February 25, 1965 (16 pages)

aww, pee EET .Nevada County Nugget February 25, 1965. SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD 7 WedAdmibae ry aes rade tateiee esl made teibae ry aes acts Baer cvest radeAateibae Cakes maitAste eel 8e IO WASHINGTON CALLING THE INFLUENCE OF ESTES . KEFAUVER IS STILL FELT WASHINGTON --The long shadow of a tall, gangling Tennesseean still falls across the capital, Estes Kefauver isnot missed by the comfortable Senate hierarchy whom he often irritated, but he is missed by a great many Americans who feel a Senator's duty is larger than getting dams or defense plants for his state. His career as a patient prosecutor searching through the maze of monopoly power in America's-economy is recalled by publication of a book he nearly completéd hefore his death a year and a half ago. “In a Few Hands: Monopoly Power in America" reveals the two conspicuous . qualities that made him unique in recent Senate history. He had a dogged, persistent way of digging into a tangle of figures and facts to show how control over large segments of American business was held by a few men at the top of the corporate structure, The Senator was the enemy of “administered prices" by which he meant a pricing system in vital fields -bread, drugs, automobiles, steel -that ino longer responded to competition. It was free enterprise, he contended, with much of the freedom and not a little of the enterprise removed. As chairman of the Senate's monopoly subcommittee he questioned witnesses with a voice never raised above a level which at times was almost inaudible. Step by step the reluctant witness would be led down the path to the point at which certain conclusions were inescapable. Never blustery or aggressive, he was as relentless as a hound dog from the hills of his own state. The other outstanding quality was his complete indifference to whether he was liked or disliked, Walking ‘onto the Senate floor he could know that the establishment would pay a lot to retire him to Tennessee. Corporation executives would cheerfully have boiled him in oil, But he seldom gave the slightest sign that he cared about anything but the job in hand. This dedication helped to draw around him a devoted staff. He could be made into a figure of fun -the shambling figure in the coonskin cap with the limp handshake -as his critics liked to do. Here, too, he seemed unconcerned as he went about wooing voters in a halfdozen national campaigns with the dogged persistence of his Senate investigations. While it was only a coincidence that his long-time friend and colleague, Sen. Albert Gore, should have come out at this time demanding an investigation into one of the most remarkable tax cases ever to be decided osmmaniaiael by an Internal Revenue Service ruling, this is in ‘what might be called the Tennessee tradition. Reversing a former ruling, the IRS in the DuPont-General Motors case took action that Gore says will mean a tax saving going largely to the DuPont family of upto $100,000, 000, Although the reversalreached some time in December is entirely legal, Gore argued that the Senate Finance Committee should investigate whether the public interest: had been served. In the Tennessee tradition is an element of Southern populism -justice for the individual and for the region, a deep-seated suspicion of the money powers and their machinations, Part of it is a strong sense of the people's right to know as shown in Gore's determination to bring all the facts in the DuPont case to light. Kefauver and Gore were with one exception the only Southerners to refuse to sign the Southern manifesto that, as adopted by Southern members of Congress, served as a base of respectability for the segregationist stand. Washington is strewn with monuments, many of them political monuments in atrocious taste and set down with little regard to appropriateness. It is highly unlikely in any foreseeable future that Kefauver will be memorialized in bronze or stone. But he has what is a more enduring monument in the Kefauver-Harris Act, which sought to apply stringent controls over drugs offered for sale in the mass market with its huge profits. The drama of the thalidomide scandal helped to bring about passage of these long-needed reforms, : The subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly is headed today by Sen. Philip A. Hart (D., Mich, ). The opportunity is wide open to carry on where Kefauver left off, and Hart hasa lot of the Tennesseean's zeal and dedication. Byt the make-up of the committee is far more conservative today. The powers that be in the Senate have seen to that. Toward the end of his life certain lawyer lobbyists _ closed in on Kefauver and checkmated his investigation into prices established by American drug firms in South America. His pessimism about the drifts toward monopoly is reflected in this posthumous book, Yet he ends with the conclusion that monopoly power will not for long be tolerated in a society in which the traditions of afree, democratic society are so deep-rooted, This was the conviction of a public servant who went on to the end asking the hard, searching questions. (Copyright 1965) ---Marquis Childs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR NUGGET AIDS HISTORIANS To the Editor: My congratulations on the Nugget each year winning awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. It is nice to know that others appreciate the Nugget each week as I do. Every Saturday I work with scissors and paste to fill in: a book started with my first issue about the history of Nevada County andits people. You render a real service to historians. I am particularly interested in the area around North Columbia Hill. I would like to know more about that lone grave across from Jackie Orchard near the old toll ‘house between the Forestry Station and Lookout. I understand not only a little girl but her parents, too, are buried there. Only the headstone for the child remains. Seems that at one time there was a boarding house and a sawmill there. Thank you for keeping your paper coming. Anna L,. Zurilgen Richmond TALES OF HIGHGRADING To the Editor: Why doesn't Bob Paine write about highgrading (stealing gold)? Is he scared? He writes about everything else that made history. I guess you wonder why a lot of highgrading went on. Well, alot of men were brought over from the old country. Their passage was paid by a store-keeper and a cer. tain party I won't mention, When these men got paid they had to cash their checks at the store and this shylock would take so much for passage money and interest besides. So you see the men had to do a little highgrading toget by. I know this as I seen it several times and for a youngster I was pretty nosey and things like this made me curious, ; They sure had a lot of ways to highgrade. There was one shift boss I knew who was helping himself, You see in those days they used long steel candle sticks in the stopes. After a shot was fired I saw him digging in the face of the stope. I knew he wasn't looking for fishing worms 3000 feet underground, Once the miners went out on strike for more pay$2.25 a day for muckets and $2.50 for machine men. The mine owners hired a bunch of scabs and brought ther in on the Narrow Gauge. Believe me when they saw al the men on the depot platform they didn't even got off the train, The miners were tipped off that the scabs were coming so-they got pick handles, pitch forks and shotguns. The train went right back to Colfax, A lot of the miners had their sons working too, The owners said they would pay more but the kids would have to leave. But the kids were highgrading too so everybody went back to work at the same wages. I quit when the mine hired dicks to watch everybody, I don't like stool pigeons or sewer rats, Best highgrader I remember was a smart Cousin Jack who had to gothrough the shower room after his shift and was examined, He bought the largest truss he could and refused totake it off ever. Every shift the mine dick examined the truss for a month, Then he got tired. Then the Cousin Jack went to a shoe maker and had the inside of the truss cut out and that is how he could get the stuff . out. You can take it from there. I wish I was up there again. ‘ Jack Bassett Oakland (Editor's Note: There is a book in preparation about gold stealing in the Nevada County mines, Author is a former Grass Valley High School teacher F,D, Calhoon, married to Marion McGuire of Grass Valley. His book, titled "The Highgrader” is scheduled tobe published in the fall of 1965.) EVERYBODY IS ALWAYS SAYING WHAT A SUCCESS Aunt WASHINGTON FELLOW IS. HE'S NOT SUCH GREAT SHAKES IN MY BOOK. 90; BIG DEAL . HE'S A HOTSHOT GENERAL AND POLITICIAN » HE SPENDS A WINTER IN VALLEY FORGE. S'M SUPPOSED 10 BE (IMPRESSED? WAH!) HE COULD NEVER B SELL A USED Buea!) .

aww, pee EET .Nevada County Nugget February 25, 1965. SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD 7 WedAdmibae ry aes rade tateiee esl made teibae ry aes acts Baer cvest radeAateibae Cakes maitAste eel 8e IO WASHINGTON CALLING THE INFLUENCE OF ESTES . KEFAUVER IS STILL FELT WASHINGTON --The long shadow of a tall, gangling Tennesseean still falls across the capital, Estes Kefauver isnot missed by the comfortable Senate hierarchy whom he often irritated, but he is missed by a great many Americans who feel a Senator's duty is larger than getting dams or defense plants for his state. His career as a patient prosecutor searching through the maze of monopoly power in America's-economy is recalled by publication of a book he nearly completéd hefore his death a year and a half ago. “In a Few Hands: Monopoly Power in America" reveals the two conspicuous . qualities that made him unique in recent Senate history. He had a dogged, persistent way of digging into a tangle of figures and facts to show how control over large segments of American business was held by a few men at the top of the corporate structure, The Senator was the enemy of “administered prices" by which he meant a pricing system in vital fields -bread, drugs, automobiles, steel -that ino longer responded to competition. It was free enterprise, he contended, with much of the freedom and not a little of the enterprise removed. As chairman of the Senate's monopoly subcommittee he questioned witnesses with a voice never raised above a level which at times was almost inaudible. Step by step the reluctant witness would be led down the path to the point at which certain conclusions were inescapable. Never blustery or aggressive, he was as relentless as a hound dog from the hills of his own state. The other outstanding quality was his complete indifference to whether he was liked or disliked, Walking ‘onto the Senate floor he could know that the establishment would pay a lot to retire him to Tennessee. Corporation executives would cheerfully have boiled him in oil, But he seldom gave the slightest sign that he cared about anything but the job in hand. This dedication helped to draw around him a devoted staff. He could be made into a figure of fun -the shambling figure in the coonskin cap with the limp handshake -as his critics liked to do. Here, too, he seemed unconcerned as he went about wooing voters in a halfdozen national campaigns with the dogged persistence of his Senate investigations. While it was only a coincidence that his long-time friend and colleague, Sen. Albert Gore, should have come out at this time demanding an investigation into one of the most remarkable tax cases ever to be decided osmmaniaiael by an Internal Revenue Service ruling, this is in ‘what might be called the Tennessee tradition. Reversing a former ruling, the IRS in the DuPont-General Motors case took action that Gore says will mean a tax saving going largely to the DuPont family of upto $100,000, 000, Although the reversalreached some time in December is entirely legal, Gore argued that the Senate Finance Committee should investigate whether the public interest: had been served. In the Tennessee tradition is an element of Southern populism -justice for the individual and for the region, a deep-seated suspicion of the money powers and their machinations, Part of it is a strong sense of the people's right to know as shown in Gore's determination to bring all the facts in the DuPont case to light. Kefauver and Gore were with one exception the only Southerners to refuse to sign the Southern manifesto that, as adopted by Southern members of Congress, served as a base of respectability for the segregationist stand. Washington is strewn with monuments, many of them political monuments in atrocious taste and set down with little regard to appropriateness. It is highly unlikely in any foreseeable future that Kefauver will be memorialized in bronze or stone. But he has what is a more enduring monument in the Kefauver-Harris Act, which sought to apply stringent controls over drugs offered for sale in the mass market with its huge profits. The drama of the thalidomide scandal helped to bring about passage of these long-needed reforms, : The subcommittee on antitrust and monopoly is headed today by Sen. Philip A. Hart (D., Mich, ). The opportunity is wide open to carry on where Kefauver left off, and Hart hasa lot of the Tennesseean's zeal and dedication. Byt the make-up of the committee is far more conservative today. The powers that be in the Senate have seen to that. Toward the end of his life certain lawyer lobbyists _ closed in on Kefauver and checkmated his investigation into prices established by American drug firms in South America. His pessimism about the drifts toward monopoly is reflected in this posthumous book, Yet he ends with the conclusion that monopoly power will not for long be tolerated in a society in which the traditions of afree, democratic society are so deep-rooted, This was the conviction of a public servant who went on to the end asking the hard, searching questions. (Copyright 1965) ---Marquis Childs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR NUGGET AIDS HISTORIANS

To the Editor: My congratulations on the Nugget each year winning awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. It is nice to know that others appreciate the Nugget each week as I do. Every Saturday I work with scissors and paste to fill in: a book started with my first issue about the history of Nevada County andits people. You render a real service to historians. I am particularly interested in the area around North Columbia Hill. I would like to know more about that lone grave across from Jackie Orchard near the old toll ‘house between the Forestry Station and Lookout. I understand not only a little girl but her parents, too, are buried there. Only the headstone for the child remains. Seems that at one time there was a boarding house and a sawmill there. Thank you for keeping your paper coming. Anna L,. Zurilgen Richmond TALES OF HIGHGRADING To the Editor: Why doesn't Bob Paine write about highgrading (stealing gold)? Is he scared? He writes about everything else that made history. I guess you wonder why a lot of highgrading went on. Well, alot of men were brought over from the old country. Their passage was paid by a store-keeper and a cer. tain party I won't mention, When these men got paid they had to cash their checks at the store and this shylock would take so much for passage money and interest besides. So you see the men had to do a little highgrading toget by. I know this as I seen it several times and for a youngster I was pretty nosey and things like this made me curious, ; They sure had a lot of ways to highgrade. There was one shift boss I knew who was helping himself, You see in those days they used long steel candle sticks in the stopes. After a shot was fired I saw him digging in the face of the stope. I knew he wasn't looking for fishing worms 3000 feet underground, Once the miners went out on strike for more pay$2.25 a day for muckets and $2.50 for machine men. The mine owners hired a bunch of scabs and brought ther in on the Narrow Gauge. Believe me when they saw al the men on the depot platform they didn't even got off the train, The miners were tipped off that the scabs were coming so-they got pick handles, pitch forks and shotguns. The train went right back to Colfax, A lot of the miners had their sons working too, The owners said they would pay more but the kids would have to leave. But the kids were highgrading too so everybody went back to work at the same wages. I quit when the mine hired dicks to watch everybody, I don't like stool pigeons or sewer rats, Best highgrader I remember was a smart Cousin Jack who had to gothrough the shower room after his shift and was examined, He bought the largest truss he could and refused totake it off ever. Every shift the mine dick examined the truss for a month, Then he got tired. Then the Cousin Jack went to a shoe maker and had the inside of the truss cut out and that is how he could get the stuff . out. You can take it from there. I wish I was up there again. ‘ Jack Bassett Oakland (Editor's Note: There is a book in preparation about gold stealing in the Nevada County mines, Author is a former Grass Valley High School teacher F,D, Calhoon, married to Marion McGuire of Grass Valley. His book, titled "The Highgrader” is scheduled tobe published in the fall of 1965.) EVERYBODY IS ALWAYS SAYING WHAT A SUCCESS Aunt WASHINGTON FELLOW IS.. HE'S NOT SUCH GREAT SHAKES IN MY BOOK.. 90; BIG DEAL .. HE'S A HOTSHOT GENERAL AND POLITICIAN » HE SPENDS A WINTER IN VALLEY FORGE. S'M SUPPOSED 10 BE (IMPRESSED? WAH!) HE COULD NEVER B SELL A USED Buea!) .