July 18, 1963 (16 pages)

u@ ‘s we EDITORIAL ROADSIDE SPRAY. FOUL PLAY TO SCENERY Well, it's thattime of the year again when we don't dare eat the blackberries along our highways, nor the Scotch Broom, either. . It is time for the Division of Highways crew to get their big spray guns out and flit, flit the right of way. Of course, the spray isn't poisonous ---to humans. We won't die from it if we eat the blackberries We'll just wish we were dead. Actually, it is not our stomach that is pained by the prospect of the spray. Weare pained, however, by the blight that is sprayed mechanically along the highways of one of California's most scenic counties. Andthe painis even deeper, for it is not the Division of Highways that has the most gall inruining our natural beauty. Our ‘county roadsides also get that dark brown taste of spray. And where the Division of Highways sprays to eliminate blackberries, Scotch Broom and poison oak, the county sprays to eliminate nearly everything that grows along the road. Where the Division of Highways cuts the ordinary weeds along 75 per cent of the state highways in the county, and on ten per cent of the highways removes the killed berries, broom and poison oak after three to six months; on comparable roadsides the county sprays and leaves the remains until time to spray again next year. How about THAT fire hazard? We are surprised that the supervisors of Nevada County have not found a better way tocontrol growth on our roadsides. Pressure. from local residents last year indicated the people dislike the present blighted rights of way. But perhaps the winter months have removed the feeling of pressure on this subject. So our scenic byways in will be sprayed. Andten per cent of our Scenic Highways, too. Yes, in Nevada County the state highways are almost entirely within the the Scenic Highway System, 4 system set up by the legislature to preserve the the beauty of the scenery along Scenic Highways 20, 40, 49 and 89. Right of way spray is foul play to the intent of this system of highways. But at least onthe state highways this foul the county spray is limited to a minor portion of: ~the system ina campaign designed to annually reduce the area sprayed, and TOWN = SMALL oa at least the dead brush is remove d; CALIFORNIA even if after several months. Our scenic byways in the county are THE ONSLAUGHT OF HIKERS AND FISHERMEN: THE LAND NEEDS MORE PROTECTION : SIERRA BYWAYS , "AND BE SURE 10 SEE MRS. BOLEY’S POOL HALL’ MOTHER LODE TOUR By Volkswagen, video station KOED in S.F, took a tour of the Mother Lode Thursday night, including Nevada City A look at Ott's Assay Office was followed by “be sure to stop in and see the very famous Mrs. Susan Boley's Pool Hall if interested in seeing a purple and mative building", then a quick once over of the Firehouse-museum. . Mrs. Boley's Pool Hall? Better known in later years as J.J. Jackson's grocery store, and now becoming quite noted (see the guest book) as Osborn-Woods Studio.. It seems Mrs. Boley occupied the building from January to July of 1856 when she was burned out in one of the usual fire disasters of that era. ica ke After 97 full years the news~paperman's newspaper, Publishers’ Auxiliary went “tab” in its July 13 issue. The move to Nugget-style tabloid was made after an experiment by the paper Dec. 15. Reader reaction was almost ten to one in favor of the tabloid format Nearly 20 per vent of Cali fornia weekly newspapers are now tabloid, and the list is still growing.. Nearly one-fourth of U.S. weeklies are now offset, and that list is still growing. . With a puffed chest, we point out that the Nugget is arnong the leaders. a en h he inn * i tT iT . Uae tte i} f uitenun) sap t eae , 2eF ==" ‘t = Pani THANK YOU..Wedon't often print letters to us that are strictly business letters, but for every rule there is an exception. So, this paragraph from William J. Browre, branch manager in San Jose for the firm that makes the folding machine for our nice new Nugget: “May I congratulate you on the appearance and general format of your issue of June 26, it is a fine paper and after seeing many, many of the other publications around this area, in fact across the United States, you don't have to take ‘a back seat’ toany ofthem".. Yes, thank you, Mr. B. SHORT SHOTS..Charles Everhart, TNFS office manager who suffered a severe heart attack, is away with Mrs, Everhart this week to the green beauty of Eugene, Ore., and a consultation with doctors relative to speech treatment. Charlie looks great, and has much determination in speeding his fullrecovery.Another