December 1, 1950 (8 pages)

& v > ° NEVADA-SIERRA ABSENT AT GOLD AREA MEETING Nevada and Sierra: county representatives were conspicuous by their absénce at a meeting of Promotion minded citizens which met at Angels Camp last. week and launched an organization to tell the world about the “Golden Chain of California” the historical mining district of the state, centered about highway 49. Thirty representatives of chambers of commerce, boards of supervisors and highway associations from’ Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa and, San, Joaquin. counties unanimously endorsed a mo~ tion to create the.““Golden Chain Council of the Mother «Lode”to unify and coordinate advertising and promition campaigns. ‘San. Joaquin county was represented on the basis of Stockton being a logical point of entry into the southern reaches of the 49er highway. Their representatives indicated the city would cooperate with any promotion to stimulate tourist trade to the district. The council is to be formed of 18 members, three from each of ' the six highway 49 counties. The ‘ council members will include one gupervisor;, the head of the chamber of commerce, and a member _.of each chamber’s travel and rec--peation committee. Named as. temporary, chairman . of the advisory unit was Fred . Witta, Jr., ‘Jackson, secretarymanager of the Amador county chamber of commerce. Next. meeting of the council has been set for Friday, Jan. 19, 4in : Jackson. ‘ While organization of the unit has just been completed, its efforts already have produced reguits, Witta .pointed out. Already being distributed are 30,000 Golden Chain advertising pamphlets printed through financial cooperation of all six counties. Next on the program is. printing of thousands of cocktail napkins bearing the “Golden :Chain” map and other details advertising this section. Means of financing the project without cost to the participating chambers were discussed at the Angels Camp session. Witta displayed several types of advertising literature tieing in with he “Golden Chain” theme of. this; area. Purpose of the general program will be the drawing of tourists to the “Golden Chain” section, with resultant benefit to. all individual areas, he pointed out. ‘ “Tourist trade is the most lucrative trade we have,” declared Witta, “and we’re just getting to replace our mining with it.” “Recreation today in California is a billion dollar industry,” the temporary chairman added, “half the value of the state’s agricultural industry. It is our destiny to go out and bring these tourists and vacationists into the Mother Lode to show them what we have in recreation and scenic possibilities.” LOG WORK STOPPAGE BOOSTS JOBLESS LOAD Winter retrenchment in all employment in Nevada county was added to by the stoppage of work in the logging camps and saw mills by the heavy rains of two weeks ago, according to Paul Paye, department of employment ‘manager in Grass Valley. At week’s end there were 425 claims on file in Paye’s office, compared’ to 436 for the same date in 1949. Sawmill work during the winter appears very pessimistic. The sawmills have very few logs on hand for winter cutting. Lack of truckers and labor last summer prevented the mills from building a supply of.logs at the mills. YUEE TREE PRICES CONTINUE HIGH Christmas tree prices will in , all probability remain as high as last year, 75 cents to $1 per foot, “according to DeWitt Nelson, State forester. Only 500,000 of the some two and a half million yule trees that Californians are expected to use will come from the forest lands. of the state, Nelson said. A major part of the crop will be imported from: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota and British Columbia. of the Camp Beale reservation as -a site for a proposed U. S. Air ‘pessimistically warned the asTwenty-Third Year, No. 49 catia Some: nai? County) California, Friday, December l, 1950 AS AIR FORCE Approximately $1, 000 of the $1,500, goal for the twin cities of Nevada City and Grass. Valley . were raised in. an incompletely reported one-day campaign here to raise. funds for the promotion Force Academy. i Mrs. Mary: Johns, secretary of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, which. is coordinating the Nevada county campaign for funds, reported $300 had been raised in Nevada City and about. $700 in Grass Valley. An Air Force inspection group will tour Camp Beale on Tuesday, Dec. 12, as a part of: the inspection of 29 possible sites for the air school. Approximately a hundyet civic leaders of _Nevada City and Grass Valley heard Warren Shingle and Ralph Robinson, ‘Marysville businessmen and chamber of commerce: leaders, expound the possibilities of Camp Beale . as a site for the U. E. Air Force. -~ Academy at a Wednesday noon luncheon.at Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley. Shingle optimistically ce: ed the picture of the possibility of Camp Beale being chosen and sembly not to be too confident. Shingle pointed out that while the principal objective of the area is conversion of Camp Beale to