February 14, 1946 (4 pages)

oe, A OO & BS pm? Mh OO Rr Oo ®& a EE A a \\NNNN YY I ® An ° a bung hole.of waste for the taxpay' :perament for a dictator. Anyone who cisco’ hundreds of thousands of dolThe 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 N dae City Nugget t COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your: friends, your neighbors, and your . i town, ‘read . The Nugget. aan Vol. 20, No. 13 The County Sai Puke NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, F EBRUARY The Gold Center 14, _ 1946 THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. i. Bxit Ickes. For 12 long years he woeccupied public office under the New Deal regime, a tower of strength for a centralized federal government and ers money. Ickes had the ideal temdiffered from Ickes was solid black ‘in moral tunpitude and seldom short of being a traitor to his country. ONE HUNDRED FARMERS AT PLANNING MEET ‘Approximately 100 farmers attended the farm planning meeting yesterday in the Veterans Memorial Building. C. W. Rubel assistant state farm advisor for Northern California presided over the general sessions. Recommendati@ns made by the several groups for the coming year and the chairman in charge, follo'ws: 4-H Clubs, ‘Leonard Redman, We wish that Ickes had parted. want to establish a 4-H Club in the from the Truman administration for some other reason than his straight‘forward objection to Pauley as undersecretary of the navy. We think Pauley, who would in short time be advanced to Secretary of the Navy, is everything that Ickes said he is, and something more. We recall a certain ~ Albert B. Fall who:vbecame Secretary of the Internor under the late President Harding, and all the scandals that blossomed filthily duriig his regime, We certainly don’t wish to invite a repetition of history. For one, we believe “Honest Harold’ ‘was right in his denunciation of ‘an oil} soiled westerner ‘who apparently . sought the naval office with an axe to grind. wrong with the terrible tempered Secretary of the however , honest. His perennial quarrel with . press, his airing of. convictions regpecting the press, which often turn-. ed out to-be-based on the flimsiest kind of evidence, . paRO Pe aon . But there were plenty of tiring . Interior, . . made him non grata in editorial rooms through) out the length of the land. persona His zeal for powers of the enlarging the nation’s legions of tax eating bureaucrats, his strengthening the} federal government, avid seizure . of public and private lands tional tinual reaching to wrest the National Forest Service from the Department of Agriculture, these are things that made Ickes a constant threat and menace to the American way of life. park purposes. and. his. cone At one time he envisaged the summits of the Sierra Nevada and Rocky (Mountains as national ‘parks, reatricting their use for grazing even beyond those now imposed in the best interests of stockmen, practic-. ally banning prospectors aand min. ing, and the lumber industry, and taking over all water rights not already assigned. All this. for the purpose of maintaining the mountains in their virgin state alt such an enormous cost to tax payers that we would all be so impoverished that mone could afford to visit them. I¢kes cost the people of San FranJars, perhaps millions, in elections. Att last count ‘there had been seven ballotings on whether or not the city should purchase’ the distributing system ofthe P. G. and E, Company. Time after.'time they went to the polls and turned down this proposal for a vast bonded debt. The people, the mlajority of them, have been satisfied with the rates and the service tthe company provides, and they _ gteadfastly refused to conform to the desires of Ickes, the paternal dictator in Washington, in order to make their arrangement for disposimg of Hetch Hetchy power, legially worrect. Technically Ickes was right, we will admit, and at the same time weommend the citizens of San Franisco for refusing shoulder a burden that TIekes was resolved that they should. But the exipense of the many elections did hurt. San Francisco drill remember Ickes for many a year. Of course Ickes, with his penchant for quarreling, will never be a candidate for office. He couldn’t be elected third assistant to the pound master in the smallest village in the land. It is only a fluke that puts such a man in public office anywhere. To begin with he made a fortune in corporation stocks, it is reported, and. hates anybody he will go lost it. This embittered the man to the point that he became a rabid socfalist. He is an unforgiving loser, indo not agree with him. Now that he disagrees with President Truman re-. tent that the Senate will not dar Ickes _ will probably’ better than at any time in 12 years tolerant of all those who specting the appointment of Pauley Ickes is out. There will probably be a diminishing series of explosions as he leaves his office. tions of . have (which. the G Town Talk district and obtain better parent cooperation. Soils, Ken Rolph, plan demonstraimproved irrigation methods, better illimation of pocket goppers and a study of obtaining elements which soils of the county lack. Poultry, George Galetto,plan —a cooperative marketing association. (Dairy, Milton Thompson, plan to organize a cow testinig association. Livestick, Cc. O. Armstrong, declare that irrigation water rates for the pastures are prohibitive. Fruit, Joel Bierwagen, pruning demonstrations, control’of aphis on pear trees, experiments made in nitogen fertilizers. The