December 22, 1950 (12 pages)

by JERRY CAHILL [NEVADA COUNTY GETS — MS A FACT Vine 2—Nevada City, California, Friday, December 22, 1950 305 Broad St.—Telephone 36 ; z : Published every Friday morning at Nevada City, California. : Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Member of California Newspaper Publishers Association. KEN WRAY, Publisher Subscription: $2.60 year; $1.25. six months; 75c three months. DANNeR? ~“Arewer A PIONEER SE Hamilton, George DeSoto highway user tax funds collected by the state, California Taxpayers’ association reported today. The county is to receive, $193,483 of this sum and the cities $21,650. For 1949-50 the estimated share one W of the county and the cities in REVOLUTION the county in this fund was $203, eo iia Bamme JOHN SULLIVAN, 2 2 of LED AN ATTACK Cliff Dancer, Ridge road welding shop proprietor, was elected Forty-seven Nevada City High 1951 président of the Nevada School athletes: were presented County Sportsmen’s Club Friday with block letters in a student night. He succeeds Carl Larsen, body assembly held Friday in th e Nevada City, county courthouse school gymnasium. > custodian. y Carl Foote was elected viceLetter awards were presented to'members of the 1950-champion president and H. F. Sofge was reJunior Varsity football team, the turned to the post of secretaryvarsity football squad, and the C treasurer. Directors are Ed Schultz, Ed basketball team. ’ In presenting awards Sierra Football Junior Nevada county and the cities in the county are scheduled » get $215,133 this year, 1950-51, in WAS NAME ROMANCE PARSON, CLIFF DANCER NAMED SPORTSMEN PRESIDENT BLOCK LETTERS PRESENTED TO 47 HIGH ATHLETES . CAL Wi BRIISH EAST INDU %, $215,133 TAX FUNDS . Tht Raho RomAnce/ Of this, the 689. got county $182,530 and the cities $21,159. Statewide, $67,32,184 of highway user'tax funds is being shared with the counties and cities this year, with $48,388,054 going KEGS OF kine, OF BUNKER Hu f ‘. to the counties and $18,944,130 to ,. the cities. Last year, * ia great pleasure in wishing you ae. “. apportionments totalle 62,960, of -state-collected highway 528 We derive A HAPPY HOLIDAY! ‘. }user tax funds for the counties -. and cities, with $45,044,728 to i counties and $17,520,800 to the cities. “Since the war, the state, and the counties and cities in California, have stepped up street, road, and highway expenditures —and the taxes to pay for these expenditures have gone up, too” the Taxpayers’ association pointed and to the Roy Shoemaked, all of Grass Varsity Valley, and Larsen. NEVADA CIT Y champions Coach Robert Bonner The new officers will be. inpraised members of the squad for GARBAGE SERVICE their’ loyalty’ and hard work stalled at a meeting Monday, Art and Dick Gagliardi which he said ;were responsible Jan. 22, at the Nevada City hall. A mail ballot on the proposed for the team’s successful season 352 Alexander Phone 557W antlerless deer ‘hunt recommend‘ In addition to the high chool ed by a representative of the award each. player of the junior State Division of Fish and Game varity team will ‘receive a_ gold for the reduction of deer herds out. football : inscribed “1950 Chamin Nevada county was counted pions” from‘the Nevada City Elks and final results were 30 against Club in recognition of their achand 11 for killing of does. jievements. The team ended the Russ Henry of the Fish and NOTICE! 1950 season undefeated. Game Division last month recomCoach Thomas Nelson presentmended that Nevada _ county’s ed the varsity awards and Wardeer population, estimated at WANT TO BUY—Old books— ren Immel presented letters to 2300 be reduced by 40 percent in historical, medical, scientific. and his midget basketball team. The views and. opinions apaddition to a program of brush mystery, or other novels, Write pearing in this column, Letters Junior varsity lettermen are: burning and range improvement P. O. Box 177, or phone Nevada Will Be Closed for Inventory . to The Editor, are not nesessariCity 902R11. Ray Kirk, Grant Hafelfinger, to provide natural feeding tf ly those of The Nugget. Joe Seay, Wayne Whitlock, Dick grounds for the deer. SUNDAY, DEC. 24th THROUGH JANUARY Ist Henry began a study of deer Mooers, Larry Williams, Carl HERE IS WHAT THE.IN TERIOR 4 LAWNMOWER Weldon, Don Boucher, Bill Murdamage to crops in Nevada counDEPARTMENT IS TRYING phy, Bruce Walker, Hans Ronnty last spring. Reopening on Tuesday, Jan. 2 SHARPENED AND TO PUT OVER: ingen, Bill Behrbaum, Bob Strach November 18th issue of the Los REPAIRING © Ernie ello, Bill Sturtevant, Angeles