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. “WHAT PRICE LETHARGY”
The sanitation problem for our area is ina terrible state.
We certainly have an eye sore right out of town for all to see.
Our city dump. The refuse.from that dump sifts down into
Deer Creek. God knows what waters it pollutes to the danger of our citizens. Over in Grass Valley the sewage system is so overloaded that additional users will not be permitted to hook on. The Planning Commission is without
funds to make an adequate engineering study of the matter,
and maybe the airports of the county might come first. Soon
our Miracle Airport will have iridustry humming with activity in its nearby Industrial Park. Eighty foot roads are being built by a contractor from Sonoma, and while we don’t
know who is going to pave these roads leading to each plant,
nevertheless, it must be admitted that no lethargy is being
shown in its development. This is great. But each plant
will employ le. There are eight different acre plots for
eight different plants. If eight plants employ 20 people
each that would mean 160 new families in our area. What
“are we going to do about affording them adequate housing
‘and sanitation? If the officials developing the Loma Rica
Airport can have eighty foot paved roads that will allow a
plane to taxi up to the plant, load merchandise and take off,
we should be as modern as they are and try to cooperate with
, them in affording thesse new families soon to come with adequate sanitation problems. Of course, two of the officials
of the Loma Rica Industrial Airport are on our Planning
Commission, but, then, probably they have been too busy developing Loma Rica Industrial Park to give too much consideration to our sanitation problem. — It’s time that other
officials drop their lethargy and try to help meet the urgent
problem of adequate sewage disposal.
THE TROYCE MUSIC CASE
All charges against Troyce Music were dismissed for
lack of evidence last Friday, September 4th. Remember
how Trocye Music was rushed to court and supposedly plead
guilty to the very charges that have been dismissed against
him for lack of evidence. Evidently eone must have told
Troyce Musick that he had plead guilty to a felony and, not
knowing that he had done so, promptly\had a hearing set before Judge Vernon Stoll. At this hearing Troyce Musick
testified that he did not know he had plead guilty to a felony
and his plea of guilty was set aside. Immediately a new
warrant for his arrestwas sworn to in Judge Vic Montre’s
Judicial Court and bond set at $10,000, and this warrant covered the very charge that had been dismissd against Musick.
ea able to make bond, he remained in jail for several
es weeks.
How much of the taxpayers money was spent in this
case? Why was it dismissed in the first place? Why arrest a man and subject him to all sorts of indignities if they
did not have enough evidence to warrant a trial of the case?
District Attorney Harold Berliner objected to the diggaissal.
More taxpayers money ‘“‘down the drain.”
A DISTURBING DISSENT
Opposition of some truckers to a measure passed by
the Legislature requiring air brake safety devices on all
trucks is difficult to understand, and disturbing to contemplate. as
The device required by SB 1073 would automatically
‘ compensate for failure in the air brake system and” make
possible a stop that well could save lives and property—.
‘both of the trucker involved and of the general public. Opponents of the measure claim the devices are not yet fully
proved—but, as the San Francisco Examiner points out,
500 municipal transit buses have carried such safety equipment for three years and 45 million miles on the famed
but dangerous hills of that city, and not a single: brake
failure accident has been recorded, despite many known
brake failures. , ete
That should establish the safety issue firmly.
RECKLESS WALKING
Nine out of every 10 pedestrians killed each year have
never been licensed to drive a car. So reports the National
Safety Council. The council points out that victims apparently do not have a knowledge of the minimum distance
necessary for a car to stop in or have too much confidence
in the ability of motorists to control their cars. There is
also the fact that those who are generally the leas able
physically to get out of the way of approaching vehicles are
often the most careless in crossing streets and roads. Youngsters are inclined to dart about heedlessly at time. But one
would expect better judgment from older people. Yet, oldsters frequently take the crosswalks without the slightest
look to right or left. The mere existence of white lines on
the pavement are not in themselves a means of protection.
