July 27, 1966 (24 pages)

te Pe a yt hat yy hp ~~" ee ae tre Aen, ow a Eh ey ee ea ea te ae SO ee ee eee SO es) ae) Fa nt I am = ‘BS Nevada-County Nugget. .July 27, 1966 as a ye: ar Y’ EDITORIALS : THE WATER STUDY IS NEEDED We feel that the Nevada City Council acted wisely this week in ordering a feasibility study to determine if the city can develop enough water and the ability to store it.’ This idea has been kicked around for years, but nothing has been done about it. Now the city will find out once and for all if it can serve its own water. If the report is negative, then the city can move off in another direction.The study willalso serve as a stepping stone in the city's attempts to obtain federal funds for upgrading and extension of water transmission facilities within the city limits. Talk about this project has also been going on for some time, but according to City Manager Beryl Robinson, there is little hope of getting any further in negotiations with the Farmers “Home Administration without this preliminary engineering study. The Nevada Irrigation District will have to have a decision from both cities as to whether they are going to use water from the district's proposed master water treatment system before the district can start final design work and consider financing. While the NID can not be expected to wait forever for the cities to make up their minds, we feel it is wise for Nevada City to fully explore the extent of its own water resources before making a decision on the NID proposal. There will be no second chance once the city is committed to the master treatment system. THE IRONY OF LOCAL CONTROL It is ironic that in an area whose residents pride themselves on their ability to govern themselves and jealously guard their rights to local control, the state is continually forced to step in to make the residents act. In the past year we have had three such examples. First, the State Department of Public Health, after years of prodding, finally had to clamp down on the Nevada Irrigation District to force action on treatment of domestic water. Then, when the school board failed to act, irate citizens were forced to go to the state to get a decision to keep students out of the old Now, after years of talking and fruitless attempts at annexation, the state had to move in again to force Hills Flat residents to act to stop pollution of Wolf Creek. We do not like to see the state moving into the sphere of local government, but unless the local ¢itizens are willing to act to take care of their own problems, we do not see where the state will have much choice but to act when local government breaks down. TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Itis just come to my attention that a number of people are pleased over the prospect af a War on Poverty training school being located in this area. Increased payroll and the like. [believe that a goodhard look needs to be taken at the impact of 200 big city youths and 75 adults as a staff on the commu‘nities of Grass Valley and Nevada City. We need to bear in mind that a school produces no payroll that first does not come out of the pockets of the taxpayers. We need to bear in mind that a school is not taxed andthe assessed value brings no revenue to the county. And we need to bear in mind that the families of the staff would bring at least one child per household into our Public Schools in Nevada City, and the other public services required would increase the load on our County tax papers by an untold amount. The impact on the social life: of our community by suddenly adding 200 young school drop outs arid other unemployables would, I believe, be disastrous. Dowe have enough daughters to provide dates for them as well as our own sons? Or do we condone our daughters taking their chéice of the new crowd hanging around the local driveins? Will our sons be able to remain decent and law abiding, when faced with the competition and the challenging of this new group of outsiders? Our neighboring town of Redding is already having trouble, and the townspeople of New Bedford, Massachusetts are demanding that the Economic Opportunity school be removed from their area, Kalamazoo, Michigan, aswell as Marion and Chicago, Illinois have had recent serious troubles, Call our Sheriff if you are curious as to the type of trouble they would bring us, The government would The Old Catholic Church in Washington. lhave us believe that “none of ‘the youths would be of the community problem type”. The truth is that they are a community problem now, or they would not be gathered up and concentratedin a special training school for a year in an attempt to make them good and employable citizens. We need to remember, too, that there is no bus transportation on Hiway 20 in the Five Mile House area, and with the young men only signing out of camp in order to leave, the hitch hiking problem would he serious, and we can only hazard a guess as to the number of cars that will be stolen to get them back to camp inthe evening. One can only guess at the number of peace officers that might be needed tocontrol an outbreak of rioting such has occured near other schools of this type. Suffice to say, our officers would very quickly