February 19, 1945 (4 pages)

sa . Page Four NEVADA CITY BOYS AND GIRLS m s ¥. IN GLOBAL WAR ~“a : WITH OUR . local fans. a big thrill when the Nea-} . vada City Bees, sparked by forwards Cpl. Norman Kopp, son of Mr. and; iMel Ruth and Sam Psllo, took a Mrs. Louis Kopp property owners) quick lead and held it till the end of of this city now residing in Oakland . the game. Ken Larose put a punch is on Biak Island. South Pacific. . in a last minute rally by. sinking This island is near New Guinea. . three long field goals for the Grass ee Bees. that left them three pps : . Valley Nevada City March . ponits be = , en the oso ac Grass Vallay’s A team in a whirlOf Dimes Nets $326.36 . wind of offensive action scored 12 Norman Kopp— The March of Dimes campdign)?0imts before Nevada City scored closed with a total sum collected for ene this area of $325.36. [ Trathen playing forward scored Al Bates chairman said that he+l2: points for Grass Valley in the A considered-this-an-exceHent-response $ame. while Moore, forward, -chalkand tha® the, community should be e4.up five for Nevada , City. “Ruth proud. The loéal chairman also ex-. forward for Nevada City Bees made pressed sincete appreciation to all 45 points, and Pello, forward, 13. who assisted in any way toward mak-. For Grass Valley Bees Peterson, foring the drive a success. . ward, was high man with 13 points. The Girl Scouts and Brownies, The scores of individual players and with. their efforts collected $175.74. teams folléws:: and were given special mention by NC B Le its ty the committee. . Ruth f 623-016 Members of the March of Dimes. Pello f ae ee eommittee aside from Al Bates, were. 'Bell ¢ woe. 0: 0 John. Fortier, treasurer and Dr. Wal-. Stroh & ..2..2.-22 220) ter Hawkins. : oy = EO Bs Fea a ae a Breakdown of the total fund for! Anderson Yer the national foundation for infantije . Wood 7 2-..-.--i22-2. —O50 paralysis shows the following soure-. G. V. B Pe ft tp es: PHeOOper fo fro3 Se es Seen Wee & Nevada City high school alumni; Peterson f -.. Lu. 5° 3 18 basketball: game $16.75. High schoo]. Wong ¢ 2. Sioa VAR eee! bine collection $11.21. Grammar school LaCrosse g -.2.cnc seer ae collection $1.00. Nevada City Lodge. Rrailli g *:.-.2-222 22. i Ea . Elks, No. 518. $40.00. Nevada City} Daley g¢ : : jh 0 Retary Club. $12.00., Card party PIRC RET eS 202 e $41.02, Town <ollection. $11.64. Girl ©. Hooper = 2 0 0 Scouts collection $175.74. Total ‘NC A fe-tt tp $320.36. Dance ticket pated $600.2 Nloore fe BAO Grand total $326.36. ‘ PWalset fo ee fo 47-3 peice ee eee es Rika ns C. 1220 BORN DaNISs PS oie Bg ne i -2 HEFREN In -Grass Valley, Ne-. Ronning. Se Se a ee d 2 Vada County, Rebruary 15.-1945, to. Marsh &§ =.2 22 0 (0 Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Heffren, a-daughGV A to Tt: = t ter. : “Trathen . OF eae SIR eg GES aS 6.0 12 Your Government © “tin Urges You To SAVE GAS AND ALL VITAL FUELS Keep Room Temperatures At 68 Degrees ar ice SAM has made an urgent appeal for fuel saving throughout the nation. Here in California, we should conserve our gas supply by being thrifty in our use of it in home and industry. Gas is a vital and essential fuel used in the production of war materials that fill the ships that sail out the Golden Gate to our fighting men across the Pacific. You can contribute to the fuel-saving effort by guarding acainst wasting heat in your home—,y i:ce2ing room temperatures at no mevs ¢ “9 daerées. i This comr: -uil support to a request « { war Utilities, War Predix ional fel. 4 Saving prc: to help ti:. ‘PACIFIC GZS . cur customers sOcratron. _ssRIC COMPANY Other Ways You con Hola. Do not use your gas range for heating che kitchen;Close bedroom doors at night. Close fireplace dam. . > ‘per when gas heater is on. Repair leaky hot-water _' faucets. Use as little hot water as possible. Dvess _ 4} warmer in your home and use less heat. . . \ } ps kaa K ‘ 11X-W-215-SP. ra z j 9 * “* batt A a Z e Seen : oe Bin bak A nek = é ™ Bese de ig ea tn “ a> +} LS v0 Oo > SY ov & i hale tapes Cae ieRlead SRR GLP AES ee . 4 Lanedon:: fais ee C8 0 Hyatt—« é 4. 2-10 Haimilton eee 1-9 4 Motz g eee Pasties Aplire: FON? Res 1 Ca FOR VETERANS A broad program for assisting vet-+ erans of ‘this war to return to -busi{ness or employment affected by OPA . a eee ash Karl Kopp— City Basketball quints in the high Sgt. Karl Kopp with the. 516th’ school gymnasium Friday night’ the Gun Battalion is in-Waikiki, Hawaii Grass Valley A team rolled up 36 to Islands and is enjoying being near! 18victory. But the’ Nevada City . the beach. He is the son of Mr. and Bées won out in a sharp nip ands ‘Mrs. Louie Kopp now in Oakland! iuck battle by three points, Nevada where Louis is engaged in war work. City to Grass Valley’s 35. Karl's wife and baby reside in Ne-. The preliminary contest gave the . vada City. . /tions here in Washington. ily the problems facing . offices and here in Washington. 