December 6, 1945 (4 pages)

ee . { x 4 » « q . i } . Bi i i i 7 . is . ‘ gible The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu _CCVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ 1 ad fed gh: ph NENG inane er ly ce AO DE Mle ee re ee ee '® ovet a: erent frie This paper gives you complete . }. coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your nds, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. 26 _The County Seat Paper_ NEVADA ( CITY, CALIFORNIA The Goid Center THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, iba THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. ‘We note that in the nation wide. debate now Sweeping through the country regarding the ‘proposed merger of all the nation’s\ military forces under one head, the U. §. Navy admirals, who are putting up a very determined, and from many standPoints, logical argument against the proposal, do not mention Pearl Harbor. Yet it is the lesson: of Pearl Har‘bor whlich is. now fermenting in the minds of all citizens who do their dwn thinking, Whether altogether justified or not, most people, including this writer attribute the disaster of Pearl Harbor-to a divided command, in which the Army and Navy went their separate ways and the people, who paid the taxes, fell ibetween two stools. It is not as simple as that of course. In Washington there should have been an alerting of the {‘higher brass’, but it did not come for one sad reason or another, or it came too late, and in final anaylsis the warning, the tocsin sounding immediate danger was not heard by Kimmel and Short in ‘time to prepare even a rudiméntary defense. We, the spectators of that tragic catasptrophe, in which 3,000 of our young men lost their lives within an hour or little more, in our minds, constantly revert to the young soldier who reported to the young lieutenant that his listening device in-! dicated the approach of plane squadplanes wags that of the army or navy’s lieutenant thought. without being sure, that the sound of appoaching planes wos that of the army or navy’s own squadrons. This was a flagrant sample of thinking that apparently permeated the Hawaiian forces from the top down through the ranks. A “profound complicenty” that~ had its immediate source in Kimmel and! Short.and its remote head in Washington. That Army and Navy heads immediately, and each in their separate way, did an enormous work, not only or recovery insofar ships and recruited men were concerned, but built the world’s greatest fighting! force on land or sea, with’ the posexception of Russia’s armies, is of course [email protected]é*Historic credit of both branches Gfithe one service, the nation’s defense. But supposing the two commanders at Pearl Harbor had been thoroughly alerted, had done a guperlative job of getting ready for an attack, had sent out their reconnaisance planes, had discovered the Jap fleet, and had gone out to do battle with-what they had to do it with, and had thoroughly whipped them, shattering both ships and planes in a furious assault. Just supposing this had happened. What then? ‘Probably . there rwould have been no immediate attack on the Philippines. Probably the Japs would have withdrawn, tempor-. arily anyway postponing attacks upon British, Dutch and other possessions in the Pacific, And in the meantime we would have seized chance to re-inforce McArthur in the Philippines there would have been no Bataan or. Corregidor. The British might have been able to save Hongkong and Singapore. Whether in that first encounter with the Japs off Hawaii, we had lost ships and men, even the majority of them, they would have at least gone down fighting and would have given the Japs a rude jolt, disoncerting .to their smug plang of conquest. inom Well, there’s no harm in dreaming of something that didn’t happen. But iby envisioning what we then thought ‘was the armed power of our country, we can. certainly come back now to the reality, and resolve not to let another Pearl Harbor again. For, if we cannot learn from Pearl Harbor we are doomed. And it seems to us, the -lesson of Pearl Harbor, is that a divided command of our defense forces is fundamentally wrong. We need one responsible head for our armed forces from now on, and he had better be a good one. ISAAC OSTROM WARNS IF STATE DON'T ACT FED. GOVERNMENT WIL. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 6—Regimentation is inevitable unless government is kept close to the people, Goy, Warren told the annual state wide meeting of the State Chamber of Commerce at Los Angeles last week. : Pointing out that California’s problems range from the use of our natural resources to health in our three million homes, Warren declared they must be attacked locally hy the state if we are to avoid the ag. sumption of authority by federal government. By indifference, by negative attitude, by unwillingness to cope with reality, local and state government will deteriorate. In their place wil) be left a vacuum into which will inevitably come the octopus of gZovernment by remote control. Local problemg can be solved here at home if we®have the courage to iby ingrown prejudices if we have the courage tto try, and if we are. not afraid of the future, the governor pleted his new book, ‘“‘Gold Rush Days of jNevada County” and will send the manuscript to the printer this week. . The book, beautifully illustrated with cuts made from early day graphs jand sketches of \Nevada City an Grass Valley, will run about 40,008 words fin length. Mr. Davis’ author of “Black Democracy”’ has