January 7, 1965 (16 pages)

January 7, 1965.Nevada County Nugget. “J Squaw last week was to put a man at the beginning of the access road and simply keep everyone out until the.’ road was properly cleared, Admittedly the concessionnaire would have lost some money this way, but he lost not only money but many future customers by the way in which the situation was handled, A long range solution to Squaw's problems would be to creaté a massive parking area on the state property right off the main highway and then provide transporta. tion to the slopes from there. In Europe people are taken to the slopes by flatbed sleds, We see no reason why the management could not provide a schedule of Snocat pulled sleds or wheeled wagons hooked together into a train to take people to the slopes. This would eliminate the constant traffic jam on the road and leave the access road open at all times for supply or emergency vehicles, This is done elsewhere and people are happy to have these transportation problems solved for them. Skiers, at best, are a crazy breed and will do almost anything to get to the slopes, A few more dollars for/a ride in would not bother any of them. : We have seen Squaw Valley on television and we have heard much about it. We even came within a few miles ‘of it, butitishighly unlikely that we will go there again until some changes are made. Two hours to travel three miles is too much for even a crazy skier. CALIFORNIA _-=-Don Hoagland DISNEYLAND IS THE HOME OF ETERNAL HAPPY ENDINGS It is easy to misread Walt Disney and his “magic kingdom," Disneyland, “Disneyland is concerned with providing all of its guests--young and old alike--witn the _one commodity it has in abundance: happiness, " reads an official Disneyland publication. But that«hardly tells the whole story, and a visitor to Disneyland would do well to believe what he sees, not whathereads, If I hadn*t known anything about Disney's peuchant for happy endings, I for one wo uld have felt happy toget out of the place alive, and that I suppose is the form that—"happiness" takes at Disneyland: endless vicissitudes, and ultimate survival. On the jungle cruise you are ambushed by a bunch of howling headhunters and charged by a rhino, which the boatman shoots at the last minute, On Tom Sawyer's island the fort is perennially attacked by Indians. On the submarine cruise the waters are filled with terocious creatures, including a house-size sea serpent. On the rides-in-the-dark you can be run over by a WAY DON'T You 4 WED BRD ). TRY tHe NEw SEN ON er WET, STICKY DEODORANT. speeding train or cooked in a witch's cauldron, In "Nature's Wonderland” several boulders almost fall on your head, and you ride. past a rattlesnake sitting on a rock not an arm's length away. In Disneyland, as in Disney movies, you are the traveller who must act out the Disney version of the Pilgrim's Progress. If you can extricate yourself from the Slough of Despond, you can then be rewarded with the articles of American faith and civilization: a box of popcorm, a free band concert. an expensive foray into the \ ) ee, emporiums of Main Street, a ride into “autopia. " The nice thing about the Disney canon is that we Americans always come out on top, and that probably explains why so many millions of us have subjected ourselves eagerly to the death-dealing wildemesses of Disneyland, We know that Disney won't let us down, “Some day my prince will come,” sings Snow White—and by golly, he does, The Disney future is much like the past. In the “Tomorrowland" section of Disneyland you are encouraged toride in your own flying saucer, an ingenious disk which actually floats on air. In your flying saucer, you can float around in space, while people in other flying saucers bump into you and obstruct your progress, But the bumps are gentle enough, and in due course you can debark, presumably on another planet, perfectly safe and sound, They say that Walt Disney is always planning additions to his park, It will be only a matter of time, I suppose, before he installs a genuine atomic explosion for all of us to experience. It will be interesting to see how he pulls us out of that one, WASHINGTON CALLING BIG TEST FOR JOHNSON WILL COME IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS WASHINGTON --The signs multiply that the new year will find the newly elected Administration far more urgently engaged.in foreign matters than in any and all domestic affairs, and thus that President Johnson's true and climactic tests will occur abroad and not at home. It isa safe bet that long before 1965 has run its course Johnson will be far more discussed, pro and con, as an international leader than as head of a remarkably large home c onsensus working toward that "Great Society" which has become, domestically, his political trademark. . In a word, the new year will be notably inhospitable to one of the most hardy of current stereotypes. This is that President Johnson is essentially a home -on -the-range politician who knows where Europe and Asia and Africa are but isreally and deeply committed only to mastering . Congress and to social reconstruction in the United States. ---Alfred Heller Anyone who has traveled even brietly in Europe since our election knows the intensity of speculation there about the depth of Johnson's foreign policy interests -: SURE! HAVE A SPRAY ON ME. fA, ARADO LIE MIELE and the nature of his competence in them. Because he has so long been pictured abroad as essentially a domestic-minded figure, there is an almost comic-strip popular reading of him as a kind of gustily gifted cowboy statesman more aware of Johnson City, Tex., than of this uneasy globe. Those world leaders