June 20, 1973 (12 pages)

10 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., June 29 1973 : Foundation for grange 3 FOUNDATION BLOCKS for the new Banner Grange Hall were laid recently. by members of the grange. Workers are (left to right) Ernie Mason, Ernest Martin, David Trout and Building Chairman Erol Richards. State Grange Master Chester Deaver will be a guest at the June 22 meeting at the Rough and Ready Grange Hall and Membership Chairman Donald McKeever gave the obligation to eight new members at a recent meeting. tour of ghost SACRAMENTO — An auto trip to the historic gold mining ghost town of Bodie will be conducted Sunday, June 24, by the State Department of Parks and Recreation. This will be the eleventh conducted tour in the spring and early summer hike and adventure series offered by the State Parks in the Sierra area. Bodie became a State Historic Park in 1962 and has been kept in a state of arrested decay since that time. In its heydey, the 1860s and 1870s, Bodie boasted a population of some 10,000 people. It also had the reputation for being the ‘‘wickedest”’ city on the face of the earth, and the rallying cry of those heading for Bodie was EFL IEA _ Bill's _ Better town offered reputed to be, “Goodbye, God, I’m going to Bodie.” State Parks Director William Penn Mott, Jr. pointed out that preserving and interpreting California’s rich history is a major responsibility of his department. ‘‘Through this series of guided hikes and tours, we can impart an understanding and appreciation of our historical heritage,” he noted. Bodie Park Rangers will explain the history of the area on a guided walk through the town, and a primitive campground is available for those who wish to stay overnight. There are no supplies at Bodie, so visitors should bring their own food and cooking fuel. Water is available. The weather is unpredictable, but a light jacket for evening is advisable. Children must be accompanied by an adult. If you plan to go, you can join the party at the County Court House in Bridgeport at 11 a.m. and travel to Bodie in caravan, or you can go meet the group in the Bodie parking lot at 1 p.m. The best route to Bodie is via _ Highway 167. From Bridgeport proceed south on Highway 395 about 18 miles, take Highway ae. PUBLIC NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the State Highway Engineer, Room 5101, Public Works Building, 1120 N Street, Sacramento, California, until 2 o’clock p.m. on June 27, 1973, at which time they will be publicly opened and read in the Assembly Room. of said building, for construction on State highway in accordance with the specifications therfor, to which special reference is made, as follows: Nevada County, at 1.3 miles north of South Fork Yuba River, about 7 miles north of Nevada City (03—Nev—49—23.4), truck ssing lane to be constructed EF rading and surfacing with asphalt concrete over aggregate base. Bids are required for the entire work described herein. Plans, specifications, and proposal forms for bidding this roject can only be obtained at aba office of the State Highway Engineer, Public Works “ae perl Sacramento, California, and may be seen at the offices of the State Highway Engineer at Sacramento, and thé District Engineers at Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the district in which the work is situated. The successful bidder shall furnish a payment bond and a performance bond. . a 0.0 0.0.0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 + += oe oo oe ee ce ee 8 oe tee eee ee eee ee eee eee eee coset ee esses tee ee Capitol Comment by EarlG. Waters —-. "The chances are that the’ state will soon undertake the , construction of a new legislative building, if not an entirely new — Capito! Building. And the odds are it will be the twin towers building which the Legislature’s dean, Senator Randolph Collier, is . firmly set upon. . His plan would make the Assembly and Senate division-even ” stronger than it is teday insofar as proximity of offices. At present ’ Assemblymien occupy one side of the Capitol-Annex while the Senators are officed in the opposite wing. The result is that some Senators are next door neighbors of Assemblymen.* There is no strong sentiment against the Collier plan to put more distance between the offices of the members of each house. However, if the advocates of a unicameral legislature should be successful the Collier building would be outdated before construction could be completed. eg And, reportedly, there is a serious movement afoot to launch an initiative to create a one-house legislature. The proposal has been drafted and plans are being made to place the issue on the primary ballot next year. In its present draft it would provide for a single house legislature composed of 80 members. This is the number now comprising the Assembly. The net effect would be to eliminate 40 members which is the present makeup of the Senate. At first blush such a consolidation may sound reasonable and more economical. Presumably it would eliminate the costs of 40 members along with their Supporting staff of personal aides, secretaries and field representatives. That is the kind of dreaming that causes one to ask “What do you suppose those people have been smoking?” Californians should have by now had enough experience with school district consolidations and other local government mergers to know that these kind of things only Ibok good on organizational charts. As a practical matter consolidations have only resulted in expansions of personnel. In the case of the Legislature, having saved the salaries of 40 members, there would be an immediate move to raise the pay of those remaining. Rather than a savings the cost would go up. The same would hold true with regard to staff. The voters now have both an Assemblyman and a Senator to discuss problems with. Eliminating one, the remaining representative would immediately find he needed to double his staff to take care of the added “burden’’. There are other