December 30, 1965 (20 pages)

oo ee ee a eo or Oe ee aN oe ee ok eww 11 December 30, 1965.Nevada County Nugget. SMALL TOWN : SMALL WORLD define strategic objectives? Systems analysis, promises Aerojet, will merely “present alternatives to the decision-makers," and responsible goyernment officials at all levels must help formulate the alternatives in the first place, Yes, responsible officials at all levels must have their say, but the Governor and the legislature, assisted by the State Office of Planning, must take the ultimate responsibility of laying down basic policy guides for the space age planners, before they start developing their alternatives, Why is this so important? Here is one example, In their transportation study the North American space engineers say that “we will have the ability to roll back and almost eliminate existing restraints on . habitable space in the next twenty to fifty years,” In other words, our technology will allow us to go — — virtually anywhere, live anywhere, build slurbs (or rather, more slurbs) in the wilderness if we want to, Few engineers, even space engineer-planners, will be able to resist such a technological challenge, unless they are limited by firm state policy direction from the outset, Engineers have a tradition of first establishing the technical feasibility of all manner of monstrosities, and then finding economic justifications for building them. Suppose they find it feasible and for some reason ' "economic" to build a system of aerial tramways linking all of the highest peaks along the Sierra crest, Should such an altemative ever be seriously considered? No, it shouldn't, and probably wouldn't be if state officials at the highest level see to it that every alternative for state development is analyzed by the computers in the light of the broadest possible economic and social considerations, We don't need any more simplistic “user benefit" formulas like the one the highway engineers have used as an excuse to build so many of our freeways in the most destructive possible locations, --from Argonaut’s Notebook in the Winter 1965 issue of “Cry California, “ the quarterly journal of California Tomorrow. WASHINGTON CALLING JOHNSON WILL PUT WELFARE ON A VERY MODEST DIET WASHINGTON. -For the first time, President Johnson is squarely in the middle of heavy and opposite pressures from the Left and Right, The issue is the new Federal Ludget, but the implications rise far above dollars and cents. The Left -the very liberal to knee-jerk liberal Democrats -is attempting to wring from him explicit vows that, notwithstanding a little thing called the war in Viet Nam, he wil! not reduce by a dime his allocations for the domestic Great Society. The Right -the general run of Republicans plus conservative and ultra-conservative Democrats -is putting him under siege to cut back the Great Society to a shell and to open the Treasury without stint to every claim conceivably to be made by the action in Viet Nam. _ The President himself is digging in his heels against what amounts to dual efforts to freeze his position in advance, The two pressure groups have one aim in common: to force the President here and now to commit himself to the kind of budget he will put next y ear before Congress. To each he is, in substance, replying: “Thanks very much for your great interest and all that -but I am going to keep my options open until the last minute; " The reason for this delay is that he does not and cannot possibly know right now just how much is really going to be needed in Viet Nam even, say, two months, let alone 12 months ahead, Whatever is actually required is going to be provided; Viet Nam has>priority No. 1. To that extent the forces interested in butter and honey to the almost total exclusion of guns have already lost the game, : Still, those totally preoccupied with guns have not altogether won, either. Nor will they. For though VietNam is indeed priority No. 1 and will remain so, the President has no intention whatever of putting welfare on starvation rations, At worst, he can keep it going, though it cannot be kept going at the rate which otherwise would have been certain, The outlook, in a word, is that welfare will be put on some diet, but not a crash diet. What elevates this struggle toweringly above simple economic considerations isthe root fact that the prize so urgently sought by each side is nothing less than effective control of the mind and purposes of the Administration in the year to come, The Left sees an opportunity to commit the President unalterably and now to more and more welfarism. The Right seeks toclose off now all his choices except the choice to diminish, if not to discard, the butterand-honey legislation he put through the last Congress, The weapon of the Left is the implicit threat that unless it can have its way it will cry out that the President wasnot, afterall, really “sincere” in asking Congress for all those bills, The weapon of the Right istheimplicit threat to denounce the President as not really “sincere” about Viet Nam, The President himself, however, is not without strength, The controlling middle in Congress will not accept either indictment. For the middle knows that much of the Left is partly actuated by its wish to “get out of Viet Nam” and that much of the Right is partly motivated by a hope torepeal the Great Society, The more the Left poor-mouths the welfare program, the more it will endanger the seats of 40 to 50 liberal Democratic Congressmen whose only claim for reelection in 1966 is their past association with its enactment. The Right is in no comparable political danger. Still, its objective to nullify the Great Society runs against the profound reality that it is already enacted -even