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    "ocrText": "Ronald Reagan Presidential Library\nDigital Library Collections\nThis is a PDF of a folder from our textual collections.\nCollection: Reagan, Ronald: Gubernatorial Papers,\n1966-74: Press Unit\nFolder Title: Press Releases - December 1974\nBox: P16\nTo see more digitized collections visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/archives/digital-library\nTo see all Ronald Reagan Presidential Library inventories visit:\nhttps://reaganlibrary.gov/document-collection\nContact a reference archivist at: [email protected]\nCitation Guidelines: https://reaganlibrary.gov/citing\nNational Archives Catalogue: https://catalog.archives.gov/\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-2-74\n#687\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment to\na four-year term of Eddy S. Feldman of Los Angeles as a member\nof the state's Commission for Economic Development.\nFeldman, a 54-year-old Democrat, fills the vacancy created\nby the resignation of John J. Royal of San Pedro.\nAn attorney, Feldman is the managing director of the\nLos Angeles Home Furnishings Mart, a position he has held\nsince 1958.\nA native of Kansas City, Missouri, Feldman is a 1938 graduate\nof Northwestern University and received his law degree the same\nyear from DePaul University.\nHe is a member and past president of the Los Angeles Board\nof Municipal Arts Commissioners and is a past member (1959-67)\nof the state's Correctional Industries Commission.\nCommission members receive their necessary expenses.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRelease: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-2-74\n#688\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment\nto four-year terms of Mark Guerra of San Jose and Mrs. Catherine\nL. Montgomery of San Diego as members of the state Commission on\nFair Employment Practice.\nThe appointments require confirmation by the state Senate.\nGuerra, a 56-year-old Republican, has been a member of the\ncommission since 1967. He is principal of William High School in\nSan Jose. He holds a B.A. degree from San Jose State College\nand earned his Master's degree in 1953 at Stanford University.\nMrs. Montgomery, a Republican, has been a member of the\ncommission since 1969. She attended Howard University in Washington,\nD.C., and the University of California's extension school in\nSan Francisco.\nShe is a member of the President's Advisory Council on\nMinority Business Enterprise and the San Diego Planning Commission.\nCommission members receive $50 a day when on official\nbusiness.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-2-74\n#689\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments to\nfour-year terms of Curtis R. Stafford of San Jose and Robert E. Renz\nof West Covina as members of the state's Commission for Teacher\nPreparation and Licensing.\nStafford, a 48-year-old Democrat, is a professor of secondary\neducation at San Jose State University.\nHe is a graduate of the University of Illinois and holds an\nA.B. degree, a Master's degree and a doctorate in education.\nStafford replaces Jack E. Conner of Castro Valley. Conner's\nterm has expired.\nRenz, a 46-year-old Republican, succeeds Eunice L. Evans of\nLafayette. Her term has expired.\nThe president of the Building Industries Association of Los\nAngeles, Renz is the treasurer of his family's plumbing and heating\nbusiness in Santa Fe Springs.\nIn 1971, Renz was chairman of the Young Home Builders Council\nin Los Angeles, the education arm of the Building Industries\nAssociation of California.\nCommission members receive their actual and necessary travel\nexpenses when on official business.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE:\nImmediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-2-74\n#690\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nJoseph A. Rosati of Hollister as a member of the board of directors\nof the 33rd District Agricultural Association, sponsor of the\nSan Benito County Fair.\nRosati, a 54-year-old Republican, succeeds the late\nJohn P. Ohrwall of Hollister.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-4-74\nGovernor Reagan will be available to the press following\nhis speech to the Criminal Justice Conference at the Earl Warren\nCommunity Center early this afternoon. He is scheduled to speak\nat roughly 1:15 for around 30 minutes. The press availability\nwill follow the speech.\nThe California Sheriffs' Association will present an award\nto the governor at 3:00 this afternoon in the Cabinet Room.\nThe press is cordially invited.\nHave a nice day, you all.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: : Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-4-74\n#691\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nAlfred Ginsburg of Chowchilla as a member of the Madera County\nBoard of Supervisors. He will represent the county's second\ndistrict.\nGinsburg, a 54-year-old Republican, succeeds Supervisor\nHarold Balmat of Chowchilla. Balmat's resignation was effective\nNovember 30.\nA former mayor of Chowchilla and a member of the City Council\nfor 16 years, Ginsburg won the supervisorial seat in the June 4\nPrimary election. The appointment to fill Balmat's unexpired\nterm is effective immediately. His regular term begins January 6,\n1975.\nGinsburg is president of the Madera County Civil Service\nCommission and has served continuously for the past 10 years.\nHe will receive an annual salary of $10,512.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-4-74\n#692\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment\nof Morris M. Rubin, M.D., of Santa Monica as a member of the\nstate's Advisory Health Council.\nDr. Rubin, a 67-year-old Republican, fills the vacancy\ncreated by the resignation of Orrin S. Cook, M.D., of Sacramento.\nDr. Rubin's term will expire July 7, 1976.\nHe is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley\nand received his medical degree from the University's medical\nschool in San Francisco.\nCouncil members receive their actual and necessary expenses\nwhen on official business.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-4-74\n#693\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced that his executive\nassistant, Edwin Meese III, has accepted the position of Corporate\nVice President for Administration with Rohr Industries, Inc., in\nChula Vista.\nMeese, 43, will assume his new position January 20.\n.He will be responsible for the legal, industrial relations,\npublic relations and governmental relations activities of the\ncorporation, as well as its Washington, D.C. office.\n\"I am extremely pleased to make this announcement, Governor\nReagan said, \"because Ed Meese deserves much of the credit for this\nadministration's achievements.\n\"He has done a superb job as my chief assistant and member\nof the Cabinet, and I shall always be grateful to him. Nancy and I\nwish him and his family good luck and much happiness in the future.\nRohr Industries is fortunate, indeed.\"\nMeese, an attorney, joined the governor's staff in 1967 as\nhis legal affairs secretary. He had responsibility for all criminal\njustice and legal matters involving the governor's office. He also\nwas responsible for the coordination of emergency planning and\noperations, and supervised the community relations and local\ngovernment functions of the governor's staff.\nHe became the governor's executive assistant and chief of staff\non February 1, 1969, succeeding William Clark, now a state Supreme\nCourt Justice. In addition to his role as the governor's principal\nstaff advisor, Meese served as chairman of the Emergency Planning Council.\nPrior to joining state service, he was Deputy District Attorney\nof Alameda County (1959-66) where he was a member of the Senior\nCriminal Trial staff and legal advisor to the county's Grand Jury.\nMeese, a native of Oakland, is a 1953 graduate of Yale University\nwith a B.A. degree in political science. He received his law degree\nfrom the University of California School of Law in Berkeley, where\nhe served on the faculty in 1965-67.\nHe is a lieutenant colonel in the military intelligence branch\nof the U.S. Army Reserves.\nMeese and his wife, Ursula, have three children. They will make\ntheir home in the San Diego area.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-6-74\n#694\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nForrest Duane Martin of Manteca as judge of the Manteca-Ripon-\nEscalon-Tracy Municipal Court in San Joaquin County.\nMartin, 40, succeeds Judge Priscilla Haynes of Lathrop.\nJudge Haynes has retired. He is a Democrat.\nThe city attorney for Manteca since 1968, Martin was the\ndeputy district attorney for San Joaquin County from 1962-64.\nHe also has been in private practice in Manteca since 1964.\nMartin is a 1956 graduate of Contra Costa College with an\nAssociate of Arts degree, and received his Law degree in 1960\nfrom the University of California's Hastings College of the Law.\nHe has been a judge pro tempore of the San Joaquin County\nSuperior Court, and is currently the attorney for the Manteca-\nLathrop Rural Fire District.\nMartin is a member of the National Panel of Consumer\nArbitrators.\nHe will receive an annual salary of $37,098.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-6-74\n#695\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nDecember 9, 1974\nthrough\nDecember 15, 1974\nMonday, December 9\np.m.\nMonday Night Football (Redskins at Rams Game)\nTuesday, December 10\n11:00 a.m.\nMedal of Valor Presentation to State Employees,\ngovernor's office\nPress Coverage invited\nWednesday, December 11\n2:00 p.m.\nDavid Swoap and Dick Petersen, National Welfare\nFraud Association (Presentation of Award to\nGovernor Reagan.\nPress Coverage invited\np.m.\nFarewell Dinner for Governor and Mrs. Reagan,\nsponsored by Capitol Correspondents Association,\nthe Society of Professional Journalists and\nthe Sacramento Press Club, Sutter Club.\n7:00 p.m. cocktails\n8:00 p.m. dinner\nThursday, December 12\n5:00 p.m.\nChristmas Ceremony, North entrance of Capitol\n(Mrs. Reagan to attend)\n5:20 p.m.\nOffice Christmas party, Council Room\n6:30 p.m.\n\"Salute to the Reagan Years, Farewell Dinner\nfor Governor and Mrs. Reagan, sponsored by\nSacramento Republicans, Woodlake Inn.