August 5, 1949 (8 pages)

orb, x Ph ‘ consistently ‘Wally Parsons took’ four, .1:Bresno—Good:, :-M.ore: NEVADA CITY — WHERE, THEY'RE BITING and Sportmen’ S Paradise WHEN and HOW Other Sportsmen's Items Fishing prospects appear brighter this weekend after two! or three weeks of poor luck due . to hot weather. Bowman lake is ‘considered a good possibility. Another favored spot is the east . fork of tne, north fork of the! Yuba above Sierra City. Some of our sources report. Bear river back. of Dutch Flat may be a good spot. Gold lake, good, continues so. Fordyce and Seotts Flat to quote “are lousy.’ ’ The fish and. game commission was busy the past week planting two truck loads of fingerlings in lower Scotts Flat. They planting. several lakes and streams in the area at present. : * * *. There are sti]l trout in lower Scott’s Flat lake and some. local nimrods are taking them with _ considerable regularity. but from _ all reports if seems that you have to know just where to go along the lake to hook the Rainbow * hued.;beauties. _ ast Sunday the lake was literally clutterd with boats and Mr. Wily Rainbow just didn’t seem to like all.-that chugging and churnin’ in such a small body of water so he laid pretty low on the’ bottom for the’ most part. However, last Tuesday, Jack ~ Cartwright caught six nice ones fishing’ from “the banks, one of which measured 12 the others all over eight inches Mrs. Mae Parsons hooked three and son, Larry, hooked one. Long John’s Tavern wasn’t: skunked by a long shot. * * * When the first? of two California deer hunting seasons opens Sunday, in the central and south coastal areas, hunters will. find bucks generally scarcer than an year, That’s the opinion of ‘wardens . of the division of: fish.and ‘game, in annual advance predictions of hunting conditions. Besides hunting for deer, many : of California's 300,000 buck hunt. ers will probably be hunting for a place to hunt. Wardens are unanimous in reporting a. new! crop of “No Trespassing”’ .signs, and warning coastal area hunters to ‘obtain permission from landowners before entering: private property. From Aug. 7 to Sept. 15, inclu‘sive; a'bag limit of two: bucks ‘will be legal in .Mendocino, Lake, Glenn, Colusa, Yolo, Napa, Solano, ‘Sonoma, Marin, ‘Contra * -Costa, Alameda,.San Mateo,; Santa,.Clara, San Benito, Monterey, . San Louis Obispo, Santa . Barbara; Ventura, Los Angeles, and , Orange « counties, portions of Sam Joaquin, Stanis. and . westerly laus, Merced, . Fresno, Kings, Kern, and Riversidé counties: Fhe deer hunting season. outook by counties:, Alameda—Fair. ' seasén progresses. hazard. Improving as Extreme ° fire Colusa—Fair. Peer scarce, “Best hunting in Lodoga ‘area. water than last year. Numerous. deer. ost open hunting ground at higher elevations.” ' Gee Glenn—Gooed.,. Best hunting along .Stony ereek and. other streams where 2 _there is water and feed. " hence Deer in excellent shape, although many in the velvet. Hunters should contact U. S. for:st service for fire closures, Lake—Fair. Severe winter weather conditions. eliminated many deer. Extreme fire hazard. Deer in poor condition. . Marin—Fair. Many deer killed by severe winter conditions. Most property posted. Mendocino—Fair. Deer in excellent condition in southern coastal area. Most property posted. Monterey—Good. Many . legal bucks. Extreme fire hazard. Napa—Good. Deer plentiful and in good condition at lower elevations. Extreme fire hazard. San Benito—Fair. Extreme fire hazard. San Luis Obispo—Good. Deer in good condition. U. S. forest service has opened additional territory t> public hunting. Best hunting in Queen Bee _ and American canyon areas. ““*San Mateo—Good. © Deer ’ 1n are inches ant good condition. Most property posted. Santa Clara—Good. Apparent increase in number of bucks. Ex. treme fire hazard. Best. hunting in east Mt. Hamilton and Loma Preita ranges. Santa Cruz—Fair. Few bucks seen. Deer scattered. County ordis nance prohibits firearms in many areas. Sonoma—Fair. Deer in poor condition. Most property posted. ‘ Stanislaus—Fair. Few bucks seen. Best hunting in western Clara line. * * * Following investigation by representatives of the bureau of game conservation, the fish and game commission has abolished the Project City quail refuge in Shasta county. ‘The request for reclassification of the refuge was presented by sportsmen of the area. Diy Gacy eas Acquisition of 240 acres of land adjoining the Madeline plains in Modoc county waterfowl! managesion of fish and game :has been approved by the commission. Purchase price of approximately $10 per acre will be provided with joint .federal-state funds * * -¢4ons-<apply to and fishing. fish. No size limit. MENTO PERCH, CALICO BASS ‘+-Bag limit: 25 fish of all species in aggregate. No size, limit. ' ' CATFISH—No -closed season. Bag limit: 15, pounds and one fish in the aggregate in the round, TROUT—Ends Oct. 31. Bag limit: 15 trout, salmon, or Rocky . Mountain whitefish, or 10 pounds land one fish, or three fish ‘regardens