TNFS visit, to Marvin Shock who retired July 5, and who worked until 7 p.m. on the day of his retirement. Shock was most shocked when the office crew at headquarters threw a surprise party for him July 3---on one hour notice. The-party had been planned for Friday, but Shock had a tour to Webber Lake Friday which the crew found out about at2p.m. July 3. In one hour they had the cake, etc., ready for 3 p.m. coffee break..And on the Fourth ofJuly a family arrived in Nevada City to see the bike race. A young lady had seen Charles Allert on TV, had decided to be sure to see the event, talked her parentsintothe trip, forgot the date but remembered it was they went back to GV (we on a holiday, soO0o00.. wondered what was going on there when we came through) home to Stockton. ---Dean Thompson develop new recreation facilities and still, day by day, our resource areas are suffering ever-greater damages. They are being overused or misused because of the lack . of adequate controls and adequate and appropriate facilities. Anyone whotravelsto } knows this for a fact. More has to be done--much more --and perhaps the thin responsible officials at enterprise sit down to ask themselves some questions: to catch the end of the Fourth celebration before returning CAMPERS, We have many federal, state and local programs to the mountains in the summer g needed most right now is that all levels of private and public 9 Dvd" *S96r ‘St Ang’ *“31038NN ayL**'9 IDVd Do we truly accept recreation as a prime economic value inherent in our public lands? Are we really aware of the economic benefits of recreation? Are present methods of measuring economic recreational benefits really adequate? How many public officials charged with supervision of our public lands still regard recreation as a nuisance factor in the forest instead of a safety valve of our civilization? Have the agencies which guide recreational development ever stopped to assess their competence in this field? How much research is being lems of recreation resource development and management? Are our colleges giving recreation training to the specialist adequate to meet the increasing recreational problem he is finding in the field? done into the probWhy in the world are we so touchy about telling people that if they want recreational development they are gor ing tohave to pay for it and that the users especially are going to have to pay for a major portion of it? How can our resource-rich but dollar-poor counties be induced to carry on full scale recreation planning programs andthen in conformance -with the planning to encourage private recreation development? Isn't it true that many cow counties recognize recreation as a great potential industry but do not have the funds to develop plans and programs of development? Ifit is the city people who come tothese areas to enjoy them, don't they have a stake in seeing that recreation values are maintained? I will answerthat one; they.do, as anybody who remembers Lake Tahoe the way it used to be can tell you. The subject of Lake Tahoe brings up another question. How can weconvince local commercial interests in recreation areas that in many cases strict controls are needed over development if the area's beauty is to be preserved, the carrying capacity of its land respected== and its dollar-drawing power sustained? Personally, I think that if traditional “home rule” in California means the sway of ignorance and petty self-interest, then we ‘don't have home rule at all. We have home ruin, (Next Week: Time Is Running Out.) mca RACIAL ISSUES THREATEN TO SPLIT BOTH PARTIES — WASHINGTON ---More than any other issue in the memory of man the racial explosion threatens to fragment both political parties. Just how the cracks will spread and and how deep they will go no one can foretell. The damage in the Democratic party is evident enough with the South in open rebellion and with fierce partisans on each side of the race question splitting off in the North. What ishappening in the Republican party is more obscure but the fission effect is nonetheless pronounced. The moderate center seems to be rapidly eroding away and this is related to the personal fate of former President Eisenhower. Throughout his eight years in the White House, and particularly after the 1954 Supreme Court decision ordering the integration of the public schools, the President evaded one press conference question after another on the relationship of law to racial equality. He believed that changes had to come in men's hearts. You couldn't legislate equality. While in his singular