= As obvious as that is; it is something which many. people
= 2 : fail to grasp. There should be stiffer penalties for reckless
CHANGING GROWTH PATTERN
That California is continuing to outstrip the national
average in population growth is y news any more. But
a shift in the elements of growth in this state is worth noting.
The monthly economic rep of Bank of America, issued
last month, points out that while migration to California
continues to be the biggest factor in the population surge,
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“Which Road To
Safety?
In-our concern dver the terrible
toll taken annually by highway
accidents, it is only natural—and
sensible—that we should seek
every reasonable means of lowering drastically the number of fatalities. and injuries. . Certainly
driver education falls in the classification of “reasonable means.”
But driver education in general
and driver instruction in our public schools in particular are two
different things. Last week Dr.
Marland K. Strasser, Pacific Coast
representatve of the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety,
made a fervent plea for the school
program, citing figures as to its
effectiveness and evidence as to
its needs. There can be little quarrel with Dr. Strasser’s claim that
a youthful driver who has been
taught how to drive is a better
risk on the highway than one who
hasn’t. But a good many people
who pay high insurance rates because they have a youthful driver
in the family will wonder if the
problem doesn’t go pretty far beyond the-efficacy of school driver
training classes.
‘he automobile today is a lethal weapon—a temptingly exhilarating and “alluringly simple
means of high-power locomotion.
Its operation on todays high"speed, crowded highways should
be guided by a high degree of!
self-critical judgment, as well as
dexterity and technical knowl-;
edge. The question a great many
People are pondering is, how—
and how early— ican we acquire
that necessary quality of judgtment?
It is a question that is not easily
answered. But somehow it must
be—for everyone’s sake.
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The State of California came
into a cool $100,000 recently simply because its former owner
never bothered to make a will,
The deceased man—an Imperial
Valley pioneer—had ho known
relatives so his money goes to
the state. It is reasonable to assume, however, that he favored
some charity or organization, if
not some individual, which could
have benefitted from his estate.
But, what a man thinks and what
he doés are two entirely different
things, at least in the eyes of the
law. So ,thé fortune built up
through thrift-and wise investment over a period of many decades is, in effect, lost to the purposes he may well have had in
mind. Because he did not act.
And inaction seems to be a major
plague among people; especially
those who don’t realize that what
their estates after death will not
be done automatically. In fact,
without a will, their estates may
be distributed in a way campletely contrary to what they
wanted. Making a will is not
difficult. If should be done by
an attorney to be sure it’s done
right. An improper will is as good
as,hone at ail, Also, since the
executor’s fee is no different
whether the executor is an individual (who might be unqualified
for the task) or an_ institution,
it is much more sensible to
name a bank for that purpose.
The man or woman-who spends
a lifetime building an estate
ought to think enough of it—and
his loved ones or friends—to see
that it is effectively used after
death.
11,508-Bucks Are _
Taken In Six Weeks
The State Department of Fish
and Game has announced that
14,508 bucks had been taken at
the end of the sixth week of the
coastal season on deer, 244 less
than the 14,752 killed last year.
Mendocino is the county with
the highest take, 2,300 deer, followed by Monterey County with
1,871 and San Luis Obispo County with 1,115.
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Fatal Fallacies by Ted Key
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Re: Development
By JAMES DORAIS
That passage of the Water Development Bond Act in the final
days of the recent session of the
Legislature was a major triumph
for the new State Administration
has been agreed on by all sides.
But hardly had the first flush.
of admiration at the Administration’s’ success in reconciling old
controversies subsided when a
rash of second-lookitis set in—
not over the need for a statewide
water plan but over the plan’s
details. . ;
In other words, the controversies that had blocked enactment
of a bill before are still alive now
that a bill has passed. And it is a
foregone concluion that before the
huge $1,750,000,000 bond issue
is placed before the voters next
they may wish to have done with‘year, the Water _ Development
Bond Act’ compromise will be
subjected to a major go-around
at a special legislative session.
