December 31, 1942 (4 pages)

i The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents: per s “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’’ — Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget This paper gives you complete coverage of all local’ happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read month . : The Nugget. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA naeanieleaiaeal sa rn ————— _—— Ee ——————— a we Vol. 16, No. 105. The County Seat Sis ce _NEVADA cit Y, CALIF ORNIA _The Gold Chins THURSDAY, DECEMBER at. basco wee sere nooner yn ret ea — — — a —— noe —————— Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. —— While battles on land and sea and in the air take their toll of our young men, and our neighbors are weighed down by grief for sons lost in this battle for a free world, a grief shared by all of us Who have sons in the armed forces, we can say with a solid foundation of fact that on this, the last day of 1942, we have come to the top of the hill. We ‘believe the worst is behind us. Compare. our situation if you like to that-on a gridiron in the fourth quarter. A new player, fresh and full of fight enters the line-up, to face the enemy whose men are warn-worn and weary. your Uncle Sam in there pitching forward passes with the British, the Russians, the (Chinese and, now, with the Free French, who really have a chance to carry the ball in North Africa. So far as punishment is concerned we need not be surprised or dismayed if this player who got into the game three years after it started, gets plenty of it, but we also feel confident that in the Atlantic theatre Uncle Sam will make a touchdown this year. The Russian avalanche now rolling, the British drive toward Tripoli, and presently the American, British and Free French drive . 4n Tunisia, before long will hem-the Germans into a strictly Buropean container. Where we will go from. Africa is of course purely a matter of speculation, but at least we will have tome choice in the matter and we may trust our military chiefs to make the best. choice. When one considers Guadalcanal and its repercussions,-and North Africa’s dizzying jolt to the Nazis, one feels confident that our leadership knows its business. It may ‘be purely speculative, but we lbelieve Hitler is fighting a purely delaying action now in (North Africa, while he fortifies and prepares (Sjciliy, Sardinia and Southern Italy. to withstand invasion. But once North Afriea is freed from Germans and the Mediterranean cleared sufficiently to permit shipping through to Cairo, Hitler must be © pretty good if he fortifies the whole southern littoral of Europe and the Near East so efficiently that the United Nations can find no place to, land. In fact recent news dispatches indicate that convoys have reached Malta via Gibraltor without receiving a single blow. Once the Mediterranean is really open to United Nations shipping the battle grows easier, as one ship can do three times the duty in those waters, that it can by steaming around ‘Africa via the Cape of Good ‘Hope. Once Hitler and his Axis crowd is contained and our air forces greatly augmented each month in 1943, more force can be brought ‘to bear in the Pacific. Increased air power there, too, will help measurably to shortéithe-war.-In a little while, we believe (McArthur’s troops, and air forces, and Halsey’s fleets plus air forces will have put the Japs off New Guinea. The next step, this is speculation again, may be an attack by way of the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, or it may be an air attack on Truk the Jap naval base in the South Pacific. The news from now on, we believe will be mostly good news, but that is not to say that homes scattered throughout this broad land of ours will not mourn their young men lost in battle. That suffering, dispersed through. fields and the cities, should arouse this nation ~to-a sharp determination to see to it this time, when peace is established, that it become a permanent peace, and not merely a brief season for the preparation of another titanic struggle between two ideologies for iientery, of epianet. That is° (NEVADA COUNTY POPULATIONNOW 17,000 ESTIMATE Population of Nevada county at : January 1, 1943, is estimated at 17,000, compared with the 1940 census figure of 19,283, and an estimate for January 1, 1942, of 17,800, the annual estimate of population in California counties, made public today by (California Taxpayers association shows. Population of California at January 1, 1943, is estimated to be 7,660,000, a gain of 750,000, or 11 per cent since the 1940 census was taken, the association stated. About a third of this gain, 235,000 was made during 1942. ‘The 1940 census showed 6,907,387 persons in California. Only civil population is included in the estimates, the association said. Military personnel quartered in the state and the Japanese, 93,717 in 1940, are not included. Seven counties in the southern California area have grown. 