u@ ‘s we EDITORIAL ROADSIDE SPRAY.. FOUL PLAY TO SCENERY Well, it's thattime of the year again when we don't dare eat the blackberries along our highways, nor the Scotch Broom, either. . It is time for the Division of Highways crew to get their big spray guns out and flit, flit the right of way. Of course, the spray isn't poisonous ---to humans. We won't die from it if we eat the blackberries We'll just wish we were dead. Actually, it is not our stomach that is pained by the prospect of the spray. Weare pained, however, by the blight that is sprayed mechanically along the highways of one of California's most scenic counties. Andthe painis even deeper, for it is not the Division of Highways that has the most gall inruining our natural beauty. Our ‘county roadsides also get that dark brown taste of spray. And where the Division of Highways sprays to eliminate blackberries, Scotch Broom and poison oak, the county sprays to eliminate nearly everything that grows along the road. Where the Division of Highways cuts the ordinary weeds along 75 per cent of the state highways in the county, and on ten per cent of the highways removes the killed berries, broom and poison oak after three to six months; on comparable roadsides the county sprays and leaves the remains until time to spray again next year. How about THAT fire hazard? We are surprised that the supervisors of Nevada County have not found a better way tocontrol growth on our roadsides. Pressure. from local residents last year indicated the people dislike the present blighted rights of way. But perhaps the winter months have removed the feeling of pressure on this subject. So our scenic byways in will be sprayed. Andten per cent of our Scenic Highways, too. Yes, in Nevada County the state highways are almost entirely within the the Scenic Highway System, 4 system set up by the legislature to preserve the the beauty of the scenery along Scenic Highways 20, 40, 49 and 89. Right of way spray is foul play to the intent of this system of highways. But at least onthe state highways this foul the county spray is limited to a minor portion of: ~the system ina campaign designed to annually reduce the area sprayed, and TOWN = SMALL oa at least the dead brush is remove d; CALIFORNIA even if after several months. Our scenic byways in the county are THE ONSLAUGHT OF HIKERS AND FISHERMEN: THE LAND NEEDS MORE PROTECTION : SIERRA BYWAYS , "AND BE SURE 10 SEE MRS. BOLEY’S POOL HALL’ MOTHER LODE TOUR By Volkswagen, video station KOED in S.F, took a tour of the Mother Lode Thursday night, including Nevada City A look at Ott's Assay Office was followed by “be sure to stop in and see the very famous Mrs. Susan Boley's Pool Hall if interested in seeing a purple and mative building", then a quick once over of the Firehouse-museum. .. Mrs. Boley's Pool Hall? Better known in later years as J.J. Jackson's grocery store, and now becoming quite noted (see the guest book) as Osborn-Woods Studio... It seems Mrs. Boley occupied the building from January to July of 1856 when she was burned out in one of the usual fire disasters of that era. ica ke After 97 full years the news~paperman's newspaper, Publishers’ Auxiliary went “tab” in its July 13 issue. The move to Nugget-style tabloid was made after an experiment by the paper Dec. 15. Reader reaction was almost ten to one in favor of the tabloid format Nearly 20 per vent of Cali fornia weekly newspapers are now tabloid, and the list is still growing... Nearly one-fourth of U.S. weeklies are now offset, and that list is still growing.. . With a puffed chest, we point out that the Nugget is arnong the leaders. a en h he inn * i tT iT . Uae tte i} f uitenun) sap t eae

, 2eF ==" ‘t = Pani THANK YOU...Wedon't often print letters to us that are strictly business letters, but for every rule there is an exception. So, this paragraph from William J. Browre, branch manager in San Jose for the firm that makes the folding machine for our nice new Nugget: “May I congratulate you on the appearance and general format of your issue of June 26, it is a fine paper and after seeing many, many of the other publications around this area, in fact across the United States, you don't have to take ‘a back seat’ toany ofthem"... Yes, thank you, Mr. B. SHORT SHOTS...Charles Everhart, TNFS office manager who suffered a severe heart attack, is away with Mrs, Everhart this week to the green beauty of Eugene, Ore., and a consultation with doctors relative to speech treatment. Charlie looks great, and has much determination in speeding his fullrecovery..Another TNFS