Senate panel delays bill on postponing smog device installs
In Sacramento the Senate Transportation Committee delayed SB825 to postpone July 1 installation of smog control devices on 1966-70 cars until Nov. 1. Chairman Lawrence Walsh urged immediate action while Sen. W. Craig Biddle complained of short notice and questioned the bill’s germane changes.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate Transportation Committee
Lawrence Walsh
Huntington Park
Craig Biddle
Riverside
Walsh
Air Resources Board
Biddle
Red Tape Week Highlight Targets Mail Delays in Bureaucracy
Long Beach officials spotlight postal slowdowns as hindering forms and reports in a satire headed by James H. Boren and Cal State Long Beach participants. He jokes the Pony Express should return and unveils a functional red tape machine. The event mocks excessive paperwork and celebrates bureaucratic inefficiency.
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Long Beach
UPI
National Association of Professional Bureaucrats
James H. Boren
State Department
Cal State
Boren
Pony Express
Philadelphia
Washington
Cal State Long Beach
Moscone Says Legislature Fails Citizens in Redistricting
Sacramento Democratic leader George Moscone said he will not seek another Senate term and called redistricting the fox guarding the hen house. He argued incumbents’ self interest drives lines and that the people’s interests are ignored in reapportionment.
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Sacramento
UPI
George Moscone
State Senate
Fox
Moscone
San Francisco
Moretti Faces Hot Spot in Capital Punishment Battle
Sacramento reports Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Moretti must appoint a replacement for Assemblyman Crown on the Criminal Justice Committee. Crown was killed while jogging in Alameda, leaving a swing vote on a revived death penalty bill as hearings set to begin June 5.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
Bob Moretti
Moretti
Assembly Criminal Justice Committee
Alameda
Crown
Welfare law feature repealed in California
The Finance Committee voted 8 to 2 to repeal the relative responsibility law requiring adult children to support elderly parents on welfare. Assemblyman Joe A. Gonsalves said the mandate is repulsive and costly, citing Los Angeles County figures of 545000 collected at a cost of 1140000.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Joe A. Gonsalves
D-La Mirada
California
Gonsalves
Los Angeles County
Stars Honor Sol Hurok At Diamond Jubilee Gala
In a Metropolitan Opera House tribute, actors from ballet, opera, and concert lauded Sol Hurok for 60 years of service to the performing arts. About 3,600 attended as Hurok, turning 85, tipped a final reply: he hopes to finish in New York in 15 years.
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New York
UPI
Metropolitan Opera House
Sol Hurok
Hurok
Laughing gunman kills five in Memphis attack
A gunman identified as David Sanders, 30, fired a 30 06 rifle along Kansas Street in south Memphis, killing Patrolman David Clark and four others while wounding four more before dying in a confrontation with police. Victims include Willie Farmer, John Aldridge, Henrietta Watson, and Jesse Dooley. Federal probation officer James Crawford among the wounded.
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Memphis
Tenn
UPI
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Sanders
Brown McKay
Kansas Street
Bill Price
Willie Farmer
John Aldridge
Henrietta Watson
Kazy Korner Kandy
Jesse Dooley
James Crawford
Civil rights advocates hold hope after Richmond desegregation setback
UPI reports that the Supreme Court declined to reinstate Judge Merhige’s 1972 desegregation order for Richmond schools, leaving a 4-4 tie that offered no ruling but suggested future avenues. The piece notes similar cases filed nationwide and cites pending Detroit appeals as a developing measure. Vaughn Monroe dies at 62 in Stuart Florida after respiratory illness. notable for Racing With The Moon and Ghost Riders in the Sky.
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UPI
Supreme Court
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U.S. District Court
Robert Merhige
Memner
High Court
Virginia
Emporia
Nixon
Vaughn Monroe
Wilmington
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Boston
Hartford
4Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Lewis F. Powell Jr
4Th Circuit Court
Merhige
Detroit
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