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Last week the Supreme Court upheld the California decision. Speaking for a narrow, five-man majority, Justice Byron R. White declared that in its decision the California Supreme Court had not forbidden Californians either to repeal fair-housing laws or to enact laws making the state "neutral." All it did was to "reasonably" conclude that Section 26 affirmed discrimination as a state-guaranteed freedom. "We are dealing with a provision which does not just repeal an existing law forbidding racial discrimination," said White. "Section 26 was intended to authorize, and does authorize, racial discrimination in the housing market...
...main thrust of Y.W. activities these days is directed toward social action in the community. The St. Louis association, for instance, has started a letter-writing campaign to persuade the Missouri legislature to enact a fair-housing law. In Cincinnati, under a Y.W.-sponsored program social workers go to old-age nursing homes to entertain and teach lonely inmates recreational skills. Y.W. members now run a number of local Job Corps, Head Start and Neighborhood Youth Corps programs. In another tie-in with the federal antipoverty program, 27 Y.W. centers are opening their residences to 1,800 girls just...
Different Tack. Nonetheless, Dirksen is determined to enact a constitutional amendment that would overrule at least part of the one-man, one-vote doctrine by permitting the states to select one house of their legislatures on a basis other than population. Twice, his efforts to push such amendments through the Senate were defeated by seven votes. Now the Illinois Senator is off on a different tack...
...Twin Cities, which previously had been outvoted by rural interests. Wisconsin's dairy-directed legislature, long a staunch defender of the more expensive spread, finally made the sale of oleomargarine legal. Colorado passed the nation's most advanced abortion bill, and North Carolina last week enacted a measure that is similar to Colorado's in most respects. Also last week, Oklahoma became the first state to legalize artificial insemination by a donor other than the woman's husband and to guarantee legitimacy to the resultant offspring. In Hawaii, where Oahu once had only two-fifths...
...Uniform Time Act, passed by Congress a year ago, that requires all states to follow statewide Daylight Time-unless the respective legislatures enact exempting laws. Last week as the hour struck to turn the clocks ahead one hour, the chaos was less, but compliance was far from perfect. Forty-five states are now keeping D.S.T.; still out of step are Alaska, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan...