April 9, 1945 (4 pages)

WITH OUR BOYS AND GIRES. IN GLOBAL WAR Hervey’ Thoross—Mrs. Phyllis Grass Valley has received a message Uren Thomas, of from the war department that her husband, Liet. Hervey A. Thomas, serving with General Patch’s Seventh Army, was wounded in Germany March 22nd. Lieut. Thomas, formerly stationed at Camp Beale, and Miss Uren were married-in Grass Valley, in January, 1944. He graduated from an officers candidate school in January, this year, and following a short leave in Grass Valley went overseas. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Georgé “Thomas of Roseville, Georgia. Pfe. Galen. K. Lough— Tie 317th Station Hospital, Eng-) land—Private First Class Galen f. . Lough, 28, Rt, Box VITA, Nevada) City, has now recovered at this Uni-} ted States army hospital, from the . wounds received at Vovinich on the 10th of November, 1944. While at ‘this hospital, he . received experi, medical care, followed by a period of . eonvalesence. He has now leased for a return to duty. He is a member of. an. Infantry) Unit. He entered the army on the . 13th of November, 1943. His wife, . Florence M. Lough, is residing at the} above address. . been -1re-. . prison, Dolph Verlod— . Mrs. Verlod stated on that her oldest son; Dolph Verlod in the U. S. ‘Marines, is now in South Pacific war Her est son, Vincent Verlod is in according to list messages from him He is a corporal in the U 3 air corps. Dolpr will be as he was employed several-years in the Zone. young-} France remembered the local narrow gauge freight: de-; pot. Z { Werren Smith— Pfe. Warren Smith, son of Mr. and Italy Mre. Leland Smith is still in in the battle lines since .February, first on Mount Cattini, Warren. had just Test camp, had spent in seeing. He completed a ten day this time he Italy, sightstay in a one day of Florence, said it was raining and Thursday . . . ibe -home . teaching. his foxhole was wet. He is in’ the field artillery of the mountain division, MTOCANATC & “4 o ¥ £D as) oR et oD 4 s a ae: BG ay ° Archie Ramsey returned Thurs; day from Salmon, Illinois, where he was calJed by the illness and death Ww of his mother who visited here in 1937. fore He reached home ten days behis mother died. Ramsey the Downieville highway, resides. He is.a nephew of the late Mrs. Pinkey Armstrong of Nevada Street and resided with her several years ‘before her death. R. L. Herrera, pharmisist, returned to his home in Downieville Saturday after a three weeks stay in Nevada City where he was employed in the Harris Drug Store. Mrs. J. P. Keene spent the past . ! week end in Berkeley with her son Howard and: wife. She accompanied . Mrs. Hathaway of Glenbrook to the bay region. Hank Joy former resident employed in war work region, Nevada (City visiting his sister and brother in law, (Mr. and Mrs. Woodnow in the’ bay row Kiftle. Fred Conther of North San Juan on Friday delivered 200-pounds of waste paper collected in his © community to the ’Nevada City high school. : Mrs. LaMar Fleming and daughter Mary LeMar, left Saturday by machine for San Francisco to meet heir husband and father who was released recently from Santo Tomas Philippines = after many months of imprisonment by the Japs. Hildegarde Hadley of Eureka and . daughter in law, Mrs. Channing Hadley ‘Of Boston staid over night .and left Saturday morning for the home of the former. ‘Mrs. Hadley hadto before Mondayto resume Channing Hadley is now overseas with the U. S. armed forees. : MARRIAGE LICENSE CENTER-GILLEY In Nevada City. Nevada County, April 4, 1945. Villiam Center, 24, Grass Valley, and Dorothy Fay Gilley, 18, Lodi, San’ Joaquin County. George Baby chicks sold by U. S. mercial hatcheries during 1945 was 12 comFebruary per cent less than during February 1944. CALL UP THE RESERVES! Standby Electric Power Wins Industrial Battles T_TIGH up in an Oakland office building sits the P. G. and E. H System Load Dispatcher. His role is that of a General cirgcting operations from his Supreme Headquarters. He marshals an army of electric generating stations much as the military commander masses his divisions of men and armor. On the front line are the 52 interconnected hydroclectric&# orsepower, pores of the system with a total capacity of 1,450,321 Held in reserve are 13 steam operated stations, big fellows most of them, ready to-move into action at any time with additional electric forces totaling 853,384 horsepower capacity. If storm, seasonal water shortage, or any other mischance puts one or more hydro stations temporarily out of commission or if demand at peak hours grows too heavy for the hydro plants tostarry, the reserve steam plants are called up at the critical moment. ———. That's Standby, our insurance to Industry, to all our customers, that service everywhere shall be uninterrupted and adequate. Standby, the reserves that frequently win the industrial fight against costly shutdowns, idle manpower and machinery. on Standby, the extra system capacity which has enabled this Company to meet every wartime demand for power, Isolated generating plants, lacking this protection, cannot equal this record. 