Reagan touts community plan as best mental health system
Governor Ronald Reagan says California’s shift from state hospitals to local community programs has created the finest and most extensive treatment system. He notes tripled budgets for community care since 1967 and cites hospital closures while defending reduced state hospital reliance for the mentally ill and retarded.
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Unruh Leading in California State Treasurer Race
Democrat Jess Unruh claims private polls show him far ahead in the June 4 primary for state treasurer. He cites 38 percent support among Democrats versus 9 percent for Sen. Alan Short and 7.6 percent for Gray Davis, while criticizing Davis as representing “old politics.”
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Sacramento
UPI
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Sen
Alan Short
Stockton
Gray Davis
Los Angeles
Tom Bradley
FBI Hunt for SLA Linked Kidnapper in Santa Rosa Case
In Santa Rosa California FBI and police search for a slender young woman linked to a kidnapping of Marshall Jones Jr two weeks old. A note mentioning the Symbionese Liberation Army was left by the nanny who abducted the infant as the hunt expands with no ransom disclosed.
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Calif
UPI
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Symbionese Liberation Army
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Marshall Jones
SLA
Patricia Hearst
Berkeley
Rules for 1974 Alcoholic Olympics in Los Angeles
The event invites recovered alcoholics from rehab centers to compete in track and field, weightlifting, basketball, and volleyball at Valencia's College of the Canyons. A secondary program for older participants includes chess, dominoes, bridge, darts, and archery while sobriety is the sole qualification. Parry O Brien backs the effort as honorary board member.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Kurt M. Freeman
Freeman
Zebra informant fears for life in Zebra slayings case
Anthony C. Harris, 28, named by the San Francisco Chronicle as the informant who helped expose the Zebra street slayings case. He says he fears for his life after cooperating with authorities and meeting San Francisco Mayor Alioto in a secret session.
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San Francisco
UPI
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Los Angeles County
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Chronicle
Oakland
Calif
John Dean Buys Lofty LA Home in Trousdale Estate
John Dean purchases a $100,000 hilltop home in Trousdale Estates Los Angeles to be closer to his wife Maureen ailing mother. Neighbor Gwen Davis says most residents are Republicans and notes the area as a local polling place.
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UPI
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Trousdale Estates
Gwen Davis
White House
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Dean
Kilpatrick questions Nixon stance amid Watergate transcripts
Columnist James J. Kilpatrick says the Watergate transcripts prompt embarrassment and disgust while debating whether to call for Nixon's resignation. In California, three Zebra case suspects from the Black Muslim Temple enter pleas as bail requests are heard. Harris testified to a grand jury probing the killings.
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UPI
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Los Angeles
San Francisco
Severe weather hits vast U S with hail and tornadoes
Severe thunderstorms spread across the western two thirds of the nation with hail up to golf ball size in Arkansas and a tornado near Little Rock causing mobile home damage but no injuries. Tornado sighting near Fessenden North Carolina and watch in central Indiana plus scattered showers in Florida and Washington State. Temperatures vary from the 40s in the Great Lakes to 80s in the Southwest.
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Clergy criticizes Watergate influence on children
Cardinal Timothy Manning of the nation’s third largest Catholic archdiocese said parents report their children lie after exposure to the Watergate scandal. He urged caution in teaching political ethics to youths and warned of lasting harm from the process.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Timothy Manning
Manning
State lawmakers seek automatic pay raise amendment
A proposed constitutional change would raise California legislators’ pay automatically each year to match inflation, removing the need for lawmakers to vote themselves a raise. The measure by Senate President Pro Tem James R. Mills would use the Personnel Board to adjust salaries annually, sidestepping voter controversy.
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Sacramento
UPS
Senate
James R. Mills
San Diego
State Personnel Board
Reagan to offer new wage plan for California state workers
Governor Reagan said a new pay proposal for about 116000 state workers and 60000 university staff would come in the next day or so. He acknowledged the initial 2.7 percent offer was unrealistic and signaled basic cost of living increases plus across the board raises amid a threatened strike by the California State Employers Association.
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UPI
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