July 8, 1949 (8 pages)

avg ears NEVADA CITY — . Sportmen’s Paradise NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA THEY'RE BITING ‘WHERE, WHEN and HOW and Other Sportsmen’s Items Gold and the other lakes of Sierra county. are still giving good fishing, according to reports from the area. The north fork of the Yuba river~has been good. ‘to fly fishermen. Faucherie lake was one of the best spots for the holiday weekend fishermen. Some lakes are beginning to show signs of being fished out, Bowman and French among them. s * * H. F. “Si” Sofge, secretary of the Nevada County. Sportsmen’s association, spent the , holidays fishing with his son, Harold, of Susanville in Butte lake in Mt. Lassen national park. He reported the lake was good but difficult of access. = * = Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rogers (Dale Evans) and this three boys of Hollywood were weekend fishing enthusiasts at Lake Bowman. * * & No: matter what else took place July Fourth was a great day for Earl Adams, Jr., 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Adams, Grass Valley. Fishing at Bullards Bar dam, he landed a beautiful largemouthed bass, having a fight on his hands before he pulled the fish over the side of the boat. * The large bass weighed four and three-quarter pounds and measured 21 inches long. So eee * Some 300°baby chinese pheasants were delivered to the rearing pens of the Sierraville ranger station. In September when they have matured the birds will be released: in Sierra valley. About. 200 adult chinese pheasants and 100 valley quail were also liberated here last week. The birds came from the Sacramento game farm. * * * After declaring the elk herd too large for the amount of forage in the area, the fish and game commission set a 10-day controlled open season from Dec. 2 to 11, inclusive, in Inyo county. nly. No more than 75 males and 50 females may be taken. To apply for one.of the 125 special permits, resident citizen California hunters may contact the Los Angeles office of the division of fish and game, state building, before Oct. 26. Applications must be submitted on an official printed form, and will not be accepted from hunters under the age of 16 years. A public drawing will be held Nov. 2, at the Los Angeles office to select the 125 lucky candidates. Sixty alternate names will also be drawn. Successful applicants will be informed of ;special elk hunting regulations upon payment of the $10 permit fee. Licensed citizen bow and arrow hunters may participate, but employees of the division of fish and game and persons who have been issued an elk hunting permit since 1939 are ineligible. WILD RIDE IN TRUCK DEMOLISHES VEHICLELEAVES RIDERS SAFE One look at the truck chassis as it sets in the yard of the Boston Ravine Auto Wreckers, Grass Valley, will put you to wonder what miraculous fate was riding with Gerald Patterson and his companion of Grass Valley as they careened down the Tahoe-Ukiah highway grade towards Nevada City at a speed of 105 miles an hour Friday night. Near the top of the grade Patterson attempted to kick the heavily-loadedtruck into lower gear only to have it jam in neutral. A touch of the _ brake brought realization an air line had snapped. By that time Patterson had picked up too much speed to slap it into the bank and he elected to ride her down. The truck failed to make the sharp curve near the bottom of the hill and the vehicle turned over’ and skidded 150 feet to a stop. The two men were pinned in the cab ppt. suffered. only one minor sera For pollution of San Francisco bay waters with oil, the Standard Oil company has been fined $250 in the court ‘of’ Judge Donald F. Creedon. Citation wassissued by State Fish and Game Warden James Reutgen. . * * oe Sale of 1949 angling licenses to California sportsmen brought the division of fish and game a total revenue of $1,198,398 by June l, it is reported by H. R. Dunbar, chief of the bureau of licenses. * * * Development and expansion of three fish hatchery installations in the southern San Joaquin valley with wildlife conservation board funds will mean an added annual production of at least 1,500,000 catchable-sized trout for the area, it is reported by Board Consultant Seth Gordon. From its three-year proceeds of state horse racing funds totalling nine million dollars, the board recently approved new hatchery installations on the Tule river, Tulare county, and on the San Joaquin river, Fresno county. Material expansion also was authorized at the Moorehouse Springs hatchery in Tulare county. Total expenditure on the three installations will’ be $385,000, Gordon stated. ~ JUVENILE HOME RECOMMENDEDTO SUPERVISORS Nevada county probation committee, headed by J. E. Keegan, Grass. Valley, appeared before the board of supervisors Wednes;+ day morning urging allocation of funds in the 1949. budge. for construction of,'a juvenile detention home. Appearing with Keegan were Mrs. Howard Penrose, member of the probation committee; and Mrs. Victor Montre, . Mrs. William W. Esterly and Mrs. Opal Hendricks, representing the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women’s club. Keegan calied attention to 36 cases handled in juvenile court the past year without facilities for holding, counseling and cor. rection.