December 31, 1937 (6 pages)

HA P E W —o Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. Tebidst ° : That Congress did nothing at the 4 bd a ¥ % £. .concerned has shown special session save.pass the mileage perquisit bills and failed signally to do anything to alleviate the Rooseve't *frecession.’’ if Congress during its regular session extending from January to sometime next summer, continues to do nothing, business will have’a breathing spell to be sure, but recovery will be postponed. Complete recovery need not be expected until tax laws are amended to be less onerous, ‘until the pretentions of the ‘National Labor Board are reduced to legalities by the Supreme Court, until the wages and hours bills.are definitely dead and buried, instead of in a state of coma as they are now, until a reasonable and practical bill is passed to place the farming industry;on something like parity with the manufacturing industry. On the whole, despite the New Deal penchant for expensive and hazardous reforms, we surmise that, the worst is over. We have been 125 million guinea pigs for four years, most of the sturdy little fellows have survived, though withal somewhat emaciated and weak from the experiments. Most economists predict that ‘we have hit bottom, will stay at the bottom for six months or more, that in the meantime living costs will subside, unemployment increase, and labor quarrels will retire to the back pages among unimportant matters. An inerease of unemployment means that John L, Lewis will have to bide his time in watchful waiting, and pending another business upturn wages will:generally decline. tn -times of intermittent employment or no employment, members drop out of their unions and treasuries of national labor organizations —suffer. Under these conditions organization work among workers lags. It would be far better if steady and constant effort.Were made to educate workers to their need of organization, making their dudes and assessments’ only enough to maintain an efficient staff: of experts to advise and assist the membership, making unions economically. attractive to all intelligent workers instead of applying, in many another form of instances, one or coercion upon the’ workers themselves. In time we believe the National Labor Board by reason of legal definitions rendered by the courts of its powers and authority, should be able to do a good job of maintaining industrial peace. Until recently, however, organized labor itself, at least so far as John .L. Lewis unions were a disposition to repudiate the board’s good offices “with the more direct strike and boyseculs as the eott. The Labor Board. itseli to conceive of its function champion of labor only, with scant consideration given to the men who provide the jobs. If this attitude is maintained for any length of time, and employers become discouraged and despair of obtaining settlements which are of mutual benefit to both sides of the dispute, we can safely predict that some businesses will close their doors rather than submit to injustice. In that alternative lies the eventual defeat of this experiment. A Labor Board which vacates jobs will not last long. Generally speaking success in im. . proving living! conditions for special groups, such as agriculture and industrial workers, makes life mote difficult for the unorganized, which after all are in the majority. Legislation which suddenly dislocates living. conditions reacts oppressively upon the whole people. If we were to summarize our complaint of the New Deal in one word, it would be “haste.” It is the wasteful’ haste which most of.the New Deal’s reforms have bee; giving all factor that today has resulted s careful scrutiny. in putting b i. Syothis country ba¢k “Where it was two a a years ago, and unless Congress wisely agrees to do something of a real remedial character in the coming session, it may put us back to the cohditions of 1932 and 1933. So far “vertaln that only the threat of a “Roostyelt depression” of a magnitude edual to that of the “Hoover oh aS ily that is concerned, we feel . depression” will halt his’ Wasteful. ‘Oxpéerinvernts. Congress must~ret constructively, hotel, . died of acute enacted .,without . . Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ton rare emer The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends, From the Californian, March 15, 1848: — Alexander Hamil{ The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA ~ The Geld. Center _ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1937. NEW YEARS EVE DINNER DANCE AT ELKS LODGE Nevada City Lodge Lodge of Elks, No. 518 is initiating its first annual New Yéars eve dinner-dance and show this evening. The entertainment is making great festive plans: Fine eats, fine music, fine show. Dinner will be served at 10:30 p. m. Tables “will be placed about the spacious lodge hall and banquet room and there will be plenty of space for dancing. The reservation list has been open for a week and nearly all have been spoken for. Otto E. Schiffner, superintendent of the Lava Cap mine, has, engaged a large table and will have as_ his guests alll salaried men of the, mine and their wives. This will include a group of about fifty. SHERIFF PROBES DEATH OF WOMAN Edna Stewart, well known in Nevada City’s night life, passed away at the county hospital yesterday Morning at 5:30 o’clock under conditions which prompted Sheriff Carl ‘Tobiassen to make an investigation of the’ circumstances prior to. her death. The woman, 30 years old, was removed from My Place Tuesday night where she had. been for some time, apparently desperately ill. She was given a room at the New York but she grew steadily worss and wa's finally removed cn Wednesday to the county hospital. She recovered consciousness Wednesday sufficiently to give her name to hospital attendants. Following her death under authority of the coroner, an autopsy was held which revealed that she had enlargement of the stomach caused by.excessive alcoholism. Bruises were found on her body which led the sheriff to.make inquiries among all those who were with her during the' last three days of her life. SACTO. ROTARY PAYS TRIBUTE TO FRED CONNER An nome eat a and gratifying tribute to his past activities,in Sacramento civie life was received just before Christmas by Fred Conner, president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, from Harry J. Devine, president of the Sacramento Rotary club.: Mr. Conner years ago was one of the members and officers of that organization. The letter follows: Dear Fred: In looking over the roster of some of the old timers, who had served our club in a.big and unselfish sense, I came to yours, and the truly marvelous part in our behalf you had in actually “* giving the Boy Scouts to Sacramento, in spite of several fruitless efforts by several other organizations of this city, Those still’ active in Boy Scout work, as well as those who were in the Rotary fold at that time, cannot, and will not forget the dominant and enthusiastic effort'.you made in behalf of this great organization for’ * boys; and while you have been away from. Sacramento for a number of years, we know, that wherever you are, you still will continue this splendid interest in. their behalf. Therefore Fred, as the Presi-' dent of ‘the club, I can conceive of no better time, with the approach of, Christmastide; nor no better theme than to remind you of ‘this wonderful contribution you had made, which we in turn shall long revere and apapreciate, as the handiwork and _ unselfish service in behalf of ¢jhe struggling youth of this . broad. land. iattendance at other clubs, “two young girls, Betty Andrews and MRS. CATHERINE PENROSE FUNERAL TODAY 2 0’CLOCK Funeral services for the late Mrs. Catherine Penrose will be held this afternoon at 2 o’clock with the Rev. E. J. Gray of the Methodist church officiating. The services will be held at Holmes Funeral Home Mrs. Lyda Talbot will sing at the service. VARIETY SHOW AT ROTARY CLUB The Rotary club at luncheon yesterday enjoyed excellent vaudeville pragrom of which George Chaney was chairman. There were many visitors and several Rotarians from other clubs. Bill Cain, who resigned from the presidency of the Nevada City club last October returned and stated that he had maintained his membership locally 100 per cent by He presented each member with a bottle of: “Sparkling Retreat Mineral Water,’’ one of the famous products of Shasta country with the sale of which he is now engaged. The entertainment several concertina Frank Cartgseélli, , consisted of selections ‘by tap dancing’ by Gloria ‘Gilgen, Freeman, two songs by Julia ten years old, and buck and wing \danecing by the program chairman, George Chaney. All of variety nuimbers were much enjoyed by the club. SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS PARTY The Sunday school classes of Rev. H. H. Buckner and Mrs. Jessie: Johnston in the Methodist church enjoyed a party in the church Wednesday evening. The A Capetia choir sang Silent Night and Joy to the World. Those in the choir were Flossie Angove, Marjory Phariss, Beryl Godfrey, Helen Arbogast, Fred! Garrison, Bill Rickard, Tom Rickard, Phil Angove, Melvin Clark. Miss Arbogast was accompanist. OMEGA GRAVEL PROPERTY Theodore Larsen, in charge of the Omega gravel property, and Mrs. Larsen were Nevada City visitors yesterday. Five more men have been added to the payroll making a crew of 60. Work continues on the eight miles of ditch, flumes and_ debris dam. Water Will be brought from the South Yuba river east of Washingparlors . ton for sluicing. A bunk house and boarding house have been completed . and it is expected sluicing! will start . late in the spring. A family reunion was enjoyed at