Upturn Seen in Durable Goods Amid Mixed Economic Signs
United Press International reports a fragile recovery with durable goods orders up 9.8 percent signaling a possible upturn in industrial output, while steel production falters and consumer costs rise. Inflation cools slightly yet consumer purchasing power remains weak, with unemployment claims edging higher and incomes failing to keep pace.
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Ford
Securities and Exchange Commission
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Washington
Conference Board
Brown admin proposes $90 month raise for all state workers
Sacramento plans call for a flat $90 per month increase starting July 1 for all state employees regardless of current pay. Finance Director Roy Bell announced the proposal at a luncheon with the State Men's and Women's Clubs as the Senate Finance Committee weighs Gov Brown Jr. 1975-76 budget. The move aims to ease inflation for lower paid workers, but faces opposition from the Personnel Board and managerial unions who would lose relative gains.
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UPI
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Bell
Sacramento Union
Senate Finance Committee
Edmund G. Brown Jr
State Personnel Board
California
Personnel Board
Automakers mail letters on potential safety and pollution defects
Detroit auto makers began mailing notices to over 105,000 Americans about possible car safety or pollution defects. Since 1966 the industry has issued more than 20 million recall letters, with 1974 recalling nearly three million vehicles. GM issued three recalls totaling about 50,000 current models. defect risks include steering shaft bolt loosening that could reduce steering control.
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U.S
General Motors Corp
D.E. Smith
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Smith
Brown questions pay and vacancies for California judges
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr questions high salaries for top judges and the adequacy of filling 68 judicial vacancies to ease a heavy backlog. The article examines whether chief justice pay of 61 609 a year and municipal court pay of 41 677 are justified and how appointments affect delays.
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Sacramento
UPI
California Supreme Court
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Judicial
Donald W. Wright
Brown
Officials laugh at Brown remark during California talk
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr told about 450 mayors and council members that public employees won t demand more than available funds. He warned against expanding the bench to ease backlogs, while noting judges faces pay raises and hikes in salaries for appellate and trial court judges.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Brown
League of California Cities
Farm bill clears first hearing in state Senate amid cross-aisle push
Governor Brown's compromise farm labor bill survives a party-line 4-1 vote in the Senate Industrial Relations Committee. The measure aims to allow secret ballot union elections for farmworkers and to curb rival unions while creating a state agricultural labor relations board at an estimated 750000 initial cost. Backers seek swift passage by week’s end as GOP concerns center on study time and broad coalition dynamics.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Senate Industrial Relations Committee
Brown
John Dunlap
D-Napa
Finance Committee
Assembly
Senate
George Deukmejian
Long Beach
GOP
Teamsters
Cesar Chavez
United Farm Workers
State Agricultural Labor Relations Board
Robert Presley
Parole date dispute over Sirhan B Sirhan draws unruh fire
State Treasurer Jesse Unruh assailed the Adult Authority after it set a February 23 1968 parole date for Sirhan B Sirhan the man who assassinated Robert F Kennedy. Unruh urged Gov Brown to oust two authority members and condemned the decision as dangerous while Sirhan was moved from San Quentin to Soledad State Prison for greater contact and exercise.
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UPI
Jesse Unruh
Robert F. Kennedy
Adult Authority
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Unruh
Kennedy
California
Authority
Sirhan
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Manuel Quevado
James Hoover
Ronald Reagan
Brown
Quevado
Hoover
Edward M
Massachusetts
State Department of Corrections
Queva
United Steel Workers
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles
San Quentin
Soledad State Prison
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