August 26, 1949 (6 pages)

Ww Reds Friendly To Americans Fear Arrest Copyright.1949, by The Nugget By JAMES C. CROCKETT, Col., U. S. A., Ret. Russians who are friendly with Americans in the Soviet Union , are in great danger of arrest and severe punishment. Only government officials, in the conduct of business and agents of the secret police are allowed, by the police, to contact and carry in the on_an open conversation with an American. Even there conversations are seldom allowed except presence of one or more other Russians whose’ job is to report what is said and the attitude of all concerned. Such control of each individual, in a nation as large as the Soviet Union, seems fantastic and impossible. en) Many Americans visiting the Soviet Union fail to realize that — this control is being “exercised and many visitors deny. that they were isolated from the Soviet citizens. Russian propagandists claim that no restrictions exist. Such claims are absolutely false. For four years in Russia I watched the secret police as they gradually closed to Americans all avenues of direct contact with Russian citizens. The grip of the police on the Russian people had been somewhat : ss loosened during World War.II. But Col. James C. Crockett as soon as Russian victory was in sight—the police began to tighten their hold and by June, 1948, their control was absolute. I have seen numerous cases where men and women were punished by the police for showing the slightest sympathy, interest or friendliness towards Americans. For example the saleman in a wine store in Moscow was, thrown out of his job because of @ friendly chatty attitude towards American customers. The manager of the _...000.. Hotel was fired because he borrowed a book from an American. A Ukrainian in Odessa, a Russian farmer near Dmitrov on the Volga, a university student in Moscow, a singer in Kharkov, a scientist in Leningrad, all to my certain knowledge, were punished by the police for talking with Americans. Even Russians permitted by the police to work for Americans as domestic servants, chauffers, cooks, telephone operators, stenographers and clerks, must render regular reports concerning their American employers to the Soviet police officials. These Russian employees all must carry special police “documents” which give full data as to their work and their personal background. Despite their police permits all such Russian etnployees of Americans live in constant fear of ‘arrest. About the time I left the Soviet Union I made a list of all the Russians, except governmental officials, whom §,had known during my four years there. Approximately 50 per cént of the Russians on this list are now in Prison because of their association with me or other Americans. Many of the remaining 50 per cent may have been also imprisoned but I have no personal knowledge of their fate. The MVD (secret police) terrorize these Russians who are friendly with Americans because the Soviet Communist regime is determined that the Russian people shall not know the advantages of freedom which the American system accords its citizens. Such knowledge would .make the Russian masses conscious of their slavery and then endanger the grip their Communist bosses have on them. . Why the Russians fear to be friendly with Americans can be realized from the experience suffered by. one of my Russian friends for her association with en American. Her.case is only one of a large number I could describe—but it is a typical one. “We shall call this woman Natascha. She. was born of Russian parents and lived with them in Chicago, where she attended public schools until she was 11 years old. She and her parents then returned to Russia,. where during the purge of 1935 her father was liquidated. Natascha married a Russian, had one son, and afterwards was divorced. t In 1947 she was living in a one-room apartment in Moscow with her mother and son, then about 5 years old. She was their sole support. Because she knew. the English and Russian language perfectly, she was employed as a translator by an American news correspondent in Moscow. For this work she received a salary much larger than the average Russian earns, and in addition, she was permitted to purchase American clothes for herself and son’ with American money. No matter what Natascha may have thought of the Soviet Communist regime, she remained loyal to it, and during the three years I knew her, I never heard her utter a disparaging word of criticism against her government or its Communist bosses. Quite the contrary, often she would defend the Russian governmental policies which I knew because of her childhood in the United States were quite repellent -to her. In February of 1948 she suddenly announced that she would terminate her association with the American newspaperman. The following day she quit her job with the correspondent, giving him only one day’s notice. She merely said she had.a better job with the Soviet government: She was quite vague about her