October 7, 1949 (8 pages)

a CHAOS MAY HIT LAWLESS RURAL AREA OF RUSSIA) By JAMES S. CROCKETT Col., U. S. Army, Retired A Copyright. 1949, by The Nugget Wide -areas of the Russian ‘countryside would be in chaos and the Communist regime in the Soviet union destroyed by its ‘own people if the top police control was broken or relaxed. Even winder the present police system many rural districts are engulfed ‘by lawlessness at night. For six months I lived on a ‘collective farm in northern Rus‘sia. My house and those of the farm workers were a considerable distance off the main road and like most others, it and the plots of tillable land around it were partially surrounded by large forests. At night hooligans (the Russian term for hoodlum) frequently ‘singing and usually drunk, wan‘dered in search of‘girls or anysthing they could plunder. Lawabiding tenants were forced to secure portable objects, lock their cabins and be extremely chary of opening the door to a stranger’s knock. It was claimed that the local uniformed police were afraid of these bands of hooligans and often joined them in their robbing and marauding. : It should be explained that the uniformed police are responsible only for criminal arrests and that the secret police (nonuniformed) make arrests only for political offenses. It is the secret police the people fear. The very mention of them strikes terror into all Russians, high and low. This organization is not above using ‘criminals as informers and as guards for political prisoners. This: distinction in police has destroyed much of the authority ‘of the uniformed police and has caused the people to have little respect for local law enforcers. Hence they are inclined to pay less attention to crime than to political unreliability, In the country districts, many people are bitterly hostile to the Communist regime. Dissatisfaction arises chiefly from poor living conditions, lack of food, high prices, police control, lack of private property, and repression of religion. ' Lack of food in the rural areas seems strange, but each collective farm usually specializes in a few crops. The Russian farming operations are not highly diversified. The farm workers on the .collective farm near where I lived raised only wheat, cabbage, potatoes and carrots. There was practically no livestock. The state takes from the farms, either as taxes or forced sales at a low price, so much of what the farms produce. The: margin of profit is low. As a consequence each member of the collective ' farm lives on near starvation wages. In the park of Poltova (Ukrainia) and in the surrounding countryside, the people told me they preferred’ the Germans to their Russian Communist bosses. On the ocean promenade at Odessa and along the banks of the Dnieper river. at Kiev, Rus(Continued on page 5) Volume 22; No. 57 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, October 7, 1949 PROCEEDINGS TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE UNION The Nevada county board of supervisors late Monday §afternoon instructed Ralph E. Deeble, .county clerk, to publish proceedings of this.month’s meeting of the board in The: Union, Grass Valley newspaper, following a clamorous hour of discussion. Chairman Warren Odell, supervisor of the fourth district, motioned, “Publish it once, If they want a fight we will fight them. You don’t let anyone ---oh you. I move the minutes of this meeting be published in The Union.” All other supervisors except Frank J. Rowe, second district, concurred. The subject came up at the lag end of Monday’s meeting of the board. District Attorney Vernon Stoll informed the board he had ney General Fred Howser that the , proceedings must be published. Rowe read excerpts from an editorial published Sept. 23 in The Nugget suggesting © grand jury investigation of the board’s failure to publish proceedings in recent years. Henry G. Loehr, supervisor of the fifth district, said, “Let them indict. us.” Rowe retorted, dict Mr, Wray.” Carl J. Tobiassen, first district, said, “We are trying to save the taxpayers’ money, but some one always comes along trying to spend more money.” Deeble declared he has posted all proceedings on the courthouse bulletin board, the Nevada. City postoffice, and the Holbrooke building, Grass Valley. Tobiassen “We should inreceived an opinion from Attor-. ' said he has seen every report on bulletin boards. Odell concurred ! with Tobiassen. A ; Loehr motioned that the pro-, cretion of the county clerk. He the three papers of the county. No one’ seconded the motion and . Rowe declared, “I won’t give The Nugget the satisfaction of seconding it. I'd like to find out the background of this, even if I have to write to Washington.” Tobiassen interjected, “A little of this ---doesn’t go a long way with me. F won’t take much more of this, 11 do something personally.”’Loehr said, “Let’s not bring personalities into this. I am for publishing them.” Rowe completed the discussion . with “the D. A. should take action. I’d like to see them brought up on the carpet.” Stretch of Highway 49° On State Bidding List The California highway commission is asking forbids for 3.1 miles of grading and bituminous surfacing of highway 49 one-half mile west