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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1972
Page
2
Lawmakers boosted their pay 10 percent during the late session, raising annual salaries from 19 200 to 21 120 plus 30 per day and state provided autos. They receive benefits and face no mandated hours, while public schools remain unfunded after eight years.
The article argues that the First and Sixth Am endments define rights for both press and citizen amid a clash over news gathering and publication. It cites the Caldwell grand jury case, shield law proposals, and state laws, warning against overreaching rules and urging balanced behavior to protect citizens’ right to be fully informed.
Delegates at a two week London conference preliminarily approve a treaty to monitor and regulate waste emissions from ships, banning nerve gas, DDT, high level radioactive waste, and other nondecomposing substances. Russell E. Train calls it a historic step, stressing pollution crosses borders and politics.
Ukiah high school trustees set Tuesday Feb 19 as the proposed date for a special election seeking a 40 cent increase to the maximum district tax rate. Ted Watkins, Mendocino County tax consultant, failed to qualify as a Democratic candidate for 1st District congressman. his name will not appear on the Jan 22 ballot. The Savings Bank of Mendocino County recorded a deed to property north of the bank on School Street.
The Planning and Conservation League has spent seven years pursuing stronger environmental laws. It helped enact protections for San Francisco Bay and Lake Tahoe, formed the Bay Area Development Commission, and backed California joining Nevada in the Lake Tahoe Compact. The group led Proposition 20 Coastal Zone Initiative and supported Proposition 4 creating a two year legislative session. It filed a suit to require state guidelines for the 1970 Environmental Quality Act and fights AB 89, arguing it would undo environmental gains. The league backs SB 107 to protect remaining wild rivers and helped win a Senate rule change to record committee votes. It operates as a nonprofit public interest lobby with a $100,000 annual budget serving nearly one million people.
A seven member Joint Legislative committee on Organization and Financing of local government, including Lam, issued a report urging far reaching reforms in local government funding. The package favors a five year property tax reduction plan, a state collected local income tax, and scaled changes in grant programs and revenue sharing. The group hopes for input before January, noting the survey reflects broad local government views.
New books include 5000 Nights at the Opera by Sir Rudolph Bing revealing Met years with juicy notes on singers and conductors. Not to Die Young by Joan Gomez offers health advice for a longer life. Sumner Locke Elliott’s The Man Who Got Away blends suspense with psychological insight ending in a shiver.
A dramatic account details Indian activists using a police escort to move stolen government documents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington. Thousands of files, exposing bureaucratic bungling, were packed into boxes, sleeping bags, and cars during the midnight exodus, prompting an FBI dragnet as authorities race to recover the materials. The White House shifted to negotiation, easing tensions as the protest escalated.
A carnival action ends with a 40 car caravan led by Russ Means and Sid Mills evacuating documents from a BIA building. FBI raids in St Paul recover a typewriter and a notepad while thousands of papers hidden in sleeping bags remain elsewhere. Hank Adams sought White House talks as files were emptied.
A lighthearted holiday aside contrasts a wish for a homemade apple pie with a playful warning not to steal someone else’s Thanksgiving. The speaker expresses a fond memory of mother’s pie and teases about grabbing a share of the feast.
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