August 29, 1963 (16 pages)

Page 7.. August 29, 1963..The Nugget. . . Page 7 year and ‘65. Therefore, the warning from Sen. Harry F, Byrd, chairman of the Finance Committee, that the Senate may not have time to get to the tax cut has ominous significance for the President and his economic advisers, Opposed to the tax cut and deficit financing, Byrd is 'master of the technique of protracted delay. A warning similar to Byrd's has come from the Republican leaders, Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen andRep. Charles Halleck. Any suggestion of plans for new and more radical spending tohelpcure unemployment will stiffen the opposition to a tax cut. But expert opinion varies onhow much effect a tax cut would have, As Federal taxes are reduced, state taxes move steadily upward. Pennsylvania, for example, put through a tax increase of $142,000,000 with a record salestax of 5 percent. So far as the consumer's dollar is concerned, the state increases can offset the Federal reductions, Recently Clague prepared a series of statistical maps for 36 cities that show with dramatic impact How lack of education coincides with unemployment.,. This is true whether the jobless are Negro or white. Of the 4,322,000 persons recorded as being without jobs and looking for work, two-thirds have not completed high school and one-fifth have not gone as far as the last year of elementary school. Short of a massive retraining program -including the three Rs -these people will continue to be jobless. This is structural unemployment --built, that is, into the structure of the economy. The affluent can conceivably go on becoming more affluent while the jobless, asthey increasingly exhaust their benefits, become poorer. : One of the programs privately discussed is for a frontal attack on ignorance -a kind of Marshall Plan for the functional illiterates to prepare them for jobs. This would not discriminate between whites and Negroes. Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz recently reported that 8,000 workers have completed retraining under the present manpower development act, and of that number, 5,600 have found jobs. This is a drop in the bucket, and even with proposed changes which would remove certain restrictions and expand the program, it is like bailing out the ocean with a spoon. T hose determined to be hopeful can cite their own straws in the wind. One widely noted here is the report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on business conditions, The upward movement, now 28 months from the low of February, 1961, “retains sufficient vitality to justify an extended life expectancy," according to the the report. Whether, even with continued expansion, the struc~ture of joblessness can be touched is still a pressing question. Itrelatestoteen-agers, with an unemployment rate of 16.2 percent, and to Negroes for whom the rate in most cities istwo to three times that of whites, Here are the deeply emotional problems boundto grow more acute in a static economy. (Copyright 1963) -~-Marquis Childs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CACKLE, CACKLE, CACKLE, ARF, ARF, ARF To the Editor: Chickens chickens chickens! Early morning hours roosterscrow, all dayhenscackle And the smell of hen houses in the heat wafts from yard to yard, offending many. Yet this is a City, withrigid laws against just such. Canweask our fine police officers to enforce only the IVE HAD ITI! +. CANT 60. ON. AWY HORE I! x Most Qort lt! REGULAR BEAR . NONE ME. THE y ALL PO/MT A Hs STUPID HAT AWD GIGGLE UNDER THEIR DE THE G/RL BEARS CME AvP AkE DELVEES YI lawswewant enforced, and ignore this deliberate violation of a very definite City Ordinance that makes it a misdemeanor to keep chickens within the city limits? A law so direct there is a fine imposed of $25.00 per day as long as the chickens are harboured? We are making a joke, a travesty, of the very laws we, as Citizens, should be upholding. Dogs barking all night long despite a new law governing this chickens everywhere People who become outraged when asked to maintain the law are not setting their sights correctly. A town, a country, a people, only advance as they discipline themselves to keep the law. Thenewcomers who will be moving into Nevada City soon, cannot be expected to have any respect for our laws or our tradition, if they see established citizens so wantonly disobeying their own laws. If chickens are kept, they willask, why not pigs, goats, sheep, cows, horses, etc, What is the difference? Chickens here wander from yard to yard. Weare never going to get rid of the troublesome rat menace while chickens are permitted everywhere through our neighborhoods, We must face it: Nevada City is growing and laws are for the