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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Grass Valley Nugget

September 23, 1948 (8 pages)

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e @ 4—Nevada Shy tires Valley ‘Nugget, Sept. 23, 1948 WORK ON FOLSOM DAM STARTS OCT. 2 a@rations. a. large area has cleared. on the west @bove the city Ola Auburn Road. From ears and walk in a quarter to the site of the activity. Early response shows there wil be a good representation Staté and Federal! officials as wel authorizing Act, his distribution systems. Details on Congressional repreheart of the their ‘districts. ing te data furnished by Colonel Joseph S. Gorlinski, the Army’s _ District. Engineer in Sacramento, the reservoir. aréa will Have a Capacity of one million acre feet, When the crowd assembles for fhe ground-breaking ceremony, they wili be able to see signs “along the axis of the coming dam that will give some idea o the Physical ‘size. This size is diffieult to envision, even on _ the round. as the main dam, if al» ready built, would pass more than a hundred feet over the heads of the spectators. And the area set '4 On' What seems to be the top of the hills. Actually, the main dam ani @uxXiliary dykes will have a maximum height of 280 feet, and a Tength of 23,300 feet, or over four miles! The type of. construction Will be what engineers call a rolled earth-fill with an imperviQus core. The spillway will be of reinforced concrete controlled by radial stee] gates. The “working water’’ of the reservoir will pass through a concrete-lined 24-foot tunne! driven through granite under the dam. This is the water that will provide the power and irrigation releases. While the October 2nd _ blast will signal the start of construction, the Enginéers point out that ‘@ great deal of work has already been done. A dam across the American River at Folsom was first given official recognition in PPA Ronee ese ART =aa ny ES * SACRAMENTO: A huge charge of explosives will set things movAs part of the extensive prepbeen side of the’ American River about three mites of Folsom on the this Point the large crowd that is expected will be able to park their mile from . fore he left the state on his pres-_ organization Will develop the water and power Sentation ere not complete, but) A second introduction of 300 there are assurances that Confish was madé in: Lower Suisun Sressmen LeRoy Johnson and: Bay in 1882. Before many years, Clair Engle will be present. The striped bass were being caught big project is’ in’ The construction of Folsom, pijego. Dam is going forward under an By 1889. ten years after the initial million dollar appropriation . first -lot of introduced fish hed that was made this year. Accord-} heen released, bass were being aside for the ceremony is already . . FISH AND GAME COMMISSION REVEALS ' STRIPED BASS STUDY SACRAMENTO: The scientific ing on the Folsom Dam Project, . secrets of the striped bass— wy FM. Saturday, nopinasnede gleaned during the past several 2nd. An impressive public Cere-. canerations by biologists of the mony has been arranged to hail California Division of Fish and, this long-awaited harnessing of, Game—are going to be turned She American River. over to the State’s anglers for practical application in the waters of the San Francisco Bay and its tributary rivers . Concurrent with reports of the first Fall run of striped bass in the Bay and Central California Delta area, the Division has announced the publication of a free map fishing. he map folder includes a list of harbors where boats may be rented, history of the striped bass ioc } i as local groups to take part in, jin California, feeding habits, tips what will become an historic; for the fisherman, scientific reBround-breaking ceremony, Rep. ports and other pertinent inforresentation from the Army's . mation. Copies miy be obtained Corps of Engineers, the builders . without charge. by written reof the dam, will be headed by . quest to the Education and InGeneral P. A. Feringa, Chief of . formation: Section, Divisien of the @ivil] Works Division for eae Wish and Game, State Office Corps in Washington. D. C. . Building, Sacramento 14, CaliSpeaking for the State of Cal-/. fornia. ; ifornia will be Charles H. Pur. A. J. Calhoun, who compiled cell, Director of the State’s De-, the illustrated folder: for the partment of Public Works. Be-'!'Division’s Bureau of Fish Conservation, says.the average angler ent tour, Governor Earl Warren knows little about the habits and stated. that Purcell would reprehistory of this excellent game sent him. The U. S. Bureau of, fish. He estimated an average Reclamation will take part’ annual take of a million,or more through ‘Richard L. Boke, Re-_ stripers from California waters. gional Director for the Bureau The striped bass is not native here in Sacramento. Under: the. .to the Pacific Coast, being introduced from the East in 1879. 132 small bass. were brought by rail from ‘the Navesink River in New Jersey for release near Martinez. in large numbers, some taken as far distant as Oregon and San sold in San Francisco fish markets, At the turn of the century, the. commercial net catch was averaging more than a milion pounds a year. Now limited to sport fishing, the striper has 4+—continued—_to be abundant in the Bay and Delta areas. a ee. DIRTY REAR WINDOW The back window of the moda. : : ern automobile gets dirty because . fast driving creates a vacuum which pulls dirt onto it. A clean rear window will provide greater . safety and allow better rear vis; ion. the State Water Plan as it was developed in the early 20’s. Since then the idea has hada. long officiak history. Finally, under an authorization contained in the 1944 Flood Control Act, and planning money ; ¥oted by Congress, very active exploration of. the site