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1966-74: Press Unit
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: I ediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-1-72
#117
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed nine members to the
newly-created Advisory Board of the Bureau of Automotive Repair in the
Department of Consumer Affairs.
The board will advise the new Bureau of Automotive Repair in
its programs to protect consumers from fraudulent and unethical practices
in the auto repair business.
Part of the governor's consumer protection program, the new
board and bureau were created by 1971 legislation.
The bill requires automotive repair businesses to be registered
with the new bureau and empowers the director of the department to
suspend or revoke the licenses of dealers who engage in dishonest and
unethical practices.
Public members of the advisory board will include Mrs. Shirley
Goldinger of Los Angeles, Stephen L. Warfield of Sunnyvale, L. Christian
Hauck of Altadena, O.W. (Dick) Richard of Corona Del Mar and Robert W.
Weggenmann of Oakland.
Representatives of the automotive repair industry on the board
will include Alfred E. (Gene) Goycochea of Imperial Beach, C. Stanley
Atran of Arbuckle, C. Dean Crill of Glendale and Carl E. Jefferson of
Concord.
Mrs. Goldinger, a school teacher and president of the Los Angeles
and Orange County chapters of Association of California Consumers, will
serve until June, 1973. She is a Democrat. She lives at 644 Tiger Tail
Road, Los Angeles.
Warfield, 19, a construction worker, will also serve until 1973.
He is a Republican. He lives at 450 South Mathilda Avenue, Sunnyvale.
Hauck, assistant counsel for Southern California Edison at
Rosemead, will serve until June, 1974. He is a Republican. He lives at
142 E. Palm Street, Altadena.
Richard, president of a Newport Beach grocery firm and a 1970
Freedom Foundation Award for his civic activities, will serve until
June, 1974. He is a Republican. He lives at 1301 Dolphin Terrace,
Corona Del Mar.
Weggenmann, product manager for the Foil and Container Division
of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation in Oakland, will serve until
June, 1974. He is a Republican. He lives at 6600 Evergreen Avenue,
Oakland.
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Goycochea, a service station owner and industrial arts
instructor at Grossmont Junior College, will serve until 1973. He is a
Democrat. He lives at 1817 Wolviston Way, Imperial Beach.
Atran, owner of an automotive repair business, will serve until
June, 1975. He is a Republican. He lives at 101 Fifth Street, Arbuckle.
Crill, operator of an automotive service and treasurer of the
Independent Garage Owners of America, will serve until June, 1975. He
is a Republican. He lives at 1740 Don Carlos, Glendale.
Jefferson, owner and president of an automobile agency and
Concord civic leader, will serve until June, 1975. He is a Republican.
He lives at 5800 Pine Hollow Road, Concord.
The appointments are subject to Senate confirmation.
Members of the new board will receive per diem and necessary
expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: In diate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3- 1 -72
#118
Governor Ronald Reagan today declared a
state of emergency for Del Norte County.
The governor's action came at the request
of the county Board of Supervisors as a result
of heavy rains and flooding which began
January 21, 1972.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-1-72
#119
Governor Ronald Reagan today named three new members to the Board
of Trustees of the California State Colleges.
They are Mrs. Jeanette S. Ritchie of Menlo Park, a member of the
State Board of Education; Roy T. Brophy of Sacramento, a member of the
Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and Robert F.
Beaver, a Los Angeles contractor and civic leader.
Mrs. Ritchie, an educator and former instructor at San Francisco
State College, was named to an eight year term, succeeding Mrs. Phebe
Conley of Fresno, whose term has expired.
Brophy, a partner in a Sacramento land development company and a
former president of the San Juan Unified School District Board of
Education, succeeds William A. Norris of Pasadena, whose term has
expired.
Beaver, who has served as a member of the Chapman College
President's Council, will fill the unexpired term of the late Dudley
Swim of Carmel which ends in March, 1976.
Named to the State Board of Education in 1970, Mrs. Ritchie is a
registered nurse who has served as the Dean of the Women's Staff at
Stanford University and Assistant Head Nurse at Stanford University
Hospital. She has also served as a member of the San Francisco State
Committee to Study Minority Drop-outs and is the author of "Safety for
Children," published in 1966.
Mrs. Ritchie holds degrees from Stanford University and has com-
pleted advanced studies at the University of Utah and the University of
California. Her home is at 1064 Creek Drive, Menlo Park.
Brophy, who lives at 5336 Bunker Court, Fair Oaks, was appointed to
the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges in 1971.
He is active in Sacramento civic affairs and has served as vice
president of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.
Beaver, who lives at 1235 Margarita Drive, Fullerton, is active in
numerous Orange County civic and service organizations and has served
as a member of Fullerton's "Blue Ribbon Commission" for development of
commerce and industry and the Orange County Transit Committee.
All three are Republicans. Their appointments require the advice
and consent of two thirds of the Senate.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-1-72
#120
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today he will ask the legislature
to pass emergency legislation which would revise the state's new age of
majority law to conform with the 1971 Welfare Reform Act.
The welfare reform law specified that 18-through-20 year old
students in the AFDC program making satisfactory progress in school could
continue to receive the assistance.
However, the age of majority law, which goes into effect March 4,
denies AFDC assistance to these students if they are 18 or over.
The legislation the governor seeks would defer the operative effect
of the age of majority law as it affects certain state education and
health programs designed to assist persons 18-through-20 years of age.
He said he has directed State Social Welfare Director Robert B.
Carleson to inform the counties that the emergency legislation is being
requested and to instruct them to continue to receive and hold
applications for the AFDC assistance after March 4. Notices of
discontinuance of aid to those persons affected will be held until the
latest possible time and will not be sent if the remedial legislation
is passed on an urgency basis before March 15.
"It is clear," he said, "that the age of majority law, if not
amended, would abruptly deprive thousands of families and individuals
of education and health benefits they have been receiving."
A parallel problem which the governor hopes to solve with this
remedial legislation is the loss of state funds which the community
colleges have been receiving for students under 21.
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Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-72
#121
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Mayor Joseph B. Campbell
of Victorville to a newly-created San Bernardino County Superior Court.
Campbell, 46, an attorney, will receive an annual salary of
$35,080.
A practicing attorney since 1957, Campbell was elected to the
Victorville City Council when the municipality was incorporated in 1962,
was re-elected twice and is currently serving his third term as mayor.
He is a graduate of Yale University and earned his law degree from
the University of Southern California School of Law.
Active in community affairs, Campbell is one of the founders of
the Desert Communities United Fund and has served as president of the
Victor Valley Chamber of Commerce and other civic and service
organizations.
He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar
of California, the San Bernardino County Bar Association and the High
Desert Bar Association.
Campbell and his wife Donna have three children. They live on a
ranch at Victorville.
Campbell is a Republican.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-72
#122
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Dr. Walter L. Wilkins,
Scientific Director of the Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit
at Point Loma, to a three-year term on the Citizens Advisory Council in
the Department of Mental Hygiene.
Dr. Wilkins, 64, will represent psychologists on the board,
succeeding Dr. Harrison G. Gough of Berkeley, who did not seek
reappointment.
Dr. Wilkins, a Republican, lives at 3258 Trumbull Street, San Diego.
Council members receive necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVER
RELEASE: I ediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-72
#123
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed two municipal judges and a
San Jose attorney to newly-created Santa Clara County Superior Courts.
They are attorney Edward A. Panelli, a partner in the San Jose law
firm of Pasquinelli and Panelli; Palo Alto Municipal Judge James Barton
Phelps and Sunnyvale Municipal Judge James Duvaras, Jr.
Panelli, 41, a Republican, who has practiced law in San Jose since
1955, is General Counsel of the University of Santa Clara, a trustee of
the West Valley Joint Community College District and a trustee of the
University of Santa Clara.
A native of Santa Clara, he is a graduate of the University of
Santa Clara and earned his law degree at Santa Clara's College of Law.
He is active in the Santa Clara County Bar Association, the National
Association of College and University Attorneys, the American Arbitration
Association, the Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association and civic
and service organizations in Santa Clara County.
Panelli and his wife Lorna have three sons. The family lives in
Saratoga.
Judge Phelps, 55, a Republican, has served on the Palo Alto-Mountain
View Judicial District Municipal Court since 1970.
Prior to his appointment to the bench, he practiced law in San
Francisco and Redwood City and was a Deputy District Attorney in San
Francisco.
He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and earned his law
degree at Harvard Law School.
Judge Phelps is a member of the State Bar of California, the American
Bar Association, the San Francisco and San Mateo County Bar Associations,
the Santa Clara County Trial Lawyers Association and is a past president
of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California, in addition
to other legal, civic and service organizations.
He and his wife Jean have two children. The family home is in Palo
Alto.
Judge Duvaras, 44, a Democrat, has served on the Sunnyvale-Cupertino
Judicial District Municipal Court since 1963. Prior to his appointment
to the bench, he practiced law in Sunnyvale for eight years.
He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and earne
his law degree from Hastings College of the Law.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Sunnyvale and
Santa Clara County Bar Associations, the American Bar Association, the
Conference of California Judges, the Conference of Santa Clara County
Municipal Judges and has served as chairman of the Sunnyvale Board of
Education.
Judge Duvaras and his wife Marjorie have two children. The family
home is in Sunnyvale.
The new judges, whose appointments are effective March 4, will earn
an annual salary of $35,080.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-72
#124
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Assemblyman Peter F.
Schabarum to fill the unexpired term of the late Frank G. Bonelli on
the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
In announcing the appointment, Governor Reagan said "Pete
Schabarum is eminently qualified to serve the citizens of Los Angeles
County because of his first-hand knowledge of the problems affecting
the county.
"As a legislator, he has established an outstanding record in
the fight against air pollution and his efforts to solve transportation
problems while always keeping a watchful eye on the cost of government."
Schabarum, 43, who has represented the 49th Assembly District
since 1966, Las served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Air Pollution,
as a legislative advisor to the State Public Works Board and as a
member of the Select Committee on Environmental Quality.
He has also served on the Ways and Means, Transportation,
Governmental Organization and Joint Legislative Budget committees.
Prior to his election to the Assembly, he served as 1965 foreman
of the Los Angeles County Grand Jury and the Los Angeles County
District Attorney's Advisory Committee.
A native Californian, he graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley and earned letters in football, basketball, and
baseball.
He was a member of three UC Rose Bowl teams
and later played three years with the San Francisco 49ers.
Schabarum and his wife Gerry Ann have three children.
