April 5, 1945 (4 pages)

Page Four : : ewe FSS RR grt St OWS nye 6 St ee _NEVADA city NUGGET THURSDAY, APRIL oe 1945 ed ‘Ray T. Thompson— _ With the Ninth Air Force Thun_. derbolt Base, France S-Set. Ray} T. Thompson is a member of th4. fighter bomber group which recent. BOYS AND GIRLS ly received distinguished battle pects j ors. Sgt. Thompson’s parents, Mr. . te # jand Mrs. Edgar Thompson IN GLOBAL WAR . Svorea San Juan. . The the tion WITH OUR live in 368th Fighter Group received . presidential citation for at Mons when ; its acWayne Sparks— American forces . Mrs. Wayne Sparks of this city invaded Belgium on September 3,. received a letter from her husband. 1944, Discovering a mass retreat of. Pfc. Sparks, stating he was slightly enemy forces from Northern France wounded on March 4 in fighting in'the 368th Fighter Groupbombed the European theatre of war but is and strafed in the face of a withergetting along alright. He has been ing barrage of anti aircraft and the Overseas since November and was {small arms fire. The group destroyed 2612 transport and damaged 30, destroyed 230 horse drawn vehiclles and an undetermined number of ;enemy personnel. Scans Bias: stiicacs The group was further successful, . the citation continues, in seeking out somewhere in a camp’ in Kansas, . eB trafing and bombing defenses that came by plane to attend the funeral ‘ . were impeding the advances of our of his late father, Ole Ronningen. peasy : “. ground forees. Seven missions were Two other sons who are in the Eu oe , “. dispatched by the group that day to ropean theatre of war were. unable strike a staggering blow to. the ene to attend the Howard's my’s armored vehicles and motor uncie of, Florida also came to — ba + W hail Ta ra the funeral of his late brother. casing saa ciara ators 'the German defenses. At that time commanded by Col. Gilbert’ Meyers, Milford,. Iowa, the group is now led by Lieut. Col. F. S. =— i Perego, N. Y. who led the first’ AAF squardon to land on ned airfields ' DIRECTION T. AND D. JR., ENTERPRISES, INC. wounded on the Italian battle lines. He is an Alleghany boy and his par. ; ents reside there. motor Howard Ronningen— services. ‘in France shortly after the invas‘ion. During the recent reduction of . the Belgian bulge, the fighter bomb‘er pilots of the 368th group duplicat. ed their feat at Mons, by destroying land Tdamaging 600 enemy vehicles 1 . to highlight a banner day of the 9th i ‘Air Force. Sgt. Thompson’s duties as crew FRIDAY SATURDAY : chief of a Thunderbolt are of a most 00 @ Oce . Tesponsible nature. However, in his ifew spare hours of relaxation he has . managed to see something of BelgNONE BY i . ium and France, and his been overj Seas for more than a year. al i: THE LONELY . HE ART . br RCONATS fi St . Miss Mary Fleming left during the CARL GRANT . week for San Franciseo for a visit —And— . with friends. ETHEL A. N. Wisker and wife of SacraBARRYMORE mento spent Easter Sunday in Nevada City with her sister, Miss Alma ‘Marsh. Frances Whisker who acBOWERY companied her aunt to this city returned with her parents. Miss Catherine Tognarelli spent CHAMPS Monday in Sacramento on a business and pleasure trip. ; —With— I. A. Cuff recently transferred i THE EAST SIDE KIDS . ]. from Trinity National Forest to Tahoe national forest came down from 00 @ ee Downievillé Saturday for a week end stay. He will be stationed at the (Calida Lumber Plant. Silvio Figeroli and brother who are employed at the Ruby Mine, spent the past week in Nevada City H visiting. Figgeroli stated there was four feet of snow at the Ruby Mine and seven feet of snow. five miles above it. Mrs. Ida H. Baker who received injuries in a fall at the home of*her son on Boulder street, is able to be up a little each day. Her son is employed in the Keystone Market. i SUNDAY MONDAY ; BELLE OF THE YUKON —With— RANDOLPH SCOTT GYPSY ROSE LEE —And— DINAH SHORE * FLOWERS AND MUSIC e linger longest in the memory. of those who ‘attend services for those who have departed—services in our beautiful little chapel ‘where understanding and efficiency control jevery detail of the ritual. Only long training and experience can give that feeling of ‘consolation to those come to the parting with those beloved. 