August 9, 1943 (4 pages)

tl The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month b “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”——Daniel Webster Nevada City N ugget 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. 62. The County. Seat Paper sai Hy Out Loud Thinking . Wiatever it was that happened to Mussolini, it put him out of circulation and started a series of repercussions throughout the submerged nations which, quite apparently, are continuing::-Though Mussolini hadceased to have niuch weight on the Axis side, and, in Ate fact, had become more of a lia“fpility to Hitlerthan an_ asset, there was atill a bit of prestige attached to his office among the Balkan peoples. We can still remember that Mussolini once movy. ed troops to the border of the Tyrol to protect Austria against a Hitler invasion and Hitler refused to pick up the glove. The evolution in relationship between the two is worthy of a Shakespearean drama. : We think the difference between the two men, lies not so much in the character of the leaders themselves, but in the character of ther respective peoples. The Italjans undoubtedly would have fought valiantly to defend their country, but desperately wanted nothing to do with conquest. As a } people the Italians were skeptical of Mussolini’s vaporings. The Germans on the other’ hand eagerly absorbed the dream-stuff Hitler fed them. They believed their nation had a rendezvous with destiny; that the world was their oyster to be opened with a sword. Once that delusion was dispelled they began to crack and the cracking is not due to war weariness so much as it is realization that . they. are not, as they thought, a super race. Disillusionment is biti ter. They are too late on the \ scene. The world has grown _ beyond the stage of pillage, plunder and conquest. The French Revolution marked the turn in the lane. With victory growing nearer day by day, the thoughts of millions are turning toward the prob. lems of how-to insure a lasting peace. Privately we doubt if any system can be devised that will insure a permanent peace, a peace . to. last forever and ever. But we . do think a long term, perhaps a hundred years, can be underwritj ten after this war by the four na. tions which are making the major contribution to victory. i . The four freedoms are generalj izations, a goal toward which we are fighting. The fight for them will be on after the war ends. They can be reached only by the i sacrifice of those who have for . those who have not. They can be 1 ‘maintained only by eternal vigilance of' those millions who hold those ideals, acting through their : individuals in the British and American democracies exercise in guarding their liberties, must be . exercsied in mass, through governmental agencies. It calls for a de. that we have achieved only partial] jy even under the whiplash and . necessities of’ war. To keep tie attention of congress steadfastly . fixed on the goal, we shall have to become much more articulate as a people than we have been. A majority, who believe in policing, and in ultimately educating a large part of the world’s population in the ways of peace, must make itself heard, and heard continually : over a long period: When we lag, 4 congress will lag and grow lax. We shall have multitudes who will cry at the cost. Of course it will cost. The mere thought of } feeding a few million hungry Italians, is staggering, if one contemplates only the cost. When to this is added more millions, many more : in China, and a still more millions in Russia, we begin to see that we may continue a system of rationing for some time after the war ends, if we really are determined to reconstruct the world in the ways of peace. Of course the feeding will be temporary. It will be our business, and that of our allies to rehabilitate the war impoverished countries, to make ‘ : them self-sustaining as quickly as possible: But it will take time and ta smaller cut of four ‘governments. The vigilance whithgree to unity in national purpose: BRANDY CITY TIMBER SOLD T0 CALIDA CO. Supervisor Guerdon Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest has been notified that the contract for the Brandy City timber ‘has been awarded to the (Calida Lumber Company of Downieville. The principal members of the Calida Lumber Company firm are A. F. Baumhoff, who is general manager and BE. T. Fisher. Baumhoff is a logging contractor, mining operator, and resort operator. E .T. Fisher, has also been a logging contractor and was ‘Baumhoff’s partner in a gold mining operation in Idaho prior to the war. L: W. Sly, ‘the mill superintendent, has had previous experience with the Sacramento Box Company in their plant at Kyburz. The company now has twenty men ibusy hauling equipment from Idaho and Klamath Falls, Oreg \ A small mill will be erected immediately which will be used to cut the timber and large dimension material needed for the construction of the main mill. The mill is situated in the Brandy City area, which has one of the largest remaining sugar pine stands in the Sierras. When this operation is running at full capacity next spring it will ‘employ one hundred men in the mill and the woods. The program for the utilization of lthis timber provides for conservative cutting which will leave sufficient thrifty timber for a second cut in from twenty to thirty years. In order to handle this very. large, over-mature trees a medium sized mill will be used which will cut fifteen to 'twenty five million feet a