January 27, 1950 (6 pages)

ee en ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eS ee ee ee eg ee ee eS ee ne eee eee Oe ae ‘g te ae 2 ae = > oe PORCUPINE Is FOREST PUBLIC ENEMY NO. ONE Erethizon (Porcupine) Epixanthum has become Public Enemy No. 1 of California’s forests. Such was the statement yesterday of Guerdon Ellis, supervisor, and T. B. Niehaus, timber management division, of Tahoe National Forest. ‘Once hailed as a lovable and interesting bit, of Sierra fauna, the roly-poly western porcupine that waddles through the forests of California;~is:slewly but methodically destroying those same forests: The porcupine, long mistakenly believed to be an important emergency ration for lost huntsmen, is nowadays considered .the scourge of the forest and No. 1 on a list of animals scheduled for eradication. Ellis said the bark eating, tree destroying habits of these animated pin cushions were becoming more and more serious, particularly among young ponderosa pines, one of Nevada county’s important commercial trees. Niehaus reported that in one planted area of 100,000 trees on the eastern side of thé Sierras that more than one-half of the trees had been girdled by the bark eating pests and were due for either death or deformity. Similar depredations are going ‘on in a replanted area near Forest Hill in Placer county, the officials pointed out. : , Niehaus said that a regular program of poisoning and shoot‘ing had been underway for several years but that the porcupine population was increasing steadily despite the campaigns. Neither Ellis nor Niehaus could give an estimate on the actual annual damage wrought by porcupines and pointed out much of the damage will be reflected in future-decades when twisted ana deformed ‘trees which should be’ ued at s¢veral hundred dollars will orthless andpassed up by the loggers. ~ Niehaus declared the popular belief the~porcupine was an important emergency food for distréssed hunters had little foundation. He claimed there were few authenticated records of a person saved from starvation dining on porcupine. Because of the porcupine’s nocturnal habits there is little likelihood that a hungry hunter would find one of the animals, the official pointed out. “Even if one was captured, skinned and prepared for the table the diner would discover that a baked porcupine as a gastronomic delicacy, much resembled a baked, pine cone,” Niehaus declared. Both oficials blamed the _ increase of porcupine population on the tendency of the public to believe a porcupine was a cute little fellow that added glamour to. Califorsia’s woodlands. The destruction of wild cats and coyotes, natural enemies of the quill pig,, was also said to be a contributing factor to increase. Niehaus. suggested eradication of the pest could be accomplished by educating hunters and fishermen to destroy the animals, plus an increased program of poisoning and organized hunts. Ellis said porcupine eradication had been part of the forest service program for many years but the porcupine continued to increase despite a poisoning and shooting program. The poison used is a salt and strychnine mix placed high in trees known to be roosting places for the animal. The: officials could: not offer porcupine population figures in the Tahoe forest but said that it was continually increasing and ‘damage was becoming more extensive. SHERIFF TO SEIZE GUNS OF CARELESS SHOOTERS Guns of careless shooters will be confiscated under. court action by the sheriff's office, according to an announcement by Sheriff Righard W. Hoskins. The announcement followed a conference between Sheriff Hoskins and Probation Officer Tom Barrett regarding recent reports of shooting ‘at lights, windows and destroying property by careless gun handlers. Hoskins added ‘that parents would be held responsible for property damage perpetrated by juveniles. ; “There has been quite a bit of vandalism of this type in the county recently and we mean business,” Sheriff. Hoskins said. “The ‘hunting season is closed and there is-no Treason for anyone. to be out with a gun.” a Volume 23, No. 4 ‘NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA. Friday, jada 27,. 1950 CAMP BEALE . AIR ACADEMY BEING PUSHED Warren ‘Shingle, secretary of Marysville Chamber of Commerce, in an hour’s talk, presented an outline of a campaign to bring the proposed U. S. air force academy to Camp Beale before a crowded Chamber of Commerce room in Grass: Valley Tuesday. Attending the meeting from Nevada City were Mayor Arthur B. Innis, Councilman William Mullis, I. C. Bell, vice president of Nevada City Chamber of Commerce; H. F. Sofge, secretary of Nevada City ‘Chamber: of Commerce; and Stanley Halls. Shingle, for many years secretary of the Yuba county civic organization and principal person responsible for bringing Camp Beale to this area, was ‘accompanied’ by William Houserman, wartime. war production: board engineer, and Garlan Epley, formerly of Grass Valley. Shingle informed the gathering the government expects to spend at -least $300,000,000 in establishing a permanent air academy in the pattern of‘the military academy at West Point, N. Y., and the naval academy at Annapolis Shingle said 158 communities west of the Mississippi river are bidding for the site of the air academy. The