March 24, 1949 (6 pages)

we 2—Nevada City Nugget, Thursday, March 24, 1949 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers "KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager *Member California Newspaper Publishers Association *7Published every Thursday at Nevada City, California, and entered evada City under «as' matter of the second class in the postoffice at N wet of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION: RATES €@ne year outside county (in advance) &Mne year in county (in advance) -*¥Four months (in advance) : @ne month (in advance) _ OLD IS GOLD We admit the forlorn hope of the present congress placing gold at free trade on the wold market, but we wholeheartedly agree with Neil O'Donnell of the IdahoMaryland mines corporation in his refutation of the ~aharges of Dr. Walter Spahr. : ‘Spahr condemns the gold mining industry for asking _¥or an increase in the price of gold, establishment of a #ree gold market, and a subsidy of the industry. As we always have, we advocate the establishment ~of a free gold market. The free market would increase ‘the price of gold—there could be no other: result. And a free gold market would nullify any necessity of subssidy. What rugged individualist, such as gold miners usually are, would look to the government for subsidy, or handout, or whatever else it may be called? ‘There is only one alternative to a free gold market ‘for productive activity in the gold mines—a return to the wage and tax structure of two or three decades ago. The wages might go down, but the possibility of taxes going down is ridiculous—there are too many alrones fattening in the government structure. (How mmany persons remember the half-cent per gallon federal gas tax that was passed in 1933 and was to only wemain during the immedate crisis) ᐀ⴀ洀礀Ⰰ what a long “immediate” crisis that has stretched into.) “The repercussions and upheavals of a return to the *economic structure of the 30’s are shuddering to think zabout. “We recommend your reading of the O'Donnell arRicle in another column of this edition. ‘A THOUGHT FOR A NEW INDUSTRY “HC. Perrin has recently started a small mail order business in Nevada City. It-is a small business at pres‘ent but has the potentialities of developing into a anedium large business or into whatever volume of business the mail order field will permit. “The mail order business is a large business and covers a multitude of products. It could be developed into a number of small businesses that collectively would add vreatly to the economy of Nevada City. It is one busimess that can often be entered with a small amount of capital. It was 36 years ago that the first filling station was ‘erected in this country. The man who, in 1913, set up tthe first one, in an Ohio city, has. been claimed by «death. In the early years of autos he used a horse drawn «il-wagon for his delivery route, bringing gasoline to ‘the few users. He gets an idea of bringing the auto to the station and so begins the large chain of filling stations. As the Ohio State Journal put it, in writing of the passing of Harvey Wickliff, he “set off one of the _ biggest chain reactions in business history.” This in“stitution is a necessity now and as some stations pass, __ more come to take their place in every nook and cranny cacross our land. If the proposed “free’” medical care bill now before sxongress passes, nine billion dollars will be taken out of the earnings of workers of this country to pay com’ -pulsory health insurance.” If it passes a liberal slice of St should be spent for an inquiry into the sanity of ghose who still seem to think that there is such a thing as something for nothing.A thought from one of the greatest Americans who _ eever lived: Liberty has never come from the govern-ment. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. ‘The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The _ lhistory of liberty is a history of limitations of governtment power, not the increase of it. The author’s name «appears on page six. sees ‘Who called them he poor Indians? Did they have ftaxes, debts, leeches and the other “blessings”’ of civili‘gation? And, come to think of it, the women did all I TAILINGS . By Jim Towne . china, SPRING—It appeared in our, garden two weeks before its official arrival. As the snow disappeared, there to greet’ the eyes, were patches of violets in full bloom, budded jonquils, Yhina lilies and crocus. The latter are now in blossom. Nature has a way of protecting her own. Where deep snow covered the forest floor and the meadows in a few weeks there will be carpets of! wildflowers. The severe winter forgotten, to be remembered only as a comparison for, winters to come. -— : * * *& ‘ HATS—Spring also arrived unofficially, the other afternoon, in the S. F. to Auburn bus. It came in the guise of a cartwheel hat. New and very good looking but so out of place on a crowded bus. We wonder why women wear such hat .when traveling. Is it vanity or-poor judgment? * * * DEALERS—Recently a. veteran lawmaker of Nevada State introduced a bill to outlaw women I Wonder now that spring is here, ; With fragrant flowers in her hair, If all the world will feel her touch , And life again be bright and fair. Spring ‘‘makes a differ’? whenThousands of veterans training under the GI bill did not receive subsistence checks on time last month because they failed to notify veterans administration of a change in their address. Since the post office department cannot deliver a government ‘check—to addresses not occupied by veteran payees, VA is urging all veterans’ receiving monthly checks from VA to reort promptly all address changes. dealers in gambling clubs. According to the press, under Carson City date line, a woman representing the Business and Professional Women’s Club talked it down. The lawmaker gave up and withdrew his bill. We wonder, is a lady dealer’ a -business woman or a-= professional one? And what is the classification of a male dealer? Poor guy. * * * INFLUENCE—We were talking about a coming wedding and said to our friend, who is a marvelous cook, “Guess your son will be walking out on you, one of these days.’’ She replied, ‘‘Oh, I’m expecting it. He’s in his last year of college and is keeping company with an instructor in home economics, and if the marriage goes through he’ll learn to eat canned tuna and like t!’’ No one knows better than a mother how amazing is the reaction to certain influences. Little Johnnie won’t eat his mush at home but will go next door and eat his serving with relish. ok = * LONGFELLOW—A professor of modern languages and literature in Harvard College who became one of our. outstanding poets, died on March 24, 67 years ago. He was as American as the colonial house in which he lived fer the greater part of his life, at Cambridge, Mass. It had been the headquarters of Washington during the siege of Boston. He has left us a heritage to be regarded as precious as the one left to us by Washington. * * * Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once. more The Rose of youth -restore? H. W. Longfellow. Happy are the people whose God is All-in-all, who ask only to be judged according to their works, who live to love. —Mary Baker Eddy What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. An undelivered check is returned to the treasury department disbursing office. This ofJust Wonderin’ ever she comes to any land; the winds are softer, the sun Warmer, green grass mantles the landscapes, flowers bloom and birds sing. Can it be. that human hearts the world Over will feel the touch of spring and throw aside their winter garments of intolerance, spite, hatred and all the other unlovely traits which, in these modern days, beset us all. In view of the prevailing confusion, the doubts and fears, the lack of harmony, abroad and at home, “should we not pray for the transforming spirit of spring to lead us into the paths of reason and understanding? Sometimes I think that in keeping one eye on Russia and the other on our own domestic difficulties we -fail to discern the unfavorable aspects ‘of our democracy. What ails Uncle Sam and how can his maladies be cured? How can we, the people, escape the dictatorship of Jolin Lewis? How can we abolish the infantile filibuster? The times are surely out of joint and no nation has a monopoly of the unjointing. The world looks in vain for great: leadership; there are no men in evidence who match our mountains; we have in our midst fice notifies VA and the records are reviewed to determine whether the check actually was sent to the address furnished by the veteran, If the address used was the latest furnished, VA holds the~check until it hears from the veteran. VA realizes that prompt delivery of .these checks is’ important to eéach veteran concerned. So the importance of the veteran cooperating by giving prompt notification of address changes cannot overemphasized. As the widow of a World War I veteran, I desire to file my application for a widow’s pension. Must I file it in the city where my late husband died? Answer: No. The application may be filed at your nearest regional office of veterans administration, or may be mailed to the dependents claims service in VA’s central office in Washington. Question: Question: “I am a World War I veteran and was married in 1947. Will my wife be entitled to a pension at my death? Answer: No. The law provides that the widow of a World War I veteran may be paid a pension only if married to the veteran before Dec. 15, 1944. onGI Question: I hope to take the-job training under the bill and would like to Know the amount of subsistence paid by VA and the maximum amount I will be-\permitted to earn in order get full subsistence. Answer: If you are single with No dependents, you will receive a subsistence of $65 a month, or $90 a month if you have one or more dependents, provided your income from productive labor is not over $145 a month if you have no dependents; $180 a month if you have no dependents; $190 a motnh if you have one dependent; or $200 a month if you have more than one dependent. AGRICULTURE FUNDS RUNNING LOW Representatives of California agriculture are very much concerned with the prospect for the coming year. The present indication of an extraordinarily heavy planting of so-called basie crops to get in on what may be the last year of price support at 90 per cent of parity may exhaust the appropriations available “to the department of agriculture. Undtr present law the mandatory 90 per cent price support for wheat, cotton, tobacco, corn, rice, peanuts, etc. expires this year. Most California crops, especially 4 fruits raised in my district, do not come under the mandatory price supports but are supported on a discretionary basis by the secretary of agriculture insofar as funds may be available. Representatives of California horticulture are afraid that the basic and mandatory crops will use up all the money and there will not be enough left to enable the department of agriculture to end the assistance which it has in the past two years to. prunes, pears and other California fruit crops. It will be remembered that culture bought over 120,000 tons of our dried prune surplus. From a lighter 1948 crop with no carryover, the department purchasing aggregates 63,000 tons to/ date and further purchases are in the offing. Many a prune/ grower was kept out of the red ink by this government purchase program. An effort is being made to secure a supplemental appropriation to guard against the lack Washington Notes By Congressman Clair Engle in 1947 the department of agri-/ meantime, California agricultural interests are thinking seriously in terms of federal legislation which will guarantee federal support on at least a modest pasis along the same line.now granted to the so-called. basic commodities. -, OPPOSE BOYD/ Confirmation of Boyd as the new director of mines has met with the strenuous opposition of John L. Lewis. In/any event, Lewis has used the Boyd appointment as an excuse for calling a strike which may really have as its purpgse reducing the coal supplies above ground in order to put him in a better position when renegotiating his contract with the coal operators. It is not belieyed here that Lewis’ opposition /will be any _ serious impediment to Boyd’s confirmation. In fact, it is felt in some quarters/ that Lewis is the best help Béyd has. However, some of the mining associations in the west, particularly those representing the small op¢rators, are getting nervous oyer Boyd’s appointment. The interior department, under which /the bureau of mines operates, has not shown itself very friendly to the small operators in connection with the pending legislation for incentive payments for the . production of strategic and critical minerals and metals, and the pending legislation for assisting mining exploration. Probably this opposition will not crystallize before Boyd’s appointment, but, should his appointment be delayed, the combined opposition of the small miners and John L. Lewis might seriously ‘. tution? / the poisonous serpents of intolerance, racial prejudice, the denial of inherent rights to groups of our citizens and we hear—the only thing we do not hear, is 4 voice, loud, strong and fearless telling us of our deficiencies and guiding us to. better pathways of cooperation,.and understanding. Lines written by — the Swinburne come to mind— poet “The rocks are left when he sweeps the plain. The grass that quivers, the reeds wind shaken, these remain.” Indeed, the earth has_ been swept by the besom of destruction; can it be that with the wealth of beauty, good fellowship and _ stability lost in the latest holocaust, great . minds were. lost to the world which at this time so sorely needs them? With all that is at stake at home and abroad, does it not seem a bit incongruous to see a group of senators, elected by the people to carry on the affairs of state, playing fantastic tricks before high heaven? If we had need of court jesters we should not have far to go to find them. If the United States of /America is a democracy, why dQ we endure the dictatorship of/one man, who has gained the power to control our lives and dominate our domestic affairs? If we are a Christian nation, why is there so /much_ racial discrimintion in evidence, and why are thousands of our citizens denied the /inherent rights guaranteed them by the constiGown Diecen’s Tray Charles Scott Haley The tenth of November was Nox’s birthday, and my own was the eighth. We had just one quart of good Scotch left, so on the night of the ninth we solemnly drank one another’s health until the quart was gone. Augustin and Ruperto, who had become quite expert under our tuition in preparing United States food, cooked us up a heaping plate of corned beef hash and made some biscuits in our reflector oven so we had a very nice celebration. It was evident by that time that the gravels were not sufficiently gold bearing to be commercial in grade, in spite of enthusiastic reports which we had had, so we began to pac our stuff for the trip down river. We sent to Castillo for a couple of extra canoes, and one fine morning, the river being high with rains from the night before, ‘we started back for Buena Vista. Going down stream was easy, as all our boatmen had to do was paddle in the swift current. 1 sat is the stern and took bearings from bend to bend, so as to map the course of the river later, and was surprised to find that we were back on the Madalena before eleven o'clock. e We waited a day or two at Buena Vista until the upriver boat could arrive to take us to Honda, just below the rapids. Here we transferred to the railroad which took us around to Mariquita. This was a quiet little town with a few whites living in it. One couple— reported to be Italians of royal blood by the left hand— were living in style without visible means of support and invited us to dinner one night. They served uswonderful meal, and then invited us into their of business, whose principal office machinery roulette wheel. As all sorts of drinks were served conwas a tinuously, the wheel was made to do its duty, it soon became very evident why our hosts were as the lilies of the field. I met another lean Irish-American by the name of Fitzpatrick—or that was the name he gave. He had little to say and lots to drink, but the story our hosts gave us was that he had recently completed a very successful mining operation in Colon, and was _ temporarily