December 15, 1933 (8 pages)

AA SG ATEN TT 5 Rd ix Sv, .ervisor R. L. P. This is ONLY paper. It supports Nevada Hometown worth while. scribe for it? Do you sub-. City’s Newsthings Nevada City Navser . is Nevada City s a Member of the United Press. Vol. VIII, Le, The County Seat’ Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA : ugget 800d builder. And California Newspaper funhehers Association Your, Hometown Newspaper community. advertisers helps build your ; Readers and make it ai The GOLD Center. FRI DAY, DEX 1 Ly; 1933 * Civil Works Pros ram To Open In3 Counties On Forests, Roads and Other mately 1,000 men Are No Thirty hours of work 192 per for men has been made a reality in the organization of the Nevada Cornnty . CWA committee under ship of Mayor RB. J. W. B. the Bennetts, San Fr Hewes, of ‘ancisco civil works administrator, was in at-; four C. C. C. camps, tendence at a meeting held Tuesday. ! The crew of 192 men will be emthe civil works commission and approvployed on piojects drafted by ed by R. C, Brannion, works administrator. The tricts, The city vada County Board of were represented at the meeting. work projects. to the comunitiee for approval, Named on the committee A. Eddy of Nevada City, M. Argall of Grass Valley, civil week City. Nevada county unemployed! sesson will close down work on the leaderfederal civil projecis! will be in the mature of streets anid LABOR CAMP road work, grading and pipe laying . and similar work within-the city and . road work in the si upervisional dis! Supervisors The councils and the respective members ! of the county board will submit their works ; are R, Henry Fred Bitney Public Improvements Approxiw Employed in This Section The first heavy snow of the >. Haypress road. Forest Supervisor R. L. P: low on Wednesday. stated that the Tahoe National Forest Service had ». practically 636 men employed in the while the outBigeplaces the payroll of the Forest Seryice in the 1,000 neighborhood -«ef men. FOR BLOOMFIE LD National requested to The Tahoe been Forest has place a transient the North Bloomfield C. C. €. camp which is now vacated, labor camp in councils both of Grass . of 100 men. Walley 7nd Nevada City and the Ne. . ) L. P. Bigelow, forest supervisor stated that he had not receved definite . will start; ably start but thinks.it will probin a very short time. ! Transient men cannot be employ(et Under the Not Re Aor ee ay ram and this camp is author4 A. progr : ized to take care of the’ transient or Rough and Beady,and: @. Bi: “ s atl ee population wheh also needs. attenWhite of Tiuckee. Voge : : : ; . tion. Stanley Woolcock in Grass Valley , ; s ~ io, r ste ‘. « ia and John W. O'Neill of Nevada City Me Bigelow stateg. that all 61 ave in chargé of signing the men for the work. Un ked to sign immediately. mployed men are asthese four prajects hill projects are improvement for protection’ ‘ef the from fire. In fact the foot region . it is so important it wll be no waste The Tahoe Forest Service has ré-. of money to put these men to work. ceived instructions tostart Civil The employment will save many dolWorks Administration projects allot-; ted to them in Yuba, Nev ada, Sie “and Placer counties. The see ments will be. 125. men from Nevada, 100 men froni. Yubas 75 men : from“Sierra, and°100 mén-from Pld-; cer counties. -The four principal projects in Newill. be the Ponderosa Way Firebreak, from Deer Creek to Rices Crossing on the North FOP OL, the Yuba river, a metallic telephone line between Nevada City and North Bloomfield; the Knob Cone break in the vicinty of North Bloomfield, and hazard reduction work near North San Juan which will covev road side clearing, several minor fire breaks and a road to Hess’ Hill where a lookout tower s to be placed next year. FOREST SERVICE WORK The Forest Service has already placed approximately 85 men to work in, Nevada county and as soon as the county storm ceases they will continue to place © meny on the projects until the whole 125 employed. men have been Ths Forest Service work is in adto county and municipa! projects which have been approved from ivom’ ©: W. A: All camps are ly. : Last dition this county funds. getting along -hie Tuesday a meeting was held in the Elks buildine attended by the} Camp commManders, ramp subperintendents and one lieutenant from . each of the four camps, (the e€anips} being, the sradley, Appleg ite, ae Valley “and Indiana Ranch\c, camps, together’ with repre Hes. Captain Penrose, inspecto® of the} Sacramento district and tt} Forest Service ee Tahoe officials, Bigelow. and Staff Engine William, Gracey W illiak . P. Lée. This meeting was call@da to iron eamps and they will try more uniform practice camps and when the men on field projects. the} re at work oth in . It was tife™epiajon of 4ffic ers at-. tending that these Preetings should be held monthly of Winter camps, A}}-Deosent pressed, themselves freely and declared much good, should xcome from the meeting. ‘A chicken fnd raviola dinner at the Tamale Slhop in ‘Nevada City coneluded the during be 1 ‘$son. APPRIXIMATELY 104 “HIRED Two N. I. R. A. campe have been established at Freemad's