April 5, 1943 (4 pages)

i j . yh ese The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to _ who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it. "—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. . If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. 4 ANTES Vol. 17, No. 27. The County” Seat Paper NEVADA CI CITY, CALIFORNIA _ The Gold Canine MONDAY, APRIL 5, L 3.1943. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. There is an investigation. under‘way in Washington, D. C. to determine if charges are true that 120,000 young men have been deferred for military service under the assumption that they could not be replaced in their present vocations. Until this investigation is completed the country wont know whether the charge is true or not. But if it should prove true, it is fair to say, that public sentiment will demand that these young men go into their country’s uniforms before young married men with children. We often think of Washington, the Capitol, as peopled with men whose estimate of their own importance is higher than the rating the plain people of this country would be willing to accord them. In fact we think there is very little office work that a smart girl can’ do just as well as a chap in long’ pants. If some of these young fellows who have been deferred by pleas of their easy going bosses, would . make a survey of their ‘‘necessary’’ functions, it might easily prove that they had overestimated their value. It would be far more dignified for them to make this discovery themselves than to be vanked out of their jobs by Selective Service Boards whose patience has worn thin. Selective Service Boards are going over their registrants lists with a fine tooth comb for men to induct in the armed forces, before they begin to send married men with children into training camps. In fact, this is the explicit policy of the selective service system. % This process of fine combing has been going on for nearly a year. To attain the minimum of eleven million men in the armed forces, that has now been fixed as a goal, married men will have to be called out when they are not in war industries, or in war supporting industries, such as agriculture, communications, and utility services. a As the time for sending fathers of children into the armed services grows closer, now thought to tbe about July ist, another national trend is beginning to appear. Thatis the ‘work or fight’' temper that the American people now manifest. In the big cities, especially in those ‘benefiting hugely from war industries, absentees Dbecome more and more a factor in production of war materials and equipment. The men who earn any where from $8 to $20 a day, often have been deferred on the plea their services are vital to the war machine. These are often the same men who go out on spending sprees and pour out their earnings on a prolonged debauch. The police blotters throughout «the country are filled with names of such earners and spenders. We shall presently find that a method of dealing with these absentees has been devised. They will ultimately work of fight. It is one thing for a worker to stay away from his job on account of sickness, and quite another when he is incapaciated on account of drink. ; : : Union rules that provide for ‘(make work” jobs, we believe will also be given a thorough over~ halling, not by unions, but by leglatures. As one commentator puts 12 ' “With the stark truth that dependency can no longer be accept* ed as-an adequate reason for deferment, we can also understand why legislative tempers are growing short. If we must see men taken out of our community, to. fight, whose families will suffer severe hardships as a result,.then, certainly, we cannot tolerate conditions under which other men, because of union rules and makework restrictions, are required to do less than they should for the war effort. If we must ‘work or fight,” then in all fairness, let’s make * apply uniformly— to all of us.’ LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER FOUND ON WOLF CREEK Luke Williams of Grass Valley, who owns the mineral rights beneath 720 acres of land on the southern border of Nevada County along Wolf (Creek, reports that Thomas E. Farley of Hollywood and George E. Hook of Auburn have made an important discovery of lead,zinc, silver ore on his holding. Williams states that tests made of the ore reveal :vaues of 10 per cent lead, 8 per cent zinc, six ounesc of silver and 60 cents-in gold per ton. The discovery was made last November and since then prospecting and geological work has been under way. Some difficulty, Williams says, is being encountered in gaining access to mineralized area of the tract. The owner of the land surfaces is James Walsh of Auburn who has _ leased much of it to a cattle raiser. Negotiations for a road through the property, according to Williams, are now proceeding. BEYER BROS. SELL 4600 ACRES TO U.S. FOR $77,500 Albert and Henry Beyer, according to a deed