new job and would not say exactly where it was or what she would be paid. I knew that the Soviet government did not pay as high a salary as she was earning with the American news man. She remained unemployed for two weeks after quitting her American employer. Then late. one evening there was a knock on her door and three men, one in the uniform of th MVD (secret police) stepped into her room. They told her to pack a bundle of warm clothes and to accompany them. She could have one hour with her family to arrange any necessary matters before leaving. She asked repeatedly why she was being taken away, and the only. answer she received was, “You know why you are being taken. You like the Americans better than you do your own people.” It was sometime later than’ I learned Natascha was in the women’s prison, just outside Moscow. She was still there when I left Russia several months later. In next week's Nugget I will tell how Stalin bosses the politburo which in turn rules Russia without legal status. will .be installed for night diamond and grid games. TURFING STARTS ON ATHLETIC GROUNDS . renee air ee cia ei pro. Pioneer park has been started from the turf, and piping to pro: ss, Colfax, ; Vide water. i this week by Joe Buess, \0 : Members of the athletic club who was awarded the bid ag will do the labor of tearing down year by the city council. Ruess’. the bleachers, and tentative arestimate of the cost of the work) rangements call for erection of was .0207 per square foot. . surplus bleachers obtained from J. F. Siegfried, local engineer,. Camp Beale. Tentative plans also will be in charge of the project. . call for construction of showers The field will be so turfed to, and dressing rooms under the provide space for baseball, soft-, bleachers. ball and football. Directors of the) Nevada City Athletic club, who BUILDING PERMITS have pushed the project, said ul-. J. G. Blaine, Chicago Park, timately it is hoped that lights! $600 garage, Colfax highway. jtwo years, will head the district rsupervisors of his transfer from ‘. welfare officials) to the state clerk. cS by ne by . as . a seegeeee e e Pa a. ley : j P * & ye Volume 22—No. 50 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, August 26, 1949 MELBERG HEADS AGED AND BLIND LOCAL OFFICE Kief D. Melberg, Nevada County Welfare director for more than Meet Monday Night The Nevada County Sports-! men’s associtaion will resume! meetings Monday evening at 8 o’clock inthe chamber of commerce rooms in city hall, according to an announcement this morning by H. F. Sofge, secretary. Regular business meeting and planning of a program for the fall and winter will feature thé gathering, to be presided over by Thomas Keckley, sr., president. EX-WILLIAMS AIDE GIVES INSIDE DOPE Lobbyist control of the “balance of power” in the California State Legislature and inside accounts. of how lobbyists, such as Artie Samish, recently written up in Collier’s magazine, work through committees and certain legislators to pass or kill enactment of a measure were recounted before the noon luncheon office of the department of social welfare for aged and blind assistance as supervisor when it opens here Thursday. Melberg notified the board of merit system (status of county civil service setup. He will head a staff of nine social workers and clerical personnel in new offices now being remodeled in the building formerly occupied by the Foreman and Judd furniture store on the corner of Commercial and North Pine. The district office will administer aged and blind assistance under the state welfare department headed by Mrs. Myrtle Williams. The board of supervisors has not announced a. successor to Melberg in the county welfare Sportsmen’s Club Will . g . office which has administered aged and blind aid and will con-/tary club at the National Hotel tinue to do so until Sept. 1. yesterday by Jack Cartwright, The district offjce will take . newspaperman and magazine over these two programs, while; writer, now visiting and fishing the county office will continue! in Nevada county. to handle the following: relief Cartwright gave considerable programs: aid to needy children; . creqence to the Collier’s article Nevada county hospital admit-. by Lester Velie and emphatically tance; county indigent aid; crip<tated that Lobbyist Samish, reppled children services; inspection . resenting the liquor interests, and licensing of children and wields considerable power in the aged boarding homes; aid to par-. state legislature. He said, howtially self-supporting blind. ever, that Samish probably only The post of county welfare di-/. controlled a moderate size block rector will likely be filled from . of legislative votes but that they the eligible list of merit system might well swing the balance of applicants. The pay scale for, power in the passage or noscounty welfare chief begins at passage of measures of vital con$240 a month for grade II to $340 cern to the taxpayers of Califor grade V. . fornia. The county will also be faced! “Other lobbyists representing . with replacing three experienced . varied interests of the state also . case workers who have been! swing a great deal of power,” working under-Melberg and will . Cartwright said. “Samish, it is make the transfer to the state! true, is the biggest of them and setup next month. They are: . although he has elected a numRichard Christie, Mrs. Madge} ber of members of the state legSlaughter, and Mrs. Alfreda Hi-. islature I do not feel that he ger. Transferring to the district. swings quite as much power as office as “social workers,” all will. some think. Yet, when anyone receive substantial salary in-j lobbyist controls a fair block of creases. votes and had on important comMelberg said his staff in the} mittees, legislators whom he can district office calls for two more} control, then he can often control social workers who are expected . passage of bills of interest to the to be taken from the eligible list . entrie state.” of qualified personnel under the Cartwright, drawing upon his state civil service. experience in Sacramento, reMrs. Olive Champie, an ex-! ferred to the charges recently perienced case worked on Mel-. printed in newspapers by G. Harberg’s county staff, has submitted . vey Mydland, resigned secretary her resignation to the county ef-. of the State Social Welfare fective Wednesday. She will take} Board, that George H. McLain, a teaching assignment at Rough. Pension promoter, dictates the and Ready for the coming school . policies of the state board and year. the State Department of Social The only veteran member of . Welfare. the welfare staff who has _ indi“There is no doubt that Harcated she will remain in the . vey Mydland’s charges are true,” county office is Miss Ernestine} he said. “McLain dictates ‘every Eilerman, senior stenographer; move in the State Department ~ . of Social Welfare. He dictates to Mrs. Myrtle Williams, the director, and undoubtedly to the board. “The reason so many people, meeting of the Nevada City RoMelberg said the staff of the district office, in addition to receiving higher salaries, will work only five days a week, although the office will remain open half a day on Saturday. State cars will. also be made available for the traveling social workers. GOLD FLAT STUDENTS WILL RIDE TO SCHOOL IN NEW DISTRICT BUS Pupils. enrolled in the Gold sound administration of the department at heart, have resigned since Mrs. Williams took office is because of McLain—an outside influence not responsible to the voters of California nor to any government agency — dictating every move made in administration of the department by Mrs. Williams.” The speaker ticked off the resignations, his own, that of Dan Flat (Oakland) elementary school. Higgins, administrative advisor; will ride to and from classes in. C. A. Herbage, deputy director a 1942 33-passenger bus pur-. who had spent 15 years in State chased for $355 from the state} Social Welfare work; Walter educational department of sur-. Chambers, chief administrative plus projects. A $90 recondition-. officer, and others, including ing project by the Mountain . Mydland. Chevrolet Co. prepared the ve“McLain’s program is one of hicle for school operation. It is. confusion rather than one to asthe first bus _ transportation. sist the administration of social owned by the Oakland district,. welfare,” he said. “McLain dewhich heretofore borrowed. liberately dictates a policy leadequipment from the Nevada City. ing toward confusion to Mrs. unified district. Williams so that he can go to the The Gold Flat school will open. needy elderly and blind people Tuesday, Sept. 6, with Principal . of California and cajole more and Thomas N. Farney, administering . more funds out of their meager the plant. The only change in. Pension payments for him to use the faculty is the replacement of . in supposedly fighting their batMrs. Vera Roberts by Mrs. Dow/tles but actually building himAlexander, Town Talk. Other. self up as a political figure. teachers are Mrs. Julia Petersen. “McLain uses that money—the and Mrs. Pauline Stevens. (Continued on page six) » BERRY-BOOSTER—The New York State blackberry growers met at Ellenville, N. Y., to “pick” Linda Danson as “Miss Blackberry Julep of 1949.” Agreeing that Linda looked like the berries, the growers draped a blackberry necklace around her. o’clock four-day display of Nevada county farm, commercial and mining exhibits. j who had the interests of sane and}. day. 4-H department first. LARGEST CROWD OF OPENING DAY IN FAIR HISTORY The largest opening day crowd in Nevada» county fair’s history streamed to the Nevada’ county fairgrounds last night to attend the opening evening of the seventh annual Nevada county fair, slated to run through Sunday in a pine-tree setting considered one of the most beautiful in California. A flag raising ceremony at 6 last night opened the Judging at the fair-will—start this morning. With increased facilities and a greatly expanded program this year’s fair is expected to set precedents amount of financial assistance by the state depends almost entirely on attendance figures. in many phases. The First showing of the nationally known Levi Strauss free puppet show. was held last night at 6 p.m. This will be a daily feature. Friday morning at follows: ond will be community booths. Floriculture—10 a.m. Friday. Agriculture and Horticulture— 10 a.m. Friday. 4-H departments will be judged first. Home Economics—10 a.m. FriLivestock—10 a.m. Friday. 4-H department first. Poultry—10 a.m. Friday. Judging in 4-H. Rabbits—4 p.m. Friday. Judging in both 4-H and senior departments. Number of entries classification: Horticulture, 52; floriculture, 126; community booths, 6; home economics, 486; horse show, 64; brown swiss, 38; guernsey, 85; milking shorthorns, 38. Number entries in 4-H classification: ’ ture, 5; home economics, 77; community booths, 5; rabbits, 8. (Continued on page 5) The Weather Fred Bush, observer high low Friday, August 19 .85 41 Saturday, August 20 . 87 42 Sunday, August 21 . 89 42 Monday, August 22 . 85 45 Tuesday, August 23 . 87 43 Wednesday, August 24 33 39 Thursday, August 25. 84 42 in senior 10 a.m. judging in all departments will start. The schedule of judging '3 GRASS VALLEY MEN KILLED IN TRUCK WRECK Three Grass Valley men met sudden death Tuesday afternoon near the flume on Bear valley grade of highway 20 in one of the worst vehicle accidents in Nevada county history. They were John Wearne, 34: Warren C. (Chick) Faulkner, 30; and James M. McDonald, 45. The men were returning from work on the Bear. valley road construction in,a-114 ten pickup truck and were crushed beyond recognition by a log flailed from a passing truck that struck the eab from the body of the pickup. Robert L. Peres. 27, driver of the log truck, was removing logs from right-of-way of the new road. Peres reported he passed the pickup and then heard a crash, turned back and saw the demolished pickup. Reconstruction of the accident indicated a log had fallen from the truck, hit a tree, broke in two and one Piece rebounded to the highway and flailed upward into the cab of the vehicle carrying the doomed men. : ‘Faulkner was born June 23, 1919, in Utah, and came to Grass. Valley at the age of 3. He was an outstanding athlete in school” and played on several baseball and softball teams of the area. He was signed this year by the Nevada City Athletics of the Placer-Nevada league, although he didn’t play. He is survived by his wife, Anita; daughters, Warrene and Katherine; father, Charles Faulkner, all of Grass Valley; mother, Mrs. Geneva Yates, Salt Lake City, Utah. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary chapel, Rev. Max Christensen,:pastor of the Trinity Episcopal church, officiating. Interment will be in East Lawn cemetery. Wearne was born Nov. 13, 1914, in Cornwall, England, but spent most of his life in Grass, Valley. He had worked in Grass Valley mines before going to the east bay, only recently returning to this area. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wearne; sisters, Mrs. George Scott, Mrs. Joe Locatelli, and Mrs. Marvin Kitts, all of Grass Valiey; and a brother, Harvey, Portola. Funeral will be held this morning at 11 o’clock in the Hooper-Weaver mortuary chapel Rev. Donald Getty,: pastor of Grass Valley Methodist church, officiating. Interment in Elm Ridge cemetery. McDonald is a native of Flint, Mich., and came to Grass Valley about 15 years ago. He served in the U. S. navy in the first World War and. was a resident of the Alta hill district.He is survived by his wife, Anita; three step, daughters, Mary Berry, Marlene Booths—10 a.m. Friday. Judges , will judge 4-H booths first. SecBerry, and Annabelle Berry. Services for McDonald will be ; Grass cattle— angus, 59; hereford, $5; : The held tomorrow at 2 p.m., at Myers Valley mortuary, Rev. Patrick O'Reilly, pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic church, officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood cemetery. WESTERN UNION OPENS TELEPRINTER DISPATCH Operation of a completely automatic receiving and dispatching teleprinter started this week in the local office of the Western Union, in the National hotel, according to Gertrude Zollars, local agent. The equipment brings to Nevada City the same facilities enjoyed in metropolitan centers, installation of the local equipment is one several thou. sand being placed ‘all over the Sheep, 15; swine, 7; beef cat-. U. S. at a cost of several million tle, 13, dairy cattle, 12; agricul. dollars. The new teleprinters operate on @ two-letter key system, each machine having its own two letters assigned to it. Nevada City’s key letters are NK. A telegram is automatically dispatched by electrical equipment speedily and ‘unerringly and without relays to its destination, © ee Another innovation by Western Union is the installation of radio towers to. replace poles and wires. A single radio beam can send and receive simultan 2,000 telegrams.

