September 26, 1962 (10 pages)

eget . eee et etl . aad, Vite SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD bt 00 en ee! PEA As! pits [Wesco Pad-A,t es eocat NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif, 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. Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City. Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years,‘ $8. Alfred E, Heller, Publisher--R. Dean Thompson, Editor-Manager _ EDITORIAL The Split Level The sales tax split between cities and county isa subject that easily can be misunderstood. But there are some basic facts involved. In order to properly judge whether Nevada City was right in hiking its 1963 share of sales taxes collected in the city to 80 per cent from 70 per cent, these figures should bear study. Even more so, since Grass Valley has indicated it will follow Nevada City's lead next fiscal year. Sales taxes are collectedin each city. They are alsocollected outside the city. limits. At the present time both Nevada City and Grass Valley receive 70 per cent of local sales taxes collectedin their cities. The balance, and all of the local sales tax funds collected outside the cities are retained by the county. To use the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, as an example: Nevada County received $162,847 in tocal sales taxes. Of that, $120,486 was collected in unincorporated areas. The balance came from the county's share of taxes collectedinthe city. During that year, Grass Valle y received $71,542 of the $102,203 total local sales taxes collected within that city; Nevada City received $27,299 of the $38,999 collected within that city. In percentage, the county received 62 per cent of all local sales taxes collected within the county. Under an 80-20 city split, the county would have received 58 per cent of the total during the 1961 fiscal year. The issue can become involved. For instance, only 32 percent of Nevada County's population lives within a city yet55 per cent of the sales taxes are collected within the cities. Or, to put it another way, although 55 per cent of the sales taxes are collected inthe cities, the county gets 58 to 62 per cent of the taxes. The boost from 70 to 80 per cent for both Nevada City and Grass Valley willnot be an increase inthe total sales tax within the county. It will, however, mean more money for each cityanda corresponding reduction in funds for the county. To Grass Valley it will mean$1 0,000 annually; to Nevada City, $4,000. It might seem to be a healthy bite into what are now Considered to be county funds. But this view must be tempered with the realization that the cities have the right to declare that they shall take the whole sales tax pie if they so desire, An interesting sidelight’is that predictions indicate that the county will not fare as badly as itwouldappear, for forecasts at state level show business activity within both cities on the upswing and the total tax take may offset the county's reduced split within the cities. Let us hope it does. Letter To The Editor Dear Sir: Who is it pulls the strings to give the cities about four times as much money as the rural districts in the distribution of the sales tax? We have more supervisors, a greater percentage of the population, and should have more votes. Then who has the power to discount the votes, or are the supervisors all voting for the cities? Maybe we'd better put the question up to the supervisors themselves, because our The most northern gardens in the world, growing breccoli, radishes, lettuce and turnips, are in Umanak, Greenland, latitude 70.degrees 40 minutes, Printing For Every Purpose *xCIRCULARS taxes are going up 16¢ on the dollar next year anyway, and no**STATIONERY body knows how much higher if ** MAIL PIECES Mr. Wetherall is. asked to write #*BILLS up the inequitous distribution of **FORMS the sales tax, What does the county get out of this tax money? Poor roads, insalubrious school buildings, no fire or police protection, Somebody besides Mr. Ellwood Ellinger should protest, NEVADA CO. PRINTING and PUBLISHING 212 W. Main St. GRASS VALLEY phone 273-4590 Yours sincerely, Alice Good Fransworth North San Juan QUOTATION.. How long isa century? Bill Vaughan answered this question in the Kansas City Star and his answer was picked up by Readers Digest. A Nugget subscriber brought it to our attention:.. A century is the period between the time when a town tears down a historic landmark and the time when it has a fund-raising drive to build an authentic reproduction of it. eeeeeeese to school Friday and Saturday. True, it was only a workshop concemed with newspapers. But with the UC band practicing outside our window, it seemed like old times even if the fight song wasn't the same as in days of Sparta.. The workshop was held in the UC Student Union building ---named Jack Tarr East by the Cal students. REPORT ON RUSSIA.. Henry Shapiro, on leave from his Moscow c Orrespondent post with United Press International and now on-campus at UC, reported to the gathering on Russia.., Shapiro urged better U.S. coverage of Russia, saying that the post -Stalin era has been a relaxation of censorship and visa problems for the press. Where there were three corespondents at one time, the U. S. now has 17 in Moscow and Shapiro says there shouldbe many more.. Nikita S. Khrushchev, while inviti ng French correspondents (and other Western nation pressmen) to visit Russia, told them, "You are free OTHER GUN, Cee <. 