February 25, 1960 (6 pages)

GERALD B. WALLACE. = at Nevada City, California, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 1, in Nevada County Adjudicated a legal newspaper November 6, 195 Superior Court, Decree No. 10023. ' Subscription: Yearly $3.00; Six Months $1.75 Advertising Rates on Request BAY COUNTIES COOPERATE With so many problems arising from rapid population growth to plague city and county governments, it is encouraging to note that substantial progress is being. made in some areas in the direction of more inter-county cooperaFor the most part, problems being dealt with are those . that defy solution by city and county governments acting alone. They call for new agencies or at least new treatments. In the Bay Area notably, nine counties and 83 cities are working on a proposed Bay Area Metropolitan Council which will serve as a clearing house for discussion of regional lems and those that spread across city and county line. is council may become operative this spring. _. Five Bay Area counties are hard at work putting to gether a five-county, $650,000,000 rapid transit system with four more counties looking on, expecting some day to join it. Six Bay counties are joined in a Bay Area Air Pollution Control District which three other counties may join any By ration all of ,these counties preserve “home rule” but get things accomplished which they could not otherwise accomplish alone. They learn teamwork, gain an ‘understanding of others’ problems and make government more effective. We hope the trend continues. (3) ANTI WHOSE TRUST? The Federal Government has opened an anti-trust trial ‘against 29 oil companies and a chemical firm—a trial that is going to cost the defendants $30 million and the taxpayers bigger the government admits is an “‘uncalculable” sum. Why? In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt closed the Suez Canal, cutting off the movement of 1,200,000 barrels of oil a day to European refineries from the Near East. Europe turned to. America for necessary petroleum replacements. To meet this sudden demand, evén though overall inventories were fairly high, American oil companies—at the urging of the government—had to undertake the complicated task of arranging speedy and sufficient movement of oil from Gulf of Mexico ports to keep European fires burning during the winter. This sudden and artificial demand on the oil resources was followed, not unnaturally, by a rise in prices of some grades of crude oil. As one company offered more for crude to ship to Europe, others, in order to maintain supplies, followed suit. The law of supply and demand was at work. However, the government saw in this price increase an opportunity to implement a long-standing attempt to bring -petroleum ‘production more and more under its control. It raised the cry of conspiracy, and set about its multi-million dollar task of bringing the companies involved to trial. The oil companies are fighting this case to the limit, not because of the dollar cost of conviction. That would be comparatively small. They are fighting it because, as one executive said, this is “one of the most unwarranted antitrust prosecutions on record,” and would set the precedent for similar misuse of power against other industries. The government’s case is largely inferential and circumstantial, yet it is willing to add $30 million to the cost of producing oil, and uncalculable millions to federal tax spending to pursue its harrassment. release The question might wellbe asked: Whose trust is being flouted now? . MAKE THEM SIGN THE TAB : Representative Harold R. Collier of Illinois has come up with a suggestion that should rate the taxpayers’ version of the medal of honor. He would take a long step toward reducing excessive “pressure” spending by requiring that every appropriation bill be submitted to a record vote. As. it is now, voice votes and tellers’ counts can conceal from constituents just what their boy did about some tax-increasing measure. Mr. Collier thinks like a taxpayer, not a politician. If we are going to have to foot the bills for pet congressional spending projects, the sponsors at least should sign the tab. t way we'll know who’s spending our money — and perhaps do something about it. TRAFFIC CHALLENGE FACED _ When Henry Ford made the automobile available to practically everyone, he also bequeathed future motorists a monstrous problem: Where to park the car at home, especially in a city; how to get to the heart of town, and what to do with the old bus once you’re there. as All the parking facilities and freeways that have sprung up in desperate profusion only seem to have been an incentive for the use of more autos. The obvious and ultimate answer had to be one that would make the use of the automobile less attractive. Rapid transit seems to fill the bill. Probably every metropolitan center in the nation is rote be or creating some sort of rapid transit system, and ornia cities are no