October 21, 1949 (6 pages)

\ by, 'Soviet Women . Are Exploited . Or Pampered Volume 22, No. 59 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, Cees 21, 1949 want to’do.” By JAMES C. CROCKETT, Col., U. S. A., Ret. Copyright 1949, by The Nugget In the Soviet Union there are but two classes of women—those who do a major share of Rusia’s labor and those who do no work. The workers are the most exploited group in the civilized world: . the women of the favored class the most pampered. ; I have seen women in Russia plowing, breaking concrete, cutting timber, hauling logs, building logs, building roads, laying crossties, moving railroad tracks, digging ditches, repairing telephone lines, cleaning streets, painting houses, carrying bricks, mining coal and doing other heavy work, done only by men in other countries. And I have seen the wives and sweethearts of top Communist bosses and police officers with palaces, jewels and servants. There are one of. these for approximately each 17,000 workers. I knew several of the pampered class and many’of the workers. One of the farmer I met at a diplomatic party where she played Tschaikowsky and Chopin on the piano with skill. She spoke perfect English and was intelligent and gay. I told her I NATIONAL IS BOUGHT BY SAN FRANCISCO MAN Earl Johnson and _ Vladimir Vuacinich, San Franciscp, for the Past year owners of the National hotel, Saturday announced the sale of the historic building to Robert Ryan, San Francisco hotel men. Price of transaction was not disclosed. Ryan said ,he plans no revolutionary changes in the hotel. “If people want city amosphere, they don't come .to the: country,” said Ryan. “But they do want. to enjoy a good and tempting table. The dining room will be in the fated enjoyed the music’ and she promised “Col. James C. Crockett to invite me to her home sometime for an evening of music. Shortly after, I received the invitation on the corner. of .which were written the words “Black Tie.” This surprised me for in Russia very few men, except waiters in the restaurants wear a dinner coat and black tie. _ The party was lively and happy, the music both classical and jazz. The women were pretty and wore beautiful gowns and the men were in black ties. In all this splendor it was only by the merest chance that I learned later that the hostess worked for the MGB (secret police). This lady of the police may enjoy her lot. in life, but the women workers who are exploited by the state do not. One of these workers was a teacher in Kiev with a son and daughter of high school age. She was extremely religious. Her salary wads 600 rubles ($72) per month. She, her dependent mother and two children lived in two rooms. Her husband had been liquidated in the 1935 purge. : . Some of her difficulties can be Understood from the prices she paid for food and clothing: 40 cents for a pound loaf of bread, 80 ‘cents for a quart of milk, 30 cents for one egg and $45 for a pair of shoes. Because of costs she and her family seldom have meat and very rarely an egg or milk. Their chief items of food are cabbage, carrots, potatoes, soup and occasionally fish. Every time I talked to the teacher I asked about her difficulties with the cost of living, but she always said “Nichevo” (it’s nothing), but would add “It’s my children who cause my difficulties.” The daughter was’ 12 years old in 1943 when she joined the Komsomal (Communist youth organization). Membership in the Komsomal is almost compulsory. If she is not a member she is ostracized and embarrassed by her young companions: If she is a member her chances for a successful career are greatly increased but she must strictly obey the dictates of the Communist party. The mother tried to give the daughter a religious upbringing but chad to be careful because the Komsomal teaching is directly opposité—no good Komsomalist' goes to church or believes in religion. The girl. became a typical product of the Komsomal and Soviet propaganda. She was strong and healthly but ignorant land godless. She was just what the top Communist bosses’ wanted—a pliable instrument: of ‘the state. There are millions of other girls in Russia like the daughter of . the teacher. They ‘are young, healthy, strong, utterly ignorant of ' ‘the ‘world outside Russia, without a’ religion and guided morally by their own code. They express it by saying, “I do ‘only what I If you were to ask these girls you would find that they like the same -things: girls): the world over like—lipstick, perfume, pretty clothes, dancing and gaiety., But these things in Rusia are not for the working girls. They are only for the favored ladies. For four years I listened to Radio Moscow, broadcasts aimed at American women; in an effort to sow dissension among our workers. Always Moscow stressed that: the American women were being exploited and mistreated by théir “capitalist masters” but Radio Moscow never told that Russia women are the slaves of the states. . The press and motion pictures from Moscow show the workers barelegged in shorts, with waving hair and flying banners:.as they march in the sports parade. The world beyond the Iron Curtain does