Ww Reds Friendly To Americans Fear Arrest Copyright.1949, by The Nugget By JAMES C. CROCKETT, Col., U. S. A., Ret. Russians who are friendly with Americans in the Soviet Union , are in great danger of arrest and severe punishment. Only government officials, in the conduct of business and agents of the secret police are allowed, by the police, to contact and carry in the on_an open conversation with an American. Even there conversations are seldom allowed except presence of one or more other Russians whose’ job is to report what is said and the attitude of all concerned. Such control of each individual, in a nation as large as the Soviet Union, seems fantastic and impossible. en) Many Americans visiting the Soviet Union fail to realize that — this control is being “exercised and many visitors deny. that they were isolated from the Soviet citizens. Russian propagandists claim that no restrictions exist. Such claims are absolutely false. For four years in Russia I watched the secret police as they gradually closed to Americans all avenues of direct contact with Russian citizens. The grip of the police on the Russian people had been somewhat : ss loosened during World War.II. But Col. James C. Crockett as soon as Russian victory was in sight—the police began to tighten their hold and by June, 1948, their control was absolute. I have seen numerous cases where men and women were punished by the police for showing the slightest sympathy, interest or friendliness towards Americans. For example the saleman in a wine store in Moscow was, thrown out of his job because of @ friendly chatty attitude towards American customers. The manager of the _.....000... Hotel was fired because he borrowed a book from an American. A Ukrainian in Odessa, a Russian farmer near Dmitrov on the Volga, a university student in Moscow, a singer in Kharkov, a scientist in Leningrad, all to my certain knowledge, were punished by the police for talking with Americans. Even Russians permitted by the police to work for Americans as domestic servants, chauffers, cooks, telephone operators, stenographers and clerks, must render regular reports concerning their American employers to the Soviet police officials. These Russian employees all must carry special police “documents” which give full data as to their work and their personal background. Despite their police permits all such Russian etnployees of Americans live in constant fear of ‘arrest. About the time I left the Soviet Union I made a list of all the Russians, except governmental officials, whom §,had known during my four years there. Approximately 50 per cént of the Russians on this list are now in Prison because of their association with me or other Americans. Many of the remaining 50 per cent may have been also imprisoned but I have no personal knowledge of their fate. The MVD (secret police) terrorize these Russians who are friendly with Americans because the Soviet Communist regime is determined that the Russian people shall not know the advantages of freedom which the American system accords its citizens. Such knowledge would .make the Russian masses conscious of their slavery and then endanger the grip their Communist bosses have on them. . Why the Russians fear to be friendly with Americans can be realized from the experience suffered by. one of my Russian friends for her association with en American. Her.case is only one of a large number I could describe—but it is a typical one. “We shall call this woman Natascha. She. was born of Russian parents and lived with them in Chicago, where she attended public schools until she was 11 years old. She and her parents then returned to Russia,. where during the purge of 1935 her father was liquidated. Natascha married a Russian, had one son, and afterwards was divorced. t In 1947 she was living in a one-room apartment in Moscow with her mother and son, then about 5 years old. She was their sole support. Because she knew. the English and Russian language perfectly, she was employed as a translator by an American news correspondent in Moscow. For this work she received a salary much larger than the average Russian earns, and in addition, she was permitted to purchase American clothes for herself and son’ with American money. No matter what Natascha may have thought of the Soviet Communist regime, she remained loyal to it, and during the three years I knew her, I never heard her utter a disparaging word of criticism against her government or its Communist bosses. Quite the contrary, often she would defend the Russian governmental policies which I knew because of her childhood in the United States were quite repellent -to her. In February of 1948 she suddenly announced that she would terminate her association with the American newspaperman. The following day she quit her job with the correspondent, giving him only one day’s notice. She merely said she had.a better job with the Soviet government: She was quite vague