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April 11, 1946 (4 pages)

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oe “deena renee = a * posed, =o The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month _ “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to gaurd and defend it.”—Daniel Webster . Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ gget —— Tis papér gives you complebe. coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. a Vol. 20, No. 29 The County Seat Paper NEV ADA CITY, CALIFORNIA Tha Gold Center _THURSDAY, APRIL ll, 1946 THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. By GUEST COLUMNIST We are accustomed the year aroond to see the white clad nurse with the black bag hurrying from call to eall along the highways and byways of Nevada City and Grass Valley. Now comes the time when we are asked to join in a community wide educational program that will make us ‘better acquainted with her work. This week will be celebrated throughout the country as Know Your Public Health Nurse Week. Public health is a service greatly concerned with the ‘physical and mental health of each and every one of us. Its goal is to build a community and nation of people-more resistane to sickness. This goal has been backed up by you through a Nevada County Public Nurse Service financed by the cities of Nevada City and Grass Valley and the Board of Supervisors. aiian ANDERSON AND FLEISHACKERS BUY MINE The Columbia Consolidated Mines located on Canyon, Creek two miles east of Washington, Nevada County _ it was announced yesterday, has been purchased by Fred Anderson, general manager of the Ancho Erie Mine, associated with Mortimér' ‘Fleishacker and Mortimer Fleishacker Jr. of San Francisco. The Columbia Mines includes the Ocean Star and the German Mines situated in the slate belt in the same vicinity. They were last operated in 1917-18 by E. C. Klinker for Hawinterests. Klinker installed a power plant on Canyon Creek and operated a ten stamp mill and ‘brought his ore to the mill over an aerial tramway 1000 feet long. The group of mines are atthe site . . of the old mining camp of Ormonde, estabM8hed in the 1880s which in its heyday boasted a hotel, general store, “ Postoffice and a saloon. The The program is sponsored by the Red Cross of which Miss Berniece. Glasson is chairman. Mrs. Margaret . Reed of Nevada City is visiting nurse . assigned to all of Nevada County. . Since 1938 over 10,000 home “ have been made. Of particular concern at this, time . . is the public health nurse’s partici-. pation in the vaccination for smallpox and in the veterans assistance! program. Calls to veterans and their . families totaled 47 in March and at! the present time the traveling nurse . is giving care to 29 pre-natal: cases. Sponsored by Grass Valley, Nevada City and the Nevada ‘Board of Supervisors and administered by the Red Cross of both towns! the community nursing service offers the skilled rare of a graduate registered nurse in your home on a. part: ‘time basis. Charge for regular service is. $1 per visit. Those unable to pay the full amount may pay what they can afford. Service is always free to . those unable to pay. (Mre. Margaret Reed invites all those in n€€d of the Public Health . Nurse to phone and Igave messages at either city_hall or by phoning the Health Nurse at her office in the Grass Valley public library building, Telephone Grass Valley 354J. Amy ; doctor will be able to contact the! Public Health Nurse Service. DATES, INNIS. VEALE ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL S. Bates, incumbent, wag rewee to the city council in Wedmesday’s balloting and Arthur Innis was second high man on the list of four candidates for two seats. Charles Veale sole candidate for the two year unexpired term of the late Antone Rore was elected without opposition. There were 436 votes cast Tally of the ballots gave A.S. Bates 347, Arthur Innis 304, George R. Crosby 105 and Byron E. Brock 53. Unopposed Charles Veale received 389 votes. George H. Calanan was reelected city clerk and’ Mrs. Emma Foley city treasurer. Neither was opCounty . ! Girl Scout Troop Holds Treasure Hunt Saturday may have been a gloomy day for some folks, but for the Girl Scouts of Troop No. 4 anid their leaders it was a fine day. They left the scout hall at. 11 a. m. in search of hidden treasure. Clues were placed at different points throughout the eity and ending at Pioneer Park where the ‘treasure was found. Cokes and ice cream to go with their nose bag lunches, The hunt was organized by two of the girls Patricia Sturtevant gnd Joyce Phillips: Eighteen girls and their leaders participated' in games after lunch. There attending were Rae Buster, Patricia Sturtevant, Joyce’ Phillips, Dorothea Smart, Mary Bertino, Gloria Larson, Barbara Girouard, Alice Hansen, Georgine Danos, Irma Kendrick, Irma Steger, Anita Orzalli, Roberta Hurst, Charlotte Peterson, Lila Swazey, Shirley Baker, . Sally Yancy, Rosemary Wilson,. Mrs. Warren Poulson, Mrs. Norene Dow. ) . o’clock Chureh in Grass Valley jed and Edward Burnett. town was supported mainly by mini ers employed in the Washington , Mine by Alfred Tregidgo, who managed it for the German interests. DR.R.L. RUDKIN SUCCUMBS Dr. Ralph L. Rudkin of Glenbrook Heights who died yesterday in the . StanfordsLane Hospital in San. Fran-} ' cisco will be borne to rest tomorrow . afternoon Elm. Ridge following funeral services the Hooper Rev.. Hy 3d: Sacramento will conduct the service. Dr. Rudkin brother of Rey. tudking, of thé in at, *two in and Weaver Mortuary. Jesse pastor Methodist was born years ago in Iowa. He had only residin Glenbrook since last’ January coming from Tracy, San Joaquin County where ‘practiced dentistry for a score of years. Surviving are his .wife, Mre,. Amy Rudkin and ‘four children, Wayland M. and Ralph Rudkin Jr., Mrs. Marion ‘Frances Mann and Virginia Rudkin. he Durbrow and Directors Attend Irrigation Meet William Durbrow, manager of the Nevada Irrigation District and members of the board of directo left yesterday afternoon to attend a twoday convention of the Irrigation Districts Association that opened today for the first time since the war began, at Redding, Shasta County. Directors attending the conwvention are Thomas Mulcahy, Harlan E. Wheeler, Ted Schwartz, Joseph Lynne Kelly, counsel and °Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Elizabeth Frey secretary were included in the party. Fire Damages Bennallack Home In Grass Valley The State Division of Forestry fire crews and trucks from Nevada City and -the Grass Valley Fire Department were called out shortly after noon yesterday to fight a fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Bennallack on the Empire mine grounds. The fire believed to have originated in the roof from a defective flue, destroyed a large portion of the rof and charred several of the walls. While the damage was large no estimate of its extent was available yesterday. SCHOOLS TO PRESENT EASTER CANTATA The Crucifixion. an Baster cantata will be sung in the auditorium of the Nevada City high school by 75 students, members of the school choruses tomorrow evening at 8:15 Included in the evening’s program will be addresses by Rev. Joseph Moore and, Rev. Virgil Gabrielli. Mxs: Carl Libbey in charge of vocal niusie in the school will direct the cantata. 42 . THE RUNAWAY ! Vf, SEVEN TY-FIVE —AND— NEVADA CITY YEARS AGO EF'IEFTY YEARS AGO NEVADA CITY 50 YEARS AGO Cemetery) ;at Kitts Sawmill. Richards of! Dr. W. C. Jones, A. H. Tickell today ‘gical operation Love Sw: performed a suron Mrs, John Valley lives The operation vealed a serious case of appendictiis. Miss Ahart Mrs. W. G. RichJones and sjoy of Grass who rePersonal Pointers: of Lincoln is visiting ards. Dr. Willis and wife, of Grass Valiley were here on a wisit today. Lord Houseman one of the directors ofthe Citizens Bank is very Si€K. It was thought last night that he couldn’t live through the night. A beautiful oil paimting of the suspension bridge is now on exhibition at Stein Bros. Store and will be raffled for fifty cents a chance on or aboutDec. 31 this year. Tickets for sale at Stein’s. 3 The called meeting of Evangeline Chapter, Order of E’astern Star held last evening was. largely attended. There was an initiation of candidates from the Ridge and at the close of the meeting a collation was served. Yesterday another lot of rich quartz was taken owt of the Neversweat Mine in Willow Valley, one large piece weighing about 300 pounds being covered with gold. The quartz generally shows considerable free gold and the inid@ications are that the rich strike will -develop into @ ‘permanent pay shoot. There is a law against using profane and obscene language on the public streets, but it is violated nearly every day in Nevada City. (Is there still such a law 7?) It was not Wm. Magonigal who died in Yuba County yesterday but his wife whose death occurred at INewbert. Mrs. Magonigal was formerly Miss Ella Bowman and was well known in Grass Valley.The deceased was greatly esteemed by all who knew her, SEVENTY FIVE YEARS AGO—1871 Spirit of the Times (Transcript—— March 7, 1871). What we want at the head of the state fovernment is a man of honor and integrity; of courage and-independenice; the possessor of the greatest of all virtues in a public man, the power and the will to say ‘ino’; whose back is braced with iron and not with millions; whose moral character is. spotless; whose ambition is to do right and who has no fear in the execution of his work;; whose aim is the advancement of the interests of the people and not a stumbling block in their way; who would scorn to doa dishonorable act and who would refuse to lend himself to the schemes of corrupt politicians or any other class of plunderers, Have we such a man in our statte? No Hurry — The San Francisco
