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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Folder Title: Press Releases - January 1974
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Statement issued Tuesday, January 1, 1974 by Governor Reagan pertain-
ing to the death of Congressman Charles H. Teague (R-Ventura) I
Governor Reagan said Congressman Teague's death "saddened
the holiday season for all Californians."
"Congressman Teague was a devoted public servant with a
long and distinguished record of service to his district, the
people of California and the nation," the governor said.
"He was a man of great insight and his loss will be felt
by California and his colleagues in the Congress for a long time.
"Mrs. Reagan and I extend our deepest condolences to his
family."
# # #
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californ 95814
Clyde Walthall, Pres. Secretary
916-445-4571
1-4-74
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GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
January 7, 1974
through
January 13, 1974
Monday, January 7
2:00 p.m.
YPTV (Press Conference Room #1190)
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, January 8
8:00 a.m.
Governor's Prayer Breakfast, Senator Hotel.
Remarks.
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, January 9
11:00 a.m.
State of the State Address, Assembly Chambers,
State Capitol
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, January 10
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, January 11
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, January 12
10:00 a.m.
Ceremony reactivating the 40th Infantry
Division (Mechanized) of California National
Guard - Armed Forces Reserve Center, Naval
Air Station, Los Alamitos. Remarks.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, January 13
No appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-4-74
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SCHEDULE FOR BRIEFING OF NEWSMEN
AND RELEASE OF THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET FOR FISCAL 1974-75
Copies of the Local Assistance Budget will be available to
newsmen in the Governor's Office (at the receptionist's desk) at
9:30 a.m., Monday, January 7.
The Local Assistance Budget will be embargoed for Tuesday p.m.'s
January 8.
Verne Orr, director of the Department of Finance, will hold a
briefing for newsmen on the Local Assistance Budget at 10:30 a.m. in
Room 1190 on Monday, January 7. The information given at this briefing
also is embargoed for Tuesday p.m. release.
The governor's State Operations Budget will be available to
newsmen in the Governor's Office (at the receptionist's desk) at
8 a.m. Wednesday, January 9. It is embargoed for Thursday p.m.'s,
January 10.
Orr will conduct a briefing on the State Operations Budget at
8:30 a.m. in Room 1190 on Wednesday, January 9. Information from this
briefing is also embargoed for Thursday p.m.'s, January 10.
Once again -- and consistent with our policy of the last few
years -- we are asking that motion picture sound-on-film cameras and
tape recorders not be used at these two budget briefings. However,
newsmen wishing to use silent and still cameras to film the briefings
are welcome to do SO.
Following the two briefings on the budgets, Mr. Orr will be
available for interviews. Newsmen, however, should keep in mind the
Tuesday and Thursday p.m. embargoes.
An advance text and breakdown of the Governor's State of the
State Message will be delivered to newsmen at 1 p.m., Tuesday, January 8.
It is embargoed for release after 11 a.m. Wednesday, January 9.
Governor Reagan will deliver his State of the State Message at 11 a.m.
on January 9.
# # #
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC ALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ... 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-4-74
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Barry D. Whittlesey of Carmichael as state director of housing and
community development.
The appointment, requiring Senate confirmation, carries an annual
salary of $28,296. Whittlesey will serve at the pleasure of the governor.
Currently the state Department of Health's deputy director for
legislation, Whittlesey succeeds Robert J. DeMonte, now director of the
governor's office of planning and research.
The 50-year-old Republican has been with the Health Department
since last March, after joining the state Health and Welfare Agency as
assistant to the secretary for legislation in 1971. For seven years
before that, he was an administrative assistant to Senator Gordon
Cologne.
Between 1958 and 1964, Whittlesey was assistant city manager and
planning director for the cities of Indio and Colton.
The long-time Coachella Valley resident served four years during
World War II as an enlisted man in the U.S. Navy and two years as a
commissioned officer following his graduation from Annapolis in 1949.
Whittlesey had his own insurance business in the early 1950s. He
ran unsuccessfully for the 75th Assembly District seat in 1970.
His many community activities included serving on the President's
Community Lay Committee for Education and the Citizens' Committee for
Master Plan Development. He has held offices in the American Legion,
Indio Exchange Club, Coachella Valley Advisory Planning Committee and was
a district deputy for the BPO Elks.
Whittlesey has been a member of the Republican State Central
Committee since 1964.
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Address:
4935 Heatherdale Lane
Carmichael 95608
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
TUESDAY P.Ms.
Sacramento, Californ
95814
ANUARY 8, 1974
Clyde Waltball, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-7-74
PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE
RELEASE
#4
HIGHLIGHTS
LOCAL ASSISTANCE BUDGET
The governor's Local Assistance Budget for 1974-75 increases state
contributions to local government by 3.8 percent, from $6,360,210,784
(1973-74) to $6,599,800,515 (1974-75)
EDUCATION (K-14)
The proposed governor's budget includes approximately $2.662 billion
for financing both local elementary and secondary schools, grades K-12,
and community colleges, grades 13 and 14.
Of this total, $2.166 billion is allocated for direct local support
of grades K-12; $307.3 million is allocated for local support of
community colleges; $6.2 million is earmarked for community college
student financial aid; $135 million for the state contribution to the
Teachers' Retirement Fund, and $48 million for debt service on Public
School Building Bonds.
K-12 Education
The proposed budget includes approximately $2.349 billion for
financing local schools (including Debt Service on local school bonds
and Teachers' Retirement), grades K-12. Of this total, $2.346 billion is
from the General Fund. This represents a 74 percent increase in state
support to K-12 local schools since Governor Reagan first took office.
During the same period, it is estimated that the average daily attendance
in grades K-12 will have increased only 1.1 percent and the cost of
living, as measured by the U.S. Consumer Price Index, 41 percent (1967-68
to projected 1974-75).
During the current fiscal year, total expenditures for grades K-12
are estimated at about $2.224 billion General Fund, including Debt
Service on local school bonds and Teachers' Retirement. Thus, the state
contribution to local schools, General Fund, is increased $122 million
over the current fiscal year.
Passage of AB 1267, Chapter 208, Statutes of 1973, provides a
statutory cost of living increase to California school districts
beginning in 1974-75. This legislation increases the State Foundation
Program levels by $60 per elementary and high school ADA in 1974-75, and
provides for future cost of living increases in Foundation Program levels.
A $60 increase per ADA will provide a 6.3 percent increase for high school
and 7.8 percent increase for elementary schools.
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California's burg oning population of young p-ople led to a
concentration on providing "more" education in the 1960s. With a leveling
off of K-12 enrollment, there is now the opportunity to concentrate on
"better" education:
1. Through the Development Centers for Handicapped Minors, the state
provides a special program for severely handicapped children to help these
special children live a more normal and adjusted life. Since 1962 when
the development centers began as pilot programs, the number of children
served has increased from 32 to more than 2,700 in 1974. In 1973 the
program will expand by 200 children and in 1974 by an additional 100. This
will be achieved by a 1974-75 budget augmentation of $990,000 for a total
program budget of $6,012,630.
2. Early Childhood Education was started in 1973-74 fiscal year with an
appropriation of $25 million to fund specialized educational programs for
school students, kindergarten through the third grade. Through the efforts
of the early childhood education program, it has been possible to provide
school districts with the latitude of serving their students through a
consolidation of ECE and other primary grade categorical aid programs.
Within 1974-75 an additional $15 million is provided for Early Childhood
Education increasing the state effort in this program to $40 million in
1974-75.
3. During the 1974 legislative session, the governor will propose
bilingual education legislation to enhance the educational opportunities
of students whose language and culture differ from those of the dominant
society. It is estimated that within this group of school children there
exists a 37 percent school dropout rate as compared to a 16 percent
dropout rate for children in the total population. Four million dollars
($4,000,000) has been included in the 1974-75 Department of Education
budget for the purposes of the anticipated legislation.
Community Colleges
The governor's proposed 1974-75 budget for California's 97 community
college campuses includes $307.3 million General Fund in direct local
support and an additional $6.2 million for Student Assistance, During the
current fiscal year, state General Fund expenditures for these purposes
are estimated at $266.1 million.
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The 1973-74 tota includes $66.5 million of .ew state financing for
community colleges which was made possible by the enactment of SB 6
(Chapter 209, Statutes of 1973). It provides for (1) an increase in the
state foundation program level from $643 to $1,020 per student, (2) local
property tax relief, and (3) for the first time, future statutory cost of
living increases in the state foundation program. In 1974-75 the state
foundation program will increase by $60 per student, a 5.8 percent
increase per ADA.
State support for the community colleges has increased 241 percent
since Governor Reagan took office, while the average daily attendance in
community colleges has increased 66 percent.
TAX RELIEF-SHARED REVENUES
The proposed 1974-75 budget will provide $1.059 billion in tax
relief. This does not include $75 million in tax credits for renters.
Thus, direct tax relief totals $1.134 billion, an increase of $71 million
over the amount allocated during the current fiscal year.
The homeowners property tax exemption will total $668.5 million, an
increase of $17.2 million over 1973-74. The business inventory tax
relief program will total $261.5 million, or $39.6 million more than the
current year.
Property tax relief for senior citizens is budgeted at $60.1 million,
and $20 million is included to reimburse local government for the open
space program under provisions of the Williamson Land Conservation Act.
Payments to local government under the provisions of SB 90 (1972)
for sales and property tax revenue loss will total $4 million in 1974-75.
Renters' tax relief, which provides an income tax credit and/or
refund, will total $120 million with direct payments of $45 million.
This is an increase of $5 million in direct payments to renters.
Shared revenues (money collected by the state and returned to local
governments to finance various programs) will total $738 million in
1974-75.
HEALTH PROGRAMS
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
In 1974-75 it is estimated that $2.46 billion will be expended from
all sources (including Federal Funds) for local assistance for health
programs by the Department of Health. $1.057 billion of this total is
from the state General Fund).
The 1974-75 budget for local assistance proposes $1,000,000 in
General Fund to provide services under the newly enacted Child Health
screening program AB 2068 (Chapter 1069, Statutes of 1973).
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The 1974-75 loca assistance budget also pr oses $181.9 million
from the General Fund for Developmental Disabilities, an increase of
more than $11 million.
There will be three new regional centers for the Developmentally
Disabled established in 1974-75, two in the Los Angeles area and one in
San Joaquin County. This will bring to 19 the number of such centers
in
established since 1965. An additional $4.9 million/General Fund has been
proposed to serve increased caseload in the regional centers in 1974-75.
It is expected that a new Medi-Cal Intermediary System will be
implemented in 1974-75. The system will combine the best features of
the current Medi-Cal Management System and Medi-Cal Intermediary
Operations and provide quick and accurate information on claims, providers
and other information needed to manage the Medi-Cal program.
DEPARTMENT OF BENEFIT PAYMENTS
The Department of Benefit Payments (formerly the Department of
Social Welfare) provides benefits to welfare recipients of $785 million
in 1973-74 and $864 million in 1974-75. This increase of $79.4 million
includes necessary expenditures to cover the provisions of AB 134 (1973),
the state legislation implementing Title XVI of the Federal Social
Security Act (HR 1). Included within the 1973-74 budget is an increase
of approximately $61 million which will fund the necessary changes in
the current fiscal year as a result of HR 1.
It is estimated in 1974-75 the Department of Benefit Payments will
provide services to 1,911,000 welfare recipients exclusive of those
receiving food stamps. This average monthly caseload reflects a
reduction of approximately 382,000 recipients below that of March 1971,
the start of the governor's welfare reform program.
STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD
Chapter 508, Statutes of 1970, and Proposition 1 of the 1970 general
election, authorized the sale of $250 million in general obligation bonds
These funds are used to pay the state's share of costs for construction
of water quality control projects throughout California. In fiscal year
1974-75, this bond authorization will be fully obligated. Chapter 994
passed by the legislature and signed by the governor in 1973, places a
new Clean Water Bond issue of $250 million on the June 1974 general
election to continue the grant program. Passage of this bond act will
provide approximately $40 million in clear water program benefits in
1974-75.
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R'
MBURSEMENT OF LOCAL GOVERN
NT
FOR STATE MANDATED PROGRAMS
This budget is the first to reflect the cost of reimbursing local
governmental entities under the provisions of SB 90, Chapter 1406,
Statutes of 1972. The legislation requires the state to pay for
additional costs of local government resulting from revenue losses or
program increases associated with state mandates. The budget for fiscal
year 1974-75 includes over $14 million to pay local governmental entities
for costs arising from the enactment of 12 bills which met the criteria
of SB 90 regarding reimbursement for legislative mandates. In excess of
$3 million will be expended for mandated costs during fiscal year 1973-74.
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Walthall
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: AFTER 11 A.M. WEDNESDAY
Sacramento, California 5814
J. JARY 9, 1974
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-8-74
PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE
RELEASE
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GOVERNOR REAGAN
1974 STATE OF THE STATE MESSAGE
"
Governor Ronald Reagan today urged the legislature to "cast
politics aside" to meet the energy crisis, assure public confidence in
government and otherwise make the decisions necessary for progress and
prosperity in California during 1974. In his annual State-of-the-State
address, Governor Reagan outlined a comprehensive 30-point program,
including steps to make the Secretary of State a non-partisan elective
position and to establish new safeguards against higher taxes.
Beginning his eighth year as California's chief executive, the
governor also called on the people of California to reduce their fuel
and power consumption 10 percent to help conserve energy while longer
term solutions are going forward.
