January 2, 1964 (16 pages)

ft é is F erence hha three A Net 2 ger Ae one : BIR oy AES —_ = mori isin COUNTY GROWTH RATE WILL HIT NEW HIGH The New Year is here. This will be the year of construction in Nevada County. The $60 million Yuba-Bear Project, now only'14 per cent complete, with its four dams, two powerhouses and water transmission lines, will be completed. . The new annex to the Nevada County Courthouse will be completed. The $4 million freeway through Nevada City will be commenced. These, in addition to an expanded private construction program will make 1964 a year of building in Nevada County. , And more will follow, for the YubaBear Project when completed will then be ready for some $4 million in recreational development. The Nevada City freeway will have a two year constructioncycle, and willbe followed by projects carrying the freeway through Grass Valley and over Pet Hill. Malakoff State Park acquisition, slated to begin this year, will be completed in ‘the near future years and facilities there will be constructed. _ The .pace of, growth, accelerated in 1963 with the start of the Yuba-Bear Project, will hit a new high this year. It is likely that the pace will slacken some in years to come, but it is almost positive that the pace will never return to what we would have referred to as normal a few years back. There will be new faces in Nevada County this year. Welcome them, for they will be building our future. And remember that the problems they bring are not theirs alone to solve. We have known for several years that this growth was coming, and we share the responsibility for problems that will arise, for we might have avoided the problems had we been better prepared for this year, this decade of growth. SIERRA BYWAYS SISTER CITIES FOR OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES? SISTER NATION..We Californians now have a sisternation---Chile, Early this month in Washington, D.C. a formal agreement was signed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Chilean Ambassador Gutierrez Olivos, and U.S. Alliance for Progress coordinator Teodoro Moscoso, an agreement which provides fora program of technical coperation in the fields of agriculture, water resources, transportation, education and economic planning.It was an historic. document, for it is the first time that a U.S. state has chosen to work with a foreign nation in the mutual development of common goals. Congres:~man HaroldT. Johnson, who was present for the signing, _ noted thatthe agreement resulted from a request by for~ mer President John F. Kennedy to the people of California because of similarities between California and Chile .eeeeChile's economy includes major industries in cattle, mining and agriculture, and the country has ex~ tensive forested regions. .Historically, there are examples of close ties between the two governmental regions. Morethan 40, 000 Chileans joined North Americans in “rushing” to the Mother Lode in 49er days, by contributing to the heritage of the state. At the time of the San Francisco fire and earthquake in 1906, Chile sent immediate aid to the stricken city. Following an even more devastating earthquake in Chile in 1960, California responded with relief supplies to Chile.. ‘An even better example of the friendship that already exists between Chile and California might‘be found in the Ciudad de California. There, in the plaza of this town in the South American country, below the singlestarred red, white and blue flag of Chile, flies the California Bear Flag. So we now have a sister-nation. This might bring to mind the question of whether our gold-dust twin cities should consider joining the people-to-people program by adopting sister-cities.. This columnist has had two such proposals mentioned to him in the past three years” .«s+Dr. Jorge Kuon, Fulbright graduate.scholar at UC Davis for two years, and a freshman visitor to the area with his daughter, Lisa, beginning with the first Spring foreign student visitation from Davis, suggested that “it would be wonderful" if Grass Valley and Nevada City could become sister-cities to Cuzco, his home city high inthe Andes, near the famedincan ruins. Cuzco, 11,000 feet up, hasa winter void of precipitation; hence he and his daughter witnessed their first snowfall on an April ride up Highway 20..The other suster-city suggestion came from Mexican Consulate Antonio Islas, whothought the charm and beauty of Nevada City particularly qualified it tobe sister-city to Mexico's most renowned silver city, Taxco, Sr. Islas urged local art association leaders tothink of the sister-city proposal and to sound out local opinions, He felt that as sister-cities Nevada City and’ Taxco might even be able to arrange exchanges of art exhibits..The urgency of other local projects, the flow of news, and the general mad pace that invades a newspaper office had filed these suggestions -~-until now. How do you feel about the idea, Mr, and Mrs. Reader? Let me know’. ‘abides i CALIFORNIA IGNORANCE, INERTIA OF CALIFORNIA CITIES The legitimate city: Its name is Pasadena or Palo Alto or Sacramento, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Traditionally it encompasses a central business district, some