January 29, 1937 (6 pages)

Thinking Out Loud d City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA get The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. H. M. L. We who live in the midst of the New Deal often fail of historical perspective. The trees prevent our seeing the forest. It needs a mind to sweep. back over the. country’s history, to weigh other periods of stress and change against this period. There have been other demagogues to rise and shine with a refulgence, offering other remedies for earthly and governmental ills. Only yesterday there was Coughlan, the radiorating priest, there was Huey Long, there were a couple of Smiths, and there was Dr. Townsend who has had his day in the national Spot light. If we thought it important enough we might mention Warl Browder, candidate for President of! _ the communist ticket, or on the Right, the DuPonts and other gentlemen who sponsored the Liberty League. > elie nop In the past we have had the Great Commoner, the Mugwump leaders, the Copperheads, the Silverites, and mightiest of all, the Tee-Total Prohibitionists. Probably all of these have left their vestiges or scars upon the body politic. But we survived them. We shall survive the New Deal, and if the next President shall offer us the New Millenium, we shall survive that. There is a resilience in the American people that withstands the hearty buffetings of politicians and demagogues, Hear this confession of faith in the American people from.the great est cynic of the century, H. L. Menchen: In The American Mercury just out Menchen says: ‘‘We inhabit, indeed, a kind of Utopia, and it would be recognized as such if the preaching of bogus Utopians were not so strident. No other nation in history has been so favorably situated, or enjoyed so long a run of good luck. We are as secure against actual famine as the Mesopotamia of Abraham’s time, and°as safe against’ foreign’invasion as if we inhabited the moon.” Once more he pays his respects to the New Deal. “Were we ridden and roweled by Hopkins and Tugwell, Ickes and Wallace, Ma Perkins and Jim Farley, and a multitude of other such jitney Caesars? Then think of the rulers of Italy, and Germany, Russia and Spain, even France and England! “The New Deal, to be sure, is a colossal nuisance. It itches terribly, and is an affront to human dignity. But so is eczema—yet very few men die of eczema. We have been through much more dangerous calamities, and survived without serious damage. The Civil War would have wrecked any other country on earth but the effect here, save in a narrow area of the South, was hardly worse than that of the annual national drunk on New Year’s Eve.”’ He believes that the vast debt that was rolled up will be paid off during ten years of normalcy; that we are a tough people and are not easily ruined. As a nation, he says, we 20 in for silly things in a big way, but somehow or other we always muddle through. ’’There was a time, at the height of the Anti-Saloon League’s hegemony, when the essentially American scheme of things was far more seriously threatened than it will ever be by Pennslyvania mineguards of Union Square _ orators! And there was another time, as the Ku Klux Klan leaped _ full-bloom from the loins of the American Legion, when it looked to be certain that a real bath of blood was ahead. But today the Zinovieves of the Klan are all in*jail. the Legion has become so tame that its current ‘boss is actually praised by the American Civil Liberties Union, and the. Anti-Saloon League is as dead as.the More Abundant Life will be anon. And as for the New Deal: Johnson is gone, Moley is gone, Peek is gone, and Tugwell has taken a prundent header into a vat of molasses. The rest will fade out gradually, and by April 1, 1941, even Roosevelt Himself. will be only an ex-President, which is to say, only the molted shell of a man, with none so poor to turn on the dial when he croons,”’ His conclusions are: “This imper-jal-Christian-nation,in-pointof fact; is moving toward neither Communism nor Fascism, though it supports and endures trifling minorities who elamor for both. The great bulk its people prefer a sober course the traditional American course, -hallowed by the Fathers. That is to say, they prefer to follow -indigenons mountebanks, bred in the. . native technique, and speaking the. the country is still solvent and even ; working for a direct appro,~iation . native vulgate. of . middle ; colt; Ine 2. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937. Nevada City Red Cross The response of Nevada City to the urgent call for money to relieve the sufferings from flood disaster ‘along the Ohio river and its tribu'taries, has been generous. Nevada City’s quota was $160. A total of contributions reported last evening was $366, or more than twice the formal’ sum asked for by Admiral Cary T. Grayson, national chairman. However, with the imminent approach of flood along the Mississippi in preparation for which, for a thousand miles north of New Orleans, federal soldiers and state militia are evacuating the population for fifty miles on either side of the river, another call for donations to the Red Cross is expected hourly. The following is a partial report of donations received to date: Millions of dollars will be required to meet the needs of the stricken district and contributions will be received gratefully and applied to the best use of Nevada City Chapter. Fifth Grade, Washington School $4; Harry Douglass, Mtrs. Geprge Downey, A Friend, Mrs. Martin LibFRANK CRAMPTON DEFENDS LETTER ONP.G. &E SUIT Los Angeles, January 26, 1937. Mr. H. M. Leete, Editor, Nevada City Nugget, Nevada City, Calif. Dear Mr. Leete: It is with regret that I read the reply of Mr. Uren tod my comments on the hydraulic mining situation on the Bear river. It does not, seem fitting to indulge in: sarcasm in comments on a situation of such vital importance as the future of not only hydraulic but also of placer mining and even possibly lode mining. Although I have been in the Nevada City district only seven years against the fifty of Mr. Uren, it is sometimes true that one can see a pieture more clearly by not having . been too closely associated with it ‘for too long a time. Certainly one imight be inclined to become biased . through close contact. In any event there are always twc sides to any question and to make the statement that my letter to you was an attempt to ‘‘whitewash”’ anything or any organization is entirely aside from the point and without foundation. If the presentation of facts should ‘‘whitewash’’ -that is another matter but my reply was in no way a defense of the P. G. & E. nor was it an indictment of the miners. The purpose of my letter to you was merely to present actual facts relative to the matter under discussion. Mr. Uren has unfortunately again indulged in innuendo in that he says by some special dispensation I am permitted to. continue mining at Remington Hill. As a matter of fact hydraulic mining was abandoned some time early in 1935 as unprofitable and after the injunction drifting operations were resumed under. every condition imposed by that injunction. Dams, restraining walls and a constant flow of water are maintained and the injunction not violated either in fact or intent, and with no impairment to operations which are conducted normally as in any drift mine. So far as being in good standing with the P. G. & E. I doubt if I am in that position, at least there has not been an attempt to secure favors and under no conditions would I place myself in a position where favors from the P. G. & E. were de‘sirable or necessary. se au "Not being an attorney it would be impossible for me to argue the, legal status with Mr. Uren excepting} say that ; to had the law ‘been*so j (Continued on Page Four) 7 . by virtuosi of unparalleled ardor and no visible competence or conscience . . ; prosperous, and the best pickings, as . Doubles Quota And Still Cash Pours In by, Gomer Hopkins, Burdette Getie Risley, $1; Mr, and Mrs. Forest Risley $2; Dr. Ivey $1; Mr. and Mrs. Osborn, A.V. Sauvee, $2.50; Jim Davis 50c; Gus Hoffman, Mrs. J. Jewett, $2.50; Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Syms, $1; Mrs. C. Heffelfinger, $2: W.V. Tamblyn, $10; Mr. and Mrs. O.F. Bettcher, Geo. Falmbigl, Mr. J. Ohgers, $1; Mrs. J. Troan, 50c: Alice Merchie $1; Mrs. Alice Penrose 50c; J.E. Roberts 50c.; Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Stenger, Miss Kate Kinkead, Miss Winney Mulloy, Mrs. Susan Carr, Miss Alice Moore, $1; Dickerman’s Drug Store $2.50; A Friend, 50c.; H.L. Hobson, $5; Mrs. N.A. Ramsey $1; Miss Grace Kimsey, $5; S. C. Hieronimus $1; Arthur Elliott $2.50; George Walling, Miss Gertrude Goyne $1; Mrs. Geo. Calanan $1.50;’ Mr. and Mrs. Ed Murcie $2; Mr. and Mrs. J. Pascoe, B.T. Tocalinin, J.C. Norton $2.50; Mr. and ‘Mrs. Al Heeter $5; Mr. and Mrs. P. Strandberg, Mrs. J. J. Jackson $1; Howard Ross, $1; R.R. Goyne, Fred Conner, Vestaine Goggans, H. S. Foreman, David H. Reeder, John A. McQuay, W. E. Mullis, National Hotel, R.I. Gwin, E. May Dougall, E.E. Miller, H.D. Vanderhoff, Don McGinnis, 50c; Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Harris $5; C. P. Reynolds, W. R. Young, Barber Shop, W. S. Williamson, Jack Woods, P. G. && E., William Cann, C. M. Hing, Lou Kopp, M. J. Preston, Shong Leon, A. C. Larson, N .C. Drug Store, Elma Hecker, Trinity Sunday School, Ella M. Austin, George Sandow,:C. E. Bosworth, H. C. Bolton, Frank Smith, 50c; R. G. Steger $1:; National Market $2; Tom Jennings 50c; Herman Pederson $5;, F. A. Murphy, Percy Carr, 50c; William Holm, $1; Mary Lee and Bobbie Carr $1: Lace House 50c; Flossie Angove 50c; C. E. Mills, Universal Dollar Store, Plaza Garage, Miners Home Barrack, Superior Grocery, Garino Cafe, R. W. Miller, J. W. Shebley, Angiiini & Cicogni, L.:E. Noyes, C. V. Merriam, 50c; Calanan & Richards, $1; Nevada City Grill 50c; Ernest Carnes, Geo. W: Gildersleeve, H. W. Sheldon, Josephine Genasci, L. Dun(Continued on Page Two) ROTARY DONATES $25 TO RED CROSS At their luncheon session yesterday the Rotary club voted $25 to the Red Cross for relief of the flood victims along the Ohio river. Attention was called to the Cot of Honor held by the Boy Scouts in Seaman’s lodge and the scout committee of the club were requested to be present. The chairman of the committee reported that at its meeting last week arrangements had been made to meet with the regular scout troop under Verne Gleason, scout master, and with the applicants for enrollment in scouts among whom a new scout troop is to be formed. Fred Conway of Grass Valley gave an exhibition on the screen of the sports pictures which he had taken with his own mavie camera. He showed views of speéd boating on Lake Tahoe, fishing in Silver Lake, skiing at Cisco, and winter sports at various centers. The club greatly enjoyed the exhibition. BUILDING FOR FOREST SERVICE IS DELAYED; Some delay has been encountered by the Tahoe National Forest service in securing funds for their new building on the lot adjoining the “Atpha Hardware Store “on Broad street. It was intended to make the new building a WPA project. The project was not approved and. the laborquota was reduced in the Nelvada City district, so there would also not be @nopgh men to work ou the different works projects about the city. The Tahoe National Forest is now . ! to erect the new two story vuild‘After four long years of intensive ' usual, are going to the smartest fel. ing. This new building would save and relentless salvation, carried on lows.”’ very: materially in rents and add to { : per story. CIVIC CLUB THANKS DONORS _ TO XMAS TREE The Nevada City Woman’s Civic club held a meeting at the home of Mrs. Robert Nye on Broad street on Monday afternoon. Routine work was taken care of and a discussion of future work was carried on. This was the first meeting since the community Christmas tree and a report of the finances and donations for the tree was given. An expression of appreciation was made by the ladies for the aid they received for the Christmas’ tree. Thére were twenty four dollars in cash donations, three of them in five dollar bills, one from the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, one from the Washington P. T. A. and one from a friend. The other cash donations came in two dollar, one dollar and fifty cent amounts, all of which were greatly appreciated as they made iit-possible to give the school children candy, nuts and oranges and to add bags of the same to the Christmas boxes sent to the . needy families. New I}ghts and plugs, and wire ‘had to be purchased this year as they were stolen from the tree last year. Many donations from the schoo! children were made in their white packages presented at the tree and from many other benevolent members of the community for which the club ladies wish to express. their thanks. The boy scouts, under the direction of Vern Gleason and EImer Marriott took entire charge of decorating the tree and the forest service furnished the tree. To these, the ladies wish also to express their appreciation. To the J. J. Jackson Grocery, the Plaza Grocery and the Penrose Grocery store for their aid. Mrs. A. W. Hoge, chairman of the library committee gave a complete report. She stated that there was a great need for more shelves in the library to facilitate the proper placement of books. Mrs. Hoge stated that the librarians do the very best that is possible with the present crowded conditions and asked that the club help in providing more shelyes. The ladies took the matter under advisement and asked Mrs. Hoge to make further investigation as to the cost of new shelves and as to the amount of such cost it would be necessary for the club to contribute. Mrs. Hoge also reported that she had paid, from the regularly allotted library fund, for half of the expense of the work of pruning