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    "ocrText": "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\nDigital Library Collections\nThis is a PDF of a folder from our textual\ncollections.\nCollection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers,\n1966-74: Press Unit\nFolder Title: Press Releases - February 1968\nBox: P8\nTo see more digitized collections visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library\nTo see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories\nvisit: https://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection\nContact a reference archivist at: [email protected]\nCitation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing\nNational Archives Catalogue:\nhttps://catalog.archives.gov/\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 73\n445-4571 2.1.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has proclaimed\nthe month of February as AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH.\nText of the proclamation follows:\nPROCLAMATION\nWHEREAS\nAmericans celebrate the birthdays of two great\npresidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln\nduring February; and\nWHEREAS\nOur nation's history is the sum of our art and\nscience, our philosophy and politics, our religion and\nlaw, which woven together make the fabric of American\nlife as we see it today; and\nWHEREAS\nA deep appreciation of our history, has bound Americans\ntogether in common citizenship as a result of common\nshared dreams, common convictions, a sense of kinship\nand fraternity; and\nWHEREAS\nIt is through an appreciation for history that present\ngenerations can best honor our debt to the wisdom,\nfaith, and sacrifice of those who came before us;\nNOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do\nhereby proclaim the month of February as AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH.\nIN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto\nset my hand and caused the Great\nSeal of the State of California\nto be affixed here this twenty-\nsecond day January One Thousand\nNine Hundred Sixty Eight.\nGovernor\nATTEST:\nSecretary of State\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nRELEASE: In diate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 74\n445-4571 2.1.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Loyalton newspaper publisher\nHarold B. Wright and Virgil B. Kingsley, a Los Angeles funeral home\noperator, to four-year terms on the State Board of Funeral Directors\nand Embalmers.\nThe posts pay $25 per diem plus travel expenses.\nWright, 63, replaces Hugh Marvin Tiner of San Diego. Kingsley, 56,\nsucceeds Charles Anspach of Bakersfield. The terms of Tiner and\nAnspach expired.\nWright, is editor and publisher of the Sierra Booster. He is a\nformer president of the Loyalton Chamber of Commerce and is a past vice\npresident of the Loyalton Rotary Club.\nHe resides at Box 458, Loyalton.\nKingsley, a past president of the California Funeral Directors'\nAssociation, is a partner and secretary-treasurer of Gates, Kingsley\nand Gates, Inc., a southern California mortuary chain.\nHe is a founding president of the Los Angeles County Funeral\nDirectors' Association; is a past president of the Santa Monica\nKiwanis Club; and is president and chairman of the Santa Monica\nChapter of the American Red Cross.\nHe resides at 222 - 22nd Street, Santa Monica.\nBoth appointees are Republicans.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.1.68\nGovernor Reagan will make a special announcement in his office\nat approximately 4:00 p.m. today, February 1st. Press coverage is\ninvited.\nPB\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 75\n445-4571 2.1.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the resignation of State\nDirector of Finance Gordon P. Smith, effective March 1.\nGovernor Reagan has appointed Caspar W. Weinberger as Smith's\nsuccessor.\nSmith, 50, during his 13 months as finance director, was the\narchitect of Governor Reagan's first two state budgets, including the\none that will be sent to the legislature on Monday. He was responsible\nfor carrying out the governor's \"cut, squeeze and trim\" fiscal policies\nand for developing his tax policies.\nSmith, a former vice president of the management consulting firm\nof Booz, Allen and Hamilton, said he is considering several firm offers.\n\"The time has come for me to make a decision regarding the future\nof my career. This decision can best be made if I am no longer a\npart of the state government,\" Smith said.\nIn accepting the resignation, Governor Reagan said, \"I am\nreluctantly and with regret accepting the resignation of Gordon Smith\nas state finance director.\n\"Gordon is, in large measure, responsible for having put our\nstate's fiscal house in order. He has done a fine job for this\nadministration and has performed a great service for the people of\nCalifornia at great personal sacrifice to himself and his family.\n\"I understand his need and desire to return to private life and I\nam grateful for the time he was willing to take from his career and give\nto the service of this administration.\n\"I appreciate, too, the fact that he has agreed to stay on until\nMarch 1 in order to provide for an orderly transition of the functions\nof this post,\" Governor Reagan said.\nWeinberger, 50, is a San Francisco attorney, veteran lawmaker and\nexpert on government.\nHe headed the governor's task force on governmental reorganization\nwhich was formed after the governor's election.\nWeinberger, who was graduated from Harvard University with a B.A.\nand LL.B., is a partner in the San Francisco law firm of Heller, Ehrman,\nWhite and McAulliffe.\nHe served in the state Assembly from 1952-58 and was chairman of\nthe Government Organization Committee. He also has been chairman of the\nRepublican State Central Committee and has been active in numerous civic\naffairs as well as qovornmental matters\n(PB)\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n# 76\n445-4571\n2.2.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named attorney Howard B. Turrentine\nto the San Diego County Superior Court bench.\nTurrentine, 53, succeeds Judge Edgar B. Hervey who retired\nDecember 4, 1967.\nA Republican, Turrentine is a 1939 graduate of the University of\nSouthern California law school. He has conducted a private law practice\nin San Diego since his admission to the state bar in 1939, with the\nexception of World War II service in the U.S. Navy.\nHe is a former president and director of the San Diego County\nBar Association and three years ago served on the state bar committee\nfor the Unlawful Practice of Law.\nHe is married, has three children, and resides at 717 Armada\nTerrace, San Diego.\n# # # # # # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 77\n445-4571 2.2.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Fremont attorney M.O. Sabraw\nto the municipal court bench of Alameda county's Fremont-Newark-Union\nCity Judicial District.\nThe post was created by the 1967 legislature and pays $23,000\nannually.\nSabraw, a 41-year old Republican, has been engaged in private\npractice in Fremont for the past 12 years. He is a partner in the\nlegal firm of Quaresma, Sabraw and Avera.\nFollowing graduation from the University of California's Boalt\nLaw School in 1953, Sabraw went to work as a deputy district attorney\nin Sonoma County.\nActive in civic affairs, Sabraw has been a member of the Fremont\nBoard of Education since 1964 and served as its president from 1965-67.\nHe was on the board of trustees of the Washington Union High School\nDistrict from 1963-64. For the past six years, he has served as a\ndirector of the Fremont Chamber of Commerce, and is a former president\nof the Central Fremont Businessmen's Association.\nSabraw is a past president and currently a director of the Washingto\nTownship Bar Association. He is a former director of the Southern\nAlameda County Bar Association.\nHe is married, has four children, and lives at 1225 Arnold Court\nFremont.\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571 2.2.68\n# 78\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nFEBRUARY 5, 1968\nthrough\nFEBRUARY 12, 1968\nMonday, February 5\n4:00 p.m.\nPicture for Chinese New Year (Governor's Office\nTuesday, February 6\n9:30 a.m.\nPress Conference\n2:00 p.m.\nBrief presentation by Cyril Magnin, Trevor\nRoberts and Dan London of the San Francisco\nPort Authority (Governor's Office)\nWednesday, February 7\n1:00 p.m.\nAcceptance of Report of Governor's Survey on\nEfficiency & Cost Control (Press Conference\nRoom)\n3:00 p.m.\nBrief greetings to Assemblyman Wakefield and\nDowney City Council\nThursday, February 8\n10:00 a.m.\nDepart for San Francisco\n11:45 a.m.\nArrive Fairmount Hotel for Governor's\nIndustrial Safety Conference Luncheon\n(Noon Speech)\n2:00 p.m.\nDepart for Sacramento\nFriday, February 9\n11:00 a.m.\nCourtesy call by Senator Tom Kuchel\n(Governor's Office)\n11:45 a.m.\nGreet General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of\nthe Selective Service System (Governor's\nCouncil Room)\n3:10 p.m.\nDepart Sacramento Metropolitan Airport for\nLos Angeles\n4:00 p.m.\nArrive Los Angeles (Overnight-Los Angeles)\nSaturday, February 10\n7:00 p.m.\nGovernor's Ball sponsored by the Trustees of\nLos Amigos del Pueblo, Grand Ballroom,\nBeverly Hilton Hotel (Overnight-Los Angeles)\nSunday, February 11\nNo public appointments scheduled - overnight\nMonday, February 12\nLINCOLN's BIRTHDAY\nAfternoon\nNo appointments scheduled - return to Sacrament\n(Overnight-Sacramento)\n(EJG)\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Imm iate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n#79\n445-4571 2.5.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named six persons, including three\nmunicipal court judges, to the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench.\nThe posts pay $25,000 annually.\nNamed were:\n--Municipal Judge Harold C. Shepherd, 64, of the Los Angeles\nJudicial District.\nHe succeeds Judge Harry Pregerson who was appointed to the\nfederal bench.\nShepherd, a Republican, is a 1936 graduate of Southwestern\nUniversity law school. He became a Los Angeles County Superior Court\ncommissioner in 1941, and was appointed a municipal court judge in 1952.\nHe is a former chairman of the Seminar Committee for Municipal\nCourts of the Conference of California Judges; served as a member of the\nMunicipal and Justice Courts Advisory Committee to the Judicial Council\nin 1964; and is currently a member of the Judicial Council.\nHe and his wife Lois live at 2035 Kenilworth Avenue, Los Angeles.\nMunicipal Judge John L. Donnellan, 50, of the Whittier Judicial\nDistrict.\nHe replaces Judge Walter Odemar who retired.\nDonnellan, a Republican, is a 1941 graduate of the Kent College of\nLaw, Chicago. He practiced law briefly in Illinois before reporting\nfor active duty with the U.S. Marines in 1942.\nHe practiced law in California from 1947 until 1950 when he\nwas appointed a Los Angeles county deputy district attorney.\nHe was named to the municipal court bench in 1955 by Governor\nGoodwin J. Knight and was subsequently elected to the post in 1958 and\n1964.\nDonnellan is a former chairman of the Municipal Court Judges\nAssociation of Los Angeles county and served as a member of the Los\nAngeles County Special Study Commission on Judicial Procedure from\n1960-61.\nHe is married, has two daughters, and resides at 14225 Eastridge\nAvenue, Whittier.\n-1-\nJudge Raymond hoate, 48, of the South Ba Judicial District.\nHe succeeds Judge Joe Raycraft who retired.\nChoate, a Democrat, is a 1948 graduate of the University of\nSouthern California law school. He has served as a municipal judge\nsince his appointment in 1965. He was admitted to the state bar in\n1949 and was engaged in private law practice until becoming a judge.\nHe served as a deputy public defender from 1949-57.\nHe is a former president of the South Bay Bar Association; and\nis a member of the Torrance Rotary Club and Harbor District Welfare\nPlanning Council.\nChoate is married, has four children, and lives at 1211-5th Street,\nManhattan Beach.\n--D. Sterry Fagan, 40, chief of the special investigations\ndivision of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.\nHe replaces Judge Roger A. Pfaff who retired.\nFagan, a Republican, is a 1953 graduate of the University of\nSouthern California law school and has served as a deputy district\nattorney for Los Angeles county since 1954 except for a brief period\nin private practice.\nFor the past several years, he has headed up a division which\nprocesses all allegations relating to misconduct in office of\npublic officials and organized crime.\nFagan is married, has three children, and resides at 5249 Leghorn\nAvenue, Van Nuys.\n--Norman R. Dowds, 47, a 1943 graduate of the University of\nSouthern California law school.\nHe succeeds Judge Donald Hamblin who retired.\nA Republican, Dowds has been a partner in the Los Angeles legal\nfirm of Schultheis, Laybourne and Dowds since 1956.\nDowds has been active for years in the work of the state bar,\nthe Los Angeles County Bar Association and the American Bar Association.\nHe has participated for seven years in state bar disciplinary work\nas an examiner. He is a one-time chairman of the Los Angeles County\nBar Association Committee on Psychiatric Department of Superior Court.\nHe is married, has three children, and lives at 2330 Cumberland\nRoad, San Marino.\n-2-\n#79\nJohn R. Allport, 54, a 1939 graduate of the U.C.L.A. law\nschool.\nHe replaces Judge David Coleman who retired.\nAllport, a Repbulican, has been engaged in private law practice\nsince 1939, except for four years during World War II when he served\nin the U.S. Navy.\nHe is a member of the Association of Southern California\nDefense Counsel, the American Board of Trial Advocates, American\nCollege of Trial Lawyers and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.\nHe is married, has four children, and resides at 28106 West\nPacific Coast Highway, Malibu.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\n#79\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Im diate\nSacramento, Califor. a\nContact: Paul Beck\n#80\n445-4571 2.5.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan said today his budget for the next fiscal\nyear includes $4 million extra for research and treatment of mental\nretardation.\nHe also noted that the waiting list for care of the mentally-\nretarded has been cut by 40 percent in the past year.\n\"Reducation Reduction in the incidence of mental retardation through research\nis the ultimate answer to this problem that affects thousands of\nCalifornians,\" the governor said.\n\"For that reason, I have earmarked $1.4 million in new funds to\nstaff the research facilities for mental retardation that are to be\nopened at the Neuropsychiatric Institute in Los Angeles.\"\nThe governor also asked $1.5 million additional for a full year's\nfunding of a special training program for the retarded at Camarillo\nState Hospital. Objective of the unit is to enable the retarded to live\nin a sheltered environment outside the hospital or to support themselves\nin the community. With the opening of the unit this fiscal year, 500\nbeds were made available at Fairview and Pacific State Hospitals for\nretarded youngsters in need of hospitalization.\n\"An additional $1.1 million was requested to increase the level of\ncare for patients at the hospitals for the retarded,\" Governor Reagan\nsaid.\n\"The additional funds should insure that we maintain the commanding\nlead that California has in the treatment of the mentally retarded,\"\nhe said. \"The latest federal statistics show that California's\nexpenditures per mentally retarded patient under treatment are by far\nthe highest of any large state.\"\nThe waiting list has been cut from a total of 1,537 on January 1.\n1967 to a total of 917 currently despite the addition of more than\n1,000 names to the list in the course of the year. the governor said.\nA breakdown of the list showed that a year ago there were 815\npersons awaiting hospitalization compared with 455 now; 156 waiting for\nnursing home care compared with 87 now; and 546 waiting for residential\ncare compared with a current total of 375.\n# 80\n\"This achievement has been made possible by several factors\",\nGovernor Reagan said.\n\"Among these are the new units for mentally retarded opened at\nCamarillo and Agnews State Hospitals, the direct placement efforts\nof the regional diagnostic centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco,\nand the increased effort to place hospital patients on 'leave' in\nprivately-owned residential care facilities in or near the patient's\nhome community.\"\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n-2-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.5.68\nGovernor Reagan's birthday will be celebrated tomorrow (February 6)\nin the Governor's Council Room at 4:30 p.m.\nPress coverage is invited.\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.6.68\n# 81\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Richmond Chief of Police,\nCharles E. Brown, to the State Women's Board of Terms and Parole.\nBrown, 51, will fill the unexpired term of the late James\nEnglish of Palm Springs. The term will end March 15, 1969.\nBrown's appointment to the $8,000-per-year post will become\neffective February 15, 1968.\nA Democrat, Brown has been a police officer for 24 years. He\nworked his way through the ranks from a patrolman to police chief in\n13 years. He has been Richmond chief of police since 1955.\nBrown is a graduate of F.B.I. National Police Academy in\nWashington D.C. He holds a teaching certificate for instructing law\nenforcement classes at the junior college level.\nHe has held several committee chairmanships in the State Peace\nOfficers' Association during the past 12 years, and is a former\npresident of the Contra Costa County Police Chiefs' Association.\nBrown is also a past president of the Bay Area Traffic Executives'\nCouncil and the Bay Counties Peace Officers' Association.\nHe is married, has two children, and resides at 4848 Morwood\nDrive, Richmond.\n# # #\nEJG\n@FFICE OF THE GOVE OR\nRELEASE: Ir. diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.6.68\n# 82\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Stanley E. McCaffrey,\npresident and executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Area Council,\nInc., to the State Commission on Government Organization and Economy.\nThe post pays necessary travel expenses.