September 26, 1962 (10 pages)

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SCENIC HIG NEVADA COUNTY foe pn hte ree emer ALA OEE ahr a Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Ta Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Sel Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Ik, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Fiat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Co , Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wallo by Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill,-Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hil Newtown, Iridian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthog Le Cerone House, Delirium Trem Volume 37 No. 41 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekl 20, 1962 AIRPLANE CRASH KILLS TWO BRIDGEPORT-~--Two young men were killed Saturday afternoon when their single engine airplane crashed and burned on a steep rocky hillside near Bridgeport on the South Yuba River. Dead are George F, Goodin, 21, the pilot, of North San Juan, and,FredJ. Webber, Jr., 22, Sacramento, The high wing monoplane had just flown over the M.K, Maishranch where Webber's wife and recent bride, the former Virginia Maish, and friends were visiting. Flaming gasoline from the crash started a stubborn brush fire which required repeated, borate drops to subdue, Crews fromthe California Division of Forestry and the Washington Ridge youth conservation camp battledthe blaze until dark. The fire burned about twelve acres on the James ranch a mile east of the cov= ered bridge. Francis J. Goodin, father of the dead pilot had, according to M. K. Maish, a premonition of trouble. Maish said that Goodin had visions of his son being killed in a plane crash, Eyewitness reports near the scene of the tragedy quote Goodin as saying, "--Oh God, Oh God, I told him-(many)-times not to fly this canyon--," Goodin later told Sheriff W ayne Brown that he had hidden the keys to the airplane in a bowl on his desk in hopes the boy would not find them, Young Goodin had been flying a little over a year at ‘the time of the accident, The Sheriff's Department reports the plane went into a steep climb after flying over the Maish ranch but lacked the powertoclearthe mountain top. The plane veered sharply to its left and crashed, Tom Fisher Given Probation, $150 Fine NEVADA CIT Y---Thomas Fisher, 25, Englebright Marina was sentenced to three years formal probation and fined $150 in Nevada City Judicial Court yesterday afternoon by Judge Victor Montre. Fisher had earlier been found guilty of petty theft arising out of an incident involving a large American flagJuly 3. The flag was torn fromthe side of a downtown Nevada City building where it was being displayed in connection with Nevada City's Fourth ofJuly celebration, The flag suffered major damage, In passing sentence Judge Montre made it definite that Fisher was being sentenced for petty theft and nothing else, He also warned Fisher against the use of alcoholic beverages and ordered him tostay out of places when it was served during the term of his probation. , Fisher by his own admission had been drinking heav. ily when the act occured. Judge Montre noted that Fisher had served inthe Marine Corps and had been honorably discharged and that ‘his probation report was “very clean”. His fine is to be paid in monthly installments of $20 instead of all at once. Such method of pay ment was deemed by the court to be “therapeutic” in nature. WRECKAGE---The charred remains of the plane which carried . “a ie George F. Goodin and Fred J. Webber, Jr. to their death lie scattered high on a rocky ledge ina gorge of the South Yuba River near Bridgeport. Building Code Passed NEVADA CIT Y---The Nevada City Council adopted a building code Monday night, after more than two weeks of discussion. The council expects to contract with the county for administration of the code, Action on the code came after councilmen were satisfied that adoption of the code would not hinder repairs and altering of older homes within the city. The council also authorized City Manager Charles Smith to negotiate for the rental of a street sweeper, hired Barbara Thue to a post on the police department staff as"meter moll", and instructed the city manager toinvestigate tape recorders with the idea of taping council meetings. A special meeting of the council will be held tonight , to adopt an ordinance raising the city's share of city sales tax receipts to 80 per cent. The county will get 20 per cent under the ordinance which will become effective Yanecl. GRASS VALLEY ---With 700 entries in the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce sponsored deer huntcontest, a hunter from Walnut Creek has taken an early-season lead, The contest is based on the spread of horns, and Bill Schlotterbeck of Walnut Creek checked in with a deer with horn spread of 30 and three-fourths inches. Second place is now held {by MaeEngle, Grass Valley, 2linches; third place, DarrellR, Scott, and Gordon Stephens, tied at 20 and sev‘en-eighths inches. The contest will continue through the deer