Crossing in Yuba county and in fndan Valley in Sierra county. . Men are still working on the Emfire! Su-, o obtain a; period \ x= . lars in future fres to both state and ‘the Forest Service. et ( ~ STORM BRINGS The rain storm has already rolled i up to a total precipitation of “4.98 ie according to Mrs. Helen Berger, keeper of the rain records, who) {measured the present rainfall -yés. terday afternogn at 2:30 o'clock. The i total rainfall-for the season, Mrs. . Berger stated, amounts to 15.81 in. ches, since the first of July. Since i the first of December the rainfall j}amounts to 8.04 inches. H. Wf. Hallett, superintendent of streets, has been kept busy with his Fo auasinicen in keeping drains open} ;and building up the shoulders on ; certain streets. Snow began falling Wednesday evening-and while it was speedily melted in Nevada City, in ovine sections there was a considerably heavier. fall and -accumulation. On Banner Mountain one and A half inwere on Zhe Donner Summit the heavy snow/required the reported, use of chains over the/ ‘pass, { ts _ tion ‘at the ski . Bloomfield house fifteen inches fell, and elub 10/inches. the snow 4n the toad Laté yesterday reported falin2 . tiiudes, “FAST WORK OF FIRE . DEPT. SAVES HOME From WN, come report of. 21 Inehes of { . iteville, snow w 1 t fe to Graz = er at all the higher ae . { t ! . t ee . t Speedy response to the fire alarm ! y the Nevada City Fire Departmen . Saas morning of Jufes Davidson, saved the home! adjoining thei in Spring street, . , from total destruction. ; The ; froma. tment on-the south, fire originated . flue and . headway be-! The dan 1age to the roof and attic was consider able but was covered by insurance, apparently defective chimney good deal of was dscovered. gained a fore it . ‘FRESH FRUIT MARKET WILL OPEN NEXT WEEK Harry Sparber and J. Attovich have leased the store formerly occupied by the Fix-It shop on Broad st., } and are installing a first class fresh fruit and vegetable market ~ there They expect to be open, after thoroughly remodeling and decorating pire Ranch road nean Downieville 26 49 {the interior of the shop, and the Maypress Toad} near Sierral next week. ‘Sémptime side camps of the N. I. R.A. and C. W. A. under their supervision eall for close to 300 men: This These men will be single men. R. . reo as to the date this tanie . friends ildren, AO IN. OF . RAT IN should be given an opportunDick Bennett, Bob Schiffner, F . ever is done regardi inga bond j Tuttle and Ben Sweeney were ap issue should embrace plans for . . plauded for their talks on the Older a new grammar school. cE Boys Conference. " Miss Carter gave a E hic hh school students are vocal. **™@mary of the events a “ j The son ie dai a . Schol larship Federaton eOneayS: ate nese young a ies “in the . ter which Isabel Dunlap, Erma Kel: . at June‘announced /acres already under “chitect call This Prayer Should SUPPOSED PETRIFIED Be Granted ; BONES PROVE TO BE } (Editorial) OLD P ALM STUMP sj a suitable auditorium and gym-! nasium combine We signed that petition for these reasons: this-kind of weather. The petrified bones—no, no, ——supported great waving n the old lang syne, about palm stumps fronds 59 mil-} spelled with two dees) who first rich enough to afford a better But cost of a new gymnasium and: ea? i decided they auditorium combined if it is built reasonably soon. . That the high school beard . already pays out $500 approxwere the remains of } Dinosaur, the defunct relative: of, Plesionsaurs. Ed + : the so-called bones to his nephew, Ta settle the dispute, imately ‘in rentals for public Charles C. Fitch, a paleontoligical ' meeting places for its schoo]: student in ihe University of Calievents, and this sum sans go, fornia, who after carefully examining them, declared they were} a long way in defraying est on bonds i building. To these reasons we add this commientary: We do not believe the school issued for. a new’ flourished in the before Eocene the epoch, tine 49ers rived here. some ars { lion years ago in fact. ‘This was: That the Nevada City high before ; most of us were born, school is one of the most poorthough we commonly call each ly equipped i in California. other old timers. That the tax payers here are It was Edd. Addington (both ! sent? ithe remains of palm stunips that . * State ‘Forecasts Two students of ‘the Nevada It’s all a mistake. The petrin City high school are circulat“fied dinosaur bones dscovered near You Bet, are’ not bones at all: ! ing a petition addressed to the . Pier ae sates Gl e eee hey are ‘gs 5. ‘ehistoric + school board, asking that body palm trees and we must-say it wa to take ste ps toward building unkind to make this’ discovery in} i . } . H . i By WALTER W. BRADLEY . State Minerologist President Roosevelt's gold purchase program has “”nade good . gold mining in California. discovered these so-called or pseReports of field representatives of i to general business. high school. udo bones. He t thought they were: the State Division of Mines and the In the not too distant future, the That Federal funds are avail: j “lesiosaur bones, for this animal; Tecords of