Senate panel defeats major industrial safety bill in California
SACRAMENTO. The Assembly approved measure by Jack Fenton to strengthen industrial safety was rejected by the Senate Finance Committee 5 to 6 after employers and the Reagan administration opposed it as premature. Fenton cited 1970 violations and few prosecutions amid industrial safety hearings.
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Sacramento
Fenton
Special Assembly
State Division of Industrial Safety
California Manufacturers Association
California State Chamber of Commerce
National Electrical Contractors Association
Reagan Administration
Department of Finance
Assembly Select Committee On
Federal
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
al Libra
Manufacturers Association
Sylmar Tunnel
Mystery Flamingo safe tied to Siegel death and lax safety laws
A purported sealed safe beneath a Flamingo Hotel trapdoor raises questions about Bugsy Siegel and the 1947 Beverly Hills killing. An ex-employee notes the Flamingo wing wasn’t built until 1948, suggesting no Siegel link to the safe. Separately, California safety bills face federal review after the Sylmar Tunnel disaster.
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Las Vegas
UPI
Murder Inc
Bugsy Siegel
Siegel
Beverly Hills
Winter Weather Across Regions Creates Hazardous Conditions
The United Press International dispatch notes strong winds and snow in the Southwest with Arctic air pushing into the southern Plains. Many areas report clear skies while travel advisories stretch from New Mexico to Oklahoma. Temperatures fall below ten degrees in the Rockies and panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma.
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Plains
Atlantic Coast
Texas
Central Plains
California
Central
Intermountain
New Mexico
Colorado
Oklahoma
Rockies
Oklahoma Panhandles
Pay Increase For California Legislators Clears Senate Hurdle
The California Senate voted 33 to 0 to advance a bill that would raise legislators’ annual pay from 19 200 to 23 040 dollars starting December 2, 1974. The measure, co authored by 28 senators, also increases the tax free 30 daily expense allowance and provides late model cars with gasoline cards.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate
Alan Short
Stockton
Short
Major security operation in Dublin
Thousands of troops and police were deployed around Dublin to thwart a plan to free Sean MacStiofain, leader of the Provisional IRA wing. Authorities warned extremists might kidnap Irish politicians to win his release from an army camp near Dublin, following a hospital gunman attempt and MacStiofain's six month sentence for illegal organization membership.
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Dublin
UPI
Irish Republican Army
Sean MacStiofain
MacStiofain
Curragh
U S trade deficit to rise in 1972 says official
Assistant Commerce Secretary Harold C. Passer indicates the October deficit of 415 million leaves 1972 on track for a larger annual trade gap than 1971. He cites currency realignment and rising foreign demand as factors shaping the outlook and notes October exports up 207 million while imports rose 109 million to 4.364 billion.
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Washington
UPI
United States
Harold C. Passer
Passer
Commerce Department
U.S
Farr jailed over Manson Family story source names
Superior Court Judge Charles H Older sentences Los Angeles Times reporter William T Farr to indefinite jail until he reveals the two lawyers who sourced a story about Charlie Manson Family murder plans. Farr's lawyer Mark Hurwitz heads to San Francisco for a California Supreme Court appeal.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Superior Court
Charles H. Older
William T. Farr
Los Angeles Times
Farr
Charlie Manson
Mark Hurwitz
San Francisco
California Supreme Court
Thanksgiving Toll Drops as Drunk Driving Little Factor
California Highway Patrol reports Thanksgiving holiday traffic deaths fell to 62, the lowest in six years, with only six crashes involving an identified drunken driver. Commissioner Pudinski says alcohol was a minor contributor to the overall fatal figure. Last year 65 fatalities were recorded. Labor Day also posted its lowest death count in seven years.
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Sacramento
UPI
Highway Patrol
California
Walter Pudinski
Pudunski
Magee disrupts own trial in Marin County case
In San Francisco UPI report, 32 year old Magee interrupted his murder and kidnapping trial tied to the Marin County courthouse gun battle that killed a judge and three others. He was removed to a holding cell after shouting at Judge Morton Colvin and assaulting his attorney. Jury selection proceeds amid heavy security with jurors likely to be sequestered through the holidays.
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UPI
Magee
Miss Davis
Marin County
Superior Court
Morton R. Colvin
Robert Carrow
Carrow
Rommel Bondoc
Colvin
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