February 1, 1945 (4 pages)

Page Four ~—— NEVADA CITY NUGGET THURSDAY, FEBRUARY I 1945. —. jright-leg ih afall at her home three. ‘those horrible Americans.’ 4 More 105mm howitzers are bela ~ PE "RSONALS — ;months. ago is. getting along nicely. “T too made afwry “face, ‘and ag areee «. AGRICULTURAL used in this war than-all other field WITH OUR u She is able to sit up a little each} with him about the Americans.’ ; artillery weapons combined, Ninth Mrs. O. F. Beticher has returned day. She is in the Miners Hospital. Lt. West told of hiding out in ec Service Command Ordnance officer a . from a two week’s.visit in San FranMr. and Mrs. Ed. Clunes of Bryte. French houses and hearing on CENSUS IN said today. BOYS AND CRIS. cisco. visited his mother. Mrs. -Rose Jones . tramp of heavy boots worn by . : of this city recently. He’ received! Gestapo outside his windows. rie ; Mrs. Margaret Lambert of Dowbeagles : : i : PROGRESS tt ciecitie and Me cal Maa Bd Humback injuries in an shed accident en-. ota tramp, then a pause while} IN GLOBAL WAR . phreys, of Sierra City passed through eer ee = SER EAS nici vai inte or ek aes aoe) BERKELEY, Feb. 1—The nation’ s. } F VA a A oe ; and was unable to celebrate his; German would enter the house. Then 1 Nevada. City =. the ise ogee mother’s birthday New Years. teal the heavy tramp would: continue _on. (14th apes! of Agriculture is under Retha Downey— end oc home from cpl de planted nd aealited in a dinner fox and a sight of relief. Die California as crews enTHEATRE Hea Wowiey, daughter of Mra.) Lemvett was, called ‘south by . other wills Here. ‘ pois umerators, under the leadership of rd ; te ; re _. the death of a sister in law and = —-—— = te West tearned French fairly; county census advisory committees George Downey of this city-is. nows'" 5 . _L--S: Brecken, field engineer for! é 5: ; : : ; stationed in camp at’ Indiantown JC: . Company was . uently and in turn taught several) and the Agricultural Extension SerGap, Penn. and contracting department of the quartermasters office and work very much. Miss Downey enlisted in the WAC division of the -U. S. letter written New Years day stated . ifie war zone. Downey is a veteran of the last war. He is the second soit of Mra. George Downey and reenlisted@ shortly after war was declared. Cpl, John GCraham— Cpl. John Graham, son of My, Mrs. Charles Graham is with tt S. forces in Belgium according to and his letter. He has been overseas a year. €pl. George Graham— Cpl. George Graham; son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Graham, is in the Burma or South Pacific war zone. In a recent letter he told his parents he with a sixteen ton trailer, Burma Road’ area. He has been overseas eight months. Hisover Heads Quartz Parlor of Native Sons Before a large assemblage of the mebbers, Alvah Hooper, county cor-. oner, was installed as president of . Quartz Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West. District Depity Grana,9" Gold Flat Saturday . evening. President John R. Thomas was in-. [lese. dances are open to the pubstalline officer. . lic and proving very popular, there Where seated with Hooper for the being sixty present for the last dance. new ‘term were Carl Dart, junior “f76. ©. E. Bosworth of Gold Flat past president; Ted Kohler, first vice 224d John Blamey of Grass Valley . president; Loyle Freeman, — secon furnish excellent music. Vice-president; ' George Cobledick Recent business visitors from AIthird vice president: Ralph Vincent,. /eShany in Neyada City were Mrs. financial secretary; George Hammill, . ; Clemo, Pat Shepard, Mr. and Mrs. recording secretary: A. Hooper, trea-. William Hart and gon; Mr. and Mrs. eurer; Don Able Kineman, marshal: . ™MHarris ang children. John Gasking, inside sentinel; Mer-. Mrs. Nance James and brother, ; ton Austin. outside sentinel: and@. William, and son, Dick James,. atA. F. trustee. ; tended the funeral of her late sisite®, Mrs. M. B. Cooksie of Folsom Prisoners of war, vate contract jobs, mately $4,000,000 of the United States during October the war department announced. he was on Leyte Island in the Pac-. e UL] She is in the purehasing’ likes her} ;grapher in Army last: year. Halstead’ Downey : Halstead Downey, gunner ist the U. S. S. Minneapolis, in his dha ‘submarine repairs division of the ship yards. rs Mr. and Mrs. Robert Munson and Richard (Munson of Sacramento , working on priearned approxifor the treasury. Was driving a six ton’ White truck da hauling Buffington of San Francisco who has heavy equipmentGeorge is in the poen , Buffington and other . went to Sacramento and after . ing there a week will go on to Pho. enix, . . . ~Game Warden Earl Hiscox was a recent visitor in the towns of Downieville and Sierra City. Mrs. Lewellyn Davis, who two weeks instruction at the local forest service headquarters has re-!