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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Folder Title: Press Releases - March 1971
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OFFICE OF THE GOVER
R
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-1-71
Governor Ronald Reagan will have a statement at 3:30 p.m.
in the Council Room today following a meeting with representatives
of CSEA.
Press coverage is invited.
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MEMO TO PRESS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
2-27-71
The following was released today to Associated Press,
United Press International and Copley News Service via
telephone:
Governor Ronald Reagan said today he has accepted an
invitation from Town Hall of Los Angeles to present to its
members the same major welfare reform address which he was
not permitted to give to a joint session of the State
Legislature.
*1 am very gratified that Town Hall has enabled me to
speak on the most critical issue facing California---an issue
which the president pro tem of the State Senate refused to permit
me to personally present to the legislature," the governor said.
He added that he also has been informed that television
station KTLA in Los Angeles will telecast his appearance before
Town Hall and has offered to make it available to every other
station in California on either a video-taped or live basis.
The half-hour speech will begin at 1 p.m., Wednesday,
March 3. Town Hall meets at the Biltmore Bowl.
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: Im. diate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-1-71
#92
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"As you know, I have never attempted to conceal my pride in
the caliber of California's state employees. Their competence, their
sense of responsibility and their ability to get the job done has
attracted the envy and admiration of the nation.
"Frequently, at meetings with leaders from other states and
the national government, I am asked 'what is California's secret?'
"There is no secret, it is simply a matter of cooperation
between management and the employee. It is the ability to recognize
individual problems and sit down and work them out at the local level.
"I have just come from a meeting with representatives of
the California State Employees Association at which I signed an
executive order that will strengthen this spirit of cooperation and
mutual understanding.
"This order will, for the first time in state government,
provide a means for representatives of the state employees organization
to meet with a representative of the Governor's Office on general
salary adjustments as well as employee benefits.
"It calls upon managers and supervisors to develop a
positive climate for employee relations within their organizations,
including communications, fair and equitable treatment of employees
and their representatives.
"It strengthens the present grievance procedure by allowing
the agency secretary to become involved in those grievances which
warrant his attention.
"Under this order, Secretary Earl Coke of Agriculture and
Services, will represent me in meeting and conferring in good faith
with employee representatives on matters relating to salary adjustments
and benefits.
"Understandings reached during these sessions will be
included as part of my budget or as proposed legislation.
"I would now like to introduce Secretary Coke, who will
explain the new policy in more detail and answer your questions."
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State of California
Memorandum
To
: AGENCY SECRETARIES, DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS,
Date : February 23, 1971
AND EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS
Subject: Policy on State
Employer-Employee Relations
From : Governor's Office
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As both a citizen and Chief Executive of the State of California, I am
gratified at the excellent reputation state employees have earned for
themselves. The competence and sense of responsibility of California
State employees are widely recognized.
A major factor in the high performance level of state employees is the
relationship that exists between management and the employee. Cooper-
ation is good among management, employees, and employee representatives
in recognizing individual problems and resolving them at the lowest
possible level. As a result, we have an atmosphere of cooperation rather
than conflict.
To enhance this cooperative relationship, it is my desire to initiate a
procedure whereby a representative of the Governor will meet and confer
with employee organization representatives concerning salaries and
employee benefits on a more formal basis than has existed in the past.
I am issuing an Executive Order to initiate and implement such a proce-
dure within the limits of current law and state organizational structure.
It is my hope that the attached policy will result in a strengthening
of employee relations in state government and a higher level of under-
standing by providing for full communication between representatives of
the state and employee organizations on matters of mutual interest.
I firmly support all efforts to assure that employees receive fair and
prompt consideration of their legitimate complaints.
The Executive Order and the attached policy amplifies the responsibility
of departmental managers for creating a positive employee relations climate
As a part of this improved effort, each department should have well
administered grievance procedures. Effective communications and prompt
resolution of individual employee grievances contribute to a more satis-
factory work environment.
Please post the attached document to insure that all personnel in your
department are aware of this new policy.
Sincerely,
Ronald RONALD REAGAN Reagan
Governor
DISTRIBUTION: ABCDMM
GOVERNOR'S POLICY ON STATE EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
By virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor of the State of California,
I hereby proclaim the following Policy on State Employer-Employee Relations
to be the official policy of the Executive Department of the State of California
applicable to state civil service employees and nonacademic employees of
the state colleges and University of California.
Declaration of Policy
It is the purpose of this Policy:
1. To strengthen employer-employee relations, to promote
cooperative relationships, and to achieve mutual under-
standings by providing for full communication between
representatives of the state and employee organizations
on matters of mutual interest which affect employer-
employee relations; and
2.
To enhance the general effectiveness of each departmental
grievance procedure as a means of identifying and resolving
individual employee complaints within the discretion of
departmental management.
It is not the intent of the Policy to modify in any way the role of the
State Personnel Board in annually reporting to the Governor and the
Legislature on the status of state employees' salaries and benefits.
Nor is it intended to alter the relationship between the Personnel
Board and employee organizations which represent their members in
the board's annual salary review and recommendation process.
Meet-and-Confer Relationship
A representative of the Governor will meet and confer in good faith with
representatives of employee organizations to arrive, if possible, at a
mutual understanding on the following matters: (1) the need for and
amount of a general salary adjustment; (2) the total amount of any
special inequity salary adjustments; and (3) general employee benefits.
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In meeting and conferring with employee organization representatives,
the Governor's representative will be the Secretary, Agriculture and
Services Agency, or his designee. He will be provided staff support
services from other organizations, as needed.
To meet and confer in good faith connotes an open and mutually trusting
approach in exchanging views and discussing alternatives. It also connotes
a genuine effort on the part of both parties to attempt to reach a mutual
understanding.
Matters excluded from this meet-and-confer in good faith relationship
include working conditions; merit system and related matters such as the
examination, selection, recruitment, hiring, appraisal, training, reten-
tion, promotion, assignment, disciplining or transfer of employees;
directing, deploying, and utilizing the work force; classification plan
and salary determination for individual classes; mission, purposes,
objectives, and organization of the State; and facilities, methods, means,
and number of personnel required to conduct state programs.
The appropriate appointing power will consult upon request with employee
organization representatives in order to exchange information and views
on salary matters and employee benefits limited to a particular organiza-
tional, occupational, professional, or other specific grouping of
employees. The purpose of this consultation is solely to exchange
views and discuss alternatives.
The Governor's representative will meet and confer in good faith upon
request with official representatives of any employee organization which
has complied with State Personnel Board rules on employer-employee
relations. The amount of time and degree of effort expended to achieve
a mutual understanding by the Governor's representative in meeting and
conferring with employee representatives will be commensurate with the
number of members and the diversity of membership of the employee
organization involved.
A state employee who is an official representative of an employee
organization may use a reasonable amount of state time, as determined
by his appointing power, without loss of compensation or other benefits
for formally meeting and conferring with the Governor's representative
on matters within the scope of representation.
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Mutual Understandings
If, as a result of meeting and conferring in good faith, the Governor's
representative and employee organization representatives achieve a
mutual understanding, a written memorandum of understanding shall
be prepared. The Governor's representative shall present the memorandum
of understanding for final approval by the Cabinet before signing the
memorandum. Similarly, the employee organization representatives will
provide appropriate assurance that the memorandum reflects the views
of the organization's membership before signing the memorandum. As
appropriate, matters included in these approved and signed memoranda
shall be submitted to the Legislature either as part of the Governor's
budget or as recommended legislation. The Governor will support before
the Legislature those matters which have been recommended for adoption
as a result of the memoranda of understanding.
If, after meeting and conferring in good faith, the Governor's representa-
tive and the employee organization representatives are unable to achieve
a mutual understanding, the Governor's representative shall prepare a
memorandum describing the areas and extent of difference between his
position and that of the employee organization representatives. Such
memoranda will be made available to interested groups and individuals.
Departmental Employer-Employee Relations
As a part of the general effort to enhance the employer-employee relations
process in state service, every departmental director and all subordinate
managers are encouraged to provide a favorable climate for effective
employee representation within their particular organization. This entails
a continuation of past practices as well as renewed efforts to facilitate
and give meaning to the meet-and-confer process at all levels throughout
each department. Managers must recognize that they are the focal point
for effective employer-employee relations within the department. Managers
must be alert to employee relations problems and seek a satisfactory solu-
tion which reflects the needs of the public, the employees, and the state.
As the immediate representative of management, the supervisor has a
significant responsibility for employee relations in the day-by-day
operations of the organization. It is this relationship between the super-
visor and employee which is basic to the attainment of an overall suitable
working climate. A supervisor's effectiveness in communicating with
employees, in providing fair and equitable treatment to employees and
their representatives, in establishing suitable working conditions, and
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in recognizing and attempting to resolve employee complaints will make
a positive contribution to maintaining good employee relations in his
organization. Good employee relations make a significant contribution
to employee job satisfaction and morale.
Concomitant with department management's accountability for employee
relations is the responsibility for training of supervisory staff in this
specific area. Departments should provide training for their supervisory
staff on such subjects as interpersonal communication, motivation, leader-
ship, and similar human relations skills as well as in the rights and
obligations of management, employees, and employee organizations under
applicable employer-employee relations law and rules.
GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE
For state civil service employees, formalized grievance procedures
exist as a means of resolving problems which arise in the work situation.
Supervisors and managers should view grievances, not as an irritant,
but as an opportunity to deal with a complaint, real or imagined, of an
employee. Moreover, grievances should be resolved at the lowest
feasible level in the department and in the most expeditious manner
possible.
For certain types of grievances, even though the employee elects to
use the departmental grievance procedure and the appointing power
denies the grievance, the employee currently has a right of appeal
to the State Personnel Board. Illustrative of these appealable grievances
are: position classification; layoff procedure; merit salary adjustment
denial; sick leave denial; performance appraisal; and transfer.
For other types of grievances, the appointing power is currently the
final level of review. Essentially, these are grievances over working
conditions and related matters within the appointing power's discretion.
In order to strengthen the grievance resolution process, a level of review
beyond the appointing power is warranted under certain conditions.
This extradepartmental level of review will provide an independent
review of the grievance, including a new assessment of the facts, as
appropriate, of the particular situation. Accordingly, an employee who
is not satisfied with the decision on his grievance by his appointing
power may, within ten days after receiving such decision, request in
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writing that the appropriate agency secretary review and act on his
grievance. After reviewing the nature of the grievance, the agency
secretary will determine if he should accept and decide the grievance.
If he does not accept the grievance, he will so advise the employee
in writing. In such case, the decision of the appointing power is final.
If the agency secretary accepts the grievance he will issue a written
decision within 20 days of receipt of such grievance.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERN.
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-1-71
#93
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed three new members
and reappointed two other members to four-year-terms on the board
of the 48th District Agricultural Association (Great Western Exhibit
Center, Los Angeles).
Albert
The new members are Arthur C. Taucher, a Long Beach
businessman; Gary E. Graham, a Hacienda Heights service station
operator, and Mrs. Merrie Hathaway, a Santa Fe Springs catile rancher.
Reappointed were Jack P. Gonsalves, Hawaiian Gardens
developer and public relations consultant and Demos D. Shakarian,
a Downey dairy operator.
Taucher, 47, of 280 Corona Avenue, Long Beach, is active
in numerous civic organizations and horsemen's groups. He succeeds
Forest M. Berry of Lakewood, who has resigned.
Graham, 35, of 15568 Cristalino Street, Hacienda Heights,
succeeds David H. Zimmer of Montebello, whose term has expired.
Mrs. Hathaway, 25, of 11901 East Florence Street, Santa
Fe Springs, a livestock authority, is active in numerous cattlemen's
organizations. She succeeds George F. Thagard, Sr., of Downey, who
has resigned.
Gonsalves, 52 of 12217 East Carson Street, Hawaiian Gardens,
has served on the board since 1966, and Shakarian, 57, of 8413
Lexington Street, Downey, has been a director since 1964.