exception. Los Angeles, for one, is working to combine present transit facilities with some new routes ‘to relieve its monumental traffic problem. San Francisco has just approved engineering studies of its share of a five-county Bay Area plan that has the excitement of newness and so far seems to have stimulated cooperative _ interest. Its proposals for the use of center dividing strips in new freeways and of railroad rights-of-way, and for a network of quake-proof subways under San Francisco are of an intelligent and imaginative approach to a dig of the Bay Area’s transit efforts will be ‘all California with interest. It could be a strong to action in other communities. my .3 ‘the industrial initiative that has ‘Neil DuChien and Jack McCelof Marin County already has announced plans to introduce one specific tax reduction measure and other legislators are known to have other proposals in prepMcCarthy has announced he will introduce a bill to correct “a long standing inequity in the tax system of the state” by ‘eliminating the sales tax on drugs and medicines, The Marin Republican has said he will ask Governor Brown to make the bill a part of the administration’s legislative program in the interest of keeping faith with the taxpayers. “The prospect of a budget surplus of at least $70,000,000—and more probably in excess of $100,000,000—makes it a first order of business, in my opinion, to repeal atax-which imposes on-unconscionable burden on people least able to pay—thse already hardpressed with medical and hospital bills,” McCarthy said. ‘““Medicines . are as essential as food, which always has been exempt from the sales .ax.” Attacking the traditional governmental tendency to increase, taxes when there is a tax surplus, McCarthy declared:. . “It is bamboozling the taxpayers to collect more money than is needed and then look around for new ways to spend it. The honest and fair thing to do is to cut taxes when there is a surplus. “California financial officials have long recognized the inequity of the tax on drugs and medicines, but the story has always been that money was too urgently needed to permit consideration of a tax cut. Now we have far more revenue from last year’s heavy tax increasees than had been predicted,and this is the time to remove a tax that should never have been imposed in the first place.” McCarthy said that the Legislative analyst, A. Alan Post, has estimated that his proposal to eliminate the sales tax on drugs and medicines will reduce revenues by about $5,000,000 a year. Thus the tax issue is set to be joined in February. The Governor has stated his opposition to tax cuts. — Boom In A Boom That 10-page spread of dramatic color pictures and factual test in a recent issue of LIFE magazine was quite a tribute to the Nation’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Company. It also was was a tribute to California and matched with economic progress the enormous population increase in the country’s fastest growing state. Every week, PG&E installs more than a thousand new meters to record the electrical consumption of new customers, more than 2,700,000 of whom have been added since 1945. To supply—those added millions, the utility spent more than $2 billion in expansion —an investment of almost $1,000 per customer. And big PQ&E is expected to be twice as big a decade from now. This is more than a boom in one private industry. It is a boom within the larger boom of the entire California economy. It is paralleled in other industries and businesses, and is reflected in growing payrolls and dividends and trade. It is proof that California matches its lure to millions in. other states with abundant ability to meet the challenge of growth. Chamber Installs Richard Wayland, pharmacist, will be installed as president of the Colfax Area Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting March 5. Wayland was elected at the directors’ meeting last week. Robert Illingsworth, banker, wes electState Senator John F. McCarthy . expenditures rather than reduce} The congressman returned to Washington after the weekend. life occurred last Thursday as I . joined other local, state and federal officials in the official openOlympics at Squaw. Valley. “As the congressman representing this district, I was in the official party when Vice. President Richard M. Nixon opened the The fact that Damodaram Sanjivayya has been named Premier “One of the highlights of my . ! ing ceremony for the Winter) cial delegation. oe “When you get many na together in an event such as this, you cannot help but admire the sportsmanship which most of the athletes display and fervently hope that it benefits our world through better understanding. “The road to the Winter Olym{now the job is done and I am proud of my part in this effort. — “Shortly after by Placer County friends advanced the idea, I q will be much more self-support“In the less than six years since the Placer County Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Cushing