-provided by a detention home. Keegan declared the only place a juvenile could be held is in county jail, a practice frowned upon by courts. Keegan suggested SCOperalian . , 5. C. Coughlan were dissenters. Damage was very slight. with Sierra county, which is also without a detention home. Keegan said he believed many juveniles could be corrected if the proper facilities were available. Warren Odell, chairman of the board, asked the committee to prepare information on_ cases handled by the county, types of buildings recommended and costs to enable the board to conduct a survey. BODY OF MAASCERG IS FOUND BY TWO YOUTHS The body of Emil Maascerg, 78, badly decomposed, was, found late Wednesday afternoon. by Howard Evans, Jr., 12, and Stanley Clewett, 12, both of Grass Valley. The body was found lying on a rock dump in a clearing near the old Jenny Lind mine, .a few miles north of the Alta Hill rest home he had wandered from June 2. He was identified through the clothing he was wearing at the time of his disappearance. The body is,at Myers Grass Valley mortuary pending efforts to contact relatives. Many Visitors Use Pioneer Park Over Holiday Weekend Many visitors from all over the U. S. used the picnic facilities of Pioneer park over the weekend, according to Fred Bush, custodian of the park. Small groups of _ picnickers taxed the facilities of the park band “Séatan’s lodge to use by the overflow groups. Volume 22—No. 36 » Friday, July 8, 1949 MONUMENT TO SARGENT IS DEDICATED Peter T, Conmy, Grand President of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Sunday afternoon dedicated the Aaron A. Sargent monument as a California historic landmark in Pioneer cemetery in exercises that were a part of the Nevada county Fourth of July Centennial celebration. Joseph R. Knowland, chairman of the California ‘Centennial commission, told the assemblage of approximately 300 the historic landmarks committee of the Native Sons of the Golden West plans to place historic markers at You Bet, Red Dog and other Nevada county ghost towns. Aaron Sargent, San Francisco, grandson of the Nevada county pioneer whose memory was honored by Sunday’s program, also spoke-on behalf of the family. Dr. C. W. Chapman was chairman of the program. The Rev. Dahlgren’ Casey, pastor of the Nevada City -Methodist church, gave the invocation and read a poem, entitled “Garden of Sleep,” written especially for the occasion by Adeline Merriam Conner, poet laureate of the Sierras. Rev. Father Patrick O’Reilly, pastor of St. Patrick’s -Catholic church, Grass Valley, gave benediction. Grass Valley. Miner’s chorus and the Nevada City. band rendered musical selections for the occasion. Other speakers were .Elmer Stevens, president of the.Nevada County Historical society; George L. Jones, former superior court judge; Edmund G. Kinyon,. historical editor of the Grass Val-. ley Union; George H. Calandn, city clerk of Nevada City. The speakers platform was decked with bunting and centered with-a portrait-of. Aaron A. Sargent, which has been hung for many years in the Odd Fellows hall in Nevada City. Shamberger Released From Management Of GV Memorial Building Nevada county board of supervisors by a vote of 3-2 discharged Oscar Shamberger as} manager of the Veterans Me-. morial building in Grass Valley . and placed it in control of aj seven-man committee to be named by the Grass. Valley American Legion post. Chairrhan Warren Odell and :Clear MISS AMERICA CONDIDATE RALEIGH, N. C.—Janice Harvell, “Miss Wilmington, N. C.” of 1949 practices postures for the big Miss America contest. Poses prettily, doesn’t she? NEVADACOUNTY $24.211,930. Total assessed valuation of property in Nevada county is $24,211,930, according to report released by P. G. Scadden, county assessor, an. increase of $1,033,230. over last year. Scadden assessed Nevada City at: $1,652,720, Grass Valley at $3,279,310, balance of county at $10,711,330, and the public utilities at $9,584,090. ‘Exemptions totalled $1,015,520. Nevada City received $114,550 in .exemptions, Grass Valley $252,540 and the balance of the county exemptions were $648,430. _Assessments by school districts: Birchville, $40,040; Blue Tent, $64,990; Cherokee, $197,000; Chicago