'expect to regulations and cipation for veteran partiother groups in the work of price control and rationing was announced teday by price administrator Ghester Bowles. “OPA has a deep sense of responsibility toward returned servicemen’’ Bowles said. ‘‘The OPA program vitally affects the lives of veterans in a good many ways. “As a first important step, we will provide “special advisory service to veterans in our national, Fegional and’ district offices. Here in the national office, we plan to employ a veterans relations, advisor to help with the program. j‘“We are revising our food rationing regulations to provide eoecaed with as much assistance as. supply y! . with conditions permit in. starting new businesses which use rationed food products as raw materials. “Since OPA is the largest federal} . civilian agency, we have a_ responsibility and opportunity to offer -federal employment to returnéd service men and disabled veterans. We expect to continue and increase our present effort through civil service to recruit veterans for OPA service on local boards, in district and regional We close touch with ‘resentatives of veterans organizaI plan to} sit down and discuss with them freekeep in rey veterans and} how our programs can help them. . “Tn each one of our eight regional . ; offices, we expect to appoint a vei erans relations advisor. Beyond this . We expect to designaie some one per-} oO o . ‘jive. ling of veterans applications for the on already e our districts offi advisor. in each one 93 ‘es as a veterans “The job of each -district establsihment a veterans advisor inj y include the OPA veterans) uch committees, discuss. and plan with OPA dis-. trict directors. Ways of making price control: and office will of an advisory committee. S and more effect-! rent, rationing Ways of meeting special veterans’! problems. Increased employment of return-} ed servicemen in the OPA in full co-. operation with the civil service commission. , “This is in line with our regular policy of consulting with business, labor, agriculture and other groups through our more than 650 advisory committees. é “Veterans advisor in our district offices will also expedite the handquotas in business affected by OPA regulatoins. Furthermore, they will assist the veteran in getting information as to the extent to which regulations of other federal agencies may affect his business. “OPA price and rationing regulations affect veterans as businessmen or potential businessmen. Some of our price regulations have clauses in them which restrict the field to those who were in it before a certain date. Several of our rationing regiilations, especially in the case of sugar, fats and oils have a similar effect.” Grass Valley Prepares For Red Cross Drive Lawrence Farrell, chairman of the Red Cross drive in Grass Valley, which opens March 1st, yesterday announced the names of. the central planning committee which will aid him. They are O. P. Steele, Wesley Donnenwirth, Harry Poole, Mrs. Heydn Davis, Rev. Mark Pike, Gilbert Cramer and Eugene Ingalls. Grass Valley has been assigned t quota of $15,100. Of this sum $5,400 will be allocated to local ~activities and $9,700 will go to the national headquarters of the Red Cross. Harry Poole will keep the record of each days contribution upon a clock to be installed at Main and Mill streets. DIVORCES DOREI—In Nevada City, Nevada County, February 16, 1945, Florence M. Dorei, vs. Francis A. Dorei, interlocutory decree; cruelty. BEYER—In Nevada City, Nevada County, February 16, 1945, Charles Beyer vs. Cora Ann Beyer; final decree, wilful desertion. The Duke of Windsor reigned as king of England only 324 days * before his” abdication. . about rice. WENZKE TRIAT SET FOR MAR. 20 Herman Wenzke, manager of 3eacon Hill Lodge on Highway near the Summit, terday in charge of contributing to the delin1 of minors and pleaded guilty to four counts. Wenzke, arrested early in Janu-} ary, pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $250 for selling liquor to a group of minor high school boys and girls} the superior court on a quency. . of Sacramento who made the lodge their headquarters. while on a snow sports excursion in the Sierras. This was followed by a grand jury indictment on which he made his plea yesterday. His trial was set for March 20th., Vernon: Stoll, former district attorney will defend him. Tomorrow morning