April 6, 1948 (6 pages)

te e 4 The Dairy of a 49’er oe (Continued from Page 1) see how neat we have got to be, beds made up, dishes ‘washed, cabin tidied up as clean as we can make it, and we have even swept the dooryard. Marie rubs her finger over the plates and shows us the grease on them and says: ‘We have not used of ze soap plenty enough’’ and “‘ze dish cloths, they are so dirty."’ Pard «alls her a little tyrant, but he is as pleased as a boy, and Jack has gone daffy. Some of the afternoons when jt is not too hot we ride together over the hills, but generally sit around under the pine trees chatting and planning the future. Pard is set on my going into some kind of business in San Francisco. First of all, though, we will visit the old folks, although not to settle down there 'Marie-says: “ Perhaps the fazzer and ze muzzer zey will not like it t'at I take zeir boy, but I t’ink . _yill make zem love me,” and Pard says she is a pretty witch whom nobody could help liking Then ‘ ghe wants me to visit Paris and meet her mother and sisters and then, “if San Francisco,’ shrugging her shoulders, “well, what ze husband he desire, ze good wife she should do the same.” Pard roars at this and says good doctrine before marriage, but wait until afterwards. ; We. rubbed pretty close to a nasty adventure sp hursday. Reelfoot Williams’ gang has been raiding “the trails and roads for the past month. Posses have been raised to chase and capture them, and there was a fight two weeks ago between the robbers and a Marysville posse down below Rose’s Bar. A deputy sheriff and one of his men were killed, but the thieves got » off scot free. We have heard of them around Nevada ) County, and they held up a stage near Illinoistown a couple of weeks ago. We had just finished dinner when Jack growled and pard went to the door to find out what the trouble was. He saw a lot of men coming “up the trail about fifty yards away, and it popped into NOTE:—It will be seen that Jackson’s diary has degenerated or risen, as the reader jis pleased to view it, into a love romance, pure and simple, and the prosaic facts of his existence do not get the game detail as before, but the situation is idyllic. That this hardheaded Yankee and vivacious Frenchwoman should drift together from opposite ends of the earth and form a mutual attachment that ignored family ties, opposing religions and contrary, views from almost any standpoint, braving the sneers and criticisms of the world, each with an abiding faith in the other’s affection, constitutes a romantic episode, and, I was about to add, a strange one. I qualify this, however, f@r I can recall dozens of instances that were quite as Nearly 100,000 California veterans of World War II have filed preliminary applications with the State Department of Veterans Affairs to establish eligibility under the California farm and home purchase plan. new look . no, it’s just that same old search for a five or six room. . ! furnished . house + please call mr. cowles at nc 36 if sixty each month will be enough .for -mediately behind the Thomas Roberts Tekes Gwenyth Smith As Bride GRASS VALLEY: Miss Gwenyth Smith was married on Easter Day to Thomas L. Roberts. The ceremony took place in the Meth. odist Church and Rev. Donald A. Getty read the marriage service. The bride is the daughter of Fred Smith of Pleasant Valley. The bridegroom is the ;son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reed! of Grass Valley. f Miss Patty Smith was maid of honor and Miss Maxine Hientze was bridesmaid. Little Nancy Fisher was flower girl. Foss McBurney and Gale Fisher were ushers. The bride was given riage by her father. A reception was held in Wesley Hall. Rolly and Harriet Seiman and Dolores in marthe serving. Mrs. Gale Fisher was in charge of decorations and the guest book. ; The couple will make _ their home at 517 Butler Street, this city. LOOK FOR SPARE FUSE “A check of the fuse set-up in your car very probably will disclose that a spare is carried in a pair of clips designed especially for that purpose,’’ points out LG. Evans, General Service Manager National Automobile Club. “Have a look at the block attached to the lighting switch iminstrument The spare may come in sometime.” panel. handy READ THE NUGGET WANT AD BARGAINS and Jeanette Smith assisted with , ; WILLARD ROSE HEADS JR. CHAMBER GRASS VALLEY: Williard J. Rose was made temporary chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at a recent meeting of 30 prospective members in the Reserve Officers Headquarters, 123% Bank /Stree. Wayne Brown was made chairman of the membership committee, with Henry Strick, Lloyd Decker, and Elton Williams composing the committee? Merrill Colvin was named secretary and Albert Kalis Treasurer. TheJunior Chamber membership will consist of young men, 21 to 35 years of age. DR. WALKER W. REED YOLANDA AGOSTINI WED IN RENO RITES NEV AD A City: Yolanda Agostini and Dr. Walker W. Reed were married _ in Reno, Nevada, Sunday