September 30, 1948 (8 pages)

ames been. licial one Los will ivily dges this e . +» me aed ») Broad. Street S J Friends of Russell Lee Ellsworth, Camptonville boy-at present. residing with the Rollins family on West Broad _ Street, told him that hey with one leg in a cast, would never get his buck this season. However, young ‘Ellsworth, notwithstanding the rough shape of his leg, broken in severa] places in a motorcycle accident, takes a lot of discouraging. He made several unsuccessful sorties into: the woods. with his trusty .25-.85 and then last. Wed2 iteSday came the big moment. * . tions on the He was with a party of friends, Ben Engstrom, ‘Bill Kelly, and Warren Kelly, _ near Edward’s Crossing on the South Fork of the Yuba, when he spotted a big buck about 150 yards away. The buck, sensing danger, hesitated, and raised its head. Before it could make up its mind, Ellsworth’’s .25-.35slug removed the need for decision. The buck weighed 180 pounds dressed. S h ‘ » Dynamic Bill Stinson, Valley real estate expert, has a new sideline. He is raising pickles already in the jar. This saves the vast expense of bottling, et cetera. The pickle. grows right into the jar. It makes for a fuller jar, too. All the ‘harvester does is to pour in a little vinegar and spice, and seal with cap. A sample of Stinson’s pickle-in-bottle raising activities is on display in his office. f e fe The city deserves congratulaproject undertaken FS to level off the perilous Pine 4 & 4, Street. pitch between Broad and Commercial. Work at present in progress should be completed in a few days, so that this former avenue of busted fenders will assume its useful function in a” safer manner. e % & Broad Street at 7 A. M. is a busy picture. Lumber-trucks laden with forest fruit’ grumble up and down the street. Workmen, crammed and trusty lunch buckets in hand, stand on corners chatting eagerly of board feet, always in millions, as they await transportation to saw mills. Others jam the restaurants for a quick and hearty breakfast. The town forms an artistic backdrop for these industrial preliminaries, as _ first soft beams of sunlight paint the tops of poplar trees pink and a cool morning mist hangs tentatively over the town. . e hb & ON BROAD STREET: Buzz Colvin and Marvin “Haddy dis= ks? . The Assembly i by a large majority of legislators Grass} . cussing ways and means of suddenly transforming the Merchants into an unbeatable championship nine, Major Stanley Halls anticipating Fall color changes in a brilliant red plaid shirt. -Evelyn Egell carrying some livid green st@tionery. All the little high school girls with the Newest Look, practically down to their shoetops. Herb Hallett supervising the new project on Pine _ Street. Strange deer hunters, crimsonigg-natted, dark be-spectacled and plenty eager, haunting our streets, either hopeful (haven’t been out yet), happy (one on the fender), or hopeless (!). eh h George Mathis, without a doubt Nevada County’s leading contribution to the world of art, has just completed a series of seven lithographs of scenic studies of the area. Mathis, a virtuoso who works’ directly on the metal plate from which reproductions are made, had tough luck with his picture of the wooden bridge at Bridgeport (it: went sour in the finishing process) and is going co do another just like it. e he Harley M. Leete, Jr., Nevada City’s unrecognized primitive artist, has just finished a large oil painting of the historic Mercantile building and east corner of the Forty-Niner saloon in North San Juan. The painting will soon be. displayed in a one-man show to be held in the closet off Leete’s kitchen. z % Mrs. Clay Caldwell, Mrs. Gerald Peard, »* Give Girl Scout Party GRASS VALLEY: Mrs. Clay Caldwell and Mrs. Gerald Peard were. co-hostesses Tuesday after_ noon, September 28th, at the for310 Buena Vista dessert luncheon Scout leaders of mer’s home, Avenue,for a honoring Girl their district. Plans for a training course in leadership were discussed. Mrs. Peard, council president, presided. 7 % “ Spotlighters Plead Guilty, Pay $250 GRASS VALLEY: Three spotlighters, appearing before Justice of the Peace Charles A. Morehouse to plead guilty, were fined $2550 each. The three were Floyd Van, Clifford Chance, and Van Derryberry. The men were apprehended Saturday at 1 A. M. near. Spence“wile, by Game Warden Earl Hiscox and Deputy Sheriff Otis Hardt. * FLOATERS JUGGED GRASS VALLEY: Two men who temporized when ordered to leave. the city, were picked up by the police Tuesday and are likely to serve a jail term. Arthur G. Christman, 44, Reno resident, charged “with indecent exposure, and John O’Neal, 56, charged with vagrancy, was found sleeping behind a Mil] Street stores. Volume 21—No. 39 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Thursday, September 30, 1948 SEN. THURMAN OPPOSED TO REAPPORTIONMENT COLFAX: State Senator Allen G. Thurman of Colfax this week issued a statement in opposition to Initiative Measure No. 13, which will appear on the November ballot. The measure is known as the Senate Reapportionment Initiative Constitutional Amendmen and. would, if approved by the voters, reapportion the State Senate on a -population basis, thereby ‘giving control of both houses to the metropolitan area. Said Senator Thurman in his statement: “If this measure carries, the rural counties will have little voice in state government. is now. controlled from the metropolitan areas of the state. Los Angeles County alone having 82 assemblymen. Under the proposed reapportionment plan four or five. counties with large industrial * centers would elect 21 or more Senators, a majority of the forty member upper house. “Under the federal plan whi. Caifornia adopted many years ago, the Assemby districts are created on a ‘population basis while the Senate districts are made up on a county basis with no one county having more than one Senator and no Senator representing more than three counties. This federal plan operates on the principle of checks and balances. “Under the proposed amendment, Los Angeles County would have ten Senators and other of the larger metropolitan renters would likewise have additional representation in the. upper house. Fifty-four counties including Placer, Nevada and_ Sierra, represéntinp 96 per cent of the State area would be-deprived of an effective voice in legislation. “Should No, 13 be approved by the voters of the State, the present 7th Senatorial District would be combined with three other districts making a ten county district comprising the same _ ten counties as the 6th Assembly District. These ten counties would lose three Senators. “So far as the rural area is concerned the State might just as well have a one-house LegisPeo was proposed by former Govertior Culbert Olson as to have both branches of, the Legislature apportioned on a population basis. Says Thurman in closing his statement: ‘‘The rural area stands not only to lose in representation in the Senate if the proposal carries but also stands to lose its just share of state highway funds, school funds and other allocations of State’ monies including county and district fair appropriations. People of. the rural and mountain area should strenuously oppose this attempt to disfranchise them. A big NO vote will help to defeat No. 13 on election day, November 2, 1948.”’ CIVIC CLUB TO. HEAR SEN, THURMAN NEVADA CITY: The Nevada City Civic Club, will hear measures which are to appear on the ballot in November, discussed by State Senator Allen Thurman on Wednesday evening, October 6th, in the Elementary School auditorium. Invitations to this event have been sent to all service clubs and a public invitation has been issued to anyone interested. Mrs. William Perry is program chairman. ‘ The club. has decided to rent Cardinal Hall for its monthly meeting. Mrs. Richard R. Goyne, chairman of the project commit-. tee, made a report % Marilyn Anderson. Wed To Everett Jones GRASS VALLEY: Miss Marilyn Anderson and Everett Jones ‘were married Sunday afternoon in the Emmanuel Episcopal Church by Rev. Frank Buck, the rector. The bride was given in marriage by her brother, Erik Anderson. She is the. daughter of Mrs. Doris Anderson and the late Christian Anderson. Miss Louise ‘Wench of Sacramento was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were her sister, Miss Anita Anderson, ana Miss. Carol George. Best man was the bridegroom’s brother, Leonard George and ushers were Hubert Johns and Bernard Karo, In the Parish House a reception was: held with the two bridesmaids and Maude Davis serving. The couple went to San Francisco for their honeymoon. They will reside in Sacramento where the bridegroom is employed by the Southern Pacific. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones. % PRIZE BULL TO BE SOLD GRASS VALLEY: George I. Ellsworth, owner of Barnegatt Ranch, will consign the junior champion Guernsey bull, Barnegatt Golden Dorinda, to the second Happyholme invitational sale to be held in the State Fair grounds, October 4th,~‘The™ bull won the junior championship in the Nevada County Fair. ‘ 2 3 regular movie program. NEW BUILDING TO REPLACE HISTORIC BROADWAY THEATER NEVADA CITY: When the Broadway Theater, corner of Broad and Bridge Streets, closes night after the showing of Duel in the Sun, it Will remain closed while the old, historic structure is “torn down and a fine, new building constructed in its stead. !, Ralph Achey, manager, made the announcement. The building was erected as a hotel, originally known as the Bailey House, in 1854 and, ten years later, was converted into a playhouse. On its stage appeared such noted artists as Edwin Booth, Jenny Lind, and many others. For many years the Nevada County Theater owned and operated the business. Six years ago, the theater was sold by its local owners to T and D Jr. enterprises of San Francisco. The sale was made shortly after the same large concern bought the two theaters in Grass Valley ently erected the new modern playhouse, the While the Broadway Theater is closed, the Lola Montez theater in Grass Valley will be opened for a onday and presDel Oro. FIREMEN STOP FLAMES IN 13 MINUTES GRASS VALLEY: A house belonging to William Geach was partly destroyed by flames yesterday afternoon. The alarm was sent in at 12:10 and the fire department had the flames extin) guished by 12:23: The fire, the cause of which is undetermined, originated in the first floor and mounted rapidly to the roof which—-blazed-extensively, threatening other near neighbors. Firemen kept the flames confined to the one house. Damage is estimated at $2,000, ELKS OPEN THEIR FALL SOCIAL SEASON . NEVADA CITY: The Nevada City Elks last Saturday night officially opened: their Fall social season with a dinner and dance to which Elks and their’ ladies of Grass Valley were invited. Paul Bergemann,’ chairman of the house committee, provided a fine evening of entertainment and dancing. The Elks Players presented a skit entitled Love’s Sweet Flowers. John Sbaffi, exalted ruler, announced that on October 7 a stag dinner will be given. Roy Zimmerman is in charge of arrangements, CH. BARKER RETIRES AS POLIO CHMN. GRASS VALLEY*? Cc. H. Barker, for 15 years county chairman for the Infantile Paralysis, Foundation, retired Thursday evening: Elmer Stevens, who has been with the committee since the inception of the ‘foundation, was chosen to succeed him. Mrs. Robert Steuber. was elected vicechairman and Ray Hodge, secretary, ee Committee members made Mr. Barker honorary chairman for the county in recognition of his long and faithful service. The Nevada County ‘committee is facing a severe financial situation. Since the beginning of a polio case in Septembeye1947, the committee has expended $6,753.34. Today, »#a monthly average at present of $500. This is for one case now hospitalized in San Francisco. They have now’ appealed to the National Foundation for several thousand dollars to see them through this year. Total collections from March of Dimes events of last March were $3,869. Gow Diecerss Frau Charles Scott Haley ately he looked grave. For the short four month season that our water. . permitted us to work, our hours were long and strenuous. We slept in a board floored tent with a stove made of fifteen inch pipe which kept the cold and snow from bothering us much. In the morning, about three-thirty, one of us, chosen alternately, aroused and dressed and took a lantern up the trail to the head of the ditch to turn the water in, coming back along the ditch with the water and watching for breaks. At five o'clock, the others were out in the diggings, cleaning up boulders and getting ready to use the water on the bank. As soon as the man from the ditch arrived with the water, one man stayed to handle the monitor while ihe others went in for their breakfast of biscuit and beans. At noon, all hands laid off for half an hour for lunch, and then came back to work till dark. After supper, one man went to the head of the ditch to turn the water out for our Chinese friends to use in their reservoir, while the others cut wood and warmed up the camp against his return. Our schedule called for about sixten hours work a day for seven days a week. Once in a while, something interesting would occur. . was up on the ditch before lunch one day when . noticed as I walked, a peculiar carrion smell which follwed me. I mentioned it to Billy Tripp as we sat down to eat, and immedi“Better take a gun along with you when you walk that ditch again, boy. You know what that was? A panther which has rolled in carrion and for that reason can't get in reach of a deer. He is probably desperately hungry, or he would never trail a man.”’ So for a while I carried a rifle on thte ditch. Many times I could see panther trail behind me when . retraced my steps, but . never saw one actually following me. They are so cowardly that they will not face a man unless they are desperate with hunger. As the season drew to its close, we hired an Indian by the name of Happy Jack to work for us. He was a very cheerful old chap, who had done two years in States Prison for trying to shoot a man while he was drunk‘with too much firewater. He used to regale us with tales of his life in prison, which he regarded as a high spot in his career. . “Plenty to eat,” he used to say. “Band play (Please turn to page 8) ease Seca ee a sor cee ten BENEFIT DANCE SAT. IN NORTH GRASS VALLEY: A _ The young woman is rescuers could lift it. SAN JUAN NORTH ~SAN: ~ JUAN: . This Saturday night a buck stew and benefit dance will be given in TwamleyHall for “Blackie”’ Machen of Strawberry Bar, who has been in the hespital while sevcral fractures healed. Machen . ] was injured in a fall down a mine shaft. An excellent orchestra will™provide music for'the dance. Ladies are admitted free. SAN JUAN CHAMBER MEETS, DISCUSSES WATER PROBLEMS INWORTH SAN JUAN: Friday, September 24th, the directors and members of the North San Juan, Camptonville and Vicinity Chamber . of Commerce met at the; Twamly Hall for a general meeting. .E. J. Kohler, president, presided. Those present, as usual, were interested in: discussing several matters of importance to be cared for. After the secretary, Mrs. Ruth’ Bryan, and treasurer, Lou wood, made their reports, all local, outstanding bills were ordered paid. The question of developing water for use in North San Juan was discussed also, continued interest was taken to the end of getting street lights — installed. During the month of October, fow or more various entertainments will beheld in Twamly Hall. Owing to the fact that different interests are frequently seeking the use.of Twamly Hall, it is requested that each, before planning a definite date for the hall, first contact the secretary or some member of the Board of Directors of the Nerth San Juan, Camptonville and Vicinity. Chamber of Commerce. SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON SCHOOL UNIFICATION NEVADA CITY: Albert F. Bequette and Walter A. Carlson, respectively superintendent of schools for Placer and Nevada Counties, have called attention to the special election to be hela in eastern Nevada and Placer Counties to vote on whether or not the five school districts there shall be consolidated. Up for decision October 19th is the question of adopting or rejecting the recommendations of the. two county surveying committees for a single, joint unified school district comprising Floristen-and-Truckee in Nevada Counties, and Donner Trail-Kiski Lodge, Kings Beach and Tahoe districts in Placer County. * Petitions May Be Circulated For Gold Flat Trustee Recall NEVADA CITY: Following a meeting Monday night in Deschwanden Hall of the Ridge Improvement Club, it was announced that petitions will be circulated for the recall of two trustees of the Oakland (Gold Flat) School District. The two whom it is sought to recall are Jack Townsend. and Robert E. Hanley. C. E. Rogers and R. R. Lewis are nominated as candidates to succeed Hanley and Townsend. Mrs, Helen S. South of Grass Valley. FARM BUREAU March, the third trustee, could not be recalled since six months has not elapsed since she was reelected to office. In May the faction in the district, which now seeks the recall of two trustees, demanded cause all four teachers. of the district -had resigned. The club in August presented a petition to the board of supervisors seeking to divide the district, giving the western half of the district to the Grass Valley School District. A three to two vote defeated this-attempt. % Betty Mills Honored By Bridal Shower GRASS VALLEY: Miss Betty Mill of Grass Valley, who will become the bride of Robert Weeks in October, was honored by a bridal shower at her home Thursday night, September 23rd. Her mother, Mrs. C. W. Mill, and Mrs, Leonard Hancock were hostesses. The bride to: be received many useful and charming gifts. Those attending were Mesdames Frank Williams, Lynn Wiiliams, Lawrence Personini, Al Silvaria, Peano Harris, Lena Weeks, Rolland Trathen, Glen Baxley, and the Misses Lauretta ‘Mill, Marjorie Coombs and Rita Wiley. ; Those unable to be present, but sending gifts, were ‘Mrs. Leslie Hancock, Mrs. Joe Hocking, and ‘daughter Gloria, Miss Mary Louise that the entire board resign be= Wuillay, and Mrs. Dot Moore. MEETS OCT. 6 ON LEGISLATION GRASS VALLEY: Nevada County citizens today were invited toattend a special meeting arranged by the Nevada County Farm Bureau Home Department for October 6th, in Grass Valley, in which important measures appearing on the November 2 ballot will be discussed. Mrs. Milton Thompson, Chair+ man of the County Home Department, said the meeting was open to the public, and urged all citizens, men and women, to attend. The conference will be held in the Nevada Irrigation District Building and will begin at 1:30 P. M. : Leading the discussion, according to Mrs. Thompson,~ wiH~ be two representatives of the California Farm Bureau Federation, Mr. J. Ward and Mr. Howad Kessler, Area Representative. Mrs, Thompson added that the Grass Valley meeting is one of a series of 40 similar discussion conferences scheduled throughout California’ under the auspices of seriously Tuesday night when an Ercoupe monoplane piloted by Frank Tipps of this city crashed in the /Oaks Subdivision at 7:45 P. M. ss Tipps had made several tries to land at Gilmore field, but, in the darkness, was unable to do so. His . final pass over the field almost succeeded, but at the last moment, he speeded the engine and attempted to pull over the trees in the vicinity of the field, a mile + the Farm Bureau Home Department. “Every voter, irrespective of . his and her personal views, shouid . be vitally interested in the State Propositions which appear on the November 2 ballot,’ sand Mrs. Thompson. “A number of these propositions have been placéd on the ballot by action of the State Legislature; others have qualified as initiatives. All demand intelligent appraisal and evaluation.’”’ In addition, said Mrs. Thompson, the Grass Valley meeting will also present and discuss the legislative program developed by the California Farm Bureau Federation in the interest of the State’s major industry. : % SCOUT FUND DRIVE STARTS OCTOBER 11 AUBURN: The anual appeal for funds of the Tahoe Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, will take place from October 11 to November 11, this year, it was announced by G. E. Kreatz, of Auburn, General Chairman, Kreatz was recently appointed to head up the sampaign by Judge Lowell L. Sparks, Council President. The General Chairman stated that & budget of $12,000 had been set for the 1948-49 activities ofr the Council in Placer, Nevada and western Sierra counties. He stated that over 1400 boys had been served by the Council in 1947-48 in 42 different Cub and_ Scout units in. the area. Lynne Kelly, Chairman of the Council Finance Committee, said that the amount of $12,000 had been established by the Finance Committee as necessary to maintain Council services for the present Cub and Scout units of the area. : Pre-campaign meetings wil] be held in every section of the Council area in the next two weeks, according: to General Chairman Kreatz, % : BIRTHS SAMS—In Grass Valley, Nevada County, September 21, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd Sams of Colfax, Placer County, a son. % e JESSWEIN—In Grass Valley, stevada County, September 20, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jesswein of Nevada City, a son. e # LENZ—In Grass Valley, Nevada County, September 20, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lenz, a daughter: be he PERRIN—In Grass Valley, Nevada County, September 16, 1948, to Mr .and Mrs. George Perrin, a son. ; e $ & PANTER — In Nevada City, Nevada County, September 26, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. John Sheldon Panter, a hon. ah Cedar Ridge Gets Post Office Friday GRASS VALLEY: The Cedar Ridge Postoffice will be instituted Friday, October 1st, by Inspector George Rolph’ of San Francisco in-the general store belonging to Mrs. Margaret Hughes. Mrs. Lillian Monian will be installed as postmaster, . The application for. a ~postoffice at Cedar Ridge, which lies seven miles south of Grass Valley on the Colfax Highway, was made . under a year ago and “was recently granted. : young woman was injured Miss Lillian B. Moore, 25, a waitress at the New Era Cafe. She suffered cold gasoline burns, and possible back and internal injuries, being pinned under the plane for about an hour before The low-flying plane broke branch from a tree near the Squir= re] Creek Road before it crashe® on a bank, its fall cushioned by heavy brush. The fallen. branch, lying in the Squirrel Creek Road, gave searchers the clue necessary to locate the plane. y Shortly before the crash the plane flew over Deputy Sheriff Arthur Pepper’s Pleasant Street home. Pepper. phoned Sheriff Richard “Hoskins and Deputy Percy Watters,, and the trio, tesether with others, began ‘to scour the Squirrel Creek area. for wreckage. When they found the branch,’ * they localized their search, and presently Pepper heard a cry and then another. He discovered Tipps lying on the top of a bank where he had. crawled. As soon as Miss Moore could be freed from the wreckage she was carried on a. stretcher to am ambulance and both she and Tipps were rushed to a hospital where Dr. Harold Karo.and Dr. B. W. Krahling ministered to their in-~ juries. Tipps was treated for x fractured right foot, left hand, ribs, and for gashes and bruises. pober een : Lumber Truck, Out Of Control, Goes Through Concrete Wall GRASS VALLEY: Cecil Miller, 28, of Grass Valley, driving am empty lumber truck Sunday afternoon, lost brake control on Chapek Street and plunged through the concrete. Wall into Mill Street. The truck was but slightly damaged and Miller was uninjured. The truck broke off 10 feet of the curb of the abutment ang cracked the wall. Steel cable used for reinforcing is showing. Miller told the police that at the brow of the hill he had brak— ing power but midway down the grade the brakes gave way. He Stated that he had no ch e te a turn either way at Mill eee and decided to ride over the abutq ment. He was not cited. SHERIFF HOSKINS . WORKING ON SPRING HILL ROBBERY NEVADA CITY: Since Dam Henry of the Spring Hill Grocery was robbed of $140 at the point of a gun Tuesday night, Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins has run down two leads, but in both cases Henry was unable to identify any of the suspects. Three teen-age girls on Tues= day were given a ride from Marysville to Nevada City: by three teen-age boys, who were on their way to Reno. The girls, stranded, in Grass Valley, were questioned, _ and one of them revealed the! names of the -youths who ha@ given them a ride. The girls were returned to Yuba County, and the young men, on returning to. Marysville were held there untik Deputy Sheriff A. D. Pepper ha@ an opportunity to question them. However, Henry -was unable to identify any of them as the robber who held him up. 2 Occupants of a cabin in the Blue Tent-district were, also questioned and here again Henry failed to make positive identification, % Rough And Ready, Lime Kiln School Districts, Seek G. V. Annexation “ NEVADA CITY: Two petitions have been filed by residents of the Rough and Ready School Dis~ trict, and by the Lime Kiln Schoo® District for chafiges in Dbouns. daries. A large segment of each district seeks admission to the: Grass Valley School District. _ The residents of the Sunset dig~ trict, which lies in the. Rew and Ready School District, petitions the supervisors for ads, mission to the Grass Val y dis— trict. Between 30 and childrem are involved. Reasons for seeking= the transfer is lack Of transpor— tation to Rough and Ready schook, and the crowded condition of that school. i, : A large section of the Lime Kiln schoo! district, lying east of Wolf Creek and includi Cherry Acres in the vicinity Dew Drop Inn, seeks admissiom. to the Grass Valley School Dis~. trict for the same reagons. About 40 children of school age ‘are in volved. The supervisors have se Oc._ Man, Woman Hurt > In Airplane Crash . tober 2nd as the date for hearinga on both petitions. DEATH WELLS — In San Fran ° September 24, 1948, John Law-= rence Wells, nephew of Sarah Calahan of Forest, Sierra County, a native of Forest, 50 years. Graveside servic Place in the Forest Ce; » o

