November 7, 1963 (20 pages)

. p Jemnoncnemetonsntraisanrinin span ensn * SMALL TOWN: SMALL WORLDrey o p. EDITORIAL + ' NEVADA CITY PROVES IT CAN HOST BOTH CONFERENCES, CONVENTIONS — It takes months or even years to measure the effectiveness of a conference such as that sponsored by the University of California at Davis on the Small City in California. Since this was the first meeting of experts in which the focus was on the small community, the ideas and opinions expressed at the conference fell onto virgin intellectual soil. It will take time for these thoughts to germinate and for action to sprout as a result of the workshop in Nevada City. But the success of the discussions of the past and prospects of small California cities will not be entirely measured by a yardstick of ideas and their resulting actions. The mere fact that the conference was held in Nevada City, that more than 100 persons were in attendance, that local participation was higher than originally expected, that the facilities and organization for out-of-town visitors were sufficient if not exceptional ---allthese prove that Nevada City is ready to host other conferences or, small conventions. The conference of Business and Professional Women earlier this Fall adds emphasis to the convention potential of the city. And if the university desired to test the cultural aptitude and intellectual curiosity of Nevada City and this area, the test gave a positive answer to the unvoiced question. As for local participants, those we have talked to indicate there is one question left unanswered in their minds: When can we have another such conference? : SIERRA BYWAYS SIERRA FORESTRY COURSE . STARTED AT NEVADA UNION FORESTRY..Aclass in Tree and Wood Identification beganthis week at Nevada Union High School as part of the Sierra College evening course program. The classes will be held each Tuesday evening, with Richard Pryor as instructor, Thursday evening classes in Forest Management also began this week..The two forestry classes will addto the 570 persons now enrolled in Sierra's evening program---a new record for the college. SHORT SHOTS.. A Lincoln lass served as Homecoming Queen for Sierra College last week, but three Grass Valley girls, Sharon Grant, Linda McDonald and “Jeanette Crowder were ‘among the four attendants.. Wedding photos of the horseback wedding last week were from Scotty's Studio in Grass Valley..Hal Altman, Sacramentan_active in restoration of Jewish cemeteries inthe Mother Lode (and most active in Nevada City recently), hasbeen named publicity chairman for the Con* = Ay ae Se ference of California Historical Societies. .Two of three escapees from Nevada County's jail June 23 have been recaptured: Covey Robison who was picked up by the FBI in Kentucky, and Darrell Shootman, 27, picked up this week in the Glenbrook area. Still at large is _ Everett Connoley. The trio sawed the bars and lowered themselves from the second Story jail window..In Just four months of operation, the dispensary at Lake Izabek, Guatemala, has treated over 2400 cases. The dispensary received medical equipment from the estate of Dr. S.F. Tobias through the Nevada City Trinity Episcopal Church, medical supplies, and $5,363 in cash donated by Northern California Episcopal groups. MOVE TRAFFIC?..That signal at Main and Auburn Sts. in Grass Valley seems to back up traffic east on Main St. far more than the lack of a signal did in the past, local residents are noting. Also noted is that traffic backs up more eastward on Main than in any other direction from the three-way signa! intersection.. Perhaps an adjustment in the timing is in order?..On the other hand, traffic backed up on west Main St. would soon block off Mill St..Seems obvious now that it's too late, that “they” should have built the Grass Valley Elevated before the Nevada City freeway. A GOLDEN THRONE.. Gary Sturni, who wrote high school news for the Nugget and another paper nearby while at NUHS, is now at Sacto State College. Sturni sent along a clipping from the Sac State Hornet, The Sportuary column of Jon Engellenner, a “tremendously funny. and a very talented satirist". .Anda portion of the column concerns the work of Hornet Editor Jim Shock, Nevada City student at SSC who worked on the Nugget a f “eoram . ADVERTISING AGENT RENTS NEWSPAPERS BY THE Foot IustRAD OF BY THE SquaBE. Gothim’s Advertising Always Pays Him. = summer ago. Engellenner asks: How can we offer you this paper twice a week for such a low, low price? Editor Jim Shock has found the secret of a cheap labor supply, namely the Alaskan slave ships which dock monthly in west coast ports. The State college system, in search of professors and administrators, usually has the monthly crop pretty well picked over by the time Old Jim gets there on his '37 Schwinn, but most of the-staffers on The Black Hole of Journalism have been obtained this way. And dirt cheap, too. What about operating costs? They