June 1, 1948 (4 pages)

THINKING OUT LOUD I By H. M. L,, SR. Y The turn-out today of voters should be good. If we were guessing we would guess it would be about an 80 percent vote. Why? Well, there are 10 ecndidates for Supervisor of the first district, two for the second, and three Nevada County candidates for the assembly besides three or four more in other sections. For state senator there are two candidates both very much in earnest, and two or three candidates for representative from this district. % % B If the weather is fine everyone will be robbed of an excuse for not voting, that is, everyone that* is entitled to vote and in good health. An 80-percent vote, please let it be understood, is not enough, ig a well ordered community there fhould be a 95 percent. vote, which would allow 5 percent for sickness. e h This matter of voting is a serious responsibility. Much moreso, in fact than that of some committee chairman in some organization, because -every man and woman owes his country a ballot for or against.candidates or measures. Whereas as committee chairman his activity is localized and only of local importance. f Bh H Yet, how often do we find good men and women, serving as chairman or members of committees who put forth their best efforts for good of the order, who take no interest in the much more important matter of casting their ballots on election day. In today’s election, however, each candidate has his own coterie of friends and as a matter of friendship we helieve almost everyone will go to the polls, The more candidates, .e%ne more interest in the election. e h Voting, generally speaking, becomes a patriotic habit for those citizens who take an alert interest in their government. And _ probably never in the history of this country is there a greater need than now for an alert intelligent interest in what is going on in government—county, state and federal. In matters of national import, evey citizen to be reasonably well informed on world -affairs. in @ icrder to judge whether our de4 partment of state losing the peace. % & & If the Secretary of State is not doing his job the way we think he should, we should vote for the candidate for president who believes as we do, provided the .canGidate’s domestic policies supplement and_ strengthen. his on foreign policy. We are perfectly willing to admit that our procedures are cumbersome, but in ™the long run, they be right. eh & It is important that every citizen feel his responsibility in his government. Every citizen on moving into a new neighborhood, new town or new state. should immediately register, and cast his I, ballot in every election. For is our government—our taxes support it, and we owe it to ourselves to vote. WHATISA LONG TOM? NEVADA CITY: In a tentative plan for certain features of the July Fourth celebration, published in the Nugget of March 20, H. P. Davis suggested, as one of the features, the setting up and operation of rockers and a long Tom. He proposed that the chosen for .this should be _ the anks of Little Deer Creek on ground where, in 1850, hundreds of men were employed recovering gold by the use of such apparatus. Since the publication of this article, Davis has been many times asked—‘What is a Jong Tom? What is it for? and what does it look like?” : To simplify explanations, Davis has made two miniature models .of Long Toms to the scale of % inch to a foot. It is now on ex‘hibition in the window of Hansen’s Paint Store on Broad Street. Davis says: that the capacity of such a Long Tom as this model eee presents would be from 4 to § yards of gold bearing. gravel per man for a ten hour day. two men working. The grave] to be worked shoveled into the sluice-box washed by water entering the head end. One of the men shovels gravel into the long tyough; the other, with a two-pronged fork, throws out the coarser gravel and breaks up lumps of clay and’ keeps ‘the Agreen at the lower end from clogging. The screen, a piece of perforated sheet metal, prevents the coarser material from passing into the. riffle (lower) box. The clean-up is made by panning the gold dust and nuggets from the finer material, largely black sand, caught by the riffles. A. A. Sargent, writing of the early days at Deer Creek Dry Diggings said, ‘‘Many. a long tom payty went back to their cabins 18 and from “WA night with a quart can full of gold.”’ Fe Ae eRe ee) VOTE TODAY! POLLS OPEN #7 A. M. to 7 P. M. 4) it has become the duty of is winning or views are likely to locale Volume 21—No. 22 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA PLACER MINING MODELS ON — DISPLAY HERE NEVADA CITY: On display in the Nugget window is a miniature placer mining works constructed by W. A. Huestis, a retired forest supervisor. The background, a scene on the Yuba River, is painted by. the prominent artist, Maurice Logan. The replicas were placed in the window and arranged by Dr. and Mrs. Warren Allen, of this city and Oakland, Included in the display are a miner’s rocker, built to scale as are the other items (one inch equals one foot). The rockers were formerly used for testing gold content, assist -in cleaning up Sluice boxes, and even for actual placer mining in places where the ground is rich enough. The main part of the exhibit is the sluice boxes, an especially constructed wooden flume, fitted with riffles which traps the gold as it drags the bottom, while the lighter washed gravel is carried on and over the dump at the tail end of the sluice boxes. Also on exhibit is a lumber whipsawing rig;which demonstrates the method of cutting lumber by hand. A_ sawpit is shown on a sidehill, with excavation done, and a frame erected. A rollway is constructed from the ground line on the upper side, to the pit frame, so that logs cut could be rolled