coroner has an expeditious way of doing business. He has just held an inquest upon the body of 4a Chinaman who hung himself last November. (Advt.) Freeman’s Broom Factory, Middle Yuba.Creossing: Always success of the, jon hand, the finest quality of brooms . ants of Ne-. . Thomas i the County made in state. Merch vada supplied upon order. Freeman, North Nevada County. San’ Juan, (Adxt.) Niles Searls, Counselor at Law, and Pine Streets, over Beckman’s saloon Nevada. Attorney and Office cor. Broad junior vice com. We learn ‘that the survey of a line. . ; i . mande Carl Hieronimus, chaplain; for a railroad from this city to Pee L. Childers, officer of the Marysville was made with great care . day; Dennis -E. Coughlan Jr. athe by Mr. Harris and his associates “. Stamley Jones, color bearers; .Leroy oe engineer is now engaged in mak. Hoskins and Charles Hoskins, color ing up his reports of estimates or . squads; Robert Paine, adjutant and cost, etc. When this is done the start . Joseph Day, quartermaster. ing point for been obtained. Special Notice: The person that took that cloak by mistake at: Goldsmith’s is requested to return it immediately, otherwise it will be called for. (Advt.) Faulkner Livery Stables, Grass Valley. Fine saddle. horses. None but experienced buggy teams and careful grooms employed. Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. ‘Woman Suffrage: The Woman Suffragé Association of this city will meet at Library Hall this evening at half past 7 o'clock. All members of the association and friends of the ‘cause are invited to attend. The Divining Rod and Quartz: The “Gold Wizzard” has been around. He has a “dooflicker’’y consisting. of two rods of whalebone with a metallic ball on the end and the ball twists the instrument where gold indications are strong. It is reported he visited the Eureka but his instrument indicated there wag a richer spot in the direction of Spring Hill. We are informed that men with capital, who have confidence in Peck, fare backing him in his enterprise. FIVE HUNDRED VACCINATED ON TUESDAY ‘Dr. ‘Norbert Frey and Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger school nurse, spent a. busy day Tuesday vaccinating 500 adults at the clinic in the elementary school. -A charge of 25e for each vaccination was made and any profit over the cost of vaccine and other expenses was turned into the school héalth fund. Dr. Frey and Dr. B. W. Hummeit vaccinated the students in the elementary school Wednesday. Dr. W. W. Reed had charge of vaccination of high school students today. Wednesday evening X-ray examinations of student chest cavities were made at the elementary school . along with the vaccination operation. This is part of the State Board of Health annual prevention campaign for tuberculosis. ; Were’in memorium, . ley, . tor, . {to Carley and. /C. . . . Leonard T. Hodges. a railroad will as NOW FLY FROM TREE PLANTINGMEMORIAL FOR N.C. WAR DEAD Banner Mountain Post of Foreign Wars with the cooperaganizations next Sunday, April 14th will plant trees at a memorial to 24 Nevada City service men who their lives in the late war. The services will be held between the hours of 2.a@d 3 p. m. The fire bell will toll during the hour. Five minutes of silence will follow the opening -of the memorial hour at 2 o’clock. lost Twenty four trees will be planted the vicinity of Seaman’s Lodge Pioneer’s Park. in The Nevada City will take part in the sérvices. A military salute to the departed will be given by a rifle squad. The soldiers and sailors of Nevada war and for whom Sunday’s services were William . Graham Bennett, Ernest Albert Conti, Eugene Davies, Fred Dohm, Merton Downey, Tevis Feri guson, Caswell Fisher, Bert Graham: Carl E. La Cross, William R. y, David McCraney, Louis G. James M. Odegaard, William Glen Ponticelli, Robert D. Eugene Rickard, Virgil Clifford Max Ruth, Walter O. St: Tékt Tobiassen Jr., and Gus ws asLiveNotz, Poh. Proc-} borough, Shurtleff, Carl: J. ley. Banner’ Mountain its ritual will to the memory Post according dedicate the trees of ghe dead. Participating in the ceremony will be Fred commander-glect; Jamsenior Garrison, es Jeffers, Mayor Ben Hall the principal address. will deliver Rev. Virgil Gabrielli will say the ‘benediction, NINE PLANES N.C. AIRPORT A good reason for improving the Nevada City Airport. and for supporting the Nevada City Benefit