November 15, 1967 (20 pages)

-Reamiber’ 15, 1967 The Big ‘Dollar Lie A Brookings Institute forecast that the $100-a-day bill for hospital room and service is not far off will be received with a nod anyone who has paid a hospital bill lately. It seems in. Although the instinctive tendency is to blame the institution, this would be unfair, Other factors than normal hospital functions play a large part. Government for instance, The Brookings report pointed particularily to Medicare, With all its benefits, the government-medicine program has upped overall costs through diffused authority, managerial inefficiency, manpower shortages, etc. ers reported: As the Institute research"We thus find the government moving into, and partially creating, an anomalous and probably unsustainable, position of open-endly writing patterns of costs that are inherently inflationary; costs over which it has no control, nor does anyone else," It is the old story of every governmental pie-in-the-sky project. Promise them anything, but send them a higher bill than you led them to anticipate, Remember Harry? Polls change like weathervanes in a storm, but a recent one by national opinion tester Lou Harris was interesting in that for the first time it showed President Johnson trailing all major . Republican candidates, Governor Reagan led LBJ 46 per cent to 41; Governor Rockefeller by 52 to 35, and so on, Even freshman senator Charles Percy topped the President by one percentage point, Should the winds of politics continue to blow in this direction Lyndon B, Johnson would turn out to be the first United States President since Herbert Hoover to be denied a second term, But caution prompts a warning to the GOP; Remember Harry Truman, Tom Dewey does, Marysville Highway Job Nearly Finished A new section of State Highway 20 at the east city limits of Marysville, known locally as the "escape route” because it provides access to higher elevations, will be completed this month by the State Division of Highways, according to W.L. Warren, district engineer, Traffic has been using the new 40-foot all paved section extending from the east city limits to NEVADA COUNTY NUGGEY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Ca, 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Gatrett Stack, Editor paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal news. paper of general circulation yp Camel Mon County or P Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5.00. rf 1967 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 0.7-mile east of Walnut Avenue since Aug, 30 with the contractor finishing final construction phases in the two-month interim, The new highway section parallels the old road and for most of its three-mile length is higher than the route it replaces, Discussions on how best to finance and improve this northeastern route out of the Sacramento Valley were held between the Highway Division and several local agencies including the Yuba County Board of Supervisors, Marysville City Conncil, Yuba County Chamber of Commerce and the Marysville Levee Commission. Two years ago the local Board of Supervisors headed by “Dr, Charles Harvey urged recommendation of the "escape route’ . project as the No. lhighway need in Yuba County and the California Highway Commission subsequently approved the $576,000 construction job. Bids were advertised late in 1966 and construction began in February, 1967, The roadway elevation was ra‘ised, HighwayEngineers studied floods from the past 100 years and established elevation 80 (feet above sea level) as a road level that would prove serviceable even under the most severe flood conditions, "This section of Highway 20 has long been in need of reconstruction," Warren said, "Portions of it were flooded in 1959, 1964, 1965 and it was ‘miniscule, POLITICAL PARADE By CLEM WHITAKER, JR. At this date President Lyndon B. Johnson’s prospects for re-election in 1968 are What the outlook will be next fall could rest as much on the Administratien’s fiscal policy as on Vietnam. The cost of living which is being driven higher by the day not solely because of the cost of the war in Vietnam but by massive, ever increasing federal spending programs, many analysts believe, could lead to a voter revolt unparalled in 35 years. Facts of Life Pod Johnson's Administration oesn’t face u cc the eo on of life, the sil have on have the R issue that every citizen to pa — bills and stay out of t can The latest cost of living figures for a family of four age . to live moderateshow an av e annual ving cost of $9,191. In California it costs more. The figures for the Los Angeles area show that the same family of four needs $9,445 a year