Wenzke will appear before Referee E. A. MeDonald of the State Board of Equalization in the’court house here to show cause why his liquor—license shouldnot be: revoked. Four Sacramento high school students have been subpoened to testify. Deputy Sheriff Tom Dolley of Truckee, who first arrested Wenzk will also tesify. eed sat SENTENCED TO 90 DAYS Justice of the Peace Charles . Morehouse sentenced A. T. Wilson, . who pleaded guilty to battery, to 99 days in the county jail. Wilson began serving his term yesterday. The complaint waé signed by Quincy Crane of Grass Valley. \, LOOKING b} . AHEAD ¥ GEORGE §, BENSON President--Hardiug College Searcy, Arkausas -Farmer’s Friend Two southerners a crowded day coach recently and carried on a_heated. and revealing conversation, Both men were farmers, but their similarity ended ther They were rot at <¢ alike. On seemed .to. be about 70 years o! He spcke with a soft ‘Deep Se Fal He he ad + vas well dressed -and several big cities. The other man was nearer 30, spoke with the.accent ofthe delta country and was obviously a practical dirt farme schooling. The conversation was The older man insisted that rice was not grown in Arkansas. “It would be so foolish,’’ he said scornfully. ‘‘So long as Asiatic lahad lived in . bor is cheap ‘there will be no money in raising rice in this country.’’ Young Man Was Right. The old gentleman almost persuaded the young man that he had been calling something rice that was not rice at all. I didn’t intrude to say that I drive through miles of rice Searcy to Memphis, although I hated to see a man in possession of the truth so crushed’ under courteous . language and ideas that have been . out of date for 25 years. Workers in the Arkansas rice fields are relatively well paid, as farm hands are compensated. They earn more than cotton choppers and pickers; draw wages more like a California orange grove worker. Just the same, Arkansas rice is priced right. Our growers could ship it to Japan in normal times and sell it there at a profit in competition to Chinese rice, Coolie raised. Custom-Built Economy. It sounded quite familiar when the cultured gentleman farmer. explained, ‘‘The biggest part of the cost of anything is labor.’’ The statement used to be made often and used to be almost true, but America’s volume production by machinery has disputed the idea with success for years; longer than the younger man could remember. Rice in Arkansas, a new industry, is tooled up well. That’s exactly why our rice workers are well paid. They produce a lot of rice per man. An American . worker, with modern tools, can produce 50 times as much rice as a China boy with a heavy hoe. Allowing liberally for machinery expense, he can earn 30 times as much as the Chinese, and does. At the same time, the rice costs less per, bushel and can profitably sell for less. That’s America. Parent of Prosperity. Shorter hours and higher for people who,work, lower and better merchandise for who. buy, wages prices people are universally popular ideas. The same people want all four, because*-working people buy the biggest part of everything that’s n ol} . i . . . . the . . 40 was arraigned yes-. . . . . sat near me ‘in! Grass Valley, r with very limited . igan and Rev. Virgil Gabrielle are in sold. It is strange, however, that all . four of these benefits come from the same source (investment), which is not a popular idea. Good equipment costs something. ' It calls for investment. equipment, workers With good increase production per man and get their pay . raised, also increase production per day (or per acre) and show the investor a profit. Good equipment also increases the available supply per customer and thus lowers prices. What:-America needs, not to mention China, is to encou+2°° investment. ae: fields every time I make a trip from . Pleasing. The heavier door and cas-. ‘ing adds to the warmth and beauty ‘ONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1945 WALKIE TALKIES OLD JOBS WAIT COMING TO FARM WAR VETERANS Although it becomes increas sing! . difficult as time goes on to separate fact one pest war fanstasy from thing seems certain—the far ier . have his walkie talkie if he wants it. will. The Fedeival Coimunications Commission has “allocated the portion of the radio spectrum between 460 and 470 megacycles for personal two way radiophone communication between civilians. . Present plans are to set up licensing offices where application may} be made for exclusive use ofa wave band. Farmers will be given top rating. Each walkie, talkie set will oc cupy 3 kilocycles, thus permittinf 3333 stations to talk in a two mile areawithout over