October 10, 1962 (10 pages)

. .Nevada County NUGGET A tmabeelWeee PE4-As pate (Meee pad-A SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD bbe (Ven oe! a4*As! ibe eC ence! ad-~As! gp eoans ee Kigtiae ecae Ee ’ 2 . : 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City. EDITORIAL Fall Spectacular Spectacular, but natural. In many ways this explains the Fall coloring that annually draws excited comment from visitors to Nevada County at this time each year. There are few areas inthe West to which Fall brings such a variety of coloring as it does to this area. Forthis reason, we have oftensuspected that much of our Color was the result of early settlers. While this is true of the numerous specimen trees that adorn the residential areas of Nevada City, and Grass Valley, we have been corrected in our basic contention. True, speciman’plums and sweet gums are not native. But look at this list of native color trees, as enumerated by Farm Advisor Bill Helphinstine: water maples, aspens, poplars, willows, cottonwoods, dogwoods and redbud. Add to this list the berry bearing madrone and toyon. Perhaps this increases the attractiveness of the Fallcoloring in NevadaCounty. Nature has a way of out-producing the human producers of "spectaculars". Freeway Mania A Public Issue Editor's note: the following editorial appeared in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle, It refers to a letter-to-the-editor from Harry S. Ashmore, editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Mr, Ashmore, who visited Nevada City with his wife two weeks ago, has maileda letter to the Nugget similar to the one that appeared in the Chronicle, You will find Ashmore's letter to the Nugget elsewhere on this page. We do not print this editorial with the intention of re-opening the question of the suitability of a downtown freeway route in Nevada City. That question was clearly settled two years ago through public discussion and a straw vote of the people. So far as we know, there is no longer a serious quarrel in Nevada City with a downtown freeway route, The issue that remains open, however, is what kind of highway will be built in our town: will it be a highway consonant with the scenic and historical importance of Nevada City, and with its economic needs, or will it be a yawning trench with two strips of concrete at the bottom, carrying cars “on the way to anywhere"? THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHES on this page today a letter from Harry S. Ashmore, editor-inchief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which deserves serious public consideration on two substantial counts. First, it is an eloquent protest against the desecration of California’s scenic beauties and historical relics by heedless builders of freeways. Second, it proposes a remedy for what he calls this “legalized vandalism’? and suggests that the two candidates for Governor recognize it as a prime issue and give it due attention in their campaign statements. This newspaper has frequently noted and cried out against the blind mania for bulldozing and concrete-pouring that distinguishes California’s freeway construction. We agree with Ashmore’s observation that the availability of huge gasoline-tax revenues and Federal roadbuilding funds whips the engineers into prodigies of instant paving, no matter what gets ploughed under and paved over. This frenzy to build it now, before the money gets spent elsewhere, has already interposed the unsightly Embarcadero Freeway between San Francisco and its bay, and threatens at this moment to perpetrate further mayhem upon this community. ASHMORE SUGGESTS the creation of a board of review to keep the Division of Highways within decent bounds as it weaves its endless webs of concrete and blacktop. He proposes that it be composed of conservationists and historians, who would have the proper awareness and concern to halt the headlong destruction of scenic areas and historic shrines by land-gulping roadways not half So precious as the things they wreck. It is Ashmore’s contention that herein lies an issue that demands notice by Governor Brown and his opponent, Richard M. Nixon, who thus far have moved into curious areas in an apparent search for a valid issue. We fully concur. The public, increasingly rebellious against high-handed methods of the road-builders, is entitled to know where the candidates stand on this. important Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC, 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 4 Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No. 12,406, Printed by Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years,’ $8. ; . womens cy OO KN See HERE ZAM; GORE dD /f “Now THE FIRST +tHNG We HAVE 7O Do /s GET pid OF Ace THOSE NASTY GONE , We CAN Hf _ ONevanw county NUGCET. . ~ aa OMIVERSA L. j SYMGOL OF sae THEN WE Q/te — ALt S/7 DOWN AND DECIDE 1 i DOVE, le ( 70 ABOLISH / FEAR ie w/TH FEAR RIENO YAN O flere ¢_ Dear Sir: I recently traveled over a substantial segment of Northern California, forthe most part managing the increasingly difficult task of avoiding the freeways. Having some professional interest in the past I was delighted to find so much of it still in working order. Nevada City struck me as a notable example. . Thereis some utility in restoring a shrine after what goes for progress has long since erased it, and some interest in viewing the refurbished remains across a museum's velvet rope. But it is far m ore rewarding to come upon a relic still rendering routine service. I always feel a slight chill in Williamsburg, Virginia. Inthe Mother Lode country there is a positive glow, even before the fact, tobe derived from the ability to belly upto a bar where gold dust has been exchanged for popskull'and similar necessities. In your town you appear to have -donea fairly good job of restraining the impulse to bury the past under glassbrick and chromium plate, and the counter-impulse toward employing excessive quaintness as tourist bait. I underCONCERT TIP---Holders of Community Concert series season tickets should take a look at the bill of fare at other communities to see if the Rapsodia Romina is scheduled anywhere within reach . ». The Roumanian National Folk Ensemble and Barbu Lautaru Orchestra played Saturday night in Sacramento as that city's opening concert. The dancers excellent and beautifully costumed, and the music was outstanding, The orchestra alternated with the dance troupe, allowing for costume changes, and in many ways stole the spotlight. Outstanding dance in our eyes was "The Calusari", one ofthe oldest and most energetic of the Roumanian dances, The Sacramento audience took to their hearts soloist singer Angela Moldovan, demanding three encores from the artist whocharmed them as much by her enchanting grin as by her excellent voice, But actual shouts of acclaim were reserved for the, orchestra ‘s renditon of "Ciocirlia" (the skylark) as soloist Ionel Budisteanu took a violin and had the strings singing the sunrise greeting of the bird, music that has won him acclaim through much of Europe~~--then the eight violinists in the orchestra joined and the voices of violin throated birds cheerfully sang from the concert stage.. It was a wonderful concert, one well worth traveling to seeif it is scheduled elsewhere within driving distance. Sacra~ mento received the concert well, and in appreciation from the performers was serenaded by a Rouquestion. Manian version of"Yankee stand the Nugget has had a good deal to do with this, and 1 congratulate you, But now I understand you are under threat from your own state government. I wish I could say that it is unthinkable that the Division of Highways would go through with the proposal to gut Nevada City with a freeway that would, among other desecrations, remove the annex of the magnificent old National Hotel. Unfortunately this sort of thing seems tobe all that is thinkable now that looseleaf budgets are available to the road-builders. I am also informed that there is a comparable scheme afoot to aim the bulldozers down the coast from Carmel to Big Sur. And, of course, here in Santa Barbara only an aroused citizenry, and perhaps the grace of God, has thwarted the highwaymen's effort to cut the city off from its shoreline with an elevated segment of freeway. Latein his life H.L. Mencken observed, apropos the stretch of highway blight from Baltimore to . Washington, that he had been forced to conclude that the American people do not simply tolerate ugliness, but have a posiDoodle" ---pipes of Pan, whistle, cimbaloms and all, GO, GIANTS, GO---A mong those who heard and immediately responded to a Giant broadcast that World Series tickets would go on sale---and at thetime it looked nearly hopeless ---were Marvin Shock and John Sbaffi in Nevada City. As the Giants move back to Candlestick, these two are among those whohold mail-order tickets for the remaining play.. And holding tickets for the Dodgers’ World Series play, we are told, isBob Graham, who responded to a different broadcast that mail orders would be taken. FROM PUERTO RICO---Peace Corpsman Mike Ellsworth reports: “Three weeks have ended and the first phase of the training program is complete. My field training was at Vega Baja, Puerto Rico: I worked for the Agricultural Extension Service. Working with the agent, I visited farms and discussed their problems ‘as well as solutions for them. “Working five days a week gave me more than ample Opportunity to meet the Puerto Rican people as. well as to become familiar with the language. Friendship and living with the people I work with has enabled me to overcome the language barrier and made it possible to meet many people and make many friends, "T he second phase of the training program begins this week (last week). It will consist of training for jungle survival, swimming instruction, Mountain climbing, and physical development. At the Letter To The Editor tive passion for it. Certainly some such impulse seems to seize those who look at the world through a surveyor's transit. It would appear that they see a landmark not as a challenge for preservation, but as an affront. Perhaps there is a genuine public issue here for a gubernatorial campaign that seems to need one. Will the next governor of California agree to superimpose upon the Division of Highways a review ONCE AND ALE, board made up of competent conservationists and historians? It may be that political expediency will not permit endowing such a body with an absolute veto, Even so it should be helpful to provide a group of concerned persons with automatic access to these plans for legalized vandalism before they leave the drawin g boards, and an official platform from which they could holler early and often. As things now stand the evidence is clear that neither the past nor California 's scenic beauty has any effective protection against being paved over if it hap"pens to be on the way to anywhere, Harry S. Ashmore Editor in Chief ° Encyclopaedia Britannica first of November we will go to the host country, Ecuador, " BACKGROUND --George B. Steinmeyer, manager of the newly elevated Brockington Manor branchBank of America, has had 21 years of service with B of A.. Prior to taking military leave, Steinmeyer is a retired major in the Air Force reserve, he worked in a Sacramento B of A.. From 1947 until he movedto Grass Valley in 1959, Steinmeyer served various Sacto, area branches (as an officer since 1949). In Grass Valley, he served as lending officer at the main branch until given top post at the Brockington Manor branch.. A member of the Lions, Elks and American Legion, the manager and his wife, Frances, live on Hocking Ave. in Grass Valley. FALL SPECTACULAR---With a 1962 pushto urge Northern Californians to see the Fall colors in our area, we are reminded of the visit this summer of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cochran (of Glen Oaks Ranch in Glen Ellen, Calif.) and their suggestion that we promote the "middle, historic route" across the Sierra as opposed to the Feather River and Donner routes. -+« I remember one Fall weekend last year when "we three” took off for a Yuba & Donner Pass loopride. As we arrived in Sierra City, snow flakes began falling. From that point across the pass, we saw a sight that I never again expect tosee duplicated---bright Fall leaves with a covering of fresh white snow, ' A dashing figure wearing a natrow-brimmed felt hat with a feather in it, came into the office the other day and identified ‘himself as Adam Playfair, a retired highway engineer turned factotum, philosopher, and political agitator, He claims the western brow of Banner Mountain, from where he can oversee the lush heartland of California, He was in a sweat.of concern over political polls--the kind which measure public opinion during election time, "They're not accurate," he said. "Somebody should do something to set the record straight. “If youread the polls, you will be amazed at the knowledge and intelligence of the electorate. Big blocks of voters are reported to have made up their minds about all the big problems--water, highways, recreation, welfare, education, law enforcement, outer Space, miscellaneous--everything. “Never has democracy appeared in a better light. You get the impression that the people know their own minds about the life and death issues, and they are going to vote for Brown or Nixon on the basis of how they stand on the issues. "The trouble is, Brown and Nixon don't stand on the issues at all, They sit on them, All they argue abaut is whether Brown did or did not ask whether Nixon did or did not ask Howard Hughes to lend some money to his (Nixon's) brother using for collateral a $13,000 vacant lot owned by Nixon's mother--way back when, "Well, the other day, whenI was standing on the corner of Broad and Pine, I begantowonder why the candidates keep talking about nothing in particular when the polls show that the people--who do the voting, after all--have strong feelings about things that are more important. "So I conducted my own poll right there on the corner to find out what people really are interested in. A woman with gray hair and narrow -set eyes came along and I asked her, ‘What is the most important issue of the campaign?’ ""Helen Gahagan Douglas. After what Nixon did to her in the senate campaign sixteen years ago, it's time the Democrats got rid of Nixon and restored her honor. ' “An elderly gentleman who had a walking stick said the most important issue was Communists in our schools, labor unions, and churches. ‘I'm for General Walker, ' he said, brandishing the stick asif he were going to lead an insurrection up the steps of the city hall. "Here are some other answers I got to the question, what is the most important issue of the campaign? They are tabulated by percentages. Brown's bumbling --12% Nixon's five o'clock shadow --12% Cuba--11% Caryl Chessman --8% Howard Hughes --8% The World Series --49% : “When I got those answers Iwas shocked, But, ae Butea.. f stammered, ‘what about water, highways, recreation, welfare, education, law enforcement, outer space? What about miscellaneous? ' "Nobody answered that one except a fresh kid, who wanted to know when they let me out of DeWitt. ‘What are you doing, ' he said, ‘taking one of those crazy opinion polls, or something?’ “Somebody shouldtellthe truth about what people are thinking. Somebody ought to set the record straight about those polls, " Having unburdened himself, Mr, Playfair stood up, shook my WASHINGTO CALLING By MARQUIS CHILDS come into being in France, The name for it might be guided capitalism--a stable economy of rapid but steady growth that seems resistent tocyclical ups and downs directed by a system of voluntary planning, , A procession of Americans armed with notebook and leading questions has undertaken in recent months to find out why the. French economy should be flourishing, the upward rate of growth soconsistent, the currency so hard and the gold and dollar balance moving buoyantly forward. President Kennedy has sent his chief ecomonic advisers to France and to the other countries of Western Europe seeking answers to this riddle. They are expected soonto issue a formal report, ; The triumph of theFrench economy, and this makes it seem all the more noteworthy, has taken place against a background of shattering political instability. Two attempts to assassinate President de Gaulle have narrowly failed and fanatical killers are believed to be still plotting his death. It is widely believed that his removal would plunge the country into chaos, He is 71 years old. Yet every economic indicator points steadily upward, Why? The answers supplied by the planners who have had most to do with the economic engineering of the project add up as follows: First, the instrument of government is used to a far greater extend than in the United States, A dual system of governmental budgeting--in effect, an administrative budget and a budget for capital investment--is used to influence the course of the economy. Inrecent years when the economy has been rapidly expanding both administration and investment are paid out of current revenue. The interest rate under direct government ‘control is a recognized tool of economy policy. Similarly, government loans to industry are used to guide the growth of the economy, Fifty percent of gross capital formation is in the government sector. The industries nationalized under de Gaulle at the end of the war are also important in this connection, _ But what is new and in many respects unique about the French experiment is the way in which private industrialists have been persuaded to play a part in full cooperation with the government. They serve on the top planning commission along with representatives of labor, government and the public. You ask a leading French industrialist why he goes along with the plan, Does he not forfeit some of his own freedom of decision? His answer is that since he has taken an active part in shaping the goals of the planhe has a sense of direct responsibility for the outcome, One of the industrialists with whom this reporter talked was Raoul de Vitry, head of France's largest aluminu m-producing company. He feels it is reasonable and right to work through a planning system which, in his view, has obviously contributed so much to the nation’s economic development, Is this so different after all, he asks, than bringing together the aluminum producers of France, the United States and Canada to determine how they can help underdeveloped countries to start producing aluminum? De Vitry's company shares an investment with Olin Matheson in a large aluminum development in Guinea on Africa's west coast. The current five-year plan, running from 1961 to 1965, calls for a 24 percent increase in over-all capital investment and a rate of increase in gross national production of 5.5 percent annually. Twenty-three percent of the increase in investment will be in the private sector and one percent in the public sector, The government has been authorized to increase its capital expenditures so that by 1965 they will be 50 percent higher than in 1961, The goal is to channel a larger share of the growing national income away from ccnsu mer spending on cars and refrigerators into schools, hospitals and highways, saa to live on’ PARIS---It is just possible that something new under the sun has ~

