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NUGGET
NEVADA
CITY
Vol: 21, No. 39.
The County Seat Paper
LOUD
By H. M. L.
.
.
SE
NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
GRASS VALLEY:
inal governorships and lib-.
Some columnists assert that
the
Even
eral parties three and two.
Russian politburo which rules 180
in million, or more, people, is too
conservatives
for
,
heavier: returns
nial districts are expected.
smart to engage now in war with the
County really to outlaw slot machinesin fact as well as in law,
was not at present jeopardized. Attendance at work Fred Nettell, foreman of the Nevada County Grand Jury, has
Monday, he said, was one complained to State Attorney General Howser that slot’ ma~
hundred per cent. He called . } chines are being operatedin Grass Valley, and the surrounding area.
(Main:
current
project
of
attention to the fact that
many unions are involved in
the telephone case.
The
unions to which local workers belong are not out on
strike. Ingalls spoke with
the
reerence only to the local
chamber is improvement
of
Pioneers Park. Ed R, Hewston is the
Chamber of Commerce representa
situation, and was not referring to the national and
state walkouts.
tive on the newly appointed Park
Com mission.
PAUL BUNDY ORG ANIZES DREDGE
AND PLACER CORP ORATION HERE
From Sacramento comes word from Howser’s deputy,
Will J. Sibley, that investigators are likely to be sent into Nevada Countyin response to Nettell’s complaint. The sheriff
and the chief of police of Grass Valley state that slot machines
have been ordered out. The chief of policeof Nevada City
declared that for many years no slot machines have been permitted to operate in Nevada City.
Appearing in the Sacramento Bee
Saturday afternoon was the followed to my job in 1945. In the interim.
ing item regarding slot machines in of two years, James Allen was chief
of police, and I am very cetain thatNetada County.
ARE
pHISONOUS
dredge placer fields acquired in Sisgineer in the past for Bradley Minkiyou county, Exploration and dechin to chit with the Russians. Furing Compan,y, ;-New Goldfields of
velopment of the placer deposits has
**The city council for many yours
has backed up the chief of ‘police in
enforcing the state law against slot
machines.”
The Hut
acknowledged receipt
of a letter from the Nevada County
Grand Jury asking for assistance to stamp out slot machines.
However, Sibley undoubtedly
will assign special investigators
to the case.
Dated March 28th, and sign
themore we see on reason today for
Robbed of .
$700 Sun.
NEVADA CITY: The Hut, a Broad
Venezuela. So. America, and as ehibeen in pogress for over a year and
ploration engineer ‘n Peru and Chile.
communication in part, said:
sufficient dredge gravel has been
wihich Roosevelt gave away some of
So. America during the reent, war
“There are slot machines
to assure approximately for the U. S. government, Metals
the objectives we were fighting for. developed
throughout the county in drink7 years operating life.
In addition
Venezuela. So. America and as exWe refer especially to that concesing places, eating places,
there thas been partially developed
als work. He served as mine
ension made the Russians of 10 million
halls, service stations and some
another deposit which will probably
to be paid out German of roduction furnish 3 years more life to operagineer with Empire Star Mines So. f . grocery stores.
over a long term of years. As we see
ei at the Murchie and Zeibright mines
contjnuing the Yalta agreement, in
under the managership
of the late
George Kervin, He directed placer
exploration and development work
for three dredging firms in Siskiyou
Count prior to the recent war and
has gathered considerable reliable
data on the placers and dredging of
that
region.
an indefinite period.
David Maltman, of Grass Valley,
secretary.
Harvey Livingston of San FranIf we consent to the enslavemeat
eisco,
director.
of Germany at Russian demand, we
John Parks Davis, well known
shall have fought the war in vain,,
mihing attorney has
beause all of Europe will suffer ecoSan Francisco
phases of. the orlegal
directed
proalbly
nomic collapse without German
continue to serve
will
and
ny
ganidation
Germa
that
duction. To argue
the company to
to
adviser
US
legal
as
gets
a fate,
‘tioning at 6 a. m. nearly 350,000
phone workers walked out of their
‘jobs, The strikers are members of
‘wions affiliated
co-operating
or
with the National Federation
of
Mebane Workers. They accuse the
nm Telephone and Teiegraph
Many and its Bell System of reig to bargain in good faith on
‘richly deserves such
with William J. Cassettari
nowchere because, upon the fate of gether
of
Grass
Valley.
reic
econom
Germany depends -the
well known
l,
Marshal
Frasher,
H.
.
John
Europe
eovery of all of
of Shasta
Gerformerly
that
es
operator
propos
dredge
little,
eoneeding a
Bridgeport,
ent
in
suffici
residing
self
a
new
to
County
d
restore
many be
of repCalifornia, will have charge as supeconomy before the question
Tanya Barber, the arations is decided. Molotov refuses. erintendent of the dredge.
. character who recently figThus the stalemate and thus the
iMaurice Witting, of Grass, Valley,
in. the Los Altos Morgan manfutility, as we see it now, of prowill have change of the office, busi‘sale, was on the run again yesMoscow. ness accountant for the company.
longing the conference in
police
“ay, when Santa’ Cruz
The office of Gold Ventures Lad.
that she had escaped a road
will be located temporarily at 203
dade in the mountains near
aces
:
If we quit now, we hold the
‘Mill Street, Grass Valley.
She fled Sunday night from
al
stri
indu
The company has an authorized
in the pack anyway. The
fale Lodge towards Oakland,
the hands capitalization of $500,000, divided
areas of Germany are in
1 %_25 caliber revolver concealAmericans. into 500,000 shares of par value,
and
British
the
of
her purse. She is wanted as a
producgood
the
of
$1.00 per share. Permission has alThough much
of grand theft deals.
time.
probably will send investigators.
into Nevada County to check on
illegal gambling.
This was indicated by Will
J. Sibley, deputy director of the
state department of justice, who
ed by Grand Jury Foreman Fred
E, Nettell, the Nevada County
tions.
Union’s demand for average $12
no slot machines existed during hig.
The atvorney general's office
observed, ou diplomats should keep
it, that Roosevelt concession is what
The officers and directors of the
Marshall is up against now. We were
new
company are:
fighting to free the world of GerPresident
and
Paul
A. Bundy,
man oppression, a slavery which Hit: _ WASHINGTON: A dramatic, last
General
Manager.
ler promised us, in case he won. If
hour government plea for a 48-hour
of
Sacramento,
Peter J. Huth,
agree to the Russian proposal we
postponement was ignored esterday we
shall enslave the German people for vice president.
bd
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1947
Following closely on the heels of action taken in ‘Placer.
that local telephone service
western world led by
the
United
GRASS VALLEY: Paul A. Bundy,
States. We hope this is true, bat well known Nevada City mining enwell known for its productive gold
placers which have been worked
still we feel that we should carry the gineer and associates, have
just
insurance of plenty of dry powder completed the organization and inwithout interrption since 1850.
“WASHINGTON: ‘Nine months afand atom bombs, with the trained conporation of Gold Ventures Limengineer
and
Bundy, who. will
ter being. sunk by the Navy's atomic (personnel to use them if necessary. ited, a California corporation, for manage operations for the company,
the purpose of carrying on dredging
bomb fask . fore ~in Bikini ‘lagoon,
hasbeen actively engaged as field
bearing }.several of ‘the bombed ships are so
of several
gold-platinum
In the meantime as some one has
superintendent and exploration ens dare
radioactive that Navy crew’
The Twin Cities Paper
Racketin Nev. County —
———
got board them. The original plan,
tg use the ships for commercial
scrap, hag been abandoned. Atomic
gays loosed in cutting the steel
“aight contaminate workers. Eleven
it the ‘ships are at present in the
proses of being towed to Seattle
cal San Francisco.
PER MONTH
Ev
gene Ingalls, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company manager, for Grass
Valley and Nevada City,
said yesterday’ afternoon
——.
; held Apfil 6.
‘old-line politicians cinched 14
ONLY
e
BERGEMANN NEW 'No Telephone Attorney General May
CHAMBER VICE
Strike Here
Probe Slot Machine
PRESIDENT
The werld is thinking about war
NEVADA CITY: J. Pamul Bergeagain while clinging to the hope of
mann was appointed vice president
peace, The conference of the big four,
(Marshall, Molotov, Bidault and Beof the Chamber of Commere at a
vin, in Moscow,, is running into a director’s meeting last Tuesday. He
tremondous volume of words, contakes the place of Ray Spicklemier,
—4n “his ‘home,
trovessy, and no action, no agreewho resigned, stating in a lttter to
ked
he.kept. it because it loo
iPresident George Ransen, that inment.
Irv-. ,
creasing personal business required
307 upside down, But when rnaturalization atto
all his time:.
We agree with all commentators,
obhad
l
Mul
that
t
told the cour
Bergemann’s elevation created a
press or radio,, which hold that ~
to bearing: anms against Gervacancy
on the Board of Directors,
Russia
has
not
yet advanced -far
an
many unJess he. were an Americ
also filled by appointHansen
which
zenenough in technical knowledge,, the
Mull was. denied citi
know thow of producing efficiently ment Thomas\H. Taylor, well known
machines or any kind, for peace or mining man, will take Bergemann‘s
war, to be in position to fight the place.
western nations now. They could of
course, do as did Germany with its
slave labor, impress into service the
lefttechnicians of Germany and adjacent
little western nations, but it’s doubtful
whether impressed labor of any kind
an the prefectural and city
Conservative is very effective..
GRASS
VALLEY
by ready beefi granted by the California
ern
west
,
east
the
in
Division of Corporations for the
‘the Russians
ling regions of Germany are held
uate. Germany is being fed, not adeq
iciently
lo to be sure, but still suff
tion of its
to produce a large frac
normal output. That condition, by
exceed
151,900,
necessary
to
plete the purchase and installation
western
use
curityplan. He asked for
er of
techionogy and man pow
Sonvention. to secure the abolishthe
we
le
whi
But
n nations.
ra:atomie weapons.
Pitt
the wester
ely pelieve
are in doubt, we sincer
GRASS VALLEY: Cancer is kill
ing 35 Californians every day, acpolice Max Solaro reports that the
money was placed in an envelope
Ip
the back of a drawer on the premise
es and other papers were stacked.
on top .of it,Discovery.of.the-thet,.
\ “The district attorney and the
‘was
sheriff have been informed of
’ the ‘situation several times dur
tion and theve been for ‘more
lar. The cafe
The letter said local authortities took action at the district
The death rate from
the dread
disease has been rising steadily, the
statistics showed and now ‘rung more
than 1000 monthly in
this state.
Medical experts advised that this is
the only major disease that is still
defying science with an increasing
death rate.
the
recent war there were six dredging
operationg in progress: along the
‘rings from Lewis’: de
’ ater the Centralia tragedy,
4 ng, RE 20t 0 into the mines
be adjudged sate.
# 0% WIPEERATING CHARGE
by
Ray
ed “for a day or two” continued
SACRAMENTO: At the request of
the letter, “but at this date they
_ Still are in operation in Grass
(producers and distributors, ‘the Bureau of Milk Control, State Department of Agriculture has called a pub-—
Valley and
tricts.”’
surrounding
disSe
Besides Nettell the letter to
Howser as signed by jurymen
James P. Rowe, H.
H.
Hubbard and John: P. Mitchell.
lic milk hearing for the Placer, Ne
‘. vada, Marketing area and the Las—
sen, Plumas, Sierra marketing area.
. The hearings will be held for the.
purpose of determining the ‘cost of
lication of the letter of Fred Neta2, ‘Marketing area will be held.ce
tell, foreman of the county grand April 10 at 10 a. m. in the 8
Nevada
jury, to thé™ attorney general. ‘Netvisors. room, — ae
:
tell charged that despite action takCity.
The
hearing
for the Saenia: Plu
en by District. Attorney Ward Shel
.
mas,
Sierra
marketing
area
will
be
don in notifying
the chiefs of police
of Grass Valley and Nevada City, on April 16at 2 p. m. ‘in the board
and Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, slot of supervisors room, court houss,, <
)
:
machines, had vanished only for a Susanville.