of the Yuba-Sierra county line and 2.6 miles east of the line. Bids will be opened in Sacra-' mento Nov. 2. WILEY EXPLAINS EMIGRANT TRAIL TRACING CHORE Difficulties of tracing the old emigrant route from Donner lake to Chicago Park were featured in the talk by Bert Wiley, representative of the Emigrant. Trail association, at the first fall meeting of the Nevada County Historical society Monday evening in the Nevada City elementary school auditorium, Certain parts of the trail, Wiley said, were rutted eight inches deep into solid rock and were often covered with leaves and debris. In other places all trace of the routes were gone, Wiley said. Another interesting part of his talk was a description of the windlass method of climbing or descending a steep incline. Charles Parson, who operates the nursery founded by Felix Gillet in 1871, spoke about the famous pioneer who is credited with founding the walnut industry in northern California. Parsons stressed that Gillet was not only an excellent nurseryman but was well versed in many crafts. George Calanan, Nevada City clerk, told several stories of the pioneer nurseryman. Mrs. Doris Foley reported that more than 3,000 visitors attended the historical museum during the past summer. Elmer Stevens, president of the organization, presided at «the ceedings be published at the dis-. Sathering of approximately 70. . each tim it was relayed from CALLS OFF CAMPAIGN Lack of interest among businessmen and members of the chamber of commerce was given as the reason for cancellation of a dinner and drive to recruit new members into the organization, according to Ray Spickelmier, president, following a regular meeting of the board of directors of the unit Tuesday evening. I, C. Bell, vice president;“was appointed chairman of the committee to direct the drive for new members. Businessmen approached by Bell have shown little interest, he said. JUVENILE HOME RECOMMENDED BY GRAND JURY The county grand jury in a re‘port to the board of supervisors Monday recommended immediate action toward the acquisition of a detention home as required by state law, and to remove a fire hazard now existing in portions of the courthouse. The report pointed aut the reeent--increase~ of juvenile~delin= quency has added to the problems of detaining youthful law violators There are no facilities other than the county jail. The grand jury report called attention to the “inherent” fire hazard existing in the women’s ward on the third floor of the courthouse, and emphasized the danger to persons confined and those attempting rescue in case of an outbreak of fire. According to the grand jury’s report “firemen would have to lay hose lines from outside the building, through the sheriff’s office, up six flights of winding stairs to the women’s jail. “Access to this portion of the building from the front entrance of the courthouse is met with triple-locked doors between the law library ‘and the women’s jail.”The jury recommended a water supply: be provided for fire protection on the third floor; inStallation of extinguishers on each floor and in rooms of the jail portion of the courthouse; and improve the lighting in the women’s. ward. MY, HOW THIS BOBCAT GREW AND GREW; JUST LIKE BACKYARD GOSSIP Vern Gulartie, local businessman, shot a bobcat. Saturday . morning that tipped the scales at . 20. pounds. , But the real story of the cat is thow it grew and grew and grew ‘hat on. the ground. He stopped }one person to the next. would be to rotate them among . CHAMBER OF COMMERCE pavs to tear paws ana 3¢‘inenes . from ears to tail was shot at 9:45 / o'clock at Lupine point, 12 miles . least of here on highway 20. Gulartie shot the beastie with a .32 , Special rifle. At 3 o’clock Saturiday afternoon we heard the report, fifteenth or sixteenth hand-' ed, and the critter had become a 300-pound cougar. The cat looked big enough to be a lynx. Reference to nature books indicated the animal was “lynx rufus” the southern lynx, more commonly called a bobcat. CITY TAXES DUE MONDAY Final date for the payment of city taxes is Monday before 5 p.m.,. according to Sam Hooper, deputy city clerk. They Always Come Back For More—Deer Hunting i They always come back—for more deer hunting. . Friday, Sept. 16, Peter Russo, Redwood City, was mauled and clawed. by a bear during a deer hunting trip near Camptonville. At the Miner’s hospital where he .received treatment, doctors took more than 100 stitches in his scalp, he vowed he was through . with deer hunting. Saturday he was back in Nevada county—deer hunting. WILLIAM HORR — KILLED UNDER TRUCK WHEELS William C. Horr, 520 Jordan, was fatally injured Friday morning at the Fisher rock crushing plant when he was crushed under the wheels of a city gravel truck driven by William Hallett. Hallett told Police Chief Max Solaro he had started to back into the crusher when he saw a to investigate and found Horr’s body under the truck. Horr, was rushed» to Miner’s hospital but he died less than two hours after the accident. An autopsy revealed death resulted from a ruptured liver, spleen and kidney. Horr was born in Kansas and came to Nevada City in 1931. He is survived by three sons, James E., Del Mar; William E., San Diego; Loren