September 3, 1964 (24 pages)

mes emN REA EL EDITORIAL NEVADA CITY FACED TWO CRITICAL DECISIONS AND DID WELL ON BOTH OCCASIONS Nevada City Council in the past few weeks has been faced with two decisions whichcould have wide effects on the future development of the city. We feel the city fathers did well in their choice on both occasions. The first critical decision was made when the council picked Carole Friedrich to fill out the unexpired term of former Mayor Bob Carr. We saidat that time that the council had made a wise choice and the vigor with which Mrs. Friedrich has jumped into her new role and her attention to detail indicates that our confidence was well placed. The second big decision was made Monday night when the council chose Henry Roese to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of City Manager Charles Smith. The council had several candidates from which to choose a new manager and the variety of experience of the candidates was wide. We think the choice of Roese, who holds -a civil engineering degree, 4 mechanical engineering license anda general engineering contractor's license in the state, was a wise one. The city manager's job is a peculiar one in that the man in the manager's chair must be ane xecutive who can bring all the loose ends of government together and present the various problems ina that will be easily understandable to the part-time councilmen. To dothis he must have a large backlog of knowledge ona variety of subjects in order to understand and cope with the problems ofrunning a city. We think Roese has this kind of background. The city can now look forward toa period of energetic management of its affairs. September 5, 1964 IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN COUNTY HAS GOOD BASE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RECREATION WE WENT through the progress edition sections of last week and counted more than 11 headlines with the word recreation in them. This sort of thing is usually not done, but we were trying to make‘a point which we feel cannot be stressed too often or too strongly. The thing we showed is thatthe county has a fine base for a recreation industry and that industry is developing slowly on its own. If wenow take a look at recreation as an industry and try to promote it as such, the entire county population can be benefitted. Se eS ee ere Feet {. POPAWAY & BANG, GUNSMITHS. APPROVED SHOOTING IRONS AND ALL SPORTING ACCESSORIES. FBI DIRECTOR J. Edgar Hoover came up with séfe interesting statistics this week in an effort to back up his plea that the best way to cut down the high cost of crime is to make a bigger investment in law enforcement. He notes the annual crime bill has reached a figure of $27 billion yet the starting police salary in some cities of 500,000 population is $90 per week. Average monthly earnings of full-time police employees in local governments are about $483 while firemen get $508, public utilities workers $512, school teachers $555 and public transit employees $560. ee eete terete tet rt With planning and looking to the future being treated as subversive activities in Nevada County, it is refreshing to hear that neighboring Placer County is looking eight years ahead now and planning to handle the problems and to reap the benefits to be generated by construction of the massive Auburn Dam on the American River. A group of 150 r esidents of Placer and El Dorado Counties met last week at the request of the Placer Supervisors to consider actions necessary by the community to grow and prosper from the dam project. Among the other things that came out of the session it was announced that the boards of supervisors in both counties would be requested to create a bi-county planning authority to work on the project; that the project would develop enough domestic and irrigation water to serve a 1,320 mile square area in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys and would supply outdoor recreation facilities to provide for approximately five million visitor days annually within the next 20 years. The project will bring an additional 4,000 skilled and semi-skilled workers into the area creating a new popu~ lation increase that would equal two cities the present size of Auburn. This will put an extra burden on school, health and welfare services and it is estimated that 40 new classrooms will be needed to take care of this load in the schools. ---Don Hoagland CALIFORNIA WANTS ARE CHANGING BUT 50 ARE SOURCES OF SUPPLY The consumer today is an entirely different person than hewas 20, 30 or 40 years ago, Without doubt, the consumer of the future will be different tian he is today, and his outlook may very well change with the abundance or lack of abundance of food. It appears to me that as population increases the time may come when California, andthe United States too, will not be surplus food-producing areas. The anticipation of such a possibility is not the most pleasant thought in the world, Without doubt we can increase production efficiency in agriculture but this will require funds for research that should be under way soon--in fact, right now. Most of the , developments that show the way for increased agricultural production come out of agricultural experiment stations. We cannot expect research developments to continue to come out of these agencies at the favorable rate of the past because the problems we face now are much more complicated. In fact, I believe they will decrease and this.can only adversely affect food production and processing. This will be felt most by the consumer in relation to cost, quality and even availability of certain items. A already stated, the average consumer today does not worry about his needs so he can and does turn his thoughts to his fickle wants. There is an abundance of food and a variety such as the people have never known. before. I would expect both volume and variety to increase for a number of years to come, I'm afraid, however, thetime will come in the not too distant’ future as the history of man goes when we will not be able to live in such glorious environment. ---Emil M. Mrak, chancellor of the Davis campus, University of California, from an address delivered in Sacramento onJan. 