November 21, 1963 (34 pages)

CALIFORNIA BUILDINGS ARE MONUMENTS TO MEDIOCRITY his name is Kennedy, Goldwater, Rockefeller or what~ LETTER TO THE EDITOR APOLOGIZE 10 ELDERS, FASTING YOUTHS TOLD ever, will find it difficult, if not impossible, to get even minimum of agreement.on what must be done in the nation and the world. Above all, in the racial conflict the pressures for of the separate There are many beautiful buildings in California, but change -change profoundly disruptive part of the shathese are usually surrounded and overshadowed by monuway of life long taken for granted -are is perhaps the on electi y dow of doubt. The Kentuck : ments to mediocrity. can candiAn attractive house in a well-laid-out subdivision ~ and ssharpest reflection of this fear. The Republi d the retiring Governor, thousands of closed-in structures perhaps suitable to the date, Louis B. Nunn, attacke ating businesses servfreezing winter and hot windy summer of Kansas, but Bert Combs, for his order desegreg position was compared to that of without porch or any other inviting amenity suitable to ing the public, and his Senator Goldwater. The Democratic candidate, Edward their actual location, California.’’ To the Editor: This is in the manner of an open letter to the Fasting Friends in your town. who think it TO: The four fifteen year old "Friends" sacriligious to honor the "Legalized Murderers” of the past three wars inflicted upon the UNWILLING murderers d among the United States population. (usually population SUBJECT: Why the general ADULT including those from the age of 15 yrs. to senility) are that normally goes tothe Democrats in elections for state ignoring the Fast you imposed upon yourselves. * drab. ; SOLUTION: Apologize to your Elders, both religious A prize-winning design for a Governor's Mansion, and office. Almost no one here in this stagnant capital speaks exand parental for having made a spectacle of yourselves a profusion of state buildings which are without distincwhisper about the fear of what can before the whole nation by misunderstanding the purpose tion. (And will that Governor's Mansion ever be built?) cept in a private It is the fear that the behind the “celebration” of Armistice Day, now known A proud new city hall, but many that are merely and happen in the months just ahead. immovable object, namely Congress, will collide headas Veteran's Day. barely serviceable. fierce first wave VETERAN'S DAY (My impression, anyway): Although a community often makes the effort to cause onwiththe irresistable force that is the Veteran's Day, and I believe I speak for the general movement. On this collision a handsome freeway tobe built, or a worthy old building of the Negro civil rights ble. public, is much closer to observance asa Holy Day rather to be saved, too few grow concerned over the total apcourse the results are entirely predicta : Already an angry muttering can be heard often from than a Celebrating Holiday. pearance of a group of structures. We will spend a small A magnificent office building, and hundreds which are T. Breathitt Jr., narrowly squeaked through in a state fortune embalming every brick of a worthy old building, sources where it would have been least expected, The Even though I wasn't born when Armistice Day was top command of the United Auto Workers Union, which founded, during my childhood it was a forgone conclu directions, is getting the word from the grass roots. Phrased in far more blunt and brutal language it is: Don't was alerted by the Fire Department Siren to stand quietly, facing the East and giving a silent prayer that we would never be forced to acknowledge another "Holiday" has led the way in integration and other "progressive" push this Negro equality business any harder, it's gone sion that everyone in town, at the stroke of 11:00 A. M., for the same reason. You see, the object of Veteran's i far enough. self-same Legalized MurThe fear of what the coming months can bring has very Day isto give tribute to those lives so that children as well as real dimensions. If Congress by late February or March derers who gave their their consciences told them to has not passed a civilrights bill roughly the equivalent of grownups could do things knowing they were going the one reported out by the House Judiciary Committee, do. They left their families, left the same, not knowing that a containing public accommodations and fair employment. to face others who had no partiality. the prospect is for widespread civil disobedibullet has no intelligence and ions, provis being. now is that em mayh l ectura archit the ignore and Very few of my friends, ages 17 through 21 who went leaders may be, they committed on each side of the building. The problems connected with establishing, much less enforcing, reasonable local architectural controls in ap ence. However reluctant moderate overseas during the second war came back the same will be unable to stand off the young insurgents. were when they left. Most Airports, railway and bus stations will be put under happy-go-lucky people they came back at of frenzy and near hysteria vio-~ of them didn't come back whole, if they phere atmos an In