group in general was of an educational character, ; program ~ HAVE WE NO RIGHTS? (By Edw. C. Uren Here we are after being shorn ance of raw hateriaie: supply of capital sand’ uation. while Scandinavia, working feverishly’ to regain former export trade. Trade union members, holding up production, loafing and living on their street for at least cashing in. their Mr. Truman, the is trying to savings bonds. prevent TYPACT g rrry COUNCT AID The board of dire Valley Ch approved a contract rass Valley tors: of: 7 the Grass amlber of Commercs City undot: Coun-; Little did Lincoln reckon when ne made his famous address at -Gettysfburg in ’63 that under a future bureaucgatic -government and a high. Nevada County Fair, pressure minority his words «could ‘tbe more appropriately expressed as struction at the College of Fairs at “This is a government of the unions, loy the unions and for the unions.” the past four years, of about everything but our skins; ‘with an abunda plentiful increasinz supply of labor, yet we are undble to the products for more abundant livuse either because ofthe atrike sitIn the meantime our foregn and . for maritime trade goes on the rocks the Netherlands’ and other exporting countries are theirl 4 besides? are either unemployment insurance and strike benefits, which will keep them on easy, 26 we@ks, or are on the one hand says inflation, while with the other he overreaches. } LOYLE FREEMAN ENTERS COLLEGE OF STATE FAIRS Loyile Freeman, } i secretary of the Grass Valley, today registered for the course of in‘California Polytechnic College, San Luis Obispo, Feb. 11, 12, 138 and 14. in He will pursue studies designed to offer the latest techniques in efificient management of fairs, show windows of progress and stimulators of industry and agriculture to turn out ing for all. Emphasis will be placed on administration of a premium list 45,000 producing exhibitors to recognize and reward excellence in farm and factory products. Fairs University of CaliCalifornia Polytechnic College and the State Division of Fairs and Expositions, the College of Fairs is being attended by representatives of 76 major exposition in six western states and Canada. In the last normal year of 1941 the west}ern fairs were a $20,000,000 business with four million spectators. Sponsored by the Western Aissociation the afornia at Davis, Twenty six national and state a@uhimself in an effort to bring it about. thorities from agriulture, industry A good many people who had hopes. 22d government will conduct the . (of Mr. Truman’s executive ability. Classes for fair executives, ipcludins are now convinced that the job is} the fairs of California which are sup-. him to handle. . ‘ported -by-ased4g levy on pari mutuel. . ; 3 . In the current wave of, etrikes. Wezeting at thoroughbred racing) . hat now makes life miserable, tracks. Two hundred and fifty exthroughout the country there is be-. cutives registered for the college ling fostered a -bitterness and class! ~my,.; : joe ; Their purpose, will be to cre: hatred that is. hard to account for . : ; ; : jsupply of professional and htenly junless the reasons''are. known. . : : fy trained executives to manag: . . -General: Motors, U. S. Steel and. Ao i.0.;-. ae : iin California; Montana, Utah, ash. other concerns now being pilloried;, : ; é Re : . ineton, Oregon, Arizona and western by strikers are pictured by them as! ,q : : Canada. colossal totems of oppression and} _ ya F ‘ : Each of these fair men will then A good many of the fat-. cil would pay $50 per month motional. and publieit entire city. y activities The cits council is expected to act on the mat-* ter shortly. The chamber contract would and develope ‘building programs, .encourage industry, suggesting and assisting in public projects and improveménts and aiding in residential and industrial developments. The directors also voted approval of. parking meters for the city. A survey of meter installation, costs and charges is ‘being made. Approval was given a program for the widening of Mill Street by cutting down the width of sidewalks oc: both sides. Fred Foote is je of a committee which is engaged in sounding out the sentiment of mérTchants whose businesses would be affected by the change. LELAND SMITH RED CROSS HEAD benefitting the 3 under the zproposed undertake to form ever he is absent from the ‘city. made vice chairman, chison ‘was re-elected and wished ‘to retire. en chairman of the Red Cross cam paign for funds which will March Ist. and adjacent area is set at $5000. pro. Leland Smith was elected chairman of the Nevada City Red Cross. Chapter at the February meeting of that body, Mrs. George Calanan was chosen to act in Smith’s stead whennot harassing a few capitalists, thousands of their own people who have just as much at stake as the the iP. G. Seadden, county assessor was Miss (Naomi. strikers themselves, Horn, secretary and Miss Ruth Huttreasurer. Smith succeeds H. BE. Kjorlie, superintendent of the Nevada City Unified School District, who has taken out a Year's leave of absence. Miss Horn succeeds Mrs. Richard R. Goyne who served in that post for many years Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen was chosopen selfishness. 