April 16, 1937 (6 pages)

ey FRIDAY, APRIL. 16, 1937. NEVADA SRS NUGGET , _HINDENBERGAIR . . ="“"Tangled and Untangled Finance =. _. STATE CHAMBER FISCAL FUNCTIONS OF THE STATE PRESENT DISTRIBUTION me [voreas ] ‘3 ' aa SHIP MAY VISIT S, F. BRIDGE FETE MEETING TODAY F. C. Tatton, district manager of the California State Chamber of ‘é ~ Wine aan 3 Commerce, was in Nevada City yesFRANCISCO, April 15.—The i ~-~— ay terday contacting committee’ memgiant German airship Hiindenfbere GOVERNOR ave ; % bers of the state chamber. He is anxmay visit San Francisco to participI ie : ie Y ious for a good representation from fs be . 7 : : : ate in the ceremonies opening the ~~ L ; = ea aa as late page pasta? Boare ( i i tate in Gélden Gai eh j i ar council meeting o © i a ae Brides and Fiesta on sett Chamber in Sacramento today. May 28. Among those committees will be This became known today as Mayagriculture, conservation, industry, highway and taxation. PUBLIC CARD PARTY POSTPONED TO APR. 28 The public card party which the Nevada City Woman’s Civic Club had planned for tonight, has been postponed. There have been so many card parties and other affairs that the club ladies decided to postpone their party until Wednesday night, April 28, and it is hoped by the ladies that there will be a large attendance at that ‘time. EXPERT FENCE BUILDER TAKE CONTRACTS HERE E. Jameson, the chain link and metal fence man of Sacramento, is working in town this week. Any one wanting work done in that line leave word at the National Hotel. Adv. or Rossi dispatched letters to Secretary of the Navy Swanson and Secretary of War Woodring asking the government’s formal authorization for the Hindenberg to use the mooring mast at Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, 40 miles south of here. The mayor’s action followed correspondence with Dr. Hugo Eckener, 4 commander of the airship, who dis‘elosed that the Hindenberg would arrive at Lakehurst, N. J. late in May to inaugurate summer service between Germany amd the United States. If necessary arraligementa can be carried out, it is planned to have the Hindenberg leave Lakehurst on May 26 and arrive the following day at Sunnyvale. Its arrival would enable it to fly PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION over the Golden Gate bridge May 28 when it is formally opened to traffic [voters . at colorful cefemonies in which cay; alcades from Canada, Mexico and . : Z There's a big difference in coal ——and you as a layman, may not know how to select it. The first principle is to choose the firm whose experience and record o sales and customers insures you of the best at fair prices. Call— The sage Ice Co. PHONE 57 the western states will participate be while squadrons of ‘army and navy . _ GOVERNOR. REASURER A ghee WATER FOR PLACER MINING m Dome a planes soar overhead. aaa acta nie aba William P. Clerkin, W. I. Snook MAT RESS The suggestion that the German and C. M. Sitton of Birchville were hs 3 airship be invited to the bridge opWee business visitors in Nevada City SatREBUILT $2.50 ‘f INGS ening celebration came from JosPENOEMT urday. All three men are interested Dey: So eph E. Strauss, chief engineer of the pee FE Aah gedeg Aika iesniv't f in mining on the ‘San Juan Ridge. CUSHIONS, REPAIRED The past season. has brought an abundance of water and it is hoped hydraulic mining will be resumed ‘before long. Clerkin operates a catbridge, and close personal friend of Dr. Eckener. It was then taken up with the (Zeppelin corporation 1a DIAMOND MATTRESS COMPANY South Auburn Road at Grass ao Taa Awreacs Germany. Ges roov % ‘ Valley City Limits The successful operation /of air: Psa tle ranch also. Bad winters have cut hon 474 down his herd from several hundred to only thirty head to be wintered in the mountains this past season. He said heavy snows and extreme cold his killed off the wild oats, clover and other wild grasses until feed is very poor this spring. Snook, who has just returned from a visit ships, according to Dr. Eckener, depends upon favorable weather and air conditions and he said that these were assured at Sunnyvale in May. The Hindenberg has never visited the Pacific coast. In 1929 the Graf Zeppelin flew over the bay region ar-. ’ rape eal Or FIM ANCR tei : “a * 4 fy Adrienne ween? — ae” -—— —— a * ff Le riving from Japan on a flight around SACRAMENTO, April 16.ccDediak the. world. ing state finances to be out of control with haphazard