Marysville civic leader bluntly told the group the bid to convert Camp Beale into an air academy is “a long shot, faced by a substantial bloc of opposi‘tion.” Houserman: agreed with Shingle that Camp Beale has only a reasonable chance in competition against metropolitan areas and Randolph Field in Texas, which for years has been known as the “West Point of the Air.” . Shingle displayed brochures he is preparing for presentation to government officials and Nevada City and Grass Valley information pertinent to the project are included. Shingle emphasized that Camp Beale meets all government specifications of 10,000 acres suitable for air strips, excellent climate, good water and drainage, and a perfect sil haa flying seagen. Shingle reported the western air academy plans call for training of 3,000 prospective officers, calling for 10,000additional personnel to conduct the training program. Shingle peints t the academy would mean a $4,000,800 monthly payroll for this area. Congressmen and officials in’ Washington are receiving barrages of telegrams and letters urging support of the project for Camp Beale. Shingle added that Yuba, county board of supervisors voted an appropriatton of $1,000 to assist in financing research and compilation and presentation of Camp Beale bid. Shingle estimated the bid project would cost about $5,000. Shingle said success in bringing the project to Camp Beale depends upon the accumulation of factual, irrefutable data of the military ‘site itself and related statistics. REPRINTS OF SNOW STORY AVAILABLE Although The Nugget printed extra copies of last week’s publication containing a story of the earlier snow storms, the current storm, and -1l00-year report. of rainfall in Nevada City, we were . unprepared for the great demand for copies and early Saturday every copy except for our records were sold. We have reprinted four pages ‘of last week’s issue including the historical information. and they are available as long as they last at two for five cents. The Nugget: is preparing an . article on‘ the street car line and we will appreciate any information and photographs. .On an inside page appears the story of what is purported to be the first death in Nevada City. We do not guarantee: the authen-; ticity of the story. BOARD DISCUSSES WELFARE CHANGEOVER Nevada county board of supervisors Wednesday inforfnally discusséd changeover of welfare service from state to county aaministration which becomes effective March 1. Kief Melberg, supervisor of Nevada county office of the state welfare office, appeared before .the board and submitted list of employes he suggested be transferred to county office. The state will participate in financing of the welfare program from March 1 until July 1 when financing will be borne by the county. STENGER MASON HEAD AS SECOND 100 YEARS START Joseph Stenger, who. has been a member exactly half the time Nevada City Lodge No. 13, F. & A. M., has existed; will return to the seat of Worshipful Master -tomorrow. evening to guide the organization as it starts its second century of existence. Stenger who served as Worshipful Master in 1906, will be installed at ceremonies at Masonic hall with George B. Legg, past master as marshal. The lodge was instituted in November, 1850, and was known as Lafayette lodge. It is the oldest fraternal unit in Nevada City. The ceremony will be preceded by a sumptuous turkey dinner at 6 o’clock with member of the Evangeline Chapter of Order of the. Eastern Star, in charge. Other officers to be installed are Carl M. Ivey, senior warden; Joseph, H. Mason, junior warden; Benjamin Hall, treasurer; and Thomas W. Lawrence, secretary. Trustees of the Hall Association are Joseph W. Day, Fred M. Tourtellotte and J. F. Siegfried. PUC ABANDONS PHONE ACTIONS IN NEVADA CITY, GRASS VALLEY Public utilities commission of California announced this week it contemplates no further action on telephone rates between Nevada City and Grass Valley. Last spring Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, which serves this area, doubled the toll rate between the two communities from a minimum five cents to a minimum 10 cents. In response to complaints on the boosted rates the commission instructed the telephone company to file a report on traffic analysis, revenue, expense, and plant effects of introducing extended service in Nevada _ City-Grass Valley area. Subsequently, the company submitted the results of the survey, which included results of 174 interviews with telephone users in the area. A review of the list of persons interviewed indtcates they constitute a representative cross-section of telephone users in the two communities, the commission reported. The commission added the results of the survey showed that 75 percent of those interviewed preferred the present service arrangement. The Weather Fred Bush, observer , High Low Prec. Friday, Jan. 20 55 32 Saturday, Jan: 21 50 34 ao Sunday, Jan. 22 48 33 =—-:1.10 Monday, Jan. 23 49 35: 110 Tuesday, Jan. 24 45 26 a2 Wed., Jan. 25°2:.35 ~ d4 Thurs., Jan. 26 34 14 YOUTH APPREHENDED Chief of Police Max Solaro and Patrolman Clarence Martz apprehended 19-year-dld youth on reof-ef Odd Fellows building at 4:30 o’clock Monday morning after.he had broken a skylight preparatory to entering Ramsey’s bar. The youth, on probation from’ Preston school for boys, is being placed in, custody. of an uncle in Stockton. CLERK ISSUES MARRIAGE LICENSE TO BROTHER Business has been slow this year for marriage license issuing department of the county clerk’s office in Nevada county. In fact: 50 perce the two. licenses issued so.