Park, $226,850; Creek, $150,530; Forest Springs, $128,830; French Corral, $60,780; Grass. Valley,. $7,219,950; TIhdian Springs, $259,630; Lime Kiln, $229,220; Sweetland, $28,640; Nevada City, $6,460,650; North Bloomfield, $1,695,980; North San Juan, $89,620; Oakland, $751,530; Pleasant Valley, $839,430; Rough and Ready, $120,550; Truckee, . $4,118,470; Union Hill, $1,246,030; Wolf, $192,760; Kentucky Flat, $126,450. GRASS FIRE Nevada City was awakened at 1:05 a.m. Monday by the ringing . of the fire bell calling the crew . to douse a grass fire behind the Tahoe national forest workshop. Americans Long Ways From Pioneer Conception cf Fourth Knowland Tells Joseph R. Knowland, chairman of the California Centennial Commission, spoke to a packed auditorium Monday noon, as the principal speaker of patriotic Fourth of July exercises held on the final day of the 1949 Nevada County Fourth of July Centennial Celebration. Knowland was introduced by Earl Covey, Grass Valley member of the commission, and chairman of the program. The Grass Valley band, directed by Harold George and the Grass Valley Gold Miners chorus rendered selections and Peter T. Conmy, Grand President of the Native Sons of the Golden West, spoke briefly. The exercises were held immediately following the parade. Knowland’s speech is as follows: ‘“Mr. Chairman, members of the Chamber of Commerce and fellow Californians: “I am inclined to believe that the country-wide movement for sane Fourth of July celebrations originally conceived in an effort to lessen the hazard of fire and. of injury to exurgerant young Americans has had its effect upon Independence day oratory. There is less hyperbolical exaggerated language. In those days it was thought patriotism must . be aroused by the music of bands, the waving of flags, the noise of Nevada Folks exploding bombs, warnings against foreign entanglements, and the glorification of military leaders. “Today we have the same love and respect for our country’s flag, the same reverence for our military heroes, but our thoughts revert to the grave problems facing our country and the world. We are sobered, and deeply concerned for the future. Two devastating world. wars, and the tool of human life resulting, have made us abhor such conflicts and we are seeking devices and methods for peaceful and. just solutions of disagreements that may. arise. “Looking back, how many speakers upon occasions such as this quoted with great emphasis the admonition of the father of our country, the first president of this republic, George Washington, in his warnings against ‘entangling foreign alliances’. He stressed the dangers of ‘insidious wiles of foreign influence. I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens, he declared, ‘the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience’ prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of American government.’ “In the light of what happened (continued on page three) COUPON PLAN SHOWS POPULARITY WITH NEVADA CITY FOLKS The Nugget coupon circulation program is proving popular with Nevada City residents and The Nugget staff is well pleased with the in‘tial response to its bargain offer of the twice-weekly home town. newspaper. This is the second issue of The New Nugget of the series of five that will go into every home in Nevada City and the rural route during the month of July. The New Nugget’s plan to subscribers is thus: The New Nugget’s subscription rate for one year is $2.50, for which you will receive more than 100 copies chuck full of well balanced local news and pictures, as accurate and complete a coverage of Nevada City and county news as is humanly possible to do. During the month of July we will return to you $1 of that year’s subscription money in the form of.a coupon which can be redeemed in most of the stores in Nevada City. So, actually your year’s subscription will cost you only $1.50. And the subscription will start with August 1, and you will continue to receive your July issues. This special value ' is available to current subscribers as well as new subscribers. Subscriptions may be extended by taking advantage of this offer. SUPERVISORS DENY CLAIM FOR REFUND OF TAX LAND SALE Nevada county board of supervisors late Wednesday. denied the claim of Warren E. Raddatz, Gold Run, who sought refund of $3100 purchase price of property sold for delinquent taxes by the county plus $20,641.20 additional. expenses incurred by Raddatz before the property was discovered to belong to the federal government. The property had once been homesteaded and not proved and lapsed back to public domain. In 1903 it was on the Nevada county tax rolls under the name of Joseph Ashburn and taxes became delinquent. Idle for years the property, 160 