came to me, there has been a tremendous growth of winter sports activities. Installations built since then or now under construction amount to more than $20,000,000 in capital improvements for the Sierra winter recreation lands from Mt. Whitney to the Oregon border. “There is no doubt but what the Winter Olympics provided some of the impetus for this. This is good for all the mountain areas. I am proud to have played a part (of the State of Andhra, in India, ordinarily would not elicit editothe fact that the new premier is Success Story a NEW DELHI—The first “untouchable” ever to become Chief _ Minister ofan Indian State, 38year-old Damodaram Sanjivayya seems in good spirits during a visit to New Delhi. He was elected Chief’ Minister of Andhra State. rial comment ‘this far away. But an “untuochable” makes it newsworthy. Before Mahatma Gandhi, Damodaram Sanjivayya’s achievement would have been impossible, Untouchables, under India’s old, and_still existent if less Strictly enforced caste system, were limited to the most menial tasks for life; regardless of ability. The very touch of their shadow was a pollution, in the eyes of an upper caste Indian. Today that has changed. But, as was shéwn in the recent television documentary on the world’s population explosion, a different untouchability . still flourishes in India. It is the luxurious untoueh ability of the sacred animals — monkeys and ious precept must be fed even though hundreds of thousands of humans starve, Ours is not to, judge another nation’s religion, perhaps. But when it is suggested that American tax funds;be channeled into countries suffering a population problem that stems in considerpart from backward beliefs, then it does become a proper subject out what is best. . REMEMBER US FOR cattle—which according to relig. of our consideration. ae . By means of the test, they find took to the 1955 Legislature S.B. 1, the first bill introduced that year. It called for $1,000,000 in state funds for the start of the Olympic Games efforts. With the help of my colleagues, this was and signed by the Governor. We were on our way. ; = “The following year I represented the Placer County Cham. ber of Commerce in a delegation which traveled to Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, for the 1956 Winter . Olympics. There the stage was set for the Squaw Valley event f years later. : ‘the cost. has been: sizeable, but am confident the investment will be returned many times over in world understanding and new business. “California put up $7,990,000 in state park funds, plus the $1,000,000‘snowless day fund.” Congress appropriated $4,300,000. The . State of Nevada added $363,000 and private donations ade an‘other $2,000,000. “The use of inactive. military equipment saved some $2,000,000 and assigrimént of military personnel to help was ordered by that the Army and Navy and other personnel. who have been carrying on this project under the direction of Colonel Westen have done a marvelous job and deserve a vote of thanks. “The actual Winter Olympic Games will be over in a few days, but their effect on the economy of the state, and especially the mountain regions which comprise the Second ‘Congressional fa RINTING v4 GRASS VALLEY 1136 NEVADA CITY 36 ——— 212 W. Main Street Congress. May I say right here} 237 Commercial Street Nevada City Calif. ed vice president, and Glenn Parsons, local hardware merchant, was named treasurer. Mrs. Betty Velican was retained as secretarymanager. Directors to be insalled are vey. Clinton Haywood, Colfax publisher, is the outgoing president. © Jan ee O -. Quote, Unquote ; . the United States and Russia ought to find them; ions too much” in the matter of endis race. Thus spoke the Oregon oracle, orld opinion against them” for “circum. ceremonies.” i from the start to the opening, GOING PLACES? oe Doe’ torget your AccidentBaggage Insurance. BR covers ; © Business or Pleasure Trips @ On foces af era Available now at fow cons. We will be glad w tall you more about 316 Broad Street eee ee eee ‘DONKEY BASKETBALL Monday, February 29, 1960. 7:00 P. M. NEVADA UNION JUNIOR HIGH Adults 75c, Students 35c USED East Main Street 3 OVEY’S. CARS PLYMOUTH CHRYSLER Grass Valley Very Clean. $350.00 age. *55 DODGE CORONET V-8 TWO DOOR White-walled Tires, Wheel Covers, Radio and Heater, Powerflite Trans. Low mileOne Owner. Down Fordamatic, Radio an side. Good Rubber. $350.00 §’55 FORD V-8 9 PASS. COUNTRY SED. d Heater. . Clean InDown Yellow. 56 FORD V-8 COUNTRY SEDAN Power Steering, Ford-A-Matic, Radio and Heater. Good Rubber. $400.00 Down -Clean. White and er. A Bargain At $450.00 57 RAMBLER REBEL V-8 SEDAN White and Red. Good White-walls. Heatey Down 55 PLYMOUTH V-8 ber. $325.00 Powerflite, Radio and Heater. Good Two Tone Green. BELVEDERE SED. RubDown Many Other Good Used Cars an Before a . )larger and better. Every car you buy .in' . [)Nevada County you ext city and county county ( ciencinan ganineanenasiraisuaeadaam

