European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Where has All the glitter gone California does not Lack for people and there lies the source of the state s steadily growing headaches. Continued from Page 11 turned away. There just in t enough Sand space Fot All those umbrellas. The Floo million plus annual Orange crop is sticking valiantly to its level. But like people the Groves have Beeton the move up from the South into the Central Valley. Southern California Orange count than half in list eight years from 34,000plus in 1958 i has Cut its acreage Moreo 15,600 last year. Orange 4ounty is a gasping example of what s happening in California. It has 782 Square Miles of which 160are Mountain. The remaining 622, populated by around 1.24 million people either Are built up or subject to Strong immediate Urban pressures. That said one state land official is just about  right now you say Don t Tell me those redwoods Are bothered by  they  state Parks and recreation official puts it this Fay Fly Over them in helicopter. A time you see a Circle made by a Camp or a picnic ground it sinner ring of redwoods is dead or dying. A Quarter of a mile away the Trees Are Fine. Redwood roots Are near the  ground Over them i spongy. People trample it. After the Camp has Bee there five years the vegetation begins to die. In 10 years the Trees  to  this is prompting a Row state policy. When the old Camps give out Weill not replace them. Instead we will move them outside the forests la Jenwei will build controlled trails for visitors to the  he More the people the More the demand for water food land jobs education transportation recreation. These Are the problems. Also  crime. California is five years into the Job of building the largest single water project in the world. A 444-mile system of dams reservoirs Aive conduits costing $2.5 Bil lion. With branches it will add up to691 Miles and carry water from the North Over the Tehachapi mountains into thirsty Southern California. By 1972, the major features should be completed for production by the system of 4,230,000 acre feet of water  there Are 326,000 Gallons in an acre foot that adds up to the fantastic total of More than 1.3 trillion Gallons. Yet so great is the projected Popula Tion pressure around 40 million in an other three decades the water expert already Are convinced that every one of those 1.3 trillion Gallons will be i demand by 1990. Already thought is being directed toward getting More water else there like desalting the Ocean. Population surge and Urban sprawl Are gouging scars in California s agricultural face at the rate of 375acres of prime farm land a Day. In Southern California where 60 per cent of the people live the turnover of open into developed land is 45,000 acres a year. That s equal to an area nearly twice the size of san Francisco a City of 750,000. California which passed the $4-Billionmark in Gross annual farm income for the first time last year remains no. 1in agriculture in the nation. But the population influx has brought about astounding changes. In 1950 there were More than 144,000 farms. Now there Are about 55,000 operating full time and Only 16,000 of them Are grossing $40,000 or More a year. The trend is toward big farms spark ing the first major Effort in the nation of a Union to organize the required sea Sonal workers. Harvested acreage has gone Dow from 8.3 million in 1959 to 7.7 million in 1966. But tonnages and crop values with some fluctuations have trended upward. Intensification and irrigation Are among the answers said an agriculture department spokesman. We have by no Means reached our biological Lim its. Urbanization is not going to kill of farming. Japan with six times califor Nia s population is still big in  the grab for living space prompted one prominent builder to make this pre diction whether we like it or not apartment complexes some 24 or More stories High will replace single fam ily Homes. And Lack of space May necessitate that we obtain air rights above freeways for construction of High Rise  already in some cities such As Sac Ramento the space under freeways has been leased for car parking  advise California s new hous ing and Community department a step child of the population surge that Cali fornia will need nearly five million new Homes in the next 13 years. That would just about double the present total. It takes men on the Job for Al this. The state s work Force this year is around 7.8 million about the size of the population of new York City. They and their employers this Yea rare paying around $1.13 billion in sales and use taxes $551.17 million in personal income taxes $81.8 million on alcoholic beverages and $77 million on  so gov. Ronald Reagan insists it will take $1 billion in new taxes just to balance the budget and keep current programs  school financing alone costs the state $1.2 billion in a year. When local support is added on the Bill is $2.7 Bil lion. A school population increase of