\nMcCaffrey, 50, is a past vice president of the University of\nCalifornia (1956-60) under Robert Gordon Sproul, and is a former\nexecutive manager of the California Alumni Association.\nHe joined the San Francisco Bay Area Council as its first full-\ntime president in 1961. The council is devoted to the civic and\neconomic development of the nine-county Bay area.\nHe is a past president and charter member of the Peralta Junior\nCollege District board of directors. He also serves on the board of\ngovernors of Golden Gate College, San Francisco.\nHe succeeds Thomas W. Caldecott of Oakland who resigned.\nMcCaffrey, a Republican, will serve at the pleasure of the\ngovernor.\nHe resides at 172 Alvarado Road, Berkeley.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVE\nDR\nRELEASE: In diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.6.68\n# 83\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Assemblyman Charles J. Conrad\nand nine other prominent Californians to the American Revolution\nBicentennial Commission of California.\nThe commission was created by the 1967 legislature to head up\nand coordinate California's observance of the bicentennial of the\nAmerican revolution which will take place from 1975-83.\nThe legislation calls for the governor to appoint 10 persons,\nincluding the commission chairman. An additional five commissioners\nare appointed by the Senate Rules Committee, and five by the Assembly\nspeaker.\nGovernor Reagan's appointees are:\n--Assemblyman Charles J. Conrad, 58, of the 57th assembly dis-\ntrict. Conrad, a Republican and a direct descendent of James Wilson,\none of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, will serve as\ncommission chairman.\nConrad has served in the state legislature for the past two\ndecades and is chairman of the Assembly Committee on Interstate\nCooperation.\n--Sally B. Altick of Menlo Park, a Republican. Mrs. Altick is\nthe wife of Robert L. Altick, Jr. She resides at 298 Gabarda Way,\nMenlo Park.\n--John A. Davis, 75, of La Mesa. A Republican, Davis is a\nretired businessman and an active community leader. He has been\nappointed La Mesa's official representative at San Diego's 200th\nanniversary celebration in 1969. He lives at 9565 Alto Drive, La Mesa.\n--Verna M. Hall of San Francisco, a Republican. Miss Hall is a\ntrustee of the Foundation for American Christian Education. She\nresides at 2946 25th Avenue, San Francisco.\n--Donald M. Dozer, 62, of Santa Barbara. A Republican, Dr. Dozer\nis a history professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.\nHe lives at 421 Mira Monte Drive, Santa Barbara.\n--Eleanor R. Lyon, a Republican. She is the wife of Harvey B.\nLyon. Mrs. Lyon has long been active in community affairs. She\nresides at 492 Staten Avenue, Oakland,\n--John McCarty, 55, president of the Rule Company, a Los Angeles\ninsurance brokerage firm. He is a Democrat and resides at 1075\nLagunita Road, Pasadena.\n-1-\n# 83--Page 2\n--William L. Shaw, 58, of Sacramento. A Republican, Shaw is a\nstate deputy attorney general assigned to the State Military\nDepartment and the Department of Employment. He is also judge advocate\nof the California National Guard Association. He resides at 3701\nCollege Avenue, Sacramento,\n--Robert F. Beaver, 60, of Los Angeles, He is president and\nowner of Willard-Brent Company, Inc., general contractors. A\nRepublican, Beaver lives at 1235 Margarita Drive, Fullerton.\n--Gretchen W. Thomas, a San Rafael Republican. She is the wife\nof Edwin W. Thomas, Jr. She resides at 447 Fairhills Drive, San Rafael\nThe governor's appointees receive necessary expenses and serve\nat his pleasure.\n# # #\n-2-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nMEMO TO TI\nPRESS\nSacramento, California\nContict:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.6.68\nC-O-R-R-F-C-T-I-O-N\nIn Release No. 83 dated today, please correct Page 1,\nsixth paragraph as follows:\nConrad has served in the state legislature for the\npast :wo decades and is a former chairman of the Assembly Com-\nmitt e on Interstate Cooperation.\nNEWS from\nGovernor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control\nP.O. Box 931, Sacramento, Calif. 95804\nO. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510\n2.6.68\nFor Release P.M.'s of Wednesday\nBackground: Cooperation of\nFebruary 7, 1968 (PLEASE GUARD\nState Employees an Important\nAGAINST PREMATURE RELEASE)\nFactor in Survey's Success\nSacramento--Much of the success of an undertaking with the scope\nof the Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control, says the\nsurvey's report presented to Governor Ronald Reagan, \"can be attributed\nto the excellent working relationship between state employees\" and\nsurvey personnel.\nRecognition of the need for employee cooperation was implicit in\nthe original executive order authorizing the survey.\nIn the order, issued February 20, 1967, Governor Reagan directed\n\"each officer and employee of this state to furnish the consultants\nand their representatives complete information and to give (them)\nevery assistance in the performance of their duties.\"\nResponse of state employees to the work of the survey was\nimmediate, Survey Chairman O. Kenneth Pryor reports. \"Not only did\nthey supply the necessary background materials to aid the survey teams,\nbut they presented ideas and suggestions for many beneficial improvements\nembodied in the final report of the survey.\"\nTypical of reactions encountered by survey members was the comment\nof one state employee when the team completed its work in his department:\n\"When this started, I thought it would be another head-hunting\nroutine. I can't say that I really like your finding some things that\nI should have known all along, but you people went about your work\ntrying to help us, and that has never happened before.\"\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER\nR\nMEMO TO THI\nRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.6.68\nThe summary report of the Governor's Survey on Efficiency and\nCost Control will be presented to Governor Reagan by O. Kenneth\nPryor, survey chairman, at 1 p.m., Wednesday, February 7. Members\nof the survey executive committee and members of the governor's\ncabinet will be available after the presentation in press conference\nroom 1190 for questions.\nCopies of the summary and other material will be given to the\npress today for Wednesday P.M.'s release.\nPress coverage is invited for the Wednesday presentation and\nfollowing press conference.\n# # #\nNPWS from\nGovernor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control\nP.O. Box 931, Sacramento, Calif. 95804\nO. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510\n2.6.68\nFor Release P.M.'s of Wednesday,\nFebruary 7, 1968\nSome Survey Recommendations\n(PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE\nAlready Put Into Effect\nRELEASE)\nSacramento--the Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control,\nwhich presented its summary report and recommendations to Governor\nRonald Reagan today, already has been instrumental in effecting savings\nfor California's taxpayers and suggesting management changes in the\nstate's governmental agencies.\nMost survey recommendations require action by the state administra-\ntion or the legislature for implementation before they can result in\nactual dollar savings.\nBut in the course of the survey's intensive months-long study of\nmost of California's state agencies, suggestions were made and accepted\nby agency staff members which resulted in considerable savings to the\nstate's taxpayers.\nFor example Survey Chairman O. Kenneth Pryor reported, a planned\n10-story state office building will not have to be built.\nThe survey's work on state office space was used by the Department\nof Motor Vehicles and the California Highway Patrol to find the room\nthey needed in existing buildings. The survey findings, in fact, show\na proposed new 10-story office building will not be needed before 1980,\nif at all. Savings: $4.3 million, plus annual interest and maintenance\ncosts of $400.00.\nIn another instance, Chairman Pryor reported, the survey suggested\nmailing annual vehicle registration renewal notices a month earlier to\nhelp avoid a work overload at deadline time.\nThe early receipt of license fees also could earn an extra\n$185,000 in interest, the survey estimated. A bonus this year was that\nmailing 12-million renewal notices preceded the one-cent postal rate\nincrease and may have saved $120,000.\nIn a third instance, the Department of Water Resources, by\nadopting the survey team's recommendations, was ahle to reduce the\n-1-\ncost of a proposed history of the California Water Project by $600,000.\nOther preliminary recommendations by the survey which are already\nin effect or under consideration include these examples, large and small:\na study of office space utilization, it was determined\nthat the state was assigning, over-all, at least 25 percent more office\nspace per employee than does industry in general. Py applying industrial\nstandards, two state office buildings currently under construction will\nnow house more than 3,000 employees instead of the 2,138 originally\nplanned.\n--A two-color printing press less than four years old was scheduled\nto be replaced at a cost of $34,000 because it had never performed\nsatisfactorily. A survey team showed how the press could be brought\nup to standard performance for $7,000, thus saving $27,000.\n--The State Printing Plant cannot exonomically handle the printing\nof business cards for state personnel. This work could be done by an\noutside contractor instead, for a saving of $20,000 annually.\n--In one state office more than 200,000 rarely-used correspondence\nfiles for 1965 were being maintained. Throwing out these files meant\na $12,000 savings.\n--In studying telephone use, a survey team found several unused\ndesks, vacant for many months but each with a telephone still in service.\nIn addition to these and other examples of savings already in\neffect, the survey studies have brought about organizational changes.\nOne such series of changes, announced by Governor Reagan last\nNovember, concerned the Department of Water Resources and dealt primarily\nwith program development and control, construction contract administratio.\nand related matters.\nAnother survey recommendation resulted in establishment last\nNovember of the Office of Management Services, under the jurisdiction\nof Business and Transportation Agency. Charles P. Smith, formerly\nsenior technical advisor to management for System Development Corp. of\nSanta Monica, was subsequently named director of the new office.\nThe office, consisting of a small group of data processing\nspecialists, has the task of developing plans for over-all consolidation\n-2-\nand optimum utilization of automatic data processing systems for state\ngovernment.\nIn signing the executive order creating the new office,\nGovernor Reagan took cognizance of the rapid advance in the technology\nof data processing and said \"these advances offer an opportunity to\nimprove the efficiency, responsiveness and economy of governmental\nactivities.\"\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n-3-\nPB\nSTATE OF CALIFORNIA\nPERCENTAGE INCREASES\nThe DECADE 1957 to 1967\n%\n%\n125\n120%\n125\n100\n100\n75\n70%\n75\n50\n50\n39%\n34%\n25\n25\n0\n0\nTotal Employment Civilian\nPopulation\n10 state\nFund\n*Based on constant (1967) dollar\nSTATE OF CALIFORNIA\nPOPULATION and\nGENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES*\nPERCENTAGE INCREASES\n%\nThe DECADE 1957 to 1967\n%\n250\n250\n247%\n200\n200\n150\n138%\n150\n98%\n100\n88%\n100\n50\n39%\n50\n0\n0\nPopulation\nSocial Welfare\n11/11 to\nAll Others\n* Based on constant (1967) dollar\nSTATE OF CALIFORNIA\nGOVERNOR'S SURVEY ON\nEFFICIENCY AND COST CONTROL\nPOTENTIAL SAVINGS\nState Funds:\nMillions\nGeneral and special funds\nPotential savings-\nAnnually\n$233\nOne-time\n22\nCapital funds\nReduction (or cancellation)\nof planned expenditures\nfor facilities\n153\nLong-term deferment of\ncapital expenditures\n118\nCounty and Local Funds:\nPotential annual savings\n67\nFederal Funds:\nPotential annual savings\n92\nNEWS from\nFebruary 6, 1968\nGovernor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control\nP. O. Box 931, Sacramento, California 95804\nO. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510\nFor Release: PM's of\nWednesday, February 7, 1968\nBackground Information on the\n(PLEASE GUARD AGAINST\nGovernor's Survey on Efficiency and\nPREMATURE RELEASE)\nCost Control\nSacramento - Governor Ronald Reagan recognized the need to\nconduct a thorough examination and evaluation of the management and\nadministrative practices of all operating sectors of California state\ngovernment.\nThe need was clear: Costs of state government have been increas-\ning far faster than the state's population. California's population\nincreased 39 percent in the past 10 years, while the number of state\ngovernment employees rose by 70 percent.\nIn dollar terms, general fund expenditures of state government\nincreased 120 percent, even after adjusting for inflation.\nAs a result of this disproportionate growth, state government--\nthe largest business in the state in terms of expenditures and number\nof employees--was spending more than it received.\nGovernor Reagan met the problem by issuing an Executive Order\nFebruary 20, 1967, authorizing the Governor's Survey on Efficiency\nand Cost Control and appointing O. Kenneth Pryor as chairman.\nFrom the beginning, as set forth in the Executive Order, the aim\nof the Survey was to conduct \"such studies and investigations as\nnecessary to determine how the services of the State of California\nmay be provided its citizens in the most efficient, expeditious and\neconomical manner\n\"\nThe pattern for such a survey was similar to that used regularly\nby business throughout the nation to identify trends which cannot be\nallowed to continue without putting their operation into the red.\nMore recently, state governments in Ohio, Washington, Oklahoma,\nMichigan and Wisconsin have adopted the management survey technique.\nGovernor Reagan held luncheons with business and community\nleaders in Los Angeles and San Francisco early in 1967. He asked the\nbusiness and professional communities to supply manpower and support\nfor a \"citizen's\" survey, at no cost to the state.\nSome 280 firms, organizations and individual citizens provided\nsupport for the work of the Survey. A non-profit corporation was\nformed to channel funds from the supporting groups into the Survey\n-1-\nand maintain the \"no-state-cost\" status of the efrort.\nAfter the governor's Executive Order announced the survey in\nFebruary, 1967, the organizing work began in earnest. By the end of\nMarch a seven-man executive committee had been formed under Pryor\nto carry out the organizational work.\nStudy teams were assigned to state departments when the proper\nnumber of members with the required type of background could be\nrecruited and made available. Most teams were at work by mid-May,\n1967, and many of their studies were completed by the end of August.\nFrom September on, the remaining work was concerned mainly with\nediting and correlating the numerous reports. This was done by\nmembers of the executive committee, who reviewed the findings and\nrecommendations with supervisory and management groups of the state\ndepartments concerned.\nSurvey team members devoted a total of approximately 17,000 man-\ndays to the study.\nEach study team, after analyzing basic documents on the state\ndepartment being surveyed--such as department budgets, annual reports,\nlegislative analyst's budget reviews, and audits--scheduled inter-\nviews with the department head and his key employees.\nA tentative work schedule was set up, based in part on the study\nteams' analysis of budgets and audits, and partly on what the state\ndepartment head or his key staff members suggested as possible areas\nfor investigation.\nOn the average, about 16 weeks were spent in indoctrination,\ninterviewing, visiting work sites and making analysis of departmental\nprocesses.\nFrom the beginning, the Survey did not propose to cover all state\nactivities. There was no intent to study the legislative or judicial\nbranches of the state government.\nThe Survey devoted its efforts to covering most of the executive\nbranch activities. A small number of offices--such as the State\nTreasurer's office, the Office of Economic Opportunity and the\nSecretary of State's office--were not analyzed because of the lack\nof time and manpower.\nThe only office of major size that was not surveyed was the\nState Board of Equalization.\nThe survey did not endeavor to abolish or create state programs\nor establish state policy. Instead, it investigated the management\nand administration of existing programs and state functions to make\nthem more efficient a. -4 improve the quality of St vice given the\npublic for its tax dollar.\nThe final Summary Report and Recommendations, which brings\ntogether the various study team reports on those state activities\nsurveyed, consists of 149 numbered pages of text containing the\nSurvey's major analysis and summarizing approximately 2,000 recom-\nmendations for 60 departments or agencies.\nPresentation of the Summary Report and Recommendations formally\nwas made to Governor Reagan by Pryor and the executive committee\ntoday (2/7/68).\n# # #\n-3-\nNEWS FROM\nGovernor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control\nP.O. Box 931, Sacramento, Calif. 95804\nO. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510\n2.6.68\nFor Release P.M. of Wednesday,\nBackground: Who Were Members of\nFebruary 7, 1968 (PLEASE GUARD\nGovernor's Survey on Efficiency\nAGAINST PREMATURE RELEASE)\nand Cost Control?\nSacramento--The Governor's Survey on Efficiency and Cost Control\nconsisted of 250 highly qualified executives, management specialists\nand professional people representing most sectors of the state's\nbusiness and professional life.\nIn the process of working toward its objectives, members of the non-\npartisan Governor's Survey devoted over 17,000 man-days to their\nefforts. Some 280 business and industrial firms, organizations, and\nindividuals supported the survey, many of them furnishing executives\nand staff people on a full-time volunteer basis.\nChairman of the survey was O. Kenneth Pryor, of Hillsborough,\nretired managing partner of Price Waterhouse & Co., national firm of\ncertified public accountants.\nPryor was assisted by a seven-man executive committee. To\nconduct the background work of the survey, state government operations\nwere divided into seven areas, with a study team headed by a member\nof the survey's executive committee assigned to each.