not hear the orders these girls are given nor does it see the “costumes” they wear after the parade is over. These sport parades with their battalions of selected fair-haired Slavs are held yearly. They are advertised to the world as showing the “happy working girls” in their sports costumes and the healthy development. of their bodies under Communist training. I witnessed the great sports parade in-Dynamo Stadium in Moscow, July 20, 1947. It was a colorful and beautiful spectacle. The participants were “working girls” from each of the 16 republics of the Soviet Union. Each wore a sports costume of the colors ‘of her native republic. The motion picture cameras ground out thousands of pictures of the prettiest girls who led the various columns. These pictures were distributed throughout the world to show. the successful, happy Soviet Communist youth. care of Ira M. Wallace,” The .present building was rebuilt on the ashes of the original National Exchange, which was destroyed in the fire of Sunday, Nov. 8, 1863. The fire, fourth in number and second in severity, completely destroyed a building valued with its contents at $30,000. The hotel was rebuilt and reopened Monday, April 4, 1864. According to the Nevada Daily Transcript of Nov. 10, 1863, there was no insurance on the building. The original hotel was believed established in 1852. At the time of the fire the hotel was operated by Hasey and Mayberry. Mayberry sold his interest to John A. Lancaster and Lancaster and Samuel Hasey. reorganized the company. Trustees of ‘the new company were John Cashin, James Monro and H. C. Mills. Charles C. Leavitt was secretary and George W. Kidd, treasurer. When the hotel reopened A. B. Carley and A. W. Potter operated the hotel saloon. Mrs. George R. Lancaster, San Francisco, purchased the prettiest flag in the bay city for a 140foot flag staff i front of the ho. tel. The pole was surmounted by . a “mackerel” bird (whatever that . to show the way the wind. DIOWS. Charley 1s) . Miller was the dining . room chef at that time. The National saw many owners . in its 90-odd years but was prob. ably the property of the Rector brothers the longest time. They . operated it until 1924. . The fire of 1863 which destroyed. the National caused $500,000 damages, based. on 1863 values, of which only $25,000 was covered by insurance. Only six brick buildings, including the Transcript office, es" caped destruction. Of Nevada City’s other three fires the most disastrous was in 1856 causing $1,250,000 damages. An 1858 fire caused $300,000 destruction. The city was totally destroyed in 1850. The Transcript in 1863 estimated $2,500,000 had been lost by fire in the 14 years of existence of the city. In the evening after the parade the streets of Moscow were filled with shabbily dressed working girls hunting adventure. I knew one . ' of the start performers in this sports parade. She belonged to the team of a certain factory. She did not want to march in the parade, but had no choice. She was ordered to take part, to assemble with her team at a certain street location and fall in line leading another group. The MVD guards checked’ and organized the columns and guided them to the stadium. I saw my friend with her Russian sweetheart after the parade. You never would have known this timid, shabbily dressed girl as one of the sports marchers. Her beautiful figure had not come from freedom and athletic exercises but from walking, working and outh. : . I shall always remember what the Russian man said who was with the girl. First he quoted the Communist slogan, “We are achieving Communism, the ultimate in human happiness.’ Then he added dryly, “Or are conditions going to become worse?”’ In. next week's Nugget I will tell.how the Communist reginie treats the Russian people. ELLIS ASKS MORE WORK D. ¥. Walkingten to Be IN SCOUT FUND DRIVE Guerdon Ellis, chairman of the Nevada City Boy Scout fund D. H. Walkington, former resident engineer for public roads administration on highway. 4 TWO INCHES SNOW campaign, asksharder work to complete the local drive for a scouting fund of $1,350. Ellis said the drive has bogged down. Ellis said he would like to see the campaign completed this weekend. Mrs. Dorothy Randloph of the Nevada City Business and Fro, . the Nevada City chapter of the and . Lloyd Geist, representing the ele. have . reported completion of their as-, fessional Women’s’ Club mentary school teachers, signments. projects, will be assigned to work with the department in Honolulu, it was dnnounced this week. Walkington has served as resident engineer of the highway, 49 project from Wilson’s Log Cabin to the Yuba-Sierra county line. Mrs. Walkington is secretary of American Red Cross and treasurer of Episcopal Women’s Guild. The Walkingtons and their son, Robert, expect to sail to~the islands in November. FALLS HERE TUESDAY Cold weather and snow came to Nevada City Tuesday, with two inches of snowfall measured by Weatherman Fred Bush at the gauge in Pioneer park. The snow brought .10' of an inch of moisture Bush reported. The thermometer dipped during the nights and for the last three mornings sub-freezing recordings were made. Wednesday morning was coldest at 25. The snow lasted about an hour, and although beautiful was not too welcome to residents with too recent memories of beaucoup snow last February. It did not remain on the ground very long. Ed Kohler, the estimable nature boy of the San Juan ridge, was in Tuesday and warned us to prepare for a long cold winter: He says the squirrels are busy getting ready for the winter and he. says that’s a reliable portent of a cold winter. Bush’s recordings: Friday, Octo. 14 ‘high low Saturday, Oct. 15. 