given the Nugget per mission to print the chapter on ’’The Great Washoe Rush” which gives a new slant on the relationship be. H.P. DAVIS SENDS TO PRINTER . NEW BOOK ON GOLD RUSH DAYS H. P. Davis of this city has com-. tween the two Nevada County gold towns and the furious excitement . will appear in two installments, the first of which follows: THE GREAT WASHOE RUSH Among the signal contributions of men of.Nevada Clounty tio the minwhich resulted in developing the, ‘of the younger men of this communbonanza of the Comstock Lode, it! ity was killed in the Washoe Indian ing’ industry¥of the west must Be . included the not inconsideratble pagt . Played by citizens of this county in. the great rush to Washte . County in 1859 and 1860. (1) As early as 1849 goldseekers ‘on said. They will be solved not by government not by business, not by: labor, not by agriculture, but by a com‘bination of all these sroups working with tolerance, with energy and . with a determination to see that California’ comes through. ; The governor outlined how state/ Zovernmental departments have been . overhauled and: modernized duri: 1g the past three years to streamline . them for the jobs ‘they are supposed . ; to do. At the same time funds we, ‘been reserved to pay off the state debt, taxes have been *redneod. al $300,000,000 surplus has been ac-. cumulated to rehabilitate «tate and county roads, for flood contro! and for adequate facilities for the mentally ill and other wards of the state. Regimentation in the same sense that would organize us. into.graups for central control and reduce us all to strict order and uniformity is not in keeping with the dignity and importance of the individual or the right of the individual to develop. Regimentation in this sense is something to be fought against by Americans who love their freedom and who have been taught that their. government was created for. their service—not their mastery. CALLED BY DEATH Funeral services took place yesterday in the Holmes and (Myers Funeral Home for Isaac Ostrom who died in a local hospital Sunday after several weeks of illness. Ostrom was born’ in Sweden 65 years ago but most of hig adult life ‘was passed in Sierra and (Nevada counties where he worked as a miner. At one time he was employed in the Tom Coan Mine in Indian Flat mear Nevada City. Later he worked in the North Star adjacent to this city. He died after several weeks of illness. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. George Pierson of San Francisco and Mrs. Nevada Ostrom. of Grass Valley and sons, Corporal Alex of the U. S. Army, and Merle, Dawn and Thomas Ostrom all of Grass Valley. Lieut. Robt. Tamblyn of Army Air Forces Home Lieut. Robert L. Tamblyn received his discharge from the Army Air Corps at El Paso, Texas, and with Mrs. Tamblyn has returned to Nevada City to resume his business as an insurance broker. While in Kingman, ‘training camp he was_ erroneously listed ag one of those killed in a train and bus collision. He was badly injured but eventually recovered and resumed his training. He was commissioned at Albuguergue, New Mexico, in August 1944. Arizona, in a San Juan Water District Proposal Comes Up Dec. 19 The matter of the proposed water district. for the San Juan Ridge was laid over by the ‘board of supervis-1 ors until Wednesday, December 19 . when it will be considered further. . found ;couragine ‘factor. gravel struck the now famous Comstock lode had no conception of the . sampled. . ‘their way to the California gold diggings discovered placer in Gold Cali. yon in the Utah territory. Placer . ground was worked here in a smail way for several years but it was not particuuarly rich and the gold re. covered carried with it such a large . percentage.of that its vale was-$10-or-$11an ounce, $6 or $7 ber ounce less than the average gold in the silver BEDWELL TEAM that in narrow veins, was about all they could reasonably hope to find. (Check assays made by M. Attwood of the Gold Hill mill at Grass Valley, confirmed Ott’s assays and witihin a few days a rush to*the Washoe Was under way. Among other citizens of Nevada County who joined in the great exodus to Washoe Country in ’59 were Judge James Walsh. of Grass Valley, A. E. Head, James Merideth. Georg» Headrest and J. W. Hastings of Nevada City. Merideth one of the most popular War. Head, who was sent to the new Hievinse by Arthur Hagadorn of the banking firm of Mulford and Hagadorn, returned shortly to Nevada . City with very pessimistic reports. (1) The very scales upon which the values in this sample were determined are yet in use at Ott’s Assay Of. fice inthe original building at 30 . Main Street. which has been in continuous operation since 185 (Continued Next teensy s LEADS BOWLING IN ELKS TOURNEY . At the end of the 6th week of the California placers. The . : . ne : : present bowling tournament at. the j difficulty . in obtaining supplies af . : . -Hiks. Lodge the team of Bedwell is a wood and water was another disin 1857 a quartz ledfe rich in gold was discovered this naw district created little interest. It was Even when, not until the summer of 1859 when . samples ‘from a lode being worked in Gold ‘Canyon for gold were brought to Nevada City and assayed that the Washoe Skee Nak lalized.“Within 2 years” "says nh ‘win ‘it is probable that onethird of the male adults of Nevada County had gone to ion.”’ Bean, the silver regAmong the experienced miners of Nevada County who contributed to the Washoe boom and greatly profited thereby were W. P. Morrison and J. P. Stone of Nevada City and Judge John Walsh of Grass Valley. The miners who in '59 while following up a narrow streak of rich importance of their find. They did not know that the gray-blue vein material from which they painfully separated the gold and then discarded was argentite a silver sulphide, 80 per cent or more pure silver. (1) The ‘Washoe Country” named from the Washo Indian whose range extended’ fiom as far north as Reno to the lower end of Carson Valley was incorporated in the Utah Territory created in 1850. In 1861 on the onganization of Nevada TerTitory this area was included. Nevada was admitted to the Union as a state in 1864, Utah not until 1896. In the spring of 1859 J. P. Stone and W. P. Morrison left Nevada City for a ‘look see’ at reported placers of the Washoe. country. At .Gold Canyon they found men working in a half hearted way at a lode which carried visable gold and a queer looking blackish-gray mineral un‘known to them. Stone and Morrison apparently did not recognize the value of this mineral, but’ the gold was there and collecting a bag of samples they returned to Nevada—-Gity. Before leaving Morrison took an option on an interest in the claim which they had At Nevada City Stone showed the samples to E. G. Waite, editor of the Nevada Journal who advised him to take them across the street to J. J. Ott for assay. (1) The result of Ott’s assay, showing values in gold $1,595 a ton and in silver $3,196, published in July 1, 1859 in the Nevada Journal created a furor of excitement in this community and thé crowds flocked to the Journat office at 29 Main Street to examine the specimens from this new El Dorado. Ore of the: phenomenal value of $4,791 a ton was something beyond the wildest dreams of the men of Nevada County mininz4 who had by} this-time learned that $50 ore, and . ing in St.Patrick's Catholic Church. Sacramento past state deputy Thomas Duffy, Supreme Director Judge EdWay out in front of the the teams with a total of 20 points out of a possible 24. Much of the credit! for Coug has average from ~~ his starting mark of 100 wp to 135 and also Carl Noren who has raised his mark from 100 to-125. The rest of the team has also been backing these two members un with Lageson raising his average from 159 to 172, rest: of the showing: is due raised hlan whio his high for the lodge, Scheemer and Bedwell consistent around 140 and Kendick 15, Goyne 14. Fortier 13 Sturtevant 12, Walther 11, . Steger 10, Webster 8, Tognarelli 77 -and Sbaffi 6. The Steger and Sbaffi teams have one series to make wp. On the basis of the above standings it would seem that the Bedwell team is a cinch to be out of the kitchen but with three weeks to go al-. most any of the other teams with a! little luck plus some science could! raise themselves out of the kitchen , and take their places at the table with the luckier bowlers. \ i The sixth week produced the highest single game for the present tournament when Bedwell’s team bowled a total of 836 against, the Sbaffi team. High individtal scores were made by Lageson with a 549 geries and a high single game of 219, Siegfried-'with a 506 series and a high of 192, Falconi with 506 and a high ‘of 216 and Sturtevant with a 476 series and a high single game of 176. Individual averages, show Lageson with 172, followed by Siegfried with 157, Sturtevant 154, Faleoni 153, and C. Steger, Tognarelli and Fortier at 151. Knights of Columbus Will Confer Degree The Grass Valley Council of the Knights of Columbus will confer the major degree upon a didates Sunday, the Auditorium Street. District Deputy John M. Riley of Grass Valley will be in charge of the degree aided, ‘by District Deputy Chester Spooner of Willows, Degree teams from Grass. Valley, Marysville, Colusa, Roseville, Chico and San Francisco will participate in the ceremony. Rt. Rev. class of canDecember 9th in; Building on Mill Bishop’ Armstrong of ward Molenbuhr and past Supreme Warden David N. Supple, all of San Francisco are expected to be gueste, A banquet will be served in Bret Harte Inn at 7 p. m. for all knights and their ladies. The knights and candidates will attend Holy Communion at 8 o'clock Sunday morn; ing . homeROUND THE STATE ALL CITIZENS By Leone Baxter DEMO ‘SHOW TIME in January stellar perform: the Democratie circuit et fbarnstorm the state capital show that making—a theme. Early ers on has been months in the lulu with a_ legislative Already previewed are the words! and music for legislative demands covering fair employment practices, full employment, veteran benefits and compulsory health insurance. Unwritten so far however is the libretto for an act wondorously titled Demand for .a foreign policy that will insure peace.’’ Albe Slade, who represented Attorney General Kenney’s office, at the recent Demoratic sal at San Diego promises a Sacramento curtain raiser that will delight most Democrat and regale most Republicans. Our program, he declares will put California’s non -~partisan governor and legislature right . on the hot spot. MAGIC CARPET The first real the abled Aralb his pixilated rug flying over the parapets ten centuries ago, is the unwieldly . frei shter Otto Mears as far as sey eral score California lads just heme from the wars concerned. Thej ‘Mears of course is the ‘Liberty ship. that turned troop transport to ‘bring dress rehearMagic carpet since sent are them home when the military command said it couldn’t be done. ; Today with. the 240 ship. flotilla officially. designated “magic car. ‘pet’’ still slow materializinge to ¢carry two million men home, word comes