September 30, 1949 (6 pages)

ay Smith. . Lester, Judy Mills, Pat Mingus, Frances ‘ter F. Gage, Mrs. Dorothy Slack, of Olive F. Perrin, who died Jan. GUESTS ‘ATTEND PI AWARDING PROGRAM More than 300 members, leaders and parents and guests were present Saturday evening in the Hennessy school auditorium, in ‘Grass Valley, to witness awarding of achievement pins to members of Nevada county clubs. Achievement pins are awarded each year by the California Bankers association to all members who have completed an approved project in agriculture or homemaking, and have submitted a complete record book. The following awards presented: Penn Valley: Billy Galetto, Nadine Watters, Lois Magonigal, ‘Ginger Gleason, Marion Galetto, Douglas Smith, Clayton Magonigal, Shannon Gleason, Jerrie Higgins, Don Painter, Patricia Smith, Lynn Gleason, Mrs. Isabelle. M. were Chicago Park Hornets: Dallas Renner,. Kay Rolph, Vonda Lugenbuehl, Brent Lugenbuehl, Elaine Blum, Eric Lyss, Darcy Murphy, Eloise Renner, Sharon Rolph, Simi Lyss, Tommy Murphy, Darlene Rolph, Bruce McDonald, Fern Rolph. Mooney Flat: Kim Hornsby, Robert Staples, Raymond Collins, Charles Staples, Fay Staples. Kentucky Flat: Marie Personeni, Helen Lester, John Carter, James Carter, Charles Ledbetter, Joanne Ledbetter, Irene Lester, Ernst Pugh, Rita Taylor, Albert Thomas, Carl Thomas, Frances P. Gates, Robert Lester, Phil Personeni Jr., Stuart Smith, Leslie Louis Lester, Juliana Smith, Mrs. Sylvia Lester, Mrs. Lillian Pugh. ‘ Banner: Gary Cowan, Keith Deniz, Dean Deniz, Jimmy Dunbar, Bobbie Dunbar, Ronald Palmerton, Jimmy = Parrish, Carol Parrish. : Eager Beavers: Beverly Giblin, Sylvia Hammill, Jerry Lawton, Nill Ardyth Porter, Karen Kohler, Bobbie Peterson, Dolores Porter, William Sturtevant, Marian Mawby, Elizabeth Peterson, Robert Steuber, Francis Viscia, Mrs, Malcolm Hammill, Mrs. H. A. Sturtevant. Forest Springs: Marion Byrd, Beverly Butler, Linda Engberg, Thelma Gage, Wanda George, Cecelia Hile, Mary. Johnson, William Pascoe, Sara Rooks, Jim Seeley, John Seeley, Eddie Strain, Jean-: nie Taylor, Robert Wilder, Royce Clemo, Frank Keeney, Loren Pingree, Richard Engberg, Ken Keeney, Lee Slack, Kent Pascoe, Mrs. Gladys Butler, Ed Clemo, Mrs. Florence Clemo, Mrs, Neva Engberg, Mrs. Mary Anne Gage, WalJack Townsend Jr. Nevada City: Thomas Bean, Dolores Davis, Wilma Davis, Barbara Girauard, Bonnie Haddy, Charles Holmes, Herman Nachtmann, Marilyn Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Schuldt, Mrs. Eve-. lyn Frank. . Union Hill: Fritz Hicks, Dick} Tremewan, Janet Bourquin, Pa-. tricia Schimke, Sara Beaver, Car. ol Beaver. . Forrest Varney, manager of the . Nevada irrigation district, award. ed the achievement pins. Senior 4-H caps were presented . Fay Staples, Tom Stark, Kent} Pascoe and Jack Townsend, Jr. SUPERIOR COURT FILINGS Coniplaing, to quiet title to, Nevada City property was filed Sept, 28, 1949, by Laura H. Foster, naming as defendants Dorothy Valantine, Elizabeth A. Val-! antine, Perry A. Phelps, Marcia E. Phelps, B. A. Valantine, Ralph Childers, Doris Childers, and J. E Valantine. John L.*Larue, Nevada City, is attorney for plaintiff. C. B. Grenfell appraised estate . 30, 1949, at $19,400. Heirs are Gladys Lucille Bennallack and Raymond Perrin. C. B. Grenfell appraised estate of T. J. Tierney, who died March 12, 1949, at $5,000. Estate of E. F. Tierney, who died March 1, 1949, at $5,000. Estate consists of real property in Grass Valley and interest in Gen. Grant quartz mine. Robert F. Berge waived cross action in divorce suit filed Sept. 8, 1949, by Helene F. Berge. The waiver was filed Sept. 21, 1949. Eugene H. Reader Sept. 22, 1949, filed answer to suit by William and and May L. Wasley denying allegations of negligence and damages and by way of cross complaint alleges plaintiff with carelessness and negligence and asks $271.64 damages. Frank G. Finnegan, Nevada City, is attorney for defendant. Plaintiff filed suite Sept. 13, 1949, charging defendant drove vehicle on highway 20 on May 11, 1948, causing a collision between cars of the two litigants 1% milés south of Nevada City. SUPERVISORS TO MEET Board of supervisors of Nevada county will meet tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock for the regular October session. Letters to The Editor The’ views and opinions appearing in this column, Lettgrs to The Editor, are not necessarily those of The Nugget. September 21, 1949 Sirs: The Wall Street Journal has been touted as one of the best edited newspapers published. For a time we were led to believe that the editor took a sane view of the gold question. Then came. an abrupt about-face in commending Secretary Snyder’s allergy to gold. 6 Snyder has always been a pain in the neck to the gold miner. The mere mention of an adjustment in the value of the metal or a return to the gold standard drove him to distraction because such a move would interfere with the administration’s manipulation of the currency, which has already been carried to such an extreme that it threatens the solvency of the nation. Here is some of the blow het, blow cold inconsistencies of the Journal’s editorial page: Feb. 9, :1949: “Political economists wrangle these days about what a currency is ‘worth.’ Out of this ‘wrangle they try to evolve pat little money patterns. Thirty-five dollars, say is ‘worth’ an ounce of gold. At least that is what they think it ought to be, and by heaven they’ll make it that way. ain important gold producing country (South Africa) has publicly proclaimed that the fund’s official value is unrealistic to say the least. The fund’s finely spun ‘currency exchange table has long since lost touch with reality. etc.” Then comes this contrasting excerpt from the same editorial pen on Aug, 25, 1949: “Secretary Snyder does well to emphasize his epposition to the proposal that the U. S. raise the price it pays for gold. One reporter writing from London says it would be painless to the American people. It certainly would not be painless at all. It. would raise prices in this country. It would reduce the purchase power of every savings account and every insurance policy. It would bear heavily on the thousands of pensioners and others with fixed incomes. etc.” We have been wondering if the editor has succumbed to the ravings of the so-called economic professors, whom the Journal has often said are always 100 per cent wrong and who have occupied considerable space on the editorial pages with their half-baked ideas on the gold question. The “raise” in the price of gold and the consequent devaluation of the. currency is a misnomer: The gold ‘miner has seen the price of copper, lead, zinc and tin advance 100 per cent since 1940, while the price of gold has remained static. The cost of living, for wkieh he doles out his paper federal reserve notes and his silver certificates, has increased over 40 per cent. In .other words, the depreciation of the currency is already an established fact and all the gold riiner asks is that the price of gold be adjusted to parity with the currency at the time Roosevelt plucked the $35 price out of thin air in 1934. We would like to ask what is so disturbing about that” In the meantime, as “Life” recently pictured, the miner sees Portugal buying gold for $35 and over !'selling 27 million dollars worth monthly for $50 an ounce to Hong Kong merchants and politicians, who are paying for it no doubt with. U. S. taxpayers’ dollars we have put up to bolster the Chiang regime. When gold was advanced 69 per cent in 1934 the prices of commodities were not affected in the leaSt in this country. To say that if gold is brought to parity with the present value of paper currency it will disrupt purchasing power is sheerest’ nonsense and contrary to the most elementary thinking. Now that Britain and many other countries have revised the price of gold upward to approximately $45.68, thus breaking the “unrealistic” values—as the Journal’s editor first remarked—it is hard’ to see how Mr. Snyder is going to maintain his $35 standard. The world is somewhat stunned by the recent turn of events and it will be perhaps several days before we will Know just how we will be affected in this country, but any effort to maintain the old price is going to be met with stiff opposition, not only from the gold producers but from the manufacturers generally who will insist on @ world wide standard of values. EDW. C. UREN, Nevada City. ¢ * a Sept. 25, 1949. Editor, The Nugget: We note, with interest, your prognostication on the StanfordHarvard fiasco last Saturday, _ We ask you, now, what kind of instruction in “the art of football” was it that the Ivy League boys were giving? : With Marchie’s boys steamrolling the easterners by the almost ungentlemanly score of 44-0 and everyone on the bench but the mascot putting in their, twobits worth, we are wondering if you haven’t underestimated the strength of tis west. Or who gave whom the lesson? I. M. ‘‘Red” NAIDNI Nevada City. q o (Editor’s Note): . Visual interpretation of the Stanford-Harvard “fiasco” is that the two clubs do not belong on the same field: Harvard tried to win a 1949 football game with 1920 methods—if two runs and a third down pass failed (and it usually.did) kick. Stanford could have made the score in three figures. Harvard’s only consolation from the game is the possession of the outstanding player on the field—Tackle Houston, definitely all-American. Despite the slaughter of his team the husky young man. outplayed his Indian opponent all through the game. But to do some serious prognosticating (Hey, Dons look that word up and see what it is we’re doing) we'll pick the following: Weeping: Waldorf’s Bears will take the Oregon State team by two or three or four touchdowns. Nevada to edge St. Mary’s. Santa Clara to swamp Fresno State (the poor Bulldogs). Despite Stanford’s adding machine scores we’re leery of that 7-3 Michigan nudge over Michigan State and will string along with the Wolverines in a. close one, vent Texas over Idaho. How did that one get on a schedule? Oregon should nudge