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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Grass Valley Nugget

July 26, 1949 (8 pages)

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FLIER’S BONES — STATE CHAMBER COMMITTEE OK’S ROAD PROGRAM The bones of an army air forces sergeant were brought out from the high Sierra late yesterday by Coroner Alvah G. Hooper, Deputy Sheriff John Blackburn, and Reginald Peacock, Auburn, discoverer otf the remains. q Pending identification, the bones are at the Myers Grass Valley mortuary. It is believed Volume 22—No. 41 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA LAWRENCE CONTINUES . SENATE TESTIMONY GOLD TRADING ACT CURNOW REPORTS SLOW Nevada County Dog Fanciers RESPONSE TO CANCER association will meet tonight at 7 o'clock at the Ridge road home SOCIETY FUND DRIVE Dog Fanciers Meet Tonight at Kuskas Joseph S. Lawrence continues of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Kuska for another lesson in the obedience course. Friends of dogs are welcome to the meeting, the Kuskas declare. H. A. Curnow, county chairman for the American Cancer society drive for funds to obtain a quota of $1500 for Nevada county says that the final date to file a report and to close the campaign is July 31. The local committees with John J. Fortier as chairman for Grass Valley district and Ray Scott as.chairman for the Truckee district were givén an extension from July 1 to July 31, Ne¥ada county unit of the Calito assist in raising the quota fornia highway patrol will move of $1500 set for Nevada county. the deceased man was one of his testimony for the gold tradtwo sergeants who were reported ing act before the U. S. senate “9; missing on a private flight from committee on banking and curHamilton field in February, rency conducted in May. 1947. The body of the other missOnly three countries, Socialist ing man was found near a plane England, Communist Russia and in October, 1947, about four miles the United States prohibits the from where Peacock made the possession of gold by its citizens. gruesome discovery Sunday The French and Belgian citizen noon. can have whatever gold there is, Peacock was on a fishing trip and they can keep it in their. to the Lake Fordyce country with bank vaults and no one knows! his brother and father but was how much there is out of ’circualone at the time he found the lation, and he can do that and skeletonlying about 100 yards not worry about going to jail, north of Fordyce creek on the either. south face of Old Man Mountain. I have heard guesses, and they The bones were scattered over ranged from a low figure of $2,an area of 100 yards indicating 000,000,000 to a high figure of animals had been at the remains. $5,000,000,000, not by the governThe retrieving party returned ment or the banks—just by the to Grass. Valley about 7 o’clock citizens. It ‘is a curious fact, we pride. ourselves upon’ our freelast night. dom. A great deal of the conten PATROLMAN JACKSON RIDES HERD ON COWS IN DOWNTOWN AREA Three cows have beén returned to their owner, Harry Sisk, after they spent a day under the supervision of the Nevada City police department. Patrolman J. J. Jackson picked up the three critters meandering along Boulder Street one block from the Plaza in downtown Nevada City Saturday. City officials were dismayed at the prospects of caring for and CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL TO MOVE INTO NEW OFFICES THURSDAY into new offices Thursday locat tion abroad in the world today revolves around two different ideologies. We boast about the freedom of.the individual in our country as against the bondage of the individual in the countries holding other ideologies. And yet when it comes to the freedom of the individual in the simple matter of possession of gold, we treat our citizens the same as Socialist England “and Communist Russia. Tangier is one of the qutstand Tuesday, July 26, 1949 ie CAN SHE QUALIFY? MIAMI, Fla.—Here is Shirley Rhodes, 18, judged Miss Florida 1949 in all her simplicity The members of the commited on the Nevada City-Grass Valtee in charge of the drive elected ley highway one mile east of the not to organize a house solicitaNevada County Golf club course. tion, but had hoped that several Open house and public inspection of the building will be held Monhundred letters mailed to residents of the county together with day. : a-canvass of the respective busiEd Nygard constructed’ the ness districts and cancer cans building for E. T. Fisher, both placed in convenient places of Grass Valley. The building would bring the desired results. followed California ranch style Curnow says that while the with red rust siding. returns for Nevada City district Western half of the building have been most re-assuring with contains the private offices of contributions received to date Captain J. E. Blake, patrol squad from about one hundred donors room, general public office, and amounting to approximately KAPI radio console and a photo$400 without inclusion of the graphic dark room. cancer cans which funds are yet The eastern half is one large to be determined