December 5, 1940 (6 pages)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1940. NEVADA CITY NUGGET __ t YOU WILL BE ‘ PLEASED WITH OUR COFFEE SHOP 6: NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP 2, pay NEVADA CITY CALIFORNIA Factory Specified Engine Tune-Up and Steering and Front End Alignment Equipment @ STUDEBAKER PONTIAC . Sales ane tala Service Garage W. 8S. Williamson, Prop, . Cor, Pine and Spring br gr 196 PROGRESSIVE NEVADA CITY —Forges = = NEVADA CITY Chamber of Commerce CITY HALL, BROAD STREET SACRAMENTO, Cal., (UP)—State Controller Harry Riley leaned back in his chair today and concluded he is the biggest land lord in all California. He _ also would like to be the largest real estate salesman. Riley checked off the property: he holds for sale—3,000,000 acres of ‘farm land, 160,000 city lots. The property is held in every county and virtually every ‘city in the state. His listings include everything from country clubs to gold mines and wineries. Riley holds ‘all this in his official position as controller; the holdings are those deeded to the non-payment of taxes. Along with city and county. tax officials, the controller’s office is conducting an active program to restore such property to the tax rolls. In the delinquent property has been. returned to the assessment rolls through redemption. In addition, $800,491 has been sold to new owners ‘at public gales." tS Rental Is High : Riley reported. rental of -otherwise non-revenue producing property has yielded $370,282 in the last six years, enough to pay the cost of administering the .entire program ‘and supplement ‘the’ state’s nak revenue.” ‘ * An accurate sathimete’ of the ‘assessed value of land deeded to the state is inmypossible since it has been accumulating since 1872, Riley pointed out. In some counties, however, the assessed value is as high as 30 per cent of the total assessed value of the counties. The controller *has among. his holdings the little town of Sam’l Posen, the city that never was. The . community of 10,000 city lots and no population ‘was laid out near ‘Red Bluff nearly 60 years ago by .a promoter wha, sold lots, sight unseen to early day purchasers.’ Besides the “ghost town’” ‘the conProfessional Directory NEVADA CITY GRASS VALLEY DENTISTS ~ DENTISTS DR. JOHN R. BELL DR. ROBT. W. DETTNER DENTIST DENTIST : Office Hours: 8:30 to 5:30 X-RAY facilities Available Evenings by Appointment Morgan & Powell Bldg. Phone 321 B. W. HUMMELT, M. D. “HARRY M. McKEE DOCTORS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 400 Broad Street Office Hours: 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 p. m. Evenings 7-8. Phone 395 X-RAY W. W. REED, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Nevada City, Calif. Office 418 Broad Street Hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m. Residence Phone 2. Office Phone 362 J. R. TOPIC, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 312 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Hours: 10-12 a. m. 2-5 p. m. Evenings 7-8 Phone 23 Hours: 9:00-5:00. Evening appointments.120% Mill Street. Phone 77 Grass Valley, Calif. . DOCTORS CARL POWER JONES, M.D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 1 to 3; 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays 11:30 to 12:30 129 South Auburn St., Grass Valley S. F. TOBIAS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 214 Neal St., Grass Valley Office Hours: 12-3 and 7-8 Phone: Office 429. Residence 1042 DANIEL L. HIRSCH, M. D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offices and Receiving Hospital, 118 Bush St. Hours: 10-12; 2-5, evenings 7-8 P. M. Day or night phone 71. Residence Phone 2 ATTORNEYS MINING ENGINEERS ATTORNEY AT LAW 205 Pine St., opposite courthouse Nevada City, Calif. J. F. O°; CONNOR Mining and Civil Engineer United States Mineral Surveying * Licensed Surveyor . 203°West Main St. Grass Valley FRANK G. FINNEGAN ATTORNEY: AT “LAW . 