August 26, 1949 (6 pages)

Washington Notes 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, August 26, 1949 By Congressman Engle Clair fs on our bered that the tarif TIMBER ACCESS ROADS . copper, tungsten and other doSenator Morse of Oregon and and mestically produced minerals I are co-authors of a measure to. : { metals have ybeen reduced. Getsecure more funds for access tim. them back up appears to be ber roads. The measure we are; ting ess task as it is doubted hopel a sponsoring would provide thirty if there are enough votes in con> 305 Broad Street, Nevada City——Telephone 36 A legal trewspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager million dollars. It must. be re Member California Newspaper Publishers Association membered in that connection that California, and Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, under ,Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. world’s oldest social institutions. Historians have trdced the record of fairs back to the 11th century in Central Europe when peasant farmers annually gathered in the market place and offered their . needed national resources. This measure, therefore, is justified even in this time of extreme care . with expenditures. “The measure has passed the senate and is now pending before choicest farm crops in competition with the crops of their ‘ neighbors. Livestock auctions were held. Dancing was an entertainment feature. Parades were both lavish and colorful, The hot-blooded heroine of “Forever Amber” will be recalled as having started her notorious love career at a the house committeé on agriculture. I am asking hearings before our committee, but there is a dim prospect of that this ‘late in the session. It is anticipated, though, that hearings will be held early in the first part of the next session when the House committees veally get down to work again. Just Wonderin’ ] Wonder about waves of thought, Crime waves and other thing; They overwhelm the little folk And sweep the thrones of kings. TOUGH YEAR FOR MINERS Perhaps the saucers sometimes seen, Tip tilting through the air, Are merely waves of this and that, Just flitting here and there. fair. Hundreds of such instances could be cited but it is Consider the ease with which waves are created. We enough that we be reminded that our local county fair have all seen it done; perhaps some of us have started . is not a fly-by-night institution of recent vintage but little waves ourselves. It is ridiculously easy. Just come up rather is deeply grounded in splendid traditions that date with a new idea, or an old one in new form; advertise, back through many centuries. and there you are. Count, if you have time the religtous cults of our day, most of them in a flourishing condition and boasting of a large following, then remember their small beginnings. The ill-starred Nevada City dog pound is once more Some of them sprang from a restatement of well-known under fire—condemned by inspecting officers of the Sactheories, others boasted of a small percentage of originaliramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anity; their promulgaters raised a hue and cry and lo, a mals. Their biggest point ef condemnation was the danger . new cult. of suffocation and cremation to impounded dogs because THE HOUNDS OF NEVADA CITY of the location. Although the officers did not condemn Remember the bobbed hair wave? A popular dancer, the I think it was, who started that one and it swept the the method of execution by cyanide employed by hu-. country, contributed immensely to the emancipation of local officials, they said chloroforming was a more ber women and to' their physical well being and good looks mane way. It was also their contention the gas cham as well. was too large for efficiency. I remember several little school mates of mine whose The lives of officials are not easy, at best, and clamorthick braids hung almost to their knees; how proud long ing divergent interests lighten their loads not a bit, but they were of their nice long hair, yet what a job it was it is apparent that city officials will need to take some to take care of the useless appendages and keep them in action. We think they have done a good job toward rewell groomed order. My own hair long and thick had to moving the packs of homeless dogs that recently crowded be “washed” every two weeks, sometimes oftener, pig the. streets and gave Broad street the appearance of a tailed to make it wavey, or, on special occasions curled sewer main. hot irons. What a nuisance! When I went down to on We think that one amendment of the recently proposed ordinance is a good thing except that the zoning the little creek behind the school house to wash my slate, part of it was unworkable. It is our recommendation the wasps and yellow jackets used to tangle in my crowning will and not help the small miner it carries implications re to the larger operators. NEVADA CITY—ON THE THRESHOLD TO THE BEST IN SPORTS. -RECREATION e ; NEVADA CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PHONE: Marysville 173J3 PHONE: Grass Valley 533-W This year has been disastrous for the mining industry. No part of the major legislation for the industry has been enacted. Mineral atid metal prices have broken and a large percentage of the industry throughout the nation has closed down. Our efforts to get the measure through which would have provided incentive payments for the production of the critical and strategic minerals and metals needed for our stockpile was blocked by the president himself. In addition, he indicated he is completely opposed to any tariff relief. It must be remem Complete Stock of hands of a child, forgetting that with the gift we are furnishing him with a flock of thoughts and incentives that Apparently our government uses the theory slightly alFielding Yost whose motto was “When in doubt, punt.” may affect his future career and lead him into paths of evil or of good. Look well to the gifts you choose for a child and carefully consider the thughts and incentives Free medicine and other benefits of soiialism are fine which must inevitably accompany it. for Britons, but the time may come when the U. S. can Waves may come, and they will, and waves may go no longer afford to pay for them. and we must watch their trend and be sure that only tered, “When in doubt, spend.” the desirable ones scoop us in and make us a part of the star-eyed following. Just now, I wonder if among the Pride is ignorance; those assume most who have the new waves taking shape, there may be one which will least wisdom or experience; and they steal from their the perfumers. Well, Cousin Miranda did come enrich neighbor, because they have so little of their own., —NMary Baker Eddy in with a big bottle of Florida water, and when . asked her what she intended doing with it, she said, “If Mrs. Truman can own a perfumed deep freeze, why can’t . Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very perfume my ice box? Just another wave on its way, so —Samuel Johnson kind sirs, if your food begins to taste of Florida water, mean advantages. and other odoriferous concoctions, you are in the wave sometimes accused of pride merely because so think nothing of it, just go along with the flocks of PABCO Sol-Sealed LINOLEUM ELMER BOSWORTH Men are imitators and feel that keeping up with the Jones, is their accusers would be proud themselves if they were in Compared to the keeping up with the Trumans. nothing —Shenstone their placers. . —Adeline Merriam Conner great mistakes. , —Ruskin _ Ifa man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a -good action done as it ought to be, without any base —Sterne interest lurking at the bottom of it. The training of children is a profession, where we.must know how to lose time in order to gain it. —-Rousseau Phone 36 for Free Estimate q THE Sept. 1] thru 11 —— ——————= rr . = GRANDSTAND AND HORSESHOW RESERVED SEATS AVAILABLE AT YOUR WESTERN UNION OFFICE — e INDUSTRY e ENTERTAINMENT e OPPOSITE VETERANS’ MEMORIAL BUILDING 256 S. Auburn St. aw AGRICULTURE. Largest Selections. Fair fem, Furniture Center Stae A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he —Pope is wiser today than he was yesterday. INSTALLATION MECHANIC Choose from one of Northern California’s a EDUCATION eg 7 y en family. For good or ill we place a book or a toy in the I have been more and more convinced, the more . think of it, that, in general, pride is at the bottom of all % Inlaid and Print ALL WORK GUARANTEED often with a badly chosen gift to some member of the Ly foe, oe Waves of thought or of crime may start in the home, t bt PUMPS and comfort had it been the vogue in my youthful days, it would indeed. A few years back there was a football coach named ‘ Sales and Service or not on private property anywhere inside the city Bobbed hair would have added no end to my happiness WHEN IN DOUBT + CLYDE H. THOMAS WATER WELL DRILLING city amend Ordinance 228 to require dogs be leashed glory and sting venomously before I could ‘get them out. imits. to In addition, much of this timber is mature and over-mature and garding the control of the indus; ul if if not cut will go to waste and try which makes it doubtf able accept be will re measu the will be a loss of one of our most The Seventh annual Nevada County Fair opened its gates last night for a local reenactment of one of the fairs as an important activity. “Simple Simon”, we recall, ‘met a pieman going to the fair.’” A nursery song of an earlier period told of “Johnny being so long at the fair.’ What youngster dées not konw that one of the three little pigs escaped from the big bad wolf by rolling home in a churn he had bought at the fair. mining kicking around in the senate and is reputed to have the endorsement of all the executive agencies—the bureau. of mines, the interior department, the bureau er, from not other wise be accessible and of the budget, etc. ‘Howev all appearances that measure on which, therefore, the government would realize no income. Folklore and fables of past centuries have recognized in the stumpage sold to them by the forest service, which pays for the roads and a good deal more besides. Moreover, these roads are built into timber which would THE NEVADA COUNTY FAIR entertained. interested of the industry is currently ing the roads pay a charge for relief SUBSCRIPTION RATES : unses $3.00 ssl svncssonusu lcdcecca One year outside county (in BUUREN) ccctect-ss 2.50 senes eenttsecnnn -----nreccc -------+--.------) advance (in county One year in es one enna scneenc retreat --esses ------: ------Four months (in advance) -.. One month (in advance) and jugglers, tumblers and clowns kept the youngsters gress ential veto. A» these roads are self-liquidating— override a presid to be for the ting that is, the lumber operators usnew bill purpor entered as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City Grass Valley Phone 36 -