of weight. PREDATORY ANIMALS—N 0 coyotes, mountain lions, wildcats, raccoons, skunks, moles, shrews, gophers,. weasels, and wolves. . SALMON—In_ waters . ridge in rivers, those east of Carquinez Sacramento-San Joaquin ends Dec. 31. Bag limit: three. size limit. FROGS—Ends Nov. 30 in dis-. trict 22 and all sections of the . state except south of surnmit of Tehachapi mountain range, where season. extends from July 1 ta Nev. 29. Bag limit: 24 per week. Minimum size limit: four inches from ‘tip of nose to crotch. No. license required. , * od * A’ fishing party ‘Saturday while another party inicluding a man and woman from portion of the county near Santa . . ‘ment area operated by the divi. under the Pittman-Robertson act. , The following general regula' current hunting BLACK BASS—Bag limit: five’ SUNFISH, CRAPPIE, SACRA. closed season on the taking of} juced by any other nation. . { t . . of Pa-. forces, cific ocean and all bays except pattle, . . . from Nevada [m set the 1949-50 tax rate at City brought in seven Rainbow . 1.40, the same as it was last ‘year. , trout from lower Scott’s Flat lake The fire fund:rate and the library out of town caught eleven trout . ; in the lake and Deer Creek be. of equalization Monday morning tween ‘the upper lower lake. Carl Riddle,. visiting here with his wife, Helen, and tw o children, Roger “and Sandri, caught two Rainbows *.measuring. over 12 inches .in. length while Wally Parsons of Long John’s Tavern caught one 13% inches, his son, Larry, caught. two, and Mrs. Mae Parsons caught two nice pan size trout. ’ The electric storm which swept over the area in the early afternoon interrupted the fishing party and when the thunder pealed about the mountain tops the trout went.to the bottom and there were no more strikes. A sudden, shelter and they gave up fishing for the day. 861 Nevada County Aged and Blind Get ' Warrants From State Eight hundred sixty-one aged and blind residents of Nevada county . received warrants this week from the California’ state controller under the new set-up of administration of disbursements. Nevada county had 838 aged and 23 blind persons on the first group of warrants. The county’s total amount disbursed was $60,365.83, an average of $70, 11 per ‘person. © a 1 08 ° lashing rain, drove the party to} dam and the! at 10 o’clock in city hall. . re-equipping her standing armed Volume 22—No. 44 NEVADA CITY (Nevada Canny) CALIF ORNIA Friday, ree i 1949 Russia Is Read for Combat! Russia Could , Field Army of 20,000 ,O000 This is the second of a series of articles on Russia by Colonel James C. Crockett, U. S. army, retired, now a resident of Nevada county. Col, Crockett was military intelligence officer for the U. S. army in Russia during the last year of the shooting war, and was military attache to the U. S. four years in Russia. Prior to the embassy in Moscow.He served recent war he served four years jeg as military observer in Nazi Germany. In his articles Col. Crockett will discuss Soviet objectives, the politburo, Stalin’s successor, class distinction in Russia, women, the underground, religion, what the Russians know _— the atom bomb, and many other interesting problems. Copyright 1949, by The Nugget By JAMES C. CROCKE Russia .is secretly re-arming, rearmed forcés for offensive combat. TT, Col., U. S.-A., Ret. equipping and training her vast During the last three years the Russian armed forces have greatly improved both in quality and in strength. Today they are far ‘stronger than the forces’ of Hitler the in Col. James c. Crockett which had such. great initial successes “in Europe. Immediately after World War II Russians assembled. committees of technical experts and boards of military officers to study and analyze the tactical and technical lessons learned during the war. The Soviets: have been using these lessons since early 1947 to guide their training and rearmament. proprams. ; Helping these experts are several thousand German officers, scientists and technicians. . In one rocket research ‘institute ‘near Moscow an employee told me there were 400 German -mathema+ ticians employed on rocket ‘research alone. During the last two years I was Russia (1947-1948), ‘the military forces secretly brought out two new models of tanks, two more new types of artillery, a new light machine gun, many new models of airplanes and.a new type of rocket discharger. These are. merely the new arms which I saw or knew to be in production. There are undoubtedly ‘ many other new arms and much new equipment which I did not%COUNTY BUDGET see. All of these arms embody the. lessons of the war and are equal if not superior to the arms proWith these new arms Russia is The strength of these immediately ready for is about 5,000,000 men. (Continued on page 8) ‘CITY COUNCIL SETS TAX RATE AT 140 FOR 1949 The Nevada City council last forces. fund rate remained the same at} .20 each. The board will meet as a board J. F. Siegfried, chairman of the city planning commission, asked the city council authorize up to; $25 per month as clerical expenses for the ‘commission. The council approved. The city council tabled the proposed dog ordinance. Siegfried reported to the council the commission plans to coptact Larry G. & E., Grass Valley, for a survey for a street lighting system. The planning commission recommended it approve all building permits issued by the city. The: council authorized Park Commissioner Thomas F. Taylor to confer with Nevada City Athletic club leaders and the planning commission, and proceed with turfing of the athletic field in Pioneer park. PUC Sets Aug. 23 For Bus Purchase “Hearing A public utilities commission hearing will be held at the Colusa city hall Tuesday Aug. 23, on the application of Nevada County: Bus Lines to extend service. The company has applied for permission to buy from Pacific Greyhound ‘its certificates to operate between Yuba City and Colusa, and then to Colusa, and then to extend service across the river to Marysville Farrell, manager of P.: SHOWS DROP TO $2,313,329.61 Nevada county’s budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, shows a drop in budget requirements from the fiscal year just ended, according to figures released ‘this week by Ralph E. . Deeble, county auditor, who compiled the budget. The new budget calls for, requirement of $2,313,325.61 to operate the county government, according to Deeble’s figures. Last year’s budget, an all-time. high, required $2,527,037.05. ; The amount of taxes necessary ito be raised. on secured rolls shows. a considerable decrease this year, according.to the auditor. Estimated amount. to. be raised .this year, Deeble, said, is $792,840.97, compared to bl 151,090.63 last. year. . Salary fund and law library fund remained. unchanged’. at $99,760 and: $700. respectively. Largest increase is in the veterans building. fund: jumping to $99,515. from: last’ year’s $26,915. The general reserve is being increased from $44,500 to $47,000. The general fund shows a drop to $723,149. Last year’s’ general fund called for $992,862.50. Road requirements call for less funds than last year. This year’s needs are estimated at $261,787.73 against $295,100 last year. Basic tax rate of the county for the current year is 2.06, divided into 1.47, general; .34, salary; .1l, veterans building; 14, junior colleges. Tax rates by school districts: Nevada City inside, 3.85; Nevada City outside, 3.88; Cherokee, 3.13; French Corral, Birchville and North Bloomfield, 2.55;. North San Juan, 3.64; Oakland without cemetery district, 4.24; Oakland with cemetery district, Highest district in county Truckee at 4.90. BUILDING PERMITS Walter and Edith Loty, Oakland, $2200 frame cabin, Newtown district, off Jones bar road. is 4.27. . NYU ECONOMICS PROFESSOR SAYS GULD RESTRICTION LAWS VIOLATE EC NOMIC FREEDOM PRINCIPLES Willford.I. King, economics professor emeritus of New York University, testifying before the Senate banking and currency committee hearings on the gold trading act in Washington, D. C., May 5 and 6, declared that laws interfering with the ownership, purchase and sale of gold violate the basic principle of economic freedom*that gives an individual the right to acquire, hold and dispose of one’s property in any legitimate way one désires. King’s testimony: The other gentlemen have furnished you with a large number of statistics and factual material, so I think I had better confine my remarks largely to the principles involved, as I see it, from the economic standpoint I believe that all the members of. your committee.will agree that the reason for the United States being, by far, the most prosperous nation in the world cannot logically be ascribed to pure chance, but, instead, is due to the fact that our country has preserved, to a greater extent than elsewhere, economic freédom. In that an essential characteristic of economic freedom is the, right to acquire, hold, and dispose of one’s property in any legitimate way that one desires Clearly, laws interfering with the ownership,” purchase, and:sale of gold violate this basic principle, and hence are, by their very nature, such as to require the most careful scrutiny. As you are well aware, in any free competitive market, every exchange of goods benefits. both parties to the transaction—the notion that the buyer benefits-at the expense of the seller, or that the seller benefits at the expense of the buyer being eéntirly fallacious. Unless both parties to the exchange believe that they will gain thereby, there will be no trade, for each will keep what ever he possesses. In view of the principles just stated, it follows that all restrictions on trade. reduce the-income of society. If, therefore, any restriction is imposed, it is necessary to justify it on the basis that there exists some exception to the general rule. The question to be.considered here is whether there is any reasonable justification for restricting free trade in gold. . Reasons, why such trade should be permitted are obvious. Gold because of its beauty, durability, malleability, ductility, high value per unit of weight, and freedom from oxidation has, from time ‘mmemorial, been much desired for use as ornaments, as a medium.of exchange, and asa storehouse of, value. Few other com-., modities fulfill these purposes as, well as does gold. Hence,. it is so much sought after in all times and places. It would be extreme. ly difficult to preve thet the vossession or use of gold has been . in any way injurious to the pub. HG. ot appears, then, that the’ evidence all points in the direcmetal as frée”as possible. The only argument of consequence that has been advanced sold free is that the removal of restrictions zold standard and weaken confi. dence in our currency. coin. gold to give it value, or to use it as a reserve behind money It could be used in the form of gold bars, but coinage is very convenient if you are going to! circulate gold. This argument that we would . ing. off restrictions glosses over the fact that we have not had a genuine gold standard at any time since 1933. Our present laws give us nothing more than a make-believe gold standard. A fundamental characteristic of a real gold standard is that it enables any holder of money to exchange it for gold at any time that he desires. Clearly,. unless you have that, you do not have a real gold standard. Clearly, if we had a real gold standard, the ; f my opinion, you will also dgree . not surprising that it has been . tion of making the’trade in this . against making _ the market ‘for: would “wreck our! I think .it is not .essential to . wreck our gold standard by tak-. ‘price of gold could not go above $35 an ounce. We have inflated—not as much as other countries have inflated their currencies, as they have in. flated much more—when § infla. tion is going on at a rapid pace, people lose confidence :in their country. Of course, in some countries’: money has become almost entirely worthless. I think the dollar is highly prized all over the world, primarily because we have not made dollars so abundantly in this country. The so-called shortage of dollars abroad is due to the fact that the people abroad want to get something for nothing. That is, if. they had goods to exchange for our goods, then they would obviously have ‘all the dollar exchange that they wanted. It.is obvious that our treasury has not been willing to. redeem paper money in gold; otherwise the price of gold could no go above $35 per ounce. You couid get it from the treasurywhenever you wanted it at $35 an ounce, and would not pay anyone else more money. The treéasury redeems promises, lets gold out on the favored people on special rules. We figure that the demands of these people for gold are legitimate, so it is limited— it is not a true gold standard where ‘you pay in gold to, all comers on demand. The only reason why we should worry about this question. of gold standard is that the gold, standard is supposed to prevent, inflation That is its real reason for existence. Otherwise, you would get by. just as well on a paper money standard. But, as one of the other witnesses pointed out this morning, paper money standards have a habit of going bad. Country after country on paper standard has. seen its money go to pot and become worthless. « Now, we have just a pseudogold standard, and that is proved by the fact that*it has failed completely to prevent.inflation in the United States. In 1929, the total amount of pocketbook money in the United States was $4,578,000,000 in boom: times. In February, 1949, the last report that we have available, the total of this pocketbook money has grown to $27,556,000,000. Our supply of money has been multiplied by six in a per‘iod in which the population had increase .by only one-fifth. So that. our so-called gold. standard has not stopped inflation.The im‘flation has gone along, and wehave six times as much money ‘for one-fifth more ‘people. , . Now, the price level since 1539, the last decade, has approximate. ly doubled. It is off a little at the present time, but a few months ~ ago it was exactly double what it . was in 1939, You“know what this has done. It has wrecked the savings of a (Continued on page: six) ‘State Convention Is Discussed by Redmen ‘The state convention of the . eeproued Order of Redmen set . for Aug. 15-18 in Sacramento was . dis scussed at Wednesday . evening’s meeting. of Wyoming Lodge No. 49. © The lodge announced there will be no regular meeting the night . of Aug. 17 to permit members to’ attend the convention. State convention of Degree of ; Pocahontas will be held in Sac. ramento simultaneously. . Delegates to the Redmen convention are George W. Gilder-, . sleeve, Phil Personeni, Olaf Bjornstal and John Personeni. Hildered Branson is Ponemah delegate with Thelma Butz and Elizabeth Lashbaugh to accompany her. The Weather Fred Bush, Bnet! ol hc i Friday, July 29 Saturday, July 30 .. aon 49 bunday, Jiiv, $10, 87 ae Monday, August 1 . 85. . 45. Tuesday, August 2 . ae Wednesday, August 390° Thursday, eee 4. 87

orb, x Ph ‘ consistently ‘Wally Parsons took’ four, .1:Bresno—Good:, :-M.ore: NEVADA CITY — WHERE, THEY'RE BITING and Sportmen’ S Paradise WHEN and HOW Other Sportsmen's Items Fishing prospects appear brighter this weekend after two! or three weeks of poor luck due . to hot weather. Bowman lake is ‘considered a good possibility. Another favored spot is the east . fork of tne, north fork of the! Yuba above Sierra City. Some of our sources report. Bear river back. of Dutch Flat may be a good spot. Gold lake, good, continues so. Fordyce and Seotts Flat to quote “are lousy.’ ’ The fish and. game commission was busy the past week planting two truck loads of fingerlings in lower Scotts Flat. They planting. several lakes and streams in the area at present. : * * *. There are sti]l trout in lower Scott’s Flat lake and some. local nimrods are taking them with _ considerable regularity. but from _ all reports if seems that you have to know just where to go along the lake to hook the Rainbow * hued.;beauties. _ ast Sunday the lake was literally clutterd with boats and Mr. Wily Rainbow just didn’t seem to like all.-that chugging and churnin’ in such a small body of water so he laid pretty low on the’ bottom for the’ most part. However, last Tuesday, Jack ~ Cartwright caught six nice ones fishing’ from “the banks, one of which measured 12 the others all over eight inches Mrs. Mae Parsons hooked three and son, Larry, hooked one. Long John’s Tavern wasn’t: skunked by a long shot. * * * When the first? of two California deer hunting seasons opens Sunday, in the central and south coastal areas, hunters will. find bucks generally scarcer than an year, That’s the opinion of ‘wardens . of the division of: fish.and ‘game, in annual advance predictions of hunting conditions. Besides hunting for deer, many : of California's 300,000 buck hunt. ers will probably be hunting for a place to hunt. Wardens are unanimous in reporting a. new! crop of “No Trespassing”’ .signs, and warning coastal area hunters to ‘obtain permission from landowners before entering: private property. From Aug. 7 to Sept. 15, inclu‘sive; a'bag limit of two: bucks ‘will be legal in .Mendocino, Lake, Glenn, Colusa, Yolo, Napa, Solano, ‘Sonoma, Marin, ‘Contra * -Costa, Alameda,.San Mateo,; Santa,.Clara, San Benito, Monterey, . San Louis Obispo, Santa . Barbara; Ventura, Los Angeles, and , Orange « counties, portions of Sam Joaquin, Stanis. and . westerly laus, Merced, . Fresno, Kings, Kern, and Riversidé counties: Fhe deer hunting season. outook by counties:, Alameda—Fair. ' seasén progresses. hazard. Improving as Extreme ° fire Colusa—Fair. Peer scarce, “Best hunting in Lodoga ‘area. water than last year. Numerous. deer. ost open hunting ground at higher elevations.” ' Gee Glenn—Gooed.,. Best hunting along .Stony ereek and. other streams where 2 _there is water and feed. " hence Deer in excellent shape, although many in the velvet. Hunters should contact U. S. for:st service for fire closures, Lake—Fair. Severe winter weather conditions. eliminated many deer. Extreme fire hazard. Deer in poor condition. . Marin—Fair. Many deer killed by severe winter conditions. Most property posted. Mendocino—Fair. Deer in excellent condition in southern coastal area. Most property posted. Monterey—Good. Many . legal bucks. Extreme fire hazard. Napa—Good. Deer plentiful and in good condition at lower elevations. Extreme fire hazard. San Benito—Fair. Extreme fire hazard. San Luis Obispo—Good. Deer in good condition. U. S. forest service has opened additional territory t> public hunting. Best hunting in Queen Bee _ and American canyon areas. ““*San Mateo—Good. © Deer ’ 1n are inches ant good condition. Most property posted. Santa Clara—Good. Apparent increase in number of bucks. Ex. treme fire hazard. Best. hunting in east Mt. Hamilton and Loma Preita ranges. Santa Cruz—Fair. Few bucks seen. Deer scattered. County ordis nance prohibits firearms in many areas. Sonoma—Fair. Deer in poor condition. Most property posted. ‘ Stanislaus—Fair. Few bucks seen. Best hunting in western Clara line. * * * Following investigation by representatives of the bureau of game conservation, the fish and game commission has abolished the Project City quail refuge in Shasta county. ‘The request for reclassification of the refuge was presented by sportsmen of the area. Diy Gacy eas Acquisition of 240 acres of land adjoining the Madeline plains in Modoc county waterfowl! managesion of fish and game :has been approved by the commission. Purchase price of approximately $10 per acre will be provided with joint .federal-state funds * * -¢4ons-<apply to and fishing. fish. No size limit. MENTO PERCH, CALICO BASS ‘+-Bag limit: 25 fish of all species in aggregate. No size, limit. ' ' CATFISH—No -closed season. Bag limit: 15, pounds and one fish in the aggregate in the round, TROUT—Ends Oct. 31. Bag limit: 15 trout, salmon, or Rocky . Mountain whitefish, or 10 pounds land one fish, or three fish ‘regardens of weight. PREDATORY