the Charles Genasci home in Willow Valley over the past week end. Present for the Christmas day celebration were Mr. and Mrs. Roland Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Christensen, Amiel Allen of ‘Nevada City; Frank Wright, Sacramento; Misses Fay and Josephine Genasci, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Genasci. Tahoe Forest Service, Personnel and Payroll, . Is a Major Asset Outranking many of the larger mining companies in Nevada County in both number of men employed and monthly payroll, is the Forest} Service of Tahoe Forest with its headquarters in this city. During an interview with Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson yesterday it was learned that during last summer 277 persons were employed with a monthly payroll totaling $24,138, and now in the middle of winter 232 employed with a payroll of $18,386. In addition to these and augmenting the fire fighting and fire prevention activities of the Forest Service are 330 CCC boys who are paid by the . War Department. During 1937 the Tahoe Forest Service sold 31,089,000 board feet on the stump, which brought in a revenue of $47,755.32 and 15,824 Christmas trees which returned $4,252.56 to the Forest Service. For these two items the total is $52,027.88. Grazing permits on 639,513 acres of U. S. lands in theTahoe Forest for cattle and sheep, plus 597,415 of private land which under an arrangement with owners is handled through the Forest Service, brought in a total of $9,670. Cattle grazed in the area numbered 8,528 and sheep reached the enormous total of 68.239. From special uses of the forest HYDRAULIC ASSN. TO MEET JAN. 8 INNEVADA CITY Ted Janiss, captain of the Nevada City membership campaign for the California Hydraulic Mining Association, reported yesterday that 55 business and professional men had become members of the assocaition in advance of the drive. : It is announced that a meeting of the association will be held Saturday, January 8, Janiss will be the days chairman and he cordially urges all buSiness men and citizens who can possibly do so to attend. There will be a luncheon meeting of the direeetors and officers of the association, and captains and lieutenants in membership drive, prior to the public meeting at 2:30 o’clock on the afternoon of January 8. Lieutenant Charles Ninnis, who suffered a severe heart attack, Monday is improving at his home. He is able to. be up and about the house, which is good news to his many friends, HM pieloioio iets Twenty-Third Psalm, Up-to-Date Mr. Roosevelt is my shepherd, I am in want. _ He maketh me to lie He leadeth me beside the He disturbeth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of destruction For the Party's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of down on park benches. still factories. Ee ferfefesferfeafeateofeateatefeateateatecfeate feofe ofeatiateatest Depression, . anticipate no recovery. They frighten me. For he is with us. His policies and diplomacies He. prepareth a reduction in my salary in the ug Presence of mine enemies. bi He annoyeth my small income with taxes. My expenses runneth over. Surely, unemployment and poverty shall follow me All the days of his administration. ' y And I shall dwell in mortgaged houses ’ F orever and ever. rent for . . homes, resorts, etc., such as ground summer the Forest Sér. vice in 1937 derived $4,197, or a . grand total from all principal sources of revenue, amounting to $65,994.88. There are in the Tahoe Forest, Mr. Nelson states, a total of 639,513 acres, with a total stand of 5,323.625,000 board feet. On private holdings with the Forest covering an area of 597,415 acres the timber stand totols 3,218,625,000 board feet or a total of 8,542,437,000 board feet. In the Tahoe Forest: are 2,271 miles of roads and 1,400 miles of trails, and the telephone lines, which form a network permitting commuion, stretch out to 720 miles, Leland Smith, who has charge of grazing permits recently took\a census of wild life in Tahoe Forest. and his figures follow: Deer 12,000, Black bear 5,000, coyote 5,500, lynz and wild cats 1,500, mountain lions 42, wolves 4, foxes 2,3000, martin 2,200, mink 1,000 badger 1,000 weazel 2,700; fisher 100, skunk 800, raccoon 60. i Deer killed in the Tahoe Forest during 1937 numbered 1,000, bear 11, predatory animals—coyotes 705, mountain lions 6, bobcat and lynx 82. One of the big important projects undertaken by Supervisor Nelson and his staff during the past year has been the reseedin ogf 18,000 “acres” of forest land which was thoroughly burned over a year ago last fall at Forest Hill. i In December, 1936, 1,728 acres were reseeded, and in November, 1937, 309 acres were reseeded making a total of 2,037 acres of this seeded. A very large proportion of theburned tract shows natural seeding. Of the reseeding done by the Forest Service there has been 30 percent