California Legislature Targets Rising Crime Rates in 1968
Sacramento reports the 1968 Legislature will focus on drug abuse and penalties for possession of marijuana and LSD, with Gov Reagan urging a study on whether penalties match crime. Key lawmakers question harsher rules and debate pornography, car theft, embezzlement, and police aid measures amid calls for potential reforms.
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Tracy Woop
Sacramento
UPS
Reagan
Assembly Criminal Procedure Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
George Deukmejian
Long Beach
Senate Rules Committee
John Harmer
Glendale
Reagan Solons Lock In Welfare Showdown
Reagan faces a fiscal crisis as he fights a Democratic Legislature over California welfare and Medi Cal reforms. The plan seeks more flexibility while federal changes may force state law revisions. A Grand Jury urged a top to bottom overhaul of welfare and housing discrimination laws faces renewed review.
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Reagan
State Supreme Court
Congress
Spencer Williams
California
Williams
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Dountless
Reagan Faces Budget Strains and Campus Unrest
In Sacramento and San Francisco, Gov. Ronald Reagan confronts campus protests at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State, amid pressure to fund education. The 1968–69 budget faces cuts and new charges to fund scholarships and salaries, with lawmakers and educators seeking more money. Max Rafferty supports the tuition substitute plan to boost scholarships for minority students.
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Sacramento
UPD
Ronald Reagan
California
Reagan
University of California
Berkeley
San Francisco State College
Max Rafferty
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Rafferty backs tuition aid for schools in tax relief plan
Rafferty urges using part of the 1967 Legislature's $155 million set aside for property tax relief to fund education. He says the schools need every bit of help and cites a proposal to allocate at least $50 million to education. The discussion centers on soft- selling tuition and boosting school financing.
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Rafferty
Costly Fetes for Unruh and Reagan
In California next month both parties plan costly events. A Reagan tribute dinner January 12 in Sacramento at the El Rancho Motel. guests pay 500 dollars. Unruh will head a January 2 testimonial dinner in Los Angeles at Century Plaza. plate price not fully shown. The Reagan ball aims to raise about 275000 dollars for Cal Plan. the Unruh dinner targets around 100000 dollars.
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Los Angeles
California
Reagan
el Rancho
Sacramento
Assembly
Jesse M. Unruh
D-Inglewood
Century Place
Republican State Central Committee
Reagan Pushers Name PR Man in California
Arthur Taylor of Antelope Valley was named public relations director for the Ronald Reagan for President organization in Washington DC. Taylor is attendance and welfare superintendent at Antelope Valley Union High School district and president of its local NAACP branch. Announcement by Walter J. Dilbeck Jr, national Reagan movement chairman.
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Los Angeles
Arthur Taylor
Antelope Valley
Washington, D.C
Taylor
Antelope Valley Union
American Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Walter J. Dilbeck Jr
Reagan Movement
California
Mobile Clinic For Farm Workers Donated In California
In San Francisco UPI reports the International Ladies Garment Workers Union donated a mobile health clinic for field farm workers. Cesar Chavez commented that the donation marks the start of a drive to bring 20th century health conditions to farm laborers.
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San Francisco
UPI
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Farat
Cesar Chavez
Two Words To Remember Two To Forget Trick Revealed
A psychiatrist shares a simple method to counter remorse by recalling two guiding words. The January Reader's Digest feature explains how this mental cue helps curb embarrassment and missed chances.
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Donald Gunsky
Watsonville
Judiciary Committee
Anthony Beitenson
Beverly Hills
Senate Public Health Committee
Beitenson
Regan
Criminal Procedure Committee
U.S. Supreme Court
John T. Knox
Richmond
Criminal Procedure
Robert Crown
D-Alanedi
Ans
Grunsky
By de van L. Shumivay
Califournia
Citizens
Department of Mental Hygiene
Supreme Court
State College
University Regents
Assembly Education Committee
Unruh
Fresno
New York
Abbie Woodward Parker
Leroy Greene
D-Sacramento
Field Tne
BUF
Perent
Dok LM
Hudsons Bay
NEW Westinghouse
Dooley’s Hardware’ Mart
Long Beach Blvd
North
Sera Bay
Reagim
First Federal Savines
Ocean Ave
Hemlock
Reader’s Digest
Dooley
RCA Victor
NEW
Packard Bell
Motorola Golor
WEW
Zenith
Philco
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