October 7, 1948 (8 pages)

SSE . ROS NET ETS ay en ee « . THINKING OUT LOUD = By Hie Me L., SR. 4 In four weeks the people will decide a number of important questions at the: polls. Perhaps one of the most important is the Proposition No: 13 on the ballot, which calls for electing both state senate and assembly on a population basis. This measure originates in the big city labor unions who want more power in ~: spesking they. are: loath state politics and in shaping legislation regarding labor conditions in California. bon bf Ranch men, stock breeders and “grower f the nation’s’food are always conservative. They yield, but yield ‘slowly to the demands of labor unions: .They do not really believe in Utopias. Generally to see their own help. organized into unions. The farmers of California are aghast at the iniquitous complications involved in granting the big. cities the right “to control legislation of every kind., H We note, in one department at least, the women voters are taking a hand, in fact, urging that women slap down this ameéndment, which would give the big cities all the spending power the matter of schools,. if they chose to -exercise their rights 1 all . under majorities in both the senine ie oe + ; ate and assembly. The organization which is taking this detergnined stand is the California Parent Teachers Association. The association is concerned regarda-. ing what may happen to the rural schools, $ fh h It’ will not avail much, we surmise, to plead that our state legislature is organized on the—same basis as the “senate and house of representatives in Washington, D. C. The state senate represents country and city districts; the assemby, is based on population. The big city unions want to abolish this system. of. representation. Its unfortunate that most of California’s new population has gone to the larger centers of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. If these centers were to vote as a unit on Propositien-13; no question but that it would earry: But so -far--the innovation has received little support from the press, Practically all newspapers, including the large metropolitan dailies, are opposed. to absorbing. more. political power, realizing no doubt any injury done the rural’ population. will be reflected in the metropolitan trade and banking figures. $ S Under Proposition 13, about one twentieth of California’s area would govern all of the state. Almost anything can happen when so small a part of California can govern it all. Two political machines, such as Chicago now endures, could: rule the state. In fact, one in Los Angeles could probably take over, and without the machine’s endorsement, no candidate for federal office could hope for election. The machine would dictate not only all legislation in Sacramento, but would choose California’s governors and most of the legislature. $ h It behoves every voter to give this wicked proposal a lot of thought. If carried in November sit would handicap California for many years. In fact ful if it could ever be repealed. Once in power a city labor machine would be hard to defeat, as Chicago has so often demonstrated. Even if defeated in November Proposition 13 is likely to come up in every general election for many years,:just as we have had to defeat a great. variety of ham and egg proposals every election year, NEW PLANT TO REPLACE YUBA RIVER COLGATE POWERHOUSE NEVADA CITY: Colgate powerhouse, located seven miles below Bullard’s Bar. an the South Yuba River was closed last week and will be replaced with a new modern plant, For fifty -years the Colgate powerhouse, named after’ the ‘st prosident of the Pacific Gas ana #auectrie Company, Romulus ye Riggs Colgate, has served Grass Valley and Nevada: City with a part of its power for mining, sawmills amd domestic users. Th w plant, it is announced, will cost approximately $3,500,000 and will probably be ready for operation June 1, 1949. It will produce 35,000 horse power as compared with the 7,000 horsepower te present plant produces. % r “Final Rites Were Sat. For Mrs. Erin Steele — .GRASS VALLEY: Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in the Hoeper and Weaver Mortuary for Mrs. Erin Steele, mother of Ed Steele, manager of the unemployed insurance department of the California Employment. office in this eity. Rev. Frank Buck conducted the service. Interment <was in Elm Ridge avsCemetery. The deceased was born in Alabama 79 years ago. She came to vist her son and his family last April and fel) ill. = Surviving are the folawing chidren, Ed Steele of this city, Leighton W. Steele,.Jr., of Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. E. F. Craddock — of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Howard F. Steele of Atlanta, Georgia. os Mrs. Steele was a. member.of the Order of Eastern Star, and the Pythian Sisters. * See in. ; the it is doubtVolume 21—No. 40 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA G. V. CHAMBER MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN 0 VALLEY: The Grass Commerce GRASS Valley © Chamber committee, headed by George 2Zaddue, Which. began a membership drive last week, reports they are pleased with resuts. The signs ol placed in-windows about the busi-= “district, reading ‘‘We've numerous. ness are Fred C. Brady, ager of the chamber, that while no tally has yet been made of the number joining, he hopes for a 100 per cent. enrollment in business’, district. Joinea”’ states 3rady-. received a letter from Arthur S. Dudley; secretary-manager of the Sacramento chamber, in which Dudley declared: *‘We want to extend congratulations upon the fine work your oreanization has been doing in Grass Valley and to express the hope that your people realize the vital importance of adequate financial support in order to do those things -which~ all want accomplished. BUSINESS HOUSES TO CLOSE FOR DEAD WAR HEROES GRASS -VALLEY:—The—retail merchants committee of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce has approved a proposal to close all business-houses for one hour Auring the funeral services held for late war veterans returned to Grass Valley. The committee expressed. the hope that every merchant will close during the hours to be designated. : THURSDAY CLUB HONORS 25TH ANNIVERSARIES NEVADA CITY: The ‘Nevada City Thursday Club last Saturday evening celébrated the 25th wedding anniversaries of members falling in 1948. A dinner in Deschwanden Hal] marked the event. The