207 North Pine Street Nevada City, California Telephone 273 THOMAS O. McCRANEY ATTORNEY AT LAW Masonic Building 108% Pine Street, Nevada City Telephone 165 H. WARD SHELDON ATTORNEY AT LAW Union Building Broad Street Nevada City Telephone 28 FUNERAL DIRECTORS ene . NEVADA CITY FRATERNAL AND CLUB DIRECTORY WOMEN’S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, at the Chamber of Commerce, 2:30 p. m. MRS. W. P. SAWYER, Pres. MRS. RICHARD GOYNE, Secy. HOLMES FUNERAL HOME The Holmes Funeral Home service is priced within the means of all. Ambulance service at all hours. Phone 203 246 Sacramento St. ASSAYER Nevada City NEVADA CITY LODGE, No. 518 B. P. O. ELKS . Meets every Thursday evening in Elks Home, Pine St. Phone 108, Visiting Elks welcome. HARRISON RANDALL, ; Exalted’ Ruler. JOHN FORTIER, Secretary. HAL D. DRAPER, Ph. D. ASSAYER AND CONSULTING CHEMIST Nevada City, California HYDRAULIC PARLOR N. S: G. W. Meets every Tuesday evening at Pythian Castle, 282 Broad Street NO. 56, state. for: last three years, $7,500,000 worth of: ‘out, STATE CONTROLLER RILEY LARGEST LANDOWNER IN CALIFORNIA Dec. 5.—* B. building, two mlausoleums, a glass, factory, a ‘$250,000 private school, several large hotels, an ice skating rink, a railroad, an athletic club, a distillery, hundreds of stores, houses, homes and 3,000,000 acres of vineyards, orchards, grazing land and timber land. POPULATION OF COUNTY ON NEW YEARS, 20,200 The population of Nevada county will be about 20,200 on January 1, 1941, according to estimates of California Taxpayers’ association. The state as a whole will top the seven million mark by January +1, ‘the agsociation stated, its estimates of population in each of the fifty-eight California counties totalling 7,007,000 persons, based on, prelntnary. census figures. ted : ee Nationally, the aanoularton pointed. these 7,007,000 Americans in California are:-united: with. the 134,000,000 Americans’ in the’ national defense program: which.,will cause tremendous increases in Federal taxes during coming years. “Tf these greatly increased: taxes ‘are not to destroy the very society we are rearming to protect, the people must unite in efforts to lessen the impact of unnecessarily high taxes ‘on their standard of living,’’ the as-. sociation declared. “A united demand by 7,007, 000 Californians for reduction of the expenditures of state an'd local governments will prove one of the most effective measures of national defense. The first step in that united demand. is let your state senator and your assemblyman know that you are a part of a united front which say*: “No new or increased government spending; “Reduce every public expenditure possible!”’ State Control Board Cracking Down On Expense Account Profits SACRAMENTO, Cal. Dec. 5.— (UP)—The good old days when state employes made good profits on their expense accounts are just about over. The state board of control is cracking down. Already in the discard is the $5 per day meal allowance on trains. The top is $3.50, no matter where the meals are served. No longer can several state employes ride in ‘a private car on state business, pool their gasoline bill and each charge the state for railroad mileage, The driver now gets 5 1-2 cents per mile for his car, the passengers get nothing. @ The board is considering eliminating the $8 and $5 per diem expense, preferring actual expenditures certified ‘by vouchers. A sign of the times is the request of some state employes who own airplanes that they be privileged to apply automobile mileage toward the cost of their flights when making state business trips. Medical science has proved that milk is the most satisfactory food for growing children and adults! Be a healthy person. Don’t deny yourself ‘the health-giving vitamins, minerals and proteins contained in milk. e@eo — Drink It Daily — e@o Bret Harte Dairy ware-. ‘SLIGHTLY HIGHER Office: 364-W Home 246-J. . . Visiting Native Sons welcome, ghee Box 743 ROBERT TUCKER, Pres . . . ] Jordan Street, Nevada City ee. DR. C. W. CHAPMAN, Rec. Sec’y ‘Phone 77 MUSIC pon eerie — ] . Oustomah Lodge, No. 16, 1.0.0.F. RISIL FEY'S “GLADYS WILSON TEACHER OF PIANO Nevada City 358 Alexander St. Phone 434-J Grass Valley Meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30, Odd Fellows Hall. CLYDE BROWNING, N. G JONATHAN PASCOE, Rec. Sec’y JOHN W. DARKE, Fin. 429 Henderson St. Phone 444 Sec’y I 106 Pine Street, Nevada City DISTINCTIVE STYLES IN FALL DRESSES AND FORMALS New Fall Skirts, Sweaters, Blouses and Millinery PAGE. THREE renee TO DEFENSE OF Following is a written by Carle D. Ross of Downieville: “T feel that in fairness to the in‘terested parties, as well as to your; reading public, it is incumbent upon’ me to present certain salient points in connection with an article appear-' ing in The Mountain ‘Messenger of November 16th, under the caption . “Mickey Goes On A Rampage.’ “Your correspondent stated in her signed article that Mickey knocked her down, and infers that a terrific struggle ensued, _ “T have seen. Mickey develop as a* free deer from his babyhood, and have never seen him display the. least trait of viciousness toward any person with whose scent he is familiar. For the past few months he has, made his habitat in the vicinity of! my cabin, and he fravernizes on the smost peaceful terms with a dog and two “cats; supercargo ot! the’ bse a House menage. “Every. morning. .che accompanies me and:my parthers to our mine, liés around under foot all day,,.and tags along behind us like: themerriest pex. dog on the homeward frip ‘at night. Never has he assaulted us, althous} hé' does occasionally display a coltish friskiness that a stranger: might Dossibly’ misconstrue as a Dhysicai_ assault. “Many of your readers. ‘are cognizant of the fact thatthe present. ‘Séason is the deers’ ‘“‘mad moon’’ or mating season, during which all male deer feel the primal urge of. the “dominant male’, and during which no person is immune from possibilty of attack from a buck. ; “Mickey, in the first flush of attaining his maturity, doubtless feels the hot coursing of the mating call in his blood; and just as undoubtedly, he is able to distinguish between SPECIAL TAXES INNEV. COUNTY Tax bills now being paid by the property owners of Nevada county for their county, school, and special district governments total $430,387, an increase of $12,267 over the levjes for the same governments for 1939-40, according to a study of tax levies in Californiia counties just made public by California Taxpayers’ association. Taxes levied for cities and for irrigation and reclamation districts are not included, the asso~ ciation stated, Itemized, the tax levy for the county, school, and special districts for the current year shows the following increases and _ decreases: county current purposes, total levy $271,937, an increase of $6,821 from 1939-40; School current purposes, $113,978, an increase of $1,851 from the levy for 1939-40; school bonds, $38,505, an increase of $1,805, from last year’s levy; special district taxes, $5,967,. an increase of $1,790 from the levy for 1939-40. es These property tax levies are ‘only a part of the billion dollars in taxes that will hecollected"ifrom the people of California ‘by the Federal, state. and. locat’governments this year, the association pointed out. The county, school, and special districts this year levied $235,271,473 on the property in the state, an increase of $3,353,202 over last year. To this must be added levies for city governments, which amount to about $65,000,000 and levies for irrigation reclamation, and drainage districts, which levy another $40,000,000 on property over the state as a ‘whole. In all, local governments levy $340,000,000 on property this year, the state will collect $330,000,000 and the federal government will collect at least another $330,000,000—in round numbers $1,000,000,000, or $147 for each man, woman and child of the 7,007,000 people in (California. The first half of the local tax bills for this year must be paid by December 5 and there, is nothing the . people can do about it, the Taxpayers’ Association declared. However, taxpayers in every community in California should start now to let their local governing boards—-the supervisors,.school trustees, city councilmen—know that they expect decreases all along the line next year. Early in the spring) these governing boards will begin to prepare the budgets upon which the tax levies ‘for the next year will be based. Now is the time for taxpayers to help these governing board members set their budget policies—for lower expenditures and lower tax levies. DOWNIEVILLE MAN COMES DENIES RAMPAGE OF DEER The friends of Mickey, Downieville pet deer accused of a recent attroller is landlord of a 13-story office stack on Mrs. B. Rose, lost no time in coming to the animal’s defense after ‘Mrs. Rose suggested the deer be either penned or placed in a zoo. letter of defense*# the male and the female of the species, ‘lowing the call of an ‘it necessarily follow that all bucks ; sault, i, At Taylorville. Grocery’ ; investigating the burglarizing of the}. BUSINESS IN STOCKTON Sheriff. Carl .J. Tobiassen and MICKEY; Deputy Sheriff (Ronald Fraser drove to Stockton Monday afternoon on business. Keep plenty of POTATO CHIPS on hand for The Should he be blamed for fo:age-old instinct? “Granting the premise, as alleged in your correspondent’s letter, does . Should be either tied up, penned up or disposed of because one of their “number is alleged to have done to a human what might well be done by any one of them? “T do not condone the act of asif such act occurred, although I am reliably informed that. there was no eye-witness to the alleged attack, but for the peace of mind of any person fearing the possibility of such.an attack, action has ‘been taken to placé. Mickey: in a public.park in one of the state’ s larger cities. Thus Mickey, at ‘least will be Tv. of the onus of being on a rampage.’ “And,.in closing, I , would fae most emphatically, ‘that Mickey is not, and never’ has’ ‘been, bead hal Bvivnc age.’ ~ Stealitig of Tacieicar: Is Being Investigated = on te Deputy Sheriff Carl Ti: Larsét de : Taylorville ‘Grocery: Floyd Gothard, owner of the grocery, reported to the sheriff's office here. the, cash register-and other equipment.in the store, which ‘is closed pending bankruptcy . : procéedings, were stolen sometime during the weekend. relativelyNON-FATTENING A zestful-tidbitt Blue Bird Potato Chips are scientifically processed. This makes them easily di— and seats ¢ nonattening ! Laura Scudders BLUE BIRD POTATO CHIPS MARKET Miss Norma Benjamin Will Leave Nevada City: Miss Norma Benjamin, who-has been @ resident here for the past several months and has taken an active part in the activities of the Bethany Church, will leave this week to visit for a time with her parents in Fresno, after which she will return to Washington to enter into gospel work in that state. Her friends here will miss her. Through her singing and work with the Bethany Church she has become well known in this area. PROUSE GRASS VALLEY HIGHWAY OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 7:30 A. M. TO 8 P. M. PHONE 412 NEVADA CITY —Specials Effective December 6 to 12 Inclusive— DO YOU LIKE GOOD BEEF? We Have It ARMOUR’S BABY BEEF! Our Bacon is Armour’s Eastern Melrose and Star Bacon Pound (sliced) 25c and 30c ARMOUR’S TREET, 12 oz. 2 for 47c CORN BREAD MIX 10° LIBERTY BELL CANE AND OMG acti shciesmcschicivis MAPLE SYRUP HELEN'S REDI-PIE CRUST 10°. 5 vowna can .. 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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1940. NEVADA CITY NUGGET __ t YOU WILL BE ‘ PLEASED WITH OUR COFFEE SHOP 6: NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP 2, pay NEVADA CITY CALIFORNIA Factory Specified Engine Tune-Up and Steering and Front End Alignment Equipment @ STUDEBAKER PONTIAC . Sales ane tala Service Garage W. 8S. Williamson, Prop, . Cor, Pine and Spring br gr 196 PROGRESSIVE NEVADA CITY —Forges = = NEVADA CITY Chamber of Commerce CITY HALL, BROAD STREET SACRAMENTO, Cal., (UP)—State Controller Harry Riley leaned back in his chair today and concluded he is the biggest land lord in all California. He _ also would like to be the largest real estate salesman. Riley checked off the property: he holds for sale—3,000,000 acres of ‘farm land, 160,000 city lots. The property is held in every county and virtually every ‘city in the state. His listings include everything from country clubs to gold mines and wineries. Riley holds ‘all this in his official position as controller; the holdings are those deeded to the non-payment of taxes. Along with city and county. tax officials, the controller’s office is conducting an active program to restore such property to the tax rolls. In the delinquent property has been. returned to the assessment rolls through redemption. In addition, $800,491 has been sold to new owners ‘at public gales." tS Rental Is High : Riley reported. rental of -otherwise non-revenue producing property has yielded $370,282 in the last six years, enough to pay the cost of administering the .entire program ‘and supplement ‘the’ state’s nak revenue.” ‘ * An accurate sathimete’ of the ‘assessed value of land deeded to the state is inmypossible since it has been accumulating since 1872, Riley pointed out. In some counties, however, the assessed value is as high as 30 per cent of the total assessed value of the counties. The controller *has among. his holdings the little town of Sam’l Posen, the city that never was. The . community of 10,000 city lots and no population ‘was laid out near ‘Red Bluff nearly 60 years ago by .a promoter wha, sold lots, sight unseen to early day purchasers.’ Besides the “ghost town’” ‘the conProfessional Directory NEVADA CITY GRASS VALLEY DENTISTS ~ DENTISTS DR. JOHN R. BELL DR. ROBT. W. DETTNER DENTIST DENTIST : Office Hours: 8:30 to 5:30 X-RAY facilities Available Evenings by Appointment Morgan & Powell Bldg. Phone 321 B. W. HUMMELT, M. D. “HARRY M. McKEE DOCTORS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 400 Broad Street Office Hours: 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 p. m. Evenings 7-8. Phone 395 X-RAY W. W. REED, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Nevada City, Calif. Office 418 Broad Street Hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m. Residence Phone 2. Office Phone 362 J. R. TOPIC, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 312 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Hours: 10-12 a. m. 2-5 p. m. Evenings 7-8 Phone 23 Hours: 9:00-5:00. Evening appointments.120% Mill Street. Phone 77 Grass Valley, Calif. . DOCTORS CARL POWER JONES, M.D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 1 to 3; 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays 11:30 to 12:30 129 South Auburn St., Grass Valley S. F. TOBIAS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 214 Neal St., Grass Valley Office Hours: 12-3 and 7-8 Phone: Office 429. Residence 1042 DANIEL L. HIRSCH, M. D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offices and Receiving Hospital, 118 Bush St. Hours: 10-12; 2-5, evenings 7-8 P. M. Day or night phone 71. Residence Phone 2 ATTORNEYS MINING ENGINEERS ATTORNEY AT LAW 205 Pine St., opposite courthouse Nevada City, Calif. J. F. O°; CONNOR Mining and Civil Engineer United States Mineral Surveying * Licensed Surveyor . 203°West Main St. Grass Valley FRANK G. FINNEGAN ATTORNEY: AT “LAW . 207 North Pine Street Nevada City, California Telephone 273 THOMAS O. McCRANEY ATTORNEY AT LAW Masonic Building 108% Pine Street, Nevada City Telephone 165 H. WARD SHELDON ATTORNEY AT LAW Union Building Broad Street Nevada City Telephone 28 FUNERAL DIRECTORS ene . NEVADA CITY FRATERNAL AND CLUB DIRECTORY WOMEN’S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, at the Chamber of Commerce, 2:30 p. m. MRS. W. P. SAWYER, Pres. MRS. RICHARD GOYNE, Secy. HOLMES FUNERAL HOME The Holmes Funeral Home service is priced within the means of all. Ambulance service at all hours. Phone 203 246 Sacramento St. ASSAYER Nevada City NEVADA CITY LODGE, No. 518 B. P. O. ELKS . Meets every Thursday evening in Elks Home, Pine St. Phone 108, Visiting Elks welcome. HARRISON RANDALL, ; Exalted’ Ruler. JOHN FORTIER, Secretary. HAL D. DRAPER, Ph. D. ASSAYER AND CONSULTING CHEMIST Nevada City, California HYDRAULIC PARLOR N. S: G. W. Meets every Tuesday evening at Pythian Castle, 282 Broad Street NO. 56, state. for: last three years, $7,500,000 worth of: ‘out, STATE CONTROLLER RILEY LARGEST LANDOWNER IN CALIFORNIA Dec. 5.—* B. building, two mlausoleums, a glass, factory, a ‘$250,000 private school, several large hotels, an ice skating rink, a railroad, an athletic club, a distillery, hundreds of stores, houses, homes and 3,000,000 acres of vineyards, orchards, grazing land and timber land. POPULATION OF COUNTY ON NEW YEARS, 20,200 The population of Nevada county will be about 20,200 on January 1, 1941, according to estimates of California Taxpayers’ association. The state as a whole will top the seven million mark by January +1, ‘the agsociation stated, its estimates of population in each of the fifty-eight California counties totalling 7,007,000 persons, based on, prelntnary. census figures. ted : ee Nationally, the aanoularton pointed. these 7,007,000 Americans in California are:-united: with. the 134,000,000 Americans’ in the’ national defense program: which.,will cause tremendous increases in Federal