May 13, 1949 (6 pages)

Mi. Auditorium » >» The City large in sawmill Tuesday, a Brandy was according nouncement by & at Sierra county to closed an» an E. T. Fisher, presi dent of Calida Lumber company, operator of the mill. Fisher stated the pay mill was closed rather than the stumpage charges’ asked by the U. S. national forest service. Fisher said the forest service is asking the highest prices in history and at a time when lumber prices are declining. Fisher @. y disuse, and = > ~ stated the mil] machinery will processed for a long period . the structures from ang the He said dropped $20 past year. lumber per thous Fisher added Farrell, the Pacific manager district, of Electric and Gas The speech ang drama-class of Nevada City high school will pre to according o'clock, 8 to 4 an announcement by L. R. sent three one-act plays tonight in the schoo] auditorium starting at 8:15 o’clock. Miss ‘Evelyn Corr }is director of the plays. Tickets will be sold at the entrance at 50 The company. four hour period will be utilized to switch-over the Nevada City to volts from 4,000 sub-station 12,000 volts, . completing which started last year. New regulators and transformwhen the Brandy City mill started ers have been installed to give operations ‘averaged $3.50 per better service to this area. Reguthousand. lators and transformers have also Commenting on the closing of + been installed ni the Grass Valley Farrell said the imthe sawmill] at Brandy City, Forest substation. stumpage charges Supervisor Guerdon “This is a most A > four years ago Ellis said, @ sawmills Stumpage timber sale to the Cal-Ida Lumber company our figures were carefully compared with the company’s own figures, and a_ reasonable margin for profit forest is indicated. service recognizes Pine association current pine in selling prices are holding firm and are higher than average 1948. Fir prices have dropped. These industry figures bear out our appraisal prices’ which but our ~~ fir are higher for pine, prices have been cut in half. “Comparable . timber in other areas in California is being purchaseq at comparable prices which indicates to us that our stumpage prices are not unreasonable.” Lumber mills in the area have been slow in renewing operations this spring’ because of the severe winter, declining market, competition from northwest mills, and ¢ union negotiations. Ellis said ‘‘the shut down of the Cal-Ida sawmill is due to uneasiness be of private enterprise and not to stumpage rates.”’ APARTMENT DAMAGED BY FIRE ON SPRING STREET ON TUESDAY — al a » Fire gutted the kitchen of an upstairs apartment at 415 Spring street Tuesday afternoon causing $1500 damages. The blaze started by an explosion of a gas kitchen stove. The apartment is owned by Howard Staats, Nevada City. Mrs. Ruby Weeks anq children occupied the apartment. A section of the living’room and éome furniture were destroyed and elementary school library according to the regular monthly financial report, released this week by Sam Hooper, assistant city with a docket ‘full of business to be discussed and decided for the com P.G.&E. .. 448.52 Sree uci sscascoyacneskecensaesee 217.00 Gl AROS coos tecucananvaserastee Water Connections ..-. 305.72 15.00 Sale ‘of FURR ois .conestewecectees Broken Hydrants. ..-. Delayed Birth Cert. .:. Her PE PU Ge TLRS occcocaesnceuuarensnn 112.65 25.00 3.00 80.00 university. Miss Jean Eagle, home economics teacher at the high school, sent a written she desired resignation to return to versity of Southern secure her master’s resignation Lloyd was Geist, elementary stating the degree. accepted. principal school, third of the proposed that tendered her: resignation in view of her coming marriage. Miss Fisher’s resignation was accepted. Geist was authorized to purchase a new 380-gallon hot water heater for the elementary hchool building and also to price a powerdriven lawn mower for the kindergarten lawn. Decision to purchase the mower was future meeting held over for a after price had melt, board member, suggested the hiring of eighth grade boys to run the hand mower as an economy measure.' : Howard Penrose, president of the board, appointed Miles Coughlin ang John La Rue to present the diplomas to the June graduating classes of the elementary and high school, ’ The board received three appli cations for the post of recreation director under the proposed recreation program which is sponsored by the-school board. Those apply spread, There was no insurance on fur the community recreation program at the March meeting when it decided to take the first steps in bringing a year-around planned but the building was WU SUBSTITUTE Gertrude Zollers, loca] Western Union telegraph operator, is in Oakland attending a twelve day eourse given by Western Union to acquaint its operators with the new telegraph method being inatalled in offices. During Mra. Zollers absence Mias Doris Paash of Hayward is managing the local business. $4,709.08 DISBURSEMENTS Warrants paid