retired. The operation consisted in running a tunnel across the street from a house he had rented, under one of the local banks. At the proper time, one night, re came up and put the bank into receivership. Two young engineers from the States arrived at Mariquita with a power shovel that they had brought all the way from Panama, at considerable expense. Fitzpatrick had discovered some placed out about forty niles from Mariquita and persuaded them to put theire savings in and buy the shovel to work it. As they had to dig their own road some fifty miles to get to it, it was bound to be some time before they could find out whether they were to find mine or only another fairytale, as they had evidently done no prospecting before bringing their equipment with them. . pointed out to one of them that it might have been wiser to check on the property first, but he was evidently persuaded that Our senators and public leaders canot all be classed as “grass that quivers/ and reeds' wind shaken’’, there must be great men somewhere, ° Perhaps will come/ out of the flowers that bloom in the} spring, and it is to be hoped that . voices. i /—Adeline Merriam Conner , Let a smile do the service of a sermon, LEGAL NOTICE CITATION No. J-122 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF NBVADA. JUVENILE LOLEEN HEATH, A_~ Person Under the Age of Twenty-one Years, who should be declared free from the custody and control of her parents. THE Pg PLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA: TO ORLIN HEATH and MARION ELIZABETH VAN HOUTE, the mother and father of the above named person, and to all persons claiming to be the mother and/or father: of such person, who is a child of-the age of three years and eighteen -days, and is subject to the provisions of section 701 of the Welfare and Institutions Code of California. YOU AND EACH’ OF YOU ARE HEREBY CITED to. be and appear in the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Nevada, at the courtroom thereof, in the Court House in Nevada City, California, on the 6th day of May, 1949, at 10 o’clock A. M., then and there to show cause, if any you have, why SHARON LOLEENE HEATH should not be by this court declared free ourselves, her father and mother, and for failure to attend as hereinabove required, you will be deemed guilty of a contempt of court. } GIVEN UNDER MY HAND CALIFORNIA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEVADA this 3rd day of March, 1949. By RUSSELL WILSON Deputy of funds to carry on the program If you would be happy . . . live all you can each day, jin this coming year. And, in the / jeopardize his confirmation. Publish Mar. 10, 17, 24, 31, 1949 AND SEAL OF THE SUPERIOR . ].,: , COURT OF THE sTaTr or Gating from Spanish colonial times. But we were SUP” ‘. reaches of Soldano, which is one of the headwaters of R. E. DEEBLE, Clerk . the Magdalena, to prospect some more supposedly com~ if the gold was not there, he could always sell the shovel f for what he paid for it. My own opinion is that he would probably have to give it away rather than freight it out they'again; but I never did find what happened to them hiding with eventually. In a few. days we went out with a new crew to exthey will make good use of their amine an ancient gold quartz property near Mariquita brains,/ their hearts and thelr which Kunhardt had placed on our list. The property was an “antiqua’” (ancient mine), which had a large dump of supposedly high grade ore : vn it. The orginal tunnel was long since caved and —Louis Ansacher the dump was overgrown with trees and bushes. The first job was to sample the dump and from it determine* whether it was worth while re-opening the tunnel. Just as we had engaged our crew, and were ready to start out, who should show up but our old friend, IN AND FoR THE Jesus Naba, informing us that he had come up to work for us. As this meant that he had spent several days in In the Matter of SHARON beating his way up via boat and railroad, he immmedirttely got a job, as he was a good worker. Also, he imnediately assumed his former attitude of being foreman. For two days our crew attacked the brush and trees on. the dump with fervor. The morning: of the third day, I was sitting on a stump overlooking the work-# when I happened to glance down and saw a wery beautiful colored snake lying across the instep 6f my boot. I thought nothing of it until Naba spotted it. Immediately he charged down, yelling to me to kill it, as it was a ‘coralito’’, whose bite means instant death. As my crew were all working’ barefoot, without even sandals, from that time on they laid off on work—they were not having any snakes, it seemed. However, thes job was almost done, and I started them on the cleared portion, making deep sample cuts. When the cuts were deep enough, . sampled them carefully, and had them run in an American assayer's office in Mariquita —and again we decided that we knew all we wanted about this particular property, and that it was not worth while to go farther. Our next step was to take a river boat again up the from the custody and control of Magdalena to Girardot. This is quite an important trad? ing city, as from it runs the railroad to Bogota, the capital of the country. The railroad itself, as it climbs some twelve thousand feet, is a yery interesting piece of engineering, and Bogota is a most interesting city posed to. go across country from here to the uppe! r mercial placers on its upper portion. (to be continued) places » x

we 2—Nevada City Nugget, Thursday, March 24, 1949 305 Broad Street, Nevada City—Telephone 36 A legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers "KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager *Member California Newspaper Publishers Association *7Published every Thursday at Nevada City, California, and entered evada City under «as' matter of the second class in the postoffice at N wet of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION: RATES €@ne year outside county (in advance) &Mne year in county (in advance) -*¥Four months (in advance) : @ne month (in advance) _ OLD IS GOLD We admit the forlorn hope of the present congress placing gold at free trade on the wold market, but we wholeheartedly agree with Neil O'Donnell of the IdahoMaryland mines corporation in his refutation of the ~aharges of Dr. Walter Spahr. : ‘Spahr condemns the gold mining industry for asking _¥or an increase in the price of gold, establishment of a #ree gold market, and a subsidy of the industry. As we always have, we advocate the establishment ~of a free gold market. The free market would increase ‘the price of gold—there could be no other: result. And a free gold market would nullify any necessity of subssidy. What rugged individualist, such as gold miners usually are, would look to the government for subsidy, or handout, or whatever else it may be called? ‘There is only one alternative to a free gold market ‘for productive activity in the gold mines—a return to the wage and tax structure of two or three decades ago. The wages might go down, but the possibility of taxes going down is ridiculous—there are too many alrones fattening in the government structure. (How mmany persons remember the half-cent per gallon federal gas tax that was passed in 1933 and was to only wemain during the immedate crisis) ᐀ⴀ洀礀Ⰰ what a long “immediate” crisis that has stretched into.) “The repercussions and upheavals of a return to the *economic structure of the 30’s are shuddering to think zabout. “We recommend your reading of the O'Donnell arRicle in another column of this edition. ‘A THOUGHT FOR A NEW INDUSTRY “HC. Perrin has recently started a small mail order business in Nevada City. It-is a small business at pres‘ent but has the potentialities of developing into a anedium large business or into whatever volume of business the mail order field will permit. “The mail order business is a large business and covers a multitude of products. It could be developed into a number of small businesses that collectively would add vreatly to the economy of Nevada City. It is one busimess that can often be entered with a small amount of capital. It was 36 years ago that the first filling station was ‘erected in this country. The man who, in 1913, set up tthe first one, in an Ohio city, has. been claimed by «death. In the early years of autos he used a horse drawn «il-wagon for his delivery route, bringing gasoline to ‘the few users. He gets an idea of bringing the auto to the station and so begins the large chain of filling stations. As the Ohio State Journal put it, in writing of the passing of Harvey Wickliff, he “set off one of the _ biggest chain reactions in business history.” This in“stitution is a necessity now and as some stations pass, __ more come to take their place in every nook and cranny cacross our land. If the proposed “free’” medical care bill now before sxongress passes, nine billion dollars will be taken out of the earnings of workers of this country to pay com’ -pulsory health insurance.” If it passes a liberal slice of St should be spent for an inquiry into the sanity of ghose who still seem to think that there is such a thing as something for nothing.A thought from one of the greatest Americans who _ eever lived: Liberty has never come from the govern-ment. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. ‘The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The _ lhistory of liberty is a history of limitations of governtment power, not the increase of it. The author’s name «appears on page six. sees ‘Who called them he poor Indians? Did they have ftaxes, debts, leeches and the other “blessings”’ of civili‘gation? And, come to think of it, the women did all I TAILINGS . By Jim Towne . china, SPRING—It appeared in our, garden two weeks before its official arrival. As the snow disappeared, there to greet’ the eyes, were patches of violets in full bloom, budded jonquils, Yhina lilies and crocus. The latter are now in blossom. Nature has a way of protecting her own. Where deep snow covered the forest floor and the meadows in a few weeks there will be carpets of! wildflowers. The severe winter forgotten, to be remembered only as a comparison for, winters to come. -— : * * *& ‘ HATS—Spring also arrived unofficially, the other afternoon, in the S. F. to Auburn bus. It came in the guise of a cartwheel hat. New and very good looking but so out of place on a crowded bus. We wonder why women wear such hat .when traveling. Is it vanity or-poor judgment? * * * DEALERS—Recently a. veteran lawmaker of Nevada State introduced a bill to outlaw women I Wonder now that spring is here, ; With fragrant flowers in her hair, If all the world will feel her touch , And life again be bright and fair. Spring ‘‘makes a differ’? whenThousands of veterans training under the GI bill did not receive subsistence checks on time last month because they failed to notify veterans administration of a change in their address. Since the post office department cannot deliver a government ‘check—to addresses not occupied by veteran payees, VA is urging all veterans’ receiving monthly checks from VA to reort promptly all address changes. dealers in gambling clubs. According to the press, under Carson City date line, a woman representing the Business and Professional Women’s Club talked it down. The lawmaker gave up and withdrew his bill. We wonder, is a lady dealer’ a -business woman or a-= professional one? And what is the classification of a male dealer? Poor guy. * * * INFLUENCE—We were talking about a coming wedding and said to our friend, who is a marvelous cook, “Guess your son will be walking out on you, one of these days.’’ She replied, ‘‘Oh, I’m expecting it. He’s in his last year of college and is keeping company with an instructor in home economics, and if the marriage goes through he’ll learn to eat canned tuna and like t!’’ No one knows better than a mother how amazing is the reaction to certain influences. Little Johnnie won’t eat his mush at home but will go next door and eat his serving with relish. ok = * LONGFELLOW—A professor of modern languages and literature in Harvard College who became one of our. outstanding poets, died on March 24, 67 years ago. He was as American as the colonial house in which he lived fer the greater part of his life, at Cambridge, Mass. It had been the headquarters of Washington during the siege of Boston. He has left us a heritage to be regarded as precious as the one left to us by Washington. * * * Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once. more The Rose of youth -restore? H. W. Longfellow. Happy are the people whose God is All-in-all, who ask only to be judged according to their works, who live to love. —Mary Baker Eddy What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. An undelivered check is returned to the treasury department disbursing office. This ofJust Wonderin’ ever she comes to any land; the winds are softer, the sun Warmer, green grass mantles the landscapes, flowers bloom and birds sing. Can it be. that human hearts the world Over will feel the touch of spring and throw aside their winter garments of intolerance, spite, hatred and all the other unlovely traits which, in these modern days, beset us all. In view of the prevailing confusion, the doubts and fears, the lack of harmony, abroad and at home, “should we not pray for the transforming spirit of spring to lead us into the paths of reason and understanding? Sometimes I think that in keeping one eye on Russia and the other on our own domestic difficulties we -fail to discern the unfavorable aspects ‘of our democracy. What ails Uncle Sam and how can his maladies be cured? How can we, the people, escape the dictatorship of Jolin Lewis? How can we abolish the infantile filibuster? The times are surely out of joint and no nation has a monopoly of the unjointing. The world looks in vain for great: leadership; there are no men in evidence who match our mountains; we have in our midst fice notifies VA and the records are reviewed to determine whether the check actually was sent to the address furnished by the veteran, If the address used was the latest furnished, VA holds the~check until it hears from the veteran. VA realizes that prompt delivery of .these checks is’ important to eéach veteran concerned. So the importance of the veteran cooperating by giving prompt notification of address changes cannot overemphasized. As the widow of a World War I veteran, I desire to file my application for a widow’s pension. Must I file it in the city where my late husband died? Answer: No. The application may be filed at your nearest regional office of veterans administration, or may be mailed to the dependents claims service in VA’s central office in Washington. Question: Question: “I am a World War I veteran and was married in 1947. Will my wife be entitled to a pension at my death? Answer: No. The law provides that the widow of a World War I veteran may be paid a pension only if married to the veteran before Dec. 15, 1944. onGI Question: I hope to take the-job training under the bill and would like to Know the amount of subsistence paid by VA and the maximum amount I will be-\permitted to earn in order get full subsistence. Answer: If you are single with No dependents, you will receive a subsistence of $65 a month, or $90 a month if you have one or more dependents, provided your income from productive labor is not over $145 a month if you have no dependents; $180 a month if you have no dependents; $190 a motnh if you have one dependent; or $200 a month if you have more than one dependent. AGRICULTURE FUNDS RUNNING LOW Representatives of California agriculture are very much concerned with the prospect for the coming year. The present indication of an extraordinarily heavy planting of so-called basie crops to get in on what may be the last year of price support at 90 per cent of parity may exhaust the appropriations available “to the department of agriculture. Undtr present law the mandatory