year. After ‘the timber has been cut over once, to six million . feet a year may be made continulously. . “yf -the receipts from the sale of ‘this timber the government will re !turn twenty five per cent to the counties in ‘which the Tahoe Forest is situated. Another ten per cent goes to the Tahoe Forest to be spent ion roads and trails within the forest. . As this sale is made oti the basis of a continuous operation it will mean a pemanent increase in population ‘and activity in Sierra County which has been adversely affected by the decline of the mining industry. SCHOOL BUSSES REQUESTED FOR PEACH WORKERS When the Nevada City Unified School District Board .meets next Monday evening a proposal will be submitted to them to run a bus for mothers and youngsters who wish to work ‘in the fruit harvests in the Sacramento Valley. The district employs two school buses which are idle during the summer ‘vacation. George Calanan, city clerk, who has promoted this plan, states that a consderable number of women would like: to work in the fruit, either harvesting or packing, if they could be home: at “hight. He states also that many boys and girls want work in the harvest but their parents do, not ‘wish to live in camps in the orchards. H. E. Kjorlie, superintendent of schools, has promised to submit the proposal to the board, but said last evening that most boys and girls old enough to work in fruit already had jobs for the summer. Gunner H. S. Downey is visiting his mothtr, Mrs. George-Downey, on a five day furlough and will return to his duties at Mare Island Tuesday. it wilk cost money. % Ea We are inclined to think that there are but two essential freedoms, political and economical. All other freedoms are in the train of these two. A man who is politically free, who has his vote as regards all matters pertaining to his personal liberty, and who is free to produce and to sell the product of his labor, for instance, can readily guard his. freedom of press and of religion, and other freedoms, His free vote will do it. . home near Auburn were received by ,. Curtis’ RTE oO _The Gold Center _ MONDAY, AUGUST 9. AB cit had. tas 4,000 Motor Vehicles In County . The Department of Motor Vehicles , today announced that 3,994 auto-! mobiles were registered in Nevada County during the first six months as follows: . 529 pneumatic trucks; eyeles; 1 solid trailers; “191 pneumatic trailers, NEVADA CITY, ITY, CALIFORNIA 11 motor-. Ridge Road Farmer, 81 Years, Summoned William Simmons, farmer years of age, passed away at the county hospital yesterday afternoon. For many years he owned and operated a farm north of the Nevada County Golf course along the Ridge Road. So far as known he had no relatives here. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley. T. Harrison Randall . Now Second Lieutenant A communication has been received by the Nugget from the public relations officer at Fort Benning, Georgia, stating that Thomas (Harrison) Randall has completed his course in officer training school and has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army. He is the son of Mrs. A. ©. Randall of Silva avenue, this city, and was formerly employed here by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. 1 { . . Woman In North San Juan Dies Suddenly Mrs. ‘Mary Whitefoot, a resident of Willitts, Mendocino County, pass-! ed away yesterday of a heart attack . at North San Juan. She was the! mother of six children and a -husband also survives. She had come to: North San ean . to be with a son who owned a small . property there. She was ill but-two: days. Hooper and Weaver Montane . have charge of the remains which . will be sent to Willitts for funeral! services and interment. . Sheriff’s Sons Forge Ahead In Armed Services Sheriff and Mrs. Carl J. Wabiaseon received -letters from their sons in. service last week. Carl Jr. passed . tests and is now an athletic instructor in the marines at Samp Matthews, near San Diego. A new swimming pool is being built and when completed he will teach swimming. He conducts: boxing matches each Saturday evening. Elton Tobiassen finished schooling at Friday Harbor, Washington July 25th and is now a petty officer in the coast guard. He has returned to Winchester Bay, Wash, to resume his duties. His wife who has been employed in Los Angeles is expected to come to this city to visit Sheriff and Mrs. Tobiassen August 19 and then go on to Winchester Bay. Charles Mill, Miner Is'Called By Death (Charles Mill, a miner 68 years of age, who had lived 65 years.in Grass Valley, passed away yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Leonard Hancock in Mill Valley. Hooper and ‘Weaver Mortuary were notified and the funeral service will be held in Grass ‘Valley with the Rev. Mark Pike of the Methodist Chtrch officiating. The service will take place Wednesday at 2 p. m. in the Hooper and Weaver chapel. 4 Mill had gone to Mill Valley, in (Marin County, only about six months ago to be with his daughter. He worked for many years in the Idaho Maryland Mine. His wife passed away four or five years ago. Family Reunion Held To Celebrate Wedding Invitations to a Sunday dinner and family reunion at the Cecil Curtis mother, Mrs. C. Muscardini and husband; brother, Elisha Curtis and wife of Nevada Vity, The dinner in honor of the marriage Tuesday, August 3, of the second daughter: of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Curtis, Miss Pauline Curtis who was married to a classmate, Wilbur Randall, in Reno. The young couple graduated from the Auburn high school in June, and he entered the service of his country. He is home on furlough froh an army camp in Texas. The bride has 'Tahoe . was conducting a ithe scene, spent much time in this city with BOY'S CAMP FIRE PROVES MENACE TRUICKEE, Aug. 9.