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PAGE TWO NEVADA CITY NUGGET
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305 Broad Street. Phoue 36
at Nevada City.
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Rublished Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at
Nevada City, California, and entered
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Fingers Twice Burned
ada’ quite plai
its fingers on t
(Contributed)
nly illustrates.
unorthodox scheme of financing government,
back, with their eyes open, for more. Now they are getting it.
As Premier Aberhart’s government belatedly moves to
establish ‘‘social credit’’ a year after being elected on the promise to bring about Utopia with this monetary abracadabra,
most Albertans are willing to admit they don’t expect it to
work. They are right. It won't work.
Historians recall that these same people of Alberta in
1912 fell for an equally unworkable scheme. It was the Single Tax, the very same tax monstrosity that theorists are trying to put over in California today.
By 1918 the City of Edmonton, Alberta, saw tax delinquencies mount to $7,000,000, more than half the total levy,
and a subsequent tax sale gave the city a. vast bulk of properties it didn’t want and could do nothing with.
amended its charter to repeal the Single Tax feature.
province government had done the same a year earlier. The
whole experiment proved quite calamitous.
Today, less than two decades later, the Canadians have
naively reached out to burn their fingers again. It would be
ironic if California, knowing their experience, should blister
hé same hot stove.
;
they
It is supposed to be true that a child, once burned, will
not again put his hand on the stove, that.a dog will not twice
try to bite a porcupine, and that an elephant never forgets.
This is not always the case, however, with adult humans, as the experience of the people of Alberta province, CanStung once by a fantastically
came
So the city
The
Breathes There A Man
fornia to go so
3,140,000 nam
time high.
even ask:
(Contributed)
aring to a record total.
es on the rolls.
.With one of the hottest presidential election fights in
history under way, you'd expect registration figures in CaliAnd yet there are still probably almost a million votegs
who are eligible but have not yet registered. The Secretary of
State’s office estimates that some 3,000,000 are qualified to
cast ballots in the primaries on the 25th of this month. For
the primaries last May, there were 2:964,336 qualified: And
before we had to start re-registering last January, there were
It is too late now, of course, for unregistered citizens to
"participate in the coming primaries, since the deadline is forty
‘days before any election. But.those who have not signed up
‘since January . have until September 24 to qualify for the big
election in November. Perhaps the total will yet reach an allWhy not register now, you who have not? By just not
bothering to do so, a man brands himself. as the poorest sort
of citizen. The issues being what they are today, one might
Breathes: there a man with soul so dead that he would
willingly pass up his right to vote in a presidential election so
momentous as this? :
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Saturday Night, August 15
_ EDDIE MELTZ ORCHESTRA
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W.P. A. HAS SPENT
$903,142.900 IN
CALIFORNIA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.— A
Works Progress’ Administration. report showed today a total of $203,142,900 was spent in California under the $4,880,000,000 relief appropriation act of 1935.
The report covered expenditures
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1936. ,
Allocations by the President embracing projects approved by Federal authorities but not necessarily
under way or completed, totaled
$269,719,418.
Actual obligations incurred, or
projects for which funds have been
expended or are obligated for expenditure, aggregated $252,246,173.
»Obligations incurred were for purely WPA work relief projects and
those carried out by the Agriculture,
Interior, Commerce and Treasury
departments, phe Civilian Conservation Corps, Army Engineers. Resettlement and Veterans’ administrations and other agencies.
‘TO REMAIN AVAILABLE
The $1,425,000,000 relief appropriation act passed by the 74th Con‘gress covers such unexpended balances of the 1935 appropriation ‘‘as
may be made available by the President’’, the report said. These funds
are to remain available until June
20, 1937, and are to be used at the
discretion of the President. !
Men and women employed by the
California State WPA, exclusive of
administrative employees, averaged
152,516 during March, 1936, the report showed. Men workers totaled
120,344 or 78.9 per cent, and women
32,172, or 21.1 per cent.