and in the og isco area it tekes 00. Handwrtiing on the Wall Mr. Lawrence sums up the coat of living .problem by Poe a long time, th li ticians have been beha i ae if they Joust that, by some pees device, inflation could Marysville by waters from the feet above the old grade, Hanis Sen en mameenatistie i gh hana cts Me tn mre So Newlitles Recreate Jobs Abolished By law . SACRAMENTO-Administrative agencies which have been bypassing the legislature by recreating the same jobs the legislature has eliminated under new titles are: making it difficult to achieve budget control, the California Taxpayers’ Association said today. Letters The Editor: The Nugget Newspaper Nevada City, California My dear Mr, Stack: We listened with interest to the NBC TODAY Show this. mornig. All the learned men, It was all about youngsters taking drugs. A few thought we "should be gentle with them."" I suspect they take drugs themselves? The one true fact which was slurred over is that a "pusher" can put heroin into marijuana and then the smoker is, as they so elegantly put it hooked. May I take this opportunity to say -that-we arefortunate in having first class men. as Supervisors, ‘They have children * too, ‘They are extremely interested, as am I, not in punishing the young people who actually do use drugs, (there is supposed to be a 50% count of _users in our High-School. I doubt. it, I remember. Prohibition, I dislike hard licker. I pretended to drink the bathtub. gin, too,)--they are interested: in alerting them to the dangers, I am convinced that: If parents would stop -stuffing ’ their children, (and themselves): with drugs from the moment of their birth, there would not be a habit of taking a pill to be happy, and another one to weep, First class Doctors will agree ‘ that they are forced to give pills many times to keep their patients, If the children, -and young people who do not respond to reasoning, are required to visit the State Insane Asylum and see and talk with. those who cannot return to reality-if. we would have them HE LPING these lost souls, try to help them. to eat, to sleep, to LAUGH (they do not laugh)-we. would have heard of! I am convinced that the Cosa Nostra simply wants to sell drugs, GoldCadillacs cost money. CAROLINE HARTLEY The average wage for workers in Poland has risen about $10 in the past 11. years to the present monthly figure of $80. In the budget session the legislature removed three positions and all have now been given new title and job. descriptions so there was no real reduction, Robert C, Brown, executive vice president of Cal-Tax said, "To make matters even worse, at least one of the jobs has been funded out of bond funds," Brown said. ‘ ‘ "Action of the legislature in removing some positions should be based only upon the need for that position and not upon personalities ofemployees,' Brown said, "Likewise, the administrative agencies should respect the legislative intent." The most recent incident to come to the attention of Cal“Tax involves a $16,872 position of deputy director of the Department of Veterans Affairs, The legislature deleted this position and the funding from the General Fund, The department responded by creating an exempt position and from July Ist to August 30th funded it out of Veterans Bond funds, It now is financed out of department salary savings, Earlier in the year there was ‘full. publicity to the fact.the deputy ‘superintendent of. public instruction, responded by-creating a new position of chief deputy superintendent, transferring within his budget and keeping the same man doing the same work, In the final days of the legislature a bill was passed to eliminate the civil service position. of the executive officer of the State Teachers’ Retirement System at a salary of $19,536, A new exempt position of chief executive officer to the Teachers Retirement Board, as yet unfilled, was created at ahigher pay. The board wished to retain the present executive officer rnd has asked the state personnel board to create a new -Civil service position, assistant to the chief executive officer. ‘CALIFORNIA SPEAKS VERY . PATRICK A. DONOH SJ. pres., Santa verniig' Sete planer spe of vers nota from the world” GOVERNOR REAGAN — “They. were picketing with ba es that ‘Make love, war,’ The trouble is they aiin't look > they ‘were Capable of ei! ANGIE BARNHEIM, Oak— “Most people read a lease o or a contract very. carefully. The marriage pers: Fae is far more bindin ing and should be regerd very seriously.” CANDY BERGEN, Hollywood actress daughter of famed ventril t — “Many beautiful people are terribly cold because nothing is required of them;. they never had to be warm, funny or intelligent.”

