February 12, 1945 (4 pages)

_-—these rascals that walk with _ cused of molesting little girls. . 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 : evada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFO RNIA gget. Homer Thi 2 BN Sa RTO coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and, your s paper gives you complete town, read The Nugget. Vol: 19, No. ve peer nem the Coun Seat Bi NEVADA City: CALIFORNIA The Gold Center _MONDAY, FEBRUARY ee 1945 WHAT NOW? CASE OF TEST TUBES AND GENESIS 3:19 By ROY G. OWENS Hngineer-KHconomist THE Raymond Moley states the case in its simplest terms: “The .majorjeconomic feature of modern civilization—especially emphasized. in this generationi—is that the volume of“production rises higher and higher—while the need for human beings to produce that volume grows less and less.’’ . California wrestles with the social problem this fact sets up. The United States wrestles with it. Canada wrestles with it. England wrestles with it. Industry wrestles with it. Finance wrestles with it. Our nerves tense too many Tom Edisons have been allowed to poke around in their attics and come up with the remarkable discoveries that up the productions in the day time and . , -we toss in our sleep-at night because of things that humans want and down the need for human toil. (Machines that have no need to consume what they produce—mould epin, plant, raw of nature’s resources into the finished product. They do not do fe all, but they do impose.a certain rash} of socially indigestible. leisure. Some . call it unemployment. Priately, most . of us could enjoy the leisure that} machines make possible—if our . check arrived each Saturday as “got laid’ off. socially—politieally. that employment) did before we But persuaded we are . (alias neighborhood ease like the mumps or leisure un-4 is a disthe measles —and that the cure is that rare and ee : packs may be expected to reach the diminishing something called ‘‘an: Re ( ground and thus a forecast may® be other ob.’ So we look for another : } ; : made to how the ground may be able job when our time comes. We look el s z to absorb same and cause a certain . but we do not find. They are not ee : a run off under a given set of temperthere. The signs say——no help want: ; : ; ature and ground saturation condied. That’s what they say on the side . : ® tions. we see. On the other side the reason ‘ « ; is found—no help wanted. here -beSnider: states the two storms over cause of a dearth of customers to the period Januwary.20 to. Februaryu buy what is being produced. So the. 6, gave a total of 5.‘3 inches mois‘days of the ancient locusts and the, famine are reversed. Too many peo-. ple and not many supplies—has be-. come——too many supplies and not . many jobs. And it would set at . naught the laws of judgment. to. make machine made, goods obtainable by human beings whose labors are not needed—or would it? Sometimes I wonder—whether— the laborer being worthy of his hire —I wonder whether it wouldn’t be all to the good if the hire that the Jaborer is worthy of might not better be enlarged to extend over the whole span of a lifetime even though his hours on the job are machine cut to the limits of a few short years. At least such’ an arrangement would jeave no employer with the dearth of customers that seems to overtake him and darken his outlook in the recurring between war pereiods. What would happen if the states and the nations and the industries —while cutting the years of labor— expanded every man’s hire to cover his whole lifetime, and deliberately violated Genesis 3:14 and 3:17 and 8:19? Would such a sinful procedure send the doors of heaven shut with a final bang? And the earth into a still more violent tailspin? Or might jit not be so that the angels would come and smile and begin to look, upon the earth and its people and its revised formula of work and pay as something no longer quite so far removed from the foot of the ladder that leads upward—the. one that Jacob found and used for his round trip passages to and fro. As things look from where I sit the springy step to and fro inotheir sequestered laboratories and whisper of the sky as’ the limit of useful things to come from their inquisitive test tubes—they are the ones to blame or to bless: as the volume of production rises higher and highar while the need for human béings to produce that volume grows less. May they find leisure in their employment and no empty pocketed unemployment in their leisure. Trial of Jesse C — Set For March 13 Jesse Cagley hataat with lewd and lascivious conduct, pleaded not guilty Thursday? when arraigned in the superior court. Cagley, an inmate of ‘the county hospital, ig acHe waived a jury trial and his case was set for trial March 13th. ; SNOW . hopes to gain further . comparative PS NEW EXPERIMENT BOY SCOUTS IN DETERMINING SNOW RUN OFF TRUCKHE, = Feb: U22-Dr. J.C, ‘Church father of the snow surveys, is still searching for data about how our snow in the high Sierras acts when it melts to furnish our valuable water supply and has installed an experimental device, that he originated at Truckee ranger station and at Soda Springs, to determine the rate that snow turns to water and passes into the ground, reports district ranger H. I. Snider who is taking the records at Truckee for Dr. Church. By the use of certain dye that changes color when it becomes wet or frozen, when the snow melts the dye is carried through the snow from the surface to the various depths that may be determined by a snow