27. WASHINGTON CALLING JOHNSON USED POLITICAL SKILL IN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE ATLANTIC CITY ---An embarrassment of riches complicated President Johnson's task of selecting a VicePresidential candidate. On his initial list were the names of 14 men who by a reasonably objective standard could have filled the bill, both as political partner in the campaign and as President should fate decree it. None of the possible selections could be entirely divorced from party factionalism -pro-South, anti-South, pro-Kennedy, anti-Kennedy, All the factors of religion, race and record were weighed by the President again and again and again in reaching what could be the most important single decision of his entire career. Ifhe actually employed his great political skill to insure a consensus for Sen, Hubert H. Humphrey, which he could then appear to be ratifying, this was done with the private sleight-of-hand that is part of the President's — artistry. Whether this‘was merely a piece of the mystification ora fact, White House staffers down to within a few hours of the announcement were saying that the choice was still between three or four names, One of the four was Clark Kerr of the University o California. In the public guessing game, he was the mythical “university president" whokept coming up on the Veep tote board. Except for the Mississippi-Alabama squabbles, fac~tionalism has been little in evidence at this convention. In the New England delegations there has been a dour, almost bitter regret for the fallen leader, John F. Kennedy. In private sessions in the dark of the night, this has taken the form of a reproach to Lyndon Johnson for standing in the place of the fallen leader, That emotionalism_points up the wisdom of the President in moving four weeks ago to eli minateAttomey General Robert F. Kennedy, A Johnson-Kennedy ticket would have been, for the President, intolerable. There was arealconcern that the dedicated Kennedyites would ina great burst of emotion in Convention Halt force the choice of the reigning member of the family dynasty. With a cooling-off period following the Attorney General's elimination, that could not happen. Mark Twain once said of his mother that she was so kind-hearted that when she had to drown a litter of unwanted kittens, she, always warmed the water, This was President Johnson's technique in the great Kennedy elimination, With the Attorney General he blanketed everyone in the Cabinet and these who sit regularly with the Cabinet, by way of softening the blow. Some of the ablest potential candidates for second place on the ticket went down with the Attorney General, Adlai Stevenson would have brought a wealth of experience in both foreign and domestic policy out of a 3988nN Aitmop epeagn’** bab POET ‘Eg Joquieides’** a . . Nevada County Nugget. September 3, 1964.

mes emN REA EL EDITORIAL NEVADA CITY FACED TWO CRITICAL DECISIONS AND DID WELL ON BOTH OCCASIONS Nevada City Council in the past few weeks has been faced with two decisions whichcould have wide effects on the future development of the city. We feel the city fathers did well in their choice on both occasions. The first critical decision was made when the council picked Carole Friedrich to fill out the unexpired term of former Mayor Bob Carr. We saidat that time that the council had made a wise choice and the vigor with which Mrs. Friedrich has jumped into her new role and her attention to detail indicates that our confidence was well placed. The second big decision was made Monday night when the council chose Henry Roese to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of City Manager Charles Smith. The council had several candidates from which to choose a new manager and the variety of experience of the candidates was wide. We think the choice of Roese, who holds -a civil engineering degree, 4 mechanical engineering license anda general engineering contractor's license in the state, was a wise one. The city manager's job is a peculiar one in that the man in the manager's chair must be ane xecutive who can bring all the loose ends of government together and present the various problems ina that will be easily understandable to the part-time councilmen. To dothis he must have a large backlog of knowledge ona variety of subjects in order to understand and cope with the problems ofrunning a city. We think Roese has this kind of background. The city can now look forward toa period of energetic management of its affairs. September 5, 1964 IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN COUNTY HAS GOOD BASE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RECREATION WE WENT through the progress edition sections of last week and counted more than 11 headlines with the word recreation in them. This sort of thing is usually not done, but we were trying to make‘a point which we feel cannot be stressed too often or too strongly. The thing we showed is thatthe county has a fine base for a recreation industry and that industry is developing slowly on its own. If wenow take a look at recreation as an industry and try to promote it as such, the entire county population can be benefitted. Se eS ee ere Feet {. POPAWAY & BANG, GUNSMITHS. APPROVED SHOOTING IRONS AND ALL SPORTING ACCESSORIES. FBI DIRECTOR J. Edgar Hoover came up with séfe interesting statistics this week in an effort to back up his plea that the best way to cut down the high cost of crime is to make a bigger investment in law enforcement. He notes the annual crime bill has reached a figure of $27 billion yet the starting police salary in some cities of 500,000 population is $90 per week. Average monthly earnings of full-time police employees in local governments are about $483 while firemen get $508, public utilities workers $512, school teachers $555 and public transit employees $560. ee eete terete tet rt With planning and looking to the future being treated as subversive activities in Nevada County, it is refreshing to hear that neighboring Placer County is looking eight years ahead now and planning to handle the problems and to reap the benefits to be generated by construction of the massive Auburn Dam on the American River. A group of 150 r esidents of Placer and El Dorado Counties met last week at the request of the Placer Supervisors to consider actions necessary by the community to grow and prosper from the dam project. Among the other things that came out of the session it was announced that the boards of supervisors in both counties would be requested to create a bi-county planning authority to work on the project; that the project would develop enough domestic and irrigation water to serve a 1,320 mile square area in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys and would supply outdoor recreation facilities to provide for approximately five million visitor days annually within the next 20 years.

