July 25, 1963 (16 pages)

EDITORIALS THE FEARS OF MAN IN AN ECLIPSING WORLD It is indeed a strange world. Saturday, as it has for centuries before, the eclipse of the suncaused riots in parts of the world---poorly educated people who had fear because of the unknown. Educated people in the world viewed the eclipse as the natural phenomenon that it was, they had no fear. But these same educated people do have fear of a phenomenon that is not natural. : They fear an eclipse of mankind, 4 fear based on the possibility of a thermonuclear war---educated people who have fear because of the known. NEED MORE PRIVATE MULTIPLE USE PLANS Multiple use of U.S. Forest Service land has for years been an established policy. Large private timber owners have been growing their land on the sustained yield basis which is a part of the multiple use theory. Now we note that International Paper is managing its 500, 000 .acres in the west ona multiple use basis---timber production, water and wildlife development and conservation, and recreation. It would be to the county's benefit if more local small woodlands owners were to find it possible to place their land under management for multiple use: to provide a sustained yield for our local timber industry, to preserve and enhance wildlife, and to provide either public or private recreation. SIERRA BYWAYS NOW HERE’S A CELEBRATION ENTHUSIASM...We're sure there are local residents who are as enthusiastic about our foothills as the older couple from Mt. Pleasant, lowa, were about their hometown celebration due early in September. The couple (& \ was in town last week and just about convinced several area residents they should begin packing to attend the 14th Annual Midwest Old Settlers and Threshers Association, Inc., celebration in the Home of Hospitality, Mt. Pleasant, lowa...It's quite a celebration: drama, music, “and other Authentic Chautauqua Attractions" on a ,—S—EL two of the evenings: Delicious Old Threshers Meals & ® ea ae ' Fra A Served, in Tents, By Seven Churches; a steam MerryGo-Round; an 1891 narrow gauge train hauling passengers over a one mile track; an old style medicine wagon; over 100 large and small steam engines in operation; over 100 antique autos on display; and an exhibition of Indian relics, fire arms, dishes, glassware and spinning wheels ..-Oh, let's not forget the Sac and Fox Indians from -3988nN oUL’* “E96T ‘Sz Ain{***9 Bed g a8eg** CRAYON CORNER "The Beehive" by Scott Barrow Mrs. Obenland's First Grade Bell Hill School the Tama Reservation...All this, and a horse shoe tournament, t00.. .The town, Mt, Pleasant, lowa, boasts two modern hotels, three modern motels, tourist cabins and private homes .{not.so modern?).to take care of the celebration's guests. ART JUDGE...The Placer County Fair Art Show, running now with the fair through Sunday, was judged this year by Nevada City artist Robert Gilberg. Publicity for the fair handed bouquets to Gilberg well worth passing on: “Gilberg, who has had a one-man show as early as 1941, whenhe was invited for two years to the Paul Elder Gallery in San Francisco, has been listed in.the "Who's Who In American Art' since 1956. During a three-year term of service in the armed forces he won a first award in an Army show at the.San Diego museum and honors have consistently fallen his way ever since. In 1957 he wasnamed as a purchase award winner at the California State Fair...Gilberg's growing prominence as an art judge in California is reflected in a busy schedule of lectures and assignments such as one held for two years when he was instructor at Lake Tahoe for a Sacramento State College summer session. " SHORT SHOTS... Our friendly rivals in GV have their new press, and one day soon will join the ranks of offsetublications, It looks like we started a trend in the friendly foothills, First. the Nugget, follow ed by the Placer Herald, Auburn Journal, and finally the Union Offset printing, like the Nugget, is here to stay... Next? Which will follow the Nugget tabloid format. The Placer Herald has already joined the ranks, It's fun being a leader...A group of NUHS 4H members trekked to Condon Memorial Park recently to work on m\\\, newly planted seedling trees in the Woodbridge Metcalf Fir Tree Arboretum. Includedwere Tom Rackerby, Terry and Kitty Meekins, Ronnie and Doug Mickey, Johnnie Johnson, Willie Rickard, Shirley Personini. With them were Mrs. Norma Coziah and daughter