April 21, 1950 (8 pages)

& is f Serving Nevada City and Grass Valley Nevada City N ugget eo Gateway toa . i . Recreation Paradise. . , if if — Twenty-Third Year — No. 16 Nevada City (Nevada County) California, Friday, April rea 1950 Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c YY Lea, Arounc Y LAG Wy YY Hope springs eternal in the heart of the mining man. If it were not so, hundreds of rich’ gold claims in this county would never have been reopened and wealth beyond calculation would never have ‘been uncovered. It is especially heartening to see dld-timers, men who worked gravel in the old days of longtoms’ and monitors, return with fresh vigor to the diggings.’ Ninety-eight years ago a sailmaker named Chabot rigged up a piece of canvas hose about 35 feet long and about four inches in diameter. Using water under slight pressure, he was able to wash gravel faster than he could with a long-tom. His claim was in Buckeye Ravine, just northeast of Sugarloaf and only a stone’s throw from the rich burrowing of Coyoteville. Unwittingly, he had introduced the first crude device in hydraulic mining, which for the next 20 years was to produce millions of dollars in gold from the ground near Nevada, City. From almost any place in the city you can see the high bluffs of the hydraulic scars at the place now known as Manzanita Diggings. Not over a_ half-mile from the courthouse, the edge of the scar touches Highway 20 on the east side of town. It was in this area that hydraulicking got its start. Geologists claim that the Manzanita Diggings, like many others on Harmony and San Juan ridges, were rich because they revealed the. sedimentary deposits of an ancient river channel. We can’t understand the technical» gooble-degook of the miner but see some valid rationalization in the line that “gold is where you find it.” It also.makes good sense to speculate-on where you would lie: if you were a tired nugget and got washed up by an ancient river. This kind of speculation at least stimulates human hope and without hope the miner wouldn’t have the strength to lift a shovel. PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK SCHEDULE FULL OF EVENTS An eventful week has been scheduled for Public Schools week by the Nevada City high and elementary schools, according to Ed A. Frantz and Lloyd Geist, principals. .The week is Monday through Friday, April 24-28. Monday will be open house at the high school immediately following a PTA meeting at 7:30. Displays of work of the students will be on exhibit and teachers of the school will be present. Tuesday will be dpen house at the elementary school. ; Music Festival The annual spring music festival will be presented Wednesday evening at 7:45 o’clock in the high school auditorium. The program has not been completed but will be based on some of the selections used at tomorrow’s conference festival at San Juan high school. William Tobiassen, Willard Goerz and Franc Luschen will be in charge of the ¥Vednesday evening program. Teachers Tea Recognition of teachers’ service. to the community will be noted at a teachers tea to be held at the home of Mrs. Kent Walker, 211 Reward street, from 2 to 5 p.m., Thursday. P Past PTA presidents of the Nevada City elementary and: high schools and Gold Flat school will also be honored. The PTA units of the three schools will be cohostesses at this event. Mrs. Leonard Lageson has been appointed hospitality chairman of the high school PTA and Mrs. . Robert Graham will act. for the elementary school PTA. Mrs. Donald Knowlton will represent Gold Flat. school on the committée, Track Meet Friday is the date of the Sierra Foothill conference track meet at Yuba City, and the varsity and junior varsity baseball teams are scheduled to play San Juan high school. .The varsities tangle at Pioneer park and the JV travels to Fair Oaks. Saturday -the varsity baseball team will go to Reno to play a 10:30 a.m. game with Reno high school. Frantz announced. voluntary psychology tests were given to high school seniors here Wednesday and yesterday by Harold But to get back to the story. Six mining men, all experienced in handling gravel, have concluded that the old Manzanita Diggings didn’t reach the real pay dirt, that the real river bed lay many feet deeper. They have joined in a together equipment, and effected a lease loaf Ridge. . They prefer no publicity, which is understandable mining. psychology, but the recent burning . of brush on the hillside has) drawn considerable attention to, the project. ? The plan is to dig an incline until they reach the an¢ient river bed. There they expect to encounter the bed-rock/ accumula. tions of nuggets which the hy-. draulickers missed. They are not selling stock in their enterprise, they are hot hiring labor, and they are not. inviting visitors. Which doesn’t mean they are anti-soeial. They have’seen bubbles burst in their time and they figure wisely that) their loss cannot be great if/ their hopes do not “pan out.” . We tramped/over the Manzanita Diggings the other day when the sun was/warm and bright. We saw more than the sights and smells of springtime; we saw tangible ‘evidence of Hope. And that’s important to all of us. The Weather Ered Bush, observer and a Max. Min. APPA ooo ncendccsedensnrennents 54 29 Py VB isc csnacseesesenerntbese 59 33 Ari 1G sneaks 70. 37 Wo) . Ae by dierent eee eee 74° 40 April 16553, 78 41 ADOT 1G is eater 80 41 AP BO oe a tas 83 44 Weaver and Gordon Arlett of the Placer college faculty. GRAND JURORS a labor pool, thrown) 7 TY common supplies and . The Nevada county grand jury . : : . resources. may examine the operations and practices of-the Nevada irrigation district. This was indicated Friday at a meeting of NID directors when a letter from a grand jury committee was read, asking that Elton Tobiassen, NID assessor, be made available to the committee for compilation of district data. P. J. Minasian, NID-.attorney, explained to Charles R. Kitts, a member of the grand jury, who was attending the meeting, that Tobiassen is not qualified to assemble information on all’ NID functions and was qualified only to aid in assessment studies. Minasian added, however all departments, employes and records are open to scrutiny at all times. water users will be made only on. the condition prospective users build or finance the ditch construction. The users will be credited with the cost of construction and will start paying for water when the credit’ is equalized. NO. P. O. TROUBLE HERE Despite complaints that Roseville letters take three days to travel to Grass Valley, local patrons do not report such service. Ralph W. Kuska reports he got Ja letter today without delay that was only identified as Shetland Rain: April,.4,, .05;. April _15, frost. i Sheep Dogs, Nevada City, Calif. The directors of the NID voted future ditch extensions to new. from A. M. Mull, Sr., owner of a . large tract which includes Sugar. ) Pp E R A T . 0 N . a part of Harmony . NEW RELEASE SHOW SCHEDULED SUNDAY “Two Tickets to Tomahawk,” a picture which had its’ world premiere last night in San Francisco, has been booked for Sun-« day, Monday and Tuesday at the . Cedar theatre, according to an} announcement by Ralph Achey, . manager of the local film palace. . The picture, which stars Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter, is being shown at the Cedar theatre before any any other placé in nor}; thern California. Achey «said this is a picture he believes will be. greatly enjoyed by the film-going fans of this district. WATER OFFICIAL PANS FEDERAL ENCROACH MENT Water district officials, water users and legislators from an area extending from Mariposa to Butte counties met in Grass Valley on Monday evening for a three hour open forum on factors affecting the territory’s economy. The group without taking any definite action informally agreed the following problems are of immediate interest to the area: 1. The socalled increasing encroachment of federal water control agencies into problems previously considered as local or of interest to the state. 2. Potential new demands for irrigation water on foothill areas previously considered as_ not adaptable to irrigation. 3. Population increase of the state which is affecting both the metropolitan and mountain sections. 4. The importance of power generation and proper division of revenues ‘accruing from. electric power production. Taking -part in the meeting were State Senator Harold Johnson, Roseville; Francis . B. Lindsay, Loomis; George Anderson, Byron, president of the California Irrigation District association; Robert Durbrow, Sans Francisco, “executive secretary of the CIDA; B. L. Smith, San Francisco, secretary of the state water economic committee and more than 80 water district officials and water users of irrigation districts. Assemblyman, Lindsay pointed out mountain counties can consider thousands of acres of foot‘. hill lands, previously termed not irrigable, as open to possible irrigation because of new developments in sprinkling methods for pasture and orchard lands. Anderson condemned. federal agencies for what he termed the intrusion into California’s water situation with elaborate programs which he described as designed to take over the state’s. natural FRENCH CORRAL SCHOOL TOBE SOLD TO HIGHEST BIDDER AT SALE TODAY County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble will auction off the historic old French Corral school house this afternoon at 1:30 on the school house porch to the “highest bidder.” The way feeling his risen in the sleepy little community of the San Juan ridge, there in all probability will be only one bid Anyone who would bid against the obviously embattled natives would either have the hide of a rhinoceros or not value his hide at all. ‘ ‘ : Anyway, at auction time_ it. is expected the largest crowd in 70 years will gather at the historic 95-year-old school this afternoon to await developments. The rumpus all started when two community groups of the ridge sought the building as a community hall. The board of supervisors heard both groups and in Solomon fashion compromised by offering the building to the highest bidder. . That served to unite the two factions and last reports ‘have them entrenched, financially too, for this afternoon. ‘prominent native sons: William Assemblyman . LEADING CITIZEN WM. V. TAMBLYN CALLED TO REST Death came Monday morning for one of Nevada City’s most V. Tamblyn, 75, after an illness of ten days. Funeral services were held at Holmes Funeral Home Wednesday ‘afternoon with the Nevada City Elks Lodge in charge. Interment was at Forest View cemetery. ~ Pallbearers were John Fortier, George Calanan, Jack Keegan, Curtis. Clark, Otis Brown and Robert Steger Sr. Honorary pallbearers were Joseph Stenger, Joseph Huy,. Philip G. Scadden, Judge James Snell, Dave Richards and Horace Curnow. ; Tamblyn was born at .Gold Flat April 14, 1875, -the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Tamblyn, who came here in 1865 as a mining foreman and remained as minister of the Methodist church. A great athlete he starred in football and billiards and was a‘brilliant pitcher of baseball. ? While returning from employment in Wyoming he stopped in Tonopah when it became a boom town in 1901. While there he was married to Emily, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Pollard, on Aug. 4, 1901. He numbered among his many . friends Governor Tasker L. Oddie of the silver state. He returned to Nevada City and operated a photograph studio in the old E. A. Moore place, and with a group of men became interested in the Broadway theatre located on the present site of the Alpha store. The present Cedar theatre and later a Grass Valley theatre was purchased and Tamblyn managed them until they were purchased by the OLNSTEAD HOME AT NEWTOWN DESTROYEDA midnight fire early Friday completely destroyed the onéroom home of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Olnstead, Newtown. The couple and small child escaped without injury, but lost all personal effects and furnishings. State forestry crews and) trucks . responded to the alarm, but the . dwélling was enveloped in flames . when they reached the scene. . few days previously from a San Francisco veterans hospital after receiving treatment for: a heart ailment. ' I SCHOOL BOARD SECRET SESSION MARKS MEETING A 15-minute secret session preceded the regular business meeting of the board of trustees of Nevada City school district Monday at the elementary school. No explanation of ~the session was offered. In regular session the’ board commenced studies of the 1950-51 high and elementary schools budgets which were presented by Ed A: Frantz and Lloyd Geist, principals. Frantz was instructed py the bozerd to contact. for applications from teachers to fill an’ addition to the high school staff ‘under consideration ‘by the board. Recommendation that.a mathematics and English teacher be hired was: made by Frantz. Fluorescent lighting of some of the system’s classrooms was discussed without action. Playground surfacing and a retaining wall at the elementary school was. also considered. and the board accepted a $25 bid for Tt. & D. Jr. Enterprises. Tamblyn was also one of a group of men who took over the tottering Nevada County Narrow Gauge railway in the late 20’s and restored it to a vigorous life which ended with the recent war. tyler of the.lodge at the time of his death. Surviving are. his wife, Emily, Nevada City;, daughters, Mrs. Florence Huntley, Loyalton; Mrs. Ervina Shattuck, Truckee; Miss Vivian Tamblyn, Ventura; Mrs. Ruth Hooper, Grass Valley, and Mrs. Dorothy Spooner, Stockton, sons, William L. Tamblyn and Robert I. Tamblyn, Nevada City, and Ben Tamblyn, San Francisco; and a brother, Harry Tamblyn, Heppner, Ore.; and several grandchildren. YUBA COLLEGE COACH TS JUNIOR SPEAKER . Walf Oglesby, football coach of Yuba college, Marysville, will be guest speaker at the first dinner meeting of the. newly organized Nevada City Junior Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening. at the National hotel, aceording to an announcemént by Ken Wray, program chairman for the dinner. / In addition to a sports talk by a coach who took Yuba college out of the gridiron doldrums to a successful season last fall, .motion pictures of sports will be projected by,,Ralph Childers, who is assisting Wray. The pictures will feature highlight of 1948 football season. and a short on “Offensive Football.” Oglesby, a proponent of the} short punt offensive formation, enjoyed singular success as coach at Willows high school before stepping into college ranks. George Halstead is in charge of dinner arrangements. Dinner is set for 7:30 p.m. and is open. to the public.BOARD TO MEET New officers of the Nevada City High School Parent-Teachers association will meet .in the study hall at the high school Monday, in connection with the Public Schools week open house program. Mrs. Kent Walker, will preside at a short business sesTamblyn joined the local lodge . a ; ; ; le books f of Elks in 1904 and had been ac. : et one tive through the years. He was . JUDGE SCORES CITY COUNCILS MAYOR CHOICE Thomas F. Taylor. was elected mayor of Nevada City. by the new council in special session at city hall last night. "ae Disregarding an eloquent plea by George L. Jones, retired NeThe father, a World War II. . va : ’ ‘ . vada county superior court judge, veteran, had returned home_ a) +, deny the high office of mayor to Taylor, the council approved the motion for election made by Councilman William Mullis. Councilman H. F. Sofge refused to vote. Councilmen Leo Cullen .and Marvin Haddy.’ favored the motion. Judge Jones addressed the council at length immediately after the. Taylor motion was made, not sparing personalities in. His attack on Taylor’s.record in support of Arthur Innis, former mayor, who was defeated at last week’s election. “Tom Taylor was allied with Innis. He stood strongly with the man who was defeated by the voters. Taylor’s record in support of the slot machine licensing issue cannot be forgotten by the people and Taylor should not now take a seat of authority in the face of Innis’ decisive defeat,” Jones: declared. : At this point, the judge completed his remarks and Taylor rose and said, “Judge Jones, IL respect your courage and honesty but I cannot refuse to accept this nomination.” City Clerk George H. Calanan, who sat as acting chairman, remarked that the slot machine issue was now dead, that the legislature had lifted the responsibility from municipal enforcement. Then followed a sharp exchange of views between Calanan and Jones, with the clerk defending Taylor and his own . right to speak his views. Calanan. declared that Taylor was ‘techni)a Ford truck offered for sale by the high school. The board _ap. proved « suggestion .by Frantz . the board purchase six announce_ A letter from David Hartman, . Grass Velley accountant, reportthe elementary . school were in satisfactory condition but the high school books still required attention. , The board tabled a bill for $100 presented by Hartman with the letter for services subsequent to the audit of last fall. The board of trustees will tour the school plants tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. FREE GOLD MART MAY STABILIZE WORLD FINANCE Establishm¢nt of a free market for gold, a/move which backers predict would lead to a determination/ of gold’s true value bilization of world economy, was advoéated here Sunday by Neil O’Donnell, vice president and general manager of the IdahoMaryland corporation, at a meeting of the California -Hydraulic Mining association at the National hotel. O’Donnell did not predict. a free market for. gold necessarily would produce an immediate increase in gold prices. He said, however, open trading might result in a price increase and definitely would determine gold’s proper value in world trade. , Commenting on the devaluation of the British pound sterling and the. accompanying devaluation of other foreign monies he said it benefited Great Britain and other nations by giving them foreign markets previously. held by the U.S. He pointed out, the U.S. could have followed with competitive devaluation but. reBritain needed aid. O’Donnell also spoke against a proposed congressional measure which would place mining block . leasers under~:the--provisions of the social security law so-the leasers would become employees instead of independent contracsion at 7:30. 4 ‘ments for each graduating senior. . with thé probable resultant sta. frained because of the belief that . cally better prepared to preside ; and that he had held office on ithe council /longer than any . other. . The judge repeated his argu+-ments; cross-examined ~~ another . citizen who spoke briefly on be. W, . half off Taylor, . and declared. . “The election of Tom Taylor as mayor would be an affront to the voters of Nevada City. . Daylor interrupted to say that . he resented the accusation that he “fought for the slots.” He said Vhe did not support Innis on all issues, that he opposed him on the matter of a master license plan for the gambling machines. Cullen said “A man cannot be condemned for past minor mistakes. The slot machine issue is out of our way now. I believe Taylor will make-a-good mayor.” Immediately after the vote was called Taylor thanked the council and, speaking ‘to Jones, said, “Judge, we can promise you a clean administration.” The new mayor. will also be commissioner of streets and Sofge was i police commisappointed ‘sioner, the position traditionally held by the mayor. .#Haddy was . appointed to. parks, Cullen. will retain his interest in sewers and lights, and Mullis will continue as commissioner of the water department. s SY John Larue was eppointed city attorney and Calanan was named city tax assessor. The-city hall meeting was preceded by a brief closed secret. session in the city attorney’s office. MRS. THOMPSON FILES FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEE. Mrs. ‘Carrie. L. Thompson, who resides on the Lake Ve. vad, late Wednesday afternoon _ iled. as a candidate for member of the board of trustees of Nevada City: unified school district. She will be opposed by Harold Berliner Jr. who was a defeated candidate for the board last year. Mrs. Thompson has two. sons: attending high school. There are only three. contests: in the 16 districts, according to. Walter A. Carlson, county superintendent of schools. Final date for filing was Wednesday. The elections will be. held on Friday, May 19. Four districts, Chicago Park, Indian Springs, North Bloomfield,tors. and Wolf, have no candidates.

& is f Serving Nevada City and Grass Valley Nevada City N ugget eo Gateway toa . i . Recreation Paradise. . , if if — Twenty-Third Year — No. 16 Nevada City (Nevada County) California, Friday, April rea 1950 Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c YY Lea, Arounc Y LAG Wy YY Hope springs eternal in the heart of the mining man. If it were not so, hundreds of rich’ gold claims in this county would never have been reopened and wealth beyond calculation would never have ‘been uncovered. It is especially heartening to see dld-timers, men who worked gravel in the old days of longtoms’ and monitors, return with fresh vigor to the diggings.’ Ninety-eight years ago a sailmaker named Chabot rigged up a piece of canvas hose about 35 feet long and about four inches in diameter. Using water under slight pressure, he was able to wash gravel faster than he could with a long-tom. His claim was in Buckeye Ravine, just northeast of Sugarloaf and only a stone’s throw from the rich burrowing of Coyoteville. Unwittingly, he had introduced the first crude device in hydraulic mining, which for the next 20 years was to produce millions of dollars in gold from the ground near Nevada, City. From almost any place in the city you can see the high bluffs of the hydraulic scars at the place now known as Manzanita Diggings. Not over a_ half-mile from the courthouse, the edge of the scar touches Highway 20 on the east side of town. It was in this area that hydraulicking got its start. Geologists claim that the Manzanita Diggings, like many others on Harmony and San Juan ridges, were rich because they revealed the. sedimentary deposits of an ancient river channel. We can’t understand the technical» gooble-degook of the miner but see some valid rationalization in the line that “gold is where you find it.” It also.makes good sense to speculate-on where you would lie: if you were a tired nugget and got washed up by an ancient river. This kind of speculation at least stimulates human hope and without hope the miner wouldn’t have the strength to lift a shovel. PUBLIC SCHOOLS WEEK SCHEDULE FULL OF EVENTS An eventful week has been scheduled for Public Schools week by the Nevada City high and elementary schools, according to Ed A. Frantz and Lloyd Geist, principals. .The week is Monday through Friday, April 24-28. Monday will be open house at the high school immediately following a PTA meeting at 7:30. Displays of work of the students will be on exhibit and teachers of the school will be present. Tuesday will be dpen house at the elementary school. ; Music Festival The annual spring music festival will be presented Wednesday evening at 7:45 o’clock in the high school auditorium. The program has not been completed but will be based on some of the selections used at tomorrow’s conference festival at San Juan high school. William Tobiassen, Willard Goerz and Franc Luschen will be in charge of the ¥Vednesday evening program. Teachers Tea Recognition of teachers’ service. to the community will be noted at a teachers tea to be held at the home of Mrs. Kent Walker, 211 Reward street, from 2 to 5 p.m., Thursday. P Past PTA presidents of the Nevada City elementary and: high schools and Gold Flat school will also be honored. The PTA units of the three schools will be cohostesses at this event. Mrs. Leonard Lageson has been appointed hospitality chairman of the high school PTA and Mrs. . Robert Graham will act. for the elementary school PTA. Mrs. Donald Knowlton will represent Gold Flat. school on the committée, Track Meet Friday is the date of the Sierra Foothill conference track meet at Yuba City, and the varsity and junior varsity baseball teams are scheduled to play San Juan high school. .The varsities tangle at Pioneer park and the JV travels to Fair Oaks. Saturday -the varsity baseball team will go to Reno to play a 10:30 a.m. game with Reno high school. Frantz announced. voluntary psychology tests were given to high school seniors here Wednesday and yesterday by Harold But to get back to the story. Six mining men, all experienced in handling gravel, have concluded that the old Manzanita Diggings didn’t reach the real pay dirt, that the real river bed lay many feet deeper. They have joined in a together equipment, and effected a lease loaf Ridge. . They prefer no publicity, which is understandable mining. psychology, but the recent burning . of brush on the hillside has) drawn considerable attention to, the project. ? The plan is to dig an incline until they reach the an¢ient river bed. There they expect to encounter the bed-rock/ accumula. tions of nuggets which the hy-. draulickers missed. They are not selling stock in their enterprise, they are hot hiring labor, and they are not. inviting visitors. Which doesn’t mean they are anti-soeial. They have’seen bubbles burst in their time and they figure wisely that) their loss cannot be great if/ their hopes do not “pan out.” . We tramped/over the Manzanita Diggings the other day when the sun was/warm and bright. We saw more than the sights and smells of springtime; we saw tangible ‘evidence of Hope. And that’s important to all of us. The Weather Ered Bush, observer and a Max. Min. APPA ooo ncendccsedensnrennents 54 29 Py VB isc csnacseesesenerntbese 59 33 Ari 1G sneaks 70.. 