UCLA tonight in Los Angeles. Washington State is our home college but we’ll have to give the nod to those big bad bruisers of Southern California. And, of course, Notre Dame over Washington. BOY SCOUT TROOP 24 REORGANIZES HERE Two patrols were formed at a reorganizational meeting of troop 24, Nevada City Boy Scouts at Seaman’s lodge. Will Smith was elected leader of the Flying Eagle patrol and Bob Goss was named assistant. Stag patrol chose Peter Hill as leader and Eugéne Foote assistant. Under the rules of a two-month membership contest five points will be given for each new member and an additional 20 points will be given for each new member who passes tenderfoot test during the two-month period. The three scouts having the most points at the close of the contest will be awarded prizés by the Nevada City Rotary club, the sponsor of the troop. The first prize will be a full uniform. The two patrols are open for enrollment to boys 11 through 14 according to Ernest Chaney, the troop’s scoutmaster. Attending the meeting were: Will Smith, Bob Goss, Ronnie Williams, Bob Steger, Jim Shock, Bradley Crase, Peter Hill, Bobby Rideout, Eugene Foote, Ray Richardson, Edwin Starry and Clifford Pooler. Robert Piercy is assistant to Chaney. i Next meeting is Monday, 7 p.m. at Seaman’s lodge, Pioneer park. Former Resident Dies In Valley Community John Jefferson Snyder, 88, former resident of Nevada City, died recently in Oroville, where funeral services and interment were held. Snyder crossed the plains with his parents when he was less than a year old in 1862, He lived in Greenville before moving to Nevada City. RESERVATIONS CLOSE MONDAY FOR COLLEGE OF PACIFIC DINNER Reservations for the NevadaPlacer counties College of the Pacific centennial. dinner and rally will close Monday evening. The community affair scheduled for Wednesday evening will feature Dr. Tully C. Knoles, chancellor and veteran college educator, as guest speaker. Accompanying Knoles to Nevada county will be Dr. Robert. E. Burns, youthful president of the college and Dr. Jesse Rudkin, of the college staff. Program arrangément is splendid, indicating that while this is a salute to California’s first college, the evening can be enjoyed by all, This will be a,community affair with college songs, .color and special music, all for $1.25. Nevada City reservations can be made with Bill Tobiassen. It will be 100 years this October that Rev. Isaac Owen, missionary among the miners, arrived in Nevada county and worked. It was here he conceived the idea of a college and worked until it was established in’1852 at San Jose. Pacific was then the first college west of the Rockies and has served for almost one century. Pacific today is a college of liberal arts, privately endowed and church related, the only fully accredited institution of this character in all of northern California. It has over 500 graduates a year. Nevada county residents will have a splendid opportunity to meet Pacific leaders and salute a great institution at this meeting. NATIVE OF BLUE TENT SUCCUMBS IN CAPITAL Mrs. Hester Seibert, 78, native of Blue Tent, died Wednesday at her home in West Sacramento. The body was brought to NeFuneral Home where funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, with Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector of Nevada City Trinity Episcopal church, officiating. Interment will be in Pine Grove cemetery. Mrs. Seibert is survived by her husband, Lewis; son, Ralph, Irving, West Sacramento; sister, Mrs. M. Fuller, and a niece, Mrs. Helen Rohr, Fresno; three nephews, Frank P. Williams, Sacramento; Max Williams, Davis; and Archie Campbell, Nevada City; and a granddaughter, Mrs, L. Reynolds, West Sacramento. Ministers of County* . Elect New Officers . Rev. John A. MacDonald, pas;tor of Nevada City Community Baptist church, was elected secre. tary-treasurer of the Nevada County Ministerial Union last week in Grass Valley. Rev. MacDonald is retiring vice president, Other officers named for the vada City Wednesday by Holmes. Nevada City Nugget, Friday, September 30, 1949 — 3 Deer Tag Registrations J. T. Tilley, two-pointer at the Greenhorn district. E. Gasperott, two-pointer from Banner mountain. Albert Silva, four-pointer at Jones meadow. Roy Zimmerman, near Lake Vera. D. F. Kirkham, three-pointer at Marsh’s mill. Charles T. Meecke, four-pointer near Nevada City. Fred Reed, two-pointer near Woodchuck Flat. Richard W Hoskins, four-pointer, near Castle peak Wednesday. Bud Kyle, three-pointer, near Castle peak, Wednesday. A fine of $700 was paid by three hunters in the court of Alden Johnson, justice of peace of Downieville, when they pleaded guilty to illegal possession of doe. An M-1 army rifle which they admitted using to kill the doe was confiscated and turned over to the fish and game commission. Vernon E. Rudd, his brother, Kenneth R., and William R. Castleberry, all of San Francisco, were arrested at a fish and game checking station on Webber lake road by Game Wardens J. E. Hughes and Gene