filed last week in the office of the county recorder, have sold 4,600 acres of range land in the (Camp Beale area to the United States government for $77,500. The holdings was assessed at $20,105. The two brothers are bachelors and began accumulating land along the western border of Nevada Coun‘ty over half_a.centry_ago, They sold approximately 800 head of cattle when, through a suit in eminent domain, they found they had to part with their land. ‘ WOMEN’S CLUBS, TO AID HARVEST The Women’s Advisory Committee. Miss Maybelle Howard. of the War Manpower Commission has called upon women’s clubs throughout the country to mobilize. their members for active service on the nation’s farms this summer. This mobilization, it was emphasized is not to meet an immediate need but for one foreseen in the summer. Applicants for agricultural work will be called as the needs arise in their respective localities. In those communities where such labor is urgently needed, women’s clubs are urged to poll their memiberships for those willing to work on farms on a seasonal, vacation, or full time basis and to give this information to the county agricultural agent or the U. S. Employment Service. Oitther activities suggested for women’s organizations were to aid in mobilizing young people for farm work and provide necessary supervision of their living conditions; to assist local: government officials in recruiting farm workers, agd to acquaintwomen generally with the seriousness of the farm and _ food production problem through club educational programs. Only Seven Miles of i Narrow. Gauge Left Approximately seven miles of rails between Peardale and Colfax now remains to be salvaged, according to Norman Wolff, project engineer for Dulien Steel Products. Inc., who. is supervising the workof dismantling the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad. The railroad from Colfax to Nevada ‘City, was 22 miles long. It was built 67 years ago, and played a major role in the development of Nevada County. EARTHQUAKE CRACKED HOUSE Mr. and Mrs. W. Oden of North San Juan were Nevada City business visitors Saturday. They are kept quite busy on their ranch near North San Juan raisng poultry and ‘garden. The The recent earthquake was quite severe at their home. The cement house in which they reside -was' cracked from oné corner to the bottom of a wall., NEW PRICES FOR MILK ARE NOW IN EFFECT U. S. N. Johnson, well known milk distributor, has compiled a table of milk prices set by the OUA for the iNevada-Placer area, beginning April 1, It follows: Butter fat Not less than 3.5% 4.2% Wholesale Prices— NGGLIONS ios ies eke se 47c 49c Half gallons . . 238%c 24%e URIS 22sec AS Ss 12\%e 12%¢ Retail Store—No delivery Price.’ Half gallons :.:-.:2..:: 26¢ 27¢ Quarta iis es cs 14c— 14%c Retail Stores Delivered Price Halt: gallons =.236.05%: 28¢ 29c Quarts: deck seni: 15¢ 15%e SUPERVISORS CLOSE ROADS IN CAMP BEALE Monday from allied headquarters here MARETH LINE FALLS NORTH AFRICA—General Dwight D. Eisenhower announced mel (shown in photo) has been forced to withdraw from the Mareth defense line in southern Tunisia. The British Eighth Army last Friday launch-' ed the attack on the enemy position south of H] Hamma jwith the effective aid of American forces and caused heavy losses to the enemy of tanks, men and guns. Latest reports have the Yankee troops within, 20 miles of Kairouan and 52 miles from the Mediterranean and Sousse. This photo of the Desert Fox is taken from a captured Nazi newsreel. last WAR FUND DRIVE OPENS APRIL 12 The world’s greatest financial enterprise—Uncle Sam’s Second War Fund drive, starts April 12 with a goal of $13,000,000,000 in War Bonds to be subscribed within the month. In this country, as in every other country throughout the United States, patriotic citizens are organizing to carry Uncle Sam’s appeal drastic help to every nian. woman and child in the land. For this Second War Fund drive, the slogan is: “They ere their Hives or lend your money.’ The spirit of that slogan is to be that Nazi (Field Marshal Erwin Rem-}.+;ieq to. the peopl efrom the AtWM. DURBROW IS NEW SELECTIVE The Nevada County Board of Supervisors have taken legal steps to close parts of two roads as they en-}. ter the Camp Beale area. The roads . affected are the McCourtney road and the Indian Springs road _ via! Spenceville which led to Wheatland. . The roads have already been closed} by military, authorities but abandon-. ;ment proceedings by the supervisor) are necessary. NOTED MINING ENGINEER IS BORNE TO REST Joseph Pierce Keene, mining engineer passed away Thursday night at 11 o’clock in Grass Valley. He had been a resident of Orchard Glen, adjacent to Nevada City since 1928. He was 73 years old. Keene was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and came to Portland, Oregon in 1891. He removed to Woodland and in 1907 where he married Surviving him are his wife and sons Howard} Keene of Berkeley, and Richard Keene, radio operator