that he was public rogm for the department somewhat disappointed about the general response to such a of motor vehicles. worthy cause. The building is air conditioned He further stated that if conand will be individual room heated by electricity. All floors tributions from the Nevada City district were received during. the are asphalt tile. coming week which would agAdjoining the office is a 1000gregate at least $50 that the Newatt radio station and tower opvada City district will have sup‘erated by the highway patrol. © ported its full share of the quota It is the fourth location in for Nevada county. ° Grass Valley in thirty years un Highway committee of the California Chamber of Commerce ., meeting in Sacramento approved — recent recommendations of state highway improvements in Nevada county by representatives of Nevada City and Grass Valley. The recommendations were presented the committee during its tour of northern California to determine where highway work is needed. Projects approved include grading, surfacing and realignment of highway 20 west of Grass Valley for eight miles; realignment and construction of an improved highway between Nevada City and Grass Valley; realignment and construction of highway 49 for an eight-mile stretch south from North San Juan; grading and realignment of highway 20 at Browns Valley; and grading and surfacing of highway 49 from DeWitt state hospital to Nevada county line. 0. H. RENNER NAMED HEAD OF GLEN RIDGE IMPROVEMENT GROUP O. H. Renner was elected president of the Glen Ridge Improvement club Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Valdix. Other officers named are Mrs. Audrey Weselsky, secretary; and Mrs. Mae Raddue, treasurer. Re° tiring officers are C. E. Rogers, president; Mrs. G. Wilson, secretary; and J. U. Poore, treasurer. The evening’s activities included follow-up plans on promised Ridge road construction and other civic matters. A social hour followed. ing free gold markets of today. and beauty. She competed in And Beyrouth, is another, and, Miami Beach July 16, after Paris, of course, is an outstandbeing chosen Miss Tampa. Her next stop will be Atlantic City ing market for free gold, and in those places it is entirely. legal for the big Miss America Competition. for the individual! citizen to have feeding the animals, inasmuch as gold. the department has had its hands Curnow reports that John ForBut now if you are a Mexican may be. You will have an item ider supervision of Captain Blake. full taking .care of a _ serious tier as chairman for the Grass peon or a Chinese coolie you can of valid information which is ownerless dog problem. Valley district is making a dehave your gold. But if you are an utterly lacking today, an item of¢ termined effort to raise the quoAmerican citizen and you are information the lack of which tota assigned to. his district, and found carrying a _ couple of day makes the success of agen. Myrtle Larghero, Nevada City, regardless of the fact that refiled suit in superior court FriAmerican double eagles in your cies like the International Moneturns have been disappointing to day against Mary Louise Livesay, pocket, your ‘government can tary Fund not only difficult, but A final computation of U. S. date that he is quite confident Nevada City beauty shop operatake them away from you—and virtually impossible. that Grass Valley will meet its tor, asking $5,000 damages, claimI am not sure they cannot put S. 13 and. S.286 would provide savings bonds sold during the quota as it has always.-done—in ing her hair was “burned, ruined “Opportunity Drive” revealed you in jail for 10 years. an open market in which buyers and destroyed” through carelessWe are speaking of the factors and sellers can match bids and that Nevada county met its quota the past. Will Doige, Oakland, president The county chairman stated ness and negligence by the opthat determine currency values . offers in terms of a substance and went over the top 151.8 per of the Nevada County Reunion cent, it was announced today by inasmuch as no receipts have erator. In the complaint, Mrs. association, is heading a movementioned just above, factors ap-. which has always rated priority plying where gold is not the as a measuring unit of value. The C. R. Clinch, chairman of the been issued to donors in the NeLarghero charges the defendant ment now underway in the bay standard, where the currency is zold in which the values of world treasury department’s volunteer vada City district that in a few on July 5, 1949, through “unarea to organize a Nevada Coundays or at the close of the camskillful use of electrical equipnot convertible into gold. And currencies will be expressed on committee. ty club, to hold periodic social Nevada county citizens pur-! paign he proposes to submit to ment” her hair was destroyed the international monetary fund these open markets will provide gatherings. has control over none of these a valid common denominator by chased series E bonds totaling the local papers for publication and fell off. Doidge is planning to have a factors. As a result, the world ‘a complete list of names and .
William: J. Cassettari, Grass which these currencies: can be $74,430.50. The quota set by picnic meeting in Mosswood today has a fantastic structure amounts of contributions reValley, is attorney for plaintiff. Washington was $49,000.00. compared one with the other. park, Oakland, to discuss the of exchange rates, with the offiIn announcing the figures, ceived from donors as the only A free market for gold will inproposed new club. Tentative cial rates, generally speaking, be-. means under the circumstances troduce, for the first time in alClinch paid high tribute to memplans call for the picnic to be ing the least valid of all. A free . to give proper’ and due acknowlbers of his committee who conmost a generation, light and saniheld in September on a' Sunday. market for gold would cut ty to a Subject that has been comducted the drive over a period of edgement for contributions re. ceived. through: this preposterous fabric . plicated by monetary chauvintwo months. “We wish to publicly thank all} of fiat and fiction. . ism, bureaucratic aspiration, soH. S. “Bert” Foreman, owner Let me just expand that statecialist fantasy, and public ignothose who took part in the effort. . of Foreman & Judd store at corThe workers .. and the bondment a little. I have stated a minrance. ner of Pine and Commercial, will have ute ago that if you do have a A free:market for gold is an buyers, themselves conduct a clearance sale of his made a fine contribution to the Four-color Nevada City fun free market for gold, then you invitation to.a rational solution. entire stock of merchandise bewill have people coming. to such The absurd restraints and penalfuture welfare of our people and Nevada County Sheriff’s Posse ginning at 10 a.m., Thursday. maps arrived Saturday and are a market with folding money in ties now applicable to the ownerto our community,” Clinch said. being distributed by the genial adopted by-laws at a regular 3 Foreman announced the lease meeting Friday in Cardinal hall. secretary of the Nevada City their hands, bidding for the gold. ship of gold in this country are on the building has expired and which others bring in for sale. matched only in Socialist EngChamber of Commerce, H. F. The rules and regulations were AWAITING ARRAIGNMENT And day after day you will have} land and Communist Russia. For he wishes to clear out his merdrawn up by Robert C. Schiffner, “Si” Sofge. that, the matching of bids and. America, that last citadel of perEd Rosell, 49, Grass Valley, local attorney, and an advisory chandise before Aug. 1. The map was drawn by George offers under complete freedom. sonal liberty and economic freewill be arraigned in Grass Valley board. Foreman operated the store for Mathis, Nevada City artist, and Thereby all these fellows will dom, this is strange company. justice court tomorrow on a the past four years and has been The posse is planning extensive points out the highlights of the be able to determine values for Of course, if you had a free charge of grand theft. He is in . participation in the forthcoming active in Nevada City business community and the attractions tnemselves, results depending on market in gold in which the valNevada county jail, unable to) Nevada county fair scheduled for for 17 years. He formerly man-+ of the surrounding area. how highly they value their paue of gold: might be $45 an ounce, furnish bail. Rosell was arrested . Aug. 25-28 in the county. fairaged the lumber yards of the TaThey are available at the office per currency and how highly your value in the treasury would between Nevada City and Grass ' grounds in Grass Valley. hoe Sugar Pine Co. and Diamond of the Nevada City Chamber of they value gold and that process not mean a great deal. It would Valley on highway 20 by Sheriff Bud Kyle and Sheriff Richard Match Co. He has been president Commerce in city hall and will will set the value. be a purely nominal value withRichard W. Hoskins. of the Nevada City Chamber of W. Hoskins head the posse. be placed in various locations Now, to be sure, that value is out any great significance. Commerce and Highway Twenty about the city when more arrive not going to be the same one day As to the possibilities of con. association. from the lithographer. as