\nExecutive committee members and their areas of study were:\n--Frank Cleary (education), of Los Angeles, formerly director of\ncorporate systems and procedures, Aerojet-General, now assistant\ncomptroller, ITT-Gilfillan.\n--Jay Davis, Jr. (public safety and regulatory), of Monrovia, vice\npresident, Southern Counties Gas Co.\n--Harold B. Haught (agriculture and resources), of Sacramento,\nvice president and general manager, Northern Counties area, Pacific\nTelephone and Telegraph Co.\n--A. Howard McHarg (health and welfare), of San Mateo, management\nconsultant, department on organization, Standard Oil Co. of California,\n--Marshall G. Mustain (executive and fiscal), of Oakland,\nmanagement consultant, department on organization, Standard oil Co.\nof California.\n--Ralph W. Seely (transportation), of Hillsborough, vice president\nsales, western area, United States Steel Co.\n-1-\n--William H. Spurgeon III (corrections and institutions), of\nNewport Beach, former vice president, Irvine Co., now project manager,\nVernon division, Bechtel Corp.\nDirector of manpower and finances for the survey was Holmes Tuttle,\nof Los Angeles, assisted by Joseph W. Cochran III, Pebble Beach.\nWarren King & Associates Inc., Chicago management consulting firm,\nprovided consultation services,\nJob levels of the 250 survey members ranged from middle manage-\nment to corporate officers. Professional backgrounds represented a\nwide range of business management, civil and mechanical engineering,\ndata systems and procedures, finance, personnel, law, medicine,\narchitecture, purchasing, agriculture and various other specialities.\nManagerial and professional talent of the scope represented on\nthe survey team could not have been retained on a project basis. In\naddition to the contribution of executive talent by businesses and\nindustries, many companies and individuals made monetary contributions\nto defray expenses of the study. The entire project, in fact, was\nconducted by a non-profit cerporation, without cost to the state.\nSurvey team members were instructed to confine their efforts to\nreviewing organization structures and management practices. They\ndid not attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of specialized\nprofessional activites (teaching, for example).\n-2-\nPB\nNEWS from\nebruary 6, 1968\nGovernor's Survey on fficiency and Cost Control\nP.O. Box 931, Sacramento, California 95804\nO. Kenneth Pryor, Chairman (916) 445-1510\nFor Release: P.M.' 's of\nWednesday, February 7, 1968\n(PLEASE GUARD AGAINST\nPREMATURE RELEASE)\nSacramento--Recommendations designed to increase the efficiency\nof state government, reduce and control costs, and in general give\nthe people of California more effective service for each tax dollar\nwere contained in the report of a statewide citizens' study group\npresented to Governor Ronald Reagan today.\nThe report, based on a 10-month-long effort of the governor's\nSurvey on Efficiency and Cost Control, summarizes some 2,000 specific\nrecommendations for streamlining and improving the quality of work of\nmost state departments and agencies.\nO. Kenneth Pryor, chairman of the Survey, said in presenting the\n149 page summary report to Governor Reagan that the \"Survey team's\nrecommendations can lead to very large savings for the state if they\nare fully implemented by the state administration and the legislature\".\nMany suggestions, developed during the study stages of the Survey,\nhave already been put into effect by state agency staffs, Pryor added,\nand plans are being made to accomplish others.\nThe report declares that Survey recommendations have the potential\nof reducing costs and avoiding expenditures of general and special\nfunds by an estimated amount of $233 million annually and could gener-\nate a one-time savings of $22 million.\nIn addition, the Survey says its \"recommendations would reduce,\nor forego altogether, planned expenditures for facilities in the\namount of $153 million\". Another $118 million in capital spending\ncould be put off for a considerable time.\nBesides savings in state funds, the Survey estimates its recom-\nmendations could result in reduced costs and cost avoidance to county\nand local governments of $67 million a year, and in federal funds of\nabout $92 million a year.\nPryor, in his presentation of the Survey report to Governor\nReagan, stressed that the suggested program for improvement is complex\nand can only be accomplished over a period of years.\nIn some areas, such as systems analysis, program budgeting and\nautomatic data processing, it actually would be necessary to incur\nsome additional costs in the nature of \"seed money\" for equipment or\n-1-\nstaff reorganization before the potential long-range savings could be\nrealized.\nNo wholesale \"meat ax\" elimination of state employees would\nresult from implementation of the Survey recommendations, Pryor\nemphasized. Where economies in personnel or reassignment of responsi-\nbilities are suggested, the results generally could be obtained by\nnormal attrition or turnover in state employee ranks, he said.\n\"Much of the dollar savings proposed in the Survey take the form\nof costs which can be avoided in the future, rather than specific\ncuts in present spending\", Pryor said.\nGeneral fund expenditures of the California state government\nincreased 120 percent in the past 10 years, even after adjusting for\ninflation, while population increased only 39 percent.\nThese facts were the background for Governor Reagan's Executive\nOrder, issued February 20, 1967, authorizing the Survey on Efficiency\nand Cost Control.\nSome 280 business firms, organizations, and individual private\ncitizens provided support for the Survey \"task force\". A non-profit\ncorporation was formed to channel funds from the supporting groups\ninto the Survey, which thus was carried out at no cost to the state\nitself.\nAbout 250 Survey team members, working under Chairman Pryor and\na seven-man executive committee, carried out the actual studies, which\nwere generally concentrated in a 16-week period during the spring and\nsummer of 1967. Work since that time has consisted of discussions of\nrecommendations with state employees and writing and editing the\nSurvey team reports on the many governmental agencies and activities\nexamined by the task force.\nThe Summary Report presented today to Governor Reagan is a\ncompilation of dozens of separate reports prepared by the teams.\nAltogether, more than 2,000 recommendations were made by the Survey\nfor changes in organization, methods and procedures. The separate\nreports were furnished directly to departments and agencies.\n\"The Survey did not endeavor to abolish or create state programs,\nor to establish state policy\", Pryor said. \"Instead, it investigated\nthe management and administration of existing programs and state\nfunctions to make them more efficient and improve the quality of\nservice given the public for its tax dollar\", he said.\nDetailed office-by-office investigations by the Survey teams\ndeveloped important recommendations for organization changes and\npaperwork simplification to speed work flow and amprove communications.\nSome of the greatest impact on government procedures could come\nfrom Survey recommendations for greater centralization and standardiza-\ntion of such broad state functions as office space allotment, data\nprocessing, purchasing and warehousing, and operation of the state's\nfleet of 26,000 vehicles.\n\"State employees themselves played a large and active part in\ncarrying forward the work of the Survey\", Pryor declared. \"Not only\ndid the state / workers, : at all levels, supply necessary background\nmaterials to aid our teams, but they presented ideas and suggestions\nfor many beneficial improvements embodied in our final report\".\nAlthough most of the recommendations of the Survey will require\nlong-range implementation in the form of action by the state adminis-\ntration and the legislature, many ideas formulated during the course\nof the Survey already have been put into effect by state agency staffs.\nPryor was joined in the presentation of the Survey Report to\nthe governor and his cabinet by members of the Survey's seven-man\nexecutive committee.\nMembers of this committee, each of whom headed a major area of\nthe Survey, were: Frank Cleary, Los Angeles; Jay Davis, Jr.,\nMonrovia; Harold B. Haught, Sacramento; A. Howard McHarg, San Mateo;\nMarshall G. Mustain, Oakland; Ralph W. Seely, Hillsborough; and\nWilliam H. Spurgeon, III, Newport Beach.\n# # #\n-3-\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, Californ\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.7.68\n# 84\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today that he had appointed\nAttorney General Thomas C. Lynch as chairman of the California Council\non Criminal Justice.\nThe council, which was established by the State Legislature in\n1967 through legislation authored by Sen. George Deukmejian (R-Long\nBeach), will serve as the statewide planning and coordinating\norganization for the development of state and local resources in\ncrime prevention and control.\nThe governor appointed the following persons as members of the\ncouncil:\nLouis P. Bergna, district attorney of Santa Clara County;\nAllen F. Breed, director of the Youth Authority;\nBernard J. Clark, sheriff of Riverside County;\nDr. C. Robert Guthrie, chairman, Department of Criminology,\nCalifornia State College at Long Beach;\nDr. William W. Herrmann, operations research scientist, System\nDevelopment Corporation, Santa Monica;\nEdwin Meese III, legal affairs secretary to the governor;\nGene S. Muehleisen, executive officer, Commission on Peace\nOfficer Standards and Training;\nJohn D. Nunes, public defender of Alameda County and member of\nthe State Bar Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure;\nRaymond K. Procunier, director of Corrections;\nThomas Reddin, chief of police, Los Angeles;\nHarold W. Sullivan, commissioner of the California Highway Patrol;\nSpencer Williams, administrator of the Youth and Adult Corrections\nAgency and chairman of the Board of Corrections.\nThe governor has scheduled the first meeting of the council to\ntake place on Wednesday, February 14, at 10:15 a.m. in the Capitol.\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: IMMEDIATE\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 85\n445-4571 2.7.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Norman T. R. Heathorn of\nOakland and W. Daniel Larsen of San Diego to four-year terms on the\nContractors State License Board.\nThe appointments require Senate confirmation and pay $25 per\ndiem plus travel expenses.\nHeathorn, 31, succeeds Joe Herman of Los Angeles.\nLarsen, 40, replaces D. N. Schneider of Fullerton. Both outgoing\nmembers' terms expired.\nHeathorn, a Republican, is vice president of N. V. Heathorn, Inc.,\nan Oakland mechanical contracting firm. He is a graduate of Piedmont\nHigh School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\nHe resides at 4834 Haley Drive, Castro Valley.\nLarsen owns and manages his own general contracting business.\nHe is a 1951 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.\nHe resides at 1405 Savoy Circle, San Diego.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nFJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER JR\nRELEASE: Im. diate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.8.68\n# 86\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today signed his first bill of the 1968\nlegislative session.\nThe bill (AB 232-Fenton) corrects errors in the description of\ndistricts contained in the 1967 congressional reapportionment act\n(chapter 2, statutes of 1967, 2nd extraordinary session).\nThe bill passed the Assembly on a 63-1 vote and won unanimous\nSenate approval.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 87\n445-4571 2.8.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has proclaimed the week of February 10 -\n18 as NATIONAL NEGRO HISTORY WEEK.\nText of the proclamation follows:\nWHEREAS\nCitizens throughout California will be observing\nthe period of February 10th to 18th as the 53rd\nannual National Negro History Week, sponsored by\nthe Association for the Study of Negro Life and\nHistory; and\nWHEREAS\nThis period will be a fitting time for all Californians\nto contemplate the significant contributions which\nNegro citizens have made in science, industry,\ngovernment, and the professions to the enrichment\nand advancement of our multi-racial culture: and\nWHEREAS The Authors' Study Club, the Los Angeles branch\nof the Association for the Study of Negro Life and\nHistory, is sponsoring appropriate observances in\nCalifornia;\nNOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do\nhereby proclaim the period of February 10th to 18th NEGRO\nHISTORY WEEK in California and urge that all Californians\ntake advantage of this opportunity to learn of the roles\nand contributions of the American Negro in the development\nof the United States and the State of California.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\n#88\nGovernor Reagan said the plan for local tax relief came about as\na result of a meeting with representatives of the County Supervisors'\nAssociation. He said he would meet again early next week with state\nfinancial experts and County Supervisors Assn. representatives to\ncomplete final details of the plan.\nThe property tax relief proposal is the first part of major tax\nreform legislation he will submit to the legislature. Additional tax\nreform measures are now being prepared, Governor Reagan said.\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE: Imn. diate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.8.68\n#88\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today he will propose legislation\nearly next week designed to give meaningful property tax relief to\nCalifornians.\nThe measure will be the first in a series of proposals he will\nrecommend to the legislature aimed at reforming the state's tax\nstructure.\n\"There can be no question in the mind of any citizen of California\nthat meaningful property tax relief is absolutely vital,\" the governor\nsaid.\n\"Therefore, I will submit legislation early next week which will\ngive this relief to the already overburdened property taxpayer.\n\"I will at that time urge the legislature to adopt this plan on\nits merits without regard to partisanship,\" Governor Reagan said.\nKey element in the plan is that while it will provide for local\nproperty tax relief, it also will furnish an improved revenue source\nfor county government, the governor said.\nIn general, the proposal calls for one-half cent of the present\nstate sales tax to be funneled to the counties. Counties currently\nreceive only a small portion of the state sales tax. The legislation\nto be introduced will specify the formula under which the half-cent\nwill be distributed to the counties.\nAt the same time, the legislation will provide that the counties\nwill give up small subventions that are now being paid to them by the\nstate.\nThe net result will be approximately $155 million in additional\nfunds for the counties, permitting the counties to then use the $155\nmillion to reduce local property taxes.\n\"This plan provides for a very significant way to give property tax\nrelief to our citizens,\" the governor said, \"because it funnels the\nmoney into the counties which in turn must pass these benefits on to\ntheir taxpayers.\"\nThe plan also will improve financial management of both the state\nand the counties by reducing the cost of administering small subventions\nfrom the state to county governments. It will put state-local government\nfinancial relationships on a more sound basis, the governor said.\n-1-\nOFFICE OF THE GOVE OR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSuramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n45-4571\n# 89\n2.9.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today called on employers around the\nstate to help him mount a vigorous campaign aimed at securing jobs\nfor California young people this summer.\nIn an open letter to employers in private industry and state\nand local government, the governor warned that the state \"faces a\nmajor problem this summer because there are more than 400,000 young\nadults, 16 through 21 years of age, who will be looking for work.\n\"Many of these young people\", he said, \"come from poverty areas\nof our state\".\nGovernor Reagan urged a \"vigorous summer job campaign for all\nyouth directed by private industry in partnership with government.\n\"Private industry and state and local government have a vital\ninterest in putting California youth to work productively and profit-\nably\", he said.\nTo implement the job campaign effort, the governor said he will\nappoint a \"blue-ribbon\" committee from private industry.\n\"This committee will devise ways and means to overcome barriers\nto the summer employment of youth in the private sector. It will\nwork with business and industry to develop a summer job opportunity\ncampaign utilizing the skills, talents, and abilities of California's\nyounger workers\", Governor Reagan said.\nState agency heads are being asked to provide budgetary resources\nalong with job planning and identification of summer jobs for youth,\nhis letter said.\nThe governor said he has asked Peter Weinberger, director of\nthe Department of Employment, to serve as a focal point of the summer\njob campaign.\nWeinberger's staff will offer assistance and support to the\nBlue Ribbon Private Industry Committee. In addition, offices of the\nState Employment Service will serve as community job centers for the\nsummer job campaign.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER OR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.9.68\n# 90\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named four persons, and reappointed\nanother, to terms on the California State Fair and Exposition board\nof directors.\nThe governor also designated Ralph A. Nissen of Williams as\npresident of the board until February 1, 1969. Nissen was appointed to\na four-year term as a board member last February by Governor Reagan.\nNissen replaces Robert Setrakian as president.\nSetrakian whose term on the board expired February 1, is\nsucceeded by Orval L. Bane, 66, of Fresno. Bane served as the\ngovernor's representative in Fresno until the regional office was\nclosed last December 31.