September 19, 1962 (12 pages)

Page 8.Wednesday, September 19, 1962.The Nevada County NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. iccuambeclimmegatt 1 Publisher R. Dean Thompoon... Editor-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, $4.00; Two years, $6.00 Three years, $8.00 Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City. EDITORIAL School Overcrowded, Students Suffer Nevada Union High School has opened for ! its second year of operations at the Ridge Road site and already finds itself overcrowded. Designed for 900 students, the school is now educating 987. Even in its initial year, with a peak of 881 students, the high school found need for some classes tobe held in the multi-purpose or library rooms. But this year the classroom situation is approaching a critical stage. ~Oneclass must use the multi-purpose room, another must use the teachers' dining room, and throughout the school day classes are held in the school's library. Effective use of the library by teachers and their classés has been made impossible because ofthe instruction that is necessary there. Indeed, students cannot use the library for study or research purposes except prior to the opening of school in the morning, after school closes inthe afternoon, or during the two lunch periods each day. One of the most important phases of a high school education is the teaching of the use of a library. Forthose students who do not go on to higher education, the knowledge of how to use alibrary is a key to self-education in later years. For-those students who-do go on toa higher education, the library can be a friend throughout college days. But the student must know what toexpect from the use ofa library and how to make use of the knowledge contained therein. . It is obvious that the Nevada Union High School District must soon lay plans for an exPansion of the high school. Trustees have been studying the housing problem. They will likely” soon come up with possible solutions to the overcrowding problem. Western Nevada County residents can expect that they will be called on to approve an expansion at the high school site. Sabin ? Sure . ! Quite a fuss was made over the weeken d over the Sabin Oral Sunday program. It seems that for adults there is some question as to whether there is a minute danger of contracting the disease from Sabin Type 3 vaccine, the second dose given in the S.O.S. program. It should be emphasized that there is no danger to children. Then it should be noted that the doubt at this point is being investigated and state and and national health authorities will likely have completed their re-assessment of the program in the next few weeks. Since there is no danger from the first dose, and since it likely will be proved that the secOnd dose is harm-free, too, we urge all residents to participate in the Sabin Oral Sunday program. The first sugar cubes will be given Sunday at the Nevada Union High School. Your local association and county health officials, with state backing, urge that all residents over three-months old begin treatment. evs . an & “2 : SMALL TOWN by Alfred Heller gost HAD AOD RPS 6 ic We went to Europe Thursday night via the slides of teacher John Conway's second European jaunt in two years.. The slides were good, although Conway's pix of last year's trip, those he took himself were even better. 4/ As we have indicated, this year's slide crop was all purchased, Seems there were only three sunny days in his two month LEIP eis sia.e Outstanding among the slides were those of a Viking village, reconstructed with authentic Viking buildings moved there from all areas of Norway; and pictures of the Black Forest area wees The alert club program chairman will likely be phoning Conway (at Seven Hills School) > <a. ted eeeeeos ere VISETORS .0o 534 A friend and admirerof'H. P. Davis, Betty Eganhoff, of the Bureau of Mines" S, F, office, spentthe better part of a week roaming these Sierra foothills with a friend, Corinne Kibler, of San Jose.. Preparation of a list of historic sites south of Nevada City was on the Eganhoff agenda, and she will return to fill out the blank spots in the near FUTUTE Ss 0: si9 Just for the fun of it, the two spent some of their time in the Malakoff, Downieville, Alleghany, and Yuba Pass area, OPTIMISTIC.. L.L.Huelsdonk, of Best Mines in Downie~ Letter To: Dear Sir; In regard to taxing the county for the benefit of our cities; it would be well for rural voters to contact your supervisor, Instead of the cities requesting practically all of the sales taxes, it would be no more than fair and equitable to reverse the situation, at least down to a 50-50 split. This would at least be more reasonable, because as I understand it, more than twothirds of the residents of the county live outside the cities and pay two thirds of the taxes, --real estate taxes, We can also assume, therefore that we paytwothirds of the sales taxes, Certainly our two cities would make a pretty poor showing if they did not-receive our rural business. In regard to facilities which they claim they furnish us, such as a swimming pool and park. Surely the county as such, also has a reason for existing, otherwise