January 6, 1949 (6 pages)

fae Peer eed aed . residents, 3 grant holder. “. Placer, No CHANGE I ~ CONDITION: NEVADA CITY: The condition be sa James F. Colley, 82, was reported no better and no worse last evening. Colley, one of the . city’s most popular and respected “citizens. suffered a stroke either Monday night or Tuesday morning. He is at the Miners Hospital. Mrs. ‘Gertrude Sawyer noticed on Tuesday morning that the window shades in’ Colley’s Nevada Street home were not in their usual position. With Mrs. Ann Christenson, she entered his honre fo investigate. hey found Colley seated in a Chas, very ill, and unable to speak. However, his, son, Ellsworth Colley, of Sutter County, visited him! and was recognized by his father. Colley, one of the city’s oldest was a charter member of the Elks here, and has belonged. for 50 years. The club recently honored him at annual roll call ceremonies. His many friends had noted the splendid good health in which Colley appeared in recent months. He recently recovered quickly from a serious abdominal operation. POST OFFICE NEARS FIRST CLASS RANK NEVADA CITY: Postmaster William Wasley reports that 1948 receipts of the postoffice amounting to $35,000 now places the office within $5,000 of entering the first class category. The receipts for 1948 were $2.000 more than. those of last year and $15,000 more than those of 1942. When receipts reach $40,000 a year this city will be eligible for a government-built postoffice building. Eleven men are now employed on a full time basis in the local office and five star route contractors now ‘operate from this a ~ postoffice cee Od, TOBIASSEN SEAT ON ADA cae Cebnty ¥ ‘Board of rvisors, holding its reorganization. meeting,<officially seated Carl J. To-biahsen, former sheriff, the. member-from the firht district, which inéludes Nevada City. Tobiassen “was winner in a tém man race for the post. Cary. Arbogast, who ‘has occipied this post for 16 years and refused to be a candidate last fall, was presented with a gold tie pin Mand a ‘gold wrist watch by the The prehentation wes chairman members. made by Warren Odell, ‘Of the ‘board. % NEVADA CITY: Tom Bradley Legg, son of Mr. and Mrs, Tom B. Legg, four months old, died SunGay evening. Private funeral services were held in Holmes Funeral Home at 1 P. M. Monday. The Rev. Frank “Buck conducted the service. The : body: was — A.A. U. W. “MEMBERS GO TO AUBURN NEVADA CITY:. Fifteen members of the Nevada County Branch of the American Association of University Women last Sunday afternoon attended the tea given in the Auburn Congregational Church Guild Hall in honor of Mrs. Foster Rand-Smith, state president of the AAUW and Miss »Unda Karinkul of Siam, ‘study The tea was sponsored. by the Nevada, and El] Dorado County»Sranches of the AAUW. The Nevada County group was headed by Mrs. Carville S. Sparks, Mrs. Edward Franz and Mrs. Harold ne Final Rites Held For Mrs. Hattie Cross # GRASS VALLEY: Funeral! services were held Tuesday afternoon in the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary for Mrs. Hattite E. Cross, who died Sunday in a Nevada City hospital. Rev. Clarence E. Lebeck had charge of the services. Interment was in Elm Ridge Cemetery, ‘Mrs. Cross was born in Cave City, Arkansas, 76 years ago. She had resided in Grasa, Valley for Sg past 10 years. “Surviving are her gon,. Monroe arland, Grass Valley, and two daughters, Mrs. Walter Snow if Grass Valley and Mrs. Jess Shelton Martinez Contra Costa County. Seven grandchildren are bereaved. *JR. CHAMBER CAMPAIGN GRASS VALLEY: The Junior Chamber of Commerce is prepar“ng to launch a campaign to bring new industries to Grass Valley. A eae will be made with other ) to determine — city and neighboring . ocmmeronee ean offer, og TY BOARD ‘Nevada. —_— oan @ Ae sek 8 tA 8 Volume 22—WNo. . NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Thursday, January 6, 1949 P.'R. BRADLEY _ FUNERAL WAS. TUESDAY GRASS VALLEY: Funeral services were held Tuesday morning in N. Gray & Co. mortuary in San Francisco for Philip Read Bradley, nationally-known mining engineer. Bradley, 73, had many friends and relatives here. : Until a year ago, Bradley, then retired, spent most of his time in Grass Valley at his home on Linden Avenue. In 1947,his health failing, he moved to San Francisco, and sold his house. He died in a Berkeley rest home on New Year’s Eve. He was born in Georgetown, Dorado County, son of. Mr. and’ Mrs. Henry Bradley, California pioneers. A. mining engi“-Heer-he-won his -degree-ftrom the University of California in 1896. During a widely-varied mining career, he held many responsible posts, and made his fortune in Alaska. There he was general manager of the Treadwell Mines, and. later, the Alaska Juneau mine. He became: president of the Alaska Juneau Company in 1933. He was a member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and the San Francisco Press Club. He was the first president of the.Twin Cities: Concert Association of this area. Surviving are-two sons, Philip R. Bradley, Jr., of Berkeley, and Henry Harland Bradley of Pescadero, two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Sarbach of West Yellowstone, Montana, Mrs. Francis Messinger of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,-and-twoEl sisters. Mrs. Mabel Legg and Mrs. Martha Hogue, both of Nevada City. MANNING MILLER / SEEKS N. L D. POST GRASS VALLEY: Manning Miller, son of the late Fred M. Miller and Mrs. Miller, has announced his candidacy for the post of assessor-collector-treasurer of the Nevada Irrigation District. THe-etection will take place February 2nd. Ms During the /past ‘year Miller has been in the main office supervising » property — transfers. Fred M. Miller; his father, was at one time general manager of the NID. He is, much interested in the Farm Bureau project of reclassification of Nevada County lands. % JOHN LA RUE, WE WRIGHT MERGE PRACTICE NEVADA CITY: John lL. La Rue, attorney, and W. E. Wright, who -served Nevada County for 2 years as district attorney, merged their practice on January @rd, and oceupy the Wright offices in Nevada City, corner of Pine and Broad Streets, LaRue will close his Grass Valley office which he has occupied since resigning his post of attorney for the U. S. Veterans Administration. During the war he served as a soldier in the airborne infantry and was discharged with the rank of captain. GREE ES. NceaiC Se ea Five Named As Replacement Panel For Superior Court NEVADA CITY: County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble has received. a letter from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, assigning five judges as a replacement panel for the -Nevada County — Superior Court. They are: Judge Raymond McIntosh of Sierra County, Judge Lowell L. Sparks of Placer County, Judge Warren Steel, Yuba County, Judge Arthur Coats, Sutter County, and Judge Harry Deirup, Butte County, % Eln Ridge Interment For Empire Hill Man GRASS VALLEY: Funeral services were held Wednesday in Myers Mortutary Chapel for Robert Stewart, who died in a local hospital Sunday afternoon, Interment was in Elm Ridge Cemetery. Stewart was born in this. city 84 years ago. Most of his life he He had been in declining healt for many months. Surviving is his brother, Henry Stewart, and his sister, Mrs. Al Richards, both this city, Mr/ And Mra. Club Holds January Dance GRASS VALLEY: The Mr. and Mrs. Dance Club will ‘hold its January dance Saturday evening in the Elks building, Grass Valley. Theme of the event will be Winter. Mr. and Mrs. Don Hutton are chairmen bag the committee arranging the ce. The dance will begin at. “eae” . “M: ‘Married’ couples may be invited as guests, . wi LOSERS PAY; ELKS BOWLERS TO EAT CHINESE DINNER NEVADA CITY: , Winners of the recent Elks bowling tournament will enjoy a free Chinese dinner tonight. Vern Kenny and Frank Duffy are in charge of the dinner. Duffy’s Chinese cook will officiate. Losers and non-bowlers will pay a dollar per plate for their meal. The hour is 6:30 P. M. mM ELKS USE EXTRA HOUR TO WELCOME 49 NEVADA (CITY: The Nevada City Elks succeded in stretching their New Year party by another hour, At 1 o’clock—they turned back -the clock an_hour’ and repeated their welcome to the New Year. An estimated 300 attended the dinner dance and special program that featured, the lodge’s main winter social event. {Nestea HYDRAULICERS TO SEE GHOST TOWN PIC NEVADA CITY:. Chief feature of the meeting in the National Hotel next Sunday of the California Hydraulic Mining Association will be the film entitled Ghost Towns of ~California’s Mother Lode. The movie was made under the auspices of the state division of mines. It will be shown by an engineer of the division. President George Hallock will preside both at the luncheon at 1 P. M, and the regular meeting at 2 P. M. \ * \ BURGLARS GET AWAY NEVADA CITY: Sheriff’s deputies had another encounter with burglars last Thursday night, but this time <the burglars escaped. About 10 P. M. an attempt was made to enter the store and service station of Bud Braunlich on Town Talk, just as an assistant, E. E. Hahn, was locking up. The pair picked the lock on the rear door and Hahn, inside in the dark, heard them say they would return, after his car, in front of the place, had gone. Hahn called Deputy Sheriff Percy Watters, who investigated. An hour later, the two returned. Hahn met them at the door with a flashlight. One of the men knockbers fled. Gene Blake, nightwatchman, was summoned and Undersheriff Otis Hardt and:he investigated. At 4:30 A. M., December 31, the pair again tried te break into the building. Blake and ‘Hardt were watching from across the road. Hardt called on them to surrender, but they ran oyt the back door and escaped in the wooded area in the rear. John Korfanta, who was e€aptured after breaking into the Builders and Consumers Lumber Co. on December 30, is in the county jail awaiting preliminary hearing, with bail fixed at $1590. % ELTON WILLIAMS G. V. FIRE CHIEF GRASS VALLEY: A _ special election cajled by the Grass Valley Ffre Department to decide a tie, resulted in the’ choice of*Elton Williams as assistant fire chief and Harry Johng ag second assistant. The fire chief chosen recently is Jack Bluette, A]l three will be inducted into office this week. FRUIT. GROWERS WILL NOMINATE TWO GRASS VALLEY: Growers of plums and Bartlett pears in: Nevada and adjacent counties will have two opportunities to nominate members and alternates under the California Fruit Tree Agreement. LOIS HARDY’S. ed him unconscious and both rob-: TRIAL SOON NEVADA CITY: “The trial of; Lois Hunt Hardy will be set Friday, January_,7th, which is law and motion day in the Superior Court. Mrs. Hardy is charged with the murder of James W. McLain in July, 1947. Attorney Lynne Kelly, who defended Lois in her first trial, states that he believes the. trial will open at an early date. The trial _of Joe Hardy,’ Lois’ husband, which foll@wed that of Lois, resulted in a conviction with the-jury recommending mercy. He is.now serving a life sentence in San — HEWSTON 10 ATTEND SCOUT PLAN MEET AUBURN: The Annval Planning Conference of the Tahoe Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. will be held on Sunday afternoon, January 23, in AubuFfn. nounced by Scout Executive Raymond J. Ewan, Alvin F. Carveth, who has been appointed general chairman of the conferencé by Council President Judge Lowell L. ‘Sparks, states that plans for this year’s conference will include a Pow-Wow for Cub Scout leaders. embracing handicraft, administration, ceremonies and _ instructive games. For Scoutmasters and Assistants, a visual education program covering yearly Troop Programming \and Troop and Patrol meeting technique will be held. *’ Executive Board; district committee and unit committee members will participate in the administrative . group which will cover projects in camping and activities, advancément, leadership training, organization and extension, health an@ safety. The conference {will culminate inthe annual recognition dinner in the. evening.--heag@érs in. various sections of the Planning -Conference include: Ed R. Hewston, of Nevada -City;. Lynne. Kelly and N. E. Witting and Sam Partridge. of Grass Valley; ©. W. Lauppe, Phil H. Leak and R.-R. Scneder, of Roseville; A. Ray Wellington, H. E.,Chastain,\ Steve Brown, L. H. Reynolds, Fred Knudsen and J, M. arner, of ‘Auburn. Other discussion leaders will be announced later. A good attendance from Placer, Nevada and Sierra County Cub \and Scout Leaders is eo Carveth said. NEWS FROM THE RIDGE By ALICE HILL KOHLER Raymond Worley came up from school at Santa Maria to spend the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Alberta Worley. and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Slankard. Mr. and Mrs, C. N. Mullard and family of North Hollywood spent the holiday, season at “Hilltop” with Mrs. Mullard’s father, R. C. Hill. and’ sister, Mrs. Alice Kohler. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Struckman and son had Christmas dinner with our genial postmaster, Doug Buckbee and family, before leaving for Calaveras County to spend a few days with his folks. Mrs. Struckman is a native of Australia. Our sympathy is extended ‘to Mrs. J. H. Coleman of Alleghany and Wright Coleman of SweetJand in the loss of husband and father, J. H. Colman. New Year’s Eve was very quiet here in our village with a party at the ‘Slankard home on Cherokee Street and one at the Frank Stuart<, near Petersons Corner which was a birthday party honoring the New Year as well as Mrs. Mae Wilson of French CorThree members and alternates will be nominated to the plum and Bartlett pear committee. The first meeting.will be held in the community hall.of Newcastle, ie County, January 5, at 7:80 PM. and thé second will . take—place ‘in Colfax Memorial Hall January 6th at 8 P. M. Important changes contemplated. by ithe Secretary of Agriculture will ib iscussed at both meetings, Ga. Geller, assistant to the manager sef_ the California Fruit Tree Agreement, 1 sii be ee at both rapetings, ” = Justice G. W. Gildereere Weds Oukland Couple — NEVADA CITY: A double ring marriage ceremony was performed Friday, December 3ist, by Justice: of the Peace George W. Gildersleeve, who married William Gilbert ‘Carroll, 27, and Bernice Lavina :MeNetl, 22, both = Oakiand._. “Jonathan J Jr, pier ar gem ral, Mrs. Mae Oden and Mrs, Alice Kohler of North San Juan ‘and Miss Isabel Stuart of Sweatland. Phe Ridge is having the dest weather it has seen for a winter with the mercury to fifteen Wednesday morning at Hilltop”, ~ Mr. and Mrs. $ndy Eveler and sons of the Ridge e spent the last of the old year ghd the first of the new year, visiting friends borly Club of Harmony Ridge held its annual holiday party Thursday, December 80th, in. the home of Mrs. Lester Kyler on Sugar Loat Mountain. ‘Members gathered for luncheon Gitte Cg Bye on were y . were wore Mix Brno Towle it Was an-' oak SUPERVISORS TO _. MEET JANUARY 10 ON HOSPITAL DISTRICT NEVADA CITY: The supervisors have adjourned until January, 10th when they will have the final hearing on the hospital district to be formed in eastern Nevada . } County for which a _ petition is now pending. 5 Before they adjourned the supervisors reappointed Warren Odell, chairman of the _ board, Supervisors Carl J. Tobiassen and . Henry G. Loehr were named on the courthouse committee, Super-., visors Frank Rowe and Jerome . Coughlan were placed on the . county hospital committee, Dr. Walker W. Reed was reappointed county physician, Charles Veale todian of the courthouse with Ida Guenther as his assistant, and County Clerk Ralph E, Deeble was reaffirmed as county purchasing agent. . MRS. ESTHER HINGSTON NAMED NURSE HEAD NEVADA CITY: Charles” W. Veale, superintendent of the Nevada County Hospital, reports that Mrs. Esther. Hingston has been named supervisor of the institution’s nurses, taking the place of Alice Gohmert, ‘resigned. Mrs. Hingston resumes>a post she held between 1939 and 1941. Since that time she has served as Supervising nurse at Robertson Hospital, Modesto, and Collins Hospital, Turlock, both of Stanlislaus County. She is a graduate of Fabilea Hospital, Oakland. AIRBORNE NEW YEAR DINNER NEVADA CITY: Donald Reed, Goodyear’s Bar, Sierra County, in charge of the Ruby Mine, near along with two miners who are aiding him, received his New Year’s dinner by air. Mr. and Mrs. Reed are snowbound in a deep .canyonr tethe southeast: of -GoedYear’s Bar. The delivery of 200 pounds of tood, contracted two weeks ago, was made by Robert Watterson, former air corps pilot, who -reported the weather was fine and he had no difficulty. The packages, prepared for chuting by the Melton Grocery in Nevada City, were dropped by Bill Jones, an employee of the Grass Valley Flying Service. George Endter, who expected to make the flight, was detained in southern California due to illness in his family. Watterson has made flights into this country before, aiding forest.fire fighters in behalf of the Tahoe. National Forest. éyision was renamed. superintendent of the county Pespital, and sre Larsen was reappointed cusMARCH OF DIME’ WITH CAMPAIGN GRASS VALLEY: A campaign orgahi b M RIVE STARTS: ation: meeting for the annual March of Dimes, Infantile-’Par— alysis benefit, will be held Tuesday, January 11th, at the Grass Valley High School at 7:03 P. M Full reports of the Nevada County Chapter forInfantile will be held including medical committees; and finance. Chairman Elmer Stevens announces that four serious cases of polio have been hospitalized by the: chapter during the year and follow up work done om three others returned, to thé All residents of . the activity of the chapter and county. county interested in the: the fight against polio im: general are extended a cordial invitation to attend. LOLMAUGH GETS CLEAR TELEVISION FROM STATION KPIX GRASS VALLEY: Arthur Lolmaugh, local jeweler, reports telbroadcasts from , KPIX, San Francisco, are coming through on his receiver with remarkable clarity. First local resident to have television, he says that -rain has an adverse effect on the televised image. The antennae is mounted on a 100-ft tree in his yard. Television reception of, KPIX is said to be’ excellent in Auburn, but poor in Sacramento. Several Sacramento stations are expected to begin televising soon. Ba FATHERS’ NIGHT DINNER FRIDAY AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEVADA CITY: The annual fathers’ night dinner will take place next: Friday in-the Elementary School auditorium. David Lamson will be the speaker.His topic will be Takine the World Into Our Plans. Mrs. Bert Steele is general chairman of arrangements and Mrs. Carl Foote will have charge of preparing the dinner. Reservations, it is stated, should be made by Wednesday evening: BOST TO HEAD STEELE SUPPLY GRASS VALLEY: O. P. Steele, founder of Steele Supply Co., has announced that he is leaving his position as president of the company. to engage in farming. Rod Bost, Steele’s partner in. the firm since 1947, will manage the company. Steele will move to Siskiyou County, where he will engage with“his brother Lloyd in ranching on the pioneer ‘Steele property at Yreka, Less than a year ago Bost and Steele established the Farm Center, a hay, grain and feed store, in the Terminal Truck Building off Bank Street. % MARRIAGE. LICENSE MEYERS-MOREHEAD — In Nevada City, January 3, 1949. George A. Meyers, 21, Grass Valley, and Mary M: Morehead, 19, Oakville, California. aD aero. The Woodleaf Cooperative Sustained Yield Unit in the Plumas National Forest area of Yuba, Butte, Plumas and erra Counties was shelved by the\U. S. Forestry Service in Washington, D. C. First word of the decision came from U. S&S. telegram ty local offices of the Lumbermen’s Association of California, dated, December 17, 1948, followed by word from Congressman Clarence \F. Lea. Confirmation was immediately coming from the San Francisco office of the Forestry Service where Regional Forester Per A. Thompson has just returned from a Washington confere Woodleaf matter. years a project which would have placed 106,882 acres of timberland in the forest under a onecompany-operation, with Forestry Service supervision for half a céntury. The decision to drop the project is.a major victery for the Lumbermen’s Association of Califorfiia, under the supervision of its heads, President Jim: Bollingar, Chairman of the rd Arthur mans, Seereta) rren N. ingle and legal” dvisor_ Ray Manwell, ~~ Forestry Service spokesmen emphasized that the action did not mean the government agency disapproved of co-operative units put rather that Tocal oj ition to. the Woodleat unit was so great that it was felt no good purpose would be-.served by ap“the agreement with Sopi productive acres. The A lof the unit would have been gov-. ernment land although some acres in the Gibgonville block = bags oot company owns. i remneiedie’ GOVERNMENT DROPS WOODLEAF UMBER CO-OPERATIVE PLAN In return it would pay an appraised price for the timber harvested and would have agreed to cut no more than 20,000,000 bd. ft. a year off the unit until] 1977, when conditions would have been le-surveyed. The company would also have agreed to follow~ Forestry Service cutting practices. Sacramento Box and Lumber Co. would have handled the complete output of the unit—under an additional agreement with Soper-Wheeler Company. Continuing the Forestry Servof headquarters will not affect the cutting practices in the government land which will be conducted under a policy of maintaining a sustained yield on. forest lands. However, they pointed out no restrictions will apply on how much timber is’ cut off the company’s own property. And they pointed out that due to the intermingling of holdings Sacramento Box. and Soper-Wheeler Co. will still have an advantage in bidding on the harvestable timber. The battle’ over the Woodleaf unit has been fought bitterly sincé announcement of the plan last February. Small lumber operators contended that the move would provide the combine of Soper-Wheeler and Sacramento .Box and Lumber Co. with a monopoly on timber which would reduce the future available. supply on which they had hopes of bidding. They contended that the action would put’them out of business in three to five years. Proponents of the. unit retorted th % ice officials said that the actionactivities to be an— nounced later will extend into alk communities so all will have an, opportunity to help this year and& the program Will culminate in the. annual March of Dimes dance and program. scheduled for Saturday~evening, January 29th at the Vet-erans Memorial Building in Grass: Valley. With the blackest year in the: history of polio just over, the an— nual March of Dimes campaign scheduled for January 14th to 30th faces its greatest crisis in the fight against infantile. The tragic toll. of 26,000 cases has left the national foundation emergency: fund exhausted and many chapter funds depleted. In a special telegram to. County Chairman Elmer Stevens), Basik O’Connor, ' National President, states: “It is my duty to adviseyou of. the importance of this: campaign. In 1948 alone it cost $17,000,000 to care for infantil paralysis. Our national omeruncae fund is exhausted. Make no mis-take about it. This is an emerg— ency situation. If we are to con— tinue to help polio victims and be prepared for emergency this campaign must be the biggest we everconducted. Unless it is we camnoffulfill our pledges to patients and the public. Please do everything to help.”’ Campaign PRMD Pasay Sis ELMER STEVENS . AGAIN HEADSHISTORIANS. NEVADA CITY: Officers and directors of the Névada CountyHistorical Society were name® this week. Officers to serve forthe 1949 term: are: Elmer Stev~ ens, president; Doris Foley, vicepresident; June Chase, ‘secretary<treasurer; William -Durbrow, GeneIngalls, George Hallock, Jaliek Cox, Robert Paine, Isabel Hafel~ finger, Ollie Kallenberger;, Anaeliax Cunningham, and Judge James: Snell, directors. The latter were elected on a district. basis: with . representatives from Grass Valley ‘Nevada City; amd others; at large. Committees: and progrann for the year willbe announced later by the president at. the January meeting. The Society will honor the-Cat=. ifornia Chinese and Nevada Ceun-. ty Chinese at the next meeting: scheduled for Monday evenine,. January 17th, at the Grass —— High samen POLICE . RETURN. BARTENDER FROM MERCED NEVADA CITY: William Gor-. don, 48, a bartender, who -was: brought back’ from ‘Merced, Mer-. ced County, Sunday. by SheriftRichard W. Hoskins, was arraigned yesterday before Justice. of the Peace George W. Gildersleeveon chargesof grand theft. His: bat! was fixed-at $1,500. The complaint-was signed by> Ray L. Strange, owner of the Hut, . a bar on Broad Street, charging; theft of $950. To Theodore Kohler, Sr. GRASS VALLEY: Theodore Ai. Kohler, Sr., veteran insurance-man, and realty qwner, and Mrs. Mil-. dred Dunn, 306 West Main Street,. were married in Rena, Nevada,,, Thursday, December 30th:,, The wedding took place in the» large drawing room of Mr. and* Mrs. W. EB. Smith, 1129 Lennox: Avenue, Reno, the home of Mrs. Kohler’s, the former Mrs. Dunn,s,., daughter and son-in-law. The room was attractively dec-. orated by Mrs. ‘Smith and -other= family relatives. A large pebiina: bell hung in one corner, adorned with flowers, holly and nai Rev. Gideon. ony oe 92-year-old: minister of the seshbaies Ceehane y united the pair beneath the b It was a double ring that the small operators will run] ai . out ‘of supplies, even on govern Mrs. Mildred Dunn Wed* ~ Be

fae Peer eed aed . residents, 3 grant holder. “. Placer, No CHANGE I ~ CONDITION: NEVADA CITY: The condition be sa James F. Colley, 82, was reported no better and no worse last evening. Colley, one of the . city’s most popular and respected “citizens. suffered a stroke either Monday night or Tuesday morning. He is at the Miners Hospital. Mrs. ‘Gertrude Sawyer noticed on Tuesday morning that the window shades in’ Colley’s Nevada Street home were not in their usual position. With Mrs. Ann Christenson, she entered his honre fo investigate. hey found Colley seated in a Chas, very ill, and unable to speak. However, his, son, Ellsworth Colley, of Sutter County, visited him! and was recognized by his father. Colley, one of the city’s oldest was a charter member of the Elks here, and has belonged. for 50 years. The club recently honored him at annual roll call ceremonies. His many friends had noted the splendid good health in which Colley appeared in recent months. He recently recovered quickly from a serious abdominal operation. POST OFFICE NEARS FIRST CLASS RANK NEVADA CITY: Postmaster William Wasley reports that 1948 receipts of the postoffice amounting to $35,000 now places the office within $5,000 of entering the first class category. The receipts for 1948 were $2.000 more than. those of last year and $15,000 more than those of 1942. When receipts reach $40,000 a year this city will be eligible for a government-built postoffice building. Eleven men are now employed on a full time basis in the local office and five star route contractors now ‘operate from this a ~ postoffice cee Od, TOBIASSEN SEAT ON ADA cae Cebnty ¥ ‘Board of rvisors, holding its reorganization. meeting,<officially seated Carl J. To-biahsen, former sheriff, the. member-from the firht district, which inéludes Nevada City. Tobiassen “was winner in a tém man race for the post. Cary. Arbogast, who ‘has occipied this post for 16 years and refused to be a candidate last fall, was presented with a gold tie pin Mand a ‘gold wrist watch by the The prehentation wes chairman members. made by Warren Odell, ‘Of the ‘board. % NEVADA CITY: Tom Bradley Legg, son of Mr. and Mrs, Tom B. Legg, four months old, died SunGay evening. Private funeral services were held in Holmes Funeral Home at 1 P. M. Monday. The Rev. Frank “Buck conducted the service. The : body: was — A.A. U. W. “MEMBERS GO TO AUBURN NEVADA CITY:. Fifteen members of the Nevada County Branch of the American Association of University Women last Sunday afternoon attended the tea given in the Auburn Congregational Church Guild Hall in honor of Mrs. Foster Rand-Smith, state president of the AAUW and Miss »Unda Karinkul of Siam, ‘study The tea was sponsored. by the Nevada, and El] Dorado County»Sranches of the AAUW. The Nevada County group was headed by Mrs. Carville S. Sparks, Mrs. Edward Franz and Mrs. Harold ne Final Rites Held For Mrs. Hattie Cross # GRASS VALLEY: Funeral! services were held Tuesday afternoon in the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary for Mrs. Hattite E. Cross, who died Sunday in a Nevada City hospital. Rev. Clarence E. Lebeck had charge of the services. Interment was in Elm Ridge Cemetery, ‘Mrs. Cross was born in Cave City, Arkansas, 76 years ago. She had resided in Grasa, Valley for Sg past 10 years. “Surviving are her gon,. Monroe arland, Grass Valley, and two daughters, Mrs. Walter Snow if Grass Valley and Mrs. Jess Shelton Martinez Contra Costa County. Seven grandchildren are bereaved. *JR. CHAMBER CAMPAIGN GRASS VALLEY: The Junior Chamber of Commerce is prepar“ng to launch a campaign to bring new industries to Grass Valley. A eae will be made with other ) to determine — city and neighboring . ocmmeronee ean offer, og TY BOARD ‘Nevada. —_— oan @ Ae sek 8 tA 8 Volume 22—WNo. . NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Thursday, January 6, 1949 P.'R. BRADLEY _ FUNERAL WAS. TUESDAY GRASS VALLEY: Funeral services were held Tuesday morning in N. Gray & Co. mortuary in San Francisco for Philip Read Bradley, nationally-known mining engineer. Bradley, 73, had many friends and relatives here. : Until a year ago, Bradley, then retired, spent most of his time in Grass Valley at his home on Linden Avenue. In 1947,his health failing, he moved to San Francisco, and sold his house. He died in a Berkeley rest home on New Year’s Eve. He was born in Georgetown, Dorado County, son of. Mr. and’ Mrs. Henry Bradley, California pioneers. A. mining engi“-Heer-he-won his -degree-ftrom the University of California in 1896. During a widely-varied mining career, he held many responsible posts, and made his fortune in Alaska. There he was general manager of the Treadwell Mines, and. later, the Alaska Juneau mine. He became: president of the Alaska Juneau Company in 1933. He was a member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, and the San Francisco Press Club. He was the first president of the.Twin Cities: Concert Association of this area. Surviving are-two sons, Philip R. Bradley, Jr., of Berkeley, and Henry Harland Bradley of Pescadero, two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Sarbach of West Yellowstone, Montana, Mrs. Francis Messinger of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,-and-twoEl sisters. Mrs. Mabel Legg and Mrs. Martha Hogue, both of Nevada City. MANNING MILLER / SEEKS N. L D. POST GRASS VALLEY: Manning Miller, son of the late Fred M. Miller and Mrs. Miller, has announced his candidacy for the post of assessor-collector-treasurer of the Nevada Irrigation District. THe-etection will take place February 2nd. Ms During the /past ‘year Miller has been in the main office supervising » property — transfers. Fred M. Miller; his father, was at one time general manager of the NID. He is, much interested in the Farm Bureau project of reclassification of Nevada County lands. % JOHN LA RUE, WE WRIGHT MERGE PRACTICE NEVADA CITY: John lL. La Rue, attorney, and W. E. Wright, who -served Nevada County for 2 years as district attorney, merged their practice on January @rd, and oceupy the Wright offices in Nevada City, corner of Pine and Broad Streets, LaRue will close his Grass Valley office which he has occupied since resigning his post of attorney for the U. S. Veterans Administration. During the war he served as a soldier in the airborne infantry and was discharged with the rank of captain. GREE ES. NceaiC Se ea Five Named As Replacement Panel For Superior Court NEVADA CITY: County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble has received. a letter from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, assigning five judges as a replacement panel for the -Nevada County — Superior Court. They are: Judge Raymond McIntosh of Sierra County, Judge Lowell L. Sparks of Placer County, Judge Warren Steel, Yuba County, Judge Arthur Coats, Sutter County, and Judge Harry Deirup, Butte County, % Eln Ridge Interment For Empire Hill Man GRASS VALLEY: Funeral services were held Wednesday in Myers Mortutary Chapel for Robert Stewart, who died in a local hospital Sunday afternoon, Interment was in Elm Ridge Cemetery. Stewart was born in this. city 84 years ago. Most of his life he He had been in declining healt for many months. Surviving is his brother, Henry Stewart, and his sister, Mrs. Al Richards, both this city, Mr/ And Mra. Club Holds January Dance GRASS VALLEY: The Mr. and Mrs. Dance Club will ‘hold its January dance Saturday evening in the Elks building, Grass Valley. Theme of the event will be Winter. Mr. and Mrs. Don Hutton are chairmen bag the committee arranging the ce. The dance will begin at. “eae” . “M: ‘Married’ couples may be invited as guests, . wi LOSERS PAY; ELKS BOWLERS TO EAT CHINESE DINNER NEVADA CITY: , Winners of the recent Elks bowling tournament will enjoy a free Chinese dinner tonight. Vern Kenny and Frank Duffy are in charge of the dinner. Duffy’s Chinese cook will officiate. Losers and non-bowlers will pay a dollar per plate for their meal. The hour is 6:30 P. M. mM ELKS USE EXTRA HOUR TO WELCOME 49 NEVADA (CITY: The Nevada City Elks succeded in stretching their New Year party by another hour, At 1 o’clock—they turned back -the clock an_hour’ and repeated their welcome to the New Year. An estimated 300 attended the dinner dance and special program that featured, the lodge’s main winter social event. {Nestea HYDRAULICERS TO SEE GHOST TOWN PIC NEVADA CITY:. Chief feature of the meeting in the National Hotel next Sunday of the California Hydraulic Mining Association will be the film entitled Ghost Towns of ~California’s Mother Lode. The movie was made under the auspices of the state division of mines. It will be shown by an engineer of the division. President George Hallock will preside both at the luncheon at 1 P. M, and the regular meeting at 2 P. M. \ * \ BURGLARS GET AWAY NEVADA CITY: Sheriff’s deputies had another encounter with burglars last Thursday night, but this time <the burglars escaped. About 10 P. M. an attempt was made to enter the store and service station of Bud Braunlich on Town Talk, just as an assistant, E. E. Hahn, was locking up. The pair picked the lock on the rear door and Hahn, inside in the dark, heard them say they would return, after his car, in front of the place, had gone. Hahn called Deputy Sheriff Percy Watters, who investigated. An hour later, the two returned. Hahn met them at the door with a flashlight. One of the men knockbers fled. Gene Blake, nightwatchman, was summoned and Undersheriff Otis Hardt and:he investigated. At 4:30 A. M., December 31, the pair again tried te break into the building. Blake and ‘Hardt were watching from across the road. Hardt called on them to surrender, but they ran oyt the back door and escaped in the wooded area in the rear. John Korfanta, who was e€aptured after breaking into the Builders and Consumers Lumber Co. on December 30, is in the county jail awaiting preliminary hearing, with bail fixed at $1590. % ELTON WILLIAMS G. V. FIRE CHIEF GRASS VALLEY: A _ special election cajled by the Grass Valley Ffre Department to decide a tie, resulted in the’ choice of*Elton Williams as assistant fire chief and Harry Johng ag second assistant. The fire chief chosen recently is Jack Bluette, A]l three will be inducted into office this week. FRUIT. GROWERS WILL NOMINATE TWO GRASS VALLEY: Growers of plums and Bartlett pears in: Nevada and adjacent counties will have two opportunities to nominate members and alternates under the California Fruit Tree Agreement. LOIS HARDY’S. ed him unconscious and both rob-: TRIAL SOON NEVADA CITY: “The trial of; Lois Hunt Hardy will be set Friday, January_,7th, which is law and motion day in the Superior Court. Mrs. Hardy is charged with the murder of James W. McLain in July, 1947. Attorney Lynne Kelly, who defended Lois in her first trial, states that he believes the. trial will open at an early date. The trial _of Joe Hardy,’ Lois’ husband, which foll@wed that of Lois, resulted in a conviction with the-jury recommending mercy. He is.now serving a life sentence in San — HEWSTON 10 ATTEND SCOUT PLAN MEET AUBURN: The Annval Planning Conference of the Tahoe Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. will be held on Sunday afternoon, January 23, in AubuFfn. nounced by Scout Executive Raymond J. Ewan, Alvin F. Carveth, who has been appointed general chairman of the conferencé by Council President Judge Lowell L. ‘Sparks, states that plans for this year’s conference will include a Pow-Wow for Cub Scout leaders. embracing handicraft, administration, ceremonies and _ instructive games. For Scoutmasters and Assistants, a visual education program covering yearly Troop Programming \and Troop and Patrol meeting technique will be held. *’ Executive Board; district committee and unit committee members will participate in the administrative . group which will cover projects in camping and activities, advancément, leadership training, organization and extension, health an@ safety. The conference {will culminate inthe annual recognition dinner in the. evening.--heag@érs in. various sections of the Planning -Conference include: Ed R. Hewston, of Nevada -City;. Lynne. Kelly and N. E. Witting and Sam Partridge. of Grass Valley; ©. W. Lauppe, Phil H. Leak and R.-R. Scneder, of Roseville; A. Ray Wellington, H. E.,Chastain,\ Steve Brown, L. H. Reynolds, Fred Knudsen and J, M. arner, of ‘Auburn. Other discussion leaders will be announced later. A good attendance from Placer, Nevada and Sierra County Cub \and Scout