B., Yermo; a daughter, Mrs. E. J, Miley, San Diego; three brothers, Lewis L., Ukiah; Frank, Fort Bragg; Worthy, Lawrence, Kans.; and. a sister, Mrs. Clara Butler, Portland, Ore. Funeral cervices were held at! 10:30. "uesday morning in the) chaps: of the Holmes Funeral . Hom>, Rev. Max L. Christensen,. rector of Trinity Episcopal church . officiating. Interment was in the Forest View cemetery. HYDRAULIC MINERS TO MEET IN AUBURN WITH CHESTERMAN SPEAKER First fall meeting of the California Hydraulic Miners association will be heid Sunday at the Freeman hotel,Auburn, according to an announcement by the president, George Hallock. Informal luncheon will be held at 1 o’clock followed by the reg-. ular meeting at 2 o’clock. Charles W. Chesterman, geolo-. gist for the California division of . mines, will be the guest speaker. . His subject will be “Perlite.” ‘. Hallock also announced one of . two members of the association wno attended the American mining congress in Spokane, Wash., last week, will report on the palaver. Hobbies of All Kinds Exhibited at Elementary School Holy mackerel, we didn’t know there were so many hobbies! Ninety-one pupils of Nevada City elementary school are displaying their hobbies at the auditorium of the local school this week. As we were inspecting the show early Wednesday the kindergarten class was gazing with awe and timidity at the amazing collection of hobbies. Stamps, coins, dolls, match book covers, mineral rocks, shells, models, tea cups in profusion and an exotic collection of bells from India and China, An unusual exhibit was a snow plow made’ from this and that and these and those by Jackie Lewis of the seventh grade. With an elevating blade the thingamobob demonstrated amazing ingenuity and imagination. Displaying remarkable talent were the drawings by Janis Poates, eighth grade. A:panorama of pioneers crossing a river in conestagas was. excellent. And <a series of freehand copies of horses sparkled with ability. Only in human anatomy did the young lady show a weakness of proportion. Handicraft talent with shells and beads was outstandingly evily’s hobby. She is in the eighth grade, When the wide-eyed kindergarten tots departed a class of larger children entered. With boisterous purposeness most of the. boys and several of the. girls too, headed straight for the Lionel tinplate railway layout of Jerry Pursell, fourth grade. Young Jerry was a happy lad in that he had his layout so complicated with lights here and switches there that even Lloyd Geist, the principal of the school, couldn’t operate it, and the boy trainman had happy times away from his classes. Dolls of all nations, costumes, story books, and even a cute little one made with an acorn lined one wall of the auditorium. , Miss Kelly won first prize -in the hobby\ show, according to the judges late yesterday afternoon. Her shellcraft collection revealed amazing finger dexterity. >. Second prize went to Garry Weldon for his model airplanes. James Curry’s stamp collection and Diane Jackson’s coin collection, tied for third. ‘ Additional prizes were awarded to Pauline Lind, Jackie Lewis, Glen Renfree, Earl Hiscox, the Haley girls, and Mary Lou Coughlin. ; _ Gold ribbons will be awarded to the above prize winners. Blue ribbons will be presented to outstanding exhibits, and red and white ribbons will be awarded to all other exhibitors. The ribbons will carry the legend, “Exhibited in first annual hobby show, Nevada City elementary school.’ Over six hundred persons saw the show Wednesday and Thursday: Among the students displaying hobbies were: Renee Spangler, sixth grade, plaques; Clifford Pooler, sixth, match books; Jim Curry, eighth, stamps;; Bobby Smith, fifth, stamps; Elinore Nay, seventh, stamps; Mary Sullivan, sixth, coins; Diane Jackson, coins; Bonnie Lee Haddy, coins; Carl Foote, eighth, match books. Kenneth Maloney, sixth, match. books; Harold Hummelt, fifth, match books; Dennis Clifford, third, match books; Glenn Renfree, match books; Mary Lou Coughlin, seventh, cream _pitchers; Nancy Percy, fifth, tea cups Jerry Pursell, Rosemary Thibault, Ann Tamblyn, Neil Peterdent in the display of Emily Keland saucers; Janet, Kathy and Marcia Haley,. first, fifth and son, Janis Poates, Gail Blodgett, . sixth, tea cups and saucers; Brian Corbell, fifth, military insignias; Ilene Williams, fourth, soap; John Filler, sixth, Chirstmas cards: Harold Hummelt, fifth, stereoscope; Robert Charles, third, clay modeling; Jean Kyle, third, cigar box craft; John Burton, second, sooks; Cothcrine Santinelli, third books. ; Ruthe Robinson, sixth, books; Margaret Maloney, third, butterflies; Beverly Stevens, sixth, calendars; Erma Roberts, second, books; Harold McColl, Bambi; Barbara Hill, fourth, stuffed animals; Janice Little, stuffed animals; Nancy Jacobson, fifth, shells; Will Smith, sixth, shells; David Foote, third, shells; Lynne Wagner, shells; Kenneth Jenkins, seventh, glass. dogs; .Marilyn Geist, sixth, deers; Janet Peterson, third, deer; Mary Pat Corbell, sixth, horses; Jerry Kyle, fifth, rocks and minerals; Donald Rouland, third, rocks. _ Earl Hiscox, second, china aniplanes; Robert Cullen, seventh, model planes; Rosemary. Thibault eighth, oriental bells; Pauline