April 29, 1946 (4 pages)

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster-_ « evada City N uU eget Ry . The coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your is paper gives you complete friends, your neighbors, and your month town,Psead The Nugget. e _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA oe Vol. 20, No. 34 The County Seat Paper _ NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORN 1A The Gold Cenise THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. —=a WHAT GOES ON IN WASHINGTON Sinee V-J Day Senator Harry F. Byrd, (Dem. Virginia) chairman of the Joint Committee on Non-Hssential Federal Expenditures Bee Tedoubled his efforts to reduce the war swollen federal payroll. Last November the senator released a report on wide spread overlapping and duplication of functions in~ gevernment. Among the glaring examples of waste and inefficiency he revealed. 22. agencies or units in 11 departments and indepenent establishments dealing with housing; 27 units in 12 departments. dealing with standards and inspection; 44 agencies in 8 departments dealing with agriculture. The senator recommended sweeping departmental reorganization and a reduction of personnel on the federal payroll from 3,600,000 to 1,000,000. Since then, official announcements of the liquidation of sugh agencies as the Office of War Information, Office of Censor ship, the Fed eral Economic Administration, Surplus Property Administration, Smaller War Plants Corporation and so! -forth ‘have been well publicized’ and it hag been generally understood and accepted that a considerable payroll reduction was in progress. ‘American taxpayers therefore were properly set back on: ttheir heels when last February, Senator Byrd made public figures which showed an actual net gain of over ten thousand employes in civilian departments and . bureayis of the federal government since VJ day. On March’ 6 the Civil! Service Commission revealed an in. } crease during the month of January . of 3260 federal employes in Washington alone. Throughout the nation 31 .federal agencies showed a net inerease of 34,569 emiployees exclusive of war units. The Department of Lab-. or for instance, has absorbed the employes” of Several” liquidated agencies and now has 2i5,722 more pereons on its payroll than it had: last August. The State Department has mearly doubled its personnel, going from 11,280 to 18,864 employes; Selective Service which had 18,698 on August Ist when it was operating at #ts wartime peak, has retained 16,5161 at a time when itis drafting only @ comparable handful of men. The Office of War Information is @ classic example of what happens to the employes of a liquidated federal ageney. There were 7383 of the war workers transferred to the etate department and 141 were taken over toy the-Bureau of the Budget. The Foreign Economic Administration, another liquidated agency shifted 876. of its emiployees to the State: Department; 1501 went te the Department of Agriculture, 2'36 to the: Department of Commerce and 354 to the Reconstruction Finance Corperation. The War Manpower Commission ‘died in name only—its: entire force of 26,076 employes were divided between the Labor Department and the Federal Seeurity Agency. The Surplus Property Administration shifted its entire force of 6438 to the ' RIC. The Smaller War Plants Corporation divided its 1800 workers Wetween Commerce and the RFC. In making these figures public, Benator Byrd pointed out that what xeductions are being made are to be found in the shipyards and arsenals of the country. He said. “thousands of employes who found jobs in the government as part of the war effort should be included in drastic reductions as war functions of both war and peace time agencies are curtailed and eliminated. ' “These agencies are struggling to find reasons for the continuance. of their supposedly temporary: war activities and in addition are anxious to absorb functions and personnel’ of other’ agencies which on the gurface are reported to be in the process of liquidation. Congressman John Taber, (Rep. New York) long time advocate of economy in government has charged that President Truman’s proposed budget for 1947 will add 125,000 mew workers to the federal payroll fn the next fiscal year at a cost to the taxpayer of $2i32,000,000. Taber revealed that the budget estimate calls for 4238 new employes in the Department of Agriculture: 7632 in the Commerce Department; 10,698 Temce during picketing, prohibit unt.was expected the committee so emasculated the bill that one senator BASEBALL FANS FIX UP DIAMOND IN THE PARK A large gtoup of husky baseball Players and fans yesterday gathered in Pioneers Park and: proceeded .to level off the diamond there so that the Nevada City nine enitered in the Foothill League will have a place to practice and it is hoped to meet visiting team’s in the league. During the last four years baseball locally was a war casualty. But now thait many of the players are dicharged from service the sport is receiving its old time enthusiastic support. : The diamond in the park is overgrown with weeds and grass and in some places eroded .Elton Tobiassen, local farmer and in his college Yays Golden Gloves champion yesterday loaned hig farm tractor to help in the weed killing and — job. NEVADA COUNTY -EMPLOYES GET INSURANCE CUT Joseph J. Gallagher manager of the State Compesnation Insurance Fund has announced that the County of Nevada and’ its employees estab-. lished an excellent safety reeord during the year