Leaders is eo Carveth said. NEWS FROM THE RIDGE By ALICE HILL KOHLER Raymond Worley came up from school at Santa Maria to spend the holidays with his mother, Mrs. Alberta Worley. and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Slankard. Mr. and Mrs, C. N. Mullard and family of North Hollywood spent the holiday, season at “Hilltop” with Mrs. Mullard’s father, R. C. Hill. and’ sister, Mrs. Alice Kohler. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Struckman and son had Christmas dinner with our genial postmaster, Doug Buckbee and family, before leaving for Calaveras County to spend a few days with his folks. Mrs. Struckman is a native of Australia. Our sympathy is extended ‘to Mrs. J. H. Coleman of Alleghany and Wright Coleman of SweetJand in the loss of husband and father, J. H. Colman. New Year’s Eve was very quiet here in our village with a party at the ‘Slankard home on Cherokee Street and one at the Frank Stuart<, near Petersons Corner which was a birthday party honoring the New Year as well as Mrs. Mae Wilson of French CorThree members and alternates will be nominated to the plum and Bartlett pear committee. The first meeting.will be held in the community hall.of Newcastle, ie County, January 5, at 7:80 PM. and thé second will . take—place ‘in Colfax Memorial Hall January 6th at 8 P. M. Important changes contemplated. by ithe Secretary of Agriculture will ib iscussed at both meetings, Ga. Geller, assistant to the manager sef_ the California Fruit Tree Agreement, 1 sii be ee at both rapetings, ” = Justice G. W. Gildereere Weds Oukland Couple — NEVADA CITY: A double ring marriage ceremony was performed Friday, December 3ist, by Justice: of the Peace George W. Gildersleeve, who married William Gilbert ‘Carroll, 27, and Bernice Lavina :MeNetl, 22, both = Oakiand._. “Jonathan J Jr, pier ar gem ral, Mrs. Mae Oden and Mrs, Alice Kohler of North San Juan ‘and Miss Isabel Stuart of Sweatland. Phe Ridge is having the dest weather it has seen for a winter with the mercury to fifteen Wednesday morning at Hilltop”, ~ Mr. and Mrs. $ndy Eveler and sons of the Ridge e spent the last of the old year ghd the first of the new year, visiting friends borly Club of Harmony Ridge held its annual holiday party Thursday, December 80th, in. the home of Mrs. Lester Kyler on Sugar Loat Mountain. ‘Members gathered for luncheon Gitte Cg Bye on were y . were wore Mix Brno Towle it Was an-' oak SUPERVISORS TO _. MEET JANUARY 10 ON HOSPITAL DISTRICT NEVADA CITY: The supervisors have adjourned until January, 10th when they will have the final hearing on the hospital district to be formed in eastern Nevada . } County for which a _ petition is now pending. 5 Before they adjourned the supervisors reappointed Warren Odell, chairman of the _ board, Supervisors Carl J. Tobiassen and . Henry G. Loehr were named on the courthouse committee, Super-., visors Frank Rowe and Jerome . Coughlan were placed on the . county hospital committee, Dr. Walker W. Reed was reappointed county physician, Charles Veale todian of the courthouse with Ida Guenther as his assistant, and County Clerk Ralph E, Deeble was reaffirmed as county purchasing agent. . MRS. ESTHER HINGSTON NAMED NURSE HEAD NEVADA CITY: Charles” W. Veale, superintendent of the Nevada County Hospital, reports that Mrs. Esther. Hingston has been named supervisor of the institution’s nurses, taking the place of Alice Gohmert, ‘resigned. Mrs. Hingston resumes>a post she held between 1939 and 1941. Since that time she has served as Supervising nurse at Robertson Hospital, Modesto, and Collins Hospital, Turlock, both of Stanlislaus County. She is a graduate of Fabilea Hospital, Oakland. AIRBORNE NEW YEAR DINNER NEVADA CITY: Donald Reed, Goodyear’s Bar, Sierra County, in charge of the Ruby Mine, near along with two miners who are aiding him, received his New Year’s dinner by air. Mr. and Mrs. Reed are snowbound in a deep .canyonr tethe southeast: of -GoedYear’s Bar. The delivery of 200 pounds of tood, contracted two weeks ago, was made by Robert Watterson, former air corps pilot, who -reported the weather was fine and he had no difficulty. The packages, prepared for chuting by the Melton Grocery in Nevada City, were dropped by Bill Jones, an employee of the Grass Valley Flying Service. George Endter, who expected to make the flight, was detained in southern California due to illness in his family. Watterson has made flights into this country before, aiding forest.fire fighters in behalf of the Tahoe. National Forest. éyision was renamed. superintendent of the county Pespital, and sre Larsen was reappointed cusMARCH OF DIME’ WITH CAMPAIGN GRASS VALLEY: A campaign orgahi b M RIVE STARTS: ation: meeting for the annual March of Dimes, Infantile-’Par— alysis benefit, will be held Tuesday, January 11th, at the Grass Valley High School at 7:03 P. M Full reports of the Nevada County Chapter forInfantile will be held including medical committees; and finance. Chairman Elmer Stevens announces that four serious cases of polio have been hospitalized by the: chapter during the year and follow up work done om three others returned, to thé All residents of . the activity of the chapter and county. county interested in the: the fight against polio im: general are extended a cordial invitation to attend. LOLMAUGH GETS CLEAR TELEVISION FROM STATION KPIX GRASS VALLEY: Arthur Lolmaugh, local jeweler, reports telbroadcasts from , KPIX, San Francisco, are coming through on his receiver with remarkable clarity. First local resident to have television, he says that -rain has an adverse effect on the televised image. The antennae is mounted on a 100-ft tree in his yard. Television reception of, KPIX is said to be’ excellent in Auburn, but poor in Sacramento. Several Sacramento stations are expected to begin televising soon. Ba FATHERS’ NIGHT DINNER FRIDAY AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEVADA CITY: The annual fathers’ night dinner will take place next: Friday in-the Elementary School auditorium. David Lamson will be the speaker.His topic will be Takine the World Into Our Plans. Mrs. Bert Steele is general chairman of arrangements and Mrs. Carl Foote will have charge of preparing the dinner. Reservations, it is stated, should be made by Wednesday evening: BOST TO HEAD STEELE SUPPLY GRASS VALLEY: O. P. Steele, founder of Steele Supply Co., has announced that he is leaving his position as president of the company. to engage in farming. Rod Bost, Steele’s partner in. the firm since 1947, will manage the company. Steele will move to Siskiyou County, where he will engage with“his brother Lloyd in ranching on the pioneer ‘Steele property at Yreka, Less than a year ago Bost and Steele established the Farm Center, a hay, grain and feed store, in the Terminal Truck Building off Bank Street. % MARRIAGE. LICENSE MEYERS-MOREHEAD — In Nevada City, January 3, 1949. George A. Meyers, 21, Grass Valley, and Mary M: Morehead, 19, Oakville, California. aD aero. The Woodleaf Cooperative Sustained Yield Unit in the Plumas National Forest area of Yuba, Butte, Plumas and erra Counties was shelved by the\U. S. Forestry Service in Washington, D. C. First word of the decision came from U. S&S. telegram ty local offices of the Lumbermen’s Association of California, dated, December 17, 1948, followed by word from Congressman Clarence \F. Lea. Confirmation was immediately coming from the San Francisco office of the Forestry Service where Regional Forester Per A. Thompson has just returned from a Washington confere Woodleaf matter. years a project which would have placed 106,882 acres of timberland in the forest under a onecompany-operation, with Forestry Service supervision for half a céntury. The decision to drop the project is.a major victery for the Lumbermen’s Association of Califorfiia, under the supervision of its heads, President Jim: Bollingar, Chairman of the rd Arthur mans, Seereta) rren N. ingle and legal” dvisor_ Ray Manwell, ~~ Forestry Service spokesmen emphasized that the action did not mean the government agency disapproved of co-operative units put rather that Tocal oj ition to. the Woodleat unit was so great that it was felt no good purpose would be-.served by ap“the agreement with Sopi productive acres. The A lof the unit would have been gov-. ernment land although some acres in the Gibgonville block = bags oot company owns. i remneiedie’ GOVERNMENT DROPS WOODLEAF UMBER CO-OPERATIVE PLAN In return it would pay an appraised price for the timber harvested and would have agreed to cut no more than 20,000,000 bd. ft. a year off the unit until] 1977, when conditions would have been le-surveyed. The company would also have agreed to follow~ Forestry Service cutting practices. Sacramento Box and Lumber Co. would have handled the complete output of the unit—under an additional agreement with Soper-Wheeler Company. Continuing the Forestry Servof headquarters will not affect the cutting practices in the government land which will be conducted under a policy of maintaining a sustained yield on. forest lands. However, they pointed out no restrictions will apply on how much timber is’ cut off the company’s own property. And they pointed out that due to the intermingling of holdings Sacramento Box. and Soper-Wheeler Co. will still have an advantage in bidding on the harvestable timber. The battle’ over the Woodleaf unit has been fought bitterly sincé announcement of the plan last February. Small lumber operators contended that the move would provide the combine of Soper-Wheeler and Sacramento .Box and Lumber Co. with a monopoly on timber which would reduce the future available. supply on which they had hopes of bidding. They contended that the action would put’them out of business in three to five years. Proponents of the. unit retorted th % ice officials said that the actionactivities to be an— nounced later will extend into alk communities so all will have an, opportunity to help this year and& the program Will culminate in the. annual March of Dimes dance and program. scheduled for Saturday~evening, January 29th at the Vet-erans Memorial Building in Grass: Valley. With the blackest year in the: history of polio just over, the an— nual March of Dimes campaign scheduled for January 14th to 30th faces its greatest crisis in the fight against infantile. The tragic toll. of 26,000 cases has left the national foundation emergency: fund exhausted and many chapter funds depleted. In a special telegram to. County Chairman Elmer Stevens), Basik O’Connor, ' National President, states: “It is my duty to adviseyou of. the importance of this: campaign.. In 1948 alone it cost $17,000,000 to care for infantil paralysis. Our national omeruncae fund is exhausted. Make no mis-take about it. This is an emerg— ency situation. If we are to con— tinue to help polio victims and be prepared for emergency this campaign must be the biggest we everconducted. Unless it is we camnoffulfill our pledges to patients and the public. Please do everything to help.”’ Campaign PRMD Pasay Sis ELMER STEVENS . AGAIN HEADSHISTORIANS. NEVADA CITY: Officers and directors of the Névada CountyHistorical Society were name® this week. Officers to serve forthe 1949 term: are: Elmer Stev~ ens, president; Doris Foley, vicepresident; June Chase, ‘secretary<treasurer; William -Durbrow, GeneIngalls, George Hallock, Jaliek Cox, Robert Paine, Isabel Hafel~ finger, Ollie Kallenberger;, Anaeliax Cunningham, and Judge James: Snell, directors. The latter were elected on a district. basis: with . representatives from Grass Valley ‘Nevada City; amd others; at large. Committees: and progrann for the year willbe announced later by the president at. the January meeting. The Society will honor the-Cat=. ifornia Chinese and Nevada Ceun-. ty Chinese at the next meeting: scheduled for Monday evenine,. January 17th, at the Grass —— High samen POLICE . RETURN. BARTENDER FROM MERCED NEVADA CITY: William Gor-. don, 48, a bartender, who -was: brought back’ from ‘Merced, Mer-. ced County, Sunday. by SheriftRichard W. Hoskins, was arraigned yesterday before Justice. of the Peace George W. Gildersleeveon chargesof grand theft. His: bat! was fixed-at $1,500. The complaint-was signed by> Ray L. Strange, owner of the Hut, . a bar on Broad Street, charging; theft of $950. To Theodore Kohler, Sr. GRASS VALLEY: Theodore Ai. Kohler, Sr., veteran insurance-man, and realty qwner, and Mrs. Mil-. dred Dunn, 306 West Main Street,. were married in Rena, Nevada,,, Thursday, December 30th:,, The wedding took place in the» large drawing room of Mr. and* Mrs. W. EB. Smith, 1129 Lennox: Avenue, Reno, the home of Mrs.. Kohler’s, the former Mrs. Dunn,s,., daughter and son-in-law.. The room was attractively dec-. orated by Mrs. ‘Smith and -other= family relatives. A large pebiina: bell hung in one corner, adorned with flowers, holly and nai Rev. Gideon. ony oe 92-year-old: minister of the seshbaies Ceehane y united the pair beneath the b It was a double ring that the small operators will run] ai . out ‘of supplies, even on govern Mrs. Mildred Dunn Wed* ~ Be