June 29, 1966 (24 pages)

* ey 2 OB aan BO A petro vii eh aeliny 2..Nevada County Nugget. .June 29, 1966 TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT CLEAN Announcement was made last week that the so-calledCLEAN anti-obscenity initiative had qualified for the November ballot. The announcement is the signal for the reemergence of that special group of would-be moralists and busy bodies who have been quiet ever since the initial fights locally over the Dictionary of American Slang and Proposition 4. "Phe debate over this new anti-obscenity measure that will develop inthe coming months will allow the new moralists another opportunity to ‘bolster their image in the community. The new moralists are people who think nothing of dealing from the bottom of the deck in their day to day business dealings, but who make big noises when an issue such as obscene literature is raised. ear These same people who throughout the yea raise a hue and cry about big government and infringement of individual rights, will doa ‘quick turn about, drape themselves with the convenient cloak of morality and suddenly become good guys by supporting a measure which could turn out to be one of the biggest invasions into the rights of others ever seen in this state. Let there be no mistake about our position on obscene. literature. .We are.against the spread, sale and distribution of such literature, but we do not think the power to determine what is obscene and what is not obscene should be put into the hands of the man on the street. The CLEAN initiative would do just that and people who have been in business for many years may suddenly find themselves hauled into court because someone suddenly decides they are selling or displaying obscene material. If law enforcement fails to agree with this arbitrary decision, the officer involved could also find himself in court. We feel that this kind of procedure opens a dangerous door of censorship and repression that may be very difficult to jam shut once it has been opened. We suggest that the local citizens take a careful look at the initiative and think about its implications. We suggest that with this background the local residents then examine the motives of those who will be making all the public pronouncements in support of the measure. Rp If people examine the measure carefully and cut through the moral smoke screen, we feel that many will find the proposed initiative is a dangerous measure. { ‘ day paper the Examiner. THE EDITOR To the Editor: It is Sunday the 26th of June and Pjust went through the SunIt is no use to cry now about the freeway. I know you are losing money on th¢ tourists thatused to stop there, I told you when the freeway is finished that the Jcars will go through the town: like a train passing a hole onthe railroad, You don't have parking space for one thing and rooms for folks who are lucky enough to find a spot to park their,car. Yow don ‘t need anything to drink, to see the nightmare that fy the freeway has created in our town. You will not get rid of that scar that is on Broad St, and along the route from the Gold Run bridge clear to old Chinatown, I know where the blame should go but I think I have roasted them enough. We don't want to forget.all the old historic places that were tom out either. I missed a lot of my old hang eeeec outs when‘ was old enough to play tricks on people and how mah y®imes I climbed the big treé that they decorated on Christmas to get away from Chinamen that I threw rocks or snow balls at. Oh hell, them days are gone now, Jack Bassett Edward M. Litke, Glenbrook proponent of a proposed AltaGlen Ridge sanitary district was ‘decisively beaten in his campaign for formation of the district last Friday when electors of the district defeated the proposed formation of the district 226 to 73, ---Feb. 24, 1950, e@eeseses IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN ASK THE QUESTIONS NOW © The Nevada City freeway and the scars it has caused on the landscape and on the life of the city received considerable coverage in the press last weekend. Both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Examiner carried feature stories and pictures on the battle over the freeway and what it has and will do to the city, All of this rehashing of past history seems to be of little value now because the freeway here is now a fact, But it does have some value if people elsewhere can learn from what has happened here, : Grass Valley still has to go through the dislocation, the dirt, the dust, the noise and the shock of being cut in two by an elevated freeway. Much was done by a small group of people in Nevada City to make the freeway easier to take and more beneficial to the town, This included the fight to save certain historic buildings, modifications of design and a landscaping plan. The fight to see all of these plans come into being is still going on, But in Grass Valley, the city leaders are so wrapped up with the urgency of getting the freeway started, that they have perhaps lost sight