provisions contained in the proposal such as electing all members for four year terms, assigning the duty of redistricting every ten years to the Supreme Court, and establishing a Rules Committee to govern the House rather than the present one man rule existing in the Assembly today. Four year terms would only serve to make the lawmakers less responsive to the voters. The Constitution has established the Legislature, the Courts, and the Executive branches of government as separate entities independent of each other. To place reapportionment with the courts would inject political pressures onto the courts and tend to give the courts influence over the Legislature. The idea of stripping the Speaker of his awesome power is the only good idea in the whole proposal. Unicameral Legislatures are not novel but Nebraska is the only state in the Union which operates under this system. If the idea had great merit it wouldseem it would have come into wider use. The idea was never given any serious consideration in California until former Speaker Jess Unruh discovered he couldn’t dominate both houses of the Legislature. He then started beating the drums for a single house which would have pretty well established him as some kind of a dictator. While proponents may argue that a unicameral Legislature would be more efficient and expedite passage of legislation, the ambitions of Unruh should make it crystal clear to everyone why a single house Legislature is most dangerous. Besides to speak of efficiency and expeditious passage of legislation is to display sheer ignorance of understanding of the whole idea of the legislative process. The Legislature is a deliberative body. The more deliberation the better the end product. Californians are fortunate to have two houses of the Legislature so that proposed law changes will get through Bodie From ~ Pu t to Section 1770 of the Screening and all points of view can be weighed.“ an oon ag Labor Code, the Department has A people’s government demands a system of checks and i . 8 Although the road is a dirt read, ca sg i. seed are balances and the two house legislature has worked well both . was 13> . Toe et toa retin SMC ana ices eee , as listed in ff ecn ve te ang ant ony SS Ge series motor exLETTERS poretion of te Lake Talve emiiied, Favloment, Rental SQUGKE Dance luau Saturday AVAIl i shoreline from Sugar Pine Point wage Rates, dated May, . LABLE NOW. . State Park to Emerald Bay ge Ak The = nies . RECAPPING Service . State — 1, Bring your Divisione coral igo alg annual 8° Morris as guest caller. = : PLAZA more information on these geo itg Laau Dance on Saturday, June There will be continuous danTIRE CO., INC. hikes and tours, call the Sierra State Highway Engineer 23rd in the Home Economics cing until 12:00. The Club will Area : BEHIND SPD 265-4642° . at (916) 525-7232. Dated May 29, 1973 Building at the Auburn again serve a ham buffet which Dates of Publication: June 13 ger aes erage ds begin plageriacty e past 20, 1973.

10 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., June 29 1973 : Foundation for grange 3 FOUNDATION BLOCKS for the new Banner Grange Hall were laid recently. by members of the grange. Workers are (left to right) Ernie Mason, Ernest Martin, David Trout and Building Chairman Erol Richards. State Grange Master Chester Deaver will be a guest at the June 22 meeting at the Rough and Ready Grange Hall and Membership Chairman Donald McKeever gave the obligation to eight new members at a recent meeting. tour of ghost SACRAMENTO — An auto trip to the historic gold mining ghost town of Bodie will be conducted Sunday, June 24, by the State Department of Parks and Recreation. This will be the eleventh conducted tour in the spring and early summer hike and adventure series offered by the State Parks in the Sierra area. Bodie became a State Historic Park in 1962 and has been kept in a state of arrested decay since that time. In its heydey, the 1860s and 1870s, Bodie boasted a population of some 10,000 people. It also had the reputation for being the ‘‘wickedest”’ city on the face of the earth, and the rallying cry of those heading for Bodie was EFL IEA _ Bill's _ Better town offered reputed to be, “Goodbye, God, I’m going to Bodie.” State Parks Director William Penn Mott, Jr. pointed out that preserving and interpreting California’s rich history is a major responsibility of his department. ‘‘Through this series of guided hikes and tours, we can impart an understanding and appreciation of our historical heritage,” he noted. Bodie Park Rangers will explain the history of the area on a guided walk through the town, and a primitive campground is available for those who wish to stay overnight. There are no supplies at Bodie, so visitors should bring their own food and cooking fuel. Water is available. The weather is unpredictable, but a light jacket for evening is advisable. Children must be accompanied by an adult. If you plan to go, you can join the party at the County Court House in Bridgeport at 11 a.m. and travel to Bodie in caravan, or you can go meet the group in the Bodie parking lot at 1 p.m. The best route to Bodie is via _ Highway 167. From Bridgeport proceed south on Highway 395 about 18 miles, take Highway ae. PUBLIC NOTICE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed proposals will be received at the office of the State Highway Engineer, Room 5101, Public Works Building, 1120 N Street, Sacramento, California, until 2 o’clock p.m. on June 27, 1973, at which time they will be publicly opened and read in the Assembly Room. of said building, for construction on State highway in accordance with the specifications therfor, to which special reference is made, as follows: Nevada County, at 1.3 miles north of South Fork Yuba River, about 7 miles north of Nevada City (03—Nev—49—23.4), truck ssing lane to be constructed EF rading and surfacing with asphalt concrete over aggregate base. Bids are required for the entire work described herein. Plans, specifications, and proposal forms for bidding this roject can only be obtained at aba office of the State Highway