\far this year by Mrs, Jean Rowe Keeney, deputy clerk who usually handles the issuing of marriage licenses in Ralph E. Deeble office, was granted last Wednesday to her brother, David Glenn Rowe, also a county employe. Rowe, son of Nevada County Supervisor Frank J. Rowe, will be married to Lillian Margaret McConnell. Both are from Grass Valley. MARCH OF DIMES CARD PARTY IS SET FOR FEB. 1 Public ecard party for purpose of raising funds for 1950 March of Dimes campaign in Nevada City will be held Wednesday at Nevada City Elks Hall. Door prizes and prizes for card games will be given at the party, according to Mrs. John J. Fortier, chairman. Members of the general committee are Mr. and Mrs. Edward . A. Franz, Mr. and Mrs Robert Tamblyn, Mr and Mrs William L Tamblyn, Mr. and Mrs. I C Bell, Mr afd Mrs George Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sigourney, Mr and Mrs. John Sbaffi and Mr. and Mrs L E Noyes. “The March of Dimes for 1950 in Nevada county should go over the top if we stop and think about the polio epidemic of 1949,” Mrs. Fortier said. “Every organization and individual contacted has pledged all-out support, * she added. “Last year Nevada county unit of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis spent $24,000 of national foundation _ funds,” Mrs. Sturtevafit said. “Nevada county raised\ $5,000 during the i and twice asked aid to hospitalize Sturtevant, Nevada an of the campaign, said Girl Scouts will operate tables in stores tomorrow and will canvass the residential district in an effort to put the drive over the top. Mrs. Robert Graham will direct the Girl Scouts in Gold Flat and Ridge Road districts. Assistants are Mrs. Leo Cullen, Miss Honi Ray, Mrs. Irene Paulsen and Mrs. Elise de Mattei. Albert Kenny will receive contributions at the local branch office of the Bank of America. In addition to the card party Wednesday night at the Elks hall the Nevada City Lions club will sponsor a dance for benefit of the March of Dimes campaign. It is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 10 at the Elks hall. WATER PROBLEMS OF NID ENDED BY STORM Water problems for the present have been ended jn the Nevada irrigation district, according to Forrest Varney, manager! Rainstorms of the past week cleared the ditches and returned them to normal flow, Varney declared. What was at first believed to be a flume break on Snow Mountain ditch turned out-to be a snow. blanket in the upper Deer creek watershed. Warmer” temperatures and the thawing ice and snow returned a flow of water-to theditch and @ snow tunnel formed through the blanket. Varney said ditches are ‘carrying so much water from natural drainage that cutting back of the heads were. necessary. In.,the mountain division of the district the situation is not as good, Varney reported. A major break of 140 feet and another of 45 feet on the BowmanSpaulding canal has curtailed water delivery to the Pacific Gas & Electric compeny at Laks Spaulding. TAXABLE SALES . SLIGHTLY UNDER STATE AVERAGE Tax. revenues from retail sales of tangible personal property in Nevada county during the third quarter of 1949 established a record total of $120,228, despite a drop in taxable sales to a point 10.39 percent below the level of the corresponding quarter of 1948, according to figures released by Jerrold L. Seawell, third district member of the board of equalization. The opposite trends in taxable sales and tax'receipts resulted from the discontinuance of the one-half percent wartime reduction in the tax rate that had been in effect between July 1, 1943 and June 30, 1949. Taxable sales ‘amounted to $4,007,596, or nearly eight-ninths of the $4,592,000 of taxable sales reported for the third quarter of 1948. Third quarter taxable sales in Nevada county in 1947 were $4,142,000. Over one-fifth of all taxable expenditures in the third quarter were for the purchase or maintenance of automobiles, Sea. well stated. Sales of motor vehicle dealers accounted for over 15% percent of the total revenue and were 10.4 percent larger than in the third quarter of 1948. Service stations, automotive supplies and parts dealers, and garages received another 4% cents of the consumers’ dollar. This does not represent gasoline purchases which are not subject to sales tax. Sporting goods stores and food stores. other than grocery stores were the only other retail classes to show gains in sales over the corresponding quarter of 1948. It was estimated that their sales were nine and 14 percent higher, respectively, than in the corresponding quarter of 1948. Eating and drinking places and outlets for luxury goods, such as tobacco, jewelry and musical instruments, continued to show declines in relation to the’ sales of a year ago. Sales reported by dealers in building materials also were lower, but the drop was less ‘than that shown for business aS a whole. : Nevada county with its decrease of 10.39 percent in taxable sales for 1949. over 1948 ranked 45th among the 58 counties, climbing from 56th in rank on the second quarter, 1949, report. San Francisco county showed the biggest decrease in the state with 16.23 percent decline. Sierra county was next with a 15.35 percent decline. Counties with larger percentages of decrease in taxable sales are Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Napa, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Shasta,: Sierra and Trinity. Mono county with an increase of 17.10 percent lead all counties at the top end of the sales report. Colusa was second with 10.71 percent. Other counties reporting iricreases were Madera, Mendocino, Placer, San Mateo, Siskiyou and Yolo. State average as a whole was 9.56 percent decrease. APRIL 11 IS DATE SET FOR $155,000 BOND ELECTION Tuesday, April 11 was set by Nevada City council as date for a $155,000 bond issue election to finance construction of proposed $130,000 sewage disposal plant and purchase of $25,000 worth of fire fighting equipment. The city fathers set the date at an adjourned session Monday night at city hall. The date was selected to coincide with regular city election. © City officials whose terms expire this year are filled by Mayor Arthur B. Innis, Councilman Leo Cullen and Councilman William Mullis. The ordinance setting up ia: election is being prepared this week by a San Francis¢o legal firm and will be voted upon at the council’s regular session next Thursday evening. Ed C. Uren and J. F.Siegfried, local engineers, estimate the disposal plant total cost at $149,800. Preparatory work done by the city street crew has saved the community an estimated $3,200. Budgeted for roads and benching excavation, and fill for sludge beds was $7,200. City Clerk George H, Calanan estimates the cost by city crews will approximate $4,000. Budgeted expenditures on the sewage disposal plant include structural excavation, 5,500 cubic yards at $2, $11,000; rock in filter, 1,850 cubic yards at $5, $9,250; concrete, 1,000 cubic yards at $50, $50,000; reinforcing steel, 100,000 feet at 10c, $10,000; structural steel, 15,000 feet at 25c, $3,750; four-inch underdrain tile, 4,500 feet at $1, $4,500; sludge collectors, two at $6,000, $12,000; chlorinator, $2,000; comminutor, $1,500; piping and nozzles, $6,000; electrical, $1,500; plans and specification, $5,100; engineering supervision, $3, 400; real estate, un-: determined; legal work and publication, $1,000; outfall sewer, $8,400; road to plant, $1,500. The state will pay half the cost of plans and specifications and ° $34,000 toward the plant. Councilman Thomas F. Taylor pointed out at Monday’s session the sewage disposal plant would have to be built regardless of the outcome of the bond election and the only alternative would bé to build the plant and pay for it in three years through direct taxation. The council will decide retirement period of the bond issue at Thursday evening’s meeting. Al Lindsay, local reporter for the Grass Valley Union, asked permission from the city council for use of the city hall as a meeting place for a, junior Chamber of Commerce. Lindsay stated he was ‘approached by a group of ‘local businessmen to make the request. The council approved. Mullis was appointed to represent the council on the military affairs committee of Marysville District Chamber of Commerce, which has started a campaign to bring an air force cadet school to Camp Beale. Council approved installation of a -rubber-valved sprinkling system at the athletic field at Pioneer park. Council tabled proposed °ordinance to transfer assessing and tax collecting to the county. Postponed discussion with W. H. Meuron, Pacific Gas & Electric company illumination enginaeer and city planning commission regarding lighting program for the city and installation of lights at the athletic field until .Thursday’s meeting. GEORGE HALSTEAD BUYS ROSEVILLE WOMAN ASKS INTEREST OF PARTNER! $11,347.65 DAMAGES George Halstead, partner with Vernon Gulartie in operation of G. & H. Pharmacy the past. two years announced he_ has _ purchased Gulartie’s interest in the pharmacy firm. Halstead said the firm Will retain the same name and there will be no policy change. Mr. and’ Mrs. Sam Bedwell have taken a. first mortgage.on the firm with Gulartie holding a second mortgage. FARM CENTER MEETING TONIGHT AT SEAMAN'S. . Cc. J. Rolph, state delegate for Nevada ,County Farm Bureau, is to be guest speaker at regular meeting of Nevada City. Farm Center this evening at 8 o’clock at Seaman’s Lodge, Pioneer park. Program will include sound motion pictures. Refreshments Beth French Free, Roseville, filed suit Wednesday in superior court against Leo Quinn, Dutch Flat, asking $11,47.65 damages as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident May 8, 1949 one mile from Grass Valley on the Colfax highway. The plaintiff charges. Quinn. fell asleep while driving and ran She charges she suffered a fractured jaw, right leg and contusions resulting in. permanent scars on face and leg. She asks $10,000 damages and_ $1,347.65 medical expenses. Al Broyer, Roseville, is attorney for plaintiff. FRASER PROMOTED a Bureau of. fish conservation, division of fish and game, has announced the promotion of Jack C. Fraser to district fisheries biojogist with headq in: Placerville. He formerly\served as assistant biologist in a

