May 27, 1949 (6 pages)

v7 of the most important ‘mining and Ridge. The biggest of these water BUILT IN 1853 THIS HISTORIC BUILDING still stands in North San Juan. It was occupied in the heyday of hydraulic mining by a number water companies of the San Juan companies were the Eureka Lake and Yuba Canal Company and the South Yuba’ Canal Company. These two systems cost over three million dollars. : North San Juan is Stop No. 2 in the annual Nevada County Historical Society tour May 29. Speakers in each community will give history highlights of the area. The public is welcome to make this interesting seven-hour tour. Kern Fogarty, retired San Juan postmaster will be the Historical Society historian for this community. Fred Conners will give the history of Sweetland of Sebastopol, the town that has and Mrs. Helen Sawyer the story now completely disappeared. Mrs. Amelia Cunningham, society director, will be among the guests to answer questions about the locality. Bob Paine of Nevada City, who is in charge of this year’s tour, made a preliminary survey of the planned route in company with H. P. Davis, historian, two weeks ago. Davis has prepared a detailed map which will be used both as a souvenir and guide for those making the tour. PRICE OF MILK CENT JUNE 1 Minimum prices to be paid by consumers for. fluid milk sold in the Placer-Nevada marketing area will be reduceg one cent per quart effective Wednesday, June 1. The reduction in the minimum prices was announced by the bureau of milk control, state department of agriculture. The new minimum prices. will be 18.6 cents per quart for milk purchased in stores or delivered to homes. On the same date the minimum price to be paid dairymen by distributors will be lowered at a rate of one cent per quart. The main: factor in determining that the minimum prices should be reduced, the bureau said, are lower milk prodection costs realized throgh taking cows off expensive feeding stuffs and turning them to pasture. Aonther factor is the rapid decline in the price paid dairymen by milk processing plants for milk used in the manufacture of dairy products, such as evaporated milk, putter, powered milk, etc. Under the: California milk control act, the bureau, in establishing minimum prices, must take into consideration and give adequate weight to the relationship between the price paiq by distributors for milk sold in bottles and the price paid for milk used in processing. The reduction in the minimum prices was ordered by the bureau on the basis of evidence and testimony received at a public milk price hearing held in Nevada City on May 20: New Furance for Jail And Sheriff Is Being Installed This Week © Workmen from the Alpha Hardware Co. are installing a new oilburning furnace to furnish heat for the sheriff's office and the county jail. The job of installation is expected to be completed within thé next few weeks. Bids were received for the furnace installation last winter after the other furnace had to be taken out. During ‘the long, cold winter, the™ entire building was heated from the main furnace. The new heating plant costing $2,493.49, will be in service for the next winter season, New Trustee MRS. FREDA BECRAFT became the first woman member of the Nevada City unified school district when she won a three-way election Friday over Harold Berliner and Dr. C. N. Kerrin. Ralph Poulter On ‘Navy Cruise to Japan Ralph G. Ada May Scheurn, who enlisted in the navy, is now stationed aboard the USS Fort Marion, a landing ship. Poulter, son of Mrs. ion left on a course set, for Japan. ‘Ralph was assigned to the ship on completion of recruit training period at San Diego naval training center, and is now receiving “on the job’ welders training in the ship repair department. STEEL MAN HERE Mr. and Mrs. Clifford W. Lord, Los Angeles, is visiting in this area. He was born and raised in Grass Valley where he was a star fullback-on the high school team of the 1900-10 era. His grandfather, George Lord, was a sheriff of Nevada county in the 1870’s. Lora is vice-president of U. S. Steel Corporation. Al Jaynes of the Tyler area reported to sheriff’s office Tuesday his place of business, known as Al’s Corner was burglarized some time Sunday morning. In addition to petty thievery the burglars onene@ a can of fish, beer, potato chips and crackers for a small feast at the lunch counter. A short time ago the Fort Mar-, Volume 22—No. 25 