-Reamiber’ 15, 1967 The Big ‘Dollar Lie A Brookings Institute forecast that the $100-a-day bill for hospital room and service is not far off will be received with a nod anyone who has paid a hospital bill lately. It seems in. Although the instinctive tendency is to blame the institution, this would be unfair, Other factors than normal hospital functions play a large part. Government for instance, The Brookings report pointed particularily to Medicare, With all its benefits, the government-medicine program has upped overall costs through diffused authority, managerial inefficiency, manpower shortages, etc. ers reported: As the Institute research"We thus find the government moving into, and partially creating, an anomalous and probably unsustainable, position of open-endly writing patterns of costs that are inherently inflationary; costs over which it has no control, nor does anyone else," It is the old story of every governmental pie-in-the-sky project. Promise them anything, but send them a higher bill than you led them to anticipate, Remember Harry? Polls change like weathervanes in a storm, but a recent one by national opinion tester Lou Harris was interesting in that for the first time it showed President Johnson trailing all major . Republican candidates, Governor Reagan led LBJ 46 per cent to 41; Governor Rockefeller by 52 to 35, and so on, Even freshman senator Charles Percy topped the President by one percentage point, Should the winds of politics continue to blow in this direction Lyndon B, Johnson would turn out to be the first United States President since Herbert Hoover to be denied a second term, But caution prompts a warning to the GOP; Remember Harry Truman, Tom Dewey does, Marysville Highway Job Nearly Finished A new section of State Highway 20 at the east city limits of Marysville, known locally as the "escape route” because it provides access to higher elevations, will be completed this month by the State Division of Highways, according to W.L. Warren, district engineer, Traffic has been using the new 40-foot all paved section extending from the east city limits to NEVADA COUNTY NUGGEY PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Ca, 95959 Telephone 265-2471 Gatrett Stack, Editor paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal news. paper of general circulation yp Camel Mon County or P Juce 3, 1960. DecreeNo, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5.00. rf 1967 PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 0.7-mile east of Walnut Avenue since Aug, 30 with the contractor finishing final construction phases in the two-month interim, The new highway section parallels the old road and for most of its three-mile length is higher than the route it replaces, Discussions on how best to finance and improve this northeastern route out of the Sacramento Valley were held between the Highway Division and several local agencies including the Yuba County Board of Supervisors, Marysville City Conncil, Yuba County Chamber of Commerce and the Marysville Levee Commission. Two years ago the local Board of Supervisors headed by “Dr, Charles Harvey urged recommendation of the "escape route’ . project as the No. lhighway need in Yuba County and the California Highway Commission subsequently approved the $576,000 construction job. Bids were advertised late in 1966 and construction began in February, 1967, The roadway elevation was ra‘ised, HighwayEngineers studied floods from the past 100 years and established elevation 80 (feet above sea level) as a road level that would prove serviceable even under the most severe flood conditions, "This section of Highway 20 has long been in need of reconstruction," Warren said, "Portions of it were flooded in 1959, 1964, 1965 and it was ‘miniscule, POLITICAL PARADE By CLEM WHITAKER, JR. At this date President Lyndon B. Johnson’s prospects for re-election in 1968 are What the outlook will be next fall could rest as much on the Administratien’s fiscal policy as on Vietnam. The cost of living which is being driven higher by the day not solely because of the cost of the war in Vietnam but by massive, ever increasing federal spending programs, many analysts believe, could lead to a voter revolt unparalled in 35 years. Facts of Life Pod Johnson's Administration oesn’t face u cc the eo on of life, the sil have on have the R issue that every citizen to pa — bills and stay out of t can The latest cost of living figures for a family of four age . to live moderateshow an av e annual ving cost of $9,191. In California it costs more. The figures for the Los Angeles area show that the same family of four needs $9,445 a year and in the og isco area it tekes 00. Handwrtiing on the Wall Mr. Lawrence sums up the coat of living .problem by Poe a long time, th li ticians have been beha i ae if they Joust that, by some

