December 6, 1967 (16 pages)

, 4 4 i. Le oad i % ‘ «+ on . December 6, 1967 yy y 4 lh ‘eee «s. 7» i, Me in t “ an de” ; BDIPORIAL. Gorton. M. Stack Editor ~~ NOSTALGIA TAKES A RIDE Nostalgia was taken for a ride recently during hearings on the Southern Pacific's request to eliminate the kk, onl en. The running between Los Angeles ond San isco. The crocodile tears flowed like the wine that used to enliven the Lark's trips when people really did take the train. instead of the plane or bus or private car. But cold facts mopped them up. A traffic consultant brought from Washington by the SP told the Public Utilities Commission that public subsidization. of competing carriers, and the sheer, impenetrable factor of s and convenience had long since turned the traveling public from the rails. He cited the fact that during 1966 one prominent airline competitor of SP for the LA-SF traffic received a $3,595,000 subsidy from the federal government. This amounted to $13 per passenger carried that year, and. the airline’s income in fares was an additional $17 per ig In that same-year motorists were piling up 18.6 million vehicle miles per day on interstate highways in California, or 28 million passenger miles. This compared with only 2.2 million passenger miles per day over the entire, immense Southern Pacific system. The Lark averages 78 passengers per trip, 16 of them in the Pullman cars. And still there are die-hards who say the railroads should be required to maintain as a public service a service the public obviously doesn't want. GOVERNMENT, KEEP OUT! Although the federal government, inextricably bound as it is to the handling of atomic power, is gradually and wisely reducing its role as producer in favor of private industry, it now is considering a plunge into the oil business. Federal lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming are believed to hold enormous amounts of oil imbedded in shale deposits. Now uneconomical to extract, this oil, it is believed, can in the near future be made commercially worthwhile by modern methods of production. The question is, should the government do it, should it go into partnership with business as it has in the communications satellite business, or should it lease the lands to private operators. The latter suggestion inevitably has raised the cry of “Teapot Dome” the infamous Harding administration oil lease scandal; but the answer to that is, of course, honest government officials. The Wall Street Journal offers a formidable list of much more valid objections to government in the oil business, too comrend to report here but bearing on the potential concts of interest and the almost inevitable losses to the taxpayers. f government has found that private industry can best handle the production of enormous nuclear power resources, it would seem only logical that it should adopt the same sensible attitude toward the difficult task of oil production. DEBT STILL A CONCERN With the great proliferation of easy-to-get credit cards; and the multitudinous voices urging us to buy pretindl pe: later, it is easy to get the impression that Americans are credit happy, and that debt is an acceptable way of life to most of us. Not so. A major survey by the University of Michian Institute for Social arch has uncovered the act that most people still borrow only for important n low income families generally avoid debt, and a rrowers know where to get loans at the lowest Only 4 per cent of the people interviewed. for example, considered it acceptable to borrow for fur coats or jewelry: only 9 per cent for a vacation. Education, however, would be a legitimate reason for borrowing to 77 per cent. ig If only such a sensible attitude toward debt prevailed in government we’d be a lot better off. sf 22887 BER reidresisr= pel pele fai ee rege saree BEE SR ythe i a73 a = : 1 .* et sf gebe : a : 33 3 é a : I would play hookey, not for one day, but there were times when I would stay away from a week to ten days, I was afraid to go home because I knew I would get a whipping and be locked in a room for several days. One time when I was locked up my father took all my clothes and when I got out I could not: find anything to put on, However, I did find one of my mother's dresses and I put that on and left the house. I went down on Commercial Street, where the post office now stands, and where L, Human's Clothing Store was located. I charged a pair of overalls and a shirt and left. It was nice weather, so I walked to North Bloomfield. I got a pair of shoes from a friend and left for Washington. I was gone nearly a month. NEVADA COUNTY NUGGEN PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. 