an academy, the possibility of €amp Beale being reactivated as an army post is very possible in view: of the Kerean war.crisis. Shingle added “Camp Beale is still in the running, and is one of 29 proposed sites from an original entry field of 354.” Robinson related costs of conducting the promotion carmpaign and made.a frank appeal for additional funds to continue the program. Shingle reported about $5,600 had been spent on the campaign and between three and five thousand dollars more may be necessary. Shingle said other , California sites are Napa, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and March. Field. Roy Tremoureux, president of. the Grass Valley chamber of commerce, who presided, named Mayor Thomas H. Taylor, Arthur Innis, of Nevada City, and Dave Maltman and J. E. Keegan of, Grass Valley as chairmen of a financirig committee to raise additional funds for the campaign. A one-day campaign for funds was conducted, yesterday in both communities. MCCLOUD NOMINATED ODD FELLOWS CHIEF Henry McCloud was nominated Noble Grand at Tuesday ‘night’s meeting of Oustomah Lodge No. 16, Independent Order: of Odd Fellows. Election will be held at next Tuesday’s meeting. Other officers nominated included James Rozynski, Vice Grand; Jonathan Pascoe, recording secretary; John Dart, financial secretary; W. A. Carlson and Joe Day, treasurer. Ed. Cotters will be the relising Noble Grand. CAROL SINGERS AT HISTORY UNIT MEETING Carol singers will feature next Monday’s meeting of the seh County Historical Society scheduled to be held at 8 o’clock at Wesley hall in Grass Valley, according to Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger, president, Included in the business program will be the annual reports and nomination. of officers. HIGHWAY 40 OPEN State division of highways anopening of U. S. highway 40 on Wednesday. The road had been closed by a washout at Mystic in the northeast corner of Nevada TAXES ann AFTER TUESDAY «Taxes become delinquent. in Nevada county if not paid by _5 p.m. Tuesday, warned Miss Elma Hecker. county tax collector, this morning. » ~ “There are: only three and a half more days in which to pay county taxes without becoming delinquent,’, the popular tax collector.warned. Miss Hecker also said several Nevada county property owners face delinquency of the first-installment of their. . taxes because of inadequate addresses in the. tax collector's office. A number of the bills are for residents of the Grass Valley and Colfax highway areas. who. have not reported address changes since rural mail route changes early this Hecker also. seinead out. aT purchasers of property since: assessment time last. March should check with her office and make sure taxes are ‘paid: before the Tuesday delinquency date. oie wera! ae EPA OTE fess INTERIOR DEPT. ' Amendment of mining laws apposed by the Department of the Interior which would triple the annual mining claim assessment work to $300, and impose strict, regulations in surfaces of mining claims is included in a_threepage report.,of the Bureau of Land Management, a unit of the Department of the Interior. The proposed changes are included in a document circulated to regional administrators, division chiefs and ‘field offices and is marked ‘“Confidential—Neither this memorandum nor the in@ormation it contains is to be made, available to the public.” ' The Taylor grazing act places the jurisdiction of the act under the Bureau of Land Management and a prospector on public domain grazing land could be classified as a trespasser. George W. Hallock, Grass Valley, president of the California Hydraulic -Mining Association, said that if the Department of the Interior gets approval of the proposed law, the mining industry as it is known todaywould be doomed. CAMPTONVILLE SCHOOL DEDICATION SUNDAY Dedication of the Camptonville school will take place Sunday at 1 p.m., according to announces ment by Mrs. Eric Nelson, president of Marysville parlor, Native Daughters: of the Golden West. Residents of the Camptonville area will participate in the program. Committee in charge of the program includes .Mrs. Agnes -Weber Meade, Mrs. Clarence McCrank, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Hazel Redwine, Mrs. Marion Heisch, Mrs. William Eden and Mrs. Tim T. McKinsey. NEW TELEPHONE BOOKS BEING DELIVERED Delivery of new telephone directories covering Nevada, Butte, Sutter, Yuba and Sierra counties is underway, according to Eugene Ingalls, manager of Pacific Telephone‘ & Telegraph Co. in Nevada City and Grass Valley. Ingalls reported 3,100 copies of the directories are being distributed in the twin. cities area. distributed in the five counties. The directory formerly included Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties, but the listings for these cqunties }are now included in a separate county. A book. -. ing for mod plicable to public domain is pro-Approximately 32,000 are being [RESTORATION PROGRAM OF TRINITY CHURCH IS PLANNED: BY CLUB Restoration of the Trinity Epis‘. copal church to its original appearance in the 1870’s has been launched -by .the.Men’s Club of the church; according. to H. J. Ray, president. of the group. . The church was organized ‘here in 1854 and ‘the present: building constructed.:.20. years:>Jater.-Although additions have been made the long range restoration -program ‘will preserve it as a_historical landmark of the early-day. mining era. Construction of new doors of -heavy redwood and stained deep mahogany has started. George Mathis, the artistic world’s gift to: Nevada City, has designed the doors. to conform to the aries: ture of the. building. Door frame and mouldings are being. remade and reinforced .and original woodwork. designs over ‘. the doorway will be cleaned and painted and replaced. Ray’ said other,,phases. of. the restoration. includes~ installation of original gas fixtures. and :wir electyjcity,jreroofing the church, installation of a fire prevention system, installation of rubber tiling in the vestibule, recarpeting the nave and sanctuary and sical the entire building: As a part of the rewiring and . ’ relighting program the present lighting system will be -replaced with ecclesiastical fixtures. Tom Reynolds and Carl Noren have been appointed by ‘Ray to supervise the restoration project. Specially designed strap hinges will support the new doors. Rev. Max Christensen is rector of the church. FREE CUTTING OF YULE TREES RESTRICTED Free cutting of Christmas: trees for individual use will again be restricted in the Tahoe national forest according to ah announcement yesterday by Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of the forest. Past free cutting of Christmas trees by individuals from nearby towns, valley and: bay area cities has completely exhausted the supply of readily available public land trees. While it appears many trees are available along regular routes of travel, in most instances these trees are either protected by state law as a part of the scenic roadside, or are trees growing on private land which are not obtainable by the general’ public. Trees which supply the commercial market now come from the. more inaccessible portions of the forest, Ellis said. Many operators sled their trees or mulepack them for miles to reach outlet roads. It is regretted this action is necessary, stated Ellis, for we fully appreciate the desire of individuals to cut their own tree. However, the demand is so heavy that free use of trees must .be denied to residents of Nevada Gity, Grass Valley, Auburn, Reno and the Sacramento valley and bay area. Bonafide settlers in isolated areas inside the/forest will not be affected by these restrictions, Ellis concluded. SCHOOL UNIFICATION. MEETING ON JAN. 17 A public meeting to discuss the unionization of Nevada City and Grass Valley high schools will be held Wednesday, Jan. 17, in the auditorium of the Nevada City elementary. school, according to announcement this morning by ohn .L. Larue, local member of the county wide school redistricting committee, which will conduct the January meeting. John Oakie, Clear Créek, will ue preside as chairman of the meeting, which is to start at 8 o’clock. Lhe MILK HEARING *% Hearings are scheduled Tuesday, Dec. 19, by the state department of agriculture . on petition of milk producers. ‘Ment in, controlling TAHOE FOREST HAS EASY YEAR IN FIRE FIGHTING Tahoe national forest escaped the 1950 fire. season .without a single devastating blaze, according to Fire Control Officer Keith Macdonald. Largest fire of the. Tahoe season started. after the first rainfall early in October and’ burned -120 acrés. in the Hampshire Rocks ‘district before it was brought under control. Macdonald resareda only about 33 percent of the expected acteage was burned, A total of 127 fires, man-made and natural, burned 445 acres for an average of 3.5 acres.per fire. A contributed factor to the low acreage figure was attributed by Macdonald to cooperation received from lumber companies and other agencies in the forest in lending cope —_ equipcooperation of .ot liek forest users in promptly repo Ak #s Forest service. tack Washington; D. @ Gall for maximum number of man-made fires at 40 for Tahoe national forést, and it was exceeded by 50 percent,-. Lightning fires accounted for 67 blazes. Macdonald explained that the maximum. allowable figures are arrived at after a study of past. fire occurrences on various national -forésts of the U. S: A breakdown of the fires shows that 102. fires burned less than a quarter acre of ground, 19 of the fires were: between a quarter acre and 10 acres, five burnéd’ between 10 and 100 acres, and one burned over 100 acres. The forest service sets onetenth of one percent of the forest acreage as a desirable maximum burn. Guerdon, Ellis, Tahoe supervisor, said the ten year average since 1941 is below the maximum, despite serious fires last year. and in 1947. -Records of the past five years: LightManYear Acreage ning made 1950 .. 445 67 60 1949 .. 2,378 100 82 1068 2. 326 2 58 1947 .:.6,270 ys 67 1946 .. 