sampler similar to the regular snow survey instruments, surface snow melting. after each storm. Concurrently, there is a catch basin that collects, the water from the snow at ground level and leads it into a reservoir in which the snow water may be measured to termine the melting’ rate that reaches the ground: With dethe the t, aid of a hydrathermograph this rate fis compared with tures. conditions, varied states Snider. With this. apparatus Dr. Church to how fast the water from our snow ure at Truckee, tal-there since September ;cses over normal. which places the oy Eo Let Dr. Chieek also set up a snow course at the Truckee ranger station . and the sampling made there on) February 7 gave an average ‘depth . of 24.4 inches with a water content, of 8.11 inches or 33.2 per cent. — Considerable during the first part of February and a great deal of the broken patches of snow were melted and the run off was heavy at elevations below 6000 feet, which is not so favorable in for the summer water supply as it would have been had the storms been entirely in the form of snow. SNOW DEPTHS AT HUYSINK $4 INCHES Snow measurements on the Huysink snow course at 6800 feet elevation between the Yuba and American river drainages south of Cisco show a snow depth slightly greater than that for the same time last year reports Ranger Warren Barnes of the Big Bend district, Tahoe national forest. The monthly measurement made February 7 by the forest service in cooperation with the State Division of Water Resources showed a total snow depth of 84: inches and a water content of 34 per cent. Last year at this time the depth was 73 inches with a water content of 31 per cent. The measurements, slightly highér than year, are not a true although this time last conditions explains Barnes. Last year the snow depth was more uniform af the. various elevations in the mountains than is the case this year because, to date, snowfall has not been as great at the lower eleyations. This means that the total pack is prolbbably considerably less ‘than wag the case at this time last year. Early predictions of next seasons water conditions, however, as yet are not warranted, adds Barnes, as considerably more snowfall is expected before the winter is over. tempera. indication» of . . information .as . ‘and in’ hundreds of . Scouts ; ton . . erica distributed more than 20,000rain fell at Truckee! . jflags are being ;and so I pledge all of you here. inj birds ake CELEBRATE . ANNIVERSARY . Boy Scouts throughout the world . are planning to resume their world . wide friendships, through: correspondence, exchange gf equipment and: by meeting in person at the great! World Scout Jamboree after the war ends. At the Fifth World Scout Jamboree when 26,000 scouts camped together at Vogelenzang in The Netherlands. in the summer of 1937, the. late Lard Daden Powell, chief. scout of the world appraised world scour gatherings by saying: “By cultivating these friendships] such as have been cemented at this great jamboree, you are preparing the way for solutions of international problems. This will have a vital and very far reaching effect through . this great assembly your absolute utmost to establishd} friendship among scouts. of all na. tions.” . of youth, to do! isimilarly named with tnates a date believed thus enabling ug . Out. the world in the cause of peace, ; 'to know when the water reaches the , . ground from harvest—transform the'The dye is cast on the snow ST. VALENTINE’S. DAY LONG LIST OF MEANINGS By LEONE BAXTER The careful historian has trouble, . finding habis for dedicating St. Valentine’s day to lovers. Some scholars bury St. in a welter ing Valentine of personalities, insistwe don‘t even know for certain who he was. The tomes record three \martyrs who ‘lived and died about iT continice ago. \ Some in their erudition tell us that the sole explanation ‘for the day’s dedication to sweethearts was the common confusion of ‘Valentine’ the Norman word ‘galantin’ . ;meaning a lover of women. Others that quote Chaucer February 14th to prove merely ‘desigin the Middle Ages to be the day. on which the first fluttered out to mates for the season. choose their Anyone ancient with an encvyelopedia or an history, book can. contin*,ue-the debunking. As for us we don’t Boy Scout anniversary Week of the founding America, marks the 35th of the! Since Feb. 8,. movement in 1910, more than 12,000,000 men and boys have been in scouting. The prea-. sent day active enrollment -is-more than 1,800,000. eubs, scouts. senior scouts and adult volunteer leaders. The every birthday city. and will town in be observed. in the villages nation and ham. lets ‘as well. Boy scouts cubs and senior performed the scouts have to In a many. services vital) war effort in recent months. drive for waste paper the Boy 120,000 tons. Inthat. 