Long Beach Tide Lands Tale Shapes City Oceanfront Wealth
Long Beach profits from tidelands leases with a state share of royalties. The 1964 pact lets the city manage oil fields, spending funds on harbor, beaches, and development while the state gains royalties. By 1969 the city expected $2 billion total, with ongoing annual payments of about $30 million from the Thums oil operation and state gains from offshore projects.
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Long Beach
Thums
Texaco
Humble, Union, Mobil
Shell Oil
California
Public hearing set on bussing limit bill
Sacramento witnesses report the Senate Education Committee tentatively scheduled July 29 for a public hearing on the Assembly passed bill to ban schoolchild bussing without parental consent.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate Education Committee
Bus Strike Talks Set Today
Union and management will hold a final bargaining session at the Edgewater Hyatt House in Long Beach to avert a walkout after drivers authorized a strike. Amalgamated Transit Union locals backed the action two to one, with no new elements added to the dispute.
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Long Beach
Edgewater Hyatt House
Long Beach Public Transportation Co
William F. Farell
Amalgamated Transit Union Local
Farell
Car Crash Kills Youth In Huntington Beach
A La Puente youth died at Huntington Inter Community Hospital after a car crash on Pacific Coast Highway and 25th Street. Passenger Michael David Holmes, 20 of Hacienda Heights, and driver Kathryn Knudson, 19, of La Puente, were injured with Holmes treated for minor injuries and released, Knudson in fair condition. Timothy Michael Lee Perr, 21, was the deceased.
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la Puente
Huntington Beach
Michael * Leeper
Huntington Intercommunity Hospital
Pacific Coast Highway
Kathryn Knudson
Orange County Medical Center
Michael David Holmes
Hacienda Heights
Dentist Bob G Byrd Suspended for Overcharges at Head Start
The State Board of Medical Examiners suspended Santa Ana dentist Bob G Byrd for six months after an administrative hearing found fraud and misrepresentation in Head Start Dental Care. A five year probationary term followed, with Byrd barred from government sponsored programs. restitution exceeding $5,000 was repaid to the Orange County District Attorney.
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Board ‘of Medical Examiners
Santa ‘Ana
Bobby. G. Byrd
Byrd
Orange County District Attorney’s Office
Lear plans steam-motor minibuses for smoggy L A
Inventor William Lear aims to bid for 24 steam-electric buses to replace aging diesel fleet in Los Angeles. His contraption uses an involute expander motor reversing steam flow, powered by a conventional boiler, and would run on kerosene or similar fuels.
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Reno
Los Angeles
William Lear
Lear
Southern
California Rapids
Lear Motors Corp
Sam Nelson
Warren Dorn
Dorn
Nelson
Welfare cut sparks federal state dispute in California
Twiname warned federal aid to California could be cut over non conformity in blind and disabled program administration and in how welfare income is computed. He cited a total federal aid figure of 977.8 million versus 600 million previously. A hearing was set for August 25 in San Francisco to address the nonconformity issue, contingent on pending legislation by Assemblyman Gordon Duffy. If the bill passes the hearing would be canceled.
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Twiname
California
Gordon Duffy
Ranford
HEW
San Francisco
Tule
Martin
Reagan
Assembly
Reagan says California welfare may lose federal aid over compliance
Reagan and State Welfare Director Robert Martin spar over California's adherence to federal rules. Reagan warns that strict bureaucratic readings could cost California at least 70 million dollars annually or reduce benefits. Martin says California largely follows regulations, and a bill by Assemblyman Gordon Duffy could settle the dispute.
State Lands Chief Says Long Beach Queen Mary Spending Legal
Sacramento UPI The chairman of the State Lands Commission said he knows of no legalities in Long Beach spending 32 million dollars of tidelands funds to redo the Queen Mary. The money he approved was for a maritime museum and not for the hotel or other Queen Mary developments. He added that whether to fund the museum is for the Legislature to decide.
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Long Beach
Joint” Legislative Audit Committee
Queen Mary
Sei
Richard J. Dolwig
City of
Long Beach Tidelands
Port of
Sacramento
UPI
State Lands ‘Commission
Tidelands Oi
Lands Commission
Nixon reshapes federal environment effort with new agencies
President Nixon plans a rational, systematic reorganization of environmental work by splitting powers from Health Education and Welfare and Interior. A high level panel and possible congressional bills back the moves. NOAA is created, earning the nickname Noah, while uncertainty remains over leadership for the two new agencies.
DDT Self-Destroying Agent Announced by Hickel
Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel announced Thursday the development of a non polluting self destroying DDT variant. He said the new compound would degrade after use, reducing environmental impact while providing pest control.
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Walter J. Hickel
House Conferees vote to kill Riegle motion on Cooper Church
In the House a five-member conference panel, including Mont Sparkman and George Aiken, opposed Riegle's bid to require acceptance of the Cooper Church amendment. The vote to kill the motion was 99 Democrats and 138 Republicans against it, with 120 Democrats and 33 Republicans in support. Separately, the Agriculture Department reports a self-destructing DDT variant from Aerojet-General, funded by a $185,000 contract and a subsequent $150,000 follow-up, designed to reduce toxicity and neutralize residues in the environment.
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Cooper- Church
Full House
Senate
Morgan
Fraser
Riegle
House
Agriculture Department
Hickel
Aerojet-General Corp
el Monte
Aerojét- General
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