California Legislators Earn $2 Million So Far This Year
California legislators have cost taxpayers $2 million in salaries and expenses through eight months of 1972. Assemblyman William T. Bagley led with $21,324 while Floyd Wakefield ranked lowest at $17,115. Lawmakers receive $19,200 annual salaries, the nation's highest.
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San Diego
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Kenneth Cory
Garden Grove
John Know
Richmond
Paul Priolo
Pacific Palisades
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Alfred Long
Monterey Park
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Alan Short
Stockton
Mervyn Dymally
Los Angeles
Randolph Collier
Yreka
Tom Carrell
San Fernando
Alfred Alquist
San Jose
Milton Marks
San Francisco
Albany
N.Y
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Carrell
James Q Wedworth
Hawthorne
Willie Brown Jr
Carley V. Porter
Compton
Brown seeks to keep Proposition 22 on California ballot
Allan Grant, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation, says Secretary of State Brown Jr.’s suit to strike Proposition 22 could jeopardize the initiative process. The measure would create an agricultural labor board and curb secondary boycotts, with signatures amid fraud accusations and testimony sought from farm worker volunteers.
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Farm Workers Union
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Windfall for grain farmers eyed in Russia sales probe
The National Farmers Union argued private traders could have earned up to 100 million dollars from U S wheat sales to Russia this summer via timing and export subsidies. NFU urged compensation for affected wheat farmers while a House subcommittee reviews Russia trade actions.
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Russia
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Fischer Returns to U S After World Title Win
Bobby Fischer arrives in New York from Iceland amid fanfare, plans rest and sleep after becoming the first American to win the world chess championship. He may attend the Chess Olympiad in Skopje if his schedule allows. his associate Rev. William Lombardy mentions a potential reception with Mayor Lindsay.
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Soviet Union
Moscow
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Congress Moves to Finish Action on Sharing and River Cleanup Bills
Congress aims to complete action this week on a 30.1 billion federal revenue sharing bill and a 24 billion water cleanup plan to meet a 1985 pollution goal. Also seeks a 2 dollar per hour minimum wage and debates crime victims funding and debt limits. Senate moves on wheat compensation for early harvest farmers.
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Couple guilty of kidnapping producer in Miami Beach
Linda Narbona Kallas and Anthony Kallas were found guilty of abducting television producer Peter Gayle from his Miami Beach home to California last December. Sentencing set for Oct. 26. Kallas faces up to 30 years. The couple claimed funds were Gayle seized from Linda earnings. Gayle testified he was unaware she was a prostitute.
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GOP Could Win Congress If Nixon Wins Big
Republicans forecast control of Congress if Nixon reaches about 60 percent of the vote. Sen. Dominick and Rep. Wilson argued a 60 percent Nixon win could flip the Senate and House, while House Democrat leader ONeill predicted continued Democratic control. McGovern campaigned in the Midwest and West Virginia as Nixon spoke at a Md Italian festival.
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Critic of Viet war dies of cancer
New York congressman William Fitts Ryan died at 50 from throat cancer. A liberal reform Democrat first elected in 1960, he opposed Vietnam War funding and the House Un American Activities Committee while advocating China’s U N admission. He had recently fought a tough primary victory over Bella Abzug.
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West Side
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Beame
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IRA Snipers Raise Fatal Toll in Ulster Attacks
British army officers warned the IRA has deployed a new breed of disciplined snipers in Northern Ireland. They used high velocity Armalite rifles to target troops in Belfast Londonderry and Larne with several deaths and multiple injuries reported over the week. The toll in Northern Ireland rose to 564 since August 1969 with attacks in Ballymurphy and Creggan and continued crossfire and sniper fire across the region.
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Fronts Trigger Showers and Severe Weather Across Midwest
A frontal system caused showers and thunderstorms from southern Maine to the northern Plains. Flash flood warnings covered the Maumee River area in northwest Ohio and counties from Toledo to Cleveland. A tornado was reported near Kalamazoo, Michigan, with no damages reported. Heavy rain in northern Illinois led to local flooding.
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