April 28, 1950 (8 pages)

2The Newada City Nugget, Friday, April 28, 1950 '. Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street — Nevada City, California Telephone 36 J WILSON McKENNEY and KENNETH W. WRA Editors and Publishers. . Ifember California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as second class matter in the postoffice at Nevada City under act'of Co: Mareh 3, 1879. Subscription rates: one year outside county $3; one year in county $2.50; four months $1 (invariably paid in advance). Advertising rates on request. : _ SPRING FEVER With warm sunshine come ‘to.the mountains and the smell of spring in the air, this.seems to be a week for laziness so we're clipping John Keppelman’s column from the Pacific Grove Tribune. He tells of the trials and tribulations of buying a new car with statistics. “My wife has a 1941 Buick with 114,000 miles on it. The dealers refer to it distastefully as a ‘rough job.’ There’s no doubt about.it, it’s in bad shape, but she won't tet me spend even $15 having it tuned. She wants a new one. Mine is a 194] Chevvy, and not in such hot shape either. A friend and automobile dealer, says she shouldn't put any money into it, but I don’t agree with either of them, and I’m going to fix mine up and keep it in the family. Because this is a common problem in a very expensive age, I have done some figuring . . . for myself and have put it down on paper here. . . for you . to argue over at home. The figures can’t be exact to the cent, but the principle must be true. So let’s pretend it's you who wants a new car. : “You don’t have the money to buy a new $2500 car, and you'll get only $500 trade-in on your old car. Still you want a new car so you discover you'llhave to pay $2,000 with your car as a trade and the payments will be $60 a month ($2 a day). Anyway you want it so you start looking at all the expenses on the old one, and your auto dealer nods his head convincingly that your old car is a terrible liability. “But let’s consider a few angles. Taxis are driven from 300,000 to 400,000 miles before they are traded -in;.it's a business with them; they have to save every penny. Your own car is good for at least 200,000 miles or three to four more years if you've gone 125,000 miles with it as I have. Its trade value at that. time will be about $100. That’s a depreciation expense of about $100 a year. Say you spend about $200 getting it fixed up. now and perhaps $150 for each of the following three years. including a paint job. . Thus you spend: about $200 getting it fixed up now and perhaps:$150 for the . : You'll use more gas and oil with the }: next four years. old car. say 50 percent more. So, if it costs you $375 for gas and oil for 25,000 miles for a new car, yours will . cost $565 for gas and oil. Thus driving 25,000 miles a year, gas, oil, repairs and depreciation will cost you about $815 a year. ‘Now let’s look over the new. car proposition. The . first year it will depreciate about one-third, from $2,500 to $1,700, or $800 plus gas and oil figured at $375 makes $1,175: The second year it will depreciate: another one-third . . from $1,700 down to $1,140 or about $560. And the gas and oil ($375) and a few minor repairs . . . clutch, brakes, a valve job and some fender dents . . about $125. So in its third year the new car will cost you $925. ° “In its fourth year this car depreciates another onethird from $765 down to $510. an expense of about $255. You're using still a little more gas and oil, maybe $475 worth now and repairs are increasing, say $150 this fourth year . . . for a total transportation cost of $880. “Now let's compare your financial position on these two plans. Four years on your old car will cost you aster. EXPLOSION OR DUD? ' and you'll find your transportation has cost you $3,160 for four years. . old style. *““But you want a new car, and you argue that it’s cheaper: Let’s see. The first year’s cost we find out would be $1,175, the second year $975, the third $925, and the fourth $880 for a four year totalof $3,955. —Subtracting its depreciated value of $510 you discover that your transportation “‘new style’ costs you for the same four years $3,445. That is, $285 more. **License plates will cost about $25 more on the new car, maybe $100 more for the four years and insurance about $100 more. Add these to the $285 and you discover that your new car will cost approximately $500 more to drive for the next four years. . . $125 per year or about $10 a month for the privilege of driving a spanking new car. Hmmm! ““Well, what do you know! [. set out to prove my spouse was wrong and here I've talked myself right into a new car too. If that’s all it'll cost me, only $2.50 a week more than my “heap” costs me now, what am . waiting for! It’s really remarkable what you can do ‘when you set out to prove somebody else is wrong!”’ Statistics say educated women don’t have as many children as uneducated women. Maybe it could be a reguirement for a college degree for women that they have the necessary credits and at least one child. After all, . since the “‘poorhouse state’ has shown us how to live a life of ease at government expense, it seems a rotten shame to keep anyone unborn and thus deprived of their federal payments, bonuses and pensions. + \ dulls the edge of appreciation for simple pleasures, and subconsciously spurring us on is the threat of atomic disWe gorge on the luxuries of materialism, hoping to get our fill before time and fate catches us. If the last fifty years are considered normal then the norm for mankind is paranoic fantasia. Perhaps we should change the.term from the welfare $3,260 and you'll have a $100 car left. Subtract this . state to the poorhouse state. [ISN'T THIS YOUR NIGHT TO SHAVE, PAW? SHAVINGS GETTING TO BE TOO MUCH FOR ME, MAW, I THINK ILL START SHAVING ONCE A: WEEK INSTEAD OF TWICE.’ THAT SOUNDS REASONABLE. AND ILL SHAVE YOU . ON THE OFF NIGHT! --NOW DON’T FORGET, SANDY KEEP HIM OFF BALANCE WITH THAT LEFT JAB, THEN ROCK ‘IM WITHA RIGHT CROSS! I CAN: TELL HES SCARED STIFF! NOW GO . GET HIM! GIMME THAT OLD SALES TALK AGAIN! IM GETTIN’ KINDA Demessinctnras “+. Just Wonderin’ ] Wonder what to write about— Woods gods, or sprites or elves, Or just the ordinary folk we call Endearingly “ourselves.” In thinking of ourselves, I consider the fact that we are indeed a fortunate people. We dwell in a notable region of the Sierra. . Nevada-county and its characteristics: are a wealth of natural beauty and charm; forested hills, rushing rivers, rippling streams and placid upland lakes. Here history and romance walk ever hand in hand and memory whispers with the voices. of wind swayed trees, sunlit streams and “bird songs at eventide. We love our hills of home, and that is but natural, for as sea faring men love the sea to which they~ go down in ships, and as the city dweller loves the bright lights and roaring marts of trade, even so do the hill people love their hills. Surely we love our hills. . They stand guard around our homes and communities even as the hills stood about Jerusalem; they catch the first wan streaks of dawn and are crowned with the glory of departing day; like the poet of old we often say, ‘I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my strength.”” Men the world over have drawn strength, courage and inspiration from the hills, and found in their presence the faith and stability which encouraged them to go. on in the face of difficulties and win battles which at first. thought seemed unconquerable. And now in lighter vein, this little tale: Once upon a time there was a man who climbed an eminence which no one before him had attained. As he stood upon a breath taking escarpment and viewed the earth lying prone at his feet, he exulted greatly. He, he was the enly human being who had ever scaled this great height, ihe first man who had ever looked down upon the earth as he was now able to look down. His breast swelled with crude pride and as he walked forward he gave tongue to the thoughts which rose in him. He chanted: ‘For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our father's God, Thou hast planted the verdant forests Where human foot ne'er trod."’ “I,” he shouted, “I alone have conquered this great height, I alone!”’ He walked a few feet farther along a narrow ledge . when rounding a large boulder he stared in amazement; there, seated upon a smaller bit of rock and smiling serenely sat—Eleanor Roosevelt. Well that experience should have taught our hero hu'mility and humility is a worthy art to cultivate, for no. matter what we do, or say or think, some one has done, thought and said the same before us. “Why should the spirit of man be proud>?’’ I’m sure ‘I don't know, but those of us who live in our own Neee : set A ' . yada county will contin i Radios, cars and movies gear us to a living that in turn . 4 inue to be proud of our heritage . and the pioneer spirit which still lives in us will spring forth militantly in defense of any principle, tradition or materal object which is a part of our legacy from the past. When that which we hold precious is in jeopardy, . we hope that the miracle will happen and it usually does, ‘even as it did a few days since in French Corral when the old schoolhouse was reclaimed by those who loved it and the town knew that never again would its integrity be threatened. ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. a r Ticklers i By George i Ld sapenEnSscttaniastaneine ——— ‘sv wonderful—secluded, running water and “Boy, this is : close to transportation.” —