1 leads in Washington, business is of the people as is self, for’ big literally about as government business is owned thousands as are any The men who operate these dustries are not other citizens rabible which is ever fault with them. ready to fi understanding worked their way from the bottom of the ladder. There are not many ‘Fords, You can. almost count them nature turmg out one leader rain,’ * although unions don’t think so. a company and raise the money ed, not by a few individuals, but many small stockholders. Just why then is. so-called publicly owned, being it? publican, now heartily hating th try to return to the G. O. P. fold o to som opinion is,that he is not an asset t any party. If, however, ;. confirm his nomination, have served his country, in the Department of the Interior, cS Whether Ickes, the renegade Resickly New Deal administration, will not is a question. But when Ickes lengths compass their fall. Our own his resignation does focus the attention of the country on Pauley to such an exejibeen trying to unionize r. —~-just want to have the things as they please. run e If you seek to join any fraternal organization, you are asked if you o;are willing to _obey constituted authority. If not you will most certainly be rejected. In fact anyone who is so unreasonable as to flout supere. vision most: likely needs taming with a base ball bat. especially . representative of “stockholders who are dntitled to the same rights Jeffers, Higgins or Kaisers in the land. the fingers of your two hands. Where she creates a million ordinary run of the mill-among whom are a sprinkling of morons who are easily impressed and haven’t much more than gumption enough to come in out of the for that matter, pulls off a wild cat strike against big business they are but If a prospector discovers a “promising lode the only chance on earth. son on these traitors is hard to un he has a developing it is to organize subscription. The result is that practically all the large mines are owndragged . Radical labor leaders have even foremen, . can ot get They don’t want anyone, over them! The slimy trail of communism is responsible to a greater extent than . strikes. Th is commonly known for the class hatjréeturn to:-their home areas to enaat to. create the most effective those radiating a pink 1} ‘ é SF « kK hue, trv to + e . ; exposition. possible to serve the educreate the same impression. * : : " ‘ hs : : cational. interests of the community As a: matter of. fact, a little j : F ae : and countryside and to provide a thought will show that so-called big basis for cultural who are recognizing and superior industrial competing to agriproducers turn out the products of more abundant living for all. itby oo owe «PEACE OFFICERS They are men who are chosen because they are capable. Who, mostly, have by their skill and Fifty members of the Nevada County Peace Officers Association up. enjoyed a big turkey dinner in Deschwanden Hall last evening. H. F. ‘moniies. on Howard Bennetts of Grass Valley displayed a movies of mining, showine the extraction of gold ore and the making of gold bricks. Placer Mine. out charge. When a half million, or a millien m “NG ACAINST MUNDT Sree. Sofge, secretary, was master of cere» Sluice] ¢ é mining as practiced on the eras STATE FARMS The ¢hef from Valley anu’ 0: vided the service for the party with‘A.M. HOLMES T0 ENTER BUSINESS IN SACRAMENTO A. M. Holmes, funeral director in Nevada City and Grass Valley for 33 years, yesterday announced, that WILCOXON GIVEN LONG SERVICE PGE BADGE Local employes of Pacific Gas and Electric Company who have been with: the company for multiples of following*the sale of his funeral. five years this week were awarded ;homes in Grass Valley and Nevada. badges in recognition of their .ser‘City, he expected to enter wpon his vice by A. Emory Wishon, vice presiduties in Clark, Booth and Yardley. dent and general manager of the firm in Sacramento in which he has} company. Presentation of the service purchased an interest, on March 1. badges in Grass Valley was made by Holmes has always been active in. L. R. Harrell, district manager. civic affairs of ‘(Nevada City and “(Maintaining efficient service to Grass Valley. In the early 1920s he. the public is dependent to, a great ‘was mayor of Nevada City and has. extent upon the ability and character just resigned his office as chairman. of company employees and their satof the Nevada City Chamber of} isfaction with their jobs’ Farrell Commerce board of directors. Hejstated. ‘The measure of satisfaction holds the position of district deputy! P. G. and E., employees have with grand exalted ruler of the Northern! their work,” he added, “is illustratCalifornia. group. He is past presi-. ed by the fact that more than 70 per dent of Hydraulic Parlor, Native!cent of the personnel throughout the_ Sons of the Golden West and of the. system have been with the company Nevada City Rotary Club. ‘over 5 years, and 30 per cent have As a professional man MHolmesjeervice in excess ‘of 20 years.” was honored by the State Board of Local emipleyees of the company Funeral Directors and Embalmers . who received. service badges this j;who made him secretary, a post he weeR.are the following: held for five years. Forty. years: Benton H. WilcoxIn Grass Valley Holmes sold his!]on, Grass Valley. . interest in Holmes and Myers, Funer-; Tiwenty five years: Albert S. Bat'al Home to Lawrence Myers, his . es, Nevada City. William Meyers, of and in Nevad& City he sold} iGrass Valley. Funeral Home to J. Paul. Twenty years: William Ghidotti, 3erkeley. . rawara M. Litke, Grass Valley. Ra. ehel-P, Paris. Nevada Clty. SHOOTING CASE . Fifteen years: Alfred Peard, Grass 4! 