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NUGGET
PAGE F OUR_
GENERAL MOTORS
(Continued From Page.
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1946
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NEVADA CITY.,
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STRIKE . ‘the General Molots pu icly certi-, owners like the employees are subOne) ‘fied 1944° reporty put that company. ject to increased costs of living and
~~~~-~~ out of business if conditions other-. the heavy burden of taxes. In the
wise were the same. . face of these increased costs, the:
ws Or S°™” . Has the Stockholder . General Motors stockhelders divid-.
pe ends were reduced during the three}
. yearg of the war period 1942-3-4—-. 8
compared _.
j
Ollie J. Crunk Weds
Miss Dorothy Daley
Miss Dorothy B. Daley and Ollie
J. Crunk were married in the Methodist Church with the double ring
ceremony at 1 o'clock January 23. °}
The ceremony was performed by the
pastor, Rev. Jesse Rudkin.
(Miss Charlotte Daley, sister of the
Farmers And Merchants
Field Set For Feb. 8
Following a conference among
Farm Adviser William H. Brooks,
Ray J. Kronemeyer and members of
the Grass Valley chamber’s rural re-.
lations committee and C. W. Rubel
of the University of California Extension Division it was agreed that
eolved by labor union lead
ernment
without responsibility for
without the experience and without}Motors
the knowledge which would enable. with 33
them to deal with such problems in. is
tellingently and successfully. The 30
Any Rights?
who :
results .
representatives BY GEORG E a BENSON
President--Harding College
Searcy, Arkansas
olders of tthe General}
number 424,000
6,000 omployees.
The
_ _26 per cent compared with the aver
Ownership
5 , age for the preceding five years endin genera .
oy . ing with 1941. The earnings of the!
from a few shares up;
jrepresents the thrifty
Mud-Daubers
Ssa-wings of
per cent
hourly wage rate without increase in
productivity would on
increase demanded in the very large number of pDeople.
the basis of ings themselves disappear.
eg a
$30,000,000 cas hh
In 1946, your gas and electric company will spend
thirty million dollars ‘‘on the line??.the power line,
the gas line and the job line.. for improvements
and new construction.
That is our projected construction budget in this
new year of 1946 for plant and line on
better to serve Northern California.
This thirty million dollars is money spent for the
fuiure growth of this area. And we in Northerm
California must look ahead and be prepared, This
is a tinie to get ready for the growth-of new “pusinesses, small or large; for the expansion of local
factories or of larger industries backed.by outside
capital. It is a time to create jobs for our increasedpopulation and the development of markets for the
pzoducts ef factory and farm.
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company is now
running a series of colorful advertisements in leadins
national magazines to attract new business and new
industries to Northern California. It isa campaigm
that aims at the live interest of Eastern industries im
moving westward. Your gas and electtic pees
will keep aheed of this growth through its mulea—
million dollar improvement program by providing
an abundant supoly of electric power and natural
gas fuel at rates umong the lowest in the nation.
‘<a
earnings thereon disappe<zr the savThese
econmporation averaged 12 per
less. The employe
iod received marked
In various industries investors have!
also suffered from refunding or preferred stocks and ‘bonds at lower. fixed rates of return. It osn’t justice and
it is not good ‘business to destroy
thrift by refusing a fair return on
savings, since savings, individual and
conporate are alone the great motive
power that provides for expansion in
goods and services in volume and
variety essential to. our country's
welfare. The millions of inarticulate
unorganized stockholders of the
General Motors and other industries
whose rights and equities are being
wholly disregarded in the controversies are entitled to their day in court
on the basis of their own interest and
as well that of the entire country.
Price Fixing in Peacetime
The public is certainly more inter‘ested in getting motor cars and other needed things than it is in having
the government at Washington in
peace time fix prices that stop or interfere with production. the grit in
the smooth roller ‘bearing interchange of two billion or more business transactions a day that sustain
the life in our free enterprise system. No well establihhed company
such as the General. Motors and the
other’ motor car companies whose
maintenance and progress have followed the policies of something beiter all the time at less cost skeuld
even be suspected of establishing polcent .
es during this per-'
increases in:
; rates of pay. iy
Down ‘here in the Mississippi Valley we are all acquainted with a
species of wasps called mud-daubers. They are relatively harmless,
build little adobe huts in high, protected. spots and lcok out for their
own interests. By inzi-nct they are
engineers and diplomats but, like so
many insects, they know very little
about. modern industry. Some of
their mistakes are costly.
An _ aristocratic family named
Sceliphron Cementarius (common
mud-daubers) got busy one summer
and built a fort inside the vent pipe
on top of a big steel tank of heating
oil. The tank had been filled in the
Spring for Fall marketing and stood
quiet for months. Finally came an
order for a barge load of heating
oil and the plant owner started
pumping it out of storage. Suddenly the big tank collapsed.
Too Much Authority
The oil man’s’ motor-powered
pump silently pulled out the liquid
and,built up vacuum inside the tank.
Being in a position to plug up a/!
vent-line and call. down the forces
of nature to destroy property and
waste merchandise is too much
authority for a mud-dauber. To be
perfectly frank, the more I observe
the workings of the OPA, the surer
I am that such authority is too much
for anybody.
Right now our governmental price
fixers have the vent-line closed on
some exceptionally tight structures
and the pump has already started.
‘‘People who buy machines shall not
pay more for them,’ says government, but (with government consent)
people who manufactute machines
must pay more, much more, for every hour of effective labor, and for
every pound of processed material.
Strong for Service
I am in favor of workers .getting
a farm cooperative field day will be
held in Grass Valley on February 8
that day will be invited to attend
conferences and panel discussions on
farming and stock raising topics,
play a major role. Merchants and
professional men of Grass Valley will
be hosts for the day.
Arrangements have been made
with the Extension Division for the
participation
W. E. Newlon, poultry
Lloyd W. Brown, soils and irrigation and Vard Shepherd, livestock.
Other specialists to be named later
will include those in dairying, fruits
and 4-H club organization and work.
Business Men’s
Association Formed
At a meeting of merchants in the
Union Hotel for dinner, the Nevada
City Business Men’s Association was
organized with Glen Roscoe chosen
president, Frank Notterman, vice
president, Douglas Craik, executive
‘secretary and R. J. Berggren, treaeurer.
Rollin Farmin onthe staff of the
. Idaho Maryland Miné gave a short
talk on the mining situation ag it
now exists in Nevada County. H. F.
Sofge, secretary of. the Nevada City
Chamber of Commerce gave a brief
address stressing the fact that 90%
of the business men present were
Members of the chamber.
. Craik announced that the group
will aid the chamber in all its prob.{man was Edward Scofield.
The farmers of Nevada County oni
with specialists in several fields will}
in the discussions of
specialist, bs
. \bride was maid of honor. The-best
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. William Daley of South
School Street and graduated from
ithe Grass Valley high school with
the class of 1940. For the past three
years she has been employed by
Camp Beale. Her husband was frecently discharged from the U. S.
Army after a service of four years
and nine months, much of the time
in the European theatre.
He is now employed as coustruction worker in Grass Valley. The
couple will make their home here.
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ST. VALENTINE DANCE.
The Nevada City Elks Lodge will
give a St. Valentine’s dance Saturday evening, February 2nd in ite
club rooms here. (Members, their
wives and friends will be invited.
Dinner will be served at 7:30 and
dancing will be the diversion from
9 p. m. until 2a. m.
“ BIRTH
Ghidotti—In Nevada City, Neada County, January 24 to Mr. and
Mrs, John Ghidotti daughter.
NEVADA .
THEATRE
DIRECTION T. AND D. JR.,
ENTEPRISES, INC.
high wages. The more take-home .
pay America’s factory workers earn . lems. It was decided to hold the next .
lq HW stds ere tha bisteed and get, the more food and feed stuff . dinner meeting at Deer Creek Inn. .
p Cem eue. etre + Tam Ene Compete S. our farmers. Will cell. it means) Se .
prosperity. Just the same, nature’s . ‘ i .
laws are inexorable. If wages keep \Nevada University
roing up, somebody’d better uncork (yy c.
that price line or business is sure rexy To Speak Here
ted that . to coilapse. Some firms already Guest speaker ‘for Father’s Nichi
. have foided up more are in h the Nevada City El
. : , whieh
And do not the well meaning\ger. eee bi laden EenEWaty.
Washington eae oe
industry is getting tired
of being constantly suspect, of
apparently
; society and with no
avarice? When the
,opposite and when
ayers. capacity of
icies that. would ¢reate inordinate .
profits merely because of a pent up .
Wednesday Thursday
STRANGE
APE ATD
Ww it i
Ann Joslyn
Evelyn Kerr
EVE KNEW HER
APPLES
—With—
Ann Miller
—And—
William Wirhst
situation any such getting .
while the getting is good would ruin .
'any company. And neither our motor .
any other great Amoeri;can business has been
. basis.
policy of
industry nor
and mentary :
20th
Elementary school auditorium .
John O. Moseley
the University of Nev
was one
ufacturing conebrate
1 § h; of course
They need financial ' will be Dr.
ritate economic
e with competition and; pp,
on schedule. The:
more strength they have the more
useful they are. That oil man’s tank
had a great deal of strength too; Night will be a dinner
was useful because it was strong,:and a large attendance
but it buckled because a mud-daub.
er asked it to hold a vacuum.
Sublime Vandalism :
Big corporations have to be ef.
ficient. If they grow extravagant, .
a-lot of small concerns with lower
overhead stand ready to undersell
them and take their trade. Accordingly, big firms must operate on
thin margins of profit. Figuratively, they are tight. They can be
“pumped down’’ by holding their
prices and boosting their costs.
Ford declares a $27 net loss on every new car sold at prices fixed by
government.
Nearly everybody knows that
America’s advantage over foreign
lands is based on mass production
and volume sales, things we have
that they don’t have. We have nothing to gain and much to lose by
wrecking big industries. Theodore
Roosevelt said, ‘‘It . . ought to be
evident to everybody that business
has to prosper before anybody can
get any benefit from it.’’
3 in the
tlemen in
j yYNresji .
American resii]
eas dent of aa
pelns
. Moseley
Nevada County
in Grass Valley
preiudged as ene of the speak .
Teachers Inin’ November
ee 's oly Any :
mies 9t. meet. payrolls eet g
ambition save
record is just the .
without the tax-1
successful
. stitute
. Mathers event
is expected. ;
busiWashington or
elsewhere could not exist under domocratic forms. f @
As stated before in the first year
after World War I, the department
of labor showed a record of 3630
strikes with 4,000,000 employees
quitting work. We settled our difficulties then and went ahead in an
era of great expansion and now as
then there must ‘be an_ enduring
meeting of minds between management and men where employees are
organized—constituting probably 14
‘per. cent certainly not over 20 per
cent of those gainfully employed.
With firm relationships estalblished
on thorough understanding this
‘country can go forward with material progress beyond any heretofore
exiperienced.
ness governments at
1% and 2 quart
5-Purpose
DOUBLE BOILERS
2 and 3 quart
SAUCE PANS
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC CO.
Jury Disagrees In
Trial Of Wm. Haynes
The trial of ‘William Haynes,
charged with the ‘burglary of Alpha
Stores, Ltd., in this ‘city ended
Thursday with a disagreement among
the jury. The trial w held with
Judge Arthur. Coates of Sutter County presiding.
Involved in the case was a revolver, which it was alleged Haynes had
taken from the Alpha Stores Ltd. on
the night of June 12th, 1945. Hayneg admitted ownership of the revolver, but declared he had purchased it from a man in Oakland, whose
name he had forgotten. His attorney declared that though it had
been shown that the revolver was
stolen, the prosecution had failed to
prove Haynes took it from Alpha
Stores Ltd. ‘
The revolver was identified by its
serial number-as one taken from the
Alpha Stores by Ray “Murchie store
manager. Possession of it led to the
conviction of Haynes in Oregon. Following ‘his release from jail there he
was returned to Nevada County for
trial. When he pleaded not guilty to
the robbery of June 12, he was sentenced to San Quentin on his plea of
guilty to his earlier robbery.
NEW HEADS FOR N S, NDGW
The Native Song and Daughters of
the Golden West of Grass Valley have
completed arrangements for a joint,
public installation/ of officers this
evening in the Elks Building.
Mrs. Pauline Patterson will become president of Manzanita Parlor
of Native Daughters of the Golden
West and Ted Kohler will head the
Quartz Parlor of Native Sons.
Announcement
MR. GARAGE MAN AND CAR OWNEF
4 quart 512 quart
SAUCE POT DUTCH OVEN
You will be contacted within a few days by pelisso ENS Ut
Raymond Worthley of this city
has been appointed inspector of the
13th Miasonic district. He succeeds
(Charles Ingram, former welfare administrator here who recently accepted a similar office in San Bernardino County and resigned his Masonic post.
Just received ..a display assortment of the Cooking Utensils
representatives of you have been waiting for . . famous Revere Ware.
ERSKINE AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC
These time-proven utensils are stainless steel for longer life
and easier cleaning with heavy copper bottoms that heat
quickly and evenly. They are ideal for “waterless” cooking.
Stop in soon and see how truly superior these utensils are.
We'll tell you how to get them.
JUST SEE THESE EXTRA
FEATURES OF REVERE WARE
INDESTRUCTIBLE * EASY TO HANDLE
Coc}, biack ‘Bakelite pistol-grip
handies.
SNUG-FIT COVERS
Retain moisture and heat. Shorten cooking time.
Alpha Stores, Ltd.
Phone 88 Grass Valley
Weare your closest United Motors and Auto Lite
Wholesalers and Retailers
WE CARRY Auto Lite and Delco-Remy Parts. A. C
-Fuel Pumps. Carter's Strombery and Zenith Carburetors.
Lawand Heawy Duty
HIGH ACCIDENT RATE
For almost every mile of California’s rural state highway system one
person was either killed or injured
in 1944. Casualties totalled 11,107,
for 12,869 miles of the road system.
(Major traffic routes comprising 20
mer cent of the state highway mileage
‘were the scenes of 47 per cent of the
accidents.
-Wmerican, Bosch Eissman and’ Waco Magnetos.
You can't burn a hole through
them.
ALL WELDED..
No rivets to loosen, leak or irap
food particles.
son Gasoline Driven Water Pumps
Portable Butane Engines—165 H. P.
ERSKINE
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Bertocini-Martin In Nevada
City, January 24, 1946 George J.
Bertoncini, 27 and Barbara Jean
Martin 23, both of Grass Valley.
(Chaney-Ivey—In Nevada City, January 24, 1946 Ernest Powell Chaney 21, Oceanside, San Diego County
and Marjorie Marie Ivey of Nevada
City. :
CARBON MONOXIDE GAS
Carbon monoxide gas is particu‘larly dangerous to motorists because
it is odorless, colorless and tasteless
and its presence is therefore often
unnoticed. Motorists should always
keep one window of the car partially, open as a safeguard.
Automotive Electric
} 401 East Main Street
Phone 5 Nevada City
Grass Valley Telephome 474