December 30, 1965 (20 pages)

NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET f Barra nitteealynd 10 December 30, 1965 EDITORIAL ROSE COMMITTEE SHOULD REJECT IDEA OF USING SMALL PARK FOR PARKING The dangers of "single interest planning" were never more evident than at last week's meeting of the Nevada City chamber of commerce parking study committee. ‘Working with its city-paid engineering consultant, Dr. Faustman of Sacramento, this committee is slowly coming up with proposals for one or more parking areas to serve the city's retail customers. . But itappears that Dr. Faustman and certain members of the committee, in single-mindedly seeking answers to the parking problem, may end up by proposing to destroy other values in Nevada City for which they are not directly "responsible" in their study group. We refer specifically to the open willingness of Dr. Faustman to consider the use of the small park on Union St.--the site of the city's new living Christmas tree--for parking. Committee chairman Willard Rose gave the following reason for considering the park in his studies: "Our committee is entrusted with looking into every possibility for parking." Every possibility? Thenwhy doesn't the committee look intothe possibility of tearing down the Bank of America for parking? Why, because that would be unthinkable. In the same way, we suggest, the idea of destroying one of the city's two tiny downtown patches of open greenery is equally unthinkable. The parking study committee and everyone else concerned about the future of downtown Nevada City will need broad community support to achieve the goal of more downtown parking. The quickest way to destroy any chance for that united support would be for the committee to look. for parking in a park, when it has already discovered several other excellent locations for parking. The small park on Union St. is owned by the U.S. Forest Service, which so far has shown an admirable willingness to act for the benefit of the city by not putting it on the auction block. The park is maintained by the Women's Civic Club, as a public service. Thecity pays the insurance. We hope the parking committee will. do nothing to upset the current status of the park, which adds so much to the pleasant quality of the downtown area. In fact, a quick and clear rejection of the idea of using the park would help the committee gain the united public support it must have if it is to succeed. IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN SEVERAL GROUPS HELPING WASHINGTON RIDGE BOYS Nevada City Elks put ona fine steak dinner last week for the boys from Washington Ridge Conservation Camp. Thiswas the third year the Elks have performed this service, and over 60 boys at the dinner were made happy with the food, the packs of cigar-_ ettes and lighters given them by the Elks, and the entertainment. The teen-age, black-leotard-garbed "Honeyettes" from Nelda's Dance Studio doing their high kick dance almost in unison were most popular with the boys, but there was also generous applause for the younger girls from the Patricia Rose dance studio who did a Gypsy dance and a ballet dance scene from a Mexican village. Other public-spirited groups in town are doing their bit to bring some entertainment to these boys who spend their. terms working on various conservation projects in the woods, When Friends of the Libraries found that the only reading material available at the camp was the Union and a few old donated magazines and pocket books, a campaign was started to bring this to the attention of the service clubs and other interested groups in town, Nevada County Legal Secretaries responded by sendPJ ing subscriptions to Hot Rod, Motor Trend, and Customs Illustrated. T.V. Guide will be sent by the Jaycettes, who also help at the Smartville camp by putting on an annual Christmas party. Grass Valley Soroptimists are sending the daily and Sunday Los Angeles Times; most of the boys are from the L.A. area and they like to read about their home town. A subscription to the Sunday Sacramento Bee was donated by Timberline Toastmasters, and Alaska Sportsman and Field and Stream are now arriving at the camp courtesy of the Nevada City Soroptimists, And of course the Nugget is sent there every week, The boys don’t get much time off, but now when they do have free time on Sundays, they can sit around and read the papers like the rest of us. Have you noticed how the Goodwill boxes at the SPD and Safeway are always full to overflowing by Thursdays when the pickup truck is due? The gray box put up by local friends of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker relief organization, in the Cramer parking lot is almost as full every few weeks, People put in old pots and pans, ragged and dirty clothes, and broken toys along with the discarded clothing, What isreally needed, according to the Service Committee, is clean children's clothing, wool sweaters and scarves, and long pants and walking shorts for men, Last year the Service Committee through its Philadelphia warehouse sent 400,000 articles of clothing and bedding, 14,000 pounds of school supplies, and 90,000 yards of textiles overseas, Over 50% of the total was sent od