7 HE EN SA et LSE a Sy r WAS ALL J MY PIANO. AND . T WAS GOING TO BE“ A GREAT HIKING TRIP. to see the USSR and write as many lies as you wish about it." Shapiro pointed to a recent story from the USSR to the effect that the Russian people are.concerned with the military buildup in Cuba as an example of relaxation of control over speech and thought within Russia.. Only in Poland is there more freedom, or as Shapiro phrased it, less of a lack of freedom, than in the USSR. .Other iron curtain countries where the lack of freedom is relative include Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Shapirotold of a Russian newspaper report of the press conference for the "twin" USSR astronauts.A reporter asked, "Did your knees shake during the flight when you thought of American news correspondents?".. This illustratesthe prestige of UVS, correspondents, and a general fear of their questioning, Shapiro said, although the answer to the question was "No," He also told of a story going around Russia, showing the sense of humor of the people: As is usual for Nikita, Khrushchev made atripinto the Siberian farm area and stopped unannounced to check on a farmer of the area. . How are things going"., "Life has never been better," the farmer answered, "my crops are the best in years of toil and the pricesI am getting are the highin history". "Enough. Why do you lie to me. Don't you know who Iam, I am Comrade Nikita Khrushchev, now tell me the truth”..The farmer bowed and replied, "Forgive me ComEDMUND G, BROWN SydneyJ. Desmond, Grass Valley, has been named Nevad a County chairman of the Veterans Committee to Re-elect Governor Brown, it has been announced by Leon Happel, state chairman, HOWARD JARVIS The November ballot has a write-in candidate in the form of Howard Jarvis, contending for the U.S. Senate. Jarvis was enthusiastic after a tour of Northern California, saying, "If Thomas K uchel had bothered to talk to people as I have, he would withdraw from the race altogether, " Kuchel, however, swamped Jarvis in the primary on the Republican ticket, RICHARD RICHARDS *’ President John-F. Kennedy, in a wire to the Democratic State Central Committee meeting in Sacramento, urged the election of Richard-Richards to the U.S. Senate. “California has a clear choice between those who recognize and wish to solve the problems of our time and those of the opposition party who believe that the politrade Khrushchev, I thought you were an American correspondent. " IT'S NEWS..With the splitting of the atom, no doubt you believe that mass is now made . ! up of protons, neutrons and electrons.. Nobel prize winner Dr, Owen Chamberlain gave us the sad news that when protons collide with protons at a speed of 6,000 million volts, smaller particles result.. orwhen anti protons (Dr, Chamberlain received his Nobel prize for discovering these negatively charged protons) meet with protons (positively cha rged) they “eat each other up” and particles were discovered that had a life of as little as one ten thousanth of a millionth of a second.. And now they know wf particles that have lifeof 00000000000000000000001 of a ' second,.It's getting hard to tell just what to establish as the basic ingredient on our Earth, Dr. Chamberlain said. .And we must agree, GOURMET.. It happened the other day at Carl Noren's liquor store..A tourist arrived (sans glasses we presume) and was delighted to find the little shrimp (bait) each packaged in cellophane, She took several, then noted the salmon eggs (caviar. ) and picked upa jar.. Then someone asked her,."Where are you going fishing, Lady?".,. Whereupon she put down the bait and salmon eggs, said "Oh" and walked out, ical dog mas of the past can be applied without change to the present, ” the president said, RALPH RICHARDSON The school drop-out problem is a national calamity that warrants immediate action in California, Ralph Richardson declared at Oakland’ campaign headquarters last week in his drive for election to the post of superintendent of public education. “Although considerable attention is being given to this tragic problem, I am impatient with the results to date," Richardson said, YES ON 1A, OTHERS Support of Proposition 1A, a $270 million state bond issue, was voted by the California State Chamber of Commerce, The group also endorsed the following measures on the ballot: Opposition to the following propositions was voted: 2, 2,1, 8, 10, 12, and 17, The Miners and Prospectors Association of Redding has endorsed Political Prospecting the candidacy of Fred Nagle, candidate for Congress from the Second District, EDMUND G, BROWN Governor Edmund G. Brown told California voters Friday of his program, “Ten Points for Progress", in a radio address, The governor told Californians their state is in the midst of “explosive growth, " The "ten points" he will cover in his campaign for re-election include: Education, full employment, economic growth, law enforcement and anti-subversion, governmental efficiency , agriculture, human rights and security, natural resources, recreation, and future planning. RICHARD NIXON : Delegations from Nevada and Sierra Counties will meet with gubernatorial candidate Richard M, Nixon Saturday afternoon at the Yuba-Sutter County Fair in Yuba City, Mrs, Nixon will accompany her husband on his tour of the Yuba -Sutter fair, as do the men who operate them, The men usually wear military uniforms, or white robes of the kind doctors wear during operations, They are sober men and true, young, bland, and still in possession of all their teeth, They make Buck Rogers look like a character in a comic Strip. 