producton and gold pur-' United States probably ‘will return, able for paying one third the . wes known to. be very knobby. Chases by authorized buyers show -to the gold satndard. The unfavori several local paleontologists . conelusively that: mininm activity in. able . California has been stimulated in history. ‘Licensed gold buyers lineralo gist orld Gold Standard Walter W. Bradley Tells of Wide Economic Benefits Flowin from Revivial of Gold Mining in California times \ in.the minds of some and restore @{ country’s a bar sinsister . Very marked degree since producers! have been enabled to.sell their prod-! uct at its highest price in modern . are in California . Return To The of the fold at 2 definite figure would eiiminate the existing trepidaof the dollar. price of pegging .an atmosphere of permanent stability exchange Situation in our dealings: with us off the gold exchange cond}tions favorable and point. to a possible return to it. commercial probably sent ; Standard, but more others now . } FOR GOLD STANDARD made 28,000 purshases\during the! Not. only the Unted States, but ; WBpte of 1932. This at they bbe: countries that are now off j bought 26,000 separate parcels of! the gold standard, should return: gold ffom the miners up to Augus st . sooner or later, because history has ' 15, and since that date, 10,000 addi-! . ttonal -blank: sued to receipts have buyers by been Mines. isthe Division of j; It iis expected} therefore, that this yera’s purchases of newly not yet produced a more satisfactory base for monetary values than the jounce of gold. Authorization of the RFC to buy mined gold by liceaeed ‘wold Buyers gold at world prices has had a more ee na J : ee "=" . Beneficial effect on the mining inboard is justified j In refusing to ‘in the state will reach a total of. i Pe . Loe 000 : abl ; dustry than the -previous situation : OG, ; and very probably more. : : = . call a bond election for this ae op eee oa jot exporting the yellow metal: The Be oy OP OPERTIB: : : purpose on the theory that two " D . . ee ees i miners who used to wait four—or ae fork; bi ; The gold mining revival has added Piva Wesle Ae tatiie fr +t : tras “g the tax Payer int By HAR LEY LEETH, Jr. ; many more men to Caltornia’s payae ; ee esi aes Bees we ers : : : { : : exported sold now wait only four ( district will not approve ate. a4 the higl} scheoi assembly yes-! rolls. Ft has stimulated the produca pee wie = i ai a se as Times have changed since this terday morning block N. C. letters . tion of “going” mines and reopened duction of gold and shipments to’ fie he N ties . . cre were awarde embers he =! ppoperice : z ee 2 oe aoe Ss t si % $ t ar} : bool board went into office. ie warded sea ers on : seh } one th Se ae 4 aes bes mint have increased a great deal. aL ey Nn need nota approve or disa. "! 1 squad and. the four boys w 10{ago beeause of the high operating attended the Older in Colusa last weektrenorted on the deliberations of that pprove of the Measure,but the; ‘ fathers and mothers of the more than 200 children in the . high school, and the adult . yj ‘of these children meeting. ing. Principal Kjorlie made a number of announeemenis, including the ' also desperately /1 needs a new grammar school, however, . should be considered if a bond block were presented proposition is submitted. Parts . to the following members of the footof the present old ramshackle . ball sauad_ by heap which houses the yeung-. B°> Tamblyn, Clark, F¥ed Browning, Gove Celio, B. ie children of this city date pierce, Lloyd Haddy, Tom Doyle, Den back to 1868. It stands an am Gene Thomas, Murray Young, azing patchwork testimony to Ray Steger, Doolittle, and the thrift and zeal of the school j Franklin Tuttle, manager. Hach boy board that they have been able acknowledged the honor with a-short . to preserve this venerable relic ee oo against actual decay and col-! a lapse for'so many years. Whatattractions of the Sophomore Christmas party. “ Tha letters €oach Rev. Barron: toman Rozinski, 3udi, Mervin Coach Barron also gave a brief the. season’s football rachievenients, grammar school, are not yet) j. “(igen Gonna old a to take their own! horn discussed par . the fonzential and Bill Polkingparticular phases of Legion Plans Erection Of Modern Hospital Sate la Pee a . Boy's’ Conference. re) = See ! 6 ” . money into business-and trade chanf 5 x Incre wake erildyment in the mines Ben Sweeney presided at-the meet-! nels for Jack . costs. ou has diverted large mac hinery, supplies, and ' quipment. names of those who have been selec-,and the extra purchasing power of Plans have been-completed by the : led to sell tickets to the Firemen’s. te miner means increased employ-} W oman’s Civic club to hold their usity to vote on a bond issue. ted to sell tickets ,to a ere ‘ ag . Masquerade Ball. Bob Schiffner. "ent in agricultural and other dis-! ual “White Chrstmas’’ on the court The fact that Nevada City made a short speech advertising the! iriets, better business for merchanis/ house lawn where their tree is to be in towns and cities and a wider for cle of of the dstribution farmer. short, Mining in cir. the products . is . ranged by Miss . bringing about general business prosi Mrs. FB erected and decorated. An excellent program has been arGertrude Goyne and Kjorlie. Exercises will perity. . start promptly at 2:45 on WednesPRICE ESTIMATES . day afternoon, December 20. : Gold is the most suitable and! Mrs. C. E. Parsons is chairman of simple base ‘for a medium of a change, basis i have doubts about whether the price per ounce ‘of gold will . vada City Chamber of Commerce dog0 back to $20.67 or rise to $40. <A’! nated $10. point midway would seem to be a All donatous will be thankfully velovical for a new. valuation! j the dona tion committee and hopes to make the affair a success. The Nec cevied by the elub. — By DICK BENNEEF '05 On December { Older held at the Colusa Union high school, annual Boy's Conference California. Schiffner, Colusa, Franklin Tuttle, Bennetts were the student from the Nevada City Principal H. EB. the boys as their high advisor. the conference The life The theme of “Phe Set of of 3 person through pared to. that ,of topic for discussion the Sails.’’ was # ship. The was The American Legion Post of Grass . ter, by the American Legion. Valley and Nevada City yesterday {+R p. its plan to build a hospital on a neues Landis of Grass Valey is/ new . plot of eight . option just over Talk: ridge. stated that chairman of the building committee, and J. C. Chambliss, The, . Dlans, and specifications modern os secretary. for the new the Town : i tT Was ‘building are now being eal piteie for this structure will be opened about Feb15 with the patsy that . ‘CHRISTMAS TREES ALIGHT: ithe LD AY SEASON fal] . a Sacramento arSa eee a hospital wth ac: . Several sites Christmas trees are comodations:for 52 beds, twenty pri-. already om display in store windows vate rooms, and comple tely equipped. and at. garages and before many pan room: este there will be a long list of livis proposed that the needed . ing outdoor trees with’ their brilliant money shall be raised among Nevada *SS0rtment of lights. a County physicians and others interes-. _ Those noted so far are, the Dixie ted in an investment of this charac-. ROSe dress making shop, Plaza Gro. cery, Jack Shebley's the Colonial Mr.-andMrs. oa F. Taylar, of . Beauty Shop, the Plaza Garage. “The Downieville,’ passed through Nevada. Woman’s Civic club have their tree City Monday enroute to mperemiente, ony th® Native Daughters lot below bids ruary next —" Plans drawn by for where they went on business and al-! ‘the Alpha store and -it will soon be. Nevada City visiting her mother, . . so pleasure. ; lin Place on the Court House lawn. ; Mrs. Effie Goering. : -_ f a : if ‘ Ny se a ti ” ney “speeches “Was the election of officers for suing year. Lee Crayton of Colusa was elected president and Ben Sweeof Nevada City, Saturday j held vice president. evening a banquet which given, among them, talks by Ben Gaecuey of Nevada Cty and Ge eorge Labardie of Grass Valley. following were . given by. Walter : Christie, ‘California track eéach. After Mr. Christie's speech. the oynference adjourned to the auditorhe of the Colusa high school where . the school play was given. Among the’ sehools represented were: Nevada City, Grass Valley, famous . Chico, Marysvilfe, Placerville, Lin-}. coln, Colusa, and others. 2 oO 0 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Palma of Eureka, Nevada, spent last week end in . OLDER BOYS CONFERANCE . . by tie beautiful Christmas tee. Baeb . . INTERESTING SESSION 9 and 10th the 17th was Ben Sweeney, B. and Diek delegates school, Kjorlie accompanied was voyage commain “Success.’”’ . One of the questions discussed was, Al Capone a Suceessful man.” The discussions were preceeded by installed’ in Grass Valley at an apthe enwas! several short! The address: of the ev ening was Nevada City children. -Will.amarech will depesit a ae package. wrapped in white as his donation ‘toward bringing Christmas cheer to the children of the needy.” REBUILDING NEV. CITY SUBSTATION The Pacific Gas Gas wea: ‘Electric’ Co., is rebuilding the Nevada City substation, near the southern city limits, at a cost of approximately . $5,000. Manager Dan Stewart states that this step ig in Ine with the company’s policy of keeping just a step or two jin advance of the eommunity’s of electricity. brand new in, Only resubstation. was? . creasing . cently a use , proximate cost of $30;000. 4 . This expenditure is warranted, ac. cording to Stewart, by the extraor+ dinarv ‘load demand on part of consumers. The new population insists on electrical connections and speedy Seryiee and this, in addition to the wide ‘use ‘of eurrent on the part of older. residents. of the two ctiies. make the new-in-. inerease in a ap tue stallation imperative. i tn atin . . S. B. Harris, San’ Pranciseo engi4 ‘ . mer, Nace is in charge’ of the rebuildng : pof the Nevada. City. substation. “He has six expert: electricians assisting ;him. it will probably: be ‘two weeks hetore the work * ‘eompleted. Mrs. John Dent, whd recently derwent a” severe “operation at the ‘Nevada City Sanitarium, has returned to her home on Sugar Loaf Jast ‘reports Roget wa ae to 4

AA SG ATEN TT 5 Rd ix Sv, .ervisor R. L. P. This is ONLY paper. It supports Nevada Hometown worth while. scribe for it? Do you sub-. City’s Newsthings Nevada City Navser . is Nevada City s a Member of the United Press. Vol. VIII, Le, The County Seat’ Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA : ugget 800d builder. And California Newspaper funhehers Association Your, Hometown Newspaper community. advertisers helps build your ; Readers and make it ai The GOLD Center. FRI DAY, DEX 1 Ly; 1933 * Civil Works Pros ram To Open In3 Counties On Forests, Roads and Other mately 1,000 men Are No Thirty hours of work 192 per for men has been made a reality in the organization of the Nevada Cornnty . CWA committee under ship of Mayor RB. J. W. B. the Bennetts, San Fr Hewes, of ‘ancisco civil works administrator, was in at-; four C. C. C. camps, tendence at a meeting held Tuesday. ! The crew of 192 men will be emthe civil works commission and approvployed on piojects drafted by ed by R. C, Brannion, works administrator. The tricts, The city vada County Board of were represented at the meeting. work projects. to the comunitiee for approval, Named on the committee A. Eddy of Nevada City, M. Argall of Grass Valley, civil week City. Nevada county unemployed! sesson will close down work on the leaderfederal civil projecis! will be in the mature of streets anid LABOR CAMP road work, grading and pipe laying . and similar work within-the city and . road work in the si upervisional dis! Supervisors The councils and the respective members ! of the county board will submit their works ; are R, Henry Fred Bitney Public Improvements Approxiw Employed in This Section The first heavy snow of the >. Haypress road. Forest Supervisor R. L. P: low on Wednesday. stated that the Tahoe National Forest Service had ». practically 636 men employed in the while the outBigeplaces the payroll of the Forest Seryice in the 1,000 neighborhood -«ef men. FOR BLOOMFIE LD National requested to The Tahoe been Forest has place a transient the North Bloomfield C. C. €. camp which is now vacated, labor camp in councils both of Grass . of 100 men. Walley 7nd Nevada City and the Ne. . ) L. P. Bigelow, forest supervisor stated that he had not receved definite . will start; ably start but thinks.it will probin a very short time. ! Transient men cannot be employ(et Under the Not Re Aor ee ay ram and this camp is author4 A. progr : ized to take care of the’ transient or Rough and Beady,and: @. Bi: “ s atl ee population wheh also needs. attenWhite of Tiuckee. Voge : : : ; . tion. Stanley Woolcock in Grass Valley , ; s ~ io, r ste ‘. « ia and John W. O'Neill of Nevada City Me Bigelow stateg. that all 61 ave in chargé of signing the men for the work. Un ked to sign immediately. mployed men are asthese four prajects hill projects are improvement for protection’ ‘ef the from fire. In fact the foot region . it is so important it wll be no waste The Tahoe Forest Service has ré-. of money to put these men to work. ceived instructions tostart Civil The employment will save many dolWorks Administration projects allot-; ted to them in Yuba, Nev ada, Sie “and Placer counties. The see ments will be. 125. men from Nevada, 100 men froni. Yubas 75 men : from“Sierra, and°100 mén-from Pld-; cer counties. -The four principal projects in Newill. be the Ponderosa Way Firebreak, from Deer Creek to Rices Crossing on the North FOP OL, the Yuba river, a metallic telephone line between Nevada City and North Bloomfield; the Knob Cone break in the vicinty of North Bloomfield, and hazard reduction work near North San Juan which will covev road side clearing, several minor fire breaks and a road to Hess’ Hill where a lookout tower s to be placed next year. FOREST SERVICE WORK The Forest Service has already placed approximately 85 men to work in, Nevada county and as soon as the county storm ceases they will continue to place © meny on the projects until the whole 125 employed. men have been Ths Forest Service work is in adto county and municipa! projects which have been approved from ivom’ ©: W. A: All camps are ly. : Last dition this county funds. getting along -hie Tuesday a meeting was held in the Elks buildine attended by the} Camp commManders, ramp subperintendents and one lieutenant from . each of the four camps, (the e€anips} being, the sradley, Appleg ite, ae Valley “and Indiana Ranch\c, camps, together’ with repre Hes. Captain Penrose, inspecto® of the} Sacramento district and tt} Forest Service ee Tahoe officials, Bigelow. and Staff Engine William, Gracey W illiak . P. Lée. This meeting was call@da to iron eamps and they will try more uniform practice camps and when the men on field projects. the} re at work oth in . It was tife™epiajon of 4ffic ers at-. tending that these Preetings should be held monthly of Winter camps, A}}-Deosent pressed, themselves freely and declared much good, should xcome from the meeting. ‘A chicken fnd raviola dinner at the Tamale Slhop in ‘Nevada City coneluded the during be 1 ‘$son. APPRIXIMATELY 104 “HIRED Two N. I. R. A. campe have been established at Freemad's Crossing