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...descended on North Creek, an outpost in the Adirondacks that welcomed the attention and the money. There was free camping for all comers, and budget-priced breakfasts cooked by the Boy Scouts, roast-beef dinners served up by the Methodists and snacks sold along the riverbank by the volunteer firemen. "It's the area's biggest economic weekend of the year," said Martin Wicks, whose bar dispensed 1,500 bottles of beer...
...average 12% a year. Says Andrew Smith, 68, whose taxes on his West Los Angeles house have jumped in five years from $650 to $2,780: "Half of the income for Los Angeles County comes from property taxes, and 12% of that goes to policemen's and firemen's pensions. Why do I have to pay for these pensions? Everything is out of balance...
Critics of the initiative, who include most leaders of state politics, business, labor and California's 1.5 million-member state and local bureaucracy, contend that it would lead to mass layoffs of teachers, police and firemen. Backers of Jarvis-Gann say that the warnings are preposterous and that the state is already running a $3.5 billion surplus that would soften the actual cutbacks to little more than moderate retrenchments...
...that some 70% of the national labor force will be covered. In addition, the law eliminates altogether mandatory retirement based on age for most employees of the Federal Government, a majority of whom can be forced to retire at 70 under present civil service law. Except for policemen and firemen, nearly all state and local government workers will fall under the age-70 provision...
...members of the local fire department went on strike last month, and Circuit Judge William Caisley ordered them to go back to work on the grounds that their strike constituted "an immediate impediment and detriment to the health, safety and welfare of the people of Normal." The firemen adamantly refused. The determined judge thereupon began handing out jail sentences for contempt of court to 22 of them. Only the four members of the firemen's negotiating committee are actually in jail full time, however. The other 18 firemen spend 24 hours in jail, then 24 hours under police guard...