July 22, 1965 (20 pages)

July 22, 1965..Nevada County Nugget. Oe ce ee eae eae SE EER, FEE cr eee cS ame a slogan, and probably in part because it wasn't a very good oneanyway. In anycase, the Great Crusade overran it, and I never got hired’ by Madison Avenue, WASHINGTON CALLING ENORMOUS GROWTH AND SQUALOR IN CARACAS CARACAS, Venezuela,--This is a fantastic city for which the visitor is wholly unprepared, The freeways with their constant rush of traffic are like Los Angeles, the soaring white skyscrapers that seem to spring out of the ground overnight give a feeling, against a backdrop of cloud-wrapped mountains, of San Francisco. Yetitis.a Latin city with the heedless, pushing force that defies allthe rules, Above all, Caracas is a boom town with no sign of slackening in the furious pace that has seen a growth from 300,000 of 15 years agoto1,500,000 today. Socareless are the statistical measurements and so rapid the growth that the total today may be closer to 2,000,000. With it have come all the ills of galloping urbanism, a plague that whether it be in Tokyo or New York or Rome spreads beyond the seeming power of society to abate. It is accentuated here in a capital that not many decades ago was hardly more than a frontier town for the cattle and mining interests out of the colonial past that dominated the country. In the very shadow of luxury apartment houses are the ranchos -the shacks -of the squatters who pour in from the countryside to take over any area not fenced in. They live for the most part without electricity, running water or any kind of sanitation, The municipality makes an effort to improve their quarters, but with an estimated 400,000 persons existing in ranchos and the number increasing every day it is like sweeping up the sea with a broom. Whatis more, Venezuela's birth rate, as the visitor is told with a mixture of national pride and dismay, is one of the highest in the world, The net increase each year is put at something over 3.5 percent but it is believed tobe more nearly four percent. The small American technical assistance program, about $1,500,000 annually, includes proffered help on population control, Not even a start at a program has been made, however, and here again urbanism run riot has played havoc withsettledways, Up to half of the births each year are illegitimate andthe rate of induced abortions is believed to be phenomenally high, In the countryside a form of common-law marriage serves to hold families together. In the cities this has broken down and the family pattern is threatened by concubinage, wholesale prostitution and other even more squalid practices, The political opposition charges the government AME CHANGE WN AN. WESTERNS HAS REALLY BEEN REMARKABLE. Lg GONE IS The BLACK -HAT-V.SWHITE HAT CONCEPT OF GOOD AND EviL. AND AP THE HERO NT “3 dust aires! with doing far too little to provide remedies for this deterioration that goes along with the swiftly changing social structure. The principal Opposition leader is Rafael Caldera, adedicated and remarkable man who heads the Christian Democratic Party in Venezuela. In the last election his party got 22 percent of the vote as against 32 percent for the Action Democratic Party of PresidentRaul Leoni. Caldera declined to join the Leoni coalition government, and many observers believe he will be next President after the elections in 1967, ’ The government should be building at least 100,000 new housing units a year, Caldera says. This would be done through a combination of private enterprise and government subsidy. At least 40,000 units are needed for newly formed families and the balance —<2 Sas would reduce the deficiency in four or five years. In a population approaching 8,500,000, over half of whom are under 20 years old, there can never be enough. This isthe dilemma of the government seeking new sources of revenue for schools, sanitation, the creation of new farm lands through such enterprises as draining the Maracaibo Lake basin area with the aid of an Export-Import Bank loan. At the same time the government must hold in some kind of check the wild horses of the boom. Foreign capital has done exceedingly well in Venezuela and so has the government which can finance a broad social program, thanks to the great sea of oilthat underlies large areas of the country. A half-billion dollars in repatriated profits goes to the United States each year. Of this total nearly half goes to Standard Oil of New Jersey, which makes its Creole subsidiary -for both distribution and exploitation of petroleum --Standard's most profitable single operation, The United States Steel Corporation takes out $12,000,000 of iron ore a year on ocean-going ships from Puerto Ordaz on the Orinoco River, Bethlehem Steel is also in Venezuela. And Reynolds Aluminum will shortly begin an operation making use of the electrical output of the Guri dam on the Caroni River. In the first stage the dam willhave a capacity of 650,000 kilowatts, increasing to 1,750,000 with ty! U + demand, A new city is rising around the Guri project which enthusiastic developersin the government like to compare to the Tennessee Valley Authority, With the government getting 70 percent of the value of the oil, what with taxes and royalties, and a generous share of the revenue from the mountains of iron now being exploited, private enterpriseseemsto have SERIOUS ArLOWED TO KISS HIS HORSE ANYMORE». NATURALLY THis HAS DEVELOPED REPERWSSIONS IN THE HORSE WORKLD.in achieved a satisfactory relationship with a regime that considers itself bound to work a peaceful revolution in the condition of the long-submerged masses, After the tyranny of Gen, Juan Vicente Gomez and the