—The Truckee district suppression forces of the National Fores quickly brought under control two fires that occurred simultaneously last Monday. reports gaeiad Ranger: H. I. Snider. Southern Pacific Railroad employes assisted in extinguishing one fire in Coldstream Canyon four miles southwest of Truckee, which was apparently caused by someone smoking in a closed area. A few minutes after crews were dispatched to that fire, a second fire was reported near the Truckee cemetery, where some boys had built a fire in a boys’ field “clubhouse” among heavy pine needles and grass. Ths fire could have ‘developed into a serious situation, i the tank truck had*not been able to reach it with water, Snider states. Snider asks all parents to warn their children not to build fires in the dry grass and forest areas, unless they have their parents with them and the parents give the fires proper attention according to campfire permit instructions. Snider also reports that Justice of the Peace Evelyn Bliss of:Tahoe (City fined Harry Drackett, Brockway stableman twenty dollars for not fulfilling the terms of this campfire permit and building a fire in a dangerous area. Patrolman Joe Talbot stated that he found Drackert’s gas stove on a pitchy log while Drackert breakfast party horseback ride with recreationists. DISTRICT TO CONSERVE SOIL 1$ PROBABILITY William Durbrow, manager of the! Nevada “Irrigation jDistrict, yesiterday stated that he thinks there is ‘no doubt that a soil conservation district will be formed in the southwestern section of Nevada County. The new district, Durbrow said, will be roughly rectangular, containing about 53,000 acres of farm, pasture and brush land. The boundaries will be Wolf Creek ‘on the northwest, the Bear River on the southwest and will embrace all of Chicago Park along the ColfaxGrass Valley Highway. Durbrow said that practically all of the land owners in this area have been won over to the plan by William Mayhoffer, county representative of the Soil Conservation Service. Lloyd Brown and Walter Weit, representing the State Soil Conservation Commission recently inspected the district and were said to be favorably. impressed. When the district is formed, Durbrow explained, under the law the power. of levying assessments will ‘be ‘very limited. The plan contemplates rather a cooperative movement among the fanmers in the -district, in stich enterprises as brush clearing, replanting pastures to better ‘forms of grass and always, the conservation of the soil itéself. Deputy Sheriffs Spend Sunday Salvaging Beef Deputy Sheriffs Carl Larsen and George DeSoto did their gotd turn yesterday in the well known Boy Scout manner. A two year old heifer was struck by a motor car on the Tahoe Ukiah Highway just west of White Cloud. It belonged to Thomas Jones who lives in the vicinity. The sheriff's office was notified, and (harsen and DeSoto rather than let the bears and coyotes eat the carcaes, armed with saws and axes went to hung the meat in. the refrigerator of the Tahoe National Forest Service storage room here, permission being courteously granted to do this. Thomas Jones, now away, is expected to return in a day or two, and won’t he surprised to find himself the owner of about 350 pounds of good beef in this rationing era? And all because two deputy sheriffs spent half their Sunday skinning the animal. The California Highway Patrol made an investigation of the accident. ‘her grandparents and is well known here, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis are former residents of Nevada City. dressed the animal, andj. LOAD OF FUTURE With increasing frequency ;United States and United Sai governments are discussing postwar problems. These discussions are placed in three categories: (1) Postwar currency stabilization, (2) Renabilitation, and (3) Relief. They are the key to the future tax ‘load of the American péople. Signii ficantly, in none of the public statements made by responsible officials has anyvestimate been given of what it will cost the taxpayer to participate in post war-reconstruction, whether it can be in the currency field or in relief anid rehabilitation. As to currency stabilization, it is too early to tell what will be the American contribution. As to rehabilitation, the United States and the British governments believe that post war reconstruction loans should be made by. government sponsored agencies. This means the use of. tax payer money to finance the reconstruction of war devastated areas. What this means in dollars and cents no one knows. That it will run into billions of dollars, however, is obvious. ; The other part of the program—— promises to be the most costly. United States has indicated that it does not expect to be reimbursed for cupied areas, at least, in the. early ‘reconstruction period. All phases of the program are deto raise the world economic level. {The United States with its vast re-; . sources may be expected to make the lgreatest contribution. What does this mean in the way . of taxes? How does labor. feel about ;such plans? As to the first, it seems . obvious that those who entertain the! ‘belief that with peace there will en-. sue a periad of lower luding themselves. Labor’s attitude has best been given by David B. Robertson, president . Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, before the National Assembly of Railroad YIMCA’s at ‘Cincinnati on July 15. He questions the syphoning off of American income in order to achieve world living standard equality. Mr. Robettson says: “The population of the United States is only 6 per cent of that of the world. The wealth of the United} States is about 30 per cent of the! world .The income of the United: States is about 36 per cent of that! of the world. “In order to establish world equality of income under the management of national and world governments (‘which could only be achieved by dictatorship), the United States would be compelled to retain only her per capita share of ‘the total world income, that is, she must reduce her income to six (6) per cent of the total income and must give away in the post war period, through instrumentalities such ‘as the draft, rationing, lend lease, and money and credit management, the remaining 30 per cent of the world income which the United States now holds. In this way only, ninety four (94) per cent of the world population could also receive ninety-four (94) per cent of the world income. In the process, however, the average citizen of. the United States—Bill Smith— would ultimately lose five sixths of his income. In other words, if he had received $60 per week, he would then get only $10 a week.”’ CITY TREASURERS REPORT FOR MONTH OF JULY ‘Receipts: Balance in treasury— $11,385.69. Water collections $1,671.40, Delinquent taxes $21.60. Dog licenses $6.00. Business licenses $432.00. Court fines $135.50. Personal propert taxes $50.30. Miscellaneous $3.72. Compensation Ins. fund $40.38. —i$ 2,265 .50—$13,651-)}) 59. Disbursements: Warrants sini on general fund $2,867.56. Warrants paid on fire fund $69.94. Warrants paid on library fund $155. ate +085.61. Balance in treasury $10,565.98. Balance in fire fund $393.69. Balance in library fund $478.24, Gen eral fund $9,694.05. relief—although in the cocoon stage’ The . relief food which will be sent to oc-" signed to assist in reconstruction and . taxes are de. POST WAR PLANS GE MITCHELL — GIVEKEY TO TAX FOREST ENGINEER TO RESIGN POST Tahoe National Forest, announced with regret yesterday that Gerald ®. Mitchell, forest engineer, is resigning his post to accept employment with the Calida Lumber Company recently awarded the contract for. cutting the large stand of sugar pine timber at Brandy City, Sierra County. Mitchell has been on the staff for i five years and Ellis states that con‘struction work in the forest during. his tenure has been pushed ahead rapidly, especially the building of roads and bridges. Two outstanding improvements, supervised. by Mitchell were the rangiers stations at Downieville and ‘Sterraville, Sierra County. The work with the Calida. company which Mitchell will take over is building logging roads and bridges into a stand of 400,000,000 feet of virgin timber in ‘the vicinity of Brandy City. Initial contracts for cutting this timber have been let to ‘the company. It is proposed to cut about 280,000,000 feet in the first cutting of mature and over-ripe tim;ber. When that is compléted a second cutting can begin. The timber runs about 20 per cent sugar pine, 30 per cent ponderosa and _ other ; pines, and the rest is mainly species ot: fir. jthat this is the last stand of virgin isugar pine in the state. The trees are ‘reported to be unusually large. SKETCH OF EARL WARREN IN SAT. EVENING POST ‘California’s governor, Earl “Wask iren, states that the west can absorb ithe shock of transition from war to peace. which lies ahead according to {Frank J. Taylor in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The title of his article Rox “Man With a New Broom.”’ Commenting on Governor Warren’s taking over his office at the state capitol he writes as follows: *‘When Earl Warren settled into the governor’s chair. at Sacramento, his ‘first direction to his secretaries was, . ‘Leave the door open.’ They might aa ‘well have removed it from the hingjes. The door has been wide open . ever since; any citizen with a notion jabout what’s good for the Golden State can walk in and talk with the governor about it. This is an. admirable innovation with a catch in ‘it; another citizen is likely to stroll in and overhear what the first Californian is proposing and horn in on the huddle. The governor doesn‘t mind, but it annoys special pleaders who like to talk low behind closed doors.” , Taylor continues, “handsome stnapping Earl Warren probably has less [guile and less self-importance than any other governor in the country.’ A serious-minded Horatio \Calvin Coolidge’s rare ability to lay giving the slightest impression that the is trying to shove it down anybody’s throat. Coolidge resemblance: ends, er.”” Summing up, according to article, Governor Warren feels that, “These are wartimes; California’s postwar salvation.” — A combined woodshed, garage and store room, in the rear of a resider belonging to George Finch was burt ed to the ground on South Aubu ‘street in Grass Valley early . day meree ‘Household ed sath stored in he . completely destroyed. burning ina day before. ecaughi fire . night final close to it, front of . Supervisor Guerdon Ellis of theForest service officials state . Alger character in flesh and blood, he has a proposition on the table without . That is where the howeythe — — Tet’s forget politics for the duration and work on FIRE RESTROYS G.' V. GARAGE —