85,968 recent two months sorely needed salvaged complete reports show ‘stots and cubs~coltected over a halt el while in each than more more 400,000 brought than® 500 pounds each. Late in September and in early October scouts. and cubs collected jenough milkweed. floss to make one {million life jackets for the armed forces for use while afloat. Last, year the Boy Scouts of Am000 posters for the OWI. In addition members aided rationing boards, selective seervice boards, community chests, war chests anf. foreign relief. They took an active part in the war loan campaigns, not only in distributing literature and helping at the war loan headquarters, but also taking orders for bonds and stamps. Special scouts at war minute men proudly displayed by troops, cub packs and senior scout groups which have 95 per cent of their member buying war bonds or stamps regularly in addition to each member someone else of his household making regular purchases. AVERAGE SNOW DEPTH IN HIGH SIERRAS 61 IN. DOWNIEVILLE, Feb. 12 — William N. Nelson, fire control assistant, and Fred Rixey, scaler left for the Yuba Pass snow survey, Saturday, Feb. 3. They returned Monday evening. i Travel into the ski shelter near Camp Pioneer, was very slow, and it took eight hours to cover the seven, miles. The snow was ‘very spongy with several soft layers. . The survey was made Sunday and finished just ahead of a storm that broke that evening. There was an average snow depth on the course of 61.63 inches. Density per cent was 25.84 for an average water content of 15.‘4 inches. The snow pack has improved considerably since the Jaanuary survey. However, we will need more storms like the recent one, to assure a good water storage in our summit snow packs. The storm that broke Sunday. evening in the high country laid 14 inches of new snow in the Camp Pioneer area. It was still storming when Nelson and Rixey left for-Sierra City Monday noon. : 'Dove of Nevada City. a want to debunk and we don’t do. : St. Valentine’s day, believe With an open hand and entire ser-. iousness, we moderns dedicate days -and weeks——to everything —frem babits to breafsast foods, .from ap-. ples to animals. If Baby Week is sensible, then -surely a day to honor’ sweethearts has some basis of res-. pectahility. If Be kind to Anicals week is within reason, then a lone day to pay respects to one’s best beloved human companion does seem rational enough. To great .ideas—to the less ‘material and to the more mundane .we,grant our days and show our deference. While communities may celbrate-cleantup “week, may observe, write a letter to a Russian week. With only 365 days to deal with, and countless urges to celebrate all of them,»some days are split in several directions, to drink a glass of beer day, alligator pear day . and wgroundhog day all in one. In spite of historical protests and a growing lack of days to conjure with, it is improbable that St. Valentine’s day ever will be crowded off, the calendar. For it commenorates the greatest. idea of all, -the strongest motivation behind every single forward step of men and civilization. So let the valentines be lacy and the sentiments be sweet that folk in love exchange on February 14. Whoever St. Valentine really was, We think he’d be glad to have the tender tokens of esteem. sent in his name. NOTED STAGE SCENE PAINTER SUCCUMBS Funeral services will » held this afternoon in the Holme, id Myers Funeral Home, Grasa Ve: ¥ for Julian F. Dove, who died ursday in a Sacramento hospital. R Herschel Fravel, of the Congregativ.al Church . will officiate. Interment the Greenwood Cemetery. Surviving is his wife Mrs. Gertrude daughter, Mrs. Anna Spring of Oakland and two grandsons, Jfc. Harry A. Suring and Charles C. Spring of Oakland. Dove was a scene painter.of more than local prominence. For 12 years he was associated with the Chicago Civic Opera, fabricating and painting stage settings: He did excellent work in water colors and was widely known for his landscapes. In his younger days he studied painting in Paris and in German art centers. In recent years he has had charge of the stage settings at the San Francisco Opera House. : He settled in Nevada City and his talents were called into service locally. He painted the sets for the Christmas pageant at the Nevada City high school. 9 Dove was a, native of Hamburg, Germany, aged 73 years. will be in many others whote-nations of Seouts. Driver Of Wrecked Car Arrested For Homicide The California Highway.Patrol of+ fice in Hills Flat has filed charges of ‘negligent homicide against Set. Hnlas Dale Endsley of DeWitt Géneral Hospital, alleged drvier of the car that was wrecked on Highway. 49 west of Grass Valley on the night of January 27th, resulting ryn, a young mother.employed at the hospital. , Sgt. Endsley is a_patient at the ‘hospital recovering a basal. fracture of the skull and fractures of the lower jaw. In the same wreck was Lieut. PhYllis Schneider, Army Nurses Corps, still reported to be in critical condition at the hospital. When the sergeant is ‘sufficiently reco he will appear in the Grass Valley township court for hearing. though it is. expected that the army authorities willask for general cutsody for tion. disciplinary acRavmond Turning To Serve 8 Months In Jail Haymond Turning who pleaded by Judge. George L. Jones yesterday to eight months in the county jail and was placed on probation fot two years. 4 Turning: was. arrested (the complaint of Mrs. Joyce of Grass Valley that he had stolen cash and cheeks amounting . $253 following Peder. son from her home on Ocean Ave. . Turning was employed as a la Sacramento . his discharges cook in following S. Navy. restaurant from the U. Of Honor Ts . Be Held Thursda Judge . 