germination, which is accounted unusually good. Some of the the first year. The total cost of this reseeding to date has been but $4,446. Of importance to Nevada City is the fact that the Forest Sef’vice maintains here the largest and best equipped depot, workshops, and warehousing for the-entire Tahoe Forest. The plant is superior in most™ respects to that of any other Forest Service area in California, The cost of the buildings and other improvements totals in bringing this plant up to date since Supervisor Nelson took charge a year and a half ago. Every needed convenience for quick work in repairing and conditioning all the ‘varied equipment, has been installed. Repair shops for auotmotive equipment are the best of their kind. For fire fighting the Forest Service store rooms contain such items as. 1,000 shovels, aS many picks and axes, the best and heaviest pruning shears for dealing with small brush in a battle with the flames, thousands of feet of hose for pumpers when water is available. It is a great, modern plant in which several men are constantly employed. \ rae STATE TEACHERS HAVE NEW HEAD James N. Garner, class room teacher of Sacramento on January 1 succeeds Charles K. Price of. Orland as president of the California’ ‘Teachers Association, northern section. Price’s successor was elected last November at the institute in Sacramento. Gardner this week conferred with organization, who wa the Novetnber . 1 to announce . ‘ ‘} Armory Hall tonight. nication every part of the great rez-; scarred tract which have been re-' $24,500.63. Alpproxt. mately $10,000 has been expended! FIREMEN'S BALL © AT ARMORY . THIS EVENING The Nevada City Fire Department is" anticipating a record attendance at its annual Fireman’s Ball at the More people than usual have indicated their intention of. appearing in unusual costumes, The. prizes offered by the merchants. of Nevada City, the firemen and others are enough to tempt anyone to try for them. A number of old-time citizens who haven’t appeared at the annual ball for several years will be there this year and this will add to the good old time New Years spirit. R. R. Goyne, program chairman has arranged a short but fine program for the evening which follows: Parade of the Wooden oldiers by pupils of the Nevada: City fourth grade school, under the direction of Mrs. Marion Libbey. Fred Pinch; Juevnile Orchestra. Vocal solo—Mrs. Charles Elliott. Tap Dancing—Betty Rore. Accordeon solo—Frank Cartoscelli. Vocal solo—DeWitt Nelson. Hawaiian string orchestra, Vocal solo—Wayne Foote. MINING TO MAKE MILLION DOLLAR FAIR EXHIBIT SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 30.— Thomas E. Campbell, former Governor of Arizona, and now Executive Vice President of Mining Exhibits, Ine., made public the fact. that Barret & Hilp, contractors of San Fran-_ cisco, have been awarded the con-: tract for the construction of thet gigantic mining éxhibit at the Gold-." en Gate International Exposition ‘tao ‘ be held here in 1939. A The plans for the mining exhibit, which will cost over $1,000,000, call for the erection of a huge mountain in the “Hall of the ‘Mineral Empire’ which will house the. mining show. Visitors to Treasure Mountain eke . will entér a vallley between two towseedlings grew as much as six inches . } : ering ranges, and from its floor the illusion of distant peaks will be created by color and lighting. Actual geological strata with ore outcroppings will be transported from the Mother Lode country, and actual mining will be carried on in the artificial shafts. The balance.of the floor space of the huge “Hall of the Mineral . Empire’”’ will contain mills in operation, oil refineries, fabrication methods, smelting processes, and other steps followed in the manufacture of products of the earth. The mining. show, said to be the most comprehensive educational ¢éffort ever attempted by the mining industry, has been developed through the efforts of the so-called “million dollar’ Technical Committee of Mining Exhibits, Inc. Headed by Dr. Dorsey Lyon, the Technical Committee is comprised of such’ mining names as Dean Frank H. Probert of the University of California, Walter W. Bradley, State Mineralogist, Leroy H. Palmer, Gordon Gould, P. R. Bradley, F. L. Sizer, S.-H. Ash, .Tihomas E. Campbell, Julian D. Conover, Stanley Easton, David M. Fol John A. Fulton, Ernest Gayford, bott A. Hanks, A. A. Hoffman, Oliver ©. Ralston, Dean Milnor erts, Emery Smith, Charles Thurman, F. C. Van Deinse, Rudolph ;Van~ Norden, Charles Willis, F. E. Wormser. a i ee It is doubtful if such a galaxy. of mining talent has ever before been ; brought together in a single effor such as this). That the “Halli of. the Mi pire” will be one of the ou exhibits. in the h Fairs. is indicated thr Mrs. Portia F. Moss, secretary of the ae ‘Van Ness King, F, L. Lowell, Jack — Merrill, F. W. Nobs, W. J. O’Conr eee