As a Los Angeles County Supervisor he will receive an annual
salary of $35,080.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-2-72
R-E-M-I-N-D-E-R
R-E-M-I-N-D-E-R
R-E-M-I-N-D-E-R
Press credentials for covering Mrs. Nixon's visit
to Sacramento on Saturday will be available tomorrow,
March 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from
10 a.m. to 12 noon in the Governor's Council Room (not
the Governor's Press Office.
(NOTE: You must have proper accreditation
before badges can be issued.)
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
Sacramento, California
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-3-72
Governor Reagan will make an important announcement to the
press at 12:15 p.m. today in the governor's office.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVE:
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RELEASE:
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Sacramento, California
March 5, 1972
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-3-72
PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE
RELEASE.
#125
The Reagan administration today announced a pioneering multi-agency
plan to monitor environmentally harmful materials in the Monterey Basin
this year.
The pilot project is an all-encompassing plan designed to help guide
the state in developing a comprehensive integrated statewide environmental
monitoring system, the first of its kind in the nation.
Dr. Raymond A. Fleck, an environmental toxicologist at the University
of California at Davis was chief architect of the plan and serves as
project director.
Thirty-five staff members of governmental bodies and 15 from private
organizations contributed to the data pool for the program study.
A number of heavy metals, chemicals and other environmentally
hazardous materials will be measured during the 1972 calendar year under
the program.
Specific substances whose source, movement and fate will be studied
include lead; mercury; cadmium; arsenic; boron; DDT and its metabolites;
other organochlorine compounds including 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T; parathion;
asbestos; nitrates and ethylene.
Samples will be taken of air, surface water, underground water, waste
discharges, fish and wildlife, and food and soil elements. Biological
indicators of environmental quality will be included.
The primary study area will be the lower portion of the Salinas
Valley and the near-shore portion of Monterey Bay. This area was selected
because it is a limited, well-defined geographical entity that will allow
researchers to develop methods and procedures to measure and track all
potential sources of pollution: industrial, municipal and agricultural.
Dr. Fleck and his study team have identified in the area 30 industria
waste dischargers, 12 municipal waste dischargers, six solid waste disposa
sites and three mining and miscellaneous sources of potentially harmful
materials.
Farm crop production and chemicals used in agriculture and mosquito
abatement will also come under surveillance.
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State agencies involved in the study will use existing resources,
facilities and budget allotments in contributing to the project.
Particularly active in the program will be agencies with responsibilities
for environmental protection, such as the California Departments of
Agriculture, Fish and Game, Public Health, and Water Resources, and the
Air Resources and Water Resources Control Boards.
The program is designed to include and coordinate with many existing
monitoring projects being conducted in the area by these agencies and
such others as the Monterey County Department of Public Health, Monterey-
Santa Cruz Air Pollution Control District, the U.S. Geological Survey,
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Association of Monterey Bay Area
Governments (AMBAG), and the Hopkins Marine Station.
In addition to providing an evaluation of current conditions, the
environmental sensing and measuring program will allow California to
anticipate undesirable changes long before they occur and take steps to
prevent them, according to Dr. Fleck.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVER!
RELEASE:
....ediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-3-72
#126
Governor Ronald Reagan today made the following announcement to
newsmen in Sacramento.
"I am gratified and very pleased that the Nixon administration has
now given us the authority we have been seeking to implement one of the
most innovative and far-reaching elements of our welfare reform program.
"As you know, one of the major provisions of the Welfare Reform Act
of 1971 enabled us to test the concept that able-bodied, employable
welfare recipients should be required to seek work, accept a job if
offered, participate in job training, or work in selected jobs for the
community in return for their welfare grants.
"Now that HEW secretary Richardson has approved the demonstration
project, we intend to push forward immediately with our plans to implemen
the three-year program in 35 California counties beginning April 1.
"When I discussed the program with President Nixon at the Western
White House last year, he assured me that he wanted to see it put into
effect on a scale large enough and broad enough to give the concept of
a fair and accurate test.
"Human Relations Secretary Jim Hall and those who work under him
then prepared a comprehensive plan which would satisfy these objectives.
"Under our agreement with HEW, the project will register an estimate
58,000 welfare recipients, 30,000 of whom will be given work assignments
during the first year. The kinds of community work projects they will be
assigned to will range from schoolyard monitoring to the maintenance of
park and recreation facilities. These community work activities will be
limited to meeting only those genuine community needs which otherwise
would go unmet for lack of funds and manpower.
"We are confident that these work activities will be considered by
many welfare recipients as opportunities to help serve and improve their
communities while they are waiting to get off welfare and move into regular
jobs.
"I am deeply grateful to President Nixon, Vice President Agnew and
Secretary Richardson for the efforts they have made to permit the project
to go forward.
"I am convinced that the concept of community work experience by the
able-bodied on welfare holds enormous promise for the future, not only in
California but throughout the nation. It can reintroduce the principle
of the work ethic to our way of life=--a concept which, over the years,
has made America the most productive and prosperous nation in the world.
"There is no question in my mind that this type of program must be
considered an integral part of any approach to true welfare reform. We
believe our program will bear out this view as the program proceeds in
California during the months and years ahead."
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MEMO TO THI RESS
Sacramento, Califor
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Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-3-72
Following is a list of the counties to be included in the
community work experience program which the governor discussed with
the press today:
Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Lassen, Humboldt, Mendocino, Sonoma,
Marin, Solano, Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo,
Santa Clara, Yolo, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Madera,
Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo,
Santa Barbara, Ventura, Orange, Butte, Sutter, Yuba, E1 Dorado and
Placer.
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Here is a list of potential community work experience
assignments:
Horticultural Aide
Playground Monitor
Vehicle Maintenance
River and Stream Maintenance Aide
Road Clean Up
Survey Taker
Parking Lot Attendant
Kitchen Helper
Janitor
Geriatric Aide
Messenger
Lobby Monitor
Clerk
Police Aide
Typist
Plumber's Helper
Groundsman
Poundsman's Aide
Stock Clerk
Hospital Aide
Reproduction Clerk
Laundry Worker Aide
Park Maintenance
Election Aide
Warehouseman Aide
Reforestation Aide
Mechanics Helper
Fisheries Aide
Electrician's Aide
Traffic Signal Aide
Carpenter's Helper
Tree Trimmer Aide
Painter's Helper
Swimming Pool Attendant
Highway Maintenance Helper
Recycling Station Aide
Sign Maintenance Helper
CWEP Aide
Watchman
Agricultural Products Inspector
School Crossing Guard
Aide
Library Aide
Snow Removal Aide
Tool Maintenance Aide
Roadside Rest Area Maintenance Aide
Building Maintenance Aide
Sewer Maintenance Aide
Flood Control Aide
Fair Grounds Aide
Trail Maintenance Aide
Teacher's Aide
Fire Prevention Aide
Attendant Aide
Day Care Center Aide
Inventory Clerk
Pollution Control Aide
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MEMO TO THE RESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-3-72
#127
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
March 6, 1972
through
March 12, 1972
Monday, March 6
11:15 a.m.
Brief remarks to Auto Repair Board, Governor's
Council Room
5:30 p.m.
Wine Institute's Champagne Reception, Woodlake
Inn
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, March 7
10:00 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, March 8
11:00 a.m.
Presentation of Easter Seal Child to Senate
Overnight - - Sacramento
Thursday, March 9
a.m.
Depart for Miami, Florida
Rally for Re-election of RMN
p.m.
Return to Los Angeles
Overnight - Los Angeles
Friday, March 10
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, March 11
No appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, March 12
No appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
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OFFICE OF THE GOVE
)R
RELEASE:
mmediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-3-72
#128
Governor Ronald Reagan today set June 6 as the date for a special
election in the 36th Senatorial District to fill the seat vacated by
Gordon Cologne who was recently appointed to the Fourth District
Court of Appeal. The special election will be held in conjunction
with the June 6 state primary. The 36th Senatorial District covers
parts of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
Preceding the June 6 special election date, a primary will be
held in the district May 9.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-6-72
#129
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed San Diego attorneys Charles
W. Froehlich, Jr., and Jack R. Levitt to two newly-created San Diego
County Superior Courts.
Froehlich, 43, a partner in the firm of White, Price, Froehlich and
Peterson, is a former law professor at the University of California at
Berkeley and has served as a lecturer in law at California Western
University.
He is a past president of the Legal Aid Society of San Diego, a past
president of the San Diego County Bar Association, a past president of the
San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra, has served on the board of the California
Rural Legal Assistance, and is active in the State Bar of California, the
American Bar Association, the Barristers Club of San Diego and other
professional, civic and service organizations.
Froehlich is a graduate of Stanford University and earned his law
degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
He and his wife Millicent have three children. The family lives in
San Diego.
Levitt, 46, a partner in the firm of Harleson, Enright, Levitt and
Knutson since 1957, is a former Deputy District Attorney of San Diego
County.
Named as the "Outstanding Young Man of the Year" in 1960 by the San
Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce, he is active in various civic and
professional organizations including the Barristers Club of San Diego,
the State Bar of California, the San Diego County Bar Association, the
American Arbitration Association, the American Board of Trial Advocates
and the National Association of Defense Lawyers in Criminal Cases.
Levitt is a graduate of Pepperdine College and earned his law degree
from the University of Southern California.
He and his wife Dorothea have three children. The family lives in
La Mesa.
The new judges, both Republicans, will receive an annual salary of
$35,080.
The new courts were created by 1971 legislation.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE: Imn. liate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-6-72
#130
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Yuba City attorney James G.
Changaris to a newly-created Sutter County Superior Court.
Changaris, 45, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of
$35,080.
A practising attorney in Sutter and Yuba Counties since 1953, he
served for 1½1/2 years as a Deputy District Attorney of Yuba County.
Active in civic affairs, Changaris is a past president of the Yuba
City Unified School District Board of Trustees and has served as a trustee
of the Yuba City Union High School District and the Lincoln Elementary
School District.
He is also active in the Marysville-Yuba County Chamber of Commerce,
the Yuba City-Marysville Chamber of Commerce, the Yuba-Sutter United
Crusade, the Buttes Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and other
civic, service and professional organizations including the State Bar
of California and the Yuba-Sutter Bar Association.
Changaris is a graduate of the University of California and earned
his law degree from the University of San Francisco.
He and his wife have five children.
The new court was created by 1971 legislation.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO
RELEASE: Il ediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-6-72
#131
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Donald E. Ulm, a Modesto
dairyman, to fill an unexpired term and reappointed two directors to
four-year terms on the 38th District Agricultural Association
(Stanislaus County Fair).