two our couples celebrating were Mr. and Mrs. Austin Boreham and Mr. and Mrs. Chester Clemo. Both were presented with cash in a crystal bow! to be used toward completing their solid silver tableware sets. New officers of the club are Mrs. Clarence Walker, president; Mrs. Clarence Watters, vice president; and Mrs. George Noyes, secretary. % Youth Authority Head Addresses Women’s Club GRASS VALLEY: O. H. Close, director of the California Youth Authority, addressing the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women’s Club Wednesday evening, September 29, at diner, stated that the pleted a survey, one part of which envisages a juvenile forestry camp or ranch school. The: survey was requested by five superior judges in Nevada, Yuba, Sutter, Butte and Plumas Counties. The judges had expressed interest -in-a project which is expected to rehabilitate youths without committing them to state correctional institutions. With a combined population of 162,000, the five counties, Close said, would provide about 90 offenders for the camp. The cost per boy would be approximately $100 to $120 per month of which the state would pay $50 each. Based on figures provided by Riverside County, the cost of building the camp would be about $100,000. Other portions of the survey, made by-Robert Telfer, field representative of the CYA, have to do with providing a joint detention home for delinquent girls, admittedly a much tougher problem. : Operation of the camp would lodge in a commission of judges and supervisors representatives, Close declared that the crime problem today is a youth problem. He declared that the greatest source of youth Celinquency was drinking by boys under 21. Close called for greater control of drinking both by the liquor authorities and by the liquor industry. He said records disclosed that one half of all juvenile crimes have been committed by youths who were drunk. Judge James Snell, who introduced Close, declared that lack of a detention home in this county compelled him to keep 14-year old girls in county jail environment. The public affairs dinner of the club was attended by “150 persons. Mrs. Marie Williford was hostess and Audrey Montre, president, presided. * t BIRTH MURRELL — In Nevada City; . Nevada: County, ‘October 2, 1948, to Mr; and a, son, ‘ Mrs. Ronald Murrell, secretary-man. CYA has comThe Nugget WILLIAM EARLE MULLIS Newly appointed to the Nevada City Council to take the place of Ira C., Mullis has a fine record of civic and fraternal activity. He is a member of the Elks, the International Order of Odd Fellows, the Nevada City Fire Department vice-president of Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He holds a deputy sheriff's badge and is a member of the’ Episcopal Church. Mullis was born in Sacramento on April 11, 1916. He went to grammar school in Bakersfield and Sacramento, and to high school in Sacramento and Nevada City. There he majored in mathematices and history and participated in basketball and) baseball. He was also a member of the Searchlight, high school newspaper, staff. Upon graduation from Nevada City High Mullis went to work in the family business, the Nevada City Home Laundry, at 240 Boulder Street. This his father had purchased in 1933. The business has grown steadily and now employs 11 people, in addition to Mullis and his wife, the former B Rozynski. Mullis’ brother, Dr. Walter Mullis, recently opened his dental offices in a newly-built Zion Street structure. The young business home on Boulder Street two children, William Ernest, 9, and Carol Ann, 5. The laundry business, under Mullis’ industrious management, is still expanding. At present, he is caring for nearly 800 families per week. Four huge wheel washers do the basic work, supplemented by a large tumbler, several centrifugal driers, an enormous flat-work machine, as well as numerous pressing devices and sundry accessory mechanical aids. The busy laundry uses about 200 pounds. of soap per month. Mullis remarks that, because of the extreme softness of the local water, soap consumption here is about one-eighth that of a similar sized laundry in the Bay Area. A recent test by a soap representative that there was but one-half a grain of hardness. in the local water. Looking over the busy past and having a thought for the future of the community, Mullis says, succintly, “It looks good to me.” Thursday, October 7, 1948 . Salutes. —Pert Photo (Ike) Bell, William Earle the Lions Club, and Past school -auline man lives at the family with his wife and _ their : showed THE BROADWAY THEATRE Floy Margaret Reynolds CITY: Many months ago Ralph Achey, manager of the Broadway Theatre, invited us to come back stage to have a look at the little old dressing rooms, thinking perhaps we might find a story hidden in the dark and dust. But the building was still intact and the sound pictures were packing the movie goers in nightly. The theatre, even though it had a past linked with the great and near great in_histrionics, vaudeville, music and politics, was still very much alive and seemed to present a future that would hold it forever. Its very existence was monument enough. NEVADA So we skipped it. On Tuesday of this week we went in again for the last time. The theatre built in 1854, which has rung with the cheers and applause of appreciative audiences to legitimate melodrama, comedy, opera, concert and political orations, and that .with the advent of the sereen and ‘talkies’ and. color films was converted into a movie house, was not closed and dark, but fully lighted and wide open and six or eight men were engaged with ‘screwdrivers and crowbars .in_ ripping out the rows of seats .and tearing up the tattered strips of carpet that covered the aisles. A lineman on the pole outside was cutting down what was at one time the latest modern touch to Nevada City’s oldest and foremost theatre—a telephone line to the box office. Three men were busy with surveying instruments +to discover where was the building’s lowest and weakest point, that they might there deal the death blow. Back stage in. what was once a handsome. lobby to. ‘the stage entrance and dressingribald audience while a tall, } _ (Please Turn to Page 5) rooms the foreman of the destruction company and one of his helpers were whistling over a large blueprint—-a delightful superstition among show folk, “Whistling back stage is bad luck.”’ We’re two romantics and as we walked awefully down the aisle of the lighted house we imagined we were a couple of a dazzling audience of Deals, Niles, Chapmans, Searls, Naffzigers, Waites, Mullers, Murchies, Sargents and manymore of the citizenry of that day, come to take our reserved seats in the third row center to hear Miss Major Pauline Cushman, renowned spy of) the Union Army during the Civil War, recite her hairbreadth escapes and her eventual capture, imprisonment and release by men of the Union Army. As we entered the small lobby back stage we imagined we heard the hoots and jeers of an earlier day, more dark young man walked dejected. ly down the run. that led from the and . house In total vote he recéived 1258 more SEN. THURMAN © CAMPAIGNING VIGOROUSLY NEVADA CITY: Allen G, (Scocep) nNevada. City State Senator Thurman was this week in the interest of his candidacy for reetection. This is the third campaign in one year’for the Senator who ‘represents Nevada, Sierra Placer Counties in the upper the State Legislature. Thurman won the Republican nominationin the primary tion last June while his opponent won the Demecratic nomination. of electhan his opponent. : ‘Senator Thurman is running on hih record of ten years’ service in the State Legislature, nine of which he served in the Assembly. Last October he was elevated to created by the resignation® of forthe Senate to fill the vacancy mer Senator Jerrold Seawell. This short term will expire next January I. Througlt the ummns of “this newspaper issue _a statement to the of the -district in next edition. advertising colhe wili voters weck’s shes Cee ap REPUBLICANS OPEN MILL ST. HEADQUARTERS GRASS VALLEY: The Nevada County Republican Central Com‘mittee has opened headquarters on Mill Street, near the corner of Main. 2 a3 The office is decorated with pictures of Warren and Dewey, and quotations from their speeches. W. T. Terrill is office manager. = Paul Ullrich, chairman o¢ .9 committee, makes the office his headquarters. He recently returned from a five day stay in San Francisco, where he met Governor Dewey ata Sunday morning breakfast, -given the presidential candidate by Republican leaders of Northern California. HIGH SCHOOL YOUTHS SHAKEN IN ACCIDENT GRASS VALLEY: Four high school students were bruised and shaken up when their car skidded on the -rain-slick pavement as they rounded a curve two miles south of this city as they were on their way to -hunt deer Sunday morning. The four youths are James S. Abrahams, Jr., 16, driving the family car, Donald Wirta, Robert Mann, and Billy Brown, all 16, years of age. Abraham, Wirta and Mann were treated at a local hospital and released. NOVEL STORY ON DOE PROVES NO GO; NIMROD MUST PAY 50 BUCKS NEVADA CITY: Eugene Duggan of Sacramento was fined $50 after pleading guilty a week ago before Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve to shooting a doe. The justice of the peace postponed the sentence when Duggan said he had aimed at a buck and the doe had jumped out of the brush and received the bullet, ———_ ¥-—_—__ —__. PAYS $60 FOR DOE MEAT NEVADA’ CITY: Delroy F. Palmer, who resides at Marsh’s Mill on Washington Ridge, pleaded guilty to possession of doe meat and was fined $60 by Justice of the Peace George ~ Gildersleeve. Palmer was arrested by Game Warden Earl Hiscox and his assistant, Clarence Ousley. The meat was confiscated and given to the county hospital. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Richard Parsons and their little son, Schuyler, are spending two weeks vacatian with Mr. and@Mrs. C. E. Parsons. Mra. Vy eP, Rodgeys arrived from Burlingame today-to visit her sister, Mrs. H. M.Leete, Sr. This is Fall Gas Range Week, and the _ advertising pages of the Nugget will give home owners a good idea of the fine new models that are available at the progressive hardware, appliances and furniture stores of this area. A visit to your local appliance dealer will reveal that stocks in this area are on an up-to-date metropolitan basis, . est, to shop at home. 4. ee garet Reed, FIRST WAR HERO RETURNED FOR MILITARY BURIAL NEVADA CITY: The body of Glen Pontecelli, first soldier to be killed from Nevada City, will be returned here for burial from the European theater tomorrow. Holmes Funeral Home will take charge. The funeral will be a full military service in the St. Canice Catholic Church, tentatively set for Saturday morning. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a guard of honor from a military reservation at . Sacramento are expected to participate in the service. Mother of the deceased is Mrs. Rosie Pontecelii of Sacramento.’ He leaves two brothe:s, Henry and Albert, also of Sacramento,, and a_ sister, Mrs. Rose Murray of this city. P.T. A. RESUMES. . FALL MEETS NEVADA © CITY: Mrs. Kent Walker, piesident of the Nevadsg City Elementary School PF T. A’ called the first meeting of the school year to order in the: schoal auditorium on Friday, Octatter a. Following two musicak sealear= tions by the newly organized} school band under the directiom of Mr. Wiilard Goerz, and thee COUNTY NURSING COMM. MET MONDAY GRASS VALLEY: the Nevada County tivities Committce met in the Grass Valley Library on Monday of this week with their chairman, Bernice’ Glasson.Mrs. -MarCounty Health Nurse, services for Members of Nursing. AcMiss read a report of her the month of September during which period she cared for 164 cases Of various diseases and illness in private homes and in her office, The Home Nursing: Service is available to everyone and anyone needing the assistance of a nurse in the home, and for. the nominal fee of $2.00 per visit. Considerable discussion was held by. the committee on the unfortunate lack of interest displayed by the public toward the course in home nursing being currently offered by the American Red Cross. The course is offered free of charge and -classes aré held on Monday, and Wednesday evenings in the Grass Valley High School. There are no books examinations, the course is conducted by a registered nurse through’ demonstration and = participation only and the one requirement of the student toward her certificate, issued at the end of-the-course,isa consistent atteadance to the twice weekly two hour class for three consecutive weeks. The first of the series of courses began Monday evening, October 4th, and will run through the week of October 18th, afte Which a second class Will be initiated. The course is open to all Who are interested in learning practical home nursing