GERALD B. WALLACE.. = at Nevada City, California, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 1, in Nevada County Adjudicated a legal newspaper November 6, 195 Superior Court, Decree No. 10023. ' Subscription: Yearly $3.00; Six Months $1.75 Advertising Rates on Request BAY COUNTIES COOPERATE With so many problems arising from rapid population growth to plague city and county governments, it is encouraging to note that substantial progress is being. made in some areas in the direction of more inter-county cooperaFor the most part, problems being dealt with are those . that defy solution by city and county governments acting alone. They call for new agencies or at least new treatments. In the Bay Area notably, nine counties and 83 cities are working on a proposed Bay Area Metropolitan Council which will serve as a clearing house for discussion of regional lems and those that spread across city and county line. is council may become operative this spring. _. Five Bay Area counties are hard at work putting to gether a five-county, $650,000,000 rapid transit system with four more counties looking on, expecting some day to join it. Six Bay counties are joined in a Bay Area Air Pollution Control District which three other counties may join any By ration all of ,these counties preserve “home rule” but get things accomplished which they could not otherwise accomplish alone. They learn teamwork, gain an ‘understanding of others’ problems and make government more effective. We hope the trend continues. (3) ANTI WHOSE TRUST? The Federal Government has opened an anti-trust trial ‘against 29 oil companies and a chemical firm—a trial that is going to cost the defendants $30 million and the taxpayers bigger the government admits is an “‘uncalculable” sum. Why? In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt closed the Suez Canal, cutting off the movement of 1,200,000 barrels of oil a day to European refineries from the Near East. Europe turned to. America for necessary petroleum replacements. To meet this sudden demand, evén though overall inventories were fairly high, American oil companies—at the urging of the government—had to undertake the complicated task of arranging speedy and sufficient movement of oil from Gulf of Mexico ports to keep European fires burning during the winter. This sudden and artificial demand on the oil resources was followed, not unnaturally, by a rise in prices of some grades of crude oil. As one company offered more for crude to ship to Europe, others, in order to maintain supplies, followed suit. The law of supply and demand was at work. However, the government saw in this price increase an opportunity to implement a long-standing attempt to bring -petroleum ‘production more and more under its control. It raised the cry of conspiracy, and set about its multi-million dollar task of bringing the companies involved to trial. The oil companies are fighting this case to the limit, not because of the dollar cost of conviction. That would be comparatively small. They are fighting it because, as one executive said, this is “one of the most unwarranted antitrust prosecutions on record,” and would set the precedent for similar misuse of power against other industries. The government’s case is largely inferential and circumstantial, yet it is willing to add $30 million to the cost of producing oil, and uncalculable millions to federal tax spending to pursue its harrassment. release The question might wellbe asked: Whose trust is being flouted now? . MAKE THEM SIGN THE TAB : Representative Harold R. Collier of Illinois has come up with a suggestion that should rate the taxpayers’ version of the medal of honor. He would take a long step toward reducing excessive “pressure” spending by requiring that every appropriation bill be submitted to a record vote. As. it is now, voice votes and tellers’ counts can conceal from constituents just what their boy did about some tax-increasing measure. Mr. Collier thinks like a taxpayer, not a politician. If we are going to have to foot the bills for pet congressional spending projects, the sponsors at least should sign the tab. t way we'll know who’s spending our money — and perhaps do something about it. TRAFFIC CHALLENGE FACED _ When Henry Ford made the automobile available to practically everyone, he also bequeathed future motorists a monstrous problem: Where to park the car at home, especially in a city; how to get to the heart of town, and what to do with the old bus once you’re there. as All the parking facilities and freeways that have sprung up in desperate profusion only seem to have been an incentive for the use of more autos. The obvious and ultimate answer had to be one that would make the use of the automobile less attractive. Rapid transit seems to fill the bill. Probably every metropolitan center in the nation is rote be or creating some sort of rapid transit system, and ornia cities are no exception. Los