was undertaken in 1945 and ’46. With the physical data on the site in hand, the actual design could not make serious progress .until there was an agreement, from an -economic standpoint, between State and fe. eral agencies concerned. This agreement was reached in August last -year. : So the’ shot that is fired on the . left bank of the American River— opposite the assembled‘crowd of be a welcome i 1 celebrators—-will sound, It will be the» signal to go , back to work on Folsom Dam, Ses . [CAMERA TOPICS by T. T. Holden* and .guide to striped bass’ \ . alone . . Virginia Roberts Wed To .Kermit Imsdahl GRASS VALLEY: Miss Virginia Roberts and Kermit Imsdahl were married Saturday, September 13th, ‘in Reno, Nevada. Several close friends witnessed the ceremony. Miss Roberts is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Roberts of Grass Valley and the bridegroom is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Imsdahl of Chicago Park. The couple will reside in North Sacramento where Mr. Imsdah] is attending Grant Technological College. Mrs. Imsdahl was employed until her marriage in the McClard Drug Store. . % Civic Club Hears Mrs. Elliott Sing NEVADA CITY: Thirty members and friends of the Nevada City Civic Club _gathered Wednesday, September 15th. for luncheon in Cardinal Hall, with Mrs. Byron Brock, the president, and Mrs. George Gildersleeve as co-hostesses, d Program chairman, Mrs. Wiliam C. Perry, gave an outline of events scheduled for the coming months, and introduced Mrs. Charles Elliott who sang a group of _songs. Mrs. Charles. Kitts played the accompaniment. Mrs. Gildersleeve gave a brief report -on the -tri-county ‘convention held recently in Tahoe City. Helen Clinch Engaged To Wayne Trimble GRASS VALLEY: Mr. -and Mrs. C. Raymond: Clinch have announced the betrothal of their daughter. Helen, to Mr. Wayne Trimble, of Wayne, Pa. Miss Clinch is the sister of Downey Charles Clinch of Grass Valley, niece of Mrs. Roy’ Tremoureux of Grass Valley, Mrs.
Ransdell Matthews of San Francisco, Mrs. Charles Downey of San Diego, and Mrs. Harry S. Houghton of Boston, Mass. The bridegroom to be is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James K. Trimble of Wayne, Pa. He attended Lehigh University where he was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity. During the war he served in the Navy and is now attending Stanford University where he is a senior in engineering. The wedding will next Spring. take place % UNION HILL SCHOOL TEA GRASS VALLEY: Faculty members of the Union Hill School, chairman of the Parent Teachers . Association and room mothers of the school were entertained at tea by Mrs. John Bourquin, PTA president, last Sunday afternoon. The social occasion took. place on the lawn of the residence of Mrs._John.Tremewan in the Union Hill district. About twenty-five ladies were present during the afternoon. Refreshments~-. were served. ' ; four grandchildren and State Funds For i School Transportation Received By Carlson “NEVADA CITY: Walter A. Carlson, county superintendent of schools, has announced he has received, $11,648.72 state school funds to provide transportation for. children enrolled in elementary’ and high schools of the county. The money is distributed as follows: elementary schools: Cherokee, $1144.58; Grass Valley, $4750.48; Nevada City Unified, $2552.60; Union’ Hill, 866.38; high schools: Grass Valley, $1241.98: Nevada City, , $1092.75, od Rites Were Friday For Mrs. Della Key GRASS VALLEY: Funeral services were held Friday afternoon in the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary for Mrs. Della Key, who died Tuesday evening, September 14, in her home, 451 Mill Street. Mrs. Key was born in Grass Valley 70 years ago. She was the widow of thé late John Key, a miner who worked for many years in the North Star Mine. Surviving are her daughter, Mrs. Thelma Frank of. this city, several nieces and nephews. Rev. Donald Getty. conducted the-service. Interment was in the Redmen’s Cemetery, > .. PERSONALS Mr.-and Mrs. Fred F. Cassidy and Mrs. Phil Fredericks attended the western division convention of the American Mining Congress in San Francisco this week. Don Eden, who graduated from the Nevada City’ High, School in June, has enrolled in the college of mining in, the University of California. Miss Finette Champie, graduhas ate from the high ~school, enrolled in the University of California. Miss Champie won. the Harriet Hauber scholarship. Mrs. L, M. James, who visited . relatives in Minnesota and Wis-" ‘consin for a month has returned to. her home here. . Mrs. Julia Fleming, a visit with her sisters, Mrs. Mamie Fiynn and Mrs. Margaret Davis, has returned to her home in Daly City. She was accompan/” ied by her daughter, Mrs. Ellsworth Rowe. : Mrs. Clara Andrews of Sacramento is a guest of her sister, Mrs. Eva Cluter. Mrs. Andrews formerly lived in Nevada City. “5 MARRIAGE LICENSE RUTH-NARRAMORE—-In WNevada City ,Néevada County, September 18, 1948, Floyd Ruth, 25, and Nana Natramore, 28, both of WNevada.City. The law of nature is. Do the thing, and you shall have _ the power; but they who do not the thing have not the power.— Emerson. following \Vimm.. NOT BAD . oy A little victim of a big flood in the Ohio River Valley gets a few drops of what’s good for her from a Red Cross nurse’s aide in a temporary DEATH FELDMAN County, John Johnson’ Feldman. of -Mrs. Anna C. H, Feldman, and father of Arthur, Emil, and George Feldman, a native of Germany aged 70 years. Funeral services were held Sep_tember 21st in Myers Mortuary "Chapel at 2 P. M. Interment was in the Lutheran Cemetery of Chicago Park. In Grass Valley, Nevada 17, 1948, husband September The dramatic value of clouds is apparent in this Speed Graphic picture Sy Noel Fehm. 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