July 18, 1963 (16 pages)

.PAGE7 . The Nugget. . July 18, 1963. PAGE 7. been somewhere berween Rocketetler and Goldwater. syntax he never quite said so, it was plain that the first With the pressure of the race issue still intense, the Republican President to occupy the White House since 1932 did not subscribe to the order of the Supreme Court. His civil rights program of 1957 went to Congress with little push behind it. This same moderation in all things is the keynote of Eisenhower's Republican Citizens Committee. With its implied distrust of politics and politicians, so much a rt of the temperament of one who came very late to © political life after a career in the Army, its usefulness to the Republican organization is more and more. limited. The fact isthat the former President left little or no imprint on his party. A month ago, as he was preparing his civil rights program, President Kennedy asked his predecessor to come to see him in the White House. What the President said to General Eisenhower was roughly as follows: prospect is for profound alteration in the old familiar pattern. (Copyright 1963) CONGRESSIONAL STATUS OF CONSERVATION BILLS The First Session of the 88th Congress is approximately half-completed, depending upon an undetermined time of adjournment, and the establishment of a program for outdoor recreation has been the only solid conservation achievement thus far. : : : Passed by both Houses of Congress was $.20, authorI believe we are going to have to try to do more by izing the Secretary of the Interior to promote and develop law to bring about equal opportunity than we have ever a program for outdoor recreation.” This is regarded as an done before. No halfway measures will do. There isno Organic Act providing the necessary authority for work political profit in this for anyone, I ask you, therefore, of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. ay if you will join with me in what I should like to make 2 — Now under active consideration isthe Land and Water bipartisan program that will get the widest popular supConservation Fund, probably the “hottest” resources _pro=: port in Congress. posal before the Congress. Hearings were held by the The former President replied with very much the same Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in words he has used in the past -that law cannot change March (S. 859) and, in late May, by the House Commen'shearts, that there must be a basic alteration in atmittee on Interior and Insular Affairs (H.R. 3846). This titudes before laws can have any real effectiveness. proposal would set up 4 Land and Water Conservation Since this was his conviction he would obviously have nO Fund from the sales of surplus Federal lands, proceeds interest in joining his successor in the White House in a from the 4¢ Federal-tax on marine fuels, and user fees, oat RE Ege probably including an auto sticker. These funds then ‘ would be used by State and Federal agencies to provide public recreation, with emphasis on acquisition of land and water areas. i Passed by the Senate by an overwhelming margin is. S.4, establishinga National Wilderness Preservation System. It now is referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, which has not scheduled hearingsor any other consideration. What is essentially the same bill came before the House Interior Committee in the 87th Congress last year a nd a substitute was ordered reported. The full House did not have the opportunity of voting on any proposal, however. A host of proposals for the establishment of parks, monuments, and other outdoor recreation areas have been introduced and several are under active considereerie bipartisan effort to solve the race issue. The President's move can be interpreted as one of sheer expediency: an effort to enlist Eisenhower as elder statesman of the Republican party so'that the onus of radical change would not fall solely. on.a Democratic President. In this same perspective it was shrewd of the former President to reject the Kennedy overture, But if he had accepted the challenge he would have asserted a new leadership within his own party, and in so doing he would have underscored the divisions within the Democratic party. Today it is Gov. Nelson Rockefeller who intends to take the lead on civil rights, beginning with the conference of governors in Miami Beach. He has given this as~surance to Eastern Republicans like Senator Hugh Scott of Pennyslvania, who cannot be indifferent to the effort ati of the Goldwaterites to capture their party with the orientation entirely inthe West, the Midwest and the South. Rockefeller has also told them that he intends to go into the primaries, beginning with New Hampshire which comes first. He means to push his candidacy as hard as he can and this has been welcome news among the Easterners, since the Goldwaterites had seemed to have the field to themselves. Speaking in Newark, N.J., the other evening Rep. Robert A. Taft, who will almost certainly be the Republican candidate for the Senate of Ohio next year, criticizedthe Kennedy Administration for not going far enough in a civil rights program ~~ specifically for not including a fair employment practices provision and for softpedaling the public accommodation