\nBane has been engaged in ranching and the cattle feeding busi-\nness since 1950. He was also in the land management and banking\nbusiness from 1921-55. For the past 12 years he has been a Fresno\nreal estate broker.\nHe is a Republican and resides at 23328 East Kings Canyon Road,\nReedley.\nBane and two other persons were appointed to four-year terms on\nthe board. They are Woodrow A. Miller, 54, of Colton, and Katherine\nH. Haley of Ventura.\nMiller, owner, manager and developer of Miller's American Honey\nCompany, served as a consultant and adviser to three U.S. Secretaries\nof Agriculture--Clinton Anderson, Charles Brannan and Ezra Taft Benson.\nMiller is a Republican and resides at 185 Laurel Street, Colton.\nHe succeeds Harold J. Powers of Elk Grove whose term expired.\nMiller has already served a one-year term on the board. The\nterm expired February 1.\nMrs. Haley, a rancher, is a member of the board of the\nCalifornia Shorthorn Breeders' Association and was elected in 1967 to\nthe non-profit board of the California Exposition. She is currently\nserving in her 10th year as a director of the Ventura Community\nMemorial Hospital. She is a Republican and lives at Route 1, Box 747,\nVentura. Mrs. Haley replaces Dorothee C. Mull of Sacramento, whose\nterm expired.\nNamed to a one-year term on the board was Fred D. Corfee, Jr.,\nof Sacramento, 38 year old Republican. Corfee operates a dry-cleaning\n-1-\n# 90\nPage 2\nfirm in Sacramento. He is a director of the Sacramento Rotary Club\nand is treasurer of the World Affairs Council of Sacramento. He is\nalso a director of the Sacramento Area Mental Health Association. He\nlives at 3614 Brockway Court, Sacramento, and replaces Woodrow Miller.\nGovernor Reagan reappointed Conrad J. Ferreira, 46, of Redding\nto a one-year term on the board. He has owned the Redding Veterinary\nHospital in Redding for some 21 years. He is a member of the California\nState Veterinary Medical Association, the American Veterinary Associa-\ntion and the Cattlemen's Association of Redding.\nA Republican, Ferreira lives at P.O. Box 958, Redding.\n# # #\n-2-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.9.68\n# 91\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nFebruary 12, 1968\nthrough\nFebruary 17, 1968\nMonday, February 12\nLINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY\n5:00 p.m.\nReturn to Sacramento-Western #658\n6:00 p.m.\nArrive Sacramento Municipal Airport\nTuesday, February 13\n1:30 p.m.\nPress Conference\n2:45 p.m.\nPresentation of Annual Report by\nBoy Scouts, governor's office\nWednesday, February 14\nVALENTINE'S DAY\n10:30 .m.\nGreetings to members of the\nCalifornia Council of Criminal\nJustice, governor's council room\n4:00 p.m.\nMeeting with Governor Raymond\nShafer of Pennsylvania, governor's\noffice\nOvernight-Sacramento\nThursday, February 15\n10:30 a.m.\nDepart executive residence\nfor San Francisco\n12:30 p.m.\nStanford Business Conference\nLuncheon, Grand Ballroom, Fairmont\nHotel. Speech\n2:15 p.m.\nDepart for Sacramento\nOvernight-Sacramento\nFriday, February 16\n3:10 p.m.\nDepart Sacramento Metropolitan\nAirport-new airport\n4:00 p.m.\nArrive Los Angeles\nOvernight-Los Angeles\nSaturday, February 17\nNoon\nRegents Luncheon, University of\nCalifornia, Riverside\n2:00 p.m.\nBusiness session\nOvernight-Los Angeles\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n#92\n445-4571 2.9.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nJoseph A. Vargas, South El Monte city councilman, and Hubert F.\nLaugharn, Jr., Beverly Hills insurance man and builder to the El\nPueblo del Los Angeles State Historical Monument Commission.\nVargas and Laugharn, both Republicans, will serve three-year\nterms. Vargas replaces John P. Elsbach, and Laugharn succeeds\nRobert J. Gomez, Jr., whose terms expired. Both are from Los Angeles.\nThe appointments pay expenses while on official business.\nEl Pueblo de Los Angeles Commission is an organization consisting\nof members appointed by the state, city and county of Los Angeles.\nPurpose of the commission is to acquire, develop and operate a\nhistorical monument in the vicinity of Olvera Street in downtown\nLos Angeles as part of the state park system.\nVargas, who operates a wholesale-retail food business, has\nbeen a councilman in South El Monte since the city was incorporated\nin 1958. He served two terms as mayor. He is a director of the\nLeague of California Cities and a member of the Valle Lindo School\nBoard. He lives at 1227 North Potrero Avenue, South El Monte.\nLaugharn has cattle interests in Mexico in addition to his\ninsurance and construction businesses. He attended the University\nof Southern California and was a transport Pilot during World War II.\nHe is a member of Rancheros Visitadores and the Saddle and Sirloin\nClub.\nLaugharn lives at 126 South Lorraine Boulevard, Los Angeles\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GC - OR\nRELEASE: ......ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.9.68\n#93\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Sacramento attorney Gordon A.\nFleury to the Commission on California State Government Organization\nand Economy, succeeding Caspar Weinberger of San Francisco who resigned\nto accept the post of State Finance Director.\nFleury, 51, is associated with the law firm of Wilke, Fleury and\nSapunor of Sacramento.\nA native of Glendale, he was graduated from Hastings College of\nLaw with an LLB in 1939 and also attended Sacramento Junior College.\nHe was an assistant district attorney for Sacramento County from\n1941-42 and was a legal assistance officer during World War II.\nFleury served in the State Assembly from 1949-55 when he was\nappointed to the Superior Court. He left the bench in 1958 to enter\nprivate practice. He is a Republican.\nAs a member of the so-called Little Hoover Commission, Fleury\nserves at the pleasure of the governor and receives travel expenses\nfor official duties.\n# # #\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n12.13.68\n# 94\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Orange County Supervisor\nDavid L. Baker and Redondo Beach physician Merle H. Boyce to four-\nyear terms on the Intergovernmental Council on Urban Growth.\nThe posts pay necessary travel expenses.\nBaker, 49, succeeds George W. Wakefield of Los Angeles. Boyce,\n41, replaces Warren M. Campbell of Northridge. Both outgoing members'\nterms expired.\nBaker, a Republican, is chairman of the Southern California\nAssociation of County Supervisors and serves as president of the\nSouthern California Association of Governments. He is a member of\nthe President's Commission on Urban Problems and is a board member of\nthe County Supervisors' Association of California.\nHe resides at 9452 Royal Palm Boulevard, Garden Grove.\nBoyce, a specialist in plastic surgery, is a 1955 graduate of\nthe College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, Los Angeles. He\nelected to become an M.D. in 1962. He is a Republican.\nHe lives at 28220 Ella Road, Palos Verdes.\nGovernor Reagan also reappointed the following persons to terms\nending November 21, 1971:\n--San Leandro City Manager Wesley McClure. A Democrat, McClure,\n52, was first appointed to the council in 1963.\n--Gordon Luce, Transportation Agency administrator.\n-Spencer Williams, Health and Welfare Agency administrator.\n-Norman Livermore, Resources Agency administrator.\nHouston Flournoy, State Controller.\n-Robert Finch, Lieutenant Governor.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOV. NOR\nRELEASE: I.....ediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.13.68\n# 95\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has named James D. Clark, executive\ndirector of the San Diego County Economic Development Corp., and\nGeorge V. Caldwell, a Santa Monica export-import businessman, to four-\nyear terms on the Southern California World Trade Center Authority.\nThe posts pay necessary travel expenses.\nClark, 54, replaces Kenneth D. Frye of San Diego. Caldwell, 53,\nsucceeds Robert W. Prescott of Los Angeles. Both outgoing members'\nterms expired.\nClark, a Republican, has been a real estate developer in\nSan Diego for many years. A graduate of the Northwestern University\nSchool of Commerce, he served during World War II with the U.S. Army.\nHe has headed the County Economic Development Corp. since 1965.\nHe is president of the Lendale Company and serves as a director of\nthe San Diego Trust and Savings Bank.\nClark is a former vice president and director of the California\nReal Estate Association, and was. president and director of the\nSan Diego Symphony Association.\nHe lives at 4274 Randolph Terrance, San Diego.\nCaldwell, a political independent, has traveled widely in\nconnection with his import-export business. A graduate of the\nUniversity of Utah, he established an export-import company dealing\nin micro-electronic devices in 1946. The company, Micro-Electron,\nInc., grew into the largest independent firm of its kind, and is now\na subsidiary of Transitron, Inc.\nCaldwell's current import-export trade deals primarily in\ngraphic arts supplies.\nHe resides at 236 Adelaide Drive, Santa Monica.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 96\n445-4571 2.13.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Pepperdine College Vice\nPresident William J. Teague to a four-year term on the Western Inter-\nstate Commission for Higher Education.\nThe appointment requires Senate confirmation. It pays necessary\ntravel expenses.\nTeague, 40, succeeds Foster Hall Sherwood of Los Angeles whose\nterm expired.\nA Republican, Teague has served as Pepperdine's vice president\nsince 1959. He was executive assistant to the president of Abilene\nChristian College from 1952-57.\nHe holds a Masters Degree from Columbia University (1959),\nand earned a Doctor of Education Degree from U.C.L.A. three years\nago.\nHe resides at 5451 El Dorado Drive, Huntington Beach.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 97\n445-4571 2.13.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named dentists Lewis E. Martin of\nDowney and Robert D. Lawson of Upland to four-year terms on the\nState Board of Dental Examiners.\nThe posts pay $25 per diem plus travel expenses.\nMartin, 39, succeeds William B. Ryder of Belvedere. Lawson, 36,\nreplaces Clifford F. Loader of Delano. Both outgoing members' terms\nexpired. The new appointees are Republicans.\nMartin is a 1958 graduate of the U.S.C. dental school where he\nserved as an instructor for four years. He is a charter member and\nvice president of the Downey Dental Society, and currently serves\nas a director of the Downey Chamber of Commerce.\nHe lives at 7711 Cecilia Street, Downey.\nLawson, a graduate of the U.S.C. dental school currently serves\nas chief of the dental staff of San Antonio Hospital, Upland. He\nis an executive councilor of the Tri-County Dental Society.\nHe has been engaged in private practice for the past 10 years.\nLawson resides at 2370 North Euclid Avenue, Upland.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nIMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.13.68\n# 98\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan said today that he has\nreluctantly accepted the request of Gordon A. Fleury that his name be\nwithdrawn for appointment to the Commission on California State Govern-\nment Organization and Economy.\nFleury, 51, a former state legislator and former superior court\njudge in Sacramento, had been named to succeed Caspar Weinberger to\nthe \"Little Hoover Commission\" post.\nHowever, Fleury told the governor that, \"I respectfully request\nyou withdraw my appointment.\nHe told the governor the post \"was too important for it to be-\ncome embroiled in partisanship\" and that the best interests of the\npeople of California would be served by his withdrawal.\n\"It is extremely regretable that a man of unquestioned principles\nand such long service to his fellow citizens has been subjected to such\npartisan attacks,\" Governor Reagan said in accepting Fleury's letter\nof withdrawal. \"It is unfortunate that some people who cannot find real\nissues to bring before the public, must resort to this type of\nharrassment and deprive the state of a man devoted to public service.\"\n\"Mr. Fleury has had a long record of public service and his\nexperience would have been of great value to the Little Hoover Commission\nHowever, I understand his position and regret that he was forced to\nmake this decision,\" the governor said.\nFleury told Governor Reagan that he \"sincerely appreciated your\nthoughtfulness in allowing me the opportunity to devote some of my\ntime to public service, but feel that for all concerned it would be\nbest if I did not accept your present offer.\"\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.14.68\n# 99\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Los Angeles County Public\nDefender Antonio E. Chavez to the municipal court bench, Los Angeles\nJudicial District.\nThe post pays $23,000 annually.\nChavez, 41, replaces Judge Harold Shepherd who was elevated to\nthe Superior Court bench.\nA Democrat, Chavez has worked in the Los Angeles County public\ndefender's office since 1963, and has headed the department's East\nLos Angeles office for the past two years.\nHe is a 1959 graduate of the Loyola University law school in\nLos Angeles and was admitted to the State Bar in 1960.\nChavez worked his way through law school while supporting a\nwife and five children.\nFrom 1949-53, he taught high school in Santa Fe, New Mexico.\nHe then moved to Southern California and worked days for the\nLockheed-California Company in Burbank while completing a full-time\nlaw course at night.\nPrior to joining the public defender's office, he was engaged\nin private law practice in Los Angeles.\nChavez is a former director of the Los Angeles Convention\nBureau, and serves on the board of the Pop Warner Football Organiza-\ntion in South Pasadena.\nHe served in the Marine Corps during World War II.\nChavez and his family reside at 4411½ Van Horne Avenue,\nLos Angeles.\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.14.68\n# 100\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Walter T. Rodman,\nmanager of the California Beef Council, and Edgar D. O'Brien, a\nretired Wells Fargo Bank vice president, to four-year terms on the\n1-A District Agricultural Association's board of directors. The\nappointees reside in Woodside.\nThe posts pay necessary travel expenses.\nRodman, 51, has served on the board since March 20, 1967; O'Brien,\nsince March 3, 1964. Both are Republicans.\nRodman lives at 25 Smoke Tree Lane. O'Brien resides at 2180\nStockbridge Avenue.\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.14.68\n# 101\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today urged passage of a bill which\nwould secure basic rights for rank and file members of organized\nlabor.\nThe bill, introduced today by Republican Assemblyman Charles\nJ. Conrad of Sherman Oaks, requires a written secret ballot to\napprove collective bargaining agreements and authorize strikes.\nGovernor Reagan called legislative approval \"necessary to\ninsure union members greater control over the affairs of their\nunions and to end minority control of some unions.\"\nConrad, a member of the Screen Actors' Guild, noted that the\nessential elements of his bill are contained in the Guild's consti-\ntution and bylaws. Governor Reagan, a former president of the Guild,\nwas a leader in the battle to secure the secret ballot provision for\nindividual guild members.\nThe bill is intended to supplement federal law, not displace it.\nThis serves to eliminate any constitutional question, Conrad said.\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE:\n...mediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n#102\n445-4571 2.14.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named H. Herbert Jackson, a Sacramento\nlawyer and firmer assistant district attorney, to the Commission on\nCalifornia State Government Organization and Economy.\nJackson, a 32 year old Republican, replaces Gordon A. Fleury of\nSacramento who yesterday asked that his name be withdrawn for appoint-\nment to the \"Little Hoover Commission\" post. Governor Reagan\nreluctantly accepted Fleury's request.\nJackson, a former football star at the University of California -\nBerkeley, and C.K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento, graduated\nfrom Hastings Law School, San Francisco, in 1961.\nHe then joined the Alameda county district attorney's office\nwhere he worked one year as an assistant district attorney before\ncoming to Sacramento. He was an assistant district attorney here for\ntwo years prior to opening his own Sacramento law office in 1964.\nTwo years ago he became a partner in the Sacramento legal firm\nof Evans, Jackson and Kennedy.\nJackson is married, has three children, and resides at 2809-14th\nStreet, Sacramento.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 103\n445-4571 2.15.68\nSacramento - Governor Ronald Reagan said today he has sent tele-\ngrams to every member of the University of California Board of Regents\nand all trustees of the state college system explaining the state\nfunds available for their 1968-69 budgets.\n\"Certain information should be available to you concerning the\nbudgets,\" the governor's telegram said, pointing out that \"these\nbudgets have been given top priority for available state funds.\"\nGovernor Reagan noted that the amount available in state general\nfund spending for the coming fiscal year which is subject to\nexecutive discretion totals $107 million.\n\"Of that amount, $72 million or 67 percent was allocated to the\nDeiversity and the state colleges,\" the governor said.\nHe also pointed out that of the total of $60 million required\nfor capital outlay, $53 million or 88 percent was allocated for\nhigher education.\n\"If higher education has received the same budgetary alignment as\nall other departments and agencies,\" the telegram said, \"the budget\nof the university would have been $11.7 million less than it is. The\nstate colleges would have received $28.1 million less.'\nGovernor Reagan added that in order to make the increased budgets\npossible for higher education, \"we also are asking for a $10 million\ncut in the increase of welfare programs and a $66 million cut in\nMedi-Cal.\"\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571 2.15.68\n# 103\nCORRECTION\nRelease dated 2.15.68 numbered 103, sixth paragraph should\nbe corrected to read:\n\"If higher education had received instead of has\n...