Evelle J. Younger, 52, State Attorney General, as Chairman of the Council on Criminal Jus- tice, the agency for administering federal anti-crime funds, by Governor Reagan. APPOINTED Louis J. Angelo, 40, formerly consultant to the Assem- ELECTED bly Committees on Ways and Means, and Elections and Putnam Livermore, 48, San Francisco attorney, former Reapportionment, as Chief Administrative Officer of director of the San Francisco Legal Aid Society, and the Assembly, by the Rules Committee. Vice Chairman of the Republican Party, as GOP State Senator Peter H. Behr, 55, (R-Marin County) as the Central Committee Chairman. State Senate’s representative on the San Francisco Bay Charles S. Manatt, 34, Van Nuys attorney instrumental Conservation and Development Commission, by Senate in the campaign to elect John V. Tunney to the pro Tempore James Mills. U.S. Senate, as Democratic State Central Committee Hugh M. Burns, 68, Democratic State Senator from Chairman. Fresno who retired last year after 34 years in the Legislature, including 12 years as President pro Tem- pore, to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Appeals Board, by Governor Reagan. GROWERS (Continued from previous page) Robert B. Carlson, 39, deputy director of the Depart- exercise voluntarily production restraints to subsidize ment of Public Works since 1968, as Director of the those who do not, since the blend returns of all become State Department of Social Welfare, by Governor equal. Reagan, succeeding Robert Martin, who resigned. On the other hand, it has been argued frequently Dr. Stanford Cazier, 40, vice provost of Utah State that the absence of quotas constitutes an important University and former history professor, as President safeguard for marketing orders, since the relative lack of Chico State College, by the Trustees of the Cali- of output restrictions usually means that there is fornia State Colleges. sufficient production pressure to keep industry prices Jay Davis and Mrs. Catherine Hightower as Chairman competitive and force an aggressive search for new and Executive Director of the newly created Consumer markets. This production pressure appears most clearly Fraud Task Force, by Governor Reagan. in the California citrus and nut industries, where the William A. Evans, 32, assistant legislative secretary marketing orders tend to be a reflection of the policies since 1969, as legislative assistant to the Governor for of dominant farmer-owned processing cooperatives. liaison with the California State Assembly, by Gov- However, production pressure is less tolerable to farm- ernor Reagan. ers in commodities such as tomatoes, where it has the effect of undermining the leverage that a bargaining James M. Hall, 36, Secretary the Business and Trans- of cooperative can exert on major independent processors. portation Agency and former Superintendent of Banks, as Secretary of the Human Relations Agency, by Gov- A number of existing supply management problems ernor Reagan, succeeding Lucian B. Vandegrift, who for California commodities (including citrus and nuts) resigned. have been developed under the provisions of a parallel federal marketing order law. Preference for the federal A. Alan Hill, 32, assistant to Secretary for Resources law may be based upon one or more of several con- Norman B. Livermore, as Deputy Director of the State siderations, including interstate production patterns Department of Conservation, by Governor Reagan. and anti-import provisions. The federal law has recent- John T. Kehoe, 39, an educational consultant within the ly been amended to permit research and promotion Governor’s Office since 1969, as legislative assistant to programs under certain circumstances, but the CMA the Governor for liaison with the California State remains the unchallenged leader in this area, with Senate, by Governor Reagan. more than thirty such orders. Dr. Marie Y. Martin, former President of Pierce College While the effectiveness of commodity promotion in Los Angeles, as special assistant for community programs is difficult to measure, they have frequently college development within the U.S. Office of Educa- replaced voluntary programs because of the power to tion, by U.S. Commissioner Sidney P. Marland. eliminate “freeloading” by compelling equal financial Thomas H. McGrath, 53, Assistant Executive Vice contributions from all producers. Chancellor of the California State Colleges and a li- It is unclear whether the defeat of the tomato censed psychologist, as President of Sonoma State Col- order pressages the continued dominance of promotion lege, by the Trustees of the California State Colleges. over supply management in California farm marketing Frederick F. Perelli-Minetti, 46, Delano wine and agri- policy. State and federal officials have been openly cultural leader who helped develop a winery operation skeptical about some of the more expansive claims minimizing air pollution, to a four-year term on the made by the advocates of supply control orders. How- State Air Resources Board, by Governor Reagan. ever, the increasing antipathy towards publicity sub- sidized farm programs and the increasing militance of Dr. Max Rafferty, former Superintendent of Public In- producer bargaining groups could lead to repeated struction defeated for re-election in 1970, as Dean of attempts to establish supply management orders, with Education at Troy State University in Troy, Alabama. or without historical quotas. In California, at least John C. Williamson, 58, former Assemblyman from (the vote manipulation controversy aside), it appears Kern County from 1959-1966 and Consultant to the that department officials are willing to afford com- Joint Committee on Open Space Lands of the Cali- modity producers the opportunity for self-determina- fornia Legislature, as Executive Officer of the Senate tion of these proposals, although they will not other- by the Rules Committee. wise encourage their use. $

