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...wonder how long it has been since the author of the article on Big Sur [Dec. 28] has visited San Luis Obispo. I take exception to his statement that ''San Luis Obispo is a well-known eyesore...
...ETHEL W. SCHNEIDER San Luis Obispo, Calif...
...Grande, the Big South - a wild and wonderful coastline that begins 150 miles south of San Francisco where the Santa Lucia mountains plunge vertiginously into the foam-fringed Pacific, then soars and tumbles along 72 miles of redwood-studded promontories, bare earth cliffs and sandy beaches to San Luis Obispo. 200 miles north of Los Angeles. And while most of the California coast was sprouting pink motels, filling stations, and the cantilevered eyries of the rich, this stretch of Monterey County kept its rugged beauty...
Master Plan. The population is still sparse-less than 700 in some 125,000 acres. But alert Big Sureans could discern the beginnings of encroachment: Carmel Highlands, just above Big Sur. has been blotched by free-for-all development, and San Luis Obispo to the south is a well-known eyesore. Tourism began to boom; in 1952 only 2,500 tourist cars passed through Big Sur on an average summer Sunday' in 1961 it was up to 6,000. and last year 8,863 cars were turned away at Pfeiffer-Big Sur State Park for lack of camping facilities...
...Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies has announced the award of Atomic Energy Commission Special Fellowships in Industrial Hyglene to two graduate students who will study at Harvard next year. The two, Stanley L. Dryden, of Glendale, Calif., and Robert W. Veit, of San Luis Obispo, Calif., will pursue a course of study leading to the master of science degree...