lapping. The reliable range of operation for the radiophone or handie talkie will be one mile. The instrument will be built like a French phone with antenna, and will weight about as much as. the) small personal radio receiver of pre war days. “No technical knowledge will be required to operate it beyond, the ability to use a press to talk switch’ while transmitting. Rural uses are practically unlimited. On large ranches, instead of seeing the men once or twice a day, the . farmer will ow be able to have constant contact with them. Or, to save battery, time schedules can be arranged for stations to be ow the air. . The wife at the ranch house can be. in touch with her husband. Tele-. {phone calls can be relayed, and in . ;to employees who have already been some cases transmitted directly. This.last ‘‘radio telephone” link. will be a boon to isolated rane chers jand Telegraph TN PHONE CO. In releasing the Pacific Telephone Company annual report to the shareholders, President N:-R.Powley ‘stressed, particularly, the reference in the report to the ‘duty and obligation of the company ‘to welcome home the men and women in uniform and so to direct its ' operations that it plays its weroetive part in providing full employment . for them immediately upon their return.’ In ‘an individual letter, under date of February 6, 1945, addressed to employees on leave in the armed forces and merchant marite, Powley has advised these telephone employees that they wiff receive a rate of pay when they return.to work which will be the same as if they had work ntinuously with the comy in the jobs they held when they went on leave. This means that the new rate of pay will include all increases which they would have received if they had stayed on their telephone jobs. He told them also that the entire period of their leave will ‘be counted as Bell System service under the company’s. benefit ‘and pension plan. Under this plan length of service in the Bell System . is an important factor in determining pensions and benefits for sickness, accident and death. This policy, both as to pay. rate increases and benefit credits, applies retroactively reinstated. and miners who cannot, be served by \Daughter Donates regular telephone wire service. The . handie talkie will not be made avail-. able for purely but necess-' pleasure uses, will be given on the basis of ity. : e self containat $50. Cost of the two way ed set will start Mervyn Blackman Gets oy son Sentence 16 Lole . eg . Mei VV guilty to ackman who pleaded passing fictitious cheeks in was yesterday returnthe for Men at Riverside County. after ed to Chino, sentenced to prison by Institution being Judge George L. Jones. It was stipulated that sen-/} tenee is to run concurrently eentence with the followthe same ofhe is now his conviction serving for in Santa Clara County. ing fense CHURCH REP. AIRS Considerable renovation is being: done at the Catholic Church and parish house in Nevada City. A large treated red wood door with wrought iron hinges replaces the old door. The whole effect is antique and most . and is more fitting. The interior of ; the parish house is undergoing complete renovation. Rev.-Thomas Mor; Oustomah {to be the ‘anniversary. Mrs. charge of services at Church. St. Canice 'Bloo For Sick Father Franklin White who resides on the Road, now a the Miners Hospital, patient in was given blood transfusions from his own daughter; Bonnie White; in an effort to alleviate a two. month’s illne White's blood type, was deseribed iby his physician Dr: Norbert. Frey, jas unusual. Fellow workmen in the Miners Foundry offered blood donaad the fis daughter’s b tions but none h required type. lood was tested, and happens in the same famto Dr. proved her father’s. as seldom ily. according Frey, it Same as ‘Observe 65th Anniversary Aurora Chapter To -Order will celebrate Aurora Chapter, Star tonight of Eastern its 65th Irene Tamblyn has arranged interesting program ing the evening. Mrs. Jessie Caldwell is chairman of the refreshments committee. Worthy Matron Francis Sleep and Worthy Patron ‘Walter Weiger will preside at the charter meeting durwhich members of the Nevada City and other chapters are invited to hear. an In Hungary, a man must be:26 before he can vote, a woman 30. MORE * HEAT Every drop of Standard Furnace Oil fairly bulges with heat (many exacting tests sce to that). Every drop burns co-npletely—goes farther. Kceps your burner clean and at peak verformance—saves you money. Standard lurnace Oil cutsells all othef's in the West because it delivers the maximuin value for your fuel dollar. FOR YOUR MONEY Alpha Stores, Ltd. Phone 88 Grass Valley Phone 5 Nevada City y 244 Boulder Street NEVADA COUNTY LUMBER. COMPANY “THE PLONEER LUMBER YARD” ‘ BUILDING MATERIALS =_Tee 500 Nevada City, Calif. vee one