1 Hooper & Weaver MORTICIANS—AMBULANCE SERVICE 246 Church Street GRASS VALLEY Telephone 364 America and her 499 “Underground around after weapon that we’ve got. AmeriWe were sitting chores the other night talking cancrops—from Am: 1fields about the progress of the war. —strengthening our p>sition Chad Davis was saying how, in spite of Germany’s defeat, there was still the German. underground to cope, with. overseas in a way no other underground can shake.” From where I sit, Cl:ad’s absoluiely right. Whether it’s f-: the glass of beer that cheers a tired soldier’s .spirits, or the bread that feeds our armies and our allies, every bit of grain that American farmers harvest is a part of America’s great strength. Ge Marat Copyright, 1945, United States Brewers Foun-aiion “JT don’t worry about them,” says Sober Hoskins. “So long as we got our own underground in working 0: order.” “What do you mean—our underground?” says Chad. And ie Sober points out to the fields. “There it is,” he says, “under that soil lies the most important No. 109 of a Series. . the . week end here. Training Ureed HUBBY INNEVADA, a ——-= Harold Casey and pee Conneil business men of Alleghany, were Nevada City visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Peterson of Alta visited relatives in this city Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Fertig employed in bay district. spent the Easter for Car Drivers Principals and trustees of all high schools in Nevada County. have be=n . } requested by Captain Jos. Blake of . the California Highway Patrol to} send one or more teachers to driver: education institutes to be held dure} ing the coming summer at the University of California at Berkeley and . the University of Southern” California at Los Angeles. Captain Blake states the institute Which are sponsored jointly by the State Departments of Motor Vehicles and Education, will be held as follows: University of California, July 23 to 27, inclusive. : University of Southern California, August 6 to 10th, inclusive. The estimated expenses of sending a teacher to one of the institutes . is® $50 inclusive of transportation, ; meals and lodging. The institutes have the backing of all traffic safety organizations as a means of . teaching high school students modern methods of safe driving and the social responsibilities of the driver. Several schools of the county now are giving driver education as a part of their regular classroom work. Capt. Blake is asking these schools . to include behindthe wheel trainings as a.part of the work next year. The . ! schools not eaching the course in any . form will be asked to include it in . ; the 1945-46 program. Some 200 high school teachers } received training in driver education teaching methods at the institutes held last summer. WIFE HERE. BOTH WANT DIVORCE While her husband, Richard Trathen who resigned his office of mayor of Grass Valley, is establishing a residence in Nevada state in order to get a divorce, his wife, Mrs: Ida she will ask for a California divorcee. Yesterday, through her’ attorney, James Snell, she filed suit for an interlocutory decree. She states in her complaint that she and the defendant were married in ‘Nevada, March 23, 1942 and that they separated June 3, 1944. ‘During their entire married life, Mrs. Trathen. states, beginning with the first day, the “defendant treated the ‘plaintiff in a cruel and inhuman manner.” She recites that two nights a week, Tuesdays and Saturdays, especially, he would absent himself from his home and remain away until 3, and 4, and sometimes 5 a. m. leaving her alone. If she asked what kept. him out so late, he told her it was none of her business. Mrs. Trathen also complains that during theirsmarried life the defendant never supported her, that she has been compelled to go out and work as a nurse. even though her husband always earned $200 or more a month. Mrs. Trathen complains that her husband is not establishing a “nesidence in the State of Nevada in good faith, but intends, as soon as.a divorce is granted him, to return to Grass Valley. She asks $200 for attorney fees, $100 for expenses of her suit, and $75 per month, while the suit is pending. SAMPSON'S STORE SOLD Sampson’s, a stationery store established in 1908 by Mrs. Edna Sampson and her late husband, William Sampson, and owned and operated by them, has been sold. The new owners are Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Allen of Hazelcrest, a suburb of Chicago. The business will continue under the name, Sampson’s, under the new ownership. Pavaenas is —— into two secTINON HOTEL BEER, WINES, LIQUORS Jumbo Hamburgers STEAKS AND CHICKEN After 4 p. m. — CLOSED ON FRIDAYS —IF ANY, NOT DUE . food shortages in the United States, . which may make this the worst year . for the home front and war + Zovernmental bungling and mismani higher levels if, Washington admin. '(Miltk Producers . 