May 14, 1975 (8 pages)

-Updating the general plan A king sized project in Nevada county is updating the general plan. The county planning department is there are some’ Nevada: County Planning Commission and to some extent the board itself was not informed on the activities. visors that a letter from the planning commission with relevent information on the cerned. In a later session Mrs. Boivin and Herman. BanNevada county were not available. She felt that possibly. an outside conthis problem. ‘‘There are zoned areas that would not be — ; Supervisors agreed to meet ‘ with the committee and ment to air until August 5 at 1:30 p.m. The: _-. school is appealing a condi ws . €lassitied ads work ‘8 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., May 14, 1975 DON STARBIRD and his family Linda (Nguyen Thi Buong) and daughter Lena are visiting his mother, Mrs. Barbara Sample at Olympia Glades Mobilehome Refugees visit Park. They recently were evacuated from Saigon to ‘Camp Pendleton. . # _Saigon-Grass Valley & Don Starbird and As for the moment he is thinking of up for benefits at the unemployment office until some of the anThe Starhirds left Saigon on Wednesday, -April 23 in what they described as ‘‘an atmosphere of tension’’. He indicated there was a certain amount of confusion combined with concern and some pushing and shoving in the streets as Vietnamese searched for sponsors to get them to the United States. “The family come and ask if we would take them with us.and when I said no they — became somewhat hostile toward Linda’. : ; , Vietnamese He felt surprise at how fast the Saigon government fell. “I felt that the military people there were quite competant but the problem was apparently a lack of middle ranking leadership’’ For thé last seven years he has worked in Vietnam as a civilian for the American firm of Pacific Architects under contract with the U.S. government and when at full strength employed 25,000 persons, 5,000 of which were Americans. An Engineering graduate of Cal Poly, Pomona, Starbird served in resources management whose job it was to train Vietnamese military personnel as well as provide basic services such as electricity, water, etc. He described his life there as one of aristocracy where <‘one could live a life of high society on $400 a month with monthly maid service costing only $20. ‘Americans were treated in a sort of Beverly Hills fashion which was , quite different from the reception I got in Western Europe where we were looked down at, especially in Rome,” . he indicated. Many of the Americans refused to leave Saigon without their Vietnamese families and Starbird personally knows of four or five who chose to stay under the communist regime. “From what . we hear on the news they apparently poh eaeas bothered to this point,”’ he Linda is somewhat: home sick but her husband tries to tell her the positive side of the news with hopes that she might return for a visit with her family “én four or five years”. Don said he wouldn’t mind returning to Saigon on a permanent basis ‘under the right circumstances”.The final two weeks they were. in Vietnam there was a total local news blackout with many of the peasants unaware of what was happening. “A lot of the people really didn’t care who runs the country as long as trey can dig their rice,” he said. ‘He speaks Vietnamese somewhat while she apparently can handle English quite well although she did little talking during our interview. The baby has a cold, apparently caused by the change in climate but she seemed quite content snuggled up to her mother. When asked how he felt about the reception the refugees have received from the American people Starbird noted that ‘‘we are all immigrants of a sort’’. He brought up the ‘melting pot’”’ tradition of the U.S. but did say he was them, they had to run somewhere”’. He said there were some high ranking officers willing to die for the cause but that it is hard when others are deserting all around you. Mrs. Sample stated she felt the tell her about life in the U.S. since she 9 © has lived here for two years’’. See aeeenenetnn amet

-Updating the general plan A king sized project in Nevada county is updating the general plan. The county planning department is there are some’ Nevada: County Planning Commission and to some extent the board itself was not informed on the activities. visors that a letter from the planning commission with relevent information on the cerned. In a later session Mrs. Boivin and Herman. BanNevada county were not available. She felt that possibly. an outside conthis problem. ‘‘There are zoned areas that would not be — ; Supervisors agreed to meet ‘ with the committee and ment to air until August 5 at 1:30 p.m. The: _-. school is appealing a condi ws . €lassitied ads work ‘8 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., May 14, 1975 DON STARBIRD and his family Linda (Nguyen Thi Buong) and daughter Lena are visiting his mother, Mrs. Barbara Sample at Olympia Glades Mobilehome Refugees visit Park. They recently were evacuated from Saigon to ‘Camp Pendleton. . # _Saigon-Grass Valley & Don Starbird and As for the moment he is thinking of up for benefits at the unemployment office until some of the anThe Starhirds left Saigon on Wednesday, -April 23 in what they described as ‘‘an atmosphere of tension’’. He indicated there was a certain amount of confusion combined with concern and some pushing and shoving in the streets as Vietnamese searched for sponsors to get them to the United States. “The family come and ask if we would take them with us.and when I said no they — became somewhat hostile toward Linda’. : ; , Vietnamese He felt surprise at how fast the Saigon government fell. “I felt that the military people there were quite competant but the problem was apparently a lack of middle ranking leadership’’ For thé last seven years he has worked in Vietnam as a civilian for the American firm of Pacific Architects under contract with the U.S. government and when at full strength employed 25,000 persons, 5,000 of which were Americans. An Engineering graduate of Cal

Poly, Pomona, Starbird served in resources management whose job it was to train Vietnamese military personnel as well as provide basic services such as electricity, water, etc. He described his life there as one of aristocracy where <‘one could live a life of high society on $400 a month with monthly maid service costing only $20. ‘Americans were treated in a sort of Beverly Hills fashion which was , quite different from the reception I got in Western Europe where we were looked down at, especially in Rome,” . he indicated. Many of the Americans refused to leave Saigon without their Vietnamese families and Starbird personally knows of four or five who chose to stay under the communist regime. “From what . we hear on the news they apparently poh eaeas bothered to this point,”’ he Linda is somewhat: home sick but her husband tries to tell her the positive side of the news with hopes that she might return for a visit with her family “én four or five years”. Don said he wouldn’t mind returning to Saigon on a permanent basis ‘under the right circumstances”.The final two weeks they were. in Vietnam there was a total local news blackout with many of the peasants unaware of what was happening. “A lot of the people really didn’t care who runs the country as long as trey can dig their rice,” he said. ‘He speaks Vietnamese somewhat while she apparently can handle English quite well although she did little talking during our interview. The baby has a cold, apparently caused by the change in climate but she seemed quite content snuggled up to her mother. When asked how he felt about the reception the refugees have received from the American people Starbird noted that ‘‘we are all immigrants of a sort’’. He brought up the ‘melting pot’”’ tradition of the U.S. but did say he was them, they had to run somewhere”’. He said there were some high ranking officers willing to die for the cause but that it is hard when others are deserting all around you. Mrs. Sample stated she felt the tell her about life in the U.S. since she 9 © has lived here for two years’’. See aeeenenetnn amet