California Legislature Closes Session With Notable Accomplishments
The 1961 California Legislature ends a session praised for balanced budgeting and social welfare gains. Gov Brown hails tax cuts and fiscal restraint while approving a 100 million bond for low rent housing. Reapportionment redraws districts, with concerns about party advantage but not outright gerrymandering. A major shift in teacher certification and reforms to narcotics penalties and welfare laws mark the session’s footprint.
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Gov. Brown
California
Mansell Proposes Tight Budget for Long Beach
City Manager John Mansell unveils a 91.29 million dollar budget with a 76 thousand dollar rise, the smallest since 1942, and no tax rate increase. Twenty departments may see cuts. sixteen budgets drop from last year as funds target urban renewal, petroleum division, and property management services to yield future savings. This is Mansell’s first budget in Long Beach.
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John Mansell
Mansell
Long Beach
Dillon Tax Ruling Favors Government Propaganda
RAY TUCKER reports that Treasury Secretary Dillon’s tax rulings favor government propaganda and Democratic party activities over private business deductions. The piece criticizes exemptions for institutional advertising and notes ongoing debates on budget and policy, referencing TVA propaganda efforts and the Kennedy era.
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Dillon
Washington
Treasury
Douglas Dillon
Tucker
Wall Street
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dillon-Kennedy Association
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Kennedy health and grit through a lifetime of illness
Drew Pearson outlines President Kennedy's long illness history from adolescence through adulthood. He details appendicitis, jaundice, back injuries, malaria, and two spinal surgeries, noting Kennedy's resilience, naval service, and cortisone use for adrenal deficiency as pivotal in his career. The piece includes anecdotes with Wartime PT boat action and political banter with Italian Premier Fanfani.
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Washington
Kennedy
Pearson
Geraldini
Gardini
Venice
Fanfani
Atlantic
Victor Anfuso
Brooklyn
Senator Kennedy
Chiscago
Town Meeting E BITOR Says Outlaw Communism Now
A speaker urges outlawing the Communist Party and closing embassies, with a plan for a global embargo on communist states, UN Charter rewrite to exclude communists, invocation of the Monroe Doctrine, and strong leadership to educate the public and oppose communism. Aims include denying rights to the party and diplomats and ensuring no peace at any price. Mrs. 1.5. Bingham, 2120 Euclid Ave.
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Bitor
Communist Party In America
Supreme Court
Communist Party
America
United Nations
Bingham
Euclid Ave
Independent publisher notes and readers' letters on Jackie Kennedy
A reader letter discusses interest in Jackie Kennedy and JFK over crime-heavy news, praising her as powerful and appealing. The piece cites the writer Mrs L MacArthur of Wilmington California and references various Ridder family editors and offices.
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Hernan M. Ridder
Harald M. Hines
Anstro
Samuel
Gameran
Larry Collins Jr
Loa
Penohacot
Minneapolis
Faxhay
Los Angels
W. Ath St
San Francisco
Sudter
Washington
Viayer
Anbee
Silas of the Independent
Jackie
JFK
Caroline
L. MacArthur
Bay View
Wilmington
Calif
Gambling morality and the true sins of spirit
A columnist argues that gambling is ethically neutral for most, comparable to drinking and smoking in moral weight only by temperament. He contrasts reformers focusing on vice with biblical prophets denouncing hardness of heart, pride, and injustice, calling religion a radical critique of secular society.
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St. Thomas
Jose
Harris
Jesus
K and K initials hailed in Vienna talks history lesson
By Charles Fy Belt and Robert Strump an Darria describes how K and K signified Kaiserlich und Koniglich imperial and royal for Habsburg rulers. The piece explains use on military gear and Hofburg discussions with Kennedy and Khrushchev and notes a Latin motto Justitia repornum fundamentum as governance foundation.
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Charles Fy Belt
Robert Strump
Darria
Itors
Kennedy
Khrushchev
Austria
Hungary
Bohemia
Hofburg
Justitia Repnorim Fundamentum
Justica
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