While 1974 is an election year, the governor said: "It is not a
time for politics as usual. Governomment's only reason for existing
is to serve the people. If we are to serve their needs, we must cast
politics aside. We must demonstrate that government deserves the
public's trust."
He said although economic activity is expected to be reasonably
strong this year, the energy crisis would cause a downturn in state
revenues. "But to answer one question you may have, the budget I present
to you this week will be balanced. The scheduled (20 to 35 percent)
income tax rebates and property tax reductions will go forward. I see
no need for any general tax increases this next fiscal year.'
In his televised remarks to a joint session of the legislature, the
governor reviewed some of the major achievements during the past seven
years, including a cumulative total of more than $4 billion in tax relief,
property tax reform, vastly improved state support for schools, and
stronger criminal penalties. He singled out the bi-partisan support for
welfare reform for special mention and said it had become "a model for
the nation.' 11
"One thing is clear,' the governor said. "We served the people best
when we paid more attention to the problems and less to the politics."
ENERGY CRISIS
His proposal for a 10 percent power and fuel cutback was listed with
other steps already taken and forthcoming to help ease the energy crisis
on a short term basis, including reduced speed limits, daylight savings
time and a reduction in state energy use.
To further relieve the short-term problem, the governor:
--Urged that the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve be opened to pump
enough oil for current military needs, freeing a comparable amount of
fuel now being consumed by the military from other sources for use in
meeting civilian needs.
--Pledged that California would cooperate fully in any national
program to conserve and fairly apportion available fuel and electric
power.
But he said agriculture and industry must receive a high priority in
any allocation program because cutbacks in those areas could mean fewer
jobs. "It will do little good for someone to have all the gasoline he
can use, if he has no job to drive to because the industry for which he
worked is shut down by an energy or fuel shortage."
While those steps will help, the governor emphasized that the long
term answer to the energy crisis is for the state and nation to act now
to "free America forever of dependence on unstable foreign oil that can
be turned on and off at will, by those who would use world commerce for
economic blackmail and coercion. "If we can put a man on the moon, we
can find ways to heat and light our homes and industries,' he said.
As part of this long term effort, the governor said the state is
exploring the possibility of adding new hydro-electric units at Oroville
Dam and other existing dam sites to expand "this source of smog free
electricity." He also recommended that planning start now for any
facilities necessary to receive oil from Alaska's North Slope.
And, for the third year in a row, the governor urged legislative
action on power plant siting. His administration, the governor said, is
prepared to work with the lawmakers "to reconcile our obvious differences"
on power plant siting procedures.
ELECTIONS REFORM
Noting the increasing responsibilities of the Secretary of State's
office in elections and reporting of campaign contributions, Governor
Reagan proposed a Constitutional Amendment to make this office a non-
partisan position similar to the state superintendent of public
instruction. Such a step, he said, is necessary to eliminate any
suggestion of partisanship in the supervision of election and campaign
laws.
He also called for an independent citizens commission on elections
to review ballot measures, monitor election reforms and otherwise
"protect the integrity of the entire election process. II
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"Such a commission could establish campaign and election policies
in the same way the state Board of Education guides educational policy,'
the governor said.
In another major reform proposal, Governor Reagan unveiled a
legislative package designed to control government costs and hold down
taxes. "It is essential to reduce and limit the tax burden on our people
if our free economic system is to survive, he said. "Even while
differing over specifics, many of you have said (only recently) that
legislative action can control the size and cost of government. I ask
you to take that action this year. "
The key part of the package is a proposed Constitutional Amendment
requiring the legislature to return to the governor a balanced budget
or propose specific new taxes to bring it into balance, The state
Constitution now requires the governor to submit a balanced budget and
to propose higher taxes, if necessary, to make sure it is balanced,"
the governor said. "Since two safeguards are better than one, I shall
ask you to pass a Constitutional Amendment imposing the same restraint
on the legislative branch. "
Another emphasis this year, he said, would be to present to the
legislature the findings and recommendations of his task force on local
government reform. The task force is nearing the end of a year-long
review of California's governmental structure and will propose ways to
streamline it and restore a greater degree of local autonomy. "All of us
may find that the facts challenge many of our own long-held beliefs and
assumptions, the governor said.
In other areas, he called again for mandatory prison sentences for
criminals who use weapons, tougher probation and parole policies; a law
to make the California Ecology Corps permanent and announced plans for an
Academy for Educational Management to help administrators gain the
experience necessary to manage public schools more efficiently and
economically.
Here, in brief, are the 30 major points in Governor Reagan's
State-of-the-State address:
BALANCED BUDGET/NO NEW TAXES
1. Announced that the 1974-75 budget would be balanced, scheduled
property tax reductions and income tax rebates on 1973 income would go
forward as scheduled.
2.
Said he sees no need "for any general tax increases this next
fiscal year."
CONTROLLING COSTS/REDUCING TAX BURDEN
3. Called for a Constitutional Amendment that would require the
legislature to return to the governor a balanced budget or propose
specific new taxes, if necessary, to balance it. (This would impose
on the legislative branch the same fiscal restraint that now requires a
governor to submit a balanced budget or propose whatever taxes necessary
to bring it in balance.)
To further encourage "realistic budgeting," the governor asked for
a package of laws requiring that:
4. --Any bill costing $1 million or more must provide for increased
revenues to finance it or specify how the budget could be reduced to
absorb the new spending program.
5. --All bills with a fiscal impact must include a synopsis declaring
the measure's cost for the first four years.
6. --Every bill imposing major new costs must include a separate fiscal
analysis noting whether it can be financed within existing revenues or
if new taxes are required. "If a tax increase is necessary, this fact
and the amount of new taxes required should be spelled out clearly and
simply, in capital letters."
7. Said the state should adopt a policy now of phasing out bridge tolls
as bond debts that financed these structures are paid off.
ENERGY CRISIS ACTION
Reviewed the short term actions already taken, including daylight
savings time, reduced speed limit, cutbacks in state energy and fuel use,
and:
8. Asked all Californians to help meet the challenge of the energy
crisis by reducing their own energy use by 10 percent.
9. Urged the federal government to open the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
to pump enough oil to meet military requirements, freeing gasoline and
fuel for civilian needs until more permanent solution to energy shortage
is achieved.
10. Declared that "California stands ready to cooperate fully in any
national program to conserve and fairly apportion available fuel and
electric power."
11. Urged a "high priority" for agriculture and industry because "any
severe cutbacks of energy for industry and agriculture mean fewer jobs.
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Longer-Term Solutions
12. Renewed his call for legislative action to speed authorization and
approval of "environmentally protected nuclear power plant sites" and
said the administration was prepared to work with the legislature to
"reconcile our obvious differences" on this matter.
13. Announced that the state was exploring the possibility of adding
new generating units at Oroville and other existing dams, to expand
hydroelectric production's "smog free electricity."
14. Because California has no ports capable of handling super tankers,
said state must begin planning now for any facilities necessary to
receive oil from Alaska's North Slope when it is available.
15. Said the state must also move forward on solar energy research,
geothermal energy development and every other promising means of meeting
energy needs.
16. Declared that "where energy needs conflict with environmental goals,
we must strike a reasonable balance."
ELECTIONS REFORM
17. Asked the legislature to propose to the people a Constitutional
Amendment making the office of Secretary of State a non-partisan office,
selecting this official on the same basis as the non-partisan state
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
18. Proposed a Citizens Commission on Elections to serve as an
independent body to review and analyze initiatives and other ballot
measures and to monitor election reforms and campaign practices.
CRIME/CORRECTIONS
19. Urged the legislature to consider recommendations by the governor's
select committee on law enforcement problems to "streamline our criminal
justice system and otherwise strengthen our ability to protect the law
abiding."
20. Announced he would again propose a law to "impose mandatory prison
sentences for those who commit a crime while armed."
21. Advocated stricter controls on probation policies and said: "where
there is any doubt in granting probation or parole, the doubt must be
resolved in favor of protecting society."
EDUCATION
22. Announced plans for an "Academy for Educational Management, If to
help train and assist administrators in managing public schools
efficiently and economically.
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23. Announced he would ask Trustees of State College and University
system to create a Doctor of Arts program to give full-time teaching
"the professional recognition it deserves."
24. Said any laws involving school labor disputes must not "compromise
the public's right to decide educational policy, through their elected
boards and officials."
EMPLOYMENT/WELFARE REFORMS
25. Said the administration would explore with labor and business
leaders ways to minimize the impact of unemployment because of the
energy crisis.
26. Noted that reorganization has now created the Employment Development
Department, with specific stress on job development and placing qualified
workers into jobs.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
27. Urged support for $250 million park bond issue on June 1974 ballot.
28. Said he would ask legislature to make the Ecology Corps permanent
(it was created by executive order).
29. Thanked the legislature for bi-partisan support in passing law that
gives California "the nation's strongest forest practices regulations.'
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
30. Announced the task force on local government reform would soon offer
a "sweeping review of our entire governmental structure" and the state
would propose ways to restore local control in local government, making
it easier to create smaller units of government and "to consolidate where
that best serves the people.
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Walthall
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press secretary
916-445-4571
1-7-74
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Elizabeth S. Getty, R.N., of Rancho Cordova and Sister Myrtle
Weyker of Inglewood today were appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan as
members of the Board of Nursing Education and Nurse Registration,
Department of Consumer Affairs.
Their appointments fill unexpired terms ending June 1, 1975
of registered nurses Gordon L. Ogden of Santa Cruz and Sister Felice
Sauers of San Diego, both of whom resigned.
Mrs. Getty, 48, has been a staff nurse in the allergy clinic
at Permanente Medical Group in Sacramento since 1967.
Born in Canada, Mrs. Getty graduated from high school and nursing
school in Manitoba, She has obtained college credit at Sacramento
City College.
Prior to joining Permanente she was on the staff of St. Boniface
Hospital in Canada, Bethesda Hospital in Minnesota, Sutter General and
Mercy Childrens hospitals in Sacramento. Her husband, Eugene, is president
of the Folsom Cordova School Board. They have two children.
Sister Weyker, 42, has been assistant administrator for nursing
at Daniel Freeman Hospital in Inglewood since September 1972.
Wisconsin-born, she attended high school there and in Arizona,
Mount St.Mary's College in Los Angeles and St. Mary's Hospital School
of Nursing in Tucson.
She received a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University
of Arizona in 1960 and a master's in nursing from UCLA in 1965.
Before coming to Daniel Freeman Hospital, she was director of
nursing at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tucson for more than 11 years.
Sister Weyker is a member of the American Nurses Association and
serves on its national commission on nursing services. She was a member
of the Arizona State Board of Nursing for six years and was active in
that state's nursing association, Tucson Community Council, Diocesan
Pastoral Council and Sisters Council of the Diocese of Tucson.
She is a member of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondolet.
Both appointees are Republicans and each will receive $25 per day.
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Elizabeth S. Getty
Sister Myrtle Weyker
2652 Chassella Way
536 Grace Avenue
Rancho Cordova 95670
Inglewood 90301
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Donald I Brandt of Durham today was appointed by Governor
Ronald Reagan to the board of directors of the 3rd District Agricultural
Association's Silver Dollar Fair in Chico.
Brandt, 36, teaches vocational agriculture at Chico Senior High
School. His appointment fills the vacancy created by the death of
Leslie E. Wolbert of Paradise. His term expires January 15, 1976.
Brandt, a Republican, served as secretary-manager of the Butte
County Fair in Gridley from 1965 to 1969. Besides his teaching
activities, he is active in Future Farmers of America, 4-H and Little
League. He is a past dad advisor for DeMolay.
His interest in agriculture and fairs was stimulated during his
high school years by showing livestock at fairs.
Brandt and his wife have two children. Except for 4-½ years in
Gridley, he has lived continously in Durham.
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Route 1, Box 1090
Durham
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Dr. Willie B. Phillips of Los Angeles as a member of the State Board
of Optometry, Department of Consumer Affairs.
The 53-year-old Republican fills the vacancy created by the
resignation of Dr. Marvin R. Poston of Danville. The term expires
June 1, 1975 and pays $25 per diem.
Dr. Phillips has practiced in Los Angeles for 21 years. He
is a graduate of Northern Illinois College of Optometry.
He is a member of the Methodist Church, a past exalted ruler of
the Elks Lodge and a past commander of the American Legion.
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4931 Maymont Drive
Los Angeles
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Dr. J. M
Stubblebine as director of the new state Office on Aging, which came into
being January 1 as a result of 1973 legislation.
Stubblebine, , has been director of the state Department of Health
since its inception last July 1.
The Office on Aging, part of the Health and Welfare Agency, will be
the single state agency for coordination and administration of federal
funds under the Older Americans Act. The office, with an annual budget of
$14 million, is charged with developing solutions to problems of
transportation, health, income, housing and nutrition for California's
more than 2.5 million elderly.
Coordination of programs for the aged has been the responsibility of
the Commission on Aging, which, when reappointed, will function as an
advisory body.
"Dr. Stubblebine has done an outstanding job of bringing together the
state's diverse health and social service programs, the governor said.
"Over the past year he has succeeded in taking three separate departments
and molding them into a single functioning unit. I am confident he will
carry out the new and special responsibilities of identifying and
resolving the special needs of the aged in a similar exemplary manner. "
Reagan said Stubblebine's managerial skills, coupled with his
intimate knowledge of the state's health and social service programs, are
valuable additions to the programs for the elderly.