One of the major voices demanding “clarification” is that of
the state AFL-CIO .The powerful
labor body has flatly announced
that it will oppose the bond issue
unless a provision limiting the
number of acres entitled to irrigation under the water plan is
written into the act. Any increase
in land values of holdings in excess of so-called family farm size
as a result of water development
would, the AFL-CIO argues, be
an “unjust enrichment.”
The other side of the acreage
limitation argument is that there.
are virtually no family size farms
in the lower San Joaquin Valley
West Side proposed to be served
by the state water plan, dnd if
large farmers are arbitrarily forbidden to purchase irrigation
water the cost of domestic and
industrial water to Southern California users will be higher than
necessary. The latter consideration ties into another controversy: will the project’s enormous
cost be paid for in its entirety by:
the water users who benefit, or
will the taxpayers generally be
asked to provide subsidies?
A key controversy that stymied
earlier enactment of a water act
was the regional argument between. the South, which wanted
a contitutional. amendment guarwated future protection for the
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Recently a San Francisco mafi
carrier received a cash award
from the U.S. government for
heroic action in saving a four.year-old child from a ~flaming
death. The award was $100. But,
while Uncle Sam gave with one
hand he took away with the other.
Even heroism, it s¢ems, is subject
-to withholding tax. So $16 was
taken out and the mail carrier
got.a net of $82. It was all very
proper, said an Internal Revenue
Service spokesman, under the
1954. The postman also received
a certificate of Superior Accommaster General. On this there
was.no withholding tax. The
money paid the hero came from
a Post Office Department fund
for incentive awards, omplishment-awards and awards for suggestions. ‘Our suggestion (for
which we seek no award) is there
there be no tax on heroism,
water needs of the counties of
orrigin. The Administration’s
compromise provided that water
contracts will be firm for the
40-year period of the bond issue.
Now, voices “are raised in both
sections .of the state contending
the compromise doesn’t afford
enough protection from either
point of view.
Still another controversy: is the
state water plan merely a prototype of a vast public power project—another tax-subsidized TVAtype monument to the political
prowess of anti-free enterprisers?
The Act contains no statement of
policy on pubile versus private
power development, but under
the wide powers it delegates to
the State Department of Water
Resources it is apparent that the
state could go as deeply into the
power business as it. chooses,
Already, various left-oriented
groups are referring to the Water
Development Bond Act. as a plan
to “put the state into the water
and power business.” ’
Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, discovered in 1911, are now
a national park.
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provisions of Section 61, Code of.
plishment signed by the Postlocal governments,in the way of
This fiscal folly is further compounded by the fact that there is
almost certain to be a staggering.
loss in power revenues. Official
estimates offered in testimony
before the committee showed that
the. cost of producing Trinity
power will be 9 mills. If the Federal Government continues to sell
its Central Valley power to a
favored handful of so-called preference customers—primarily the—
Sacramento Municipal Utility
District—for 4.5 mills, the annual
loss will be $4 million. That is a
total of another $200 million down
the drain over the 50-year Trinity
repayment period. ie
The loser in the Trinity de
bacle is not PG&E, but the taxpayers. These millions of dollars
now lost forever could have been
used to reduce taxes, to reduce
the costs of Trinity and Cenral
Valley Project water, or to help
finance other needed water projects in California. That is a tragically high price for California
taxpayers to pay for their senators’ servile obeisance to the cult
of public power.
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it is becoming less dominant as the natural increase through
Last year, for example, the excess of births over deaths
wast approximately 230,000 or 4314 per cent of the overall
: tion gain of 528,000. The rising percentage of natural increase ,says the bank report, “should make for a
somewhat greater stability in the state’s future growth pat_. California with its estimated 15,280,000 population now
8.7 per cent of the national population of 175,093,000.
is a gain from 7 per cent in 1950, and it is estimated
er cent of all Americans will be living here in 1961.
time the Golden State is expected to have 16,400,000