Lind, seventh, rocks; Carol Mathis, third, ore samples; Wayne Davis, first, rocks; David Foote, Ronald Tobiassen, Martin Pattirigall, third, rocks; Bobbie Lee mals; Garry Weldon, model air. Browning, fifth, dogs; Mary Lou . Browning, third, horses; Marian . Griggs, second, shells; Wardell} Miller, fifth, shells; Gail Blodgett, . sixth, Kenneth Baker, . charms; Dale Leong, fourth, min. iature store. . Neil Peterson, fourth, trucks of . NDS, 6 Ee Snelis; clay; Linda Poulsen, Philippines ! souvenirs; Judy Swartz, third, dolls; Delores Wagner, sjxth, . dolls; Nancy Scholefield, sixth, . dolls; Penny Weir, third, dolls; . Janice Hummelt, first, dolls; Di. ane Harless, sixth, dolls; Harriet . Havey, fifth dolls; Susan Shaw, dolls; Linda Schiffner, second, dolls; Caryl Young, second, dolls; Eileen Wood, second, dolls; Janet Hooker, second, dolls; Yvonne Raynor; Carole.: Young, first, dolls; Sheron Cullen, fourth, dolls; Sharon Ann Hockman, fifth acorn doll. Carolyn Pattengall, second, dolls; An Tamblyn, sixth, dolls: Patricia Ann Thomas, third, dolls; Judy Robinson, second, . dolls; Patty Coughlan, second, . dolls; Carol Lee Stewart, second, dolis; Géorgann Holzer, second, feathers; Linda Daries, second, nuts; Rita Zunino, second, dolls; Marian Griggs, second, dolls: Jimmy Phelan, arrowheads. George Becraft, fourth, clay models, entered too late for comSeeberg, chalk animals; Bob petition for prizes. ELKS COMPLETE. PLANS FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY The golden anniversary of the Nevada City Elks lodge will take place next Friday and Saturday evenings. Final plans were completed at a dinner meeting last night at the Elks hall. Grand Loyal Knight Harry B. Hoffman, Stockton, will attend the golden anniversary lodge session Friday night and will pay tribute to living charter members Phil G. Scadden, Ralph G. Gaylord and James F. Colley. Thirty-five candidates will be initiated by a.special team and Manager Carl O. Noren will serve a Swedish buffet after the lodge meeting. Saturday is the official homecoming day and the local Elks lodge. is inviting the world of Elks to the Exalted Rulers Grand Ball, Banquet and Stage Show in the evening. To accommodate the crowd :the banquet will be served in the Odd Fellows hall. A complete minstrel show, the old showboat with Skippers Frank Stewart and George Hansen at the helm will follow on the Elks stage. Following the completely costumed minstrel show the exalted ruler’s ball will follow with Jerry Austin’s -band furnishing the tempo. A gold book commemorating the fifty years-of Elks in Nevada City is to be mailed today or tomorrow, Phil Scadden and Bill Tamblyn, who had charge of the book, were able to obtain the photographs of every. exalted ruler of the lodge. Exalted Ruler Robert L. Tamblyn, and his wife, Ruth, are general chairmen of the arrangements for the two-day event. Hotel room reservations: Robert Paine, Arthur Innis and Harleth M. Brock. Ladies entertainment: Ruth Tamblyn, Ruth Frantz, Miriam Sawyer, Elsie Seigfried, Evelyn Schiffner, Louise Noyes, Hazel Bergemann. Lodge decorations: Louise Kyle, Lois Shock, Louise Noyes, Lila Schiffner. : Golf: Bob and Cecil Schiffner, Dr. B. W. Hummelt, Stan Halls. Reception: Robert and Ruth Tamblyn, John and Jane Shaffi, 3ill and Louise Wasley, Jack and Elsie Seigfried, Eldon and Florence Kendrick, Bill and Betty Tamblyn, Carl. and Helen Hieronimus, Chester and Alice Scheemer, Harrison and Jenny’ Randall, Frank and May Finnegan, Beth Sheldon, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Wright, Curtis and Minna Clark, Bill and Maude . Wright, John and Helen Fortier, Horace and Reita Curnow, Dick and May Goyne, Tom Richards, Grace En‘glebright, Virginia O’Neil, Andy and Sue Holmes, George and Lena Calanan, P, G. Scadden, E. © S. Parke, J. F. Colley, Ralph and Jeannett Gaylord, George and Berniece Carter, George and Peggy Hansen, Connie and Skippy Conrad, Beryl and Jessie Robinson, Elbridge and Midge Skeahan, Lonnie and Louise Noyes, Robert and Evelyn’ Schiffner, Robert and Ruth Paine, Franc and Wanda Louise Luschen, Sam and Myrtle Weiss, Charles and Ruth Veale, Carl and Ida Foote, Mosco and Victoria Smart, Paul and Hazel Bergemann, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Braghetta, and the genial host of the Elks club Carl and Evelyn Noren. Members of the cast of the minstrel show in addition to the skippers, Frank Stewart and George Hansen, are Cy Kerrin, Mosco Smart, Chet Murchel, Lucy Murchel, Audrey Kerrin, Dee Montonari, Pat Holt, Dever Montangue, the brothers Peterson, . Bob, Gene and George, Russ Cotters, Bill Tobiassen, Dick Prine, Shuffler Smith, Berniece Gibson, Bill Gibson, Bob Paine and Virginia Clapp. COUNTY FARM BUREAU WILL MEET TOMORROW Annual meeting of the Nevada County Farm Bureau will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock in Grass Valley high school. The meeting will be preceded’ by dinner at 6:30 p.m. Annual election of officers will be held and entertainment will be slanted for adults and children. The Weather Friday, Sept:.30. 2.597 43 Saturday, Oct. 1. .33 79. 42 Sunday, Oet, 2 23: 80 42 Monday, Oct. 3. ... 79 40 Tuesday, Oct. 4 J. 85 41. Wednesday, Oct, 5 . 82 43 sae 72 39 Thursday, Oct. 6 ! a i

