those citizens who will conduct the signature\ngathering campaign by early next week. Some 520,806 valid signatures\non petitions will be required for the initiative to qualify.\nIn a parallel move, the legal language of a constitutional\namendment--embodying the governor's proposal--has been introduced in\nthe legislature. If the legislature, itself, chooses to place this\nconstitutional amendment on the November ballot, circulation of the\ninitiative petitions will be halted.\nHere is the titling, and text of the 100-word summary, of the\ninitiative:\nTAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS\n\"Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Limits state expenditures;\nrestricts use of defined surplus revenue to tax reductions, refunds, or\nemergencies. Eliminates personal income tax for lower income persons;\nreduces others' 1973 or 1974 tax up to 20 percent, from surplus, and\nsubsequent year rates 7½ percent. Requires two-thirds legislative\nvote for new or changed state taxes. Limits local property tax rates\nexcept school districts'. Requires state funding of new programs\nmandated to local governments. Provides for tax and expenditure limit\nadjustments when functions transferred. Contains special indebtedness\nobligation provisions. Allows local tax rate and expenditure limit\nincreases upon voter approval. If the proposed initiative is adopted\nundefined additional financing from state sources in the approximate\namount of five hundred sixty eight thousand dollars ($568,000) on a\none-time basis and two hundred thirty six thousand dollars ($236,000)\nannually thereafter will be required for state administrative costs.\"\n# # #\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON D REAGAN\nMEMO TO T\nPRESS\nSacramento, California 5814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-2-73\n#190\nAt the request of Mayor John Reading of Oakland, Governor\nRonald Reagan has invited representatives of those governmental entities\naffected by the recent killing freeze of several million eucalyptus trees\nin the East Bay hills to a meeting in the governor's office Wednesday,\nApril 4.\nThe meeting is being held after several weeks of cooperative\nefforts between state agencies and those local governments which are\ndirectly affected.\nThe purpose of the meeting will be to develop a joint plan\nbetween the state and these local governmental agencies aimed at\nreducing the potential fire hazard caused by the dead trees and forest\nunderbrush.\nThose invited to the meeting include Mayor Reading of Oakland;\nWarren Widener, mayor of Berkeley; Alfred Dias, chairman, Board of\nSupervisors, Contra Costa County; Joseph Bort, chairman, Board of\nSupervisors, Alameda County; John Harnett, manager, East Bay Municipal\nUtilities District; Richard Trudeau, manager, East Bay Regional Park\nDistrict; Richard H. Bartke, mayor of El Cerrito; and William H.\nHildebrand, assistant director, Civil Defense, Alameda County.\nAlso joining the governor will be members of the governor's\nstaff and leaders from the departments of state government which will\nbe participating in the effort.\n# # #\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-3-73\n#191\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today nominated three members to the state\nTransportation Board in the Business and Transportation Agency. The\nnominations must be confirmed by the state Senate before the appointments\ncan be made.\nNominees for four-year terms include Irving J. Symons of Sonora\nand William R. Lucius, a city councilman of Healdsburg. Thomas H. Hughes\nof San Jose was nominated for reappointment to the board. All three\nare Republicans.\nSymons, 65, will replace William S. Briner of Tahoe City. Briner\nhas resigned. Symons, a Sonora businessman, is a 1928 graduate of the\nUniversity of California at Berkeley with an AB degree in economics.\nHe is a past regional vice president of the California Chamber of\nCommerce and vice chairman of the Highway and Transportation Committee,\nLucius, 58, succeeds Alton M. Clem of Millbrae who has resigned.\nHe is a 1951 graduate of the University of Chicago and a retired\ncolonel with the United States Marine Corps. He was elected to the\nHealdsburg City Council in 1966 and served as mayor in 1970.\nHughes, 42, has served on the board since April, 1972. He is a\n1953 graduate of William College in Williamstown, Massachusetts;\nreceived a Masters Degree in geology in 1957 from Stanford University,\nand earned his law degree at Stanford in 1960. He has been in private\npractice during the past 10 years.\nBoard members receive their actual and necessary expenses.\n#######\nAppointees' addresses:\nIrving J. Symonds\nThomas H. Hughes\n88 West Bradford Avenue\n2116 Bel Air Avenue\nSonora, California 95370\nSan Jose, California 95128\nWilliam R. Lucius\n915 Sunset Drive\nHealdsburg, California\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-4-73\n#192\nGovernor Ronald Reagan and East Bay officials today announced the\ndevelopment of a joint state-local plan aimed at significantly reducing\nin the months ahead the fire danger caused by a recent killing freeze of\neucalpytus trees in the hills east of Oakland.\nFinal details of the long range plan, worked out after several weeks\nof close cooperation between local government in the affected areas and\nvarious state agencies and departments, were concurred in today at a\nmeeting in the governor's office which was held at the request of Mayor\nJohn Reading of Oakland.\nGovernor Reagan said the plan is designed to make the best, most\neffective use of both local and state resources in order to realistically\nalleviate the potential fire hazard to public and private property in the\nEast Bay hills, as a consequence of the freeze.\nHere are the basic outlines of the ongoing, joint local-state project\n1) Governor Reagan will immediately declare a state of emergency\nthroughout the affected area.\n2) The governor also will ask the President to declare the\nthreatened portions of the East Bay hills a disaster area. If this is\ngranted, local residents can apply for federal help, including low-\ninterest loans, to assist them in clearing their property of potential\nfire hazards such as dead trees, brush, debris, and fallen bark from the\ntrees.\n3) Those state and local governmental agencies affected will\nestablish a joint operations center to coordinate fire prevention\nactivities and to insure an immediate, maximum response in order to.\ncontrol and suppress any fires which might occur.\n4) The California Division Forestry will incroase its fire\nfighting capability throughout the hazard area to back up other\ngovernmental agencies.\n5) The state will establish a fire prevention headquarters base in th\nfire hazard area and assign Ecology Corps crews, with full equipment, to\ncut about 12 miles of fuel breaks through the hills to make sure that any\nfires which might occur in the future can be quickly and safely contained\nand suppressed.\n6) Local entities will continue their organization of volunteer\nefforts at the local level to reduce potential fire dangers in the area,\nparticularly on private property.\n- 1 -\n#192\n7) The state will detail National Guard units and equipment,\nplus hauling equipment from other departments of state government such\nas Public Works and the Division of Forestry, to augment the work of\nlocal agencies and volunteers in transporting away debris, brush and\nother ground fuel which have been gathered on both public and private\nproperty.\n8) Local governmental agencies will enforce all fire prevention\nordinances within their own jurisdictions.\n9) The state will implement strong fire prevention regulations\non all state-owned property within the fire hazard area.\n10) Local agencies already have assigned the overall project top\npriority, including the commitment to make the maximum use of local\nresources in dealing with the problem, provision of additional. water\nsupply for fire suppression, and the control of access to critical\nhazard areas.\nGovernor Reagan stressed that the joint local-state effort will\nreduce the potential fire hazard in the area of the dead eucalyptus\ntrees to a level below that which has existed in previous years.\nFire prevention experts have noted that much of the fire danger\nin such areas results from forest underbrush and debris, and the plan\ncalls for the removal of this type of material in the future.\nIt is for this reason that the removal of such ignitable material\nis such a key part of the joint local-state effort.\nJoining Mayor Reading and the governor at the meeting were:\nWarren Widener, mayor of Berkeley; Warren Boggess, member, Board of\nSupervisors, Contra Costa County; Loren Enoch, County Administrative\nOfficer, Alameda County; John Harnett, manager, East Bay Municipal\nUtilities District; Richard Trudeau, manager, East Bay Regional Park\nDistrict; Richard Brown, City Manager, E1 Cerrito; William H. Hildebrand,\nassistant director, Civil Defense, Alameda County; Gary A. Tate, East\nBay Regional Park District; Robert Kearney, fire chief, City of Berkeley;\nRay B. Hunter, director, State Department of Conservation; Ross Dunwoody,\nState Division of Forestry; Herbert Temple, director, Office of\nEmergency Services, State of California; Robert Vickers, deputy director,\nOffice of Emergency Services, State of California; Ford B. Ford, deputy\nsecretary, Resources Agency, State of California; Edwin Messe III,\nExecutive Assistant, Governor's Office; Herbert Ellingwood, Legal Affairs\nSecretary, Governor's Office; and Assemblyman Ken Meade, Oakland.\n######\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-4-73\n#193\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of San\nFrancisco attorney Frank P. Adams, and the appointment of newspaper\npublisher Dean S. Lesher as trustees of the California State University\nand Colleges.\nThe appointments are for eight year terms and require a two-thirds\nvote in the Senate for confirmation. Trustees receive necessary\nexpenses.\nAdams, 64, has been a trustee since March 7, 1972. A native of\nthe Bay Area, he earned his A.B. degree at Stanford University and his\nlaw degree at the University of California, Berkeley. He is in private\nlaw practice in San Francisco and also an officer and director in\nseveral small firms.\nHe is married to the former Analisa Nora Bosche and they are the\nparents of four children. Adams is active in numerous civic and service\nclubs, including the San Francisco Commonwealth Club and the University\nClub. He is a past president of the California Republican Assembly.\nLesher, 70, of Orinda, replaces Alec L. Cory, of La Mesa, whose\nterm expired. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland and\nearned his law degree at Harvard Law School. Lesher is president and\nmanaging officer of seven newspaper organizations publishing 24 newspaper\nin California.\nPrior to entering the newspaper business, Lesher practiced law in\nKansas City, Missouri and was general counsel for an insurance firm.\nLesher, whose first wife passed away two years ago, was recently\nremarried. He has three grown children of his own and is now the\nstepfather to four daughters.\nBoth men are Republicans.\n######\nAppointees' addresses are:\nFrank P. Adams\nDean S. Lesher\n781 Highland Avenue\n7 Oaks Circle\nPiedmont, California 94611\nOrinda, California\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO' D REAGAN\nRELEAS\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-5-73\n#194\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of Mrs.\nErna M. Poliak, of Palm Springs, and Mrs. Emmett W. (Doris) Bray of\nTrona (San Bernardino County) to the Patton State Hospital Advisory\nBoard for the Mentally Retarded.\nMrs. Poliak, a Republican, has served on the board since December\n16, 1970. She is chairman of the Riverside County Mental Health\nAdvisory Board and vice chairman of the Riverside Comprehensive Health\nPlanning Council.\nMrs. Bray, a Democrat, has served on the board since August 11,\n1972. She is the publisher of the weekly newspaper Trona Argonaut and\na correspondent for the San Bernardino Sun. She is a member of the San\nBernardino County Mental Health Advisory Board and a past president of\nthe Trona Business & Professional Women's Club.\nBoth appointments are to three year terms. The position pays\nnecessary expenses.\n####\nAppointees' addresses are:\nMrs. Erna M. Poliak\nMrs. Emmett W. (Doris) Bray\n227 Via Los Palmas\n84639 11th Street\nPalm Springs, California 92262\nTrona, California 93562\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-5-73\n#195\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of San\nFrancisco labor leader Dale Marr and Watsonville construction executive\nLeo R. Westwater, to the Industrial Safety Board in the Department of\nIndustrial Relations.\nMarr replaces Virgil L. Collins of South Gate, and Westwater\nreplaces Alan R. Bailey, of Los Angeles. The terms of both appointees\nhad expired. The appointments are to four year terms and members\nreceive $28 per day while on official duty.\nMarr, 56, a Democrat, is the vice president of Operating Engineers\nLocal Union No. 3 in\nSan Francisco, a 31-year member of the union,\nhis duties are in the field of safety, training and negotiations.\nHe is on the State Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and\nHealth and is a member of the executive committee of the National Safety\nCouncil. Married for 35 years, he has three children and four grand-\nchildren.\nWestwater, 71, is the vice president and secretary for the Granite\nConstruction Company and also holds several corporate offices in related\ncompanies. A 1926 graduate of the University of California, he moved\nto Watsonville in 1930 and became Safety Engineer for Granite Rock,\nCentral Supply Company, and Granite Construction Company, three related\ncompanies.\nWestwater declined to state his political affiliation. He is\nmarried and the father of two children.\n######\nAppointees' addresses are:\nDale Marr\nLeo R. Westwater\n1275 Aspen Drive\n149 Martinelli\nPacifica, California 94044\nWatsonville, California 95076\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNER RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-5-73\n#196\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of California\nInstitute of Technology professor Charles F. Richter, Ph.D., as the\ngeophysicist on the State Board of Registration for Geologists and\nGeophysicists.\nDr. Richter, 73, a Republican, is professor emeritus, Seismology\nat the Pasadena Institution. He is the founder of the Richter Magnitude\nScale, used worldwide to measure the size of earthquakes.\nHe is a graduate of Stanford University, earned his doctoral degree\nat California Institute of Technology, and was a Fulbright Research\nScholar at Tokyo (Japan) University. He is a fellow in the Geological\nSociety of America, the American Geophysical Union, the Royal Astronomical\nSociety (London), and the Royal Society of New Zealand.\nThe position, which pays $28 per diem and expenses, was established\nby 1972 legislation, which also added \"geophysicists\" to the name of the\nboard. The appointment is to a four year term.,\n####\nAppointee's address:\nCharles F. Richter, Ph.D.\n594 Villa Zanita\nAltadena, California 91001\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON LD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-5-73\n#197\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of\nMarkham E. Salsbury, of Altadena, and the appointment of John W. Lowe,\nof Sonora, to the State Board of Forestry.\nSalsbury, 72, has served on the board since March 28, 1969. He is\na self-employed consulting civil engineer dealing prima: ily in flood\ncontrol and water assignments. From 1927 to 1959, he served in various\nengineering positions with the Los Angeles County Flood Control District\nand in 1959 he was appointed chief engineer.\nthe\nHe is a graduate of/California Institute of Technology where he\nearned his B.S. degree in civil engineering. He is chairman of the\nWatershed Fire Council of Southern California and a member of the Los\nAngeles County Watershed Commission.\nLowe, 46, a Republican, is the Southern Regional Manager of the\nFibreboard Corporation, lumber and plywood division. Since his\ngraduation from the University of California, Berkeley, where he\nmajored in labor economics and forestry, he has been employed in various\nfields of the lumber industry.\nHe is a director of several companies and service and fraternal\norganizations. He is married and the father of two children.\nBoard members serve four year terms and receive actual and necessary\nexpenses.\n#####\nAppointees' addresses are:\nMarkham E. Salsbury\nJohn W. Lowe\n2005 East Skyview Drive\nRoute 1, Box 880-H\nAltadena, California\nSonora, California 95370\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR 1 NALD REAGAN\nRELEAS\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-6-73\n#198\nPacific Palisades Governor Ronald Reagan today literally took\nhis revolutionary plan to limit and reduce state taxes directly to the\npeople.\nIn an unprecedented effort to insure that Californians have an\nopportunity to vote on the plan at a special statewide election later\nthis year, Governor Reagan carried the first voter petition house to\nhouse through a Pacific Palisades neighborhood ringing doorbells and\ngathering signatures.\nNever before in California's history has any governor personally\nled a petition drive aimed at countering legislative inaction in order\nto give the people the taxpayers the right to limit, indeed even\nreduce, the amount of money the state can take from their earnings in\ntaxes.\nLast month, Governor Reagan submitted the proposed constitutional\namendment to the legislature, but certain legislative leaders have made\nit clear they have no intention of letting the people vote on the issue.\nThe governor has said that if the legislature decides to let the\nelection take place, he will halt the petition campaign.\nIn officially opening the signature gathering effort today,\nGovernor Reagan noted that a grass roots petition drive by citizens\nwill be moved into full swing starting next week across the state.\nThe goal will be to collect some 800,000 signatures by the first week\nin June to insure that the plan qualifies for the ballot. Only in\nthis way can the people be sure of voting on it at a special statewide\nelection November 6. Some 520,000 valid signatures are required for\nthe measure to qualify for the election. The petition drive will be\nheaded by Dr. Norman Topping, President Emeritus of the University of\nSouthern California, who is chairman of a statewide citizens group\ncalled Californians for Lower Taxes, sponsor of the initiative.\nThe governor's initiative constitutional amendment, if approved\nby the voters in November, will:\n--Provide a 20 percent rebate on 1973 state income taxes, by\nreturning most of the state's current $852 million one-time surplus\nto the people. (The governor also is urging the legislature to\nstatutorily defer a one-cent increase in the state sales tax from\nJune 1 until next January. This also would be funded out of the one-\ntime surplus which was made possible, in large part, by the huge savings\nfrom welfare and Medi-Cal reforms sponsored by the governor.)\n-1-\n#198\n--Slash income taxes 7½ percent, on an on-going basis, beginning\nJanuary 1, 1974, and thereafter. (This will be possible because of\nthe savings the state will continue to make in the years ahead from\nthe welfare and Medi-Cal reforms).\n--Exempt any individual earning less than $4 thousand per year,\nand any family (husband and wife) with a joint income of less than\n$8 thousand per year, from having to pay any state income tax whatsoever\nin the years to come.\n--Limit and gradually reduce the percentage of the people's\nearnings (total state personal income) which state government can take\nin itself over the next 15 years. This will reduce the state's present\ntax share of about 8.75 percent of total personal income in California\ndown to about 7.15 percent in 1989. This represents a 20 percent\nreduction in the share of the people's earnings the state will be taking\nin taxes over the next 15 years and will amount to a cummulative savings\nto the taxpayers of about $118 billion money which otherwise will be\nsiphoned off by state government. In fact, during the same 15 year\nperiod, if the plan is approved by the voters, the cummulative savings\nin taxes to the average family of four in California will total\n$17,756.\nWhile requiring that the state must gradually take a smaller\nand smaller share of the state's total personal income in taxes each\nyear, the constitutional tax limit will nevertheless enable the state\nbudget to double in ten years or actually triple in 15 years to\n$27.4 billion in 1989, in order to not only keep pace with population\ngrowth and inflation, but also to provide the state with additional\nrevenues to innovate any programs to meet possible needs.\nWhile\nthe state will need a cummulative increase in revenues of about 118\npercent to keep up with growth and inflation, the state budget can\nincrease by nearly 200 percent under the tax limit, providing substantial\nfiscal leeway is created and expanded state programs are justified.\nOn the other hand, if the state fails to impose a limit on the\nrevenues it can take in taxes in the years ahead, California's total\nstate budget will be five times larger in 1989 than it is today or\n$47.1 billion 15 years from now. This will mean that the percentage\nof total state personal income which the state is taking from the people\nin taxes will be 12.25 percent, or more than five percent above what\nwill be taken by the state if the limit is approved, by 1989. In other\nwords, the tax limitation will assure that the people will be able to\nkeep for themselves, to spend as they wish, five cents more on the\naverage dollar earned by 1989.\n-2-\n#198\nAgain, the cummulative savings to the taxpayers over the next\n15 years, if the limit is in effect, is projected to total $118 billion--\nmoney the taxpayers can put back in their pockets to spend as they wish.\n--Set maximum local property tax rates, by incorporating provi-\nsions relating to this which were passed by the legislature last year\nin SB 90, the school finance-property tax measure sponsored by Governor\nReagan.\n--Provide safeguards against shifting costs from the state to\nlocal governments. This means that if the state should mandate a program\non local government, the state will have to provide the revenues to pay\nfor it.\nGovernor Reagan noted that today, government federal, state and\nlocal is keeping nearly 45 cents of the average dollar earned by the\npeople for itself. Before 1930, government was taking only about 15 cents\nOnly 20 years later, in 1950, that 15 cents had doubled to 30 cents.\nIn only the next 15 years, projections show that government's\nshare of the people's income will have increased to almost 54 cents\non the dollar more than half of the people's earnings.\n\"If we as Americans allow that trend to continue, it is only a\nmatter of time before we'll have nothing of our earnings to spend for\nourselves. The spectre of such utter dependence on government should\nbe frightening to every citizen who values our traditional values of\nself-reliance and our productive free enterprise way of life.\n\"I am convinced that California has an unparalleled opportunity\nto show the way to the rest of the nation- the way to reverse the\ntrend we have been a witness to.\n\"This initiative can help to make that possible,\" the governor\nsaid.\n# # #\n-3-\nGray\nINITIATIVE MEASUR TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO E ELECTORS\nThe Attorney General has prepared a title and summary of the chief purposes and points of the proposed\nmeasure, as follows:\nTAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Limits State expendi-\ntures; restricts use of defined surplus revenue to tax reductions, refunds, or emergencies. Eliminates per-\nsonal income tax for lower income persons; reduces others' 1973 or 1974 tax up to 20%, from surplus,\nand subsequent year rates 7½%. Requires two-thirds legislative vote for new or changed State taxes. Limits\nlocal property tax rates except school districts'. Requires State funding of new programs mandated to local\ngovernments. Provides for tax and expenditure limit adjustments when functions transferred. Contains spe-\ncial indebtedness obligation provisions. Allows local tax rate and expenditure limit increases upon voter\napproval. If the proposed initiative is adopted undefined additional financing from State sources in the\napproximate amount of Five Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand dollars ($568,000) on a one-time basis and\nTwo Hundred Thirty Six Thousand dollars ($236,000) annually thereafter will be required for State ad-\nministrative costs.\nTo Honorable Secretary of State of California:\non January 1, 1973, less a credit of 7½. Single individuals whose\nadjusted gross income is less than $4,000.00 and married couples\nThe undersigned hereby proposes that the Constitution of the\nand heads of households whose adjusted gross income is less than\nState of California be amended by adding Article XXIX and\n$8,000.00 shall bear no State personal income tax. The Legislature\npetitions the Secretary of State to submit this proposal to the\nshall, by statute, implement the tax reduction required by this Section\nelectors of California for adoption. The text of the proposed\nas to application to non-resident and fiscal year taxpayers and as to\nmeasure is as follows:\n\"The People of the State of California do enact as follows:\ncredits in computing liability. The provisions of this subdivision (b)\nmay be modified by statute passed by roll-call vote entered in the\n\"The Constitution of the State of California is amended by adding\nArticle XXIX, to read:\njournal, two-thirds of the membership of each house concurring. If\nthis Article becomes effective after December 31, 1973, then this\nARTICLE XXIX\nsubdivision shall apply to 1975 and thereafter instead of 1974 and\nREVENUE CONTROL AND TAX REDUCTION\nthereafter.\nSECTION 1. Declaration of Purpose.\nThe people of the State of California declare it is in the best\nSECTION 5. State Tax Revenue Limit Adjustment by Election.\ninterests of the State to effect an orderly reduction of their tax\nThe State Tax Revenue Limit may be increased or decreased by a\nburden, without shifting costs to local government, by enacting this\ndesignated dollar amount by a majority vote of the people at a\nConstitutional provision to:\nStatewide election approving a measure placed on the ballot by the\n(a) Limit and reduce State taxes.\nLegislature by a roll-call vote entered into the journal, two-thirds of\n(b) Provide for refunds to the taxpayers of surplus State revenues,\nthe membership of each house concurring, or placed on the ballot\n(c) Limit Local Entity property tax rates,\nas an initiative statute pursuant to Article IV of this Constitution. A\n(d) Establish funding procedures for Emergency Situations, and\nmeasure so approved shall take effect the day after the election,\n(e) Require voter approval of taxes which exceed the limits set\nunless the measure provides otherwise.\nforth in this Article.\nSECTION 6. Emergency Fund and Emergency Appropriations.\nSECTION 2. State Tax Revenue Limit; Tax Surplus Fund; 20%\n(a) A Special Emergency Fund of not more than 0.2% of the State\nTax Refund.\nPersonal Income shall be established and maintained by the Legis-\n(a) There is a State Tax Revenue Limit determined as provided in\nlature. Money appropriated to the Special Emergency Fund shall be\nthis Article.\nfrom State Tax Revenues and shall be subject to the State Tax\n(1) If State Tax Revenues for any fiscal year exceed the State Tax\nRevenue Limit.\nRevenue Limit for that fiscal year, the excess shall be transferred to\n(b) Upon the Governor's declaration of an Emergency Situation\nthe Tax Surplus Fund, which is hereby established.\nand the exhaustion of such emergency funds as may be available\n(2) The Tax Surplus Fund shall be used only for one or more of\nfrom the Federal Government, the Legislature may make appropria-\nthe following purposes:\ntions to meet the Emergency Situation from the Special Emergency\n(i) For tax refunds or reductions;\nFund or, if that fund is exhausted, either from the Tax Surplus Fund\n(ii) For approved Emergency Situation appropriations under\nor from State Tax Revenues derived from a specific tax increase or a\nSection 6 of this Article.\nspecific new tax designated for the Emergency Situation and enacted\n(3) The Legislature shall minimize accumulations within the Tax\nin accordance with Section 4 of this Article. Any tax so enacted shall\nSurplus Fund by making periodic tax refunds or reductions as per-\nremain in effect no longer than two years, unless its continuation is\nmitted by this Article.\napproved by a majority of the votes cast for and against its contin-\n(b) On the effective date of this Article, the Controller shall deter-\nuance at a Statewide election.\nmine the amount of surplus in the General Fund as of the end of\nfiscal year 1972-73 and shall designate such portion of the surplus as\nSECTION 7. Local Taxes.\nis necessary and available to effect the refund of subdivision (b) (1)\n(a) The Maximum Property Tax Rates of each Local Entity are set\nhereof.\nat the rates levied for the fiscal year 1971-72 or for the fiscal year\n(1) The surplus so designated shall be utilized for a refund by\n1972-73, whichever is the higher. The Maximum Property Tax Rates\nmeans of a credit of 20% of personal income taxes for the calendar\nfor a Local Entity created after the effective date of this Article shall\nyear 1973, excluding taxes on capital gains on assets held for more\nbe established by the electorate of the Local Entity at the time of its\nthan one year, items of tax preference, estates and trusts, or in such\ncreation.\nlesser percentage as the Director of the Department of Finance shall\n(b) To permit adjustment of the Maximum Property Tax Rates\ncertify is available for such refund. Single individuals whose adjusted\nset in subdivision (a) of this Section, the Legislature shall enact\ngross income is less than $4,000.00 and married couples and heads of\nstatutes, within the general intent of this Article, to permit:\nhouseholds whose adjusted gross income is less than $8,000.00 shall\n(1) Maximum Property Tax Rates to be increased or decreased\nbear no personal income tax. If this Article is effective on or before\nto reflect cost variations due to cost-of-living or population changes\nDecember 31, 1973, then this paragraph shall apply to the 1973 tax-\nnot offset by assessed valuation changes or to allow for other special\nable year. If this Article becomes effective after December 31, 1973,\ncircumstances creating hardship for individual Local Entities.\nthen this Section shall apply to the 1974 taxable year.\n(2) Maximum Property Tax Rates to be increased or decreased\n(2) If, prior to the effective date of this Article, a statute is enacted\nwhen authorized by the electorate of the Local Entity, or if there is\nproviding the refund as set forth in subdivision (b) (1) of this Section,\nno electorate, then as provided by the Legislature.\nsuch statute shall be deemed compliance with the requirements of this\n(3) Maximum Property Tax Rates to be increased by a four-fifths\nsubdivision (b) to the extent such refund is provided.\nvote of the governing board of a Local Entity, to secure revenue to\n(3) The Legislature shall, by statute, implement the tax refund re-\ndefray the costs of an Emergency Situation affecting the Local Entity,\nquired by subdivision (b) (1)as to application to non-resident and fis-\nbut any such increase shall remain in effect no longer than two years,\ncal year taxpayers and as to credits in computing liability.\nunless its continuation is approved by the Local Entity's electorate.\n(4) State Tax Revenue for purposes of computing the State Tax\n(c) All property taxable by Local Entities and School Districts,\nRevenue Limit as here defined shall not be reduced by refunds made\nexcept personal property specially classified for the purpose of assess-\npursuant to this subdivision (b).\nment and taxation pursuant to the provisions of Section 14 of Article\nXIII of this Constitution, shall be assessed at a uniform percentage of\nSECTION 3. Appropriation Limit.\nfull value established by the Legislature. If that percentage is any\nNo appropriation shall cause an expenditure during any fiscal year\nfigure other than twenty-five, the maximum rates prescribed in sub-\nof State Tax Revenues for that fiscal year in excess of the State Tax\ndivisions (a) and (b) of this Section shall be converted into new maxi-\nRevenue Limit for that fiscal year, other than for tax refunds or, pur-\nmums by multiplying them by twenty-five and dividing them by the\nsuant to Section 6 of this Article, for Emergency Situations. Subject\nnew assessment percentage. Full value, as used herein, means fair\nonly to such exceptions, any such expenditure in excess of the State\nmarket value or such other standard of value as is required or author-\nTax Revenue Limit is prohibited. The Legislature shall, prior to any\nized under this Constitution.\nother appropriation, first make provision for the payment of the prin-\n(d) No Local Entity or School District shall impose, levy or collect\ncipal and interest on the indebtedness of the State.\nany tax upon or measured by income, or any part thereof, except as\nSECTION 4. State Tax Adjustments; Personal Income Tax\nauthorized by the Legislature by a statute passed by a roll-call vote\nReduction.\nentered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership of each house\n(a) The imposition of any new tax or the change in the rate or\nconcurring. This subdivision (d) shall not be construed to prohibit\nbase of any tax by the Legislature shall be by statute passed by\nthe imposition, levy or collection of any otherwise authorized license\nroll-call vote entered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership of\ntax upon a business measured by or according to gross receipts.\neach house concurring, except for tax refunds or reductions by\nappropriations specifically declared to be out of the Tax Surplus\nSECTION 8. Protection of Local Entities and School Districts from\nFund which shall be by statute passed by a vote of the majority of\nState-Imposed Costs.\nthe membership of each house.\n(a) After the effective date of this Article, no new program, or\n(b) For 1974 and thereafter, the State personal income tax liability\nincrease in level of service under an existing program, shall be man-\nof taxpayers shall be determined at rates no higher than those in effect\ndated to Local Entities or School Districts by the State until an\nPage of 4\nappropriation has been made to pay\ne Local Entities or School\n10 of this Article.\nDistricts the costs of the mandated program or service, but no appro-\n(b) Beginning the fiscal year 1989-90, or with a fiscal year in\npriation for payments to Local Entities or School Districts shall be\nwhich the State Tax Revenue Limit Income Quotient is no greater\nrequired if such program or increase in level of service under a pro-\nthan 0.0700, the Legislature, by statute passed by roll-call vote en-\ngram is determined by the Legislature to be applicable generally to\ntered in the journal, two-thirds of the membership of each house con-\nprivate entities or individuals, as well as to Local Entities or School\ncurring, may terminate further reduction in the State Tax Revenue\nDistricts.\nLimit Income Quotient. Thereafter, the State Tax Revenue Limit\n(b) The Legislature shall enact statutes to establish procedures\nIncome Quotient shall be maintained at the level reached in the fiscal\nfor implementing this Section consistent with the following principles\nyear in which such statute is enacted; however, annual reductions\nand directives:\nmay be reinstated by statute passed by roll-call vote, two-thirds of\n(1) The performance of functions or services not required to be\nthe membership of each house concurring.\nperformed prior to a mandate to the Local Entity or School District\n(c) If the statistical series used to determine the Consumer Price\nshall be considered a new program or increase in level of service.\nIndex, State Personal Income and State Population, as defined in\n(2) The increased workload under an existing program, the imple-\nSection 16 of this Article, are recomputed by or succeeded by new\nmentation of statutes existing at the effective date of this Article or\nseries reported by the United States Department of Commerce or the\nthe definition of a new crime or change in the definition of an existing\nUnited States Department of Labor or a successor agency of the\ncrime by statute shall not be considered a mandated new program or\nUnited States Government, the State Tax Revenue Limit Income\na mandated increase in level of service.\nQuotient or State Tax Revenue Limit Population-Inflation Quotient\nshall be re-derived in accordance with the recomputation or new\nSECTION 9. Maintenance of Local Property Tax Relief.\nseries, and the re-derived quotient shall be used in computing the\n(a) If the State reduces local property tax relief by decreasing the\nState Tax Revenue Limit for the fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year\nspecific unit amount, rate or percentage established by statute for\nin which the quotient was re-derived.\npayments made under formula to Local Entities or School Districts\nfrom that in effect upon the effective date of this Article, the State\nSECTION 13. Bonds and Pensions.\nTax Revenue Limit shall be decreased by an amount equivalent to\n(a) Nothing in Section 3 or in any other provision of this Article\nthe decrease in payments to Local Entities or School Districts.\nshall limit the taxes levied or otherwise to be levied or appropriations\n(b) The adjustment to the State Tax Revenue Limit required by\nmade for the payment or discharge of any indebtedness of the State\nthis Section shall be made in the first fiscal year of the decrease of\nand the interest thereon heretofore or hereafter authorized by vote\npayment described in subdivision (a) of this Section. Such adjustment\nof the electors, or State notes or other securities issued in anticipation\nshall remain in effect for each subsequent fiscal year.\nof the collection of taxes, and all bonds or other indebtedness of the\nState shall be payable from taxes of any kind or character which may\nSECTION 10. Adjustments for Program and Cost Transfers.\nbe levied by the State without limitation of rate or amount.\nTo maintain a balance between the tax burden and the cost of\n(b) Nothing herein contained shall limit any indebtedness or liabil-\nspecific government programs at the State and local level, and to\nity of Local Entities or School Districts which has been duly author-\nfurther accomplish the purposes of this Article, the Legislature shall\nized by a vote of the electors thereof. All taxes or assessments required\nenact statutes consistent with the following principles and directives:\nto be levied or collected for the payment of indebtedness so incurred\n(a) If the Legislature enacts a specific property tax relief measure\nmay be levied upon all property subject to taxation or special assess-\nfunded by State Tax Revenues or if, by order of any court, the costs\nment by the Local Entities or School Districts without limit as to rate\nof a program are transferred from Local Entities or School Districts\nor amount, and the Maximum Property Tax Rates applicable herein\nto the State, the State Tax Revenue Limit may be increased, provid-\nshall not apply to the payment of indebtedness so incurred. The Maxi-\ning the Maximum Property Tax Rates of affected Local Entities or\nmum Property Tax Rates applicable to Local Entities shall not be\nthe then existing tax rates of affected School Districts are commen-\napplicable to obligations to levy taxes under the Improvement Bond\nsurately decreased.\nAct of 1915 or to the authority of Local Entities or School Districts\n(b) If the costs of a program are transferred from the State or\nto levy and collect taxes to pay for Local Entities or School Districts\nLocal Entities or School Districts to the Federal Government, the\nState Revenue Limit or the Maximum Tax Rates of affected Local\nretirement and pension benefits pursuant to laws which have been, or\nEntities or the then existing tax rates of affected School Districts\nmay in the future be, approved by the voters.\nshall be commensurately decreased.\nSECTION 14. Severability.\n(c) If the costs of a program are transferred to or imposed on\nIf any portion, section, subdivision or clause of this Article, or the\nexisting or newly created Local Entities by Federal Law or the order\napplication thereof to any entity, person or circumstance, be declared\nof any court, the Maximum Property Tax Rates of affected Local\nunconstitutional or held invalid or deemed unenforceable for any\nEntities may be commensurately increased, pursuant to such specific\nreason, the remaining portions of this Article and the application of\nconditions of State approval in each case as the Legislature may\nsuch portions to other entities, persons or circumstances, shall not\nimpose.