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, May 27, 194% MEN FIGHT SNOW TO BRING BODY OF MARKS OUT A part:of nine men staged a terrific battle with snow yesterday to bring out the frozen body ot James W. Marks, 44, Woodland flier killed April 6 in a plane crash at Sanford lake, «30 miles north east of here. The group, headed by Deputy Sheriff John Blackburn, left here yesterday morning at 6 o’clock and arrived at the scene of the wreckage at 2:30 after several hours of battling snow with jeeps and a bulldozer. Others in the ! i'ers from the Sacramento Union, , Ranger Lester Williams of Big} { : re . . Bend = station, Willis Marks and party .were Deputy Coroner Larry Myers, George Endter,-two reportWilliam Marks, brother and cousin; of the dead man, and Hugh Stein-/ hoff. : The group got as far as Fuller . lake without incident. At that point it was necessary to bulldoze the roag clear for 7% to 10 miles, according tg Myers. The group was then able to go three miles by jeep and walked in the last mile and a half. The body was in a shallow portions of the lake at the foot of a 1,000 foot cliff overlooked by Grouse Ridge lookout station. The men pulled the body back by sled to the jeeps and returned here at 6:25 p.m., last night. The body -was taken to Myers Grass Valley Mortary from where it will be taken to Woodland this morning. Endter was flying fire patrol Tuesday with Vane Pitney of the forest service when he _ sighted what looked like the wing of a plane in Sanford lake. Notifying Wilils Marks, the brother and cousin, accompanied by Endter,. Frank Hile and. William Nash, went to the scene of the wreckage Wednesday where the _ brother identified the body. YELLOWJACK’TS fi " er END SUCCESSFUL The Yelowjackets completed a successful baseball season. They beat Grass Valley both times out. Sure the local prides lost all their other games but that odesn’t reflect against the success of the season. Dick Penrose broke up Tuesday’s game with a double intg the rocks for a 6-4 victory. The score had been tied from the fifth inning. Coleman walked, Cartoscelli singled to set the stage for Penrose’s double. The game was played at Pioneer park. Grass Valley Bees gained some share of the glory walloping Bob Bonner’s Bees 14-8 in Watt park, Grass Valley the same day. Box score: Grass Valley ab r h e WORE; Cf 3 e220 POImteM: Oh ee 4-0 0-1 Coerth 89.<. 4. ee aes ee Brown, p eee eiasatessse Es eee ee . Abraham, rf .... 40 0 0 684, 8b Ss ee 20: 2 29 Neriog, If. .2.555, 02-5. £0} 6 Christie; 1b: 323 2 0 3 8 Pendrack, 1b s.550.2. +0: 6-0 Cramer: @ 3.556.555. y AE . ee . aa Wiptam, ¢° oo 1-0 0. 0 Totals-29 4 8 38 Nevada City ab r h e abl 8bo os fr. 0 6 Coleman. 26.3. a 2 6-0 Cartoscelli, ss -... = SP ee PONIONG, GC a5 a} 2-20 TIOWO Pa O23 30:70 MGrrin:. (8 = 3 00 @ Merting, of (30. 4.) 21 eames PE i a. 0 1-8 Seribher, rl ..22.2..5 £20: 0: 6 Pr TR oe 3° 6 0:4 Moody, 8b 50.64. 20 0 0 S403 Totals 28 High School Teachers Receive Annual X-rays Teachers of Nevada City high school traveled to Weimar hospital Wednesday afternoon to have annual chest X-rays. MEMORIAL DAY—1949 WORLD WAR I William Hegarty WORLD WAR II William Bennett Ernest Chapman Albert Conti Eugene Davies Fred Dohm Merton Downey ' Tevis Ferguson Caswell Fisher Bert Graham Hans Hansen William Livesay David McCraney Louis Netz James Odegaard William Pohley Glenn Ponticelli Robert Proctor Eugene’ Rickard Virgil Roseborough Clifford Ruth Reid Shurtleff Walter St. John Carl Tobiassen Donald Usrey Gus Wasley GRASS VALLEY OPENS FOOTHILL LEAGUE SUNDAY Bob Radley be probable starting pitcher for the Merchants Sunday. afternoon at Pioneer park here when the local team opens the 1949 season of play the Foothill league against Grass Yalley, according to an announcement by Ralph Childers, manager. and first baseman. : Opening, day ceremonies will be mastered by Merrill ‘‘Buzz’’ Colvin, president of Nevada City Athwill in letic club, sponsors of the team. Colvin will introduce the -team managers. A_ city. official will throw the first ball of the game. Childers has ealled a final practice session for tonight and urges all candidates for the squad be present. : Besides Childers and Radley, candidates for the club are Fred Anderson, Chester Brady, Bob Cole, Jack Coley, Ed Frantz, Walter Hawkins, Charles Hawkins, Hollis Hill, Burns Larson, Herschal Lotz, Charles Morris, Peter Scribner, Bob Smithson, Dave Tobiassen, Ed Wojcik and John Cartoscelli. Frank Stewart, chairman of the committee in charge of the uniform benefit show scheduled’ Friday, June 3, in the high school auditorium, said this morning the program of songs and: skits is developing exceedingly well. He is being assisted by Colvin and J. Howard Fenrose. Tentative performers include the high school orchestra «directed by Willard Goerz, four mailbags from the postoffice, Lucy and Chet Murchell, Diana Davis, choral group directed by William Tobiassen, high school quartet, Laura Hayhurst, Al Schweigert, Diana Rankin, Bob Peterson and Dick Prine. RIPE NUDE MAN'S BODY FOUND IN RIVER NEAR TRUCKEE WEDNESDAY The ripe nude body of a 45-60 year old man was found in the Truckee river 18° miles east of Truckee Wednesday by the crew of a freight train and interred yesterday afternoon without identification. The man was 5 feet four inches tall, white, brown ‘eyes, black hair, small hands and feet. He had an upper plate and 11 lower teeth. It is estimated the man had been dead for two weeks. Mt. Shasta Hatchery Man at Meeting Of Local Sportsmen Everett Robinson, Mt. Shasta fish hatchery, was a visitor at the Tuesday evening meeting of the Nevada County Sportsmen’s association at city hall. About 25 members and guests were present, Next meeting of the group will be at a ladies’ night dinner. BASEBALL TEAM PLAYS 2 GAMES OVER WEEKEND Nevada Citys’ undermanned representative in the ‘Placer-Nevada league will play the league-leading Wolf & Royer club in Roseville tomorrow night under the _ ights. The game is schéduled, to start at 8:15 p.m. Marvin Haddy, manager of. the loca] team, announced the loss of four players this week leaving the club with only 10 players. Fred Anderson, Ralph Childers and Bob Radley were releaseq to play in in the local entry of the Foothill League. George Cameron, slugging jack of all positions, suffered a fractured wrist in last Sunday’s game against Roseville and is lost for several weeks. Cameron says he is hanging up his spikes for good. Auburn for a will be Monday afternoon the Cubs invade Pioneer park holiday game. Play ball called 2:30 o’clock. C.R. CLINCH CHAIRMAN OF BOND DRIVE A substantial portion of the $50 billion worth of U. S.° savings bonds held by Americans are today paying their owners approximately 4 per cent interest. This was pointed out today by C. R. Clinch, chairman of the Nevada county volunteer committee aiding in the U. S. treasury department’s nation-wide opportunity drive to sell $1,040,000,000 in series “EK” savings bonds during May and June. “The return on savings bonds— four dollars for each three invested—-adds up to 2.9 percent interest if held for the’ full 10-year period,’’ Clinch said. ‘‘However, the interest rate during the last four years is much higher than in the earlier years. Therefore, owners holding savings bonds purchased five or six years ago are today reaping the highest possible return foh guaranteed investments in the current market.’ at Clinch’s committee is intensifying sales of savings bonds through the three’ regularly-established buying channels: payroll savings, the bond-a-month bank plan, and throuhg extra individual purchases at post offices and banks. 1P. G. Scadden Issues $7500 Building Permits P. G. Scadden, county assessor, issued $7500 in. building permits this past week. Walter R. Jensen, Grass Valley, Plans a $1500 business building at Whiting ang Auburn streets. Genevieve S. Kraeger and Catherine Hines each plan a $3,000 frame home in Cherry Creek Acres, FIRST ANNUAL FISH DERBY = NEXT MONDAY Nevada City’s first annual fist: derby will be held Monday under the sponsorship of the local mer chants. The contest will be oper to youngsters enrolled in elementary schools. Three prizes will Be awarded. Francis Kuntz is. chair-~ man of the derby. The Tavern Owners. association of Nevada City is furnishing titre prizes. First. prize is a conxplete fishing outfit: rod, réel, line, met, basket, hooks, flies, leaders, sinkt= ers line dressing, fly box, fly book. Second prize will be a rod, reek, line, leaders, flies. Third prize wilk be a rod, reel, line, and leader stock. Length of fish will be the de~ termining factor, and only one prize to a youngsters is permitted. Other rules of the contest are> 1. Fish must be caught from Jeer Creek betwen the Plaza bridge. in the center of the city to Romningen’s at the west city limits. 