and should be especially valuable to the mothers of young children. Anyone desiring to avail herself. of the of the instrugtion may get in touch’ with Mrs. Isabetle Hefelfinger of Nevada City, or Miss Bernice Glasson or Mrs. Lawrence Myers in Grass_ Valley. Classes are limited to ten persons: or It was also announced that the mobile X-ray equipment of the Nevada County Tuberculosis Association will be in Grass Valley in front of the Post Office on Monday and Thursday, October llth and 14th; and in Nevada City next door to the Alpha Hardware Company on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 12th and 13th instead of the dates previously announced, a a CHRISTMAS COUNCIL ORGANIZED TO MAKE SEASON BEAUTIFUL GRASS VALLEY: A new civie group was organized Thursday evening to be known. as the City Christmas Council. The group proposes to make Christmas this year a very beautiful universal affair. = pas An invitation has been extended to all lodges, civic organizations, clubs, fraternal orders and churches to join hands in making this next Christmas the best. George Raddue was temporary chairman with John Brown as his assistant. Mrs. Audrey Montre was chosen temporary secretary. ‘ The tentative program proposed by the group includes a large outdoor Christmas _ tree, star lights throughout the city, kids parties, Christmas earols, music and, a pre-holiday try-out of local talent. chosen *% : Contractors Purchase Gold Pan Lodge NEVADA CITY: Gold -Pan Lodge, a mile north of Camptonville, Yuba County, has been purchased by Westbrook and Pope, construction contractors of Sacramento, who won the contract for the 2% miles of road to be improved between Camptonville and the Sierra County line, including the difficult Depot Hill grade. The building will be used as headquarters during construction. The firm-now has a small crew brushing out the rights of way. C. C, Gildersleeve will have charge of the bridge building. % Postmaster At Cedar Ridge Sworn In GRASS. VALLEY: A new postoffice was instituted last Friday at Cedar Ridge, seven or eight . miles south of Grass Valley on the Colfax. Highway. Postal Inspector George Rolphe of Sacramento swore in the postmaster, Mrs. Lillian 8; Monian, and her assistant, Mrs. Oma. Henson. Accompanied by thé principal, Mrs. Nell George, the seventh and eigghth grades of the Union Hil. 4 School assembled and sang Amer-}) ica. A large number of Cedar} Ridge residents attended the brief ceremony. ; detail the introduction of the teaching staf& by Mr. Lloyd Geist, principal, Mrs. H. C. Snyder, program chairman, introduced the speaker of the afternoon, Mr. Raymond Ewan, . District Director of the Boy Scouts of America, who a compre— hensive and interesting talk om the values and advantages of the CubScout -program to the pre—_ adolescent: boy he on the his emotional devel— Ceseribed in some Yr and ability of gram to supply Mr, Ewam on a note of r. the future of the of preseng, and. referreé contributior by Boy Scouts in Eng-. curing the recent war whem led upon. te he of Vice and were gave thresho!d of opment, and mann the Cub Scout 3 the directed activity: concern country light international affairs to ti invaluabie made land they se the were cal because of the discipline and direceived. Mrs: Louise Roberts . folfawed Mr. Ewanwith a-request fer additional Den Mothers in order that the many eligible young boys who» are now denied the privilege and advantages of Cub Scouting due to the shortage of Dens and Der Mothers, might participate. Any-— one interested is asked to get im touch with her or Mrs. Ed Hews— ton. Experts are not required: ar _ expected just young mothers With one or two hours each week to .spare for the good and ap— preciation of the Cub-age boy. Dens are limited to not more tham six or eight boys. on veetion they Mr. Geist spoke at some length on the need for a new and larger school building due to the evergrowing student body that is already overflowing into the auditorium which, together with the stage, is being used as a combined first, seventh\ and eighth grade. classroom, He éxpressed’ his belier in the future growth of Nevada City based uponxthe inecreas-~ ing desire of people to\leave the. metropolitan. centers -andseek some measure of security. and safety in the more rural areas. During the brief business meeting that followed the program it was decided that the annual Hallowe’en party this year would be held at the school on the Friday evening preceding Hallowe’en. Also a delegation of several mothers and teachers wis appointed te attend a meeting of the city council on Thursday evening, Octeher ith, to voice a protest ta thecouncil’s intention to permit the return of ‘free play’. siot machines in various establishments in town. A tea honoring new motixers and teachers was served at tie conclusion of the afternoon. PTA PROTESTS TO COUNCIL ON SLOT MACHINES NEVADA CITY: The Nevada. City Elementary Parent Teachers Association will have a delegation attending the city council meeting Thursday night, October 7th, when it meets. They “will protest any ordinance which permit slot machines to be operated. in Nevada City. ‘ The association took this action following a report made by Mrs George Beecraft on free play slot machines. Lioyd Geist, principal] elementary school, reported that there ‘are twelve rooms in the school and the enrollment is 582 puils. He declared the schook needs six more class -rooms. BIKE RIDING RULES’ TO BE ENFORCED NEVADA. CITY: (Chief of Police Max Solaro yesterdaywarned parents of young bicycles. riders that they must no TIonger use sidewalks for riding, and that: after dark all. bicycles. must be.‘ equipped with rear reflectors and: front lights. The chief stated that severak near accidents had occurred re-. cently, and he insists that side-. walk riding and lightless street riding must cease. . ; % Mrs. Katherine Celio. Attends American War Mothers Meet NEVADA CITY: Mrs. Kather—” ine Celio, state chaplain of the. American War Mothers for the past two years, last week attend ed the annual convention of the. organization in Les Angeles. = The American War Mothers ig: Silverof thean organization of Gold, Sit and Blue Star mothers chartered — by Congress in 1925. Its objectives: are the rehabilitation of Worl® Wars I ad I veteranis inj od during their service, and pitalization for those needir PAYS $50 FOR ASSAULT NEVADA CITY: Coy pleading guilty to a assault by force with able to respond __

