August 14, 1974 (8 pages)

Ne ce YOUNGSTERS ATTENDING Earl G. Waters y of te : in the current two year ‘Taken at first blush it would appear that consumer has fared well with the lawmakers with 50 of: the senate and 96 of the assembly bills. already. signed by the governor. That would be a one_ third success with still time for a few more to get approval before :~ the final curtain is dropped on ‘this legislature. Such a percentage of passage is considerably higher than the overall record of bills introduced versus bills passed. On review the record isn’t that good for the consumer bills. The summary does not include all of : the consumer bills. introduced during the two year session. Many have been dropped or defeated somewhere along the way. And, if the department in““\e° tended that its designation of the Grass’ Valley Recreation program collected: aluminum cans from local people and are preparing them for delivery to the recycling plant in Nevada City. Leaders of the day camp ore Carol Browning and Arden Wood, and they are assisted by Sharon Dulaney. Shown, left to right, Mark Meakin, Vincent Browning and Richard Hugi. Why do the Adventists live so much longer? Researchers are collediine health data on Seventh-day Brake Adjustment *1.88 WIDE OVAL TIRES 13” RAISED WHITE LETTERS AVAILABLE NOW. RECAPPING SERVICE PLAZA TIRE CO., INC. . . BEHIND SPD 265-4642 Loma Linda Adventists here and in other communities to determine whether they have a lower death rate than the general population. The first of two questionnaires . for the cancer study has already been distributed to members of _ the Grass Valley Seventh-day Adventist church. Collection of the questionnaires is being coordinated by H. Thomas Unsell, who has been chosen as the research team leader for Grass Valley. Questionnaires are returned directly to research headquarters at Loma Linda University near Riverside. The study is part of an $800,000 research project funded by the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, and conducted by epidemiologists at Loma Linda University School . of Health, 60 miles east of Los Angeles. ; A previous résearch study at among approximately 50,000 Seventh-day : Adventists in California showed their death rate to be about onehalf the rate in other Californians for various causes. This new six-year study will attempt to find out why. Adventists are well known for their abstinence from tobacco and alcoholic beverages. A large proportion refrain from eating meat and hot spices, and from drinking tea or coffee. Many also follow other health habits, such as reducing their intake of highly refined foods. It is hoped this study will eventually result in helping to find a cause for major diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, and perhaps a.means of preventing these diseases. CONSERVATION DISTRICT . The regularly scheduled meeting of the Nevada County Resource Conservation District has been changed from Sept. 3 to Sept. 10. The meeting will. be held at 1:30 p.m. at the district office located at 1230 E. Main St., Grass Valley: Public is invited to attend and participate. < measures designed ‘consumer’’ bills. _ were to. protect the “‘little’’ people, its summary is misleading. Many of the bills included have little, if any, relationship to protecting the unwary from being preyed upon by purveyors of commodities or other types of activity generally considered of a ‘‘consumer’’ type. Indeed, some of thebills ~ covered would seem to have an adverse effect upon the consumer. Perhaps because this department was converted from one whose only function was that of containing ._some 35 professional licensing boards, the summary includes numerous bills which are of more concern to those in the professions, regulated by those boards, than to the average citizen. Bills which change the membership on the Contractor’s License Board, regulate private detective advertising, transfer various. boards from one department to another, change procedures ‘for the licensing of medical doctors, and otherwise affect pharmacists, dentists and optometrists would not seem to be of any great interest to the average consumer. Coincident to the distribution of the summary the department has included a questionnaire designed to aid in determining the adequacy of its report. Not knowing exactly for what purpose the work. was intended it is difficult to appraise its worth. The question form suggests it is being sent to teachers for their use, others in connection with job related use, and to some merely for their own information. But inasmuch as the Ccoyer encourages ‘those’ concerned with a particular bill to notify legislators of their support or opposition” it would-seem thebasic purpose -is to inform