tl The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month b “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”——Daniel Webster Nevada City N ugget 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. 62. The County. Seat Paper sai Hy Out Loud Thinking . Wiatever it was that happened to Mussolini, it put him out of circulation and started a series of repercussions throughout the submerged nations which, quite apparently, are continuing::-Though Mussolini hadceased to have niuch weight on the Axis side, and, in Ate fact, had become more of a lia“fpility to Hitlerthan an_ asset, there was atill a bit of prestige attached to his office among the Balkan peoples. We can still remember that Mussolini once movy. ed troops to the border of the Tyrol to protect Austria against a Hitler invasion and Hitler refused to pick up the glove. The evolution in relationship between the two is worthy of a Shakespearean drama. : We think the difference between the two men, lies not so much in the character of the leaders themselves, but in the character of ther respective peoples. The Italjans undoubtedly would have fought valiantly to defend their country, but desperately wanted nothing to do with conquest. As a } people the Italians were skeptical of Mussolini’s vaporings. The Germans on the other’ hand eagerly absorbed the dream-stuff Hitler fed them. They believed their nation had a rendezvous with destiny; that the world was their oyster to be opened with a sword. Once that delusion was dispelled they began to crack and the cracking is not due to war weariness so much as it is realization that . they. are not, as they thought, a super race. Disillusionment is biti ter. They are too late on the \ scene. The world has grown _ beyond the stage of pillage, plunder and conquest. The French Revolution marked the turn in the lane. With victory growing nearer day by day, the thoughts of millions are turning toward the prob. lems of how-to insure a lasting peace. Privately we doubt if any system can be devised that will insure a permanent peace, a peace . to. last forever and ever. But we . do think a long term, perhaps a hundred years, can be underwritj ten after this war by the four na. tions which are making the major contribution to victory. i . The four freedoms are generalj izations, a goal toward which we are fighting. The fight for them will be on after the war ends. They can be reached only by the i sacrifice of those who have for . those who have not. They can be 1 ‘maintained only by eternal vigilance of' those millions who hold those ideals, acting through their : individuals in the British and American democracies exercise in guarding their liberties, must be . exercsied in mass, through governmental agencies. It calls for a de. that we have achieved only partial] jy even under the whiplash and . necessities of’ war. To keep tie attention of congress steadfastly . fixed on the goal, we shall have to become much more articulate as a people than we have been. A majority, who believe in policing, and in ultimately educating a large part of the world’s population in the ways of peace, must make itself heard, and heard continually : over a long period: When we lag, 4 congress will lag and grow lax. We shall have multitudes who will cry at the cost. Of course it will cost. The mere thought of } feeding a few million hungry Italians, is staggering, if one contemplates only the cost. When to this is added more millions, many more : in China, and a still more millions in Russia, we begin to see that we may continue a system of rationing for some time after the war ends, if we really are determined to reconstruct the world in the ways of peace. Of course the feeding will be temporary. It will be our business, and that of our allies to rehabilitate the war impoverished countries, to make ‘ : them self-sustaining as quickly as possible: But it will take time and ta smaller cut of four ‘governments. The vigilance whithgree to unity in national purpose: BRANDY CITY TIMBER SOLD T0 CALIDA CO. Supervisor Guerdon Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest has been notified that the contract for the Brandy City timber ‘has been awarded to the (Calida Lumber Company of Downieville. The principal members of the Calida Lumber Company firm are A. F. Baumhoff, who is general manager and BE. T. Fisher. Baumhoff is a logging contractor, mining operator, and resort operator. E .T. Fisher, has also been a logging contractor and was ‘Baumhoff’s partner in a gold mining operation in Idaho prior to the war. L: W. Sly, ‘the mill superintendent, has had previous experience with the Sacramento Box Company in their plant at Kyburz. The company now has twenty men ibusy hauling equipment from Idaho and Klamath Falls, Oreg \ A small mill will be erected immediately which will be used to cut the timber and large dimension material needed for the construction of the main mill. The mill is situated in the Brandy City area, which has one of the largest remaining sugar pine stands in the Sierras. When this operation is running at full capacity next spring it will ‘employ one hundred men in the mill and the woods. The program for the utilization of lthis timber provides for conservative cutting which will leave sufficient thrifty timber for a second cut in from twenty to thirty years. In order to handle this very. large, over-mature trees a medium sized mill will be used which will cut fifteen to 'twenty five million feet a year. After ‘the