13 . Valley. . Ten years: Phayiss, Chas. partner . Holmes Bergemann of Conrad Lobecker, Phil R. Sharp, William Five years: Frank “M. MontgomI DISMISSED very, Howard D. Jones, Grass Valley. iy Was: . Béhton H. Wilcoxon whose service with badge contains three diamonds is ,one of the youngest men in the sysot Net with 40 years service with the seers . company. i ey ard beforsy “Ren” was born in 1888 at Yuba caiceaey 7 (City and: after his schooling joined Fs he the Pacific Gas and Blectric Company in Nevomber 1905, the year the company °was. founded as a warehouseman at the Colgate hydro-electric: plant, He rapidly progressed to operator, then accountant. He wat then transferred to Electra hydroplant, Amador County as division accountant. After four and one half years he was transferred to DeSabla hydro plant as division accountant. After five and one half years at De and threatened Mrs. Mundt. He said} Sabla he was selected to be foreman Wanted: to-#1ap oo of the then newly constructed Drum After the shooting Crose land MEST i otis electri plant. Following 17 Removed to the Community Hospital. oars at Drum, Ben decided he itked mes Grass Valley. Hospital eusnere the climate in Grams Vadiey aan oe porate — ae eer transferred to’that town. He has reJae sided in Grass Valley for the last eight years and now holds the very LUMBER PL AYS responsible position of assistant supMAJOR ROLE ON rs . John: P: assault Mundt Jr. with a deadly charged morning hearing exonerated Monday ing his preliminary justice of the peace Mundt arrested after he had shot Charles Crossland the chest with a 45 service automatic. At the hearing yesterday) witnesses testified that Crossland, who had been drinking, began abusing Mrs, Mundt during the evening in the Sotaro Hotel here. Mundt took his wife and daughter, 8, to the couple’s bedroom on the second floor, Crossland still abusive, followed, burst open the door was through ervisor of the comipany’s Nevada dietrict directing the work of five gas and electric line crews. ‘ On May 14, 1911 “Ben” married Mamie Hartung and they reside now at 509 Walsh Street, Grass Valley. BERKELEY, Feb. 14—The Call-. Telr only son, Benton, 33, 8 om fornia fruit and vegetable industries foreign duty at Hochst near Frankare the prime users of lumber in turt, Germany as a technical chemist revolution. Why this governmen doesn’t declare a perpetual open sea derstand. by Justice Rand of the Supreme Cour CIO can have no closed shop in Can by . ada. Noman, said he, can be forced to join a union, but if he works un big week he refuses to work. out labor and, just as truly, along long to a union, As this is written, the unions give the masses. red and strife now rampant. There. cement by Stephen N. Wyckoff, dirfis nothing lower in the scale of humanity than a red communist, for he will admit that deception, lies, salbotage—anything is ethical under the red banner in order to bring about. entire lumber output was converted of Canada has just decided that the der a union agreement he must pay -. business, which is for the most part. union dues. Any worker striking allegally will be fined $3 a day and] Quota for Nevada City! around by the hair and having so . hwil lose a year’s seniority for each many petty restrictions placed upon Management cannot get along with labor without management. Raking leaves or walking the _of. streets will neither feed nor clothe] ous fruits and grapes with 160 mil-. Holmes in the Holmes us as we like, nor will it make us feel that it is at all necessary to beIt millions within New York City in the midst of winter’s cold, are without\fuel and heat because a few tugboat strikers . and vegetable producers, in addition . Chapel, “Myers came to Gra refuse to’ work even after government seizure of the boats, and Phil-. such as white fir, will need to rely adelphia walks because of transport is the consideration California. According to an announand is Huropean representative of he Misc. Sub. Committee of the ector of the California Forest and Linear pigenay i aggitond 2 Range Experiment Station, U. S. forpai aac e FaRED eee Administration. est service 590 million board feet of lumber or one fourth of ‘California’s —_ is a member and Past , ter of Clay Lodge No. 101 Dutch: Flat; a member of Grass Valley Chapter No. 18, Royal Arch Masons;’ a member of Nevada Commandry No. 6 K. T. of California; Past\Patron, Placer Chapter No. 49 OBS, a member Ben Ali Shrine and a mem-, ber of Grass Valley Lodge No. 538 BPO Elks. MEYERS BUYS our , HOLMES SHARE IN MORTUARY © Larry Myers partner with A. and — lion board feet. Funeral_ Home. in Grass Valley, is predicted that California’s nounéd ‘that he has purchased own lumber supply for agricultural. Holmes interest and is now ‘ containerg ‘particularly’ ponderosa prietor. pine will be unable in the years Myers stated he would ahead to meet this demand. Fruit. name of the place to tlinto agricultural shook in 1944. -. California mills are not able to sup-}ply all the lumlber that the two tndustries require for box shook a totltal of. 840 million board feet annually egon mills supply most of -. the dificit. A recent study by the cucnarcens -*station in cooperation with the regional office of the forest service in San Francisco shows that lumber needed for containers for marketing fresh products alone is 700 million board feet annually. Vegetables as a commodity group lead in this respect with 290 million board feet, Pollowed closely by citrus fruits with 250 million board feet and deciduto depending more on other speciss. two years ago. He to a greater extent on lumber sources outside the state or to develop suit-. man of the Red able substitute~materials. ler h