\n########\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 104\n445-4571 2.15.68\nSacramento - Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that Gerald\nShearin, vice chairman of the new State Air Resources Board, has\nbeen advised of a 90-day extension of federal hearings on smog controls.\nThe extension to May 15 was granted by John Gardner, secretary\nof Health, Education and Welfare.\nThe hearings, which began January 15 in San Francisco, are to\nclarify California's right to set its own auto emission standards.\nThe waiver would allow time for legislative action and Air Resources\nBoard hearings on vehicle emission standards to be applied in\nCalifornia.\nThe extension was requested by the Air Resources Board at its\ninitial meeting last week in Sacramento.\nGovernor Reagan said California must be permitted to continue\nits fight to solve vehicle air-pollution problems without federal\ninterference.\n\"We must be given the freedom to set stricter standards for\nvehicles than the present or proposed standards set by the federal\ngovernment,\" he said.\nThe governor declared that California's unique weather and car\ndensity problems, recognized in the provisions of U.S. Senator George\nMurphy's amendment to the federal act, clearly entitleCalifornia to\nspecial consideration.\n\"Our Air Resources Board and its predecessor, the Motor Vehicle\nPollution Control Board, have led the way and set the pattern for\nregulation of vehicle-caused air pollution. We cannot allow our\nefforts to be sidetracked,\" the governor said.\nHe commended the new board for its actions and urged them to\ncontinue the fight for clean air in California.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nPB:\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERI\nRELEASE: Imme te\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 105\n445-4571 2.16.68\nMONDAY, February 19\nthrough\nFRIDAY, February 23\nMONDAY, February 19\n10:30 a.m.\nDepart Santa Monica Airport for Sacramento\nMunicipal Airport\n11:30 a.m.\nArrive Sacramento Municipal Airport\nNoon\nSenator Hotel. Intergovernmental Council on\nUrban Growth - remarks. LUNCHEON\n2:45 p.m.\nPicture for statewide Easter Seal Drive,\nGovernor's Office\nTUESDAY, February 20\n9:30 a.m.\nPress Conference\n2:45 p.m.\nPicture with Assemblyman Frank Murphy for the\nNational Security Seminar, Governor's Office\nWEDNESDAY, February 21\n2:00 p.m.\nPresentation of Freedom Awards by SertomaClub,\nGovernor's Office.\n2:30 p.m.\nCourtesy meeting with Governor Diaz of Baja\nCalifornia, Bill Gianelli, and representatives\nof the Metropolitan Water District of Southern\nCalifornia, Governor's Office.\nTHURSDAY, February 22\nWashington's Birthday - no appointments\nFRIDAY, February 23\n9:45 a.m.\nMeeting with Dr. Max Rafferty, Governor's Office\n11:00 a.m.\nPicture for Sacramento Service Club Luncheon,\nGovernor's Office.\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.16.68\n# 106\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that ade-\nquate funds to provide for necessary additional aid to the counties\nfor the crippled children program will be authorized.\nOur surveys of the needs of the counties for additional fund-\ning have been taken and their requests are being checked to determine\nmuch\nexactly how / will be necessary for a deficiency appropriation,\nthe governor said.\nHe emphasized that it has been impossible until now to deter-\nmine the specific amount that must be appropriated because information\nfrom the counties has just been received at the governor's request\nand is in the process of being compiled.\n\"As I have repeatedly told the people of California, this\nadministration fully supports the crippled children's program and\nhas and will continue to make every effort to see that it not only\ntakes care of the needs of crippled children but also is run as an\nefficient program,\" the governor said.\n\"I also would like to point out that a year ago I authorized\nanother emergency deficiency appropriation to meet the needs of\ncrippled children after a determination was made that funds actually\nwere needed.\n\"It has consistently been the position of this administration\nthat no child would be denied assistance because of insufficient\nappropriations made when the budget was considered and passed.\n\"It also is important to note that for the first time, the\n1967 legislature wrote restrictive control language into the budget\nbill--an action over which this administration had no control.\n\"As soon as all the figures are compiled from the counties--\nwho also must appropriate additional funds--are obtained, I will\nauthorize the legislature to proceed with an emergency deficiency\nappropriation bill,\" Governor Reagan said.\nDuring the current fiscal year, state general funds appropriated\nfor the crippled children's program amounted to approximately $9.8\nmillion. Another $1.1 million in federal funds brought the total\nto $10.9 million exclusive of the county's share.\n#\n#\n#\n#\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 107\n445-4571 2.16.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named two ranchers--Martin J.\nNewkom of Yuba City and Charles C. Messick of Marysville-- to four-year\nterms on the 13th District Agricultural Association's Board of\nDirectors.\nThe poats pay necessary travel expenses.\nNewkom, 32, succeeds James F. Davis of Yuba City. Messick, 32,\nreplaces Robert L. Peckinpah, also of Yuba City.\nBoth outgoing members' terms expired.\nThe new appointees are Republican.s\nNewkom resides at 510 South Barrett Road, Yuba city. Messick\nlives at 7652 B. Plantz Road, Marysville.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.19.68\n# 108\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Orange County Planning\nDirector Forest S. Dickason and E. Sheldon Dunlap, a member of the\nSouth Gate Planning Commission, to the State Planning Advisory\nCommittee.\nThe posts pay actual and necessary travel expenses. Appointees\nserve at the pleasure of the governor.\nDickason, 40, succeeds Milton Breivogel of Beverly Hills.\nDunlap, 67, replaces Donald G. Savage of Alhambra. The two outgoing\nmembers resigned.\nA Republican, Dickason has served, as Orange County Planning\nDirector since 1964. He entered county service in 1953 as a member\nof the Orange County Planning Department staff.\nHe is a former president of the Orange County Employees'\nAssociation and has served as president of the Planning Directors'\nAssociation of Orange County.\nHe is married, has two children, and resides at 1984 Lemnos\nDrive, Costa Mesa.\nDunlap, a Republican, has been a member of the South Gate\nPlanning Commission since 1956, four years as chairman. He is a\npast president of the Southern California Planning Congress and\ncurrently serves on its executive board.\nLast year, he was appointed chairman of the General Plan\nCommittee for the Los Angeles County Association of Planning Officials.\nHe is married, has two children and lives at P.O. Box 2056,\nSouth Cate.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 109\n445-4571 2.20.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named chiropracters Rudy A. Fahlbusch\nof Pacific Beach and Irvin T. Lathrop of Napa to three year terms on\nthe State Board of Chiropractic Examiners.\nThe posts pay $25 per diem plus travel expenses.\nFahlbusch, 43, succeeds Donald Brownell of San Diego who resigned.\nLathrop, 42, replaces Carl E. Remelin of Santa Ana whose term expired.\nFahlbusch, a Republican, has served as president of the San Diego\nCounty Chiropractic Society. He resides at 1766 Grand Avenue, Pacific\nBeach.\nLathrop, a Republican, is a past president of the Napa Masonic\nCivic Club and is a member of the High-12 Club of Napa. He lives\nat 1124 Larkin Way, Napa.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\n110\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named John H. Woolsey, Jr., of\nSanta Rosa to a four-year term on the Board of Examiners in Veterinary\nMedicine.\nThe post pays $25 per diem plus travel expenses.\nWoolsey, a 44-year old Republican, succeeds Dario H. Marioni of\nSonoma whose term expired.\nWoolsey is a 1949 graduate of Kansas State University's veterinary\ncollege. He operates his own veterinary practice in Santa Rosa and\nresides at 716 High Street, Sebastopol.\nHe is a past president of the Redwood Empire Veterinary Association\nand is a member of the American Veterinary Association.\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nFOR IMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\n111\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Davis area ranchers Nanele F.\nArnold and Harry J. Whitcombe to four year terms on the 40th District\nAgricultural Association's board of directors.\nThe posts pay necessary travel expenses.\nMrs. Arnold and her husband, William, raise sheep and horses. She\nreplaces Wallace L. Edson of Knights Landing.\nWhitcombe, 52, succeeds Leroy L. Leonard of Woodland.\nBoth outgoing members' terms expired.\nMrs. Arnold, a Republican, is a charter member of the Davis League\nof Women Voters and is a director of the Yolo County TB and Health\nAssociation. The Arnolds reside at Route 1, Box 2120, Davis.\nWhitcombe, a nationally-knowm bee breeder, is a past president\nof the Davis Chamber of Commerce and a former city councilman. A\nRepublican, he also served nine years as chairman of the Davis Housing\nAuthority and was chosen Davis' \"citizen of the year\" in 1961.\nHe lives at 740 Oak Avenue, Davis.\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\n# 112\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named William T. Kirby of Merced\nand Loneua Waterson of Hilmar to four-year terms on the 35th District\nAgricultural Association's board of directors.\nThe posts pay necessary travel expenses.\nKirby, 49, replaces John F. Collins of Merced. Waterson, 42,\nsucceeds John E. Lundquist of Hilmar. Both outgoing members' terms\nexpired.\nKirby, a Republican, operates the Kirby Manufacturing Company of\nMerced. He is a director and past president of the Merced County\nChamber of Commerce. He is also a former president of the Merced\nCounty Farm Equipment Dealer Association.\nHe resides at 2059-E Brookdale Drive, Merced.\nWaterson, a Republican, owns and manages Farmers' Lumber Yard\nin Hilmar. He is chairman of the Hilmar Community Hall Improvement\nCommittee and is a former president of the Hilmar Chamber of Commerce.\nHe lives at P.O. Box 248, Hilmar.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\n# 113\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Newcastle orchardist,\nHoward K. Nakae, to the State Board of Forestry.\nThe governor also reappointed San Ardo cattleman, Paul Aurignac,\nto the board.\nBoth appointees' terms will expire January 15, 1972.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses and are subject to Senate\nconfirmation.\nNakae, a 49-year old Democrat, replaces Brigadier General\nFrank C. Meyers of Fallbrook whose term expired.\nNakae serves as a first vice president of the Placer County\nFarm Bureau and is secretary of the Placer County Agricultural\nCommission. He is also a director of the California Fruit Exchange\nand is a past president of the Placer chapter of the Japanese-American\nCitizens League.\nHe resides at Route 1, Box 321, Newcastle.\nAurignac, 58, owns a cattle and grain ranch. A Republican,\nhe is a member of the executive committee of the Monterey County\nWater Commission and is a past member of the Board of Forestry's\nadvisory committee on range management.\nHe lives at P.O. Box 298, San Ardo.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\n# 114\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Walter J. Holmdahl of Lompoc\nand William F. Luton, Sr. of Los Alamos to four-year terms on the\n37th District Agricultural Association's board of directors.\nThe posts pay necessary travel expenses.\nHolmdahl, 56, succeeds G. T. Gunderson of Lompoc. Luton replaces\nHarrell E. Fletcher of Santa Maria. Both outgoing members' terms\nexpired.\nHolmdahl, a Republican, farms some 4,000 acres in grain and\nflowers, and also raises cattle. He is a former member of the Lompoc\nUnified School Board. He resides at P. O. Box 1084, Lompoc.\nLuton is a former member of the 37th District Agricultural\nAssociation's board of directors, having served for seven years. He\nis a Republican and lives at Rancho San Juan, Los Alamos.\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\nParks and Recreation Department Director William P. Mott will\nmake a 15-minute presentation on recreational development in the\nOroville Dam area at Wednesday's regular 9:30 A.M. press briefing in\nRoom 1190. He will use visual displays in his discussion.\nCameras are welcome.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNO\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\n115\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Mrs. Patricia C. Gaard of\nModesto and A. Verne Crowell of Turlock to four-year terms on the\n38th District Agricultural Association's board of directors.\nThe posts pay necessary travel expenses.\nMrs. Gaard is the wife of Modesto Dentist Richard Gaard. She\nsucceeds Ernest LaCoste of Modesto.\nCrowell, 51, replaces Kennard C. Bratten of Denair.\nBoth outgoing members' terms expired.\nMrs. Gaard, a Republican, is a livestock leader for the Stanislaus\nCommunity 4-H Club, and has been active for some time in connection\nwith the junior livestock sale held in conjunction with the Stanislaus\nDistrict Fair.\nShe lives at 923 Melinda Lane, Modesto.\nCrowell, a Republican, is a dairy farmer and has served as a\nTurlock Union High School trustee for the past nine years.\nHe is a Republican and resides at 1201 West Monte Vista Road,\nTurlock.\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 116\n445-4571 2.20.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Christine F. Lalanne of\nPorterville and Mildred H. Reed of Palo Alto to the State Public\nLibrary Development Board.\nThe governor also reappointed Margaret M. Troke of Stockton and\nEileen Mary Kenyon of Los Angeles to the board.\nThe appointments are for four-year terms.\nMrs. Lalanne succeeds John Kenyon MacDonald of Ojai who resigned.\nMrs. Reed replaces Edward A. Wight of Berkeley whose term expired.\nMrs. Lalanne, a Republican, has been a trustee of the Porterville\nPublic Library since 1962. She resides at 7 West Laurel Avenue,\nPorterville.\nMrs. Reed is a past PTA president and has been active in\nvolunteer work, particularly in connection with school board elections.\nShe is a Republican and lives at 762 DeSoto Drive, Palo Alto.\nMrs. Troke, a Democrat, is director of library services for the\nStockton and San Joaquin County Public Library. She is a past\npresident of the California Library Association and serves as a member\nof the Library Advisory Committee to the County Supervisors'\nAssociation of California.\nShe lives at 825 West Euclid, Stockton.\nMrs. Kenyon, a Republican, is vice president and acting chairman\nof the Los Angeles Public Library Commission. She is also an active\nmember of the Action Development Committee of the American Library\nTrustees' Association.\nShe lives at 12943 Dickens Street, North Hollywood.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 117\n445-4571 2.20.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Coachella Valley Water\nDistrict Assistant General Manager Keith H. Ainsworth to a four-year\nterm on the Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board.\nThe governor also reappointed Needles Deputy County Assessor\nHarold A, Workman, 60, to a term on the board ending September 30, 1971.\nAinsworth, a 45 year old Republican, succeeds Paul A. Mitchell\nof Brawley whose term expired.\nAinsworth joined the Coachella Valley Water District as a\nhydrographer in 1948. In successive promotions, he moved to chief\nhydrographer, assistant watermaster, watermaster and became assistant\ngeneral manager in 1958.\nA 1945 graduate of Utah State University, he has participated\nactively in civic affairs in the Indio area for many years.\nHe resides at 81960 Lancer Way, Indio.\nWorkman, a Democrat, is a former president of the Needles Chamber\nof Commerce and Lions Club. He lives at P.O. Box 237, Needles.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\n# 118\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Fred Yasukochi of Ventura,\npresident of the Ramirez and Feraud Chili Company, Inc., to the\n31st District Agricultural Association's board of directors.\nThe governor also reappointed Paul E. Pecht, 45, of Oxnard to\nthe board.\nTerms of the appointments will expire January 15, 1972.\nThe posts pay necessary travel expenses.\nYasukochi, 47, replaces Edith Camarillo Rouce of Camarillo,\nwhose term expired.\nYasukochi, a Republican, has served as president of the Ventura\nCivic Improvement Commission and as a director of the Greater Ventura\nChamber of Commerce.\nHe resides at 774 Colina Vista, Ventura.\nPecht, also a Republican, is an Oxnard citrus farmer. He is\na director of the State Chamber of Commerce Agricultural Board and\nis a director of the United Pest Control Board of the Coastal Growers\nAssociation.\nHe was first appointed to the board November 29, 1967.\nHe resides at 4500 North Rose Avenue, Oxnard.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\n# 119\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today signed a letter authorizing emergency\nlegislation to provide additional funds for the crippled children\nprogram.\nThe legislation would earmark a deficiency appropriation for\nthose counties requesting necessary additional aid for the program.\nIn signing the letter, Governor Reagan reaffirmed his support\nfor the crippled children program.\n\"WE are making, and will continue to make, every effort to\nassure that the program not only takes care of the needs of crippled\nchildren, but that it is run as an efficient program.\"\nThe governor noted that last year he also authorized an\nemergency deficiency appropriation when it was made clear that\nfurther funds were required.\n\"It has been this administration's position from the time the\nbudget was considered and passed that no child should be denied\nneeded medical assistance because of insufficient appropriations,\"\nhe said.\nHe recalled that the 1967 Legislature wrote restrictive control\nlanguage into the budget bill.\n\"We have made available to the counties all the funds the\nLegislature appropriated for this purpose. However, we now find\nthat the needs have become greater than the counties anticipated,\"\nhe said.\nThe governor said the legislation he authorized today is\ndesigned to meet the needs of the program in counties where a\ndeficiency exists.