January 28, 1946 (4 pages)

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month _ i eee “God grants liberty only Nevada C. CCVERS RICHEST GOLD AR to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’ '—Daniel Webster % t y Nu EA IN CALIFORNIA . Thi . coverage ofall local happenings. — . If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your is paper gives you completa’ town, read The Nugget. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _The Gold Center _MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1946 eee ——— GENERAL MOTORS» STRIKE By Paul Shoup, President, Merchants and Manufacturers Association The fact finding committee appointed by President Truman to develop the facts with respect to the General Motors étrike has gone further_and recommended an increase in wages of 17.5 per cent stated to: be the equivalent established under the Railway Labor Act where the fact finding committee develops only Ag facts. 4 A “Fault Finding” Commission The demand of the United Auto Workers Union CIO, for a fact finding committee in this instance was but a red herring across the trail’ What Reuther wanted was a fault finding commission which exploring the company’s books might criticize its projected estimates and expenditures in the difficult task of reconversion including undoubtedly the nature of the expenditures. The detailed annual and quarterly — statements of the General Motors Corporation to its stockholders and its employees all public all certified to by independent public accoutants, all in conformity with federal corporate law and administrative rulings thereunder give full information as to the: gross earnings, operating expenses, taxes, depreciation charges, reserves, profits, financial condition with . debits and credits by items. To this . statement General Motors offered to add any pertinent information with} respect to wages, hours, working conditions, There was therefore not the slightest excuse for exploring the books of the General Motors G 6 Corporation. The wage demand for inere or 30 per of tht with the major t labor CIO -dest Cel ase equivalent union was in mands in the line industries, electrical packing houses, throughout the without ‘ has been based premise that the the-war was 48 houre and so on} country fact finding” with or . This demand! the week upon erroneous ‘work during (with 52 hours . straight time pay) and it is now to . fbe reduced to 40 hours. The wore ‘week in General ‘Motors during the last year of the war was 45.6 hours on the average. It has offered an inrease of 11.5 per cent. With time ana ® half, after 40 hours and an assured average 45.6 hours work week. this would make the average weekly pay $63.44 compared with 56.93 for 56.6 hours in the war period. Wages in Other Industries I am advised by a number of the oil companies that they have settled . on the 18 per cent increase being 3 0 per cent above their initial offer but with the definite understanding they, are going back to the 40 hour week @s fast as the reduction can be worked out, One large oil company telephoned me Saturday that the 40 week would be established immediately in such operations as come under the increase of 18 per cent. There is therefore no proper comparison as between the oil industry and the motor industry or any other industry on the basis of hours and indeed with the different conditions among the industries and among the different localities with differing wages and working conditiong there is no proper basis for a comparison of any kind. The theory at Washington that rates of pay can be increased without the power of increasing prices is of course untenable in application to ‘any industry. In the great majority cumulative elements of payroll from the production of raw material until the finished product reaches the consumer are by far the greatest ele-! ment of cost to the purchaser. General Motors Eemployees get 89 cents, owners 11 cents, of the divis ible dollar. The report of General Motors for 1944 shows that after all other-exmenses and taxes are paid, of the do}lar left to divide between the payroll and the owners, 11 cents went to the owners of which 9 cents was paid out in dividends and the rest retained for expanston and conver-; sion purposes, The problems of getting back into its peace time work of supplying automobiles and some fifty other articles useful in the daily lives of our people make very uncertain the number of dollars to be taken in and what after other expenses is left to be divided between owners and employees. Obviously General Motorg has to deal with these problems of getting in the dollars managerially. They cannot be ! RESCUE PLANE. PILOT TALKS TO LIONS CLUB (Charles Carveth formerly a major in the army air. force, gave the Lions (Club of Grass Valley a talk on his experiences in rescue work ag developed over the North Sea and the English Channel. Carveth a graduate of the: Grass Valley high school and son of Mrs. Elizabeth Carveth of this city, said that plane rescues reached such an efficient basis that casualties among those in the rescue service dropped from 25% to .001%. He told of the air-sea rescue of hundreds of pilots and crewmen who dropped into the North Sea during the continual forays *made over Germany, France and the Netherlands. He described the survival equipment carried by the rescue planes. In addition to these devices were long range launches which made radio contact with ‘‘ditched” airmen. He stated that no person could survive more than 30 minutes in the extremely cold water of the North Sea. Helicopters were used in the Himalayas:to rescue pilots and crews forced down while flying the “hump’”’ into China. In Alaska doctors and, . aids with their kitts were dropped to . establish camp for a downed aircrew . in snow fast regions, caring for the! disaster “victims until aplane could . arrive to ski into the camp and out; again. After these camps were Plied for by parchuted . food blankets until rjght conditions rescue had been established. sup-. ‘and for PETS HIROMITOS WHITE HORSE Mr. and Mrs. H. Foreman of . this city, have received letters from . . their son Pfc. Starley Foreman with . the Ist Cavalry bearing the Tokyo} postmark. Young Foreman has been overseas since February 6, 1945. He wears the Asiatic Pacific ribbon efieuy! one campagin star the Philippine} liberation ribbon with one star and a ~ Ss. . . 