December 16, 1949 (8 pages)

day, Jan. 10. SPICKELMIER ar CC PRESIDENT Nevada City Chamber of Commerce retained its 1949 president and Vice president for another year at an election of officers at regular December meeting Tuesday evening at city hall. Ray Spickelmier, operator of the Bottle Shop, Broad street, was unanimously elected president when all opponénts with-. drew. I. C. Bell, Broad street realtor, was renamed vice president by capturing seven votes. Angus Fox, baker, had three votes, and George Halstead, druggist, received two votes. Milton Anderson and William Novak were the only incumbent directors named to the 1950 directors. Anderson, a news agency operator,-captured the most votes —eight, and Novak, mercantile operator, garnered seven. New directors elected were William C. Briggs, hardware, 7; Merrill Colvin, ‘mercantile, 7; O. J. Melton, grocer, 6; and Ken Wray, printer, 8. Melton, J. Paul Bergemann and Larry Maywurm were tied for one place on the board at six votes and Melton won the runoff balloting. Other-candidates were Sid-Alderson, 5; Frank Duffy, 4; Max Flindt, 3;,Charles Hilpert, 4; and Harry Peart, 5. The 1950 officers will be installed at a dinner meeting TuesMilton Anderson was appointed chairman of the meeting. Carl J. Tobiassen, supervisor of first district, Nevada county, appeared before the chamber. Tobiassen, upon being queried regarding the county cleaning up the Pine Grove cemetery, replied, “The district attorney has advised the board that public funds cannot be expended on private interests.” Tobiassen advised the group if the property or the road rights of way were deeded to the county then county money could be used for the cemetery’s upkeep. The chamber adopted a resolution endorsing the establishing of a prison camp by the state department of corrections. The resolution was forwarded to Nevada county board of supervisors. Supervisor Tobiassen said he is in favor of the prison camp and believed the original opposition to the camp was due to improper presentation of the prison camp program.and idea to the board. Tobiassen thought principal objection of residents of the area where the prison camp was proposed to be located was caused by fear of the prisonors. “Speaking as an old peace officer,”’ Tobiassen said, “there is a greater danger from persons never in prison, than from the inmates of such a camp.” Tobiassen added most of the camp inmates will be .on parole within five months, and do not include sex perverts, murderers or perpetrators.of serious crimes. He added he believed a_ vote of members of the board of supervisors at the present time would be 2 to 2. H. F. Sofge, secretary of the chamber, reported Supervisor Frank J. Rowe in a telephone conversation with Sofge Tuesday afternoon said he “would not object (to a prison camp), if the property owners of the area involved would not object.” The prison camp had received endorsement of Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce Monday evening. Effective Jan. 1, monthly dues for members of the chamber will be $1.50 instead of the previous $1 per month. President Spickelmier appointed Briggs, Bell, George Hansen, Harold Childers, and himself as a committee to collect contributions to defray the expense of additional street decorations. Spickelmier also urged backing for .a federal building in Nevada City to house federal offices.ASSEMBLY TODAY Parents and friends of Nevada City elernentary school students have been invited by Principal Lloyd Geist to an assembly program of Christmas music at the school this morning at 10 o’clock. Willard Goerz will direct the program. WILLIAMS CASE TODAY Dan L. Williams, Nevada City, will be arraigned today in Nevada County Superior Court on a charge of grand theft involving an automobile. fense counsel by Judge James Snell. John’ L. Larue, . : Nevada City, was appointed’ de-. Volume 22, No. 67 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, December 16, 1949 PARENTS OUGHT NOT RUN LIVES OF CHILDREN ' Says Psychiatrist Harris Coordination of school programs is important in promoting growth and development of the child in school said Dr. Joseph H. Harris, chief psychiatrist, Sacramento mental hygiene clinic, at the Nevada City high school auditorium Tuesday evening before a gathering of about 200 teachers and parents. Dr. Harris appeared. under the sponsorship of the Nevada County Teachers association directed by John D. Conway, president of the group. Cooperation of téachers and parents was urged by Dr. Harris. The psychiatrist said. the teacher’s chief responsibility is to help a child develop his capacity for managing “his problems by employing his own resources and applying his individual personality. Dr. Harris said the teacher's task would be simplified if parents realized the instructor is as sensitive about the child as the parents are. ; Dr. Harris pointed out the importance of social activities of a school to help in developing a well-balanced person. A. school program, he said’ should heip a child to make friends and should also be flexible enough: to stimulate the bright child and provide incentive to the slow ones. Dr. Harris suggested a school’s program should include trips to industries and business. A child) he said, will learn more arithmetic working in a store in one week than can be assimilated from books in a month. “A good teacher,’ the speaker . said, “encourages pupils to help decide how they are going to manage. projects and difficulties they later run into, permitting them to figure out among themselves which one is to do his part of the job.That’s how they learn the week: high low Priday, Ded. :9. .:.:2:,.