December 19, 1963 (32 pages)

. The Nugget. «Page BS . December 19, 1963. Page BS. area lies the fate of California as a land of beauty and fertility. Do the independent officials of this area have the stature, the strength, the guts, the wherewithal, the imagination, the cooperative spirit to control the excessively wasteful spread of the slurbs? Are they even interested? The physical evidence showsthey do not and are not. ---Samuel E. Wood and Alfred Heller, from "The Phantom Cities of California” LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS By the time you read this, more than thirty interim meetings of Senate and Assembly committees will have been held inDecember, and there is still time for others to be scheduled within the month. This heavy volume of work results from the hundreds. of bills and resolutions which were referred for interim study by the 1963 Regular and Special Sessions. Few persons not directly connected with the Legislature are aware of the amount of preparatory work neces_ sary to carry on such an extensive program of investigation. Meeting dates must be selected with care to assure full attendance of committee members, Locations must picked with an eye to community interest in particular problems, Adequate advance notice must be given to all interested individuals and organizations, and to the general public through all news media. Frequently, research material must be collected from many sources, and summarized for information of ¢ommittee members, Written statements must be obtained from those desiring to make formal presentations. An itemized agenda must be prepared to notify all concerned of topics which will be taken up. Sometimes, subpenas must be issued to make certain that individuals attend, or records are produced. Some twenty different topics will have been considered at these meetings. Certain matters will be the subjects of more than one hearing, either because of their great importance, or because the needs of various parts of the state differ considerably, Then too, as frequently happens, committee consideration may develop new areas for study. It is not possible for me to do more than name a few ofthe matters considered at these hearings. They cover the alphabet from airports to zoning. Every resident of California, rural or urban, northern or southern, has a personal stake in one or more of the problems investigated, The Senate Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities, and the Assembly Committee on Transportation and Commerce are continuing their series of hearings on airport location, development and financing. Thetwo groups are also studying the problems of metropolitan rapid transit. The Assembly Committee on Water, through its subcommittees, is taking up three problems: the pollution of San Francisco Bay Waters; the conversion of salt water through nuclear energy; and the intrusion of sea water into ground water from boating marinas. The Assembly Education Committee is considering the financing of the foundation program of local school districts, as well as the knotty problem of authorizing academic research at the state colleges. One hve aring which is certain to attract wide public attention isthat of the Senate Committee on Legislative lobbying in Sacramento, As this is being written, the committee chairman has saidthat a full-scale investigation of lobbying, the broadest in ten years, will be made to determine what it is, what it does, and how much it costs. The services of a nationally known authority as ‘consultant have been requested, ---State Senator Paul J. Lunardi L CAMWOT ONDERSTAUD “UY PEOPLE LWT TO BE "FREE AS A bikb..” Z Wet ALM /7 WAS A GREAT SOMMER .. WW/TH Att THAT 1H1CE WEATHER -FOOD .. 8U7 THAT WAS WASHINGTON CALLING WALTER JENKINS, THE MAN CLOSEST TO JOHNSON WASHINGTON ---Franklin Roosevelt had his Harry Hopkins, Dwight Eisenhower his Sherman Adams and Jotin F. Kennedy his Theodore Sorensen. Each -Hopkins, Adams, Sorensen -was the man-closest-to the President of his time. Lyndon Johnson will not precisely have a Hopkins, an Adams, a Sorensen, because while he will take more advice from more people and more kinds of people than any President of recent times, both ultimate decision and ultimate action will be his personal products to a degree also not seen in recent times. But President Johnson will have the presently untitled -and possibly never tobe fully titled -Walter Jenkins. When Mr. Johnson was Senate majority leader and later Vice-President, Walter-J enkins --the President often calls him thus, as though his Christian and family names were compressed and subjoined -was principal. administrative assistant. The job covered everything : keeping an eye onJohnson political interests everywhere; assisting the majority leader in every form of problem in the Senate and later every problem in the Vice-Presidency; keeping in some touch with the private property affairs which the Johnsons have