a CHAOS MAY HIT LAWLESS RURAL AREA OF RUSSIA) By JAMES S. CROCKETT Col., U. S. Army, Retired A Copyright. 1949, by The Nugget Wide -areas of the Russian ‘countryside would be in chaos and the Communist regime in the Soviet union destroyed by its ‘own people if the top police control was broken or relaxed. Even winder the present police system many rural districts are engulfed ‘by lawlessness at night. For six months I lived on a ‘collective farm in northern Rus‘sia. My house and those of the farm workers were a considerable distance off the main road and like most others, it and the plots of tillable land around it were partially surrounded by large forests. At night hooligans (the Russian term for hoodlum) frequently ‘singing and usually drunk, wan‘dered in search of‘girls or anysthing they could plunder. Lawabiding tenants were forced to secure portable objects, lock their cabins and be extremely chary of opening the door to a stranger’s knock. It was claimed that the local uniformed police were afraid of these bands of hooligans and often joined them in their robbing and marauding. : It should be explained that the uniformed police are responsible only for criminal arrests and that the secret police (nonuniformed) make arrests only for political offenses. It is the secret police the people fear. The very mention of them strikes terror into all Russians, high and low. This organization is not above using ‘criminals as informers and as guards for political prisoners. This: distinction in police has destroyed much of the authority ‘of the uniformed police and has caused the people to have little respect for local law enforcers. Hence they are inclined to pay less attention to crime than to political unreliability, In the country districts, many people are bitterly hostile to the Communist regime. Dissatisfaction arises chiefly from poor living conditions, lack of food, high prices, police control, lack of private property, and repression of religion. ' Lack of food in the rural areas seems strange, but each collective farm usually specializes in a few crops. The Russian farming operations are not highly diversified. The farm workers on the .collective farm near where I lived raised only wheat, cabbage, potatoes and carrots. There was practically no livestock. The state takes from the farms, either as taxes or forced sales at a low price, so much of what the farms produce. The: margin of profit is low. As a consequence each member of the collective ' farm lives on near starvation wages. In the park of Poltova (Ukrainia) and in the surrounding countryside, the people told me they preferred’ the Germans to their Russian Communist bosses. On the ocean promenade at Odessa and along the banks of the Dnieper river. at Kiev, Rus(Continued on page 5) Volume 22; No. 57 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA Friday, October 7, 1949 PROCEEDINGS TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE UNION The Nevada county board of supervisors late Monday §afternoon instructed Ralph E. Deeble, .county clerk, to publish proceedings of this.month’s meeting of the board in The: Union, Grass Valley newspaper, following a clamorous hour of discussion. Chairman Warren Odell, supervisor of the fourth district, motioned, “Publish it once, If they want a fight we will fight them. You don’t let anyone ---oh you. I move the minutes of this meeting be published in The Union.” All other supervisors except Frank J. Rowe, second district, concurred. The subject came up at the lag end of Monday’s meeting of the board. District Attorney Vernon Stoll informed the board he had ney General Fred Howser that the , proceedings must be published. Rowe read excerpts from an editorial published Sept. 23 in The Nugget suggesting © grand jury investigation of the board’s failure to publish proceedings in recent years. Henry G. Loehr, supervisor of the fifth district, said, “Let them indict. us.” Rowe retorted, dict Mr, Wray.” Carl J. Tobiassen, first district, said, “We are trying to save the taxpayers’ money, but some one always comes along trying to spend more money.” Deeble declared he has posted all proceedings on the courthouse bulletin board, the Nevada. City postoffice, and the Holbrooke building, Grass Valley. Tobiassen “We should inreceived an opinion from Attor-. ' said he has seen every report on bulletin boards. Odell concurred ! with Tobiassen. A ; Loehr motioned that the pro-, cretion of the county clerk. He the three papers of the county. No one’ seconded the motion and . Rowe declared, “I won’t give The Nugget the satisfaction of seconding it. I'd like to find out the background of this, even if I have to write to Washington.” Tobiassen interjected, “A little of this ---doesn’t go a long way with me. F won’t take much more of this, 11 do something personally.”’Loehr said, “Let’s not bring personalities into this. I am for publishing them.” Rowe completed the discussion . with “the D. A. should take action. I’d like to see them brought up on the carpet.” Stretch of Highway 49° On State Bidding List The California highway commission is asking forbids for 3.1 miles of grading and bituminous surfacing of highway 49 one-half mile