ee en ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eS ee ee ee eg ee ee eS ee ne eee eee Oe ae ‘g te ae 2 ae = > oe PORCUPINE Is FOREST PUBLIC ENEMY NO. ONE Erethizon (Porcupine) Epixanthum has become Public Enemy No. 1 of California’s forests. Such was the statement yesterday of Guerdon Ellis, supervisor, and T. B. Niehaus, timber management division, of Tahoe National Forest. ‘Once hailed as a lovable and interesting bit, of Sierra fauna, the roly-poly western porcupine that waddles through the forests of California;~is:slewly but methodically destroying those same forests: The porcupine, long mistakenly believed to be an important emergency ration for lost huntsmen, is nowadays considered .the scourge of the forest and No. 1 on a list of animals scheduled for eradication. Ellis said the bark eating, tree destroying habits of these animated pin cushions were becoming more and more serious, particularly among young ponderosa pines, one of Nevada county’s important commercial trees. Niehaus reported that in one planted area of 100,000 trees on the eastern side of thé Sierras that more than one-half of the trees had been girdled by the bark eating pests and were due for either death or deformity. Similar depredations are going ‘on in a replanted area near Forest Hill in Placer county, the officials pointed out. : , Niehaus said that a regular program of poisoning and shoot‘ing had been underway for several years but that the porcupine population was increasing steadily despite the campaigns. Neither Ellis nor Niehaus could give an estimate on the actual annual damage wrought by porcupines and pointed out much of the damage will be reflected in future-decades when twisted ana deformed ‘trees which should be’ ued at s¢veral hundred dollars will orthless andpassed up by the loggers. ~ Niehaus declared the popular belief the~porcupine was an important emergency food for distréssed hunters had little foundation. He claimed there were few authenticated records of a person saved from starvation dining on porcupine. Because of the porcupine’s nocturnal habits there is little likelihood that a hungry hunter would find one of the animals, the official pointed out. “Even if one was captured, skinned and prepared for the table the diner would discover that a baked porcupine as a gastronomic delicacy, much resembled a baked, pine cone,” Niehaus declared. Both oficials blamed the _ increase of porcupine population on the tendency of the public to believe a porcupine was a cute little fellow that added glamour to. Califorsia’s woodlands. The destruction of wild cats and coyotes, natural enemies of the quill pig,, was also said to be a contributing factor to increase. Niehaus. suggested eradication of the pest could be accomplished by educating hunters and fishermen to destroy the animals, plus an increased program of poisoning and organized hunts. Ellis said porcupine eradication had been part of the forest service program for many years but the porcupine continued to increase despite a poisoning and shooting program. The poison used is a salt and strychnine mix placed high in trees known to be roosting places for the animal. The: officials could: not offer porcupine population figures in the Tahoe forest but said that it was continually increasing and ‘damage was becoming more extensive. SHERIFF TO SEIZE GUNS OF CARELESS SHOOTERS Guns of careless shooters will be confiscated under. court action by the sheriff's office, according to an announcement by Sheriff Righard W. Hoskins. The announcement followed a conference between Sheriff Hoskins and Probation Officer Tom Barrett regarding recent reports of shooting ‘at lights, windows and destroying property by careless gun handlers. Hoskins added ‘that parents would be held responsible for property damage perpetrated by juveniles. ; “There has been quite a bit of vandalism of this type in the county recently and we mean business,” Sheriff. Hoskins said. “The ‘hunting season is closed and there is-no Treason for anyone. to be out with a gun.” a Volume 23, No. 4 ‘NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA. Friday, jada 27,. 1950 CAMP BEALE . AIR ACADEMY BEING PUSHED Warren ‘Shingle, secretary of Marysville Chamber of Commerce, in an hour’s talk, presented an outline of a campaign to bring the proposed U. S. air force academy to Camp Beale before a crowded Chamber of Commerce room in Grass: Valley Tuesday. Attending the meeting from Nevada City were Mayor Arthur B. Innis, Councilman William Mullis, I. C. Bell, vice president of Nevada City Chamber of Commerce; H. F. Sofge, secretary of Nevada City ‘Chamber: of Commerce; and Stanley Halls. Shingle, for many years secretary of the Yuba county civic organization and principal person responsible for bringing Camp Beale to this area, was ‘accompanied’ by William Houserman, wartime. war production: board engineer, and Garlan Epley, formerly of Grass Valley. Shingle informed the gathering the government expects to spend at -least $300,000,000 in establishing a permanent air academy in the pattern of‘the military academy at West Point, N. Y., and the naval academy at Annapolis Shingle said 158 communities west of the Mississippi river are bidding for the site of the air academy. The Marysville civic leader bluntly told the group the bid to convert Camp Beale into an air academy is “a long shot, faced by a substantial bloc of opposi‘tion.” Houserman: agreed with Shingle that Camp Beale has only a reasonable chance in competition against metropolitan areas and Randolph Field in Texas, which for years has been known as the “West Point of the Air.” . Shingle displayed brochures he is preparing for presentation to government officials and Nevada City and Grass Valley information pertinent to the project are included. Shingle emphasized that Camp Beale meets all government specifications of 10,000 acres suitable for air strips, excellent climate, good water and drainage, and a perfect sil haa flying seagen. Shingle reported the western air academy plans call for training of 3,000 prospective officers, calling for 10,000additional personnel to conduct the training program. Shingle peints t the academy would mean a $4,000,800 monthly payroll for this area. Congressmen and officials in’ Washington are receiving barrages of telegrams and letters urging support of the project for Camp Beale. Shingle added that Yuba, county board of supervisors voted an appropriatton of $1,000 to assist in financing research and compilation and presentation of Camp Beale bid. Shingle estimated the bid project would cost about $5,000. Shingle said success in bringing the project to Camp Beale depends upon the accumulation of factual, irrefutable data of the military ‘site itself and related statistics. REPRINTS OF SNOW STORY AVAILABLE Although The Nugget printed extra copies of last week’s publication containing a story of the earlier snow storms, the current storm, and -1l00-year report. of rainfall in Nevada City, we were . unprepared for the great demand for copies and early Saturday every copy except for our records were sold. We have reprinted four pages ‘of last week’s issue including the historical information. and they are available as long as they last at two for five cents. The Nugget: is preparing an . article on‘ the street car line and we will appreciate any information and photographs. .On an inside page appears the story of what is purported to be the first death in Nevada City. We do not guarantee: the authen-; ticity of the story. BOARD DISCUSSES WELFARE CHANGEOVER Nevada county board of supervisors Wednesday inforfnally discusséd changeover of welfare service from state to county aaministration which becomes effective March 1. Kief Melberg, supervisor of Nevada county office of the state welfare office, appeared before .the board and submitted list of employes he suggested be transferred to county office. The state will participate in financing of the welfare program from March 1 until July 1 when financing will be borne by the county. STENGER MASON HEAD AS SECOND 100 YEARS START Joseph Stenger, who. has been a member exactly half the time Nevada City Lodge No. 13, F. & A. M., has existed; will return to the seat of Worshipful Master -tomorrow. evening to guide the organization as it starts its second century of existence. Stenger who served as Worshipful Master in 1906, will be installed at ceremonies at Masonic hall with George B. Legg, past master as marshal. The lodge was instituted in November, 1850, and was known as Lafayette lodge. It is the oldest fraternal unit in Nevada City. The ceremony will be preceded by a sumptuous turkey dinner at 6 o’clock with member of the Evangeline Chapter of Order of the. Eastern Star, in charge. Other officers to be installed are Carl M. Ivey, senior warden; Joseph, H. Mason, junior warden; Benjamin Hall, treasurer; and Thomas W. Lawrence, secretary. Trustees of the Hall Association are Joseph W. Day, Fred M. Tourtellotte and J. F. Siegfried. PUC ABANDONS PHONE ACTIONS IN NEVADA CITY, GRASS VALLEY Public utilities commission of California announced this week it contemplates no further action on telephone rates between Nevada City and Grass Valley. Last spring Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, which serves this area, doubled the toll rate between the two communities from a minimum five cents to a minimum 10 cents. In response to complaints on the boosted rates the commission instructed the telephone company to file a report on traffic analysis, revenue, expense, and plant effects of introducing extended service in Nevada _ City-Grass Valley area. Subsequently, the company submitted the results of the survey, which included results of 174 interviews with telephone users in the area. A review of the list of persons interviewed indtcates they constitute a representative cross-section of telephone users in the two communities, the commission reported. The commission added the results of the survey showed that 75 percent of those interviewed preferred the present service arrangement. The Weather Fred Bush, observer , High Low Prec. Friday, Jan. 20 55 32 Saturday, Jan: 21 50 34 ao Sunday, Jan. 22 48 33 =—-:1.10 Monday, Jan. 23 49 35: 110 Tuesday, Jan. 24 45 26 a2 Wed., Jan. 25°2:.35 ~ d4 Thurs., Jan. 26 34 14 YOUTH APPREHENDED Chief of Police Max Solaro and Patrolman Clarence Martz apprehended 19-year-dld youth on reof-ef Odd Fellows building at 4:30 o’clock Monday morning after.he had broken a skylight preparatory to entering Ramsey’s bar. The youth, on probation from’ Preston school for boys, is being placed in, custody. of an uncle in Stockton. CLERK ISSUES MARRIAGE LICENSE TO BROTHER Business has been slow this year for marriage license issuing department of the county clerk’s office in Nevada county. In fact: 50 perce the two. licenses issued so.\far this year by Mrs, Jean Rowe Keeney, deputy clerk who usually handles the issuing of marriage licenses in Ralph E. Deeble office, was granted last

Wednesday to her brother, David Glenn Rowe, also a county employe. Rowe, son of Nevada County Supervisor Frank J. Rowe, will be married to Lillian Margaret McConnell. Both are from Grass Valley. MARCH OF DIMES CARD PARTY IS SET FOR FEB. 1 Public ecard party for purpose of raising funds for 1950 March of Dimes campaign in Nevada City will be held Wednesday at Nevada City Elks Hall. Door prizes and prizes for card games will be given at the party, according to Mrs. John J. Fortier, chairman. Members of the general committee are Mr. and Mrs. Edward . A. Franz, Mr. and Mrs Robert Tamblyn, Mr and Mrs William L Tamblyn, Mr. and Mrs. I C Bell, Mr afd Mrs George Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sigourney, Mr and Mrs. John Sbaffi and Mr. and Mrs L E Noyes. “The March of Dimes for 1950 in Nevada county should go over the top if we stop and think about the polio epidemic of 1949,” Mrs. Fortier said. “Every organization and individual contacted has pledged all-out support, * she added. “Last year Nevada county unit of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis spent $24,000 of national foundation _ funds,” Mrs. Sturtevafit said. “Nevada county raised\ $5,000 during the i and twice asked aid to hospitalize Sturtevant, Nevada an of the campaign, said Girl Scouts will operate tables in stores tomorrow and will canvass the residential district in an effort to put the drive over the top. Mrs. Robert Graham will direct the Girl Scouts in Gold Flat and Ridge Road districts. Assistants are Mrs. Leo Cullen, Miss Honi Ray, Mrs. Irene Paulsen and Mrs. Elise de Mattei. Albert Kenny will receive contributions at the local branch office of the Bank of America. In addition to the card party Wednesday night at the Elks hall the Nevada City Lions club will sponsor a dance for benefit of the March of Dimes campaign. It is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 10 at the Elks hall. WATER PROBLEMS OF NID ENDED BY STORM Water problems for the present have been ended jn the Nevada irrigation district, according to Forrest Varney, manager! Rainstorms of the past week cleared the ditches and returned them to normal flow, Varney declared. What was at first believed to be a flume break on Snow Mountain ditch turned out-to be a snow. blanket in the upper Deer creek watershed. Warmer” temperatures and the thawing ice and snow returned a flow of water-to theditch and @ snow tunnel formed through the blanket. Varney said ditches are ‘carrying so much water from natural drainage that cutting back of the heads were. necessary. In.,the mountain division of the district the situation is not as good, Varney reported. A major break of 140 feet and another of 45 feet on the BowmanSpaulding canal has curtailed water delivery to the Pacific Gas & Electric compeny at Laks Spaulding.. TAXABLE SALES . SLIGHTLY UNDER STATE AVERAGE Tax. revenues from retail sales of tangible personal property in Nevada county during the third quarter of 1949 established a record total of $120,228, despite a drop in taxable sales to a point 10.39 percent below the level of the corresponding quarter of 1948, according to figures released by Jerrold L. Seawell, third district member of the board of equalization. The opposite trends in taxable sales and tax'receipts resulted from the discontinuance of the one-half percent wartime reduction in the tax rate that had been in effect between July 1, 1943 and June 30, 1949. Taxable sales ‘amounted to $4,007,596, or nearly eight-ninths of the $4,592,000 of taxable sales reported for the third quarter of 1948. Third quarter taxable sales in Nevada county in 1947 were $4,142,000. Over one-fifth of all taxable expenditures in the third quarter were for the purchase or maintenance of automobiles, Sea. well stated. Sales of motor vehicle dealers accounted for over 15% percent of the total revenue and were 10.4 percent larger than in the third quarter of 1948. Service stations, automotive supplies and parts dealers, and garages received another 4% cents of the consumers’ dollar. This does not represent gasoline purchases which are not subject to sales tax. Sporting goods stores and food stores. other than grocery stores were the only other retail classes to show gains in sales over the corresponding quarter of 1948. It was estimated that their sales were nine and 14 percent higher, respectively, than in the corresponding quarter of 1948. Eating and drinking places and outlets for luxury goods, such as tobacco, jewelry and musical instruments, continued to show declines in relation to the’ sales of a year ago. Sales reported by dealers in building materials also were lower, but the drop was less ‘than that shown for business aS a whole. : Nevada county with its decrease of 10.39 percent in taxable sales for 1949. over 1948 ranked 45th among the 58 counties, climbing from 56th in rank on the second quarter, 1949, report. San Francisco county showed the biggest decrease in the state with 16.23 percent decline. Sierra county was next with a 15.35 percent decline. Counties with larger percentages of decrease in taxable sales are Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Napa, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Shasta,: Sierra and Trinity. Mono county with an increase of 17.10 percent lead all counties at the top end of the sales report. Colusa was second with 10.71 percent. Other counties reporting iricreases were Madera, Mendocino, Placer, San Mateo, Siskiyou and Yolo. State average as a whole was 9.56 percent decrease. APRIL 11 IS DATE SET FOR $155,000 BOND ELECTION Tuesday, April 11 was set by Nevada City council as date for a $155,000 bond issue election to finance construction of proposed $130,000 sewage disposal plant and purchase of $25,000 worth of fire fighting equipment. The city fathers set the date at an adjourned session Monday night at city hall. The date was selected to coincide with regular city election. © City officials whose terms expire this year are filled by Mayor Arthur B. Innis, Councilman Leo Cullen and Councilman William Mullis. The ordinance setting up ia: election is being prepared this week by a San Francis¢o legal firm and will be voted upon at the council’s regular session next Thursday evening. Ed C. Uren and J. F.Siegfried, local engineers, estimate the disposal plant total cost at $149,800. Preparatory work done by the city street crew has saved the community an estimated $3,200. Budgeted for roads and benching excavation, and fill for sludge beds was $7,200. City Clerk George H, Calanan estimates the cost by city crews will approximate $4,000. Budgeted expenditures on the sewage disposal plant include structural excavation, 5,500 cubic yards at $2, $11,000; rock in filter, 1,850 cubic yards at $5, $9,250; concrete, 1,000 cubic yards at $50, $50,000; reinforcing steel, 100,000 feet at 10c, $10,000; structural steel, 15,000 feet at 25c, $3,750; four-inch underdrain tile, 4,500 feet at $1, $4,500; sludge collectors, two at $6,000, $12,000; chlorinator, $2,000; comminutor, $1,500; piping and nozzles, $6,000; electrical, $1,500; plans and specification, $5,100; engineering supervision, $3, 400; real estate, un-: determined; legal work and publication, $1,000; outfall sewer, $8,400; road to plant, $1,500. The state will pay half the cost of plans and specifications and ° $34,000 toward the plant. Councilman Thomas F. Taylor pointed out at Monday’s session the sewage disposal plant would have to be built regardless of the outcome of the bond election and the only alternative would bé to build the plant and pay for it in three years through direct taxation. The council will decide retirement period of the bond issue at Thursday evening’s meeting. Al Lindsay, local reporter for the Grass Valley Union, asked permission from the city council for use of the city hall as a meeting place for a, junior Chamber of Commerce. Lindsay stated he was ‘approached by a group of ‘local businessmen to make the request. The council approved. Mullis was appointed to represent the council on the military affairs committee of Marysville District Chamber of Commerce, which has started a campaign to bring an air force cadet school to Camp Beale. Council approved installation of a -rubber-valved sprinkling system at the athletic field at Pioneer park. Council tabled proposed °ordinance to transfer assessing and tax collecting to the county. Postponed discussion with W. H. Meuron, Pacific Gas & Electric company illumination enginaeer and city planning commission regarding lighting program for the city and installation of lights at the athletic field until .Thursday’s meeting. GEORGE HALSTEAD BUYS ROSEVILLE WOMAN ASKS INTEREST OF PARTNER! $11,347.65 DAMAGES George Halstead, partner with Vernon Gulartie in operation of G. & H. Pharmacy the past. two years announced he_ has _ purchased Gulartie’s interest in the pharmacy firm. Halstead said the firm Will retain the same name and there will be no policy change. Mr. and’ Mrs. Sam Bedwell have taken a. first mortgage.on the firm with Gulartie holding a second mortgage. FARM CENTER MEETING TONIGHT AT SEAMAN'S. . Cc. J. Rolph, state delegate for Nevada ,County Farm Bureau, is to be guest speaker at regular meeting of Nevada City. Farm Center this evening at 8 o’clock at Seaman’s Lodge, Pioneer park. Program will include sound motion pictures. Refreshments Beth French Free, Roseville, filed suit Wednesday in superior court against Leo Quinn, Dutch Flat, asking $11,47.65 damages as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident May 8, 1949 one mile from Grass Valley on the Colfax highway. The plaintiff charges. Quinn. fell asleep while driving and ran She charges she suffered a fractured jaw, right leg and contusions resulting in. permanent scars on face and leg. She asks $10,000 damages and_ $1,347.65 medical expenses. Al Broyer, Roseville, is attorney for plaintiff. FRASER PROMOTED a Bureau of. fish conservation, division of fish and game, has announced the promotion of Jack C. Fraser to district fisheries biojogist with headq in: Placerville. He formerly\served as assistant biologist in a