376,500 since the census, the association estimates. Los Angeles county shows an increase of 214,400; San Diego, 110,700; San Bernardino, 16,900; Orange, 14,200; San Luis Obispo, 9,800; Riverside, 9,500; and Ventura 1,000. Imperial, Santa Barbara, and Kern’ show little change from the eensus. Eleven counties in the San Francisco bay area have grown 330,600 since the census, the association estimates. San Francisco city . and county shows a gain of 46,500 since land Napa 13,500. the census; Alameda 68,000; Santa Clara 18,000; San Joaquin 10,000; San Maeto 21,200; Contra ‘Costa 75,500; Stanislaus 6,100; Sonoma 5,000; Marin 11,900; olano 54,900; CHRISTMAS TREE SALES IN TAHOE FOREST. $1438 In spite of a late start and the early season storms, many Christmas trees were sold on the Downieville district of the Tahoe \National For+ est. Early in the season contemplated in the cutting was “summit counCan you make straight Down which it rolls th And speed it on a worthier course With an initiatory spin? I wonder if you have ever New Year. It’s not an easy thing to do; they are all so reticent and indefinite. Not one of them is ever ready or willing make, clarifying statements, forthright assertions, predictions or promises. One's queries are and the exasperating words, viewer. . the interviewee. ‘The question is,” tion. You could do much for would use these days as you should. If the world is not a better place to live in,. if humanity has not solved many of JUST WONDERIN’ I wonder, little Forty Three As you come gliding through the night, If you will take this tired world And chnge its darkness into. light. ““wait and see.” : Perhaps we expect too much of the fleeting years. After all it is not their tasks to renovate this untidy world. cut the Gordian knot of human infelicities. Little Forty Three told me that in very brazen tones. No sooner had I propounded my queries than he turned the tables. He became the intersaid the baby year, ing to do with me? I have the usual number of days to pass out in accordance with long established regulations. They are all blank and quite unblemished, but. what will they look like when you humans get. through with them? That’s the quesRED CROSS PLAYS BIG ROLE IN FIRE AT VIRGINIA CITY SAIN FRIAINCISCO, Dec. 31.—Virginia City, Nevada, became a windfanned inferno, when the worst fire since 1875 threatened every buildthe crooked paths rough clouds of sin, tried to interview a very young ing. Storey county Red Cross Chapter went into action immediately, to. and from Reno came the Washoe county Red Cross motor corps, canirivariably met by a baby stare teen and Red Cross ambulance. ed and others were damaged during the two nights and days tthe fire raged ‘before a change in wind accompanied by rain saved the town from annihilation. ‘Storey County Red Cross Chapter officials provided shelter for evacuees at some time during the two-day, two-night disaster. Women from the Washoe County Red Cross helped Virginia City residents pack and salvage household belongings. : On hand to help evacuate families and find places for them to stay when fire in the Sitwa, Alaska business district did $250,000 damage recently, was the Sitka Red Cross Chapter, which extended all possible or ““what are you goyourself and the world if you its Twenty five homes were destroy-} PGE NARROWS DAM STATION IN OPERATION — Promptly on scheduled time, another new hydroelectric generating Station-was placed in operation last Tuesday by the Pacific Gas and Blectric Company. The new powerhouse, construction of which was started in September, 1941, at the Narrows, on the Yuba River, will add 14,700 horsepower to the system’s capacity to serve the war industries and the communities of Central and Northern Caliornia. It is situated below the Upper Narrows Debris dam where water power developed by the dam will be utilized for the, generation of electricity. ‘This latest addition to the P. G. and E. system is only one part of the company’s long term ‘building program planned in 1938, long before the nation’s entry into global war was thought probable. Three other powerhouses will be completed and placed ‘in operaton within the next twelve months. With the Narrows plant they will add a total o 318,700 horsepower ta the electric reweighty problems, if you, yourself, are not a better person after using my gift of days, don’t blame me. You and your contemporaries will be to blame. The future will take care of itself if each succeeding day is used to the best advantage. So long, now. I've got to tie my sash and get ready to pass out January first.” Feeling somewhat abashed, I rushed away to examine my own napsack and find if it contained anything which, if discarded, would make it lighter to carry through the days ahead. I found a few prejudices ,intolerances, sundry doubts and fears, a suspicion or two; those things are quite useless, “why not discard them right here and now,” I muttered to my-; self, and echo repeated, ““why not>’ Finally . came upon a quantity of ignorances. Now . can eet rid of them too, but not all at ‘once. . might budget those lignorances and try to replace them with something of real value. If I could do that regularly, day by day, I would have three hundred and sixty five facts at my command by the time! Forty Four stépped.in. . think J shall begin getting rid of my sources of the system, bringing the assistance. Red Cross supplies ON/ rand total to 2,300,000 horsepowhand were sufficient to care for the; gy. evacuees. During the fire, coffee and. Following its long established lunch were served to firemen and the! policy, the company has built facilhelpers by Red Cross volunteers. \ities to meet the growing demands of Red Cross first aiders and canteen . the shipyads and othér war indusworkers from ‘Riverside, Calif., Chaptries, to supply the normal requireter were called on during a forest. ments of homes, business and agriSa their district and though 20 . culture, and to maintain constantly families were affected, chapter ofan adequate reserve for emergency. ficials and volunteers, assisted by the There has ‘been and will be no shortCorona Red Cross’ Branch, served . age of electric power in this area. day and night until the fire was un-} Early in February, a second hydroder, control. : electric station will be completed and. jin operation, near Dutch Flat, Placer county producing 37,000 horseFARM MACHINERY «: power from the flow of the Bear riv. This project was started in OctoSCARCE IN 1943 bee 1940. Involving the driving of . four miles: of tunnel, the work has fire try.”’ but the early snows made cu:-— ting and transportation impossible in such areas. Thereore,most of the mah Peak and Chapman Creek areas. ignorances right away. What an adventure, this one placing ignorances with the rig it with me? Uncle Silas says: *““Seems of reht answers. Will you undertake to me, the food administration will be making an egregious display of racial discrimination if it places water melons on the list stuffs.’—A. Merriam Conner. food of non-essential PG&E. AWARDS SERVICE BADGES forest sales were made in: the Dead-. Pacific Gas and Electric Company The trees were stored and checked . employees of the Drum Division, who at Sierra Cty before shipment to market. Gatos of Christmas trees on the} . have had five or more years of ser. vice, are being awarded service district totaled 2674 with a sale value, badges this week. of $1,438.65. Quite a number of free use permits were also issued to local residents for trees for personal use. Considerable cutting was also done on private prpperty in this area. All cutting was done in areas where the thinning of reproduction and topping of.small trees: was desirable for betterment of the timber stand. GORDON GARLAND NOT YET PLACED SAIGRIAIMEINTO, Dec. 31.—(UP)—— Addedto Earl /‘Warren’s’ worries over becoming governor is what to do with Gordon Garland former assembly speaker and a hard worker in the Republican campaign, = although he is a registered Demogcrat. Garland frankly would like a salaried spot in the new administration, figuring his years of experience in ‘the legislature fit. him for more state service. So far, however, Warren has steered clear of ‘political appointments to his key jobs and has been puzzled to find the place where Garland’s talents would make him a good public servant. One post proposed was on the state personnel board, where -his_ close connection with state departments would come in handy. Also, being a Democrat, he would carry out Warren’s promise of a non-parti!san administration. And the $3600 annual salary for a ten year term would be very satisfactory to Garland. a There are othér spots, too, and Garland more than likely will get something. j In the past it has been customary for employee service badges to be awarded at an annual banquet presided over by P. M. Downing, the company’s vice president and general manager. However, because of transportation difficulties, tice has been abandoned for the duration. J. R. Johnson, Drum division Manager, will present the badges. this pracThose awarded are: William J. Eddy, John J. Michael and Louis G. Roberts 30 year badge; Edgar E. Atwood, Charles Mosser and Roland Prout 25 year badge; F. Orville Baker, Sidney W. Bancroft, Max Dunlap, Leslie R. Landsburg, Charles C. Lee, Frank A. Moore, George L. Seaton, Herman Veale, Charles W. Walker and Veryl A. Fortell 20 year badge; Norman J. Angove, Lloyd E. Erskine, Matthew A. Erskine, Jess A. Glover, Bernard L. Haines, Lloyd F. Hiatt, Lathrop S. Huntley, John D. Lee, William N. McCutcheon, Paden, Antone J. Rore, and Alec W. Scott 15 year badge; Richard G. Burton, Llewelyn W. Davies, Edmond W. Ferguson, Ethel M. Heiple, Jack L. Newman, Henry Ruth and Thelma iC. Schillianskey 10 year badge; Vincent H. Anderson, William D. Bilderback, Jack S. Bolster, Jack P, Braz, Jr., Virginia L. Brodie, Francis A. Davey, Dorothy M. Glasser, Fred M. Hawke, Jr., Robert S. Lamb, Richard L. Middaugh, Clarence B. Mc‘Cubbin, Andy HB. Pasqual, Ervin 0. (Pekuri, Thomas .H, Randall, Charles H. Simpkins, Margaret M. Starr, James F. Stephens and Louis PD. . Weber 5 year badge. Jack) MARYSVILLE T0 HAVE ODT OFFICE The Office of Defense Transportation announced today that completion of arrangements for representatiyes of the“QDT, to establish immediately temporary offices in the Chamber of Commerce buildings in the following cities: Redding, Auburn, Chico, Stockton and Marysville. mercial vehicle owners with their the ODT. regulations. Truck owners may call at the office in their area for information, and the filing of appeals, in such cases