December 5, 1963 (36 pages)

EDITORIALS ARTISTS CHRISTMAS FAIR — WORTHERN CALIFORNIA EVENT The eleventh Artists Christmas Fair opens Saturday for its two day 1963 sales event. Sponsored by the Nevada City Art Association and made possible through the volunteer work of numerous of its members, the Nevada CityArtists Christmas Fair has become one of the major attractions of this city. Art fairs in the Christmas season are springing upacross California, but the Nevada City event continues to grow and draw visitors from every part of Northern California and much of Nevada. Growth during its early years made it necessary for the association to _ "jury" all of the art objects and articles that appear for sale. Lack of space and a growing stature which attracted artists to enter their ware from all of Northern California has kept the quality of merchandise displayed in Nevada City at an unusually high level. For the second year, the annual Artists Christmas Fair will make use of additional display space for the event. In addition to the old Chinese laundry buildifig on Commercial St., this year the Nugget's newspaper folding room across Commercial St. will house a portion of the fair. We are proud to play a part in this annual event. ' Local residents who have not seen an Artists Christmas Fair are missing an experience and an opportunity that is looked forward to by literally hundreds of other Northern Californians. SALES BIG, SHOP EARLY Prospects are good that Christmas 1963 will see the establishment of record retail sales in Nevada County. Merchants are well-stocked, and the pace of Christmas sales in the past week has been fast. It's anoldbit of advice, but good--Shop early, avoid the rush of the final week, andenjoy the best selection possible. SIERRA BYWAYS THIRD BIGGEST CITY TAKES ON DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS FREEWAY FOLLY..The third largest city (in size) in California is having problems with California's most powerful agency (the Division of Highways). . Same old symphony? Well, yes, but with different orchestration..Fremont became a city about six years ago. Tne communities of Warm Springs, Irvington, Centerville, Niles and Mission San Jose in Southern Alameda County banded together, incorporated, and became the SMALL TOWN SMALL W errr tb Be third largest area (98 square miles) inside a city's limits in the state, The population has grown from 22,000 to 65,000 in those six years..Fremont meticulously planned its future. Its general plan calls for “interaction between businesses, civic, cultural, educational, recreational and high density residential facilities. This means that Fremont has planned the location and con~struction of these projected facilities so that they will effectively and conveniently serve the future of the city .»Fremont's general plan took into consideration a 1957 agreement between the state and the city that called for construction of a foothill route for a projected freeway.. Last year the Division of Highways changed its mind. It now wants a freeway that cuts through the city, But this route would disrupt Fremont's plans for its future central business section, its civic cenier and the Fremont Central Park..The state counters that the new freeway route with certain modifications could fit fairly well into the general plan. .But Fremont, whose general plan has been cited in national publications as an example of the best type of planning, counters that “fairly well” is not. good enough. And they have received the backing of others in the Bay Area, including an edipened a television stationKPIX.. "State freeway planning is not sacrosanct. It should be changed when . conditions warrant. And, common sense dictates a change in the freeway plans for Fremont (back to the foothill route),"” KPIX concludes. .The people of Fremont, hardly more than a civic child in age will grow up fast in community consciousness under pressure from the Division of Highways. And we hope the hard-headed farming pioneers who built the communities that banded together intothe City of Fremont still have enough fight left todemand the freeway route they originally planned with the state. Somewhere, sometime, the Division of Highways must meet its match, Let's hope it is Fremont. CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA AUTOMOBILES CAUSE OF SMOG PROBLEM The main cause of California's deadly smog is, of course, the motor vehicle, over which the pollution control districts have no control. In some areas auto exhaust accounts for 80 percent of air pollution. A state agency, the California Motor Vehicle Auto Pollution Control Board, has a program which will require exhaust control gadgets to be installed on cars and trucks -but it appears that here too we are fighting a losing battle. IntheBay Area, District officials estimate that of the 4,000 tons of smoggy gases which are expelled into the area every day, 900 tons could be removed if all District laws were enforced. Another 800 tons would be removed if vehicles were equipped with exhaust control devices. “That