now put in tryst so that there can be no suggestion of conflict-of-interest. Jenkins was “chief of staff," to use a not very descriptive term to denote an indispensable man. Now, this is what he is to Mr. Johnson as President -or, inthe oldcolloquial expression, he is chief cook and bottle washer. He attends the super-secret National Security Council. He is at the same time far from inattentive to all domestic political and legislative problems. And if Mrs. Johnson needs help or advice, and her own assistant, Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter, feels the need of consultation, a small summit meeting may ensue with Jenkins as Mrs. Carpenter's opposite number. He is, in short, the man about whom the peculiarly telling phrase is this: “See Walter about it.” ree es Well, what manner of man is Jenkins? The answer ‘coming first to mind is that he is simply the kind of man who is -and in memory seems always to have been -there. He is as quiet as Sorensen. He is as executiveminded as was Sherman Adams but never gives the impression he is either running things or trying to. He works at a furious pace which, because of his down-played personality, paradoxically seems almost hesitant. He is casually gentle; but very far from lamblike. He can be very "tough", if he must, though nobody not knowing him well would sense it. He isnever excessively high or excessively low in mood on the out~side; though sometimes, inside, ne approaches one mood or the other. He isacompact, slightly florid-faced. man of 47, with heavy, dark and slightly graying hair. He is a deeply conscientious man whose worries settle in his stomach rather than show on his face. Like most strenuously “doing" men, he is nervous. The condition is not helped at the moment by what he calls, with a wry smile at the pretentiousness of the jargon, “the symptoms of withdrawal". That is, he is trying to quit cigarettes -of which he was smoking far too many lately. He is a Catholic from northwest Texas -a rarity in that region of the state, whereas it is a commonplace in the President's southwestern part of the state -and but for that fact would have been elected to Congress in a race made many years ago. He reads but is not bookish. He is, drawing no long bow about it, one of the ablest, LVE BEEN SITTING HERE FOR HOURS @) pied THE COLD Llp/D L078 OF Wp SVOW BLOWM6 SOMHER \ HL GC Hg ee Sg sé Ar] UP MY TAL FEATHERS . most devoted, most truly moral but totally unselfrighteous public men this country has known for along time. And in a profession where most men use sharp elbows on the way up, Walter-Jenkins has never learned that those joints have any other use than to swing as he walks along. (Copyright 1963) _ ---William S, White, substituting for Marquis Childs, who is on vacation FIVE OF OYUNG FAMILY GRADUATED FROM SIERRA To The Editor: The story about Mrs. Oyung Ching Gum that appeared» in the December 5th issue of the Nugget was of considerable interest to me. We are going through a period now, after the assassination of President Kennedy, in which we are rather critical of our social behavior. Here, however,is a refreshing story that tells how a fine Chinese-A merican family found success in their adopted country, and how Nevada County provided their seven children with the educational opportunities that enabled them to contribute their best to.the American way of life, I think the Nevada County people who are now numbered as constituents of the Sierra College District will be pleased to learn that five of the seven grandchildren of this matriarch are graduates of Sierra College. I am listing them in the order of their graduation as follows: Rita Sing Oyung graduated 1947 Walter Oyung ", 1949 Carl Oyung . 1955 George Oyung 1957 Phillip Oyung 1959 It is a real satisfaction to the staff at Sierra College to have assisted these fine people on their road to success, Sincerely, Harold M, Weaver, President and District Superintendent Sierra College, Rocklin THANKS TO RESIDENTS GIVEN FOR UNICEF SUPPORT To The Editor: Allow us to express our heartfelt thanks for the publicity afforded our Trick or Treat for UNICEF program this past fall. Through their generosity, stimulated by your support, the children and adults in your community have strengthened UNICEF's assistance to over 500 long-range programs for needy children and mothers in 116 countries. It willno doubt gratify them to know that, in terms of such aid, a $200 Halloween contribution can mean any of the following: The antibiotics to protect 1,600 children from the blindness of trachoma; The BCG vaccine to protect 20,000 children against tuberculosis; The penicillin to cure 8,000 children of yaws, a crippling tropical disease; A daily cup of milk for 3,400 hungry children for a whole month. It is a privilege to thank you, your readers and their children on behalf of the United Nations Children's Fund. Yours most sincerely, Victor de Keyserling Director of Information Services New York

