October 14, 1965 (34 pages)

Pad! ceed i 2 Ss ae Sag aa Se ae ae a : October 14, 1965. Nevada County Nugget. LL a a ae ap aN . in government, The long-range implications of this new thinking are hard to figure out. Are we entering an age of greatly expanded state planning, in which private © enterprise will dothe planning for the state, as it has done in these preliminary reports? If so, then how will the state be able to control its own planning process? In the long run I think we may see quite a scramble. for control of the fantastically expensive machinery of the computer age. Those who come up with the pearl in hand are going to have control over the destiny of millions of people. That may be an exaggeration, I think it isn't. The computers represent something new among complex civilizations. They represent the means of finding compelling answers to very big questions. The Governor, various executive agencies, legislators, political groups, private énterprise--all are tending to frame large questions, and commandeer machinery which will help find the answers. WASHINGTON CALLING THE DIFFICULT JOB OF THE VICE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, ~Vice President Hubert H, Humphrey has a seemingly inexhaustible store ot energy, good will, enthusiasm. This is one of the resources that has seen him through his first difficult year in tandem with President Johnson. A cynical Washington view is that Humphrey has been consumed by the voracious Johnson appetite for power. Hehas disappeared, altogether, in this view, in the maw of Presidential authority, What remains is a faint echo of the vigorous, forthright Humphrey of old. This conveniently ignores the personality of the two men andthe difficult role of vice president under. the best of circumstances. From the very first day after he was nominated as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Humphrey listed as his No. 1 priority the need to stand always in accord with the President. Without that accord, as Vice President, he would be only the presiding officer of the Senate. And, as Humphrey knows only too well, there is hardly a more empty office in the land, Johnson is supposed to have said when he finally gave Humphrey the nod at Atlantic City, ending what was for Humphrey a painful and uncertain wait, that he had suffered in the office and his Vice President would suffer, too, Apocryphal or not, this reflected perhaps no more than the chafing restraints endured in the very nature of the office by a vigorous and ambitious man, The going has not always been easy for Humphrey but his loyalty has never faltered, And this fact of their relationship is an important element in the interval, however brief, that will see the President during his illness out of the line of action, The President isa proud man. When he went to Bethesda Naval Hospital last January with what was described as a bronchial infection he was irritated by a .the White House, enn on a ms Pe = SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD his incapacity but even more by the news coverage of his illness. There was at the same time wide speculation, and this another source of annoyance, over why he did not designate his Vice President to head the delegation that went to London for the funeral of Winston Churchill, The omission looked like a slur on the Vice President. And it caused both men embarrassment. As was known to perhaps a half dozen intimates, including Humphrey, the President was, in the initial stage of that illness, belfevéd to be much sicker than the public announcement indicated. That was the real reason Humphrey did not go to London, And while it. might have been easier all around to have made that known the Vice President did nothing to dispel the» ambiguity of his position, accepting it as part of the lot of one who inevitably takes second place. To a visitor who saw him not long after his three days in the hospital in January he said he would never. again submit tosuch aregimen -a hundred reporters or more hanging on hourly bulletins about his condition. If he were to be sick again he would stay in This suggests the problem his doctors will have once he has begun to recover from the first effects of his gall bladder operation, An inpatient as well as a proud man, the difficulty will be in restraining the President so that he can convalesce in peace and quiet. If ever a,man had telephoneitis it is Lyndon Johnsen; While this may be asking too much of those who must make the arrangements it would be sensible to keep a telephone out of his reach for at least the first week, short, that is, of the most dire crisis, Such a self-denying act could be taken as a mark of confidence in Humphrey. In the 1ong convalescence from a heart attack 10 years ago President Eisenhower was kept fully informed of the course of events and the decisions being taken by his Vice President and his Cabinet. But he showed a soldier's discipline in subjecting himself to the business of getting well, However irksome it may be, that is President Johnson's first duty, His critics have said that, as a restless, impetuous hard-driving man, the capacity to put his mind at ease in sober reflection is all but beyond him, A man of action he can hardly bear to sit through the performance of a play or a motion picture or a public occasion at which he is not the principal performer. This is surely overstating the case, as he has demonstrated in the Presidency that he can exercise at least public restraint. But illness, even as routine an operation as he must undergo, is a kind of discipline in patience and Mr. Johnson could take it as an opportunity for the quiet, contemplative aloneness that his office rarely if ever permits. If he has not driven himself to exhaustion in the past two years he has brought many of his associates close to the ragged edge. His eating habits are irregular and erratic. Even if he had been the calmest and most orderly of men, the present affliction might have occurred, But this could serve as a timely warning of the need for a somewhat less driving and demanding regimen, ---Marquis Childs (Copyright 1965) DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CONSERVATION POLICIES Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, in a Directive signed this spring broadened the scope of Defense conservation policiesto include, for the first time, all phases of natural resource conservation and eS environmental protection, The Directive applies to all Defense personnel and components and covers the protection and management of natural resources on all land, ground and water areas administered by the Department. Released in connection with the White House Conference on Natural Beauty, the new Directive, in addition to stressing the critical importance of natural beauty, recognizes the new national outdoor recreation policies and incorporates them by reference into future Department of Defense programs, In addition to setting forth broad policy concepts, the Secretary has established the Department of Defense Natural Resources Group which is charged with making better use of personnel who possess training and skill in natural resource management, The Group will also plan and direct the biennial Department Natural Resources Conference. ---Conservation News LETTER TO THE EDITOR GRAPE SURPRISE To the Editor: This sunny morning asI sit here in my AprtI thought I would drop a line or two. When I first went to school up there it was in a small house. I don't know the street,” It was on the street as you went up.to the Court house, but just this side you turned to your left and went straight ahead until you reached the upper end of Broad Street, All that I remember about it was a big boulder in the yard, It was nearly as big as the school house, Another thing I will never forget is the time we went out on Ragens Grove to steal a few grapes. They were in the lower part of the nursery, I guess the man got tired of us kids stealing his grapes. Well one night the four of us went out as usual and had our: fill of grapes it is a good thing we did not wear any underwear. You know the wise old Frenchman had put Croate and Oil on the grapes. I am not going to say what happened but we stayed away from that place forever. One thing about the streets us kids didn't know the name of half of them but we all knew where to meet. So long. Jack Bassett Oakland ODD BOOKINS. WE ALL HAVE A NICHE IN LIFE. me AND We CAN PASS AHE WISDOM GAINED FROM THAT NICHE ON TO OTHEKS. You ONW LEARN . ENEN TA LOWY ANT, CAN CONTRIBUTE .\ by EXPERIENCE . . i AWT RULE OF SURVIVAL #2. "IE THE BIG FOOT IS = @OING TO STEP ON YOU. TAY To DODGE INTO AHE INSTEP SECTION.” ANDTHE COROLLARY TO THAT RULE WHICH IS, " £LAT FEET MEANS You'vE HAD IT, KID-HEbLO BIG ANTHILL IN THE SKY.” eae ot Mame 08 oo, 5s es $ “ee DAM veges

Pad! ceed i 2 Ss ae Sag aa Se ae ae a : October 14, 1965.. Nevada County Nugget.. LL a a ae ap aN . in government, The long-range implications of this new thinking are hard to figure out. Are we entering an age of greatly expanded state planning, in which private © enterprise will dothe planning for the state, as it has done in these preliminary reports? If so, then how will the state be able to control its own planning process? In the long run I think we may see quite a scramble. for control of the fantastically expensive machinery of the computer age. Those who come up with the pearl in hand are going to have control over the destiny of millions of people. That may be an exaggeration, I think it isn't. The computers represent something new among complex civilizations. They represent the means of finding compelling answers to very big questions. The Governor, various executive agencies, legislators, political groups, private énterprise--all are tending to frame large questions, and commandeer machinery which will help find the answers. WASHINGTON CALLING THE DIFFICULT JOB OF THE VICE PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, ~Vice President Hubert H, Humphrey has a seemingly inexhaustible store ot energy, good will, enthusiasm. This is one of the resources that has seen him through his first difficult year in tandem with President Johnson. A cynical Washington view is that Humphrey has been consumed by the voracious Johnson appetite for power. Hehas disappeared, altogether, in this view, in the maw of Presidential authority, What remains is a faint echo of the vigorous, forthright Humphrey of old. This conveniently ignores the personality of the two men andthe difficult role of vice president under. the best of circumstances. From the very first day after he was nominated as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, Humphrey listed as his No. 1 priority the need to stand always in accord with the President. Without that accord, as Vice President, he would be only the presiding officer of the Senate. And, as Humphrey knows only too well, there is hardly a more empty office in the land, Johnson is supposed to have said when he finally gave Humphrey the nod at Atlantic City, ending what was for Humphrey a painful and uncertain wait, that he had suffered in the office and his Vice President would suffer, too, Apocryphal or not, this reflected perhaps no more than the chafing restraints endured in the very nature of the office by a vigorous and ambitious man, The going has not always been easy for Humphrey but his loyalty has never faltered, And this fact of their relationship is an important element in the interval, however brief, that will see the President during his illness out of the line of action, The President isa proud man. When he went to Bethesda Naval Hospital last January with what was described as a bronchial infection he was irritated by a .the White House, enn on a ms Pe = SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD his incapacity but even more by the news coverage of his illness. There was at the same time wide speculation, and this another source of annoyance, over why he did not designate his Vice President to head the delegation that went to London for the funeral of Winston Churchill, The omission looked like a slur on the Vice President. And it caused both men embarrassment. As was known to perhaps a half dozen intimates, including Humphrey, the President was, in the initial stage of that illness, belfevéd to be much sicker than the public announcement indicated. That was the real reason Humphrey did not go to London, And while it. might have been easier all around to have made that known the Vice President did nothing to dispel the» ambiguity of his position, accepting it as part of the lot of one who inevitably takes second place. To a visitor who saw him not long after his three days in the hospital in January he said he would never. again submit tosuch aregimen -a hundred reporters or more hanging on hourly bulletins about his condition. If he were to be sick again he would stay in This suggests the problem his doctors will have once he has begun to recover from the first effects of his gall bladder operation, An inpatient as well as a proud man, the difficulty will be in restraining the President so that he can convalesce in peace and quiet. If ever a,man had telephoneitis it is Lyndon Johnsen; While this may be asking too much of those who must make the arrangements it would be sensible to keep a telephone out of his reach for at least the first week, short, that is, of the most dire crisis, Such a self-denying act could be taken as a mark of confidence in Humphrey. In the 1ong convalescence from a heart attack 10 years ago President Eisenhower was kept fully informed of the course of events and the decisions being taken by his Vice President and his Cabinet. But he showed

a soldier's discipline in subjecting himself to the business of getting well, However irksome it may be, that is President Johnson's first duty, His critics have said that, as a restless, impetuous hard-driving man, the capacity to put his mind at ease in sober reflection is all but beyond him, A man of action he can hardly bear to sit through the performance of a play or a motion picture or a public occasion at which he is not the principal performer. This is surely overstating the case, as he has demonstrated in the Presidency that he can exercise at least public restraint. But illness, even as routine an operation as he must undergo, is a kind of discipline in patience and Mr. Johnson could take it as an opportunity for the quiet, contemplative aloneness that his office rarely if ever permits. If he has not driven himself to exhaustion in the past two years he has brought many of his associates close to the ragged edge. His eating habits are irregular and erratic. Even if he had been the calmest and most orderly of men, the present affliction might have occurred, But this could serve as a timely warning of the need for a somewhat less driving and demanding regimen, ---Marquis Childs (Copyright 1965) DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CONSERVATION POLICIES Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, in a Directive signed this spring broadened the scope of Defense conservation policiesto include, for the first time, all phases of natural resource conservation and eS environmental protection, The Directive applies to all Defense personnel and components and covers the protection and management of natural resources on all land, ground and water areas administered by the Department. Released in connection with the White House Conference on Natural Beauty, the new Directive, in addition to stressing the critical importance of natural beauty, recognizes the new national outdoor recreation policies and incorporates them by reference into future Department of Defense programs, In addition to setting forth broad policy concepts, the Secretary has established the Department of Defense Natural Resources Group which is charged with making better use of personnel who possess training and skill in natural resource management, The Group will also plan and direct the biennial Department Natural Resources Conference. ---Conservation News LETTER TO THE EDITOR GRAPE SURPRISE To the Editor: This sunny morning asI sit here in my AprtI thought I would drop a line or two. When I first went to school up there it was in a small house. I don't know the street,” It was on the street as you went up.to the Court house, but just this side you turned to your left and went straight ahead until you reached the upper end of Broad Street, All that I remember about it was a big boulder in the yard, It was nearly as big as the school house, Another thing I will never forget is the time we went out on Ragens Grove to steal a few grapes. They were in the lower part of the nursery, I guess the man got tired of us kids stealing his grapes. Well one night the four of us went out as usual and had our: fill of grapes it is a good thing we did not wear any underwear. You know the wise old Frenchman had put Croate and Oil on the grapes. I am not going to say what happened but we stayed away from that place forever. One thing about the streets us kids didn't know the name of half of them but we all knew where to meet. So long. Jack Bassett Oakland ODD BOOKINS.. WE ALL HAVE A NICHE IN LIFE.. me AND We CAN PASS AHE WISDOM GAINED FROM THAT NICHE ON TO OTHEKS. You ONW LEARN . ENEN TA LOWY ANT, CAN CONTRIBUTE .\ by EXPERIENCE . . i AWT RULE OF SURVIVAL #2.. "IE THE BIG FOOT IS = @OING TO STEP ON YOU. TAY To DODGE INTO AHE INSTEP SECTION..” ANDTHE COROLLARY TO THAT RULE WHICH IS, " £LAT FEET MEANS You'vE HAD IT, KID-HEbLO BIG ANTHILL IN THE SKY.” eae ot Mame 08 oo, 5s es $ “ee DAM veges