phase of the pro~ ram. Inan interview with the New ark Evening News he Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore; §.77, Canyon Seashore. H, CON, RES. 61, memorializing, preserv ing, an marking the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. sus of Republican thinking and that his father, who earned the affectionate title of Mr. Republican, would have RE’ AM HAROLD! ) THE ONLY DRAGON _ INTHE BUSINESS — {Hat CAN ERY A KNIGHT AT goo yaros I! suort!! House proposals has been scheduled in the House Interi r CAME Ab COUNTY NOE6ET on. Both of the Interior Committees, for example, have held hearings on bills (S. 16 and H.R. 1803) to establish the Ozark National Rivers in Missouri. The Senate Interior Committee also has conducted hearings upon: S.653, Lake Mead Nati onal Recreation Area; S.792, ‘1ands National Park; and S. 1137, Oregon Dunes National Passed May 21 by the House and sent to the Senate is The Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs has completed hearings upon S.784 (Engle) and S.793 (Kuchel), preserving waterfowl habitat in the important Tule Lake-Klamath area of Oregon and California. The standing service and dedication be presented to the Gold Department of the Interior has recommended against Oregon amendments relating to proposed land exchanges said that Senator Goldwater did not represent the consenOF sales and early action in the Committee is expected. No action on H.R. 3817 (identical to S.784) or other \ URW OFF THE SAS! Committee. Passage of arevenue-sharing plan for the counties conpolitical pieces have not yet fallen into place. Butthe —.oog i viewed asvital to the preservation of wat cot one t . wetlands in the Dakotas. Marquis Childs. ++i onin these States still has not been grant would allow a return of three-fourths of one per the adjusted value of the lands annually while $.179, H.R, 1004 and H.R, 1127 would: pay a full one per cent. Neither the Senate Committee on Commerce nor the Permission for Federal acquied. S.1363 cent of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries has ‘ conducted hearings as yet. A Subcommittee of. the House Committee on Government Operations hasbegun 4 comprehensive study of water’ pollution control problems, with hearings to be held both in Washington, D, C., and at various points throughout the country. No hearings have been scheduled, however, onS.649, H.R. 3166 and others, upgrading the Federal water pollution control program to status of a separate Administration; S.736, aid to industry for water and air pollution control; and H.R. 2105 and S,1118, requiring decomposability of detergents. _ : No action has been scheduled on H, R, 2857 and S.1250, “Chemical Pesticides Coordination Act;" H,R, 2392 and S.759, conservation of anadromous fisheries; H.R. 4487 andS,1251, damage to fish and wildlife from chemical poisons; or S. 1048, preservation of the Salmon River. $.2, establishing w ater resource research centers at State universities and other institutions, has been passed by the Senate, but no action is scheduled in the House Interior Committee. The Youth Conservation Corps is poised for passage. S.1 hasbeen passed by the Senate. H,R. 5131 presently is stymied in the House Rules Committee. Final action on appropriation bills has been delayed but some disappointments were registered in the House. This body granted only $90 million from the $100 million authorization for water pollution control construction grants and only $10 million from the emergency waterfowl wetlands acquisition fund. The Senate still was to --National Wildlife Federation LETTER T0 THE EDITOR PRIZE MONEY GIVEN TO GV FIRE DEPARTMENT To The Editor: O' The Glorious 4th! : Again the proudest day of our great country has come and the Grass Valley area as usual commemorated the great day in a fitting manner. — : As one of the proud participants in the parade, the Black Bart Inn would like to publicly place credit on those individuals who made this year's float a winner. To the Fuller Trucking Company who furnished both truck and driver. To Hubert Smith, an able powder-man, President of the Nevada County Sportsmen Association, assisted by Jake Fikle and Sam Davis dev eloped special shotgun shells which safely blasted confetti brilliantly onto the passing crowd. To piano player Bob Coleman and his wife, Millie, d who sat beautifully atop the piano. To the stunning Sunny Quarton, Sally Sapp and Suzanne Gay. And of course Mellissa, Queen of the Yukon! valued, the prize money must in due recognition for outFlat Volunteer Fire Department---prize winners everyday. Roza Schomaker John Schomaker or Black: Bart Inn SNIFF! I UONDER IF AN ogsoleTe O COULD OPEN VP A HoT DOS STAND.. TO , TELL You KNIGHTS DEVELOPED CHAMPION While the prize was deeply appreciated and shall be & i