if some who are by no means right-wingers, including this columnist, would surely be just as happy if some of it had never reached the statute books, (Copyright 1965) --WilliamS, White, substituting for Marquis Childs, who is on vacation, © LETTER TO THE EDITOR THE SQUAWS PANNED GOLD To the Editor: I am sitting here in my apartment. The wind is blowing and the sun is trying to break through the clouds, Iam going back now more than seventy years to a few more things I remember about my old home town. 3 I wonder how many of the old timers that are still left up there remember the big ox team that went be c = eae = through town on the way to Marcher brothers saw mill, Some of us kids followed it a long way. When we came back we had so much red dust on us we looked like dust balls, One more little item, I used to watch the Indian squaws panning on the river while the bucks sat around town waiting for them to come in with the gold they panned out, At that time N.C, had what they called ‘a Siwash list in all the saloons but if you went out to their Campoodie you sure wouid see a lot of singing and dancing, They didnot get that way from drinking coffee, I remember too when the bridge on Commercial Street went down after the Union hotel bus just got over it. I will never forget when one of our gang drowned in the Manzanita digging. His body wasneverrecovered, There was an undercurrent that went underground, I will tell you this much, his father drove stage up there a good many years, Oh yes another thing comes floating through my mind, Some one stole the tapper out of the school house bell and that landed in the Manzanita digging. That was on a hallowe'en night. I think I told you about the horse some one put in the principal's office on a Friday night with a half bale of hay and a tub of water, I never did tell you about stringing a wire across the Chinese laundry door about a foot high and giving the door a kick. It was a lot of fun-then but when I look back and think about it it was not funny to him, Some time ago you had a picture of a milk wagon and horse, It is a funny thing but I used to ride with the milk man, His name was Joe Ranili. That horse sure was smart, Joe did not have to get on the wagon every time he delivered his milk, When the horse heard Joe coming out of the house he would go to the next place of delivery, After the cows were milked then itwas delivered right away. It did not go through any process like it does today, When we were on theranch alltpur eggs, butter and spuds went to J. J. Jackson's store. I think I will put a blanket on the heater to keep it warm, It ain't doing nothing for me. Jack Bassett Oakland WHAT IS WY STORM pe THAT? )/ CLOUD OF <==: UNPAID BUS quar oumes 4 . ONME THE “fh YiRST OF gvers Monti Ws ¢ 4 T opp BODKINS. “ ps) —. AWM 'S TERRIBLE! Wow DO YOU MAKE If GO AWAY? BUT IT GETS SHAVER ic you sat it W\TK HONE --

oo ee ee a eo or Oe ee aN oe ee ok eww 11 December 30, 1965..Nevada County Nugget.. SMALL TOWN : SMALL WORLD define strategic objectives? Systems analysis, promises Aerojet, will merely “present alternatives to the decision-makers," and responsible goyernment officials at all levels must help formulate the alternatives in the first place, Yes, responsible officials at all levels must have their say, but the Governor and the legislature, assisted by the State Office of Planning, must take the ultimate responsibility of laying down basic policy guides for the space age planners, before they start developing their alternatives, Why is this so important? Here is one example, In their transportation study the North American space engineers say that “we will have the ability to roll back and almost eliminate existing restraints on . habitable space in the next twenty to fifty years,” In other words, our technology will allow us to go — — virtually anywhere, live anywhere, build slurbs (or rather, more slurbs) in the wilderness if we want to, Few engineers, even space engineer-planners, will be able to resist such a technological challenge, unless they are limited by firm state policy direction from the outset, Engineers have a tradition of first establishing the technical feasibility of all manner of monstrosities, and then finding economic justifications for building them. Suppose they find it feasible and for some reason ' "economic" to build a system of aerial tramways linking all of the highest peaks along the Sierra crest, Should such an altemative ever be seriously considered? No, it shouldn't, and probably wouldn't be if state officials at the highest level see to it that every alternative for state development is analyzed by the computers in the light of the broadest possible economic and social considerations, We don't need any more simplistic “user benefit" formulas like the one the highway engineers have used as an excuse to build so many of our freeways in the most destructive possible locations, --from Argonaut’s Notebook in the Winter 1965 issue of “Cry California, “ the quarterly journal of California Tomorrow. WASHINGTON CALLING JOHNSON WILL PUT WELFARE ON A VERY MODEST DIET WASHINGTON. -For the first time, President Johnson is squarely in the middle of heavy and opposite pressures from the Left and Right, The issue is the new Federal Ludget, but the implications rise far above dollars and cents. The Left -the very liberal to knee-jerk liberal Democrats -is attempting to wring from him explicit vows that, notwithstanding a little thing called the war in Viet Nam, he wil! not reduce by a dime his allocations for the domestic Great Society. The Right -the general run of Republicans plus conservative and ultra-conservative Democrats -is putting him under siege to cut back the Great Society to a shell and to open