July 8, 1965 (20 pages)

: . © July 8, 1965.Nevada County Nugget. G96T ‘8 A[nf***3988nN AqunoD epeAsn*** OO SMALL TOWN: SMALL WORLD Fish dmmart asst inAteBee ccs ittebarTaetiAde Bal avast rishi tee eT chest Pest leer Y Sade SS eee eeseeeneremenmmmnesnenenenansnnnsguneneeneeemeeseen cations to the Regional Forester who has the final decision to restrict certain trails and areas or to leave them open to all users. This has been done on many trails and several areas, Such actions are always controversial:and are not need for limitation will be determined by the need to avoid damage to vegetation and soils from crosscountry travel orto avoid damage to trails unsuited to he could kill it. and the opinions motor vehicle use, riders themselves is considered, rights bill -incounting out the mass of voters in the crowded cities, the fate of the amendment is already uncertain. taken until a full study has been made on the ground of interested parties considered. Some areas that were considered for closure to motorizedtravel still remain open because the evidence supporting closure was not conclusive. You may expect new areas and trails to be proposed for restrictions both by the Forest Service and by members of the public. Rest assuredthat your com ments will be solicited and your views considered before final decision is made, We live ina fast changing world, What is true today may not be true tomorrow. The competition for the use of land is fierce. Here in California one-fifth of the State is in the National Forest. "No Trespassing" signs are absent from the Government owned land. We hope to keep it that way. You have some powerful opponents who oppose 4-wheel drivers, trail scootér operators, and other motorized vehicle users. Your opponents argue that your off-road use creates noise, fire hazards, smelly Openly to oppose the Dirksen amendment would be, for the President, rank ingratitude. By taking sides When the studies are completed we will have to determine if restrictions are necessary and where. The Public safety, including vehicle If any additional re strictions are made they will be based on good, sound reason open for everyone toreview and comment upon. ---Joseph V. Flynn, Chief, Division of Lands, U. S. Forest Service, San Francisco. WASHINGTON CALLING meaning The Department of Urban Affairs, with the Congress all but certain to approve it, will have strictly limited powers, But as the states find themselves unable to cure the ills of exploding urbanism -slums, crime, traffic congestion -they will turn more and more to REAPPORTIONMENT WAR FORCES ARE GATHERING WASHINGTON, --Without to, President Johnson at his last press conference gave the best argument for defeating the Dirksen constitutional amendment nullifying the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote reapportionment decision, the Federal government. Anammendment that could result in putting a permanent hobble on the power of the states to act invites just what the state-righters profess to fear most. That is the intervention of the leviathan of the Federal government. (Copyright 1965) ~--Marquis Childs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BIKE ISSUE PRAISED The President said that by the year 2000 80 percent of all Americans will live in cities, He was making the case for his Department of Urban-Affairs while at To the Editor: The Nevada City Chamber of Commerce wishes to the same time carefully avoiding any stand on the amendment, Ifthe Congress should approve the Dirk thank you for the fine coverage your paper gave the Bicycle Race, The special issue of the Nugget added sen proposal, with the certainty that the state legis greatly to the prestige of the race, andI am sure, willbe kept as a fitting souvenir of the race by many latures will rush toratify it, this 80 percent of the population would, in effect, be disfranchised in state exhaust fumes; they claim you frighten horses and wildlife; that you cause undesirable concentration of people; that you crowd others off of narrow trails; that you damage trails, vegetation and soils; that the roar of your motors shatters the natural serenity of their favorite haunts, These aren't all of the complaints but they are typical. Some people just don't like to see a motor vehicle where they have always had to hike or ride a horse, These people have organizations similar to yours. They pass resolutions and send them to us. They demand that we take action. Ourreplies gointhisvein: "Historically the National Forests have been dedicated to use by the people of the United States, Limitations or restrictions in form of use are adopted as needed to protect the overall public interest, to protect the resources themselves, or to regulate uses between different groups or resource users, The road and trail system has been developed on the same basis limited and restrictive only as necessary to protect the resource itself, prevent intolerable conflict or assure public safety." We have not discriminated among various users or forms of use except to secure these purposes. We believe this to be consistent with Congressional directives. We hear a lot from people who oppose off-road use by motor equipment. One would suppose from what who were in Nevada City for the event. after state. Inthe opposition view, the changes made by the Senate Judiciary subcommittee insures this result, With the unequal balance prevailing in the legislatures as the cities have grown, the city voter is consistently short-changed, Rural legislators representing more cows than people kill the measures Your suggestions for next year's race are in the Bicycle Race file for discussion and will aid in making next year's race an even bigger event. We thank you again for the fine publicity. Yours truly, John Reed, President essential to solve urban problems, That is the deep A TAX SOLUTION seated injustice the Supreme Court's decision was designed to correct. To the Editor: Iwas in Nevada City last Tuesday for a few hours. Technically the President is on sound ground in declining tocomment on the amendment -the Chief Executive is not required to pass on its validity, I am sorry I did not see you there was nobody in the Nugget. I guess it was too late. I did talk to an old But the reasons for his reticence are more than technical, One of them certainly is the remarkable relationship between Everett. McKinley Dirksen, minority leader friend of mine whom owns his home, It is a small house him and his wife lived in for a good many years, His wife passed away some time ago, I talked to him about the raise coming up in taxes of thirty five cents. of the Senate, and Lyndon Johnson, The other day the Senator informed reporters of the likelihood of another massive increase in American ground forces committed in the Vietnamese war, He also said he had been informed of the use of heavy artillery to bombard North Viet Nam, No one in the Administration dessented from his prediction. The Dirksen statement came as members of the President's own party were questioning his policy in VietNam. It served to take the headlines from these doubters. In his unquestioned sincerity in trying to keep the nasty Viet Nam conflict out of politics Dirksen has restrained House Republicans eager to open Ican't write what he said about the ones who brought it-up it would burn the paper up. It is a damned shame, how dothey expect the old people that are on a pension to pay it, The old man said he is hardly getting by. He said why don't they poison all the old people and take their property and be done with it. You know something, Mr, Editor I think that if they would elect a group of miracle women on the Council they might get a better deal. I can't figure it out the people were different when I was a kid up there they did not try to cut one another's throat, I had a good friend at the time he was the county clerk. His name was George Coughlin he only had one leg but we read and hear that this is the majority opinion. We feel we need to recognize the opinion of the boy did he like to hunt, He had two hound dogs that were good at deer hunting. He would send the dogs out tochase the deer out of the brush I used to go with minority also, Of the 20 million acres of National Forests in Cali him sometime he would always get his deer, The fornia about 16.4 million acres or over80% are unrestricted to vehicle use, The trails closed in the Wilderness Areas and some trails outside restricted first time I went with him a buck passed about ten feet from me. I got buck fever and I could not shoot. I hope nobody takes offence at what I write I mean every word of it, areas amount toabout5,000 miles of the 15,000 total miles in the National Forest System. Where do we go from here? Other areas are being studied to determine the motorized off-road impacts, EVERYONE . S SCARED ON NUCLEAR WAR. BUT THEY upthe issue of victory through bombing versus an en larging ground war. \ wNO MORE PHONE BILLS, THe TOTAL DESTRUCTION PARKING METERS, INCOME OF OUR CIVILIZATION . THY, TRAFFIC TICKETS, HAIR NEVER STOP 0 CURLERS ANO STRETCH PANTS, THINK OF THE MONDAY. MORNINGS , DOG Mss ODD BODKING. Yours truly Jack Bassett Oakland, Calif, BENEFITS. . WHAT NICE ABOUT leh) BeNerit5 But with hammering from witnesses pointing out that its effect would be to take away the voting rights given to the Negro -through the voting CATCHERS. STOP! You WIN !! DROP THE BOMB!)

: . © July 8, 1965..Nevada County Nugget.. G96T ‘8 A[nf***3988nN AqunoD epeAsn*** OO SMALL TOWN: SMALL WORLD Fish dmmart asst inAteBee ccs ittebarTaetiAde Bal avast rishi tee eT chest Pest leer Y Sade SS eee eeseeeneremenmmmnesnenenenansnnnsguneneeneeemeeseen cations to the Regional Forester who has the final decision to restrict certain trails and areas or to leave them open to all users. This has been done on many trails and several areas, Such actions are always controversial:and are not need for limitation will be determined by the need to avoid damage to vegetation and soils from crosscountry travel orto avoid damage to trails unsuited to he could kill it. and the opinions motor vehicle use, riders themselves is considered, rights bill -incounting out the mass of voters in the crowded cities, the fate of the amendment is already uncertain. taken until a full study has been made on the ground of interested parties considered. Some areas that were considered for closure to motorizedtravel still remain open because the evidence supporting closure was not conclusive. You may expect new areas and trails to be proposed for restrictions both by the Forest Service and by members of the public. Rest assuredthat your com ments will be solicited and your views considered before final decision is made, We live ina fast changing world, What is true today may not be true tomorrow. The competition for the use of land is fierce. Here in California one-fifth of the State is in the National Forest. "No Trespassing" signs are absent from the Government owned land. We hope to keep it that way. You have some powerful opponents who oppose 4-wheel drivers, trail scootér operators, and other motorized vehicle users. Your opponents argue that your off-road use creates noise, fire hazards, smelly Openly to oppose the Dirksen amendment would be, for the President, rank ingratitude. By taking sides When the studies are completed we will have to determine if restrictions are necessary and where. The Public safety, including vehicle If any additional re strictions are made they will be based on good, sound reason open for everyone toreview and comment upon. ---Joseph V. Flynn, Chief, Division of Lands, U. S. Forest Service, San Francisco. WASHINGTON CALLING meaning The Department of Urban Affairs, with the Congress all but certain to approve it, will have strictly limited powers, But as the states find themselves unable to cure the ills of exploding urbanism -slums, crime, traffic congestion -they will turn more and more to REAPPORTIONMENT WAR FORCES ARE GATHERING WASHINGTON, --Without to, President Johnson at his last press conference gave the best argument for defeating the Dirksen constitutional amendment nullifying the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote reapportionment decision, the Federal government. Anammendment that could result in putting a permanent hobble on the power of the states to act invites just what the state-righters profess to fear most. That is the intervention of the leviathan of the Federal government. (Copyright 1965) ~--Marquis Childs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR BIKE ISSUE PRAISED The President said that by the year 2000 80 percent of all Americans will live in cities, He was making the case for his Department of Urban-Affairs while at To the Editor: The Nevada City Chamber of Commerce wishes to the same time carefully avoiding any stand on the amendment, Ifthe Congress should approve the Dirk thank you for the fine coverage your paper gave the Bicycle Race, The special issue of the Nugget added sen proposal, with the certainty that the state legis greatly to the prestige of the race, andI am sure, willbe kept as a fitting souvenir of the race by many latures will rush toratify it, this 80 percent of the population would, in effect, be disfranchised in state exhaust fumes; they claim you frighten horses and wildlife; that you cause undesirable concentration of people; that you crowd others off of narrow trails; that you damage trails, vegetation and soils; that the roar of your motors shatters the natural serenity of their favorite haunts, These aren't all of the complaints but they are typical. Some people just don't like to see a motor vehicle where they have always had to hike or ride a horse, These people have organizations similar to yours. They pass resolutions and send them to us. They demand that we take action. Ourreplies gointhisvein: "Historically the National Forests have been dedicated to use by the people of the United States, Limitations or restrictions in form of use are adopted as needed to protect the overall public interest, to protect the resources themselves, or to regulate uses between different groups or resource users, The road and trail system has been developed on the same basis limited and restrictive only as necessary to protect the resource itself, prevent intolerable conflict or assure public safety." We have not discriminated among various users or forms of use except to secure these purposes. We believe this to be consistent with Congressional directives. We hear a lot from people who oppose off-road use by motor equipment. One would suppose from what who were in Nevada City for the event. after state. Inthe opposition view, the changes made