SSE . ROS NET ETS ay en ee « . THINKING OUT LOUD = By Hie Me L., SR. 4 In four weeks the people will decide a number of important questions at the: polls. Perhaps one of the most important is the Proposition No: 13 on the ballot, which calls for electing both state senate and assembly on a population basis. This measure originates in the big city labor unions who want more power in ~: spesking they. are: loath state politics and in shaping legislation regarding labor conditions in California. bon bf Ranch men, stock breeders and “grower f the nation’s’food are always conservative. They yield, but yield ‘slowly to the demands of labor unions: .They do not really believe in Utopias. Generally to see their own help. organized into unions. The farmers of California are aghast at the iniquitous complications involved in granting the big. cities the right “to control legislation of every kind., H We note, in one department at least, the women voters are taking a hand, in fact, urging that women slap down this ameéndment, which would give the big cities all the spending power the matter of schools,. if they chose to -exercise their rights 1 all . under majorities in both the senine ie oe + ; ate and assembly. The organization which is taking this detergnined stand is the California Parent Teachers Association. The association is concerned regarda-. ing what may happen to the rural schools, $ fh h It’ will not avail much, we surmise, to plead that our state legislature is organized on the—same basis as the “senate and house of representatives in Washington, D. C. The state senate represents country and city districts; the assemby, is based on population. The big city unions want to abolish this system. of. representation. Its unfortunate that most of California’s new population has gone to the larger centers of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. If these centers were to vote as a unit on Propositien-13; no question but that it would earry: But so -far--the innovation has received little support from the press, Practically all newspapers, including the large metropolitan dailies, are opposed. to absorbing. more. political power, realizing no doubt any injury done the rural’ population. will be reflected in the metropolitan trade and banking figures. $ S Under Proposition 13, about one twentieth of California’s area would govern all of the state. Almost anything can happen when so small a part of California can govern it all. Two political machines, such as Chicago now endures, could: rule the state. In fact, one in Los Angeles could probably take over, and without the machine’s endorsement, no candidate for federal office could hope for election. The machine would dictate not only all legislation in Sacramento, but would choose California’s governors and most of the legislature. $ h It behoves every voter to give this wicked proposal a lot of thought. If carried in November sit would handicap California for many years. In fact ful if it could ever be repealed. Once in power a city labor machine would be hard to defeat, as Chicago has so often demonstrated. Even if defeated in November Proposition 13 is likely to come up in every general election for many years,:just as we have had to defeat a great. variety of ham and egg proposals every election year, NEW PLANT TO REPLACE YUBA RIVER COLGATE POWERHOUSE NEVADA CITY: Colgate powerhouse, located seven miles below Bullard’s Bar. an the South Yuba River was closed last week and will be replaced with a new modern plant, For fifty -years the Colgate powerhouse, named after’ the ‘st prosident of the Pacific Gas ana #auectrie Company, Romulus ye Riggs Colgate, has served Grass Valley and Nevada: City with a part of its power for mining, sawmills amd domestic users. Th w plant, it is announced, will cost approximately $3,500,000 and will probably be ready for operation June 1, 1949. It will produce 35,000 horse power as compared with the 7,000 horsepower te present plant produces. % r “Final Rites Were Sat. For Mrs. Erin Steele — .GRASS VALLEY: Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in the Hoeper and Weaver Mortuary for Mrs. Erin Steele, mother of Ed Steele, manager of the unemployed insurance department of the California Employment. office in this eity. Rev. Frank Buck conducted the service. Interment <was in Elm Ridge avsCemetery. The deceased was born in Alabama 79 years ago. She came to vist her son and his family last April and fel) ill. = Surviving are the folawing chidren, Ed Steele of this city, Leighton W. Steele,.Jr., of Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. E. F. Craddock — of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Howard F. Steele of Atlanta, Georgia. os Mrs. Steele was a. member.of the Order of Eastern Star, and the Pythian Sisters. * See in. ; the it is doubtVolume 21—No. 40 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA G. V. CHAMBER MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN 0 VALLEY: The Grass Commerce GRASS Valley © Chamber committee, headed by George 2Zaddue, Which. began a membership drive last week, reports they are pleased with resuts. The signs ol placed in-windows about the busi-= “district, reading ‘‘We've numerous. ness are Fred C. Brady, ager of the chamber, that while no tally has yet been made of the number joining, he hopes for a 100 per cent. enrollment in business’, district. Joinea”’ states 3rady-. received a letter from Arthur S. Dudley; secretary-manager of the Sacramento chamber, in which Dudley declared: *‘We want to extend congratulations upon the fine work your oreanization has been doing in Grass Valley and to express the hope that your people realize the vital importance of adequate financial support in order to do those things -which~ all want accomplished. BUSINESS HOUSES TO CLOSE FOR DEAD WAR HEROES GRASS -VALLEY:—The—retail merchants committee of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce has approved a proposal to close all business-houses for one hour Auring the funeral services held for late war veterans returned to Grass Valley. The committee expressed. the hope that every merchant will close during the hours to be designated. : THURSDAY CLUB HONORS 25TH ANNIVERSARIES NEVADA CITY: The ‘Nevada City Thursday Club last Saturday evening celébrated the 25th wedding anniversaries of members falling in 1948. A dinner in Deschwanden Hal] marked the event. The two our