let our cities secede or place a wall around themselves, There is plenty of room left in this The Editor county outside our cities for shopping centers. Actually we beleive the cities c Ould issue we rural hicks from the sticks, a permitcard, ata price of course, for the privilege of using your facilities, which we wouldbe required to have on our persons at all times and could show on demand, This would be another way of raising money for the cities instead of asking us to pay additional taxes for city purposes, In other words, why attempt minority control of the coun ty by the cities? Most probably, we, the rural voters of Nevada County need reapportionment, Our supervisors are intelligent men, so quite probably they will realize that rural Nevada County does not desire tohave their taxes raised to pay city bills. However tural citizens, it behooves us to evidence our interest, -for our best interest, Very sincerely, Ellwood Ellinger, Grass Valley Political Prospecting HAROLD T, JOHNSON Congressman Harold T, Johnson announced last week the appointOnce Congress adjourns, Johnson said, the candidate intends to campaign throughout all of the ment of Mrs, Amy Nygard of Grass Valley as chairman of the Johnson for Congress Committee in Nevada County, Lou Hartman will serve as finance chairman and Leo J. Todd will be publicity chairman. Both are from Grass Valley, Other me mbers of the committee include Alfred Heller and Al Blais of Nevada City; Sam Tracy and Douglas Ribble of Washington; Roy Peterson of Higgins Corner; Wayne Brown, Ed Koster, William Haney, Brian Bishop, Gail Gordon, Dave Seyern, Sylvester Fuller and Eliner ‘Lewis, all of Grass Valley, 19 counties in his Second District, RICHARD NIXON Richard Nixon kicked off his “person to person” campaign for governor one week ago and has traveled 2050 miles throughout the state in his first four -day swing. Nixon covered the state from San Diego to Eureka, RAY E, TAYLOR Ray E. Taylor, candidate for the Sixth Assembly seat, charged the Brown administration with “wasteful spending and fiscal irresponsibility in an address before the Placer, Sierra, Nevada Medical Society Sept. 12, EDMUND G, BROWN Governor Edmund G, Brown , in Placerville, said his administration had made ngajor breakthroughs on every front of government, aaemes "We balanced the budget.. wecut taxes for business..we lifted taxes from Prescription drugs..we plan next year to exempt families with two child-ren whose income is under $5700 from state income taxes. we have stepped up highway construction, increased loansto local schools, increased pensions and unemployment benefits..we have started three new university campuses, six new state colleges and-a medical school. ,. state aid is being given junior colleges for the first time.. we have started a water program.. we have cut the increase inthe crime rate in half. ‘i RALPH RICHARDSON Laurence N. .W olfe, Baldwin Park High School science teacher who polled nearly 200,000 votes in the June5 primary election for State superintendent of schools has announced that he is supporting the candidacy of Ralph Richardson for the position, GEORGE CHRISTOPHER Democratic dinners supporting Republican candidate George Christopher for the office of lieutenant governor have been scheduled in 19 cities, including Sacramento, Marysville and Chico. by Dean Thompson ville, and secretary of the state mining board, is quite optimistic about the prospects of current gold mining subsidy legislation before Congress.. Other Downieville notations: James Stephens, elected to the post of president of the Downieville Lions club, hasn't been able to take his post yet. Suffered an operation which had him laid up forthe better part of three months, Operation successful, recuperation slow.. Dave Snyder, past-president of the club, has been holding down the fort, so to speak, until Jim is able to take over, ART RENTAL GALLERY.. The ' monthly featured guest at the ' Nevada City Art Rental Gallery will be Frederick Blodgett, art instructor at Sierra College, Blodgett will show a film tomorrow evening during the regular monthly evening opening of the gallery. The gallery is Open each Wednesday afternoon between 2 and 4 p.m., and the third Thursday evening of each month between 7 and 9 p.m, WINS AGAIN,.Val Baima and his wife have won another sweepstakes award for their agricultural entri€s.. This time it was at the AuburnFair, with 276 points, just a couple weeks after sweeping a similar award for the 15th year at the Nevada County Fair. -.Their victory at the local fair seta state and national point record when they scored 533 points, GOLD SITUATION.. The Los Angeles Times devoted its Sunday Outlook Section Sept. 9 to the g old situation which it described in headline form as "a monetary checker move,".. It included three major articles: the cold war drain on gold reserves, a view of the gold situation from the mines, anda view of gold stocks. . The copy is available fora look-see if you are interested,.And thanks to friend Bill Whitmire in Los Angeles for sending it along. HONORED,. Cartoonist Dan O'Neill, artist creator of the Nugget's Odd Bodkins, has had a request: Could