visit, to Marvin Shock who retired July 5, and who worked until 7 p.m. on the day of his retirement. Shock was most shocked when the office crew at headquarters threw a surprise party for him July 3---on one hour notice. The-party had been planned for Friday, but Shock had a tour to Webber Lake Friday which the crew found out about at2p.m. July 3. In one hour they had the cake, etc., ready for 3 p.m. coffee break...And on the Fourth ofJuly a family arrived in Nevada City to see the bike race. A young lady had seen Charles Allert on TV, had decided to be sure to see the event, talked her parentsintothe trip, forgot the date but remembered it was they went back to GV (we on a holiday, soO0o00... wondered what was going on there when we came through) home to Stockton. ---Dean Thompson develop new recreation facilities and still, day by day, our resource areas are suffering ever-greater damages. They are being overused or misused because of the lack . of adequate controls and adequate and appropriate facilities. Anyone whotravelsto } knows this for a fact. More has to be done--much more --and perhaps the thin responsible officials at enterprise sit down to ask themselves some questions: to catch the end of the Fourth celebration before returning CAMPERS, We have many federal, state and local programs to the mountains in the summer g needed most right now is that all levels of private and public 9 Dvd" *S96r ‘St Ang’ *“31038NN ayL**'9 IDVd Do we truly accept recreation as a prime economic value inherent in our public lands? Are we really aware of the economic benefits of recreation? Are present methods of measuring economic recreational benefits really adequate? How many public officials charged with supervision of our public lands still regard recreation as a nuisance factor in the forest instead of a safety valve of our civilization? Have the agencies which guide recreational development ever stopped to assess their competence in this field? How much research is being lems of recreation resource development and management? Are our colleges giving recreation training to the specialist adequate to meet the increasing recreational problem he is finding in the field? done into the probWhy in the world are we so touchy about telling people that if they want recreational development they are gor ing tohave to pay for it and that the users especially are going to have to pay for a major portion of it? How can our resource-rich but dollar-poor counties be induced to carry on full scale recreation planning programs andthen in conformance -with the planning to encourage private recreation development? Isn't it true that many cow counties recognize recreation as a great potential industry but do not have the funds to develop plans and programs of development? Ifit is the city people who come tothese areas to enjoy them, don't they have a stake in seeing that recreation values are maintained? I will answerthat one; they.do, as anybody who remembers Lake Tahoe the way it used to be can tell you. The subject of Lake Tahoe brings up another question. How can weconvince local commercial interests in recreation areas that in many cases strict controls are needed over development if the area's beauty is to be preserved, the carrying capacity of its land respected== and its dollar-drawing power sustained? Personally, I think that if traditional “home rule” in California means the sway of ignorance and petty self-interest, then we ‘don't have home rule at all. We have home ruin, (Next Week: Time Is Running Out.) mca RACIAL ISSUES THREATEN TO SPLIT BOTH PARTIES — WASHINGTON ---More than any other issue in the memory of man the racial explosion threatens to fragment both political parties. Just how the cracks will spread and and how deep they will go no one can foretell. The damage in the Democratic party is evident enough with the South in open rebellion and with fierce partisans on each side of the race question splitting off in the North. What ishappening in the Republican party is more obscure but the fission effect is nonetheless pronounced. The moderate center seems to be rapidly eroding away and this is related to the personal fate of former President Eisenhower. Throughout his eight years in the White House, and particularly after the 1954 Supreme Court decision ordering the integration of the public schools, the President evaded one press conference question after another on the relationship of law to racial equality. He believed that changes had to come in men's hearts. You couldn't legislate equality. While in his singular