January 6, 1966 (20 pages)

996T “9 Adenuef[***1IoOdSSNN AIUNOD BepRASN*** GD January 6, 1966,.Nevada County Nugget. © . = SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD Bae ahasl Pits eia lees! rude aes! eA e Barry bes deat meer aes dete laoal YY ae Ilobject. ‘How can they be serving my interests or those of any other motorist if they oppose the very thing that will help relieve highway crowdifig? If they were speaking for the truckers or Detroit or the highway builders, 1 could understand it. On September 18, the Monterey County Boardof Supervisors, in spite of considerable public opposition), voted 3 to 2 to approve the construction of the proposed Humble Oil refinery at Moss Landing. Construction of the plant would have been the second major step (the ‘first was construction of the Firestone plant southeast of Salinas) toward industrialization of the last virtually untouched coastal valley in California, At this reading it appears that the plant may not be built in Monterey County. But, whether or not the plantis built, this question must be asked: should local governments be entrusted with making developmental decisions where values of statewide importance are at stake? : One of California's greatest assets is the seacoast, and it is becoming increasingly clearthat the problems of protecting the seacoast from the onslaught of special interests constitutes a major conservation front, Consider the following: Bodega Head vs, PG&E and the nuclear reactor; Gold Bluffs vs. the Division of Highways; Monterey vs, The Humble Refinery; Morro Rock vs, the Army Corps of Engineers; Newport Beach vs, the nuclear desalinization plant; Malibu vs, the nuclear power plant. There are always voicesthat can be heard in support of the narrow interest, but what official agency speaks for the statewide interest against insiGious piecemeal erosion? There is none, ---from Argonauts Notebook in the Winter 1965-66 issue of “Cry California," the quarterly journal of California Tomorrow. WASHINGTON CALLING RHODESIA IS A MASS OF SAD CONTRADICTIONS WASHINGTON. -Any year's end is a time of special loneliness for friendless men anywhere and everywhere, This year's end is a time of a poignant and an unexampled loneliness for the friendless regime that sits in Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia and for the little band of its former diplomats here who have now become officially nonpersons, There is noneed here to hash over all the background, For present purposes it is enough simply to recall the bare bones of one of the great tragedies of 1965. This wasRhodesia‘s abrupt departure from under the British Crown in what Rhodesians call a justified declaration of independence and what London calls a rebellion not too dissimilar from the secession of the American South in 1860, What lay at the bottom of it all, of course, was an irreconcilable difference between Salisbury and London as to the proper rate of speed forbringing Rhodesia‘s huge black majority into voting citizenship. Truth and justice are moving targets here, Neither side is quite right and neither is quite wrong. The Rhodesian government headed by Prime Minister Ian Smith is not, in fact,, made up of bloody-minded racists. Prime Minister Harold Wilson‘s government in London isnot, in fact, made up of doctrinaire men eager to bow to the demands of black demagogues in Africa who seek not white Rhodesia‘s submission in peace to the economic isolation now being attempted IT'S FE O'CLOCK I) THE MORNING !!” ANO THE GARLY thé WORM-. (T'S TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING! ERRALN BIRD CATCHES by Brita in and by us but rather white Rhodesia's punishment by military invasion, How and whether a sensible and nonviolent solution to this dreadful affair is to be arranged must be left to the new year ahead, In the meantime, however, it would surely do no harm to say a word or two for some of the human beings inextricably involved in it all -and specifically for those human beings in it who are also the underdogs, Prime Minister Smith, now sitting in a.sort of world pariah’s cage in Salisbury, may indeed be very wrong in what he has done, But he is not and cannot be also-a-true-enemy of Britain, untess men's actions have lost-all meaning in this world, For the Smith who now defies a British government is also the Smith who flew in Britain's outgunned Royal Air Force half a lifetime ago when Britain faced Hitler's might, For Britain this Smith once rode on gossamer wings the lethal blasts of a war nobody had to force him to enter. And when at last he was shot from the skies over Italy he