16 X W-448 —P-G-wE: paciric GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY AN INTERCONWECTED ELECTAIC POWER SYSTEM SERVING CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA pur. chased the former Parsons home on. where he. is spending a few days in. ? Py American GIs _ of famed 442nd combat team of the 7th army .in France, who smashed through fierce nazi resistance in the Vosges mountains to rescue Yank lost battalion, last’ October, have a song born of a crap game expression called go for broke. the In nisei slang it means, shoot the . works. Two of the tough Japanese American soldiers who shot the works in that battle to win the profane gratitude and somietimes the kisses of the rescued Yanks, are now in Barnes General hospital at Vancouver, in Washington recovering from machine gun and shrapnel wounds suffered in that epic fight in the bloodstained snow. Pfe. Jim Tokushige, 25, and Pfe. George S. Yoshiko, 33, both pre Pearl Harbor soldiers, lounged in their hospital apparel in the warm sunshine outside their quarters Wedanesday and in the most American Way in the world told about their combat service. Jim was born and brought up in California—in the rich lettuce fields surrounding Salinas, Montevey County where people have been talking about boycotting returning Japanese Americans. His left arm, which. he carried tenderly, was shattered by a German machine gun bullet as ‘he packed in a 300 walkio talkie set to maintain communications in the rugged mountain country in which~the Germans had trapped the American battalion. George, a heavy set, cheerful type shrapnel from an artillery shell tore out a section of his left elbow—leaving him with a permanently arm.Dragged away for an interview ‘rom a lineup of hospitalized soldiays awaiting appearance hefore a board, he impatient to get back to find out whether he wus eharge in or out becavre of his stiff arm “We-+went overseas August: .1: 1944” said Pfe. Tokushige “and,a* ter a quick stop at Naples we wen: to Marsailles and. then to the so: of France. We fought in France fo a month attached ision. Fighting in to the 3*th Div those mountains was pretty rough. I was a communications man. The last battalion WAS surrounded by the nazis in an vance and for a week the men were trapped in a circular area 300 yards in diameter. No one could make a\ contact with them and it was our job. ot get in there. The Germans knew they had them there and they were dug in pretty strong. “T carried a carbine but fot. Mt early in the fight and was carried out with a broken left arm. I give a lot of credit to the evacation hospitals. I got three plasma transfusions. Those nurses and doctors sure worked long hours and they could not have been better to me. e “Up there the boys have treated me really nice,’’ he said. I’ve got nothing to kick about. Maybe they . don’t knowI’m Japanese in the atates because I certainly haven’t found any discrimination as far as I’m concerned, I expect I may run into it when I get out of the army, but it will generally be the ignorant people who go in for that. Oh, I’ve had a few guys say things—but never to my face. “T’m not sure what my plans are. In a way T have to start everything over again when I go back. I like it better in the east—the people are much more broad minded. I’ve heard about the trouble at home, of course. Funny, ‘but there are plenty of boys here from the South Pacific and 1 get along with them swell. Go out with them and have. fun.’ 2 Annual Junior Prom Unde-~ the Bright Moon Under a huge and revolving moon made of broken pieces of mirror, the junior class of the Nevada City high school Friday evening gave its an-, nual prom. Beneath the artificial moon stood the wishing well with a large vase of spring blooms, while near at hand a garden fountair trickled through a lattice with blossoms and green things.Students under Charles Parsons, vice principle, designed the motor and gears which kept the moon busily revolving during the dance. Leading the grand march, thatbegan at 10 p. m. were the class president, Richard Davis and Ruth Libbey. Patrons and patronesses at the affair were Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Hawkins, Mr. and Mre. R. I. McLaughlin, Miss Mary Davies, Mr. and Mrs. A. Williams, Mr.’and Mrs, N. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown. c S teal . . . . . pastor, . the ceremony. the} 51 Te eas eek" BRcpaa nar MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1945 csameere ‘iyn Liy ut J tin Tertom: J Miss Evelyn Hya t and Mert: Austin were married April 1st be ‘ore'! of the The the beautifully decorated altar Grass Valley Methodist Church. Rev. Mark Pike, performed The bride was given away by her} father, Sherman Hyatt of Sacramen-. to. She was attended by Mrs. Floyd! Stoner, sister of the bridegroom, as. matron of honor. Farry Poole, a friend of the bridegroom, was best man. a reception for the couple was held in Wesley Hall, following the! ceremony. The bride wore a powder blue suit with white accessories. Her corsage was of pink carnations and bouvardia. Before the ceremony, Miss Patsy Pike sang I Live You Truly. Mrs. Camille Cornish, who played the accompaniment also played the processional and recessional weddinz marches. : Mrs. Austin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hyatt of Sacramento. She is a graduate ofthe Grass Valley high school, class of 1943. Her husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Austin of Grass Val!ley, a World War II veteran now employed by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Grass Valley. The couple will live at 418 “West Main Street. Louis Curtoni’of Grass Valley Succumbs _ Funeral services took place in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church this morning under direction of Holmes and Myers Funeral Home _ for. Antoni Curtoni who died Thursday in the Nevada County Hospital where he had been an invalid for 20 years. Prior to his illness. Curtoni been employed in the mines. wife, Mrs. Mary Curtoni last’ May. Since 1915 the family -re-. had His . succumbed . ley where Curtoni purchased a home. The deceased was a native of Saco, . stiff Italy, and came to Grass Valley 40 years ago. He was aged 75 years. . Surviving are two sons, James Cur‘3-1 toni, ad-. ,took two fire trucks from ‘his head‘Clare Hughes estimates the loss at ‘these was the order San Jose,. and Louis Curtoni Grass Valley, a daughter, Mrs. Eva Yanelli of Yerington, Nevada, three grandchildren and four great grand-/ children. \ “4 Residefce Burns in Watt Park Fire broke out Thursday night at. 10 o’clock in the old Gallagher! home, a large eight roomed house . in Watt Park adjoining Grass Valley that resulted in a general alarm. The Grass Valley fire department . responded with four fire trucks, and . since Watt Park is outside the Grass} Valley city -limits, William Sharp, . head of the state forestry division, quarters in Nevada City to the . scene. The house, which had been vacant but two days, was a complete loss due to the fact that the flames had gained considerable headway before the alarm came in. Fire Chief from $21500 to $3000. The chief states the house was built about 60 years ago and was the first substantial home erected in Watt Park. Rates Cut By R. R. Board Total $4.459,773 Saving Basic rate reductions for utility services in (California total $4,459,773 during’ the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, L. H. Anderson, president of the California Railroad Commission, disclosed today in summarizing high lights of the commission’s fiscal annual year report to the governor. Principal rate reduction in general utility service was that made in the rates for message toll telephone service throughout California, amounting to $3,834,629 ‘Anderson reported. Other reductions which went to make up the total of $4,459,773 were: electric rates, $393,406; gas rates $142,479 and water rates $89,322. The commission also ‘assisted in the establishment of inter-state message toll telephone rattes, particularly in the advance of the evening discount period from 7p. m. to 6 p. m. which gave patrons the lower evening discount rate an hour earlier than previously had been ee! . case. Aside from utility service rate re-! ductions there were a series of rate. reductions affecting street railroads . and ‘auto stages ordered by the commission. Among the more important. of reducing the fare of the former Market Street! Railway of San Francisco from 7 to 6 cents which became effective Mar. 1, and constituted an annual reduction of $1,200,000 in the gross income of the cerrier. However, subsequent to the order the company appealed the decision. to both the state court and the United States Supreme Court, and sold its properties to the City of 3 . Within the past few weéks the UiNrearly manhood there. < dic z H ;tration in the estate of alled San Jose, his home. A Piece of! sided on Empire Street in Grass Val-. . March 28th, leaving no will, wae Mrancisco of $437,000 per An annual reduction of $46,000 in the fares of the Orange Belt Stages, which operates in the Porterville, year . Lindsay, Exeter ‘area was ordered Dy the commission Jhne 13, becoming effective August 1. . Graveside Services for . Former Resident Graveside services were held this afternoon for the interment of the ashes of Thomas P. Davey, who died January 6th in Oakland. Davey was formerly a resident of Grass Valley, spending his boehood and Rev. Frank Buck was in charge of the service. ' Two surviving sisters, ‘Misses ‘Maud and Olive Davey, were present for the service. Arrangements were in charge of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Three Boy Scouts. Earn Eisenhower Medal John Zunini, Mervyn Hansen and Ted Lowry, Boy Scouts, have qualified to receive the Eisenhower medal, awarded to the boys who collect 1,000 pounds or more of waste paper. Runners up still trying to build up their salvage to the 1000: pound wark, are Jim Scribner, Joe Fischer, Jim Hibbard and Ditk Williams. Today the scouts have collected 9684 pounds of waste paper, PETITION FOR ADMINISTRATION LETTERS ;» A petition for letters of adminisElizabeth in Grass Valley filIta Stevens, who died ed Friday by her George. cousin, Mrs. The petition recites that Mrs. Stoyens left an-estate of $5000 and that the two-heirs are the petitioner and Mrs. Belle Lean, atfother cousin of the deceased. The largest agricultural ron. of the’ Netherlands is sugar beets. ombia until 1903. The early sprine lamb erop in the principal producing states is estimated as 6 per cent under 1944. SURVEY MADE OF EMPLOYMENT SHRINKAGE A survey of the post war intentions of Pacific Coast manufacturerers, conducted in the spring and the summer of 1944 by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in ¢ooperation with the Committee for Economic Development indicates that Pacific. Coast manufacturers expect to employ approximately 40 per j}cente more people in a good post war than in 1939, without reckonnossible additional employcreated “by the entry of new Lyear ment firms. While this number 789,990 would i fall the perk f OWA va ted ‘Sta’es theld.the . @ecision of th Ivjaq commission Another important rate reduction was ordered on, the San Diego Hlec-. tric . Railway. Company effeitive . February 25, comprising a reduction far short -of . expanded employment, 1,590,090 in ~~ '1943, most of the shrinkage ig expected to occur in shipbuilding and . airvraft with reductions of 95 per cent and 85 per cent respectively. In . their average employment levels as . eompared wih 1943, Manufacurers /in a number of other lines expect to employ aS many or more people in a good post war year as in 1943. The automobile production, in lumber manufacturing and in petroleum production and refining, @lthough a considerable range of industries producing other consumers goods, including clothing and textiles, food products, leather, and printing and publishing, also. expect to do relatively well. Aside from shipbuilding and aircraft, the most drastic reductions are expected in the nonferrous metals and rubber industries, with machinery, electrical equipment, industrial chemicals, and iron and steel following in order. The survey based on returns from over 800 concerns accounting for nearly one half of all Pacific Coast manufacturing employment in 1943 indicates that little can be expected Hn the way of conversion of war plant . is to be converted to large scale ;manufacturer of new products. Exiclusive of the shipbuilding and air eratt industries, however, the sur;vey indicates that only 3 per cent ‘of plant capacity is to be closed ‘dowwn, while 91 per cent is to be 'used in making products and 6 per . cent in making new products. . Considerable sums will be needed . for capital outlays in order to equip existing plants for peace time production. Such expenditures of man, ufacturing, estimated from plans of reporting firms, range from a mini'mum of 290 million dollars to a max‘imum of 430 dollars, excluding outsteel mills nonferrous require investment. if they lays of and metals plants, which “additional may heavy are to be kent in operation. The largest proportion of. the planned-outlays of reporting firms will be for inventories of materials and supPlies and for structural additions and repairs, which -represent 36 per cent Little -difanticipated in -financing ‘these outlays; two thirds of the total is expected to from the manufacturers own resources, \ one . fifth from banks, and the remainder . from miscellaneous sources. The war industries have expanded relatively more in California than in the Pacific Northwest. That state is' expected, therefore to experience a greater reduction in employment from the wartime peak, both lutely and percentage wise. According to manufacturers expectations as reported in the survey, however, this will not prevent the post war gain in the‘volume of manufacturling employment as compared with 11939 from being greater in Califor. nia than in the other two coast stat. &8. respectively, of the total. ficulty is come MORE ° HEAT 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. Standard Furnace Oil outsells all others in the West because it delivers the maaluum value for your fuel dollar. Alpha Stores, Ltd. Phone 5 Nevada City NEVADA COUNTY “THE PIONEER BUILDING 244 . oulder Street aa Telephone 500 LUMBER COMPANY LUMBER YARD" MATERIALS . Nevada City, Calif. most favorable outlook is expected 3 abso-.