\nbe affected thereby.\n(d) If the costs of a program are transferred between existing or\nnewly created Local Entities or School Districts, the Maximum\nSECTION 15. Implementing Statutes.\nProperty Tax Rates or the then existing tax rates of each shall be\n(a) The Legislature, by statute, shall establish procedures for elec-\ncommensurately adjusted.\n(e) If Federal taxes are reduced on condition that the State in-\ntions required by this Article, shall appropriate funds for any State-\ncrease expenditures by an amount equivalent to the Federal reduc-\nwide special election called pursuant to this Article and shall enact\ntion, the State Tax Revenue Limit may be increased by such amount.\nany other statutes necessary to carry out the provisions of this Article.\n(f) The adjustments required by this Section of the State Tax\n(b) The Legislature, by statute, may determine the fund or funds\nRevenue Limit, the Maximum Property Tax Rates or the then\nfrom which transfers to the Tax Surplus Fund, as established by sub-\nexisting tax rates in the case of School Districts shall be made in the\ndivision (a) of Section 2 of this Article, shall be made, unless this\nfirst fiscal year of transfer or operation. Such adjustment shall\nConstitution restricts the use of a designated fund to other specified\nremain in effect for each subsequent fiscal year.\npurposes. In the absence of statutory provisions, transfer to the Tax\nSurplus Fund shall be from the State General Fund.\nSECTION 11. Economic Estimates Commission.\n(a) There shall be an Economic Estimates Commission consisting\nSECTION 16. Definitions.\nof the State Controller; the Director of the Department of Finance\n(a) \"State Tax Revenue\" means the revenue of the State from every\nor an appointee of the Governor as designated by him; and a\ntax, fee, penalty, receipt and other monetary exaction, interest in\ndesignee appointed by the Legislature who is not a member of the\nconnection therewith, and any transfer out of the Tax Surplus Fund\nLegislature, selected in a manner provided by the Joint Rules of\nother than for tax refund, except Excluded State Revenues are not\nthe Legislature. The Commission shall act by a vote of two-thirds\npart of State Tax Revenues.\nof its membership. The Commission Chairman shall be designated\n(b) \"Excluded State Revenues\" means\nby the Governor. The Commission shall utilize the resources of\n(1) The following receipts:\nexisting State agencies in carrying out its duties.\n(i) intergovernmental transfer payments;\n(b) The Commission shall determine and publish. prior to April 1\n(ii) contributions and deposits to, receipts of, income of and\nof each year, the State Tax Revenue Limit for the following fiscal\nproceeds of capital transactions of Employment Trust Funds;\nyear by making and publishing all necessary estimates and calcula-\n(iii) revenue derived from a specific tax levied as permitted in\ntions as provided in this Article. If this Amendment is not effective\nSection 6 to the extent such revenue is used to meet an Emergency\nprior to April 1, 1974, the Commission shall determine the State\nSituation;\nTax Revenue Limit for fiscal year 1974-75 as soon after enactment\n(iv) proceeds from the sale or issuance of State bonds or notes;\nas it can act. If it does not act prior to July 1, 1974, the State Tax\n(v) grants and contract income for projects or research sponsored\nRevenue Limit for fiscal year 1974-75 shall be the amount of the\nand funded by non-governmental agencies;\nState Tax Revenue as here defined for fiscal year 1973-74. The\n(vi) internal fund transfers such as inter-fund or inter-agency\nCommission shall also determine and publish such estimates of the\ntransfers, revenue, reimbursements. abatements, advances, loans,\nState Tax Revenue Limit as are necessary for the orderly and proper\nrepayment of loans;\ndevelopment of State budgets. If the Commission does not act to\n(vii) proceeds from the sale of investments and the redemption of\ndetermine the State Tax Revenue Limit before July I of a fiscal year,\nmatured securities;\nthe State Tax Revenue Limit for that fiscal year shall remain the\n(viii) proceeds from the sale of real and personal property;\nsame as for the previous fiscal year.\n(ix) gifts, donations, bequests to the State;\n(x) endowment income;\nSECTION 12. Computation of State Tax Revenue Limit.\n(xi) service fees and charges derived from projects which are fi-\n(a) The State Tax Revenue Limit for a fiscal year shall be com-\nnanced by revenue bonds secured solely by the revenue of such proj-\nputed as the dollar sum of\nects to the extent that such fees and charges are used for the payment\n(1) the greater of the following:\nof principal and interest on such bonds;\n(i) The dollar amount derived by multiplying together the State\n(2) The following fees:\nTax Revenue Limit Income Quotient for the specified fiscal year\n(i) proceeds from the activities of the University of California and\nand the State Personal Income for the calendar year in which the\nthe State University and College System, including, but not limited to,\nspecified fiscal year commences; or\nstudent tuition and fees and post-secondary education income derived\n(ii) The dollar amount derived by multiplying together the State\nfrom housing, parking, food service, student union fees, book stores\nTax Revenue Limit Population-Inflation Quotient, the State Popu-\nor similar enterprises;\nlation for the calendar year in which the specified fiscal year com-\n(ii) non-commercial fish and game fees, assessments and other\nmences and the Consumer Price Index; plus\nrevenues;\n(2) the dollar amount increase or decrease to the State Tax Revenue\n(iii) service or use fees levied by the Department of Parks and\nLimit authorized for that fiscal year pursuant to Sections 5, 9 and\nPage 2 of 4\nRecreation:\nentity established thereafte\ncal Entity does not include a School\n(iv) income from environmental license plate\nDistrict.\n(v) revenue derived from State-owned parking lots and garages;\n(i) \"School Districts\" means the entities specified as parts of the\n(3) Fees which meet all of the following criteria:\nPublic School System in Article IX, Section 6, of this Constitution\n(i) the service or product for which the fee is paid is generally\nand includes Community Colleges but does not include the State\navailable from a non-State source, or the fee is collected solely to\nUniversity and College System.\nregulate a non-commercial, non-professional, non-criminal activity\n(j) \"Estimated State Tax Revenues\" means the dollar amount of\nother than those referred to in Article XXVI;\nState Tax Revenues as estimated by the Economic Estimates\n(ii) the fee collected is used to defray all or part of the costs of the\nCommission.\nState in providing the service;\n(k) \"State Personal Income\" means the estimate made by the\n(iii) the payer of the fee receives the benefit derived from payment\nEconomic Estimates Commission of the dollar amount that will be\nof the fee; and\nreported as Total Income by Persons for the State of California for\n(iv) are designated by statute as Excluded State Revenues.\nthe specified calendar year by the United States Department of\n(c) \"Intergovernmental Transfer Payments\" means dollar amounts\nCommerce or successor agency in its official publications.\nreceived by the State of California from the Federal Government or\n(1) \"State Tax Revenue Limit Income Quotient\" means:\nany Local Entity or School District except those taxes, fees and penal-\n(1) For the fiscal year 1974-75, the number derived by:\nties imposed by the State and collected by the Local Entity or School\n(i) Dividing the sum of Estimated State Tax Revenues for the\nDistrict for the State.\nfiscal year 1973-74 by the State Personal Income for the calendar\n(d) \"Employment Trust Funds\" means the Unemployment Fund,\nyear 1973, and\nUnemployment Administration Fund, Unemployment Compen-\n(ii) Subtracting 0.001.\nsation Disability Fund, Old Age and Survivors Insurance Revolving\n(2) For each fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year 1974-75, the\nFund, Uninsured Employers Fund, State Compensation Insurance\nnumber derived by:\nFund, State Employees Contingency Reserve Fund; and the Public\n(i) Dividing the State Tax Revenue Limit for the previous fiscal\nEmployees Retirement Fund, Teachers Retirement Fund, Judges\nyear by the State Personal Income for the previous calendar year, and\nRetirement Fund, Legislators Retirement Fund and other similar\n(ii) Subtracting 0.001.\nretirement funds.\n(m) \"State Population\" means the estimate made by the Economic\n(e) \"Expenditure.\" As used herein, an expenditure occurs at the\nEstimates Commission of the number that will be reported as Total\ntime and to the extent that a valid obligation against an appropria-\nPopulation of the State of California for the specified calendar year\ntion is created. For the purpose of capital outlay in connection with\nby the United States Department of Commerce or successor agency\nthis Article, a valid obligation shall be considered to have been\nin its official publications.\nincurred when the Legislature appropriates the funds.\n(n) \"Consumer Price Index\" means the number reported as the\n(f) \"Emergency Situation\" means an extraordinary occurrence\nConsumer Price Index for the United States (Base Year 1967 = 100)\nrequiring unanticipated and immediate expenditures to preserve the\nby the United States Department of Labor, or successor agency of\nhealth and safety of the people.\nthe United States Government, for the most current month in its\n(g) \"Maximum Property Tax Rates\" means the property tax rate\nlatest official publication.\nor rates and ad valorem special assessment rate or rates for any\n(o) \"State Tax Revenue Limit Population-Inflation Quotient\"\nLocal Entity.\nmeans the number derived by dividing:\n(h) \"Local Entity\" means any city, county, city and county, char-\n(1) The Estimated State Tax Revenue for the fiscal year 1973-74 by\ntered city, chartered county, chartered city and county, taxing zone,\n(2) The State Population for the calendar year 1973 as multiplied\nspecial district or other unit of government encompassing an area less\nby the Consumer Price Index available to the Economic Estimates\nthan the entire State, or any Statewide district, or any combination\nCommission at the time it computes the State Tax Revenue Limit\nthereof in existence on the effective date of this Article or any such\nfor fiscal year 1974-75.\nCIRCULATOR INSTRUCTIONS\nPlease read carefully. If you have any questions call your local regional coordinator or Californians for Lower Taxes (916) 441-10\n1. WHO MAY SIGN THIS PETITION? Any registered voter residing in the county where this petition is circulated. Note: Signer must be a regis-\ntered voter. However, a single invalid signature will not invalidate the rest of the petition.\n2. WHO MAY CIRCULATE THIS PETITION? Any registered voter. (Obtain signatures only in the county where you live.)\n3. HOW ARE SIGNATURES AND DATES WRITTEN OR AFFIXED? Signer should sign in the same manner as he or she signed when registering\nto vote. If signer cannot remember his or her signature as it appears on the voter registration rolls, have him or her sign FULL FIRST NAME, MIDDLE\nINITIAL (if any) and LAST NAME along with titles such as \"Jr.\" or \"III,\" etc. Women need not indicate \"Miss\" or \"Mrs.\"\nAddress should be written legibly, complete with street, place, way or other designation.\nNOTE: ADDRESS MUST BE WHERE SIGNER IS REGISTERED TO VOTE; not necessarily where he or she is presently living.\n4. NEVER USE DITTO MARKS. It will invalidate signature. Always include DATE and ZIP (If known).\n5. CIRCULATOR MUST SIGN the declaration on every petition he or she turns in.\n6. MAY THE SAME PERSON BE BOTH SIGNER AND CIRCULATOR? Yes. However, circulator may sign only one petition.\n7. HOW ARE PETITIONS TO BE RETURNED? Your petitions will be picked up by a committee worker in approximately two weeks whether\ncompletely filled in or not. Should they not be collected within this time call the person who provided your petitions or the central office at\n(916) 441-1053.\nASK YOUR FRIENDS TO HELP-SPREAD THE WORD-GET SIGNATURES.\nINITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO THE ELECTORS\nThe Attorney General has prepared a title and summary of the chief purposes and points of the proposed\nmeasure, as follows:\nTAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Limits State expendi-\ntures; restricts use of defined surplus revenue to tax reductions, refunds, or emergencies. Eliminates per-\nsonal income tax for lower income persons; reduces others' 1973 or 1974 tax up to 20%, from surplus,\nand subsequent year rates 7½%. Requires two-thirds legislative vote for new or changed State taxes. Limits\nlocal property tax rates except school districts'. Requires State funding of new programs mandated to local\ngovernments. Provides for tax and expenditure limit adjustments when functions transferred. Contains spe-\ncial indebtedness obligation provisions. Allows local tax rate and expenditure limit increases upon voter\napproval. If the proposed initiative is adopted undefined additional financing from State sources in the\napproximate amount of Five Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand dollars ($568,000) on a one-time basis and\nTwo Hundred Thirty Six Thousand dollars ($236,000) annually thereafter will be required for State ad-\nministrative costs.\nCOUNTY\nREGISTERED ADDRESS\nDATE ZIP\nPrecinct\nNAME (As Registered)\nUSE\n(Never use Ditto Marks)\n(Never Use Ditto Marks)\nNumber\nRegistered\nDate\n1 Sign\nAddress\n/\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n2 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n3 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n4 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n5 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nPage 3 of 4\nINITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO THE ELECTORS\nThe Attorney General has prepared a title and summary of the chief purposes and points of the proposed\nmeasure, as follows:\nTAX AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Limits State expendi-\ntures; restricts use of defined surplus revenue to tax reductions, refunds, or emergencies. Eliminates per-\nsonal income tax for lower income persons; reduces others' 1973 or 1974 tax up to 20%, from surplus,\nand subsequent year rates 7½% Requires two-thirds legislative vote for new or changed State taxes. Limits\nlocal property tax rates except school districts': Requires State funding of new programs mandated to local\ngovernments. Provides for tax and expenditure limit adjustments when functions transferred. Contains spe-\ncial indebtedness obligation provisions. Allows local tax rate and expenditure limit increases upon voter\napproval. If the proposed initiative is adopted undefined additional financing from State sources in the\napproximate amount of Five Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand dollars ($568,000) on a one-time basis and\nTwo Hundred Thirty Six Thousand dollars ($236,000) annually thereafter will be required for State ad-\nministrative costs.\nCOUNTY\nREGISTERED ADDRESS\nDATE ZIP\nPrecinct\nNAME (As Registered)\nUSE\n(Never use Ditto Marks)\n(Never Use Ditto Marks)\nNumber\nRegistered\nDate\n6 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n7 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n8 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n9 Sign\nAddress\n/\n/ 73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n10 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n11 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n12 Sign\nAddress\n/\n/ 73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n13 Sign\nAddress\n/\n/ 73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nRegistered\nDate\n14 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nDate\nRegistered\n15 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nDate\nRegistered\nAddress\n/\n73\n16 Sign\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nDate\nRegistered\n17 Sign\nAddress\n/\n73\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nDate\nRegistered\nAddress\n/\n73\n18 Sign\n(If Known)\n(Print)\nCity\nZip\nDECLARATION OF CIRCULATOR\nI am, and during all the time while soliciting signatures as hereinafter set forth was, a qualified and registered elector of the County (or City\nand County) of\nand of the State of California; I am the person who circulated the attached and foregoing\nsection of the initiative petition of which said section is a part and who solicited the signatures to the said section; I have circulated said section\nwithin the above named County (or City and County) of the State of California; all of the signatures to the attached section were made in my\npresence and upon the date shown after each signature and were solicited by me within the above named County (or City and County) of the\nState of California; to the best of my knowledge and belief, each signature is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to\nbe; that all signatures to said section were secured by me; that my residential voting address at the time of execution of this declaration is\nas shown below, and that this declaration is executed in the State of California.\nI declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.\n(Do not sign, as circulator, until you send in petition.)\nSIGNATURE OF PETITION CIRCULATOR\nREGISTERED ADDRESS\nCITY (IN FULL)\nZIP\nDATE\nPHONE\nPRINT FULL NAME\nPage 4 of 4\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON D REAGAN\nMEMO I THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-9-73\nC-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N-S\nFor the record, in press release #198, dated 4-6-73, the\nfollowing corrections should be made:\nPage 2, Paragraph 3 --\nearnings (total state personal income) which state\ngovernment can take in taxes over the next 15 years.\nPage 2, Paragraph 4 --\nWhile requiring that the state must gradually take a smaller\nand smaller share of the state's total personal income in taxes each\nyear, the constitutional tax limit will nevertheless enable the state\nbudget to double in ten years and actually triple in 15 years to\n$27.4 billion in 1989, in order to not only keep pace with population\ngrowth and inflation, but also to provide the state with additional\nrevenues to innovate new programs to meet public needs. While the\nstate will need a cumulative increase in revenues of about 118 percent\nto keep up with growth and inflation, the state budget can increase by\nnearly 200 percent under the tax limit, providing substantial fiscal\nleeway for creating and expanding state programs where justified.\n# # #\nGray\nOFFICEEOF GOVERNOR RO' LD REAGAN\nRELEAS\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-6-73\n#199\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nApril 9, 1973\nthrough\nApril 14, 1973\nMONDAY, April 9\n11:45 am\nMeeting with Poly Royal Queen and group of Cal Poly\nStudents (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)\n(Overnight - Sacramento)\nTUESDAY, April 10\n11:15 am\nPRESS CONFERENCE\nNoon\nCalifornia Manufacturers Association Luncheon,\nWoodlake Inn. Remarks.\n6:00 pm\nPOW Dinner at Executive Residence, Sacramento\n(Overnight - Sacramento)\nWEDNESDAY, April 11\n11:00 am\nPOW Tax Exemption Bill Signing, Governor's Office\n(Overnight - Sacramento)\nTHURSDAY, April 12\nNo public appointments scheduled.\n(Overnight - Sacramento)\nFRIDAY, April 13\nT.V.\n10:00 am\nInterview at KFSN Radio in Fresno\n2:30 pm\nInterview, KNBC-TV, 3000 West Alameda, Burbank\n(Overnight - - Los Angeles)\nSATURDAY, April 14\nAM\nCalifornia Republican Assembly, Royal Inn,\nAnaheim. Remarks.\nPM\nDepart for Phoenix for Easter Vacation\n(overnight - Phoenix)\n######\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nMEMO 1 THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-6-73\nGovernor Ronald Reagan will tour the Rancho Murietta property from\n11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 7. At 3 p.m., he will be\ninterviewed by Bill Best at San Jose's KNTV-TV studios.\n#####\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO\nLD REAGAN\nRELEAS\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-6-73\n#200\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the a ppointment of Salvador\nJ. Espana, Jr., of Sacramento, as the Director of the State Office of\nEconomic Opportunity. He replaces Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., of Loomis,\nwho resigned last month.