-3. 59 29 Saturday, Dec. 10 .. 48 20 Sunday, Dec:-11 ois 4t15 Monday, Dée. T2): .2. 40 20 Tuesday, Deé.'13. .. 42 20 Wednesday, Dec. 14 . 48 28 Thursday, Dec. 15 .. 50 32 FROM DISTRICT . Chirstmas trees and garlands. RESIDENTS SHIVER AS TEMPERATURE DIVES Flannels and woolens were in evidence about this the city this week as the thermometer dived to the lowest recording of the season> Recorded temperature Sunday was 15 degrees. Rain drizzled the city Wednesday evening to add .42 inch of precipitation, Recordings by Fred Bush, official observer, are as follows for MILLION YULE TREES TAKEN More than a million Christmas trees have been harvested and sold from public lands of the Tahoe national forest in the half century the government district has existed, according to a report from the local headquarters o the forest. : Each tree has been removed in a manner that permitted one or more trees in the stand to grow straighter and faster. Guerdon Ellis, forest supervisor, pointed out Christmas trees are cut from-public lands on a scientific forestry basis . which means that forevermore the public lands of Tahoe national forest will continue to produce choice The report was embodied in. the announcement of wind-up of . the 1949 Christmas. tree harvest, from the Tahoe national forest) released this week. . Approximately 50,000 red and) . white firs averaging five ‘feet in. . have become to appreciate ‘each other. That's how they learn to get things done —not just’in school—but in the outside world.” . Dr. Harris cautioned parents against making a scholar of their child by overemphasizing studies and ignoring recreation. ae “Parents,” he said should guard against . running their children’s lives.” Mrs. Margaret Stevens introduced the speaker. CHIEF WARNS AGAINST USE OF ORE CRUSHING BALLS FOR BOWLING Police Chief Max Solaro believes that bowling is a splendid form of recreation but objected yesterday to school children bowling heavy iron balls down the slopes of Main and Commercial streets. ‘coloring and command . to the federal treasury and also The official received reports that local youngsters were taking . the heavy iron balls formerly used in ore crushing ball mills! . and/rolling them down the side-; the choir of the Nevada. City walks and streets. . The balls are three inches in diameter and weigh several . pounds each. They are piled at the rear of a local hardware, store. Solaro said one of’ the rolling . tiful Christmas music. balls under sufficient momentum . could easily ‘cause serious injury . 7:30 p.m. to. a person in the path of the . missile. 5 GRASS VALLEY MEN COMMISSIONED IN GUARD Five Grass Valley men receiv@d appointménts as second lieutenants to bring the local military organization to full officer strength, according to Captain H. M. Brock, commanding officer. They are Sheldan Van Duzer, John Bunch, William Podbreger, Leonard Connell and. Walter Comstock. They all are veterans of the recent war and each held a rating in the first three enlisted grades of their active organizations. Captain Brock also reported authorized enlisted strength of company E, 184th Infantry, has trict of Rotary International, visbeen. increased to 65. height were sold to dealers as far) east-as Denver, Colo., and as far} south at. San Diego. é . Ellis said the Tahoe forest. firs . famous for their) and beautiful ; top prices . on the Christmas tree market. Ellis declared that while trees . are advertised for sale by the forest service from:-17 to 24 cents per foot operators continue to bid for them as high as 37 cents per: foot. Such spirited bidding, of course, means higher returns upright . needles higher returns to the hounties. Twenty-five percent of all receipts from the national forests are returned to the counties in which they are located. Truckee and Sierraville on the eastern slope of the Sierras have been the Christmas tree centers of this area for better than fifty years. CHRISTMAS CONCERT SUNDAY AT METHODIST Annual Christmas concert by Methodist church will be given Sunday evening at the church, according to announcement by Rev. George C, Pearson, pastor. William Tobiassen will direct the choir in the program of beauThe concert is scheduled for Sunday school of .the church will present its annual Christmas program and party at the church Thursday evening at 7:30. DISTRICT GOVERNOR VISITS ROTARY CLUB Steven Lombard, North Sacramento, governor of Cal-Vada disited officially at yesterday’s gettogether of Nevada City Rotary club at National hotel banquet room. . Lombard gave a short talk on the ideals of Rotary and gave his first contact with the organization when. he was a wounded soldier of World War I in an England-based hospital. He also gave Rotarians an inkling of what to expect at the district assembly in Sacramento next spring. 0 RADIO-ACTIVE . ORE NEAR HERE IS RUMORED The Nugget has received unverified reports from a’ usually authoritative source that radioactive minerals in auriferous gravel recently reported by a' federal bureau are located in Nevada county. Credence to the ‘reports is. supported by an appearance of a. mining company which appeared before an “unofficial” session of the board of supervisors asking construction of a paved highway from You Bet to junction with the Colfax-Grass Valley highway. The reports indicate the gravel contains monazite a thorium ore of radio-active properties. Supervisor Carl J. Tobiassen said he had no statement to make ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE MONDAY Nevada City elementary school will hold open house Monday between 7 and 9 p.m., according to an announcement by Lloyd Geist, principal. Geist extended an cordial invitation to parents and friends to visit and view the ‘colorful decorations for holiday season. Geist said children of all the classes have participated in decoration projects under the supervision of their teachers. The principal said teachers will be on hand to welcome parents and point out the student projects. Christmas music will be furnished during the two-hour period. ‘LOCAL SCHOOLS about.the _report.of_radio-aetive YULE PAGEANT ore or of a special meeting of supervisors. Work started Wednesday on an operation of tailing dumps of Steep Hollow creek. and Wilcox ravine in the ghost town of You Bet, east of here. Richkiss Mining company has obtained rights to the tailings and for the past month have been installing high line bucket equipment, sluice boxes and separation machinery to work an area of nearly 4,000 acres. Fred Hamer, construction and mining engineer wf Detroit, Mich. is supervising machinery tests of this week. The gravel banks of You Bet and Red Dog were among the first to be worked by hydraulic monitors and local mining men believe the earlier primitive hydraulic methods missed much of the gold. . . ATTORNEY LARUE THROWS REPORTERS WITH TERMINOLOGY Deputy county clerks and re. porters of county journals were . thrown for a loss Wednesday aft. ernoon by Attorney John L. La. rue, Nevada City, who used the} word, “trover,” in a complaint he filed on behalf of a client in superior court. The seldom! used legal term which means a form of action against one who has found goods and refused to give them up, was: used in a suit filed by Leo T. Fisher, Truckee, against A. B. Polyanich and Esalena Polyanich, also of Truckee. According to the complaint accusing Polyanich of trover he is also accused of forcible entry, unlawful detainer and conversion in connection with the California cafe into which he is charged with forcing his way, expelling the operator, seizing the equipment and disposing of it. Fisher seeks a total of $30,090 for a series of damages which include seizure and disposal of cafe items such as doughnut machines, waffle irons, dish washing machines, pots, pans and deep freeze equipment. Ralph Deeble, county clerk, usually an authority on legal terminology, was forced to consult a law dictionary in order to advise reporters of the meaning of trover. WATER USERS MEETING CALLED FOR SUNDAY Nevada Irrigation District Waters Users Association has called a public meeting for its regular gathering Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at LeBarr Meadows hall. Charles Kitts, an official of the association, said this organization was originated for the purpose of providing an agency through which landowners could take a part in operation of their irrigation district in a business like manner. . ‘ The public is urged to attend and participate in the discussions at the association’s meeting. SLIGHTLY INJURED Mrs. Elizabeth Self was slightly injured when the car,she: was driving and a car driven by Kenneth L. Ellsworth, Grass Valley, collided Saturday evening south of Grass Valley. TUESDAY NIGHT “Christmas in Dreamland,” a historic pageant of the city’s first century will be presented at the Nevada City high school auditorium Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. with more than 200 school. students taking part. The script centers around yule customs: of the various racial groups and is closely coordinated with Nevada county history which the elementary; school students have been studying. _ John. Conway, elementary instructor, is author and. general director of the pageant. William Tobiassen, music instructor in the local schools, will direct dancing, music and dialogue. All members of the faculty is aiding in producing the Christmas entertainment. Art department of the high school and Harold Draper and Albert Wood, high school teachers, are designing and making sets, . and directing stage lighting. The elementary school ParentTeachers association is designing and costumes. Mrs. C. N. Kerrin is in . charge of the costume committee. Marjorie Thomas, student in the seventh grade, plays the lead role of Molly, an English girl who studies dolls ang fans’ at school and then dreams the dolls come to life. Supporting parts are played by Ted Ness and Fred Relaford, also; of the seventh gradé. Scenes in the drama show the (Continued on page 8) SUBSTITUTE POST OFFICE CLERK EXAMINATION TO BE HELD IN NEVADA CITY U. S. civil service commission announces an examination for probational appointment to positions of substitute clerk and carrier in the Nevada City post office. Basic rate of pay for substitutes is $1.315 an hour. Appointments are usually made to substitute positions, and promotions made to regular positions according to seniority of appointment. Applicants must actually reside within the delivery zone of the Nevada City post office or be bona fide patrons of the office. Persons employed in the Nevada City post office will be considered bona fide patrons of the office. No experience is required. Applicants must qualify in the written test. For further information and application card Form 5000-AB may be obtained from Howard Penrose, the commission’s local secretary, at the local post office, or from the regional director, Twelfth: U. S. civil service region, room 129, Appraisers building, 630 Sansome street, San Francisco, 11. DENIES EXPOSURE Ora Whitaker, 42, Grass Valley, pleaded not guilty to indecent exposure yesterday afternoon in Grass Valley justice court following charges by a young Grass Valley housewife. Whitaker was released on $250 bail after asking for jury trial. Date of trial has not been set. ar fitting the more than 200, FOOD, TOYS AND CLOTHING POUR INTO YULE PILE Food, clothing and toys are beginning to pour into the annual Nevada City Community Christmas Basket project, according to Ed A. Frantz, chairman of ‘the project. Food cans and coin containers are in city’s stores. Facilities for receiving the contributions have been set up at city hall and Nevada City office of Grass Valley Union. Members of Lions club will give pickup service for any contributions. A telephone call to either location wilt suffice, Frantz said. Members of Nevada City fire department are reconditioning clothing and toys which will :be distributed from Seaman’s Lodge Christmas Eve. Frantz. also reported arrangements completed for the annual kids show, at Cedar theatre next Wednesday afternoon. Organizations pledging help to the project include Chamber of Commerce, Women’s Civic club, Rotary club, Lions club, Elks Lodge, Degree of Pocahontas,’ Farm Center, Lionettes, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary, Neighbors of Woodcraft, elementary and high school ParentTeachers associations, Soroptimists club,Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, and Business and Professional Women’s club. CHRISTMAS CARDS SHOULD BE IN MAIL SAYS POSTMASTER Start mailing your Christmas cards, Postmaster William Wasley urged local residents this morning. Greetings for out-of-state delivery should be in the collection boxes no later than tomorrow, he said. . Cards for local delivery should be mailed at least by next Thursday. Extensive preparations have been made to handle the expected record flood of yuletide mail. But Wasley warned procrastinators that bad weather could snarl deliveries. Wasley warned Christmas ecards mailed with 1% cent postage are being returned stamped “insufficient postage.” Rate for unsealed third-class mail is now two cents. Cards sent third class may not be forwarded or returned without payment of additional postage. Wasley said large numbers of 1949 Christmas cards are likely to end up in the dead letter office due to incomplete or incorrect addresses. If you’re not. sure of the address, a three-cent stamp entitles your Christmas greeting to first. class postal service. The card will be forwarded from one address to another, or if the envelope bears your return address, the card will be returned to you if the addressee can’t be located, without additional charge for postage. SCHOOL DISTRICTS HERE DISPUTE DIVIDING LINE Boundary line between Nevada City unified and Oakland school districts is being questioned by the trustees of the groups. Trustees of Oakland informed Nevada City board two pupils attending Nevada City should be returned to the Gold Flat school. Following discussion at a regular meeting of the board Monday evening the Nevada City trustees informed the Oakland » district the boundary line near Four Corners would continue to include families whose children now attend Nevada City. The Nevada City board offered to pay 50 percent of the cost of surveying the disputed line. Principal Ed Frantz of the local high school informed the trus— tees the first semester of night school will close Monday night. Secretary Miles "D. Coughlin. was instructed to write a letter of commendation to Ned’ Smith who retired as custodian at the high school on Nov. 30. Ly FIREMEN QUELL BLAZE Nevada , City fire department in routinely efficient manner extinguished a fire in car of Noel 'Weldon in front of Long John’s _ tavern Wednesday evening, Fire was caused by backfiring which broke gasOline line igniting leaking gasoline. First aid. for burns on right hand was givén '