leaves 2,300 tons of smog piling into the air every day. L the Los Angeles area the situation is and will be much worse. Already, over 10,000 tons of pollutants are contributed to the air of Los Angeles every day by motor vehicles alone. Even if we manage to eliminate all non-auto-caused air pollution, and reduce auto-induced smog, the prospect is that the smog problem will continue to get worse. For the motor vehicle population is growing with the human population, promisingto produce plenty of new smog to compensate for the reduction which might be achieved by the exhaust devices, : Smog in California has become more than a joke and a nuisance. It is cited increasingly as a health hazard. It destroys over $10 million worth of California crops yearly. It peels paint off buildings, cracks rubber tires, and weakens fabrics, It drifts into and damages areas which do not themselves produce smog. It isa regional and a statewide and an interstate#problem yet some of those who devote hours to controlling it insist it is a "home rule” responsibility. If it is a home rule responsibility, then our cities and counties would do well to question how they might effectively control its main cause: motor vehicle exhaust. Do they know of or.have they developed or do they see the imminent production of a device which will substantially and permanently eliminate motor vehicle-induced smog? If not, do they sense any responsibility for reducing the number of vehicles which traverse their domains? Do they feel they are contributing to the reduction of smog by encouraging the bui 1ding of more and better roads? If not, what city or group of cities and counties, besides a few in the Bay Area, are moving energetically to build electric-powered rapid transit systems? Isthere a single city or county in California, which has aggressively encouraged the state government, the universities, the federal government, or the automobile industry, to develop efficient new automobile engines which burn more of the fuel than the standard internal combustion engine, or completely different engines? Has any city or county engaged in such development itself? . With the increase of people and cars and smog in California, such a program becomes imperative. ---Samuel E.: Wood and Alfred Heller, from "The Phantom Cities of California" SCHOOL UNIFICATION UP FOR COUNTY DECISION From Ready Springsto Washington, from Camptonville to Pleasant Ridge, school governing board members have been asking, "School unification--what is it and what does it mean to us?" For the past ten months the Augmented Nevada County Committee on School District Organization has been meeting to try to answer these questions. Every school board in Western Nevada County, and Camptonville, has a representative on the augmented committee. A unified school district is one that operates all elementary and-high schools within a given geographical area under one board and administration and with a single budget andtaxrate. The state legislature requires countiesto make a study; to take a good look at their schools andtosee how the education offered the children can be improved. The legislators feel that unification would be a benefit to the most children, but the final decision is left up to the people of each county. Any plan for unification must be passed. by the voters of the area in an election before it can be put into operation. As the Augmented Committee began to look at our schools andtotry to see what would be best for the children, they discovered many facts. At the present time there are 12 elementary school districts and a high school district in Western Nevada County. Each of these districts has its own governing board, tax rate and administrative set-up. Some have superintendents, secretaries, bookkeepers and specialized personnel. Some have teaching principals, and part time staffs. Some have only one teacher. Some of the districts are wealthy---some are poor. In the 1961-1962 school year one district had $124, 150 per pupil in assessed valuation, That same year another district had $6,413 per pupil and no running water on the property. Some of the districts are facing a building problem---some have new schools, There is little communication between the districts. The county superintendent and the county governing board have some control over curriculum and standards in the smaller schools, but in practice the local boards implement these recommendations as they see fit. The children who are being prepared to enter Nevada Union High School are receiving very different backgrounds. The Augmented Committee appointed sub-committees to study the various areas of concern and to make a report and recommendations to the full committee. The committees were assigned the areas of, 1) finances and taxes, including administrative setups; 2) curriculum; and 3) trustee areas. The reports have been presented andthe committee has called a public hearing to be hek Jan. 16. Future articles will deal with these three topics ---Gale Nob PI e8eg'* E96T ‘¢ Jaquia0eq’ * *1083nN oy L** “PL o8eg @