ending February 7, 1945. As a result the eounty has reduced its workmen’s insurance costs by 50% of the premiums. This saving was in the form of a cash dividend . amounting to! $770.97. Attention given. to accident precompensation ‘Santa Cruz where vention and the cooperation of coun-. —— PICTURE SHOWS MOTHER INLAW’S . AIM WAS GOOD An X-ray picture taken of Ed Milligan’gs head Dr. Lang, indicates, ‘according Grass Valley took effect in his neck, back of his head and right ear. Milligan’s the task of picking out the shot soon. The’ fluoroscope ‘portrait of hiis skull. gan had little to say, but did ing an altercation with Mrs. complaint she has filed against him. Mrs. Bonnivert declares Milligan ed to the shot gun. to that-the emtire charge of duck shot fired at him last Monday afternoon ‘by his mother in law, Mre. Ann Bonivert, as he was leaving her home in Taylorville at the edge of The physician stated yesterdiaay that chance of recovery. has improved and he hopes to start* on the wound, aecording-to Dr. Lang shows some of the shot flattened: out against When his picture: was taken: Millipon mark: ‘I s’pose in some ways, I had it comin’.”’ 2 “Milligan was hopsitalized followBonnivert while he was engaged in trying to persuade this wife, Mrs. Ber. nide Milligan to withdraw a divorce; streams and the lower lakes on May knocked her down before she resort-. be closed. On*many a door will be TROUT LIMITS — WILL BE RARE ON OPENING DAY The chance of catching a trout limit on opening day Wednesday, according to old time fishermen here is very slim. Deputy Sheriff Carl Larsen, one of the most expert of local anglers, sume it wp briefly, “the water in all the streams ig too high and in the lakes it is too cold.” ‘ , L As a matter of fact the lakes in the high Sierras, reportéd to fores: service men who have visited them. are just beginning to thaw out. Those in the higher altitudes still: have ice fringes around their edges. (Most likely spots for May Ist aneling will be along streams in the lower elevations west of ‘Nevada City and Grass Valley and in the irrigation ditches, when and if fishing is permitted in them. (Nevertheless there will be a host of fishermen lining the ‘banks of . ist. Schools and business houses in . 'Grase Valley and Nevada City will i scrawled the sign: “Gone Fishing.” ' st EVA DA SEVENTY-FIVE . —AND— YEARS AGO FIFTY YEARS AGO CITY. -. COMMITTEE. HEARS REPORT ON ROAD NEEDS ‘Charles. H. Whitmore, district engineer of the State Division of HighWays with headquarters at Marysville, addressing 60 delegates and committee members at their . highWay meeting in Bret Hare Inn Friday approved all the projects mentioned by the several delegates though making no promises regarding improvements of several of them could be made. : Frank Rowe, chairman of the Nevada County Board. of Supervisors of reconstruction of the Tahoe Ukiah Highway through the Rough and Ready district.and the numerous accidents which had occured there. Whitmore’ stated that his office kept an exact record of accidents and ; that more ~ accidents occured on . Highway 40 near the Summit than in any. other section, yet none of the speakers called attention to them. He agreed that the road through Rough and Ready was in need of roconstruction. H._F. Sofge secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce . told of the need of the completion . of the Downieville highway entrance . into Nevada City, work on which! ,was dropped at the Weginnineg of the war. Sofge who has urged for the past six years, realignment of the, Tahoe Ukiah Highway as Bear Valley from the west. that while it enters there were NEVADA CITY 50 YEARS AGO Hon. J. M. Walling returned from he GAR e neampment. tty officials has enabled. the fund to effect: this saving for the Nevada . County. . in the Department of Interior; 11,638. in the post office department; 1574 in the> state department and 7500 in the ‘civil funetion the War Department. “A‘t the same time,” said Taber, “we have evidence of entire sections and divisions of employes not being utilized. Some federal] agencies are ‘so overstaffed that they cannot operate efficiently. We keep pointing out this waste of manpower and tax payers money But the: administration keeps right on loading them on the payrol}l.’’ units of The administrations subservience to the pressures of organized labor ‘is once again illustrated by’ the watered down version of the now famous: “(Case Bill” soon te be reported “to the senate by its labor committee, The. bill as originally sponsored by Congressman Francis Case (Rep. S. ‘Dalk.) aimed to make unions as well ‘as companies liable in the courts for Wwiolations of fabor Management agreements. It also aimed to ban vioon boycotts whereby employes might refuse to handle a manufacturer's or farmer’s product in order to force him to comply with a union’s demands and provide for arbitration and eooling: off periods. The. measure was passed in the house on February 7th by the devisive vote of 258 to 155 and it was then relegatéd to the senate education and labor committee, etter known as “ithe graveyard’ of legislation the unions want buried. As remarked there was nothing left but its name and number. That the bill did not have a ghost’s chance of passing the biased committee could be gleaned from a statement made by Senator James. C. (Murray ardent New Dealer from (Montana who is chairman. Boasted (Murray before a San Diego Demoeratic club gathering “as chairman of the labor and education committee I assure you that the (Case) bill will not pass the committee. It is an extreme measure desgined to destroy labor unions. There is not a chance that it will pass the senate of the United States.’’ ‘The only hope left for restoring the measure to some semblance of the original hause bill ig support of the amendments which Senator Joseph Ball will offer when it comes before the full senate im-the near future. : fire The new bell for Pennsylvahia Engine Company No. 2 was expeeted within two or three days. The distribution of keys'was progressing at Wolf’s grocery store. The ‘person securing the key that would unlock the glass money box was to get the $20 contained therein. A key Was given with each $1 purchase. James Hawke left on train ‘for for the noon. San Francisco to arrange having asphalltum brought here to pave the streets. He had contracts for paving Broad St. from below the National Hotel up to the city. hall. He aillso had contracts for work on Commercial St. John Heyer popular chef of the ‘National Hotel was seriously ill at his home on Nevada Street. ‘Prof. David Starr Jordan of Stanford University delivered an address: for the general public at the Msthodist Church. His subject, Rise of the Common Man, was teeming with instruction and interest. His facta ‘were solid, polished and convincing and his logic ag Wrilliant as it was irresistible. His manner of presentation was fully in accordance with the well known erudition and standing of the man of whose fame the country is so justly proud. All who heard him must have felt that they were in a rare atmosphere and under the sway ofa master intellect. Emil J. Ott returned on a visit to his parents from Alaska. He held the responsible position of assayer and metallurgical engineer of the Treadwell Mine. When asked about the gold rush to Alaska and the outlook there he did not paint a glowing picture. He said the climate there ak lowed only. 70 working days a year and he thought there would be much suffering among the many men going to that cold, icy region. ———_—. NEVADA-CITY 75 YEARS AGO The report of Surveyor Harris and . the heavy estimates’ given by him for a railroad between Nevada City, Grass Valley and Marysville did much to discourage the people. Had Harris ‘been in the pay of those who opposed a railroad he could not have served them better. The entire action of the people of Nevada County was designed to secure a narrow gauge road from first to jast. Mr. Harris surveyed a line for a four foot eight and a half inch gauge and calculated the cost of a three foot gauge on that survey. It was ibeliev-" ed there was bad faith somewhere. attended the; ELECTRICIAN Ie Miss Olive Litchfield returned this city from visiting friends in { TO . east and brought with her from . ;among the ‘‘Yankee notions” picked . up in her travels a handy washing: . machine consisting of a rubber milt. ten the palm of which was a rigid surface like a wash board. It’s’ object was to protect the hands in pan . bing clothes. Pa grand musical. festival was to be presented at New Concert Hall in Grass Valley by the Miner’s Home Assn. in aid of a home for disabled miners. $60,000 tickets were sold at $2.50 each. During the festival the sum of $90,000 in gold coin was distributed to the ticket holders in 1500 individual prizes ranging from $20 to $15,000. ‘A mass convention of Republicans was held in the court house for the purpose of nominating candidates for city offices. Judge John Caldwell Was chosen chairman of the meeting and T. H. Rolfe secretary. Following wag the roll of honor for Miss Miller’s school for the month “of April. Addie Gray, Braddie Wentworth, Augusta Wentworth, James Gray, Martha Jack, ‘Nellie Rolfe, Freddie Bradley, Nellie Hughes, Jennie Munro, Emily King, Walter Lawrence, Thomas H. Lones, Clemence ‘TIsoard and Willie Wentworth. FALL FATAL TO Leslie Orren Stevens, for 21 years electrician and chief electrician of the Idaho Maryland ,Mine, was instantly killed Thursday in a fall from a power polle at the edge of late from a power pole near the residence of Errol MacBoyle. He suffered a broken neck in a fall of 15 feet. Stevens was checking fuses on the Role when the accident oacured. Coroner Alvah Hooper took charge of the remaing after Stevens had: been pronounced dead at the Jones’: Memorial Hospital. . Stevens was a member of the Mine . Workers Protective League, He inStalled the colored lights in the grounds of the MacBoyle residence following the 1939 World’s Fair on Treasure Island. Surviving are his wife Mrs. Jane Valley and sisters, Mrs. Elaine Mahaffey of Folsom and Mrs. Madge (Crase of Stockton. — WARD SHELDON EXALTED RULER Ward Sheldon, district attorney, was seated as exalted ruler of the Nevada City Elks Lodgs Thursday night along with the other officera . ere the rate Stevens, Mrs. Perry Tisher of Graes. ' recently elected. was not high. more made plain that tbhoth these . the State Highway Commission again and new appropriations made fo them, . Whitmore said that— the $50,000) project betwe een the Truckee “Y”’ Truckee on Highway 40 would be completed this summer, that work on} Highway 29 near Lady Jane Manor . would be started and that proposed . route between Grass Valley and Nevada City connecting with the Downieville Highway was under consideration, but no plans for it had been drawn. and. Guerdon Ellis supervisor of Tahoe national forest stated that so far as federal fundg were concerned the em'phiasis nowadays is being pilaced on lumeer access roads. He cited the. present realignment of the Downieville Highway as it descends into the canyon of the North Fork of the Yuba River and other improvements as soon as that is completed in August. He said that the next project for which contracts will be let will be the three and a_ half mile stretich between Camptonville, Yuba County arid the Log Cabin. (Presiding at the meeting was Ho‘ward Reamer, chairman of the committee of Clarksburg, Wesley Donnenwirth, president of the Grass Valley Chamilber of Commerce welcomed the visitors. WOMEN TO HEAR ERNIE PYLE HERO ‘One of the characters out of the late Ernie Pyle’s book, Brave Men, will address the International Relations Section of the Newada: County Branch of the American Association of University Women at its meeting Tuesday evening, April 30th, The guest speaker will be Master Sergeant Adelarde Levesque. (Levesque was described by Pyle as a “tough, competent, old line first sergeant.”’ The meeting will take place:‘at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Esterly adjoining Hills Flat on the highway. Sergeant Levesque recently reenlisted in the army and has been assgined to the recruiting station at Camp Beale. He resides with his family in Yuba City. DR. ORVIN P. FRY IS HOME Dr. Orvin P. Fry, who wag discharged from the U. S. Army Mediical Corps a few days ago, has returned to his family ind home in Grass Val: . ley and expeccts to open medical offices there’ early in May. As a major in the medical corps he was in charge of a field hospital in Europe when the war ended there. called attention to the urgent need was told . accidents } Whit. “moving vehicles.’’ _MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1946 DEWITT NELSON WARNS OF FIRE HAZARDS before touching off that cleanup trash pile on watershed and forest lands. Nelson quoting from our state law Section 41513 of the Public Resources Code said that “no person shall burn, logs, stumps, fallen timber, fallows, slash or grass, brush cr 15 and December 1 unless euch mit from a.duly authorized agent of ee state forester.”’ Nelson remindled the people however. that written . Permission is not necessary when material is burned in small piles if ‘located on a public road in door yard premises, corrals, gardens or plotwed fields at distance of not less than 100 feet from any woodland, timber, ,ifthere is at least one adult person in actual attendance of such a fire ‘during its burning. Burning permits are readily available the state forester continued at ranger headquart ers of the division of forestry or at leouaty firewarden’s offices. Within: . national forgst boundaries permits ‘can be obtained by contacting the responsible forest service officer of . the immediate area, Nelson expressed the hope thay people of the state would becomé more fully fire conscious thig yeat and thoroughly realize.the disastrous he . projects should to be brought before . effects to uncontrolled fire. He said ‘that “we must join together in unir;ted action against these who carelessly use fire in their work or allow fire to start inadventently by . throwing cigarets or matches from The facts and figures of the 1945 season. fire Josees substantiate his appeal for public cooperation during this : coming: season, State division of forestry re— cords show 2802 fires burned over 561,860 acres of forest and watershed lands outside of national forests boundaries at a cost of $1911,017 in emergency funds to the taxpayers of the state. The record shows ,, that 94% of these fires were mar caused and therefore preventable in Californians were more thoroughly cognizant of the cost and damage to the people as a whole and to the vital natural resources. Nelson requested three measures be adopted by all Californians during the 1946 fire season. Obtain permit before burning —when in doulbt contact any local forest officer. Be sure the cigaret or match is completely extingwished before its disposal. Never leave a fire unattended—immediately summan additional aid when neeessary. Funeral Today. . For J. W. Whiteman Funeral services in the ‘Hooper ‘and Weaver Mortuary will be held today at 2 p. m. for James Wesley ~ Whiteman a farmer of Chicago Park who died Thursday evening in a Grass Valley hospital. Interment will be in the Elm Ridge Cemet Whiteman was born in Iowa: 43 years ago. He leaves his wife Mrs. Marjorie Whiteman, a son William: and daughter Marlene. He and his family had resided for several years: on. what was known formerly as the Brown Ranch: ‘ : ¥ Barbecue Steaks For Peace Officers Assn. The Nevada County Peacé Officers Association has accepted the invitation of its president, A. W. McGagin county probation officer to a barbecued steak dinner May Ist on the lawn of his residence in Hills Plat. At a meeting held in the sheriff’s office Gene Johnson~in charge of the pistol range announced plans for ‘a work day in which members would. be asked to. fence in the se tion’s property. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen stated. ‘ ‘From Sacramento today. DeWitt Nelson state forester cautioned the people of California that sincé April. 15 the start of the fire season, burning permits are absolutely necessary, spring of forest, covered land between Apri burning is done under written. peror grass or brush covered land and that the Northern California Peace Officers Association will meet. ba Grass Valley May 16. ‘PLEADS GUILTY. ‘ Ralph Warrington pleaded guilty in the superior court to five . of check forgery. He asked for bation and court set May 3 as date Son report of Feoberien 3