picked himself up -complete with a fire-ravaged face -and for five months fought behind the German lines with anti-Fascist partisans bef re crossing the A lps to rejoin the Allied forces, He “was a good Briton then, surely, and so were the threeimen of a now dismantled Rhodesian diplomatic office who still serve here without credentials and as best they can the friendless state which their nation has become. . Is Wilson, then, wrong about all this and is the government of the United States, which backs him, wrong, too? No, no, But this does not mean that one cannot respect those whom under the imperative demands of high policy we must now isolate, Agree with Smith and all the rest of them never; but accept the honor and patriotism of their motives, This would be about the ticket here, would it not? It is not possible to avoid a collision here of vital interests, For Wilson's policy is more nearly right than wrong, because it is necessary, and Smith's is more nearly wrong than right, The West simply cannot permit the maintenance indefinitely in Africa of a regime widely believed, in however over-. simplified a way, to be starkly white-supremacist, That way might lead, as Wilson argues, to chaos into which the Chinese Communists could move with one of their secondhanded "wars of liberation, ". But it ought to be possible to maintain a certain human civility even in basic disagreement, It ought to be possible because it is vital lest Southern Africa be set ablaze, (Copyright 1965) -William S, White, substituting for Marquis Childs, who is on vacation, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HOW IT USED 10 BE To the Editor: A line or two of how I will remember Nevada City. There was not any pavement on the streets in them days, And when it snowed in the winter us kids sure made good use of our sleds.nearly all winter, The old Nevada Theatre looked alltogether different then, Therewas kind of a porch in front and we used to climb up on the last post and ‘sneak in the show, In them daysa lot of road shows used to come to N,C¢ and stay a whole week and they made money for the town, They could use a couple of them now, Iwill just mention a few places as I go along like the New. York hotel across the street and Billie Britland's saloon on the corner below. Oh yes I don't want to leave out the National Hotel where you could get a good meal and a room for 50 cents a night, And another spot on Broad St. was a clothing store run by the Grimes family, and a little further down where the Alpha store now stands was the Cliff hotel that burned down a long time ago, Across the street from the Cliff House as we called it was Mrs, Lutz place, Yougot a good meal there also and next. door was the assay office where a lot of gold changed hands, A shoe making shop was next, The shop was owned by\Frank Black. I used to give him some bad times oncein awhile, Andthen came Solari boarding house and Bob Latta’s livery stable, later turnedinto a laundry, Tihere was a lot of other places of interest but it would take me a month to name them all so let’s go up Commercial street a little ways, From the bridge there\wasthe Chinese grocery store and Dick Knowels horse ‘shoeing shop.\. Next Henry Lanes Livery stable and fiext was Legg \and Shaw's Hardware store and across the street was the Union hotel and open air dance floor where we. used to have a lot of fun on dance nights, I am just a little-bit sore right now about something that was in your paper after they put the show on for twonights, One of the statements made about Sheriff Douglas where he brought in the bandit, I told you some time agothat the sheriff went after two bandits, He killed one and the other killed Mr, Douglas, I was in Lane's Undertaking when they brought them in, The other item was about the First and Last Chance Saloon owned by old Dutch Henry,’ Why if four couples got on the floor and started to dance’ they would all land down in Deer Creek, Jack Bassett Oakland THE FIRST LADY REPLIES THE WHITE HOUSE. WASHINGTON December 29, 1965 To the Editor: Mrs. Johnson asked me tothank you for your thoughtfulness in sharing your December 2nd edition of the Nevada County Nugget with her, And she was especially pleased to know that your paper gives their support to the President's beautification program. With deep gratitude, Mrs, Johnson sends very best wishes, Sincerely, Bess Abell Social Secretary The Staff Nevada County Nugget Nevada City, California 11'S THREE OUD IN THE AFTERNOON” AND THE EAALY BIRD CATCHES THE THE AT LAST. THERE S THE WORM" AND I's Six O'CLOCK IN T HE AND THE EARLY BIRD IS TOO WEAK WITH HUNGER TO