season, Deer Contest ; GRASS VALLEY---The Nevada Irrigation District board f directors last Friday asked hairman Ross McBurney. and director Warren Wilson to confer this week with state and local health and planning officials regarding health and public safety aspects of the proposed Rollins Reservoir project. The meeting, which will include Bennett Karoly, state Senior Sanitary Engineer, and local officials of Nevada and Placer counties, has been scheduled for tomorrow. The full board meets again Friday to continue its discussion of land acquisition policy at Rollins, which will Pacific Ballet. Nevada City Health Officials Meet With NID On Rollins be located on the Béar River at Chicago Park, In addition to health and” safety matters, the board will probably consider the effects of its land acquisition policy on the availability of a state recreation grant for the Rollins area, The board indicated its support of public recreational development at Rollins last July, when it applied to the state depart ment of water resources forrecreational grants for four reservoirs in, volved in its $65. million Yuba-Bear project, Rollins, to be located 10 miles southeast of Grass Valley, was one of the four. COMMUNITY CONCERTS---Left toright Georgette Russell Rokahr, Community Concert representative from San Francisco and Ardis Bell, president of the Twin Cities Community Concert Association discuss the 1962 membership drive-now undérway. First concert in Grass Valleywillbe the 4 MARYSVILLE ---Nevada County's plea to include Highway 20 in the proposed California Scenic. Highway System drew support from other areas at yesterday's ‘workshop. meeting to discuss the system at the City Hall in Marysville. In addition, special emphasis was given Nevada City. Pleas were made to the Interagency Coordinating Committee for Scenic Highways inhighway design, routing and landscaping through Nevada City in order to preserve scenic beauty and historic interest in the construction of a proposed freeway. Close to 70 persons filled the council chamber in the morning workshop that heard officials of several counties and organizations present their views on scenic highways. State officials included AlanS,. Hart, assistant state highway engineer, Dee W. McKenzie, chairman of the , Citizens’ Advisory Committee on Scenic Highways, George Smith, State Highway Planning Survey, Alex Bigler, State Office of Planning, and Harry Freeman, deputy ditector of planning of the Department of Public Works, Nevada City was represented by Councilman Arch “Statement appears in an adjacent column). : sought the answer totwo questions, whether highways: should be added to or deleted from the tentative system, .and what local ideas where on scenic highway design and standards, Generally, the Marysville workshop, one of 11 in the state, found a desire among the counties for additional scenic routes, including Highway 20, Freeman said the system is intended to offer a wide variety of scenic experiences by providing special scenic corridors providing touristsa choice of where to go, but he warned that the state cannot save the California environment only by right of way area control and urged cities and counties to establish complementary zoning and assume local control outside the right of way area, Nevada County Planning Director Bill Roberts told the workshop the Nevada County Planning Commission requested the inclusion of Highway 20 in the Scenic Highway System, He reminded the group that Highway 20 east of Nevada City runs through Tahoe National Forest and is worthy of the name "Avenue of Trees”. Roberts suggested the proposed Pet Hill freeway relocation of Highway 20 west of Grass Valley be developed from construction stage as a scenic highway, and that the scenic highway classification extend beyond Nevada County through the Clear Lake region to connect with the Coastal Range. He also urged the committee to include the portion of Highway 49 between Grass Valley and Auburn within the program, A representative of the Golden Chain Council McPherson. (McPherson's . Hart said the workshop. mining days, belt through the town, sticky. NEVADA CITY AND THE POLAR BEAR (The following statement of City Councilman Dr, Arch McPherson, who represented Nevada City at the Scenic Highway hearing at Marysville yesterday, drew amused chuckles from many in attendance, including Assistant State Highway Engineer Alan S. Hart.) Nevada Cityis a town of about twenty-five hundred inhabitants, located on the edge of Tahoe National Forest. It is an old mining town, and through a fortunate combination of circumstances, it looks now very much the same as it did in the late eighteen-hundreds, It is a living historical monument tothe California gold mining industry, very much like Columbia where so much money has been spent to restore a dead monument to the old Nevada Cityhas many fine old homes and buildings and lots of trees, Beautiful Deer Creek makes a green We do have a traffic problem. Highway 49 goes through Nevada City on streets designed for horsedrawn traffic, This would not be too bad for passenger cars, but