Engineer, Public Works “ae perl Sacramento, California, and may be seen at the offices of the State Highway Engineer at Sacramento, and thé District Engineers at Los Angeles, San Francisco, and the district in which the work is situated. The successful bidder shall furnish a payment bond and a performance bond. . a 0.0 0.0.0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 + += oe oo oe ee ce ee 8 oe tee eee ee eee ee eee eee eee coset ee esses tee ee Capitol Comment by EarlG. Waters —-. "The chances are that the’ state will soon undertake the , construction of a new legislative building, if not an entirely new — Capito! Building. And the odds are it will be the twin towers building which the Legislature’s dean, Senator Randolph Collier, is . firmly set upon. . His plan would make the Assembly and Senate division-even ” stronger than it is teday insofar as proximity of offices. At present ’ Assemblymien occupy one side of the Capitol-Annex while the Senators are officed in the opposite wing. The result is that some Senators are next door neighbors of Assemblymen.* There is no strong sentiment against the Collier plan to put more distance between the offices of the members of each house. However, if the advocates of a unicameral legislature should be successful the Collier building would be outdated before construction could be completed. eg And, reportedly, there is a serious movement afoot to launch an initiative to create a one-house legislature. The proposal has been drafted and plans are being made to place the issue on the primary ballot next year. In its present draft it would provide for a single house legislature composed of 80 members. This is the number now comprising the Assembly. The net effect would be to eliminate 40 members which is the present makeup of the Senate. At first blush such a consolidation may sound reasonable and more economical. Presumably it would eliminate the costs of 40 members along with their Supporting staff of personal aides, secretaries and field representatives. That is the kind of dreaming that causes one to ask “What do you suppose those people have been smoking?” Californians should have by now had enough experience with school district consolidations and other local government mergers to know that these kind of things only Ibok good on organizational charts. As a practical matter consolidations have only resulted in expansions of personnel. In the case of the Legislature, having saved the salaries of 40 members, there would be an immediate move to raise the pay of those remaining. Rather than a savings the cost would go up. The same would hold true with regard to staff. The voters now have both an Assemblyman and a Senator to discuss problems with. Eliminating one, the remaining representative would immediately find he needed to double his staff to take care of the added “burden’’. There are other provisions contained in the proposal such as electing all members for four year terms, assigning the duty of redistricting every ten years to the Supreme Court, and establishing a Rules Committee to govern the House rather than the present one man rule existing in the Assembly today. Four year terms would only serve to make the lawmakers less responsive to the voters. The Constitution has established the Legislature, the Courts, and the Executive branches of government as separate entities independent of each other. To place reapportionment with the courts would inject political pressures onto the courts and tend to give the courts influence over the Legislature. The idea of stripping the Speaker of his awesome power is the only good idea in the whole proposal. Unicameral Legislatures are not novel but Nebraska is the only state in the Union which operates under this system. If the idea had great merit it wouldseem it would have come into wider use. The idea was never given any serious consideration in California until former Speaker Jess Unruh discovered he couldn’t dominate both houses of the Legislature. He then started beating the drums for a single house which would have pretty well established him as some kind of a dictator. While proponents may argue that a unicameral Legislature would be more efficient and expedite passage of legislation, the ambitions of Unruh should make it crystal clear to everyone why a single house Legislature is most dangerous. Besides to speak of efficiency and expeditious passage of legislation is to display sheer ignorance of understanding of the whole idea of the legislative process. The Legislature is a deliberative body. The more deliberation the better the end product. Californians are fortunate to have two houses of the Legislature so that proposed law changes will get through Bodie From ~ Pu t to Section 1770 of the Screening and all points of view can be weighed.“ an oon ag Labor Code, the Department has A people’s government demands a system of checks and i . 8 Although the road is a dirt read, ca sg i. seed are balances and the two house legislature has worked well both . was 13> . Toe et toa retin SMC ana ices eee , as listed in ff ecn ve te ang ant ony SS Ge series motor exLETTERS poretion of te Lake Talve emiiied, Favloment, Rental SQUGKE Dance luau Saturday AVAIl i shoreline from Sugar Pine Point wage Rates, dated May, . LABLE NOW. . State Park to Emerald Bay ge Ak The = nies . RECAPPING Service . State — 1, Bring your Divisione coral igo alg annual 8° Morris as guest caller. = : PLAZA more information on these geo itg Laau Dance on Saturday, June There will be continuous danTIRE CO., INC. hikes and tours, call the Sierra State Highway Engineer 23rd in the Home Economics cing until 12:00. The Club will Area : BEHIND SPD 265-4642° . at (916) 525-7232. Dated May 29, 1973 Building at the Auburn again serve a ham buffet which Dates of Publication: June 13 ger aes erage ds begin plageriacty e past 20, 1973.