August 5, 1943 (4 pages)

Cramer ¥ i our California _ Mrs. The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per ~ month Ne Ne lb Ok it ey lee gr AS ES go lyse oy na aS =f Nevada Gity Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 61. The County Seat Paper Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. (It will be extremely difficult for the United States to assist in setting up a world system of justice among’ a dazen or more different races, and nationalities, so ‘long as we maintain here at home a system that constantly subjects ‘members of other races —other ‘than Anglo4Saxon — to crippling handicaps. We mention the worst of these home _ problems, our Negroes, with reluctance, forethe reason that injustice of the most oppressive type has for so many years been condoned in the minds ,of even the most humane and kind. But racial prejudice is not only concerned with Negroes, it is concerned with every thing that is alien and different to our sphere of living and thinking. Witness reaction to the 4“Oakies,’’ who are not different from us at all, save that they have suffered great misfortunes over a long period of time. Leone Baxter in a recent editor4al cuts sharply through the probJem to the core of the trouble. We submit her thought on the subject as an example of clear and vigorous thinking: Before American D. D.’s (doctors of democracy) may prescribe with confidence their carefully brewed cuges, for the ills of the world, a major operation is required here at home — an operation that will leave certain portions of the social anatomy sore for some time to come, but will benefit the patient no end. The “Negro problem’’ and the endless intolerances that foster it is the same cure as for any malignant growth—a bit of social surgery. Since the accident of birth -is no proper basis on which to opportion men’s rights, this is not a problem of color, but one of tuman relations. The Negro, say proponents of Jim Crow tactics, has neither the capacity nor the desire to improve his status; he doesn’t know what to do with an education, a good house or friendly acceptance. Neither, it must be admitted, does an Italian, a Russian or an American ‘who has never enjoyed such advantages, whose parents have not, who is expected to take second best in every instance and whose simplest rights are in dispute. California had ample proof of that premise during depressiondays when it strove to do its humanitarian tbest for the dust bowl victims, the crop followers, the *;Qakies” and the “‘Arkies’’ who swarmed across our borders. Many of these whites were so accustomed to having nothing that even while clamoring for bigger handouts ;they took no pride in and no ware of the fadilitties the state strained to provide for them. Their demanding attitude and their insolence sprang from the eame well of inferiority that cups the underprivileged Negro’s arrogance ‘when you gave him an inch’. (First step of the cure is to carve out inequalities with the scalpel of legislative action, insuring all men the same freedoms under law. The right to vote in his own labor union, for instance, is as important to the Negro worker as the right of franchise in his home state, and both should be accorded him as a matter of right. His growing pains would . be real, but with a new dignity born of better education and , higher living standards, the Negro’s freedoms would be less and less abused. And a new pride of racé would strengthen his own blockade against inter-marriage. _ In years to come, when the ills of intolearnce are over and_ the eountry’s convalescent period is past, the “Negro problem” will have vanished like many human ailments — ‘treated competently and in time. ° ~ (Mr. and Mrs. Howard Coleman ‘Matlack of New York City spent the, week end as the guests of Mr. and H. M L.eete. (Mrs. Matlack is a sister of Mr. Leete. indicated remedy for the . Miss Adele Schmidt Is Grass Valley Life Guard The Grass. Valley City Council have employed Miss Adele Schmidt as life guard and safety instructor for the municipal pool in Memorial Park. She began her duties Monday. She is the third person employed in this capacity since the season opened. The others resigned, one to engage in war industries, the other to return to her home in Texas. Growers Receiving $5.88 Per Box for Pears Pear harvesting is getting under way in Chicago Park. According to iL. G. Lageson, county horticultural commissioner, the crop will equal that of last year which was considered above average. Growers are receiving $5.88 per box on the average. Last year packing box materials and freight charges amounted to $1.80 per box. This year it is expected to cost $2.50 per box. The pears are sold through the New York auction houses. Hit and Runner is Fined $60 or 30 Days John Knuckey, deaf, dumb and one armed, pleaded guilty to hit and run driving in Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve’s court _yesterday afternoon. He was fined $60 with the alternative of 30 days in jail. Knuckey formerly lived in Grass Valley but while home on a visit from Oakland was charged by Mrs. ! ‘Oba Norene Crew, wife of a Camp Beale army officer, with side-swiping her car and driving on. without legal amends. California Highway Patrol officers trailed Knuckey and (arrested him on the Tahoe Ukiah . Highway near Ropgh and Ready. Supervisors Order Two School Districts Closed Upon recommendation of Walter A. Carlson and E. M. Gregory, county superintendents of Nevada and Placer County schools, the Nevada ‘County Board of Supervisors