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.20.68\nParks and Recreation Department Director William P. Mott will\nmake a 15-minute presentation on recreational development in the\nOroville Dam area at Wednesday's regular 9:30 A.M. press briefing in\nRoom 1190. He will use visual displays in his discussion.\nCameras are welcome.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.21.68\n# 120\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Sacramento attorney Lloyd\nAllan Phillips, Jr. to the municipal court bench, Sacramento judicial\ndistrict.\nThe post pays $23,000 annually.\nPhillips succeeds Judge Oscar Kistle who was elevated to the\nSuperior Court.\nPhillips, a 1952 graduate of Hastings College of Law, has been\nengaged in private practice in Sacramento for the past 15 years. He\noperates his own law office at 901 H Street.\nHe is a member of American Bar Association, State Bar Association\nand Sacramento County Bar Association. Three years ago he was named\nby the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors as a member of a five-\nman study committee to review and revise the Sacramento County Charter.\nPhillips, 41, is a Republican and served in the U.S. Army Air\nCorps during World War II.\nHe and his wife, Eugenie, have two children and reside at 807\nColumbia Drive.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.21.68\nEffective immediately, the regularly scheduled\nbriefings at 9:30 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday\nare cancelled. When special occasions arise, ample\nnotification will be given.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.21.68\n# 120\nGovernor Ronald Reagan announced today that the renal dialysis\nprogram at two regional centers in the state is being expanded to\nbetter serve the needs of persons requiring urgent treatment.\nHe said the expansion will increase considerably the number of\npatients at both centers.\nThe northern center will be able to provide treatment for 35\npatients--nearly twice as many as the 18 it can currently handle.\nThe southern center's patient load will be increased from 20 to 33\npersons.\n\"This expansion will insure that no patients will be deprived\nof necessary treatment for lack of sufficient funds, \" Governor Reagan\nsaid.\nHe said he has directed the Department of Finance to make\n$67,280 in emergency funds available immediately to the northern\ncenter, in San Francisco. This decision was made in keeping with a\nprevious conversation with Assemblyman Leo Ryan, the governor noted.\nHe said that the southern center in Los Angeles will need an\nadditional $54,524 for expansion, after allowing for patient collec-\ntions including Medi-Cal. This amount will be covered through exist-\ning county option provisions of Medi-Cal and will require no specific\naction at this time, the governor explained.\nThe San Francisco center is operated under a contract with the\nUniversity of California board of regents. The center at Los Angeles\nis administered by the Los Angeles County Hospital under a contract\nwith the county board of supervisors.\n# # # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 122\n445-4571 2.21.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named F. Herbert Hoover, director\nof Pomeroy Art Galleries in San Francisco, to the California Arts\nCommission.\nThe post pays necessary travel expenses.\nHoover will fill the unexpired term of James L. Lyons of\nSan Francisco who recently resigned to take a position as the\ncommission's executive secretary. The term expires July 1, 1968.\nHoover, a 38-year old Republican, has headed the Pomeroy firm\nsince 1965. He was previously a piano and singing teacher in San\nFrancisco. He is also a free-lance writer in the field of art and\nmusic.\nA 1952 graduate of Maryville College in Tennessee, Hoover is\npresident of the California Heritage Council.\nDuring the Korean War, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps as\na 1st lieutenant.\nHe and his wife, Margaret Pomeroy Hoover, reside at 801 Chestnut\nAvenue, San Francisco.\n# # # # # # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.23.68\n123\nSacranento--Governor Ronald Reagan announced today the administra-\ntion has adopted in principle the staffing standards for state mental\nhospitals set in 1967 by the California Commission on staffing\nStandards.\nImplementation of the standards, the governor said, would be\ncarried out in phases consistent with sound hospital and management\npractices.\nGovernor Reagan said he has instructed Spencer Williams, Secretary\nof Human Relations, and Dr. James Lowry, Director of the Department\nof Mental Hygiene, to set up a timetable for putting the standards\ninto effect.\nThe governor said the 1952 standards should be replaced by the\nnew standards because they have become obsolete in the light of medical\nprogress and particularly because of the increased emphasis on local\ntreatment of the mentally ill.\n\"We will begin putting these new standards into effect partially\nwith funds saved by economies in the department,\" the governor said.\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Sunday, A.M.'s\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.23.68\n#124\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced selection of a broad-based\nslate of delegates and alternates committed to his favorite son candidacy\nfor president at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach in\nAugust.\nCalifornia Republican voters will vote on the delegation at the\nprimary elections June 4.\n\"The delegates and alternates I have selected represent a cross-\nsection of all elements of the Republican Party in California,\" Governor\nReagan said.\n\"All are committed to the best interests of the Republican Party in\nCalifornia and in the nation. They have agreed, without exception, to\nsupport my favorite son candidacy at Miami Beach in order to assure\nCalifornia a major voice in the selection of the Republican nominee for\nPresident.\n\"California is the largest state in the union and a unified dele-\ngation can and will insure that we have a role commensurate with our\nize.\"\nGovernor Reagan said he has named William French Smith, a Los\nAngeles attorney who resides in San Marino, as delegation chairman.\nState Republican Chairman James Halley was named vice-chairman.\n\"Because of the limits placed on the size of the delegation-86\ndelegates and the same number of alternates--and the way the law states\nthey must be selected, we were unable to name to the delegation all\nthose Republicans who deserved places on it,\" Governor Reagan said.\n\"I appreciate the understanding of those we were forced to leave off.\"\nFollowing is the list of delegates and alternates\nCongressional District\nDelegate\nAlternate\n1\nMrs. Goldie Mae Evans\nJack Ashby\n2065 Elizabeth Way\n2210 Soda Canyon Rd.\nSanta Rosa\nNapa\nJoseph Russ, IV\nMrs. Marjorie C.\nFerndale\nBoynton, 711 Willow,\nUkiah\n2\nHon. Eugene A. Chappie\nRobert B. Kutz\nPlacer County\n2619 Burnap Avenue\nCool\nChico\nCarl McConnell\nJoseph L. Frice, M.D.\nHappy Camp\nPrice Ranch\nP. O. Box 528\nCottonwood\n-1-\n#124\nCongressional\nDistrict\nDelegate\nAlternate\n3\nHon. Frank M. Jordan\nEdouard C. Thys\n3720 Robertson Avenue\n1441 40th Street\nSacramento\nSacramento\nLt. Gov. Robert H. Finch\n*Vern W. Cartwright\n820 Southwick Way\n1976 13th Street\nSacramento\nSacramento\nMrs. Jacqueline B. Keas\n4340 Figwood Way\nSacramento\n4\nWilliam O. Adams\nGeorge F. Newton\n208 Toyon Drive\nRoute 1, Box 906\nWoodland\nVacaville\nJack H. Clifford\nRalph A. Nissen\nRoute 1, Box 20\nP. O. Box 216\nKelseyville\nWilliams\n5\nPaul Hanson, Jr.\nB. John Buggato\n1637 Taylor Street\n2346 Jones Street\nSan Francisco\nSan Francisco\nEdward H. Gauer\nEarl Sun Louie\n798 Market Street\n1255 Jackson Street\nSan Francisco\nSan Francisco\n6\n*Jaquelin H. Hume\n*Sherman Chickering\n3355 Pacific Avenue\n3525 Washington\nSan Francisco\nSan Francisco\nMarco Hellman\nCharles Michals\n3515 Pacific Avenue\n71 Via Cheparro\nSan Francisco\nGreenbrae\nArch Monson\n*Frank M. Woods\n2825 Broadway\n2414 Gough Street\nSan Francisco\nSan Francisco\n*Thomas C. Reed\nMiss Emily G. Pike\nPomeroy Road\n1800 Broadway\nRoss\nSan Francisco\n7 & 8\nFrank P. Adams\nThomas J. Miles\n781 Highland Avenue\n3251 Grove\nPiedmont\nOakland\nGardiner Johnson\nChester L. Fankhauser\n329 Hampton Road\n609 South P Street\nPiedmont\nLivermore\nWilliam F. Knowland\nLowell Berry\n1000 Guilford Road\n5401 Broadway Terrace\nPiedmont\nOakland\nHon. Don Mulford\nKenneth L. Thompson\n145 Hillside Avenue\n2641 La Cuesta\nPiedmont\nOakland\n*Mrs. Evva B. Stivers\n21753 Vallejo Street\nHayward\n9\nStephen Nakashima\nMrs. Gertrude C. McDonald\n645 North Fifth Street\n310 Orchard Drive\nSan Jose\nFremont\nMrs. Betty Swenson\nJames J. Viso\n10828 Ridgeview Avenue\n2196 Diane Drive\nSan Jose\nSanta Clara\n-2-\n#124\nCongressional\nDistrict\nDelegate\nAlternate\n10\nMark Guerra\nMrs. Margaret L. Leete\n590 Sunnyoaks\n12184 Melinda Circle\nCampbell\nSaratoga\nHon. George W. Milias\nLeonard Ware\n497 N. Carmel Street\n2600 El Camino Real\nGilroy\nPalo Alto\n11\n*James W. Halley\nTrevor C. Roberts\n529 W. Poplar\n190 Encinal Avenue\nSan Mateo\nAtherton\nDr. Edward Havard\nBruce T. Mitchell\n60 Mulberry Lane\n165 Redwood Drive\nAtherton\nHillsborough\nLeland Kaiser\n*Mrs. Lucile C. Hosmer\n82 Elena Avenue\n520 Elm\nAtherton\nSan Carlos\n12\nHon. Donald L. Grunsky\nHon. William M. Ketchum\n130 Rogers Street\nRoute 1, Box 40\nWatsonville\nPaso Robles\nHon. Burt L. Talcott\nKarl von Christiersen\n163 Lorimer Street\n45 Carmel\nSalinas\nSalinas\n13\nMrs. Betsy Bromfield\nMrs. Katherine H. Haley\n744 Winding Creek Avenue\nRancho Mi Solar\nSanta Barbara\n10409 Santa Ana Road\nVentura\nSen. Robert J. Lagomarsino\nHarold R. Ward\n509 Crestview Drive\n256 Toro Canyon Road\nOjai\nCarpinteria\n14\nWilliam K. Houston\nMrs. Virla R. Krotz\n1 Robert Road\n44 Monte Vista Road\nOrinda\nOrinda\nMrs. Juanita Wentner\nMrs. Eunice L. Evans\n80 Via Robles\n15 White Oak Drive\nWalnut Creek\nLafayette\n15\nMervine Amerine\nCarter (Pat) Dunlap\nRoute 2, Box 783\n1460 W. Alpine\nOakdale\nStockton\nHon. Robert Monagan\nMrs. Harriet Peterson\n1317 El Portal Drive\n1457 Holly Drive\nTracy\nTracy\n16\nO. L. (01e) Bane\nArthur R. Tirado\n23328 E. Kings Canyon Road\n5226 N. Sequoia Drive\nReedley\nFresno\nJohn D. Hix\nMelville Willson\n544 E. Clinton Avenue\n4137 N. Van Ness Blvd.\nFresno\nFresno\n-3-\n#124\nCongressional\nDistrict\nDelegate\nAlternate\n17, 19, 20,\nMrs. Margaret M. Brock\nSidney R. Barlow\n21, 22, 23,\n1424 Club View Drive\n1130 Hillcrest Drive\n26, 28, 29,\nLos Angeles\nBeverly Hills\n30, 31\n(11 Districts)\nAsa V. Call\nStephen C. Bilheimer\n609 Mountain Drive\n142 So. Rockingham Ave.\nBeverly Hills\nLos Angeles\n*Athalie Clarke\nAlfred Bloomingdale\n1127 S. Orange Grove Blvd.\n131 Delfern Drive\nPasadena\nHolmby Hills\nCharles E. Cook\nFritz B. Burns\n5149 Alta Canyada\n365 South Hudson Avenue\nLa Canada\nLos Angeles\n*Roy Crocker\nTirso del Junco, M.D.\n1015 Highland Avenue\n1570 San Pasqual\nSouth Pasadena\nPasadena\nTheodore Cummings\nGabriel C. Duque, Jr.\n911 N. Hillcrest\n121 Fremont Place\nBeverly Hills\nLos Angeles\nJustin Dart\n444 N. Faring Road\nLos Angeles\nJohn Despol\nJack B. Lindsey\n5285 Village Green\n2500 Roscamere Road\nLos Angeles\nBel Air\nCharles Ducommun\nMrs. Isadene McCall\n237 Strada Corta Drive\n343 Bayshore Avenue\nLos Angeles\nLong Beach\nLeonard Firestone\nRobert B. McLain\n10375 Wilshire Boulevard\n127 North Hudson Avenue\nLos Angeles\nLos Angeles\nWendell Handy\nRobert C. Mardian\n13714 South Wilmington\n3325 Trevan Road\nCompton\nPasadena\nEarle Jorgensen\nFerdinand Mendenhall\n960 Bel-Air Road\n13830 Chandler Blvd.\nLos Angeles\nVan Nuys\nAssemblyman Frank Lanterman\nC. C. Moseley\n4420 Encinas Drive\n1636 Summit Ridge Drive\nLa Canada\nBeverly Hills\nMrs. Angela Lombardi\nJ. Neil Reagan\n1945 W. Mountain\n1132 Chantilly Road\nGlendale\nLos Angeles\nThomas P. Pike\nRobert O. Reynolds\n1475 Circle Drive\n12712 Parkyns\nSan Marino\nLos Angeles\nMrs. Ivy Baker Priest\nFred E. Rhodes\n435 South Curson Avenue\n530 Orange Grove Circle\nLos Angeles\nPasadena\nGovernor Ronald Reagan\nMartin A. Samuelson\n1669 San Onofre Drive\n1250 Hillside Road\nPacific Palisades\nPasadena\nHenry Salvatori\nWilliam Sesnon\n457 Bel-Air Road\n707 N. Maple\nLos Angeles\nBeverly Hills\n-4-\n#124\nCongressional\nDelegate\nAlternate\nDistrict\n17, 19, 20,\nTaft Schreiber\nForrest N. Shumway\n21, 22, 23,\n1160 Tower Road\n501 No. Rockingham Ave.\n26, 28, 29,\nBeverly Hills\nLos Angeles\n30, 31\n(11 Districts) Hon. H. Allen Smith\nMrs. Camilla C. Spear\n1818 Verdugo Loma Drive\n470 Columbia Circle\nGlendale\nPasadena\nCharles Soderstrom\nJames M. Woods\n1553 S. Pacific Avenue\n4329 South Broadway\nSan Pedro\nLos Angeles\nHolmes Tuttle\nRoland Rich Wooley\n637 So. Hudson Avenue\n10315 Woodbridge\nLos Angeles\nNorth Hollywood\nJack Warner\nMrs. Toshi Yamamoto\n1801 Angelo Drive\n253 So. Gerhart Avenue\nBeverly Hills\nEast Los Angeles\nWilliam A. Wilson\n10475 Bellagio Road\nLos Angeles\n18\nE. C. \"Bill\" Mazzie\nGrant B. Potter\n5236 Kent Drive\n785 Saginaw Avenue\nBakersfield\nDinuba\nHon. Howard Way\nMrs. Bette Cutbirth\n708 East Cedar\n1133 Panorama Drive\nExeter\nBakersfield\n24\n*William French Smith\nClifford R. Anderson, Jr.\n1256 Oak Grove Avenue\n2046 S. Oak Knoll\nSan Marino\nSan Marino\n*Hon. Glenard P. Lipscomb\nMrs. Virginia Braun\n704 Lindaraxa Park\n1585 Orlando Road\nAlhambra\nPasadena\nJoseph M. Crosby\n1524 Via Del Ray\nSouth Pasadena\nHouston I. Flournoy\n755 W. 10th Street\nClaremont\n25\nRobert Beaver\nRobert Sasine\n1235 Margarita Drive\n600 Elinor Drive\nFullerton\nFullerton\nTravis L. Manning\nWilliam F. McColl, M.D.\n1421 Latchford\n1333 S. Hillward Drive\nHacienda Heights\nWest Covina\n27\nHonorable Ed Reinecke\nHon. Newton R. Russell\n9664 Tujunga Canyon Blvd.\n6407 Chaffee Street\nTujunga\nTujunga\nHon. Charles Conrad\n*Vincent Seekins\n13444 Moorpark\n2206 N. Parish Place\nSherman Oaks\nBurbank\nL. Thaxton Hanson\n9816 Belmar Avenue\nNorthridge\n-5-\n#124\nCongressional\nDistrict\nDelegate\nAlternate\n32\nHon. George Deukmejian\nGeorge R. Johnson\n5366 E. Broadway\n4603 Virginia Road\nLong Beach\nLong Beach\nMrs. Ann Bowler\nMrs. Dorothy Goodknight\n177 Rivo Alto Canal\n42 LaLinda Drive\nLong Beach\nLong Beach\n33\nW. Reed Sprinkel\nRobert J. Bierschbach\n7706 Calle Casino\n1418 Mira Monte Drive\nCucamonga\nRedlands\nJ. Steve Williams\nWoodrow Miller\n1002 W. Marshall Blvd.\n185 Laurel Avenue\nSan Bernardino\nColton\n34\nMrs. Alberta W. Campbell\nRichard A. Aschieris\n5891 Los Angeles Way\n7811 Turbo Street\nBuena Park\nLong Beach\nWalter Knott\nDavid L. Baker\n8281 Beach Boulevard\n9452 Royal Palm\nBuena Park\nGarden Grove\n35\nDennis Carpenter\n2138 Bonaire Way\nNewport Beach\nCoalson Morris\nMrs. Marquita Maytag\n708 N. West Street\n7780 Starlight Drive\nAnaheim\nLa Jolla\n*Edward Mills\nHon. Robert E. Badham\n2526 Riviera Drive\n1320 Antiqua Way\nLaguna Beach\nNewport Beach\nCharles K. Fletcher\n2940 Ocean Front\nDel Mar\n36 & 37\nC. Arnholt Smith\nMrs. Eleanor R. Ring\n2293 Juan Road\n801 Tolita Drive\nSan Diego\nCoronado\nBurt F. Raynes\nRobert C. Jackson\n299 Hilltop Drive\n4310 Arista Street\nChula Vista\nSan Diego\nMrs. Evelyn C. Roberts\n530 Silvergate Avenue\nSan Diego\nVictor R. Lundy\nRichard R. Brown\n1203 Willow\n480 Horizon Hills\nSan Diego\nEl Cajon\n*Gordon C. Luce\n7181 Encelia Drive\nLa Jolla\n38\nWilliam E. Norris\n4542 Beacon Way\nRiverside\nMike Schultz\nRobert L. Simpson\n765 Yucca Drive\n510 Marilyn Street\nEl Centro\nBrawley\nMrs. Mary Lou Carpenter\n9303 Avenue Miravilla\nBeaumont\n* (AL) - At large\n# # #\n-6-\nLN\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nRELEASE:\nSun\nA.M.'s,\nSacramento, California\nFebruary 25, 1968\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.23.68\nPLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE\nRELEASE\n# 125\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today announced a comprehensive\nprogram aimed at continued improvement in the level of care for\npatients at state hospitals for the mentally ill.\n\"It is apparent that if California is to remain in the forefront\namong the states in its treatment of the mentally ill. continued\nefforts must be made to stay abreast of new methods a nd changing\nstandards,\" the governor said.\n\"We intend to keep moving forward with the emphasis on modern,\nlocal treatment so that the mentally ill can resume their role as\nuseful and productive citizens.\"\nThe governor said the decision to broaden the mental health pro-\ngram--accelerated since early last year--was made after a complete\nreview of the mental health program.\nProposed improvements range from higher staffing standards\nto better maintenance and upkeep of hospital facilities.\nThe program includes these key points:\n1. -Establishment of two additional Mental Retardation Regional\nCenters;\n2. -Junking of the obsolete 1952 standards for staffing hospitals\nfor the mentally ill and adoption in principle of the standards set\nforth in 1967 by the California Commission on Hospital Standards.\nImplementation of these standards will be in phases consistent with\nsound hospital and management practices;\n3. --Creation of a Board of Medical Visitors for each state mental\nhospital to insure on-going surveys of each institution;\n4. -Inspection of hospital buildings by the Department of\nthe General Services to assure their proper maintenance;\n5. Insurance Inspections to Spencer Williams, secretary of Human Relations,\nto determine why there are major quality variances among the mental\n- 4\nhospitals and to find out why some are not operated as well or as\nefficiently as they should be;\n6. --Action aimed at determining at the earliest date what\nhospital facilities should be phased out or eliminated in the light\nof basic changes in the patient load because of greater emphasis on\nlocal care and treatment;\n7. -Implementation of a program to eliminate gradually out-dated\nfunctions such as farming operations at some of the hospitals;\n#125\n8.--Phasing out of surgical facilities at some of the hospitals,\nparticularly where better treatment for patients can be obtained\nnearby at less cost;\n.--Immediate establishment of standards requiring 70 square\nfeet of space per patient bed. For the past three decades, the\nstate's standard for each patient has been less than 55 square feet.\nThe 70 square feet standard is the nationally-accepted standard;\n10.--Adoption of clear-cut and definitive goals for the treat-\nment of the mentally ill and the mentally retarded. These goals have\nbeen acclaimed by leaders in the mental health field;\n11.