September 30, 1949 (6 pages)

ate ss icing jinn thebnaneet maaan ieedciccapiesati ae A OTE AIRE SOE AE SORA ELI. ILE RELA LLANE APCD LM CE BUY NOW . e 2—Nevada City Nugget, Friday,. September 30, 1949 . A‘legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association . Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as . as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under . Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) One year in county (in BOVATICE) ooo. cca cccccencsenstcticwatceenas-teacosedenenne=sern Four months (im advance) ..-.-----.---c-seeceeceeccereeseseeeeceeee reteset One month (in advance) ...-.------:--eesescest ttt tee : eer rerrrrr rrr rer rr to tr . NEVADA CITY IS GOING TO THE DOGS AGAIN . With the abandonment of the dog pound, the streets . of Nevada City once again are filling with ranging dogs. . As long as public opinion prevents the city fathers from . enforcing the current feeble dog ordinance, let's at least . have the city markets and restaurants have their fresh . produce men place their early morning deliveries beyond . the reach of leg heisting dogs. We were particularly disgusted the other morning to see a load of fresh vegetables dumped on a sidewalk and well watered by our canine ‘friends. THE CURRENT ATTRACTION It has often been pointed out that‘community prosperity as well as national prosperity cannot exist in a vacuum. In other words, unless people buy the products made available to them by Nevada City merchants . there will be smaller—and maybe not any—profits, fewer jobs both locally and nationally and the whole economic structure will sag. In a degree, we are experiencing this condition right now The need for consumer goods is still very great. But too many people are delaying purchases in the belief that prices will drop still more. Indications are, howJust Wonderin’ ] Wonder at the curious things Which one is apt to find, When with the torch of common sense, He searches through his mind; The mental ‘apparatus needs Adjustments now and then, And why we fail to face that fact, _ I'm sure I dinna ken. It is Autumn now and everyone is looking ahead to winter and making necessary preparations for: colder ever, that the price adjustment in Nevada City has just . days ahead. There is a general trend toward cleaning up about run its course What's more, the quality of goods generally, has been vastly improved so that today’s merchandise at today’s prices represent good values. The fact that installment restrictions are no longer in force and that ample credit is available at banks everywhere makes it easy to acquire and to pay for the household appliances and other things which make: life more pleasant and comfortable. Careless spending is never in order, but this is certainly not the time for needed purchases to be put off any longer. So BUY NOW and give Nevada City prosperity a boost. SET US UP FOR ANOTHER PEARL HARBOR President Harry S. Truman rudely awakened American people last week to the fact that the U. S. no longer monopolizes the atomic power and once again he stirred in the populace the sense of the ticking of the bomb that could destroy our civilization. But with the same fat-headed denseness of our brass hats that brought on the debacle of Pearl Harbor, these same brass hats now come forth with the statement that st will take Russia ten years to catch up with us in development of atomic energy. These same brass hats said Russia could not possibly develop the bomb before 1951. Let us never underestimate any possible foe—too many have already died because someone underestimated the opposition. American people are aware of the fact that someday the Russian people will be at war with the American people. Let us prepare for it and prevent the holocaust of Pearl Harbor’being visited a thousand times worse on San Francisco, Seattle, New York or whatever metropolitan area is marked. Too many people died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki for us to belittle the initial strike of the next war. WHEN THE FORESTS BURN One match, one smouldering cigarette butt, one spark from a campfire, can be the cause of the destruction of thousands of acres of Tahoe~ national forest timber that took Nature centuries to create. And when the forest burns, the, cruelest of deaths comes to the wildlife that live in their shelter. This year, the Tahoe national forest has witnessed a number of very serious forest fires. The hazard does not end with summer months. There has been unusually dry weather in various sections of the country Trees and woodlands will be ripe for destruction by fire for some time tc come. There seems to be a rather widespread idea that most forest fires are started ‘by natural causes beyond the ability of man to preyent or control. That is not true. As Guerdon Ellis, Tahoe forest supervisor says, “Some fires of course are set by lightning, but nine out of ten are due entirely to human carelessness with matches, cigarettes or camp fires. Annually they cause direct losses running into many millions of dollars and equally serious indirect losses in the destruction of