August 24, 1966 (20 pages)

> a A} ym ? } eee ee ~~ Betagor. py ea we a 4 “* ‘a r a re f oe Vv? gars 6 ti) CV VIE. ‘dod 2.Nevada County Nugget.'. August 24, 1966 NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET EDITORIAL CLEAN INITIATIVE IS DANGEROUS Proposition 16 on the November ballot, the so-called CLEAN initiative which claims to strengthen California's anti-obscenity laws, is apposed by the California Library Association, the California-Nevada Council of Churches, the Californians Against Absurd Censorship, the District Attorney of Los Angeles, the American Civil Liberties Union, and most newspapers and publications. The initiative would permit any eccentric, extremist, neurotic or psychotic to force prosecution of any material he doesn't like. Anybody and everybody could set himself up as a censor. The initiative makes it:possible for any citizen to sue a district attorney who judiciously declines to prosecute any matter the citizen considers obscene. The initiative appears to violate the First Amendment to the ‘United States Constitution prohibiting interference with the free expression of ideas. It makes a crucial change in the present definition of obscenity by deleting the "redeeming social importance” test. This makes good literature subject to the censor's shroud. It eliminates the requirement that "contemporary standards” be applied in judging whether the matter goes beyond customary limits of candor. The»initiative offers variable and confusing standards for judging obscenity, depending on the ages of the individuals and on the "spe-" cially susceptible," and to what are they "specially susceptible"? ; The initiative is vague and indefinite. It substitutes local and personal prejudices for national standards of obscenity. It could make a book which is available in one town subject to prosecution in another town because it offends some provincial standards of taste. It conflicts with constitutional guarantees of fair trial and due process of the law by making a jury the exclusive judge of the "common conscience” of the community. Juries will be asked to make judgments in areas which have been defined as "indefinable.” We think that the CLEAN initiative is a dangerous measure which puts enforcement of antiobscenity laws into the hands of people who are ill-equipped to cope with the complicated fields of censorship and public morality. We urge the voters to reject Proposition 16. IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN THEY FLY THROUGH THE AIR It's always an exciting experience to jet to New York, but doing it during the airline strike is something else, larrived last week in Sacramento to fly to Los Angeles at the same time all of the Democrats arrived in Sacramento to attend the State Convention, I noticed a crowd of jostling men and women arrive about a half hour before the LA flight was due, They were all easily distinguishable from the rest of the milling crowd because they were all wearing paper derby hats, Each also wore one or more derby hat shaped signs reading: “I'M FOR JOHN," In smaller letters each sign said: “HUMPERDINK FOR SOUTHERN CHAIRMAN," seuisttcs North Star Power House in Grass Valley. Asthe time approached for the LA flight to arrive, this gay little group pushed their way through the crowd of boarding passengers and stationed themselves by the gates. Two men unfurled a huge paper sign proclaiming their support for John for southern chairman, Everyone getting off the LA flight wore a name tag, but apparently John Humperdink either wasn‘t on board, didn't want to acknowledge the accolades of his avid supporters, or ducked out the-special service exit along with Pierre Salinger, The Humperdink supporters held up their sign until the last passenger had deplaned, grinned, rolled the sign up again and went off to the Civic Auditorium, Because of all the Democrats, the plane was late in arriving and because it took them so long to get off, the plane was late in departing. Iasked the stewardess if the group had chartered the huge jet for the flight from LA. "I don't know what they did,“ she said-with a tired sigh, “but if I had known they were coming I would have developed some tertible sickness and stayed home for the day,” It was only 104 degrees in Sacramento that day and the air conditioning in the plane didn ‘t work, We sat on the ground for more than a half hour. “There's no ground power in little places like this," the stewardess told one sweating passenger who asked about the air conditioning. The pilot seemed to have other ideas, “Ah.ha, this is your captain, foiks," the voice came over the cabin speaker, “Sorry about the delay, Sorry about that air conditionertoo, It‘snotworking, again.as usual, ha ha, It'll cool off when we get up. I'll keep working on it," While these explanations were being given, there was a spirited debate going on among the passengers as to the merits of having hot moving air blowing from the overhead vents versus no moving air. We took a vote in our row and settled for hot moving air, We all turned our vents on full blast and created an effect like sitting in a giant hair dryer, ; The air finally cooled off just before we started to make our final approach for Los Angeles, Wearrived just about in time for my connecting flight east. Or, that's what I thought, I rushed down miles of corridors presented my ticket and was ushered into the tourist waiting lounge. "We will be boarding in just a few minutes," the speaker said. So we waited, and waited and waited, "Passengers holding space on flight 59 for New York are asked to proceed to gate 40," the speaker suddenly announced, Gate 40 was directly on the opposite side of the building from where we were all standing, Everyone picked up their gear, rushed across