oe, A OO & BS pm? Mh OO Rr Oo ®& a EE A a \\NNNN YY I ® An ° a bung hole.of waste for the taxpay' :perament for a dictator. Anyone who cisco’ hundreds of thousands of dolThe 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 N dae City Nugget t COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your: friends, your neighbors, and your . i town, ‘read . The Nugget. aan Vol. 20, No. 13 The County Sai Puke NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA THURSDAY, F EBRUARY The Gold Center 14, _ 1946 THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. i. Bxit Ickes. For 12 long years he woeccupied public office under the New Deal regime, a tower of strength for a centralized federal government and ers money. Ickes had the ideal temdiffered from Ickes was solid black ‘in moral tunpitude and seldom short of being a traitor to his country. ONE HUNDRED FARMERS AT PLANNING MEET ‘Approximately 100 farmers attended the farm planning meeting yesterday in the Veterans Memorial Building. C. W. Rubel assistant state farm advisor for Northern California presided over the general sessions. Recommendati@ns made by the several groups for the coming year and the chairman in charge, follo'ws: 4-H Clubs, ‘Leonard Redman, We wish that Ickes had parted. want to establish a 4-H Club in the from the Truman administration for some other reason than his straight‘forward objection to Pauley as undersecretary of the navy. We think Pauley, who would in short time be advanced to Secretary of the Navy, is everything that Ickes said he is, and something more. We recall a certain ~ Albert B. Fall who:vbecame Secretary of the Internor under the late President Harding, and all the scandals that blossomed filthily duriig his regime, We certainly don’t wish to invite a repetition of history. For one, we believe “Honest Harold’ ‘was right in his denunciation of ‘an oil} soiled westerner ‘who apparently . sought the naval office with an axe to grind. wrong with the terrible tempered Secretary of the however , honest. His perennial quarrel with . press, his airing of. convictions regpecting the press, which often turn-. ed out to-be-based on the flimsiest kind of evidence, . paRO Pe aon . But there were plenty of tiring . Interior, . . made him non grata in editorial rooms through) out the length of the land. persona His zeal for powers of the enlarging the nation’s legions of tax eating bureaucrats, his strengthening the} federal government, avid seizure . of public and private lands tional tinual reaching to wrest the National Forest Service from the Department of Agriculture, these are things that made Ickes a constant threat and menace to the American way of life. park purposes. and. his. cone At one time he envisaged the summits of the Sierra Nevada and Rocky (Mountains as national ‘parks, reatricting their use for grazing even beyond those now imposed in the best interests of stockmen, practic-. ally banning prospectors aand min. ing, and the lumber industry, and taking over all water rights not already assigned. All this. for the purpose of maintaining the mountains in their virgin state alt such an enormous cost to tax payers that we would all be so impoverished that mone could afford to visit them. I¢kes cost the people of San FranJars, perhaps millions, in elections. Att last count ‘there had been seven ballotings on whether or not the city should purchase’ the distributing system ofthe P. G. and E, Company. Time after.'time they went to the polls and turned down this proposal for a vast bonded debt. The people, the mlajority of them, have been satisfied with the rates and the service tthe company provides, and they _ gteadfastly refused to conform to the desires of Ickes, the paternal dictator in Washington, in order to make their arrangement for disposimg of Hetch Hetchy power, legially worrect. Technically Ickes was right, we will admit, and at the same time weommend the citizens of San Franisco for refusing shoulder a burden that TIekes was resolved that they should. But the exipense of the many elections did hurt. San Francisco drill remember Ickes for many a year. Of course Ickes, with his penchant for quarreling, will never be a candidate for office. He couldn’t be elected third assistant to the pound master in the smallest village in the land. It is only a fluke that puts such a man in public office anywhere. To begin with he made a fortune in corporation stocks, it is reported, and. hates anybody he will go lost it. This embittered the man to the point that he became a rabid socfalist. He is an unforgiving loser, indo not agree with him. Now that he disagrees with President Truman re-. tent that the Senate will not dar Ickes _ will probably’ better than at any time in 12 years tolerant of all those who specting the appointment of Pauley Ickes is out. There will probably be a diminishing series of explosions as he leaves his office. tions of . have (which. the G Town Talk district and obtain better parent cooperation. Soils, Ken Rolph, plan demonstraimproved irrigation methods, better illimation of pocket goppers and a study of obtaining elements which soils of the county lack. Poultry, George Galetto,plan —a cooperative marketing association. (Dairy, Milton Thompson, plan to organize a cow testinig association. Livestick, Cc. O. Armstrong, declare that irrigation water rates for the pastures are prohibitive. Fruit, Joel Bierwagen, pruning demonstrations, control’of aphis on pear trees, experiments made in nitogen fertilizers. The group in