Durney, on the night of Sept. 18. They were caught in the act of.throwing the doe from their automobile when they sighted the fish and game checking sign at the edge of the road, The animal was thrown to the ground by two men, almost at the feet of Durney, while the third man, sitting in the car, shined a spotlight beam in the eyes of Hughes. The udder indicated the doe had been nursing a fawn, A saddle horse was. shot the opening day of deer season while it grazed at Big canyon, west of Sattley. The animal was taken there by a hunter to be used to carry. deer from the forest. The animal was shot through the intestines, wounded beyond treatment, and. had to be -destroyed. two-pointer e City Lighting Talk Is Scheduled for Monday The Nevada City planning commission will meet Monday with a representative of the Pacific Gas and Electric company at city hall to discuss city lighting problems. CORNING PLAYS HERE TONIGHT IN SECOND PRACTICE GRID GAME Nevada City high school’s undefeated Yellowjackets play the second practice game of the season tonight against Corning high school at Hennessy field, Grass Valley. Kick-off is scheduled for 8 p.m. There will be only one game as the Corning junior varsity was unable to make the long trip here with the varsity. Coach Douglas Watt said he will start the same line-up that opened the season last Friday in the Colusa game. Corning lost to a powerful Fortuna team, but still comes here with a high reputation. Watt has been stressing tackling practice all week in preparation for this game, Watt said Bob Smithson will quarterback the team. Dick Penrose and Melo Pello will-start at the halfbacks. Henry Anderson is fullback. Nevada City’s line will see Norman Ellis and Nick Pello at ends; Kent Walker and Ed Havey at tackles; Bill Basso and Bud Deschwanden at guards. Gordon Lageson wil hold the pivot post. The Yellowjackets opened the 1949 season Friday evening with a last-quarter 6-0 victory over Colusa high school. Dick ‘Penrose tossed’ a pass to Dean Morrison on the seven yard line. Morrison ran over the goal line for the game’s only touchdown. Henry Anderson intercepted a Colusa pass on the Nevada City 35 yard line to open the: Yellowjackets drive to score. Watt’s gridders played hard and rough. Four Yellowjackets were evicted from the game. 1948 Clipping Rule Is Retained in High School Last year’s interpretation of clipping and substitute rule will continue to be applied in football games of schools of the Sacramento Valley-San Joaquin area according to Douglas Watt, who with Principal E. A. Frantz, attended the special meeting of the C.F. in Lodi Saturday. new year are Rev. Donald Getty, . = -Grass Valley First Methodist church, president; Rev. John . Watson, First Baptist church of Grass Valley, vice president. . Retiring president is Rev. Wililard W. Turner and retiring sec. retary-treasurer is Rev. Paul Lewis. : Trinity Sunday School Cookie Sale October 8 A cookie and cake/sale will be held Satufday, Oct. 8, in front of the Alpha Hardware Co, store by the Sunday school of Trinity Episcopal church. Proceeds of the sale will be used toward purchase of motion picture projector for the Sunday school. Trinity Confirmation Class Starts Sunday Confirmation classes for children, 12 years and over, will commence Sunday at Trinity Episcopal church during Sunday school hour. Advertisement! Stepped into Smith’s Department Store the other noon and saw the strangest. thing. “Sis” Davis was coming up the stairs from the basement with a bundle of wash. “Ig Smitty taking in washing these days?” I asked. “Not quite,” she says. “He’s just put in a new automatic washing machine, so the girls who work here can get their laundry done while they’re eating lunch. Means more time to relax at night and on weekends.” I thought what a swell boss Smitty must be. Human relations between the boss and employees From where I'sit. by Joe Marsh Boost For Smitty! have certainly taken a big step forward during. my lifetime. From where I sit, people seem to be doing a better job of seeing our neighbor’s viewpoint these days. Though his ideas and tastes may not be ours, we can understand his preference for a certain breakfast cereal, a favorite movie star, or for a temperate glass of beer.or ale. That’s the way it should be in a free country. Go ase Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundation Students must have the BEST LIGHTING in your home! Guard against eyestrain in your home with better lighting. Steady eye use for studying and reading can be the principal cause of hot, inflamed eyes—the warning symptom of eyestrain. For the study desks and reading zones in your home make sure that the lighting is bright enough fog easy seeing and is free from glare and immediate shadow. Do as thousands of families are doing now — conduct a fall lighting check-up in your home. Fill empty sockets with right-size bulbs, replace old, blackened bulbs and make sure you have a supply of spare lamps of proper wattage. 