in Yuba county and in fndan Valley in Sierra county. . Men are still working on the Emfire! Su-, o obtain a; period \ x= . lars in future fres to both state and ‘the Forest Service. et ( ~ STORM BRINGS The rain storm has already rolled i up to a total precipitation of “4.98 ie according to Mrs. Helen Berger, keeper of the rain records, who) {measured the present rainfall -yés. terday afternogn at 2:30 o'clock. The i total rainfall-for the season, Mrs. . Berger stated, amounts to 15.81 in. ches, since the first of July. Since i the first of December the rainfall j}amounts to 8.04 inches. H. Wf. Hallett, superintendent of streets, has been kept busy with his Fo auasinicen in keeping drains open} ;and building up the shoulders on ; certain streets. Snow began falling Wednesday evening-and while it was speedily melted in Nevada City, in ovine sections there was a considerably heavier. fall and -accumulation. On Banner Mountain one and A half inwere on Zhe Donner Summit the heavy snow/required the reported, use of chains over the/ ‘pass, { ts _ tion ‘at the ski . Bloomfield house fifteen inches fell, and elub 10/inches. the snow 4n the toad Laté yesterday reported falin2 . tiiudes, “FAST WORK OF FIRE . DEPT. SAVES HOME From WN, come report of. 21 Inehes of { . iteville, snow w 1 t fe to Graz = er at all the higher ae . { t ! . t ee . t Speedy response to the fire alarm ! y the Nevada City Fire Departmen . Saas morning of Jufes Davidson, saved the home! adjoining thei in Spring street, . , from total destruction. ; The ; froma. tment on-the south, fire originated . flue and . headway be-! The dan 1age to the roof and attic was consider able but was covered by insurance, apparently defective chimney good deal of was dscovered. gained a fore it . ‘FRESH FRUIT MARKET WILL OPEN NEXT WEEK Harry Sparber and J. Attovich have leased the store formerly occupied by the Fix-It shop on Broad st., } and are installing a first class fresh fruit and vegetable market ~ there They expect to be open, after thoroughly remodeling and decorating pire Ranch road nean Downieville 26 49 {the interior of the shop, and the Maypress Toad} near Sierral next week. ‘Sémptime side camps of the N. I. R.A. and C. W. A. under their supervision eall for close to 300 men: This These men will be single men. R. . reo as to the date this tanie . friends ildren, AO IN. OF . RAT IN should be given an opportunDick Bennett, Bob Schiffner, F . ever is done regardi inga bond j Tuttle and Ben Sweeney were ap issue should embrace plans for . . plauded for their talks on the Older a new grammar school. cE Boys Conference. " Miss Carter gave a E hic hh school students are vocal. **™@mary of the events a “ j The son ie dai a . Schol larship Federaton eOneayS: ate nese young a ies “in the . ter which Isabel Dunlap, Erma Kel: . at June‘announced /acres already under “chitect call This Prayer Should SUPPOSED PETRIFIED Be Granted ; BONES PROVE TO BE } (Editorial) OLD P ALM STUMP sj a suitable auditorium and gym-! nasium combine We signed that petition for these reasons: this-kind of weather. The petrified bones—no, no, ——supported great waving n the old lang syne, about palm stumps fronds 59 mil-} spelled with two dees) who first rich enough to afford a better But cost of a new gymnasium and: ea? i decided they auditorium combined if it is built reasonably soon. . That the high school beard . already pays out $500 approxwere the remains of } Dinosaur, the defunct relative: of, Plesionsaurs. Ed + : the so-called bones to his nephew, Ta settle the dispute,

imately ‘in rentals for public Charles C. Fitch, a paleontoligical ' meeting places for its schoo]: student in ihe University of Calievents, and this sum sans go, fornia, who after carefully examining them, declared they were} a long way in defraying est on bonds i building. To these reasons we add this commientary: We do not believe the school issued for. a new’ flourished in the before Eocene the epoch, tine 49ers rived here. some ars { lion years ago in fact. ‘This was: That the Nevada City high before ; most of us were born, school is one of the most poorthough we commonly call each ly equipped i in California. other old timers. That the tax payers here are It was Edd. Addington (both ! sent? ithe remains of palm stunips that . * State ‘Forecasts Two students of ‘the Nevada It’s all a mistake. The petrin City high school are circulat“fied dinosaur bones dscovered near You Bet, are’ not bones at all: ! ing a petition addressed to the . Pier ae sates Gl e eee hey are ‘gs 5. ‘ehistoric + school board, asking that body palm trees and we must-say it wa to take ste ps toward building unkind to make this’ discovery in} i . } . H . i By WALTER W. BRADLEY . State Minerologist President Roosevelt's gold purchase program has “”nade good . gold mining in California. discovered these so-called or pseReports of field representatives of i to general business. high school. udo bones. He t thought they were: the State Division of Mines and the In the not too distant future, the That Federal funds are avail: j “lesiosaur bones, for this animal; Tecords of producton and