All are Republicans.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
######
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE RESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-1-71
#94
Governor Reagan's schedule for this week has been cleared so
he may devote the maximum amount of time necessary to present to the
legislature and the people of California the administration's proposals
for reforming welfare and Medi-Cal. The governor considers this program
to be the most significant and most important program he has presented
since his election in 1966.
The schedule of interest to the press follows:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3
8:00 a.m.
Briefing session by governor's staff for Capitol Press
Corps on entire program, Office Building #8, 714 P Street,
Room 760. (The hour was selected in order that those who
wish to fly to Los Angeles to cover the governor's Town
Hall speech can catch a 10:05 a.m. plane. Those attending
this session will not be permitted to leave until the
briefing concludes at approximately 9:30 a.m. Upon the
conclusion of the briefing, the governor's speech, the
message to the legislature and other back-up material will
be handed out, at which time all materials are considered
released. Pictures only; no sound.)
1:00 p.m.
Governor Reagan delivers to Town Hall in the Biltmore Bowl,
Los Angeles, the message he was not permitted to present
to a joint session of the legislature. (Television station
KTLA of Los Angeles will telecast the message live and has
offered to provide it live to other stations in California
or make a video-tape available for later broadcast. Text
of the speech, the message to the legislature, and other
materials will be available to the press in Los Angeles.)
3:00 p.m.
Briefing of invited editors and publishers from the
Sacramento area of the entire program by the governor and
department heads, Governor's Council Room, State Capitol.
THURSDAY, MARCH 4
10:00 a.m.
Briefing of invited editors and publishers from the Fresno
area of the entire program by the governor and department
heads, Del Webb Townhouse, Plaza Room, Fresno.
2:00 p.m.
Briefing of invited editors and publishers from the Bay
and North Coast areas, of the entire program by the governor
and department heads, Jack Tar Hotel, Gas Buggy Room,
San Francisco.
4:30 p.m.
Taping of "Newsmakers," KPIX, San Francisco. The show will
be telecast at 3:30 p.m., Sunday. Overnight - Los Angeles
FRIDAY, MARCH 5
10:00 a.m.
Briefing of invited editors and publishers from the San
Diego area of the entire program by the governor and de-
partment heads, Royal Inn, San Diego.
1:30 p.m.
Taping of "Press Conference," KNBC-TV, Burbank. The show
will be telecast at 6:30 p.m., Saturday.
2:35 p.m.
Briefing of invited editors and publishers from the
Los Angeles area on the entire program by the governor and
department heads, Statler Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles Room,
Los Angeles.
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERN(
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-1-71
Yellow Cab Company has said it can provide an airport limousine
to transport members of the press from Office Building No. 8 at 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday, to catch Western's flight leaving for Los Angeles at 10:05 a.m.
However, we need to know how many people would want this service
by 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Those utilizing this service would pay for it the same as the
normal airport limousine.
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-71
#95
Governor Ronald Reagan today sent the following telegram
to chairmen of the boards of supervisors in every California county:
"I want to personally assure you and the people of your
county that rumors to the effect that my welfare and Medi-Cal reform
program will increase the burden on county taxpayers are without any
foundation whatsoever. As you may know, my administration has assured
representatives of the County Supervisors Association of this fact
in discussing our reform program with them. As a matter of fact, most
counties will be able to effect actual savings, particularly in the
larger counties, if the legislature approves this program. Details
of this program will be released Wednesday. A copy of the specific
reforms we are proposing will be sent to you. I would appreciate
your comments on our proposal once you have had the opportunity to
review our program.
"Sincerely, Ronald Reagan, Governor of California"
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
MEMO TO THE Pl
SS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-71
#96
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today that he has signed the
following bills:
AB 1 - Badham
Provides, under certain conditions, for the
(Chapter 4)
establishment of trustee areas and the
election of a seven-member governing board
following annexation of a unified school
district to a community college district.
The bill provides that, following annexation,
voter disapproval of the establishment of
trustee areas shall void the annexation. The
bill is to be effective only for school
district elections held during 1970-71 school
year and is to have no force or effect after
July 1, 1971.
SB 15 - Teale
Continues in effect the requirement that the
(Chapter 2)
Department of Public Works remove snow from a
specified portion of former U.S. Route 40 in
the vicinity of Donner Lake.
SB 77 - Marler
Permits a combination of vehicles consisting
(Chapter 5)
of a motor truck and a logging dolly to exceed
a total length of 60 feet, but not to exceed
a total length of 65 feet.
SB 133 - Nejedly
Requires that the selling or giving away of
(Chapter 3)
any animal to any facility subject to the
Federal Animal Welfare Act be conditioned
upon compliance by such facility with the
provisions of the federal act. Also exempts
the giving or selling of cats to research
institutions subject to the provisions of
the Federal Animal Welfare Act from specified
provisions relating to the spaying or neutering
of cats.
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WAS
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-71
#97
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. Robert S. Tuttle
of Santa Rosa and reappointed Charles E. Wollery of Mt. Hermon to
four-year-terms on the Board of Dental Examiners in the Department
of Consumer Affairs.
Dr. Tuttle, 48, of 2603 Sunrise Drive, Santa Rosa, succeeds
Dr. James L. Bullard of El Cerrito, who did not seek reappointment.
Active in numerous dental organizations and civic affairs,
Dr. Tuttle is a former mayor and city councilman of Santa Rosa.
He is a Republican.
Woolery, 53, a writer and president of a gourmet foods company,
has served as a public member of the board since 1967.
He is a Republican. He lives at 18 Parkway, Mt. Hermon.
Members of the board are paid $25 per diem while on official
duty.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-71
#98
Got ernor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Rear Admiral
Leslie E. Gehres, U.S.N. (Ret.) to a four-year-term on the Board of
Governors of: the California Maritime Academy at Vallejo.
Admiral Gehres of 8001 Vista Drive, La Mesa has served
on the board since 1967. He is a Republican.
Governors of the academy are paid necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-71
#99
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Stanley M. Barnes of
Corcoran, a civil engineer and hydraulics expert, to a four-year-term
on the State Reclamation Board.
Barnes, 44, manager of water resources for the J. G. Boswell
Company, is the author of several technical works on water resources
and serves as a director and officer on numerous public districts
and water companies in Tulare, Kings, Kern and Fresno counties.
He also is active in several conservationist groups, including
the Sierra Club and is a sponsor of the Sempervirens Fund of
Conservation Associates.
He holds engineering degrees from Caltech and Stanford
University.
Barnes, a Republican, succeeds the late Frank R. Coit of
Fresno on the board.
He lives at 1017 Josephine Avenue, Corcoran.
Members of the board are paid $20 for each day in
attendance at meetings with the total salary not to exceed $1,000
annually.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
MEMO TO THE P. SS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-71
Governor Reagan will tape "NEWSMAKERS" at KNXT,
Los Angeles, at 9 p.m., Friday, March 5.
The show will be broadcast at 3 p.m., Sunday,
March 7.
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PB
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOF
RELEASE: Imme
ite
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-3-71
#100
Governor Ronald Reagan today proposed a sweeping reform of welfare
and Medi-Cal to assure that the truly needy receive the care they
require at a cost the taxpayers of California can afford.
In a lengthy message to the legislature, which the governor called
the "most detailed and specific" ever presented by a California chief
executive, he asked the legislators "to join with me in making this
the year that we put partisanship aside and get down to the business
of controlling the monster that welfare has become."
He outlined the details of his reform program in a speech to
Town Hall in Los Angeles the same address he was not permitted to
deliver before a joint session of the legislature.
The governor said the goals of the program are to:
--"Increase our assistance to the truly needy who have nowhere
else to turn to meet their basic needs."
--"Require those who are able to work to seek work, train for a
job or serve their community, if asked, as a reasonable condition for
receiving welfare."
--"Place Medi-Cal benefits on an equal footing with the health
benefits available to our working men and women who must pay their own
health care needs themselves."
--"Strengthen family responsibility as the basic element in our
society."
He called the program "fiscally responsible" which "meets the
requirements of a balanced budget while, at the same time attempting
to insure that, for the first time in history, no California welfare
family will have to subsist below the poverty level."
"In the development of every facet of this program, I have
insisted that these reforms cause no net shift in costs to the already
overburdened counties. I am confident that this will not happen, and
that most counties will be able to effect actual savings if the entire
program is adopted," he said.
Governor Reagan warned that the present welfare system-- which he
called "a $3 billion moral and administrative disaster" is following
"a road that can only lead to bankruptcy, unless we have the courage
to turn in another direction before it is too late.
"Now is the time, perhaps our last chance, to define goals and
assign purposes of our own to this aimless, goal-less federal program."
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#100
He told the legislators, "more than ever before the people want
welfare reformed, and they have a right to expect us to do it."
The governor said his program will accomplish a two-fold purpose:
"First, we must reduce the welfare growth rate by changes in eligibil-
ity determination and by a work and training program to move people
into private sector jobs. Second, we must close all possible loopholes
that lead to abuse."
He noted that today some 2.4 million Californians already are
receiving welfare and Medi-Cal benefits and warned that "if present
laws and regulations are not changed, California's welfare rolls could
swell by as much as 600,000 by July, 1972 raising the total welfare
population to 3 million persons.
"This would mean that one in every seven Californians would then
be on public assistance.
"The numbers are especially staggering," he said, "when you
consider that only 10 years ago the total welfare caseload in
California amounted to only 620,000.
"In addition to slowing the growth of welfare and Medi-Cal
dramatically, the reform program I am proposing will save at least
$600 million in total federal, state and county expenditures for public
assistance during fiscal 1971-72," he said.
The governor pointed out that "if the present unrealistic and
inequitable laws and regulations covering California's welfare system
were allowed to continue unchanged, based on current caseloads and
costs, the state's share of welfare would have to be $898 million
during the coming fiscal year."
He noted that the budget he has submitted for 1971-72 provides
approximately $677 million in general fund support for this purpose.
"Clearly, if the legislature does not act on welfare reform, our
people will face increased taxes---not only this year, but on into the
future, year after year after year."
He said that in addition to meeting the primary human goals of his
program, the welfare reforms he is proposing also "will save
$220 million in the general fund and will enable the state to operate
within the amount of funds budgeted for this purpose during 1971-72."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-3-71
#101
During the question and answer portion of this morning's press
briefing on welfare-Medi-Cal reform, Human Relations Secretary made
a statement in error that potential absent parents' contributions
were not included in savings estimates.
Here is the correct statement:
We have included in the welfare reform package an estimate of
increased absent parent contributions that will return $15 million to
the counties, $5 million to the state, and $20 million to the federal
government. This estimate is based upon raising the percentage of
contributing fathers from the present 16 percent to 28 percent by
providing an incentive to the counties of 75 percent of the non-federal
share of what they collect.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-5-71
#102
Governor Ronald Reagan today termed formation of a
bipartisan organization to support the sharing of federal revenues
with cities, counties and states a "most welcome and encouraging
development."
Creation of "Californians for Revenue-=haring," a state-
wide organization, was announced yesterday by co-chairman Leonard K.
Firestone, Los Angeles industrialist, a Republican; Jess M. Unruh of
Inglewood, educator and last year's Democratic candidate for governor;
and Holmes Tuttle, Southern California automobble dealer and co-
chairman of Governor Reagan's 1970 reelection campaign.
"It is a most welcome and encouraging development,"
Governor Reagan said, "when we find Californians of opposing partisan
faiths joining hands in support of a program to benefit all the
people.
"I commend them for their action and urge all Californians of
all political beliefs to join them in this movement.
"I am--and long have been--on record in full support of
the revenue-sharing concept. To become a reality, all Californians
must be made aware of what this will mean in terms of local government
costs and taxes---and let their representatives in Congress know
how they feel. That is what 'Californians for Revenue-sharing' has
been organized to do."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Colonel
Herbert R. Temple, Jr., as director of the Office of Emergency Services.