for the United Airlines. As a mining engineer Keene ranged the world from Dutch Guinea and South America to Fairbanks, Alaska. He\ examined mining properties in British Columbia, along the River Amur in Siberia, explored the coast of Okhotsk Sea with a dog sledge where he was ice bound for several months. He was extensively employed in making mining examinations in this vicinity. He made reports on several gravel deposits on San Juan Ridge, You. Bet, Gold Run, Forest Hill and Iowa Hill. ‘Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p. m. in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley, with David Hartman of the Seventh Day Advent Church officiating. ¢ SERVICE MEMBER William Durbrow, general manager . of the Nevada Irrigation District, has! afternoon for the late been apointed a member of the Ne-. vada County Selective Service Board 'to succeed Frank G., Finnegan, who . resigned in December to begin training for an officer’s commission in the United States army. The appointment. was made by Governor Earl Warren upon recommendation of Judge George L. Jones “As head of one of the largest irrigation systems in Northern California, Durbrow has a wider circle of friends among Nevada County. farmers and a more intimate knowledge of their needs than any other man who could have been chosen to sit upon Selective Service Board,’ was the comment of James C. Tyrrell, chairman of the board. Other members of the board, besides Tyrrell.and Durbrow, are John J. Looser, H. M. Leete, and Dr. Walter J. Hawkins. GEORGE WILSON. FARMER BORNE TO REST TODAY Funeral services are being held this George E. Wilson, whose death occured Friday lantic to the Pacific, with the understanding that the bonds they buy wil] provide the guns and ammunition, the planes and tanks sorely needed by American fighting men facing the enemy oh far flung. battlefronts around the world. To successfully manage and carry on this gigantic financial undertaking, surpassing anything of its kind ever atempted by this country before, the Treasury Department’s two bond selling organizations—-The War Savings Staff and and Victory Fund Committee—have been merged into one organization, the War Finance Committee. In the Twelfth Federal Reserve district, night in the pay ward of the Nevada . County Hospital. The services will! be conducted in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver ‘Mortuary in Grass} Valley with Rev. Herschel Fravel of the Congregational Chirch officiating. Interment will be in Elm Ridge iCemetery. The deceased was a mative of Lima Ohio, 77 years of age. He had lived in Grass Valley for the past 35 years. He followed farming, became noted as an authority . on crops grown in this county. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Wilson, a daughter, Mrs. Bleanor R. Bristol. of Grass Valle, Vernon EB. Wilson in the United States Navy, and Raymond B. Wilson of Grass Valley. BEST USE OF WAR TIME FOOD IS NOW VITAL. In the face of unavoidable limitations imposed by war, American families will find it necessary’ to make the most of every available ounce of food, the Office of War Information said today. To keep the nation at its best working form, better: food habits must be developed and! housewives must acquaint themselves with the principles of sound nutrition. The OWI pointed out that if every citizen is to make the greatest possible contribution to the war, each wilk have to do more than satisfy his hunger. The factor nutrition specialists have called “hidden hunger” will become increasingly important High School Chorus Sings for Invaiid Soldiers An invitation extended to the Nevada City High School Chorus to sing under the direction of Mrs. Carl Libbey; music and choral instructor, in the Camp Beale Hospital was accepted yesterday afternoon. The chorus consists of 55 boys and! girls. They were accompanied by the school’s 10 majorettes of whom Miss Naomi Smithson is the lgader. The program consists of Easter and secred songs, a couple of vocal solos, piano numbers and trumpet solo. Two members:of the chorus did a Gay Nineties dance in costume. The majorettes performed their evolutions and acrobatics. GRASS VALLEY POLICE MATRON Mrs. .Lois ueDuc, assistant city, clerk, and clerical attache of ths Grass Valley Police Department, has been appointed police matron ‘in ad dition to her other duties. She will serve as matron and wear an ap propriate badge of office when wom en are arrested, questioned or imprisoned. during 1943, the OWT said. Income is not always responsible for such nutritional deficiencies, the OWI pointed out. A survey made by the Bureau of Home Economics of the Department of Agriculture showed that as late as 1936 more than one third of the families in this country had diets that were in obvious need of improvement and only onefourth had diets that could be classed as good. This survey indicated that there was room for improvement in the eating habits of families at all income levels. Incteased national income indicates that durin'g 19438 economic factons will play a less important part than formerly in shaping the eating habits many families. Family food budgets will be up, but the amount of food that can be bought will be considerably less than it was last year. This will be particularly true of middle and upper income groups. Jn the past these groups have been the greatest consumers of the food which. will be scarce during 1948. Since there will be relatively less variety in foods, as well as less quantity, these groups will have to exercise mittees of the local defense councils. . participating in this program. Two Pumper Trucks for State Forestry Crews James Kistle and Everett Peterson were apprehended while fishing in the Cascade Ditch on Banner Mountain by Game Warden Earl Hiscox Thursday evening. They appeared Friday before Justice of the Peacd George Gildersleeve, pleaded guilty and were fined $2'5 each. “The two men had seven trout between them,’ said the game warden. “That makes the trout cost them $7 apiece, and — they didn’t keep the trout.”’ Sheriff Tobiassen Able to Resume Duties Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen has recovered sufficienty from a frature of his leg to be about upon crutches and spend a few hours each-day in his office. ‘ ¥ More than two months ago the sheriff sold a 500 pound hog he had raised on his farm. On the buyer taking delivery of the animal, it was shot preparatory to loading it in a truck. The dead pig started to roll down hill and the sheriff’s leg was broken when he attmpeted to stop It, ‘uatest word is that Robert Paine, who joined the armed forces several months ago is still at an army. training camp in Utah. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Plaine of this city: more care and planning in the selection and preparation of their foods. To bring home to housewives in all income groups the fact that it \is possible to provide adequate nutri‘tion for the families under present conditions, a national nutrition program was launched by the office of defense health and welfare services. This program was recently taken over by the nutrition and food conservation branch of the department of agriculture’s food distribution administration. It will be carried by F DA to housewives all over the country through state and local nutrition committees, usually subcomExperienced nutritionists home economists and community leaders are operat-. ing a ranch on the Colfax road, and' nia and six other western states, William E, Day is chairman of that come ' mittee. : Appealing to his whole district, Day said: “no loyal American can fail his government in this gigantic undertaking. Our boys on the battlefronts are sacrificing their lives to*preserve the American way of life—to preserve the American way of life—to preserve our freedoms for us and for our posterity. All we at home are asked to do is to lend our money to Uncle Sam—to lend it at interest to buy the ammunition our service men need to crush the enemy. “We look to every man, woman and child to do his share. They will call for sacrifice—for nothing but all out response to the nation’s call. If we fail our boys will be left helpless at the front without the tools of war. I am confident that we shall not fail.”’ PONDEROSA PINE AT HOBART MILLS 680 YEARS OLD Evidence that veterans of the for~ est may be found among pine trees as well as redwoods was found in the © recent faling of a partially dead ponderosa pine on the Tahoe National Forest near Hobart Mills. This pine is calculated to be six hundred eighty ears old, reports District Ranger H. I. Snider of the Truckee District. This old timer was not consider-— ed good for mill run lumber during the years when Hobart Mills was op-" erating as it gave evidence of hay-~ ing a defective center and had a dead top. It had been struck by lightning twice and the rangers feared the next time a strike hit it, tions would become ignited and a great deal of difficulty would be experienced in falling it in a burning condition. This assumption was vin— dicated during the falling process, which required the combined efforts of four men nearly a day. Seven ». Wedges were needed to tilt the tree since it was so heavy and perfectly balanced that it resisted normal efforts in tree falling. “The tree was six feet in diameter and its age was calculated by count-— + ing the annual rings of growth. Six. hundred thirty rings were visible and a rotten center was calculated to contain fifty more rings by compariso: wih other trees growing in that lo eality. One of the limbs that wa twenty six inches in diameter contained four hundred thirty five annual rings of growth, Snider stated. This tree was an old timer— hundred twenty nine years old Columbus landed on Ameri would probably have stood = m years more if it had not been to fall it now to remove the fi ard and furnish Truckee ranger. ) tion with wood supply during : war, forembracing Califor-. the dead por-~

