September 14, 1966 (20 pages)

j 4 LOWER TAXES, FEWER SERVICES Ronald Reagan tipped his hand last week on his ideas about running California, and how to pay the tab. He proposed that if elected governor he would work to "eliminate double taxation on subsidiary dividends of corporations, " for ."assess‘ment of state and federal land holdings in California with an in lieu payment returned to the counties, " and "abolish personal property tax on household furnishings.” He didnot say where he intended to raise the money to replace the funds lost through these procedures. ‘ On the other hand, Governor Brown came out the same day for substantialtaxcuts: he wants tocompletely eliminate the household property tax, make substantial cuts in school property taxes, give special property tax relief to low-income elderly householders and reform the: business inventory tax. ' However, he told how he plans to raise the funds to replace money thus lost: He called for turning back of $5 billion of the federal income ‘tax to the states on a population and tax burden formula, declaring this would provide California with about $500 million a year. Promises of tax cuts which are not accompanied by suggestions for where the new money will come .afrom are not only seductive; the; tax cuts would be wonderful,. but concur rent cuts in services and facilities now provided by the state would be disastrous. We don't want to cut back on the schools, roads, hospitals, parks and other public necessities which, during Governor Brown's administration, have kept pace with California's rapid growth. The risk of yieldingto bright promises, without searching out their ultimate meaning is real, We urge Mr. Reagan to tell us what state department programs he plans tocut, when he cuts back tax revenues. THE SAD FREEWAY LESSON A lot of people in Nevada County breathed a long sigh ofrelief last week when the Division of Highways announced it had given freeway contractor, Norman I. Fadel, Inc., the five day notice to show adequate progress on the job. Since Fadel had already been removed from two other jobs recently after five day notice, most people feel that this will be the next step by the state here. What has happened to the project here is unfortunate. The state had so much adverse publicity from the Nevada City project before it started, that officials hoped everything would gosmoothly here to heal wounds. State officials went out of their way to see that it did, but still the job became fouled up and a lot of local people became financially entangled in the mess. Everyone from the Division of Highways, the city council right on down to the local merc= hants, can learn something from this fiascoand perhaps lessons learned here will prevent such a situation from occuring again. ee ee “ ‘ “* Ese ae ne sortie “Bi Quartz Gold Discovery Monument in Grass Valley ) LETTER TO THE EDITOR To The Editor charges of plagiarism, I request equal space with one Jack Bassett whose letter appeared in your August 31st issue, Mr, Bassett’s letter implies detailed knowledge of the methods of higrading in the Grass Valley mines, and it also contains Now I cant be sure that Mr. Bassett was gunning for me but it so happens that I wrote a short generalized poem about the specimen bosses of old here in Grass Valley, which appears in my booklet “Pick & Shovel IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN A FIRM ROAD POLICY IS NEEDED The Grand Jury report delivered to the supervisors last week attacking the county"s methods of taking roads into the county road system raises some very interesting questions, The answer that narrow, pitted and unpaved roads mentioned in in the grand jury report should have been taken into the county road system years ago when a lot of other similar roads came under county jurisdiction, seems like hardly a sufficient repty to the questions posed by the Grand Jury. One of the biggest questions, and one which is unanswered, is should the rest of the taxpayers in the county have to help foot the bill to maintain a road for someone else? Most of these roads, as the grand jury pointed out, do not meet any kind of road standards, The county, by taking them into the system, immediately assumes a responsibility to start spending money on them, Defenders of the theory that because they build a house and pay taxes, the county should take care of their road, will hold to this theory, They will say that they pay taxes that go toward taking care of roads elsewhere in the county and see no reason why someone else should not take care of their roads, And this raises a question that, as more and more people move here, has to be answered, This is the question of how much the taxpayer can expect to get for his money and just where the responsibility of the county for road building and maintenance stops and starts, ‘ Many people move here because they like to get away from it all, They buy 40 acres out in the boonies, build a house, wait until the rains come and then appear before the supervisors and complain bitterly about the road that hardly had any use until they built their house, Should the taxpayer in Penn Valley be respon~ sible for taking care of the road in Red Dog that is now creating difficulties for someone who wanted to get away from ft all? We think not, The population in the county is going to increase and as it does so will the pressure to take more and more roads into the county system and maintain and upgrade them, Unless the board of supervisors is willing to saddle all of the taxpayers with the role of footing the bill of maintaining everyone's cow path and jeep toad, it will have to come up