ames been. licial one Los will ivily dges this e . +» me aed ») Broad. Street S J Friends of Russell Lee Ellsworth, Camptonville boy-at present. residing with the Rollins family on West Broad _ Street, told him that hey with one leg in a cast, would never get his buck this season. However, young ‘Ellsworth, notwithstanding the rough shape of his leg, broken in severa] places in a motorcycle accident, takes a lot of discouraging. He made several unsuccessful sorties into: the woods. with his trusty .25-.85 and then last. Wed2 iteSday came the big moment. * . tions on the He was with a party of friends, Ben Engstrom, ‘Bill Kelly, and Warren Kelly, _ near Edward’s Crossing on the South Fork of the Yuba, when he spotted a big buck about 150 yards away. The buck, sensing danger, hesitated, and raised its head. Before it could make up its mind, Ellsworth’’s .25-.35slug removed the need for decision. The buck weighed 180 pounds dressed. S h ‘ » Dynamic Bill Stinson, Valley real estate expert, has a new sideline. He is raising pickles already in the jar. This saves the vast expense of bottling, et cetera. The pickle. grows right into the jar. It makes for a fuller jar, too. All the ‘harvester does is to pour in a little vinegar and spice, and seal with cap. A sample of Stinson’s pickle-in-bottle raising activities is on display in his office. f e fe The city deserves congratulaproject undertaken FS to level off the perilous Pine 4 & 4, Street. pitch between Broad and Commercial. Work at present in progress should be completed in a few days, so that this former avenue of busted fenders will assume its useful function in a” safer manner. e % & Broad Street at 7 A. M. is a busy picture. Lumber-trucks laden with forest fruit’ grumble up and down the street. Workmen, crammed and trusty lunch buckets in hand, stand on corners chatting eagerly of board feet, always in millions, as they await transportation to saw mills. Others jam the restaurants for a quick and hearty breakfast. The town forms an artistic backdrop for these industrial preliminaries, as _ first soft beams of sunlight paint the tops of poplar trees pink and a cool morning mist hangs tentatively over the town. . e hb & ON BROAD STREET: Buzz Colvin and Marvin “Haddy dis= ks? . The Assembly i by a large majority of legislators Grass} . cussing ways and means of suddenly transforming the Merchants into an unbeatable championship nine, Major Stanley Halls anticipating Fall color changes in a brilliant red plaid shirt. -Evelyn Egell carrying some livid green st@tionery. All the little high school girls with the Newest Look, practically down to their shoetops. Herb Hallett supervising the new project on Pine _ Street. Strange deer hunters, crimsonigg-natted, dark be-spectacled and plenty eager, haunting our streets, either hopeful (haven’t been out yet), happy (one on the fender), or hopeless (!). eh h George Mathis, without a doubt Nevada County’s leading contribution to the world of art, has just completed a series of seven lithographs of scenic studies of the area. Mathis, a virtuoso who works’ directly on the metal plate from which reproductions are made, had tough luck with his picture of the wooden bridge at Bridgeport (it: went sour in the finishing process) and is going co do another just like it. e he Harley M. Leete, Jr., Nevada City’s unrecognized primitive artist, has just finished a large oil painting of the historic Mercantile building and east corner of the Forty-Niner saloon in North San Juan. The painting will soon be. displayed in a one-man show to be held in the closet off Leete’s kitchen. z % Mrs. Clay Caldwell, Mrs. Gerald Peard, »* Give Girl Scout Party GRASS VALLEY: Mrs. Clay Caldwell and Mrs. Gerald Peard were. co-hostesses Tuesday after_ noon, September 28th, at the for310 Buena Vista dessert luncheon Scout leaders of mer’s home, Avenue,for a honoring Girl their district. Plans for a training course in leadership were discussed. Mrs. Peard, council president, presided. 7 % “ Spotlighters Plead Guilty, Pay $250 GRASS VALLEY: Three spotlighters, appearing before Justice of the Peace Charles A. Morehouse to plead guilty, were fined $2550 each. The three were Floyd Van, Clifford Chance, and Van Derryberry. The men were apprehended Saturday at 1 A. M. near. Spence“wile, by Game Warden Earl Hiscox and Deputy Sheriff Otis Hardt. * FLOATERS JUGGED GRASS VALLEY: Two men who temporized when ordered to leave. the city, were picked up by the police Tuesday and are likely to serve a jail term. Arthur G. Christman, 44, Reno resident, charged “with indecent exposure, and John O’Neal, 56, charged with vagrancy, was found sleeping behind a Mil] Street stores. Volume 21—No. 39 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Thursday, September 30, 1948 SEN. THURMAN OPPOSED TO REAPPORTIONMENT COLFAX: State Senator Allen G. Thurman of Colfax this week issued a statement in opposition to Initiative Measure No. 13, which will appear on the November ballot. The measure is known as the Senate Reapportionment Initiative Constitutional Amendmen and. would, if approved by the voters, reapportion the State Senate on a -population basis, thereby ‘giving control of both houses to the metropolitan area. Said Senator Thurman in his statement: “If this measure carries, the rural counties will have little voice in state government. is now. controlled from the metropolitan areas of the state. Los Angeles County alone having 82 assemblymen. Under the proposed reapportionment plan four or five. counties with large industrial * centers would elect 21 or more Senators, a majority of the forty member upper house. “Under the federal plan whi. Caifornia adopted many years ago, the Assemby districts are created on a ‘population basis while the Senate districts are made up on a county basis with no one county having more than one Senator and no Senator representing more than three counties. This federal plan operates on the principle of checks and balances. “Under the proposed amendment, Los Angeles County would have ten Senators and other of the larger metropolitan renters would likewise have additional representation in the. upper house. Fifty-four counties including Placer, Nevada and_ Sierra, represéntinp 96 per cent of the State area would be-deprived of an effective voice in legislation. “Should No, 13 be approved by the voters of the State, the present 7th Senatorial District would be combined with three other districts making a ten county district comprising the same _ ten counties as the 6th Assembly District. These ten counties would lose three Senators. “So far as the rural area is concerned the State might just as well have a one-house LegisPeo was proposed by former Govertior Culbert Olson as to have both branches of, the Legislature apportioned on a population basis. Says Thurman in closing his statement: ‘‘The rural area stands not only to lose in representation in the Senate if the proposal carries but also stands to lose its just share of state highway funds, school funds and other allocations of State’ monies including county and district fair appropriations. People of. the rural and mountain area should strenuously oppose this attempt to disfranchise them. A big NO vote will help to defeat No. 13 on election day, November 2, 1948.”’ CIVIC CLUB TO. HEAR SEN, THURMAN NEVADA CITY: The Nevada City Civic Club, will hear measures which are to appear on the ballot in November, discussed by State Senator Allen Thurman on Wednesday evening, October 6th, in the Elementary School auditorium. Invitations to this event have been sent to all service clubs and a public invitation has been issued to anyone interested. Mrs. William Perry is program chairman. ‘ The club. has decided to rent Cardinal Hall for its monthly meeting. Mrs. Richard R. Goyne, chairman of the project commit-. tee, made a report % Marilyn Anderson. Wed To Everett Jones GRASS VALLEY: Miss Marilyn Anderson and Everett Jones ‘were married Sunday afternoon in the Emmanuel Episcopal Church by Rev. Frank Buck, the rector. The bride was given in marriage by her brother, Erik Anderson. She is the. daughter of Mrs. Doris Anderson and the late Christian Anderson. Miss Louise ‘Wench of Sacramento was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were her sister, Miss Anita Anderson, ana Miss. Carol George. Best man was the bridegroom’s brother, Leonard George and ushers were Hubert Johns and Bernard Karo, In the Parish House a reception was: held with the two bridesmaids and Maude Davis serving. The couple went to San Francisco for their honeymoon. They will reside in Sacramento where the bridegroom is employed by the Southern Pacific. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Jones. % PRIZE BULL TO BE SOLD GRASS VALLEY: George I. Ellsworth, owner of Barnegatt Ranch, will consign the junior champion Guernsey bull, Barnegatt Golden Dorinda, to the second Happyholme invitational sale to be held in the State Fair grounds, October 4th,~‘The™ bull won the junior championship in the Nevada County Fair. ‘ 2 3 regular movie program. NEW BUILDING TO REPLACE HISTORIC BROADWAY THEATER NEVADA CITY: When the Broadway Theater, corner of Broad and Bridge Streets, closes night after the showing of Duel in the Sun, it Will remain closed while the old, historic structure is “torn down and a fine, new building constructed in its stead. !, Ralph Achey, manager, made the announcement. The building was erected as a hotel, originally known as the Bailey House, in 1854 and, ten years later, was converted into a playhouse. On its stage appeared such noted artists as Edwin Booth, Jenny Lind, and many others. For many years the Nevada County Theater owned and operated the business. Six years ago, the theater was sold by its local owners to T and D Jr. enterprises of San Francisco. The sale was made shortly after the same large concern bought the two theaters in Grass Valley ently erected the new modern playhouse, the While the Broadway Theater is closed, the Lola Montez theater in Grass Valley will be opened for a onday and presDel Oro. FIREMEN STOP FLAMES IN 13 MINUTES GRASS VALLEY: A house belonging to William Geach was partly destroyed by flames yesterday afternoon. The alarm was sent in at 12:10 and the fire department had the flames extin) guished by 12:23: The fire, the cause of which is undetermined, originated in the first floor and mounted rapidly to the roof which—-blazed-extensively, threatening other near neighbors. Firemen kept the flames confined to the one house. Damage is estimated at $2,000, ELKS OPEN THEIR FALL SOCIAL SEASON . NEVADA CITY: The Nevada City Elks last Saturday night officially opened: their Fall social season with a dinner and dance to which Elks and their’ ladies of Grass Valley were invited. Paul Bergemann,’ chairman of the house committee, provided a fine evening of entertainment and dancing. The Elks Players presented a skit entitled Love’s Sweet Flowers. John Sbaffi, exalted ruler, announced that on October 7 a stag dinner will be given. Roy Zimmerman is in charge of arrangements, CH. BARKER RETIRES AS POLIO CHMN. GRASS VALLEY*? Cc. H. Barker, for 15 years county chairman for the Infantile Paralysis, Foundation, retired Thursday evening: Elmer Stevens, who has been with the committee since the inception of the ‘foundation, was chosen to succeed him. Mrs. Robert Steuber. was elected vicechairman and Ray Hodge, secretary, ee Committee members made Mr. Barker honorary chairman for the county in recognition of his long and faithful service. The Nevada County ‘committee is facing a severe financial situation. Since the beginning of a polio case in Septembeye1947, the committee has expended $6,753.34. Today, »#a monthly average at present of $500. This is for one case now hospitalized in San Francisco. They have now’ appealed to the National Foundation for several thousand dollars to see them through this year. Total collections from March of Dimes events of last March were $3,869. Gow Diecerss Frau Charles Scott Haley ately he looked grave. For the short four month season that our water. . permitted us to work, our hours were long and strenuous. We slept in a board floored tent with a stove made of fifteen inch pipe which kept the cold and snow from bothering us much. In the morning, about three-thirty, one of us, chosen alternately, aroused and dressed and took a lantern up the trail to the head of the ditch to turn the water in, coming back along the ditch with the water and watching for breaks. At five o'clock, the others were out in the diggings, cleaning up boulders and getting ready to use the water on the bank. As soon as the man from the ditch arrived with the water, one man stayed to handle the monitor while ihe others went in for their breakfast of biscuit and beans. At noon, all hands laid off for half an hour for lunch, and then came back to work till dark. After supper, one man went to the head of the ditch to turn the water out for our Chinese friends to use in their reservoir, while the others cut wood and warmed up the camp against his return. Our schedule called for about sixten hours work a day for seven days a week. Once in a while, something interesting would occur. . was up on the ditch before lunch one day when . noticed as I walked, a peculiar carrion smell which follwed me. I mentioned it to Billy Tripp as we sat down to eat, and immedi“Better take a gun along with you when you walk that ditch again, boy. You know what that was? A panther which has rolled in carrion and for that reason can't get in reach of a deer. He is probably