where an adjustment is justified. The representative will also assist in the correlating of activities for the various interested groups: Industrial Committees.: County Farm Transportation Committees. War Price and Rationing Boards. A survey will also be made of motor truck parts available, rubber, and manpower; also attention will ‘be given to the furthering of plans for the pooling of equipment for the duration, and to work with civilian defense agencies, relative to the utilization of available motor truck equipment in the event of an emer-. gency. ’ : ‘Meetings are being aranged, and Meetings are being arranged, and presentatives of the mentioned groups. This will give these interested the opportunity to assist in expediting the program. ‘ ‘Mrs. Kitty Kimball arrived Tuesday from the bay area where she had ‘been visiting and is now living in the Hamilton apartments on Broad street. She has been residing in SacTamenio and has come to, Nevada ICity to reside. This will be good news to her many friends. (New farm machinery will he practically ty in 1943, warns E. W. Blum, USDA! war board chairman, who this week announced the first county quotas to be allocated by the county machinery . rationing committee. Following is a list of released equipment to be rationed. (Moldboard plows, tractor drawn or mounted, Dise harrow, 1. Tractors, wheel type, 1. Farm wagons, 1. Dairy equipment —milking machines, 2. 1. Milk coolers, 1. Sweep rakes, 1. Engines, 1. Mowers, horse, 1. Tractor. 1, For the time being only equipment now in the hands of dealers may be rationed. In order to be eligible to ‘buy an item of rationed ejuipment, a farmer must certify in writing to the rationing committee that ‘the purchase of such equipment is absoluteThe purpose is to assist all com-)ly essential to achieving 1943 production on his farm; that he has locatapplications for Certificates of War,ed the equipment in the. hands of a Necessity, and to acquaint them with . dealer and that the dealer is willing to sell it to him. ‘Tt will be necessary to achiev2 our 1943 production goals ‘with substantially the equipment now on our farms,’’ Blum declared. “‘This means that we will have to take the very best possible care of machinery now on hand and share its use with our neighbors as much as we possibly can. Fortunately, repair parts will ibe fairly plentiful, so it is imperative that all machines be immediately put into tip-top pape for use during the coming season.’ ‘Certain lighter equipment, inelading handoperated tools. and some horse drawn equipment, is still unrestricted and may be purchased to the extent that dealers stocks will permit. November Gas. Sales Show One Percent Drop SACRAMENTO, Dec. 31.—(UP)— November gasoline sales reflected the ferver of purchases preciding the rationing deadline, according to the state. board of equalization. A total of 177,831,753 gallons}; were distributed, which netted a tax of $5,334,953.61, only 1 per cent less than the same month in 1941. The November figures topped the October sales by $674,483.97 in taxes or 22,482,799 gallons distributed. The total tax for the first 11 months of 1942 was $4,765,684.08 less than ‘Yor the same period of 1941, z non-existent in INevada coun-; 1. Spike tooth harrow, 1.‘ Separators, . ‘only the finishing touches remain to be done. Third of the projects on the company’s current building program is an additional unit being installed at the Oleum plant on the shore of San* , Francisco bay. ‘Construction . started in March, 1941, and instal. lation of the new unit, a turbo gen‘erator of 67,000 horsepower capacity, will be completed in June, 1942. The Oleum plant is one of the three steam generating stations recently built by the company adjoining oil . . . high temperature steam for the generation of electricity. They were completed successively in December, 1940, June, 1941 and ‘January, 1942. ‘ : ‘Fourth of the utility company’s projects now under construction, is a new hydroelectric plant on the Pit River which will have an installed capacity of 200,000 horsepower, the largest. of all the hydroelectrie generating stations in the system. Work was started on this plant in uly, 1941. It is now 70 per cent completed and some 1600 men are laboring day and night to finish the job, which involves the driving of 5.4 miles of tunnel, extensive roadbuilding and grading, construction of a units and erection of 15 miles of transmission line to connect the plant system of the company. ‘It is expected the station will be placed in service in the summer of 1943. When these four new scceeibiaiee: tric Company will have a total of 64, . generating stations, serving the electrical needs of a territory of 89,0090 square miles. Tin Cans Will Be me Collected Saturday way Patrol, and county chairman the Salvage Committee, annow that the next pick-up of tin — move the tops and f and leave them in the street ourby: . proceeded without. interruption and. was’ refineries, all of them of the latest design in utilization of high pressure, . diversion dam, building of a power-— house, installation of four generating: with the interconnected transmission. , are completed, Pacific Gas and Hlec~ Capt. Jos. E. Blake of the High--

i The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents: per s “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’’ — Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget This paper gives you complete coverage of all local’ happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read month . : The Nugget. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA naeanieleaiaeal sa rn ————— _—— Ee ——————— a we Vol. 16, No. 105. The County Seat Sis ce _NEVADA cit Y, CALIF ORNIA _The Gold Chins THURSDAY, DECEMBER at. basco wee sere nooner yn ret ea — — — a —— noe —————— Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. —— While battles on land and sea and in the air take their toll of our young men, and our neighbors are weighed down by grief for sons lost in this battle for a free world, a grief shared by all of us Who have sons in the armed forces, we can say with a solid foundation of fact that on this, the last day of 1942, we have come to the top of the hill. We ‘believe the worst is behind us. Compare. our situation if you like to that-on a gridiron in the fourth quarter. A new player, fresh and full of fight enters the line-up, to face the enemy whose men are warn-worn and weary. your Uncle Sam in there pitching forward passes with the British, the Russians, the (Chinese and, now, with the Free French, who really have a chance to carry the ball in North Africa. So far as punishment is concerned we need not be surprised or dismayed if this player who got into the game three years after it started, gets plenty of it, but we also feel confident that in the Atlantic theatre Uncle Sam will make a touchdown this year. The Russian avalanche now rolling, the British drive toward Tripoli, and presently the American, British and Free French drive . 4n Tunisia, before long will hem-the Germans into a strictly Buropean container. Where we will go from. Africa is of course purely a matter of speculation, but at least we will have tome choice in the matter and we may trust our military chiefs to make the best. choice. When one considers Guadalcanal and its repercussions,-and North Africa’s dizzying jolt to the Nazis, one feels confident that our leadership knows its business. It may ‘be purely speculative, but we lbelieve Hitler is fighting a purely delaying action now in (North Africa, while he fortifies and prepares (Sjciliy, Sardinia and Southern Italy. to withstand invasion. But once North Afriea is freed from Germans and the Mediterranean cleared sufficiently to permit shipping through to Cairo, Hitler must be © pretty good if he fortifies the whole southern littoral of Europe and the Near East so efficiently that the United Nations can find no place to, land. In fact recent news dispatches indicate that convoys have reached Malta via Gibraltor without receiving a single blow. Once the Mediterranean is really open to United Nations shipping the battle grows easier, as one ship can do three times the duty in those waters, that it can by steaming around ‘Africa via the Cape of Good ‘Hope. Once Hitler and his Axis crowd is contained and our air forces greatly augmented each month in 1943, more force can be brought ‘to bear in the Pacific. Increased air power there, too, will help measurably to shortéithe-war.-In a little while, we believe (McArthur’s troops, and air forces, and Halsey’s fleets plus air forces will have put the Japs off New Guinea. The next step, this is speculation again, may be an attack by way of the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, or it may be an air attack on Truk the Jap naval base in the South Pacific. The news from now on, we believe will be mostly good news, but that is not to say that homes scattered throughout this broad land of ours will not mourn their young men lost in battle. That suffering, dispersed through. fields and the cities, should arouse this nation ~to-a sharp determination to see to it this time, when peace is established, that it become a permanent peace, and not merely a brief season for the preparation of another titanic struggle between two ideologies for iientery, of epianet. That is° (NEVADA COUNTY POPULATIONNOW 17,000 ESTIMATE Population of Nevada county at : January 1, 1943, is estimated at 17,000, compared with the 1940 census figure of 19,283, and an estimate for January 1, 1942, of 17,800, the annual estimate of population in California counties, made public today by (California Taxpayers association shows. Population of California at January 1, 1943, is estimated to be 7,660,000, a gain of 750,000, or 11 per cent since the 1940 census was taken, the association stated. About a third of this gain, 235,000 was made during 1942. ‘The 1940 census showed 6,907,387 persons in California. Only civil population is included in the estimates, the association said. Military personnel quartered in the state and the Japanese, 93,717 in 1940, are not included. Seven counties in the southern California area have grown. 