Stubblebine joined the Reagan administration in July 1971 as director
of the Department of Mental Hygiene. In October 1972 he was named to
spearhead the incorporation of Mental Hygiene, Public Health and Health
Care Services departments into a single Department of Health. Included
in the consolidation were social services from the Department of Social
Welfare and alcoholism programs from the Department of Rehabilitation.
A graduate of the University of Oregon Medical School in 1951,
Stubblebine has served in medical capacities in San Francisco, Sonoma,
Napa and Marin counties, as well as San Quentin Prison and the University
of California Medical Center at Davis. He is on the staff of the UC Davis
Medical School.
Dr. Stubblebine's annual salary will be $36,793. He and his family
live in Sacramento.
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#10
Governor Ronald Reagan today called a March 5 primary and April 2
special election in the 13th Congressional District to fill the vacancy
created by the January 1 death of Representative Charles M. Teague.
Teague, a 64-year-old Republican, served in Congréss for 20 years.
The 13th District, as presently constituted, includes most of
Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
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HIGHLIGHTS
STATE OPERATIONS BUDGET
Comparison of 1973-74 Revised Budget
with Governor's Proposed 1974-75 Budget
(In millions of dollars)
TOTAL BUDGET
(All Funds)
Revised
Proposed
Dollar
Percent
1973-74
1974-75
Change
Change
LOCAL ASSISTANCE
$6,360.2
$6.599.8
$239.6
+3.8
STATE OPERATIONS
2,929.7
2,916.3
-13.4
- .5
TOTAL
$9,289.9
$9,516.1
$226.2
2.4
BOND FUNDS
354.2
296.4
-57.8
-16.3
GRAND TOTAL
$9,644.1
$9,812.5
$168.4
1.7
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TOTAL BUDGET
(General Funds)
1973-74
1974-75
Percent
Revised
Proposed
$ Change
Change
Local Assistance
$5,492.4
$5,782.4
$290.0
+5.3
State Operations
1,873.4
2,029.5
156.1
+8.3
TOTAL
$7,365.8
$7,811.9
$446.1
+6.1
STATE SURPLUS AND FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING
At the conclusion of the current year budget as of June 30, 1974,
the state will have on hand $27.6 million of General Fund Surplus, plus
$186.5 million of unexpended Federal Revenue Sharing. The surpluses as of
June 30, 1975 are currently estimated at $105.4 million of General Fund,
plus $167 million of unexpended Federal Revenue Sharing Funds. In
addition, all 1974-75 expenditures will be within the limitations of
Proposition 1 which was on the November, 1973 ballot.
HIGHER EDUCATION
University of California
Governor Reagan is proposing an overall General Fund support budget
including salary increases for the University of California of $493.1
million in 1974-75, an increase of $38.8 million over the current 1973-74
level of support. This represents an 8.5 percent increase over the
1973-74 budget.
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Enrollment growth represents the largest factor of this increase
with some $10.6 million needed to handle enrollment increases. Also
included in the 1974-75 budget is the continuation of the 1973-74
appropriation of $1 million for the improvement of undergraduate teaching;
continuation of the 1973-74 appropriation of $1.3 million for the
Extended University; $500,000 of new monies to be used for the purpose
of developing and implementing intra-and intersegmental library systems;
and an additional $980,000 of new monies to improve the University's data
processing management information systems.
California State University and Colleges
The governor's proposed 1974-75 General Fund support budget for the
California State University and Colleges is increased 8 percent over the
1973-74 level. It is up $35.3 million, from $444.9 million to $480.2
million, including proposed salary and employee benefit increases.
Budget augmentations are directed toward program improvements and
maintenance. Of key importance in the 1974-75 program are the following
proposals: $1.5 million to undertake a major library development project
intended to improve library usage dramatically through automation and
interlibrary cooperation; $1.3 million for computing support, primarily
to increasing student access to computers---throughtimesharing
The 1974-75 budget also continues $1.4 million to be used for
instructional innovation and improvement, and provides approximately
$500,000 for such projects as expanding the credit-by examination program,
augmenting the external degree program which reaches adults not served
through traditional higher education, and for a pilot program to determine
the services needed by disabled students, who now number 5,000 in CSUC.
UC and CSUC Salaries
The governor's budget recommends salary and benefit increases of
$18,775,000 at the University of California and $20,516,000 at the
California State University and Colleges. Faculty salaries at these
institutions will be increased by 4.73 percent and 5.45 percent
respectively. These increases are commensurate with national salary
trends as indicated by the studies compiled for each segment by the
Coordinating Council for Higher Education. Non-faculty salaries will be
increased an average of 3.7 percent.
California Postsecondary Education Commission
Planning for postsecondary education will be undertaken by the
California Postsecondary Education Commission, The Commission, which
begins operations on April 1, 1974, will have broader planning powers and
a budget of $858,600. It will for the first time bring independent
colleges and proprietary institutions into the regular planning process.
Financial Assistance to Students
The proposed budget will increase the number of lower income students
able to pursue academic and career programs in postsecondary education as
well as help relieve the squeeze placed upon students from middle-income
families hard pressed to meet the rising costs of higher education today.
The state General Fund will provide $58 million in direct assistance
to students for their financial needs in 1974-75 through the State
Scholarship and Loan Commission, educational opportunity programs,
matching funds to take advantage of federal aid programs, and fee weivers
at the University of California and California State University. In
addition, the University of California will spend more than $10 million
for student aid from federal reimbursements for operations and facilities
supported by the state.
The dramatic growth of funds available to students through the state
Scholarship and Loan Commission in the past seven years from $5 million to
the proposed $43 million presents dramatic evidence of the governor's
commitment to assisting students in postsecondary education. In
accordance with legislation signed by the governor, there will be an
increase in the state Scholarship Program in the number of awards from
27,403 in 1973-74 to 32,134 in 1974-75 and the maximum award ceiling will
increase from $2,200 to $2,500.
The Occupational Training Grant Program, created in 1972, will
receive an additional $177,000 in 1974-75 in order to fund first and
second-year occupation training students. Educational opportunity
programs to assist students delayed by poor preparation, low income and
social conditions were first established under this administration and
will receive a proposed $11.5 million in the budget year.
In total, state support for student financial aid not only allows
deserving students to pursue postsecondary education but offers them
choice among the types of programs career and academic and the type
of institution, public or private.
CAPITAL OUTLAY-EDUCATION SYSTEMS
University of California
On the general campuses of the University, the governor is proposing
the expenditure of $84.8 million in state and educational fee funds. Of
this total, $10 million is specifically for the purpose of correcting
seismic and life safety deficiencies; $12 million to correct library
deficiencies at the Berkeley and Santa Barbara campuses; and $40.9 million
from the 1972 Health Sciences Act including a new dentistry facility
on the San Francisco Campus and expanded veterinary medicine facilities
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California State University and Colleges
For the state University and Colleges, the governor is proposing
the expenditure of $32.8 million on state funds. Of this total $22.3
million will correct structural deficiencies, provide for future
planning, make existing and funded buildings operable, construction
facilities needed to fully utilize existing campuses and to provide for
a balanced campus, and $10.5 million will provide facilities for
enrollment growth.
Community Colleges
The governor is proposing $14,054,600 of state appropriations for
the California Community College System. This capital outlay program
includes $4,332,500 for land acquisition, site development, and
utilities; $10,332,500 for classroom facilities; $15,582,300 for science
and vocational technology programs; and $13,701,400 for libraries,
physical education facilities, cafeterias, theatres, and administration
and maintenance facilities. The total program will be financed through
the electorate approved Community College Construction Bond Act of 1972.
K-1.2 Education
In 1973, the legislature appropriated $3,100,000 for site
acquisition and preliminary engineering work for relocating the existing
state schools for the blind and deaf located in Berkeley. The 1974-75
Capital Outlay Program appropriates an additional $19,942,000 for
designing, constructing, and equipping replacement residential,
educational, and support facilities.
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STATE DEPARTMENTS
Salary Increases and Employee Benefits
The 1974-75 budget includes funds to provide salary increases of
approximately seven percent over the amount currently being received
by state employees. These raises are designed to keep civil service
employees' salaries in line with comparable salaries in private
industry. The total funds provided include $69.5 million as a 1974-75
equivalent to funds that have been frozen in the 1973-74 year by the
Cost of Living Council and an additional $38.6 million for raises over
and above that amount.
In addition, there is $44.9 million to provide a fringe benefit
package for state employees and state university non-faculty employees.
The benefit package is equivalent to a 3.1 percent salary increase for
civil service employees.
There also will be reserved $69.5 million for 1973-74 civil
service employees that will be released when the Cost of Living Council
permits the current year employee salary increase.
California Highway Patrol
The 1974-75 budget for the Highway Patrol includes approximately
$1,200,000 for the Abandoned Vehicle Abatement Program. The primary
method of removing the estimated 240,000 presently abandoned vehicles
and the 100,000 annually abandoned is by contracting with those city
and county governmental agencies that wish to conduct the program
themselves. It is estimated that between 300 and 500 contracts will
be processed in 1974-75. An estimated 120,000 abandoned vehicles will
be removed from the roadways in 1974-75.
Approximately $393,000 is provided to fund two additional zones
to facilitate highway patrol operations in the areas of San Luis Obispo
and San Bernardino. In the past these two zones have been managed from
Los Angeles.
Department of Motor Vehicles
The budget for the Department of Motor Vehicles contains an
increase of $2.1 million to implement a system of year-round vehicle
registration as required by Chapter 889, Statutes of 1973. In addition
to equalizing the workload associated with the registration process,
the year-round registration system will also result in an even cash
flow into the Motor Vehicle Account and Motor Vehicle License Fee
Account of the Transportation Tax Fund.
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Parks and Recreation
The number of visitor-days Californians and out-of-state visitors
will spend in our state parks during 1974-75 will total approximately
44 million dollars.
The governor's new budget will provide $2,805,000 in additional
support for the operation of our growing state park system. These
increased funds will provide additional staffing and operating expenses
at Lake Perris ($341,434), Huntington State Beach ($242,856), Lake
Oroville ($161,560), and Seacliff State Beach ($138,875). Twenty-three
other parks account for the remainder of the increased expenditures.
The 1974-75 capital outlay budget for the department proposes
expenditures of approximately $20 million in new projects. Some of the
major areas proposed for development in 1974-75 include Lake Perris
($3,728,215), Bolsa Chica State Beach ($2,353,837), Peace Valley
($2,279,871), San Gregorio State Beach ($1,764,500), Border Field
($1,422,243), Ritter Canyon ($1,294,334), and Lake Oroville ($1,093,600).
Department of Conservation
The Forest Practice Act of 1973 established a new Board of Forestry
and mandated new logging procedures such as more specific timber
harvesting plans and more involved inspections of timber operations as
well as more concise inspection reporting procedures than previously
existed. To meet these objectives, the budget includes $1,350,000
to finance the administration of the program.
Department of Health
Consolidation of the various state health programs into the
Department of Health has provided both greater effectiveness in delivery
of health services to the citizens of California and economy in staffing
and operating the various programs. Support expenditures for the
Department of Health in 1974-75 are proposed at $102.5 million including
$51.0 million from the General Fund.
The 1974-75 budget includes $640,000 in additional funds to
operate Patton State Hospital as a facility to serve Penal Code
patients as well 25 Developmentally Disabled patients.
Department of Corrections
The governor's proposed operations budget for the Department of
Corrections in 1974-75 is $155,543,326, an increase of $8.5 million or
5.8 percent. In addition, $2,715,000 is proposed for capital outlay.
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Funding increas
in operations include prc sions for estimated
growth in prison population and parole caseload. The average daily
institution population is expected to rise to 24,105 from 22,545.
Staffing will be added to meet the requirements of the Gagnon VS.
Scarpelli decision. The decision requires that counsel be provided for
certain parolees at hearings for possible return to prison.
The capital outlay budget provides $2.5 million for security and
structural modification of the south block at San Quentin State Prison.
Department of the California Youth Authority
The proposed 1974-75 General Fund budget for the Department of the
California Youth Authority is $64.1 million, an increase of $1.8 million
above the 1973-74 level. Commitment rates to the department are
expected to remain relatively stable. The increase in institution
population is a result of increased length of stay by Youth Authority
wards.
Department of Employment Development
The Employment Development Act of 1973 created the Department of
Employment Development and assigned to it the duties and responsibilities
of the Department of Human Resources Development.
The accounts and tax collections, along with the auditing functions
of the Department of Human Resources Development, are transferred to
the newly created Department of Benefit Payments. The activities of
the Commission on Aging are transferred to the newly created Office on
Aging which will coordinate the state's efforts in assisting this
state's 2.7 million persons 60 years of age and older.
The department will expend $1.4 billion in 1974-75, including
$15.1 million from the General Fund.
Department of Rehabilitation
Effective October 1, 1973, the disability determination activities
were transferred to the Department of Health. Proposed expenditures for
1974-75, despite the transfer of these activities, will show an overall
increase. The major increase will be $4.5 million in additional federal
funding to expand the program for rehabilitation of the disabled.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PROGRAM
The secretaries for Resources and Business and Transportation have
proposed a total expenditure of $4 million from the California
Environmental Protection Program Fund (personalized motor vehicle
license revenue) for environmental protection and enhancement projects.