82 42 Sunday, Oct. 16 <2. 83 41 Monday, Oct, 17.0. 80 35 Tuesday, Oct. 18 —.. 56 26 Wednesday, Oct. 19 . 47 25 Thursday, Oct. 20 .. 53 26 Snow: Oct. 18 SS » 2 inches. Precipitation, .10. . Sample Ballots Mailed To Electors This' Week Members of the county clerk’s staff have been busy rubbing . “writer’s cramp” from their arms following the addressing and mailing of 9,730 sample ballots to electors of Nevada county. The big job was completed and placed in the mails Monday. Members of the staff who helped in the chore were Miss Rita Hutchinson, Mrs. Jeanne Rowe Keeney, Mrs. Vera Steger and Mrs. Bernice Penrose. Ralph E. Deeble, county clerk, said yesterday, absentee voting has been very slow, but electors who will be unable to vote on election day, Nov. 8, will have until Thursday, Nov. 3, to obtain an absentee ballot at his office. MINISTERS HAVE HOUSE BUILDING BEE WEDNESDAY Back in the midwest and often in California’s agricultural areas it is common practice for the neighbors to help out another neighbor, usually in incapacitated cases, with a “househaising” or “harvesting” bee. Nevada City had its own version of the old time social’ idea Wednesday. Twenty-three ministers representing churches all over the district and headed by Rev. Dillon Throckmorton, superintendent, gathered here to help Rev. David Ralston, who is constructing a home at 343 Clay. Rev. Ralston, with a record of 50 years of service in the California conference of Methodist churches, plans to retire to that home on Clay street next May. He was pastor of the Nevada City church from 1939 to 1945 and. is. currently at Newcastle. About a year ago Rev. and Mrs. . Ralston started work on the home and have averaged two days a week of work on the place. They have been assisted by a son, Wesley, Stockton, and by neighbors and friends. On a recent visit Rev. Throckmorton suggested the ministers gather here for a work day and Wednesday was the pay off. All ot them arrived dressed to work and equipped with tools. Four of them brought along wives to take care of the lunch and lighter work. Neighbor Mrs.’ Hattie Lobdell volunteered the use of her kitchen. Rev. Ralston had a happy day as “superintendent of construction.” SCHOOL BOARD MEET CANCELLED; NO BUS BIDS ARE RECEIVED Dr. B. W. Hummelt, president of the board of trustees of Nevada City unified school district, cancelled Wednesday evening’s scheduled meeting of the board when no bids for purchase of a district school bus were received by 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. George Becraft, recently elected trustee, declared yesterday, she had not been informed of the cancellation and that she waited at the elementary school while the other members of the board failed to arrive. Sixteen persons.-were also at the schoolhouse with Mrs. Becraft to attend the meeting. ROTARY CLUB PLANS FOR THANKSGIVING Annual Rotary club Thanksgiving dinner—a joint affair with Nevada City and Grass Valley clubs participating—is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 21, in Nevada City Elks lodge, according to an announcement by R. V. Conrad, general chairman. A turkey-raviola dinner will be served. : Conrad announced the following committee members: Harold Berliner, ticket sales and reservations; George Hansen, program and entertainment; J. F. Siegfried, William Tamblyn, arrangements and decorations; Franc Luschen, carving. Robert Wasley in Cold Weather Exercises Off . The Coast of Labrador . S. navy, Route 1, Nevada City, . AS a crew member aboard the deqstrover USS Dennis J. Buckley, is now taking part in joint navy exercises off the coast of Labrador in the vicinity of Hamilton inlet. . The exercises will continue for approximately four weeks, of which time about ten days will be spentin Canadian waters. CASHIN FIELD PROBABLE SITE FOR ARMORY Chamber of Commerce directors and city officials will meet at 8 o’clock tonight in city hall to outline a campaign to finance ‘the purchase of a two-acre site at Cashin field south of Nevada City. The two-acre site, owned by the Dr. Jones estate, has been tentatively approved as a location of a $105,000 California national guard armory. Price of the site is reported to be $2,250. Major Charles A. Columbia, attache of the state national guard, visited the area, and according to city officials, promised a favorable report on the site. Funds for the armory were allocated several months ago and will be available immediately on receipt of a deed to the site. The proposed building will be used by Company E, 184th Infantry, California National Guard which is composed of Nevada