1 Cou rt George L. Jones iside at a Nevada City for Scouts Thursday -. in the Elementary Sx will preor Boy evening ‘hool auditorium The event with a provided the mothers Seoutse-masters Ab Bates and Gordon Vance, and Pack masters J. N. Griges of the Cwhbs .will marshal their open pot!luek dinner by troops for the occasion. The Cubs will give a short program. The Rotarians at the luncheon meeting Thursday will have as: their guests members of Troop 24, sponsored by the club. Allowed Cat Thief In U. S. Marshal’s Custody Edward Miller, 17, arrested January 4th by California Highway patrolmen and charged _with having stolen a car in Reno, was taken into custody by a deuuty U. S; marshal from Sacramento. When arrested in Truckee, Miller at first gave the name of Mulli. He confessed having escaped from a reformatory at Camarilla, Ventura County. Pending his romavel he was lodged in the county jail here. Parents Are Heirs To Soldier’s Estate Albert E. McCallum has filed a petition for letters of administration opon the estate of his son, Pfe. Robert E. McCallum, killed in action ‘July 27, 1948, in the -Buropean area. The estate consists arcording to the petition of $2000, approximately, on deposit in a Vallejo bank. His mother, Mrs. Clara S. McCallum and father are named as ‘sole -Keirs. The young soldier died intestate. . Miss Eleanor Vanberg . Weds Norvil Hammond The marriage of Miss fleanor Vanberg and Norvil Hammond teno, Tuesday has been announced here. The. bride has been clerk of the Nevada City Ration Board since it was organized, resigning only recently. She is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Martin Vanberg. The bridegtoom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Hammond of 345 Long Street, who formerly . resided in Gridley, Colusa County . -He is an honorably discharged veteran of World War II. During their honeymaan the cou: ple will Visit Robert Vanberg, brother of the bride, who is recovering from wounds suffered shortly after D-day ih ,the Normandie ° invasion and is now at an army hospital near Modesto. Théir wedding tour will inelude visits to relatives in Los Angeles. in the} death of Bertha Dillon, 23, of Pen-. guilty to grand theft, was sentenced] cies. to . education: the division of readjustment education, the. bureau of occupational inférmation and guid‘ance, and the California Polytehnie college. Court of Hon-:. in . WEARY VETERANS GIVEN AID TO GET BENEFITS The weary, foot sore demobilized servicemen who is required to go to at least five different agencies in the process of transferring to civilian status will be gratified to know that, plans are under way to reduce further leg work in securing authentic information and guidance. ; These plans include a program for the training of representatives of . the many interested agencies. Such training will prepare these individuals to answer correctly the who, what, where, when, why and how, questions of the inquiring serviceman. It also is proposed to develop a package of information which will include uniform facts about the various. financial, medical ‘and educational benefits available to veterans, counseling techniques, and employment opportunities. The present situation is that each service generally knows about its own offerings, but little about those of the other agen. . This one stop guidance service will jbe developed by California educators and invited representatives of gov. ernmental and veterans’ organiza. tions meeting at the California Polytechnic college in San Feb. 12 to 23. The conference }is ‘being conducted jointly by three branches of the state department of Luis Obispo from Leaders of the conference will be Dr. Franklin Zeran, of the, U. S. office of education, national authority prebloms of educational counseland Dr. H. B. McDaniel state department of education specialist in . occupational information and. guid\ance. To facilitate maximum participation by conferences: members one group of representatives will attend ithe first session from Feb. 12 to 16 and a second group will attend from Feb. 19 to 238. Material and procedure developed lat this conference will be made available to local communities. Thus “Aniform, authoritative information . will be made accessible to counselors lof veterans throughout the state, ac;cording to Julian A. McPhee, director of vocational education for California and ‘president of California Polytechnic. on ing, Mrs. Joseph Rule Of Grass Valley Dies Of Burns Mrs. Joseph Rule, residing on French, Avenue in Grass Valley, was so severely burned last night, when her night gown caught fire from @ small wood burning stove, that she expired Friday morning at 5 o’clock in the Nevada County Hospital. Mrs. Rule was heating a pan of milk just before retiring. at 10 o’clock. Her night gown swung toe close to. the open screw damper of the stove and in an instant she was ablaze. She ran outside and rolled in the garden. . A Her screams brought the neighbors and the fire department was summoned. Her gown was burned from her body. She was rushed to the county hospital in Nevada City where Dr. George A. Foster county physician cared for her. Mrs. Rule leaves. her husband who is an invalid and two young children Jo Ann, 9 and Robert 7. Funeral artrangements are in charge of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. 1 Nevada County Share Forest Fees Is $2,903 Forest Supervisor Guerdon Hillis of the Tahoe national forest reports that Nevada County’s share of for-_ est service receipts for 1944 will be $2,903.12. This is an increase of 144 per cent over 1943. This has been occasioned ‘by the increased lumbering activities on national forest lands on the Tahoe yational forest. With the development of the sawmill at Washington and an. increased cut to be made-from the Calida ‘operation — near Downieville, these receipts may _ be expected to be sharply increased in 1945. When the Auburn working circle comes into operation in that area, there will be further and s' er increased returns to the co Nevada, added the forest