5 The reason why the men and the machines look serious is that they are serious, They are trying to figure out whether objects in the sky are friend or foe, whether next year's budget will be balanced or unbalanced, The other day I read where they are using a computer at Stanford totry to predict the course of the cold war, Presumably when Khrushchev pounds his shoe on the table or Kennedy calls up the troops the computer gets the news with the morning paper, like the rest of us, and adjusts its predictions as events change the course of history. (I hope the machine is more opti = mistic about the future than I am.) . While most of our computers seem to have their minds fixed on matters of national and international moment, a few of them have more modest concerns, For example, there is one at UCLA, at the Western Data Processing Center, which has been forecasting the real estate market in Los Angeles County, Another machine at UCLA has been concerned with "quantification of risk with special regard to common stocks, " Whether anyone made a killing as a result of these studies is not revealed in the latest data center report. : One study for which the results are in and tabulated comes up with news about "the effects of laterality on grade school achievement.” Laterality means right-handedness, left-handedness, etc, It has now been computed that how well you do in school work has nothing to do with which hand you use. This will come as a shock to those who blamed their flunking algebra on being lefthanded, One of the big IBM computers at UCLA spent the better part of a morning making an “analysis of the Oahu liquor market," and inthe afternoon looked into "the effect of frequent school change on the achievement of military dependent children":(there is no ill effect; the kids who often change school seem to do better than the ones who don't). Anyway, it is encouraging to know that we are beginning to use some of our atomic age machinery for non-military and occasionally even frivolous pursuits, It seems that the peaceful applications of these computers are limitless, According to the data center report, computers at UCLA are analyzing information about primitive tribes and may comeupwith "a general theory of the tise of civilization with important implications for the maintenance of world peace (although unfortunately not for its establish= ment). " si It w ould be nice if one of the machines did figure out how to establish world peace. But first things first. How can you establish world peace until you know the drinking habits of the Oahuans? The few computing machines I have seen look $érhous-minded, WASHINGTO CALLING MARQUIS CHILDS BRUSSELS ---Economically the continent of Europe is moving toward a unity undreamed of a decade ago. Politically new cracks are appearing in the Atlantic alliance that could, if the worst should happen, undo all that has been achieved thus far. Dedicated Europeans who have staked everything on the success of the European Economic Community harbor dark suspicions of what is being openly called the Paris-Bonn axis, How deep this suspicion goes is shown by a report given credence by top officials here despite the latest Soviet blast at the same axis. They have has information that secret talks, still at a comparatively low level, are taking place between Moscow and Paris, These talks are believed to represent the first stage in preparation for a visit by President de Gaulle to the Soviet Union inthe late winter or early spring of next year. Such a visit might be taken in the normal course of events as merely another ceremonialcall on the great Khan in the Kremlin with a view of sounding him out on the status of East-West relations. Several Western heads of government have traveled this same circuit. But de Gaulle's motives are so obscure and so weighted with his bias against the United States and Britain that the very thought that he could be planning such a venture is sufficient to stir new doubts and fears, De Gaulle's approach to the new Europe has had strong overtones of the third-force concept --Europe as the arbiter between the USA and the USSR, The drive for a French nuclear force independent of the Anglo-Saxons is colored by the same view of a Europe, under French or Franco-German domination, that can stand up the the two giants of East and West, What then could be the motive for such a visit? Is it to be merely a polite return for Premier Khrushchev's journey