--Re-evaluation of the budget for mental health in the light\nof the most up-to-date information available, based on need as well\nas resources available;\n12. --Renewed instructions to Dr. James Lowry, director of the\nDepartment of Mental Hygiene, that he has now as he has had in the\npast year complete discretion in maintaining the staffing require-\nments and levels for care of patients;\n13. --Streamlining of administrative functions within the depart-\nment aimed at greater efficiency which can be reflected in better\ncare for patients;\n14. --Creation of an advisory committee to the governor on mental\nhealth.\n\"Under this program, 11 the governor said, \"we will be able to\nproceed on a solid basis for even more improvements in the programs\nat our mental hospitals--improvements in situations that have needed\nimproving at our mental hospitals--improvements in situations that\nhave needed improving for years.\n\"We have always known that problems in our mental hospitals go\nbeyond mere budgetary factors. Many of the economies we have achieved\nover the past year--coupled with greater emphasis on local treatment\nfinanced in large measure by the state--will now permit us to devote\nmore of our resources for the more difficult cases remaining in our\nhospitals.\n\"We cannot be satisfied with outmoded programs. Rather, we must\ncontinue moving forward with a positive and progressive plan--one\nwhich expands and further implements the concept of local care for\nthe mentally ill wherever possible.\n\"Many of the problems of our mental hospitals permitted to grow\nin seriousness over the years are now catching up with us. But, as\n-2-\n#125\nI have repeatedly told the people of California, the time is long\noverdue for action designed to stop the warehousing of the mentally\nill. We must concentrate on helping them lead productive lives,\"\nthe governor said,\nIn addition to the 14-point program outlined above, Governor\nReagan also listed these steps which already have been taken to\ncontinue improving the mental health program:\n1.--A departmental budget of $224,029,323 for the next fiscal\nyear--up a net of $6,923,161 from the current fiscal year;\n2.--Actual program expenditures up by more than $9 million with\nsome of the additional costs offset by savings resulting from the\ndecline in the number of patients;\n3.--Substantial increases in state appropriations for local treat-\nment programs under Short-Doyle. The budget for the coming fiscal\nyear calls for increasing state assistance to local mental health\nprograms by $4.6 million to a total of $29.5 million--a record 58\npercent increase in Short-Doyle funding alone during the course of\nthe Reagan administration;\n4.--A $4 million increase in funds for research and treatment of\nmental retardation;\n5.--Significant reductions in the waiting list for care of the\nmentally retarded. Despite 1,000 names added to the list in the past\nyear, the waiting list has been reduced 40 percent. The number\nrequiring hospitalization has been cut from 815 to 444. Despite this,\nthe state retarded hospital population of 13,470 on January 25, 1968\nwas only 242 higher than the same date a year ago;\n6.--A decline in the mental hospital population to 19,779 as of\nJanuary 24, 1968 or 3,319 fewer patients than on the same date a year\nago;\n7.--An increase in the mental hospital staff-patient ratio over\nthe July 1, 1966 level--the highest in the state's history up to that\ntime;\n8.--An increase of 356 new positions in next year's budget for\nthe treatment of mentally retarded. This represents the largest and\nmost significant increase in staffing for the mentally retarded in\nhistory.\n9.--An increase of 168 additional treatment positions in next year's\nbudget for the mentally retarded and mentally ill programs in hospitals\nfor the mentally ill.\nEJG\n# # #\n-3-\nOFFICE OF THE GOV\nNOR\nMEMO TO THE E SS\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.23.68\nC-O-P-R-E-C-T-I-O-N\nIn Release No. 125, dated today, please correct Page 1,\nParagraph numbered 5 to read:\n5.--Instructions to Spencer Williams, etc.\n# # #\nEJG\nOffice of\nLIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ROBERT H. FINCH\nFebruary 23, 1968\nContact: Charles McKenney - 445-9533\nFOR SUNDAY AM'S RELEASE\n\"California is well underway in a major effort to make the many\nplacement\navailable state and federal manpower training and / programs more\nresponsive to the special needs of the hardcore unemployed,\" Lieutenant\nGovernor Robert Finch said today.\nFinch noted that Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh in a press release\nhas promised to introduce legislation to develop a coordinated system\nfor manpower programs by creating a new bureau.\n\"I'm pleased the Speaker has recognized the problem,\" Finch said.\n\"But apparently he has forgotten that the legislature took action last\nyear to do just the job he proposes.\"\nThe Lieutenant Governor pointed out that the legislature passed\nand Governor Reagan signed legislation creating the California Job\nTraining and Placement Council composed of legislators, department\nheads and members of industry and labor.\n\"I think the council's interim report of February 14 indicates we\nare well on our way with legislation already introduced,\" Finch said.\nJoining Lieutenant Governor Robert H. Finch two weeks ago at a\nbi-partisan Capitol news conference in presenting the Council interim\nwere\nrecommendations legislator Council members Senator Mervyn Dymally\n(D., Los Angeles), Chairman of the Senate Social Welfare Committee, and\nAssemblyman Bill Greene, (D., Los Angeles) along with the authors of\nCouncil supported legislation Assemblyman Eugene Chappie (R., Cool),\nChairman of the Assembly Social Welfare Committee and Assemblyman Bill\nCampbell, (R., Los Angeles).\nHighlighted in the Council's report were recommendations for an\nintensive coordinated effort to place welfare recipients in meaningful\njobs and training programs, and creation of more small business and\nemployment in California by means of the Job Development Corporation\nand\n(CAL-JOB).\nto\n\"Apparently the Speaker wants to create a new division, adding to\nthe proliferation of existing government agencies in the manpower field.\n-1-\nAs part of the govern S reorganization plan sub tted to the\nLegislature it is proposed to consolidate functions, in order to respond\nmore directly to the special needs of the hardcore unemployed,\" he\nadded.\nAssemblyman Eugene Chappie, (R., Cool), Chairman of the Assembly\nSocial Welfare Committee, said, \"the Social Welfare Committee has\nalready introduced a major bi-partisan bill, AB 210, geared to replace\na welfare check with a pay check. Both Democrats and Republicans on\nour Committee have attended extensive hearings and have given serious\nstudy to this problem in putting our bill together. I hope the Speaker\nwill at least consult with our Committee before introducing legislation\nwhich could damage the cooperative program we have already developed.\"\nAssemblyman Bill Campbell (R., Los Angeles) said, \"I have already\nintroduced legislation, AB 109, endorsed by the Job Training and\nPlacement Council, to provide opportunities and employment in dis-\nadvantaged areas. This bill would create the California Job Development\nCorp. (CAL-JOB) which will utilize private capital to make loans for\nsmall business growth and jobs in economically disadvantaged areas.\nUnfortunately, just setting up a new bureau as the Speaker suggests\nis not the way to make jobs. The approach taken in my bi-partisan\nbill is to encourage private financial institutions to make job\ncreating loans. I hope the Speaker will support this legislation.\"\nFinch said, \"the Speaker's bills are not yet ready for introduction\nso we do not have specific proposals before us, but we welcome his\nsupport for the recommendations of the Job Training and Placement\nCouncil which are summarized below.\"\n*\nSupport for special programs to aid returning Vietnam veterans.\n*\nMulti-use of military camps, such as Camp San Luis Obispo,\nfor the training of underprivileged youth\n*\nUntie federal strings on job training programs\n*\nPlace welfare recipients in meaningful jobs and training pro-\ngrams, thereby substituting a pay check for a welfare check.\nThis concept would be implemented by the program of the\nAssembly Social Welfare Committee, AB 210, authored by\nAssemblyman Eugene Chappie (R., Cool) as well as by efforts of\nstate agencies in developing \"work incentive\" programs.\n-2-\n*\nCreate more business and employment in California, especially\nin poverty areas, through use of private financing by means of\nthe Job Development Corporation (CAL-JOB) as proposed in Assem-\nbly Bill 109 by Assemblyman Bill Campbell.\n*\nUpgrade vocational education programs and relate them to\noccupational needs.\n*\nAchieve cooperation and coordination of job training and\nplacement programs through the Cooperative Area Manpower\nPlanning System.\nUtilize non-professional indigenous personnel from the community\n*\nSupport and assist the California Businessman's Advisory Com-\nmittee in its program to expand industry.\nEncourage greater efforts to create new California products.\nSupport tax and other incentive legislation to encourage\nprivate enterprise to enter into the training of disadvantaged\npersons.\n*\nPlan summer programs well in advance so that they are not\ncrash programs but provide meaningful employment and training.\nExpand the current MDTA demonstration bonding program and make\nit permanent.\n*\nEstablish committees on local levels to provide feedback of\ninformation to the Job Training and Placement Council as to\nthe effectiveness of training programs in meeting local needs.\n3\nOFFICE OF THE GOVE DR\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.23.68\nRELEASE: Immediate\n#126\nMONDAY, February 26\nthrough\nSATURDAY, March 2\nMONDAY, February 26\n2:00 pm\nPresentation of medal to Walter Shannon -\nDirector, Department of Fish and Game - by\nrepresentatives of the National Rifle Asso-\nciation, Governor's Office.\n2:30 pm\nBrief greeting to high school students from\nOxnard, Governor's Office.\n3:00 pm\nPicture with Sacramento draft board appointee\nand Mexican consul, Governor's Office.\nTUESDAY, February 27\n1:30 pm\nPress Conference\nWEDNESDAY, February 28\n10:00 am\nRemarks to Public Affairs Council, Governor's\nCouncil Room.\n11:30 am\nPresentation of Distinguished Service Award\nto Hamilton Air Force Base as California\nEmployer of the Year in hiring the handicapped,\nGovernor's Office.\n1:30 pm\nRemarks to members of the Junior College\nBoard of Governors, Governor's Council Room.\nTHURSDAY, February 29\n11:00 am\nPresentation to Bob Nordskog of Jacket for\nhis winning the National Championship of the\nNational Association of Power Boat Classics,\nGovernor's Office.\n1:30 pm\nRaising of Red Cross Flag in front of Capitol\n(West Steps of the Capitol)\nFRIDAY, March 1\n11:00 am\nMeeting with California State College Student\nBody Presidents (Governor's Council Room)\nSATURDAY, March 2\n8:00 pm\nCamellia Ball, Hotel El Dorado\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2,26.68\n# 127\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named public accountants Roy E.\nReynolds of Norwalk and Robert E. Grice of Encinitas to four-year\nterms on the State Board of Accountancy.\nThe posts pay $25 per diem while on official duty, plus travel\nexpenses.\nReynolds, 45, succeeds Wilbur J. Schraner of Sherman Oaks.\nGrice, 47, replaces Irving Rosen of San Francisco. Both outgoing\nmembers' terms expired.\nReynolds, a Republican, has operated his own public accounting\nfirm in Norwalk since 1949. A graduate of the University of Kansas,\nhe is a consultant to the board of directors of Rotary, International;\nis a former member of the Norwalk-La Mirada School Board: and has\nserved as a Norwalk city councilman.\nHe resides at 3144 Val Verde, Long Beach.\nGrice, a 1941 graduate of San Diego State College, is a partner\nin the Encinitas accounting firm of Grice and Lund. Active in\ncommunity affairs, he is also a member of the board of directors of\nYoung Life, a national organization serving teen-age youth. He is\na Republican.\nHe resides at 5 North Lane, Del Mar.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.26.68\n128\nSacramento--Governor Ronald Reagan today named Edward B. Hutchinson,\ndeputy director of General Services, as his Special Assistant to\ncoordinate the implementation of recommendations made by the Governor's\nSurvey on Efficiency and Cost Control.\nAll department heads and other key personnel in state government\nhave been notified of Hutchinson's temporary assignment and have been\nasked to cooperate with him \"to assure the successful completion of\nthis important project,\" the governor said.\nIn naming Hutchinson to the special job, Governor Reagan said,\n\"There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that those recommendations\ncontained in the Survey that are workable will be put into effect.\n\"A tremendous amount of time and talent was put into the Survey\nand I have no intention of now letting their recommendations sit on a\nshelf and gather dust.\n\"We are going to make every effort to implement as many recommen-\ndations as possible in order to continue making state government more\nefficient,\" the governor said.\nHe will work with and report to the Cabinet under the direction\nof Cabinet Secretary Win Adams.\nHutchinson, 37, was named deputy director of General Services in\nJanuary, 1967. Prior to his appointment, he was a Palo Alto real\nestate developer.\nA graduate of Stanford University, Hutchinson is a veteran of the\nKorean War and in late 1965 served as director of transportation of\nthe American Christmas Train and Trucks--a relief program for the people\nof Vietnam.\nUnder his direction, more than 50 boxcars and 7,000 truckloads of\nsupplies were gathered from throughout the United States and distributed\nto the Vietnamese people in January and February of 1966.\nHutchinson is married and has four children.\nPB\nDEPARTMENT OF FINANCE\nSacramento, California\nContact: Gordon Smith\n445-4141\n2.26.68\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\nSacramento--A hastily-contrived bill passed at the end of the last\nregular legislative session in 1967 without detailed study may cost\nthe State of California $60-$70 million more this year than estimated\nby its author, Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh.\nState Finance Director Gordon Paul Smith disclosed the \"glaring\nUnruh blooper\" in letters to the Senate Finance Committee and the\nAssembly Ways and Means Committee.\nThe bill, AB 272, was estimated by Unruh to cost the state $145\nmillion this fiscal year.\nHowever, because it changed and complicated the formulae for\ndistributing state funds to the school districts, it was impossible for\nthe Finance Department to get accurate figures on actual costs until\nvery recently, Smith said.\nAnother problem, he said, was that the bill was amended in a\nconference committee during the closing hours of the 1967 regular\nsession without members of the Finance Department present to assist in\nestimating costs.\n\"It is my hope,\" Smith said, \"that the legislature will take\nwhatever steps are necessary to correct the Unruh-sponsored law.\nUnfortunately, it is another classic example of hastily rushing into\na new and expanded program without knowing what the costs will be.\"\nSmith noted that the same Unruh-sponsored bill had already\nrequired a special session of the legislature to correct an error\ncaused when the conference committee--again acting hastily--left out\nsome technical language. That error was corrected during a special\nsession last September.\n\"I trust that Mr. Unruh will accept responsibility for the error\nin estimating the costs of his bill,\" Smith said. \"Now is the time\nfor him to really show the people of California that he is interested\nin their welfare by admitting his mistake and correcting it.\"\nSmith cited a letter Unruh wrote to Governor Ronald Reagan on\nAugust 8, 1967--four days after the legislature adjourned--urging the\n-1-\ngovernor to sign AB 272. It said, in part:\n\"Assembly Bill 272, the major school financing bill of the 1967\nlegislative session which I authored, has received final approval and\nis awaiting your signature. This measure will provide $145,000,000\nof additional public school financing during the current fiscal year,\nmore than has ever been provided in a single year by a California\nlegislature.\"\nUnruh's letter also emphasized that AB 272 was sufficiently\nfinanced by last year's revenue bill. The letter said:\n\"I should mention that both of the amounts appropriated by the\nbill for new public school support and for property tax relief are\nfully contained in the revenue measure passed by the legislature\nearlier this year.\"\nThe bill, according to Unruh's letter, \"made major revisions in\nthe formulas apportioning\" state aid to the schools--formulas which\nSmith charged were hastily drawn with either no concern or no knowledge\nfor the actual costs.\nSmith said the governor was advised to sign AB 272 on the basis\nof Unruh's statement that revenues to pay for it were sufficient and\non the advice of the State Department of Education.\nThe finance director pointed out that because of the many changes\nin school formulas contained in AB 272, his department authorized\nemergency funds to the Department of Education so the formulas could\nbe re-programmed to permit the Department of Education to provide the\nfirst principal apportionment of new state money to the school districts\nby February.\nPreliminary estimates of the Finance Department indicated a\npossible deficit, Smith said, but the Superintendent of Public\nInstruction, in a letter dated January 3, 1968, requested Finance to\nuse the legislative estimates until a more accurate computation would\nbe available in February.\nIn his budget message, Governor Reagan noted that a deficit in the\nschool aid program was possible.\n-2-\nSmith pointed out that under the law, legislative allocations to\nthe schools must be met even though insufficient revenue is appropriated.\nTherefore, the money must come from the General Fund.\nSmith said the Department of Education has officially notified his\ndepartment that the first principal apportionment exceeded the\nstatutory authorization under the law plus the use of a $10 million\nreserve provision.