301 Broad Street, Nevada City, Ca, 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Garrett Stack, Editor Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12,406; Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5, 00, 1967 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the ae Cone. n ae erg ng Rieti il States in. Scientists believe that ‘subterranean nuclear explosions, controlled to prevent external radiation, can. release this otherwise unreachable fuel in multi-billion dollar quantities, for the benefit of home and industrial: gas consumers. -A test ‘blast scheduled in northern New Mexico some-. time in December. It is an industrial experiment, financed by Paso Natural Gas Co: in partnership with the Atomic Energy Commission and the Interior De° partment. ai No matter how successful the test, actual supplies will be some time in coming, as all concerned: are dedicated. to the most minute studies of possible radiation effect on the gas, and on methods to eradicate it before it is added to the nation’s fuel supply. Thus the atom, a drea killer when first released by man’s genius, is broadening its beneficial uses through the initiative and technical genius of private industry it~ ing with government. In all, a most encouraging step. CALIFORNIA oPEAKS ALLAN KIISK, Palo Alto, on teachers in demonstrations —“We cannot accept educators who advocate chaos and lawlessness as a solution to social problems.” i GOVERNOR REAGAN — Bobby Kennedy says he wants to do sO much about poverty because he never had any when he was a kid.” . ~ JIM LONBORG, San Luis Obispo, star Red Sox pitcher, . on financial success — “It’s no time to become a fat cat, but I think I’m happy.” I always carried some hooks and a line and matches, When I got home I got the strap. My old man said, "Allright, if you don't want to go to school, you can go to work!" He had a contract for 250 cord of wood, so I drove four horses, He did not pay me anything, just my room and board. I quit him and went to work driving four-up for $30 a month and board, When I passed 13-years-ofage, I went to work inthe Champfon for $2,25 a day. A little later they put me on a jack hammer at $2,50 a day, The last -American peop e e ‘PARADE If anyone wonders. wh oe Johnson's political rr ems are deepenin /; as i latest Harris shown the 11 het bis Vietnam down to a miserable 23%, the reasons can easily be found on the front pages day after day. j First, fiscal experts pt oe threat of U.S. evaluation is ‘very real in the wake of similar British acCongress. ‘These two pocketbook issues, together with even a smail pinch of new inflation, could prove politi-.¢ally disastrous, Nation Restive Second, the nation as a whole undoubtedly is increasingly restive, uncertain, unhappy, even bitter. By every statistical measure— whether it is higher local, county and state taxes, or the Navember election returns — the. great middle body of Americans is becoming discontented and disenchanted. Third, the war in Asia still shows no real sign of going better for the President from eae boos coe Noe ition to his policies is at foant becoming more vocal, if not larger, and the constant increase of. security measures and almost furtive presidential travels to avoid encoun" ter with anti-war, anti-draft pickets, has noticeably reduced Mr. Johnson’s personal contact and ea with the Fourth, nator Eugene McCarthy (Dem.-Minn.) has become a new political coalescent for the anti-war faction oe in his own party, and in some =: states Mr. Johnson may faceembarrassing, even cult, primary opposition. On the other side of the coin, Alabama’s ex-Governor Wallace is proving that he has a surprisingly strong charisma in many parts of the country, and he just may harness mu Democratic discontent to an anti-Johnson bandwagon in the North. Riot Problems _ Fifth, after several years of civil rights turmoil (marked by historic legislative achievements, to be sure), enough threats have been issued by militant civil rights spokesmen to make many ericans fear that. the worst violence is yet to come—and whether justified or not, Lyndon Johnson will be blamed pereeney for any breakdowns in law and order. engi ess he almost nm on a ¢t man of Mr. Johnson's seconbhcso tte and at Be ca he = reacted almost churlishly to congressional refusal. to give him ev he wants or asks generated a reminder of its constitutional role in foreign rage a resolution sees commitment SS. troops in future hostiliti without affirmative pd With all of this, more, militating cf nag en at the moment, Mr. Johnson may actually be glad that Congressional Republicans led the a his war-on-poverty legislation. Ge can’ j as “obstructionists.” — rer aia