2. Fish must be reported an@® vartists. measured by 6 p.m., May 30, 1949, by Chief of Police Max Solarg at City Hall. 3. Decision of Chief judge is final. The sponsors request adults give. the youngsters the courtesy of unrestricted fishing in the contest area. The show Solarg as. prizes are on display iD & window of Foote’s stora, Broad _ street. The sponsors hope to make the derby an annual event. CONCERT TICKET SALE WILL END ON SATURDAY Campaign for sale of tickets tm the Twin Cities Concert Associa~ tion series for 1949-50 will en® t@morrow evening, according to am announcement by Jack Siegfried, chairman of the Nevada City part. of the drive. Membership is on an annual basis and no tickets will be sold after tomorrow. Lloyd Geist, president of the as-. sociation, presided at a meeting of concert workers Monday evening at Bret Harte Inn, Grass: Valley to start the week-long cam-. paign. Principal speaker was. Robert? Stafford, New York representative of the Community Concert association. Stafford instructed the work— ers as to campaign details and emphasized the advantage of reaching the 1200 membership goal. A membership of this number will assure five concerts by tom: The quality and quantity of fall concerts depends on the number of members. Stafford also underlined the reciprocity arrangement with the Sacramenty association this year. Annually 2000 seats are available in Sacramento for visiting members. and it is the desire of the associa-. tion to see these seats filled. Because of the size of the Sacramento association such artists as Feruccig, Talivini, tenor, appear. Providing an enjoyable inter-. lude a color, sound film of artists available for community concerts was shown by Stafford, assisted by Clay Caldwell, the projector and screen. Elementary Students: Ck Present Radio Play: The Nevada City elementary school. presented a radio pregram: over KGFN last evening: Mism Ruth Rogan’s fifth grade stu@entsenacted, “Jack and the. Beam Stalk”. William Tobiassen directed, the elementary school chorus, __ The Weather Fred Bush, observer high Friday,’ May 20 .. 49 Saturday, May 21 . 60 Sunday, May 22 Monday, May 23 Tuesday, May 24 .. 78 Wednesday, May 25 . 85 low 44 36 4 as: Thursday, May 26 . 88 Rain: May 20, .55. pat who provided .

v7 of the most important ‘mining and Ridge. The biggest of these water BUILT IN 1853 THIS HISTORIC BUILDING still stands in North San Juan. It was occupied in the heyday of hydraulic mining by a number water companies of the San Juan companies were the Eureka Lake and Yuba Canal Company and the South Yuba’ Canal Company. These two systems cost over three million dollars. : North San Juan is Stop No. 2 in the annual Nevada County Historical Society tour May 29. Speakers in each community will give history highlights of the area. The public is welcome to make this interesting seven-hour tour. Kern Fogarty, retired San Juan postmaster will be the Historical Society historian for this community. Fred Conners will give the history of Sweetland of Sebastopol, the town that has and Mrs. Helen Sawyer the story now completely disappeared. Mrs. Amelia Cunningham, society director, will be among the guests to answer questions about the locality. Bob Paine of Nevada City, who is in charge of this year’s tour, made a preliminary survey of the planned route in company with H. P. Davis, historian, two weeks ago. Davis has prepared a detailed map which will be used both as a souvenir and guide for those making the tour. PRICE OF MILK CENT JUNE 1 Minimum prices to be paid by consumers for. fluid milk sold in the Placer-Nevada marketing area will be reduceg one cent per quart effective Wednesday, June 1. The reduction in the minimum prices was announced by the bureau of milk control, state department of agriculture. The new minimum prices. will be 18.6 cents per quart for milk purchased in stores or delivered to homes. On the same date the minimum price to be paid dairymen by distributors will be lowered at a rate of one cent per quart. The main: factor in determining that the minimum prices should be reduced, the bureau said, are lower milk prodection costs realized throgh taking cows off expensive feeding stuffs and turning them to pasture. Aonther factor is the rapid decline in the price paid dairymen by milk processing plants for milk used in the manufacture of dairy products, such as evaporated milk, putter, powered milk, etc. Under the: California milk control act, the bureau, in establishing minimum prices, must take into consideration and give adequate weight to the relationship between the price paiq by distributors for milk sold in bottles and the price paid for milk used in processing. The reduction in the minimum prices was ordered by the bureau on the basis of evidence and testimony received at a public milk price hearing held in Nevada City on May 20: New Furance for Jail And Sheriff Is Being Installed This Week © Workmen from the Alpha Hardware Co. are installing a new oilburning furnace to furnish heat for the sheriff's office and the county jail. The job of installation is expected to be completed within thé next few weeks. Bids were received for the furnace installation last winter after the other furnace had to be taken out. During ‘the long, cold winter, the™ entire building was heated from the main furnace. The new heating plant costing $2,493.49, will be in service for the next winter season, New Trustee MRS. FREDA BECRAFT became the first woman member of the Nevada City unified school district when she won a three-way election Friday over Harold Berliner and Dr. C. N. Kerrin. Ralph Poulter On ‘Navy Cruise to Japan Ralph G. Ada May Scheurn, who enlisted in the navy, is now stationed aboard the USS Fort Marion, a landing ship. Poulter, son of Mrs. ion left on a course set, for Japan. ‘Ralph was assigned to the ship on completion of recruit training period at San Diego naval training center, and is now receiving “on the job’ welders training in the ship repair department. STEEL MAN HERE Mr. and Mrs. Clifford W. Lord, Los Angeles, is visiting in this area. He was born and raised in Grass Valley where he was a star fullback-on the high school team of the 1900-10 era. His grandfather, George Lord, was a sheriff of Nevada county in the 1870’s. Lora is vice-president of U. S. Steel Corporation. Al Jaynes of the Tyler area reported to sheriff’s office Tuesday his place of business, known as Al’s Corner was burglarized some time Sunday morning. In addition to petty thievery the burglars onene@ a can of fish, beer, potato chips and crackers for a small feast at the lunch counter. A short time ago the Fort Mar-, Volume 22—No. 25 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, May 27, 194% MEN FIGHT SNOW TO BRING BODY OF MARKS OUT A part:of nine men staged a terrific battle with snow yesterday to bring out the frozen body ot James W. Marks, 44, Woodland flier killed April 6 in a plane crash at Sanford lake, «30 miles north east of here. The group, headed by Deputy Sheriff John Blackburn, left here yesterday morning at 6 o’clock and arrived at the scene of the wreckage at 2:30 after several hours of battling snow with jeeps and a bulldozer. Others in the ! i'ers from the Sacramento Union, , Ranger Lester Williams of Big} { : re . . Bend = station, Willis Marks and party .were Deputy Coroner Larry Myers, George Endter,-two reportWilliam Marks, brother and cousin; of the dead man, and Hugh Stein-/ hoff. : The group got as far as Fuller . lake without incident. At that point it was necessary to bulldoze the roag clear for 7% to 10 miles, according tg Myers. The group was then able to go three miles by jeep and walked in the last mile and a half. The body was in a shallow portions of the lake at the foot of a 1,000 foot cliff overlooked by Grouse Ridge lookout station. The men pulled the body back by sled to the jeeps and returned here at 6:25 p.m., last night. The body -was taken to Myers Grass Valley Mortary from where it will be taken to Woodland this morning. Endter was flying fire patrol Tuesday with Vane Pitney of the forest service when he _ sighted what looked like the wing of a plane in Sanford lake. Notifying Wilils Marks, the brother and cousin, accompanied by Endter,. Frank Hile and. William Nash, went to the scene of the wreckage Wednesday where the _ brother identified the body. YELLOWJACK’TS fi " er END SUCCESSFUL The Yelowjackets completed a successful baseball season. They beat Grass Valley both times out. Sure the local prides lost all their other games but that odesn’t reflect against the success of the season. Dick Penrose broke up Tuesday’s game with a double intg the rocks for a 6-4 victory. The score had been tied from the fifth inning. Coleman walked, Cartoscelli singled to set the stage for Penrose’s double. The game was played at Pioneer park. Grass Valley Bees gained some share of the glory walloping Bob Bonner’s Bees 14-8 in Watt park, Grass Valley the same day. Box score: Grass Valley ab r h e WORE; Cf 3 e220 POImteM: Oh ee 4-0 0-1 Coerth 89.