October 21, 1948 (8 pages)

Bs and blind benefits should be undertaken through legislative action which can be modified from wear to year as economic and Pe conditions dictate. But ' quirements. , Truck Driving Championship in Retains Truck Driving Championship Chester W. Smith of Santa. Amma, Calif., receives congratulations from Mrs. Smith and son Duane, for ‘winning his second National the ‘Truck :and Full Trailer Class. DENVER, COLO. — Chester W. Smith, 36-year-old truck driver from Santa Anna, Calif., has retained his ‘title as the world’s best “Ariver of the biggest trucks on ‘the :road. Smith, ” full trailer finals of the National driving for the Reliable ‘Transportation Co. of Los ,. Angeles, Calif., defeated 8 state ‘ title-holders here in the truck and ‘Truck Roadeo sponsored by the American Trucking Associations, Inc. .He won ‘the :c ampionship first in Los Angeles last October. \ Driving a Reo truck with a Fruchauf wan ‘body and trailer, Smith scored 318.28 points out of :a possible 350. Score is determined from results of a written examination :and ‘a grueling driving test over a the Roadeo course that simulated many of most difficult situations confronted daily by the men at the wheels of these giant highway haulers. Smith just beat out ina ‘very ‘lose competition Edgar W. Karls of Phoenix, Ariz., driving for Hopper Truck Lines who scored 317.476. Third was Roy Haenke of Grand ron? Mich., representing Michigan Express, Inc., with a score :of 2 truck. .National finals in the straight 5.9. Haenke also drove a Reo Smith has been driving trucks for'20 years, and has a reccrd of ‘ » years without a chargeable accident. He is married_and has one son. truck and tractor-trailer. events will held in Washington, D. C., Oct. 11-12, as features of the annual convention of the American Trucking ._Associations, Inc. THE FARMER’S CORNER By Ralph H.Taylor Simple arithmetic alone is the best argument against the passage of Proposition 4 at the ‘November’ general election. This measure, an initiative Constitutional Amendment, would freeze into the State Constitution increased payments for old age security, reduce eligibility standards, increase income and property exemptions permitted to recipients of aid, and make the office of director of the Department of Social Welfare an elective instead of an appointive one. By the opening statement in this column that simple. arithmetic should doom this measure, the writer does not intend to, ime . fer that dollar considerats@ns . should be the only yardstick by which aid to the aged, needy and . osition 4 formula, and then for the improvements intended when the people originally authorized their collection. Now, It us look at the arithmetic of the matter. The State Department of Social Welfare recently made an exhaustive analysis of the components of Proposition 4 at the request of authorities who desired to know exactly where the. State would stand should its fiscal provisions be placed in effect. To simplify the analysis, assistance costs under the proposed amendment were estimated as though the amendment were in effect during the entire fiscal. year 1948-49, on a “going concern” basis. For that fiscal period, under the current law, it is estimated these benefits will cost Federal, State, and County governments a total of $147,462,800. The proposed amendblind should be measured. As a matter of fact California is one of the most advanced states of the Union in the matter of public aid to those requiring it. But Proposition 4 approaches the problem from the wrong. direction. Any liberalization of old age Proposition 4 decrees the increased benefits as a rigid Constitutional provision and makes their payment a lien against all State moneys, ahead of school costs, teachers’ salaries, State employees’ salaries, and State bond reEven the proceeds . from the State gas tax and other such funds Would be distribution first under the Propf bs Local or Long Distance would be shifted to the State-under the new law. arguments against Proposition 44, f the measure would increase taxes subject to $125 nia—an added tax increase of $42! ment would raise this figure by $124,055,100, to a grand total of $271,517,900. The percentage increase represented by these figures is 93.3%. But that does not tell the whole story. Under the current law, the State’s contribution is $73,170,100. The Federal government’s