August 6, 1942 (4 pages)

gE SE I At se ae peas ey The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month ““God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”” — Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget COVERS, RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA This coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read paper gives you complete The Nugget. Vol. 16, No. 63. The spied Seat Paper Bi hard able CALIFORNIA The Gold Bouter : THURSDAY, AUGUST . 6, 1942. Thinking Out Loud By RALPH H. TAYLOR The United Nations, to win the initative in the war against the Axis, must soon open a second front, it is now agreed, and there are increasing indications that the occupation of Europe by Allied troops is one of the ultimate objectives of such @ campaign. The military aspects of that titanic’ undertaking must ‘be left to military experts. When the second front will be opened; where our troops will first open the attack, and how the momentous conflict ‘will be fought—these problems, of necessity, must be dealt. with by military strategists and the responsible heads of the Allied nations. But there are economic and production problems ahead, which will come in the. wake of that battle for victory, which American agriculture must play a large part in solving. And it is just as vital that America prepare now this phase of the fight to erush the Axis as for the battle itself. When the United ‘Nations freed France, Norway, Belgium, Poland, Greece and the other nations now enslaved by Nazi Germany; and when Japan collapses, and China is free from blockade—when that time comes, America again will be called upon to assume the tremendous job o feeding most of the civilized world. There will be immediate and urgent need for food and other supplies in the liberated nations so thai their man power can take part in the devastating knock out have final against Hitler and Hirohito. There! will be critical and immediate need, . facing . too, so that millions now starvation may be saved. What part can American farm sur-} pluses, accumulated during the long) years off depression, play in meeting that.problem? What can be done, for . example, to utilize the huge wheat surpluses in the United States? U. S. Senator Arthur Capper oi Kansas, whe is close to the farm problems of the Middle-West and who has also had an opportunity to study the international situaton, urged weeks and months ago that the War Production Board not only ali low materials for storage facilities to be allocated to the wheat belt, but also that the WIPB should insist that the lumber and nails be allocated for storage construction. ““The regu‘Jations were modified,” he reports, “put, I am much afraid, too little and too late.” Senator Capper believes, however, that other steps still can be take to insure the utilization of wheat which is now surplus, but which will be desperately needed when America must undertake the job of feeding most of continental Europe. He comments as follows: “It seems ‘pitiful to ‘think that millions, of bushels of good whéat are going to rot on the ground in the states in the wheat belt this year, because of lack of storage space. During coming months, perhaps for a year, ‘this wheat—1,540,000, 000 ‘to 1,500,000,000 buhsels in all—is g0ing to be surplus, unmarketable for human consumption. And without adequate. storage facilities, millions of ‘bushels will absolutely go to waste, unless we can, find other uses for this wheat. ‘here are two ways in which this wheat can be used to advantage, instead of being allowed to go to waste. One is through feeding it to animals. Under present conditions, Britain cannot use wheat from the United States, even under gift through lend-lease, because of the Canadian situation. Canada has_ two or three years’ supply of export wheat; in the United States, we have between two and three years’ supply of wheat for domestic consumption. That is, if wheat is to be used only for milling into flour and byproducts of flour milling. “But if that wheat is turned into pork and chickens and eggs, then it becomes available to meet.the rapidly increasing demands for meat and poultry products both at home and abroad. Any program that will divert ins of millions, or a hundred million or so, bushels of wheat into feeding channels, should be put into effect at the earliest possible.moment.”’ The other possible outlet for surplus wheat, Senator Capper declares, blows: The theme of the program will be the dream of two small girls, who after a day of swimming ,getting sunburned, and eating everything they could possibly hold such,as hot dogs, pop, ice cream, ~candy, ° peanuts, pickles and gum, fall asleep upon reaching their home and dream all the things that happen during the program. The Sandman, who is really the annoncer, describes all the things that take place. The program will begin with the playinw of the Star Spangled Banner by the Nevada County Band. Some be a wagon wheel formation spec l ed ‘by 30°to 50 girls; floating form ations for small children who have not yet learned how to swim and a water waltz performed by the more! advanced swimmers. Swimming skills will be demonstrated to show American Red Cross training. There will be a complete . demontration of life saving and arti‘ficial respiration methods used aud ltaught by the Red Cross. Mr. Patterson will give two demonstrations, one with a cande and a snecial swimming exhibition. There will be fancy diving . clown diving by local talent. swimmers, dancers or singers would like to take part in the pro‘gram are welcome to do so and they! are aked to sign vp at the booth at the pool. Canoes for the demonstrations will ibe donated by Frank Thurston, manager of Lake Olympia, and the sound system will be donated by Art’s Radio Hospital. Seats will be arranged for on the terraces. above the pool, and there will be absolutely no admission ' charge. ‘Come! Tell your friends and bring the kids. they’ll love it. A wonderful acquacade with local talen in action so that’s even better than Billy Rose can do. DEER HUNTING [S SUSPENDED ‘Nevada City deer hunters mourned when the news was received that, as a war time defense measure, Lt G.en. J. L. DeWitt set in motion the legal machinery to suspend the hunting season in all of the state which had not been closed previously. Some districts eventually may be exempted, Governor Olson said, in disclosing that General DeWitt. had requested closing of the season in all counties north of Monterey pending later advices from him regarding special areas which now are being determined by the forestry service. General DeWitt said termination of hunting will be a protection to forests and Srazing land from fire. and Any is its development and use for industrial purposes. “The base of many products used in industry,” he continues, ‘‘is industrial alcohol. We have even learned, in the past few months, that the Russians have been making rubber “from grain alcohol for nearly a quarter of a century. The easiest and most practical way to make alcohol is from grains. Also, of course, it can ibe made from sugar molasses, but that is out for the duration of the . Sugar is ratdoned. Wheat is surpleas It is onl sensible, then, to make alcohol from wheat.’ problem; there are other surplus commodities beside wheat, many of them in California. But it is at least encouraging that some thought is being given now, before: it s too late, to salvaging. current surpluses for the day not for-distant when we will undoubtedly be confronted with drestic shortages. y This is only one aspect of a big . ) Aquacade Of 1942 To Be Presented Tonight , _@ f @ ‘ At Swimming Pool (By Dorothy K. Adams) Plans for the Nevada City Aquacade for 1942-are now nearing completion under the direction of Elmo Festivities will begin at 7:15 on Friday evening with the awarding of certificates and badges to those who have pasped the rigid tests in their particular class. The program will mark the end of Swim Weeks, s sponsored by the Nevada City Red Cross. _ Pattergon. ELMA HECKER NOW TREASURER Miss Elma Hecker urer and tax collector County. Miss Hecker, deputy treasurer for the past 17 years, was appointed to the position Tuesday by the Nevada County Board of Supervisors. Previously Frank Steel, treasurer and tax collector since 1922, resign!is flow treas of of the high lights of the evening will. eq because of ill health. WASP STING DISRUPTS WORK The-sting of a-wasp temporarily yesterday put Herbert Kechley, Grass Valley contractor, out of commission. Kechley was stung while working on the Campbell house next to the Horace Curnow residence on Zion Street in Nevada City. Outside of a slight pain the stind did not seem to who! effect. Kechley. However, a few min‘utes later he collapsed. The Hooper-Weaver anrbufance was called and Kéchely was taken to his home in Grass Valley. HYDRAULIC GROUP WILL MEET HERE The regular monthly meeting of the California Hydraulic Mining Association will be held Sunday at the ‘National Hotel at 2 o’clock. Secretary W. W. Esterly announc£5 the usual pre meeting luncheon . will be served to those who care to . attend this informal and interesting get together. (Congressman Harry bright will be present to give some highlights on the present legislative situation. The meeting will be presided over by George Hallock, president of the association. DEATH CLAIMS GLENBROOK BOY , Funeral rites will be held at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley for Brian Kirk Williams, 19 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams of the Glenbrook district. The child died yeatorday in the Communit] Hospital in Grass Valley from pneumonia. He had been ill since Saturday. Rev. Merrill ska: will officiate at the funeral rites. Brian Williams was the grandson of Mrs. Minnie Young of Nevada City. ‘He was a nephew of William Young, Mrs. Bill Hatch and Mrs. U. S. N. Johnson, all of Nevada City. In addition to parents and other relatives, he”leaves an infant brother, Craig’ K. Williams. VISIT MOTHER / ‘Miss Mary Warnecke of San Francisco is visiting her mother, Mrs, ‘Mary Warnecke for a two weeks vacation. Miss Warnecke is secretary to Drs. Fred H. Kruse, Roger Simpson and R. Friedlander of San Francisco. Walter Warnecke, who is an airibase phoned his mother recently that he would arrive in Nevada City for a vacation. Nevada: ‘plague has also been demonstrated L. EngleMARY’AND WALTER WARNECKE plane electrician at Corpus Christi i “hime RODENTS MENACE TO VACATIONISTS Vacationiss are admonished by Dr. Bertram P. Brown, director, State Department of Public Health, to beware of wild rodents which transmit bubonic plague and rothe serious diseases. Surveys conducted by the department indicate widespread epidemics . of plague among wild animals . throughout the state. The disease is} spread to man by the bite of a blood . sucking insect which has first fed> upon an infected animal. The flea is usually the villian, but in ticks and lice. Rodents which have been found to be infected include rats of alle kinds, chipmunks, ground squirrels, field mice, rabbits, gophers, prairie dogs and the ground hogs. “Since 1927, plague has been demonstrated in the wild rodents in 24 ‘Caliornia counties. ‘Constant work by the State Department of Public Health, the State Department of Agriculture and. local commissioners have prevented all but afew scat. tered human cases,’’ Dr. Brown pointed out. “However, the threat is always present since the most intensive work has been unsuccessful in permanently eliminating plague from an area, once the wild rodents become infected. No humafiécases have occurred this year but two boys died of plague last year in one county where there was an epidemic among the wild rodents.”’ He advised campers and_ others j living in rural areas to take the following precautions to protect themselves against plague and the other diseases carried by insects from rodents to man, which include tularemia, rock mountain spotted fever, and relapsing fever: + ; 1 Do not handle or feed wild rodents and avoid contact with their nests or burrows. (2 Blevate tent platforms and cabin floors at least 18 inches from the the sides so that no rodent can find a nest or hiding place. Where buildings are not so elevated, the space under them should be made rodent ‘proof. Screen all windows and doors. 3 Keep all garbage and other refuse in tightly covered metal conteiners. The contents of such containers should be ‘burned,~ deeply buried or hauled to» a designtaed dumping ground. 4 _\Cover, all water supply storage and distributing tanks in order to prevent the entrance of rodents. 5 Dogs and cats should not be (permitted to run at large. They may bring back infected insects. or dead rodents.” The State Department of Public Health has survey crews working from. eight mobile laboratories in the field. When plague is found, local agricultural commissioners are notified at once so that ‘measures miay be taken to exterminate the rodents. . NEWS FROM FORMER RESIDENT Early day residents will be interested in a letter from Fred. Evans formerly of this city who is a nephew of the late Frank Guild, postmaster of Nevada City in 1865. (Mr. Evans lives in San Jose and is ‘prominent in defense and Red Cross work. A member of the defense counecil and director of Red Cross. He writes that Mrs. Celio is sec~ retary in the fire auxiliary and Red. (Cross work and is very busy in The activities: 6f San Jose. (Mr. Evans is; looking forward toa visit here, his native city and: sends greetings to ail who may remember ground and have them open atf Army Dimout Effects All Nevada County West Of Tahoe Forest Boundary Nevada City and the rest of Nevada County west of the Tahoe National Forest boundaries is effected by the United States Army dim-out regulations, effective August 10th, ordering every electric sign and theatre marquee extinguished and prescribing some form of shielding tor virtually all other types of exterior lighting. The regulations, announced by Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, will continue as long as the war lasts. Covering a strip of western’Washington, Oregon and California at some points as much as 150 miles wide, they have the effect of extending and tremendously augmenting the dim-out order requested by the Navy last spring for certain ocean-front sections of the coast and administered by the office of civilian defense. The proclamation created a ‘“‘zone of -restricted lighting’, which General DeWitt said the present situation requires as a matter of military necessity. “The armed forces of the enemy have made attacks upon vessels of the United States traveling along the installations,’’ the proclamation said. “TtI is necessary to provide maximum protection for war Pacific coastal waters and upon land utilities, war materials and war premises located within the states of Washington, Oregon, and California against enem The army order provides ‘for three degrees of darkening. attacks ‘by sea and air.” Completely blackened are illuminated signs and onramental lighting of every description which are visible out of doors, floodlighting which illuminates buildings or signs and interior signs and ornamental lighting immediately within unobscured window areas. INCREASE IN MAN . CAUSED FIRES MAY RESULT IN STRICT FOREST REGULATIONS Assistant Supervisor Mare Edmonds today expressed great concern over the ever increasing number of man caused fires on the Tahoe National Forest. The Tahoe Forest +o date has had 12 man caused fires, all of which could have been thadthe persons responsible been fully aware of their. responsibility as sportsmen and citizens in the prevention of fire. Edmunds further stated that even though these fires had been held to a minimum by efficient Tahoe fire crews, he felt that public opinion would demand that more strict forest closures be enacted instead of the present policy of few restrictions. Edmonds adviskd that the forest service policy has al‘ways been in favor of having the forests open for public use by sportsmen, recreationists and other citizens, but it is quite possible that this policy will be discarded in favor of more strict regulations governing forest use should fires of this type continue. 2 POSTOFFICE DISPLAY IN NUGGET WINDOW ATTRACTS !ATTENTION The display in The Nugget window of former postmasters and records of the local postofifice is attracting widespread attention. The display was arranged by Mrs. Belle Douglass, whose article on the history of the Postoffice here was. ' published in Monday’s special Postoffice edition of The Nugget. This paper received congratulations from scores of persons on the special Postoffice edition. Many purchased copies of the paper to send te friends and relatives elsewhere. A few.copies of the paper are still on hand and can be purchased at The Nugget office for five cents each. SAMPLE BALLOTS BEING MAILED The Nevada County Clerk’s staff is now busy mailing sample ballots to the more than 10,000 registered voters in Nevada County. (Many voters received their sample ‘ballots‘in the mail today. The others will receive their samples within the next few days. COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT The August meeting of the city council will be held in the City Hall here tonight with Bayor Ben Hall presiding. a SHOOTS SELF IN ANKLE James Wilson was treated at the Community Hospital in Grass Valley. for a bullet wound jin the ankle: The wound was accidentally self inflected: a AMBHIBIAN COMMAND RECRUITING “Put "Em Across” that is the slogan of that new division of the army, -the Engineer Amphibian Command. This new organization is calling for daring men, and it is easy to qualify. If you are experienced in any one of the forty two trades that are used in the Amphabian Command, then you are “in. x avoided . , It is this clause which bans aifterdark athletics and bill boards, display lighting, building outline lighting and the like. Exception is made in the single case of ordinary store show window lighting of normal intensity, unless such illumination is visible from the sea. A second phase of the proclamation requires the shielding of certain types of lights in the restricted area so that they arenot visible from above. In this category are: illumination on all outdoor ground areas such as service station yards, parking areas, recreation areas and entrances, to buildings; all light sources for industrial and. protective purposes and light from industrial processes; traffic signs and signals; street and highway lights; industrial fires, such as kilns, furnaces and refuse Duet? ers. With regard to outdoor erowntl areas, the proclamation further specifies that, in addition to the top shielding no lighting shall . exceed one foot candle at any point regardless of the directin of the rays. The restricted lighting zone extends along the west coast from border to border ‘but, of course, does not include any part of Canada or Mexico. It spreads from the sea, to, roughly, the Cascades mountains in Washington and northern Oregon, cuts westward in Oregon along the southern boundary of Marion and Polk counties to the eastern boundary of (Lincoln, then follows in nearly a straight line to the nothern bound-_ « ary of Humboldt county in California. From there it branches eastward again along the northern boundaries of Trinity and Shatsa counties, turns south and follows the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas and the line of the Tehachapi moutains to the base of southern California. General DeWitt explained that his ‘command felt it necessary to encompass so much inland territory in: the restricted zone because, under ‘proper conditions, the overhead glow from brightly lighted cities, particularly large ones, can ‘be seen as far as 150 miles away being reflected in a huge inverted V from its point of origin. “Dim-out practices now in effect under the orders of the office of civilian defense have accomplished a great deal in cutting down the light visible at sea.’’ DeWitt said, “but it is necessary the pattern be better balanced and that it obscure target areas over a larger: area. Joseph Day Moves Insurance Office; Now Located at 108 Pine Street Joseph Day, agent for a complete line of insurance, has moved his office from his home in Gold t to 108 Pine Street in Nevada City, site formerly occupied by Noyes Blectrical Shop. : Day is agent for N orthwesterr Mutual Fire Association, Northwest (Casualty Company, Mutual Life Insurance Company, Firemen’s Insurance Company, Metropolitan Casualty, Industrial In demnity Company, National Automobile Insurance Company and achusetts ‘Bonding and Insurai Company, me Day invites “Nevada ‘city to visit him at his. new i John Hancock

gE SE I At se ae peas ey The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month ““God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”” — Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget COVERS, RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA This coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read paper gives you complete The Nugget. Vol. 16, No. 63. The spied Seat Paper Bi hard able CALIFORNIA The Gold Bouter : THURSDAY, AUGUST . 6, 1942. Thinking Out Loud By RALPH H. TAYLOR The United Nations, to win the initative in the war against the Axis, must soon open a second front, it is now agreed, and there are increasing indications that the occupation of Europe by Allied troops is one of the ultimate objectives of such @ campaign. The military aspects of that titanic’ undertaking must ‘be left to military experts. When the second front will be opened; where our troops will first open the attack, and how the momentous conflict ‘will be fought—these problems, of necessity, must be dealt. with by military strategists and the responsible heads of the Allied nations. But there are economic and production problems ahead, which will come in the. wake of that battle for victory, which American agriculture must play a large part in solving. And it is just as vital that America prepare now this phase of the fight to erush the Axis as for the battle itself. When the United ‘Nations freed France, Norway, Belgium, Poland, Greece and the other nations now enslaved by Nazi Germany; and when Japan collapses, and China is free from blockade—when that time comes, America again will be called upon to assume the tremendous job o feeding most of the civilized world. There will be immediate and urgent need for food and other supplies in the liberated nations so thai their man power can take part in the devastating knock out have final against Hitler and Hirohito. There! will be critical and immediate need, . facing . too, so that millions now starvation may be saved. What part can American farm sur-} pluses, accumulated during the long) years off depression, play in meeting that.problem? What can be done, for . example, to utilize the huge wheat surpluses in the United States? U. S. Senator Arthur Capper oi Kansas, whe is close to the farm problems of the Middle-West and who has also had an opportunity to study the international situaton, urged weeks and months ago that the War Production Board not only ali low materials for storage facilities to be allocated to the wheat belt, but also that the WIPB should insist that the lumber and nails be allocated for storage construction. ““The regu‘Jations were modified,” he reports, “put, I am much afraid, too little and too late.” Senator Capper believes, however, that other steps still can be take to insure the utilization of wheat which is now surplus, but which will be desperately needed when America must undertake the job of feeding most of continental Europe. He comments as follows: “It seems ‘pitiful to ‘think that millions, of bushels of good whéat are going to rot on the ground in the states in the wheat belt this year, because of lack of storage space. During coming months, perhaps for a year, ‘this wheat—1,540,000, 000 ‘to 1,500,000,000 buhsels in all—is g0ing to be surplus, unmarketable for human consumption. And without adequate. storage facilities, millions of ‘bushels will absolutely go to waste, unless we can, find other uses for this wheat. ‘here are two ways in which this wheat can be used to advantage, instead of being allowed to go to waste. One is through feeding it to animals. Under present conditions, Britain cannot use wheat from the United States, even under gift through lend-lease, because of the Canadian situation. Canada has_ two or three years’ supply of export wheat; in the United States, we have between two and three years’ supply of wheat for domestic consumption. That is, if wheat is to be used only for milling into flour and byproducts of flour milling. “But if that wheat is turned into pork and chickens and eggs, then it becomes available to meet.the rapidly increasing demands for meat and poultry products both at home and abroad. Any program that will divert ins of millions, or a hundred million or so, bushels of wheat into feeding channels, should be put into effect at the earliest possible.moment.”’ The other possible outlet for surplus wheat, Senator Capper declares, blows: The theme of the program will be the dream of two small girls, who after a day of swimming ,getting sunburned, and eating everything they could possibly hold such,as hot dogs, pop, ice cream, ~candy, ° peanuts, pickles and gum, fall asleep upon reaching their home and dream all the things that happen during the program. The Sandman, who is really the annoncer, describes all the things that take place. The program will begin with the playinw of the Star Spangled Banner by the Nevada County Band. Some be a wagon wheel formation spec l ed ‘by 30°to 50 girls; floating form ations for small children who have not yet learned how to swim and a water waltz performed by the more! advanced swimmers. Swimming skills will be demonstrated to show American Red Cross training. There will be a complete . demontration of life saving and arti‘ficial respiration methods used aud ltaught by the Red Cross. Mr. Patterson will give two demonstrations, one with a cande and a snecial swimming exhibition. There will be fancy diving . clown diving by local talent. swimmers, dancers or singers would like to take part in the pro‘gram are welcome to do so and they! are aked to sign vp at the booth at the pool. Canoes for the demonstrations will ibe donated by Frank Thurston, manager of Lake Olympia, and the sound system will be donated by Art’s Radio Hospital. Seats will be arranged for on the terraces. above the pool, and there will be absolutely no admission ' charge. ‘Come! Tell your friends and bring the kids. they’ll love it. A wonderful acquacade with local talen in action so that’s even better than Billy Rose can do. DEER HUNTING [S SUSPENDED ‘Nevada City deer hunters mourned when the news was received that, as a war time defense measure, Lt G.en. J. L. DeWitt set in motion the legal machinery to suspend the hunting season in all of the state which had not been closed previously. Some districts eventually may be exempted, Governor Olson said, in disclosing that General DeWitt. had requested closing of the season in all counties north of Monterey pending later advices from him regarding special areas which now are being determined by the forestry service. General DeWitt said termination of hunting will be a protection to forests and Srazing land from fire. and Any is its development and use for industrial purposes. “The base of many products used in industry,” he continues, ‘‘is industrial alcohol. We have even learned, in the past few months, that the Russians have been making rubber “from grain alcohol for nearly a quarter of a century. The easiest and most practical way to make alcohol is from grains. Also, of course, it can ibe made from sugar molasses, but that is out for the duration of the . Sugar is ratdoned. Wheat is surpleas It is onl sensible, then, to make alcohol from wheat.’ problem; there are other surplus commodities beside wheat, many of them in California. But it is at least encouraging that some thought is being given now, before: it s too late, to salvaging. current surpluses for the day not for-distant when we will undoubtedly be confronted with drestic shortages. y This is only one aspect of a big . ) Aquacade Of 1942 To Be Presented Tonight , _@ f @ ‘ At Swimming Pool (By Dorothy K. Adams) Plans for the Nevada City Aquacade for 1942-are now nearing completion under the direction of Elmo Festivities will begin at 7:15 on Friday evening with the awarding of certificates and badges to those who have pasped the rigid tests in their particular class. The program will mark the end of Swim Weeks, s sponsored by the Nevada City Red Cross. _ Pattergon. ELMA HECKER NOW TREASURER Miss Elma Hecker urer and tax collector County. Miss Hecker, deputy treasurer for the past 17 years, was appointed to the position Tuesday by the Nevada County Board of Supervisors. Previously Frank Steel, treasurer and tax collector since 1922, resign!is flow treas of of the high lights of the evening will. eq because of ill health. WASP STING DISRUPTS WORK The-sting of a-wasp temporarily yesterday put Herbert Kechley, Grass Valley contractor, out of commission. Kechley was stung while working on the Campbell house next to the Horace Curnow residence on Zion Street in Nevada City. Outside of a slight pain the stind did not seem to who! effect. Kechley. However, a few min‘utes later he collapsed. The Hooper-Weaver anrbufance was called and Kéchely was taken to his home in Grass Valley. HYDRAULIC GROUP WILL MEET HERE The regular monthly meeting of the California Hydraulic Mining Association will be held Sunday at the ‘National Hotel at 2 o’clock. Secretary W. W. Esterly announc£5 the usual pre meeting luncheon . will be served to those who care to . attend this informal and interesting get together. (Congressman Harry bright will be present to give some highlights on the present legislative situation. The meeting will be presided over by George Hallock, president of the association. DEATH CLAIMS GLENBROOK BOY , Funeral rites will be held at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley for Brian Kirk Williams, 19 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Williams of the Glenbrook district. The child died yeatorday in the Communit] Hospital in Grass Valley from pneumonia. He had been ill

since Saturday. Rev. Merrill ska: will officiate at the funeral rites. Brian Williams was the grandson of Mrs. Minnie Young of Nevada City. ‘He was a nephew of William Young, Mrs. Bill Hatch and Mrs. U. S. N. Johnson, all of Nevada City. In addition to parents and other relatives, he”leaves an infant brother, Craig’ K. Williams. VISIT MOTHER / ‘Miss Mary Warnecke of San Francisco is visiting her mother, Mrs, ‘Mary Warnecke for a two weeks vacation. Miss Warnecke is secretary to Drs. Fred H. Kruse, Roger Simpson and R. Friedlander of San Francisco. Walter Warnecke, who is an airibase phoned his mother recently that he would arrive in Nevada City for a vacation. Nevada: ‘plague has also been demonstrated L. EngleMARY’AND WALTER WARNECKE plane electrician at Corpus Christi i “hime RODENTS MENACE TO VACATIONISTS Vacationiss are admonished by Dr. Bertram P. Brown, director, State Department of Public Health, to beware of wild rodents which transmit bubonic plague and rothe serious diseases. Surveys conducted by the department indicate widespread epidemics . of plague among wild animals . throughout the state. The disease is} spread to man by the bite of a blood . sucking insect which has first fed> upon an infected animal. The flea is usually the villian, but in ticks and lice. Rodents which have been found to be infected include rats of alle kinds, chipmunks, ground squirrels, field mice, rabbits, gophers, prairie dogs and the ground hogs. “Since 1927, plague has been demonstrated in the wild rodents in 24 ‘Caliornia counties. ‘Constant work by the State Department of Public Health, the State Department of Agriculture and. local commissioners have prevented all but afew scat. tered human cases,’’ Dr. Brown pointed out. “However, the threat is always present since the most intensive work has been unsuccessful in permanently eliminating plague from an area, once the wild rodents become infected. No humafiécases have occurred this year but two boys died of plague last year in one county where there was an epidemic among the wild rodents.”’ He advised campers and_ others j living in rural areas to take the following precautions to protect themselves against plague and the other diseases carried by insects from rodents to man, which include tularemia, rock mountain spotted fever, and relapsing fever: + ; 1 Do not handle or feed wild rodents and avoid contact with their nests or burrows. (2 Blevate tent platforms and cabin floors at least 18 inches from the the sides so that no rodent can find a nest or hiding place. Where buildings are not so elevated, the space under them should be made rodent ‘proof. Screen all windows and doors. 3 Keep all garbage and other refuse in tightly covered metal conteiners. The contents of such containers should be ‘burned,~ deeply buried or hauled to» a designtaed dumping ground. 4 _\Cover, all water supply storage and distributing tanks in order to prevent the entrance of rodents. 5 Dogs and cats should not be (permitted to run at large. They may bring back infected insects. or dead rodents.” The State Department of Public Health has survey crews working from. eight mobile laboratories in the field. When plague is found, local agricultural commissioners are notified at once so that ‘measures miay be taken to exterminate the rodents. . NEWS FROM FORMER RESIDENT Early day residents will be interested in a letter from Fred. Evans formerly of this city who is a nephew of the late Frank Guild, postmaster of Nevada City in 1865. (Mr. Evans lives in San Jose and is ‘prominent in defense and Red Cross work. A member of the defense counecil and director of Red Cross. He writes that Mrs. Celio is sec~ retary in the fire auxiliary and Red. (Cross work and is very busy in The activities: 6f San Jose. (Mr. Evans is; looking forward toa visit here, his native city and: sends greetings to ail who may remember ground and have them open atf Army Dimout Effects All Nevada County West Of Tahoe Forest Boundary Nevada City and the rest of Nevada County west of the Tahoe National Forest boundaries is effected by the United States Army dim-out regulations, effective August 10th, ordering every electric sign and theatre marquee extinguished and prescribing some form of shielding tor virtually all other types of exterior lighting. The regulations, announced by Lt. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, will continue as long as the war lasts. Covering a strip of western’Washington, Oregon and California at some points as much as 150 miles wide, they have the effect of extending and tremendously augmenting the dim-out order requested by the Navy last spring for certain ocean-front sections of the coast and administered by the office of civilian defense. The proclamation created a ‘“‘zone of -restricted lighting’, which General DeWitt said the present situation requires as a matter of military necessity. “The armed forces of the enemy have made attacks upon vessels of the United States traveling along the installations,’’ the proclamation said. “TtI is necessary to provide maximum protection for war Pacific coastal waters and upon land utilities, war materials and war premises located within the states of Washington, Oregon, and California against enem The army order provides ‘for three degrees of darkening. attacks ‘by sea and air.” Completely blackened are illuminated signs and onramental lighting of every description which are visible out of doors, floodlighting which illuminates buildings or signs and interior signs and ornamental lighting immediately within unobscured window areas. INCREASE IN MAN . CAUSED FIRES MAY RESULT IN STRICT FOREST REGULATIONS Assistant Supervisor Mare Edmonds today expressed great concern over the ever increasing number of man caused fires on the Tahoe National Forest. The Tahoe Forest +o date has had 12 man caused fires, all of which could have been thadthe persons responsible been fully aware of their. responsibility as sportsmen and citizens in the prevention of fire. Edmunds further stated that even though these fires had been held to a minimum by efficient Tahoe fire crews, he felt that public opinion would demand that more strict forest closures be enacted instead of the present policy of few restrictions. Edmonds adviskd that the forest service policy has al‘ways been in favor of having the forests open for public use by sportsmen, recreationists and other citizens, but it is quite possible that this policy will be discarded in favor of more strict regulations governing forest use should fires of this type continue. 2 POSTOFFICE DISPLAY IN NUGGET WINDOW ATTRACTS !ATTENTION The display in The Nugget window of former postmasters and records of the local postofifice is attracting widespread attention. The display was arranged by Mrs. Belle Douglass, whose article on the history of the Postoffice here was. ' published in Monday’s special Postoffice edition of The Nugget. This paper received congratulations from scores of persons on the special Postoffice edition. Many purchased copies of the paper to send te friends and relatives elsewhere. A few.copies of the paper are still on hand and can be purchased at The Nugget office for five cents each. SAMPLE BALLOTS BEING MAILED The Nevada County Clerk’s staff is now busy mailing sample ballots to the more than 10,000 registered voters in Nevada County. (Many voters received their sample ‘ballots‘in the mail today. The others will receive their samples within the next few days. COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT The August meeting of the city council will be held in the City Hall here tonight with Bayor Ben Hall presiding. a SHOOTS SELF IN ANKLE James Wilson was treated at the Community Hospital in Grass Valley. for a bullet wound jin the ankle: The wound was accidentally self inflected: a AMBHIBIAN COMMAND RECRUITING “Put "Em Across” that is the slogan of that new division of the army, -the Engineer Amphibian Command. This new organization is calling for daring men, and it is easy to qualify. If you are experienced in any one of the forty two trades that are used in the Amphabian Command, then you are “in. x avoided . , It is this clause which bans aifterdark athletics and bill boards, display lighting, building outline lighting and the like. Exception is made in the single case of ordinary store show window lighting of normal intensity, unless such illumination is visible from the sea. A second phase of the proclamation requires the shielding of certain types of lights in the restricted area so that they arenot visible from above. In this category are: illumination on all outdoor ground areas such as service station yards, parking areas, recreation areas and entrances, to buildings; all light sources for industrial and. protective purposes and light from industrial processes; traffic signs and signals; street and highway lights; industrial fires, such as kilns, furnaces and refuse Duet? ers. With regard to outdoor erowntl areas, the proclamation further specifies that, in addition to the top shielding no lighting shall . exceed one foot candle at any point regardless of the directin of the rays. The restricted lighting zone extends along the west coast from border to border ‘but, of course, does not include any part of Canada or Mexico. It spreads from the sea, to, roughly, the Cascades mountains in Washington and northern Oregon, cuts westward in Oregon along the southern boundary of Marion and Polk counties to the eastern boundary of (Lincoln, then follows in nearly a straight line to the nothern bound-_ « ary of Humboldt county in California. From there it branches eastward again along the northern boundaries of Trinity and Shatsa counties, turns south and follows the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas and the line of the Tehachapi moutains to the base of southern California. General DeWitt explained that his ‘command felt it necessary to encompass so much inland territory in: the restricted zone because, under ‘proper conditions, the overhead glow from brightly lighted cities, particularly large ones, can ‘be seen as far as 150 miles away being reflected in a huge inverted V from its point of origin. “Dim-out practices now in effect under the orders of the office of civilian defense have accomplished a great deal in cutting down the light visible at sea.’’ DeWitt said, “but it is necessary the pattern be better balanced and that it obscure target areas over a larger: area. Joseph Day Moves Insurance Office; Now Located at 108 Pine Street Joseph Day, agent for a complete line of insurance, has moved his office from his home in Gold t to 108 Pine Street in Nevada City, site formerly occupied by Noyes Blectrical Shop. : Day is agent for N orthwesterr Mutual Fire Association, Northwest (Casualty Company, Mutual Life Insurance Company, Firemen’s Insurance Company, Metropolitan Casualty, Industrial In demnity Company, National Automobile Insurance Company and achusetts ‘Bonding and Insurai Company, me Day invites “Nevada ‘city to visit him at his. new i John Hancock