Gas tax hike urged to finish California highways
Senate Transportation Committee chairman Alan Short called for higher gasoline revenues to complete the freeway and expressway network. Aide says a raise from 7 to 9 cents per gallon may be needed, with no diversion of fuel taxes to rapid transit and a new special fund funded by vehicle taxes and fines.
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Dennis J. Opatrny
Sacramento
UPI
Senate Transportation Committee
California
Alan Short
Stockton Democrat
Short
Floats on display in Pasadena Tournament of Roses
The 81st Tournament of Roses floats were shown in a park in Pasadena drawing 1.5 million spectators along the parade route. 60 floats cost 3000 to 40000 dollars and 21 bands with over 200 equestrians accompanied the procession. Grand marshals were Apollo 12 astronauts Conrad Bean and Gordon with Rose Queen Pamela Dee Tedesco. Police reported 50 arrests for drunkenness and 25 illness or injury treatments. Los Angeles won the sweepstakes prize for the second year running. Union Oil took the best commercial entry.
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Pasadena
UPI
Charles L. Conrad Jr
Alan L. Bean
Richard F . Gordon Jr
Pamela Dee Tedesco
Los Angeles
Union Oil Co
Convicted Murderer Leonard Maine Missing From Prison
Officials at Devel Vocational Institution issued an all points bulletin for Leonard Maine a 21 year old Washington farm boy convicted of murdering a Ukiah teenager kidnapping and raping the victim s girlfriend He also faced charges for murders in Washington and Oregon during a 1967 crime spree Maine has been missing since Wednesday night and may have escaped via delivery trucks visiting the facility He grew up in Hermiston Oregon worked on a Ritzville Washington farm and was serving 10 years to life for second degree murder kidnapping and rape The case ties to the November 1968 San Jose slaying of Timothy Luce and the related crimes against Susan Bartolomei who remains paralyzed Braun on Death Row at San Quentin for first degree murder in the Luce slaying
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Tracy
UPI
Devel Vocational Institution
Leonard Maine
Washington
Maine
Oregon
Hermiston
Ore
Ritzville
Wash
San Jose
Timothy Luce
Susan Bartolomei
Miss Bartolomei
Sierra Foothills
Thomas Ee, Braun
Luce
San Quentin Prison
Two Toddlers Found Dead After Mother Abandonment
In Athens Ohio two missing boys Bryan McBride three and Chris three months were found dead after authorities traced vague tips to their mother Barbara McBride 23 who had recently undergone mental health treatment She confessed to harming the children autopsies scheduled for today with Bryan found in a field and Chris across the road officials say Chris suffocated and Bryan did not move after a fall
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Athens
Ohio
UPI
Here
Hope
Bryan McBride
Chris
Barbara McBride
McBride
Bryan
Robert Butts
Nixon Prepares State of the Union and Budget
President Nixon, at the Western White House in California, works with aides on the 1970 State of the Union and the new federal budget. He signs a bill creating an environmental quality council, aims to curb pollution, and plans a draft for a new Selective Service director while eyeing a Supreme Court vacancy.
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UPI
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Nixon
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Texas
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Notre Dame
Southern California
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Trojans
Michigan
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Federal Bureau
Hoover
California
Congress
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Selective Service
Lewis W. Hershey
South
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Senate
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S. C
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Home builders criticize Nixon rate hike for FHA VA loans
Ken Hoffman of the Associated Home Builders of the Greater East Bay says the 1 percent rise in FHA and VA rates to 8.5 percent will push low and moderate income families from the housing market. He calls the move too hasty and proposes government backed mortgage securities to add 5 billion dollars to the market.
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Oakland
UPI
Ken Hoffman
Greater
East Bay
Hoffman
Senior citizens oppose earning ceiling removal
The National Council of Senior Citizens says removing the earnings ceiling on Social Security would be neither desirable nor feasible. The group cites only about 10 percent of elderly would benefit and the plan would cost 2.5 billion dollars yearly.
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Washington
UPI
National Council of Senior Citizens
Government spending ceiling grows amid hopes of restraint
Washington says the 191.9 billion ceiling set by Congress earlier this year has swollen to about 194.4 billion. Backers cite its elastic nature as keeping some lid on the budget while critics note persistent cost of living pressures and rising debt. National debt stood at 371.3 billion as year ends.
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Washington
UPI
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Budget Bureau
Nixon
GNP to Top $1 Trillion in 1970 Forecast by Commerce
Commerce Department projects 7 percent annual growth in early 1970s with GNP reaching about 1.4 trillion by 1975 Data Resources forecast puts GNP near 991 billion in 1969 and notes no 1970 recession but slower growth and higher unemployment average of 4 4 percent and rising 1 5 percent real growth.
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UPI
U.S
Commerce Department
Data Resources Inc
Lexington
Mass
Data Resources
Americans begin to quit smoking accelerate in 1969
Americans cut cigarette use in 1969 with the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health noting a threefold faster decline in the first seven months than the previous year. An estimated seven million may have quit in two years, while advertising bans loom and future gains are projected across industries and incomes.
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UPI
Surgeon General
National Clearinghouse For Smoking and Health
Clearinghouse
Senate Commerce Committee
Congress
Senate
House
Dismissal slated for review in Fitzgerald affair
The Justice Department will review the Pentagon dismissal of A Ernest Fitzgerald who exposed two billion dollars in CIA plane extra costs. Assistant Attorney General Will Wilson said the matter has priority while Fitzgerald faced reassignment and a civil service status reversal. Proxmire pressed the panel for action as evidence collection continues.
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UPI
Justice Department
Pentagon
A. Ernest Fitzgerald
CIA
Will Wilson
Fitzgerald
Air Force
Thailand
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Defense Department
Congressional Economy
Subcommittee
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Wilson
Proxmire
Boat capsizes near El Porto Beach leaves six missing
In Manhattan Beach California Albert Sexton 45 and seven children plus six others were aboard a borrowed boat for a New Year outing. A capsizing in a riptide area left Sexton a missing and five others presumed drowned with Maria Sexton 18 recovered dead by nightfall. Lifeguards reported four to five foot waves breaking hard offshore.
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Manhattan Beach
UPI
Albert Sexton
Los Angeles
Sexton
Maria
el Porto Beach
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