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster-_ « evada City N uU eget Ry . The coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your is paper gives you complete friends, your neighbors, and your month town,Psead The Nugget. e _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA oe Vol. 20, No. 34 The County Seat Paper _ NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORN 1A The Gold Cenise THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. —=a WHAT GOES ON IN WASHINGTON Sinee V-J Day Senator Harry F. Byrd, (Dem. Virginia) chairman of the Joint Committee on Non-Hssential Federal Expenditures Bee Tedoubled his efforts to reduce the war swollen federal payroll. Last November the senator released a report on wide spread overlapping and duplication of functions in~ gevernment. Among the glaring examples of waste and inefficiency he revealed. 22. agencies or units in 11 departments and indepenent establishments dealing with housing; 27 units in 12 departments. dealing with standards and inspection; 44 agencies in 8 departments dealing with agriculture. The senator recommended sweeping departmental reorganization and a reduction of personnel on the federal payroll from 3,600,000 to 1,000,000. Since then, official announcements of the liquidation of sugh agencies as the Office of War Information, Office of Censor ship, the Fed eral Economic Administration, Surplus Property Administration, Smaller War Plants Corporation and so! -forth ‘have been well publicized’ and it hag been generally understood and accepted that a considerable payroll reduction was in progress. ‘American taxpayers therefore were properly set back on: ttheir heels when last February, Senator Byrd made public figures which showed an actual net gain of over ten thousand employes in civilian departments and . bureayis of the federal government since VJ day. On March’ 6 the Civil! Service Commission revealed an in. } crease during the month of January . of 3260 federal employes in Washington alone. Throughout the nation 31 .federal agencies showed a net inerease of 34,569 emiployees exclusive of war units. The Department of Lab-. or for instance, has absorbed the employes” of Several” liquidated agencies and now has 2i5,722 more pereons on its payroll than it had: last August. The State Department has mearly doubled its personnel, going from 11,280 to 18,864 employes; Selective Service which had 18,698 on August Ist when it was operating at #ts wartime peak, has retained 16,5161 at a time when itis drafting only @ comparable handful of men. The Office of War Information is @ classic example of what happens to the employes of a liquidated federal ageney. There were 7383 of the war workers transferred to the etate department and 141 were taken over toy the-Bureau of the Budget. The Foreign Economic Administration, another liquidated agency shifted 876. of its emiployees to the State: Department; 1501 went te the Department of Agriculture, 2'36 to the: Department of Commerce and 354 to the Reconstruction Finance Corperation. The War Manpower Commission ‘died in name only—its: entire force of 26,076 employes were divided between the Labor Department and the Federal Seeurity Agency. The Surplus Property Administration shifted its entire force of 6438 to the ' RIC. The Smaller War Plants Corporation divided its 1800 workers Wetween Commerce and the RFC. In making these figures public, Benator Byrd pointed out that what xeductions are being made are to be found in the shipyards and arsenals of the country. He said. “thousands of employes who found jobs in the government as part of the war effort should be included in drastic reductions as war functions of both war and peace time agencies are curtailed and eliminated. ' “These agencies are struggling to find reasons for the continuance. of their supposedly temporary: war activities and in addition are anxious to absorb functions and personnel’ of other’ agencies which on the gurface are reported to be in the process of liquidation. Congressman John Taber, (Rep. New York) long time advocate of economy in government has charged that President Truman’s proposed budget for 1947 will add 125,000 mew workers to the federal payroll fn the next fiscal year at a cost to the taxpayer of $2i32,000,000. Taber revealed that the budget estimate calls for 4238 new employes in the Department of Agriculture: 7632 in the Commerce Department; 10,698 Temce during picketing, prohibit unt.was expected the committee so emasculated the bill that one senator BASEBALL FANS FIX UP DIAMOND IN THE PARK A large gtoup of husky baseball Players and fans yesterday gathered in Pioneers Park and: proceeded .to level off the diamond there so that the Nevada City nine enitered in the Foothill League will have a place to practice and it is hoped to meet visiting team’s in the league. During the last four years baseball locally was a war casualty. But now thait many of the players are dicharged from service the sport is receiving its old time enthusiastic support. : The diamond in the park is overgrown with weeds and grass and in some places eroded .Elton Tobiassen, local farmer and in his college Yays Golden Gloves champion yesterday loaned hig farm tractor to help in the weed killing and — job. NEVADA COUNTY -EMPLOYES GET INSURANCE CUT Joseph J. Gallagher manager of the State Compesnation Insurance Fund has announced that the County of Nevada and’ its employees estab-. lished an excellent safety reeord during the year ending