Tokay High School - Tokay Yearbook (Lodi, CA)

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A group called Sacramentans r Safe Energy CSAFEQ, had een campaigning to have the lant closed permanently. They lad collected more than 12,000 jf the 25,000 signatures neces- jary to have a vote on the plant's ate. j lt was discovered in December hat due to incorrectly laid cable, e plant was unfit to operate efore it even opened. An vestigation was underway and ancho Seco faced over 100 pwsuits, as well. J The nuclear plant was charged vith allowing more than safe lmounts of radioactive material b be discharged into the water lnd air. Whether or not the plant vill ever be repaired and re- opened was to be heatedly debat- ed. 1987 was an election year in California, with many important Jffices open for contest. ln the ace for governor, Democrat 'om Bradley challenged incum- lent George Deukmejian, but :ould not draw enough votes to ,ipset him. Democrat Leo Mc- :arthy beat out Republican Mike :urls for Lieutenant Governor nd the Democrats also took the iositions of Secretary of State, fontroller, Treasurer, Attorney leneral, and State Board of lducation, with March Fong Eu, Gray Davis, Jesse Unruh, John fan de Camp, and Conway follis, respectively. Senator Alan Cranston, a liberal Democrat leader, received a narrow Senate victory over Ed Zschau, the Republican candi- date, who has been associated closely with President Reagan. The vote on retaining Califor- nia Supreme court justices was -ni YQV1 ' JA, ,f kt- I an unusual one. Two groups, Crime Victims for Court Reform and Californians to defeat Rose Bird, devoted much time and money to unseating Chief Justice Rose Bird, along with two other justices, Cruz Reynoso and Joseph Grodin. Both groups opposed her liberal practices, but their main complaint was her 100 percent rate of voting to reverse death sentences. Since Bird had been Chief Justice, all but three of 61 death sentences had been re- versed, while Bird voted to overturn all 61. Reynoso and Grodin shared Bird's liberal beliefs, but avoided joining her to fight for confirma- tion. ln their very expensive anti- Bird campaign, Crime Victims for Court Reforms used families of crime victims to deliver their messages in advertisements, believing their pleas would be difficult for Bird to answer. Apparently, the campaign worked, because in November, Bird, Reynoso and Cruz were all ousted from their positions. Newly re-elected Governor De- ukmejian could then replace the three liberal democrats with more conservative members of his own party. This was the first time a campaign had been organized against a court justice and set a precedent, which supporters say will be applied next to federal courts. Bird's supporters claimed that anti-Bird parties were just trying to gain conservative con- trol of the court. John Doolittle, Republican State Senator, who opposed Bird, admitted the campaign reached beyond Bird to be an attack on the courts. On an entirely different note, a new rock group has emerged from California. Coming from Sacramento, Club Nouveau, as the group is called, has swept the nation with their first release, Lean on Me.The top-10 hit was a promising beginning for the group, which stemmed from the Timex Social Club. The Timex Social Club was broken up when sued by the Timex watch compa- ny. All in all, the year has been one filled with controversy and debate, with important issues at stake. by Kate Steinheimer I. Republican George Deukmejian managed to hold onto the office of Governor in the November elec- tion. Democrats won the races for the other major offices. 2. Scrat- ching the silver-coating off of a California lottery ticket could bring a fortune to a lucky winner. Thirty- four percent of the profits from tickets sales went to California schools. The tickets were sold for Sl. 3. Challenging incumbent George Deukmejian for the gover- nor's seat, Tom Bradley could not win enough votes to upset him. State Essay 239

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Political controversy fill dyear Political controversy headed the news in California during the year. lt took many forms, includ- ing the Rose Bird question, how lottery funds should be spent, highest. By June 1987, the number was expected to reach 8,000, with a possibility of climbing to 14,000 in the future. Just before the game opened, and the safety of Rancho Seco. Some questions were settled during the November election, while some remain unresolved. After a year of the California Lottery's scratch-off game, the disappointment of many con- sumers led to the formation of a new game. lt was called Lotto 6!49. The game is similar to Keno, and players bet S1 for a 1-in-14 chance of winning a fortune.The prizes reach S5 million to S10 million after a week and could climb as high as S100 million, if no one won the jackpot. California started out with 5,000 outlets, 1,200 more than Massachusetts, the next 238 O Mark Michalko, Lottery director, said, We'll have the biggest and We'li have the biggest and the fastest Lotto numbers game in the world! said Michaiko. fastest Lotto numbers game in the world! Controversy has accompan- ied the start of the new game. When the Lottery was approved by voters, it was decided that 34 percent of the gross Lottery income would go to Califor- nia's money-short schools. How- ever, educators believed that legislators will substitute Lottery money for increases in education funds that would normally come from taxes. During the 1985-86 year, the Under the shadow of ChernobyL many people worried that if Rancho Seco ever opened again, it could result in an accident just as serious. Lottery raised S572 million for the schools, or about S107 per student. The S107 represents about one-third of the state's allotment of 53,573 per studnet per year. The money was divided between elementary and secon- dary schools, as well as com- munity colleges, the University of California and the California State University systems. Ele- mentary and secondary schools received 81 percent of the money. Based on other states' experience, the Finance Depart- ment expected the lottery to have earned just short of S1 billion at the end of the year. It appeared that most schools were spending their share of the money on one-time expenses, such as computers, books, and salary bonuses for teachers, however, school districts were forbidden from using lottery funds for one of their biggest problems-school construction. Two bills attempted to change this regulation, because of seri- ous overcrowding in California schools. The California Teacher's Asso- ciation fCTAl fought the bills, saying it was the state's respon- sibiliy to pay for construction, not the Lottery's. The CTA was afraid legislators will cut the amount of money spent on schools because they thought the Lottery money made up the difference. State legislators dis- agreed, claiming that they under- stood educational needs. Edu- cation is on the top of the agenda. The 120 members of the Legis- lature each have kids or their neighbors have kids, said one legislator. Another controversial issue has been Rancho Seco, the nuclear power plant located 17 miles northeast of Lodi. The plant was closed all year and was scheduled to reopen in the second half of 1987-if ever. Under the shadow of the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union, many people worried that if Rancho Seco ever opened again, it could result in an accidentjust as serious. ln the 12 years it has been open, Rancho Seco has been operational only 43 percent of the time, giving it the fifth worst power plant record in the nation. , The plant has had 100 c ages and several incidents radioactive leaks. Finally, after computer failure in 1985, the plant shut down remained closed for over a year. ?

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