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“NORTHERN MINES & CALIFORNIA REPORTS
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Your Dollars
Water
Outflow Of Dollars
Still A Big Problem
Help On
The Way
Ray Borchard, Work Unit Con
servationist in Grass Valley, has
received information from Secretary of Agriculture Orville L.
Freeman directing US Depart
which help local people -urban
and rural -improve the quality
and quantity of their water supply.
"Widespread droughts during the
past year are just one indication
of the Nation*s pressing need for
November as Water Conservation
Month, President Johnson called
FRED FORSMAN tries on a new hat at the Faculty Club party while
Ginny Forsman (left) and Ruth Paine look on during the annual
Christmas party last week,
water “our most grossly abused”
resource, The President emphaplaces is not a need to find new
helping South Vietnam against
the Communists is using up quite
a bit of what had been saved
elsewhere. The dollar drain
nomists,
What is the problem?
In very simple language: U.S.
c¢ Orporations and citizens are
spending, lending, giving away,
or investing more abroad
than
loaditcarries, These burdens -a warin Vietnam, a major share
tion, Cost-sharing, and loans for
of the defense burdens in Europe,
water development are major
and aid for everybody from Nasser
tools in the nation-wide water
conservation effort because the
end result is more effective use
to Shastri -are not too great as
long as U.S, businessmen sell
enough goods and services in
markets of the world to balance
off government aid and foreign
of water, “Secretary Freeman
said.
“USDA's assistance in this area
w military spending.
The underlying problem is that
is of vital importance because
the Department's conservation
the bulk of free-world trade is
carried on in U.S, dollars, The
dollar is the world's chief reserve
effort begins on the land where
the water falls, Many of USDA's
conservation services are specifically designed to help the owners
and operators of our private lands
which make up nearly three
currency, held by foreign
countries as part of their financial
reserves along with gold and, to
a lesser degree, British pounds,
mt,
fourths of the U.S. mainland,
conserve our precious soil and
i
*.
SANTA CLAUS in disguise, Red Husband,
passes out gifts while
elves, Kathy Hirtz and Donna Sever distribute them to members of
the Nevada City Faculty Club during the club's annual Christmas
party held last Thursday night.
Annual Dairy Cattle Day
increase USDA’s ability to help Is Scheduled For Davis
expanded water and waste disposal
program, signed into law October
7 by President Johnson, will
rural people build modern water
Topics ranging from diseases of
dairy cattle to management of
capital in a dairy operation will
be covered during annual Dairy
Cattle Day on Friday, January 21,
at the University of Califomia,
Private Kyle Greever
Serves With Marines
Davis, according to Nevada
Marine Private First Class Kyle
Dairy Cattle Day will be held
at UC-Riverside on Janaury 25,
Mrs. Kyle W. Greever of 500
Jordan St,, Nevada City, was
among 1500 Marines of Battalion
Landing Team3/2 who deployed
for a five-month period of training
to the Mediterranean,
on U.S. dollars, The cost of
far asto picture the dollar as the
relatively strong in spite of the
conservation, research, educa
W. Greever, Jr., son of Mr. and
government official has gone so
them, we are losing our gold.
At the moment the dollar is
Agriculture's activities such as
technical help in soil and forest
and sewage treatment systems,
thereby preventing pollution and
providing --~for the first time in
many rural communities -the
possibility of a dependable,
constant, and safe supply of water.
of the news and one top ranking
abroad,
Still there are some problems,
Thewarin Vietnam is a big drain
than we are receiving from
foreign nations, Because these
foreign nationscan demand payment in gold of the debts we owe
more effective use of water
resources now available,"
"The U.S. Department of
larged by new legislation that
broadens existing programs and
establishes new ones." The
numbers of dollars they lend
spending more dollars overseas
sources of water, but, instead, is
a need to develop sound conservation practices and to,make
responsibilities have been en
America,
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foreigners are spending in this
country.
Put in a different way, we are
sizedthat “the problem, in many
watertesources, Inthe past 4 1/2
years, USDA's water conservation
abroad, © Banks have cooperated
by voluntary agreement on the
country’s overriding problem, It
occupiesa good deal of editorial
space and is uppermost in the
. minds of governments and eco
increased attention to water conservation,” Secretary Freeman
In his proclamation designating
equalization tax on investments
second in a series of articles on
finance from the Bank of
By Andrew Baldwin
The U. S, dollar is in and out
ment of Agriculture agencies to
give maximum effort to programs
said,
(EDITOR'S NOTE--This is the
County Farm Advisor Les McCabe,
Similar programs will beheld on
each campus, Research reports
to be covered during the field
day will include:
Capital management for Califomia fluid milk producers, by
Chester O. McCorkle; economics
of concentrate-roughage feeding
in milk production, by Gerald W.
comes about
because you just
cannot ship everything over to
Vietnam fromhere. The shipping
costs are too prohibitive. We
have to buy some things in that
part of the world.
Yet, unlike England -stripped
of her international wealthin two
world wars -we can be optimistic about the outlook of the dollar,
We have a serious situation that
is going to require firm action,
It is a case of deciding how to go
about it.
The key to it all lies in what
happens to U.S. sales in world
markets,
Releases
From Tahoe
Attacked
Senator Paul J. Lunardi of the
Seventh District has announced
that he intends to introduce
whatever legislation is necessary
to prevent further irresponsible
water releases from Lake Tahoe,
"I fully understand the necessity
Foreigners hold dollars in the
of flood control measures, but
I
expectation that they will always
be "as good as gold, "
fail to understand why such a
decision to drop the level of Lake
Tahoe was made at the last
The dollar has weathered quite
a few changes in the par values
of other currencies since World
War
II and throughout has re
mained an island of strength,
These governments and central
banks who own dollars are guaranteed by the U.S, treasury that
they will be given on demand an
ounce of gold in exchange for
every $35 they hold,
Quite obviously we can't just
goon spending more than we
eam in the world, We must get
Dean; least-cost formulation of
dairy concentrate mixes, by back to balance or very close to
Donald_L, Bath; low intake of it.
Tocut back the billions it sends
DDT experiments with dairy
cows, by Robert C, Laben; curoverseas each year as a major
rent feeding trials, by Magnar free world power, the government
Ronning; ketosis, -by Roy S. has taken varied steps, It has
Emery; and reproduction studies, found ways of using goods that
come from
the U.S, instead of
by Perry T. Cupps.
The programwill begin at 9:45 paying out dollars to purchase
a.m. in Freeborm Hall at Davis abroad, It has pushed the inwith a welcome by Dean James crease of exports, slashed the
H, Meyer, of the UCD College duty -free allowance for returning
tourists, and put a 15 per cent
of Agriculture.
minute, This decision should
have been made weeks ago in
order to allow a smaller flow of
water Over a longer period of
time, Itiscompletely unjustified
to subject property owners to the
damaging torrent of water that is
now flowing into the Truckee
River, “ Lunardi said.
“Regardless of the order given
by the Tahoe-Carson Irrigation
District to open the flood gates,
it appears that the Bureau of
Reclamation is not acting in the
best interest of the public in
allowing late scheduling of such
damaging water releases,“ he
continued,
The Senator also pointed out
that he has requested Congressman Harold T, “Bizz™ Johnson
to investigate asto why the level
of Lake Tahoe is apparently con
trolled at the whims of irrigation
districts within the State of
Nevada,
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