EDITORIALS ARTISTS CHRISTMAS FAIR — WORTHERN CALIFORNIA EVENT The eleventh Artists Christmas Fair opens Saturday for its two day 1963 sales event. Sponsored by the Nevada City Art Association and made possible through the volunteer work of numerous of its members, the Nevada CityArtists Christmas Fair has become one of the major attractions of this city. Art fairs in the Christmas season are springing upacross California, but the Nevada City event continues to grow and draw visitors from every part of Northern California and much of Nevada. Growth during its early years made it necessary for the association to _ "jury" all of the art objects and articles that appear for sale. Lack of space and a growing stature which attracted artists to enter their ware from all of Northern California has kept the quality of merchandise displayed in Nevada City at an unusually high level. For the second year, the annual Artists Christmas Fair will make use of additional display space for the event. In addition to the old Chinese laundry buildifig on Commercial St., this year the Nugget's newspaper folding room across Commercial St. will house a portion of the fair. We are proud to play a part in this annual event. ' Local residents who have not seen an Artists Christmas Fair are missing an experience and an opportunity that is looked forward to by literally hundreds of other Northern Californians. SALES BIG, SHOP EARLY Prospects are good that Christmas 1963 will see the establishment of record retail sales in Nevada County. Merchants are well-stocked, and the pace of Christmas sales in the past week has been fast. It's anoldbit of advice, but good--Shop early, avoid the rush of the final week, andenjoy the best selection possible. SIERRA BYWAYS THIRD BIGGEST CITY TAKES ON DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS FREEWAY FOLLY...The third largest city (in size) in California is having problems with California's most powerful agency (the Division of Highways).. . Same old symphony? Well, yes, but with different orchestration...Fremont became a city about six years ago. Tne communities of Warm Springs, Irvington, Centerville, Niles and Mission San Jose in Southern Alameda County banded together, incorporated, and became the SMALL TOWN SMALL W errr tb Be third largest area (98 square miles) inside a city's limits in the state, The population has grown from 22,000 to 65,000 in those six years...Fremont meticulously planned its future. Its general plan calls for “interaction between businesses, civic, cultural, educational, recreational and high density residential facilities. This means that Fremont has planned the location and con~struction of these projected facilities so that they will effectively and conveniently serve the future of the city ..»Fremont's general plan took into consideration a 1957 agreement between the state and the city that called for construction of a foothill route for a projected freeway... Last year the Division of Highways changed its mind. It now wants a freeway that cuts through the city, But this route would disrupt Fremont's plans for its future central business section, its civic cenier and the Fremont Central Park...The state counters that the new freeway route with certain modifications could fit fairly well into the general plan. ..But Fremont, whose general plan has been cited in national publications as an example of the best type of planning, counters that “fairly well” is not. good enough. And they have received the backing of others in the Bay Area, including an edipened a television stationKPIX... "State freeway planning is not sacrosanct. It should be changed when . conditions warrant. And, common sense dictates a change in the freeway plans for Fremont (back to the foothill route),"” KPIX concludes. ..The people of Fremont, hardly more than a civic child in age will grow up fast in community consciousness under pressure from the Division of Highways. And we hope the hard-headed farming pioneers who built the communities that banded together intothe City of Fremont still have enough fight left todemand the freeway route they originally planned with the state. Somewhere, sometime, the Division of Highways must meet its match, Let's hope it is Fremont. CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA AUTOMOBILES CAUSE OF SMOG PROBLEM The main cause of California's deadly smog is, of course, the motor vehicle, over which the pollution control districts have no control. In some areas auto exhaust accounts for 80 percent of air pollution. A state agency, the California Motor Vehicle Auto Pollution Control Board, has a program which will require exhaust control gadgets to be installed on cars and