In his new post, Colonel Temple, a veteran of 24 years service with
the U.S. Army and the California Army National Guard, will direct
California's civil defense, emergency planning and disaster services
formerly known as the California Disaster Office.
Colonel Temple, 43, succeeds John J. McCoy of Riverside, who has
resigned to return to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, in the
$25,000 a year post.
Since November of 1970, Colonel Temple has served as military
assistant to Governor Reagan and commandant of the California Military
Academy, the training school for Army National Guard Officers in the
state.
He joined the administration as a military aide and special assistant
to the governor in 1968, taking leave from his position as vice president
and part-owner of the V. B. Morgan Co., a petroleum, chemical and ore
transportation company in Long Beach, California. Colonel Temple is a
Korean combat veteran of the 5th Regimental Combat team, 24th Infantry
Division. He has had service in a variety of staff and command positions
which include headquarters commandant, assistant chief of staff for
personnel and a battalion commander with the 40th Armored Division.
He is a graduate of the Company Officer and Career Officer Course
of the U.S. Army Armor School, Fort Knox, Kentucky, the U.S. Army Command
and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and other specialized
courses.
Colonel Temple and his wife Patricia live in Sacramento. He is a
Republican.
His appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced a grant of $77,800
in state and federal funds to create an independent "Select Committee on
Trial Court Delay" to examine California court delays and recommend
reforms to expedite judicial proceedings.
Creation of the new committee was proposed jointly by
Governor Reagan and California Chief Justice Donald R. Wright. The
project will be funded by the California Council on Criminal Justice,
the state's agency for administering anti-crime funds under the
Federal Omnibus Crime Control Act. The state's share of the grant
is $7,000.
The formal request for the funds was made by the State
Judicial Council, headed by Chief Justice Wright, Chairman and
supported by the governor.
Governor Reagan said that "the Select Committee will intensify
California's continuing efforts to improve and modernize its
judicial system, and it will concentrate on the problem of delay.
"I am also pleased to announce that I have submitted the
names of several outstanding laymen for membership on the committee.
Chief Justice Wright will name a nine-man committee, to be composed
of three judges, three lawyers and three laymen, and I will shortly
appoint a liaison member to the committee to represent the
Governor's Office. The Chief Justice will ask that the legislature
appoint two other liaison members---one from the Assembly and one
from the Senate. In this way, the three branches of state government
will be involved directly in a project of crucial importance to the
people of California."
Governor Reagan expressed thanks to both Senator Robert
Lagomarsino and Assemblyman John Briggs for their leadership and
encouragement in the promotion of this project.
This select Committee will provide an independent study of
California's trial court delay problems. It will be assisted by its
own professional staff, and a report with recommendations will be
made to the governor, the legislature and the Chief Justice early in
1972.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed eight members to
the new Advisory Committee on Physician's Assistant Programs.
The committee, created by 1970 legislation, will advise
the Board of Medical Examiners on matters pertaining to the
education of physicians and the approval of applicants to supervise
physician's assistants.
Chairman of the committee will be Dr. Paul J. Dugan, 41,
of 1432 Tiffany Circle, Roseville. He is a physician and member of
the State Board of Medical Examiners. He is a Republican.
Other members, who will serve at the pleasure of the
governor, are:
Dr. Michael T. B. Dennis, 28, 420 South Balsamina Way, Menlo
Park, director of the Physician's Assistant Program of the Stanford
University Medical Center, who will represent medical schools. He
is a Republican.
Dr. William E. Nerlich, 49, 1726 Allen Avenue, Glendale,
director of Graduate Training at the Los Angeles County-University of
Southern California Medical Center, who will represent educators.
He is a Republican.
Dr. Edgar J. Shoen, 45, Chief of the Department of Pediatrics,
Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Hospital, Oakland, who
will represent physicians. He is not affiliated with a political
party. His address is 2309 Bywood Drive, Oakland.
Dr. Lucie S. Young, 45, 1301 South Atlantic Boulevard,
Monterey Park, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Nursing
at California State College in Los Angeles. Mrs. Young will represent
registered nurses. She is not affiliated with a political party.
Jack R. Hammett, 50, 809 Presidio Drive, Costa Mesa,
Administrator of the Bristol Park Medical Group. He is a Republican.
Dr. Lulu Hassenplug, 67, 13928 Choco Road, Apple Valley, retired
Dean of the School of Nursing, University of California at Los Angeles.
She is a Democrat.
William J. Daggett, 43, 543 Hill Street, San Luis Obispo,
Medical Technical Assistant at the California Men's Colony, San Luis
Obispo. He is a Republican.
Committee members will receive per diem and expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Theodore J. Todd,
executive vice president of the Todd Ranch Company in Corona, to a
four year term on the Industrial Welfare Commission.
Todd, a Republican, has served on the commission since 1967.
He lives at 1039 East Grand Boulevard, Corona.
Commissioners are paid $25 for each day of official duty.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. Carl S. Dentzel,
director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, to the California
Heritage Preservation Commission.
Dr. Dentzel, who lives at 18930 Nordhoff Street, Northridge,
succeeds Miss Ruth I. Mahood of Inglewood, who has resigned.
He is a Democrat.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named George H. Shellenberger
a Beverly Hills businessman, to a four-year-term on the Cemetery
Board in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Shellenberger, a Republican, will succeed Rollin L. McNitt, Jr.
of Whittier, who has resigned, as a public member on the board.
He lives at 511 North Walden Drive, Beverly Hills.
Board members are paid $25 per diem while on official duty.
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GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
March 8, 1971
through
March 14, 1971
Monday, March 8
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, March 9
1:30 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, March 10
10:30 a.m.
Presentation of Easter Seal Child, Senate Chambers.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, March 11
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, March 12
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, March 13
Evening
Mexican American Chamber of Commerce Annual
Installation Dinner, Ambassador Hotel. Remarks.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, March 14
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named William H. Wilson, Santa Barbara
businessman and yachtsman, to an unexpired term on the Navigation and
Ocean Development Commission, subject to Senate confirmation.
Wilson, 47, a Republican, succeeds Frank M. Woods of San Francisco,
who has resigned. The term ends January 15, 1973.
Active in Santa Barbara civic affairs, Wilson, who operates a
state-wide chain of furniture stores, is a past commodore of the Santa
Barbara Yacht Club.
He lives at 1530 Roble Drive, Santa Barbara.
Commissioners are paid expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment of
Dr. Theodore A. Montgomery, chief of the Program of Preventative Medicine
in the Department of Public Health, as chairman of the Review Committee
for the Regional Dialysis Centers.
Dr. Montgomery, a Democrat, has served as chairman of the committee
since 1969. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California
School of Medicine and holds a masters degree in public health from
Harvard University.
He lives at 30 Parrasus Road, Berkeley.
The chairman serves for two years and receives necessary travel
expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Albert A. Marino of
Auburn and Dr. William C. Herrick of E1 Cajon to four-year terms on the
State Board of Public Health.
Marino, a Democrat, is chief of Placer County's Environmental Health
and Quality Control. He has served on the board since 1967. His home
is at 135 Palmyra Street, Auburn.
Dr. Herrick, a Republican, is a pathologist with Ball-Herrick
Laboratories in La Mesa and is president of the San Diego County Medical
Society and an assistant clinical professor at the University of
California's San Diego Medical School. He has also been a member of the
board since 1967. He lives at 533 Aldwych Road, El Cajon.
Board members serve for four years and are paid actual traveling
expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Donald W. Peacock, 46, of
San Francisco, a government contract sales supervisor with Kaiser
Aluminum in Oakland, as Chief of the Bureau of Repair Services in the
Department of Consumer Affairs.
Peacock, a Republican, succeeds Raymond M. Reid, Jr., of Sacramento,
who has resigned, in the $19,512 per year post.
Employed by Kaiser industries for the past eight years, Peacock has
held a number of executive posts in marketing, inventory controls,
purchasing, sales and administration.
He holds a degree in Economics and History from the University of
Wisconsin and has completed graduate work in business administration at
Miami University and Mexico City College.
Peacock is unmarried. He lives at 659 Ninth Avenue, San Francisco.
He will serve at the pleasure of the governor and his appointment
is subject to Senate confirmation,
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Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Walter N. McCormack of
Nevada City and Everett L. Bixler of Grass Valley to four-year terms
on the 17th District Agricultural Association (Nevada County Fair).
McCormack, a Republican, is superintendent of Nevada County Buildings
and Grounds. He has served on the board since 1967. His address is
Box 102, Nevada City.
Bixler, a Democrat, is a cattle breeder. He has been a member of
the board since 1959. His address is Route 1, Box 36, Grass Valley.
Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Josiah C. Jenkins and
John L. Jordano, both of Santa Barbara, to four-year terms on the board
of the 19th District Agricultural Association (Santa Barbara National
Horse Show and Flower Show).
Jenkins, vice president of a saddle company, and Jordano, a grocery
chain owner and horseman, have both served on the board since 1967.
Both are Republicans.
Jenkins lives at 4555 Atascadero Drive and Jordano lives at
3750 Foothill Boulevard, Santa Barbara,
Board members receive necessary expenses,
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Los Angeles City Engineer
Lyall A. Pardee to fill an unexpired term on the_TOPICS Advisory
Committee (Urban Area Traffic Operations).
Pardee, 67, will fill the unexpired term of John B. Wentz of
Riverside, who has resigned. The term ends January 13, 1974.
Pardee, who began his career with the City of Los Angeles
as a draftsman and junior civil engineer, has served as City Engineer
since 1955.
He has served as a technical advisor to the State Department of
Public Works in the establishment of the California State Freeway
and Expressway System and in a similar capacity to the Advisory Committe
on Street and Highway Deficiencies.
He has received numerous honors including the 1957 "Samuel A.
Greeley National Service Award," the 1963 American Public Works
Association award as one of the "Top Ten Public Works Men-of-the-Year,"
the 1969 "Engineer of the Year" award of the Institute for the
Advancement of Engineering and the 1970 "Distinguished Service Award"
of the National Clay Pipe Institute.
Pardee, a Republican, is active in numerous local, state and
national professional organizations, including the National Society
of Professional Engineers.
He is married and has three children and six grandchildren.
The family home is at 9713 East Flower Street, Bellflower.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
John S. Tooker, 36, as Deputy Director of the newly-created State
Office of Planning and Research.
Tooker, who has served as a special assistant to Resources
Secretary Norman P. Livermore since 1968, will receive an annual
salary of $19,500.
The new office, created by 1970 legislation, will serve the
governor's staff on long-range planning and research matters and
will prepare and update a report on state-wide environmental policies
and goals.
Tooker joined the administration after five years of service
with the Agricultural and Natural Resources Department of the Los
Angeles Chamber of Commerce, during which he held the posts of
manager and assistant manager of the department, secretary of the
agricultural committee and secretary of the Water and Power Committee
and Southern California Water Conference.
He previously was involved in commercial poultry, sheep and
cattle operations.
A native of Alameda, Tooker studied pre-veterinary medicine
and agriculture at the University of California at Berkeley and
earned his degree in animal science from UC-Davis.
He is active in the UC-Davis Alumni Association and is a
member of the Advisory Committee on Curricula of the School of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, a member of the Inter-
governmental Board on Electronic Data Processing and a member of the
American Chamber of Commerce Executive Association.
Tooker and his wife Joan have one son. They live at 324 Bello
Rio Way, Sacramento. He is a Republican.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointments
of Edward B. Leduc of Turlock and Joe Hart of Modesto to four-year-terms
on the 38th District Agricultural Association (Stanislaus County Fair).
Leduc, owner of an automobile agency, lives at 900 Yosemite Drive
Turlock, and Hart, a retired dairyman and civic leader, lives at 2625
Maze Boulevard, Modesto. Both have served on the board since 1967.
Both are Republicans.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will provide
$13 million in state emergency funds for repairs to public facilities
damaged by the recent Southern California earthquake.
