July 30, 1964 (24 pages)

11 vadsAdeBacrracsteiidemaer Tacs ndAteiaer aes ndsits July 30, 1964,.Nevada County Nugget. . _ the state are inclined SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD Baervcest wadeA tetas Sesl ade eeerr sade WASHINGTON CALLING WALLACE’S WITHDRAWAL GIVES BARRY A BIG EDGE WASHINGTON--Alabama's Gov. George C. Wallace has handed Sen. Barry Goldwater a large, juicy plum. By withdrawing asa Presidential candidate he gives Goldwater an excellent chance to carry five or more Southern states. What happened after the adoption in San Francisco of the Republican platform, with its muted civil rights plank, to make Wallace change his stand is a fascinating puzzle, He had been telling Southern audiences with an almost-Messianic conviction that he was in the race to stay. Hisname would be entered on the ballot “16 states. The conjecture here is that Alabama Republicans used all their persuasive powers on the long-distance phone between San Francisco and Montgomery to get the Governor to step out.»The principal agent, it is believed here, wasJamesD, Martin of Gadsden, a member of the Alabama delegation and perhaps the ablest spokesman for the G.O.P. in the state. . Martin denies thathe tried to influence Wallace in his decision. But he says he was in contact with him about “a development” at the convention. While he will not say what this dev elopment was it is believed to have concerned the civil rights plank. Once the word “enforce” had been taken out at the insistence of Sen. John Tower of Texas and others, Wallace could accept it as having --to use his word -“conservatized” the Republican party. Martin predicts that as of the present reading Goldwater will carry all the South except Georgia and Texas. He adds that if the current trend continues those two states will also end up in the Goldwater column. Andhis prediction cannot be dismissed as mere wishful thinking, since he has demonstrated his own political capacities. Two years ago he came within 6,000 votes of defeating the veteran Democrat, Sen. Lister Hill, out of 415,000 votes cast. Up until the photo finish it was not sure whether Hill would pull through. There is, incidentally, a lesson in the Alabama cam~ paign that applies on the national level in 1964. Martin, with skillful organizing efforts, got out all the anti-vote -anti-civilrights, anti-Kennedy, anti-Federal government. Too many of the regular Democrats who were either indifferent or reluctant did not vote. This year Martin is running for a Congressional seat, one of eight Republicans running at large, since Alabama has not been redistricted. He believes that four, including himself, will win, and Democrats who know to agree. The defeat of Carl Elliott, considered less than an all-out racist, in the primary was an ominous portent. What Wallace got in returm for pulling out is part of the puzzle. With good reason he claims to have exerted sufficient pressure on the Republicans to make their platform conform in large measure to his views on the civil rights issue. As the polls indicated he would have taken more strength from President Johnson than from Goldwater. Now as a kind of kingmaker he will try to play each of the major parties against each other while getting the utmost benefit for himself. Althoughhe is not a delegate he is expected to attend the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City next month, It takes no vivid imagination to foresee what he can dothere, As boss of the Alabama delegation he will direct a walkout on the civil rights issue. You can hear him now masterminding for the benefit \of ANY WAY -REAL LOOK, KNIGHT! ISN'T THER L CAN ag MA FO DRAGON TO } IB » YOU ga — : ODD BODKINS . _—— in at teast™ the nationwide television audience this piece of drama in what is destined to be otherwise a pretty routine. gathering. “f Next, if reports out of Alabama are correct, he will succeed inhaving Alabama's constitution. altered so that he willbe able to run for the Senate in 1966 against another veteran Democrat, Sen. J ohn Sparkman. The little giant's goal is a national forum on the floor of the Senate to push his unbounded ambition. The South, plus a Northem white backlash; in short, a more or less openly racist campaign -this is the look today of the Goldwater strategy. It comes with the dire coincidence of the riots in Harlem, which are made to order for this strategy. As one of the fiercest Goldwater delegates in San Francisco said: "We're going to have riots if we have to hire pickets to create them, And you know who'll get the benefit of those riots. " It is a somber prospect. (Copyright 1964) ---Marquis Childs CRITERIA FOR STATE GRANTS UNDER PROPOSITION NO. 1 Criteria for state grants to counties and regional park districts under the $150 million State Beaches and Parks Bond Act -Proposition 