general was of an educational character, ; program ~ HAVE WE NO RIGHTS? (By Edw. C. Uren Here we are after being shorn ance of raw hateriaie: supply of capital sand’ uation. while Scandinavia, working feverishly’ to regain former export trade. Trade union members, holding up production, loafing and living on their street for at least cashing in. their Mr. Truman, the is trying to savings bonds. prevent TYPACT g rrry COUNCT AID The board of dire Valley Ch approved a contract rass Valley tors: of: 7 the Grass amlber of Commercs City undot: Coun-; Little did Lincoln reckon when ne made his famous address at -Gettysfburg in ’63 that under a future bureaucgatic -government and a high. Nevada County Fair, pressure minority his words «could ‘tbe more appropriately expressed as struction at the College of Fairs at “This is a government of the unions, loy the unions and for the unions.” the past four years, of about everything but our skins; ‘with an abunda plentiful increasinz supply of labor, yet we are undble to the products for more abundant livuse either because ofthe atrike sitIn the meantime our foregn and . for maritime trade goes on the rocks the Netherlands’ and other exporting countries are theirl 4 besides? are either unemployment insurance and strike benefits, which will keep them on easy, 26 we@ks, or are on the one hand says inflation, while with the other he overreaches. } LOYLE FREEMAN ENTERS COLLEGE OF STATE FAIRS Loyile Freeman, } i secretary of the Grass Valley, today registered for the course of in‘California Polytechnic College, San Luis Obispo, Feb. 11, 12, 138 and 14. in He will pursue studies designed to offer the latest techniques in efificient management of fairs, show windows of progress and stimulators of industry and agriculture to turn out ing for all. Emphasis will be placed on administration of a premium list 45,000 producing exhibitors to recognize and reward excellence in farm and factory products. Fairs University of CaliCalifornia Polytechnic College and the State Division of Fairs and Expositions, the College of Fairs is being attended by representatives of 76 major exposition in six western states and Canada. In the last normal year of 1941 the west}ern fairs were a $20,000,000 business with four million spectators. Sponsored by the Western Aissociation the afornia at Davis, Twenty six national and state a@uhimself in an effort to bring it about. thorities from agriulture, industry A good many people who had hopes. 22d government will conduct the . (of Mr. Truman’s executive ability. Classes for fair executives, ipcludins are now convinced that the job is} the fairs of California which are sup-. him to handle. . ‘ported -by-ased4g levy on pari mutuel. . ; 3 . In the current wave of, etrikes. Wezeting at thoroughbred racing) . hat now makes life miserable, tracks. Two hundred and fifty exthroughout the country there is be-. cutives registered for the college ling fostered a -bitterness and class! ~my,.; : joe ; Their purpose, will be to cre: hatred that is. hard to account for . : ; ; : jsupply of professional and htenly junless the reasons''are. known. . : : fy trained executives to manag: . . -General: Motors, U. S. Steel and. Ao i.0.;-. ae : iin California; Montana, Utah, ash. other concerns now being pilloried;, : ; é Re : . ineton, Oregon, Arizona and western by strikers are pictured by them as! ,q : : Canada. colossal totems of oppression and} _ ya F ‘ : Each of these fair men will then A good many of the fat-. cil would pay $50 per month motional. and publieit entire city. y activities The cits council is expected to act on the mat-* ter shortly. The chamber contract would and develope ‘building programs, .encourage industry, suggesting and assisting in public projects and improveménts and aiding in residential and industrial developments. The directors also voted approval of. parking meters for the city. A survey of meter installation, costs and charges is ‘being made. Approval was given a program for the widening of Mill Street by cutting down the width of sidewalks oc: both sides. Fred Foote is je of a committee which is engaged in sounding out the sentiment of mérTchants whose businesses would be affected by the change. LELAND SMITH RED CROSS HEAD benefitting the 3 under the zproposed undertake to form ever he is absent from the ‘city. made vice chairman, chison ‘was re-elected and wished ‘to retire. en chairman of the Red Cross cam paign for funds which will March Ist. and adjacent area is set at $5000. pro. Leland Smith was elected chairman of the Nevada City Red Cross. Chapter at the February meeting of that body, Mrs. George Calanan was chosen to act in Smith’s stead whennot harassing a few capitalists,