taxes during coming years. “Tf these greatly increased: taxes ‘are not to destroy the very society we are rearming to protect, the people must unite in efforts to lessen the impact of unnecessarily high taxes ‘on their standard of living,’’ the as-. sociation declared. “A united demand by 7,007, 000 Californians for reduction of the expenditures of state an'd local governments will prove one of the most effective measures of national defense. The first step in that united demand. is let your state senator and your assemblyman know that you are a part of a united front which say*: “No new or increased government spending; “Reduce every public expenditure possible!”’ State Control Board Cracking Down On Expense Account Profits SACRAMENTO, Cal. Dec. 5.— (UP)—The good old days when state employes made good profits on their expense accounts are just about over. The state board of control is cracking down. Already in the discard is the $5 per day meal allowance on trains. The top is $3.50, no matter where the meals are served. No longer can several state employes ride in ‘a private car on state business, pool their gasoline bill and each charge the state for railroad mileage, The driver now gets 5 1-2 cents per mile for his car, the passengers get nothing. @ The board is considering eliminating the $8 and $5 per diem expense, preferring actual expenditures certified ‘by vouchers. A sign of the times is the request of some state employes who own airplanes that they be privileged to apply automobile mileage toward the cost of their flights when making state business trips. Medical science has proved that milk is the most satisfactory food for growing children and adults! Be a healthy person. Don’t deny yourself ‘the health-giving vitamins, minerals and proteins contained in milk. e@eo — Drink It Daily — e@o Bret Harte Dairy ware-. ‘SLIGHTLY HIGHER Office: 364-W Home 246-J. . . Visiting Native Sons welcome, ghee Box 743 ROBERT TUCKER, Pres . . . ] Jordan Street, Nevada City ee. DR. C. W. CHAPMAN, Rec. Sec’y ‘Phone 77 MUSIC pon eerie — ]

. Oustomah Lodge, No. 16, 1.0.0.F. RISIL FEY'S “GLADYS WILSON TEACHER OF PIANO Nevada City 358 Alexander St. Phone 434-J Grass Valley Meets every Tuesday evening at 7:30, Odd Fellows Hall. CLYDE BROWNING, N. G JONATHAN PASCOE, Rec. Sec’y JOHN W. DARKE, Fin. 429 Henderson St. Phone 444 Sec’y I 106 Pine Street, Nevada City DISTINCTIVE STYLES IN FALL DRESSES AND FORMALS New Fall Skirts, Sweaters, Blouses and Millinery PAGE. THREE renee TO DEFENSE OF Following is a written by Carle D. Ross of Downieville: “T feel that in fairness to the in‘terested parties, as well as to your; reading public, it is incumbent upon’ me to present certain salient points in connection with an article appear-' ing in The Mountain ‘Messenger of November 16th, under the caption . “Mickey Goes On A Rampage.’ “Your correspondent stated in her signed article that Mickey knocked her down, and infers that a terrific struggle ensued, _ “T have seen. Mickey develop as a* free deer from his babyhood, and have never seen him display the. least trait of viciousness toward any person with whose scent he is familiar. For the past few months he has, made his habitat in the vicinity of! my cabin, and he fravernizes on the smost peaceful terms with a dog and two “cats; supercargo ot! the’ bse a House menage. “Every. morning. .che accompanies me and:my parthers to our mine, liés around under foot all day,,.and tags along behind us like: themerriest pex. dog on the homeward frip ‘at night. Never has he assaulted us, althous} hé' does occasionally display a coltish friskiness that a stranger: might Dossibly’ misconstrue as a Dhysicai_ assault. “Many of your readers. ‘are cognizant of the fact thatthe present. ‘Séason is the deers’ ‘“‘mad moon’’ or mating season, during which all male deer feel the primal urge of. the “dominant male’, and during which no person is immune from possibilty of attack from a buck. ; “Mickey, in the first flush of attaining his maturity, doubtless feels the hot coursing of the mating call in his blood; and just as undoubtedly, he is able to distinguish between SPECIAL TAXES INNEV. COUNTY Tax bills now being paid by the property owners of Nevada county for their county, school, and special district governments