by the Senate Judiciary subcommittee insures this result, With the unequal balance prevailing in the legislatures as the cities have grown, the city voter is consistently short-changed, Rural legislators representing more cows than people kill the measures Your suggestions for next year's race are in the Bicycle Race file for discussion and will aid in making next year's race an even bigger event. We thank you again for the fine publicity. Yours truly, John Reed, President essential to solve urban problems, That is the deep A TAX SOLUTION seated injustice the Supreme Court's decision was designed to correct. To the Editor: Iwas in Nevada City last Tuesday for a few hours. Technically the President is on sound ground in declining tocomment on the amendment -the Chief Executive is not required to pass on its validity, I am sorry I did not see you there was nobody in the Nugget. I guess it was too late. I did talk to an old But the reasons for his reticence are more than technical, One of them certainly is the remarkable relationship between Everett. McKinley Dirksen, minority leader friend of mine whom owns his home, It is a small house him and his wife lived in for a good many years, His wife passed away some time ago, I talked to him about the raise coming up in taxes of thirty five cents. of the Senate, and Lyndon Johnson, The other day the Senator informed reporters of the likelihood of another massive increase in American ground forces committed in the Vietnamese war, He also said he had been informed of the use of heavy artillery to bombard North Viet Nam, No one in the Administration dessented from his prediction. The Dirksen statement came as members of the President's own party were questioning his policy in VietNam. It served to take the headlines from these doubters. In his unquestioned sincerity in trying to keep the nasty Viet Nam conflict out of politics Dirksen has restrained House Republicans eager to open Ican't write what he said about the ones who brought it-up it would burn the paper up. It is a damned shame, how dothey expect the old people that are on a pension to pay it, The old man said he is hardly getting by. He said why don't they poison all the old people and take their property and be done with it. You know something, Mr, Editor I think that if they would elect a group of miracle women on the Council they might get a better deal. I can't figure it out the people were different when I was a kid up there they did not try to cut one another's throat, I had a good friend at the time he was the county clerk. His name was George Coughlin he only had one leg but we read and hear that this is the majority opinion. We feel we need to recognize the opinion of the boy did he like to hunt, He had two hound dogs that were good at deer hunting. He would send the dogs out tochase the deer out of the brush I used to go with minority also, Of the 20 million acres of National Forests in Cali him sometime he would always get his deer, The fornia about 16.4 million acres or over80% are unrestricted to vehicle use, The trails closed in the Wilderness Areas and some trails outside restricted first time I went with him a buck passed about ten feet from me. I got buck fever and I could not shoot. I hope nobody takes offence at what I write I mean every word of it, areas amount toabout5,000 miles of the 15,000 total miles in the National Forest System. Where do we go from here? Other areas are being studied to determine the motorized off-road impacts, EVERYONE . S SCARED ON NUCLEAR WAR.. BUT THEY upthe issue of victory through bombing versus an en larging ground war. \ wNO MORE PHONE BILLS, THe TOTAL DESTRUCTION PARKING METERS, INCOME OF OUR CIVILIZATION .. THY, TRAFFIC TICKETS, HAIR NEVER STOP 0 CURLERS ANO STRETCH PANTS, THINK OF THE MONDAY. MORNINGS , DOG Mss ODD BODKING.. Yours truly Jack Bassett Oakland, Calif, BENEFITS. . WHAT NICE ABOUT leh) BeNerit5 But with hammering from witnesses pointing out that its effect would be to take away the voting rights given to the Negro -through the voting CATCHERS.. STOP! You WIN !! DROP THE BOMB!)