our dwindling forest reserves.” The human factor, in fact, is responsible for almost all fires, whether they take place in a forest, in a home, or in a store. Carelessness, ignorance, indifference to rudimentary precautions—these are fire's friends. When . around the premises, repair work is in order and piles of 'debris are being disposed of. Perhaps the family health is receiving consideration; the medicine chest replenished and in some cases a check-up with the family physician. These activities are all seasonable and eminently necessary; but why confine our anxieties to the physical realm alone? . : The mind of man is a complex affair; it too becomes clogged with useless debris, it too needs adjustments and renovations and this is a good season of the year in which to take stock of our mental equipment and see that it is in good order. , What undesirable things are in your mind and mine? expected’ Will Rogers once said that “we are all ignorant, but on different subjects.” The mind of man has its limitations and when we embark upon the sea of knowledge, we are sailing a shoreless sea, so vast, so limitless ‘that we cannot expect to comprehend it all any more i'than we can comprehend space that has no limits and ‘time that is unending. So ignorance of some sort or an‘other is a part of each human mind and for that reason life-long learning is necessary in order that we may gathjer all the wisdom which it is possible for us to digest and lassimiliate and decrease the areas of ignorance insofar as is humanly possible. There are other undesirable items about which we can do vastly more. Superstition, intolerance, bigotry, malice, hate and many more hangovers from the days when . these emotions were allowed to run rampant and there was little thought about their undesirability. Superstition, intolerance, etc., are diseases of the mind; if they were physical they would mark us as objects of commiseration and perhaps we should be shunned by our fellowmen and duly placed in solitary confinement. I think that of all the wretched things: which infest the mind, intolerance, and hate are by far the worst. They beget persecution and lead to the limbo where evil things mutter and peep and crimes are conceived. We cannot harbor them and keep our minds healthful and normal. They sear our souls and dry up the milk of human kindness. Let us realize their leperous natures and hasten to eject them from our minds. There are so many good and beautiful things with which we can replace these blights upon our hearts and souls. Tolerance in the place of intolerance, forgiveness in the place of hate and so on down the line. Why. do you know that in bringing our minds to a state of health, we shall be improving our physical state as well? By all means let us give our minds a thorough going over; leave the mouldy remnants of our unthinking hours behind and step out into the light and beauty of our autumnal days with mind and body ready to absorb the delights of each passing day. ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER vice-connected dental conditions, the veterans administration announced. V-A staff dentists treated 5,974 veterans, while 30,377 were treated by private fee-basis dentists. Value of the V-A staff treatments was $399,347 while cost of the 4 fee-basis dental work was §$2,8 : : m@ . 861,857, ore than 36,000 California! During the year V-A staff denveterans received dental treattists of the San-Francisco regionment valued at $3,261,204 during al office completed treatment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1,902 veterans, value of this work we replace them with care and watchfulness, fire will be beaten. sa eels : 1949, under the federal program being $151,836 while fee-basis to treat eligible veterans for serdentists in the San Francisco reeik r Tales of Nevada County From Long Ago to Now H. P. DAVIS There is sure to be a plethora of ignorance—that is to be, THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA COUNTY . By H. P. DAVIS In this column on September 16, we told of the people of Nevada County in the early fifties and something of Nevada City as a “melting pot.” We pointed out that rarely, if ever, had there been a community in which so many different national and racial groups had been so readily and harmoniously assimilated. : The following issue, September 23, was devoted mainly to quotations from two eminently qualified observers of life in the diggings, each of whom had first hand knowledge of the people of the county. Today’s column carries on with extracts from writings of three men, well qualified to faithfully portray for us the character of the founders of this town, county and state. Aaron Augustus Sargent, lawyer, editor and publisher, legislator, diplomat and statesman, was Nevada county's most distinguished-citizen. He arrived in Nevada City in 1850, was admitted to the Nevada county bar in 1854, served as district attorney of Nevada county 1855-57. He was one of the organizers of the Republican party in this county and delegate to the Republican convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Sargent