Warrants paid on Gen on Fire POUT. i secccuseccsntnaion cat miencee 78.35 Warrants paid on Library FOUN casucceicconsteecenouce Pern Members of the boards of direcValley and Ne vada City Chambers of Commerce, ang city councils of both commu nities will meet at Seaman’s lodge 399.57 Valley. The chamber pledged its support to the Nevada county centennia] commission for the forthcoming Fourth of July celebration. Mr, and Total $7,364.67 Mrs. William Swain asked support of the chamber in getting completed repairs to the airport roadway. I. C. Bell, on behalf of the Nevada City planning commission, outlined plans for a fence around the baseball diamond in Pioneer park. Some material is already here and work is expected to start in the very near future. George Mathis. presented his preliminary sketches of an advertising map folder. The chamber approved it. . The group urged the California’ highway commission realign highBalance in treasury Balance in .. $16,773.34 fire fund, $1,138.02; balance in library fund, $2,512.17; balance in general fund, $13,123.15. been determined, Dr?-Bernard Hum and Wilbur J. Wilkin, Vacaville. The job which is expected to bring several more applications, calls for a salary Of about $3,600 a year. The board took the. initiative in damaged Total Receipts grade teacher, who Pi GRAU. PUIG). ccc ecti casts tees concn $6,886.75 sulted. Two trucks and .crews of the Nevada City fire department responded and quickly brought the blaze under control before it could water Franchise to all teachers presently employed by the school district be rehireq with the exception of Miss Mary i Fisher, ROINGR Uni California re considerable niture, —_ Herrald, Peter Playing Style’ Jenny Scribner. in “Grandma are Joanne Maxine Ivey, Joan Bertino, Howard Joyce Lamson, Old BILLS Sam Hooper, $200; Salaries: George H. Calanan, $20; Max Solaro, $248; J. J. Jackson, $205; Clarence Martz, $205; Clyde Garwood, $205; William Shipley, $112; Emma _ “Foley, . $12.50; Miles D. Coughlin, $25; Iva Williamson, way 20 between Marysville here. George Campbell chamber approve and decoration of Nevada and urged the recommend City stores in a rustic manner for the fortheoming celebration. , A communication from the pub lic utilities commission said the chamber’s protests against the telephone toll between Grass Valley and Nevada City will receive due consideration. Harry Peart of Pert Photography protested. to the chamber ™, 31, 1948, totale® est percentage of ded in Nevada year since 1943. increase county record for any State-wide average increase was 3.2 per cent. Two counties, Amador and Lake, showed decreases in establishments licensed during? the year. Other counties with increases averaging less than Nevada were Alameda, San Franecisce, nd Tuolumne. , Counties showing large increases were Alpine, Del Norte, Mendocino, and Trinity. Hefelfinger, Hedges, pliances, school supplies Immel, Vio guests old and club invites all teachers and enjoy themselves. ties. Businesses numbers showing a of outlets decrease. includeé general merchandise, food, medica and health supplies, railroad supand. equipment, photographic. : Ratio of one chain store to sevem independents has remained constant since 1946. hy Jupiter dampens to come Cancellation of permits. in 1948: indicated a 2% year life expectaney for a business at a cation FRED SEARLS ARGUES FOR FREE GOLD MART to under a Establishments particular lo given ownership. serving meals ami drinks had the. largest turnover. rates with 54 out of every 106 res~ taurants changing ownership dur~ ing 1948. At the other end of the table 15 out of 100 sellers of cas~ kets and tombstones hag a change-over in business. ty The 796 outlets in Nevada coum. were broken down as follows> Books, 3; clothing, 23; tobacco gener products, 3; merchandise, 16; confectionery ‘ind soft drinks, 15; drugs, 9; home furnishings an@, appliances, 52; hardware, 5. > Groceries, . 72; plumbing, jewelry, 8; building materials 123: and: fixtures, 73; motor vehicles, 23; office. and school supplies ank& equipment, 3; packaged liquor, 83> radios and musical instruments, 12. Meals and drinks, 125; second-. hand merchandise, shoe repairing, 9; 10; shoes amd printing, 22p: limited price varieties, 8; farm an® garden supplies, 9; farm and dairy. equipment, 1; photographic Sepia plies gesture durable farm ami equipment, marine. ment. through case jealous dramatic am@® equipment, supplies and equipment, luggage. and leather goods, fuel and ica, and aeronautic supplies and equip— school. J. D. Conway and P. J. Conway are hosts for this final meeting of the club this school year. The a and ‘iam-~ supplies and equipment, sporting goods and amusements, flowers and nurseries, and art goods and novel~ — the day the picnic will be held in the North San Juan elementary In office are Warren In plumbing fixtures, production § draulic diggings and _ other historical and picturesque spots. Even nature is cooperating with the chamber of commerce and the ridge residents by blooming forth with multitudes of scotch bloom gets out— and equipment, farm and dairy PICNIC AT. OREGON CREEK SATURDAY dogwood. of shoes ang shoe repairing, station~ ery, limited price variety stores, power and communication supplies. plies Pluvius hardware, and production. and percentage terials in and number of lets throughout the state included book stores, confectionery and softdrinks, home furnishings and ap let Cozzalio, Rosemarie Day, Elizabeth Wilson, James Beverage, Don Rollins and Wayne _ Blounfield. Willard Goerz will conduct the orchestra furnishing music for the teachers large in Joe and Lee. the increase and equipment, 6. . Sporting goods and amusements; 19; flowers and nurseries, 8; art goods and novelties, 9; luggage call attention to the need of legislation permitting a free domestic market and leather goods, 1; fuel and ice, 29; service stations and auto supplies, 188; caskets and tombstones,, 5; unallocated, 65. 47 oe for newly mined gold in the U.S., Fred M. Searls, president of the IRRIGATION DISTRICT . DIRECTORS TO INSPECT PUMPS AND RESERVOIR Newmont mining company, plunked down a jar of raw gold before a senate subcommittee last week in Washington, D.C. While the senators were see ing over the glass jar of $4,100 in raw gold, possibly some from Following the regular business, meeting this morning in its offices, the Nevada Irrigation Distriet Nevada county mines, Searls ar$105; Grace Himes, $100; Fred gued in support of proposed legBush, $50; H.S. Hallett, $250; Nick against transient photographers board of directors this afternoom Sandow, $210; William Hallett, and stated his shop would meet islation by Senator Pat McCarran will inspect the district’s new pump. of Nevada. $208; D. F. Kirkham, $208; Hoskins, $208; Ted $208; Dick James, $50. Supplies: Headley’s Leroy Sivourney, : Manufacturing, Nursery, $7.18; Co., $105.30. George H. $326.43; Alpha Calanan, offer in order to keep the money in Nevada City. Garage, $2.77; Beryl Robinson, $20.13; Steger Automotive Supply, $2.25; Shell Oil Co., $.97; Miners Foundry and any Gillet Hardware cash Concrete Poured For Airport Foundations Concrete was poured Wednesday for the foundations of the hangars and office buildings at Nevada City airport, marking the begin adning of actual building operations vanced, $80; Bevard & Sons, ceof the $14,000 airport project. ment, $49.20;, Pacific Gas & ElecLewis Brown, Nevada City, is tric Co., $327.34; Bank of America, building the project for Mr. and rent of safety deposit box, $9; Mrs. William Swain, lessees of the and supervised program to Nevada Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., airport. Old hangars and buildings City children and adults. $30.30; The Nugget, printing, are being dismantled and removed. $46.46; Plaza Tire Shop, tires, The work -is expected to be com$71.28; Sentinel Chemical Co., pleted by early summer, Brown NEW SIGNS janitorial supplies, $10.08; Dr. C. N. stated. A new sign for the I. C. and Kerrin, professiona] services, $11; Jo Be}l: rea} estate agency appeared Sam Hooper, stamped envelopes, ‘ELECTION TONIGHT ‘Wednesday at the top of the. Bert $308.87; Hansen: Paint Store, trafSierra Nevada Rabbit Breeders Foreman store. The neon sign in fic paint, $22.40; Neva Curry Marassociation will conduct annual front of the Pacific Gas & Electric tin, meals, $.80; A. Carlisle. Co., election of officers tonight at Seacompany office also received a new record books, $96.42; Nevada City man’s lodge, Pioneer park. coat of paint Wednesday and yesChamber of Commerce, Marriage A table show of_rabbits and potterday. Dec. Sheldon, Snyder, The board of trustees of Nevada ing were Joseph D. Blake, Santa Barbara; William J. Proctor, Taft, covered, oe cents ing school year. clerk. Thursday evening for a round-table Nevada County Rural Teachers shorter time basis, such as two George B. Abbott, physical eduCollections were $4,709.08, while discussion of inter-city problems club will hold its annual picnic weeks or a month, in order to eation director and history and sothe city spent $7,364.67. and promotions. The meeting place Saturday at Oregon creek, where luvas-announced at. Tuesday’s meetJhighway 49 crosses it near North decrease the risks involved. Howcia] science teacher of the high RECEIPTS ing of the Chamber of Commerce San Juan. Mrs. Harold George, Jr., ever, the -company. apparently is ‘schoo] requested by letter the president of the club, will preside. in its rooms in city hall. not willing to assume any risk in board extend him a leave of abBal it PPeasury ois. .e.e.: $19,428.93 The group is expected to gather this case, even though it could sence for the school year 1949-50 will Freq Bush reported work Water Collections ... 