September 18, 1974 (8 pages)

# Ee at ER A RAE RTE BRE I FO . Sal Lebel PGE MOOK Dt FS eis PEE ps . Karl Waters : ne I a a wf ta ls Sea: pil ss . Wed., Sept. 18,1974 The Nevada County Nugget =" uM ‘GV teachers lose Annual host breakfast fast, a half century tradition connected with the California $tate Fair, was not the usual jolly affair this year. : It was something of a vin. dication for those who take a . dim view of such early hour gatherings of businessmen. For the skeptics who look upon the strained jocularity over morning ham and eggs as some kind ° of a barbaric.ritual, the Host Breakfast was confirmation that people are not all that happy rising with the sun. sored by the State Chamber of Commerce, the State Fair and Sacramentans, annually brings together business and _ political leaders of the state. And, regardless of the fact that this year saw one of the largest attendances in the history of the meetings, the overall atmosphere was one of gloom and, doom. Those attending were not small time merchants but the top business. executives. Gathered in one banquet room were those from the utilities, oil companies, financial _ institutions, business, agriculture and the construction industry in yment futures majority of Calffornians not on government payrolls. They also represented the largest taxpayers in the state. The gloom ted the air stemmed from their outlooks on the /Inflation has got them all bugged. ‘While there may have been some differences in views as to the future, there was unanimity in the feeling that unless inflation is somehow halted the country is headed — for monumental hard times. _ Only afew could bring themselves to using the dirty word “depression” but it was and doom which. clear that the fear of something. _as bad or worse than the great depression of the 30’s was in everyone’s mind. Even those who attempted the appearance of small boys "What was most distressing is that almost everyone wanted to blame condition, on the government. Government spending was the most often mentioned as the greatest contributing factor to inflation ‘and over and over was the ad-. monition ~ repeated that somehow government must be curbed. The financial institutions reported that high-interest rates have dried up-money and that demands for loans far exceed their abilities to lend. Those in construction blame the shutdown on loans for the halt in building and the resultant mass unemployment in the construction industries. The problems of raising money coupled with its high cost has caused the utilities to hold back on_ capital outlay programs. They say there is no incentive to expand or buy new equipment and are cutting out all unnecessary capital outlays. For some that means virtually -all capital improvements. While a number expressed hope that President Ford will come up with a program to restore the economy the overall view is that inflation and unemployment ‘will get worse before it gets better and the ‘most optimistic views don’t see any break before the middle of next year. When one sifts through all of the views expressed the conclusion comes back to a basic which has always been the The way to halt inflation is less both by the government and the populace. As the utlities . and others are indicating, they intend to reduce Elmer Stoon © 1974 Sierro Features i oe. prs creating a lowering the out-put of water at money than $11,000,000.” 3 their spending by eliminating This is probably a solid economic principle but it. can’t do much for the thousands now ‘unemployed. They. have no spending to cutback. They can’t take the advice to save more and spend less. _ They have already fallen back on their savings if not exhausted them. _ é And for those who believe that _ jt was government spending in works projects and-in defense production which brought the country. out of the dregs of the great depression, it is difficult to understand how cutting back on government spending now will solve the’ unemployment situation. ae? What is also hard to take is that so great a gathering of top businessmen is unable to come forth with solid constructive , ways to solve the economic situation among the business community itself instead of the seeming willingness to rely ona ¥ government cure to forestall doom. Yuba Riverat low level. The Yuba River has reached its lowest level in many years due to repairs being made to the tunnel from Bullards Bar Reservoir to the. Colgate powerhouse. Yuba county Director of Public Works Donald Frost that the tunnel roof had caved in about one and one-half miles downstream from the dam blockage and Colgate powerhouse. Frost said he can give no estimate of the cost of repairs to the tunnel but that the damage was extensive. Engineering and construction companies have been contracted to make the repairs. They will be paid by the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which purchases project power and furnished funds for operation and maintenance of the project. Water pollution ’ grant approved As aresult of the enactment of the Clean Water Act of 