Reappointed were A. Vern Crowell, a dairyman of 1201 West Monte
Vista Road, Turlock, and Mrs. Patricia C. Gaard, a dental assistant
of 923 Melinda Lane, Modesto. Both have served since 1968.
Ulm, who lives at 137 Texas Road, Modesto, will fill the unexpired
term of Joe Hart of Modesto, who has resigned. The term ends in
January, 1975.
All three are Republicans.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN(
RELEASE: Im liate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-6-72
#132
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Sonoma County District
Attorney Kiernan R. Hyland to the newly-created Central Judicial
District Municipal Court in Santa Rosa.
Hyland, 53, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of
$32,273.
Named as assistant district attorney of Sonoma County in 1958,
Hyland was elected District Attorney in 1966 and re-elected to the
post in 1970.
He previously served for eight years in the Alameda County
District Attorney's office.
Hyland is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington,
D.C. and earned his law degree from the University of San Francisco
after World War II service in the South Pacific with the Marine Corps.
He and his wife have five children. The family lives in
Santa Rosa.
The new court was created by 1971 legislation.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERN
RELEASE: I ediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
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#133
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed attorney Frank P. Adams of
University and
Piedmont as a Trustee of the California State, Colleges, subject to
Senate confirmation.
Adams, 63, will fill the unexpired term of the late E. Guy Warren
of Hayward, which ends on March 1, 1973.
In announcing the appointment, Governor Reagan said "Frank Adams
throughout his career has demonstrated his dedication to good government
and his concern for our young people. I know that these qualities and
his outstanding legal background will be invaluable to California State
Colleges Board of Trustees."
Adams, who maintains his law offices in San Francisco, is a Director
and Founding Member of Citizens for Constructive Action, a member of the
Executive Board of the Piedmont Boy Scouts and Vice President and Director
of Piedmont Camp Fire Girls.
He is also a member of the State Bar of California, the San
Francisco and American Bar Associations, the Institute of Food
Technologists, the University and Commonwealth Clubs of San Francisco,
Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and the Sons of the American Revolution.
A graduate of Stanford University, he earned his law degree from
the University of California's Boalt Hall.
Adams and his wife Analisa have four children. The family home is
at 781 Highland Avenue, Piedmont.
He is a Republican.
Trustees receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed two new members and
reappointed two other members to four-year terms on the State Board of
Education.
The new members are Robert D. Nesen, a Camarillo businessman and
civic leader, and Dr. David A. Hubbard, President and Professor of the
Old Testament at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena.
Reappointed were Mrs. Virla Krotz of Orinda and Eugene N. Ragle of
Roseville.
Nesen, 54, an automobile dealer will succeed the Rev. Donn D.
Moomaw of Los Angeles, whose term has expired and Dr. Hubbard will
succeed Mrs. Jeanette Ritchie of Menlo Park, who has accepted an
appointment to the Board of Trustees of California State Colleges.
A past chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee of the
Oxnard Chamber of Commerce, Nesen is active in the Navy League of the
United States, is a board member of the Motor Car Dealers Association
of Southern California and serves as Chairman of the associations
legislative committee.
He and his wife Delta have three sons. They live at 85 Avocado Place,
Camarillo.
Dr. Hubbard, 43, the author of numerous theological works, has
taught throughout the United States and in Great Britain. In addition
to his duties as president and a professor at Fuller Theological
Seminary, he is an executive vice president of the Gospel Broadcasting
Association, and serves as chairman of the Pasadena Urban Coalition.
He holds degrees from Westmont College and St. Andrews University
in Scotland.
He is married and has one daughter. His home is at 1925 North
Grand Oaks Avenue, Altadena.
Mrs. Krotz, a graduate of the University of California School of
Business Administration, is active in Orinda civic and service
organizations. She has serve on the board since 1968. She and her
husband Don live at 44 Monte Vista Road, Orinda.
Ragle, a Roseville radio station executive and former president of
the Auburn Union Elementary School Board of Trustees, has also served
on the board since 1968. He and his wife have three children. The family
home is at 188 Parkside Terrace, Auburn.
All four members are Republicans. Their appointments require the
advice and consent of two-thirds of the Senate.
Board members receive necessary travel expenses.
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March 7, 1972
Dictated by Bob Tuttle in Washington.
Senator Robert Dole, Chairman of the Republican National
Committee, issued the following statement today.
"The position of the National Committee has always been, and
remains the position stated on November 30, 1971 by Mr. R. L. (Dick)
Herman, vice chairman of the arrangements committee for the 1972
Republican National Convention.
"Mr. Herman said at that time neither ITT nor its subsidiary,
the Sheraton Corporation, has offered the Republican Party or the
arrangements committee any money at all.
"I understand that an offer was made to the San Diego Civic
Committee
however the arrangements committee feels that it would
be improper to take such a disproportionate share of the Republican
Party's convention needs from a single source."
Herman said, however, that ITT and Sheraton, like most major
corporations, would be offered opportunities to advertise in the
official convention program.
March 7, 1972
RE ITT CONTRIBUTION
The governor's understanding was based on inferences he drew
from general conversations and newspaper accounts which gave him
the impression that the local people in San Diego would reduce the
Sheraton pledge to the city proportionately as other convention 1
support came in. Whether or not that local support has yet reached
the point where Sheraton's guarantee is no longer needed is a
determination which San Diego Civic Committee must make,
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Salinas Municipal
Judge Nat A. Agliano to a newly-created Monterey County Superior
Court.
Judge Agliano, 40, a Republican, will receive an annual
salary of $35,080.
Named to the Salinas Judicial District Municipal Court in
1971 by Governor Reagan, Judge Agliano previously was a partner in a
Salinas law firm for eight years. From 1960 to 1963, he served as a
deputy state attorney general.
He is a member of the State Bar of California and the Monterey
County Bar Association.
Judge Agliano is a graduate of the Monterey Peninsula College
and the University of California at Berkeley. He earned his law
degree from U.C.'s Hastings College of the Law.
He and his wife Lillian have four children. They live in
Salinas.
The new court was created by 1971 legislation.
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#136
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. Kenneth D. Pack, 46,
of 2504 West Stuart Street, Fresno, to a four-year term on the State
Board of Chiropractic Examiners in the Department of Consumer Affairs.
Dr. Pack, a Republican, succeeds Dr. Alphonso G. Santomauro of
Los Angeles, whose term has expired.
Board members receive $25 per diem and necessary expenses.
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#137
Governor Ronald Reagan today named William H. Taggart, San Diego
banking executive and civic leader, to a four-year term on the
Commission on Judicial Qualifications, subject to Senate confirmation.
Taggart, 51, a Republican, succeeds Theodore E. Cummings of
Beverly Hills, who has been appointed to the California Hospital
Commission.
A vice president of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association of
San Diego, Taggart is active in numerous civic and service organizations
in the San Diego area.
He has served as a member of the La Jolla and Pacific Beach Town
Councils, and is active in the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, the San
Diego Convention Bureau, the United Fund and the American Cancer Society.
He and his wife have four children. The family home is at 1532
El Camino Del Teatro, La Jolla.
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#138
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Sacramento County Chief
Deputy District Attorney, Edward J. Garcia, to the Sacramento Judicial
District Municipal Court.
Garcia, 43, a Republican, will succeed Judge Margaret Flynn, who
has retired. He will receive an annual salary of $32,273.
A member of the District Attorney's Office since 1959, Garcia is a
member of the State Bar of California, the Sacramento County Bar
Association and a director of the Legal Aid Society of Sacramento County.
He is a native of Sacramento, a graduate of Sacramento City College
and the University of the Pacific and earned his law degree from
McGeorge School of Law.
He is married and has seven children. The family lives in
Sacramento.
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#139
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the resignation of
State Board of Education member Henry T. Gunderson.
In announcing the resignation, the governor said, "I wish
to express my deep regret that Henry has found it necessary to resign
from the board because of health.
"Henry has served with distinction since 1968. He has been
a wise and effective president who has provided thoughtful and
creative leadership during this period of hope and frustration in
public education. Henry's contributions to education in California
include service as president of the Board of Trustees of the San Jose
Unified School District and president of the Board of Trustees of the
San Jose City College. In addition, he has contfibuted significantly
to the advance of the community college movement in California and to
the growing recognition of the importance of occupational education
for our children. It is my expectation and desire that Henry will be
willing and able to return formally to a leadership role in California
education in the near future. I know that he will, in any event,
informally continue to provide counsel and stimulus in this field.
"I wish to take this opportunity to thank this exceptional
public servant in the name of the people of California."
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#140
Governor Ronald Reagan today nominated seven members to the State
Transportation Board.
The board will study all of California's transportation needs and
advise the governor, the legislature and the secretary of Business and
Transportation on the best means of meeting them.
The nominees are:
Alton M. Clem, 351 Marcella Way, Millbrae, business manager of the
Operating Engineers Union, Local 3, San Francisco, a Democrat.
Jonathan C. Gibson, P.O. Box 1272, Rancho Santa Fe, a San Diego
attorney. He is a Republican.
Thomas H. Hughes, 2116 Bel Air Avenue, San Jose, a San Jose
Attorney and member of the State Aeronautics Board. He is a Republican.
James C. Schmidt, 11330 Lorena Lane, El Cajon, Senior Vice President
of the San Diego Federal Savings and Loan Association and member of the
California Toll Bridge Authority. He is a Republican.
Fred C. Jennings, 740 Via Zapata, Riverside, a Riverside
businessman and California State Highway Commissioner. He is a Republican
Aubrey E. Austin, Jr., 587 East Channel Road, Santa Monica,
president of the Santa Monica Bank. He is a Republican.
Richard R. Brown, 480 Horizon Hills Drive, E1 Cajon, president of
Brown Tool Engineering Company and member of the El Cajon City Council.
He is a Republican.
The nominess must be confirmed by the Senate.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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March 8, 1972
NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR
GIVEN TO WIRE SERVICES
The president's impressive victory in New Hampshire
underscores the wide base of public support he enjoys and
amounts to a strong vote of confidence in the leadership he
has brought to the White House, including his policies and
programs, both foreign and domestic,
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#141
Governor Ronald Reagan today urged the Senate to act quickly on
emergency legislation passed yesterday by the Assembly which would revise
the state's new age of majority law to conform with the 1971 Welfare
Reform Act.
Without swift passage, the educational support thousands of
needy students are depending on is in jeopardy. He expressed the hope
that Senator Anthony Beilenson, chairman of the Senate Health and
Welfare Committee, would move immediately to assure that the entire
Senate can vote on the measure without delay.