about her new job and would not say exactly where it was or what she would be paid. I knew that the Soviet government did not pay as high a salary as she was earning with the American news man. She remained unemployed for two weeks after quitting her American employer. Then late. one evening there was a knock on her door and three men, one in the uniform of th MVD (secret police) stepped into her room. They told her to pack a bundle of warm clothes and to accompany them. She could have one hour with her family to arrange any necessary matters before leaving. She asked repeatedly why she was being taken away, and the only. answer she received was, “You know why you are being taken. You like the Americans better than you do your own people.” It was sometime later than’ I learned Natascha was in the women’s prison, just outside Moscow. She was still there when I left Russia several months later. In next week's Nugget I will tell how Stalin bosses the politburo which in turn rules Russia without legal status. will .be installed for night diamond and grid games. TURFING STARTS ON ATHLETIC GROUNDS . renee air ee cia ei pro. Pioneer park has been started from the turf, and piping to pro: ss, Colfax, ; Vide water. i this week by Joe Buess, \0 : Members of the athletic club who was awarded the bid ag will do the labor of tearing down year by the city council. Ruess’. the bleachers, and tentative arestimate of the cost of the work) rangements call for erection of was .0207 per square foot. . surplus bleachers obtained from J. F. Siegfried, local engineer,. Camp Beale. Tentative plans also will be in charge of the project. . call for construction of showers The field will be so turfed to, and dressing rooms under the provide space for baseball, soft-, bleachers. ball and football. Directors of the) Nevada City Athletic club, who BUILDING PERMITS have pushed the project, said ul-. J. G. Blaine, Chicago Park, timately it is hoped that lights! $600 garage, Colfax highway. jtwo years, will head the district rsupervisors of his transfer from ‘. welfare officials) to the state clerk. cS by ne by . as . a seegeeee e e Pa a. ley : j P * & ye Volume 22—No. 50 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, August 26, 1949 MELBERG HEADS AGED AND BLIND LOCAL OFFICE Kief D. Melberg, Nevada County Welfare director for more than Meet Monday Night The Nevada County Sports-! men’s associtaion will resume! meetings Monday evening at 8 o’clock inthe chamber of commerce rooms in city hall, according to an announcement this morning by H. F. Sofge, secretary. Regular business meeting and planning of a program for the fall and winter will feature thé gathering, to be presided over by Thomas Keckley, sr., president. EX-WILLIAMS AIDE GIVES INSIDE DOPE Lobbyist control of the “balance of power” in the California State Legislature and inside accounts. of how lobbyists, such as Artie Samish, recently written up in Collier’s magazine, work through committees and certain legislators to pass or kill enactment of a measure were recounted before the noon luncheon office of the department of social welfare for aged and blind assistance as supervisor when it opens here Thursday. Melberg notified the board of merit system (status of county civil service setup. He will head a staff of nine social workers and clerical personnel in new offices now being remodeled in the building formerly occupied by the Foreman and Judd furniture store on the corner of Commercial and North Pine. The district office will administer aged and blind assistance under the state welfare department headed by Mrs. Myrtle Williams. The board of supervisors has not announced a. successor to Melberg in the county welfare Sportsmen’s Club Will . g . office which has administered aged and blind aid and will con-/tary club at the National Hotel tinue to do so until Sept. 1. yesterday by Jack Cartwright, The district offjce will take . newspaperman and magazine over these two programs, while; writer, now visiting and fishing the county office will continue! in Nevada county. to handle the following: relief Cartwright gave considerable programs: aid to needy children; . creqence to the Collier’s article Nevada county hospital admit-. by Lester Velie and emphatically tance; county indigent aid; crip<tated that Lobbyist Samish, reppled children services; inspection . resenting the liquor interests, and licensing of children and wields considerable power in the aged boarding homes; aid to par-. state legislature. He said, howtially self-supporting blind. ever, that Samish probably only The post of county welfare di-/. controlled a moderate size block rector will likely be filled from . of legislative votes but that they the eligible list of merit system might well swing the balance of applicants. The pay scale for, power in the passage or noscounty welfare chief begins at passage of measures of vital con$240 a month for grade II to $340 cern to the taxpayers of Califor grade V. . fornia. The