served three terms as a member of the House of Representatives, one term.as United States Senator, and was appointed United States minister to Germany. Edwin F. Bean, compiler and editor of “Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County,” was another of the influential citizens of this town-in the early days. In addition to having provided the most valuable historical record of the early history of Nevada county, Mr. Bean was proprietor and editor of the Nevada Gazette, a promnent member of Oustomah Lodge No. 16, secretary of the Nevada Benevolent Society and prominent in the civic affairs-of this town and county. Rossiter Worthington Raymond, who succeeded J. Ross Browne as United States commissioner of mining statistics of the states and territories west of the Rocky mountains, was a man of most distinguished attainments. After being graduated from Brooklyn’ Polytechnic Institute, he studied in the great universities of Freiberg, Munich and Heidelberg. He served in the Union army with rank of captain of engineers. In 1868 he was chosen to fill the vacancy left open by the appointment of Mr. Browne to post of United States minister to China. Mr. Raymond keld the position of commissioner of mines and mining until 1876 during which period he produced eight annual reports which, with Mr.* Browne's reports for 1867 and 1868 constitute the most comprehensive and valuable records of mining activities in the western states, records which have been woefully neglected by . California historians. A. A. SARGENT Writing of this community in the early days Mr. Sargent said: “The society of that early day was characterized equally by rudeness and honesty. Dress was a secondary consideration. But few ladies graced the place with their presence, and toiling men cared little for personal appearance; red shirts, torn clothing, and unshorn faces were the uniform fashion. The weight of no man’s pile of gold dust was to be judged by his dress, Yet, rough as seemed the crowd that jostled in the streets, orfsought the only place of amusgement—the gambling saloons—or on Sundays listened to the rude discourses of volunteer preachers in the clap-board ‘meeting house’ on upper Main street highway robberies were never known; gold dust could be safely left in the rockers at the diggings, or at the cabins, and crime of every kind was extremely rare. Almost the only offenses against the public peace were brawls caused by liquor, usually bloodless. For several years after the settlement of Nevada, in a society where little law had influence except that of moral restraint, but two homicides ocpen i a of them, that of Dr. Lennox, being a cowardly assassination. EDWIN F. BEAN Introducing his Historical Sketch of Nevada City and Township in Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, published at ‘‘Nevada”’ in 1867, Mr. Bean wrote: “Nevada City, the shire town of Nevada County, and her twin sister, Grass Valley, are the two most prosperous mining towns in the State of California. They have long enjoyed this reputation, and give evidence of sustaining it in the future. Grass Valley by reason of her rich and extensive mines of quartz, has gathered a larger population of late years, but the local position of Nevada, and the advantage of being the county seat, have made aes ete Pet ae in the race. ; “Nevada has had an eventful history. The rience would well illustrate the histary of ne Sore oF ae eed ‘wild excitements and fostered by men from every clime, who chose to ignore many of the customs and laws of civilized society; almost abandoned at times by the allurements of other and overpraised localities; destroyed by fires; and her people ruined; depressed by failure or exhaustion of mines, what scenes has she witnessed, what miseries undergone, what heroic struggles has she made, what triumphs has she gained?” ROSSITER W. RAYMOND Two years after Mr. Bean wrote the abov preciation of Nevada City and its people, Mr eo . in his report to the U. S. Treasury Department, paid the following tribute to the ‘‘energy and good management’ of the men of Nevada City and Grass Valley who had been responsible for the outstanding success of the mining industry of this county; “This county still takes the lead in mini L ; minin hus A We ae Fae gow (1868). Ie one has produce nent and more productive ch its . mines as to the energy and good management of fo iinebien gional area treated 15,848 at a cost of $1,522,620. Nationally, during the one year period, 430,271 treatment cases were completed by fee-basis dentists and 83,382 in clinics located in V-A. regional offices. Private dentists were paid $38,813,560. for this work, while a valuation of $8,345,958 was.-placed on work Methodist Pastor Leaves For Illinois This Week Rev. and Mrs. Dahlgren Casey and two children left Wednesday for New Boston, Ill., where Rev. Casey has a new assignment. He had been pastor of the local par‘ish for the past 15 months. Announcement. of a pastor to succeed Rev. Casey will be andone by V-A staff dentists. nounced in the near future. h» au ~