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Party Time in Washington

The splendid diversity of America again overcame the Veysey party, where irrepressible State Assem- the silliness of its semi-public spectacles when the 92nd blyman Bill Bagley, the chairman of the Assembly Congress opened business to the popping of champagne Welfare Committee, with an apology to departed presi- corks aiid the self-congratulations of congressional dential advisor Pat Moynihan, called for some “benign camp fo.lowers. neglect” of welfare rhetoric. The man of the hour was of Oklahoma, But the best bar and the brightest party was in whom Minority Leader Gerry Ford described with the new Senate Office Building room where California faint praise as “a Rhodes scholar who turned out okay” Sen. John V. Tunney held sway. Tunney avoided his and who was so superstitious about his elevation that own bar entirely and didn’t need it. He was, for most he allowed no one to address him as Speaker until the of the day, in a state of mild euphoria about actually House vote was formally announced. serving in the Senate (“This is abso- lutely marvelous,” he said at one point), and he waved Rhodes scholar he may be, but Albert is Okla- I with unsenatorial abandon to his children in the Sen- homan lo the core, and his mammoth reception in the ate gallery during the opening ceremonies. presider,tial ballroom of the Statler-Hilton was dom- Not even the defeat of his friend, Sen. Edward inated by red-faced men with lapel badges reading “Happy” or “Smoky” or “Gabby” who slapped every- Kennedy of Massachusetts, as Senate whip dampened one and each other on the back and constantly de- Tunney’s spirits for long. Kennedy was stunned by the scribed The Ascension of Carl Albert as “the greatest defeat, but Tunney, who expresses himself with a nat- thing that ever happened.” Suspecting that they meant ural candor that enhances his vulnerability, joked this literally (ranking the Albert election as slightly about it in a way that Kennedy might not have tol- above, my, the Resurrection and a light year ahead erated from others. of the Sermon on the Mount), your correspondent fled “What do you think of me as a (vote) counter?” two floors above to the reception for Berkeley congress- Tunney said at one point with a big, boyish grin. man Ron Dellums, where 50 or so supporters in iden- “I was doing fine before you came to the Senate,” tically tailored Afro haircuts listened to Mrs. Dellums replied Kennedy, managing a smile of his own. speak uith pride of her son (“If being radical means wanting a better life for blacks and browns and white *** poor, then Ron’s proud to be a radical”) and other- Congress, for its part, was doing just fine before wise sermed as remarkably taken with their achieve- President Nixon’s thoughtful state of the union mes- ment as the Oklahomans in the ballroom below. sage came along to further tromp on congressional Nol. a‘l receptions were ones of welcome. At a perquisites and remind congressmen of the country’s stag party in honor of, the departing Gene McCarthy, demands for change. The bureaucracies that the Pres- the Minnesota senator’s friends, newly elected House ident would dismantle and reassemble have, if any- Majority Leader Hale Boggs among them, drank and thing, more clout in the Congress than in the executive said goodbye and listened to McCarthy recite the branch. poetry that estranged him from the Senate. The re- “It’s a great idea but it doesn’t have a snowball’s ception of Lloyd Bentsen, the new Democratic senator chance in hell,” said A1 Smith of Nixon’s reorganization from Texas, became a virtual wake for Sen. Richard proposal, in a probably accurate assessment of its Russell of Georgia, who died while the welcoming re- political prospects. Smith, the ranking Republican on ceptions were just beginning. the House Rules Committee, is a member of the GOP House leadership team that meets weekly with Nixon. Perhaps the most thankful party was the one held by Rep. Vi( tor Veysey of Riverside, who survived some Rep. John Moss, Democrat from Sacramento, cap- anxious moments on the floor awaiting a legal chal- italized on Atty. General John Mitchell’s incapacity for lenge to hi3 election that never came. The absence of understatement in his own reaction. Mitchell had in a challenge was no accident. Democratic Rep. Chet advance called the written speech the greatest docu- Holifield of’ Montebello, dean of the delegation, flatly ment since the U.S. Constitution. “It was not the great- refused to lodge a challenge based on the claim of de- est document since the Constitution,” commented Moss. feated 1)eniocratic candidate Dave Tunno that voters And Gov. Ronald Reagan, who met with Nixon for were illegally stricken from the rolls. Another Demo- an hour the Saturday after the speech and praised it to crat, Rep. Robert Leggett of Vallejo, toyed with the the President and to the press, observed the similarities notion of having Veysey step aside but changed his between the Nixon reorganization plan and his own mind when Republicans H. Allen Smith of Glendale and California reorganization. Bob Wilson of San Diego said they would challenge Noting the presence of Californians, among them Leggett’s seating if he blocked Veysey. It all ended Deputy Budget Director Cap Weinberger, in the Nixon happily, except for Tunno. administration, Reagan commented with a smile: . California champagne was the order of the day at “Perhaps it is involuntary plagiarism.”

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