374 23 yf VFW AND AUXILIARY MEETS JOINTLY TONIGHT Banner Mountain Post No. 2655 of Veterans of Foreign Wars and the VFW Auxiliary will meet in joint session ‘tonight at Cardinal hall in the first of what will be regular joirit sessions: Léroy Hoskin is chairman of refreshments for tonight’s méeting. The change was voted at the last: meeting of the VFW, which formerly met on the: first and third Mondays of the month and now will meet on the Auxiliary nights—first and third Fridays. Gordon Tryon, adjutant of the local unit, announced the post’s second hospital bed will: arrive within a couple weeks. John Blackburn was appointed sergeant major, publicity chairman and delegate the VFW county council. TRUCKEE MAN FINED FOR CUTTING TREES Pat Harrison, Truckee, ‘was fined $150 in Tahoe City. justice court on a charge of illegal cutting of Christmas trees in the Soda Springs area of the Tahoe national forest. He was arrested Nov. 8 by Acting Ranger Anton Rogina. Justice of the Peace W. E. Vernon suspended $100 of the fine on condition that Harrison deliver the trees to the Big Bend ranger station where they will be sold at auction. SUPERVISORS. MEET Nevada county board of supervisors will meet today in regular session in the supervisors chambers at the courthouse, . Routine, affairs. aré on the sc arvanee a ee fod COUNTY ROAD WORK MAY TRY PLANNED BASIS Possibility of a long range program of road building, for Nevada county was evinced at_an_informal discussion of road building problems by the board of supervisors, Joe F. O’Connor, county road commissioner; and Ted Jain, Marysville, federal aid secondary project engineer of the California highway department Saturday afternoon at the courthouse. Henry G. Loehr, Truckee, the board chairman, said it is the hope of the supervisors. to: even< tually place the county road program on a two to five year planning basis. ‘““‘We have always dissipated our funds in maintenance work and as a result have. been unable to finance road canstruc-, tion,” the chairmam said: Jain met with the ratory to discuss the use of $40,000 of: federal aid secondary’ funds’ available to the: county if used ‘before July 1, 1951. The money has, to be matched with county funds of which ‘there are none available. for road construction at the present. time. Jain said that if the $40,000: /was made available to ‘the state the gambling odds were good the money could be used on a state project in Nevada county. In an effort to save-the federal funds for ‘use by Névada county the supervisors: informally rec‘the. utilization: of chapter . 20: money ‘of. which .the county has available $$7,000,. and build a btidge across the South Yuba at Washington ‘just “upstream from the present bridge. . O'Connor estimated the bridge would cost about $90,000. If the: project: cannot be. put into execution in time to: utilize the federal money, the board informally approved a $120,000" realignment and’ grading of 9.16 miles of the Tyler road from, the junction. at highway 49 to North Columbia for construction in 1951 and 1952. The two ‘year project would “we’two years of federal aid* secondary funds, ‘the ‘county . matching “funds to be’ Yaised by: a°"YS “cents “Toads and 15 cents bridges tax. ' Tyler project if. adopted would call for two miles of realignment from:a point 3% miles ‘east’ of highway: 49--and additional base and surfacing of the 9.16 miles. The board also considered the Edwards Crossing bridge and approaching grades and the road in the vicinity of the Bridgeport bridge. , The magnitude of. the construction projects decided the board .to defer the projects in favor of the Tyler. road. Jain pointed out to the. board members that they could combine funds with Sierra county and authorize a joint project. Sierra county also has $40,000 in federal funds available but no matching county funds. At a formal session in the morning Gun N. Robinson, newly elected supervisor of the fourth district, took his seat for the first time. The board also canvassed the ballots of the Nov. 7 general election. NOVEMBER WINDS UP AS SECOND WETTEST Fred Bush,: weather reporter, said approximately two inches of precipitation was. spilled ‘from the weather gauge by tampering boys and with the quarter inch of rain that fell Wednesday, the month ended as the second wettest November in the century of recorded weather in Nevada City with a total fall of 17.93 inches. Season rainfall to date is 25.13 inches compared to 5.56 at the same time in 1949. “Previous record November was 21.55 inches recorded in 1884. The week’s report: Max. Min. Friday, Nov. 24 .. 62 42 Saturday, Nov. 25. 69 39 Sunday, Nov. 26 .. 66 32 Monday, Nov. 27 .. 59 34 Tuesday, Nov. 28 . 60 32 Wednesday, Nov. 29 56 31 Thursday, Nov. 30 . 60 33 Precipitation: Nov. 26, 27, 28° and 29, trace; Nov. 30, .25. «; as: ASKS $877\46 DAMAGES William P. Riley filed suit in Nevada county superior court yesterday asking $877.46 damagesfrom Don A. Phelps, driver, and the Pacific. Intermountain Express, damages allegedly resulting from a collision Sept. 11, on highway 40, 6% miles west’ ‘of Truckee. Horace E. Dunning, Sac— ramento, is attorney for plaintiff,

& v > ° NEVADA-SIERRA ABSENT AT GOLD AREA MEETING Nevada and Sierra: county representatives were conspicuous by their absénce at a meeting of Promotion minded citizens which met at Angels Camp last. week and launched an organization to tell the world about the “Golden Chain of California” the historical mining district of the state, centered about highway 49. Thirty representatives of chambers of commerce, boards of supervisors and highway associations from’ Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Mariposa and, San, Joaquin. counties unanimously endorsed a mo~ tion to create the.““Golden Chain Council of the Mother «Lode”to unify and coordinate advertising and promition campaigns. ‘San. Joaquin county was represented on the basis of Stockton being a logical point of entry into the southern reaches of the 49er highway. Their representatives indicated the city would cooperate with any promotion to stimulate tourist trade to the district. The council is to be formed of 18 members, three from each of ' the six highway 49 counties. The ‘ council members will include one gupervisor;, the head of the chamber of commerce, and a member _.of each chamber’s travel and rec--peation committee. Named as. temporary, chairman . of the advisory unit was Fred . Witta, Jr., ‘Jackson, secretarymanager of the Amador county chamber of commerce. Next. meeting of the council has been set for Friday, Jan. 19, 4in : Jackson. ‘ While organization of the unit has just been completed, its efforts already have produced reguits, Witta .pointed out. Already being distributed are 30,000 Golden Chain advertising pamphlets printed through financial cooperation of all six counties. Next on the program is. printing of thousands of cocktail napkins bearing the “Golden :Chain” map and other details advertising this section. Means of financing the project without cost to the participating chambers were discussed at the Angels Camp session. Witta displayed several types of advertising literature tieing in with he “Golden Chain” theme of. this; area. Purpose of the general program will be the drawing of tourists to the “Golden Chain” section, with resultant benefit to. all individual areas, he pointed out. ‘ “Tourist trade is the most lucrative trade we have,” declared Witta, “and we’re just getting to replace our mining with it.” “Recreation today in California is a billion dollar industry,” the temporary chairman added, “half the value of the state’s agricultural industry. It is our destiny to go out and bring these tourists and vacationists into the Mother Lode to show them what we have in recreation and scenic possibilities.” LOG WORK STOPPAGE BOOSTS JOBLESS LOAD Winter retrenchment in all employment in Nevada county was added to by the stoppage of work in the logging camps and saw mills by the heavy rains of two weeks ago, according to Paul Paye, department of employment ‘manager in Grass Valley. At week’s end there were 425 claims on file in Paye’s office, compared’ to 436 for the same date in 1949. Sawmill work during the winter appears very pessimistic. The sawmills have very few logs on hand for winter cutting. Lack of truckers and labor last summer prevented the mills from building a supply of.logs at the mills. YUEE TREE PRICES CONTINUE HIGH Christmas tree prices will in , all probability remain as high as last year, 75 cents to $1 per foot, “according to DeWitt Nelson, State forester. Only 500,000 of the some two and a half million yule trees that Californians are expected to use will come from the forest lands. of the state, Nelson said. A major part of the crop will be imported from: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota and British Columbia. of the Camp Beale reservation as -a site for a proposed U. S. Air ‘pessimistically warned the asTwenty-Third Year, No. 49 catia Some: nai? County) California, Friday, December l, 1950 AS AIR FORCE Approximately $1, 000 of the $1,500, goal for the twin cities of Nevada City and Grass. Valley . were raised in. an incompletely reported one-day campaign here to raise. funds for the promotion Force Academy. i Mrs. Mary: Johns, secretary of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, which. is coordinating the Nevada county campaign for funds, reported $300 had been raised in Nevada City and about. $700 in Grass Valley. An Air Force inspection group will tour Camp Beale on Tuesday, Dec. 12, as a part of: the inspection of 29 possible sites for the air school. Approximately a hundyet civic leaders of _Nevada City and Grass Valley heard Warren Shingle and Ralph Robinson, ‘Marysville businessmen and chamber of commerce: leaders, expound the possibilities of Camp Beale . as a site for the U. E. Air Force. -~ Academy at a Wednesday noon luncheon.at Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley. Shingle optimistically ce: ed the picture of the possibility of Camp Beale being chosen and sembly not to be too confident. Shingle pointed out that while the principal objective of the area is conversion of Camp Beale to an