for another day, it will change fusion, certainly it might conForeman said he and his wife tomorrow from what it is today. . fuse some people;. but, on the will remain in Nevada City. But that is true of every service . other hand, would it be any more RECUPERATING A large advertisement of great and every commodity in a free} confusing than the present situsavings and bargains will be pubeconomy. The fact is that you ation that we have today? Rodger, 6-year old son of Millished in the Friday edition of There is no question but that ton Anderson, Nevada City, and will have such values as will be The Nugget and in an issue of Mrs. Milton Anderson, Grass Valvalid under our conditions. They if we do have a free market m the Grass Valley Union this will be determined under what gold, that gold will not stabilize ley, is recuperating satisfactorily week. from severe facial injuries sufyou might call economic town a fixed price, at $30 or $40, but meetings, where people will meet it will fluctuate from day to day. fered recently when struck by a board whipped back from a saw and make their valuations, the I think there is no question whatat the Diamond Match Co. lumvalue of what they have comever but that is what the price pared to the value of what they will do—it will fluctuate. Woodchuck Flat Camp ber yard, Grass Valley. want that the other fellow has. But, is that not entirely charThe boy has been removed 4-H clubs of Nevada county And once you have that, then acteristic of all our economy, of from Sutter hospital, Sacramento, will hold their annual outing you will know precisely what an all goods as well as gold? Everyand is now in a private home from Thursday to Sunday at American paper dollar is worth thing that we deal wtih, everyawaiting further treatment. AnWoodchuck Flat camp on the in terms of gold, and you will thing that has a price, acts in derson was told by doctors plastic upper Fordyce road on land know. also what a pound sterling that same manner, the price will surgery to repair damaged facial leased from the U. S. forest servis worth in terms of gold, and fluctuate from day to day, that tissue may have to wait three or ice. what the French france and all is true of everything as well as four years. Nevada county 4-H clubs will these other currencies are worth gold. set up the camp grounds and the in terms of gold. And even taking this case, Placer county 4-H clubs will And, knowing that, having an where you have an_ effectively HELD IN JAIL break up the camp when they equation in which one member maintained value of gold at a Wellington Smith Lathram, 20, in each case is a common sub-j figure of, say, $30, if you could complete their outing in August. and Donald Edward Phillips, 19, stance, a common denominator, maintain that, in a free market both of Sierra county, are lodged then you will have this bridge you would still have these flucUNKNOWN ASSAILANTS SHOOT FROM AMBUSH BAD CHECK CHARGE in Nevada county jail awaiting that you need, a bridge by which tuations in the prices of other \ HOLLYWOOD, Calif—Edward “Neddie” Herbert is lifted into arraignment in Sierra justice you can move from one currency commodities, .you would have Ray Miller has been returned an ambulance after he was shot in the back while leavin, an court on a charge of grand theft. to another. You can tell then these changing prices—changing to Yuba City on a bad check They were arrested Saturday in from that common denominator, from day to day—in other things, exclusive restaurant on the celebrated Sunset Strip. Herbert, along with gang leader Mickey Cohen, a special investigator as‘charge, following his arrest Satthe Ruby mine area by Sierra namely gold, what the real value in terms of the price of gold iturday by Nevada County shersigned to guard Cohen, and a woman,.\were wounded by uncounty Sheriff Dewey Johnson. of dollars or francs or sterling (continued on page 4) known assailants who escaped. iff's officers. NEVADA COUNTY CLUB MAY BE FORMED IN SAVINGS BONDS SALES TOPS QUOTA BY HALF LOCAL BEAUTY PARLOR OPERATOR DEFENDANT IN $5000 DAMAGE SUIT METROPOLITAN AREA NEVADA CITY FUN MAP NOW IN DISTRIBUTION FOREMAN WILL CLOSE OUT FURNITURE STORE POSSE ADOPTS BYLAWS AT REGULAR MEETING 4-H Clubs At 4)