ANIMALS—N 0 coyotes, mountain lions, wildcats, raccoons, skunks, moles, shrews, gophers,. weasels, and wolves. . SALMON—In_ waters . ridge in rivers, those east of Carquinez Sacramento-San Joaquin ends Dec. 31. Bag limit: three. size limit. FROGS—Ends Nov. 30 in dis-. trict 22 and all sections of the . state except south of surnmit of Tehachapi mountain range, where season. extends from July 1 ta Nev. 29. Bag limit: 24 per week. Minimum size limit: four inches from ‘tip of nose to crotch. No. license required. , * od * A’ fishing party ‘Saturday while another party inicluding a man and woman from portion of the county near Santa . . ‘ment area operated by the divi. under the Pittman-Robertson act. , The following general regula' current hunting BLACK BASS—Bag limit: five’ SUNFISH, CRAPPIE, SACRA. closed season on the taking of} juced by any other nation. . { t . . of Pa-. forces, cific ocean and all bays except pattle, . . . from Nevada [m set the 1949-50 tax rate at City brought in seven Rainbow . 1.40, the same as it was last ‘year. , trout from lower Scott’s Flat lake The fire fund:rate and the library out of town caught eleven trout . ; in the lake and Deer Creek be. of equalization Monday morning tween ‘the upper lower lake. Carl Riddle,. visiting here with his wife, Helen, and tw o children, Roger “and Sandri, caught two Rainbows *.measuring. over 12 inches .in. length while Wally Parsons of Long John’s Tavern caught one 13% inches, his son, Larry, caught. two, and Mrs. Mae Parsons caught two nice pan size trout. ’ The electric storm which swept over the area in the early afternoon interrupted the fishing party and when the thunder pealed about the mountain tops the trout went.to the bottom and there were no more strikes. A sudden, shelter and they gave up fishing for the day. 861 Nevada County Aged and Blind Get ' Warrants From State Eight hundred sixty-one aged and blind residents of Nevada county . received warrants this week from the California’ state controller under the new set-up of administration of disbursements. Nevada county had 838 aged and 23 blind persons on the first group of warrants. The county’s total amount disbursed was $60,365.83, an average of $70, 11 per ‘person. © a 1 08 ° lashing rain, drove the party to} dam and the! at 10 o’clock in city hall. . re-equipping her standing armed Volume 22—No. 44 NEVADA CITY (Nevada Canny) CALIF ORNIA Friday, ree i 1949 Russia Is Read for Combat! Russia Could , Field Army of 20,000 ,O000 This is the second of a series of articles on Russia by Colonel James C. Crockett, U. S. army, retired, now a resident of Nevada county. Col, Crockett was military intelligence officer for the U. S. army in Russia during the last year of the shooting war, and was military attache to the U. S. four years in Russia. Prior to the embassy in Moscow.He served recent war he served four years jeg as military observer in Nazi Germany. In his articles Col. Crockett will discuss Soviet objectives, the politburo, Stalin’s successor, class distinction in Russia, women, the underground, religion, what the Russians know _— the atom bomb, and many other interesting problems. Copyright 1949, by The Nugget By JAMES C. CROCKE Russia .is secretly re-arming, rearmed forcés for offensive combat. TT, Col., U. S.-A., Ret. equipping and training her vast During the last three years the Russian armed forces have greatly improved both in quality and in strength. Today they are far ‘stronger than the forces’ of Hitler the in Col. James c. Crockett which had such. great initial successes “in Europe. Immediately after World War II Russians assembled. committees of technical experts and boards of military officers to study and analyze the tactical and technical lessons learned during the war. The Soviets: have been using these lessons since early 1947 to guide their training and rearmament. proprams.. ; Helping these experts are several thousand German officers, scientists and technicians. . In one rocket research ‘institute ‘near Moscow an employee told me there were 400 German -mathema+

ticians employed on rocket ‘research alone. During the last two years I was Russia (1947-1948), ‘the military forces secretly brought out two new models of tanks, two more new types of artillery, a new light machine gun, many new models of airplanes and.a new type of rocket discharger. These are. merely the new arms which I saw or knew to be in production. There are undoubtedly ‘ many other new arms and much new equipment which I did not%COUNTY BUDGET see. All of these arms embody the. lessons of the war and are equal if not superior to the arms proWith these new arms Russia is The strength of these immediately ready for is about 5,000,000 men. (Continued on page 8) ‘CITY COUNCIL SETS TAX RATE AT 140 FOR 1949 The Nevada City council last forces. fund rate remained the same at} .20 each. The board will meet as a board J. F. Siegfried, chairman of the city planning commission, asked the city council authorize up to; $25 per month as clerical expenses for the ‘commission. The council approved. The city council tabled the proposed dog ordinance. Siegfried reported to the council the commission plans to coptact Larry G. & E., Grass Valley, for a survey for a street lighting system. The planning commission recommended it approve all building permits issued by the city. The: council authorized Park Commissioner Thomas F. Taylor to confer with Nevada City Athletic club leaders and the planning commission, and proceed with turfing of the athletic field in Pioneer park. PUC Sets Aug. 23 For Bus Purchase “Hearing A public utilities commission hearing will be held at the Colusa city hall Tuesday Aug. 23, on the application of Nevada County: Bus Lines to extend service. The company has applied for permission to buy from Pacific Greyhound ‘its certificates to operate between Yuba City and Colusa, and then to Colusa, and then to extend service across the river to Marysville Farrell, manager of P.: SHOWS DROP TO $2,313,329.61 Nevada county’s budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950, shows a drop in budget requirements from the fiscal year just ended, according to figures released ‘this week by Ralph E. . Deeble, county auditor, who compiled the budget. The new budget calls for, requirement of $2,313,325.61 to operate the county government, according to Deeble’s figures. Last year’s budget, an all-time. high, required $2,527,037.05. ; The amount of taxes necessary ito be raised. on secured rolls shows. a considerable decrease this year, according.to the auditor. Estimated amount. to. be raised .this year, Deeble, said, is $792,840.97, compared to bl 151,090.63 last. year. . Salary fund and law library fund remained. unchanged’. at $99,760 and: $700. respectively. Largest increase is in the veterans building. fund: jumping to $99,515. from: last’ year’s $26,915. The general reserve is being increased from $44,500 to $47,000. The general fund shows a drop to $723,149. Last year’s’ general fund called for $992,862.50. Road requirements call for less funds than last year. This year’s needs are estimated at $261,787.73 against $295,100 last year. Basic tax rate of the county for the current year is 2.06, divided into 1.47, general; .34, salary; .1l, veterans building; 14, junior colleges. Tax rates by school districts: Nevada City inside, 3.85; Nevada City outside, 3.88; Cherokee, 3.13; French Corral, Birchville and North Bloomfield, 2.55;. North San Juan, 3.64; Oakland without cemetery district, 4.24; Oakland with cemetery district, Highest district in county Truckee at 4.90. BUILDING PERMITS Walter and Edith Loty, Oakland, $2200 frame cabin, Newtown district, off Jones bar road. is 4.27. . NYU ECONOMICS PROFESSOR SAYS GULD RESTRICTION LAWS VIOLATE EC NOMIC FREEDOM PRINCIPLES Willford.I. King, economics professor emeritus of New York University, testifying before the Senate banking and currency committee hearings on the gold trading act in Washington, D. C., May 5 and 6, declared that laws interfering with the ownership, purchase and sale of gold violate the basic principle of economic freedom*that gives an individual the right to acquire, hold and dispose of one’s property in any legitimate way one désires. King’s testimony: The other gentlemen have furnished you with a large number of statistics and factual material, so I think I had better confine my remarks largely to the principles involved, as I see it, from the economic standpoint I believe that all the members of. your committee.will agree that the reason for the United States being, by far, the most prosperous nation in the world cannot logically be ascribed to pure chance, but, instead, is due to the fact that our country has preserved, to a greater extent than elsewhere, economic freédom. In that an essential characteristic of economic freedom is the, right to acquire, hold, and dispose of one’s property in any legitimate way that one desires Clearly, laws interfering with the ownership,” purchase, and:sale of gold violate this basic principle, and hence are, by their very nature, such as to require the most careful scrutiny. As you are well aware, in any free competitive market, every exchange of goods benefits. both parties to the transaction—the notion that the buyer benefits-at the expense of the seller, or that the seller benefits at the expense of the buyer being eéntirly fallacious. Unless both parties to the exchange believe that they will gain thereby, there will be no trade, for each will keep what ever he possesses. In view of the principles just stated, it follows that all restrictions on trade. reduce the-income of society. If, therefore, any restriction is imposed, it is necessary to justify it on the basis that there exists some exception to the general rule. The question to be.considered here is whether there is any reasonable justification for restricting free trade in gold. . Reasons, why such trade should be permitted are obvious. Gold because of its beauty, durability, malleability, ductility, high value per unit of weight, and freedom from oxidation has, from time ‘mmemorial, been much desired for use as ornaments, as a medium.of exchange, and asa storehouse of, value. Few other com-., modities fulfill these purposes as, well as does gold. Hence,. it is so much sought after in all times and places. It would be extreme. ly difficult to preve thet the vossession or use of gold has been . in any way injurious to the pub. HG. ot appears, then, that the’ evidence all points in the direcmetal as frée”as possible. The only argument of consequence that has been advanced sold free is that the removal of restrictions zold standard and weaken confi. dence in our currency. coin. gold to give it value, or to use it as a reserve behind money It could be used in the form of gold bars, but coinage is very convenient if you are going to! circulate gold. This argument that we would . ing. off restrictions glosses over the fact that we have not had a genuine gold standard at any time since 1933. Our present laws give us nothing more than a make-believe gold standard. A fundamental characteristic of a real gold standard is that it enables any holder of money to exchange it for gold at any time that he desires. Clearly,. unless you have that, you do not have a real gold standard. Clearly, if we had a real gold standard, the ; f my opinion, you will also dgree . not surprising that it has been . tion of making the’trade in this . against making _ the market ‘for: would “wreck our! I think .it is not .essential to . wreck our gold standard by tak-. ‘price of gold could not go above $35 an ounce. We have inflated—not as much as other countries have inflated their currencies, as they have in. flated much more—when § infla. tion is going on at a rapid pace, people lose confidence :in their country. Of course, in some countries’: money has become almost entirely worthless. I think the dollar is highly prized all over the world, primarily because we have not made dollars so abundantly in this country. The so-called shortage of dollars abroad is due to the fact that the people abroad want to get something for nothing. That is, if. they had goods to exchange for our goods, then they would obviously have ‘all the dollar exchange that they wanted. It.is obvious that our treasury has not been willing to. redeem paper money in gold; otherwise the price of gold could no go above $35 per ounce. You couid get it from the treasurywhenever you wanted it at $35 an ounce, and would not pay anyone else more money. The treéasury redeems promises, lets gold out on the favored people on special rules. We figure that the demands of these people for gold are legitimate, so it is limited— it is not a true gold standard where ‘you pay in gold to, all comers on demand. The only reason why we should worry about this question. of gold standard is that the gold, standard is supposed to prevent, inflation That is its real reason for existence. Otherwise, you would get by. just as well on a paper money standard. But, as one of the other witnesses pointed out this morning, paper money standards have a habit of going bad. Country after country on paper standard has. seen its money go to pot and become worthless. « Now, we have just a pseudogold standard, and that is proved by the fact that*it has failed completely to prevent.inflation in the United States. In 1929, the total amount of pocketbook money in the United States was $4,578,000,000 in boom: times. In February, 1949, the last report that we have available, the total of this pocketbook money has grown to $27,556,000,000. Our supply of money has been multiplied by six in a per‘iod in which the population had increase .by only one-fifth. So that. our so-called gold. standard has not stopped inflation.The im‘flation has gone along, and wehave six times as much money ‘for one-fifth more ‘people. , . Now, the price level since 1539, the last decade, has approximate. ly doubled. It is off a little at the present time, but a few months ~ ago it was exactly double what it . was in 1939, You“know what this has done. It has wrecked the savings of a (Continued on page: six) ‘State Convention Is Discussed by Redmen ‘The state convention of the . eeproued Order of Redmen set . for Aug. 15-18 in Sacramento was . dis scussed at Wednesday . evening’s meeting. of Wyoming Lodge No. 49. © The lodge announced there will be no regular meeting the night . of Aug. 17 to permit members to’ attend the convention. State convention of Degree of ; Pocahontas will be held in Sac. ramento simultaneously. . Delegates to the Redmen convention are George W. Gilder-, . sleeve, Phil Personeni, Olaf Bjornstal and John Personeni. Hildered Branson is Ponemah delegate with Thelma Butz and Elizabeth Lashbaugh to accompany her. The Weather Fred Bush, Bnet! ol hc i Friday, July 29 Saturday, July 30 ... aon 49 bunday, Jiiv, $10, 87 ae Monday, August 1 .. 85. . 45. Tuesday, August 2 . ae Wednesday, August 390° Thursday, eee 4. 87