_-—these rascals that walk with _ cused of molesting little girls. . 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 : evada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFO RNIA gget. Homer Thi 2 BN Sa RTO coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and, your s paper gives you complete town, read The Nugget. Vol: 19, No. ve peer nem the Coun Seat Bi NEVADA City: CALIFORNIA The Gold Center _MONDAY, FEBRUARY ee 1945 WHAT NOW? CASE OF TEST TUBES AND GENESIS 3:19 By ROY G. OWENS Hngineer-KHconomist THE Raymond Moley states the case in its simplest terms: “The .majorjeconomic feature of modern civilization—especially emphasized. in this generationi—is that the volume of“production rises higher and higher—while the need for human beings to produce that volume grows less and less.’’ . California wrestles with the social problem this fact sets up. The United States wrestles with it. Canada wrestles with it. England wrestles with it. Industry wrestles with it. Finance wrestles with it. Our nerves tense too many Tom Edisons have been allowed to poke around in their attics and come up with the remarkable discoveries that up the productions in the day time and . , -we toss in our sleep-at night because of things that humans want and down the need for human toil. (Machines that have no need to consume what they produce—mould epin, plant, raw of nature’s resources into the finished product. They do not do fe all, but they do impose.a certain rash} of socially indigestible. leisure. Some . call it unemployment. Priately, most . of us could enjoy the leisure that} machines make possible—if our . check arrived each Saturday as “got laid’ off. socially—politieally. that employment) did before we But persuaded we are . (alias neighborhood ease like the mumps or leisure un-4 is a disthe measles —and that the cure is that rare and ee : packs may be expected to reach the diminishing something called ‘‘an: Re ( ground and thus a forecast may® be other ob.’ So we look for another : } ; : made to how the ground may be able job when our time comes. We look el s z to absorb same and cause a certain . but we do not find. They are not ee : a run off under a given set of temperthere. The signs say——no help want: ; : ; ature and ground saturation condied. That’s what they say on the side . : ® tions. we see. On the other side the reason ‘ « ; is found—no help wanted. here -beSnider: states the two storms over cause of a dearth of customers to the period Januwary.20 to. Februaryu buy what is being produced. So the. 6, gave a total of 5.‘3 inches mois‘days of the ancient locusts and the, famine are reversed. Too many peo-. ple and not many supplies—has be-. come——too many supplies and not . many jobs. And it would set at . naught the laws of judgment. to. make machine made, goods obtainable by human beings whose labors are not needed—or would it? Sometimes I wonder—whether— the laborer being worthy of his hire —I wonder whether it wouldn’t be all to the good if the hire that the Jaborer is worthy of might not better be enlarged to extend over the whole span of a lifetime even though his hours on the job are machine cut to the limits of a few short years. At least such’ an arrangement would jeave no employer with the dearth of customers that seems to overtake him and darken his outlook in the recurring between war pereiods. What would happen if the states and the nations and the industries —while cutting the years of labor— expanded every man’s hire to cover his whole lifetime, and deliberately violated Genesis 3:14 and 3:17 and 8:19? Would such a sinful procedure send the doors of heaven shut with a final bang? And the earth into a still more violent tailspin? Or might jit not be so that the angels would come and smile and begin to look, upon the earth and its people and its revised formula of work and pay as something no longer quite so far removed from the foot of the ladder that leads upward—the. one that Jacob found and used for his round trip passages to and fro. As things look from where I sit the springy step to and fro inotheir sequestered laboratories and whisper of the sky as’ the limit of useful things to come from their inquisitive test tubes—they are the ones to blame or to bless: as the volume of production rises higher and highar while the need for human béings to produce that volume grows less. May they find leisure in their employment and no empty pocketed unemployment in their leisure. Trial of Jesse C — Set For March 13 Jesse Cagley hataat with lewd and lascivious conduct, pleaded not guilty Thursday? when arraigned in the superior court. Cagley, an inmate of ‘the county hospital, ig acHe waived a jury trial and his case was set for trial March 13th. ; SNOW . hopes to gain further . comparative PS NEW EXPERIMENT BOY SCOUTS IN DETERMINING SNOW RUN OFF TRUCKHE, = Feb: U22-Dr. J.C, ‘Church father of the snow surveys, is still searching for data about how our snow in the high Sierras acts when it melts to furnish our valuable water supply and has installed an experimental device, that he originated at Truckee ranger station and at Soda Springs, to determine the rate that snow turns to water and passes into the ground, reports district ranger H. I. Snider who is taking the records at Truckee for Dr. Church. By the use of certain dye that changes color when it becomes wet or frozen, when the snow melts the dye is carried through the snow from the surface to the various depths that may be determined by a snow sampler similar