Charles S, Hurley, administrative assistant to Controller Alan Cranston, please have the original cartoon run in the Nugget Sept. 5 (big frog in small town) to frame and hang in his office..O'Neill is coming up in the world, The last public note of his work came when a Nevada City Councilman suggested the cartoonist should be committed to De Witt during a recent council meeting, They say Lake Tahoe is going to be ruined. People have been saying that for years, of course, about sixty or seventy years, . Almost a hundred years ago many of the mountains bordering. the Lake were practically stripped of timber, which was carted in one way or another over the crest and down into the Washoe Valley andupvia the Virginia and Truckee to Virginia City for use in supporting the mine shafts, But nobody complained much then about the resultant mangy appearance of the Lake basin. Few were around to complain. It wasn't until about the turn of the century that Tahoe came into its own as a tourist center. It was then that Tahoe's value as an object of beauty came to be recognized, and people began to worry about the ugly signs of civilization on its shore. Many of the forests once stripped clear have returned today in second growth. But the trees are not as tall as the originals, possibly because much of the good soil washed away as a result of the clear stripping. Be that as it may, the main agent of destruction at the. Lake today is not the lonely woodsman of old, but his city or suburbbred descendants, whose very mass presence in the summer, and now increasingly in winter, creates a multitude of problems. On a Grand Tour of Europe in 1905, my grandfather, who was a SanFrancisco lawyer and summer resident of Lake Tahoe, wrote the following in a letter to my great-grandmother (I quote it because everyone likes to boast of ancestral prophets, even minor ones): "We went upa mountain today near Zurich where we could get a general view of Lake Zurich and the high snow-capped mountains in the distance, It was a magnificent view, worth the trouble. AsI looked over the Lake here I could not help comparing it to Tahoe and the thought impressed itself strongly upon me how much more beautiful and inspiring our lake is. Here every few hundred yards one sees a beautiful villa and every few miles a large town--with us everything is in nature's state yet and much ‘more beautiful and awe-inspiring for that reason. I really believe that if our Lake ever gets to be settled up the way these Swiss lakes are, that it will be spoiled for good. Good drinking water around Zurich seems out of the question. Strange, it is not? But the waters are badly polluted all about here and fortunes are spent in filtration plants.” Well, Tahoe is in fact becoming pretty well "settled up", but not with a proliferation of beautiful villas or neat Swisstowns, Instead, we have the jumble of cheap resort suburbs, with especially virulent concentrations at such places as South Tahoe, Brockwa y, and Tahoe City, New subdivisions, I am sad to say, have begun to scar the open slopes south of Meeks Bay, Still, people keep coming to the Lake, and not all of them to play the machines or see the Las Vegas-type entertainments. It is not yet ruined everywhere, and in the winter after a snow, or on a moonlight night in the off season when the searchlights are shut off, or at spots on the shore, or from the middle of the Lake, you can still see the entity of Tahoe giving the illusion of being unspoiled, To preserve that illusion, if nothing else, several regional conservation and planning groups, both private and public, have come into being. Most people wish them well and ple dge them what Support they can offer. But there are so many jurisdictions over the Lake area--five counties, two states, private land owners, state and federal agencies--that you begin to wonder whether the effort will come to much, v Nevertheless, the effort must be made, In one small spot, we should be able tocome to terms with each other and with our natural surroundings, If not, what about our beautiful but Bomb. threatened planet, with all of its jurisdictions? [WASHINGTO CALLING By MARQUIS CHILDS (Marquis Childs, a long-time analyst ot international problems, today begins an extensive report on the European Common Market and the state of economic affairs in Europe generally, His first article is from London, Others from major capitals on the continent will follow.) LONDON, ---The latest public opinion polls show an increasing majority in Britain opposed to joining the European Common Market. The issues involved in adhering to the Treaty of Rome, with ® its commissions, courts and councils designed to enforce a supranationality, are so complex that even the experts do not fully understand them, Therefore, popular polls are more or less meaningless, They do, however, reflect a hardening of opinion ominous for Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, The vocal opposition comes from two extremes. On the right, Lord Beaverbrook, withhis mass -circulation Daily Express, sounds the old trumpet call of Britain's grandeur and the imperial past. The anti-Common Market League is holding impassioned rallies to stir popular prejudice against linking proud old England with such a continental scheme. The latest Daily Mail poll showed the public opposition increasing from 41.7 to 52.2 percent. A bloc of left-wing Socialists opposes the Common Market for almost equally unrealistic reasons, They argue that if Britain joins up with Europe, the structure of social benefits and labor's control over hours and wages will be jeopardized, This conveniently ignores the fact that only through high productivity and a continuing rise in exports to Western Europe and other major trade areas canthe high standard be maintained, Despite this, exports have continued to rise, Forty percent of the total’are going to Western Europe, and eventually ~--unless Britain becomes a member of the Market--they will be subject toa prohibitive tariff wall, Since Britain must import half of its food supply and most of the raw materials for manufacture, the dilemma of this moment of change is sharply posed, For Macmillan, the realities of power-=-or the lack of it-compel him to urgent efforts to find a Satisfactory way out of today's tangled uncertainty. His inevitable discovery, as he tries to cope with the Commonwealth Prime Ministers, is that their authority is provisional and tentative, just as is his. The original plan was to have ready for last week's Commonwealth meeting the terms agreed to by the Common Market commissioners at Brussels. With that having failed in a troubled all-night session at Brussels on August 5, the most that could be hoped for was Commonwealth accord on trusting the Macmillan government to look after Commonwealth interests, That is a large order, Bluff, hearty Prime Minister Robert Menzies of Australia is pressing for continued support for dutyfree entry of Australian dried fruits, At the last election his government squeaked through with a majority of one, Canada'sJohnG, Diefenbaker has no government at all, since in the latest election the explosive Social Credit Party got 30 seats and thereby balanced off Conservatives and Likerals, New Zealand clamors for protection for her wool and butter--nine tenths ofher exports, most of which comes into the duty free British Market. India's ailing Jawaharlal Nehru finds his authority increasingly encroached upon by his aggressive and bitterly anti-Western Defense Minister Krishna Menon, It is taken for granted here that the deal Menon had promoted to buy Soviet Migs will go threugh, This will eventually mean construction of a Mig plant in India and a growing dependence on Soviet material and Soviet technicians, 1

Page 8..Wednesday, September 19, 1962..The Nevada County NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. iccuambeclimmegatt 1 Publisher R. Dean Thompoon...... Editor-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, $4.00; Two years, $6.00 Three years, $8.00 Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City. EDITORIAL School Overcrowded, Students Suffer Nevada Union High School has opened for ! its second year of operations at the Ridge Road site and already finds itself overcrowded. Designed for 900 students, the school is now educating 987. Even in its initial year, with a peak of 881 students, the high school found need for some classes tobe held in the multi-purpose or library rooms. But this year the classroom situation is approaching a critical stage. ~Oneclass must use the multi-purpose room, another must use the teachers' dining room, and throughout the school day classes are held in the school's library. Effective use of the library by teachers and their classés has been made impossible because ofthe instruction that is necessary there. Indeed, students cannot use the library for study or research purposes except prior to the opening of school in the morning, after school closes inthe afternoon, or during the two lunch periods each day. One of the most important phases of a high school education is the teaching of the use of a library. Forthose students who do not go on to higher education, the knowledge of how to use alibrary is a key to self-education in later years. For-those students who-do go on toa higher education, the library can be a friend throughout college days. But the student must know what toexpect from the use ofa library and how to make use of the knowledge contained therein. . It is obvious that the Nevada Union High School District must soon lay plans for an exPansion of the high school. Trustees have been studying the housing problem. They will likely” soon come up with possible solutions to the overcrowding problem. Western Nevada County residents can expect that they will be called on to approve an expansion at the high school site. Sabin ? Sure . ! Quite a fuss was made over the weeken d over the Sabin Oral Sunday program. It seems that for adults there is some question as to whether there is a minute danger of contracting the disease from Sabin Type 3 vaccine, the second dose given in the S.O.S. program. It should be emphasized that there is no danger to children. Then it should be noted that the doubt at this point is being investigated and state and and national health authorities will likely have completed their re-assessment of the program in the next few weeks. Since there is no danger from the first dose, and since it likely will be proved that the secOnd dose is harm-free, too, we urge all residents to participate in the Sabin Oral Sunday program. The first sugar cubes will be given Sunday at the Nevada Union High School. Your local association and county health officials, with state backing, urge that all residents over three-months old begin treatment. evs . an & “2 : SMALL TOWN by Alfred Heller gost HAD AOD RPS 6 ic We went to Europe Thursday night via the slides of teacher John Conway's second European jaunt in two years... The slides were good, although Conway's pix of last year's trip, those he took himself were even better.. 4/ As we have indicated, this year's slide crop was all purchased, Seems there were only three sunny days in his two month LEIP eis sia.e Outstanding among the slides were those of a Viking village, reconstructed with authentic Viking buildings moved there from all areas of Norway; and pictures of the Black Forest area wees The alert club program chairman will likely be phoning Conway (at Seven Hills School) > <a.. ted eeeeeos ere VISETORS .0o 534 A friend and admirerof'H. P. Davis, Betty Eganhoff, of the Bureau of Mines" S, F, office, spentthe better part of a week roaming these Sierra foothills with a friend, Corinne Kibler, of San Jose... Preparation of a list of historic sites south of Nevada City was on the Eganhoff agenda, and she will return to fill out the blank spots in the near FUTUTE Ss 0: si9 Just for the fun of it, the two spent some of their time in the Malakoff, Downieville, Alleghany, and Yuba Pass area, OPTIMISTIC... L.L.Huelsdonk, of Best Mines in Downie~ Letter To: Dear Sir; In regard to taxing the county for the benefit of our cities; it would be well for rural voters to contact your supervisor, Instead of the cities requesting practically all of the sales taxes, it would be no more than fair and equitable to reverse the situation, at least down to a 50-50 split. This would at least be more reasonable, because as I understand it, more than twothirds of the residents of the county live outside the cities and pay two thirds of the taxes, --real estate taxes, We can also assume, therefore that we paytwothirds of the sales taxes, Certainly our two cities would make a pretty poor showing if they did not-receive our rural business. In regard to facilities which they claim they furnish us, such as a swimming pool and park. Surely the county as such, also has a reason for existing, otherwise let our cities secede or place a wall around themselves, There is plenty of room left in this The Editor county outside our cities for shopping centers. Actually we beleive the cities c Ould issue we rural hicks from the sticks, a permitcard, ata price of course, for the privilege of using your facilities, which we wouldbe required to have on our persons at all times and could show on demand, This would be another way of raising money for the cities instead of asking us to pay additional taxes for city purposes, In other words, why attempt minority control of the coun ty by the cities? Most probably, we, the rural voters of Nevada County need reapportionment, Our supervisors are intelligent men, so quite probably they will realize that rural Nevada County does not desire tohave their taxes raised to pay city bills. However tural citizens, it behooves us to evidence our interest, -for our best interest, Very sincerely, Ellwood Ellinger, Grass Valley Political Prospecting HAROLD T, JOHNSON Congressman Harold T, Johnson announced last week the appointOnce Congress adjourns, Johnson said, the candidate intends to campaign throughout all of the ment of Mrs, Amy Nygard of Grass Valley as chairman of the Johnson for Congress Committee in Nevada County, Lou Hartman will serve as finance chairman and Leo J. Todd will be publicity chairman. Both are from Grass Valley, Other me mbers of the committee include Alfred Heller and Al Blais of Nevada City; Sam Tracy and Douglas Ribble of Washington; Roy Peterson of Higgins Corner; Wayne Brown, Ed Koster, William Haney, Brian Bishop, Gail Gordon, Dave Seyern, Sylvester Fuller and Eliner ‘Lewis, all of Grass Valley, 19 counties in his Second District, RICHARD NIXON Richard Nixon kicked off his “person to person” campaign for governor one week ago and has traveled 2050 miles throughout the state in his first four -day swing. Nixon covered the state from San Diego to Eureka, RAY E, TAYLOR Ray E. Taylor, candidate for the Sixth Assembly seat, charged the Brown administration with “wasteful spending and fiscal irresponsibility in an address before the Placer, Sierra, Nevada Medical Society Sept. 12,