37 Wo) . Ae by dierent eee eee 74° 40 April 16553, 78 41 ADOT 1G is eater 80 41 AP BO oe a tas 83 44 Weaver and Gordon Arlett of the Placer college faculty. GRAND JURORS a labor pool, thrown) 7 TY common supplies and . The Nevada county grand jury . : : . resources. may examine the operations and practices of-the Nevada irrigation district. This was indicated Friday at a meeting of NID directors when a letter from a grand jury committee was read, asking that Elton Tobiassen, NID assessor, be made available to the committee for compilation of district data. P. J. Minasian, NID-.attorney, explained to Charles R. Kitts, a member of the grand jury, who was attending the meeting, that Tobiassen is not qualified to assemble information on all’ NID functions and was qualified only to aid in assessment studies. Minasian added, however all departments, employes and records are open to scrutiny at all times. water users will be made only on. the condition prospective users build or finance the ditch construction. The users will be credited with the cost of construction and will start paying for water when the credit’ is equalized. NO. P. O. TROUBLE HERE Despite complaints that Roseville letters take three days to travel to Grass Valley, local patrons do not report such service. Ralph W. Kuska reports he got Ja letter today without delay that was only identified as Shetland Rain: April,.4,, .05;. April _15, frost. i Sheep Dogs, Nevada City, Calif. The directors of the NID voted future ditch extensions to new. from A. M. Mull, Sr., owner of a . large tract which includes Sugar. ) Pp E R A T . 0 N . a part of Harmony . NEW RELEASE SHOW SCHEDULED SUNDAY “Two Tickets to Tomahawk,” a picture which had its’ world premiere last night in San Francisco, has been booked for Sun-« day, Monday and Tuesday at the . Cedar theatre, according to an} announcement by Ralph Achey, . manager of the local film palace. . The picture, which stars Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter, is being shown at the Cedar theatre before any any other placé in nor}; thern California. Achey «said this is a picture he believes will be. greatly enjoyed by the film-going fans of this district. WATER OFFICIAL PANS FEDERAL ENCROACH MENT Water district officials, water users and legislators from an area extending from Mariposa to Butte counties met in Grass Valley on Monday evening for a three hour open forum on factors affecting the territory’s economy. The group without taking any definite action informally agreed the following problems are of immediate interest to the area: 1. The socalled increasing encroachment of federal water control agencies into problems previously considered as local or of interest to the state. 2. Potential new demands for irrigation water on foothill areas previously considered as_ not adaptable to irrigation. 3. Population increase of the state which is affecting both the metropolitan and mountain sections. 4. The importance of power generation and proper division of revenues ‘accruing from. electric power production. Taking -part in the meeting were State Senator Harold Johnson, Roseville; Francis . B. Lindsay, Loomis; George Anderson, Byron, president of the California Irrigation District association; Robert Durbrow, Sans Francisco, “executive secretary of the CIDA; B. L. Smith, San Francisco, secretary of the state water economic committee and more than 80 water district officials and water users of irrigation districts. Assemblyman, Lindsay pointed out mountain counties can consider thousands of acres of foot‘. hill lands, previously termed not irrigable, as open to possible irrigation because of new developments in sprinkling methods for pasture and orchard lands. Anderson condemned. federal agencies for what he termed the intrusion into California’s water situation with elaborate programs which he described as designed to take over the state’s. natural FRENCH CORRAL SCHOOL TOBE SOLD TO HIGHEST BIDDER AT SALE TODAY County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble will auction off the historic old French Corral school house this afternoon at 1:30 on the school house porch to the “highest bidder.” The way feeling his risen in the sleepy little community of the San Juan ridge, there in all probability will be only one bid Anyone who would bid against the obviously embattled natives would either have the hide of a rhinoceros or not value his hide at all. ‘ ‘ : Anyway, at auction time_ it. is expected the largest crowd in 70 years will gather at the historic 95-year-old school this afternoon to await developments. The rumpus all started when two community groups of the

