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“God grants liberty only to those who love it; and are ready to iniard and defend
it.””—-Daniel Webster
:
paper gives you complete
coverage of all local happenings.
. If you want to read about your .
. friends, your neighbors, and your
.
town, read The Nugget.
Nevada City Nu
The Nugget is delivered to
your home twice a week
for only 30 cents per
month
. :‘This
COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA
Vol. 20, No. 64
ie County.Seat Paper
THINKING OUT
LOUD
By H. M. L. Jr.
=
The airport
looks fine
since
it’s
isn’t
what
it
used
to
Nevada
City,
August
Calif.
10,
1946
“but I’ve got doubts if the grade at To, the Editor of the Nugget:
the steepest point is only one per
timated. A prominent citizen recent
ly put forward the suggestion, firet
time I’d head it, that Grass Valley,
which doesn’t haye much of a natural
PARKING METERS.
EXACT LOCATION
COUNCIL TOPIC
The Gold Center
~
MONDAY, “AUGUST 12, 1946
“a6
Edmond I. Davis, missing from
his home in this city since Monday,
be
cent as a local engineer recently es
_NEVADACH ¥ CALIFORNIA
ROAD TOINDIAN RUBBISH DUMP EDMOND DAVIS
FLAT IS NEVADA FIRE THREATENS BORNE TO REST
CITY BOTTLENECK SUGAR LOAF
een rolled, and oiled. The hump
certainly
Saanaieianaaal
SSS
Reading in your column of the
Nugget the other day about the improved road (‘Route 49) up North
‘An old rubbish dump, unused for
he
heard
Many years, on Coyote Street as it
the
approach
of
Sheriff
Carl J. obiassen and Deputy Sheriff
ascends Sugar Loaf Mountain this (Carl
Larsen who were searching for
morning burst into flames and for him along
the Cascade Ditch a short
a
brief
time
threatened
to
sweep
over the mountafin.
The rubbish heap on the lower side
Juan and Downieville way reof the road was used
by residents of
San
Thursday shqt himself fatally when
minds me of how easy it was for us tthe city before
the present city gar
distance below the Deer Creek: power
house, 12 miles east of Nevada City.
The body was found on a steep
hillside in
almost
impenetrable
$11 PER MONTH
IN PLACERVILLE
sed the recommendation of the Taper Tube Pole Co. as to the precisédistribution
of
the _ parking meters
‘on order.
in bage service was established. City brush. Coroner Alvah Hooper took
ine offorts with us at our airport the early days of the war due to our fire crews aided by the State Divischarge of the remains.
The meter company’s recommend‘Radar not being suffficient at low ion of Forestry arrived
and make a first-class, tip-top, Twin
in time to
ation
was in.the form of blue prints
Leonard Larsen, ditch tender for
is reported that the parking
amgles. The Radar was extremely eheck the flames
which had leaped the
Cities ainport out of it.
on
ascale
of 1 inch to 50 feet, which
Nevada
Irrigation District phonere recently installed in Placeraccurate in “picking up targets at a the road to menace the mountain
showed
the
location of each of 183
. ed the sheriff’s
ville
are
office late Wednesexceeding all expectations
distance but we could not see the Firemen reported that
it would take day evening
parking meters. This plan called for
that a man answering as revenue producers by averaging
Sounded swell to me. All he wantenemy when very near our ship due a good many tong of
water to extinthe descrip
tion of Davis hag been ‘collections of $11 per month intead 90 meters on Broad Street, blanket*
ed in return, was for us to make the to not being able to deflect
the guish the smoldering ruggish dump. seen walkin
ing both sides from Mill Street ts
g along
the
‘twin cities high school in the close beam to such a low
Cascade of the $8 predicted.
angle.
the
Plaza.
143
on Pine Street beDitch
path.
The
sheriff
The city council of Auburn has
and
outskirts of Grass Valley. It’d save
his
tween Broad and Commercial, 21 on
Its
deputy
nice
made
to
know
a
search
that
until late ‘at approved the installation
transportation he said. We-ell—the
the road
of.
250
the south
side
of Commercial be20 or 306 miles up count
night and on further
parking
to
jocation for an airport, ought to com
two ideas were pretty good.