timber has been cut over once, to six million . feet a year may be made continulously. . “yf -the receipts from the sale of ‘this timber the government will re !turn twenty five per cent to the counties in ‘which the Tahoe Forest is situated. Another ten per cent goes to the Tahoe Forest to be spent ion roads and trails within the forest. . As this sale is made oti the basis of a continuous operation it will mean a pemanent increase in population ‘and activity in Sierra County which has been adversely affected by the decline of the mining industry. SCHOOL BUSSES REQUESTED FOR PEACH WORKERS When the Nevada City Unified School District Board .meets next Monday evening a proposal will be submitted to them to run a bus for mothers and youngsters who wish to work ‘in the fruit harvests in the Sacramento Valley. The district employs two school buses which are idle during the summer ‘vacation. George Calanan, city clerk, who has promoted this plan, states that a consderable number of women would like: to work in the fruit, either harvesting or packing, if they could be home: at “hight. He states also that many boys and girls want work in the harvest but their parents do, not ‘wish to live in camps in the orchards. H. E. Kjorlie, superintendent of schools, has promised to submit the proposal to the board, but said last evening that most boys and girls old enough to work in fruit already had jobs for the summer. Gunner H. S. Downey is visiting his mothtr, Mrs. George-Downey, on a five day furlough and will return to his duties at Mare Island Tuesday. it wilk cost money. % Ea We are inclined to think that there are but two essential freedoms, political and economical. All other freedoms are in the train of these two. A man who is politically free, who has his vote as regards all matters pertaining to his personal liberty, and who is free to produce and to sell the product of his labor, for instance, can readily guard his. freedom of press and of religion, and other freedoms, His free vote will do it. . home near Auburn were received by ,. Curtis’ RTE oO _The Gold Center _ MONDAY, AUGUST 9. AB cit had. tas 4,000 Motor Vehicles In County . The Department of Motor Vehicles , today announced that 3,994 auto-! mobiles were registered in Nevada County during the first six months as follows: . 529 pneumatic trucks; eyeles; 1 solid trailers; “191 pneumatic trailers, NEVADA CITY, ITY, CALIFORNIA 11 motor-. Ridge Road Farmer, 81 Years, Summoned William Simmons, farmer years of age, passed away at the county hospital yesterday afternoon. For many years he owned and operated a farm north of the Nevada County Golf course along the Ridge Road. So far as known he had no relatives here. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley. T. Harrison Randall . Now Second Lieutenant A communication has been received by the Nugget from the public relations officer at Fort Benning, Georgia, stating that Thomas (Harrison) Randall has completed his course in officer training school and has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army. He is the son of Mrs. A. ©. Randall of Silva avenue, this city, and was formerly employed here by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. 1 { . . Woman In North San Juan Dies Suddenly Mrs. ‘Mary Whitefoot, a resident of Willitts, Mendocino County, pass-! ed away yesterday of a heart attack . at North San Juan. She was the! mother of six children and a -husband also survives. She had come to: North San ean . to be with a son who owned a small . property there. She was ill but-two: days. Hooper and Weaver Montane . have charge of the remains which . will be sent to Willitts for funeral! services and interment. . Sheriff’s Sons Forge Ahead In Armed Services Sheriff and Mrs. Carl J. Wabiaseon received -letters from their sons in. service last week. Carl Jr. passed . tests and is now an athletic instructor in the marines at Samp Matthews, near San Diego. A new swimming pool is being built and when completed he will teach swimming. He conducts: boxing matches each Saturday evening. Elton Tobiassen finished schooling at Friday Harbor, Washington July 25th and is now a petty officer in the coast guard. He has returned to Winchester Bay, Wash, to resume his duties. His wife who has been employed in Los Angeles is expected to come to this city to visit Sheriff and Mrs. Tobiassen August 19 and then go on to Winchester Bay. Charles Mill, Miner Is'Called By Death (Charles Mill, a miner 68 years of age, who had lived 65 years.in Grass Valley, passed away yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Leonard Hancock in Mill Valley. Hooper and ‘Weaver Mortuary were notified and the funeral service will be held in Grass ‘Valley with the Rev. Mark Pike of the Methodist Chtrch officiating. The service will take place Wednesday at 2 p. m. in the Hooper and Weaver chapel. 4 Mill had gone to Mill Valley, in (Marin County, only about six months ago to be with his daughter. He worked for many years in the Idaho Maryland Mine. His wife passed away four or five years ago. Family Reunion Held To Celebrate Wedding Invitations to a Sunday dinner and family reunion at the Cecil Curtis mother, Mrs. C. Muscardini and husband; brother, Elisha Curtis and wife of Nevada Vity, The dinner in honor of the marriage Tuesday,

August 3, of the second daughter: of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Curtis, Miss Pauline Curtis who was married to a classmate, Wilbur Randall, in Reno. The young couple graduated from the Auburn high school in June, and he entered the service of his country. He is home on furlough froh an army camp in Texas. The bride has 'Tahoe . was conducting a ithe scene, spent much time in this city with BOY'S CAMP FIRE PROVES MENACE TRUICKEE, Aug. 9.—The Truckee district suppression forces of the National Fores quickly brought under control two fires that occurred simultaneously last Monday. reports gaeiad Ranger: H. I. Snider. Southern Pacific Railroad employes assisted in extinguishing one fire in Coldstream Canyon four miles southwest of Truckee, which was apparently caused by someone smoking in a closed area. A few minutes after crews were dispatched to that fire, a second fire was reported near the Truckee cemetery, where some boys had built a fire in a boys’ field “clubhouse” among heavy pine needles and grass. Ths fire could have ‘developed into a serious situation, i the tank truck had*not been able to reach it with water, Snider states. Snider asks all parents to warn their children not to build fires in the dry grass and forest areas, unless they have their parents with them and the parents give the fires proper attention according to campfire permit instructions. Snider also reports that Justice of the Peace Evelyn Bliss of:Tahoe (City fined Harry Drackett, Brockway stableman twenty dollars for not fulfilling the terms of this campfire permit and building a fire in a dangerous area. Patrolman Joe Talbot stated that he found Drackert’s gas stove on a pitchy log while Drackert breakfast party horseback ride with recreationists. DISTRICT TO CONSERVE SOIL 1$ PROBABILITY William Durbrow, manager of the! Nevada “Irrigation jDistrict, yesiterday stated that he thinks there is ‘no doubt that a soil conservation district will be formed in the southwestern section of Nevada County. The new district, Durbrow said, will be roughly rectangular, containing about 53,000 acres of farm, pasture and brush land. The boundaries will be Wolf Creek ‘on the northwest, the Bear River on the southwest and will embrace all of Chicago Park along the ColfaxGrass Valley Highway. Durbrow said that practically all of the land owners in this area have been won over to the plan by William Mayhoffer, county representative of the Soil Conservation Service. Lloyd Brown and Walter Weit, representing the State Soil Conservation Commission recently inspected the district and were said to be favorably. impressed. When the district is formed, Durbrow explained, under the law the power. of levying assessments will ‘be ‘very limited. The plan contemplates rather a cooperative movement among the fanmers in the -district, in stich enterprises as brush clearing, replanting pastures to better ‘forms of grass and always, the conservation of the soil itéself. Deputy Sheriffs Spend Sunday Salvaging Beef Deputy Sheriffs Carl Larsen and George DeSoto did their gotd turn yesterday in the well known Boy Scout manner. A two year old heifer was struck by a motor car on the Tahoe Ukiah Highway just west of White Cloud. It belonged to Thomas Jones who lives in the vicinity. The sheriff's office was notified, and (harsen and DeSoto rather than let the bears and coyotes eat the carcaes, armed with saws and axes went to hung the meat in. the refrigerator of the Tahoe National Forest Service storage room here, permission being courteously granted to do this. Thomas Jones, now away, is expected to return in a day or two, and won’t he surprised to find himself the owner of about 350 pounds of good beef in this rationing era? And all because two deputy sheriffs spent half their Sunday skinning the animal. The California Highway Patrol made an investigation of the accident. ‘her grandparents and is well known here, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis are former residents of Nevada City. dressed the animal, andj. LOAD OF FUTURE With increasing frequency ;United States and United Sai governments are discussing postwar problems. These discussions are placed in three categories: (1) Postwar currency stabilization, (2) Renabilitation, and (3) Relief. They are the key to the future tax ‘load of the American péople. Signii ficantly, in none of the public statements made by responsible officials has anyvestimate been given of what it will cost the taxpayer to participate in post war-reconstruction, whether it can be in the currency field or in relief anid rehabilitation. As to currency stabilization, it is too early to tell what will be the American contribution. As to rehabilitation, the United States and the British governments believe that post war reconstruction loans should be made by. government sponsored agencies. This means the use of. tax payer money to finance the reconstruction of war devastated areas. What this means in dollars and cents no one knows. That it will run into billions of dollars, however, is obvious. ; The other part of the program—— promises to be the most costly. United States has indicated that it does not expect to be reimbursed for cupied areas, at least, in the. early ‘reconstruction period. All phases of the program are deto raise the world economic level. {The United States with its vast re-; . sources may be expected to make the lgreatest contribution. What does this mean in the way . of taxes? How does labor. feel about ;such plans? As to the first, it seems . obvious that those who entertain the! ‘belief that with peace there will en-. sue a periad of lower luding themselves. Labor’s attitude has best been given by David B. Robertson, president . Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, before the National Assembly of Railroad YIMCA’s at ‘Cincinnati on July 15. He questions the syphoning off of American income in order to achieve world living standard equality. Mr. Robettson says: “The population of the United States is only 6 per cent of that of the world. The wealth of the United} States is about 30 per cent of the! world .The income of the United: States is about 36 per cent of that! of the world. “In order to establish world equality of income under the management of national and world governments (‘which could only be achieved by dictatorship), the United States would be compelled to retain only her per capita share of ‘the total world income, that is, she must reduce her income to six (6) per cent of the total income and must give away in the post war period, through instrumentalities such ‘as the draft, rationing, lend lease, and money and credit management, the remaining 30 per cent of the world income which the United States now holds. In this way only, ninety four (94) per cent of the world population could also receive ninety-four (94) per cent of the world income. In the process, however, the average citizen of. the United States—Bill Smith— would ultimately lose five sixths of his income. In other words, if he had received $60 per week, he would then get only $10 a week.”’ CITY TREASURERS REPORT FOR MONTH OF JULY ‘Receipts: Balance in treasury— $11,385.69. Water collections $1,671.40, Delinquent taxes $21.60. Dog licenses $6.00. Business licenses $432.00. Court fines $135.50. Personal propert taxes $50.30. Miscellaneous $3.72. Compensation Ins. fund $40.38. —i$ 2,265 .50—$13,651-)}) 59. Disbursements: Warrants sini on general fund $2,867.56. Warrants paid on fire fund $69.94. Warrants paid on library fund $155. ate +085.61. Balance in treasury $10,565.98. Balance in fire fund $393.69. Balance in library fund $478.24, Gen eral fund $9,694.05. relief—although in the cocoon stage’ The . relief food which will be sent to oc-" signed to assist in reconstruction and . taxes are de. POST WAR PLANS GE MITCHELL — GIVEKEY TO TAX FOREST ENGINEER TO RESIGN POST Tahoe National Forest, announced with regret yesterday that Gerald ®. Mitchell, forest engineer, is resigning his post to accept employment with the Calida Lumber Company recently awarded the contract for. cutting the large stand of sugar pine timber at Brandy City, Sierra County. Mitchell has been on the staff for i five years and Ellis states that con‘struction work in the forest during. his tenure has been pushed ahead rapidly, especially the building of roads and bridges. Two outstanding improvements, supervised. by Mitchell were the rangiers stations at Downieville and ‘Sterraville, Sierra County. The work with the Calida. company which Mitchell will take over is building logging roads and bridges into a stand of 400,000,000 feet of virgin timber in ‘the vicinity of Brandy City. Initial contracts for cutting this timber have been let to ‘the company. It is proposed to cut about 280,000,000 feet in the first cutting of mature and over-ripe tim;ber. When that is compléted a second cutting can begin. The timber runs about 20 per cent sugar pine, 30 per cent ponderosa and _ other ; pines, and the rest is mainly species ot: fir. jthat this is the last stand of virgin isugar pine in the state. The trees are ‘reported to be unusually large. SKETCH OF EARL WARREN IN SAT. EVENING POST ‘California’s governor, Earl “Wask iren, states that the west can absorb ithe shock of transition from war to peace. which lies ahead according to {Frank J. Taylor in the current issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The title of his article Rox “Man With a New Broom.”’ Commenting on Governor Warren’s taking over his office at the state capitol he writes as follows: *‘When Earl Warren settled into the governor’s chair. at Sacramento, his ‘first direction to his secretaries was, . ‘Leave the door open.’ They might aa ‘well have removed it from the hingjes. The door has been wide open . ever since; any citizen with a notion jabout what’s good for the Golden State can walk in and talk with the governor about it. This is an. admirable innovation with a catch in ‘it; another citizen is likely to stroll in and overhear what the first Californian is proposing and horn in on the huddle. The governor doesn‘t mind, but it annoys special pleaders who like to talk low behind closed doors.” , Taylor continues, “handsome stnapping Earl Warren probably has less [guile and less self-importance than any other governor in the country.’ A serious-minded Horatio \Calvin Coolidge’s rare ability to lay giving the slightest impression that the is trying to shove it down anybody’s throat. Coolidge resemblance: ends, er.”” Summing up, according to article, Governor Warren feels that, “These are wartimes; California’s postwar salvation.” — A combined woodshed, garage and store room, in the rear of a resider belonging to George Finch was burt ed to the ground on South Aubu ‘street in Grass Valley early . day meree ‘Household ed sath stored in he . completely destroyed. burning ina day before. ecaughi fire . night final close to it, front of . Supervisor Guerdon Ellis of theForest service officials state . Alger character in flesh and blood, he has a proposition on the table without . That is where the howeythe — — Tet’s forget politics for the duration and work on FIRE RESTROYS G.' V. GARAGE —