. The Nugget.. «Page BS . December 19, 1963.. Page BS.. area lies the fate of California as a land of beauty and fertility. Do the independent officials of this area have the stature, the strength, the guts, the wherewithal, the imagination, the cooperative spirit to control the excessively wasteful spread of the slurbs? Are they even interested? The physical evidence showsthey do not and are not. ---Samuel E. Wood and Alfred Heller, from "The Phantom Cities of California” LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS By the time you read this, more than thirty interim meetings of Senate and Assembly committees will have been held inDecember, and there is still time for others to be scheduled within the month. This heavy volume of work results from the hundreds. of bills and resolutions which were referred for interim study by the 1963 Regular and Special Sessions. Few persons not directly connected with the Legislature are aware of the amount of preparatory work neces_ sary to carry on such an extensive program of investigation. Meeting dates must be selected with care to assure full attendance of committee members, Locations must picked with an eye to community interest in particular problems, Adequate advance notice must be given to all interested individuals and organizations, and to the general public through all news media. Frequently, research material must be collected from many sources, and summarized for information of ¢ommittee members, Written statements must be obtained from those desiring to make formal presentations. An itemized agenda must be prepared to notify all concerned of topics which will be taken up. Sometimes, subpenas must be issued to make certain that individuals attend, or records are produced. Some twenty different topics will have been considered at these meetings. Certain matters will be the subjects of more than one hearing, either because of their great importance, or because the needs of various parts of the state differ considerably, Then too, as frequently happens, committee consideration may develop new areas for study. It is not possible for me to do more than name a few ofthe matters considered at these hearings. They cover the alphabet from airports to zoning. Every resident of California, rural or urban, northern or southern, has a personal stake in one or more of the problems investigated, The Senate Committee on Transportation and Public Utilities, and the Assembly Committee on Transportation and Commerce are continuing their series of hearings on airport location, development and financing. Thetwo groups are also studying the problems of metropolitan rapid transit. The Assembly Committee on Water, through its subcommittees, is taking up three problems: the pollution of San Francisco Bay Waters; the conversion of salt water through nuclear energy; and the intrusion of sea water into ground water from boating marinas. The Assembly Education Committee is considering the financing of the foundation program of local school districts, as well as the knotty problem of authorizing academic research at the state colleges. One hve aring which is certain to attract wide public attention isthat of the Senate Committee on Legislative lobbying in Sacramento, As this is being written, the committee chairman has saidthat a full-scale investigation of lobbying, the broadest in ten years, will be made to determine what it is, what it does, and how much it costs. The services of a nationally known authority as ‘consultant have been requested, ---State Senator Paul J. Lunardi L CAMWOT ONDERSTAUD “UY PEOPLE LWT TO BE "FREE AS A bikb...” Z Wet ALM /7 WAS A GREAT SOMMER ... WW/TH Att THAT 1H1CE WEATHER -FOOD ... 8U7 THAT WAS WASHINGTON CALLING WALTER JENKINS, THE MAN CLOSEST TO JOHNSON WASHINGTON ---Franklin Roosevelt had his Harry Hopkins, Dwight Eisenhower his Sherman Adams and Jotin F. Kennedy his Theodore Sorensen. Each -Hopkins, Adams, Sorensen -was the man-closest-to the President of his time. Lyndon Johnson will not precisely have a Hopkins, an Adams, a Sorensen, because while he will take more advice from more people and more kinds of people than any President of recent times, both ultimate decision and ultimate action will be his personal products to a degree also not seen in recent times. But President Johnson will have the presently untitled -and possibly never tobe fully titled -Walter Jenkins. When Mr. Johnson was Senate majority leader and later Vice-President, Walter-J enkins --the President often calls him thus, as though his Christian and family names were compressed and subjoined -was principal. administrative assistant. The job covered everything : keeping an eye onJohnson political interests everywhere; assisting the majority leader in every form of problem in the Senate and later every problem in the Vice-Presidency; keeping in some touch with the private property affairs which the Johnsons have now put in tryst so that there can be no suggestion of conflict-of-interest. Jenkins was “chief of staff," to use a not very descriptive term to denote an indispensable man. Now, this is what he is to Mr. Johnson as President -or, inthe oldcolloquial expression, he is chief cook and bottle washer. He attends the super-secret National Security Council. He is at the same time far from inattentive to all domestic political and legislative problems. And if Mrs. Johnson needs help or advice, and her own

