December 1, 1939 (6 pages)

Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. evada Ci COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA y Nugget . From the ifor March 15, 18 The Liberty of the Press cor in the right to publish the with good motives and for j -ifiable ends. —Alexander ton. ob For awhile we thought that the slow down slow down strike was just a variation of the sit down strike. But reading Chester Rowell’s column the other day in the San Francisco Chronicle changed our opinion. There is a difference, a wide difference in principle. The sit down strike was a seizure of other people’s property without due process of law. The slow down strike, when it is honest, is an attempt to change conditions of work in the factory where the work is being done. Anyone who reads knows that labor on an assembly line in any motor manufacturing plant is a specially, speedy kind of labor. Every man along the line. must be on his toes every minute, to screw in so many bolts, do a job of welding or what not as, the motor is assembled from various mechanical parts as it proceeds from the beginning until at length it rolls out into the warehouse, a completed car. It is fast, tense work and we surmise there are few men who can stand the strain day after day, and week after week, as assembly lines have been operated in. the past, without showing mental or physical effects of the strain. _ We know nothing more about the slow down strike in the Chrysler plants than what we read. But we suspect that the workers do have a leg to stand on as regards their rebellion, in the matter of Speeding the assembly line, where they had none in the sit down strike. We believe there is some truth in the workers’ plea that “speeding up’”’ is fine for the stock holders but destructive of the physical stamina of the workers. Whether the slow down should be the answer to this condition, we doubt. We believe a gtraightforward strike as has now developed, is the proper answer to a proper “grievance. From ‘the standpoint of the Chrysler management we surmise that they object to slowing down their assembly line, for the reason that their competitors, Gen.eral Motors, Ford and others, also Ihave assembly lines, and ‘that in order to compete the ‘Chrysler assemly line must be just as speedy as those of. other companies. We think that twenty five years ago we passed that time when manufacturers were permitted to use up or wear out human values in the manufacture of commodity values of any kind. We speak of twenty five years ago, for that was about the time that Henry Ford began paying his army of mechanics higher wages than any, other manufacturer of autos, at least, in this country. That was also the time that Ford began taking an interest in the way his men lived and ‘trying as well as he could, to make ‘their lives more comfortable with ‘better housing, sanitation, modern appliances, and éven sponsoring to some extent better recreational facilities. And in only a short time there were many other employers of labor, who either followed Ford’s plan of social betterment or even improved upon it. ticularly, which \ concern sanitary the Kohler manufacturés neat, and whose model vil* lage and factories were wrecked by-John L. Lewis’, invading army some three years ago. There are other angles. of course ‘to the Chrysler controversy. One is that the workers are deliberately . violating their contract, at least they are accused of so doing. But on the general principal that working conditions are . equally as important as wages paid, we do believe that workers ‘have a just cause of complaint in the speeding up the assembly line, if, as reported that is what the Chrysler management has done. As a matter of justice, however, if Chrysler. is, forced to slow down his line, ‘then’ his competitors should be obliged to do the same thing. The American people, once understanding a problem, that involves fundamental injustice either to worker or employer, will eventually move to redress the wrong. The chief difficulty today is that our politicians have so befuddled the minds of the voters, that no clear course of action or chrystalization of public opinion ispossible. We call attention to one thing that seems to us highly significant. In the year 1928, QwWe recall one par; Vol. 13, No. 96. _The County Seat Paper _NEVADA 2 §e @ CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, MRS. G. ROBSON DIES SUDDENLY FROM STROKE Sorrow was expressed throughout Nevada City and county on Wednesday ‘when it was learned that Mrs. Clara M. Robson, wife of Chief of Police Garfield Robson, passed away from a stroke she suffered the night before. She was seemingly in better health than usual and had been hap~ py and full of mirth in preparation and at the bazaar given by the Ladies Aid of ithe Methodist church Tuesday evening. “Mrs. Robson was born in Grass Valley, September 9, 1881 and has spent her entire life in the twin cities. She took a deep interest in the Methodist church and its work. Left to mourn her passing are her husband, Garfield Robson, daughter Mrs. Ardis Hansen of Santa Rosa; and the following sisters and brothers, Mrs. Alfred: Reynolds, Mrs. Gove Celio, Mrs. Jonathan Pastoe, Mrs. Kate Robinson, of Nevadia City; Mrs. Edna Nunn, Husum, Washington; Mrs. Susie Gill, Burlingame; Wesley Williams; Grass Valley; Albert Williams, Esparto; Bud Williams, Sebastopol, besides nephews and nieces. Funeral services will be held at 2 o?clock .Saturday afternoon in the Holmes Funeral Home chapel with Rev. David Ralston of these Methodist church officiating. Interment will be made in the Robson plot in Greenwood cemetery at Grass Valley. The merchants of Nevada City, through the Chamber of Commerce, announced that they wll close between the hours of 2 and 3 tomorrow afternoon in respect to the memory of Mrs. Robson. They will also proffer floral pieces as a tribute to the esteem in which she was held. MILITARY FUNERAL HELD FOR LAWRENCE NIHELL A military funeral with a final salute by a firing squad and playing: of taps was accorded to Lawrence D. Nihell, a -sergeant.