December 22, 1965 (20 pages)

December 22, 1965,.Nevada County Nugget. (Garenate and House, who already had taken their stand or or against this legislation, and who now, under last-minute pressures, could hardly pay much attention tothis “technical detail", Responsibility for the “compensation amendment", in short, cannot be laid at any one door. Billboard and junkyard interests MAGNETIC ATTRACTION! Sua 1“ LEARNED GOOSE( Will, for the first time in this City, deliver his . ELOQUENT LECTURE = ON THE ART OF PECKING AT AND were, without doubt, the source and the pressure behindit. Lack of full understanding of its technical implications accounted for its acceptance, In our opinion, it would have been far preferable. to have let the bill go over to another session, rather than to enact it now at such a cost, However, let us not wring our hands, By one or another means we must find the best solution, State legislation may serve a helpful purpose, In regard to such possibilities we are conferring now. A movement may be possible soon to amend this feature of the federal act, and on this also we are conferring, Gains accomplished by enactment of the new “Highway Beautification Act" meanwhile should not be overlooked, There is far-reaching significance inthe mere enactment of legislation whose sole purpose is beauty in our highways, and further significance in such legislation having been recognized as sufficiently important tocommand active sponsorship of the President himself, on terms of immediate priority. Andin several ways this new act is stronger than Senator Neuberger's "Federal Bonus Act" of 1959, which it now largely supplants. ~-Califoria Roadside Council Bulletin, edited by WASHINGTON CALLING WINTER WILL SEPARATE THE MEN FROM THE BOYS A bleak winter's test is caming for this government's determination to go on to the end against Communist aggression in South Viet Nam unless a decent peace can be found through genuine and honorable negotiations, The storm is gathering; all concerned might as well know it now, Externally, the entire Communist world is united now in at least one objective, That world has opened a massive propaganda push to talk or frighten us out of Viet Nam. Even the bitter rivalry between the Soviet Union and Red China over global strategy -the Russians insisting basically upon indirect means to forward the Communist revolution and the fhinese insisting upon outright war to any and all limits -has been muted temporarily in behalf of the grand immediate objective of driving us from Viet Nam, _ Externally, too, the neutralist powers are joining the siege of wills onthe side of the Communist imperialists, Our Western allies themselves will soon be under yet heavier pressure to urge upon Washington that wonderfully easy way out which so appeals to the little but loud minority here whose honest horror of OME WAY 10 ELIMINATE WORLD STRIFE IS LOAD AL THE GUNS , BOMBS, AND KOLKETS I) HE WORLD WITH COLD OATMEAL . x, ODD BODKINS. -PERHAPS VOBOpY WOULD GET HURT. BUT YOO STL WOULD BE FALED WITH AN . NESCAPABLE peasement, But it is here that the mightiest winds of all will shortly be blowing; and these will be crosswinds from the left and the right, No informed man here doubts that when Congress reassembles in a few weeks, two bitter, competing gales can be expected, One will seek to force us to give up through some fraudulent “negotiation” that would, in fact, mean abandonment of our commitment to the people of South Viet Nam, The other will seek to force this government to expand the war with reckless violence that might involveus in a continental showdown with Communist China itself, Each campaign will have great superficial appeal to those inclined, once frustration sets in, to look to either-or courses, How wonderful, indeed, it would ° be if we could extricate ourselves through some grand butempty “conference” where, by incantations about "peace," wecould convince ourselves that aggression was not really aggression after all! How wonderful, indeed, itwould beif wecould solve all our problems and discharge our duty simply by bombing farther and farther northward until we brought the troops home unscratched, through some Chinese capitulation, But neither dream, however attractive, is open to rational men, The first would throw away our national position in the world and, in truth, bankrupt the whole policy of deterrence which alone has kept most of the earth at peace, The second approach could take the globe into nuclear holocaust, Allthat is left open is the hard, unpretty middle way which has only common sense to recommend it, This is the way of more of the same -of steadfast application of such rising power as may be required to free South Viet Nam of invading forces, but of such power and no more, The highest American authorities are convinced that this way will finally work, if only patience and fortitude remain with our cause, They are equally convinced that we must not expand our war aims to some foolish extreme, We are not pledged to some grandoise mission of extirpating communism in all of Asia, We are pledged only to rescue a victim of attack in Asia just as we should unhesitatingly rescue a victim of attack in Europe or Latin America, Sothe coming months will require self-restraint and a sense of responsibility as rarely they have been required from both individual citizens and elected officials in both political parties, This winter is going to divide the men from the boys, If, at its end, the boys should outnumber the men, it would be a winter of measureless tragedy, (Copyright 1965 ) --William S, White, substituting for Marquis Childs, who is on vacation, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A. SUCCESSFUL VENTURE To the Editor: We wish to express our sincere thanks for your excellent coverage of the Nutcracker Ballet, To be frank, some of us entertained qualms about bringing so large a production to Grass Valley, We are happy to report that the performance was an unqualified artistic success and came very close to paying its own way, which certainly would not have been the case without your co-operation, Our experience with Nutcracker has given us the courage to plan other events of equal artistic merit in the future, Yours very truly, Sister Mary Paulette, Superior Charles Orgibet, Director Mrstc Department Mt. St, Mary's Academy KIDS HAVE IT SOFT To the Editor: This morning I received two calendars from the Alpha Hardware. Store, They were for 1964-1965, but I was glad to get them, A few of the pictures brought a few old memories tome, Irememberthe old post office and the wagon in front, I think it was hauled around by a small mule or, as we used to call them in a few mines . worked in, as Jennies, And Freemansbakery! I got my first taste of pasties there, A Cornish lady used to make them for the bakery. I wish I had one right now anda big skooner of beer Steam beer preferred, I don't care for the stiff they sell now. Something else comes to my mind, Two pretty good fighters came out of Grass Valley, One was Jack Clifford and the other one was Dickey Hyland If I tell you Dickey's right name I think there is some people that will know him, It was Willie Urem. I knew him and Jack Clifford, Well Christmas is coming soon and I hope what I wrote in my last letter to you about parents buying a bond for theirchildren did not offend them but I will Sayit again, The kids of today don't know when they are well off, Everything is made for them by the sweat of their parents, They don't know what hard times mean, It is a funny thing but a lot of them leave the old folks.and go some place and let the old people get along the best they can, You see the old people are old fashioned and a lot of them are ashamed of their folks for one thing or another, They forget when there father worked in the mines for a lousy $2,25 and $2.50 a day. The kids have all they want to eat and a nice soft bed to sleep in, They were damned lucky the old man was working, When I was a kid up there the folks were contented every body worked that wanted to and they did not talk politics all day, We had one policeman in the daytime and one at night and a sheriff, You sent out of town for a chief of police and you have five or six other men on the force, What in the hell do they do and how in hell do you pay them? I better close before I get mad, Good bye Jack Bassett Oakland

December 22, 1965,.Nevada County Nugget.. (Garenate and House, who already had taken their stand or or against this legislation, and who now, under last-minute pressures, could hardly pay much attention tothis “technical detail", Responsibility for the “compensation amendment", in short, cannot be laid at any one door. Billboard and junkyard interests MAGNETIC ATTRACTION! Sua 1“ LEARNED GOOSE( Will, for the first time in this City, deliver his . ELOQUENT LECTURE = ON THE ART OF PECKING AT AND were, without doubt, the source and the pressure behindit. Lack of full understanding of its technical implications accounted for its acceptance, In our opinion, it would have been far preferable. to have let the bill go over to another session, rather than to enact it now at such a cost, However, let us not wring our hands, By one or another means we must find the best solution, State legislation may serve a helpful purpose, In regard to such possibilities we are conferring now. A movement may be possible soon to amend this feature of the federal act, and on this also we are conferring, Gains accomplished by enactment of the new “Highway Beautification Act" meanwhile should not be overlooked, There is far-reaching significance inthe mere enactment of legislation whose sole purpose is beauty in our highways, and further significance in such legislation having been recognized as sufficiently important tocommand active sponsorship of the President himself, on terms of immediate priority. Andin several ways this new act is stronger than Senator Neuberger's "Federal Bonus Act" of 1959, which it now largely supplants. ~-Califoria Roadside Council Bulletin, edited by WASHINGTON CALLING WINTER WILL SEPARATE THE MEN FROM THE BOYS A bleak winter's test is caming for this government's determination to go on to the end against Communist aggression in South Viet Nam unless a decent peace can be found through genuine and honorable negotiations, The storm is gathering; all concerned might as well know it now, Externally, the entire Communist world is united now in at least one objective, That world has opened a massive propaganda push to talk or frighten us out of Viet Nam. Even the bitter rivalry between the Soviet Union and Red China over global strategy -the Russians insisting basically upon indirect means to forward the Communist revolution and the fhinese insisting upon outright war to any and all limits -has been muted temporarily in behalf of the grand immediate objective of driving us from Viet Nam, _ Externally, too, the neutralist powers are joining the siege of wills onthe side of the Communist imperialists, Our Western allies themselves will soon be under yet heavier pressure to urge upon Washington that wonderfully easy way out which so appeals to the little