Average wage rate for the month
was $61.99. Average for. men was
$61.99, for women, $62.02. Average
earnings was $52.23. Average earnings of men was $51.85, for women
(Incumbent) is a candidate for supervisor of the
Fire District.
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LAST RITES FOR MRS.
WHITE IN SACRAMENTO
The sad news has reached Nevad
White aged 65 years, in Sacramento Wednesday morning. She has
been ill about four years. Mrs. White
was a native’of Nevada City and resided here until about five years
s0. when she moved to Sacramento
to be near her ¢hildren.
She is survived by six children and
six grand children, and’a cousin and
brother in law. The children are
Mrs. Alma Burrows, Mrs. Dorris
Snyder and Mr, Alfred Hitchens; all
of Sacramento; Mrs. Alda Harris of
Oakland and Mrs. Verda Isham of
Woodland. Mrs. Robert Stedger of
Nevada City is a cousin, and Mr.
George Hitchens, merchant of this
city is a brother in law.
Mrs. White was loved and esteemed by hosts of friends in Nevada
City. She was a member of Neva Rebekah lodge and Laurel Parlor, N.
D. G. W., of Nevada City. Funeral
services will take place this morning at 10 o’clock in Sacramento.
Funeral services will be held this
morning at 10:30 o’clock at the
News Stand
. Stationery, Magazines
} 316 Broad St. Nevada Ciry
Smart, aristocratic, superb timekeepers these
watches leave nothing to
be desired in. appearance
& real utility. $—up
——
Harry L
Re-elect
. Englebright
chapel of Harry Mauman in Sacramento. :
$58.61.
AIRPORT PROJECTS
The WPA also listed 42 airport
projects approved for California at
City of the passing of Mrs. Martha]
From Aunt Sarah
It certainly has been a long season for icebox desserts. They are su
easy to make and so refreshing that
it_is a pleasure to try new recipes.
Ices and sherbets are the favorites.
Orange sherbert is so cooling and the
ingredients are easy to have on hand.
L936 ORANGE SHERBERT
Part one—One half cup sugar. 2
cups orange juice. 2 tablesspoonsful lemon juice,
Part 2—One half cup sugar. One
fourth cup water. Salt. 2 egg whites.
Stir together the ingredients ‘of
part one until the sugar is dissolved.
Place in the freezing tray and freeze
until mushy.
Then boil the sugar and water as
given in part 2 to the thread stage.
Slowly pour this over the _ stiffly
beaten @hites to which the salt has
been added and beat until cold. Fold
this into the mixture that has been
frozen to the mushy stage, return to
the tray to finish freezing. Twice
during the freezing process transfer
to a chilled bowl. and beat thoroughly. Return to tray and complete the
freezing.
Mrs. Walter Lotz and two children
Netta Carol and Stuart, of Oakland
spent Saturday night with Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Kilroy. They left Sunday
morning for Lake Tahoe for a three
week’s vacation. a total estimated cost of $2,368,155.
DICK MARRIOTT WILL
ENTER UNIVERSITY OF S. F.
Richard, Marriott, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Marriott will leave the
latter part of next week for San
Francisco and ‘on August 24° will
register in the University of San
Francisco as a freshman. He will
enter the. pre-medical college. Dick
graduated from the Nevada City high
school with the class of 1935. He
was a prominent and popular member of his class, taking part in all
its activities, especially basket ball.
He w,ith his brother, has operated
the Pied Piper on Pine street since
he graduated from school. Dick has
been an active member of the Boy
Scouts and was selected to take the
trip east when the delegation from
Nevada City went a little over a year
ago. :
“Private Property—No Trespassing” signs for sale at the Nugget
Office.
Stomach Gas
One dose of ADLERIKA quickly reNeves gag bloating, cleans out BOTH
upper and lower bowels, allows you to
eat and sleep good. Quick, thorough
action, yet entirely gentle and safe.
ADLERIKA
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Harris, Druggist.
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Aug. 14 20th
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Tomato Sauce
LIBBYS
Corned Beef Hash
DEVILED MEAT
Libbys No. 14 cans
COFFEE
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Ground to Order
3 Pounds
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