combined with lumber trucks it sometimes gets rather The Highway Department proposes to solve our problem by running a’full freeway right through the center of town,’ cutting the community in two, covering Deer Creek and destroying some of our oldest and most impor= tant historical buildings. This will solve the traffic problem for centuries to come, the appearance and character of the town, ang Nevada City as such just may not survive. } I have heard lots of speculation as to why the Highway Department has come up with such an elaborate’ solution for a relatively small problem. I personally think it isa sign of affection for Nevada City, The nicest thing a highway engineer can do for you is to build you a road, The more he likes you, the wider and fancier the road will be, It is a little like being loved by a polar bear. You have to be pretty big to survive, let alone enjoy it. It isourhope that the Scenic Highway"Committee can help the Highway Department to find a solution for our traffic problem that will also preserve the beauty and historical values of Nevada City. but it will radically change GRASS VALLEY---A dinner to honor Assemblyman ‘Paul Lunardi will be held Friday at 7 p.m, at The Office in McCain, membership chairman; the Golden Hotel in Grass Nie * : i 4 3 Dinner To Honor Lunardi Valley. Arranged by Amy Nygard of the Democratic Central Committee, the dinner will have Assemblyman Lunardi as featured guest, A refreshment hour will precede the dinner. : Mrs, Nygard also announcedthat Bert Betts, state treasurer seeking re-election, will be in'Grass Valley Friday to visit supporters, The Lunardi dinner is not limited to Democrats, and Republican supporters of the popular assemblyman are invited,Weather NEVADA CITY Max, Min, Rainfall Sept. 19 80 35 . 00 20 81 38 . 00 21 74 40 . 00 22 80 43 . 00 23 82 42 . 00 24 85 42 . 00 25 88 44 . 00 Rainfall this year . 38 Rainfall last year 47 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall sept, 19 41° -50 . 00 20 83 47 00 21 78 49 00 22 87 54 . 00 23. 89 56 . 00 24. 91 69 .00 25 94° 58 . 00 Rainfall this year 44 Rainfall last year .55 ‘Special Consideration’ Urged For INC Freeway In Scenic Pilot Program backed this proposal. Link Peckinpaw, secretarymanager of the Plumas County Chamber of Commerce, endorsed the Highway 20 proposal, and urged inclusion of Highway 40A and the Marysville-Oroville road, thereby offering a “scenic circle” to tourists. Howard Moise, corresponding. secretary of the Galifornia Roadside Council, endorsed the Nevada County request for all of Highways 49 and 20 to be included in the system, then noted the intersection of the two highways in Nevada City and urged special consideration by the Division of Highways in its plans for the Nevada City freeway. With both highways as part of the scenic system, Moise said the division has a responsibility to consider historical elements, and to give improved freeway design and landscaping special consideration, Moise explained that the Nevada City freeway should be given design treatment of a calibre that would enable the Division of Highways to point it out as a prime example of good scenic highway treatment~-it should be the pilot plan for scenic freeway design. John D'Agostini, El Dorado County supervisor, urged the preservation of local historical features, and cited Highway 49 as the life line that keeps tourists flowing through the Mother Lode. Hart said the state is improving Highway 49 to freeway standards, but is trying '. -to follow the original 49er Trail. Robert D. Montgomery, regional manager of the Department of Fish and Game, warned that in the course of developing scenic highways and freeways the Division of Highways should be careful to preserve fish and wildlife, and to provide access to rivers,and fishing areas. He complained bitterly , over pollution and stream damage to the South Yuba River in current construction of Highway 40. “It used to be scenic, but it won't be," Montgomery said, Terry Feil, California Citizens Freeway Association representative, said his group would like to see a well designed scenic program, not just another freeway program, He stated his group would like highways designed to fit theterrain, and not one just designed to carry traffic. There should be emphasis on landscaping and architectural desing, he said, pointing out that the state has some of the top people in this field available. "The program shouldbe truly a scenic program, “ Feil said, He offered to sponsor four additional workshops,. inviting the citizens committee on scenic highways to attend, Sierra County comment was mainly.to object to limiting acess frominew freeway construction to the adjacent North Yuba River. Hart closed the meeting with the comment that as a highway engineer his primary consideration in the past hasbeen for a functional highway intended to carry traffic. The state is beginning to get a pretty good functional system, he said, andthe division is now finding that this is not enough, that the state must also make j the highways scenic. f *IT1BO ‘6 OfUuauBuDes AABAQE'T 83B9S *511 Bd UOT4ZOSS STBOIPO tsa

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SCENIC HIG NEVADA COUNTY foe pn hte ree emer ALA OEE ahr a Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Ta Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Sel Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Ik, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Fiat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Co , Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wallo by Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill,-Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hil Newtown, Iridian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthog Le Cerone House, Delirium Trem Volume 37 No. 41 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekl 20, 1962 AIRPLANE CRASH KILLS TWO BRIDGEPORT-~--Two young men were killed Saturday afternoon when their single engine airplane crashed and burned on a steep rocky hillside near Bridgeport on the South Yuba River. Dead are George F, Goodin, 21, the pilot, of North San Juan, and,FredJ. Webber, Jr., 22, Sacramento, The high wing monoplane had just flown over the M.K, Maishranch where Webber's wife and recent bride, the former Virginia Maish, and friends were visiting. Flaming gasoline from the crash started a stubborn brush fire which required repeated, borate drops to subdue, Crews fromthe California Division of Forestry and the Washington Ridge youth conservation camp battledthe blaze until dark. The fire burned about twelve acres on the James ranch a mile east of the cov= ered bridge. Francis J. Goodin, father of the dead pilot had, according to M. K. Maish, a premonition of trouble. Maish said that Goodin had visions of his son being killed in a plane crash, Eyewitness reports near the scene of the tragedy quote Goodin as saying, "--Oh God, Oh God, I told him-(many)-times not to fly this canyon--," Goodin later told Sheriff W ayne Brown that he had hidden the keys to the airplane in a bowl on his desk in hopes the boy would not find them, Young Goodin had been flying a little over a year at ‘the time of the accident, The Sheriff's Department reports the plane went into a steep climb after flying over the Maish ranch but lacked the powertoclearthe mountain top. The plane veered sharply to its left and crashed, Tom Fisher Given Probation, $150 Fine NEVADA CIT Y---Thomas Fisher, 25, Englebright Marina was sentenced to three years formal probation and fined $150 in Nevada City Judicial Court yesterday afternoon by Judge Victor Montre. Fisher had earlier been found guilty of petty theft arising out of an incident involving a large American flagJuly 3. The flag was torn fromthe side of a downtown Nevada City building where it was being displayed in connection with Nevada City's Fourth ofJuly celebration, The flag suffered major damage, In passing sentence Judge Montre made it definite that Fisher was being sentenced for petty theft and nothing else, He also warned Fisher against the use of alcoholic beverages and ordered him tostay out of places when it was served during the term of his probation. , Fisher by his own admission had been drinking heav. ily when the act occured. Judge Montre noted that Fisher had served inthe Marine Corps and had been honorably discharged and that ‘his probation report was “very clean”. His fine is to be paid in monthly installments of $20 instead of all at once. Such method of pay ment was deemed by the court to be “therapeutic” in nature. WRECKAGE---The charred remains of the plane which carried . “a ie George F. Goodin and Fred J. Webber, Jr. to their death lie scattered high on a rocky ledge ina gorge of the South Yuba River near Bridgeport. Building Code Passed NEVADA CIT Y---The Nevada City Council adopted a building code Monday night, after more than two weeks of discussion. The council expects to contract with the county for administration of the code, Action on the code came after councilmen were satisfied that adoption of the code would not hinder repairs and altering of older homes within the city. The council also authorized City Manager Charles Smith to negotiate for the rental of a street sweeper, hired Barbara Thue to a post on the police department staff as"meter moll", and instructed the city manager toinvestigate tape recorders with the idea of taping council meetings. A special meeting of the council will be held tonight , to adopt an ordinance raising the city's share of city sales tax receipts to 80 per cent. The county will get 20 per cent under the ordinance which will become effective Yanecl. GRASS VALLEY ---With 700 entries in the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce sponsored deer huntcontest, a hunter from Walnut Creek has taken an early-season lead, The contest is based on the spread of horns, and Bill Schlotterbeck of Walnut Creek checked in with a deer with horn spread of 30 and three-fourths inches. Second place is now held {by MaeEngle, Grass Valley, 2linches; third place, DarrellR, Scott, and Gordon Stephens, tied at 20 and sev‘en-eighths inches. The contest will continue through the deer season, Deer Contest ; GRASS VALLEY---The Nevada Irrigation District board f directors last Friday asked hairman Ross McBurney. and director Warren Wilson to confer this week with state and local health and planning officials regarding health and public safety aspects of the proposed Rollins Reservoir project. The meeting, which will include Bennett Karoly, state Senior Sanitary Engineer, and local officials of Nevada and Placer counties, has been scheduled for tomorrow. The full board meets again Friday to continue its discussion of land acquisition policy at Rollins, which will Pacific Ballet. Nevada City Health Officials Meet With NID On Rollins be located on the Béar River at Chicago Park, In addition to health and” safety matters, the board will probably consider the effects of its land acquisition policy on the availability of a state recreation grant for the Rollins area, The board indicated its support of public recreational development at Rollins last July, when it applied to the state depart ment of water resources forrecreational grants for four reservoirs in, volved in its $65. million Yuba-Bear project, Rollins, to be located 10 miles southeast of Grass Valley, was one of the four. COMMUNITY CONCERTS---Left toright Georgette Russell Rokahr, Community Concert representative from San Francisco and Ardis Bell, president of the Twin Cities Community Concert Association discuss the 1962 membership drive-now undérway. First concert in Grass Valleywillbe the 4 MARYSVILLE ---Nevada County's plea to include Highway 20 in the proposed California Scenic. Highway System drew support from other areas at yesterday's ‘workshop. meeting to discuss the system at the City Hall in Marysville. In addition, special emphasis was given Nevada City. Pleas were made to the Interagency Coordinating Committee for Scenic Highways inhighway design, routing and landscaping through Nevada City in order to preserve scenic beauty and historic interest in the construction of a proposed freeway. Close to 70 persons filled the council chamber in the morning workshop that heard officials of several counties and organizations present their views on scenic highways. State officials included AlanS,. Hart, assistant state highway engineer, Dee W. McKenzie, chairman of the

, Citizens’ Advisory Committee on Scenic Highways, George Smith, State Highway Planning Survey, Alex Bigler, State Office of Planning, and Harry Freeman, deputy ditector of planning of the Department of Public Works, Nevada City was represented by Councilman Arch “Statement appears in an adjacent column). : sought the answer totwo questions, whether highways: should be added to or deleted from the tentative system, .and what local ideas where on scenic highway design and standards, Generally, the Marysville workshop, one of 11 in the state, found a desire among the counties for additional scenic routes, including Highway 20, Freeman said the system is intended to offer a wide variety of scenic experiences by providing special scenic corridors providing touristsa choice of where to go, but he warned that the state cannot save the California environment only by right of way area control and urged cities and counties to establish complementary zoning and assume local control outside the right of way area, Nevada County Planning Director Bill Roberts told the workshop the Nevada County Planning Commission requested the inclusion of Highway 20 in the Scenic Highway System, He reminded the group that Highway 20 east of Nevada City runs through Tahoe National Forest and is worthy of the name "Avenue of Trees”. Roberts suggested the proposed Pet Hill freeway relocation of Highway 20 west of Grass Valley be developed from construction stage as a scenic highway, and that the scenic highway classification extend beyond Nevada County through the Clear Lake region to connect with the Coastal Range. He also urged the committee to include the portion of Highway 49 between Grass Valley and Auburn within the program, A representative of the Golden Chain Council McPherson. (McPherson's . Hart said the workshop. mining days, belt through the town, sticky. NEVADA CITY AND THE POLAR BEAR (The following statement of City Councilman Dr, Arch McPherson, who represented Nevada City at the Scenic Highway hearing at Marysville yesterday, drew amused chuckles from many in attendance, including Assistant State Highway Engineer Alan S. Hart.) Nevada Cityis a town of about twenty-five hundred inhabitants, located on the edge of Tahoe National Forest. It is an old mining town, and through a fortunate combination of circumstances, it looks now very much the same as it did in the late eighteen-hundreds, It is a living historical monument tothe California gold mining industry, very much like Columbia where so much money has been spent to restore a dead monument to the old Nevada Cityhas many fine old homes and buildings and lots of trees, Beautiful Deer Creek makes a green We do have a traffic problem. Highway 49 goes through Nevada City on streets designed for horsedrawn traffic, This would not be too bad for passenger cars, but combined with