i j . yh ese The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to _ who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it. "—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. . If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. 4 ANTES Vol. 17, No. 27. The County” Seat Paper NEVADA CI CITY, CALIFORNIA _ The Gold Canine MONDAY, APRIL 5, L 3.1943. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. There is an investigation. under‘way in Washington, D. C. to determine if charges are true that 120,000 young men have been deferred for military service under the assumption that they could not be replaced in their present vocations. Until this investigation is completed the country wont know whether the charge is true or not. But if it should prove true, it is fair to say, that public sentiment will demand that these young men go into their country’s uniforms before young married men with children. We often think of Washington, the Capitol, as peopled with men whose estimate of their own importance is higher than the rating the plain people of this country would be willing to accord them. In fact we think there is very little office work that a smart girl can’ do just as well as a chap in long’ pants. If some of these young fellows who have been deferred by pleas of their easy going bosses, would . make a survey of their ‘‘necessary’’ functions, it might easily prove that they had overestimated their value. It would be far more dignified for them to make this discovery themselves than to be vanked out of their jobs by Selective Service Boards whose patience has worn thin. Selective Service Boards are going over their registrants lists with a fine tooth comb for men to induct in the armed forces, before they begin to send married men with children into training camps. In fact, this is the explicit policy of the selective service system. % This process of fine combing has been going on for nearly a year. To attain the minimum of eleven million men in the armed forces, that has now been fixed as a goal, married men will have to be called out when they are not in war industries, or in war supporting industries, such as agriculture, communications, and utility services. a As the time for sending fathers of children into the armed services grows closer, now thought to tbe about July ist, another national trend is beginning to appear. Thatis the ‘work or fight’' temper that the American people now manifest. In the big cities, especially in those ‘benefiting hugely from war industries, absentees Dbecome more and more a factor in production of war materials and equipment. The men who earn any where from $8 to $20 a day, often have been deferred on the plea their services are vital to the war machine. These are often the same men who go out on spending sprees and pour out their earnings on a prolonged debauch. The police blotters throughout «the country are filled with names of such earners and spenders. We shall presently find that a method of dealing with these absentees has been devised. They will ultimately work of fight. It is one thing for a worker to stay away from his job on account of sickness, and quite another when he is incapaciated on account of drink. ; : : Union rules that provide for ‘(make work” jobs, we believe will also be given a thorough over~ halling, not by unions, but by leglatures. As one commentator puts 12 ' “With the stark truth that dependency can no longer be accept* ed as-an adequate reason for deferment, we can also understand why legislative tempers are growing short. If we must see men taken out of our community, to. fight, whose families will suffer severe hardships as a result,.then, certainly, we cannot tolerate conditions under which other men, because of union rules and makework restrictions, are required to do less than they should for the war effort. If we must ‘work or fight,” then in all fairness, let’s make * apply uniformly— to all of us.’ LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER FOUND ON WOLF CREEK Luke Williams of Grass Valley, who owns the mineral rights beneath 720 acres of land on the southern border of Nevada County along Wolf (Creek, reports that Thomas E. Farley of Hollywood and George E. Hook of Auburn have made an important discovery of lead,zinc, silver ore on his holding. Williams states that tests made of the ore reveal :vaues of 10 per cent lead, 8 per cent zinc, six ounesc of silver and 60 cents-in gold per ton. The discovery was made last November and since then prospecting and geological work has been under way. Some difficulty, Williams says, is being encountered in gaining access to mineralized area of the tract. The owner of the land surfaces is James Walsh of Auburn who has _ leased much of it to a cattle raiser. Negotiations for a road through the property, according to Williams, are now proceeding. BEYER BROS. SELL 4600 ACRES TO U.S. FOR $77,500 Albert and Henry Beyer, according to a deed filed last