.PAGE7 . The Nugget. . July 18, 1963.. PAGE 7.. been somewhere berween Rocketetler and Goldwater. syntax he never quite said so, it was plain that the first With the pressure of the race issue still intense, the Republican President to occupy the White House since 1932 did not subscribe to the order of the Supreme Court. His civil rights program of 1957 went to Congress with little push behind it. This same moderation in all things is the keynote of Eisenhower's Republican Citizens Committee. With its implied distrust of politics and politicians, so much a rt of the temperament of one who came very late to © political life after a career in the Army, its usefulness to the Republican organization is more and more. limited. The fact isthat the former President left little or no imprint on his party. A month ago, as he was preparing his civil rights program, President Kennedy asked his predecessor to come to see him in the White House. What the President said to General Eisenhower was roughly as follows: prospect is for profound alteration in the old familiar pattern. (Copyright 1963) CONGRESSIONAL STATUS OF CONSERVATION BILLS The First Session of the 88th Congress is approximately half-completed, depending upon an undetermined time of adjournment, and the establishment of a program for outdoor recreation has been the only solid conservation achievement thus far. : : : Passed by both Houses of Congress was $.20, authorI believe we are going to have to try to do more by izing the Secretary of the Interior to promote and develop law to bring about equal opportunity than we have ever a program for outdoor recreation.” This is regarded as an done before. No halfway measures will do. There isno Organic Act providing the necessary authority for work political profit in this for anyone, I ask you, therefore, of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. ay if you will join with me in what I should like to make 2 — Now under active consideration isthe Land and Water bipartisan program that will get the widest popular supConservation Fund, probably the “hottest” resources _pro=: port in Congress. posal before the Congress. Hearings were held by the The former President replied with very much the same Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in words he has used in the past -that law cannot change March (S. 859) and, in late May, by the House Commen'shearts, that there must be a basic alteration in atmittee on Interior and Insular Affairs (H.R. 3846). This titudes before laws can have any real effectiveness. proposal would set up 4 Land and Water Conservation Since this was his conviction he would obviously have nO Fund from the sales of surplus Federal lands, proceeds interest in joining his successor in the White House in a from the 4¢ Federal-tax on marine fuels, and user fees, oat RE Ege probably including an auto sticker. These funds then ‘ would be used by State and Federal agencies to provide public recreation, with emphasis on acquisition of land and water areas. i Passed by the Senate by an overwhelming margin is. S.4, establishinga National Wilderness Preservation System. It now is referred to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, which has not scheduled hearingsor any other consideration. What is essentially the same bill came before the House Interior Committee in the 87th Congress last year a nd a substitute was ordered reported. The full House did not have the opportunity of voting on any proposal, however. A host of proposals for the establishment of parks, monuments, and other outdoor recreation areas have been introduced and several are under active considereerie bipartisan effort to solve the race issue. The President's move can be interpreted as one of sheer expediency: an effort to enlist Eisenhower as elder statesman of the Republican party so'that the onus of radical change would not fall solely. on.a Democratic President. In this same perspective it was shrewd of the former President to reject the Kennedy overture, But if he had accepted the challenge he would have asserted a new leadership within his own party, and in so doing he would have underscored the divisions within the Democratic party. Today it is Gov. Nelson Rockefeller who intends to take the lead on civil rights, beginning with the conference of governors in Miami Beach. He has given this as~surance to Eastern Republicans like Senator Hugh Scott of Pennyslvania, who cannot be indifferent to the effort ati of the Goldwaterites to capture their party with the orientation entirely inthe West, the Midwest and the South. Rockefeller has also told them that he intends to go into the primaries, beginning with New Hampshire which comes first. He means to push his candidacy as hard as he can and this has been welcome news among the Easterners, since the Goldwaterites had seemed to have the field to themselves. Speaking in Newark, N.J., the other evening Rep. Robert A. Taft, who will almost certainly be the Republican candidate for the Senate of Ohio next year, criticizedthe Kennedy Administration for not going far enough in a civil rights program ~~ specifically for not including a fair employment practices provision and for softpedaling the public accommodation phase of the pro~ ram. Inan interview with the New ark Evening News he Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore; §.77, Canyon Seashore. H, CON, RES. 61, memorializing, preserv ing, an marking the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. sus of Republican thinking and that his father, who earned the affectionate title of Mr. Republican, would have RE’ AM HAROLD! ) THE ONLY DRAGON _ INTHE BUSINESS — {Hat CAN ERY A KNIGHT AT goo yaros I!