trucks -but it appears that here too we are fighting a losing battle. IntheBay Area, District officials estimate that of the 4,000 tons of smoggy gases which are expelled into the area every day, 900 tons could be removed if all District laws were enforced. Another 800 tons would be removed if vehicles were equipped with exhaust control devices. “That leaves 2,300 tons of smog piling into the air every day. L the Los Angeles area the situation is and will be much worse. Already, over 10,000 tons of pollutants are contributed to the air of Los Angeles every day by motor vehicles alone. Even if we manage to eliminate all non-auto-caused air pollution, and reduce auto-induced smog, the prospect is that the smog problem will continue to get worse. For the motor vehicle population is growing with the human population, promisingto produce plenty of new smog to compensate for the reduction which might be achieved by the exhaust devices, : Smog in California has become more than a joke and a nuisance. It is cited increasingly as a health hazard. It destroys over $10 million worth of California crops yearly. It peels paint off buildings, cracks rubber tires, and weakens fabrics, It drifts into and damages areas which do not themselves produce smog. It isa regional and a statewide and an interstate#problem yet some of those who devote hours to controlling it insist it is a "home rule” responsibility. If it is a home rule responsibility, then our cities and counties would do well to question how they might effectively control its main cause: motor vehicle exhaust. Do they know of or.have they developed or do they see the imminent production of a device which will substantially and permanently eliminate motor vehicle-induced smog? If not, do they sense any responsibility for reducing the number of vehicles which traverse their domains? Do they feel they are contributing to the reduction of smog by encouraging the bui 1ding of more and better roads? If not, what city or group of cities and counties, besides a few in the Bay Area, are moving energetically to build electric-powered rapid transit systems? Isthere a single city or county in California, which has aggressively encouraged the state government, the universities, the federal government, or the automobile industry, to develop efficient new automobile engines which burn more of the fuel than the standard internal combustion engine, or completely different engines? Has any city or county engaged in such development itself? . With the increase of people and cars and smog in California, such a program becomes imperative. ---Samuel E.: Wood and Alfred Heller, from "The Phantom Cities of California" SCHOOL UNIFICATION UP FOR COUNTY DECISION From Ready Springsto Washington, from Camptonville to Pleasant Ridge, school governing board members have been asking, "School unification--what is it and what does it mean to us?" For the past ten months the Augmented Nevada County Committee on School District Organization has been meeting to try to answer these questions. Every school board in Western Nevada County, and Camptonville, has a representative on the augmented committee. A unified school district is one that operates all elementary and-high schools within a given geographical area under one board and administration and with a single budget andtaxrate. The state legislature requires countiesto make a study; to take a good look at their schools andtosee how the education offered the children can be improved. The legislators feel that unification would be a benefit to the most children, but the final decision is left up to the people of each county. Any plan for unification must be passed. by the voters of the area in an election before it can be put into operation. As the Augmented Committee began to look at our schools andtotry to see what would be best for the children, they discovered many facts. At the present time there are 12 elementary school districts and a high school district in Western Nevada County. Each of these districts has its own governing board, tax rate and administrative set-up. Some have superintendents, secretaries, bookkeepers and specialized personnel. Some have teaching principals, and part time staffs. Some have only one teacher. Some of the districts are wealthy---some are poor. In the 1961-1962 school year one district had $124, 150 per pupil in assessed valuation, That same year another district had $6,413 per pupil and no running water on the property. Some of the districts are facing a building problem---some have new schools, There is little communication between the districts. The county superintendent and the county governing board have some control over curriculum and standards in the smaller schools, but in practice the local boards implement these recommendations as they see fit. The children who are being prepared to enter Nevada Union High School are receiving very different backgrounds. The Augmented Committee appointed sub-committees to study the various areas of concern and to make a report and recommendations to the full committee. The committees were assigned the areas of, 1) finances and taxes, including administrative setups; 2) curriculum; and 3) trustee areas. The reports have been presented andthe committee has called a public hearing to be hek Jan. 16. Future articles will deal with these three topics ---Gale Nob PI e8eg'* E96T ‘¢ Jaquia0eq’ * *1083nN oy L** “PL o8eg @