California penal code revision urged liberal sex and gambling rules
A legislative staff report urges broad updates to California’s penal code, proposing lowering consent age to 16, legalizing adult sexual activity, and permitting limited gambling while retaining the death penalty for first degree murder. The panel plans hearings and a future omnibus bill based on the recommendations.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Donald L. Grunsky
R-Watsonville
Joint Legislative Committee For
Grunsky
Gordon Ringer
Ringer
Mediator Joins West Coast Dock Strike Talks
President Nixon's top labor mediator J Curtis Counts arrives in San Francisco to help resolve the 77 day old strike that has halted 175 ships across 24 ports. Hodgson states wage and pension issues remain, with Taft Hartley action not planned.
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San Francisco
UPI
Nixon
West Coast
James D. Hodgson
Washington
J. Curtis Counts
Counts
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
International
Fong
Hawaii
John A. Burns
Hodgson
Harry Bridges
Domes of Foam Offer Futuristic Home Concept
Six interconnected foam domes form a cave-like residence using sprayed liquid urethane on fabric. Skylights brighten living spaces and the inverted dome acts as a sun dish to maintain constant temperature, part of the Soft Edge design by West Point Pepperell.
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West Point Pepperell
Newspaper Staff and Affiliations Rate and Delivery Details
The list names Tim Conner and Clete Lunny among staff such as Huffman Huffman Huffman and editors including McCuen Laurent Ostler Jack Proctor Duffy. It notes association memberships with CAPA UPI IPI IAPA NNA and California Press. Audit Bureau of Circulations is listed. Subscription rate is $2.2 per month by mail in advance and delivery daily except Sundays and Christmas Day.
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Lompoc
California
Kenneth L. Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Lawrence C. Grossman
J. Donald Adam
Gaylen Jackson
Tim Conner
Clete Lunny
Wesley A Huffman
Ray McCuen
Betty Laurent
Scott Ostler
Wilma Jack
Vaughn Proctor
Dan Duffy
Weekend walkie talkie bank heist seen as long planned
Police say the Lloyds Baker Street theft may have been 18 months in the making with vault access achieved via a safe deposit box rented near the shop. Voices from the gang are suspected, and raids of nearby homes followed as Scotland Yard probes how the job succeeded after a radio ham tipped off police.
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London
UPI
Lloyd's Baker Street
Scotland Yard
Yard
Cat trapped in jet for a month in Northwest flight
Gartunkel, a gray tiger striped cat from Oshkosh, rode a Northwest 747 from Aug 19, vanished between Chicago and Alaska, and has lived inside the plane during nonstop flights. Boeing Paine Field crews found him alive as the jet was serviced, and Snohomish Humane Society planned to lure him out.
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Everett
Wash
UPI
Gartunkel
Oskosh
Wis
Northwest Orient Airlines
Garfunkel
Anchorage
Alaska
Teve Minnoff
Alaska Methodist University
Chicago
Smirnoff
Boeing
Paine Field
Reagan links prison riots to new revolutionary tactics
Governor Reagan in Sacramento tied the Attica riot and San Quentin violence to "new revolutionaries" inside prisons. He warned against any hostages’ weakness and urged security changes, while noting possible expansion of guards and a department review under way.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Ronald Reagan
New York
Attica State Prison
San Quentin
Reagan
Puerto Rico
Attica
Nelson Rockefeller
East
California Department of Corrections
Department of Corrections
Verne Orr
Orr
California Senate approves farm funding for high school agriculture
Senate action funds vocational agriculture programs with 1.5 million dollars annually from the State Fair and Exposition Fund. The measure lists sponsors and related bills on education, parks, workweeks, hunting fees, and name changes.
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Senate
Farm
State Fair and Exposition Fund
Zenovich
Fresno
Assembly
Parks and Recreation
San Francisco Maritime State Historic Park
Moscone
Dsan Francisco
Cullen
D-Long Beach
Nojedly
Walnut
Plot to Kidnap California Officials Foiled by Security
KNXT reported Black militants plotted to kidnap nine California Adult Authority officials to swap for Angela Davis and Rachel Magee. Security at the Thursday meeting was tightened, and Attica violence influenced the plan. The officials were to be held as hostages near Pomona while parole cases were under consideration.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Attica
New York
KNXT
The
California Adult Authority
Angela Davis
Rachel Magee
Adult Authority
China Institute For Men
Pomona
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California Press Association
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Audit Bureau of Irculations
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White House
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Jackson, Miss
America’s Victory Force
Barrett
My Lai
Marian Draper
Cost
Rome
Snohomish County
Humane Society Officials
United Press International
Petris
Oakland
Doakland
State Water Resources Control Board
Nejedly
Walnut Creek
Collier
Sonoma
Sonoma State College
D-Yreka
EOP
Marks
Mitah Theatre
H” Street
Joo Late
Santa Maria, PH
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Donovan RD
Hellstrom Chronicle
Hugh Lompoc
Lompoc Theatre
Santa Maria
Peppertree Theatre
Ment
Bank Americaid
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