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A10 The Sacramento Bee Friday April 30 1982 State To Do For Refugees Leaving Oregon On Job Search Capitol Digest JllUI Racing Bet Bill Mass Transit Spots C- HARDBACK FICTION Bee Capitol Bureau California welfare director Marion Woods says the state will do its best for some 4000 Indochinese refugees flocking from Oregon to hunt for jobs that may not exist and welfare benefits that are jeopardized Woods who was angry when he learned that Oregon state officials encouraged refugees to go to California was mollified Thursday and assured refugee representatives that California would do its best to resettle them here Woods first heard of the Oregon-to-California move Wednesday at a Washington DC conference on refugee funding He complained about a telephone hotline in Oregon that told refugees 'you want a job go to Oklahoma City or Houston If you want to go to school or go on welfare go to Woods said the Oregon hot-line message supplemented a letter sent to Indochinese refugees April 1 by Keith Putnam assistant director for human resources for Oregon letter noted that federal benefits are being cut off and refugees probably are not eligible for Oregon benefits am sorry to say that for many of you the best advice I can give you is to move to another state where your job prospects are better and where federal refugee program funding continues to be available to refugees who have been in the US for over 1 2 initial reaction to the Oregon hotline and letter was One reason he has cooled down was that he learned that the letter and hotline was not really the reason for the migration The move from Oregon to Central Valley began in January when according to Kuxeng Yongehu of Portland about 2500 left because of that high unemployment rate in farming Yongehu and Bruce Thowpaou Bliatout also of Portland told Woods Thursday another 1500 are planning to move to either California or Texas where the two men have been touring the last four days Yongehu said California is appealing because it currently is home to 225000 refugees from Indochina and many hope to become part of the huge agricultural industry Woods said his department now trying to identify the of the new migration but he said he already knows of two significant problems: "Our presumption is that most will be on welfare and we have a shortfall of $103 million in federal He said elevated issue is that this is a classic example of when the federal government fails to He also said that although parts of the Putman letter are humane he would have preferred that he and Putman could have discussed the matter Gov Brown has promised to sign an urgency bill into law today to permit bettors at California race tracks to wager on Kentucky Derby and other major out-of-state races later in the year Negotiations are going on in Louisville Ky for such betting The Senate voted 27-7 and the Assembly 55-4 for the bill by Assemblyman Frank Vicencia D-Bellflow-er who said it would apply to perhaps a dozen races a year with purses of $100000 or more The bill sponsored by Hollywood Park Race Track in Inglewood would permit wagering at any California track up to within 36 hours of a big out-of-state race California tracks now operating that could take the bets are Hollywood Park and Los Alamitos in Southern California and Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields in the San Francisco Bay area Finale On Bridge? The final chapter in the long saga of a remote Mendocino County highway bridge may have been written tnursday in Beverly Hills A California Transportation Commission panel approved $765000 to replace two highway bridges in the north coast county including one that became the focus of a bitter battle between Caltrans engineers and state transportation director Adriana Gianturco A state auditor general's report released last month concluded Gianturco made a management decision not an engineering one in reducing the width of a replacement creek over Town Creek from 40 feet to 32 feet Auditors also found the 32-footwide bridge meets state design The California Transportation Commission is expected to give final approval today to construction of mass transit terminals at the Davis and Truckee train stations The two projects involving nearly $1 million in state transportation funds were approved Thursday by the mass transit committee State funds along with local grants will be used to convert the Davis and Truckee depots into transit centers served by Amtrak Greyhound and local bus lines Clean Air Act Backed Reversing an earlier vote the state Senate Thursday adopted a resolution calling on Congress to extend authorization of the federal Clean Air Act which is set to expire later this year The vote was 21-9 the bare majority needed to pass the resolution by Sen Robert Presley D-Riverside in the 40-member Senate do not want to throw away a decade of progress in cleaning up the said Presley whose district is in one of the smoggiest air basins Ban On Class Fees The Assembly Thursday passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would forbid schools to levy a fee on students who take vocational education classes Assemblyman John Thurman D-Modesto told his colleagues the legislative counsel's office believes the imposition of such a fee already is and However he said he wants to get the practice specifically forbidden by law Bee Capitol Bureau HARDBACK NON-FICTION For Atari 400 and 800 computers! 44th ANNIVERSARY SALE SINCE Hit the only difference between the PAC-MAN Arcade game and the PAC-MAN computer game? 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