\nEspana has been the Deputy Director for Operations of the State\nOEO since October 1971. He has been working at OEO since March 1967.\nas a program analyst except for a 15 month period in 1968-69 when he\nserved as assistant to the governor for community relations.\n\"Sal Espana has been instrumental in ensuring that the federally\nfunded programs in California were effective and efficient,\" stated\nGovernor Reagan, \"his experience and knowledge, gained during the past\nsix years, will ensure that the OEO continues to be responsive to the\nneeds of Californians,\" added the governor.\nPrior to entering state service, Espana was manager for eleven years\nof the West Side Growers Association in Los Banos. He is a partner in\na restaurant business and several other business ventures. During the\nKorean War, he served four years on active duty with the U.S. Navy.\nThe 42-year-old Republican is married, the father of three children,\nand lives at 1225 58th Avenue, Sacramento. He was born in Codora,\n(Colusa County), California.\nHe will receive an annual salary of $26,148 as director.\n######\n:\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-9-73\n#201\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today called the attention of Californians\nto the observance of National Action for Foster Children, this I week\nI\ndescribing it as \"an excellent opportunity to refocus community attention\non foster care needs and programs.\n\"I know that many of our communities in this state have made plans\nto improve public knowledge of foster care in various ways during this\ncoming week,\" the governor said, \"and I urge citizen support of those\nplans.\n\"The benefits of foster care programs to society as well as to home-\nless children have been well established in California for many years.\nThere always seems to be a need for more foster parents, and this is an\nexcellent chance for communities to make these needs known to people who\nmight be able to take part.\"\nThere are an estimated 31,000 foster children in California at the\npresent time, ten per cent of the nationwide figure. An estimated 1,200\nchildren become potential foster care placement cases every month in the\nstate.\n#######\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEA\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-9-73\n#202\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today anoounced the appointment of Mrs. Marie\nE. Haff, of Burlingame, to the Collection Agency Advisory Board in the\nDepartment of Consumer Affairs. She will fill the unexpired term of\nStanley H. Kragen, of Stockton, who resigned. The term expires June 30,\n1973.\nMrs. Haff, a Republican, is the manager of the Credit Bureau of San\nMateo and Burlingame, a position she has held since 1954. The firm\na\nemploys a staff of 32 men and women in the operation of/credit reporting\nagency and two licensed collection agencies.\nA native of San Francisco, she attended schools in the Bay Area,\nincluding College of San Mateo and the University of California Extension\nSan Francisco. She currently serves as vice dean and member of the\nBoard of Trustees of the Western Management Institute.\nShe served as director of the Associated Credit Bureaus of\nCalifornia and in 1967, served as president, the first woman to be\nelected. Mrs. Haff, a widow, =is the mother of three daughters.\nBoard members receive $28 per diem and expenses. Full term\nappointments to the board are for four years.\n#####\nAppointee's address:\n708 Burlingame Avenue\nBurlingame, California 94010\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-9-73\n#203\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of San Jose\nsocial worker Konrad Fischer, M.S.W., to the Board of Behavioral Science\nExaminers. He will fill the unexpired term of Albert L. Seltzer, of\nCarmichael, who resigned. The term expires June 1, 1974.\nFischer, 46, a Democrat, is the co-founder and chief clinical\nsocial worker of the Valley Psychiatric Medical Clinic in San Jose. He\nis a 1954 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with an\nA.B. in psychology. He also earned his M.S.W. in psychiatric social work\nat U.C., Berkeley.\nHe is a consultant to the Santa Clara County School Districts and\nand\nHealth Department,/the San Jose Police and Juvenile Probation Departments\nHe is married and the father of three children.\nThe appointment to the board requires Senate confirmation. Board\nmembers receive $28 per diem. Full term appointments are for four years.\n#####\nAppointee's address:\n19168 De Havilland Drive\nSaratoga, California\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-10-73\n#204\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named business and economics\nprofessor, Dr. Edward Hill Barker, of San Luis Obispo, as the new\nState Savings and Loan Commissioner.\nDr. Barker was the dean of the School of Business and Social\nSciences at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo\nprior to accepting the appointment.\nHe succeeds Michael F. B. MacBan, of Los Angeles, who resigned\nlast March 1, to return to private business.\nDr. Barker, 57, a Republican, will serve at the pleasure of\nthe governor. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.\nA graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles in\n1937, he earned both his master of science degree in public\nadministration and his Ph.D. in economics at the University of\nSouthern California. He was professor of business economics and\nmarketing at USC School of Business from 1956 to 1971 prior to being\nnamed dean at Cal Poly.\nDr. Barker is a member of the board of directors of Methods\nResearch Associates of Santa Ana, senior research associate of the\nNational Research Center of Los Angeles, and consultant to Boyle,\nHart, Lovett and Dean. He was also a past consultant to the\nCalifornia Credit Union League.\nHe is married and the father of four children. As savings and\nloan commissioner, he will receive an annual salary of $31,500.\n# # #\nAddress:\nMichael F. B. MacBan\n597 Jeffrey Drive\nSan Luis Obispo\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROALD REAGAN\nMEMO .) THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-10-73\nGovernor and Mrs. Ronald Reagan will host twenty eight former\nprisoners of war at a private dinner tonight, April 10, at the executive\nresidence, 1341 45th Street, Sacramento.\nThe former prisoners, their wives, dates or guests, are expected\nto arrive at the residence at 6:00 p.m.\nBecause the dinner is private, the press will not be permited\ninside the residence. However, reporters, photographers, and cameramen\nmay witness and record the arrival of the ex-POWs at the residence.\nThumbnail sketches of the former prisoners attending the dinner\nwill be available.\n#####\nGarcia\n27\nturnees\nPOW RETURNEES ATTENDING\nGOVERNOR AND MRS. REAGAN'S RECEPTION\nAPRIL 10, 1973\nWIFE OR\nNAME AND GRADE\nBRANCH OF SERVICE\nGUEST'S NAME\nANDREWS, Anthony E. - Captain\nAir Force\nAlone\nBERNASCONI, Louis H. - Lt. Col.\nAir Force\nGuest\nBOYER, Terry L. - Captain\nAir Force\nGuest\nBRACE, Ernest\nCivilian\nSon - Ernest Jr.\nBUTLER, WILLIAM H. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Julie)\nCHAMBERS, Carl D. Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Joanne)\nDANIELS, VERLYNE W. - Commander\nNavy\nGuest (Julie Geary)\nESTES, Edward D. - Commander\nNavy\nWife (Betty)\nFLYNN, Robert J. - Lieutenant Commander Navy\nWife (Kathy)\nFORD, David E. - Major\nAir Force\nWife (Eldora)\nFOWLER, Henry P. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Christiane)\n*FRANCO, Thomas - Captain\nNavy\nWife (Odie)\nGOTNER, Norbert A. - Major\nAir Force\nWife (Ida)\nGOUGH, James W. - Senior Master Sgt\nAir Force\nWife (Dianne)\nHANTON, Thomas J. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Patricia)\nHICKERSON, James M. - Commander\nNavy\nGuest (LT Susy Hyatt)\nHOFFMAN, David - Lieutenant Commander\nNavy\nWife (Mary)\nParents: Mr. & Mrs.\nWesley Hoffman\nLEONARD, Edward W. - Major\nAir Force\nAlone\nLEWIS, Frank D. - Capt.\nAir Force\nWife (Wynne) & Mother\nLESESNE, Henry D. - Lieutenant\nNavy\nWife (Linda)\nCommander\nMC MURRAY, Frederick C. - Captain\nAir Force\nWife (Judith)\n*MILLER, Monte B. = Colonel (Dr.)\nAir Force\nWife\nWIFE OR\nNAME AND GRADE\nBRANCH OF SERVICE\nGUEST'S NAME\nMONTAGUE, Paul J. - Major\nMarine Corps\nWife (Shirley)\nNAGAHIRO, James Y. - Lt Colonel\nAir Force\nWife (Alice)\nNICHOLS, Aubrey A. - Lt Commander\nNavy\nWife (Wanda)\nPENN, Michael G. LTJG\nNavy\nWife (Carol)\nPROFILET, Leo T. - Captain\nNavy\nWife (Joan)\nRIDGEWAY, Ronald L. - Sergeant\nMarine Corps\nAlone\nRUDLOFF, Steve - Lieutenant\nNavy\nWife (Marie)\nSCHWEITZER, Robert J. - Commander\nNavy\nWife (Gwen)\nSTIRM, Robert L.\nLt Colonel\nAir Force\nWife (Loretta)\nWELLS, Kenneth R.\nCaptain\nAir Force\nWife (Candace)\n*POW HOSPITAL COORDINATORS, NOT RETURNEES\nCaptain Anthony C. Andrews\nWife: Sandra C. Resides in Weehawken, NJ\nCaptain Andrews was born on 15 November 1940, in Chico, CA. He attended\nthe University of Southern California, receiving a B.S. degree in 1963.\nEntering the Air Force in September 1963, he served in a number of Air\nForce assignments until his assignment to SEA on 15 August 1967. He Was\nassigned to the 34 Tac Ftr Sq, Korat AB, Thailand, when his F-105 was\nstruck by hostile fire on 17 October 1967, while flying a combat mission\nover North Vietnam. He was subsequently captured and interned by the\nNorth Vietnamese.\n17 January 1973\nLt Col Louis H. Bernasconi, 572-40-3338FR, MIA 22 Dec 72, PV 26 Dec 72\nMother - Maria V. de Father - Louis M. - Reside in Napa, CA\nDaughter - Katherine A. - Resides in Northridge, C/1\nCol Bernasconi was born 21 May 31 in Napa, California. On 22 Dec 72\nCol Bernasconi, while on temporary duty with the 307 Strat Wg, U-Tapao\nAfld, Thailand, departed U-Tapao Afld as the navigator/bombardier of\na B-52 on a night combat mission over North Vietnam. The aircraft\nwas downed over the target area and, though beeper signals were heard,\nvoice contact could not be established with any of the crew members.\nThe hostile environment prevented search and rescue efforts. Col\nBernasconi's status VOB changed to captured on 26 Dec 72 after Hanoi\nnews releases confirmed his capture\nThe status of the aircraft commander, Lt Col John H. Yuill, the copilot,\nCapt David I. Drummond, and crew members Maj William W. Conlee and 1st\nLt William T. Mayall, was changed to captured on 26 Dec 72 for the\nabove reason. The status of the gunner, SSgt Gary L. Morgan, is missing\nin action.\nCaptain Terry L. Boyer\nParents: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred W. Boyer - Reside in: Visalia, CA\nCaptain Boyer was born 22 September 1938, South Gate, CA. He attended\nFresno State College, Fresno, CA, receiving a B.S. degree in 1965.\nEntering the Air Force in August 1965, he served in a number of Air\nForce assignments until his assignment to SEA on 1 October 1967. He\nwas assigned to the 497 Tac Ftr Sq, Ubon Afld, Thailand, when his F-4\nwas struck by hostile fire on 17 December 1967, while flying a combat\nmission over North Vietnam. He was subsequently captured and interned\nby the North Victnamese.\nCaptain William W. Butler\nWife: Julie A. - 2 children Reside in: San Rafael, CA\nCaptain Butler was born 29 November 1941 in Grass Valley, CA. He attended\nStanford University, Stanford, CA, receiving a B.A. degree in 1963.\nEntering the Air Force in March 1964, he served in a number of Air Force\nassignments until his assignment to SEA on 31 July 1967. He was assigned\nto 469 Tac Ftr Sq, Takhli AB, Thailand, when his F-105 was struck by\nhostile fire on 20 November 1967, while flying a combat mission over\nNorth Victnam. He was subsequently captured and interned by the North\nVictnamese.\nCOMMANDER VERLYNE W. DANIELS, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 554745) (Pilot)\nVerlyne Wayne Daniels was shot down on October 26,\n1967, while flying an A-4 (Skyhawk) on a strike mission\nover North Vietnam. He was executive officer of Attack\nSquadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE, operating from USS CORAL\nSEA (CVA-43).\nCommander Daniels was born April 23, 1930 in Reamsville,\nKansas, enlisted in the Navy in 1948, entered the Naval\nAviation Cadet program, and was commissioned Ensign in 1952.\nHe served in Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE from 1952\nto 1955 as well as during the tour of duty on which he was\nshot down. He was also assigned to a number of other Attack\nSquadrons and to the USS KEARSARGE (CVS-33). He received a\nbachelor's degree in nautical science from the Naval Post-\ngraduate School, Monterey, California, in 1966.\nCommander Daniels is single. His home of record is\nStockton, California, and his brother, Maurice Daniels, lives\nin Ness City, Kansas.\nCOMMANDER EDWARD D. ESTES,\nUNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 605484) (Pilot)\nEdward Dale Estes was shot down on January 3, 1968 while on\na strike mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an A-4\n(Skyhawk) of Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED TWELVE, operating\nfrom the USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63).\nCommander Estes was born on May 16, 1934, in Marionville,\nMissouri, and received a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from\nSouthwest Missouri State College, Springfield, Missouri, in 1955.\nHe enlisted in the Navy that year, entered the Aviation Officer\nCandidate program, and was commissioned Ensign in 1956. He\nserved in Attack Squadron THIRTY-FIVE and at the Bureau of\nNaval Personnel, Washington, D.C.\nHis wife, Bette, and sons, James and David, live in Lemoore,\nCalifornia. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Estes, live in\nPurdy, Missouri, which is Commander Estes' home of record.\nLIEUTENANT COMMANDER ROBERT J. FLYNN, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 636219) (Bombardier-Navigator)\nRobert James Flynn was shot down August 21, 1967 while\nreturning from a mission over North Vietnam. He was fly-\ning in an A-6 (Intruder) of Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED\nNINETY-SIX, operat ing from the USS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64).\nThe plane was attacked by a North Vietnamese MIG near the\nChinese border. Lieutenant Commander Flynn was interned in\nthe Peoples Republic of China.\nLieutenant Commander Flynn was born September 15, 1937,\nin La Crosse, Wisconsin. He attended the University of\nMinnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and enlisted in the Naval\nReserve in 1965. He entered the Naval Aviation Cadet\nprogram and was commissioned Ensign in 1960. He served in\nAttack Squadrons based at Whidbey Island, Washington, and\nOceana, Virginia.\nHis wife Mary, son Robert, and daughter Elizabeth live\nin Colorado Springs, Colorado. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.\nThomas A. Flynn, live in Sun City, Arizona. Lieutenant\nCommander Flynn's home of record is Houston, Minnesota.\nCaptain David E. Ford\nWife: V. Eldora - 5 children Reside in: Sacramento, CA\n(total children: 8) Three daughters reside in Columbus, OH.\nCaptain Ford was born 25 July 1935 in Melrose, MA. He graduated from\nMelrose High School, Melrose, MA in 1953. Captain Ford enlisted in the\nAir Force in December 1953 and was commissioned from Officer Candidate\nSchool, Lackland AFB, TX in June 1962. lle served in a number of Air\nForce assignments until his assignment to SEA on 16 August 1967. He\nwas assigned to the 11 Tac Recon Sq, Udorn Afld, Thailand, when his\nRF-4C aircraft was struck by hostile fire on 19 November 1967, while\nflying a photographic reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam. He\nwas subsequently captured and interned by the North Vietnamese.\nCaptain Henry P. Fowler, Jr.\nWife: Christiane 1. - Resides in: Palo Alto, CA\nCaptain Fowler was born on 6 March 1939 in Washington, D.C. He\ngraduated from George Washington University, Washington, D. C. in\n1964 and received a B.A. degree. On 13 November 1964 he entered\nOfficer Training School, graduated in February 1965 and was\ncommissioned a second lieutenant. He attended and completed pilot\ntraining school prior to his assignment to SEA on 20 December 1966.\nHe was assigned to the 433 Tac Ftr Sq, Ubon Afld, Thailand, when\nhis F-4C aircraft was struck by hostile fire on 26 March 1967, while\nflying a combat mission over North Vietnam. Captain Fowler was\nsubsequently captured and interned by the North Vietnamese.\n2 Pobruary 1973\nHockert A. Cotner, 515-28-773572, HIA 3 Feb 71, PM 2 Feb 73\nIn R. and three children reside in Sacramento CA\nNo.)\nGobner was born 14 Jun 35 in Kangas City 53. Ne grad-\nunted from the University of Wichita in 1958 receiving a\ndespee. Commissioned 2 2d Lt on 24 Jan 53 in the USAF\nReserves, be entered active duty or 18 Mar 59. Maj Gotner\ncompleted navigator training at Harlingen AFB TX in Dec 58.\nNumerous assignments followed, and, on 13 Oct 69, in\npreparation for an assignment to Southeast Asia, he entered\nadditional navigation training for the F-4 aircraft. Upon\ncompleting the training, he was assigned to Thailand on\n9 Jul 70, At 1044 hours, 3 Feb 71, Major Gotner, as the\nweapons systems operator, and his aircraft commander, LtCol\nRobert L. Standerwick, Sr., departed Ubon Airfield, Thailand\nin an F-4D aircraft on a combat mission over Lacs. When the\ntwo officers failed to report off their first pass, several\nattempts to contact them by radio were made but were unsuc-\ncessiul. Shortly thereafter, both officers reported they\nwere on the sround. Voice contact with Col Standerwick\nwas lost at 1135 when he reported that he had been hit by\nhostile fire. Voice contact was lost with Maj Gotner on\n5 Feb 71 due to his radio batteries becoming weak. The\nsearch for both officers was terminated at 1830, 8 Feb 71,\nwhen emergency electronic beeper signals from Maj Cotner\nceased. H13 name appeared on the list of personnel captured\nin Laos presented to our government on 1 Feb 73. The list\nmade no mention of the fate of Col Standerwick.\n17 January 1973\nMSgt James 11. Cough, FR567-42-3485, MIA 28 Dec 72, PV 3 Jan 73\nWife: Dianne i. and two children - Reside in Mather AFB, CA\nMSgt Cough vas born 26 Jun 34 in Stuart, OK. llc graduated from\nFresno, CA High School in 1952. Ho enlisted in the Air Force\n14 Feb 52. Throughout his career he has been a turret systems\nmechanic and aerial gunnt : on bomber aircraft. On 27 Dec 72, while on\ntemporary duty at Andersen AFB, Cuan, Sgt Gough, as aerial gunner of a\nD-52D aircraft, departed Andersen AFB on a night combat mission over\nNorth Vietnom. Approximately 8 hours later, on 28 Dec 72, his aircraft\nwas downed over the target by enemy fire. Later that day Radio Hanoi\nannounced the capture of Maj James C. Condon, Capt Frank D. Lowis and\nMSgt James V. Cough. No further information has been received concern-\nLug the remaining crewmen, Maj Allen L. Johnson, Capt Samuel B.\nCusimano and lot Lt Bennie L. Fryer.\n27 November 1972\nCapt Thomas J. Hanton, 231-58-6333FV, MIA 27 Jun 72, PV 25 Aug 72\nWife: Patricia D. - Resides in Sacramento CA\nCaptain Hanton was born 30 June 1949 in Sacramento CA. He graduated\nfrom California State College at Long Reach CA in 1967 with a BA in\nEconomics. He entered t'e Air Force on 16 November 1967 as an officer\ntrainee and vas commissioned second licutenant on 16 February 1968. llc\ncompleted Navigator training in March 1969 and Electronic Warfare\nOfficer training in October 1969 at Mather AFB CA and Combat Crew\ntraining at George AFD CA in July 1970. lle was assigned as veapons\nsystems officer with the 9th Inc Ptr Sq, Hollowan AFB KM from 30 July\n1970 until his assignment to the 4th Tnc Ftr Sq, Da Mang Aprt, Republic\nof Vietnam on 15 January 1972. Captain Hanton was reported missing in\naction on 27 June 1972 when the F-4E aircraft he was weapons systems\noperator aboard crashed while on an operational mission over North\nVictnam. Voice contact was established with both crew members after\nthey reached the ground. During rescue operations contact was lost\nwith Captain Hanton. Captain Hanton's status cas changed to captured\n25 August 1972 after his name appeared on 0 list released by the North\nVietnamese to a representative of Senator Kennody.\nThe aircraft commander, Captain Aikman was rescued and returned to\nmilitary control.\nCOMMANDER JAMES M. HICKERSON, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 561065) (Pilot)\nJames Martin Hickerson was shot down on December 22, 1967, while. on\na combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an A-7 (Corsair) of\nAttack Squadron ONE HUNDRED FORTY-SEVEN, operating from the USS RANGER\n(CVA-61).