Containers:

Folder F3724:213-252

Scope and content:

Arranged alphabetically by subject and chronologically thereunder.

The Commission for the Californias was created in 1964 to foster and develop relations between California and Baja California. The California delegation has 17 members - seven official voting members appointed by the Governor, five Assemblymen appointed by the Speaker and five Senators appointed by the Senate Rules Committee. In addition the Governor or the chairman of the Commission may appoint special representatives on the basis of their interest in or record of participation in good neighbor relations. Governor Reagan appointed Finch chairman of the California delegation in 1967.

Letters received, copies of letters sent, minutes and agendas of Commission meetings, reports of constituent committees, personnel records. Records contain correspondence and background material in the Pink Bollworm eradication program (1967), the embargo levied by the U.S. Customs on garments assembled below the border from U.S. manufactured textiles (1968), building of a Friendship highway along the border (1968). Includes personnel records of Commission staff and biographical material on California and Mexican Commission members.

Physical description:

40 ff.

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