26’’ and were. forced to appeal to congress for immediate action to strengthen the Tydings amendment. . first lost. war plants with inflated wage scales } . Grafting of farm boys-who were es. sential to their j; at full . ive action to halt this raiding of ag-. j revealed. Elizabeth Leiter Trathen has decided . FOOD SHORTAGE TO FARMERS By Ralph H. Taylor The developing threat of drastic of the war from the standpoint of food scarcity, certainly cannot be . charged up to the farming industry, American farmers have stayed ! y their jobs, from sunup to sundown, in an all out patriotic effort } to meet the tremendous demands of fronts. California farmers, in common with farmers throughout the nation have outstripped all previous production records in response to the constantly mounting demand —and in most branches of agriculture proGuction has reached peaks never before believed possible. It should be stated for the record, however, that farmers have achieved their -goals only by overcoming innumerable obstacles, resulting from . agement, dou btedly and that production unwould have reached still istrators had heeded the advice of those in the farming industry. Only a few days ago, four of the nation’s major farm organizations —-the Farm Bureau Federation, the Grange, the National Cooperative Federation—charged that some draft boards “are taking practically all farm boys under Thousands of which had . their farms, farm hands to.urban . recently have been hard hit by the continued operation seale production. four farm organizations, in appeal to congress for ef*%2>:The , their ; ricuiture’s depleted manpower ply, declared: **Reports from agricultural areas spite Tydings amendment, draft boards in many cases are taking pra-tically all farm boys under 26. These are trained, experienced workers who are key men and cannot pe réplaced by prisoners of war or foreign labor, and domestic replacenmrents are unavailable. It is an alarming situation in view of our increasing need for maximum production of vital food. ““F'rom present appearances, the agreement on general manpower legislation may be delayed for considerable time. We regard it as most urgent, therefore, that immediate action be taken on Tydings, FlannaZan joint resolution to clarify and 8uheavy producing indicate that destrengthen the original Tydings amendment. z *“Such legislation should include effective provisions to assure that persons deferred as essenfial agricultural workers, and who have been rejected for military service, will be required to remain in such essential work.’’ This point should be made crystal clear in connection with the present food crisis: Never, at any time, has there been a disposition on the part of organized agriculture to shield they could render more. essential service in the armed forces than on the farm. But “an-army still travels on its stomach’’—and American of the food production burden to The basic\mistake, which has agfravated the whole farm production problem ever since, was made at the very outbreak of the war when the. Ssovernment froze prises without simultaneously freezing Wages. Before the mistake. was recognized in Washington, and efforts made to eorrect it, wages in war plans haa. tions, the oriental, east of the Paraguay river and the occidental west . of it. boomed . } tens of thousands of farm / had been drained away. ling industry never ; recovered from . workers The. farmhas completely ! that blow, although ithe Marines and spent . cluding farm boys from military service if . . agriculture has had the major share . ' carry forall the allied nations. { to unheard of levels—and . High School Techie Weds World War Veteran Miss Dorothy Robertson, head of commercial department of the Grass Valley high school, and Elwyn Muleahy, honorably discharged marine veteran ‘of World War II were married last Saturday in Reno. ‘ The wedding was the denotinest of a romance which flowered three MAJOR DURHAM TO SPEAK day evening in Wesley Hall in Grass Valley, under auspices of the Methodist Church, Major G. Roderick Durham will be the chief spaaker. Major Durham’ addressed the young people of Grass Valle high school a year ago. He