December 31, 1945 (16 pages)

PAGE EIGHT NEVADA CITY NUGGET corer, aoe GOVERNOR SAY STATE!S GEARED FOR PROGRESS In an address before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco . ! last Friday Governor Earl Warren; said in part: This seems to be an age of proplems—big problems, fundamental problems. new problems and old problems with new cases. It is a difficult agé—an age in which our habits of thought and action are daily colliding with the new surroundings of a modern and highly organized economy. Those of us who are familiar with pre’ war life in California realize that our normal life was thrown completely out of adjustment by the war, and to a greater degree than in other states. California became the terminal point of the greatest migration in American history—the result of the waT—particularly the Pacific war. We also had more war contracts than any sta'tte in the union except Michigan and New York. In the main, the! industries which filled these mendous contracts were entirely war created. In the airplane manufac! . NEVADA THEATRE DIRHCTION T. AND D. JR., ENTEPRISES, INC. H ' Tuesday Wednesday HOLD THAT VERONICA LAKE . —And— ” EDDIE BRACKEN_ } —Also— March of Time—No. 5. . CHALLENGE TO . HOLLYWOOD tre. if . have ed from 37,000 in 1940 to 328,000 over 300,000. The federal Transportation, communication tal figure of civilian employment of 3 1-2 million at the peak of the war. Then came the end of the war. The total number of wage earners in factories declined within a matter of months from 950,000 to 405,000) Enormous plants that employed 20,000 30,000 and 40,000 people were left to a night watchman. This sudden decrease in war time employment has left us in a state of flux an ithe:end igs not yet in sight. These ‘war workers are remaining with us and we have the problem of finding post war jobs for them in addition to providing for our veterans. We imust reason 700,000 California / veterans who have done our fgihting ‘in this war—401,000 of whom have ‘already returned to our state and the remainder of whom. are now returning at the rate of 90,000 per month. Add to this the fact that for every two California veterans returning, . ; one veteran from other states is seeking to locate in our communities. & The net result of all this is that ‘éur population gives no indication of declining, but on the contrary is increasing -day by day. Any state would face a stupendous task in merely attemp'ting to bring about the re-absorption of 700,000 veterans. We are also trying to absorb more ithan 2,000,000 new war time residents. This is why California’s problems are not quite comparable with those of other states. It is a situation which calls for vision, for ingenuity and determination if we are to make our economy work. Yet, I say with confidence that we can absorb our new population—-veterans and war We absorbed migrations throughout our history. One wave of . workers alike. great /migration brought this state from a . wilderness to statehood in a period of two years. Completion of the transcontinental railroads gave us another high point in migration and signaled the first growth of many of four cities. The migration from the ») January 31 ? THE LAST DAY FOR MEN NOW » IN THE ARMY TO RETAIN THEIR PRESENT GRADES . BY REENLISTING. : Men now in the Army who reenlist before February 1 will be reenlisted in their present grade. Men honorably discharged can reenlist within 20 days after discharge in the grade they held at the time of discharge, provided they reenlist before February 1, 1946. * There’s a long list of attractive reenlistment privileges in the new Armed Forces Voluntary Recruitment Act of 1945. The ability to keep your present grade is only one of them, but this privilege expires on January 31. There are plenty of other reasons why many thousands of men have enlisted, and more thousands are enlisting every day. You'll certainly want to know all of the opportunities open to you. If you'll read them carefully, you'll know why a job in the new peacetime Regular Army is being regarded today as “The Best Job in the World.” ~ HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW ENLISTMENT PROGRAM 1. Enlistments for 142, 2 or 3 years. (1-year enlistments permitted for men now in Army with 6 months’ service.) 2. Enlistment age from 17 to 34 years inclusive, except for men now in Army, who may reenlist at any age. 3. Menreenlisting retain present grades, if they reenlist within 20 days after discharge and before February 1, 1946. 4. The best pay scale, medical care, food, quarters and clothing in Army history. 5. An increase in the reenlistment bonus to $50 for each year of active service since such bonus was last paid, or since last entry into service. 