couples celebrating were Mr. and Mrs. Austin Boreham and Mr. and Mrs. Chester Clemo. Both were presented with cash in a crystal bow! to be used toward completing their solid silver tableware sets. New officers of the club are Mrs. Clarence Walker, president; Mrs. Clarence Watters, vice president; and Mrs. George Noyes, secretary. % Youth Authority Head Addresses Women’s Club GRASS VALLEY: O. H. Close, director of the California Youth Authority, addressing the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women’s Club Wednesday evening, September 29, at diner, stated that the pleted a survey, one part of which envisages a juvenile forestry camp or ranch school. The: survey was requested by five superior judges in Nevada, Yuba, Sutter, Butte and Plumas Counties. The judges had expressed interest -in-a project which is expected to rehabilitate youths without committing them to state correctional institutions. With a combined population of 162,000, the five counties, Close said, would provide about 90 offenders for the camp. The cost per boy would be approximately $100 to $120 per month of which the state would pay $50 each. Based on figures provided by Riverside County, the cost of building the camp would be about $100,000. Other portions of the survey, made by-Robert Telfer, field representative of the CYA, have to do with providing a joint detention home for delinquent girls, admittedly a much tougher problem. : Operation of the camp would lodge in a commission of judges and supervisors representatives, Close declared that the crime problem today is a youth problem. He declared that the greatest source of youth Celinquency was drinking by boys under 21. Close called for greater control of drinking both by the liquor authorities and by the liquor industry. He said records disclosed that one half of all juvenile crimes have been committed by youths who were drunk. Judge James Snell, who introduced Close, declared that lack of a detention home in this county compelled him to keep 14-year old girls in county jail environment. The public affairs dinner of the club was attended by “150 persons. Mrs. Marie Williford was hostess and Audrey Montre, president, presided. * t BIRTH MURRELL — In Nevada City; . Nevada: County, ‘October 2, 1948, to Mr; and a, son, ‘ Mrs. Ronald Murrell, secretary-man. CYA has comThe Nugget WILLIAM EARLE MULLIS Newly appointed to the Nevada City Council to take the place of Ira C., Mullis has a fine record of civic and fraternal activity. He is a member of the Elks, the International Order of Odd Fellows, the Nevada City Fire Department vice-president of Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He holds a deputy sheriff's badge and is a member of the’ Episcopal Church. Mullis was born in Sacramento on April 11, 1916. He went to grammar school in Bakersfield and Sacramento, and to high school in Sacramento and Nevada City. There he majored in mathematices and history and participated in basketball and) baseball. He was also a member of the Searchlight, high school newspaper, staff. Upon graduation from Nevada City High Mullis went to work in the family business, the Nevada City Home Laundry, at 240 Boulder Street. This his father had purchased in 1933. The business has grown steadily and now employs 11 people, in addition to Mullis and his wife, the former B Rozynski. Mullis’ brother, Dr. Walter Mullis, recently opened his dental offices in a newly-built Zion Street structure. The young business home on Boulder Street two children, William Ernest, 9, and Carol Ann, 5. The laundry business, under Mullis’ industrious management, is still expanding. At present, he is caring for nearly 800 families per week. Four huge wheel washers do the basic work, supplemented by a large tumbler, several centrifugal driers, an enormous flat-work machine, as well as numerous pressing devices and sundry accessory mechanical aids. The busy laundry uses about 200 pounds. of soap per month. Mullis remarks that, because of the extreme softness of the local water, soap consumption here is about one-eighth that of a similar sized laundry in the Bay Area. A recent test by a soap representative that there was but one-half a grain of hardness. in the local water. Looking over the busy past and having a thought for the future of the community, Mullis says, succintly, “It looks good to me.” Thursday, October 7, 1948 . Salutes.. —Pert Photo (Ike) Bell, William Earle the Lions Club, and Past school -auline man lives at the family with his wife and _ their : showed THE BROADWAY THEATRE Floy Margaret Reynolds CITY: Many months ago Ralph Achey, manager of the Broadway Theatre, invited us to come back stage to have a look at the little old dressing rooms, thinking perhaps we might find a story hidden in the dark and dust. But the building was still intact and the sound pictures were packing the movie goers in nightly. The theatre, even though it had a past linked with the great and near great in_histrionics, vaudeville, music and politics, was still very much alive and seemed to present a future that would hold it forever. Its very existence was monument enough. NEVADA So we skipped it. On Tuesday of this week we went in again for the last time. The theatre built in 1854, which has rung with the cheers and applause of appreciative audiences to legitimate melodrama, comedy, opera, concert and political orations, and that .with the advent of the sereen and ‘talkies’ and. color films was converted into a movie house, was not closed and dark, but fully lighted and wide open and six or eight men were engaged with ‘screwdrivers and crowbars .in_ ripping out the rows of seats .and tearing up the tattered strips of carpet that covered the aisles. A lineman on the pole outside was cutting down what was at one time the latest modern touch to Nevada City’s oldest and foremost theatre—a telephone line to the box office. Three men were busy with surveying instruments +to discover where was the building’s lowest and weakest point, that they might there deal the death blow. Back stage in. what was once a handsome. lobby to. ‘the stage entrance and dressingribald audience while a tall, } _ (Please Turn to Page 5) rooms the foreman of the destruction company and one of his helpers were whistling over a large blueprint—-a delightful superstition among show folk, “Whistling back stage is bad luck.”’ We’re two romantics and as we walked awefully down the aisle of the lighted house we imagined we were a couple of a dazzling audience of Deals, Niles, Chapmans, Searls, Naffzigers, Waites, Mullers, Murchies, Sargents and manymore of the citizenry of that day, come to take our reserved seats in the third row center to hear Miss Major Pauline Cushman, renowned spy of) the Union Army during the Civil War, recite her hairbreadth escapes and her eventual capture, imprisonment and release by men of the Union Army. As we entered the small lobby back stage we imagined we heard the hoots and jeers of an earlier day, more dark young man walked dejected. ly down the run. that led from the and . house In total vote he recéived 1258 more SEN. THURMAN © CAMPAIGNING VIGOROUSLY NEVADA CITY: Allen G, (Scocep)