\n7:00 p.m. Reception\n8:00 p.m. Dinner\nFriday, December 13\nNo public appointments\nSaturday, December 14\nNo public appointments\nSunday, December 15\nNo public appointments\n######\nHave a nice weekend, guys and dolls:\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-10-74\n#696\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the following bill\nhas been signed:\nSB 12 - Song\nAmends provisions of 1974 legislation relating\nChapter 1\nto the administration of estates involving\ncommunity property by deferring the effective\ndate of such legislation from January 1, 1975\nto July 1, 1975.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-11-74\n#697\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced that a special\nelection will be held March 4 to fill the vacancy in the\n15th Assembly District in Alameda County caused by the recent\ndeath of Assemblyman Carlos Bee (D-Hayward).\nThe primary will be held on February 4. If no candidate\nreceives more than 50 percent of the vote in the primary election,\nthe two candidates receiving the most votes will meet in the\ngeneral election on March 4. -\nBee died Friday, November 29, 1974, while visiting in\nSan Antonio, Texas.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-11-74\n#698\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the nomination of\nSacramento Superior Court Judge Hugh A. Evans as an associate\njustice of the state's Third District Court of Appeal.\nJudge Evans, 52, will succeed Justice Robert K. Puglia, who\nhas been elevated to presiding justice of the appellate court.\nThe nomination requires confirmation by the state Commission\non Judicial Appointments. Commission members include Chief Justice\nof the state's Supreme Court, Donald R. Wright; State Attorney\nGeneral Evelle Younger, and senior Associate Justice of the Third\nDistrict Court of Appeal, Leonard M. Friedman.\nThe Third District Court of Appeal, headquartered in Sacramento,\nincludes the counties of Siskiyou, Modoc, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen,\nTehama, Plumas, Colusa, Glenn, Butte, Sierra, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada,\nYolo, Placer, El Dorado, San Joaquin, Amador, Calaveras, Alpine,\nMono and Sacramento.\nPrior to his appointment to the Superior Court here, Judge\nEvans was in private practice in Sacramento and was a deputy\ndistrict attorney in Sacramento County.\nHe received his law degree from the University of California's\nHastings College of the Law in 1952, after attending Salinas and\nHartnell Colleges and serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during\nWorld War II.\nJudge Evans is a native of Ogden, Utah.\nThe member of various professional organizations, including\nthe American, state and Sacramento Bar Associations, Judge Evans\nhas been cited by the County of Sacramento for his service as a\nmember of the county's Civil Service Commission.\nHe will receive an annual salary of $48,389.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-11-74\n#699\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nThomas S. Price of Belvedere as a member of the Marin County\nBoard of Supervisors.\nPrice, a 47-year-old Republican, succeeds Michael Wornum\nof Mill Valley. Wornum was elected to the California Assembly\nearlier this year.\nA former mayor of Belvedere (1968-69, Price is serving his\nsecond four-year term as a member of the City Council. He is\nin the subcontracting business in the construction industry and\noperates his own firm in San Francisco.\nPrice is vice chairman of the Reed Union School District\nBoard of Trustees. He also was a member of the Bay Conservation\nand Development Commission in 1970-71, and is now an alternate\nmember.\nA native of Lakewood, Ohio, Price is a 1950 graduate of\nPrincipia College in Elsah, Illinois with a B.A. degree in\nEconomics.\nHe and his wife Jeanne have two children. He will receive\nan annual salary of $18,480.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-11-74\n#700\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nChester Hillyard, D.C., of Vallejo, as a member of the Solano\nCounty Board of Supervisors.\nHillyard, 53, succeeds Alfred C. Siegler of Vallejo.\nSiegler was elected to the state Assembly earlier this year.\nA Republican, Dr. Hillyard is a native of La Salle, New York.\nHe is a 1950 graduate of the University of Natural Healing Art\nin Denver and has completed post graduate work at the Los Angeles\nCollege of Chiropractic.\nHillyard is a member of the Solano County Taxpayers Association,\nthe Solano County Peace Officers Association, and is a past\ncommander (1959) of the Vallejo American Legion. He is a past\npresident of the American College of Chiropractic Orthopedists and\nreceived the organization's Distinguished Service Award in 1971.\nHe and his wife Evelyn have three children. He will receive\nan annual salary of $11,340.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-11-74\n#701\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment\nof Richard S. Yoshikawa of Stockton as a member of the San\nJoaquin County Board of Supervisors.\nYoshikawa, a Republican, succeeds Carmen Perino who was\nelected to the state Assembly earlier this year.\nA professional photographer who operates his own studio,\nYoshikawa is chairman of the San Joaquin Delta College Board\nof Trustees and has been a member since 1964.\nYoshikawa is a former president of the Stockton Japanese\nAmerican Citizens League and is a former president of the Stockton\nOptimist Club.\nHe was the 1971-72 lieutenant governor of Zone Three of\nthe California-Nevada District of Optimist International.\nHe will receive an annual salary of $13,200.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: SUNDAY\nSacramento, California 95814\nDecember 15, 1975\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-13-74\n#702\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced his assistant and\ndirector of programs and policy, Donald G. Livingston, has accepted\nthe position of Secretary, with additional responsibilities for\ngovernment relations, of Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc., of Los\nAngeles.\nLivingston, 36, will assume his new duties with the nationwide\ndepartment store chain in January.\nIn making the announcement, Governor Reagan said:\n\"Once again I am happy to announce that a key member of my\nexecutive staff will be taking on a major role in free enterprise.\nHe will leave state service with our very best wishes for continued\nsuccess and happiness.\n\"Don has been a member of our team since 1967, and has made\nmajor contributions to our legislative program, particularly those\ndealing with environment, consumer affairs and energy. I will\nalways be grateful for his counsel and the excellent job he has\ndone in these complex fields.\"\nLivingston joined the Reagan administration in 1967, serving in\nseveral executive positions. Prior to joining the governor's executive\nstaff, he was director of the Department of Consumer Affairs, the\nyoungest director in the history of that department.\nA native of Oakland and a third generation Californian, Livingston\nis a graduate of San Francisco State University with a B.A. degree in\nUrban Studies. He also has completed graduate work in Public\nAdministration at Golden Gate University in San Francisco and is a\ngraduate of the Coro Foundation Fellowship Program.\nLivingston's public service includes the presidency of the Coro\nFoundation and the chairmanship of its board of trustees.\nHe and his wife Dodie and their son David will make their home\nin the Los Angeles area.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-13-74\n#703\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nDecember 16, 1974\nthrough\nDecember 22, 1974\nMonday, December 16\nthrough\nNo public appointments scheduled\nSunday, December 22\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-13-74\n#704\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment\nof Tyler P. Berding of Woodland as a member of the California\nState Veterans Board.\nThe appointment requires confirmation by the state Senate.\nBerding, 30, fills the vacancy created by the resignation\nof Wing K. Fat of Sacramento.\nA Republican and member of a Sacramento law firm, Berding\nwas a counsellor and director of the veterans program at the\nUniversity of California at Davis. He created and implemented\nthe school's Veterans Special Education Program, and was\ninstrumental in establishing the Northern California Regional\nAdvisory Council for veterans.\nIn 1973, he helped form the Veterans New Life Corporation,\na nonprofit organization providing special training opportunities\nfor veterans.\nA veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Berding is a graduate of\nClaremont College with a Ph.D. in Government Administration.\nHe received his law degree from the University of California\nat Davis.\nVeterans Board members receive $20 a day for each board\nmeeting.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-16-74\n#705\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of 13\nmembers to the Sir Francis Drake Commission, created by the 1973\nlegislature.\nThe commission will plan and execute commemorative activities\nto celebrate the 400th anniversary of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation\nof the earth in 1577 to 1580.\nGovernor Reagan appointed William L. Shaw of Sacramento, a\ndeputy attorney general since 1946, as president of the commission.\nShaw, 65, is a Republican: He is also a member of the American\nRevolution Bicentennial Commission of California.\nOther commission members appointed by the governor, include:\n--Ray A. Billington of San Marino. Billington, a 61-year-old\nDemocrat, is a noted historian and educator with offices in the\nHuntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino.\n--Arthur L. Blum of San Francisco. Blum is a 51-year-old\nRepublican, and operates a public relations and advertising agency\nin San Francisco.\n--Stanton H. Delaplane of Mill Valley. Delaplane, a 67-year-old\npolitical independent, is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and\nreporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.\n--Mrs. Albert Doerr of Pasadena. Mrs. Doerr, who declines\nto state her political party, is a member of the California\nHistorical Society.\n--Albert D. Elledge of San Francisco. Elledge, a 71-year-old\nRepublican, is an attorney and businessman in San Francisco.\n--James D. Hart of Berkeley. Hart, a 63-year-old Democrat,\nis director of the University of California's Bancroft Library.