Angeles, for one, is working to combine present transit facilities with some new routes ‘to relieve its monumental traffic problem. San Francisco has just approved engineering studies of its share of a five-county Bay Area plan that has the excitement of newness and so far seems to have stimulated cooperative _ interest. Its proposals for the use of center dividing strips in new freeways and of railroad rights-of-way, and for a network of quake-proof subways under San Francisco are of an intelligent and imaginative approach to a dig of the Bay Area’s transit efforts will be ‘all California with interest. It could be a strong to action in other communities. my .3 ‘the industrial initiative that has ‘Neil DuChien and Jack McCelof Marin County already has announced plans to introduce one specific tax reduction measure and other legislators are known to have other proposals in prepMcCarthy has announced he will introduce a bill to correct “a long standing inequity in the tax system of the state” by ‘eliminating the sales tax on drugs and medicines, The Marin Republican has said he will ask Governor Brown to make the bill a part of the administration’s legislative program in the interest of keeping faith with the taxpayers. “The prospect of a budget surplus of at least $70,000,000—and more probably in excess of $100,000,000—makes it a first order of business, in my opinion, to repeal atax-which imposes on-unconscionable burden on people least able to pay—thse already hardpressed with medical and hospital bills,” McCarthy said. ‘““Medicines . are as essential as food, which always has been exempt from the sales .ax.” Attacking the traditional governmental tendency to increase, taxes when there is a tax surplus, McCarthy declared:. . “It is bamboozling the taxpayers to collect more money than is needed and then look around for new ways to spend it. The honest and fair thing to do is to cut taxes when there is a surplus. “California financial officials have long recognized the inequity of the tax on drugs and medicines, but the story has always been that money was too urgently needed to permit consideration of a tax cut. Now we have far more revenue from last year’s heavy tax increasees than had been predicted,and this is the time to remove a tax that should never have been imposed in the first place.” McCarthy said that the Legislative analyst, A. Alan Post, has estimated that his proposal to eliminate the sales tax on drugs and medicines will reduce revenues by about $5,000,000 a year. Thus the tax issue is set to be joined in February. The Governor has stated his opposition to tax cuts. — Boom In A Boom That 10-page spread of dramatic color pictures and factual test in a recent issue of LIFE magazine was quite a tribute to the Nation’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Company. It also was was a tribute to California and matched with economic progress the enormous population increase in the country’s fastest growing state. Every week, PG&E installs more than a thousand new meters to record the electrical consumption of new customers, more than 2,700,000 of whom have been added since 1945. To supply—those added millions, the utility spent more than $2 billion in expansion —an investment of almost $1,000 per customer. And big PQ&E is expected to be twice as big a decade from now. This is more than a boom in one private industry. It is a boom within the larger boom of the entire California economy. It is paralleled in other industries and businesses, and is reflected in growing payrolls and dividends and trade. It is proof that California matches its lure to millions in. other states with abundant ability to meet the challenge of growth. Chamber Installs Richard Wayland, pharmacist, will be installed as president of the Colfax Area Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting March 5. Wayland was elected at the directors’ meeting last week. Robert Illingsworth, banker, wes electState Senator John F. McCarthy . expenditures rather than reduce}

The congressman returned to Washington after the weekend. life occurred last Thursday as I . joined other local, state and federal officials in the official openOlympics at Squaw. Valley. “As the congressman representing this district, I was in the official party when Vice. President Richard M. Nixon opened the The fact that Damodaram Sanjivayya has been named Premier “One of the highlights of my . ! ing ceremony for the Winter) cial delegation. oe “When you get many na together in an event such as this, you cannot help but admire the sportsmanship which most of the athletes display and fervently hope that it benefits our world through better understanding. “The road to the Winter Olym{now the job is done and I am proud of my part in this effort. — “Shortly after by Placer County friends advanced the idea, I q will be much more self-support“In the less than six years since the Placer County Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Cushing