nNevada. City State Senator Thurman was this week in the interest of his candidacy for reetection. This is the third campaign in one year’for the Senator who ‘represents Nevada, Sierra Placer Counties in the upper the State Legislature. Thurman won the Republican nominationin the primary tion last June while his opponent won the Demecratic nomination. of electhan his opponent. : ‘Senator Thurman is running on hih record of ten years’ service in the State Legislature, nine of which he served in the Assembly. Last October he was elevated to created by the resignation® of forthe Senate to fill the vacancy mer Senator Jerrold Seawell. This short term will expire next January I. Througlt the ummns of “this newspaper issue _a statement to the of the -district in next edition. advertising colhe wili voters weck’s shes Cee ap REPUBLICANS OPEN MILL ST. HEADQUARTERS GRASS VALLEY: The Nevada County Republican Central Com‘mittee has opened headquarters on Mill Street, near the corner of Main. 2 a3 The office is decorated with pictures of Warren and Dewey, and quotations from their speeches. W. T. Terrill is office manager. = Paul Ullrich, chairman o¢ ..9 committee, makes the office his headquarters. He recently returned from a five day stay in San Francisco, where he met Governor Dewey ata Sunday morning breakfast, -given the presidential candidate by Republican leaders of Northern California. HIGH SCHOOL YOUTHS SHAKEN IN ACCIDENT GRASS VALLEY: Four high school students were bruised and shaken up when their car skidded on the -rain-slick pavement as they rounded a curve two miles south of this city as they were on their way to -hunt deer Sunday morning. The four youths are James S. Abrahams, Jr., 16, driving the family car, Donald Wirta, Robert Mann, and Billy Brown, all 16, years of age. Abraham, Wirta and Mann were treated at a local hospital and released. NOVEL STORY ON DOE PROVES NO GO; NIMROD MUST PAY 50 BUCKS NEVADA CITY: Eugene Duggan of Sacramento was fined $50 after pleading guilty a week ago before Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve to shooting a doe. The justice of the peace postponed the sentence when Duggan said he had aimed at a buck and the doe had jumped out of the brush and received the bullet, ———_ ¥-—_—__ —__. PAYS $60 FOR DOE MEAT NEVADA’ CITY: Delroy F. Palmer, who resides at Marsh’s Mill on Washington Ridge, pleaded guilty to possession of doe meat and was fined $60 by Justice of the Peace George ~ Gildersleeve. Palmer was arrested by Game Warden Earl Hiscox and his assistant, Clarence Ousley. The meat was confiscated and given to the county hospital. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Richard Parsons and their little son, Schuyler, are spending two weeks vacatian with Mr. and@Mrs. C. E. Parsons. Mra. Vy eP, Rodgeys arrived from Burlingame today-to visit her sister, Mrs. H. M.Leete, Sr. This is Fall Gas Range Week, and the _ advertising pages of the Nugget will give home owners a good idea of the fine new models that are available at the progressive hardware, appliances and furniture stores of this area. A visit to your local appliance dealer will reveal that stocks in this area are on an up-to-date metropolitan basis, . est, to shop at home. 4. ee garet Reed, FIRST WAR HERO RETURNED FOR MILITARY BURIAL NEVADA CITY: The body of Glen Pontecelli, first soldier to be killed from Nevada City, will be returned here for burial from the European theater tomorrow. Holmes Funeral Home will take charge. The funeral will be a full military service in the St. Canice Catholic Church, tentatively set for Saturday morning. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a guard of honor from a military reservation at . Sacramento are expected to participate in the service. Mother of the deceased is Mrs. Rosie Pontecelii of Sacramento.’ He leaves two brothe:s, Henry and Albert, also of Sacramento,, and a_ sister, Mrs. Rose Murray of this city. P.T. A. RESUMES. . FALL MEETS NEVADA © CITY: Mrs. Kent Walker, piesident of the Nevadsg City Elementary School PF T. A’ called the first meeting of the school year to order in the: schoal auditorium on Friday, Octatter a. Following two musicak sealear= tions by the newly organized} school band under the directiom of Mr. Wiilard Goerz, and thee COUNTY NURSING COMM. MET MONDAY GRASS VALLEY: the Nevada County tivities Committce met in the Grass Valley Library on Monday of this week with their chairman, Bernice’ Glasson.Mrs. -MarCounty Health Nurse, services for Members of Nursing. AcMiss read a report of her the month of September during which period she cared for 164 cases Of various diseases and illness in private homes and in her office, The Home Nursing: Service is available to everyone and anyone needing the assistance of a nurse in the home, and for. the nominal fee of $2.00 per visit. Considerable discussion was held by. the committee on the unfortunate lack of interest displayed by the public toward the course in home nursing being currently offered by the American Red Cross. The course is offered free of charge and -classes aré held on Monday, and Wednesday evenings in the Grass Valley High School. There are no books examinations, the course is conducted by a registered nurse through’ demonstration and = participation only and the one requirement of the student toward her certificate, issued at the end of-the-course,isa consistent atteadance to the twice weekly two hour class for three consecutive weeks. The first of the series of courses began Monday evening, October 4th, and will run through the week of October 18th, afte Which a second class Will be initiated. The course is open to all Who are interested in learning practical home nursing and should