California Senate panel defeats water fluoridation bill
The Senate Finance Committee failed SB211 by a 5 to 7 vote defeating a mandate that would require all California communities to fluoridate water. Proponent Beilenson cited dental savings and health benefits while opponents warned of consent, ethics, and health risks amid public resistance.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate Finance Committee
California
Anthony C. Beilenson
Los Angeles
Ernest Newbrun
University of California Dental School
San Francisco
McCarthy and Brown Clash Over Malpractice Bill
Sacramento lawmakers face a widening split as Assembly Speaker Leo McCarthy and Governor Brown differ on a plan to curb malpractice insurance costs. A McCarthy aide cited unresolved points and lack of full party support, while Brown pushes a state funded fund with physician donations and tax implications. Gray Davis signaled the governor may pursue a basic working document to guide talks.
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Sacramento
UPI
Assembly
Leo T. McCarthy
Edmund G. Brown Jr
McCarthy
Brown
Assembly Democratic
California
Gray Davis
Davis
Growers fear losses if ALRB funding fails in California
Agriculture Secretary Rose Bird warned that farmers will bear the consequences if the Agricultural Labor Relations Board shuts down due to a blocked $3.8 million emergency budget. She cited strikes, boycotts, and a return to a harsher system, urging lawmakers to fund the agency or face widespread agricultural disruption.
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Sacramento
UPI
New Farm Board
California
Brown
Agriculture and Services
Rose Bird
Agricultural Labor Relations Board
Edmund G. Brown Jr
New Agriculture Labor Relations
California transportation boards merge approved by Finance Committee
SB441 by Sen. Alfred E. Alquist would create a nine member Transportation Commission by uniting the Highway Commission, Transportation Board, Aeronautics Board and Toll Bridge Authority. Opponents say consolidation shifts highway control to an anti highway administration while supporters say current planning and funding duties are split.
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Alfred E. Alquist
San Jose
Finance Committee
Alquist
The
Transportation Board
Highway Commission
Committee votes to remove Nixon name from freeway
Senate Finance Committee approved SCR67 to rename a 3 percent mile Southern California freeway Marina Del Rey Freeway, removing Richard Nixon’s name with no debate. The panel also backed SCR67 to honor Roscoe E. Hazard with a San Diego bridge name.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate
Richard Nixon
California
Nate Holden
D-Culver City
Marina
Jack Schrade
San Diego
Roscoe E. Hazard
Ailing highway program seeks transfusion via new fees
Assemblyman William Craven proposes a 109 million transfusion for the ailing highway program through higher motorist fees. The plan raises driver license from 3.25 to 8, vehicle transfer from 3 to 8, registration from 11 to 14 next year, then to 20 by 1983, and hikes commercial truck weight fees to bolster funds without a gasoline tax increase.
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Sacramento
APS
Assembly
William Craven
State Department of Transportation
Craven
Viking 1 halfway to Mars targets July 4 life search
Viking 1 reaches halfway to Mars after 152 days in space with 152 to go. NASA scientists report excellent conditions and a 50 50 chance for a July 4 lander touchdown to search Martian soil for life while Viking 2 trails and aims for August Mars orbit and September lander.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Mars
Red Planet
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cape Canaveral
Viking 1
Martian
Earth
Viking 2
Inmate grievance groups proposed for state pens
Brown administration officials proposed letting inmates organize to meet and confer with corrections officials on grievances in an exploratory plan. The California Correctional Officers Association warned the move amounts to inmate unionization and threatened a strike. Inmates would discuss classification program assignment transfer and discipline with officials.
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Sacramento
UPI
Brown
Department of Corrections
The
California Correctional Officers Association
C and H Fined for Sugar Price Fixing in 1970s Case
California & Hawaiian Sugar Co. accepted the maximum 100000 fine on two counts after pleading no contest to price fixing in the Midwest and California Arizona markets. Five peers faced similar penalties earlier, with civil antitrust suits still pending alongside criminal actions and shareholder claims.
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San Francisco
UPI
California & Hawaiian Sugar Co
Midwest
California-Arizona
Bailey Lang
C&h
U.S. District Court
Robert Schnacke
Nolo
Amalgamated Sugar
Ogden
Utah
American Crystal
Great Western
Denver
Consolidated Foods Corp
Chicago
Holly Sugar
Colorado Springs
Robert Staal
Antitrust
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Oakland
Beilenson
William J. Keese
Mission Hills
Vandenberg Village
Santa Fe
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Santa Barbara
Fire Department
By Barnes
Westside Furniture
W. Leorel
MacFarlane
Skate Center
Vulcan
Lompoc
Simmons, Sealy, Serta
King’s
Simmons Hotel Unit
Simmons
DuPont
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