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ay Smith. . Lester, Judy Mills, Pat Mingus, Frances ‘ter F. Gage, Mrs. Dorothy Slack, of Olive F. Perrin, who died Jan. GUESTS ‘ATTEND PI AWARDING PROGRAM More than 300 members, leaders and parents and guests were present Saturday evening in the Hennessy school auditorium, in ‘Grass Valley, to witness awarding of achievement pins to members of Nevada county clubs. Achievement pins are awarded each year by the California Bankers association to all members who have completed an approved project in agriculture or homemaking, and have submitted a complete record book. The following awards presented: Penn Valley: Billy Galetto, Nadine Watters, Lois Magonigal, ‘Ginger Gleason, Marion Galetto, Douglas Smith, Clayton Magonigal, Shannon Gleason, Jerrie Higgins, Don Painter, Patricia Smith, Lynn Gleason, Mrs. Isabelle. M. were Chicago Park Hornets: Dallas Renner,. Kay Rolph, Vonda Lugenbuehl, Brent Lugenbuehl, Elaine Blum, Eric Lyss, Darcy Murphy, Eloise Renner, Sharon Rolph, Simi Lyss, Tommy Murphy, Darlene Rolph, Bruce McDonald, Fern Rolph. Mooney Flat: Kim Hornsby, Robert Staples, Raymond Collins, Charles Staples, Fay Staples. Kentucky Flat: Marie Personeni, Helen Lester, John Carter, James Carter, Charles Ledbetter, Joanne Ledbetter, Irene Lester, Ernst Pugh, Rita Taylor, Albert Thomas, Carl Thomas, Frances P. Gates, Robert Lester, Phil Personeni Jr., Stuart Smith, Leslie Louis Lester, Juliana Smith, Mrs. Sylvia Lester, Mrs. Lillian Pugh. ‘ Banner: Gary Cowan, Keith Deniz, Dean Deniz, Jimmy Dunbar, Bobbie Dunbar, Ronald Palmerton, Jimmy = Parrish, Carol Parrish. : Eager Beavers: Beverly Giblin, Sylvia Hammill, Jerry Lawton, Nill Ardyth Porter, Karen Kohler, Bobbie Peterson, Dolores Porter, William Sturtevant, Marian Mawby, Elizabeth Peterson, Robert Steuber, Francis Viscia, Mrs, Malcolm Hammill, Mrs. H. A. Sturtevant. Forest Springs: Marion Byrd, Beverly Butler, Linda Engberg, Thelma Gage, Wanda George, Cecelia Hile, Mary. Johnson, William Pascoe, Sara Rooks, Jim Seeley, John Seeley, Eddie Strain, Jean-: nie Taylor, Robert Wilder, Royce Clemo, Frank Keeney, Loren Pingree, Richard Engberg, Ken Keeney, Lee Slack, Kent Pascoe, Mrs. Gladys Butler, Ed Clemo, Mrs. Florence Clemo, Mrs, Neva Engberg, Mrs. Mary Anne Gage, WalJack Townsend Jr. Nevada City: Thomas Bean, Dolores Davis, Wilma Davis, Barbara Girauard, Bonnie Haddy, Charles Holmes, Herman Nachtmann, Marilyn Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Schuldt, Mrs. Eve-. lyn Frank. . Union Hill: Fritz Hicks, Dick} Tremewan, Janet Bourquin, Pa-. tricia Schimke, Sara Beaver, Car. ol Beaver. . Forrest Varney, manager of the . Nevada irrigation district, award. ed the achievement pins. Senior 4-H caps were presented . Fay Staples, Tom Stark, Kent} Pascoe and Jack Townsend, Jr. SUPERIOR COURT FILINGS Coniplaing, to quiet title to, Nevada City property was filed Sept, 28, 1949, by Laura H. Foster, naming as defendants Dorothy Valantine, Elizabeth A. Val-! antine, Perry A. Phelps, Marcia E. Phelps, B. A. Valantine, Ralph Childers, Doris Childers, and J. E Valantine. John L.*Larue, Nevada City, is attorney for plaintiff. C. B. Grenfell appraised estate . 30, 1949, at $19,400. Heirs are Gladys Lucille Bennallack and Raymond Perrin. C. B. Grenfell appraised estate of T. J. Tierney, who died March 12, 1949, at $5,000. Estate of E. F. Tierney, who died March 1, 1949, at $5,000. Estate consists of real property in Grass Valley and interest in Gen. Grant quartz mine. Robert F. Berge waived cross action in divorce suit filed Sept. 8, 1949, by Helene F. Berge. The waiver was filed Sept. 21, 1949. Eugene H. Reader Sept. 22, 1949, filed answer to suit by William and and May L. Wasley denying allegations of negligence and damages and by way of cross complaint alleges plaintiff with carelessness and negligence and asks $271.64 damages. Frank G. Finnegan, Nevada City, is attorney for defendant. Plaintiff filed suite Sept. 13, 1949, charging defendant drove vehicle on highway 20 on May 11, 1948, causing a collision between cars of the two litigants 1% milés south of Nevada City. SUPERVISORS TO MEET Board of supervisors of Nevada county will meet tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock for the regular October session. Letters to The Editor The’ views and opinions appearing in this column, Lettgrs to The Editor, are not necessarily those of The Nugget. September 21, 1949 Sirs: The Wall Street Journal has been touted as one of the best edited newspapers published. For a time we were led to believe that the editor took a sane view of the gold question. Then came. an abrupt about-face in commending Secretary Snyder’s allergy to gold. 6 Snyder has always been a pain in the neck to the gold miner. The mere mention of an adjustment in the value of the metal or a return to the gold standard drove him to distraction because such a move would interfere with the administration’s manipulation of the currency, which has already been carried to such an extreme that it threatens the solvency of the nation. Here is some of the blow het, blow cold inconsistencies of the Journal’s editorial page: Feb. 9, :1949: “Political economists wrangle these days about what a currency is ‘worth.’ Out of this ‘wrangle they try to evolve pat little money patterns. Thirty-five dollars, say is ‘worth’ an ounce of gold. At least that is what they think it ought to be, and by heaven they’ll make it that way. ain important gold producing country (South Africa) has publicly proclaimed that the fund’s official value is unrealistic to say the least. The fund’s finely spun ‘currency exchange table has long since lost touch with reality. etc.” Then comes this contrasting excerpt from the same editorial pen on Aug, 25, 1949: “Secretary Snyder does well to emphasize his epposition to the proposal that the U. S. raise the price it pays for gold. One reporter writing from London says it would be painless to the American people. It certainly would not be painless at all. It. would raise prices in this country. It would reduce the purchase power of every savings account and every insurance policy. It would bear heavily on the thousands of pensioners and others with fixed incomes. etc.” We have been wondering if the editor has succumbed to the ravings of the so-called economic professors, whom the Journal has often said are always 100 per cent wrong and who have occupied considerable space on the editorial pages with their half-baked ideas on the gold question. The “raise” in the price of gold and the consequent devaluation of the. currency is a misnomer: The gold ‘miner has seen the price of copper, lead, zinc and tin advance 100 per cent since 1940, while the price of gold has remained static. The cost of living, for wkieh he doles out his paper federal reserve notes and his silver certificates, has increased over 40 per cent. In .other words, the depreciation of the currency is already an established fact and all the gold riiner asks is that the price of gold be adjusted to parity with the currency at the time Roosevelt plucked the $35 price out of thin air in 1934. We would like to ask what is so disturbing about that” In the meantime, as “Life” recently pictured, the miner sees Portugal buying gold for $35 and over !'selling 27 million dollars worth monthly for $50 an ounce to Hong Kong merchants and politicians, who are paying for it no doubt with. U. S. taxpayers’ dollars we have put up to bolster the Chiang regime. When gold was advanced 69 per cent in 1934 the prices of commodities were not affected in the leaSt in this country. To say that if gold is brought to parity with the present value of paper currency it will disrupt purchasing power is sheerest’ nonsense and contrary to the most elementary thinking. Now that Britain and many other countries have revised the price of gold upward to approximately $45.68, thus breaking the “unrealistic” values—as the Journal’s editor first remarked—it is hard’ to see how Mr. Snyder is going to maintain his $35 standard. The world is somewhat stunned by the recent turn of events and it will be perhaps several days before we will Know just how we will be affected in this country, but any effort to maintain the old price is going to be met with stiff opposition, not only from the gold producers but from the manufacturers generally who will insist on @ world wide standard of values. EDW. C. UREN, Nevada City. ¢ * a Sept. 25, 1949. Editor, The Nugget: We note, with interest, your prognostication on the StanfordHarvard fiasco last Saturday, _ We ask you, now, what kind of instruction in “the art of football” was it that the Ivy League boys were giving? : With Marchie’s boys steamrolling the easterners by the almost ungentlemanly score of 44-0 and everyone on the bench but the mascot putting in their, twobits worth, we are wondering if you haven’t underestimated the strength of tis west. Or who gave whom the lesson? I. M. ‘‘Red” NAIDNI Nevada City. q o (Editor’s Note): . Visual interpretation of the Stanford-Harvard “fiasco” is that the two clubs do not belong on the same field: Harvard tried to win a 1949 football game with 1920 methods—if two runs and a third down pass failed (and it usually.did) kick. Stanford could have made the score in three figures. Harvard’s only consolation from the game is the possession of the outstanding player on the field—Tackle Houston, definitely all-American. Despite the slaughter of his team the husky young man. outplayed his Indian opponent all through the game. But to do some serious prognosticating (Hey, Dons look that word up and see what it is we’re doing) we'll pick the following: Weeping: Waldorf’s Bears will take the Oregon State team by two or three or four touchdowns. Nevada to edge St. Mary’s. Santa Clara to swamp Fresno State (the poor Bulldogs). Despite Stanford’s adding machine scores we’re leery of that 7-3 Michigan nudge over Michigan State and will string along with the Wolverines in a. close one, vent Texas over Idaho. How did that one get on a schedule? Oregon should nudge UCLA tonight in Los Angeles. Washington State is our home college but we’ll have to give the nod to those big bad bruisers of Southern California. And, of course, Notre Dame over Washington. BOY SCOUT TROOP 24 REORGANIZES HERE Two patrols were formed at a reorganizational meeting of troop 24, Nevada City Boy Scouts at Seaman’s lodge.