1 lanes . will WASHINGTON NOTES By Congressman Clair Engle WASHINGTON, Jan. TURN OF ‘WiAR DEAD—Several persons have written me wantin’ to know how they can apply to have the body ofa veteran ‘buried qverseas removed to this country. 4 At the present time the War Department cannot act upon such applications. The War Department has set up a program for the removal of war dead but it cannot be placed into effect until pending legislation is passed. There are three -measures involved. One provides for the repatriation of the war dead, another for the establishment of additional national cemeteries (burial in a national or private cemetery will be’ optional) and a third for the appropriations carry out the program. When the legislation is enacted the office of the quartermaster general ‘will notify each next of kin as to the method of making formal ap'plication. to ment until an official notice ig received. Meanwhile the war department has assured us the graves of our falilen men are being given the best of care in military Anyone cemeteries overseas. wishine-to-know-the exact of an and I location write overseas. grave may glad to ob-. as quickly as inquiry it i] service the attached and war theatre in which he died. BALANCING THE nost me the possible. shall be information In necessary tain making to serial wi be include the man’s name, number init . towhich he was BUDGET—Tt item-in the ssage 1e encourag ent ne are moving ing presiWas the closer ‘to r' nt’ that S.'e me we d rospec balbudget. t There ig a reas next year the only be balanced but that we will be moving toward the retirement of some of our immense debt. The importanee of this cannot. be overestimated. The government cannot keep going in the red and more than private business. Eventually . the fiddler has to be paid and unless he is paid our whole economic structure will finally collapse, But our first step is to stop adding to that that not a 23 — REIt will not be necessary for thei applicant to contact the war depart-. the; fact j Bie . budget . presidential citation. He is gradu-; debt: Then we must be prepared to Knudsen and his assistants are Metidattins research at the present‘ late of the Nevada City high school . and prior to entering the army was a ‘truck driver for a railroad company. When the 1st Cavalry arrived in Tokyo they were stationed near tho imperial stables and young Foreman wrote that he had frequently had the emperor’s white horse also a horse belonging to Tojo, eating sweets out his hand. While he continues to distrust adult Japs. Foreman wrote that he often had a group of the children around his heels. He said they seemed not to have either food or clothes enough. He said they were cute and very appealing. Human Voice Heard 20 Miles In ‘Arctic LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28—tIn the cold clear air of the Arctic ‘the sound of the human voice may be heard up to 20 miles but in the hot dry California desert speech becomes inaudible in a few hundred feet. So said Dr. Vern Knudsen professor of physics in reporting to the American Physical Society the effects of humidity and temperature on the propagation of sound in the atmosphere. . time to determine the. influence of atmospheric conditions on sound—such as fog, smoke, pollen in the air: Fog for-example has been found to absorb considerable sound, especially that of high pitch. Such experiments may be put to use in a practical way in the designing of large auditoriums and tadio studios installing public address systems, testing of acolstical’materials for homes and offices and operation of sound signaling and sound ranging equipment by the army and navy. PEDESTRIAN INJURIES Motorists who violate a pedestrian right of way in a cross walk with resultant injury are now subject to a ‘penalty of $500 or six months in jail (Continued On Page Four) en or both. ‘parations, other luxury items. —not beer—will revenues both toll and local will be smaller and there will be less money posit boxes, Treasury officials seem to think that boxes are in use now by those simultaneously evading OPA and its own revenue officers. lber of people have asked me why the veterans administration is unwilling to take over DeWitt and at the same time pital at Fresno. The veterans administration says that the hospital at Fresno will not be ready to operate for two years and that at that time . the professional personnel which is preventing them DeWitt on at least a temporary basis will be available. I asked them how they reconciled Freson with their Stated policy of keeping their hospitals near big metropolitan areas and they claim that they small intermediate hospital between Los Angeles and San Francisco. They plan similar construction at Klamath Falls to act as an intermediate hospital between San fact a long period of heavy taxation in order to pay it off. In my opinion there is nothing mysterious about government debt. It is the same as} private debt except that the government owes it. And the only way to