onto ‘the pit. The log was then measured and chalklined and ‘was then ready to begin sawing. In sawing, one figure is shown working on top of the log and the other in the pit on the bottom. A model of the whipsaw and canthook used is shown. belongs’ to stamp mill which Frank Duffy. CAMPOREE TO FEATURE FEATS OF WOODLAND SKILL AUBURN: The Tahoe Area Council Camporee has been definitely set for the week-end of June 5 and 6, it was announced by Scout Executive Raymond J. Ewan today. It will be held at Dew Drop Inn on Highway 49 and will start at 1 P. M. Saturday, June 5, Included in the program this year will be field contests in Blindfold Compass Course, String Burning, Fire Building and Water Boiling, Knot Relay, Tent Pitching, Chariot Race, Flap Jack Conwhich. first, second and _ third place ribbons will be awarded to Scouts and patrols winning events. i The regular Camporee judging will be conducted by Chief Judge R. V. Conrad, Tahoe National Forest, and a staff of Forest Service men. Health and Safety principles will be demonstrated by State Forest Ranger Emery: Sloat of Auburn. Twenty-five Troops from the counties of Placer, Nevada and Western Sierra are expected to participate in this event. V.E.W. LED MEMORIAL — DAY SERVICE NEVADA CITY: Memorial 4, sevices held yesterday in the Pine irove and Catholic Cemeteries and in Memorial Grove of Pioneers Park were not well attended because of showery, unsettled weather. . In Memorial Grove, Banner Mountain Post, Veterans of For. ign Wars assisted by a contingent ; of Legionnaires gave their impressive ritual for their departed comrades. and for all those who have perished in the wars of the United States. The Order No. 11 of General John Alexander Logan issued. in 1868, under which Memorial Day was set apart in which to honor the nation’s war dead, was read. Wreaths were deposited on the monument to those who died in the late war, a salute was fired [ane a bugler sounded taps. MOISTURE REALLY EXCESSIVE, SAYS WEATHERMAN BUSH “NEVADA CITY: This area is now entering on a period of excess moisture. Fred Bush, official weather observer, reports total rainfall is now 54.19 inches as compared with the 60-year average of 54.04. The present storm brought a total of .82 inches. % The boundary line between the United States and Canada is the longest ungarrisoned boundary between two countries in the and Auxiliary, world. Also on display is a miniature Edenh, Miss Evelyn Hansen. Corr, senior advisor, Bi ‘s —Pert Photo NEVADA CITY: Pictured above is the graduating class of 1948, of the high school. Front row: Sharon Colvin, Irene Barbieri, Finette Champie, Marquita Hodges, and Lois Beverage. Second row: Bernalee Gatewood, Ruth Wright, Elda Applegate, Joan Havey and June Solonish. Third row: Ed Wojcik, Gwen Gentili, Bernice Peterson, Jackie Sheldon,; Rickie Plunkett, Arnold Saur, and Bud Rhodes. Fourth. row: Charles Hawking, Janet DeVore, Dick Deschwanden, Lee Miller, Sam Beverage, and Stanley Dundas. Fifth row: Elroy Bingham, Don . Wilson, Bob Berggren and Mervin NID. VS. U.S. IN SUIT ON CONDEMNATION GRASS VALLEY: Two condemnation suits by the U. S. Government against the Nevada Irrigation District, and the district’s answer asking monetary: compensation, for damage for the obstruction of canals nd handicapped service through the Excelsior canal system in Camp _ Beale opened in the Northern District Covrt in Sacramento Tuesday. The suits were filed in 1941 when the War Department acaquired Camp Beale. The trial of the suits was postponed until after the war. Sumner Mering, Sacramento attorney, and Lynne Kelly, Grass Valley attorney, are representing the district in the suits. William Durbrow, in whose administration of the Nevada Irrigation District the transactions occured, along with Forest Varney, new manager of the district, will be in attendance during the trial. MRS. ORFA POND HEADS HOME DEPT. FAIR COMMITTEE NEVADA CITY: -The regular monthly meeting of the Nevada City Home Department was held at Seaman’s Lodge May 26th. The regular order of -business was eonducted by Mrs. Marie Townsend, chairman. Reports on 4H activities were given: Discussion followed on organizing a 4H group in Williow Valley. Mrs, Evelyn Frank, County Fair Board Chairman, requested that a Fair Committee be appointed. Mrs. Orfa Pond-was appointed chairman and her committee will be Mrs. Florence Harter, Mrs’ Frances Comstock, Mrs. Marie Townsend, Mrs. Dorothy Wakefield, Mrs. Evelyn Frank assisting the group. Seven special budget recipes were given the members in leaflet form, two of whcih were prepared and served the group by the project leaders, Mrs. Comstock and Mrs. Wakefield. The organization voted to sponsor a whist party to be given on Sturday, June 12, at 8 P, M. at Odd Fellows. Hall on Broad Street in’ Nevada City above the Harris Drug Store. Members of the’ committee appointed to take charge of this affair are Mrs. Jean Brass, Mrs. Marie Hilpert, Mrs. Orfa Pond, Mrs. Florence Harter, Mrs. Evelyn Frank, Mrs. Marie Townsend. Proceeds from this party will:go to the treasury to be used for welfare work done by the organization. On June 8rd and 4th a class in ESSAY upholstery will be conducted by Mrs, Dunkinsen at Seaman's Lodge, Nevada City, at/10 A. M. Several new members were added to the group. i FOOTHILL LEAGUE WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED HERE GRASS VALLEY: At the meeting of the school representatives here winners of the Sierra Foothill league series of athletic events for the 1947-48 season were announced. Football: Varsity, Marysville; junior varsity, Yuba City. Basketball: Varsity, Placer; B. Yuba City; Cc, .Placers:-D. Yuba City, ‘Track: <A, Placer; Valley; D, Yuba City. Tennis: Singles, Grass Valley; doubles, Grass Valley; team, Grass