of some of these other things. This should not be allowed to happen, : Officials from the Chamber of Commerce will a month before the California Highway Comibbeios wie fee's speed up on the construction schedule for the Grass Valley segment of the freeway, They havegathered a lot of information and their presentation should make an impression on the Commission There can be no doubt that there is an urgent need for the freeway, but Grass Valley leaders should be careful not to be led into~ the trap of buying a freeway at any price, . Ithas been demonstrated in Nevada City that some informed and arsecec tsar can make the state change its mind, e the leaders in Grass Valley are ing for a firm b on their end of the freeway, ccd pl yer asking Lod em going to look like and what it is going to do to the town, If they do not like the answers they get they should start shouting right now. It will be too late once the bulldozers start Cutting a swath through the downtown section of the city, «Don Hoagland The 109 year old French Corral School House NUGGET PARAGRAPHS FROM THE PAST eeeeses Our two favorite congressmen, H. L. Englebright and Clarence E. Lea, experienced a serious mishap at the nation's capital on the date of Dec, 26th and one that seems a little difficult of explanation. The two Congressmen and their wives were to be guests. of Secretary and Mrs, Hoover at their home in Washington for Sunday dinner. The party of four left in the same machine for the Hoover home, situated a few doors from the famous Woodrow Wilson home. The driver of the car said he knew the place well and so no questions were asked or instructions givenas how to reach the Hoover home. T he party was driven up to a very imposing mansion, the door bell rung and the guests ushered upstairs by the maid, their outer wraps removed and all were made welcome. They were then ushered into the library and into the presence of the hostess who greeted them with an inquiring look in her eye for the crashing of the social gate is a well known art in Washington, Explanations followed and the two distinguished California families walked next door, where the Hoover dinner service was being delayed awaiting their arrival, ---Jan, 31, 1927 Washington and Oakland Grammar schools and the high school were closed this morning for one week owing to the absence of a number of pupils. A number of so-called diseases such as chicken pox, mumps and measles are prevelent at this time and there is also one case of diptheria reported. ---Jan. 10, 1927

* ey 2 OB aan BO A petro vii eh aeliny 2....Nevada County Nugget. ..June 29, 1966 TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT CLEAN Announcement was made last week that the so-calledCLEAN anti-obscenity initiative had qualified for the November ballot. The announcement is the signal for the reemergence of that special group of would-be moralists and busy bodies who have been quiet ever since the initial fights locally over the Dictionary of American Slang and Proposition 4. "Phe debate over this new anti-obscenity measure that will develop inthe coming months will allow the new moralists another opportunity to ‘bolster their image in the community. The new moralists are people who think nothing of dealing from the bottom of the deck in their day to day business dealings, but who make big noises when an issue such as obscene literature is raised. ear These same people who throughout the yea raise a hue and cry about big government and infringement of individual rights, will doa ‘quick turn about, drape themselves with the convenient cloak of morality and suddenly become good guys by supporting a measure which could turn out to be one of the biggest invasions into the rights of others ever seen in this state. Let there be no mistake about our position on obscene. literature. ..We are.against the spread, sale and distribution of such literature, but we do not think the power to determine what is obscene and what is not obscene should be put into the hands of the man on the street. The CLEAN initiative would do just that and people who have been in business for many years may suddenly find themselves hauled into court because someone suddenly decides they are selling or displaying obscene material. If law enforcement fails to agree with this arbitrary decision, the officer involved could also find himself in court. We feel that this kind of procedure opens a dangerous door of censorship and repression that may be very difficult to jam shut once it has been opened. We suggest that the local citizens take a careful look at the initiative and think about its implications. We suggest that with this background the local residents then examine the motives of those who will be making all the public pronouncements in support of the measure. Rp If people examine the measure carefully and cut through the moral smoke screen, we feel that many will find the proposed initiative is a dangerous measure. { ‘ day paper the Examiner. THE EDITOR To the Editor: It is Sunday the 26th