thousands of their own people who have just as much at stake as the the iP. G. Seadden, county assessor was Miss (Naomi. strikers themselves, Horn, secretary and Miss Ruth Huttreasurer. Smith succeeds H. BE. Kjorlie, superintendent of the Nevada City Unified School District, who has taken out a Year's leave of absence. Miss Horn succeeds Mrs. Richard R. Goyne who served in that post for many years Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen was chosopen selfishness. 1 leads in Washington, business is of the people as is self, for’ big literally about as government business is owned thousands as are any The men who operate these dustries are not other citizens rabible which is ever fault with them. ready to fi understanding worked their way from the bottom of the ladder. There are not many ‘Fords, You can. almost count them nature turmg out one leader rain,’ * although unions don’t think so. a company and raise the money ed, not by a few individuals, but many small stockholders. Just why then is. so-called publicly owned, being it? publican, now heartily hating th try to return to the G. O. P. fold o to som opinion is,that he is not an asset t any party. If, however, ;. confirm his nomination, have served his country, in the Department of the Interior, cS Whether Ickes, the renegade Resickly New Deal administration, will not is a question. But when Ickes lengths compass their fall. Our own his resignation does focus the attention of the country on Pauley to such an exejibeen trying to unionize r. —~-just want to have the things as they please. run e If you seek to join any fraternal organization, you are asked if you o;are willing to _obey constituted authority. If not you will most certainly be rejected. In fact anyone who is so unreasonable as to flout supere. vision most: likely needs taming with a base ball bat. especially . representative of “stockholders who are dntitled to the same rights Jeffers, Higgins or Kaisers in the land. the fingers of your two hands. Where she creates a million ordinary run of the mill-among whom are a sprinkling of morons who are easily impressed and haven’t much more than gumption enough to come in out of the for that matter, pulls off a wild cat strike against big business they are but If a prospector discovers a “promising lode the only chance on earth. son on these traitors is hard to un he has a developing it is to organize subscription. The result is that practically all the large mines are owndragged . Radical labor leaders have even foremen, . can ot get They don’t want anyone, over them! The slimy trail of communism is responsible to a greater extent than . strikes. Th is commonly known for the class hatjréeturn to:-their home areas to enaat to. create the most effective those radiating a pink 1} ‘ é SF « kK hue, trv to + e . ; exposition. possible to serve the educreate the same impression. * : : " ‘ hs : : cational. interests of the community As a: matter of. fact, a little j : F ae : and countryside and to provide a thought will show that so-called big basis for cultural who are recognizing and superior industrial competing to agriproducers turn out the products of more abundant living for all. itby oo owe «PEACE OFFICERS They are men who are chosen because they are capable. Who, mostly, have by their skill and Fifty members of the Nevada County Peace Officers Association up. enjoyed a big turkey dinner in Deschwanden Hall last evening. H. F. ‘moniies. on Howard Bennetts of Grass Valley displayed a movies of mining, showine the extraction of gold ore and the making of gold bricks. Placer Mine. out charge. When a half million, or a millien m “NG ACAINST MUNDT Sree. Sofge, secretary, was master of cere» Sluice] ¢ é mining as practiced on the eras STATE FARMS The ¢hef from Valley anu’ 0: vided the service for the party with‘A.M. HOLMES T0 ENTER BUSINESS IN SACRAMENTO A. M. Holmes, funeral director in Nevada City and Grass Valley for 33 years, yesterday announced, that WILCOXON GIVEN LONG SERVICE PGE BADGE Local employes of Pacific Gas and Electric Company who have been with: the company for multiples of following*the sale of his funeral. five years this week were awarded ;homes in Grass Valley and Nevada. badges in recognition of their .ser‘City, he expected to enter wpon his vice by A. Emory Wishon, vice presiduties in Clark, Booth and Yardley. dent and general manager of the firm in Sacramento in which he has} company. Presentation of the service purchased an interest, on March 1. badges in Grass Valley was made by Holmes has always been active in. L. R. Harrell, district manager. civic affairs of ‘(Nevada City and “(Maintaining efficient service to Grass Valley. In the early 1920s he. the public is dependent to, a great ‘was mayor of Nevada City and has. extent upon the ability and character just resigned his office as chairman. of company employees and their satof the Nevada City Chamber of} isfaction with their jobs’ Farrell Commerce board of directors. Hejstated. ‘The measure of satisfaction holds the position of district deputy! P. G. and E., employees have with grand exalted ruler of the Northern! their work,” he added, “is illustratCalifornia. group. He is past presi-. ed by the fact that more than 70 per dent of Hydraulic Parlor, Native!cent of the personnel throughout the_ Sons of the Golden West and of the. system have been with the company Nevada City Rotary Club. ‘over 5 years, and 30 per cent have As a professional man MHolmesjeervice in excess ‘of 20 years.” was honored by the State Board of Local emipleyees of the company Funeral Directors and Embalmers . who received. service badges this j;who made him secretary, a post he weeR.are the following: held for five years. Forty. years: Benton H. WilcoxIn Grass Valley Holmes sold his!]on, Grass Valley. . interest in Holmes and Myers, Funer-; Tiwenty five years: Albert S. Bat'al Home to Lawrence Myers, his . es, Nevada City. William Meyers, of and in Nevad& City he sold} iGrass Valley. Funeral Home to J. Paul. Twenty years: William Ghidotti, 3erkeley. . rawara M. Litke, Grass Valley. Ra. ehel-P, Paris. Nevada Clty. SHOOTING CASE . Fifteen years: Alfred Peard, Grass 4! 