6. Up to 90 days’ paid furlough, depending on length of service, with furlough travel paid to home and return, for men now in Army who enlist. 7. A 30-day furlough every year at full pay. 8. Mustering-out pay (based upon length of service) to all men who are discharged to reenlist. 9. Option to retire at half pay for life after 20 years’ service—increasing to three-quarters pay after 30 years’ service. All previous active federal military service counts toward retirement. 10. Benefits under the GI Bill of Rights. 11. Family allowances for the term of enlistment for dependents of men who enlist before July 1, 1946. 12. Opportunity to learn one or more of 200 skills and trades. 13. Choice of branch of service and overseas theater in the Air, Ground or Service Forces on 3-year. enlistments. PAY PER MONTH— ENLISTED MEN In Addition to Food, Lodging, Clothes and Medical Care (a)—Plus 20% Increase for Service Overseas. (b)—Plus 50% if Member of Flying Crews, Parachutist, etc. (c) —Plus 5% Increase in Pay for Each 3 Years of Service. MONTHLY RETIREMENT Poonaty 5 INCOME AFTER: Per 20 Years‘ 39 hes hl Master Sergeant Month Service Service or First Sergeant $138.00 $89.70 $155.25 a ®& ' ‘Technical Sergeant 114.00 74.10 128.25 Staff Sergeant . . 96.00 62.40 108.00 Sergeaht. . . 78.00 50.70 87.75 Corporal . . . 66.00 42.90 74.25 Private First Class. 54.00 35.10 60.75 Private . 30.00 32.50 56.25 © _SEE THE JOB THROUGH ARMY U. S. » BEA “GUARDIAN OF VICTORY” SERVICE FORCES AIR, GROU REENLIST NOW AT YOUR NEAREST U. S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION 222 Federal Bldg. Sacramento i . time change. We notice it now more than we did in those hectic years of turing industry, employment increasmiddle west about the turn of the century placed us among the popuat the war peak. In the shipbuilding! lous sfates. All of us can remember industries it increased from 6000 to. the dust bowl migration of recent governyears and its absorption by our farms ment itself employed 300,000 civil. and factories. In this situation, his. 'which is so greatly desired by every . Henry Buermann, local chairman exians in its California arsenals, shiptory will repeat itself. The newcom-!one from getting underway. yards and military establishments. . ; ers will remain and be absorbed into . and; the life of our state. California is too utilities services jumped in employ. big has too many natural resources ment from 184,000 to 240,000, And! and is too experienced in such mat-! . so ‘it went—until we reached a to-/ters to fail in its attempt to handle its migration of those war years. We are now experiencing the first aftermath of our tremendous warwar, with their full and feverish employment on the tasks of Uncle Sam. Then we had a pattern toward which to work. Everyone had his job given to him. We all had the same ‘boss, the some controls and the same customer. But now we are on our own again and everyone must make his. own pattern. The surface prosperity of war no longer deludes us. Our problems are becoming more and more apparent—more and more accentuated. New ones have crept up and old ones have reappeared. Our first concern is whether we can keep both our new and our old population employed. Right now we have a paradoxical situation. We have on the average 164,000 people now drawing claims from our unemployment compensation. Yet employerg are crying for help. There are many things to consider in interpreting this condition. In the pee ee ges ree solute stricture on essential mater-. has completed its clothing collecials. Land values are inf ed and ‘building costs have increased. These vand other factors have conspired to prevent the home building program In the meantime many thousands . of our people are as homeless as if their condition had been caused by fire, flood or other calamity. Many of our. returning veterans have no more home than when they were in foxholes overseas. I believe it to be the joint responsibility of local and state government to obtain such temporary housing as is now available and I propose to ask the statte legislature to help local communities obtain this housing from the federal agencies involved and to aid the communities in making such housing livable. The ‘cost involved will be limited to remodeling and repair and the moving of surplus units to centers of distress. POST OFFICES T0 CENTERSFOR ~ LOTHING GETS post offices are cleared of the last Christmas packages they will begin first place this does not mean that! the same 164,000 people are continuously. unemployed. There is ‘a’ constant turn over within this group . of claimants—many of them mov-) ing into the group and many of them moving out of the group into jobs. Then