The welfare reform law specified that 18-through 20 year old
students in the AFDC program making satisfactory progress in school,
could continue to receive public assistance. However, the age of
majority law which went into effect March 4 and granted 18-year-olds
the right to vote, denies AFDC assistance to students 18 and over.
The emergency legislation which the governor called for March 1
amends the age of majority law so that these students can continue to
receive the assistance they need to be able to carry on their education.
State Social Welfare Director Robert B. Carleson has asked county
welfare directors to continue to receive and hold applications for the
AFDC assistance in anticipation of swift legislative action. Notices of
discontinuance of aid to those young people affected are being held until
the latest possible time and they will not be sent if the Senate passes
the remedial legislation by early next week,
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#142
Mrs. Carma Leigh, who has served four California governors as
State Librarian, has informed Governor Ronald Reagan that she will
retire, effective July 1.
"In her more than 20 years of service to the people of California,
Mrs. Leigh has worked consistently to improve library service at both
the state and the local level, Governor Reagan said. "It was largely
through her efforts that the California Library Network Master Plan
was completed to make the total library collections of California
available to the public. On behalf of all Californians, I thank her for
an outstanding job and wish her a happy retirement."
Mrs. Leigh, a resident of Sacramento, was first appointed to her
post in 1951.
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#143
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the resignation of Miss
Virginia Allee, chief of the Division of Industrial Welfare in the
Department of Industrial Relations.
Miss Allee, who has served in the state post since 1967, resigned
on March 7 to accept a position as Regional Administrator of Employment
Standards in the U.S. Department of Labor. She is the first woman to
be appointed to the post.
In her new role, Miss Allee will be in charge of the administration
and enforcement of federal labor laws and employment standards in
Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawaii and American Samoa and Guam. Her
headquarters will be in San Francisco.
In announcing her resignation, Governor Reagan said "while I regret
that Virginia is leaving state service, I am proud that California is
providing the federal government with the first woman to hold the post
of a regional administrator of employment standards. She has established
an outstanding record as chief of the state's Division of Industrial
Welfare and I know that she will give the same dedicated service to the
nation as she has to the people of California."
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#144
Governor Ronald Reagan has announced the appointment of seven
members to the State Developmental Disabilities Planning and Advisory
Council in the Human Relations Agency.
The council, created by 1971 legislation, will advise the governor,
the secretary of the Human Relations Agency, the legislature and the
Health Planning Council on existing and future programs for the mentally
retarded and others with disabilities resulting from childhood
neurological disorders.
In addition to the seven members appointed by the governor, the
council will include two members appointed by the Senate Rules Committee,
two appointed by the speaker of the Assembly and the directors of the
Departments of Public Health, Social Welfare, Mental Hygiene,
Rehabilitation, Health Care Services and the Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
The governor's appointees are:
Mrs. Gwendolyn M. Stephens of Point Loma, Mrs. Juanita Shaffer of
Palo Alto, Wilbert C. Bradshaw of Fresno, Dr. Rose D. Jenkins of Pasadena,
Dr. John P. Morris of San Bernardino, Dr. George S. Roche of Sacramento
and Rolf R. Williams of Stockton.
Mrs. Stephens, who is active in San Diego community affairs, will
represent consumers of mentally retarded services. A former trustee of
the Chula Vista School Board, she has been a member of the board of the
Children's Dental Health Clinic and is on the board of the San Diego
Crippled Children's Society and the County Council of the San Diego
Association for Retarded Children. She and her husband William live at
3569 Silver Gate Place, Point Loma. She is a Republican.
Mrs. Shaffer, who will represent local, non-governmental, mental
retardation agencies, is a health education consultant to the Public
Health Nurses of Santa Clara County and the Santa Clara County Office of
Economic Opportunity.
She is also a member of the American Association on Mental Deficiency,
the National Association to Aid Retarded Children, the Santa Clara-San
Mateo Bi-County Committee for the Retarded and the Parents Group for
Special Education for the Palo Alto Unified School District.
Mrs. Shaffer and her husband Max live at 1215 Emerson Street, Palo
Alto. She is a Republican.
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Bradshaw, vice president of the California-Fresno Asphalt Company,
is chairman of the governor's committee on the employment of the
handicapped, a member of Mental Retardation Area Board 8 and is active
in several other groups involved with the mentally retarded. He lives at
1465 North Harrison Avenue, Fresno. He is a Republican.
Dr. Jenkins, supervisor of general psychiatric residents and child
psychiatric residents at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern
California Medical Center, will represent consumers of mentally retarded
services.
She serves as a consultant to several Southern California communities
on psychiatric and human relations problems, is active in national, state
and local professional groups, is the author of numerous works on medical,
sociological and psychiatric problems, and is the recipient of numerous
national awards, including the "Women of Achievement in Medicine" award
from the National Council of Negro Women.
Dr. Jenkins and her husband Dr. George L. Mallory live at 2021 North
Arroyo Boulevard, Pasadena. She is a Democrat.
Dr. Morris, Associate Director of Pediatrics at San Bernardino County
General Hospital, will represent consumers of developmental disabilities
services. He is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of
California at Los Angeles Pediatric Neurology Clinic and is superintendent
of the San Bernardino City Unified School District's Health Department.
He is also active in numerous professional medical groups.
Dr. Morris, a Republican, lives at 3855 Camellia Drive, San Bernarding
Dr. Roche, a retired educator and a former chief of research and
statistics of the California Department of Employment is a former chairman
of the Area Mental Retardation Program Board 3. He will represent
parents with a mentally retarded child in a state hospital.
He is active in numerous professional groups concerned with the
problems of the mentally retarded in addition to civic and service
organizations. He lives at 4269 14th Street, Sacramento. He is a Democra
Williams, executive director of the San Joaquin Association for
Retarded Children, will represent consumers of developmental disabilities
service.
He is active in numerous professional and volunteer groups concerned
with mentally retarded and crippled children. He lives at 1026 North
Yosemite, Stockton. He is a Democrat.
Members of the council will receive necessary expenses.
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#145
Governor Ronald Reagan announced today the following bills have
been signed:
AB 7 - Stull
Changes the operative date of provisions relating to
Chapter 10
the evaluation and assessment of public school
certificated employees enacted by Chapter 361 of the
Statutes of 1971.
AB 25 - Pierson
Extends the period which a judge may elect to be
Chapter 11
covered by survivors benefits under the Judges'
Retirement System.
AB 56 - Gonsalves
Includes within the definition of "private car" for
Chapter 9
purposes of the private car tax any passenger train
car, locomotive, or other equipment operated on the
railroads in this state and owned, used, or leased
by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation or any
successor in interest, other than a railroad company.
AB 64 - Johnson, R
Authorizes a county to fix certain fees on all land
Chapter 12
within a county service area or within the county.
It provides for the revenue from such fees to be used
for the acquisition, operation and maintenance of
county waste disposal sites and for financing waste
collection, processing, reclamation and disposal
services, where such services are provided.
AB 124 - Badham
Exempts certain contracts for electromechanical or
Chapter 13
electronic data-processing work or related services,
entered into by school districts in a county with a
population in excess of 1,400,000 in which no regional
educational processing center is in operation from
certain contractual limitations imposed by statute.
It also validates such contracts entered into prior
to the effective date of the bill.
AB 293 - Porter
Amends provisions of the Agricultural Code concerning
Chapter 15
assessments collected by the Director of Agriculture
to finance the Dairy Council Act.
AB 326 - Cory
Deletes the requirement that the signer of a Democrati
Chapter 14
Party presidential primary nomination petition affix
the date of his signature.
AB 381 - Conrad
Specifies that amendments made to the Vehicle Code by
Chapter 8
legislation enacted in 1971 reducing the age of
majority to 18 shall be operative on March 4, 1972.
AB 404 - Burton
Revises the membership of the Democratic county centra
Chapter 16
committee in the City and County of San Francisco.
SB 52 - Grunsky
Provides for the submission of Senate Constitutional
Chapter 17
Amendment No. 6 to the voters at the June primary
election.
SB 117 - Song
Specifies that no bond or cash deposit is required of
Chapter 7
holder of an inactive contractors license during the
period the license is inactive. The bill further
specifies that any action against the bond or cash
deposit filed by an active licensee must be brought
within two years after expiration of the license
period or periods for which a bond or cash deposit
has been provided or within two years of date that the
license of an active licensee is inactivated by the
Contractors' State License Board, whichever occurs
first.
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GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
March 13, 1972
through
March 19, 1972
Monday, March 13
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, March 14
11:30 a.m.
Presentation to Camp Fire Girls for 62nd
Birthday of organization, Governor's Office
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, March 15
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, March 16
10:00 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Evening
Taping of "Eyewitness News" program, KABC
Studio, 4151 Prospect Avenue, Los Angeles
Overnight - Los Angeles
Friday, March 17
Regents Meeting, 11th and Grand
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, March 18
No appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, March 19
No appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
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#147
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of
Dr. Wheeler J. North of Corona del Mar to the Navigation and Ocean
Development Advisory Commission.
An international authority on kelp harvesting and regeneration,
and
Dr. North has earned a Master's Degree in Oceanography,/ a Ph.D. from
the University of California in Biological Oceanography. He serves
as Professor of Environmental Sciences at the California Institute
of Technology. He succeeds Col. Theodore Gillenwaters of Newport
Beach who has resigned.
Dr. North, a Republican, will serve a four-year term at no
salary. He will resign his post on the California Advisory Commission
on Marine and Coastal Resources.
Dr. North and his wife Barbara have two children. The family
lives at 205 Carnation Avenue, Corona del Mar.
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#148
Governor Ronald Reagan today named three new members to the
California Commission on Aging and reappointed Chairman Mrs. Edna B.
Russell of Atherton and Vice Chairman Dr. J. Tillman Hall of Los Angeles.
The new members are Mrs. Mattie G. Glass of San Diego, Robert G.
Jack of Moraga and Dr. Albert G. Feldman of Pasadena.
Mrs. Russell, 60, who has served on the commission since 1967, is an
advisor to the Little House Senior Activity Center in Menlo Park, a
consultant on aging to a special project sponsored by the College of San
Mateo and the Community Council of San Mateo County and a member of the
National Advisory Committee on Older Americans in the Department of
Health Education and Welfare's Administration on Aging. She lives at
147 Patricia Drive, Atherton. She is a Republican.
Dr. Hall, 56, chairman of the Department of Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance at the University of Southern California,
has served on the commission since 1967. He is president of the American
Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation (Southwest
Division). He lives at 8065 Kentwood Avenue, Los Angeles. He is a
Republican.