gold pur-' United States probably ‘will return, able for paying one third the . wes known to. be very knobby. Chases by authorized buyers show -to the gold satndard. The unfavori several local paleontologists . conelusively that: mininm activity in. able . California has been stimulated in history. ‘Licensed gold buyers lineralo gist orld Gold Standard Walter W. Bradley Tells of Wide Economic Benefits Flowin from Revivial of Gold Mining in California times \ in.the minds of some and restore @{ country’s a bar sinsister . Very marked degree since producers! have been enabled to.sell their prod-! uct at its highest price in modern . are in California . Return To The of the fold at 2 definite figure would eiiminate the existing trepidaof the dollar. price of pegging .an atmosphere of permanent stability exchange Situation in our dealings: with us off the gold exchange cond}tions favorable and point. to a possible return to it. commercial probably sent ; Standard, but more others now . } FOR GOLD STANDARD made 28,000 purshases\during the! Not. only the Unted States, but ; WBpte of 1932. This at they bbe: countries that are now off j bought 26,000 separate parcels of! the gold standard, should return: gold ffom the miners up to Augus st . sooner or later, because history has ' 15, and since that date, 10,000 addi-! . ttonal -blank: sued to receipts have buyers by been Mines. isthe Division of j; It iis expected} therefore, that this yera’s purchases of newly not yet produced a more satisfactory base for monetary values than the jounce of gold. Authorization of the RFC to buy mined gold by liceaeed ‘wold Buyers gold at world prices has had a more ee na J : ee "=" . Beneficial effect on the mining inboard is justified j In refusing to ‘in the state will reach a total of. i Pe . Loe 000 : abl ; dustry than the -previous situation : OG, ; and very probably more. : : = . call a bond election for this ae op eee oa jot exporting the yellow metal: The Be oy OP OPERTIB: : : purpose on the theory that two " D . . ee ees i miners who used to wait four—or ae fork; bi ; The gold mining revival has added Piva Wesle Ae tatiie fr +t : tras “g the tax Payer int By HAR LEY LEETH, Jr. ; many more men to Caltornia’s payae ; ee esi aes Bees we ers : : : { : : exported sold now wait only four ( district will not approve ate. a4 the higl} scheoi assembly yes-! rolls. Ft has stimulated the produca pee wie = i ai a se as Times have changed since this terday morning block N. C. letters . tion of “going” mines and reopened duction of gold and shipments to’ fie he N ties . . cre were awarde embers he =! ppoperice : z ee 2 oe aoe Ss t si % $ t ar} : bool board went into office. ie warded sea ers on : seh } one th Se ae 4 aes bes mint have increased a great deal. aL ey Nn need nota approve or disa. "! 1 squad and. the four boys w 10{ago beeause of the high operating attended the Older in Colusa last weektrenorted on the deliberations of that pprove of the Measure,but the; ‘ fathers and mothers of the more than 200 children in the . high school, and the adult . yj ‘of these children meeting. ing. Principal Kjorlie made a number of announeemenis, including the ' also desperately /1 needs a new grammar school, however, . should be considered if a bond block were presented proposition is submitted. Parts . to the following members of the footof the present old ramshackle . ball sauad_ by heap which houses the yeung-. B°> Tamblyn, Clark, F¥ed Browning, Gove Celio, B. ie children of this city date pierce, Lloyd Haddy, Tom Doyle, Den back to 1868. It stands an am Gene Thomas, Murray Young, azing patchwork testimony to Ray Steger, Doolittle, and the thrift and zeal of the school j Franklin Tuttle, manager. Hach boy board that they have been able acknowledged the honor with a-short . to preserve this venerable relic ee oo against actual decay and col-! a lapse for'so many years. Whatattractions of the Sophomore Christmas party. “ Tha letters €oach Rev. Barron: toman Rozinski, 3udi, Mervin Coach Barron also gave a brief the. season’s football rachievenients, grammar school, are not yet) j. “(igen Gonna old a to take their own! horn discussed par . the fonzential and Bill Polkingparticular phases of Legion Plans Erection Of Modern Hospital Sate la Pee a . Boy's’ Conference. re) = See ! 6 ” . money into business-and trade chanf 5 x Incre wake erildyment in the mines Ben Sweeney presided at-the meet-! nels for Jack . costs. ou has diverted large mac hinery, supplies, and ' quipment. names of those who have been selec-,and the extra purchasing power of Plans have been-completed by the : led to sell tickets to the Firemen’s. te miner means increased employ-} W oman’s Civic club to hold their usity to vote on a bond issue. ted to sell tickets ,to a ere ‘ ag . Masquerade Ball. Bob Schiffner. "ent in agricultural and other dis-! ual “White Chrstmas’’ on the court The fact that Nevada City made a short speech advertising the! iriets, better business for merchanis/ house lawn where their tree is to be in towns and cities and a wider for cle of of the dstribution farmer. short, Mining in cir. the products . is . ranged by Miss . bringing about general business prosi Mrs. FB erected and decorated. An excellent program has been arGertrude Goyne and Kjorlie. Exercises will perity. . start promptly at 2:45 on WednesPRICE ESTIMATES . day afternoon, December 20. : Gold is the most suitable and! Mrs. C. E. Parsons is chairman of simple base ‘for a medium of a change, basis i have doubts about whether the price per ounce ‘of gold will . vada City Chamber of Commerce dog0 back to $20.67 or rise to $40. <A’! nated $10. point midway would seem to be a All donatous will be thankfully velovical for a new. valuation! j the dona tion committee and hopes to make the affair a success. The Nec cevied by the elub. — By DICK BENNEEF '05 On December { Older held at the Colusa Union high school, annual Boy's Conference California. Schiffner, Colusa, Franklin Tuttle, Bennetts were the student from the Nevada City Principal H. EB. the boys as their high advisor. the conference The life The theme of “Phe Set of of 3 person through pared to. that ,of topic for discussion the Sails.’’ was # ship. The was The American Legion Post of Grass . ter, by the American Legion. Valley and Nevada City yesterday {+R p. its plan to build a hospital on a neues Landis of Grass Valey is/ new . plot of eight . option just over Talk: ridge. stated that chairman of the building committee, and J. C. Chambliss, The, . Dlans, and specifications modern os secretary. for the new the Town : i tT Was ‘building are now being eal piteie for this structure will be opened about Feb15 with the patsy that . ‘CHRISTMAS TREES ALIGHT: ithe LD AY SEASON fal] . a Sacramento arSa eee a hospital wth ac: . Several sites Christmas trees are comodations:for 52 beds, twenty pri-. already om display in store windows vate rooms, and comple tely equipped. and at. garages and before many pan room: este there will be a long list of livis proposed that the needed . ing outdoor trees with’ their brilliant money shall be raised among Nevada *SS0rtment of lights. a County physicians and others interes-. _ Those noted so far are, the Dixie ted in an investment of this charac-. ROSe dress making shop, Plaza Gro. cery, Jack Shebley's the Colonial Mr.-andMrs. oa F. Taylar, of . Beauty Shop, the Plaza Garage. “The Downieville,’ passed through Nevada. Woman’s Civic club have their tree City Monday enroute to mperemiente, ony th® Native Daughters lot below bids ruary next —" Plans drawn by for where they went on business and al-! ‘the Alpha store and -it will soon be. Nevada City visiting her mother, . . so pleasure. ; lin Place on the Court House lawn. ; Mrs. Effie Goering. : -_ f a : if ‘ Ny se a ti ” ney “speeches “Was the election of officers for suing year. Lee Crayton of Colusa was elected president and Ben Sweeof Nevada City, Saturday j held vice president. evening a banquet which given, among them, talks by Ben Gaecuey of Nevada Cty and Ge eorge Labardie of Grass Valley. following were . given by. Walter : Christie, ‘California track eéach. After Mr. Christie's speech. the oynference adjourned to the auditorhe of the Colusa high school where . the school play was given. Among the’ sehools represented were: Nevada City, Grass Valley, famous . Chico, Marysvilfe, Placerville, Lin-}. coln, Colusa, and others. 2 oO 0 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Palma of Eureka, Nevada, spent last week end in . OLDER BOYS CONFERANCE . . by tie beautiful Christmas tee. Baeb . . INTERESTING SESSION 9 and 10th the 17th was Ben Sweeney, B. and Diek delegates school, Kjorlie accompanied was voyage commain “Success.’”’ . One of the questions discussed was, Al Capone a Suceessful man.” The discussions were preceeded by installed’ in Grass Valley at an apthe enwas! several short! The address: of the ev ening was Nevada City children. -Will.amarech will depesit a ae package. wrapped in white as his donation ‘toward bringing Christmas cheer to the children of the needy.” REBUILDING NEV. CITY SUBSTATION The Pacific Gas Gas wea: ‘Electric’ Co., is rebuilding the Nevada City substation, near the southern city limits, at a cost of approximately . $5,000. Manager Dan Stewart states that this step ig in Ine with the company’s policy of keeping just a step or two jin advance of the eommunity’s of electricity. brand new in, Only resubstation. was? . creasing . cently a use , proximate cost of $30;000. 4 . This expenditure is warranted, ac. cording to Stewart, by the extraor+ dinarv ‘load demand on part of consumers. The new population insists on electrical connections and speedy Seryiee and this, in addition to the wide ‘use ‘of eurrent on the part of older. residents. of the two ctiies. make the new-in-. inerease in a ap tue stallation imperative. i tn atin . . S. B. Harris, San’ Pranciseo engi4 ‘ . mer, Nace is in charge’ of the rebuildng : pof the Nevada. City. substation. “He has six expert: electricians assisting ;him. it will probably: be ‘two weeks hetore the work * ‘eompleted. Mrs. John Dent, whd recently derwent a” severe “operation at the ‘Nevada City Sanitarium, has returned to her home on Sugar Loaf Jast ‘reports Roget wa ae to 4