there is the increasing activity on the part of employers who now demand skilled and trained labor—where even a few months ago they i were forced to take. watever they could get. Again there is an acute housing shortage which is actually preventing workers from accepting available jobs. There is a further problem which arises when people who have been trained for one type of work are reluctant-to accept other work which involves a down gradinz and a substantial drop in pay. Work stoppages in one industry have thrown people out of work in related industries. New or converted industries—anxious to get going—-have lacked the materials for peace time enterprise. During the war California built up a tremendous unemployment reserve of $750,000,000. I believe it is exceeded by the state of New York. This is due to our enormous war industries and to the fact that we are one of four states that has an employees contrbiution. Two ‘hundred million dollars of this reserve has been contributed by the employees themselves. It is believed that the fund is more than sufficient to meet any foreseeable unemployment condition that might develop in our state. to receive clothing gifts from the American people to the suffering people in bombed out lands according to an order of Postmaster General R. E. Hannegan which was made~-public today. Henry J. Kaiser national chairman of the Victory clothing collection, declared that the order to all postmasters authorized and _ directed them to permit local committees of the nation wide clothing drive to place boxes in post office lobbies to receive clothing donations. Kaiser also announced that Nelson A. Rockefeller.former assistant secretary of state, will serve as the New . . ] York City chairman of the collection. Kaiser also announced that 9607 communities throughout America are organized to conduct clothing drives under the local chairmanship of 4313 meh and women many of whom will direct county wide drives. One community South Hero. Vt., (tion. The 606 residents of this vil. yawe on an island in Lake Champlain ' began their drive a month in ad. vance of the national campaign. Mrs . plained that three pre-Christmas ‘géwing bees were held to salvage . garments that were torn and ripped. The victory clothing collection, scheduled from Jan. 7-31 seeks 100,000,000 used garments in addition to shoes and bedding. Each contributor is invtied to attach good will messages to clothing gifts. GRASS VALLEY COUPLE WED Miss Delia L. Beach of this city and Bryan J. MecCartie recently discharged from the army were married Thursday night by Justice of the Peace Charles Morehouse on Harper MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1945 Street, Grass Valley. The couple were attended by Mrs. Ann Aulang, the bride’s grandmother, and Mrs. Margaret Beach mother of the bride. The bridegroom is a driver for the Grass Valley. Taxi Company. Reservations for Elks Party 190 Reservations have been made for 190 Elks and their ladies for the dinner and New Years party this evening in the Elks Club here. The . annas/even is one of the big affairs of e social calendar here. Dancing will begin at 9 p. m. and those who do not care to attend the dinner will be welcomed to join in ushering the old year out and the nlew year ni. ANTIQUES BOUGHT AND SOLD Call At DEER CREEK INN —FORMERLY NEW YORK HOTEL— OR PHONE 107 } { . } inj ! th } } . QUICK CASH FOR YOUR CAR, PAID FOR OR NOT. ANY MAKE OR MODEL. _ OUT OF STATE CARS CLEARED. HONEST, FOLKS — I'll pay most any price you ask. . Come to MAX’S TIRE SHOP for More Money . . . 116 Broad Street, Nevada City, Telephone 394 —or— -1400 Del Paso Blvd., North Sacramento, Phone 9-2193 ooking forward to 1946, we pledge anew our determination to give you the best value and service possible. California can afford to improve its system as advocated by the president without asking for an additional contribution from anyone. In my opinion a workman needs unemployment compensation far more when he is ill than when he is well, and it should include disability benefits during illness. The reason for the housing shortage is obvious—there has been no home building in California for years and meanwhile our population has increased by more than 1,500,000. Our war workers are remaining and our veterans are coming home. There is no buildings program really underway now, because there is an abWE SAY NOW, AS SO OFTEN BE~ FORE, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! Valet Cleaners . 109 SOUTH CHURCH STREET PHONE 152 GRASS VALLEY SS “ y i Long John's Tavern “The Friendliest Spot in a Friendly Town” HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL Hal Deeter, Prop. 121 Broad Street Nevada City, California © Ae ahem tn EE

PAGE EIGHT NEVADA CITY NUGGET corer, aoe GOVERNOR SAY STATE!S GEARED FOR PROGRESS In an address before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco . ! last Friday Governor Earl Warren; said in part: This seems to be an age of proplems—big problems, fundamental problems. new problems and old problems with new cases. It is a difficult agé—an age in which our habits of thought and action are daily colliding with the new surroundings of a modern and highly organized economy. Those of us who are familiar with pre’ war life in California realize that our normal life was thrown completely out of adjustment by the war, and to a greater degree than in other states. California became the terminal point of the greatest migration in American history—the result of the waT—particularly the Pacific war. We also had more war contracts than any sta'tte in the union except Michigan and New York. In the main, the! industries which filled these mendous contracts were entirely war created. In the airplane manufac! . NEVADA THEATRE DIRHCTION T. AND D. JR., ENTEPRISES, INC. H ' Tuesday Wednesday HOLD THAT VERONICA LAKE . —And— ” EDDIE BRACKEN_ } —Also— March of Time—No. 5. . CHALLENGE TO . HOLLYWOOD tre. if . have ed from 37,000 in 1940 to 328,000 over 300,000. The federal Transportation, communication tal figure of civilian employment of 3 1-2 million at the peak of the war. Then came the end of the war. The total number of wage earners in factories declined within a matter of months from 950,000 to 405,000) Enormous plants that employed 20,000 30,000 and 40,000 people were left to a night watchman. This sudden decrease in war time employment has left us in a state of flux an ithe:end igs not yet in sight. These ‘war workers are remaining with us and we have the problem of finding post war jobs for them in addition to providing for our veterans. We imust reason 700,000 California / veterans who have done our fgihting ‘in this war—401,000 of whom have ‘already returned to our state and the remainder of whom. are now returning at the rate of 90,000 per month. Add to this the fact that for every two California veterans returning, . ; one veteran from other states is seeking to locate in our communities. & The net result of all this is that ‘éur population gives no indication of declining, but on the contrary is increasing -day by day. Any state would face a stupendous task in merely attemp'ting to bring about the re-absorption of 700,000 veterans. We are also trying to absorb more ithan 2,000,000 new war time residents. This is why California’s problems are not quite comparable with those of other states. It is a situation which calls for vision, for ingenuity and determination if we are to make our economy work. Yet, I say with confidence that we can absorb our new population—-veterans and war We absorbed migrations throughout our history. One wave of . workers alike. great /migration brought this state from a . wilderness to statehood in a period of two years. Completion of the transcontinental railroads gave us another high point in migration and signaled the first growth of many of four cities. The migration from the ») January 31 ? THE LAST DAY FOR MEN NOW » IN THE ARMY TO RETAIN THEIR PRESENT GRADES . BY REENLISTING.. : Men now in the Army who reenlist before February 1 will be reenlisted in their present grade. Men honorably discharged can reenlist within 20 days after discharge in the grade they held at the time of discharge, provided they reenlist before February 1, 1946. * There’s a long list of attractive reenlistment privileges in the new Armed Forces Voluntary Recruitment Act of 1945. The ability to keep your present grade is only one of them, but this privilege expires on January 31. There are plenty of other reasons why many thousands of men have enlisted, and more thousands are enlisting every day. You'll certainly want to know all of the opportunities open to you. If you'll read them carefully, you'll know why a job in the new peacetime Regular Army is being regarded today as “The Best Job in the World.” ~ HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NEW ENLISTMENT PROGRAM 1. Enlistments for 142, 2 or 3 years. (1-year enlistments permitted for men now in Army with 6 months’ service.) 2. Enlistment age from 17 to 34 years inclusive, except for men now in Army, who may reenlist at any age. 3. Menreenlisting retain present grades, if they reenlist within 20 days after discharge and before February 1, 1946. 4. The best pay scale, medical care, food, quarters and clothing in Army history. 5. An increase in the reenlistment bonus to $50 for each year of active service since such bonus was last paid, or since last entry into service. 