acres, was sold to Raddatz July 19, 1948, after George D. Beyer applied to purchase the property. The property.near Lake Spaulding had been sold to the state in 1904 and deeded to the state in. 1909. Advertised by legal notice and approved by the state ler’s office Tax Collector Elma Hecker’s office was packed and bidding was_ spirited. Beyer opened with a bid of $160 and Raddatz. was awarded the property on his bid of $3100. Raddatz built a road into the timber land for $3500 and felled and moved out 829,000 log feet for which the federal government asks $13,678.50. He felled an additional 171,000 feet which has not ben. removed and for which the federal government asks stumpage charge of $3,462.70. ; The “board denied: the claim on the advice of District Attorney Vernon Stoll. Band Concert: Tonight At Deer Creek Inn Nevada County band, under the direction of Harold George, Sr., will present a concert tonight starting at 7 o’clock from the balcony of the Deer Creek Inn. March, ‘The American Flyer,” G. E. Robinson. Overture, “The Royal High way,” S. J. Mustoe. “Serenade” from “The. Student Prince,” Romberg. March, “Western Keller. Medley of best loved southern melodies, Al Hayes. Overture, “Badge of Honor,” Allen,Novelty, Fillmore. Overture, Jewell. March, Sousa. “Aloha Oe,” Queen Liliuokalani. “Star Spangled Banner,” Key. Caravan,” “Lasses Trombone,” “Cloth of Gold,” “Washington Post,” “Valley jon . Eek LOL controi. . Quartz Parlor, OX TEAM, POSSE CAPTURE PRIZES IN 4TH PARADE Walter Lockhoff, North Sacramento, driving a yoke team of two oxen won first prize in the two-mile long parade held in Grass’ Valley Monday as. the climax of the three-day Nevada County Fourth of July Centennial celebration. Second prize went to the Nevada County Farm Bureau Center float. The drum and bugle corps of’ the Grass Valley Post, American Legion, won first in marching units with Company E, 184th Infantry, California National Guard, taking second prize. Don S. Shinkie won first prize in commercial floats with a covered wagon float. Alexander’s Rug Cleaning Service took second prize. The Nevada County Sheriff’s Posse, led by Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins was awarded first prize in the mounted units with Supervisor Carl J. Tobiassen’s Nevada County Rangers winning second. Third place was awarded to the Saddle Tramps. Judges of the floats were Mrs. George Carson, Oakiand; Stanley Halls, Nevada City; .and James Boot, Grass Valley. S@pervisor Frank J. Rowe, Owen O’Leary, Grass Valley, and Byron E. Brock, Nevada City, judged the ‘mounted units. Judges ‘stated: their decisions . were based on the 49er theme, originality, and eye appeal, . Seventy-five floats were en‘tered inthe parade. Leading the parade was Harleth Brock, Nevada _ City, as marshall. Visiting dignitaries and city officials of Nevada City and Grass Valley; the massed colors; Company E, 184th Infantry, California National Guard; Grass American Legion Drum and Bugle corps; American Legion; American Auxiliary; Banner Mountain Post,Veterans of . Foreign Wars; Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary; Boy and Girl Scouts units, sine ata the . second division. Miss Veryl Bainter daughter of Mrs. Genevieve Painter, Grass Valley, as Goddess of the parade, a beautiful white float, followed the Grass Valley Elks float. Other Grass Valley floats included Rotary club; Lions club; Eagles; Grass Valley Junior Chamber of Commerce (ox team and winner of first prize); Cliff and Nellie Poulsen, Grass Valley, driver passenger in a. 1911 Paul Viles company; Native Sons of the Golden West, two-horse surrey with a fringed top; Manzanita (continued on. page seven) 3 Grandson Returns To Scenes of Argonaut’s Gold Prospecting Rex and Helen Miller of Glendale, were Tuesday tourists of Nevada City and the county. Rex is the grandson of George Washington Miller who:came to Nevada City in 1850, struck it rich and kept it to take back home to Iowa. The argonaut came across the plains by ox team and returned~ via the Isthmus of Panama. A. year in the prosaic east and young Miller struck out for California once again, but fate in the guise of a pretty girl changed his mind. He met his future wife in the wagon train he was accompanying west from Independence, Mo., and inasmuch as her family was going to Oregon country that’s where young Miller went to spend the rest of ‘his life. TO MEET TONIGHT Ponemah Council No. 6, Degree of Pocahonas, will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the Odd Fellows Hall to raise chiefs to their respective stations. Refreshments will close the evening. The Weather Fred Bush, observer Friday, July 1 Saturday, July 2. Sunday, July 3 Monday, July 4 Tuesday, July 5 .. 8 Wednesday, xg “a pe } Thursday, July 7

