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Title: Frank Nelson (PIC 7-CARTER 45) Collection Type: Photographs Collection Name: Dave Carter Collection (PIC 7-CARTER) Catalog #: PIC 7-CARTER 45 Photographer: Dave Carter Published: March 1985 Subjects: Washington Location: Washington Media Type: Still Image Physical Format: 35mm Negative # of Pages: 23 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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Bia AS SLUG: HELSON DATE: e3g-21 DESK: HETRO SGuURCE: MB PAGE: LINES: 139 ERITION: INCHES: 14.2 0 STATUS: HE REF: MEMO: KKEDITED 4 WKEND @/ ART CARTERSKNB/HARDCOPY ROUTING: KMB 1i40 SUPE 1421 SETRO 1535 SUPE 1549 TEXT: WHOTE:< PLEASES DON’ TC TRING FROM BOTTOM $FCS2 <>BY DAVE CARTERS SBEE CORRESFONDENT< > WASHINGTON (M-> THE NAKRE OF HIS TOWN SYMBOLIZES ANERICA AND STIRS VISIGNS OF REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS. BUT FRANK NELSON. THE 9¢-YEAR-GLD DEAN OF THIS REMNOTE SIERRA FOOTHILLS VILLAGE. IS A CARD-CARRYING COMMUNIST. HAS BEEN FOR 70 YEARS, HE SAYS .CPs WASHINGTON, @ TINY HANLET OF 125 ON THE BANKS OF THE YUBA RIVER IN NEVADA COUNTY. HAS BEEN HONE TG NELSON SINCE HE FIRST WORKED THRE SURROUHDING FORESTS AS A TRAPPER IN 1924.¢P3 @@1 GUESS I°M ABOUT THE OLDEST RESIDENT AROUND NGW.‘’ SAI NELSON AS HE -BROKE TWIGS AND DROPPED THEN INTO THE GLO COGKRSTOVE IN THE . Ee OF HIS CLUTTERED KITCHEN. GeHost EVERYONE IN TOWN KNGWS ME, i Olt Of TREN. ARS BORE’? CPS HELSON, A LIFELONG BACHELOR HHO LIMES ALONE, SAID HE FORMED HIS POLITICAL BELIEFS EVEN BEFORE HE ARRIVED ‘IN WASHINGTON .CP? (@GI°VE BEEN & SOCTALIST SINCE I WAS MS YEARS OLD.’’ HE SAID. BaWE DIDN’T HAYE A COMMUNIST PARTY BACK THEN.*?*’ HE SAID HE AND AN INDIAN ~ FRIEND ADOPTED SOCTALIST IDEGLOGIES AS TEENAGERS. ¢P 3 HIS BIGGEST GRIPE ABOUT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: HE SAID: IS THAT @@IT‘S UNFAIR TO THE OLD AND POGR. THE REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS REPRESERT THE BIG OWNERS OF THE COUNTRY. THEY SET THE WAGES. SOMETIMES YOU CAN GET @ JOB. SOMETIMES YOU CAN’T. CAPITALISH IS A WAY TO SLAVERY. °*CP: NELSOH. BORN IH ARKANSAS, WAS RAISED TH ROSEVILLE AHD @UTT SCHOOL IN SEVENTH GRADE BUT SAID HE NEYER HAD A TOUGH TINE MAKING A LIVING IH HIS YOUNGER BAYS. HE TRAPPED FOR YEARS AND LATER WORKED &8& A GOLD HINER. ¢ PF) HELSGN:. WHO WILL BE 91 ON APRIL 2. SAID HE COLLECTED SQCTAL SECURITY UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT STOPPED HIS PAYMENTS LAST AUGUST BECAUSE HE HAD TOO HUCH MGNEY IH THE BANK. G@@I WAS GETTING $477 & RGHTH BUT I CAN LIVE GN A HUNDRED OR TWO,’*’ SAID THE WHITE-HAIRED NELSOH: ABDING THAT HE'S TRYING TO PERSUADE THE GOVERNMENT TO RESUME HIS PAYNENTS.¢F > HELSGN’S TWO-STORY WOODFRAME HOUSE ¢M-3 HE BOUGHT IT IN 1945 FOR $7060 (H-s IS BECORATED WITH COBWEBS AND OLD CALENDARS AND STACKED WITH PHBLICATIONS SUCH AS SOVIET LIFE: PEQPLES WORLD AND DAILY WORLD.CP @@THE FIRST VOTE I CAST WAS FOR EVGENE VICTOR BEBS. HE WAS THE SOCIALIST CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN 1926. HE GOT 966,066 VOTES. °'¢P> NELSGN DGES WELL IN RECALLING POLITICAL HISTORY, SLTHGUGH HE CLAINS HIS MEHGRY IS BEGINNING TO FAIL HIM. HE ALSO HAS FAILIHG EYESIGHT AND IS GN HEART MEDICATION. CP3 ; @@I’M GETTING KIND OF HUNCHED OVER.’* HE SSID. B@MY RIBS AND MY HIP BONES HAVE BEEN RUBBING TOGETHER AND IT’S BEEN BOTHERING HE. BRT I STILL OG A LITTLE BIT GF WORK EVERY BAY. ‘CP? HIS WORK INCLUBES SPLITTING AND STACKING. FIREWGOD,. GARDENING, CLEANTNE HOUSE AHP MAKING AN OCCASIGNAL WALK TG THE LOCAL MARKET & BLOCK AWAY. <P FRIENDS BRING HIM MOST OF HIS PROVISIONS FROM STGRES IN THE NEVADA CITY AREA, 3O MINUTES AWAY BY CAR. HE SAID HE GOES TO TOWN GNLY WHEN HE HAS TO VISIT A DOCTOR GR @@60 A LITTLE TRADING .°*CP3 . NELSON SAID DOESN'T HAVE A TELEVISION BECAUSE THERE’S NOTHING WORTH WATCHING AND, BESIBES. IT'S TOG HARD ON HIS EYES. HE READS SOME. LISTENS TO THE RADIG AND STRUMS HIS NANDOLIN.¢F> ALTHOUGH CRITICAL OF U.S. GOVERNMENT, HE SAID HE NEVER GAVE HUCH THOUGHT TO MGVING ELSEWHERE. HE PLANS TO LIVE QUT HIS DAYS IN WASHINGTON: WHERE HE SAID THE PEOPLE TOLERATE HIS POLITICAL BELIEFS.CP: @@PEQPLE SEEM TO LET ME ALONE THAT WAY.’ HELSON SAID. BUT, HE JOKED. @@IF THEY WANT TO CAUSE ME ANY TROUBLE. I°¥E GOT A REMEDY CM-> AN QLD TIHE CARBINE. #£ I HAVEN'T BEEN HUNTING SINCE 1945 BUT IT STILL SHOOTS ''¢P3 ot. Story of Frank Nelson by Dave Carter.