Valley. : Baseball: Varsity, Placer; junior varsity, Marysville. Basketball. schedules for A, B, C and D teams were adopted with January 7th, 1949, set as the opening date. Football schedules for 1948 and 1949 were adopted with the Fall opening set for October 8th this year, and October 7th in 1949. Exhibition games between Chico High School and Grass Valley are scheduled for the first time. They will play a home and home series. With the entry of the San Juan Union High School schedules now are based on seven teams. Baseball and tennis schedules are still to be compiled. = CONTEST GRASS VALLEY: The Grass Valley Junior Chamber of Commerce yesterday announced that its essay contest will be publicized by posters drawn by Miss Dorothy Dyke of the high school art department. The essays to be entitled, ‘‘I’m Going to the Fair,’’ must be received by June 30th. Winning essays will receive prizes n cash aggregating $50. Don Rademaker, chamber committee chairman, states the judges are now being selected. LIGHT VOTE BUT LOCAL INTEREST HIGH NEVADA CITY: Only one election contest is expected to be final in today’s balloting. That is between Frank A. Rowe, incumbent Supervisor for the second district (Grass Valley) and John-L. Frank. The race for supervisor, in the first district (Nevada City) lies among ten candidates, two of whom will run’ off the contest in the November election, Three Republicans have entered the sixth district assembly race for Nevada County. They are B. W. Reynolds, Truckee; William Durbrow, Grass Valley; and Louis Hartman, Grass Valley: % ‘ B, Grass SHERIFF DEALS WITH ASSORTED TROUBLES NEVADA CITY: Elmer Root, 58, Roseville fisherman reported lost on Fall Creek, Camp 19, near Fuller-Lake, by his fishing companion named Davis. Otis Hardt, undersheriff, and Game Warden Earl Hiscox and’ a number of civilians spent all day Sunday looking ‘for him. <A party of searchers is still looking for him. G bh b Pearl Guthria, 23, mother of five children, was taken to the Community Hospital. yesterday by Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, who states. she attempted suicide by drinking Hexol. It is reported she will recover. A dispute with her husband, Frank Guthria, the sheriff reports, led to the attempted suicide. The family resides in the LeBarr Meadows district. & he . Walter Jones, 59, of Watt Park, was arrested Sunday by Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, on complaint of Warren Smith who stated Jones had fired two shots at him with shotgun. According to the sheriff Smith stated he had agreed to buy some antiques of Jones. During the cona BUILD NEVADA COUNTY versation Jones discovered his wallet was missing and accused Smith of taking it. Jones ordered him off the premises, and fired a couple of shots after him. Jones states he fired the shots over Smith’s head. DICKERMAN HELD TO ANSWER ON HIT-RUN CHARGE GRASS VALLEY: Leroy Dickerman, 32, a ‘miner employed in the New Brunswick Mine, was held to answer last Tuesday following his preliminary examination before Justice of the Peace ‘Charles A. Morehouse. Dickerman is accused of striking Ethan A. LeNeve, 87, a sawmill worker, early Sunday morning with his car, and. speeding away. The highway patrol reports that LeNeve suffered a compound fracture of the left leg and that the force of the impact threw him into the back of his. pick-up truck. LeNeve had left the driver’s seat to see if his rear lights were burning. Bernie Baugh, returned from Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with failure to provide, was also held for trial in the superior court. Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins made the trip and returned the man. Raymond C. Chapman, 30, carpenter, charged with drunken driving, pleaded guilty and was sentenced by the court to a fine of $200 or 100 days. % The first flower show now remembered was sponsored in Sacramento in 1852. WILLIAM GEORGE HEADS TEACHERS NEVADA CITY: The Nevada County Teachers Association held its semi-annual session at Nevada City High School last Monday evening with a good attendance. Following a delicious dinner served by Mrs. Adele Sturdevant, High School cafeteria manager, the group adjourned to the school auditorium where Principal William Wilson, Grass Valley High School, spoke on ‘Teacher Welfare’’ and Dr. Rockwell Hunt, Director of California History, College of the Pacific, spoke on ‘‘California History Teaching.’”’ Wilson pointed out that teachers should share in: the local administration of schools; they should know all the facts of the finances of a school; how. much is coming from the state funds, the local tax situation. “‘A wellinformed teacher can play a more dynamic role in schoo] work,” he maintained. “A school should draw up its budget with only one thing in mind—what kind of education do we want. to give these children? What type of education ‘should we give them for their .needs.”’ Too often budgets are drawn up and adapted on the basis of what can we do or what can we cut down. The Grass Valley school man stressed .the fact that someday soon we shall have to revise our whole system of school taxation. “That the present set-up of proerty taxation and state funds on an average daily attendance basis was insufficient’ to maintain the schools of tomorrow. That to go to the homeowner and ask for additional moneys. on the basis of a property tax was often unfair and imposed a hardship on the property owner that could be carried by the state in school finance probably a lot easier, “Tf we want good education, if we want good educators, we must be prepared to pay -for them,’’ he added. “The difference sometimes between a system operating on a shoe ‘string, patching up here and there with inadequate facilities and equipment too often the difference of a few drinks Or a few. smokes-on the part of our citizenry. Wilson pointed 6ut in amplifying the point that America spends more on liquor and tobaeco than she does on her schools. is In conclusion, he called for a more alert active teaching group co-operating with parents and Boards of Education in making our schools’ democratic. Elmer Stevens was called upon to introduce Dr. Hunt. Dr. Hunt, one of California’s outstanding historians and for over 30 years Dean gf the Graduate -School “at-Universit oF Southern California, stressed the importance of teaching California history and particularly local history during the Centennial Years history. “A far better understanding of the world can be achieved by a youngster if he knows how to understand local history,”’ stated Hunt. William George was elected President of the County Teachers to succeed Ruth Hughes, Nevada City. % The Andean condor soars at enormous altitudes from 10,000 to 15,000 feet above the sea. . . as a basis for understanding all} CLARK TELLS _ CHAMBER VIEWS ON FOREST LAW GRASS VALLEY: The Grass, Valley Chamber of Commerce, meeting at breakfast recently in Bret Harte Inn, heard Claude Clark, president of the Nevada County Lumbermen’s Protective Association, sum up his findings of sustained yield law. Clark «said as the law stood, it meant the Uncle Sam gets more power and more land. He stated that the government had the general public utility in a befuddled state of mind through its explanation. of the unit system of lumbering. He declared that the small mill owner would be gently nudged from the business of tree cutting, and that the benefits derived from sustained yield would be beneficial. only to the larger mills and lumber companies. Carried to its logical coneclusion, Clark declared, the new sys-~ tem would presently result. in reducing the 46 sawmills now operating_in Nevada County to three or four mills. Lumbering payrolls, he stated, have formed a good substitute’ for mine payrolls for several years. The chamber tabled resolutions for against the sustained. yield system until further consideration. Lou Hartman, president, congratulated Willard Rose, president of the Grass Valley Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the vicepresident, Red Bost, on their enthusiastie debut. Secretary-Manager Fred Brady, regarding Grass Valley’s failure to enter a float in the Gold Rush parade of Auburn, Placer County, said it revealed a lack of co-.operation and’ lack of interest. Brady ‘declared that the Golden Values trade celebration which will be staged on June 1lith and 12th was showing good prospects of success. A generous allotment of gifts are to be awarded to all visitors in the business district. The chamber voted $100 for expenses of Brady in attending the Western Institute Schooling for chamber of commerce managers which takes place June 20th to 26th in the University of Oregon at Eugene. ’ THURMAN AT WORK ON TELETYPE BILL NEVADA CITY: State Senator Allen G. Thurman has a bill ready or bed ‘for introduction at the next session of the legislature which would provide the Nevada County Sherift’s office with. a teletype linking Nevada County with all _police teletypes in the state. Sheriff Richard. W. Hoskins has already established radio com= munication with all police, sheriff’s deputies, and highway patrot cars in Nevada County, through the short wave radio unit installed in his office, giving 24 hour service along with station KAPI in the highway patrol station at Hills Flat. The Thurman bill provides that there shall be no expense of the teletype machine cost or installation to the county. x . The annual world consumption of tea is over 800 million pounds. iG THEDiary of a 49’er FROM THE BOOK EDITED BY C. L. CANFIELD # 2 sg Ss ri) . MAY 30, 1852—In two weeks more we will bid the place goodbye and leave it, so far as I can see, for all time. I think we would go sooner, as we are all getting impatient and restless, but we will not receive the money for our river claims until the 8th of june and we must wait to close that transaction. Dunn and company, who have bought and paid for our creek ground, are doing well, and are satisfied with the bargain. They have got the lumber on the ground for their big flume, half of the boxes made and will begin to put it in this week. They have also succeeded in buying up the most of Brush Creek below the flat and will flume it in the same way. All the Saleratus Ranch boys are interested and I hope they will make a fortune. They are a jolly lot of fellows and, excepting Pard, my best friends, and they don’t like to hear of our going away. Pard has planned to give a farewell supper to them and about twenty others, Platt, Dixon, Gleason, and Fisk, our Rock Creek neighbors, and there he is going to carry out his intentions of telling them his right name and his reason for sailing under false colors, as he calls it. It will be a strictly stag affair, but even then Pard says men will tell their wives, wives will tell their neighbors, and there will be the ‘‘clack of idle tongues.” We are going to give our books to the ranch boys, the rest of our belongings to our neighbors, and leave the old cabin to rot, or to the chance shelter of some wandering miner. As Pard says, it is humble enough and rude enough, but there is many a costly house that cannot compare with it, for it has sheltered and fostered enduring friendship, unruffled peace, the miracle of content and the boon of prosperity; and I add a happy: reconciliation, a growing romance, the awakening of love, and we are a pair of soft chaps who grow sentimental over some rough pine logs and weather beaten shakes. . am sure, wherever we go, the old log cabin on Rock Creek «will never fade out of our memory, = =——— including other”