Suzan and Mr, Bab Mickey. _ 2+-Dean Thompson CALIFORNIA THE RECREATION EXPLOSION ve THE FUSE IS SHORT Here are some more questions we could ask ourselves about recreational planning in California: Is it enough when we do our recreation planning to project present "desires" and label them long-term “needs”? Just because people with mobile homes want space in a given camp ground and more will want space next year; just because the motor boats claim access to every lake, the jeeps to. every corner of the forest, must we call these desires of a few the needs of the many? If a small somewhat remote lake is open to trailers and jeeps and totegotes and hikers and water skiers and bird watchers and helicopters and swimmers, do we end up with multiple use or multiple abuse? Do our public agencies have the guts to make qualitative decisions regarding recreational development based onthe capability of the land, as well as quantitative decisions? How many of our own public officials have failed to establish needed recreation programs and policies giving as an. excuse “My agency doesn't have the sole author ~ itytodothis. We'd have to work with this other agency, and you know how hard it is to get them to do anything"? Who is doing the original thinking that seems to be called for if we are to find ways to handle the recreation explosion? How much do we really know, for example,. about the possibilities of developing concentrated, heavily used, mass recreation areas? Along the same line, has anybody in California experimented with the idea of keeping cars completely out of narrow, heavily used recreation basins and bringing the people in by buses or other public conveyances? If we ask ourselves such questions as these--and I'm sure you can think of better ones--and come up with a few answers, that would seemto me the basis for working out those additional programs which we must have to meet the growing demands for recreation. But “if” is a big word. If we find the answers, it will mean we have taken the trouble to ask the questions. Frankly, I doubt whether enough of our professional land managers, particularly those in the public service, want to be bothered. Good things are being done, of course.

EDITORIALS THE FEARS OF MAN IN AN ECLIPSING WORLD It is indeed a strange world. Saturday, as it has for centuries before, the eclipse of the suncaused riots in parts of the world---poorly educated people who had fear because of the unknown. Educated people in the world viewed the eclipse as the natural phenomenon that it was, they had no fear. But these same educated people do have fear of a phenomenon that is not natural. : They fear an eclipse of mankind, 4 fear based on the possibility of a thermonuclear war---educated people who have fear because of the known. NEED MORE PRIVATE MULTIPLE USE PLANS Multiple use of U.S. Forest Service land has for years been an established policy. Large private timber owners have been growing their land on the sustained yield basis which is a part of the multiple use theory. Now we note that International Paper is managing its 500, 000 .acres in the west ona multiple use basis---timber production, water and wildlife development and conservation, and recreation. It would be to the county's benefit if more local small woodlands owners were to find it possible to place their land under management for multiple use: to provide a sustained yield for our local timber industry, to preserve and enhance wildlife, and to provide either public or private recreation. SIERRA BYWAYS NOW HERE’S A CELEBRATION ENTHUSIASM.....We're sure there are local residents who are as enthusiastic about our foothills as the older couple from Mt. Pleasant, lowa, were about their hometown celebration due early in September. The couple (& \ was in town last week and just about convinced several area residents they should begin packing to attend the 14th Annual Midwest Old Settlers and Threshers Association, Inc., celebration in the Home of Hospitality, Mt. Pleasant, lowa.....It's quite a celebration: drama, music, “and other Authentic Chautauqua Attractions" on a ,—S—EL two of the evenings: Delicious Old Threshers Meals & ® ea ae ' Fra A Served, in Tents, By Seven Churches; a steam MerryGo-Round; an 1891 narrow gauge train hauling passengers over a one mile track; an old style medicine wagon; over 100 large and small steam engines in operation; over 100 antique autos on display; and an exhibition of Indian relics, fire arms, dishes, glassware and spinning wheels ....-Oh, let's not forget the Sac and Fox Indians from -3988nN oUL’* “E96T ‘Sz Ain{***9 Bed g a8eg** CRAYON CORNER "The Beehive" by Scott Barrow Mrs. Obenland's First Grade Bell Hill School the Tama Reservation.....All this, and a horse shoe tournament, t00.... .The town, Mt, Pleasant, lowa, boasts two modern hotels, three modern motels, tourist cabins and private homes .{not.so modern?).to take care of the celebration's guests. ART JUDGE.....The Placer County Fair Art Show, running now with the fair through Sunday, was judged this