the Treasury without stint to every claim conceivably to be made by the action in Viet Nam. _ The President himself is digging in his heels against what amounts to dual efforts to freeze his position in advance, The two pressure groups have one aim in common: to force the President here and now to commit himself to the kind of budget he will put next y ear before Congress. To each he is, in substance, replying: “Thanks very much for your great interest and all that -but I am going to keep my options open until the last minute; " The reason for this delay is that he does not and cannot possibly know right now just how much is really going to be needed in Viet Nam even, say, two months, let alone 12 months ahead, Whatever is actually required is going to be provided; Viet Nam has>priority No. 1. To that extent the forces interested in butter and honey to the almost total exclusion of guns have already lost the game, : Still, those totally preoccupied with guns have not altogether won, either. Nor will they. For though VietNam is indeed priority No. 1 and will remain so, the President has no intention whatever of putting welfare on starvation rations, At worst, he can keep it going, though it cannot be kept going at the rate which otherwise would have been certain, The outlook, in a word, is that welfare will be put on some diet, but not a crash diet. What elevates this struggle toweringly above simple economic considerations isthe root fact that the prize so urgently sought by each side is nothing less than effective control of the mind and purposes of the Administration in the year to come, The Left sees an opportunity to commit the President unalterably and now to more and more welfarism. The Right seeks toclose off now all his choices except the choice to diminish, if not to discard, the butterand-honey legislation he put through the last Congress,

The weapon of the Left is the implicit threat that unless it can have its way it will cry out that the President wasnot, afterall, really “sincere” in asking Congress for all those bills, The weapon of the Right istheimplicit threat to denounce the President as not really “sincere” about Viet Nam, The President himself, however, is not without strength, The controlling middle in Congress will not accept either indictment. For the middle knows that much of the Left is partly actuated by its wish to “get out of Viet Nam” and that much of the Right is partly motivated by a hope torepeal the Great Society, The more the Left poor-mouths the welfare program, the more it will endanger the seats of 40 to 50 liberal Democratic Congressmen whose only claim for reelection in 1966 is their past association with its enactment. The Right is in no comparable political danger. Still, its objective to nullify the Great Society runs against the profound reality that it is already enacted -even if some who are by no means right-wingers, including this columnist, would surely be just as happy if some of it had never reached the statute books, (Copyright 1965) --WilliamS, White, substituting for Marquis Childs, who is on vacation, © LETTER TO THE EDITOR THE SQUAWS PANNED GOLD To the Editor: I am sitting here in my apartment. The wind is blowing and the sun is trying to break through the clouds, Iam going back now more than seventy years to a few more things I remember about my old home town. 3 I wonder how many of the old timers that are still left up there remember the big ox team that went be c = eae = through town on the way to Marcher brothers saw mill, Some of us kids followed it a long way. When we came back we had so much red dust on us we looked like dust balls, One more little item, I used to watch the Indian squaws panning on the river while the bucks sat around town waiting for them to come in with the gold they panned out, At that time N.C, had what they called ‘a Siwash list in all the saloons but if you went out to their Campoodie you sure wouid see a lot of singing and dancing, They didnot get that way from drinking coffee, I remember too when the bridge on Commercial Street went down after the Union hotel bus just got over it. I will never forget when one of our gang drowned in the Manzanita digging. His body wasneverrecovered, There was an undercurrent that went underground, I will tell you this much, his father drove stage up there a good many years, Oh yes another thing comes floating through my mind, Some one stole the tapper out of the school house bell and that landed in the Manzanita digging. That was on a hallowe'en night. I think I told you about the horse some one put in the principal's office on a Friday night with a half bale of hay and a tub of water, I never did tell you about stringing a wire across the Chinese laundry door about a foot high and giving the door a kick. It was a lot of fun-then but when I look back and think about it it was not funny to him, Some time ago you had a picture of a milk wagon and horse, It is a funny thing but I used to ride with the milk man, His name was Joe Ranili. That horse sure was smart, Joe did not have to get on the wagon every time he delivered his milk, When the horse heard Joe coming out of the house he would go to the next place of delivery, After the cows were milked then itwas delivered right away. It did not go through any process like it does today, When we were on theranch alltpur eggs, butter and spuds went to J. J. Jackson's store. I think I will put a blanket on the heater to keep it warm, It ain't doing nothing for me. Jack Bassett Oakland WHAT IS WY STORM pe THAT? )/ CLOUD OF <==: UNPAID BUS quar oumes 4 . ONME THE “fh YiRST OF gvers Monti Ws ¢ 4 T opp BODKINS.. “ ps) —. AWM 'S TERRIBLE! Wow DO YOU MAKE If GO AWAY? BUT IT GETS SHAVER ic you sat it W\TK HONE --