Mayor Yorty attacks Mayer over police indictments
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty accused U S attorney Robert L Mayer of political ambition and demanded his replacement after indictments were returned against five Los Angeles police officers. He criticized federal handling of revolutionaries and urged focus on aggressive local enforcement. The indictments relate to the killing of two unarmed Mexican nationals during a raid for a San Leandro murder suspect.
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Los Angeles
PLC
Sam Yorty
Robert L. Mayer
Yorty
Meyer
California Homicide Investigators Association
San Leandro
Hermit Undergoes Eye Surgery in San Francisco Hospital
The ailing 84 year old hermit Pietro Argeto Arata from Horseshoe Bend was taken to a San Francisco hospital for cataract removal in both eyes after being found unconscious near his Sierra foothills cabin. He wandered for five days without food or water before the March 208d admission at John C. Fremont Hospital.
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Mariposa
UPI
Horseshoe Bend
Sierra Foothills
San Francisco
Pietro Argeto Arata
Mariposa County Welfare
May Kleiman
Arala
Merced
Lake McClure
Bee
John C. Fremont Hospital
Indicted aerospace engineers tied to space oxygen design theft
Donald Beem and David Taos, both former Tylan Corp employees, were indicted by a county grand jury for stealing a trade secret related to an oxygen flow meter used in spacecraft. Beem faces grand theft charges after a device was found at his home. the pair later joined Brooks Instrument Co, a unit of Emerson Electric.
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Ios Angeles
UPD W
Donald Beem
Calif
David
Taos
Tustin
Tylan Corp
Torrance
Tylan
Brooks Instrument Co
Stanton
Brooks
Emerson Electric Co
Beem
Deaths linked to quake revised by coroner
Los Angeles reported that Ysidro Maruio, 49, of San Fernando, died of natural causes rather than earthquake injuries. He had been treated at Olive View Hospital after the Feb 9 quake. The coroner’s office updated the quake death toll to 64.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Ysidro Maruio
San Fernando
Ive View Hospital
High court hears welfare eligibility challenge in California
In Sacramento, UPI reports the state Supreme Court heard a case over whether counties may deny welfare to employable residents. John Mooney challenged San Mateo County rules excluding employable individuals, while county officials argued a job paying $9 an hour was available but declined.
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Sacramento
UPI
State Supreme Court
Jay Allen Fisen
The
San Mateo Legal Aid Society
John Mooney
San Mateo
Bison
James A. Aiello
San Mateo County
Mooney
Abortion bill dies in Nevada Senate action
In Carson City Nevada the Senate killed a liberalized abortion bill hours after the Assembly passed it. The motion to ban further consideration carried 10 to 7. The bill cannot be revived this session though a new measure might be introduced.
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Carson City
Nev
UPT
Nevada State Senate
Senate
James J. Gibson
D Henderson
Camper tag bill sent to Ways and Means for $5 tags
Sacramento Assembly Transportation Committee approved a bill requiring truck mounted campers to display identification tags costing five dollars each. The measure by Assemblyman William Ketchum aims to identify campers stolen from trucks and fund DMV file maintenance.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly Transportation Committee
William Ketchum
Paso
Ketchum
State Department of Motor Vehicles
Betchum
England campus site acquired for USIU expansion
UPI reports USIU President William C. Rust announced that Ashdown Park, an 85 acre estate at Wych Cross, Sussex, has been purchased to host a larger England campus. He said the move reflects strong demand since the English program began in 1999 and will allow more than triple the current student capacity.
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Rust
Roprore Park
Buckinghamshire
Ashdown Park
Welfare changes lack authority say California court
The California Supreme Court heard CWRO arguments that Governor Reagan’s welfare payment changes, to meet federal law, exceed state authority. CWRO cites a 1.1 billion Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, claiming 90 percent of families would lose benefits. the administration argues state law gave Director Martin authority and that funding could be altered or additional funds sought later.