THINKING OUT LOUD I By H. M. L,, SR. Y The turn-out today of voters should be good. If we were guessing we would guess it would be about an 80 percent vote. Why? Well, there are 10 ecndidates for Supervisor of the first district, two for the second, and three Nevada County candidates for the assembly besides three or four more in other sections. For state senator there are two candidates both very much in earnest, and two or three candidates for representative from this district. % % B If the weather is fine everyone will be robbed of an excuse for not voting, that is, everyone that* is entitled to vote and in good health. An 80-percent vote, please let it be understood, is not enough, ig a well ordered community there fhould be a 95 percent. vote, which would allow 5 percent for sickness. e h This matter of voting is a serious responsibility. Much moreso, in fact than that of some committee chairman in some organization, because -every man and woman owes his country a ballot for or against.candidates or measures. Whereas as committee chairman his activity is localized and only of local importance. f Bh H Yet, how often do we find good men and women, serving as chairman or members of committees who put forth their best efforts for good of the order, who take no interest in the much more important matter of casting their ballots on election day. In today’s election, however, each candidate has his own coterie of friends and as a matter of friendship we helieve almost everyone will go to the polls, The more candidates, .e%ne more interest in the election. e h Voting, generally speaking, becomes a patriotic habit for those citizens who take an alert interest in their government. And _ probably never in the history of this country is there a greater need than now for an alert intelligent interest in what is going on in government—county, state and federal. In matters of national import, evey citizen to be reasonably well informed on world -affairs. in @ icrder to judge whether our de4 partment of state losing the peace. % & & If the Secretary of State is not doing his job the way we think he should, we should vote for the candidate for president who believes as we do, provided the .canGidate’s domestic policies supplement and_ strengthen. his on foreign policy. We are perfectly willing to admit that our procedures are cumbersome, but in ™the long run, they be right. eh & It is important that every citizen feel his responsibility in his government. Every citizen on moving into a new neighborhood, new town or new state. should immediately register, and cast his I, ballot in every election. For is our government—our taxes support it, and we owe it to ourselves to vote. WHATISA LONG TOM? NEVADA CITY: In a tentative plan for certain features of the July Fourth celebration, published in the Nugget of March 20, H. P. Davis suggested, as one of the features, the setting up and operation of rockers and a long Tom. He proposed that the chosen for .this should be _ the anks of Little Deer Creek on ground where, in 1850, hundreds of men were employed recovering gold by the use of such apparatus. Since the publication of this article, Davis has been many times asked—‘What is a Jong Tom? What is it for? and what does it look like?” : To simplify explanations, Davis has made two miniature models .of Long Toms to the scale of % inch to a foot. It is now on ex‘hibition in the window of Hansen’s Paint Store on Broad Street. Davis says: that the capacity of such a Long Tom as this model eee presents would be from 4 to § yards of gold bearing. gravel per man for a ten hour day. two men working. The grave] to be worked shoveled into the sluice-box washed by water entering the head end. One of the men shovels gravel into the long tyough; the other, with a two-pronged fork, throws out the coarser gravel and breaks up lumps of clay and’ keeps ‘the Agreen at the lower end from clogging. The screen, a piece of perforated sheet metal, prevents the coarser material from passing into the. riffle (lower) box. The clean-up is made by panning the gold dust and nuggets from the finer material, largely black sand, caught by the riffles. A. A. Sargent, writing of the early days at Deer Creek Dry Diggings said, ‘‘Many. a long tom payty went back to their cabins 18 and from “WA night with a quart can full of gold.”’ Fe Ae eRe ee) VOTE TODAY! POLLS OPEN #7 A. M. to 7 P. M. 4) it has become the duty of is winning or views are likely to locale Volume 21—No. 22 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA PLACER MINING MODELS ON — DISPLAY HERE NEVADA CITY: On display in the Nugget window is a miniature placer mining works constructed by W. A. Huestis, a retired forest supervisor. The background, a scene on the Yuba River, is painted by. the prominent artist, Maurice Logan. The replicas were placed in the window and arranged by Dr. and Mrs. Warren Allen, of this city and Oakland, Included in the display are a miner’s rocker, built to scale as are the other items (one inch equals one foot). The rockers were formerly used for testing gold content, assist -in cleaning up Sluice boxes, and even for actual placer mining in places where the ground is rich enough. The main part of the exhibit is the sluice boxes, an especially constructed wooden flume, fitted with riffles which traps the gold as it drags the bottom, while the lighter washed gravel is carried on and over the dump at the tail end of the sluice boxes. Also on exhibit is a lumber whipsawing rig;which demonstrates the method of cutting lumber by hand. A_ sawpit is shown on a sidehill, with excavation done, and a frame erected. A rollway is constructed from the ground line on the upper side, to the pit frame, so that logs cut could be rolled onto ‘the pit. The log was then measured and chalklined and ‘was then ready to begin sawing. In sawing, one figure is shown working on top of the log and the other in the pit on the bottom. A model of the whipsaw and canthook used is shown. belongs’ to stamp mill which Frank Duffy. CAMPOREE TO FEATURE FEATS OF WOODLAND SKILL AUBURN: The Tahoe Area Council Camporee has been definitely set for the week-end of June 5 and 6, it was announced by Scout Executive Raymond J. Ewan today. It will be held at Dew Drop Inn on Highway 49 and will start at 1 P. M. Saturday, June 5, Included in the program this year will be field contests in Blindfold Compass Course, String Burning, Fire Building and Water Boiling, Knot Relay, Tent Pitching, Chariot Race, Flap Jack Conwhich. first, second and _ third place ribbons will be awarded to Scouts and patrols winning events. i The regular Camporee judging will be conducted by Chief Judge R. V. Conrad, Tahoe National Forest, and a staff of Forest Service men. Health and Safety principles will be demonstrated by State Forest Ranger Emery: Sloat of Auburn. Twenty-five Troops from the counties of Placer, Nevada and Western Sierra are expected to participate in this event. V.E.W. LED MEMORIAL — DAY SERVICE NEVADA CITY: Memorial 4, sevices held yesterday in the Pine irove and Catholic Cemeteries and in Memorial Grove of Pioneers Park were not well attended because of showery, unsettled weather. . In Memorial Grove, Banner Mountain Post, Veterans of For. ign Wars assisted by a contingent ; of Legionnaires gave their impressive ritual for their departed comrades. and for all those who have perished in the wars of the United States. The Order No. 11 of General John Alexander Logan issued. in 1868, under which Memorial Day was set apart in which to honor the nation’s war dead, was read. Wreaths were deposited on the monument to those who died in the late war, a salute was fired [ane a bugler sounded taps. MOISTURE REALLY EXCESSIVE, SAYS WEATHERMAN BUSH “NEVADA CITY: This area is now entering on a period of excess moisture. Fred Bush, official weather observer, reports total rainfall is now 54.19 inches as compared with the 60-year average of 54.04. The present storm brought a total of .82 inches. % The boundary line between the United States and Canada is the longest ungarrisoned boundary between two countries in the and Auxiliary, world. Also on display is a miniature Edenh, Miss Evelyn Hansen. Corr, senior advisor, Bi ‘s —Pert Photo NEVADA CITY: Pictured above is the graduating class of 1948, of the high school. Front row: Sharon Colvin, Irene Barbieri, Finette Champie, Marquita Hodges, and Lois Beverage. Second row: Bernalee Gatewood, Ruth Wright, Elda Applegate, Joan Havey and June Solonish. Third row: Ed Wojcik, Gwen Gentili, Bernice Peterson, Jackie Sheldon,; Rickie Plunkett, Arnold Saur, and Bud Rhodes. Fourth. row: Charles Hawking, Janet DeVore, Dick Deschwanden, Lee Miller, Sam Beverage, and Stanley Dundas. Fifth row: Elroy Bingham, Don . Wilson, Bob Berggren and Mervin NID. VS. U.S. IN SUIT ON CONDEMNATION GRASS VALLEY: Two condemnation suits by the U. S. Government against the Nevada Irrigation District, and the district’s answer asking monetary: compensation, for damage for the obstruction of canals nd handicapped service through the Excelsior canal system in Camp _ Beale opened in the Northern District Covrt in Sacramento Tuesday. The suits were filed in 1941 when the War Department acaquired Camp Beale. The trial of the suits was postponed until after the war. Sumner Mering, Sacramento attorney, and Lynne Kelly, Grass Valley attorney, are representing the district in the suits. William Durbrow, in whose administration of the Nevada Irrigation District the transactions occured, along with Forest Varney, new manager of the district, will be in attendance during the trial. MRS. ORFA POND HEADS HOME DEPT. FAIR COMMITTEE NEVADA CITY: -The regular monthly meeting of the Nevada City Home Department was held at Seaman’s Lodge May 26th. The regular order of -business was eonducted by Mrs. Marie Townsend, chairman. Reports on 4H activities were given: Discussion followed on organizing a 4H group in Williow Valley. Mrs, Evelyn Frank, County Fair Board Chairman, requested that a Fair Committee be appointed. Mrs. Orfa Pond-was appointed chairman and her committee will be Mrs. Florence Harter, Mrs’ Frances Comstock, Mrs. Marie Townsend, Mrs. Dorothy Wakefield, Mrs. Evelyn Frank assisting the group. Seven special budget recipes were given the members in leaflet form, two of whcih were prepared and served the group by the project leaders, Mrs. Comstock and Mrs. Wakefield. The organization voted to sponsor a whist party to be given on Sturday, June 12, at 8 P, M. at Odd Fellows. Hall on Broad Street in’ Nevada City above the Harris Drug Store. Members of the’ committee appointed to take charge of this affair are Mrs. Jean Brass, Mrs. Marie Hilpert, Mrs. Orfa Pond, Mrs. Florence Harter, Mrs. Evelyn Frank, Mrs. Marie Townsend. Proceeds from this party will:go to the treasury to be used for welfare work done by the organization. On June 8rd and 4th a class in ESSAY upholstery will be conducted by Mrs, Dunkinsen at Seaman's Lodge, Nevada City, at/10 A. M. Several new members were added to the group. i FOOTHILL LEAGUE WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED HERE GRASS VALLEY: At the meeting of the school representatives here winners of the Sierra Foothill league series of athletic