ate ss icing jinn thebnaneet maaan ieedciccapiesati ae A OTE AIRE SOE AE SORA ELI. ILE RELA LLANE APCD LM CE BUY NOW . e 2—Nevada City Nugget, Friday,. September 30, 1949 . A‘legal newspaper, as defined by statute ROBERT H. and DONALD W. WRAY, Publishers KENNETH W. WRAY, Editor and Advertising Manager Member California Newspaper Publishers Association . Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as . as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under . Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year outside county (in advance) One year in county (in BOVATICE) ooo. cca cccccencsenstcticwatceenas-teacosedenenne=sern Four months (im advance) ...-.-----.---c-seeceeceeccereeseseeeeceeee reteset One month (in advance) .....-.------:--eesescest ttt tee : eer rerrrrr rrr rer rr to tr . NEVADA CITY IS GOING TO THE DOGS AGAIN . With the abandonment of the dog pound, the streets . of Nevada City once again are filling with ranging dogs. . As long as public opinion prevents the city fathers from . enforcing the current feeble dog ordinance, let's at least . have the city markets and restaurants have their fresh . produce men place their early morning deliveries beyond . the reach of leg heisting dogs. We were particularly disgusted the other morning to see a load of fresh vegetables dumped on a sidewalk and well watered by our canine ‘friends. THE CURRENT ATTRACTION It has often been pointed out that‘community prosperity as well as national prosperity cannot exist in a vacuum. In other words, unless people buy the products made available to them by Nevada City merchants . there will be smaller—and maybe not any—profits, fewer jobs both locally and nationally and the whole economic structure will sag. In a degree, we are experiencing this condition right now The need for consumer goods is still very great. But too many people are delaying purchases in the belief that prices will drop still more. Indications are, howJust Wonderin’ ] Wonder at the curious things Which one is apt to find, When with the torch of common sense, He searches through his mind; The mental ‘apparatus needs Adjustments now and then, And why we fail to face that fact, _ I'm sure I dinna ken. It is Autumn now and everyone is looking ahead to winter and making necessary preparations for: colder ever, that the price adjustment in Nevada City has just . days ahead. There is a general trend toward cleaning up about run its course What's more, the quality of goods generally, has been vastly improved so that today’s merchandise at today’s prices represent good values. The fact that installment restrictions are no longer in force and that ample credit is available at banks everywhere makes it easy to acquire and to pay for the household appliances and other things which make: life more pleasant and comfortable. Careless spending is never in order, but this is certainly not the time for needed purchases to be put off any longer. So BUY NOW and give Nevada City prosperity a boost. SET US UP FOR ANOTHER PEARL HARBOR President Harry S. Truman rudely awakened American people last week to the fact that the U. S. no longer monopolizes the atomic power and once again he stirred in the populace the sense of the ticking of the bomb that could destroy our civilization. But with the same fat-headed denseness of our brass hats that brought on the debacle of Pearl Harbor, these same brass hats now come forth with the statement that st will take Russia ten years to catch up with us in development of atomic energy. These same brass hats said Russia could not possibly develop the bomb before 1951. Let us never underestimate any possible foe—too many have already died because someone underestimated the opposition. American people are aware of the fact that someday the Russian people will be at war with the American people. Let us prepare for it and prevent the holocaust of Pearl Harbor’being visited a thousand times worse on San Francisco, Seattle, New York or whatever metropolitan area is marked. Too many people died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki for us to belittle the initial strike of the next war. WHEN THE FORESTS BURN One match, one smouldering cigarette butt, one spark from a campfire, can be the cause of the destruction of thousands of acres of Tahoe~ national forest timber that took Nature centuries to create. And when the forest burns, the, cruelest of deaths comes to the wildlife that live in their shelter. This year, the Tahoe national forest has witnessed a number of very serious forest fires. The hazard does not end with summer months. There has been unusually dry weather in various sections of the country Trees and woodlands will be ripe for destruction by fire for some time tc come. There seems to be a rather widespread idea that most forest fires are started ‘by natural causes beyond the ability of man to preyent or control. That is not true. As Guerdon Ellis, Tahoe forest supervisor says, “Some fires of course are set by lightning, but nine out of ten are due entirely to human carelessness with matches, cigarettes or camp fires. Annually they cause direct losses running into many