} turned to her duties as clerk-stenothe Downieville district rangers station of the Tahoe nation{al forest. iMr.cand Mrs. Tom Polkinghorn of Vallejo spent the past week end in their-newly purchased home in Willow Valley. He is an employee in the spent the past week end with the parents of the two men Mr. and Mrs. E. Munson of Willow Valley. Mrs. W. C. Buffington motored to Sacramento “Monday and _ returned with her mother, Mrs. Rice, who had come down from Red Bluff to make an extended visit here with her ughter and family. Miss. Edna visiting her brother, W. C. rélatives, also Visitwill with and Ariz., spend. the her cousin, wife, in “Miss Buffington rest of the winter Howard Douglass Phoenix. The regular twice a month dance will be held in Degschwanden’s Hall Sse was a member of Post Auxiliary and Roseon Monday. Banner Mt. ville Auxiliary conducted burial sov[ ;a 2sked vices in a most impressive manner. ‘Miss Ada Rich who. broke her} Tiltons Portrait Studio ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF IT’S BEAUTIFUL NEW HOME IN THE NATIONAL HOTEL ANNEX ‘ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1945 'You are cordially invited to visit one of California’s most modern and most 4ftistically appointed portrait studios and to MEET THE TILTONS, who have trans-’ ferred their business from Oakland, California,/ ‘where they served the Bay Area for the past fifteen years. HOURS: TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY . : UNTIL 5 P. M. TELEPHONE 71 FOR APPOI a 10:30 A. M. . INT . . ! week ; Were suspicious of him one night :r jies and German the Kennecott Copper in Nevada City the first part of the ‘inspecting mining properties ‘for his ‘company. took . ‘ Mr. andMrs. John Widauf have returned from a three weeks trip to St. Louis and Kansas City where they visited relatives. While we have had an unusually long spell of dry weather, it has not been so on the eastern side of the Sierras, for Winnemucca reported this week that the 18 inches of snow on the ground was thé greatest they ever have: had. AMERICAN LIEUT. GUEST OF NAZI OFFICER CHICO, -Feb. ten hours with a Beka officer in a train compartment-was only one of a series of movie thriller experiences revealed thig week ‘by Lt. Frederick W. West. 29, of Wilkes-barre, Pa., a fighter pilot now assigned to Chico Army Air Field. Lt. West was shot down over northeastern-, France early in 1944 and evaded capture in enemy occupied territory *which liberated. A recent ruling by partment Bureau of tions has allowed has since been the War Public Relathe pilot to make public certain of his 6xperiences, alDe. hough there: is much which still must be regarded as confidential His story was published for the first time ‘Saturday in The‘ Flyer, Chico Army.Air Field weekly magazine. Dodging the Gestapo and German soldiers and even bumming a light from one of Hitler's -rotorious secret police are experiences not easily forgotten even when thousands of} miles separate the airman from the. scene of his evasion. from capture. ;Some unforgettable experiences may even be laughed off by a thrill movie fan as too far fetched to be believed. For instance, it was Lt. West who a Gestapo agent for a light when he knew that three of them i=} a railroad. station. “That apparently allayed their suspicions, for they left. Afterward my French companion said that the act was the best thing I could have done, for had we left, the trio certainly would have followed us.’ Another time I had an even closer one,’’ Lt. West stated. “IT was on a train.with the same companion, sitting outside a c6mpartment closed off by glass/ afd marked ‘for Germans only.’ Although we had our backs to the’ compartment, we turned. and noticed a German ‘major coming out’ We resumed our position and talked im what French I ld command. Suddenly someone tapped me on the shiulder. “TI turned, trying not to look too alarmed, expecting to be questioned. Howeyer, the German officer beckoned’ for us to accompany him to the” Germans’ compartment. In order to appear normal, we did so, but were plenty nervous. But it didn’t take long for us to find out that he, probably noticing that we were better dressed than the average Frenchman, had merely desired to invite us into the warmer and more comfortable compartment. “‘We were his guests there for ten hours, and after a while the situation become so ludicrous that I was hard put to keep from bursting out in laughter. When we passed factorinstallations which . had ‘been wrecked by our bombings, ;he would make a wry face and say something in bad French about ‘Frenchmen English. “One sight which I’! never forget was a raid by our Forts on a German . airfield near the house in which I was. hiding. “The German air raid sounded, and pretty soon tion of B-17’s came toward us. As {the planes had often taken this route on their way into Germany, the Frenchman-weren’t too excited about it. However, I was watching the formation with ‘the binoculars, and could see the -bomb bay doors opening slowly. “So-I-said to my companions, “Watch that airfield’. We were on*a rise above it ahd just a-little over a mile away. . “While we were watching the first element let go and bomb hits mushroomed throughout the field. The second and third groups also scored heavily’and next came over a fourth element with incendiaries. Soon. the whole airfield was ablase and smoke was drifting thousands of feet high. “And the Frenchmen really got excited at that. It was quite a sight. Later I was shown pictures of the attack and virtually. every bomb scored a vital hit. Later that night we heard the roar of a_ plane. at houstop level. We doused the lights and rah outside. “The plane roared over us and about ten seconds later the HE hit with a terrific. explosion. He came back over before we could get outside. Then the air raid siren sounded as he was on his way back-home a formaand as the fresh hits burned 1000 feet in the air. , Lt West paid high tribute to: the French. “They certainly are wonderful,” he said. ‘‘and they showed a’ marvelous example of courage and stamina. One can't say enough for them.”’ And from a man-who spent nearly . three months among the French people daily risking his and their lives and freedom that is high praise. — 4 —— CALIF. G'S ARE UNPAID TOURIST AGENTS LOS/ ANGELES, Feb. 1—alifornia Has thousands of unpaid tourist agents all over the world in the pereons of Gls wh ohave lived or taken A'their training in the state, and their eloquence is likely to cause a flood of post war visitors from other countries. This is the assertion of Clyde S. Johnson, former assistant to the dean. of undergraduates on the Los Angeles campus of the University of (California. He has just returned from 31 months’ employment with the American embassy in London during which time he visited Northern Ireland and France.* e . “Before the war California was astonishingly. remote to Europeans, but this is all changed now. In the deary climate and war induced dinginess of Britain, soldiers think back to California and paint the state in the most glowing terms imaginable,” Johnson gays. “The result is that a trip to California has become a part of the post war plans of thousands of people. In fact, some Californians have been amazed ‘by the response and have jokingly passed the world along to play the state down a little for fear the flood of visitors might be oxerwhelming, he declares. During 1944 bounties were paid on 177 mountain lions in California. IT’S RAINING AGAIN graduated long years ago flags of distress, mo weather on the b mother worry? It’ her a birthday. . i ] Valley 108 (om the wash tub ard ‘a‘er on ~ from the washing machine. Let it rain. There 27: : 9 ‘wet r’s distress, flying in this rainy yard clothes line. a long time ago that fatherade nt by sending the family wash to GRASS VALE LAUNDRY “AND DRY CLEANERS 111 BENNETT STREET, eoremees VALLEY if t mother doesn’t care. She So wh should ‘. Telephone—Nevada City 2 [f" given. The arrangement of . 