who have already dealt with him at length have long since hurriedly dropped this highly juvenile cliche. : it is impomaut, however, that this absurd image be abandoned, too, by many here at home who have not realized that Johnson was deeply involved in world affairs as far back as the lend-Lease Act of more than two decades ago. For understanding the realities of the new year will be difficult enough for all concerned -the President's adversaries and allies abroad and those at home who wish to oppose or to support him -unless it is first understood that this man of colloquial outer habits is inside one of the toughest, most deeply sophisticated high-policy negotiators to sit in the White House in many years. » Wrong, he may be; unaware of where the real ball in the game is, he never is. (Copyright 1964) ---William S. White LETTER TO THE EDITOR KITTY TAYLOR HAD A HEART To the Editor: Wellherel am again with a little more info, I see the names of Kitty Taylor and Texas Tommie are brought up. For your information I will give you just a little bit of what I know of Kitty Taylor. If the people that she gave money to paid her back, and believe me 1 know she gave a h--l of a lot, they would not have to ask anybody for money to bury her. She helped the poor for a good many years. She did not throw her money away like Texas Tommie did, She done good with her money, . I wish Mr, Paine would give credit where it belongs. I knew Kitty fora good many years. One thing she would not stand for.was cussing from her girls. She would get rid of them quick if they did. If afly of the miners needed money between pay days they went to Kittv and they were never turned down. I know I always got it too. About Texas Tommie, sure she spent a lot of money and once in a while she would buy presents for a few kids, But believe me there was none of them like Kitty Taylor. If! remember right I think there was six of them places on Spring Street. As for Mable Foster, the boys were right. She was built like a truck and all business. Cheer upBob you was not the cause of Texas Tommie being run out. You see our military police had their eyes on her place fora long time. You just made them do their job. I think they were getting a little kick back. Oh another thing, I don't have to ask Elza Kilroy anything. He wasnot born yet. I knew his granpa well when ) he was marshall there, I was there when he was shot by _ Ed Moore, It was a bad thing for the town as he was a good marshall, Oh by the way, I was up there when they were selling boot-leg whiskey and Nevada City did have the best. I better quit rattling on or they will send the guys with the white coats after me. Jack Bassett Oakland Tell Bob Paine if he is ever in Oakland to look me up. I am home in the evening. Same Guy WELL. AT LEAST IT ISN'T WET AND STICKY. cones PSE AORN E 808 ORES ae eG

January 7, 1965..Nevada County Nugget.. “J Squaw last week was to put a man at the beginning of the access road and simply keep everyone out until the.’ road was properly cleared, Admittedly the concessionnaire would have lost some money this way, but he lost not only money but many future customers by the way in which the situation was handled, A long range solution to Squaw's problems would be to creaté a massive parking area on the state property right off the main highway and then provide transporta. tion to the slopes from there. In Europe people are taken to the slopes by flatbed sleds, We see no reason why the management could not provide a schedule of Snocat pulled sleds or wheeled wagons hooked together into a train to take people to the slopes. This would eliminate the constant traffic jam on the road and leave the access road open at all times for supply or emergency vehicles, This is done elsewhere and people are happy to have these transportation problems solved for them. Skiers, at best, are a crazy breed and will do almost anything to get to the slopes, A few more dollars for/a ride in would not bother any of them. : We have seen Squaw Valley on television and we have heard much about it. We even came within a few miles ‘of it, butitishighly unlikely that we will go there again until some changes are made. Two hours to travel three miles is too much for even a crazy skier. CALIFORNIA _-=-Don Hoagland DISNEYLAND IS THE HOME OF ETERNAL HAPPY ENDINGS It is easy to misread Walt Disney and his “magic kingdom," Disneyland, “Disneyland is concerned with providing all of its guests--young and old alike--witn the _one commodity it has in abundance: happiness, " reads an official Disneyland publication. But that«hardly tells the whole story, and a visitor to Disneyland would do well to believe what he sees, not whathereads, If I hadn*t known anything about Disney's peuchant for happy endings, I for one wo uld have felt happy toget out of the place alive, and that I suppose is the form that—"happiness" takes at Disneyland: endless vicissitudes, and ultimate survival. On the jungle cruise you are ambushed by a bunch of howling headhunters and charged by a rhino, which the boatman shoots at the last minute, On Tom Sawyer's island the fort is perennially attacked by Indians. On the submarine cruise the waters are filled with terocious creatures, including a house-size sea serpent. On the rides-in-the-dark you can be run over by a WAY DON'T You 4 WED BRD ). TRY tHe NEw SEN ON er WET, STICKY DEODORANT.. speeding train or cooked in a witch's cauldron, In "Nature's Wonderland” several boulders almost fall on your head, and you ride. past a rattlesnake sitting on a rock not an arm's length away. In Disneyland, as in Disney movies, you are the traveller who must act out the Disney version of