commitments, ipre-auditing without adequate records, post-auditing iby the spending agency itself and confusion and absurdities in the division of responsibilities? thé\Interim Committee of \j. the State Conference on Government and Taxation today filed, with Governor Merriam and the legislature its first report proposing installation of a state ‘business efficiency system’ involving sweeping changes. The report is the result of nearly a year’s study of state finances by a statewide committee representative of labor, ‘business, agriculture and women ‘organizations ‘based upon facts compiled by Griffenhagen and “Pa, did you go.to Sunday school when you were a boy?” “Yes, my son, I always went to Sunday school.’ “Well dad, I think I’ll quit going. It. ain’t doing me any good either.” anaes —— NEVADA CITY @ SANITARIUM °” flizabeth McD. Watson, Prop. Open to all reputable are Physicians and Surgeons . Associates, public administation = . specialists. "i A drastic saving in the $10,000,000 biennial cost of collecting taxes in California is outlined in the report which is signed by Francis V. Keesling, distinguished San Francisco lawyer and chairman of the committee that drafted the bay city’s FRATERNAL AND CLUB DIRECTORY new charter, chairman, James L: Beebe, Los Angeles lawyer of the . firm of O’Melvery, Tuller and Myers, and public spirited citizen, vice chairman, and the others of the interim committee of twenty five. HYDRAULIC PARLOR NO. 56, N. S. G. W. Meets every Tuesday evening at Pythian Castle, 232 Broad Street. Visiting Native Sons welcome. The report recommends the creation of a State Department’of Revenue to which are transferred all tax = collecting functions and _ person'nel _ALLEN JONES, President, DR. C. W. CHAPMAN, Rec. me now scattered through various departments, the broadéning of the auditing powers of the Controller under the new title of State Auditor General and the centralization of accounting in the Department of Finance. Chairman . Keesling and _ Vice Chairman Beebe will seek in this Session legislation complementary to constitutional amendments to put the state business efficiency plan into effect. The program announced by the committee would strip the Board of Equalization.of all power save the county valuations, assessments of publie-utilities and liquor licensing and regulation, the last not being considered by the committee. The committee proposes that accounting Ibe unscramlbled. from the present departments and be centralized in the Department of Finance, which is part of the state administration that may tbe in power, and placed under a strong independent and elected Auditor General created from. the present position of Controller. The proposed Department of Reyenue would be administered by a new director who would supervise WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and fourth Mondays of the month, at the Brand Studio. Pres., Mrs. Harley M. Leete. Sec., Mrs. Beverly Perron; \ Nevada City Lodge, No. 518, B. P. O. Hiks Meets second and jones Bais day evenings in Elks home, Pine Street. Phone 108. Visiting Dike welcome. ROLAND WRIGHT, Exalted Ruler .PHILLIP. SCADDEN, Secretary. yet. $150 to $250 So Stele Desirable, Economica: Comfortable, Convenien: other license fees incidental to regulation of business. Pointing out that no state officer was originally set up as a tax collector and that the present ‘‘system’’ grew out of a condition in which 98 per cent of all state*revenues were collected by the counties, the committee declares that inefficient methods of accounting had cost the state $2,000,000 of interest due partly to unnecessary special funds anddelays in deposits of cash. Specific recommendations in the report filed today with the governor and legislature are: 1. That a Department of Reyenue be created, administered -iby a Director of Revenue, ‘to collect aii state taxes, personnel to be obtained by transfers. 2. That the equalization of county valuations and public utility assessments remain a function of the Board of Eqalization. 3. That there be created in the Department of Revenue a Tax Commission composed of the director and four division heads to direct a: re-search staff in collection of statistics on state revenue and in the development of suggestions from improvements. 4. That-there be created a Board of Tax Appeals for hearing and determining appeals from the Director of Revenue or any other state officer on rate, amount or legality of any tax question. The board shall be appointed by the governor with consent of the senate. 