county will also be faced! “Other lobbyists representing . with replacing three experienced . varied interests of the state also . case workers who have been! swing a great deal of power,” working under-Melberg and will . Cartwright said. “Samish, it is make the transfer to the state! true, is the biggest of them and setup next month. They are: . although he has elected a numRichard Christie, Mrs. Madge} ber of members of the state legSlaughter, and Mrs. Alfreda Hi-. islature I do not feel that he ger. Transferring to the district. swings quite as much power as office as “social workers,” all will. some think. Yet, when anyone receive substantial salary in-j lobbyist controls a fair block of creases. votes and had on important comMelberg said his staff in the} mittees, legislators whom he can district office calls for two more} control, then he can often control social workers who are expected . passage of bills of interest to the to be taken from the eligible list . entrie state.” of qualified personnel under the Cartwright, drawing upon his state civil service. experience in Sacramento, reMrs. Olive Champie, an ex-! ferred to the charges recently perienced case worked on Mel-. printed in newspapers by G. Harberg’s county staff, has submitted . vey Mydland, resigned secretary her resignation to the county ef-. of the State Social Welfare fective Wednesday. She will take} Board, that George H. McLain, a teaching assignment at Rough. Pension promoter, dictates the and Ready for the coming school . policies of the state board and year. the State Department of Social The only veteran member of . Welfare. the welfare staff who has _ indi“There is no doubt that Harcated she will remain in the . vey Mydland’s charges are true,” county office is Miss Ernestine} he said. “McLain dictates ‘every Eilerman, senior stenographer; move in the State Department ~ . of Social Welfare. He dictates to Mrs. Myrtle Williams, the director, and undoubtedly to the board. “The reason so many people, meeting of the Nevada City RoMelberg said the staff of the district office, in addition to receiving higher salaries, will work only five days a week, although the office will remain open half a day on Saturday. State cars will. also be made available for

the traveling social workers. GOLD FLAT STUDENTS WILL RIDE TO SCHOOL IN NEW DISTRICT BUS Pupils. enrolled in the Gold sound administration of the department at heart, have resigned since Mrs. Williams took office is because of McLain—an outside influence not responsible to the voters of California nor to any government agency — dictating every move made in administration of the department by Mrs. Williams.” The speaker ticked off the resignations, his own, that of Dan Flat (Oakland) elementary school. Higgins, administrative advisor; will ride to and from classes in. C. A. Herbage, deputy director a 1942 33-passenger bus pur-. who had spent 15 years in State chased for $355 from the state} Social Welfare work; Walter educational department of sur-. Chambers, chief administrative plus projects. A $90 recondition-. officer, and others, including ing project by the Mountain . Mydland. Chevrolet Co. prepared the ve“McLain’s program is one of hicle for school operation. It is. confusion rather than one to asthe first bus _ transportation. sist the administration of social owned by the Oakland district,. welfare,” he said. “McLain dewhich heretofore borrowed. liberately dictates a policy leadequipment from the Nevada City. ing toward confusion to Mrs. unified district. Williams so that he can go to the The Gold Flat school will open. needy elderly and blind people Tuesday, Sept. 6, with Principal . of California and cajole more and Thomas N. Farney, administering . more funds out of their meager the plant. The only change in. Pension payments for him to use the faculty is the replacement of . in supposedly fighting their batMrs. Vera Roberts by Mrs. Dow/tles but actually building himAlexander, Town Talk. Other. self up as a political figure. teachers are Mrs. Julia Petersen. “McLain uses that money—the and Mrs. Pauline Stevens. (Continued on page six) » BERRY-BOOSTER—The New York State blackberry growers met at Ellenville, N. Y., to “pick” Linda Danson as “Miss Blackberry Julep of 1949.” Agreeing that Linda looked like the berries, the growers draped a blackberry necklace around her. o’clock four-day display of Nevada county farm, commercial and mining exhibits. j who had the interests of sane and}. day. 4-H department first. LARGEST CROWD OF OPENING DAY IN FAIR HISTORY The largest opening day crowd in Nevada» county fair’s history streamed to the Nevada’ county fairgrounds last night to attend the opening evening of the seventh annual Nevada county fair, slated to run through Sunday in a pine-tree setting considered one of the most beautiful in California. A flag raising ceremony at 6 last night opened the Judging at the fair-will—start this morning. With increased facilities and a greatly expanded program this year’s fair is expected to set precedents amount of financial assistance by the state depends almost entirely on attendance figures. in many phases. The First showing of the nationally known Levi Strauss free puppet show. was held last night at 6 p.m. This will be a daily feature. Friday morning at follows: ond will be community booths. Floriculture—10 a.m. Friday. Agriculture and Horticulture— 10 a.m. Friday. 