of June and Pjust went through the SunIt is no use to cry now about the freeway. I know you are losing money on th¢ tourists thatused to stop there, I told you when the freeway is finished that the Jcars will go through the town: like a train passing a hole onthe railroad, You don't have parking space for one thing and rooms for folks who are lucky enough to find a spot to park their,car. Yow don ‘t need anything to drink, to see the nightmare that fy the freeway has created in our town. You will not get rid of that scar that is on Broad St, and along the route from the Gold Run bridge clear to old Chinatown, I know where the blame should go but I think I have roasted them enough. We don't want to forget.all the old historic places that were tom out either. I missed a lot of my old hang eeeec outs when‘ was old enough to play tricks on people and how mah y®imes I climbed the big treé that they decorated on Christmas to get away from Chinamen that I threw rocks or snow balls at. Oh hell, them days are gone now, Jack Bassett Edward M. Litke, Glenbrook

proponent of a proposed AltaGlen Ridge sanitary district was ‘decisively beaten in his campaign for formation of the district last Friday when electors of the district defeated the proposed formation of the district 226 to 73, ---Feb. 24, 1950, e@eeseses IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN ASK THE QUESTIONS NOW © The Nevada City freeway and the scars it has caused on the landscape and on the life of the city received considerable coverage in the press last weekend. Both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Examiner carried feature stories and pictures on the battle over the freeway and what it has and will do to the city, All of this rehashing of past history seems to be of little value now because the freeway here is now a fact, But it does have some value if people elsewhere can learn from what has happened here, : Grass Valley still has to go through the dislocation, the dirt, the dust, the noise and the shock of being cut in two by an elevated freeway. Much was done by a small group of people in Nevada City to make the freeway easier to take and more beneficial to the town, This included the fight to save certain historic buildings, modifications of design and a landscaping plan. The fight to see all of these plans come into being is still going on, But in Grass Valley, the city leaders are so wrapped up with the urgency of getting the freeway started, that they have perhaps lost sight of some of these other things. This should not be allowed to happen, : Officials from the Chamber of Commerce will a month before the California Highway Comibbeios wie fee's speed up on the construction schedule for the Grass Valley segment of the freeway, They havegathered a lot of information and their presentation should make an impression on the Commission There can be no doubt that there is an urgent need for the freeway, but Grass Valley leaders should be careful not to be led into~ the trap of buying a freeway at any price, . Ithas been demonstrated in Nevada City that some informed and arsecec tsar can make the state change its mind, e the leaders in Grass Valley are ing for a firm b on their end of the freeway, ccd pl yer asking Lod em going to look like and what it is going to do to the town, If they do not like the answers they get they should start shouting right now. It will be too late once the bulldozers start Cutting a swath through the downtown section of the city, «Don Hoagland The 109 year old French Corral School House NUGGET PARAGRAPHS FROM THE PAST eeeeses Our two favorite congressmen, H. L. Englebright and Clarence E. Lea, experienced a serious mishap at the nation's capital on the date of Dec, 26th and one that seems a little difficult of explanation. The two Congressmen and their wives were to be guests. of Secretary and Mrs, Hoover at their home in Washington for Sunday dinner. The party of four left in the same machine for the Hoover home, situated a few doors from the famous Woodrow Wilson home. The driver of the car said he knew the place well and so no questions were asked or instructions givenas how to reach the Hoover home. T he party was driven up to a very imposing mansion, the door bell rung and the guests ushered upstairs by the maid, their outer wraps removed and all were made welcome. They were then ushered into the library and into the presence of the hostess who greeted them with an inquiring look in her eye for the crashing of the social gate is a well known art in Washington, Explanations followed and the two distinguished California families walked next door, where the Hoover dinner service was being delayed awaiting their arrival, ---Jan, 31, 1927 Washington and Oakland Grammar schools and the high school were closed this morning for one week owing to the absence of a number of pupils. A number of so-called diseases such as chicken pox, mumps and measles are prevelent at this time and there is also one case of diptheria reported. ---Jan. 10, 1927