week in the office of the county recorder, have sold 4,600 acres of range land in the (Camp Beale area to the United States government for $77,500. The holdings was assessed at $20,105. The two brothers are bachelors and began accumulating land along the western border of Nevada Coun‘ty over half_a.centry_ago, They sold approximately 800 head of cattle when, through a suit in eminent domain, they found they had to part with their land. ‘ WOMEN’S CLUBS, TO AID HARVEST The Women’s Advisory Committee. Miss Maybelle Howard. of the War Manpower Commission has called upon women’s clubs throughout the country to mobilize. their members for active service on the nation’s farms this summer. This mobilization, it was emphasized is not to meet an immediate need but for one foreseen in the summer. Applicants for agricultural work will be called as the needs arise in their respective localities. In those communities where such labor is urgently needed, women’s clubs are urged to poll their memiberships for those willing to work on farms on a seasonal, vacation, or full time basis and to give this information to the county agricultural agent or the U. S. Employment Service. Oitther activities suggested for women’s organizations were to aid in mobilizing young people for farm work and provide necessary supervision of their living conditions; to assist local: government officials in recruiting farm workers, agd to acquaintwomen generally with the seriousness of the farm and _ food production problem through club educational programs. Only Seven Miles of i Narrow. Gauge Left Approximately seven miles of rails between Peardale and Colfax now remains to be salvaged, according to Norman Wolff, project engineer for Dulien Steel Products. Inc., who. is supervising the workof dismantling the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad. The railroad from Colfax to Nevada ‘City, was 22 miles long. It was built 67 years ago, and played a major role in the development of Nevada County. EARTHQUAKE CRACKED HOUSE Mr. and Mrs. W. Oden of North San Juan were Nevada City business visitors Saturday. They are kept quite busy on their ranch near North San Juan raisng poultry and ‘garden. The The recent earthquake was quite severe at their home. The cement house in which they reside -was' cracked from oné corner to the bottom of a wall., NEW PRICES FOR MILK ARE NOW IN EFFECT U. S. N. Johnson, well known milk distributor, has compiled a table of milk prices set by the OUA for the iNevada-Placer area, beginning April 1, It follows: Butter fat Not less than 3.5% 4.2% Wholesale Prices— NGGLIONS ios ies eke se 47c 49c Half gallons .. . 238%c 24%e URIS 22sec AS Ss 12\%e 12%¢ Retail Store—No delivery Price.’ Half gallons :.:-.:2...:: 26¢ 27¢ Quarta iis es cs 14c— 14%c Retail Stores Delivered Price Halt: gallons =.236.05%: 28¢ 29c Quarts: deck seni: 15¢ 15%e SUPERVISORS CLOSE ROADS IN CAMP BEALE Monday from allied headquarters here MARETH LINE FALLS NORTH AFRICA—General Dwight D. Eisenhower announced mel (shown in photo) has been forced to withdraw from the Mareth defense line in southern Tunisia. The British Eighth Army last Friday launch-' ed the attack on the enemy position south of H] Hamma jwith the effective aid of American forces and caused heavy losses to the enemy of tanks, men and guns. Latest reports have the Yankee troops within, 20 miles of Kairouan and 52 miles from the Mediterranean and Sousse. This photo of the Desert Fox is taken from a captured Nazi newsreel. last WAR FUND DRIVE OPENS APRIL 12 The world’s greatest financial enterprise—Uncle Sam’s Second War Fund drive, starts April 12 with a goal of $13,000,000,000 in War Bonds to be subscribed within the month. In this country, as in every other country throughout the United States, patriotic citizens are organizing to carry Uncle Sam’s appeal drastic help to every nian. woman and child in the land. For this Second War Fund drive, the slogan is: “They ere their Hives or lend your money.’ The spirit of that slogan is to be that Nazi (Field Marshal Erwin Rem-}.+;ieq to. the peopl efrom the AtWM. DURBROW IS NEW SELECTIVE The Nevada County Board of Supervisors have taken legal steps to close parts of two roads as they en-}. ter the Camp Beale area. The roads . affected are the McCourtney road and the Indian Springs road _ via! Spenceville which led to Wheatland. . The roads have already been closed} by military, authorities but abandon-. ;ment proceedings by the supervisor) are necessary. NOTED MINING ENGINEER IS BORNE TO REST Joseph Pierce Keene, mining engineer passed away Thursday night at