to France as de Gaulle's guest in March of 1960? Or does de Gaulle believe that he can come to terms with Khrushchev independent of President Kennedy whose efforts to negotiate a settlement of the Berlin crisis the great man of France has persistently ignored? The last, onthe face of it, seems impossible, After all, Chancellor Adenauer and de Gaulle swore blood brotherhood with military pomp and circumstance during de Gaulle's stunningly successful tour of Germany. He surely could agree to nothing new on the status of Berlin and East Germany that would be acceptable to Adenauer. Yet, the logic to one side, the suspicion will not down that the lofty enigmatic figure who presides solitary and alone over France cherishes the belief that he can succeed where such upstarts as Kennedy and such naive bumblersas Prime Minister Macmillan were bound to fail, His refusal tohave anything to do with the Berlin negotiation at any stage, on the ground that there is nothing to be done but hold fast and ignore Khrushchev's threat to alter the status of Berlin, has been deeply frustrating to many of de Gaulle's partners in the new Europe, A year age Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium's Foreign Minister and one of the half-dozen passionately convinced Europeans who initiated the New Europe, talked with Khrushchev in Moscow. He said publicly afterward he believed a satisfactory settlement of the Berlin issue could be reached. At the present moment the short, rotund, often pugnacious the issue is negotiation, In this instance the French President is insisting that the six nations in the European community negotiate the terms of their eventual political union prior to the decision of whether Britain will be admitted. But Spaak is saying that either the negotiation must wait on Britain's entry or the British must be included in the talks, since they would presumably be committed tothe union once they were allowed to join the club. And, what is more, on the question of admission, Spaak, with the support, as he believes, of Holland, Italy and Luxembourg will resist any attempt by de Gaulle to impose arule of unanimity as against a majority vote in the council of the political union. The specter haunting the smaller nations is of being locked into Europe as the dependencies of a Franco-German Alliance. Powerless in such a situation they would find themselves following in the wake of whatever arrangements the big partners cared to make, whether those arrangements were with Moscow or Washington, . % (Copyright, 1962) Spaak is in the role of little David to de Gaulle's Goliath, Again ~

eget . eee et etl . aad, Vite SMALL TOWN SMALL WORLD bt 00 en ee! PEA As! pits [Wesco Pad-A,t es eocat NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif, 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. Printed by Charles Allert Litho, Nevada City. Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years,‘ $8. Alfred E, Heller, Publisher--R. Dean Thompson, Editor-Manager _ EDITORIAL The Split Level The sales tax split between cities and county isa subject that easily can be misunderstood. But there are some basic facts involved. In order to properly judge whether Nevada City was right in hiking its 1963 share of sales taxes collected in the city to 80 per cent from 70 per cent, these figures should bear study. Even more so, since Grass Valley has indicated it will follow Nevada City's lead next fiscal year. Sales taxes are collectedin each city. They are alsocollected outside the city. limits. At the present time both Nevada City and Grass Valley receive 70 per cent of local sales taxes collectedin their cities. The balance, and all of the local sales tax funds collected outside the cities are retained by the county. To use the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, as an example: Nevada County received $162,847 in tocal sales taxes. Of that, $120,486 was collected in unincorporated areas. The balance came from the county's share of taxes collectedinthe city. During that year, Grass Valle y received $71,542 of the $102,203 total local sales taxes collected within that city; Nevada City received $27,299 of the $38,999 collected within that city. In percentage, the county received 62 per cent of all local sales taxes collected within the county. Under an 80-20 city split, the county would have received 58 per cent of the total during the 1961 fiscal year. The issue can become involved. For instance, only 32 percent of Nevada County's population lives within a city yet55 per cent of the sales taxes are collected within the cities. Or, to put it another way, although 55 per cent of the sales taxes are collected inthe cities, the county gets 58 to 62 per cent of the taxes. The boost from 70 to 80 per cent for both Nevada City and Grass Valley willnot be an increase inthe total sales tax within the county. It will, however, mean more money for each cityanda corresponding reduction in funds for the county. To Grass Valley it will mean$1 0,000 annually; to Nevada City, $4,000. It might seem to be a healthy bite into what are now Considered to be county funds. But this view must be tempered with the realization