Mrs. Glass, 72, will succeed Mrs. Iva M. Bushman of Pacific
Palisades, whose term has expired.
Active in a number of Negro women's groups in the San Diego area,
Mrs. Glass is president of the Golden Friendship Club in the Model Cities
Area of San Diego, a member of the Women's Civic League, and a board
member of the San Diego E.O.C. She and her husband Solomon live at
3825 Ocean View Boulevard, San Diego. She is a Democrat.
Jack, 46, administrative managerof the Kaiser Foundation Research
Institute, Medicare Liaison Division, in Oakland, succeeds Sister Mary
Gabriel Lally, who has resigned. He lives at 11 Lynwood Place, Moraga.
He is a Democrat.
Dr. Feldman, 62, Professor of Social Work at the University of
Southern California School of Social Work, will succeed Louis Orsatti of
Santa Monica, who has resigned.
Dr. Feldman, a Democrat, is president-elect of the Western
Gerontological Society, a member of the Governor's Citizen Advisory
Council on Mental Hygiene and has served as chairman of the task force on
planning, California State White House Conference on Aging. He lives at
765 South San Rafael, Pasadena.
All the appointments require Senate confirmation.
Commissioners receive necessary expenses.
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Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Edwin Y. Wang of San
Francisco to the California Job Development Corporation Law Executive
Board.
Wang, 50, production manager and advertising coordinator for RCA
Distributing Company in South San Francisco, will represent disadvantaged
areas on the board. He succeeds George Medina of San Francisco who has
resigned.
Wang is married and the father of four children. His home is at
2126 32nd Avenue, San Francisco.
He will serve at the pleasure of the governor.
Members of the board receive necessary expenses.
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Mrs. Lucile C. Hosmer of San Carlos was reappointed today to a
four-year term on the California Women's Board of Terms and Parole by
Governor Ronald Reagan.
A San Mateo County civic leader and former interior decorator,
Mrs. Hosmer has served on the board since 1968. She lives at 520 Elm
Street, San Carlos. She is a Republican.
She will receive an annual salary of $10,710.
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#151
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Dr. F. Harold Johnson,
Roseville physician and civic leader, to the State Board of Public
Health.
Dr. Johnson, 41, will fill the unexpired term of Dr. John E. Vaughan
of Bakersfield who resigned to accept an appointment to the California
Hospital Commission. The term ends in January, 1974.
A member of the Roseville City Council, Dr. Johnson has served as
president of the Placer-Nevada County Medical Society, as a member of
the Regional Advisory Committee to the UC-Davis Medical School and as
director of the Regional Medical Programs Project at Roseville Community
Hospital.
He has also served as president of the Roseville City School Board
and as president of the Placer County School Board Members Association.
A graduate of the University of Illinois, he earned his medical
degree from the University of Illinois Medical School and completed
advanced studies at the U.S. Navy's School of Aviation Medicine in
Florida.
He and his wife Christine have two children. The family lives at
1040 Magnolia Way, Roseville.
Dr. Johnson is a Republican.
Board members receive travel expenses.
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March 13, 1972 comment attributed to Governor Reagan in
response to telephone inquiries from reporters re Pete
McCloskey's withdrawal from the presidential race:
"Some may have said "run him out of the party,* but that
was an expression of opinion, not official procedure.
However, it would seen that when a man finds he can no
longer accept the philosophy or principles of a political
party and he is unable to persuade that party to accept
his, he should affiliate with a party more attuned to his
own thinking."
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#152
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Kenneth F. Fare, Chief
Probation Officer for San Diego County, to the California Council on
Criminal Justice.
Fare, 45, will serve in a newly-created position on the council as a
representative of county probation officers.
Prior to his appointment to his post with San Diego County, Fare
served as an instructor at San Jose State College in the Department of
Criminal Justice Administration and was with the California Youth
Authority and the Santa Clara County Juvenile Probation Department.
He is a member of the California Probation, Parole and Correctional
Association, the Western Correctional Association, the Professional
Council of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and has served
as a past regional chairman of the Advisory Board of the California
Council on Criminal Justice and other professional organizations.
He lives at 7703 Via Carpi, La Jolla. He is a Republican.
Council members serve at the pleasure of the governor. They
receive necessary expenses.
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Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-14-72
#153
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed Philip R. Bradley and
Dr. Paul C. Henshaw, both of Berkeley, to the State Mining and Geology
Board, subject to Senate confirmation.
Bradley, a consulting mining engineer, has served on the board
since 1950, representing mining engineers. He lives at 2801 Oak Knoll
Terrace, Berkeley. He is a Republican.
Dr. Henshaw, Vice President of the Homestake Mining Company, San
Francisco, has been a board member since 1968. He represents economic
geologists. He is a Republican. He lives at 875 Arlington Avenue,
Berkeley.
Members of the board serve for four-year terms. They receive
necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVE OR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-14-72
#154
Governor Ronald Reagan today reappointed President Fred J.
Seulberger and named Mrs. Donna M. Moren, both of Oakland, to the
board of the 1st District Agricultural Association (California Spring
Garden and Home Show, Oakland).
Seulberger, an Oakland florist, has served on the board since 1969.
He lives at 250 Montecito Avenue, Oakland.
Mrs. Moren, a teacher and housewife, of 2 Harbord Court, Oakland,
will succeed the late Barbara J. Muller of Piedmont.
Both Mrs. Moren and Seulberger are Republicans. They will serve
four-year terms.
Board members receive necessary expenses.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-14-72
#155
Governor Ronald Reagan today called a special election for June 6
to fill the vacancy in the 49th Assembly District resulting from the
resignation of Peter Schabarum. The term ends in January, 1973.
Schabarum has resigned to become a candidate for the Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors in the First District.
The primary election for the vacant assembly seat will be held
May 9.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNO.
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-14-72
#156
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed urgency legislation
(SB 10, Marler; and AB 734, Bagley) to amend the age of majority law.
The governor thanked the legislature for acting promptly on these
bills and said it is an excellent example of how quickly members of the
legislature can act when they really want to.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-14-72
#157
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of Alhambra
City Attorney Don D. Bercu to the Alhambra Judicial District Municipal
Court.
Bercu, 52, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of $32,273.
He succeeds Judge Lothrop Smith, who has retired.
A practising attorney in Alhambra since 1949, Bercu was appointed
Assistant City Attorney and City Prosecutor in 1958 and was named City
Attorney in 1962. He has been reelected to the post three times.
He is a past president of the San Gabriel Valley Bar Association,
a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and has served as
president of the Association of City Attorneys of Southern California.
He is also active in the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA of
West San Gabriel Valley and the Alhambra United Way.
A graduate of the University of Utah, he earned his law degree
from the University of Southern California.
He and his wife Catherine live in Alhambra.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVEL JR
RELEASE: mmmediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-14-72
#158
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed five municipal judges, a
jury commissioner and five attorneys to 11 newly-created Los Angeles
County Superior Courts.
Elevated to the superior court were Long Beach Municipal Judge
Elsworth M. Beam, Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Richard A. Gadbois,
Jr., Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Peter E. Giannini, Los Angeles
Municipal Judge Leslie W. Light and Alhambra Municipal Judge Peter S.
Smith.
The other new judges are Los Angeles attorney Frank T. Cotter, Los
Angeles attorney Richard P. Byrne, Pasadena attorney August J. Goebel,
Los Angeles attorney Harry L. Hupp, Los Angeles County Court Commissioner
Glenn M. Pfau and North Hollywood attorney Jack W. Swink.
Judge Beam, 49, a Republican, was named to the Long Beach Judicial
District Court by Governor Reagan in 1970. He previously was in the
private practice of law in Long Beach for more than 20 years. He is
active in civic affairs and professional organizations, is a graduate of
Pomona College and earned his law degree from the University of Southern
California. Judge Beam and his wife Shirley have two children. They live
in Long Beach.
Judge Gadbois, 39, a Republican, was appointed to the Los Angeles
Judicial District Municipal Court in 1971. He previously was with Los
Angeles law firms for nine years and served for one year as a deputy
state attorney. He is active in professional legal groups. Judge Gadbois
holds degrees from St. John's College and Loyola University and earned his
law degree from the University of Southern California Law Center. He and
his wife Jeanne have five children. The family lives in San Marino.
Judge Giannini, 50, a Republican, was appointed to the Los Angeles
Judicial District Municipal Court in 1970. No has practiced law in
California since 1946 and is active in numerous civic, service and
professional organizations. He is a graduate of the University of
California at Berkeley and earned his law degree from UC's Boalt Hall.
Judge Giannini and his wife Mercedes have six children. They live in
Los Angeles.
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Judge Light, 41, a Democrat, was appointed to the Los Angeles
Judicial District Municipal Court by Governor Reagan in 1969. He
previously had served as a Los Angeles County Jury Commissioner and
Judge pro tempore of the Superior Court and as a Los Angeles County
Deputy District Attorney. He is active in civic and professional
organizations. He has attended West Point Military Academy, holds degrees
from Los Angeles City College and Los Angeles State College and earned
his law degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. He and
his wife Ruth have three children. They live in Culver City.
Judge Smith, 39, a Republican, was named to the Alhambra Judicial
District Municipal Court by Governor Reagan in 1967. He previously was
a partner in a Los Angeles law firm and served as a Deputy City Attorney
for the City of Los Angeles. He is active in numerous civic and
professional organizations in addition to organizations concerned with
drug abuse. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley
and earned his law degree from the Loyola University School of Law. He
is married and has two children. The family home is in Monterey Park.
Cotter, 57, a Republican, a partner in the firm of Wilson, Selig and
Cotter, has practiced law in California since 1947. He previously
practiced law in New York State and was an administrative director of the
Navy General Court-Martial Sentence Review Board in Washington, D.C. He
is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut and earned his law
degree from Cornell University in New York. He is active in Los Angeles
community affairs and in professional organizations. He and his wife
Marjorie have two children. The family home is in North Hollywood.
Byrne, 38, a Democrat, has practiced law in the Los Angeles area
since 1959. A partner in the firm of Bodkin, Breslin and Luddy, he has
also served as a Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney. He is also
active in professional, civic and service organizations. He is a graduate
of the University of California at Los Angeles, has attended Notre Dame
Law School and earned his law degree from the University of Southern
California. He and his wife Marguerite have five children. The family
lives in Los Angeles.
