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February 7, 1944 (4 pages)

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‘vad City Nugget — Monday, February 7, 1944 : \ eee BERLIN. WIS,, ISPROSPERI'S; CALENDAR OF BUT WANTS “BUNGLING® STOPPED NEW ELECTION DATES ISSUED Coddling of Labor Unions Is Unpopular; Small Business Man Seen as Hope of America’s Future. By BARROW LYONS (EDITOR’S NOTE— This is one of a series of articles written for this paper by Barrow Lyons, staff correspondent of Western News pdper Unio n. He has tion charges. BY ° SACRAMENTO, Feb. o. -_ Seere Ne tary of State and Californias chief election’ officer, today released of ficial copies of the consolidated elec tion calendars for 1944. By enactment of war time legisla tion at the special session of the R. E. HARRIS HE REXALL DRUG STORE Phone 400 ; Berlin nevet knew greater pros-9% ‘perity. Its traditional fur business is not doing quite as well as usual -because pelts are scarce, but it has ,@ war plant which employs about 600 persons; its leather goods manu‘facturing is booming with war or'ders and the farmers who own some ;Sin are prosperous. By, es will be given a better opportunity to cast absentee ballots. This will give 56 days before and after the primary California taxpayers will be saved an estimated $2,225,000 by the con solidation and. that 8,110,000 Altogether this man; 7] bet A = . 2200N Wilt Ht Weavin His POCKET. LEE solidation will also mean the saving BAR Ae AE pa exuberantly of 800,000 albsentee ballot envelopes as Paxton ‘Kind of feed is scarce. “Bootleg” icorn—corn being sold above OPA ceilings—is being bought in and : arourid Berlin at $1.42 a bushel, even as high as $1.65, compared with a ‘legal ceiling of $1.05. Oats are bring‘ing as much as 96 cents a bushel. With this background of prosperity .the most prosperous people of -Ber INSIGNIA OF THE WACS 15 THE HEAD OF APLLAS ATHENE, GREEK GODDESS OF WISDOM, VICTORY AND CRAFT (SYMBOLIZING THE PURPOSE ANDO WORK OF me WAC) men in the armed forces hours for,clerks in conducting the election also will be saved. The con as ' election to have the ballots distribut (Ill.), because dairying is not as prof\itable today as raising corn. Cattle shave to be fed; and virtually every Wa8 eA OF CASUALTIES DURING NAVAL BATTLE :town of about 4,300 persons is thriv‘Ing extremely well. Berlin, however, is not prospering ‘quite fa . "> primaries peril ON “THE SKIN THE CREAM FORM ed and returned for counting and 76 days for the general election. Secretary Jordan pointed out ,of ‘the best dairy farms in Wiscon 4 */LASH-BURN CREAM \5 A Newiy-DEVELOPEP FOR U.S. NAVY MEN.. WHEN OTECTIVE SA PROTECTIVE COVERING AGAINST FLASH BURNS, ONE OF “HE MOST IMPORTANT CAUSES mere ssion of what rural America both houses without a dissenting is thinking as we enter the third year of war sand the first weeks of a vote, the May 2 presidential primary presidential election year, Any opinions expressed are the writer’s and and August primary are consolidated not necessarily those of this newspaper.) and will be held on May 16. The BERLIN, WIS.—Farmers today are pulling big figure bills out general election remains the same, of their pockets to buy the wares of Berlin, Wisco nsin, merchants. November 7. Never before has such big money been handl ed in ordinary trade By reason of consolidating the two -here. During World War I people used $20 bills—but now. they ‘use $50 bills. The other day a farmer brought a check from a grain ;company for $500 into a Berlin bank and asked for ten $50 bills. ahwaco THE POCKETBOOK or KNOWLEDGE just completed an extended trip through the nation and state legislature and which passed in thes nelbeeese e e reports gives his first-hand impre are now doubly assured in our newly . remodeled prescription department. All biologics are ited. Only the finest drags are used. Fair prescrip Page Three mie 8 at ie Sel NAVE “AEN ab and almost 3,000,000 sample ballot Woincice., Fe ee envelopes as well as many tons of pote ak paper. DRAWS IAING Wis —~Siebileset “In event congress should enact legislation in conflict with California’s legislation, the federal statute would have precedent as provision dole, a subsidy, some form of charfor such a situation was made by the Jordan ity. Those men will be supplanted by special legislative session, a brand of new progressives who declared. have a real faith in the people of The first change in the new calAmerica—and the calamity howlers endar brings the filing and’ declar Nae oe eee Ne a cde i ee ee _ ECONVERSION FUNDS PERMITTING, AN MANUFACTURER S. :} ‘Reco AND-WESTERN 4,090 SEAT GLASS PLANNING A MAMMOTH THEATR= THAT WILL ALSO DOUSLE ASA COMMUNITY HOUSE, CONVENTION KRALL, AND ' i SPORTS ARENA ————__ + . STATE CHAMBER WOULD PROTECT SALMON RUNS. als shall be in conformity with cur-— rent basic domestic market prices; and that any reserved stocks of these minerals in excess of war demands = shall be stockpiled and withdrawn from sale in competition with domés-. lin are thoroughly dissatisfied with Washington. Many are convinced tic production. The committee stated that President Roosevelt, or at least will be swept out like autumn, ation of intention to judicial offices “Mrs. Roosevelt and the men who leaves. that protection should be afforded Mr. Patey uses the word bureaufrom May 22 to 26 up to February surround the President,” are quite to domestic producers who — have. _ ‘deliberately attempting to convert cracy a good deal. By that he means 7 to 11. SAICRAMENTO, Feb. 7.