The State - News from Sept. 8, 1985

If the wood frame house where President Richard M. Nixon was born in Yorba Linda is still in good shape, federal officials may consider making it a national historical park site, a National Park Service official said. “We might have to jack the place up and put in a new foundation and strengthen the joists so it’s safe for tourists,” Duncan Morrow, a park service spokesman, said in Washington. Annual upkeep on the property could be $170,000 a year or more, Morrow said. The Yorba Linda City Council has voted to ask Rep. William E. Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) to introduce a bill making the clapboard house a national historical site. Dannemeyer aide Dave Ellis said the congressman plans to do so.