\n--William M. Mills of Fair Oaks. Mills, a 36-year-old\nRepublican is best known as the 1964 winner of an Olympic Gold Medal\nfor the 10,000 meter run. He is in the insurance business in the\nSacramento area.\n--Neill Morgan of La Jolla. Morgan, a 50-year-old Democrat,\nis a columnist for the San Diego Evening Tribune.\n- 1 -\n#705\n--Alfred W. Newman of Vallejo. Newman, 53-year-old\nRepublican, is an attorney in private practice.\n--Robert H. Power of Vacaville. Power, 48-year-old Republican,\nis owner of the Nut Tree on Interstate 80.\n--R. Harold Hartsough, Jr., of Tiburon. Hartsough,\n62-year-old Republican, is the retired assistant vice president\nof public affairs for the Pacific Telephone Company in San Francisco.\n--Norman J. W. Thrower of Pacific Palisades. Thrower, a\n55-year-old Republican, is a professor of geography at the University\nof California at Los Angeles.\nCommission members are not paid for their services.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nSacramento, California 95814\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-16-74\nRepresentatives of Governor Reagan will join Assemblyman\nBob McLennan and Ed Koupal, head of the People's Lobby, at a\npress conference Tuesday, December 17 at 10 a.m. in Room 1190\nin the Capitol to announce introduction of campaign reform\nlegislation. Assemblyman Dixon Arnett will also be present.\nThe four-bill package includes legislation to:\n--establish a September primary election;\n--ban campaign contributions by office holders;\n--regulate and limit corporate, union, and association\ncampaign contributions;\n--prohibit the involvement of exempt and civil service\nemployees in political campaigns during working hours.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-18-74\n#706\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\ntwo San Francisco Municipal Court judges to the Superior Court.\nThe appointees are Thomas J. Dandurand and Eugene F. Lynch.\nDandurand, 41, will succeed Judge Clayton Horn, who retires\nDecember 24. Dandurand has been on the Municipal Court bench\nsince 1971. A native of Los Angeles, he is a graduate of Stanford\nUniversity and earned his law degree from the University of San\nFrancisco Law School.\nHe is a member of the American Bar Association, the San\nFrancisco Bar Association, the Association of Insurance Defense\nCounsel and the California Trial Lawyers Association.\nLynch, 43, will fill the vacancy created by the December 31\nretirement of Judge Leland Lazarus.\nA native of San Francisco, Lynch is a graduate of Santa\nClara University and received his law degree from the University\nof California's Hastings College of the Law.\nLynch is a member of the State Bar of California, the\nAttorney's Probate Association, the Northern California Defense\nCounsel and the San Francisco Bar Association.\nBoth Superior Court judges will receive $40,322 a year.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-18-74\n#707\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nRaymond J. Arata, Jr., and J. Dominique Olcomendy to the San\nFrancisco Municipal Court.\nArata, 38, a San Francisco attorney who makes his home in\nDaly City, succeeds Judge Thomas J. Dandurand, who is being\nelevated to the Superior Court December 24.\nA native of San Francisco, Arata is graduate of the City\nCollege of San Francisco, the University of California at Berkeley\nand received his law degree from the University's Hastings College\nof the Law.\nHe is a member of various bar associations and is a former\ncochairman and advisor to the San Francisco Explorer Scouts.\nOlcomendy, 40, will succeed Judge Eugene F. Lynch who\nwill be elevated to the San Francisco Superior Court December 31.\nBorn in Stockton, Olcomendy is a graduate of the University\nof San Francisco, and earned his law degree at the University's\nSchool of Law in 1959.\nIn addition to his private practice, Olcomendy has taught\ncorporate law at his alma mater since 1970.\nHe is a member of the California State Bar, the American\nBar Association, and the St. Thomas More Society.\nJudges of the San Francisco Municipal Court receive an\nannual salary of $37,098.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: ON RECEIPT\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-19-74\n#708\nEditor's note:\nSince mental health was an issue inherited by\nthe Reagan Administration, and has been in the news periodically\nduring his administration, the governor has prepared the following\narticle to put the subject in proper perspective.\nBY RONALD REAGAN\nGOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA\nIn 1967, shortly after I became governor of California I\nset out to change the direction and character of the state's mental\nhealth program.\nAt the time, I said that the goal of my administration would\nbe to foster conditions to prevent or minimize mental breakdown.\nIn the absence of more specific knowledge about causes and treatment,\nthe practical goal we set for the program was development, maintenance\nand restoration of social and personal equilibrium for the patient,\ndespite emotional stress.\nWe proposed to assist the mentally ill to achieve a reasonable\noperating level. We would provide treatment and supportive services\nto permit people to stay at home, functioning at a reasonable level\nat work or in school.\nTen years earlier, California had taken the first step to\nmodernize its mental health program. There was growing awareness\nthat the old system was a failure. It had stripped some individuals\nof their civil and legal rights and their dignity.\nDespite 20th century advances in psychiatry, the system was\nbased on the ancient practice of incarceration, exemplified by\nBritain's legendary Bedlam, where people could be locked up for years\nor for life, simply because they were \"different,\" or because somebody\ndisliked them, but primarily because nobody knew how to treat them.\nIn 1957, California enacted legislation to change that by\nshifting the emphasis from hospitalization to outpatient treatment\nin local community facilities. Opposition arose from an entrenched\nestablishment determined to perpetuate jobs, and by some professionals\nand authorities for whom change would be tantamount to acknowledging\nthat the old program wasn't working. Fulfillment of the legislative\nmandate was stymied as a result.\n- 1 -\n#708\nThat legislation, the Short-Doyle Act, resulted from a\nsearching appraisal by the state to evaluate its system of treatment\nand care for the mentally disordered. Investigators found overcrowded\nstate hospital wards. Treatment was often nonexistent, with little\nlikelihood that patients would improve enough to resume their former\nlives. Mental illness or even mere treatment for a temporary\nemotional problem---created a stigma that hindered recovery.\nThe outlook for the future was discouraging. California was\nexperiencing phenomenal population growth, and the incidence of\nmental illness and retardation was increasing proportionatly. With\n14 state hospitals in operation, authorities estimated that additional\nhospitals for the mounting caseload would be needed at the rate of\none every 18 months.\nA comprehensive university study had concluded that patients\nwith mental illness cannot get well inside a mental hospital.\nLegislative investigations and public hearings agreed that \"warehousing\"\nmental patients in large institutions was dehumanizing and damaging.\nIt wasted human and financial resources. And it was barbaric.\nThe Short-Doyle Act committed California to sharing with its\ncounties the cost of developing community mental health programs,\nfirst on a 50-50 basis, then with a formula that increased the state\nshare to 75 percent. The Short-Doyle Act was amended in 1967 to\nmake the state responsible for 90 percent of the cost of mental care.\nThe philosophy of replacing hospital confinement with community-\nbased treatment proved successful. We moved to strengthen and expand\nthe program. In 1968, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act became law\nthe first legislative protection for the individual rights of\nmentally disordered persons. Reversing the old philosophy, the new\nlaw promoted voluntary treatment. It made involuntary treatment\nthe last resort instead of the first.\nBy 1972, all 58 California counties had established community\nmental health programs under the Short-Doyle law. The system has\nbecome a model for other states, and is studied and emulated\nthroughout the world.\nBut cherished concepts, however wrong, die hard. It had been\naxiomatic that \"crazy people should be locked up where they can't\nhurt anybody.\" \" There were ominous warnings that \"turning them loose\"\nwould endanger public safety.\n- 2 -\n#708\nIn 1970 when we closed the first of three state hospitals\nno longer needed there was sharp opposition from those whose jobs\nwere eliminated. They didn't realize that under the new system,\nmore jobs would be created, because individualized treatment requires\na higher ratio of professionals-to-patients than does institutionali-\nzation. Many of those same employees of large hospitals ultimately\ntransferred their skills to new jobs in smaller facilities, in order\nto provide better care to fewer patients on a more personal and\nspecialized basis.\nThe Short-Doyle system has grown rapidly, from six programs\nin 1957 with a budget of $37,000, to 42 programs in 1967 costing\n$18.6 million. Today, all 58 counties participate. For its 90\npercent share of the cost of mental health services, the state\nwill this year reimburse its counties $115 million.\nAs the emphasis shifted to community treatment, the mentally\nill patient population in state hospitals declined from its 1959\npeak of 37,500 to less than 22,000 in 1967, despite enormous\npopulation growth during those eight years.\nNow, seven years later, there are only 6,000 resident patients\nin the state's five remaining hospitals for the mentally ill.\n(The others treat mentally retarded patients). By contrast, New York\nhas almost 40,000 patients in its state hospitals.\nWith the declining patient population, we have been able to\nincrease the square footage for each patient from 55 in 1967 to\na minimum of 70 square feet today. And with fewer patients, we\nhave been able to raise staffing standards to provide better hospital\ncare.\nFocus of the program is now in the communities. Last year,\nthere were 2.5 million community mental health outpatient visits,\ncompared to 81,000 in 1967.