1972, the State of California will receive $2,355,848 to help carry out its battle against water pollution. Northern . California Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson, who had the legislation and played a major role in its enactment, hailed the announcement of the Environmental Protection Agency. hae Ww The Federal funds will be used by the State’s Water Resources Control ~ Board for its monitoring, planning, adThe total cost of the program for ‘the fiscal: year which ‘started July 1, 1974, will amount to more ocr ip als Sith tA ete OM ge patsy nnn aie iO on incl cceena ati Sin iets Poe ~ salary increase bid =A long controversy over higher pay for Grass Valley School District teachers continued Wednesday. night at a school board meeting but ro 3 { According to Trustee. Jon Peek, there ‘are not sufficient funds available in the school budget to allow a raise in teacher’s pay. The Grass Valley Teacher’sAssociation, with nearly every member present and: represented by their president Dudley Butts, agreed that the present budget would have: to stand as it was but that an additional $30,000 in state funds which may be received by the school district was not budgeted _ and should be used for pay Peek pointed out that the state funds may not be available this ear and that if they are the amount could be far below the $30,000 figure received in past years. He said that negotiations on teachers salaries should be reopened only after the funds are made available. If an emergency should develop before the funds arrive the money should not be already — ‘committed to another purpose, he said. e Butts said that a delay in "negotiations was not acceptable to the teachers association. They want the state funds ‘earmarked for a pay raise and in the event that an emergency came up he assured the school board that the teachers would . relinguish their claim to the at an.impromptu teacher’s association meeting held when the school board went into . executive. session, Butts said that pay negotiations had gone on too long to stop with the : small raise they had received. ‘We really haven’t accomplished anything,” he said. He said that the nine per cent raise in teacher pay, that school superintendent H.A. Ambrosius : said the teacher’s received, was in reality a 6.2 per cent raise. Butts said that $20,000 of the $67,500 budgeted for teacher pay -hikes had paid only for advancements on the graduated pay scale and had not done anything about raising the salaries on that scale. pay scale by.an employe cannot be considered a raise, he said. Butts went on to say that the © 6.2 per cent raise they did receive did not come close to matching the 11.2 per cent raise: in the cost of living in the past year. X According to John Cohee, a teacher at Lyman Gilmore School, the teachers are at the mercy of the school board, He said there is little the teachers can do if the board does not grant them a raise. He gaid that teachers could cut off their aid in after school _, activities, such as sports and they receive little, if any, pay. Cohee said that this would not happen, at least not soon, because most teachers felt it would do more harm to the children than the pay raise was worth. Butts. said that “we will ‘proceed with the program, and all.” : Anumber of parents were also present for the meeting, which left standing library at Lyman Gilmore School. Most of the parents were in support of the teachers position and many made their opinions known to Ambrosius and the The boards decision to leave the possible state funds uncommitted stood when the meeting ‘closed after two and one-half hours. The pay raise issue was not the only sore spot that arose between teachers and board members last night. The question of how a teacher may use his six day sick leave each year also arose. According: to school district policy, as stated by Ambrosius at the meeting, if a teacher is not sick but wishes to take a leave of absence for “personal reasons” he must consult with the school principal to explain why. “The teachers’ position was summed up by Cohee who said, “When you say personal you mean pi , there are some things you simply do not want to discuss with Mr. Ambrosius.” price of milk in school had been reduced from 10 cents to seven cents per carton. The reduction comes as a result of a larger reimbursement from the state for those schools joining the free The state’s free milk program was established to provide milk for those children whose families fall below a set income level. ‘ The board also considered a policy which would raise the rate of pay for substitute teachers to $30 a day and $15 for either a morning or afternoon session. The change will be decided upon at the board’s next meeting. Traffic delay on ‘Highway 49 There will be five-minute, intermittent delays to motorists . 30 miles north of Nevada City on Highway 49 for one week beginning today for an emra tn ce A AE NA OLE DEON RET NT room only ‘in the . 