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. First 100 days
for Gov. Brown
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) — Gov. Edmund G.
“Jerry” Brown Jr. trusts he has made “modest progress”
• during his first 100 days in office in bringing Californians
and their government closer together.
Nothing else he can do, Brown says, is more vital.
# A former Jesuit who studied four years for the
priesthood, Brown, 37, says what is needed is “to restore a
habit of honesty to public affairs. That’s the habit people
have when they’re in smaller communities, when they
have to face each other, and they know each other. ’ ’
The second-generation governor —his father, Edmund
G. “Pat” Brown Sr., was governor from 1959-66 —speaks
* intently to a reporter as he bolts through Capitol Park on a
morning walk to work.
To transform California, the nation’s most populous and
• mobile state, into a community with “consciousness” and
“confidence” —two of his most oftused words —Brown
has set out in several directions.
He sharply reduced the grand lifestyle of chief
executive, picking a 1974 Plymouth sedan over a fleet of
limousines, turning in a government-leased jet to fly
commercial, and moving into an apartment after
* criticizing the state’s still unfinished, |1.3 million gover
nor’s mansion as a “Taj Mahal.”
He incessantly pleads for sacrifice. He placed what
• amounted to a moratorium on new state programs, with
an $11.3 billion proposed budget that allowed for growth
hardly anywhere save the fight against smog.
I He bounds about the corridors, visibly trembling with
energy, strings of black hair dangling unmanageably. He
bursts unexpectedly into offices and meetings and
challenges bureaucrats to “do more with less.”
I * The approach is the principal tenet in Brown s
relentless campaign to lower “everyone’s expectations’
of what government should strive to do and what it can
■ • accomplish.
“It can provide some financing,” he allows. “It can
provide some leadership; it is a catalyst. But
|, fundamentally, if. the private institutions don’t function,
if business is not responsible, if the organizations that
people belong to, such as neighborhoods, don’t pull toge
ther, forget it. I mean that quite literally, it will be just
■ * like the Roman Empire...”
i. Painting stolen Gvil
BOSTON (UPI) — A portrait of Elizabeth van Rijn, by
♦ Rembrandt, was stolen from the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts at gunpoint Monday. Copies of the 1632 masterpiece
were distributed by police networks on the theory it may
. be aimed overseas by two gunmen, who slugged a mu
seum guard and fired three random shots before dashing
out with the painting. The duo fled with an accomplice in a
gold-colored automobile which sped toward downtown
I* Boston into heavy midday traffic.
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v Roll Call
WASHINGTON - Here’s how
area members of Congress
were recorded on major roll call
votes April 7, the end of the
spring recess, through April 9.
HOUSE
SCIENCE — Passed, 212 for
and 199 against, an amendment
requiring the director of the
National Science Foundation
(NSF) to submit every 30 days
to Congress a list of all proposed
grants. During an additional 30
days, either chamber could
disapprove of any of the
proposals. The amendment was
attached to a subsequently
passed bill (HR 4723) authoriz
ing fiscal 1976 funds for the
NSF.
Rep. John Flynt (D-6) did not
vote.
OLDER AMERICANS —
Passed, 377 for and 19 against, a
bill (HR 3922) extending until
1979 the Older Americans Act of
1965. The bill authorizes $2.6
billion to be distributed via
grants to states. Most of the
money would continue existing
programs for the elderly, but 20
per cent of the outlay would
fund the new Special Service
Program, which would assist
with home repairs, finance
personal counseling, and
provide better means of tran
sportation, among other
features.
HR 3922 was passed under a
“suspension of the rules”
parliamentary procedure which
prevented floor amendments
and limited debate to 40
minutes. The bill was sent to the
Senate.
Flynt did not vote.