11 o’clock in Grass Valley. He had been a resident of Orchard Glen, adjacent to Nevada City since 1928. He was 73 years old. Keene was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and came to Portland, Oregon in 1891. He removed to Woodland and in 1907 where he married Surviving him are his wife and sons Howard} Keene of Berkeley, and Richard Keene, radio operator for the United Airlines. As a mining engineer Keene ranged the world from Dutch Guinea and South America to Fairbanks, Alaska. He\ examined mining properties in British Columbia, along the River Amur in Siberia, explored the coast of Okhotsk Sea with a dog sledge where he was ice bound for several months. He was extensively employed in making mining examinations in this vicinity. He made reports on several gravel deposits on San Juan Ridge, You. Bet, Gold Run, Forest Hill and Iowa Hill. ‘Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 p. m. in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley, with David Hartman of the Seventh Day Advent Church officiating. ¢ SERVICE MEMBER William Durbrow, general manager . of the Nevada Irrigation District, has! afternoon for the late been apointed a member of the Ne-. vada County Selective Service Board 'to succeed Frank G., Finnegan, who . resigned in December to begin training for an officer’s commission in the United States army. The appointment. was made by Governor Earl Warren upon recommendation of Judge George L. Jones “As head of one of the largest irrigation systems in Northern California, Durbrow has a wider circle of friends among Nevada County. farmers and a more intimate knowledge of their needs than any other man who could have been chosen to sit upon Selective Service Board,’ was the comment of James C. Tyrrell, chairman of the board. Other members of the board, besides Tyrrell.and Durbrow, are John J. Looser, H. M. Leete, and Dr. Walter J. Hawkins. GEORGE WILSON. FARMER BORNE TO REST TODAY Funeral services are being held this George E. Wilson, whose death occured Friday lantic to the Pacific, with the understanding that the bonds they buy wil] provide the guns and ammunition, the planes and tanks sorely needed by American fighting men facing the enemy oh far flung. battlefronts around the world. To successfully manage and carry on this gigantic financial undertaking, surpassing anything of its kind ever atempted by this country before, the Treasury Department’s two bond selling organizations—-The War Savings Staff and and Victory Fund Committee—have been merged into one organization, the War Finance Committee. In the Twelfth Federal Reserve district, night in the pay ward of the Nevada . County Hospital. The services will! be conducted in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver ‘Mortuary in Grass} Valley with Rev. Herschel Fravel of the Congregational Chirch officiating. Interment will be in Elm Ridge iCemetery. The deceased was a mative of Lima Ohio, 77 years of age. He had lived in Grass Valley for the past 35 years. He followed farming, became noted as an authority . on crops grown in this county. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Wilson, a daughter, Mrs. Bleanor R. Bristol. of Grass Valle, Vernon EB. Wilson in the United States Navy, and Raymond B. Wilson of Grass Valley. BEST USE OF WAR TIME FOOD IS NOW VITAL. In the face of unavoidable limitations imposed by war, American families will find it necessary’ to make the most of every available ounce of food, the Office of War Information said today. To keep the nation at its best working form, better: food habits must be developed and! housewives must acquaint themselves with the principles of sound nutrition. The OWI pointed out that if every citizen is to make the greatest possible contribution to the war, each wilk have to do more than satisfy his hunger. The factor nutrition specialists have called “hidden hunger” will become increasingly important High School Chorus Sings for Invaiid Soldiers An invitation extended to the Nevada City High School Chorus to sing under the direction of Mrs. Carl Libbey; music and choral instructor, in the Camp Beale Hospital was accepted yesterday afternoon. The chorus consists of 55 boys and! girls. They were accompanied by the school’s 10 majorettes of whom Miss Naomi Smithson is the lgader. The program consists of Easter and secred songs, a couple of vocal solos, piano numbers and trumpet solo. Two members:of the chorus did a Gay Nineties dance in costume. The majorettes performed their evolutions and acrobatics. GRASS VALLEY POLICE MATRON Mrs. .Lois ueDuc, assistant city, clerk, and clerical attache of ths Grass Valley Police Department, has been appointed police matron ‘in ad dition to her other duties. She will serve as matron and wear an ap propriate badge of office when wom en are arrested, questioned or imprisoned. during 1943, the OWT said. Income is not always responsible for such nutritional deficiencies, the OWI pointed out. A survey made by the Bureau of Home Economics of the Department of Agriculture showed that as late as 1936 more than one third of the families in this country had diets that were in obvious need of improvement and only onefourth had diets that could be classed as good. This survey indicated that there was room for improvement in the eating habits of families at all income levels. Incteased national