To pines a three way life savday or two, and, as of March 29th,
American Cancer Society is solicit. were back again in Grass Valley and
ing funds in every community in surrounding area,
3
_
MARRIAGE ‘LICENSE
oe
_ ‘BarryHowton—InNevada: City, ”%
Nevada County, April 3, 1947, Ben— e
Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins ana jamin C. Barry, 22, and Lucille bis,a
this morning:
“On receipt of the lores Howton, 16, both of Nevada
The funds will be used. to spread
letter from the district attorney, I
education on the necessity for early
ordered out all slot machines and
detection of cancer, to improve and
told the owners or operators to keep
expand service to cancer Victims, and
them out of the county. I told them
to finance research projects designif I found any gambling devices in
ed to find the causes and cure of
the county I would pick them up.»
eancer.
tielpants.
Chief of Police Frank Knuckel of
Grass Valley declared: “I havetalk
ed with members of the ‘tity colneil,
and have ordered out slot machines . ”
whether they were used for gambling
or not. Under our city ordinance, a
slot machine may be used foramuse
slot_mahiné into one that will pay.
The other 40 cents will go to the
immediate ‘national
Klamath River and its
tributaries which from 1938
owned
MILK HEARING THURS.AT THE COURT HOUSE
attorney’s request two weeks
ago.
aS
:
The slot mcahines disappear
ing program to combat cancer, the the date his letter was written, they
further conces. we ghould make no
the operations
positions we the operating life of
the
to
sions, hang on
being de
remember that we are
is
Strange and Roy Rodgers.
cording to statistics received today
by. James Tyrell, of Grass Valley,
producing and Aistrtbating milk in
chairman of the
(Nevada
County
those
areas. :
a
There was an immediate reaction
Cancer Campaign.
The hearing for the Placer, Neva~ .
in Nevada County yesterday to pub
One out of three deaths from cancer can be prevented, medical exyear.
the
if
perts have advised Tyrell,
A program of. progressive explorain time More
caught
are
symptoms
extend
tion will be maintained to
and could be prevented with the expanreserves
dredgeable
and expand
sion of knowledge about cancer,
We must
Ltd. Prior to the to
Were closed. The troubled dealing
with another powerful desVentures
—
for clues is being made for the burg.
Be
ment so long as it does not pay off.
deposits are
ot each dollar raised in CalitorSaturda night the owners of estabrest
developed
as
the
-in
and
ope
now hold in Eur
nia, 60 cents will remain in this lisiments where these machines were
the Russians
of the world and give’
PrrspurcH. Although
5 profitable state,. and will be administered by
present
at
are
es
9
t
tha
the 6nerves,
located told to take them out, replenty of that war on
ld dredging operations in, progress in the American Cancer Society and the gardless of whether they were used
wor
y Mourning Period is over, thouthe
of
rest
the
to
out
Siskiyou County, two of which are, California Cancer Commission in 'strietly for amusement or not and to.
‘of minetsare still idle. Some they dish
on placers which both the society and the Cali—— —S
. Pennsylvania and ‘West
and have been operating
keep them out. It is probably very
by Goid fornia Medical Association are parheld
ground
adjoining the
ng But all eastern
easy to turn a so-called amusement]
.
;.
Other money
Tht chief of police ‘has notified
the sheriff's office and a joint search —
slot machines still are in operaey
yesterday.
it, was not taken.
ing the last four weeks. But the
than two months.”
made
about the cafe, a can with change ll
igsuarnce and sale of the shares, not America.
com
of the first dredge.
been
The necessary equipment pe
ts
it
and
Opa Bedacdian xminister, powers, can be improved.
contacted for purchase,
operations
dredging
t ded that ‘the Uniplanned to begin
—
will
thee atomic bomb. early this summer. Dredging
per
shift
3
week,
day
7
the
a
t
. He . ejected Angloon
tha
proceed
We are not at all sure
000,1,
50 thittentions that scrap@ chance and day, basis. . Approximately
politburo will not take
per
=. Conditional te success of a
er against 000 cubic yards will be mined
pow
its abundant)man
the united effort of, the
CANCER DEATH
FIGURES
Street Cafe, here, was robbed early .
Sunday morning of $700. Chief4
to 1942
cents for
produced something over 140,000
office
of the
American
off.”
Ghiet
of Pollee Max Golaroof}
(Nevada
City said: “I am not much
concerned
about Fred .