desperately hungry, or he would never trail a man.”’ So for a while I carried a rifle on thte ditch. Many times I could see panther trail behind me when . retraced my steps, but . never saw one actually following me. They are so cowardly that they will not face a man unless they are desperate with hunger. As the season drew to its close, we hired an Indian by the name of Happy Jack to work for us. He was a very cheerful old chap, who had done two years in States Prison for trying to shoot a man while he was drunk‘with too much firewater. He used to regale us with tales of his life in prison, which he regarded as a high spot in his career. . “Plenty to eat,” he used to say. “Band play (Please turn to page 8) ease Seca ee a sor cee ten BENEFIT DANCE SAT. IN NORTH GRASS VALLEY: A _ The young woman is rescuers could lift it. SAN JUAN NORTH ~SAN: ~ JUAN: . This Saturday night a buck stew and benefit dance will be given in TwamleyHall for “Blackie”’ Machen of Strawberry Bar, who has been in the hespital while sevcral fractures healed. Machen . ] was injured in a fall down a mine shaft. An excellent orchestra will™provide music for'the dance. Ladies are admitted free. SAN JUAN CHAMBER MEETS, DISCUSSES WATER PROBLEMS INWORTH SAN JUAN: Friday, September 24th, the directors and members of the North San Juan, Camptonville and Vicinity Chamber . of Commerce met at the; Twamly Hall for a general meeting. .E. J. Kohler, president, presided. Those present, as usual, were interested in: discussing several matters of importance to be cared for.. After the secretary, Mrs. Ruth’ Bryan, and treasurer, Lou wood, made their reports, all local, outstanding bills were ordered paid.. The question of developing water for use in North San Juan was discussed also, continued interest was taken to the end of getting street lights — installed. During the month of October, fow or more various entertainments will beheld in Twamly Hall. Owing to the fact that different interests are frequently seeking the use.of Twamly Hall, it is requested that each, before planning a definite date for the hall, first contact the secretary or some member of the Board of Directors of the Nerth San Juan, Camptonville and Vicinity. Chamber of Commerce. SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON SCHOOL UNIFICATION NEVADA CITY: Albert F. Bequette and Walter A. Carlson, respectively superintendent of schools for Placer and Nevada Counties, have called attention to the special election to be hela in eastern Nevada and Placer Counties to vote on whether or not the five school districts there shall be consolidated. Up for decision October 19th is the question of adopting or rejecting the recommendations of the. two county surveying committees for a single, joint unified school district comprising Floristen-and-Truckee in Nevada Counties, and Donner Trail-Kiski Lodge, Kings Beach and Tahoe districts in Placer County. * Petitions May Be Circulated For Gold Flat Trustee Recall NEVADA CITY: Following a meeting Monday night in Deschwanden Hall of the Ridge Improvement Club, it was announced that petitions will be circulated for the recall of two trustees of the Oakland (Gold Flat) School District. The two whom it is sought to recall are Jack Townsend. and Robert E. Hanley. C. E. Rogers and R. R. Lewis are nominated as candidates to succeed Hanley and Townsend. Mrs, Helen S. South of Grass Valley. FARM BUREAU March, the third trustee, could not be recalled since six months has not elapsed since she was reelected to office. In May the faction in the district, which now seeks the recall of two trustees, demanded cause all four teachers. of the district -had resigned. The club in August presented a petition to the board of supervisors seeking to divide the district, giving the western half of the district to the Grass Valley School District. A three to two vote defeated this-attempt. % Betty Mills Honored By Bridal Shower GRASS VALLEY: Miss Betty Mill of Grass Valley, who will become the bride of Robert Weeks in October, was honored by a bridal shower at her home Thursday night, September 23rd. Her mother, Mrs. C. W. Mill, and Mrs, Leonard Hancock were hostesses. The bride to: be received many useful and charming gifts. Those attending were Mesdames Frank Williams, Lynn Wiiliams, Lawrence Personini, Al Silvaria, Peano Harris, Lena Weeks, Rolland Trathen, Glen Baxley, and the Misses Lauretta ‘Mill, Marjorie Coombs and Rita Wiley. ; Those unable to be present, but sending gifts, were ‘Mrs. Leslie Hancock, Mrs. Joe Hocking, and ‘daughter Gloria, Miss Mary Louise that the entire board resign be= Wuillay, and Mrs. Dot Moore. MEETS OCT. 6 ON LEGISLATION GRASS VALLEY: Nevada County citizens today were invited toattend a special meeting arranged by the Nevada County Farm Bureau Home Department for October 6th, in Grass Valley, in which important measures appearing on the November 2 ballot will be discussed. Mrs. Milton Thompson, Chair+ man of the County Home Department, said the meeting was open to the public, and urged all citizens, men and women, to attend. The conference will be held in the Nevada Irrigation District Building and will begin at 1:30 P. M. : Leading the discussion, according to Mrs. Thompson,~ wiH~ be two representatives of the California Farm Bureau Federation, Mr. J. Ward and Mr. Howad Kessler, Area Representative. Mrs, Thompson added that the Grass Valley meeting is one of a series of 40 similar discussion conferences scheduled throughout California’ under the auspices of seriously Tuesday night when an Ercoupe monoplane piloted by Frank Tipps of this city crashed in the /Oaks Subdivision at 7:45 P. M. ss Tipps had made several tries to land at Gilmore field, but, in the darkness, was unable to do so. His . final pass over the field almost succeeded, but at the last moment, he speeded the engine and attempted to pull over the trees in the vicinity of the field, a mile + the Farm Bureau Home Department. “Every voter, irrespective of . his and her personal views, shouid . be vitally interested in the State Propositions which appear on the November 2 ballot,’ sand Mrs. Thompson. “A number of these propositions have been placéd on the ballot by action of the State Legislature; others have qualified as initiatives. All demand intelligent appraisal and evaluation.’”’ In addition, said Mrs. Thompson, the Grass Valley meeting will also present and discuss the legislative program developed by the California Farm Bureau Federation in the interest of the State’s major industry. : % SCOUT FUND DRIVE STARTS OCTOBER 11 AUBURN: The anual appeal for funds of the Tahoe Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, will take place from October 11 to November 11, this year, it was announced by G. E. Kreatz, of Auburn, General Chairman, Kreatz was recently appointed to head up the sampaign by Judge Lowell L. Sparks, Council President. The General Chairman stated that & budget of $12,000 had been set for the 1948-49 activities ofr the Council in Placer, Nevada and western Sierra counties. He stated that over 1400 boys had been served by the Council in 1947-48 in 42 different Cub and_ Scout units in. the area. Lynne Kelly, Chairman of the Council Finance Committee, said that the amount of $12,000 had been established by the Finance Committee as necessary to maintain Council services for the present Cub and Scout units of the area. : Pre-campaign meetings wil] be held in every section of the Council area in the next two weeks, according: to General Chairman Kreatz, % : BIRTHS SAMS—In Grass Valley, Nevada County, September 21, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd Sams of Colfax, Placer County, a son. % e JESSWEIN—In Grass Valley, stevada County, September 20, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jesswein of Nevada City, a son. e # LENZ—In Grass Valley, Nevada County, September 20, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lenz, a daughter: be he PERRIN—In Grass Valley, Nevada County, September 16, 1948, to Mr .and Mrs. George Perrin, a son. ; e $ & PANTER — In Nevada City, Nevada County, September 26, 1948, to Mr. and Mrs. John Sheldon Panter, a hon. ah Cedar Ridge Gets Post Office Friday GRASS VALLEY: The Cedar Ridge Postoffice will be instituted Friday, October 1st, by Inspector George Rolph’ of San Francisco in-the general store belonging to Mrs. Margaret Hughes. Mrs. Lillian Monian will be installed as postmaster, . The application for. a ~postoffice at Cedar Ridge, which lies seven miles south of Grass Valley on the Colfax Highway, was made . under a year ago and “was recently granted. : young woman was injured Miss Lillian B. Moore, 25, a waitress at the New Era Cafe. She suffered cold gasoline burns, and possible back and internal injuries, being pinned under the plane for about an hour before The low-flying plane broke branch from a tree near the Squir= re] Creek Road before it crashe® on a bank, its fall cushioned by heavy brush. The fallen. branch, lying in the Squirrel Creek Road, gave searchers the clue necessary to locate the plane. y Shortly before the crash the plane flew over Deputy Sheriff Arthur Pepper’s Pleasant Street home. Pepper. phoned Sheriff Richard “Hoskins and Deputy Percy Watters,, and the trio, tesether with others, began ‘to scour the Squirrel Creek area. for wreckage. When they found the branch,’ * they localized their search, and presently Pepper heard a cry and then another. He discovered Tipps lying on the top of a bank where he had. crawled. As soon as Miss Moore could be freed from the wreckage she was carried on a. stretcher to am ambulance and both she and Tipps were rushed to a hospital where Dr. Harold Karo.and Dr. B. W. Krahling ministered to their in-~ juries. Tipps was treated for x fractured right foot, left hand, ribs, and for gashes and bruises. pober een : Lumber Truck, Out Of Control, Goes Through Concrete Wall GRASS VALLEY: Cecil Miller, 28, of Grass Valley, driving am empty lumber truck Sunday afternoon, lost brake control on Chapek Street and plunged through the concrete. Wall into Mill Street. The truck was but slightly damaged and Miller was uninjured. The truck broke off 10 feet of the curb of the abutment ang cracked the wall. Steel cable used for reinforcing is showing. Miller told the police that at the brow of the hill he had brak— ing power but midway down the grade the brakes gave way. He Stated that he had no ch e te a turn either way at Mill eee and decided to ride over the abutq ment. He was not cited. SHERIFF HOSKINS . WORKING ON SPRING HILL ROBBERY NEVADA CITY: Since Dam Henry of the Spring Hill Grocery was robbed of $140 at the point of a gun Tuesday night, Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins has run down two leads, but in both cases Henry was unable to identify any of the suspects. Three teen-age girls on Tues= day were given a ride from Marysville to Nevada City: by three teen-age boys, who were on their way to Reno. The girls, stranded, in Grass Valley, were questioned, _ and one of them revealed the! names of the -youths who ha@ given them a ride. The girls were returned to Yuba County, and the young men, on returning to. Marysville were held there untik Deputy Sheriff A. D. Pepper ha@ an opportunity to question them. However, Henry -was unable to identify any of them as the robber who held him up. 2 Occupants of a cabin in the Blue Tent-district were, also questioned and here again Henry failed to make positive identification, % Rough And Ready, Lime Kiln School Districts, Seek G. V. Annexation “ NEVADA CITY: Two petitions have been filed by residents of the Rough and Ready School Dis~ trict, and by the Lime Kiln Schoo® District for chafiges in Dbouns. daries. A large segment of each district seeks admission to the: Grass Valley School District. _ The residents of the Sunset dig~ trict, which lies in the. Rew and Ready School District, petitions the supervisors for ads, mission to the Grass Val y dis— trict. Between 30 and childrem are involved. Reasons for seeking= the transfer is lack Of transpor— tation to Rough and Ready schook, and the crowded condition of that school. i, : A large section of the Lime Kiln schoo! district, lying east of Wolf Creek and includi Cherry Acres in the vicinity Dew Drop Inn, seeks admissiom. to the Grass Valley School Dis~. trict for the same reagons. About 40 children of school age ‘are in volved. The supervisors have se Oc._ Man, Woman Hurt > In Airplane Crash . tober 2nd as the date for hearinga on both petitions. DEATH WELLS — In San Fran ° September 24, 1948, John Law-= rence Wells, nephew of Sarah Calahan of Forest, Sierra County, a native of Forest, 50 years. Graveside servic Place in the Forest Ce; » o