376,500 since the census, the association estimates. Los Angeles county shows an increase of 214,400; San Diego, 110,700; San Bernardino, 16,900; Orange, 14,200; San Luis Obispo, 9,800; Riverside, 9,500; and Ventura 1,000. Imperial, Santa Barbara, and Kern’ show little change from the eensus. Eleven counties in the San Francisco bay area have grown 330,600 since the census, the association estimates. San Francisco city . and county shows a gain of 46,500 since land Napa 13,500. the census; Alameda 68,000; Santa Clara 18,000; San Joaquin 10,000; San Maeto 21,200; Contra ‘Costa 75,500; Stanislaus 6,100; Sonoma 5,000; Marin 11,900; olano 54,900; CHRISTMAS TREE SALES IN TAHOE FOREST. $1438 In spite of a late start and the early season storms, many Christmas trees were sold on the Downieville district of the Tahoe \National For+ est. Early in the season contemplated in the cutting was “summit counCan you make straight Down which it rolls th And speed it on a worthier course With an initiatory spin? I wonder if you have ever New Year. It’s not an easy thing to do; they are all so reticent and indefinite. Not one of them is ever ready or willing make, clarifying statements, forthright assertions, predictions or promises. One's queries are and the exasperating words, viewer. . the interviewee. ‘The question is,” tion. You could do much for would use these days as you should. If the world is not a better place to live in,. if humanity has not solved many of JUST WONDERIN’ I wonder, little Forty Three As you come gliding through the night, If you will take this tired world And chnge its darkness into. light. ““wait and see.” : Perhaps we expect too much of the fleeting years. After all it is not their tasks to renovate this untidy world. cut the Gordian knot of human infelicities. Little Forty Three told me that in very brazen tones. No sooner had I propounded my queries than he turned the tables. He became the intersaid the baby year, ing to do with me? I have the usual number of days to pass out in accordance with long established regulations. They are all blank and quite unblemished, but. what will they look like when you humans get. through with them? That’s the quesRED CROSS PLAYS BIG ROLE IN FIRE AT VIRGINIA CITY SAIN FRIAINCISCO, Dec. 31.—Virginia City, Nevada, became a windfanned inferno, when the worst fire since 1875 threatened every buildthe crooked paths rough clouds of sin, tried to interview a very young ing. Storey county Red Cross Chapter went into action immediately, to. and from Reno came the Washoe county Red Cross motor corps, canirivariably met by a baby stare teen and Red Cross ambulance. ed and others were damaged during the two nights and days tthe fire raged ‘before a change in wind accompanied by rain saved the town from annihilation. ‘Storey County Red Cross Chapter officials provided shelter for evacuees at some time during the two-day, two-night disaster. Women from the Washoe County Red Cross helped Virginia City residents pack and salvage household belongings. : On hand to help evacuate families and find places for them to stay when fire in the Sitwa, Alaska business district did $250,000 damage recently, was the Sitka Red Cross Chapter, which extended all possible or ““what are you goyourself and the world if you its Twenty five homes were destroy-} PGE NARROWS DAM STATION IN OPERATION — Promptly on scheduled time, another new hydroelectric generating Station-was placed in operation last Tuesday by the Pacific Gas and Blectric Company. The new powerhouse, construction of which was started in September, 1941, at the Narrows, on the Yuba River, will add 14,700 horsepower to the system’s capacity to serve the war industries and the communities of Central and Northern Caliornia. It is situated below the Upper Narrows Debris dam where water power developed by the dam will be utilized for the, generation of electricity. ‘This latest addition to the P. G. and E. system is only one part of the company’s long term ‘building program planned in 1938, long before the nation’s entry into global war was thought probable. Three other powerhouses will be completed and placed ‘in operaton within the next twelve months. With the Narrows plant they will add a total o 318,700 horsepower ta the electric reweighty problems, if you, yourself, are not a better person after using my gift of days, don’t blame me. You and your contemporaries will be to blame. The future will take care of itself if each succeeding day is used to the best advantage. So long, now. I've got to tie my sash and get ready to pass out January first.” Feeling somewhat abashed, I rushed away to examine my own napsack and find if it contained anything which, if discarded, would make it lighter to carry through the days ahead. I found a few prejudices ,intolerances, sundry doubts and fears, a suspicion or two; those things are quite useless, “why not discard them right here and now,” I muttered to my-; self, and echo repeated, ““why not>’ Finally . came upon a quantity of ignorances. Now . can eet rid of them too, but not all at ‘once. . might budget those lignorances and try to replace them with something of real value. If I could do that regularly, day by day, I would have