\nCommander Hickerson was born February 14, 1934, in Lenoir, North\nCarolina. He received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from\nGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1956, and was\ncommissioned through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program\nthere. He served in a Fighter Squadron; with the THIRD Marine Air Wing,\nFleet Marine Force, Pacific; and at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent\nRiver, Maryland.\nHis wife Shirley lives at Lemoore, California. His father, James\nHickerson, lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, and his mother, Mrs. Faye\nHickerson, in Lenoir, North Carolina. Commander Hickerson's home of\nrecord is Atlanta, Georgia.\nLIEUTENANT COMMANDER DAVID W. HOFFMAN, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 659133) (Pilot)\nDavid Wesley Hoffman was shot down December 30, 1971, while on a\ncombat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an F-4 (Phantom II)\nwhile attached to Carrier Attack Wing FIFTEEN, operating from the USS\nCORAL SEA (CVA-43).\nLieutenant Commander Hoffman was born March 18, 1941, in Philadelphia,\nPennsylvania. He graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1962 and\nreceived a master's degree in Operations Research from the Naval\nPostgraduate School, Monterey, California, in 1971. Prior to joining\nCarrier Attack Wing FIFTEEN, he was assigned to a Training Squadron in\nFlorida and a Fighter Squadron in Miramar, California.\nLieutenant Commander Hoffman's wife Mary and son David live in San\nDiego, California, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley L. Hoffman live\nin Wayne, Pennsylvania. His home of record is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nMAJ EDWARD W. LEONARD, JR., MIA 31 MAY 68, PW 2 FEB 73\nWIFE: PATRICIA A. AND DAUGHTER RESIDE IN COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.\nMAJ LEONARD WAS BORN 9 AUG 38 IN PORTLAND, OR. HE, GRADUATED FROM THE\nAIR FORCE ACADEMY ON 8 JUN 60, RECEIVING A BS DEGREE AND BEING\nCOMMISSIONED A 2d LT. HE COMPLETED PILOT TRAINING IN OCT, 61 at\nVANCE AFB, OK., AND HAD ASSIGNMENTS AT DYESS AFB, TX. AND RHAIN MAIN AB\nGERMANY PRIOR TO BEING REASSIGNED TO THAILAND ON 12 MAY 67. AT 1704\n31 MAY 1968, MAJ LEONARD WAS A PILOT OF AN A-1H IN A FLIGHT OF FOUR\nWHICH DEPARTED NAKHON PHANOM APRT, THAILAND, IN SUPPORT OF SEARCH AND\nRECOVERY PERSONNEL ATTEMPTING TO RESCUE A DOWNED US NAVY PILOT IN\nSOUTHERN LAOS. SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING IN THE SEARCH AREA, MAJ LEONARD'S\nAIRCRAFT WAS HIT BY HOSTILE FIRE AND HE WAS SEEN TO PARACHUTE INTO THE\nAREA OF THE ENEMY FIRE. HE RADIOED THAT HE WAS TAKING EVASIVE MANEUVERS,\nHOWEVER, SUBSEQUENT RADIO CONTACT COULD NOT BE ESTABLISHED. RECOVERY\nOF THE NAVY PILOT WAS EFFECTED. MAJ LEONARD'S NAME APPEARED ON THE\nLIST OF PERSONNEL CAPTURED IN LAOS PRESENTED TO OUR GOVERNMENT ON\n1 FEBRUARY 1973.\n17 Jan 1973\nCapt Frank D. Lewis, 308-48-2235FV, MIA 28 Dec 72, PW 3 Jan 73\nWife: Wynne G. and daughter - Reside in Fair Oaks, California\nCapt Lewis was born 16 Jun 44 in Boston MA. He graduated from Purdue\nUniversity with a BS degree in 1967. He entered the Air Force as an\nofficer candidate 5 July 67 and was commissioned 2nd Lt 29 Sep 67. Ile\ncompleted pilot training in Oct 69. After completing pilot training\nhe served a combat tour flying F-4 aircraft with the 435 Tac Ftr Sq,\nUbon Airficld, Thailand. lle was assigned to the 441 Bomb Sq, Mather\nAFB CA in Nov 70 and it was from there that he was placed on temporary\nduty at Andersen AFB, Guam. On 27 Dec 72, Capt Lewis and five other\ncrew members departed Andersen AFB in a B-52D aircraft on a combat\nmission over North Vietnam. Approximately 8 hours later, on 28 Dec\n72, his aircraft was downed over the target by enemy fire. Later that\nday Radio llanoi announced the capture of Maj James C. Condon, Capt\nFrank D. Lewis and MSgt James V. Gough. No further information has\nbeen received concerning the remaining crewmen, Maj Allen L. Johnson,\nCapt Samuel B. Cusimano and 1st Lt Bennie L. Fryer.\nLIEUTENANT COMMANDER HENRY D. LESESNE, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 629552) (Pilot)\nHenry Deas Lesesne was shot down on July 11, 1972,\non a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an\nA-4 (Skyhawk) of Attack Squadron FIFTY-FIVE, operating off\nthe USS HANCOCK (CVA-19).\nLieutenant Commander Lesesne was born on February 13,\n1935 in Florence, South Carolina. He received his bachelor's\ndegree in History from The Citadel, Charleston, South\nCarolina, in 1958. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve, entered\nthe Aviation Officer Candidate program, and was commissioned\nEnsign in 1959. Prior to joining Attack Squadron FIFTY-FIVE,\nhe had assignments with squadrons on both East and West\nCoasts.\nLieutenant Commander Lesesne's wife, Linda and daughters\nElizabeth, Lisa and Victoria live in Lemoore, California.\nHis mother, Mrs. Emma L. Lesesne, lives in Columbia, South\nCarolina, which is Lieutenant Commander Lesesne's home of\nrecord.\n1 February 1973\nCapt Frederick C. McMurray, 518-50-5739, MIA 12 Sep 72, Fl 29 Jan 73\nWife: udits A. and three children - Reside in Coeur d'Alene, ID with\nhis parents\nCapt McMurray was born on 13 Apr 45, Hastings, Nebraska. He graduated\nfrom the University of Idaho in 1967. From 2 Oct to 21 Dec 67 he attended\nthe Officer Training Course and on 22 Dec 67 was commissioned a 2d Lt in\nthe USAF. He completed navigator training at Mather AFB, CA. in May 1969.\nHe was assigned as weapons systems officer, F-4 aircraft, Seymour Johnson\nAFB, N.C. when he was placed on temporary duty to Ubon Afld, Thailand. On\n12 Sep 72, Capt McMurray, as the weapons systems officer of the number three\naircraft in a flight of four F-4Es; was on an operational mission over &\nheavily defended area in North Vietnam. Just prior to reaching the target\narea, his aircraft was hit by a missile from a MIG aircraft. Two parachutes\nwere seen and voice contact was made with the aircraft commander. However,\ncontact W3S soon lost and further search and rescue efforts were unsuccessful.\nThe names of both Capt McMurray and his aircraft commander, Capt Rudolph U.\nZuberbuhler, appeared on the list of captured personnel presented to our\nGovernment on 27 January 1973.\nBIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR PAUL JOSEPH MONTAGUE\nMAJOR PAUL J. MONTAGUE 38, WAS CAPTURED NEAR PHUBAI, SOUTH VIETNAM\nMARCH 29, 1968, UPON THE CRASH OF THE CH46A HELICOPTER OF WHICH HE WAS\nPILOT. AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE, HE WAS A MEMBER OF MARINE AIR GROUP\n36. HE FIRST JOINED THE ARMED FORCES IN AUGUST 1952. MAJOR MONTAGUE'S\nWIFE MRS. S.J. MONTAGUE (SHIRLEY) AND THEIR ONE SON AND TWO DAUGHTERS RESIDE\nIN SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA. RANK AT TIME OF CAPTURE - CAPTAIN. PRESENT RANK\nMAJOR. HE RANKED FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1968.\n1 February 1973\nIt, Col James Y. Nagahiro, 576-24-7944FV, MIA 21 Dec 72, PW 29 Jan 73\nWife: Alice, K. and four children - Reside in Spokane, Washington\nCol Magahiro was born 17 Apr 32 in Honolulu, HI. He left the University\nof Hawaii in 1952 after completing 65 semester hours. He entered the Air\nForce 25 Mar 53 and began observer/nuvigator training as sa aviation cadet\nMay 53. He was commissioned 2d Lt in Jun 54. He completed pilot training\nin Jul 57 and served in a number of assignments within SAC until his\nassignment to Fairchild AFB, WASH in Jan 72. On 21 Dec 72, while on\ntemporary duty at Andersen AFB, Guam, Col Nagahiro, as aircraft commander\nof a B-52, departed Andersen AFB on a night combat mission over North\nVietnam. The aircraft was downed in the target area and a beeper signal\nwas heard immediately afterwards. Later, more beepers were heard but\nvoice contact could not be made with any of the crew members. Col Nagahiro's\nname appeared 03 the list of captured personnel presented to our Government\non 27 Jan 73.\nThe status of the navigator, Capt Lynn R. Beens, was changed to captured\neffective 22 Dec 72 after Hanoi news releases confirmed his status as\ncaptured. The status of the remaining crew members, Lt Col Keith R. Heggen,\ninstructor pilot, Major Edward E. Johnson, co-pilot, Captain Donovan K.\nWalters, electronic warfare officer, and A1C Charles J. Bebus, gunner, is\nmissing in action.\nLIEUTENANT COMMANDER AUBREY A. NICHOLS, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 678463) (Pilot)\nAubrey Allen Nichols was shot down May 19, 1972, while\non a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an\nA-7 (Corsair II) of Attack Squadron FIFTY-SIX, operating\nfrom the USS MIDWAY (CVA-41). a\nLieutenant Commander Nichols was born January 4, 1940,\nin Tucson, Arizona. He graduated from the United States\nNaval Academy in 1964. Among his duty assignments were\nsquadrons in California and Texas.\nHis wife Wanada and sons Loren and Bradley live in\nLemoore, California. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde P.\nNichols, live in El Paso, Texas, which is Lieutenant Com-\nmander Nichols' home of record.\nLIEUTENANT (JUNIOR GRADE) MICHAEL G. PENN,\nUNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE\n(File No. 761608) (Pilot)\nMichael Gene Penn was shot down August 6, 1972 on a strike mis-\nsion northeast of Haiphong. He was flying an A-7 (Corsair II) of\nAttack Squadron FIFTY-SIX, operating from the USS MIDWAY (CVA-41).\nLieutenant Penn was born on March 13, 1946 in Dallas, Texas.\nHe enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1969, entered the Aviation Of-\nficer Cadet program and was commissioned Ensign in 1970. Prior to\njoining Attack Squadron FIFTY-SIX he served in Attack Squadron ONE\nHUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE.\nLieutenant Penn's wife Carolyn and son Derek live in Lemoore,\nCalifornia, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer G. Penn, live in\nLittleton, Colorado. Lieutenant Penn's home of record is Fort\nWorth, Texas.\nCAPTAIN LEO T. PROFILET, UNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 506413) (Pilot)\nLeo Twyman Profilet was Commanding Officer of Attack Squadron\nONE HUNDRED NINETY-SIX from the USS CONSTELLATION (CVA 64). He\nwas shot down August 21, 1967, while flying an A-6 (Intruder) on\na combat mission over North Vietnam.\nCaptain Profilet was born July 29, 1928 in Cairo, Illinois.\nHe enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1948, and received his\ncommission under the Aviation Midshipman program in 1950. He\nserved at the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, aboard\nthe USS TARAWA (CVS-40), with the Operational Test and Evaluation\nForce, and in squadrons based on both the East and West Coasts.\nHis wife Joan lives in Palo Alto, California with their\nchildren Jana, 18; Joseph 17; and Leo, Jr., 14. Another daughter,\nCathy, is married to William Matthews of Mountain View, California.\nCaptain Profilet's home of record 1s Cairo, Illinois.\nBIOGRAPHY OF SGT RONALD LEWIS RIDGEWAY\nSGT RONALD L. RIDGEWAY 23, WAS CAPTURED IN THE VICINITY OF KHE SANH,\nSOUTH VIETNAM FEBRUARY 25, 1968. THE PATROL OF WHICH HE WAS A\nMEMBER, WAS AMBUSHED BY ENEMY TROOPS. AT THE TIME OF HIS CAPTURE,\nSGT RIDGEWAY WAS A MEMBER OF 1ST BATTALION 26TH MARINE REGIMENT\nTHIRD MARINE DIVISION. HE JOINED THE MARINE CORPS IN APRIL 1967. SGT\nRIDGEWAY IS THE SON OF MR. LEWIS RIDGEWAY OF SHEPHERD, TEXAS AND\nMRS. MILDRED RIDGEWAY OF HOUSTON, TEXAS. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:\nRANK AT TIME OF CAPTURE PVT FIRST CLASS. PRESENT RANK SERGEANT.\nTO RANK FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1969.\nLIEUTENANT STEPHEN A. RUDLOFF,\nUNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 698501) (Radar Intercept Officer)\nStephen Anthony Rudloff was shot down May 10, 1972, while on a\ncombat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying in an F-4\n(Phantom II) of Fighter Squadron NINETY-TWO, operating from the\nUSS CONSTELLATION (CVA-64).\nLieutenant Rudloff was born February 19, 1945, in Brooklyn,\nNew York, enlisted in the Navy in 1964, and was commissioned through\nthe Aviation Officer Candidate program in 1965. His duty assignments\nincluded the Naval Plant Representative Office, St. Louis, Missouri,\nand a squadron based at Miramar, California.\nHis wife, Marie, sons, Geoffrey, Adrian, and daughter, Allyson,\nlive in San Diego, California. His mother, Mrs. Mary J. Rudloff,\nlives in Brooklyn, New York, which is Lieutenant Commander\nRudloff's home of record.\nCOMMANDER ROBERT J. SCHWEITZER,\nUNITED STATES NAVY\n(File No. 571894) (Pilot)\nRobert James Schweitzer was shot down January 5, 1968, while\non a combat mission over North Vietnam. He was flying an A-4\n(Skyhawk) of Attack Squadron ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR,\noperating from the USS KITTY HAWK (CVA-63).\nCommander Schweitzer was born February 25, 1932, in Pottsville,\nPennsylvania, enlisted in the Navy in 1950, and was commissioned\nthrough the Naval Aviation Cadet program in 1953. He served in\nseveral squadrons based in California, on the staff of the Commander\nin Chief, Pacific Fleet, and at the Bureau of Naval Personnel.\nHis wife, Gwendolyn, and sons, Karl and Eric, live in Meadow\nVista, California. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Schweitzer,\nlive in Oreland, Pennsylvania. Commander Schweitzer's home of\nrecord is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immedia te\nSacramento, Californi\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-10-73\n#205\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of Mrs.\nSylvia S. LeSage to another term on the State Board of Cosmetology.\nThe San Mateo housewife has served on the board since July 1969.\nShe is past chairman of the San Mateo Garden Club and is active\nin civic affairs in San Mateo County. She is a graduate of the Burroughs\nSchool of Business in Los Angeles.\nMrs. LeSage, a Republican, will receive $28 per diem and expenses.\nHer term on the board will expire June 1, 1976.\n# # #\nAppointees address:\n1231 Lawrence Expressway\nSunnyvale, California\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROWALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: E: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-10-73\n#206\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Mrs.\nLily (Joseph D.) Cuneo to the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Contro\nBoard. She replaces Mrs. Jean Auer, of San Francisco, who resigned.\nThe term expires September 9, 1976.\nMrs. Cuneo, a Republican, is a housewife and partner in the Malvino\nFurniture Company, in San Francisco. She is married to Joseph D. Cuneo,\nretired executive of the Schlage Lock Company.\nShe is a member of the board of directors of the San Francisco\nOpera Guild, Art Institute, Opera Association, Salesian Boys Club,\nGuide Dogs for the Blind, and Children's Hospital.\nMrs. Cuneo will represent the general public on the board. Members\nreceive necessary expenses.\n######\nAppointee's address:\n3819 Jackson Street\nSan Francisco, California 94118\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571 :\n4-10-73\n#207\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Mrs.\nDorothy J. (Henry A.) Datter, of Santa Maria, to the Vocational\nRehabilitation Appeals Board. She replaces Mrs. Rose Resnick, whose\nterm has expired.\nMrs. Datter, a native of Pasadena, attended Pasadena City College\nand the University of Wisconsin. She is presently a medical transcriber\nfor Marian Hospital in Santa Maria.\nShe is a member of the board of directors ofthe Santa Barbara County\nSociety for Crippled Children, Children's Home Society, Visiting Nurse\nServices, and Committee of Health, Education and Welfare.\nShe has received numerous honors for her public service and was\nnamed Woman of the Year in 1966 by the Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce.\nMrs. Datter, who became blind, in 1956, will represent the blind\npeople on the board. The post, which pays actual and necessary expenses,\nrequires Senate confirmation.\n#####\nAppointee's address:\n3210 Santa Maria Way\nSanta Maria, California\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-16-73\n#208\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of Mrs.\nSue B. (Harold c.) Ely, of Tulare, and the appointment of Fresno dentist\nJack M. Ramos, to the Porterville State Hospital Advisory Board.\nMrs. Ely, a Republican, has served on the board since November 16,\n1972. The Tulare housewife is a member of the State Scholarship Board\nfor the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and a past president of the Tulare\nWomen's Club. She is a charter board member of the Tulare Senior Citizen\nOrganization.\nDr. Ramos, 47-year-old Democrat, replaces Jay M. Akin, of Merced,\nwhose term expired. A native of Fresno, he graduated from Fresno State\nCollege in 1950 and earned his D.D.S. at the University of the Pacific\nin 1954. During World War II, he served with the U.S. Navy.\nHe is married to the former Marie J. Rojas and they have two\ndaughters. Ramos is President of the Fresno Association for the\nMentally Retarded, Cabrillo Club, and professional dental associations.\nBoard members serve three year terms and receive necessary expenses.\n####\nAppointees' addresses:\nSue B. Ely\nJack M. Ramos, D.D.S.\n848 Dickran Drive\n946 North Van Ness\nTulare, California 93274\nFresno, California 93728\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nMEMO TO IE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-11-73\nGovernor Reagan will be the guest of the Northern\nCalifornia Radio and Television News Directors Associa-\ntion today at a luncheon at Posey's, backroom.\n# # #\nGray\nOFFICE OF LOVERNOR NALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmmediate\nSacrament , California 95814\nEd Gray, ress Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-11-73\n#209\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named the members of a special task\nforce whose responsibilities during the next six months will be to take\na careful, comprehensive look at the multi-faceted structure of local\ngovernment in California and recommend ways to make it more efficient,\nmore responsive and less costly to the taxpayers.\nThe task force will be under the overall direction of Lt. Governor\nEd Reinecke who will head a steering committee comprised of members of\nthe governor's cabinet to provide policy guidance to the task force\nmembers. Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., 31, former director of the state Office\nof Economic Opportunity, will serve as chairman of the task force itself\n(previously announced).\nGovernor Reagan said he is asking the task force members to take a\nhard, close, analytical look at the entire structure of local government.\n\"Then, ask yourselves: if you were starting all over again, how would\nyou structure local government to make it the most efficient, most\nresponsive and least costly instrument of the people at the local level?\"\nThe governor emphasized that the task force---known as the Governor's\nTask Force on Local Government--- is not intended as a move toward another\nlayer of government such as some proposals for regional government.\n\"That would merely compound the problem by creating more government.\nOn the other hand, some counties may today be either too big or too small\nto effectively deal with the problems and needs of the 1970s than they\nwere when county lines were first drawn in the horse and buggy era of\nthe last century.\"\nHe said many of the 58 counties in California were formed and the\nboundary lines drawn more than 100 years ago when California was a much\ndifferent, far less populated, place than it is today.\n\"Today, California has some 5,800 units of government below the state\nlevel, including 58 counties, 407 incorporated cities, more than 1,100\nschool districts and almost 4,200 special districts performing one or more\nservices, In the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area alone, there are more\nthan 800 separate taxing jurisdictions, each with a responsibility for a\nspecific service. and each authorized to levy taxes to support its\noperations.\n- 1 -\n#209\n\"The average citizen is not even aware of al. chese different units\nof governme it. The only time he gets a first-hand knowledge of their\nexistence is when he has a complaint about service, or more likely when\nhe receives his property tax bill. When they are looking at that long\nlist of governmental units which their tax dollars are taken to support,\nmany citizens must wonder whether they are getting their money's worth,\nand whether all these different layers of government are really\nnecessary,\" the governor said.