December 3, 1964 (28 pages)

17 . -Nevada County Nugget December 8, 1964. NUGGET FEATURES . Be 0409608 06 & DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE OBS © S 09 O8GO fh a. *§ ‘ * a tae Idon't know the’event, or the just half of Sherman.W. year, but some of the gentleinclude E.T.R. Powell, Ed Lee Leiter. Supporting himself e . CLL A Za dai FOOL'S GOLD ae %. <= o Marsh.Scadden., Fred Arbogast and. ig ing the cap is Howard enrose. men starting on the left with Baker, Merritt Rector, Phil against the tree on the right CAROUSEL December 3 . -The Sierra College Drama Department will present performances of the musicalcomedy “Bye Bye Birdie" Dec, 3,5,9,10,11, 12,13 and14in the music-drama building on the Rocklin campus. Curtain time for the evening performances is 8 p.m. George Tomajan is directing the production December 3-5 .The Committee for Arts and Lectures in cooperation with the Department of Music and Dramatic Art and Speech at the University of California, Davis, will present the UCD Madrigal Singers in a performance of the medieval musical drama "The Son of Getron" in the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on the campus. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. December 4 .The Actor's Workshop in San Francisco will offer Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker” fora limited run of eight performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at the Encore Theater, San Francisco, December 6 .Third annual community presentation of Handel's Messiah in the Grass Valley MethodistChurch at 4:30 p.m. A chorus of some 55 voices picked from several local church choirs will be augAe Kune GATHERING MOSS One Vast Megalopolis May Be The Future For The West Coast Weare hearing a great deal of discussion these days about the west coast becoming, from Can~ ada to Mexico, one vast megalopolis, with our best soil buried under acres of concrete. In many areas, cattle, sheep and dairy farmers, with their pastures being assessed as subdivision land, are finding it increasingly difficult to continue to operate. Already most of the lush Santa Clara valley has been lostto agriculture, as have similar rich farmlands in other sections of California. In state after state, tax concessions are being made to manufacturers to encourage them to establish factories and create industrial payrolls. If it takes a similar subsidy, in the form of assessing farmland as farmland rather than as subdivision land, in order to save our richest agricultural land: for agriculture, 1, for one, am all for it. for golf courses have made it possible for country clubs to maintain their greens and fair-. Some recent tax concessions . ways between new subdivisions and shopping centers, Certainly farmlands are as important to the economy as country clubs. Fortunately, one very effective federal subsidy of grasslands is and has been at work all over the nation, During the three decades that the Soil Conservation Service has been in existence, farmers have been given financial as well as technical assistance in converting dry pastures, brushlands and abandoned orchards to irrigated pasture. Each time we drive a stretch of highway 49 which we haven't seen for a few years we are impressed anew with the great changes being wrought in our local countryside with the help of this federal grasslands subsidy. Always we find additional valleys and hillsides covered with green grass and clover, dotted with ponds and small lakes which conserve water and provide resting places for migratory waterfowl. This benefits everybody, not merely the farmer himself. In summer the air is noticeably coolernear these green pastures. There is less “fire hazard. The soil is being rebuilt, inch by inch, instead of eroding away. But these newly developed grasslands too may soon be lost in the spread ~ ing urbanization. When the people become con-~ vinced that green belts and open space are.as important as factory payrolls, our legislators will do something about preserving them, Let us hope this awareness comes before it is too late. _ County Fishing To Get Boost According To NID The State Department of Fish and Game and the Nevada Irrigation District had good news for county fishermen this week, NID manager Edwin Koster said he had received word from DFG Tuesday morning that the state plansto plant 400,000 fingerling trout in the district's new Jackson Meadows Reservoir. “e at, .S. em Rt A ee ARK Abbreviated Column For One Month Fool's Gold will be an abbreviated column for the next several weeks, Time, that precious com-~ modity, isin very short supply at this time of year. Even such trivia of no consequence that you find in this space does take a few minutes, I could forget the whole thing but I'm afraid you would too, Absence, I have found out to my bitter sorrow, does make the heart grow fonder—-for somebody else, Sol'mnot going to run the risk of being forgotten. You won't get a lot---but you will get a little,