1 A ae hg age i Pee a pee x Bit peer pee gb ig wee Soh BE Rit pie eae RM Ne Lo PON fap oo en a Benge ee A aS

# Ee at ER A RAE RTE BRE I FO . Sal Lebel PGE MOOK Dt FS eis PEE ps . Karl Waters : ne I a a wf ta ls Sea: pil ss . Wed., Sept. 18,1974 The Nevada County Nugget =" uM ‘GV teachers lose Annual host breakfast fast, a half century tradition connected with the California $tate Fair, was not the usual jolly affair this year. : It was something of a vin. dication for those who take a . dim view of such early hour gatherings of businessmen. For the skeptics who look upon the strained jocularity over morning ham and eggs as some kind ° of a barbaric.ritual, the Host Breakfast was confirmation that people are not all that happy rising with the sun. sored by the State Chamber of Commerce, the State Fair and Sacramentans, annually brings together business and _ political leaders of the state. And, regardless of the fact that this year saw one of the largest attendances in the history of the meetings, the overall atmosphere was one of gloom and, doom. Those attending were not small time merchants but the top business. executives. Gathered in one banquet room were those from the utilities, oil companies, financial _ institutions, business, agriculture and the construction industry in yment futures majority of Calffornians not on government payrolls. They also represented the largest taxpayers in the state. The gloom ted the air stemmed from their outlooks on the /Inflation has got them all bugged. ‘While there may have been some differences in views as to the future, there was unanimity in the feeling that unless inflation is somehow halted the country is headed — for monumental hard times. _ Only afew could bring themselves to using the dirty word “depression” but it was and doom which. clear that the fear of something. _as bad or worse than the great depression of the 30’s was in everyone’s mind. Even those who attempted the appearance of small boys "What was most distressing is that almost everyone wanted to blame condition, on the government. Government spending was the most often mentioned as the greatest contributing factor to inflation ‘and over and over was the ad-. monition ~ repeated that somehow government must be curbed. The financial institutions reported that high-interest rates have dried up-money and that demands for loans far exceed their abilities to lend. Those in construction blame the shutdown on loans for the halt in building and the resultant mass unemployment in the construction industries. The problems of raising money coupled with its high cost has caused the utilities to hold back on_ capital outlay programs. They say there is no incentive to expand or buy new equipment and are cutting out all unnecessary capital outlays. For some that means virtually -all capital improvements. While a number expressed hope that President Ford will come up with a program to restore the economy the overall view is that inflation and unemployment ‘will get worse before it gets better and the ‘most optimistic views don’t see any break before the middle of next year. When one sifts through all of the views expressed the conclusion comes back to a basic which has always been the The way to halt inflation is less both by the government and the populace. As the utlities . and others are indicating, they intend to reduce Elmer Stoon © 1974 Sierro Features i oe. prs creating a lowering the out-put of water at money than $11,000,000.” 3 their spending by eliminating This is probably a solid economic principle but it. can’t do much for the thousands now ‘unemployed. They. have no spending to cutback. They can’t take the advice to save more and spend less. _ They have already fallen back on their savings if not exhausted them. _ é And for those who believe that _ jt was government spending in works projects and-in defense production which brought the country. out of the dregs of the great depression, it is difficult to understand how cutting back on government spending now will solve the’ unemployment situation. ae? What is also hard to take is that so great a gathering of top businessmen is unable to come forth with solid constructive , ways to solve the economic situation among the business community itself instead of the seeming willingness to rely ona ¥ government cure to forestall doom. Yuba Riverat low level. The Yuba River has reached its lowest level in many years due to repairs being made to the tunnel from Bullards Bar Reservoir to the. Colgate powerhouse. Yuba county Director of Public Works Donald Frost that the tunnel roof had caved in about one and one-half miles downstream from the dam blockage and Colgate powerhouse. Frost said he can give no estimate of the cost of repairs to the tunnel but that the damage was extensive. Engineering and construction companies have been contracted to make the repairs. They will be paid by the Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which purchases project power and furnished funds for operation and maintenance of the project. Water pollution ’ grant approved As aresult of the enactment of the Clean Water Act of 1972, the State of California will receive $2,355,848 to help carry out its

battle against water pollution. Northern . California Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson, who had the legislation and played a major role in its enactment, hailed the announcement of the Environmental Protection Agency. hae Ww The Federal funds will be used by the State’s Water Resources Control ~ Board for its monitoring, planning, adThe total cost of the program for ‘the fiscal: year which ‘started July 1, 1974, will amount to more ocr ip als Sith tA ete OM ge patsy nnn aie iO on incl cceena ati Sin iets Poe ~ salary increase bid =A long controversy over higher pay for Grass Valley School District teachers continued Wednesday. night at a school board meeting but ro 3 { According to Trustee. Jon Peek, there ‘are not sufficient funds available in the school budget to allow a raise in teacher’s pay. The Grass Valley Teacher’sAssociation, with nearly every member present and: represented by their president Dudley Butts, agreed that the present budget would have: to stand as it was but that an additional $30,000 in state funds which may be received by the school district was not budgeted _ and should be used for pay Peek pointed out that the state funds may not be available this ear and that if they are the amount could be far below the $30,000 figure received in past years. He said that negotiations on teachers salaries should be reopened only after the funds are made available. If an emergency should develop before the funds arrive the money should not be already — ‘committed to another purpose, he said. e Butts said that a delay in "negotiations was not acceptable to the teachers association. They want the state funds ‘earmarked for a pay raise and in the event that an emergency came up he assured the school board that the teachers would . relinguish their claim to the at an.impromptu teacher’s association meeting held when the school board went into . executive. session, Butts said that pay negotiations had gone on too long to stop with the : small raise they had received. ‘We really haven’t accomplished anything,” he said. He said that the nine per cent raise in teacher pay, that school superintendent H.A. Ambrosius : said the teacher’s received, was in reality a 6.2 per cent raise. Butts said that $20,000 of the $67,500 budgeted for teacher pay -hikes had paid only for advancements on the graduated pay scale and had not done anything about raising the salaries on that scale. pay scale by.an employe cannot be considered a raise, he said. Butts went on to say that the © 6.2 per cent raise they did receive did not come close to matching the 11.2 per cent raise: in the cost of living in the past year. X According to John Cohee, a teacher at Lyman Gilmore School, the teachers are at the mercy of the school board, He said there is little the teachers can do if the board does not grant them a raise. He gaid that teachers could cut off their aid in after school _, activities, such as sports and they receive little, if any, pay. Cohee said that this would not happen, at least not soon, because most teachers felt it would do more harm to the children than the pay raise was worth. Butts. said that “we will ‘proceed with the program, and all.” : Anumber of parents were also present for the meeting, which left standing library at Lyman Gilmore School. Most of the parents were in support of the teachers position and many made their opinions known to Ambrosius and the The boards decision to leave the possible state funds uncommitted stood when the meeting ‘closed after two and one-half hours. The pay raise issue was not the only sore spot that arose between teachers and board members last night. The question of how a teacher may use his six day sick leave each year also arose. According: to school district policy, as stated by Ambrosius at the meeting, if a teacher is not sick but wishes to take a leave of absence for “personal reasons” he must consult with the school principal to explain why. “The teachers’ position was summed up by Cohee who said, “When you say personal you mean pi , there are some things you simply do not want to discuss with Mr. Ambrosius.” price of milk in school had been reduced from 10 cents to seven cents per carton. The reduction comes as a result of a larger reimbursement from the state for those schools joining the free The state’s free milk program was established to provide milk for those children whose families fall below a set income level. ‘ The board also considered a policy which would raise the rate of pay for substitute teachers to $30 a day and $15 for either a morning or afternoon session. The change will be decided upon at the board’s next meeting. Traffic delay on ‘Highway 49 There will be five-minute, intermittent delays to motorists . 30 miles north of Nevada City on Highway 49 for one week beginning today for an emra tn ce A AE NA OLE DEON RET NT room only ‘in the . 1 A ae hg age i Pee a pee x Bit peer pee gb ig wee Soh BE Rit pie eae RM Ne Lo PON fap oo en a Benge ee A aS