. ..Nevada County NUGGET A tmabeelWeee PE4-As pate (Meee pad-A SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD bbe (Ven oe! a4*As! ibe eC ence! ad-~As! gp eoans ee Kigtiae ecae Ee ’ 2 . : 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City. EDITORIAL Fall Spectacular Spectacular, but natural. In many ways this explains the Fall coloring that annually draws excited comment from visitors to Nevada County at this time each year. There are few areas inthe West to which Fall brings such a variety of coloring as it does to this area. Forthis reason, we have oftensuspected that much of our Color was the result of early settlers. While this is true of the numerous specimen trees that adorn the residential areas of Nevada City, and Grass Valley, we have been corrected in our basic contention. True, speciman’plums and sweet gums are not native. But look at this list of native color trees, as enumerated by Farm Advisor Bill Helphinstine: water maples, aspens, poplars, willows, cottonwoods, dogwoods and redbud. Add to this list the berry bearing madrone and toyon. Perhaps this increases the attractiveness of the Fallcoloring in NevadaCounty. Nature has a way of out-producing the human producers of "spectaculars". Freeway Mania A Public Issue Editor's note: the following editorial appeared in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle, It refers to a letter-to-the-editor from Harry S. Ashmore, editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Mr, Ashmore, who visited Nevada City with his wife two weeks ago, has maileda letter to the Nugget similar to the one that appeared in the Chronicle, You will find Ashmore's letter to the Nugget elsewhere on this page. We do not print this editorial with the intention of re-opening the question of the suitability of a downtown freeway route in Nevada City. That question was clearly settled two years ago through public discussion and a straw vote of the people. So far as we know, there is no longer a serious quarrel in Nevada City with a downtown freeway route, The issue that remains open, however, is what kind of highway will be built in our town: will it be a highway consonant with the scenic and historical importance of Nevada City, and with its economic needs, or will it be a yawning trench with two strips of concrete at the bottom, carrying cars “on the way to anywhere"? THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHES on this page today a letter from Harry S. Ashmore, editor-inchief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which deserves serious public consideration on two substantial counts. First, it is an eloquent protest against the desecration of California’s scenic beauties and historical relics by heedless builders of freeways. Second, it proposes a remedy for what he calls this “legalized vandalism’? and suggests that the two candidates for Governor recognize it as a prime issue and give it due attention in their campaign statements. This newspaper has frequently noted and cried out against the blind mania for bulldozing and concrete-pouring that distinguishes California’s freeway construction. We agree with Ashmore’s observation that the availability of huge gasoline-tax revenues and Federal roadbuilding funds whips the engineers into prodigies of instant paving, no matter what gets ploughed under and paved over. This frenzy to build it now, before the money gets spent elsewhere, has already interposed the unsightly Embarcadero Freeway between San Francisco and its bay, and threatens at this moment to perpetrate further mayhem upon this community. ASHMORE SUGGESTS the creation of a board of review to keep the Division of Highways within decent bounds as it weaves its endless webs of concrete and blacktop. He proposes that it be composed of conservationists and historians, who would have the proper awareness and concern to halt the headlong destruction of scenic areas and historic shrines by land-gulping roadways not half So precious as the things they wreck. It is Ashmore’s contention that herein lies an issue that demands notice by Governor Brown and his opponent, Richard M. Nixon, who thus far have moved into curious areas in an apparent search for a valid issue. We fully concur. The public, increasingly rebellious against high-handed methods of the road-builders, is entitled to know where the candidates stand on this. important Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC, 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 4 Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No. 12,406, Printed by Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years,’ $8. ; . womens cy OO KN See HERE ZAM; GORE dD /f “Now THE FIRST +tHNG We HAVE 7O Do /s GET pid OF Ace THOSE NASTY GONE , We CAN Hf _ ONevanw county NUGCET.. . ~ aa OMIVERSA L. j SYMGOL OF sae THEN WE Q/te — ALt S/7 DOWN AND DECIDE 1 i DOVE, le ( 70 ABOLISH / FEAR ie w/TH FEAR RIENO YAN O flere ¢_ Dear Sir: I recently traveled over a substantial segment of Northern California, forthe most part managing the increasingly difficult task of avoiding the freeways. Having some professional interest in the past I was delighted to find so much of it still in working order. Nevada City struck me as a notable example. . Thereis some utility in restoring a shrine after what goes for progress has long since erased it, and some interest in viewing the refurbished remains across a museum's velvet rope. But it is far m ore rewarding to come upon a relic still rendering routine service. I always feel a slight chill in Williamsburg, Virginia. Inthe Mother Lode country there is a positive glow, even before the fact, tobe derived from the ability to belly upto a bar where gold dust has been exchanged for popskull'and similar necessities. In your town you appear to have -donea fairly good job of restraining the impulse to bury the past under glassbrick and chromium plate, and the counter-impulse toward employing excessive quaintness as tourist bait. I underCONCERT TIP---Holders of Community Concert series season tickets should take a look at the bill of fare at other communities to see if the Rapsodia Romina is scheduled anywhere within reach . ». The Roumanian National Folk Ensemble and Barbu Lautaru Orchestra played Saturday night in Sacramento as that city's opening concert. The dancers excellent and beautifully costumed, and the music was outstanding, The orchestra alternated with the dance troupe, allowing for costume changes, and in many ways stole the spotlight. Outstanding dance in our eyes was "The Calusari", one ofthe oldest and most energetic of the Roumanian dances, The Sacramento audience took to their hearts soloist singer Angela Moldovan, demanding three encores from the artist whocharmed them as much by her enchanting grin as by her excellent voice, But actual shouts of acclaim were reserved for the, orchestra ‘s renditon of "Ciocirlia" (the skylark) as soloist Ionel Budisteanu took a violin and had the strings singing the sunrise greeting of the bird, music that has won him acclaim through much of Europe~~--then the eight violinists in the orchestra joined and the voices of violin throated birds cheerfully sang from the concert stage... It was a wonderful concert, one well worth traveling to seeif it is scheduled elsewhere within driving distance. Sacra~ mento received the concert well, and in appreciation from the performers was serenaded by a Rouquestion. Manian version of"Yankee stand the Nugget has had a good deal to do with this, and 1 congratulate you, But now I understand you are under threat from your own state government. I wish I could say that it is unthinkable that the Division of Highways would go through with the proposal to gut Nevada City with a freeway that would, among other desecrations, remove the annex of the magnificent old National Hotel. Unfortunately this sort of thing seems tobe all that is thinkable now that looseleaf budgets are available to the road-builders. I am also informed that there is a comparable scheme afoot to aim the bulldozers down the coast from Carmel to Big Sur. And, of course, here in Santa Barbara only an aroused citizenry, and perhaps the grace of God, has thwarted the highwaymen's effort to cut the city off from its shoreline with an elevated segment of freeway. Latein his life H.L. Mencken observed, apropos the stretch of highway blight from Baltimore to . Washington, that he had been forced to conclude that the American people do not simply tolerate ugliness, but have a posiDoodle" ---pipes of Pan, whistle, cimbaloms and all, GO, GIANTS, GO---A mong those who heard and immediately responded to a Giant broadcast that World Series tickets would go on sale---and at thetime it looked nearly hopeless ---were Marvin Shock and John Sbaffi in Nevada City. As the Giants move back to Candlestick, these two are among

those whohold mail-order tickets for the remaining play... And holding tickets for the Dodgers’ World Series play, we are told, isBob Graham, who responded to a different broadcast that mail orders would be taken. FROM PUERTO RICO---Peace Corpsman Mike Ellsworth reports: “Three weeks have ended and the first phase of the training program is complete. My field training was at Vega Baja, Puerto Rico: I worked for the Agricultural Extension Service. Working with the agent, I visited farms and discussed their problems ‘as well as solutions for them. “Working five days a week gave me more than ample Opportunity to meet the Puerto Rican people as. well as to become familiar with the language. Friendship and living with the people I work with has enabled me to overcome the language barrier and made it possible to meet many people and make many