August 13, 1934 (4 pages)

, Water Debate Subsides CONSTRUCTIVE as New Survey Is Made er aan ee nie stn = ome ———" This is Nevada Oity’s. ONLY Hometown Newspaper. It supports things worth while. Do yon subScribe for it? a aS ti nS bee pee GA : Side eg aka evada Cit Nevada City Nugget isa Member of the United Press And California Newspaper y Nug: Publishers Association 4 ee ne aos pase le Your Hometown ; paper helps build — community. Readers . advertisers make _ good builder. Vel, VIIE No, 75 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, AUG. 13, 1934 — cE Oy & Gradually the water controversy is subsiding. . Common sense and a willingness of nearly everybody interested in the matter to adopt ‘a ‘concillatory Position, has led to a better understanding, . Councilman Ben Hall, chairman ol the council’s water committee, accompanied by Herbert Hallett, sup‘erintendent of public utilities, is visiting each home ‘and making such adjustment of the summer irrigation tate a8 seems equable. All told, it is expected that the Summer irrigation rates. will not yield the cit: 000, ann needs of { garded as very small. sn view of the the main leading from the Suga loss. this last break occured. council more than $1,growing ; Srowing city, this is reed As indicating just how badly thé Water system is in need of repairs, f oaf reservoir this morning burst and a lot of water poured to waste, while an additional pressure was released on the Canada Hill side to offset the It is estimated that something like $700 must be spent to replace the old water main lines in which ieee eosin aia Editor Nevada City Nugget _ Nevada City, Calif., Dear Sir: The discussion that has recentl r ment levies on the water users oO rates in another city. First I want to say that I appre RIVER PLACERS . ASSISTANT LIFE READY TO MAKE BIG CLEAN UP A. H, Hays, who is in charge of the River Placers Property north of Nevada City, with a-crew of men, has just completed a 670 foot long tunnel which drains the south Yuba river at a horseshoe bend on the property leaving the river channel exposed for a distance of 2,000 feet. Two drag lines are drawing gravel . each way to the sides of the river: ‘banks and before many days it is expected this work will be completed ‘over the 2,000 feet stretch, and the clay, mud and gravel will be. lifted and placed in sluice boxes and carefully washed to recover the gold. Several thousand dollarshave been ! respective times on duty: spent:in getting this property in Tuesdays, Thursdays shape and from indications the com. . days. ; : pany will be richly rewarded. 11:00 to 12:00 A. M.—Dick StevFEDERAL LAW PUTS . ‘12:00 to 1:00 P. M.—Albert PratCHECK ON GUN TOTERS: ti. ! 4 . day, especially when Janes is. busy with one of his many swimming, diying, or life saving classes. The duties of these assistant life savers are to help ‘see that the swimming pool is conducted in an orderly fashion, to answer demands for arbitration on the subject of water tussles ete. . They also relieve Janese of infinite . quéstions of a general nature, such ‘as “What time is it?,” “When does i beginners swimming start?” and so -list of Janes’s assistants and their 1:00 to 2:00 P. M.—Dick Stevens. 30 to 3:00 P. M.—Walter Hallet. j 8:00 to 4:00 P. Mi—Clem Organs. CAMPTONVILLE, Aug. 13.—Sev-! 5:00 to 6:00 P. eral inquiries have been made in the, Tuttle. local Justice Court for information relative to the new Federal Gun Law, . This new law took effect August 1, 23 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 14700 to 12:00 A. M— art Elliot. 12:00 to 1:00 P, M.—Fan RobGUARDS NAMED Addison Janes, Superintendent of the municipal swimming pool, reports that he has appointed twelve assistant life guards to help take ‘charge during different parts of the ‘on and so forth. The following is a’ and Satur-. M.—Franklin— lic. a small city’ in California. To get back to the water rate; where the water rate was as low as Nevada City. In looking over the water bills of the city, in which I was interested, I found that an ordinary home with a lot 40x100 feet, with a family of three or four and with such lawn and garden as a lot of this size would allow, averaged from four to six dollars a month. One home I remember with about one half acre of lawn and one acre of shrubs and trees hada bill from seventy-five to eighty-five dollars per month in the’ summer: ‘The city paid three dollars and a half per month per fire hydrant as a stand-by charge and paid extra for all water used, the property owners of Nevada City to the fact that any income derived from the sale of water above the actual cost of operation will be applied on the cost of running our city and that otherwise these funds would of necessity be raised by an increase in the tax and real property. IDEAS ON WATER MUCH NEEDED taken Diace regarding the assessthis city has been of interest to me as I at one time gathered data with which to protest a raise of water ciate the position of the city council, not only»this city, council but the councils in all small cities, devoting their time and best efforts without compensation and with but little support from the citizens on their constructive programs, but: often the target of the most severe criticism if some of their acts seem . to tread on the toes of the dear pubI speak from experience as I have been a member of the council in from the investigation I made of water rates several years ago, I can re~ ‘member’ 'of but one or two. towns Consideration should be given a and owners of guns have until October to register them. comes under the: Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, the . office of the California District has not yet received copies of the law, and as soon as he does so, he will suSmit a copy to Judge Cleveland: . which will be at the disposal of those interested in this Township. . It is stated that the law reads, . everyone owning a gun 18 inches long or jess must register it with the . department, and also be fingerprint. ed and record ‘their photographs. . Failure to do this involves ‘a $250: fine. This is separate and has noth-'! ing to do with the California Con-! cealed Weapon Act, which made it necessary to obtain a Heense to carry’ a weapon. { = t ——~fe ——-~ ‘ i] ’ . CHURCH MEMBERS TO ATTEND TAHOE SERVICE: Bishop Noel Porter of the diocise . of Sacramento is in residence at Lake Tahoe and _ holding regular Sunday services at the chapel. Bishop Porter has invited the members of the near by communitties to at-! tend the services at Tahoe. Mem-. bers of the Grass Valley and Nevada . » City Episcopal churches are planning ! to attend services there on Sunday August 19, After the services they will enjoy a picnic lunch together It is hoped that many of the members and friends of the church will! attend this service as a very happy time is anticipated. The friends and members of Trinity church, who plan to go to Tahoe will meet at the church at 8 o’clock and all start together. Those who desire transportation and those who » have room in their cars for others, will please phone Mrs. E. M._Rector before Saturday, the Rev. Washbura having appointed Mrs. Rector chairman of arrangements. % MARRIAGE DECLARATIONS SUSSETTI-TERRIBILINI—In Napa county, August 10, 1934, Andrew Susetti, 21, of Valley Ford, and Lucy Terribilini, 20, of Bloomfield. a Wade Armstrong has just returned to Nevada City from a trip to Honolulu, HaWaii. . . ! 3: 00 ‘to 4: ( bins. This matter . 1:00 to 2:00 P. M.—Carl Tobiassen, 2:00 to 3: riott. 00: P. M.—Dick Mar. 00 P. M.—Jackson Englebright. 5:00 to 6:00 P. M. scelli. —Tony Cartoee *— SILVER CALLED INTO TREASURY The people. of the state should know more about what happens in, ;the treasurer’s office, states Tupper . S. Malone, candidate for treasurer. “I'd like to see statements of California’s financial condition published frequently,” says Mr. Malone. He is a Democrat of long standing an admirer of President Roosevelt, ,and in 1910 was a Democratic can. Alleghany. didate for treasurer, * TWO SHIFTS OF CCC BOYS WORKING ON ROAD ‘E. J. Haverstock, candidate for supervisor of the third district, stated last Friday that the ccc boys from White Cloud, or Camp 914, were building a fine piece of 1o0ad above Washington. This is their second year on the grade that goes from Washington to Graniteville and Bowman, in a four year program a3 mapped out. by the Tahoe Nationai Forest Service under supervisor k. L. P. Bigelow. Under Foreman Murphy, the boys are widening, filling in and taking out boulders. Two compressors work in the day time and one at night drilling into the rock for blasting in order to widen and take off eurves in this rough narrow mountain road. * Thomas O. McCraney returned to Berkeley Sunday after a vacation spent in Nevada City with his parents, Mr, and Mrs,. Orlando M-c Craney. He will study law in Boalt Hall in -Berkéley. He graduated It seems to me a splendid opportunity for the city to raise part of the funds to meet their budget from the non property owners of the city, who Otherwise pay nothing directly for the benefit of living in a city. Let us hope that any rates made will not bring about such measurements of the water used as to discourage gardens and well kept. grounds of Nevada City. Meters would be a tragedy besides adding . @ cost of sixty cents per month per . meter, as has been determined by DICK COLLINS FIGHTS FOR 15 alization and one of the leading spon sors of the Riley-Stewart Tax Relie Plan, announced today that ha next year’s tax bills. -}. home-owners, farmers for all property owners. Collins stated, ‘California counties will be given a new source of taxable erty owner. “It is absolutely esseritial that this second phase of the Riley-Stewart Tax Relief Plan be carried to completion to afford vitally needed relief for our most overburdened tax-. paying class. The State Board of Equalization is now evaluating utility properties, preparatory to the return of these properties to the county tax rolls, and there is strong. indication that we will be able to accomplish a 15 per cent additional tax Saving for our common _ property tax payers next year. Thié will be of tremendous benefit :to agriculture and business, as well as the home.Owner, and every effort is being put forth to safe-guard the rights of the common taxpayer.’’ cent investigation. During the past few years the government of all cities have been called up to furnish not only the necesSities of the cities but many of the luxuries, ‘such as municipal golf courses, _swimming tanks, decorations for the streets for celebrations and participation in any and all public and quasi-public events and are apt to be criticised for any raise in the tax rate to meet these demands. Let us be fair and first consider what is best for our city and if we feel that the counsel has made a mistake, let us first be sure we have all the facts and if after an investigation we still feel we have a real constructive suggestion, I feel sure that such suggestions will be given due consideration. Very truly yours, CHAS. M. BROWN. ‘RUBY MINE BUILDING _° FIVE STAMP MILL ea ieee Sees oe Huelsdonk and E. t. . Montgomery, and super. intendent, are adding a five stamp engineers ‘mill to the pilot mill, comprised of two stamps, at the Ruby mine near This will be used to . Work out values and processes. Al . Kelliher and crew are dismantling a ! ten stamp mill at the Mattie ‘mine . and moving the crusher and compressor etc. to the Ruby property to “be used in the pilot mill. In the ‘Spring a modern 100 ton mill will be installed at the Ruby mine by Mess. tions calender. PCT. TAX CUT: Richard E. Collins, of Redding chairman of the State Board of Equthe f} Board hopes to accomplish an addi . tional 15 per cent saving for California common property owners in Tax savings achieved this year for and other common property tax payers under the Riley-Stewart ‘Plan totaled more than $40,000,000, Collins said, or an average of a 20 per cent reduction “With the return of utility property to local tax rolls in January of next year, to be taxed on an absolute equality with common taxpayers,” wealth which should materially relieve the burden on the small propthe city of San Francisco in a re-j ’ f;watch near North Columbia, fel upon him and crushed him to death CCC Boy Loses Life Fighting Forest Fire William Mattison, CCC boy from Los Angeles, was killed this morning, when a burning snag that he -. With another boy had been left to The boy was one of 55 CCC boys ‘from the camp at White Cloud which succeeded at an early hour this morning in controlling a forest fire after it had burned over 40 acres in —s the vicinity’ of North Columbia. After the fire had passed two boys were delegated to watch this big — Snag to see that it did’ not spread the fire’ again.1; Coroner A. M. Holmes: was called — -{and brought.the body to this city where it will remain until word is received from relatives in Los Angeles. Mattison was born in New York and was 21 years of age. He was the son of Bernard Mattison. ~ CLYDE SEAVEY © SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13:—Assailing the legislative record of Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam as ‘Teactionary and anti-humanitarian,’” and declaring Merriam’s “public life is -decidedly objectionable,” Clyde L. Seavey, outstanding figure ed the election of former Governor C. C. Young for the Republican nomination for Governor, in a recent ad? dress. Seavey is resigning the presidency of the California’ state railroad commission to: accept am ap+ pointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as member of the Fedéral D. C. “T personally have Known: Mr. Merriam since 1917, when he came to: the State Legislature,” Seavey said. pote is a pleasant and affable gentile-. man. But his public fife is decidedly _obje tionable. I ‘cannot agree with his, social Philosophy as exemplified by his officiat acts. No: politician at the age of seventy like Mr. Merriam, has ever been known to: change his spots except by camouflage, and so we must Know what his spots really are. ti-humanitarian and BACKS YOUNG in the public life of California, urg-’ Power Commission at Washington, ! “We find he has followed the an. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEMBERS HOME " FROMINSTITUTE The San Juan bus returned Saturday night from the: Epworth League Institute at Strong’s Station, . Humboldt county, with ‘its: load of Nevada City Leaguers. Returning with them came the fitst award banner,. presented on a basis: of com4 pletely: entering: into,the: spirit of the. ro camp. This is; not the first time the Nevada City group has come tome: from: Institute, bringing with it first award, for at almost’ every j Institute, the Nevada City Epworth {League has brought back oe trophy or another:. ie All’ those who went reported a most enjoyable and instructive yvacation. The following atrived home Saturday: Elma Eden, Claris Holland, Audrey Davis, Marjorie’ Wil,liams, Betty ‘Tefft, Naomi Whitley, , Flossie Angove, Gertrude Schreiber, . Helem Arbogast, Margaret -Phariss, ; Paul Phariss, Don Jones, Ben Sweeney, Carl Murchie, Charles Jeffery, , and the Rev. H. H. Buckner. Mr. . L. E. Sweeney took his car, and with him were Bilt Jeffrey, and Mrs. Green. : leadership of the LosAngeles Times . County took about twenty hours, two of reactionary big business, reactionary, The trip home from Humboldt oe ‘hours longer than the trip down be; teactionary utilities. He voted ) 48ainst Workmen’s Compensation, to ‘which, under the California experience, aH forward-looking business interests now give endorsement. “In 1921 he voted against the fefal rights of the sreat mass of geiueral property taxpayers, and supported the utilities in their fight to prsvent equalization Tax Bill. “In the numerous years