Senate study panel formed on realignment of California Senate
Governor Brown signed a bill to create a four member study commission plus five public members to examine representation in the 40 member Senate. Senate President Pro Tem Hugh Burns supports broader urban and Southern California influence, with findings due to inform action by the 1962 legislature. The measure allows a potential 1962 initiative if lawmakers reject changes.
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Sacramento
Brown
Senate
California
Hugh Burns
Fresno
Reds Gain in Italy Election Results
In Italy Sunday local elections across 233 communes show the Communist Party increasing share to 24.5 percent, while Christian Democrats hold about 40.3 percent nationwide and turnout nears 700,000 electors. The Reds gain is reported as limited to small communities, with 1960 voting figures higher than 1958 in several areas.
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Rome
Christian Demotes
Cemcrats
Unnists
Italy
Ttaly
Reds
Gardena Bill to outlaw draw poker palaces dies in Assembly
SACRAMENTO AP Legislation to outlaw California draw poker palaces was killed 7 2 by the Assembly Government Organization Committee amid charges it was political reprisal against narcotics law author Clayton Dills. Assemblyman John A O Connell denied the claim as he noted large establishments exist in Gardena Sacramento Seal Beach Emeryville and Hayward and said the measure targeted professional gamblers. Dills reacted with a sharp remark about being whipped while O Connell argued the bill would curb organized crime around gambling and narcotics.
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Sacramento
California
Assembly Government Organization Committee
Howard A. Jewel
Jewel
O'Connell
Gardena
Sacramento County
Seal Beach
Orange County
Emeryville
Hayward
Alameda County
al Leonard
Leonard
William T. Bagley
San Rafael
Dills
Retirement study for Admiral Burke as Chief of Naval Operations
The Navy reviews Adm. Arleigh A. Burke requesting retirement when his term as Chief of Naval Operations ends August 1. At 59, he could have stayed on two more years in a lesser command, with potential extensions beyond age 62 by request. Secretary Connally met with three top admirals from overseas posts to assess successors, including Adm. John Sides, Adm. Harold Smith, and Vice Adm. George Anderson.
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Washington
Adm
Arleigh A. Burke
Burke
Naval Operations
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Secretary of the Navy
John B. Connally
Connally
John UV Sides
Pacific
Harold P. Smith
U.S. Naval
Europe
George W. Anderson
6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
Storms sweep Great Plains with hail and tornadoes
Storms buffeted the Great Plains from Kansas to the Canadian border with heavy rain and hail while tornadoes swept Nebraska. Funnel clouds were seen near Val entine Ord and Sargent Nebraska. Burwell communications were knocked out as Nebraska Highway Patrol reported uprooted trees and downed power lines but no casualties.
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Great Plains
Kansas
Canadian
Nebraska
Valentine
Ord
Sargent
Neb
Burwell
Nebraska Highway Patrol
Fuehrer Rockwell Released After Picketing Exodus
George Lincoln Rockwell and nine followers were released on bond after arrest for disturbing the peace during a protest outside a downtown New Orleans theater showing Exodus. Rockwell and his group arrived in a hate bus to publicize their anti Communist and anti integration stance.
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New Orleans
George Lincoln Rockwell
Fuehrer
American Nazi Party
Orleans Parish
Rockwell
Four Day Death Toll Tops Memorial Holiday Record
Four day Memorial Day weekend traffic toll rose past 436 deaths with NSC warning it could exceed all warm weather holiday totals except the 1950 July Fourth toll of 491. Officials cited 86 boating deaths and 58 drownings among the broader toll of 649 nationwide.
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Howard Pyle
National Safety Council
Pyle
NSC
California
Driver Taxes Rise in California During Early 1961
California highway users paid 17 1 5 775 for gasoline fuel and transportation taxes in the first three months of the year. The total shows a 3.5 percent increase from the same period in 1960.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Drug methotrexate raises hope for cancer cure
Government tests of methotrexate show it cured or arrested nearly half of a rare uterine cancer in pregnant women, with some patients cancer free for over five years. Sixty-three treated at Bethesda’s National Cancer Institute include 30 arrests or eliminations, 25 deaths, and several prolonged lives though overall results vary by cancer type. The drug, licensed for about 20 anti cancer medicines, is noted for preventing recurrence beyond five years in some cases.
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Terry
Epa
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda
Griffith Park riot jolts Hollywood crowd police quell
HOLLYWOOD UPI A holiday march in Griffith Park turned violent as a crowd overturned a police car and tear gas forced thousands to scatter. About 500 people were involved with 15 patrol cars and several officers injured while dispersing the disturbance. An employee cited chaotic scenes with revelers drinking and ignoring park rules as the cause.
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Hollywood
UPI
Griffith Park
Hallywood
Wilshire
Clohany
Merry Goround
Richard Kal
Allin
Plead 5th on Dixie Bus Terror in Alabama
In Montgomery two witnesses refused to testify in federal court about the May 4 bus burning. Cecil L. Lewallyn of Anniston pleaded the Fifth Amendment and was jailed briefly before release on bond, while Kenneth B. Adams also invoked the Fifth. Lewallyn later admitted Stoner advised silence. Ku Klux Klan leader Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa faced warnings for evasive answers about KKK membership. Continued on Page A-A.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Sane
Cecil L. Lewallyn
Anniston
U.S. Marshal's Office
Hell
U.S. Dist
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Lewallyn
Kenneth
JB. Adams
J.B. Stoner
Atlanta
Stoner i
Johnson
Robert M. Shelton
Tuscaloosa
KKK
Shelton
Memorial Day Regatta Marred by Fatal Speedboat Crash
A speedboat driver sustained critical injuries in a seaside accident before about 1,000 spectators at Memorial Day Regatta in Long Beach. The incident occurred as crowds watched ceremonies and the page notes stress horrors of war observed in Memorial Day observances.
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Memorial Lyay Regatta
Long Beach Memorial Day
Page Bei
Kennedy heads to Europe for Khrushchev talks in Paris
President Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy leave New York for a European tour aiming to ease tensions with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. The trip includes ceremonial welcomes in Paris and meetings in Vienna and London as Kennedy pursues personal diplomacy despite doubts about summit value.
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Merriman Smith
BPI
White House
Kennedy
UPI
Atlantic
Nikita Khrushchev
Jacqueline
New York
Air Force
Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Kennedys
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
France
Vienna
Austria
London
Harold Macmillan
Europe
Mr. Khrushchev
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Commission
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Williams
Sachson
Tremier Kheushehow
JFK
Associated Press
U.S
House
Dixie Bus
UO Ae
Walter T. Ridder
Idlewild Airport
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