be faced with a IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN WONDERFUL WORLD OF PEOPLE We sometimes wonder of people ever really know what they want. People move to Nevada Count packed houses and bustle of Los y to get away from the jammed Angeles, They buy a big plot of ground so they will be able to get away from their neighbors and then scream to high heaven if anyone suggests that they might be restricted from covering their plot of ground with little jammed packed houses just like Los Angeles, People tell the consultants working on the county-wide general plan that they want the rural and historic atmosphere of the county to remain unchanged, They want things to stay the way that they are, yet many of these same people will cry about the lack of progress when attempts are made to prevent ugly signs and a strip business development from destroying the very things they say they they want to preserve, School officials will make grandiose statements about the dangers of having the government interfere in the field of local education and at the same time will Support organizations lobbying in Sacramento to get the state to throw more money into the local school systems, People will fight any and all efforts at land use control or zoning, but will scream to high heaven that they have been robbed of their rights and their property values and that government has broken down when they suddenly discover there is no zoning and someone is going to build a sawmill on the lot next door, We sometimes wonder, -«Don Hoagland type of youthful antics to which ,they are not at present accustomed, and we taxpayers would ‘have to foot the bill for additional officers in very short order. One last thought. Ifthis school be located up near White Cloud, would you, or any vacationer, feel safe in taking your family to Scotts Flat lake, Skilman Flat or White Cloud Campgrounds? Please write George Miller, Regional Field Supervisor, Office of Economic Opportunity, San Francisco, and to your Congressmen too, and I am doing. .I am telling that as long as we are paying the bills, we would like their schools located near the large cities where the police Already out number the “students”. Respectfully, Harry Stowe NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NUGGET PUBLISHING CO., INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. George R. Kane, PublisherDonald L. Hoagland, Editor and General Manager. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decree No. 12,406. Subscription rates: One year, $3; Two years, $5. kKkkk&kkkkrk AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER

te Pe a yt hat yy hp ~~" ee ae tre Aen, ow a Eh ey ee ea ea te ae SO ee ee eee SO es) ae) Fa nt I am = ‘BS Nevada-County Nugget.. .July 27, 1966 as a ye: ar Y’ EDITORIALS : THE WATER STUDY IS NEEDED We feel that the Nevada City Council acted wisely this week in ordering a feasibility study to determine if the city can develop enough water and the ability to store it.’ This idea has been kicked around for years, but nothing has been done about it. Now the city will find out once and for all if it can serve its own water. If the report is negative, then the city can move off in another direction.The study willalso serve as a stepping stone in the city's attempts to obtain federal funds for upgrading and extension of water transmission facilities within the city limits. Talk about this project has also been going on for some time, but according to City Manager Beryl Robinson, there is little hope of getting any further in negotiations with the Farmers “Home Administration without this preliminary engineering study. The Nevada Irrigation District will have to have a decision from both cities as to whether they are going to use water from the district's proposed master water treatment system before the district can start final design work and consider financing. While the NID can not be expected to wait forever for the cities to make up their minds, we feel it is wise for Nevada City to fully explore the extent of its own water resources before making a decision on the NID proposal. There will be no second chance once the city is committed to the master treatment system. THE IRONY OF LOCAL CONTROL It is ironic that in an area whose residents pride themselves on their ability to govern themselves and jealously guard their rights to local control, the state is continually forced to step in to make the residents act. In the past year we have had three such examples. First, the State Department of Public Health, after years of prodding, finally had to clamp down on the Nevada Irrigation District to force action on treatment of domestic water. Then, when the school board failed to act, irate citizens were forced to go to the state to get a decision to keep students out of the old Now, after years of talking and fruitless attempts at annexation, the state had to move in again to force Hills Flat residents to act to stop pollution of Wolf Creek. We do not like to see the state moving into the sphere of local government, but unless the local ¢itizens are willing to act to take care of their own problems, we do not see where the state will have much choice but to act when local