The $4 million is allocated in the following manner: the Department of
Fish and Game $1,300,000; the Air Resources Board $1,800,000; the
Solid Waste Management Board $465,000; the Department of Education
$275,000; Chapter 1165, Statutes of 1973, which is budgeted in the
Special Resources Services and Studies budget, $160,000.
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Walthall
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RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califorr
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-9-74
#12
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Anthony L. Palumbo of Sacramento as executive director of the new
Office of Criminal Justice Planning. He will serve at the pleasure
of the governor, with an annual salary of $32,256.
Palumbo, a 44-year-old Republican, has been a special assistant
to the governor for the past eight months.
The Office of Criminal Justice Planning was created by Assembly
Bill 1306 (Crown) last year, which also established a new 23-member
California Council on Criminal Justice.
A full colonel in the army reserves who commands a National Guard
unit in Alameda, Palumbo was principal staff advisor to the state
Adjutant General for six years in matters relative to military support
required to supplement civil authorities from both active and reserve
forces.
For four years he was a correctional officer with the Los Angeles
Police Department. He also spent eight months on the state's select
committee on law enforcement problems.
Palumbo received the Legion of Merit and numerous other awards for
service as an infantry officer during the Korean conflict.
The native of Cincinnati, Ohio, attended the university there and
the University of Southern California in addition to many military schools
He and his wife, Jean, have a daughter and three sons.
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Address:
1840 Recknood Drive
Sacramento 95825
McKelvey
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RELEASE: immediate
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Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
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#13
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the designation of
Dr. William E. Mayer as acting director of the state Department of
Health effective Tuesday, January 8.
Dr. Mayer, 50, has been chief deputy director of the department
since its inception last July.
He replaces Dr. J. M. Stubblebine, who accepted an appointment as
director of the new state Office on Aging.
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Address:
714 P Street
Sacramento
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Clyde Walthall, Pres Secretary
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#14
Dr. Ralph Waldo Weilerstein of Berkeley today was appointed by
Governor Ronald Reagan to a two-year term as chairman of the review
committee for the regional dialysis centers.
The 62-year-old Democrat succeeds Dr. Theodore A. Montgomery, also
of Berkeley, who resigned.
The new chairman, a San Francisco native, is preventive medical
services program manager in the Health Protection Systems unit of the
state Department of Health.
He has been involved in state health programs since 1970 as
executive secretary of the Cancer Advisory Council,
public health medical officer
of the Food and Drug Bureau and chief of the program of which he is now
manager.
Prior to 1970 he spent 32 years with the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
Dr. Weilerstein received his bachelor's degree from the University
of California in 1931 and his medical degree from the UC Medical School
in 1935.
He is presently an associate clinical professor of medicine at the
University and has been on the clinical staff since 1950. He also is on
the staff of H. C. Moffitt Hospital, San Francisco, and the courtesy
staff of Herrick Memorial Hospital, Berkeley.
Dr. Weilerstein is a senior member of the American Federation for
Clinical Research, an associate member of the San Francisco Medical
Society, holds affiliate membership in the Royal Society of Medicine in
London and belongs to AMA and CMA.
As chairman of the Regional Dialysis Centers' review committee he
will receive necessary travel expenses.
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Address:
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Berkeley
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced 10 appointments to the
California Manpower Planning Council created by 1973 legislation
(AB 1103 and SB 601) to develop a state manpower and employment plan.
Chairman of the council will be Earl Brian, secretary of the state
Health and Welfare Agency.
Appointed as representatives of county government are County
Supervisors John T. Conlan of Ventura and James A. Hayes of Los Angeles.
Council members from municipal government are Mayors Pete Wilson of
San Diego and John H. Reading of Oakland.
Dwight M. Geduldig, director of the state Department of Employment
Development, and Alan C. Nelson, director of the state Department of
Rehabilitation, join client members Benjamin S. Rodriquez of La Mirada
and Delbert L. Spurlock, Jr., acting professor of law at the UC Davis
School of Law, on the council.
Business and industry will be represented by William A. McCourt of
Concord, while Joseph W. Ballew of Redwood City represents labor.
In its formulation of a state manpower and employment plan, the
council will coordinate manpower program expenditures and recognize the
cooperative role of area councils and local government officials in the
state plan's development.
All appointees serve at the governor's pleasure and are paid
necessary expenses.
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Ages, addresses, party affiliations and occupations (if not stated above)
Conlan, 49, 2220 Ventura Blvd., Camarillo 93010, Republican.
Hayes, 52, 822 Hall of Administration, Los Angeles 90012, Republican.
Wilson, 40, 202 C Street, San Diego 92101, Republican.
Reading, 56, 1421-92nd Avenue, Oakland, Republican.
Geduldig, 50, 800 Capitol Mall, Sacramento 95814, Democrat.
Nelson, 40, 714 P Street, Sacramento 95814, Republican
Rodriguez, 49, 15934 E. Algeciras Drive, La Mirada 90638, Democrat,
self-employed, bookkeeping services.
Spurlock, 32, 3104 Breton Avenue, Davis 95616, Decline to State.
McCourt, 50, 4093 Forestview Avenue, Concord, Democrat, Pacific Telephone
legislative analyst.
Ballew, 44, 974 Round Hill Road, Redwood City, Democrat, comptroller,
Western Conference of Teamsters.
McKelvey
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RELEASE: Immediate
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95814
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#16
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Richard D. Struck of
(cq)
Santa Cruz and appointed Dr. John A. Krvavica of Campbell as members of
the Areawide Mental Retardation Program Board for Area VII.
Struck, a 50-year-old Democrat, has served on the board since 1970.
Dr. Krvavica, a 40-year-old Republican, succeeds Dr. Joseph L. Dionne of
Carmel Valley, who has left California. Terms for both expire
June 30, 1976.
Struck, a licensed and credentialed psychologist, is director of
programs for exceptional children and pupil personnel services in the
Santa Cruz County Office of Education.
He serves on the state Department of Education's advisory committee
on developmental centers, state Department of Health's committee on
school audiometry, board of directors of Watsonville Family Service
Association and the board of Goodwill Industries for Santa Cruz,
Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties.
Dr. Krvavica is a director and past president of the Santa Clara
County Epilepsy Society. He holds memberships in the Santa Clara County
Dental Society, American and California dental associations, Porterville
State Hospital Parents Group of Hope for Retarded Children and is a
committeeman of Dental Health and Education.
He is a Mason and past district officer of Lions Club.
Dr. Krvavica is a graduate of the Chicago College of Dental
Surgery of Loyola University and is a captain in the inactive reserves
of the U.S. Air Force Dental Corps.
Area VII includes Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey
Counties. Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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Addresses:
Richard D. Struck
John A. Krvavica, D.D.S.
207 Arbolado Drive
1464 Bent Drive
Watsonville 95076
Campbell
McKelvey
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RELEASE: Immediate
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#17
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the signing of his
first bill passed by the 1974 legislative session.
The bill, AB 2691 (Chapter 1), authored by Assemblyman Joseph
B. Montoya, validates school district bond elections held on January
8, 1974.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californ 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-11-74
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GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
January 14, 1974
through
January 18, 1974
Monday, January 14
2:00 p.m.
YPTV, News Conference Room 1190
6:00 p.m.
Fundraising reception for Senate Republican
Caucus, Republican State Central Committee,
Executive Residence
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, January 15
10:30 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
1:00 p.m.
Presentation of Goodwill Worker of the Year
Award, Cosmopolitan Hotel
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, January 16
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, January 17
Evening
The Beavers Banquet, Century Plaza,
Los Angeles. Speech.
(Note: This is an awards dinner for
professionals engaged in dam,
engineering and heavy construction
industry.)
Overnight - Los Angeles
Friday, January 18
No public appointments scheduled
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Walthall
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RELEASE: Immediate
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916-445-4571
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#19
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Roy C.
Gianolini of Greenfield as a member of the 7th District Agricultural
Association Board of Directors, which sponsor the Monterey County Fair.
Gianolini, a 37-year-old Republican, fills the unexpired, four-year
term of the late Lester E. Smart of King City. The term ends January 15,
1977.
Gianolini, a native of Salinas, graduated from Greenfield schools
and attended Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo. Since 1959 he has been
engaged in farming.
He holds memberships in the Monterey County Farm Bureau, Monterey
County Independent Growers Association, Monterey County and California
Cattleman's Associations and the Pacific Coast Quarter Horse Association.
For the past three years he has been the junior livestock auctioneer at
the Salinas Valley and Monterey County Fairs.
As a youth, he was in 4-H and Future Farmers of America. His wife,
Ginger, is currently a 4-H leader and is active in Red Cross work. Both
have assisted in Boy and Girl Scout fund drives.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Address:
P.O. Box 55
Greenfield 93927
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-14-74
#20
Mrs. Loretta G. Fogarty of San Francisco was reappointed today by
Governor Ronald Reagan to a three-year term on the Sonoma State Hospital
Advisory Board.
Mrs. Fogarty, a Democrat, has served on the board since October,
filling the unexpired term of Donald Mahler of Arcata. Her new term
expires December 16, 1976.
She is a director of the Parent Hospital Association of Sonoma
State Hospital and holds memberships in Aid Retarded Children, Inc. of
San Francisco, the California Association for Retarded Children and
Adults, and the Lakeshore Acres Improvement Club.
Advisory board members receive their necessary expenses.
######
Address:
91 Inverness Drive
San Francisco 91432
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-14-74
#21
Mrs. Duncan (Marcia K.) MacDonald of Santa Rosa and Dr. Daniel H.
Muller of Vallejo were reappointed today by Governor Ronald Reagan as
members of the Areawide Mental Retardation Program Board for Area IV,
which includes Sonoma, Solano and Napa counties.
Their new terms will expire June 30, 1977. Both have served on
the board since September 1970.
Mrs. MacDonald, a Republican, is a past director of District III,
California Council for Retarded Children.
Dr. Muller, 50, is superintendent of special education for Solano
County Schools and has served on the Vallejo-Benicia Council for
Retarded Children. He is a Democrat.
Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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Addresses:
Mrs. Duncan MacDonald
Dr. Daniel H. Muller
3555 Stallion Road
102 La Montanita Court
Santa Rosa 95404
Vallejo 94590
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-14-74
#22
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of Hale
Ashcraft of San Francisco to another four-year term on the state
Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board.
Ashcraft, 53, has served on the board since 1967 and has been its
chairman since 1970. His reappointment is subject to Senate confirmation
and carries an annual salary of $37,615.
As chairman he serves at the governor's pleasure.
A former Republican assemblyman from San Diego County, Ashcraft in
1965, as a member of the Finance and Insurance Subcommittee on Workmen's
Compensation, co-authored a bill adopted by both labor and management
with regard to overall reform of the workmen's compensation laws.
While a member of the Assembly from 1962-1966, he was vice-chairman
of the Water Committee and served on the Livestock and Dairies and
Manufacturing, Oil and Mining Industry committees.
He also served on the Elections and Reapportionment Committee and,
as a first-year assemblyman, was on the Ways and Means Committee.
His subcommittee appointments included those concerned with the
budget and economic development. In 1965 he was on the six-man joint
Assembly-Senate Budget Conference Committee.
Ashcraft, prior to his election to the Assembly, was prominent in
San Diego County civic affairs including service on the county grand
jury, La Jolla Town Council, La Jolla Kiwanis, Girl Scout Council of the
county and Community Welfare Council. He was a director of the Red
Cross, United Fund and Community Chest.
######
Address:
2619 Fox Plaza
San Francisco 94102
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-14-74
#23
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed John C. McIvor of San Rafael
and Mrs. Woodford (Blandine F.) Gordon of San Francisco as members of
the Areawide Mental Retardation Program Board, Area V.
They will fill the unexpired terms ending next June 30 of
Drs. Jerome P. Mednick of San Rafael and Richard C. Robbins of San
Francisco, both of whom resigned.
The counties of Marin, San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa and
San Mateo make up Area V.
McIvor, 31, is administrator of Cedars Development Foundation of
Marin. He is vice president of the National Association of Private
Residential Facilities for the Mentally Retarded and councilor of the
Accreditation Council for Facilities for the Mentally Retarded of the
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.
He has been affiliated for several years with numerous norganizations
at the county, state and national levels, concerned with residential
facilities for the mentally retarded.
The Nebraska native graduated from high school in Omaha, received
his backelor's degree from Hastings College in 1964 and did graduate work
at San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1967.
He declines to state his political party affiliation.
German-born, and a 25-year resident of San Francisco, Mrs. Gordon
is a director and education committee member of District IV, California
Association for the Retarded; vice president and public affairs committee
member of Aid Retarded Children in San Francisco, and is on the advisory
committee on mental retardation for the San Francisco Unified School
District.
A Republican, she is married to the owner of Orthodontic Laboratory.
They have a son, Paul, 22, a second-year law student at the University
of San Francisco; and a daughter, Kimberly, 8.
Board members receive their necessary expenses.
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Addresses:
John C. McIvor
Mrs. Woodford Gordon
825 Monticello Road
121 Miraloma Drive
San Rafael 94903
San Francisco 94127
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-14-74
#24
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Mrs. Bonnie L. Parks of Sacramento as a member of the state Commission
on the Status of Women.
Mrs. Parks, a Republican, fills the vacancy created by the
resignation of Rowena "Doodie" Taylor of Santa Barbara. Her term
expires next June 1.
Mrs. Parks is a legislative analyst for the California Chamber of
Commerce developing studies of the economic impact of legislative bills
on the state's economy.