1 on the November ballot -are being developed. They could lead to a network of large local parks -most of them new -supplementing theState Park System. Mrs. Rudd Brown, chief of the State Division of Recreation, said today that passage of Proposition 1 would pro-vide $40 million for county and regional parks and that local interest in qualifying for the grants is high was demonstrated at recent hearings of the State Recreation Commission in San Francisco and Santa Monica. The hearings were held to obtain reaction to proposed criteria now re~ vised by Mrs. Brown's staff and the Recreation Commission. . Under terms of the Bond Act, each county is entitled to_a minimum of $75,000 for acquiring or developing local parks of at least 50 acres, or for adding land to existing parks to bring their size up to 50 acres. Grants are based on 1980 population projections at $1.25 per person. An additional 25 cents per person is available to those counties submitting adequate plans for longrange land use, including a recreational element. Mrs. Brown said that the addition of large county or regional parks throughout California will meet an urgent reed for outdoor recreational facilities close to population centers and will fill present gaps between strictly local or neighborhood parks and the State Park System. "Thus, the $150 million State Beaches and Parks Bond Act", she said, “will acco mp lish two things for the benefit of present and future California residents: it will greatly expand the now -overcrowded State Park System, H. ‘are disappearing fast”, said. Mrs. LETTER 10 THE EDITOR and it will enable the counties to do more about providing enough open space and recreational opportunities” close to home. “Acting now to acquire lands is just good common sense, both for the State and the counties. Suitable sites Brown. The two commission hearings, she said, brought out valuable suggestions which are under consideration in preparing the revised criteria by which applications for park grants will be evaluated. In the past, cities have concentrated on providing neighborhood parks and playgrounds, Mrs. Brown pointed out. “Now, however, there are two big needs which must be met. One is for more open space and recreational facilities within easy driving distance of metropolitan areas so that, as our population continues to spread out, these natural values can be preserved while the land is still available. “The other is for further development of large parks already within a city but which can and do serve the en tire region -such as Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Balboa Park in San Diego, Land Park in Sacramento or Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. e The state recreation chief said that county and regional parks not only provide an important outlet for recrea~tional needs, but also preserve and enhance property values, making the entire area a better place in which to live. Mrs. Dewey Forry, chairman of the Recreation Commission, explained that the prime purpose behind the —Jeeal grants phase of the Beaches and Parks Bond Act is to encourage and stimulate countywide land use planning. To qualify for a grant, a county must submit such a plan, approved by its board of supervisors. County spokesmen at the two commission hearings said that only a handful yet have land use plans adequate to qualify. Representatives of the State Planning Office pointed out that unless the counties do act promptly to meet this need, helter skelter urban and commercial development will create a tangle of other problems in addition to the lack of sufficient outdoor recreation areas close to population centers. ---Resources Agency, California Department of Parks and Recreatiom ARTICLES CALLED RUSSIAN RULE To The Editor: Well might have known. The subject isn't health or taxes, it's just plain trailers. You just don't want them. Now the subject seems to be “eyesores”. Well if it would do any good, I'd borrow a camera and take about 100 pictures of “eyesores” and they wouldn't be of trailers either. I'd start with the Nevada City dump. You say it is a necessity? Sure, but it’s still an eyesore. The only “industry” Nevada County has is tourists. Do you think they are all coming in Cadillacs? Better stop and think before you all get too up in the air about shut~ting out trailers. Did you ever stop to think about where an overnighter (trailer) could park--court or otherwise— to spend a few of his hard earned dollars you all have your paws out for? 1 didn't know it either, until 1 met the party last winter and they had spent 3 hours hunting for a place and gave up and went home. ; Let ‘shave a little less Russian Rule. These are all my opinions and I have a right to them. Mrs, Gertrude Atha Grass Valley NOT ONLY ARE YOU A BIG LIZARD , YOU'RE A. SHOW-OFF I! Ze (A Cty a / Air Ce ) Sie t

