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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1975
Page
1
The California Legislature adjourned its 1975 session after narrowly approving a 10 percent salary hike for lawmakers from 21 120 to 23 231 dollars. The bill takes effect after the 1976 election as both houses ended in relative harmony amid transition plans for temporary chambers during Capitol reconstruction.
President Ford, amid a Sacramento assassination scare and two bomb threats, said he would not let the government be held hostage at the point of a gun. He omitted the prepared line in St. Louis and Kansas City citing brevity, while security tightened after a pistol and wig sighting and a chase in Kiel Auditorium.
American Airlines filed suit in New York seeking about 360000 as unpaid fares and charters. Defendants include Senator Hubert H Humphrey and the Kennedy estate executors Ethel Kennedy Patricia Lawford and Edward M Kennedy. Separate action claims Humphrey and affiliates used transport under a May 1968 air travel contract.
AP reporters on a one hour test found most motorists passed their legal-pace vehicles, indicating wide noncompliance with the 55 mph limit. California officials credit the limit with a large drop in traffic deaths, noting a 30 to 40 percent fall from 1973 to 1974 as deaths dropped from 4,905 to 4,019.
President Ford cut off House Intelligence Committee access to secret documents after the panel released four words from intelligence reports about Egypt and the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. CIA Director Colby said the phrases were worth the dispute and sought a negotiated solution to prevent future disclosures.
In Delano and Salinas Valley, Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers suffered two major defeats as workers at Giamarra Vineyards and Bud Antle Inc voted for the Teamsters. Kawana truck farms near Oceanside backed the UFW, while overall results show a 3-2 edge for the Teamsters after the first week of ballots amid new state oversight.
In South Boston a crowd of 1300 to 1400 women and children walked in silence along a parade route praying the rosary and Our Fathers. State police blocked views near South Boston High School as protesters stayed away from the school and echoed earlier St Patrick’s Day marches. The event followed national busing disputes and echoes of tension in surrounding neighborhoods.
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