but loud minority here whose honest horror of OME WAY 10 ELIMINATE WORLD STRIFE IS LOAD AL THE GUNS , BOMBS, AND KOLKETS I) HE WORLD WITH COLD OATMEAL . x, ODD BODKINS.. -PERHAPS VOBOpY WOULD GET HURT. BUT YOO STL WOULD BE FALED WITH AN . NESCAPABLE peasement, But it is here that the mightiest winds of all will shortly be blowing; and these will be crosswinds from the left and the right, No informed man here doubts that when Congress reassembles in a few weeks, two bitter, competing gales can be expected, One will seek to force us to give up through some fraudulent “negotiation” that would, in fact, mean abandonment of our commitment to the people of South Viet Nam, The other will seek to force this government to expand the war with reckless violence that might involveus in a continental showdown with Communist China itself, Each campaign will have great superficial appeal to those inclined, once frustration sets in, to look to either-or courses, How wonderful, indeed, it would ° be if we could extricate ourselves through some grand butempty “conference” where, by incantations about "peace," wecould convince ourselves that aggression was not really aggression after all! How wonderful, indeed, itwould beif wecould solve all our problems and discharge our duty simply by bombing farther and farther northward until we brought the troops home unscratched, through some Chinese capitulation, But neither dream, however attractive, is open to

rational men, The first would throw away our national position in the world and, in truth, bankrupt the whole policy of deterrence which alone has kept most of the earth at peace, The second approach could take the globe into nuclear holocaust, Allthat is left open is the hard, unpretty middle way which has only common sense to recommend it, This is the way of more of the same -of steadfast application of such rising power as may be required to free South Viet Nam of invading forces, but of such power and no more, The highest American authorities are convinced that this way will finally work, if only patience and fortitude remain with our cause, They are equally convinced that we must not expand our war aims to some foolish extreme, We are not pledged to some grandoise mission of extirpating communism in all of Asia, We are pledged only to rescue a victim of attack in Asia just as we should unhesitatingly rescue a victim of attack in Europe or Latin America, Sothe coming months will require self-restraint and a sense of responsibility as rarely they have been required from both individual citizens and elected officials in both political parties, This winter is going to divide the men from the boys, If, at its end, the boys should outnumber the men, it would be a winter of measureless tragedy, (Copyright 1965 ) --William S, White, substituting for Marquis Childs, who is on vacation, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR A. SUCCESSFUL VENTURE To the Editor: We wish to express our sincere thanks for your excellent coverage of the Nutcracker Ballet, To be frank, some of us entertained qualms about bringing so large a production to Grass Valley, We are happy to report that the performance was an unqualified artistic success and came very close to paying its own way, which certainly would not have been the case without your co-operation, Our experience with Nutcracker has given us the courage to plan other events of equal artistic merit in the future, Yours very truly, Sister Mary Paulette, Superior Charles Orgibet, Director Mrstc Department Mt. St, Mary's Academy KIDS HAVE IT SOFT To the Editor: This morning I received two calendars from the Alpha Hardware. Store, They were for 1964-1965, but I was glad to get them, A few of the pictures brought a few old memories tome, Irememberthe old post office and the wagon in front, I think it was hauled around by a small mule or, as we used to call them in a few mines . worked in, as Jennies, And Freemansbakery! I got my first taste of pasties there, A Cornish lady used to make them for the bakery. I wish I had one right now anda big skooner of beer Steam beer preferred, I don't care for the stiff they sell now. Something else comes to my mind, Two pretty good fighters came out of Grass Valley, One was Jack Clifford and the other one was Dickey Hyland If I tell you Dickey's right name I think there is some people that will know him, It was Willie Urem. I knew him and Jack Clifford, Well Christmas is coming soon and I hope what I wrote in my last letter to you about parents buying a bond for theirchildren did not offend them but I will Sayit again, The kids of today don't know when they are well off, Everything is made for them by the sweat of their parents, They don't know what hard times mean, It is a funny thing but a lot of them leave the old folks.and go some place and let the old people get along the best they can, You see the old people are old fashioned and a lot of them are ashamed of their folks for one thing or another, They forget when there father worked in the mines for a lousy $2,25 and $2.50 a day. The kids have all they want to eat and a nice soft bed to sleep in, They were damned lucky the old man was working, When I was a kid up there the folks were contented every body worked that wanted to and they did not talk politics all day, We had one policeman in the daytime and one at night and a sheriff, You sent out of town for a chief of police and you have five or six other men on the force, What in the hell do they do and how in hell do you pay them? I better close before I get mad, Good bye Jack Bassett Oakland