EDMUND G, BROWN Governor Edmund G, Brown , in Placerville, said his administration had made ngajor breakthroughs on every front of government, aaemes "We balanced the budget... wecut taxes for business...we lifted taxes from Prescription drugs...we plan next year to exempt families with two child-ren whose income is under $5700 from state income taxes.. we have stepped up highway construction, increased loansto local schools, increased pensions and unemployment benefits...we have started three new university campuses, six new state colleges and-a medical school.. ,. state aid is being given junior colleges for the first time... we have started a water program... we have cut the increase inthe crime rate in half. ‘i RALPH RICHARDSON Laurence N. .W olfe, Baldwin Park High School science teacher who polled nearly 200,000 votes in the June5 primary election for State superintendent of schools has announced that he is supporting the candidacy of Ralph Richardson for the position, GEORGE CHRISTOPHER Democratic dinners supporting Republican candidate George Christopher for the office of lieutenant governor have been scheduled in 19 cities, including Sacramento, Marysville and Chico. by Dean Thompson ville, and secretary of the state mining board, is quite optimistic about the prospects of current gold mining subsidy legislation before Congress... Other Downieville notations: James Stephens, elected to the post of president of the Downieville Lions club, hasn't been able to take his post yet. Suffered an operation which had him laid up forthe better part of three months, Operation successful, recuperation slow... Dave Snyder, past-president of the club, has been holding down the fort, so to speak, until Jim is able to take over, ART RENTAL GALLERY... The ' monthly featured guest at the ' Nevada City Art Rental Gallery will be Frederick Blodgett, art instructor at Sierra College, Blodgett will show a film tomorrow evening during the regular monthly evening opening of the gallery.. The gallery is Open each Wednesday afternoon between 2 and 4 p.m., and the third Thursday evening of each month between 7 and 9 p.m, WINS AGAIN,..Val Baima and his wife have won another sweepstakes award for their agricultural entri€s... This time it was at the AuburnFair, with 276 points, just a couple weeks after sweeping a similar award for the 15th year at the Nevada County Fair. -..Their victory at the local fair seta state and national point record when they scored 533 points, GOLD SITUATION... The Los Angeles Times devoted its Sunday Outlook Section Sept. 9 to the g old situation which it described in headline form as "a monetary checker move,"... It included three major articles: the cold war drain on gold reserves, a view of the gold situation from the mines, anda view of gold stocks. .. The copy is available fora look-see if you are interested,..And thanks to friend Bill Whitmire in Los Angeles for sending it along. HONORED,.. Cartoonist Dan O'Neill, artist creator of the Nugget's Odd Bodkins, has had a request: Could Charles S, Hurley, administrative assistant to Controller Alan Cranston, please have the original cartoon run in the Nugget Sept. 5 (big frog in small town) to frame and hang in his office...O'Neill is coming up in the world, The last public note of his work came when a Nevada City Councilman suggested the cartoonist should be committed to De Witt during a recent council meeting, They say Lake Tahoe is going to be ruined. People have been saying that for years, of course, about sixty or seventy years, . Almost a hundred years ago many of the mountains bordering. the Lake were practically stripped of timber, which was carted in one way or another over the crest and down into the Washoe Valley andupvia the Virginia and Truckee to Virginia City for use in supporting the mine shafts, But nobody complained much then about the resultant mangy appearance of the Lake basin. Few were around to complain. It wasn't until about the turn of the century that Tahoe came into its own as a tourist center. It was then that Tahoe's value as an object of beauty came to be recognized, and people began to worry about the ugly signs of civilization on its shore. Many of the forests once stripped clear have returned today in second growth. But the trees are not as tall as the originals, possibly because much of the good soil washed away as a result of the clear stripping. Be that as it may, the main agent of destruction at the. Lake today is not the lonely woodsman of old, but his city or suburbbred descendants, whose very mass presence in the summer, and now increasingly in winter, creates a multitude of problems. On a Grand Tour of Europe in 1905, my grandfather, who was a SanFrancisco lawyer and summer resident of Lake Tahoe, wrote the following in a letter to my great-grandmother (I quote it because everyone likes to boast of ancestral prophets, even minor ones): "We went upa mountain today near Zurich where we could get a general view of Lake Zurich and the high snow-capped mountains in the distance, It was a magnificent view, worth the trouble. AsI looked over the Lake here I could not help comparing it to Tahoe and the thought impressed itself strongly upon me how much more beautiful and inspiring our lake is. Here every few hundred yards one sees a beautiful villa and every few miles a large town--with us everything is in nature's state yet and much ‘more beautiful and awe-inspiring for that reason. I really believe that if our Lake ever gets to be settled up the way these Swiss lakes are, that it will be spoiled for good. Good drinking water around Zurich seems out of