that the cities have the right to declare that they shall take the whole sales tax pie if they so desire, An interesting sidelight’is that predictions indicate that the county will not fare as badly as itwouldappear, for forecasts at state level show business activity within both cities on the upswing and the total tax take may offset the county's reduced split within the cities. Let us hope it does. Letter To The Editor Dear Sir: Who is it pulls the strings to give the cities about four times as much money as the rural districts in the distribution of the sales tax? We have more supervisors, a greater percentage of the population, and should have more votes. Then who has the power to discount the votes, or are the supervisors all voting for the cities? Maybe we'd better put the question up to the supervisors themselves, because our The most northern gardens in the world, growing breccoli, radishes, lettuce and turnips, are in Umanak, Greenland, latitude 70.degrees 40 minutes, Printing For Every Purpose *xCIRCULARS taxes are going up 16¢ on the dollar next year anyway, and no**STATIONERY body knows how much higher if ** MAIL PIECES Mr. Wetherall is. asked to write #*BILLS up the inequitous distribution of **FORMS the sales tax, What does the county get out of this tax money? Poor roads, insalubrious school buildings, no fire or police protection, Somebody besides Mr. Ellwood Ellinger should protest, NEVADA CO. PRINTING and PUBLISHING 212 W. Main St. GRASS VALLEY phone 273-4590 Yours sincerely, Alice Good Fransworth North San Juan QUOTATION... How long isa century? Bill Vaughan answered this question in the Kansas City Star and his answer was picked up by Readers Digest. A Nugget subscriber brought it to our attention:... A century is the period between the time when a town tears down a historic landmark and the time when it has a fund-raising drive to build an authentic reproduction of it. eeeeeeese to school Friday and Saturday. True, it was only a workshop concemed with newspapers. But with the UC band practicing outside our window, it seemed like old times even if the fight song wasn't the same as in days of Sparta... The workshop was held in the UC Student Union building ---named Jack Tarr East by the Cal students. REPORT ON RUSSIA... Henry Shapiro, on leave from his Moscow c Orrespondent post with United Press International and now on-campus at UC, reported to the gathering on Russia..., Shapiro urged better U.S. coverage of Russia, saying that the post -Stalin era has been a relaxation of censorship and visa problems for the press. Where there were three corespondents at one time, the U. S. now has 17 in Moscow and Shapiro says there shouldbe many more... Nikita S. Khrushchev, while inviti ng French correspondents (and other Western nation pressmen) to visit Russia, told them, "You are free OTHER GUN, Cee <. 7 HE EN SA et LSE a Sy r WAS ALL J MY PIANO.. AND . T WAS GOING TO BE“ A GREAT HIKING TRIP.. to see the USSR and write as many lies as you wish about it." Shapiro pointed to a recent story from the USSR to the effect that the Russian people are.concerned with the military buildup in Cuba as an example of relaxation of control over speech and thought within Russia... Only in Poland is there more freedom, or as Shapiro phrased it, less of a lack of freedom, than in the USSR. ..Other iron curtain countries where the lack of freedom is relative include Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Shapirotold of a Russian newspaper report of the press conference for the "twin" USSR astronauts..A reporter asked, "Did your knees shake during the flight when you thought of American news correspondents?"... This illustratesthe prestige of UVS, correspondents, and a general fear of their questioning, Shapiro said, although the answer to the question was "No," He also told of a story going around Russia, showing the sense of humor of the people: As is usual for Nikita, Khrushchev made atripinto the Siberian farm area and stopped unannounced to check on a farmer of the area.. . How are things going".., "Life has never been better," the farmer answered, "my crops are the best in years of toil and the pricesI am getting are the highin history".. "Enough. Why do you lie to me. Don't you know who Iam, I am Comrade Nikita Khrushchev, now tell me the truth”...The farmer bowed and replied, "Forgive me ComEDMUND G, BROWN SydneyJ. Desmond, Grass Valley, has been named Nevad a County chairman of the Veterans Committee to Re-elect Governor Brown, it has been announced by Leon Happel, state chairman, HOWARD JARVIS The November ballot has a write-in candidate in the form of