4-H departments will be judged first. Home Economics—10 a.m. FriLivestock—10 a.m. Friday. 4-H department first. Poultry—10 a.m. Friday. Judging in 4-H. Rabbits—4 p.m. Friday. Judging in both 4-H and senior departments. Number of entries classification: Horticulture, 52; floriculture, 126; community booths, 6; home economics, 486; horse show, 64; brown swiss, 38; guernsey, 85; milking shorthorns, 38. Number entries in 4-H classification: ’ ture, 5; home economics, 77; community booths, 5; rabbits, 8. (Continued on page 5) The Weather Fred Bush, observer high low Friday, August 19 ..85 41 Saturday, August 20 . 87 42 Sunday, August 21 .. 89 42 Monday, August 22 . 85 45 Tuesday, August 23 . 87 43 Wednesday, August 24 33 39 Thursday, August 25. 84 42 in senior 10 a.m. judging in all departments will start. The schedule of judging '3 GRASS VALLEY MEN KILLED IN TRUCK WRECK Three Grass Valley men met sudden death Tuesday afternoon near the flume on Bear valley grade of highway 20 in one of the worst vehicle accidents in Nevada county history. They were John Wearne, 34: Warren C. (Chick) Faulkner, 30; and James M. McDonald, 45. The men were returning from work on the Bear. valley road construction in,a-114 ten pickup truck and were crushed beyond recognition by a log flailed from a passing truck that struck the eab from the body of the pickup. Robert L. Peres. 27, driver of the log truck, was removing logs from right-of-way of the new road. Peres reported he passed the pickup and then heard a crash, turned back and saw the demolished pickup. Reconstruction of the accident indicated a log had fallen from the truck, hit a tree, broke in two and one Piece rebounded to the highway and flailed upward into the cab of the vehicle carrying the doomed men. : ‘Faulkner was born June 23, 1919, in Utah, and came to Grass. Valley at the age of 3. He was an outstanding athlete in school” and played on several baseball and softball teams of the area. He was signed this year by the Nevada City Athletics of the Placer-Nevada league, although he didn’t play. He is survived by his wife, Anita; daughters, Warrene and Katherine; father, Charles Faulkner, all of Grass Valley; mother, Mrs. Geneva Yates, Salt Lake City, Utah. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary chapel, Rev. Max Christensen,:pastor of the Trinity Episcopal church, officiating. Interment will be in East Lawn cemetery. Wearne was born Nov. 13, 1914, in Cornwall, England, but spent most of his life in Grass, Valley. He had worked in Grass Valley mines before going to the east bay, only recently returning to this area. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wearne; sisters, Mrs. George Scott, Mrs. Joe Locatelli, and Mrs. Marvin Kitts, all of Grass Valiey; and a brother, Harvey, Portola. Funeral will be held this morning at 11 o’clock in the Hooper-Weaver mortuary chapel Rev. Donald Getty,: pastor of Grass Valley Methodist church, officiating. Interment in Elm Ridge cemetery. McDonald is a native of Flint, Mich., and came to Grass Valley about 15 years ago. He served in the U. S. navy in the first World War and. was a resident of the Alta hill district.He is survived by his wife, Anita; three step, daughters, Mary Berry, Marlene Booths—10 a.m. Friday. Judges , will judge 4-H booths first. SecBerry, and Annabelle Berry. Services for McDonald will be ; Grass cattle— angus, 59; hereford, $5; : The held tomorrow at 2 p.m., at Myers Valley mortuary, Rev. Patrick O'Reilly, pastor of St. Patrick’s Catholic church, officiating. Interment will be in Greenwood cemetery. WESTERN UNION OPENS TELEPRINTER DISPATCH Operation of a completely automatic receiving and dispatching teleprinter started this week in the local office of the Western Union, in the National hotel, according to Gertrude Zollars, local agent. The equipment brings to Nevada City the same facilities enjoyed in metropolitan centers, installation of the local equipment is one several thou. sand being placed ‘all over the Sheep, 15; swine, 7; beef cat-. U. S. at a cost of several million tle, 13, dairy cattle, 12; agricul. dollars. The new teleprinters operate on @ two-letter key system, each machine having its own two letters assigned to it. Nevada City’s key letters are NK. A telegram is automatically dispatched by electrical equipment speedily and ‘unerringly and without relays to its destination, © ee Another innovation by Western Union is the installation of radio towers to. replace poles and wires. A single radio beam can send and receive simultan 2,000 telegrams.