2The Newada City Nugget, Friday, April 28, 1950 '. Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street — Nevada City, California Telephone 36 J WILSON McKENNEY and KENNETH W. WRA Editors and Publishers. . Ifember California Newspaper Publishers Association Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as second class matter in the postoffice at Nevada City under act'of Co: Mareh 3, 1879. Subscription rates: one year outside county $3; one year in county $2.50; four months $1 (invariably paid in advance). Advertising rates on request. : _ SPRING FEVER With warm sunshine come ‘to.the mountains and the smell of spring in the air, this.seems to be a week for laziness so we're clipping John Keppelman’s column from the Pacific Grove Tribune. He tells of the trials and tribulations of buying a new car with statistics. “My wife has a 1941 Buick with 114,000 miles on it. The dealers refer to it distastefully as a ‘rough job.’ There’s no doubt about.it, it’s in bad shape, but she won't tet me spend even $15 having it tuned. She wants a new one. Mine is a 194] Chevvy, and not in such hot shape either. A friend and automobile dealer, says she shouldn't put any money into it, but I don’t agree with either of them, and I’m going to fix mine up and keep it in the family. Because this is a common problem in a very expensive age, I have done some figuring . . . for myself and have put it down on paper here. . . for you .. to argue over at home. The figures can’t be exact to the cent, but the principle must be true. So let’s pretend it's you who wants a new car. : “You don’t have the money to buy a new $2500 car, and you'll get only $500 trade-in on your old car. Still you want a new car so you discover you'llhave to pay $2,000 with your car as a trade and the payments will be $60 a month ($2 a day). Anyway you want it so you start looking at all the expenses on the old one, and your auto dealer nods his head convincingly that your old car is a terrible liability. “But let’s consider a few angles. Taxis are driven from 300,000 to 400,000 miles before they are traded -in;.it's a business with them; they have to save every penny. Your own car is good for at least 200,000 miles or three to four more years if you've gone 125,000 miles with it as I have. Its trade value at that. time will be about $100. That’s a depreciation expense of about $100 a year. Say you spend about $200 getting it fixed up. now and perhaps $150 for each of the following three years.. including a paint job.. . Thus you spend: about $200 getting it fixed up now and perhaps:$150 for the . : You'll use more gas and oil with the }: next four years. old car.. say 50 percent more. So, if it costs you $375 for gas and oil for 25,000 miles for a new car, yours will . cost $565 for gas and oil. Thus driving 25,000 miles a year, gas, oil, repairs and depreciation will cost you about $815 a year. ‘Now let’s look over the new. car proposition. The . first year it will depreciate about one-third, from $2,500 to $1,700, or $800 plus gas and oil figured at $375 makes $1,175: The second year it will depreciate: another one-third . . from $1,700 down to $1,140 or about $560. And the gas and oil ($375) and a few minor repairs . . . clutch, brakes, a valve job and some fender dents . . about $125. So in its third year the new car will cost you $925. ° “In its fourth year this car depreciates another onethird from $765 down to $510.. an expense of about $255. You're using still a little more gas and oil, maybe $475 worth now and repairs are increasing, say $150 this fourth year . . . for a total transportation cost of $880. “Now let's compare your financial position on these two plans. Four years on your old car will cost you aster. EXPLOSION OR DUD? ' and you'll find your transportation has cost you $3,160 for four years. .. old style. *““But you want a new car, and you argue that it’s cheaper: Let’s see. The first year’s cost we find out would be $1,175, the second year $975, the third $925, and the fourth $880 for a four year totalof $3,955. —Subtracting its depreciated value of $510 you discover that your transportation “‘new style’ costs you for the same four years $3,445. That is, $285 more. **License plates will cost about $25 more on the new car, maybe $100 more for the four years and insurance about $100 more. Add these to the $285 and you discover that your new car will cost approximately $500 more to drive for the next four years. . . $125 per year or about $10 a month for the privilege of driving a spanking new car. Hmmm! ““Well, what do you know! [. set out to prove my spouse was wrong and here I've talked myself right into a new car too. If that’s all it'll cost me, only $2.50 a week more than my “heap” costs me now, what am . waiting for! It’s really remarkable what you can do ‘when you set out to prove somebody else is wrong!”’ Statistics say educated women don’t have as many children as uneducated women. Maybe it could be a reguirement for a college degree for women that they have the necessary credits and at least one child. After all, . since the “‘poorhouse state’ has shown us how to live a life of ease at government expense, it seems a rotten shame to keep anyone unborn and thus deprived of their federal payments, bonuses and pensions. + \ dulls the edge of appreciation for simple pleasures, and subconsciously spurring us on is the threat of atomic disWe gorge on the luxuries of materialism, hoping