share years, taxes would be increased by $235,000,000 a year. California, too, would become the mecca of the aged indigents of every other state if Proposition 4 becomes law. Its wide-open provisions would attract the needy to this state by the thousands and seriously impair the state’s capacity to provide, as at present, for its own indigent load. Again, by lowering the age limit from 65 to 68, recipients of aid under 655 wauld have to be supported from state funds exclusively; since there are no Federal funds available to help in the support of any persons under 65 years of age, Arithmetic is not the only thing -wrong with Proposition 4. It would set tp an entire new State department to administer the act, and approximately 3000 employees would be required .to man this division, according to the State Department of Social Wedfare. Furthermore, by making the office of director of the new department elective, instead of appointive, the rights and benefits of the aged and blind could become another football in the hands of political jugglers with policy-making a matter of political expediency. : It is worthy of note that the California Council for the Blind, which “is not an organization speaking for the blind, it is the blind speaking for themselves,”’ is. opposing the measure because it will destroy present programs for the rehabilitation of the blind to College Men’s Feet Bigger But Prettier SANTA BARBARA: Maybe it comes from footing the bil] ‘so much, but anyway it appears that Joe College has _prettier—although bigger—feet than Betty Co-ed. . This was disclosed in statistics released by Dr. Wilfred T. Robbins, director. of the . Student Health Servire, Santa Barbara CoNege ,University of California. based on recent. physical examinations of students. Results showed that 12 per rent of the men had foot defects, compared with 29 per cent. of the women students. Dr. Robbins explained that the males wil] probably continue to have healthier looking feet.so long as members of the fair sex insist on cramping their feet into under-sized_ shoes, ‘In other respects, however, the females had the edge. Only 10 per cent of the women students had dental defects, the exams showed. Of the girls, 32 per cent had defective vision, compared with 35 color blindness were found among the co-eds, while 6 per cent of the men students had this defect. % Deputy Clerk Issues against 26 per cent for the men. . . per cent of the men. No cases of . 117 Absentee Ballots self-support. If the proponents of Proposition 4 wish to secure the enactment of more liberalized pension payments, the halls of the legislature are always open to them. Placing an economic anchor around California’s neck in the name of liberalized pensicn payments will benefit neither the State nor its needy residents. Proposition 4 should be. rejected, % ‘line, ” The © poet’s “Order is heaven’s first law,’ is so eternally true, so axiomatic, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics.—Mary Baker Eddy. NEVADA CITY: Deputy County Clerk John Sbaffi has reported that 117 voters have thus far obtained absentee ballots. Time for obtaining these ballots expires October 28th. VOTE CARL J. TOBIASSEN SUPERVISOR First District x GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 2 “A MAN WITH BUSINESS AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE” FOR x is $61,715,400. However, under Proposition 4, the State’s contribution would be $185,488, 300——an increase of 166.6% over the State’s present contribution! The Federal government’s burden would rise to $86,029,600—an increase’ of 44.5%, The present county contributions totaling $12,577,300 As pointed out in. the official! 25,000,000 next year in Califor‘or every family, And within 12: Complete CLIFF SHEPHERD’S — PAINT STORE . 116 East Phone Grass Valley 455 — S . G i Service Only Union Sign Shop in the Area . Main Street é MOVING HOUSEHOLD GOODS BOUGHT AND SOLD STORAGE Agents for LYONS Reliable Transfer & Storage Grass Valley Phone 39 Hills Fiat _ Committee for Home Protection Next time, (Political, Advertisement) BAD HOUSING You can ride in luxurious, all dining car. SCHEDULE OF THE SACRAMENTO DAYLIGHT 8:35 a.m. Lv . Sacramento. Ar 7:30 p.m. 9:17 a.m. Lv,..Galt..Ar 6:43 p.m. 9:30 a.m. Lv..Lodi..Ar 6:28 p. m. 10:00 a. m. Lv. Stockton.Ar 6:10 Pp. m. 11:09 a.m. Ar.Modesto.Lv 5:15 p. m. 11:55 a.m. Ar..Merced..Lv 4:30 p. m. 1:00 p.m. Ar..Fresno.. Lv 3:28 p. m. 3:01 p.m. Ar. Bakersfield. Lv 1:16 p.m. . 