\n\"The reform and modernization, indeed the streamlining, of local\ngovernment is, and should be, one of our top priorities. And, it is this\nmajor task which the members of the task force will be tackling in the\nmonths ahead, he added.\nIn addition to the steering committee and the task force itself,\nthe overall effort will include participation by the Council on\nIntergovernmental Relations, and advisory committees to be made up of\nlocal government officials, public administrators, representatives of\nthe academic community, and private citizens. Currently, at the\ngovernor's request, the Council on Intergovernmental Relations is\nconducting public hearings on this subject throughout the state. The\nresults of these hearings will be compiled and then submitted to the\ntask force for consolidation with its own study material.\nThe goal of the Local Government task force effort will be to\nrecommend a comprehensive plan and provide it to the governor, the\nlegislature, local government officials, and the citizens they serve so\nthat they can modernize and streamline their own governmental structures\nto more effectively and efficiently meet the growth needs and changing\nrequirements of all the people of California in the years to come.\nThose who will serve on the governor's task force on local government\ninclude:\nEarl J. Strathman, 58, a former County Administrator in Alameda\nCounty.\nHe previously worked in the Los Angeles County Administrator's\noffice and served as director of the University of South Dakota's\nGovernment Research Bureau.\nHe is a past president of the County Personnel Administrator's\nAssociation of California, a former director of the Western Governmental\nResearch Association and a former vice-president of the American Society\nfor Public Administration.\nStrathman is a Democrat. He will receive $100 per day, plus necessary\nexpenses.\n- 1 -\n18\n#209\nJohn D. Phillips, 64, who has over thirty years' experience in\nmunicipal government as both a city manager and city attorney. He\nrecently retired after serving for seven years as city manager of\nPasadena. Previously, he was city attorney and later, city manager of\nBerkeley.\nPhillips is a past president of the city manager's department of\nthe League of California Cities and is a former Regional vice-president\nof the International City Management Association. Phillips also helped\nto form the Association of Bay Area Governments.\nHe is a Republican. He will receive $100 per day plus necessary\nexpenses.\n-Charles D. Hobbs, 39, with experience in various areas of state\nand local finance, operations management, and computer-based information\nsystems.\nMost recently, he served as a member of the governor's tax reduction\ntask force and as special consultant to the governor for tax and spending\nprograms.\nHe was formerly deputy director for operations in the state\nDepartment of Social Welfare and was one of the principal architects of\nthe California Welfare Raform Program.\nPrior to joining state government, Hobbs was engaged for 12 years in\nmanaging the design, development and operation of computer-based\ninformation systems for military, commercial and public applications.\nHe is a Republican. He will receive $140 per day plus necessary\nexpenses.\n-Allen Hyman, 30, an economist with special interest in the fields of\nurban and transportation economics. He has an AB and MA from UCLA and\nexpects to complete work for his Ph.D. from that institution this year.\nHyman's experience includes work as a Research Economist for the\nstate Office of Economic Opportunity and Southern California Edison Compan\nand as an instructor in finance and economics at the University of\nSouthern California. He is a Democrat. He will receive $75 per day\nplus expenses.\nGregory C. Krohm, 26, an economist who recently completed work for\nhis Ph.D. at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has\na B.A. in Economics from Loyola University of Chicago. His special areas\nof interest have been urban economics and the economics of crime. Krohm's\ndissertation topic was an economic analysis of city annexation policy.\nHis political affiliation is independent. He will receive $75 per\nday plus necessary expenses.\nHawkins, the task force chairman, holds a Doctorate in Political\nScience from the University of Washington where he specialized in the\narea of local government. He will be paid an annual salary of $28,875.\nHe is a Republican.\n#####\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR ONALD REAGAN\nSacramento, Califor 1a 95814\nMEMO 'IV THE PRESS\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-12-73\nEdwin Meese, III, executive assistant to the governor, and other\nmembers of Governor Reagan's staff, will hold a background (on the\nrecord) briefing, and answer newsmen's questions, regarding the use of\nthe new state jet, this afternoon at 3:30 in the governor's office\n(conference room). We are asking that there be no sound-on-film or\nbroadcast tape recorders during the briefing itself but Mr. Meese will\nbe available for radio and television interviews immediately after the\nbriefing.\n######\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nmmediate\nSacramento, Californ:\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-12-73\n#210\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nWilliam G. Cagney, of Carmel, to another term on the Agnews State\nHospital Advisory Board for the Mentally Retarded. He has been a\nmember of the board since December 16, 1970.\nCagney, a 61-year-old Democrat, is theretired Superintendent of\nSchools for San Benito County, a position he held for 25 years. He\nearned degrees at St. Mary's college in Moraga and the University of\nSouthern California in Los Angeles.\nBoard members serve three-year terms and receive necessary expenses.\n#######\nAppointee's address:\nWilliam G. Cagney\nP.O. Box 385\nCarmel, California\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON D REAGAN\nRELEASE:\n:\nediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-12-73\n#211\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nClifton L. Allen of Upland as judge of the newly created San Bernardino\nCounty Superior Court.\nAllen, 48, has been judge of the San Bernardino Judicial District\nMunicipal Court, West Valley division, since April of 1970. The county's\nnew Superior Court was created by the legislature last year.\nA Republican, Allen is a 1948 graduate of Beloit College, Beloit,\nWisconsin. He received his law degree from DePaul University, Chicago,\nin 1951.\nHe is a former president, vice president and secretary-treasurer\nof the Pomona Valley Bar Association. He is presently a member of the\nboard of the San Gabriel Valley Neighborhood Legal Aid offices, and the\nSan Gabriel Valley Lawyers' Reference Service.\nAllen and his wife Virginia have two children. He will receive an\nannual salary of $36,393.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-13-73\n#212\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today called a special election for\nJuly 10, 1973 to fill the unexpired term of Assemblyman Robert T. Monagan\nin the 12th Assembly District, San Joaquin County. The primary election\nwill be held June 12.\nMonagan's resignation was official April 9. He is now assistant\nsecretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation.\n#######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-13-73\n#213\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of\nSan Luis Obispo educator James R. Barlow to another term on the\nCamarillo State Hospital Advisory Board for the Mentally Retarded.\nHe has been a member of the board since December 16, 1970 and his new\nterm extends to December 1975.\nBarlow, 47, a Democrat, is the administrator for special education\nservices in the County Office of Education. He was past chairman of\nthe Coordinating Council for Mental Retardation Service and was also\nformer chairman of the Tri-Counties Regional Center for Mental\nRetardation Services.\nHe earned both his B.S. and M.A. degrees at California State\nPolytechnic College, San Luis Obispo, with majors in administration and\nguidance/counseling, He is married and the father of two children.\nBoard members receive necessary expenses.\n######\nAppointee's address:\nJames R. Barlow\n544 Princeton Place\nSan Luis Obispo, California 93401\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-13-73\n#214\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the nomination of Superior\nCourt Judge James H. Hastings as associate justice of the Court of\nAppeal in the Second Appellate District, Division Five, in Los Angeles.\nThe nomination must be confirmed by the Commission on Judicial\nAppointments. The commission is composed of Chief Justice Donald Wright\nof the state Supreme Court; Attorney General Evelle J. Younger, and\nParker Wood, senior presiding justice of the Second District Court of\nAppeal.\nHastings, 55, succeeds Justice John F. Aiso of Los Angeles. Aiso\nhas retired.\nA Republican, Hastings has been judge of the Superior Court in Los\nAngeles since May, 1972.\nHastings, who was born in Los Angeles, is a 1940 graduate of the\nUniversity of Southern California. He earned his law degree at USC in\n1948, following service with the U.S. Navy during World War II. He is\na retired captain with the naval reserve.\nIn addition to his private practice prior to his appointment to\nthe Superior Court bench, Hastings taught business law at USC, and real\nproperty law at Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles.\nHastings and his wife Margaret have three sons. The family home\nis in Palos Verdes Peninsula. He will receive a yearly salary of\n$43,672.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-13-73\n#215\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bills have\nbeen signed:\nAB 115 - Karabian\nProvides special personal income and inheritance tax\nChapter 19\nbenefits for POW's, MIA's and those who died as a\nresult of service in Vietnam.\nAB 208 - Greene, L. Increases from $30 million to $45 million the amount\nChapter 22\nof funds available to the State Allocation Board for\nthe purpose of making supplemental loans to those\nschool districts which do not have sufficient local\nfunds to meet the matching requirements of the State\nSchool Building Aid Law as it pertains to the replace-\nment of structurally inadequate facilities.\nAB 224 - Keene\nMakes January 25, 1973, a day to be deemed regularly\nChapter 25\nattended by pupils in the public schools for average\ndaily attendance purposes, except with respect to\nschools where the day had previously been set aside\nby the district governing board or county superintend-\nent as a holiday or part of a vacation period or other\nregular school closure period, or with respect to a\nschool which was scheduled to be in session less than\n176 days for the 1972-73 school year.\nAB 498 - Meade\nAllows a registered voter to vote in his precinct even\nChapter 23\nif he moves from that precinct within 30 days before\nan election.\nSB 50 - Holmdahl\nPermits the Education Code provision relating to the\nChapter 24\nadvance of funds to school districts to replace loss\nof specified federal \"impact aid\" to be operative\nbefore commencement of the 1973-1974 fiscal year.\nSB 81 - Song\nRepeals provisions of law that permit civil arrest\nChapter 20\nand imprisonment in those cases which the court has\ngranted a judgment for money and issued a writ of\nexecution for its collection where the defendant does\nnot comply with the court order.\nSB 86 - Kennick\nAuthorizes the Director of the Youth Authority with\nChapter 18\nthe approval of the Director of Finance, to contract\nwith a county to furnish temporary detention facilities\nand related services for juveniles in the custody of\nthe county probation officer.\nSB 117 - Bradley\nIncreases the exemption from property taxation for a\nChapter 16\nblind veteran on his home owned by a corporation of\nwhich he is a shareholder from $5,000 to $10,000.\nSB 136 - Grunsky\nMakes technical amendments to legislation enacted in\nChapter 21\n1972 relating to the payment of workmen's compensation\nbenefits by employers to the state.\nSB 190 - Grunsky\nExtends from 120 days to 180 days the time preceding\nChapter 17\nthe annual meeting of the State Bar within which the\nBoard of Governors shall elect its officers for the\nnext ensuing year.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR\nR\nALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-13-73\n#216\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named R. Palmer Henington of Blythe\nand announced the reappointments of Lee J. Escher of Coachella and\nJack J. Fleming of Brawley to four-year terms as members of the\nCalifornia Regional Water Quality Control Board for the Colorado River\nBasin Region.\nHenington, 55, replaces George D. Werden of Blythe. He attended\nCollege of the Desert at Palm Desert, majoring in turf management.\nHe is a member of the California Turf Grass Association, National\nAgronomy Association and the National Arborist's Association.\nA Republican, Henington is mayor of Blythe's Manpower Commission.\nEscher, 43, a Republican, was first appointed to the board in\nFebruary, 1969. He is a 1952 graduate of the University of Arizona.\nAn oil company wholesale distributor, Escher is a director of the\nCoachella Valley Economic Development Association.\nFleming, a 52-year-old Republican, has been a member of the board\nsince 1969. He is a 1949 graduate of California Polytechnic College at\nSan Luis Obispo. He is a past president of the Brawley Elementary\nSchool Board, and is secretary of the California Beet Growers Association\n(District No. 9).\n#######\nAppointees' addresses:\nLee J. Escher\nR. Palmer Henington\n44-841 Sherwood Drive\n731 Seville Lane\nIndio, California\nBlythe, California\nJack J. Fleming\nP.O. Box 222\nBrawley, California 92227\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR R ALD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-13-73\n#217\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named two new members and announced\nthe reappointments of two present members to the board of directors of\nthe 49th District Agricultural Association which operates the Lake\nCounty Fair.\nNamed to the board for the first time were Mrs. Don (Dorothy A.)\nMcCrea of Clearlake Highlands, and Mrs. O'Day A. Robertson of\nMiddletown. Both are Republicans.\nMrs. McCrea replaces Ernest J. Steen of Lakeport, whose term has\nexpired. Her term will expire in January, 1976.\nMrs. Robertson fills the vacancy created by the resignation of\nLaurence G. Warner of Lower Lake. Her term will expire January, 1974.\nReappointed to four=year terms were Jackson I. McCabe of Upper Lake\nand James L. Shinn of Lakeport.\nMcCabe, a rancher, is a member ofthe board of trustees of the\nUpper Lake Union Grammar School, and a member of the Lake County\nCommittee on School District Organization. He is also a director and\nvice chairman of the Lake County Farm Bureau.\nShinn, a Republican, is Lake County clerk-recorder. He was first\nelected to the post in 1962.\n######\nAppointees' addresses:\nDorothy A. McCrea\nJames L. Shinn\nP.O. Box 366\nP.O. Box 425\nClearlake Highlands, California\nHighway 20\nNice, California 95464\nJackson I. McCabe\nP.O. Box 111\nMrs. O'Day A. Robertson\nMiddle Creek Road\nP.O. Box 25\nUpper Lake, California 95485\nMiddletown, California 95461\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-13-73\n#218\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nApril 16, 1973\nthrough\nApril 22, 1973\nMonday, April 16\nEASTER VACATION\nPhoenix, Arizona\nNo public appointments scheduled\nTuesday, April 17\n7:30 p.m.\nConference of State Bank Supervisors Annual\nBanquet, Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles.\nSpeech.\n10:00 p.m.\nReturn to Phoenix\nOvernight - Phoenix\nWednesday, April 18\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Phoenix\nThursday, April 19\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Phoenix\nFriday, April 20\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Phoenix\nSaturday, April 21\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Phoenix\nSunday, April 22\np.m.\nReturn to Los Angeles\nOvernight - Los Angeles\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-17-73\n#219\nState offices will be closed from 12 noon until 3 p.m. on Good\nFriday, April 20, 1973, Governor Reagan's office announced today\nThe Court of Appeal in San Francisco Monday issued a Writ of\nSupersedeas which permits the governor to give state employees the\ntraditional time off with pay. The time off has been given traditionally\nto allow state employees to attend church services on Good Friday.\nThe San Francisco court ruling stayed a ruling April 6 by the\nAlameda County Superior Court that said it was unconstitutional for\nthe state to give a religious holiday off with pay.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-18-73\n#220\nActing Governor Ed Reinecke today announced he has signed\nlegislation eliminating some of the inequities resulting from the\npassage of Proposition 20, the California Coastal Zone Conservation Act\nof 1972.\nThe measure, SB 256, introduced by Senator James R. Mills (D-San\nDiego), specifically exempts any person from having to get a permit\nunder the coastal zone act if they had already received a permit from a\ncity or county and had started construction prior to November 8, 1972,\nwhen Proposition 20 was approved by the voters.\nUnder Proposition 20, permits on developments from the Coastal Zone\nCommission were required after April 1, 1972.\n\"I am extremely pleased to sign this measure into law because it\nremoves many of the inequities and uncertainties hanging over permit\nrequirements of coastal developments that were already under way prior\nto the approval of Proposition 20,' Reinecke said.\n\"It was unfair to those individuals who had received building\npermits after April 1 of last year and prior to the approval of\nProposition 20 on November 8, who had substantial investments and had\nbegun construction, to require them to stop their projects and apply for\nanother permit.\n\"The uncertainties of the permit requirements are eliminated by this\nnew law, and I am confident that the objectives of the coastal zone act\nwill be better served.\"\nThe bipartisan measure also clarifies the law to state that filing\nfees collected by the various coastal zone commissions will be used to\noffset their operating costs.\nThe bill, containing an urgency clause, became effective with\nReinecke's signature.\n#######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEAS\nImmediate\nSacramento, Cali ,rnia 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-20-73\n#221\nActing Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills\nhave been signed:\nAB 146 - Burke\nRevises the exemption from certain constractual\nChapter 27\nlimitations of contracts for electronic data-\nprocessing work entered into by any school dis-\ntrict in a county with a population in excess of\n1,400,000 to apply where no regional educational\nprocessing center was in operation on July 1, 1972\nSB 256 - Mills\nSpecifically exempts any person from a permit\nChapter 28\nrequirement of the California Coastal Zone\nConservation Act of 1972 for any development,\nif such person, prior to November 8, 1972, rather\nthan April 1,1972, relying on a city or county\npermit, commenced construction and performed\nsubstantial work on the development and incurred\nsubstantial liabilities for work and materials\nnecessary therefor.\nThe bill specifies that all permit application\nfiling fees and reimbursements for expenses shall\nbe credited and appropriated to the California\nCoastal Zone Conservation Commission for\nexpenditure to support the operation of the\ncommission and regional coastal zone conservation\ncommissions.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, Californ:\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-20-73\n#222\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nApril 23, 1973\nthrough\nApril 29, 1973\nMONDAY, April 23\n7:30 pm\n1/2 hour live interview with Governor Reagan on his\ntax limitation-reduction plan, KCRA-TV, Sacramento.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nTUESDAY, April 24\n10:30 am\nPRESS CONFERENCE\n11:00 a.m.\nPresentation of Legion of Merit Award to Assemblyman\nBob Nimmo, Governor's Office.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWEDNESDAY, April 25\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight Sacramento\nTHURSDAY, April 26\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nFRIDAY, April 27\nNoon\nAssociation of California Water Agencies Luncheon,\nWoodlake Inn, Sacramento. Remarks.