came to me, there has been a tremendous growth of winter sports activities. Installations built since then or now under construction amount to more than $20,000,000 in capital improvements for the Sierra winter recreation lands from Mt. Whitney to the Oregon border. “There is no doubt but what the Winter Olympics provided some of the impetus for this. This is good for all the mountain areas. I am proud to have played a part (of the State of Andhra, in India, ordinarily would not elicit editothe fact that the new premier is Success Story a NEW DELHI—The first “untouchable” ever to become Chief _ Minister ofan Indian State, 38year-old Damodaram Sanjivayya seems in good spirits during a visit to New Delhi. He was elected Chief’ Minister of Andhra State. rial comment ‘this far away. But an “untuochable” makes it newsworthy. Before Mahatma Gandhi, Damodaram Sanjivayya’s achievement would have been impossible, Untouchables, under India’s old, and_still existent if less Strictly enforced caste system, were limited to the most menial tasks for life; regardless of ability. The very touch of their shadow was a pollution, in the eyes of an upper caste Indian. Today that has changed. But, as was shéwn in the recent television documentary on the world’s population explosion, a different untouchability . still flourishes in India. It is the luxurious untoueh ability of the sacred animals — monkeys and ious precept must be fed even though hundreds of thousands of humans starve, Ours is not to, judge another nation’s religion, perhaps. But when it is suggested that American tax funds;be channeled into countries suffering a population problem that stems in considerpart from backward beliefs, then it does become a proper subject out what is best. . REMEMBER US FOR cattle—which according to relig. of our consideration. ae . By means of the test, they find took to the 1955 Legislature S.B. 1, the first bill introduced that year. It called for $1,000,000 in state funds for the start of the Olympic Games efforts. With the help of my colleagues, this was and signed by the Governor. We were on our way. ; = “The following year I represented the Placer County Cham. ber of Commerce in a delegation which traveled to Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, for the 1956 Winter . Olympics.. There the stage was set for the Squaw Valley event f years later. : ‘the cost. has been: sizeable, but am confident the investment will be returned many times over in world understanding and new business. “California put up $7,990,000 in state park funds, plus the $1,000,000‘snowless day fund.” Congress appropriated $4,300,000. The . State of Nevada added $363,000 and private donations ade an‘other $2,000,000. “The use of inactive. military equipment saved some $2,000,000 and assigrimént of military personnel to help was ordered by that the Army and Navy and other personnel. who have been carrying on this project under the direction of Colonel Westen have done a marvelous job and deserve a vote of thanks. “The actual Winter Olympic Games will be over in a few days, but their effect on the economy of the state, and especially the mountain regions which comprise the Second ‘Congressional fa RINTING v4 GRASS VALLEY 1136 NEVADA CITY 36 ——— 212 W. Main Street Congress. May I say right here} 237 Commercial Street Nevada City Calif. ed vice president, and Glenn Parsons, local hardware merchant, was named treasurer. Mrs. Betty Velican was retained as secretarymanager. Directors to be insalled are vey. Clinton Haywood, Colfax publisher, is the outgoing president. © Jan ee O -. Quote, Unquote ; . the United States and Russia ought to find them; ions too much” in the matter of endis race. Thus spoke the Oregon oracle, orld opinion against them” for “circum. ceremonies.” i from the start to the opening, GOING PLACES? oe Doe’ torget your AccidentBaggage Insurance. BR covers ; © Business or Pleasure Trips @ On foces af era Available now at fow cons. We will be glad w tall you more about 316 Broad Street eee ee eee ‘DONKEY BASKETBALL Monday, February 29, 1960. 7:00 P. M. NEVADA UNION JUNIOR HIGH Adults 75c, Students 35c USED East Main Street 3 OVEY’S. CARS PLYMOUTH CHRYSLER Grass Valley Very Clean. $350.00 age. *55 DODGE CORONET V-8 TWO DOOR White-walled Tires, Wheel Covers, Radio and Heater, Powerflite Trans. Low mileOne Owner. Down Fordamatic, Radio an side. Good Rubber. $350.00 §’55 FORD V-8 9 PASS. COUNTRY SED. d Heater. . Clean InDown Yellow. 56 FORD V-8 COUNTRY SEDAN Power Steering, Ford-A-Matic, Radio and Heater. Good Rubber. $400.00 Down -Clean. White and er. A Bargain At $450.00 57 RAMBLER REBEL V-8 SEDAN White and Red. Good White-walls. Heatey Down 55 PLYMOUTH V-8 ber. $325.00 Powerflite, Radio and Heater. Good Two Tone Green. BELVEDERE SED. RubDown Many Other Good Used Cars an Before a . )larger and better. Every car you buy .in' . [)Nevada County you ext city and county county ( ciencinan ganineanenasiraisuaeadaam