pay a debt is to dig down and pay out.the money. That is what-it-is going to take to pay the national debt and that is why it is so important that we balance the budget and stop incurring more debt. [BUDGET FORECAST—In setting up the budget the treasury has to forecast tax revenues. This means that some of the people in the treasury department have to-have a pretty good knowledge of business conditions. For instance, the treasury foresaw the cigaret shortage in its earlier predictions of tax rates. In its present forecast it shows revenues going down in cigarets, furs, jewelry, theatre admissions( toilet preluggage, hand bags and Liquor revenues go up. Telephone from‘ *transportation. An interesting forecast is lower rates from safe deVETERANS HOSPITALS—A numis scheduled to build a hosfrom taking over need a GRASS VALLEY VARSITY WINS BY TIGHT MARGIN Grass Valley was winner in the the Nevada City high school gymnasium Friday evening in one of the most exciting classes thus far in the Sierra Foothill League schedule. In the A game at half time the} score was Grass Valley 1/5, Nevada (City 11. At the end of the fourth quarter it was a tie, 23 to 23. At the end. of the first extra period: it Was tied again at 27 to 27. At the end of the second extra period Grass Valley emerged victor 33 to Nevada City’s 31. High scores were made Hyatt and Ali with 11 each for Grass Valley, while. Pellow or Nevada City made ten baskets. Grass Valley B cagers won with 31 points to Nevada City’s 26. Grass Valley held a lead throughout the game. At half time the score in fayor of Grass Valley 19 to 12: Daley wasa high man for Valley with 11 points and Strok made 8 points for Nevada City. FUNERAI. TODAY PORMRS. PETER. j ;plans for post war national fuar a. . ‘ 1 d ineutiv th a ae ae i sy is employed gainfully for A RBOGA' q units that California’s national ‘ee P it se tbl t ie see N j ; : of a men it is ssible ‘ 4 ii ,fuard. units will not be returned to Bass ht We a ; heights never before envisi in: & sey ; ._. State status and control for many : es nee, _ Funeral services were held—this va ican . cluding abolishing poverty from our : : ~ 1 * ~ + . Se : : ;mMorning in St. -Canice Catholic ; i . midst he emphasized. Leger eee : 7 . As the next step in Phase one the} Sie i Church for Mrs. Peter Arbogast . war department ‘has Ps nea . Pointing out that soon all coun; Wife of Peter Arbogast for half a . tries. will be able to manufacture s forge , troop basis plan—the plan govern‘ sntury resident of Blue Tent north: A ;atom bombs Hutchison sees the nes& Ing size, strength and type for alt! : . e ast of this city. j : . for-a world wide ’atom enegry.-com(lic Service Sake held uader aie. post war national guard units. In} naeee it] 1j i es 2 2 e ir: ; ;Mmission with we conformity with this plan California . pole DOWete Saas . ection of Holmes Funeral Home with Rey. Virgil Gabrielli officiating, terment was in the Catholic tery. Mrs. Arbogast wag a native of Timbucktoo, Yuba County, near Smartville. She was 82 years of age, . the daughter of the late Mr. and. Mrs. William Landrigan who came} to California from Australia in first . years of gold rush. The deceased had . been in ill health for several years. Surviving are her husband Peter Arbogast sons Raemah and Ken neth Arbogast of Blue Tent a daughter Mrs. Retta Morgah of Sacramento and Mrs. Mary Skeahan of Nevada City. A sister Mrs. Thomas Corcoran of Town ‘Talk, Nevada County is also, bereaved. There are eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren. ANTONE BUCK SUMMONED Antone Buck passed away at the Miners Hospital Sunday, night at 10:30 after a brief illness. He was a member of the wellknown Buck family of Moores Flat but for the past several manths he had been m&king his home in this city with Mr. and Mrs. Victor Buck. Funeral arrangements will be anyounced later. t InCemeMRS. MARY HICKS OF GRASS VALLEY SUCCUMBS (Mrs. Mary Hicks died Sunday evening after several months ‘of poor health. Mrs. Hicks was born in Cornwall, England, 95 years ago. She celebrated her 95th birthday on January 20. She had lived in Grass Valley 63 years. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Marie Jane Deeble, five grandchildren and one great grandson. Funeral services will take place Wednesday afternoon in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary at 2 p. m. Interment will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery. « Portland, Oregon. This will also be some two years in construction but in the meantime through an arrangement with the navy department which will continue to operate the military hospital at Camp White, 500 beds there have been made available for veterans in northern CalFrancisco and ifornia and southern Oregon. A and B basket ball games Played in’ Grass . REACTIVITATION NATIONAL GUARD IS DELAYED Reactivation of California’s INational Guard as a functioning state military force is not expected to be accomplished until late this year or early in 1947, Brig. Gen. Victor R. Hanson the state adjutant general . declared in an analysis of published war department policies relating to the post war national guard. Gen. Hafison explained that the war departmént has divided activation of national guard units as state forces into three phases—the first being return of national guard units ‘from active duty overséas which is new being accomplished and _ inacttivation of all national guard organizations in federal service. California’s 40th infantry division now in federal service in the Asiatic Pacific theatre is still in this first phase Gen. Hanson pointed out and at latest word is scheduled for return to this country in March for inactivation. The news of