Will Smith was elected leader of the Flying Eagle patrol and Bob Goss was named assistant. Stag patrol chose Peter Hill as leader and Eugéne Foote assistant. Under the rules of a two-month membership contest five points will be given for each new member and an additional 20 points will be given for each new member who passes tenderfoot test during the two-month period. The three scouts having the most points at the close of the contest will be awarded prizés by the Nevada City Rotary club, the sponsor of the troop. The first prize will be a full uniform. The two patrols are open for enrollment to boys 11 through 14 according to Ernest Chaney, the troop’s scoutmaster. Attending the meeting were: Will Smith, Bob Goss, Ronnie Williams, Bob Steger, Jim Shock, Bradley Crase, Peter Hill, Bobby Rideout, Eugene Foote, Ray Richardson, Edwin Starry and Clifford Pooler. Robert Piercy is assistant to Chaney. i Next meeting is Monday, 7 p.m. at Seaman’s lodge, Pioneer park. Former Resident Dies In Valley Community John Jefferson Snyder, 88, former resident of Nevada City, died recently in Oroville, where funeral services and interment were held. Snyder crossed the plains with his parents when he was less than a year old in 1862, He lived in Greenville before moving to Nevada City. RESERVATIONS CLOSE MONDAY FOR COLLEGE OF PACIFIC DINNER Reservations for the NevadaPlacer counties College of the Pacific centennial. dinner and rally will close Monday evening. The community affair scheduled for Wednesday evening will feature Dr. Tully C. Knoles, chancellor and veteran college educator, as guest speaker. Accompanying Knoles to Nevada county will be Dr. Robert. E. Burns, youthful president of the college and Dr. Jesse Rudkin, of the college staff. Program arrangément is splendid, indicating that while this is a salute to California’s first college, the evening can be enjoyed by all, This will be a,community affair with college songs, .color and special music, all for $1.25. Nevada City reservations can be made with Bill Tobiassen. It will be 100 years this October that Rev. Isaac Owen, missionary among the miners, arrived in Nevada county and worked. It was here he conceived the idea of a college and worked until it was established in’1852 at San Jose. Pacific was then the first college west of the Rockies and has served for almost one century. Pacific today is a college of liberal arts, privately endowed and church related, the only fully accredited institution of this character in all of northern California. It has over 500 graduates a year. Nevada county residents will have a splendid opportunity to meet Pacific leaders and salute a great institution at this meeting. NATIVE OF BLUE TENT SUCCUMBS IN CAPITAL Mrs. Hester Seibert, 78, native of Blue Tent, died Wednesday at her home in West Sacramento. The body was brought to NeFuneral Home where funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, with Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector of Nevada City Trinity Episcopal church, officiating. Interment will be in Pine Grove cemetery. Mrs. Seibert is survived by her husband, Lewis; son, Ralph, Irving, West Sacramento; sister, Mrs. M. Fuller, and a niece, Mrs. Helen Rohr, Fresno; three nephews, Frank P. Williams, Sacramento; Max Williams, Davis; and Archie Campbell, Nevada City; and a granddaughter, Mrs, L. Reynolds, West Sacramento. Ministers of County* . Elect New Officers . Rev. John A. MacDonald, pas;tor of Nevada City Community Baptist church, was elected secre. tary-treasurer of the Nevada County Ministerial Union last week in Grass Valley. Rev. MacDonald is retiring vice president, Other officers named for the vada City Wednesday by Holmes. Nevada City Nugget, Friday, September 30, 1949 — 3 Deer Tag Registrations J. T. Tilley, two-pointer at the Greenhorn district. E. Gasperott, two-pointer from Banner mountain. Albert Silva, four-pointer at Jones meadow. Roy Zimmerman, near Lake Vera. D. F. Kirkham, three-pointer at Marsh’s mill. Charles T. Meecke, four-pointer near Nevada City. Fred Reed, two-pointer near Woodchuck Flat. Richard W Hoskins, four-pointer, near Castle peak Wednesday. Bud Kyle, three-pointer, near Castle peak, Wednesday. A fine of $700 was paid by three hunters in the court of Alden Johnson, justice of peace of Downieville, when they pleaded guilty to illegal possession of doe. An M-1 army rifle which they admitted using to kill the doe was confiscated and turned over to the fish and game commission. Vernon E. Rudd, his brother, Kenneth R., and William R. Castleberry, all of San Francisco, were arrested at a fish and game checking station on Webber lake road by Game Wardens J. E. Hughes and Gene Durney, on the