And
they opened up the idea of what -a
whale of a live community the Ne
vada City-Grass Valley area° could
be if we put in with them and they
put in with-us and devoted all our
joint efforts. to developing not just
our own small town, individually, but
in developing the two of them together, sharing what we both
and
going all-out
to
build
have
up
the
whole twin community.
overlook
the-nearby
danger
ry is in such
good
condition
but
lets
lower
our
sights and take
a look right outside
of Nevada City to Indian Flat. There
is
really
under
a
dangerous
our
etern,
enemy-~ right
speaking in ship
terms.
Wihy
merce
dont
lower
the Chamber
of Com
their
on
sights
this
MAY DEDICATE
REDWOOD GROVE
TOLATEFDR
At the request of Rep. Helen Gehagan Doglas of Los Angeles the
US forest service is making a survey
enemy and do something about it.
It is the function of the Chamber
of
of
Commerce
facts for the information of congress
and
to promote civic
interest
community welfare, also to act
the
in
redwood
determining
region
the
to
provide
faasibilif¥
of
phone advice
from Larsen that the man had been
seen
Thursday
morning,
went
out
As they
approached
the
place
where Davis had iast been seen they
heard ashot far up the canyon side.
several
hours
search
they
found Davis’ bedy. He had sh5ot
himself throigh the forehead with
the
-22
tween
Pine
and
the Puaza, 17 on
Main between.
Union Street and the
Plaza,
‘sociation,
again.
Affter
meters for downtown streets
despite the expressed unamious disapproval of the Business Men’s —_
calibre
rifle
which
he
carried
with him from his home.
MRS,MAUDE COX
IS FOUND DEAD
INHER HOME
3
on
Boulder Street, at the
Plaza. 10
on
Union Street, and 6 on
Nevada Street
, enters Main.
Seventeen
just
on _
above
the_
where it
north’ side ‘of
Sacramento Street between the Piaza j
and Holmes Ftuneral Home. No .me
ers were allocated to Spring Street.
The council
discussed the layout
for meters. the location of indtvid
as a liaison. body in contacting
Davis leaves his wife, Mrs. Maud
ual meters and red, green and yellow
state creating a national memorial forast}
The body of Mrs. Maude Cox was
and county officials that the
Davis,
dedicate
a stepson
d
to
the
late
president
parking strips. -It was decided that
Don
F.
D.
averDavis
and
under the too-good-to-ever-come true age citize
discovered Wednesday afternoon at
n hag little or no contact Roosevelt, according to announcedaughter now in San Franciseo.
. ; a committee of councilmen would So
He}. }
4p. m. by friends-who-hadcome to over the ground with
department, but the idea certainly with. .
was
ment by regional forester S. B. Show.
69 years of age, and according
the blueprints
.
has merit, and. the Nugget would .
/call upon her. Seeing a‘light wee aa Saturday
The two miles:
afternoon before apof 49 from Nevada Mrs. Douglas has introduced a bill. to his wife, had been despondent a/.
jing in the house. but receiving noj
like to hear from it’s readers as to . City to Indian
Flat has some 320 bad which has been referred to the eom-. long time. He was a graduate of the
‘proving the meter company’s recomwhat their views are on the matter . turns,
response to their knock on the door! mendations.
a bottle neck to the north mittee on agriculture in. the
US Yale University engineering school.
a
, they summoned the police, who forccountry for which we try to
:
make house of representatives providing}
ae
His funeral took place Saturday
Parking, parking tickets ard the
(ed the door.
ourselves the gateway. Over that
.
‘One joint project, or rather coun. atop. -‘m at Myers Mortuary Chap-.
two for the creation of such a forest.»
Coroner Alvah Hooper was notifiefficiency
of
the
police department
Forest service fact finding ex-. el. Rey. Frank Buck
ty project, that despite the misgivmiles there have been many serious
officiated“ Ined
and took charge of the body. Dr. E in contrilling traffic were also dis. accidents this summer and
perts
will
study
during
August
and . terment was in Greenwood Memorto prove
ings of doubting
Thomases,
has!
Vernon
Padgett performed an auto-. cussed. Street projects were review. this one can look down
gone on to be an unqualified success
any turn September the economic and social) ial Cemetery.
. ;
psy from which he ‘ascertained that; ed and Herb Hallet stated he was unand see a wreck far below.
I drive effécts of the proposed forest on lo.
is the Nevada County Farmers Mara cause contributing to Mrs. -Cox’s. able to obtain
pipe for the Martin _
ket. Starting with half a dozen farthis road every morning and meet an cal industries and population in Del)
death was malnutrition. Death is es-. St. minh Bs Fhe city council wilt «
aver
age
Norte
of
Humbitdt
four
,
logg
Mendoci
no
ing*
and Soor lumber
mers in stalls erected with labor do-. }
timated to have
occured
Sunday. at a city = — a board o a
trucks some with trailers.
mated by the A. F. of L. and a crew
some caunoma counties. The bill contemplates .
night
or
Monday
morning.
. ization les sere at 10 ae
tious
and some in a hurry.
the eventual acquisition of two mildirected by Sheriff. Carl J. TobiasMrs. Cox: who was in her fifties. da¥yPrimary business
will be hear-I
have
lionbeen
acres
of non agrieultural rea
so near to being hit.
wen and other volunteers, the marhad
engaged
with
her
late
husband
. ™#&
Of
compla
that
another
wood
ints
land
on
includin
coat
assessments:
g
300,000 acres
of paint on my
ket has grown, on business attractcar would have put me at the
A close to record crowd of buyers Keen Cox in the drug store business . <——e makins
in
Del
Norte
adjust
and
Humbold
ments
t
where decounties
ed by
bot
I suppose that’ll have ,to be filed
RECORD CROWD
AT FARM MARKET
:permanent
institution
with booths for 22 merchants.
The. day_ willeome, and proba
bly
net so very far in the future, when
the
highway ‘bétween
Nevada
City
Objective of the bill include
preservation
of superlative
areas as a
living
mvuch right on the road as the rest
late
of
productivity
us.
It
is
only
the
good
drivers
they have on these trucks and
their
alertness that prevents
more accidents.
and Grass Valley will be wlidly
set
They
have
heavy’
equipment,
president
the
redwood
memorial to
the
and
and
the
continued
utilization of less
(and I'll admit it’s not
lives
and property.
iNow in the interest
a new one) is that it will be to the
of the
com
FARMERS PAY
OFF THEIR DEBTS
and
new
‘Arizona,
Utah
prisinge the
and
11th
Nevada,
Farm
Credit
comDis
trict, pay offs and
principal
payments onloans totaled $21,089,03
7
for 6031
individuals:
5977
Land
Bank and Commissioner loans were
paid in full prior to maturity.
A further instance of the favorable
condition
of
farmers
in
these
four
be
broken,
clubs will
be
route
allowing
resulting benefit to business and
community welfare. The Chamber of
‘Commerce
highest
should
officials
protest
the
‘pleting this road and
delay
insist
to
the
in
com
on
im
mediate action in the interest of
safety to school children from here
to
North San Juan and better busi
states is the outstanding balance ness for
Nevada City from up counon Land Bank and
Commissioner try.
loans, which has declined from $89,If any member of our Chamber of
607,300 at June 30, 1945 to $78,Comi
merce féels reluctant to bring
$22,00by
0 June 1946, and the rethis issue to the attention
of state
duction of farm debt of $10,785,300 or county offici
als I will gladly act
during the past twelve months.
as his bodyguard and spokesman.
In addition to the milliong sent Now lets quit
talking and get action,
in to pay debts, borrowers have acif we have to
go to the governor lets
cumulated $2,002,800 in Wuture get started, he is human
and can
Payment Funds for future applicahear, see and talk.
‘tions on loans,
‘BILL DAVIS,
producers.
built
peaches,
lemon
strawberries,
squash,
chicken
every Tuesday and Saturday.
safer ground entertainment
besides exhtbtravel to and through our city with
its and introduction
a
for
22 AIR CLUBS.
INVITED TO N.C. . REGISTER AND
FLYING CIRCUS VOTE URGES
from fit to the
municipal
airport
on
Nevada City to Indian Flat that was
Labor
Day,
September
2.
At the
scarted prior to the outbreak of war
It is tithe they lowered their sights meeting of the air circus committee
meeting Friday night sub-chairmen
and got on the targets so that we
‘parents of those kids that ride the reported on the progress of their
work to General Chairman Gordon
California farmers and stockmen scho
ol ‘bus over that two miles of
Tryon.
are in excellent financial condition Bur
ma Road (‘Burma Road ig safer)
Robert L. Tamblyn, in charge of
aecording to a report just issue
d oy will not live each day this winte
r concessions, reported that
Willard D. Ellis, president of the
some had
wondering if our children will get
been leased out and others were still
Federal Land Bank of Berkeley, covhome safe or be. found at the botavailalble. Mrs. Roy Deeter, publicering the fiscal year from July 1. tom
of the canyon under a burning
ity chairman, is arranging for tic1945 through June 30, 1946.
It school bus.
kets,
and
scheduling
promotion
shows that 4646 ‘California agriculIt is time the heat be turned on
ideas.
turists paid off their Land Bank
and the officials that started that new
Tom Bowles, Air Entertainment
(Com missioner loans in full or
made Toad and get them to finish it
so (Chairman, plans a
two hour aerial
pripcipal payments
amounting
to that not only will our school bus
show and Fred C. Garrison is mak$17,357,230 during this perio
d.
the safer, but the bottle
-neck of ing arrangements ‘for
an
In the four states of California
hour’s
, 49
will
fresh
cucumbers,
flying
nitaries.
Since
had.
lifé
almost
of
then
she
complete
lived
a .
—
retirement.
. Shower Given For
.
} Miss
ee
Fire Near Higgins Corner
Elsie Schreiber
Mrs.
Burns Over 60 Acres
Clifford
_E. Engstrom
Carter and Mrs. CG.
were hostesses
WOMAN LEADER
If democracy ig to meet the challenge of an atomic age, each indiv
idual citizen must accept the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship, Mrs. George W. Scheer, president of the California’
League
of
Wemen Voters, stated in an appeal
to qualified citizens of California to
at
@
A fire, fanned by a stiff breeze,. Shower given Wednes
day night at
‘burned over 50 acres in the vicinity!
the puedeved residence er: Mises al
of the Higgins Corner, 16 miles west
of Grass
Division
Valley.
of
before
the
State
Forestry fire crews were!
die ta ee it
:
A bulldozer, from the exhaust pipe.
Hehrorber
who
—
James
of
©HtY
Miss
is
a
Of Many
ae
W.
Schreftber
was
—_ —
= this
maTDO
2
ws
the ‘recipient
—
of which the fire is believed to have} th® tee
peer:
we Seer Agatha
originated, was used to trench the asa ees
a
z
:
a
if
i
tk See
¢. Williams,
Mrs.
;
site ee
_ —— —
Mrs. Jackie Carr, Mrs. Gertrude Mu
in-a call for help then acted
quickly
ag
Er
t W. Schreber w
to corral the bilaze. This probably Aces oer
saved according to forest fire fighters, a much larger area from burn
_ ee
enne
sbaceeet
ae
=
=
ing.
=
Mre
ak
Ellsw:
~
which
works
for.
intelligent
citizen
GRASS WALLEY STREET
Forest Service Wives
:
Gather For Dinner
Wives of Tahoe Forest staff mem-.
(bers gathered for their monthly din-.
a miniature camp in the woodland as set up.
participation .in government urges
by the forest service. The green roof!
every citizen to register and vote in
and forest service siding used for
the November 1946 elections, Mrs. buildin
gs was quickly identified. The
Scheer declared. The league believes
that authority in a democratic government comes.rom the people. and
sense
of responsibility
government there can
about
be
no
The Grass Valley. City Council hag q
resumed the itmprovément of streeta,
work
the
witich
was
suspended
<7
war.
;
flag pole and miniature
flag,
the
roadways and paths in gravel, and
the green lawns in the midst of the
forest
completed
their camp.
true
Hostesses
for
the
the
miniature
evening
were
more
accessible
Street
Park,
and
the
new Brigh'
give a new surf:
to some of Grass Vialley’s more heaye
ily
traveled
The
thoroughfares.
BARN DESTROYED
State
Division
of a
here reports
a
$4700 barn. equi
ment and hay fire near the residen
of Pat Collins at
Hillcrest,
wh
was quickly
curbed by fire crew
from Smartville
and Nevada Ci
democracy. Voting in a democracy is Mrs.
T. Niehaus of Grass Valley and
Indian Flat. both a privilege and an
obligation. Mrs. George Craford of Nevada
City.
Each individual citwen must accept
se,
The fire occured Wednesday afte
the privilege and assume the obligaHIGHWAY OILED
noon.
Ed. Note: Since war ended the tion if democracy is to
The State Division of Highways
be energized
”
Nevada City Chamber of Commerce to meet the challenge
of an atomic headquarters
here has begun the
=
has worked energetically to get this age.
seasonaloiling of several roads in
BETHROTHAL ANNOUNCED
bottleneck opened. The State ChamThe League of Women Voters has this district. The Downie
ville highThe
engagement of Miss Fran
ber of Commerce
and
the
State realized from its earliest years that way, throuh Indian
Flat two miles Wearne to
Miarvin Kitts was
Highway Commission have both reevery voter counts.
Many a candifrom this city is being oiled.
Sup-.
nounc
ed
Wedn
esday evening at
ceived prayerful petitions
to
do date has been elected many an issue erintendent H. T.
Bigelow states] home of her parents, Mr. and
something about this bottleneck. All decided by a very
narrow margin of operations are also being begun on
Harry Wearme, at 106 Bush §
that remains to be done is to survoters. After all a nation
or state is the Tahoe Ukiah highway, at in-.
in Grass Valley at a dinner 1
face a road a short and safe new the sum total of its
individual cititervals from Grass Valley to within.
honor
of her birthday.
thoroughfare into Nevada City. Poszens. And only when every
individual six miles of Marysville.
Kitts is
a
utilities employe
sibly the suggestion of Mr. Davis, citizen expresse
s his opinion through
Bigelow said that a part of the. Sacramenitto
.
Miss
Wearne is e
0
that we appeal to the governor, might his ballot is
truly . representative road between Downieville and Siered in a local retail store.
produce action,
government attained.
ra City is being treate
a
:
Mar
ret Betti
ee
ner at Bret Harte Inn last Friday
Butler
and
Fawcett oleae ai
evening with more than 30 in at-. being
scarified
preparatory to
tendance.
appplication
of hot oil and Minn
Motif for the evening was the Lane is also sched
uled for immedia
register and vote.
:
seasonal fire
prevention
campaign
improvements.
The California League of Women
and recreational activities. The comThese tmprovements owill
ma’
Voters, a non-partisan organization
mittee in charge presented
of visiting digunless the people of a country, have a
—_—
his death in; sirable.
1942.
=
stalls
fryers and rabbits. The market a
county project, is open from 8 a. m.
invitations to attend the
county officials to expedite the
Flying Circus to be held as a bene
completion of the
Bight
garden
advantage of both communities. not, munity and especially the many
famto equander effort
on
developing ilies of Indian Flat whose children
their individual projects, but to unite ‘with my own travel this
dangerous
forces to speed progress for the futtow miles on the school bus
twice a
ure growth and prosperity of
the day fair weather or storm I want to
Twin Cities. of the Sierras—Neva
da ‘SO on record in demanding that our
ity and Grass Valley.
‘Chamber of Commerce institute immediate action with the proper state * Thirty two
sent special
in Grass Valley until
ened for business at the usual hour
Ol58 a mM.
outstanding forested areas. The produring the past week were occupied
posed redwood memorial forest is bringing the total of farmers presintended to supplant existing state ent with their truck garden produce
parks and the redwood groves ac-' and poultry to 22.
Among the. featured articles were
the
quired by the Save
Redwoods .
tled with homes and business and tough jobs and lives
to protect ,and
then we will really be one communcondition of this two
miles is everyLeague.
ity, but with two business sections. thing but conducive to
the safety to
My thought
thronged the Nevada City Farm Market on the Lake Olympia Road Saturday¥ morning when the market op
§
4a
to be dedicated as memorial units.
e,
to
of Deer Creek. The lumber industry is vital to this country right
now and especially to our own
Nevada City. These
trucks
have, as
val
stores,
tom
i)
F]
=]
and
retail
prices
o
large
under
at
°
slightly
produce
5
i=]
garden-fresh
;
the merits of offering a variety
of
d with oil.
. plans have not yet been annou