, 4 4 i. Le oad i % ‘ «+ on . December 6, 1967 yy y 4 lh ‘eee «s. 7» i, Me in t “ an de” ; BDIPORIAL. Gorton. M. Stack Editor ~~ NOSTALGIA TAKES A RIDE Nostalgia was taken for a ride recently during hearings on the Southern Pacific's request to eliminate the kk, onl en. The running between Los Angeles ond San isco. The crocodile tears flowed like the wine that used to enliven the Lark's trips when people really did take the train. instead of the plane or bus or private car. But cold facts mopped them up. A traffic consultant brought from Washington by the SP told the Public Utilities Commission that public subsidization. of competing carriers, and the sheer, impenetrable factor of s and convenience had long since turned the traveling public from the rails. He cited the fact that during 1966 one prominent airline competitor of SP for the LA-SF traffic received a $3,595,000 subsidy from the federal government. This amounted to $13 per passenger carried that year, and. the airline’s income in fares was an additional $17 per ig In that same-year motorists were piling up 18.6 million vehicle miles per day on interstate highways in California, or 28 million passenger miles. This compared with only 2.2 million passenger miles per day over the entire, immense Southern Pacific system. The Lark averages 78 passengers per trip, 16 of them in the Pullman cars. And still there are die-hards who say the railroads should be required to maintain as a public service a service the public obviously doesn't want. GOVERNMENT, KEEP OUT! Although the federal government, inextricably bound as it is to the handling of atomic power, is gradually and wisely reducing its role as producer in favor of private industry, it now is considering a plunge into the oil business. Federal lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming are believed to hold enormous amounts of oil imbedded in shale deposits. Now uneconomical to extract, this oil, it is believed, can in the near future be made commercially worthwhile by modern methods of production. The question is, should the government do it, should it go into partnership with business as it has in the communications satellite business, or should it lease the lands to private operators. The latter suggestion inevitably has raised the cry of “Teapot Dome” the infamous Harding administration oil lease scandal; but the answer to that is, of course, honest government officials. The Wall Street Journal offers a formidable list of much more valid objections to government in the oil business, too comrend to report here but bearing on the potential concts of interest and the almost inevitable losses to the taxpayers. f government has found that private industry can best handle the production of enormous nuclear power resources, it would seem only logical that it should adopt the same sensible attitude toward the difficult task of oil production. DEBT STILL A CONCERN With the great proliferation of easy-to-get credit cards; and the multitudinous voices urging us to buy pretindl pe: later, it is easy to get the impression that Americans are credit happy, and that debt is an acceptable way of life to most of us. Not so. A major survey by the University of Michian Institute for Social arch has uncovered the act that most people still borrow only for important n low income families generally avoid debt, and a rrowers know where to get loans at the lowest Only 4 per cent of the people interviewed. for example, considered it acceptable to borrow for fur coats or jewelry: only 9 per cent for a vacation. Education, however, would be a legitimate reason for borrowing to 77 per cent. ig If only such a sensible attitude toward debt prevailed in government we’d be a lot better off. sf 22887 BER reidresisr= pel pele fai ee rege saree BEE SR ythe i a73 a = : 1 .* et sf gebe : a : 33 3 é a : I would play hookey, not for one day, but there were times when I would stay away from a week to ten days, I was afraid to go home because I knew I would get a whipping and be locked in a room for several days. One time when I was locked up my father took all my clothes and when I got out I could not: find anything to put on, However, I did find one of my mother's dresses and I put that on and left the house. I went down on Commercial Street, where the post office now stands, and where L, Human's Clothing Store was located. I charged a pair of overalls and a shirt and left. It was nice weather, so I walked to North Bloomfield. I got a pair of shoes from a friend and left for Washington. I was gone nearly a month. NEVADA COUNTY NUGGEN PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. 301 Broad Street, Nevada City, Ca, 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Garrett Stack, Editor Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12,406; Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5, 00, 1967 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the ae Cone. n ae erg ng Rieti il States in. Scientists believe that ‘subterranean nuclear explosions,

