McCarthy backs independent panel to set lawmaker pay
Sacramento Assembly Speaker Leo McCarthy endorses a constitutional amendment to create a three member commission to set salaries and tax free expenses for legislators. He opposes a self serving pay raise while unemployment tops nine percent in California and the panel would meet each December to determine next year’s cost of living increases.
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Sacramento
UPS
Assembly
Leo T. McCarthy
San Francisco Democrat
McCarthy
Commission
Z’berg
California
Assembly Rules Committee
Board of Control
World monetary talks advance oil aid plan amid IMF meetings
United States and Common Market nations near compromise on a 31 billion dollar oil aid package as IMF officials draft a six billion loan mechanism for oil importing countries. Talks also hint at currency valuation guidelines and new gold rules.
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Washington
UPI
United States
International Monetary Fund
Committee of Twenty
IMF
Henry A. Kissinger
Jack F. Bennett
Treasury
Monetary Affairs
Brown to Move Into Capitol Area Apartment Soon
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr says he will move into a two bedroom apartment across from the Capitol "very soon" but declines to set a date. He will keep his Laurel Canyon home and travels frequently. He has stayed at a hotel and a Capitol-area motel while the state apartment is prepared.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Capitol
Brown
Governor’s Mansion
Veterans race for House chairmanships in Democratic caucus
Two veteran lawmakers faced uphill battles as the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee rejected Reps. Wayne Hays and Wright Patman for key chair posts. Frank Thompson and Henry Reuss stood to gain in the caucus as leadership sought to consolidate positions.
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Washington
UPI
House
Wayne Hays
Ohio
Wright Patman
Texas
Frank Thompson
New Jersey
Henry Reuss
Wisconsin
Hays
Patman
Carl Albert
Banking Committee
Thompson
Reuss
Throat Slashing Death in Downtown Los Angeles
Police investigate the throat slashing death of 46 year old truck driver Robert Shannahan whose body was found on the top floor of an apartment hotel in the downtown area. Charles Fielding, a friend, reported finding the victim with a knife in his side.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Robert Shannahan
Charles Fielding
Midwest faces Storm Toll Across Cattle and Crops
The Midwest reels from a weekend blizzard and deep cold with 64 deaths reported. In Rembrandt Iowa an elderly couple died, and cattle losses run into thousands with some herds wiped out. Iowa livestock losses may reach over 20 million, while production damage worsens drought and freeze impacts from prior years.
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United Press International
Midwest
Rembrandt
Iowa
Sioux County
Cattle Feeders Association
Association
Glenn Greigg
Greigg
Elk Hills Oil Reserve Hope Hinges On One Man
President Ford’s plan to tap the Elk Hills naval petroleum reserve in California hinges on one man, House Armed Services Committee Chairman F. Edward Hebert. Nixon’s earlier push died in committee. now Louisiana Democrat Hebert’s stance could determine whether 160,000 barrels daily are produced, rising to 300,000 by 1975 if Congress acts swiftly. The reserve was created over 50 years ago to provide Navy oil in wartime.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve
California
House Armed Services Committee
Richard M. Nixon
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
Louisiana Democrat
Nixon
White House
Congress
Elk Hills
Navy
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