avg ears NEVADA CITY — . Sportmen’s Paradise NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA THEY'RE BITING ‘WHERE, WHEN and HOW and Other Sportsmen’s Items Gold and the other lakes of Sierra county. are still giving good fishing, according to reports from the area. The north fork of the Yuba river~has been good. ‘to fly fishermen. Faucherie lake was one of the best spots for the holiday weekend fishermen. Some lakes are beginning to show signs of being fished out, Bowman and French among them. s * * H. F. “Si” Sofge, secretary of the Nevada County. Sportsmen’s association, spent the , holidays fishing with his son, Harold, of Susanville in Butte lake in Mt. Lassen national park. He reported the lake was good but difficult of access. = * = Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rogers (Dale Evans) and this three boys of Hollywood were weekend fishing enthusiasts at Lake Bowman. * * & No: matter what else took place July Fourth was a great day for Earl Adams, Jr., 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Adams, Grass Valley. Fishing at Bullards Bar dam, he landed a beautiful largemouthed bass, having a fight on his hands before he pulled the fish over the side of the boat. * The large bass weighed four and three-quarter pounds and measured 21 inches long. So eee * Some 300°baby chinese pheasants were delivered to the rearing pens of the Sierraville ranger station. In September when they have matured the birds will be released: in Sierra valley. About. 200 adult chinese pheasants and 100 valley quail were also liberated here last week. The birds came from the Sacramento game farm. * * * After declaring the elk herd too large for the amount of forage in the area, the fish and game commission set a 10-day controlled open season from Dec. 2 to 11, inclusive, in Inyo county. nly. No more than 75 males and 50 females may be taken. To apply for one.of the 125 special permits, resident citizen California hunters may contact the Los Angeles office of the division of fish and game, state building, before Oct. 26. Applications must be submitted on an official printed form, and will not be accepted from hunters under the age of 16 years. A public drawing will be held Nov. 2, at the Los Angeles office to select the 125 lucky candidates. Sixty alternate names will also be drawn. Successful applicants will be informed of ;special elk hunting regulations upon payment of the $10 permit fee. Licensed citizen bow and arrow hunters may participate, but employees of the division of fish and game and persons who have been issued an elk hunting permit since 1939 are ineligible. WILD RIDE IN TRUCK DEMOLISHES VEHICLELEAVES RIDERS SAFE One look at the truck chassis as it sets in the yard of the Boston Ravine Auto Wreckers, Grass Valley, will put you to wonder what miraculous fate was riding with Gerald Patterson and his companion of Grass Valley as they careened down the Tahoe-Ukiah highway grade towards Nevada City at a speed of 105 miles an hour Friday night. Near the top of the grade Patterson attempted to kick the heavily-loadedtruck into lower gear only to have it jam in neutral. A touch of the _ brake brought realization an air line had snapped. By that time Patterson had picked up too much speed to slap it into the bank and he elected to ride her down. The truck failed to make the sharp curve near the bottom of the hill and the vehicle turned over’ and skidded 150 feet to a stop. The two men were pinned in the cab ppt. suffered. only one minor sera For pollution of San Francisco bay waters with oil, the Standard Oil company has been fined $250 in the court ‘of’ Judge Donald F. Creedon. Citation wassissued by State Fish and Game Warden James Reutgen. . * * oe Sale of 1949 angling licenses to California sportsmen brought the division of fish and game a total revenue of $1,198,398 by June l, it is reported by H. R. Dunbar, chief of the bureau of licenses. * * * Development and expansion of three fish hatchery installations in the southern San Joaquin valley with wildlife conservation board funds will mean an added annual production of at least 1,500,000 catchable-sized trout for the area, it is reported by Board Consultant Seth Gordon. From its three-year proceeds of state horse racing funds totalling nine million dollars, the board recently approved new hatchery installations on the Tule river, Tulare county, and on the San Joaquin river, Fresno county. Material expansion also was authorized at the Moorehouse Springs hatchery in Tulare county. Total expenditure on the three installations will’ be $385,000, Gordon stated. ~ JUVENILE HOME RECOMMENDEDTO SUPERVISORS Nevada county probation committee, headed by J. E. Keegan, Grass. Valley, appeared before the board of supervisors Wednes;+ day morning urging allocation of funds in the 1949. budge. for construction of,'a juvenile detention home. Appearing with Keegan were Mrs. Howard Penrose, member of the probation committee; and Mrs. Victor Montre, . Mrs. William W. Esterly and Mrs. Opal Hendricks, representing the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women’s club. Keegan calied attention to 36 cases handled in juvenile court the past year without facilities for holding, counseling and cor. rection.