the Pilgrim's Progress. If you can extricate yourself from the Slough of Despond, you can then be rewarded with the articles of American faith and civilization: a box of popcorm, a free band concert. an expensive foray into the \ ) ee, emporiums of Main Street, a ride into “autopia. " The nice thing about the Disney canon is that we Americans always come out on top, and that probably explains why so many millions of us have subjected ourselves eagerly to the death-dealing wildemesses of Disneyland, We know that Disney won't let us down, “Some day my prince will come,” sings Snow White—and by golly, he does, The Disney future is much like the past. In the “Tomorrowland" section of Disneyland you are encouraged toride in your own flying saucer, an ingenious disk which actually floats on air. In your flying saucer, you can float around in space, while people in other flying saucers bump into you and obstruct your progress, But the bumps are gentle enough, and in due course you can debark, presumably on another planet, perfectly safe and sound, They say that Walt Disney is always planning additions to his park, It will be only a matter of time, I suppose, before he installs a genuine atomic explosion for all of us to experience. It will be interesting to see how he pulls us out of that one, WASHINGTON CALLING BIG TEST FOR JOHNSON WILL COME IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS WASHINGTON --The signs multiply that the new year will find the newly elected Administration far more urgently engaged.in foreign matters than in any and all domestic affairs, and thus that President Johnson's true and climactic tests will occur abroad and not at home. It isa safe bet that long before 1965 has run its course

Johnson will be far more discussed, pro and con, as an international leader than as head of a remarkably large home c onsensus working toward that "Great Society" which has become, domestically, his political trademark. . In a word, the new year will be notably inhospitable to one of the most hardy of current stereotypes. This is that President Johnson is essentially a home -on -the-range politician who knows where Europe and Asia and Africa are but isreally and deeply committed only to mastering . Congress and to social reconstruction in the United States. ---Alfred Heller Anyone who has traveled even brietly in Europe since our election knows the intensity of speculation there about the depth of Johnson's foreign policy interests -: SURE! HAVE A SPRAY ON ME.. fA, ARADO LIE MIELE and the nature of his competence in them. Because he has so long been pictured abroad as essentially a domestic-minded figure, there is an almost comic-strip popular reading of him as a kind of gustily gifted cowboy statesman more aware of Johnson City, Tex., than of this uneasy globe. Those world leaders who have already dealt with him at length have long since hurriedly dropped this highly juvenile cliche. : it is impomaut, however, that this absurd image be abandoned, too, by many here at home who have not realized that Johnson was deeply involved in world affairs as far back as the lend-Lease Act of more than two decades ago. For understanding the realities of the new year will be difficult enough for all concerned -the President's adversaries and allies abroad and those at home who wish to oppose or to support him -unless it is first understood that this man of colloquial outer habits is inside one of the toughest, most deeply sophisticated high-policy negotiators to sit in the White House in many years. » Wrong, he may be; unaware of where the real ball in the game is, he never is. (Copyright 1964) ---William S. White LETTER TO THE EDITOR KITTY TAYLOR HAD A HEART To the Editor: Wellherel am again with a little more info, I see the names of Kitty Taylor and Texas Tommie are brought up. For your information I will give you just a little bit of what I know of Kitty Taylor. If the people that she gave money to paid her back, and believe me 1 know she gave a h--l of a lot, they would not have to ask anybody for money to bury her. She helped the poor for a good many years. She did not throw her money away like Texas Tommie did, She done good with her money, . I wish Mr, Paine would give credit where it belongs. I knew Kitty fora good many years. One thing she would not stand for.was cussing from her girls. She would get rid of them quick if they did. If afly of the miners needed money between pay days they went to Kittv and they were never turned down. I know I always got it too. About Texas Tommie, sure she spent a lot of money and once in a while she would buy presents for a few kids, But believe me there was none of them like Kitty Taylor. If! remember right I think there was six of them places on Spring Street. As for Mable Foster, the boys were right. She was built like a truck and all business. Cheer upBob you was not the cause of Texas Tommie being run out. You see our military police had their eyes on her place fora long time. You just made them do their job. I think they were getting a little kick back. Oh another thing, I don't have to ask Elza Kilroy anything. He wasnot born yet. I knew his granpa well when ) he was marshall there, I was there when he was shot by _ Ed Moore, It was a bad thing for the town as he was a good marshall, Oh by the way, I was up there when they were selling boot-leg whiskey and Nevada City did have the best. I better quit rattling on or they will send the guys with the white coats after me. Jack Bassett Oakland Tell Bob Paine if he is ever in Oakland to look me up. I am home in the evening. Same Guy WELL. AT LEAST IT ISN'T WET AND STICKY.. cones PSE AORN E 808 ORES ae eG