academy, the possibility of €amp Beale being reactivated as an army post is very possible in view: of the Kerean war.crisis. Shingle added “Camp Beale is still in the running, and is one of 29 proposed sites from an original entry field of 354.” Robinson related costs of conducting the promotion carmpaign and made.a frank appeal for additional funds to continue the program. Shingle reported about $5,600 had been spent on the campaign and between three and five thousand dollars more may be necessary. Shingle said other , California sites are Napa, Santa Rosa, Sacramento, and March. Field. Roy Tremoureux, president of. the Grass Valley chamber of commerce, who presided, named Mayor Thomas H. Taylor, Arthur Innis, of Nevada City, and Dave Maltman and J. E. Keegan of, Grass Valley as chairmen of a financirig committee to raise additional funds for the campaign. A one-day campaign for funds was conducted, yesterday in both communities. MCCLOUD NOMINATED ODD FELLOWS CHIEF Henry McCloud was nominated Noble Grand at Tuesday ‘night’s meeting of Oustomah Lodge No. 16, Independent Order: of Odd Fellows. Election will be held at next Tuesday’s meeting. Other officers nominated included James Rozynski, Vice Grand; Jonathan Pascoe, recording secretary; John Dart, financial secretary; W. A. Carlson and Joe Day, treasurer. Ed. Cotters will be the relising Noble Grand. CAROL SINGERS AT HISTORY UNIT MEETING Carol singers will feature next Monday’s meeting of the seh County Historical Society scheduled to be held at 8 o’clock at Wesley hall in Grass Valley, according to Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger, president, Included in the business program will be the annual reports and nomination. of officers. HIGHWAY 40 OPEN State division of highways anopening of U. S. highway 40 on Wednesday. The road had been closed by a washout at Mystic in the northeast corner of Nevada TAXES ann AFTER TUESDAY «Taxes become delinquent. in Nevada county if not paid by _5 p.m. Tuesday, warned Miss Elma Hecker. county tax collector, this morning. » ~ “There are: only three and a half more days in which to pay county taxes without becoming delinquent,’, the popular tax collector.warned. Miss Hecker also said several Nevada county property owners face delinquency of the first-installment of their. . taxes because of inadequate addresses in the. tax collector's office. A number of the bills are for residents of the Grass Valley and Colfax highway areas. who. have not reported address changes since rural mail route changes early this Hecker also. seinead out. aT purchasers of property since: assessment time last. March should check with her office and make sure taxes are ‘paid: before the Tuesday delinquency date. oie wera! ae EPA OTE fess INTERIOR DEPT. ' Amendment of mining laws apposed by the Department of the Interior which would triple the annual mining claim assessment work to $300, and impose strict, regulations in surfaces of mining claims is included in a_threepage report.,of the Bureau of Land Management, a unit of the Department of the Interior. The proposed changes are included in a document circulated to regional administrators, division chiefs and ‘field offices and is marked ‘“Confidential—Neither this memorandum nor the in@ormation it contains is to be made, available to the public.” ' The Taylor grazing act places the jurisdiction of the act under the Bureau of Land Management and a prospector on public domain grazing land could be classified as a trespasser. George W. Hallock, Grass Valley, president of the California Hydraulic -Mining Association, said that if the Department of the Interior gets approval of the proposed law, the mining industry as it is known todaywould be doomed. CAMPTONVILLE SCHOOL DEDICATION SUNDAY Dedication of the Camptonville school will take place Sunday at 1 p.m., according to announces ment by Mrs. Eric Nelson, president of Marysville parlor, Native Daughters: of the Golden West. Residents of the Camptonville area will participate in the program. Committee in charge of the program includes .Mrs. Agnes -Weber Meade, Mrs. Clarence McCrank, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Hazel Redwine, Mrs. Marion Heisch, Mrs. William Eden and Mrs. Tim T. McKinsey. NEW TELEPHONE BOOKS BEING DELIVERED Delivery of new telephone directories covering Nevada, Butte, Sutter, Yuba and Sierra counties is underway, according to Eugene Ingalls, manager of Pacific Telephone‘ & Telegraph Co. in Nevada City and Grass Valley. Ingalls reported 3,100 copies of the directories are being distributed in the twin. cities area. distributed in the five counties. The directory formerly included Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties, but the listings for these cqunties }are now included in a separate county. A book. -. ing for mod plicable to public domain is pro-Approximately 32,000 are being [RESTORATION PROGRAM OF TRINITY CHURCH IS PLANNED: BY CLUB Restoration of the Trinity Epis‘. copal church to its original appearance in the 1870’s has been launched -by .the.Men’s Club of the church; according. to H. J. Ray, president. of the group. . The church was organized ‘here

in 1854 and ‘the present: building constructed.:.20. years:>Jater.-Although additions have been made the long range restoration -program ‘will preserve it as a_historical landmark of the early-day. mining era. Construction of new doors of -heavy redwood and stained deep mahogany has started. George Mathis, the artistic world’s gift to: Nevada City, has designed the doors. to conform to the aries: ture of the. building. Door frame and mouldings are being. remade and reinforced .and original woodwork. designs over ‘. the doorway will be cleaned and painted and replaced. Ray’ said other,,phases. of. the restoration. includes~ installation of original gas fixtures. and :wir electyjcity,jreroofing the church, installation of a fire prevention system, installation of rubber tiling in the vestibule, recarpeting the nave and sanctuary and sical the entire building: As a part of the rewiring and . ’ relighting program the present lighting system will be -replaced with ecclesiastical fixtures. Tom Reynolds and Carl Noren have been appointed by ‘Ray to supervise the restoration project. Specially designed strap hinges will support the new doors. Rev. Max Christensen is rector of the church. FREE CUTTING OF YULE TREES RESTRICTED Free cutting of Christmas: trees for individual use will again be restricted in the Tahoe national forest according to ah announcement yesterday by Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of the forest. Past free cutting of Christmas trees by individuals from nearby towns, valley and: bay area cities has completely exhausted the supply of readily available public land trees. While it appears many trees are available along regular routes of travel, in most instances these trees are either protected by state law as a part of the scenic roadside, or are trees growing on private land which are not obtainable by the general’ public. Trees which supply the commercial market now come from the. more inaccessible portions of the forest, Ellis said. Many operators sled their trees or mulepack them for miles to reach outlet roads. It is regretted this action is necessary, stated Ellis, for we fully appreciate the desire of individuals to cut their own tree. However, the demand is so heavy that free use of trees must .be denied to residents of Nevada Gity, Grass Valley, Auburn, Reno and the Sacramento valley and bay area. Bonafide settlers in isolated areas inside the/forest will not be affected by these restrictions, Ellis concluded. SCHOOL UNIFICATION. MEETING ON JAN. 17 A public meeting to discuss the unionization of Nevada City and Grass Valley high schools will be held Wednesday, Jan. 17, in the auditorium of the Nevada City elementary. school, according to announcement this morning by ohn .L. Larue, local member of the county wide school redistricting committee, which will conduct the January meeting. John Oakie, Clear Créek, will ue preside as chairman of the meeting, which is to start at 8 o’clock. Lhe MILK HEARING *% Hearings are scheduled Tuesday, Dec. 19, by the state department of agriculture . on petition of milk producers. ‘Ment in, controlling TAHOE FOREST HAS EASY YEAR IN FIRE FIGHTING Tahoe national forest escaped the 1950 fire. season .without a single devastating blaze, according to Fire Control Officer Keith Macdonald. Largest fire of the. Tahoe season started. after the first rainfall early in October and’ burned -120 acrés. in the Hampshire Rocks ‘district before it was brought under control. Macdonald resareda only about 33 percent of the expected acteage was burned, A total of 127 fires, man-made and natural, burned 445 acres for an average of 3.5 acres.per fire. A contributed factor to the low acreage figure was attributed by Macdonald to cooperation received from lumber companies and other agencies in the forest in lending cope —_ equipcooperation of .ot liek forest users in promptly repo Ak #s Forest service. tack Washington; D. @ Gall for maximum number of man-made fires at 40 for Tahoe national forést, and it was exceeded by 50 percent,-. Lightning fires accounted for 67 blazes. Macdonald explained that the maximum. allowable figures are arrived at after a study of past. fire occurrences on various national -forésts of the U. S: A breakdown of the fires shows that 102. fires burned less than a quarter acre of ground, 19 of the fires were: between a quarter acre and 10 acres, five burnéd’ between 10 and 100 acres, and one burned over 100 acres. The forest service sets onetenth of one percent of the forest acreage as a desirable maximum burn. Guerdon, Ellis, Tahoe supervisor, said the ten year average since 1941 is below the maximum, despite serious fires last year. and in 1947. -Records of the past five years: LightManYear Acreage ning made 1950 .... 445 67 60 1949 .... 2,378 100 82 1068 2.. 326 2 58 1947 ..:..6,270 ys 67 1946 .... 