5. Phat the functions of the Department of Finance be clarified and extended to include all budgeting, accounting, pre-auditing (or the checking of the propriety of an expenditure before it is made) control of commitments and disbursemnts, current auditing ‘of revenues and_ receipts, financial reporting, purchasing, property control, and related procedure, Further, that the function of post-auditing be transferred from the Department of Finance to the poposed elected Auditor General. 6. That ‘the Controller be made Auditor General and designated an independent audit officer not a part of the administrative organization of the state government, empowered and directed to conduct continuing audits of all the operations and the transactions of the fiscal agencies of the state (revenue, finance and treasury) to determine the adequacy of the controls in effect and to detect and report violations of fiscal laws or the terms of appropriation acts. Also that he be directed to conduct periodic audits of .all_ state agencies. 7. That the Director of Revenue be substituted for the Controller as ex-officio member of the Board of Equalization. 8. That the Treasurer be maintained a separate office but limited to receipt, deposit, investment and the collection of all state revenues 161 POWELL including the income tax, motor veh; AT O’FARRELL icle license taxes, “in lieu’’ automo. SAN FRANCISCO . bile taxes and liquor excise taxes but seep not including liquor license fees nor disbursement of moneys, but that the investment power be exerecised only with prior approval of the Director of Finance 9 .That necessary legislation pe adopted at this session, to be éffective upon the approval by the people of constitutioal amendments required to put the entire plan intoexecution. 10. That a constitutional amendment be adopted defining anid limiting the state debt with provisions for emergency borrowings. 11. That. no more junior colleges nor state colleges be set up nor the scope of existing ones expanded until a coordinated policy be arrived at by the legislature. 12. That, for the next biennium because the burden is_ uncertain, there be no further liberalization of old age or other pensions. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sauvee and Miss Bernice Clemo are spending this week at Wilbur Springs, Colusa county. They are expected home Sunday. IS YOUR HEARING GETTING WORSE? SEE NEW ACOUSTICON, Guaranteed for Life Consultation in Your FREE Home. Anywhere Northern California, Westrn Nevada. ACOUSTICON INSTITUTE 1021 K Street Phone Main 670 Sacramento, Calif. in San Diego, displayed a fine specimen of the semi-precious stone, pink tourmaline. UNION HOTEL BARBER -~ SHOP MAIN STREET Ladies’ and Children’s Hair Cutting . R. L. Kirby NEVADA COUNTY . {. . _ Banner Gold County of Scientifically Harmonized, Cosmetics i Today’s most perfect and most beautifully packaged 50c line of cosmetics Pion 100 Stationery Headquarters THE REXALL DRUG STORE California Annual production over $7,000,000 For Information Address Chamber of Commerce Nevada City, Calif. SAFE AND LOCKSMITH . KEYS made while you wait Bicycles, Steel tapes, var cuum cleaners, washing machines, electric irons, stoves, rithe or sensa’ iets Be Comfortable etc., repaired _ Get Your SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS MATTRESSES tt ia ro egg Repaired and Cleaned by Light Welding John W. Darke . . . rays cr sHop Commercial! St. Nevada City 220 East Main < . Phone 602 109 J. Phones 109M. GRASS ,y ALLEY Sa THE WORLD’ S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every day through FHE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An International Daily tease ane world’s clean, constructive ’ the se teeta Magazine section 3 peitior oe bles “igo Lee * batted 6 months $4.50 Name.The Christian Science Publishing Society One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts grag my subscription to The Christian Science Monitor for q yrar $0 00 Wednesday Issue, Including Magazine Section: 1 year $2.60, 6 issues 25c, 3 months $2.25 1 month 75c BODEN cciccimameeen sae Sample “Copy « on Request ; ; —~—— i ee If You Are in the Market for JOB » PRINTING Bring it to the Nugget Office SELECT FROM THE FINEST GRADE AT KEYSTONE Careful Attention ‘to Telephone Orders: SLICED COLD MEATS OUR SPECIAL HAMBURGER ROLLED ROAST POT ROASTS