west of the Yuba-Sierra county line and 2.6 miles east of the line. Bids will be opened in Sacra-' mento Nov. 2. WILEY EXPLAINS EMIGRANT TRAIL TRACING CHORE Difficulties of tracing the old emigrant route from Donner lake to Chicago Park were featured in the talk by Bert Wiley, representative of the Emigrant. Trail association, at the first fall meeting of the Nevada County Historical society Monday evening in the Nevada City elementary school auditorium, Certain parts of the trail, Wiley said, were rutted eight inches deep into solid rock and were often covered with leaves and debris. In other places all trace of the routes were gone, Wiley said. Another interesting part of his talk was a description of the windlass method of climbing or descending a steep incline. Charles Parson, who operates the nursery founded by Felix Gillet in 1871, spoke about the famous pioneer who is credited with founding the walnut industry in northern California. Parsons stressed that Gillet was not only an excellent nurseryman but was well versed in many crafts. George Calanan, Nevada City clerk, told several stories of the pioneer nurseryman. Mrs. Doris Foley reported that more than 3,000 visitors attended the historical museum during the past summer. Elmer Stevens, president of the organization, presided at «the ceedings be published at the dis-. Sathering of approximately 70. . each tim it was relayed from CALLS OFF CAMPAIGN Lack of interest among businessmen and members of the chamber of commerce was given as the reason for cancellation of a dinner and drive to recruit new members into the organization, according to Ray Spickelmier, president, following a regular meeting of the board of directors of the unit Tuesday evening. I, C. Bell, vice president;“was appointed chairman of the committee to direct the drive for new members. Businessmen approached by Bell have shown little interest, he said. JUVENILE HOME RECOMMENDED BY GRAND JURY The county grand jury in a re‘port to the board of supervisors Monday recommended immediate action toward the acquisition of a detention home as required by state law, and to remove a fire hazard now existing in portions of the courthouse. The report pointed aut the reeent--increase~ of juvenile~delin= quency has added to the problems of detaining youthful law violators There are no facilities other than the county jail. The grand jury report called attention to the “inherent” fire hazard existing in the women’s ward on the third floor of the courthouse, and emphasized the danger to persons confined and those attempting rescue in case of an outbreak of fire. According to the grand jury’s report “firemen would have to lay hose lines from outside the building, through the sheriff’s office, up six flights of winding stairs to the women’s jail. “Access to this portion of the building from the front entrance of the courthouse is met with triple-locked doors between the law library ‘and the women’s jail.”The jury recommended a water supply: be provided for fire protection on the third floor; inStallation of extinguishers on each floor and in rooms of the jail portion of the courthouse; and improve the lighting in the women’s. ward. MY, HOW THIS BOBCAT GREW AND GREW; JUST LIKE BACKYARD GOSSIP Vern Gulartie, local businessman, shot a bobcat. Saturday . morning that tipped the scales at . 20. pounds. , But the real story of the cat is thow it grew and grew and grew ‘hat on. the ground. He stopped }one person to the next. would be to rotate them among . CHAMBER OF COMMERCE pavs to tear paws ana 3¢‘inenes . from ears to tail was shot at 9:45 / o'clock at Lupine point, 12 miles . least of here on highway 20. Gulartie shot the beastie with a .32 , Special rifle. At 3 o’clock Saturiday afternoon we heard the report, fifteenth or sixteenth hand-' ed, and the critter had become a 300-pound cougar. The cat looked big enough to be a lynx. Reference to nature books indicated the animal was “lynx rufus” the southern lynx, more commonly called a bobcat. CITY TAXES DUE MONDAY Final date for the payment of city taxes is Monday before 5 p.m.,. according to Sam Hooper, deputy city clerk. They Always Come Back For More—Deer Hunting i They always come back—for more deer hunting. . Friday, Sept. 16, Peter Russo, Redwood City, was mauled and clawed. by a bear during a deer hunting trip near Camptonville. At the Miner’s hospital where he .received treatment, doctors took more than 100 stitches in his scalp, he vowed he was through . with deer hunting. Saturday he was back in Nevada county—deer hunting. WILLIAM HORR — KILLED UNDER TRUCK WHEELS William C. Horr, 520 Jordan, was fatally injured Friday morning at the Fisher rock crushing plant when he was crushed under the wheels of a city gravel truck driven by William Hallett. Hallett told Police Chief Max Solaro he had started to back into the crusher when he saw a to investigate and found Horr’s body under the truck. Horr, was rushed» to Miner’s hospital but he died less than two hours after the accident. An autopsy revealed death resulted from a ruptured liver, spleen and kidney. Horr was born in Kansas and came to Nevada City in 1931. He is survived by three sons, James