-provided by a detention home. Keegan declared the only place a juvenile could be held is in county jail, a practice frowned upon by courts. Keegan suggested SCOperalian . , 5. C. Coughlan were dissenters. Damage was very slight. with Sierra county, which is also without a detention home. Keegan said he believed many juveniles could be corrected if the proper facilities were available. Warren Odell, chairman of the board, asked the committee to prepare information on_ cases handled by the county, types of buildings recommended and costs to enable the board to conduct a survey. BODY OF MAASCERG IS FOUND BY TWO YOUTHS The body of Emil Maascerg, 78, badly decomposed, was, found late Wednesday afternoon. by Howard Evans, Jr., 12, and Stanley Clewett, 12, both of Grass Valley. The body was found lying on a rock dump in a clearing near the old Jenny Lind mine, .a few miles north of the Alta Hill rest home he had wandered from June 2. He was identified through the clothing he was wearing at the time of his disappearance. The body is,at Myers Grass Valley mortuary pending efforts to contact relatives. Many Visitors Use Pioneer Park Over Holiday Weekend Many visitors from all over the U. S. used the picnic facilities of Pioneer park over the weekend, according to Fred Bush, custodian of the park. Small groups of _ picnickers taxed the facilities of the park band “Séatan’s lodge to use by the overflow groups. Volume 22—No. 36 » Friday, July 8, 1949 MONUMENT TO SARGENT IS DEDICATED Peter T, Conmy, Grand President of the Native Sons of the Golden West, Sunday afternoon dedicated the Aaron A. Sargent monument as a California historic landmark in Pioneer cemetery in exercises that were a part of the Nevada county Fourth of July Centennial celebration. Joseph R. Knowland, chairman of the California ‘Centennial commission, told the assemblage of approximately 300 the historic landmarks committee of the Native Sons of the Golden West plans to place historic markers at You Bet, Red Dog and other Nevada county ghost towns. Aaron Sargent, San Francisco, grandson of the Nevada county pioneer whose memory was honored by Sunday’s program, also spoke-on behalf of the family. Dr. C. W. Chapman was chairman of the program. The Rev. Dahlgren’ Casey, pastor of the Nevada City -Methodist church, gave the invocation and read a poem, entitled “Garden of Sleep,” written especially for the occasion by Adeline Merriam Conner, poet laureate of the Sierras. Rev. Father Patrick O’Reilly, pastor of St. Patrick’s -Catholic church, Grass Valley, gave benediction. Grass Valley. Miner’s chorus and the Nevada City. band rendered musical selections for the occasion. Other speakers were .Elmer Stevens, president of the.Nevada County Historical society; George L. Jones, former superior court judge; Edmund G. Kinyon,. historical editor of the Grass Val-. ley Union; George H. Calandn, city clerk of Nevada City. The speakers platform was decked with bunting and centered with-a portrait-of. Aaron A. Sargent, which has been hung for many years in the Odd Fellows hall in Nevada City. Shamberger Released From Management Of GV Memorial Building Nevada county board of supervisors by a vote of 3-2 discharged Oscar Shamberger as} manager of the Veterans Me-. morial building in Grass Valley . and placed it in control of aj seven-man committee to be named by the Grass. Valley American Legion post. Chairrhan Warren Odell and :Clear MISS AMERICA CONDIDATE RALEIGH, N. C.—Janice Harvell, “Miss Wilmington, N. C.” of 1949 practices postures for the big Miss America contest. Poses prettily, doesn’t she? NEVADACOUNTY $24.211,930. Total assessed valuation of property in Nevada county is $24,211,930, according to report released by P. G. Scadden, county assessor, an. increase of $1,033,230. over last year. Scadden assessed Nevada City at: $1,652,720, Grass Valley at $3,279,310, balance of county at $10,711,330, and the public utilities at $9,584,090. ‘Exemptions totalled $1,015,520. Nevada City received $114,550 in .exemptions, Grass Valley $252,540 and the balance of the county exemptions were $648,430. _Assessments by school districts: Birchville, $40,040; Blue Tent, $64,990; Cherokee, $197,000; Chicago Park, $226,850; Creek, $150,530; Forest Springs, $128,830; French Corral, $60,780; Grass. Valley,. $7,219,950; TIhdian Springs, $259,630; Lime Kiln, $229,220; Sweetland, $28,640; Nevada City, $6,460,650; North Bloomfield, $1,695,980; North San Juan, $89,620; Oakland, $751,530; Pleasant Valley, $839,430; Rough and Ready, $120,550; Truckee, . $4,118,470;