\nToday, more people are receiving better care, closer to\nhome, more quickly and with less disruption in their lives than\never before.\nUnder the old system, a mental patient lost more legal and\ncivil rights than a convicted felon. Today, he enjoys all those\nrights, plus the right of confidentiality, so that he will not be\nstigmatized later in life by unauthorized, unnecessary exposure of\nhis medical history.\n#708\nPatients are no longer committed to state hospitals for\nindeterminate periods. Today, the average hospital stay for a\nmentally ill person ranges from 14 to 17 days.\nIn the communities, the patient's progress is followed\ncarefully. When he achieves his maximum potential, he is encouraged\nto strive for the next highest level.\nWe have come a long way toward modernizing and humanizing\nmental health care in California, but there is still a long way to go.\nA major problem is the public attitude toward the mentally\nill and retarded.\nMost mental patients are unhappy, lonely individuals who\nsuffer quietly and passively. For generations the human tendency\nto fear and suspect those who may be \"different\" has consigned\nsuch persons to institutions. Such discrimination denies patients\ntheir best hope for rehabilitation in a homelike setting.\nWe cannot legislate understanding, but the knowledge that\nmental disability can strike anybody at any time should arouse our\ncompassion. In most cases the problem is a temporary emotional\ndisturbance, with complete recovery likely under modern treatment.\nA nervous breakdown is as curable as a broken limb. All it takes\nis time and the proper treatment. Because of the special nature\nof mental disorder, it also requires the acceptance and understanding\nof good neighbors.\nWe must stop fearing the mentally afflicted because they seem\nto be different. We must get to know them, and accept them as\nneighbors who are suffering the emotional equivalent of a bad cold\nor flu hardly a cause for quarantine.\nThat is what California's mental health program is all about.\n######\nWalthall\n- 4 -\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nMEMO TO THE PRESS\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-20-74\n#709\nGOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE\nDecember 23, 1974\nthrough\nDecember 30, 1974\nMonday, December 23\nNo public appointments scheduled\nTuesday, December 24\nNo public appointments scheduled\nWednesday, December 25\nChristmas Day\nThursday, December 26\nNo public appointments scheduled\nFriday, December 27\nNo public appointments scheduled\nSaturday, December 28\nNo public appointments scheduled\nSunday, December 29\nNo public appointments scheduled\nMonday, December 30\n10:30 a.m.\nNEWS CONFERENCE\nGreater Los Angeles Press Club\n600 N. Vermont, Los Angeles\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-20-74\n#710\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nInglewood Chief of Police Jay R. Stroh as a member of the state's\nCommission on Peace Officer Standards and Training.\nThe appointment requires confirmation by the state Senate.\nChief Stroh, a 45-year-old Republican, fills the vacancy\ncreated by the retirement of Robert S. Seares, chief of the\nPasadena Police Department.\nA native of Torrance, Chief Stroh is a 1951 graduate of the\nUniversity of Southern California with a B.S. degree in Public\nAdministration. He also has done graduate work at the University\nand has taught law enforcement related subjects at El Camino College.\nStroh has been a member of the Commission's Advisory Committee\nsince 1969.\nCommission members receive their necessary expenses when\non official business.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-23-74\n#711\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nSacramento attorney John M. Sapunor as judge of the Sacramento\nCounty Superior Court.\nSapunor, 55, succeeds Judge Hugh Evans, who has been elevated\nto associate justice of the Third District Court of Appeal in\nSacramento.\nA practicing attorney in California since 1948, Sapunor is\na 1941 graduate of Santa Clara University, where, in 1949, he\nreceived his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree.\nSapunor is a former deputy district attorney of Sacramento\nCounty. He is presently a partner in the Sacramento law firm of\nWilke, Fleury, Sapunor & Hoffelt.\nHe has served on the Sacramento and California State Bar\nAssociations committees regulating the practice of law; he is a\nmember of the Sacramento County Bar Association Council; and has\nserved as chairman of the Sacramento County Bar Association\nJudicial Qualifications Committee.\nSapunor will receive an annual salary of $40,322.\n# # # # #\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRelease; Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-23-74\n#712\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment\nof Santa Maria Municipal Court Judge Richard C. Kirkpatrick\nas judge of the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court.\nKirkpatrick, 44, succeeds the late Judge James Madden.\nA graduate of South Western University Law School,\nKirkpatrick has been a judge of the Santa Maria Municipal Court\nsince November of 1969.\nA former member of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's\nDepartment, Kirkpatrick is a former deputy district attorney at\nSanta Barbara County.\nKirkpatrick is a former governmental affairs committee\nchairman of the Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of\nthe city's Bar Association Committee re Public Defender. He also\nheaded the attorneys' division of the Santa Maria Community Chest\nprogram.\nHe is a member of the California State, Santa Barbara,\nSanta Maria and Los Angeles Bar Associations.\nKirkpatrick will receive an annual salary of $40,322.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-23-74\n#713\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment\nof Robert E. Franck of Lincoln as a member of the board of directors\nof the 20th District Agricultural Association, sponsor of the\nAuburn District Fair.\nFranck, a 38-year-old Republican, is a cattle rancher\nand operates a cattle transportation business in the Lincoln area.\nHe fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Charles Hayden\nof Auburn.\nHe and his wife Joyce have three children.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-24-74\n#714\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nDonald E. Van Luven, Jr., as judge of the San Bernardino County\nMunicipal Court District.\nVan Luven, 36, succeeds Judge Roy Chapman, who has been\nelected to the San Bernardino County Superior Court.\nA former deputy district attorney in Barstow, Van Luven\nhas been court commissioner of the San Bernardino County Municipal\nCourt since 1971.\nHe is a 1960 graduate of the University of California at\nBerkeley and received his law degree in 1965 from the University's\nHastings College of the Law.\nVan Luven is a member of the San Bernardino Park and Recreation\nCommission, the California Association of Park and Recreation\nCommissioners and Board Members, the Sierra Club and the Inland\nFish and Game Conservation Association.\nIn addition, he is a member of the California and San Bernardino\nCounty Bar Associations, the Criminal Defense Attorneys Association,\nand the American Judicature Society.\nVan Luven will receive an annual salary of $37,098.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-24-74\n#715\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment\nof Sunnyvale-Cupertino Municipal Court Judge James A. Wright\nto the Santa Clara County Superior Court.\nWright, 53, succeeds Judge James B. Scott of Saratoga.\nJudge Scott has been elevated to the 1st District Court of Appeal\nin San Francisco.\nA native of Midwest, Wyoming, Judge Wright has served on\nthe Municipal Court bench since May, 1972. He has been a\npracticing attorney in the San Jose area since 1949, and was a\npartner in the firm of Miller, Morton, Wright, Caillat and Nevis.\nHe has served as president of the Santa Clara County Bar\nAssociation, and is a member of the Santa Clara County Trial\nLawyers Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association and\nthe American Bar Association.\nJudge Wright is a 1943 graduate of the University of Santa\nClara where he received his law degree in 1949.\nHe will receive an annual salary of $40,322.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-26-74\n#716\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced that his Assistant and\nDirector of Administration, Michael K. Deaver, and his Assistant and\nDirector of Public Affairs, Peter D. Hannaford, are forming a new\ncompany, Deaver & Hannaford, Inc., to consult with clients on public\nrelations, government relations and marketing matters.\nDeaver, 36, and Hannaford, 42, will activate the firm in January,\nwith offices in Sacramento, Oakland and Los Angeles.\nIn making the announcement, Governor Reagan said:\n\"Again, I am happy that key members of my staff will be playing\nimportant roles in private enterprise when they leave state service.\nThey have my best wishes for success and happiness in their new venture.\n\"Mike Deaver has been an invaluable member of our team since 1967.\nHe has been the chief administrative officer and manager of the Governor's\noffice, with a wide range of responsibilities and duties which he has\ncarried out with dedication and great effectiveness. He has done an\nexcellent job.'\nDeaver first joined the administration as assistant to the cabinet\nsecretary. Before that he was with the Republican State Central Committee,\nthe Santa Clara County Republican Central Committee and IBM Corporation.\nHe is a graduate of San Jose State University.\nThe governor said of Hannaford, \"though he joined us late in the\nadministration, for the final year, with responsibility for overall\ncommunications, his counsel has been most valuable and his talents\neffectively demonstrated. He, too, has done an excellent job.\"\nHannaford served as vice chairman of the governor's Consumer Fraud\nTask Force (1972-73) and was the governor's appointee to the bi-state\nTahoe Regional Planning Agency and California Tahoe Regional Planning\nAgency (1973). In 1972 he was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress\nin the then 7th District. Prior to joining the Reagan administration\nhe had been in public relations and advertising in the Bay Area since\n1957. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-27-74\n#717\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment to\na four-year term of Wendell P. Hammon of Saratoga as a member\nof the California Advisory Board to the Bureau of Employment\nAgencies.\nHammon, a 56-year-old Republican, fills the vacancy created\nby the resignation of Robert W. Stuart of San Rafael.\nA graduate of San Jose State University, Hammon is a former\ninsurance and real estate agent. He is now a general appraiser\nand operates his own business.\nAdvisory Board members receive $25 a day per diem and\nexpenses when on official business.\n#####\nwalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-27-74\n#718\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment to\na four-year term of Thomas N. Snortum, DVM, of Los Angeles as\na member of the Board of Examiners in Veterinary Medicine in\nthe Department of Consumer Affairs.\nDr. Snortum, a 46-year-old Republican, succeeds R. Scott\nJackson, DVM, of Chino. Dr. Jackson has resigned.\nA former president of the Southern California Veterinary\nMedical Association, Dr. Snortum is a 1955 graduate of the\nSchool of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California\nat Davis.\nBoard members receive $25 a day per diem when on official\nbusiness.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-27-74\n#719\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced he has designated State\nSenator Dennis E. Carpenter chairman of the Commission of the Californias.\nThe governor also announced the appointment of Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.,\nof Newport Beach as a member of the Commission.\nSenator Carpenter, a 46-year-old Republican, was appointed to the\nCommission by the Senate Rules Committee. He succeeded former Lieutenant\nGovernor Ed Reinecke.\nThe Commission is responsible for promoting the interests of California\nand Baja California, Mexico. Its' membership includes representatives from\nboth areas.\nSenator Carpenter, who speaks Spanish fluently, is a former special\nagent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was on special\nassignment in Mexico. He has-traveled extensively throughout the\ncountry and South America.\nLozano, 44, is the editor and publisher of La Opinion in Los Angeles.\nA Republican, he is a former executive director of the Commission of the\nCalifornias, and is a 1947 graduate of the University of Notre Dame.\nCommission members receive their actual and necessary expenses when\non official business.\n#########\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-27-74\n#720\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the reappointment to four\nyear terms of Robert A. Mellin of San Francisco and Patrick John Riley of\nPlacerville as members of the State Board of Accountancy in the Department\nof Consumer Affairs.\nMellin, 55, a political independent, is a Certified Public Accountant\nand a partner in the CPA firm of Hood and Strong in San Francisco.\nHe is a 1941 graduate of the University of Minnesota and has completed\ngraduate work at Golden Gate College in San Francisco.\nRiley, a 44 year old Republican, is a partner in the Placerville\nlaw firm of Beverly and Riley. He is a 1953 graduate of the University\nof Notre Dame and received his law degree in 1956 from the University of\nCalifornia's Boalt Hall.\nHe is a former member of the El Dorado Union High School District\nBoard of Trustees and was a member of its Advisory Commission on School\nDistrict Budgeting and Accounting.\nBoard members receive $25 per day when on official business.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-27-74\n#721\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointments of\nOren W. Tremonti of Sonoma and Richard J. McRostie of San Rafael\nto unexpired terms as members of the Sonoma State Hospital Advisory\nBoard.\nTremonti, a 60 year old Republican, retired in January of this\nyear as assistant superintendent of the hospital's nursing services.\nHe joined the hospital's staff in 1935. He succeeds Charles DeMeo of\nSonoma, who has resigned. His term expires December 16, 1976.\nMcRostie, a 49 year old Democrat, is a retired commander with the\nU. S. Navy and is area development coordinator for the United Negro College\nFund in San Francisco.\nHe fills the vacancy created by the resignation of Sally Ann Ryan\nof San Rafael. His term expires December 16, 1975.\nAdvisory Board members receive their necessary expenses when on\nofficial business.\n#######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-27-74\n#722\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment to a four\nyear term of R. Thomas Allen, assistant director of the state's Department\nof Benefit Payments, as a member of the Commission on Uniform State Laws.\nAllen, a 32 year old Republican, succeeds Theodore B. Olson of Palos\nVerdes Estates. Olson's term has expired.\nA native of Santa Maria, Allen is a former assistant legal affairs\nsecretary to Governor Reagan. He is also a former assistant public defender\nof Sacramento County.\nAllen is a partner in the Sacramento Law firm of Allen and Dixon.\nHe is a 1965 graduate of the California State Polytechnic College in San\nLuis Obispo, and received his law degree in 1970 from Humphrey's College\nin Stockton.\nIn 1973, Allen served on the steering committee to Governor Reagan's\nSelect Committee on Law Enforcement Problems. He also was a member of the\nAdvisory Committee to Project: Safer California, which developed standards\nand goals for the criminal justice system at the governor's recent Conference\non Criminal Justice.\nAllen and his wife Pamela have one daughter.\nCommission members receive their necessary travel expenses.\n#######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-30-74\n#723\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today made the following statement at\nthe Los Angeles Press Club:\n\"I have said before that 'government works if the people work\nat it.' In these eight years, I have tried, to prove that it is\ntrue. Hundreds of men and women left major jobs in the private\nsector to join us for periods ranging from a few months to several\nyears to help make government more efficient; to keep in under control.\nWhen I came to office in 1967 I said that I wanted to find common sense\nsolutions to problems. Not every problem has been solved, of course,\nand new ones have come along, but on balance I think we have accomplished\nsomething. We brought a runaway welfare system under control and,\nbased on our welfare reform experiences, many other states are success-\nfully emulating California. Now, California has even proposed a blue-\nprint for reform nationwide. When we leave there will be virtually\nthe same number of state employees as when we came. This means that\nproductivity has increased sharply in most departments and agencies\nof state government. And, for the first time in more than twenty\nyears, the outgoing governor will leave the new governor a surplus\nin this case approximately $400 million.\n\"Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.\nI have learned that you must guard constantly against the government's\ntendency to want to grow and grow. This is coupled with the tendency\nof those groups with a vested interest in big government to campaign\nardently for such growth, to the exclusion of virtually any other\nconsideration.\n\"What we have experienced and learned I want to communicate to\nothers when I leave office. I want to share one of my disappointments,\ntoo, for I think it is an idea whose time is here. That is, a\nlimitation on the percentage of the people's total income that\ngovernment may take to run its affairs. Our tax limitation initiative\ndid not pass in 1973, but today some eleven other states have similar\nplans under consideration.\n#723\n\"The hour is late in America for freedom and liberty.\n\"The doomsayers keep telling us that America's problems can\nbe solved only by government regulation. So, slowly but certainly,\nwe are allowing government to intrude more and more into our lives;\nto dig deeper and deeper into our pocketbooks. America and its people\nhave great strength. They can reverse this erosion of freedom; and\nI want to do everything I can to help.\n\"There has been much speculation about my activites when I leave\noffice. Now, I would like to share some specific plans with you:\n\"As you know, I will have a daily radio program of commentary\nwhich goes on the air January 20. It is being syndicated nationally.\nI was delighted to learn that a station serving my hometown of Dixon,\nIllinois was the first one to sign up. There are some other important\nmarkets, too, among the first 100 to sign: WHO, Des Moines; WOC,\nDavenport, Iowa, where I got my first job; San Diego, Seattle, Denver,\nPhoenix, Kansas City, and San Antonio, to name a few. The producer\ntells me he expects most of the nation's major markets to be included\nby the time we go on the air.\n\"Beginning the week of January 13, I shall also be writing a\nweekly newspaper column for the Copley News Service.\n\"I will begin my first speaking tour in just two weeks in Dallas,\nSan Antonio, Nashville and Richmond, Virginia.\n\"Several offers have come to me to write a book in 1975 and they\nare under serious consideration.\n\"Two of my assistants, Michael Deaver and Peter Hannaford, are\nopening a new public relations firm, Deaver & Hannaford, and I have\nretained their services to manage and coordinate my program of\nactivities. They have assembled a small support staff for me.\nIncluded in it will be my secretary since 1969, Helene von Damm;\nNancy Reynolds, who has served as a Special Assistant to the Governor\nsince 1967; Willard Barnett, retired California Highway Patrol Officer,\nwho has served as my driver for eight years; Dennis LeBlanc, from the\nsecurity detail; and clerical personnel. My office will be in the\nWestwood area of Los Angeles.\"\n######\n-2-\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-30-74\n#724\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today sent the following letter to\nCalifornia's congressional delegation, other members of the Congress\nand all 50 of the nation's governors concerning the proposed federal\nIncome Supplement Program:\n\"President Ford's administration has indicated a desire to renew\nthe attack on welfare problems and inequities. I have communicated\nto the President my belief that this renewed effort should be based\non proven methods of reform and not on untried panacea, such as the\nproposed Income Supplement Program.