HA P E W —o Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. Tebidst ° : That Congress did nothing at the 4 bd a ¥ % £. .concerned has shown special session save.pass the mileage perquisit bills and failed signally to do anything to alleviate the Rooseve't *frecession.’’ if Congress during its regular session extending from January to sometime next summer, continues to do nothing, business will have’a breathing spell to be sure, but recovery will be postponed. Complete recovery need not be expected until tax laws are amended to be less onerous, ‘until the pretentions of the ‘National Labor Board are reduced to legalities by the Supreme Court, until the wages and hours bills.are definitely dead and buried, instead of in a state of coma as they are now, until a reasonable and practical bill is passed to place the farming industry;on something like parity with the manufacturing industry. On the whole, despite the New Deal penchant for expensive and hazardous reforms, we surmise that, the worst is over. We have been 125 million guinea pigs for four years, most of the sturdy little fellows have survived, though withal somewhat emaciated and weak from the experiments. Most economists predict that ‘we have hit bottom, will stay at the bottom for six months or more, that in the meantime living costs will subside, unemployment increase, and labor quarrels will retire to the back pages among unimportant matters. An inerease of unemployment means that John L, Lewis will have to bide his time in watchful waiting, and pending another business upturn wages will:generally decline. tn -times of intermittent employment or no employment, members drop out of their unions and treasuries of national labor organizations —suffer. Under these conditions organization work among workers lags. It would be far better if steady and constant effort.Were made to educate workers to their need of organization, making their dudes and assessments’ only enough to maintain an efficient staff: of experts to advise and assist the membership, making unions economically. attractive to all intelligent workers instead of applying, in many another form of instances, one or coercion upon the’ workers themselves. In time we believe the National Labor Board by reason of legal definitions rendered by the courts of its powers and authority, should be able to do a good job of maintaining industrial peace. Until recently, however, organized labor itself, at least so far as John .L. Lewis unions were a disposition to repudiate the board’s good offices “with the more direct strike and boyseculs as the eott. The Labor Board. itseli to conceive of its function champion of labor only, with scant consideration given to the men who provide the jobs. If this attitude is maintained for any length of time, and employers become discouraged and despair of obtaining settlements which are of mutual benefit to both sides of the dispute, we can safely predict that some businesses will close their doors rather than submit to injustice. In that alternative lies the eventual defeat of this experiment. A Labor Board which vacates jobs will not last long. Generally speaking success in im. .. proving living! conditions for special groups, such as agriculture and industrial workers, makes life mote difficult for the unorganized, which after all are in the majority. Legislation which suddenly dislocates living. conditions reacts oppressively upon the whole people. If we were to summarize our complaint of the New Deal in one word, it would be “haste.” It is the wasteful’ haste which most of.the New Deal’s reforms have bee; giving all factor that today has resulted s careful scrutiny. in putting b i. Syothis country ba¢k “Where it was two a a years ago, and unless Congress wisely agrees to do something of a real remedial character in the coming session, it may put us back to the cohditions of 1932 and 1933. So far “vertaln that only the threat of a “Roostyelt depression” of a magnitude edual to that of the “Hoover oh aS ily that is concerned, we feel . depression” will halt his’ Wasteful. ‘Oxpéerinvernts. Congress must~ret constructively, hotel, . died of acute enacted .,without . . Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ton rare emer The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends, From the Californian, March 15, 1848: — Alexander Hamil{ The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA ~ The Geld. Center _ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1937. NEW YEARS EVE DINNER DANCE AT ELKS LODGE Nevada City Lodge Lodge of Elks, No. 518 is initiating its first annual New Yéars eve dinner-dance and show this evening. The entertainment is making great festive plans: Fine eats, fine music, fine show. Dinner will be served at 10:30 p. m. Tables “will be placed about the spacious lodge hall and banquet room and there will be plenty of space for dancing. The reservation list has been open for a week and nearly all have been spoken for. Otto E. Schiffner, superintendent of the Lava Cap mine, has, engaged a large table and will have as_ his guests alll salaried men of the, mine and their wives. This will include a group of about fifty. SHERIFF PROBES DEATH OF WOMAN Edna Stewart, well known in Nevada City’s night life, passed away at the county hospital yesterday Morning at 5:30 o’clock under conditions which prompted Sheriff Carl ‘Tobiassen to make an investigation of the’ circumstances prior to. her death. The woman, 30 years old, was removed from My Place Tuesday night where she had. been for some time, apparently desperately ill. She was given a room at the New York but she grew steadily worss and wa's finally removed cn Wednesday to the county hospital. She recovered consciousness Wednesday sufficiently to give her name to hospital attendants. Following her death under authority of the coroner, an autopsy was held which revealed that she had enlargement of the stomach caused by.excessive alcoholism. Bruises were found on her body which led the sheriff to.make inquiries among all those who were with her during the' last three days of her life. SACTO. ROTARY PAYS TRIBUTE TO FRED CONNER An nome eat a and gratifying tribute to his past activities,in Sacramento civie life was received just before Christmas by Fred Conner, president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, from Harry J. Devine, president of the Sacramento Rotary club.: Mr. Conner years ago was one of the members and officers of that organization. The letter follows: Dear Fred: In looking over the roster of some of the old timers, who had served our club in a.big and unselfish sense, I came to yours, and the truly marvelous part in our behalf you had in actually “* giving the Boy Scouts to Sacramento, in spite of several fruitless efforts by several other organizations of this city, Those still’ active in Boy Scout work, as well as those who were in the Rotary fold at that time, cannot, and will not forget the dominant and enthusiastic effort'.you made in behalf of this great organization for’ * boys; and while you have been away from. Sacramento for a number of years, we know, that wherever you are, you still will continue this splendid interest in. their behalf. Therefore Fred, as the Presi-' dent of ‘the club, I can conceive of no better time, with the approach of, Christmastide; nor no better theme than to remind you of ‘this wonderful contribution you had made, which we in turn shall long revere and apapreciate, as the handiwork and _ unselfish service in behalf of ¢jhe struggling youth of this . broad. land. iattendance at other clubs, “two young girls, Betty Andrews and MRS. CATHERINE PENROSE FUNERAL TODAY 2 0’CLOCK Funeral services for the late Mrs. Catherine Penrose will be held this afternoon at 2 o’clock with the Rev. E. J. Gray of the Methodist church officiating. The services will be held at Holmes Funeral Home Mrs. Lyda Talbot will sing at the service. VARIETY SHOW AT ROTARY CLUB The Rotary club at luncheon yesterday enjoyed excellent vaudeville pragrom of which George Chaney was chairman. There were many visitors and several Rotarians from other clubs. Bill Cain, who resigned from the presidency of the Nevada City club last October returned and stated that he had maintained his membership locally 100 per cent by He presented each member with a bottle of: “Sparkling Retreat Mineral Water,’’ one of the famous products of Shasta country with the sale of which he is now engaged. The entertainment several concertina Frank Cartgseélli, , consisted of selections ‘by tap dancing’ by Gloria ‘Gilgen, Freeman, two songs by Julia ten years old, and buck and wing \danecing by the program chairman, George Chaney. All of variety nuimbers were much enjoyed by the club. SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS PARTY The Sunday school classes of Rev. H. H. Buckner and Mrs. Jessie: Johnston in the Methodist church enjoyed a party in the church Wednesday evening. The A Capetia choir sang Silent Night and Joy to the World. Those in the choir were Flossie Angove, Marjory Phariss, Beryl Godfrey, Helen Arbogast, Fred! Garrison, Bill Rickard, Tom Rickard, Phil Angove, Melvin Clark. Miss Arbogast was accompanist. OMEGA GRAVEL PROPERTY Theodore Larsen, in charge of the Omega gravel property, and Mrs. Larsen were Nevada City visitors yesterday. Five more men have been added to the payroll making a crew of 60. Work continues on the eight