that in a dozen South Pacific harbors reconversion unofficially, building crews. are worktheir own transportation -following the to Mears. ROOM TAX For whatever comfort it may provide Americans may reflect that whatever ‘the jhhowsing pinch here— it’s worse someplace else. In any couple having a France living room. bedroom, kitchen: andbath: must~ine+: vite a guest or pay a tax on the ‘“‘extra room’”’ No French family may occupy without tax more rooms than the number of persons in the family, plus one, according to ‘the latest housing rule. LAUGHTER The normal: recoil of the’ home front.from four years of war is not evidenced solely in les or port are veterans troubBook stores rethat sales of humorous works reaching~ giddy heights. Best tiles include: Stop or I'll Scream’ Water on the Brain, I Could Be Dreaming and Webster Unabridged, John Q. just wants to laugh for a change. civilian tears: selling TINSEL In millions of homes this year, old fashioned Christmas trees will shine again if surveys of the meagre ornament supply mean anything. But people learned during the war (Christmases when new bright, fragile baulbles weren’t available that strung popcorn, gold and red paper, gilded nuts and dancing cut outs were beautiful—and poignantly reminscent. All things considered, the bauble shortage. probably will not be too sorrowfully lamented either by old or young this Christmas. SF CHAMBER ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT Brayton Wilbur president,” Wilbur Ellis Company was today elected president of the San Francisco chamber of Commerce and will take office January 1. Wilbur who was the chamber’s first. vice president sueceeds Henry F. Grady who was the 1945 president, ~ Carl J. Eastman vice president, N. W. Ayer and Son, was elected 1st vice president of the chamber; J. E. Pickett editor. Pacific Rural Press second vice president; George G. Montgomery vice president, Castle and Cooke. Ltd. third vice president and Louis B. Lundborg general manager of the chamber reelected fourth vice president. J. F. Barrett partner ,Barrett°and . Hilp was elected treasurer and Belford Brown recent president San Francisco junior chamber of commerce assistant treasurer and M. Az Hogan secretary, :s" PLANE CRASHES on. Liberty . ships—+} lead of the Or . The 475th has its headquarters in ~ ‘ALERTED FOR . SAIN PRANCISCO, Dec. 6 — The residents of every farm, village, and town and city in California, Wash. ington, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho . are being asked to assist a new . search and rescue program of the . Fourth Air Force which has been organized to save the lives of flying personnel. who. crash or parachute from their planes, Maj: Gen, Willis : \H. Hale, commanding general Fourth Air Force has announced. If you see a plane crash call the Dolice, sheriff or state highway patrol immediately giving’ them the details of the incident, the location {and your name and addfess. ‘They. aes will forward the information. to the Proper army or navy authorities. Residents of these five western . states can also help in locating miss. ing planes. Currently a wide spread search ‘is’ continuing in the Fourth Air’ Foreé area for two B-24 heavy . bombers missing since Nov. 1. On . that date four of the huge four-mo. tored aircraft took off from Me. Chord Field, Wash. enroute to Portland, Ore. Later one of the plan{es landed at Arcata, Calif., and a . second at Redmond, Ore. Nothing . has since been seen or heard of the ; Other two planes. . { i If you have any clew a’ to the . Whereabor its of these planes forward . your information 10 the nearest law . enforcement ageney who: will send it on to the Fourth Air Forces search . and rescue organization, the 475th AAF Base Unit. oe San Francisco with the Fourth Air Force and controls search and rescue . activities throughout. the five weststates and coordinates searches with the navy, marine“corps and the coast guard units, The organization is Wndér the command of Col. 1. Alfrea V. Walton. ern Since“the Fourth Air Force emergency rescue program was first established in September 1944 931 persons. have been rescued. Many of these were due to tips and phone calls from residents on outlying farms and small. towns. ACCOUNTA ANT PRAISES NEVADA COUNTY OFFICERS Lyman L. Straine, public accountanit employed by the supervisors to expert books of county officials filed his report which not only found no faults with any of them, but closed with these words: “The books of Nevada County were found to be in better condition than any other county examined by us in recent years. A word of praise is in order for such a representative group of efficient county officers.” LINE STRADDLERS MENACE TRAFFIC Declaring there has been a steady increase in the number of traffic aecidents caused by white line strad. aioe in California ever since the removal of gasoline rationing restrietions, Highway Patrol Chief BE. R, Cato today urged. drivers to “stay on their own side of the road.” ; Cato, said several cases have been reported recently. in which accidents were caused bécause line straddlers refused to yield the right of way and pull over to the right hand side of the highways when other drivers attempted to pass them. In one Such accident both drivers. were killed the occupants of a: third car were injured. “Line straddling is a bad habit a3 lot_of drivers developed during the days of restricted travel when tre fic was light.” Chief Cato said. i got by with it then but they cant: do it under present congested con-— ditions. Play safe and aay on yo own side.”