be especially valuable to the mothers of young children. Anyone desiring to avail herself. of the of the instrugtion may get in touch’ with Mrs. Isabetle Hefelfinger of Nevada City, or Miss Bernice Glasson or Mrs. Lawrence Myers in Grass_ Valley. Classes are limited to ten persons: or It was also announced that the mobile X-ray equipment of the Nevada County Tuberculosis Association will be in Grass Valley in front of the Post Office on Monday and Thursday, October llth and 14th; and in Nevada City next door to the Alpha Hardware Company on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 12th and 13th instead of the dates previously announced, a a CHRISTMAS COUNCIL ORGANIZED TO MAKE SEASON BEAUTIFUL GRASS VALLEY: A new civie group was organized Thursday evening to be known. as the City Christmas Council. The group proposes to make Christmas this year a very beautiful universal affair. = pas An invitation has been extended to all lodges, civic organizations, clubs, fraternal orders and churches to join hands in making this next Christmas the best. George Raddue was temporary chairman with John Brown as his assistant. Mrs. Audrey Montre was chosen temporary secretary. ‘ The tentative program proposed by the group includes a large outdoor Christmas _ tree, star lights throughout the city, kids parties, Christmas earols, music and, a pre-holiday try-out of local talent. chosen *% : Contractors Purchase Gold Pan Lodge NEVADA CITY: Gold -Pan Lodge, a mile north of Camptonville, Yuba County, has been purchased by Westbrook and Pope, construction contractors of Sacramento, who won the contract for the 2% miles of road to be improved between Camptonville and the Sierra County line, including the difficult Depot Hill grade. The building will be used as headquarters during construction. The firm-now has a small crew brushing out the rights of way. C. C, Gildersleeve will have charge of the bridge building. % Postmaster At Cedar Ridge Sworn In GRASS. VALLEY: A new postoffice was instituted last Friday at Cedar Ridge, seven or eight . miles south of Grass Valley on the Colfax. Highway. Postal Inspector George Rolphe of Sacramento swore in the postmaster, Mrs. Lillian 8; Monian, and her assistant, Mrs. Oma. Henson. Accompanied by thé principal, Mrs. Nell George, the seventh and eigghth grades of the Union Hil. 4 School assembled and sang Amer-}) ica. A large number of Cedar} Ridge residents attended the brief ceremony. ; detail the introduction of the teaching staf& by Mr. Lloyd Geist, principal, Mrs. H. C. Snyder, program chairman, introduced the speaker of the afternoon, Mr. Raymond Ewan, . District Director of the Boy Scouts of America, who a compre— hensive and interesting talk om the values and advantages of the CubScout -program to the pre—_ adolescent: boy he on the his emotional devel— Ceseribed in some Yr and ability of gram to supply Mr, Ewam on a note of r. the future of the of preseng, and. referreé contributior by Boy Scouts in Eng-. curing the recent war whem led upon. te he of Vice and were gave thresho!d of opment, and mann the Cub Scout 3 the directed activity: concern country light international affairs to ti invaluabie made land they se the were cal because of the discipline and direceived. Mrs: Louise Roberts . folfawed Mr. Ewanwith a-request fer additional Den Mothers in order that the many eligible young boys who» are now denied the privilege and advantages of Cub Scouting due to the shortage of Dens and Der Mothers, might participate. Any-— one interested is asked to get im touch with her or Mrs. Ed Hews— ton. Experts are not required: ar _ expected just young mothers With one or two hours each week to .spare for the good and ap— preciation of the Cub-age boy. Dens are limited to not more tham six or eight boys. on veetion they Mr. Geist spoke at some length on the need for a new and larger school building due to the evergrowing student body that is already overflowing into the auditorium which, together with the stage, is being used as a combined first, seventh\ and eighth grade. classroom, He éxpressed’ his belier in the future growth of Nevada City based uponxthe inecreas-~ ing desire of people to\leave the. metropolitan. centers -andseek some measure of security. and safety in the more rural areas.. During the brief business meeting that followed the program it was decided that the annual Hallowe’en party this year would be held at the school on the Friday evening preceding Hallowe’en. Also a delegation of several mothers and teachers wis appointed te attend a meeting of the city council on Thursday evening, Octeher ith, to voice a protest ta thecouncil’s intention to permit the return of ‘free play’. siot machines in various establishments in town. A tea honoring new motixers and teachers was served at tie conclusion of the afternoon. PTA PROTESTS TO COUNCIL ON SLOT MACHINES NEVADA CITY: The Nevada. City Elementary Parent Teachers Association will have a delegation attending the city council meeting Thursday night, October 7th, when it meets. They “will protest any ordinance which permit slot machines to be operated. in Nevada City. ‘ The association took this action following a report made by Mrs George Beecraft on free play slot machines. Lioyd Geist, principal] elementary school, reported that there ‘are twelve rooms in the school and the enrollment is 582 puils. He declared the schook needs six more class -rooms. BIKE RIDING RULES’ TO BE ENFORCED NEVADA. CITY: (Chief of Police Max Solaro yesterdaywarned parents of young bicycles. riders that they must no TIonger use sidewalks for riding, and that: after dark all. bicycles. must be.‘ equipped with rear reflectors and: front lights. The chief stated that severak near accidents had occurred re-. cently, and he insists that side-. walk riding and lightless street riding must cease. . ; % Mrs. Katherine Celio. Attends American War Mothers Meet NEVADA CITY: Mrs. Kather—” ine Celio, state chaplain of the. American War Mothers for the past two years, last week attend ed the annual convention of the. organization in Les Angeles. = The American War Mothers ig: Silverof thean organization of Gold, Sit and Blue Star mothers chartered — by Congress in 1925. Its objectives: are the rehabilitation of Worl® Wars I ad I veteranis inj od during their service, and pitalization for those needir PAYS $50 FOR ASSAULT NEVADA CITY: Coy pleading guilty to a assault by force with able to respond __