246 Church Street BEAUTY, REVERENCE AND SOLEMNITY. mark the services held in our quiet chapel for the departed. All that considerate sympathetic service can give is bers, the ministration of clergymen, are ‘arranged by us to meet the desires of those who seek our services. Hooper & Weaver ’ MORTICIANS—AMBULANCE SERVICE GRASS VALLEY flowers, the musical numTelephone 364 alarm . . vice, University of. California, are canvassing farmers in every county. The census is expected to be completed within the next five or six weeks and during that period every ffarmer in the state and his .crops, livestock and acreage will be. registered. B. H. Crocheron, director of the Agricultural Extension Service, in urging. the utmost cooperation from farmers, pointed out® that the information was confidential concerning the individual. No government agency, he asserted, may use the information~for purposes of taxation, regulation or investigation. The assembled figures, by coun. ty, by state and nationally, he de;clared, are of vital importance to the . government and private industry, as the basic data for all agricultural planning. As examples of the value of the information assembled by the census takers he cited manufacturers who . look. at reports on acres in cultivation and the number of tractors on farms, and obtain a better idea on how_many new ones to make; railroads can better judge how to distribute freight cars to move farm produce: federal land ‘banks production credit association.and private ‘banking institutions need these figures to guide them. ‘(No recent census has been more important than this one, covering the 1944. crop year,’’ Crocheron said. “Tt is the first to be taken during a peroe iod of peak war production and will . point the way toward helping the! farmers plan their production. for the coming peace.” DIRECTION T. AND D. JR., ENTERPRISES, INC. FRIDAY SATURDAY “SNOW WHITE ’ AND THE SEVEN DWARFS —Plus— DARK — . MOUNTAIN —With— ELLEN DREW . NOnnET HOWERY 00 @ Gen ARE SMILING —With— JUNE: HAVER MONTE WOOLEY DICK HAYMES —In— TECHNICOLOR v serole! 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Page Four ~—— NEVADA CITY NUGGET THURSDAY, FEBRUARY I 1945. —. jright-leg ih afall at her home three. ‘those horrible Americans.’ 4 More 105mm howitzers are bela ~ PE "RSONALS — ;months. ago is. getting along nicely. “T too made afwry “face, ‘and ag areee «. AGRICULTURAL used in this war than-all other field WITH OUR u She is able to sit up a little each} with him about the Americans.’ ; artillery weapons combined, Ninth Mrs. O. F. Beticher has returned day. She is in the Miners Hospital. Lt. West told of hiding out in ec Service Command Ordnance officer a . from a two week’s.visit in San FranMr. and Mrs. Ed. Clunes of Bryte. French houses and hearing on CENSUS IN said today. BOYS AND CRIS. cisco. visited his mother. Mrs. -Rose Jones . tramp of heavy boots worn by . : of this city recently. He’ received! Gestapo outside his windows. rie ; Mrs. Margaret Lambert of Dowbeagles : : i : PROGRESS tt ciecitie and Me cal Maa Bd Humback injuries in an shed accident en-. ota tramp, then a pause while} IN GLOBAL WAR . phreys, of Sierra City passed through eer ee = SER EAS nici vai inte or ek aes aoe) BERKELEY, Feb. 1—The nation’ s. } F VA a A oe ; and was unable to celebrate his; German would enter the house. Then 1 Nevada. City =. the ise ogee mother’s birthday New Years. teal the heavy tramp would: continue _on. (14th apes! of Agriculture is under Retha Downey— end oc home from cpl de planted nd aealited in a dinner fox and a sight of relief. Die California as crews enTHEATRE Hea Wowiey, daughter of Mra.) Lemvett was, called ‘south by . other wills Here. ‘ pois umerators, under the leadership of rd ; te ; re _. the death of a sister in law and = —-—— = te West tearned French fairly; county census advisory committees George Downey of this city-is. nows'" 5 . _L--S: Brecken, field engineer for! é 5: ; : : ; stationed in camp at’ Indiantown JC: . Company was . uently and in turn taught several) and the Agricultural Extension SerGap, Penn. and contracting department of the quartermasters office and work very much. Miss Downey enlisted in the WAC division of the -U. S. letter written New Years day stated . ifie war zone. Downey is a veteran of the last war. He is the second soit of Mra. George Downey and reenlisted@ shortly after war was declared. Cpl, John GCraham— Cpl. John Graham, son of My, Mrs. Charles Graham is with tt S. forces in Belgium according to and his letter. He has been overseas a year. €pl. George Graham— Cpl. George Graham; son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Graham, is in the Burma or South Pacific war zone. In a recent letter he told his parents he with a sixteen ton trailer, Burma Road’ area. He has been overseas eight months. Hisover Heads Quartz Parlor of Native Sons Before a large assemblage of the mebbers, Alvah Hooper, county cor-. oner, was installed as president of . Quartz Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West. District Depity Grana,9" Gold Flat Saturday . evening. President John R. Thomas was in-. [lese. dances are open to the pubstalline officer. . lic and proving very popular, there Where seated with Hooper for the being sixty present for the last dance. new ‘term were Carl Dart, junior “f76. ©. E. Bosworth of Gold Flat past president; Ted Kohler, first vice 224d John Blamey of Grass Valley . president; Loyle Freeman, — secon furnish excellent music. Vice-president; ' George Cobledick Recent business visitors from AIthird vice president: Ralph Vincent,. /eShany in Neyada City were Mrs. financial secretary; George Hammill, . ; Clemo, Pat Shepard, Mr. and Mrs. recording secretary: A. Hooper, trea-. William Hart and gon; Mr. and Mrs. eurer; Don Able Kineman, marshal: . ™MHarris ang children. John Gasking, inside sentinel; Mer-. Mrs. Nance James and brother, ; ton Austin. outside sentinel: and@. William, and son, Dick James,. atA. F. trustee. ; tended the funeral of her late sisite®, Mrs. M. B. Cooksie of Folsom Prisoners of war, vate contract jobs, mately $4,000,000 of the United States during October the war department announced. he was on Leyte Island in the Pac-. e UL] She is in the purehasing’ likes her} ;grapher in Army last: year. Halstead’ Downey : Halstead Downey, gunner ist the U. S. S. Minneapolis, in his dha ‘submarine repairs division of the ship yards. rs Mr. and Mrs. Robert Munson and Richard (Munson of Sacramento , working on priearned approxifor the treasury. Was driving a six ton’ White truck da hauling Buffington of San Francisco who has heavy equipmentGeorge is in the poen , Buffington and other . went to Sacramento and after . ing there a week will go on to Pho. enix, . . . ~Game Warden Earl Hiscox was a recent visitor in the towns of Downieville and Sierra City. Mrs. Lewellyn Davis, who two weeks instruction at the local forest service headquarters has re-!} turned to her duties as clerk-stenothe Downieville district rangers station of the Tahoe nation{al forest. iMr.cand Mrs. Tom Polkinghorn of Vallejo spent the past week end in their-newly purchased home in Willow Valley. He is an employee in the spent the past week end with the parents of the two men Mr. and Mrs. E. Munson of Willow Valley. Mrs. W. C. Buffington motored to Sacramento “Monday and _ returned with her mother, Mrs. Rice, who had come down from Red Bluff to make an extended visit here with her ughter and family. Miss. Edna visiting her brother, W. C. rélatives, also Visitwill with and Ariz., spend. the her cousin, wife, in “Miss Buffington rest of the winter Howard Douglass Phoenix. The regular twice a month dance will be held in Degschwanden’s Hall Sse was a member of Post Auxiliary and Roseon Monday. Banner Mt. ville Auxiliary conducted burial sov[ ;a 2sked vices in a most impressive manner. ‘Miss Ada Rich who. broke her} Tiltons Portrait Studio ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF IT’S BEAUTIFUL NEW HOME IN THE NATIONAL HOTEL ANNEX ‘ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1945 'You are cordially invited to visit one of California’s most modern and most 4ftistically appointed portrait studios and to MEET THE TILTONS, who have trans-’ ferred their business from Oakland, California,/ ‘where they served the Bay Area for the past fifteen years. HOURS: TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY . : UNTIL 5 P. M. TELEPHONE 71 FOR APPOI a 10:30 A. M. . INT . . ! week ; Were suspicious of him one night :r jies and German