sa . Page Four NEVADA CITY BOYS AND GIRLS m s ¥.. IN GLOBAL WAR ~“a : WITH OUR . local fans. a big thrill when the Nea-} . vada City Bees, sparked by forwards Cpl. Norman Kopp, son of Mr. and; iMel Ruth and Sam Psllo, took a Mrs. Louis Kopp property owners) quick lead and held it till the end of of this city now residing in Oakland . the game. Ken Larose put a punch is on Biak Island. South Pacific. . in a last minute rally by. sinking This island is near New Guinea. . three long field goals for the Grass ee Bees. that left them three pps : . Valley Nevada City March . ponits be = , en the oso ac Grass Vallay’s A team in a whirlOf Dimes Nets $326.36 . wind of offensive action scored 12 Norman Kopp— The March of Dimes campdign)?0imts before Nevada City scored closed with a total sum collected for ene this area of $325.36. [ Trathen playing forward scored Al Bates chairman said that he+l2: points for Grass Valley in the A considered-this-an-exceHent-response $ame. while Moore, forward, -chalkand tha® the, community should be e4.up five for Nevada , City. “Ruth proud. The loéal chairman also ex-. forward for Nevada City Bees made pressed sincete appreciation to all 45 points, and Pello, forward, 13. who assisted in any way toward mak-. For Grass Valley Bees Peterson, foring the drive a success. . ward, was high man with 13 points. The Girl Scouts and Brownies, The scores of individual players and with. their efforts collected $175.74. teams folléws:: and were given special mention by NC B Le its ty the committee. . Ruth f 623-016 Members of the March of Dimes. Pello f ae ee eommittee aside from Al Bates, were. 'Bell ¢ woe.. 0: 0 John. Fortier, treasurer and Dr. Wal-. Stroh & ...2....2.-22 220) ter Hawkins. : oy = EO Bs Fea a ae a Breakdown of the total fund for! Anderson Yer the national foundation for infantije . Wood 7 2-...-.--i22-2.. —O50 paralysis shows the following soure-. G. V. B Pe ft tp es: PHeOOper fo fro3 Se es Seen Wee & Nevada City high school alumni; Peterson f -... Lu. 5° 3 18 basketball: game $16.75. High schoo]. Wong ¢ 2.. Sioa VAR eee! bine collection $11.21. Grammar school LaCrosse g -.2.cnc seer ae collection $1.00. Nevada City Lodge. Rrailli g *:.-.2-222 22. i Ea . Elks, No. 518. $40.00. Nevada City} Daley g¢ : : jh 0 Retary Club. $12.00., Card party PIRC RET eS 202 e $41.02, Town <ollection. $11.64. Girl ©. Hooper = 2 0 0 Scouts collection $175.74. Total ‘NC A fe-tt tp $320.36. Dance ticket pated $600.2 Nloore fe BAO Grand total $326.36. ‘ PWalset fo ee fo 47-3 peice ee eee es Rika ns C. 1220 BORN DaNISs PS oie Bg ne i -2 HEFREN In -Grass Valley, Ne-. Ronning. Se Se a ee d 2 Vada County, Rebruary 15.-1945, to. Marsh &§ =.2 22 0 (0 Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Heffren, a-daughGV A to Tt: = t ter. : “Trathen . OF eae SIR eg GES aS 6.0 12 Your Government © “tin Urges You To SAVE GAS AND ALL VITAL FUELS Keep Room Temperatures At 68 Degrees ar ice SAM has made an urgent appeal for fuel saving throughout the nation. Here in California, we should conserve our gas supply by being thrifty in our use of it in home and industry. Gas is a vital and essential fuel used in the production of war materials that fill the ships that sail out the Golden Gate to our fighting men across the Pacific. You can contribute to the fuel-saving effort by guarding acainst wasting heat in your home—,y i:ce2ing room temperatures at no mevs ¢ “9 daerées. i This comr: -uil support to a request « { war Utilities, War Predix ional fel. 4 Saving prc: to help ti:. ‘PACIFIC GZS . cur customers sOcratron. _ssRIC COMPANY Other Ways You con Hola.. Do not use your gas range for heating che kitchen;Close bedroom doors at night. Close fireplace dam. . > ‘per when gas heater is on. Repair leaky hot-water _' faucets. Use as little hot water as possible. Dvess _ 4} warmer in your home and use less heat. . . \ } ps kaa K ‘ 11X-W-215-SP. ra z j 9 * “* batt A a Z e Seen : oe Bin bak A nek = é ™ Bese de ig ea tn “ a> +} LS v0 Oo > SY ov & i hale tapes Cae ieRlead SRR GLP AES ee . 4 Lanedon:: fais ee C8 0 Hyatt—« é 4. 2-10 Haimilton eee 1-9 4 Motz g eee Pasties Aplire: FON? Res 1 Ca FOR VETERANS A broad program for assisting vet-+ erans of ‘this war to return to -busi{ness or employment affected by OPA . a eee ash Karl Kopp— City Basketball quints in the high Sgt. Karl Kopp with the. 516th’ school gymnasium Friday night’ the Gun Battalion is in-Waikiki, Hawaii Grass Valley A team rolled up 36 to Islands and is enjoying being near! 18victory. But the’ Nevada City . the beach. He is the son of Mr. and Bées won out in a sharp nip ands ‘Mrs. Louie Kopp now in Oakland! iuck battle by three points, Nevada where Louis is engaged in war work. City to Grass Valley’s 35. Karl's wife and baby reside in Ne-. The preliminary contest gave the . vada City. . /tions here in Washington. ily the problems facing . offices and here in Washington. 