the terminal, were again ushered into the lounge and then all tushedto the window, There was no airplane in the loading dock, The first one apparently wouldn't fly and the second one hadn't arrived, For one who has:some fears about flying, this series of events would have been upsetting, but I learned a long time ago that I couldn ‘t beat the machines so I took the old advice and joined them, I just knew there would be a plane there sometime and so there was, finally, The flight to New York was an uneventful as it could be for a four hour journey with 12 screaming babies, On the return trip, the airline, so delighted with its earlier role of being one of the few carriers not on strike, had apparently sold about 20 more seats than the plane contained, I was going to be gallant and volunteer to sit in the first.class section, but I soon noticed there were no vacant seats there either, We finally got off the ground and then everyone started to fidget. Then they began to sweat. You guessed it -the air conditioning didn't work, I finally made it back to Sacramento Sunday, With machines behind me, I turned to put my faith in humans again and went outside to pick up my bag from the baggage clerk. It had been left behind by the baggage clerk in San Francisco, lamreally that allthe airline machinists are back to work again, I hope the first job they get is to check all the air conditioning systems, e+ +«Don Hoagland NUGGET . PARAGRAPHS FROM THE PAST John Runckel of Dutch Flat missed one of his cows when milking time came the other evening. He finally located her in the bottom of an old prospecting shaft in an apple orchard on the Nutt place. The cow was found in good condition at the’ bottom of the shaft which is 25 feet and by the aid of a hoist rigged up, bossy was raised to the surface unharmed, <eeJall. Ob, 1927 ees ese ¢8 Plans for developing recreation in the Bowman Lake area of the Tahoe National Forest are awaiting approval of the chief forester, Washington, according to H.I. Snider, Tahoe-district ranger. The project, which Snider has worked on since his arrival here in 1948, includes proposed development of a centralized area near Bowman Lake, adjoining private land suitable for a resort site, for winter sports activity. The plan reserves the national forest land for public use in recreation for hikers, fishermen and hunters. March 17, 1950 e®eeess The electric lights were off at Downieville for several hours Wednesd.y night from some unknown cause. .Feb. 7, 1927 e@*eees#es NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NUGGET PUBLISHING CO,, INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif, George R. Kare, PublisherDonald L. Hoagland, Editor and General Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decree No. 12,406, Subscription rates: one year, $3; Two years, $5, kKkekkkk&kkk AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER

> a A} ym ? } eee ee ~~ Betagor. py ea we a 4 “* ‘a r a re f oe Vv? gars 6 ti) CV VIE. ‘dod 2..Nevada County Nugget.'. August 24, 1966 NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET EDITORIAL CLEAN INITIATIVE IS DANGEROUS Proposition 16 on the November ballot, the so-called CLEAN initiative which claims to strengthen California's anti-obscenity laws, is apposed by the California Library Association, the California-Nevada Council of Churches, the Californians Against Absurd Censorship, the District Attorney of Los Angeles, the American Civil Liberties Union, and most newspapers and publications. The initiative would permit any eccentric, extremist, neurotic or psychotic to force prosecution of any material he doesn't like. Anybody and everybody could set himself up as a censor. The initiative makes it:possible for any citizen to sue a district attorney who judiciously declines to prosecute any matter the citizen considers obscene. The initiative appears to violate the First Amendment to the ‘United States Constitution prohibiting interference with the free expression of ideas. It makes a crucial change in the present definition of obscenity by deleting the "redeeming social importance” test. This makes good literature subject to the censor's shroud. It eliminates the requirement that "contemporary standards” be applied in judging whether the matter goes beyond customary limits of candor. The»initiative offers variable and confusing standards for judging obscenity, depending on the ages of the individuals and on the "spe-" cially susceptible," and to what are they "specially susceptible"? ; The initiative is vague and indefinite. It substitutes local and personal prejudices for national standards of obscenity. It could make a book which is available in one town subject to prosecution in another town because it offends some provincial standards of taste. It conflicts with constitutional guarantees of fair trial and due process of the law by making a jury the exclusive judge of the "common conscience” of the community. Juries will be asked to make judgments in areas which have been defined as "indefinable.” We think that the CLEAN initiative is a dangerous measure which puts enforcement of antiobscenity laws into the hands of people who are ill-equipped to cope with the complicated fields of censorship and public morality. We urge the voters to reject Proposition 16. IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN THEY FLY THROUGH THE AIR It's always an exciting experience to jet to New York, but doing it during the airline strike is something else, larrived last week in Sacramento to fly to Los Angeles at the same time all of the Democrats arrived in Sacramento to attend the State Convention, I noticed a crowd of jostling men and women arrive about a half hour before the LA flight was due, They were all easily distinguishable