are kept to a minimum. The Hornet is not printed on a press; all four thousand copies are typed by our staff. To prevent fatigue, the ge sap Le has assigned each reporter to one key on our only typewriter, a 1913 Underwood portable. The exaulted One oversees the entire operation from high atop a golden throne donated by the Nevada County Nugget. God, what organization! Forty people chained to a portable typewriter! SCHOLARSHIP. .Teen-agers inthe Nevada City Trinity Church Episcopal Yough Club earned $150 at the county fair.. This money is now sponsoring Abad Balot at the St. Andrews Theological Seminary in the Philippines. Abad is the fourth child in a family of ten children. Neither his father or mother had any formal schooling and the lad had to stop his schooling for a few years to help support the family. But he is back in school now, and the EYC money will pay for his room, board and utilities. His books and uniform come from other Episcopal funds. aa” 7a&’* ‘ve a ae LACK OF PLANNING CAUSES — LAG IN REDEVELOPMENT Our best efforts at downtown renewal and redevelopment are not keeping pace with the spreading blight of our downtown areas. Specifically, for every “deteriorated" house that is removed by redevelopment in California each year, about three houses take its place in the deteriorated category. . But the inadequacy of these efforts is not as serious as the failure of public and private planning which is making them necessary. Too few downtown businessmen have opened their eyes tothe fact that the future of the downtown area is directly affected by what is going on far out from the city center, at the fringe where the new shopping center is going up. T 00 few cities have movedto control the growth of the entire area (and forestall downtown deterioration) through programs of annexation and area -wide development. Too few cities have attempted to carry on a communtiy -wide discussion of the purpose and function of the entire city, including the downtown shopping center. Too many cities have commissioned or adopted or endorsed general development plans, only to honor the plans more in the breach than in the observance. The impressive State Capitol Plan has been endorsed by the City of Sacramento. Yet the city failed to adopt interim zoning for the area until state money was available for purchase of the property. In fact, the city has gone aheadtosign street closure agreements with the Division of Highways, which will run a major highway right through lawns and’ buildings envisioned under the plan. Few city officials recognize that one of the major slum -breeders is the prevalent taxation policy of heavily assessing developed and improved land, and letting undeveloped or run-down land depreciate to the point of no return. No cities are seriously considering alternatives to this policy, which merely sustains the slum landlord and the slum. © Too many cities aggravate their already serious downtown traffic congestion by encouraging or acquiescing in the development of more freeways, thus inviting the intrusion of additional cars, additional congestion. We know of no city in California which consistently pursues policies reflecting a genuine understanding of the relationship between the development of beautiful streets and parks, the creation of inspiring fountains and monuments, the building of handsome public buildings, the protection of open space and the maintenance of a thriving downtown area. ~ ---Samuel E. Wood and Alfred Heller, g eBeg** *S96T ‘L JOqUIZAON ** *1033NN oy L’**g oBeg from "The Phantom Cities of California” MEDICAL CARE FOR AGED IS UNDER STATE SCRUTINY © Medical care for the aged, a controversial topic in our national legislative halls, has developed considerable heatherein our California law-making circles. Accusations have been hurled that our state administration of the existing medical assistance to the aged system does not conform to federal law under which about half of the funds are supplied. It is also alleged that state price-fixing for care of the aged in nursing homes or hospitalshas depressed rates so far as to threaten private institutions with eventual extinction. The Senate Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare recently held the first of several hearings on these charges. A spokesman for the Legislative Analyst presented a factual statement as to applicable federal and state laws, and operations under them. Representatives of the Depart mentsofSocial Weltare, Finance, and Mental Hygiene gave their viewpoints. Nursing home spokesmen made clear their objections to the current situation as to rates, County officials also got intothe discussion, and a county taxpayers‘ group voiced its concern over the affect of the program on local tax rates. A representative of the Los Angeles County Medical Society ripped into operation of the medical program for the aged, saying that it results mostly in pouring more money into

