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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jun 22, 1968

Page

4

Licensing rules for counseling fields clarified

A reader asks about state licensure for alcoholism counseling and for marriage family and child counseling. The state says a license is required for marriage family and child counseling but not for alcoholism counseling. To be a family counselor one needs a master's in behavioral sciences plus two years of practice, then apply to the Office of Professional and Vocational Standards in Los Angeles.

State Office of Professional and Vocational Standards S. Broadway Los Angeles PVS

How the Great Guest Came poem discovery

The query concerns a Christ visit poem where a busy righteous woman ignores a beggar and a lost child as she prepares for the Savior. Edwin Markham's How the Great Guest Came is identified as the piece, found in The Best Loved Poems of the American People at a library.

F.G Norwalk Long Beach Pacific Avenue Ocean Boulevard Edwin Markham

Tax Hike Ends Bitter Tug-of-War Between Johnson and Congress

Congress approved a 10 percent income tax increase retroactive to April 1 1968 as part of a package including 6 billion in spending cuts. The measure, mandated to curb the deficit, will affect most workers and is tied to a spending ceiling that requires further cuts if Congress fails to meet targets. The bill passed 268-150 in the House and 64-16 in the Senate, with Johnson yielding on the spending limits after a long battle with Rep. Wilbur Mills.

Washington UPI Johnson Congress Senate House State of the Union U.S Wilbur Mills D-Ark Ways and Means Committee

Warren and Warren Era Impact on Civil Rights and Courts

Equality Warren's Legacy describes how a Warren led court shaped civil rights through one man one vote rulings and reforms in state legislatures. It notes liberal momentum after Eisenhower and Truman appointees and discusses potential elevation of Justice Abe Fortas to Chief Justice and its possible continuation of Warren era philosophy.

Eisenhower Truman

Regents choose Higgs as UC board chairman for 1968 69

DeWitt A. Higgs aged 61 of Chula Vista elected chairman of the University of California Board for the year starting July 1. Elinor R. Heller named vice chair. Dr. William James McGill named chancellor of the San Diego campus succeeding Jon Galbraith who takes a Cambridge fellowship. McGill, 46, has degrees from Fordham and a Ph.D. from Harvard.

San Francisco UPI University of California DeWitt A. Higgs Chula Vista William James McGill San Diego McGill Jon Galbraith University Cambridge University Galbraith New York Fordham University Harvard

Taxpayer Surcharge Cost Outline

Tables show the amount of additional income tax a person pays under the 10 percent surcharge approved by Congress. They assume use of the standard deduction or minimum standard deduction for personal expenses. The surcharge retroactively takes effect April 1 1968 and expires June 30 1969. Figures are rounded to the nearest dollar. The first column lists annual taxable income, the second column 1967 federal income tax, the third column the 1968 increase under the surcharge, and the fourth the 1969 increase.

Washington Congress

Chicago gang paid with grant money for guns and bonds

Senate investigators were told that the Blackstone Rangers used more than 927000 from an Office of Economic Opportunity grant for education and job training to buy firearms and post bond for jailed leaders. George Rose described meetings with RAM figures and black militants who offered arms and money for an armed uprising across the country.

Washington Blackstone Rangers Chicago George Rose Philadelphia Revolutionary Action Movement RAM Rose Senate Permanent Office of Economic Opportunity Rangers OEO Stokely Carmichael H. Rap Brown Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Ron Karenga Marijua John L. McClellan D-Ark Martin Luther King Jr Jesse Jackson King Southern Christian Leadership Conference NAACP

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