suort!! House proposals has been scheduled in the House Interi r CAME Ab COUNTY NOE6ET on. Both of the Interior Committees, for example, have held hearings on bills (S. 16 and H.R. 1803) to establish the Ozark National Rivers in Missouri. The Senate Interior Committee also has conducted hearings upon: S.653, Lake Mead Nati onal Recreation Area; S.792, ‘1ands National Park; and S. 1137, Oregon Dunes National Passed May 21 by the House and sent to the Senate is The Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs has completed hearings upon S.784 (Engle) and S.793 (Kuchel), preserving waterfowl habitat in the important Tule Lake-Klamath area of Oregon and California. The standing service and dedication be presented to the Gold Department of the Interior has recommended against Oregon amendments relating to proposed land exchanges said that Senator Goldwater did not represent the consenOF sales and early action in the Committee is expected. No action on H.R. 3817 (identical to S.784) or other \ URW OFF THE SAS! Committee. Passage of arevenue-sharing plan for the counties conpolitical pieces have not yet fallen into place. Butthe —.oog i viewed asvital to the preservation of wat cot one t . wetlands in the Dakotas. Marquis Childs. ++i onin these States still has not been grant would allow a return of three-fourths of one per the adjusted value of the lands annually while $.179, H.R, 1004 and H.R, 1127 would: pay a full one per cent. Neither the Senate Committee on Commerce nor the Permission for Federal acquied. S.1363 cent of House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries has ‘ conducted hearings as yet. A Subcommittee of. the House Committee on Government Operations hasbegun 4 comprehensive study of water’ pollution control problems, with hearings to be held both in Washington, D, C., and at various points throughout the country. No hearings have been scheduled, however, onS.649, H.R. 3166 and others, upgrading the Federal water pollution control program to status of a separate Administration; S.736, aid to industry for water and air pollution control; and H.R. 2105 and S,1118, requiring decomposability of detergents. _ : No action has been scheduled on H, R, 2857 and S.1250, “Chemical Pesticides Coordination Act;" H,R, 2392 and S.759, conservation of anadromous fisheries; H.R. 4487 andS,1251, damage to fish and wildlife from chemical poisons; or S. 1048, preservation of the Salmon River. $.2, establishing w ater resource research centers at State universities and other institutions, has been passed by the Senate, but no action is scheduled in the House Interior Committee. The Youth Conservation Corps is poised for passage. S.1 hasbeen passed by the Senate. H,R. 5131 presently is stymied in the House Rules Committee. Final action on appropriation bills has been delayed but some disappointments were registered in the House. This body granted only $90 million from the $100 million authorization for water pollution control construction grants and only $10 million from the emergency waterfowl wetlands acquisition fund. The Senate still was to --National Wildlife Federation LETTER T0 THE EDITOR PRIZE MONEY GIVEN TO GV FIRE DEPARTMENT To The Editor: O' The Glorious 4th! : Again the proudest day of our great country has come and the Grass Valley area as usual commemorated the great day in a fitting manner. — : As one of the proud participants in the parade, the Black Bart Inn would like to publicly place credit on those individuals who made this year's float a winner. To the Fuller Trucking Company who furnished both truck and driver. To Hubert Smith, an able powder-man, President of the Nevada County Sportsmen Association, assisted by Jake Fikle and Sam Davis dev eloped special shotgun shells which safely blasted confetti brilliantly onto the passing crowd. To piano player Bob Coleman and his wife, Millie, d who sat beautifully atop the piano. To the stunning Sunny Quarton, Sally Sapp and Suzanne Gay. And of course Mellissa, Queen of the Yukon! valued, the prize money must in due recognition for outFlat Volunteer Fire Department---prize winners everyday. Roza Schomaker John Schomaker or Black: Bart Inn SNIFF! I UONDER IF AN ogsoleTe O COULD OPEN VP A HoT DOS STAND... TO , TELL You KNIGHTS DEVELOPED CHAMPION While the prize was deeply appreciated and shall be & i