11 vadsAdeBacrracsteiidemaer Tacs ndAteiaer aes ndsits July 30, 1964,.Nevada County Nugget. . _ the state are inclined SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD Baervcest wadeA tetas Sesl ade eeerr sade WASHINGTON CALLING WALLACE’S WITHDRAWAL GIVES BARRY A BIG EDGE WASHINGTON--Alabama's Gov. George C. Wallace has handed Sen. Barry Goldwater a large, juicy plum. By withdrawing asa Presidential candidate he gives Goldwater an excellent chance to carry five or more Southern states. What happened after the adoption in San Francisco of the Republican platform, with its muted civil rights plank, to make Wallace change his stand is a fascinating puzzle, He had been telling Southern audiences with an almost-Messianic conviction that he was in the race to stay. Hisname would be entered on the ballot “16 states. The conjecture here is that Alabama Republicans used all their persuasive powers on the long-distance phone between San Francisco and Montgomery to get the Governor to step out.»The principal agent, it is believed here, wasJamesD, Martin of Gadsden, a member of the Alabama delegation and perhaps the ablest spokesman for the G.O.P. in the state. . Martin denies thathe tried to influence Wallace in his decision. But he says he was in contact with him about “a development” at the convention. While he will not say what this dev elopment was it is believed to have concerned the civil rights plank. Once the word “enforce” had been taken out at the insistence of Sen. John Tower of Texas and others, Wallace could accept it as having --to use his word -“conservatized” the Republican party. Martin predicts that as of the present reading Goldwater will carry all the South except Georgia and Texas. He adds that if the current trend continues those two states will also end up in the Goldwater column. Andhis prediction cannot be dismissed as mere wishful thinking, since he has demonstrated his own political capacities. Two years ago he came within 6,000 votes of defeating the veteran Democrat, Sen. Lister Hill, out of 415,000 votes cast. Up until the photo finish it was not sure whether Hill would pull through. There is, incidentally, a lesson in the Alabama cam~ paign that applies on the national level in 1964. Martin, with skillful organizing efforts, got out all the anti-vote -anti-civilrights, anti-Kennedy, anti-Federal government. Too many of the regular Democrats who were either indifferent or reluctant did not vote. This year Martin is running for a Congressional seat, one of eight Republicans running at large, since Alabama has not been redistricted. He believes that four, including himself, will win, and Democrats who know to agree. The defeat of Carl Elliott, considered less than an all-out racist, in the primary was an ominous portent. What Wallace got in returm for pulling out is part of the puzzle. With good reason he claims to have exerted sufficient pressure on the Republicans to make their platform conform in large measure to his views on the civil rights issue. As the polls indicated he would have taken more strength from President Johnson than from Goldwater. Now as a kind of kingmaker he will try to play each of the major parties against each other while getting the utmost benefit for himself. Althoughhe is not a delegate he is expected to attend the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City next month, It takes no vivid imagination to foresee what he can dothere, As boss of the Alabama delegation he will direct a walkout on the civil rights issue. You can hear him now masterminding for the benefit \of ANY WAY -REAL LOOK, KNIGHT! ISN'T THER L CAN ag MA FO DRAGON TO } IB » YOU ga — : ODD BODKINS .. _—— in at teast™ the nationwide television audience this piece of drama in what is destined to be otherwise a pretty routine. gathering. “f Next, if reports out of Alabama are correct, he will succeed inhaving Alabama's constitution. altered so that he willbe able to run for the Senate in 1966 against another veteran Democrat, Sen. J ohn Sparkman. The little giant's goal is a national forum on the floor of the Senate to push his unbounded ambition. The South, plus a Northem white backlash; in short, a more or less openly racist campaign -this is the look today of the Goldwater strategy. It comes with the dire coincidence of the riots in Harlem, which are made to order for this strategy. As one of the fiercest Goldwater delegates in San Francisco said: "We're going to have riots if we have to hire pickets to create them, And you know who'll get the benefit of those riots. " It is a somber prospect. (Copyright 1964) ---Marquis Childs CRITERIA FOR STATE GRANTS UNDER PROPOSITION NO. 1 Criteria for state grants to counties and regional park districts under the $150 million State Beaches and Parks