he was in the legislature, under the King he was consistent in voting against all major and consequential measures for the legitimate relief of the men and women abor. who JUDGE TUTTLE PRESIDES IN LONG BEACH COURTS Friends of Judge Raglan Tuttle, . recently assigned by the State Judi. . cial. Council. to the Long Beach . branch of the Los Angeles Superior Court, will be pleased to learn that on his arrival there he was designated to act as presiding judge, very . much of. an honor, and an excellent: experiénce for the visiting jurist. In this position he assigns all the work to the four departments located al Long Beach, besides handling al} probate matters and the law and moers. Huelsdonk and Montgomery. Mr. Best, one of the Bests of tractor and caterpillar fame, is one of the large Stockholders of the Ruby mine. Twenty-one men are now employed at the Ruby mine. L. L. Huelsdonk and family are living at the Blight apartments in Grass Valley. ' Mr. Montgomery is living on the mine property. LAVA CAP MINE NOW ‘EMPLOYS 100 MEN Sinking has progressed toxthe 1,180 foot level in the projected 1200 feet in the Central shaft at the Lav Cap property: southeast of Nevada City. Two shifts are working in the Banner shaft. A new power line has been built to the Lava Cap. The mill is now treating 150 tons of ore per day, and 100 men ‘are amJudge Tuttle writes that he has been. astounded at the political strength developed by Upton Sinclair. He thinks, however, that on} the Republican ticket Merriam will carry the South by a large vote. Judge Tuttle does not expect to return to his home here until AuEPWORTH LEAGUE Members of the Epworth League of Placer and Nevada counties will have a_ picnic meeting at Lake Combe, near Auburn on Thursday evening, August 16. Leaguers of the two counties will have a basket Dic. nic supper early in thé evening after which an evening service will be held. County officers of the group will be in charge of the meeting. The Program will be given jointly by the Nevada and Placer groups. Mr. Mee, an active member from Sacramento, from Stanford University last spring, ployed. Otto E. Schiffner is superintendent. : ’ 2 will contribute to,the program. . State ' And now Candidate : PICNIC MEETING Merriam has seized this one thins “In 1928 he supported Governor Richardson in his attack on the unreasonable reduction in the appropriations by which the utilities of the are controlled, thereby weakening the ability of that branch of the state service. He also supported . the . attempt to cripple the state, school departments and other functions. “In 1923 Mr. Merriam also Supported the reduction in appropriations for the National Guard berond the amount necessary for proper . maintenance, MS Oe Os Young not only opposcd Mr. Merriam in all of these matters. 'polls are open. 1 ; the case, and the law never having ‘CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: ; cause tire trouble was experienced. . The bus-left the Institute about teh o'clock Friday evening and arrived here Saturday at about six Pp. m. [LIQUOR JOINTS MUST . CLOSE ELECTION DAY CAMPTONVILLE, Aug. 13. response to several inquiries, the District Attorney’s office at Marys. ville, has given forth the opinion . that the old statute prohibiting the ‘sale of liquor on election day is still in full force-and effect. . Section 63b iof the Penal Code prohibits the sale of liquor in any public place where malt or spirituous liquors are sold or given away, during the time the It was thought by some that this law was off the books when prohibition téok effect, but such is not. been repealed is still in force. _ MEETS TUESDAY NIGHT There is to be a meeting of tile Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. 4 S00é attendance is desired by Pr but in 1927 ana 1929, as Governor, he restored proper support’ to these various functions, including the Nas} tional Guard, whidh has been so. maintained sinee. i “It was this National Guard that. upon the pregsure of public opinion and thé request of local authority, acting Governor Merriam called out as the only means by which the state could lend adequate help in the re cent trouble. as the only available campaign isSue he can find, and seeks nomina tion for calling out an efficiént orSanization which he, as Legislator, was willing to cripple and make in:potent.“T am asking you, as I have asked myself, which of these two leading Candidates can I, as a citizen loyal . to the traditions and needs of Cali-; fornia, support for this high office. . These are matters which have always appealed to me strongly, and so far as California is con $3, dent F. F. Cassidy as many .impi tant questions are to be diseu one in particular being the local a Port. j they still appeal to me for, while I will be out of the state perhaps seve eral years, my property, my hom and my residence remain here, must share with you all of the ng or all of the shame that goes — a the administration of state’, aff. here in the next four years. “Against a candidate with a sistent reactionary record, lack any constructive effort, I must ¢ the one with a known and record for vision and action Public interest. Not only mm have a candidate Sar rogres ideals, but one whose expe him to ge into action at once in tremendously impertant k and administrative program ious financial e

, Water Debate Subsides CONSTRUCTIVE as New Survey Is Made er aan ee nie stn = ome ———" This is Nevada Oity’s. ONLY Hometown Newspaper. It supports things worth while. Do yon subScribe for it? a aS ti nS bee pee GA : Side eg aka evada Cit Nevada City Nugget isa Member of the United Press And California Newspaper y Nug: Publishers Association 4 ee ne aos pase le Your Hometown ; paper helps build — community. Readers . advertisers make _ good builder. Vel, VIIE No, 75 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, AUG. 13, 1934 — cE Oy & Gradually the water controversy is subsiding. . Common sense and a willingness of nearly everybody interested in the matter to adopt ‘a ‘concillatory Position, has led to a better understanding, . Councilman Ben Hall, chairman ol the council’s water committee, accompanied by Herbert Hallett, sup‘erintendent of public utilities, is visiting each home ‘and making such adjustment of the summer irrigation tate a8 seems equable. All told, it is expected that the Summer irrigation rates. will not yield the cit: 000, ann needs of { garded as very small. sn view of the the main leading from the Suga loss. this last break occured. council more than $1,growing ; Srowing city, this is reed As indicating just how badly thé Water system is in need of repairs, f oaf reservoir this morning burst and a lot of water poured to waste, while an additional pressure was released on the Canada Hill side to offset the It is estimated that something like $700 must be spent to replace the old water main lines in which ieee eosin aia Editor Nevada City Nugget _ Nevada City, Calif., Dear Sir: The discussion that has recentl r ment levies on the water users oO rates in another city. First I want to say that I appre RIVER PLACERS . ASSISTANT LIFE READY TO MAKE BIG CLEAN UP A. H, Hays, who is in charge of the River Placers Property north of Nevada City, with a-crew of men, has just completed a 670 foot long tunnel which drains the south Yuba river at a horseshoe bend on the property leaving the river channel exposed for a distance of 2,000 feet. Two drag lines are drawing gravel . each way to the sides of the river: ‘banks and before many days it is expected this work will be completed ‘over the 2,000 feet stretch, and the clay, mud and gravel will be. lifted and placed in sluice boxes and carefully washed to recover the gold. Several thousand dollarshave been ! respective times on duty: spent:in getting this property in Tuesdays, Thursdays shape and from indications the com. . days. ; : pany will be richly rewarded. 11:00 to 12:00 A. M.—Dick StevFEDERAL LAW PUTS . ‘12:00 to 1:00 P. M.—Albert PratCHECK ON GUN TOTERS: ti. ! 4 . day, especially when Janes is. busy with one of his many swimming, diying, or life saving classes. The duties of these assistant life savers are to help ‘see that the swimming pool is conducted in an orderly fashion, to answer demands for arbitration on the subject of water tussles ete. . They also relieve Janese of infinite . quéstions of a general nature, such ‘as “What time is it?,” “When does i beginners swimming start?” and so -list of Janes’s assistants and their 1:00 to 2:00 P. M.—Dick Stevens. 30 to 3:00 P. M.—Walter Hallet. j 8:00 to 4:00 P. Mi—Clem Organs. CAMPTONVILLE, Aug. 13.—Sev-! 5:00 to 6:00 P. eral inquiries have been made in the, Tuttle. local Justice Court for information relative to the new Federal Gun Law, . This new law took effect August 1, 23 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 14700 to 12:00 A. M— art Elliot. 12:00 to 1:00 P, M.—Fan RobGUARDS NAMED Addison Janes, Superintendent of the municipal swimming pool, reports that he has appointed twelve assistant life guards to help take ‘charge during different parts of the ‘on and so forth. The following is a’ and Satur-. M.—Franklin— lic. a small city’ in California. To get back to the water rate; where the water rate was as low as Nevada City. In looking over the water bills of the city, in which I was interested, I found that an ordinary home with a lot 40x100 feet, with a family of three or four and with such lawn and garden as a lot of this size would allow, averaged from four to six dollars a month. One home I remember with about one half acre of lawn and one acre of shrubs and trees hada bill from seventy-five to eighty-five dollars per month in the’ summer: ‘The city paid three dollars and a half per month per fire hydrant as a stand-by charge and paid extra for all water used, the property owners of Nevada City to the fact that any income derived from the sale of water above the actual cost of operation will be applied on the cost of running our city and that otherwise these funds would of necessity be raised by an increase in the tax and real property. IDEAS ON WATER MUCH NEEDED taken Diace regarding the assessthis city has been of interest to me as I at one time gathered data with which to protest a raise of water ciate the position of the city council, not only»this city, council but the councils in all small cities, devoting their time and best efforts without compensation and with but little support from the citizens on their constructive programs, but: often the target of the most severe criticism if some of their acts seem . to tread on the toes of the dear pubI speak from experience as I have been a member of the council in from the investigation I made of water rates several years ago, I can re~ ‘member’ 'of but one or two. towns Consideration should be given a and owners of guns have until October to register them. comes under the: Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, the . office of the California District has not yet received copies of the law, and as soon as he does so, he will suSmit a copy to Judge Cleveland: . which will be at the disposal of those interested in this Township. . It is stated that the law reads, . everyone owning a gun 18 inches long or jess must register it with the . department, and also be fingerprint. ed and record ‘their photographs. . Failure to do this involves ‘a $250: fine. This is separate and has noth-'! ing to do with the California Con-! cealed Weapon Act, which made it necessary to obtain a Heense to carry’ a weapon. { = t ——~fe ——-~ ‘ i] ’ . CHURCH MEMBERS TO ATTEND TAHOE SERVICE: Bishop Noel Porter of the diocise . of Sacramento is in residence at Lake Tahoe and _ holding regular Sunday services at the chapel. Bishop Porter has invited the members of the near by communitties to at-! tend the services at Tahoe. Mem-. bers of the Grass Valley and Nevada . » City Episcopal churches are planning ! to attend services there on Sunday August 19, After the services they will enjoy a picnic lunch together It is hoped that many of the members and friends of the church will! attend this service as a very happy time is anticipated. The friends and members of Trinity church, who plan to go to Tahoe will meet at the church at 8 o’clock and all start together. Those who desire transportation and those who » have room in their cars for others, will please phone Mrs. E. M._Rector before Saturday, the Rev. Washbura having appointed Mrs. Rector chairman of arrangements. % MARRIAGE DECLARATIONS SUSSETTI-TERRIBILINI—In Napa county, August 10, 1934, Andrew Susetti, 21, of Valley Ford, and Lucy Terribilini, 20, of Bloomfield. a Wade Armstrong has just returned to Nevada City from a trip to Honolulu, HaWaii. . . ! 3: 00 ‘to 4: ( bins. This matter . 1:00 to 2:00 P. M.—Carl Tobiassen, 2:00 to 3: riott. 00: P. M.—Dick Mar. 00 P. M.—Jackson Englebright. 5:00 to 6:00 P. M. scelli. —Tony Cartoee *— SILVER CALLED INTO TREASURY The people. of the state should know more about what happens in, ;the treasurer’s office, states Tupper . S. Malone, candidate for treasurer. “I'd like to see statements of California’s financial condition published frequently,” says Mr. Malone. He is a Democrat of long standing an admirer of President Roosevelt, ,and in 1910 was a Democratic can. Alleghany. didate for treasurer, * TWO SHIFTS OF CCC BOYS WORKING ON ROAD ‘E. J. Haverstock, candidate for supervisor of the third district, stated last Friday that the ccc boys from White Cloud, or Camp 914, were building a fine piece of 1o0ad above Washington. This is their second year on the grade that goes from Washington to Graniteville and Bowman, in a four year program a3 mapped out. by the Tahoe Nationai Forest Service under supervisor k. L. P. Bigelow. Under Foreman Murphy, the boys are widening, filling in and taking out boulders. Two compressors work in the day time and one at night drilling into the rock for blasting in order to widen and take off eurves in this rough narrow mountain road. * Thomas O. McCraney returned to Berkeley Sunday after a vacation spent in Nevada City with his parents, Mr, and Mrs,. Orlando M-c Craney. He will study law in Boalt Hall in -Berkéley. He graduated It seems to me a splendid opportunity for the city to raise part of the funds to meet their budget from the non property owners of the city, who Otherwise pay nothing directly for the benefit of living in a city. Let us hope that any rates made will not bring about such measurements of the water used as to discourage gardens and well kept. grounds of Nevada City. Meters would be a tragedy besides adding . @ cost of sixty cents per month per . meter, as has been determined by DICK COLLINS FIGHTS FOR 15 alization and one of the leading spon sors of the Riley-Stewart Tax Relie Plan, announced today that ha next year’s tax bills. -}. home-owners, farmers for all property owners. Collins stated, ‘California counties will be given a new source of taxable erty owner.

“It is absolutely esseritial that this second phase of the Riley-Stewart Tax Relief Plan be carried to completion to afford vitally needed relief for our most overburdened tax-. paying class. The State Board of Equalization is now evaluating utility properties, preparatory to the return of these properties to the county tax rolls, and there is strong. indication that we will be able to accomplish a 15 per cent additional tax Saving for our common _ property tax payers next year. Thié will be of tremendous benefit :to agriculture and business, as well as the home.Owner, and every effort is being put forth to safe-guard the rights of the common taxpayer.’’ cent investigation. During the past few years the government of all cities have been called up to furnish not only the necesSities of the cities but many of the luxuries, ‘such as municipal golf courses, _swimming tanks, decorations for the streets for celebrations and participation in any and all public and quasi-public events and are apt to be criticised for any raise in the tax rate to meet these demands. Let us be fair and first consider what is best for our city and if we feel that the counsel has made a mistake, let us first be sure we have all the facts and if after an investigation we still feel we have a real constructive suggestion, I feel sure that such suggestions will be given due consideration. Very truly yours, CHAS. M. BROWN. ‘RUBY MINE BUILDING _° FIVE STAMP MILL ea ieee Sees oe Huelsdonk and E. t. . Montgomery, and super. intendent, are adding a five stamp engineers ‘mill to the pilot mill, comprised of two stamps, at the Ruby mine near This will be used to . Work out values and processes. Al . Kelliher and crew are dismantling a ! ten stamp mill at the Mattie ‘mine . and moving the crusher and compressor etc. to the Ruby property to “be used in the pilot mill. In the ‘Spring a modern 100 ton mill will be installed at the Ruby mine by Mess. tions calender. PCT. TAX CUT: Richard E. Collins, of Redding chairman of the State Board of Equthe f} Board hopes to accomplish an addi . tional 15 per cent saving for California common property owners in Tax savings achieved this year for and other common property tax payers under the Riley-Stewart ‘Plan totaled more than $40,000,000, Collins said, or an average of a 20 per cent reduction “With the return of utility property to local tax rolls in January of next year, to be taxed on an absolute equality with common taxpayers,” wealth which should materially relieve the burden on the small propthe city of San Francisco in a re-j ’ f;watch near North Columbia, fel upon him and crushed him to death CCC Boy Loses Life Fighting Forest Fire William Mattison, CCC boy from Los Angeles, was killed this morning, when a burning snag that he -. With another boy had been left to The boy was one of 55 CCC boys ‘from the camp at White Cloud which succeeded at an early hour this morning in controlling a forest fire after it had burned over 40 acres in —s the vicinity’ of North Columbia. After the fire had passed two boys were delegated to watch this big — Snag to see that it did’ not spread the fire’ again.1; Coroner A. M. Holmes: was called — -{and brought.the body to this city where it will remain until word is received from relatives in Los Angeles. Mattison was born in New York and was 21 years of age. He was the son of Bernard Mattison. ~ CLYDE SEAVEY © SAN FRANCISCO, Aug.. 13:—Assailing the legislative record of Acting Governor Frank F. Merriam as ‘Teactionary and anti-humanitarian,’” and declaring Merriam’s “public life is -decidedly objectionable,” Clyde L. Seavey, outstanding figure ed the election of former Governor C. C. Young for the Republican nomination for Governor, in a recent ad? dress. Seavey is resigning the presidency of the California’ state railroad commission to: accept am ap+ pointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as member of the Fedéral D. C. “T personally have Known: Mr. Merriam since 1917, when he came to: the State Legislature,” Seavey said. pote is a pleasant and affable gentile-. man. But his public fife is decidedly _obje tionable. I ‘cannot agree with his, social Philosophy as exemplified by his officiat acts. No: politician at the age of seventy like Mr. Merriam, has ever been known to: change his spots except by camouflage, and so we must Know what his spots really are. ti-humanitarian and BACKS YOUNG in the public life of California, urg-’ Power Commission at Washington, ! “We find he has followed the an. EPWORTH LEAGUE MEMBERS HOME " FROMINSTITUTE The San Juan bus returned Saturday night from the: Epworth League Institute at Strong’s Station, . Humboldt county, with ‘its: load of Nevada City Leaguers. Returning with them came the fitst award banner,. presented on a basis: of com4 pletely: entering: into,the: spirit of the. ro camp. This is; not the first time the Nevada City group has come tome: from: Institute, bringing with it first award, for at almost’ every j Institute, the Nevada City Epworth {League has brought back oe trophy or another:. ie All’ those who went reported a most enjoyable and instructive yvacation. The following atrived home Saturday: Elma Eden, Claris Holland, Audrey Davis, Marjorie’ Wil,liams, Betty ‘Tefft, Naomi Whitley, , Flossie Angove, Gertrude Schreiber, . Helem Arbogast, Margaret -Phariss, ; Paul Phariss, Don Jones, Ben Sweeney, Carl Murchie, Charles Jeffery, , and the Rev. H. H. Buckner. Mr. . L. E. Sweeney took his car, and with him were Bilt Jeffrey, and Mrs. Green. : leadership of the LosAngeles Times . County took about twenty hours, two of reactionary big business, reactionary, The trip home from Humboldt oe ‘hours longer than the trip down be; teactionary utilities. He voted ) 48ainst Workmen’s Compensation, to ‘which, under the California experience, aH forward-looking business interests now give endorsement. “In 1921 he voted against the fefal rights of the sreat mass of geiueral property taxpayers, and supported the utilities in their fight to prsvent equalization Tax Bill. “In the numerous years he was in the legislature, under the King he was consistent