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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1973
Page
7
California Assembly approved legislation to drop the mandatory physical education requirement for community college students under 21. The bill by Kenneth Cory passed 42 to 23 with one vote margin, though Jerry Lewis asked for reconsideration.
Sacramento Assemblyman John Vascancellos of San Jose introduced a measure Thursday calling for a state investigation into the Roseville munition train explosions at the Southern yard. The resolution asks the Office of Emergency Services to probe the April 28 blasts and determine causes and implications.
Senate President James Mills urged California lawmakers to back a Senate version of the Federal Highways Act of 1973 with no funding limits for bikeways. He said the House bill caps bike thoroughfare funding while the Senate bill would let states develop bicycle facilities as needed, noting California has the nation's largest bicycle population.
Sacramento lawmakers approved a bill banning electric shocks or any painful experiments on animals by public school students. The measure, SB112, would apply to five vertebrate animals and was supported by the Humane Society amid past defeats, arguing such experiments are harmful and cultivate callousness toward life.
SACRAMENTO AP An effort to create a state ombudsman office to help citizens cut through government red tape progressed with Senate Governmental Organization Committee approval on a 7-4 vote. Sponsored by pro tem James Mills D San Diego the measure moves to the Senate Finance Committee after earlier attempts in the 1960s failed. Assembly Speaker Jess Unruh was mentioned in the discussion.
SACRAMENTO California AP Gay Ronald Reagan's new welfare director David B Swoop 36 year old bachelor aims to eliminate cheating and locate fathers who fail to support their children He replaces Robert Carleson who implemented reforms saving taxpayers 1 billion Swoop says caseloads have stabilized at about two million and the welfare budget 2 7 billion should drop to 2 6 billion in the coming fiscal year
In a Sacramento Senate committee hearing Republican Robert Stevens grilled Alan Nelson of the Health and Welfare Agency after a memo directed that not all correspondence to a legislator be answered if signed by a deputy or above. Nelson said the policy applied to replies to inquiries, not constituent letters. The bill to merge the Department of Rehabilitation with HRD, SB 801 by Sen. Lagomarsing, was postponed for at least two weeks.
The State Water Resources Control Board rejected five challenges to the New Melones Dam water rights order while granting a permit petition to protect salmon fisheries. In an April 4 hearing, the board ruled the federal government may take enough California water to half fill the dam but cannot secure more water for industry, agriculture, or cities. The board announced that only the fish petition remained approved.
Assemblyman Jack Fenton of Montebello introduced a bill to place methaqualone, known as Quaalude, under California’s Uniform Controlled Substances Act. He cited 146 overdoses in the Los Angeles area last year and noted street use amid concerns over its sexual enhancement claims and sedative effects.
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