Howard Jarvis, contending for the U.S. Senate. Jarvis was enthusiastic after a tour of Northern California, saying, "If Thomas K uchel had bothered to talk to people as I have, he would withdraw from the race altogether, " Kuchel, however, swamped Jarvis in the primary on the Republican ticket, RICHARD RICHARDS *’ President John-F. Kennedy, in a wire to the Democratic State Central Committee meeting in Sacramento, urged the election of Richard-Richards to the U.S. Senate. “California has a clear choice between those who recognize and wish to solve the problems of our time and those of the opposition party who believe that the politrade Khrushchev, I thought you were an American correspondent. " IT'S NEWS...With the splitting of the atom, no doubt you believe that mass is now made . ! up of protons, neutrons and electrons... Nobel prize winner Dr, Owen Chamberlain gave us the sad news that when protons collide with protons at a speed of 6,000 million volts, smaller particles result... orwhen anti protons (Dr, Chamberlain received his Nobel prize for discovering these negatively charged protons) meet with protons (positively cha rged) they “eat each other up” and particles were discovered that had a life of as little as one ten thousanth of a millionth of a second.... And now they know wf particles that have lifeof 00000000000000000000001 of a ' second,..It's getting hard to tell just what to establish as the basic ingredient on our Earth, Dr. Chamberlain said. ..And we must agree, GOURMET... It happened the other day at Carl Noren's liquor store...A tourist arrived (sans glasses we presume) and was delighted to find the little shrimp (bait) each packaged in cellophane, She took several, then noted the salmon eggs (caviar. ) and picked upa jar... Then someone asked her,."Where are you going fishing, Lady?".,.. Whereupon she put down the bait and salmon eggs, said "Oh" and walked out, ical dog mas of the past can be applied without change to the present, ” the president said, RALPH RICHARDSON The school drop-out problem is a national calamity that warrants immediate action in California, Ralph Richardson declared at Oakland’ campaign headquarters last week in his drive for election to the post of superintendent of public education. “Although considerable attention is being given to this tragic problem, I am impatient with the results to date," Richardson said, YES ON 1A, OTHERS Support of Proposition 1A, a $270 million state bond issue, was voted by the California State Chamber of Commerce, The group also endorsed the following measures on the ballot: Opposition to the following propositions was voted: 2, 2,1, 8, 10, 12, and 17, The Miners and Prospectors Association of Redding has endorsed Political Prospecting the candidacy of Fred Nagle, candidate for Congress from the Second District, EDMUND G, BROWN Governor Edmund G. Brown told California voters Friday of his program, “Ten Points for Progress", in a radio address, The governor told Californians their state is in the midst of “explosive growth, " The "ten points" he will cover in his campaign for re-election include: Education, full employment, economic growth, law enforcement and anti-subversion, governmental efficiency , agriculture, human rights and security, natural resources, recreation, and future planning. RICHARD NIXON : Delegations from Nevada and Sierra Counties will meet with gubernatorial candidate Richard M, Nixon Saturday afternoon at the Yuba-Sutter County Fair in Yuba City, Mrs, Nixon will accompany her husband on his tour of the Yuba -Sutter fair, as do the men who operate them, The men usually wear military uniforms, or white robes of the kind doctors wear during operations, They are sober men and true, young, bland, and still in possession of all their teeth, They make Buck Rogers look like a character in a comic Strip. 5 The reason why the men and the machines look serious is that they are serious, They are trying to figure out whether objects in the sky are friend or foe, whether next year's budget will be balanced or unbalanced, The other day I read where they are using a computer at Stanford totry to predict the course of the cold war, Presumably when Khrushchev pounds his shoe on the table or Kennedy calls up the troops the computer gets the news with the morning paper, like the rest of us, and adjusts its predictions as events change the course of history. (I hope the machine is more opti = mistic about the future than I am.) . While most of our computers seem to have their minds fixed on matters of national and international moment, a few of them have more modest concerns, For example, there is one at UCLA, at the Western Data Processing Center, which has been forecasting the real estate market in Los Angeles County, Another machine at UCLA has been concerned with "quantification of risk with special regard to common stocks, " Whether anyone made a killing as a result of these studies is not revealed in the latest data center report. : One study for which the results are in and tabulated comes up with news about "the effects of laterality on grade school achievement.” Laterality means right-handedness, left-handedness, etc, It has now been computed that how well you do in school work has nothing to do with which hand you use. This will come as a shock to those who blamed their flunking algebra on being lefthanded, One of the big IBM computers at UCLA spent the better part of a morning making an “analysis of the Oahu liquor market," and inthe afternoon looked into "the effect of frequent school change on the achievement of military dependent children":(there is no ill effect; the kids who often change school seem to do better than the ones who don't). Anyway, it is encouraging