Goebel, 47, a Republican, has practiced law in Southern California
since 1956. Active in civic affairs and professional organizations, he
is president of the Arcadia Unified School District board. He has
attended the University of Wisconsin, the University of California at
Los Angeles and earned his law degree from Loyola Law School. He and
his wife Beverly have two children. The family lives in Arcadia.
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Hupp, 42, a Republican, a partner in the firm of Beardsley,
Hufstedler and Kemple, has practiced law in Los Angeles since 1955. He
is active in community affairs and has served as president of the San
Gabriel School District Board. He is a graduate of Pomona College and
Stanford University and earned his law degree from Stanford Law School.
His home is in San Gabriel.
Pfau, 50, a Republican, has served as Commissioner of the Los Angeles
County Superior Court since 1960. He previously practiced law in Contra
Costa and Los Angeles Counties and from 1956 to 1959 was a Los Angeles
Deputy City Attorney. He earned BA and BS degrees from the University
of Washington and earned his law degree from Southwestern University.
He and his wife Phyllis have four children. They live in Arcadia.
Swink, 47, a Republican, a partner in the North Hollywood firm of
Clark, Swink, Thatcher and Leary, has practiced law in the Los Angeles
area since 1950. He is active in civic, service and professional
organizations. He has attended the University of Redlands, the University
of Southern California and earned his law degree from Southwestern
University. He and his wife Doris have three children. The family home
is in North Hollywood.
The judges will receive annual salaries of $35,080.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-14-72
#159
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced that agreement had
been reached with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare on
funding arrangements to continue the Commission on Aging through fiscal
1972-73.
The negotiations, which have been underway for several months,
involved the determination of the amount of credits for services provided,
and the amount of cash which the state would need to continue to qualify
this year for the $2,685,418 in federal funds under the Federal Older
Americans Act.
The agreement concluded that the state could continue to
qualify by providing $34,000 in services, and $69,000 in cash.
The agreement also settled the question of cash versus
services which would be required to continue the program for the rest
of the year. The governor directed that the necessary $45,000 in
cash be made available from emergency funds.
"California has a larger percentage of the nation's older
persons than any other state,' " the governor said.
"I am pleased that we have been able to arrange to continue
this important program of assistance to our senior citizens."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-15-72
#160
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed veteran correctional officer
Daniel J. McCarthy as Warden of the California State Prison at San
Luis Obispo.
McCarthy, 58, Deputy Superintendent at the California Men's Colony
at San Luis Obispo since 1967, will succeed Harold Field of San Luis
Obispo, who has retired.
McCarthy, a Democrat, began his career in 1949 as a correctional
officer at San Quentin and worked his way up through the ranks to his
present position.
He has also served as a Correctional Sergeant and Correctional
Lieutenant at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville, as a
Supervising Departmental Training Officer at Sacramento, as Program
Administrator of the California Medical Facility and as Correctional
Administrator at the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi.
He holds degrees from Vallejo Junior College and Sacramento State
College and has taken graduate work at the University of California.
He also holds a Lifetime Junior College Teaching Credential.
McCarthy, whose appointment must be confirmed by the Senate, will
serve at the pleasure of the Director of Corrections. He will receive
an annual salary of $23,712.
His home is at 229 Luneta Drive, San Luis Obispo.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-15-72
Because of the governor's bout with the
flu, his press conference scheduled for
tomorrow at 10 a.m. is cancelled.
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-15-72
#161
Governor Ronald Reagan today urged citizens to join in the
observation of National Parks Week (March 20-24) in California.
He called for the observance in connection with plans to commemorate
the National Parks' centennial in California with a series of events
centered in Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley near Sequoia, Yosemite
and Kings Canyon. National Parks.
These were the second, third, and fourth national parks established
in the United States, preceded only by Yellowstone National Park,
established in 1872 in Wyoming and Montana.
"California has played a significant role in the development of the
park concept in the United States," Governor Reagan said.
He noted that Yosemite National Park, established by Congress in
1890, was originally a California State Park, set up in 1864 under an
Act signed by President Lincoln. "This marked the beginning of the state
park concept, not only in California but in the Nation, he said.
California now has five national parks, eight national monuments,
two national historic sites, a national seashore, and a national
recreation area.
"These scenic areas receive over 10 million visitors a year-
tourists from all over the nation and the world. They are an excellent
complement to our own State Park System of over 200 units and our many
hundreds of local parks and outdoor recreation areas," the governor said.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-16-72
#162
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced his support of the Nixon
Administration's policies and proposed legislation for the financing
of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting which administers funds
provided by Congress for the support of local public broadcasting
stations.
The governor said that critics of the Corporation of Public
Broadcasting have expressed concern over what appears to be a move
towards centralized control of public broadcasting under the influence
of the corporation, but the Nixon Administration's legislative goals
are directed toward keeping the national public broadcasting system
from becoming a government-run system, preserving the autonomy of the
local stations while at the same time assuring a diversity of program
sources for stations to draw on in addition to their own programs.
The administration has prepared legislation that would limit
the corporation's funding for a one-year period during which time a
serious study could be made of public broadcast structure and funding.
Other bills introduced in Congress provide for continued long-term
financing of public broadcasting, the governor pointed out.
In a letter to Dr. Clayton T. Whitehead, President Nixon's
director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy, Governor Reagan
said, "I support the administration's legislative proposal to the
degree that it forestalls further development in a centrally controlled
national public broadcast system and fosters the development of a nation-
wide public broadcasting system whose bedrock will be the strong,
independent local station."
The governor's Educational Television Advisory Committee has also
gone on record opposing a centrally controlled national public broadcast
system.
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March 15, 1972
Telephone Statement
Following is a statement attributable to a spokesman for the
governor in response to Speaker Moretti's press conference
remarks:
Mr. Moretti's allegation that the governor has had such a poll
taken or that he is in possession of such a poll is an outright
and unabashed lie.
If Mr. Moretti has any such poll it must be one that only he
has access to since no such poll has been requested or presented
to the governor. This bizarre availability of a poll to Mr.
Moretti, if such is the case, in itself raises strong doubt about
its credibility.
In calling attention to the gross failures of the Democratic
leadership, its sad record, its do-nothingness and its continual
foot-dragging on the people's business the governor has obviously
touched a very sensitive nerve.
On the subject of polls, the governor does not know whether
Mr. Moretti is in possession of any recent polls concerning the
people's rating of the legislative leadership, but the governor
thinks that the people of California might be very interested in
the results.
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVER,
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-16-72
#163
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced a new state-wide program to
rehabilitate state employees injured on the job and help them find their
way back into the work force.
He announced the plan during a meeting with state agency and
department heads at which he reported that his program for the reduction
of on-the-job injuries has surpassed its 1971 goal.
The new program, which will become a part of the Governor's Program
to Reduce Occupational Injuries, calls for the formation of return-to-
work councils at state-wide facilities to deal with the problems of those
employees whose injuries have forced them to remain off the job and those
whose on-the-job injuries have led to permanent physical handicaps.
"This will provide another avenue for us to assist those state
employees whose injuries or permanent physical handicaps have resulted in
severe economic hardship on their families and often spells the end of
the employee's working life in state service, he said.
The goal of the program to reduce occupational injuries in 1971
called for a 10 percent reduction in the number of work days lost because
of the job-injuries.
In 1971, there were 683 fewer lost time injuries and the number of
work days lost decreased by 21,598 compared with 1970, the first year
of the program, the governor reported.
Since 1969, the year before the program was initiated, the rate of
disabling injuries has been reduced by 21 percent; there were fewer than
809 lost time injuries and the number of work days lost decreased by 33,73
"In addition to the human anguish and the economic hardship this can
cause state employees and their families, this record has resulted in a
savings of more than $4 million to taxpayers," the governor said.
In announcing the results the governor paid tribute to Paul B.
Cossaboon, who managed the program last year, to Robert Benjamin, the
1972 program manager, and Secretary of Agriculture and Services Earl Coke,
cabinet coordinator of the program.
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Department of Social Welfare, State of California
Contact: Jack Cooper - 445-2077
March 17, 1972
MEMO TO THE PRESS
State Social Welfare Director, Robert Carleson, will hold a
press conference this morning at 11:30 in Room 1190.
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Department of Social Welfare, State of California
Contact: Jack Cooper - 445-2077
March 17, 1972
#21-72
State Department of Social Welfare Director Robert Carleson
today issued the following statement:
"After a very quick review of the so-called report presented by
Senator Beilenson, I find that it is nothing more than a rehash of the
same charges made by Senator Beilenson as he started hearings of his
personally created committee last November.
"In my appearances in those hearings, I submitted three separate
documents and reports answering all of the points and demonstrating
that the State Department of Social Welfare had been, in fact, imple-
menting those sections of the Welfare Reform Act, over which we have
responsibility and all of its facets as quickly as was humanly
possible. In addition, I submitted to the committee copies of
Attorney General's opinions refuting his charges that our regulations
were illegal.
"I am very disappointed but not really surprised that virtually
none of this material submitted by us has been included or referred to
in the so-called report. I believe that Senator Beilenson and some
other legislators who have been fighting real welfare reform from the
start and who have done everything possible to obstruct this reform
are now finding it impossible to explain to their supporters in welfare
rights organizations and other groups why they were a party to the
Welfare Reform Act. The Act is a good act. It is being administered
and implemented properly. Some sections of the Reform Act which were
rewritten by legislative staff members are in court. We hope that
even these sections will survive court tests and will be effective.
"I am firmly convinced that neither Senator Beilenson nor most
of the other legislative negotiators fully realized to what they were
agreeing when they agreed to the Welfare Reform Act.
"Contrary to Senator Beilenson's claim, welfare reform has been
successful, legal and has and will continue to result in tremendous
savings to the taxpayer, notwithstanding some additional administrative
costs borne by the counties and the state in order to meet last-minute
and obviously confusing and conflicting court orders which as the law
required had to be submitted to the counties by the State Department
of Social Welfare."
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Telephone Statement
3-17-72
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following state-
ment in response to queries from the press:
"The president has used the voice of reason to calm an
emotional storm. The cooling off period he proposes is
absolutely necessary. I hope that Congress acts swiftly to
put this imaginative program into effect which places the
bussing issue in the hands of local school boards and permits
them to make the decisions.
"At the same time, the president is proposing bold steps
to assure that every child will receive the best possible
education."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Paul Beck
445-4571
3-17-72
#164
Governor Ronald Reagan today issued the following statement:
"The California Supreme Court's denial of the attorney general's
request for a rehearing on the court's capital punishment decision is
extremely unfortunate although not unexpected.