—Protecmade extensve investments at the re~ Filing of nomination papers for tion of the salmon run on the Sacthe United States into a socialistic the overmultiplication of governquest of the government. ee state, and are going about it with ment-bureaus by administrators depresidential. candidates. beging on ramento River and conservation of 2 at } termined to entrench themselves in a é They have diabolical cleverness. February 7 and _ continues until fish life on other streams should be public office and increase their poIn Arcata (then Uniontown) Bret litical power. He sees evidence of (March 7 instead of February’ 28 io taken into consideration by agencies March 23. (Harte set type on the local newspa-_
this on all sides, but the demonstrawhich are constructinig and operattion given by the National Youth The first day for filing nomination per. “Northern California” from administration in Berlin has made papers, other than for presidential ing storage dams in the opinion of 1857 to 1859, and wrote his. first one of the deepest impressions upon delegates, is February 16 and the the Sacramento Valley Council. of stories. Pe e af last is March 7 instead of February 28 to March 23. . . Big Business Can’t Smash Little Fellow As. for the place of small business after the war, Frank D. Chapman, . owner and president of the BerlinChapman company, believes big business can never crush the small fellow. “Matter of fact, a man with real business. ability can make. more money running a small business himself than he can as president of Under the new atct the last day for candidates to file their affidavit as presidential delegates is March 41.instead of March 28.Applications for ‘absentee ballots will be accepted by the County Clerk or Registrar of Voters from April 6 to.May 11 instead of April 12 to ithe California State Chamber of Santa Rosa was chosen by Luther — . Commerce. The council will there(Burbank in 1876 as the site’ of his — fore request the \ California State . (Chamber of Commerce to urge the ‘experiments in. plant. breeding.-Dur‘ing the next fifty years United States Army. Engineers, thé United States. Bureau of Reclama-! tion, the State Department of Pub lic Works, and other ageficies con he . grew~ there edible cactus, plumcots, Shasta, ‘daisies, fragrant calla lillies, stone-— ‘less prunes, and innumerable other— new fruits and flowers. rey cer~ed to consider the requiremenis ‘ of fish, life when constructing and : The area of the British Isles, ex ope’s'ing storage dams. This action clusive of Bire, js 89,041 square— April 27. was taken by the Sacramento Valley _miles, slightly smaller than the state Me The deadline for returns on abCourcil, meeting here today, on rec-' of Oregon. ae a a great corporation,” said Mr. Chapsent voter baHots is June 1 as comommendation of Roscoe J. Anderson,. pig ROAR tre 2 ORG nel emo me eS man. “Most of the smartest men pared to May 8. -ofRedding, actihg chairman of the . : The Palace Hotel in San Francis— I know in business are doing just Natural Resources Committee. . eo was opened in 1875 with General that.” Downieville Miner . Phil Sheridan attending the inauSo is Mr. Chapman. Before .the The council also authorized a ser-! Dairy farms in Berlin, Wis., vieinwar he made machinery for canning Is Called By Death guration. : 2 an DOWINIEVILILE, Feb. 7.—Andrew ies of sub committee studies toward . dity are doing all right. factories, having many patented devices to his credit. Now he is turnJohnson, for 40 years a resident developing sound policies to promote. Hanford was the scene of the Mus— seen several unfortunate demonstraing out machinery for the production here, passed away {sustained lumber production in the. sel Slough battle between’ farmer at 5:30 Saturday s tions:' of bureaucratic bungling in of synthetic rubber, high octane gasforested areas of the Sacramento! and the railroad, on evening at his home. which Frank He was 76 . their own town, and they feel that oline and chemicals used in warValley. These policies will later be Norris’ novel, “The Octopus” is ‘basRepublican farmers of the North are fare. In addition, he is making comyears of age, and until recent years placed before the Natural Resources being discriminated against in favor pressors, which until recently were had been engaged in mining. ‘Committee. The ‘recommendation The deceased leaves a wife, Mrs. of Democratic farmers in the South. among the most critically needed of the critical components of war proMinnie Johnson, a daughter Opal, grew out of a discussion of forest duction. Coddling of Labor Unions But. he entértains no and