from the rest of the milling crowd because they were all wearing paper derby hats, Each also wore one or more derby hat shaped signs reading: “I'M FOR JOHN," In smaller letters each sign said: “HUMPERDINK FOR SOUTHERN CHAIRMAN," seuisttcs North Star Power House in Grass Valley. Asthe time approached for the LA flight to arrive, this gay little group pushed their way through the crowd of boarding passengers and stationed themselves by the gates. Two men unfurled a huge paper sign proclaiming their support for John for southern chairman, Everyone getting off the LA flight wore a name tag, but apparently John Humperdink either wasn‘t on board, didn't want to acknowledge the accolades of his avid supporters, or ducked out the-special service exit along with Pierre Salinger, The Humperdink supporters held up their sign until the last passenger had deplaned, grinned, rolled the sign up again and went off to the Civic Auditorium, Because of all the Democrats, the plane was late in arriving and because it took them so long to get off, the plane was late in departing. Iasked the stewardess if the group had chartered the huge jet for the flight from LA. "I don't know what they did,“ she said-with a tired sigh, “but if I had known they were coming I would have developed some tertible sickness and stayed home for the day,” It was only 104 degrees in Sacramento that day and the air conditioning in the plane didn ‘t work, We sat on the ground for more than a half hour. “There's no ground power in little places like this," the stewardess told one sweating passenger who asked about the air conditioning. The pilot seemed to have other ideas, “Ah..ha, this is your captain, foiks," the voice came over the cabin speaker, “Sorry about the delay, Sorry about that air conditionertoo, It‘snotworking, again..as usual, ha ha, It'll cool off when we get up. I'll keep working on it," While these explanations were being given, there was a spirited debate going on among the passengers as to the merits of having hot moving air blowing from the overhead vents versus no moving air.

We took a vote in our row and settled for hot moving air, We all turned our vents on full blast and created an effect like sitting in a giant hair dryer, ; The air finally cooled off just before we started to make our final approach for Los Angeles, Wearrived just about in time for my connecting flight east. Or, that's what I thought, I rushed down miles of corridors presented my ticket and was ushered into the tourist waiting lounge. "We will be boarding in just a few minutes," the speaker said. So we waited, and waited and waited, "Passengers holding space on flight 59 for New York are asked to proceed to gate 40," the speaker suddenly announced, Gate 40 was directly on the opposite side of the building from where we were all standing, Everyone picked up their gear, rushed across the terminal, were again ushered into the lounge and then all tushedto the window, There was no airplane in the loading dock, The first one apparently wouldn't fly and the second one hadn't arrived, For one who has:some fears about flying, this series of events would have been upsetting, but I learned a long time ago that I couldn ‘t beat the machines so I took the old advice and joined them, I just knew there would be a plane there sometime and so there was, finally, The flight to New York was an uneventful as it could be for a four hour journey with 12 screaming babies, On the return trip, the airline, so delighted with its earlier role of being one of the few carriers not on strike, had apparently sold about 20 more seats than the plane contained, I was going to be gallant and volunteer to sit in the first.class section, but I soon noticed there were no vacant seats there either, We finally got off the ground and then everyone started to fidget. Then they began to sweat. You guessed it -the air conditioning didn't work, I finally made it back to Sacramento Sunday, With machines behind me, I turned to put my faith in humans again and went outside to pick up my bag from the baggage clerk. It had been left behind by the baggage clerk in San Francisco, lamreally that allthe airline machinists are back to work again, I hope the first job they get is to check all the air conditioning systems, e+ +«Don Hoagland NUGGET . PARAGRAPHS FROM THE PAST John Runckel of Dutch Flat missed one of his cows when milking time came the other evening. He finally located her in the bottom of an old prospecting shaft in an apple orchard on the Nutt place. The cow was found in good condition at the’ bottom of the shaft which is 25 feet and by the aid of a hoist rigged up, bossy was raised to the surface unharmed, <eeJall. Ob, 1927 ees ese ¢8 Plans for developing recreation in the Bowman Lake area of the Tahoe National Forest are awaiting approval of the chief forester, Washington, according to H.I. Snider, Tahoe-district ranger. The project, which Snider has worked on since his arrival here in 1948, includes proposed development of a centralized area near Bowman Lake, adjoining private land suitable for a resort site, for winter sports activity. The plan reserves the national forest land for public use in recreation for hikers, fishermen and hunters.. March 17, 1950 e®eeess The electric lights were off at Downieville for several hours Wednesd.y night from some unknown cause. ..Feb. 7, 1927 e@*eees#es NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NUGGET PUBLISHING CO,, INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif, George R. Kare, PublisherDonald L. Hoagland, Editor and General Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decree No. 12,406, Subscription rates: one year, $3; Two years, $5, kKkekkkk&kkk AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER