November 21, 1962 (8 pages)

fad SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD tt el Wesce fad-A,! pabe eV ence! wad-A,!p ecu: Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Alfred E, Heller, Publisher--R. Dean Thompson, Editor-Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12,406, Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City. Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years,’ $8, Editorials Time For Thanks And For Giving Thanksgiving Day is the day we look back to our Pilgrim forefathers and give thanks that they carved a future out of meagre potential in a land that was not always friendly. Just as those Pilgrims pausedto give thanks in their trying days, so we today have reason to look to our owntribulations and give thanks. Internationally, we Americans are a major force in the world today. There is another major force, andwiththe memory of the extreme crisis in Cuba clouded only with the realization that the crisis cannot yet be spoken of in the pasttense, we have just cause to give thanks that we still have a world relatively at peace. Nationally, we have reason to be thankful that our people are ableto live on the highest plane inthe world. And we still are able to aid less fortunate people throughout the world. Locally, we in Nevada County havea Thanksgiving opportunity next week. We are thankful for the areain which we live, for the fresh air, the clear skies, the beauty of the mountains. Next week we can show our Thanks by Giving to the first United Fund drive in our area. The Salvation Army, Red Cross, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts have all joined-in this united campaign. By "giving 'til it helps" we can assure aid to our local needy. Theseare worthy organizations, theirwork is welldone. Success of the United Fundcampaign is our responsibility. But it is more than that, it is our opportunity to give help to those in our area who need help. It is our chance to earn the title of "the friendly foothills." Human Values And Decision Making "When cana city be said to be dying? " asked Herb Caen in his San Francisco Chronicle column of Nov. 11. "Inthe journal called Christianity and Crisis," according to Caen, “Howard Moody answers that question in this way: "'A city is dying when ithas an eye for real estate values but no heart for personal values, when it has an understanding of traffic flow but no concern about the flow of human beings, when we have competence in building but little time for ethical codes, when human values are absent at the heart of decision-making and planning and governing of a city-it isdead and all that is left is decay.' " There is a lot in what Moody says. D.E. MATSON FOREST PRODUCTS. HILLS FLAT GRASS VALLEY ++ ++++4+4+4+44 4+ Dial 273-2271 Holiday Hills CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL In Holiday Village, Grass Valley, Calif. & *24 Hour Nursing Home \ *Cooperating with Nevada County ' Medical profession “Special and all types of diets \including vegetarian *Puysidal therapy and occupational thiya py will be available »*Restfty background music, TV as se the street Free pizk-up and delivery of Patienie“within 100 miles _*Private Rigg s, Single & Double. © ra Pr 4 Dear Sir: the sketch and plan of the proposFIND GLUTTONY @ 50 biseustiMo!! Fb TH! (OWEVAIA COUNTY WU6GET vantage would accrue to any segment of Nevada City by running the State's four-lane freeway through the city. Furthermore, the "scenic freeway" as indicated in your paper should be considerably less costly than the State's four-lane freeway, Iunderstand Councilman Davies has said that we should "be sure the freeway is built to suit Nevada City as well as the State. " I agree with him. I was very much interested in ed "scenic freeway” through Nevada City as shown in your edition of November 14th, It seems to be a very well thought out way of solving traffic needs and at the same time preserving famous old historic buildings. Easy access to the parking areas provided in this new plan shouldbe an inducement to tourists and newcomers alike tostopand enjoy our city. Along Deer Creek the landscaping and park development would certainly be a most desirable improvement, It is difficult to see what adYours truly, C. D. Acker Civil Engineer-Registered 210 Drummond Street Nevada City —, ir BY DEAN THOMPSON TWISTED..When it comes to dancing, I'm low man on the family totem pole, and I know it, So those who saw yours truly trying the “twist” Saturday night at the Elks’ Helldorado party know that it was all in fun, and the columnist was more twisted than twisting..Even if I were to fool myself and claim an ability for "that dance", my daughter would rapidly put me in my place. After all, she will only admit that Mother does "an adult the modern decor, or the good food, that started me off an the highly polished and slick dance floor, But before the evening was over, Thompson shoes had slid over more dance floor mileage than they have clockedin many a moon,.The Elks have reason tobe proud of their newly renovated Lodge, and you who haven't seen it can get a good look-see Dec, 1 at the Nevada City Firemen's "Re-Scheduled May Dance"...Dr. Arch McPherson and Ardis Bell will have another vocal rendition ready by that time, and possibly the four Burns sisters will be invited to again merit the applause of an appreciative audience..We saw them first at a recent Grass Valley Lions Club function---enjoyed their harmony that night, and found it equally as good Saturday night. ALSO PROUD..Inter-County Title Company has shown off its new Courthouse Square structure, and the interior is every bit as modern as the exterior.,.,.The brightly lighted working areas must be a pleasure to work in, HALF SHOT.,.Whereas the Elks Club Saturday made use of local talent, we took an evening last week to see a Broadw ay production of "A Shot in the Dark" at Sacramento,.At times during the performance we wondered whether this was, indeed, a professional group on tour..But Freddi Chandler as the aristocratic Dominique Beaurevers convinced us. In answer to the questions of the magistrate, the words flowed with arrogance from a volunimous vocabulary. When asked to reply simply, he simply replied, "I can't"..With his appearance on stage, the whole production picked up tempo and ended in good fashion. .The play itself is a spicy story of a shot in the dark that kills the wrong man and has every person in the cast as suspect except the magistrate, clerk and guard, SACTO, BOUND2,.Just a note to those who will be in Sacramento on an evening in the near future..The Violins of Mexico opened their third engagement at Frank Sebastian's El Dorado, Their music is worth the time and effort if you are so inclined. WATER METERS, . Nevada City Councilman met Monday night to tackle the water rate problem within the city. A problem it was, witness last week's meeting:.. Among written and verbal protests was one by Councilman Craig Davies, who stepped down from his council seat and agreed with an earlier protest by Ralph Schorr that the $4 per month rate should not apply to apartment units,.In setting up the new residential rate, the city had said it would offer a meter to any person who was not satisfied with the flat rate, But to date there is no rate set for metered water. The metered rate and the business rate will wait until the completion of a survey of the whole town's water usage by the city crew.. Promised by Christmas. . People who have protested the current $4 rate for residential and apartment use have some survey work completed on their own: A water bill for four apts, in S.F, for a two month periodcame.to $5, 96 (compared to $24 in N.C, under this week's council action of $3 per month for each apartment unit); the residential rate in Napa for a family intending to retire in Nevada City runs from a low of $1.50 per month to $6 per month seasonally. t WENT 70 A FRIEND'S HOUE FOR Lt HAVE WEVER SEEW SUCH AM AWFUL, AWIMALISTIC version” of the “twist"---Daddy? Well, never..Perhaps it was. DIMMER THE OTHE R. \W6/7. re FORTUMATEL y, THE TWO CHOPS £ 607 WERE REAL Letters To The Editor Dear Sir: The Scenic Highway design for Nevada City has aroused the interest of so many people in Nevada County that some of your readers may be interested in the answersto the questions most often asked: Q. The Scenic Highway may be very fine for the tourists and the antique shops, but what about its effect on the everyday shopper in Nevada City? A. One way to answer that ques tion is to follow an imaginary shopper driving down Broad Street looking for a parking place. She reaches the Hotel Annex without finding a place to park. Under the State plan, her only practical choice is to turn right onto the freeway and go offto find another town toshopin. Under the Scenic: plan she has a choice of three parking areas all within easy walking distance of the central shopping area. Q. Willthe Scenic Highway slow down traffic between Nevada City and Grass Valley? A Absolutely not. From the Sacramento Street on-ramp to the south side of Grass Valley it will all be four lane freeway with nothing but the State speed limit to keep you from going as fast as you like. ; Q. What effect will-the Scenic plan have on the merchants of Nevada City? A. The Nevada City merchants willreap the benefit of three public parking lots. The value of this is demonstrated by the expense and effort the Grass Valley merchants are expending to gain one new parking lot. Today's shoppers travel by automobile and business will not prosper where the shopper cannot park. Q. Does either plan consider the poor pedestrian? A. Both plans provide pedestrian walks on the Broad Street overcrossing. The State plan forces the pedestrian to cross off and on ramps. The Scenic plan elijninatesthese ramps, making a safer situation for the person on foot. Long may you live, pedestrian! Sincerely, Arch McPherson 4 EXPERT PRINTING Printing For Every Purpose **xCIRCULARS **STATIONERY ** MAIL PIECES. #*BILLS **xFORMS NEVADA CO. PRINTING . and PUBLISHING 212 W. Main St. GRASS VALLEY phone 273-4590 — sThere are thousands of Californians, andI am one o} have been brought upto care about who wins the annual Big Game ‘between California and Stanford, I'm for Stanford, But my Clary, whois for California, is not only a Big Game adherent, he is a Big Game philosopher, He has seen every Big Game since 1932, twenty-seven in all, and he can tell you so about ‘each one of them. This Saturday at Berkeley he will see his twenty -eighth, He points out that many of the 64 Big Games that have been played have been contests for the Pacific Coast championship. But the last such championship game was in 1949, when Califomnia beat Stanford 33-14 and went onto lose gloriously in the RoseBowl. Clary saysthat although the quality of Big Game football is not what it used to be, the game maintains its special character and tremendous appeal “because of the people that are involved, not because of the teams. " The people he refers to are the alumni of a leading private school and a leading public school of the West, who somehow, deep in their hearts, regard the game_as a struggle over prestige and principle. California, the public land grant school, vs, Stanford, the private land grant school, Clary also has a theory that Big Game atmosphere is different from that of traditional Eastern rivalries because Stanford and California alumni are mostly concentrated in the Bay Area and Northern California and they know each other better than the dispersed alumni of the various Eastern Colleges, The Big Game, as a result, has become something of a community enterprise, a symbolic playing out under the strictest rules and the greatest possible fanfare of the many arguments, large and small, of our . daily lives. I remember a few years ago when the Hollywood publicists, jealous of the notoriety of the Big Game, decided to bill the USC-UCLA game “the Biggest Game.” It was a fine idea, but somehow it never caught on. You can't generate a tradition overnight, The Big Game begafi in 1892 in San Francisco, Herbert Hoover was manager of the Stanford team and the game is remembered because of Mr, Hoover and because nobody thought to bring a football, Finally they found one, though, and Stanford won, 14-10. Since then, Stanford has won 26 games, California 28. There have been 10 ties. The Big Game has been notable for exciting games and tough teams: Gal's “Wonder” team of 1920-23, Stanford's "Vow Boys" of 1933-35, Cal's "Thunder" team of 1937, Stanford's “Wow Boys" of 1940-41, The most famous game of all is probably the 20-20 tie played in 1924, during the heyday of college football, In that game, California led Stanford by two touchdowns in the last quarter, before 100,000 fans at Berkeley (20,000 were perched on “tightwad Hill"), The feat of scoring twice in the last quarter does not seem like much today--but then again, if Stanford does the same thing’ at Berkeley this coming Saturday, some people will be just as happy, or disgusted, astheir parents, or grandparents, were thirtyeight years ago. WASHINGTO CALLING By MARQUIS CHILDS WASHINGTON ---Whether the press is whipping boy, submissive servant of the government or in the Jeffersonian concept a fourth and independent foundation stone of freedom is a question being debated in several capitals in this time of troubles when all institutions are on trial. Richard Nixon blames the working press for distorting his image and by implication for bringing about his defeat in California. In New Delhi the government of Prime Minister Nehru is said to be persuading the press to help, by soft-pedaling the news of American arms for India's war with China, to continue at least the outward look of nonalignment between the power blocs of East and West. Here at home the Kennedy Administration is accused of managing the news in the Cuban crisis to suit its own ends. This charge, growing out of remarks about the official generation of news--or more accurately generating events that create news--coincides with an order suggesting suppression or even censorship. Officials of the Department of Defense and State are required to report the content of all talks with newspapermen or to have present at such talks members of the public relations staff. But it is in the capital of West Germany that the debate has reached a state of siege. The publisher of Germany's leading news magazine, Der Spiegel(The Mirror), Rudolf Augstein, and several of his editors and writers have been in jail for more than two weeks. They are charged with treason for publishing a report to the effect that the German armed forces participating in a joint Allied exercise were way below standard in their performance. So far not a line of proof has been brought forward to substantiate the treason charge or to refute the allegations that the armed forces were ill-prepared. Augstein and his staff are considered enemies of the state for having published the report, and since Germany has no habeas corpus they must languish in jail while officials of the Ministry of Justice ransack the magazine's offices in search of proof, Most disturbing of all, as Flora Lewis pointed out in an illuminating dispatch tothe Washington Post, is that the public in Germany seems little concerned. The episode became even more pertinent with the arrival in Washington of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for talks with President Kennedy, Incidentally, onthe eve of his departure he sought to make the President's task more difficult by suggesting that Soviet missiles were still being hidden in Cuba and that the Cuban crisis proved that no negotiations with the Soviet Union on Berlin or anything else was possible. Thus before meeting the President he sought to draw a line through American foreign policy. The jailing of Der Spiegel's publisher was done without the know ledge of the Minister of Justice, who is a member not of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats but of the Free Democratic party, which is essentialto the support of Bonn's coalition government, What troubles American policymakers is whether Adenauer is actually in control of his own government. The Chancellor, who will be 87 years old in January, is the center of furious intrigues that have an Oriental palace quality. Adenauer said on the floor of the Bundestag that he was afraid to telephone from his home to his office because his wires were tapped, Asthe outcry over the nighttime raid on Der Spiegel went on it was not long before the hand of a master intriguer, Defense Minister Franz Joseph Strauss, was revealed. A long-time enemy of of DerSpiegel, Strauss admitted that his ministry had phoned the German military attache in Spain to bring about the arrest and extradition of the author of the article who was on vacation there. Freedom of the press is guaranteed in the German constitution. But this aspect of the case does not seem to concern German officialdom. Adenauer is reported to have said that law officers should be allowed to proceed with their work without interference from the public. One lesson out of Germany is that guarantees mean little with-out popular support. A press which is no more than the reflection’ of a ruling c lique--a prop for the establishment~-cannot claim public backing when the crunch comes. Similarly, a press which isno more than an instrument of the cold war will not long survive as a free institution, (Copyright, 1962) m, who

fad SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD tt el Wesce fad-A,! pabe eV ence! wad-A,!p ecu: Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Alfred E, Heller, Publisher--R. Dean Thompson, Editor-Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12,406, Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City. Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years,’ $8, Editorials Time For Thanks And For Giving Thanksgiving Day is the day we look back to our Pilgrim forefathers and give thanks that they carved a future out of meagre potential in a land that was not always friendly. Just as those Pilgrims pausedto give thanks in their trying days, so we today have reason to look to our owntribulations and give thanks. Internationally, we Americans are a major force in the world today. There is another major force, andwiththe memory of the extreme crisis in Cuba clouded only with the realization that the crisis cannot yet be spoken of in the pasttense, we have just cause to give thanks that we still have a world relatively at peace. Nationally, we have reason to be thankful that our people are ableto live on the highest plane inthe world. And we still are able to aid less fortunate people throughout the world. Locally, we in Nevada County havea Thanksgiving opportunity next week. We are thankful for the areain which we live, for the fresh air, the clear skies, the beauty of the mountains. Next week we can show our Thanks by Giving to the first United Fund drive in our area. The Salvation Army, Red Cross, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts have all joined-in this united campaign. By "giving 'til it helps" we can assure aid to our local needy. Theseare worthy organizations, theirwork is welldone. Success of the United Fundcampaign is our responsibility. But it is more than that, it is our opportunity to give help to those in our area who need help. It is our chance to earn the title of "the friendly foothills." Human Values And Decision Making "When cana city be said to be dying? " asked Herb Caen in his San Francisco Chronicle column of Nov. 11. "Inthe journal called Christianity and Crisis," according to Caen, “Howard Moody answers that question in this way: "'A city is dying when ithas an eye for real estate values but no heart for personal values, when it has an understanding of traffic flow but no concern about the flow of human beings, when we have competence in building but little time for ethical codes, when human values are absent at the heart of decision-making and planning and governing of a city-it isdead and all that is left is decay.' " There is a lot in what Moody says. D.E. MATSON FOREST PRODUCTS. HILLS FLAT GRASS VALLEY ++ ++++4+4+4+44 4+ Dial 273-2271 Holiday Hills CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL In Holiday Village, Grass Valley, Calif. & *24 Hour Nursing Home \ *Cooperating with Nevada County ' Medical profession “Special and all types of diets \including vegetarian *Puysidal therapy and occupational thiya py will be available »*Restfty background music, TV as se the street Free pizk-up and delivery of Patienie“within 100 miles _*Private Rigg s, Single & Double. © ra Pr 4 Dear Sir: the sketch and plan of the proposFIND GLUTTONY @ 50 biseustiMo!! Fb TH! (OWEVAIA COUNTY WU6GET vantage would accrue to any segment of Nevada City by running the State's four-lane freeway through the city. Furthermore, the "scenic freeway" as indicated in your paper should be considerably less costly than the State's four-lane freeway, Iunderstand Councilman Davies has said that we should "be sure the freeway is built to suit Nevada City as well as the State. " I agree with him. I was very much interested in ed "scenic freeway” through Nevada City as shown in your edition of November 14th, It seems to be a very well thought out way of solving traffic needs and at the same time preserving famous old historic buildings. Easy access to the parking areas provided in this new plan shouldbe an inducement to tourists and newcomers alike tostopand enjoy our city. Along Deer Creek the landscaping and park development would certainly be a most desirable improvement, It is difficult to see what adYours truly, C. D. Acker Civil Engineer-Registered 210 Drummond Street Nevada City —, ir BY DEAN THOMPSON TWISTED...When it comes to dancing, I'm low man on the family totem pole, and I know it, So those who saw yours truly trying the “twist” Saturday night at the Elks’ Helldorado party know that it was all in fun, and the columnist was more twisted than twisting...Even if I were to fool myself and claim an ability for "that dance", my daughter would rapidly put me in my place. After all, she will only admit that Mother does "an adult the modern decor, or the good food, that started me off an the highly polished and slick dance floor, But before the evening was over, Thompson shoes had slid over more dance floor mileage than they have clockedin many a moon,..The Elks have reason tobe proud of their newly renovated Lodge, and you who haven't seen it can get a good look-see Dec, 1 at the Nevada City Firemen's "Re-Scheduled May Dance".....Dr. Arch McPherson and Ardis Bell will have another vocal rendition ready by that time, and possibly the four Burns sisters will be invited to again merit the applause of an appreciative audience...We saw them first at a recent Grass Valley Lions Club function---enjoyed their harmony that night, and found it equally as good Saturday night. ALSO PROUD...Inter-County Title Company has shown off its new Courthouse Square structure, and the interior is every bit as modern as the exterior.,.,.The brightly lighted working areas must be a pleasure to work in, HALF SHOT.,..Whereas the Elks Club Saturday made use of local talent, we took an evening last week to see a Broadw ay production of "A Shot in the Dark" at Sacramento,..At times during the performance we wondered whether this was, indeed, a professional group on tour...But Freddi Chandler as the aristocratic Dominique Beaurevers convinced us. In answer to the questions of the magistrate, the words flowed with arrogance from a volunimous vocabulary. When asked to reply simply, he simply replied, "I can't"...With his appearance on stage, the whole production picked up tempo and ended in good fashion. ..The play itself is a spicy story of a shot in the dark that kills the wrong man and has every person in the cast as suspect except the magistrate, clerk and guard, SACTO, BOUND2,..Just a note to those who will be in Sacramento on an evening in the near future...The Violins of Mexico opened their third engagement at Frank Sebastian's El Dorado, Their music is worth the time and effort if you are so inclined. WATER METERS, .. Nevada City Councilman met Monday night to tackle the water rate problem within the city. A problem it was, witness last week's meeting:... Among written and verbal protests was one by Councilman Craig Davies, who stepped down from his council seat and agreed with an earlier protest by Ralph Schorr that the $4 per month rate should not apply to apartment units,..In setting up the new residential rate, the city had said it would offer a meter to any person who was not satisfied with the flat rate, But to date there is no rate set for metered water. The metered rate and the business rate will wait until the completion of a survey of the whole town's water usage by the city crew... Promised by Christmas. .. People who have protested the current $4 rate for residential and apartment use have some survey work completed on their own: A water bill for four apts, in S.F, for a two month periodcame.to $5, 96 (compared to $24 in N.C, under this week's council action of $3 per month for each apartment unit); the residential rate in Napa for a family intending to retire in Nevada City runs from a low of $1.50 per month to $6 per month seasonally. t WENT 70 A FRIEND'S HOUE FOR Lt HAVE WEVER SEEW SUCH AM AWFUL, AWIMALISTIC version” of the “twist"---Daddy? Well, never...Perhaps it was. DIMMER THE OTHE R. \W6/7.. re

FORTUMATEL y, THE TWO CHOPS £ 607 WERE REAL Letters To The Editor Dear Sir: The Scenic Highway design for Nevada City has aroused the interest of so many people in Nevada County that some of your readers may be interested in the answersto the questions most often asked: Q. The Scenic Highway may be very fine for the tourists and the antique shops, but what about its effect on the everyday shopper in Nevada City? A. One way to answer that ques tion is to follow an imaginary shopper driving down Broad Street looking for a parking place. She reaches the Hotel Annex without finding a place to park. Under the State plan, her only practical choice is to turn right onto the freeway and go offto find another town toshopin. Under the Scenic: plan she has a choice of three parking areas all within easy walking distance of the central shopping area. Q. Willthe Scenic Highway slow down traffic between Nevada City and Grass Valley? A Absolutely not. From the Sacramento Street on-ramp to the south side of Grass Valley it will all be four lane freeway with nothing but the State speed limit to keep you from going as fast as you like. ; Q. What effect will-the Scenic plan have on the merchants of Nevada City? A. The Nevada City merchants willreap the benefit of three public parking lots. The value of this is demonstrated by the expense and effort the Grass Valley merchants are expending to gain one new parking lot. Today's shoppers travel by automobile and business will not prosper where the shopper cannot park. Q. Does either plan consider the poor pedestrian? A. Both plans provide pedestrian walks on the Broad Street overcrossing. The State plan forces the pedestrian to cross off and on ramps. The Scenic plan elijninatesthese ramps, making a safer situation for the person on foot. Long may you live, pedestrian! Sincerely, Arch McPherson 4 EXPERT PRINTING Printing For Every Purpose **xCIRCULARS **STATIONERY ** MAIL PIECES. #*BILLS **xFORMS NEVADA CO. PRINTING . and PUBLISHING 212 W. Main St. GRASS VALLEY phone 273-4590 — sThere are thousands of Californians, andI am one o} have been brought upto care about who wins the annual Big Game ‘between California and Stanford, I'm for Stanford, But my Clary, whois for California, is not only a Big Game adherent, he is a Big Game philosopher, He has seen every Big Game since 1932, twenty-seven in all, and he can tell you so about ‘each one of them. This Saturday at Berkeley he will see his twenty -eighth, He points out that many of the 64 Big Games that have been played have been contests for the Pacific Coast championship. But the last such championship game was in 1949, when Califomnia beat Stanford 33-14 and went onto lose gloriously in the RoseBowl. Clary saysthat although the quality of Big Game football is not what it used to be, the game maintains its special character and tremendous appeal “because of the people that are involved, not because of the teams. " The people he refers to are the alumni of a leading private school and a leading public school of the West, who somehow, deep in their hearts, regard the game_as a struggle over prestige and principle. California, the public land grant school, vs, Stanford, the private land grant school, Clary also has a theory that Big Game atmosphere is different from that of traditional Eastern rivalries because Stanford and California alumni are mostly concentrated in the Bay Area and Northern California and they know each other better than the dispersed alumni of the various Eastern Colleges, The Big Game, as a result, has become something of a community enterprise, a symbolic playing out under the strictest rules and the greatest possible fanfare of the many arguments, large and small, of our . daily lives. I remember a few years ago when the Hollywood publicists, jealous of the notoriety of the Big Game, decided to bill the USC-UCLA game “the Biggest Game.” It was a fine idea, but somehow it never caught on. You can't generate a tradition overnight, The Big Game begafi in 1892 in San Francisco, Herbert Hoover was manager of the Stanford team and the game is remembered because of Mr, Hoover and because nobody thought to bring a football, Finally they found one, though, and Stanford won, 14-10. Since then, Stanford has won 26 games, California 28. There have been 10 ties. The Big Game has been notable for exciting games and tough teams: Gal's “Wonder” team of 1920-23, Stanford's "Vow Boys" of 