17 . -Nevada County Nugget December 8, 1964. NUGGET FEATURES . Be 0409608 06 & DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE OBS © S 09 O8GO fh a. *§ ‘ * a tae Idon't know the’event, or the just half of Sherman.W. year, but some of the gentleinclude E.T.R. Powell, Ed Lee Leiter. Supporting himself e . CLL A Za dai FOOL'S GOLD ae %. <= o Marsh.Scadden., Fred Arbogast and. ig ing the cap is Howard enrose. men starting on the left with Baker, Merritt Rector, Phil against the tree on the right CAROUSEL December 3 . -The Sierra College Drama Department will present performances of the musicalcomedy “Bye Bye Birdie" Dec, 3,5,9,10,11, 12,13 and14in the music-drama building on the Rocklin campus. Curtain time for the evening performances is 8 p.m. George Tomajan is directing the production December 3-5 ..The Committee for Arts and Lectures in cooperation with the Department of Music and Dramatic Art and Speech at the University of California, Davis, will present the UCD Madrigal Singers in a performance of the medieval musical drama "The Son of Getron" in the Wyatt Pavilion Theatre on the campus. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. December 4 ..The Actor's Workshop in San Francisco will offer Harold Pinter's "The Caretaker” fora limited run of eight performances on Friday and Saturday evenings at the Encore Theater, San Francisco, December 6 ..Third annual community presentation of Handel's Messiah in the Grass Valley MethodistChurch at 4:30 p.m. A chorus of some 55 voices picked from several local church choirs will be augAe Kune GATHERING MOSS One Vast Megalopolis May Be The Future For The West Coast Weare hearing a great deal of discussion these days about the west coast becoming, from Can~ ada to Mexico, one vast megalopolis, with our best soil buried under acres of concrete. In many areas, cattle, sheep and dairy farmers, with their pastures being assessed as subdivision land, are finding it increasingly difficult to continue to operate. Already most of the lush Santa Clara valley has been lostto agriculture, as have similar rich farmlands in other sections of California. In state after state, tax concessions are being made to manufacturers to encourage them to establish factories and create industrial payrolls. If it takes a similar subsidy, in the form of assessing farmland as farmland rather than as subdivision land, in order to save our richest agricultural land: for agriculture, 1, for one, am all for it. for golf courses have made it

possible for country clubs to maintain their greens and fair-. Some recent tax concessions . ways between new subdivisions and shopping centers, Certainly farmlands are as important to the economy as country clubs. Fortunately, one very effective federal subsidy of grasslands is and has been at work all over the nation, During the three decades that the Soil Conservation Service has been in existence, farmers have been given financial as well as technical assistance in converting dry pastures, brushlands and abandoned orchards to irrigated pasture. Each time we drive a stretch of highway 49 which we haven't seen for a few years we are impressed anew with the great changes being wrought in our local countryside with the help of this federal grasslands subsidy. Always we find additional valleys and hillsides covered with green grass and clover, dotted with ponds and small lakes which conserve water and provide resting places for migratory waterfowl. This benefits everybody, not merely the farmer himself. In summer the air is noticeably coolernear these green pastures. There is less “fire hazard. The soil is being rebuilt, inch by inch, instead of eroding away. But these newly developed grasslands too may soon be lost in the spread ~ ing urbanization. When the people become con-~ vinced that green belts and open space are.as important as factory payrolls, our legislators will do something about preserving them, Let us hope this awareness comes before it is too late. _ County Fishing To Get Boost According To NID The State Department of Fish and Game and the Nevada Irrigation District had good news for county fishermen this week, NID manager Edwin Koster said he had received word from DFG Tuesday morning that the state plansto plant 400,000 fingerling trout in the district's new Jackson Meadows Reservoir. “e at, .S. em Rt A ee ARK Abbreviated Column For One Month Fool's Gold will be an abbreviated column for the next several weeks, Time, that precious com-~ modity, isin very short supply at this time of year. Even such trivia of no consequence that you find in this space does take a few minutes, I could forget the whole thing but I'm afraid you would too, Absence, I have found out to my bitter sorrow, does make the heart grow fonder—-for somebody else, Sol'mnot going to run the risk of being forgotten. You won't get a lot---but you will get a little,