seige. else thing every like And ones. uchy areto propriate areas ate more violence, This is not a nightall, connected with ‘planning, they involve the weighing of lence will gener If you can call these men, some not even out of their ted to put pressure on a dragging and unhappy inven mare the se, becau But rns. conce te priva st again oup of millions public concerns as teens, legalized killers, then WE of things to come shape us perilo the is It ss. Congre conavoid to n reaso no for not having problems are difficult, we have to the advanced wave of Negro will have to apologize to the five of you close those by seen cities ornia Calif all t almos as , ether altog sidering them allowed the Hitlers, Mussolinis, Kaisers, Czars, Hiroleadership and who would if they could avoid it. and do today. be alienated in large numbers hitos and Communists to step in without resistance could voters White r bette of think e anyon can't it at And while we're we could live, worship and ghout the North, And, as a result, all current caldictate directives as to how throu super a Must ns? statio gas and s stand frosty for ns desig die! culations on the outcome for November of 1964 would even how we could market in a rustic gold town look exactly like those in In other words, if we had allowed this to happen, it off, A Republican candidate would hardly have' thrown of ad inste tects archi can't Why ? plain the of the cities be blamed and the wouldhave spared you the uncomfortable knowledge, if would ins the since word a utter to can ries facto new If rs? astronauts design our house traile you are honest with yourselves, that you owe a profound beneficiaries. the be would outs re, cultu and ing learn of s place like look to be designed It is hard to recall a apology to your parents, your community, your country, off, be would bets all short, In like look which ls schoo why must we continue to build thousands upon thousands of 12 months before a Presidential election, and ABOVE ALL, to those when, time factories? countries which can determine the outcome should dead Americans lying in graves in foreign ---Samuel E. Wood and Alfred Heller, the elements that toward forgetting what suspension and in a sense beyond the eventoday are well on their way ain uncert in be ” still ornia Calif of s Citie tom Phan "The from these men have done for them and are turning toward power of even an in¢umbent President to influence. WASHINGTON CALLING That the Philadelphia election is a register of this un DOUBT, UNCERTAINTY SHOWN IN ELECTION RETURNS into the WASHINGTON ---All the wishful omens read it was really recent election cannot disguise the fact that ics of a dead more of the same. We are seeing the polit center of doubt and uncertainty. but what we What we have may not be good enough e. The present are likely to get will possibly be wors sion which in 1960 pause reflects the same narrow divi line margin. split the popular vote by precarious hair certainty seems questionable, Above all, Philadelphia is more of the same. The Democrats in control of City Hall have fallen into the same posture of favors in return for pelf that for so long plagued the Republican machine that owned the city, And the Republicans suffered from the Communism! If you, as well as some of the MANY other people in the United States who are biased in one way or the other would stop and think. .the citizenry of the U.S., both black and white, yellow and red didn't stop to compare colorswhen they were asked to take the biggest risk in lives, they went TOGET HER as a huge over~chronic ailment that General Eisenhower so often beworld, their throughout the history of the United wailed --a lack of able candidates willing to start at the whelming group States to stop and veto any thoughts of any people or pick-and-shovel level and build an organization. g the founding country of the United . But candidates, parties and elections to one side, the country includin so that you and all the rest of us could have the pressing question ishow long the nation can pause on the States, ious gifts givento any people in the world. present narrow plateau of indecision with all hands remost prec RTY& THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS! luctant to confront the rocky road ahead, The 1964 elecLIFE, LIBE Sincerely, tion can hardly be another wait and see. The waiting Winston C, Quinn ct that the time is nearly at an end. (Copyright 1963) Most of the comment has been to the effe ---Marquis Childs h job ahead to returns show President Kennedy has a toug PEOPLE HAVE ALWANS WANTED 10 Know wHy TAM IN & Huntington Beach 1$ THE SYMBOL OF KY R SYHBL.AVITHE Awe LAST, AND LERTAWLY LEAST: PLEASURE-HAD SOCIETY! THAT ARE THE TH / E SYMBOL OF ACTUALLY , THE BOTME EUUIROVHEVT. A ote VEWIEMCE a ap EPO, HAS TO OFFER AT MY LINGERTIPS- 6 is60 by Daa O'iveill pacers ter THE SHELF IS 18 THE CORK 2 OF THE JVORAS LOUMPATION 0 F SOLIETY'S BEHAVIOR. a / MY EARM/NG WAGE . _ sind “ Pa .Page 11 ‘Page 11. .November 21, 1963. . The Nugget OI e8eg°** S961 ‘TZ JaquIcAON’ °°7088nN OUL’* OT 28eq CALIFORNIA be re-elected. Far more obvious is that any man who serves inthe office of the Presidency after 1964, whether

