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Asks 3-Point Plan To Cut Traffic Casualties THE DAY IN SACRAMENTO By the Associated Press Brown administration re- MILK- -Extends state price -controls 10 manufacturing milk; 40, Cobey ported, considering three Merced). major steps in promised of- THE ASSEMBLY fensive against traffic slaughter. New effort to legalize night harness racing is strong, sibility. Assembly interim committees present 31 reports on everything from alcoholism to zoning. THE SENATE Bills introduced: TV- -Allows school districts to operate own television facilities; 33, Farr Carmel).

DRUGS- -Requires druggist to give buyers of dangerous drugs written statement describing danger; S8 35, Murdy Santa Ana). Bills introduced: ASSISTANCE Prohibits use of public assistance funds to rent sub-standard housing nad orders social workers to port unsafe housing conditions; Kilpatrick, AB 140, Lynwood). JAILS- -Requires city and county health officers to make sanitation inspections of jails at least once a year; AB 141, Kit patrick. MEETINGS Forbids local legislative bodies from holding closed meetings on grounds that upcoming litigation is to be discussed; AB 127. Lucke San Diego).

DELTA- Orders state to make survey of recreation facilities Sacramento-San Joaquin. Delfa; AB 139, Waldie Antioch). FINGERPRINTS- Permits, rather than requires, local school boards 10 set a $4 fee for fingerprinting of classified employees: AB 133, Lowrey Rumsey). LIQUIDS Prohibits filling glass containers with gasoline or kerosene; AB 132, Lowrey. Legislators Ask Welfare Revision Continued from Page 1 is need for "a new look" because present services are too piecemeal, too unrelated and do not help people avoid emergencies.

Department of Social Welfare should keep its attention focused on long-range objectives. Before introducing legislation it should discuss the matter with the Social Welfare Board, the Department of Finance and legislators in order to lessen the overlapping of existing laws and minimize the change of hasty legislation which would be difficult to revise later. $-The Legislature should do all in its power to regain budgetary control of appropriations for welfare pro: grams so as to have an opportunity for review from time to time. Under present law 97 per cent of the appropriations are outside budgetary control. 6 The state or counties should be empowered to place liens on the property of welfare recipients for aid paid.

7-Charge the relatives respohsibility law so as to not require contributions from hard-pressed relatives. 8-Establish greater uniformity among programs in such matters as eligibility, size of grants, cost-sharing and record keeping. The committee noted recent criticism leveled at the Aid to Needy Children program, but made no recommendation in that field, saying that it felt the problem of welfare costs runs wider and deeper and that it hopes to cover the overIn addition to Bee, the committee included Assemblymen Jesse Unruh (D, Los Angeles), chairman of the Parent and Means body; Gordon Winton, (D, Merced), the majority whip; Bruce Sumner, (R, Santa Ana), minority whip; Frank Lanterman, (R, La Canada), Charles Conrad, and (R, Sherman Oaks). The report was compiled under supervision of Mrs. Hazel Fredericksen of Berkeley, special consultant.

Steam Engine Recalled LIMERICK. Ireland, Jan. 6 -(P- A century-old steam locomotive came out of the junkyard to substitute for a modern diesel. The powerful diesel-electric couldn't make the 24-mile run between Limerick and Ennis because of flooding on the line and the risk of short circuits. Mounting Toll Spurs Request For New Laws SACRAMENTO, Jan.

6- (P) -The Brown administration was reported today to be considering three major steps in a promised new offensive against wholesale death and injury on California's highways. Governor Brown has shown deep concern over the yearby-year increase in the highway toll. Traffic accidents killed 3,700 persons in the state last year--up from 3,588 in 1959. THREE POINTS The traffic safety program under study, it was learned, calls for: 1-Use of radar by the Highway Patrol to catch speeders. The 1959 Legislature turned this down.

2-Compulsory chemical tests to help get convictions in drunken driving cases. Balloon and blood tests are now voluntary. 3-Toughening up the point system under which drivers licenses are suspended or revoked. At present you can lose your license temporarily for four moving--violation points in a year. Under the proposed change, the total would be lowered to three.

Points are based on the seriousness of the violation. Such offenses as reckless driving and hit-run count as two points. Simple speeding, running a red light, changing lanes illegally, are scored as one point. The Department of Motor Vehicles has suspended, revoked or canceled 158,000 licenses in the 23 months since its director, Robert I I. McCarthy, began his crackdown.

SUSPENSIONS The total includes 18,573 suspensions for drunken driving convictions. McCarthy's order for mandatory suspensions aroused widespread criticism but it was upheld by the California Supreme Court. Governor Brown has steadfastly backed McCarthy in the crusade against drunken drivers. It's not clear as yet, however, whether the administration will seek changes in the law. McCarthy told a reporter that a six-months suspension may be too long and that it does prove a hardship in some cases.

"I would be willing to have the Legislature change the law, so long as there would be a fixed minimum suspension," he said. "Maybe the Legislature would prefer. 30 A "The important thing is that we must have the certainty of suspension." The Governor, in his legislative message Tuesday, said traffic safety measures voted by the 1959 session, including the new 65 mile an hour speed limit, have helped cope with the problem, but that "they the job." have re not come close to doing "I am not resigned to the acceptance of our daily highway death toll as a continuing fact of our state and national life." he said. Brown plans to send a detailed program of recommendations to the Legislature in a special message shortly. Solon Calls for Curb on Health Policy Cancellations SACRAMENTO, Jan.