The emergency bill (AB-25) authored by Assemblywoman Pauline
Davis (D-Portola), extends the same relief to public agencies with
facilities suffering earthquake damage that is extended during floods
and other natural disasters.
Under the bill, local agencies can file claims for repair and
restoration of damaged facilities through June 30, 1971.
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Press Relea se #119 dated today:
State emergency funds for repairs to public
facilities damaged by the Southern California
earthquake include $11.5 million in actual
funding and $1.5 million budgeted. $13 million
total
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Governor Ronald Reagan will sign Assembly Bill AB-25 (Pauline Davis,
D-Portola), which provides state funds for southern California earth-
quake relief at 4:10 p.m. today in his office.
Photo coverage is invited.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today approved Federal OEO grants totaling
$311,890 to the Quechan Tribal Council in Imperial County.
The funds will be administered by the Fort Yuma Community Action
Agency on the Quechan Indian Reservation and in Winterhaven, Bard and
Fort Yuma to develop business opportunities and for an alcohol and
drug abuse prevention and rehabilitation program.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Gaylen R. Jackson of
Lompoc and Terrance W. Sheehy of Santa Maria to four-year-terms on the
board of the 37th District Agricultural Association (Santa Barbara County
Fair).
Jackson, secretary-treasurer of the Lompoc Record, has served
on the board since 1967. He lives at 212 North Z Street, Lompoc. He
is a Republican.
Sheehy, a rancher, has been a director since 1959. He lives at
2835 Lorencita Drive, Santa Maria. He is a Democrat.
Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today has nominated San Luis Obispo
County Superior Court Judge William P. Clark, Jr., as Associate Justice
of the Court of Appeal, Second odlate District, Division One.
Judge Clark, 39, is the first San Luis Obispo County jurist to
be nominated to the higher court. His nomination has been submitted
to the Commission on Judicial Appointments for confirmation.
He would succeed Justice Roy Gustafson of Oxnard, who has
retired.
Judge Clark is a fourth generation Californian whose father
and grandfather were cattlemen and law enforcement officers. His
grandfather, the late Robert E. Clark, served as sheriff of Ventura
County and as a U. S. Marshal for Southern California. His father,
William Clark, Sr., was undersheriff of Ventura County and Chief of
Police of Oxnard.
Named to the Superior Court bench in San Luis Obispo County by
Governor Reagan in 1969, Judge Clark was re-elected to the bench in 1970
by a vote of 3 to 1.
Prior to his appointment he served as executive secretary and
cabinet secretary to Governor Reagan and as a member of the State
Government Reorganization Task Force.
He joined the Reagan administration after 10 years in the
practice of law in Oxnard.
Judge Clark attended Stanford University, the Loyola University
law School and the California Trial Judges College.
He is a member of the Villanova Alumni Association, Stanford
Associates, the California Cattlemen's Association, Rancheros Vistadores,
the State Bar of California and the American Bar Association.
Judge Clark lives on a cattle ranch near Shandon with his wife
Joan and their five children and commutes to San Luis Obispo in his
own airplane.
Associate justices receive an annual salary of $40,076.
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Governor Ronald Reagan has nominated San Mateo County Superior
Court Judge Robert F. Kane as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal,
First Appellate District, Division Two.
Judge Kane, 44, would succeed Justice James R. Agee of Berkeley,
who has retired.
The nomination has been submitted to the Commission on Judicial
Appointments for confirmation.
Named to the San Mateo County Superior Court in 1968, Judge
Kane had practiced law in the county since 1952.
He is a member of the San Mateo County Bar Association, the
State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, Phi Alpha Delta
Legal Fraternity, the International Society of Barristers and other
professional organizations.
He has attended Menlo Junior College and the University of
Southern California and is a graduate of San Mateo Junior College
and the University of San Francisco Law School.
Judge Kane is married and has five children. The family home
is in San Mateo.
He is a Republican.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Harold B. Parker, an Ojai
contractor and rancher, and reappointed Michael J. Griffin, a Ventura
cattleman, to four-year-terms on the board of the 31st District
Agricultural Association (Ventura County Fair).
Parker, a Republican, succeeds Mrs. Pauline Bee of Ojai whose
term has expired.
Active in livestock, farm and equestrian groups, he is a
member of the Ventura County Sheriff's Posse and Rescue Unit,
Rancheros Vistadores, the Ventura County Farm Bureau, the Council of
California Growers, the California Cattlemen's Association and the
American National Cattlemen's Association.
He lives at 2243 Los Encinos Road, Ojai with his wife Francisca
and their four children.
Griffin, who is also active in livestock and farm groups, is
a leader and advisor in the 4-H Club Council. He has served on the
board since 1967.
A resident of Ventura, his address is 1275 West Main Street.
He is a Republican.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today set July 20 as the date for holding
a special election to fill the 27th district state Senate seat vacated
by George E. Danielson earlier this year.
Danielson resigned from his Senatepost after his election to
Congress (29th District).
The governor signed a proclamation setting the special election
date and filed it with the secretary of state this morning. A primary
election will be held in the district June 22 four Tuesdays ahead of
the special election, as required by law.
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Governor Ronald Reagan issued the following statement today
on the death of Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League:
"The death of Whitney Young is a tragic loss to all men who
believe in freedom and the dignity of the individual. He was a great
humanitarian who labored long and hard to lift the aspirations of the
less fortunate and help them find their way into the life of the nation.
His loss will be felt not only by his fellow Americans but by others
beyond our borders to whom his efforts held the promise of hope."
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Governor Ronald Reagan today called for "urgency consideration"
of Assembly Bill 579, introduced by Assemblyman Robert C. Cline, Woodland
Hills, which would augment the Cal-Vet Disaster Indemnity Fund. The
fund, established in 1956, has been depleted through payment of claims
on Cal-Vet homes arising from the recent San Fernando Valley earthquake.
California's Military & Veterans Code, Section 989 provides
indemnification from the Farm and Home Fund for damages in excess of
$100 to Cal-Vet properties, caused by uninsured hazards, including
earthquake.
The section, enacted in 1956 to alleviate hardships caused by
the disastrous Marysville-Yuba City floods of the winter of 1955-56,
has saved many California veterans from financial disaster.
Since then, similar assistance has been provided to Cal-Vet
contract holders at the time of the Baldwin Hills dam break in 1963,
the Humboldt County floods in 1964, and 1970s Santa Rosa earthquake.
"The February 9 earthquake in Southern California has caused
damage to 517 Cal-Vet properties," the governor said. "These range
from five cases of total destruction to minimal damage. Estimates of
total damage are approaching the million dollar mark.
"Of the million dollars authorized in 1956 only $247,000
remained in the fund the morning the earthquake rocked the Van Nuys
area," the governor continued. "It is urgent that Assemblyman Cline's
bill be heard before legislative financial committees ahead of other
measures, so that the state can fulfill its obligation to its Cal-Vet
contract holders."
Governor Reagan also pointed out that should another disaster
strike California in the immediate future, Cal-Vet property owners
would have their properties promptly repaired or replaced. Funds left
over from an augmentation of the Cal-Vet Disaster Indemnity Fund
authorized at this time would be held in reserve to ease the burden
of a future calamity.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Stanley W. McDonald, a
Petaluma banker and rancher, to fill an unexpired term on the board of
the Fourth District Agricultural Association (Sonoma-Marin District
Fair) and reappointed Henry E. Tomasini and Robert W. Mackey, both of
Petaluma, to four-year terms on the board.
McDonald, assistant vice president of the Bank of Marin, will fill
the unexpired term of William F. Nave, Sr., of San Rafael, who has
resigned. The term ends January 15, 1972.
Active in civic affairs, McDonald is a member of the Wilson School
Board of Governors, the Petaluma Chamber of Commerce Dairy Committee
and is a director of the 4-H Dairy Heifer Placement Program.
He lives at 1000 Chileno Valley Drive in Petaluma.
Tomasini, executive vice president and manager of the Northbay
Federal Savings and a cattle rancher, has served on the board since
1967. His address is General Delivery, Nicasio.
Mackey, a Petaluma attorney, has also served on the board since
1967. He lives at 1705 Clairmont Court, Petaluma.
All three men are Republicans.
Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the state will join with
a private firm of consulting geologists in the preparation of a
comprehensive statewide urban geology plan.
"It is our hope," said Governor Reagan, "that through this
statewide effort we can further alert Californians, and particularly
public agencies, to the urgency of taking geology into account in
planning for the future use of California's lands.
"Last month's earthquake in San Fernando taught us that although
good engineering can bring loss of life down to a minimum, good
planning--taking into account the materials and forces of the earth
itself--can lessen loss of life and property."
The study will be the joint responsibility of the State
Division of Mines and Geology and Woodward-Lundgren & Associates of
Oakland. An agreement with the consultants was signed Wednesday.
Two-thirds of the cost of the new study--$105,000--will be
paid by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through
the State Office of Planning and Research. The $52,000 balance will be
funded by the State of California from existing funds in the Division
of Mines and Geology budget. Woodward-Lundgren & Associates will
receive $87,500 for their role in preparing the plan.
Focus of the study will be to determine, using a multi-discipline
approach, those areas having the greatest present and potential urban
geology problems. It will develop the best means of presenting
geologic data for use by planners and others involved in urban
development, and it will establish priorities for the solution of the
problems, taking into account the various agencies and groups with
geological capabilites.
State personnel assigned to the project will provide geological,
geophysical, and seismological expertise; Woodward-Lundgren & Associates
will also provide geologists, geophysicists, and seismologists, as well
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Results of the study will complement a similar environmental
study underway in the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay area.
Two federal agencies--HUD and the U. S. Geological Survey--are
cooperating in that project.
State Geologist Wesley G. Bruer, whose organization will direct
the development of the plan, emphasized that earthquakes are not the
only geologic problem the state has.
"We must take into account the propensity of our hillsides to
slide, the eating away of our coastline by erosion, the loss of our
beaches, the subsidence of our valleys, the ever-present possibility
of destructive seismic sea waves--even of volcanic eruptions," he
said.
The study will be completed by the end of the year.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation that will
permit the State School Building Aid Fund to loan the Fremont Unified
School District in Alameda County $5.3 million for construction of
needed high school facilities.
The bill (SB 178) was introduced to permit the district to
meet an increased enrollment in the 9th through 12th grades which
resulted from population growth.
The governor signed the bill at a brief ceremony in his
office attended by Assembly Speaker Pro-Tem Carlos Bee (D-Hayward),
co-author of the legislation.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today approved federal Office of
Economic Opportunity (OEO) grants totaling $322,377 for community
action programs in El Dorado and Placer Counties.
A grant of $165,400 will be administered by the El Dorado County
Board of Supervisors for community development programs that include
family planning and an alcoholic rehabilitation program at South Lake
Tahoe.
A grant of $156,977 will be administered by the Placer
Community Action Council for head start, pre-school, family planning
and senior citizen programs.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Loran D. Archer,
Coordinator of State Alcoholism Programs, as Executive Officer of the
new Office of Alcohol Program Management.
The office, created by 1970 legislation, will develop and
implement a comprehensive, uniform plan for the prevention, treatment
and control of alcoholism throughout the state and will coordinate
alcoholism programs conducted by state agencies with the federal
government.
Archer, 41, a Democrat, will receive an annual salary of $19,512.
He began his career in state government in 1956 as a vocational
rehabilitation counselor in the California Department of Education and
has held a number of executive posts including that of State
Administrator of the California Department of Social Welfare Community
Work and Training Program.
In 1965, he became a program consultant on alcoholism in the
State Department of Public Health and helped to plan and develop the
Department of Rehabilitation's Comprehensive Diagnostic Evaluation
and Rehabilitation Program for Alcoholics in Sacramento. He also
served as director and administrator of the Sacramento Alcoholism
Center during its development.
In 1967, he was named State Administrator of the Alcoholic
Rehabilitation Section and two years later was given the additional
duties of chief of Program Review and Development for the Department
of Rehabilitation.