Union Hill, $1,246,030; Wolf, $192,760; Kentucky Flat, $126,450. GRASS FIRE Nevada City was awakened at 1:05 a.m. Monday by the ringing . of the fire bell calling the crew . to douse a grass fire behind the Tahoe national forest workshop. Americans Long Ways From Pioneer Conception cf Fourth Knowland Tells Joseph R. Knowland, chairman of the California Centennial Commission, spoke to a packed auditorium Monday noon, as the principal speaker of patriotic Fourth of July exercises held on the final day of the 1949 Nevada County Fourth of July Centennial Celebration. Knowland was introduced by Earl Covey, Grass Valley member of the commission, and chairman of the program. The Grass Valley band, directed by Harold George and the Grass Valley Gold Miners chorus rendered selections and Peter T. Conmy, Grand President of the Native Sons of the Golden West, spoke briefly. The exercises were held immediately following the parade. Knowland’s speech is as follows: ‘“Mr. Chairman, members of the Chamber of Commerce and fellow Californians: “I am inclined to believe that the country-wide movement for sane Fourth of July celebrations originally conceived in an effort to lessen the hazard of fire and. of injury to exurgerant young Americans has had its effect upon Independence day oratory. There is less hyperbolical exaggerated language. In those days it was thought patriotism must . be aroused by the music of bands, the waving of flags, the noise of Nevada Folks exploding bombs, warnings against foreign entanglements, and the glorification of military leaders. “Today we have the same love and respect for our country’s flag, the same reverence for our military heroes, but our thoughts revert to the grave problems facing our country and the world. We are sobered, and deeply concerned for the future. Two devastating world. wars, and the tool of human life resulting, have made us abhor such conflicts and we are seeking devices and methods for peaceful and. just solutions of disagreements that may. arise. “Looking back, how many speakers upon occasions such as this quoted with great emphasis the admonition of the father of our country, the first president of this republic, George Washington, in his warnings against ‘entangling foreign alliances’. He stressed the dangers of ‘insidious wiles of foreign influence. I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens, he declared, ‘the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience’ prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of American government.’ “In the light of what happened (continued on page three) COUPON PLAN SHOWS POPULARITY WITH NEVADA CITY FOLKS The Nugget coupon circulation program is proving popular with Nevada City residents and The Nugget staff is well pleased with the in‘tial response to its bargain offer of the twice-weekly home town. newspaper. This is the second issue of The New Nugget of the series of five that will go into every home in Nevada City and the rural route during the month of July. The New Nugget’s plan to subscribers is thus: The New Nugget’s subscription rate for one year is $2.50, for which you will receive more than 100 copies chuck full of well balanced local news and pictures, as accurate and complete a coverage of Nevada City and county news as is humanly possible to do. During the month of July we will return to you $1 of that year’s subscription money in the form of.a coupon which can be redeemed in most of the stores in Nevada City. So, actually your year’s subscription will cost you only $1.50. And the subscription will start with August 1, and you will continue to receive your July issues. This special value ' is available to current subscribers as well as new subscribers. Subscriptions may be extended by taking advantage of this offer. SUPERVISORS DENY CLAIM FOR REFUND OF TAX LAND SALE Nevada county board of supervisors late Wednesday. denied the claim of Warren E. Raddatz, Gold Run, who sought refund of $3100 purchase price of property sold for delinquent taxes by the county plus $20,641.20 additional. expenses incurred by Raddatz before the property was discovered to belong to the federal government. The property had once been homesteaded and not proved and lapsed back to public domain. In 1903 it was on the Nevada county tax rolls under the name of Joseph Ashburn and taxes became delinquent. Idle for years the property, 160 acres, was sold to Raddatz