total $430,387, an increase of $12,267 over the levjes for the same governments for 1939-40, according to a study of tax levies in Californiia counties just made public by California Taxpayers’ association. Taxes levied for cities and for irrigation and reclamation districts are not included, the asso~ ciation stated, Itemized, the tax levy for the county, school, and special districts for the current year shows the following increases and _ decreases: county current purposes, total levy $271,937, an increase of $6,821 from 1939-40; School current purposes, $113,978, an increase of $1,851 from the levy for 1939-40; school bonds, $38,505, an increase of $1,805, from last year’s levy; special district taxes, $5,967,. an increase of $1,790 from the levy for 1939-40. es These property tax levies are ‘only a part of the billion dollars in taxes that will hecollected"ifrom the people of California ‘by the Federal, state. and. locat’governments this year, the association pointed out. The county, school, and special districts this year levied $235,271,473 on the property in the state, an increase of $3,353,202 over last year. To this must be added levies for city governments, which amount to about $65,000,000 and levies for irrigation reclamation, and drainage districts, which levy another $40,000,000 on property over the state as a ‘whole. In all, local governments levy $340,000,000 on property this year, the state will collect $330,000,000 and the federal government will collect at least another $330,000,000—in round numbers $1,000,000,000, or $147 for each man, woman and child of the 7,007,000 people in (California. The first half of the local tax bills for this year must be paid by December 5 and there, is nothing the . people can do about it, the Taxpayers’ Association declared. However, taxpayers in every community in California should start now to let their local governing boards—-the supervisors,.school trustees, city councilmen—know that they expect decreases all along the line next year. Early in the spring) these governing boards will begin to prepare the budgets upon which the tax levies ‘for the next year will be based. Now is the time for taxpayers to help these governing board members set their budget policies—for lower expenditures and lower tax levies. DOWNIEVILLE MAN COMES DENIES RAMPAGE OF DEER The friends of Mickey, Downieville pet deer accused of a recent attroller is landlord of a 13-story office stack on Mrs. B. Rose, lost no time in coming to the animal’s defense after ‘Mrs. Rose suggested the deer be either penned or placed in a zoo. letter of defense*# the male and the female of the species, ‘lowing the call of an ‘it necessarily follow that all bucks ; sault, i, At Taylorville. Grocery’ ; investigating the burglarizing of the}. BUSINESS IN STOCKTON Sheriff. Carl .J. Tobiassen and MICKEY; Deputy Sheriff (Ronald Fraser drove to Stockton Monday afternoon on business. Keep plenty of POTATO CHIPS on hand for The Should he be blamed for fo:age-old instinct? “Granting the premise, as alleged in your correspondent’s letter, does . Should be either tied up, penned up or disposed of because one of their “number is alleged to have done to a human what might well be done by any one of them? “T do not condone the act of asif such act occurred, although I am reliably informed that. there was no eye-witness to the alleged attack, but for the peace of mind of any person fearing the possibility of such.an attack, action has ‘been taken to placé. Mickey: in a public.park in one of the state’ s larger cities. Thus Mickey, at ‘least will be Tv. of the onus of being on a rampage.’ “And,.in closing, I , would fae most emphatically, ‘that Mickey is not, and never’ has’ ‘been, bead hal Bvivnc age.’ ~ Stealitig of Tacieicar: Is Being Investigated = on te Deputy Sheriff Carl Ti: Larsét de : Taylorville ‘Grocery: Floyd Gothard, owner of the grocery, reported to the sheriff's office here. the, cash register-and other equipment.in the store, which ‘is closed pending bankruptcy . : procéedings, were stolen sometime during the weekend. relativelyNON-FATTENING A zestful-tidbitt Blue Bird Potato Chips are scientifically processed. This makes them easily di— and seats ¢ nonattening ! 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