miles of ditch, flumes and_ debris dam. Water Will be brought from the South Yuba river east of Washingparlors . ton for sluicing. A bunk house and boarding house have been completed . and it is expected sluicing! will start . late in the spring. A family reunion was enjoyed at the Charles Genasci home in Willow Valley over the past week end. Present for the Christmas day celebration were Mr. and Mrs. Roland Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Christensen, Amiel Allen of ‘Nevada City; Frank Wright, Sacramento; Misses Fay and Josephine Genasci, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Genasci. Tahoe Forest Service, Personnel and Payroll, . Is a Major Asset Outranking many of the larger mining companies in Nevada County in both number of men employed and monthly payroll, is the Forest} Service of Tahoe Forest with its headquarters in this city. During an interview with Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson yesterday it was learned that during last summer 277 persons were employed with a monthly payroll totaling $24,138, and now in the middle of winter 232 employed with a payroll of $18,386. In addition to these and augmenting the fire fighting and fire prevention activities of the Forest Service are 330 CCC boys who are paid by the . War Department. During 1937 the Tahoe Forest Service sold 31,089,000 board feet on the stump, which brought in a revenue of $47,755.32 and 15,824 Christmas trees which returned $4,252.56 to the Forest Service. For these two items the total is $52,027.88. Grazing permits on 639,513 acres of U. S. lands in theTahoe Forest for cattle and sheep, plus 597,415 of private land which under an arrangement with owners is handled through the Forest Service, brought in a total of $9,670. Cattle grazed in the area numbered 8,528 and sheep reached the enormous total of 68.239. From special uses of the forest HYDRAULIC ASSN. TO MEET JAN. 8 INNEVADA CITY Ted Janiss, captain of the Nevada City membership campaign for the California Hydraulic Mining Association, reported yesterday that 55 business and professional men had become members of the assocaition in advance of the drive. : It is announced that a meeting of the association will be held Saturday, January 8, Janiss will be the days chairman and he cordially urges all buSiness men and citizens who can possibly do so to attend. There will be a luncheon meeting of the direeetors and officers of the association, and captains and lieutenants in membership drive, prior to the public meeting at 2:30 o’clock on the afternoon of January 8. Lieutenant Charles Ninnis, who suffered a severe heart attack, Monday is improving at his home. He is able to. be up and about the house, which is good news to his many friends, HM pieloioio iets Twenty-Third Psalm, Up-to-Date Mr. Roosevelt is my shepherd, I am in want. _ He maketh me to lie He leadeth me beside the He disturbeth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of destruction For the Party's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of down on park benches. still factories. Ee ferfefesferfeafeateofeateatefeateateatecfeate feofe ofeatiateatest Depression, . anticipate no recovery. They frighten me. For he is with us. His policies and diplomacies He. prepareth a reduction in my salary in the ug Presence of mine enemies. bi He annoyeth my small income with taxes. My expenses runneth over. Surely, unemployment and poverty shall follow me All the days of his administration. ' y And I shall dwell in mortgaged houses ’ F orever and ever. rent for . . homes, resorts, etc., such as ground summer the Forest Sér. vice in 1937 derived $4,197, or a . grand total from all principal sources of revenue, amounting to $65,994.88. There are in the Tahoe Forest, Mr. Nelson states, a total of 639,513 acres, with a total stand of 5,323.625,000 board feet. On private holdings with the Forest covering an area of 597,415 acres the timber stand totols 3,218,625,000 board feet or a total of 8,542,437,000 board feet. In the Tahoe Forest: are 2,271 miles of roads and 1,400 miles of trails, and the telephone lines, which form a network permitting commuion, stretch out to 720 miles, Leland Smith, who has charge of grazing permits recently took\a census of wild life in Tahoe Forest. and his figures follow: Deer 12,000, Black bear 5,000, coyote 5,500, lynz and wild cats 1,500, mountain lions 42, wolves 4, foxes 2,3000, martin 2,200, mink 1,000 badger 1,000 weazel 2,700; fisher 100, skunk 800, raccoon 60. i Deer killed in the Tahoe Forest during 1937 numbered 1,000, bear 11, predatory animals—coyotes 705, mountain lions 6, bobcat and lynx 82. One of the big important projects undertaken by Supervisor Nelson and his staff during the past year has been the reseedin ogf 18,000 “acres” of forest land which was thoroughly burned over a year ago last fall at Forest Hill. i In December, 1936, 1,728 acres were reseeded, and in November, 1937, 309 acres were reseeded making a total of 2,037 acres of this seeded. A very large proportion of theburned tract shows natural seeding. Of the reseeding done by the Forest Service there has been 30 percent germination, which is accounted unusually good. Some of the the first year. The total cost of this reseeding to date has been but $4,446. Of importance to Nevada City is the fact that the Forest Sef’vice maintains here the largest and best equipped depot, workshops, and warehousing for the-entire Tahoe Forest. The plant is superior in most™ respects to that of any other Forest Service area in California, The cost of the buildings and other improvements totals in bringing this plant up to date since Supervisor Nelson took charge a year and a half ago. Every needed convenience for quick work in repairing and conditioning all the ‘varied equipment, has been installed. Repair shops for auotmotive equipment are the best of their kind. For fire fighting the Forest Service store rooms contain such items as. 1,000 shovels, aS many picks and axes, the best and heaviest pruning shears for dealing with small brush in a battle with the flames, thousands of feet of hose for pumpers when water is available. It is a great, modern plant in which several men are constantly employed. \ rae STATE TEACHERS HAVE NEW HEAD James N. Garner, class room teacher of Sacramento on January 1 succeeds Charles K. Price of. Orland as president of the California’ ‘Teachers Association, northern section. Price’s successor was elected last November at the institute in Sacramento. Gardner this week conferred with organization, who wa the Novetnber . 1 to announce . ‘ ‘} Armory Hall tonight. nication every part of the great rez-; scarred tract which have been re-' $24,500.63. Alpproxt. mately $10,000 has been expended! FIREMEN'S BALL © AT ARMORY . THIS EVENING The Nevada City Fire Department is" anticipating a record attendance at its annual Fireman’s Ball at the More people than usual have indicated their intention of. appearing in unusual costumes, The. prizes offered by the merchants. of Nevada City, the firemen and others are enough to tempt anyone to try for them. A number of old-time citizens who haven’t appeared at the annual ball for several years will be there this year and this will add to the good old time New Years spirit. R. R. Goyne, program chairman has arranged a short but fine program for the evening which follows: Parade of the Wooden oldiers by pupils of the Nevada: City fourth grade school, under the direction of Mrs. Marion Libbey. Fred Pinch; Juevnile Orchestra. Vocal solo—Mrs. Charles Elliott. Tap Dancing—Betty Rore. Accordeon solo—Frank Cartoscelli. Vocal solo—DeWitt Nelson. Hawaiian string orchestra, Vocal solo—Wayne Foote. MINING TO MAKE MILLION DOLLAR FAIR EXHIBIT SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 30.— Thomas E. Campbell, former Governor of Arizona, and now Executive Vice President of Mining Exhibits, Ine., made public the fact. that Barret & Hilp, contractors of San Fran-_ cisco, have been awarded the con-: tract for the construction of thet gigantic mining éxhibit at the Gold-." en Gate International Exposition ‘tao ‘ be held here in 1939. A The plans for the mining exhibit, which will cost over $1,000,000, call for the erection of a huge mountain in the “Hall of the ‘Mineral Empire’ which will house the. mining show. Visitors to Treasure Mountain eke . will entér a vallley between two towseedlings grew as much as six inches . } : ering ranges, and from its floor the illusion of distant peaks will be created by color and lighting. Actual geological strata with ore outcroppings will be transported from the Mother Lode country, and actual mining will be carried on in the artificial shafts. The balance.of the floor space of the huge “Hall of the Mineral . Empire’”’ will contain mills in operation, oil refineries, fabrication methods, smelting processes, and other steps followed in the manufacture of products of the earth. The mining. show, said to be the most comprehensive educational ¢éffort ever attempted by the mining industry, has been developed through the efforts of the so-called “million dollar’ Technical Committee of Mining Exhibits, Inc. Headed by Dr. Dorsey Lyon, the Technical Committee is comprised of such’ mining names as Dean Frank H. Probert of the University of California, Walter W. Bradley, State Mineralogist, Leroy H. Palmer, Gordon Gould, P. R. Bradley, F. L. Sizer, S.-H. Ash, .Tihomas E. Campbell, Julian D. Conover, Stanley Easton, David M. Fol John A. Fulton, Ernest Gayford, bott A. Hanks, A. A. Hoffman, Oliver ©. Ralston, Dean Milnor erts, Emery Smith, Charles Thurman, F. C. Van Deinse, Rudolph ;Van~ Norden, Charles Willis, F. E. Wormser. a i ee It is doubtful if such a galaxy. of mining talent has ever before been ; brought together in a single effor such as this). That the “Halli of. the Mi pire” will be one of the ou exhibits. in the h Fairs. is indicated thr Mrs. Portia F. Moss, secretary of the ae ‘Van Ness King, F, L. Lowell, Jack — Merrill, F. W. Nobs, W. J. O’Conr eee