California Senate passes congressional redistricting plan
The Senate approved its Congressional Reapportionment Plan on a 24 to 6 vote increasing California House seats from 38 to 43 and adding a new black district in Los Angeles. The Assembly endorsed a similar plan as a two House conference committee works to resolve reapportionment and tax issues before adjournment.
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Sacramento
UPS
Senate
California
House of Representatives
Los Angeles
Paul N. McCloskey
Assembly
Mervyn Dymally
Torrance
Dymally
Charles Wilson
Dennis Carpenter
Newport Beach
George Deukmejian
Long Beach
Robert J. Lagomarsino
Ojai
Jack Schrade
San Diego
Walter Stiern
Bakersfield
James Whetmore
la Habra
Stiern
Kern County
Clair Burgener
Orange
San Diego-Orange
House
Mother stabs two teachers in school class
Rose Hardy admitted attacking two teachers with an icepick type weapon in a Hillcrest School classroom as 26 kindergarten pupils watched. Shirley Bayerle and Joan Hoskey were wounded. Hoskey in critical condition and Bayerle in satisfactory condition. Principal Jerome Kenney helped subdue the assailant.
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San Francisco
UPI
Rose Hardy
Shirley Bayerle
Joan Hoskey
Miss Hoskey
Mrs. Bayerle
Hardy
Hillcrest
Gov Reagan seals $46 million senior tax relief package
Legislative tax writers and Gov Reagan reach basic agreement on a $46 million senior property tax relief as part of a $550 million payroll withholding program. The plan raises eligibility limits and rebates ranging from 6 to 96 percent depending on income, with Republicans signaling enough votes to pass.
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Sacramento
UPS
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Kenneth Hall
Senate
Assembly
Senate Assembly
John Harmer
Glendale
GOP
Millionaire Vargas tied to multiple wives in court battle
In Los Angeles a probate fight over Juan Abel Vargas into a $1 million estate reveals he may have two U S wives besides two overseas spouses. Testimony cites 78 motel visits with different women and possible Lima Peru and Bogota Colombia widows.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Juan Abel Vargas
Vargas
South America
Lucy
Lima
Peru
Bogota
Colombia
United States
Josephine Vargas
Mildred Vargas
Torrance
Calif
Mildred
Josephine
Ervin Roeder
Mexico City
Roeder
Lompoc Record's Official Masthead and Affiliations
Entry lists the Lompoc Record as a second class mail newspaper in Lompoc California with court decree number 47065 and details the staff including President Editor and various department heads. It also notes memberships in major press associations and the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Lompoc
California
Act of Congress
Lompoc Record
Lompoc Record Publications
Kenneth L. Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Lawrence C. Grossman
J. Donald Adam
Gaylen Jackson
Mariner 9 captures Phobos in near darkness on Mars
Pasadena reports Mariner 9 photographs Phobos during its 32nd Martian orbit. The tiny moon about 12 miles across appears as the solar system’s darkest object, brightened by a late radioed image after a weathered command sequence.
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Pasadena
UPS
Mariner
Mariner 9
Red Planet
Phobos
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars
Deimos
Earth
Solar System
California Bills Move Through Legislature and Courts
The Sacramento report notes AB1154 signed by the governor eliminates the teaching requirement for Graduate Fellowship recipients. AB123 would let some California colleges rename as state universities. SB153 increases Highway Patrol pay by 6 percent. SB17 reapportions congressional districts. Placerville Union Elementary District receives 70 000 dollars to cover an adverse judgment. AB2904 would create solitary confinement hearing procedures.
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United Press International
Lanterman
R-La
Canada
California
Barnes
San Diego
Senate
Highway Patrol
Moscone
San Francisco
Assembly
Congress
Placerville Union
Chappie
Farm Bureau backs Earl Butz for agriculture secretary
The American Farm Bureau Federation endorsed Earl Butz, 62, Purdue dean and former Eisenhower aide, for agriculture secretary. The group’s action follows a Chicago meeting and sends telegrams to all 100 senators urging confirmation amid opposition from NFU NFO and some farm-state Republicans.
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Washington
UPI
Organization of Farmers
Earl Butz
Agriculture
Butz
Senate
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Chicago
U.S
Nixon
Buzz
Purdue University
Ezra Taft Benson
Eisenhower
Realized Death Ends 27 Year Mystery for Mary Houmann
Mary Houmann learns her first husband George Wilbur Carroll is dead after wreckage of his NC-6955 plane is found near Lookout Pass on the Idaho Montana line. Carroll vanished Dec 1944 while attempting a Christmas homecoming from Billings to Seattle in a Spirit of St Louis style craft. Two U S Forest Service workers reported the wreckage to authorities, ending 27 years of doubt for Houmann and her two daughters.
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Seattle
UPI
Mary Houmann
Lookout Pass
Idaho-Montana
George Wilbur Carrol
Charles Lindbergh
St. Louis
Superior
Mont
U.S. Forest Service
Federal Aviation Administration
Kellogg
Idaho
Carroll
Death Valley mail robbery echoes Old West style heist
Inyo County officers report three bandits robbed a U S mail panel truck nine miles south of Death Valley. They abducted Ed Hart and Bob Wilcox, stripped them with pillowcases and tape, and took the weekend receipts from Scotty's Castle Stovepipe Wells and the Furnace Creek Ranch and Inn. The case mirrors century old stagecoach robberies. Mrs Houmann recalls hardship after her husband Carroll disappeared amid a snowstorm and later she sought divorce to gain custody.
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Death Valley Junction
UPI
U.S
Death Valley
Old West
U.S. Postal Service
Desert
Here
Ed Hart
Bob Wilcox
Wilcos
Hart
Scotty's Castle
Stovepipe Wells
Furnace Creek Ranch and Inn
Inyo County Sherriff’s Department
Northeast Weather Turns Snowy With Travel Warnings
Snow and rain lashed the Northeast as travel warnings were posted along the New England coast. Six inches of snow possible in interior New England, with Newport and Burlington seeing three inches in six hours. Rochester New York reported two inches, Buffalo and Flint one inch, Providence Rhode Island one and a half inches of rain. Below normal temperatures dominated nationwide except in Texas and Florida where readings stayed in the 60s and 70s. Widespread cloudiness accompanied the cold.
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Newport
Burlington
Rochester
N.Y
Buffalo
Flint
Mich
Providence
R.I
Texas
Florida
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