. p Jemnoncnemetonsntraisanrinin span ensn * SMALL TOWN: SMALL WORLDrey o p. EDITORIAL + ' NEVADA CITY PROVES IT CAN HOST BOTH CONFERENCES, CONVENTIONS — It takes months or even years to measure the effectiveness of a conference such as that sponsored by the University of California at Davis on the Small City in California. Since this was the first meeting of experts in which the focus was on the small community, the ideas and opinions expressed at the conference fell onto virgin intellectual soil. It will take time for these thoughts to germinate and for action to sprout as a result of the workshop in Nevada City. But the success of the discussions of the past and prospects of small California cities will not be entirely measured by a yardstick of ideas and their resulting actions. The mere fact that the conference was held in Nevada City, that more than 100 persons were in attendance, that local participation was higher than originally expected, that the facilities and organization for out-of-town visitors were sufficient if not exceptional ---allthese prove that Nevada City is ready to host other conferences or, small conventions. The conference of Business and Professional Women earlier this Fall adds emphasis to the convention potential of the city. And if the university desired to test the cultural aptitude and intellectual curiosity of Nevada City and this area, the test gave a positive answer to the unvoiced question. As for local participants, those we have talked to indicate there is one question left unanswered in their minds: When can we have another such conference? : SIERRA BYWAYS SIERRA FORESTRY COURSE . STARTED AT NEVADA UNION FORESTRY...Aclass in Tree and Wood Identification beganthis week at Nevada Union High School as part of the Sierra College evening course program. The classes will be held each Tuesday evening, with Richard Pryor as instructor, Thursday evening classes in Forest Management also began this week...The two forestry classes will addto the 570 persons now enrolled in Sierra's evening program---a new record for the college. SHORT SHOTS... A Lincoln lass served as Homecoming Queen for Sierra College last week, but three Grass Valley girls, Sharon Grant, Linda McDonald and “Jeanette Crowder were ‘among the four attendants... Wedding photos of the horseback wedding last week were from Scotty's Studio in Grass Valley...Hal Altman, Sacramentan_active in restoration of Jewish cemeteries inthe Mother Lode (and most active in Nevada City recently), hasbeen named publicity chairman for the Con* = Ay ae Se ference of California Historical Societies. ..Two of three escapees from Nevada County's jail June 23 have been recaptured: Covey Robison who was picked up by the FBI in Kentucky, and Darrell Shootman, 27, picked up this week in the Glenbrook area. Still at large is _ Everett Connoley. The trio sawed the bars and lowered themselves from the second Story jail window...In Just four months of operation, the dispensary at Lake Izabek, Guatemala, has treated over 2400 cases. The dispensary received medical equipment from the estate of Dr. S.F. Tobias through the Nevada City Trinity Episcopal Church, medical supplies, and $5,363 in cash donated by Northern California Episcopal groups. MOVE TRAFFIC?...That signal at Main and Auburn Sts. in Grass Valley seems to back up traffic east on Main St. far more than the lack of a signal did in the past, local residents are noting. Also noted is that traffic backs up more eastward on Main than in any other direction from the three-way signa! intersection... Perhaps an adjustment in the timing is in order?...On the other hand, traffic backed up on west Main St. would soon block off Mill St...Seems obvious now that it's too late, that “they” should have built the Grass Valley Elevated before the Nevada City freeway. A GOLDEN THRONE... Gary Sturni, who wrote high school news for the Nugget and another paper nearby while at NUHS, is now at Sacto State College. Sturni sent along a clipping from the Sac State Hornet, The Sportuary column of Jon Engellenner, a “tremendously funny. and a very talented satirist". ..Anda portion of the column concerns the work of Hornet Editor Jim Shock, Nevada City student at SSC who worked on the Nugget a f “eoram . ADVERTISING AGENT RENTS NEWSPAPERS BY THE Foot IustRAD OF BY THE SquaBE. Gothim’s Advertising Always Pays Him. =