Marche 30. Both are well known residents of this city. Mr. and Mrs. David T. Richards, Nevada City, Mrs. C. W. Reed of Grand Junction, Colorado, and George Agostini, Nevada City, attended the couple. The ,bride has resided in’ Nevada City for several years and has made many friends here. The party enjoyed a wedding, supper in Reno. Dr. Reed is the county physician. He served in the Army Medical Corps during the war, in the European Theater: The couple will make their home in—Nevada City. ; One Phone Call . . . One Bill Hooper & Weaver Morticians—Ambulance Service It’s so simple to make funeral arrangements with HOOPER & WEAVER. One phone call and we will take complete charge. An éxpert staff personally handles full details, with dignity and taste. All costs are plainly itemized in one bill. unreasonable from a commonplace standpoint. Love has no reasons, . no excuses, and the sexual instinct will not be denied.) od Otek Sie nwees ViLLEY cee (To be continued) Nevada City-Grass Valley Nugget, April 6, 1948-3 ODONNELL ADVOCATES FREE MARKET FOR GOLD IN RECENT ADDRESS _ Editor’s note: The accompanying article is an address by Neil O'Donnell, Executive Vice-President, Idaho Maryland Mines Corp., Grass Valley Cal., delivered before the Denver mining convention. It was also. presented to the California State-Wide Mining Committee, meeting in Sacramento, March 4, and is the basis on which that committee planned its request to Congress for a world free gold market Dill. By NEIL O’DONNELL, Chairman State Wide Mining Committee A’ year ago in an article on gold for the American Mining Congress Journal, I stated that the gold mining industry in the United States .and elsewhere was in the doldrums. The situation in 1948 is little changed from January, 1946. Cause of the Problem What is the cause of the difficulty?. There are two causes. new generation of miners will require from 2 to 4 years and wilt be an expensive item, indeed. This is a hidden cost, but a yery reak one. ae Increase in Price The only solution that seems to be practical in the view of: most operators and students of the problem is an increase in the price to.be paid the gold miners. From the standpoint of the miner, gold is a commodity like copper, cotton, wheat or lumber. His costs of production have gone up as have the costs of the manufacturers of most any commodity you can name. He should be entitled to an increase in the selling price of his commodity, he reasons, like any other manufacturers. His point is well taken; but because gold. is the backbone of the world’s monetary system, he finds that an’ entirely different set of conditions control gold production than controlled production of other-commodities. There has. been an. organized One is the scarcity of skilled labor and the other is the mounting cost of mining. The scarcity of labor can be traced to many things, but the real cause. is the . war and the world-wide unrest . created by the war. The increase in costs have been attributed to many things,: including the war. No doubt the war had an effect on prices, but an effort to pull the nation up by its bootstraps through “controlled” inflation has had an even greater effect. Solutions of the Problem There will be no drop in prices soon in an economy that is undergoing “controlled” inflation. It is my belief that prices will not go back to the 1939-40 level again. The reason is that our obligations in the form of veterans administration costs, interest on our enormous debt, assumption of the police duties of Britian and maintenance of another armed truce will call for such extensive taxation that costs of-both labor and supplies will not go back to pre-war levels, even though we materially reduce our budget reresistance to an inerease in the price of gold by our: Treasury Department. What -has ‘been the basis of this resistance? ; The Treasury Department has said an increase in the price im the United States would be inflationary. A similar question @frected to a responsible officer of the International Monetary Fund elicited the same answer, arrived at from slightly different ap— proaches. We have had the further statement that too many men ang supplies are being diverted from the production of consumer goods by gold mining. While these reasons may be good reasons, I feet . that they are not the real reasons 'that our Treasury Department follows the program it does. fol~ low relative to gold. Treasury Program The Treasury program has been to maintain an artificially low price for gold, in terms of. dollars. Mr. Bratier, in an article in the. Commercial and Financial Chrom-. icle had this to say recently relative-to that matter. quirements. The labor scarcity can only be cured by training a new generation of miners. The training of a “Although in most of the world, effort to. keep gold on a dollar standard and thereby keep the (Please turn to Page 4) BUILD Nevada County “Fora Bigger and Better with — WORLD WAR 2 VETERAN @ As SUPERVISOR ETE ur. ’