to get our fill before time and fate catches us. If the last fifty years are considered normal then the norm for mankind is paranoic fantasia. Perhaps we should change the.term from the welfare $3,260 and you'll have a $100 car left. Subtract this . state to the poorhouse state. [ISN'T THIS YOUR NIGHT TO SHAVE, PAW? SHAVINGS GETTING TO BE TOO MUCH FOR ME, MAW, I THINK ILL START SHAVING ONCE A: WEEK INSTEAD OF TWICE.’ THAT SOUNDS REASONABLE.. AND ILL SHAVE YOU . ON THE OFF NIGHT! --NOW DON’T FORGET, SANDY KEEP HIM OFF BALANCE WITH THAT LEFT JAB, THEN ROCK ‘IM WITHA RIGHT CROSS! I CAN: TELL HES SCARED STIFF! NOW GO . GET HIM! GIMME THAT OLD SALES TALK AGAIN! IM GETTIN’ KINDA Demessinctnras “+. Just Wonderin’ ] Wonder what to write about— Woods gods, or sprites or elves, Or just the ordinary folk we call Endearingly “ourselves.” In thinking of ourselves, I consider the fact that we are indeed a fortunate people. We dwell in a notable region of the Sierra. . Nevada-county and its characteristics: are a wealth of natural beauty and charm; forested hills, rushing rivers, rippling streams and placid upland lakes. Here history and romance walk ever hand in hand and memory whispers with the voices. of wind swayed trees, sunlit streams and “bird songs at eventide. We love our hills of home, and that is but natural, for as sea faring men love the sea to which they~ go down in ships, and as the city dweller loves the bright lights and roaring marts of trade, even so do the hill people love their hills. Surely we love our hills. . They stand guard around our homes and communities even as the hills stood about Jerusalem; they catch the first wan streaks of dawn and are crowned with the glory of departing day; like the poet of old we often say, ‘I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my strength.”” Men the world over have drawn strength, courage and inspiration from the hills, and found in their presence the faith and stability which encouraged them to go. on in the face of difficulties and win battles which at first. thought seemed unconquerable. And now in lighter vein, this little tale: Once upon a time there was a man who climbed an eminence which no one before him had attained. As he stood upon a breath taking escarpment and viewed the earth lying prone at his feet, he exulted greatly. He, he was the enly human being who had ever scaled this great height, ihe first man who had ever looked down upon the earth as he was now able to look down. His breast swelled with crude pride and as he walked forward he gave tongue to the thoughts which rose in him. He chanted: ‘For the strength of the hills we bless thee, Our God, our father's God, Thou hast planted the verdant forests Where human foot ne'er trod."’ “I,” he shouted, “I alone have conquered this great height, I alone!”’ He walked a few feet farther along a narrow ledge . when rounding a large boulder he stared in amazement; there, seated upon a smaller bit of rock and smiling serenely sat—Eleanor Roosevelt. Well that experience should have taught our hero hu'mility and humility is a worthy art to cultivate, for no. matter what we do, or say or think, some one has done, thought and said the same before us. “Why should the spirit of man be proud>?’’ I’m sure ‘I don't know, but those of us who live in our own Neee : set A ' . yada county will contin i Radios, cars and movies gear us to a living that in turn . 4 inue to be proud of our heritage . and the pioneer spirit which still lives in us will spring forth militantly in defense of any principle, tradition or materal object which is a part of our legacy from the past. When that which we hold precious is in jeopardy, . we hope that the miracle will happen and it usually does, ‘even as it did a few days since in French Corral when the old schoolhouse was reclaimed by those who loved it and the town knew that never again would its integrity be threatened. ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. a r Ticklers i By George i Ld sapenEnSscttaniastaneine ——— ‘sv wonderful—secluded, running water and “Boy, this is : close to transportation.” —