1933-35, Cal's "Thunder" team of 1937, Stanford's “Wow Boys" of 1940-41, The most famous game of all is probably the 20-20 tie played in 1924, during the heyday of college football, In that game, California led Stanford by two touchdowns in the last quarter, before 100,000 fans at Berkeley (20,000 were perched on “tightwad Hill"), The feat of scoring twice in the last quarter does not seem like much today--but then again, if Stanford does the same thing’ at Berkeley this coming Saturday, some people will be just as happy, or disgusted, astheir parents, or grandparents, were thirtyeight years ago. WASHINGTO CALLING By MARQUIS CHILDS WASHINGTON ---Whether the press is whipping boy, submissive servant of the government or in the Jeffersonian concept a fourth and independent foundation stone of freedom is a question being debated in several capitals in this time of troubles when all institutions are on trial. Richard Nixon blames the working press for distorting his image and by implication for bringing about his defeat in California. In New Delhi the government of Prime Minister Nehru is said to be persuading the press to help, by soft-pedaling the news of American arms for India's war with China, to continue at least the outward look of nonalignment between the power blocs of East and West. Here at home the Kennedy Administration is accused of managing the news in the Cuban crisis to suit its own ends. This charge, growing out of remarks about the official generation of news--or more accurately generating events that create news--coincides with an order suggesting suppression or even censorship. Officials of the Department of Defense and State are required to report the content of all talks with newspapermen or to have present at such talks members of the public relations staff. But it is in the capital of West Germany that the debate has reached a state of siege. The publisher of Germany's leading news magazine, Der Spiegel(The Mirror), Rudolf Augstein, and several of his editors and writers have been in jail for more than two weeks. They are charged with treason for publishing a report to the effect that the German armed forces participating in a joint Allied exercise were way below standard in their performance. So far not a line of proof has been brought forward to substantiate the treason charge or to refute the allegations that the armed forces were ill-prepared. Augstein and his staff are considered enemies of the state for having published the report, and since Germany has no habeas corpus they must languish in jail while officials of the Ministry of Justice ransack the magazine's offices in search of proof, Most disturbing of all, as Flora Lewis pointed out in an illuminating dispatch tothe Washington Post, is that the public in Germany seems little concerned. The episode became even more pertinent with the arrival in Washington of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for talks with President Kennedy, Incidentally, onthe eve of his departure he sought to make the President's task more difficult by suggesting that Soviet missiles were still being hidden in Cuba and that the Cuban crisis proved that no negotiations with the Soviet Union on Berlin or anything else was possible. Thus before meeting the President he sought to draw a line through American foreign policy. The jailing of Der Spiegel's publisher was done without the know ledge of the Minister of Justice, who is a member not of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats but of the Free Democratic party, which is essentialto the support of Bonn's coalition government, What troubles American policymakers is whether Adenauer is actually in control of his own government. The Chancellor, who will be 87 years old in January, is the center of furious intrigues that have an Oriental palace quality. Adenauer said on the floor of the Bundestag that he was afraid to telephone from his home to his office because his wires were tapped, Asthe outcry over the nighttime raid on Der Spiegel went on it was not long before the hand of a master intriguer, Defense Minister Franz Joseph Strauss, was revealed. A long-time enemy of of DerSpiegel, Strauss admitted that his ministry had phoned the German military attache in Spain to bring about the arrest and extradition of the author of the article who was on vacation there. Freedom of the press is guaranteed in the German constitution. But this aspect of the case does not seem to concern German officialdom. Adenauer is reported to have said that law officers should be allowed to proceed with their work without interference from the public. One lesson out of Germany is that guarantees mean little with-out popular support. A press which is no more than the reflection’ of a ruling c lique--a prop for the establishment~-cannot claim public backing when the crunch comes. Similarly, a press which isno more than an instrument of the cold war will not long survive as a free institution, (Copyright, 1962) m, who