government breaks down. TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Itis just come to my attention that a number of people are pleased over the prospect af a War on Poverty training school being located in this area. Increased payroll and the like. [believe that a goodhard look needs to be taken at the impact of 200 big city youths and 75 adults as a staff on the commu‘nities of Grass Valley and Nevada City. We need to bear in mind that a school produces no payroll that first does not come out of the pockets of the taxpayers. We need to bear in mind that a school is not taxed andthe assessed value brings no revenue to the county. And we need to bear in mind that the families of the staff would bring at least one child per household into our Public Schools in Nevada City, and the other public services required would increase the load on our County tax papers by an untold amount. The impact on the social life: of our community by suddenly adding 200 young school drop outs arid other unemployables would, I believe, be disastrous. Dowe have enough daughters to provide dates for them as well as our own sons? Or do we condone our daughters taking their chéice of the new crowd hanging around the local driveins? Will our sons be able to remain decent and law abiding, when faced with the competition and the challenging of this new group of outsiders? Our neighboring town of Redding is already having trouble, and the townspeople of New

Bedford, Massachusetts are demanding that the Economic Opportunity school be removed from their area, Kalamazoo, Michigan, aswell as Marion and Chicago, Illinois have had recent serious troubles, Call our Sheriff if you are curious as to the type of trouble they would bring us, The government would The Old Catholic Church in Washington. lhave us believe that “none of ‘the youths would be of the community problem type”. The truth is that they are a community problem now, or they would not be gathered up and concentratedin a special training school for a year in an attempt to make them good and employable citizens. We need to remember, too, that there is no bus transportation on Hiway 20 in the Five Mile House area, and with the young men only signing out of camp in order to leave, the hitch hiking problem would he serious, and we can only hazard a guess as to the number of cars that will be stolen to get them back to camp inthe evening. One can only guess at the number of peace officers that might be needed tocontrol an outbreak of rioting such has occured near other schools of this type. Suffice to say, our officers would very quickly be faced with a IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN WONDERFUL WORLD OF PEOPLE We sometimes wonder of people ever really know what they want. People move to Nevada Count packed houses and bustle of Los y to get away from the jammed Angeles, They buy a big plot of ground so they will be able to get away from their neighbors and then scream to high heaven if anyone suggests that they might be restricted from covering their plot of ground with little jammed packed houses just like Los Angeles, People tell the consultants working on the county-wide general plan that they want the rural and historic atmosphere of the county to remain unchanged, They want things to stay the way that they are, yet many of these same people will cry about the lack of progress when attempts are made to prevent ugly signs and a strip business development from destroying the very things they say they they want to preserve, School officials will make grandiose statements about the dangers of having the government interfere in the field of local education and at the same time will Support organizations lobbying in Sacramento to get the state to throw more money into the local school systems, People will fight any and all efforts at land use control or zoning, but will scream to high heaven that they have been robbed of their rights and their property values and that government has broken down when they suddenly discover there is no zoning and someone is going to build a sawmill on the lot next door, We sometimes wonder, -«Don Hoagland type of youthful antics to which ,they are not at present accustomed, and we taxpayers would ‘have to foot the bill for additional officers in very short order. One last thought. Ifthis school be located up near White Cloud, would you, or any vacationer, feel safe in taking your family to Scotts Flat lake, Skilman Flat or White Cloud Campgrounds? Please write George Miller, Regional Field Supervisor, Office of Economic Opportunity, San Francisco, and to your Congressmen too, and I am doing. .I am telling that as long as we are paying the bills, we would like their schools located near the large cities where the police Already out number the “students”. Respectfully, Harry Stowe NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NUGGET PUBLISHING CO., INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. George R. Kane, PublisherDonald L. Hoagland, Editor and General Manager. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decree No. 12,406. Subscription rates: One year, $3; Two years, $5. kKkkk&kkkkrk AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER