July 1, 1949 (8 pages)

' Alexander; ‘ 8—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, July 1, 1949 BOY SCOUT CAMP AT PAHATSI WILL OPEN — JULY 10 FOR 3 WEEKS Registrations for the one-week session at Camp Pahatsi, Tahoe area council, Boy Scout camp, are filled, it was announced t»day by Scout Executive Ra,.mond: J. Ewan, who will serve as camp director. The one-week session will open July 10 and continue to July 17. On July 17, the two-week session will open and run to July 31. The second and third week session will be open for Scouts who are going for one-week only and who could not be accepted for the first week. A concentrated program of scoutcraft, campcraft, waterfront . activities, scout advancement, honor belt awards and tribe of Pahatsi meetings will be held the first week of camp. The two-week program will feature pack animal trips and overnight hikes, and the Pahatsi ranger primitive camping course. Field archery instruction, handicraft, campfire program, movies and special activities will be additional program features. . Troops from which Scouts will be attending camp inciude the following: Roseville, Troop. 11, Seoutmaster Phil H. Leak; Troop 14, Scoutmaster Ed Cowperthwaite; Lincoln, Troop 18, Scoutmaster George. Perry; Loomis Troop 12, Scoutmaster R. Bruce . Parnes; Penryn Treop 9, Scoutmaster. Ralph Baker; Auburn Troop 3, Scoutmaster J. M. “Red” . Warner; Troop 10, Scoutmaster Fred Knudsen; Troop 19, Scoutmaster George Magie; Applegate Weimar Troop. 21, Scoutmaster Ray Congdon; Colfax Troop 25, Scoutmaster Blair Eddy; Foresthil Troop 26, Scoutmaster George Grant; Grass Valley Troop 22, Scoutmaster Robert Kerr; Troop 4, Scoutmaster Sam Partridge; Troop 35, Scoutmaster R. Broderick; Troop 32, Scoutmaster Francis Jolley; Cold Flat Troop 15, Scoutmaster Dow Truckee, Troop 7, Scoutmaster William Bottel. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DIRECTORS MEET TUESDAY Directors of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce will meet Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock in city hall. STATE CASH ON HAND INCREASES DURING MAY Thomas H. Kuchel, state controller, reported an increase of $34,400,583 in “cash on-hand” in California’s general fund during the month of May. The report for the first eleven months of ‘the current fiscal year showed a cash excess over current obligations on May 31, 1949, amounting to $101,678,121. The fund contained $67,277,538 at the close of the preceding month and $206,637,720 on the same date last year. Revenues totaling $487,094,167 were deposited in the treasury during the period ‘of the report, with retail sales and use taxes accounting for $285,093,090 to lead the field of revenue produci ers. Kuchel reported an increase of $15,331,809 in retail sales and use taxes over the comparable eleven month period of the preceding fiscal year and pointed out that bank and corporation franchise and income taxes gained $6,886,979 to reach a total of $72,703,015. Aid to the needy aged for the period of Kuchel’s report. totaled $84,358,754, an increase of $27,799,678 over last year. 17th District Fair ‘Board Feasts Press The board of directors and of;ficers of the 17th District Agricultural association feasted mem. bers of the Nevada county press 'at a dinner Wednesday evening ; at Deer Creek Inn. Thomas Mulcahy, president, presided at. the ' dinner. Plans for future expansion of 'the fair were discussed. ' Guests of the association were Robert Ingram, Earl Caddy and Bruce Wright of the Grass Valley Union, and Donald Wray and Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Wray of The . Nugget. Officers and directors present were Vernon Stoll, Joel Bier' wagen, Malcolm Hammill, Loyle Freeman, Miss Edith Scott and Mulcahy. LONE GRADUATE Etta Mae Kensendorf was the ilone graduate of the Camptonville branch of Marysville union j high school at exercises held in the Community Methodist . chureh: {* Grass ValleyAll members of the current city council retired from office yesterday as the result of an election last May that saw an. entire new slate of officials elected for the next four year term. Mayor Alison Simmons, Councilmen Neil Whiting and John R. Thomas are the retiring city officials. Also leaving office is William T. Garland, auditortreasurer. The council’s final act was the completion of legal work on the construction bids for a projected $398,000 sewage disposal plant. New councilmen are Gil Cramer, Les Cicogni and Arnold Thorsen. James L. Walkinshaw is the new auditor-treasurer. Eddie Tobiassen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Tobiassen, will sail today for Honduras, where he has accepted a job as certified public accountant with the United, Fruit company. He was graduated June 17 from Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, Boston, Mass. 5 A wedding service at noon on Sunday, June 26, in Reno, Nev., united Miss Mary Jean Brakey and Ernest. D. Cummings, both of Grass Valley. A wedding party of 35 motored to the First Methodist church in Reno for he cere} mony. "The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Brakey and was graduated from Grass Valley high school. Her: attendants were Mrs. Charlotte Atkinson and Miss Betty Scurr. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Cummings. He attended Compton Junior College and served 4% years in the U. S. Navy. Ernest Atkinson was his best man. Following a .honeymoon in southern California the couple will be at home at 320 E Main street. William, Goggins, former office manager and purchasing agent for the Idaho-Maryland Mines corporation in the years before the war, has been appointed personnel director for San Mateo county. CITY COUNCIL WILL MEET HERE THURSDAY EVENING Nevada City councilmen will meét. Thursday evening at 8, . o’clock in city hall. council. George G. Pollock, Sac14 COUNTY LEADERS RENAMED SACRAMENTO Fron whites lit dp Sou oe 4 COUNCIL COMMITTEES Fourteen Nevada county leaders today were reappointed members of important committees of the California State Chamber of Commerce’s Sacramento Valley Now To ramento, state chamber regional . hyd hen Teaw lights burning in : : vive president, made the reapHigh School auditorium last night, pointments.) The Nevada county . . looked in to see what went on. members will work with commit-. About twenty people were listenteemen from 18 other valley. ing te Buzz Ellis, the electrician, counties for development of the , talk about television. area and the state. ‘I slipped into a back seat and William Durbrow, Grass Valley . asked Hap Thomas what was up. was again chairman of the re-. Hap told me it was the new Selfgional tax committee. He also is; Improvement Club. I stayed to lisMe Me eee Ch ae int -egional . ; ee Sa ieee Om Turns out this-club meets every Friday night. Each member gives Wore ot came oe a talk on the subject he knows most Mi esac os valley: Stier: about. I joined on the spot because I'm Going Back High School! learning new things is one of my favorite hobbies. From where [I sit, it’s willingness to learn from the other person that makes Americans télerant towards so many different viewpoints and tastes in things. Just because Buzz Ellis goes for chocolate malteds, while I prefer a mellow glass of beer, doesn’t mean I’m right and he’s wrong. Incidentally, next week I’m going to talk on how to run 3 newspaper, don Ellis, Nevada City. Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundatien Tax committee — Hugh D. Brown, Grass Valley. Fees ae ae eee Seis i Mat eae ore Travel and recreation — Mrs. Frances Couillard, Soda Springs: Earl L. Covey, Elton O. Carvin, Loyle Freeman, Grass Valley; A. B. Innis, C. S. Porter and H. F.}]. Sofge, Nevada City. . Industry committee — Wesley B. Donnewirth and George W. Hallock, Grass Valley. Highway committee—Elton O. Carvin, Grass Valley; H. F. Sofge, Nevada City. WE HAVE Two Win Promotions . HOW IS YOUR CREDIT? Show us a man who owns his own home and we will answer the question. 