year by Nevada City artist Robert Gilberg. Publicity for the fair handed bouquets to Gilberg well worth passing on: “Gilberg, who has had a one-man show as early as 1941, whenhe was invited for two years to the Paul Elder Gallery in San Francisco, has been listed in.the "Who's Who In American Art' since 1956. During a three-year term of service in the armed forces he won a first award in an Army show at the.San Diego museum and honors have consistently fallen his way ever since. In 1957 he wasnamed as a purchase award winner at the California State Fair.....Gilberg's growing prominence as an art judge in California is reflected in a busy schedule of lectures and assignments such as one held for two years when he was instructor at Lake Tahoe for a Sacramento State College summer session. " SHORT SHOTS..... Our friendly rivals in GV have their new press, and one day soon will join the ranks of offsetublications, It looks like we started a trend in the friendly foothills, First. the Nugget, follow ed by the Placer Herald, Auburn Journal, and finally the Union Offset printing, like the Nugget, is here to stay..... Next? Which will follow the Nugget tabloid format. The Placer Herald has already joined the ranks, It's fun being a leader.....A group of NUHS 4H members trekked to Condon Memorial Park recently to work on m\\\, newly planted seedling trees in the Woodbridge Metcalf Fir Tree Arboretum. Includedwere Tom Rackerby, Terry and Kitty Meekins, Ronnie and Doug Mickey, Johnnie Johnson, Willie Rickard, Shirley Personini. With them were Mrs. Norma Coziah and daughter Suzan and Mr, Bab Mickey. _ 2+-Dean Thompson CALIFORNIA THE RECREATION EXPLOSION ve THE FUSE IS SHORT Here are some more questions we could ask ourselves about recreational planning in California: Is it enough when we do our recreation planning to project present "desires" and label them long-term “needs”? Just because people with mobile homes want space in a given camp ground and more will want space next year; just because the motor boats claim access to every lake, the jeeps to. every corner of the forest, must we call these desires of a few the needs of the many? If a small somewhat remote lake is open to trailers and jeeps and totegotes and hikers and water skiers and bird watchers and helicopters and swimmers, do we end up with multiple use or multiple abuse? Do our public agencies have the guts to make qualitative decisions regarding recreational development based onthe capability of the land, as well as quantitative decisions? How many of our own public officials have failed to establish needed recreation programs and policies giving as an. excuse “My agency doesn't have the sole author ~ itytodothis. We'd have to work with this other agency, and you know how hard it is to get them to do anything"? Who is doing the original thinking that seems to be called for if we are to find ways to handle the recreation explosion? How much do we really know, for example,. about the possibilities of developing concentrated, heavily used, mass recreation areas? Along the same line, has anybody in California experimented with the idea of keeping cars completely out of narrow, heavily used recreation basins and bringing the people in by buses or other public conveyances? If we ask ourselves such questions as these--and I'm sure you can think of better ones--and come up with a few answers, that would seemto me the basis for working out those additional programs which we must have to meet the growing demands for recreation. But “if” is a big word. If we find the answers, it will mean we have taken the trouble to ask the questions. Frankly, I doubt whether enough of our professional land managers, particularly those in the public service, want to be bothered. Good things are being done, of course.