13 . Valley. . Ten years: Phayiss, Chas. partner . Holmes Bergemann of Conrad Lobecker, Phil R. Sharp, William Five years: Frank “M. MontgomI DISMISSED very, Howard D. Jones, Grass Valley. iy Was: . Béhton H. Wilcoxon whose service with badge contains three diamonds is ,one of the youngest men in the sysot Net with 40 years service with the seers . company. i ey ard beforsy “Ren” was born in 1888 at Yuba caiceaey 7 (City and: after his schooling joined Fs he the Pacific Gas and Blectric Company in Nevomber 1905, the year the company °was. founded as a warehouseman at the Colgate hydro-electric: plant, He rapidly progressed to operator, then accountant. He wat then transferred to Electra hydroplant, Amador County as division accountant. After four and one half years he was transferred to DeSabla hydro plant as division accountant. After five and one half years at De and threatened Mrs. Mundt. He said} Sabla he was selected to be foreman Wanted: to-#1ap oo of the then newly constructed Drum After the shooting Crose land MEST i otis electri plant. Following 17 Removed to the Community Hospital. oars at Drum, Ben decided he itked mes Grass Valley. Hospital eusnere the climate in Grams Vadiey aan oe porate — ae eer transferred to’that town. He has reJae sided in Grass Valley for the last eight years and now holds the very LUMBER PL AYS responsible position of assistant supMAJOR ROLE ON rs . John: P: assault Mundt Jr. with a deadly charged morning hearing exonerated Monday ing his preliminary justice of the peace Mundt arrested after he had shot Charles Crossland the chest with a 45 service automatic. At the hearing yesterday) witnesses testified that Crossland, who had been drinking, began abusing Mrs, Mundt during the evening in the Sotaro Hotel here. Mundt took his wife and daughter, 8, to the couple’s bedroom on the second floor, Crossland still abusive, followed, burst open the door was through ervisor of the comipany’s Nevada dietrict directing the work of five gas and electric line crews. ‘ On May 14, 1911 “Ben” married Mamie Hartung and they reside now at 509 Walsh Street, Grass Valley. BERKELEY, Feb. 14—The Call-. Telr only son, Benton, 33, 8 om fornia fruit and vegetable industries foreign duty at Hochst near Frankare the prime users of lumber in turt, Germany as a technical chemist revolution. Why this governmen doesn’t declare a perpetual open sea derstand. by Justice Rand of the Supreme Cour CIO can have no closed shop in Can by . ada. Noman, said he, can be forced to join a union, but if he works un big week he refuses to work. out labor and, just as truly, along long to a union, As this is written, the unions give the masses. red and strife now rampant. There. cement by Stephen N. Wyckoff, dirfis nothing lower in the scale of humanity than a red communist, for he will admit that deception, lies, salbotage—anything is ethical under the red banner in order to bring about. entire lumber output was converted of Canada has just decided that the der a union agreement he must pay -. business, which is for the most part. union dues. Any worker striking allegally will be fined $3 a day and] Quota for Nevada City! around by the hair and having so . hwil lose a year’s seniority for each many petty restrictions placed upon Management cannot get along with labor without management. Raking leaves or walking the _of. streets will neither feed nor clothe] ous fruits and grapes with 160 mil-. Holmes in the Holmes us as we like, nor will it make us feel that it is at all necessary to beIt millions within New York City in the midst of winter’s cold, are without\fuel and heat because a few tugboat strikers . and vegetable producers, in addition . Chapel, “Myers came to Gra refuse to’ work even after government seizure of the boats, and Phil-. such as white fir, will need to rely adelphia walks because of transport is the consideration California. According to an announand is Huropean representative of he Misc. Sub. Committee of the ector of the California Forest and Linear pigenay i aggitond 2 Range Experiment Station, U. S. forpai aac e FaRED eee Administration. est service 590 million board feet of lumber or one fourth of ‘California’s —_ is a member and Past , ter of Clay Lodge No. 101 Dutch: Flat; a member of Grass Valley Chapter No. 18, Royal Arch Masons;’ a member of Nevada Commandry No. 6 K. T. of California; Past\Patron, Placer Chapter No. 49 OBS, a member Ben Ali Shrine and a mem-, ber of Grass Valley Lodge No. 538 BPO Elks. MEYERS BUYS our , HOLMES SHARE IN MORTUARY © Larry Myers partner with A. and — lion board feet. Funeral_ Home. in Grass Valley, is predicted that California’s nounéd ‘that he has purchased own lumber supply for agricultural. Holmes interest and is now ‘ containerg ‘particularly’ ponderosa prietor. pine will be unable in the years Myers stated he would ahead to meet this demand. Fruit. name of the place to tlinto agricultural shook in 1944. -. California mills are not able to sup-}ply all the lumlber that the two tndustries require for box shook a totltal of. 840 million board feet annually egon mills supply most of -. the dificit. A recent study by the cucnarcens -*station in cooperation with the regional office of the forest service in San Francisco shows that lumber needed for containers for marketing fresh products alone is 700 million board feet annually. Vegetables as a commodity group lead in this respect with 290 million board feet, Pollowed closely by citrus fruits with 250 million board feet and deciduto depending more on other speciss. two years ago. He to a greater extent on lumber sources outside the state or to develop suit-. man of the Red able substitute~materials. ler h