Tax hike for damage debated in California
Governor Ronald Reagan faces a clash with Democratic senators over a temporary one cent gas tax increase from seven to eight cents to fund flood and storm road repairs. Senate supporters argue emergency needs demand funds, while Reagan rejects any tax hike. The measure mirrors a 1965 temporary increase that raised funds for highway repairs.
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Dennis J. Opatrny
Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Senate Transportation Committee
Alan Short
Stockton
Senate Finance Committee
Randolph Collier
Collier
Transportation Committee
Reagan
San Joaquin Valley
California
D-Yreka
Nixon names conservationist Train as Interior Undersecretary
President Nixon designates Russell R. Train, president of the Conservation Foundation, as Undersecretary of the Interior. The selection fulfills a promise made during Hickel’s Senate debate and follows Dirksen’s push to ensure Hickel’s confirmation.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Department of Interior
Senate
Walter J. Hickel
Hickel
Russel R. Train
the Conservation Foundation
Interior
Train
Everett M. Dirksen
Lawmakers Consider Cost of Living Pay Hike in California
Assemblyman Leo J. Ryan urged a strong bipartisan push for a cost of living salary increase for California legislators. If enacted this year, the 5 percent cap could raise pay to 19,200 by 1971, or about 17,140 under an automatic annual adjustment.
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Arthur Hutchinson
Sacramento
UPS
Leo J. Ryan
Dburlingame
Ryan
Compress
Assembly
Robert T. Monagan
R-Tracy
George Moscone
San Francisco
Moscone
Senate
Donald L. Grunsky
Watsonville
Grunsky
Jess M. Unruh
Inglewood
Unruh
Westmoreland says Communists militarily bankrupt in Vietnam
General William Westmoreland arrives in Seattle after flying from Portland. He tours Fort Lewis and visits veterans at Madigan Army Hospital. He likens the Tet offensive to the Battle of the Bulge and calls it the turning point of the Vietnam War. He notes draft policy and asserts U S involvement is now greater.
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Seattle
UPS
William Westmoreland
U.S
Vietnam
Portland
Ore
Ft. Lewis
Madigan Army Hospital
Westmoreland
Mark Hatfield
United States
Six GIs Face Mutiny Trial at Presidio Court Martial
Six soldiers among 27 GIs charged with mutiny for a sit-down strike at the Presidio stockade gain recesses as an Army court martial opens. Names include Pfc John D Cgilp of Sacramento and five others from California Ohio and New York. Trial for the remaining 21 defendants is set for a later date amid a rally outside the gates.
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San Francisco
UPI
Presidio Stockade
George R. Robinson
Florida
N.Y
Stanley Larsen
Sixth Army
Storm Brings New Flood Threat to Southern California
A fresh storm swept into flood ravaged Southern California with rain and high winds. The U.S. Weather Bureau warned coastal areas could receive up to half an inch of precipitation while more than 90 people were reported dead and many others missing from earlier storms. Governor Reagan urged private reconstruction efforts as four planes were struck by lightning but landed safely.
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Southland
Los Angeles
UPI
California
U.S. Weather Bureau
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
United Airlines Flight 195
Los Angeles International Airport
San Diego
Trans World Airlines
Kansas City
Cables Commuter
Oxnard
Santa Barbara
Pan American Airways
Hawaii
Honolulu
Los Angeles County
Downey
Johnny James
Five youths hijack two airliners bound for Cuba
Five youths hijacked two planes Tuesday forcing them toward Havana. A National Airlines jet from Los Angeles to Miami with 32 aboard and an Eastern Airlines DC 8 from Philadelphia to Miami with 113 aboard were diverted to Cuba. Cuban soldiers disarmed the hijackers in Havana. The hijackings marked the ninth and tenth of the year and the third doubleheader piracy this month.
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Miami
UPI
Cuba
National Airlines
Los Angeles
Eastern Air Line
Roberta Trappman
Havana
Robert J. Sullivan
Ft. Myers
Fla
Subpoenas Issued for Los Angeles Judges in Sirhan Sirhan Trial
All 133 Los Angeles Superior Court judges were ordered subpoenaed to testify in the Sirhan Sirhan assassination trial. The move aims to bolster a motion to throw out the grand jury indictment, arguing the panel lacked minority representation and was not truly representative.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Los Angeles County
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Sirhan
Herbert V. Walker
Superior Court
Grant B. Cooper
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Lompoc
William Gragg
Alpha Club
Maynard Steffen
Westy
Reds
Presidio
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Lompoc Record Publications
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Harry J. Crompe
Gaylen Jackson
Jim Ainsworth
John Alexander
Wesley A. Huffman
Mann
E. C. Stevens
Bill Cockshott
Betty Laurent
Vaughn Proctor
Dan Duffy
California Newspaper Publishers Association
United Press International
International Press Institute
Inter-American Press Association
National Newspaper Association
California Press Association
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Hell
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North H Steel
Sun
By Bob Barnes
Asaaat
Qohe
Quito
Ecuador
Victoria Sikorski
National’s
ACW
A&w Burger
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A&w Snack Burger Chili Burger
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