\n\"Here in California (and in several other states), the welfare\ncaseload has been declining steadily as a result of reforms which\nimproved eligibility standards and administrative procedures. In\nfact, in California since the reform program began we have been able\nto increase the average grant to the truly needy by 42 percent.\n\"True reform of welfare will require the cooperative efforts of\nlocal, state and federal officials. Utilization of techniques which\nhave already proved successful can avoid---at the national level\nthe pitfalls inherent in the I.S.P. proposals.\n\"The fundamental concept of welfare in the United States has always\nbeen to provide assistance to those in true need. For the most part\nthis has amounted to temporary assistance, for the recipients do not\nrepresent a static population, but a changing one. ISP would replace\nthis concept with one based on a guaranteed minimum income. Associating\nit with the tax system, as has been proposed, would only serve to\ninstitutionalize this radically different concept.\n\"I must oppose the I.S.P. scheme in concept, philosophy and basic\ndesign. No one can deny that the current arrangement of welfare\npayments and food stamp distribution is wasteful, inefficient,\ncomplex and unfair to both recipients and taxpayers. But to replace\nit with an unsound new scheme is not the same as achieving effective\nreform.\n\"ISP has been billed as a replacement for existing welfare\nprograms. Even if it were passed, it is very unlikely that Congress\nwould refrain from adding various additional benefit programs or\nwould eliminate all of the existing ones. Politically, ISP would\nserve as a jumping off point for the proponents of a welfare state.\nA concerted campaign by so-called welfare 'rights' proponents and\ntheir allies would most likely result in compromises that would be\nmore, not less, liberal.\n\"As details of ISP emerge, they raise questions and specific\nproblems. For example:\n--It would double the number of persons receiving cash handouts\nand drastically reduce the number of taxpayers shouldering the total\nburden of government.\n--It would cost $26.5 billion more each year than the current\nprogram. This contrasts with a saving of $1.87 billion which could\nbe achieved under California's 'Blueprint for National Welfare Reform'\nsubmitted by a special task force in September.\n--'Federalization\" of all welfare is no panacea, as the problems\nassociated with Supplemental Security Income attest. So far, federal\ntakeover of the five million adult aid cases under that program has\nbeen a disaster. ISP proposes a similar takeover of all 41 million\nrecipients. If the aged, blind and disabled who require little or\nno monthly eligibility determination to get their five million monthly\nchecks---has been too much for the Social Security Administration to\nhandle, how can IRS expect to cope with several times that many\nindividually redetermined claims each month?\n#724\n--ISP does not address itself to state supplements. Some\nstates, such as California, pay benefits higher than ISP proposes.\nIf we don't continue a supplement under ISP, our recipients would\nsuffer a benefit cut. If we do pay it, who would determine\neligibility, and how would such payments be treated by IRS?\n-'Simplification' by replacing present welfare with ISP---\nwould be illusory unless eligibility checking is weakened or\neliminated. And, that would result in welfare-by-affirmation.\n--ISP purports to make it possible to reduce the army of state\nand county employees now administering welfare programs. That was\nalso the promise of HR 1 in the federal takeover of the relatively\nsimple adult aid categories by Social Security almost a year ago.\nTo date, no such reductions have been possible and, worse, the\nfederally-administered system is incapable of getting ineligible\npersons off the rolls in timely fashion except when they die. It\nis difficult to imagine how IRS---or any other federal agency---\ncould manage several times as many AFDC individual cases and child-\nless couple cases each month, when most of them are much more\ncomplicated.\n-Effectiveness of the proposed work requirement is doubtful,\ngiven the avowed opposition of the H.E.W. staff.\n\"As we learn more about this new scheme to redistribute the\ntaxpayers' earnings as 'guaranteed income', I'm afraid it will show\nmore and more flaws, or at the very least be as complex, cumbersome\nand unmanageable as the present nonsystem.\n\"There is an alternative with demonstrated effectiveness. Our\nCalifornia 'Blueprint' outlines what has been done through reform\nat the state level and what still needs to be done to make welfare\nmanageable on a nationwide scale.\n\"The major problem today lies in the area of food stamps. ISP\nproposes to do away with the stamps, substituting cash. Yet, food\nstamps prevent taxpayers' cash from being used to purchase liquor,\ntobacco, jewelry and other nonessential luxuries. The program does\nneed greatly improved eligibility standards and administration, however,\nand the means are detailed in our Blueprint.\n\"There are federal barriers to effective welfare reform that\nmust be removed if we are to bring caseloads under control. I have\nurged the President to seriously consider our 'Blueprint' in detail.\nIt bases cash payments on demonstrated need. It would control food\nstamps. It would provide for the truly needy and prevent abuse by\nthe non-needy (something the ISP scheme cannot do). All of this\ncan be accomplished at lower cost than the present system, and far\nlower expense than ISP.\n\"Some have dismissed our reforms out-of-hand as 'only tinkering\";\nhowever, carefully planned, detailed welfare reform is no more\n'tinkering' than is piloting a space vehicle or managing a large,\ncomplex business. It can be done, given the will and the technical\nknowledge.'\n#####\nWalthall\n- 2 -\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-30-74\n#725\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced that California has joined\nin an effort to head off provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act\nthat could cost the state $16 million a year or more.\nThe suit was filed by the National League of Cities and the\nNational Governors' Conference to halt the operation of recent\namendments to the Act. Labor Secretary Peter J. Brennan is the defendant.\nSigned into law April 8 by President Nixon, the amendments would\nforce state and local governments to reduce the hours of work of police\nand fire personnel starting January 1 or pay overtime.\nA three-judge United States District Court panel will hear a\nrequest for a preliminary injunction against the new regulations Monday\n(December 30) in Washington, D.C. An order allowing California to join\nin the suit challenging the constitutionality of the amendments as they\naffect state and local governments was signed Thursday (December 26)\nby Federal District Judge John Pratt in Washington.\nVirtually eliminated by the new regulations based on the 1974\namendments to the act would be the long-standing practice of awarding\ncompensating time off to state and local government employees for over-\ntime work. State Finance Director Verne Orr said the resulting cost\nto California alone would be at least $16 million a year.\n\"We predict that the mutual aid program among local fire services\nin California also would be doomed because smaller jurisdictions would\nbe unable to afford to pay the overtime involved, Governor Reagan\nsaid. \"This could result in an additional cost to the state of $6\nmillion a year.\nThe 1974 amendments already have forced the California Highway\nPatrol Academy to cut its training program from 2,080 hours to 960\nhours to avoid the $750,000 cost of paying cadets for time spent\neating and sleeping.\nAn early ruling by the panel is expected on the request for an\ninjunction pending resolution of the suit by the United States Supreme\nCourt. The suit contends the 1974 amendments unconstitutionally\ninterfere with the sovereign functions of state and local government.\nCalifornia has advanced a similar argument in the pending suit of\nthe State of Ohio against application of cost of living regulations to\nthe salaries paid state employees.\n\"We believe the 1974 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act\nare patently unconstitutional, \" Governor Reagan state. \"They are\njust another example of the California taxpayer having to bear the\nburden of additional costs for vital government services without\nconcurrent increases in the level or quality of the services.\n\"Accordingly, we have elected to decline respectfully to\nimplement the regulations and are seeking injunctive relief against\ntheir operation pending resolution of the constitutional issues.\"\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-30-74\n#726\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nArnold Beckman of Corona Del Mar and Sacramento attorney Gene E.\nPendergast, Jr., as members of the Advisory Committee for Selection\nof the Regents of the University of California.\nThe Advisory Committee was established by the passage of\nProposition 4 at the November election. It requires the governor\nto consult with the 12-man advisory committee in selecting his\nappointees to the Regents. The committee consists of the Speaker\nof the Assembly, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Chairman of\nthe Regents, a member of the faculty chosen by the academic senate\nof the University, a student of the University chosen by the Council\nof Student Body Presidents, an alumnus chosen by the University's\nalumni association, and six members of which two each are appointed\nby the governor, the Speaker and the Senate Rules Committee.\nBeckman, a 74-year-old Republican, is chairman of the board\nof directors of Beckman Instruments, Inc., in Irvine.\nHe was given a two-year term.\nBeckman is chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of the\nCalifornia Institute of Technology, and is a member of the advisory\nboard to the California State University at Fullerton.\nPendergast, a 34-year-old Republican, received a four-year term.\nHe is a 1961 graduate of the University of California at Davis and\nreceived his law degree in 1964 from the University's Boalt Hall in\nBerkeley.\nCostsof the Advisory Committee have not been determined at\nthis writing.