with hard, sensible standards for roads to poe es into the county system -= and then stick to those stane*ee2e8 WE WERE chided last week for not having a strong editorial on Admission Day, We told our accuser that we were not admitting anything, e®eesses DO YOU FEEL smug because you survived the highway. mayhem over Labor Day? Now you can celebrate, The state eit ietdene National Highway Week from Sept, 18-24 and you can all go out «eeDon Hoagland and dance on the unfinished freeway, Poems,” My information on this subject was gleaned from tran= .sient miners with whom I worked many years ago and in many different mines of the west and southwest as set forth on the last page of my book, It is true that I never “saw the guts” of a Grass Valley mine, and Ican truthfully say that fact leaves me with no regrets, for reasons which I would be glad to discuss with Mr. Bassett. Mr. Carlos Morbio, of the Sutro family in San Francisco, I give you as a Califomia re~ ference as t.o my mining abi. lity. Astothe charge of plagiarism, Mr. Bassett, “them are fightin’ words!" No erstwhile mining engineer can get away with that without repercussions. If my memory serves me I seemtorecall reading in a certain Hebrew document about a young fellow called Jesus Christ who is reputed to have said “It isnot what goes into your mouth that hurts you, it is what comes out of it,” Cordially, Herb Altman NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NUGGET PUBLISHING CO., INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. George R. Kane, PublisherDonald L, Hoagland, Editor: and General Manager. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decree No, 12,406, Subscription rates: One year, $3; Two years, $5. kkkkkkkke AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER

j 4 LOWER TAXES, FEWER SERVICES Ronald Reagan tipped his hand last week on his ideas about running California, and how to pay the tab. He proposed that if elected governor he would work to "eliminate double taxation on subsidiary dividends of corporations, " for ."assess‘ment of state and federal land holdings in California with an in lieu payment returned to the counties, " and "abolish personal property tax on household furnishings.” He didnot say where he intended to raise the money to replace the funds lost through these procedures. ‘ On the other hand, Governor Brown came out the same day for substantialtaxcuts: he wants tocompletely eliminate the household property tax, make substantial cuts in school property taxes, give special property tax relief to low-income elderly householders and reform the: business inventory tax. ' However, he told how he plans to raise the funds to replace money thus lost: He called for turning back of $5 billion of the federal income ‘tax to the states on a population and tax burden formula, declaring this would provide California with about $500 million a year. Promises of tax cuts which are not accompanied by suggestions for where the new money will come .afrom are not only seductive; the; tax cuts would be wonderful,. but concur rent cuts in services and facilities now provided by the state would be disastrous. We don't want to cut back on the schools, roads, hospitals, parks and other public necessities which, during Governor Brown's administration, have kept pace with California's rapid growth. The risk of yieldingto bright promises, without searching out their ultimate meaning is real, We urge Mr. Reagan to tell us what state department programs he plans tocut, when he cuts back tax revenues. THE SAD FREEWAY LESSON A lot of people in Nevada County breathed a long sigh ofrelief last week when the Division of Highways announced it had given freeway contractor, Norman I. Fadel, Inc., the five day notice to show adequate progress on the job. Since Fadel had already been removed from two other jobs recently after five day notice, most people feel that this will be the next step by the state here. What has happened to the project here is unfortunate. The state had so much adverse publicity from the Nevada City project before it started, that officials hoped everything would gosmoothly here to heal wounds. State officials went out of their way to see that it did, but still the job became fouled up and a lot of local people became financially entangled in the mess. Everyone from the Division of Highways, the city council right on down to the local merc= hants, can learn something from this fiascoand perhaps lessons learned here will prevent such a situation from occuring again. ee ee “ ‘ “* Ese ae ne sortie “Bi Quartz Gold Discovery Monument in Grass Valley ) LETTER TO THE EDITOR To The Editor charges of plagiarism, I request equal space with one Jack Bassett whose letter appeared in your August 31st issue, Mr, Bassett’s letter implies detailed knowledge of the methods of higrading in the Grass Valley mines, and it also contains Now I cant be sure that Mr. Bassett was gunning for me but it so happens that I wrote a short generalized poem about the specimen bosses of old here in Grass Valley, which appears in my booklet “Pick & Shovel IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN A FIRM ROAD POLICY IS NEEDED The Grand Jury report delivered to the supervisors last week attacking the county"s methods of taking roads into the county road system raises some very interesting questions, The answer that narrow, pitted and unpaved roads mentioned in in the grand jury report should have been taken into the county road system years ago when a lot of other similar roads came under county jurisdiction, seems like hardly a sufficient repty to the questions posed by the Grand Jury.