Robert M. Wasley, seaman, U. . and marine corps cold weather . : APPLEGATE LINE HEARINGS SET IN SACRAMENTO. Further. hearings before the California public utilities commission on the application of the Applegate Drayage company of Sacramento for a common carrier license to establish regular service in Nevada City and’ Grass Valley and vicinity will be held Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 10 a.m. in the chambers of the board of* supervisors, Sacramento county courthouse, Sacramento. Representatives. of the chambers of commerce of Nevada City and Grass Valley and spokesmen for the Applegate firm and Pacific Motor Transport have been invited. Applegate received endorsements by the chambers of commerce of Nevada City and Grass Valley. Applegate is offering twicedaily service from Sacramento. Hearings held. here and in Grass Valley in March: were featuring by the testimony of many merchant members of the endorsing chambers, who stated PMT was adequately serving the area. The Southern Pacific subsidiary is opposing the application on the ground that it (PMT) adequately serves the district. WATER CHLORINATION AT BANNER RESERVOIR IS BEING STUDIED Improvement of the drinking water served the people of subburban territory through the City and Grass Valley men. Cap. tain Harleth-Brock, Nevada City, is company commander. . Brock said the armory will /mean a $30,000 annual payroll to this area. . ‘FRANK CRAMPTON WILL ‘FACE CHARGE OF POSING “AS A CIVIL ENGINEER . Frank Crampton will appear in . Suisun justice court Wednesday, . Nov. 9 to -stand trial: before a jury on two counts, charging him with posing as a civil engineer . when he attempted to gain em. ployment with two Solano county groups in May. He was arraigned in justice court Tuesday and bail was set at $200. He was. arrested here recently on a warrant signed by Earl Pope, investigator for board of registration for civil and professional engineers. Pope charges Crampton posed . as a practicing civil engineer and applied for employment as an engineer with the’ Solano irrigation district on May 3. Crampton is also charged with representing himself as an engineer when he applied for employment withxa farmers’ committee to investigaté water problems in the Solano irrigation district on May 5. . . . New York Congressman Says Administration Plans Dollar Devaluation Ernest Taber, Republican representative from New York, said he has heard that the Truman administration “is working on a’ scheme to increase the price of gold and devalue the dollar.” . He didn’t say, in a prepared. statement, where he obtained his . information, but said that was his “understanding.” . “The Truman program,” Taber . said, “calls for onerous increases in spending. It calls for so many. more expenditures that our def-' icit for the current fiscal year is high pressure line of the Nevada irrigation district, by placing a . chlorination treatment plant at the lower Benner reservoir, is being studied by officials of the utility. Most feasible plan under study and consideration is the formation of an improvement district within the boundaries of the Nevada irrigation district for finaneing and operation of the chlorination plant. : The territory which could be served by the chlorination treatment from the present high pressure line would be along Banner road to Town Talk; Ridge road to the end of the Hughes tract: Glenbrook; Hills Flat; all of Alta Hill area west to Carey Drive; Manzanita Drive; Alta Vista Pines, and a portion of residences along highway 20 from Town Talk to the city limits of Nevada City. ALAN HEWITT ELECTED PRESIDENT OF LOCAL CHAPTER OF C. S. F. Alan Hewitt was elected president of the Nevada City high school chapter of the California Scholastic federation, which held its first fall meeting at the local school. Other officers of the honor group are Pat Dames, vice pres, ident; John: Peterson, secretary. Members are Roy Draper, Sandra Pease, Charles Coombes and Audrey Foote. The local chapter officers plan activities for the coming school year that will include attendance at a symphony concert in De. cember and a trip to Sacramento state college next month. LAMSON TELLS LIONS CLUB ABOUT FORESTS David Lamson, Nevada City rancher, traced the history of U. _S. forests at Wednesday evening’s gathering of the Nevada City ;Lions club at Deer Creek Inn. , bound to be $5,500,000,000.” . Lamson opened his: lecture on The effect of a devaluation ; forests at thes time of the landprogram, ‘he continued, would be . ing of the Pilgrims end continued to “help create inflation, increase . with lack of conservation as piothe poor man’s taxes, and reduce . neers laid waste’ the forested hills his purchasing power” “make us suckers for the foreign gold producers.” Quayle brothers of the Garden Valley trout farm, near Camptonville, have moved 30,000 trout from the dredger lakes to ponds at Fresno for the winter. and . across the continent. ; Lamson said the last of the forests are in the west. He pointed out the importance of forests as a water shed and for their more obvious uses. Keith Macdonald presided both as president and program chairman.

\ by, 'Soviet Women . Are Exploited . Or Pampered Volume 22, No. 59 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, Cees 21, 1949 want to’do.” By JAMES C. CROCKETT, Col., U. S. A., Ret. Copyright 1949, by The Nugget In the Soviet Union there are but two classes of women—those who do a major share of Rusia’s labor and those who do no work. The workers are the most exploited group in the civilized world: . the women of the favored class the most pampered. ; I have seen women in Russia plowing, breaking concrete, cutting timber, hauling logs, building logs, building roads, laying crossties, moving railroad tracks, digging ditches, repairing telephone lines, cleaning streets, painting houses, carrying bricks, mining coal and doing other heavy work, done only by men in other countries. And I have seen the wives and sweethearts of top Communist bosses and police officers with palaces, jewels and servants. There are one of. these for approximately each 17,000 workers. I knew several of the pampered class and many’of the workers. One of the farmer I met at a diplomatic party where she played Tschaikowsky and Chopin on the piano with skill. She spoke perfect English and was intelligent and gay. I told her I NATIONAL IS BOUGHT BY SAN FRANCISCO MAN Earl Johnson and _ Vladimir Vuacinich, San Franciscp, for the Past year owners of the National hotel, Saturday announced the sale of the historic building to Robert Ryan, San Francisco hotel men. Price of transaction was not disclosed. Ryan said ,he plans no revolutionary changes in the hotel. “If people want city amosphere, they don't come .to the: country,” said Ryan. “But they do want. to enjoy a good and tempting table. The dining room will be in the fated enjoyed the music’ and she promised “Col. James C. Crockett to invite me to her home sometime for an evening of music. Shortly after, I received the invitation on the corner. of .which were written the words “Black Tie.” This surprised me for in Russia very few men, except waiters in the restaurants wear a dinner coat and black tie. _ The party was lively and happy, the music both classical and jazz. The women were pretty and wore beautiful gowns and the men were in black ties. In all this splendor it was only by the merest chance that I learned later that the hostess worked for the MGB (secret police). This lady of the police may enjoy her lot. in life, but the women workers who are exploited by the state do not. One of these workers was a teacher in Kiev with a son and daughter of high school age. She was extremely religious. Her salary wads 600 rubles ($72) per month. She, her dependent mother and two children lived in two rooms. Her husband had been liquidated in the 1935 purge. : . Some of her difficulties can be Understood from the prices she paid for food and clothing: 40 cents for a pound loaf of bread, 80 ‘cents for a quart of milk, 30 cents for one egg and $45 for a pair of shoes. Because of costs she and her family seldom have meat and very rarely an egg or milk. Their chief items of food are cabbage, carrots, potatoes, soup and occasionally fish. Every time I talked to the teacher I asked about her difficulties with the cost of living, but she always said “Nichevo” (it’s nothing), but would add “It’s my children who cause my difficulties.” The daughter was’ 12 years old in 1943 when she joined the Komsomal (Communist youth organization). Membership in the Komsomal is almost compulsory. If she is not a member she is ostracized and embarrassed by her young companions: If she is a member her chances for a successful career are greatly increased but she must strictly obey the dictates of the Communist party. The mother tried to give the daughter a religious upbringing but chad to be careful because the Komsomal teaching is directly opposité—no good Komsomalist' goes to church or believes in religion. The girl. became a typical product of the Komsomal and Soviet propaganda. She was strong and healthly but ignorant land godless. She was just what the top Communist bosses’ wanted—a pliable instrument: of ‘the state. There are millions of other girls in Russia like the daughter of . the teacher. They ‘are young, healthy, strong, utterly ignorant of ' ‘the ‘world outside Russia, without a’ religion and guided morally by their own code. They express it by saying, “I do ‘only what I If you were to ask these girls you would find that they like the same -things: girls): the world over like—lipstick, perfume, pretty clothes, dancing and gaiety., But these things in Rusia are not for the working girls. They are only for the favored ladies. For four years I listened to Radio Moscow, broadcasts aimed at American women; in an effort to sow dissension among our workers. Always Moscow stressed that: the American women were being exploited and mistreated by théir “capitalist masters” but Radio Moscow never told that Russia women are the slaves of the states. . The press and motion pictures from Moscow show the workers barelegged in shorts, with waving hair and flying banners:.as they march in the sports parade. The world beyond the Iron Curtain does not hear the orders