\nEvening\nYoung Americans for Freedom Dinner, Huntington-\nSheraton Hotel, Pasadena. Remarks.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSATURDAY, April 28\npublic\nNo/appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSUNDAY, April 29\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Los Angeles\n######\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR ONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, Califor La 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-23-73\n#223\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the names of the doctors\nwho have been appointed or reappointed to one of the five District\nReview Committees of the State Board of Medical Examiners.\nThe Review Committees, each composed of five doctors, handle\ncases referred to them by the board involving statement of issues,\nregarding applications, accusations or charges brought against a\ndoctor, and if appropriate, recommends penalties the board should impose.\nCommittee members serve four year terms and receive $28 per diem.\nSelected to the committees are:\n-First District (San Francisco and North Coast area): Dr.\nFrederick P. Shidler, 59, a Republican, of 1840 White Oak Drive, Menlo\nPark, was reappointed. He has served since October 6, 1969.\nDr. BertrandA. Vipond, 49, Republican, of 418 9th Street, Crescent\nCity, was reappointed. He has served since October 3, 1969.\n-Second District (Los Angeles area): Dr. Paul D. Yates, 52, a\nRepublican, of 844 Hermosa Avenue, Hermosa Beach, was reappointed. He\nhas served since October 3, 1969.\nDr. Donald F. Brayton, 60, a Democrat, Director of Continuing\nEducation in Health Sciences at UCLA, replaces Dr. John B. Dillon, of\nLos Angeles, whose term expired. Dr. Brayton lives at 9400 Readcrest\nDrive, Beverly Hills.\n-Third District (Sacramento Valley area): Dr. Jay O. Gibson, 53,\nRepublican, of 572 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico, was reappointed. He has\nserved since October 3, 1969.\n-Fourth District (San Diego area): Dr. Ralph M. King, 61,\nRepublican, whose address is P. O. Box 166, Pine Valley, was reappointed.\nHe has served since October 3, 1969.\n-Fifth District (Central Valley area): Reappointed were Drs.\nJames F. Donovan, of #2 San Dimas Square, Bakersfield, and Robert J.\nRife, of 3006 Fresno Street, Fresno. Both are Republicans and have\nserved on the committee since October 3, 1969.\n####\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-24-73\n#224\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nModesto attorney Frank C. Damrell, Jr., and Los Angeles television\npersonality Mrs. J. Douglas (Treesa Way) Drury, to the Consumer Advisory\nCouncil. The positions, adding two public members to the council, were\ncreated by the 1972 legislature.\nDamrell, 35, a Democrat, is a member of the Modesto law firm of\nDamrell and Damrell. He worked in the Consumer Fraud Unit as a deputy\nin the State Attorney General's office in San Francisco from 1965 to 1966\nand was consumer fraud deputy in the Stanislaus County District Attorney'\nOffice from 1966 to 1968.\nA 1961 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he\nearned his law degree at Yale University in 1964. He was elected as the\nfirst president of the Consumer Federation of California in March 1972,\nand is a member of the board of directors of the California Farmer\nConsumer Information Committee.\nTreesa Drury, a Republican, is the Consumer Affairs Director for\nStation KHJ-TV in Los Angeles. She first began reporting consumer\naffairs in the late 1950s in Michigan and became known in the Los Angeles\narea as a consumer affairs authority through her radio reports on the\nLos Angeles radio station KFWB.\nMrs. Drury was a member of Governor Reagan's Consumer Fraud Task\nForce from December 1970 to March 1973. She belongs to twenty-one\nconsumer and public affairs oriented organizations and is on the board\nof directors of the Los Angeles-Orange County Chapter of the California\nFederation of Consumers.\nCouncil members receive actual and necessary expenses and serve\nfour year terms.\n####\nAddresses:\nFrank C. Damrell, Jr.\nMrs. Treesa W. Drury\n3448 Wycliff Drive\n9520 Amoret Drive\nModesto, California\nTujunga, California 91042\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-24-73\n#225\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nErnest J. Farinha of Auburn to the board of directors of the 20th\nDistrict Agricultural Association. The association sponsors the\nannual Auburn District Fair.\nFarinha, 43, replaces Sally E. Semas of Auburn, who has resigned.\nA Republican, Farinha has been active in 4-H activities in Auburn\nand is a member of the Auburn Fair Boosters Association.\nHis term will expire January 15, 1976.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses when on official\nbusiness.\n######\nAppointee's address:\nErnest J. Farinha\nRoute 2, Box 2283\nAuburn, California\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califorr\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-24-73\n#226\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Robert C. Lindsey of San Jose\nto the Real Estate Commission and announced the reappointments of\nArthur S. Leitch of San Diego and Laurance H. Wilson of Fresno.\nLindsey, a 54-year-old Republican, fills the vacancy created by\nthe death of Grant B. Potter of Dinuba. His term will expire January 15,\n1977. He is a graduate of Long Beach Junior College and took extension\ncourses at the University of California at Los Angeles.\nHe has been president of the Yolo Transport Company in San Jose\nsince 1962. Lindsey is a former member of the California Women's Board\nof Terms and Parole, and is a member of the advisory board of the\nSalvation Army.\nLeitch, 61, a Democrat, was first appointed to the commission in\nJune, 1969. He is a former president of the California Real Estate\nAssociation and served four terms as a member of the organization's\nexecutive committee. He is also a past president of the San Diego\nRealty Board, and is a director of the E1 Cajon Valley Board of Realtors.\nWilson, 65, has served on the commission since 1969. A Republican, he\nis a past president of the California Real Estate Association and is a\nformer vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards.\nHe attended Fresno State College and has served as a lecturer in\nUniversity of California extension courses on investment and syndication.\nHe is also a former member of the University of California Real Estate\nAdvisory Committee.\nLeitch and Wilson were appointed to four-year terms.\nCommission members receive their actual and necessary expenses.\n######\nAppointees' addresses:\nArthur S. Leitch\nRobert C. Lindsey\n91 Bounty\n1344 Avalon Drive\nSan Diego, California 92102\nSan Jose, California 95125\nLaurance H. Wilson\n4932 North Wishon Avenue\nFresno, California 93704\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR NALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-24-73\n#227\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today presented the Legion of Merit Award\nto Assemblyman Robert P. Nimmo, a Colonel in the California Army\nNational Guard. The Legion of Merit Award is the second-highest\nnon-combat honor the United States Army can bestow.\nNimmo won the honor for \"exceptionally meritorious service\" while\nassigned as United States Property and Fiscal Officer for the Califomia\nNational Guard from October 3, 1970 to September 30, 1972.\nUntil just recently, Nimmo commanded the 115th Support Group\nheadquartered in Roseville. He is a former World War II bomber pilot\nand has been active with the California Army National Guard since 1946.\nHe was elected to the state legislature in November 1972 to\nrepresent the people in the 29th Assembly District in Kern and San Luis\nObispo Counties.\nThe commendation cited Nimmo for the \"highest degree of profes-\nsional knowledge, dedication, and aggressive leadership,\" and praised\nhis \"distinguished performance of duty throughout his military career.\"\nNimmo's Legion of Merit certificate is signed by the Secretary\nof the Army Robert F. Froehlke and Lieutenant General Richard G.\nStilwell, Commanding General of the Sixth Army.\nAssemblyman Nimmo and his wife, Patricia, have three daughters.\n######\nMEMO TO THE PRESS:\nPresentation ceremony will be at 11:30 am instead of 11:00 am,\nas was previously indicated, today in the Governor's Office.\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-24-73\n#228\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of\nHoltville insurance executive Ronald A. Lane to another three-year\nterm on the Fairview State Hospital Advisory Board. He has served\non the board since December 16, 1970.\nLane, 35, a Republican, is a special agent for the New York\nLife Insurance Company, specializing in group medical plans, hospitali-\nzation, health and accident insurance. He is a former member of the\nComprehensive Health Planning Association of San Diego and Imperial\ncounties.\nBoard members serve three year terms and receive necessary\nexpenses.\n#####\nAddress:\n1348 Worthington Road\nHoltville, California 92250\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR R\nALD REAGAN\nRELEASF\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-24-73\n#229\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of\nElsinore businessman T. Lewis Cionni and Riverside attorney Dallas S.\nHolmes to the 46th District Agricultural Association board of directors.\nThe association operates the Farmers Fair of Riverside County.\nCionni, a 54-year-old Democrat, is the manager of the Laundry,\nDry Cleaners and Dye House Workers Health Spa #2 in Elsinore. He has\nserved on the board since April 24, 1969.\nA native of Newcastle, Pennsylvania, he spent seven and one half\nyears in the Navy before settling down in Southern California. He is\nmarried and has one daughter.\nHolmes, 32, a Republican, is a member of the Riverside law firm\nof Best, Best & Krieger. He was graduated com laude in 1962 from\nPomona College and earned his Master's degree in Economics in 1964\nfrom the University of London, England, School of Economics.\nHe graduated from the University of California Boalt School of\nLaw in 1967 and entered private practice. From 1969 to 1972 he was\nexecutive assistant to Assemblyman (now Senator) W. Craig Biddle of\nRiverside. Holmes is married to the former Patricia McMichael and they\nare the parents of two sons.\nBoard members serve four year terms and receive necessary\nexpenses.\n#####\nAddresses:\nT. Lewis Cionni\nDallas S. Holmes\n32281 Riverside Drive\n5288 King Street\nElsinore, California 92330\nRiverside, California 92506\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californi 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secret. y\n916-445-4571\n4-24-73\n#230\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced President Richard Nixon\nhas signed legislation providing emergency loans to farmers and growers\nin 17 California counties affected by the March freeze and the drought\nof June 1972.\nThe bill, introduced by Representative William B. Alexander\n(D-Arkansas), amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.\nUnder the bill's authority, farmers and growers in the designated\ncounties may be eligible for the emergency loans, which have a one\npercent interest rate and $5,000 forgiveness feature. Loan applications\nmust be filed with local Farmers Home Administration offices no later\nthan May 8, 1973.\nThe counties were earlier designated natural disaster areas by\nU.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz as a result of the extreme weather\nconditions.\nThe counties designated disaster areas include El Dorado, Fresno,\nKern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Nevada, Placer, San Benito, San Joaquin,\nSan Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Tehama, Tulare, Santa Clara\nand Santa Barbara.\n#######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californi 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-24-73\n#231\nGovernor Ronald Reagan will meet with members of the California\nAdvisory Commission on Marine and Coastal Resources Wednesday at the\ncommission's final meeting, in the governor's council room at 10 a.m.\nGovernor Reagan said the commission had indicated a desire to\nterminate its activities prior to the end of the current fiscal year.\nProposition 20, approved by the voters last November, eliminated the\nneed for the commission.\n\"The commission is to be commended. The people of the state should\nbe thankful for the expert advice given on the complex problems of\nocean and coastal management activities,' the governor said.\nCommission chairman Robert B. Krueger said resignations of CMC\nmembers will be handed in after the meeting.\nThe commission now has a membership of 28, including six legislators\nThe agenda for tomorrow's meeting includes comments by Chairman\nKrueger and by committee chairmen of the commission; comments by\nSecretary for Resources Norman B. Livermore, Jr.; and comments and a\npresentation by Governor Reagan.\n#######\nMEMO TO PRESS:\nGovernor Reagan is scheduled to be at the meeting at 10:45 a.m.\nWalthall\n4/24/73\nThe following statement was released by phone to\nAP and UPI:\n\"As of today, some 11,130 concerned citizens\nin California had contributed-- in small denominations\nof 1, 2, 5, 10 and 15 dollars more than $140,000 to\nhelp reduce taxes and keep them down. The average\ncontribution has been about $10.\n\"Because this is a broadly-based, grass-roots\ncitizen effort, the name of every citizen contributor\nand his contribution- no matter how small it is-- will\nbe made public (by Californians for Lower Taxes) when\ncampaign receipts and expenditures are filed, in\naccordance with the law.\n######\nGray\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, Califor. 1 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-25-73\nThe Madera Chamber of Commerce and artist Connie Prochold will\npresent the governor with a picture painted by Miss Prochold of the\ngeographical center of California today at 11:15 am in the governor's\noffice. Press coverage is invited.\n#####\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR T NALD REAGAN\nRELEAS\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-25-73\n#232\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the a ppointment of Paul\nF. Dauer of Sacramento as the Director of the Office of Administrative\nHearings, in the Department of General Services. He replaces Donald R.\nWagner of Newport Beach, who resigned.\nDauer is presently working in the Chief Counsel's Office in the\nDepartment of General Services as principal legal advisor to the Office\nof Procurement. He first entered state service in September 1965 as\nassociate legal counsel in the Department of Water Resources. He moved\nto General Services in 1971 after an eleven month assignment as Senior\nAssistant City Attorney for Santa Barbara.\nThe 33-year-old Republican attended Ripon (Wisconsin) College for\ntwo years and was graduated from the University of California, Santa\nBarbara in 1962 with a B.A. degree in economics. He earned his law\ndegree at the University of Michigan in 1965, finishing in the top one\nthird of his class.\nDauer is married and the father of one child. The family resides\nin Sacramento.\nThe appointment, which requires Senate confirmation, is effective\nMay 1, 1973. The position pays an annual salary of $23,940.\n######\nGarcia\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secre ry\n916-445-4571\n4-25-73\n#233\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nHarold E. Watts of Sacramento as superintendent of the California\nConservation Center at Susanville.\nWatts, 52, succeeds William G. Black who has retired. The\nappointment is subject to confirmation by the state Senate.\nA Republican, Watts has served 26 years in the Department of\nCorrections. He has been assistant deputy director of the Management\nServices Division since 1970.\nPrior to becoming assistant deputy director, Watts was business\nmanager for a number of correctional facilities including the California\nRehabilitation Center at Corona; Deuel Vocational Institution at Tracy;\nCalifornia Correctional Institution at Tehachapi; California Institution\nfor Women at Frontera, and the Southern Conservation Center at Chino.\nWatts was also in charge of procurement and services at the\nCorrectional Training Facility at Soledad.\nA native of Los Angeles, Watts attended Glendale Junior College\nand has completed numerous police science courses at Chaffey College,\nAlta Loma, Bakersfield College, and Delta College in Stockton.\nHe and Mrs. Watts have five children.\nWatts will receive an annual salary of $24,540.\n######\nAppointee's address:\nHarold E. Watts\n865 Maidu Lane\nSusanville, California\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secre.ary\n916-445-4571\n4-25-73\n#234\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named four new alternate members to\nthe Intergovernmental Board on Electronic Data Processing.\nThe new alternates are Gordon F. Snow, assistant to the secretary\nof the Agriculture and Services Agency; Walter P. Mendoza, manager,\nAutomated Information Services of the Department of Justice; Charles W.\nFarrell, director, Health and Welfare Agency's Consolidated Data Center,\nand Laurence J. Turner, chief, Division of Computer Systems, Department\nof Water Resources.\nSnow replaces the late Jerry Fielder, director, Department of\nAgriculture; Mendoza replaces R. L. Smith, who is no longer with the\nDepartment of Justice; Farrell replaces Walter L. Barkdull of the\nDepartment of Corrections, and Turner replaces A. Alan Hill, who is no\nlonger with the Resources Agency.\nAlternates to the 14-member Board on Electronic Data Processing\nreceive no extra compensation.\n######\nAppointees' addresses:\nGordon F. Snow\nCharles W. Farrell\n3101 North El Macero Drive\n42 Starglow Circle\nEl Macero\nSacramento\nWalter P. Mendoza\nLaurence J. Turner\n6800 Shalimar Way\n8204 Rensselaer Way\nCitrus Heights\nSacramento\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Califor\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-25-73\n#235\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced approval by the U.S. Depart-\nment of Labor of California's occupational safety and health plan.\nThe plan was submitted by the state under the provisions of the\nfederal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.\n\"Approval of California's plan assures ongoing and even better\nprotection of our working men and women, Governor Reagan said. \"I wish\nto commend all those who took part in the task of meshing the federal\ncriteria with the state's existing industrial safety program which was a\nmodel for the nation.\"\nThe state plan was developed under the direction of an advisory\ncommittee appointed by the governor. It originally was submitted to the\nregional office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration\n(OSHA) last September and was resubmitted in December after being\nreturned for modification. Approval was authorized by Assistant Labor\nSecretary John Stender after detailed study and review.\nUnder the terms of the federal act, state inspectors will enforce\nstate industrial health and safety laws and federal inspectors will\nenforce federal laws during a transition period of three to four years.\nThe state will assume complete jurisdiction at its conclusion.\nApproval of the plan also made the state eligible for 50 percent\nfederal funding of its occupational safety and health activities.\nApplication already has been made for a $5 million grant.\nLegislation has been introduced both in the Assembly, by\nAssemblyman Jack R. Fenton (D-Montebello) and the state Senate by\nSenator Fred Marler (R. Redding) to implement provisions of the state\nplan.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR NALD REAGAN\nRELEASE\nImmediate\nSacramento, Califor a 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-25-73\n#236\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of five new\nmembers to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board for the\nLos Angeles Region which includes Los Angeles County and part of Ventura\nCounty.\nThe new members include Gayle T. Martin, city manager of Manhattan\nBeach; Ira R. Calvert of Azusa; Stanford V. Smalley of Palos Verdes\nEstates; Milton R. Beychok, Huntington Beach, and Mike N. Repovich of\nPasadena.