CALIFORNIA BUILDINGS ARE MONUMENTS TO MEDIOCRITY his name is Kennedy, Goldwater, Rockefeller or what~ LETTER TO THE EDITOR APOLOGIZE 10 ELDERS, FASTING YOUTHS TOLD ever, will find it difficult, if not impossible, to get even minimum of agreement.on what must be done in the nation and the world. Above all, in the racial conflict the pressures for of the separate There are many beautiful buildings in California, but change -change profoundly disruptive part of the shathese are usually surrounded and overshadowed by monuway of life long taken for granted -are is perhaps the on electi y dow of doubt. The Kentuck : ments to mediocrity. can candiAn attractive house in a well-laid-out subdivision ~ and ssharpest reflection of this fear. The Republi d the retiring Governor, thousands of closed-in structures perhaps suitable to the date, Louis B. Nunn, attacke ating businesses servfreezing winter and hot windy summer of Kansas, but Bert Combs, for his order desegreg position was compared to that of without porch or any other inviting amenity suitable to ing the public, and his Senator Goldwater. The Democratic candidate, Edward their actual location, California.’’ To the Editor: This is in the manner of an open letter to the Fasting Friends in your town. who think it TO: The four fifteen year old "Friends" sacriligious to honor the "Legalized Murderers” of the past three wars inflicted upon the UNWILLING murderers d among the United States population. (usually population SUBJECT: Why the general ADULT including those from the age of 15 yrs. to senility) are that normally goes tothe Democrats in elections for state ignoring the Fast you imposed upon yourselves. * drab. ; SOLUTION: Apologize to your Elders, both religious A prize-winning design for a Governor's Mansion, and office. Almost no one here in this stagnant capital speaks exand parental for having made a spectacle of yourselves a profusion of state buildings which are without distincwhisper about the fear of what can before the whole nation by misunderstanding the purpose tion. (And will that Governor's Mansion ever be built?) cept in a private It is the fear that the behind the “celebration” of Armistice Day, now known A proud new city hall, but many that are merely and happen in the months just ahead. immovable object, namely Congress, will collide headas Veteran's Day. barely serviceable. fierce first wave VETERAN'S DAY (My impression, anyway): Although a community often makes the effort to cause onwiththe irresistable force that is the Veteran's Day, and I believe I speak for the general movement. On this collision a handsome freeway tobe built, or a worthy old building of the Negro civil rights ble. public, is much closer to observance asa Holy Day rather to be saved, too few grow concerned over the total apcourse the results are entirely predicta : Already an angry muttering can be heard often from than a Celebrating Holiday. pearance of a group of structures. We will spend a small A magnificent office building, and hundreds which are T. Breathitt Jr., narrowly squeaked through in a state fortune embalming every brick of a worthy old building, sources where it would have been least expected, The Even though I wasn't born when Armistice Day was top command of the United Auto Workers Union, which founded, during my childhood it was a forgone conclu directions, is getting the word from the grass roots. Phrased in far more blunt and brutal language it is: Don't was alerted by the Fire Department Siren to stand quietly, facing the East and giving a silent prayer that we would never be forced to acknowledge another "Holiday" has led the way in integration and other "progressive" push this Negro equality business any harder, it's gone sion that everyone in town, at the stroke of 11:00 A. M., for the same reason. You see, the object of Veteran's i far enough. self-same Legalized MurThe fear of what the coming months can bring has very Day isto give tribute to those lives so that children as well as real dimensions. If Congress by late February or March derers who gave their their consciences told them to has not passed a civilrights bill roughly the equivalent of grownups could do things knowing they were going the one reported out by the House Judiciary Committee, do. They left their families, left the same, not knowing that a containing public accommodations and fair employment. to face others who had no partiality. the prospect is for widespread civil disobedibullet has no intelligence and ions, provis being. now is that em mayh l ectura archit the ignore and Very few of my friends, ages 17 through 21 who went leaders may be, they committed on each side of the building. The problems connected with establishing, much less enforcing, reasonable local architectural controls in ap ence. However reluctant moderate overseas during the second war came back the same will be unable to stand off the young insurgents. were when they left. Most Airports, railway and bus stations will be put under happy-go-lucky people they came back at of frenzy and near hysteria vio-~ of them didn't come back whole, if they phere atmos an In seige. else thing