Reagan appoints Grant to Ag Board and Goke to Ag Director
Gov elect Ronald Reagan filled two agricultural posts on Tuesday naming Visalia rancher Allan Grant president of the State Board of Agriculture and California Farm Bureau Federation leader to succeed Jesse Tapp. Earl Goke of San Francisco will become State Director of Agriculture, succeeding Charles A. Paul.
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Ronald Reagan
California
Allan Grant
Visalia
Jef
State Board of Agriculture
Earl Coke
San Francisco
State Department of Agriculture
Reagan
Los Angeles
California Farm Bureau Federation
Grant
Jesse Tapp
Earl Goke
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Coke
Consolidated Agricultural Industries
Charles A. Paul
Miller Named Standard Of California Chief Executive
Olle N. Miller, chemical engineer with a PhD, named lead chairman and CEO of Standard Oil Co. of California, succeeding Ry Gyein Follis who served as chief executive for seven years. Miller, president since 1961, will take over on February 1 as the company, a major Western industrial giant, continues to expand its assets and earnings.
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Ban Francisco
Rail Crash Fire Terror Recounted
A Boston & Maine diesel car rammed a stalled 7000 gallon oil ink truck at a crossing in Everett Massachusetts. The collision sparked a blaze that killed twelve people including conductor Edwin P. Hunt and injured at least eighteen. The inferno consumed the car and spread to surrounding areas as emergency crews fought the flames.
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Belanger
Chelser
Heycat
Flamesi
Cordwood
Burglars Take Color TV Set
A North Long Beach apartment was burgled of a color television console valued at over 300 dollars when two burglars entered while a teen son was away less than an hour. A neighbor reportedly heard loud footsteps and alerted Joyce Kling who reported the loss Wednesday.
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Long Beach
Joyce M. Kling
16Th St
Assembly group claims there is no state teacher shortage
A Sacramento assembly subcommittee declared no California teacher shortage after reviewing 60 000 credentials issued versus under 7 000 new teachers. Chairman Leo J Ryan said rural districts with low salaries and large class sizes showed shortages. He unveiled a 1967 plan to bolster teaching status and fund a master teacher supplement of 4000 dollars, costing about 12 million annually.
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Reagan
Cole
Grant
Californe
Sacramento
UPS
California
Department of Education
Leo J. Ryan
D-San Mateo
Ile
Ryan
Pate
AFT Leader Urges militant push by California teachers
Charles Cogen president of the American Federation of Teachers urged California teachers at the AFL-CIO California Federation of Teachers convention to become militant and press for repeal of the Winton Act barring collective bargaining. He said teachers feel ineffective due to being outside decision making. He spoke at the 24th annual convention in Santa Barbara.
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Santa Barbara
California
Charles Cogen
American Federation of Teachers
Cogen
New York City
Afl-Cio
California Federation of Teachers
Four Killers and Clemency Changes across Years
A long, mixed report reviews clemency actions affecting multiple killers. It notes Wein’s arrest after a victim identified him at a 1957 Long Beach party, Cisneros’s gang role in dismembering Robert Ward years earlier, and Bates and Chavez’s death sentences for a 1957 bar fire killings. Brown’s opposition to capital punishment is highlighted as Reagan nears office.
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Fornia
Wein
Long Beach
Bates
Chavez
Los Angeles
Vie
Kims
Brown
Ronald ‘Reagan
Youth for Beauty Proclaimed by LBI in 1967 Year
JONSON CITY Tex UPL President and Mrs Johnson jointly enlist the youth for a more beautiful land. Johnson issued a proclamation naming 1967 as Youth for Natural Beauty and Conservation Year. Signing staged at the I.B.J ranch house.
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Jonson City
Tex
UPL
Johnson
Aittim
I.bj
Brown Concedes He Should Have Stepped Aside
Sacramento, UPI: Gov Edmund Brown 66 concedes after a million-vote defeat that perhaps he should have stepped out for a younger Democrat. He says the Democratic party needs new leaders, predicts 1970 could bring a Republican challenge, and criticizes cost-cutting prospects while calling for responsible opposition and possible private audits. He reflects on Vietnam talks with Humprhey and exits office with mixed feelings, likening it to college graduation.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund
Brown
Bridges Says GIs Are Striking Breakers in Vietnam
UPI reports Harry Bridges president of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union condemns U S troops used to load ships during a strike by Vietnamese longshoremen over troop transport. Bridges says it is worse when Americans drafted into the Army act as strikebreakers against workers abroad.
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Banfrancisco
UPI
Harry Bridges
International Longshoremens and Warehousemens Union
Roups
Vietnam
Bridges
Saigon
Hotel Marcy Wing Fire Leaves Five Employees Missing
A $500,000 blaze hit a wing of the Hotel Marcy in Lake Placid New York forcing about 700 guests to flee in near zero temperatures. Five hotel employees housed above a kitchen are missing and presumed dead as the three story wing was consumed by the fire.
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Lake Placid
N.Y
Hotel Marcy
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University of California, Berkeley
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Iid
Vly
Chevron Research, Co
Chevron Chemical
Assembly Group
AFT
Cisneros
Robert H. Ward
Lakewood
Lockadoo
Colter
As J
Bales
Atty
Joseph Carr
San Quentin
Orange County
James Edward Black
Westminster
Orange
Tone County
Cieve
Edgar Ful
Cagen Ion Debord
Campbell
Ers
LBI
Pat
Redding
Democratic Party
Washington
Hubert Humphrey
Vive
Coast Federal Savings
Qpop
MPOP
VIP
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Ame
Sid
Hil
Ioe
Angeles
PCS
Panzich
Coast Federal Savings & Loan Association
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