has had much years ago when Mulcahy enlisted ,in more than two years in the South Pacific, in16 months on Guadalcanal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. . Muleahy of Alta Hill, adjoining this . city. He is well known as a sportsman and a lover of outdoors. He. assists hisfather in a*productive dairy ranch. The bride comes originally from Denair in the lower San Joaquin Valley. She is a graduate of the University of California and has been on the Grass Valley high school staff for several years. The couple will make their home on Sierra View Drive. Mrs. Bertha Hollingsworth Files Suit for Divorce Mrs. Bertha Hollinsworth yesterday filed suit for divorce from Wilbur 8S. Hollingsworth, and made the Bank of America, Nevada City Branch, a defendant, alleging that her husband had $1,200 on deposit there, community property which she was unable to share. Mrs. Hollingsworth complained of cruelty and abuse. She asked that her husband be restrained from withdrawing any of the cash in the bank, that her property deeded to him when the couple were married in 1935 be refunded, and that she be awarded the custody of a minor child. She alleged that her husband earns$300 a month and-asks that she be alloted $150 for her self and ithe child. Seether ea ee Low Juvenile Delinquency Rate in San Francisco SAIN .FRANCISCO, April 5—San Francisco has one of the lowest juvenile delinquency rates for a city its size in the entire country, the annual r eport of the juvenile court has The record was made in spite of the city’s importance ag a: port of embarkation and its consequent attraction to youthful runaways and drifters. Instead, the report found that broken homes are the greatest single cause of crime among teenage boys and girls. ““In 1944 only 12'78 cases came before the court,’ said George Osaske, chief probation officer. “of these, 1170 were first offenses, and only 27 youngsters had to be sent to state institutions or reformatories. More than half of the teen agers involved were either sent home or placed with foster parents.” CANES FOR VETERANS The Grass Valley Tribe of Red Men has undertaken to collect canes for’ the use of patients in DeWitt General Hospital, ‘near Auburn, Atl persons owning canes who have no further use for them are requested to call up 345W, 239W or 250J ana a member of the order will call for them. experience in working with young . people. He will remain in Grass Val} . Hall on the following Sunday Chile threw off allegiance to Spain in 1810 and was finally freed \from Spanish rule in 1818. The youth rally to be held Satur-~ i ley to speak at the Salvation Army. Pay your CALIFORNIA oh INCOME TAX with a BANK OF AMERICA Money Onder The first instalment of your Cais inia Sitte inconie tax as due April 15 @ A Bank of America Money Order offers you a practical method of making tax payments, mail order purchases or sending money for any purpose. = Your name appears on each order, and you receive a receipt from the bank. The cost is 15¢ per order at any branch. You need not bea customer of Bank of America to use this service. Remember, too, that the second instalment of City and County real estate taxes becomes delincuent April 20 Bank of America NATIONAL fRYSWa2 ASSOCIATION « MEMBER FEDERAL DEPGSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM eens a MOR HEAT farmers, by working double shifts . Leia resorting to évery possible ex. . pedient, achieved phenomenal . . production records. } In the latter part of the war, the . . OPA bungling of price contrals of-. ten has served as a deterrent to fuil} scale production, meat shortages. in have city markets while there were more animals oni. the range than at any other time in the country’s history and while farmers were hard pressed to find feed for livestock which had been delayed in reaching the market. : If America has learned no other lesson from this war, it. should have learned that nature’s laws,-and the law of supply and demand, are prefereable to “ a planned economy.” or has resulted in? PAT. OFF. + Phone 88 Grass Valley FOR YOUR MONEY Every drop of Standard Furnace Oil fairly bulges with heat (many exacting tests see to that). Every drop burns completely—goes farther. Keeps your burner clean and at peak performance—saves you money. Standatd Furnace Oil outsells all oth-_ ers in the West because it delivers the maximum value for your fuel dollar. 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Page Four : : ewe FSS RR grt St OWS nye 6 St ee _NEVADA city NUGGET THURSDAY, APRIL oe 1945 ed ‘Ray T. Thompson— _ With the Ninth Air Force Thun_. derbolt Base, France S-Set. Ray} T. Thompson is a member of th4. fighter bomber group which recent. BOYS AND GIRLS ly received distinguished battle pects j ors. Sgt. Thompson’s parents, Mr. . te # jand Mrs. Edgar Thompson IN GLOBAL WAR . Svorea San Juan. . The the tion WITH OUR live in 368th Fighter Group received . presidential citation for at Mons when ; its acWayne Sparks— American forces . Mrs. Wayne Sparks of this city invaded Belgium on September 3,. received a letter from her husband. 1944, Discovering a mass retreat of. Pfc. Sparks, stating he was slightly enemy forces from Northern France wounded on March 4 in fighting in'the 368th Fighter Groupbombed the European theatre of war but is and strafed in the face of a withergetting along alright. He has been ing barrage of anti aircraft and the Overseas since November and was {small arms fire. The group destroyed 2612 transport and damaged 30, destroyed 230 horse drawn vehiclles and an undetermined number of ;enemy personnel. Scans Bias: stiicacs The group was further successful, . the citation continues, in seeking out somewhere in a camp’ in Kansas, . eB trafing and bombing defenses that came by plane to attend the funeral ‘ . were impeding the advances of our of his late father, Ole Ronningen. peasy : “. ground forees. Seven missions were Two other sons who are in the Eu oe , “. dispatched by the group that day to ropean theatre of war were. unable strike a staggering blow to. the ene to attend the Howard's my’s armored vehicles and motor uncie of, Florida also came to — ba + W hail Ta ra the funeral of his late brother. casing saa ciara ators 'the German defenses. At that time commanded by Col. Gilbert’ Meyers, Milford,. Iowa, the group is now led by Lieut. Col. F. S. =— i Perego, N. Y. who led the first’ AAF squardon to land on ned airfields ' DIRECTION T. AND D. JR., ENTERPRISES, INC. wounded on the Italian battle lines. He is an Alleghany boy and his par. ; ents reside there. motor Howard Ronningen— services. ‘in France shortly after the invas‘ion. During the recent reduction of . the Belgian bulge, the fighter bomb‘er pilots of the 368th group duplicat. ed their feat at Mons, by destroying land Tdamaging 600 enemy vehicles 1 . to highlight a banner day of the 9th i ‘Air Force. Sgt. Thompson’s duties as crew FRIDAY SATURDAY : chief of a Thunderbolt are of a most 00 @ Oce . Tesponsible nature. However, in his ifew spare hours of relaxation he has . managed to see something of BelgNONE BY i . ium and France, and his been overj Seas for more than a year. al i: THE LONELY . HE ART . br RCONATS fi St . Miss Mary Fleming left during the CARL GRANT . week for San Franciseo for a visit —And— . with friends. ETHEL A. N. Wisker and wife of SacraBARRYMORE mento spent Easter Sunday in Nevada City with her sister, Miss Alma ‘Marsh. Frances Whisker who acBOWERY companied her aunt to this city returned with her parents. Miss Catherine Tognarelli spent CHAMPS Monday in Sacramento on a business and pleasure trip. ; —With— I. A. Cuff recently transferred i THE EAST SIDE KIDS . ]. from Trinity National Forest to Tahoe national forest came down from 00 @ ee Downievillé Saturday for a week end stay. He will be stationed at the (Calida Lumber Plant. Silvio Figeroli and brother who are employed at the Ruby Mine, spent the past week in Nevada City H visiting. Figgeroli stated there was four feet of snow at the Ruby Mine and seven feet of snow. five miles above it. Mrs. Ida H. Baker who received injuries in a fall at the home of*her son on Boulder street, is able to be up a little each day. Her son is employed in the Keystone Market. i SUNDAY MONDAY ; BELLE OF THE YUKON —With— RANDOLPH SCOTT GYPSY ROSE LEE —And— DINAH SHORE * FLOWERS AND MUSIC e linger longest in the memory. of those who ‘attend services for those who have departed—services in our beautiful little chapel ‘where understanding and efficiency control jevery detail of the ritual. Only long training and experience can give that feeling of ‘consolation to those come to the parting with those beloved. 1 Hooper & Weaver MORTICIANS—AMBULANCE SERVICE 246 Church Street GRASS VALLEY Telephone 364 America and her 499 “Underground around after weapon that we’ve got. AmeriWe were sitting chores the other night talking cancrops—from Am: 1fields about the progress of the war. —strengthening our p>sition Chad Davis was saying how, in spite of Germany’s defeat, there was still the German. underground to cope, with. overseas in a way no other underground can shake.” From where I sit, Cl:ad’s absoluiely right. Whether it’s f-: the glass of beer that cheers a tired soldier’s .spirits, or the bread that feeds our armies and our allies, every bit of grain that American farmers harvest is a part of America’s great strength. Ge Marat Copyright, 1945, United States Brewers Foun-aiion “JT don’t worry about them,” says Sober Hoskins. “So long as we got our own underground in working 0: order.” “What do you mean—our underground?” says Chad. And ie Sober points out to the fields. “There it is,” he says, “under that soil lies the most important No. 109 of a Series. . the . week end here. Training Ureed HUBBY INNEVADA, a ——-= Harold Casey and pee Conneil business men of Alleghany, were Nevada City visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Peterson of Alta visited relatives in this city Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Fertig employed in bay district. spent the Easter for Car Drivers Principals and trustees of all high schools in Nevada County. have be=n . } requested by Captain Jos. Blake of . the California Highway Patrol to} send one or more teachers to driver: education institutes to be held dure} ing the coming summer at the University of California at Berkeley and . the University of Southern” California at Los Angeles. Captain Blake states the institute Which are sponsored jointly by the State Departments of Motor Vehicles and Education, will be held as follows: University of California, July 23 to 27, inclusive. : University of Southern California, August 6 to 10th, inclusive. The estimated expenses of sending a teacher to one of the institutes . is® $50 inclusive of transportation, ; meals and lodging. The institutes have the backing of all traffic safety organizations as a means of . teaching high school students modern methods of safe driving and the social responsibilities of the driver. Several schools of the county now are giving driver education as a part of their regular classroom work. Capt. Blake is asking these schools . to include behindthe wheel trainings as a.part of the work next year. The . ! schools not eaching the course in any . form will be asked to include it in . ; the 1945-46 program. Some 200 high school teachers } received training in driver education teaching methods at the institutes held last summer. WIFE HERE. BOTH WANT DIVORCE While her husband, Richard Trathen who resigned his office of mayor of Grass Valley, is establishing a residence in Nevada state in order to get a divorce, his wife, Mrs: Ida she will ask for a California divorcee. Yesterday, through her’ attorney, James Snell, she filed suit for an interlocutory decree. She states in her complaint that she and the defendant were married in ‘Nevada, March 23, 1942 and that they separated June 3, 1944. ‘During their entire married life, Mrs. Trathen. states, beginning with the first day, the “defendant treated the ‘plaintiff in a cruel and inhuman manner.” She recites that two nights a week, Tuesdays and Saturdays, especially, he would absent himself from his home and remain away until 3, and 4, and sometimes 5 a. m. leaving her alone. If she asked what kept. him out so late, he told her it was none of her business. Mrs. Trathen also complains that during theirsmarried life the defendant never supported her, that she has been compelled to go out and work as a nurse. even though her husband always earned $200 or more a month. Mrs. Trathen complains that her husband is not establishing a “nesidence in the State of Nevada in good faith, but intends, as soon as.a divorce is granted him, to return to Grass Valley. She asks $200 for attorney fees, $100 for expenses of her suit, and $75 per month, while the suit is pending. SAMPSON'S STORE SOLD Sampson’s, a stationery store established in 1908 by Mrs. Edna Sampson and her late husband, William Sampson, and owned and operated by them, has been sold. The new owners are Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Allen of Hazelcrest, a suburb of Chicago. The business will continue under the name, Sampson’s, under the new ownership. Pavaenas is —— into two secTINON HOTEL BEER, WINES, LIQUORS Jumbo Hamburgers STEAKS AND CHICKEN After 4 p. m. — CLOSED ON FRIDAYS —IF ANY, NOT DUE . food shortages in the United States, . which may make this the worst year . for the home front and war + Zovernmental bungling and mismani higher levels if, Washington admin. '(Miltk Producers . 26’’ and were. forced to appeal to congress for immediate action to strengthen the Tydings amendment. . first lost. war plants with inflated wage scales } . Grafting of farm boys-who were es. sential to their j; at full . ive action to halt this raiding of ag-. j revealed. Elizabeth Leiter Trathen has decided . FOOD SHORTAGE

TO FARMERS By Ralph H. Taylor The developing threat of drastic of the war from the standpoint of food scarcity, certainly cannot be . charged up to the farming industry, American farmers have stayed ! y their jobs, from sunup to sundown, in an all out patriotic effort } to meet the tremendous demands of fronts. California farmers, in common with farmers throughout the nation have outstripped all previous production records in response to the constantly mounting demand —and in most branches of agriculture proGuction has reached peaks never before believed possible. It should be stated for the record, however, that farmers have achieved their -goals only by overcoming innumerable obstacles, resulting from . agement, dou btedly and that production unwould have reached still istrators had heeded the advice of those in the farming industry. Only a few days ago, four of the nation’s major farm organizations —-the Farm Bureau Federation, the Grange, the National Cooperative Federation—charged that some draft boards “are taking practically all farm boys under Thousands of which had . their farms, farm hands to.urban . recently have been hard hit by the continued operation seale production. four farm organizations, in appeal to congress for ef*%2>:The , their ; ricuiture’s depleted manpower ply, declared: **Reports from agricultural areas spite Tydings amendment, draft boards in many cases are taking pra-tically all farm boys under 26. These are trained, experienced workers who are key men and cannot pe réplaced by prisoners of war or foreign labor, and domestic replacenmrents are unavailable. It is an alarming situation in view of our increasing need for maximum production of vital food. ““F'rom present appearances, the agreement on general manpower legislation may be delayed for considerable time. We regard it as most urgent, therefore, that immediate action be taken on Tydings, FlannaZan joint resolution to clarify and 8uheavy producing indicate that destrengthen the original Tydings amendment. z *“Such legislation should include effective provisions to assure that persons deferred as essenfial agricultural workers, and who have been rejected for military service, will be required to remain in such essential work.’’ This point should be made crystal clear in connection with the present food crisis: Never, at any time, has there been a disposition on the part of organized agriculture to shield they could render more. essential service in the armed forces than on the farm. But “an-army still travels on its stomach’’—and American of the food production burden to The basic\mistake, which has agfravated the whole farm production problem ever since, was made at the very outbreak of the war when the. Ssovernment froze prises without simultaneously freezing Wages. Before the mistake. was recognized in Washington, and efforts made to eorrect it, wages in war plans haa. tions, the oriental, east of the Paraguay river and the occidental west . of it. boomed . } tens of thousands of farm / had been drained away. ling industry never ; recovered from . workers The. farmhas completely ! that blow, although ithe Marines and spent . cluding farm boys from military service if . . agriculture has had the major share . ' carry forall the allied nations. { to unheard of levels—and . High School Techie Weds World War Veteran Miss Dorothy Robertson, head of commercial department of the Grass Valley high school, and Elwyn Muleahy, honorably discharged marine veteran ‘of World War II were married last Saturday in Reno. ‘ The wedding was the denotinest of a romance which flowered three MAJOR DURHAM TO SPEAK day evening in Wesley Hall in Grass Valley, under auspices of the Methodist Church, Major G. Roderick Durham will be the chief spaaker. Major Durham’ addressed the young people of Grass Valle high school a year ago. He has had much years ago when Mulcahy enlisted ,in more than two years in the South Pacific, in16 months on Guadalcanal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. . Muleahy of Alta Hill, adjoining this . city. He is well known as a sportsman and a lover of outdoors. He. assists hisfather in a*productive dairy ranch. The bride comes originally from Denair in the lower San Joaquin Valley. She is a graduate of the University of California and has been on the Grass Valley high school staff for several years. The couple will make their home on Sierra View Drive. Mrs. Bertha Hollingsworth Files Suit for Divorce Mrs. Bertha Hollinsworth yesterday filed suit for divorce from Wilbur 8S. Hollingsworth, and made the Bank of America, Nevada City Branch, a defendant, alleging that her husband had $1,200 on deposit there, community property which she was unable to share. Mrs. Hollingsworth complained of cruelty and abuse. She asked that her husband be restrained from withdrawing any of the cash in the bank, that her property deeded to him when the couple were married in 1935 be refunded, and that she be awarded the custody of a minor child. She alleged that her husband earns$300 a month and-asks that she be alloted $150 for her self and ithe child. Seether ea ee Low Juvenile Delinquency Rate in San Francisco SAIN .FRANCISCO, April 5—San Francisco has one of the lowest juvenile delinquency rates for a city its size in the entire country, the annual r eport of the juvenile court has The record was made in spite of the city’s importance ag a: port of embarkation and its consequent attraction to youthful runaways and drifters. Instead, the report found that broken homes are the greatest single cause of crime among teenage boys and girls. ““In 1944 only 12'78 cases came before the court,’ said George Osaske, chief probation officer. “of these, 1170 were first offenses, and only 27 youngsters had to be sent to state institutions or reformatories. More than half of the teen agers involved were either sent home or placed with foster parents.” CANES FOR VETERANS The Grass Valley Tribe of Red Men has undertaken to collect canes for’ the use of patients in DeWitt General Hospital, ‘near Auburn, Atl persons owning canes who have no further use for them are requested to call up 345W, 239W or 250J ana a member of the order will call for them. experience in working with young . people. He will remain in Grass Val} . Hall on the following Sunday Chile threw off allegiance to Spain in 1810 and was finally freed \from Spanish rule in 1818. The youth rally to be held Satur-~ i ley to speak at the Salvation Army. Pay your CALIFORNIA oh INCOME TAX with a BANK OF AMERICA Money Onder The first instalment of your Cais inia Sitte inconie tax as due April 15 @ A Bank of America Money Order offers you a practical method of making tax payments, mail order purchases or sending money for any purpose. = Your name appears on each order, and you receive a receipt from the bank. The cost is 15¢ per order at any branch. You need not bea customer of Bank of America to use this service. Remember, too, that the second instalment of City and County real estate taxes becomes delincuent April 20 Bank of America NATIONAL fRYSWa2 ASSOCIATION « MEMBER FEDERAL DEPGSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM eens a MOR HEAT farmers, by working double shifts . Leia resorting to évery possible ex. . pedient, achieved phenomenal . . production records. } In the latter part of the war, the . . OPA bungling of price contrals of-. ten has served as a deterrent to fuil} scale production, meat shortages. in have city markets while there were more animals oni. the range than at any other time in the country’s history and while farmers were hard pressed to find feed for livestock which had been delayed in reaching the market. : If America has learned no other lesson from this war, it. should have learned that nature’s laws,-and the law of supply and demand, are prefereable to “ a planned economy.” or has resulted in? PAT. OFF. + Phone 88 Grass Valley FOR YOUR MONEY Every drop of Standard Furnace Oil fairly bulges with heat (many exacting tests see to that). Every drop burns completely—goes farther. Keeps your burner clean and at peak performance—saves you money. Standatd Furnace Oil outsells all oth-_ ers in the West because it delivers the maximum value for your fuel dollar. 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