California cancels 10 percent auto registration rebate plan
The Brown administration dropped plans to grant a 10 percent rebate on next year’s vehicle registration fees amounting to about 3.60 per car. Funds would be redirected to secure 125 million in threatened federal highway funds as the state shifts to a year round registration system.
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Brown
California
Business and Transportation
Donald Burns
State Department of Motor Vehicles
Department of Transportation
Senate
James R. Mills
San Diego
John F. Foran
San Francisco
Frost Warnings Span 16 States From Maine to Arkansas
United Press International reports frost or freeze warnings posted across parts of 16 states from Maine to Arkansas. Hurricane Gladys menaces the North Atlantic with 120 mph winds about 300 miles off Newfoundland as it tracks northeast, while other regions see varied temperatures from the Gulf Coast to Florida and across the Rockies and desert Southwest.
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United Press International
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Arkansas
Tennessee
North Atlantic
Newfoundland
Gulf Coast
Florida
Navy reduces punishment in topless dance case
Navy chief Adm. J L Holloway III eases discipline for Cmdr Connelly D Stevenson who hired an exotic dancer to perform topless aboard a nuclear submarine at Port Canaveral. The punishment was reduced from two weeks pay and removal for cause to a disciplinary letter, with Stevenson eligible for command again in the future.
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Cat Futch
Port Canaveral
Fla
Cork Club
Cocoa Beach
Navy
Norfolk
Holloway
Brown vetoes bill opening records in California
Gov. Edmund G Brown Jr vetoed SB852 to create a California Information Practices Director allowing residents to challenge inaccurate state and local agency records. He backed AB6001 granting access to private credit data while vetoing AB2023 on poisons and SB517 on parole study, and SB344 on parole timing. Brown signed 15 bills and vetoed 12.
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Sacramento
UPI
Edmund G. Brown Jr
George Moscone
San Francisco
American Civil Liberties Union
Brown
California
Tion
Alan Sieroty
Los Angeles
Jerry Lewis
R-Highland
Daniel Boatwright
D-Concord
The
State Energy Commission
Ralph Dills
Dgardena
John Nejedly
Walnut Creek
Senate bank unit approves new bill on deposit interest
The Senate Banking Committee approved a measure to allow banks, savings and loans, and credit unions to pay interest on checking and passbook accounts and to end interest rate ceilings by 1981. The plan, backed by the administration, would let institutions offer 2 to 3 percent on new checking accounts and introduce negotiable withdrawal accounts. An annual mortgage tax credit of 1.5 to 3.83 percent would reward investors with at least 10 percent of assets in mortgages.
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UPI
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Senate Banking Committee
Savings and Loans
Federal Reserve
Savings and Loan Associations
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
London siege ends as six hostages freed at restaurant
Six Italian captives escape from the Spaghetti House basement after a five day siege in Knightsbridge. Gunman Franklyn Davis shot himself. two other suspects surrendered. Police say the incident began as a failed robbery with no political motive. Concurrently Prince Norodom Sihanouk arrives in New York for the U N General Assembly amid Cambodia’s shifting leadership.
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UPI
Franklyn Davis
Scotland Yard
Davis
Wesley Dick
Tony Munroe
Black Liberation Movement
West Indies
Colin Woods
Swank
Knightsbridge
Mark
United Nations, NY
Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodia
New York
U.N. General Assembly
Matlovich to fight Air Force discharge ruling
Leonard Matlovich says he will challenge the decision granting him an honorable discharge for homosexuality. The 12 year Air Force veteran planned to appeal to Air Force Secretary McLucas and then to the courts if needed.
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Hampton, Va
UPI
Air Force
Leonard Matlovich
United State Air Force
Alton J. Thogersen
Langley Air Force Base
Thogersen
John McLucas
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