He was appointed to his present post in the Human Relations
Agency to coordinate statewide alcoholism programs in April of 1970.
Archer, a native of San Bernardino, holds a degree in
recreational therapy from the University of California at Los Angeles
and has completed graduate training in rehabilitation counseling at
San Francisco State College.
He is active in numerous local, state and national professional
health and rehabilitation organizations.
His home is at 4409 Hackberry Lane, Carmichael.
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GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
March 15, 1971
through
March 21, 1971
Monday, March 15
10:30 a.m.
Brief appearance at legislative press conference,
Room 1190, State Capitol.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, March 16
10:30 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, March 17
10:30
Presentation of Medal of Valor Awards, Governor's
Office.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, March 18
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, March 19
Regents meeting, UC Extension, San Francisco.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, March 20
7:30 p.m.
California Republican Assembly Annual Convention
Banquet, Los Angeles Hilton Hotel.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, March 21
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Miss Kay Riddle, 32,
of San Francisco, a former special assistant to the Director of the
Peace Corps, to the California Women's Board of Terms and Parole.
Miss Riddle, a Republican, will succeed Mrs. Lorene Cole of
Los Angeles, whose term has expired, in the $10,710 per year post.
A graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a degree
in Citizenship and Public Affairs, Miss Riddle served as an assistant
to the Director of the Peace Corps from October 1969 to February of
1970.
She also has served as an administrative secretary to the
Republican Governors Association and is currently assistant to the vice
president of a development company.
Miss Riddle lives at 2 Casa Way, San Francisco.
Members of the Board serve for four-year-terms.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Charles S. Stevens, Jr., a Santa Barbara attorney, to the Santa
Barbara County Superior Court bench.
Stevens, 57, a Republican, succeeds Judge C. Douglas Smith,
who has retired. He will receive an annual salary of $33,396.
A former Deputy District Attorney of Santa Barbara County,
Stevens has practiced in Santa Barbara since 1946.
He attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is
a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and earned his
law degree from U.C.'s Hastings College of the Law.
Stevens is a member of the American Bar Association, the State
Bar of California, the Santa Barbara County Bar Association, Phi Delta
Phi legal fraternity, the University Club of Santa Barbara and is a
former member of the Board of Governors of Hastings College of the
Law.
He and his wife Patricia have one daughter. The family home
is in Santa Barbara.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Max Wilcox, Jr., 50,
a Richmond attorney, to the Contra Costa County Superior Court. He
succeeds Judge Samuel Conti, who has been elevated to a federal
court.
Wilcox, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of
$33,396.
A member of the firm of Tinning and DeLap, Wilcox has
practiced law in Richmond since 1949 and served as City Attorney
of El Cerrito from 1965 to April of 1970.
Active in civic affairs, he is a director of the Contra Costa
Industrial Development Association, and is a member of the Richmond
Red Cross Chapter, the Salvation Army of Richmond, the Green Cross,
the Contra Costa County Tuberculosis Association, United Bay Area
Crusade, the Boy Scouts and the Richmond Chamber of Commerce.
He also is a member of the American Bar Association, the
State Bar of California, the Contra Costa County Bar Association,
the Richmond Bar Association and the American Judicature Society.
Wilcox is a graduate of the University of California and
earned his law degree from Boalt Hall.
He and his wife Jeanne have five children. The family home
is in Orinda.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed James H. Piatt,
Pomona attorney, to the Pomona Judicial District Municipal Court
bench.
Piat, 37, a Republican, succeeds Judge Charles Vogel, who
has been elevated to the Los Angeles County Superior Court. He will
receive an annual salary of $30,724.
A partner in the firm of Roberts and Piatt, he has
practiced law in Pomona since 1963.
Piatt is a member of the State Bar of California, the Pomona
Valley Bar Association, the Pomona Valley Estate Planning Council, the
Pomona Chamber of Commerce, the Pomona Valley Historical Society and
has served as a member of the Pomona City Council's "Little Hoover
Commission" from 1966 to 1968.
He is a native of Pomona, a graduate of Pomona College and
the University of California at Los Angeles Law School.
Piatt and his wife Patricia have five children.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Court Commissioner
Frank Baffa to the Inglewood Judicial District Municipal Court.
Baffa, 44, a Democrat, succeeds Judge Stephen Stothers who has
been elevated to the Los Angeles County Superior Court. He will receive
an annual salary of $30,724.
He has practiced law in Southern California since 1955 and has
served as Commissioner of the Inglewood Judicial District Municipal
Court since 1968.
Baffa is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the
Inglewood District Bar Association and is a member of the Inglewood
Library Board,
He was graduated from the University of Southern California in
1951 and earned his law degree from USC in 1955.
Baffa and his wife Patricia have four children. The family home
is in Los Angeles.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named San Diego County Deputy District
Attorney Richard H. Bein to the newly-created El Cajon Judicial District
Municipal Court.
Bein, 38, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of $30,724.
A member of the San Diego County District Attorney's Office since
1962, he has served as chief of its Appellate Training Division since
1966,
He is a member of the Judicial Process Task Force of the California
Council on Criminal Justice and is active in the State Bar of California,
the American Bar Association and the San Diego County Bar Association.
Bein is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois
and earned his law degree from the University of California at
Los Angeles.
His home is in La Mesa.
The court was created by 1970 legislation.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"I would like this morning to give you a brief report on our
welfare and Medi-Cal reform proposals.
"The response from the public has been overwhelmingly in favor
of our program as outlined in my original message to the legislature
on March 3rd. As a matter of fact, we have received about 500
telegrams and more than 2,000 letters and they reflect almost unanimous
support.
"With a few exceptions (both pro and con) county officials have
withheld comment until they can thoroughly study this reform. Their
specific questions largely can be answered by the bills introduced
yesterday.
"Copies of the message have been sent to all the other
governors. And legislators from other states who have requested copies
of the message will also receive the legislation for their study.
The state of New York, as an example, has expressed great interest in
this plan and, according to press reports, has already begun to move
along the lines of some of our proposals.
"As you know, HEW Secretary Richardson has previously pledged
his support. Undersecretary Veneman has followed suit and has requested
a full briefing at the earliest possible time.
"In response to numerous requests, Congressman Holifield,
dean of the California delegation, has called a meeting of the entire
delegation to receive a briefing next week. On that same trip, our
people will attend a day-long meeting with the staff of the Senate
Finance Committee.
"In short, it is now up to the California legislature to act.
The people, the counties, the other states and the federal government
are watching closely."
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Governor Reagan will give brief remarks
to the new Teacher Licensing Commission at
10 a.m., Wednesday, March 17, in the Governor's
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named James A. Panero, Jr.,
a Sonora service station owner and reappointed Thomas W. Borden, a
Sonora garden tool manufacturer, to four-year-terms on the 29th
District Agricultural Association (Mother Lode Fair).
Panero, a Democrat, who lives at 100 East Livingston Street,
succeeds William Clever of Columbia, whose term has expired.
Borden, a Republican, has served on the board since 1967.
He lives at 97 East Jackson Street.
Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Norman E. Watts, Jr., of
San Anselmo to fill an unexpired term on the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges and reappointed four members to four-year-
terms. The appointments must be approved by a two-thirds vote of the
Senate.
Members reappointed by the governor are:
James C. Dodd, 47, an architect, of 2741 Fruitridge Road,
Sacramento. He is a Democrat.
Harmon K. Howard, 55, vice president of Howard Shipping
Terminal, Oakland, who lives at 2373 Walnut Boulevard, Walnut Creek.
He is a Republican.
Mrs. Joan King, 40, a housewife and civic leader, of 306
Old Ranch Road, Bradbury. She is a Republican.
Mrs Myrtle Wiens, 63, a retired educator, of 272 East Putnam
Avenue, Porterville. She is a Republican.
All four members have served since 1968.
Watts, 28, vice president of a California-based land
development company, succeeds Judge Harold Wolters of Grass Valley,
who has been elected to the Nevada County Superior Court. His term
expires January 15, 1974.
Watts has an extensive background in public relations
and has served as a staff assistant to two congressmen. He is a
Republican.
He and his wife, Jill, have one son. They live at 28
Woodside Drive, San Anselmo.
Board members are paid expenses.
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Governor Reagan will award the State Medal
of Valor to 11 state employees during ceremonies
at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, in his office.
The employees--nine from the Department of
Conservation, one from the Department of Mental
Hygiene and one from the Military Department--
received the citations for acts of heroism that
resulted in the saving of lives.
Press coverage is invited.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today presented the State Medal of
Valor, California's highest decoration, to 11 State employees for acts
of heroism "extending far above and beyond the call of duty or service."
Nine of the medals went to Department of Conservation
employees. They are James. D. Dougherty of Auburn, assistant state
forest ranger; Kenneth Hamilton, Loomis, fire apparatus engineer;
Gerald Quigley, Oroville, fire apparatus engineer; James C. Mower,
Rodeo, forest fire fighter; Jack E. Campbell, Foresthill, assistant
state forest ranger; George O. McGuire, Sunnymead, fire apparatus
engineer; Larry M. Reger, El Granada, fireman; Delbert E. Tate,
Riverside, fire captain, and Donald Woods, Riverside, fire captain.
The other two medal winners are Charles E. Fitzpatrick of
Auburn, a recreation therapist in the Department of Mental Hygiene,
and Sergeant Richard M. Estigoy of Dinuba, a member of the California
Air National Guard.
Their successful rescue of a man trapped in the foul air of a
deep abandoned mine shaft near Foresthill on June 19, 1970, earned the
medals for Dougherty, Hamilton, Quigley, Mower and Campbell.
McGuire and Tate received medals for their rescue of two
workers who were buried in the collapse of an earth trench at
Sunnymead on March 18, 1968.
Reger was cited for his part in the rescue of two youths
from a 250 foot cliff on the San Mateo County coast March 27, 1970.
Woods was honored for saving the lives of a woman and a
young man who were trapped by a forest fire in Southern California
on August 2, 1970.
Fitzpatrick was awarded the medal and citation for the rescue
of a young man who suffered a seizure while swimming in the American
River on May 16, 1970.
Sergeant Estigoy, a member of the 144th Consolidated Aircraft
Maintenance Squadron, was cited for saving a baby from a burning
automobile on June 13, 1970 near Madera.
Participating in today's ceremonies in the Governor's Office
were Major General Glenn C. Ames, commander of the California National
Guard; James Stearns, director of the Department of Conservation, and
Dr. James Lowry, director of the Department of Mental Hygiene.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Assistant District
Attorney Don A. Turner to a newly-created San Bernardino County
Superior Court.
Turner, 55, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of
$33,396.
A veteran of more than 16 years in the San Bernardino District
Attorney's office, Turner has served as Assistant District Attorney since
1958.
He is a graduate of Pasadena Junior College and the University
of California at Berkeley and earned his law degree from Georgetown
University School of Law in Washington, D. C. after World War II
service as a Naval officer in the Pacific.
Turner is a member of the State Bar of California, the San
Bernardino County Bar Association and the American Judicature Society.
He and his wife Helen have two children. The family home is
in San Bernardino.
The court was created by 1970 legislation.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named three new members to the
Water
California Regional/ Quality Control Board for the Central Coastal Region.
GIASER
They are James C. Glasser, vice president of a Monterey real
estate firm; Floyd M. Grigory, a San Ardo rancher, and Dr. Alfred
Ebeling, Professor of Zoology at the University of California in
Santa Barbara.
Glasser, 37, of 3454 Trevis Way, Carmel, succeeds Jackson D.
Brewer of Carmel as a public member of the board. He is a Republican.
Grigory, 47, who is active in civic affairs and conservationist
organizations, will succeed Alfred .Bonturi of Hollister, who has
resigned. Grigory, a Republican, will represent agriculture. His
address is P. O. Box 173, San Ardo.
Dr. Ebeling, 39, of 806 Fawn Place, Santa Barbara, will succeed
William H. Smart of Greenfield, whose term has expired. He will serve
as representative of recreation and wildlife. He is a Republican.