July 19, 1948, after George D. Beyer applied to purchase the property. The property.near Lake Spaulding had been sold to the state in 1904 and deeded to the state in. 1909. Advertised by legal notice and approved by the state ler’s office Tax Collector Elma Hecker’s office was packed and bidding was_ spirited. Beyer opened with a bid of $160 and Raddatz. was awarded the property on his bid of $3100. Raddatz built a road into the timber land for $3500 and felled and moved out 829,000 log feet for which the federal government asks $13,678.50. He felled an additional 171,000 feet which has not ben. removed and for which the federal government asks stumpage charge of $3,462.70. ; The “board denied: the claim on the advice of District Attorney Vernon Stoll. Band Concert: Tonight At Deer Creek Inn Nevada County band, under the direction of Harold George, Sr., will present a concert tonight starting at 7 o’clock from the balcony of the Deer Creek Inn. March, ‘The American Flyer,” G. E. Robinson. Overture, “The Royal High way,” S. J. Mustoe. “Serenade” from “The. Student Prince,” Romberg. March, “Western Keller. Medley of best loved southern melodies, Al Hayes. Overture, “Badge of Honor,” Allen,Novelty, Fillmore. Overture, Jewell. March, Sousa. “Aloha Oe,” Queen Liliuokalani. “Star Spangled Banner,” Key. Caravan,” “Lasses Trombone,” “Cloth of Gold,” “Washington Post,” “Valley jon . Eek LOL controi. . Quartz Parlor, OX TEAM, POSSE CAPTURE PRIZES IN 4TH PARADE Walter Lockhoff, North Sacramento, driving a yoke team of two oxen won first prize in the two-mile long parade held in Grass’ Valley Monday as. the climax of the three-day Nevada County Fourth of July Centennial celebration. Second prize went to the Nevada County Farm Bureau Center float. The drum and bugle corps of’ the Grass Valley Post, American Legion, won first in marching units with Company E, 184th Infantry, California National Guard, taking second prize. Don S. Shinkie won first prize in commercial floats with a covered wagon float. Alexander’s Rug Cleaning Service took second prize. The Nevada County Sheriff’s Posse, led by Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins was awarded first prize in the mounted units with Supervisor Carl J. Tobiassen’s Nevada County Rangers winning second.. Third place was awarded to the Saddle Tramps. Judges of the floats were Mrs. George Carson, Oakiand; Stanley Halls, Nevada City; .and James Boot, Grass Valley. S@pervisor Frank J. Rowe, Owen O’Leary, Grass Valley, and Byron E. Brock, Nevada City, judged the ‘mounted units. Judges ‘stated: their decisions . were based on the 49er theme, originality, and eye appeal, . Seventy-five floats were en‘tered inthe parade. Leading the parade was Harleth Brock, Nevada _ City, as marshall. Visiting dignitaries and city officials of Nevada City and Grass Valley; the massed colors; Company E, 184th Infantry, California National Guard; Grass American Legion Drum and Bugle corps; American Legion; American Auxiliary; Banner Mountain Post,Veterans of . Foreign Wars; Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary; Boy and Girl Scouts units, sine ata the . second division. Miss Veryl Bainter daughter of Mrs. Genevieve Painter, Grass Valley, as Goddess of the parade, a beautiful white float, followed the Grass Valley Elks float. Other Grass Valley floats included Rotary club; Lions club; Eagles; Grass Valley Junior Chamber of Commerce (ox team and winner of first prize); Cliff and Nellie Poulsen, Grass Valley, driver passenger in a. 1911 Paul Viles company; Native Sons of the Golden West, two-horse surrey with a fringed top; Manzanita (continued on. page seven) 3 Grandson Returns To Scenes of Argonaut’s Gold Prospecting Rex and Helen Miller of Glendale, were Tuesday tourists of Nevada City and the county. Rex is the grandson of George Washington Miller who:came to Nevada City in 1850, struck it rich and kept it to take back home to Iowa. The argonaut came across the plains by ox team and returned~ via the Isthmus of Panama. A. year in the prosaic east and young Miller struck out for California once again, but fate in the guise of a pretty girl changed his mind. He met his future wife in the wagon train he was accompanying west from Independence, Mo., and inasmuch as her family was going to Oregon country that’s where young Miller went to spend the rest of ‘his life. TO MEET TONIGHT Ponemah Council No. 6, Degree of Pocahonas, will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the Odd Fellows Hall to raise chiefs to their respective stations. Refreshments will close the evening. The Weather Fred Bush, observer Friday, July 1 Saturday, July 2. Sunday, July 3 Monday, July 4 Tuesday, July 5 .... 8 Wednesday, xg “a pe } Thursday, July 7