to the regular snow survey instruments, surface snow melting. after each storm. Concurrently, there is a catch basin that collects, the water from the snow at ground level and leads it into a reservoir in which the snow water may be measured to termine the melting’ rate that reaches the ground: With dethe the t, aid of a hydrathermograph this rate fis compared with tures. conditions, varied states Snider. With this. apparatus Dr. Church to how fast the water from our snow ure at Truckee, tal-there since September ;cses over normal. which places the oy Eo Let Dr. Chieek also set up a snow course at the Truckee ranger station . and the sampling made there on) February 7 gave an average ‘depth . of 24.4 inches with a water content, of 8.11 inches or 33.2 per cent. — Considerable during the first part of February and a great deal of the broken patches of snow were melted and the run off was heavy at elevations below 6000 feet, which is not so favorable in for the summer water supply as it would have been had the storms been entirely in the form of snow. SNOW DEPTHS AT HUYSINK $4 INCHES Snow measurements on the Huysink snow course at 6800 feet elevation between the Yuba and American river drainages south of Cisco show a snow depth slightly greater than that for the same time last year reports Ranger Warren Barnes of the Big Bend district, Tahoe national forest. The monthly measurement made February 7 by the forest service in cooperation with the State Division of Water Resources showed a total snow depth of 84: inches and a water content of 34 per cent. Last year at this time the depth was 73 inches with a water content of 31 per cent. The measurements, slightly highér than year, are not a true although this time last conditions explains Barnes. Last year the snow depth was more uniform af the. various elevations in the mountains than is the case this year because, to date, snowfall has not been as great at the lower eleyations. This means that the total pack is prolbbably considerably less ‘than wag the case at this time last year. Early predictions of next seasons water conditions, however, as yet are not warranted, adds Barnes, as considerably more snowfall is expected before the winter is over. tempera. indication» of . . information .as . ‘and in’ hundreds of . Scouts ; ton . . erica distributed more than 20,000rain fell at Truckee! . jflags are being ;and so I pledge all of you here. inj birds ake CELEBRATE . ANNIVERSARY . Boy Scouts throughout the world . are planning to resume their world . wide friendships, through: correspondence, exchange gf equipment and: by meeting in person at the great! World Scout Jamboree after the war ends. At the Fifth World Scout Jamboree when 26,000 scouts camped together at Vogelenzang in The Netherlands. in the summer of 1937, the. late Lard Daden Powell, chief. scout of the world appraised world scour gatherings by saying: “By cultivating these friendships] such as have been cemented at this great jamboree, you are preparing the way for solutions of international problems. This will have a vital and very far reaching effect through . this great assembly your absolute utmost to establishd} friendship among scouts. of all na. tions.” . of youth, to do! isimilarly named with tnates a date believed thus enabling ug . Out. the world in the cause of peace, ; 'to know when the water reaches the , . ground from harvest—transform the'The dye is cast on the snow ST. VALENTINE’S. DAY LONG LIST OF MEANINGS By LEONE BAXTER The careful historian has trouble, . finding habis for dedicating St. Valentine’s day to lovers. Some scholars bury St. in a welter ing Valentine of personalities, insistwe don‘t even know for certain who he was. The tomes record three \martyrs who ‘lived and died about iT continice ago. \ Some in their erudition tell us that the sole explanation ‘for the day’s dedication to sweethearts was the common confusion of ‘Valentine’ the Norman word ‘galantin’ . ;meaning a lover of women. Others that quote Chaucer February 14th to prove merely ‘desigin the Middle Ages to be the day. on which the first fluttered out to mates for the season. choose their Anyone ancient with an encvyelopedia or an history, book can. contin*,ue-the debunking. As for us we don’t Boy Scout anniversary Week of the founding America, marks the 35th of the! Since Feb. 8,. movement in 1910, more than 12,000,000 men and boys have been in scouting. The prea-. sent day active enrollment -is-more than 1,800,000. eubs, scouts. senior scouts and adult volunteer leaders. The every birthday city. and will town in be observed. in the villages nation and ham. lets ‘as well. Boy scouts cubs and senior performed the scouts have to In a