ridge sought the building as a community hall. The board of supervisors heard both groups and in Solomon fashion compromised by offering the building to the highest bidder. . That served to unite the two factions and last reports ‘have them entrenched, financially too, for this afternoon. ‘prominent native sons: William Assemblyman . LEADING CITIZEN WM. V. TAMBLYN CALLED TO REST Death came Monday morning for one of Nevada City’s most V. Tamblyn, 75, after an illness of ten days. Funeral services were held at Holmes Funeral Home Wednesday ‘afternoon with the Nevada City Elks Lodge in charge. Interment was at Forest View cemetery. ~ Pallbearers were John Fortier, George Calanan, Jack Keegan, Curtis. Clark, Otis Brown and Robert Steger Sr. Honorary pallbearers were Joseph Stenger, Joseph Huy,. Philip G. Scadden, Judge James Snell, Dave Richards and Horace Curnow. ; Tamblyn was born at .Gold Flat April 14, 1875, -the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Tamblyn, who came here in 1865 as a mining foreman and remained as minister of the Methodist church. A great athlete he starred in football and billiards and was a‘brilliant pitcher of baseball. ? While returning from employment in Wyoming he stopped in Tonopah when it became a boom town in 1901. While there he was married to Emily, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Pollard, on Aug. 4, 1901. He numbered among his many . friends Governor Tasker L. Oddie of the silver state. He returned to Nevada City and operated a photograph studio in the old E. A. Moore place, and with a group of men became interested in the Broadway theatre located on the present site of the Alpha store. The present Cedar theatre and later a Grass Valley theatre was purchased and Tamblyn managed them until they were purchased by the OLNSTEAD HOME AT NEWTOWN DESTROYEDA midnight fire early Friday completely destroyed the onéroom home of Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Olnstead, Newtown. The couple and small child escaped without injury, but lost all personal effects and furnishings. State forestry crews and) trucks . responded to the alarm, but the . dwélling was enveloped in flames . when they reached the scene. . few days previously from a San Francisco veterans hospital after receiving treatment for: a heart ailment. ' I SCHOOL BOARD SECRET SESSION MARKS MEETING A 15-minute secret session preceded the regular business meeting of the board of trustees of Nevada City school district Monday at the elementary school. No explanation of ~the session was offered. In regular session the’ board commenced studies of the 1950-51 high and elementary schools budgets which were presented by Ed A: Frantz and Lloyd Geist, principals. Frantz was instructed py the bozerd to contact. for applications from teachers to fill an’ addition to the high school staff ‘under consideration ‘by the board. Recommendation that.a mathematics and English teacher be hired was: made by Frantz. Fluorescent lighting of some of the system’s classrooms was discussed without action. Playground surfacing and a retaining wall at the elementary school was. also considered. and the board accepted a $25 bid for Tt. & D. Jr. Enterprises. Tamblyn was also one of a group of men who took over the tottering Nevada County Narrow Gauge railway in the late 20’s and restored it to a vigorous life which ended with the recent war. tyler of the.lodge at the time of his death. Surviving are. his wife, Emily, Nevada City;, daughters, Mrs. Florence Huntley, Loyalton; Mrs. Ervina Shattuck, Truckee; Miss Vivian Tamblyn, Ventura; Mrs. Ruth Hooper, Grass Valley, and Mrs. Dorothy Spooner, Stockton, sons, William L. Tamblyn and Robert I. Tamblyn, Nevada City, and Ben Tamblyn, San Francisco; and a brother, Harry Tamblyn, Heppner, Ore.; and several grandchildren. YUBA COLLEGE COACH TS JUNIOR SPEAKER . Walf Oglesby, football coach of Yuba college, Marysville, will be guest speaker at the first dinner meeting of the. newly organized Nevada City Junior Chamber of Commerce Tuesday evening. at the National hotel, aceording to an announcemént by Ken Wray, program chairman for the dinner. / In addition to a sports talk by a coach who took Yuba college out of the gridiron doldrums to a successful season last fall, .motion pictures of sports will be projected by,,Ralph Childers, who is assisting Wray. The pictures will feature highlight of 1948 football season. and a short on “Offensive Football.” Oglesby, a proponent of the} short punt offensive formation, enjoyed singular success as coach at Willows high school before stepping into college ranks. George Halstead is in charge of dinner arrangements. Dinner is set for 7:30 p.m. and is open. to the public.BOARD TO MEET New officers of the Nevada City High School Parent-Teachers association will meet .in the study hall at the high school Monday, in connection with the Public Schools week open house program. Mrs. Kent Walker, will preside at a short business sesTamblyn joined the local lodge . a ; ; ; le books f of Elks in 1904 and had been ac. : et one tive through the years. He was . JUDGE SCORES CITY COUNCILS MAYOR CHOICE Thomas F. Taylor. was elected mayor of Nevada City. by the new council in special session at city hall last night. "ae Disregarding an eloquent plea by George L. Jones, retired NeThe father, a World War II. . va : ’ ‘ . vada county superior court judge, veteran, had returned home_ a) +, deny the high office of mayor to Taylor, the council approved the motion for election made by Councilman William Mullis. Councilman H. F. Sofge refused to vote. Councilmen Leo Cullen .and Marvin Haddy.’ favored the motion. Judge Jones addressed the council at length immediately after the. Taylor motion was made, not sparing personalities in. His attack on Taylor’s.record in support of Arthur Innis, former mayor, who was defeated at last week’s election. “Tom Taylor was allied with Innis. He stood strongly with the man who was defeated by the voters. Taylor’s record in support of the slot machine licensing issue cannot be forgotten by the people and Taylor should not now take a seat of authority in the face of Innis’ decisive defeat,” Jones: declared. : At this point, the judge completed his remarks and Taylor rose and said, “Judge Jones, IL respect your courage and honesty but I cannot refuse to accept this nomination.” City Clerk George H. Calanan, who sat as acting chairman, remarked that the slot machine issue was now dead, that the legislature had lifted the responsibility from municipal enforcement. Then followed a sharp exchange of views between Calanan and Jones, with the clerk defending Taylor and his own . right to speak his views. Calanan. declared that Taylor was ‘techni)a Ford truck offered for sale by the high school. The board _ap. proved « suggestion .by Frantz . the board purchase six announce_ A letter from David Hartman, . Grass Velley accountant, reportthe elementary . school were in satisfactory condition but the high school books still required attention. , The board tabled a bill for $100 presented by Hartman with the letter for services subsequent to the audit of last fall. The board of trustees will tour the school plants tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. FREE GOLD MART MAY STABILIZE WORLD FINANCE Establishm¢nt of a free market for gold, a/move which backers predict would lead to a determination/ of gold’s true value bilization of world economy, was advoéated here Sunday by Neil O’Donnell, vice president and general manager of the IdahoMaryland corporation, at a meeting of the California -Hydraulic Mining association at the National hotel. O’Donnell did not predict. a free market for. gold necessarily would produce an immediate increase in gold prices. He said, however, open trading might result in a price increase and definitely would determine gold’s proper value in world trade. , Commenting on the devaluation of the British pound sterling and the. accompanying devaluation of other foreign monies he said it benefited Great Britain and other nations by giving them foreign markets previously. held by the U.S. He pointed out, the U.S. could have followed with competitive devaluation but. reBritain needed aid. O’Donnell also spoke against a proposed congressional measure which would place mining block . leasers under~:the--provisions of the social security law so-the leasers would become employees instead of independent contracsion at 7:30. 4 ‘ments for each graduating senior. . with thé probable resultant sta. frained because of the belief that . cally better prepared to preside ; and that he had held office on ithe council /longer than any . other. . The judge repeated his argu+-ments; cross-examined ~~ another . citizen who spoke briefly on be. W, . half off Taylor, . and declared. . “The election of Tom Taylor as mayor would be an affront to the voters of Nevada City. . Daylor interrupted to say that . he resented the accusation that he “fought for the slots.” He said Vhe did not support Innis on all issues, that he opposed him on the matter of a master license plan for the gambling machines. Cullen said “A man cannot be condemned for past minor mistakes. The slot machine issue is out of our way now. I believe Taylor will make-a-good mayor.” Immediately after the vote was called Taylor thanked the council and, speaking ‘to Jones, said, “Judge, we can promise you a clean administration.” The new mayor. will also be commissioner of streets and Sofge was i police commisappointed ‘sioner, the position traditionally held by the mayor. .#Haddy was . appointed to. parks, Cullen. will retain his interest in sewers and lights, and Mullis will continue as commissioner of the water department. s SY John Larue was eppointed city attorney and Calanan was named city tax assessor. The-city hall meeting was preceded by a brief closed secret. session in the city attorney’s office. MRS. THOMPSON FILES FOR SCHOOL TRUSTEE. Mrs. ‘Carrie. L. Thompson, who resides on the Lake Ve. vad, late Wednesday afternoon _ iled. as a candidate for member of the board of trustees of Nevada City: unified school district. She will be opposed by Harold Berliner Jr. who was a defeated candidate for the board last year. Mrs. Thompson has two. sons: attending high school. There are only three. contests: in the 16 districts, according to. Walter A. Carlson, county superintendent of schools. Final date for filing was Wednesday. The elections will be. held on Friday, May 19. Four districts, Chicago Park, Indian Springs, North Bloomfield,tors. and Wolf, have no candidates.