industry, and surrounding residential and recreational areas, It has a city hall, police and fire departments, a jail, and a balanced array of agencies and facilities through which a broad range of the people's needs are served, Incorporation of this traditional city and annexation to it of adjacent developing areas were the normal and logical result of community growth, This isthe city that assumed a good deal of civic responsibility at an early stage. It is what most of us think of when we think of "city." Until World War II it had a a set of boundaries be yond which could be found "the country." Today the legitimate city, long accustomed to tackling its own problems, is in the position of being unable to solve many of the major problems it faces, It is faced by a variety of problems extending beyond its boundaries and beyond the reach and often the understanding of its government. Atits perimeter, for example, it is typically hemmed in by and bled by other urban areas, New shopping centers and subdivisions spring up in the amoeba-like unincorporated fringe area, draining away retail customers and «middle-income residents fromthe old downtown center of the legitimate city, Yet the government of the legitimate city is not in a position to do much about the situation. / The city suffers from smog and traffic congestion generated by other areas-and-dumped within its boundaries. Yet by more or less blindly widening local roads, constru€ting local parking lots, approving state plans for ---Dean Thompson freeways passing through, the city itself invites more © cars to putter around in the vicinity and manufacture “more smog and ultimately full-scale, big league traffic congestion, -Often the city does not act as if it understands that the changes and developmentstaking place in the, entire surrounding urban region affect its vitals as much as those developments which took place within its own borders, before it became incorporated. Instead of seeking somehow to extend its voice and its authority into the full range of regional affairs, it seems content to engage in petty local thievery of land, people, and industry~-inviting alike response fiom neighboring communities, and engendering a general regional deterioration. For example, few cities in California pursue orderly, positive annexation programs, involving the full developing area on the city fringes. More likely, a city will carry on piece-meal annexation, acquiring the most valuable fringe areas, and leaving to the county the remaining fringe areas with low tax bases, thus making them unsuitable for incorporation and undesirable for annexation., In making a momentary gain, the city at the same time consigns much of the land surrounding it to sloppy, ugly development. Maps of California city boundaries show a confusion of’ bumps and hollows, resulting from unsound annexation programs. These strange configurations complicate planning problems, and hinder cities from providing services efficiently. Almost every city, of course, competes fiercely with its neighbors for new industry. But the result is not in evitably of benefit, even to itself. For example, the destrugtion of,the San Eran ¢ isco Bay ridelands by individual cities seeking toraise their tax bases may in the long-run depress the vitality of these communities as well as the beauty and recreational appeal of the entire area, and counterbalance the anticipated economic gains, The government of today's legitimate city ekes out its living by foraging where it.cgn for the tax dollar, destroying the attractiveness of its surroundings, and denying through ignorance or inertia its responsibility for the region to which it belongs. ---Samuel E, Wood and Alfred Heller, from “The Phantom Citiés of California” LOBBYISTS---DO THEY SPEND 100 MUCH? That legislative whipping -boy, the lobbyist, was again brought under the lash during our general session last spring. Not to be out-shadowed by the sex scandal then rocking British governmental circles, our newspapers alleged that unidentified California lobbyists had made use of illegal feminine companionshipto influence legislation, An Attorney-General's investigation made later turned up no evidence of truth in the allegation. Independently of this probe, the Senate Committee on Legislative Representation announced that it would make a full-scale study of lobbying, to determine among other things the level of current practice in the field, the effectiveness of the laws controlling legislative advocates, andthe desirability of making changes either in the law or its administration, or in the applicable rules of both Houses of the Legislature. Our State Constitution specifically defines bribery of a Legislator as “lobbying”, and makes it a felony. Equally, it makes acceptance of a bribe by a Legislator afelony, conviction of which alse brings disenfranchisement in addition to other penalties. The Penal Code makes either giving of a bribe to influence a legislative vote, or itsacceptance, a-felony punishable by peniten. tiary confinement, The law which requires paid legislative advocates to register with both Houses, and to file monthly reports of. 9 a8eq'' pa6r ‘g Arenues:**1088nN ous’ '*9 e8eg”