citizens so that they may take ee action. : Consumer legislation In that respect the latest issue misses the boat. For so little time is now left before the end of the session, such efforts would be futile, _unless . highly even: then the bills, the summary has stretched a long way in its definition of “‘consumer’’ when it includes bills permitting the exchange of surplus highway property with Cranes County; banning smoking in public places; changing the standards for canning tomatoes; changing speed limits near schools; appropriating money for bicycle paths; changing daylight saving; and providing for liquor licenses for press clubs. It would seem the summary would be far moré readable and beneficial if it confined itself_to reporting on bills nearer to the average person’s idea of consumer legislation. ‘Such: measures as_ Senator Larry Walsh’s bill prohibiting the sale of recapped tires. not meeting the standards set by the CHP and the bill by Senators John Holmdahl and Nick Petris strengthening the Department of Health’s power to enforce standards for domestic water supplies are the kind which really reach out and.protect the “little” people and everyone else. Many of the other bills reported upon in the summary, such as the lottery bill and the revision of the code may be of major im but are hardly in the realm of consumer protection. Seniors are reminded to file claims © Martin Huff, Executive Officer of the Franchise Tax Board, reminds all homeowners 62 years of age and over that the August 31 deadline for filing 1974 property tax assistance claims is rapidly approaching. More than 248,000 claims have been received since. the filing season began May 16, Huff said. Senior citizens who have already filed claims for this year need not refile another claim. Approximately $61 million in assistance payments were made in 1973 on 302,500 claims. The law provides for reimbursement of up to 96 per cent of ahaa taxes paid, upon the . income: of the individual. To be eligible for property tax assistance, claimants must be 62 years of age or older-as of January 1, 1974,, own and reside in their home, have paid taxes . for the current year. and have income of $10,000 or less. Requests for information and claim forms may be made :to any Senior Citizens Tax Assistance branch office or to Senior Citizens Property Tax ‘Assistance, P, O. Box 1588, Sacramento, eA 95807,

Ne ce YOUNGSTERS ATTENDING Earl G. Waters y of te : in the current two year ‘Taken at first blush it would appear that consumer has fared well with the lawmakers with 50 of: the senate and 96 of the assembly bills. already. signed by the governor. That would be a one_ third success with still time for a few more to get approval before :~ the final curtain is dropped on ‘this legislature. Such a percentage of passage is considerably higher than the overall record of bills introduced versus bills passed. On review the record isn’t that good for the consumer bills. The summary does not include all of : the consumer bills. introduced during the two year session. Many have been dropped or defeated somewhere along the way. And, if the department in““\e° tended that its designation of the Grass’ Valley Recreation program collected: aluminum cans from local people and are preparing them for delivery to the recycling plant in Nevada City. Leaders of the day camp ore Carol Browning and Arden Wood, and they are assisted by Sharon Dulaney. Shown, left to right, Mark Meakin, Vincent Browning and Richard Hugi. Why do the Adventists live so much longer? Researchers are collediine health data on Seventh-day Brake Adjustment *1.88 WIDE OVAL TIRES 13” RAISED WHITE LETTERS AVAILABLE NOW. RECAPPING SERVICE PLAZA TIRE CO., INC. . . BEHIND SPD 265-4642 Loma Linda Adventists here and in other communities to determine whether they have a lower death rate than the general population. The first of two questionnaires . for the cancer study has already been distributed to members of _ the Grass Valley Seventh-day Adventist church. Collection of the questionnaires is being coordinated by H. Thomas Unsell, who has been chosen as the research team leader for Grass Valley. Questionnaires are returned directly to research headquarters at Loma Linda University near Riverside. The study is part of an $800,000 research project funded by the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, and conducted by epidemiologists at Loma Linda University School . of Health, 60 miles east of Los Angeles. ; A previous résearch study at among approximately 50,000 Seventh-day : Adventists in California showed their death rate to be about onehalf the rate in other Californians for various causes. This new six-year study will attempt to find out why. Adventists are well known for their abstinence from tobacco and alcoholic beverages. A large proportion refrain from eating meat and hot spices, and from drinking tea or coffee. Many also follow other health habits, such as reducing their intake of highly refined foods. It is hoped this study will eventually result in helping to find a cause for major diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, and perhaps a.means of preventing these diseases. CONSERVATION DISTRICT . The regularly scheduled meeting of the Nevada County Resource Conservation District has been changed from Sept. 3 to Sept. 10. The meeting will. be held at 1:30 p.m. at the district office located at 1230 E. Main St., Grass Valley: Public is invited to attend and participate. < measures designed ‘consumer’’ bills. _ were to. protect the “‘little’’ people, its summary is misleading. Many of the bills included have little, if any, relationship to protecting the unwary from being preyed upon by purveyors of commodities or other types of activity generally considered of a ‘‘consumer’’ type. Indeed, some of thebills ~ covered would seem to have an adverse effect upon the consumer. Perhaps because this department was converted from one whose only function was that of containing ._some 35 professional licensing boards,

the summary includes numerous bills which are of more concern to those in the professions, regulated by those boards, than to the average citizen. Bills which change the membership on the Contractor’s License Board, regulate private detective advertising, transfer various. boards from one department to another, change procedures ‘for the licensing of medical doctors, and otherwise affect pharmacists, dentists and optometrists would not seem to be of any great interest to the average consumer. Coincident to the distribution of the summary the department has included a questionnaire designed to aid in determining the adequacy of its report. Not knowing exactly for what purpose the work. was intended it is difficult to appraise its worth. The question form suggests it is being sent to teachers for their use, others in connection with job related use, and to some merely for their own information. But inasmuch as the Ccoyer encourages ‘those’ concerned with a particular bill to notify legislators of their support or opposition” it would-seem thebasic purpose -is to inform citizens so that they may take ee action. : Consumer legislation In that respect the latest issue misses the boat. For so little time is now left before the end of the session, such efforts would be futile, _unless . highly even: then the bills, the summary has stretched a long way in its definition of “‘consumer’’ when it includes bills permitting the exchange of surplus highway property with Cranes County; banning smoking in public places; changing the standards for canning tomatoes; changing speed limits near schools; appropriating money for bicycle paths; changing daylight saving; and providing for liquor licenses for press clubs. It would seem the summary would be far moré readable and beneficial if it confined itself_to reporting on bills nearer to the average person’s idea of consumer legislation. ‘Such: measures as_ Senator Larry Walsh’s bill prohibiting the sale of recapped tires. not meeting the standards set by the CHP and the bill by Senators John Holmdahl and Nick Petris strengthening the Department of Health’s power to enforce standards for domestic water supplies are the kind which really reach out and.protect the “little” people and everyone else. Many of the other bills reported upon in the summary, such as the lottery bill and the revision of the code may be of major im but are hardly in the realm of consumer protection. Seniors are reminded to file claims © Martin Huff, Executive Officer of the Franchise Tax Board, reminds all homeowners 62 years of age and over that the August 31 deadline for filing 1974 property tax assistance claims is rapidly approaching. More than 248,000 claims have been received since. the filing season began May 16, Huff said. Senior citizens who have already filed claims for this year need not refile another claim. Approximately $61 million in assistance payments were made in 1973 on 302,500 claims. The law provides for reimbursement of up to 96 per cent of ahaa taxes paid, upon the . income: of the individual. To be eligible for property tax assistance, claimants must be 62 years of age or older-as of January 1, 1974,, own and reside in their home, have paid taxes . for the current year. and have income of $10,000 or less. Requests for information and claim forms may be made :to any Senior Citizens Tax Assistance branch office or to Senior Citizens Property Tax ‘Assistance, P, O. Box 1588, Sacramento, eA 95807,