6-(UPD -A California legislator has recommended laws to make health insurance policies noncancellable so as to prevent companies from cutting off benefits "at the time of greatest need." Assemblyman Ronald B. Cameron Whittier), made the recommendation, yesterday report submitted to the Assembly Committee on Finance and Insurance. He said that "both individual and group prepaid hospital and medical insurance policies are being canceled by some companies, and claims are being denied for unexplained or highly questionable reasons." He said that he had received complaints from persons who held policies for many years and were suddenly taken sick. "They were quickly notified that the policy would be canceled on the next renewal date (the first of the following month)," he said. Cameron asked for legislation that would make it il-1 SUBCONSCIOUS ADS CALLED INEFFECTIVE SACRAMENTO, 6- (UPD The public doesn't need protection against subconscious television advertising because it doesn't actually work too well.

That's the conclusion of a legislative study committee in a report submitted to the lawmakers. The governmental efficiency and economy committee said subliminal communication is "considerably less effective" than the more conventional type. a group of 30 students. Most were able to free themselves. Avalanche Kills 2 GRAZ, Austria, Jan.

6-4 -Two Austrian students were killed and a third seriously injured by an avalanche in the Gesaeuse Mountains yesterday. The snowslide buried College of Arts Founder, Dr. Frederick Meyer, Dies Dr. Frederick H. Meyer, 88, who founded the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1907, died early today an Oakland hospital.

He had resigned in 1944 as president of the Oakland institution which has dominated the field of applied arts and art teacher education in Northern California. Dr. Meyer was given the title of president emeritus and as such was honored by faculty, alumni and friends at a reception on his 88th birthday last November. The college was founded by Dr. Meyer and his wife, the late Laetitia Summerville Meyer, in Berkeley and in 1925 was moved to the site of the old Treadwell estate at Broadway and College Avenues.

Dr. J. Meyer, a native of Germany, came to the United, States in 1888. In 1898 he became art supervisor of the public schools in Stockton where he and his wife were married. He later taught art at the Mark Hopkins Institute, now the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, and the University of California during the presidency of Benjamin Ide Wheeler.

When ur. Meyer founded the college, there was no school in the West, offering training in art forms other than painting and sculpture. It was his aim, and accomplishment, to encourage and train a union between the creative artist and practical living. His dream has resulted in the college offering students training in all forms of art, painting, sculpture, ceramics, metal, jewelry, weaving, art teaching, advertising design, interior design, industrial design, print making and illustration. Dr.

Meyer himself was an architectural and furniture designer. While teaching in San Francisco he also conducted a studio in such design and carried on his interest throughout his career. Meyer was graduate of the Royal Arts School in Berlir. in 1896 and a graduate of the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia in 1897. He was given the honorary doctorate of Fine Arts in June, 1954, by the college he founded.

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12 months plan to buy and pay these sale values, NOW! to pay. 5 STORES IN THE EAST BAY Oakland Berkeley (2) El Cerrito Plaza Bay Fair Shopping Center Oakland Tribune 3 Friday, Jan. 6,1961 DR. FREDERICK H. MEYER Art College founder dies titia Meyer, and a niece, Miss Marjorie Macpherson.

Funeral arrangements are pending at the Clarence Cooper Mortuary. Alcoholism On Rise in California SACRAMENTO, Jan. 6-UPD -Alcoholism is increasing throughout California among both youths and adults, a legislative study committee warned today. The Public Health Committee, estimating one in every .14 adults is an alcoholic for a grand total of 600,000 in the state, said San Francisco and Sacramento rank first second in the nation in per capita alcoholies. Assembly investigators set the cost of alcoholism to the state at $150 million a year in arrests and maintenance.

mental and penal institutional care, aid programs and absenteeism in business and industry. To battle the increasing trend, the committee recommended: -Expansion of existing alcoholic rehabilitation clinics to include greater and more uniform therapeutic services. -Establishment of new treatment and rehabilitation facilities in interested communities. (The committee said Long Beach in particular had repeatedly demonstrated its need for such a clinic.) -Uniform referral procedures to alcoholic rehabilitation clinics by courts and other state agencies. Bushels of Bills Due at Legislature SACRAMENTO, Jan.

6-4 -California lawmakers found themselves today with enough legislative recommendations to keep them in session around the clock for months to come. Interim committees turned in reports yesterday dealing with everything from blue sky laws and booze to drug prices, vagrancy laws and venereal disease. The 31 committees spent $957,372 gathering facts to base their recommendations on. Still to come are proposals and opinions from Senate and joint committees, who used up $1,678,071 in their efforts. BILLS LATER Most of the recommendations will be just that, although many will show up as bills later on in the current session.

Some recommendations and findings include: A strong "blue sky" law should replace the present unclear statute to give better protection to investor and inI vestment firms alike. The state should consider expanding its anti venereal disease program in its fight against syphilis and gonor-, rhea. There should be more federal money made available. Doctors report only 29 per cent of the cases they treat. DRUG COSTS "Widespread and undeniable evidence" shows that the state sometimes must pay more for drugs than private citizens.

State aid should be increased from $494 to $521 per student in junior colleges. All counties should have public defenders. The vagrancy law is sometimes used by police who don't have proof of a serious crime but still want to arrest a suspect. The law should be repealed. The law applying to auto sales is often ambiguous and ineffective.

legal for a company to cancel a policy after it had been in effect for 24 months, except for non-payment of premiums or unless the company canceled all policies of the same class at the same time. He also suggested that the State Insurance Commission be required to grade policies from companies on the basis of amounts they could be expected to return to policyholders in loss benefits. He said that while many companies paid back between 80 and 95 per cent of their premiums in benefits, others had a "loss ratio" as low a as 5.3 per cent. Cameron said that hospital and medical costs were higher in California than elsewhere in the nation and urged that the Legislature continue its investigations into the entire area of medical care and health insurance. Water Power OTTAWA- About 98 percent of Canada's, electric energy is.