February 7, 1945. As a result the eounty has reduced its workmen’s insurance costs by 50% of the premiums. This saving was in the form of a cash dividend . amounting to! $770.97. Attention given. to accident precompensation ‘Santa Cruz where vention and the cooperation of coun-. —— PICTURE SHOWS MOTHER INLAW’S . AIM WAS GOOD An X-ray picture taken of Ed Milligan’gs head Dr. Lang, indicates, ‘according Grass Valley took effect in his neck, back of his head and right ear. Milligan’s the task of picking out the shot soon. The’ fluoroscope ‘portrait of hiis skull. gan had little to say, but did ing an altercation with Mrs. complaint she has filed against him. Mrs. Bonnivert declares Milligan ed to the shot gun. to that-the emtire charge of duck shot fired at him last Monday afternoon ‘by his mother in law, Mre. Ann Bonivert, as he was leaving her home in Taylorville at the edge of The physician stated yesterdiaay that chance of recovery. has improved and he hopes to start* on the wound, aecording-to Dr. Lang shows some of the shot flattened: out against When his picture: was taken: Millipon mark: ‘I s’pose in some ways, I had it comin’.”’ 2 “Milligan was hopsitalized followBonnivert while he was engaged in trying to persuade this wife, Mrs. Ber. nide Milligan to withdraw a divorce; streams and the lower lakes on May knocked her down before she resort-. be closed. On*many a door will be TROUT LIMITS — WILL BE RARE ON OPENING DAY The chance of catching a trout limit on opening day Wednesday, according to old time fishermen here is very slim. Deputy Sheriff Carl Larsen, one of the most expert of local anglers, sume it wp briefly, “the water in all the streams ig too high and in the lakes it is too cold.” ‘ , L As a matter of fact the lakes in the high Sierras, reportéd to fores: service men who have visited them. are just beginning to thaw out. Those in the higher altitudes still: have ice fringes around their edges. (Most likely spots for May Ist aneling will be along streams in the lower elevations west of ‘Nevada City and Grass Valley and in the irrigation ditches, when and if fishing is permitted in them. (Nevertheless there will be a host of fishermen lining the ‘banks of . ist. Schools and business houses in . 'Grase Valley and Nevada City will i scrawled the sign: “Gone Fishing.” ' st EVA DA SEVENTY-FIVE . —AND— YEARS AGO FIFTY YEARS AGO CITY. -. COMMITTEE. HEARS REPORT ON ROAD NEEDS ‘Charles. H. Whitmore, district engineer of the State Division of HighWays with headquarters at Marysville, addressing 60 delegates and committee members at their . highWay meeting in Bret Hare Inn Friday approved all the projects mentioned by the several delegates though making no promises regarding improvements of several of them could be made. : Frank Rowe, chairman of the Nevada County Board. of Supervisors of reconstruction of the Tahoe Ukiah Highway through the Rough and Ready district.and the numerous accidents which had occured there. Whitmore’ stated that his office kept an exact record of accidents and ; that more ~ accidents occured on . Highway 40 near the Summit than in any. other section, yet none of the speakers called attention to them. He agreed that the road through Rough and Ready was in need of roconstruction. H._F. Sofge secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce . told of the need of the completion . of the Downieville highway entrance . into Nevada City, work on which! ,was dropped at the Weginnineg of the war. Sofge who has urged for the past six years, realignment of the, Tahoe Ukiah Highway as Bear Valley from the west. that while it enters there were NEVADA CITY 50 YEARS AGO Hon. J. M. Walling returned from he GAR e neampment. tty officials has enabled. the fund to effect: this saving for the Nevada . County. . in the Department of Interior; 11,638. in the post office department; 1574 in the> state department and 7500 in the ‘civil funetion the War Department. “A‘t the same time,” said Taber, “we have evidence of entire sections and divisions of employes not being utilized. Some federal] agencies are ‘so overstaffed that they cannot operate efficiently. We keep pointing out this waste of manpower and tax payers money But the: administration keeps right on loading them on the payrol}l.’’ units of The administrations subservience to the pressures of organized labor ‘is once again illustrated by’ the watered down version of the now famous: “(Case Bill” soon te be reported “to the senate by its labor committee, The. bill as originally sponsored by Congressman Francis Case (Rep. S. ‘Dalk.) aimed to make unions as well ‘as companies liable in the courts for Wwiolations of fabor Management agreements. It also aimed to ban vioon boycotts whereby employes might refuse to handle a manufacturer's or farmer’s product in order to force him to comply with a union’s demands and provide for arbitration and eooling: off periods. The. measure was passed in the house on February 7th by the devisive vote of 258 to 155 and it was then relegatéd to the senate education and labor committee, etter known as “ithe graveyard’ of legislation the unions want buried. As remarked there was nothing left but