shorter dictatorship of Marcos Perez! Jimenez, now being tried for stealing vast sums, this is a new and, from the present perspective, a hopeful country, (Copyright 1965) ~--Marquis Childs REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK IS URGED BY FORESTERS In the belief “that the coastal redwood forest of northern California is truly one of America's natural wonders," the American Forestry Association has urged prompt establishment of a national park in the north coast redwood region, The Directors of the Association, oldest national forest conservation organization in America, studied park proposals of the National Park Service, the state of California, the Save-the-Redwoods League and other interested organizations before reachin g any conclusions. In announcing their conclusions, the AFA board members said the state park area was recommended for national park status because: a) It contains the most outstanding communities of trees in the entire redwood region, such as those in Bull Creek Flat and Rockefeller Grover; b) This inland area has a much better climate for recreational purposes than other coastal state parks farther north; c) It presents a compact administrative unit; d) It is within easy access by major highways; e) It offers the traveling public a marvelous view of magnificent redwoods along the Avenue of the Giants and elsewhere; f) It provides recreationists with a substantial mileage of river frontage in-a region where water is an important adjunct to recreation; g) Its establishments asa national park causes little impairment to an economy . that already is in precarious balance. ---Conservation News LETTER TO THE EDITOR AN OUTSIDE VIEW To the Editor: I wrote a letter to you some time ago in which I said that the people up there should elect some middle aged women on the council and maybe the old folks on a pension would getabreak. Are you game enough to correct that word? I don't know of any Miracle women up there or any place else, When I was up there a week ago I went out on Railroad Ave, tosee my old home, What the free way is doing to that town is a shame. I don't think I would like to live up there now. Nevada City was a nice peaceful mining town. I went down on Commercial Street I hardly knew it, Oh yes about the Idaho Maryland Mine, I knew all , the Ghidotti family when they lived on Sacramento St. across from the brewery, And also Mr, McBoyle, I am going to try to be up there when they put that three day play at the old theatre. I hope no one takes offence at what I write to you. It is all true and I will stick to it. Another thing why not leave Loma Rica alone, They will try to change the name of Nevada City next. Jack Bassett 2039-23rd Ave,, Oakland A RECENT SURVEY AS SHOWN THAT 4 OuT OF 10 HORSES WILL NOT CROSS THE PASTURE TO A) SE A WESTERN Movie -ne a RETA Ao ee ee ot

July 22, 1965...Nevada County Nugget. Oe ce ee eae eae SE EER, FEE cr eee cS ame a slogan, and probably in part because it wasn't a very good oneanyway. In anycase, the Great Crusade overran it, and I never got hired’ by Madison Avenue, WASHINGTON CALLING ENORMOUS GROWTH AND SQUALOR IN CARACAS CARACAS, Venezuela,--This is a fantastic city for which the visitor is wholly unprepared, The freeways with their constant rush of traffic are like Los Angeles, the soaring white skyscrapers that seem to spring out of the ground overnight give a feeling, against a backdrop of cloud-wrapped mountains, of San Francisco. Yetitis.a Latin city with the heedless, pushing force that defies allthe rules, Above all, Caracas is a boom town with no sign of slackening in the furious pace that has seen a growth from 300,000 of 15 years agoto1,500,000 today. Socareless are the statistical measurements and so rapid the growth that the total today may be closer to 2,000,000. With it have come all the ills of galloping urbanism, a plague that whether it be in Tokyo or New York or Rome spreads beyond the seeming power of society to abate. It is accentuated here in a capital that not many decades ago was hardly more than a frontier town for the cattle and mining interests out of the colonial past that dominated the country. In the very shadow of luxury apartment houses are the ranchos -the shacks -of the squatters who pour in from the countryside to take over any area not fenced in. They live for the most part without electricity, running water or any kind of sanitation, The municipality makes an effort to improve their quarters, but with an estimated 400,000 persons existing in ranchos and the number increasing every day it is like sweeping up the sea with a broom. Whatis more, Venezuela's birth rate, as the visitor is told with a mixture of national pride and dismay, is one of the highest in the world, The net increase each year is put at something over 3.5 percent but it is believed tobe more nearly four percent. The small American technical assistance program, about $1,500,000 annually, includes proffered help on population control, Not even a start at a program has been made, however, and here again urbanism run riot has played havoc withsettledways, Up to half of the births each year are illegitimate andthe rate of induced abortions is believed to be phenomenally high, In the countryside a form of common-law marriage serves to hold families together. In the cities this has broken down and the family pattern is threatened by concubinage, wholesale prostitution and other even more squalid practices, The political opposition charges the government AME CHANGE WN AN. WESTERNS HAS REALLY BEEN REMARKABLE. Lg GONE IS The BLACK -HAT-V.SWHITE HAT CONCEPT OF GOOD AND EviL.. AND AP THE HERO NT “3 dust aires! with doing far