California lawmakers grapple with farm labor and other bills
In Sacramento, lawmakers push AB3370 to allow supervised secret ballot union votes for itinerant farm workers, splitting growers and United Farm Workers. The session nears its end as lawmakers also tackle no fault insurance AB50, marijuana penalties AB2758, and antismog device rules SB2471 amid broader policy debates.
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Nixon still considers himself innocent says Eisenhower
David Eisenhower, grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower, says his father in law, former President Nixon, still believes he is an innocent man and did not intend his resignation as an admission of guilt. He notes the family supported either decision and hopes Watergate lessons endure.
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Fords to share Same bed in White House
President and Mrs. Ford will spend their first New White House night sharing a bed breaking a long standing custom of separate bedrooms. Nancy Howe notes the couple will endure late night calls as a normal part of White House life. The double bed is in the Pat Nixon suite and Ford’s study will house his blue leather chair hassock bicycle trainer.
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Monsoon Floods Ravage Four Asian Nations
United Press International reports floods from heavy monsoon rains across a 2000 mile east region. U S military helicopters assist relief operations for over half a million refugees in plains north of Manila, Philippines. Additional areas affected across Asia.
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ABC Leads Emmy Nominations With 12 For 1973 74
ABC earned 12 Emmy nominations for news and documentary programs and broadcasters for the 1973-74 season amid 40 total possible slots. The network previously held 28 of 64 nominations in crafts, religious, and children's programming. In the Philippines floods killed 36, displaced 563,285, and damaged crops. relief flights moved 130,000 pounds of goods.
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Episcopal lay leader resigns over treatment of women
Dr. Charles V. Willie the highest lay officer of the Episcopal Church resigns in protest against the Church’s stance on women. He called the July 2 ordination of 11 female deacons as priests invalid and left his roles to oppose what he called male arrogance and unjust laws denying women the right to priest and bishop positions. The Philadelphia ordination had sparked controversy and drew Betty Bone Schiess, one of the new priests, to attend in Syracuse.
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N.Y
UPI
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Episcopal House of Bishops
House of Deputies
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Philadelphia
Harvard University
Soft coal miners begin stoppage
About 80,000 soft coal miners start a five day nationwide work stoppage to honor more than 100,000 miners killed in the century. UMW President Arnold Miller says the memorial protest targets the miners wives left widows as talks with Bituminous Operators near. The stoppage could idle up to 1,200 mines and comes as a 1971 contract allows up to ten nonpaid memorial days.
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Discriminatory hiring charged in Congress
A Fort Worth Star Telegram report claims job orders from 19 U.S. congressmen and a Virginia senator show explicit racial and religious bias. The placement office reportedly received directives such as no minorities and white only, prompting potential civil rights conspiracy concerns.
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D-Ore
House Budget Committee
Harold Froehlich
R-Wis
House Judiciary Committee
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D-Tex
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William J. Randall
Dmo
Edward P. Boland
Dmass
Robert L. Leggett
Dcalif
Otis Pike
D-N.y
James A. Haley
D-Fla
Vernon Thomson
James J. DeLaney
Albert Johnson
R-Pa
Robert McEwen
R-N.y
Tennyson Guyer
Ohio
Tom S. Gettys
D-S.c
Robert Sikes
Bill Nichols
D-Ala
Bill Chappell
Rep
Wilmer Mizell
R-N.c
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