'expect to regulations and cipation for veteran partiother groups in the work of price control and rationing was announced teday by price administrator Ghester Bowles. “OPA has a deep sense of responsibility toward returned servicemen’’ Bowles said. ‘‘The OPA program vitally affects the lives of veterans in a good many ways. “As a first important step, we will provide “special advisory service to veterans in our national, Fegional and’ district offices. Here in the national office, we plan to employ a veterans relations, advisor to help with the program. j‘“We are revising our food rationing regulations to provide eoecaed with as much assistance as. supply y! . with conditions permit in. starting new businesses which use rationed food products as raw materials. “Since OPA is the largest federal} . civilian agency, we have a_ responsibility and opportunity to offer -federal employment to returnéd service men and disabled veterans. We expect to continue and increase our present effort through civil service to recruit veterans for OPA service on local boards, in district and regional We close touch with ‘resentatives of veterans organizaI plan to} sit down and discuss with them freekeep in rey veterans and} how our programs can help them. . “Tn each one of our eight regional . ; offices, we expect to appoint a vei erans relations advisor. Beyond this . We expect to designaie some one per-} oO o . ‘jive. ling of veterans applications for the on already e our districts offi advisor. in each one 93 ‘es as a veterans “The job of each -district establsihment a veterans advisor inj y include the OPA veterans) uch committees, discuss. and plan with OPA dis-. trict directors. Ways of making price control: and office will of an advisory committee. S and more effect-! rent, rationing Ways of meeting special veterans’! problems. Increased employment of return-} ed servicemen in the OPA in full co-. operation with the civil service commission. , “This is in line with our regular policy of consulting with business, labor, agriculture and other groups through our more than 650 advisory committees. é “Veterans advisor in our district offices will also expedite the handquotas in business affected by OPA regulatoins. Furthermore, they will assist the veteran in getting information as to the extent to which regulations of other federal agencies may affect his business. “OPA price and rationing regulations affect veterans as businessmen or potential businessmen. Some of our price regulations have clauses in them which restrict the field to those who were in it before a certain date. Several of our rationing regiilations, especially in the case of sugar, fats and oils have a similar effect.” Grass Valley Prepares For Red Cross Drive Lawrence Farrell, chairman of the Red Cross drive in Grass Valley, which opens March 1st, yesterday announced the names of. the central planning committee which will aid him. They are O. P. Steele, Wesley Donnenwirth, Harry Poole, Mrs. Heydn Davis, Rev. Mark Pike, Gilbert Cramer and Eugene Ingalls. Grass Valley has been assigned t quota of $15,100. Of this sum $5,400 will be allocated to local ~activities and $9,700 will go to the national headquarters of the Red Cross. Harry Poole will keep the record of each days contribution upon a clock to be installed at Main and Mill streets. DIVORCES DOREI—In Nevada City, Nevada County, February 16, 1945, Florence M. Dorei, vs. Francis A. Dorei, interlocutory decree; cruelty. BEYER—In Nevada City, Nevada County, February 16, 1945, Charles Beyer vs. Cora Ann Beyer; final decree, wilful desertion. The Duke of Windsor reigned as king of England only 324 days * before his” abdication. . about rice. WENZKE TRIAT SET FOR MAR. 20 Herman Wenzke, manager of 3eacon Hill Lodge on Highway near the Summit, terday in charge of contributing to the delin1 of minors and pleaded guilty to four counts. Wenzke, arrested early in Janu-} ary, pleaded guilty and paid a fine of $250 for selling liquor to a group of minor high school boys and girls} the superior court on a quency. . of Sacramento who made the lodge their headquarters. while on a snow sports excursion in the Sierras. This was followed by a grand jury indictment on which he made his plea