around 200,000 a year forces the state to build the equivalent of two elementary schools and one High school every week. Yet the size of classes has increased so fast in 10 years that California ranks among the Bottom 10 in the nation i efforts to curb them. Just the Normal increase in a Yea costs $50 million noted Ronald w. Cox chief of the division of Public school administration. And that is Only to maintain the Quality level. It does t take into consideration  in addition to those 4.6 million i Public schools there Are 87,000 students in the nine Campus University of Cali fornia 37,000 at University level private institutions such As the University of Southern California and Standford 172, 000 in state colleges and 43,000 at their equivalent in private colleges. The California state colleges with172,000 students at 18 campuses Are the largest and fastest growing higher education system in the Western world said Chancellor Glen Dumke. Today there Are 18 Early in the next decade there will be 24. Each year the system constructs facilities approximately equivalent to the size of Stan Ford  Stanford has 11,500 students and facilities valued at $150 million the upsurge at the University of Cali fornia from 55,000 students in 1961 to87,000 at present has boosted its budget for a year from $121.3 million to $240.6million. Now the University administration and gov. Reagan Are at grips. Reagan wants the budget Cut and a break with 99 years of. Tradition by charging tuition. The growing traffic on the state s2,200 Miles of freeways where cars now Roll up 25 billion Miles in a year re quires adding 200 Miles a year to the system. A 300-mile freeway is under construction up the state s Center from South of Bakersfield to Tracy posing the likelihood of spawning More cities where there Are Only  standing in civic Center at los Angeles is within an hour s drive of garages and parking spaces for 4.5 Mil lion  traffic will be six times heavier by 1990, warned a. J. Eyraudjr., president of the rapid transit District in los Angeles. So next year there will be a county wide election on pro posed financing of a ,150-mile rapid transit system. Oakland and san Francisco already Are building one 75 Miles Long costing at least $1.2 billion. There Are other legs to the motor Centi Pede. In los Angeles county cars daily consume 7.6 million Gallons of gasoline. One gallon out of every 10 goes into the air unhurried lamented Miles Bru Bacher supervising Engineer of the motor vehicle pollution control Board. We can l keep doubling the number of cars on the Road without having an air pollution  authorities estimate that car and Industry smog causes $132 million Worth of damage to California crops Ever year. When a californian decides to getaway from it All and relax he finds More people. More than 36 millions armed Over the state s Park system last year. The total was 27.5 million five years ago. O parking Blue Lake Tahoe is a Case in Point. There Are More than 28,000people All the time around the 23-by 12-mile Lake at the 6,228-foot level in the Sierra. On Many a summer Day the to Tal is 150,000. By the year 2,000, it is figured 16lanes of Highway would be required to accommodate All who want to go  Park and recreation officials say in All seriousness that by then this will happen visitors will be determined by lottery. You drop your name in a con Tainer. A quota of names is drawn. If yours in to better Luck next time. As for that glorious Blue the newly formed planning and conservation league is battling to preserve  in spite of everything i m afraid that Lake will turn Green in five years said William d. Evers the league s  s pollution of an uglier sort. California s crime rate went up 6.1 percent last year in the seven major of sense groups including homicide a drape. There were 2,061.8 crimes committed for every 100,000 people higher than the National average. California s planning commission shard at work on a Long Range develop ment program that envisages 65 million people in the state by the 21st Century. It is studying population trends land needs the future for employment and income what to do about communications and transportation. Even before its reports Are out Al ready there is serious talk of West coast planning an Exchange of in formation among states of the Pacific  is a sophisticated Way of saying California still welcomes you. Come enjoy its Sunshine its beaches and those old old Redwood Trees. But say have you Given some thought to Oregon or Washington sub surface rapid transit May ease san Francisco s congestion. On weekends californians Rush away from their cities for the quiet of Redwood country. I an ugly fact of California life is its Ime rate up 6.1 percent in 1966. Swelling student population gives Rise to tent schools. The burgeoning campuses also reflect architectural innovation. Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday september. 21, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 13