LA seeks city song after 729 entries in long contest
Los Angeles laments failing to produce a tune matching I Left My Heart in San Francisco after a 12 year search and 729 entries. The Arts Department and commissioners plan to revisit the six best songs before deciding on a final selection.
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UPI
San Francisco
Municipal Arts Department
Board of Commissioners
Owen Bradley
City Music Department
Severe storms bring heavy rain and tornadoes across central regions
Scattered thundershowers dampen the Great Lakes region and the South with showers from North Carolina to Arkansas. Arkansas town Little Rock reports over three inches of rain in four hours and some streets flood. A tornado touched down near Verdigre Nebraska damaging power lines after a hail storm.
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Arkansas
Gulf Coast
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Little Rock
Verdigre
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State Spent 260000 on Local Government Task Force Report
The California governor's local government task force ran up about 260000 in costs from April 1973 to June this year. Federal grants funded 172347 with the rest from taxpayers. The 76 page report urged decentralization, more local authority, and warned against the maze of 5800 local government units.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
California
Cenotto
John T. Knox
Richmond
Assembly
Reagan
State reports progress in minority civil service hiring
A California census shows state government minority employment rose to 17.4 percent as of March 31 from 16.9 percent a year earlier, with Blacks and Asians and women represented near their labor-force shares. It notes continued underuse of Mexican American workers and that most women remain in clerical roles. Ronald M. Hurtz says overall minority hiring aligns with labor-force representation.
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UPI
California
Ronald M. Hurtz
State Personnel Board
Civil Service
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