6. Up to 90 days’ paid furlough, depending on length of service, with furlough travel paid to home and return, for men now in Army who enlist. 7. A 30-day furlough every year at full pay. 8. Mustering-out pay (based upon length of service) to all men who are discharged to reenlist. 9. Option to retire at half pay for life after 20 years’ service—increasing to three-quarters pay after 30 years’ service. All previous active federal military service counts toward retirement. 10. Benefits under the GI Bill of Rights. 11. Family allowances for the term of enlistment for dependents of men who enlist before July 1, 1946. 12. Opportunity to learn one or more of 200 skills and trades. 13. Choice of branch of service and overseas theater in the Air, Ground or Service Forces on 3-year. enlistments. PAY PER MONTH— ENLISTED MEN In Addition to Food, Lodging, Clothes and Medical Care (a)—Plus 20% Increase for Service Overseas. (b)—Plus 50% if Member of Flying Crews, Parachutist, etc. (c) —Plus 5% Increase in Pay for Each 3 Years of Service. MONTHLY RETIREMENT Poonaty 5 INCOME AFTER: Per 20 Years‘ 39 hes hl Master Sergeant Month Service Service or First Sergeant $138.00 $89.70 $155.25 a ®& ' ‘Technical Sergeant 114.00 74.10 128.25 Staff Sergeant . . 96.00 62.40 108.00 Sergeaht. . . 78.00 50.70 87.75 Corporal . . . 66.00 42.90 74.25 Private First Class. 54.00 35.10 60.75 Private . 30.00 32.50 56.25 © _SEE THE JOB THROUGH ARMY U. S. » BEA “GUARDIAN OF VICTORY” SERVICE FORCES AIR, GROU REENLIST NOW AT YOUR NEAREST U. S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION 222 Federal Bldg. Sacramento i . time change. We notice it now more

than we did in those hectic years of turing industry, employment increasmiddle west about the turn of the century placed us among the popuat the war peak. In the shipbuilding! lous sfates. All of us can remember industries it increased from 6000 to. the dust bowl migration of recent governyears and its absorption by our farms ment itself employed 300,000 civil. and factories. In this situation, his. 'which is so greatly desired by every . Henry Buermann, local chairman exians in its California arsenals, shiptory will repeat itself. The newcom-!one from getting underway. yards and military establishments. . ; ers will remain and be absorbed into . and; the life of our state. California is too utilities services jumped in employ. big has too many natural resources ment from 184,000 to 240,000, And! and is too experienced in such mat-! . so ‘it went—until we reached a to-/ters to fail in its attempt to handle its migration of those war years. We are now experiencing the first aftermath of our tremendous warwar, with their full and feverish employment on the tasks of Uncle Sam. Then we had a pattern toward which to work. Everyone had his job given to him. We all had the same ‘boss, the some controls and the same customer. But now we are on our own again and everyone must make his. own pattern. The surface prosperity of war no longer deludes us. Our problems are becoming more and more apparent—more and more accentuated. New ones have crept up and old ones have reappeared. Our first concern is whether we can keep both our new and our old population employed. Right now we have a paradoxical situation. We have on the average 164,000 people now drawing claims from our unemployment compensation. Yet employerg are crying for help. There are many things to consider in interpreting this condition. In the pee ee ges ree solute stricture on essential mater-. has completed its clothing collecials. Land values are inf ed and ‘building costs have increased. These vand other factors have conspired to prevent the home building program In the meantime many thousands . of our people are as homeless as if their condition had been caused by fire, flood or other calamity. Many of our. returning veterans have no more home than when they were in foxholes overseas. I believe it to be the joint responsibility of local and state government to obtain such temporary housing as is now available and I propose to ask the statte legislature to help local communities obtain this housing from the federal agencies involved and to aid the communities in making such housing livable. The ‘cost involved will be limited to remodeling and repair and the moving of surplus units to centers of distress. POST OFFICES T0 CENTERSFOR ~ LOTHING GETS post offices are cleared of the last Christmas packages they will begin first place this does not mean that! the same 164,000 people are continuously. unemployed. There is ‘a’ constant turn over within this group . of claimants—many of them mov-) ing into the group and many of them moving out of the group into jobs. Then there is