January 13, 1950 (4 pages)

18 t tid ey ~ STEADY SNOW IN “38 INCHES DEEP ‘elementary school closed Wed‘able were Gold Flat closed’ WedFOR INDIAN SCALPING IN ' Spartans pushed in two last minCURRENT STORM The snow came. And came and came and came. And at press time last night it had totaled 38, inches-for the season. A tree at Memorial park, Grass ‘Valley, fell across the Nevada ‘City highline Wednesday. morning at, 10:35: cutting off power and lights here until 1:50 in the afternoon. Part of the town was in darkness six hours Tuesday evening when a 11,000 volt line fell along the Old Lower Grass Valley road. The snowfall started early on Sunday and when daylight came 10 inches of the white stuff welcomed the early risers among whom were the street crews of Herb Hallett who started in at 6 a.m., Sunday to clear the streets. City equipment, augmented by county equipment, have been at work steadily~since Sunday removing the snow, although the heavy moisture content makes it a difficult operation. Highway 20 is closed from the Washington Junction to Highway 40, and highway 49 is closed over Yuba. pass, according to A. C, Irish, highway superintendent. Double shifts of county road crews are battling county roads, according to J. F. O’Connor, road commissioner. Nevada City high school. and nesday. The only rural schools of which information were availnesday, North San Juan closed Monday, and Union Hill closed Thursday because of power failure. * Roy Hesla, roof repairman, is: apparently a poor weather forecaster. Last .year when he rePaired roof leaks in The Nugget office during the snow that welcomed our arrival hére, he promised no more heavy snows for many years. Incidentally his roof repairing job withstood this season’s storms. YELLOWJACKETS POINT PO en kare. Anaad Volume 23, No. Z ‘NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA BOARD MEMBER ASKS REMOVAL . OF PRINCIPAL Board of trustees of Nevada City unifieq school district will meet in adjourned session Wednesday /evening at the elementary school to discuss David Hartman’s attempted audit of student body and cafeteria funds of the local schools. Hartman is scheduleg to attend and answer questions. . t The board “will also continue a discussion regarding complaints by a delegation of parents about teaching methods of John D. Conway, elementary teacher. The controversial “audit ‘report” was climaxed Monday evening at a regular session of the board when Mrs. Freda Becraft moved that Edvard A. Frantz, principal of Nevada City high school, be removed as soon as possible from all connections with the Nevada City schools. The motion died for failure of @ second. Mrs. Becraft’s motion followed the reading by Clerk Miles D. Coughlin of a letter from Dr. Hal D. Draper, Sr., faculty member of Sacramento state college, and a former member of the local board of trustees. Dr. Draper charged ‘Frantz has proved himself unfit for the position of principal of Nevada City high school.” ; One of the letters had been written to Mrs. Becraft and the other was addressed to Dr. B. W. Hummelt, president of the board. John L. Larue, local. attorney and a member of the board, described Dr. Draper’s letter to Dr. dummelt as a “piece of slander” MARYSVILLE TONIGHT Nevada City high school’s bas. ketballing Yellowjackets plan a scalping party in Marysville to. night when they take on Yuba . county seat’s high school teams. . The Watt boys have shown up} well against the powerhouses of . the league—Placer and San Juan! and Watt plans to return to the mountains with victory. Placer high school, leagd by Jim Yokota racked up @ 33-19 win over the home team here Tuesday night before only a handful of rooters who braved the storm. Placer’s B team slapped Nevada City 58-17 in the preliminary game. Opening league game here on Friday night’saw the Yellowjackets go down fighting 31-24. The ute baskets to ice the game. San Juan ran away in the pre. liminary game to the tune of. 52-15. NEVADA CITY NATIVE PASSES IN DUNSMUIR Funeral services will be held today in Dunsmuir for Joseph Clark, 60, Nevada City native, who died there Wednesday. He had made his home in the Siskiydu town since 1912. Clark, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Clark, Nevada City,: left here following school to work for the Southern Pacific railway in Dunsmuir. — . Surviving are his brother, Roy, Nevada City; son, Jack, and daughter, Lorraine Landon, both . of Dunsmuir. The body will be returned to _Nevada City for burial at Pine Grove cemetery by Holmes Funeral Home.: $30,000 DAMAGE SUIT FILED AGAINST BOWER Mrs. Ellen M. Kinter filed -a complaint yesterday afternoon) against Walter R. Bower, Grass. Valley businessman, asking $30,. 