Tahoe air rivaling Los Angeles as pollution grows
Air Resources Board chairman Tom Quinn says Tahoe Basin pollution surpasses many Bay Area areas and even Los Angeles in some measures. He warns TRPA plans would boost traffic and worsen air quality, while Burns opposes costly transit expansions and Lake Tahoe growth alarms.
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Tom Quinn
San Francisco Bay Area
Sacramento
Los Angeles
Sahara Tahoe Hotel
Quinn
Tahoe Basin
Win Adams
State Water Resources Control Board
State plans to restore dentures under Medi Cal rules
California officials confirmed plans to restore most of the denture coverage cutback for Medi Cal recipients after public outcry. A three hour hearing reviewed restrictive rules requiring doctor or job-need certificates, with negotiations under way with California Dental Services to remove those provisions.
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Gov. Brown
Richard Soderberg
Health Department
Medi- Cal
Stanley R. Nuzum
Richard M. Ross
Ross
California Dental Services
CDS
Department of Rehabilitation
California to reevaluate prepaid Medi Cal health plan
The Brown administration launches a two year 3.5 million study led by UC Davis psychiatry chair Dr. Donald G Langsley to decide if prepaid Medi Cal contracts are desirable and how to evaluate them. An advisory group of 16 health care professionals will examine past scandals and administration methods.
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UPD
Brown
Ronald Reagan
Health Department
Steven Passin
Donald G
Langsley
U.C. Davis
Passin
California
Police allegedly knew of Jackson escape plans prior to 1971 incidents
Marin County public defender charges that law enforcement knew in advance about the 1970 courthouse shootout and 1971 San Quentin escape attempt by George Jackson and others but did nothing to stop them. The affidavit links LAPD and other agencies to a conspiracy to stage the escape, resulting in deaths. It cites a weapon smuggling plot, a letter found in 1971, and a San Jose shooting of James Carr in 1972.
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UPD
Marin County
San Quentin
George Jackson
Frank J. Cox
Jackson
Cox
Ange
la Davis
David Johnson
California Supreme Court
Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles
James Edward Carr
Carr
Angela Davis
Soledad Brothers
Death penalty for two in Colusa woman’s contract murder
A Contra Costa County jury sentenced Edward R. Conover and Fred J. McClelland to death for the May 14 contract killing of Natha Jean Harding, 47, as she drove on a Yolo County road. Harding’s husband, Harry, 55, Napa, had been charged with murder for hire in the dispute over the couple’s $550,000 estate.
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Martinez
Contra Costa County
Colusa
Edward R. Conover
Pleasant Hill
Fred J McClelland
Concord
Natha Jean Harding
Harry
Napa
Conover
Harding
Woodland
Yolo County
Mexican Americans sue General Dynamics over bias in Pomona plant
Nine Mexican Americans filed a bias suit against General Dynamics in Pomona alleging discrimination in hiring promotion and pay. Judge William P Gray will hear the case in U S District Court. Principal plaintiff Ruben Gomez charged the EEOC in January 1971 but no action has been taken.
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General Dynamics
Pomona
U.S. District Court
William P. Gray
Charles Zetterberg
Ruben Gomez
Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
EEOC
Bugs in booze bring license suspension
A Los Angeles bar My House on North Cahuenga Boulevard faced a 20 day suspension by the ABC Appeals Board with five days added for bugs in spirits. Investigators cited contaminated vermouth and whiskey with numerous insects prompting, officers testified, seizures behind the bar.
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Sacramento
Los Angeles
Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board
My House
Cahuenga Boulevard
ABC
Paigo, Inc
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
Bradley Merritt
Court upholds dismissal of Deep Throat suit
In a Friday ruling the 2nd District Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of former State Sen John Harmer's bid to shut down the film Deep Throat. Harmer had sued the Pussycat Theater in Hollywood under the Red Light Abatement Act claiming the movie violated the law. Justice Mildred Lillie said the act does not extend to motion pictures.
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John Harmer
Deep Throat
Harmer
Glendale
Pussycat Theater
Hollywood
Mildred Lillie
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