FENOCIDE — Adopted, 332
for and 55 against, a resolution
(HR Res 148) designating April
24, 1975 as “National Day of
Remembrance of Man’s
Inhumanity to Man.” More
specifically, the resolution
commemorates the 60th an
niversary of the 1915 ex
termination by Turks of 1.5
million Armenians who had
sought to create an independent
Armenian nation. The resolu
tion was sent to the Senate.
Flynt did not vote.
SENATE
ENERGY — Rejected, 42 for
and 47 against, an amendment
to remove certain domestic oil
reserves from their “old oil”
classification and thus provide
a price incentive to encourage
production of an estimated 59
billion barrels of oil.
“Old oil” is that from wells
which were in production before
the 1973 Arab oil embargo. It
has a price ceiling of $5.25 per
barrel which the amendment
sought to remove. Post
embargo oil — “new oil” — is
not price-controlled and
currently costs $ll.BO per
barrel.
The old oil reserves at issue
here are those which floor
debate indicated could be ob
tained only through secondary
or tertiary extraction
procedures, which cost more
than normal procedures. By
removing the $5.25 ceiling the
amendment sought to provide
the necessary price incentive.
The amendment was proposed
to the Standby Energy Authori
ties Act (S 622).
Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) voted
“yea”. Sen. Herman Talmadge
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) -
Another tradition of the Old
South has died.
The Peabody Hotel, where
each afternoon for half a
century a quintet of peforming
ducks waddled through the
lobby to the strains of martial
music, has closed its doors.
“The Mississippi Delta begins
in the lobby of the Peabody
Hotel in Memphis and ends on
Catfish Row in Vicksburg,”
author David Cohn wrote in
1934.
In its heyday, the 12-story,
red-brick hotel built in down
town Memphis 50 years ago
was the center of social activity
in a city that billed itself as the
cotton capital of the nation.
Debutantes and cotton plant
ers danced to the big-band
sound in the roof-top ballroom,
The Skyway. Land barons spent
days in the lobby, talking and
watching the five ducks swim
in a marble fountain.
“The Peabody is the Paris
Ritz, the Cairo Shepheard’s, the
London Savoy of this section,”
Cohn wrote in his book, God
Shakes Creation.
“If you stand near its
fountain in the middle of the
lobby, where ducks waddle and
turtles drowse, ultimately you
will see everybody who is
anybody in the Delta and many
who are on the make,” the
Greenville, Miss., writer said.
(D-Ga.) voted “nay.”
ENERGY — Adopted, 46 for
and 38 against, an amendment
to raise the ceiling from $5.25 to
$7.50 per barrel on domestic
“old oil” which can only be
extracted through more costly
secondary and tertiary
methods. This measure was
attached to another amendment
(above) which had been
rejected but brought back for
re-consideration. Its adoption
signalled a compromise solu
tion to the above dispute.
Talmadge voted “yea.” Nunn
voted “nay.”
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Evacuation ordered
SAIGON (UPI) — American
officials on orders from Presi
dent Ford today organized a
massive evacuation of U.S.
citizens from Saigon with a
warning that time to make the
break was running out.
Communist forces, mean
while, moved their heaviest
artillery into the Mekong Delta
for the first time and used it to
destroy a government naval
transport.
Maj. Gen. Homer Smith, the
U.S. military attache and the
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 17,1975
highest-ranking American offic
er in Vietnam, warned an
assembly of Americans
Wednesday in Saigon, “I can
tell you that the longer you stay
here the more difficult it’s
going to be in terms of you and
your families to get out of
here.”
The U.S. Embassy beginning
Friday will mount an airlift for
retired American military per
sonnel and their families to the
United States at no cost. While
the exact number to be
evacuated is not known, it is
believed that a sizable number
of the colony of 5,500 Ameri
cans will be removed.
Embassy officials privately
voiced objections to the evacua
tion order in the belief it would
shatter the morale of a
Vietnamese population that has
helplessly witnessed a Comm
munist takeover of 18 of the
country’s 44 provinces, or
roughly 60 per cent of this
country.