three hundred and sixty five facts at my command by the time! Forty Four stépped.in. . think J shall begin getting rid of my sources of the system, bringing the assistance. Red Cross supplies ON/ rand total to 2,300,000 horsepowhand were sufficient to care for the; gy. evacuees. During the fire, coffee and. Following its long established lunch were served to firemen and the! policy, the company has built facilhelpers by Red Cross volunteers. \ities to meet the growing demands of Red Cross first aiders and canteen . the shipyads and othér war indusworkers from ‘Riverside, Calif., Chaptries, to supply the normal requireter were called on during a forest. ments of homes, business and agriSa their district and though 20 . culture, and to maintain constantly families were affected, chapter ofan adequate reserve for emergency. ficials and volunteers, assisted by the There has ‘been and will be no shortCorona Red Cross’ Branch, served . age of electric power in this area. day and night until the fire was un-} Early in February, a second hydroder, control. : electric station will be completed and. jin operation, near Dutch Flat, Placer county producing 37,000 horseFARM MACHINERY «: power from the flow of the Bear riv. This project was started in OctoSCARCE IN 1943 bee 1940. Involving the driving of . four miles: of tunnel, the work has fire try.”’ but the early snows made cu:-— ting and transportation impossible in such areas. Thereore,most of the mah Peak and Chapman Creek areas. ignorances right away. What an adventure, this one placing ignorances with the rig it with me? Uncle Silas says: *““Seems of reht answers. Will you undertake to me, the food administration will be making an egregious display of racial discrimination if it places water melons on the list stuffs.’—A. Merriam Conner. food of non-essential PG&E. AWARDS SERVICE BADGES forest sales were made in: the Dead-. Pacific Gas and Electric Company The trees were stored and checked . employees of the Drum Division, who at Sierra Cty before shipment to market. Gatos of Christmas trees on the} . have had five or more years of ser. vice, are being awarded service district totaled 2674 with a sale value, badges this week. of $1,438.65. Quite a number of free use permits were also issued to local residents for trees for personal use. Considerable cutting was also done on private prpperty in this area. All cutting was done in areas where the thinning of reproduction and topping of.small trees: was desirable for betterment of the timber stand. GORDON GARLAND NOT YET PLACED SAIGRIAIMEINTO, Dec. 31.—(UP)—— Addedto Earl /‘Warren’s’ worries over becoming governor is what to do with Gordon Garland former assembly speaker and a hard worker in the Republican campaign, = although he is a registered Demogcrat. Garland frankly would like a salaried spot in the new administration, figuring his years of experience in ‘the legislature fit. him for more state service. So far, however, Warren has steered clear of ‘political appointments to his key jobs and has been puzzled to find the place where Garland’s talents would make him a good public servant. One post proposed was on the state personnel board, where -his_ close connection with state departments would come in handy. Also, being a Democrat, he would carry out Warren’s promise of a non-parti!san administration. And the $3600 annual salary for a ten year term would be very satisfactory to Garland. a There are othér spots, too, and Garland more than likely will get something. j In the past it has been customary for employee service badges to be awarded at an annual banquet presided over by P. M. Downing, the company’s vice president and general manager. However, because of transportation difficulties, tice has been abandoned for the duration. J. R. Johnson, Drum division Manager, will present the badges. this pracThose awarded are: William J. Eddy, John J. Michael and Louis G. Roberts 30 year badge; Edgar E. Atwood, Charles Mosser and Roland Prout 25 year badge; F. Orville Baker, Sidney W. Bancroft, Max Dunlap, Leslie R. Landsburg, Charles C. Lee, Frank A. Moore, George L. Seaton, Herman Veale, Charles W. Walker and Veryl A. Fortell 20 year badge; Norman J. Angove, Lloyd E. Erskine, Matthew A. Erskine, Jess A. Glover, Bernard L. Haines, Lloyd F. Hiatt, Lathrop S. Huntley, John D. Lee, William N. McCutcheon, Paden, Antone J. Rore, and Alec W. Scott 15 year badge; Richard G. Burton, Llewelyn W. Davies, Edmond W. Ferguson, Ethel M. Heiple, Jack L. Newman, Henry Ruth and Thelma iC. Schillianskey 10 year badge; Vincent H. Anderson, William D. Bilderback, Jack S. Bolster, Jack P, Braz, Jr., Virginia L. Brodie, Francis A. Davey, Dorothy M. Glasser, Fred M. Hawke, Jr., Robert S. Lamb, Richard L. Middaugh, Clarence B. Mc‘Cubbin, Andy HB. Pasqual, Ervin 0. (Pekuri, Thomas .H, Randall, Charles H. Simpkins, Margaret M. Starr, James F. Stephens and Louis PD. . Weber 5 year badge. Jack) MARYSVILLE T0 HAVE ODT OFFICE The Office of Defense Transportation announced today that completion of arrangements for representatiyes of the“QDT, to establish immediately temporary offices in the Chamber of Commerce buildings in the following cities: Redding, Auburn, Chico, Stockton and Marysville. mercial vehicle owners with their the ODT. regulations. Truck owners may call at the office in their area for information, and the filing of appeals, in such cases where an