August 11, 1950 (6 pages)

me . % Nevada County Recreation Unsurpassed in California me Q\ ~\ Tell Your F riends About Cool Nevada City, > Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c Nevada City (Nevada County) California, Friday, August 11, 1950 Twenty-Third Year, Number 32 BASIC TAX RATE IS SET AT $2.30 BY SUPERVISORS Nevada county’s. basic tax rate for 1950-51 will he $2.30 following adoption of a preliminary ‘tax schedule by the board of supervisors Monday afternoon. The rate is 33 cents above last year’s $1.97 scale. Ralph E. Deeble, clerk of the board, stated most of the increase is attributable to the old age and blind security program which was turned back to county administration March 1, with the county assuming financial responsibility for the program July 1. Of the $2.30 basic rate, $1.85 will go to general fund, 29 cents to county salaries and 16 cents to junior college tuition, Deeble said. Truckee fire. and sanitary district is faced with the highest tax schedule with a rate of $5.77. North Bloomfield at $2.70 will have the lowest tax rate in the county. Following is the schedule of tax rates by district, as released this week by Deeble: PSONnV IG aes $2.79 PUe Pent) coy. ee 3.14 Cherokee ..: ihe ae 3.72 ‘Chicago: Park. 2.) cick, 3.87 Clear Creek 4 .W.0000.0. 2.79 Clear Creek 2 20. en ne. 22ND Forest: Spritigs 3 sok 3.85 Grass Valley (inside) ... 4.26 Grass Valley, maintenance . 4.09 Grass Valley 1-4 0.000.002. 4.30 Grass Valley 4 (bonds excluded) Indian Springs Kentucky Flat 1-4 200.0000. 3.54 Ene Miln -4 22 nse 3.84 Lime Kiln, 2 cc.s2.c.s ccc 3.80 Neyada City (inside) ...:. 4.08 Nevada City-Sweetland .. 4.12 Nevada City 1-3-5 Nevada City 3 (hospital) . North BloomfieldNorth San: Juan 3.89 Oskland ba 4.59 Onlland <205 ot 4.55 Pleasant Valley ...2... 2.86 Rough and Ready ..... 3.91 Tahoe-Truckee Joint Unified School, Fire, Sanitary and PLOSIIG AL. ccc shen atk ceca 5.77 PlOnistonci a a, ee. 5.06 Floriston( hospital excluded) 4.81 Wplon Auk sk ae 4,29 . WOME oA aN tue ins we 3.68 WOR Ne es eee 3.64 ROY BROWN TO ATTEND DETROIT CONVENTION Roy Brown, business representative of the building frade council of Nevada, Placer and El Dorado. counties, will leave this week to attend the national convention “of painters and paper-. hangers starting Monday, Sept. 4, in Detroit, Mich. Brown is a member of the convention apprentice.committee set . up to study policy. concerning new craftsmen to be admitted to the various trades. Brown and his wife will make a leisurely three-week trip which will include stopovers at New Orleans, El Paso, Louisville and other places. While in El Paso, the couple will make a side trip into Mexico. Brown said expected business on the convention floor includes discussion of a shorter work week and the war effort and its effect on the building industry. BRRR! BABY, IT WAS COLD THESE MORNINGS »C-e-c;come to c-c-e-cool Nevada City! The thermometer in Nevada City has been flirting with the freezing mark the early mornings of this week and Monday morning it came within one degree of the frozen mark when Fred Bush, our official weatherman, found a frigid 33 on his chart. Max. Min. Friday, Aug. 4 .. 91 55 Saturday, Aug. 5 . 73 42 Sunday, Aug. 6 .. 79 39 Monday, Aug. 7 .. 85 38 Tuesday, Aug. 8 .. 85 45 Wednesday, Aug.9. 81 41 Thursday, Aug. 10 . 85 42 LTE eT, NEVADA CITY SAVES $6,000 IN PURCHASE With a sharp eye to municipal economy the city council recently purchased 35 fire alarm boxes from the city of Marysville for $500. Herb Hallett, public works superintendent delivered the items to the local city warehouse Wednesday. Had the city purchased new equipment at present market prices the-costwould have been more than $6,400. The added boxes that -willbe installed during the coming summer and fall months will bring added protection to scores of homes in the outlying sections of the city. FIVE ARE SAVED FROM DEATH IN SATURDAY FIRE Five persons escaped possible death early Saturday morning when fire totally destroyed the house and furnishings at 223 Bridge street, belonging: to Mr. and Mrs. George Fertig, who live in a small frame home behind the burned two-story frame structure. The house was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Chris Metzer. Three guests at the house the night of the fire were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Blossom, Alleghany, and Mrs. Peggy McHenry, Nevada City. All of the occupants of the hiuse sustained burns. The alarm was turned in at 2:50 a.m. by Mrs. Gladys Maloney, a neighbor, who was awakened by the flames. Mrs. Metzger was awakened by the bark. ing of one of two dogs which . perished in* the flames. . Flames were shooting from the structure when the fire department arrived and the department made no effort to save the structure, which was beyond saving. The department concentrated on saving neighboring buildings. . live was scorced but did not ignite. Fire Chief Ted W. Sigourney , . said the damage was partially . covered by insurance. CITY SAFETY RECORD WINS CASH DIVIDEND The City of Nevada and its employees established a _ very good safety record during the past year, and as a result the . city has reduced its workmen’s compensation insurance cost by 37 percent of the premium, ac;cording to Joseph J. Gallagher, manager of the state compensation insurance fund. a cash dividend amounting to $457. The attention which was given to accident prevention activities and the cooperation of city officials have enabled the state compensation insurance fund to effect this saving for the city. RELEASED YOUTHS TO BE IN COURT SEPT. 1 Raymond Brady, 18, and Peter Scribner, 18, both of Nevada City have been released from county jail and ordered to appear in juvenile court Friday, Sept. 1 for trial by Judge James Snell. Brady is charged with taking a motor vehicle for purpose of temporarily using it. Scribner is charged with issuing a fictitious check. FIRE NEAR SIERRA CITY A brush fire burned 40 acres near the Chipps mine, three miles northeast of Sierra City Tuesday morning, according to Gordon Lawlor, dispatcher at Tahoe national forest headquarters here. A crew of sixty fighters from the forest service, Herlong ordnance depot,: Cal-Ida and Matson lumber mills fought the fire. The house.in which the Fertigs . ax The saving was in the form of! ANNEXATION TO GRASS VALLEY Petition requesting an election in Oakland .(Gold Flat) school district to decide on joining Grass Valley high school district will be presented to-the board of supervisors at the September session, according to Walter A. Carlson, county superintendent of schools. The <high school tax rate~ on property within the Grass Valley high school district is 77 cents per $100 assessed valuation, ac.cording to Mrs. Helen March, the clerk of the Gold Flat school district. In order to meet tuition fees for Gold Flat graduates attending Nevada City high school, Mrs. March -: said, Gold Flat district property owners are assessed at $1.45 per $100. The petition is now in the office of the county superintendent of schools for verification. The documents, sponsored by a group of’ Gold Flat property owners, contains the signatures of members of the Grass Valley high schoo] board. THIRD TRAGEDY IN YEAR HITS CAMPTONVILLE The third tragedy in a year hit the Lang family in Camptonville when Mrs. Belle Lang, 64, was found dead in her home with an empty poison bottle beside her Monday night. Her husband, William, died on a fishing trip near Camptonville last April 29 and her step-son, Billie, 12, was killed last Oct. 21 when he fell and struck his head on a rock while playing. Her body was found by her brother-in-law, George Lang, who lives next door. Justice of the Peace Acton Cleveland said he believed she took the poison Sunday night. . While no suicide note was discovered, Mrs. Lang was known to . have been despondent over the . recent tragedies to her family. . She had been visiting friends in Grass Valley and had returned to her Camptonville home on SaturFuneral services were held at the Methodist church in Camp. tonville yesterday afternoon. In. terment was in the Camptonville cometary. Funeral services were in char3ge of Holmes” Funeral Home. ROSEVILLE ACCOUNTANT TO AUDIT CITY’S BOOKS Lyman Strain, Roseville certified public accountant, was hired by the City of Nevada to audit the city books at an adjourned meeting of the city council Friday afternoon. Cost was set at $275 and will be done this month. The council. approved minutes of council meetings since April at the session. Marvin Haddy, park commissioner, reported he had been contacted by representatives of the California division of fish and game who asked the council to take action preventing dumping of chlorine from the Pioneer park swimming pool into little Deer creek, which is reportedly killing fish in the stream. JULY GIVES JUNE CLOSE RACE FOR WEDDINGS July was almost as popular as June for weddings in Nevada county, according to records in County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble’s office in the courthouse. Nine licenses were issued during July, only one less than the number issued during June. June and July accounted for more than half of the 35 marriage licenses issued by the Nevada county office since the first of the year. March was the poorest month for Dan’l