ey FRIDAY, APRIL. 16, 1937. NEVADA SRS NUGGET , _HINDENBERGAIR . . ="“"Tangled and Untangled Finance =. _. STATE CHAMBER FISCAL FUNCTIONS OF THE STATE PRESENT DISTRIBUTION me [voreas ] ‘3 ' aa SHIP MAY VISIT S, F. BRIDGE FETE MEETING TODAY F. C. Tatton, district manager of the California State Chamber of ‘é ~ Wine aan 3 Commerce, was in Nevada City yesFRANCISCO, April 15.—The i ~-~— ay terday contacting committee’ memgiant German airship Hiindenfbere GOVERNOR ave ; % bers of the state chamber. He is anxmay visit San Francisco to participI ie : ie Y ious for a good representation from fs be . 7 : : : ate in the ceremonies opening the ~~ L ; = ea aa as late page pasta? Boare ( i i tate in Gélden Gai eh j i ar council meeting o © i a ae Brides and Fiesta on sett Chamber in Sacramento today. May 28. Among those committees will be This became known today as Mayagriculture, conservation, industry, highway and taxation. PUBLIC CARD PARTY POSTPONED TO APR. 28 The public card party which the Nevada City Woman’s Civic Club had planned for tonight, has been postponed. There have been so many card parties and other affairs that the club ladies decided to postpone their party until Wednesday night, April 28, and it is hoped by the ladies that there will be a large attendance at that ‘time. EXPERT FENCE BUILDER TAKE CONTRACTS HERE E. Jameson, the chain link and metal fence man of Sacramento, is working in town this week. Any one wanting work done in that line leave word at the National Hotel. Adv. or Rossi dispatched letters to Secretary of the Navy Swanson and Secretary of War Woodring asking the government’s formal authorization for the Hindenberg to use the mooring mast at Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, 40 miles south of here. The mayor’s action followed correspondence with Dr. Hugo Eckener, 4 commander of the airship, who dis‘elosed that the Hindenberg would arrive at Lakehurst, N. J. late in May to inaugurate summer service between Germany amd the United States. If necessary arraligementa can be carried out, it is planned to have the Hindenberg leave Lakehurst on May 26 and arrive the following day at Sunnyvale. Its arrival would enable it to fly PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION over the Golden Gate bridge May 28 when it is formally opened to traffic [voters . at colorful cefemonies in which cay; alcades from Canada, Mexico and . : Z There's a big difference in coal ——and you as a layman, may not know how to select it. The first principle is to choose the firm whose experience and record o sales and customers insures you of the best at fair prices. Call— The sage Ice Co. PHONE 57 the western states will participate be while squadrons of ‘army and navy . _ GOVERNOR. REASURER A ghee WATER FOR PLACER MINING m Dome a planes soar overhead. aaa acta nie aba William P. Clerkin, W. I. Snook MAT RESS The suggestion that the German and C. M. Sitton of Birchville were hs 3 airship be invited to the bridge opWee business visitors in Nevada City SatREBUILT $2.50 ‘f INGS ening celebration came from JosPENOEMT urday. All three men are interested Dey: So eph E. Strauss, chief engineer of the pee FE Aah gedeg Aika iesniv't f in mining on the ‘San Juan Ridge. CUSHIONS, REPAIRED The past season. has brought an abundance of water and it is hoped hydraulic mining will be resumed ‘before long. Clerkin operates a catbridge, and close personal friend of Dr. Eckener. It was then taken up with the (Zeppelin corporation 1a DIAMOND MATTRESS COMPANY South Auburn Road at Grass ao Taa Awreacs Germany. Ges roov % ‘ Valley City Limits The successful operation /of air: Psa tle ranch also. Bad winters have cut hon 474 down his herd from several hundred to only thirty head to be wintered in the mountains this past season. He said heavy snows and extreme cold his killed off the wild oats, clover and other wild grasses until feed is very poor this spring. Snook, who has just returned from a visit ships, according to Dr. Eckener, depends upon favorable weather and air conditions and he said that these were assured at Sunnyvale in May. The Hindenberg has never visited the Pacific coast. In 1929 the Graf Zeppelin flew over the bay region ar-. ’ rape eal Or FIM ANCR tei : “a * 4 fy Adrienne ween? — ae” -—— —— a * ff Le riving from Japan on a flight around SACRAMENTO, April 16.ccDediak the. world. ing state finances to be out of control with haphazard