Board members are paid expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today approved a $2,273,271 Office of
Economic Opportunity federal grant for San Diego County.
The funds will be administered by the Community Action Agency
of San Diego County Inc. for a variety of programs in both urban and
rural areas that range from job training and development programs to
adult classes in nutrition and food purchase and preparation.
Other programs include pre-vocational training, family planning,
youth development, senior citizens' opportunities, the location of low-
cost housing for the poor and an alcoholics' rehabilitation project.
In announcing approval of the program, Edwin Meese III, the
governor's executive assistant, said that the San Diego CAA is forming
four neighborhood corporations to "generate the maximum feasible
participation of the poor in the decision-making process and local
program implementation."
Meese, in a letter to H. Rodger Betts, regional director of the
federal Office of Economic Opportunity, noted that the extensive urban
and rural geographic area served by the San Diego Community Action
Agency
"has, in the past, made functional coordination of available
resources extremely difficult to administer." He said the creation of
the four neighborhood corporations will help meet this problem.
Meese said, "Financial weaknesses of the past have been resolved
to the satisfaction of the State Office of Economic Opportunity,
together with built-in controls to prevent future problems.
"The administrative staff appear to be qualified and capable of
acceptable program direction. A comprehensive training and reference
manual has been prepared and distributed to the members of the neighbor-
hood corporation boards. And, State OEO has provided assistance where
possible to achieve these goals."
Meese's letter also said, "Cooperation between the executive
Community
staff of the San Diego
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Action Agency and State OEO has been
excellent. Discussions with elected city and county officials, together
with their administrative staffs, indicate a very good working relation-
ship with the San Diego CAA. Cooperation and a concerted effort to
prevent duplication of services between city, county, and the San Diego
CAA appear to be paramount in their joint considerations.
"We have been assured of future cooperation by all concerned to
effectively deal with the problems of this county," Meese said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has arranged a
meeting between federal officials and Los Angeles-area officials
and citizens to help expedite immediate federal assistance for
victims of the recent earthquake in Southern California.
"I am very pleased that we have been able to arrange this
meeting and am confident it will help cut red tape so that victims
of the earthquake can be reassured that government is doing all it
can possibly do to help them," he said.
"My office is acting in a liaison capacity between Los Angeles
officials and citizens and the federal government to make sure that
all available assistance can be provided.
"This type of close cooperation is essential and reaffirms the
spirit of mutual assistance that governmental agencies at all levels
expressed immediately following the earthquake," the governor said.
The Los Angeles group will be headed by Councilman Louis Nowell,
who met with Governor Reagan last week to discuss problems arising
from the earthquake.
Nowell and other Los Angeles-area authorities and citizens will
meet with Caspar W. Weinberger, deputy director of the Office of
Management and Budget, to discuss the role the federal government can
play in providing immediate assistance to earthquake victims, the
governor said.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named San Joaquin County
Sheriff Michael N. Canlis to the California Emergency Council.
The veteran law enforcement official succeeds retired San
Francisco Police Chief Thomas J. Cahill on the council, which advises
the governor during emergencies and disasters.
Canlis, a Democrat, will represent law enforcement on the
council.
A veteran of 32 years with the San Joaquin County Sheriff's
Department, he has served as sheriff-coroner since 1960.
His activities as a peace officer and community leader have
brought him numerous honors and he is active in scores of local, state,
national and international professional law enforcement organizations.
He also is a director of the California Crime Technological
Research Foundation, the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation's
Police Foundation, and several crime and law enforcement commissions
of the U. S. Attorney General and the State of California.
Canlis is a graduate of Stockton College and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation's National Academy in Washington, D. C.
He will serve at the pleasure of the governor.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Wendell W. Witter of
San Francisco and Dr. William McColl of West Covina to eight-year-
terms as trustees of the California State Colleges and appointed
Mrs. Winifred H. Lancaster of Santa Barbara to fill an unexpired term
on the board which ends in 1977.
Witter, 60, a member of the Coordinating Council for Higher
Education, is a partner and member of the board of Dean Witter and
Company. Last year, as president of the University of California
Alumni Association, he served on the Board of Regents.
He will succeed Theodore Meriam of Chico whose term has
expired.
Witter lives at 2733 Broderick Street, San Francisco. He
is a Republican.
Dr. McColl, 40, an orthopedic surgeon, is president of the
State Board of Public Health. He is a former college All-American
who financed his medical education by playing professional football
with the Chicago Bears.
Among other honors, he received the 1966 Scroll of Achievement
from the National Pro-Football Hall of Fame and in 1964 was named
by the U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the nation's "Ten
Most Outstanding Young Men."
Dr. McColl and his wife Barbara have six children. They
live at 1333 South Hillward Avenue, West Covina. He is a Republican.
Mrs. Lancaster, 60, a member of the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges, will fill the unexpired term of the
late E. Litton Bivans of Glendale.
A Santa Barbara civic leader and educator, she is active in
local, state and national education and health organizations and has
served as a trustee of the Santa Barbara Junior College District and
president of the American Association of University Women.
In 1968, she was named as Santa Barbara's "Woman of the Year."
Mrs. Lancaster lives at 1300 Dover Hill Road, Santa Barbara.
She is a Republican.
The three appointments are subject to confirmation by the State
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Walter H. Lohman, Jr., a
Los Angeles certified public accountant, to the California State
Commission on Government Organizations and Economy.
Lohman, a Republican, succeeds D. W. Holmes of Madera, who
has resigned.
As a partner in the firm of Arthur Young and Company, Lohman
has specialized in the field of government management and has been
honored for his efficiency evaluations of the Los Angeles county
government.
He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and the Califomia Society of Certified Public Accountants
and the National Municipal Finance Officers Association.
His home is at 5232 Los Encantos Way, Los Angeles.
Members of the commission serve at the pleasure of the governor.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today named Clarence R. Jones,
Manpower Director for the City of Oakland, to the Vocational
Rehabilitation Appeals Board.
He will fill the unexpired term of John Hardin of Santa
Rosa, which ends in December of 1972, as a public member of the
board.
Jones, 41, a Republican, has served as Oakland's Manpower
Director since April of 1969, and previously was executive director
of the city's Opportunities Industrialization Center.
Prior to his Oakland assignments, he assisted the Reverend
Leon H. Sullivan as branch manager and director of counseling for
the nation's first O.I.C. in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of
Howard University.
Jones is active in the Alameda County Cooperative Area
Manpower Planning Systems, Junior Achievement, the Special Services
Advisory Committee of California State College at Hayward, the
Oakland Chapter of the National Business League and the Urban League
Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee.
He and his wife Elizabeth have two children. They live at
9339 Burr Street in Oakland.
The appointment is subject to Senate confirmation.
Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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Contact:
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445-4571
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#152
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Vincent C. Tiscornia
of San Andreas and John J. Snyder of Valley Springs to four-year-terms
on the 39th District Agricultural Association (Calaveras County Fair).
Tiscornia, whose address is P. O. Box 4, San Andreas, and
Snyder, whose address is P. O. Box 177, Valley Springs, are both
cattle ranchers.
They have served on the board since 1967. Both are Republicans.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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Contact:
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445-4571
3-19-71
#153
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. Robert A. Odell, a
Torrance veterinarian, and reappointed Maxwell Pellish of Santa
Barbara to four-year-terms on the Board of Examiners in Veterinary
Medicine in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Dr. Odell, a Republican, lives at 28003 Lobrook Drive, Palos
Verdes Peninsula. He succeeds Dr. Victor H. Austin of Encino, whose
term has expired.
Pellish, an instructor at the University of California at
Santa Barbara, has served as public member of the board since 1967.
He lives at 1502 Francheschi Road, Santa Barbara. He is a Republican.
Board members are paid $25 per diem while on official duty.
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Sacramento, Califc
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Contact:
Paul beck
445-4571
3-19-71
#154
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. J. Alfred Rider of
Mill Valley and reappointed Mrs. Esther E. DePaoli of Jackson to
three year terms on the Advisory Board of the Bureau of Electronic
Repair Dealer Registration in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Dr. Rider, who is director of the Gastrointestinal Research
Laboratory at Franklin Hospital in San Francisco, succeeds Byron L.
Peterson of Escondido who has resigned.
Dr. Rider, who lives at 10 Charles Dean Road in Mill Valley,
will represent the public on the board. He is a Republican.
Mrs. DePaoli, an attorney and civic leader, has served on the
board since 1967, as a public member. She lives at 126 A Rex Avenue,
Jackson. She is a Republican.
Board members are paid per diem and necessary expenses.
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MEMO TO THE Ph_3S
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-19-71
#155
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
March 22, 1971
through
March 28, 1971
Monday, March 22
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, March 23
1:30 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
3:30 p.m.
Drop by California Republican Women
Federated, Spring Seminar Reception,
Senator Hotel
Overnight - - Los Angeles
Wednesday, March 24
8:30 a.m.
Master Advisory Breakfast, Los Angeles
Trade-Technical College Campus. Speech.
Trustees Meeting, State College Headquarters,
Los Angeles
Overnight - - Los Angeles
Thursday, March 25
a.m.
Depart for Milwaukee
7:00 p.m.
Wisconsin State Central Committee fund-raising
dinner, Pfister Hotel. Speech.
Overnight - Milwaukee
Friday, March 26
a.m.
Depart for St. Paul
7:30 p.m.
Minnesota State Central Committee fund-
raising dinner, Municipal Auditorium
p.m.
Depart for Los Angeles
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, March 27
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, March 28
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
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Sacramento, Califo: a
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-19-71
#156
Governor Ronald Reagan and Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke
today joined to urge Californians to fully support the national
observance of :he Week of Concern for Prisoners of War and Missing
in Action, Mar 21-27.
The observance of the week has won the approval of Congress.
It was chosen because on Friday, March 26, the eighth year of prison
life as a POV will begin for the first serviceman captured by the
Viet Cong.
Mrs. William Butler, wife of a POW, and a member of the
National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in
Southeast Asia, reported special church services are being urged and
mayors and county supervisors are being asked to proclaim the week
in memory of those POWs held by the enemy.
Governor Reagan said, "Californians should join together in
this observance to appeal to the North Vietnamese for just treatment
of these prisoners. There is so little we can do to show our concern.
With this special week we can all indicate our awareness and belief
in humane treatment of the POWs."
Lieutenant Governor Reinecke pointed out that "California has
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the greatest number of servicemen being held as prisoners and missing
in action. We must show that we have not forgotten these men. I
urge all Californians to join in this worthy effort."
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Sacramento, Califo
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Contact:
Paul beck
445-4571
3-19-71
#157
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed three members of the
California Water Commission for four-year-terms, subject to Senate
confirmation.
They are Clair A. Hill of Redding; William P. Moses of
El Sobrante, and Ray W. Ferguson of Ontario.
Hill, president of a Redding engineering firm and
environmentalist, lives at 920 Sierra Vista Drive. He is a Republican.
Moses, an attorney with offices in San Pablo is active in
numerous civic and conservationist organizations. He lives at
5691 San Pablo Dam Road, El Sobrante. He is a Republican.
Ferguson, a partner in an Ontario real estate firm, also
is active in civic affairs and local, state and national organizations
concerned with water problems. His home is at 218 Deodar Street,
Ontario. He is a Republican.
All three commissioners have served since 1967.
Commissioners receive $50 for each day of official duty,
not to exceed $2,000 per year.
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RELEASE: Im ediate
Sacramento, Califor a
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-23-71
#158
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Joseph T. DeSilva,
secretary-treasurer of the Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 of Hollywood,
to a three-year-term as a public member on the Citizens Advisory
Council of the Department of Mental Hygiene.
The governor also reappointed Miss Dorothy Moses, R.N., head
of the nursing program at San Diego State College, and Arthur P. Jost,
administrator of Kings View Psychiatric Hospital in Reedley to three-
year-terms.