summer ago. Engellenner asks: How can we offer you this paper twice a week for such a low, low price? Editor Jim Shock has found the secret of a cheap labor supply, namely the Alaskan slave ships which dock monthly in west coast ports. The State college system, in search of professors and administrators, usually has the monthly crop pretty well picked over by the time Old Jim gets there on his '37 Schwinn, but most of the-staffers on The Black Hole of Journalism have been obtained this way. And dirt cheap, too. What about operating costs? They are kept to a minimum. The Hornet is not printed on a press; all four thousand copies are typed by our staff. To prevent fatigue, the ge sap Le has assigned each reporter to one key on our only typewriter, a 1913 Underwood portable. The exaulted One oversees the entire operation from high atop a golden throne donated by the Nevada County Nugget. God, what organization! Forty people chained to a portable typewriter! SCHOLARSHIP. ..Teen-agers inthe Nevada City Trinity Church Episcopal Yough Club earned $150 at the county fair... This money is now sponsoring Abad Balot at the St. Andrews Theological Seminary in the Philippines. Abad is the fourth child in a family of ten children. Neither his father or mother had any formal schooling and the lad had to stop his schooling for a few years to help support the family. But he is back in school now, and the EYC money will pay for his room, board and utilities. His books and uniform come from other Episcopal funds. aa” 7a&’* ‘ve a ae LACK OF PLANNING CAUSES — LAG IN REDEVELOPMENT Our best efforts at downtown renewal and redevelopment are not keeping pace with the spreading blight of our downtown areas. Specifically, for every “deteriorated" house that is removed by redevelopment in California each year, about three houses take its place in the deteriorated category. . But the inadequacy of these efforts is not as serious as the failure of public and private planning which is making them necessary. Too few downtown businessmen have opened their eyes tothe fact that the future of the downtown area is directly affected by what is going on far out from the city center, at the fringe where the new shopping center is going up. T 00 few cities have movedto control the growth of the entire area (and forestall downtown deterioration) through programs of annexation and area -wide development. Too few cities have attempted to carry on a communtiy -wide discussion of the purpose and function of the entire city, including the downtown shopping center. Too many cities have commissioned or adopted or endorsed general development plans, only to honor the plans more in the breach than in the observance. The impressive State Capitol Plan has been endorsed by the City of Sacramento. Yet the city failed to adopt interim zoning for the area until state money was available for purchase of the property. In fact, the city has gone aheadtosign street closure agreements with the Division of Highways, which will run a major highway right through lawns and’ buildings envisioned under the plan. Few city officials recognize that one of the major slum -breeders is the prevalent taxation policy of heavily assessing developed and improved land, and letting undeveloped or run-down land depreciate to the point of no return. No cities are seriously considering alternatives to this policy, which merely sustains the slum landlord and the slum. © Too many cities aggravate their already serious downtown traffic congestion by encouraging or acquiescing in the development of more freeways, thus inviting the intrusion of additional cars, additional congestion. We know of no city in California which consistently pursues policies reflecting a genuine understanding of the relationship between the development of beautiful streets and parks, the creation of inspiring fountains and monuments, the building of handsome public buildings, the protection of open space and the maintenance of a thriving downtown area. ~ ---Samuel E. Wood and Alfred Heller, g eBeg** *S96T ‘L JOqUIZAON ** *1033NN oy L’**g oBeg from "The Phantom Cities of California” MEDICAL CARE FOR AGED IS UNDER STATE SCRUTINY © Medical care for the aged, a controversial topic in our national legislative halls, has developed considerable heatherein our California law-making circles. Accusations have been hurled that our state administration of the existing medical assistance to the aged system does not conform to federal law under which about half of the funds are supplied. It is also alleged that state price-fixing for care of the aged in nursing homes or hospitalshas depressed rates so far as to threaten private institutions with eventual extinction. The Senate Fact Finding Committee on Labor and Welfare recently held the first of several hearings on these charges. A spokesman for the Legislative Analyst presented a factual statement as to applicable federal and state laws, and operations under them. Representatives of the Depart mentsofSocial Weltare, Finance, and Mental Hygiene gave their viewpoints. Nursing home spokesmen made clear their objections to the current situation as to rates, County officials also got intothe discussion, and a county taxpayers‘ group voiced its concern over the affect of the program on local tax rates. A representative of the Los Angeles County Medical Society ripped into operation of the medical program for the aged, saying that it results mostly in pouring more money into