One of the biggest questions, and one which is unanswered, is should the rest of the taxpayers in the county have to help foot the bill to maintain a road for someone else? Most of these roads, as the grand jury pointed out, do not meet any kind of road standards, The county, by taking them into the system, immediately assumes a responsibility to start spending money on them, Defenders of the theory that because they build a house and pay taxes, the county should take care of their road, will hold to this theory, They will say that they pay taxes that go toward taking care of roads elsewhere in the county and see no reason why someone else should not take care of their roads, And this raises a question that, as more and more people move here, has to be answered, This is the question of how much the taxpayer can expect to get for his money and just where the responsibility of the county for road building and maintenance stops and starts, ‘ Many people move here because they like to get away from it all, They buy 40 acres out in the boonies, build a house, wait until the rains come and then appear before the supervisors and complain bitterly about the road that hardly had any use until they built their house, Should the taxpayer in Penn Valley be respon~ sible for taking care of the road in Red Dog that is now creating difficulties for someone who wanted to get away from ft all? We think not, The population in the county is going to increase and as it does so will the pressure to take more and more roads into the county system and maintain and upgrade them, Unless the board of supervisors is willing to saddle all of the taxpayers with the role of footing the bill of maintaining everyone's cow path and jeep toad, it will have to come up with hard, sensible standards for roads to poe es into the county system -= and then stick to those stane*ee2e8 WE WERE chided last week for not having a strong editorial on Admission Day, We told our accuser that we were not admitting anything, e®eesses DO YOU FEEL smug because you survived the highway. mayhem over Labor Day? Now you can celebrate, The state eit ietdene National Highway Week from Sept, 18-24 and you can all go out «eeDon Hoagland and dance on the unfinished freeway, Poems,” My information on this subject was gleaned from tran= .sient miners with whom I worked many years ago and in many different mines of the west and southwest as set forth on the last page of my book, It is true that I never “saw the guts” of a Grass Valley mine, and Ican truthfully say that fact leaves me with no regrets, for reasons which I would be glad to discuss with Mr. Bassett. Mr. Carlos Morbio, of the Sutro family in San Francisco, I give you as a Califomia re~ ference as t.o my mining abi. lity. Astothe charge of plagiarism, Mr. Bassett, “them are fightin’ words!" No erstwhile mining engineer can get away with that without repercussions. If my memory serves me I seemtorecall reading in a certain Hebrew document about a young fellow called Jesus Christ who is reputed to have said “It isnot what goes into your mouth that hurts you, it is what comes out of it,” Cordially, Herb Altman NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NUGGET PUBLISHING CO., INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. George R. Kane, PublisherDonald L, Hoagland, Editor: and General Manager. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decree No, 12,406, Subscription rates: One year, $3; Two years, $5. kkkkkkkke AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER