October 31, 1963 (20 pages)

GIJOL o Ord * .October 31, 1963.The Nugget. Page 9 Page 9. scaping requirements to preserve the natural beauty of the. area, A Tahoe area master plan has been prepared by an area planning commission representative of all of the counties bordering the lake, Financed jointly by the Tahoe Area Council, the five counties, and the federal* government, the plan may point the way to responsible future development. But will the counties enforce it? In our Great Central Valley, Fresno, Stockton, Sacramento and Chico could well spread into one monstrous strip, if present growth trends continue. Specifically authorized by state law, unplanned destruction of the San Francisco Bay tidelands goes on apace, motivated by individual communities seeking to raise their tax base. Many governing councils have established protective zones for open land of various kinds, but our zoning is generally tqo little and too late. What little open space zoning we have is too often abandoned when even a moderately influential economic group wants to "get out from under, " Practically none of our cities and counties has made any significant effort to explore new ways to protect open land. ---Samuel E. Wood and Alfred Heller, from "The Phantom Cities of California" WASHINGTON CALLING SPACE AGENCY TEAM LANDS IN MISSISSIPPI PICAYUNE, Miss.---Whetherthe National Aeronautics and Space Agency lands a team on the moon may. be problematical but one thing is certain--the agency has landed on Mississippi. Since the first trees were bulldozed down on May 18 the Mississippi T est Operations Center has made remarkable progress. This lonely piney woods country is being transformed into a center for testing the first and second. stage engines of the Saturn V that will carry three men into outer space with the moon as the goal. : _So difficult and delicate is the testing process for boosters with a7, 500, 000-pound thrust in the first stage, lifting a load of many tons into space, that an area of 141,900 acres must be cleared. Partof this, 13,550 acres in the construction zone, is being acquired outright. The balance in the easement zone can be used for lumbering and other operations but all dwelling must go. Thetest explosions set up vibrations that are shattering to buildings not specially constructed. By a curious set of circumstances this almost empty country with its moss-draped live oaks and great stands of pine where moonshiners were seldom troubled is becoming the focus--the next to last stage--of one of man's greatest adventures. Prior to the selection of this area between Picayune and Bay St. Louis 23 other sites ranging all the way to Wake Island in the Pacific were surveyed. Mississippi was chosen because it is the center of a network of waterways. By barges on those waterways can be shipped the Stage One and Stage Two boosters which are so big that they could not move by any land route. Only 35 miles away in New Orleans is NASA's Michoud operation where Boeing, once construction is finished, will begin work on the moon ship's Stage One boosters. It will thus be only a short haul to the static firing stands here and technicians can move between the two ° centers with ease. From Seal Beach in California will come by way of the Panama Canal and the Gulf of Mexicothe second-stage boosters which North American AviT FEARLess MOUSE, ation is making. Under direction of the Army Corps of Engineers 15 miles of new canals are being dredged, the Pearl River is being widened and docks to take the massive engines off specially constructed barges afe already being built even though the water is still to be brought to them. A> lock 880 feet long with a lift of 20 feet must be constructed, When you seethis with Navy Captain William Fortune, on special assignment to NASA to supervise the job, you have a sense of the familiar American pride in building; ' in subduing the raw earth and bringing a new complex " intobeing. If your big line dredges strike. black, gummy muck that tends to harden like rock when dug out then you must find a way to get through it. The mind of the visitor reels with facts and figures. The test stands will be the tallest structures in the state of Mississippi. All operations, including canal traffic, will be directed from a tall airport type of control tower. And onthe average 72 water moccasins a day are giving up their lives forthis project as the dredges and the earth movers dig deeper into the woods, . The impact on Mississippi of the operation is bound to be great. The first phase of construction will cost $250, 000,000 anda payroll of 1,700 persons will man theinstallation. NASA people have a way of talking about “first stages" as though once the landing on the moon has been successful. a commuter service will be established withthe run sooner or later to be extended to Venus and other planets, What the impact will be on a state in the throes of a racial crisis it is too early to say. Gov. Ross Barnett was at Gulfport recently for a NASA ceremony and in his speech devoted five minutes to the glories of NASA and 40 minutes to the iniquities of that monstrous tyranny, the Federal government. When-the Republican candidate for Governor, Rubel Phillips, was in Picayune he issued a clarion call to get the heel of the Federal government off the neck of Mississippi. It must surely be counted the most generous heel in history. Captain Fortune's hiring policy is one of complete equality of opportunity. But since most of the jobs, aside from those in the contracting operation, call for a high degree. of skills the openings for Negroes in the area are few. The men directing this project talk not of it but of when. In the midst of an upheaval of land and water they are looking to that day in late 1969 or early 1970 when, after the static firings have proved out the boosters, the great engines will again be loaded on barges and start on the 1,064 water miles to Cape Canaveral. That will be the day before zero for the lunar journey. (Copyright 1963) ---Marquis Childs LETTER TO THE EDITOR SUPERVISORS LIST SIX REASONS FOR JOB SURVEY To The Editor: At a regular meeting of the Nevada County Board of Supervisors held October 15, 1963, I was directed by the Boardto write each of the newspapers of Nevada County and explainto them the reasons why the Board of Supervisors decided to conduct a salary survey by themselves, rather than engage a professional group to do so. The following reasons have been given to me by members of the Board. 1. The Board feels, as the legislative body of the county, they must, of necessity, become acquainted with the inter-workings of each department to provide the necessary-.efficient_personnel administration in our growing county. The best way to obtain this knowledge — is through the personal understanding of each departmental program given by the persons charged with the responsibilities of that department. 2. The Board has felt, and still feels that Nevada County has competent and qualified departmental supervisors who are most conversant with the employee needs of that particular department. Many of the employees of Nevada County are professional or semi-professional people and the department head that requires that caliber of employee is also the person most apt to know the salary range andthe necessary qualifications on the competitive market in and about Nevada County. 3. Past Boards of Supervisors have attempted to create a personnel program through the use of professional survey boards. The first survey was conducted in 1950 by the State Personnel Board, and the results of that survey . were disappointing to the many departments of the county. The second professional survey was conducted by the firm of Ernst & Ernst, a management consulting firm. The latter survey cost the tax payers of Nevada County $8,500.00. In the opinion of the Board, and in the opinion of many department heads, this survey did not adequately express job responsibilities, qualifications of employees and salaries commensurate with those qualifications. 4, The Board has made a comparative survey of salaries paid employees with similar responsibilities in eleven counties of the State of California, The Counties were selected on the basis of population and assessed valuation. Nevada County fits into the middle of those eleven counties. There are five counties larger, and five counties smaller than Nevada County, to effectuate a balance. Some of the counties contained in the survey have County Manager form of government, a Personnel Office and/or Civil Service. From this survey, which is used throughout all county departments, a guide line. was established forthe purpose of determining the salary range of individual positions. 5, Anotherneed in Personnel Administration in our County is the requirement that every person employed in Nevada County, in whatever capacity, be adequately qualified for that particular position. To insure in the future that this will be the case, the Board is considering, at the present time, the creation of a Personnel Commission whose main responsibility will be the determination, through various means, of a new employee's fitness for the job he has applied for. a 6. It would appear to this Board, that to have a professional management group come into Nevada County and survey the classification program would cost between Five and Ten Thousand Dollars. The Board feels qualified, through the results of the surveys and research they have done, and with the cooperation of the individual department supervisors, to provide a basis for a sound —— professional administrative program, atthe least possible expense to the tax payers of Nevada County. Sincerely Yours, s/Join T. Trauner County Clerk and ExOfficio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors County of Nevada OFFHAND , FELLAS THING we MI6HT TRY ANOTHER TACTIC. .-@ ra are

GIJOL o Ord * .October 31, 1963..The Nugget.. Page 9 Page 9. scaping requirements to preserve the natural beauty of the. area, A Tahoe area master plan has been prepared by an area planning commission representative of all of the counties bordering the lake, Financed jointly by the Tahoe Area Council, the five counties, and the federal* government, the plan may point the way to responsible future development. But will the counties enforce it? In our Great Central Valley, Fresno, Stockton, Sacramento and Chico could well spread into one monstrous strip, if present growth trends continue. Specifically authorized by state law, unplanned destruction of the San Francisco Bay tidelands goes on apace, motivated by individual communities seeking to raise their tax base. Many governing councils have established protective zones for open land of various kinds, but our zoning is generally tqo little and too late. What little open space zoning we have is too often abandoned when even a moderately influential economic group wants to "get out from under, " Practically none of our cities and counties has made any significant effort to explore new ways to protect open land. ---Samuel E. Wood and Alfred Heller, from "The Phantom Cities of California" WASHINGTON CALLING SPACE AGENCY TEAM LANDS IN MISSISSIPPI PICAYUNE, Miss.---Whetherthe National Aeronautics and Space Agency lands a team on the moon may. be problematical but one thing is certain--the agency has landed on Mississippi. Since the first trees were bulldozed down on May 18 the Mississippi T est Operations Center has made remarkable progress. This lonely piney woods country is being transformed into a center for testing the first and second. stage engines of the Saturn V that will carry three men into outer space with the moon as the goal. : _So difficult and delicate is the testing process for boosters with a7, 500, 000-pound thrust in the first stage, lifting a load of many tons into space, that an area of 141,900 acres must be cleared. Partof this, 13,550 acres in the construction zone, is being acquired outright. The balance in the easement zone can be used for lumbering and other operations but all dwelling must go. Thetest explosions set up vibrations that are shattering to buildings not specially constructed. By a curious set of circumstances this almost empty country with its moss-draped live oaks and great stands of pine where moonshiners were seldom troubled is becoming the focus--the next to last stage--of one of man's greatest adventures. Prior to the selection of this area between Picayune and Bay St. Louis 23 other sites ranging all the way to Wake Island in the Pacific were surveyed. Mississippi was chosen because it is the center of a network of waterways. By barges on those waterways can be shipped the Stage One and Stage Two boosters which are so big that they could not move by any land route. Only 35 miles away in New Orleans is NASA's Michoud operation where Boeing, once construction is finished, will begin work on the moon ship's Stage One boosters. It will thus be only a short haul to the static firing stands here and technicians can move between the two ° centers with ease. From Seal Beach in California will come by way of the Panama Canal and the Gulf of Mexicothe second-stage boosters which North American AviT FEARLess MOUSE, ation is making. Under direction of the Army Corps of Engineers 15 miles of new canals are being dredged, the Pearl River is being widened and docks to take the massive engines off specially constructed barges afe already being built even though the water is still to be brought to them. A> lock 880 feet long with a lift of 20 feet must be constructed, When you seethis with Navy Captain William Fortune, on special assignment to NASA to supervise the job, you have a sense of the familiar American pride in building; ' in subduing the raw earth and bringing a new complex " intobeing. If your big line dredges strike. black, gummy muck that tends to harden like rock when dug out then you must find a way to get through it. The mind of the visitor reels with facts and figures. The test stands will be the tallest structures in the state of Mississippi. All operations, including canal traffic, will be directed from a tall airport type of control tower. And onthe average 72 water moccasins a day are giving up their lives forthis project as the dredges and the earth movers dig deeper into the woods, . The impact on Mississippi of the operation is bound to be great. The first phase of construction will cost $250, 000,000 anda payroll of 1,700 persons will man theinstallation. NASA people have a way of talking about “first stages" as though once the landing on the moon has been successful. a commuter service will be established withthe run sooner or later to be extended to Venus and other planets, What the impact will be on a state in the throes of a