these girls are given nor does it see the “costumes” they wear after the parade is over. These sport parades with their battalions of selected fair-haired Slavs are held yearly. They are advertised to the world as showing the “happy working girls” in their sports costumes and the healthy development. of their bodies under Communist training. I witnessed the great sports parade in-Dynamo Stadium in Moscow, July 20, 1947. It was a colorful and beautiful spectacle. The participants were “working girls” from each of the 16 republics of the Soviet Union. Each wore a sports costume of the colors ‘of her native republic. The motion picture cameras ground out thousands of pictures of the prettiest girls who led the various columns. These pictures were distributed throughout the world to show. the successful, happy Soviet Communist youth. care of Ira M. Wallace,” The .present building was rebuilt on the ashes of the original National Exchange, which was destroyed in the fire of Sunday, Nov. 8, 1863. The fire, fourth in number and second in severity, completely destroyed a building valued with its contents at $30,000. The hotel was rebuilt and reopened Monday, April 4, 1864. According to the Nevada Daily Transcript of Nov. 10, 1863, there was no insurance on the building. The original hotel was believed established in 1852. At the time of the fire the hotel was operated by Hasey and Mayberry. Mayberry sold his interest to John A. Lancaster and Lancaster and Samuel Hasey. reorganized the company. Trustees of ‘the new company were John Cashin, James Monro and H. C. Mills. Charles C. Leavitt was secretary and George W. Kidd, treasurer. When the hotel reopened A. B. Carley and A. W. Potter operated the hotel saloon. Mrs. George R. Lancaster, San Francisco, purchased the prettiest flag in the bay city for a 140foot flag staff i front of the ho. tel. The pole was surmounted by . a “mackerel” bird (whatever that . to show the way the wind. DIOWS. Charley 1s) . Miller was the dining . room chef at that time. The National saw many owners . in its 90-odd years but was prob. ably the property of the Rector brothers the longest time. They . operated it until 1924. . The fire of 1863 which destroyed. the National caused $500,000 damages, based. on 1863 values, of which only $25,000 was covered by insurance. Only six brick buildings, including the Transcript office, es" caped destruction. Of Nevada City’s other three fires the most disastrous was in 1856 causing $1,250,000 damages. An 1858 fire caused $300,000 destruction. The city was totally destroyed in 1850. The Transcript in 1863 estimated $2,500,000 had been lost by fire in the 14 years of existence of the city. In the evening after the parade the streets of Moscow were filled with shabbily dressed working girls hunting adventure. I knew one . ' of the start performers in this sports parade. She belonged to the team of a certain factory. She did not want to march in the parade, but had no choice. She was ordered to take part, to assemble with her team at a certain street location and fall in line leading another group. The MVD guards checked’ and organized the columns and guided them to the stadium. I saw my friend with her Russian sweetheart after the parade. You never would have known this timid, shabbily dressed girl as one of the sports marchers. Her beautiful figure had not come from freedom and athletic exercises but from walking, working and outh. : . I shall always remember what the Russian man said who was with the girl. First he quoted the Communist slogan, “We are achieving Communism, the ultimate in human happiness.’ Then he added dryly, “Or are conditions going to become worse?”’ In. next week's Nugget I will tell.how the Communist reginie treats the Russian people. ELLIS ASKS MORE WORK D. ¥. Walkingten to Be IN SCOUT FUND DRIVE Guerdon Ellis, chairman of the Nevada City Boy Scout fund D. H. Walkington, former resident engineer for public roads administration on highway. 4 TWO INCHES SNOW campaign, asksharder work to complete the local drive for a scouting fund of $1,350. Ellis said the drive has bogged down. Ellis said he would like to see the campaign completed this weekend. Mrs. Dorothy Randloph of the Nevada City Business and Fro, . the Nevada City chapter of the and . Lloyd Geist, representing the ele. have . reported completion of their as-, fessional Women’s’ Club mentary school teachers, signments. projects, will be assigned to work with the department in Honolulu, it was dnnounced this week. Walkington has served as resident engineer of the highway, 49 project from Wilson’s Log Cabin to the Yuba-Sierra county line. Mrs. Walkington is secretary of American Red Cross and treasurer of Episcopal Women’s Guild. The Walkingtons and their son, Robert, expect to sail to~the islands in November. FALLS HERE TUESDAY Cold weather and snow came to Nevada City Tuesday, with two inches of snowfall measured by Weatherman Fred Bush at the gauge in Pioneer park. The snow brought .10' of an inch of moisture Bush reported. The thermometer dipped during the nights and for the last three mornings sub-freezing recordings were made. Wednesday morning was coldest at 25. The snow lasted about an hour, and although beautiful was not too welcome to residents with too recent memories of beaucoup snow last February. It did not remain on the ground very long. Ed Kohler, the estimable nature boy of the San Juan ridge, was in Tuesday and warned us to prepare for a long cold winter: He says the squirrels are busy getting ready for the winter and he. says that’s a reliable portent of a cold winter. Bush’s recordings: Friday, Octo. 14 ‘high low Saturday, Oct. 15.. 