Before joining the Chamber, she worked for Quantum Science
Corporation in Palo Alto and Bank of America at its San Francisco
World Headquarters.
She received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University
of California, Berkeley. Her husband is a real estate investment
counselor.
Senate confirmation is required for board members, who receive
their actual and necessary expenses.
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Address:
3716 Sherman Way
Sacramento
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-14-74
#25
Sacramento County Sheriff Duane H. Lowe and Burlingame Fire Chief
Reginald E. Moorby today were reappointed by Governor Ronald Reagan as
members of the state Communications Advisory Board, subject to Senate
confirmation.
Both are Democrats who have served on the board since 1972. Their
new terms will expire December 31, 1977.
Lowe will represent county sheriffs and Moorby city fire services.
Lowe, 43, has been Sacramento County sheriff for three of his 23
years in law enforcement. He was a deputy sheriff in Sacramento for 13
years and in Texas for six years. For one year he was a special agent
with the state Attorney General's office.
He is a U.S. Navy veteran and served in the Pacific aboard the
cruiser USS Helena between World War II and the Korean conflict.
Lowe has a bachelor's degree from Sacramento State University.
He and his wife have three children.
Moorby, 57, has been Burlingame's fire chief for nearly 20 of his
32 years with that department. He is a past president of both the San
Mateo County and Peninsula fire chiefs associations and once was on the
board of the League of California Cities.
Board members receive their actual and necessary expenses.
######
Addresses:
Duane H. Lowe
Reginald E. Moorby
P.O. Box 988
1020 Morrell Avenue
Sacramento 95805
Burlingame 94010
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-14-74
#26
San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner Michael N. Canlis today was
reappointed by Governor Ronald Reagan to the state Board of Corrections.
The 56-year-old Democrat has served on the board since 1961.
His appointment, requiring Senate confirmation, pays $25 per diem.
Board members serve four-year terms.
Canlis has been with the sheriff's department since 1939 and in
his present position since 1960.
Last year he was law enforcement committee chairman for the National
Association of Counties and San Joaquin chairman for the Multiple
Sclerosis fund drive. Currently he serves on the advisory policy board
and security and confidentiality committee of the National Crime
Information Center.
Canlis is a past president of the National Sheriffs' Association
and currently is an advisor and member of several of its committees.
Among his many law enforcement activities, he served as chairman
of the International Association of Chiefs of Police public relations
and mass communications committee during 1972-73.
In 1972 he was on the San Joaquin Drug Abuse Committee and on the
FBI's advisory committee for law enforcement training.
The native of Stockton was graduated from Stockton College and the
FBI National Academy in Washington, D.C.
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Address:
4163 Cliff Drive
Stockton 95204
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-15-74
#27
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"This statement is to reaffirm my intention to maintain a
FOR GOU. this June
nuetral stand among Republican candidates/who may run for nomination
this June. While my particular reference is to the nomination for
governor, it also pertains to all other contested primary races.
"California has an 'open primary.' The intent of the law is that
all who may believe they have the qualifications for a public office have
the opportunity to run for it. The law, of course, does not prohibit
endorsements of candidates and I could state a preference. But to do so,
it seems to me, would be divisive in our party.
"Since 1966, the Republican Party of California has been united.
I do not want that ideal situation to change. There have been contests
in primary elections but these have not been characterized by the kind
of strife Republicans experienced in some earlier years. I believe in
the Eleventh Commandment: instead of heated competition within our own
political family, the primary campaign should be a proving ground for
the General Election against the strongest Democratic opponent in the
field,
"Looking toward the elections in June, I believe that my best
service to our party will be to restate my deeply held belief that we
Republicans cannot win unless we remain united. I am urging my
supporters to each work hard for the candidates of their choice during
the primary campaign and then join together in June behind the party's
nominee
but I will remain nuetral."
######
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californi
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-15-74
#28
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
San Francisco attorney Sherman Chickering to a six-year term on the
state Fish and Game Commission.
Chickering, a 62-year-old Republican, has served on the commission
since 1968. He is a partner in the law firm of Chickering and Gregory.
He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1933
and Harvard Law School in 1936.
Chickering has been a director, vice president and member of the
executive committee of the San Diego Gas and Electric Company since
1956 and is a director of the San Luis Mining Company. He was a
consultant to the Economic Cooperation Administration mission to China
in 1948.
He is married and has three children.
Commissioners receive no more than $50 per calendar month.
######
Address:
864 Francisco Street
San Francisco
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RC LD REAGAN
MEMO TO TH
RESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-15-74
Supplements to the governor's budget on the subjects of
Health and Welfare, Education, General Government, Agriculture and
Services, Business and Transportation, and Resources, are available
to the press in the governor's press office.
######
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 5814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-15-74
#29
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of three
members of the California Council of Product Design and Marketing.
They are Albert A. Dorskind, vice president of MCA; John G.
Driscoll III, owner of Driscoll Custom Boats in San Diego; and Herold
M. Hecht, retired chairman of the board of J. W. Robinson Company.
Dorskind is a Democrat, the others are Republicans.
They will serve at the pleasure of the governor, receiving their
necessary expenses.
Dorskind, 51, of Beverly Hills, has been with MCA Inc. since 1953
in various positions including executive vice president and vice
president-treasurer. He is a former director of Denny's Restaurants Inc.
Community organizations with which he has been affiliated include
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce,
Metropolitan Los Angeles YMCA, Southern California Visitors Council and
Brentwood Country Club. He has served the motion picture industry as
chairman of the Permanent Charities Committee and chairman of the
United Jewish Welfare Fund.
Driscoll, 49, has lived in San Diego since 1925. He served with
the Merchant Marine during World War II, then started his own business
specializing in yachts. He completely rebuilt the yacht "Columbia"
to modify it for the America's Cup race.
Hecht, 70, retired as J. W. Robinson Company chairman September 1
and presently is a management consultant.
His civic activities have included serving on the board of
Independent Colleges of Southern California and as associate trustee of
the University of Pennsylvania, his alma mater. He has been a director
of Marine Trust and Buffalo Savings Bank.
Hecht lives in Los Angeles.
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Addresses:
Albert A. Dorskind
Harold M. Hecht
807 North Roxbury Drive
167 North Bentley Avenue
Beverly Hills 90210
Los Angeles 90049
John G. Driscoll, III
Driscoll Custom Boats
2438 Shelter Island Drive
San Diego 92106
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RO ALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ.
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-16-74
#30
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of
San Diego registered nurse Dorothy V. Moses and Reedley hospital
administrator Arthur P. Jost as members of the state Health Department's
Citizens Advisory Council.
They will receive their actual and necessary expenses during terms
which expire November 12, 1976. Both have served on the council since
January 1969.
Miss Moses, a Republican, is head of the nursing program at San
Diego State University. She represents the nursing profession on the
council.
Jost, 55, is the council's present chairman. He is administrator
of Kings View Psychiatric Hospital in Reedley and is on the board of
the National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals.
Born in Canada, Jost has lived in the United States since 1928.
He was graduated from Fresno State University. His achievements
included assisting in the organization of Brook Lane Hospital near
Hagerstown, Maryland, and in the initial development of Prairie View
Hospital in Reedley in the early 1950s.
#####
Addresses:
Arthur P. Jost
Dorothy V. Moses, R.N.
8126 South Frankwood
9071 Dallas Street
Reedley 93654
La Mesa 92041
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Pres. Secretary
916-445-4571
1-16-74
#31
The following is Governor Reagan's schedule for his trip east
beginning Friday, January 18:
Friday, January 18
a.m.
Depart Los Angeles for Chicago
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Chicago
Saturday, January 19
p.m.
Depart for Washington, D.C.
7:30 p.m.
Touchdown Club reception and dinner, Sheraton-
Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. Speech.
(Note: Touchdown Club will present Governor
Reagan with its "Mr. Sam" award. Award is
given annually to prominent political figure
who has contributed to advancement of sports.
Award will be presented by Vice President
Gerald Ford.)
Overnight - Washington, D.C.
Sunday, January 20
12:30 p.m.
Meet the Press, NBC Studios, Washington, D.C.
p.m.
Depart for Montpelier, Vermont
5:00 p.m.
Press availability, Barre Auditorium, Barre,
Vermont
5:30 p.m.
Vermont GOP Fund Raising Reception and Dinner,
Barre Auditorium. Speech.
Overnight - Montpelier
Monday, January 21
a.m.
Depart for Concord, New Hampshire
3:30 p.m.
Press availability with Governor Thompson at
the State House
6:45 p.m.
New Hampshire GOP Fund Raising reception and
dinner, New Hampshire Highway Hotel, Pierce
Ballroom, Concord. Speech.
p.m.
Depart after dinner for New York City
Overnight - New York City
Tuesday, January 22
1:00 p.m.
Private luncheon at home of William Buckley,
New York City
p.m.
Governor and Mrs. Reagan attend the play
"Lorelei"
Overnight - New York City
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Wednesday, January 23
12:00 Noon
Private luncheon with New York Times President
and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, New York City
p.m.
Depart for Charleston, South Carolina
5:00 p.m.
Press availability, Mills Hyatt House
7:30 p.m.
South Carolina GOP Fund Raising Reception and
Dinner, Hyberian Society Hall. Speech.
Overnight - Charleston
Thursday, January 24
a.m.
Depart for Washington, D.C.
12:15 p.m.
Private luncheon with Admiral Zumwalt, Chief
of Naval Operations, Pentagon
1:00 p.m.
Briefing by Admiral and staff on naval
operations in California
2:00 p.m.
Briefing by Secretary of the Air Force John L.
McLucas on Minuteman operational test
p.m.
Call on Vice President Ford at Executive Office
Building
7:15 p.m.
Virginia GOP Fund Raising reception and dinner,
(Reception - Crystal City Marriott, Arlington,
Virginia
(Dinner - Twin Bridges Marriott, Arlington,
Virginia. Speech.
Overnight - Washington, D.C.
Friday, January 25
10:00 a.m.
Republican Governors' Association Executive
Committee Meeting, Capitol Hill Club
7:00 p.m.
Congressional Reception for Governor, Mayflower
Hotel
7:30 p.m.
American Conservative Union-Young Americans
for Freedom (combined dinner), Mayflower Hotel.
Governor to deliver keynote address.
Overnight - Washington, D.C.
Saturday, January 26
12:00 Noon
Private luncheon with Admiral John S. McCain,
Jr., and Commander John S. McCain III, Madison
Hotel
6:30 p.m.
Alfalfa Club reception and dinner, Statler Hilton
Hotel. Speech.
Overnight - Washington, D.C.
Sunday, January 27
a.m.
Depart for Los Angeles
Overnight - Los Angeles
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Walthall
OFFICE OF COVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-17-74
#32
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
San Bernardino County Municipal Court Judge Rex W. Cranmer as a
Superior Court judge in the same county.
Judge Cranmer, 55, succeeds the late Superior Court Judge Russell
Goodwin for the term prescribed by law.
The native of Redlands, who still lives there, has been on the
municipal bench in the county's east division since last February. At
that time he was the successor to Judge Goodwin.
A Republican, Judge Cranmer earned his bachelor's and law degrees
from Stanford University. He was a deputy district attorney in San
Bernardino County for two years before entering private practice in 1948.
His salary as Superior Court judge will be $37,615.
######
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-17-74
#33
Governor Ronald Reagan today proclaimed a state of emergency in
the counties of Humboldt, Shasta, Siskiyou and Trinity because of the
flooding, storms and high winds in those areas.
At the state's request, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) will make a U-2 overflight of the area to aid in
damage assessment. This will provide high-altitude photographs of the
entire disaster area.
Flood operations in the counties are being supported by the state
Office of Emergency Services, National Guard, Highway Patrol and
departments of Health, Transportation and Water Resources. A preliminary
estimate by OES shows $14.4 million in damage in the four counties.
Attributed to the storm in Humboldt County are two deaths and one
missing person. About 575 persons have been evacuated from their homes
come
About 200 homes and more than 100 businesses have been damaged or
destroyed, according to estimates.
The governor said the state will continue to aid local officials
in providing all assistance necessary to ensure the safety of persons
and property.
######
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-17-74
#34
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that he has regretfully
accepted the resignation of Earl Brian, California's Secretary of Health
and Welfare, effective January 31.
The governor received Brian's letter of resignation today.
"Earl Brian has done a truly outstanding job for the people of
California, first as Director of Health Care Services and, more
importantly, as Secretary of Health and Welfare," the governor said.
"He has made significant contributions to the health and welfare
of our citizens. The Welfare and Medi-Cal Reforms he accomplished
and implemented have saved the taxpayers more than $1 billion,
resulting in decreased local property taxes while increasing grants
to the truly needy.
"While I deeply regret the loss of his talents as an administrator
I admire his determination to move ahead in the area of public service.
"I wish him the best of good fortune in the future."
In his letter of resignation, Brian said:
"The past three years have been the most rewarding of my life.
As a member of your administrative team, I have had a signal opportunity
to serve the people of California.
"I now feel that I should turn my full energy to the pursuit of
elective office so that I may expand that role in serving the people
of this state.
"It would be inappropriate to begin this pursuit while serving
as your Secretary of Health and Welfare. Therefore, I wish to respect-
fully submit my resignation today, effective at the end of this month.
"I am deeply grateful for your trust in providing me with the
recurring opportunity to play a significant role in proposing and
implementing new directions in health and welfare.