DeSilva, 66, a Democrat, is one of the founders of the Retail
Clerks Union, Local 770, which began in 1937 with seven charter
members and now has a membership of more than 25,000.
He has received numerous awards for his services in the
mental health field and human relations including the 1964 Governor's
Award for "an outstanding contribution to the field of mental health
by an individual outside the medical profession," and the 1965
John F. Kennedy Peace Award "for 28 years of service in the field
of human relations."
He also holds the 1963 bronze community services award
from the Japanese-American Community Services of Southern California
and has been honored by the Urban League and the NAACP for his
efforts to break down job discrimination against minorities.
DeSilva, who lives at 4344 Lemp Avenue, North Hollywood, will
succeed Mrs. Phyllis Smith of Van Nuys, whose term has expired.
Miss Moses, a Republican, has served on the council since
1969, representing the nursing profession. She lives at 6311 Lake
Alamor Avenue, San Diego.
Jost, chairman of the council, is a member of the board of
the National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals. He has
represented hospital administrators on the council since 1969.
He lives at 8126 South Frankwood, Reedley. He is a Republican.
Council members are paid expenses.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul B
445-4571
3-24-71
#159
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that the state will
initiate a pilot monitoring study of environmentally harmful materials
in the Monterey Basin this summer to lay the groundwork for a full-scale
statewide monitoring program.
The Monterey Basin and its offshore waters were selected for
the study because it is a small, well-defined geographical area that
will allow researchers to measure and track all potential sources of
pollution; agricultural, industrial and municipal.
By determining the best ways to measure the source, movement
and ultimate fate of pesticides, heavy metals and other environmental
contaminants, the state will have the necessary foundation for
designing a comprehensive statewide program for all factors that
influence the environment, the governor said.
The pilot study will be conducted primarily by state agencies,
although the federal government and other public or private agencies
may be invited to participate.
State agencies with responsibility for environmental protection
will cooperate in the joint study using their current resources and
existing budget allotments, the governor said.
It is expected that the study will be managed by an
environmental expert associated with a college or university. He
would be selected by the secretaries of the Resources, Agriculture and
Services, and Human Relations Agencies.
"There is a pressing need for a well designed and coordinated
attack on California's environmental problems," Governor Reagan said.
"To mount such an attack, we need accurate and specific knowledge of the
sources and extent of these problems. And to gain this knowledge we
must put into operation a comprehensive integrated program to monitor
those substances that affect the environment.
"The experience we gain in the Monterey operation will guide us
in developing the type of monitoring system that will do the job," the
governor said.
Governor Reagan noted that two recent reports, "Evaluation of
Water Quality Monitoring Programs in California," prepared by the
State Water Resources Control Board, and "A Review of
Pesticide Monitoring Programs in California," prepared by an ad hoc group
of the California Department of Agriculture's Pesticide Advisory Committee
strongly recommend that a comprehensive monitoring program be designed
after preliminary effort identifies appropriate objectives and scope.
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Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
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445-4571
3-24-71
#160
Governor Ronald Reagan today elevated Riverside Municipal
Judge Elwood M. Rich to the Riverside County Superior Court bench.
Judge Rich, a 50-year-old Democrat, will receive an annual
salary of $33,396 in the new post, created by the 1970 legislature.
Prior to becoming a municipal court judge 17 years ago, he
served as a deputy district attorney in Riverside County for five
years.
He received his law degree from the University of Illinois
in 1946 and was admitted to the California State Bar the following
year.
He and his wife, Lorna, have three children. They reside in
Riverside.
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Sacramento, Californi
Contact:
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445-4571
3-24-71
#161
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Corcoran realtor
John Maroot as a member of the Kings County Board of Supervisors,
Second District.
The 63-year-old Democrat succeeds the late Roland Adney of
Corcoran in the $8,400 per year job.
Maroot, who has served as a trustee and former chairman of
the Corcoran Unified School District since 1962, has operated his
own real estate firm in Kings County for the past 15 years.
He was a member of the Corcoran City Council for 14 years and
served for 10 years as a board member of the Corcoran Mosquito
Abatement District.
A Kings County resident for 41 years, he is a director and
past president of the Corcoran Chamber of Commerce, and is a former
president of the Kings County Rotary Club and Board of Realtors.
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RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-25-71
#162
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment of
Courtland D. Arne, an Oakland attorney, as judge of the Oakland-Piedmont
Judicial District Municipal Court.
Arne, 41, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of
$30,724. He will succeed Judge John S. Cooper who has been elevated
to the Alameda County Superior Court.
A partner in the Oakland law firm of Naphan and Arne since
1966, he has practiced law in Alameda County since 1955.
Arne is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley
and earned his law degree from Hastings College of the Law in
San Francisco.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Alameda
County Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the
California Trial Lawyers Association and the American Arbitration
Association.
He and his wife, Carol, have two children. The family home
is in Oakland.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-25-71
#163
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment of
Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Huey P. Shepard as judge
of the Compton Judicial District Municipal Court.
Shepard, 35, a Democrat, will receive an annual salary of
$30,724. He succeeds Judge William Ross who has been elevated to a
Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Shepard, who has served as Superior Court Commissioner since
1968, practiced law in Long Beach from 1961 to 1966, when he was
appointed a Juvenile Court Referee of the Los Angeles County Superior
Court.
He has served as a member of the Managing Board of the
Community Welfare Council of Long Beach, the Jobs for Youth Committee,
the board of the Long Beach Branch of NAACP, the Long Beach Improvement
League and in several groups which are involved in the training and
employment of minorities in Central Los Angeles.
He is a member of the Long Beach Bar Association, the Langston
Law Club, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Criminal Courts
Bar Association and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Shepard is a graduate of Long Beach State College and earned
his law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School
of Law.
He and his wife, Elaine, have two children. They live in
Harbor City.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERI
RELEASE. Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-25-71
#164
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the reappointment of
State Printer Herbert Silvius to a four-year-term.
Silvius, who has served in the post since 1967, receives an
annual salary of $22,500.
He lives at 1225 43rd Street, Sacramento,
He is a Republican.
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RELEASE.
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-25-71
#165
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointments of
Municipal Judges Frank D. Domenichini of San Clemente and Kenneth E.
Lae of Anaheim to newly-created Orange County Superior Courts.
Judge Domenichini, 47, a Republican, was appointed to the
South Orange County Judicial District Municipal Court by Governor
Reagan in 1969.
Judge Lae, 45, a Republican, has served on the North Orange
County Judicial District Municipal Court since 1968.
They will each receive an annual salary of $33,396.
Judge Domenichini, a graduate of the University of the Pacific,
earned his law degree from the University of Santa Clara. He also
attended the U. S. Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island as
a Marine Corps legal officer.
He has been active in San Clemente civic affairs and is a
former member of the City Planning Commission and a past director of
the San Clemente Chamber of Commerce.
He is a member of the American Bar Association and the
American Judicature Society.
Judge Lae, who has been active in Anaheim civic affairs, is
past president of Orange County Legal Aid Society.
He is a graduate of the University of Southern California
law school.
Judge Domenichini and his wife, Mary, have four children.
The family lives in San Clemente.
Judge Lae and his wife have three children. They live in
Anaheim.
The new courts were created by 1970 legislation.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-25-71
#166
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment of Dr.
Cynthia Preiss of Glendale and the reappointment of Dr. Rudy A.
Fahlbusch of Pacific Beach to three year terms on the State Board
of Chiropractic Examiners in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Dr. Preiss, who lives at 112 South Everett Street, Glendale,
will serve as a representative of the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic
She succeeds Dr. Irvin T. Lathrop of Napa, whose term has expired.
Dr. Falbusch, who lives at 1766 Grand Avenue, Pacific Beach,
has served on the board since 1968. He represents the Palmer School
of Chiropractic.
Both are Republicans.
Board members are paid $25 per diem while on official duty.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
Verne Orr, Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
5-4141
March 25, 1971
State Finance Director Verne Orr issued the following statement
regarding the tax program presented today by the Assembly Democratic
leadership:
"We have no quarrel with the stated intent of the plan---to pro-
vide tax relief to the overburdened homeowners of California. Many
of its provisions follow the basic lines of the governor's tax reform
program last year which passed the Assembly overwhelmingly, but failed
in the Senate by a single vote.
"The governor has pledged on numerous occasions to work closely
with the Democratic leadership in a bipartisan effort to accomplish
significant and meaningful property tax relief during the coming year.
Representatives of the Department of Finance have had many discussions
with Assemblyman Gonsalves over the past several months in line with
the governor's commitment to such a bipartisan effort.
"We were very disturbed, therefore, to learn that the Democrats
decided to act unilaterally in presenting a plan which ignores the
constructive, bipartisan approach the governor has sought so diligently.
"Certainly, Assemblyman Gonsalves cannot be serious in describing
the plan presented by the Democratic leadership today as 'the first
meaningful, lasting fulfillment of a promise of relief to property
taxpayers and renters
The fact is, the governor's tax reform
program of last year would be on the books today had a single bedridden
a
senator been able to cast/vote, or been given a courtesy vote.
"Unfortunately, the plan unveiled by the Assembly Democratic
leadership to would require a massive increase in overall state spending--
amounting/hundreds of millions of dollars--which could only be financed
by a huge tax increase on the people.
"It is extremely disappointing to us that the authors chose not
only to ignore this bipartisan approach, but, even worse, they are now
attempting to disguise the additional tax burden their plan would impose
on the people as 'property tax relief.'
"Tax reform is not, and must not become, an issue to be seized upon
as a convenient camouflage for vastly increased state spending. To
attempt to cover up such a gigantic tax increase--by calling it 'tax
reform' is simply not acceptable--neither to this administration nor
to the citizens of California who want straightforward answers to the
problem.
"We again call upon the Assembly Democratic leadership to work with
us in a constructive, bipartisan effort to achieve, once and for all,
responsible tax reform and genuine tax relief for our people."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-26-71
#167
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment of
Dr. Richard C. Robbins, director of special education for the San
Francisco Unified School District, to the Areawide Mental Retardation
Program Board.
He will fill the unexpired term of Milton Reiterman of Daly
City, who has resigned, as a representative for Area 5, which includes
San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin and San Mateo Counties.
The term ends June 30, 1971.
Dr. Robbins, 45, a Republican, holds Bachelor of Science and
Master of Science degrees from Purdue University and earned his Ph. D.
from the University of California at Los Angeles.
He is a member of the Executive Council of the State Counseling
and Guidance Association, the Advisory Board of the National Merit
Scholarship Corporation, the Advisory Council of the Pacific State
Hospital for the Mental Retardation Study, a Special Consultant to
the State Department of Education for Project Review and a member of the
board of the San Francisco Coordinating Council on Mental Retardation.
He lives at 1333 Gough Street, San Francisco.
Board members are paid necessary expenses.
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NOR
RELEASE:
Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-26-71
#168
Governor Ronald Reagan has reappointed Walter A. Gordon, Jr.
of Berkeley and Manley J. Bowler of Monterey Park to four-year-terms
on the Adult Authority, subject to Senate confirmation.
Gordon, a career officer in the State Department of Corrections,
and Bowler, a former chief deputy district attorney of Los Angeles
County, have served on the authority since 1967. Both are
Republicans.
Gordon lives at 1074 Craigmont Street, Berkeley and Bowler
lives at 1191 College View Drive, Monterey Park.
Members of the authority receive an annual salary of $25,000.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-26-71
#169
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment of
John E. Bowe, Chief of the Division of Housing and Community
Development, and reappointed three other members to the Youth
Authority Board.
They are Rudolph A. Castro of Yorba Linda, Julio Gonzales of
Pico Rivera and William L. Richey of Van Nuys.
Bowe, 52, a Republican has served as chief of the Division
of Housing and Community Development since 1967. He will succeed
Christopher Byrne of Los Angeles, who did not seek reappointment.
Bowe lives at 1500 Seventh Street, Sacramento.