\nThus, a budgetary deficit caused by miscalculations in the Unruh\nbill will probably amount to about $70 million in the General Fund for\n1967-68. However, the potential impact on the 1968-69 budget, Smith\nsaid, would be an additional $82 million, which is not contained in\nthe budget, for a total of $152 million.\n# # #\n-3-\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.26.68\n# 129\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued a policy statement contain-\ning the broad outlines of an overall master plan to improve the\neffectiveness of the State of California's electronic data processing\n(EDP) services.\nThe policy statement was approved last week by the California\nState Electronic Data Processing Policy Committee, headed by Lt.\nGovernor Robert H. Finch.\nGovernor Reagan said the committee's policy guidelines \"provide\na sound approach for resolving problems resulting from uncoordinated\nplanning and use of state government electronic data processing\nservices.\"\nThe statement emphasizes the concept that EDP should be utilized\nat a minimum cost consistent with the level of service required, and\nthat EDP operations should be consolidated functionally, to the extent\npracticable, into several strategically located centers.\nThe initial master plan will apply to all State government\nentities with the exception of the legislature, the judiciary, the\nUniversity of California and the state colleges. However, an ultimate\nmaster plan will consider the needs of all three branches of govern-\nment, depending on their desire and requirements.\nThe policy statement makes clear that while full consideration\nshould be given to the needs of individual agencies, the interests of\nstate government as a whole are paramount.\nDevelopment of the master plans will include:\n--Methods and specifications for state-wide procedures and\nstandards.\n--Criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of EDP operations,\nincluding costs and benefits.\n--Provision for intergovernmental information exchange.\n--Geographic relocation of certain facilities.\n--Balancing workload among remaining facilities.\n--Operational use of equipment on a three-shift, seven-days-per-\nweek basis.\nConsolidation of equipment will primarily involve that of the\nstate. The balance will be leased.\nThe policy statement calls for the Department of General Services\n# 129\nto maintain a facility to handle EDP requirements that are in excess\nof those that can be handled by major facilities, Contracts will\nalso be negotiated with private industry for computer time or consult-\ning services as required.\nExcess or unusable equipment will be sold or released.\nEvaluation of skills required to meet the needs of the master\nplans will be made, and necessary adjustments in the data processing\nstaff effected.\nThe plans call for close liaison with the State Personnel Board\nwith the ultimate goal of upgrading state EDP personnel resources to\nmeet modern equipment innovations,\nDevelopment of the master plans will include efforts to achieve\ngreater compatibility of equipment or systems. In addition, particular\nattention will be paid to the issue of confidentiality and security\nof information. This will involve top-level elected, exempt and civil\nservice officials, the policy statement says.\nThe Office of Management Services will be responsible for\ndeveloping the master plans which will be reviewed by the Intergovern-\nmental Board on Electronic Data Processing and approved by the State\nElectronic Data Processing Policy Committee.\nThe plans will be implemented by the Department of General\nServices, working in close coordination with the Office of Management\nServices and the operating departments.\nThe Electronic Data Processing Policy Committee includes\nCalifornia's elected constitutional officers, the governor's four\nagency secretaries, the directors of the Departments of Finance and\nGeneral Services and three representatives of private industry.\n# # #\n-2-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 130\n445-4571 2.27.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed William C. Whitaker and\nRussel P. Smith of Tulelake to four-year terms on the 10-A District\nAgricultural Association's board of directors.\nThe association operates the Tulelake-Butte County Fair.\nThe posts pay necessary travel expenses.\nWhitaker, 35, was first appointed June 15,1967. Smith, 35, was\nappointed to the board July 8, 1958.\nWhitaker, a Republican, resigned as manager of the Tulelake-\nButte County Fair last year to accept appointment to the board. He\nhad served as fair manager since 1953. Whitaker is editor of\nSpudman Magazine, a journal for potato growers and processors.\nHe lives at Box 532, Tulelake.\nSmith raises purebred registered angus stock, is a cattle breeder\nand raises certified seed potatoes. A Republican, he ranches in\nboth Butte Valley and Tulelake.\nHe resides at Route 1, Box 68, Tulelake.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.27.68\nC-O-R-R-E-C-T-I-O-N\nIn press release #130 dated today, please alter\nthe second paragraph to read:\nThe association operates the Tulelake-Butte\nValley Fair.\n# # #\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2,27.68\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nThe organizational meeting of the new 15-member Board of\nGovernors of California Community Colleges will be held tomorrow\n(Wednesday, February 28) at 2 P.M. in the Governor's Council Room,\nState Capitol. Coverage by news media is invited.\nGovernor Ronald Reagan will deliver the charge, and the group\nwill select its officers. The new Board is scheduled to take over\nadministration of California's community colleges on July 1.\n* * *\nRepresentatives of the California Constitutional Revision\nCommission will meet briefly with Governor Reagan tomorrow at\n3:45 P.M. in the governor's office. Pictures permitted.\n# # #\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE COVERENCE\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 131\n445-4571 2.28.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named retired rubber company\nexecutive William H. Ryan and James H. Yant, a Sacramento physician,\nto four-year terms on the 52nd District Agricultural Association's\nboard of directors. The board operates the Sacramento County Fair.\nThe jobs pay necessary expenses.\nRyan, 66, replaces Dan Donovan of Carmichael. Yant, 60, succeeds\nJames M. Mills of Sacramento. Both outgoing members' terms expired.\nRyan, a Republican, worked as Sacramento district manager for the\nFirestone Tire and Rubber Company until he retired. He and his wife\nare ardent horse owners and breeders. They are interested particularly\nin quarter horse breeding and racing and are members of the Pacific\nCoast Quarter Horse Association and the Pacific Coast Horse Racing\nAssociation.\nRyan currently serves as a director of the California State\nTire Dealers' Association.\nHe resides at 1061 Appollo Way, Sacramento.\nYant, a surgeon, is a 1931 graduate of the University of\nMichigan Medical School. For the past several years he has served\non the Citizens' Booster Committee for the California State Fair\nHorse Show and Horse Fair.\nHe is a former president and director of the Sacramento County\nMedical Society and now serves as administrative director of the\nSacramento Medical Foundation Blood Bank.\nHe lives at 4950 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Carmichael.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 132\n445-4571 2.28.68\nSacramento--Gov. Ronald Reagan today commended the Nevada legislature,\nGovernor Paul Laxalt and State Senator Coe Swobe for enactment of\nlegislation to protect Lake Tahoe.\n\"I wish to pay tribute to Governor Laxalt and Senator Swobe for\ntheir outstanding leadership in securing an agreement on the Tahoe\nlegislation with key California officials and then guiding the\nmeasure through the Nevada legislature.\n\"Now it is up to the California legislature to complete the job.\nThe portion of the legislation which constitutes the proposed bi-\nstate compact must be enacted by the California legislature exactly\nas is. We should conform our legislation to theirs to form a\nvalid compact which can then be ratified by Congress.\"\nGovernor Reagan called the measure \"a highly significant\nachievement in the battle to save Lake Tahoe.\"\n\"This legislation is a meaningful first step toward planning and\nprotecting the magnificent Tahoe Basin. It also preserves local\nhome rule and has my wholehearted support,\" Governor Reagan said.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.28.68\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nGovernor Reagan will hold a press conference limited to 15\nminutes at 3:00 p.m. today.\nPB\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER R\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571 2.29.68\n# 133\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Ida May Jacobson, a Visalia\nrancher, and retired creamery company manager Walter Hooper of Lindsay\nto four-year terms on the 24th District Agricultural Association's\nboard of directors.\nThe association operates the Tulare County Fair.\nThe jobs pay necessary expenses.\nMrs. Jacobson and her husband, Arden, raise cotton and cattle.\nA Republican, she replaces Mary Virginia Richmond of Tulare.\nHooper, a 57 year old Democrat, succeeds Louis Milakovich of\nVisalia.\nBoth outgoing members' terms expired.\nMrs. Jacobson serves as vice president of the Visalia Community\nCouncil and has long been active in civic affairs.\nShe and her husband reside at 34597 Road 140, Visalia.\nHooper, now retired, operated the Sequoia Creamery in Lindsay\nfor over 20 years. He is a member of many community service organiza-\ntions including the Lindsay Kiwanis Club and Chamber of Commerce.\nHe is also a former two-term Lindsay city councilman and currently\nserves as a director of the Tulare County Chamber of Commerce.\nHe lives at 276 South Harvard, Lindsay.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nRELEASE: Immediate\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571 2.29.68\n# 134\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Thelma M. Newlon of Williams\nto a four-year term on the 44th District Agricultural Association's\nboard of directors. The board operates the Colusa County Fair.\nThe governor also reappointed Leon W. Etchepare of Maxwell to\nthe board for another four-year term. Etchepare, a 48-year old\nDemocrat, was first appointed March 25, 1956.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses.\nMrs. Newlon, a Republican, has long been active in 4-H work\nand has helped at the floriculture building of the Colusa County\nFair for the past 12 years. She is the wife of Dan Newlon.\nShe succeeds Helen Ann Thomas of Colusa whose term expired.\nShe resides at Route 1, Box 91, Williams.\nEtchepare, a rice, wheat, barley and alfalfa farmer, is president\nof Caladino Farm Seeds, Inc., a statewide seed cooperative, He is\n= former trustee of the Maxwell Grammar School.\nHe lives at 614 West Oak Street, Maxwell.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERN\nSacramento, California\nRELEASE: Immediate\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571\n2.29.68\n# 135\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Orland realtor Robert W.\nHoward to the 42nd District Agricultural Association's board of\ndirectors. The board operates the Glenn County Fair.\nThe governor also reappointed Jack M. Case of Willows, owner of\nthe Westside Tractor and Equipment Company, and Arthur A. St. Louis,\na Hamilton City farmer, to four-year terms on the board.\nThe posts pay necessary expenses.\nHoward, a 50=year old Republican, will fill the unexpired term\nof the late J. King Mederos of Willows. The term will end\nJanuary 15, 1969.\nHoward operates his own real estate business in Orland and has\nserved often as an auctioneer at junior livestock sales in the area.\nHe is president of the Glenn County Board of Realtors and first vice\nchairman of the Glenn County Chamber of Commerce.\nHe lives at P.O. Box 35, County Road 14, Orland.\nCase, 55, is a Republican and a former Willows city councilman.\nHe is a former chairman and past member of the Glenn County High\nSchool District Board of Trustees.\nHe resides at 630 Jefferson Street, Willows.\nSt. Louis, 54, farms wheat, barley and corn at his Hamilton\nCity ranch. A Democrat, he is chairman of the Hamilton City Elementary\nSchool Board.\nHe lives at P.O. Box 487, Highway 32, Hamilton City.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nRELEASE: Immediate\nContact: Paul Beck\n445-4571 2.29.68\n# 136\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today named Wilbert E. Aalto of Reedley\nto the 21st District Agricultural Association's board of directors.\nThe board operates the Fresno District Fair.\nThe governor also reappointed retired Fresno rancher Paul Paul,\n72, to the board. He was first appointed in 1960.\nBoth appointments are for four-year terms.\nThe jobs pay necessary expenses.\nAalto, a 52-year old Republican, succeeds Thomas F. Lopez of\nFresno whose term expired.\nAalto works as a salesman for the Martens Chevrolet Company in\nReedley. He is also active in the real estate business.\nHe has served as a member of the Reedley Planning Commission\nsince 1948 and is secretary of the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement\nDistrict which he helped organize.\nAalto is a former chairman of the Reedley booth at the Fresno\nDistrict Fair and has helped to gather fruit for the display for many\nyears.\nHe is also a past president of the Reedley Chamber of Commerce.\nHe resides at 1331 F Street, Reedley.\nPaul, a retired rancher with farms in Fresno and Madera counties,\nalso worked as an insurance agent in Fresno for four decades. He\nis a Democrat.\nHe lives at 5414 East North Avenue, Fresno.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVER.. JR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact: Paul Beck\n# 137\n445-4571 2.29.68\nGovernor Ronald Reagan has proclaimed the week of March 4, 1968,\nas INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION WEEK.\nText of the proclamation follows:\nWHEREAS\nIndustrial education in the California public schools\nis designed to educate youth and adults of our country\nto become useful citizens and productive skilled\nworkers in business, industry, health services, and\ntechnical occupations; and\nWHEREAS\nIndustrial education has made a major contribution to\nthe economic and general well-being of the individual\nas well as to the economic development of our state\nand nation; and\nWHEREAS\nIndustrial education will continue to provide leader-\nship in developing better citizens and more trained\nmanpower to meet the needs of our changing technology:\nand\nWHEREAS\nThe Bureau of Industrial Education, State Department\nof Education, is holding its 30th Annual Conference\non Industrial Education in Santa Barbara on\nMarch 5, 6, and 7, 1968; and\nWHEREAS\nThe California Industrial Education Association is\nholding its 39th Annual State Convention in Ventura\non March 8 and 9, 1968;\nNOW THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, do\nhereby proclaim the week beginning March 4, 1968, as INDUSTRIAL\nEDUCATION WEEK.\n#\n#\n#\n#\n#\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.29.68\n# 138\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today released figures showing that his\n1968-69 full support budget for the University of California and the\na\ngreater increase for each\nstate colleges provides/substantially\n/\nfull-time equiva-\nlent student than for the average of the past 10 years.\nHe said the new support budget--which includes salary increases\nfor faculty and staff personnel--provides:\n--$184 more for each student at the University than budgeted\nfor the current fiscal year, or a 6.2 percent increase. This compares\nwith an average yearly increase of $66 per student, or 2.6 percent,\nover the past 10 years.\n--$116 more per student at the state colleges than the 1967-68\nbudget, or a 9.11 percent increase. This compares with an average\nannual increase of only $60 per student, or 6.66 percent, during the\npast 10 years.\nThe figures are based on enrollment during the academic year,\nnot summer sessions.\nGovernor Reagan said his $280 million 1968-69 support budget\nfor the University represents a $25.7 million increase over the\nprevious budget, or 10 percent more. He said this compares with an\naverage annual increase of $16.9 million, or 11.4 percent, for the\ninstitution over the past decade.\nYet, the number of students at the University next year will\nrise only 3.5 percent above the current level. This increase, he\nsaid, represents roughly only a third of the annual enrollment\nincrease at the University over the past 10 years of 8.6 percent.\nThe governor said that during the past decade, the average\nannual increase in the full support budget for the state colleges has\namounted to $14.66 million, or 17.7 percent a year. However, he\npointed out that his new support budget represents an 18 percent rise\nover the previous year's allocation, or a $40.9 million increase.\nHe said the increases per student at both the university and\ncolleges \"are truly substantial indeed.\"\nHe said, \"Those who have been vehemently flailing at the alleged\nlack of concern for higher education in California are simply ignoring\nthe facts.\n\"This administration must operate state government within the\n#138\nlimits of available funds, and the plain fact is that we have given\nhigher education the top priority in next year's budget.\n\"In fact, had higher education received the same budgetary\nalignment as all other departments and agencies of state government,\nthe University budget would have been $11.7 million less than we\nallocated. The state colleges would have received $28.1 million\nless, \" he said.\nThe governor pointed out that in order to make the increased\nbudgets possible for higher education, \"we are asking for substantial\nn\ncuts in the cost of welfare and Medi-Cal.\"\nThe governor noted that in addition to the large support budget\nfor the University and state colleges, he has allocated another $91.5\nmillion for capital outlay, exclusive of bond funds.\n*\n*\n*\n-2-\nEJG\nOFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR\nSacramento, California\nContact:\nPaul Beck\n445-4571\n2.29.68\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nThe swearing in ceremony for Cap Weinberger is at 9:45 a.m.\nFriday, March 1, in the Governor's Office.\nPB"
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