"I truly regret that I will not be able to contribute further to
your administration's zenith year, adding in whatever small way to the
luster of the legacy that your administration will leave for generations
to come."
Governor Reagan noted that Brian injected new energy and direction
into the massive Health and Welfare Agency, which administers the
state's health, welfare, corrections and employment services.
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#34
"Several of the major program proposals we sought in the
legislature last year were initiated and developed by Dr. Brian, and
it was primarily through his strenuous efforts that these proposals
were put into effect," the governor said.
"He was directly responsible for the creation of the new
Department of Benefit Payments. It will provide streamlined and more
efficient fiscal control over nearly $5 billion annually in federal and
state tax funds. New and tighter quality controls will be possible over
the provision of health care in California hospitals and nursing homes.
"Under his direction new emphasis has been given and assistance
directed to law enforcement agencies in diverting youth from criminal
activities and a more streamlined and effective Employment Development
Department is now operational as we enter a year of economic uncertainty.
Brian, 31, first joined state government in 1967 when he was
appointed by Governor Reagan to be executive secretary of the state
Social Welfare Board. He left California to become a U. S. Army flight
surgeon in 1968, serving a two-year tour of duty which included a year's
combat tour in South Vietnam, where he was decorated several times for
bravery under fire.
Following his return to California in 1970, Brian was named
director of the Department of Health Care Services. At age 27 he
became the youngest department director in state history. He was
appointed Secretary of Health and Welfare in 1972.
Brian, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, graduated from Duke
University Medical School in 1966 and served his internship at the
Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto. He is married to the
former Jane Lang and has one son, Earl III, age 3.
No successor has been selected.
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Walthall
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Imme.
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-18-74
#35
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of six
members to the California Postsecondary Education Commission, which was
created by 1973 legislation (AB 770).
Four of the appointees are from the general public and the other two
were selected by the governor from those nominated by the independent
colleges and universities.
Public members of the new commission include George D. Hart, 65,
president of a San Francisco law firm and chairman of the
State University and Colleges
California of Trustees; Dr. Herbert K. Yee, 49, of Sacramento, vice
chairman of the American Dental Association's dental school accreditation
committee and a regent of the University of the Pacific; Mrs. John
(Marian W.) La Follette, vice chairman of the National Commission on the
Financing of Postsecondary Education and a trustee of the Los Angeles
Community College District; and Pamela Ann Rymer, partner in the Los
Angeles law firm of Lillick, McHose, Wheat, Adams and Charles.
Representatives of California's independent colleges and universities
will be Burnham Enersen, 68, a San Francisco attorney; and Gordon S.
Marshall, 54, board chairman and president of Marshall Industries in
San Marino.
When constituted, the commission will have 23 members, including the
six appointed today. Twelve will be from the general public and two each
from the University of California Regents, the trustees of the state
universities and colleges, the board of governors of the state's
community colleges and the independent colleges and universities. The
chairmen of the California Advisory Council on Vocational Education and
Technical Training and of the Council for Private Postsecondary
Educational Institutions will join the president of the state Board of
Education on the Commission.
Members will receive $50 per day plus necessary and travel expenses.
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Addresses, party affiliations and terms:
Enersen, 40 Arguello Boulevard, San Francisco 94118, Republican, 3 years.
Marshall, 441 Country Club Drive, San Gabriel 91775, Republican, 3 years.
Hart, Glenwood Avenue, P.O. Box 156, Ross, Republican, 6 years.
Yee, 1301 Normandy Lane, Sacramento, Republican, 2 years.
LaFollette, 15745 Royal Oak Road, Encino 91316, Republican, one year.
Rymer, 645 North Wilcox, Apt. 2C, Los Angeles 90004, Republican, 4 years.
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Califor a 95814
Clyde Walthall, Pres_ Secretary
916-445-4571
1-18-74
#36
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of James E.
Jenkins as secretary of the state Health and Welfare Agency and member
of his cabinet.
He succeeds Earl Brian, whose resignation was announced yesterday
(January 17). His annual salary will be $39,612.
Jenkins, a 50-year-old Republican, has been assistant to the
governor and director of public affairs since 1971. He joined the
administration in 1969 as deputy director of the state Department of
Finance and, in that capacity, directed the Washington, D.C. office of
state government.
"I am extremely pleased that Jim has agreed to take on this new
responsibility," the governor said, "because his background, training
and familiarity with the complex problems facing the Health and Welfare
Agency will be of inestimable value to the state.
"Jim has a long record of administrative achievement that recommends
him well for this important assignment. I am confident that he will do
an outstanding job."
As Health and Welfare Secretary, he will become chairman of the new
California Manpower Planning Council established in the 1973 legislative
session.
Jenkins, a retired career U.S. Navy officer, attended Occidental
College in Los Angeles and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings
Point, New York, obtaining a bachelor's degree in marine engineering at
the latter school in 1944.
He attended the Armed Forces Information School at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, for two years and wrote a thesis on foreign aid vs.
economic development while at the Naval War College.
Jenkins retired from the U.S. Navy in 1966 as a captain. He had
been public affairs director for the 11th Naval District, public affairs
assistant to four U.S. Secretaries of the Navy and was assigned to various
media relations assignments with the U.S. Department of Defense in San
Diego, Europe and the Pacific.
He is married and has three sons. He and his wife live in Carmishael
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kern, live in Montebello.
#####
Address:
5830 River Oak Way
Carmichael 95608
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, Californ. 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-18-74
#37
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the appointment of
Leonard L. Thompson of Hacienda Heights as a member of the state Board
of Funeral Directors and Embalmers, Department of Consumer Affairs.
Thompson, a 49-year-old Republican, fills the unexpired term of
Mrs. Verlene Shipp of Newport Beach, who resigned. The term ends
next June 1.
Thompson is executive director of the Masonry Institute of America,
a trust fund which is part of the Los Angeles County labor agreement
between the Mason Contractors Association and the bricklayer unions.
He helped form the institute in 1955 and was a director for four years.
He has been in the construction industry for 27 years, 17 as a
journeyman bricklayer and masonry contractor.
Thompson majored in business administration at Washburn University
in Kansas and was a naval officer and pilot during World War II.
He is a member of numerous business, community and professional
organizations. He served 14 years on the West Valley YMCA board.
Board members receive $25 per diem.
######
Address:
2915 Camino Del Tomasini
Hacienda Heights 91745
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ 95814
Clyde Walthall, Pres. Secretary
916-445-4571
1-18-74
#38
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the reappointments of
Arthur E. Madrid of La Mesa and Thomas R. Dolan of San Francisco as
members of the California Veterans Board, of which the latter was 1973
chairman.
Each will receive $20 per day during terms expiring January 15, 1978
Both are Republicans who have served since 1970.
Madrid, 39, has been assistant to San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson for
community relations for the past year, representing the mayor in civic
and community meetings and acting as liaison on manpower and senior
citizens' programs.
Prior to that he was with Pacific Telephone in various management
and supervisory positions for more than 16 years.
He is a governor's appointee to the state advisory board to the
Employment Development Department and a member of the citizens advisory
commission to the state Attorney General, in addition to serving in
numerous San Diego area community activities.
Madrid served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps in the 1950s and
has attended four colleges and universities in San Diego.
The native of New Mexico is married and has four children.
Dolan, 48, a native San Franciscan, is a communications consultant
with Pacific Telephone and has been with the firm since 1946.
He served with the U.S. Navy during World War II, spending 25 months
overseas on various Pacific Islands.
He is a member of VFW, El Rancho Post; past commander of American
Legion Post 505; past president of the Golden State Parlor, Native Sons
of the Golden West; past president of the Veterans Political Council of
San Francisco. His activities also have included work with Boy Scouts,
Pop Warner Football, Aid to the Visually Handicapped and the Parkside
District Improvement Club.
Dolan attended Northwestern University and Healds Business and
Engineering College. He is married and has three sons.
#####
Addresses:
Arthur E. Madrid
Thomas R. Dolan
5308 Tufts Street
2207 - 24th Avenue
La Mesa 92041
San Francisco 94116
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-18-74
#39
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the appointment of
Mrs. Lucien (Emily M.) Libarle of Cotati as a member of the 4th District
Agricultural Association board, which sponsors the Sonoma-Marin
District Fair.
Mrs. Libarle replaces Gene Benedetti, also of Cotati, who resigned
at the conclusion of his term.
She will receive her necessary expenses during a term which expires
January 15, 1978.
Mrs. Libarle, a registered nurse, is married to the owner of Lace
House Linen Service in Petaluma. She served on the Sonoma County Grand
Jury in 1963, the Sonoma County Economic Development Board in 1965 and
the Zone 2 Flood Control Advisory Board in 1970.
She has been involved in Petaluma and Santa Rosa civic endeavors
for several years and is a Republican.
######
Address:
705 West Railroad Avenue
Cotati
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-18-74
#40
Gene M. Whitley of Vacaville today was appointed by Acting Governor
Ed Reinecke as a member of the Dixon May Fair Board of the 36th District
Agricultural Association.
Whitley, a 44-year-old Republican, replaces Walter O. Sunderman,
also of Vacaville, who resigned at the end of his term. Whitley's
term runs through January 15, 1978 and he will be paid necessary expenses.
The new appointee has been an active participant in the Dixon May
Fair for the past nine years and was instrumental, as president of the
Yolo Riders, in setting up the fair's gymkana.
He served four years in the U.S. Air Force and has been a civilian
employee of the federal government since 1955.
A cattle raiser, Whitley has served as community club leader for
the Browns Valley 4-H Club for five years. He was president of the
Solano County 4-H Leaders Council for two years and currently represents
Solano County on the Regional 4-H Leaders Council.
He has been a volunteer fireman for the past seven years and served
a two-year term as president of the English Hills Fire Association.
Whitley and his wife, Janet, have three sons.
#####
Address:
P.O. Box 134
Vacaville 95688
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-18-74
#41
Three Northern California counties today were proclaimed in a
state of emergency by Acting Governor Ed Reinecke because of storms,
flooding and high winds.
The State Office of Emergency Services said at least 45 homes have
been damaged or destroyed in Mendocino, Glenn and Tehama counties.
The total number of disaster areas are seven, as Governor Fonald Reagan
had proclaimed emergencies yesterday (January 17) in Humboldt, Shasta,
Siskiyou and Trinity counties.
The OES estimated $3.5 million in damage in Mendocino, $1 million
in Glenn and $700,000 in Tehama.
Supporting the counties in flood operations, besides the OES,
are the National Guard, Highway Patrol and state departments of
conservation, health, transportation and water resources.
*****
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Califorr
95814
Clyde Walthall, Pres. Secretary
916-445-4571
1-18-74
#42
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today ashed President Nixon to
declare seven Northern California counties a disaster area because
of this week's floods, storms and high winds which have caused an
estimated $35 million damage.
The seven counties are Glenn, Humboldt, Mendocino, Shasta,
Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity. They will be eligible to receive
federal aid under the Federal Disaster Relief Act if the President
grants California's request.
Relief could include funds to restore public and private
property and make low-interest loans available to individuals through
the Small Business Administration and the Farmers Home Administration.
In his request, Reinecke said all available state and local
resources have been used in carrying out disaster operations in
accordance with existing mutual aid agreements.
The acting governor said the state and local funds available
for disaster area restoration have been obligated or spent.
# # #
McKelvey
January 21, II 1974
INFORMAL MEDIA BRIEFING ON VERMONT FUND-RAISER SUNDAY EVENING (Jan.20
IN THE BARRE (VT.) AUDITORIUM:
Governor Reagan spoke for 36 minutes and received three standing
ovations during the talk.
Between 1,300 and 1,400 persons were in attendance and
hundreds of others were trying to get tickets, but couldn't
because of the auditorium's limitations.
Vermont GOP officials said it was the largest fund-raiser over
conducted in that state.
Air temperature in Barre was in the low teens.
#####
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, Californi 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-21-74
#43
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the appointment of
Thomas T. Morris of Walnut Creek as a member of the Pilotage Rate
Committee for San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun Bays.
The term expires June 30, 1977 and pays $50 per diem.
Morris, 44-year-old director of operations analysis for American
President Lines, Ltd., in San Francisco, replaces George L. Gmelch of
San Mateo, whose term expired.
An employee of the firm for 21 years, the appointee has testified
as an expert witness in various hearings of the Federal Maritime
Commission and Maritime Subsidy Board.
Morris majored in business administration at the University of
California. A Republican, he is married and has five children.
#####
Address:
10 Clemson Court
Walnut Creek
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-21-74
#44
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the reappointment of
Dr. Loren L. Lutz, an Alhambra dentist, and the appointment of
Riverside businessman Arthur M. Robinson as members of the state Park
and Recreation Commission.
The appointments are for four years and require Senateconfirmation
Both appointees are Republicans.
Dr. Lutz, 54, has served on the commission since 1970. A
conservationist leader, he has been a member of the California
Recreational Trails Committee and president of both the Southern Council
of Conservation Clubs and the Society for the Preservation of the Big
Horn Sheep.
A native of Minnesota, Dr. Lutz attended UCLA and graduated from
the USC School of Dentistry in 1945. He and his wife, Marion, have two
children and live in Pasadena.
Robinson, 49, is owner and vice president of West Coast Wire and
Steel Manufacturing Company in Riverside. He replaces Thomas M.
Bonnicksen of Berkeley, whose term expired.
Robinson attained a bachelor's degree from Pomona College in 1948
and amaster's from Stanford University in 1950. He served in the U.S.