2,562.74 at 12:30 p.m. at the historic old operate the timber at a profit at in order that he might study to commence immediately on signs for hck aee 101.45 the present time. Prices set for obtain his doctorate in physical Gas Dax: iio oe the entrances to Nevada City. The brick building in North San Juan. this sale of 4.7 million feet of education. His request was deRent of Community Hall 26.00 signs will designate meeting times R. C. Hill and Ed J. Kohler, leadtimber, to be operated over a 2% nied for the reason that the board Business Licenses ..-.---744.00 ang places of civic organizations. ers of the North San Juan, Campmonths period are: ponderosa pine could not be certain that he would Elza Kilroy was authorized to tonville and Vicinity Chamber of Taxi<Cab Stands: -.2.-.2. 36.00 Commerce, will represent the com$24.00, sugar pine $30.00, white fir return and give to Nevada City the rprepare a float in‘a 49er theme for 32.00 munity as hosts and will tour the $3.00, douglas fir $5.00. benefit derived from his year at Building Permits ..:.. Grass in the Fourth of July parade dices show ro 25 CITY FINANCES 2 CITIES UNITS MISS EAGLE AND -_ WILL MEET HERE FISHER RESIGN FROM LEVEL OFF IN TEACHING POSITIONS APRIL REPORT NEXT THURSDAY RURAL TEACHERS TO tors of the Grass on showing Doris Nevada City government operated $2,655.59 in the red during April ization 796, a gain of 1.1 per cent since the beginning of the year—small centage of Assisting City Unified School district met Monday and Tuesday nights in the l Dahl, Virginia Pease, Bob .Thompson, Shirley McElhannon, Arthur Day, Gordon Lageson and David Mott. ang for repairs. county cutlets for any one type of licensed business. Other lines of business; DETROIT, MICH.—UAW-CIO Local 600 struck against Ford Motor Co. after failure of last minute peace talks. Some 65,000 workers thronged out of two Detroit plants as the world’s second largest auto empire faced complete paralysis. Shown here are pickets preventing car from entering plant. Nevada Cast of the play, “The Man in the Bowler Hat?’ includes Ross Harley $300,060. Farrell -said the early morning hours of Sunday was chosen as the time of least inconvenience for in Commercial cinema supplies ang equipment showed the largest per— adults and Players in ‘The Deceivers’’ are cost ers. He said the Sunday shutdown would probably be the final one “Western — company fully gathered from throughout . California. the risks involved during these times. Because of the high risks we offered the company a small sale of timber, just enough to last them about 2% months. We are willing to offer them timber on a o the the majority of electrical consum “The & approximately reggmetable situa and risk for ‘the operating company. In the case of the proposed “= by tion. Public timber *sold by the forest service is appraised on the basis of operating costs and lumber selling prices. This data is care rates are determined after allowing a reasonable margin for profit a provements Outlets censed by the state board of esual-~ for cents for children. job a Friday, May 13, 1949 QNE-ACT PLAYS AT HIGH SCHOOL THIS EVENING oe 000 FORD WORKERS STRIKE be off in Nevada Power — will four hours Sunday morning boarded the face of operating costs and a abhi CITY (Nevada Gounty) CALIFORNIA POWER CUT OFF 4 HOURS HERE EARLY SUNDAY City Approximately 150 employes be affected bythe action. The Calida president called the in stumpage charges’ prohibitive declining market. Volume 22—No. 21 be of up. will prices had RETAIL OUTLETS INCOUNTY SHOW SLIGHT GAIN ment, $75, Senator Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado and Representative Clair Engle of California supported Searls’ contention and the McCarran legislation. They were followed by economists opposing the measure. The legislation has drawn strong opposition from the federal re at the lower end of the D-S canal and the The Yuba reservoir. pump is diverting water from. the D-S Park cana] and into Rattlesnake the Chicage, ditches tty offset curtailed flow of the run-. off from Deer creek, above Scott’s; Flat reservoir. The pump is beingoperated on a 24-hour schedule. Advantage has been taken of tha. low stage of the Yuba _reservoirpartment. and equipment and men are busgyBut< Engle insisted it is supportcleaning the accumulation of sev-. ed by strong segments of the eral years. banking industry. Under present law, there is no free market on refined ~gold, but ‘socalled natural gold, unrefined Fred Bush, observer can be bought and sold freely. Refinegd gold can be sold only to the high government at the. fixed price of Thursday, May 5 ... 68 $35 an ounce. Friday, May 6 ... 78 serve board and the treasury de The Weather The McCarran measure would restore a complete free market, in all newly mined gold, refined or otherwise. Supporters of the measure contended it would stimulate ¢old mining without undermining luck refreshments will be enjayed. the nation's financial structure. Saturday, May 7 .. 82 Sunday, May 8 ... 18 Monday, May 9 .. --63 Tuesday, May 10 .. 66 Wednesday, May 11 . 78 Thureday, May 12.. 80 : "pesspennj a CALIDA CLOSES HUGE SAWMILL AT BRANDY CITY