too little to provide remedies for this deterioration that goes along with the swiftly changing social structure. The principal Opposition leader is Rafael Caldera, adedicated and remarkable man who heads the Christian Democratic Party in Venezuela. In the last election his party got 22 percent of the vote as against 32 percent for the Action Democratic Party of PresidentRaul Leoni. Caldera declined to join the Leoni coalition government, and many observers believe he will be next President after the elections in 1967, ’ The government should be building at least 100,000 new housing units a year, Caldera says. This would be done through a combination of private enterprise and government subsidy. At least 40,000 units are needed for newly formed families and the balance —<2 Sas would reduce the deficiency in four or five years. In a population approaching 8,500,000, over half of whom are under 20 years old, there can never be enough. This isthe dilemma of the government seeking new sources of revenue for schools, sanitation, the creation of new farm lands through such enterprises as draining the Maracaibo Lake basin area with the aid of an Export-Import Bank loan. At the same time the government must hold in some kind of check the wild horses of the boom. Foreign capital has done exceedingly well in Venezuela and so has the government which can finance a broad social program, thanks to the great sea of oilthat underlies large areas of the country. A half-billion dollars in repatriated profits goes to the United States each year. Of this total nearly half goes to Standard Oil of New Jersey, which makes its Creole subsidiary -for both distribution and exploitation of petroleum --Standard's most profitable single operation,

The United States Steel Corporation takes out $12,000,000 of iron ore a year on ocean-going ships from Puerto Ordaz on the Orinoco River, Bethlehem Steel is also in Venezuela. And Reynolds Aluminum will shortly begin an operation making use of the electrical output of the Guri dam on the Caroni River. In the first stage the dam willhave a capacity of 650,000 kilowatts, increasing to 1,750,000 with ty! U + demand, A new city is rising around the Guri project which enthusiastic developersin the government like to compare to the Tennessee Valley Authority, With the government getting 70 percent of the value of the oil, what with taxes and royalties, and a generous share of the revenue from the mountains of iron now being exploited, private enterpriseseemsto have SERIOUS ArLOWED TO KISS HIS HORSE ANYMORE». NATURALLY THis HAS DEVELOPED REPERWSSIONS IN THE HORSE WORKLD.in achieved a satisfactory relationship with a regime that considers itself bound to work a peaceful revolution in the condition of the long-submerged masses, After the tyranny of Gen, Juan Vicente Gomez and the shorter dictatorship of Marcos Perez! Jimenez, now being tried for stealing vast sums, this is a new and, from the present perspective, a hopeful country, (Copyright 1965) ~--Marquis Childs REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK IS URGED BY FORESTERS In the belief “that the coastal redwood forest of northern California is truly one of America's natural wonders," the American Forestry Association has urged prompt establishment of a national park in the north coast redwood region, The Directors of the Association, oldest national forest conservation organization in America, studied park proposals of the National Park Service, the state of California, the Save-the-Redwoods League and other interested organizations before reachin g any conclusions. In announcing their conclusions, the AFA board members said the state park area was recommended for national park status because: a) It contains the most outstanding communities of trees in the entire redwood region, such as those in Bull Creek Flat and Rockefeller Grover; b) This inland area has a much better climate for recreational purposes than other coastal state parks farther north; c) It presents a compact administrative unit; d) It is within easy access by major highways; e) It offers the traveling public a marvelous view of magnificent redwoods along the Avenue of the Giants and elsewhere; f) It provides recreationists with a substantial mileage of river frontage in-a region where water is an important adjunct to recreation; g) Its establishments asa national park causes little impairment to an economy . that already is in precarious balance. ---Conservation News LETTER TO THE EDITOR AN OUTSIDE VIEW To the Editor: I wrote a letter to you some time ago in which I said that the people up there should elect some middle aged women on the council and maybe the old folks on a pension would getabreak. Are you game enough to correct that word? I don't know of any Miracle women up there or any place else, When I was up there a week ago I went out on Railroad Ave, tosee my old home, What the free way is doing to that town is a shame. I don't think I would like to live up there now. Nevada City was a nice peaceful mining town. I went down on Commercial Street I hardly knew it, Oh yes about the Idaho Maryland Mine, I knew all , the Ghidotti family when they lived on Sacramento St. across from the brewery, And also Mr, McBoyle, I am going to try to be up there when they put that three day play at the old theatre. I hope no one takes offence at what I write to you. It is all true and I will stick to it. Another thing why not leave Loma Rica alone, They will try to change the name of Nevada City next. Jack Bassett 2039-23rd Ave,, Oakland A RECENT SURVEY AS SHOWN THAT 4 OuT OF 10 HORSES WILL NOT CROSS THE PASTURE TO A) SE A WESTERN Movie -ne a RETA Ao ee ee ot