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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1949
Page
2
The 1949 California Legislature, ending at 4 pm, rejected numerous bills while approving some key measures. It backed hospitalization benefits for workers and continued crime commissions, but vetoed or failed on health insurance, state race prejudice study, and unemployment extensions for farm workers.
An inactive duty general medical officer from Long Beach, identified as Balboa Island native, reported to the naval shipyard after fourteen days of Naval Reserve training. The officer has been assigned to the production department for duties at the yard.
Adjournment set for 4 p m but lingering work pushed late into the day. The 1949 session, the state's longest with 145 calendar days, saw major actions including abolishing the franchise tax commissioner’s office and replacing it with a $12,000 yearly executive officer. Other items: increasing Northern California horse racing days, funding Riverside UC campus construction, and proposing $250 million in school bonds to voters with a potential special election. Governor War ren faces whether to sign. Assemblyman Stillman opposed hospitalization-payment linkage to the disability fund. Additional measures establish a Bay Area rapid transit district and grant more Superior Court judges.
The State Senate approved and sent to the Governor a bill for 2 125 000 dollars to construct a four year state college in this area. Assemblyman William S Grant Long Beach reported the passage in a telephone chat with D W Campbell Chamber of Commerce general manager. The exact location awaits the State Public Works Board though the Bixby site near Long Beach Naval Hospital is favored after a thorough study.
The 1949 U S deficit exceeded expectations as Treasury and President Truman grappled with the red figure. Tax revenue rose to 38.245 billion, but costs reached 40.057 billion, prompting calls to curb 1950 spending and balance the budget amid partisan blame for fiscal policy.
DETROIT July 2 UP USA We Co LO Local 600 representing 60,000 workers at the Rouge plant Ford Motor Co voted to strike subject to call by the international. The local tabulation showed 2902 favoring strike action 172 opposed with nearly 57 abstaining. The big local is the third Ford unit to authorize U A W leadership to call a strike as the union extended its current contract day by day amid disputes over a 100 a month pension and wage increase. Chrysler and the union agreed to open negotiations Wednesday with a two year consent. Chrysler refuses to bargain on pensions and health welfare insurance as not negotiable.
Dimitrov chief Balkan Bolshevik dies near Moscow after long illness diabetes. He chaired Bulgaria’s government and led the Bulgarian Communist Party. He traveled to Russia for treatment on home leave, leaving an inner cabinet to govern during his absence.
Investigation showed McElwee family facing poverty with two young children in Juvenile Hall and another in El Monte. Gannon noted the couple received small wages and relief from Salvation Army before public aid. three dogs were boarded at a kennel at a cost of 125 dollars, 60 paid.
Anchorage July 2 Elmer Harris 32 Alaska salmon industry worker recounted from a hospital bed how a Pan Amliner encountered a sudden downdraft over Bruin Bay on a Naknek to Anchorage flight. Nine passengers were injured stewardess Jeanette Ward sprained back Harris four broken ribs seven others cut and bruised two passengers unconscious as the plane dropped rapidly.
A massive migratory locust swarm roared across northern Nevada toward southern Oregon and northern California. Nevada officials said hundreds of square miles are affected as the insects move 2 to 6 miles daily, eating grasses and brush common to cattle and sheep ranges. Local authorities traced the swarm from Nye County, near the Oregon border, with Denio as a focal point, and warned the plague could threaten rangeland and livestock across Washoe and Humboldt counties.
A July 2 incident in San Francisco saw Elizabeth Cohen, 49, drive through a defective stop signal and into a tavern barroom, colliding with a vehicle driven by William Orlandi. Cohen escaped with a sprained wrist. Orlandi and bar owner James O'Connor were injured with fractures and shock. Patrons Kathleen Moynihan and brother Thomas Moynihan suffered leg fractures.
Mike Vujovich, who left Serbia and avoided Austrian service in 1905, rose from coal mine work to ranching in Ventura County and became a trustee of the Oxnard Union High School District after winning a May 20 election over five opponents and being sworn in yesterday.
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