te e 4 The Dairy of a 49’er oe (Continued from Page 1) see how neat we have got to be, beds made up, dishes ‘washed, cabin tidied up as clean as we can make it, and we have even swept the dooryard. Marie rubs her finger over the plates and shows us the grease on them and says: ‘We have not used of ze soap plenty enough’’ and “‘ze dish cloths, they are so dirty."’ Pard «alls her a little tyrant, but he is as pleased as a boy, and Jack has gone daffy. Some of the afternoons when jt is not too hot we ride together over the hills, but generally sit around under the pine trees chatting and planning the future. Pard is set on my going into some kind of business in San Francisco. First of all, though, we will visit the old folks, although not to settle down there 'Marie-says: “ Perhaps the fazzer and ze muzzer zey will not like it t'at I take zeir boy, but I t’ink . _yill make zem love me,” and Pard says she is a pretty witch whom nobody could help liking Then ‘ ghe wants me to visit Paris and meet her mother and sisters and then, “if San Francisco,’ shrugging her shoulders, “well, what ze husband he desire, ze good wife she should do the same.” Pard roars at this and says good doctrine before marriage, but wait until afterwards. ; We. rubbed pretty close to a nasty adventure sp hursday. Reelfoot Williams’ gang has been raiding “the trails and roads for the past month. Posses have been raised to chase and capture them, and there was a fight two weeks ago between the robbers and a Marysville posse down below Rose’s Bar. A deputy sheriff and one of his men were killed, but the thieves got » off scot free. We have heard of them around Nevada ) County, and they held up a stage near Illinoistown a couple of weeks ago. We had just finished dinner when Jack growled and pard went to the door to find out what the trouble was. He saw a lot of men coming “up the trail about fifty yards away, and it popped into NOTE:—It will be seen that Jackson’s diary has degenerated or risen, as the reader jis pleased to view it, into a love romance, pure and simple, and the prosaic facts of his existence do not get the game detail as before, but the situation is idyllic. That this hardheaded Yankee and vivacious Frenchwoman should drift together from opposite ends of the earth and form a mutual attachment that ignored family ties, opposing religions and contrary, views from almost any standpoint, braving the sneers and criticisms of the world, each with an abiding faith in the other’s affection, constitutes a romantic episode, and, I was about to add, a strange one. I qualify this, however, f@r I can recall dozens of instances that were quite as Nearly 100,000 California veterans of World War II have filed preliminary applications with the State Department of Veterans Affairs to establish eligibility under the California farm and home purchase plan. new look . no, it’s just that same old search for a five or six room. . ! furnished . house + please call mr. cowles at nc 36 if sixty each month will be enough .for -mediately behind the Thomas Roberts Tekes Gwenyth Smith As Bride GRASS VALLEY: Miss Gwenyth Smith was married on Easter Day to Thomas L. Roberts. The ceremony took place in the Meth. odist Church and Rev. Donald A. Getty read the marriage service. The bride is the daughter of Fred Smith of Pleasant Valley. The bridegroom is the ;son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reed! of Grass Valley. f Miss Patty Smith was maid of honor and Miss Maxine Hientze was bridesmaid. Little Nancy Fisher was flower girl. Foss McBurney and Gale Fisher were ushers. The bride was given riage by her father. A reception was held in Wesley Hall. Rolly and Harriet Seiman and Dolores in marthe serving. Mrs. Gale Fisher was in charge of decorations and the guest book. ; The couple will make _ their home at 517 Butler Street, this city. LOOK FOR SPARE FUSE “A check of the fuse set-up in your car very probably will disclose that a spare is carried in a pair of clips designed especially for that purpose,’’ points out LG. Evans, General Service Manager National Automobile Club. “Have a look at the block attached to the lighting switch iminstrument The spare may come in sometime.” panel. handy READ THE NUGGET WANT AD BARGAINS and Jeanette Smith assisted with , ; WILLARD ROSE HEADS JR. CHAMBER GRASS VALLEY: Williard J. Rose was made temporary chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce at a recent meeting of 30 prospective members in the Reserve Officers Headquarters, 123% Bank /Stree. Wayne Brown was made chairman of the membership committee, with Henry Strick, Lloyd Decker, and Elton Williams composing the committee? Merrill Colvin was named secretary and Albert Kalis Treasurer. TheJunior Chamber membership will consist of young men, 21 to 35 years of age. DR. WALKER W. REED YOLANDA AGOSTINI WED IN RENO RITES NEV AD A City: Yolanda Agostini and Dr. Walker W. Reed were married _ in Reno, Nevada, Sunday Marche 30. Both are well known residents of this city. Mr. and Mrs. David T. Richards, Nevada City, Mrs. C. W. Reed of Grand Junction, Colorado, and George Agostini, Nevada City, attended the couple. The ,bride has resided in’ Nevada City for several years and has made many friends here. The party enjoyed a wedding, supper