7:50 p.m. Ar. Los Angeles.Lv 8:25. m, &-p The friendly Southern Pacifie M. A. PECK, District Passenger Agent . §. P. Station, Sacramento 14 try the Daylight _ Streamlined chair cars to Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley cities -weather comfort to San Joaquin Valley cities as well as to Los Angeles aboard the streamlined Sacramento, Daylight. No matter what the weather outside, you relax in your foam-rubber rese ear, in perfect comfort. The engineer does the drivi able from Sacramento, and south of Lathrop yo rved seat in a streamlined chair ng. Coffee shop service is availu may also use the lounge and ALL THE WAY BY TRAIN VERY LOW FARES! All seats on the Sacramento Daylight are numbered, and you may make your reservations in advance. Only Southern Pacific offers through train service to Los Angeles. Next'time, try the Sacramento Daylight. ~ ot 256 South Auburn Street SIX-WAY FLOOR LAMPS 8:95 Now Only OTHERS T0 $19.95 Phon . 36 The Furniture Center Opp. Vets Memorial Bldg. Construction crews rush two new AY RNS THN HS NR Sars peers —~ = om horsepower for Northern h NSS f f ay : h, " : > . PR ee thn > cm * ee > ~ *. 3S SSS SES = é Ae . sixteenmile Stretch of will soon be turning the Feather River. out 270,000 new electrica} and Central California. new dams, two new powerhouses and tunneling are already well underway.and when they are completed, still more waterpower will be harnessed. Map shows location of the two new plants — Rock Creek and Cresta. along with three already built. A system of several dams and powerhouses like this one is an extremely efficient power producer and helps conserve water for irrigation. Work never Stops om our powerTwo of our biggest water tun. nels are part of the new construction . 10% miles of But they’re only Part of a giant Power-building Program that will step up P.G.and tunnels large enough fora . This Program— double track railroad, We're going ahead full speed, and the . Ametiet—h Project, begun in 1946, will be. new jobs, gin delivering power next fall. : million 100 watt light bulbs, PACIFIC. GAS AND ELECTRIG company ae building pesotem

Bs and blind benefits should be undertaken through legislative action which can be modified from wear to year as economic and Pe conditions dictate. But ' quirements. , Truck Driving Championship in Retains Truck Driving Championship Chester W. Smith of Santa. Amma, Calif., receives congratulations from Mrs. Smith and son Duane, for ‘winning his second National the ‘Truck :and Full Trailer Class. DENVER, COLO. — Chester W. Smith, 36-year-old truck driver from Santa Anna, Calif., has retained his ‘title as the world’s best “Ariver of the biggest trucks on ‘the :road. Smith, ” full trailer finals of the National driving for the Reliable ‘Transportation Co. of Los ,. Angeles, Calif., defeated 8 state ‘ title-holders here in the truck and ‘Truck Roadeo sponsored by the American Trucking Associations, Inc. .He won ‘the :c ampionship first in Los Angeles last October. \ Driving a Reo truck with a Fruchauf wan ‘body and trailer, Smith scored 318.28 points out of :a possible 350. Score is determined from results of a written examination :and ‘a grueling driving test over a the Roadeo course that simulated many of most difficult situations confronted daily by the men at the wheels of these giant highway haulers. Smith just beat out ina ‘very ‘lose competition Edgar W. Karls of Phoenix, Ariz., driving for Hopper Truck Lines who scored 317.476. Third was Roy Haenke of Grand ron? Mich., representing Michigan Express, Inc., with a score :of 2 truck. .National finals in the straight 5.9. Haenke also drove a Reo Smith has been driving trucks for'20 years, and has a reccrd of ‘ » years without a chargeable accident. He is married_and has one son. truck and tractor-trailer. events will held in Washington, D. C., Oct. 11-12, as features of the annual convention of the American Trucking ._Associations, Inc. THE FARMER’S CORNER By Ralph H.Taylor Simple arithmetic alone is the best argument against the passage of Proposition 4 at the ‘November’ general election. This measure, an initiative Constitutional Amendment, would freeze into the State Constitution increased payments for old age security, reduce eligibility standards, increase income and property exemptions permitted to recipients of aid, and make the office of director of the Department of Social Welfare an elective instead of an appointive one. By the opening statement in this column that simple. arithmetic should doom this measure, the writer does not intend to, ime . fer that dollar considerats@ns . should be the only yardstick by which aid to the aged, needy and . osition 4 formula, and then for the improvements intended when the people originally authorized their collection. Now, It us look at the arithmetic of the matter. The State Department of Social Welfare recently made an exhaustive analysis of the components of Proposition 4 at the request of authorities who desired to know exactly where the. State would stand should its fiscal provisions be placed in effect. To simplify the analysis, assistance costs under the proposed amendment were estimated as though the amendment were in effect during the entire fiscal. year 1948-49, on a “going concern” basis. For that fiscal period, under the current law, it is estimated these benefits will cost Federal, State, and County governments a total of $147,462,800. The proposed amendblind should be measured. As a matter of fact California is one of the most advanced states of the Union in the matter of public aid to those requiring it. But Proposition 4 approaches the problem from the wrong. direction. Any liberalization of old age Proposition 4 decrees the increased benefits as a rigid Constitutional provision and makes their payment a lien against all State moneys, ahead of school costs, teachers’ salaries, State employees’ salaries, and State bond reEven the proceeds . from the State gas tax and other such funds Would be distribution first under the Propf bs Local or Long Distance would be shifted to the State-under the new law. arguments against Proposition 44, f the measure would increase taxes subject to $125 nia—an added tax increase of $42! ment would raise this figure by $124,055,100, to a grand total of $271,517,900. The percentage increase represented by these figures is 93.3%. But that does not tell the whole story. Under the current law, the State’s contribution is $73,170,100. The Federal government’s share years, taxes would be increased by $235,000,000 a year. California, too, would become the mecca of the aged indigents of every other state if Proposition 4 becomes law. Its wide-open provisions would attract the needy to this state by the thousands and seriously impair the state’s capacity to provide, as at present, for its own indigent load. Again, by lowering the age limit from 65 to 68, recipients of aid under 655 wauld have to be supported from state funds exclusively; since there are no Federal funds available to help in the support of any persons under 65 years of age, Arithmetic is not the only thing -wrong with Proposition 4. It would set tp an entire new State department to administer the act, and approximately 3000 employees would be required .to man this division, according to the State Department of Social Wedfare. Furthermore, by making the office of director of the new department elective, instead of appointive, the rights and benefits of the aged and blind could become another football in the hands of political jugglers with policy-making a matter of political expediency. : It is worthy of note that the California Council for the Blind, which “is not an organization speaking for the blind, it is the blind speaking for themselves,”’ is. opposing the measure because it will destroy present programs for the rehabilitation of the blind to College Men’s Feet Bigger But Prettier SANTA BARBARA: Maybe it comes from footing the bil] ‘so much, but anyway it appears that Joe College has _prettier—although bigger—feet than Betty Co-ed. . This was disclosed in statistics released by Dr. Wilfred T. Robbins, director. of the . Student Health Servire, Santa Barbara CoNege ,University of California. based on recent. physical examinations of students. Results showed that 12 per rent of the men had foot defects, compared with 29 per cent. of the women students. Dr. Robbins explained that the males wil] probably continue to have healthier looking feet.so long as members of the fair sex insist on cramping their feet into under-sized_ shoes, ‘In other respects, however, the females had the edge. Only 10 per cent of the women students had dental defects, the exams showed. Of the girls, 32 per cent had defective vision, compared with 35 color blindness were found among the co-eds, while 6 per cent of the men students had this defect. % Deputy Clerk Issues