Mi. Auditorium » >» The City large in sawmill Tuesday, a Brandy was according nouncement by & at Sierra county to closed an» an E. T. Fisher, presi dent of Calida Lumber company, operator of the mill. Fisher stated the pay mill was closed rather than the stumpage charges’ asked by the U. S. national forest service. Fisher said the forest service is asking the highest prices in history and at a time when lumber prices are declining. Fisher @. y disuse, and = > ~ stated the mil] machinery will processed for a long period . the structures from ang the He said dropped $20 past year. lumber per thous Fisher added Farrell, the Pacific manager district, of Electric and Gas The speech ang drama-class of Nevada City high school will pre to according o'clock, 8 to 4 an announcement by L. R. sent three one-act plays tonight in the schoo] auditorium starting at 8:15 o’clock. Miss ‘Evelyn Corr }is director of the plays. Tickets will be sold at the entrance at 50 The company. four hour period will be utilized to switch-over the Nevada City to volts from 4,000 sub-station 12,000 volts, . completing which started last year. New regulators and transformwhen the Brandy City mill started ers have been installed to give operations ‘averaged $3.50 per better service to this area. Reguthousand. lators and transformers have also Commenting on the closing of + been installed ni the Grass Valley Farrell said the imthe sawmill] at Brandy City, Forest substation. stumpage charges Supervisor Guerdon “This is a most A > four years ago Ellis said, @ sawmills Stumpage timber sale to the Cal-Ida Lumber company our figures were carefully compared with the company’s own figures, and a_ reasonable margin for profit forest is indicated. service recognizes Pine association current pine in selling prices are holding firm and are higher than average 1948. Fir prices have dropped. These industry figures bear out our appraisal prices’ which but our ~~ fir are higher for pine, prices have been cut in half. “Comparable . timber in other areas in California is being purchaseq at comparable prices which indicates to us that our stumpage prices are not unreasonable.” Lumber mills in the area have been slow in renewing operations this spring’ because of the severe winter, declining market, competition from northwest mills, and ¢ union negotiations. Ellis said ‘‘the shut down of the Cal-Ida sawmill is due to uneasiness be of private enterprise and not to stumpage rates.”’ APARTMENT DAMAGED BY FIRE ON SPRING STREET ON TUESDAY — al a » Fire gutted the kitchen of an upstairs apartment at 415 Spring street Tuesday afternoon causing $1500 damages. The blaze started by an explosion of a gas kitchen stove. The apartment is owned by Howard Staats, Nevada City. Mrs. Ruby Weeks anq children occupied the apartment. A section of the living’room and éome furniture were destroyed and elementary school library according to the regular monthly financial report, released this week by Sam Hooper, assistant city with a docket ‘full of business to be discussed and decided for the com P.G.&E. .... 448.52 Sree uci sscascoyacneskecensaesee 217.00 Gl AROS coos tecucananvaserastee Water Connections ....-. 305.72 15.00 Sale ‘of FURR ois .conestewecectees Broken Hydrants. ....-.. Delayed Birth Cert. .:.. Her PE PU Ge TLRS occcocaesnceuuarensnn 112.65 25.00 3.00 80.00 university. Miss Jean Eagle, home economics teacher at the high school, sent a written she desired resignation to return to versity of Southern secure her master’s resignation Lloyd was Geist, elementary stating the degree. accepted. principal school, third of the proposed that tendered her: resignation in view of her coming marriage. Miss Fisher’s resignation was accepted. Geist was authorized to purchase a new 380-gallon hot water heater for the elementary hchool building and also to price a powerdriven lawn mower for the kindergarten lawn. Decision to purchase the mower was future meeting held over for a after price had melt, board member, suggested the hiring of eighth grade boys to run the hand mower as an economy measure.' : Howard Penrose, president of the board, appointed Miles Coughlin ang John La Rue to present the diplomas to the June graduating classes of the elementary and high school, ’ The board received three appli cations for the post of recreation director under the proposed recreation program which is sponsored by the-school board. Those apply spread, There was no insurance on fur the community recreation program at the March meeting when it decided to take the first steps in bringing a year-around planned but the building was WU SUBSTITUTE Gertrude Zollers, loca] Western Union telegraph operator, is in Oakland attending a twelve day eourse given by Western Union to acquaint its operators with the new telegraph method being inatalled in offices. During Mra. Zollers absence Mias Doris Paash of Hayward is managing the local business. $4,709.08 DISBURSEMENTS Warrants paid Warrants paid on