protection of all! Isn't it about time the chickens are removed? Sincerely, (Name withheld by request) Nevada City Resident IS TAILINGS COLUMN FACT OR FICTION? To the Editor: This letter is in protest against the publishing of fiction as historical fact. Since many readers accept historical articles as fact, (and they should be ableto, since few people can take the time to check authentic sources for themselves) it behooves you, as editor of this paper, to make every effort to have your writers adhere tothe truth in stories about Nevada County's nistory. And it isn't as it there weren't a wealth of exciting and romantic stories in this county's past-true stories-it only said would-be writers would take the trouble to do a little research in any number of available documents, "TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION!" An old saying, but no truer words could be quoted in respect to Nevada County's thrilling gold rush history. Since future historians and writers, and even present-day writers at a distance, may take your publication as a source of historical fact,it would be only fair to label fiction as such, and keep the record straight. The immediate reason for this protest is Hollis Bentley's "story" inthe Nugget of August 22, about “Bill Klemper” in Red Dog in 1859--In the first paragraph she has "Bill" a past resident of Meadow Lake, which, ‘as town ALL THE OTHER BEARS SAY "GRRRR!” 70 THE TOURS “YELLO FOLKS Ir’ SHOKEY THE BEAR ! REMEHBER ,oNLY YOO MD. WHAT G00b IES.. Al) CAL PREVENT FOREST “DO Lt HAVE TO SAV? AN €) 1963 by Den O'Neill or mine, wasn't discovered until six years later, in 1865. Next, the man's name was C, Fred Kempher. Then, several long paragraphs of pure fiction of which there is absolutely no record, about the man's past and character, except that it makes him out as a no-good foot -loose alcoholic, apparently bachelor. The facts being, according to the Nevada City Democtat of 1859, that Kempher had a wife in the eastern states to whom he sent part of his income. Next, that he was working as a hired barber. The facts: Fred Kempher owned, not only the Barber Shop, which he operated alone, but also the building itself, which also provided his living quarters. But the biggest piece of fiction was in having “Bill” set fire tothe shop after robbing it and an insensible drunken customer, and leaving said customer to be found as “charred remains” tobe assumed as his own, The actual “Democrat” story makes no conjecture that the body was not Kempher's, andin fact, gives details which indicate that the body was not burned beyond positive identification, as for instance, his clothing was not even burned. So, please, let's label fiction as such, and keep the Nugget's fairly good past reputation untarnished for publishing factual Nevada County history. Sincerely, Lyle L, White Grass Valley THE EDITOR REPLIES Lyle L. White is correct. The interesting and entertaining column, Tailings, is for the most part fiction--based in historical settings and making use of historical events, He is also correct in that “Bill” could not have beena past resident of Meadow Lake--~an error in dates. But the author, Miss Hollis Bentley, assures us that fictional Klemper was not intended to be factual Kemher. : The Nugget is glad that it has a reputation that can be kept “untarnished for publishing factual Nevada County history", just as it is proud that it can offer Tailings to an ever increasing number of readers. ---The Editor VOICES PROTEST OVER BLASTING OF TRESTLE To the Editor: . Where and when are we going to put a stop to the destruction of the beautiful and historic in this incomparable town and district. We protest the wanton destruction of the old narrow gauge trestle. This could havebeenleft, and whatever isneeded built beside it; and at least the wood left over from this vandalism could have been given to those in need of warmth this winter. -Also, the 2 beautiful Lindentrees, quite irreplaceable, could have been built around (the bldg. going up there will be outgrown in 20 or so years). But, since this wasn't done -= at least the wood could have been saved artists dote on it for carving but, no, it was hauled to the dump to be burned! (Ireferto the enormous trees destroyed for the annex for the hideous Courthouse, which will doubtless be quite as tasteless. ) We should have a real Planning Commission, such as Santa Barbara, where all must be harmonious to its beautiful past. To build there, one must do a Calif. Spanish job; we should preserve our charming Victorian past here, all the way. : Yours Truly, Caroline A, Hartley Nevada City L'VE MEVER EVEM DONUT PEOPLE oor A PEWUTBUTIER REALIZE THAT WE AND JELLY SANDWICH SACRED SVNBOLS wit THAT WERWOA WWE POR NEES, Also 07

Page 7... August 29, 1963...The Nugget. . . Page 7 year and ‘65. Therefore, the warning from Sen. Harry F, Byrd, chairman of the Finance Committee, that the Senate may not have time to get to the tax cut has ominous significance for the President and his economic advisers, Opposed to the tax cut and deficit financing, Byrd is 'master of the technique of protracted delay. A warning similar to Byrd's has come from the Republican leaders, Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen andRep. Charles Halleck. Any suggestion of plans for new and more radical spending tohelpcure unemployment will stiffen the opposition to a tax cut. But expert opinion varies onhow much effect a tax cut would have, As Federal taxes are reduced, state taxes move steadily upward. Pennsylvania, for example, put through a tax increase of $142,000,000 with a record salestax of 5 percent. So far as the consumer's dollar is concerned, the state increases can offset the Federal reductions, Recently Clague prepared a series of statistical maps for 36 cities that show with dramatic impact How lack of education coincides with unemployment.,. This is true whether the jobless are Negro or white. Of the 4,322,000 persons recorded as being without jobs and looking for work, two-thirds have not completed high school and one-fifth have not gone as far as the last year of elementary school. Short of a massive retraining program -including the three Rs -these people will continue to be jobless. This is structural unemployment --built, that is, into the structure of the economy. The affluent can conceivably go on becoming more affluent while the jobless, asthey increasingly exhaust their benefits, become poorer. : One of the programs privately discussed is for a frontal attack on ignorance -a kind of Marshall Plan for the functional illiterates to prepare them for jobs. This would not discriminate between whites and Negroes. Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz recently reported that 8,000 workers have completed retraining under the present manpower development act, and of that number, 5,600 have found jobs. This is a drop in the bucket, and even with proposed changes which would remove certain restrictions and expand the program, it is like bailing out the ocean with a spoon. T hose determined to be hopeful can cite their own straws in the wind. One widely noted here is the report of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on business conditions, The upward movement, now 28 months from the low of February, 1961, “retains sufficient vitality to justify an extended life expectancy," according to the the report. Whether, even with continued expansion, the struc~ture of joblessness can be touched is still a pressing question. Itrelatestoteen-agers, with an unemployment rate of 16.2 percent, and to Negroes for whom the rate in most cities istwo to three times that of whites, Here are the deeply emotional problems boundto grow more acute in a static economy. (Copyright 1963) -~-Marquis Childs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CACKLE, CACKLE, CACKLE, ARF, ARF, ARF To the Editor: Chickens chickens chickens! Early morning hours roosterscrow, all dayhenscackle And the smell of hen houses in the heat wafts from yard to yard, offending many. Yet this is a City, withrigid laws against just such. Canweask our fine police officers to enforce only the IVE HAD ITI! +. CANT 60. ON. AWY HORE I! x Most Qort lt! REGULAR BEAR .. NONE ME.. THE y ALL PO/MT A Hs STUPID HAT AWD GIGGLE UNDER THEIR DE THE G/RL BEARS CME AvP AkE DELVEES YI lawswewant enforced, and ignore this deliberate violation of a very definite City Ordinance that makes it a misdemeanor to keep chickens within the city limits? A law so direct there is a fine imposed of $25.00 per day as long as the chickens are harboured? We are making a joke, a travesty, of the very laws we, as Citizens, should be upholding. Dogs barking all night long despite a new law governing this chickens everywhere People who become outraged when asked to maintain the law are not setting their sights correctly. A town, a country, a people, only advance as they discipline themselves to keep the law. Thenewcomers who will be moving into Nevada City soon, cannot be expected to have any respect for our laws or our tradition, if they see established citizens so wantonly disobeying their own laws. If chickens are kept, they willask, why not pigs, goats, sheep, cows, horses, etc, What is the difference? Chickens here wander from yard to yard. Weare never going to get rid of the troublesome rat menace while chickens are permitted everywhere through our neighborhoods, We must face it: Nevada City is growing and laws are for the protection of all! Isn't it about time the chickens are removed? Sincerely, (Name withheld by request) Nevada City Resident

IS TAILINGS COLUMN FACT OR FICTION? To the Editor: This letter is in protest against the publishing of fiction as historical fact. Since many readers accept historical articles as fact, (and they should be ableto, since few people can take the time to check authentic sources for themselves) it behooves you, as editor of this paper, to make every effort to have your writers adhere tothe truth in stories about Nevada County's nistory. And it isn't as it there weren't a wealth of exciting and romantic stories in this county's past-true stories-it only said would-be writers would take the trouble to do a little research in any number of available documents, "TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION!" An old saying, but no truer words could be quoted in respect to Nevada County's thrilling gold rush history. Since future historians and writers, and even present-day writers at a distance, may take your publication as a source of historical fact,it would be only fair to label fiction as such, and keep the record straight. The immediate reason for this protest is Hollis Bentley's "story" inthe Nugget of August 22, about “Bill Klemper” in Red Dog in 1859--In the first paragraph she has "Bill" a past resident of Meadow Lake, which, ‘as town ALL THE OTHER BEARS SAY "GRRRR!” 70 THE TOURS “YELLO FOLKS Ir’ SHOKEY THE BEAR ! REMEHBER ,oNLY YOO MD. WHAT G00b IES... Al) CAL PREVENT FOREST “DO Lt HAVE TO SAV? AN €) 1963 by Den O'Neill or mine, wasn't discovered until six years later, in 1865. Next, the man's name was C, Fred Kempher. Then, several long paragraphs of pure fiction of which there is absolutely no record, about the man's past and character, except that it makes him out as a no-good foot -loose alcoholic, apparently bachelor. The facts being, according to the Nevada City Democtat of 1859, that Kempher had a wife in the eastern states to whom he sent part of his income. Next, that he was working as a hired barber. The facts: Fred Kempher owned, not only the Barber Shop, which he operated alone, but also the building itself, which also provided his living quarters. But the biggest piece of fiction was in having “Bill” set fire tothe shop after robbing it and an insensible drunken customer, and leaving said customer to be found as “charred remains” tobe assumed as his own, The actual “Democrat” story makes no conjecture that the body was not Kempher's, andin fact, gives details which indicate that the body was not burned beyond positive identification, as for instance, his clothing was not even burned. So, please, let's label fiction as such, and keep the Nugget's fairly good past reputation untarnished for publishing factual Nevada County history. Sincerely, Lyle L, White Grass Valley THE EDITOR REPLIES Lyle L. White is correct. The interesting and entertaining column, Tailings, is for the most part fiction--based in historical settings and making use of historical events, He is also correct in that “Bill” could not have beena past resident of Meadow Lake--~an error in dates. But the author, Miss Hollis Bentley, assures us that fictional Klemper was not intended to be factual Kemher. : The Nugget is glad that it has a reputation that can be kept “untarnished for publishing factual Nevada County history", just as it is proud that it can offer Tailings to an ever increasing number of readers. ---The Editor VOICES PROTEST OVER BLASTING OF TRESTLE To the Editor: . Where and when are we going to put a stop to the destruction of the beautiful and historic in this incomparable town and district. We protest the wanton destruction of the old narrow gauge trestle. This could havebeenleft, and whatever isneeded built beside it; and at least the wood left over from this vandalism could have been given to those in need of warmth this winter. -Also, the 2 beautiful Lindentrees, quite irreplaceable, could have been built around (the bldg. going up there will be outgrown in 20 or so years). But, since this wasn't done -= at least the wood could have been saved artists dote on it for carving but, no, it was hauled to the dump to be burned! (Ireferto the enormous trees destroyed for the annex for the hideous Courthouse, which will doubtless be quite as tasteless. ) We should have a real Planning Commission, such as Santa Barbara, where all must be harmonious to its beautiful past. To build there, one must do a Calif. Spanish job; we should preserve our charming Victorian past here, all the way. : Yours Truly, Caroline A, Hartley Nevada City L'VE MEVER EVEM DONUT PEOPLE oor A PEWUTBUTIER REALIZE THAT WE AND JELLY SANDWICH SACRED SVNBOLS wit THAT WERWOA WWE POR NEES, Also 07