The project will bring an additional 4,000 skilled and semi-skilled workers into the area creating a new popu~ lation increase that would equal two cities the present size of Auburn. This will put an extra burden on school, health and welfare services and it is estimated that 40 new classrooms will be needed to take care of this load in the schools. ---Don Hoagland CALIFORNIA WANTS ARE CHANGING BUT 50 ARE SOURCES OF SUPPLY The consumer today is an entirely different person than hewas 20, 30 or 40 years ago, Without doubt, the consumer of the future will be different tian he is today, and his outlook may very well change with the abundance or lack of abundance of food. It appears to me that as population increases the time may come when California, andthe United States too, will not be surplus food-producing areas. The anticipation of such a possibility is not the most pleasant thought in the world, Without doubt we can increase production efficiency in agriculture but this will require funds for research that should be under way soon--in fact, right now. Most of the , developments that show the way for increased agricultural production come out of agricultural experiment stations. We cannot expect research developments to continue to come out of these agencies at the favorable rate of the past because the problems we face now are much more complicated. In fact, I believe they will decrease and this.can only adversely affect food production and processing. This will be felt most by the consumer in relation to cost, quality and even availability of certain items. A already stated, the average consumer today does not worry about his needs so he can and does turn his thoughts to his fickle wants. There is an abundance of food and a variety such as the people have never known. before. I would expect both volume and variety to increase for a number of years to come, I'm afraid, however, thetime will come in the not too distant’ future as the history of man goes when we will not be able to live in such glorious environment. ---Emil M. Mrak, chancellor of the Davis campus, University of California, from an address delivered in Sacramento onJan. 27. WASHINGTON CALLING JOHNSON USED POLITICAL SKILL IN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CHOICE ATLANTIC CITY ---An embarrassment of riches complicated President Johnson's task of selecting a VicePresidential candidate. On his initial list were the names of 14 men who by a reasonably objective standard could have filled the bill, both as political partner in the campaign and as President should fate decree it. None of the possible selections could be entirely divorced from party factionalism -pro-South, anti-South, pro-Kennedy, anti-Kennedy, All the factors of religion, race and record were weighed by the President again and again and again in reaching what could be the most important single decision of his entire career. Ifhe actually employed his great political skill to insure a consensus for Sen, Hubert H. Humphrey, which he could then appear to be ratifying, this was done with the private sleight-of-hand that is part of the President's — artistry. Whether this‘was merely a piece of the mystification ora fact, White House staffers down to within a few hours of the announcement were saying that the choice was still between three or four names, One of the four was Clark Kerr of the University o California. In the public guessing game, he was the mythical “university president" whokept coming up on the Veep tote board. Except for the Mississippi-Alabama squabbles, fac~tionalism has been little in evidence at this convention. In the New England delegations there has been a dour, almost bitter regret for the fallen leader, John F. Kennedy. In private sessions in the dark of the night, this has taken the form of a reproach to Lyndon Johnson for standing in the place of the fallen leader, That emotionalism_points up the wisdom of the President in moving four weeks ago to eli minateAttomey General Robert F. Kennedy, A Johnson-Kennedy ticket would have been, for the President, intolerable. There was arealconcern that the dedicated Kennedyites would ina great burst of emotion in Convention Halt force the choice of the reigning member of the family dynasty. With a cooling-off period following the Attorney General's elimination, that could not happen. Mark Twain once said of his mother that she was so kind-hearted that when she had to drown a litter of unwanted kittens, she, always warmed the water, This was President Johnson's technique in the great Kennedy elimination, With the Attorney General he blanketed everyone in the Cabinet and these who sit regularly with the Cabinet, by way of softening the blow. Some of the ablest potential candidates for second place on the ticket went down with the Attorney General, Adlai Stevenson would have brought a wealth of experience in both foreign and domestic policy out of a 3988nN Aitmop epeagn’** bab POET ‘Eg Joquieides’** a . . Nevada County Nugget. September 3, 1964.