its name and number. That the bill did not have a ghost’s chance of passing the biased committee could be gleaned from a statement made by Senator James. C. (Murray ardent New Dealer from (Montana who is chairman. Boasted (Murray before a San Diego Demoeratic club gathering “as chairman of the labor and education committee I assure you that the (Case) bill will not pass the committee. It is an extreme measure desgined to destroy labor unions. There is not a chance that it will pass the senate of the United States.’’ ‘The only hope left for restoring the measure to some semblance of the original hause bill ig support of the amendments which Senator Joseph Ball will offer when it comes before the full senate im-the near future. : fire The new bell for Pennsylvahia Engine Company No. 2 was expeeted within two or three days. The distribution of keys'was progressing at Wolf’s grocery store. The ‘person securing the key that would unlock the glass money box was to get the $20 contained therein. A key Was given with each $1 purchase. James Hawke left on train ‘for for the noon. San Francisco to arrange having asphalltum brought here to pave the streets. He had contracts for paving Broad St. from below the National Hotel up to the city. hall. He aillso had contracts for work on Commercial St. John Heyer popular chef of the ‘National Hotel was seriously ill at his home on Nevada Street. ‘Prof. David Starr Jordan of Stanford University delivered an address: for the general public at the Msthodist Church. His subject, Rise of the Common Man, was teeming with instruction and interest. His facta ‘were solid, polished and convincing and his logic ag Wrilliant as it was irresistible. His manner of presentation was fully in accordance with the well known erudition and standing of the man of whose fame the country is so justly proud. All who heard him must have felt that they were in a rare atmosphere and under the sway ofa master intellect. Emil J. Ott returned on a visit to his parents from Alaska. He held the responsible position of assayer and metallurgical engineer of the Treadwell Mine. When asked about the gold rush to Alaska and the outlook there he did not paint a glowing picture. He said the climate there ak lowed only. 70 working days a year and he thought there would be much suffering among the many men going to that cold, icy region. ———_—. NEVADA-CITY 75 YEARS AGO The report of Surveyor Harris and . the heavy estimates’ given by him for a railroad between Nevada City, Grass Valley and Marysville did much to discourage the people. Had Harris ‘been in the pay of those who opposed a railroad he could not have served them better. The entire action of the people of Nevada County was designed to secure a narrow gauge road from first to jast. Mr. Harris surveyed a line for a four foot eight and a half inch gauge and calculated the cost of a three foot gauge on that survey. It was ibeliev-" ed there was bad faith somewhere. attended the; ELECTRICIAN Ie Miss Olive Litchfield returned this city from visiting friends in { TO . east and brought with her from . ;among the ‘‘Yankee notions” picked . up in her travels a handy washing: . machine consisting of a rubber milt. ten the palm of which was a rigid surface like a wash board. It’s’ object was to protect the hands in pan . bing clothes. Pa grand musical. festival was to be presented at New Concert Hall in Grass Valley by the Miner’s Home Assn. in aid of a home for disabled miners. $60,000 tickets were sold at $2.50 each. During the festival the sum of $90,000 in gold coin was distributed to the ticket holders in 1500 individual prizes ranging from $20 to $15,000. ‘A mass convention of Republicans was held in the court house for the purpose of nominating candidates for city offices. Judge John Caldwell Was chosen chairman of the meeting and T. H. Rolfe secretary. Following wag the roll of honor for Miss Miller’s school for the month “of April. Addie Gray, Braddie Wentworth, Augusta Wentworth, James Gray, Martha Jack, ‘Nellie Rolfe, Freddie Bradley, Nellie Hughes, Jennie Munro, Emily King, Walter Lawrence, Thomas H. Lones, Clemence ‘TIsoard and Willie Wentworth. FALL FATAL TO Leslie Orren Stevens, for 21 years electrician and chief electrician of the Idaho Maryland ,Mine, was instantly killed Thursday in a fall from a power polle at the edge of late from a power pole near the residence of Errol MacBoyle. He suffered a broken neck in a fall of 15 feet. Stevens was checking fuses on the Role when the accident oacured. Coroner Alvah Hooper took charge of the remaing after Stevens had: been pronounced dead at the Jones’: Memorial Hospital. . Stevens was a member of the Mine . Workers Protective League, He inStalled the colored lights in the grounds of the MacBoyle residence following the 1939 World’s Fair on Treasure Island. Surviving are his wife Mrs. Jane Valley and sisters, Mrs. Elaine Mahaffey of Folsom and Mrs. Madge (Crase of Stockton. — WARD SHELDON EXALTED RULER Ward Sheldon, district attorney, was seated as exalted ruler of the Nevada City Elks Lodgs Thursday night along with the other officera . ere the rate Stevens, Mrs. Perry Tisher of Graes. ' recently elected. was not high. more made plain that tbhoth these . the State Highway Commission again and new appropriations made fo them, . Whitmore said that— the $50,000) project betwe een the Truckee “Y”’ Truckee on Highway 40 would be completed this summer, that work on} Highway 29 near Lady Jane Manor . would be started and that proposed . route between Grass Valley and Nevada City connecting with the Downieville Highway was under consideration, but no plans for it had been drawn. and. Guerdon Ellis supervisor of Tahoe national forest stated that so far as federal fundg were concerned the em'phiasis nowadays is being pilaced on lumeer access roads. He cited the. present realignment of the Downieville Highway as it descends into the canyon of the North Fork of the Yuba River and other improvements as soon as that is completed in August. He said that the next project for which contracts will be let will be the three and a_ half mile stretich between Camptonville, Yuba County arid the Log Cabin. (Presiding at the meeting was Ho‘ward Reamer, chairman of the committee of Clarksburg, Wesley Donnenwirth, president of the Grass Valley Chamilber of Commerce welcomed the visitors. WOMEN TO HEAR ERNIE PYLE HERO ‘One of the characters out of the late Ernie Pyle’s book, Brave Men, will address the International Relations Section of the Newada: County Branch of the American Association of University Women at its meeting Tuesday evening, April 30th, The guest speaker will be Master Sergeant Adelarde Levesque. (Levesque was described by Pyle as a “tough, competent, old line first sergeant.”’ The meeting will take place:‘at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Esterly adjoining Hills Flat on the highway. Sergeant Levesque recently reenlisted in the army and has been assgined to the recruiting station at Camp Beale. He resides with his family in Yuba City. DR. ORVIN P. FRY IS HOME Dr. Orvin P. Fry, who wag discharged from the U. S. Army Mediical Corps a few days ago, has returned to his family ind home in Grass Val: . ley and expeccts to open medical offices there’ early in May. As a major in the medical corps he was in charge of a field hospital in Europe when the war ended there. called attention to the urgent need was told . accidents } Whit. “moving vehicles.’’ _MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1946 DEWITT NELSON WARNS OF FIRE HAZARDS before touching off that cleanup trash pile on watershed and forest lands. Nelson quoting from our state law Section 41513 of the Public Resources Code said that “no person shall burn, logs, stumps, fallen timber, fallows, slash or grass, brush cr 15 and December 1 unless euch mit from a.duly authorized agent of ee state forester.”’ Nelson remindled the people however. that written . Permission is not necessary when material is burned in small piles if ‘located on a public road in door yard premises, corrals, gardens or plotwed fields at distance of not less than 100 feet from any woodland, timber, ,ifthere is at least one adult person in actual attendance of such a fire ‘during its burning. Burning permits are readily available the state forester continued at ranger headquart ers of the division of forestry or at leouaty firewarden’s offices. Within: . national forgst boundaries permits ‘can be obtained by contacting the responsible forest service officer of . the immediate area, Nelson expressed the hope thay people of the state would becomé more fully fire conscious thig yeat and thoroughly realize.the disastrous he . projects should to be brought before . effects to uncontrolled fire. He said ‘that “we must join together in unir;ted action against these who carelessly use fire in their work or allow fire to start inadventently by . throwing cigarets or matches from The facts and figures of the 1945 season. fire Josees substantiate his appeal for public cooperation during this : coming: season, State division of forestry re— cords show 2802 fires burned over 561,860 acres of forest and watershed lands outside of national forests boundaries at a cost of $1911,017 in emergency funds to the taxpayers of the state. The record shows ,, that 94% of these fires were mar caused and therefore preventable in Californians were more thoroughly cognizant of the cost and damage to the people as a whole and to the vital natural resources. Nelson requested three measures be adopted by all Californians during the 1946 fire season. Obtain permit before burning —when in doulbt contact any local forest officer. Be sure the cigaret or match is completely extingwished before its disposal. Never leave a fire unattended—immediately summan additional aid when neeessary. Funeral Today. . For J. W. Whiteman Funeral services in the ‘Hooper ‘and Weaver Mortuary will be held today at 2 p. m. for James Wesley ~ Whiteman a farmer of Chicago Park who died Thursday evening in a Grass Valley hospital. Interment will be in the Elm Ridge Cemet Whiteman was born in Iowa: 43 years ago. He leaves his wife Mrs. Marjorie Whiteman, a son William: and daughter Marlene. He and his family had resided for several years: on. what was known formerly as the Brown Ranch: ‘ : ¥ Barbecue Steaks For Peace Officers Assn. The Nevada County Peacé Officers Association has accepted the invitation of its president, A. W. McGagin county probation officer to a barbecued steak dinner May Ist on the lawn of his residence in Hills Plat. At a meeting held in the sheriff’s office Gene Johnson~in charge of the pistol range announced plans for ‘a work day in which members would. be asked to. fence in the se tion’s property. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen stated. ‘ ‘From Sacramento today. DeWitt Nelson state forester cautioned the people of California that sincé April. 15 the start of the fire season, burning permits are absolutely necessary, spring of forest, covered land between Apri burning is done under written. peror grass or brush covered land and that the Northern California Peace Officers Association will meet. ba Grass Valley May 16. ‘PLEADS GUILTY. ‘ Ralph Warrington pleaded guilty in the superior court to five . of check forgery. He asked for bation and court set May 3 as date Son report of Feoberien 3