many. services vital) war effort in recent months. drive for waste paper the Boy 120,000 tons. Inthat. 85,968 recent two months sorely needed salvaged complete reports show ‘stots and cubs~coltected over a halt el while in each than more more 400,000 brought than® 500 pounds each. Late in September and in early October scouts. and cubs collected jenough milkweed. floss to make one {million life jackets for the armed forces for use while afloat. Last, year the Boy Scouts of Am000 posters for the OWI. In addition members aided rationing boards, selective seervice boards, community chests, war chests anf. foreign relief. They took an active part in the war loan campaigns, not only in distributing literature and helping at the war loan headquarters, but also taking orders for bonds and stamps. Special scouts at war minute men proudly displayed by troops, cub packs and senior scout groups which have 95 per cent of their member buying war bonds or stamps regularly in addition to each member someone else of his household making regular purchases. AVERAGE SNOW DEPTH IN HIGH SIERRAS 61 IN. DOWNIEVILLE, Feb. 12 — William N. Nelson, fire control assistant, and Fred Rixey, scaler left for the Yuba Pass snow survey, Saturday, Feb. 3. They returned Monday evening. i Travel into the ski shelter near Camp Pioneer, was very slow, and it took eight hours to cover the seven, miles. The snow was ‘very spongy with several soft layers. . The survey was made Sunday and finished just ahead of a storm that broke that evening. There was an average snow depth on the course of 61.63 inches. Density per cent was 25.84 for an average water content of 15.‘4 inches. The snow pack has improved considerably since the Jaanuary survey. However, we will need more storms like the recent one, to assure a good water storage in our summit snow packs. The storm that broke Sunday. evening in the high country laid 14 inches of new snow in the Camp Pioneer area. It was still storming when Nelson and Rixey left for-Sierra City Monday noon. : 'Dove of Nevada City. a want to debunk and we don’t do. : St. Valentine’s day, believe With an open hand and entire ser-. iousness, we moderns dedicate days -and weeks——to everything —frem babits to breafsast foods, .from ap-. ples to animals. If Baby Week is sensible, then -surely a day to honor’ sweethearts has some basis of res-. pectahility. If Be kind to Anicals week is within reason, then a lone day to pay respects to one’s best beloved human companion does seem rational enough. To great .ideas—to the less ‘material and to the more mundane .we,grant our days and show our deference. While communities may celbrate-cleantup “week, may observe, write a letter to a Russian week. With only 365 days to deal with, and countless urges to celebrate all of them,»some days are split in several directions, to drink a glass of beer day, alligator pear day . and wgroundhog day all in one. In spite of historical protests and a growing lack of days to conjure with, it is improbable that St. Valentine’s day ever will be crowded off, the calendar. For it commenorates the greatest. idea of all, -the strongest motivation behind every single forward step of men and civilization. So let the valentines be lacy and the sentiments be sweet that folk in love exchange on February 14. Whoever St. Valentine really was, We think he’d be glad to have the tender tokens of esteem. sent in his name. NOTED STAGE SCENE PAINTER SUCCUMBS Funeral services will » held this afternoon in the Holme, id Myers Funeral Home, Grasa Ve: ¥ for Julian F. Dove, who died ursday in a Sacramento hospital. R Herschel Fravel, of the Congregativ.al Church . will officiate. Interment the Greenwood Cemetery. Surviving is his wife Mrs. Gertrude daughter, Mrs. Anna Spring of Oakland and two grandsons, Jfc. Harry A. Suring and Charles C. Spring of Oakland. Dove was a scene painter.of more than local prominence. For 12 years he was associated with the Chicago Civic Opera, fabricating and painting stage settings: He did excellent work in water colors and was widely known for his landscapes. In his younger days he studied painting in Paris and in German art centers. In recent years he has had charge of the stage settings at the San Francisco Opera House. : He settled in Nevada City and his talents were called into service locally. He painted the sets for the Christmas pageant at the Nevada City high school. 9 Dove was a, native of Hamburg, Germany, aged 73 years. will be in many others whote-nations of Seouts. Driver Of Wrecked Car Arrested For Homicide The California Highway.Patrol of+ fice in Hills Flat has filed charges of ‘negligent homicide against Set. Hnlas Dale Endsley of DeWitt Géneral Hospital, alleged drvier of the car that was wrecked on Highway. 49 west of Grass Valley on the night of January 27th, resulting ryn, a young mother.employed at the hospital. , Sgt. Endsley is a_patient at the ‘hospital recovering a basal. fracture of the skull and fractures of the lower jaw. In the same wreck was Lieut. PhYllis Schneider, Army Nurses Corps, still reported to be in critical condition at the hospital. When the sergeant is ‘sufficiently reco he will appear in the Grass Valley township court for hearing. though it is. expected that the army authorities willask for general cutsody for tion. disciplinary acRavmond Turning To Serve 8 Months In Jail Haymond Turning who pleaded by Judge. George L. Jones yesterday to eight months in the county jail and was placed on probation fot two years. 4 Turning: was. arrested (the complaint of Mrs. Joyce of Grass Valley that he had stolen cash and cheeks amounting . $253 following Peder. son from her home on Ocean Ave. . Turning was employed as a la Sacramento . his discharges cook in following S. Navy. restaurant from the U. Of Honor Ts . Be Held Thursda Judge . 