the increasing activity on the part of employers who now demand skilled and trained labor—where even a few months ago they i were forced to take. watever they could get. Again there is an acute housing shortage which is actually preventing workers from accepting available jobs. There is a further problem which arises when people who have been trained for one type of work are reluctant-to accept other work which involves a down gradinz and a substantial drop in pay. Work stoppages in one industry have thrown people out of work in related industries. New or converted industries—anxious to get going—-have lacked the materials for peace time enterprise. During the war California built up a tremendous unemployment reserve of $750,000,000. I believe it is exceeded by the state of New York. This is due to our enormous war industries and to the fact that we are one of four states that has an employees contrbiution. Two ‘hundred million dollars of this reserve has been contributed by the employees themselves. It is believed that the fund is more than sufficient to meet any foreseeable unemployment condition that might develop in our state. to receive clothing gifts from the American people to the suffering people in bombed out lands according to an order of Postmaster General R. E. Hannegan which was made~-public today. Henry J. Kaiser national chairman of the Victory clothing collection, declared that the order to all postmasters authorized and _ directed them to permit local committees of the nation wide clothing drive to place boxes in post office lobbies to receive clothing donations. Kaiser also announced that Nelson A. Rockefeller.former assistant secretary of state, will serve as the New . . ] York City chairman of the collection. Kaiser also announced that 9607 communities throughout America are organized to conduct clothing drives under the local chairmanship of 4313 meh and women many of whom will direct county wide drives. One community South Hero. Vt., (tion. The 606 residents of this vil. yawe on an island in Lake Champlain ' began their drive a month in ad. vance of the national campaign. Mrs . plained that three pre-Christmas ‘géwing bees were held to salvage . garments that were torn and ripped. The victory clothing collection, scheduled from Jan. 7-31 seeks 100,000,000 used garments in addition to shoes and bedding. Each contributor is invtied to attach good will messages to clothing gifts. GRASS VALLEY COUPLE WED Miss Delia L. Beach of this city and Bryan J. MecCartie recently discharged from the army were married Thursday night by Justice of the Peace Charles Morehouse on Harper MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1945 Street, Grass Valley. The couple were attended by Mrs. Ann Aulang, the bride’s grandmother, and Mrs. Margaret Beach mother of the bride. The bridegroom is a driver for the Grass Valley. Taxi Company. Reservations for Elks Party 190 Reservations have been made for 190 Elks and their ladies for the dinner and New Years party this evening in the Elks Club here. The . annas/even is one of the big affairs of e social calendar here. Dancing will begin at 9 p. m. and those who do not care to attend the dinner will be welcomed to join in ushering the old year out and the nlew year ni. ANTIQUES BOUGHT AND SOLD Call At DEER CREEK INN —FORMERLY NEW YORK HOTEL— OR PHONE 107 } { . } inj ! th } } . QUICK CASH FOR YOUR CAR, PAID FOR OR NOT. ANY MAKE OR MODEL. _ OUT OF STATE CARS CLEARED. HONEST, FOLKS — I'll pay most any price you ask. . Come to MAX’S TIRE SHOP for More Money . . . 116 Broad Street, Nevada City, Telephone 394 —or— -1400 Del Paso Blvd., North Sacramento, Phone 9-2193 ooking forward to 1946, we pledge anew our determination to give you the best value and service possible. California can afford to improve its system as advocated by the president without asking for an additional contribution from anyone. In my opinion a workman needs unemployment compensation far more when he is ill than when he is well, and it should include disability benefits during illness. The reason for the housing shortage is obvious—there has been no home building in California for years and meanwhile our population has increased by more than 1,500,000. Our war workers are remaining and our veterans are coming home. There is no buildings program really underway now, because there is an abWE SAY NOW, AS SO OFTEN BE~ FORE, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! Valet Cleaners . 109 SOUTH CHURCH STREET PHONE 152 GRASS VALLEY SS “ y i Long John's Tavern “The Friendliest Spot in a Friendly Town” HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL Hal Deeter, Prop. 121 Broad Street Nevada City, California © Ae ahem tn EE