to know that we are beginning to use some of our atomic age machinery for non-military and occasionally even frivolous pursuits, It seems that the peaceful applications of these computers are limitless, According to the data center report, computers at UCLA are analyzing information about primitive tribes and may comeupwith "a general theory of the tise of civilization with important implications for the maintenance of world peace (although unfortunately not for its establish= ment). " si It w ould be nice if one of the machines did figure out how to establish world peace. But first things first. How can you establish world peace until you know the drinking habits of the Oahuans? The few computing machines I have seen look $érhous-minded, WASHINGTO CALLING MARQUIS CHILDS BRUSSELS ---Economically the continent of Europe is moving toward a unity undreamed of a decade ago. Politically new cracks are appearing in the Atlantic alliance that could, if the worst should happen, undo all that has been achieved thus far. Dedicated Europeans who have staked everything on the success of the European Economic Community harbor dark suspicions of what is being openly called the Paris-Bonn axis, How deep this suspicion goes is shown by a report given credence by top officials here despite the latest Soviet blast at the same axis. They have has information that secret talks, still at a comparatively low level, are taking place between Moscow and Paris, These talks are believed to represent the first stage in preparation for a visit by President de Gaulle to the Soviet Union inthe late winter or early spring of next year. Such a visit might be taken in the normal course of events as merely another ceremonialcall on the great Khan in the Kremlin with a view of sounding him out on the status of East-West relations. Several Western heads of government have traveled this same circuit. But de Gaulle's motives are so obscure and so weighted with his bias against the United States and Britain that the very thought that he could be planning such a venture is sufficient to stir new doubts and fears, De Gaulle's approach to the new Europe has had strong overtones of the third-force concept --Europe as the arbiter between the USA and the USSR, The drive for a French nuclear force independent of the Anglo-Saxons is colored by the same view of a Europe, under French or Franco-German domination, that can stand up the the two giants of East and West, What then could be the motive for such a visit? Is it to be merely a polite return for Premier Khrushchev's journey to France as de Gaulle's guest in March of 1960? Or does de Gaulle believe that he can come to terms with Khrushchev independent of President Kennedy whose efforts to negotiate a settlement of the Berlin crisis the great man of France has persistently ignored? The last, onthe face of it, seems impossible, After all, Chancellor Adenauer and de Gaulle swore blood brotherhood with military pomp and circumstance during de Gaulle's stunningly successful tour of Germany. He surely could agree to nothing new on the status of Berlin and East Germany that would be acceptable to Adenauer. Yet, the logic to one side, the suspicion will not down that the lofty enigmatic figure who presides solitary and alone over France cherishes the belief that he can succeed where such upstarts as Kennedy and such naive bumblersas Prime Minister Macmillan were bound to fail, His refusal tohave anything to do with the Berlin negotiation at any stage, on the ground that there is nothing to be done but hold fast and ignore Khrushchev's threat to alter the status of Berlin, has been deeply frustrating to many of de Gaulle's partners in the new Europe, A year age Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgium's Foreign Minister and one of the half-dozen passionately convinced Europeans who initiated the New Europe, talked with Khrushchev in Moscow. He said publicly afterward he believed a satisfactory settlement of the Berlin issue could be reached. At the present moment the short, rotund, often pugnacious the issue is negotiation, In this instance the French President is insisting that the six nations in the European community negotiate the terms of their eventual political union prior to the decision of whether Britain will be admitted. But Spaak is saying that either the negotiation must wait on Britain's entry or the British must be included in the talks, since they would presumably be committed tothe union once they were allowed to join the club. And, what is more, on the question of admission, Spaak, with the support, as he believes, of Holland, Italy and Luxembourg will resist any attempt by de Gaulle to impose arule of unanimity as against a majority vote in the council of the political union. The specter haunting the smaller nations is of being locked into Europe as the dependencies of a Franco-German Alliance. Powerless in such a situation they would find themselves following in the wake of whatever arrangements the big partners cared to make, whether those arrangements were with Moscow or Washington, . % (Copyright, 1962) Spaak is in the role of little David to de Gaulle's Goliath, Again ~