82 42 Sunday, Oct. 16 <2.. 83 41 Monday, Oct, 17.0. 80 35 Tuesday, Oct. 18 —.... 56 26 Wednesday, Oct. 19 .. 47 25 Thursday, Oct. 20 .... 53 26 Snow: Oct. 18 SS » 2 inches. Precipitation, .10. . Sample Ballots Mailed To Electors This' Week Members of the county clerk’s staff have been busy rubbing . “writer’s cramp” from their arms following the addressing and mailing of 9,730 sample ballots to electors of Nevada county. The big job was completed and placed in the mails Monday. Members of the staff who helped in the chore were Miss Rita Hutchinson, Mrs. Jeanne Rowe Keeney, Mrs. Vera Steger and

Mrs. Bernice Penrose. Ralph E. Deeble, county clerk, said yesterday, absentee voting has been very slow, but electors who will be unable to vote on election day, Nov. 8, will have until Thursday, Nov. 3, to obtain an absentee ballot at his office. MINISTERS HAVE HOUSE BUILDING BEE WEDNESDAY Back in the midwest and often in California’s agricultural areas it is common practice for the neighbors to help out another neighbor, usually in incapacitated cases, with a “househaising” or “harvesting” bee. Nevada City had its own version of the old time social’ idea Wednesday. Twenty-three ministers representing churches all over the district and headed by Rev. Dillon Throckmorton, superintendent, gathered here to help Rev. David Ralston, who is constructing a home at 343 Clay. Rev. Ralston, with a record of 50 years of service in the California conference of Methodist churches, plans to retire to that home on Clay street next May. He was pastor of the Nevada City church from 1939 to 1945 and. is. currently at Newcastle. About a year ago Rev. and Mrs. . Ralston started work on the home and have averaged two days a week of work on the place. They have been assisted by a son, Wesley, Stockton, and by neighbors and friends. On a recent visit Rev. Throckmorton suggested the ministers gather here for a work day and Wednesday was the pay off. All ot them arrived dressed to work and equipped with tools. Four of them brought along wives to take care of the lunch and lighter work. Neighbor Mrs.’ Hattie Lobdell volunteered the use of her kitchen. Rev. Ralston had a happy day as “superintendent of construction.” SCHOOL BOARD MEET CANCELLED; NO BUS BIDS ARE RECEIVED Dr. B. W. Hummelt, president of the board of trustees of Nevada City unified school district, cancelled Wednesday evening’s scheduled meeting of the board when no bids for purchase of a district school bus were received by 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. George Becraft, recently elected trustee, declared yesterday, she had not been informed of the cancellation and that she waited at the elementary school while the other members of the board failed to arrive. Sixteen persons.-were also at the schoolhouse with Mrs. Becraft to attend the meeting. ROTARY CLUB PLANS FOR THANKSGIVING Annual Rotary club Thanksgiving dinner—a joint affair with Nevada City and Grass Valley clubs participating—is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 21, in Nevada City Elks lodge, according to an announcement by R. V. Conrad, general chairman. A turkey-raviola dinner will be served. : Conrad announced the following committee members: Harold Berliner, ticket sales and reservations; George Hansen, program and entertainment; J. F. Siegfried, William Tamblyn, arrangements and decorations; Franc Luschen, carving. Robert Wasley in Cold Weather Exercises Off . The Coast of Labrador . S. navy, Route 1, Nevada City, . AS a crew member aboard the deqstrover USS Dennis J. Buckley, is now taking part in joint navy exercises off the coast of Labrador in the vicinity of Hamilton inlet. . The exercises will continue for approximately four weeks, of which time about ten days will be spentin Canadian waters. CASHIN FIELD PROBABLE SITE FOR ARMORY Chamber of Commerce directors and city officials will meet at 8 o’clock tonight in city hall to outline a campaign to finance ‘the purchase of a two-acre site at Cashin field south of Nevada City. The two-acre site, owned by the Dr. Jones estate, has been tentatively approved as a location of a $105,000 California national guard armory. Price of the site is reported to be $2,250. Major Charles A. Columbia, attache of the state national guard, visited the area, and according to city officials, promised a favorable report on the site. Funds for the armory were allocated several months ago and will be available immediately on receipt of a deed to the site. The proposed building will be used by Company E, 184th Infantry, California National Guard which is composed of Nevada Robert