-of old Company C, California National Guard, Wed+ nesday at the Pine Grove cemetery: Nihell was one of the active members of his company during its existence. Many of his war and peace time friends gathered at the Holmes funeral home Wednesday to attend the services at which Rev. David Ralston of the Methodist church comforted the deceased’s aged brother, Captain George Nihell, with an eloquent. sermon, eulogizing the esteem in which he was held. The firing squad that fired the last salvos was composed of members of Banner Mountain Post, 2655, VFW, and taps were sounded by Dick Evans, Boy Scout. Pall bearers were: Richard R. Goyne, E. J. Ott, Ted LeMaire, Lloyd Smith, A. J. Winnegar and William Voight. NORTON RITES THIS MORNING Mrs. Ada Norton passed away at her home on Nile street Wednesday afternoon entiing an illness which began with a stroke on January 4, 1937. She was a patient sufferer and held strong hope of recovering from her illness. Mrs. Norton was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Robinson and was born at the family home near the Pine Grove cemetery now owned by (Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Goede. She ae about 67 years of age. Her cheery kindly personality won friends for her everywhere. Left to mourn her passing is a husband Edward Norton. and nephews and nieces. ‘A brother and three sisters have preceeded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 11 o’clock this morning in Holmes Funeral Home chapel with Rev. David Ralston officiating. ‘Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen spent yesterday in Truckee .on official business. ing to labor disputes of one kind or another, 4,000,000 man hours of labor were lost. In 1938, and the rate is the same thus far for 1939, there were 30,000,000 man hours of labor lost through labor disputes. In other words this country is progressing backwards. NO CHRISTMAS TREE PERMITS AT BIG BEND No thse use permits for Christmas trées will be issued this year on tne Big Bend district according to an announcement by District Ranger John R. Hodgson, at Cisco. Hodgson States that in previous years, he has ‘issued free permits but it is necessary to discontinue the practice on account of the scarcity of desirable trees. SPECIAL TRAIN FOR NEV. CITY. SHRINERS DEC. 9 SACRAMENTO, Nov Nov. 30.—A sipecial Southern Pacific train ha been chartered to bring ‘Shriners from the Nevada City district to Sacramento for the gigantic home coming ceremonial to be staged by Ben Ali Temple on Saturday. December 9. ‘Since all Shriners residing in Nevada City and vicinity are invited les, under the leadership of Gustave Dimmen, potentate’s representative is expected from there. The train will originate in Redding, leaving there at 11 a. m., and there will be seven scheduled stops enroute.” ; However, the temple officials have arranged with the railroad company to have the train halted wherever the engineer sights a Shriner wearing a red fez, so that the home coming noble can climb aboard. ‘After leaving Redding, the train's schedule calls for the following dedartureson the tour down the valley. Red Bluff, 11:40 a m.; Chico, 1 p. m.; Biggs, 1:40-p. m.; Gridley, 1:50 p. m.; Marysville, 2:20 p. m.; Lincoln, 3:00 p. m. and Roseville, 3¢16.D; 7m. The schedule has been arranged to bring the special into the Southern Pacific station in Sacramento at 8:55 p.m, thetime of arrival of two other special trains the temple has chartered to bring in the membership and candidates from other sections of the state. These other two trains will start from Vallejo and Stockton. P. 0. DEPT. OKEYS MAIL DELIVERY INNEVADA CITY Postmaster Betty Martin West has received word from the Post Office Department that her recommenda‘City has been approved, date of established service to be announced within a few weeks. Mrs. West is asking the co-operation of the public as regards the following required regulations’ that patrons:may be assured of proper delivery of their mail. Patrons must provide private mail receptacles. Delivery service shail not ‘be accorded any residence not equipped with a door slot or receptacle: These. mail boxes may be purchased from local merchants. Business houses and _ residences must be plainly numbered. As mail will be delivered by street address after the establishment of city delivery, Mrs. West is asking that the public begin at once the practice of using their house number and street name on all correspondence and mail matter. Inform your correspondents and publishers of your street address and use same in return addresses on all mail sent out from the Nevada City post office. This request is most important and in its use will assure patrons of correct delivery of mail and avoid delay in that delivery. These mail boxes may be obtained from the local merchants. After the date of city delivery establishment has been announced it will be necessary that all patrons desiring city delivery file a change of address card with the