ee . { x 4 » « q . i } . Bi i i i 7 . is . ‘ gible The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu _CCVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ 1 ad fed gh: ph NENG inane er ly ce AO DE Mle ee re ee ee '® ovet a: erent frie This paper gives you complete . }. coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your nds, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. 26 _The County Seat Paper_ NEVADA ( CITY, CALIFORNIA The Goid Center THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, iba THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. ‘We note that in the nation wide. debate now Sweeping through the country regarding the ‘proposed merger of all the nation’s\ military forces under one head, the U. §. Navy admirals, who are putting up a very determined, and from many standPoints, logical argument against the proposal, do not mention Pearl Harbor. Yet it is the lesson: of Pearl Har‘bor whlich is. now fermenting in the minds of all citizens who do their dwn thinking, Whether altogether justified or not, most people, including this writer attribute the disaster of Pearl Harbor-to a divided command, in which the Army and Navy went their separate ways and the people, who paid the taxes, fell ibetween two stools. It is not as simple as that of course. In Washington there should have been an alerting of the {‘higher brass’, but it did not come for one sad reason or another, or it came too late, and in final anaylsis the warning, the tocsin sounding immediate danger was not heard by Kimmel and Short in ‘time to prepare even a rudiméntary defense. We, the spectators of that tragic catasptrophe, in which 3,000 of our young men lost their lives within an hour or little more, in our minds, constantly revert to the young soldier who reported to the young lieutenant that his listening device in-! dicated the approach of plane squadplanes wags that of the army or navy’s lieutenant thought. without being sure, that the sound of appoaching planes wos that of the army or navy’s own squadrons. This was a flagrant sample of thinking that apparently permeated the Hawaiian forces from the top down through the ranks. A “profound complicenty” that~ had its immediate source in Kimmel and! Short.and its remote head in Washington. That Army and Navy heads immediately, and each in their separate way, did an enormous work, not only or recovery insofar ships and recruited men were concerned, but built the world’s greatest fighting! force on land or sea, with’ the posexception of Russia’s armies, is of course [email protected]é*Historic credit of both branches Gfithe one service, the nation’s defense. But supposing the two commanders at Pearl Harbor had been thoroughly alerted, had done a guperlative job of getting ready for an attack, had sent out their reconnaisance planes, had discovered the Jap fleet, and had gone out to do battle with-what they had to do it with, and had thoroughly whipped them, shattering both ships and planes in a furious assault. Just supposing this had happened. What then? ‘Probably . there rwould have been no immediate attack on the Philippines. Probably the Japs would have withdrawn, tempor-. arily anyway postponing attacks upon British, Dutch and other possessions in the Pacific, And in the meantime we would have seized chance to re-inforce McArthur in the Philippines there would have been no Bataan or. Corregidor. The British might have been able to save Hongkong and Singapore. Whether in that first encounter with the Japs off Hawaii, we had lost ships and men, even the majority of them, they would have at least gone down fighting and would have given the Japs a rude jolt, disoncerting .to their smug plang of conquest. inom Well, there’s no harm in dreaming of something that didn’t happen. But iby envisioning what we then thought ‘was the armed power of our country, we can. certainly come back now to the reality, and resolve not to let another Pearl Harbor again. For, if we cannot learn from Pearl Harbor we are doomed. And it seems to us, the -lesson of Pearl Harbor, is that a divided command of our defense forces is fundamentally wrong. We need one responsible head for our armed forces from now on, and he had better be a good one. ISAAC OSTROM WARNS IF STATE DON'T ACT FED. GOVERNMENT WIL. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 6—Regimentation is inevitable unless government is kept close to the people, Goy, Warren told the annual state wide meeting of the State Chamber of Commerce at Los Angeles last week. : Pointing out that California’s problems range from the use of our natural resources to health in our three million homes, Warren declared they must be attacked locally hy the state if we are to avoid the ag. sumption of authority by federal government. By indifference, by negative attitude, by unwillingness to cope with reality, local and state government will deteriorate. In their place wil) be left a vacuum into which will inevitably come the octopus of gZovernment by remote control. Local problemg can be solved here at home if we®have the courage to iby ingrown prejudices if we have the courage tto try, and if we are. not afraid of the future, the governor pleted his new book, ‘“‘Gold Rush Days of jNevada County” and will send the manuscript to the printer this week. . The book, beautifully illustrated with cuts made from early day graphs jand sketches of \Nevada City an Grass Valley, will run about 40,008 words fin length. Mr. Davis’ author of “Black Democracy”’ has