friends, "T he second phase of the training program begins this week (last week). It will consist of training for jungle survival, swimming instruction, Mountain climbing, and physical development. At the Letter To The Editor tive passion for it. Certainly some such impulse seems to seize those who look at the world through a surveyor's transit. It would appear that they see a landmark not as a challenge for preservation, but as an affront. Perhaps there is a genuine public issue here for a gubernatorial campaign that seems to need one. Will the next governor of California agree to superimpose upon the Division of Highways a review ONCE AND ALE, board made up of competent conservationists and historians? It may be that political expediency will not permit endowing such a body with an absolute veto, Even so it should be helpful to provide a group of concerned persons with automatic access to these plans for legalized vandalism before they leave the drawin g boards, and an official platform from which they could holler early and often. As things now stand the evidence is clear that neither the past nor California 's scenic beauty has any effective protection against being paved over if it hap"pens to be on the way to anywhere, Harry S. Ashmore Editor in Chief ° Encyclopaedia Britannica first of November we will go to the host country, Ecuador, " BACKGROUND --George B. Steinmeyer, manager of the newly elevated Brockington Manor branchBank of America, has had 21 years of service with B of A... Prior to taking military leave, Steinmeyer is a retired major in the Air Force reserve, he worked in a Sacramento B of A... From 1947 until he movedto Grass Valley in 1959, Steinmeyer served various Sacto, area branches (as an officer since 1949). In Grass Valley, he served as lending officer at the main branch until given top post at the Brockington Manor branch... A member of the Lions, Elks and American Legion, the manager and his wife, Frances, live on Hocking Ave. in Grass Valley. FALL SPECTACULAR---With a 1962 pushto urge Northern Californians to see the Fall colors in our area, we are reminded of the visit this summer of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cochran (of Glen Oaks Ranch in Glen Ellen, Calif.) and their suggestion that we promote the "middle, historic route" across the Sierra as opposed to the Feather River and Donner routes. -+« I remember one Fall weekend last year when "we three” took off for a Yuba & Donner Pass loopride. As we arrived in Sierra City, snow flakes began falling. From that point across the pass, we saw a sight that I never again expect tosee duplicated---bright Fall leaves with a covering of fresh white snow, ' A dashing figure wearing a natrow-brimmed felt hat with a feather in it, came into the office the other day and identified ‘himself as Adam Playfair, a retired highway engineer turned factotum, philosopher, and political agitator, He claims the western brow of Banner Mountain, from where he can oversee the lush heartland of California, He was in a sweat.of concern over political polls--the kind which measure public opinion during election time, "They're not accurate," he said. "Somebody should do something to set the record straight. “If youread the polls, you will be amazed at the knowledge and intelligence of the electorate. Big blocks of voters are reported to have made up their minds about all the big problems--water, highways, recreation, welfare, education, law enforcement, outer Space, miscellaneous--everything. “Never has democracy appeared in a better light. You get the impression that the people know their own minds about the life and death issues, and they are going to vote for Brown or Nixon on the basis of how they stand on the issues. "The trouble is, Brown and Nixon don't stand on the issues at all, They sit on them, All they argue abaut is whether Brown did or did not ask whether Nixon did or did not ask Howard Hughes to lend some money to his (Nixon's) brother using for collateral a $13,000 vacant lot owned by Nixon's mother--way back when, "Well, the other day, whenI was standing on the corner of Broad and Pine, I begantowonder why the candidates keep talking about nothing in particular when the polls show that the people--who do the voting, after all--have strong feelings about things that are more important. "So I conducted my own poll right there on the corner to find out what people really are interested in. A woman with gray hair and narrow -set eyes came along and I asked her, ‘What is the most important issue of the campaign?’ ""Helen Gahagan Douglas. After what Nixon did to her in the senate campaign sixteen years ago, it's time the Democrats got rid of Nixon and restored her honor. ' “An elderly gentleman who had a walking stick said the most important issue was Communists in our schools, labor unions, and churches. ‘I'm for General Walker, ' he said, brandishing the stick asif he were going to lead an insurrection up the steps of the city hall. "Here are some other answers I got to the question, what is the most important issue of the campaign? They are tabulated by percentages. Brown's bumbling --12% Nixon's five o'clock shadow --12% Cuba--11% Caryl Chessman --8% Howard Hughes --8% The World Series --49% : “When I got those answers Iwas shocked, But, ae Butea... f stammered, ‘what about water, highways, recreation, welfare, education, law enforcement, outer space? What about miscellaneous? ' "Nobody answered that one except a fresh kid, who wanted to know when they let me out of DeWitt. ‘What are you doing, ' he said, ‘taking one of those crazy opinion polls, or something?’ “Somebody shouldtellthe truth about what people are thinking. Somebody ought to set the record straight about those polls, " Having unburdened himself, Mr, Playfair stood up, shook my WASHINGTO CALLING By MARQUIS CHILDS come into being in France, The name for it might be guided capitalism--a stable economy of rapid but steady growth that seems resistent tocyclical ups and downs directed by a system of voluntary planning, , A procession of Americans armed with notebook and leading questions has undertaken in recent months to find out why the. French economy should be flourishing, the upward rate of growth soconsistent, the currency so hard and the gold and dollar balance moving buoyantly forward. President Kennedy has sent his chief ecomonic advisers to France and to the other countries of Western Europe seeking answers to this riddle. They are expected soonto issue a formal report, ; The triumph of theFrench economy, and this makes it seem all the more noteworthy, has taken place against a background of shattering political instability. Two attempts to assassinate President de Gaulle have narrowly failed and fanatical killers are believed to be still plotting his death. It is widely believed that his removal would plunge the country into chaos, He is 71 years old. Yet every economic indicator points steadily upward, Why? The answers supplied by the planners who have had most to do with the economic engineering of the project add up as follows: First, the instrument of government is used to a far greater extend than in the United States, A dual system of governmental budgeting--in effect, an administrative budget and a budget for capital investment--is used to influence the course of the economy. Inrecent years when the economy has been rapidly expanding both administration and investment are paid out of current revenue. The interest rate under direct government ‘control is a recognized tool of economy policy. Similarly, government loans to industry are used to guide the growth of the economy, Fifty percent of gross capital formation is in the government sector. The industries nationalized under de Gaulle at the end of the war are also important in this connection, _ But what is new and in many respects unique about the French experiment is the way in which private industrialists have been persuaded to play a part in full cooperation with the government. They serve on the top planning commission along with representatives of labor, government and the public. You ask a leading French industrialist why he goes along with the plan, Does he not forfeit some of his own freedom of decision? His answer is that since he has taken an active part in shaping the goals of the planhe has a sense of direct responsibility for the outcome, One of the industrialists with whom this reporter talked was Raoul de Vitry, head of France's largest aluminu m-producing company. He feels it is reasonable and right to work through a planning system which, in his view, has obviously contributed so much to the nation’s economic development, Is this so different after all, he asks, than bringing together the aluminum producers of France, the United States and Canada to determine how they can help underdeveloped countries to start producing aluminum? De Vitry's company shares an investment with Olin Matheson in a large aluminum development in Guinea on Africa's west coast. The current five-year plan, running from 1961 to 1965, calls for a 24 percent increase in over-all capital investment and a rate of increase in gross national production of 5.5 percent annually. Twenty-three percent of the increase in investment will be in the private sector and one percent in the public sector, The government has been authorized to increase its capital expenditures so that by 1965 they will be 50 percent higher than in 1961, The goal is to channel a larger share of the growing national income away from ccnsu mer spending on cars and refrigerators into schools, hospitals and highways, saa to live on’ PARIS---It is just possible that something new under the sun has ~