yesterday. His trial was set for March 20th., Vernon: Stoll, former district attorney will defend him. Tomorrow morning Wenzke will appear before Referee E. A. MeDonald of the State Board of Equalization in the’court house here to show cause why his liquor—license shouldnot be: revoked. Four Sacramento high school students have been subpoened to testify. Deputy Sheriff Tom Dolley of Truckee, who first arrested Wenzk will also tesify. eed sat SENTENCED TO 90 DAYS Justice of the Peace Charles . Morehouse sentenced A. T. Wilson, . who pleaded guilty to battery, to 99 days in the county jail. Wilson began serving his term yesterday. The complaint waé signed by Quincy Crane of Grass Valley. \, LOOKING b} . AHEAD ¥ GEORGE §, BENSON President--Hardiug College Searcy, Arkausas -Farmer’s Friend Two southerners a crowded day coach recently and carried on a_heated. and revealing conversation, Both men were farmers, but their similarity ended ther They were rot at <¢ alike. On seemed .to. be about 70 years o! He spcke with a soft ‘Deep Se Fal He he ad + vas well dressed -and several big cities. The other man was nearer 30,

spoke with the.accent ofthe delta country and was obviously a practical dirt farme schooling. The conversation was The older man insisted that rice was not grown in Arkansas. “It would be so foolish,’’ he said scornfully. ‘‘So long as Asiatic lahad lived in . bor is cheap ‘there will be no money in raising rice in this country.’’ Young Man Was Right. The old gentleman almost persuaded the young man that he had been calling something rice that was not rice at all. I didn’t intrude to say that I drive through miles of rice Searcy to Memphis, although I hated to see a man in possession of the truth so crushed’ under courteous . language and ideas that have been . out of date for 25 years. Workers in the Arkansas rice fields are relatively well paid, as farm hands are compensated. They earn more than cotton choppers and pickers; draw wages more like a California orange grove worker. Just the same, Arkansas rice is priced right. Our growers could ship it to Japan in normal times and sell it there at a profit in competition to Chinese rice, Coolie raised. Custom-Built Economy. It sounded quite familiar when the cultured gentleman farmer. explained, ‘‘The biggest part of the cost of anything is labor.’’ The statement used to be made often and used to be almost true, but America’s volume production by machinery has disputed the idea with success for years; longer than the younger man could remember. Rice in Arkansas, a new industry, is tooled up well. That’s exactly why our rice workers are well paid. They produce a lot of rice per man. An American . worker, with modern tools, can produce 50 times as much rice as a China boy with a heavy hoe. Allowing liberally for machinery expense, he can earn 30 times as much as the Chinese, and does. At the same time, the rice costs less per, bushel and can profitably sell for less. That’s America. Parent of Prosperity. Shorter hours and higher for people who,work, lower and better merchandise for who. buy, wages prices people are universally popular ideas. The same people want all four, because*-working people buy the biggest part of everything that’s n ol} . i . . . . the . . 40 was arraigned yes-. . . . . sat near me ‘in! Grass Valley, r with very limited . igan and Rev. Virgil Gabrielle are in sold. It is strange, however, that all . four of these benefits come from the same source (investment), which is not a popular idea. Good equipment costs something. ' It calls for investment. equipment, workers With good increase production per man and get their pay . raised, also increase production per day (or per acre) and show the investor a profit. Good equipment also increases the available supply per customer and thus lowers prices. What:-America needs, not to mention China, is to encou+2°° investment. ae: fields every time I make a trip from . Pleasing. The heavier door and cas-. ‘ing adds to the warmth and beauty ‘ONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1945 WALKIE TALKIES OLD JOBS WAIT COMING TO FARM WAR VETERANS Although it becomes increas sing! . difficult as time goes on to separate fact one pest war fanstasy from thing seems certain—the far ier . have his walkie talkie if he wants it. will. The Fedeival Coimunications Commission has “allocated the portion of the radio spectrum between 460 and 470 megacycles for personal two way radiophone communication between civilians. . Present plans are to set up licensing offices where application may} be made for exclusive use ofa wave band. Farmers will be given top rating. Each