<.. 4. ee aes ee Brown, p eee eiasatessse Es eee ee . Abraham, rf ....... 40 0 0 684, 8b Ss ee 20: 2 29 Neriog, If. .2.555, 02-5. £0} 6 Christie; 1b: 323 2 0 3 8 Pendrack, 1b s.550.2. +0: 6-0 Cramer: @ 3.556.555.. y AE . ee . aa Wiptam, ¢° oo 1-0 0. 0 Totals-29 4 8 38 Nevada City ab r h e abl 8bo os fr. 0 6 Coleman. 26.3.. a 2 6-0 Cartoscelli, ss -...... = SP ee PONIONG, GC a5 a} 2-20 TIOWO Pa O23 30:70 MGrrin:. (8 = 3 00 @ Merting, of (30. 4.) 21 eames PE i a. 0 1-8 Seribher, rl ...22.2...5 £20: 0: 6 Pr TR oe 3° 6 0:4 Moody, 8b 50.64.. 20 0 0 S403 Totals 28 High School Teachers Receive Annual X-rays Teachers of Nevada City high school traveled to Weimar hospital Wednesday afternoon to have annual chest X-rays. MEMORIAL DAY—1949 WORLD WAR I William Hegarty WORLD WAR II William Bennett Ernest Chapman Albert Conti Eugene Davies Fred Dohm Merton Downey ' Tevis Ferguson Caswell Fisher Bert Graham Hans Hansen William Livesay David McCraney Louis Netz James Odegaard William Pohley Glenn Ponticelli Robert Proctor Eugene’ Rickard Virgil Roseborough Clifford Ruth Reid Shurtleff Walter St. John Carl Tobiassen

Donald Usrey Gus Wasley GRASS VALLEY OPENS FOOTHILL LEAGUE SUNDAY Bob Radley be probable starting pitcher for the Merchants Sunday. afternoon at Pioneer park here when the local team opens the 1949 season of play the Foothill league against Grass Yalley, according to an announcement by Ralph Childers, manager. and first baseman. : Opening, day ceremonies will be mastered by Merrill ‘‘Buzz’’ Colvin, president of Nevada City Athwill in letic club, sponsors of the team. Colvin will introduce the -team managers. A_ city. official will throw the first ball of the game. Childers has ealled a final practice session for tonight and urges all candidates for the squad be present. : Besides Childers and Radley, candidates for the club are Fred Anderson, Chester Brady, Bob Cole, Jack Coley, Ed Frantz, Walter Hawkins, Charles Hawkins, Hollis Hill, Burns Larson, Herschal Lotz, Charles Morris, Peter Scribner, Bob Smithson, Dave Tobiassen, Ed Wojcik and John Cartoscelli. Frank Stewart, chairman of the committee in charge of the uniform benefit show scheduled’ Friday, June 3, in the high school auditorium, said this morning the program of songs and: skits is developing exceedingly well. He is being assisted by Colvin and J. Howard Fenrose. Tentative performers include the high school orchestra «directed by Willard Goerz, four mailbags from the postoffice, Lucy and Chet Murchell, Diana Davis, choral group directed by William Tobiassen, high school quartet, Laura Hayhurst, Al Schweigert, Diana Rankin, Bob Peterson and Dick Prine. RIPE NUDE MAN'S BODY FOUND IN RIVER NEAR TRUCKEE WEDNESDAY The ripe nude body of a 45-60 year old man was found in the Truckee river 18° miles east of Truckee Wednesday by the crew of a freight train and interred yesterday afternoon without identification. The man was 5 feet four inches tall, white, brown ‘eyes, black hair, small hands and feet. He had an upper plate and 11 lower teeth. It is estimated the man had been dead for two weeks. Mt. Shasta Hatchery Man at Meeting Of Local Sportsmen Everett Robinson, Mt. Shasta fish hatchery, was a visitor at the Tuesday evening meeting of the Nevada County Sportsmen’s association at city hall. About 25 members and guests were present, Next meeting of the group will be at a ladies’ night dinner. BASEBALL TEAM PLAYS 2 GAMES OVER WEEKEND Nevada Citys’ undermanned representative in the ‘Placer-Nevada league will play the league-leading Wolf & Royer club in Roseville tomorrow night under the _ ights. The game is schéduled, to start at 8:15 p.m. Marvin Haddy, manager of. the loca] team, announced the loss of four players this week leaving the club with only 10 players. Fred Anderson, Ralph Childers and Bob Radley were releaseq to play in in the local entry of the Foothill League. George Cameron, slugging jack of all positions, suffered a fractured wrist in last Sunday’s game against Roseville and is lost for several weeks. Cameron says he is hanging up his spikes for good. Auburn for a will be Monday afternoon the Cubs invade Pioneer park holiday game. Play ball called 2:30 o’clock. C.R. CLINCH CHAIRMAN OF BOND DRIVE A substantial portion of the $50 billion worth of U. S.