the Kennecott Copper in Nevada City the first part of the ‘inspecting mining properties ‘for his ‘company. took . ‘ Mr. andMrs. John Widauf have returned from a three weeks trip to St. Louis and Kansas City where they visited relatives. While we have had an unusually long spell of dry weather, it has not been so on the eastern side of the Sierras, for Winnemucca reported this week that the 18 inches of snow on the ground was thé greatest they ever have: had. AMERICAN LIEUT. GUEST OF NAZI OFFICER CHICO, -Feb. ten hours with a Beka officer in a train compartment-was only one of a series of movie thriller experiences revealed thig week ‘by Lt. Frederick W. West. 29, of Wilkes-barre, Pa., a fighter pilot now assigned to Chico Army Air Field. Lt. West was shot down over northeastern-, France early in 1944 and evaded capture in enemy occupied territory *which liberated. A recent ruling by partment Bureau of tions has allowed has since been the War Public Relathe pilot to make public certain of his 6xperiences, alDe. hough there: is much which still must be regarded as confidential His story was published for the first time ‘Saturday in The‘ Flyer, Chico Army.Air Field weekly magazine. Dodging the Gestapo and German soldiers and even bumming a light from one of Hitler's -rotorious secret police are experiences not easily forgotten even when thousands of} miles separate the airman from the. scene of his evasion. from capture. ;Some unforgettable experiences may even be laughed off by a thrill movie fan as too far fetched to be believed. For instance, it was Lt. West who a Gestapo agent for a light when he knew that three of them i=} a railroad. station. “That apparently allayed their suspicions, for they left. Afterward my French companion said that the act was the best thing I could have done, for had we left, the trio certainly would have followed us.’ Another time I had an even closer one,’’ Lt. West stated. “IT was on a train.with the same companion, sitting outside a c6mpartment closed off by glass/ afd marked ‘for Germans only.’ Although we had our backs to the’ compartment, we turned. and noticed a German ‘major coming out’ We resumed our position and talked im what French I ld command. Suddenly someone tapped me on the shiulder. “TI turned, trying not to look too alarmed, expecting to be questioned. Howeyer, the German officer beckoned’ for us to accompany him to the” Germans’ compartment. In order to appear normal, we did so, but were plenty nervous. But it didn’t take long for us to find out that he, probably noticing that we were better dressed than the average Frenchman, had merely desired

to invite us into the warmer and more comfortable compartment. “‘We were his guests there for ten hours, and after a while the situation become so ludicrous that I was hard put to keep from bursting out in laughter. When we passed factorinstallations which . had ‘been wrecked by our bombings, ;he would make a wry face and say something in bad French about ‘Frenchmen English. “One sight which I’! never forget was a raid by our Forts on a German . airfield near the house in which I was. hiding. “The German air raid sounded, and pretty soon tion of B-17’s came toward us. As {the planes had often taken this route on their way into Germany, the Frenchman-weren’t too excited about it. However, I was watching the formation with ‘the binoculars, and could see the -bomb bay doors opening slowly. “So-I-said to my companions, “Watch that airfield’. We were on*a rise above it ahd just a-little over a mile away. . “While we were watching the first element let go and bomb hits mushroomed throughout the field. The second and third groups also scored heavily’and next came over a fourth element with incendiaries. Soon. the whole airfield was ablase and smoke was drifting thousands of feet high. “And the Frenchmen really got excited at that. It was quite a sight. Later I was shown pictures of the attack and virtually. every bomb scored a vital hit. Later that night we heard the roar of a_ plane. at houstop level. We doused the lights and rah outside. “The plane roared over us and about ten seconds later the HE hit with a terrific. explosion. He came back over before we could get outside. Then the air raid siren sounded as he was on his way back-home a formaand as the fresh hits burned 1000 feet in the air. , Lt West paid high tribute to: the French. “They certainly are wonderful,” he said. ‘‘and they showed a’ marvelous example of courage and stamina. One can't say enough for them.”’ And from a man-who spent nearly . three months among the French people daily risking his and their lives and freedom that is high praise. — 4 —— CALIF. G'S ARE UNPAID TOURIST AGENTS LOS/ ANGELES, Feb. 1—alifornia Has thousands of unpaid tourist agents all over the world in the pereons of Gls wh ohave lived or taken A'their training in the state, and their eloquence is likely to cause a flood of post war visitors from other countries. This is the assertion of Clyde S. Johnson, former assistant to the dean. of undergraduates on the Los Angeles campus of the University of (California. He has just returned from 31 months’ employment with the American embassy in London during which time he visited Northern Ireland and France.* e . “Before the war California was astonishingly. remote to Europeans, but this is all changed now. In the deary climate and war induced dinginess of Britain, soldiers think back to California and paint the state in the most glowing terms imaginable,” Johnson gays. “The result is that a trip to California has become a part of the post war plans of thousands of people. In fact, some Californians have been amazed ‘by the response and have jokingly passed the world along to play the state down a little for fear the flood of visitors might be oxerwhelming, he declares. During 1944 bounties were paid on 177 mountain lions in California. IT’S RAINING AGAIN graduated long years ago flags of distress, mo weather on the b mother worry? It’ her a birthday. . i ] Valley 108 (om the wash tub ard ‘a‘er on ~ from the washing machine. Let it rain. There 27: : 9 ‘wet r’s distress, flying in this rainy yard clothes line. a long time ago that fatherade nt by sending the family wash to GRASS VALE LAUNDRY “AND DRY CLEANERS 111 BENNETT STREET, eoremees VALLEY if t mother doesn’t care. She So wh should ‘. Telephone—Nevada City 2 [f" given. The arrangement of . 246 Church Street BEAUTY, REVERENCE AND SOLEMNITY. mark the services held in our quiet chapel for the departed. All that considerate sympathetic service can give is bers, the ministration of clergymen, are ‘arranged by us to meet the desires of those who seek our services. Hooper & Weaver ’ MORTICIANS—AMBULANCE SERVICE GRASS VALLEY flowers, the musical numTelephone 364 alarm . . vice, University of. California, are canvassing farmers in every county. The census is expected to be completed within the next five or six weeks and during that period every ffarmer in the state and his .crops, livestock and acreage will be. registered. B. H. Crocheron, director of the Agricultural Extension Service, in urging. the utmost cooperation from farmers, pointed out® that the information was confidential concerning the individual. No government agency, he asserted, may use the information~for purposes of taxation, regulation or investigation. The assembled figures, by coun. ty, by state and nationally, he de;clared, are of vital importance to the . government and private industry, as the basic data for all agricultural planning. As examples of the value of the information assembled by the census takers he cited manufacturers who . look. at reports on acres in cultivation and the number of tractors on farms, and obtain a better idea on how_many new ones to make; railroads can better judge how to distribute freight cars to move farm produce: federal land ‘banks production credit association.and private ‘banking institutions need these figures to guide them. ‘(No recent census has been more important than this one, covering the 1944. crop year,’’ Crocheron said. “Tt is the first to be taken during a peroe iod of peak war production and will . point the way toward helping the! farmers plan their production. for the coming peace.” DIRECTION T. AND D. JR., ENTERPRISES, INC. FRIDAY SATURDAY “SNOW WHITE ’ AND THE SEVEN DWARFS —Plus— DARK — . MOUNTAIN —With— ELLEN DREW . NOnnET HOWERY 00 @ Gen ARE SMILING —With— JUNE: HAVER MONTE WOOLEY DICK HAYMES —In— TECHNICOLOR v serole! 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