night of Sept. 18. They were caught in the act of.throwing the doe from their automobile when they sighted the fish and game checking sign at the edge of the road, The animal was thrown to the ground by two men, almost at the feet of Durney, while the third man, sitting in the car, shined a spotlight beam in the eyes of Hughes. The udder indicated the doe had been nursing a fawn, A saddle horse was. shot the opening day of deer season while it grazed at Big canyon, west of Sattley. The animal was taken there by a hunter to be used to carry. deer from the forest. The animal was shot through the intestines, wounded beyond treatment, and. had to be -destroyed. two-pointer e City Lighting Talk Is Scheduled for Monday The Nevada City planning commission will meet Monday with a representative of the Pacific Gas and Electric company at city hall to discuss city lighting problems. CORNING PLAYS HERE TONIGHT IN SECOND PRACTICE GRID GAME Nevada City high school’s undefeated Yellowjackets play the second practice game of the season tonight against Corning high school at Hennessy field, Grass Valley. Kick-off is scheduled for 8 p.m. There will be only one game as the Corning junior varsity was unable to make the long trip here with the varsity. Coach Douglas Watt said he will start the same line-up that opened the season last Friday in the Colusa game. Corning lost to a powerful Fortuna team, but still comes here with a high reputation. Watt has been stressing tackling practice all week in preparation for this game, Watt said Bob Smithson will quarterback the team. Dick Penrose and Melo Pello will-start at the halfbacks. Henry Anderson is fullback. Nevada City’s line will see Norman Ellis and Nick Pello at ends; Kent Walker and Ed Havey at tackles; Bill Basso and Bud Deschwanden at guards. Gordon Lageson wil hold the pivot post. The Yellowjackets opened the 1949 season Friday evening with a last-quarter 6-0 victory over Colusa high school. Dick ‘Penrose tossed’ a pass to Dean Morrison on the seven yard line. Morrison ran over the goal line for the game’s only touchdown. Henry Anderson intercepted a Colusa pass on the Nevada City 35 yard line to open the: Yellowjackets drive to score. Watt’s gridders played hard and rough. Four Yellowjackets were evicted from the game. 1948 Clipping Rule Is Retained in High School Last year’s interpretation of clipping and substitute rule will continue to be applied in football games of schools of the Sacramento Valley-San Joaquin area according to Douglas Watt, who with Principal E. A. Frantz, attended the special meeting of the C.F. in Lodi Saturday. new year are Rev. Donald Getty, . = -Grass Valley First Methodist church, president; Rev. John . Watson, First Baptist church of Grass Valley, vice president. . Retiring president is Rev. Wililard W. Turner and retiring sec. retary-treasurer is Rev. Paul Lewis. : Trinity Sunday School Cookie Sale October 8 A cookie and cake/sale will be held Satufday, Oct. 8, in front of the Alpha Hardware Co, store by the Sunday school of Trinity Episcopal church. Proceeds of the sale will be used toward purchase of motion picture projector for the Sunday school. Trinity Confirmation Class Starts Sunday Confirmation classes for children, 12 years and over, will commence Sunday at Trinity Episcopal church during Sunday school hour. Advertisement! Stepped into Smith’s Department Store the other noon and saw the strangest. thing. “Sis” Davis was coming up the stairs from the basement with a bundle of wash. “Ig Smitty taking in washing these days?” I asked. “Not quite,” she says. “He’s just put in a new automatic washing machine, so the girls who work here can get their laundry done while they’re eating lunch. Means more time to relax at night and on weekends.” I thought what a swell boss Smitty must be. Human relations between the boss and employees From where I'sit.. by Joe Marsh Boost For Smitty! have certainly taken a big step forward during. my lifetime. From where I sit, people seem to be doing a better job of seeing our neighbor’s viewpoint these days. Though his ideas and tastes may not be ours, we can understand his preference for a certain breakfast cereal, a favorite movie star, or for a temperate glass of beer.or ale. That’s the way it should be in a free country. Go ase Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundation Students must have the BEST LIGHTING in your home! Guard against eyestrain in your home with better lighting. Steady eye use for studying and reading can be the principal cause of hot, inflamed eyes—the warning symptom of eyestrain. For the study desks and reading zones in your home make sure that the lighting is bright enough fog easy seeing and is free from glare and immediate shadow. Do as thousands of families are doing now — conduct a fall lighting check-up in your home. Fill empty sockets with right-size bulbs, replace old, blackened bulbs and make sure you have a supply of spare lamps of proper wattage. 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