the question. Strange, it is not? But the waters are badly polluted all about here and fortunes are spent in filtration plants.” Well, Tahoe is in fact becoming pretty well "settled up", but not with a proliferation of beautiful villas or neat Swisstowns, Instead, we have the jumble of cheap resort suburbs, with especially virulent concentrations at such places as South Tahoe, Brockwa y, and Tahoe City, New subdivisions, I am sad to say, have begun to scar the open slopes south of Meeks Bay, Still, people keep coming to the Lake, and not all of them to play the machines or see the Las Vegas-type entertainments. It is not yet ruined everywhere, and in the winter after a snow, or on a moonlight night in the off season when the searchlights are shut off, or at spots on the shore, or from the middle of the Lake, you can still see the entity of Tahoe giving the illusion of being unspoiled, To preserve that illusion, if nothing else, several regional conservation and planning groups, both private and public, have come into being. Most people wish them well and ple dge them what Support they can offer. But there are so many jurisdictions over the Lake area--five counties, two states, private land owners, state and federal agencies--that you begin to wonder whether the effort will come to much, v Nevertheless, the effort must be made, In one small spot, we should be able tocome to terms with each other and with our natural surroundings, If not, what about our beautiful but Bomb. threatened planet, with all of its jurisdictions? [WASHINGTO CALLING By MARQUIS CHILDS (Marquis Childs, a long-time analyst ot international problems, today begins an extensive report on the European Common Market and the state of economic affairs in Europe generally, His first article is from London, Others from major capitals on the continent will follow.) LONDON, ---The latest public opinion polls show an increasing majority in Britain opposed to joining the European Common Market. The issues involved in adhering to the Treaty of Rome, with ® its commissions, courts and councils designed to enforce a supranationality, are so complex that even the experts do not fully understand them, Therefore, popular polls are more or less meaningless, They do, however, reflect a hardening of opinion ominous for Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, The vocal opposition comes from two extremes. On the right, Lord Beaverbrook, withhis mass -circulation Daily Express, sounds the old trumpet call of Britain's grandeur and the imperial past. The anti-Common Market League is holding impassioned rallies to stir popular prejudice against linking proud old England with such a continental scheme. The latest Daily Mail poll showed the public opposition increasing from 41.7 to 52.2 percent. A bloc of left-wing Socialists opposes the Common Market for almost equally unrealistic reasons, They argue that if Britain joins up with Europe, the structure of social benefits and labor's control over hours and wages will be jeopardized, This conveniently ignores the fact that only through high productivity and a continuing rise in exports to Western Europe and other major trade areas canthe high standard be maintained, Despite this, exports have continued to rise, Forty percent of the total’are going to Western Europe, and eventually ~--unless Britain becomes a member of the Market--they will be subject toa prohibitive tariff wall, Since Britain must import half of its food supply and most of the raw materials for manufacture, the dilemma of this moment of change is sharply posed, For Macmillan, the realities of power-=-or the lack of it-compel him to urgent efforts to find a Satisfactory way out of today's tangled uncertainty. His inevitable discovery, as he tries to cope with the Commonwealth Prime Ministers, is that their authority is provisional and tentative, just as is his. The original plan was to have ready for last week's Commonwealth meeting the terms agreed to by the Common Market commissioners at Brussels. With that having failed in a troubled all-night session at Brussels on August 5, the most that could be hoped for was Commonwealth accord on trusting the Macmillan government to look after Commonwealth interests, That is a large order, Bluff, hearty Prime Minister Robert Menzies of Australia is pressing for continued support for dutyfree entry of Australian dried fruits, At the last election his government squeaked through with a majority of one, Canada'sJohnG, Diefenbaker has no government at all, since in the latest election the explosive Social Credit Party got 30 seats and thereby balanced off Conservatives and Likerals, New Zealand clamors for protection for her wool and butter--nine tenths ofher exports, most of which comes into the duty free British Market. India's ailing Jawaharlal Nehru finds his authority increasingly encroached upon by his aggressive and bitterly anti-Western Defense Minister Krishna Menon, It is taken for granted here that the deal Menon had promoted to buy Soviet Migs will go threugh, This will eventually mean construction of a Mig plant in India and a growing dependence on Soviet material and Soviet technicians, 1