90 per cent price support for wheat, cotton, tobacco, corn, rice, peanuts, etc. expires this year. Most California crops, especially 4 fruits raised in my district, do not come under the mandatory price supports but are supported on a discretionary basis by the secretary of agriculture insofar as funds may be available. Representatives of California horticulture are afraid that the basic and mandatory crops will use up all the money and there will not be enough left to enable the department of agriculture to end the assistance which it has in the past two years to. prunes, pears and other California fruit crops. It will be remembered that culture bought over 120,000 tons of our dried prune surplus. From a lighter 1948 crop with no carryover, the department purchasing aggregates 63,000 tons to/ date and further purchases are in the offing. Many a prune/ grower was kept out of the red ink by this government purchase program. An effort is being made to secure a supplemental appropriation to guard against the lack Washington Notes By Congressman Clair Engle in 1947 the department of agri-/ meantime, California agricultural interests are thinking seriously in terms of federal legislation which will guarantee federal support on at least a modest pasis along the same line.now granted to the so-called. basic commodities. -, OPPOSE BOYD/ Confirmation of Boyd as the new director of mines has met with the strenuous opposition of John L. Lewis. In/any event, Lewis has used the Boyd appointment as an excuse for calling a strike which may really have as its purpgse reducing the coal supplies above ground in order to put him in a better position when renegotiating his contract with the coal operators. It is not belieyed here that Lewis’ opposition /will be any _ serious impediment to Boyd’s confirmation. In fact, it is felt in some quarters/ that Lewis is the best help Béyd has. However, some of the mining associations in the west, particularly those representing the small op¢rators, are getting nervous oyer Boyd’s appointment. The interior department, under which /the bureau of mines operates, has not shown itself very friendly to the small operators in connection with the pending legislation for incentive payments for the . production of strategic and critical minerals and metals, and the pending legislation for assisting mining exploration. Probably this opposition will not crystallize before Boyd’s appointment, but, should his appointment be delayed, the combined opposition of the small miners and John L. Lewis might seriously ‘. tution? / the poisonous serpents of intolerance, racial prejudice, the denial of inherent rights to groups of our citizens and we hear—the only thing we do not hear, is 4 voice, loud, strong and fearless telling us of our deficiencies and guiding us to. better pathways of cooperation,.and understanding. Lines written by — the Swinburne come to mind— poet “The rocks are left when he sweeps the plain. The grass that quivers, the reeds wind shaken, these remain.” Indeed, the earth has_ been swept by the besom of destruction; can it be that with the wealth of beauty, good fellowship and _ stability lost in the latest holocaust, great . minds were. lost to the world which at this time so sorely needs them? With all that is at stake at home and abroad, does it not seem a bit incongruous to see a group of senators, elected by the people to carry on the affairs of state, playing fantastic tricks before high heaven? If we had need of court jesters we should not have far to go to find them. If the United States of /America is a democracy, why dQ we endure the dictatorship of/one man, who has gained the power to control our lives and dominate our domestic affairs? If we are a Christian nation, why is there so /much_ racial discrimintion in evidence, and why are thousands of our citizens denied the /inherent rights guaranteed them by the constiGown Diecen’s Tray Charles Scott Haley The tenth of November was Nox’s birthday, and my own was the eighth. We had just one quart of good Scotch left, so on the night of the ninth we solemnly drank one another’s health until the quart was gone. Augustin and Ruperto, who had become quite expert under our tuition in preparing United States food, cooked us up a heaping plate of corned beef hash and made some biscuits in our reflector oven so we had a very nice celebration. It was evident by that time that the gravels were not sufficiently gold bearing to be commercial in grade, in spite of enthusiastic reports which we had had, so we began to pac our stuff for the trip down river. We sent to Castillo for a couple of extra canoes, and one fine morning, the river being high with rains from the night before, ‘we started back for Buena Vista. Going down stream was easy, as all our boatmen had to do was paddle in the swift current. 1 sat is the stern and took bearings from bend to bend, so as to map the course of the river later, and was surprised to find that we were back on the Madalena before eleven o'clock. e We waited a day or two at Buena Vista until the upriver boat could arrive to take us to Honda, just below the rapids. Here we transferred to the railroad which took us around to Mariquita. This was a quiet little town with a few whites living in it. One couple— reported to be Italians of royal blood by the left hand— were living in style without visible means of support and invited us to dinner one night. They served uswonderful meal, and then invited us into their of business, whose principal office machinery roulette wheel. As all sorts of drinks were served conwas a tinuously, the wheel was made to do its duty, it soon became very evident why our hosts were as the lilies of the field. I met another lean Irish-American by the name of Fitzpatrick—or that was the name he gave. He had little to say and lots to drink, but the story our hosts gave us was that he had recently completed a very successful mining operation in Colon, and was _ temporarily retired. The operation consisted in running a tunnel across the street from a house he had rented, under one of the local banks. At the proper time, one night, re came up and put the bank into receivership. Two young engineers from the States arrived at Mariquita with a power shovel that they had brought all the way from Panama, at considerable expense. Fitzpatrick had discovered some placed out about forty niles from Mariquita and persuaded them to put theire savings in and buy the shovel to work it. As they had to dig their own road some fifty miles to get to it, it was bound to be some time before they could find out whether they were to find mine or only another fairytale, as they had evidently done no prospecting before bringing their equipment with them. . pointed out to one of them that it might have been wiser to check on the property first, but he was evidently persuaded that Our senators and public leaders canot all be classed as “grass that quivers/ and reeds' wind shaken’’, there must be great men somewhere, ° Perhaps will come/ out of the flowers that bloom in the} spring, and it is to be hoped that . voices. i /—Adeline Merriam Conner , Let a smile do the service of a sermon, LEGAL NOTICE CITATION No. J-122 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF NBVADA. JUVENILE LOLEEN HEATH, A_~ Person Under the Age of Twenty-one Years, who should be declared free from the custody and control of her parents. THE Pg PLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA: TO ORLIN HEATH and MARION ELIZABETH VAN HOUTE, the mother and father of the above named person, and to all persons claiming to be the mother and/or father: of such person, who is a child of-the age of three years and eighteen -days, and is subject to the provisions of section 701 of the Welfare and Institutions Code of California. YOU AND EACH’ OF YOU ARE HEREBY CITED to. be and appear in the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Nevada, at the courtroom thereof, in the Court House in Nevada City, California, on the 6th day of May, 1949, at 10 o’clock A. M., then and there to show cause, if any you have, why SHARON LOLEENE HEATH should not be by this court declared free ourselves, her father and mother, and for failure to attend as hereinabove required, you will be deemed guilty of a contempt of court. } GIVEN UNDER MY HAND CALIFORNIA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEVADA this 3rd day of March, 1949. By RUSSELL WILSON Deputy of funds to carry on the program If you would be happy . . . live all you can each day, jin this coming year. And, in the / jeopardize his confirmation. Publish Mar. 10, 17, 24, 31, 1949 AND SEAL OF THE SUPERIOR . ].,: , COURT OF THE sTaTr or Gating from Spanish colonial times. But we were SUP” ‘. reaches of Soldano, which is one of the headwaters of R. E. DEEBLE, Clerk . the Magdalena, to prospect some more supposedly com~ if the gold was not there, he could always sell the shovel f for what he paid for it. My own opinion is that he would probably have to give it away rather than freight it out they'again; but I never did find what happened to them hiding with eventually. In a few. days we went out with a new crew to exthey will make good use of their amine an ancient gold quartz property near Mariquita brains,/ their hearts and thelr which Kunhardt had placed on our list. The property was an “antiqua’” (ancient mine), which had a large dump of supposedly high grade ore : vn it. The orginal tunnel was long since caved and —Louis Ansacher the dump was overgrown with trees and bushes. The first job was to sample the dump and from it determine* whether it was worth while re-opening the tunnel. Just as we had engaged our crew, and were ready to start out, who should show up but our old friend, IN AND FoR THE Jesus Naba, informing us that he had come up to work for us. As this meant that he had spent several days in In the Matter of SHARON beating his way up via boat and railroad, he immmedirttely got a job, as he was a good worker. Also, he imnediately assumed his former attitude of being foreman. For two days our crew attacked the brush and trees on. the dump with fervor. The morning: of the third day, I was sitting on a stump overlooking the work-# when I happened to glance down and saw a wery beautiful colored snake lying across the instep 6f my boot. I thought nothing of it until Naba spotted it. Immediately he charged down, yelling to me to kill it, as it was a ‘coralito’’, whose bite means instant death. As my crew were all working’ barefoot, without even sandals, from that time on they laid off on work—they were not having any snakes, it seemed. However, thes job was almost done, and I started them on the cleared portion, making deep sample cuts. When the cuts were deep enough, . sampled them carefully, and had them run in an American assayer's office in Mariquita —and again we decided that we knew all we wanted about this particular property, and that it was not worth while to go farther. Our next step was to take a river boat again up the from the custody and control of Magdalena to Girardot. This is quite an important trad? ing city, as from it runs the railroad to Bogota, the capital of the country. The railroad itself, as it climbs some twelve thousand feet, is a yery interesting piece of engineering, and Bogota is a most interesting city posed to. go across country from here to the uppe! r mercial placers on its upper portion. (to be continued) places » x