Gen on Fire POUT. i secccuseccsntnaion cat miencee 78.35 Warrants paid on Library FOUN casucceicconsteecenouce Pern Members of the boards of direcValley and Ne vada City Chambers of Commerce, ang city councils of both commu nities will meet at Seaman’s lodge 399.57 Valley. The chamber pledged its support to the Nevada county centennia] commission for the forthcoming Fourth of July celebration. Mr, and Total $7,364.67 Mrs. William Swain asked support of the chamber in getting completed repairs to the airport roadway. I. C. Bell, on behalf of the Nevada City planning commission, outlined plans for a fence around the baseball diamond in Pioneer park. Some material is already here and work is expected to start in the very near future. George Mathis. presented his preliminary sketches of an advertising map folder. The chamber approved it. . The group urged the California’ highway commission realign highBalance in treasury Balance in .... $16,773.34 fire fund, $1,138.02; balance in library fund, $2,512.17; balance in general fund, $13,123.15. been determined, Dr?-Bernard Hum and Wilbur J. Wilkin, Vacaville. The job which is expected to bring several more applications, calls for a salary Of about $3,600 a year. The board took the. initiative in damaged Total Receipts grade teacher, who Pi GRAU. PUIG). ccc ecti casts tees concn $6,886.75 sulted. Two trucks and .crews of the Nevada City fire department responded and quickly brought the blaze under control before it could water Franchise to all teachers presently employed by the school district be rehireq with the exception of Miss Mary i Fisher, ROINGR Uni California re considerable niture, —_ Herrald, Peter Playing Style’ Jenny Scribner. in “Grandma are Joanne Maxine Ivey, Joan Bertino, Howard Joyce Lamson, Old BILLS Sam Hooper, $200; Salaries: George H. Calanan, $20; Max Solaro, $248; J. J. Jackson, $205; Clarence Martz, $205; Clyde Garwood, $205; William Shipley, $112; Emma _ “Foley, . $12.50; Miles D. Coughlin, $25; Iva Williamson, way 20 between Marysville here. George Campbell chamber approve and decoration of Nevada and urged the recommend City stores in a rustic manner for the fortheoming celebration. , A communication from the pub lic utilities commission said the chamber’s protests against the telephone toll between Grass Valley and Nevada City will receive due consideration. Harry Peart of Pert Photography protested. to the chamber ™, 31, 1948, totale® est percentage of ded in Nevada year since 1943. increase county record for any State-wide average increase was 3.2 per cent. Two counties, Amador and Lake, showed decreases in establishments licensed during? the year. Other counties with increases averaging less than Nevada were Alameda, San Franecisce, nd Tuolumne. , Counties showing large increases were Alpine, Del Norte, Mendocino, and Trinity. Hefelfinger, Hedges, pliances, school supplies Immel, Vio guests

old and club invites all teachers and enjoy themselves. ties. Businesses numbers showing a of outlets decrease. includeé general merchandise, food, medica and health supplies, railroad supand. equipment, photographic. : Ratio of one chain store to sevem independents has remained constant since 1946. hy Jupiter dampens to come Cancellation of permits. in 1948: indicated a 2% year life expectaney for a business at a cation FRED SEARLS ARGUES FOR FREE GOLD MART to under a Establishments particular lo given ownership. serving meals ami drinks had the. largest turnover. rates with 54 out of every 106 res~ taurants changing ownership dur~ ing 1948. At the other end of the table 15 out of 100 sellers of cas~ kets and tombstones hag a change-over in business. ty The 796 outlets in Nevada coum. were broken down as follows> Books, 3; clothing, 23; tobacco gener products, 3; merchandise, 16; confectionery ‘ind soft drinks, 15; drugs, 9; home furnishings an@, appliances, 52; hardware, 5. > Groceries, . 72; plumbing, jewelry, 8; building materials 123: and: fixtures, 73; motor vehicles, 23; office. and school supplies ank& equipment, 3; packaged liquor, 83> radios and musical instruments, 12. Meals and drinks, 125; second-. hand merchandise, shoe repairing, 9; 10; shoes amd printing, 22p: limited price varieties, 8; farm an® garden supplies, 9; farm and dairy. equipment, 1; photographic Sepia plies gesture durable farm ami equipment, marine. ment. through case jealous dramatic am@® equipment, supplies and equipment, luggage. and leather goods, fuel and ica, and aeronautic supplies and equip— school. J. D. Conway and P. J. Conway are hosts for this final meeting of the club this school year. The a and ‘iam-~ supplies and equipment, sporting goods and amusements, flowers and nurseries, and art goods and novel~ — the day the picnic will be held in the North San Juan elementary In office are Warren In plumbing fixtures, production § draulic diggings and _ other historical and picturesque spots. Even nature is cooperating with the chamber of commerce