996T “9 Adenuef[***1IoOdSSNN AIUNOD BepRASN*** GD January 6, 1966,..Nevada County Nugget.. © . = SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD Bae ahasl Pits eia lees! rude aes! eA e Barry bes deat meer aes dete laoal YY ae Ilobject. ‘How can they be serving my interests or those of any other motorist if they oppose the very thing that will help relieve highway crowdifig? If they were speaking for the truckers or Detroit or the highway builders, 1 could understand it. On September 18, the Monterey County Boardof Supervisors, in spite of considerable public opposition), voted 3 to 2 to approve the construction of the proposed Humble Oil refinery at Moss Landing. Construction of the plant would have been the second major step (the ‘first was construction of the Firestone plant southeast of Salinas) toward industrialization of the last virtually untouched coastal valley in California, At this reading it appears that the plant may not be built in Monterey County. But, whether or not the plantis built, this question must be asked: should local governments be entrusted with making developmental decisions where values of statewide importance are at stake? : One of California's greatest assets is the seacoast, and it is becoming increasingly clearthat the problems of protecting the seacoast from the onslaught of special interests constitutes a major conservation front, Consider the following: Bodega Head vs, PG&E and the nuclear reactor; Gold Bluffs vs. the Division of Highways; Monterey vs, The Humble Refinery; Morro Rock vs, the Army Corps of Engineers; Newport Beach vs, the nuclear desalinization plant; Malibu vs, the nuclear power plant. There are always voicesthat can be heard in support of the narrow interest, but what official agency speaks for the statewide interest against insiGious piecemeal erosion? There is none, ---from Argonauts Notebook in the Winter 1965-66 issue of “Cry California," the quarterly journal of California Tomorrow. WASHINGTON CALLING RHODESIA IS A MASS OF SAD CONTRADICTIONS WASHINGTON. -Any year's end is a time of special loneliness for friendless men anywhere and everywhere, This year's end is a time of a poignant and an unexampled loneliness for the friendless regime that sits in Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia and for the little band of its former diplomats here who have now become officially nonpersons, There is noneed here to hash over all the background, For present purposes it is enough simply to recall the bare bones of one of the great tragedies of 1965. This wasRhodesia‘s abrupt departure from under the British Crown in what Rhodesians call a justified declaration of independence and what London calls a rebellion not too dissimilar from the secession of the American South in 1860, What lay at the bottom of it all, of course, was an irreconcilable difference between Salisbury and London as to the proper rate of speed forbringing Rhodesia‘s huge black majority into voting citizenship. Truth and justice are moving targets here, Neither side is quite right and neither is quite wrong. The Rhodesian government headed by Prime Minister Ian Smith is not, in fact,, made up of bloody-minded racists. Prime Minister Harold Wilson‘s government in London isnot, in fact, made up of doctrinaire men eager to bow to the demands of black demagogues in Africa who seek not white Rhodesia‘s submission in peace to the economic isolation now being attempted IT'S FE O'CLOCK I) THE MORNING !!” ANO THE GARLY thé WORM-. (T'S TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING! ERRALN BIRD CATCHES by Brita in and by us but rather white Rhodesia's punishment by military invasion, How and whether a sensible and nonviolent solution to this dreadful affair is to be arranged must be left to the new year ahead, In the meantime, however, it would surely do no harm to say a word or two for some of the human beings inextricably involved in it all -and specifically for those human beings in it who are also the underdogs, Prime Minister Smith, now sitting in a.sort of world pariah’s cage in Salisbury, may indeed be very wrong in what he has done, But he is not and cannot be also-a-true-enemy of Britain, untess men's actions have lost-all meaning in this world, For the Smith who now defies a British government is also the Smith who flew in Britain's outgunned Royal Air Force half a lifetime ago when Britain faced Hitler's might, For Britain this Smith once rode on gossamer wings the lethal blasts of a war nobody had to force him to enter. And when at last he was shot from the skies over Italy he picked himself up -complete with a fire-ravaged face -and for five months fought behind the German lines with anti-Fascist partisans bef re crossing the A lps to rejoin the Allied forces, He “was a good Briton then, surely, and so were the threeimen of a now dismantled Rhodesian diplomatic office who still serve here without credentials and as best they can the friendless state which their nation has become. . Is Wilson, then, wrong about all this and is the