in voting against all major and consequential measures for the legitimate relief of the men and women abor. who JUDGE TUTTLE PRESIDES IN LONG BEACH COURTS Friends of Judge Raglan Tuttle, . recently assigned by the State Judi. . cial. Council. to the Long Beach . branch of the Los Angeles Superior Court, will be pleased to learn that on his arrival there he was designated to act as presiding judge, very . much of. an honor, and an excellent: experiénce for the visiting jurist. In this position he assigns all the work to the four departments located al Long Beach, besides handling al} probate matters and the law and moers. Huelsdonk and Montgomery. Mr. Best, one of the Bests of tractor and caterpillar fame, is one of the large Stockholders of the Ruby mine. Twenty-one men are now employed at the Ruby mine. L. L. Huelsdonk and family are living at the Blight apartments in Grass Valley. ' Mr. Montgomery is living on the mine property. LAVA CAP MINE NOW ‘EMPLOYS 100 MEN Sinking has progressed toxthe 1,180 foot level in the projected 1200 feet in the Central shaft at the Lav Cap property: southeast of Nevada City. Two shifts are working in the Banner shaft. A new power line has been built to the Lava Cap. The mill is now treating 150 tons of ore per day, and 100 men ‘are amJudge Tuttle writes that he has been. astounded at the political strength developed by Upton Sinclair. He thinks, however, that on} the Republican ticket Merriam will carry the South by a large vote. Judge Tuttle does not expect to return to his home here until AuEPWORTH LEAGUE Members of the Epworth League of Placer and Nevada counties will have a_ picnic meeting at Lake Combe, near Auburn on Thursday evening, August 16. Leaguers of the two counties will have a basket Dic. nic supper early in thé evening after which an evening service will be held. County officers of the group will be in charge of the meeting. The Program will be given jointly by the Nevada and Placer groups. Mr. Mee, an active member from Sacramento, from Stanford University last spring, ployed. Otto E. Schiffner is superintendent. : ’ 2 will contribute to,the program. . State ' And now Candidate : PICNIC MEETING Merriam has seized this one thins “In 1928 he supported Governor Richardson in his attack on the unreasonable reduction in the appropriations by which the utilities of the are controlled, thereby weakening the ability of that branch of the state service. He also supported . the . attempt to cripple the state, school departments and other functions. “In 1923 Mr. Merriam also Supported the reduction in appropriations for the National Guard berond the amount necessary for proper . maintenance, MS Oe Os Young not only opposcd Mr. Merriam in all of these matters. 'polls are open. 1 ; the case, and the law never having ‘CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: ; cause tire trouble was experienced. . The bus-left the Institute about teh o'clock Friday evening and arrived here Saturday at about six Pp. m. [LIQUOR JOINTS MUST . CLOSE ELECTION DAY CAMPTONVILLE, Aug.. 13. response to several inquiries, the District Attorney’s office at Marys. ville, has given forth the opinion . that the old statute prohibiting the ‘sale of liquor on election day is still in full force-and effect. . Section 63b iof the Penal Code prohibits the sale of liquor in any public place where malt or spirituous liquors are sold or given away, during the time the It was thought by some that this law was off the books when prohibition téok effect, but such is not. been repealed is still in force. _ MEETS TUESDAY NIGHT There is to be a meeting of tile Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. 4 S00é attendance is desired by Pr but in 1927 ana 1929, as Governor, he restored proper support’ to these various functions, including the Nas} tional Guard, whidh has been so. maintained sinee. i “It was this National Guard that. upon the pregsure of public opinion and thé request of local authority, acting Governor Merriam called out as the only means by which the state could lend adequate help in the re cent trouble. as the only available campaign isSue he can find, and seeks nomina tion for calling out an efficiént orSanization which he, as Legislator, was willing to cripple and make in:potent.“T am asking you, as I have asked myself, which of these two leading Candidates can I, as a citizen loyal . to the traditions and needs of Cali-; fornia, support for this high office. . These are matters which have always appealed to me strongly, and so far as California is con $3, dent F. F. Cassidy as many .impi tant questions are to be diseu one in particular being the local a Port. j they still appeal to me for, while I will be out of the state perhaps seve eral years, my property, my hom and my residence remain here, must share with you all of the ng or all of the shame that goes — a the administration of state’, aff. here in the next four years. “Against a candidate with a sistent reactionary record, lack any constructive effort, I must ¢ the one with a known and record for vision and action Public interest. Not only mm have a candidate Sar rogres ideals, but one whose expe him to ge into action at once in tremendously impertant k and administrative program ious financial e