and the ridge residents by blooming forth with multitudes of scotch bloom gets out— and equipment, farm and dairy PICNIC AT. OREGON CREEK SATURDAY dogwood. of shoes ang shoe repairing, station~ ery, limited price variety stores, power and communication supplies. plies Pluvius hardware, and production. and percentage terials in and number of lets throughout the state included book stores, confectionery and softdrinks, home furnishings and ap let Cozzalio, Rosemarie Day, Elizabeth Wilson, James Beverage, Don Rollins and Wayne _ Blounfield. Willard Goerz will conduct the orchestra furnishing music for the teachers large in Joe and Lee. the increase and equipment, 6. . Sporting goods and amusements; 19; flowers and nurseries, 8; art goods and novelties, 9; luggage call attention to the need of legislation permitting a free domestic market and leather goods, 1; fuel and ice, 29; service stations and auto supplies, 188; caskets and tombstones,, 5; unallocated, 65. 47 oe for newly mined gold in the U.S., Fred M. Searls, president of the IRRIGATION DISTRICT . DIRECTORS TO INSPECT PUMPS AND RESERVOIR Newmont mining company, plunked down a jar of raw gold before a senate subcommittee last week in Washington, D.C. While the senators were see ing over the glass jar of $4,100 in raw gold, possibly some from Following the regular business, meeting this morning in its offices, the Nevada Irrigation Distriet Nevada county mines, Searls ar$105; Grace Himes, $100; Fred gued in support of proposed legBush, $50; H.S. Hallett, $250; Nick against transient photographers board of directors this afternoom Sandow, $210; William Hallett, and stated his shop would meet islation by Senator Pat McCarran will inspect the district’s new pump. of Nevada. $208; D. F. Kirkham, $208; Hoskins, $208; Ted $208; Dick James, $50. Supplies: Headley’s Leroy Sivourney, : Manufacturing, Nursery, $7.18; Co., $105.30. George H. $326.43; Alpha Calanan, offer in order to keep the money in Nevada City. Garage, $2.77; Beryl Robinson, $20.13; Steger Automotive Supply, $2.25; Shell Oil Co., $.97; Miners Foundry and any Gillet Hardware cash Concrete Poured For Airport Foundations Concrete was poured Wednesday for the foundations of the hangars and office buildings at Nevada City airport, marking the begin adning of actual building operations vanced, $80; Bevard & Sons, ceof the $14,000 airport project. ment, $49.20;, Pacific Gas & ElecLewis Brown, Nevada City, is tric Co., $327.34; Bank of America, building the project for Mr. and rent of safety deposit box, $9; Mrs. William Swain, lessees of the and supervised program to Nevada Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co., airport. Old hangars and buildings City children and adults. $30.30; The Nugget, printing, are being dismantled and removed. $46.46; Plaza Tire Shop, tires, The work -is expected to be com$71.28; Sentinel Chemical Co., pleted by early summer, Brown NEW SIGNS janitorial supplies, $10.08; Dr. C. N. stated. A new sign for the I. C. and Kerrin, professiona] services, $11; Jo Be}l: rea} estate agency appeared Sam Hooper, stamped envelopes, ‘ELECTION TONIGHT ‘Wednesday at the top of the. Bert $308.87; Hansen: Paint Store, trafSierra Nevada Rabbit Breeders Foreman store. The neon sign in fic paint, $22.40; Neva Curry Marassociation will conduct annual front of the Pacific Gas & Electric tin, meals, $.80; A. Carlisle. Co., election of officers tonight at Seacompany office also received a new record books, $96.42; Nevada City man’s lodge, Pioneer park. coat of paint Wednesday and yesChamber of Commerce, Marriage A table show of_rabbits and potterday. Dec. Sheldon, Snyder, The board of trustees of Nevada ing were Joseph D. Blake, Santa Barbara; William J. Proctor, Taft, covered, oe cents ing school year. clerk. Thursday evening for a round-table Nevada County Rural Teachers shorter time basis, such as two George B. Abbott, physical eduCollections were $4,709.08, while discussion of inter-city problems club will hold its annual picnic weeks or a month, in order to eation director and history and sothe city spent $7,364.67. and promotions. The meeting place Saturday at Oregon creek, where luvas-announced at. Tuesday’s meetJhighway 49 crosses it near North decrease the risks involved. Howcia] science teacher of the high RECEIPTS ing of the Chamber of Commerce San Juan. Mrs. Harold George, Jr., ever, the -company. apparently is ‘schoo] requested by letter the president of the club, will preside. in its rooms in city hall. not willing to assume any risk in board extend him a leave of abBal it PPeasury ois. .e.e.: $19,428.93 The group is expected to gather this case, even though it could sence for the school year 1949-50 will Freq Bush reported work Water Collections ..... 