controlled to prevent external radiation, can. release this otherwise unreachable fuel in multi-billion dollar quantities, for the benefit of home and industrial: gas consumers. -A test ‘blast scheduled in northern New Mexico some-. time in December. It is an industrial experiment, financed by Paso Natural Gas Co: in partnership with the Atomic Energy Commission and the Interior De° partment. ai No matter how successful the test, actual supplies will be some time in coming, as all concerned: are dedicated. to the most minute studies of possible radiation effect on the gas, and on methods to eradicate it before it is added to the nation’s fuel supply. Thus the atom, a drea killer when first released by man’s genius, is broadening its beneficial uses through the initiative and technical genius of private industry it~ ing with government. In all, a most encouraging step. CALIFORNIA oPEAKS ALLAN KIISK, Palo Alto, on teachers in demonstrations —“We cannot accept educators who advocate chaos and lawlessness as a solution to social problems.” i GOVERNOR REAGAN — Bobby Kennedy says he wants to do sO much about poverty because he never had any when he was a kid.” . ~ JIM LONBORG, San Luis Obispo, star Red Sox pitcher, . on financial success — “It’s no time to become a fat cat, but I think I’m happy.” I always carried some hooks and a line and matches, When I got home I got the strap. My old man said, "Allright, if you don't want to go to school, you can go to work!" He had a contract for 250 cord of wood, so I drove four horses, He did not pay me anything, just my room and board. I quit him and went to work driving four-up for $30 a month and board, When I passed 13-years-ofage, I went to work inthe Champfon for $2,25 a day. A little later they put me on a jack hammer at $2,50 a day, The last -American peop e e ‘PARADE If anyone wonders. wh oe Johnson's political rr ems are deepenin /; as i latest Harris shown the 11 het bis Vietnam down to a miserable 23%, the reasons can easily be found on the front pages day after day. j First, fiscal experts pt oe threat of U.S. evaluation is ‘very real in the wake of similar British acCongress. ‘These two pocketbook issues, together with even a smail pinch of new inflation, could prove politi-.¢ally disastrous, Nation Restive Second, the nation as a whole undoubtedly is increasingly restive, uncertain, unhappy, even bitter. By every statistical measure— whether it is higher local, county and state taxes, or the Navember election returns — the. great middle body of Americans is becoming discontented and disenchanted. Third, the war in Asia still shows no real sign of going better for the President from eae boos coe Noe ition to his policies is at foant becoming more vocal, if not larger, and the constant increase of. security measures and almost furtive presidential travels to avoid encoun" ter with anti-war, anti-draft pickets, has noticeably reduced Mr. Johnson’s personal contact and ea with the Fourth, nator Eugene McCarthy (Dem.-Minn.) has become a new political coalescent for the anti-war faction oe in his own party, and in some =: states Mr. Johnson may faceembarrassing, even cult, primary opposition. On the other side of the coin, Alabama’s ex-Governor Wallace is proving that he has a surprisingly strong charisma in many parts of the country, and he just may harness mu Democratic discontent to an anti-Johnson bandwagon in the North. Riot Problems _ Fifth, after several years of civil rights turmoil (marked by historic legislative achievements, to be sure), enough threats have been issued by militant civil rights spokesmen to make many ericans fear that. the worst violence is yet to come—and whether justified or not, Lyndon Johnson will be blamed pereeney for any breakdowns in law and order. engi ess he almost nm on a ¢t man of Mr. Johnson's seconbhcso tte and at Be ca he = reacted almost churlishly to congressional refusal. to give him ev he wants or asks generated a reminder of its constitutional role in foreign rage a resolution sees commitment SS. troops in future hostiliti without affirmative pd With all of this, more, militating cf nag en at the moment, Mr. Johnson may actually be glad that Congressional Republicans led the a his war-on-poverty legislation. Ge can’ j as “obstructionists.” — rer aia