E., Del Mar; William E., San Diego; Loren B., Yermo; a daughter, Mrs. E. J, Miley, San Diego; three brothers, Lewis L., Ukiah; Frank, Fort Bragg; Worthy, Lawrence, Kans.; and. a sister, Mrs. Clara Butler, Portland, Ore. Funeral cervices were held at! 10:30. "uesday morning in the) chaps: of the Holmes Funeral . Hom>, Rev. Max L. Christensen,. rector of Trinity Episcopal church . officiating. Interment was in the Forest View cemetery. HYDRAULIC MINERS TO MEET IN AUBURN WITH CHESTERMAN SPEAKER First fall meeting of the California Hydraulic Miners association will be heid Sunday at the Freeman hotel,Auburn, according to an announcement by the president, George Hallock. Informal luncheon will be held at 1 o’clock followed by the reg-. ular meeting at 2 o’clock. Charles W. Chesterman, geolo-. gist for the California division of . mines, will be the guest speaker. . His subject will be “Perlite.” ‘. Hallock also announced one of . two members of the association wno attended the American mining congress in Spokane, Wash., last week, will report on the palaver. Hobbies of All Kinds Exhibited at Elementary School Holy mackerel, we didn’t know there were so many hobbies! Ninety-one pupils of Nevada City elementary school are displaying their hobbies at the auditorium of the local school this week. As we were inspecting the show early Wednesday the kindergarten class was gazing with awe and timidity at the amazing collection of hobbies. Stamps, coins, dolls, match book covers, mineral rocks, shells, models, tea cups in profusion and an exotic collection of bells from India and China, An unusual exhibit was a snow plow made’ from this and that and these and those by Jackie Lewis of the seventh grade. With an elevating blade the thingamobob demonstrated amazing ingenuity and imagination. Displaying remarkable talent were the drawings by Janis Poates, eighth grade. A:panorama of pioneers crossing a river in conestagas was. excellent. And <a series of freehand copies of horses sparkled with ability. Only in human anatomy did the young lady show a weakness of proportion. Handicraft talent with shells and beads was outstandingly evily’s hobby. She is in the eighth grade, When the wide-eyed kindergarten tots departed a class of larger children entered. With boisterous purposeness most of the. boys and several of the. girls too, headed straight for the Lionel tinplate railway layout of Jerry Pursell, fourth grade. Young Jerry was a happy lad in that he had his layout so complicated with lights here and switches there that even Lloyd Geist, the principal of the school, couldn’t operate it, and the boy trainman had happy times away from his classes. Dolls of all nations, costumes, story books, and even a cute little one made with an acorn lined one wall of the auditorium. , Miss Kelly won first prize -in the hobby\ show, according to the judges late yesterday afternoon. Her shellcraft collection revealed amazing finger dexterity. >. Second prize went to Garry Weldon for his model airplanes. James Curry’s stamp collection and Diane Jackson’s coin collection, tied for third. ‘ Additional prizes were awarded to Pauline Lind, Jackie Lewis, Glen Renfree, Earl Hiscox, the Haley girls, and Mary Lou Coughlin. ; _ Gold ribbons will be awarded to the above prize winners. Blue ribbons will be presented to outstanding exhibits, and red and white ribbons will be awarded to all other exhibitors. The ribbons will carry the legend, “Exhibited in first annual hobby show, Nevada City elementary school.’ Over six hundred persons saw the show Wednesday and Thursday: Among the students displaying hobbies were: Renee Spangler, sixth grade, plaques; Clifford Pooler, sixth, match books; Jim Curry, eighth, stamps;; Bobby Smith, fifth, stamps; Elinore Nay, seventh, stamps; Mary Sullivan, sixth, coins; Diane Jackson, coins; Bonnie Lee Haddy, coins; Carl Foote, eighth, match books. Kenneth Maloney, sixth, match. books; Harold Hummelt, fifth, match books; Dennis Clifford, third, match books; Glenn Renfree, match books; Mary Lou Coughlin, seventh, cream _pitchers; Nancy Percy, fifth, tea cups Jerry Pursell, Rosemary Thibault, Ann Tamblyn, Neil Peterdent in the display of Emily Keland saucers; Janet, Kathy and Marcia Haley,. first, fifth and son, Janis Poates, Gail Blodgett, . sixth, tea cups and saucers; Brian Corbell, fifth, military insignias; Ilene Williams, fourth, soap; John Filler, sixth, Chirstmas cards: Harold Hummelt, fifth, stereoscope; Robert Charles, third, clay modeling; Jean Kyle, third, cigar box craft; John Burton, second, sooks; Cothcrine Santinelli, third books. ; Ruthe Robinson, sixth, books; Margaret Maloney, third, butterflies; Beverly Stevens, sixth, calendars; Erma Roberts, second, books; Harold McColl, Bambi; Barbara Hill, fourth, stuffed animals; Janice Little, stuffed animals; Nancy Jacobson, fifth, shells; Will Smith, sixth, shells; David Foote, third, shells; Lynne Wagner, shells; Kenneth Jenkins, seventh, glass. dogs; .Marilyn Geist, sixth, deers; Janet Peterson, third, deer; Mary Pat Corbell, sixth, horses; Jerry Kyle, fifth, rocks and minerals; Donald Rouland, third, rocks. _ Earl Hiscox, second, china aniplanes; Robert Cullen, seventh, model planes; Rosemary. Thibault eighth, oriental