"However, we intend to vigorously pursue our appeal before the U.S.
Supreme Court.
"Both the appeal, and other efforts now underway to overturn the
effect of the state court ruling by amending the constitution are based
on our firm conviction that only the people themselves can and must make
the ultimate decision on whether capital punishment is retained in
California.
"We intend to do everything in our power to assure that the people
themselves have the right to decide on this grave issue at the ballot box.
"As I have said before, I believe the state court's decision
represents a lethal blow to society's right to protect itself against
assassins and murderers.
"We dare not forget that the 107 persons now on death row in
California are there because they were convicted in the courts of the
most cruel and heinous crimes which can be committed against society.
"The outrageous cruelty and barbarism of their acts---which they
perpetrated on their victims without the slightest degree of humanitarian
concern or mercy has resulted in the deaths of at least 166 men, women
and children including 14 policemen.
"The 107 convicted murderers and kidnappers sent to death row were
arrested during their criminal careers for more than 500 felonies.
"Without the death penalty, there can be no ultimate sanctions
against those murderers who would take, and take again, the lives of
policemen and correctional officers whose sworn duty is to protect the
law-abiding from the criminal.
"An overwhelming majority of our people believe that the death penalty
is a deterrent to crime. I agree.
"It is the people who have established our constitution and our laws.
We will not give up our fight to assure that the people have the last
word on this issue of their own protection."
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
MEMO TO THE PRESS
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-17-72
#165
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
March 20, 1972
through
April 2, 1972
Monday, March 20
1:30 p.m.
Brief remarks to Governor's Manpower Policy
Task Force, Governor's Council Room
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, March 21
10:30 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Los Angeles
Wednesday, March 22
10:00 a.m.
National Association of Secondary School
Principals, Anaheim Convention Center.
Speech.
Noon
Trustees Meeting, State Colleges headquarters,
5670 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, March 23
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Friday, March 24
Noon
San Francisco Bond Club, Fairmont Hotel.
Speech.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, March 25 -
EASTER VACATION - Phoenix*
Sunday, April 2
*Wednesday, March 29
Trunk and Tusk Republican Club Fundraising
Dinner, Del Webb Townhouse, Phoenix
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EJG
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Paul Beck
445-4571
3-20-72
#166
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced the formation of the
Manpower Policy Task Force and charged it with the responsibility of
developing a comprehensive manpower and job creation policy for the
State of California.
In announcing his action, the governor made it clear that the
task force would not engage in just another study.
While speaking to task force members at their initial meeting
today, the governor said:
"The task force will be comprehensive and provide an in-depth
analysis of all on-going programs in the areas of manpower and job
creation. It will identify the critical elements in these fields and
provide decision-making information for the administration.
"When we speak of manpower, we must think of the entire
spectrum- jobs, employment, job training, employment demands, and job
placement.
"Federal manpower programs have not solved the problems asso-
ciated with manpower and employment because they have been largely a
reactive or responsive mechanism to satisfy a particular crisis. The
result has been a hodge-podge and proliferation of programs.
"Last year the U.S. Department of Labor spent approximately
$500 million in California on more than 100 different programs. Until
now, the state has been a manager of federally funded programs with
tight categorical restructions and little flexibility. About the only
thing accomplished in the use of manpower during the past 30 years is
to find out what does not work. With the formation of this task
force, we plan to reverse the trend and find out what works."
James M. Hall, secretary of the Human Relations Agency, which
includes the Department of Human Resources Development, said the state
will cooperate fully with the task force.
"HRD, which is the state department most concerned with
manpower and employment, and other state departments will contribute
whatever is necessary to help the task force complete its assignment,"
Hall said.
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"California is fortunate to be able to call upon the collective
talents of a cross section of business, labor, professional, academic,
and citizen leaders to man this task force. They have committed their
personal time and expertise to seek creative solutions to the problems
of manpower and employment.
Thomas Hamilton, member of the San Diego law firm of Luce,
Forward, Hamilton & Scripps, will be chairman of the task force.
Other task force members include:
Robert Bell, president, Alliance Ventures, Inc., Los Angeles;
Daniel P. Bryant, chairman and president, Bekins Company, Los Angeles;
Ruben Castillo, Ruben's Engine Rebuilding, Los Angeles; David Chow,
president, David Chow & Company, Inc., Los Angeles; Joseph T. DeSilva,
secretary-treasurer, Retail Clerks Union, Hollywood; Burnham Enerson,
McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enerson, San Francisco; Edwin Hiroto,
executive director, City View Hospital, Los Angeles; Charles F. Horne,
president, Industry-Education Councils of America, Pomona; Dr. Arthur
Kemp, Claremont Men's College, Claremont; Robert W. Kerr, chairman,
Westgate Capital Company, Inc., Santa Rosa;
Ernest J. Loebbecke, chairman of the board, The TI Corporation,
Los Angeles; F. Douglas McDaniel, El Centro; Fred Merrill, chairman of
the board emeritus, Fireman's Fund American Insurance Co.,
San Francisco; Mrs. Marie T. Mills, president, Mount San Antonio
College, Walnut; A. Patrick Nagel, Santa Ana; Leslie C. Peacock,
president, Crocker-Citizens National Bank, San Francisco; Russell K.
Peterson, McDonnell-Douglas, Santa Monica; James G. Shields, Jr.,
chairman of the board, California Canadian Bank, San Francisco; Angelo
J. Siracusa, vice president, San Francisco Bay Area Council, World Trade
Center, San Francisco; Joan Sparks, Good Samaritan Home, Oakland; Fred
Stewart, Santa Paula; Walter Taylor, W. J. Taylor & Co., Inc., Oakland;
Nick T. Ugrin, vice president, Community and Governmental Affairs, Union
Oil Company of California, Los Angeles; James J. Viso, Santa Clara;
and Carlton Pederson, professor of business management, Stanford
Graduate School of Business, Palo Alto.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: Immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact:
Ed Gray
445-4571
3-20-72
#167
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced a major reorganization of
his Public Affairs Staff, effective today, March 20.
Press Secretary Paul Beck will become a Special Assistant to the
Governor, charged with coordination of the governor's public appearances,
speeches, etc.
He will be succeeded as Press Secretary by Edwin Gray, the present
Associate Press Secretary.
Clyde Walthall, presently Legislative Assistant to the Secretary of
Human Relations, will become Associate Press Secretary.
Beck's responsibilities will include coordination of Agency and
Departmental Public Affairs activities throughout the state, as well as
continued advice and counsel to the governor and the cabinet on public
affairs matters in general.
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= OFFICE OF THE GOVE!
)R
RELEASE: I ediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Ed Gray
445-4571
3-21-72
#168
Governor Ronald Reagan today signed legislation
that appropriates $1,200,000 to the State Department
of Public Health to augment services to physically
handicapped children.
The bill (AB 79) provides for the continuation
of services to the physically handicapped until they
reach the age of 21.
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OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
RELEASE: immediate
Sacramento, California
Contact: Ed Gray
445-4571
3-21-72
#169
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Mrs. Henry R. Drinker Jr.
of Saratoga, a housewife and civic leader, to the State Board of
Education.
Mrs. Drinker, 40, will fill the unexpired term of Henry Gunderson
of San Jose, who has resigned. The term ends in January, 1973.
Mrs. Drinker, a Republican, is an assistant to the director of
Project IDEA (Infant Deafness Educational Association), an experimental
program for children between the ages of 18 months and 3 years,
administered by the Santa Clara County Board of Education.
She is a member of the Summit League of Saratoga-Los Gatos, the
Sierra Club, the Junior League of San Jose and has been active in the
Volunteer Bureau of Northern Santa Clara County, the Palo Alto
Community Council, the Ravenswood Child Care Center and the United
Fund.
A graduate of Mills College in Oakland, Mrs. Drinker has also
taken post-graduate courses at San Jose State College and the University
of California at Santa Cruz.
She and her husband, Dr. Henry R. Drinker, a San Jose urologist,
have four children. The family home is at 14711 Fruitvale Avenue,
Saratoga.
The appointment requires the advice and consent of two-thirds of
the Senate.
Board members receive necessary travel expenses.
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#170
Governor Ronald Reagan today expressed "great shock and sorrow" on
learning of the death of State Agriculture Director Jerry W. Fielder.
In a statement, the governor said:
"Words are inadequate to express my great shock and sorrow at the
terrible news of Jerry Fielder's death. It is a tragic loss to Nancy
and me personally and to the many others who had the privilege of knowing
him as I did---a warm, kind friend and a dedicated and respected public
servant.
"For Mrs. Fielder and the family this is a sorrowful and trying
hour. They are uppermost in our thoughts and in our prayers. No words
can ease the grievous pain that they must feel and we pray that God
will grant them the healing comfort only He can give."
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#171
Governor Ronald Reagan today named Norwalk attorney F. Lawrence
Plotkin to the Downey Judicial District Municipal Court.
Plotkin, 47, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of
$32,273. He succeeds Judge William McGinley who has been appointed
to the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
A native of Los Angeles, Plotkin has practiced law in Los Angeles
County since 1951. He has served as a member of the Little Lake City
School District Board of Education and is active in the Southeast
District Bar Association and the California Trial Lawyers Association.
Plotkin has attended the University of California at Berkeley and
the University of Loyola and earned his law degree from the University
of Southern California.
He is married and has two sons. The family lives in Whittier.
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#172
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Selim S. Franklin, Costa
Mesa attorney and civic leader, to the newly-created Harbor Judicial
District Municipal Court.
Franklin, 42, a Republican, will receive an annual salary of
$32,273.
A practicing attorney in Costa Mesa since 1957, he has served as a
trustee of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District and the Newport
Harbor Union High School District and is a past president of the Costa
Mesa Chamber of Commerce, the Orange County Volunteer Association and
the Volunteer Bureau of Newport Harbor.
He is also active in the Costa Mesa United Fund, the Boys Club and
the Boy and Girl Scouts.
Franklin is a graduate of Pomona College and earned his law degree
from Stanford University.
He and his wife Dianne have four children. They live in Costa Mesa.
The court was created by 1971 legislation.
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#173
Governor Ronald Reagan today appointed Patrick McCray, a Santa Ana
lawyer, and Alan N. McKone, a Referee of the Orange County Juvenile Court
to West Orange County Judicial District Municipal Courts.
McCray, 50, and McKone, 47, will receive annual salaries of $32,273.