income indicates that durin'g 19438 economic factons will play a less important part than formerly in shaping the eating habits many families. Family food budgets will be up, but the amount of food that can be bought will be considerably less than it was last year. This will be particularly true of middle and upper income groups. Jn the past these groups have been the greatest consumers of the food which. will be scarce during 1948. Since there will be relatively less variety in foods, as well as less quantity, these groups will have to exercise mittees of the local defense councils. . participating in this program. Two Pumper Trucks for State Forestry Crews James Kistle and Everett Peterson were apprehended while fishing in the Cascade Ditch on Banner Mountain by Game Warden Earl Hiscox Thursday evening. They appeared Friday before Justice of the Peacd George Gildersleeve, pleaded guilty and were fined $2'5 each. “The two men had seven trout between them,’ said the game warden. “That makes the trout cost them $7 apiece, and — they didn’t keep the trout.”’ Sheriff Tobiassen Able to Resume Duties Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen has recovered sufficienty from a frature of his leg to be about upon crutches and spend a few hours each-day in his office. ‘ ¥ More than two months ago the sheriff sold a 500 pound hog he had raised on his farm. On the buyer taking delivery of the animal, it was shot preparatory to loading it in a truck. The dead pig started to roll down hill and the sheriff’s leg was broken when he attmpeted to stop It, ‘uatest word is that Robert Paine, who joined the armed forces several months ago is still at an army. training camp in Utah. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Plaine of this city: more care and planning in the selection and preparation of their foods. To bring home to housewives in all income groups the fact that it \is possible to provide adequate nutri‘tion for the families under present conditions, a national nutrition program was launched by the office of defense health and welfare services. This program was recently taken over by the nutrition and food conservation branch of the department of agriculture’s food distribution administration. It will be carried by F DA to housewives all over the country through state and local nutrition committees, usually subcomExperienced nutritionists home economists and community leaders are operat-. ing a ranch on the Colfax road, and' nia and six other western states, William E, Day is chairman of that come ' mittee. : Appealing to his whole district, Day said: “no loyal American can fail his government in this gigantic undertaking. Our boys on the battlefronts are sacrificing their lives to*preserve the American way of life—to preserve the American way of life—to preserve our freedoms for us and for our posterity. All we at home are asked to do is to lend our money to Uncle Sam—to lend it at interest to buy the ammunition our service men need to crush the enemy. “We look to every man, woman and child to do his share. They will call for sacrifice—for nothing but all out response to the nation’s call. If we fail our boys will be left helpless at the front without the tools of war. I am confident that we shall not fail.”’ PONDEROSA PINE AT HOBART MILLS 680 YEARS OLD Evidence that veterans of the for~ est may be found among pine trees as well as redwoods was found in the © recent faling of a partially dead ponderosa pine on the Tahoe National Forest near Hobart Mills. This pine is calculated to be six hundred eighty ears old, reports District Ranger H. I. Snider of the Truckee District. This old timer was not consider-— ed good for mill run lumber during the years when Hobart Mills was op-" erating as it gave evidence of hay-~ ing a defective center and had a dead top. It had been struck by lightning twice and the rangers feared the next time a strike hit it, tions would become ignited and a great deal of difficulty would be experienced in falling it in a burning condition. This assumption was vin— dicated during the falling process, which required the combined efforts of four men nearly a day. Seven ». Wedges were needed to tilt the tree since it was so heavy and perfectly balanced that it resisted normal efforts in tree falling. “The tree was six feet in diameter and its age was calculated by count-— + ing the annual rings of growth. Six. hundred thirty rings were visible and a rotten center was calculated to contain fifty more rings by compariso: wih other trees growing in that lo eality. One of the limbs that wa twenty six inches in diameter contained four hundred thirty five annual rings of growth, Snider stated. This tree was an old timer— hundred twenty nine years old Columbus landed on Ameri would probably have stood = m years more if it had not been to fall it now to remove the fi ard and furnish Truckee ranger. ) tion with wood supply during : war, forembracing Califor-. the dead por-~