Times brought to light All Work Guaranteed Steve Pieser, Wayne Nelson, Walt the plot of the interior departCrenshaw’s, 401 E. Main Street . ! Tanner and Raymond Dalpez, ment to sabotage the existing Phone 24 for Pickup and Delivery . manager. . mining laws. The Times dug up tt . Service. Members of, the Bee football The underwater bulkhead of a a “confidential memo” of the deteam presented a wrist watch td partment issued. to all division Coach Bonner at the assembly. jae foot tunnel which collapsed chiefs and field officers with the } and lowered the level of Weaver warning “This memoranda nor4 Varsity lettermen are: Bud. Deschwanden, Jerry Lake, a full 20 feet, offering a the information it contains igs ‘to Brady, Elmer Caster, Mello Pelserious threat to fish life as well be made available to the public”. lo, Gordon Lageson, Fred. BenIn a few words, this is what the 435 Zion Street Phone 564J as loss of water. uzzi, Derek Thiesen, Wayne interior department has hatched NEVADA CITY . Thiesen, Don Misner, Kent WalA 4x6 foot plug, which seals up for the claim holder. ay ker, Doug Atkins, Joe Griggs, Jim off the outlet tunnel of the lake, There will be no distinction beScribner, Jerry Coleman, Charles an import ant waterway in the tween lode and placer claims. Degraffenreid, David Mott, Bob You will not be able to locate Pohley, Dean Morrison, Allan hydraulic days, collapsed,: releasa claim followi ng strike or exFUNERAL CHAPEL . Hewitt, and Julius Dalpez, maning the bulk of the ,water in the posure. mountain lake. ager. Phone 203 Extralateral rights will not be Nevada City-Grass Valley Highway at Town Talk Draining offers a threat to the allowed. Members of the C_ basketball The Bergemann Funeral] Chapel team presented with letter trout in a lake which has a repuSurface rights will be retained service is priced within the Phone Grass Valley 489 awards are: tation as one of the best fishing by the government, even after means of all. Ambulance service Benny Nelson, James Thomas, locations in California. at all hours. eS patent is granted. Norman Peterson,. Carl Foote, Filing with a federal agency Weaver lake water drained inJack Egan, Joe Fischer, Al Unto_the Middle Yuba river and is will be required. derwood and Wade Penrose. Assessment work will be raislost to the Nevada Irrigation Dised from $100 a year to $300. trict, which maintains an outlet If, after five years, the claim Letters to The Editor YUBA RIVER LUMBER CO, BULKHEAD BREAKS WEAVER. LOWERED DR. WALTER MULLIS . DENTIST BERGEMANN OPERATOR SEVERS FINGER, AGAIN to the Bowman watershed and holder does not apply for a pa thence into the South Yuba river. tent, assessment work will go to H. L. Snider, Bloomfield §dist$600 a year. Proofs of labor must be filed rict ranger for Tahoe National From the Downieville Mounwith the bureau of land manageForest, reported that although the tain Messenger: ment. water level of Weaver Lake has The Messenger Linotype operFailure to do so puts the claimator had his finger cut off Satdropped about 50 feet enough ant out for five. years. water remains to maintain most urday afternoon when he was Mining on lands on which the of the fish life there. looking one place, had his finger Snider explained that the government has mineral reservain another, and the spaceband greatest damage is the loss of tions requires a bond to guaranlever came back. No, it wasn’t tee against surface damages. The the whole finger; just the tip of cover for small fish in the lake. holder of a patent on mineral The lowered water level has rethe index digit, near the last rights, likewise, must compenduced the surface area of the lake knuckle, about a quarter-inch sate owner of the surface rights higher than where héjsawed it off from about 30 acres to about for. damage. five acres. a year ago last April} and there Game Warden John Wentzel NAME WITHHELD . . was still some flesh attached. Dr. Carl C. Sutton stitched it who inspected the lake earlier on again, but advised against use said food would be supplied the GEORGE C. BOLES of the hand for awhile, but by fish from the small tributaries Wednesday, said it could be used; and that the greatest loss would Optometrist the finger to remain splinted for be due to the loss of cover for the several weeks so the bone could small fish which will be eaten by 312 Broad St. ~Nevada City the larger ones. grow together. 