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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1959

Page

3

Racing Tax Bill Gets OK in California Assembly

Governor Brown's proposal to raise state taxes on horse race betting clears the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee. The 2 percent increase would cut tracks' share of pari mutuel pools by over 500 million dollars and boost state breakage revenue. The measure aims to raise about 12.4 million annually, mostly from bettors. inheritance tax moves to floor. Brown's tax program remains largely intact as other bills advance.

Sacramentout Brown Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee Ways and Means Committee Assembly Thomas J. McBride Sacramento Senate

Sacramento State Bills Run By Governor and Assembly

The governor highlights FEPC to bar employment discrimination and establishes the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Assembly actions include public works, labor injunction changes, and state industrial relations reforms. Bills on insurance crime, school suspensions, funds reallocation, planning, and a constitutional tax amendment are noted, with senate actions and elections provisions summarized.

Miller B-San Fernando MacBride Sacramento Francis R-San Mata McMillian Los Angeles Coolidge Felton State Finance Rees Burton San Francisco U.S Aleen Lor Gales

Braden Named Inheritance Tax Appraiser for L B Court

William Wallace Braden a guardian ship appraiser for the Los Angeles Superior Court probate department will be appointed today as a state inheritance tax appraiser assigned to the Long Beach branch. He is 59 a Republican living in Hermosa Beach and formerly worked as a realtor and county charity official. Mervin J Glass a Los Angeles attorney will also be named as an inheritance tax appraiser serving the Burbank Glendale and San Fernando branches. Glass is a Democrat. The appointments raise Los Angeles County appraisers to 24 in the state program, with appraisers hired and fired by the state controller and paid on a fee basis from estates handled.

Sacramento William Wallace Braden Los Angeles Superior Court Long Beach Braden Alan Cranston Hermosa Beach Los Angeles County Los Angeles

Brown Signs State's First FEPC Measure Into Law

Sacramento report on Gov Brown signing California's first Fair Employment Practices Commission act. The measure creates a five member panel to prevent or prosecute job discrimination and defines intrastate union selection rules amid labor reforms. Assembly split 44 34 with Republicans voting for some, Democrats opposing others.

Brown Sacramento Fornia Gov. Brown FEPC

Open House at Carmelitas Housing Project

The Carmelitas Housing Project at 1000 Via Wanda will host an open house Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. inviting the public to view streets, grounds, vacant apartments, a nursery school run by Long Beach Unified School District, a County Health Center, and other facilities. The Carmelitos teenage club activities directed by Parks and Recreation will also be available in the project auditorium. In Lima, Peru, the Prado government suspended constitutional civil rights for 30 days over labor troubles citing foreign subversive elements involvement.

Carmelitas Wanda Long Beach Lima Peru UPI Manuel Prado

Russians Told What Ito Do in Bombing

In Moscow the Soviet Patriot issued guidance from a voluntary army and navy aid society on how to respond to a thermonuclear bomb strike. It advises lying face down with the head away from the blast and describes visible actions for safety and survival.

Moscow Soviet Patriot Army’ and Navy Aid Society

Noted French Journalist Eugenemaliats Dies at 96

Paris reports the death of Msgr Eugenemaliats at Loutil at age 96. A longtime editorial writer for La Croix and ce Se se ete, he served seventy years in French Catholic journalism, shaping public discourse as a prominent figure in the field.

France Paris Msgr Eugenemaliats Loutil Pierre L'Ermite la Croix

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