WITH OUR BOYS AND GIRES. IN GLOBAL WAR Hervey’ Thoross—Mrs. Phyllis Grass Valley has received a message Uren Thomas, of from the war department that her husband, Liet. Hervey A. Thomas, serving with General Patch’s Seventh Army, was wounded in Germany March 22nd. Lieut. Thomas, formerly stationed at Camp Beale, and Miss Uren were married-in Grass Valley, in January, 1944. He graduated from an officers candidate school in January, this year, and following a short leave in Grass Valley went overseas. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Georgé “Thomas of Roseville, Georgia. Pfe. Galen. K. Lough— Tie 317th Station Hospital, Eng-) land—Private First Class Galen f. . Lough, 28, Rt, Box VITA, Nevada) City, has now recovered at this Uni-} ted States army hospital, from the . wounds received at Vovinich on the 10th of November, 1944. While at ‘this hospital, he . received experi, medical care, followed by a period of . eonvalesence. He has now leased for a return to duty. He is a member of. an. Infantry) Unit. He entered the army on the . 13th of November, 1943. His wife, . Florence M. Lough, is residing at the} above address. . been -1re-. . prison, Dolph Verlod— . Mrs. Verlod stated on that her oldest son; Dolph Verlod in the U. S. ‘Marines, is now in South Pacific war Her est son, Vincent Verlod is in according to list messages from him He is a corporal in the U 3 air corps. Dolpr will be as he was employed several-years in the Zone. young-} France remembered the local narrow gauge freight: de-; pot. Z { Werren Smith— Pfe. Warren Smith, son of Mr. and Italy Mre. Leland Smith is still in in the battle lines since .February, first on Mount Cattini, Warren. had just Test camp, had spent in seeing. He completed a ten day this time he Italy, sightstay in a one day of Florence, said it was raining and Thursday . . . ibe -home . teaching. his foxhole was wet. He is in’ the field artillery of the mountain division, MTOCANATC & “4 o ¥ £D as) oR et oD 4 s a ae: BG ay ° Archie Ramsey returned Thurs; day from Salmon, Illinois, where he was calJed by the illness and death Ww of his mother who visited here in 1937. fore He reached home ten days behis mother died. Ramsey the Downieville highway, resides. He is.a nephew of the late Mrs. Pinkey Armstrong of Nevada Street and resided with her several years ‘before her death. R. L. Herrera, pharmisist, returned to his home in Downieville Saturday after a three weeks stay in Nevada City where he was employed in the Harris Drug Store. Mrs. J. P. Keene spent the past . ! week end in Berkeley with her son Howard and: wife. She accompanied . Mrs. Hathaway of Glenbrook to the bay region. Hank Joy former resident employed in war work region, Nevada (City visiting his sister and brother in law, (Mr. and Mrs. Woodnow in the’ bay row Kiftle. Fred Conther of North San Juan on Friday delivered 200-pounds of waste paper collected in his © community to the ’Nevada City high school. : Mrs. LaMar Fleming and daughter Mary LeMar, left Saturday by machine for San Francisco to meet heir husband and father who was released recently from Santo Tomas Philippines = after many months of imprisonment by the Japs. Hildegarde Hadley of Eureka and . daughter in law, Mrs. Channing Hadley ‘Of Boston staid over night .and left Saturday morning for the home of the former. ‘Mrs. Hadley hadto before Mondayto resume Channing Hadley is now overseas with the U. S. armed forees. : MARRIAGE LICENSE CENTER-GILLEY In Nevada City. Nevada County, April 4, 1945. Villiam Center, 24, Grass Valley, and Dorothy Fay Gilley, 18, Lodi, San’ Joaquin County. George Baby chicks sold by U. S. mercial hatcheries during 1945 was 12 comFebruary per cent less than during February 1944. CALL UP THE RESERVES! Standby Electric Power Wins Industrial Battles T_TIGH up in an Oakland office building sits the P. G. and E. H System Load Dispatcher. His role is that of a General cirgcting operations from his Supreme Headquarters. He marshals an army of electric generating stations much as the military commander masses his divisions of men and armor. On the front line are the 52 interconnected hydroclectric&# orsepower, pores of the system with a total capacity of 1,450,321 Held in reserve are 13 steam operated stations, big fellows most of them, ready to-move into action at any time with additional electric forces totaling 853,384 horsepower capacity. If storm, seasonal water shortage, or any other mischance puts one or more hydro stations temporarily out of commission or if demand at peak hours grows too heavy for the hydro plants tostarry, the reserve steam plants are called up at the critical moment. ———. That's Standby, our insurance to Industry, to all our customers, that service everywhere shall be uninterrupted and adequate. Standby, the reserves that frequently win the industrial fight against costly shutdowns, idle manpower and machinery. on Standby, the extra system capacity which has enabled this Company to meet every wartime demand for power, Isolated generating plants, lacking this protection, cannot equal this record. 16 X W-448 —P-G-wE: paciric GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY AN INTERCONWECTED ELECTAIC POWER SYSTEM SERVING CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA pur. chased the former Parsons home on. where he. is spending a few days in. ? Py American GIs _ of famed 442nd combat team of the 7th army .in France, who smashed through fierce nazi resistance in the Vosges mountains to rescue Yank lost battalion, last’ October, have a song born of a crap game expression called go for broke. the In nisei slang it means, shoot the . works. Two of the tough Japanese American soldiers who shot the works in that battle to win the profane gratitude and somietimes the kisses of the rescued Yanks, are now in Barnes General hospital at Vancouver, in Washington recovering from machine gun and shrapnel wounds suffered in that epic fight in the bloodstained snow. Pfe. Jim Tokushige, 25, and Pfe. George S. Yoshiko, 33, both pre Pearl Harbor soldiers, lounged in their hospital apparel in the warm sunshine outside their quarters Wedanesday and in the most American Way in the world told about their combat service. Jim was born and brought up in California—in the rich lettuce fields surrounding Salinas, Montevey County where people have been talking about boycotting returning Japanese Americans. His left arm, which. he carried tenderly, was shattered by a German machine gun bullet as ‘he packed in a 300 walkio talkie set to maintain communications in the rugged mountain country in which~the Germans had trapped the American battalion. George, a heavy set, cheerful type shrapnel from an artillery shell tore out a section of his left elbow—leaving him with a permanently arm.Dragged away for an interview ‘rom a lineup of hospitalized soldiays awaiting appearance hefore a board, he impatient to get back to find out whether he wus eharge in or out becavre of his stiff arm “We-+went overseas August: .1: 1944” said Pfe. Tokushige “and,a* ter a quick stop at Naples we wen: to Marsailles and. then to the so: of France. We fought in France fo a month attached ision. Fighting in to the 3*th Div those mountains was pretty rough. I was a communications man. The last battalion WAS surrounded by the nazis in an vance and for a week the men were trapped in a circular area 300 yards in diameter. No one could make a\ contact with them and it was our job. ot get in there. The Germans knew they had them there and they were dug in pretty strong. “T carried a carbine but fot. Mt early in the fight and was carried out with a broken left arm. I give a lot of credit to the evacation hospitals. I got three plasma transfusions. Those nurses and doctors sure worked long hours and they could not have been better to me. e “Up there the boys have treated me really nice,’’ he said. I’ve got nothing to kick about. Maybe they . don’t knowI’m Japanese in the atates because I certainly haven’t found any discrimination as far as I’m concerned, I expect I may run into it when I get out of the army, but it will generally be the ignorant people who go in for that. Oh, I’ve had a few guys say things—but never to my face. “T’m not sure what my plans are. In a way T have to start everything over again when I go back. I like it better in the east—the people are much more broad minded. I’ve heard about the trouble at home, of course. Funny, ‘but there are plenty of boys here from the South Pacific and 1 get along with them swell. Go out with them and have. fun.’ 2 Annual Junior Prom Unde-~ the Bright Moon Under a huge and revolving moon made of broken pieces of mirror, the junior class of the Nevada City high school Friday evening gave its an-, nual prom. Beneath the artificial moon stood the wishing well with a large vase of spring blooms, while near at hand a garden fountair trickled through a lattice with blossoms and green things.Students under Charles Parsons, vice principle, designed the motor and gears which kept the moon busily revolving during the dance. Leading the grand march, thatbegan at 10 p. m. were the class president, Richard Davis and Ruth Libbey. Patrons and patronesses at the affair were Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Hawkins, Mr. and Mre. R. I. McLaughlin, Miss Mary Davies, Mr. and Mrs. A. Williams, Mr.’and Mrs, N. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown. c S teal . . . . . pastor, . the ceremony. the} 51 Te eas eek" BRcpaa nar

MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1945 csameere ‘iyn Liy ut J tin Tertom: J Miss Evelyn Hya t and Mert: Austin were married April 1st be ‘ore'! of the The the beautifully decorated altar Grass Valley Methodist Church. Rev. Mark Pike, performed The bride was given away by her} father, Sherman Hyatt of Sacramen-. to. She was attended by Mrs. Floyd! Stoner, sister of the bridegroom, as. matron of honor. Farry Poole, a friend of the bridegroom, was best man. a reception for the couple was held in Wesley Hall, following the! ceremony. The bride wore a powder blue suit with white accessories. Her corsage was of pink carnations and bouvardia. Before the ceremony, Miss Patsy Pike sang I Live You Truly. Mrs. Camille Cornish, who played the accompaniment also played the processional and recessional weddinz marches. : Mrs. Austin is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hyatt of Sacramento. She is a graduate ofthe Grass Valley high school, class of 1943. Her husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Austin of Grass Val!ley, a World War II veteran now employed by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Grass Valley. The couple will live at 418 “West Main Street. Louis Curtoni’of Grass Valley Succumbs _ Funeral services took place in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church this morning under direction of Holmes and Myers Funeral Home _ for. Antoni Curtoni who died Thursday in the Nevada County Hospital where he had been an invalid for 20 years. Prior to his illness. Curtoni been employed in the mines. wife, Mrs. Mary Curtoni last’ May. Since 1915 the family -re-. had His . succumbed . ley where Curtoni purchased a home. The deceased was a native of Saco, . stiff Italy, and came to Grass Valley 40 years ago. He was aged 75 years. . Surviving are two sons, James Cur‘3-1 toni, ad-. ,took two fire trucks from ‘his head‘Clare Hughes estimates the loss at ‘these was the order San Jose,. and Louis Curtoni Grass Valley, a daughter, Mrs. Eva Yanelli of Yerington, Nevada, three grandchildren and four great grand-/ children. \ “4 Residefce Burns in Watt Park Fire broke out Thursday night at. 10 o’clock in the old Gallagher! home, a large eight roomed house . in Watt Park adjoining Grass Valley that resulted in a general alarm. The Grass Valley fire department . responded with four fire trucks, and . since Watt Park is outside the Grass} Valley city -limits, William Sharp, . head of the state forestry division, quarters in Nevada City to the . scene. The house, which had been vacant but two days, was a complete loss due to the fact that the flames had gained considerable headway before the alarm came in. Fire Chief from $21500 to $3000. The chief states the house was built about 60 years ago and was the first substantial home erected in Watt Park. Rates Cut By R. R. Board Total $4.459,773 Saving Basic rate reductions for utility services in (California total $4,459,773 during’ the fiscal year ending June 30, 1944, L. H. Anderson, president of the California Railroad Commission, disclosed today in summarizing high lights of the commission’s fiscal annual year report to the governor. Principal rate reduction in general utility service was that made in the rates for message toll telephone service throughout California, amounting to $3,834,629 ‘Anderson reported. Other reductions which went to make up the total of $4,459,773 were: electric rates, $393,406; gas rates $142,479 and water rates $89,322. The commission also ‘assisted in the establishment of inter-state message toll telephone rattes, particularly in the advance of the evening discount period from 7p. m. to 6 p. m. which gave patrons the lower evening discount rate an hour earlier than previously had been ee! . case. Aside from utility service rate re-! ductions there were a series of rate. reductions affecting street railroads . and ‘auto stages ordered by the commission. Among the more important. of reducing the fare of the former Market Street! Railway of San Francisco from 7 to 6 cents which became effective Mar. 1, and constituted an annual reduction of $1,200,000 in the gross income of the cerrier. However, subsequent to the order the company appealed the decision. to both the state court and the United States Supreme Court, and sold its properties to the City of 3 . Within the past few weéks the UiNrearly manhood there. < dic z H ;tration in the estate of alled San Jose, his home. A Piece of! sided on Empire Street in Grass Val-. . March 28th, leaving no will, wae Mrancisco of $437,000 per An annual reduction of $46,000 in the fares of the Orange Belt Stages, which operates in the Porterville, year . Lindsay, Exeter ‘area was ordered Dy the commission Jhne 13, becoming effective August 1. . Graveside Services for . Former Resident Graveside services were held this afternoon for the interment of the ashes of Thomas P. Davey, who died January 6th in Oakland. Davey was formerly a resident of Grass Valley, spending his boehood and Rev. Frank Buck was in charge of the service. ' Two surviving sisters, ‘Misses ‘Maud and Olive Davey, were present for the service. Arrangements were in charge of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Three Boy Scouts. Earn Eisenhower Medal John Zunini, Mervyn Hansen and Ted Lowry, Boy Scouts, have qualified to receive the Eisenhower medal, awarded to the boys who collect 1,000 pounds or more of waste paper. Runners up still trying to build up their salvage to the 1000: pound wark, are Jim Scribner, Joe Fischer, Jim Hibbard and Ditk Williams. Today the scouts have collected 9684 pounds of waste paper, PETITION FOR ADMINISTRATION LETTERS ;» A petition for letters of adminisElizabeth in Grass Valley filIta Stevens, who died ed Friday by her George. cousin, Mrs. The petition recites that Mrs. Stoyens left an-estate of $5000 and that the two-heirs are the petitioner and Mrs. Belle Lean, atfother cousin of the deceased. The largest agricultural ron. of the’ Netherlands is sugar beets. ombia until 1903. The early sprine lamb erop in the principal producing states is estimated as 6 per cent under 1944. SURVEY MADE OF EMPLOYMENT SHRINKAGE A survey of the post war intentions of Pacific Coast manufacturerers, conducted in the spring and the summer of 1944 by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in ¢ooperation with the Committee for Economic Development indicates that Pacific. Coast manufacturers expect to employ approximately 40 per j}cente more people in a good post war than in 1939, without reckonnossible additional employcreated “by the entry of new Lyear ment firms. While this number 789,990 would i fall the perk f OWA va ted ‘Sta’es theld.the . @ecision of th Ivjaq commission Another important rate reduction was ordered on, the San Diego Hlec-. tric . Railway. Company effeitive . February 25, comprising a reduction far short -of . expanded employment, 1,590,090 in ~~ '1943, most of the shrinkage ig expected to occur in shipbuilding and . airvraft with reductions of 95 per cent and 85 per cent respectively. In . their average employment levels as . eompared wih 1943, Manufacurers /in a number of other lines expect to employ aS many or more people in a good post war year as in 1943. The automobile production, in lumber manufacturing and in petroleum production and refining, @lthough a considerable range of industries producing other consumers goods, including clothing and textiles, food products, leather, and printing and publishing, also. expect to do relatively well. Aside from shipbuilding and aircraft, the most drastic reductions are expected in the nonferrous metals and rubber industries, with machinery, electrical equipment, industrial chemicals, and iron and steel following in order. The survey based on returns from over 800 concerns accounting for nearly one half of all Pacific Coast manufacturing employment in 1943 indicates that little can be expected Hn the way of conversion of war plant . is to be converted to large scale ;manufacturer of new products. Exiclusive of the shipbuilding and air eratt industries, however, the sur;vey indicates that only 3 per cent ‘of plant capacity is to be closed ‘dowwn, while 91 per cent is to be 'used in making products and 6 per . cent in making new products. . Considerable sums will be needed . for capital outlays in order to equip existing plants for peace time production. Such expenditures of man, ufacturing, estimated from plans of reporting firms, range from a mini'mum of 290 million dollars to a max‘imum of 430 dollars, excluding outsteel mills nonferrous require investment. if they lays of and metals plants, which “additional may heavy are to be kent in operation. The largest proportion of. the planned-outlays of reporting firms will be for inventories of materials and supPlies and for structural additions and repairs, which -represent 36 per cent Little -difanticipated in -financing ‘these outlays; two thirds of the total is expected to from the manufacturers own resources, \ one . fifth from banks, and the remainder . from miscellaneous sources. The war industries have expanded relatively more in California than in the Pacific Northwest. That state is' expected, therefore to experience a greater reduction in employment from the wartime peak, both lutely and percentage wise. According to manufacturers expectations as reported in the survey, however, this will not prevent the post war gain in the‘volume of manufacturling employment as compared with 11939 from being greater in Califor. nia than in the other two coast stat. &8. respectively, of the total. ficulty is come MORE ° HEAT 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. Standard Furnace Oil outsells all others in the West because it delivers the maaluum value for your fuel dollar. Alpha Stores, Ltd. Phone 5 Nevada City NEVADA COUNTY “THE PIONEER BUILDING 244 . oulder Street aa Telephone 500 LUMBER COMPANY LUMBER YARD" MATERIALS . Nevada City, Calif. most favorable outlook is expected 3 abso-.