Washington Notes 2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, August 26, 1949 By Congressman Engle Clair fs on our bered that the tarif TIMBER ACCESS ROADS . copper, tungsten and other doSenator Morse of Oregon and and mestically produced minerals I are co-authors of a measure to. : { metals have ybeen reduced. Getsecure more funds for access tim. them back up appears to be ber roads. The measure we are; ting ess task as it is doubted hopel a sponsoring would provide thirty if there are enough votes in con> 305 Broad Street, Nevada City——Telephone 36 A legal trewspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager million dollars. It must. be re Member California Newspaper Publishers Association membered in that connection that California, and Published every Tuesday and Friday at Nevada City, under ,Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. world’s oldest social institutions. Historians have trdced the record of fairs back to the 11th century in Central Europe when peasant farmers annually gathered in the market place and offered their . needed national resources. This measure, therefore, is justified even in this time of extreme care . with expenditures. “The measure has passed the senate and is now pending before choicest farm crops in competition with the crops of their ‘ neighbors. Livestock auctions were held. Dancing was an entertainment feature. Parades were both lavish and colorful, The hot-blooded heroine of “Forever Amber” will be recalled as having started her notorious love career at a the house committeé on agriculture. I am asking hearings before our committee, but there is a dim prospect of that this ‘late in the session. It is anticipated, though, that hearings will be held early in the first part of the next session when the House committees veally get down to work again. Just Wonderin’ ] Wonder about waves of thought, Crime waves and other thing; They overwhelm the little folk And sweep the thrones of kings. TOUGH YEAR FOR MINERS Perhaps the saucers sometimes seen, Tip tilting through the air, Are merely waves of this and that, Just flitting here and there. fair. Hundreds of such instances could be cited but it is Consider the ease with which waves are created. We enough that we be reminded that our local county fair have all seen it done; perhaps some of us have started . is not a fly-by-night institution of recent vintage but little waves ourselves. It is ridiculously easy. Just come up rather is deeply grounded in splendid traditions that date with a new idea, or an old one in new form; advertise, back through many centuries. and there you are. Count, if you have time the religtous cults of our day, most of them in a flourishing condition and boasting of a large following, then remember their small beginnings. The ill-starred Nevada City dog pound is once more Some of them sprang from a restatement of well-known under fire—condemned by inspecting officers of the Sactheories, others boasted of a small percentage of originaliramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anity; their promulgaters raised a hue and cry and lo, a mals. Their biggest point ef condemnation was the danger . new cult. of suffocation and cremation to impounded dogs because THE HOUNDS OF NEVADA CITY of the location. Although the officers did not condemn Remember the bobbed hair wave? A popular dancer, the I think it was, who started that one and it swept the the method of execution by cyanide employed by hu-. country, contributed immensely to the emancipation of local officials, they said chloroforming was a more ber women and to' their physical well being and good looks mane way. It was also their contention the gas cham as well. was too large for efficiency. I remember several little school mates of mine whose The lives of officials are not easy, at best, and clamorthick braids hung almost to their knees; how proud long ing divergent interests lighten their loads not a bit, but they were of their nice long hair, yet what a job it was it is apparent that city officials will need to take some to take care of the useless appendages and keep them in action. We think they have done a good job toward rewell groomed order. My own hair long and thick had to moving the packs of homeless dogs that recently crowded be “washed” every two weeks, sometimes oftener, pig the. streets and gave Broad street the appearance of a tailed to make it wavey, or, on special occasions curled sewer main. hot irons. What a nuisance! When I went down to on We think that one amendment of the recently proposed ordinance is a good thing except that the zoning the little creek behind the school house to wash my slate, part of it was unworkable. It is our recommendation the wasps and yellow jackets used to tangle in my crowning will and not help the small miner it carries implications re to the larger operators. NEVADA CITY—ON THE THRESHOLD TO THE BEST IN SPORTS. -RECREATION e ; NEVADA CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PHONE: Marysville 173J3 PHONE: Grass Valley 533-W This year has been disastrous for the mining industry. No part of the major legislation for the industry has been enacted. Mineral atid metal prices have broken and a large percentage of the industry throughout the nation has closed down. Our efforts to get the measure through which would have provided incentive payments for the production of the critical and strategic minerals and metals needed for our stockpile was blocked by the president himself. In addition, he indicated he is completely opposed to any tariff relief. It must be remem Complete Stock of hands of a child, forgetting that with the gift we are furnishing him with a flock of thoughts and incentives that Apparently our government uses the theory slightly alFielding Yost whose motto was “When in doubt, punt.” may affect his future career and lead him into paths of evil or of good. Look well to the gifts you choose for a child and carefully consider the thughts and incentives Free medicine and other benefits of soiialism are fine which must inevitably accompany it. for Britons, but the time may come when the U. S. can Waves may come, and they will, and waves may go no longer afford to pay for them. and we must watch their trend and be sure that only tered, “When in doubt, spend.” the desirable ones scoop us in and make us a part of the star-eyed following. Just now, I wonder if among the Pride is ignorance; those assume most who have the new waves taking shape, there may be one which will least wisdom or experience; and they steal from their the perfumers. Well, Cousin Miranda did come enrich neighbor, because they have so little of their own., —NMary Baker Eddy in with a big bottle of Florida water, and when . asked her what she intended doing with it, she said, “If Mrs. Truman can own a perfumed deep freeze, why can’t . Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very perfume my ice box? Just another wave on its way, so —Samuel Johnson kind sirs, if your food begins to taste of Florida water, mean advantages. and other odoriferous concoctions, you are in the wave sometimes accused of pride merely because so think nothing of it, just go along with the flocks of PABCO Sol-Sealed LINOLEUM ELMER BOSWORTH Men are imitators and feel that keeping up with the Jones, is their accusers would be proud themselves if they were in Compared to the keeping up with the Trumans. nothing —Shenstone

their placers. . —Adeline Merriam Conner great mistakes. , —Ruskin _ Ifa man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a -good action done as it ought to be, without any base —Sterne interest lurking at the bottom of it. The training of children is a profession, where we.must know how to lose time in order to gain it. —-Rousseau Phone 36 for Free Estimate q THE Sept. 1] thru 11 —— ——————= rr . = GRANDSTAND AND HORSESHOW RESERVED SEATS AVAILABLE AT YOUR WESTERN UNION OFFICE — e INDUSTRY e ENTERTAINMENT e OPPOSITE VETERANS’ MEMORIAL BUILDING 256 S. Auburn St. aw AGRICULTURE. Largest Selections. Fair fem, Furniture Center Stae A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he —Pope is wiser today than he was yesterday. INSTALLATION MECHANIC Choose from one of Northern California’s a EDUCATION eg 7 y en family. For good or ill we place a book or a toy in the I have been more and more convinced, the more . think of it, that, in general, pride is at the bottom of all % Inlaid and Print ALL WORK GUARANTEED often with a badly chosen gift to some member of the Ly foe, oe Waves of thought or of crime may start in the home, t bt PUMPS and comfort had it been the vogue in my youthful days, it would indeed. A few years back there was a football coach named ‘ Sales and Service or not on private property anywhere inside the city Bobbed hair would have added no end to my happiness WHEN IN DOUBT + CLYDE H. THOMAS WATER WELL DRILLING city amend Ordinance 228 to require dogs be leashed glory and sting venomously before I could ‘get them out. imits. to In addition, much of this timber is mature and over-mature and garding the control of the indus; ul if if not cut will go to waste and try which makes it doubtf able accept be will re measu the will be a loss of one of our most The Seventh annual Nevada County Fair opened its gates last night for a local reenactment of one of the fairs as an important activity. “Simple Simon”, we recall, ‘met a pieman going to the fair.’” A nursery song of an earlier period told of “Johnny being so long at the fair.’ What youngster dées not konw that one of the three little pigs escaped from the big bad wolf by rolling home in a churn he had bought at the fair. mining kicking around in the senate and is reputed to have the endorsement of all the executive agencies—the bureau. of mines, the interior department, the bureau er, from not other wise be accessible and of the budget, etc. ‘Howev all appearances that measure on which, therefore, the government would realize no income. Folklore and fables of past centuries have recognized in the stumpage sold to them by the forest service, which pays for the roads and a good deal more besides. Moreover, these roads are built into timber which would THE NEVADA COUNTY FAIR entertained. interested of the industry is currently ing the roads pay a charge for relief SUBSCRIPTION RATES : unses $3.00 ssl svncssonusu lcdcecca One year outside county (in BUUREN) ccctect-ss 2.50 senes eenttsecnnn -----nreccc -------+--..------) advance (in county One year in es one enna scneenc retreat --esses ------: ------Four months (in advance) -... One month (in advance) and jugglers, tumblers and clowns kept the youngsters gress ential veto. A» these roads are self-liquidating— override a presid to be for the ting that is, the lumber operators usnew bill purpor entered as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City Grass Valley Phone 36 -