government of the United States, which backs him, wrong, too? No, no, But this does not mean that one cannot respect those whom under the imperative demands of high policy we must now isolate, Agree with Smith and all the rest of them never; but accept the honor and patriotism of their motives, This would be about the ticket here, would it not? It is not possible to avoid a collision here of vital interests, For Wilson's policy is more nearly right than wrong, because it is necessary, and Smith's is more nearly wrong than right, The West simply cannot permit the maintenance indefinitely in Africa of a regime widely believed, in however over-. simplified a way, to be starkly white-supremacist, That way might lead, as Wilson argues, to chaos into which the Chinese Communists could move with one of their secondhanded "wars of liberation, ". But it ought to be possible to maintain a certain human civility even in basic disagreement, It ought to be possible because it is vital lest Southern Africa be set ablaze, (Copyright 1965) -William S, White, substituting for Marquis Childs, who is on vacation, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HOW IT USED 10 BE To the Editor: A line or two of how I will remember Nevada City. There was not any pavement on the streets in them days, And when it snowed in the winter us kids sure made good use of our sleds.nearly all winter, The old Nevada Theatre looked alltogether different then, Therewas kind of a porch in front and we used to climb up on the last post and ‘sneak in the show, In them daysa lot of road shows used to come to N,C¢ and stay a whole week and they made money for the town, They could use a couple of them now, Iwill just mention a few places as I go along like the New. York hotel across the street and Billie Britland's saloon on the corner below. Oh yes I don't want to leave out the National Hotel where you could get a good meal and a room for 50 cents a night, And another spot on Broad St. was a clothing store run by the Grimes family, and a little further down where the Alpha store now stands was the Cliff hotel that burned down a long time ago, Across the street from the Cliff House as we called it was Mrs, Lutz place, Yougot a good meal there also and next. door was the assay office where a lot of gold changed hands, A shoe making shop was next, The shop was owned by\Frank Black. I used to give him some bad times oncein awhile, Andthen came Solari boarding house and Bob Latta’s livery stable, later turnedinto a laundry, Tihere was a lot of other places of interest but it would take me a month to name them all so let’s go up Commercial street a little ways, From the bridge there\wasthe Chinese grocery store and Dick Knowels horse ‘shoeing shop.\. Next Henry Lanes Livery stable and fiext was Legg \and Shaw's Hardware store and across the street was the Union hotel and open air dance floor where we. used to have a lot of fun on dance nights, I am just a little-bit sore right now about something that was in your paper after they put the show on for twonights, One of the statements made about Sheriff Douglas where he brought in the bandit, I told you some time agothat the sheriff went after two bandits, He killed one and the other killed Mr, Douglas, I was in Lane's Undertaking when they brought them in, The other item was about the First and Last Chance Saloon owned by old Dutch Henry,’ Why if four couples got on the floor and started to dance’ they would all land down in Deer Creek, Jack Bassett Oakland THE FIRST LADY REPLIES THE WHITE HOUSE. WASHINGTON December 29, 1965 To the Editor: Mrs. Johnson asked me tothank you for your thoughtfulness in sharing your December 2nd edition of the Nevada County Nugget with her, And she was especially pleased to know that your paper gives their support to the President's beautification program. With deep gratitude, Mrs, Johnson sends very best wishes, Sincerely, Bess Abell Social Secretary The Staff Nevada County Nugget Nevada City, California 11'S THREE OUD IN THE AFTERNOON” AND THE EAALY BIRD CATCHES THE THE AT LAST. THERE S THE WORM" AND I's Six O'CLOCK IN T HE AND THE EARLY BIRD IS TOO WEAK WITH HUNGER TO