scheduled return of ‘the 40th division from overseas h given rise to the general misappre j;hension that ‘California’s national j Suard will. begin functioning again Lat. that—date. However it can be seen through a. careful study of the war der vartment . will be realloted existing units_of the, natin: guard being held inactive . under ‘war department control 4) ‘slated for retention in the post war . establishment. Official release of the troops basis plan to the states is Seen at any ; time. With release of the plan California and the other states subject to state approval will be allotted newly authorized units, and finally to close . Phase I, old units which will not be carried forward into the post war} national guard will be disbanded. The tentative plans contemplate. that California will have sufficient troops of the proper type to meet, its State needs as well as an equitable proportion of those units essential to-a balanced force within the nation. Allottment of an infantry or armored division two squadrons of aircraft and supported units is under consideration for California in the nation’s capital. In Phase II of the war department plan the inactivated national guard units such as the 40th division will be released from federal to state status and control but the units will still be inactive. At the same time, allocation of new units agreed upon and accepted ‘by Califronia will be definitely made and the federal budget for the nation’s share of support of the national-guard will be submitted tocongress for approval. Good Year Ahead For California Sheep Men DAVIS, ‘Jan. 28. Basing of labor shortages, continuing governmental purchase of the wool clip and the excellent conditions of the range mean that 1946 will be generally a good year for the sheepman. The sheep expert bases his prediction. on the continued governmental purchases of wool, without which the future is uncertain because of indirect restrictions on the uses to which the domestic wool clip can be, put. Among these indirect restrictions pricing and other governmental controls which prevent American wool manufacturers from utilizing the wool in adequate production amount. The aim of the restrictions is to create a supply of cheap clothing for the public but in effect they limit the manufacturer to turning out near worthless garments which cannot sive satisfaction. In turn this causes further public acceptance of the socalled wool substitutes to the detrias. . “WORLD POLICING OF ATOM ENERGY IS FIRST NEED ‘Can we tame the atom bomb? ask J. A. Hutcheson associate director of Westinghouse Laboratories in an article in which he scouts both sides of the question and points to the danger of enemy agents as well ‘as. airborne missiles. ‘Only a handful of agents from am aggressor nation could cripple out major cities and in turn our country he pointed out in exploring this — side of a weighty question. ° ‘Disguised as businessmen, perhape in the foreign export trade . they would only have to rent offices stratgically located and then proceed te sow their bombs—brought in dis. Suised as filing cases and set the Stage for destruction of a city. After wiring the bombs for a pre determined detonation and they would leave the country and sit back safely to await the holocaust of atomic fury the writer points -out. It would be almost impossiblé co . distinguish ‘between these ascents. (awa legitimate businessmen, he ag-_ . Serts. With fifty-natjons in the world group one of them may try to promote its own interests to the extent . of wreaking destruction on its fellow . nations he feels. : : On the other hand he notes ,the proper control of the atom can be . the most beneficial single thing, that ever happened to man. Tf atom ener'to that of any nation: Along this linethe’ points out there is evary indication that a working control will be reached in view of the desire of most nations to establish an internationat organization which will try to develop the atom along lines of peace. Grass Valley Chamber Installs New Officers The annual dinner and installation of officers at Bret Harte Inn was at. tended by 140 members, friends and ‘their wives. Speakers of the evening . was Wilbur H. Haynes president of. . the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. Wesley Donnenwirth relected president of the Grass” ‘Valley, cham-— ber for a second term presided. He. ‘introduced the new officers; board of directors and the visitors from the Sacramento chamber. Included in these ‘besides Stone were Arthur Dudley secretary Manager, W. G. Stone, manager of the industrial and transportation comipany and Rey Deary one of the directors. Haynes described. methods found effective by. the Sacramento cham-— ber in maintaining interest in the organization. One of these was a pamphlet issued to each member and to all new memberg as they’ joined, informing them of the work accomplished during the past year and of -the projects the chamber had under— taken for the current year. He told of the Sacramento chamber’s general policy as affecting its relations with chambers in the Sac— ramento area. He said that the Sac— ramento chamber believed that what was good for Grass Valley was good for them. Latter Day Saints Have New Bishop At a special meeting over which Rev. W. T. Gaston, superintendent of the Northern California-Nevada district of the Assemblies of presided. plans were drawn for merger of the Bethany Chureh Nevada City and Assembly of Church in Grass Valley. Both congregations it was ed, are unanimously in f v a union. It will entail er church building between cities. Until these plans pleted members and children of ieee provided with ! Assembly of Goa : ment of the wool industry. ee: be