local office showing the change from lobby box delivery or from general delivery service to street address, It is only by such procedure that a change in delivery service will become ‘effective. These cards may be filed with any postal clerk at the post office after the date of city delivery has been announced. to attend’ a large gathering of nob-. ‘Andy Holmes, . watched \her tion for the city delivery for Nevada, 'W.HL CARRIGAN OF) R. R. BOARD IS ROTARY SPEAKER W. H. Carrigan, statistician for the California State Railroad commission, was the speaker yesterday at the luncheon meeting of the Rotary club, He gave an interesting discussion of transportation, indicating that the highways, airways, sea lanes and. camel routes are all vital arteries which carry the life blood of civilization. He gave brief glimpse of the importance of transportation to the warring powers of Europe. showing that Germany’s transportation facilities both as regards highways and conveyances, was far inferior to. the combined resources of France and England. The latter country, he proved quoting the actual figures is tremendously superior to Germany, in sea transportation, England has a tonnage of some 21 millions, in commercial Shipping, as compared with Germany’s 4 million. Frank Finnegan was chairman of the day and introduced the #peaker. ‘ , Robert Hendrick gave a brief description of the new Miners hospital. past president, preSided' in the absence of President Clyde Gwin, who is in San Francisco attending a national conference of foresters, FILBERTS PAY DIVIDENDS TO BUSINESS WOMAN Very few people realize that Nevada County, has the only bearing filbert nut orchards in California. It is owned by Miss Alice Moore who purchased a 20 acre tract of land in the Cement Hill section west of Nevada City about 1930. Miss Moore, who had seen the splendid highty productive orchards in’ eastern Oregon purchased the local property with a view to drainage, sunlight in the warm or thermal belt about this city. The local filberts are of excellent quality shelling out about 40 per cent in weight while those in Oregon shell about 35 per cent. This business woman, who had the vision to see the great future of the filbert industry has planted and orchard grow into a producer in a nine year period, Wath this successful demonstration Nevada County has a new crop that should be soon rivaling the dairy farms and fruit orchards. This year she has harvested -between 3,800 and 3,900 pounds of nuts from about 500 trees or 7 pounds to a tree. There are _ five acres of orchard and she plans to clear and plant more trees. Miss Moore found that frequent watering is the secret of success in growing the filberts, small _ trees needing water once a week while the larger ones should not go longer than three weeks for irrigation. The University of California specialists have been very helpful to Miss Moore in studying the needs of the trees. In the past the orchards was watered by ditch system but_ this year she installed a sprinkler system which is proving quite. satisfactory as she. can irrigate the orchard in less than three weeks with this method: Strange as it may seem Felix Gillet imported the filbert from France in 1871 and sold the trees to people as individual or group plants while he shipped al the trees to Oregon for the first orchards that are such good producers today. The Gillet Nursery was the first to be planted in a big way in the United States as this noted orchardis¢ realized the value of this tree. The original planting which is a plot on the lawn of the nursery grounds are still growing and producing nicely according to C. E. Parsons who now owns and operates the nursery. Gillet also produced the English walnut, ‘chestmut, and the French prune into the United States. The orchard of ‘Miss Moore is considered to be in partial production but will increase with the years. She has installed a husker, grader and shelling machine. She will shell all small nuts and has placed the larger nuts on sale in Nevada City, Grass Valley and Sacramento. A sample of the butter toasted nuts were delicious. She also takes orders from candy makers, In speaking of 5 4 the: feed for Beit sheep. Miners Hospital To Open In Februa WPA PROVIDES $98,000 FOR ROAD WORK IN COUNTY Prior to his departure for San Francisco Wednesday, Congressman Harry L. Englebright of this city, received a wire from Washington stating that the Works Progress Administration had allotted $98,000 for improvement of publicly owned roads in Nevada County. This will assure continued work on the secondary roads, and the county are much pleased with this prospect. Congressman Englebright stated that he will attend a hearing conducted by Congressional Joint Committee on Forestry in San Francisco on December 6 and 7 and following that will go to Portland, Oregon, where another hearing will be. held December 13 and 14. The committee of which Englebright is a member, consists of five senators and _ five representatives. It is charged with making a study of taxation problems, co-operative activities between private owners and public timber management, grazing, reforestation, fire control, watersheds, forest roads and communications, and other problems connected with public and _ private holdings of timber land. At the conclusion of the hearings .and study, the committee is expected to make a report and submit reéommendations and legislation needed to Congress. XMAS SEALS ARE REANY FOR XMAS HOLIDAY MAIL The Nevada County Tuberculosis Association has begun the sale of the Christmas seals. With the aid of the Camp Fire Girls packets of seals have been mailed to prospective donors or buyers. In letters signed by Mrs. Beatrice K. Bonner of Nevada City, president of the Nevada County Tuberculosis Association says 400 boys and girls in Nevada County have been tested. for tuberculosis, and 200 have been X-rayed. The letter states: ‘‘Where the Xray showed that there had been infection, the children were given special care by our school nurses, with X-rays taken every six months, rest periods in school and suitable diet given. “Six cases of tuberculosis were discovered through the tests in our schools. Through ‘Nevada County’s arrangement with Weimar Sanitarium, these cases were given hospitaiization and care, which is restoring them to health. Also the other children are being protected from dangerous contacts, “The money from. the sale of Christmas seals, paid for the tests, the X-ray pictures and _ follow-up calls by our nurses. Tuberculosis can be stamped out of Nevada County. ‘Will you help?” With the letter and seals is enclosed an envelope addressed to E, L. Dudley, Bank of America, Nevada City, Calif.’’ Draw a check for a dollar or place a dollar bill i» this envelope, put a stamp on the envelope and mail it. , WINTER MAIL SCHEDULE Postmaster Betty Martin West yesterday announced the winter mail schedule for the Washington Star route, starting December 1, Mail will leave Nevada City on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, at 9:30 a. m. and arrive at Nevada City at 2 p. m. nut crackers and bowl Miss Moore stated the Plaza Grocery in Nevada]. City carried the best she had found. The ground filberts are also delicious in muffin bread. Children and grown ups were hired during nut harvest to pick the supervisors. The new Miners Association Hospital built by the Newmont Mining company under the direction of Robert Hendricks is rapidly nearin completion. It will be opened, Mr. Hendricks states, about February 1. The hospital with ‘a full sonthern exposure stands on ‘Nevada ‘CityGrass Valley highway, inside the city limits and just a half block north of the Robert Evans residence, The hospital is built primarily for use of the eleven hundred employes of the Newmont mining company in the Nevada City-Grass Valley mining area, The families of the miners” will be accorded hospital accommodations, however, at rates considerably reduced from those ordinarily charged, and when beds are available, that is, not occupied by employes or members of their families, other patients will be accepted under certain conditions. *A staff of thirteen or fourteen persons will be employed, including 6 nurses, service maids, ai resident physician, a chief surgeon and physician, cooks, office help ete. The new hospital is built with provision made for an addition, if, in the future the present building should prove inadequate. Miners may join the hospital asseciation for $1.25 per month, ané they will be treated for accidents or % sickness with physician’s care and all hospital facilities accorded them. The. hospital when completed, with surgical and therapeutic equip. ment, operating room, with special modern lighting, heating closets, Special apparatus for treating bruis-. es and sprains, diet kitchen, and nursery for six babies, will be the very last word in hospital en a and efficiency. The nursery deserves special at-— tention. There will be room for six newcomer humans, each with a $100 bassinet. These are not the usual — wicker baskets of picturesque peasant stories but are of gleaming metal with individual closets in which’ gach baby’s appliances, medicines and comforts are kept by themselves in a tiny antiseptic closet. . The ground floor is given over to the entrance and main office, offices” for the physicians, rooms, the _ physical treatment quarters, baths, wide, well lighted hallways, a side éntrance through which stretchers may be conveniently admitted, an X-ray room and lead lined closets for the development of photographs of human interiors, diet kitchen, commodious closet and cases for keeping “— living quarters — for the resident physician, operating” ~ therapeuticlinens, surgical instruments and the special equipment. The upper floor in the rear pro*, vides large bedrooms and a’ living room for the nurses, with a spacious, beautifully lighted bath room. The basement, which owing to the slope of the ground, opens on the rear garden, contains bedrooms: for other resident members of the sta the cook and his assistant. There i also a large room in which the heating and air-conditioning equipment. are installed. Heat for the rooms will » be steam. A large water heater also located there. Other rooms provided for storage, plenty which» an institution of this kind must have. When completed the iat will cost $60,000. Regarding the purpose for which the hospital is being bugy, and the functions it will fulfil . 3 munity, the Nugget pri the articles of incorporation which have been filed with the clerk Nevada County: Miners Hospital pes That the purposes for which association is formed are as fol 1 To conduct a non-p pital or hospitals ‘in the Nevada, State of California, purpose of’ rendering hospi vice to such employees of g operated in and ‘ne and in any adjacent cou and to their _tamilies ents, and to employer said mines in the nuts, which is.also another side line [B6rvice of employment. bey Miss Moore has a smail flock sheep on her attractive little. ranch ) ‘sl as a sideline. A marshy stream ning through the place adds uch

Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. evada Ci COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA y Nugget . From the ifor March 15, 18 The Liberty of the Press cor in the right to publish the with good motives and for j -ifiable ends. —Alexander ton. ob For awhile we thought that the slow down slow down strike was just a variation of the sit down strike. But reading Chester Rowell’s column the other day in the San Francisco Chronicle changed our opinion. There is a difference, a wide difference in principle. The sit down strike was a seizure of other people’s property without due process of law. The slow down strike, when it is honest, is an attempt to change conditions of work in the factory where the work is being done. Anyone who reads knows that labor on an assembly line in any motor manufacturing plant is a specially, speedy kind of labor. Every man along the line. must be on his toes every minute, to screw in so many bolts, do a job of welding or what not as, the motor is assembled from various mechanical parts as it proceeds from the beginning until at length it rolls out into the warehouse, a completed car. It is fast, tense work and we surmise there are few men who can stand the strain day after day, and week after week, as assembly lines have been operated in. the past, without showing mental or physical effects of the strain. _ We know nothing more about the slow down strike in the Chrysler plants than what we read. But we suspect that the workers do have a leg to stand on as regards their rebellion, in the matter of Speeding the assembly line, where they had none in the sit down strike. We believe there is some truth in the workers’ plea that “speeding up’”’ is fine for the stock holders but destructive of the physical stamina of the workers. Whether the slow down should be the answer to this condition, we doubt. We believe a gtraightforward strike as has now developed, is the proper answer to a proper “grievance. From ‘the standpoint of the Chrysler management we surmise that they object to slowing down their assembly line, for the reason that their competitors, Gen.eral Motors, Ford and others, also Ihave assembly lines, and ‘that in order to compete the ‘Chrysler assemly line must be just as speedy as those of. other companies. We think that twenty five years ago we passed that time when manufacturers were permitted to use up or wear out human values in the manufacture of commodity values of any kind. We speak of twenty five years ago, for that was about the time that Henry Ford began paying his army of mechanics higher wages than any, other manufacturer of autos, at least, in this country. That was also the time that Ford began taking an interest in the way his men lived and ‘trying as well as he could, to make ‘their lives more comfortable with ‘better housing, sanitation, modern appliances, and éven sponsoring to some extent better recreational facilities. And in only a short time there were many other employers of labor, who either followed Ford’s plan of social betterment or even improved upon it. ticularly, which \ concern sanitary the Kohler manufacturés neat, and whose model vil* lage and factories were wrecked by-John L. Lewis’, invading army some three years ago. There are other angles. of course ‘to the Chrysler controversy. One is that the workers are deliberately . violating their contract, at least they are accused of so doing. But on the general principal that working conditions are . equally as important as wages paid, we do believe that workers ‘have a just cause of complaint in the speeding up the assembly line, if, as reported that is what the Chrysler management has done. As a matter of justice, however, if Chrysler. is, forced to slow down his line, ‘then’ his competitors should be obliged to do the same thing. The American people, once understanding a problem, that involves fundamental injustice either to worker or employer, will eventually move to redress the wrong. The chief difficulty today is that our politicians have so befuddled the minds of the voters, that no clear course of action or chrystalization of public opinion ispossible. We call attention to one thing that seems to us highly significant. In the year 1928, QwWe recall one par; Vol. 13, No. 96. _The County Seat Paper _NEVADA 2 §e @ CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, MRS. G. ROBSON DIES SUDDENLY FROM STROKE Sorrow was expressed throughout Nevada City and county on Wednesday ‘when it was learned that Mrs. Clara M. Robson, wife of Chief of Police Garfield Robson, passed away from a stroke she suffered the night before. She was seemingly in better health than usual and had been hap~ py and full of mirth in preparation and at the bazaar given by the Ladies Aid of ithe Methodist church Tuesday evening. “Mrs. Robson was born in Grass Valley, September 9, 1881 and has spent her entire life in the twin cities. She took a deep interest in the Methodist church and its work. Left to mourn her passing are her husband, Garfield Robson, daughter Mrs. Ardis Hansen of Santa Rosa; and the following sisters and brothers, Mrs. Alfred: Reynolds, Mrs. Gove Celio, Mrs. Jonathan Pastoe, Mrs. Kate Robinson, of Nevadia City; Mrs. Edna Nunn, Husum, Washington; Mrs. Susie Gill, Burlingame; Wesley Williams; Grass Valley; Albert Williams, Esparto; Bud Williams, Sebastopol, besides nephews and nieces. Funeral services will be held at 2 o?clock .Saturday afternoon in the Holmes Funeral Home chapel with Rev. David Ralston of these Methodist church officiating. Interment will be made in the Robson plot in Greenwood cemetery at Grass Valley. The merchants of Nevada City, through the Chamber of Commerce, announced that they wll close between the hours of 2 and 3 tomorrow afternoon in respect to the memory of Mrs. Robson. They will also proffer floral pieces as a tribute to the esteem in which she was held. MILITARY FUNERAL HELD FOR LAWRENCE NIHELL A military funeral with a final salute by a firing squad and playing: of taps was accorded to Lawrence D. Nihell, a -sergeant.-of old Company C, California National Guard, Wed+ nesday at the Pine Grove cemetery: Nihell was one of the active members of his company during its existence. Many of his war and peace time friends gathered at the Holmes funeral home Wednesday to attend the services at which Rev. David Ralston of the Methodist church comforted the deceased’s aged brother, Captain George Nihell, with an eloquent. sermon, eulogizing the esteem in which he was held. The firing squad that fired the last salvos was composed of members of Banner Mountain Post, 2655, VFW, and taps were sounded by Dick Evans, Boy Scout. Pall bearers were: Richard R. Goyne, E. J. Ott, Ted LeMaire, Lloyd Smith, A. J. Winnegar and William Voight. NORTON RITES THIS MORNING Mrs. Ada Norton passed away at her home on Nile street Wednesday afternoon entiing an illness which began with a stroke on January 4, 1937. She was a patient sufferer and held strong hope of recovering from her illness. Mrs. Norton was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Robinson and was born at the family home near the Pine Grove cemetery now owned by (Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Goede. She ae about 67 years of age. Her cheery kindly personality won friends for her everywhere. Left to mourn her passing is a husband Edward Norton. and nephews and nieces. ‘A brother and three sisters have preceeded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 11 o’clock this morning in Holmes Funeral Home chapel with Rev. David Ralston officiating. ‘Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen spent yesterday in Truckee .on official business. ing to labor disputes of one kind or another, 4,000,000 man hours of labor were lost. In 1938, and the rate is the same thus far for 1939, there were 30,000,000 man hours of labor lost through labor disputes. In other words this country is progressing backwards. NO CHRISTMAS TREE PERMITS AT BIG BEND No thse use permits for Christmas trées will be issued this year on tne Big Bend district according to an announcement by District Ranger John R. Hodgson, at Cisco. Hodgson States that in previous years, he has ‘issued free permits but it is necessary to discontinue the practice on account of the scarcity of desirable trees. SPECIAL TRAIN FOR NEV. CITY. SHRINERS DEC. 9 SACRAMENTO, Nov Nov. 30.—A sipecial Southern Pacific train ha been chartered to bring ‘Shriners from the Nevada City district to Sacramento for the gigantic home coming ceremonial to be staged by Ben Ali Temple on Saturday. December 9. ‘Since all Shriners residing in Nevada City and vicinity are invited les, under the leadership of Gustave Dimmen, potentate’s representative is expected from there. The train will originate in Redding, leaving there at 11 a. m., and there will be seven scheduled stops enroute.” ; However, the temple officials have arranged with the railroad company to have the train halted wherever the engineer sights a Shriner wearing a red fez, so that the home coming noble can climb aboard. ‘After leaving Redding, the train's schedule calls for the following dedartureson the tour down the valley. Red Bluff, 11:40 a m.; Chico, 1 p. m.; Biggs, 1:40-p. m.; Gridley, 1:50 p. m.; Marysville, 2:20 p. m.; Lincoln, 3:00 p. m. and Roseville, 3¢16.D; 7m. The schedule has been arranged to bring the special into the Southern Pacific station in Sacramento at 8:55 p.m, thetime of arrival of two other special trains the temple has chartered to bring in the membership and candidates from other sections of the state. These other two trains will start from Vallejo and Stockton. P. 0. DEPT. OKEYS MAIL DELIVERY INNEVADA CITY Postmaster Betty Martin West has received word from the Post Office Department that her recommenda‘City has been approved, date of established service to be announced within a few weeks. Mrs. West is asking the co-operation of the public as regards the following required regulations’ that patrons:may be assured of proper delivery of their mail. Patrons must provide private mail receptacles. Delivery service shail not ‘be accorded any residence not equipped with a door slot or receptacle: These. mail boxes may be purchased from local merchants. Business houses and _ residences must be plainly numbered. As mail will be delivered by street address after the establishment of city delivery, Mrs. West is asking that the public begin at once the practice of using their house number and street name on all correspondence and mail matter. Inform your correspondents and publishers of your street address and use same in return addresses on all mail sent out from the Nevada City post office. This request is most important and in its use will assure patrons of correct delivery of mail and avoid delay in that delivery. These mail boxes may be obtained from the local merchants.

After the date of city delivery establishment has been announced it will be necessary that all patrons desiring city delivery file a change of address card with the local office showing the change from lobby box delivery or from general delivery service to street address, It is only by such procedure that a change in delivery service will become ‘effective. These cards may be filed with any postal clerk at the post office after the date of city delivery has been announced. to attend’ a large gathering of nob-. ‘Andy Holmes, . watched \her tion for the city delivery for Nevada, 'W.HL CARRIGAN OF) R. R. BOARD IS ROTARY SPEAKER W. H. Carrigan, statistician for the California State Railroad commission, was the speaker yesterday at the luncheon meeting of the Rotary club, He gave an interesting discussion of transportation, indicating that the highways, airways, sea lanes and. camel routes are all vital arteries which carry the life blood of civilization. He gave brief glimpse of the importance of transportation to the warring powers of Europe. showing that Germany’s transportation facilities both as regards highways and conveyances, was far inferior to. the combined resources of France and England. The latter country, he proved quoting the actual figures is tremendously superior to Germany, in sea transportation, England has a tonnage of some 21 millions, in commercial Shipping, as compared with Germany’s 4 million. Frank Finnegan was chairman of the day and introduced the #peaker. ‘ , Robert Hendrick gave a brief description of the new Miners hospital. past president, preSided' in the absence of President Clyde Gwin, who is in San Francisco attending a national conference of foresters, FILBERTS PAY DIVIDENDS TO BUSINESS WOMAN Very few people realize that Nevada County, has the only bearing filbert nut orchards in California. It is owned by Miss Alice Moore who purchased a 20 acre tract of land in the Cement Hill section west of Nevada City about 1930. Miss Moore, who had seen the splendid highty productive orchards in’ eastern Oregon purchased the local property with a view to drainage, sunlight in the warm or thermal belt about this city. The local filberts are of excellent quality shelling out about 40 per cent in weight while those in Oregon shell about 35 per cent. This business woman, who had the vision to see the great future of the filbert industry has planted and orchard grow into a producer in a nine year period, Wath this successful demonstration Nevada County has a new crop that should be soon rivaling the dairy farms and fruit orchards. This year she has harvested -between 3,800 and 3,900 pounds of nuts from about 500 trees or 7 pounds to a tree. There are _ five acres of orchard and she plans to clear and plant more trees. Miss Moore found that frequent watering is the secret of success in growing the filberts, small _ trees needing water once a week while the larger ones should not go longer than three weeks for irrigation. The University of California specialists have been very helpful to Miss Moore in studying the needs of the trees. In the past the orchards was watered by ditch system but_ this year she installed a sprinkler system which is proving quite. satisfactory as she. can irrigate the orchard in less than three weeks with this method: Strange as it may seem Felix Gillet imported the filbert from France in 1871 and sold the trees to people as individual or group plants while he shipped al the trees to Oregon for the first orchards that are such good producers today. The Gillet Nursery was the first to be planted in a big way in the United States as this noted orchardis¢ realized the value of this tree. The original planting which is a plot on the lawn of the nursery grounds are still growing and producing nicely according to C. E. Parsons who now owns and operates the nursery. Gillet also produced the English walnut, ‘chestmut, and the French prune into the United States. The orchard of ‘Miss Moore is considered to be in partial production but will increase with the years. She has installed a husker, grader and shelling machine. She will shell all small nuts and has placed the larger nuts on sale in Nevada City, Grass Valley and Sacramento. A sample of the butter toasted nuts were delicious. She also takes orders from candy makers, In speaking of 5 4 the: feed for Beit sheep. Miners Hospital To Open In Februa WPA PROVIDES $98,000 FOR ROAD WORK IN COUNTY Prior to his departure for San Francisco Wednesday, Congressman Harry L. Englebright of this city, received a wire from Washington stating that the Works Progress Administration had allotted $98,000 for improvement of publicly owned roads in Nevada County. This will assure continued work on the secondary roads, and the county are much pleased with this prospect. Congressman Englebright stated that he will attend a hearing conducted by Congressional Joint Committee on Forestry in San Francisco on December 6 and 7 and following that will go to Portland, Oregon, where another hearing will be. held December 13 and 14. The committee of which Englebright is a member, consists of five senators and _ five representatives. It is charged with making a study of taxation problems, co-operative activities between private owners and public timber management, grazing, reforestation, fire control, watersheds, forest roads and communications, and other problems connected with public and _ private holdings of timber land. At the conclusion of the hearings .and study, the committee is expected to make a report and submit reéommendations and legislation needed to Congress. XMAS SEALS ARE REANY FOR XMAS HOLIDAY MAIL The Nevada County Tuberculosis Association has begun the sale of the Christmas seals. With the aid of the Camp Fire Girls packets of seals have been mailed to prospective donors or buyers. In letters signed by Mrs. Beatrice K. Bonner of Nevada City, president of the Nevada County Tuberculosis Association says 400 boys and girls in Nevada County have been tested. for tuberculosis, and 200 have been X-rayed. The letter states: ‘‘Where the Xray showed that there had been infection, the children were given special care by our school nurses, with X-rays taken every six months, rest periods in school and suitable diet given. “Six cases of tuberculosis were discovered through the tests in our schools. Through ‘Nevada County’s arrangement with Weimar Sanitarium, these cases were given hospitaiization and care, which is restoring them to health. Also the other children are being protected from dangerous contacts, “The money from. the sale of Christmas seals, paid for the tests, the X-ray pictures and _ follow-up calls by our nurses. Tuberculosis can be stamped out of Nevada County. ‘Will you help?” With the letter and seals is enclosed an envelope addressed to E, L. Dudley, Bank of America, Nevada City, Calif.’’ Draw a check for a dollar or place a dollar bill i» this envelope, put a stamp on the envelope and mail it. , WINTER MAIL SCHEDULE Postmaster Betty Martin West yesterday announced the winter mail schedule for the Washington Star route, starting December 1, Mail will leave Nevada City on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, at 9:30 a. m. and arrive at Nevada City at 2 p. m. nut crackers and bowl Miss Moore stated the Plaza Grocery in Nevada]. City carried the best she had found. The ground filberts are also delicious in muffin bread. Children and grown ups were hired during nut harvest to pick the supervisors. The new Miners Association Hospital built by the Newmont Mining company under the direction of Robert Hendricks is rapidly nearin completion. It will be opened, Mr. Hendricks states, about February 1. The hospital with ‘a full sonthern exposure stands on ‘Nevada ‘CityGrass Valley highway, inside the city limits and just a half block north of the Robert Evans residence, The hospital is built primarily for use of the eleven hundred employes of the Newmont mining company in the Nevada City-Grass Valley mining area, The families of the miners” will be accorded hospital accommodations, however, at rates considerably reduced from those ordinarily charged, and when beds are available, that is, not occupied by employes or members of their families, other patients will be accepted under certain conditions. *A staff of thirteen or fourteen persons will be employed, including 6 nurses, service maids, ai resident physician, a chief surgeon and physician, cooks, office help ete. The new hospital is built with provision made for an addition, if, in the future the present building should prove inadequate. Miners may join the hospital asseciation for $1.25 per month, ané they will be treated for accidents or % sickness with physician’s care and all hospital facilities accorded them. The. hospital when completed, with surgical and therapeutic equip. ment, operating room, with special modern lighting, heating closets, Special apparatus for treating bruis-. es and sprains, diet kitchen, and nursery for six babies, will be the very last word in hospital en a and efficiency. The nursery deserves special at-— tention. There will be room for six newcomer humans, each with a $100 bassinet. These are not the usual — wicker baskets of picturesque peasant stories but are of gleaming metal with individual closets in which’ gach baby’s appliances, medicines and comforts are kept by themselves in a tiny antiseptic closet. . The ground floor is given over to the entrance and main office, offices” for the physicians, rooms, the _ physical treatment quarters, baths, wide, well lighted hallways, a side éntrance through which stretchers may be conveniently admitted, an X-ray room and lead lined closets for the development of photographs of human interiors, diet kitchen, commodious closet and cases for keeping “— living quarters — for the resident physician, operating” ~ therapeuticlinens, surgical instruments and the special equipment. The upper floor in the rear pro*, vides large bedrooms and a’ living room for the nurses, with a spacious, beautifully lighted bath room. The basement, which owing to the slope of the ground, opens on the rear garden, contains bedrooms: for other resident members of the sta the cook and his assistant. There i also a large room in which the heating and air-conditioning equipment. are installed. Heat for the rooms will » be steam. A large water heater also located there. Other rooms provided for storage, plenty which» an institution of this kind must have. When completed the iat will cost $60,000. Regarding the purpose for which the hospital is being bugy, and the functions it will fulfil . 3 munity, the Nugget pri the articles of incorporation which have been filed with the clerk Nevada County: Miners Hospital pes That the purposes for which association is formed are as fol 1 To conduct a non-p pital or hospitals ‘in the Nevada, State of California, purpose of’ rendering hospi vice to such employees of g operated in and ‘ne and in any adjacent cou and to their _tamilies ents, and to employer said mines in the nuts, which is.also another side line [B6rvice of employment. bey Miss Moore has a smail flock sheep on her attractive little. ranch ) ‘sl as a sideline. A marshy stream ning through the place adds uch