Pay Checks Held For 222 Welfare Dept Employees
In Sacramento the state Controller froze pay for 222 Welfare Department workers including 32 new lawyers amid questions over job legality. The move followed Senate Finance votes cutting in-house legal staff and disputes over budget language guiding the department.
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Love letters deemed crucial in Angela Davis trial
The prosecution argues letters Davis wrote to George Jackson show passion and possible conspiratorial intent to free the Soledad Brothers. The defense contests an 18 page diary fragment as irrelevant to the Marin County courthouse shooting case. The judge may admit an edited version while rejecting a seven page excerpt.
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Scott Ostler and Staff Writers Deliver Local Sports Coverage
The Stalt Writer Vaughn Proctor Statt Writer Dan Dully contribute to sports pages with scores, game recaps, and feature returns. Steve Lakine serves as Sports Editor coordinating coverage for the local scene.
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Kennedy issue echoes Reagan on Kennedy as nominee
California Governor Ronald Reagan likened Sen Edward M. Kennedy's possible nomination to a Hollywood script. Reagan, head of Nixon's California campaign, suggested Kennedy could emerge as a stand in if the star falters. He declined to predict California’s Democratic primary outcome while urging continued escalation of bombing in Vietnam to protect U.S. manpower.
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Lobbyists spend over 1.1 million to oppose coastline ecology bills
A group of 34 lobbyists has spent more than 1.1 million dollars to undermine ecology measures in California. Janet Adams of the California Coastal Alliance says funds were used to oppose and kill environmental legislation in 1971 and 1972. The group is led by Jack Crose of Santa Monica landowners.
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Bridges Calls For Nationwide Dock Strike Over Pay Board
West Coast longshoremen leader Harry Bridges urged a general strike against Nixon wage controls. He vowed to fight the Pay Board and use strikes and demonstrations to undermine it, saying a nationwide dock strike remains possible and a joint AFL-CIO effort will expose perceived political bias.
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Plan to expand California legislature near two-thirds turnout
Assembly Republican Robert Monagan proposed expanding the state legislature from 80 to 86 assembly members and 40 to 43 senators. He urged a constitutional amendment tying district boundaries to California's congressional delegation and redividing districts after each census. Separately, Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti advanced a two year legislature amendment to reduce delays, sending it from the Assembly Constitutional Amendments Committee to the Rules Committee.
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Seattle flag reports transcript of D. B. Cooper interview
The Seattle biweekly says it paid $1,000 for a taped interview transcript with D B Cooper and claims the hijacker described the extortion as money and fun. FBI refuses to comment. The paper notes a confidentiality agreement and tape destruction clause.
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Actress Gia Scala Dies in Hollywood Hills Overdose
Hollywood coroner ruled the death of 38 year old actress Gia Scala accidental from an overdose of drugs and alcohol. Autopsy noted a coronary condition. Four youths staying at her home found her nude body in bed. Detectives reported medicine containers and liquor bottles in the bedroom. Scala, born in Liverpool and raised in Rome, appeared in The Guns of Navarone and other films. She had faced personal problems in recent years.
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Runaway 20-Ton Truck Halts After City Street Chase
Deputy Calvin Maxwell led a high speed pursuit of a runaway 20 ton rubbish truck driven by Robert L. Knight in Altadena. Knight said brakes failed at an incline and Maxwell cleared a path before the truck rammed a street divider in Pasadena.
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Elsinore to host Motorcycle Grand Prix again
Elsinore Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the Elsinore Motorcycle Grand Prix next year after a weekend of problems at the fifth annual event. About 150000 visited, including 2200 racers. Robert Shields died from head injuries after a pickup struck him from behind. the driver fled. Twenty people were arrested.
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Education Gap For Indians Stumbles Despite $100 Million Spent
GAO finds the BIA failed to inform schools of a goal to raise Indian students to national average by 1976. Officials at many sites were unaware of the objective or had not designed programs to meet it. English language barriers and home isolation hinder student achievement.
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