against 26 per cent for the men. . . per cent of the men. No cases of . 117 Absentee Ballots self-support. If the proponents of Proposition 4 wish to secure the enactment of more liberalized pension payments, the halls of the legislature are always open to them. Placing an economic anchor around California’s neck in the name of liberalized pensicn payments will benefit neither the State nor its needy residents. Proposition 4 should be. rejected, % ‘line, ” The © poet’s “Order is heaven’s first law,’ is so eternally true, so axiomatic, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics.—Mary Baker Eddy. NEVADA CITY: Deputy County Clerk John Sbaffi has reported that 117 voters have thus far obtained absentee ballots. Time for obtaining these ballots expires October 28th. VOTE CARL J. TOBIASSEN SUPERVISOR First District x GENERAL ELECTION, NOVEMBER 2 “A MAN WITH BUSINESS AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE” FOR x is $61,715,400. However, under Proposition 4, the State’s contribution would be $185,488, 300——an increase of 166.6% over the State’s present contribution! The Federal government’s burden would rise to $86,029,600—an increase’ of 44.5%, The present county contributions totaling $12,577,300 As pointed out in. the official! 25,000,000 next year in Califor‘or every family, And within 12: Complete CLIFF SHEPHERD’S — PAINT STORE . 116 East Phone Grass Valley 455 — S . G i Service Only Union Sign Shop in the Area . Main Street é MOVING HOUSEHOLD GOODS BOUGHT AND SOLD STORAGE Agents for LYONS Reliable Transfer & Storage Grass Valley Phone 39 Hills Fiat _ Committee for Home Protection Next time, (Political, Advertisement) BAD HOUSING You can ride in luxurious, all dining car. SCHEDULE OF THE SACRAMENTO DAYLIGHT 8:35 a.m. Lv . Sacramento. Ar 7:30 p.m. 9:17 a.m. Lv,...Galt...Ar 6:43 p.m. 9:30 a.m. Lv...Lodi...Ar 6:28 p. m. 10:00 a. m. Lv.. Stockton..Ar 6:10 Pp. m. 11:09 a.m. Ar..Modesto..Lv 5:15 p. m. 11:55 a.m. Ar...Merced...Lv 4:30 p. m. 1:00 p.m. Ar...Fresno... Lv 3:28 p. m. 3:01 p.m. Ar.. Bakersfield.. Lv 1:16 p.m. . 7:50 p.m. Ar.. Los Angeles..Lv 8:25. m, &-p The friendly Southern Pacifie M. A. PECK, District Passenger Agent . §. P. Station, Sacramento 14 try the Daylight _ Streamlined chair cars to Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley cities -weather comfort to San Joaquin Valley cities as well as to Los Angeles aboard the streamlined Sacramento, Daylight. No matter what the weather outside, you relax in your foam-rubber rese ear, in perfect comfort. The engineer does the drivi able from Sacramento, and south of Lathrop yo rved seat in a streamlined chair ng. Coffee shop service is availu may also use the lounge and ALL THE WAY BY TRAIN VERY LOW FARES! All seats on the Sacramento Daylight are numbered, and you may make your reservations in advance. Only Southern Pacific offers through train service to Los Angeles. Next'time, try the Sacramento Daylight. ~ ot 256 South Auburn Street SIX-WAY FLOOR LAMPS 8:95 Now Only OTHERS T0 $19.95 Phon . 36 The Furniture Center Opp. Vets Memorial Bldg. Construction crews rush two new AY RNS THN HS NR Sars peers —~ = om horsepower for Northern h NSS f f ay : h, " : > . PR ee thn > cm * ee > ~ *. 3S SSS SES = é Ae . sixteenmile Stretch of will soon be turning the Feather River. out 270,000 new electrica} and Central California. new dams, two new powerhouses and tunneling are already well underway..and when they are completed, still more waterpower will be harnessed. Map shows location of the two new plants — Rock Creek and Cresta.. along with three already built. A system of several dams and powerhouses like this one is an extremely efficient power producer and helps conserve water for irrigation. Work never Stops om our powerTwo of our biggest water tun. nels are part of the new construction .. 10% miles of But they’re only Part of a giant Power-building Program that will step up P.G.and tunnels large enough fora . This Program— double track railroad, We're going ahead full speed, and the . Ametiet—h Project, begun in 1946, will be. new jobs, gin delivering power next fall. : million 100 watt light bulbs, PACIFIC. GAS AND ELECTRIG company ae building pesotem