events for the 1947-48 season were announced. Football: Varsity, Marysville; junior varsity, Yuba City. Basketball: Varsity, Placer; B. Yuba City; Cc, .Placers:-D. Yuba City, ‘Track: <A, Placer; Valley; D, Yuba City. Tennis: Singles, Grass Valley; doubles, Grass Valley; team, Grass Valley. : Baseball: Varsity, Placer; junior varsity, Marysville. Basketball. schedules for A, B, C and D teams were adopted with January 7th, 1949, set as the opening date. Football schedules for 1948 and 1949 were adopted with the Fall opening set for October 8th this year, and October 7th in 1949. Exhibition games between Chico High School and Grass Valley are scheduled for the first time. They will play a home and home series. With the entry of the San Juan Union High School schedules now are based on seven teams. Baseball and tennis schedules are still to be compiled. = CONTEST GRASS VALLEY: The Grass Valley Junior Chamber of Commerce yesterday announced that its essay contest will be publicized by posters drawn by Miss Dorothy Dyke of the high school art department. The essays to be entitled, ‘‘I’m Going to the Fair,’’ must be received by June 30th. Winning essays will receive prizes n cash aggregating $50. Don Rademaker, chamber committee chairman, states the judges are now being selected. LIGHT VOTE BUT LOCAL INTEREST HIGH NEVADA CITY: Only one election contest is expected to be final in today’s balloting. That is between Frank A. Rowe, incumbent Supervisor for the second district (Grass Valley) and John-L. Frank. The race for supervisor, in the first district (Nevada City) lies among ten candidates, two of whom will run’ off the contest in the November election, Three Republicans have entered the sixth district assembly race for Nevada County. They are B. W. Reynolds, Truckee; William Durbrow, Grass Valley; and Louis Hartman, Grass Valley: % ‘ B, Grass SHERIFF DEALS WITH ASSORTED TROUBLES NEVADA CITY: Elmer Root, 58, Roseville fisherman reported lost on Fall Creek, Camp 19, near Fuller-Lake, by his fishing companion named Davis. Otis Hardt, undersheriff, and Game Warden Earl Hiscox and’ a number of civilians spent all day Sunday looking ‘for him. <A party of searchers is still looking for him. G bh b Pearl Guthria, 23, mother of five children, was taken to the Community Hospital. yesterday by Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, who states. she attempted suicide by drinking Hexol. It is reported she will recover. A dispute with her husband, Frank Guthria, the sheriff reports, led to the attempted suicide. The family resides in the LeBarr Meadows district. & he . Walter Jones, 59, of Watt Park, was arrested Sunday by Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, on complaint of Warren Smith who stated Jones had fired two shots at him with shotgun. According to the sheriff Smith stated he had agreed to buy some antiques of Jones. During the cona BUILD NEVADA COUNTY versation Jones discovered his wallet was missing and accused Smith of taking it. Jones ordered him off the premises, and fired a couple of shots after him. Jones states he fired the shots over Smith’s head. DICKERMAN HELD TO ANSWER ON HIT-RUN CHARGE GRASS VALLEY: Leroy Dickerman, 32, a ‘miner employed in the New Brunswick Mine, was held to answer last Tuesday following his preliminary examination before Justice of the Peace ‘Charles A. Morehouse. Dickerman is accused of striking Ethan A. LeNeve, 87, a sawmill worker, early Sunday morning with his car, and. speeding away. The highway patrol reports that LeNeve suffered a compound fracture of the left leg and that the force of the impact threw him into the back of his. pick-up truck. LeNeve had left the driver’s seat to see if his rear lights were burning. Bernie Baugh, returned from Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with failure to provide, was also held for trial in the superior court. Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins made the trip and returned the man. Raymond C. Chapman, 30, carpenter, charged with drunken driving, pleaded guilty and was sentenced by the court to a fine of $200 or 100 days. % The first flower show now remembered was sponsored in Sacramento in 1852. WILLIAM GEORGE HEADS TEACHERS NEVADA CITY: The Nevada County Teachers Association held its semi-annual session at Nevada City High School last Monday evening with a good attendance. Following a delicious dinner served by Mrs. Adele Sturdevant, High School cafeteria manager, the group adjourned to the school auditorium where Principal William Wilson, Grass Valley High School, spoke on ‘Teacher Welfare’’ and Dr. Rockwell Hunt, Director of California History, College of the Pacific, spoke on ‘‘California History Teaching.’”’ Wilson pointed out that teachers should share in: the local administration of schools; they should know all the facts of the finances of a school; how. much is coming from the state funds, the local tax situation. “‘A wellinformed teacher can play a more dynamic role in schoo] work,” he maintained. “A school should draw up its budget with only one thing in mind—what kind of education do we want. to give these children? What type of education ‘should we give them for their .needs.”’ Too often budgets are drawn up and adapted on the basis of what can we do or what can we cut down. The Grass Valley school man stressed .the fact that someday soon we shall have to revise our whole system of school taxation. “That the present set-up of proerty taxation and state funds on an average daily attendance basis was insufficient’ to maintain the schools of tomorrow. That to go to the homeowner and ask for additional moneys. on the basis of a property tax was often unfair and imposed a hardship on the property owner that could be carried by the state in school finance probably a lot easier, “Tf we want good education, if we want good educators, we must be prepared to pay -for them,’’ he added. “The difference sometimes between a system operating on a shoe ‘string, patching up here and there with inadequate facilities and equipment too often the difference of a few drinks Or a few. smokes-on the part of our citizenry.. Wilson pointed 6ut in amplifying the point that America spends more on liquor and tobaeco than she does on her schools. is In conclusion, he called for a more alert active teaching group co-operating with parents and Boards of Education in making our schools’ democratic. Elmer Stevens was called upon to introduce Dr. Hunt. Dr. Hunt, one of California’s outstanding historians and for over 30 years Dean gf the Graduate -School “at-Universit oF Southern California, stressed the importance of teaching California history and particularly local history during the Centennial Years history. “A far better understanding of the world can be achieved by a youngster if he knows how to understand local history,”’ stated Hunt. William George was elected President of the County Teachers to succeed Ruth Hughes, Nevada City. % The Andean condor soars at enormous altitudes from 10,000 to 15,000 feet above the sea. . . as a basis for understanding all} CLARK TELLS _ CHAMBER VIEWS ON FOREST LAW GRASS VALLEY: The Grass, Valley Chamber of Commerce, meeting at breakfast recently in Bret Harte Inn, heard Claude Clark, president of the Nevada County Lumbermen’s Protective Association, sum up his findings of sustained yield law. Clark «said as the law stood, it meant the Uncle Sam gets more power and more land. He stated that the government had the general public utility in a befuddled state of mind through its explanation. of the unit system of lumbering. He declared that the small mill owner would be gently nudged from the business of tree cutting, and that the benefits derived from sustained yield would be beneficial. only to the larger mills and lumber companies. Carried to its logical coneclusion, Clark declared, the new sys-~ tem would presently result. in reducing the 46 sawmills now operating_in Nevada County to three or four mills. Lumbering payrolls, he stated, have formed a good substitute’ for mine payrolls for several years. The chamber tabled resolutions for against the sustained. yield system until further consideration. Lou Hartman, president, congratulated Willard Rose, president of the Grass Valley Junior Chamber of Commerce, and the vicepresident, Red Bost, on their enthusiastie debut. Secretary-Manager Fred Brady, regarding Grass Valley’s failure to enter a float in the Gold Rush parade of Auburn, Placer County, said it revealed a lack of co-.operation and’ lack of interest. Brady ‘declared that the Golden Values trade celebration which will be staged on June 1lith and 12th was showing good prospects of success. A generous allotment of gifts are to be awarded to all visitors in the business district. The chamber voted $100 for expenses of Brady in attending the Western Institute Schooling for chamber of commerce managers which takes place June 20th to 26th in the University of Oregon at Eugene. ’ THURMAN AT WORK ON TELETYPE BILL NEVADA CITY: State Senator Allen G. Thurman has a bill ready or bed ‘for introduction at the next session of the legislature which would provide the Nevada County Sherift’s office with. a teletype linking Nevada County with all _police teletypes in the state. Sheriff Richard. W. Hoskins has already established radio com= munication with all police, sheriff’s deputies, and highway patrot cars in Nevada County, through the short wave radio unit installed in his office, giving 24 hour service along with station KAPI in the highway patrol station at Hills Flat. The Thurman bill provides that there shall be no expense of the teletype machine cost or installation to the county. x . The annual world consumption of tea is over 800 million pounds. iG THEDiary of a 49’er FROM THE BOOK EDITED BY C. L. CANFIELD # 2 sg Ss ri) . MAY 30, 1852—In two weeks more we will bid the place goodbye and leave it, so far as I can see, for all time. I think we would go sooner, as we are all getting impatient and restless, but we will not receive the money for our river claims until the 8th of june and we must wait to close that transaction. Dunn and company, who have bought and paid for our creek ground, are doing well, and are satisfied with the bargain. They have got the lumber on the ground for their big flume, half of the boxes made and will begin to put it in this week. They have also succeeded in buying up the most of Brush Creek below the flat and will flume it in the same way. All the Saleratus Ranch boys are interested and I hope they will make a fortune. They are a jolly lot of fellows and, excepting Pard, my best friends, and they don’t like to hear of our going away. Pard has planned to give a farewell supper to them and about twenty others, Platt, Dixon, Gleason, and Fisk, our Rock Creek neighbors, and there he is going to carry out his intentions of telling them his right name and his reason for sailing under false colors, as he calls it. It will be a strictly stag affair, but even then Pard says men will tell their wives, wives will tell their neighbors, and there will be the ‘‘clack of idle tongues.” We are going to give our books to the ranch boys, the rest of our belongings to our neighbors, and leave the old cabin to rot, or to the chance shelter of some wandering miner. As Pard says, it is humble enough and rude enough, but there is many a costly house that cannot compare with it, for it has sheltered and fostered enduring friendship, unruffled peace, the miracle of content and the boon of prosperity; and I add a happy: reconciliation, a growing romance, the awakening of love, and we are a pair of soft chaps who grow sentimental over some rough pine logs and weather beaten shakes. . am sure, wherever we go, the old log cabin on Rock Creek «will never fade out of our memory, = =——— including other”