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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1963
Page
2
A Long Beach reader thanks the press for coverage of women’s civic activity. She lauds League of Women Voters efforts to discuss ballot measures and candidates, praises equality advocates, and extols traditional gender roles in a spirited, era-typical public letter.
The Senate Finance Committee unanimously backed a welfare package to boost benefits for the needy and cut county taxes by about 20 million dollars. Governor Brown supported the proposal, which would cost the state 28.2 million in new services, and extends Aid to Needy Children to cover families with unemployed breadwinners while increasing aid to the disabled and blind.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference education funding and a department of veterans affairs. Mentions of costs, possible legal actions, tracers, and enforcement terms appear with many garbled words and missing context, limiting clear reporting of facts or entities.
The Atomic Energy Commission plans three sub kiloton detonations at the Nevada test site this month for Defense Department research. One nuclear device and four chemical high explosives with a short lived radioactive tracer will be detonated as ground bursts, another will be shallow underground. Most radioactive traces are expected to fall back inside the test site. The surface detonations aim to compare effects of nuclear and chemical high explosives. A responsibility notice appears with garbled text but names William Howard and others, disclaiming liability for misused content.
Sacramento reports the Assembly Committee on Governmental Efficiency and Economy approved a bill to designate Eureka as California's official state motto. Author James R. Mills noted Eureka is de facto since the state’s early days, while sources and encyclopedias already treat it as such.
In Sacramento the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee backed an insurance tax acceleration bill. The measure would require quarterly tax payments by insurers, boosting next year's revenue by about 5.3 million dollars and the current fiscal year by 22 million, with debates over home office deductions and Brown’s no tax pledge. Assemblyman Nicholas Petris introduced the bill, while attorney John McFarland argued higher costs for the industry.
Sacramento lawmakers move Gov Brown’s death penalty moratorium measure to the Governmental Efficiency Committee for a full hearing after initial subcommittee review. Assembly earlier passed the bill by 41-37. Separately an advisory plebiscite on capital punishment was killed by the Elections and Reapportionment panel.
President Kennedy approved a series of high naval command shifts. Rear Adm. John T. Hayward, head of Carrier Division Torp, was named temporary vice admiral while commanding the Anti-Submarine Force, Pacific. He will replace Vice Adm. John S. Thach, who becomes deputy chief of naval operations for air, succeeding Vice Adm. William A. Scoech. Scoech will replace Vice Adm. George S. Beardsley as chief of naval material, with Beardsley set to retire soon.
Azusa based Atrojet General Corp announced a rocket engine capable of moving a manned vehicle from a moon orbit to a safe lunar return. Scientists cited a successful test last Sunday of a prototype descent engine meeting thrust, stability, and performance requirements.
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