has sus-. pended the Zeibright. Mine school. . whieh.lay across the boundaries of, the two counties. The school was attended by children of miners who have moved away since the mine was ordered closed. The supervisors also closed the Spenceville school, since most of the. district lies in the Camp Beale area. The part of the district that remains was added to the Indian Springs school district. Oliver Chatfield of Pike Citv Summon Oliver Chatfield, 80, died at the Community Hospital in Grass Valley yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. With his wifé, Chatfield had lived in Pike City for nearly half a century, but moved down to North San Juan, ‘about three years ago, owing to the difficulty of getting out of Pike City in the winter time. Oliver Chatfield was born in Georgetown, El Dorado County. He ig survived by his wife Mrs. Augusta Whatfield, herself an invalid. She ‘was brought by , ambulance from (North San Juan yesterday and was present at her husband’s bedside when he passed away. Holmes Funeral Home has charge of funeral plans. A Boy Scouts Urged To Register For Paha tsi As previously announced, definite plans for Camp’ Pahatsi, Tahoe Area (Council Boy Scout camp, are going forward according to L. H. Reynolds, chairman of camping and activities, ‘and Robert H. Frank, scout executive. ; Although many scouts are working in ‘tthe orchards and fields, it was urged today that.:they send in their camp application properly filled out, together with the.$11 fee, as rapidly as possible in ‘order that the purchase of food and materials can be taken care of in time. Camp bulletins, relating all of the details for those who attend, have been sent to all scouts in the Tahoe Area Council. Upon receipt of the eamp application which must bear the scout signature and the approval of the parents. as well, the necessary medical blank will be mailed. This blank should be filled out by a registered physician not before two weeks prior to August 29th. Mrs. Ernest Woods of San Francisco, native of Sierra County is visiting her sister Mrs. Walter Smith inGrass Valley and many friends in the twin cities. Her husband is a postal employee in San Francisco. } NEVADA CITY, ©. Cry. CALIFORNIA ~ (LET. CHAPMAN BAILS OUT; COMES BACK IN 6 DAYS. In a letter received by Dr. C. W. Chapman, his grandson Ernest Chap-. man, lieutenant in the U. S. Army Air Corps now in. Mediterranean area, recounts his experience in parachuting to earth after a midair collision and his final arrival at an army camp’ after six days with very little food and no water. Lieutenant Chapman flies a P-38 fighter plane. He writes: ‘I was in a midair collision and managed to bail out. I went out so close to the ground that no one saw me and they were all positive I was a goner. The incident occured about 15 miles inside the enemy lines. I managed to get back without being captured. I was behind enemy lines for 3 days and 2 nights. The only thing I had to eat were wild blackberries and green pears, which were none too ptenliful. I lost my canteen when I jumped, consequently I had to go 10 to 12 hours a day without water. The hunger was not*hard to take, but the thirst was pretty annoying. “T was missing for about.six days and everybody was positive I was a goner for good. When fF got back all my personal effects were packed up, ready. to be shipped back to the States. About 2,470 francs ($49.40) IT had, had been sent to the Q. M. All my equipment had been turned in. “T was sure glad to get back to; my squadron after the incident. I certainly got a good welcome. Everybody asked me, given up all hope. I had to tell and retell my experiences. I now have. 26 missions and about 100 hours of! combat. “Please send some candy if it is, not too scarce.’’ This letter was received by Ern-} est’s parents, Lieutenant Colonel and ' (Mrs. Allan Chapman, stationed in ‘North (Carolina. and relayed to Dr. ‘Chapman in this city. The young ipilot is a graduate of the Nevada ‘City eo School. ENGLE PROMISES LIVESTOCK MEN AID IF ELECTED RED BLUFF, Aug. 5.—Helping to place the livestock industry on an economically sound basis will be one of his prime objectives if sent to congress, State Sen. Clair Engle, candidate for congress in the second district, declared today. “The unhealthy’ condition in the livestock industry, which has resulted in more animals on the hoof and fewer steaks on the table than at any other time in the nation’s history, should be remedied at the first possible moment,’ Engle said. “The confusion is appalling. No one seems to know the real cause of the trouble. It appears that someone in the OPA doesn’t know what he is doing and as a result both the producer and consumer are left in a turmoil. Production of livestock long has been one of the most important industries of the nations and certainly the vital need for meat for our armed forces and civilian population should not continue to be disrupted because of a lack of understanding among government officials.”’ A life long resident of Tehama and Shasta counties, Engle pointed out that he is conversant with the various problems of the livestock men. Both as a district attorney and state senator, Engle has. worked closely with individual producers, and with their organizations —the California Cattlemen’s association and the California ‘Woolgrowers association. At the last session of legislature, Engle introduced several: bills to aid the livestock industry. The bills involved predatory animal control, brush burning, grazing in national parks, opposition of a price ceiling on the hoof for western cattle, all of which were strongly gupported by the livestock mren and their association. ‘How does it feel to; ‘return from the dead?’ They had _The Gold Center THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, T 5.1943 BUREAUCRACY ACCOUNTING COMING SOON By RALPH H. TAYLOR The American people will never grumble about legitimate war expenditures, no matter how high they may come, but some day soon, unless Washington officialdom changes its ways, there is going to be al terrific explosion in this country over the towering bureaucracy that is being built up, at public expense, under the shameful pretense of . war necessity. It was recently pointed out. by Senator Byrd that in the Office of Price Administration alone, the taxpayers have been supporting 2700 lawyers—500 of them in Washington to draft and revise regulations, 2200 of them through the country to see that they regulate. The British, too, have a rationing and price: administration, which has functioned for several years with astonishing success. Its legal staff totals ten! . That is just one sample of flagrant payroll padding and wanton extravagance which are gradually coming to public attention; there are hundreds of others, equally bad or worse, and the millions of dollars wasted in paying for such excesses are only part of the bill. The OPA, with its 2700 lawyers, each apparently trying to concoct a new regulation daily, has forced every farmer to become a bookkeeper—and every busiiness man to hire a corps of accountjants. It has crowded thousands of: little business men to the wall and! ‘has caused critical shortages where} there need have been no shortages. ' With more than 3,000,000 civilian . ‘employes, exclusive of the Army and: \\Navy, our federal government now) . has more persons on the taxpayers’ payroll than the combined total of all, the employes of all the 48 states, plus all the employes of all country’s county and municipal governments. And 55 per cent of these . are not directly engaged in the wa effort. Governor Bricker of Ohio recently noted that the government of his state manages to get along with 25,000 employes. But the federal government in Ohio has 90,000 employes. In Massachusetts there are 21,000 tate employes, but federal employes there total 129,000. In Pennsylvania, there are 44,500 state employes, but 214,000 federal employes. The state government of Wyoming employs 1200 people. The federal government’s payroll in Wyoming numbers 6,200. California has 30,850 state emDloyes, but the federal government boasts a payroll in this state of 232,500, acording to Senator Byrd. There are encouraging signs that the people of.the country, during this war, are striving to guard against the mistakes of the last— ‘tthat they are using their increased income when they have it, to pay their debts and store up savings for a rainy day. At least many of them are; certainly farmers are. But the public debt, on the other hand, has been tremendously increased—from 69 billion dollars two years ago to 110 billion dollars as of July 1, 1943. And Congressman Engle of Michigan has estimated that by the end of the war the federal debt will have climbed to the astronomical figure of 300 billions. California’s share of ithat debt burden would be about 15 billions, or two and a half times the assessed value of all the real estate and personal propert.in the state. Tt is well that we should weigh those figures at this time when our congressmen are at home—and when we have an opportunity to tell them what we want done when they return to Washington. And in talking to them, we might well paraphrase the famous statement of a famous statesman of earlyday America and bluntly declare: We’ll give billions for defense, but not one more cent for bureaucracy. The American people will do well to survive the debacle of total war, with its tremendous. drain on their resources. They cannot survive both total waresand total bureaucracy that seems to be the aim and objective of Washington officialdom. " The time has come to cut off the deadwood—and it might be well if NEVADA CITY HI (GRADUATE WEDS ENGLISH BELLE iMr. and !Mrs. Chester H: Doolittle, formerly of Gold Flat, now residing in Grass Valley, have received a letter describing the wedding of their son, ‘Mervin Hart Doolittle, sergeant in the American Army Air Force tn England, and ‘Miss ‘(Margaret Gate in Heaton Moor, Stockport, England. The wedding was a choral ceremony in St. Thomas Church and took place July 24th. The bride was attired in a white lace gown. with an embroidered veil. She carried a bouquet of roses. She was aftended by her sister, Miss Joyce Gate, who carried sweetpeas. The bride is the oldest daughter of (Mr. and Mrs. E. Gate of Heaton Moor and is a member of the R. A. AL. j Prior to entering the army young (Doolittle graduated from the ‘Nevada City High School, Placer Junior (College and the: Art ‘Center in Los Angeles where he photography. IN TEN YEARS SALES TAX PAYS STATE A BILLION © SAICRIAIMENTO, Aug. 'State Board of eae. ‘CONGRESS MUST — ABOLISH ARMY OF BUREAUCRATS Declaring that congress must take a hand in reducing our rapidly growing federal bureaucracy, Senator Jesse ‘M. (Mayo, candidate for congress at the coming special election on August 31, today advocated that when eongress reconvenes in September, it take immediate steps to abolish every bureau of the federal government that cannot show a positive aid to the nation’s war effort. “The test should be whether or not each bureau or commission ig wore a fusia colored net frock and, ibe abolished by specialized in: eésential to the war_effort,’’ Maye declared. “If it is not, then it shoulé congressional action.”’ : Pointing out that there are 232,506 federal civil employes in California. as compared with only 30,000 state employees, (Senator ‘Mayo stated “that if a large state like California can operate its vast highway department and numerous other agencies with 30,000 employes, there is no sound logical reason why more than seven times that number of federal employes should be required te handle federal activities in thie state.” “Every patriotic American is willing to buy bonds and pay high taxes == Phe! taxpayers to buy to give our Army and ‘Navy the best ba of war }can produce,’’ Mayo continued. “but ‘it is downright criminal to ask the bonds and pay reveal. higher taxes to sustain an army of ed that almost a billion dollars has. more than three million civil employ;been paid into the’ state (from the state sales tax since it became a law ten years ago this month. . The sales tax, passed at a time ; when the state faced bankruptcy, ‘was designed to yield $40,000,000 . annually to meet school costs and to . relieve the local property taxpayer. ae the fiscal year just closed, stmuj. lated by federal spending, defense . payrolls and rising prices, sales tax . collections reached $135,970,672. TlMore than any other factor, these collections are responsible for the surplus of ($62,830,000 which now replaces the 1941 deficit of $66,000,000 in the state treasury. The board faced a most difficult problem following the outbreak of the war—whether sales of materials to government contractors were taxable. The question was finally settled by a U. S. Supreme Court decision which authorized the collection of sales tax on materials for the constuction of war plants and army the manufacturing of airplanes, ships andéother vital war: material. ‘Because of the state’s industrial expansion, it is not generally realized that more than half of the counties of the state show losses in retail sales volume for the last year and a half. Mining counties such as Amar dor, ‘Calaveras and (Nevada show sharp losses, while agricultural counties without war plants or army camps show a moderate decline. Business casualties of the war began to appear in January mits fell below 204,000. The mortality rate continued to climb through off in April when the number of retailer’s permits reached the low of 176,000. Automobile dealers were the first to suffer because of: the war. Next came small grocery store and restaurants whieh closed in large numbers, although the dollar volume of sales from them has soared, due principally to advanced prices. The war has. brought declining sales volume in farm and garden supplies since victory gardens. trade does not compensate for losses due to rationed agricultural equipment. Except for a few bright spots where priorities permit expansion, dealers in supplies for commerce and industry have also suffered. These losses, however, have been offset by the unprecedented dollar volume of unrestricted sale of clothng; jewelry, BORN BARTSCH—In Nevada City, Nevada County, August 3, 1943, to Mr. and Mrs!f*Thomas Bartsch of North San{Juan, a son. congress started with OPA’s 2700 lawyers! { : : treasury {es in fact of a national manpower shortage. “Tf. I am privileged to sit in congress after August 31, I shall im/Mediately offer my services to Senator Byrd of Virginia, chairman of the joint congressional committee on reduction of non-essential spending, in an effort to halt this alarming tide of bureaucracy,’’ Mayo declared. Senator Mayo was a member of the joint legislative committee of the 1941 session of the state legislature which is credited with saving the state more than 200 million dollare during the biennium by abolishing some of the useless departments of”. the state government. “Our committee spent many months in this work,” Senator Mayo stated, ‘“‘but we did get results. One of the state agencies we abolished had more than 7000 employees. “Tt was done in California and it ;can ‘be done in ‘Washington,” he concamps, but exempted materials for cluded. EXEMPT OR NOT FILE STATEMENT ' Persons working for salaries net 1942,'must file an estimated when for the first time in several!September 15th, years the number of retailer's per-. the first months of 1943, but. leveled: personal supplies and luxury gogds. . subject to the withholding provisions. of the new pay as you go tax plan, return , on today by the (Collector of Internal Revenue, Harold A. Berliner, previding such incomes are $500 a year, ‘if single and the combined income of husband and wife is $1200 a year. ‘Classes of employment which require the filing of estimated returns are agricultural workers, lege club, or local chapters of col— lege fraternity or a sorority the collector said. County Wide Meeting Tonight in Grass Valley To obtain adequate support for ‘ing has been called in the Jamies 8s. evening at 8 o’clock by Vernon ; attorney, acting as temporar: man. County units of the . War Fund and California W: are now being organized, Stoll and that is the purpose of the ing tonight. ‘Stoll said that it is honlis every civic, fraternal and organization oerie re the meeting, as who have a. vital inter fare of the antie’ home i. ae and food that America ~ domestic . servants in a private home, local col= the USO and other war time charities and activities a county-wide meet-— Hennessy School in Grags Valley this : * it was announced Pec

Cramer ¥ i our California _ Mrs. The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per ~ month Ne Ne lb Ok it ey lee gr AS ES go lyse oy na aS =f Nevada Gity Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 61. The County Seat Paper Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. (It will be extremely difficult for the United States to assist in setting up a world system of justice among’ a dazen or more different races, and nationalities, so ‘long as we maintain here at home a system that constantly subjects ‘members of other races —other ‘than Anglo4Saxon — to crippling handicaps. We mention the worst of these home _ problems, our Negroes, with reluctance, forethe reason that injustice of the most oppressive type has for so many years been condoned in the minds ,of even the most humane and kind. But racial prejudice is not only concerned with Negroes, it is concerned with every thing that is alien and different to our sphere of living and thinking. Witness reaction to the 4“Oakies,’’ who are not different from us at all, save that they have suffered great misfortunes over a long period of time. Leone Baxter in a recent editor4al cuts sharply through the probJem to the core of the trouble. We submit her thought on the subject as an example of clear and vigorous thinking: Before American D. D.’s (doctors of democracy) may prescribe with confidence their carefully brewed cuges, for the ills of the world, a major operation is required here at home — an operation that will leave certain portions of the social anatomy sore for some time to come, but will benefit the patient no end. The “Negro problem’’ and the endless intolerances that foster it is the same cure as for any malignant growth—a bit of social surgery. Since the accident of birth -is no proper basis on which to opportion men’s rights, this is not a problem of color, but one of tuman relations. The Negro, say proponents of Jim Crow tactics, has neither the capacity nor the desire to improve his status; he doesn’t know what to do with an education, a good house or friendly acceptance. Neither, it must be admitted, does an Italian, a Russian or an American ‘who has never enjoyed such advantages, whose parents have not, who is expected to take second best in every instance and whose simplest rights are in dispute. California had ample proof of that premise during depressiondays when it strove to do its humanitarian tbest for the dust bowl victims, the crop followers, the *;Qakies” and the “‘Arkies’’ who swarmed across our borders. Many of these whites were so accustomed to having nothing that even while clamoring for bigger handouts ;they took no pride in and no ware of the fadilitties the state strained to provide for them. Their demanding attitude and their insolence sprang from the eame well of inferiority that cups the underprivileged Negro’s arrogance ‘when you gave him an inch’. (First step of the cure is to carve out inequalities with the scalpel of legislative action, insuring all men the same freedoms under law. The right to vote in his own labor union, for instance, is as important to the Negro worker as the right of franchise in his home state, and both should be accorded him as a matter of right. His growing pains would . be real, but with a new dignity born of better education and , higher living standards, the Negro’s freedoms would be less and less abused. And a new pride of racé would strengthen his own blockade against inter-marriage. _ In years to come, when the ills of intolearnce are over and_ the eountry’s convalescent period is past, the “Negro problem” will have vanished like many human ailments — ‘treated competently and in time. ° ~ (Mr. and Mrs. Howard Coleman ‘Matlack of New York City spent the, week end as the guests of Mr. and H. M L.eete. (Mrs. Matlack is a sister of Mr. Leete. indicated remedy for the . Miss Adele Schmidt Is Grass Valley Life Guard The Grass. Valley City Council have employed Miss Adele Schmidt as life guard and safety instructor for the municipal pool in Memorial Park. She began her duties Monday. She is the third person employed in this capacity since the season opened. The others resigned, one to engage in war industries, the other to return to her home in Texas. Growers Receiving $5.88 Per Box for Pears Pear harvesting is getting under way in Chicago Park. According to iL. G. Lageson, county horticultural commissioner, the crop will equal that of last year which was considered above average. Growers are receiving $5.88 per box on the average. Last year packing box materials and freight charges amounted to $1.80 per box. This year it is expected to cost $2.50 per box. The pears are sold through the New York auction houses. Hit and Runner is Fined $60 or 30 Days John Knuckey, deaf, dumb and one armed, pleaded guilty to hit and run driving in Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve’s court _yesterday afternoon. He was fined $60 with the alternative of 30 days in jail. Knuckey formerly lived in Grass Valley but while home on a visit from Oakland was charged by Mrs. ! ‘Oba Norene Crew, wife of a Camp Beale army officer, with side-swiping her car and driving on. without legal amends. California Highway Patrol officers trailed Knuckey and (arrested him on the Tahoe Ukiah . Highway near Ropgh and Ready. Supervisors Order Two School Districts Closed Upon recommendation of Walter A. Carlson and E. M. Gregory, county superintendents of Nevada and Placer County schools, the Nevada ‘County Board of Supervisors has sus-. pended the Zeibright. Mine school. . whieh.lay across the boundaries of, the two counties. The school was attended by children of miners who have moved away since the mine was ordered closed. The supervisors also closed the Spenceville school, since most of the. district lies in the Camp Beale area. The part of the district that remains was added to the Indian Springs school district. Oliver Chatfield of Pike Citv Summon Oliver Chatfield, 80, died at the Community Hospital in Grass Valley yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. With his wifé, Chatfield had lived in Pike City for nearly half a century, but moved down to North San Juan, ‘about three years ago, owing to the difficulty of getting out of Pike City in the winter time. Oliver Chatfield was born in Georgetown, El Dorado County. He ig survived by his wife Mrs. Augusta Whatfield, herself an invalid. She ‘was brought by , ambulance from (North San Juan yesterday and was present at her husband’s bedside when he passed away. Holmes Funeral Home has charge of funeral plans. A Boy Scouts Urged To Register For Paha tsi As previously announced, definite plans for Camp’ Pahatsi, Tahoe Area (Council Boy Scout camp, are going forward according to L. H. Reynolds, chairman of camping and activities, ‘and Robert H. Frank, scout executive. ; Although many scouts are working in ‘tthe orchards and fields, it was urged today that.:they send in their camp application properly filled out, together with the.$11 fee, as rapidly as possible in ‘order that the purchase of food and materials can be taken care of in time. Camp bulletins, relating all of the details for those who attend, have been sent to all scouts in the Tahoe Area Council. Upon receipt of the eamp application which must bear the scout signature and the approval of the parents. as well, the necessary medical blank will be mailed. This blank should be filled out by a registered physician not before two weeks prior to August 29th. Mrs. Ernest Woods of San Francisco, native of Sierra County is visiting her sister Mrs. Walter Smith inGrass Valley and many friends in the twin cities. Her husband is a postal employee in San Francisco. } NEVADA CITY, ©. Cry. CALIFORNIA ~ (LET. CHAPMAN BAILS OUT; COMES BACK IN 6 DAYS. In a letter received by Dr. C. W. Chapman, his grandson Ernest Chap-. man, lieutenant in the U. S. Army Air Corps now in. Mediterranean area, recounts his experience in parachuting to earth after a midair collision and his final arrival at an army camp’ after six days with very little food and no water. Lieutenant Chapman flies a P-38 fighter plane. He writes: ‘I was in a midair collision and managed to bail out. I went out so close to the ground that no one saw me and they were all positive I was a goner. The incident occured about 15 miles inside the enemy lines. I managed to get back without being captured. I was behind enemy lines for 3 days and 2 nights. The only thing I had to eat were wild blackberries and green pears, which were none too ptenliful. I lost my canteen when I jumped, consequently I had to go 10 to 12 hours a day without water. The hunger was not*hard to take, but the thirst was pretty annoying. “T was missing for about.six days and everybody was positive I was a goner for good. When fF got back all my personal effects were packed up, ready. to be shipped back to the States. About 2,470 francs ($49.40) IT had, had been sent to the Q. M. All my equipment had been turned in. “T was sure glad to get back to; my squadron after the incident. I certainly got a good welcome. Everybody asked me, given up all hope. I had to tell and retell my experiences. I now have. 26 missions and about 100 hours of! combat. “Please send some candy if it is, not too scarce.’’ This letter was received by Ern-} est’s parents, Lieutenant Colonel and ' (Mrs. Allan Chapman, stationed in ‘North (Carolina. and relayed to Dr. ‘Chapman in this city. The young ipilot is a graduate of the Nevada ‘City eo School. ENGLE PROMISES LIVESTOCK MEN AID IF ELECTED RED BLUFF, Aug. 5.—Helping to place the livestock industry on an economically sound basis will be one of his prime objectives if sent to congress, State Sen. Clair Engle, candidate for congress in the second district, declared today. “The unhealthy’ condition in the livestock industry, which has resulted in more animals on the hoof and fewer steaks on the table than at any other time in the nation’s history, should be remedied at the first possible moment,’ Engle said. “The confusion is appalling. No one seems to know the real cause of the trouble. It appears that someone in the OPA doesn’t know what he is doing and as a result both the producer and consumer are left in a turmoil. Production of livestock long has been one of the most important industries of the nations and certainly the vital need for meat for our armed forces and civilian population should not continue to be disrupted because of a lack of understanding among government officials.”’ A life long resident of Tehama and Shasta counties, Engle pointed out

that he is conversant with the various problems of the livestock men. Both as a district attorney and state senator, Engle has. worked closely with individual producers, and with their organizations —the California Cattlemen’s association and the California ‘Woolgrowers association. At the last session of legislature, Engle introduced several: bills to aid the livestock industry. The bills involved predatory animal control, brush burning, grazing in national parks, opposition of a price ceiling on the hoof for western cattle, all of which were strongly gupported by the livestock mren and their association. ‘How does it feel to; ‘return from the dead?’ They had _The Gold Center THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, T 5.1943 BUREAUCRACY ACCOUNTING COMING SOON By RALPH H. TAYLOR The American people will never grumble about legitimate war expenditures, no matter how high they may come, but some day soon, unless Washington officialdom changes its ways, there is going to be al terrific explosion in this country over the towering bureaucracy that is being built up, at public expense, under the shameful pretense of . war necessity. It was recently pointed out. by Senator Byrd that in the Office of Price Administration alone, the taxpayers have been supporting 2700 lawyers—500 of them in Washington to draft and revise regulations, 2200 of them through the country to see that they regulate. The British, too, have a rationing and price: administration, which has functioned for several years with astonishing success. Its legal staff totals ten! . That is just one sample of flagrant payroll padding and wanton extravagance which are gradually coming to public attention; there are hundreds of others, equally bad or worse, and the millions of dollars wasted in paying for such excesses are only part of the bill. The OPA, with its 2700 lawyers, each apparently trying to concoct a new regulation daily, has forced every farmer to become a bookkeeper—and every busiiness man to hire a corps of accountjants. It has crowded thousands of: little business men to the wall and! ‘has caused critical shortages where} there need have been no shortages. ' With more than 3,000,000 civilian . ‘employes, exclusive of the Army and: \\Navy, our federal government now) . has more persons on the taxpayers’ payroll than the combined total of all, the employes of all the 48 states, plus all the employes of all country’s county and municipal governments. And 55 per cent of these . are not directly engaged in the wa effort. Governor Bricker of Ohio recently noted that the government of his state manages to get along with 25,000 employes. But the federal government in Ohio has 90,000 employes. In Massachusetts there are 21,000 tate employes, but federal employes there total 129,000. In Pennsylvania, there are 44,500 state employes, but 214,000 federal employes. The state government of Wyoming employs 1200 people. The federal government’s payroll in Wyoming numbers 6,200. California has 30,850 state emDloyes, but the federal government boasts a payroll in this state of 232,500, acording to Senator Byrd. There are encouraging signs that the people of.the country, during this war, are striving to guard against the mistakes of the last— ‘tthat they are using their increased income when they have it, to pay their debts and store up savings for a rainy day. At least many of them are; certainly farmers are. But the public debt, on the other hand, has been tremendously increased—from 69 billion dollars two years ago to 110 billion dollars as of July 1, 1943. And Congressman Engle of Michigan has estimated that by the end of the war the federal debt will have climbed to the astronomical figure of 300 billions. California’s share of ithat debt burden would be about 15 billions, or two and a half times the assessed value of all the real estate and personal propert.in the state. Tt is well that we should weigh those figures at this time when our congressmen are at home—and when we have an opportunity to tell them what we want done when they return to Washington. And in talking to them, we might well paraphrase the famous statement of a famous statesman of earlyday America and bluntly declare: We’ll give billions for defense, but not one more cent for bureaucracy. The American people will do well to survive the debacle of total war, with its tremendous. drain on their resources. They cannot survive both total waresand total bureaucracy that seems to be the aim and objective of Washington officialdom. " The time has come to cut off the deadwood—and it might be well if NEVADA CITY HI (GRADUATE WEDS ENGLISH BELLE iMr. and !Mrs. Chester H: Doolittle, formerly of Gold Flat, now residing in Grass Valley, have received a letter describing the wedding of their son, ‘Mervin Hart Doolittle, sergeant in the American Army Air Force tn England, and ‘Miss ‘(Margaret Gate in Heaton Moor, Stockport, England. The wedding was a choral ceremony in St. Thomas Church and took place July 24th. The bride was attired in a white lace gown. with an embroidered veil. She carried a bouquet of roses. She was aftended by her sister, Miss Joyce Gate, who carried sweetpeas. The bride is the oldest daughter of (Mr. and Mrs. E. Gate of Heaton Moor and is a member of the R. A. AL. j Prior to entering the army young (Doolittle graduated from the ‘Nevada City High School, Placer Junior (College and the: Art ‘Center in Los Angeles where he photography. IN TEN YEARS SALES TAX PAYS STATE A BILLION © SAICRIAIMENTO, Aug. 'State Board of eae. ‘CONGRESS MUST — ABOLISH ARMY OF BUREAUCRATS Declaring that congress must take a hand in reducing our rapidly growing federal bureaucracy, Senator Jesse ‘M. (Mayo, candidate for congress at the coming special election on August 31, today advocated that when eongress reconvenes in September, it take immediate steps to abolish every bureau of the federal government that cannot show a positive aid to the nation’s war effort. “The test should be whether or not each bureau or commission ig wore a fusia colored net frock and, ibe abolished by specialized in: eésential to the war_effort,’’ Maye declared. “If it is not, then it shoulé congressional action.”’ : Pointing out that there are 232,506 federal civil employes in California. as compared with only 30,000 state employees, (Senator ‘Mayo stated “that if a large state like California can operate its vast highway department and numerous other agencies with 30,000 employes, there is no sound logical reason why more than seven times that number of federal employes should be required te handle federal activities in thie state.” “Every patriotic American is willing to buy bonds and pay high taxes == Phe! taxpayers to buy to give our Army and ‘Navy the best ba of war }can produce,’’ Mayo continued. “but ‘it is downright criminal to ask the bonds and pay reveal. higher taxes to sustain an army of ed that almost a billion dollars has. more than three million civil employ;been paid into the’ state (from the state sales tax since it became a law ten years ago this month. . The sales tax, passed at a time ; when the state faced bankruptcy, ‘was designed to yield $40,000,000 . annually to meet school costs and to . relieve the local property taxpayer. ae the fiscal year just closed, stmuj. lated by federal spending, defense . payrolls and rising prices, sales tax . collections reached $135,970,672. TlMore than any other factor, these collections are responsible for the surplus of ($62,830,000 which now replaces the 1941 deficit of $66,000,000 in the state treasury. The board faced a most difficult problem following the outbreak of the war—whether sales of materials to government contractors were taxable. The question was finally settled by a U. S. Supreme Court decision which authorized the collection of sales tax on materials for the constuction of war plants and army the manufacturing of airplanes, ships andéother vital war: material. ‘Because of the state’s industrial expansion, it is not generally realized that more than half of the counties of the state show losses in retail sales volume for the last year and a half. Mining counties such as Amar dor, ‘Calaveras and (Nevada show sharp losses, while agricultural counties without war plants or army camps show a moderate decline. Business casualties of the war began to appear in January mits fell below 204,000. The mortality rate continued to climb through off in April when the number of retailer’s permits reached the low of 176,000. Automobile dealers were the first to suffer because of: the war. Next came small grocery store and restaurants whieh closed in large numbers, although the dollar volume of sales from them has soared, due principally to advanced prices. The war has. brought declining sales volume in farm and garden supplies since victory gardens. trade does not compensate for losses due to rationed agricultural equipment. Except for a few bright spots where priorities permit expansion, dealers in supplies for commerce and industry have also suffered. These losses, however, have been offset by the unprecedented dollar volume of unrestricted sale of clothng; jewelry, BORN BARTSCH—In Nevada City, Nevada County, August 3, 1943, to Mr. and Mrs!f*Thomas Bartsch of North San{Juan, a son. congress started with OPA’s 2700 lawyers! { : : treasury {es in fact of a national manpower shortage. “Tf. I am privileged to sit in congress after August 31, I shall im/Mediately offer my services to Senator Byrd of Virginia, chairman of the joint congressional committee on reduction of non-essential spending, in an effort to halt this alarming tide of bureaucracy,’’ Mayo declared. Senator Mayo was a member of the joint legislative committee of the 1941 session of the state legislature which is credited with saving the state more than 200 million dollare during the biennium by abolishing some of the useless departments of”. the state government. “Our committee spent many months in this work,” Senator Mayo stated, ‘“‘but we did get results. One of the state agencies we abolished had more than 7000 employees. “Tt was done in California and it ;can ‘be done in ‘Washington,” he concamps, but exempted materials for cluded. EXEMPT OR NOT FILE STATEMENT ' Persons working for salaries net 1942,'must file an estimated when for the first time in several!September 15th, years the number of retailer's per-. the first months of 1943, but. leveled: personal supplies and luxury gogds. . subject to the withholding provisions. of the new pay as you go tax plan, return , on today by the (Collector of Internal Revenue, Harold A. Berliner, previding such incomes are $500 a year, ‘if single and the combined income of husband and wife is $1200 a year. ‘Classes of employment which require the filing of estimated returns are agricultural workers, lege club, or local chapters of col— lege fraternity or a sorority the collector said. County Wide Meeting Tonight in Grass Valley To obtain adequate support for ‘ing has been called in the Jamies 8s. evening at 8 o’clock by Vernon ; attorney, acting as temporar: man. County units of the . War Fund and California W: are now being organized, Stoll and that is the purpose of the ing tonight. ‘Stoll said that it is honlis every civic, fraternal and organization oerie re the meeting, as who have a. vital inter fare of the antie’ home i. ae and food that America ~ domestic . servants in a private home, local col= the USO and other war time charities and activities a county-wide meet-— Hennessy School in Grags Valley this : * it was announced Pec