February 3, 1966 (16 pages)

BONO Rea, SIRIN: ADRES) 6 eee ee GIOL February 3, 1966.Nevada County Nugget. (© SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD Wer A tee Y ates miata esl adidas nest waditate Bel aves AAC cel diate leearYV ae way the rest of us mortals are, It can wait until its time has come, secure in the knowledge that when it has come, the Constitutionally “provided gas tax will be there to build the freeway it chose to build ina Previous geologic age, : There is, thus, no regional authority, no agency, with the power to stand up for regional interests and and say, “This is how we want our highway." Yes, we have our regional transportation stu dy agencies, the Los Angeles Regional Transportation Study (LARTS) and the Bay Area Transportation Study (BATS), But their job is planning and study, They have no authority to speak with strength and to assert real political pressure on behalf of the people in the region. Asa matter of fact, these regional transportation groups are officially independent of the Association of Bay Area governments, and of the Southern California Association of Governments, which have assumed little real authority but at least give the semblance of being political entities with regional constituencies, LARTS, incidentally, is chaired by the district engiheer for the Division of Highways, and BATS, by a professor from Berkeley who has seemed to be, at least inthe past, an apologist for fregway solutions to our transportation problems, ‘ Another typically regional problem is that of air, water, and land pollution. The causes of air and water pollution, as everyone knows, must be handled within the total atmospheric or drainage basin, Yet Los Angeles doesn't have a regional air pollution control district which covers the entire atmospheric basin; nor does Sacramento, Pollution basins, of course, have no respect for county or city boundaries, ---Alfred Heller WASHINGTON CALLING WATER IS BECOMING A FEDERAL PROBLEM WASHINGTON, -Stretching President Lyndon B. Johnson's rubber budget to cover urgent demands at home as defense spending goes above $60 million was an exercise calling for all the skill of the Great Society's engineers, Take as one example a seemingly minor "item" in the vast sprawl of the Federal budget. That is the need to get a supply of fresh water to America's rapidly growing cities in the face of the despoiling of the river systems with wholesale pollution, The creation last year of a Water Resources Council headed by the Secretary of the Interior was recognition AUIS . S MY NEWEST ANTI-BIRD ODD BODKINS. that piecemeal efforts by separate cities is no longer enough, If a rapidly dwindling natural-resource essential to life is to be conserved, then not only Federal-state planning but a massive joint effort must come, Yet the new budget provides only a driblet of money for more river basin planning commissions and for planning grants to the states, This is in the face of a record drouth in the Northeast where in the urban complex on the Eastern seaboard ‘at least 15,000,000 people have been threatened or actually affected by shortages of public water supply. The recent snowfall through the Northeast extendirig into the Southeast, where the drouth is also severe, helped a little. But a report of the Water Council soon to be released suggests that the water crisis will be more acute next summer than it was in 1965, The snow pack and precipitation in the spring must be well above normal to avert trouble. New York City is the focus of the gravest concern if there istobe another long hot dry summer, And here there is a tendency, as in the recent subway strike and the wage settlement, to put the blame on the city for failing to take the giant steps necessary to overcome a shortage projected far into an uncertain future. New York has waited, Federal officials grumble, like Micawber for something to turn up. Anew pumping plant on the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie willin April put 100,000,000 gallons a day into the city's system, But this is only one-tenth of current usage under present restrictions, Water from the polluted Hudson must be heavily treated with chlorine and then diluted with a purer flow from the Delaware basin, In contrast, the Water Council in a recent background analysis gives New Jersey high marks for water management that “probably prevented a major disaster in Northern New Jersey in 1965." But here, too, pollution is a problem, The Passaic Water Commission supplies 14 cities in the industrial area across from New York and pollution of the Passaic and Whippany Rivers along with the drouth and a very low flow indicate more trouble. The Water Council gives the highest score to California, In that Western empire a monumental project is being built to carry water from the surplus in the North tothe South, which would be a desert if it were not for vast projects to carry water hundreds of miles, Success will mean that for the first time in man's history the imperatives of water have been defied. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall asks some long-range questions ab out the responsibility of the Federal government in the acute water squeeze, Should Uncle Sam be in the business of selling water to the people of Passaic, N. J.? Udall, who has excelled in the domain of conservation, must trim his sails to the wind that blows from the White House, But the question begs on the real issue as does the approach to a supply of pure water for America's cities, River systems cover a half-dozen states, Perhaps a coordinated effort can b egin to clean up the rivers, But the Federal government must actto stop pollution by industrial waste flooding into streams once pure and swift-moving, It can have escaped no one's attention, including the officials here concerned with water for the Northeast, that New York has a new mayor who is a bright hope on the Republican scene, Ina city beset by the ills of urbanism run riot, one of John V, Lindsay ‘s. biggest Headaches is likely to be water, Nor can anyone have failed to learn that New York City teeters onthe edge of bankruptcy, The increase in transit fares alone, with the state coming through with a grudging $100, 000,000, puts the mayor in a box. To build up the water system -a metering service which would curtail use, for example -must take other hundreds of millions which are simply not in sight, As state and municipal debt spirals at a pace far faster than the Federal debt, Washington's responsibility is correspondingly greater, But the two-way stretch in the budget scarcely reflects it. (Copyright 1966) ---Marquis Childs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE KLONDIKE STRIKE To the Editor: Iwas going to call it final after the last letter I wrote you but there is something on my mind that I want to get rid of, I don't know if there are any of the oldtimers up there that remember the Klondike strike when a lot of the men from Grass Valley and Nevada City left for the new gold strike, I do because my Uncle Pete was one of them, There was a big crowd at the depot to see them off, I tried to sneak on the train to go with my uncle, . but they stopped the train twice to put me off, The man working in the round house held me until the train got out of sight, As young as I was I had the feeling I would never see my uncle again and I was right, He died in Alaska as many more of them did, Imadea trip up there when I got older and I covered the country pretty good but I could not find anything out. I was told of a lot of unmarked graves all over. Well anyhow a lot of water has gone over the dam and when people pass on they are soon forgotten as new faces come into the world, I will quit now and say good bye, Jack Bassett Oakland NUGGETS TO THE NUGGET To the Editor: I want to thank you sincerely for the fine editorial appearing in your January 20th issue dealing with my decision not to seek re-election to the State Senate, Your comments in my behalf make me extremely proudto have played a part in the development of projects within Nevada County, May I say thatI have always appreciated the wonderful cooperation your paper and all your staff have extended to me over the years, I hope our friendship will always continue, Sincerely yours, Paul J, Lunardi AH HAL WOR I! GOTCHA . ! 35 POUNDS OF BANTO WILL DAMPEN ANY BIRD'S ENTHUSIAM . LE RECOHHEND /T I! Bt

BONO Rea, SIRIN: ADRES) 6 eee ee GIOL February 3, 1966..Nevada County Nugget.. (© SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD Wer A tee Y ates miata esl adidas nest waditate Bel aves AAC cel diate leearYV ae way the rest of us mortals are, It can wait until its time has come, secure in the knowledge that when it has come, the Constitutionally “provided gas tax will be there to build the freeway it chose to build ina Previous geologic age, : There is, thus, no regional authority, no agency, with the power to stand up for regional interests and and say, “This is how we want our highway." Yes, we have our regional transportation stu dy agencies, the Los Angeles Regional Transportation Study (LARTS) and the Bay Area Transportation Study (BATS), But their job is planning and study, They have no authority to speak with strength and to assert real political pressure on behalf of the people in the region. Asa matter of fact, these regional transportation groups are officially independent of the Association of Bay Area governments, and of the Southern California Association of Governments, which have assumed little real authority but at least give the semblance of being political entities with regional constituencies, LARTS, incidentally, is chaired by the district engiheer for the Division of Highways, and BATS, by a professor from Berkeley who has seemed to be, at least inthe past, an apologist for fregway solutions to our transportation problems, ‘ Another typically regional problem is that of air, water, and land pollution. The causes of air and water pollution, as everyone knows, must be handled within the total atmospheric or drainage basin, Yet Los Angeles doesn't have a regional air pollution control district which covers the entire atmospheric basin; nor does Sacramento, Pollution basins, of course, have no respect for county or city boundaries, ---Alfred Heller WASHINGTON CALLING WATER IS BECOMING A FEDERAL PROBLEM WASHINGTON, -Stretching President Lyndon B. Johnson's rubber budget to cover urgent demands at home as defense spending goes above $60 million was an exercise calling for all the skill of the Great Society's engineers, Take as one example a seemingly minor "item" in the vast sprawl of the Federal budget. That is the need to get a supply of fresh water to America's rapidly growing cities in the face of the despoiling of the river systems with wholesale pollution, The creation last year of a Water Resources Council headed by the Secretary of the Interior was recognition AUIS . S MY NEWEST ANTI-BIRD ODD BODKINS.. that piecemeal efforts by separate cities is no longer enough, If a rapidly dwindling natural-resource essential to life is to be conserved, then not only Federal-state planning but a massive joint effort must come, Yet the new budget provides only a driblet of money for more river basin planning commissions and for planning grants to the states, This is in the face of a record drouth in the Northeast where in the urban complex on the Eastern seaboard ‘at least 15,000,000 people have been threatened or actually affected by shortages of public water supply. The recent snowfall through the Northeast extendirig into the Southeast, where the drouth is also severe, helped a little. But a report of the Water Council soon to be released suggests that the water crisis will be more acute next summer than it was in 1965, The snow pack and precipitation in the spring must be well above normal to avert trouble. New York City is the focus of the gravest concern if there istobe another long hot dry summer, And here there is a tendency, as in the recent subway strike and the wage settlement, to put the blame on the city for failing to take the giant steps necessary to overcome a shortage projected far into an uncertain future. New York has waited, Federal officials grumble, like Micawber for something to turn up. Anew pumping plant on the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie willin April put 100,000,000 gallons a day into the city's system, But this is only one-tenth of current usage under present restrictions, Water from the polluted Hudson must be heavily treated with chlorine and then diluted with a purer flow from the Delaware basin, In contrast, the Water Council in a recent background analysis gives New Jersey high marks for water management that “probably prevented a major disaster in Northern New Jersey in 1965." But here, too,

pollution is a problem, The Passaic Water Commission supplies 14 cities in the industrial area across from New York and pollution of the Passaic and Whippany Rivers along with the drouth and a very low flow indicate more trouble. The Water Council gives the highest score to California, In that Western empire a monumental project is being built to carry water from the surplus in the North tothe South, which would be a desert if it were not for vast projects to carry water hundreds of miles, Success will mean that for the first time in man's history the imperatives of water have been defied. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall asks some long-range questions ab out the responsibility of the Federal government in the acute water squeeze, Should Uncle Sam be in the business of selling water to the people of Passaic, N. J.? Udall, who has excelled in the domain of conservation, must trim his sails to the wind that blows from the White House, But the question begs on the real issue as does the approach to a supply of pure water for America's cities, River systems cover a half-dozen states, Perhaps a coordinated effort can b egin to clean up the rivers, But the Federal government must actto stop pollution by industrial waste flooding into streams once pure and swift-moving, It can have escaped no one's attention, including the officials here concerned with water for the Northeast, that New York has a new mayor who is a bright hope on the Republican scene, Ina city beset by the ills of urbanism run riot, one of John V, Lindsay ‘s. biggest Headaches is likely to be water, Nor can anyone have failed to learn that New York City teeters onthe edge of bankruptcy, The increase in transit fares alone, with the state coming through with a grudging $100, 000,000, puts the mayor in a box. To build up the water system -a metering service which would curtail use, for example -must take other hundreds of millions which are simply not in sight, As state and municipal debt spirals at a pace far faster than the Federal debt, Washington's responsibility is correspondingly greater, But the two-way stretch in the budget scarcely reflects it. (Copyright 1966) ---Marquis Childs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE KLONDIKE STRIKE To the Editor: Iwas going to call it final after the last letter I wrote you but there is something on my mind that I want to get rid of, I don't know if there are any of the oldtimers up there that remember the Klondike strike when a lot of the men from Grass Valley and Nevada City left for the new gold strike, I do because my Uncle Pete was one of them, There was a big crowd at the depot to see them off, I tried to sneak on the train to go with my uncle, . but they stopped the train twice to put me off, The man working in the round house held me until the train got out of sight, As young as I was I had the feeling I would never see my uncle again and I was right, He died in Alaska as many more of them did, Imadea trip up there when I got older and I covered the country pretty good but I could not find anything out. I was told of a lot of unmarked graves all over. Well anyhow a lot of water has gone over the dam and when people pass on they are soon forgotten as new faces come into the world, I will quit now and say good bye, Jack Bassett Oakland NUGGETS TO THE NUGGET To the Editor: I want to thank you sincerely for the fine editorial appearing in your January 20th issue dealing with my decision not to seek re-election to the State Senate, Your comments in my behalf make me extremely proudto have played a part in the development of projects within Nevada County, May I say thatI have always appreciated the wonderful cooperation your paper and all your staff have extended to me over the years, I hope our friendship will always continue, Sincerely yours, Paul J, Lunardi AH HAL WOR I! GOTCHA . ! 35 POUNDS OF BANTO WILL DAMPEN ANY BIRD'S ENTHUSIAM .. LE RECOHHEND /T I! Bt