000 for injuries alleged to have} been sustained in an automobile . collision Dec. 20, 1949 between . Bower’s car and a car driven by . Mrs. Mae Carr, with whom Mrs. Kinter was riding. : . Robert A. Zanich, Sacramento,’ is her attorney. ‘The district attorney filed.an rimnformation. against. Bower .yesterday also, charging him with ;a case, and moved the letter be filed. Larue added Frantz has been accused of a felony and writing of such a letter was compounding a felony. Dr. Draper pointed out in his} letter to Dr. Hummelt that the Hartman report stated “the auditor could not determine the cash balance on hand at the beginning of the year; how much icash was received during the year; from whom received and for what purpose; how much cash was disbursed during the year; to whom paid and for what ‘value received.’.”’ Dr. Draper also challenged Mr. Hartman ‘‘to’show that there was any such appalling laxity in the handling of student body funds under the regime of District Superintendent Hilmen Kjorlie, the immediate predecessor of the present. schood administrators.” Dr. Draper asked “If the evidence was from someone’s memory, how: could the auditor certify that, he got clear to the bottom of the memory of that person?” Dr. Draper also asked “Did the board get its money’s worth — nearly $600—for this report?” In other actions the board approved the use of the home economics rooms of the high school on Saturday mornings by Nevada City 4-H sewing club; entered an inter-district. agreement with the Grass Valley district regarding transportation and attendance of school children from You Bet, and with Emgirant Gap school; and paid bills. « Larue presided at the meeting after Dr. Hummelt was called on Trustee Elton Kendrick i diq not attend. « The Weather Fred Bush, observer High Low Prec. Friday, Jan. 6 . 39 22 wat, wen: cc 46 11 Sunday, Jan 8 . 42 26 .95 Monday, Jan. 9 . 35. 30 Lt Tuesday, Jan. 10 34 31 44 Wed, Jan: 11. °35 36 1.60 Thurs. Jdan.-12. 35. = 24 47 Snow: Jan. 8, 10 inches; Jan. 9, 2 inches; Jan. 10, 4 inches; Jan. 11, 4% inches; total for season, 38 inches. NEW DATE FOR SUIT TRIAL ~ Superior Judge James Snell set Monday, Feb.*27, as new date ‘for trial of $32,250 personal injuries suit brought by Miss Bar‘hara Belding, Grass’ Valley, against Pleaer union high school district. Sheriff Arthur Pepper was chodrunken driving. MARYSVILLE BUILDER ASKS LIEN FORECLOSURE H. Earl Parker, a Marysville corporation, Friday fileg a complaint to foreclose contractor’s lien against Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Shannon and the Bank of America. af The plaintiff charges he agreed to build a private road to the Shannon ranch and completed it in 40 days, and has not received payment. He asks judgment of $6,662.52 and costs and a sheriff’s sale of the Shannon property to settle the judgment. Manwell & Manwell,. Marysville legal firm, is representing the plaintiff. : SEWAGE PLANT BOND ISSUE IS SET AT $130,000 An abridged session of Nevada City Council Wednesday night sét $130,000 as the amount necessary for a bond issue to finance construction of a sewage disposal plant. William Mullis presided in: the. absence of Mayor Arthur B. Innis. Councilman H. F Sofge motioned the amount and Councilman Leo Cullen seconded. There was no opposition. Councilman Thomas F. Taylor was absent. In addition to the $130,000 bond . issue for sewage plant the ballot will also ask for a $25,000 bond issue to purchase a custom-built fire truck and fire equipment. John L, Larue, city. attorney, will request the law firm of Orrick, Neff, Harrington, Dahquist and Brown, San Francisco, to begin. preparation of a resolution and. ordinance to be passed by the council declaring the “bond issue election. Engineers Ed C. Uren and J. F. Siegfried estimated the cost of the completed plant -at $149,800. The city will receive $34,000 from the state towards the building of the plant. City Clerk George H. Calanan read a draft of a proposed ordinance which would abolish the offices of city assessor and tax collector and would provide for assessing and collecting of taxes by the county. The council adjourned to next Thursday evening. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DINNER IS POSTPONED Annual installation: of : officers of Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, scheduled for. Tuesday evening at National hotel was postponed. Tuesday night was the climax of the season’s worst snowstorm to date. Carl T. Mills, secretary of Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee, was scheduleq to speak at the dinner meeting. H. F. Sofge, secretary ' of the local chamber, said a new date will’ be announced. Sofge added that an attendance of more than 75 had been expected Tuesday night, based on advance sale of tickets. E. L. KYLE RE-ELECTED . SHERIFF'S POSSE HEAD E. L. “Bud” Kyle, Nevada City, was renamed president of Nevada County Sheriff’s Posse at annual election meeting. and dinner Wednesday evening at the Gold Nugget Inn. = Paul Viles, Grass Valley, was chosen vice president succeeding Undersheriff Otis Hardt. Deputy sen secretary to succeed Robert L. Tamblyn. Ralph E. Deeble was re-elected treasurer. Kyle was in charge of the affair, which featured chicken, the frieq kind. FIREMEN CALLED:IN STORM Nevada City’s volunteer fire department answered a call to the home of Earl Rickard, Old Lower Grass Valley road, Tuesa fallen 11,000-volt power li PLAN’ OFFICIAL URGES. SCHOOL SITE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE. for expansion, and within walking distance of at least half of the anticipated students of a proposed union high school for Nevada City and Grass Valley, was recommended by Edgar Parsons, field representative of the division of school planning, before a meeting of members of the Nevada county committee on school organization Wednesday evening in the offices of Walter A. Carlson, schools, two communities would call for 100 percent transportation requirements, a high school plant with facilities for 1,000 students would cost approximately $800,000. POSTAL RECEIPTS IN 1949 REACH $39,000 becoming a first class post office this year by a sum less than $1,000, according to figures released yesterday by William J. Wasley, postmaster. $39,000.79, according to Wasley. Receipts of: $40,000 would have placed Nevada City in the first class rating. of more than $4,000 over 1948, the previous all-time high. SPORTSMEN’S CLUB BALLOTING BY MAIL ducted for the 1950 slate of officers for Nevada County Sportsmen’s Club, according to H. F. Sofge, secretary-treasurer. vice president, “with Paul Viles and Tom Nettells opposed. president, and Sofge is unopposed for secretary-treasurer. directors are Tom Keckler Sr., Carl Foote, Cliff Dancer, Fred Emery, Gene Johnson and Crofford. Bridges. AMERICAN PW’S CAN COLLECT DIET CLAIMS were prisoners of the axis during World War II, either as military personnel or civilians, can now obtain official. forms on which to collect payment for substandard diet during the time they were in enemy hands. fairs Lawrence C. Stevens said the forms, just received from war claims commission in’ Washington have been distributed to the county veterans service officers, community.service centers and headquarters of leading veterans organizations throughout California. receive $1 for each day of imprisonment on which the enemy failed to provide adequate food. Under certain conditions civilian internees may be: entitled to $60 for each month of their intern. ment, . that. head for this story. A 30-acre site to provide room county superintendent of Parsons said a site between the Parsons estimated the cost of Nevada City post office missed Postal receipts in .1949: were The 1949 figure is an increase Receipts in recent years: We $39,000.79 Wer ee 34,976.81 SO ite 33,641.26 Elie anes 27,635.89 CS Re Reese ea 24,075.39 POOR es 21,944.35 TN i ce, 19,615.13 Balloting by mail is being conOnly contest is in the race for Carl Larsen is unopposed for ‘Candidates for the board of Nevada county residents who State Director of Veterans AfFormer prisoners of war may The money comes from enemy . assets held in this country. . A CRY OF MUSH RANG THROUGH THE SLUSH We just couldn’t resist. writing . Publicizing the annual Truck. ee dog derby a team of Alaskan . huskies rolled up Broad street . ‘yesterday afternoon. . The teani and driver had been trucked from Truckee to Grass . season’s Valley where they rolled through the main streets to Hills Flat. Reloaded into ‘the :truck they ity, and mushed through the day to douse a tree set afire by . drove to the outskirts of Nevada Firemen patrolled the area power crews took over to repair the line. : slush of our snow-clogged streets. Rolled is the correct word as the sled was equipped with wheels, PLACER COLLEGE WINS MODESTO TOURNAMENT Basketball is at fever pitch in this area*this week because of the sensational victory scored by Placer College Spartans in winning the state junior college basketball tournament in Modesto Saturday night after five victories over some of the strongest and largest schools in ‘California. The Spartans overwhelmed Menlo College, 63 to 35 in the finals before 1,700 fans. It was a cleancut victory. _ Six men, Captain Billy Kolak, Jim Sugrue, George Goto, Dick Alvari, Charles Hawkins and Fred Besana carried the bulk of . : the work with Larry Brewer, Harold Ruggles, Primo Santini and Ron .Lienecke also seeing action. Hawkins, a Nevada City boy, was a major factor in the championship, according to Coach Harry Aronson, and is a determined player. His playing at a forward position Saturday night, Aronson said, was an important contribution to the final victory. After ten minutes of sparring. in the final game, Placer put on a burst of speed, led at half time by 12. points and scored two fast ones in the starting minute of the second half to safely stow the game away. Two! Placer men, Goto and Sugrue, were selected for the alltournament team. Goto also won sportsmanship award chosen by tournament officials. Placer entered the finals by defeating College of the Sequoia, Visalia, 61 to 50: Saturday afternoon. Placer was perfect in the first 12 minutes of this game, holding Visalia men to three free throws and piling up a 22-3 lead. Placer got careless with passing and Coach Aronson put Besana of baseball fame into the lineup, to steady his team. Besana was the thing the club needed and Placer went on to play a steady variety of ball, leading by 17 points at half time. In the closing minutes of the contest, the going got rough, and substitutes finished the game, with Placer always in control of the situation. . Sugrue and Alvari were scoring heavily, while Kolak, Goto, Besana and Hawkins were doing a splendid job on the floor. q Meanwhile Menlo got to the‘ finals by handing Pasadena Junior College a solid. beating and it looked, like a close final. Placer reached the semi-finals the hard way beating Stockton, Long Beach and Grant Tech on successive nights. Stockton was downed 51 to 48 in a thriller which saw Placer take a long Jead and close strong. Long Beach was downed 63 to 58, with Placer in control of the game most of the second half. Grant Tech, a sturdy foe, threw a scare into Placer and lead 14 to 5 after ten minutes of play. Placer went into a 20 to 19 lead at half time. Here Placer made a serious decision, going into a zone defense and using wer, reserve center along ith Subsue regular center, an ana, a tall man, at: guard. ® It warked. The big men controlled the backboard after Placer got into the lead and held Grant in check as they went on to win a 42 to 36 victory over the team many had . thought: would annex the cham. pionship this year. The way Coach Harry Aronson handled his men in the Grant . game was masterly and showed his squad he knew what to ao when the going was rough. ‘ The two-way confidence gain. ed in the Grant game made the . Placer squad unstoppable in the . final two games of the tournament. . . . SLED NO TURN, BOY HURT Pat Roberts, son of Mr. “and . Mrs. Ernest Roberts, joined the . ice~ casualty list: this . . week when his sled failed to negotiate a turn on Gethsemane . car. : After a quick trip to the docchin he was ready for more sled street and plunged into a parked . ding. ; Ea ‘ STARTS MONDAY a ell iid : Nevada county’s annual March of Dimes campaign will start ‘on Monday under the chairmanship of Ray Hodge. Mrs. Adele Sturtevant is chairman of the Nevada ‘City campaign, which continues through Monday, Jan. 30. —Walter Barrett, publisher of the Sierra Sun, will chairman the Truckee drive. — : Mrs. Sturtevant announced the local campaign will’ be conducted in a canvass of houses and businesses by the Girl Scouts, dance and program. Chairman Hodge announced identification cards will be c¢arried by workers and urged full support pointing out, “The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has’ come across for Nevada county, :now it’s our chance to come across for the Foundation.” Robert Grazziana, treasurer of the county chapter, reported theunit spent $23,216 for polio treatment in 1949. One case still at Children’s hospital, San Francisco, has cost. over $5,900. — Grazziani’s report indicated $15,135 was spent for hospitalizaiton; $1,302 for doctors’ fees; $1,584 for transportation, chapter maintenance and therapy, and purchases of braces,” 5 NID HOPES TO PURCHASE OMEGA WATER RIGHTS TO SERVE BLUE TENT Announcement of a desire of the Nevada irrigation district’s desire to purchase Omega water rights was made Tuedsay by Forrest Varney, manager of the district. Varney said the district hoped to bring water to Harmony ridye and the Blue Tent district. Varney pointed out purchase of Omega water rights is imperative to the future development of the two areas as residential developments. Varney also announced receipt of checks totaling $80,824.28, representing amount awarded. district in its seven-year litigation against the federal government for ditch damage in Camp Beale area. STOLEN TRUCK FOUND WRECKED OFF GRADE A truck reported to have been stolen from Elmer. Caster, Nevada City, Dec. 12, was found off the grade, wrecked, 15 miles west of Downieville. Highway Patrolman Ed Hoyt and. Sierra County Sheriff W. D. Johnson investigated and found no body near the wreckage. Bloodhounds taken to the scene. showed no interest in a trail. The officers reported snipers working the creek in the vicinity said they first noticed the wreckage two weeks ago but assumed the authorities knew of it. Truck ignition system had been rewired around the switch, which was , locked. HANLEY SECRETARY .OF PLUMAS-SIERRA BUREAU Robert C. Hanley, sevecutive-. secretary of Nevada County Farm Bureau, has been appointed field secretary of Plumas-Sierra County Farm Bureau. t The combined county bureau is one of the youngest in the state and first to fill its membership ‘quota. Hanley, a veteran in farm bureau work, will assist in coordination of various rural programs untilGsuch time as afull time executive-secretary is warranted. COUNTY OFFICIALS FACE ELECTORATE THIS YEAR All elective officials of Nevada county except Superior Judge James Snell, Supervisors Carl J. Tobiassen, Frank J. Rowe and = Henry G. Loehr .will face their electorate this yéar. Candidates cannot filed for the. June 6 primary earlier than Wednesday, March 8. i: No incumbent has as yet announced intention of filing. STORK OUTRUNS REAPER Nevada City’s births almost quadrupled deaths in 1949, according to figures released yesterday afternoon by Sam Hooper,. city vital statistician. Hooper reported births numbered 118, with deaths at 33. In December there were five b and seven girls born, = Whos % NEVADA COUNTY POLIOCAMPAIGN

18 t tid ey ~ STEADY SNOW IN “38 INCHES DEEP ‘elementary school closed Wed‘able were Gold Flat closed’ WedFOR INDIAN SCALPING IN ' Spartans pushed in two last minCURRENT STORM The snow came. And came and came and came. And at press time last night it had totaled 38, inches-for the season. A tree at Memorial park, Grass ‘Valley, fell across the Nevada ‘City highline Wednesday. morning at, 10:35: cutting off power and lights here until 1:50 in the afternoon. Part of the town was in darkness six hours Tuesday evening when a 11,000 volt line fell along the Old Lower Grass Valley road. The snowfall started early on Sunday and when daylight came 10 inches of the white stuff welcomed the early risers among whom were the street crews of Herb Hallett who started in at 6 a.m., Sunday to clear the streets. City equipment, augmented by county equipment, have been at work steadily~since Sunday removing the snow, although the heavy moisture content makes it a difficult operation. Highway 20 is closed from the Washington Junction to Highway 40, and highway 49 is closed over Yuba. pass, according to A. C, Irish, highway superintendent. Double shifts of county road crews are battling county roads, according to J. F. O’Connor, road commissioner. Nevada City high school. and nesday. The only rural schools of which information were availnesday, North San Juan closed Monday, and Union Hill closed Thursday because of power failure. * Roy Hesla, roof repairman, is: apparently a poor weather forecaster. Last .year when he rePaired roof leaks in The Nugget office during the snow that welcomed our arrival hére, he promised no more heavy snows for many years. Incidentally his roof repairing job withstood this season’s storms. YELLOWJACKETS POINT PO en kare. Anaad Volume 23, No. Z ‘NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA BOARD MEMBER ASKS REMOVAL . OF PRINCIPAL Board of trustees of Nevada City unifieq school district will meet in adjourned session Wednesday /evening at the elementary school to discuss David Hartman’s attempted audit of student body and cafeteria funds of the local schools. Hartman is scheduleg to attend and answer questions. . t The board “will also continue a discussion regarding complaints by a delegation of parents about teaching methods of John D. Conway, elementary teacher. The controversial “audit ‘report” was climaxed Monday evening at a regular session of the board when Mrs. Freda Becraft moved that Edvard A. Frantz, principal of Nevada City high school, be removed as soon as possible from all connections with the Nevada City schools. The motion died for failure of @ second. Mrs. Becraft’s motion followed the reading by Clerk Miles D. Coughlin of a letter from Dr. Hal D. Draper, Sr., faculty member of Sacramento state college, and a former member of the local board of trustees. Dr. Draper charged ‘Frantz has proved himself unfit for the position of principal of Nevada City high school.” ; One of the letters had been written to Mrs. Becraft and the other was addressed to Dr. B. W. Hummelt, president of the board. John L. Larue, local. attorney and a member of the board, described Dr. Draper’s letter to Dr. dummelt as a “piece of slander” MARYSVILLE TONIGHT Nevada City high school’s bas. ketballing Yellowjackets plan a scalping party in Marysville to. night when they take on Yuba . county seat’s high school teams. . The Watt boys have shown up} well against the powerhouses of . the league—Placer and San Juan! and Watt plans to return to the mountains with victory. Placer high school, leagd by Jim Yokota racked up @ 33-19 win over the home team here Tuesday night before only a handful of rooters who braved the storm. Placer’s B team slapped Nevada City 58-17 in the preliminary game. Opening league game here on Friday night’saw the Yellowjackets go down fighting 31-24. The ute baskets to ice the game. San Juan ran away in the pre. liminary game to the tune of. 52-15. NEVADA CITY NATIVE PASSES IN DUNSMUIR Funeral services will be held today in Dunsmuir for Joseph Clark, 60, Nevada City native, who died there Wednesday. He had made his home in the Siskiydu town since 1912. Clark, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Clark, Nevada City,: left here following school to work for the Southern Pacific railway in Dunsmuir. — . Surviving are his brother, Roy, Nevada City; son, Jack, and daughter, Lorraine Landon, both . of Dunsmuir. The body will be returned to _Nevada City for burial at Pine Grove cemetery by Holmes Funeral Home.: $30,000 DAMAGE SUIT FILED AGAINST BOWER Mrs. Ellen M. Kinter filed -a complaint yesterday afternoon) against Walter R. Bower, Grass. Valley businessman, asking $30,. 000 for injuries alleged to have} been sustained in an automobile . collision Dec. 20, 1949 between . Bower’s car and a car driven by . Mrs. Mae Carr, with whom Mrs. Kinter was riding. : . Robert A. Zanich, Sacramento,’ is her attorney. ‘The district attorney filed.an rimnformation. against. Bower .yesterday also, charging him with ;a case, and moved the letter be filed. Larue added Frantz has been accused of a felony and writing of such a letter was compounding a felony. Dr. Draper pointed out in his} letter to Dr. Hummelt that the Hartman report stated “the auditor could not determine the cash balance on hand at the beginning of the year; how much icash was received during the year; from whom received and for what purpose; how much cash was disbursed during the year; to whom paid and for what ‘value received.’.”’ Dr. Draper also challenged Mr. Hartman ‘‘to’show that there was any such appalling laxity in the handling of student body funds under the regime of District Superintendent Hilmen Kjorlie, the immediate predecessor of the present. schood administrators.” Dr. Draper asked “If the evidence was from someone’s memory, how: could the auditor certify that, he got clear to the bottom of the memory of that person?” Dr. Draper also asked “Did the board get its money’s worth — nearly $600—for this report?” In other actions the board approved the use of the home economics rooms of the high school on Saturday mornings by Nevada City 4-H sewing club; entered an inter-district. agreement with the Grass Valley district regarding transportation and attendance of school children from You Bet, and with Emgirant Gap school; and paid bills. « Larue presided at the meeting after Dr. Hummelt was called on Trustee Elton Kendrick i diq not attend. « The Weather Fred Bush, observer High Low Prec. Friday, Jan. 6 .. 39 22 wat, wen: cc 46 11 Sunday, Jan 8 . 42 26 .95 Monday, Jan. 9 . 35. 30 Lt Tuesday, Jan. 10 34 31 44 Wed, Jan: 11.. °35 36 1.60 Thurs. Jdan.-12. 35. = 24 47 Snow: Jan. 8, 10 inches; Jan. 9, 2 inches; Jan. 10, 4 inches; Jan. 11, 4% inches; total for season, 38 inches. NEW DATE FOR SUIT TRIAL ~ Superior Judge James Snell set Monday, Feb.*27, as new date ‘for trial of $32,250 personal injuries suit brought by Miss Bar‘hara Belding, Grass’ Valley, against Pleaer union high school district. Sheriff Arthur Pepper was chodrunken driving. MARYSVILLE BUILDER ASKS LIEN FORECLOSURE H. Earl Parker, a Marysville corporation, Friday fileg a complaint to foreclose contractor’s lien against Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Shannon and the Bank of America. af The plaintiff charges he agreed to build a private road to the Shannon ranch and completed it in 40 days, and has not received payment. He asks judgment of $6,662.52 and costs and a sheriff’s sale of the Shannon property to settle the judgment. Manwell & Manwell,. Marysville legal firm, is representing the plaintiff. : SEWAGE PLANT BOND ISSUE IS SET AT $130,000 An abridged session of Nevada City Council Wednesday night sét $130,000 as the amount necessary for a bond issue to finance construction of a sewage disposal plant. William Mullis presided in: the. absence of Mayor Arthur B. Innis. Councilman H. F Sofge motioned the amount and Councilman Leo Cullen seconded. There was no opposition. Councilman Thomas F. Taylor was absent. In addition to the $130,000 bond . issue for sewage plant the ballot will also ask for a $25,000 bond issue to purchase a custom-built fire truck and fire equipment. John L, Larue, city. attorney, will request the law firm of Orrick, Neff, Harrington, Dahquist and Brown, San Francisco, to begin. preparation of a resolution and. ordinance to be passed by the council declaring the “bond issue election. Engineers Ed C. Uren and J. F. Siegfried estimated the cost of the completed plant -at $149,800. The city will receive $34,000 from the state towards the building of the plant. City Clerk George H. Calanan read a draft of a proposed ordinance which would abolish the offices of city assessor and tax collector and would provide for assessing and collecting of taxes by the county. The council adjourned to next Thursday evening. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DINNER IS POSTPONED Annual installation: of : officers of Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, scheduled for. Tuesday evening at National hotel was postponed. Tuesday night was the climax of the season’s worst snowstorm to date. Carl T. Mills, secretary of Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee, was scheduleq to speak at the dinner meeting. H. F. Sofge, secretary ' of the local chamber, said a new date will’ be announced. Sofge added that an attendance of more than 75 had been expected Tuesday night, based on advance sale of tickets. E. L. KYLE RE-ELECTED . SHERIFF'S POSSE HEAD E. L. “Bud” Kyle, Nevada City, was renamed president of Nevada County Sheriff’s Posse at annual election meeting. and dinner Wednesday evening at the Gold Nugget Inn. = Paul Viles, Grass Valley, was chosen vice president succeeding Undersheriff Otis Hardt. Deputy sen secretary to succeed Robert L. Tamblyn. Ralph E. Deeble was re-elected treasurer. Kyle was in charge of the affair, which featured chicken, the frieq kind. FIREMEN CALLED:IN STORM Nevada City’s volunteer fire department answered a call to the home of Earl Rickard, Old Lower Grass Valley road, Tuesa fallen 11,000-volt power li PLAN’ OFFICIAL URGES. SCHOOL SITE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE. for expansion, and within walking distance of at least half of

the anticipated students of a proposed union high school for Nevada City and Grass Valley, was recommended by Edgar Parsons, field representative of the division of school planning, before a meeting of members of the Nevada county committee on school organization Wednesday evening in the offices of Walter A. Carlson, schools, two communities would call for 100 percent transportation requirements, a high school plant with facilities for 1,000 students would cost approximately $800,000. POSTAL RECEIPTS IN 1949 REACH $39,000 becoming a first class post office this year by a sum less than $1,000, according to figures released yesterday by William J. Wasley, postmaster. $39,000.79, according to Wasley. Receipts of: $40,000 would have placed Nevada City in the first class rating. of more than $4,000 over 1948, the previous all-time high. SPORTSMEN’S CLUB BALLOTING BY MAIL ducted for the 1950 slate of officers for Nevada County Sportsmen’s Club, according to H. F. Sofge, secretary-treasurer. vice president, “with Paul Viles and Tom Nettells opposed. president, and Sofge is unopposed for secretary-treasurer. directors are Tom Keckler Sr., Carl Foote, Cliff Dancer, Fred Emery, Gene Johnson and Crofford. Bridges. AMERICAN PW’S CAN COLLECT DIET CLAIMS were prisoners of the axis during World War II, either as military personnel or civilians, can now obtain official. forms on which to collect payment for substandard diet during the time they were in enemy hands. fairs Lawrence C. Stevens said the forms, just received from war claims commission in’ Washington have been distributed to the county veterans service officers, community.service centers and headquarters of leading veterans organizations throughout California. receive $1 for each day of imprisonment on which the enemy failed to provide adequate food. Under certain conditions civilian internees may be: entitled to $60 for each month of their intern. ment, . that. head for this story. A 30-acre site to provide room county superintendent of Parsons said a site between the Parsons estimated the cost of Nevada City post office missed Postal receipts in .1949: were The 1949 figure is an increase Receipts in recent years: We $39,000.79 Wer ee 34,976.81 SO ite 33,641.26 Elie anes 27,635.89 CS Re Reese ea 24,075.39 POOR es 21,944.35 TN i ce, 19,615.13 Balloting by mail is being conOnly contest is in the race for Carl Larsen is unopposed for ‘Candidates for the board of Nevada county residents who State Director of Veterans AfFormer prisoners of war may The money comes from enemy . assets held in this country. . A CRY OF MUSH RANG THROUGH THE SLUSH We just couldn’t resist. writing . Publicizing the annual Truck. ee dog derby a team of Alaskan . huskies rolled up Broad street . ‘yesterday afternoon. . The teani and driver had been trucked from Truckee to Grass . season’s Valley where they rolled through the main streets to Hills Flat. Reloaded into ‘the :truck they ity, and mushed through the day to douse a tree set afire by . drove to the outskirts of Nevada Firemen patrolled the area power crews took over to repair the line. : slush of our snow-clogged streets. Rolled is the correct word as the sled was equipped with wheels, PLACER COLLEGE WINS MODESTO TOURNAMENT Basketball is at fever pitch in this area*this week because of the sensational victory scored by Placer College Spartans in winning the state junior college basketball tournament in Modesto Saturday night after five victories over some of the strongest and largest schools in ‘California. The Spartans overwhelmed Menlo College, 63 to 35 in the finals before 1,700 fans. It was a cleancut victory. _ Six men, Captain Billy Kolak, Jim Sugrue, George Goto, Dick Alvari, Charles Hawkins and Fred Besana carried the bulk of . : the work with Larry Brewer, Harold Ruggles, Primo Santini and Ron .Lienecke also seeing action. Hawkins, a Nevada City boy, was a major factor in the championship, according to Coach Harry Aronson, and is a determined player. His playing at a forward position Saturday night, Aronson said, was an important contribution to the final victory. After ten minutes of sparring. in the final game, Placer put on a burst of speed, led at half time by 12. points and scored two fast ones in the starting minute of the second half to safely stow the game away. Two! Placer men, Goto and Sugrue, were selected for the alltournament team. Goto also won sportsmanship award chosen by tournament officials. Placer entered the finals by defeating College of the Sequoia, Visalia, 61 to 50: Saturday afternoon. Placer was perfect in the first 12 minutes of this game, holding Visalia men to three free throws and piling up a 22-3 lead. Placer got careless with passing and Coach Aronson put Besana of baseball fame into the lineup, to steady his team. Besana was the thing the club needed and Placer went on to play a steady variety of ball, leading by 17 points at half time. In the closing minutes of the contest, the going got rough, and substitutes finished the game, with Placer always in control of the situation. . Sugrue and Alvari were scoring heavily, while Kolak, Goto, Besana and Hawkins were doing a splendid job on the floor. q Meanwhile Menlo got to the‘ finals by handing Pasadena Junior College a solid. beating and it looked, like a close final. Placer reached the semi-finals the hard way beating Stockton, Long Beach and Grant Tech on successive nights. Stockton was downed 51 to 48 in a thriller which saw Placer take a long Jead and close strong. Long Beach was downed 63 to 58, with Placer in control of the game most of the second half. Grant Tech, a sturdy foe, threw a scare into Placer and lead 14 to 5 after ten minutes of play. Placer went into a 20 to 19 lead at half time. Here Placer made a serious decision, going into a zone defense and using wer, reserve center along ith Subsue regular center, an ana, a tall man, at: guard. ® It warked. The big men controlled the backboard after Placer got into the lead and held Grant in check as they went on to win a 42 to 36 victory over the team many had . thought: would annex the cham. pionship this year. The way Coach Harry Aronson handled his men in the Grant . game was masterly and showed his squad he knew what to ao when the going was rough. ‘ The two-way confidence gain. ed in the Grant game made the . Placer squad unstoppable in the . final two games of the tournament. . . . SLED NO TURN, BOY HURT Pat Roberts, son of Mr. “and . Mrs. Ernest Roberts, joined the . ice~ casualty list: this . . week when his sled failed to negotiate a turn on Gethsemane . car. : After a quick trip to the docchin he was ready for more sled street and plunged into a parked . ding. ; Ea ‘ STARTS MONDAY a ell iid : Nevada county’s annual March of Dimes campaign will start ‘on Monday under the chairmanship of Ray Hodge. Mrs. Adele Sturtevant is chairman of the Nevada ‘City campaign, which continues through Monday, Jan. 30. —Walter Barrett, publisher of the Sierra Sun, will chairman the Truckee drive. — : Mrs. Sturtevant announced the local campaign will’ be conducted in a canvass of houses and businesses by the Girl Scouts, dance and program. Chairman Hodge announced identification cards will be c¢arried by workers and urged full support pointing out, “The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has’ come across for Nevada county, :now it’s our chance to come across for the Foundation.” Robert Grazziana, treasurer of the county chapter, reported theunit spent $23,216 for polio treatment in 1949. One case still at Children’s hospital, San Francisco, has cost. over $5,900. — Grazziani’s report indicated $15,135 was spent for hospitalizaiton; $1,302 for doctors’ fees; $1,584 for transportation, chapter maintenance and therapy, and purchases of braces,” 5 NID HOPES TO PURCHASE OMEGA WATER RIGHTS TO SERVE BLUE TENT Announcement of a desire of the Nevada irrigation district’s desire to purchase Omega water rights was made Tuedsay by Forrest Varney, manager of the district. Varney said the district hoped to bring water to Harmony ridye and the Blue Tent district. Varney pointed out purchase of Omega water rights is imperative to the future development of the two areas as residential developments. Varney also announced receipt of checks totaling $80,824.28, representing amount awarded. district in its seven-year litigation against the federal government for ditch damage in Camp Beale area. STOLEN TRUCK FOUND WRECKED OFF GRADE A truck reported to have been stolen from Elmer. Caster, Nevada City, Dec. 12, was found off the grade, wrecked, 15 miles west of Downieville. Highway Patrolman Ed Hoyt and. Sierra County Sheriff W. D. Johnson investigated and found no body near the wreckage. Bloodhounds taken to the scene. showed no interest in a trail. The officers reported snipers working the creek in the vicinity said they first noticed the wreckage two weeks ago but assumed the authorities knew of it. Truck ignition system had been rewired around the switch, which was , locked. HANLEY SECRETARY .OF PLUMAS-SIERRA BUREAU Robert C. Hanley, sevecutive-. secretary of Nevada County Farm Bureau, has been appointed field secretary of Plumas-Sierra County Farm Bureau. t The combined county bureau is one of the youngest in the state and first to fill its membership ‘quota. Hanley, a veteran in farm bureau work, will assist in coordination of various rural programs untilGsuch time as afull time executive-secretary is warranted. COUNTY OFFICIALS FACE ELECTORATE THIS YEAR All elective officials of Nevada county except Superior Judge James Snell, Supervisors Carl J. Tobiassen, Frank J. Rowe and = Henry G. Loehr .will face their electorate this yéar. Candidates cannot filed for the. June 6 primary earlier than Wednesday, March 8. i: No incumbent has as yet announced intention of filing. STORK OUTRUNS REAPER Nevada City’s births almost quadrupled deaths in 1949, according to figures released yesterday afternoon by Sam Hooper,. city vital statistician. Hooper reported births numbered 118, with deaths at 33. In December there were five b and seven girls born, = Whos % NEVADA COUNTY POLIOCAMPAIGN