1.C. and JO BELL REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND BUILDERS 242 Commercial Street—Nevada City GOOD BUYS: WITH LOW DOWN PAYMENTS GI and 7 BHA, In National Guard ni ec et Capt. Harleth M. Brock, commanding officer of Company E, 184th Infantry, California WNational Guard, announced the promotion of two of the company’s non-commissioned officers. Phil W. Crenshaw was promoted to technical sergeant from staff sergeant. Crenshaw is the company mess sergeant and is a veteran of World War II. Jess H. Snyder, supply sergeant, was promoted to. staff sergeant from sergeant. Snyder saw service in an infantry outfit during the recent war. v~) NEW PASTOR The Rev. R. R. Hall and family have moved into apartments at 336% Sacramento street. He is the new pastor for the Pentecostal Church of God. He comes here from Oroville. 213 ‘Goramercial Street KEYSTONE Phone 67 NEVADA CITY California GOLD RUSH 1849 We are as proud of our new store as a baby with a new toy and we are even prouder of our enormous stock of branded lines we have obtained for our Grand Opening. The prime principle of Conway's has always been, “What we have to sell is as important as how we sell it.” In other words we realize that the merchandise itself is what customers come to buy. They get: other things too, of course. Through Our Doors Will Pass the Best Dressed Women in Town OPEN HOUSE SPECIALS — TOMORROW---JULY 2nd Courtesy, Convenience, Service . . everything we can contrive to make shopping a pleasure but our merchandise, priced right, is still our leading salesman. Our new home for fashionable ladies’ apparel offers us ample opportunity to display our tremendous supply of the latest styles on'the market. Grass Valley’s NEW CONWAY’S 1949 Sizes 842-10 51 Gauge 15 Denier ° Ultra-Sheer NYLON HOSE $1.00 rai 3 SUMMER SHADES COT Va TON SKIRTS 24-28 Prints and White Pique $1.95 WHITE TAILORED SHIRTS Sanforized Cotton $1.00 MID Sheered Elastic White and Colors RIFF TOPS $1.00: FREE GARDENIA ‘ TO THE LADIES ! SUI WONDERFUL BUYS! TS REDUCED DRESSES REDUCED FREE BALLOONS FOR THE KIDDIES ! CONWAY'S SHOE DEPARTMENT Opens August 6th under the Direction of CARL SAHL, Jr. Featuring Fine ‘ Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes SUPER VALUES COATS Shorties—Full Length Sizes 7-12, CONWAY'S GIRLS DEPARTMENT Opens August 6th—Featuring In all the Newest Back-to-School Fashions 10-14. WHERE SHOPPING 1 MILL STREET CONWAY’? GRASS VALLEY *Phone 127 THE HOME OF SATISFIED CUSTOMERS’ a pe ‘a

' Alexander; ‘ 8—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, July 1, 1949 BOY SCOUT CAMP AT PAHATSI WILL OPEN — JULY 10 FOR 3 WEEKS Registrations for the one-week session at Camp Pahatsi, Tahoe area council, Boy Scout camp, are filled, it was announced t»day by Scout Executive Ra,.mond: J. Ewan, who will serve as camp director. The one-week session will open July 10 and continue to July 17. On July 17, the two-week session will open and run to July 31. The second and third week session will be open for Scouts who are going for one-week only and who could not be accepted for the first week. A concentrated program of scoutcraft, campcraft, waterfront . activities, scout advancement, honor belt awards and tribe of Pahatsi meetings will be held the first week of camp. The two-week program will feature pack animal trips and overnight hikes, and the Pahatsi ranger primitive camping course. Field archery instruction, handicraft, campfire program, movies and special activities will be additional program features. . Troops from which Scouts will be attending camp inciude the following: Roseville, Troop. 11, Seoutmaster Phil H. Leak; Troop 14, Scoutmaster Ed Cowperthwaite; Lincoln, Troop 18, Scoutmaster George. Perry; Loomis Troop 12, Scoutmaster R. Bruce . Parnes; Penryn Treop 9, Scoutmaster. Ralph Baker; Auburn Troop 3, Scoutmaster J. M. “Red” . Warner; Troop 10, Scoutmaster Fred Knudsen; Troop 19, Scoutmaster George Magie; Applegate Weimar Troop. 21, Scoutmaster Ray Congdon; Colfax Troop 25, Scoutmaster Blair Eddy; Foresthil Troop 26, Scoutmaster George Grant; Grass Valley Troop 22, Scoutmaster Robert Kerr; Troop 4, Scoutmaster Sam Partridge; Troop 35, Scoutmaster R. Broderick; Troop 32, Scoutmaster Francis Jolley; Cold Flat Troop 15, Scoutmaster Dow Truckee, Troop 7, Scoutmaster William Bottel. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DIRECTORS MEET TUESDAY Directors of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce will meet Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock in city hall. STATE CASH ON HAND INCREASES DURING MAY Thomas H. Kuchel, state controller, reported an increase of $34,400,583 in “cash on-hand” in California’s general fund during the month of May. The report for the first eleven months of ‘the current fiscal year showed a cash excess over current obligations on May 31, 1949, amounting to $101,678,121. The fund contained $67,277,538 at the close of the preceding month and $206,637,720 on the same date last year. Revenues totaling $487,094,167 were deposited in the treasury during the period ‘of the report, with retail sales and use taxes accounting for $285,093,090 to lead the field of revenue produci ers. Kuchel reported an increase of $15,331,809 in retail sales and use taxes over the comparable eleven month period of the preceding fiscal year and pointed out that bank and corporation franchise and income taxes gained $6,886,979 to reach a total of $72,703,015. Aid to the needy aged for the period of Kuchel’s report. totaled $84,358,754, an increase of $27,799,678 over last year. 17th District Fair ‘Board Feasts Press The board of directors and of;ficers of the 17th District Agricultural association feasted mem. bers of the Nevada county press 'at a dinner Wednesday evening ; at Deer Creek Inn. Thomas Mulcahy, president, presided at. the ' dinner. Plans for future expansion of 'the fair were discussed. ' Guests of the association were Robert Ingram, Earl Caddy and Bruce Wright of the Grass Valley Union, and Donald Wray and Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Wray of The . Nugget. Officers and directors present were Vernon Stoll, Joel Bier' wagen, Malcolm Hammill, Loyle Freeman, Miss Edith Scott and Mulcahy. LONE GRADUATE Etta Mae Kensendorf was the ilone graduate of the Camptonville branch of Marysville union j high school at exercises held in the Community Methodist . chureh: {* Grass ValleyAll members of the current city council retired from office yesterday as the result of an election last May that saw an. entire new slate of officials elected for the next four year term. Mayor Alison Simmons, Councilmen Neil Whiting and John R. Thomas are the retiring city officials. Also leaving office is William T. Garland, auditortreasurer. The council’s final act was the completion of legal work on the construction bids for a projected $398,000 sewage disposal plant. New councilmen are Gil Cramer, Les Cicogni and Arnold Thorsen. James L. Walkinshaw is the new auditor-treasurer. Eddie Tobiassen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Tobiassen, will sail today for Honduras, where he has accepted a job as certified public accountant with the United, Fruit company. He was graduated June 17 from Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, Boston, Mass. 5 A wedding service at noon on Sunday, June 26, in Reno, Nev., united Miss Mary Jean Brakey and Ernest. D. Cummings, both of Grass Valley. A wedding party of 35 motored to the First Methodist church in Reno for he cere} mony. "The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Brakey and was graduated from Grass Valley high school. Her: attendants were Mrs. Charlotte Atkinson and Miss Betty Scurr. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John V. Cummings. He attended Compton Junior College and served 4% years in the U. S. Navy. Ernest Atkinson was his best man. Following a .honeymoon in southern California the couple will be at home at 320 E Main street. William, Goggins, former office manager and purchasing agent for the Idaho-Maryland Mines corporation in the years before the war, has been appointed personnel director for San Mateo

county. CITY COUNCIL WILL MEET HERE THURSDAY EVENING Nevada City councilmen will meét. Thursday evening at 8, . o’clock in city hall. council. George G. Pollock, Sac14 COUNTY LEADERS RENAMED SACRAMENTO Fron whites lit dp Sou oe 4 COUNCIL COMMITTEES Fourteen Nevada county leaders today were reappointed members of important committees of the California State Chamber of Commerce’s Sacramento Valley Now To ramento, state chamber regional . hyd hen Teaw lights burning in : : vive president, made the reapHigh School auditorium last night, pointments.) The Nevada county . . looked in to see what went on. members will work with commit-. About twenty people were listenteemen from 18 other valley. ing te Buzz Ellis, the electrician, counties for development of the , talk about television. area and the state. ‘I slipped into a back seat and William Durbrow, Grass Valley . asked Hap Thomas what was up. was again chairman of the re-. Hap told me it was the new Selfgional tax committee. He also is; Improvement Club. I stayed to lisMe Me eee Ch ae int -egional . ; ee Sa ieee Om Turns out this-club meets every Friday night. Each member gives Wore ot came oe a talk on the subject he knows most Mi esac os valley: Stier: about. I joined on the spot because I'm Going Back High School! learning new things is one of my favorite hobbies. From where [I sit, it’s willingness to learn from the other person that makes Americans télerant towards so many different viewpoints and tastes in things. Just because Buzz Ellis goes for chocolate malteds, while I prefer a mellow glass of beer, doesn’t mean I’m right and he’s wrong. Incidentally, next week I’m going to talk on how to run 3 newspaper, don Ellis, Nevada City. Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundatien Tax committee — Hugh D. Brown, Grass Valley. Fees ae ae eee Seis i Mat eae ore Travel and recreation — Mrs. Frances Couillard, Soda Springs: Earl L. Covey, Elton O. Carvin, Loyle Freeman, Grass Valley; A. B. Innis, C. S. Porter and H. F.}]. Sofge, Nevada City. . Industry committee — Wesley B. Donnewirth and George W. Hallock, Grass Valley. Highway committee—Elton O. Carvin, Grass Valley; H. F. Sofge, Nevada City. WE HAVE Two Win Promotions . HOW IS YOUR CREDIT? Show us a man who owns his own home and we will answer the question. 1.C. and JO BELL REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND BUILDERS 242 Commercial Street—Nevada City GOOD BUYS: WITH LOW DOWN PAYMENTS GI and 7 BHA, In National Guard ni ec et Capt. Harleth M. Brock, commanding officer of Company E, 184th Infantry, California WNational Guard, announced the promotion of two of the company’s non-commissioned officers. Phil W. Crenshaw was promoted to technical sergeant from staff sergeant. Crenshaw is the company mess sergeant and is a veteran of World War II. Jess H. Snyder, supply sergeant, was promoted to. staff sergeant from sergeant. Snyder saw service in an infantry outfit during the recent war. v~) NEW PASTOR The Rev. R. R. Hall and family have moved into apartments at 336% Sacramento street. He is the new pastor for the Pentecostal Church of God. He comes here from Oroville. 213 ‘Goramercial Street KEYSTONE Phone 67 NEVADA CITY California GOLD RUSH 1849 We are as proud of our new store as a baby with a new toy and we are even prouder of our enormous stock of branded lines we have obtained for our Grand Opening. The prime principle of Conway's has always been, “What we have to sell is as important as how we sell it.” In other words we realize that the merchandise itself is what customers come to buy. They get: other things too, of course.. Through Our Doors Will Pass the Best Dressed Women in Town OPEN HOUSE SPECIALS — TOMORROW---JULY 2nd Courtesy, Convenience, Service . . everything we can contrive to make shopping a pleasure but our merchandise, priced right, is still our leading salesman. Our new home for fashionable ladies’ apparel offers us ample opportunity to display our tremendous supply of the latest styles on'the market. Grass Valley’s NEW CONWAY’S 1949 Sizes 842-10 51 Gauge 15 Denier ° Ultra-Sheer NYLON HOSE $1.00 rai 3 SUMMER SHADES COT Va TON SKIRTS 24-28 Prints and White Pique $1.95 WHITE TAILORED SHIRTS Sanforized Cotton $1.00 MID Sheered Elastic White and Colors RIFF TOPS $1.00: FREE GARDENIA ‘ TO THE LADIES ! SUI WONDERFUL BUYS! TS REDUCED DRESSES REDUCED FREE BALLOONS FOR THE KIDDIES ! CONWAY'S SHOE DEPARTMENT Opens August 6th under the Direction of CARL SAHL, Jr. Featuring Fine ‘ Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes SUPER VALUES COATS Shorties—Full Length Sizes 7-12, CONWAY'S GIRLS DEPARTMENT Opens August 6th—Featuring In all the Newest Back-to-School Fashions 10-14. WHERE SHOPPING 1 MILL STREET CONWAY’? GRASS VALLEY *Phone 127 THE HOME OF SATISFIED CUSTOMERS’ a pe ‘a