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Historical Clippings Book (HC-03) (210 pages)
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Gold panners on Mosquito Creek near Nevada City.
Battle To Preserve America’s Past . j 4/27) te .
Every day of every week the fight
-goes on to preserve the nation’s heri"tage. Sometimes it seems a losing
battle. In the last two decades more
than half the 12,000 buildings in the
Historic Building Survey have been
-demolished. And the despoilers still
crash their bulldozers against what
binds America to its past and future.
It seems especially appropriate that
a chronicler of the present should
have written: 4
What we want to conserve is
the evidence of individual talent
‘and tradition of liberty and union
among successive generations of
Americans. We want the signs
of where we came from and how
we got where weare, the thoughts
we had along the way and what
we did to express the thought in
action. We want to kno w the
trails that were walked, the battles that were fought, the tools
that were made. '
Today America must fight one of
‘its biggest battles, that of preserving
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its memory. The bulldozers are rapidly
converting America into a nation suffering from amnesia.
Boston is typical of a city that has
allowed a freeway to slash through
some of its most treasured neighborhoods, destroying the integrated grain
of one of the most historic cities of
the nation. Kansas City has poured
sO many cars into its downtown that
it is rapidly being gouged out by
parking lots and filling stations. ©
The legislature of California sat by
and allowed a freeway to splinter one
of the oldest and most historical sections of the Capital City, leaving a
mere apron of buildings commemorating the rich past. And that will be
reachable only by over or underpasses which along with the freeway
will destroy the integration of old
Sacramento,
It will take fast action by the federal, state and local governments to get
ahead of the wreckers or what remains
will be desecrated.
BLM to Prohibit
Signboards from
Land Near Roads
Cooperating in the campaign to
beautify the nation’s highways,
the federal Bureau of Land
Management is carrying out a
policy of eliminating signboards
from public lands adjacent to
public roads.
J. R. Pennystate director for
. BLM in California, has identified
this as a continuing activity designed to rid the public lands of
illegally placed signboards and
those that although legal, detract
from the scenic values of the
. lands. Nearly 400 signs have already been removed from California’s public domain, most of
. them in the southern part of the
. State,
Although little of the 16 million
acres administered by the BLM
in California ajoins any of the
state’s 16,000 miles of main
roads and highways, the Bureau
is also working to eliminate delapidated buildings and dump
heaps that detract from scenic
values.
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