October 8, 1964 (24 pages)

SOREN Ae Sp seen 7 iY) 6 SoeyVvI4 VIOL October 8, 1964..Nevada County Nugget.. @ OT Individual homeowners disposing. of their property were almost totally untouched by the Rumford Fair Housing Act during its first full year of operation, according to the California Fair Employment Practice Commission, “Only four cases statewide during the entire year entailed jurisdiction over individually owned — homes for sale,” said Edward Howden, executive officer of the State FEPC, in reporting experience under the equal housing opportunity law which took effect September 20, 1963. ~ A total of 192 complaints of housing discrimination were filed with FEPC in the year ending September 19, 1964, Of those, Howden said, 150 (or 78 percent) were concemed with apartment rentals, “The almost negligible involvement of homeowner sales shows clearly,” Howden said, “that the hue andcry on behalf of so-called ‘home protection" by Proposition 14's sponsors grossly misrepresents the situation under our very moderate fair housing law. It is evident that the great majority of California homeowners willnot be materially affected, one way or the other, by the outcome of Proposition 14, This is so because privately financed homes are not covered by the Rumford Act, while those with FHA or VA financing are for the most part under Federal nondiscrimination requirements which would stillapply even if Proposition 14 were adopted. “ Ofthe 192 housing discrimination cases opened during the year, 129had been closed and 63 were pending on September 19. Sixty-six of the completed cases (60 percent) were settled through conference and conciliation, while 44 were dismissed after investigation, A single case wentto public hearing, resulting in a Commission order to make available to the Negro complainants the next vacancy in a San Fernando apartment house. “The fair housing law obviously is not punitive in-intent or operation,” Howden said. “It gives us a moderate and reasonable means of beginning to deal with serious inequities which exist-—as everyone knows---in the housing mar~ ket. -Factfinding Subcommittee To Investigate Race Problems The nature and extent of “de facto segregation" in the public schools, its causes, and proposed remedies willbe investigated this week by the State Senate Fact Finding Subcommittee on Race Relations and Urban Problems. School, governmental and civil rights leaders are scheduled to testify in San Diego and Los Angeles, Similar hearings will be held later in other parts of the State, A study of the actions and responsibilities of school districts willbe made, including problems relating to students recently migrated from states with lower educational standards and the demands presently being made upon the districts by civil rights and parent groups. The "neighborhood school” concept and proposals for changes of boundaries and bussing of students will be considered, The Subcommittee will review the seeming paradox under which schools with disproportionate members of Caucasian or Negro students are deemed by. many to be inferior or undesirable, while at the same time schools starting to integrate tend rapidly to lose Caucasian students andto acqtire predominantly Negro student bodies, The motivation of students, with particular reference to parentalinterest and encouragement, home conditions, neighborhood environment, and place~ ment of teachers of various ethnic background will be considered. Few Rumford Cases Reported Students And Deductions sees Taxing Problem Now isthe time when taxpayers worry about possible loss of tax exemptions, particularly if they have children in college who have worked at summer jobs. Though attention is focused on this matter, the Internal Revenue Service has resolved several problems involving questions of exemptions in cases other than those involving students, Concerning the college students, there are still parents who are unaware that the law was liberalized some time ago. Now, a student can earn sub-" stantial amounts in summer employment without causing the parent to lose the exemption, The widely remembered $600 limit on summer earnings is'no longer in effect. The rule is rather broadly stated in declaring the student as an exemption so long as the parent furnishes more than half the child's support. Thus, a college year expenditure of $1, 500 by the parent would permit an exemption claim if the student earned and expended on —— SST LEONARD F. CAREY..Realtor his own behalf over $1,400. Indeed, the student can even save what he earns if using it would deny the parent the deduction. Later, perhaps in a year when the student has a smaller income or no income at all, he can use his savings to augment his father's expenditure. In both cases that is if the parent contributes more than half the student can claim the exemption on his own return; an unusual example of an exemption that can be used twice. Mrs. Pello Appointed: The appointment of Mrs. Melo Pello was announced today by Earl Warren, Jr., California State Chairman of the Young Citizens for President Johnson. Mrs, Pello was born in Grass Valley and her husbandin Nevada City. Both attended the local schools. She has served her community as a member of the Volunteer Fire Department's Ladies Auxiliary andin the Nevada City Recreational Department. Phone 273-4300---P,O, Box 944, Grass Valley, Californig Real Estate Investments -Mortgage Loans LAST 4 DAYS OF FRANCISCAN STARTER SET SALE. ENDS OCTOBER 10TH NEVADA Crry