Castro, who lives at 18281 Timber Lane Drive, Yorba Linda,
has served on the board since 1970.
Gonzales of 8228 Paramount Boulevard, Pico Rivera, and
Richey, of 16936 Bassett Street, Van Nuys, have been members since
1967.
Castro and Richey are Republicans, Gonzales is a Democrat.
Members of the board are paid $25,000 annually.
Their appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.
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Sacramento, Califom 1.
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-26-71
#170
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
March 29, 1971
through
April 11, 1971
Monday, March 29
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, March 30
10:30 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, March 31
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, April 1
No public appointments scheduled.
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, April 2
No public appointments scheduled.
p.m.
Depart for Phoenix.
Overnight - Phoenix
Saturday, April 3 - Sunday, April 11
EASTER VACATION
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-26-71
#171
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills
have been signed:
AB 93 - Lanterman
Validates the organization, boundaries, acts,
(Chapter 12)
proceedings, and bonds of counties, cities, and
specific districts, agencies, and entities. The
bill is known as the First Validating Act of 1971.
AB 181 - Belotti
Specifies that certain property otherwise eligible
(Chapter 13)
for assessment as open-space lands shall be so
assessed for the 1971-72 fiscal year if the
instrument reflecting the fact that the property
is enforceably restricted to open-space uses is
signed and recorded on or before May 15, 1971.
AB 308 - Sieroty
Provides that industrial loan companies may make
(Chapter 14)
any loan or purchase or discount any other
obligation of less than $2,500 with maximum term
up to 36 months and 15 days rather than acquire
any loan or other obligation for such term only if
amount is $1,500 or more but less than $2,500.
It provides that the maximum maturity for loans
of industrial loan companies in excess of $10,000
is 84 months and 15 days.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOF
MEMO TO THE PRI
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-29-71
For your information and planning purposes:
The governor will make an announcement
Tuesday (March 30) at 10:30 a.m. in the press
conference room (room 1190) concerning the
administration's welfare reform program.
Questions will be limited to those relating to
the announcement.
A general press conference has been
april /
scheduled for 10 a.m., Thursday, March 31.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVER JR
RELEASE: Immed te
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-30-71
#172
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Dr. Emil M. Mrak, Chancellor-Emeritus of the University of California
at Davis and an international authority on food preservation, to a
four-year-term on the State Board of Agriculture.
Dr. Mrak, 70, a Democrat, will succeed Mrs. Athalie Clarke
of Corona del Mar, whose term has expired, as a public member on the
board.
Honored internationally for his work in the food preservation
field, Dr. Mrak was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Food
Technologists in 1970 and was named the "Distinguished Food Scientist
of the Year" by the institute's New York Section.
He holds similar honors from Great Britain and Mexico
and in 1969 he received "The Outstanding Civilian Service Award" of
the Department of the Army for his work in developing rations that
can withstand climate extremes and rough handling.
A native San Franciscan, Dr. Mrak was graduated from the
University of California at Berkeley with B.S. and M. S. degrees and
earned his Ph.D. in 1937 as an instructor in food technology on the
Berkeley campus.
He served as Chancellor of UC-Davis from 1959 to 1969.
In addition to his academic career he is a co-founder and
co-editor of Advances in Food Research and Monographs in Food Science
and Technology.
He is a Fellow of the American Public Health Association,
an honorary member of the American Society of Enologists and a member
of or consultant to state and national organizations concerned with
world food problems, the use of pesticide controls in agricultural
and environmental health.
Dr. Mrak and his wife Vera, a home economist and food
technologist, live at 602 Cordova Place, Davis. They have two
children.
Members of the board are paid necessary expenses.
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RELEASE: Imme ate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-30-71
#173
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"In the four weeks since I first announced the details of our
plan for welfare reform in California, we have been swamped with
thousands of letters and telegrams, all but a handful of them support-
ing our efforts.
"Hundreds of people writing these letters volunteered to take a
personal part in any effort made to seek enactment of this program.
"One of those who was most anxious to see a statewide citizens
effort begun was Al McCandless, chairman of the Board of Supervisors
of Riverside County. He took the initiative to bring together a
representative group of citizens.
"As I see it, this committee is broadly based and includes both
Democrats and Republicans. The backgrounds of its members are all
relevant to the welfare reform program.
"Yesterday Supervisor McCandless brought his group to Sacramento
and we spent the afternoon discussing organization, giving them
additional details on the program and exploring ways in which my
administration can be of help to them.
"Now I would like to ask Supervisor McCandless to introduce each
member. You have a list of their names and I would like to thank each
one by means of a personal letter of appreciation."
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MEMBERS OF THE CALIFORNIA CITIZENS' COMMITTEE FOR THE
GOVERNOR'S WELFARE REFORM PROGRAM
STATE CHAIRMAN:
AL MCCANDLESS, Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Riverside County.
STATE CO-CHAIRMAN: (and Chairman for Los Angeles County)
NEIL PAPIANO, Attorney, and Vice President, Welfare Planning
Council, Los Angeles County.
MEMBERS:
MRS. ALMENA LOMAX, San Francisco journalist.
DR. FRED CASMIR, Professor, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles
County.
JOE DESILVA, Secretary-Treasurer, Retail Clerks' Union, Local 770,
Los Angeles County.
MRS. JUDY PROAPS, a secretary, employed in Sacramento County and
a working mother.
JUDGE J. STEVE WILLIAMS, Superior Court, San Bernardino County
and former Chairman, State Social Welfare Board.
SYBIL BRAND, member of Public Welfare Commission, Los Angeles
County for 18 years; member of the President's Commission
for the Handicapped, appointments by Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.
ROBERT W. KERR, member of Board of Directors and Chairman of the
Welfare Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce.
Kerr is a businessman from Sonoma County
MRS. JOAN SPARKS, Executive Director of the Good Samaritan Home,
Alameda County, which provides emergency lodging for women and
children.
RAYMOND HUERTA, law student at University of California, Davis.
MRS. LUCILLE LEONARD, Modoc County Welfare Director, retired 30
years. Resident of Alturas.
ARMANDO TORRES, member of the Public Social Services Commission,
Los Angeles County, and a small business proprietor.
MRS. ECHO GOTO, proprietor of a small business in minority resi-
dential area of the City of Los Angeles for 22 years.
MRS. AVALON WRIGHT, an eligibility supervisor for 6 years, Depart-
ment of Public Welfare, San Diego County.
HONORABLE AL MADDEN, Mayor of City of Monterey.
WALTER HOEFFLIN, Executive Vice President and Administrator of the
Methodist Hospital of Southern California, Los Angeles County.
HARRY KARL, businessman, Los Angeles.
O. C. SILLS, Kern County Welfare Director.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-30-71
#174
Governor Reagan will present this year's Community Radio Watch
award to AC Transit bus driver Larry Slate of Richmond at a ceremony in
the governor's office today at 1:30 p.m.
Slate was selected to receive the award for helping to save the
lives of a family of three, overcome by smoke as fire burned their home.
Seeing smoke coming from their home he alerted his despatcher who, in
turn, called the fire department, then Slate embarked on the rescue of
the family. He was still attempting to rescue them when the fire
department arrived.
Participating in the ceremony will be Ray Rinehart, president of
AC Transit; Allan Bingham, AC Transit general manager; and Ray Goodman,
regional manager for Motorola Communications which instituted the
program and has provided the printed materials necessary to get the
program off to a good start.
Community Radio Watch is a reply to the need for public involvement
in the fight against crime and disasters in the streets as well as
reaction to emergencies.
The principal purpose of the program is to encourage all citizens
through those who use two-way radio systems to support civil and law
enforcement authorities in their efforts to maintain law, safety and
order. The main participants are the nearly 2 million two-way radio
users in communities all over the country.
Press coverage is invited.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: Imi. diate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-30-71
#175
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
George W. Milias of Gilroy as Chief of the Division of Labor Law
Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations.
The veteran legislator will assume the post held by William
C. Hern, who continued to handle the duties of chief of the division
after he was elevated to the position of Director of the Department
of Industrial Relations in 1970.
Milias, whose appointment is subject to Senate confirmation,
will receive an annual salary of $24,312.
First elected to the Assembly in the 22nd District in 1962,
Milias was returned to office in 1964 and 1966. He did not seek re-
election in 1970.
A native of Gilroy, Milias is a graduate of San Jose State
College and Stanford University.
Prior to his successful bid for elective office, he was
active in numerous Santa Clara County and Gilroy civic affairs.
He served as a member and foreman of the Santa Clara
Grand Jury, as a member and chairman of the Santa Clara County
Planning Commission, and various community projects that earned him
recognition from the Gilroy Chamber of Commerce in 1957 as "Outstanding
Man of the Year."
Hern, who joined the Department of Industrial Relations
in 1967, was serving as chief of the Division of Labor Law Enforcement,
headquartered in San Francisco, when he was appointed acting director
of the Department of Industrial Relations upon the death of Peter
Weinberger.
His appointment as director was later confirmed by the Senate.
He was reappointed this year.
Milias lives at 1795 A Hecker Pass Road, Gilroy.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: Inumediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-30-71
#176
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Bryce J. Torrence,
Director of Disaster Services of the Western Area, American Red Cross
to the California Emergency Council.
He will represent the National Red Cross on the council,
which advises the governor during times of extreme emergency or
natural disaster. He succeeds Richard F. Condon of San Francisco,
who has resigned.
Torrence, 52, was appointed to his present Red Cross post,
with headquarters in San Francisco, in 1970. He previously served
as Regional Director of Readiness and Emergency Action for the Area
Disaster Services. His region included the states of Alaska, Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.
He joined the Red Cross in 1964, after a 26-year career
with the U. S. Army and has participated in the direction of disaster
and relief operations during the Crescent City and West Coast floods of
1964-65, the Alaskan floods of 1967, the Riverside and San Bernardino
County floods and Hurricane Camille in 1969 and the Peruvian earthquake
and Hurricane Celia disasters of 1970.
He and his wife have two children. The family home is at
832 West Hillsdale Boulevard, San Mateo.
He is a Republican.
Council members receive expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: 1. ediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-30-71
#177
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed three Los Angeles
Judicial District Municipal Court Judges.
They are Deputy Public Defender Morton Rochman, Superior
Court Commissioner James P. Natoli and Superior Court Commissioner
Robert C. Nye.
Rochman and Natoli, both Democrats, will succeed Municipal
Court Judges Jack Goertzen and Charles Hughes, both of whom have been
elevated to the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Nye, a Republican, will succeed Municipal Judge Joseph P.
Kelly, who has retired.
Rochman, 38, has served in the Los Angeles county Public
Defender's office since 1960. He is a graduate of the University of
Illinois at Urban and earned his law degree from the university's
College of the Law in 1956.
He is a member of the California Defenders Association
and the Los Angeles County Public Defenders Association.
Rochman and his wife Marsha have three daughters. The
family lives in Woodland Hills.
Natoli, 49, a Superior Court Commissioner since 1964,
earned his law degree from Ohio State University in 1946.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Los
Angeles County Bar Association, the Knights of Columbus and the
Italo-American California Civic Organization.
He and his wife have one child. The family lives in
Monterey Park.
Nye, 50, was appointed Superior Court Commissioner in 1969
after 15 years in the private practice of law and five years as a
prosecutor in the Los Angeles City Attorney's office.
He is a graduate of Loyola University and earned his
law degree from the Loyola Law School.
Nye and his wife Donna have five children. They live in
Los Angeles.
Municipal court judges are paid $30,724.
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Contact:
Paul Be
445-4571
3-31-71
#178
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he has approved a
$1,531,035 federal OEO grant to continue the operation of the Mission
Neighborhood Health Center.
The grant, which covers the period from February 1 to July 31, 1971,
will be administered by the San Francisco Economic Opportunity Council
to provide a full-range of health care and clinical services to low
income families in the Mission District.
During the past 12 months more than 20,000 residents of the area
were served by the center.
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