day, Jan. 10. SPICKELMIER ar CC PRESIDENT Nevada City Chamber of Commerce retained its 1949 president and Vice president for another year at an election of officers at regular December meeting Tuesday evening at city hall. Ray Spickelmier, operator of the Bottle Shop, Broad street, was unanimously elected president when all opponénts with-. drew. I. C. Bell, Broad street realtor, was renamed vice president by capturing seven votes. Angus Fox, baker, had three votes, and George Halstead, druggist, received two votes. Milton Anderson and William Novak were the only incumbent directors named to the 1950 directors. Anderson, a news agency operator,-captured the most votes —eight, and Novak, mercantile operator, garnered seven. New directors elected were William C. Briggs, hardware, 7; Merrill Colvin, ‘mercantile, 7; O. J. Melton, grocer, 6; and Ken Wray, printer, 8. Melton, J. Paul Bergemann and Larry Maywurm were tied for one place on the board at six votes and Melton won the runoff balloting. Other-candidates were Sid-Alderson, 5; Frank Duffy, 4; Max Flindt, 3;,Charles Hilpert, 4; and Harry Peart, 5. The 1950 officers will be installed at a dinner meeting TuesMilton Anderson was appointed chairman of the meeting. Carl J. Tobiassen, supervisor of first district, Nevada county, appeared before the chamber. Tobiassen, upon being queried regarding the county cleaning up the Pine Grove cemetery, replied, “The district attorney has advised the board that public funds cannot be expended on private interests.” Tobiassen advised the group if the property or the road rights of way were deeded to the county then county money could be used for the cemetery’s upkeep. The chamber adopted a resolution endorsing the establishing of a prison camp by the state department of corrections. The resolution was forwarded to Nevada county board of supervisors. Supervisor Tobiassen said he is in favor of the prison camp and believed the original opposition to the camp was due to improper presentation of the prison camp program.and idea to the board. Tobiassen thought principal objection of residents of the area where the prison camp was proposed to be located was caused by fear of the prisonors. “Speaking as an old peace officer,”’ Tobiassen said, “there is a greater danger from persons never in prison, than from the inmates of such a camp.” Tobiassen added most of the camp inmates will be .on parole within five months, and do not include sex perverts, murderers or perpetrators.of serious crimes. He added he believed a_ vote of members of the board of supervisors at the present time would be 2 to 2. H. F. Sofge, secretary of the chamber, reported Supervisor Frank J. Rowe in a telephone conversation with Sofge Tuesday afternoon said he “would not object (to a prison camp), if the property owners of the area involved would not object.” The prison camp had received endorsement of Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce Monday evening. Effective Jan. 1, monthly dues for members of the chamber will be $1.50 instead of the previous $1 per month. President Spickelmier appointed Briggs, Bell, George Hansen, Harold Childers, and himself as a committee to collect contributions to defray the expense of additional street decorations. Spickelmier also urged backing for .a federal building in Nevada City to house federal offices.ASSEMBLY TODAY Parents and friends of Nevada City elernentary school students have been invited by Principal Lloyd Geist to an assembly program of Christmas music at the school this morning at 10 o’clock. Willard Goerz will direct the program. WILLIAMS CASE TODAY Dan L. Williams, Nevada City, will be arraigned today in Nevada County Superior Court on a charge of grand theft involving an automobile. fense counsel by Judge James Snell. John’ L. Larue, . : Nevada City, was appointed’ de-. Volume 22, No. 67 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, December 16, 1949 PARENTS OUGHT NOT RUN LIVES OF CHILDREN ' Says Psychiatrist Harris Coordination of school programs is important in promoting growth and development of the child in school said Dr. Joseph H. Harris, chief psychiatrist, Sacramento mental hygiene clinic, at the Nevada City high school auditorium Tuesday evening before a gathering of about 200 teachers and parents. Dr. Harris appeared. under the sponsorship of the Nevada County Teachers association directed by John D. Conway, president of the group. Cooperation of téachers and parents was urged by Dr. Harris. The psychiatrist said. the teacher’s chief responsibility is to help a child develop his capacity for managing “his problems by employing his own resources and applying his individual personality. Dr. Harris said the teacher's task would be simplified if parents realized the instructor is as sensitive about the child as the parents are. ; Dr. Harris pointed out the importance of social activities of a school to help in developing a well-balanced person. A. school program, he said’ should heip a child to make friends and should also be flexible enough: to stimulate the bright child and provide incentive to the slow ones. Dr. Harris suggested a school’s program should include trips to industries and business. A child) he said, will learn more arithmetic working in a store in one week than can be assimilated from books in a month. “A good teacher,’ the speaker . said, “encourages pupils to help decide how they are going to manage. projects and difficulties they later run into, permitting them to figure out among themselves which one is to do his part of the job.That’s how they learn the week: high low Priday, Ded. :9. ..:.:2:,.-3. 59 29 Saturday, Dec. 10 .... 48 20 Sunday, Dec:-11 ois 4t15 Monday, Dée. T2): .2. 40 20 Tuesday, Deé.'13. .... 42 20 Wednesday, Dec. 14 .. 48 28 Thursday, Dec. 15 .... 50 32 FROM DISTRICT . Chirstmas trees and garlands. RESIDENTS SHIVER AS TEMPERATURE DIVES Flannels and woolens were in evidence about this the city this week as the thermometer dived to the lowest recording of the season> Recorded temperature Sunday was 15 degrees. Rain drizzled the city Wednesday evening to add .42 inch of precipitation, Recordings by Fred Bush, official observer, are as follows for MILLION YULE TREES TAKEN More than a million Christmas trees have been harvested and sold from public lands of the Tahoe national forest in the half century the government district has existed, according to a report from the local headquarters o the forest. : Each tree has been removed in a manner that permitted one or more trees in the stand to grow straighter and faster. Guerdon Ellis, forest supervisor, pointed out Christmas trees are cut from-public lands on a scientific forestry basis . which means that forevermore the public lands of Tahoe national forest will continue to produce choice The report was embodied in. the announcement of wind-up of . the 1949 Christmas. tree harvest, from the Tahoe national forest) released this week. . Approximately 50,000 red and) . white firs averaging five ‘feet in. . have become to appreciate ‘each other. That's how they learn to get things done —not just’in school—but in the outside world.” . Dr. Harris cautioned parents against making a scholar of their child by overemphasizing studies and ignoring recreation. ae “Parents,” he said should guard against . running their children’s lives.” Mrs. Margaret Stevens introduced the speaker. CHIEF WARNS AGAINST USE OF ORE CRUSHING BALLS FOR BOWLING Police Chief Max Solaro believes that bowling is a splendid form of recreation but objected yesterday to school children bowling heavy iron balls down the slopes of Main and Commercial streets. ‘coloring and command . to the federal treasury and also The official received reports that local youngsters were taking . the heavy iron balls formerly used in ore crushing ball mills! . and/rolling them down the side-; the choir of the Nevada. City walks and streets. . The balls are three inches in diameter and weigh several . pounds each. They are piled at the rear of a local hardware, store. Solaro said one of’ the rolling . tiful Christmas music. balls under sufficient momentum . could easily ‘cause serious injury . 7:30 p.m. to. a person in the path of the . missile. 5 GRASS VALLEY MEN COMMISSIONED IN GUARD Five Grass Valley men receiv@d appointménts as second lieutenants to bring the local military organization to full officer strength, according to Captain H. M. Brock, commanding officer. They are Sheldan Van Duzer, John Bunch, William Podbreger, Leonard Connell and. Walter Comstock. They all are veterans of the recent war and each held a rating in the first three enlisted grades of their active organizations. Captain Brock also reported authorized enlisted strength of company E, 184th Infantry, has trict of Rotary International, visbeen. increased to 65. height were sold to dealers as far) east-as Denver, Colo., and as far} south at. San Diego. é . Ellis said the Tahoe forest. firs . famous for their) and beautiful ; top prices . on the Christmas tree market. Ellis declared that while trees . are advertised for sale by the forest service from:-17 to 24 cents per foot operators continue to bid for them as high as 37 cents per: foot. Such spirited bidding, of course, means higher returns upright . needles higher returns to the hounties. Twenty-five percent of all receipts from the national forests are returned to the counties in which they are located. Truckee and Sierraville on the eastern slope of the Sierras have been the Christmas tree centers of this area for better than fifty years. CHRISTMAS CONCERT SUNDAY AT METHODIST Annual Christmas concert by Methodist church will be given Sunday evening at the church, according to announcement by Rev. George C, Pearson, pastor. William Tobiassen will direct the choir in the program of beauThe concert is scheduled for Sunday school of .the church will present its annual Christmas program and party at the church Thursday evening at 7:30. DISTRICT GOVERNOR VISITS ROTARY CLUB Steven Lombard, North Sacramento, governor of Cal-Vada disited officially at yesterday’s gettogether of Nevada City Rotary club at National hotel banquet room. .

Lombard gave a short talk on the ideals of Rotary and gave his first contact with the organization when. he was a wounded soldier of World War I in an England-based hospital. He also gave Rotarians an inkling of what to expect at the district assembly in Sacramento next spring. 0 RADIO-ACTIVE . ORE NEAR HERE IS RUMORED The Nugget has received unverified reports from a’ usually authoritative source that radioactive minerals in auriferous gravel recently reported by a' federal bureau are located in Nevada county. Credence to the ‘reports is. supported by an appearance of a. mining company which appeared before an “unofficial” session of the board of supervisors asking construction of a paved highway from You Bet to junction with the Colfax-Grass Valley highway. The reports indicate the gravel contains monazite a thorium ore of radio-active properties. Supervisor Carl J. Tobiassen said he had no statement to make ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE MONDAY Nevada City elementary school will hold open house Monday between 7 and 9 p.m., according to an announcement by Lloyd Geist, principal. Geist extended an cordial invitation to parents and friends to visit and view the ‘colorful decorations for holiday season. Geist said children of all the classes have participated in decoration projects under the supervision of their teachers. The principal said teachers will be on hand to welcome parents and point out the student projects. Christmas music will be furnished during the two-hour period. ‘LOCAL SCHOOLS about.the _report.of_radio-aetive YULE PAGEANT ore or of a special meeting of supervisors. Work started Wednesday on an operation of tailing dumps of Steep Hollow creek. and Wilcox ravine in the ghost town of You Bet, east of here. Richkiss Mining company has obtained rights to the tailings and for the past month have been installing high line bucket equipment, sluice boxes and separation machinery to work an area of nearly 4,000 acres. Fred Hamer, construction and mining engineer wf Detroit, Mich. is supervising machinery tests of this week. The gravel banks of You Bet and Red Dog were among the first to be worked by hydraulic monitors and local mining men believe the earlier primitive hydraulic methods missed much of the gold. . . ATTORNEY LARUE THROWS REPORTERS WITH TERMINOLOGY Deputy county clerks and re. porters of county journals were . thrown for a loss Wednesday aft. ernoon by Attorney John L. La. rue, Nevada City, who used the} word, “trover,” in a complaint he filed on behalf of a client in superior court. The seldom! used legal term which means a form of action against one who has found goods and refused to give them up, was: used in a suit filed by Leo T. Fisher, Truckee, against A. B. Polyanich and Esalena Polyanich, also of Truckee. According to the complaint accusing Polyanich of trover he is also accused of forcible entry, unlawful detainer and conversion in connection with the California cafe into which he is charged with forcing his way, expelling the operator, seizing the equipment and disposing of it. Fisher seeks a total of $30,090 for a series of damages which include seizure and disposal of cafe items such as doughnut machines, waffle irons, dish washing machines, pots, pans and deep freeze equipment. Ralph Deeble, county clerk, usually an authority on legal terminology, was forced to consult a law dictionary in order to advise reporters of the meaning of trover. WATER USERS MEETING CALLED FOR SUNDAY Nevada Irrigation District Waters Users Association has called a public meeting for its regular gathering Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at LeBarr Meadows hall. Charles Kitts, an official of the association, said this organization was originated for the purpose of providing an agency through which landowners could take a part in operation of their irrigation district in a business like manner. . ‘ The public is urged to attend and participate in the discussions at the association’s meeting. SLIGHTLY INJURED Mrs. Elizabeth Self was slightly injured when the car,she: was driving and a car driven by Kenneth L. Ellsworth, Grass Valley, collided Saturday evening south of Grass Valley. TUESDAY NIGHT “Christmas in Dreamland,” a historic pageant of the city’s first century will be presented at the Nevada City high school auditorium Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. with more than 200 school. students taking part. The script centers around yule customs: of the various racial groups and is closely coordinated with Nevada county history which the elementary; school students have been studying. _ John. Conway, elementary instructor, is author and. general director of the pageant. William Tobiassen, music instructor in the local schools, will direct dancing, music and dialogue. All members of the faculty is aiding in producing the Christmas entertainment. Art department of the high school and Harold Draper and Albert Wood, high school teachers, are designing and making sets, . and directing stage lighting. The elementary school ParentTeachers association is designing and costumes. Mrs. C. N. Kerrin is in . charge of the costume committee. Marjorie Thomas, student in the seventh grade, plays the lead role of Molly, an English girl who studies dolls ang fans’ at school and then dreams the dolls come to life. Supporting parts are played by Ted Ness and Fred Relaford, also; of the seventh gradé. Scenes in the drama show the (Continued on page 8) SUBSTITUTE POST OFFICE CLERK EXAMINATION TO BE HELD IN NEVADA CITY U. S. civil service commission announces an examination for probational appointment to positions of substitute clerk and carrier in the Nevada City post office. Basic rate of pay for substitutes is $1.315 an hour. Appointments are usually made to substitute positions, and promotions made to regular positions according to seniority of appointment. Applicants must actually reside within the delivery zone of the Nevada City post office or be bona fide patrons of the office. Persons employed in the Nevada City post office will be considered bona fide patrons of the office. No experience is required. Applicants must qualify in the written test. For further information and application card Form 5000-AB may be obtained from Howard Penrose, the commission’s local secretary, at the local post office, or from the regional director, Twelfth: U. S. civil service region, room 129, Appraisers building, 630 Sansome street, San Francisco, 11. DENIES EXPOSURE Ora Whitaker, 42, Grass Valley, pleaded not guilty to indecent exposure yesterday afternoon in Grass Valley justice court following charges by a young Grass Valley housewife. Whitaker was released on $250 bail after asking for jury trial. Date of trial has not been set. ar fitting the more than 200, FOOD, TOYS AND CLOTHING POUR INTO YULE PILE Food, clothing and toys are beginning to pour into the annual Nevada City Community Christmas Basket project, according to Ed A. Frantz, chairman of ‘the project. Food cans and coin containers are in city’s stores. Facilities for receiving the contributions have been set up at city hall and Nevada City office of Grass Valley Union. Members of Lions club will give pickup service for any contributions. A telephone call to either location wilt suffice, Frantz said. Members of Nevada City fire department are reconditioning clothing and toys which will :be distributed from Seaman’s Lodge Christmas Eve. Frantz. also reported arrangements completed for the annual kids show, at Cedar theatre next Wednesday afternoon. Organizations pledging help to the project include Chamber of Commerce, Women’s Civic club, Rotary club, Lions club, Elks Lodge, Degree of Pocahontas,’ Farm Center, Lionettes, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary, Neighbors of Woodcraft, elementary and high school ParentTeachers associations, Soroptimists club,Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West, and Business and Professional Women’s club. CHRISTMAS CARDS SHOULD BE IN MAIL SAYS POSTMASTER Start mailing your Christmas cards, Postmaster William Wasley urged local residents this morning. Greetings for out-of-state delivery should be in the collection boxes no later than tomorrow, he said. . Cards for local delivery should be mailed at least by next Thursday. Extensive preparations have been made to handle the expected record flood of yuletide mail. But Wasley warned procrastinators that bad weather could snarl deliveries. Wasley warned Christmas ecards mailed with 1% cent postage are being returned stamped “insufficient postage.” Rate for unsealed third-class mail is now two cents. Cards sent third class may not be forwarded or returned without payment of additional postage. Wasley said large numbers of 1949 Christmas cards are likely to end up in the dead letter office due to incomplete or incorrect addresses. If you’re not. sure of the address, a three-cent stamp entitles your Christmas greeting to first. class postal service. The card will be forwarded from one address to another, or if the envelope bears your return address, the card will be returned to you if the addressee can’t be located, without additional charge for postage. SCHOOL DISTRICTS HERE DISPUTE DIVIDING LINE Boundary line between Nevada City unified and Oakland school districts is being questioned by the trustees of the groups. Trustees of Oakland informed Nevada City board two pupils attending Nevada City should be returned to the Gold Flat school. Following discussion at a regular meeting of the board Monday evening the Nevada City trustees informed the Oakland » district the boundary line near Four Corners would continue to include families whose children now attend Nevada City. The Nevada City board offered to pay 50 percent of the cost of surveying the disputed line. Principal Ed Frantz of the local high school informed the trus— tees the first semester of night school will close Monday night. Secretary Miles "D. Coughlin. was instructed to write a letter of commendation to Ned’ Smith who retired as custodian at the high school on Nov. 30. Ly FIREMEN QUELL BLAZE Nevada , City fire department in routinely efficient manner extinguished a fire in car of Noel 'Weldon in front of Long John’s _ tavern Wednesday evening, Fire was caused by backfiring which broke gasOline line igniting leaking gasoline. First aid. for burns on right hand was givén '