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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1964
Page
2
The LA C comments on a calmer New Year with prosperity and hopes for peaceful resolution of war threats. It weighs potential economic shifts post election, defense spending impacts on Southern California, and debates over foreign aid tax cuts and civil rights funding.
Governor Brown names Clive Graham a Long Beach realtor and Louis Garcia a San Francisco attorney to the enlarged Fair Employment Practices Commission to administer the antidiscrimination housing law. Graham, 57, led the California Real Estate Association and supports a repeal measure on next year’s ballot. Both appointees are Democrats.
The FEPC, once limited to job discrimination complaints, was made administrator of the housing law by the 1563 legislature and enlarged by two new seats.
Hillsboro Messenger reports Senate candidate Barry Goldwater will visit New Hampshire next week. Publisher Richard Howard says Goldwater will be there Tuesday through Thursday and announce his presidential bid. Backers expect a Republican nomination run as March 10 primary nears.
An adjudication by Be Beery Couche Anceleg of Long Beach F. Calt. County, in a 4 SHE Deere case, references a 22 category event and related arts and racing terms within the local governance notices.
Barry Goldwater plans a three week winter tour in New Hampshire in late January through February. The campaign aims to energize supporters and recruit volunteers as Goldwater seeks votes in the regional race.
California begins 1963 with about 39 new laws affecting residents. Tax collections accelerate by 149 million annually, unemployment benefits rise for 25,000, auto safety belts become mandatory, and teachers' retirement benefits increase. Welfare programs expand, state workers gain raises, and a new cost-of-living tie for lawmakers adjusts retirement.
Leaders from Johnson to Ikeda to Erhard urged steps toward peace in 1964. The United States president praised the land’s opportunity and providence as other nations called for unity, security, and disarmament, with varied cautions about nuclear arms and Western Europe’s cooperation.
Sacramento Californias 1963 highway death toll stood at a record 4301 as the New Years holiday opened The total 180 more than the previous year 4121 prompted warnings from Gov Brown and Highway Patrol commissioner Bradford Crittenden The patrol estimates 18 to 23 more fatalities in New Years crashes Thirty two deaths occurred on Christmas Eve and Day versus the patrols 20 to 25 estimate
Ruth Wenzel, 37, a maid once in George Montgomerys home, was freed on two years probation after pleading to lesser charges. She must not contact Montgomery and is ordered into psychiatric treatment. Montgomery was married to Dinah Shore when the incident occurred last August 27 in his apartment.
Sacramento CF The State Water Project signing period ends New Year’s Eve with 31 local districts agreeing to buy 3 468 000 acre feet annually stored behind Oroville and other facilities. The contracts cover temporary and permanent long terms totaling 3 75 billion dollars to repay the cost, with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California first to sign and take 15 million acre feet. The Kern County Water Agency and Empire West Side Irrigation District are other early signers, reflecting broad regional commitment to water through the next 30 years.
Mrs Frank Decesere of South Portland welcomed a seven pound two ounce daughter at Mercy Hospital on New Year’s Day marking her third child and first daughter after a late 1963 birth on the last day of the year.
San Francisco report: two junior college students, Davie Guidici and Kelly MacDonald, plan to launch the earth's first privately funded satellite next summer from Kure Island near Midway. They raised over 25000 in equipment and seek about 40000 more, aided by UC, NASA Ames, and private firms. Mayor James Doherty and Claude Samples oversee a fund at Golden Gate National Bank. The 4 pound satellite will carry a cosmic ray detector and a radio transmitter, and is to orbit polar for thousands of years.
In a Cyprus crisis update from Nicosia, Soviet Union envoy Pavel Timoshenko condemned foreign intervention and voiced support for the Greek Cypriots. He urged the UN to back Cyprus independence and integrity amid Turkish Greek tensions and a British ceasefire.
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