Airport Dance being put on April 27 by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce was revealed yesterday when it was announced by T. R. Bowles, ainport manager that several Nevada Cityans have recently passed CAA flight examinations and that traffic of ‘the local port is increasing rapidly. On April 4, E. J. Leimentine, CAA flight examiner and Mr. Pysany aircraft inspector gave permits and examinations to the following fliers at the port. Student permits Mac Carter, Carl F. Anderson. Sofo flight: Mac Carter. Private licenses: Cecile Durbrow Baker, Michael Paul. Recently Cliff Carter brought an Ercoupe plane on the port, one of the most modern family planes in the aircraft industry. The certified spin proof plane has a 75 horse power engine, gets 22 miles per gallon and a cruising radius of 500 miles with maximum speed of 127 miles per hour, Bowles reports there are now nine planes on the airport all privately owned, ranging from 65 hp to 450 hp engines. He states interest in the local port and flying are increasing rapidly with an indication that when the port is completely smoothed out it will be one of the more popular ports.in this district. It was also announced that Rebert A. Nuys has written for an air;craft mechanics examination and is studying at the Nevada City airport. . Harry F. Gouge has been honorably discharged from the U. S. Navy. ! Veterans . tion of the city council and civie or-. high school band and choral singers . City who gave their lives in the late. Chapman, ; } Agee vice commander; . {on December 10 and. continue through. MINE WORKERS — LEAGUE ASKS FOR HIGHER PAY ‘Managers of the Idaho Maryland ‘Mines Company and the Empire Star Mines Company Ltd. have received a letter from the Mine Workers Protective League asking for an increase of 18 1-2 cents an hour in wages. . The league is. the bargaining be iad for the local mines. The letter reads: ‘‘Due to the advanced costs of living inthis area, the workers are asking for more wag63. “Tn line with the recent advances granted: in other industries we are asking for an 18 1-2 per hour raise of $1.48 a day. “We: would ‘like your. company to _ meet with an executive committee a6 soon as possible to discuss this wage question, the time and place to be at your eonvenience.”’ The letter was signed by Russell Miller, president and E. J. Jones, recording secretary. The average wage now paid minin this district is $40.44 perweek which includes 8 hourg overee. ers F ARM BUREAU OF NATION TO ” MEET INS. F. SAN FRANCISCO, Apri 11—For the first time in its history the Am;erican Farm Bureau Federation today selected San Francisco as the site for its national convention this year. The. convention scheduled for earlyDecember will bring .more thas 17500 farm leaders from all parts of ‘the country to San Francisco and will be one of the top events in the city’s growing list of conventions. Preliminary schedules provide for +a meeting of the federation’s resolnutions committee on December 5. Tha board of directors will ‘gather on December 7 and on December 9 var~ ious commodity groups will meet te discuss matters pertaining to vegetable, fruit and field crops and to the dairy and livestock industries. On the same day the Associated Women of the Farm Bureau Federation will hold their own convention. Regular sessions of the federation's nationlal convention will begin December 12. President. Edward A. O'Neal, of Alabama will preside. One feature gf the entertainment for the delegates will be a rodeo and barbecue. Other events are being planned. Petty Officer In Navy Killed In Accident The Navy Department Tuesday notified Al Davis an electrician resid-— ing in Grass Valley that his brother (Chief Petty Officer Robert E. Davie had died at Jacksonville, Florida, as the result of an accident. The body is being forwarded to Grass Valley to Myers Mortuary ‘Chapel and! is expected to arrive Saturday. No details concerning the ac cident. were received. Funeral gervices have been set tentatively for Monday April 15. Davis was a native of Colorado aged 26 years. He had been a resident of Grass Valley’ for 12 years. Arrangements are being maddie for a military funeral service. : Hundreds In Grass Valley Seek Vaccination Spurred by report of the first case of smallpox in Grass *Valley during the present epidemic along the Pacific Coast, hundreds of adults and children were vaccinated Tuesday at the high school and the James S. Hennessy school by Dr. D. L. i: aided ‘by school nurges. Zi It a kine that vecatana . would continue throughout Wedr ‘day at both’ the schools. Students rural echools were invited to be cinated at the James S. He . sechool and “the same pie dies: extended to the pupils of . Mary’s Academy. eee ’ Pa