in Reno. Dr. Reed is the county physician. He served in the Army Medical Corps during the war, in the European Theater: The couple will make their home in—Nevada City. ; One Phone Call . . . One Bill Hooper & Weaver Morticians—Ambulance Service It’s so simple to make funeral arrangements with HOOPER & WEAVER. One phone call and we will take complete charge. An éxpert staff personally handles full details, with dignity and taste. All costs are plainly itemized in one bill. unreasonable from a commonplace standpoint. Love has no reasons, . no excuses, and the sexual instinct will not be denied.) od Otek Sie nwees ViLLEY cee (To be continued) Nevada City-Grass Valley Nugget, April 6, 1948-3 ODONNELL ADVOCATES FREE MARKET FOR GOLD IN RECENT ADDRESS _ Editor’s note: The accompanying article is an address by Neil O'Donnell, Executive Vice-President, Idaho Maryland Mines Corp., Grass Valley Cal., delivered before the Denver mining convention. It was also. presented to the California State-Wide Mining Committee, meeting in Sacramento, March 4, and is the basis on which that committee planned its request to Congress for a world free gold market Dill. By NEIL O’DONNELL, Chairman State Wide Mining Committee A’ year ago in an article on gold for the American Mining Congress Journal, I stated that the gold mining industry in the United States .and elsewhere was in the doldrums. The situation in 1948 is little changed from January, 1946. Cause of the Problem What is the cause of the difficulty?. There are two causes. new generation of miners will require from 2 to 4 years and wilt be an expensive item, indeed. This is a hidden cost, but a yery reak one. ae Increase in Price The only solution that seems to be practical in the view of: most operators and students of the problem is an increase in the price to.be paid the gold miners. From the standpoint of the miner, gold is a commodity like copper, cotton, wheat or lumber. His costs of production have gone up as have the costs of the manufacturers of most any commodity you can name. He should be entitled to an increase in the selling price of his commodity, he reasons, like any other manufacturers. His point is well taken; but because gold. is the backbone of the world’s monetary system, he finds that an’ entirely different set of conditions control gold production than controlled production of other-commodities. There has. been an. organized One is the scarcity of skilled labor and the other is the mounting cost of mining. The scarcity of labor can be traced to many things, but the real cause. is the . war and the world-wide unrest . created by the war. The increase in costs have been attributed to many things,: including the war. No doubt the war had an effect on prices, but an effort to pull the nation up by its bootstraps through “controlled” inflation has had an even greater effect. Solutions of the Problem There will be no drop in prices soon in an economy that is undergoing “controlled” inflation. It is my belief that prices will not go back to the 1939-40 level again. The reason is that our obligations in the form of veterans administration costs, interest on our enormous debt, assumption of the police duties of Britian and maintenance of another armed truce will call for such extensive taxation that costs of-both labor and supplies will not go back to pre-war levels, even though we materially reduce our budget reresistance to an inerease in the price of gold by our: Treasury Department. What -has ‘been the basis of this resistance? ; The Treasury Department has said an increase in the price im the United States would be inflationary. A similar question @frected to a responsible officer of the International Monetary Fund elicited the same answer, arrived at from slightly different ap— proaches. We have had the further statement that too many men ang supplies are being diverted from the production of consumer goods by gold mining. While these reasons may be good reasons, I feet . that they are not the real reasons 'that our Treasury Department follows the program it does. fol~ low relative to gold. Treasury Program The Treasury program has been to maintain an artificially low price for gold, in terms of. dollars. Mr. Bratier, in an article in the. Commercial and Financial Chrom-. icle had this to say recently relative-to that matter. quirements. The labor scarcity can only be cured by training a new generation of miners. The training of a “Although in most of the world, effort to. keep gold on a dollar standard and thereby keep the (Please turn to Page 4) BUILD Nevada County “Fora Bigger and Better with — WORLD WAR 2 VETERAN @ As SUPERVISOR ETE ur. ’