February 24, 1949 (8 pages)

» CITY ATTORNEY REPORTS REST 1 HOME ILLEGAL . William E. Wright, attorney NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Thursday; FeHruary 24, 1949 for Nevada City, ruled the op-/ Volume 22—No. 8 i eration of a rest home in a residential] zone of the community would be a violation of the . 4 city zoning ordinance, port to the city day evening. in a re council Thurs The city council an adjourned Wright’s had session report. met at to hear Wright con strued the present zoning ordi~ nance ruled rest homes’ were # under the category of hotels. which are prohibited in residential zones, RICHARD W. City Red Cross COUNTY VALUE GREENAWAY IS Drive to Start ASSESSED AT FOUND DEAD Next $73,178,700 Gere. Tuesday Y Richard W. purchasea . Greenaway, retired Nevada City F whe The woman the: house recently began making improvements in preparation for the. establishment of a home for that no body of objections to the home had been raised when she Taxable property in Nevada county has an average value per capita plumber, was. discovered Monday afternoon by J. J. Ziegenhagel, who noticed a light burning in Through her Greenaway’s home on Reward informed _ the street and went over to investi aged pensioners. counsel she had board The gate. He notified Patrolmen Clarence March and J. J. Jackson who entered the home and confirmed death. Nevada City’s Red Cross campaign gets underway Tuesday with a goal of $2343, with Jack F. Siegfried, fund chairman. Fifty captains and their workers will meet tonight at 7:45 in the chamber of commerce offices in the Greenaway had apparently city hall to receive final instructions and cards. Mr. wk On the basis of this ‘‘acceptable”’ been seized with a heart attack Evans, field representative attitude, she contended. A group of 35 residents of the and had slumped from a chair of the American Red BED FEELS GOOD neighborhood signed a petition to the floor. be at the Coroner Alvah Hooper of Cross, will asking the city council to pass was negotiating for the purchase. The purchase was made an emergency ordinance prohibiting the new owner from _ proceeding with her plans to keep from 12 to 19 elderly boarders in the home. “A rest, or boarding’ or rooming house, such as is proposed to be operated in the residential zone of the city is, in my opin to the /city zoning ordinance No. 225. “Since , the .proposed. Valley post mortem closed that was notified. A meeting. examination death building was Canada, but was a_ a dis due natura] causes and had place the previous day. Greenaway Wright’s opinion follows: »-ion, subject Grass to of the pected of is. R. V. Conrad taken native resident of the U. S. for 2 years. He located in Nevada City in 1917 and opened a small. plumbing shop. He engaged in business for a number of years but later retired and had been living quietly at his Reward street home. His wife died several years ago and was is to contain six or more guest rooms, designed for guest occuburied at Greenwood Lawn, Grass pation, it is. subject to said Valley. ordinance which/ prohibits any Services for the retired Nehotel from being’ conducted in a vada City man will be held at residential section of the city. The campaign to last a advance co-chatrman which is ex week. : drive is Building 15020-of Codé, defines a_ hotel tending clergyman. Interment will > dormitory, bachelor hotel, public or private /club, containing six or more or designed guest rooms, to be occupied occupied b six or more guests. x “For the reasons above stated, the rest/ home or structure as Proposed, is to be classified as a hotel, and not only subject to Said ordinance No. 255 but also to the building code, the latter being adopted by City AT Ordinance No. 221, Juné 15, 1939.’’ assisted Roy by Bob Schiffner : PASSES SUNDAY ROTARIANS ON PUBLIC /ASSISTANCE PROGRAM "t / i Nevada City Rotarians heard an authoritative account of the rapidly-expanding field of public assitance, including county welfare activities and how they are ae / / 4 i Melberg, Nevada if director, at Thursday, last / / affected by the enactment of proposition No. 4, by Kief -D. 4 County Deer welfare Creek Inn, week. \ He was employed of the mines here, 2 by of the p.m. Rev. Prayer,’’ ‘ worker. several under WORK RESUMES = the. Dahlgren were William Treglown, Frank Maher, John Tom Richards. Interment was in illness. cemetery. The former Nevada City resident moved to Oakland several years ago after spending most of his life as a miner here. Recently he and his wife have been living in Yuba-:City. = paces 1, Yuba City; and] joe aye epee) ages Clark! office and how eman of Danville. His broth-. ers.and sisters are: Ralph Pen ’ oe ee ae = ee: Lillian Total assessed value of taxable property in the county for 1948-49 is $23,178,700. Last year it was $22,402,300 and for 1941 sung , by svorma Peterson E. Ben Foss, Curry, and Pine heavy smoke in the urday. Grove Damage was not serious, najor casualty being a suffocated mule on the 3400 level. The APPEAL COURT DENIES GABBERT BENEFIT CASE Contending 11 blaze p.m., was Friday, discovered by a at pumpman as he was being lowered to his siation Paul Gabbert died the for night shift. It . W@S believed to have been start og a brain tumor and not a blow. ed by sparks from a_ welding on the head as the result of a torch that smoldered into flames fall, while employed. at Bruns in wick saw mill for Carl Howe lumber company of Nevada City and ‘from a fire 5200 station idled the crews Sat the third appellate court denied a pile A ae Friday been of old timbers. afternoon crew tearing down the had old Rotary President Lloyd Geist Citys aoe ome ee So industrial accident payments to] wooden structure and were reee Mrs. Ednz ung o = : ; ; ; announced Judge xyeorge L. Fi : : Sacramento = ee now Mrs. Manuel! pacing it with a steel unit. Jones has been named an honorBE pee Lopes o lis city. pe ee aed ae oe ary life member of the Nevada Bh bclgciie, at services §=were. Gabbert 27, 1947 oe — Wednesday 2 p.m. at the ‘held Ullve : died Nov. opt te sent down togels localize the smoke, City club. ; Induction training was held rey Memoria] Chapel, Yuba City. th a pean ay cenguctes Betore and the area was sealed off with Cremation at. Sierra View. ; the industrial accident commis. * oe fee” ittea for new members of Rotary at . Sion, doctors contended Gabbert . imbers and canvas and permitte a meeting Monday night at 7:30 ; died of a brain tumor, probably . to burn .itself out. at the home of Rotary president, SUPERVISORS MEET not caused by the blow on the After the fire burned out SunLloyd Geist. . head, but being merely coinciday afternoon compressors were New members are Ed Clark, dental. turned on to clear the mine of Bill Berrian, Stan Halls and Payments were denied the sursmoke. The pumpmen wore oxyRichard Harris. Also attending Z widow and family. gen masks. the induction service were Judge Nevada county board of suVviving m George L. Jones, named last week pervisors will meet Tuesday to an honorary life membership morning at 10 o’clock in the in the organization. beard chambers inthe courtRotarians will hear Jeff house, according to an announceMooers, safety engineer of the ment by Ralph E. Deeble, county Industrial Indemnity Insurance clerk, Vivien Berggren, president of A special meeting of sharecompany of Sacramento at this Members of the board of suBusiness and Professional Wom-;holders of the Bank of America TUESDAY MORNING Hearings before the California utilities commissioai will be held tomorrow afternoon at the courthouse en the application of Apple gate Transfer, Sacramenta, for a common carrier tru cking permit from Sacras mento to Nevada City and Grass Valley. tion reported. ee Population of ‘the county on Jan. 1, 1949, was estimated at 24,500, compared with 22,900 for January,” 1948, and 17,800 Taxpayers’ man; local Finnegan, local and printer, this Jackson Palace victory hotel. More 11.o0’clock in the case The suit originated as a result cf foreclosure proceedings begun last September by Clyde L. Wood and Lillian K. Wood of Grass Valley against Virginia and William Bertoncini, also of Grass Valley, alleging failure of the latter to meet payments agreed upon in the sale of a _ building used as a nursery, called the} special trip from the than _ 2,000 attend this and return the amount years he and his wife had oper ated the boarding home, and that it was licensed welfare office. A temporary was granted by the county Bertoncini order Testifying Mrs. in court Bertoncini said would pass_ the necessary Lapel would be no trouble in ob-. the local several stated his to firm door would offer delivery, an@ fast service because of but two Applegate also stated servic® would be speeded by two sched ules daily from the Sacraments ‘'Washington within a five mile radius of both fairs were instituted in California. George Killion, chairman of the Jefferson-Jaekson victory dinner committee, announced Oliver J. Carter, chairman of the Democratic state central committee, will serve as toastmaster. Nevada City and Grass Valley. Applegate also declared through rate schedules will be arranged. for points beyond Sacrament@ and through Nevada City to Ale leghany, Washington. Downievill@ and other mountain communities, include A rebuttal hearing will ] Other speakers will Mrs. E. H. Heller, Democratic national committeewoman; James Reosevelt, Democratic national The U. program feature mission at the hearing on Dee half of the local service organie zation endorsing the applicatiog, of the Applegate Transfer. H. P. Davis, local retired mine ing engineer and author, stressed to the chamber the need of-ad@@a mu sic by Armand Girard, wellknown radio baritone, and. Joe quate presentation of tourist gts tractions of Nevada county, ang? Mendel’s. orchestra, proposed The bill, and if Senator passed had the passage er the silver state was admitted to’ the union. Davis asserted the community was incorporated im April, damages of according make its to the findings J. City. under the Davis read & perme title a} Sona] note from Sumner Well es, Sofge reported on the distr ie§ chamber of commerce meeti in Sacramento which he atte nded Sofge declared the state high way commission bill, reported the narrow bridge below Rough ang Ready would be repla ced, and Improvements made on Depot hil and highway 40, George Hansen reported he had conferred with Elmer Steveng of the Grass Valley chamber of WASLEY NOMINATED LOCAL POSTMASTER William 1851, Nevada the own ted gttention to a the book, “Mothes to Nevada to avoid confusion afta by congress, suffered in Lode Album,” which averred that ° that the word city was. attacheg Murray. closedown signifieance California days. The local hiige torian poin authorize the treasury to reparations to gold mine operators where it is found that miners of 'g Davis stated a lot of erromee ous information is publishe d im some ‘recent books of earty will pay through publication cal and economical of Nevada county. The U. S. senate judiciary committee Tuesday approved the mining indemnity bill ingold roduced jointly by Representative Engle the beoklet highlighting the historia JUDICIARY COMMITTEE APPROVES ENGLE BILL Clair 5 H. F. “Si” Sofge, chambhee secretary, was appointed to apa Senator pear before the utilities coms S. will teld March 9. and}#nd recommendations. aminations. Mrs. Bertoncini added that Mr. and Mrs. Woods said h to although successful’ since the annual af j agency, ex itm® evening The application for the come will overflow into three rooms, in what is demon carrier permit calls for serv< scribed as the “largest and most ice on the Auburn highway an@ yesterday, . Would she enfranchised terminal to pre-. ™ines during the war. her husband bought the property for the purpose of continuing to operate the nursery, and that the defendants assured them it commerce contract carriers serve the afea, vent their being forced to vaThe bill provides for a study cate by a sale of the property . Of claims by-.a government agenby Wood in the foreclosure ac-. Cy named by John W. Snyder, tion. January 17 had been set Secretary of the treasury. The as the date for the sale. Monday ccrats dining the restraining of hall year’s Sheridan Downey; -&. George Luckey, vice-chairman of the Democratic state central committee; and William M. Malone, chairman of the San Francisco county central committee. purchase chamber city posts Nevadm terminal. He’ declared tentative annual plans call for an early truck to fund-raising dinner. The vicereach Nevada City at 9 a.m., and president will return to Washingan afternoon service at 2 o’clock Applegate further stated the afte ton by plane immediately fallowernoon truck would be able to& ing the dinner. pick up freight on telephone cally This year’s gathering of Demplaced in Sacramento by 10 am to committeeman; already paid on the house. They also sought $10,000 general damages. In answering the ‘complaint, Woods pointed out that for three City He made ‘Baby Hotel’? on Townsend street} social -welfare refused to license the home and ordered Mrs. Bertoncini to discontinue boarding children until state requirements were,gcomplied with. They asked the court’ to rescind the sale and the ‘the handlings of cargo. in March, 1948. After foreclosure proceedings. were begun, Bertoncini filed aj. complaint against Wood charging fraud in falsely representing to the buyer that the home costing $13,600 and used for boarding young children, would pass of the rier Vice President Alben W. Barkley. a before meeting communities, in Barkley appeared a trucking there ‘is only one common car Democrats of. northern California Vice. President capital posals of service to Nevada Citg and Grass Valley. j Applegate told the chamber at after dinner the and presented his plans and pros Harold Berliner, leave in poned C. A. Heath, Nevada City torney; title .G. f irm, association are expected to assemble to hear out. at Frank he same ‘purpose. William Applegate, partner for noon for San Francisco to attend the Democratic party’s Jefferson January, 1942. Valuations for 1949-50 are in process of being set by local county assessors, city assessors, and the state board of equaliza the held a hearing this morm« ing in Grass Valley for 3 FROM HERE ATTEND DEMO FEAST TONIGHT 42 it was $18,161.975 the associa Lioyd Geist. Organ music was state inspections. =wewg . furnished by Mrs. Thomas. White. Work resumed Monday mornBertoncini’s complaint further 63, wellPallbearers were John Penna, ing at the*North Star mine -#iter eharged ithe state department of Melberg, a veteran of 14 years in public assistance work. sketched briefly the work of his with recent liberalized provisions for aid to the needy aged. at known Nevada county man and formerly employed in the mines} here, died Sunday in the Yuba] long following a hospital City On ns : spate ef disaster ions of the country. Here a young foed refugee in Cincinnati, O., is e bed by a Red Cross He had never married. Funeral services were held in the Holmes funeral home Survivors are his wife, Lucille; it has expanded Taxpayers’ heard in the ease. man. Lord’s Edgar Ray Penrose, .California for of Bertoncini vs. Woods in superior court of Judge James Snell. One .more witness is to be Two solo numbers, ‘‘Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” and ‘‘The fi with $1,020 association reported. ing Casey. : 1941-42, and A verdict is expected shortly after court reconvenes this morn Born in Cornwall, England, he lived in Nevada City since coming to this country while q young direction : ) > MELBERG SPEAKS TO % } compared VERDICT TODAY IN CIVIL CASE and Strange. Wednesday = ~ $946, 1947-48 way with Stanley Hall chairman, died Sunday night at the home of his niece, Mrs. Mabel Flindt of 426 Jordan street. Greenaway. was the father of Mrs. John Schuman, Van Nuys; Mrs. C. R. Dower, Grass Valley; Mrs. Lee Bundy, Wardner, Idaho; Mrs. Henry Lloyd, Colfax; brother of Mrs. Emma Reynolds and Mrs. Marjorie Gillard, Torento, Canada, and is mourned by eight grandchildren. of for pointed the to be any Structure, including be in the family plot in Greenany lodging house, rooming house, wood Lawn. $978 tion, under 2 p.m. today at the Myers Grass William John Tickell, State Valley Mortuary Chapel with the resident of Nevada City for 50 Housing Act and Sec. 401 of the Rev. Frank H. Buck, as the atyears and well-known miner here, “Section acramentan ffers Freight ervice to City cr * Wasley, postmaster of Nevada commerce acting City, has lining a license. : been nominated by President 4 Mrs. Bertoncini said the state Harry S. Truman to be _ postaepertinent of welfare after mak-. master of the local postoffice. which is Planning a oo of July celebration, s evens Suggested that inasmuch as this is Nevada county’s cene ‘enni al year, make the annual July fete a coun ty celebration, The chamber left the report open ng inspections, refused to grant. The nominating is now before rtor discussion ~ poe after the fire marshal until congress the, next meeting. ad declared the buildi ee : unsafe. uilding -to~ be Wasley, if appointed will’ be i. C. Bell pointe d out the nee@ week’s meeting. the first local postmaster to reofie a pervisors are C. J. Tobiassen, en's club, presided over the Feb. has been called for 2 p.m., March PlaInning comm ission f, In charge of the program will ¢e eive the office under civil servNe vada City. The Frank J. Rowe,. ?U@'Y Meeting last night in the. '7, at 300 Montgomery street, San first district; community pd be A.C. Larsen. second; J. C. Coughlan, third; city hall. It had been Planned Francisco, to vote upon a proELKS MEET TONIGHT ice. Wasley started. his~ career stymie d to further . W. B Odell, fourth, and Henry to hold a combination social and. business as a letter carrier, rose to assrowth posal to increase capital stock because of th Nevada City e restrice Lodge No. 518,. sistant postmaster, and was aptio J. Loehr, fifth. business meeting this month atj;of the bank by payment of a ns of the presen t zoning plan, B.P.O.E., meets tonight at 8. pointed acting postmaster the home of Ruth Veale, but. common stock dividend to shareupon Bell Said the city council o’clock in,a regular session at] the resignation of Mrs. Betty suggested due to the latter’s temporary] holders on the basis of one share a planning co the Elks home. O T e . mmige absence, it was held at the city . additional Martin West two years ago. sio b Business Women Hold Meeting in City Hall Bank Shareholders To Meet March 7 in S. F. hall. result “ Damage Suit Filed As Result of Crash A ages, ~“ i suit asking allegedly $4,004.46 suffered 4 ar Days Success Fine weather and crowdeqa. stores of buyers made last Fri#. #. Fred Thursday, Feb. Friday. Web; 18. 17 stores j the community Were filled by eager Seekers of the many bargains the m erchan ts had offered. results in capital structure 23 23 26 29 23 28 Precipitation: Feb. 19,. trace; “Web, 20, .20; Feb. 21, 08; Feb. 22, .60. cycles: 1863-1873, 660 1873-1883, 370 inches. increasing WHITE HOUSE AID capital 1948, 31, funds stood at at With Pacific Dead" Decem Bodies : of No representative from Nevada county will be in Washington when the Engle bill comes* up for a_ hearing, accordi ng to an} announcement this morning by Ralph E. Deeble, couny clerk. theater on Pe transport, Dalt on Vietoryy, Returned to Neva da City next of kin ar e: Corporal L. Tobiassen, Ma rine corps; J. Tobiassen, Box 33 Cum Nev a ae ada City; Pfe. Wi lliam R., -Lives ay, . U.S. marine corps, Mrs. William , 7 Transient in County Jail 30 Days, Theft Thirty days in the county jail Mildred E. Gillars, above, the ‘Axis Sally” of Nazi Wako radio prop cn is on trial in BAKER SENTENCE FRIDAY to Miles Marlow Coughlin Tuesday Zuelsdorz, transient, Frank Guscetti, victed, is Nevada a LEAVES HOSPITAL John’ rea] Mlinarich, Nevada City estate dealer whe recently R. O. Baker, former title com-. suffered of Officer Tom Barrett, Livesay, Nevada City. é City. its severely frozen feet Gill . r treason, Miss . pany employee of Nevada City,. while working with an N.ID. lars, 48, is a native of Port. who pleaded guilty to bad check]. crew in the ice-clogged ditches . and, Me. She faces possible pen. charges in superior court, will] was . released from the hospital Ity _fanging from five years . be sentenced Friday. following . yesterday. He had been under i mprisonment to death; if con. recommendations R. . for the petty theft of groceries from two dierg ; Nevada City were soldi included: aman 647 Califo if rnians, re turne ro the Pacific $284,184, 798. z i een a8 Two Marines Return. through transfer of $21,329,275 . f"0™M undivided profits. Total ber the Suggestion, retiree bank from $106,646,375 to $127,975,650 overall The chamber of commerge Spickelmier! theRay chamber, oreeder common the of n. endorsed County at Engle Hearing was the sentence meted by City low 26 ..: 56 for each five shares increasing common Approval by share holders will Judge Saturday, Feb. 19 BT Sunday, Feb, 20. .. 57 Monday, Feb. 21 .. 40 Tuesday, Feb. 22.22 52 Wednesday, Feb. 23 . 4 Rain . inches; All No Representative From Bush, observer high -.-52 day and Saturday’s dollar days a huge success in Nevada City. 6 The Weather ' ag Becal Merchants Call Damages of: work in owned. L an while recovering from the _ injuries amounted to $586.46, she alleges. Mrs. Dondero alleges the erash occurred due to negligence onthe part of Beeler. a * in rid auto accident two miles west of Nevada City Nov. 30, 1948, was filed in Nevada county superior court by Lucille Dondero, Isleton, against George Beeler. The complaint charges Mrs. Dondero suffered multiple bruises and pleurisy of the chest, for which she asks $3,500. to the car and loss £ n dam Nevada City Lions club regular meeting Creek Inn last: night wit: Hilpert in charge’ of th, gram. Main subject of. disc sp e at the meeting was the WASHINGTON, D. C—Frank K. Sanderson, chairman of thee White Bouse . °°™! 28 carnival e Probation going treatment for nearly two tmployees’ division far the Red Cross fund drive, gets early deliv ery of . fit °f the girl danc scout campaign materials (rom weeks. = Red~ Cross moter service driver. — Set we i ae Scott's Flat dam, qn :

» CITY ATTORNEY REPORTS REST 1 HOME ILLEGAL . William E. Wright, attorney NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Thursday; FeHruary 24, 1949 for Nevada City, ruled the op-/ Volume 22—No. 8 i eration of a rest home in a residential] zone of the community would be a violation of the . 4 city zoning ordinance, port to the city day evening. in a re council Thurs The city council an adjourned Wright’s had session report. met at to hear Wright con strued the present zoning ordi~ nance ruled rest homes’ were # under the category of hotels. which are prohibited in residential zones, RICHARD W. City Red Cross COUNTY VALUE GREENAWAY IS Drive to Start ASSESSED AT FOUND DEAD Next $73,178,700 Gere. Tuesday Y Richard W. purchasea . Greenaway, retired Nevada City F whe The woman the: house recently began making improvements in preparation for the. establishment of a home for that no body of objections to the home had been raised when she Taxable property in Nevada county has an average value per capita plumber, was. discovered Monday afternoon by J. J. Ziegenhagel, who noticed a light burning in Through her Greenaway’s home on Reward informed _ the street and went over to investi aged pensioners. counsel she had board The gate. He notified Patrolmen Clarence March and J. J. Jackson who entered the home and confirmed death. Nevada City’s Red Cross campaign gets underway Tuesday with a goal of $2343, with Jack F. Siegfried, fund chairman. Fifty captains and their workers will meet tonight at 7:45 in the chamber of commerce offices in the Greenaway had apparently city hall to receive final instructions and cards. Mr. wk On the basis of this ‘‘acceptable”’ been seized with a heart attack Evans, field representative attitude, she contended. A group of 35 residents of the and had slumped from a chair of the American Red BED FEELS GOOD neighborhood signed a petition to the floor. be at the Coroner Alvah Hooper of Cross, will asking the city council to pass was negotiating for the purchase. The purchase was made an emergency ordinance prohibiting the new owner from _ proceeding with her plans to keep from 12 to 19 elderly boarders in the home. “A rest, or boarding’ or rooming house, such as is proposed to be operated in the residential zone of the city is, in my opin to the /city zoning ordinance No. 225. “Since , the .proposed. Valley post mortem closed that was notified. A meeting. examination death building was Canada, but was a_ a dis due natura] causes and had place the previous day. Greenaway Wright’s opinion follows: »-ion, subject Grass to of the pected of is. R. V. Conrad taken native resident of the U. S. for 2 years. He located in Nevada City in 1917 and opened a small. plumbing shop. He engaged in business for a number of years but later retired and had been living quietly at his Reward street home. His wife died several years ago and was is to contain six or more guest rooms, designed for guest occuburied at Greenwood Lawn, Grass pation, it is. subject to said Valley. ordinance which/ prohibits any Services for the retired Nehotel from being’ conducted in a vada City man will be held at residential section of the city. The campaign to last a advance co-chatrman which is ex week. : drive is Building 15020-of Codé, defines a_ hotel tending clergyman. Interment will > dormitory, bachelor hotel, public or private /club, containing six or more or designed guest rooms, to be occupied occupied b six or more guests. x “For the reasons above stated, the rest/ home or structure as Proposed, is to be classified as a hotel, and not only subject to Said ordinance No. 255 but also to the building code, the latter being adopted by City AT Ordinance No. 221, Juné 15, 1939.’’ assisted Roy by Bob Schiffner : PASSES SUNDAY ROTARIANS ON PUBLIC /ASSISTANCE PROGRAM "t / i Nevada City Rotarians heard an authoritative account of the rapidly-expanding field of public assitance, including county welfare activities and how they are ae / / 4 i Melberg, Nevada if director, at Thursday, last / / affected by the enactment of proposition No. 4, by Kief -D. 4 County Deer welfare Creek Inn, week. \ He was employed of the mines here, 2 by of the p.m. Rev. Prayer,’’ ‘ worker. several under WORK RESUMES = the. Dahlgren were William Treglown, Frank Maher, John Tom Richards. Interment was in illness. cemetery. The former Nevada City resident moved to Oakland several years ago after spending most of his life as a miner here. Recently he and his wife have been living in Yuba-:City. = paces 1, Yuba City; and] joe aye epee) ages Clark! office and how eman of Danville. His broth-. ers.and sisters are: Ralph Pen ’ oe ee ae = ee: Lillian Total assessed value of taxable property in the county for 1948-49 is $23,178,700. Last year it was $22,402,300 and for 1941 sung , by svorma Peterson E. Ben Foss, Curry, and Pine heavy smoke in the urday. Grove Damage was not serious, najor casualty being a suffocated mule on the 3400 level. The APPEAL COURT DENIES GABBERT BENEFIT CASE Contending 11 blaze p.m., was Friday, discovered by a at pumpman as he was being lowered to his siation Paul Gabbert died the for night shift. It . W@S believed to have been start og a brain tumor and not a blow. ed by sparks from a_ welding on the head as the result of a torch that smoldered into flames fall, while employed. at Bruns in wick saw mill for Carl Howe lumber company of Nevada City and ‘from a fire 5200 station idled the crews Sat the third appellate court denied a pile A ae Friday been of old timbers. afternoon crew tearing down the had old Rotary President Lloyd Geist Citys aoe ome ee So industrial accident payments to] wooden structure and were reee Mrs. Ednz ung o = : ; ; ; announced Judge xyeorge L. Fi : : Sacramento = ee now Mrs.. Manuel! pacing it with a steel unit. Jones has been named an honorBE pee Lopes o lis city. pe ee aed ae oe ary life member of the Nevada Bh bclgciie, at services §=were. Gabbert 27, 1947 oe — Wednesday 2 p.m. at the ‘held Ullve : died Nov. opt te sent down togels localize the smoke, City club. ; Induction training was held rey Memoria] Chapel, Yuba City. th a pean ay cenguctes Betore and the area was sealed off with Cremation at. Sierra View. ; the industrial accident commis. * oe fee” ittea for new members of Rotary at . Sion, doctors contended Gabbert . imbers and canvas and permitte a meeting Monday night at 7:30 ; died of a brain tumor, probably . to burn .itself out. at the home of Rotary president, SUPERVISORS MEET not caused by the blow on the After the fire burned out SunLloyd Geist. . head, but being merely coinciday afternoon compressors were New members are Ed Clark, dental. turned on to clear the mine of Bill Berrian, Stan Halls and Payments were denied the sursmoke. The pumpmen wore oxyRichard Harris. Also attending Z widow and family. gen masks. the induction service were Judge Nevada county board of suVviving m George L. Jones, named last week pervisors will meet Tuesday to an honorary life membership morning at 10 o’clock in the in the organization. beard chambers inthe courtRotarians will hear Jeff house, according to an announceMooers, safety engineer of the ment by Ralph E. Deeble, county Industrial Indemnity Insurance clerk, Vivien Berggren, president of A special meeting of sharecompany of Sacramento at this Members of the board of suBusiness and Professional Wom-;holders of the Bank of America TUESDAY MORNING Hearings before the California utilities commissioai will be held tomorrow afternoon at the courthouse en the application of Apple gate Transfer, Sacramenta, for a common carrier tru cking permit from Sacras mento to Nevada City and Grass Valley. tion reported. ee Population of ‘the county on Jan. 1, 1949, was estimated at 24,500, compared with 22,900 for January,” 1948, and 17,800 Taxpayers’ man; local Finnegan, local and printer, this Jackson Palace victory hotel. More 11.o0’clock in the case The suit originated as a result cf foreclosure proceedings begun last September by Clyde L. Wood and Lillian K. Wood of Grass Valley against Virginia and William Bertoncini, also of Grass Valley, alleging failure of the latter to meet payments agreed upon in the sale of a _ building used as a nursery, called the} special trip from the than _ 2,000 attend this and return the amount years he and his wife had oper ated the boarding home, and that it was licensed welfare office. A temporary was granted by the county Bertoncini order Testifying Mrs. in court Bertoncini said would pass_ the necessary Lapel would be no trouble in ob-. the local several stated his to firm door would offer delivery, an@ fast service because of but two Applegate also stated servic® would be speeded by two sched ules daily from the Sacraments ‘'Washington within a five mile radius of both fairs were instituted in California. George Killion, chairman of the Jefferson-Jaekson victory dinner committee, announced Oliver J. Carter, chairman of the Democratic state central committee, will serve as toastmaster. Nevada City and Grass Valley. Applegate also declared through rate schedules will be arranged. for points beyond Sacrament@ and through Nevada City to Ale leghany, Washington. Downievill@ and other mountain communities, include A rebuttal hearing will ] Other speakers will Mrs. E. H. Heller, Democratic national committeewoman; James Reosevelt, Democratic national The U. program feature mission at the hearing on Dee half of the local service organie zation endorsing the applicatiog, of the Applegate Transfer. H. P. Davis, local retired mine ing engineer and author, stressed to the chamber the need of-ad@@a mu sic by Armand Girard, wellknown radio baritone, and. Joe quate presentation of tourist gts tractions of Nevada county, ang? Mendel’s. orchestra, proposed The bill, and if Senator passed had the passage er the silver state was admitted to’ the union. Davis asserted the community was incorporated im April, damages of according make its to the findings J. City. under the Davis read & perme title a} Sona] note from Sumner Well es, Sofge reported on the distr ie§ chamber of commerce meeti in Sacramento which he atte nded Sofge declared the state high way commission

bill, reported the narrow bridge below Rough ang Ready would be repla ced, and Improvements made on Depot hil and highway 40, George Hansen reported he had conferred with Elmer Steveng of the Grass Valley chamber of WASLEY NOMINATED LOCAL POSTMASTER William 1851, Nevada the own ted gttention to a the book, “Mothes to Nevada to avoid confusion afta by congress, suffered in Lode Album,” which averred that ° that the word city was. attacheg Murray. closedown signifieance California days. The local hiige torian poin authorize the treasury to reparations to gold mine operators where it is found that miners of 'g Davis stated a lot of erromee ous information is publishe d im some ‘recent books of earty will pay through publication cal and economical of Nevada county. The U. S. senate judiciary committee Tuesday approved the mining indemnity bill ingold roduced jointly by Representative Engle the beoklet highlighting the historia JUDICIARY COMMITTEE APPROVES ENGLE BILL Clair 5 H. F. “Si” Sofge, chambhee secretary, was appointed to apa Senator pear before the utilities coms S. will teld March 9. and}#nd recommendations. aminations. Mrs. Bertoncini added that Mr. and Mrs. Woods said h to although successful’ since the annual af j agency, ex itm® evening The application for the come will overflow into three rooms, in what is demon carrier permit calls for serv< scribed as the “largest and most ice on the Auburn highway an@ yesterday, . Would she enfranchised terminal to pre-. ™ines during the war. her husband bought the property for the purpose of continuing to operate the nursery, and that the defendants assured them it commerce contract carriers serve the afea, vent their being forced to vaThe bill provides for a study cate by a sale of the property . Of claims by-.a government agenby Wood in the foreclosure ac-. Cy named by John W. Snyder, tion. January 17 had been set Secretary of the treasury. The as the date for the sale. Monday ccrats dining the restraining of hall year’s Sheridan Downey; -&. George Luckey, vice-chairman of the Democratic state central committee; and William M. Malone, chairman of the San Francisco county central committee. purchase chamber city posts Nevadm terminal. He’ declared tentative annual plans call for an early truck to fund-raising dinner. The vicereach Nevada City at 9 a.m., and president will return to Washingan afternoon service at 2 o’clock Applegate further stated the afte ton by plane immediately fallowernoon truck would be able to& ing the dinner. pick up freight on telephone cally This year’s gathering of Demplaced in Sacramento by 10 am to committeeman; already paid on the house. They also sought $10,000 general damages. In answering the ‘complaint, Woods pointed out that for three City He made ‘Baby Hotel’? on Townsend street} social -welfare refused to license the home and ordered Mrs. Bertoncini to discontinue boarding children until state requirements were,gcomplied with. They asked the court’ to rescind the sale and the ‘the handlings of cargo. in March, 1948. After foreclosure proceedings. were begun, Bertoncini filed aj. complaint against Wood charging fraud in falsely representing to the buyer that the home costing $13,600 and used for boarding young children, would pass of the rier Vice President Alben W. Barkley. a before meeting communities, in Barkley appeared a trucking there ‘is only one common car Democrats of. northern California Vice. President capital posals of service to Nevada Citg and Grass Valley. j Applegate told the chamber at after dinner the and presented his plans and pros Harold Berliner, leave in poned C. A. Heath, Nevada City torney; title .G. f irm, association are expected to assemble to hear out. at Frank he same ‘purpose. William Applegate, partner for noon for San Francisco to attend the Democratic party’s Jefferson January, 1942. Valuations for 1949-50 are in process of being set by local county assessors, city assessors, and the state board of equaliza the held a hearing this morm« ing in Grass Valley for 3 FROM HERE ATTEND DEMO FEAST TONIGHT 42 it was $18,161.975 the associa Lioyd Geist. Organ music was state inspections. =wewg . furnished by Mrs. Thomas. White. Work resumed Monday mornBertoncini’s complaint further 63, wellPallbearers were John Penna, ing at the*North Star mine -#iter eharged ithe state department of Melberg, a veteran of 14 years in public assistance work. sketched briefly the work of his with recent liberalized provisions for aid to the needy aged. at known Nevada county man and formerly employed in the mines} here, died Sunday in the Yuba] long following a hospital City On ns : spate ef disaster ions of the country. Here a young foed refugee in Cincinnati, O., is e bed by a Red Cross He had never married. Funeral services were held in the Holmes funeral home Survivors are his wife, Lucille; it has expanded Taxpayers’ heard in the ease. man. Lord’s Edgar Ray Penrose, .California for of Bertoncini vs. Woods in superior court of Judge James Snell. One .more witness is to be Two solo numbers, ‘‘Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,” and ‘‘The fi with $1,020 association reported. ing Casey. : 1941-42, and A verdict is expected shortly after court reconvenes this morn Born in Cornwall, England, he lived in Nevada City since coming to this country while q young direction : ) > MELBERG SPEAKS TO % } compared VERDICT TODAY IN CIVIL CASE and Strange. Wednesday = ~ $946, 1947-48 way with Stanley Hall chairman, died Sunday night at the home of his niece, Mrs. Mabel Flindt of 426 Jordan street. Greenaway. was the father of Mrs. John Schuman, Van Nuys; Mrs. C. R. Dower, Grass Valley; Mrs. Lee Bundy, Wardner, Idaho; Mrs. Henry Lloyd, Colfax; brother of Mrs. Emma Reynolds and Mrs. Marjorie Gillard, Torento, Canada, and is mourned by eight grandchildren. of for pointed the to be any Structure, including be in the family plot in Greenany lodging house, rooming house, wood Lawn. $978 tion, under 2 p.m. today at the Myers Grass William John Tickell, State Valley Mortuary Chapel with the resident of Nevada City for 50 Housing Act and Sec. 401 of the Rev. Frank H. Buck, as the atyears and well-known miner here, “Section acramentan ffers Freight ervice to City cr * Wasley, postmaster of Nevada commerce acting City, has lining a license. : been nominated by President 4 Mrs. Bertoncini said the state Harry S. Truman to be _ postaepertinent of welfare after mak-. master of the local postoffice. which is Planning a oo of July celebration, s evens Suggested that inasmuch as this is Nevada county’s cene ‘enni al year, make the annual July fete a coun ty celebration, The chamber left the report open ng inspections, refused to grant. The nominating is now before rtor discussion ~ poe after the fire marshal until congress the, next meeting. ad declared the buildi ee : unsafe. uilding -to~ be Wasley, if appointed will’ be i. C. Bell pointe d out the nee@ week’s meeting. the first local postmaster to reofie a pervisors are C. J. Tobiassen, en's club, presided over the Feb. has been called for 2 p.m., March PlaInning comm ission f, In charge of the program will ¢e eive the office under civil servNe vada City. The Frank J. Rowe,. ?U@'Y Meeting last night in the. '7, at 300 Montgomery street, San first district; community pd be A.C.. Larsen. second; J. C. Coughlan, third; city hall. It had been Planned Francisco, to vote upon a proELKS MEET TONIGHT ice. Wasley started. his~ career stymie d to further . W. B Odell, fourth, and Henry to hold a combination social and. business as a letter carrier, rose to assrowth posal to increase capital stock because of th Nevada City e restrice Lodge No. 518,. sistant postmaster, and was aptio J. Loehr, fifth. business meeting this month atj;of the bank by payment of a ns of the presen t zoning plan, B.P.O.E., meets tonight at 8. pointed acting postmaster the home of Ruth Veale, but. common stock dividend to shareupon Bell Said the city council o’clock in,a regular session at] the resignation of Mrs. Betty suggested due to the latter’s temporary] holders on the basis of one share a planning co the Elks home. O T e . mmige absence, it was held at the city . additional Martin West two years ago. sio b Business Women Hold Meeting in City Hall Bank Shareholders To Meet March 7 in S. F. hall. result “ Damage Suit Filed As Result of Crash A ages, ~“ i suit asking allegedly $4,004.46 suffered 4 ar Days Success Fine weather and crowdeqa. stores of buyers made last Fri#. #. Fred Thursday, Feb. Friday. Web; 18. 17 stores j the community Were filled by eager Seekers of the many bargains the m erchan ts had offered. results in capital structure 23 23 26 29 23 28 Precipitation: Feb. 19,. trace; “Web, 20, .20; Feb. 21, 08; Feb. 22, .60. cycles: 1863-1873, 660 1873-1883, 370 inches. increasing WHITE HOUSE AID capital 1948, 31, funds stood at at With Pacific Dead" Decem Bodies : of No representative from Nevada county will be in Washington when the Engle bill comes* up for a_ hearing, accordi ng to an} announcement this morning by Ralph E. Deeble, couny clerk. theater on Pe transport, Dalt on Vietoryy, Returned to Neva da City next of kin ar e: Corporal L. Tobiassen, Ma rine corps; J. Tobiassen, Box 33 Cum Nev a ae ada City; Pfe. Wi lliam R., -Lives ay, . U.S. marine corps, Mrs. William , 7 Transient in County Jail 30 Days, Theft Thirty days in the county jail Mildred E. Gillars, above, the ‘Axis Sally” of Nazi Wako radio prop cn is on trial in BAKER SENTENCE FRIDAY to Miles Marlow Coughlin Tuesday Zuelsdorz, transient, Frank Guscetti, victed, is Nevada a LEAVES HOSPITAL John’ rea] Mlinarich, Nevada City estate dealer whe recently R. O. Baker, former title com-. suffered of Officer Tom Barrett, Livesay, Nevada City. é City. its severely frozen feet Gill . r treason, Miss . pany employee of Nevada City,. while working with an N.ID. lars, 48, is a native of Port. who pleaded guilty to bad check]. crew in the ice-clogged ditches . and, Me. She faces possible pen. charges in superior court, will] was . released from the hospital Ity _fanging from five years . be sentenced Friday. following . yesterday. He had been under i mprisonment to death; if con. recommendations R. . for the petty theft of groceries from two dierg ; Nevada City were soldi included: aman 647 Califo if rnians, re turne ro the Pacific $284,184, 798. z i een a8 Two Marines Return. through transfer of $21,329,275 . f"0™M undivided profits. Total ber the Suggestion, retiree bank from $106,646,375 to $127,975,650 overall The chamber of commerge Spickelmier! theRay chamber, oreeder common the of n. endorsed County at Engle Hearing was the sentence meted by City low 26 ....: 56 for each five shares increasing common Approval by share holders will Judge Saturday, Feb. 19 BT Sunday, Feb, 20. .... 57 Monday, Feb. 21 .... 40 Tuesday, Feb. 22.22 52 Wednesday, Feb. 23 .. 4 Rain . inches; All No Representative From Bush, observer high -.-52 day and Saturday’s dollar days a huge success in Nevada City. 6 The Weather ' ag Becal Merchants Call Damages of: work in owned. L an while recovering from the _ injuries amounted to $586.46, she alleges. Mrs. Dondero alleges the erash occurred due to negligence onthe part of Beeler. a * in rid auto accident two miles west of Nevada City Nov. 30, 1948, was filed in Nevada county superior court by Lucille Dondero, Isleton, against George Beeler. The complaint charges Mrs. Dondero suffered multiple bruises and pleurisy of the chest, for which she asks $3,500. to the car and loss £ n dam Nevada City Lions club regular meeting Creek Inn last: night wit: Hilpert in charge’ of th, gram. Main subject of. disc sp e at the meeting was the WASHINGTON, D. C—Frank K. Sanderson, chairman of thee White Bouse . °°™! 28 carnival e Probation going treatment for nearly two tmployees’ division far the Red Cross fund drive, gets early deliv ery of . fit °f the girl danc scout campaign materials (rom weeks. = Red~ Cross moter service driver. — Set we i ae Scott's Flat dam, qn :