\nMartin, 54, who declines to state his political preference, fills\nthe vacancy created by the resignation of Edward J. LeClair of La Mirada.\nMartin has been city manager of Manhattan Beach for 16 years. He has a\nBS degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado and a\nMasters Degree in public administration. He is a rear admiral in the\nU.S. Naval Reserve.\nCalvert, a 62-year-old Republican, replaces Lester Louden of Los\nAngeles. Louden has resigned. Calvert is secretary-manager of the Azusa\nValley Water Company. He is director of the Upper San Gabriel Valley\nWater Association, and past president and director of the San Gabriel\nValley Municipal Water District,\nSmalley, 42, is a Republican, and director of administration for\nthe Teledyne Life Insurance Company in Los Angeles. He is chairman of\nthe City Planning Commission of Palos Verdes Estates. Smalley has a BS\ndegree in engineering from the University of California and a Masters\nDegree in business administration.\nBeychok, 50-year-old Democrat, replaces Allan Harris of San Gabriel\nwho has resigned. Beychok is manager of environmental engineering for\nFluor Engineers and Constructors, Inc., of Los Angeles. An expert in\nrefinery and petrochemical plant wastewater treatment, Beychok holds a\nBS degree from Texas A&M in chemical engineering. He is a member of the\nWater Pollution Control Federation.\nRepovich, 53, a Republican, replaces William B. Burr, Jr., of Ojai.\nBurr has resigned. Repovich is the owner and manager of an apartment\ncomplex in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses when on official\nbusiness.\n#####\nAddresses:\nWalthall\nGayle T. Martin\nStanford V. Smalley\n645 14th Street\n2724 Via Anita\nManhattan Beach 90266\nPalos Verdes Estates 90274\nIra R. Calvert\nMilton R. Beychok\nMike N. Repovich\nP.O. Box W\n17142 Courtney Lane\n465 Orange Grove Circle\nAzusa 91702\nHuntin\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE Immediate\nSacramento, Califo la 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-25-73\n#237\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Norman B. Hume of Sacramento and\nRobert W. Wickenden of Alturas to four-year terms on the California\nRegional Water Quality Control Board for the Central Valley Region. He\nalso announced the reappointments to four-year terms of Charles E. Glick\nof Visalia and Vernie Raven of Dos Palos.\nThe Central Valley Region includes the counties of Modoc, Shasta,\nTehama, Plumas, Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Lake, Sutter, Yuba, Sierra, Nevada,\nPlacer, Yolo, Solano, Sacramento, E1 Dorado, Amador, Calaveras,\nStanislaus, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare,\nKern and Alpine.\nHume, 68-year-old Republican, replaces Richard D. Andrews of Fresno.\nAndrews has resigned and his term has expired. Hume is the former\ndirector of the Bureau of Sanitation in the Los Angeles Department of\nPublic Works. He also served from 1967-72 as member of the state Water\nResources Control Board.\nWickenden, 57, a Democrat, fills the vacancy created by the\nresignation of Marvin E. Ray of Modesto. Wickenden is a former senior\nsanitary engineer with the state Department of Public Health, and is\npresently city engineer of Alturas in addition to his private engineering\npractice. He is the former county engineer for Modoc County and served\nas director of the county planning commission.\nGlick and Raven, both Republicans, were first appointed to the\nboard in March, 1969. Glick is a past president of the Corning Memorial\nHospital and the Colusa County Historical Society. He is one of the\nfounders of Early California Foods, Inc., of Los Angeles.\nRaven, 69, is a Dos Palos area farmer. He is chairman of the board\nof directors of the Dos Palos Drainage District and is a director of the\nPoso Soil Conservation District.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses.\n######\nAppointees' addresses:\nCharles E. Glick\nNorman B. Hume\n2611 Fairview Drive\n2730 Morley Way\nVisalia 93277\nSacramento 95825\nVernie Raven\nRobert W. Wickenden\nRaven Bros. Ranch\n1505 Juniper Street\nRt. 1, Box 64\nAlturas 96101\nAuburey Road\nDos Palos 93620\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immedi\nSacramento, Californ's 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secrt Try\n916-445-4571\n4-26-73\n#238\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has proposed an increase in the 1973-74\nState Parks budget by $91, 599 to assure opening this summer of 4,000\nacres of new park system lands in the Santa Monica Mountains.\nUnder normal budget scheduling, funds for the project would not have\nbeen available for at least another year, the governor noted.\n\"We couldn't allow 4,000 acres of recreational open space within\nthe city limits of Los Angeles to lie unused even for one season when\nthe need there is so great, \" the governor said. \"This way we can provide\nlimited use while long-range plans are being made for more permanent\ndevelopment.\n\"The opportunity came to us this spring when the California State\nParks Foundation acquired a key parcel that will connect with other lands\nthe state has purchased or been given over the past few years.\"\nThe 1,700 acres of new property acquired by the foundation is\nadjacent to the Topanga Canyon areas already owned by the state park\nsystem.\nThe new lands will be opened for picnicking, hiking, horseback\nriding, and other day-use activities shortly after July 1, according to\nWilliam Penn Mott, Jr., director of the California Department of Parks\nand Recreation.\nThe legislature must act upon the augmentation in considering the\n1973-74 budget.\nThe $91,599 will provide two rangers and a maintenance man, plus\nseasonal help for peak use periods. It will also pay for two four-wheel\ndrive vehicles, a small fire pumper truck, and sanitary and other\nequipment necessary for operation of a park.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, Californ:\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-27-73\n#239\n(Here is some additional information which Governor Reagan will\nincorporate in his speech today to the Association of California\nWater Agencies luncheon at the Woodlake Inn, 12 noon)\nGovernor Reagan announced that a poll of its members by the\nNational Federation of Independent Business in California shows that\n93 percent of those businessmen surveyed support his initiative\nconstitutional amendment to reduce taxes and limit the share of the\npeople's earnings which the state can take in taxes in the years ahead.\nThe National Federation of Independent Business is made up,\nin part, of thousands of small and medium-size businesses in California.\nHere are the latest results of the NFIB survey conducted\nrecently among its members in California:\n1.\nQUESTION:\nWhat is your opinion of\nFOR\nAGAINST\ndispensing the current\n$850 million surplus in\n4,746\n525\nthis manner (the manner\n86%\n9%\nproposed by Governor Reagan) ?\n2.\nQUESTION:\nWhat is your opinion of this\n5,147\n269\nincome tax rate reduction\n93%\n5%\n(7.5% ongoing) ?\n3.\nQUESTION:\nWhat is your opinion of this\n5,170\n262\ntotal program (the governor's\n93%\n5%\nInitiative Constitutional\nAmendment) ?\n4.\nQUESTION:\nWhat is your opinion of\n4,955\n390\nplacing the law on prop-\n89%\n7%\nerty tax limitations (per\nSB 90) in the State Con-\nstitution?\n5.\nQUESTION:\nWhat is your opinion of\n5,091\n328\ngranting this permission\n92%\n6%\n(to meet contingencies\nwhich may arise periodic-\nally; to allow the state\nto shift specific tax bur-\ndens while maintaining the\nlimit on the total tax burden; and to re-\nquire a 2/3 vote of the legislature and\napproval by the governor for any increase\nin state taxes, per the góvernor's initiative) ?\nThe headquarters of the National Federation of Independent\nBusiness is located in San Mateo, California, telephone 415-341-7441.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, Califor\na\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secr ary\n916-445-4571\n4-27-73\n#240\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nApril 30, 1973\nthrough\nMay 13, 1973\nMonday, April 30\nNoon\nBrief appearance at World Affairs Council Luncheon\nhonoring ex-POW, Lew Shattuck, Crystal Room, Bilt-\nmore Hotel, Los Angeles. Brief remarks.\n12:15 p.m.\nExecutive Directors Association of Independent\nCalifornia Colleges and Universities Luncheon,\nGold Room, Biltmore Hotel. Remarks.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nTuesday, May 1\n3:00 p.m.\nVisit by the \"El Cid\" Musical Group of Mexican-\nAmerican children (students in 9th to 12th grade\nfrom Calexico) who will sing for Governor,\nGovernor's Office.\nOvernight - Sacramento\nWednesday, May 2\nNoon\nDistrict Kiwanis Convention Luncheon, Senator Hotel,\nSacramento. Remarks. (Governor will arrive at\nabout 12:45 p.m.)\n4:00 p.m.\nVideotaping of one-half hour interview on Governor's\nproposed tax reduction-limitation program, KFMB-TV,\nSan Diego.\n7:30 p.m.\nState Convention of California P.T.A., San Diego\nCommunity Concourse. Speech.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nThursday, May 3\nNo public appointments scheduled\nOvernight - Sacramento\nFriday, May 4\n10:00 a.m.\nSwearing-in of Solid Waste Management Board,\nGovernor's Office\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSaturday, May 5\n10:00 a.m.\nAzusa-Pacific College Commencement Exercises, Azusa.\nSpeech.\nOvernight - Los Angeles\nSunday, May 6\nDepart for New York\nOvernight - New York City\nMonday, May 7 - Tuesday, May 8\nNo appointments scheduled\nOvernight - New York City\nWednesday, May 9 - Friday, May 11\nRepublican Governor's Conference, Park Lane Hotel,\nNew York City\nOvernight - New York City\nSaturday, May 12\nEvening\n\"The Business Conference\" Banquet, The Homestead,\nVirginia. Remarks.\nOvernight - Virginia\nSunday, May 13\nReturn to Los Angeles\nQuernight Los Angeles\nEJG\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secre :y\n916-445-4571\n4-30-73\n#241\nGovernor Ronald Reagan this morning proclaimed a state of\nemergency in Sacramento and Placer counties because of the damage\ncaused this past weekend when 22 railroad cars loaded with 250 pound\n\"Mark 81\" bombs began exploding in the Southern Pacific Railroad Yard\nnear Roseville.\nThe governor's action will make property tax relief available to\nindividuals and businessmen affected by the explosions.\nIn expressing his shock over the disaster, Governor Reagan, added:\n\"I join all Californians in being grateful to God that there\napparently were no deaths despite the destructive force of the explosions\n\"I also want to commend local, county and state agencies, along with\nthe private citizens and volunteer organizations for their response to\nan extremely dangerous situation. I am sure they held down the number\nof injuries,\" the governor said.\nThe California Office of Emergency Services, assisted by the local\ngovernments and the state Office of Architecture and Construction reports\nthe following preliminary revised damage assessment:\nPrivate Damage\n10 homes destroyed @\n$2,145,000.00\n$18,000 each.\n$ 200,000.00\n50 homes major struc.\ndamage @ $5,000 each\n250,000.00\n75 homes major damage @\n$3,000 each\n225,000.00\n200 homes major to minor\ndamage @ $750.00 each\n150,000.00\n20 ranch/out buildings\ndamage @ $1,000 each\n20,000.00\n10 commercial buildings\ndamage @ $100,000 each\n1,000,000.00\n650 homes/buildings glass\ndamage @ $500.00 each\n320,000.00\nPersonal property damage\n$ 500,000.00\nTotal Private Damage\n$2,665,000.00\nPublic Damage\n$ 280,000\n2 schools\n250,000.00\n1 fire station\n30,000.00\nTotal Public Damage\n$ 280,000.00\nUtilities - no report at this time\nRailroads - no report at this time\nDebris and Wreckage Clearance\n$ 550,000.00\nPublic and Private Property\n- 1 -\n#241\nThe Southern Pacific Railroad Company has opened a claims office\nat 601 Douglas Boulevard, Roseville, telephone 916-782-3708, where the\ncompany will process claims from individuals who suffered losses because\nof the explosions. Southern Pacific has informed the governor's office\nthey \"want victims of the disaster to be quickly and justly compensated.\"\nInvestigations into the cause of the disaster are being conducted\nby the federal Department of Transportation and Southern Pacific.\n######\nWalthall\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-30-73\n#242\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of Mrs.\nWilliam (Wynona W.) Wright of Napa to a three-year term as a member\nof the Advisory Board for the Mentally Retarded at Napa State Hospital.\nMrs. Wright was first appointed to the advisory board in 1970.\nA Republican, she is a past president of the Napa Council for\nRetarded Children and treasurer and member of the executive board of\nthe Napa Community Work and Training Center for the Handicapped. She\nis also chairman of the Foster Grandparent Advisory Council at Napa\nState Hospital.\nAdvisory board members receive their necessary expenses when on\nofficial business.\n#####\nAddress:\n1622 Shasta Avenue\nNapa, California 94558\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN\nRELEASE,\nImmediate\nSacramento, Californi_ 95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-30-73\n#243\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appoinment of Richard\nH. Svihus, M.D., director of the Health Services Agency of Santa Cruz\nCounty, as a member of the State Solid Waste Management and Resource\nRecovery Advisory Council.\nThe appointment, which expires July 1, 1976, requires confirmation\nby the State Senate.\nDr. Svihus, a 42-year old Republican, is a 1952 graduate of the\nUniversity of California at Berkeley. He graduated from the University\nof California Medical School in San Francisco in 1955. He also holds\nMasters and Doctorate Degrees in public health from Johns Hopkins\nUniversity in Baltimore.\nA native of San Francisco, Dr. Svihus is a diplomat to the American\nBoard of Preventive Medicine in Public Health and the National Board of\nMedical Examiners.\nDr. Svihus is a former district health officer of the Contra Costa\nCounty Health Department, 1965-68.\nAdvisory Council members receive $28 per diem and travel expenses\nwhen on official business.\n####\nAddress:\n121 Seaborg Place\nSanta Cruz, California 95060\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\n95814\nEd Gray, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n4-30-73\n#244\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of eight\nmembers to the board of directors of various District Agricultural\nAssociations.\nMembers reappointed and their districts, include:\n18th District, which sponsors the Eastern Sierra\nTri-County Fair, Nick W. Mandich, Sr., a Democrat from Bishop, and\nWilliam F. Manahan, a June Lake Republican;\n--23rd District, sponsor of the Contra Costa County Fair, Robert D.\nGromm, Sr., a Republican from Bethel Island, and Vance W. Perry,\nWalnut Creek, who is a Republican;\n--39th District, sponsor of the Calaveras County Fair and Jumping\nFrog Jubilee, J. L. (Ike) Moore, an Angels Camp Republican, and\nRobert L. Maben, a Republican from Martell;\n-45th District, sponsor of the California Mid-Winter Fair at\nImperial, James F. Tuttle, an Imperial Republican and R. Lom Thompson\na Republican from El Centro.\nMembers receive their necessary expenses when on official duty.\n####\nAppointees' addresses:\nNick W. Mandich, Sr.\nWilliam F. Manahan\nMandich & Fowler Streets\nPost Office Box 205\nBishop, California 93514\nJune Lake, California 93529\nRobert D. Gromm, Sr.\nVance W. Perry\nPrince Harbor Trailer Park\n1638 Main Street\nPost Office Box 447\nPost Office Box 43\nBethel Island, California\nWalnut Creek, California 94597\nJ. L. (Ike) Moore\nRobert L. Maben\nStar Route\nStar Route\nAngels Camp, California\nWest Point, California 95255\nJames F. Tuttle\n314 North G\nImperial, California 92251\nR. Lom Thompson\nWalthall\n1900 West Main Street\nEl Centro, California 92243\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nEd Gra\" Press Secreta\n916-44 4571\n4-30-73\n#245\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement\nregarding a report by Legislative Analyst A. Alan Post on the governor's\nproposed revenue control and tax reduction program:\n\"It is not at all surprising to me that Mr. Post doesn't favor\nthis effort to reduce and limit taxes. Nor should it come as a surprise\nto anyone who has observed his continuous support for his bossès'\nhigher government spending proposals and expansion of government control.\n\"His dire predictions have increasingly supported the big spenders\nin the legislature who have consistently opposed this administration's\nefforts to clamp down on spending, and this may be the reason why Mr.\nPost's fiscal predictions have turned out to be so wrong.\n\"Even though Mr. Post's office was envisioned as a non-partisan\ncheck against excessive spending by state government, his forebodings\nof fiscal chaos unless the state spent more money and increased taxes\nhave missed their targets completely.\n\"Here are some examples of the horrendous errors Mr. Post and\nhis staff have made.\n\"Rather than the $712 million budget deficit which he predicted\nin 1971, we now have a budget surplus of between $700 million and\n$850 million which has resulted in large part from our welfare reforms.\n\"He said our reforms would not work and that they would not\naffect or reduce state spending. He couldn't have been more wrong.\nThese reforms, in fact, dramatically reversed the skyrocketing welfare\nburden on the people.\n\"For the first time in the state's history our welfare caseload\nhas dropped by more than quarter of a million persons, compared to the\n40,000 recipients we were adding each month to the roles before the\nreforms went into effect.\n\"Last year he challenged our welfare savings estimates as being\ntoo high and said delays in implementing the new welfare reform law by\nwelfare rights groups were very likely to transform the administration's\nplanned savings into increased costs. Yet, as the California Journal\npointed out later, Mr. Post's early caseload estimate was wrong and\nthe Department of Social Welfare's was right.\n-1-\n#245\n\"Instead of the huge tax increase he had proposed, the state is\nnow in the healthiest financial condition in many years without the\nnew and higher taxes he had said were necessary. We even have a huge\nsurplus which the state doesn't need, and which I propose to return to\nthe people.\n\"He also labeled the budget I proposed for fiscal 1971-72 'the\nProperty Tax Increase Act of 1971.' Yet when the counties had set\ntheir tax rates for the following fiscal year, 42 of our 58 counties\nreported reductions in their basic ounty tax rates.\n\"Last year he charged that our budget had short-changed education,\nYet state support for public schools this fiscal year is some 48.6\npercent more than it was in fiscal 1966-67. And, as a result of the\npassage of SB 90, state support for our public schools in the coming\nfiscal year will be nearly 93 percent more than the state provided in\nfiscal 1966-67, despite the fact that projected enrollment for fiscal\n1973-74 will be only 5.7 percent higher than in fiscal 1966-67. The\nfact is state aid to our schools has increased almost three times as\nmuch as enrollment growth, plus inflation, during that period.\n\"For one who has been so wrong in his predictions to again parrot\nthe precursors of misery and ruin who not only oppose our efforts to\ncut taxes, but also have consistently urged higher and higher spending\nlevels, is very difficult to understand.\n\"We simply cannot continue to tax and spend, spend and tax the\npeople's earnings without disastrous consequences The day of\nreckoning is at hand. We dare not ignore the lessons of history.\n\"It is my responsibility as governor to try and reduce taxes\nnot only this year, but on a permanent basis. Mr. Post seems to feel\nthe state should have unlimited taxing authority, and his efforts to\ndecry the details of our program are consistent with that philosophy.\n\"I believe there must be a limit on this authority, if our free\neconomy and our private enterprise system is to survive.\n\"The fact is, taxes are already too high. The carefully drawn\nplan we have proposed with the help of some of America's leading tax\nexperts and economists can and will reduce taxes and reverse the\nupward spiral toward an ever increasing tax burden in the years ahead.\n\"Again, I am extremely disappointed that Mr. Post has chosen to\nabandon the interests of the taxpayers and has instead embraced the\npolicy positions of those free-spending leaders in the legislature by\nwhom he is employed.\"\n# # #\n-2-\nGray"
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