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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Aug 25, 1975

Page

3

San Francisco officials seek to roll back police benefits

San Francisco officials and business groups chart legal moves to rescind wage gains won by police and firemen last week and to curtail benefits if strikes recur. City leaders push charter amendments for November to fire future strikers and strip key past benefits. Alioto vetoed one measure but expects a veto override. Police and firemen, roughly 3,600, were set to receive the October pay raise after a three day police strike and a one day firemen walkout.

San Francisco UPI John, Jacobs SAN Francisco Board of Supervisors Joseph Alioto Alito Alioto Rand

Roaring 20s fans live life in Model T garb

Ed Archer and his wife Karen embrace a 1920s lifestyle in Hayward driving a Model T Ford and attending era themed events. Archer, president of the Model T Ford Club of America, preserves a period home and a $10,000 car collection while avoiding modern gadgets. He has clocked about 200000 miles in Model Ts and was towed home only three times.

Archer Karten Anity Cashews Tea Mareels

Legislature faces business push in California session

Sacramento AP reports big business faces an onslaught in the California Legislature with proposals to raise taxes on business and liquor, end the insurance home office deduction, and boost lawmakers pay while debates include collective bargaining for school and state workers. The preferential income tax shelter faces a near wipeout, while bills to raise liquor taxes and alter two-thirds voting rules loom.

Sacramento California Senate Finance Committee John Dunlap D-Napa Joseph “Montoys D-La Puente Brown David Roberti Los Angeles Roberts Arlen Gregorio Dnapa Assembly Albert Rodda Edwin Zberg É¢Ach

Cal taxes split fifty fifty across taxpayers in state

California Taxpayers Association released a study showing 50.7 percent of the 16.6 billion tax bill fell on businesses and 47.1 percent on individuals for 1974-75. Property taxes led the burden at 7.5 billion, with state taxes at 9.8 billion. The study notes most business taxes are passed to consumers.

Chair of Commerce Bank Anl Sacramento UPS California Taxpayers’ Association California Kirk West The Association

UFW Holds Celebration Rally at MacArthur Park

United Farm Workers drew about 900 people to a Sunday rally in Los Angeles MacArthur Park to celebrate passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act. Dolores Huerta spoke as the event announced intensified boycotts of non UFW picked lettuce and Gallo wines.

United Farm Workers Los Angeles MacArthur Park UFW Dolores Huerta

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