a Clarence Johnson all of this service plans for creation of a timwarmth for the administration, alber working circle in the Burney : Is Unpopular though in 1932 and 1936 he ran on city. area of Shasta County. Consideration The funeral services But above all, they feel that the Democratic ticket. The local under. direcstrong labor unions have been so Democrats, who put most of their tion of Holmes Funeral Home’ wi!] was also given to the proposal for “eoddled’’ by the Roosevelt admincandidates into office then, could not take place tomorrow _ afternoon ~ in acquisition by the United States for istration that they’ have acquired accept him as a thoroughgoing memDownieville with Rev. Cedric Porter est service of 55,000 acres of timber * power out of proportion to their ecober of their party. of Nevada City officiating. Interment land in Placer. County,but counzil “The administration is making a nomic importance, and are responwill be in the Downieville Cemetery. action on this question was defered sible for many of the farmer’s ills. sloppy job of the war,’’ he asserted. pending further consideration by the. Naturally, these generalizations are “The first New Deal taught people Sustained Production Committee, the be to be bums, and now they’re trying Stockton ‘Woman not universal, but they appear to new name adopted today for the reprebe to held enough ly to teach them to go to work, but they . S: ‘general Here : learned the first lesson ‘too well. uccumbs The remains of Mrs. Minnie Alma Burney Working Circle Study Comsentative. ~ pic ‘ There is little labor organization Labor leaders’: came out here and Lacey, who passed away Friday. evemittee. in the small industries of Berlin, In told people to seize the factories. ning here while on a visit to her Colonel F. T. Robson, of Vina, a vote taken among the employees ‘Maw’ Perkins said she didn’t see son, Were taken to’ Stockton Saturchairman of the Agricultural Comof the Berlin-Chapman company, the anything against sitting down. It'll mittee, placed before the councila] _ local war factory, under the auspices take another generation of Amerday by Hooper and Weaver Mortuary recommendation calling for.prompt} board, icanism to get the workers back to’ for funeral services and interment. ‘of ‘the National. War Labor action on pending federal legislation . working the way they did ten years ‘neither AFL nor CIO gained standMrs. Lacey had spent a week as a ing. People of Berlin still remem. ago. guest of her son, Warrant. Officer, which would authorize recruitment “The New Deal has seen fit to bat the granite quarry tHat closed Allen Lacey, and family at 225 . of Mexican nationals for 1944 farm years ago when employees struck to place its war contracts where it got Street. She was a native of labor. The state chamber will be askfs Broad obtain higher wages for helpers. its votes. It still places them in ed by the council to communicate! Mokelu lower mne Hill, Calaveras County, centers of the United States which Workers were forced to accept immediafely with the ptoper auwages in other quarries operated by are short of housing facilities, labor and was aged 68 years. She was eduthorities. in ‘Washington urging towns; and manufacturing facilities. They cated and reared'‘in San Francisco, the same company in nearby prompt reaction. never Milwauk in shops up Closed have o quarry ee, Berlin and the but had lived in Stockton. , Utah, and one factory in Kansas On recommendatinn of L. J. Mrs. Lacey was -themother of ‘Brundige, of Sacramento, chairman ig singel the most vocal anti-New City; but ‘they are still operating Garrett,and Royston Lacey of Stockof the Industrial Committee Dealers in the town is William H. in the East. In my plant, we are the Stockof Mighori Margare Mrs. ton, t the not working of more r than 50 publishe per cent and Patey, editor council will request the state ‘cham-. . r. Survivi Lacey, Allen of and ton: of maxinfum capacity, but we have ng Berlin Journal, a weekly newspape ber to advocate that prices paid by He believes the New Dealers in a sutplus of manpower and plenty also are five grandchildren and one the government \ Washington are today’s backward of housing facilities. for strategic miner2 great grandchild. “The best brains don’t go into the big companies, or they get out of Chico was founded in 1860 by them when they do get in. Small leader of the Gen. John Bidwell, business will survive, despite the growing power of the big boys, as first overland party to cross the Si-. long as it keeps the best brains.” erra Nevada. An early wine grate grower, Bidwell later ran for president on the’ Prohibition Party ticket. Sonoma was the birthplace of the California Republic (June 14, 1846) and the first Bear Flag was made and raised there by William L. Todd nephew of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. On July 9th it was replaced by the Stars and Stripes. es E Ukiah was chosen in 1898 as one of the five ‘International Latitude Observatories in the world. The oth ers, all at 3908 degrees latitude, are’ *_ ii:ELD.TEA roa