SOREN Ae Sp seen 7 iY) 6 SoeyVvI4 VIOL October 8, 1964...Nevada County Nugget... @ OT Individual homeowners disposing. of their property were almost totally untouched by the Rumford Fair Housing Act during its first full year of operation, according to the California Fair Employment Practice Commission, “Only four cases statewide during the entire year entailed jurisdiction over individually owned — homes for sale,” said Edward Howden, executive officer of the State FEPC, in reporting experience under the equal housing opportunity law which took effect September 20, 1963. ~ A total of 192 complaints of housing discrimination were filed with FEPC in the year ending September 19, 1964, Of those, Howden said, 150 (or 78 percent) were concemed with apartment rentals, “The almost negligible involvement of homeowner sales shows clearly,” Howden said, “that the hue andcry on behalf of so-called ‘home protection" by Proposition 14's sponsors grossly misrepresents the situation under our very moderate fair housing law. It is evident that the great majority of California homeowners willnot be materially affected, one way or the other, by the outcome of Proposition 14, This is so because privately financed homes are not covered by the Rumford Act, while those with FHA or VA financing are for the most part under Federal nondiscrimination requirements which would stillapply even if Proposition 14 were adopted. “ Ofthe 192 housing discrimination cases opened during the year, 129had been closed and 63 were pending on September 19. Sixty-six of the completed cases (60 percent) were settled through conference and conciliation, while 44 were dismissed after investigation, A single case wentto public hearing, resulting in a Commission order to make available to the Negro complainants the next vacancy in a San Fernando apartment house. “The fair housing law obviously is not punitive in-intent or operation,” Howden said. “It gives us a moderate and reasonable means of beginning to deal with serious inequities which exist-—as everyone knows---in the housing mar~ ket. -Factfinding Subcommittee To Investigate Race Problems The nature and extent of “de facto segregation" in the public schools, its causes, and proposed remedies willbe investigated this week by the State Senate Fact Finding Subcommittee on Race Relations and Urban Problems. School, governmental and civil rights leaders are scheduled to testify in San Diego and Los Angeles, Similar hearings will be held later in other parts of the State, A study of the actions and responsibilities of school districts willbe made, including problems relating to students recently migrated from states with lower educational standards and the demands presently being made upon the districts by civil rights and parent groups. The "neighborhood school” concept and proposals for changes of boundaries and bussing of students will be considered,

The Subcommittee will review the seeming paradox under which schools with disproportionate members of Caucasian or Negro students are deemed by. many to be inferior or undesirable, while at the same time schools starting to integrate tend rapidly to lose Caucasian students andto acqtire predominantly Negro student bodies, The motivation of students, with particular reference to parentalinterest and encouragement, home conditions, neighborhood environment, and place~ ment of teachers of various ethnic background will be considered. Few Rumford Cases Reported Students And Deductions sees Taxing Problem Now isthe time when taxpayers worry about possible loss of tax exemptions, particularly if they have children in college who have worked at summer jobs. Though attention is focused on this matter, the Internal Revenue Service has resolved several problems involving questions of exemptions in cases other than those involving students, Concerning the college students, there are still parents who are unaware that the law was liberalized some time ago. Now, a student can earn sub-" stantial amounts in summer employment without causing the parent to lose the exemption, The widely remembered $600 limit on summer earnings is'no longer in effect. The rule is rather broadly stated in declaring the student as an exemption so long as the parent furnishes more than half the child's support. Thus, a college year expenditure of $1, 500 by the parent would permit an exemption claim if the student earned and expended on —— SST LEONARD F. CAREY...Realtor his own behalf over $1,400. Indeed, the student can even save what he earns if using it would deny the parent the deduction. Later, perhaps in a year when the student has a smaller income or no income at all, he can use his savings to augment his father's expenditure. In both cases that is if the parent contributes more than half the student can claim the exemption on his own return; an unusual example of an exemption that can be used twice. Mrs. Pello Appointed: The appointment of Mrs. Melo Pello was announced today by Earl Warren, Jr., California State Chairman of the Young Citizens for President Johnson. Mrs, Pello was born in Grass Valley and her husbandin Nevada City. Both attended the local schools. She has served her community as a member of the Volunteer Fire Department's Ladies Auxiliary andin the Nevada City Recreational Department. Phone 273-4300---P,O, Box 944, Grass Valley, Californig Real Estate Investments -Mortgage Loans LAST 4 DAYS OF FRANCISCAN STARTER SET SALE. ENDS OCTOBER 10TH NEVADA Crry