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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1971
Page
2
Democrats accuse Governor Reagan of exploiting the tax system to avoid income tax while Republicans urge tax reform. Senators Moscone Mills Moretti and Brown weigh in with varied critiques and defenses as lawmakers debate reform and minimum taxation.
Governor Reagan denounces the Democrats for inaction and calls a summit with Assembly Speaker Moretti and Senate leader Mills to resolve welfare reform and the budget. Moretti yields that the legislature is a branch of government and agrees to meet. Mills says delays come from counties, not the Democrats, amid tax reform talks and other major bills. A separate vote endorsed Southern Crossing Bridge funding with residents in six Bay Area counties to decide.
The Assembly approved AB 950 on a 50 to 8 vote moving to the Senate. Democratic Assemblywoman March Fong of Oakland argues venereal disease education belongs in health education, not sex instruction, while coauthor Assemblyman B Richard Bartmes cites an epidemic among youth as justification. Opponents insist parental approval remains necessary.
Federal Judge Stan ley Weigel refused to stay his order that San Francisco 102 elementary schools be integrated by September. He gave the school board until June 10 to submit a desegregation plan for pupils and staff and denied motions to stay or appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Los Angeles physician Dr Samuel Younger challenges a freeway land condemnation near Los Angeles seeking payment in gold or silver coins valued at 266000, arguing the state offered only 1000 under constitutional constraint. He contends the case could prompt a constitutional amendment.
A minor accident triggered a large scale power outage affecting more than 70 Southern California Edison customers for about four hours. Authorities traced the cause to a trunk hitting a utility pole at 210th Street and Roseton Avenue, with the affected area bounded by Bloomfield Avenue Centralia Head Wardlow Road and Hovey Drive.
California Assembly approves a bill to outlaw manufacture or sale of war toys, voting 41 to 22. The measure by Assemblyman John Burton would impose up to a 500 dollar fine on violators for toys resembling destructive devices, with wirecrackers exempt, marking the first floor passage this five year push.
Dr Donald J. Bogue warned at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists convention that the U S birth rate is dropping rapidly and the country may reach replacement level within ten years. The remarks were made during the convention in San Francisco.
In Sacramento the Assembly Transportation Committee rejected a new bill, trying again later, to let the State Air Resources Board regulate gasoline composition. The measure, opposed by some members, would require elimination of substances like lead to reduce pollution.
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