commitments, ipre-auditing without adequate records, post-auditing iby the spending agency itself and confusion and absurdities in the division of responsibilities? thé\Interim Committee of \j. the State Conference on Government and Taxation today filed, with Governor Merriam and the legislature its first report proposing installation of a state ‘business efficiency system’ involving sweeping changes. The report is the result of nearly a year’s study of state finances by a statewide committee representative of labor, ‘business, agriculture and women ‘organizations ‘based upon facts compiled by Griffenhagen and “Pa, did you go.to Sunday school when you were a boy?” “Yes, my son, I always went to Sunday school.’ “Well dad, I think I’ll quit going. It. ain’t doing me any good either.” anaes —— NEVADA CITY @ SANITARIUM °” flizabeth McD. Watson, Prop. Open to all reputable are Physicians and Surgeons . Associates, public administation = . specialists. "i A drastic saving in the $10,000,000 biennial cost of collecting taxes in California is outlined in the report which is signed by Francis V. Keesling, distinguished San Francisco lawyer and chairman of the committee that drafted the bay city’s FRATERNAL AND CLUB DIRECTORY new charter, chairman, James L: Beebe, Los Angeles lawyer of the . firm of O’Melvery, Tuller and Myers, and public spirited citizen, vice chairman, and the others of the interim committee of twenty five. HYDRAULIC PARLOR NO. 56, N. S. G. W. Meets every Tuesday evening at Pythian Castle, 232 Broad Street. Visiting Native Sons welcome. The report recommends the creation of a State Department’of Revenue to which are transferred all tax = collecting functions and _ person'nel _ALLEN JONES, President, DR. C. W. CHAPMAN, Rec. me now scattered through various departments, the broadéning of the auditing powers of the Controller under the new title of State Auditor General and the centralization of accounting in the Department of Finance. Chairman . Keesling and _ Vice Chairman Beebe will seek in this Session legislation complementary to constitutional amendments to put the state business efficiency plan into effect. The program announced by the committee would strip the Board of Equalization.of all power save the county valuations, assessments of publie-utilities and liquor licensing and regulation, the last not being considered by the committee. The committee proposes that accounting Ibe unscramlbled. from the present departments and be centralized in the Department of Finance, which is part of the state administration that may tbe in power, and placed under a strong independent and elected Auditor General created

from. the present position of Controller. The proposed Department of Reyenue would be administered by a new director who would supervise WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and fourth Mondays of the month, at the Brand Studio. Pres., Mrs. Harley M. Leete. Sec., Mrs. Beverly Perron; \ Nevada City Lodge, No. 518, B. P. O. Hiks Meets second and jones Bais day evenings in Elks home, Pine Street. Phone 108. Visiting Dike welcome. ROLAND WRIGHT, Exalted Ruler .PHILLIP. SCADDEN, Secretary. yet. $150 to $250 So Stele Desirable, Economica: Comfortable, Convenien: other license fees incidental to regulation of business. Pointing out that no state officer was originally set up as a tax collector and that the present ‘‘system’’ grew out of a condition in which 98 per cent of all state*revenues were collected by the counties, the committee declares that inefficient methods of accounting had cost the state $2,000,000 of interest due partly to unnecessary special funds anddelays in deposits of cash. Specific recommendations in the report filed today with the governor and legislature are: 1. That a Department of Reyenue be created, administered -iby a Director of Revenue, ‘to collect aii state taxes, personnel to be obtained by transfers. 2. That the equalization of county valuations and public utility assessments remain a function of the Board of Eqalization. 3. That there be created in the Department of Revenue a Tax Commission composed of the director and four division heads to direct a: re-search staff in collection of statistics on state revenue and in the development of suggestions from improvements. 4. That-there be created a Board of Tax Appeals for hearing and determining appeals from the Director of Revenue or any other state officer on rate, amount or legality of any tax question. The board shall be appointed by the governor with consent of the senate. 