Cupid, with only two license applications rded. January and May saw three couples take the important step, ed for four each. COLD FLAT ASKS}. and February and April account-. Vaudeville Headline Acts At County Fair Vaudeville acts booked for the Nevada County District Fair on Aug. 24 to 27 run, the full scale of entertainment requirements from amusing to amazing. The listing -af stage show acts was released yesterday by Loyle Freeman, fair manager. The official. pointed out the show was still incomplete and that other features will be announced later. Most spectacular performance will be by Kayletta who combines beauty, skill and daring in a breat-taking performance on the high trapeze and rings on a steel tower far above her audience. Top laugh getter of the show will be Marge and Eddie Medley who have played most of the top night clubs in the nation with their riotous performance. Much of the Medley comedy is fashioned along the W. C. Fields lines with pathos mingled with hilarious comedy. Eddie’s “invention of the old fashioned phonograph” has become a classic of the comedy world. Another hilarious performance -will be the “South of the Border” . songs and gags of the Two Mad Peons. The madcap Latins performance has been given a high rating by critics of comedy. Combining comedy with acrobatics will be the Bounding Dons on the Trampoline which is commonly known as the animated bed springs.*Feature of the act is the triple somersault, one of the most difficult feats on the contrivance. GOLDEN QUARTZ AND APPLES TO FEATURE BOOTH Gold from mines. burrowing deep in the Sierras and golden and rosy-cheeked apples from the foothill orchards will be featured in the Nevada county exhibit at ‘the California state fair Thursday, Aug. 31 through Sunday, Sept. 10. County Agricultural Commissioner L. G. Lageson has combed mines in the Nevada City ana Grass Valley areas for specimens for the greatest display of quartz and placer gold ever shown by the county at the fair. A huge gold scale will be located in the rear of the exhibit and.on a slanting platform of shelves will be shown many excellent specimens of gold quartz. Included will be the famous Jones nugget, which holds 45 ounces of pure gold in a quartz setting, from the Red Lodge mine. Fronting on the exhibit will be show cases holding the . high grade placer gold. THREE INJURED IN CAR CRASH ON CAR WRECK LANE IN GLENBROOK Three were injured Saturday evening in the fifth serious car . accident in recent months on “Car Wreck Lane” that murderous stretch of highway 20-49 between Town Talk and Spring Hill when a. car reported driven by Douglas Weston, 23, Grass Valley, struck a telephone pole when it swerved in an attempt to avoid an oncoming automobile. Passengers in the Weston car were Miss Cathie Onesky, 20, Grass Valley, who received major injuries and who was taken to Nevada county hospital by ambulance; Donald Brindle, 19, Bakersfield, who sustained minor injuries; and Miss Evelyn Wilson, 17, Grass Valley. Weston was traveling toward Nevada City, and according to! California Highway Patrolman L. L. Richards, swerved to the right to avoid collision with a car driven by Clara Mae Twitchell, Grass Valley, when she made a turn from the highway into a drive-in. Weston’s car scraped the side of the Twitchell car, hit a telephone snapping it off a few On one side of the exhibit will . feet from the base and totally be specimens of some twenty varieties of apples grown in Neva. da county foothills. Five varieties of pears, including Bartletts, al GOLD FLAT NAVY MAN ‘IN THICK OF FIGHTING Lageson is using a combination . also be displayed. Wood products manufactured . from pine and other timber produced commercially in the county will complete the display. of gray and brown as a color scheme to frame the gold, apples, pears and forestry products. The title “Nevada County,” will be in gold in characters reminiscent of the days of the gold rush. FUCHSIA DIRCTOR TO LECTURE AT FAIR Melville Newfield, director of the American Fuchsia Society, and past president of the Sacramento unit of the organization, will lecture at the Nevada County District Fair Friday night, Aug. 25, on “Propagation and Culture of Fuchsias and Begonias.’ The lecture will be given in the flower show area and will be a feature of the floricultural department. Newfield is also vice president of the Sacramento branch of the American Begonia Society and a member of the advisory board of horticultural section of the California state fair. 3 BOY SCOUT PAPER DRIVE SLATED FOR NEXT WEEK Nevada City Boy Scout Troop 24 will begin a paper drive Monday morning which wil continue through Saturday. Members. of the troop will conduct a house-to-house drive for old newspapers and magazines. Plans for the local drive were completed at a meeting of the troop committee Wednesday evening at the home of Dr. Jerome Frey, committee chairman. Scoutmasters are Ernest Chaney and Robert Piercy. wrecking the Weston car. Clara Twitchell was not jured. . inIn the thick of the Korean campaign is Russell D. Moyle, boatswain’s mate, first class, U. S. Navy, of Gold Flat, a crew member of a naval aircraft carrier which is spearheading navy attacks against Korean Communist forces. The U. S. aircraft planes of the Navy have flown from the carrier on numerous strikes, inflicting a great deal of damage by use of rockets, bombs, and incendiary projectiles against enemy ground and air installations. MATT ARCH ESCAPES INJURY IN COLLISION Matt Arch, operator of Square Deal grocery, Commercial street, narrowly escaped injury Sunday night on the lower Grass Valley road when his car hit a parked lumber truck and trailer at the edge of the highway. Arch said he was temporarily blinded by the lights of an approaching car. The front of his car was damaged in the smash against the rear trailer wheels. HORSE SHOW AT FAIR REMAINS DOUBTFUL Horsemen of the area were advised that due to construction.and: grading projects underway at the Nevada county fairgrounds, it is not definitely settled as to whether a horse show will be held during the Nevada County District Fair Aug. 24 to 27. If the show is held the entry deadlines will be extended -beyond the Thursday, Aug. 17 deadline, according to Miss Edith Scott, secretary, of the fair. GROUP CHARGES COLLUSION BACK OF VARNEY OUST Collusion to remove Forrest Varney as manager of the Nevada Irrigation District and replace him with Max Arnold, the chairman of the board of directors of the NID, was charged by the newly organized NID Landowners association Tuesday. The association, formed princ1pally to organize a recall election — of Arnold, Herbert Nile and Harold Gleason met at the Conway “No Comment” Forerst Varney refused yesterday to say whether ‘the will or will not resign from the manager post .of the Nevada Irrigation District as demanded by a 3 to 2 vate of the directors last Friday. Varney declined to comment on the directors’ demands that he resign before Sept. 1. It is expected the issue will be raised again at a director session in the NID offices in Grass Valley today. yet Sse eee eee ranch near Grass Valley. The as— sociation claimed it has proof of a plot to have Arnold installed. as manager and Gleason as superintendent. A Arnold, Nile and Gleason cast affirmative votes Friday asking for the resignation of Varney effective Sept. 1. E. B. Powers and G. O. Griffith voted against the ouster res-~ olution. C. J. Rolph, chairman of the newly formed organization, said . recall petitions are being prepared and will soon be in circulation. Powers told the association he felt the situation had gone far. enough and that it was time that he as a private citizen help bring facts into the open. Powers told of a secret meeting of Arnold, Nile .and Gleason, held at Arnold’s ranch, to which he was invited. At the meeting Powers declared he was told that Arnold was to become manager of the district.-Powers added he refused. to go along with the plan. ARMORY BIDS WILL BE ADVERTISED VERY SOON Bids for the construction of a $105,000 national guard armory at Cashin field will be advertised in the very near future, accord,ing to word received here Wednesday from Senator Harold Johnson, Roseville. Johnson announced title to the site has been cleared. The project . has been delayed several months . while the clearing process was. being accomplished. The armory will house Company E, 184th Infantry Regiment of the California National Guard. Lieutenant John Bunch, Grass. Valley, is the commanding offi-. cer of the company. -Operation of the building will require three full-time employes. according to Bunch and with the national guard company at full strength, will bring an estimated $50,000 annually into the twin, cities in drill pay and salaries. DURATION SUBSCRIPTION FREE TO SERVICEMEN Last week we borrowed an idea inaugurated by the Sierra Sun during World War II and the current police action, and will send The Nugget free to servicemen and servicewomen for the duration of their service to our country. . All that is required is application by the person or his or her relatives, and the mailing address. Several persons have taken. advantage of the offer this past week, There are no strings to the offer—you don’t have to be a subscriber to send the paper to your. boy or girl. in the service.

me . % Nevada County Recreation Unsurpassed in California me Q\ ~\ Tell Your F riends About Cool Nevada City, > Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c Nevada City (Nevada County) California, Friday, August 11, 1950 Twenty-Third Year, Number 32 BASIC TAX RATE IS SET AT $2.30 BY SUPERVISORS Nevada county’s. basic tax rate for 1950-51 will he $2.30 following adoption of a preliminary ‘tax schedule by the board of supervisors Monday afternoon. The rate is 33 cents above last year’s $1.97 scale. Ralph E. Deeble, clerk of the board, stated most of the increase is attributable to the old age and blind security program which was turned back to county administration March 1, with the county assuming financial responsibility for the program July 1. Of the $2.30 basic rate, $1.85 will go to general fund, 29 cents to county salaries and 16 cents to junior college tuition, Deeble said. Truckee fire. and sanitary district is faced with the highest tax schedule with a rate of $5.77. North Bloomfield at $2.70 will have the lowest tax rate in the county. Following is the schedule of tax rates by district, as released this week by Deeble: PSONnV IG aes $2.79 PUe Pent) coy. ee 3.14 Cherokee ...: ihe ae 3.72 ‘Chicago: Park. 2..) cick, 3.87 Clear Creek 4 .W.0000.0.. 2.79 Clear Creek 2 20. en ne. 22ND Forest: Spritigs 3 sok 3.85 Grass Valley (inside) ...... 4.26 Grass Valley, maintenance . 4.09 Grass Valley 1-4 0.000.002.. 4.30 Grass Valley 4 (bonds excluded) Indian Springs Kentucky Flat 1-4 200.0000.. 3.54 Ene Miln -4 22 nse 3.84 Lime Kiln, 2 cc.s2.c.s ccc 3.80 Neyada City (inside) .....:. 4.08 Nevada City-Sweetland ... 4.12 Nevada City 1-3-5 Nevada City 3 (hospital) . North BloomfieldNorth San: Juan 3.89 Oskland ba 4.59 Onlland <205 ot 4.55 Pleasant Valley .....2...... 2.86 Rough and Ready ......... 3.91 Tahoe-Truckee Joint Unified School, Fire, Sanitary and PLOSIIG AL. ccc shen atk ceca 5.77 PlOnistonci a a, ee. 5.06 Floriston( hospital excluded) 4.81 Wplon Auk sk ae 4,29 . WOME oA aN tue ins we 3.68 WOR Ne es eee 3.64 ROY BROWN TO ATTEND DETROIT CONVENTION Roy Brown, business representative of the building frade council of Nevada, Placer and El Dorado. counties, will leave this week to attend the national convention “of painters and paper-. hangers starting Monday, Sept. 4, in Detroit, Mich. Brown is a member of the convention apprentice.committee set . up to study policy. concerning new craftsmen to be admitted to the various trades. Brown and his wife will make a leisurely three-week trip which will include stopovers at New Orleans, El Paso, Louisville and other places. While in El Paso, the couple will make a side trip into Mexico. Brown said expected business on the convention floor includes discussion of a shorter work week and the war effort and its effect on the building industry. BRRR! BABY, IT WAS COLD THESE MORNINGS »C-e-c;come to c-c-e-cool Nevada City! The thermometer in Nevada City has been flirting with the freezing mark the early mornings of this week and Monday morning it came within one degree of the frozen mark when Fred Bush, our official weatherman, found a frigid 33 on his chart. Max. Min. Friday, Aug. 4 .... 91 55 Saturday, Aug. 5 .. 73 42 Sunday, Aug. 6 .... 79 39 Monday, Aug. 7 .... 85 38 Tuesday, Aug. 8 ... 85 45 Wednesday, Aug.9. 81 41 Thursday, Aug. 10 . 85 42 LTE eT, NEVADA CITY SAVES $6,000 IN PURCHASE With a sharp eye to municipal economy the city council recently purchased 35 fire alarm boxes from the city of Marysville for $500. Herb Hallett, public works superintendent delivered the items to the local city warehouse Wednesday. Had the city purchased new equipment at present market prices the-costwould have been more than $6,400. The added boxes that -willbe installed during the coming summer and fall months will bring added protection to scores of homes in the outlying sections of the city. FIVE ARE SAVED FROM DEATH IN SATURDAY FIRE Five persons escaped possible death early Saturday morning when fire totally destroyed the house and furnishings at 223 Bridge street, belonging: to Mr. and Mrs. George Fertig, who live in a small frame home behind the burned two-story frame structure. The house was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Chris Metzer. Three guests at the house the night of the fire were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Blossom, Alleghany, and Mrs. Peggy McHenry, Nevada City. All of the occupants of the hiuse sustained burns. The alarm was turned in at 2:50 a.m. by Mrs. Gladys Maloney, a neighbor, who was awakened by the flames. Mrs. Metzger was awakened by the bark. ing of one of two dogs which . perished in* the flames. . Flames were shooting from the structure when the fire department arrived and the department made no effort to save the structure, which was beyond saving. The department concentrated on saving neighboring buildings. . live was scorced but did not ignite. Fire Chief Ted W. Sigourney , . said the damage was partially . covered by insurance. CITY SAFETY RECORD WINS CASH DIVIDEND The City of Nevada and its employees established a _ very good safety record during the past year, and as a result the . city has reduced its workmen’s compensation insurance cost by 37 percent of the premium, ac;cording to Joseph J. Gallagher, manager of the state compensation insurance fund. a cash dividend amounting to $457. The attention which was given to accident prevention activities and the cooperation of city officials have enabled the state compensation insurance fund to effect this saving for the city. RELEASED YOUTHS TO BE IN COURT SEPT. 1 Raymond Brady, 18, and Peter Scribner, 18, both of Nevada City have been released from county jail and ordered to appear in juvenile court Friday, Sept. 1 for trial by Judge James Snell. Brady is charged with taking a motor vehicle for purpose of temporarily using it. Scribner is charged with issuing a fictitious check. FIRE NEAR SIERRA CITY A brush fire burned 40 acres near the Chipps mine, three miles northeast of Sierra City Tuesday morning, according to Gordon Lawlor, dispatcher at Tahoe national forest headquarters here. A crew of sixty fighters from the forest service, Herlong ordnance depot,: Cal-Ida and Matson lumber mills fought the fire. The house.in which the Fertigs . ax The saving was in the form of! ANNEXATION TO GRASS VALLEY Petition requesting an election in Oakland .(Gold Flat) school district to decide on joining Grass Valley high school district will be presented to-the board of supervisors at the September session, according to Walter A. Carlson, county superintendent of schools. The <high school tax rate~ on property within the Grass Valley high school district is 77 cents per $100 assessed valuation, ac.cording to Mrs. Helen March, the clerk of the Gold Flat school district. In order to meet tuition fees for Gold Flat graduates attending Nevada City high school, Mrs. March -: said, Gold Flat district property owners are assessed at $1.45 per $100. The petition is now in the office of the county superintendent of schools for verification. The documents, sponsored by a group of’ Gold Flat property owners, contains the signatures of members of the Grass Valley high schoo] board. THIRD TRAGEDY IN YEAR HITS CAMPTONVILLE The third tragedy in a year hit the Lang family in Camptonville when Mrs. Belle Lang, 64, was found dead in her home with an empty poison bottle beside her Monday night. Her husband, William, died on a fishing trip near Camptonville last April 29 and her step-son, Billie, 12, was killed last Oct. 21 when he fell and struck his head on a rock while playing. Her body was found by her brother-in-law, George Lang, who lives next door. Justice of the Peace Acton Cleveland said he believed she took the poison Sunday night. . While no suicide note was discovered, Mrs. Lang was known to . have been despondent over the . recent tragedies to her family. . She had been visiting friends in Grass Valley and had returned to her Camptonville home on SaturFuneral services were held at the Methodist church in Camp. tonville yesterday afternoon. In. terment was in the Camptonville cometary. Funeral services were in char3ge of Holmes” Funeral Home. ROSEVILLE ACCOUNTANT TO AUDIT CITY’S BOOKS Lyman Strain, Roseville certified public accountant, was hired by the City of Nevada to audit the city books at an adjourned meeting of the city council Friday afternoon. Cost was set at $275 and will be done this month. The council. approved minutes of council meetings since April at the session. Marvin Haddy, park commissioner, reported he had been contacted by representatives of the California division of fish and game who asked the council to take action preventing dumping of chlorine from the Pioneer park swimming pool into little Deer creek, which is reportedly killing fish in the stream. JULY GIVES JUNE CLOSE RACE FOR WEDDINGS July was almost as popular as June for weddings in Nevada county, according to records in County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble’s

office in the courthouse. Nine licenses were issued during July, only one less than the number issued during June. June and July accounted for more than half of the 35 marriage licenses issued by the Nevada county office since the first of the year. March was the poorest month for Dan’l Cupid, with only two license applications rded. January and May saw three couples take the important step, ed for four each. COLD FLAT ASKS}. and February and April account-. Vaudeville Headline Acts At County Fair Vaudeville acts booked for the Nevada County District Fair on Aug. 24 to 27 run, the full scale of entertainment requirements from amusing to amazing. The listing -af stage show acts was released yesterday by Loyle Freeman, fair manager. The official. pointed out the show was still incomplete and that other features will be announced later. Most spectacular performance will be by Kayletta who combines beauty, skill and daring in a breat-taking performance on the high trapeze and rings on a steel tower far above her audience. Top laugh getter of the show will be Marge and Eddie Medley who have played most of the top night clubs in the nation with their riotous performance. Much of the Medley comedy is fashioned along the W. C. Fields lines with pathos mingled with hilarious comedy. Eddie’s “invention of the old fashioned phonograph” has become a classic of the comedy world. Another hilarious performance -will be the “South of the Border” . songs and gags of the Two Mad Peons. The madcap Latins performance has been given a high rating by critics of comedy. Combining comedy with acrobatics will be the Bounding Dons on the Trampoline which is commonly known as the animated bed springs.*Feature of the act is the triple somersault, one of the most difficult feats on the contrivance. GOLDEN QUARTZ AND APPLES TO FEATURE BOOTH Gold from mines. burrowing deep in the Sierras and golden and rosy-cheeked apples from the foothill orchards will be featured in the Nevada county exhibit at ‘the California state fair Thursday, Aug. 31 through Sunday, Sept. 10. County Agricultural Commissioner L. G. Lageson has combed mines in the Nevada City ana Grass Valley areas for specimens for the greatest display of quartz and placer gold ever shown by the county at the fair. A huge gold scale will be located in the rear of the exhibit and.on a slanting platform of shelves will be shown many excellent specimens of gold quartz. Included will be the famous Jones nugget, which holds 45 ounces of pure gold in a quartz setting, from the Red Lodge mine. Fronting on the exhibit will be show cases holding the . high grade placer gold. THREE INJURED IN CAR CRASH ON CAR WRECK LANE IN GLENBROOK Three were injured Saturday evening in the fifth serious car . accident in recent months on “Car Wreck Lane” that murderous stretch of highway 20-49 between Town Talk and Spring Hill when a. car reported driven by Douglas Weston, 23, Grass Valley, struck a telephone pole when it swerved in an attempt to avoid an oncoming automobile. Passengers in the Weston car were Miss Cathie Onesky, 20, Grass Valley, who received major injuries and who was taken to Nevada county hospital by ambulance; Donald Brindle, 19, Bakersfield, who sustained minor injuries; and Miss Evelyn Wilson, 17, Grass Valley. Weston was traveling toward Nevada City, and according to! California Highway Patrolman L. L. Richards, swerved to the right to avoid collision with a car driven by Clara Mae Twitchell, Grass Valley, when she made a turn from the highway into a drive-in. Weston’s car scraped the side of the Twitchell car, hit a telephone snapping it off a few On one side of the exhibit will . feet from the base and totally be specimens of some twenty varieties of apples grown in Neva. da county foothills. Five varieties of pears, including Bartletts, al GOLD FLAT NAVY MAN ‘IN THICK OF FIGHTING Lageson is using a combination . also be displayed. Wood products manufactured . from pine and other timber produced commercially in the county will complete the display. of gray and brown as a color scheme to frame the gold, apples, pears and forestry products. The title “Nevada County,” will be in gold in characters reminiscent of the days of the gold rush. FUCHSIA DIRCTOR TO LECTURE AT FAIR Melville Newfield, director of the American Fuchsia Society, and past president of the Sacramento unit of the organization, will lecture at the Nevada County District Fair Friday night, Aug. 25, on “Propagation and Culture of Fuchsias and Begonias.’ The lecture will be given in the flower show area and will be a feature of the floricultural department. Newfield is also vice president of the Sacramento branch of the American Begonia Society and a member of the advisory board of horticultural section of the California state fair. 3 BOY SCOUT PAPER DRIVE SLATED FOR NEXT WEEK Nevada City Boy Scout Troop 24 will begin a paper drive Monday morning which wil continue through Saturday. Members. of the troop will conduct a house-to-house drive for old newspapers and magazines. Plans for the local drive were completed at a meeting of the troop committee Wednesday evening at the home of Dr. Jerome Frey, committee chairman. Scoutmasters are Ernest Chaney and Robert Piercy. wrecking the Weston car. Clara Twitchell was not jured. . inIn the thick of the Korean campaign is Russell D. Moyle, boatswain’s mate, first class, U. S. Navy, of Gold Flat, a crew member of a naval aircraft carrier which is spearheading navy attacks against Korean Communist forces. The U. S. aircraft planes of the Navy have flown from the carrier on numerous strikes, inflicting a great deal of damage by use of rockets, bombs, and incendiary projectiles against enemy ground and air installations. MATT ARCH ESCAPES INJURY IN COLLISION Matt Arch, operator of Square Deal grocery, Commercial street, narrowly escaped injury Sunday night on the lower Grass Valley road when his car hit a parked lumber truck and trailer at the edge of the highway. Arch said he was temporarily blinded by the lights of an approaching car. The front of his car was damaged in the smash against the rear trailer wheels. HORSE SHOW AT FAIR REMAINS DOUBTFUL Horsemen of the area were advised that due to construction.and: grading projects underway at the Nevada county fairgrounds, it is not definitely settled as to whether a horse show will be held during the Nevada County District Fair Aug. 24 to 27. If the show is held the entry deadlines will be extended -beyond the Thursday, Aug. 17 deadline, according to Miss Edith Scott, secretary, of the fair. GROUP CHARGES COLLUSION BACK OF VARNEY OUST Collusion to remove Forrest Varney as manager of the Nevada Irrigation District and replace him with Max Arnold, the chairman of the board of directors of the NID, was charged by the newly organized NID Landowners association Tuesday. The association, formed princ1pally to organize a recall election — of Arnold, Herbert Nile and Harold Gleason met at the Conway “No Comment” Forerst Varney refused yesterday to say whether ‘the will or will not resign from the manager post .of the Nevada Irrigation District as demanded by a 3 to 2 vate of the directors last Friday. Varney declined to comment on the directors’ demands that he resign before Sept. 1. It is expected the issue will be raised again at a director session in the NID offices in Grass Valley today. yet Sse eee eee ranch near Grass Valley. The as— sociation claimed it has proof of a plot to have Arnold installed. as manager and Gleason as superintendent. A Arnold, Nile and Gleason cast affirmative votes Friday asking for the resignation of Varney effective Sept. 1. E. B. Powers and G. O. Griffith voted against the ouster res-~ olution. C. J. Rolph, chairman of the newly formed organization, said . recall petitions are being prepared and will soon be in circulation. Powers told the association he felt the situation had gone far. enough and that it was time that he as a private citizen help bring facts into the open. Powers told of a secret meeting of Arnold, Nile .and Gleason, held at Arnold’s ranch, to which he was invited. At the meeting Powers declared he was told that Arnold was to become manager of the district.-Powers added he refused. to go along with the plan. ARMORY BIDS WILL BE ADVERTISED VERY SOON Bids for the construction of a $105,000 national guard armory at Cashin field will be advertised in the very near future, accord,ing to word received here Wednesday from Senator Harold Johnson, Roseville. Johnson announced title to the site has been cleared. The project . has been delayed several months . while the clearing process was. being accomplished. The armory will house Company E, 184th Infantry Regiment of the California National Guard. Lieutenant John Bunch, Grass. Valley, is the commanding offi-. cer of the company. -Operation of the building will require three full-time employes. according to Bunch and with the national guard company at full strength, will bring an estimated $50,000 annually into the twin, cities in drill pay and salaries. DURATION SUBSCRIPTION FREE TO SERVICEMEN Last week we borrowed an idea inaugurated by the Sierra Sun during World War II and the current police action, and will send The Nugget free to servicemen and servicewomen for the duration of their service to our country. . All that is required is application by the person or his or her relatives, and the mailing address. Several persons have taken. advantage of the offer this past week, There are no strings to the offer—you don’t have to be a subscriber to send the paper to your. boy or girl. in the service.