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month _ i eee “God grants liberty only Nevada C. CCVERS RICHEST GOLD AR to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’ '—Daniel Webster % t y Nu EA IN CALIFORNIA . Thi . coverage ofall local happenings. — . If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your is paper gives you completa’ town, read The Nugget. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _The Gold Center _MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1946 eee ——— GENERAL MOTORS» STRIKE By Paul Shoup, President, Merchants and Manufacturers Association The fact finding committee appointed by President Truman to develop the facts with respect to the General Motors étrike has gone further_and recommended an increase in wages of 17.5 per cent stated to: be the equivalent established under the Railway Labor Act where the fact finding committee develops only Ag facts. 4 A “Fault Finding” Commission The demand of the United Auto Workers Union CIO, for a fact finding committee in this instance was but a red herring across the trail’ What Reuther wanted was a fault finding commission which exploring the company’s books might criticize its projected estimates and expenditures in the difficult task of reconversion including undoubtedly the nature of the expenditures. The detailed annual and quarterly — statements of the General Motors Corporation to its stockholders and its employees all public all certified to by independent public accoutants, all in conformity with federal corporate law and administrative rulings thereunder give full information as to the: gross earnings, operating expenses, taxes, depreciation charges, reserves, profits, financial condition with . debits and credits by items. To this . statement General Motors offered to add any pertinent information with} respect to wages, hours, working conditions, There was therefore not the slightest excuse for exploring the books of the General Motors G 6 Corporation. The wage demand for inere or 30 per of tht with the major t labor CIO -dest Cel ase equivalent union was in mands in the line industries, electrical packing houses, throughout the without ‘ has been based premise that the the-war was 48 houre and so on} country fact finding” with or . This demand! the week upon erroneous ‘work during (with 52 hours . straight time pay) and it is now to . fbe reduced to 40 hours. The wore ‘week in General ‘Motors during the last year of the war was 45.6 hours on the average. It has offered an inrease of 11.5 per cent. With time ana ® half, after 40 hours and an assured average 45.6 hours work week. this would make the average weekly pay $63.44 compared with 56.93 for 56.6 hours in the war period. Wages in Other Industries I am advised by a number of the oil companies that they have settled . on the 18 per cent increase being 3 0 per cent above their initial offer but with the definite understanding they, are going back to the 40 hour week @s fast as the reduction can be worked out, One large oil company telephoned me Saturday that the 40 week would be established immediately in such operations as come under the increase of 18 per cent. There is therefore no proper comparison as between the oil industry and the motor industry or any other industry on the basis of hours and indeed with the different conditions among the industries and among the different localities with differing wages and working conditiong there is no proper basis for a comparison of any kind. The theory at Washington that rates of pay can be increased without the power of increasing prices is of course untenable in application to ‘any industry. In the great majority cumulative elements of payroll from the production of raw material until the finished product reaches the consumer are by far the greatest ele-! ment of cost to the purchaser. General Motors Eemployees get 89 cents, owners 11 cents, of the divis ible dollar. The report of General Motors for 1944 shows that after all other-exmenses and taxes are paid, of the do}lar left to divide between the payroll and the owners, 11 cents went to the owners of which 9 cents was paid out in dividends and the rest retained for expanston and conver-; sion purposes, The problems of getting back into its peace time work of supplying automobiles and some fifty other articles useful in the daily lives of our people make very uncertain the number of dollars to be taken in and what after other expenses is left to be divided between owners and employees. Obviously General Motorg has to deal with these problems of getting in the dollars managerially. They cannot be ! RESCUE PLANE. PILOT TALKS TO LIONS CLUB (Charles Carveth formerly a major in the army air. force, gave the Lions (Club of Grass Valley a talk on his experiences in rescue work ag developed over the North Sea and the English Channel. Carveth a graduate of the: Grass Valley high school and son of Mrs. Elizabeth Carveth of this city, said that plane rescues reached such an efficient basis that casualties among those in the rescue service dropped from 25% to .001%. He told of the air-sea rescue of hundreds of pilots and crewmen who dropped into the North Sea during the continual forays *made over Germany, France and the Netherlands. He described the survival equipment carried by the rescue planes. In addition to these devices were long range launches which made radio contact with ‘‘ditched” airmen. He stated that no person could survive more than 30 minutes in the extremely cold water of the North Sea. Helicopters were used in the Himalayas:to rescue pilots and crews forced down while flying the “hump’”’ into China. In Alaska doctors and, . aids with their kitts were dropped to . establish camp for a downed aircrew . in snow fast regions, caring for the! disaster “victims until aplane could . arrive to ski into the camp and out; again. After these camps were Plied for by parchuted . food blankets until rjght conditions rescue had been established. sup-. ‘and for PETS HIROMITOS WHITE HORSE Mr. and Mrs. H. Foreman of . this city, have received letters from . . their son Pfc. Starley Foreman with . the Ist Cavalry bearing the Tokyo} postmark. Young Foreman has been overseas since February 6, 1945. He wears the Asiatic Pacific ribbon efieuy! one campagin star the Philippine} liberation ribbon with one star and a ~ Ss. . . 