374 23 yf VFW AND AUXILIARY MEETS JOINTLY TONIGHT Banner Mountain Post No. 2655 of Veterans of Foreign Wars and the VFW Auxiliary will meet in joint session ‘tonight at Cardinal hall in the first of what will be regular joirit sessions: Léroy Hoskin is chairman of refreshments for tonight’s méeting. The change was voted at the last: meeting of the VFW, which formerly met on the: first and third Mondays of the month and now will meet on the Auxiliary nights—first and third Fridays. Gordon Tryon, adjutant of the local unit, announced the post’s second hospital bed will: arrive within a couple weeks. John Blackburn was appointed sergeant major, publicity chairman and delegate the VFW county council. TRUCKEE MAN FINED FOR CUTTING TREES Pat Harrison, Truckee, ‘was fined $150 in Tahoe City. justice court on a charge of illegal cutting of Christmas trees in the Soda Springs area of the Tahoe national forest. He was arrested Nov. 8 by Acting Ranger Anton Rogina. Justice of the Peace W. E. Vernon suspended $100 of the fine on condition that Harrison deliver the trees to the Big Bend ranger station where they will be sold at auction. SUPERVISORS. MEET Nevada county board of supervisors will meet today in regular session in the supervisors chambers at the courthouse, . Routine, affairs. aré on the sc arvanee a ee fod COUNTY ROAD WORK MAY TRY PLANNED BASIS Possibility of a long range program of road building, for Nevada county was evinced at_an_informal discussion of road building problems by the board of supervisors, Joe F. O’Connor, county road commissioner; and Ted Jain, Marysville, federal aid secondary project engineer of the California highway department Saturday afternoon at the courthouse. Henry G. Loehr, Truckee, the board chairman, said it is the hope of the supervisors. to: even< tually place the county road program on a two to five year planning basis. ‘““‘We have always dissipated our funds in maintenance work and as a result have. been unable to finance road canstruc-, tion,” the chairmam said: Jain met with the ratory to discuss the use of $40,000 of: federal aid secondary’ funds’ available to the: county if used ‘before July 1, 1951. The money has, to be matched with county funds of which ‘there are none available. for road construction at the present. time. Jain said that if the $40,000: /was made available to ‘the state the gambling odds were good the money could be used on a state project in Nevada county. In an effort to save-the federal funds for ‘use by Névada county the supervisors: informally rec‘the. utilization: of chapter . 20: money ‘of. which .the county has available $$7,000,. and build a btidge across the South Yuba at Washington ‘just “upstream from the present bridge. . O'Connor estimated the bridge would cost about $90,000. If the: project: cannot be. put into execution in time to: utilize the federal money, the board informally approved a $120,000" realignment and’ grading of 9.16 miles of the Tyler road from, the junction. at highway 49 to North Columbia for construction in 1951 and 1952. The two ‘year project would “we’two years of federal aid* secondary funds, ‘the ‘county . matching “funds to be’ Yaised by: a°"YS “cents “Toads and 15 cents bridges tax. ' Tyler project if. adopted would call for two miles of realignment from:a point 3% miles ‘east’ of highway: 49--and additional base and surfacing of the 9.16 miles. The board also considered the Edwards Crossing bridge and approaching grades and the road in the vicinity of the Bridgeport bridge. , The magnitude of. the construction projects decided the board .to defer the projects in favor of the Tyler. road. Jain pointed out to the. board members that they could combine funds with Sierra county and authorize a joint project. Sierra county also has $40,000 in federal funds available but no matching county funds. At a formal session in the morning Gun N. Robinson, newly elected supervisor of the fourth district, took his seat for the first time. The board also canvassed the ballots of the Nov. 7 general election. NOVEMBER WINDS UP AS SECOND WETTEST Fred Bush,: weather reporter, said approximately two inches of precipitation was. spilled ‘from the weather gauge by tampering boys and with the quarter inch of rain that fell Wednesday, the month ended as the second wettest November in the century of recorded weather in Nevada City with a total fall of 17.93 inches. Season rainfall to date is 25.13 inches compared to 5.56 at the same time in 1949. “Previous record November was 21.55 inches recorded in 1884. The week’s report: Max. Min. Friday, Nov. 24 ... 62 42 Saturday, Nov. 25.. 69 39 Sunday, Nov. 26 ... 66 32 Monday, Nov. 27 ... 59 34 Tuesday, Nov. 28 .. 60 32 Wednesday, Nov. 29 56 31 Thursday, Nov. 30 . 60 33 Precipitation: Nov. 26, 27, 28° and 29, trace; Nov. 30, .25. «; as: ASKS $877\46 DAMAGES William P. Riley filed suit in Nevada county superior court yesterday asking $877.46 damagesfrom Don A. Phelps, driver, and the Pacific. Intermountain Express, damages allegedly resulting from a collision Sept. 11, on highway 40, 6% miles west’ ‘of Truckee. Horace E. Dunning, Sac— ramento, is attorney for plaintiff,