2,562.74 at 12:30 p.m. at the historic old operate the timber at a profit at in order that he might study to commence immediately on signs for hck aee 101.45 the present time. Prices set for obtain his doctorate in physical Gas Dax: iio oe the entrances to Nevada City. The brick building in North San Juan. this sale of 4.7 million feet of education. His request was deRent of Community Hall 26.00 signs will designate meeting times R. C. Hill and Ed J. Kohler, leadtimber, to be operated over a 2% nied for the reason that the board Business Licenses ...-.---744.00 ang places of civic organizations. ers of the North San Juan, Campmonths period are: ponderosa pine could not be certain that he would Elza Kilroy was authorized to tonville and Vicinity Chamber of Taxi<Cab Stands: -.2..-.2. 36.00 Commerce, will represent the com$24.00, sugar pine $30.00, white fir return and give to Nevada City the rprepare a float in‘a 49er theme for 32.00 munity as hosts and will tour the $3.00, douglas fir $5.00. benefit derived from his year at Building Permits ...:... Grass in the Fourth of July parade dices show ro 25 CITY FINANCES 2 CITIES UNITS MISS EAGLE AND -_ WILL MEET HERE FISHER RESIGN FROM LEVEL OFF IN TEACHING POSITIONS APRIL REPORT NEXT THURSDAY RURAL TEACHERS TO tors of the Grass on showing Doris Nevada City government operated $2,655.59 in the red during April ization 796, a gain of 1.1 per cent since the beginning of the year—small centage of Assisting City Unified School district met Monday and Tuesday nights in the l Dahl, Virginia Pease, Bob .Thompson, Shirley McElhannon, Arthur Day, Gordon Lageson and David Mott. ang for repairs. county cutlets for any one type of licensed business. Other lines of business; DETROIT, MICH.—UAW-CIO Local 600 struck against Ford Motor Co. after failure of last minute peace talks. Some 65,000 workers thronged out of two Detroit plants as the world’s second largest auto empire faced complete paralysis. Shown here are pickets preventing car from entering plant. Nevada Cast of the play, “The Man in the Bowler Hat?’ includes Ross Harley $300,060. Farrell -said the early morning hours of Sunday was chosen as the time of least inconvenience for in Commercial cinema supplies ang equipment showed the largest per— adults and Players in ‘The Deceivers’’ are cost ers. He said the Sunday shutdown would probably be the final one “Western — company fully gathered from throughout . California. the risks involved during these times. Because of the high risks we offered the company a small sale of timber, just enough to last them about 2% months. We are willing to offer them timber on a o the the majority of electrical consum “The & approximately reggmetable situa and risk for ‘the operating company. In the case of the proposed “= by tion. Public timber *sold by the forest service is appraised on the basis of operating costs and lumber selling prices. This data is care rates are determined after allowing a reasonable margin for profit a provements Outlets censed by the state board of esual-~ for cents for children. job a Friday, May 13, 1949 QNE-ACT PLAYS AT HIGH SCHOOL THIS EVENING oe 000 FORD WORKERS STRIKE be off in Nevada Power — will four hours Sunday morning boarded the face of operating costs and a abhi CITY (Nevada Gounty) CALIFORNIA POWER CUT OFF 4 HOURS HERE EARLY SUNDAY City Approximately 150 employes be affected bythe action. The Calida president called the in stumpage charges’ prohibitive declining market. Volume 22—No. 21 be of up. will prices had RETAIL OUTLETS INCOUNTY SHOW SLIGHT GAIN ment, $75, Senator Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado and Representative Clair Engle of California supported Searls’ contention and the McCarran legislation. They were followed by economists opposing the measure. The legislation has drawn strong opposition from the federal re at the lower end of the D-S canal and the The Yuba reservoir. pump is diverting water from. the D-S Park cana] and into Rattlesnake the Chicage, ditches tty offset curtailed flow of the run-. off from Deer creek, above Scott’s; Flat reservoir. The pump is beingoperated on a 24-hour schedule. Advantage has been taken of tha. low stage of the Yuba _reservoirpartment. and equipment and men are busgyBut< Engle insisted it is supportcleaning the accumulation of sev-. ed by strong segments of the eral years. banking industry. Under present law, there is no free market on refined ~gold, but ‘socalled natural gold, unrefined Fred Bush, observer can be bought and sold freely. Refinegd gold can be sold only to the high government at the. fixed price of Thursday, May 5 ..... 68 $35 an ounce. Friday, May 6 ..... 78 serve board and the treasury de The Weather The McCarran measure would restore a complete free market, in all newly mined gold, refined or otherwise. Supporters of the measure contended it would stimulate ¢old mining without undermining luck refreshments will be enjayed. the nation's financial structure. Saturday, May 7 .... 82 Sunday, May 8 ..... 18 Monday, May 9 ... --63 Tuesday, May 10 .... 66 Wednesday, May 11 . 78 Thureday, May 12.... 80 : "pesspennj a CALIDA CLOSES HUGE SAWMILL AT BRANDY CITY