1 Cou rt George L. Jones iside at a Nevada City for Scouts Thursday -. in the Elementary Sx will preor Boy evening ‘hool auditorium The event with a provided the mothers Seoutse-masters Ab Bates and Gordon Vance, and Pack masters J. N. Griges of the Cwhbs .will marshal their open pot!luek dinner by troops for the occasion. The Cubs will give a short program. The Rotarians at the luncheon meeting Thursday will have as: their guests members of Troop 24, sponsored by the club. Allowed Cat Thief In U. S. Marshal’s Custody Edward Miller, 17, arrested January 4th by California Highway patrolmen and charged _with having stolen a car in Reno, was taken into custody by a deuuty U. S; marshal from Sacramento. When arrested in Truckee, Miller at first gave the name of Mulli. He confessed having escaped from a reformatory at Camarilla, Ventura County. Pending his romavel he was lodged in the county jail here. Parents Are Heirs To Soldier’s Estate Albert E. McCallum has filed a petition for letters of administration opon the estate of his son, Pfe. Robert E. McCallum, killed in action ‘July 27, 1948, in the -Buropean area. The estate consists arcording to the petition of $2000, approximately, on deposit in a Vallejo bank. His mother, Mrs. Clara S. McCallum and father are named as ‘sole -Keirs. The young soldier died intestate. . Miss Eleanor Vanberg . Weds Norvil Hammond The marriage of Miss fleanor Vanberg and Norvil Hammond teno, Tuesday has been announced here. The. bride has been clerk of the Nevada City Ration Board since it was organized, resigning only recently. She is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Martin Vanberg. The bridegtoom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Hammond of 345 Long Street, who formerly . resided in Gridley, Colusa County . -He is an honorably discharged veteran of World War II. During their honeymaan the cou: ple will Visit Robert Vanberg, brother of the bride, who is recovering from wounds suffered shortly after D-day ih ,the Normandie ° invasion and is now at an army hospital near Modesto. Théir wedding tour will inelude visits to relatives in Los Angeles. in the} death of Bertha Dillon, 23, of Pen-. guilty to grand theft, was sentenced] cies. to . education: the division of readjustment education, the. bureau of occupational inférmation and guid‘ance, and the California Polytehnie college. Court of Hon-:. in . WEARY VETERANS GIVEN AID TO GET BENEFITS The weary, foot sore demobilized servicemen who is required to go to at least five different agencies in the process of transferring to civilian status will be gratified to know that, plans are under way to reduce further leg work in securing authentic information and guidance. ; These plans include a program for the training of representatives of . the many interested agencies. Such training will prepare these individuals to answer correctly the who, what, where, when, why and how, questions of the inquiring serviceman. It also is proposed to develop a package of information which will include uniform facts about the various. financial, medical ‘and educational benefits available to veterans, counseling techniques, and employment opportunities. The present situation is that each service generally knows about its own offerings, but little about those of the other agen. . This one stop guidance service will jbe developed by California educators and invited representatives of gov. ernmental and veterans’ organiza. tions meeting at the California Polytechnic college in San Feb. 12 to 23. The conference }is ‘being conducted jointly by three branches of the state department of Luis Obispo from Leaders of the conference will be Dr. Franklin Zeran, of the, U. S. office of education, national authority prebloms of educational counseland Dr. H. B. McDaniel state department of education specialist in . occupational information and. guid\ance. To facilitate maximum participation by conferences: members one group of representatives will attend ithe first session from Feb. 12 to 16 and a second group will attend from Feb. 19 to 238. Material and procedure developed lat this conference will be made available to local communities. Thus “Aniform, authoritative information . will be made accessible to counselors lof veterans throughout the state, ac;cording to Julian A. McPhee, director of vocational education for California and ‘president of California Polytechnic. on ing, Mrs. Joseph Rule Of Grass Valley Dies Of Burns Mrs. Joseph Rule, residing on French, Avenue in Grass Valley, was so severely burned last night, when her night gown caught fire from @ small wood burning stove, that she expired Friday morning at 5 o’clock in the Nevada County Hospital. Mrs. Rule was heating a pan of milk just before retiring. at 10 o’clock. Her night gown swung toe close to. the open screw damper of the stove and in an instant she was ablaze. She ran outside and rolled in the garden. . A Her screams brought the neighbors and the fire department was summoned. Her gown was burned from her body. She was rushed to the county hospital in Nevada City where Dr. George A. Foster county physician cared for her. Mrs. Rule leaves. her husband who is an invalid and two young children Jo Ann, 9 and Robert 7. Funeral artrangements are in charge of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. 1 Nevada County Share Forest Fees Is $2,903 Forest Supervisor Guerdon Hillis of the Tahoe national forest reports that Nevada County’s share of for-_ est service receipts for 1944 will be $2,903.12. This is an increase of 144 per cent over 1943. This has been occasioned ‘by the increased lumbering activities on national forest lands on the Tahoe yational forest. With the development of the sawmill at Washington and an. increased cut to be made-from the Calida ‘operation — near Downieville, these receipts may _ be expected to be sharply increased in 1945. When the Auburn working circle comes into operation in that area, there will be further and s' er increased returns to the co Nevada, added the forest