adjustment is justified. The representative will also assist in the correlating of activities for the various interested groups: Industrial Committees.: County Farm Transportation Committees. War Price and Rationing Boards. A survey will also be made of motor truck parts available, rubber, and manpower; also attention will ‘be given to the furthering of plans for the pooling of equipment for the duration, and to work with civilian defense agencies, relative to the utilization of available motor truck equipment in the event of an emer-. gency. ’ : ‘Meetings are being aranged, and Meetings are being arranged, and presentatives of the mentioned groups. This will give these interested the opportunity to assist in expediting the program. ‘ ‘Mrs. Kitty Kimball arrived Tuesday from the bay area where she had ‘been visiting and is now living in the Hamilton apartments on Broad street. She has been residing in SacTamenio and has come to, Nevada ICity to reside.. This will be good news to her many friends. (New farm machinery will he practically ty in 1943, warns E. W. Blum, USDA! war board chairman, who this week announced the first county quotas to be allocated by the county machinery . rationing committee. Following is a list of released equipment to be rationed. (Moldboard plows, tractor drawn or mounted, Dise harrow, 1. Tractors, wheel type, 1. Farm wagons, 1. Dairy equipment —milking machines, 2. 1. Milk coolers, 1. Sweep rakes, 1. Engines, 1. Mowers, horse, 1. Tractor. 1, For the time being only equipment now in the hands of dealers may be rationed. In order to be eligible to ‘buy an item of rationed ejuipment, a farmer must certify in writing to the rationing committee that ‘the purchase of such equipment is absoluteThe purpose is to assist all com-)ly essential to achieving 1943 production on his farm; that he has locatapplications for Certificates of War,ed the equipment in the. hands of a Necessity, and to acquaint them with . dealer and that the dealer is willing to sell it to him. ‘Tt will be necessary to achiev2 our 1943 production goals ‘with substantially the equipment now on our farms,’’ Blum declared. “‘This means that we will have to take the very best possible care of machinery now on hand and share its use with our neighbors as much as we possibly can. Fortunately, repair parts will ibe fairly plentiful, so it is imperative that all machines be immediately put into tip-top pape for use during the coming season.’ ‘Certain lighter equipment, inelading handoperated tools. and some horse drawn equipment, is still unrestricted and may be purchased to the extent that dealers stocks will permit. November Gas. Sales Show One Percent Drop SACRAMENTO, Dec. 31.—(UP)— November gasoline sales reflected the ferver of purchases preciding the rationing deadline, according to the state. board of equalization. A total of 177,831,753 gallons}; were distributed, which netted a tax of $5,334,953.61, only 1 per cent less than the same month in 1941. The November figures topped the October sales by $674,483.97 in taxes or 22,482,799 gallons distributed. The total tax for the first 11 months of 1942 was $4,765,684.08 less than ‘Yor the same period of 1941, z non-existent in INevada coun-; 1. Spike tooth harrow, 1.‘ Separators, . ‘only the finishing touches remain to be done. Third of the projects on the company’s current building program is an additional unit being installed at the Oleum plant on the shore of San* , Francisco bay. ‘Construction . started in March, 1941, and instal. lation of the new unit, a turbo gen‘erator of 67,000 horsepower capacity, will be completed in June, 1942. The Oleum plant is one of the three steam generating stations recently built by the company adjoining oil . . . high temperature steam for the generation of electricity. They were completed successively in December, 1940, June, 1941 and ‘January, 1942. ‘ : ‘Fourth of the utility company’s projects now under construction, is a new hydroelectric plant on the Pit River which will have an installed capacity of 200,000 horsepower, the largest. of all the hydroelectrie generating stations in the system. Work was started on this plant in uly, 1941. It is now 70 per cent completed and some 1600 men are laboring day and night to finish the job, which involves the driving of 5.4 miles of tunnel, extensive roadbuilding and grading, construction of a units and erection of 15 miles of transmission line to connect the plant system of the company. ‘It is expected the station will be placed in service in the summer of 1943. When these four new scceeibiaiee: tric Company will have a total of 64, . generating stations, serving the electrical needs of a territory of 89,0090 square miles. Tin Cans Will Be me Collected Saturday way Patrol, and county chairman the Salvage Committee, annow that the next pick-up of tin — move the tops and f and leave them in the street ourby: . proceeded without. interruption and. was’ refineries, all of them of the latest design in utilization of high pressure, . diversion dam, building of a power-— house, installation of four generating: with the interconnected transmission. , are completed, Pacific Gas and Hlec~ Capt. Jos. E. Blake of the High--