Grand jury transcript release ordered in Davis Magee case
Marin County Superior Court Judge Joseph G. Wilson ordered the grand jury transcript in the Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee case released at 8 am Friday. The county clerk’s office will prepare copies at a cost of 5 dollars, with potential further sealing sought by the defendants.
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San Rafael
UPI
Maine County
Joseph G. Wilson
Angela Davis
Ruchell Magee
Marin County Hall of Justice
Miss Davis
Magee
Ceal
Douglas J. Maloney
Air West Receives San Francisco Eureka Fare Increase
The California Public Utilities Commission approved intrastate fare hikes for Air West and allowed cancellation of existing excursion fares. Air West had requested reaching $28.70 for the San Francisco to Eureka jet fare but received authorization for $26. The agency noted the airline was operating at a loss and adjusted the proposed increase.
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San Francisco
API
California Public Unticies Commission
Air West
PUC
Commission
California
Eureka
Campers to Get $5 Identification Tags Under Bill
A bill by Assemblyman William Ketchum R Paso Robles would require truck mounted campers to carry $5 identification tags. Fees would fund tag production and DMV camper records. Ketchum cites a Kern County theft ring and says tags would help prove camper ownership despite truck licenses not identifying the campers.
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Sacramento
UPI
William Ketchum
R-Paso Robles
Ketchum
State Department of Motor Vehicle
Kern County
No Comment From Labor Leader On Welfare Jobs Plan
In Sacramento a top state labor official gave no comment when asked about Governor Reagan's proposal to create a public works program employing welfare recipients. Reagan outlined the plan in his State of the State address, stressing no displacement of workers and seeking organized labor input. John F. Henning of the California Labor Federation AFL-CIO declined further remark.
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Sacramento
UPL
California
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Organized Labor
John F. Henning
California Labor Federation
Afl-Cio
Nixon names Train to NATO unit
President Nixon designates Russell E. Train as the United States representative to NATO’s committee on challenges of modern society. The group addresses road safety disaster response pollution and regional planning. Train replaces Daniel Moynihan who will stay as a consultant after leaving White House service.
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Nixon
NATO
San Clemente
Calif
UPI
Russell E. Train
Council On Environmental Quality
United States
Committee
NATO Alliance
White House
Train
Daniel P. Moynihan
Moynihan
Harvard
California farm worker wages rise to $2.42 top
California farm workers were paid as high as 2.42 per hour and as low as 1.48 per hour last year, with an average of 92.09 cents across the state. A Crop Reporting Service survey found California wages higher than most states except Washington, and the labor force ranged from 169,000 in February to 280,000 in September.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
State Agriculture Department
Crop Reporting Service
Washington
Ball
Nevada teens drug use survey shows rising narcotic use
Clark County School District survey of 3,500 students from 30,000 high school enrollment finds about one third of seniors and 18 percent of juniors used narcotics. Marijuana is the most common drug with rising barbiturate and amphetamine use, LSD and glue down slightly.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nevada
Clark County
Nior
District Research Department
Twelve plead innocent in Southwest Museum sit-in
Twelve persons staged a sit-in at the Southwest Museum in Highland Park pleading innocent to trespassing and disturbing the peace charges. Most arrested were Indians. Judge Mary Waters set bail from 125 to 250 dollars while three defendants were freed on their own recognizance. The group called the bone exhibits sacrilegious.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Southwest Museum
Highland Park
Mary Waters
Grange Convention Set for Sacramento 1974
The national Grange will hold its 106th annual session in Sacramento California Chester Deaver said the executive committee meeting in Washington DC chose the capital as site.
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Sacramento
Deaver
Washington, D.C
The
Grange
Assembly speaker proposes boost to unemployment benefits
Assembly speaker Moretti on Wednesday proposed a substantial increase in unemployment insurance benefits, potentially raising weekly pay from 45 to about 100 or 105 dollars. He noted a new class of unemployed, many skilled aerospace workers, and called for broader social insurance reforms while opposition from Gov. Reagan aides surfaced.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
Bob Moretti
California
Government Organization Committee
Wadie P. Deddeh
D-Chula Vista
Transportation Committee
Fenton
Moretti
Edwin Meese Imi
Ronald Reagan
Assemblyman
D-Montebello
Finance and Insurance Committee
Do Moretti
ARGUS
Fremont - Newark
Léon Ralph
Los Angeles
California and the West propose extended unemployment and disability benefits
The plan details unemployment insurance from five to sixty five dollars weekly based on prior earnings and financed by employers. Disability benefits range from twenty five to eighty seven dollars weekly funded by employees. Two workmen's compensation programs exist for temporary and permanent disability, financed by employers. December unemployment stands at 619,000 with a seven percent jobless rate. Moretti predicts a Legislature approved measure like Proposal 18 on highway funds for mass transit, while critics challenge funding and facts.
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Califor
Nians
Moretti
California
My Lai trial issue prompts survey of returning troops
A UPI report says the Defense Department surveyed soldiers returning from Vietnam after the My Lai massacre to gauge their understanding of combat rules and treatment of prisoners. The survey, not public, could influence courts martial if results show widespread knowledge or ignorance of official ethics.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Defense Department
My Lai
Vietnam
Georgia
California
Army
Santa Barbara Channel New oil platform rejection urged
Officials urged the Interior Department to reject offshore drilling platform applications from two oil firms in the Santa Barbara Channel. About a thousand people attended the session pro and con. Union Oil backed Platform C while opposition cited a five-year drilling moratorium and coastal sanctuary expansion efforts.
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Santa Barbara
UPI
Interior Department
Union Oil Co
California
Sun Qi] Co
U.S. Supreme Court
Army Corps of Engineers
Dean Ratzman
Charles M. Teague
R-Calif
Gerald $. Firestone
George Clyde
Houston
K. C. Vaughan
Union Oil
Oil and Gas Division
Appli
Teague
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Firestone
Clyde
Vaughan
Carleton B. Scott
Union
Collier Carbon and Chemical Co
Hughes served summons in Maheu suit in Las Vegas
Billionaire Howard Hughes was formally served with a summons in a $500 million counterclaim filed by Robert Maheu. The process named Hughes Tool Co and involved Desert Inn Hotel executives delivering the notice. He has 20 days to answer, and motions probe record handling and access to sealed documents.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPI
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Hughes Tool Co
Nevada
Robert Maheu
Howard Babcock
Trans. World Airlines
Maheu
Bernard Rothkopf
Desert Inn
Peter Wall
Hughes Toul
Morton Galene
Galane
Bahamas
Babcock
Galh
Der
Hughes Tool
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