bells; Pauline Lind, seventh, rocks; Carol Mathis, third, ore samples; Wayne Davis, first, rocks; David Foote, Ronald Tobiassen, Martin Pattirigall, third, rocks; Bobbie Lee mals; Garry Weldon, model air. Browning, fifth, dogs; Mary Lou . Browning, third, horses; Marian . Griggs, second, shells; Wardell} Miller, fifth, shells; Gail Blodgett, . sixth, Kenneth Baker, . charms; Dale Leong, fourth, min. iature store. . Neil Peterson, fourth, trucks of . NDS, 6 Ee Snelis; clay; Linda Poulsen, Philippines ! souvenirs; Judy Swartz, third, dolls; Delores Wagner, sjxth, . dolls; Nancy Scholefield, sixth, . dolls; Penny Weir, third, dolls; . Janice Hummelt, first, dolls; Di. ane Harless, sixth, dolls; Harriet . Havey, fifth dolls; Susan Shaw, dolls; Linda Schiffner, second, dolls; Caryl Young, second, dolls; Eileen Wood, second, dolls; Janet Hooker, second, dolls; Yvonne Raynor; Carole.: Young, first, dolls; Sheron Cullen, fourth, dolls; Sharon Ann Hockman, fifth acorn doll. Carolyn Pattengall, second, dolls; An Tamblyn, sixth, dolls: Patricia Ann Thomas, third, dolls; Judy Robinson, second, . dolls; Patty Coughlan, second, . dolls; Carol Lee Stewart, second, dolis; Géorgann Holzer, second, feathers; Linda Daries, second, nuts; Rita Zunino, second, dolls; Marian Griggs, second, dolls: Jimmy Phelan, arrowheads. George Becraft, fourth, clay models, entered too late for comSeeberg, chalk animals; Bob petition for prizes. ELKS COMPLETE. PLANS FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY The golden anniversary of the Nevada City Elks lodge will take place next Friday and Saturday evenings. Final plans were completed at a dinner meeting last night at the Elks hall. Grand Loyal Knight Harry B. Hoffman, Stockton, will attend the golden anniversary lodge session Friday night and will pay tribute to living charter members Phil G. Scadden, Ralph G. Gaylord and James F. Colley. Thirty-five candidates will be initiated by a.special team and Manager Carl O. Noren will serve a Swedish buffet after the lodge meeting. Saturday is the official homecoming day and the local Elks lodge. is inviting the world of Elks to the Exalted Rulers Grand Ball, Banquet and Stage Show in the evening. To accommodate the crowd :the banquet will be served in the Odd Fellows hall. A complete minstrel show, the old showboat with Skippers Frank Stewart and George Hansen at the helm will follow on the Elks stage. Following the completely costumed minstrel show the exalted ruler’s ball will follow with Jerry Austin’s -band furnishing the tempo. A gold book commemorating the fifty years-of Elks in Nevada City is to be mailed today or tomorrow, Phil Scadden and Bill Tamblyn, who had charge of the book, were able to obtain the photographs of every. exalted ruler of the lodge. Exalted Ruler Robert L. Tamblyn, and his wife, Ruth, are general chairmen of the arrangements for the two-day event. Hotel room reservations: Robert Paine, Arthur Innis and Harleth M. Brock. Ladies entertainment: Ruth Tamblyn, Ruth Frantz, Miriam Sawyer, Elsie Seigfried, Evelyn Schiffner, Louise Noyes, Hazel Bergemann. Lodge decorations: Louise Kyle, Lois Shock, Louise Noyes, Lila Schiffner. : Golf: Bob and Cecil Schiffner, Dr. B. W. Hummelt, Stan Halls. Reception: Robert and Ruth Tamblyn, John and Jane Shaffi, 3ill and Louise Wasley, Jack and Elsie Seigfried, Eldon and Florence Kendrick, Bill and Betty Tamblyn, Carl. and Helen Hieronimus, Chester and Alice Scheemer, Harrison and Jenny’ Randall, Frank and May Finnegan, Beth Sheldon, Mr. and Mrs. Roland Wright, Curtis and Minna Clark, Bill and Maude . Wright, John and Helen Fortier, Horace and Reita Curnow, Dick and May Goyne, Tom Richards, Grace En‘glebright, Virginia O’Neil, Andy and Sue Holmes, George and Lena Calanan, P, G. Scadden, E. © S. Parke, J. F. Colley, Ralph and Jeannett Gaylord, George and Berniece Carter, George and Peggy Hansen, Connie and Skippy Conrad, Beryl and Jessie Robinson, Elbridge and Midge Skeahan, Lonnie and Louise Noyes, Robert and Evelyn’ Schiffner, Robert and Ruth Paine, Franc and Wanda Louise Luschen, Sam and Myrtle Weiss, Charles and Ruth Veale, Carl and Ida Foote, Mosco and Victoria Smart, Paul and Hazel Bergemann, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Braghetta, and the genial host of the Elks club Carl and Evelyn Noren. Members of the cast of the minstrel show in addition to the skippers, Frank Stewart and George Hansen, are Cy Kerrin, Mosco Smart, Chet Murchel, Lucy Murchel, Audrey Kerrin, Dee Montonari, Pat Holt, Dever Montangue, the brothers Peterson, . Bob, Gene and George, Russ Cotters, Bill Tobiassen, Dick Prine, Shuffler Smith, Berniece Gibson, Bill Gibson, Bob Paine and Virginia Clapp. COUNTY FARM BUREAU WILL MEET TOMORROW Annual meeting of the Nevada County Farm Bureau will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock in Grass Valley high school. The meeting will be preceded’ by dinner at 6:30 p.m. Annual election of officers will be held and entertainment will be slanted for adults and children. The Weather Friday, Sept:.30. 2.597 43 Saturday, Oct. 1. ..33 79. 42 Sunday, Oet, 2 23: 80 42 Monday, Oct. 3. ..... 79 40 Tuesday, Oct. 4 J.. 85 41. Wednesday, Oct, 5 .. 82 43 sae 72 39 Thursday, Oct. 6 ! a i