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Sacramento
UPS
State Supreme Court
Reagan
California Welfare Rights Organization
CWRO
Peter Sitkin
San Francisco
Social Welfare
Robert Martin
CWRC
Hut
Jay Linderman
Martin
Verne Orr
U.S
Linderman
Stikin
Ronald Reagan
Sitkin
Jobless benefits hike bill introduced in California
SACRAMENTO AP UPI A bill to raise unemployment benefits from 65 to 150 a week in California was introduced in the state legislature. Democratic Assemblyman Henry Waxman of Los Angeles presented the measure for the state AFL CIO. The package also seeks to lengthen benefit periods and include self employed workers.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Henry Waxman
Los Angeles
Afl-Cio
Waxman
Reagan welfare proposal faces Senate hostility in Sacramento
Gov Ronald Reagan’s plan to overhaul welfare by diverting able bodied recipients to work met firm legislative resistance in Sacramento. Senators Howard Way and Alan Short questioned the program’s compassion and feasibility while officials explained the Topunit design during a special Senate finance committee hearing.
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Sacramento
Ronald Reagan
Howard W. Way
Senate
Alan Short
Senate Finance Committee
Reagan
Finance Committees
Reagan plans shift in California welfare costs debated
California leaders question Reagan’s proposed welfare overhaul under a state takeover of aid to the blind aged and disabled while counties bear more for aid to families with dependent children. Unions picket as welfare officials weigh whether counties lose.
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Hedgatt
California
Meagan
Way
Reagan
San Francisco
Ron Born
Los Angeles
Skepticism over Reagan welfare reform plans in California counties
Officials in Sacramento Los Angeles San Francisco and Fresno voiced skepticism Thursday about Reagan's welfare and medical reform plan. They warned of higher AFDC costs to counties and possible shifts of state welfare savings onto local property tax revenue, with projected county impacts from millions to tens of millions of dollars.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Goy
Ronald Reagan
William Hay
Ellis P. Murphy
Los Angeles
Public
AFDC
Ron Born
San Francisco
Reed Clegg
Fresno County
Bis County
Assembly
Hob Moretti
Reagan
Hay
Sacramento County
Senate Finance Committee
Robert Carleson
Carleson
James Hall
AMA proxy warns marijuana cuts sex drive in men
Reno based AMA president elect Dr. Wesley Hall says continuing study shows marijuana use lowers male sex drive and increases birth defect risk. He cites one in ten children of mothers using marijuana may be mentally defective and warns of confidence loss and potential depressive psychosis alongside health dangers.
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American Medical Association
Wesley Hall
AMA Proxy
Reno, Nev
UPI
The
American Medical Associaton
Wesley All
AMA
Hall
Las Vegas
Hell
State reports new pests invading California
The California Agriculture Department lists pests newly found in the state last year including the hete y locust pod borer the imported mealybug and the fornilla hagworm plus the juniper webworm the borers and the grass aphid. Taxonomists note 39 201 insect species in California a 17 percent rise from the prior year. The Gypsy moth and the Mexican fruit fly emerge as the most dangerous threats to forests and orchard crops and to fruit.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
California Agriculture Department
Bill targets private club employment discrimination in California
Sacramento UPI report says Assemblyman Leon Ralph introduced measures to end job discrimination by exclusive groups like the Elks. Proposals would remove FEPC exemptions for clubs and require plans from state contractors, with investigations possible by FEPC members and panels.
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Sacramento
UPI
Elks Club
Leon Ralpit
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Ralph
Ing
the Elks
The
Los Angeles Democrat
Assembly Governmental Organization Committee
FEP
FEPC
Commission
FERC
Be yearold computer expert pleads innocent in theft case
Hugh J. Ward of University Computing Service Palo Alto faces grand theft charges in a case billed as the first to involve stealing a computer program and its data via telephone. Investigators say evidence linked Ward to Information Systems Design in Oakland and that memory tapes and access codes were used to drain the Oakland computer over about a year.
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Information Systems Design
Oakland
Gored hog bears no malice toward boy at WOODLAKE
Freddie Van derhoff, 16, was gored by a 700 pound boar he was raising for a Future Farmers of America project. The pig charged after he tripped while driving the animal from a pen this week. At the hospital the hunter stated he would not slaughter the hog, declaring the animal too good to destroy. The incident involved one of ten pigs in the project.
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UPS
Freddie Vanderhoff
Future Farmers of America
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