\n######\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-30-74\n#727\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today issued an Executive Order\ncreating a new government unit, the Coordinating Office for Public\nService Employment (COPSE). COPSE will serve as the central point\nfor handling non-civil service appointments to state government\npositions through the Public Service Employment program (PSE).\nThis Public Service Employment program is a federally-\nfunded program (Title II of the Comprehensive Employment and Training\nAct of 1973), which aims to counter high unemployment by providing\ntemporary public service jobs for the unemployed in areas where the\nunemployment rate is 6.5 percent or higher.\nFunds for PSE jobs are included in the revenue sharing\nfunds returned by the federal government to cities and counties with\npopulations of 100,000 or more (referred to as Prime Sponsors). State\ngovernment departments and other state agencies will be hiring through\nsub-grant arrangements with these prime sponsors and the public service\njebs will be in the prime sponsors' areas.\nThe new unit, COPSE, will be the hiring agent for all state\ngovernment positions in the PSE program. COPSE will, in effect, be\nacting for the governor, since the positions created will be filled\nby governor appointees exempt from the usual civil service procedure.\nThe jobs will be in positions additional to the regular civil\nservice lists and will not affect civil service opportunities and\npromotions. They will be transitional or training positions, preferably\nin occupational fields most likely to expand when the employment situation\nimproves.\nCOPSE will be located in the Employment Development Department\nbuilding, 800 Capitol Mall, Sacramento.\n########\nwalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-31-74\n#728\nA \"new direction\" for Medi-Cal, calling for sweeping changes\nin the state's health care financing system for the poor and needy,\nwas proposed today by Governor Ronald Reagan.\nThe proposed system would require some legislative changes,\ncentralized health facilities, called Organized Health Delivery Systems\n(OHDS), which would contract with the state to provide all care and\nservices for the 2.4 million Medi-Cal beneficiaries.\nGovernor Reagan cited both economic and social reasons for the\nrecommended revisions in the $2 billion program.\n\"Despite the fact that we in California have the most generous\nhealth care plan for economically disadvantaged citizens in the\nUnited States, it is not delivering these services equitably, nor\neconomically, N the governor said.\n\"Through the proposed Organized Health Delivery Systems, every\nMedi-Cal beneficiary can be assured of getting care when needed,\nand the state will be able to monitor the quality of that care.\nFurther, the taxpayers can enjoy a savings of more than 20 percent\nfrom the current Medi-Cal budget, if these recommendations are adopted.\"\nThe proposed changes are the first major suggestions for improving\nthe Medi-Cal program and controlling its rapidly spiralling costs\nsince the Medi-Cal Reform Plan of 1971 imposed limits and prior\nauthorization requirements for some services.\nThe governor emphasized that the proposals are still in a draft\nstage and that much work and some changes in law would be required\nbefore they could be put into effect.\nCosts for the current program, according to the governor, are\nrising \"faster than the state budget can stand.\" Medi-Cal's portion\nhas outstripped other increases in the state budget---up 213 percent\nin the past eight years from $618 million in 1966-67 to approximately\n$2 billion this year. The total cost of state government increased\nonly 130 percent during the same period.\nThe social problems Governor Reagan described include the\ndifficulties encountered by many Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are unable\nto find providers who accept the present program's controls and\nprocedures. Additionally, he said, the state is unable to evaluate\nthe quality of care offered by the more than 55,000 providers who do\nparticipate. With the new system, the state could concentrate on\nquality rather than control, he added.\n#728\nThe basic change proposed by the governor is a new delivery\nsystem concept which would provide care for about 90 percent of the\nbeneficiaries through the Organized Health Delivery Systems.\nDetails are not yet worked out, but the proposal calls for the\nstate to contract with one organization in each geographical area.\nThe organization would provide all care routine and emergency\nfor all the beneficiaries in the area.\nPayment would be in advance, for all Medi-Cal services needed\nby assigned beneficiaries. \"The OHDS will have an incentive to keep\nthe beneficiaries well through the practice of preventive medicine,\"\nthe governor said. The state will not have to control services,\nbut will be able to monitor quality.\nIn rural areas where a large centralized organization is not\nfeasible, the state would reimburse local providers in private\npractice on a fee-for-service basis.\nOther recommendations include:\nShifting mental health care from the Medi-Cal program to the\nShort-Doyle mental health program. (Overlapping benefits and\nduplicative administrative costs would be eliminated and all\nCalifornians would have coverage under the same program).\n-Copayment from all beneficiaries for all services. (The\nproposal suggests copayment in order to provide a deterrent to\nunnecessary services and to strengthen a \"cost consciousness\" in\nthe beneficiary. Amounts range from 50 cents for a prescription\ndrug to $10 for a hospital admission).\n--Volume purchase by the state of all drugs and supplies. (The\nstate currently spends over $50 million each year. Volume purchase,\nby bid, would reduce this cost by an estimated ten percent).\n--Termination of the fiscal intermediary system. (Since the\nnew system would require processing few claims, the state could save\non administrative costs by handling this function internally).\n--Elimination of prior authorization and other program controls.\n(The state would save again in administrative costs because each OHDS\nwould establish its own controls and the state would use its professional\nconsultants to monitor quality rather than to authorize services).\n- 2 -\n#728\n--Taking over the counties' share of the program's funding.\n(Because policy and administration are state responsibilities, the\nstate, with federal participation, would fund the program. Counties,\nwhich currently pay a total of almost $300 million, would be mandated\nto reduce local taxes).\n--Establishing a single income and assets eligibility standard\nfor all beneficiaries in all categories of public and medical\nassistance. (The current fragmented system has stricter requirements\nin some categories).\nIf necessary legislation is passed next year at the state and\nfederal levels, the plan could become operational in 1976, according\nto the governor.\n\"The Medi-Cal program has proven that money alone is not the\nanswer, \" he concluded. \"If these recommendations are accepted,\nCalifornia can provide quality medical care to all who are eligible\nand the continual financial demands of the Medi-Cal program can be\ncontrolled.\"\n######\nWalthall\n- 3 -\nMedi-Cal Background Information\nPurpose\nCalifornia provides medical assistance for needy and low-income residents through Medi-Cal,\nthe state's version of the joint federal-state Medicaid program (Title XIX of the Social\nSecurity Act). Medi-Cal does not provide services directly to program beneficiaries, it\npays claims for a comprehensive list of benefits available to approximately 2.4 million\nbeneficiaries.\nHistory\nThe program began in 1966, when California decided to participate immediately in Medicaid,\ncstablished by Federal legislation the previous year. Through the early Medi-Cal Program\nthe State paid bills on a fee-for-service basis, with little or no utilization controls on\nproviders or beneficiaries, By 1970, costs had increased exponentially and a centralized\nontrol system was needed. The resulting Medi-Cal Reform Plan (MRP) went into effect in\n1971. MRP increased the group of Program eligibles by including medically indigent persons,\nformerly the sole responsibility of the counties; added benefits and divided them into\nbasic and supplemental schedules with requirements for prior authorization as a utilization\ncontrol method; added a copayment requirement (no longer in effect) for some services\nfor some beneficiaries; and encouraged the development of contracts with prepaid health\nplans. With MRP, the Department established a computerized centralized identification\nsystem (CID). CID takes eligibility input from the counties and issues the \"sticky label\"\nMedi-Cal card, used by the beneficiary and the provider to establish monthly eligibility\nfor services,\nAdministration\nUnder general direction of the Secretary of Health and Welfare, the State Department of\nHealth is responsible for administration of the Medi-Cal program. The Department oversees\nits operation, sets policy and rates, monitors utilization and quality of care, and\ninvestigates complaints. Within the Department, the Health Financing Systems has the\nprimary responsibility for Medi-Cal. Claims are processed and paid by fiscal intermediaries\nwith Medi-Cal Intermediary Operations (MIO) handling the vast majority. MIO includes\nBlue Cross North, Blue Cross South, and Blue Shield as claims reviewers.\nPrepaid Health Plans\nPHPs agree to provide the complete range of Medi-Cal benefits, as needed, to enrolled\neligibles in return for a monthly capitation amount paid by the state. In areas in which\nthe Department has contracted with prepaid health plans, a beneficiary may voluntarily\ndecide to enroll rather than to seek care through providers who bill the State on a fee-\nfor-service basis. In the past two years, more than 60 contracts have been written.\nts\nneficiaries: Approximately 2.4 million California residents are eligible for Medi-Cal;\neligibility is determined by county welfare offices (Aid to Families with\nDependent Children); by federal Social Security offices for Supplemental\nSecurity Income/State Supplemental Payment recipients (the blind, the dis-\nabled and old age assistance). Of the 2.4 million, nearly 2 million are\npublic assistance (welfare) recipients; the others are medically needy or\nmedically indigent.- lacking resources to pay for their medical care.