July 29, 1965 (24 pages)

Pd deiasrT tes dA deiae <P NR Re er AIO SPAN te mat cts EDITORIAL es iA eaeraesl iAde July 29, 1965 NEVADA CITY NEEDS AN OVERALL PUBLIC WORKS PLANNING PROGRAM We wonder how much longer the people of Nevada City will be able to out of the study, without an overall capital improvement program. The time has come for the city to stop solving its problems on a stop projects in the =*+. IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN The council, which has been trying desperately to work out a balanced GOLDEN DAYS MAY BE A TEST OF THE FUTURE financial situation, recently struck a $1,750 item for a parking study from the budget. Last week a handful of businessmen appeared before the city council, accused the councilmen of not being interested in the businessmen and threatened that unless something was done about the parking situation, some of the businesses would be leaving town. The city council, on the advice of one businessman who suggested that In an atmosphere of apparently wild confusion, tension, fatigue and an overwhelming drive to get it done andget it done right, the Liberal Arts Commission's centennial production "Golden Days" this week went into final rehersals. We dropped in on one of the almost endless rehersals the other night. We were surprised to find that we were not the only ones, Although there is a sign on the front door warning that rehersals are in progress and asking "No Visitors Please," it is impossible to $120,000 in public works projects. Many of these have been promised With all of the sophisticated techniques available in federal government has ever made a detailed study of If so, that would put a major new determine freeway routes and public utility instal lations.. Speaking of utilities, I amnot an admirer of the city of Woodside for increasing local taxes 300 percent to raise $150,000 tohelpthe Atomic Energy Commission put a proposed high voltage line in that city under ground, Woodside may be rich and quite capable of enduring such a tax raise, but in achieving its own ends, it may be setting an impossible example for other communities which want to protect their skylines, Once again, the question of who which are now being pulled together into final form. The reason the visitors come and go and the reasons they can't.be kept away from rehersals, even though most of them hold tickets for the performance, is an interesting one. As we see it, this centennial pro duction, with the prospects it holds out for theater here again.ona regular basis, has captured the in the future. homeowners, will be able to support any parking proposal that will come Besides being almost unworkable, the bill would have forced communities to impose major new property can be derived. mission is to have a permanent theater here, it is going to need the support of the citizens in both,towns and it will need it all year long. From what we have seen, all indications point to a roaring success this weekend, and for a continually growing swell of enthusiasm for the small theater here people, boththe businessmen and the This attitude makes sense, but the bill had other and worse faults than those mentioned by the Governor, factor into the cost-benefit formulas now used to All of this is good because if the Liberal Arts Com is the only way to get the job done properly. But we. seriously wonder how the any district-state agreement. The Governor rejected the bill because he did not feel the legislature should get involved in freeway routing details. cents, Economists will tell you that the value of a park or an open field or even a view to a community production, but they also seem to be fascinated with feasibility study by a qualified expert Gov. Brown vetoed a bill by Sen. Rees that would have allowedcommunitiestoform "freeway improvement districts" to pay for installing freeway locations more expensivethan those proposed by the state. The bill in its final form called for legislative approval of how community values can be expressed in dollars and the behind-the-scenes activity that is going on right in their own town, study. Parkingis badly needed and a or in the wrong place.. our computerized society, neither the state nor the imagination ofthe town. People want to see the final for some time and some of them have beenrequired by the state. There are many homeowners who are wondering how and when these jobs are going to be done. We are not disputing the need for more parking nor the need fora parking funds, But lacking as it does a really cohesive transportation plan, the city is better off without the money to pay for a freeway that is either unneeded or unwanted pioneers or the finale and the endless variety of acts wall, orsquat along the sides and watch the parade of could be reimbursed by the state. The councilmen the same evening were told by a local businessman that they did not understand the viewpoint of the businessmen because they were Left unanswered in the current budget is a solution for financing some close to $100 million in federal highw ay So they come and'go, They lean against the back keep the people out. work other than that for which the city = lose taxes to pay the state to show some respect for community values, Community values are state assets too, and the state should have the full obligation to protect them.. he got ahead by taking chances and spending money he did not have, put the parking study item back in the budget with the hopes that it could be financed by cutting out all engineering "only homeowners." may gap basis. It is now timé to plan an overall capital improvement program to take care of required public works Support the piecemeal operation of the city government budget in the face of a very tight ground turnout. : Due to lack of city-state agreement, San Francisco ---Don Hoagland CALIFORNIA Put the question another way: why shoulda community have to pay notto be raped by the state or federal government? ---Alfred Heller WASHINGTON CALLING THE LIVING POWER OF KENNEDY AND STEVENSON BOGOTA, Colombia, -On the outskirts of this capital of nearly 2,000, 000 people is Ciudad Kennedy (Kennedy City), a housing development of some 12,000 units, half of which was financed by the United States, President Kennedy laid the first bricks for the project when he was here nearly four years ago and on the day of his assassination the decision was taken to name the project for him. That was only one manifestation of what has become worldwide, but conspicuously in Latin America, the COMMUNITY VALUES MUST BE CONSIDERED Disconnected thoughts on a hot summer day..The most unlikely prospect in the world is that the state highway commission will welcome the plan of the San Francisco supervisors to is responsible for pro tecting “community values” comes to the forefront, construct a freeway tunnel northward from the bay bridge to the Golden Gate, The idea of tunneling traffic arteries in urban areas is going to be promoted in more arid more places, but I doubt that the state is willing yet to set a major precedent for this kind of construction. The state's tendency right now is to pooh-pooh the very idea and ask indignant questions, like “What if somebody gets a flat tire in your four mile long tunnel?" The answer eavld he fairly obvious--build an occasional under Kennedy cult, Colombians say that the outpouring of gtiefhere, with crowds weeping in the streets and radio and television stations playing nothing but dirges and requiems, exceeded anything in the United States. As one tribute, so many Citizens paid for masses for the _ Tepose of the soul of the late President that these memorial masses willbe said at least through the year 2000. The reasons for the Kennedy cult are not hard to find -his youth, his charm, his style, championshipof the Alliance For Progress, his ardent Partly, of course, it is a useful gambit for the leftists who want to discredit the Johnson Administration and the intervention in the Dominican Republic as contrasted to the Kennedy Administration, Needless to say, such an emotional cult -pictures of Kennedy are on sale in most shops -ignores the realities of power that would have confronted a Kennedy Administration in Santo Domingo as they confronted the Johnson Admini S96T ‘6% Atnf***3088ny Aqunop epeaen’** 5 pne, tere RIENG — NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET

Pd deiasrT tes dA deiae <P NR Re er AIO SPAN te mat cts EDITORIAL es iA eaeraesl iAde July 29, 1965 NEVADA CITY NEEDS AN OVERALL PUBLIC WORKS PLANNING PROGRAM We wonder how much longer the people of Nevada City will be able to out of the study, without an overall capital improvement program. The time has come for the city to stop solving its problems on a stop projects in the =*+. IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN The council, which has been trying desperately to work out a balanced GOLDEN DAYS MAY BE A TEST OF THE FUTURE financial situation, recently struck a $1,750 item for a parking study from the budget. Last week a handful of businessmen appeared before the city council, accused the councilmen of not being interested in the businessmen and threatened that unless something was done about the parking situation, some of the businesses would be leaving town. The city council, on the advice of one businessman who suggested that In an atmosphere of apparently wild confusion, tension, fatigue and an overwhelming drive to get it done andget it done right, the Liberal Arts Commission's centennial production "Golden Days" this week went into final rehersals. We dropped in on one of the almost endless rehersals the other night. We were surprised to find that we were not the only ones, Although there is a sign on the front door warning that rehersals are in progress and asking "No Visitors Please," it is impossible to $120,000 in public works projects. Many of these have been promised With all of the sophisticated techniques available in federal government has ever made a detailed study of If so, that would put a major new determine freeway routes and public utility instal lations... Speaking of utilities, I amnot an admirer of the city of Woodside for increasing local taxes 300 percent to raise $150,000 tohelpthe Atomic Energy Commission put a proposed high voltage line in that city under ground, Woodside may be rich and quite capable of enduring such a tax raise, but in achieving its own ends, it may be setting an impossible example for other communities which want to protect their skylines, Once again, the question of who which are now being pulled together into final form. The reason the visitors come and go and the reasons they can't.be kept away from rehersals, even though most of them hold tickets for the performance, is an interesting one. As we see it, this centennial pro duction, with the prospects it holds out for theater here again.ona regular basis, has captured the in the future. homeowners, will be able to support any parking proposal that will come Besides being almost unworkable, the bill would have forced communities to impose major new property can be derived. mission is to have a permanent theater here, it is going to need the support of the citizens in both,towns and it will need it all year long. From what we have seen, all indications point to a roaring success this weekend, and for a continually growing swell of enthusiasm for the small theater here people, boththe businessmen and the This attitude makes sense, but the bill had other and worse faults than those mentioned by the Governor, factor into the cost-benefit formulas now used to All of this is good because if the Liberal Arts Com is the only way to get the job done properly. But we. seriously wonder how the any district-state agreement. The Governor rejected the bill because he did not feel the legislature should get involved in freeway routing details. cents, Economists will tell you that the value of a park or an open field or even a view to a community production, but they also seem to be fascinated with feasibility study by a qualified expert Gov. Brown vetoed a bill by Sen. Rees that would have allowedcommunitiestoform "freeway improvement districts" to pay for installing freeway locations more expensivethan those proposed by the state. The bill in its final form called for legislative approval of how community values can be expressed in dollars and the behind-the-scenes activity that is going on right in their own town, study. Parkingis badly needed and a

or in the wrong place... our computerized society, neither the state nor the imagination ofthe town. People want to see the final for some time and some of them have beenrequired by the state. There are many homeowners who are wondering how and when these jobs are going to be done. We are not disputing the need for more parking nor the need fora parking funds, But lacking as it does a really cohesive transportation plan, the city is better off without the money to pay for a freeway that is either unneeded or unwanted pioneers or the finale and the endless variety of acts wall, orsquat along the sides and watch the parade of could be reimbursed by the state. The councilmen the same evening were told by a local businessman that they did not understand the viewpoint of the businessmen because they were Left unanswered in the current budget is a solution for financing some close to $100 million in federal highw ay So they come and'go, They lean against the back keep the people out. work other than that for which the city = lose taxes to pay the state to show some respect for community values, Community values are state assets too, and the state should have the full obligation to protect them... he got ahead by taking chances and spending money he did not have, put the parking study item back in the budget with the hopes that it could be financed by cutting out all engineering "only homeowners." may gap basis. It is now timé to plan an overall capital improvement program to take care of required public works Support the piecemeal operation of the city government budget in the face of a very tight ground turnout. : Due to lack of city-state agreement, San Francisco ---Don Hoagland CALIFORNIA Put the question another way: why shoulda community have to pay notto be raped by the state or federal government? ---Alfred Heller WASHINGTON CALLING THE LIVING POWER OF KENNEDY AND STEVENSON BOGOTA, Colombia, -On the outskirts of this capital of nearly 2,000, 000 people is Ciudad Kennedy (Kennedy City), a housing development of some 12,000 units, half of which was financed by the United States, President Kennedy laid the first bricks for the project when he was here nearly four years ago and on the day of his assassination the decision was taken to name the project for him. That was only one manifestation of what has become worldwide, but conspicuously in Latin America, the COMMUNITY VALUES MUST BE CONSIDERED Disconnected thoughts on a hot summer day...The most unlikely prospect in the world is that the state highway commission will welcome the plan of the San Francisco supervisors to is responsible for pro tecting “community values” comes to the forefront, construct a freeway tunnel northward from the bay bridge to the Golden Gate, The idea of tunneling traffic arteries in urban areas is going to be promoted in more arid more places, but I doubt that the state is willing yet to set a major precedent for this kind of construction. The state's tendency right now is to pooh-pooh the very idea and ask indignant questions, like “What if somebody gets a flat tire in your four mile long tunnel?" The answer eavld he fairly obvious--build an occasional under Kennedy cult, Colombians say that the outpouring of gtiefhere, with crowds weeping in the streets and radio and television stations playing nothing but dirges and requiems, exceeded anything in the United States. As one tribute, so many Citizens paid for masses for the _ Tepose of the soul of the late President that these memorial masses willbe said at least through the year 2000. The reasons for the Kennedy cult are not hard to find -his youth, his charm, his style, championshipof the Alliance For Progress, his ardent Partly, of course, it is a useful gambit for the leftists who want to discredit the Johnson Administration and the intervention in the Dominican Republic as contrasted to the Kennedy Administration, Needless to say, such an emotional cult -pictures of Kennedy are on sale in most shops -ignores the realities of power that would have confronted a Kennedy Administration in Santo Domingo as they confronted the Johnson Admini S96T ‘6% Atnf***3088ny Aqunop epeaen’** 5 pne, tere RIENG — NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET