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‘vad City Nugget — Monday, February 7, 1944
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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’
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