assistant, Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter, feels the need of consultation, a small summit meeting may ensue with Jenkins as Mrs. Carpenter's opposite number. He is, in short, the man about whom the peculiarly telling phrase is this: “See Walter about it.” ree es Well, what manner of man is Jenkins? The answer ‘coming first to mind is that he is simply the kind of man who is -and in memory seems always to have been -there. He is as quiet as Sorensen. He is as executiveminded as was Sherman Adams but never gives the impression he is either running things or trying to. He works at a furious pace which, because of his down-played personality, paradoxically seems almost hesitant. He is casually gentle; but very far from lamblike. He can be very "tough", if he must, though nobody not knowing him well would sense it. He isnever excessively high or excessively low in mood on the out~side; though sometimes, inside, ne approaches one mood or the other. He isacompact, slightly florid-faced. man of 47, with heavy, dark and slightly graying hair. He is a deeply conscientious man whose worries settle in his stomach rather than show on his face. Like most strenuously “doing" men, he is nervous. The condition is not helped at the moment by what he calls, with a wry smile at the pretentiousness of the jargon, “the symptoms of withdrawal". That is, he is trying to quit cigarettes -of which he was smoking far too many lately. He is a Catholic from northwest Texas -a rarity in that region of the state, whereas it is a commonplace in the President's southwestern part of the state -and but for that fact would have been elected to Congress in a race made many years ago. He reads but is not bookish. He is, drawing no long bow about it, one of the ablest, LVE BEEN SITTING HERE FOR HOURS @) pied THE COLD Llp/D L078 OF Wp SVOW BLOWM6 SOMHER \ HL GC Hg ee Sg sé Ar] UP MY TAL FEATHERS .. most devoted, most truly moral but totally unselfrighteous public men this country has known for along time. And in a profession where most men use sharp elbows on the way up, Walter-Jenkins has never learned that those joints have any other use than to swing as he walks along. (Copyright 1963) _ ---William S, White, substituting for Marquis Childs, who is on vacation FIVE OF OYUNG FAMILY GRADUATED FROM SIERRA To The Editor: The story about Mrs. Oyung Ching Gum that appeared» in the December 5th issue of the Nugget was of considerable interest to me. We are going through a period now, after the assassination of President Kennedy, in which we are rather critical of our social behavior. Here, however,is a refreshing story that tells how a fine Chinese-A merican family found success in their adopted country, and how Nevada County provided their seven children with the educational opportunities that enabled them to contribute their best to.the American way of life, I think the Nevada County people who are now numbered as constituents of the Sierra College District will be pleased to learn that five of the seven grandchildren of this matriarch are graduates of Sierra College. I am listing them in the order of their graduation as follows: Rita Sing Oyung graduated 1947 Walter Oyung ", 1949 Carl Oyung . 1955 George Oyung 1957 Phillip Oyung 1959 It is a real satisfaction to the staff at Sierra College to have assisted these fine people on their road to success, Sincerely, Harold M, Weaver, President and District Superintendent Sierra College, Rocklin THANKS TO RESIDENTS GIVEN FOR UNICEF SUPPORT To The Editor: Allow us to express our heartfelt thanks for the publicity afforded our Trick or Treat for UNICEF program this past fall. Through their generosity, stimulated by your support, the children and adults in your community have strengthened UNICEF's assistance to over 500 long-range programs for needy children and mothers in 116 countries. It willno doubt gratify them to know that, in terms of such aid, a $200 Halloween contribution can mean any of the following: The antibiotics to protect 1,600 children from the blindness of trachoma; The BCG vaccine to protect 20,000 children against tuberculosis; The penicillin to cure 8,000 children of yaws, a crippling tropical disease; A daily cup of milk for 3,400 hungry children for a whole month. It is a privilege to thank you, your readers and their children on behalf of the United Nations Children's Fund. Yours most sincerely, Victor de Keyserling Director of Information Services New York