walkie, talkie set will oc cupy 3 kilocycles, thus permittinf 3333 stations to talk in a two mile areawithout over lapping. The reliable range of operation for the radiophone or handie talkie will be one mile. The instrument will be built like a French phone with antenna, and will weight about as much as. the) small personal radio receiver of pre war days. “No technical knowledge will be required to operate it beyond, the ability to use a press to talk switch’ while transmitting. Rural uses are practically unlimited. On large ranches, instead of seeing the men once or twice a day, the . farmer will ow be able to have constant contact with them. Or, to save battery, time schedules can be arranged for stations to be ow the air. . The wife at the ranch house can be. in touch with her husband. Tele-. {phone calls can be relayed, and in . ;to employees who have already been some cases transmitted directly. This.last ‘‘radio telephone” link. will be a boon to isolated rane chers jand Telegraph TN PHONE CO. In releasing the Pacific Telephone Company annual report to the shareholders, President N:-R.Powley ‘stressed, particularly, the reference in the report to the ‘duty and obligation of the company ‘to welcome home the men and women in uniform and so to direct its ' operations that it plays its weroetive part in providing full employment . for them immediately upon their return.’ In ‘an individual letter, under date of February 6, 1945, addressed to employees on leave in the armed forces and merchant marite, Powley has advised these telephone employees that they wiff receive a rate of pay when they return.to work which will be the same as if they had work ntinuously with the comy in the jobs they held when they went on leave. This means that the new rate of pay will include all increases which they would have received if they had stayed on their telephone jobs. He told them also that the entire period of their leave will ‘be counted as Bell System service under the company’s. benefit ‘and pension plan. Under this plan length of service in the Bell System . is an important factor in determining pensions and benefits for sickness, accident and death. This policy, both as to pay. rate increases and benefit credits, applies retroactively reinstated. and miners who cannot, be served by \Daughter Donates regular telephone wire service. The . handie talkie will not be made avail-. able for purely but necess-' pleasure uses, will be given on the basis of ity. : e self containat $50. Cost of the two way ed set will start Mervyn Blackman Gets oy son Sentence 16 Lole . eg . Mei VV guilty to ackman who pleaded passing fictitious cheeks in was yesterday returnthe for Men at Riverside County. after ed to Chino, sentenced to prison by Institution being Judge George L. Jones. It was stipulated that sen-/} tenee is to run concurrently eentence with the followthe same ofhe is now his conviction serving for in Santa Clara County. ing fense CHURCH REP. AIRS Considerable renovation is being: done at the Catholic Church and parish house in Nevada City. A large treated red wood door with wrought iron hinges replaces the old door. The whole effect is antique and most . and is more fitting. The interior of ; the parish house is undergoing complete renovation. Rev.-Thomas Mor; Oustomah {to be the ‘anniversary. Mrs. charge of services at Church. St. Canice 'Bloo For Sick Father Franklin White who resides on the Road, now a the Miners Hospital, patient in was given blood transfusions from his own daughter; Bonnie White; in an effort to alleviate a two. month’s illne White's blood type, was deseribed iby his physician Dr: Norbert. Frey, jas unusual. Fellow workmen in the Miners Foundry offered blood donaad the fis daughter’s b tions but none h required type. lood was tested, and happens in the same famto Dr. proved her father’s. as seldom ily. according Frey, it Same as ‘Observe 65th Anniversary Aurora Chapter To -Order will celebrate Aurora Chapter, Star tonight of Eastern its 65th Irene Tamblyn has arranged interesting program ing the evening. Mrs. Jessie Caldwell is chairman of the refreshments committee. Worthy Matron Francis Sleep and Worthy Patron ‘Walter Weiger will preside at the charter meeting durwhich members of the Nevada City and other chapters are invited to hear. an In Hungary, a man must be:26 before he can vote, a woman 30. MORE * HEAT Every drop of Standard Furnace Oil fairly bulges with heat (many exacting tests sce to that). Every drop burns co-npletely—goes farther. Kceps your burner clean and at peak verformance—saves you money. 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