\nProviders\nMore than 55,000 providers are voluntarily participating in the program:\nphysicians, hospitals, nursing homes, pharmacists, dentists, therapists,\npodiatrists, chiropractors and others.\nFunding\nJoint federal-state-county on an approximate 50-35-15 ratio.\nBudget\nTotal expenditures in 1973-74 were more than $1.6 billion; this years budget\nexceeds $1.8 billion - nearly 20% of the total state budget.\n-2-\nBenefits\nMedi-Cal covers: services from physicians, dentists, chiropractors,\noptometrists, pharmacists, hospitals (inpatient and outpatient), nursing\nhomes, home health agencies, a variety of therapists, and a comprehensive\narray of other health care service and equipment providers.\nPHPs\n54 contracts are currently in effect with 239,000 beneficiaries enrolled\n(approximately 10% of all those eligible for Medi-Cal). Capitation\npaid in August was almost $7 million, exclusive of pilot projects which\nare testing new delivery systems and financing methods for particular\nservices or in certain areas.\nMedi-Cal: Current and Continuing Issues and Problems\nCost:\nMedi-Cal costs, controlled by MRP for several years, have shown indications\nof increasing again. The Department of Health, the Legislative Analyst, and\nthe Department of Finance are reviewing the causes, Theories include \"bill\npadding\" by providers, extra tests ordered by physicians for their own protection\nagainst malpractice charges, and an unexpected increase in the number of\nmedically indigent because of economic conditions.\nRates:\nReimbursement schedules and fees have been a continuing source of complaint from\nvirtually every type of provider. Nursing home payments were increased earlier\nthis year and many nonphysician providers have recently received higher rates.\nPhysician reimbursement methods and amounts are currently under intensive study.\nDoctors are paid on individual billing profiles established according to\nspecialty, geographical area, and past customary fees,\nPrior\nThe prior authorization requirement, established by MRP to control costs and\nAuthor-\nmonitor utilization, is repugnant to many providers. Increased demand for\nization:\nMedi-Cal services has at times caused delay in processing Treatment Authorization\nRequests. The Department is now looking at new methods for handling TARS.\nPHPs:\nControversial since their inception over two years ago, prepaid health plans have\nbeen under almost constant scrutiny by the press, the Legislature, the public,\nand those responsible for their administration. The Department has, over the\nyears, implemented a variety of controls to improve the PHP program;\nmarketing materials and methods require approval and are under close surveillanc\nquality of care is monitored primarily through on-site medical audits,\nsupplemented by reports of service data.\nPHPs are required to submit certified financial data\na flat capitation rate has recently been adopted for each county, replacing\nthe individual contract rate negotiation process\nefforts are intensifying to educate beneficiaries about Medi-Cal alternatives\nand proper use of both PHP and fee-for-service Medi-Cal services\nDuplicate\nA recent report by the Auditor General criticized the Department's administration\nPayments:\nof Medi-Cal because of what he termed duplicate fee-for-service payments to\nproviders for beneficiaries who were already enrolled in PHPs. The report was\nnot considered a responsible report by the Department, however, the Department\nis aware that it is possible, in some counties, for a beneficiary who is a\nPHP enrollee to secure a temporary Medi-Cal identification card and use it\nwith a fee-for-service provider. The Department is working with the counties\nto improve screening procedures when temporary cards are requested.\nEffect on\nWith Medi-Cal Reform, the county indigent patient became eligible for Medi-Cal.\nCounties:\nMany chose to \"enter the mainstream\" and no longer sought services through\nthe county hospital system. Many counties found themselves operating hospitals\nand clinics without patients and have decided to shut down or modify their\noperations. County administrators and officials have blamed the Medi-Cal\nprogram for their fiscal difficulties,\nGLOSSARY\nMedi-Cal the state-federal health care program for California's\nlow income population.\nShort-Doyle Program the state-county system of joint funding\nfor community mental health programs. All Californians may receive\nservices with payment on a sliding scale from free to full charges.\nPrepaid Health Plan (PHP) a program that provides all necessary\nhealth care through a group of physicians and other providers for one\nfixed fee paid monthly in advance. For Medi-Cal beneficiaries, who\nvoluntarily enroll, the fee is paid for the state through contracts.\nFee-for service the conventional method of paying for each\nservice rendered by physicians or other providers.\nPrior authorization under the fee-for-service Medi-Cal program,\nadvance approval by state-employed professional consultants is required\nfor all health care services other than two physician visits and two\nmedical prescriptions per month.\nFiscal intermediary large insurance companies -- Blue Cross\nNorth, Blue Cross South, Blue Shield - which process the almost $2\nbillion in claims that will be paid this year by Medi-Cal to health\ncare providers.\nCopayment\na trial program conducted from January 1, 1972 through\nJune 30, 1973, in which some Medi-Cal beneficiaries had to pay a token\n$1 for each of the first two doctor visits and 50 cents for each of\nthe first two pharmaceutical prescriptions per month toward their\nhealth care. The $3 maximum copayment has been judged successful in\ndeterring excess use of medical care by Medi-Cal beneficiaries.\nCOUNTIES' SHARE OF\nMEDI-CAL FUNDING\nCOUNTY\nSHARE\nAlameda\n15,535,416\nAlpine\n7,295\nAmador\n209,508\nButte\n1,269,016\nCalaveras\n246,390\nColusa\n167,986\nContra Costa\n7,733,130\nDel Norte\n250,797\nEI Dorado\n478,906\nFresno\n9,385,423\nGlenn\n228,514\nHumboldt\n1,509,600\nImperial\n533,200\nInyo\n276,186\nKern\n7,593,083\nKings\n941,280\nLake\n160,380\nLassen\n194,556\nLos Angeles\n118,370,400\nMadera\n803,115\nMarin\n1,424,640\nMariposa\n53,163\nMendocino\n772,750\nMerced\n1,900,350\nModoc\n161,160\nMono\n48,515\nMonterey\n3,617,430\nNapa\n709,500\nNevada\n646,850\nOrange\n14,521,815\nPlacer\n1,271,809\nPlumas\n223,780\nRiverside\n5,882,400\nSacramento\n10,240,249\nSan Benito\n229,689\nSan Bernardino\n7,657,470\nSan Diego\n11,181,450\nSan Francisco\n16,718,460\nSan Joaquin\n6,496,458\nSan Luis Obispo\n2,098,122\nSan Mateo\n7,302,400\nSanta Barbara\n2,968,940\nCOUNTY\nSHARE\nSanta Clara\n12,849,800\nSanta Cruz\n1,851,645\nShasta\n858,000\nSierra\n19,721\nSiskiyou\n609,570\nSolano\n974,304\nSonoma\n3,186,000\nStanislaus\n3,771,420\nSutter\n866,250\nTehama\n366,560\nTrinity\n223,951\nTulare\n3,524,955\nTuolumne\n349,604\nVentura\n3,320,096\nYolo\n1,391,250\nYuba\n701,688\n296,826,395\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-31-74\n#729\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nLos Angeles Municipal Court Judge Edward A. Hinz, Jr., as judge\nof the Los Angeles County Superior Court.\nJudge Hinz, 41, succeeds Judge Edward Olson of Burbank.\nJudge Olson has retired.\nA native of York, Nebraska, Judge Hinz has been on the Municipal\nCourt bench since December of 1973. He is a 1958 graduate of the\nUniversity of California at Los Angeles and received his law degree\nfrom the University's Hastings College of the Law.\nHe also attended Harvard University for two years prior to\nserving in the U.S. Army.\nJudge Hinz served 12 and one half years in the state Attorney\nGeneral's office prior to his appointment to the Municipal Court.\nHe was chief assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal\nLaw Division at the time of his appointment.\nHe is a past vice president of the National Association of\nExtradition Officials and a member of the California State Bar\nAssociation.\nAs a Superior Court judge, he will receive an annual salary\nof $40,322.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-31-74\n#730\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nEvelyn S. Clark of Los Angeles as a member of the Board of\nBehavorial Science Examiners in the Department of Consumer Affairs.\nMs. Clark, a Democrat, fills the vacancy created by the\nresignation of Connor G. Cole of El Centro. Her term will expire\nJune 1, 1978.\nA licensed marriage, family and child counselor, Ms. Clark\nis a graduate of San Diego State College with a B.A. degree in\nElementary Education. She received a master's degree in 1965\nin Counselor Education from the University of Southern California.\nIn 1972, she received her Doctor of Education degree from USC.\nBoard members receive $25 a day per diem when on official\nbusiness.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-31-74\n#731\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment of\nJames R. Doyle, M.D., of Orange as a member of the Board of\nMedical Examiners.\nDr. Doyle, a 49-year-old Republican, succeeds Arthur F.\nThompson, M.D., of Newport Beach. Dr. Thompson has resigned\nand his term has expired. Dr. Doyle received a four-year term.\nA 1955 graduate of Gannon College in Erie, Pennsylvania,\nDr. Doyle received his medical degree in 1959 from the University\nof Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.\nBoard members receive $25 a day per diem when on official\nbusiness.\n#####\nWalthall\nOFFICE OF GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN\nRELEASE: Immediate\nSacramento, California 95814\nClyde Walthall, Press Secretary\n916-445-4571\n12-31-74\n#732\nGovernor Ronald Reagan today announced the appointment to\nthree-year terms of Mary Ada Morton of Carmel and Albert C. Fremont,\nM.D., of Palo Alto as members of the Areawide Developmental\nDisabilities Program, Board, Area VII.\nMs. Morton, a Republican, director of Nursing Services,\nHillhaven Convalescent Hospital in Carmel, succeeds Juanita Shaffer of\nPalo Alto. Ms. Shaffer asked not to be reappointed.\nDr. Fremont, a 43-year-old Democrat, is director of the Child\nDevelopment and Diagnostic Center at the Santa Clara Valley Medical\nCenter in San Jose. He succeeds Richard G. Grey of Los Altos Hills.\nGrey's term has expired and he asked not to be reappointed.\nBoard members receive their necessary expenses.\n#####\nWalthall"
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