1 lanes . will WASHINGTON NOTES By Congressman Clair Engle WASHINGTON, Jan. TURN OF ‘WiAR DEAD—Several persons have written me wantin’ to know how they can apply to have the body ofa veteran ‘buried qverseas removed to this country. 4 At the present time the War Department cannot act upon such applications. The War Department has set up a program for the removal of war dead but it cannot be placed into effect until pending legislation is passed. There are three -measures involved. One provides for the repatriation of the war dead, another for the establishment of additional national cemeteries (burial in a national or private cemetery will be’ optional) and a third for the appropriations carry out the program. When the legislation is enacted the office of the quartermaster general ‘will notify each next of kin as to the method of making formal ap'plication. to ment until an official notice ig received. Meanwhile the war department has assured us the graves of our falilen men are being given the best of care in military Anyone cemeteries overseas. wishine-to-know-the exact of an and I location write overseas. grave may glad to ob-. as quickly as inquiry it i] service the attached and war theatre in which he died. BALANCING THE nost me the possible. shall be information In necessary tain making to serial wi be include the man’s name, number init . towhich he was BUDGET—Tt item-in the ssage 1e encourag ent ne are moving ing presiWas the closer ‘to r' nt’ that S.'e me we d rospec balbudget. t There ig a reas next year the only be balanced but that we will be moving toward the retirement of some of our immense debt. The importanee of this cannot. be overestimated. The government cannot keep going in the red and more than private business. Eventually . the fiddler has to be paid and unless he is paid our whole economic structure will finally collapse, But our first step is to stop adding to that that not a 23 — REIt will not be necessary for thei applicant to contact the war depart-. the; fact j Bie . budget . presidential citation. He is gradu-; debt: Then we must be prepared to Knudsen and his assistants are Metidattins research at the present‘ late of the Nevada City high school . and prior to entering the army was a ‘truck driver for a railroad company. When the 1st Cavalry arrived in Tokyo they were stationed near tho imperial stables and young Foreman wrote that he had frequently had the emperor’s white horse also a horse belonging to Tojo, eating sweets out his hand. While he continues to distrust adult Japs. Foreman wrote that he often had a group of the children around his heels. He said they seemed not to have either food or clothes enough. He said they were cute and very appealing. Human Voice Heard 20 Miles In ‘Arctic LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28—tIn the cold clear air of the Arctic ‘the sound of the human voice may be heard up to 20 miles but in the hot dry California desert speech becomes inaudible in a few hundred feet. So said Dr. Vern Knudsen professor of physics in reporting to the American Physical Society the effects of humidity and temperature on the propagation of sound in the atmosphere. . time to determine the. influence of atmospheric conditions on sound—such as fog, smoke, pollen in the air: Fog for-example has been found to absorb considerable sound, especially that of high pitch. Such experiments may be put to use in a practical way in the designing of large auditoriums and tadio studios installing public address systems, testing of acolstical’materials for homes and offices and operation of sound signaling and sound ranging equipment by the army and navy. PEDESTRIAN INJURIES Motorists who violate a pedestrian right of way in a cross walk with resultant injury are now subject to a

‘penalty of $500 or six months in jail (Continued On Page Four) en or both. ‘parations, other luxury items. —not beer—will revenues both toll and local will be smaller and there will be less money posit boxes, Treasury officials seem to think that boxes are in use now by those simultaneously evading OPA and its own revenue officers. lber of people have asked me why the veterans administration is unwilling to take over DeWitt and at the same time pital at Fresno. The veterans administration says that the hospital at Fresno will not be ready to operate for two years and that at that time . the professional personnel which is preventing them DeWitt on at least a temporary basis will be available. I asked them how they reconciled Freson with their Stated policy of keeping their hospitals near big metropolitan areas and they claim that they small intermediate hospital between Los Angeles and San Francisco. They plan similar construction at Klamath Falls to act as an intermediate hospital between San fact a long period of heavy taxation in order to pay it off. In my opinion there is nothing mysterious about government debt. It is the same as} private debt except that the government owes it. And the only way to pay a debt is