Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar, Volume LXXV, Number 75, 20 June 1940 — Christmas Ends for “Ellis” i • • • • • Patterson’s Funds Curbed « • • • « • Radin Has Lots of “Color” POLITICALLY SPEAKING [ARTICLE]

Christmas Ends for “Ellis” i • • • • • Patterson’s Funds Curbed « • • • « • Radin Has Lots of “Color” POLITICALLY SPEAKING

By Jack W, Dunlap United Press Staff Correspondent

Sacramento, Calif. (U.R)—Ellis E. Patterson, California's bandwagonriding lieutenant-governor, has been “cut off at the pockets” by the Olson administration and will have to give up most of the imposing clerical staff he has built up during his first 18 months in office, it was revealed today. The lieutenant-governor’s budget, as passed by the 1939 legislature, is $6500 a year, but Patterson was granted an additional $5210.62 during the past 12 months in transfer from the state emergency fund. With the increased funds Patterson has been able to staff his office with a $2OO per month assistant, a secretary at $l6O and two stenographers at $llO each. The total monthly payroll comes to $570, while the original budget contemplated only one employe, at $l5O a month. The emergency transfers, however, were vigorously criticized by members of the legislature during the recent special session of the legislature, and Director of Finance John R. Richards has made it known that there will be extra-budgetary assistance for the lieutenant governor after July 1, when the state enters a new fiscal year. Patterson based his request for increased allocations on the fact that he senes on several state boards and commissions in addition to his constitutional duty of presiding over the senate, but critical legislators jointed out that he is at present running for U. S. senator and suggested that the increased activity of his office might have some connection with his political campaign. Gov. Culbert Olson could not reasonably be expected to go to hat for his erstwhile running mate, since Patterson has turned against his chief on many occasions, the most recent being the lieutenant governor’s bolting of the Roosevelt third term ticket in the recent presidential primary election. Patterson has since attempted to climb back on the Roosevelt bandwagon and iron out his differences with Olson following the overwhelming victory of the third term ticket, but the governor has been cool. The largest share of Patterson’s regular budget is accounted for by his own salary—s4ooo a year. Of the remaining $2550, there was $lBOO earmarked for his one secretary, $725 for service expense and $25 for materials and supplies. This figures out at $545 a month. The department of finance said that total expenditures for the office have been running nearly $2OOO a month recently under the emergency fund transfers. ♦ ♦ ♦ Political speculation at the moment is concerned chiefly with Gov. Culbert Olson’s pending appointment to the supreme court vacancy caused by the death of Chief Justice William H. Waste. Olson promoted Associate Justice Phil S. Gibson to the chief justiceship and will make a new appointment to fill Gibson’s position. Max Radin, professor of law at the University of California, has been most prominently mentioned

for the SU,OOO-a-year position, but he also has been the subject of extensive criticism on grounds he leans too far to the left politically. Others listed by sources close to the governor’s office as in the running are Mitchell Bourquin, San Francisco attorney, and former member of the board of governors of the state bar association; Superior Judge Maurice Dooling Jr., of San Benito county, and State Insurance Commissioner Anthony Caminetti Jr., a former superior judge of Amador county. Judge Dooling’s support was described as coming largely outside administration circles, while the other candidates were actively associated with the Olson’s 1938 election campaign. Bourquin was the governor’s northern California campaign manager. Appointments probably will be made to fill a number of other major vacancies before the governor leaves for Chicago in July to attend the democratic national convention. The positions include director of motor vehicles, now held on acting basis by Joe Mattson, assistant chief clerk of the department; three vacancies on the state board of education and one vacancy each on the University of California board or regents, the state board of cosmetology and the board of medical examiners. The motor vehicles directorship pays $6OOO a year, while the other positions are non-salaried.