millions of dollars and equally serious indirect losses in the destruction of our dwindling forest reserves.” The human factor, in fact, is responsible for almost all fires, whether they take place in a forest, in a home, or in a store. Carelessness, ignorance, indifference to rudimentary precautions—these are fire's friends. When . around the premises, repair work is in order and piles of 'debris are being disposed of. Perhaps the family health is receiving consideration; the medicine chest replenished and in some cases a check-up with the family physician. These activities are all seasonable and eminently necessary; but why confine our anxieties to the physical realm alone? . : The mind of man is a complex affair; it too becomes clogged with useless debris, it too needs adjustments and renovations and this is a good season of the year in which to take stock of our mental equipment and see that it is in good order. , What undesirable things are in your mind and mine? expected’ Will Rogers once said that “we are all ignorant, but on different subjects.” The mind of man has its limitations and when we embark upon the sea of knowledge, we are sailing a shoreless sea, so vast, so limitless ‘that we cannot expect to comprehend it all any more i'than we can comprehend space that has no limits and ‘time that is unending. So ignorance of some sort or an‘other is a part of each human mind and for that reason life-long learning is necessary in order that we may gathjer all the wisdom which it is possible for us to digest and lassimiliate and decrease the areas of ignorance insofar as is humanly possible. There are other undesirable items about which we can do vastly more. Superstition, intolerance, bigotry, malice, hate and many more hangovers from the days when . these emotions were allowed to run rampant and there was little thought about their undesirability. Superstition, intolerance, etc., are diseases of the mind; if they were physical they would mark us as objects of commiseration and perhaps we should be shunned by our fellowmen and duly placed in solitary confinement. I think that of all the wretched things: which infest the mind, intolerance, and hate are by far the worst. They beget persecution and lead to the limbo where evil things mutter and peep and crimes are conceived. We cannot harbor them and keep our minds healthful and normal. They sear our souls and dry up the milk of human kindness. Let us realize their leperous natures and hasten to eject them from our minds. There are so many good and beautiful things with which we can replace these blights upon our hearts and souls. Tolerance in the place of intolerance, forgiveness in the place of hate and so on down the line. Why. do

you know that in bringing our minds to a state of health, we shall be improving our physical state as well? By all means let us give our minds a thorough going over; leave the mouldy remnants of our unthinking hours behind and step out into the light and beauty of our autumnal days with mind and body ready to absorb the delights of each passing day. ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER vice-connected dental conditions, the veterans administration announced. V-A staff dentists treated 5,974 veterans, while 30,377 were treated by private fee-basis dentists. Value of the V-A staff treatments was $399,347 while cost of the 4 fee-basis dental work was §$2,8 : : m@ . 861,857, ore than 36,000 California! During the year V-A staff denveterans received dental treattists of the San-Francisco regionment valued at $3,261,204 during al office completed treatment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1,902 veterans, value of this work we replace them with care and watchfulness, fire will be beaten. sa eels : 1949, under the federal program being $151,836 while fee-basis to treat eligible veterans for serdentists in the San Francisco reeik r Tales of Nevada County From Long Ago to Now H. P. DAVIS There is sure to be a plethora of ignorance—that is to be, THE PEOPLE OF NEVADA COUNTY . By H. P. DAVIS In this column on September 16, we told of the people of Nevada County in the early fifties and something of Nevada City as a “melting pot.” We pointed out that rarely, if ever, had there been a community in which so many different national and racial groups had been so readily and harmoniously assimilated. : The following issue, September 23, was devoted mainly to quotations from two eminently qualified observers of life in the diggings, each of whom had first hand knowledge of the people of the county. Today’s column carries on with extracts from writings of three men, well qualified to faithfully portray for us the character of the founders of this town, county and state. Aaron Augustus Sargent, lawyer, editor and publisher, legislator, diplomat and statesman, was Nevada county's most distinguished-citizen. He arrived in Nevada City in 1850, was admitted to the Nevada county bar in 1854, served as district attorney of Nevada county 1855-57. He was one of the organizers of the Republican party in this county and delegate to the Republican convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Sargent served three terms as a member of the House of Representatives, one term.as United States Senator, and was appointed United States minister to Germany. Edwin F. Bean, compiler and editor of “Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County,” was another of the influential citizens of this town-in the early days. In addition to having provided the most valuable historical record of the early history of Nevada county, Mr. Bean was proprietor and editor of the Nevada Gazette, a promnent member of Oustomah Lodge No. 16, secretary of the Nevada Benevolent Society and prominent in the civic affairs-of this town and county. Rossiter Worthington Raymond, who succeeded J. Ross Browne as United States commissioner of mining statistics of the states and territories west of the Rocky mountains, was a man of most distinguished attainments. After being graduated from Brooklyn’ Polytechnic Institute, he studied in the great universities of Freiberg, Munich and Heidelberg. He served in the Union army with rank of captain of engineers. In 1868 he was chosen to fill the vacancy left open by the appointment of Mr. Browne to post of United States minister to China. Mr. Raymond keld the position of commissioner of mines and mining until 1876 during which period he produced eight annual reports which, with Mr.* Browne's reports for 1867 and 1868 constitute the most comprehensive and valuable records of mining activities in the western states, records which have been woefully neglected by . California historians. A. A. SARGENT Writing of this community in the early days Mr. Sargent said: “The society of that early day was characterized equally by rudeness and honesty. Dress was a secondary consideration. But few ladies graced the place with their presence, and toiling men cared little for personal appearance; red shirts, torn clothing, and unshorn faces were the uniform fashion. The weight of no man’s pile of gold dust was to be judged by his dress, Yet, rough as seemed the crowd that jostled in the streets, orfsought the only place of amusgement—the gambling saloons—or on Sundays listened to the rude discourses of volunteer preachers in the clap-board ‘meeting house’ on upper Main street highway robberies were never known; gold dust could be safely left in the rockers at the diggings, or at the cabins, and crime of every kind was extremely rare. Almost the only offenses against the public peace were brawls caused by liquor, usually bloodless. For several years after the settlement of Nevada, in a society where little law had influence except that of moral restraint, but two homicides ocpen i a of them, that of Dr. Lennox, being a cowardly assassination. EDWIN F. BEAN Introducing his Historical Sketch of Nevada City and Township in Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, published at ‘‘Nevada”’ in 1867, Mr. Bean wrote: “Nevada City, the shire town of Nevada County, and her twin sister, Grass Valley, are the two most prosperous mining towns in the State of California. They have long enjoyed this reputation, and give evidence of sustaining it in the future. Grass Valley by reason of her rich and extensive mines of quartz, has gathered a larger population of late years, but the local position of Nevada, and the advantage of being the county seat, have made aes ete Pet ae in the race. ; “Nevada has had an eventful history. The rience would well illustrate the histary of ne Sore oF ae eed ‘wild excitements and fostered by men from every clime, who chose to ignore many of the customs and laws of civilized society; almost abandoned at times by the allurements of other and overpraised localities; destroyed by fires; and her people ruined; depressed by failure or exhaustion of mines, what scenes has she witnessed, what miseries undergone, what heroic struggles has she made, what triumphs has she gained?” ROSSITER W. RAYMOND Two years after Mr. Bean wrote the abov preciation of Nevada City and its people, Mr eo . in his report to the U. S. Treasury Department, paid the following tribute to the ‘‘energy and good management’ of the men of Nevada City and Grass Valley who had been responsible for the outstanding success of the mining industry of this county; “This county still takes the lead in mini L ; minin hus A We ae Fae gow (1868). Ie one has produce nent and more productive ch its . mines as to the energy and good management of fo iinebien gional area treated 15,848 at a cost of $1,522,620. Nationally, during the one year period, 430,271 treatment cases were completed by fee-basis dentists and 83,382 in clinics located in V-A. regional offices. Private dentists were paid $38,813,560. for this work, while a valuation of $8,345,958 was.-placed on work Methodist Pastor Leaves For Illinois This Week Rev. and Mrs. Dahlgren Casey and two children left Wednesday for New Boston, Ill., where Rev. Casey has a new assignment. He had been pastor of the local par‘ish for the past 15 months. Announcement. of a pastor to succeed Rev. Casey will be andone by V-A staff dentists. nounced in the near future. h» au ~