Armored Infantry for three years near the end of World War II.
He is a member of the National Historical Society, Audubon Society
and the Smithsonian Institute, and a past president of the Stanford
Alumni Association in Riverside.
An outdoors enthusiast, the 6-foot 6-inch Robinson belongs to the
San Onofre Surfing Club and also takes part in snow and water skiing,
sailing, camping, fishing, back packing, tennis and golf.
Commissioners receive their necessary expenses.
#####
Addresses:
Loren L. Lutz, D.D.S.
Arthur Robinson
3113 Mesaloa Lane
5310 Candlewick Court
Pasadena
Riverside 95045
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-22-74
#45
Dr. William E. Mayer, acting director of the state Department of
Health since January 8, today was appointed the department's director
by Acting Governor Ed Reinecke. Senate confirmation is required.
Part of the Health and Welfare Agency, the Department of Health has
about 23,000 employees and a proposed fiscal 1974-75 budget of
approximately $2.3 billion. Headquartered in Sacramento, the department
has offices in 61 cities. It was created last July 1 as a consolidation
of the former departments of Public Health, Mental Hygiene and Health
Care Services and included some functions of the Social Welfare and
Rehabilitation departments. Dr. J. M. Stubblebine was its first director,
"Dr. Mayer has had an important influence on the rapid development
of the new Department of Health into a unified and effective service
organization," the governor said.
"I am certain that he will continue to exercise the administrative
leadership and keen insight into the people's health problems that he has
displayed during a distinguished medical career."
Dr. Mayer, 50, is a health administrator with broad experience in
state and county government and military medicine. He was Del Norte
County's physician and health officer in 1970-71 and headed the mental
health programs in Contra Costa and Humboldt-Del Norte counties. His
military experience spanned 20 years, including command of four hospitals
and training in aviation and nuclear medicine. He was awarded the Bronze
Star for valor in combat during the Korean Conflict.
Dr. Mayer received the Freedoms Foundation National Award in 1958
and the leadership award of the National Management Association in 1962.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff College and
received his medical training at Northwestern University. Alpha Omega
Alpha, the national medical honor society, elected him to membership in
1945.
The new state health director was chief deputy director and director
of the Department of Mental Hygiene in 1970-71, developing an "outcome
measurement" evaluation of community mental health programs and
establishing state government's first professional health journal.
Dr. Mayer's annual salary will be $36,795. He and his family live
in Roseville.
#####
Address:
7550 Memory Lane
Roseville 95678
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, Californ
95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-23-74
#46
Retired Grass Valley businessman Fred J. Conway was appointed
today by Acting Governor Ed Reinecke to the Nevada County Board of
Supervisors, as Third District representative.
Conway, 61, a Republican, replaces Robert Long, who resigned.
A resident of Nevada County most of his life, Conway was in the
women's clothing business for 39 years before his recent retirement.
In the past he was president of a number of civic and community
organizations including both the Nevada County and Grass Valley Chambers
of Commerce, Grass Valley Rotary, Nevada Union High School Board and
Nevada County Country Club. He also was chairman of the Central
Business District Committee in Grass Valley and is a past exalted ruler
of the Elks Lodge.
Conway attended college for 2½ years during the Depression years.
He will serve for the term prescribed by law and will receive a
salary of $6,000 annually.
#####
Address:
P. O. Box 559
Grass Valley, California
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-24-74
#47
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today appointed David A. Winston of
Sacramento as chief deputy director of the State Department of Health.
Winston, a 32-year-old Republican, has been an assistant secretary
of the Health and Welfare Agency. He assumes the post vacated by Dr.
William E. Mayer's (January 22) appointment as state director of health.
In the past 11/2 years, Winston has had responsibility for planning,
policy in health matters and was overseer of legislative matters for the
six Health and Welfare Agency departments.
Before joining the agency, he had worked for the State Assembly
in various legislative roles.
Said Reinecke: "David will bring to the Health Department a
wealth of experience and will contribute greatly to the mission of
assuring quality health care for the people of California."
Winston was born in Idaho but has lived 28 years in California,
much of it in the San Joaquin Valley. He holds a master's degree from
the University of California at Santa Barbara.
He is married and has a son.
As chief deputy director of health, Winston will be paid $32,256
annually. He will serve at the director's pleasure.
####
Address:
901 41st Street
Sacramento
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-25-74
#48
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
January 28, 1974
through
February 3, 1974
Monday, January 28
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Tuesday, January 29
10:00 a.m.
Tyler Award Press Conference, Salon #2,
Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles
(Note: Governor Reagan will announce
first recipient of the $150,000
Tyler Award, to be given annually
to the person or persons who have
done the most to protect or enhance
the environment.)
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, January 30
11:00 a.m.
Picture with and visit to Senate Chamber
with Crippled Children poster child,
Governor's Office - Senate Chamber
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, January 31
1:30 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, February 1
11:15 a.m.
Meeting with YMCA Model Legislature, Senator
Hotel
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, February 2
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, February 3
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
# # #
Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-28-74
#49
San Mateo attorney James O. Miller today was appointed by Governor
Ronald Reagan to the municipal court bench in the Northern Judicial
District of San Mateo County.
Miller, a 42-year-old Republican, is a partner in the law firm of
Miller and Osborne. His appointment fills the vacancy created by the
elevation to the superior court bench of Judge Walter Capaccioli.
Miller will serve a term prescribed by law at an annual salary of
$34,605.
He has practiced civil and criminal law in San Mateo since 1960,
the year he was admitted to the bar.
Miller is a director of the San Mateo County Bar Association and
member of its bench and bar committee, and is a past chairman of the
association's insurance and continuing education of the bar committees.
He is an officer of Elks Lodge No. 1112, member-at-large of the
Boy Scouts of America's San Mateo County Council, member of the San
Mateo Chamber of Commerce, sustaining member of the YMCA and a past
president of Sigma Chi's Peninsula Alumni Association.
Miller's community and civic activities have included United Bay
Area Crusade, Mills Memorial Hospital Development Fund, United Nations
Association, Civil Air Patrol and Order of Daedalians.
He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California at
Berkeley and doctorate from U.C's Boalt Hall School of Law. He served
as a U.S. Air Force officer for four years in the mid-50s.
Miller and his wife, Kay, have two sons.
#####
McKelvey
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press cretary
916-445-4571
1-28-74
#50
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
Homer H. Hyde of Campbell as a member of the California Regional Water
Quality Control Board for the San Francisco Bay Region.
Hyde, 56, a Republican, has served on the board since 1969. His
new term expires September 30, 1977, and carries with it reimbursement
for necessary expenses.
A native of Campbell, Hyde is secretary and general manager of the
Campbell Water Company. He has worked for 28 years in the domestic
water service business and has served on the Santa Clara County Water
Advisory Committee and the water subcommittee of the Santa Clara Valley
Flood Control and Water District.
Currently he is vice chairman of the California section of the
American Waterworks Association, after having served on the association's
executive committee.
Hyde is a former mayor, councilman and planning commission member
in Campbell.
#####
Address:
1279 East Campbell Avenue
Campbell 95008
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press ecretary
916-445-4571
1-28-74
#51
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of two
members of the state Scholarship and Loan Commission, Dr. Edward
Simonsen of Bakersfield and UC Berkeley professor emeritus Gerald E.
Marsh.
Dr. Simonsen, 58, has served on the commission for two years while
Marsh, 73, has been a commissioner since 1967. The reappointments
require Senate confirmation.
Dr. Simonsen is chancellor of the Kern Community College District.
He was president of Bakersfield College for 10 years before becoming
superintendent of the community college district in 1968. He became
chancellor January 17.
He is on the board of directors of both the American Association of
Junior Colleges and the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges.
He belongs to the Kiwanis and Recquet clubs in Bakersfield.
Dr. Simonsen served nearly four years in the U.S. Marine Corps
during World War II. He received his bachelor's degree from College of
the Pacific in 1937, his master's from UC Berkeley in 1947 and his
education doctorate from the latter in 1950.
He is married, has three daughters and, like Marsh, is a Republican.
Marsh has been vice chairman of the commission since 1969. He
served at UC Berkeley 38 years, the last 19 as a full professor, and was
associate dean of the College of Letters and Science between 1954 and
1967.
He was chairman of U.C's Department of Rhetoric between 1939 and
1954.
Prior to joining the University of California faculty, Marsh was a
teacher at Carleton College for seven years and chief ranger naturalist
at Yellowstone National Park for three summers.
He received the first honorary life membership in the UC Alumni
Association.
Marsh and his wife, Estelle, have been married nearly 50 years.
They have one daughter, Mrs. Joseph Bertino.
The terms of Dr. Simonsen and Marsh expire October 30, 1977. They
will receive their necessary expenses.
#####
Addresses:
Edward Simonsen, Ed. D.
Gerald E. Marsh
3801 Country Club Drive
1806 Yosemite Road
Bakersfield 93306
Berkeley
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-28-74
#52
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of three
members of the Areawide Mental Retardation Program Board for Area VI,
Mrs.
and the appointment of the wife of Stockton Judge William H. Woodward,
who is ineligible to serve the remainder of his term.
Area VI includes the counties of Amador, San Joaquin, Calaveras,
Tuolumne and Stanislaus. Members receive their necessary expenses.
Reappointed for terms expiring June 30, 1976, are Charles M. Moody,
a 35-year-old Democrat who is coordinator of the mental retardation unit
for San Joaquin County Mental Health Services, and Mrs. R. Hadley
(Dorothy S.) Cox, a Republican, who has taught the trainable mentally
retarded for the Modesto City Schools the past 12 years.
Reappointed for a term expiring June 30, 1975, is Dr. Frances D.
Riggs, a physician specializing in pediatrics at San Joaquin General
Hospital. She is a Democrat.
Mrs. (Ruth J.) Woodward will serve the remainder of her husband's
term, which expires June 30. She has been substitute teaching in
special education and social studies for the past 12 years at Manteca
and Stockton high schools. She is a Republican.
Moody and Dr. Riggs have served on the board since 1970, while
Mrs. Cox has served for 15 months.
######
Addresses:
Frances D. Riggs, M.D.
Dorothy S. Cox
2143 Pennington Court
3624 Beckwith Road
Stockton 95207
Modesto 95351
Charles M. Moody
Ruth J. Woodward
435 Tuxedo Avenue
1225 Oxford Way
Stockton 95204
Stockton 95204
McKelvey
Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press ecretary
916-445-4571
1-28-74
#53
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments of
Assistant Los Angeles Police Chief Jack G. Collins and Alameda County
Administrator Loren W. Enoch as members of the state Commission on
Peace Officer Standards and Training. Both new terms expire in 1976.
At the same time, the governor appointed three new commissioners.
They are Inyo County Sheriff Floyd O. Barton, Oroville Police Chief
Wesley R. Barrett and Pasadena City Manager Donald F. McIntyre.
The reappointments and appointments are subject to Senate
confirmation. Members receive their necessary expenses.
Collins, a 50-year-old Republican, has been on the commission since
1971. He is a Los Angeles native who graduated from Washington High
School and received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University
of Southern California. He has been an assistant chief of the LAPD
since 1969 and joined the department in 1945.
Enoch, a 53-year-old Republican, has served on the commission since
June 1971. He became Alameda County Administrator two years ago after
10 years as Ventura County Executive and more than 14 years in Los
Angeles County government. He attended Idaho State Teachers College,
Pomona College and USC.
Barton, 47, a Democrat, replaces Riverside County Sheriff Bernard
J. Clark, whose term expired. He has been Inyo sheriff for three years
after having been the county's assistant probation officer. He entered
law enforcement in 1948 as a patrolman with the Bishop Police Department.
After four years there, he moved on to the sheriff's departments of Mono,
Inyo and E1 Dorado counties before joining Inyo County's probation
office in 1964.
Barrett, 47 and a Democrat, replaces Police Chief John P. Fabbri of
Redwood City, whose term expired. He has been Oroville police chief
nearly 13 years and was Coachella police chief for five years. He spent
the first four years of his law enforcement career with the Riverside
County Sheriff's Department in the early 1950s as a deputy and
investigator.
The terms of Barton and Barrett expire September 18, 1975.
McIntyre, 43, replaces Lyall C. Cash of Ukiah, whose term on the
commission expired. He has been city manager of Pasadena since last
June, after having served in the same capacity for the cities of Vallejo
and Oak Park, Michigan. He was town manager of Los Gatos for seven
years and has held administrative positions in the past in Richmond and
Redwood City. He holds a master's degree in public administration from
Michigan State University. McIntyre's term expires September 18, 1976.
#####
Addresses:
McKelvey
Floyd O. Barton
Wesley R. Barrett
Donald F. McIntyre
P.O. Box 56
5181 V-E Avenue
1086 Armada Drive
Independence 93526
Oroville 95965
Pasadena
Jack G. Collins
Loren W. Enoch
3300 Wonder View Drive
5727 Balboa Drive
AB 855 <Burton>
#512 vetred)
STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR REAGAN ON VETO OVERRIDE 1-28-74
I am of course disappointed, but it had to happen sometime
to some governor, and this is a political year. Fortunately,
vetoed or overridden, the bill has no effect because all of
the mental hospitals are fully funded in the budget, and
every legislator knows it.
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-29-74
#54
Danny E. Cozzi of Dos Palos today was appointed by Governor Ronald
Reagan to the Merced County Board of Supervisors.