given the Nugget per mission to print the chapter on ’’The Great Washoe Rush” which gives a new slant on the relationship be. H.P. DAVIS SENDS TO PRINTER . NEW BOOK ON GOLD RUSH DAYS H. P. Davis of this city has com-. tween the two Nevada County gold towns and the furious excitement . will appear in two installments, the first of which follows: THE GREAT WASHOE RUSH Among the signal contributions of men of.Nevada Clounty tio the minwhich resulted in developing the, ‘of the younger men of this communbonanza of the Comstock Lode, it! ity was killed in the Washoe Indian ing’ industry¥of the west must Be . included the not inconsideratble pagt . Played by citizens of this county in. the great rush to Washte . County in 1859 and 1860. (1) As early as 1849 goldseekers ‘on said. They will be solved not by government not by business, not by: labor, not by agriculture, but by a com‘bination of all these sroups working with tolerance, with energy and . with a determination to see that California’ comes through. ; The governor outlined how state/ Zovernmental departments have been . overhauled and: modernized duri: 1g the past three years to streamline . them for the jobs ‘they are supposed . ; to do. At the same time funds we, ‘been reserved to pay off the state debt, taxes have been *redneod. al $300,000,000 surplus has been ac-. cumulated to rehabilitate «tate and county roads, for flood contro! and for adequate facilities for the mentally ill and other wards of the state. Regimentation in the same sense that would organize us. into.graups for central control and reduce us all to strict order and uniformity is not in keeping with the dignity and importance of the individual or the right of the individual to develop. Regimentation in this sense is something to be fought against by Americans who love their freedom and who have been taught that their. government was created for. their service—not their mastery. CALLED BY DEATH Funeral services took place yesterday in the Holmes and (Myers Funeral Home for Isaac Ostrom who died in a local hospital Sunday after several weeks of illness. Ostrom was born’ in Sweden 65 years ago but most of hig adult life ‘was passed in Sierra and (Nevada counties where he worked as a miner. At one time he was employed in the Tom Coan Mine in Indian Flat mear Nevada City. Later he worked in the North Star adjacent to this city. He died after several weeks of illness. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. George Pierson of San Francisco and Mrs. Nevada Ostrom. of Grass Valley and sons, Corporal Alex of the U. S. Army, and Merle, Dawn and Thomas Ostrom all of Grass Valley. Lieut. Robt. Tamblyn of Army Air Forces Home Lieut. Robert L. Tamblyn received his discharge from the Army Air Corps at El Paso, Texas, and with Mrs. Tamblyn has returned to Nevada City to resume his business as an insurance broker. While in Kingman, ‘training camp he was_ erroneously listed ag one of those killed in a train and bus collision. He was badly injured but eventually recovered and resumed his training. He was commissioned at Albuguergue, New Mexico, in August 1944. Arizona, in a San Juan Water District Proposal Comes Up Dec. 19 The matter of the proposed water district. for the San Juan Ridge was laid over by the ‘board of supervis-1 ors until Wednesday, December 19 . when it will be considered further. . found ;couragine ‘factor. gravel struck the now famous Comstock lode had no conception of the . sampled. . ‘their way to the California gold diggings discovered placer in Gold Cali. yon in the Utah territory. Placer . ground was worked here in a smail way for several years but it was not particuuarly rich and the gold re. covered carried with it such a large . percentage.of that its vale was-$10-or-$11an ounce, $6 or $7 ber ounce less than the average gold in the silver BEDWELL TEAM that in narrow veins, was about all they could reasonably hope to find. (Check assays made by M. Attwood of the Gold Hill mill at Grass Valley, confirmed Ott’s assays and witihin a few days a rush to*the Washoe Was under way. Among other citizens of Nevada County who joined in the great exodus to Washoe Country in ’59 were Judge James Walsh. of Grass Valley, A. E. Head, James Merideth. Georg» Headrest and J. W. Hastings of Nevada City. Merideth one of the most popular War. Head, who was sent to the new Hievinse by Arthur Hagadorn of the banking firm of Mulford and Hagadorn, returned shortly to Nevada . City with very pessimistic reports. (1) The very scales upon which the values in this sample were determined are yet in use at Ott’s Assay Of. fice inthe original building at 30 . Main Street. which has been in continuous operation since 185 (Continued Next teensy s LEADS BOWLING IN ELKS TOURNEY . At the end of the 6th week of the California placers. The . : . ne : : present bowling tournament at. the j difficulty . in obtaining supplies af . : . -Hiks. Lodge the team of Bedwell is a wood and water was another disin 1857 a quartz ledfe rich in gold was discovered this naw district created little interest. It was Even when, not until the summer of 1859 when . samples ‘from a lode being worked in Gold ‘Canyon for gold were brought to Nevada City and assayed that the Washoe Skee Nak lalized.“Within 2 years” "says nh ‘win ‘it is probable that onethird of the male adults of Nevada County had gone to ion.”’ Bean, the silver regAmong the experienced miners of Nevada County who contributed to the Washoe boom and greatly profited thereby were W. P. Morrison and J. P. Stone of Nevada City and Judge John Walsh of Grass Valley. The miners who in '59 while following up a narrow streak of rich importance of their find. They did not know that the gray-blue vein material from which they painfully separated the gold and then discarded was argentite a silver sulphide, 80 per cent or more pure silver. (1) The ‘Washoe Country” named from the Washo Indian whose range extended’ fiom as far north as