to dig down and pay out.the money. That is what-it-is going to take to pay the national debt and that is why it is so important that we balance the budget and stop incurring more debt. [BUDGET FORECAST—In setting up the budget the treasury has to forecast tax revenues.. This means that some of the people in the treasury department have to-have a pretty good knowledge of business conditions. For instance, the treasury foresaw the cigaret shortage in its earlier predictions of tax rates. In its present forecast it shows revenues going down in cigarets, furs, jewelry, theatre admissions( toilet preluggage, hand bags and Liquor revenues go up. Telephone from‘ *transportation. An interesting forecast is lower rates from safe deVETERANS HOSPITALS—A numis scheduled to build a hosfrom taking over need a GRASS VALLEY VARSITY WINS BY TIGHT MARGIN Grass Valley was winner in the the Nevada City high school gymnasium Friday evening in one of the most exciting classes thus far in the Sierra Foothill League schedule. In the A game at half time the} score was Grass Valley 1/5, Nevada (City 11. At the end of the fourth quarter it was a tie, 23 to 23. At the end. of the first extra period: it Was tied again at 27 to 27. At the end of the second extra period Grass Valley emerged victor 33 to Nevada City’s 31. High scores were made Hyatt and Ali with 11 each for Grass Valley, while. Pellow or Nevada City made ten baskets. Grass Valley B cagers won with 31 points to Nevada City’s 26. Grass Valley held a lead throughout the game. At half time the score in fayor of Grass Valley 19 to 12: Daley wasa high man for Valley with 11 points and Strok made 8 points for Nevada City. FUNERAI. TODAY PORMRS. PETER. j ;plans for post war national fuar a. . ‘ 1 d ineutiv th a ae ae i sy is employed gainfully for A RBOGA' q units that California’s national ‘ee P it se tbl t ie see N j ; : of a men it is ssible ‘ 4 ii ,fuard. units will not be returned to Bass ht We a ; heights never before envisi in: & sey ; ._. State status and control for many : es nee, _ Funeral services were held—this va ican . cluding abolishing poverty from our : : ~ 1 * ~ + . Se : : ;mMorning in St. -Canice Catholic ; i . midst he emphasized. Leger eee : 7 . As the next step in Phase one the} Sie i Church for Mrs. Peter Arbogast . war department ‘has Ps nea . Pointing out that soon all coun; Wife of Peter Arbogast for half a . tries. will be able to manufacture s forge , troop basis plan—the plan govern‘ sntury resident of Blue Tent north: A ;atom bombs Hutchison sees the nes& Ing size, strength and type for alt! : . e ast of this city. j : . for-a world wide ’atom enegry.-com(lic Service Sake held uader aie. post war national guard units. In} naeee it] 1j i es 2 2 e ir: ; ;Mmission with we conformity with this plan California . pole DOWete Saas . ection of Holmes Funeral Home with Rey. Virgil Gabrielli officiating, terment was in the Catholic tery. Mrs. Arbogast wag a native of Timbucktoo, Yuba County, near Smartville. She was 82 years of age, . the daughter of the late Mr. and. Mrs. William Landrigan who came} to California from Australia in first . years of gold rush. The deceased had . been in ill health for several years. Surviving are her husband Peter Arbogast sons Raemah and Ken neth Arbogast of Blue Tent a daughter Mrs. Retta Morgah of Sacramento and Mrs. Mary Skeahan of Nevada City. A sister Mrs. Thomas Corcoran of Town ‘Talk, Nevada County is also, bereaved. There are eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren. ANTONE BUCK SUMMONED Antone Buck passed away at the Miners Hospital Sunday, night at 10:30 after a brief illness. He was a member of the wellknown Buck family of Moores Flat but for the past several manths he had been m&king his home in this city with Mr. and Mrs. Victor Buck. Funeral arrangements will be anyounced later. t InCemeMRS. MARY HICKS OF GRASS VALLEY SUCCUMBS (Mrs. Mary Hicks died Sunday evening after several months ‘of poor health. Mrs. Hicks was born in Cornwall, England, 95 years ago. She celebrated her 95th birthday on January 20. She had lived in Grass Valley 63 years. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Marie Jane Deeble, five grandchildren and one great grandson. Funeral services will take place Wednesday afternoon in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary at 2 p. m. Interment will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery. « Portland, Oregon. This will also be some two years in construction but in the meantime through an arrangement with the navy department which will continue to operate the military hospital at Camp White, 500 beds there have been made available for veterans in northern CalFrancisco and ifornia and southern Oregon. A and B basket ball games Played in’ Grass . REACTIVITATION NATIONAL GUARD IS DELAYED Reactivation of California’s INational Guard as a functioning state military force is not expected to be accomplished until late this year or early in 1947, Brig. Gen. Victor R. Hanson the state adjutant general . declared in an analysis of published war department policies relating to the post war national guard. Gen. Hafison explained that the war departmént has divided activation of national guard units as state forces into three phases—the first being return of national guard units ‘from active duty overséas which is new being accomplished and _ inacttivation of all national guard organizations in federal service. California’s 40th infantry division now in federal service in the Asiatic Pacific theatre is still in this first phase Gen. Hanson pointed out and at latest word is scheduled for return to this country in March for inactivation. The news of scheduled return of ‘the 40th division from overseas h given rise to the general misappre j;hension that ‘California’s national j Suard will. begin functioning again Lat. that—date. However it can be seen through a. careful study of the war der vartment . will be realloted existing units_of the, natin: guard being held inactive . under ‘war department control 4) ‘slated for retention in the post war . establishment. Official release of the troops basis plan to the states is Seen at any ; time. With release of the plan California and the other states subject to state approval will be allotted newly authorized units, and finally to close . Phase I, old units which will not be carried forward into the post war} national guard will be disbanded. The tentative plans contemplate. that California will have sufficient troops of the proper type to meet, its State needs as well as an equitable proportion of those units essential to-a balanced force within the nation. Allottment of an infantry or armored division two squadrons of aircraft and supported units is under consideration for California in the nation’s capital. In Phase II of the war department plan the inactivated national guard units such as the 40th division will be released from federal to state status and control but the units will still be inactive. At the same time, allocation of new units agreed upon and accepted ‘by Califronia will be definitely made and the federal budget for the nation’s share of support of the national-guard will be submitted tocongress for approval. Good Year Ahead For California Sheep Men DAVIS, ‘Jan. 28. Basing of labor shortages, continuing governmental purchase of the wool clip and the excellent conditions of the range mean that 1946 will be generally a good year for the sheepman. The sheep expert bases his prediction. on the continued governmental purchases of wool, without which the future is uncertain because of indirect restrictions on the uses to which the domestic wool clip can be, put. Among these indirect restrictions pricing and other governmental controls which prevent American wool manufacturers from utilizing the wool in adequate production amount. The aim of the restrictions is to create a supply of cheap clothing for the public but in effect they limit the manufacturer to turning out near worthless garments which cannot sive satisfaction. In turn this causes further public acceptance of the socalled wool substitutes to the detrias. . “WORLD POLICING OF ATOM ENERGY IS FIRST NEED ‘Can we tame the atom bomb? ask J. A. Hutcheson associate director of Westinghouse Laboratories in an article in which he scouts both sides of the question and points to the danger of enemy agents as well ‘as. airborne missiles. ‘Only a handful of agents from am aggressor nation could cripple out major cities and in turn our country he pointed out in exploring this — side of a weighty question. ° ‘Disguised as businessmen, perhape in the foreign export trade . they would only have to rent offices stratgically located and then proceed te sow their bombs—brought in dis. Suised as filing cases and set the Stage for destruction of a city. After wiring the bombs for a pre determined detonation and they would leave the country and sit back safely to await the holocaust of atomic fury the writer points -out. It would be almost impossiblé co . distinguish ‘between these ascents. (awa legitimate businessmen, he ag-_ . Serts. With fifty-natjons in the world group one of them may try to promote its own interests to the extent . of wreaking destruction on its fellow . nations he feels. : : On the other hand he notes ,the proper control of the atom can be . the most beneficial single thing, that ever happened to man. Tf atom ener'to that of any nation: Along this linethe’ points out there is evary indication that a working control will be reached in view of the desire of most nations to establish an internationat organization which will try to develop the atom along lines of peace. Grass Valley Chamber Installs New Officers The annual dinner and installation of officers at Bret Harte Inn was at. tended by 140 members, friends and ‘their wives. Speakers of the evening . was Wilbur H. Haynes president of. . the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. Wesley Donnenwirth relected president of the Grass” ‘Valley, cham-— ber for a second term presided. He. ‘introduced the new officers; board of directors and the visitors from the Sacramento chamber. Included in these ‘besides Stone were Arthur Dudley secretary Manager, W. G. Stone, manager of the industrial and transportation comipany and Rey Deary one of the directors. Haynes described. methods found effective by. the Sacramento cham-— ber in maintaining interest in the organization. One of these was a pamphlet issued to each member and to all new memberg as they’ joined, informing them of the work accomplished during the past year and of -the projects the chamber had under— taken for the current year. He told of the Sacramento chamber’s general policy as affecting its relations with chambers in the Sac— ramento area. He said that the Sac— ramento chamber believed that what was good for Grass Valley was good for them. Latter Day Saints Have New Bishop At a special meeting over which Rev. W. T. Gaston, superintendent of the Northern California-Nevada district of the Assemblies of presided. plans were drawn for merger of the Bethany Chureh Nevada City and Assembly of Church in Grass Valley. Both congregations it was ed, are unanimously in f v a union. It will entail er church building between cities. Until these plans pleted members and children of ieee provided with ! Assembly of Goa : ment of the wool industry. ee: be