every like And ones. uchy areto propriate areas ate more violence, This is not a nightall, connected with ‘planning, they involve the weighing of lence will gener If you can call these men, some not even out of their ted to put pressure on a dragging and unhappy inven mare the se, becau But rns. conce te priva st again oup of millions public concerns as teens, legalized killers, then WE of things to come shape us perilo the is It ss. Congre conavoid to n reaso no for not having problems are difficult, we have to the advanced wave of Negro will have to apologize to the five of you close those by seen cities ornia Calif all t almos as , ether altog sidering them allowed the Hitlers, Mussolinis, Kaisers, Czars, Hiroleadership and who would if they could avoid it. and do today. be alienated in large numbers hitos and Communists to step in without resistance could voters White r bette of think e anyon can't it at And while we're we could live, worship and ghout the North, And, as a result, all current caldictate directives as to how throu super a Must ns? statio gas and

s stand frosty for ns desig die! culations on the outcome for November of 1964 would even how we could market in a rustic gold town look exactly like those in In other words, if we had allowed this to happen, it off, A Republican candidate would hardly have' thrown of ad inste tects archi can't Why ? plain the of the cities be blamed and the wouldhave spared you the uncomfortable knowledge, if would ins the since word a utter to can ries facto new If rs? astronauts design our house traile you are honest with yourselves, that you owe a profound beneficiaries. the be would outs re, cultu and ing learn of s place like look to be designed It is hard to recall a apology to your parents, your community, your country, off, be would bets all short, In like look which ls schoo why must we continue to build thousands upon thousands of 12 months before a Presidential election, and ABOVE ALL, to those when, time factories? countries which can determine the outcome should dead Americans lying in graves in foreign ---Samuel E. Wood and Alfred Heller, the elements that toward forgetting what suspension and in a sense beyond the eventoday are well on their way ain uncert in be ” still ornia Calif of s Citie tom Phan "The from these men have done for them and are turning toward power of even an in¢umbent President to influence. WASHINGTON CALLING That the Philadelphia election is a register of this un DOUBT, UNCERTAINTY SHOWN IN ELECTION RETURNS into the WASHINGTON ---All the wishful omens read it was really recent election cannot disguise the fact that ics of a dead more of the same. We are seeing the polit center of doubt and uncertainty. but what we What we have may not be good enough e. The present are likely to get will possibly be wors sion which in 1960 pause reflects the same narrow divi line margin. split the popular vote by precarious hair certainty seems questionable, Above all, Philadelphia is more of the same. The Democrats in control of City Hall have fallen into the same posture of favors in return for pelf that for so long plagued the Republican machine that owned the city, And the Republicans suffered from the Communism! If you, as well as some of the MANY other people in the United States who are biased in one way or the other would stop and think. .the citizenry of the U.S., both black and white, yellow and red didn't stop to compare colorswhen they were asked to take the biggest risk in lives, they went TOGET HER as a huge over~chronic ailment that General Eisenhower so often beworld, their throughout the history of the United wailed --a lack of able candidates willing to start at the whelming group States to stop and veto any thoughts of any people or pick-and-shovel level and build an organization. g the founding country of the United . But candidates, parties and elections to one side, the country includin so that you and all the rest of us could have the pressing question ishow long the nation can pause on the States, ious gifts givento any people in the world. present narrow plateau of indecision with all hands remost prec RTY& THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS! luctant to confront the rocky road ahead, The 1964 elecLIFE, LIBE Sincerely, tion can hardly be another wait and see. The waiting Winston C, Quinn ct that the time is nearly at an end. (Copyright 1963) Most of the comment has been to the effe ---Marquis Childs h job ahead to returns show President Kennedy has a toug PEOPLE HAVE ALWANS WANTED 10 Know wHy TAM IN & Huntington Beach 1$ THE SYMBOL OF KY R SYHBL.AVITHE Awe LAST, AND LERTAWLY LEAST: PLEASURE-HAD SOCIETY! THAT ARE THE TH / E SYMBOL OF ACTUALLY , THE BOTME EUUIROVHEVT.. A ote VEWIEMCE a ap EPO, HAS TO OFFER AT MY LINGERTIPS- 6 is60 by Daa O'iveill pacers ter THE SHELF IS 18 THE CORK 2 OF THE JVORAS LOUMPATION 0 F SOLIETY'S BEHAVIOR. a / MY EARM/NG WAGE . _ sind “ Pa .Page 11 ‘Page 11. .November 21, 1963. . The Nugget OI e8eg°** S961 ‘TZ JaquIcAON’ °°7088nN OUL’* OT 28eq CALIFORNIA be re-elected. Far more obvious is that any man who serves inthe office of the Presidency after 1964, whether