Bond Act -Proposition 1 on the November ballot -are being developed. They could lead to a network of large local parks -most of them new -supplementing theState Park System. Mrs. Rudd Brown, chief of the State Division of Recreation, said today that passage of Proposition 1 would pro-vide $40 million for county and regional parks and that local interest in qualifying for the grants is high was demonstrated at recent hearings of the State Recreation Commission in San Francisco and Santa Monica. The hearings were held to obtain reaction to proposed criteria now re~ vised by Mrs. Brown's staff and the Recreation Commission. . Under terms of the Bond Act, each county is entitled to_a minimum of $75,000 for acquiring or developing local parks of at least 50 acres, or for adding land to existing parks to bring their size up to 50 acres. Grants are based on 1980 population projections at $1.25 per person. An additional 25 cents per person is available to those counties submitting adequate plans for longrange land use, including a recreational element. Mrs. Brown said that the addition of large county or regional parks throughout California will meet an urgent reed for outdoor recreational facilities close to population centers and will fill present gaps between strictly local or neighborhood parks and the State Park System. "Thus, the $150 million State Beaches and Parks Bond Act", she said, “will acco mp lish two things for the benefit of present and future California residents: it will greatly expand the now -overcrowded State Park System, H. ‘are disappearing fast”, said. Mrs. LETTER 10 THE EDITOR and it will enable the counties to do more about providing enough open space and recreational opportunities” close to home. “Acting now to acquire lands is just good common sense, both for the State and the counties. Suitable sites Brown. The two commission hearings, she said, brought out valuable suggestions which are under consideration in preparing the revised criteria by which applications for park grants will be evaluated. In the past, cities have concentrated on providing neighborhood parks and playgrounds, Mrs. Brown pointed out. “Now, however, there are two big needs which must be met. One is for more open space and recreational facilities within easy driving distance of metropolitan areas so that, as our population continues to spread out, these natural values can be preserved while the land is still available. “The other is for further development of large parks already within a city but which can and do serve the en tire region -such as Griffith Park in Los Angeles, Balboa Park in San Diego, Land Park in Sacramento or Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. e The state recreation chief said that county and regional parks not only provide an important outlet for recrea~tional needs, but also preserve and enhance property values, making the entire area a better place in which to live. Mrs. Dewey Forry, chairman of the Recreation Commission, explained that the prime purpose behind the —Jeeal grants phase of the Beaches and Parks Bond Act is to encourage and stimulate countywide land use planning. To qualify for a grant, a county must submit such a plan, approved by its board of supervisors. County spokesmen at the two commission hearings said that only a handful yet have land use plans adequate to qualify. Representatives of the State Planning Office pointed out that unless the counties do act promptly to meet this need, helter skelter urban and commercial development will create a tangle of other problems in addition to the lack of sufficient outdoor recreation areas close to population centers. ---Resources Agency, California Department of Parks and Recreatiom ARTICLES CALLED RUSSIAN RULE To The Editor: Well might have known. The subject isn't health or taxes, it's just plain trailers. You just don't want them. Now the subject seems to be “eyesores”. Well if it would do any good, I'd borrow a camera and take about 100 pictures of “eyesores” and they wouldn't be of trailers either. I'd start with the Nevada City dump. You say it is a necessity? Sure, but it’s still an eyesore. The only “industry” Nevada County has is tourists. Do you think they are all coming in Cadillacs? Better stop and think before you all get too up in the air about shut~ting out trailers. Did you ever stop to think about where an overnighter (trailer) could park--court or otherwise— to spend a few of his hard earned dollars you all have your paws out for? 1 didn't know it either, until 1 met the party last winter and they had spent 3 hours hunting for a place and gave up and went home. ; Let ‘shave a little less Russian Rule. These are all my opinions and I have a right to them. Mrs, Gertrude Atha Grass Valley NOT ONLY ARE YOU A BIG LIZARD , YOU'RE A. SHOW-OFF I! Ze (A Cty a / Air Ce ) Sie t