ft é is F erence hha three A Net 2 ger Ae one : BIR oy AES —_ = mori isin COUNTY GROWTH RATE WILL HIT NEW HIGH The New Year is here. This will be the year of construction in Nevada County. The $60 million Yuba-Bear Project, now only'14 per cent complete, with its four dams, two powerhouses and water transmission lines, will be completed. . The new annex to the Nevada County Courthouse will be completed. The $4 million freeway through Nevada City will be commenced. These, in addition to an expanded private construction program will make 1964 a year of building in Nevada County. , And more will follow, for the YubaBear Project when completed will then be ready for some $4 million in recreational development. The Nevada City freeway will have a two year constructioncycle, and willbe followed by projects carrying the freeway through Grass Valley and over Pet Hill. Malakoff State Park acquisition, slated to begin this year, will be completed in ‘the near future years and facilities there will be constructed. _ The .pace of, growth, accelerated in 1963 with the start of the Yuba-Bear Project, will hit a new high this year. It is likely that the pace will slacken some in years to come, but it is almost positive that the pace will never return to what we would have referred to as normal a few years back. There will be new faces in Nevada County this year. Welcome them, for they will be building our future. And remember that the problems they bring are not theirs alone to solve. We have known for several years that this growth was coming, and we share the responsibility for problems that will arise, for we might have avoided the problems had we been better prepared for this year, this decade of growth. SIERRA BYWAYS SISTER CITIES FOR OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES? SISTER NATION...We Californians now have a sisternation---Chile, Early this month in Washington, D.C. a formal agreement was signed by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Chilean Ambassador Gutierrez Olivos, and U.S. Alliance for Progress coordinator Teodoro Moscoso, an agreement which provides fora program of technical coperation in the fields of agriculture, water resources, transportation, education and economic planning..It was an historic. document, for it is the first time that a U.S. state has chosen to work with a foreign nation in the mutual development of common goals. Congres:~man HaroldT. Johnson, who was present for the signing, _ noted thatthe agreement resulted from a request by for~ mer President John F. Kennedy to the people of California because of similarities between California and Chile .eeeeChile's economy includes major industries in cattle, mining and agriculture, and the country has ex~ tensive forested regions. ..Historically, there are examples of close ties between the two governmental regions. Morethan 40, 000 Chileans joined North Americans in “rushing” to the Mother Lode in 49er days, by contributing to the heritage of the state. At the time of the San Francisco fire and earthquake in 1906, Chile sent immediate aid to the stricken city. Following an even more devastating earthquake in Chile in 1960, California responded with relief supplies to Chile... ‘An even better example of the friendship that already exists between Chile and California might‘be found in the Ciudad de California. There, in the plaza of this town in the South American country, below the singlestarred red, white and blue flag of Chile, flies the California Bear Flag. So we now have a sister-nation. This might bring to mind the question of whether our gold-dust twin cities should consider joining the people-to-people program by adopting sister-cities... This columnist has had two such proposals mentioned to him in the past three years” .«s+Dr. Jorge Kuon, Fulbright graduate.scholar at UC Davis for two years, and a freshman visitor to the area with his daughter, Lisa, beginning with the first Spring foreign student visitation from Davis, suggested that “it would be wonderful" if Grass Valley and Nevada City could become sister-cities to Cuzco, his home city high inthe Andes, near the famedincan ruins. Cuzco, 11,000 feet up, hasa winter void of precipitation; hence he and his daughter witnessed their first snowfall on an April ride up Highway 20...The other suster-city suggestion came from Mexican Consulate Antonio Islas, whothought the charm and beauty of Nevada City particularly qualified it tobe sister-city to Mexico's most renowned silver city, Taxco, Sr. Islas urged local art association leaders tothink of the sister-city proposal and to sound out local opinions, He felt that as sister-cities Nevada City and’

Taxco might even be able to arrange exchanges of art exhibits...The urgency of other local projects, the flow of news, and the general mad pace that invades a newspaper office had filed these suggestions -~-until now. How do you feel about the idea, Mr, and Mrs. Reader? Let me know’. ‘abides i CALIFORNIA IGNORANCE, INERTIA OF CALIFORNIA CITIES The legitimate city: Its name is Pasadena or Palo Alto or Sacramento, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Traditionally it encompasses a central business district, some industry, and surrounding residential and recreational areas, It has a city hall, police and fire departments, a jail, and a balanced array of agencies and facilities through which a broad range of the people's needs are served, Incorporation of this traditional city and annexation to it of adjacent developing areas were the normal and logical result of community growth, This isthe city that assumed a good deal of civic responsibility at an early stage. It is what most of us think of when we think of "city." Until World War II it had a a set of boundaries be yond which could be found "the country." Today the legitimate city, long accustomed to tackling its own problems, is in the position of being unable to solve many of the major problems it faces, It is faced by a variety of problems extending beyond its boundaries and beyond the reach and often the understanding of its government. Atits perimeter, for example, it is typically hemmed in by and bled by other urban areas, New shopping centers and subdivisions spring up in the amoeba-like unincorporated fringe area, draining away retail customers and «middle-income residents fromthe old downtown center of the legitimate city, Yet the government of the legitimate city is not in a position to do much about the situation. / The city suffers from smog and traffic congestion generated by other areas-and-dumped within its boundaries. Yet by more or less blindly widening local roads, constru€ting local parking lots, approving state plans for ---Dean Thompson freeways passing through, the city itself invites more © cars to putter around in the vicinity and manufacture “more smog and ultimately full-scale, big league traffic congestion, -Often the city does not act as if it understands that the changes and developmentstaking place in the, entire surrounding urban region affect its vitals as much as those developments which took place within its own borders, before it became incorporated. Instead of seeking somehow to extend its voice and its authority into the full range of regional affairs, it seems content to engage in petty local thievery of land, people, and industry~-inviting alike response fiom neighboring communities, and engendering a general regional deterioration. For example, few cities in California pursue orderly, positive annexation programs, involving the full developing area on the city fringes. More likely, a city will carry on piece-meal annexation, acquiring the most valuable fringe areas, and leaving to the county the remaining fringe areas with low tax bases, thus making them unsuitable for incorporation and undesirable for annexation., In making a momentary gain, the city at the same time consigns much of the land surrounding it to sloppy, ugly development. Maps of California city boundaries show a confusion of’ bumps and hollows, resulting from unsound annexation programs. These strange configurations complicate planning problems, and hinder cities from providing services efficiently. Almost every city, of course, competes fiercely with its neighbors for new industry. But the result is not in evitably of benefit, even to itself. For example, the destrugtion of,the San Eran ¢ isco Bay ridelands by individual cities seeking toraise their tax bases may in the long-run depress the vitality of these communities as well as the beauty and recreational appeal of the entire area, and counterbalance the anticipated economic gains, The government of today's legitimate city ekes out its living by foraging where it.cgn for the tax dollar, destroying the attractiveness of its surroundings, and denying through ignorance or inertia its responsibility for the region to which it belongs. ---Samuel E, Wood and Alfred Heller, from “The Phantom Citiés of California” LOBBYISTS---DO THEY SPEND 100 MUCH? That legislative whipping -boy, the lobbyist, was again brought under the lash during our general session last spring. Not to be out-shadowed by the sex scandal then rocking British governmental circles, our newspapers alleged that unidentified California lobbyists had made use of illegal feminine companionshipto influence legislation, An Attorney-General's investigation made later turned up no evidence of truth in the allegation. Independently of this probe, the Senate Committee on Legislative Representation announced that it would make a full-scale study of lobbying, to determine among other things the level of current practice in the field, the effectiveness of the laws controlling legislative advocates, andthe desirability of making changes either in the law or its administration, or in the applicable rules of both Houses of the Legislature. Our State Constitution specifically defines bribery of a Legislator as “lobbying”, and makes it a felony. Equally, it makes acceptance of a bribe by a Legislator afelony, conviction of which alse brings disenfranchisement in addition to other penalties. The Penal Code makes either giving of a bribe to influence a legislative vote, or itsacceptance, a-felony punishable by peniten. tiary confinement, The law which requires paid legislative advocates to register with both Houses, and to file monthly reports of. 9 a8eq'' pa6r ‘g Arenues:**1088nN ous’ '*9 e8eg”