Students see peril of smoking in the new program
A Houston psychologist reports significant results from an anti smoking campaign for seventh graders in the Houston Independent School District. The program stresses immediate health hazards and media manipulation to resist peer pressure and aims to reduce initiation, with 720 students tested and follow up planned in a 10,000 student, three year study funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute.
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California lawmakers push per diem tax exemption bill
Assemblyman Willie Brown leads an amendment to exempt daily per diem payments from state income tax. The move follows IRS and Franchise Tax Board actions taxing per diem while fearing back taxes for up to four years. McCarthy warns public scrutiny and cites loss of salaries as reason for reform.
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California Senate panel backs 120 lawmaker pay raise plan
California legislators would receive a $2,323 yearly increase, effective December 4, 1978, under a bill approved 9-0 by the Senate Finance Committee. The Assembly-passed measure from Louis Papan would reach a 10 percent two-year rise, lifting pay from $23,232 to $25,585 annually.
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Opposition to busing seen as symbolic racism, studies say
San Francisco AP reports two new studies find opposition to forced busing stems from symbolic racism rather than parents’ personal stakes. Duke University psychologist James B. McConahay and UCLA’s David O. Sears say whites oppose busing to avoid perceived black demands and influence, not because of affected children.
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State budget 41 times bigger than in 1946
California's 1977 budget dwarfs the 1918 figure, rising from 316 million to 44.3 billion as welfare and school spending grow and new programs Medi Cal and property tax relief appear. Legislative Analyst A Alm Post, retiring after three decades, notes fiscal responsibility but criticizes excess bills, inequities in school funding, crime costs, farmland preservation, and tax levels.
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