atgen and most of the rest went to the Congo and the Near East, Ge Small shipments of special materials were sent in the U.S, to migrant camps, southern mountain areas, and to school children in Mississippi. Women's Wear Daily reports that fashion-conscious women are raiding Army-Navy surplus stores to get year's fashionable leg-look, Blue jeans are equally popular in Algeria where at one clothing distribution center run by the Quakers there was a real fight over which men would receive a pair of jeans, When there is only one pair of jeans givento a family, fathers and sons take turns wearing the Levis, ---Ruth Heller CALIFORNIA APPLYING SPACE TECHNOLOGY TO STATE GROWTH PROBLEMS The system engineers of Califomia's aerospace industry have splashed down dramatically in the turbid sea of state planning. At the behest of the Governor, they have produced four reports suggesting how the technology which produces weapons systems and space flight systems can be applied to solving some of our state development problems, The two reports we have seen---“California Waste Management Study" by Aerojet-General Corporation of Sacramento, and “California Integrated Transportation Study” by North American Aviation, Inc,, Los Angeles Division---are comforting and positive, in: the best engineering style, All we have to do to avoid being submerged in our Own wasSte is to employ the technocrats and their computers to help us develop and phase in over a decade several regional disposal systems, complete with all kinds of new disposal gadgetry, Then goodbye to pollution, the garbage flats of Brisbane, and excessive waste disposal costs, As for transportation, we lear without too much surprise that “systems which served so well yesterday, and are relied upon today, show indications of being obsolete for tomorrow 's requirements, " The solution? Systems analysis will help us plan new, integrated transportation systems, including new modes, more speed and safety, lower costs, and underground movement. The whole thing can be "efficient without marring, " The process of planning the environment, suggests one of the charts in the Aerojet report, can be compared to planning a weapon system, Instead of having to “identify the enemy," you have to “identify pollutants," Instead of defining "strategic objectives, " you define “environment quality goals," And so on, . For a change, planning sounds positively patriotic! The reports do raise a few questions though, For example, who is going to identify the enemy and 2 _ bell-bottom trousers and blue jeans necessary for this S96T ‘0 JoquIeseq***1983nN Aqun0D epeasn’*°

NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET f Barra nitteealynd 10 December 30, 1965 EDITORIAL ROSE COMMITTEE SHOULD REJECT IDEA OF USING SMALL PARK FOR PARKING The dangers of "single interest planning" were never more evident than at last week's meeting of the Nevada City chamber of commerce parking study committee. ‘Working with its city-paid engineering consultant, Dr. Faustman of Sacramento, this committee is slowly coming up with proposals for one or more parking areas to serve the city's retail customers. . But itappears that Dr. Faustman and certain members of the committee, in single-mindedly seeking answers to the parking problem, may end up by proposing to destroy other values in Nevada City for which they are not directly "responsible" in their study group. We refer specifically to the open willingness of Dr. Faustman to consider the use of the small park on Union St.--the site of the city's new living Christmas tree--for parking. Committee chairman Willard Rose gave the following reason for considering the park in his studies: "Our committee is entrusted with looking into every possibility for parking." Every possibility? Thenwhy doesn't the committee look intothe possibility of tearing down the Bank of America for parking? Why, because that would be unthinkable. In the same way, we suggest, the idea of destroying one of the city's two tiny downtown patches of open greenery is equally unthinkable. The parking study committee and everyone else concerned about the future of downtown Nevada City will need broad community support to achieve the goal of more downtown parking. The quickest way to destroy any chance for that united support would be for the committee to look. for parking in a park, when it has already discovered several other excellent locations for parking. The small park on Union St. is owned by the U.S. Forest Service, which so far has shown an admirable willingness to act for the benefit of the city by not putting it on the auction block. The park is maintained by the Women's Civic Club, as a public service. Thecity pays the insurance. We hope the parking committee will. do nothing to upset the current status of the park, which adds so much to the pleasant quality of the downtown area. In fact, a quick and clear rejection of the idea of using the park would help the committee gain the united public support it must have if it is to succeed. IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN SEVERAL GROUPS HELPING WASHINGTON RIDGE BOYS Nevada City Elks put ona fine steak dinner last week for the boys from Washington