pees device, inflation could Marysville by waters from the feet above the old grade, Hanis Sen en mameenatistie i gh hana cts Me tn mre So Newlitles Recreate Jobs Abolished By law . SACRAMENTO-Administrative agencies which have been bypassing the legislature by recreating the same jobs the legislature has eliminated under new titles are: making it difficult to achieve budget control, the California Taxpayers’ Association said today. Letters The Editor: The Nugget Newspaper Nevada City, California My dear Mr, Stack: We listened with interest to the NBC TODAY Show this. mornig. All the learned men, It was all about youngsters taking drugs. A few thought we "should be gentle with them."" I suspect they take drugs themselves? The one true fact which was slurred over is that a "pusher" can put heroin into marijuana and then the smoker is, as they so elegantly put it hooked. May I take this opportunity to say -that-we arefortunate in having first class men. as Supervisors, ‘They have children * too, ‘They are extremely interested, as am I, not in punishing the young people who actually do use drugs, (there is supposed to be a 50% count of _users in our High-School. I doubt. it, I remember. Prohibition, I dislike hard licker. I pretended to drink the bathtub. gin, too,)--they are interested: in alerting them to the dangers, I am convinced that: If parents would stop -stuffing ’ their children, (and themselves): with drugs from the moment of their birth, there would not be a habit of taking a pill to be happy, and another one to weep, First class Doctors will agree ‘ that they are forced to give pills many times to keep their patients, If the children, -and young people who do not respond to reasoning, are required to visit the State Insane Asylum and see and talk with. those who cannot return to reality-if. we would have them HE LPING these lost souls, try to help them. to eat, to sleep, to LAUGH (they do not laugh)-we. would have heard of! I am convinced that the Cosa Nostra simply wants to sell drugs, GoldCadillacs cost money. CAROLINE HARTLEY The average wage for workers in Poland has risen about $10 in the past 11. years to the present monthly figure of $80. In the budget session the legislature removed three positions and all have now been given new title and job. descriptions so there was no real reduction, Robert C, Brown, executive vice president of Cal-Tax said, "To make matters even worse, at least one of the jobs has been funded out of bond funds," Brown said. ‘ ‘ "Action of the legislature in removing some positions should be based only upon the need for that position and not upon personalities ofemployees,' Brown said, "Likewise, the administrative agencies should respect the legislative intent." The most recent incident to come to the attention of Cal“Tax involves a $16,872 position of deputy director of the Department of Veterans Affairs, The legislature deleted this position and the funding from the General Fund, The department responded by creating an exempt position and from July Ist to August 30th funded it out of Veterans Bond funds, It now is financed out of department salary savings, Earlier in the year there was ‘full. publicity to the fact.the deputy ‘superintendent of. public instruction, responded by-creating a new position of chief deputy superintendent, transferring within his budget and keeping the same man doing the same work, In the final days of the legislature a bill was passed to eliminate the civil service position. of the executive officer of the State Teachers’ Retirement System at a salary of $19,536, A new exempt position of chief executive officer to the Teachers Retirement Board, as yet unfilled, was created at ahigher pay. The board wished to retain the present executive officer rnd has asked the state personnel board to create a new -Civil service position, assistant to the chief executive officer. ‘CALIFORNIA SPEAKS VERY . PATRICK A. DONOH SJ. pres., Santa verniig' Sete planer spe of vers nota from the world” GOVERNOR REAGAN — “They. were picketing with ba es that ‘Make love, war,’ The trouble is they aiin't look > they ‘were Capable of ei! ANGIE BARNHEIM, Oak— “Most people read a lease o or a contract very. carefully. The marriage pers: Fae is far more bindin ing and should be regerd very seriously.” CANDY BERGEN, Hollywood actress daughter of famed ventril t — “Many beautiful people are terribly cold because nothing is required of them;. they never had to be warm, funny or intelligent.”