° savings bonds held by Americans are today paying their owners approximately 4 per cent interest. This was pointed out today by C. R. Clinch, chairman of the Nevada county volunteer committee aiding in the U. S. treasury department’s nation-wide opportunity drive to sell $1,040,000,000 in series “EK” savings bonds during May and June. “The return on savings bonds— four dollars for each three invested—-adds up to 2.9 percent interest if held for the’ full 10-year period,’’ Clinch said. ‘‘However, the interest rate during the last four years is much higher than in the earlier years. Therefore, owners holding savings bonds purchased five or six years ago are today reaping the highest possible return foh guaranteed investments in the current market.’ at Clinch’s committee is intensifying sales of savings bonds through the three’ regularly-established buying channels: payroll savings, the bond-a-month bank plan, and throuhg extra individual purchases at post offices and banks. 1P. G. Scadden Issues $7500 Building Permits P. G. Scadden, county assessor, issued $7500 in. building permits this past week. Walter R. Jensen, Grass Valley, Plans a $1500 business building at Whiting ang Auburn streets. Genevieve S. Kraeger and Catherine Hines each plan a $3,000 frame home in Cherry Creek Acres, FIRST ANNUAL FISH DERBY = NEXT MONDAY Nevada City’s first annual fist: derby will be held Monday under the sponsorship of the local mer chants. The contest will be oper to youngsters enrolled in elementary schools. Three prizes will Be awarded. Francis Kuntz is. chair-~ man of the derby. The Tavern Owners. association of Nevada City is furnishing titre prizes. First. prize is a conxplete fishing outfit: rod, réel, line, met, basket, hooks, flies, leaders, sinkt= ers line dressing, fly box, fly book. Second prize will be a rod, reek, line, leaders, flies. Third prize wilk be a rod, reel, line, and leader stock. Length of fish will be the de~ termining factor, and only one prize to a youngsters is permitted. Other rules of the contest are> 1. Fish must be caught from Jeer Creek betwen the Plaza bridge. in the center of the city to Romningen’s at the west city limits. 2. Fish must be reported an@® vartists. measured by 6 p.m., May 30, 1949, by Chief of Police Max Solarg at City Hall. 3. Decision of Chief judge is final. The sponsors request adults give. the youngsters the courtesy of unrestricted fishing in the contest area. The show Solarg as. prizes are on display iD & window of Foote’s stora, Broad _ street. The sponsors hope to make the derby an annual event. CONCERT TICKET SALE WILL END ON SATURDAY Campaign for sale of tickets tm the Twin Cities Concert Associa~ tion series for 1949-50 will en® t@morrow evening, according to am announcement by Jack Siegfried, chairman of the Nevada City part. of the drive. Membership is on an annual basis and no tickets will be sold after tomorrow. Lloyd Geist, president of the as-. sociation, presided at a meeting of concert workers Monday evening at Bret Harte Inn, Grass: Valley to start the week-long cam-. paign. Principal speaker was. Robert? Stafford, New York representative of the Community Concert association. Stafford instructed the work— ers as to campaign details and emphasized the advantage of reaching the 1200 membership goal. A membership of this number will assure five concerts by tom: The quality and quantity of fall concerts depends on the number of members. Stafford also underlined the reciprocity arrangement with the Sacramenty association this year. Annually 2000 seats are available in Sacramento for visiting members. and it is the desire of the associa-. tion to see these seats filled. Because of the size of the Sacramento association such artists as Feruccig, Talivini, tenor, appear. Providing an enjoyable inter-. lude a color, sound film of artists available for community concerts was shown by Stafford, assisted by Clay Caldwell, the projector and screen. Elementary Students: Ck Present Radio Play: The Nevada City elementary school. presented a radio pregram: over KGFN last evening: Mism Ruth Rogan’s fifth grade stu@entsenacted, “Jack and the. Beam Stalk”. William Tobiassen directed, the elementary school chorus, __ The Weather Fred Bush, observer high Friday,’ May 20 .... 49 Saturday, May 21 .. 60 Sunday, May 22 Monday, May 23 Tuesday, May 24 .... 78 Wednesday, May 25 . 85 low 44 36 4 as: Thursday, May 26 .. 88 Rain: May 20, .55. pat who provided .