California Farm Worker's Battle Moves to Capitol
A farm labor clash rising from Cesar Chavez in California shifts to Capitol Hill as two bills duel over farm labor law. The Murphy bill seeks farm worker organizing by secret ballot under a Farm Labor Relations Board while banning secondary boycotts and hot cargo contracts, with limits on strikes that could damage crops.
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Rehiring Fallout Hits San Francisco State and San Jose State
Fifty of 243 striking teachers at San Francisco State and San Jose State were not rehired, state college trustees reported. The list includes Black Panther George Murray, a former minister of Education, amid automatic dismissal rules for five days of unexcused absences.
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Nixon Forms Environmental Quality Council to Fight Pollution
President Nixon announced creation of the Environmental Quality Council and a 211 member Citizens Advisory Committee to lead the administration's pollution battle. Dr Lee A DuBridge outlined using the environment without polluting it, as focus turns to waste disposal and natural resource protection.
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Florida Woman Slayer on Wanted List
Marie Dean Arrington an escaped Florida murderess condemned to death was placed on the FBI's ten most wanted list as an armed and dangerous fugitive. She broke from a Lowell Florida prison where she awaited execution for the 1968 killing of a legal secretary.
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Veteran TV and film actor Rhys Williams dies at 71
Santa Monica reports veteran character actor Rhys Williams died Wednesday at 71. Williams appeared in TV series Perry Mason The Invaders and Wild Wild West, and films How Green Was My Valley Composer Green Our Man Flint Midnight Lace Sons of Katie Elder. He also acted in Hamlet and Harriet on Broadway and leaves wife Elsie two sons Evan and Tudor plus siblings.
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Five Million Flood Rehab Funds Approved for California
Washington reports the White House has allotted an additional 5 million dollars for flood rehabilitation in California. Funds will repair roads and public works damaged by floods and earthslides last winter.
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L.A. Lawyer Named Head of Mexican American Affairs Agency
President Nixon named Martin G. Castillo 38 of Monterey Park California to lead the Inter-agency Committee on Mexican American Affairs. Castillo, a Democrat and partner in Lewis Sersham Castillo, serves Los Angeles groups aiding the disadvantaged and plans to restructure programs for better English speaking job training and access to services. He succeeds Vincente T Ximenes of New Mexico who resigned.
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