racial crisis it is too early to say. Gov. Ross Barnett was at Gulfport recently for a NASA ceremony and in his speech devoted five minutes to the glories of NASA and 40 minutes to the iniquities of that monstrous tyranny, the Federal government. When-the Republican candidate for Governor, Rubel Phillips, was in Picayune he issued a clarion call to get the heel of the Federal government off the neck of Mississippi. It must surely be counted the most generous heel in history. Captain Fortune's hiring policy is one of complete equality of opportunity. But since most of the jobs, aside from those in the contracting operation, call for a high degree. of skills the openings for Negroes in the area are few. The men directing this project talk not of it but of when. In the midst of an upheaval of land and water they are looking to that day in late 1969 or early 1970 when, after the static firings have proved out the boosters, the great engines will again be loaded on barges and start on the 1,064 water miles to Cape Canaveral. That will be the day before zero for the lunar journey. (Copyright 1963) ---Marquis Childs LETTER TO THE EDITOR SUPERVISORS LIST SIX REASONS FOR JOB SURVEY To The Editor: At a regular meeting of the Nevada County Board of Supervisors held October 15, 1963, I was directed by the Boardto write each of the newspapers of Nevada County and explainto them the reasons why the Board of Supervisors decided to conduct a salary survey by themselves, rather than engage a professional group to do so. The following reasons have been given to me by members of the Board. 1. The Board feels, as the legislative body of the county, they must, of necessity, become acquainted with the inter-workings of each department to provide the necessary-.efficient_personnel administration in our growing county. The best way to obtain this knowledge — is through the personal understanding of each departmental program given by the persons charged with the responsibilities of that department. 2. The Board has felt, and still feels that Nevada County has competent and qualified departmental supervisors who are most conversant with the employee needs of that particular department. Many of the employees of Nevada County are professional or semi-professional people and the department head that requires that caliber of employee is also the person most apt to know the salary range andthe necessary qualifications on the competitive market in and about Nevada County. 3. Past Boards of Supervisors have attempted to create a personnel program through the use of professional survey boards. The first survey was conducted in 1950 by the State Personnel Board, and the results of that survey . were disappointing to the many departments of the county. The second professional survey was conducted by the firm of Ernst & Ernst, a management consulting firm. The latter survey cost the tax payers of Nevada County $8,500.00. In the opinion of the Board, and in the opinion of many department heads, this survey did not adequately express job responsibilities, qualifications of employees and salaries commensurate with those qualifications. 4, The Board has made a comparative survey of salaries paid employees with similar responsibilities in eleven counties of the State of California, The Counties were selected on the basis of population and assessed valuation. Nevada County fits into the middle of those eleven counties. There are five counties larger, and five counties smaller than Nevada County, to effectuate a balance. Some of the counties contained in the survey have County Manager form of government, a Personnel Office and/or Civil Service. From this survey, which is used throughout all county departments, a guide line. was established forthe purpose of determining the salary range of individual positions. 5, Anotherneed in Personnel Administration in our County is the requirement that every person employed in Nevada County, in whatever capacity, be adequately qualified for that particular position. To insure in the future that this will be the case, the Board is considering, at the present time, the creation of a Personnel Commission whose main responsibility will be the determination, through various means, of a new employee's fitness for the job he has applied for. a 6. It would appear to this Board, that to have a professional management group come into Nevada County and survey the classification program would cost between Five and Ten Thousand Dollars. The Board feels qualified, through the results of the surveys and research they have done, and with the cooperation of the individual department supervisors, to provide a basis for a sound —— professional administrative program, atthe least possible expense to the tax payers of Nevada County. Sincerely Yours, s/Join T. Trauner County Clerk and ExOfficio Clerk of the Board of Supervisors County of Nevada OFFHAND , FELLAS THING we MI6HT TRY ANOTHER TACTIC. .-@ ra are