Cozzi, a 57-year-old Democrat, fills the vacancy that has existed
since the death of Emory O'Banion.
The new appointee is involved in agriculture with the Cozzi
Brothers Cz Ranch and has been a member of the Merced County Planning
Commission for 10 years.
He is a past president of both the Merced County Chamber of Commerce
and the Dos Palos Y Service Club, past director of Dos Palos Co-op
Gin, Inc., past chairman of Merced County ASCS soil conservation group,
and past member of the Dos Palos Community Hospital Board,
Cozzi is secretary of the Dos Palos Y Fire Department and holds
membership in the Native Sons of Los Banos and four lodges.
He served in the U.S. Air Force for four years.
Cozzi will be paid $11,688 annually.
######
Address:
Rt. 1, Box 90
Dos Palos 93620
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-29-74
#55
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
Dr. Charles N. Bacigalupi of Healdsburg and the appointment of Mariposa
County Supervisor Frank L. Long, Jr., to the State Council on
Intergovernmental Relations.
Both are Republicans and will be paid their necessary expenses as
council members.
Dr. Bacigalupi, a 49-year-old dentist, is on the board of education
of the Westside Union School District and the Sonoma County Committee
on School District Organization.
He is a past president of the Eighth District, California Dental
Society and past treasurer of the Sonoma County School Trustees
Association.
The Santa Rosa native is married. He and his wife, Helen, have a
16-year-old son, John.
Dr. Bacigalupi has served on the councilsince 1970. His new term
expires November 21, 1977.
Long, 47, fills the unexpired term ending November 21 of the late
Riverside County Supervisor Paul J. Anderson.
He is in his second term on the Mariposa County board and was its
chairman in 1970-71.
Long entered the grain and cattle ranching business with his
brother 30 years ago and remained in partnership until 1963 when the
brother took over the grain farming portion.
He is chairman of the Mariposa County Water Agency, a director and
first vice chairman of the revenue and tax committee of CSAC and a past
director of the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association.
Long, who has lived in Mariposa County since 1952, is married and
has two sons.
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Addresses:
Charles N. Bacigalupi, DDS
Frank L. Long, Jr.
4151 Westside Road
4333 Old Highway
Healdsburg 95448
Mariposa 95338
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-29-74
#56
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the following
bills have been signed:
SB 435 - Collier
Validates the results of certain school district
Chapter 2
elections conducted pursuant to the State School
Building Aid Law of 1952.
SB 1511 - Grunsky
Provides that in any election for the first judge
Chapter 3
or judges of a newly established municipal or
justice court, only eligible judges of the courts
to be superseded may appear on the ballot and be
elected. The bill provides that those judges who
are equal in number to the number to be elected
and who receive the highest number of votes shall
be declared elected.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Saczamento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-29-74
(Press Conference =
Marriott Rotel, Los Angeles)
Los Angeles--Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following
statement:
"In February of last year, I had the pleasure of announcing the
establishment of the $5,000,000 John and Alice Tyler Ecology Fund to
be administered by Pepperdine University in Malibu. The fund supports
the Tyler Ecology Award, which is to be given annually to the person or
persons who have done the most to improve the world's environment.
Today it is my pleasure to announce the first recipient of this coveted
award.
"The selection was made by a panel of nine distinguished scientists
representing the following universities: Auburn, Baylor, California
Institute of Technology, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Pepperdine, Purdue, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University
of Southern California.
"The selection for the recipient of the $150,000 Tyler Ecology Award
was based on the following requirements: he must have conducted
scientific research for the past 10 years: his research must have been
of practical or applied value; and, his findings must have been dissemin-
ated on a worldwide basis.
"According to the selection committee, it was impossible to find
one man to meet this criteria. So we have three winners of this first
Tyler Ecology Award. The selections were unanimous.
"They are: Dr. G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Professor Emeritus of Moology,
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Dr. Arie Jan Haagen-Smit of
Pasadena, Professor Emeritus of Bio-Chemistry, California Institute of
Technology: and Maurice P, Strong, Executive Director of the United
Nations Environmental Program, Nairobi, Kenya.
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"These men will each receive a check for $50,000 at an awards
banquet in Los Angeles, February 8.
"I would like to take this opportunity to be the first to offer
my congratulations to the three award winners, and to the adection
committee for a difficult task well done.
"If you have any questions, I have with me, Dr. Omar Pareed,
chairman of the selection committee, and Col. Bob Bales, executive
director of the Tyler Award."
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-30-74
#57
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced his nomination cf Associate
Justice Thomas W. Caldecott of the 1st District Court of Appeal,
Division 3, as successor to retired Presiding Justice Preston Devine of
the First Appellate Court's fourth division.
The nomination must be confirmed by the state Commission on Judicial
Appointments made up of Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Wright,
Attorney General Evelle Younger and Senior Presiding Justice Murray
Draper of the 1st appellate district, which covers 16 California counties
Justice Caldecott, a 59-year-old Republican, has been an associate
justice since April 1969. Before that he was a Superior Court judge in
Alameda County for 12 years, including one year as presiding judge.
Justice Caldecott was chairman of the judiciary and ways and means
committees during 10 years as a state assemblyman. He had his own law
practice in Oakland for 11 years.
He was educated in Berkeley schools and obtained bachelor's and
law degrees at the University of California. He completed additional
graduate studies at the University of London (England) School of Law.
Justice Caldecott was admitted to the California bar in 1940 and
served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
His salary will be $45,139 annually.
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16 Counties, First District Court of Appeal:
Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino,
Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara,
Santa Cruz, Solano and Sonoma.
McKelvey
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press cretary
916-445-4571
1-30-74
#58
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has nominated Los Angeles
Superior Court Judge Rodney K. Potter as associate justice of the
2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 3.
Judge Potter will succeed retired Justice Harold W. Schweitzer when
confirmed by the State Commission on Judicial Appointments, composed of
Supreme Court Chief Justice Donald Wright, Attorney General Evelle
Younger and Senior Presiding Justice Parker Wood of the 2nd appellate
district. The district covers the counties of Los Angeles, Ventura,
Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo.
Judge Potter, 57 and a Republican, will receive an annual salary
of $45,139.
He has practiced law in Los Angeles for 32 years and was a partner
in the firm of O'Melveny and Myers for 12 years before being appointed
to the Superior Court bench by Governor Reagan in 1971.
Judge Potter was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA, with the
highest honor in the political science department, in 1938. He earned
his law degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1941.
He is a member of the State Bar, Los Angeles County Bar Association
and the Order of the Coif.
He spent four years on active duty with the U.S. Navy during
World War II and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps medal and a
commendation in 1945.
Judge Potter and his wife, Peggy, have two daughters.
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McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-30-74
#59
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he has signed the
following bills:
AB 926 - Russell
Makes a clarifying amendment relating to emergency
Chapter 6
military leave for state employees.
AB 2647 - Mobley
Enacts the Veterans Bond Act of 1974, authorizing
Chapter 7
bonds in the amount of $350 million for Cal-Vet
farm, home, and mobilehome loans. The bond act
will appear on the June 4 ballot.
SB 792 - way
Increases the number of judges in the Visalia
Chapter 5
Judicial District from one to two.
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Walthall
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT WAS RELEASED JANUARY 30, 1974, UPON INQUIRIES
FROM UPI AND THE SACRAMENTO BEE (via telephone): :
Governor Ronald Reagan tonight lauded President Nixon's State of
the Union speech for its "forthrightness and progressive tone. "
"I was particularly pleased to hear the President say that he will
not resign, that he will serve out his term and that he will cooperate
with the House Judiciary Committee."
On Watergate, the governor said:
"The time has long since passed when the guilt or innocence of those
involved in Watergate should have been determined by the courts.
Justice in this election year will not be served by another prolonged,
televised extravaganza."
On the President's ten points, the governor commented:
"President Nixon showed his determination to move ahead in seeking
solutions to the urgent problems facing the nation and the world. His
proposals were substantive and on target and I am looking forward to the
opportunity to study them in detail. They deserve the full attention
of the Congress and the nation."
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROM. D REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-31-74
#60
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"There is a measure on the June 4 ballot this year that will
allow every voter to have a personal say in assuring the future of
California's beaches, parks and other outdoor recreation areas.
"The measure is Proposition 1. It has nothing to do with a tax
limitation. But it is a response to the crisis that our state park
system is facing because of the unprecedented demands being made on
outdoor recreation. Last year nearly one million people were turned
away from our state parks because of over-crowding, and 85 percent of
them were Californians.
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"Proposition 1 is a bond issue that will provide $250 million to
help solve the problem. The money will be spent on beaches, parks,
for wildlife preservation, and for important historical features in the
State Park System.
"This vital ballot measure includes $90 million that will go
directly to cities, counties and special districts for parks, beaches
and other recreation areas. Local government is strapped for park
funds throughout the state. And in these days of fuel shortages, the
need for more local recreation areas is obvious.
"Our parks, beaches and historical sites are the inheritance that
each generation leaves to the next. Our yes vote on this bond issue
tells future generations how richly we value this heritage.
"Bill Lane, publisher and a prominent conservationist, has agreed
to serve as State Chairman of Californians for Parks, Beaches, and
Wildlife. This is the organization that will lead the drive for the
$250 million bond measure this June."
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR ROMALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-31-74
#61
L. W. (Bill) Lane, prominent conservationist and publisher of
Sunset Magazine, was introduced today by Governor Ronald Reagan as
state chairman of Californians for Parks, Beaches and Wildlife, the
organization leading the drive for Proposition 1 on the June 4 ballot.
Proposition 1 seeks voter approval of $250 million in bonds for
the purchase and development of parks, beaches and historic areas and
for wildlife conservation.
The bond issue includes $90 million to be divided among the
state's 58 counties--on the basis of population--for local governments
to acquire and develop parks and recreation areas.
Each county will receive at least $200,000, if Proposition 1 is
approved, the governor said.
The breakdown of the remaining $160 million is:
-- $90 million for state park system land acquisition.
-- $45 million for general state park development.
-- $15 million for development of historical resources within
the state park system.
-- $10 million for the acquisition or development of property
for wildlife management. This would be allocated to the Wildlife
Conservation Board.
Governor Reagan noted Lane's long interest in California's parks
and stressed the need for Proposition l's passage.
"Last year, nearly 1 million persons had to be turned away from
our state's parks because of overcrowding," he said. "And California
residents account for 85 percent of the park visits.
"In these days of fuel shortage, the need for more local
recreation areas is obvious."
Lane cited a doubling of California's population in the past
25 years, compared with a tenfold increase in use of parks, beaches
and other recreation areas.
"Population trends will add further demands," he said, noting
that the "baby boom" after World War II is expected to result in a
90 percent increase in the number of adults between the ages of 25 and
34 in the West by 1985.
He noted that persons in that age group are the most ardent
campers, hikers and boaters.
Lane said Proposition 1 has the support of leaders of both major
political parties, businessmen, labor, women's and minority groups,
conservationists and virtually every major element of the state's
population.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-31-74
#62
SB 295 - Grunsky
Amends the Vehicle Code provision dealing with the
Chapter 8
removal, defacing or alteration of identification
numbers of vehicles or vehicle parts.
AB 1131 - Beverly
Amends the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937
Chapter 9
to provide that heart trouble of certain safety
members shall not be attributed to any disease
existing prior to development and manifestation.
The bill further provides that disability retirement
shall be effective on expiration date of disability
leave of absence or upon consent prior to such
expiration.
AB 1523 -Vasconcellos Places Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 76
Chapter 10
on the June primary ballot. ACA 76 exempts from
civil service the chief administrative officer and
fire deputies of the California Postsecondary
Education Commission.
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Walthall
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-31-74
#63
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Howard L. Ullrich as state director of transportation.
The appointment is subject to Senate confirmation and pays
$34,200 annually.
Ullrich, a 57-year-old Republican, has been acting transportation
director since the January 1 return to private industry of James A. Moe.
Caltrans has 17,000 employees and an annual budget of about
$850 million covering highways, mass transit and aeronautics
Ullrich had served as chief deputy director of public works and
transportation since joining state government in 1971.
He is a former city manager of Redwood City and a retired career
U. S. Navy officer.
He lives with his wife and three daughters in Rescue.
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3984 Green Valley Road
Rescue 95672
McKelvey
OFFICE OF GOVERNOR RON, D REAGAN
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California 95814
Clyde Walthall, Press Secretary
916-445-4571
1-31-74
#64
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of San
Lorenzo Schools Superintendent Paul D. Ehret to the state teachers'
retirement board.
Ehret, 57, has been superintendent of the San Lorenzo Unified
School District since 1948. He replaces Kenneth M. Forry of Albany,
who resigned from the board.
A Republican, Ehret graduated from University High School in
Oakland and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University
of California at Berkeley. He did graduate study at the University of
Chicago, Columbia University's Teachers College and the University of
Virginia.
He is a past president of the California Association of School
Administrators, Oakland Area Council of Boy Scouts, Oakland Area
Community Chest and the Alameda County Trustees of the Bay Area United
Fund. He was for eight years chairman of the financing public education
state committee of the California Teachers Association and for three
years was chairman of the California School Administrators' State
Cooperative Finance Committee.
Ehret currently is president of the San Francisco Bay Area Council,
Boys Scouts, and of the San Lorenzo Scholarship Foundation.
His term expires July 1, 1977 and he will be paid his actual
expenses.
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