Ridge Conservation Camp. Thiswas the third year the Elks have performed this service, and over 60 boys at the dinner were made happy with the food, the packs of cigar-_ ettes and lighters given them by the Elks, and the entertainment. The teen-age, black-leotard-garbed "Honeyettes" from Nelda's Dance Studio doing their high kick dance almost in unison were most popular with the boys, but there was also generous applause for the younger girls from the Patricia Rose dance studio who did a Gypsy dance and a ballet dance scene from a Mexican village. Other public-spirited groups in town are doing their bit to bring some entertainment to these boys who spend their. terms working on various conservation projects in the woods, When Friends of the Libraries found that the only reading material available at the

camp was the Union and a few old donated magazines and pocket books, a campaign was started to bring this to the attention of the service clubs and other interested groups in town, Nevada County Legal Secretaries responded by sendPJ ing subscriptions to Hot Rod, Motor Trend, and Customs Illustrated. T.V. Guide will be sent by the Jaycettes, who also help at the Smartville camp by putting on an annual Christmas party. Grass Valley Soroptimists are sending the daily and Sunday Los Angeles Times; most of the boys are from the L.A. area and they like to read about their home town. A subscription to the Sunday Sacramento Bee was donated by Timberline Toastmasters, and Alaska Sportsman and Field and Stream are now arriving at the camp courtesy of the Nevada City Soroptimists, And of course the Nugget is sent there every week, The boys don’t get much time off, but now when they do have free time on Sundays, they can sit around and read the papers like the rest of us. Have you noticed how the Goodwill boxes at the SPD and Safeway are always full to overflowing by Thursdays when the pickup truck is due? The gray box put up by local friends of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker relief organization, in the Cramer parking lot is almost as full every few weeks, People put in old pots and pans, ragged and dirty clothes, and broken toys along with the discarded clothing, What isreally needed, according to the Service Committee, is clean children's clothing, wool sweaters and scarves, and long pants and walking shorts for men, Last year the Service Committee through its Philadelphia warehouse sent 400,000 articles of clothing and bedding, 14,000 pounds of school supplies, and 90,000 yards of textiles overseas, Over 50% of the total was sent od atgen and most of the rest went to the Congo and the Near East, Ge Small shipments of special materials were sent in the U.S, to migrant camps, southern mountain areas, and to school children in Mississippi. Women's Wear Daily reports that fashion-conscious women are raiding Army-Navy surplus stores to get year's fashionable leg-look, Blue jeans are equally popular in Algeria where at one clothing distribution center run by the Quakers there was a real fight over which men would receive a pair of jeans, When there is only one pair of jeans givento a family, fathers and sons take turns wearing the Levis, ---Ruth Heller CALIFORNIA APPLYING SPACE TECHNOLOGY TO STATE GROWTH PROBLEMS The system engineers of Califomia's aerospace industry have splashed down dramatically in the turbid sea of state planning. At the behest of the Governor, they have produced four reports suggesting how the technology which produces weapons systems and space flight systems can be applied to solving some of our state development problems, The two reports we have seen---“California Waste Management Study" by Aerojet-General Corporation of Sacramento, and “California Integrated Transportation Study” by North American Aviation, Inc,, Los Angeles Division---are comforting and positive, in: the best engineering style, All we have to do to avoid being submerged in our Own wasSte is to employ the technocrats and their computers to help us develop and phase in over a decade several regional disposal systems, complete with all kinds of new disposal gadgetry, Then goodbye to pollution, the garbage flats of Brisbane, and excessive waste disposal costs, As for transportation, we lear without too much surprise that “systems which served so well yesterday, and are relied upon today, show indications of being obsolete for tomorrow 's requirements, " The solution? Systems analysis will help us plan new, integrated transportation systems, including new modes, more speed and safety, lower costs, and underground movement. The whole thing can be "efficient without marring, " The process of planning the environment, suggests one of the charts in the Aerojet report, can be compared to planning a weapon system, Instead of having to “identify the enemy," you have to “identify pollutants," Instead of defining "strategic objectives, " you define “environment quality goals," And so on, . For a change, planning sounds positively patriotic! The reports do raise a few questions though, For example, who is going to identify the enemy and 2 _ bell-bottom trousers and blue jeans necessary for this S96T ‘0 JoquIeseq***1983nN Aqun0D epeasn’*°