lumber trucks it sometimes gets rather The Highway Department proposes to solve our problem by running a’full freeway right through the center of town,’ cutting the community in two, covering Deer Creek and destroying some of our oldest and most impor= tant historical buildings. This will solve the traffic problem for centuries to come, the appearance and character of the town, ang Nevada City as such just may not survive. } I have heard lots of speculation as to why the Highway Department has come up with such an elaborate’ solution for a relatively small problem. I personally think it isa sign of affection for Nevada City, The nicest thing a highway engineer can do for you is to build you a road, The more he likes you, the wider and fancier the road will be, It is a little like being loved by a polar bear. You have to be pretty big to survive, let alone enjoy it. It isourhope that the Scenic Highway"Committee can help the Highway Department to find a solution for our traffic problem that will also preserve the beauty and historical values of Nevada City. but it will radically change GRASS VALLEY---A dinner to honor Assemblyman ‘Paul Lunardi will be held Friday at 7 p.m, at The Office in McCain, membership chairman; the Golden Hotel in Grass Nie * : i 4 3 Dinner To Honor Lunardi Valley. Arranged by Amy Nygard of the Democratic Central Committee, the dinner will have Assemblyman Lunardi as featured guest, A refreshment hour will precede the dinner. : Mrs, Nygard also announcedthat Bert Betts, state treasurer seeking re-election, will be in'Grass Valley Friday to visit supporters, The Lunardi dinner is not limited to Democrats, and Republican supporters of the popular assemblyman are invited,Weather NEVADA CITY Max, Min, Rainfall Sept. 19 80 35 . 00 20 81 38 . 00 21 74 40 . 00 22 80 43 . 00 23 82 42 . 00 24 85 42 . 00 25 88 44 . 00 Rainfall this year . 38 Rainfall last year 47 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall sept, 19 41° -50 . 00 20 83 47 00 21 78 49 00 22 87 54 . 00 23. 89 56 . 00 24. 91 69 .00 25 94° 58 . 00 Rainfall this year 44 Rainfall last year .55 ‘Special Consideration’ Urged For INC Freeway In Scenic Pilot Program backed this proposal. Link Peckinpaw, secretarymanager of the Plumas County Chamber of Commerce, endorsed the Highway 20 proposal, and urged inclusion of Highway 40A and the Marysville-Oroville road, thereby offering a “scenic circle” to tourists. Howard Moise, corresponding. secretary of the Galifornia Roadside Council, endorsed the Nevada County request for all of Highways 49 and 20 to be included in the system, then noted the intersection of the two highways in Nevada City and urged special consideration by the Division of Highways in its plans for the Nevada City freeway. With both highways as part of the scenic system, Moise said the division has a responsibility to consider historical elements, and to give improved freeway design and landscaping special consideration, Moise explained that the Nevada City freeway should be given design treatment of a calibre that would enable the Division of Highways to point it out as a prime example of good scenic highway treatment~-it should be the pilot plan for scenic freeway design. John D'Agostini, El Dorado County supervisor, urged the preservation of local historical features, and cited Highway 49 as the life line that keeps tourists flowing through the Mother Lode. Hart said the state is improving Highway 49 to freeway standards, but is trying '. -to follow the original 49er Trail. Robert D. Montgomery, regional manager of the Department of Fish and Game, warned that in the course of developing scenic highways and freeways the Division of Highways should be careful to preserve fish and wildlife, and to provide access to rivers,and fishing areas. He complained bitterly , over pollution and stream damage to the South Yuba River in current construction of Highway 40. “It used to be scenic, but it won't be," Montgomery said, Terry Feil, California Citizens Freeway Association representative, said his group would like to see a well designed scenic program, not just another freeway program, He stated his group would like highways designed to fit theterrain, and not one just designed to carry traffic. There should be emphasis on landscaping and architectural desing, he said, pointing out that the state has some of the top people in this field available. "The program shouldbe truly a scenic program, “ Feil said, He offered to sponsor four additional workshops,. inviting the citizens committee on scenic highways to attend, Sierra County comment was mainly.to object to limiting acess frominew freeway construction to the adjacent North Yuba River. Hart closed the meeting with the comment that as a highway engineer his primary consideration in the past hasbeen for a functional highway intended to carry traffic. The state is beginning to get a pretty good functional system, he said, andthe division is now finding that this is not enough, that the state must also make j the highways scenic. f *IT1BO ‘6 OfUuauBuDes AABAQE'T 83B9S *511 Bd UOT4ZOSS STBOIPO tsa