A partner in the firm of Noonan, McCray and Alevizon, since 1969,
McCray has practiced law in Santa Ana since 1963. He previously practiced
law in Illinois where he also served as a Referee in Bankruptcy in the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Illinois. He succeeds
Judge James K. Turner who has been elevated to the Orange County Superior
Court.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, American Bar
Association, Orange County Bar Association, American Board of Trial
Advocates, the American Judicature Society and has served as judge pro
tem in the Orange County Superior Court.
McCray is a graduate of Illinois State Normal University and earned
his law degree from Kent College of the Law in Chicago.
He and his wife Ruth have two children. They live in Santa Ana.
McKone, 47, who has served as Referee of the Orange County Juvenile
Court since 1969, will succeed Judge Lloyd Blanpied, Jr., who has been
elevated to the Orange County Superior Court.
A former Orange County Deputy District attorney and an expert on
narcotics problems, McKone also serves as an instructor at Orange Coast
College and Golden West College of Orange County.
He is also a member of the Orange County Bar Association, the
State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the Orange
County Criminal Courts Bar Association, the California Trial Lawyers
Association, the Orange County Peace Officers Association, the California
Police Educators Association and other civic, service and professional
groups.
McKone attended New York University and Loyola University, holds a
degree in Biological Science from Los Angeles State College and earned
his law degree from Van Norman University College of the Law.
He and his wife Barbara have three children. The family lives in
Orange.
Both appointees are Republicans.
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#174
RELEASE.
Governor Ronald Reagan today announced he is proposing a new
legislative program designed to relieve the financial burden on state
employees who are required to wear a uniform as a condition of their
employment. The State Personnel Board has estimated the cost of the
program at $2 million.
The governor said Assembly Minority Leader Robert T. Monagan of
Tracy, who made a major contribution in developing the program, will
sponsor the enabling legislation.
Under the governor's proposal, the state would provide an annual
uniform allowance of up to $150 and in addition would furnish all
protective and safety equipment, including firearms. Some work
clothing, worn to protect employees' regular attire, would also be
provided.
"I am extremely pleased to make this announcement," the governor
said, "because I have felt for some time that our state employees who
have to wear uniforms deserve a special allowance. My only regret is
that the state's financial problems have prevented us from making this
proposal up to now.
"This is not to say that all of our fiscal problems have been
solved. However, providing a uniform allowance, particularly for the
state's law enforcement and correctional personnel, is something this
administration has wanted to do for some time. I am happy that we can
do it now."
Assemblyman Monagan, whose district includes the Deuel Vocational
Institution at Tracy, said the State Board of Control will be required
to establish a procedure to determine what articles of clothing are
to be included in the uniform allowance.
"The board will also determine the average annual replacement cost
for each type of uniform," Monagan said, "and annually review and adjust
the allowances when necessary."
In addition, the board will:
--Determine when new employees will become eligible for a uniform
allowance;
--Decide the need for changes in uniforms based on departmental
requests, and;
--Determine what degree of need for identification is necessary to
support a uniform requirement.
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H. W. Sullivan, commissioner of the Highway Patrol, said the
governor's proposal was "most appropriate and desirable at this time.
"The allowance will assist new officers coming into state service
to be properly dressed and equipped. This will be an important factor
in the morale of the entire department," Sullivan said.
Raymond K. Procunier, director of the Department of Corrections,
also expressed his approval of the uniform allowance:
"Our correctional officers deserve this additional support. At
present they have to purchase all uniforms and equipment with their
own funds. The people of this state ask them to do a difficult and
sensitive job, and it is only right that the state provide them with
this basic assistance," Procunier said. "I certainly hope the
legislature will act favorably on this legislation."
Monagan said he would request an early hearing on his bill when
the legislature returns from its Easter recess.
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445-4571
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#175
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the appointments of
Mark A. Soden, a Newport Beach attorney, and Westminster Municipal Judge
Walter W. Charamza to two newly-created Orange County Superior Courts.
Soden, 55, a Republican, and Judge Charamza, 51, a Democrat, will
receive annual salaries of $35,080.
A partner in the Newport Beach firm of Harwood, Soden and Adkinson
since 1968, Soden has practiced law in Orange County since 1949.
He is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, the State Bar
of California, the American Bar Association, the American, California
and Orange County Trial Lawyers Associations, the American Board of Trial
Advocates and the American Judicature Society.
He has also been active in the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce,
the Orange County March of Dimes and the Newport Beach Chapter of the
American Red Cross.
Soden is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and earned his
law degree from the University of Southern California. He and his wife
Betty Lou have two children. The family lives in Corona del Mar.
Judge Charamza, who has served as Presiding Judge of the West Orange
County Judicial District since 1969, has served as a judge of the
Huntington Beach-Seal Beach Judicial District and West Orange County
Judicial District Municipal Courts since 1964.
He is a former City Attorney of Newport Beach and has served as a
Deputy City Attorney of Glendale.
Judge Charamza is a member of the American Bar Association, the
Orange County Bar Association, the American Judicature Society and is
active in service organizations.
He is a graduate of Occidental College and earned his law degree
from the University of California's Boalt Hall.
Judge Charamza is married and has one child. His home is in
Huntington Beach.
The new courts were created by 1971 legislation.
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#176
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today appointed Larry B. Herr,
president and general manager of a San Diego office supply company, to
a four-year term on the board of the State Compensation Insurance Fund,
Herr, 48, a Republican, succeeds Joseph M. Lowery of Los Angeles,
whose term has expired.
Herr lives at 854 Bangor Street, San Diego.
Members of the board receive $25 per day for attendance at meetings.
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#177
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke has announced the appointment of
Ralph R. Goodson, Los Angeles attorney, to the California Recreational
Trails Committee,
Goodson, 39, a Republican, will succeed the late Mrs. Mary Louise
Bardin of Salinas. He lives at 287 Dunleer Place, Los Angeles.
A member of Governor Reagan's California Survey on Governmental
Efficiency and Cost Control (the Little Hoover Commission), Goodson is
considered an authority on real estate law.
Members of the committee serve at the governor's pleasure. They
receive necessary expenses.
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#178
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the appointment of
Deputy Orange County Counsel Ragnar R. Engebretsen to the West Orange
County Judicial District Municipal Court.
Engebretsen, 44, a Republican, will receive an annual salary
of $32,273. He succeeds Judge Walter Charamaza who has been named to
the Orange County Superior Court.
A member of the Orange County Counsel's staff since 1967,
Engebretsen previously served as a deputy district attorney of
Santa Barbara County for two years.
He has attended the University of Southern California and
Sacramento City College, the University of California at Berkeley,
the University of Utah and earned his law degree from the University
of Washington.
He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Orange
County Bar Association and is an instructor in school at California
State College at Fullerton.
Engebretsen and his wife Anne have seven children. The family
lives in Mission Viejo.
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#179
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today sought to ease the plight of
victims of heavy rains and flooding last January in California's North
Coast Counties by declaring a state of emergency in Humboldt County and
requesting President Nixon to declare both Humboldt and Del Norte Counties
as major disaster areas, opening the way for federal disaster relief.
Governor Ronald Reagan had declared Del Norte County in a state of
emergency on March 1, 1972.
In his request to President Nixon, Reinecke said damage due to
heavy winds, rain, flooding and mud and silt slides had caused more than
$5.5 million damage in the two counties. Restoration work costs were
set at $6,817,618.
Damage to private property in Del Norte County was estimated at more
than $380,000. Damage to public property, including highways and
utilities, was set at $1.92 million in the same county.
Humboldt County reported damage to private property at $1.19 million
and public property damage at $1.88 million.
Reinecke said damage to state highways alone in the two counties
totaled more than $1,424,000.
A Presidential declaration of the two counties as major disaster
areas would provide more than $2 million in federal assistance.
In his request Reinecke noted that all available state and local
resources have been used in carrying out disaster operations in accord-
ance with existing Mutual Aid agreements. Primary assistance was pro-
vided by the State Office of Emergency Services, State Department of
Fish and Game, State Department of Public Health, and Division of Highways
The state of emergency declaration for Humboldt County was sought
by that county's Board of Supervisors.
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#180
Acting Governor Ed Reinecke today announced the following bills have
been signed:
AB 81 - Waxman
Revises the period during which a city clerk
Chapter 37
must publish a notice of any municipal election.
AB 587 - Priolo
Deletes provisions on preexisting court orders,
Chapter 38
the validity of directions for accumulation
expressed in settlements or dispositions made by
specified instruments, and the validity of pre-
existing provisions in specified instruments
relating to the age of majority in the 1971 law
that lowered the general age of majority from 21
to 18 years.
SB 6 - Collier
Defers the repayment of state school building aid
Chapter 35
loans for fiscal year 1971-72 and provides for
repayment in 1972-73 at 6 percent interest for
those school districts the board of supervisors
failed to levy a tax sufficient to make the loan
payment.
SB 51 - Grunsky
Provides that the increase in the maximum tax rate
Chapter 39
of a community college district for any inter-
district attendance agreement and any plant and
equipment lease agreement will remain in effect
until the end of the seventh consecutive fiscal
year following the date of the first election at
which a community college bond issue was passed in
any community college district in which such
seventh consecutive fiscal year ends in June, 1978
SB 79 - Burgener
Requires that any health care service plans
Chapter 40
written pursuant to the provision of the Knox-
Mills Health Plan Act and currently approved by
the Attorney General be in compliance with the
provision preventing limitation of dependent
coverage if the dependent is incapable of self-
support and dependent upon the policy holder for
support.
SB 385 - Zenovich
Exempts school employers from obligation to the
Chapter 36
Unemployment Fund until after December 15, 1972.
It requires such employers to choose method for
financing unemployment insurance during July, 1972
The bill also makes provision for payment of
benefits to classified school employees who are
not returned to work after school "recess periods,'
or who are laid off within 30 working days after
the end of such a period.
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#181
GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE
April 3, 1972
through
April 9, 1972
Monday, April 3
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
Tuesday, April 4
9:00 a.m.
Brief remarks to State Chamber of Commerce
Solid Waste Management Conference,
Woodlake Inn, Sacramento.
Overnight - Sacramento
Wednesday, April 5
10:30 a.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE
Overnight - Sacramento
Thursday, April 6
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Friday, April 7
Noon
Long Beach Joint Service Clubs Luncheon
Lafayette International Ballroom,
140 Linden Street. Speech.
Overnight - Los Angeles
Saturday, April 8
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Los Angeles
Sunday, April 9
No public appointments scheduled
Overnight - Sacramento
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