88 Telepho ne The natural water level of the This thing is getting monotonous, and tough on a printer to lake was raised by earlier day have his index finger sticking up hydraulic miners who built a dam in the air for weeks. ‘Going to across the outlet and then drove by Warren Goodrich have to take him to task about a tunnel below the normal watdisrupting the business that way, er level to drain off water for because it slowed up the work of piping operations. It was this 400-foot long tunthe editor, publisher and all the nel through which the lake drainrest of production — probably ed. sympathetic feeling. In the last six months we have had a few such disturbing incidents. The publisher had so-called virus infection three days in. bed; later the editor had five days in bed; the printer spent Harry Louis ‘Stephens, 40, nasix days in bed as a result of an tive of Nevada City, died Monday accident. Now this finger cutting morning at the Nevada county is:a sort .of variation, but perhaps hospital where he had been a it’s beginning the cycle all over patient for two days. again—we hope not. Everyone A lifelong resident of Nevada probably has his troubles; let us City, he attended the local hope we all have a happier 1951, schools and worked as a truck Meet our snowman He helps develop your State’s resources! Tele-fun HARRY L. STEPHENS DIES IN HOSPITAL driver in this area. N. San Juan Seventh-Day Adventist Sabbath School He.is the son of Ruthaford Stephens of Nevada City; brother of Mrs. Catherine Valley, Leary Services held in Methodist da, and uncle of. James and Robchurch, North San Juan. ert Stephens of Michigan. Saturday, 11 a. m., Bible classes for children and adults. Nevada County Recreation Unsurpassed in California Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday afternoon at the “I wish you’d throw away that old list—when you do get an answer she’s already turned into ‘a frog!”.To Bergemann Funeral Chapel. Bu-. keep your personal number list rial was at Forest View cemetery . up-to-date, check it often with Rev. Father William Daly was. in charge of the services, a San Jose, one of San Jose’s pioneer printers. Along with nearly 170,000 other investors, he has put part of his sayings in P.G. and E.stock. Through this investment we have been able to build the dams, powerhouses and miles of line necessary to develop the hydroelectric resources of the State and bring you electricity at rates among the lowest in the whole nation. the latest directory . Pacific Telephone. 4, A lot of your next year’s electricity and water sup ply are now shining snow packs high in the Sierra. Each year we send men by ski or helicopter to measure the water content of these packs so we can determine the reserve as-a guide to control of the runoff in P.G.and E. lakes and reservoirs and 779 some 122 miles of canals. By this means we conserve every drop poss ible. This water supplies you and som e 2% million other P. G. and E. customers with elec tricity. But that is only part of the job. For we send this snow water along undiminished to the farms and orchards homes and towns, and cities and industries where it contributes to the health and weal th of the State. Now we’d like you to meet some folk s who benefit by P.G.and E?s development of the State’s resources. P-G-E Meet Russell Keene, our snowman. Russ and other hydrogra hers go annually into the snow country to measure the pack. Russ plunges a 20-foot aluminum tube into the snow, then weighs it to determine the water content of the snowit brin up. From these measurements our hydro-engineers can estimate a in 10% how much water will be available after the Spring thaws. Russ works out of Fresno. He was a ski-trooper in the last war, has been with us 5 years. In the backgicund is one of the elicopters that can, in a matter of hours, land a snowman in rugged country that would take weeks to reach on skis. PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTR IC COMPANY Meet John C. Gilbert, who operates a machineshop in ile. To merchant I s and r businessmen like Gilbert, and folks who of Grass Jim Stephens of Rio Lin YUBA RIVER LUMBER CO. . Here are Ernest Blaser and son, of Live Oak. ke some 50,000 other ranchers in our territory, the Blasers depend . work “upon electric umping je nearby, P.G. and E.°3 for gation. Irrigation investment of over _ is inirri large art responsi$10 0,0 00, 000 in the ble for Califone en ip: Oroville and Feather ers’ annual income of River areas, and its annual around 2 billion dollars, yroll of over eye Yet P!G. and E. er be meant better and = for eo Popespow avermor. Prosperous commuages Gop most 20% ofmie f by a and E. h annual is op the State’s i pu — paid by P. Gand vis, sour Pe bes

by JERRY CAHILL [NEVADA COUNTY GETS — MS A FACT Vine 2—Nevada City, California, Friday, December 22, 1950 305 Broad St.—Telephone 36 ; z : Published every Friday morning at Nevada City, California. : Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Member of California Newspaper Publishers Association. KEN WRAY, Publisher Subscription: $2.60 year; $1.25. six months; 75c three months. DANNeR? ~“Arewer A PIONEER SE Hamilton, George DeSoto highway user tax funds collected by the state, California Taxpayers’ association reported today. The county is to receive, $193,483 of this sum and the cities $21,650. For 1949-50 the estimated share one W of the county and the cities in REVOLUTION the county in this fund was $203, eo iia Bamme JOHN SULLIVAN, 2 2 of LED AN ATTACK Cliff Dancer, Ridge road welding shop proprietor, was elected Forty-seven Nevada City High 1951 président of the Nevada School athletes: were presented County Sportsmen’s Club Friday with block letters in a student night. He succeeds Carl Larsen, body assembly held Friday in th e Nevada City, county courthouse school gymnasium. > custodian. y Carl Foote was elected viceLetter awards were presented to'members of the 1950-champion president and H. F. Sofge was reJunior Varsity football team, the turned to the post of secretaryvarsity football squad, and the C treasurer. Directors are Ed Schultz, Ed basketball team. ’ In presenting awards Sierra Football Junior Nevada county and the cities in the county are scheduled » get $215,133 this year, 1950-51, in WAS NAME ROMANCE PARSON, CLIFF DANCER NAMED SPORTSMEN PRESIDENT BLOCK LETTERS PRESENTED TO 47 HIGH ATHLETES . CAL Wi BRIISH EAST INDU %, $215,133 TAX FUNDS . Tht Raho RomAnce/ Of this, the 689. got county $182,530 and the cities $21,159. Statewide, $67,32,184 of highway user'tax funds is being shared with the counties and cities this year, with $48,388,054 going KEGS OF kine, OF BUNKER Hu f ‘. to the counties and $18,944,130 to ,. the cities. Last year, * ia great pleasure in wishing you ae. “. apportionments totalle 62,960, of -state-collected highway 528 We derive A HAPPY HOLIDAY! ‘. }user tax funds for the counties -. and cities, with $45,044,728 to i counties and $17,520,800 to the cities. “Since the war, the state, and the counties and cities in California, have stepped up street, road, and highway expenditures —and the taxes to pay for these expenditures have gone up, too” the Taxpayers’ association pointed and to the Roy Shoemaked, all of Grass Varsity Valley, and Larsen. NEVADA CIT Y champions Coach Robert Bonner The new officers will be. inpraised members of the squad for GARBAGE SERVICE their’ loyalty’ and hard work stalled at a meeting Monday, Art and Dick Gagliardi which he said ;were responsible Jan. 22, at the Nevada City hall. A mail ballot on the proposed for the team’s successful season 352 Alexander Phone 557W antlerless deer ‘hunt recommend‘ In addition to the high chool ed by a representative of the award each. player of the junior State Division of Fish and Game varity team will ‘receive a_ gold for the reduction of deer herds out. football : inscribed “1950 Chamin Nevada county was counted pions” from‘the Nevada City Elks and final results were 30 against Club in recognition of their achand 11 for killing of does. jievements. The team ended the Russ Henry of the Fish and NOTICE! 1950 season undefeated. Game Division last month recomCoach Thomas Nelson presentmended that Nevada _ county’s ed the varsity awards and Wardeer population, estimated at WANT TO BUY—Old books— ren Immel presented letters to 2300 be reduced by 40 percent in historical, medical, scientific. and his midget basketball team. The views and. opinions apaddition to a program of brush mystery, or other novels, Write pearing in this column, Letters Junior varsity lettermen are: burning and range improvement P. O. Box 177, or phone Nevada Will Be Closed for Inventory . to The Editor, are not nesessariCity 902R11. Ray Kirk, Grant Hafelfinger, to provide natural feeding tf ly those of The Nugget. Joe Seay, Wayne Whitlock, Dick grounds for the deer. SUNDAY, DEC. 24th THROUGH JANUARY Ist Henry began a study of deer Mooers, Larry Williams, Carl HERE IS WHAT THE.IN TERIOR 4 LAWNMOWER Weldon, Don Boucher, Bill Murdamage to crops in Nevada counDEPARTMENT IS TRYING phy, Bruce Walker, Hans Ronnty last spring. Reopening on Tuesday, Jan. 2 SHARPENED AND TO PUT OVER: ingen, Bill Behrbaum, Bob Strach November 18th issue of the Los REPAIRING © Ernie ello, Bill Sturtevant, Angeles Times brought to light All Work Guaranteed Steve Pieser, Wayne Nelson, Walt the plot of the interior departCrenshaw’s, 401 E. Main Street . ! Tanner and Raymond Dalpez, ment to sabotage the existing Phone 24 for Pickup and Delivery . manager. . mining laws. The Times dug up tt . Service. Members of, the Bee football The underwater bulkhead of a a “confidential memo” of the deteam presented a wrist watch td partment issued. to all division Coach Bonner at the assembly. jae foot tunnel which collapsed chiefs and field officers with the } and lowered the level of Weaver warning “This memoranda nor4 Varsity lettermen are: Bud. Deschwanden, Jerry Lake, a full 20 feet, offering a the information it contains igs ‘to Brady, Elmer Caster, Mello Pelserious threat to fish life as well be made available to the public”. lo, Gordon Lageson, Fred. BenIn a few words, this is what the 435 Zion Street Phone 564J as loss of water. uzzi, Derek Thiesen, Wayne interior department has hatched NEVADA CITY . Thiesen, Don Misner, Kent WalA 4x6 foot plug, which seals up for the claim holder. ay ker, Doug Atkins, Joe Griggs, Jim off the outlet tunnel of the lake, There will be no distinction beScribner, Jerry Coleman, Charles an import ant waterway in the tween lode and placer claims. Degraffenreid, David Mott, Bob You will not be able to locate Pohley, Dean Morrison, Allan hydraulic days, collapsed,: releasa claim followi ng strike or exFUNERAL CHAPEL . Hewitt, and Julius Dalpez, maning the bulk of the ,water in the posure. mountain lake. ager. Phone 203 Extralateral rights will not be Nevada City-Grass Valley Highway at Town Talk Draining offers a threat to the allowed. Members of the C_ basketball The Bergemann Funeral] Chapel team presented with letter trout in a lake which has a repuSurface rights will be retained service is priced within the Phone Grass Valley 489 awards are: tation as one of the best fishing by the government, even after means of all. Ambulance service Benny Nelson, James Thomas, locations in California. at all hours. eS patent is granted. Norman Peterson,. Carl Foote, Filing with a federal agency Weaver lake water drained inJack Egan, Joe Fischer, Al Unto_the Middle Yuba river and is will be required. derwood and Wade Penrose. Assessment work will be raislost to the Nevada Irrigation Dised from $100 a year to $300. trict, which maintains an outlet If, after five years, the claim Letters to The Editor YUBA RIVER LUMBER CO, BULKHEAD BREAKS WEAVER. LOWERED DR. WALTER MULLIS . DENTIST BERGEMANN OPERATOR SEVERS FINGER, AGAIN to the

Bowman watershed and holder does not apply for a pa thence into the South Yuba river. tent, assessment work will go to H. L. Snider, Bloomfield §dist$600 a year. Proofs of labor must be filed rict ranger for Tahoe National From the Downieville Mounwith the bureau of land manageForest, reported that although the tain Messenger: ment. water level of Weaver Lake has The Messenger Linotype operFailure to do so puts the claimator had his finger cut off Satdropped about 50 feet enough ant out for five. years. water remains to maintain most urday afternoon when he was Mining on lands on which the of the fish life there. looking one place, had his finger Snider explained that the government has mineral reservain another, and the spaceband greatest damage is the loss of tions requires a bond to guaranlever came back. No, it wasn’t tee against surface damages. The the whole finger; just the tip of cover for small fish in the lake. holder of a patent on mineral The lowered water level has rethe index digit, near the last rights, likewise, must compenduced the surface area of the lake knuckle, about a quarter-inch sate owner of the surface rights higher than where héjsawed it off from about 30 acres to about for. damage. five acres. a year ago last April} and there Game Warden John Wentzel NAME WITHHELD . . was still some flesh attached. Dr. Carl C. Sutton stitched it who inspected the lake earlier on again, but advised against use said food would be supplied the GEORGE C. BOLES of the hand for awhile, but by fish from the small tributaries Wednesday, said it could be used; and that the greatest loss would Optometrist the finger to remain splinted for be due to the loss of cover for the several weeks so the bone could small fish which will be eaten by 312 Broad St. ~Nevada City the larger ones. grow together. 88 Telepho ne The natural water level of the This thing is getting monotonous, and tough on a printer to lake was raised by earlier day have his index finger sticking up hydraulic miners who built a dam in the air for weeks. ‘Going to across the outlet and then drove by Warren Goodrich have to take him to task about a tunnel below the normal watdisrupting the business that way, er level to drain off water for because it slowed up the work of piping operations. It was this 400-foot long tunthe editor, publisher and all the nel through which the lake drainrest of production — probably ed. sympathetic feeling. In the last six months we have had a few such disturbing incidents. The publisher had so-called virus infection three days in. bed; later the editor had five days in bed; the printer spent Harry Louis ‘Stephens, 40, nasix days in bed as a result of an tive of Nevada City, died Monday accident. Now this finger cutting morning at the Nevada county is:a sort .of variation, but perhaps hospital where he had been a it’s beginning the cycle all over patient for two days. again—we hope not. Everyone A lifelong resident of Nevada probably has his troubles; let us City, he attended the local hope we all have a happier 1951, schools and worked as a truck Meet our snowman He helps develop your State’s resources! Tele-fun HARRY L. STEPHENS DIES IN HOSPITAL driver in this area. N. San Juan Seventh-Day Adventist Sabbath School He.is the son of Ruthaford Stephens of Nevada City; brother of Mrs. Catherine Valley, Leary Services held in Methodist da, and uncle of. James and Robchurch, North San Juan. ert Stephens of Michigan. Saturday, 11 a. m., Bible classes for children and adults. Nevada County Recreation Unsurpassed in California Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday afternoon at the “I wish you’d throw away that old list—when you do get an answer she’s already turned into ‘a frog!”..To Bergemann Funeral Chapel. Bu-. keep your personal number list rial was at Forest View cemetery . up-to-date, check it often with Rev. Father William Daly was. in charge of the services, a San Jose, one of San Jose’s pioneer printers. Along with nearly 170,000 other investors, he has put part of his sayings in P.G. and E.stock. Through this investment we have been able to build the dams, powerhouses and miles of line necessary to develop the hydroelectric resources of the State and bring you electricity at rates among the lowest in the whole nation. the latest directory .. Pacific Telephone. 4, A lot of your next year’s electricity and water sup ply are now shining snow packs high in the Sierra. Each year we send men by ski or helicopter to measure the water content of these packs so we can determine the reserve as-a guide to control of the runoff in P.G.and E. lakes and reservoirs and 779 some 122 miles of canals. By this means we conserve every drop poss ible. This water supplies you and som e 2% million other P. G. and E. customers with elec tricity. But that is only part of the job. For we send this snow water along undiminished to the farms and orchards homes and towns, and cities and industries where it contributes to the health and weal th of the State. Now we’d like you to meet some folk s who benefit by P.G.and E?s development of the State’s resources.. P-G-E Meet Russell Keene, our snowman. Russ and other hydrogra hers go annually into the snow country to measure the pack. Russ plunges a 20-foot aluminum tube into the snow, then weighs it to determine the water content of the snowit brin up. From these measurements our hydro-engineers can estimate a in 10% how much water will be available after the Spring thaws. Russ works out of Fresno. He was a ski-trooper in the last war, has been with us 5 years. In the backgicund is one of the elicopters that can, in a matter of hours, land a snowman in rugged country that would take weeks to reach on skis. PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTR IC COMPANY Meet John C. Gilbert, who operates a machineshop in ile. To merchant I s and r businessmen like Gilbert, and folks who of Grass Jim Stephens of Rio Lin YUBA RIVER LUMBER CO. . Here are Ernest Blaser and son, of Live Oak. ke some 50,000 other ranchers in our territory, the Blasers depend . work “upon electric umping je nearby, P.G. and E.°3 for gation. Irrigation investment of over _ is inirri large art responsi$10 0,0 00, 000 in the ble for Califone en ip: Oroville and Feather ers’ annual income of River areas, and its annual around 2 billion dollars, yroll of over eye Yet P!G. and E. er be meant better and = for eo Popespow avermor. Prosperous commuages Gop most 20% ofmie f by a and E. h annual is op the State’s i pu — paid by P. Gand vis, sour Pe bes