M. Wasley, seaman, U. . and marine corps cold weather . : APPLEGATE LINE HEARINGS SET IN SACRAMENTO. Further. hearings before the California public utilities commission on the application of the Applegate Drayage company of Sacramento for a common carrier license to establish regular service in Nevada City and’ Grass Valley and vicinity will be held Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 10 a.m. in the chambers of the board of* supervisors, Sacramento county courthouse, Sacramento. Representatives. of the chambers of commerce of Nevada City and Grass Valley and spokesmen for the Applegate firm and Pacific Motor Transport have been invited. Applegate received endorsements by the chambers of commerce of Nevada City and Grass Valley. Applegate is offering twicedaily service from Sacramento. Hearings held. here and in Grass Valley in March: were featuring by the testimony of many merchant members of the endorsing chambers, who stated PMT was adequately serving the area. The Southern Pacific subsidiary is opposing the application on the ground that it (PMT) adequately serves the district. WATER CHLORINATION AT BANNER RESERVOIR IS BEING STUDIED Improvement of the drinking water served the people of subburban territory through the City and Grass Valley men. Cap. tain Harleth-Brock, Nevada City, is company commander. . Brock said the armory will /mean a $30,000 annual payroll to this area. . ‘FRANK CRAMPTON WILL ‘FACE CHARGE OF POSING “AS A CIVIL ENGINEER . Frank Crampton will appear in . Suisun justice court Wednesday, . Nov. 9 to -stand trial: before a jury on two counts, charging him with posing as a civil engineer . when he attempted to gain em. ployment with two Solano county groups in May. He was arraigned in justice court Tuesday and bail was set at $200. He was. arrested here recently on a warrant signed by Earl Pope, investigator for board of registration for civil and professional engineers. Pope charges Crampton posed . as a practicing civil engineer and applied for employment as an engineer with the’ Solano irrigation district on May 3. Crampton is also charged with representing himself as an engineer when he applied for employment withxa farmers’ committee to investigaté water problems in the Solano irrigation district on May 5. . . . New York Congressman Says Administration Plans Dollar Devaluation Ernest Taber, Republican representative from New York, said he has heard that the Truman administration “is working on a’ scheme to increase the price of gold and devalue the dollar.” . He didn’t say, in a prepared. statement, where he obtained his . information, but said that was his “understanding.” . “The Truman program,” Taber . said, “calls for onerous increases in spending. It calls for so many. more expenditures that our def-' icit for the current fiscal year is high pressure line of the Nevada irrigation district, by placing a . chlorination treatment plant at the lower Benner reservoir, is being studied by officials of the utility. Most feasible plan under study and consideration is the formation of an improvement district within the boundaries of the Nevada irrigation district for finaneing and operation of the chlorination plant. : The territory which could be served by the chlorination treatment from the present high pressure line would be along Banner road to Town Talk; Ridge road to the end of the Hughes tract: Glenbrook; Hills Flat; all of Alta Hill area west to Carey Drive; Manzanita Drive; Alta Vista Pines, and a portion of residences along highway 20 from Town Talk to the city limits of Nevada City. ALAN HEWITT ELECTED PRESIDENT OF LOCAL CHAPTER OF C. S. F. Alan Hewitt was elected president of the Nevada City high school chapter of the California Scholastic federation, which held its first fall meeting at the local school. Other officers of the honor group are Pat Dames, vice pres, ident; John: Peterson, secretary. Members are Roy Draper, Sandra Pease, Charles Coombes and Audrey Foote. The local chapter officers plan activities for the coming school year that will include attendance at a symphony concert in De. cember and a trip to Sacramento state college next month. LAMSON TELLS LIONS CLUB ABOUT FORESTS David Lamson, Nevada City rancher, traced the history of U. _S. forests at Wednesday evening’s gathering of the Nevada City ;Lions club at Deer Creek Inn. , bound to be $5,500,000,000.” . Lamson opened his: lecture on The effect of a devaluation ; forests at thes time of the landprogram, ‘he continued, would be . ing of the Pilgrims end continued to “help create inflation, increase . with lack of conservation as piothe poor man’s taxes, and reduce . neers laid waste’ the forested hills his purchasing power” “make us suckers for the foreign gold producers.” Quayle brothers of the Garden Valley trout farm, near Camptonville, have moved 30,000 trout from the dredger lakes to ponds at Fresno for the winter. and . across the continent. ; Lamson said the last of the forests are in the west. He pointed out the importance of forests as a water shed and for their more obvious uses. Keith Macdonald presided both as president and program chairman.