Reno to the lower end of Carson Valley was incorporated in the Utah Territory created in 1850. In 1861 on the onganization of Nevada TerTitory this area was included. Nevada was admitted to the Union as a state in 1864, Utah not until 1896. In the spring of 1859 J. P. Stone and W. P. Morrison left Nevada City for a ‘look see’ at reported placers of the Washoe. country. At .Gold Canyon they found men working in a half hearted way at a lode which carried visable gold and a queer looking blackish-gray mineral un‘known to them. Stone and Morrison apparently did not recognize the value of this mineral, but’ the gold was there and collecting a bag of samples they returned to Nevada—-Gity. Before leaving Morrison took an option on an interest in the claim which they had At Nevada City Stone showed the samples to E. G. Waite, editor of the Nevada Journal who advised him to take them across the street to J. J. Ott for assay. (1) The result of Ott’s assay, showing values in gold $1,595 a ton and in silver $3,196, published in July 1, 1859 in the Nevada Journal created a furor of excitement in this community and thé crowds flocked to the Journat office at 29 Main Street to examine the specimens from this new El Dorado. Ore of the: phenomenal value of $4,791 a ton was something beyond the wildest dreams of the men of Nevada County mininz4 who had by} this-time learned that $50 ore, and . ing in St.Patrick's Catholic Church. Sacramento past state deputy Thomas Duffy, Supreme Director Judge EdWay out in front of the the teams with a total of 20 points out of a possible 24. Much of the credit! for Coug has average from ~~ his starting mark of 100 wp to 135 and also Carl Noren who has raised his mark from 100 to-125. The rest of the team has also been backing these two members un with Lageson raising his average from 159 to 172, rest: of the showing: is due raised hlan whio his high for the lodge, Scheemer and Bedwell consistent around 140 and Kendick 15, Goyne 14. Fortier 13 Sturtevant 12, Walther 11, . Steger 10, Webster 8, Tognarelli 77 -and Sbaffi 6. The Steger and Sbaffi teams have one series to make wp. On the basis of the above standings it would seem that the Bedwell team is a cinch to be out of the kitchen but with three weeks to go al-. most any of the other teams with a! little luck plus some science could! raise themselves out of the kitchen , and take their places at the table with the luckier bowlers. \ i The sixth week produced the highest single game for the present tournament when Bedwell’s team bowled a total of 836 against, the Sbaffi team. High individtal scores were made by Lageson with a 549 geries and a high single game of 219, Siegfried-'with a 506 series and a high of 192, Falconi with 506 and a high ‘of 216 and Sturtevant with a 476 series and a high single game of 176. Individual averages, show Lageson with 172, followed by Siegfried with 157, Sturtevant 154, Faleoni 153, and C. Steger, Tognarelli and Fortier at 151. Knights of Columbus Will Confer Degree The Grass Valley Council of the Knights of Columbus will confer the major degree upon a didates Sunday, the Auditorium Street. District Deputy John M. Riley of Grass Valley will be in charge of the degree aided, ‘by District Deputy Chester Spooner of Willows, Degree teams from Grass. Valley, Marysville, Colusa, Roseville, Chico and San Francisco will participate in the ceremony. Rt. Rev. class of canDecember 9th in; Building on Mill Bishop’ Armstrong of ward Molenbuhr and past Supreme Warden David N. Supple, all of San Francisco are expected to be gueste, A banquet will be served in Bret Harte Inn at 7 p. m. for all knights and their ladies. The knights and candidates will attend Holy Communion at 8 o'clock Sunday morn; ing . homeROUND THE STATE ALL CITIZENS By Leone Baxter DEMO ‘SHOW TIME in January stellar perform: the Democratie circuit et fbarnstorm the state capital show that making—a theme. Early ers on has been months in the lulu with a_ legislative Already previewed are the words! and music for legislative demands covering fair employment practices, full employment, veteran benefits and compulsory health insurance. Unwritten so far however is the libretto for an act wondorously titled Demand for .a foreign policy that will insure peace.’’ Albe Slade, who represented Attorney General Kenney’s office, at the recent Demoratic sal at San Diego promises a Sacramento curtain raiser that will delight most Democrat and regale most Republicans. Our program, he declares will put California’s non -~partisan governor and legislature right . on the hot spot. MAGIC CARPET The first real the abled Aralb his pixilated rug flying over the parapets ten centuries ago, is the unwieldly . frei shter Otto Mears as far as sey eral score California lads just heme from the wars concerned. Thej ‘Mears of course is the ‘Liberty ship. that turned troop transport to ‘bring dress rehearMagic carpet since sent are them home when the military command said it couldn’t be done. ; Today with. the 240 ship. flotilla officially. designated “magic car. ‘pet’’ still slow materializinge to ¢carry two million men home, word comes