5. Phat the functions of the Department of Finance be clarified and extended to include all budgeting, accounting, pre-auditing (or the checking of the propriety of an expenditure before it is made) control of commitments and disbursemnts, current auditing ‘of revenues and_ receipts, financial reporting, purchasing, property control, and related procedure, Further, that the function of post-auditing be transferred from the Department of Finance to the poposed elected Auditor General. 6. That ‘the Controller be made Auditor General and designated an independent audit officer not a part of the administrative organization of the state government, empowered and directed to conduct continuing audits of all the operations and the transactions of the fiscal agencies of the state (revenue, finance and treasury) to determine the adequacy of the controls in effect and to detect and report violations of fiscal laws or the terms of appropriation acts. Also that he be directed to conduct periodic audits of .all_ state agencies. 7. That the Director of Revenue be substituted for the Controller as ex-officio member of the Board of Equalization. 8. That the Treasurer be maintained a separate office but limited to receipt, deposit, investment and the collection of all state revenues 161 POWELL including the income tax, motor veh; AT O’FARRELL icle license taxes, “in lieu’’ automo. SAN FRANCISCO . bile taxes and liquor excise taxes but seep not including liquor license fees nor disbursement of moneys, but that the investment power be exerecised only with prior approval of the Director of Finance 9 .That necessary legislation pe adopted at this session, to be éffective upon the approval by the people of constitutioal amendments required to put the entire plan intoexecution. 10. That a constitutional amendment be adopted defining anid limiting the state debt with provisions for emergency borrowings. 11. That. no more junior colleges nor state colleges be set up nor the scope of existing ones expanded until a coordinated policy be arrived at by the legislature. 12. That, for the next biennium because the burden is_ uncertain, there be no further liberalization of old age or other pensions. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sauvee and Miss Bernice Clemo are spending this week at Wilbur Springs, Colusa county. They are expected home Sunday. IS YOUR HEARING GETTING WORSE? SEE NEW ACOUSTICON, Guaranteed for Life Consultation in Your FREE Home. Anywhere Northern California, Westrn Nevada. ACOUSTICON INSTITUTE 1021 K Street Phone Main 670 Sacramento, Calif. in San Diego, displayed a fine specimen of the semi-precious stone, pink tourmaline. UNION HOTEL BARBER -~ SHOP MAIN STREET Ladies’ and Children’s Hair Cutting . R. L. Kirby NEVADA COUNTY . {. . _ Banner Gold County of Scientifically Harmonized, Cosmetics i Today’s most perfect and most beautifully packaged 50c line of cosmetics Pion 100 Stationery Headquarters THE REXALL DRUG STORE California Annual production over $7,000,000 For Information Address Chamber of Commerce Nevada City, Calif. SAFE AND LOCKSMITH . KEYS made while you wait Bicycles, Steel tapes, var cuum cleaners, washing machines, electric irons, stoves, rithe or sensa’ iets Be Comfortable etc., repaired _ Get Your SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS MATTRESSES tt ia ro egg Repaired and Cleaned by Light Welding John W. Darke . . . rays cr sHop Commercial! St. Nevada City 220 East Main < . Phone 602 109 J. Phones 109M. GRASS ,y ALLEY Sa THE WORLD’ S GOOD NEWS will come to your home every day through FHE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR An International Daily tease ane world’s clean, constructive ’ the se teeta Magazine section 3 peitior oe bles “igo Lee * batted 6 months $4.50 Name..The Christian Science Publishing Society One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts grag my subscription to The Christian Science Monitor for q yrar $0 00 Wednesday Issue, Including Magazine Section: 1 year $2.60, 6 issues 25c, 3 months $2.25 1 month 75c BODEN cciccimameeen sae Sample “Copy « on Request ; ; —~—— i ee If You Are in the Market for JOB » PRINTING Bring it to the Nugget Office SELECT FROM THE FINEST GRADE AT KEYSTONE Careful Attention ‘to Telephone Orders: SLICED COLD MEATS OUR SPECIAL HAMBURGER ROLLED ROAST POT ROASTS