that in a dozen South Pacific harbors reconversion unofficially, building crews. are worktheir own transportation -following the to Mears. ROOM TAX For whatever comfort it may provide Americans may reflect that whatever ‘the jhhowsing pinch here— it’s worse someplace else. In any couple having a France living room. bedroom, kitchen: andbath: must~ine+: vite a guest or pay a tax on the ‘“‘extra room’”’ No French family may occupy without tax more rooms than the number of persons in the family, plus one, according to ‘the latest housing rule. LAUGHTER The normal: recoil of the’ home front.from four years of war is not evidenced solely in les or port are veterans troubBook stores rethat sales of humorous works reaching~ giddy heights. Best tiles include: Stop or I'll Scream’ Water on the Brain, I Could Be Dreaming and Webster Unabridged, John Q. just wants to laugh for a change. civilian tears: selling TINSEL In millions of homes this year, old fashioned Christmas trees will shine again if surveys of the meagre ornament supply mean anything. But people learned during the war (Christmases when new bright, fragile baulbles weren’t available that strung popcorn, gold and red paper, gilded nuts and dancing cut outs were beautiful—and poignantly reminscent. All things considered, the bauble shortage. probably will not be too sorrowfully lamented either by old or young this Christmas. SF CHAMBER ELECTS NEW PRESIDENT Brayton Wilbur president,” Wilbur Ellis Company was today elected president of the San Francisco chamber of Commerce and will take office January 1. Wilbur who was the chamber’s first. vice president sueceeds Henry F. Grady who was the 1945 president, ~ Carl J. Eastman vice president, N. W. Ayer and Son, was elected 1st vice president of the chamber; J. E. Pickett editor. Pacific Rural Press second vice president; George G. Montgomery vice president, Castle and Cooke. Ltd. third vice president and Louis B. Lundborg general manager of the chamber reelected fourth vice president. J. F. Barrett partner ,Barrett°and . Hilp was elected treasurer and Belford Brown recent president San Francisco junior chamber of commerce assistant treasurer and M. Az Hogan secretary, :s" PLANE CRASHES on. Liberty . ships—+} lead of the Or . The 475th has its headquarters in ~ ‘ALERTED FOR . SAIN PRANCISCO, Dec. 6 — The residents of every farm, village, and town and city in California, Wash. ington, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho . are being asked to assist a new . search and rescue program of the . Fourth Air Force which has been organized to save the lives of flying personnel. who. crash or parachute from their planes, Maj: Gen, Willis : \H. Hale, commanding general Fourth Air Force has announced. If you see a plane crash call the Dolice, sheriff or state highway patrol immediately giving’ them the details of the incident, the location {and your name and addfess. ‘They. aes will forward the information. to the Proper army or navy authorities. Residents of these five western . states can also help in locating miss. ing planes. Currently a wide spread search ‘is’ continuing in the Fourth Air’ Foreé area for two B-24 heavy . bombers missing since Nov. 1. On . that date four of the huge four-mo. tored aircraft took off from Me. Chord Field, Wash. enroute to Portland, Ore. Later one of the plan{es landed at Arcata, Calif., and a . second at Redmond, Ore. Nothing . has since been seen or heard of the ; Other two planes. . { i If you have any clew a’ to the . Whereabor its of these planes forward . your information 10 the nearest law . enforcement ageney who: will send it on to the Fourth Air Forces search . and rescue organization, the 475th AAF Base Unit. oe San Francisco with the Fourth Air Force and controls search and rescue . activities throughout. the five weststates and coordinates searches with the navy, marine“corps and the coast guard units, The organization is Wndér the command of Col. 1. Alfrea V. Walton. ern Since“the Fourth Air Force emergency rescue program was first established in September 1944 931 persons. have been rescued. Many of these were due to tips and phone calls from residents on outlying farms and small. towns. ACCOUNTA ANT PRAISES NEVADA COUNTY OFFICERS Lyman L. Straine, public accountanit employed by the supervisors to expert books of county officials filed his report which not only found no faults with any of them, but closed with these words: “The books of Nevada County were found to be in better condition than any other county examined by us in recent years. A word of praise is in order for such a representative group of efficient county officers.” LINE STRADDLERS MENACE TRAFFIC Declaring there has been a steady increase in the number of traffic aecidents caused by white line strad. aioe in California ever since the removal of gasoline rationing restrietions, Highway Patrol Chief BE. R, Cato today urged. drivers to “stay on their own side of the road.” ; Cato, said several cases have been reported recently. in which accidents were caused bécause line straddlers refused to yield the right of way and pull over to the right hand side of the highways when other drivers attempted to pass them. In one Such accident both drivers. were killed the occupants of a: third car were injured. “Line straddling is a bad habit a3 lot_of drivers developed during the days of restricted travel when tre fic was light.” Chief Cato said. i got by with it then but they cant: do it under present congested con-— ditions. Play safe and aay on yo own side.”