and trimming trees and vines at the library. This work was done about two months ago, The ladies decided to have their annual get-to-gether dinner meeting on Tuesday, February 23. Mrs. Charles Elliott is in charge of plans for the dinner and the program of the evening. The next meeting of the club will be on Monday, February 8. Announcement will be made later as to whether it will be held in the afternoon or evening. If the weather permits it will be held in the evening as is the regular custom. Mondays meeting is the first the club has held since the Christmas tree and so the expression of appreciation from the club is a bit tardy but none the less sincere. METHODIST BISHOP TO PREACH IN GRASS VAL. Members of the Methodist church in Nevada City are invited to hear Bishop George Miller tin an address in the Methodist church in Grass Valley Sunday evening. Rev. H. H. Buckner of the local church states there will be no service in the Nevada City church Sunday evening. Bishop ‘Miller has just returned: from South America and is understood his subject will be & missionary ~talk on this country. He will also speak at Newcastle Monday at 10 o’clock to the assembled Placer-NevadaMinisters association. Ff ¥ convenience of the service. It is stated there are several business houses applying for the space in the Elks building if the forest service moves out. The new building calls for a‘ full basement carrying some space ‘for storage and garage on the first floor. A modern radio room with receiving and sending equipment, to be used about the forest areas, hasbeen planned for the upoffices; HIGHWAY CREW KEEPS ALL SNOW PLOWS BUSY Superintendent Fred Garrison’ of the local division of state highways, states that two feet of new snow fell Wednesday night closing the Tahoe-Ukiah highway at the junction of the Washington and Tahoe-Ukiah all the way to the Auburn highway above Emigrant Gap. He stated crews expected to reopen the road this afternoon. One of the big snow Plows broke down in Bear Valley and was snowed in Wednesday night. A crew is clearing the road with a snow plow to recover the broken plow and repair it for work. The heavy winds. Wednesday night drifted snow into deep cuts_ that have been made by high banks at each side of the road as the snow plows clear the highways, filling the cuts in many places and adding more hard work to the clearing of the roads. The Donner Summit was closed by the new snow Wednesday night and reoponed again Thursday afternoon. The Yuba Pass was closed above: Sierra City in the present storm but crews will endeavor to keep the other roads open until later on when snow plow can be secured from th other division on the Donner Summit, the road will then be reopened. Mr. Garrison stated 18 inches of new snow fell at Camptonville Wednesday night. There are eight snow Plows in the district and the two crews have been working 24 hours a day since December 24. Between three and four inches of new snow fell at Nevada City Wedanesday night accompanied by a high wind. The storm continued off and on throughout Thursday adding new snow to the several inches already on the ground. OATES, ACCUSED OF CAR THEFT, IS IN CUSTODY Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and Jack Thomas, who went to San Jose by car yesterday returned this morning with Walter Oates, auto salesman, arrested by officials in that city and held for the local peace officers. Oates is charged with embezzling a new Pontiac. car and with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was picked up in San Jose alone, no trace being found of Mrs. ‘Pearl Beckendorf, a minor whom Oates allegedly . left Grass Valley with several weeks ago in the a c ear stolen from the Grass Valley garage. In addition to the local charges Oates must face federal officers on several counts including alleged smuggling and violation of federal liquor laws. He is wanted by the United States marshal’s office in Los Angeles and San Franejsco, on allegations of smuggling, and liquor violations. GAMBLING GETS ANOTHER CRIMP In line with a state wide drive against gambling odered some time since by Attorney General U.S. Webb, marble games of various kinds and other gambling devices are being eliminated in Nevada county, whether inside city limits or not. The word has been passed down the Jjine that they must go. It is surmis-} ed that District Attorney Stoll, following up his drive on slot machines and the more obvious forms of gambling, is now turning his attention toward any device that violates state laws. At least the district atiorney does not deny that such is the ease. Shutting down the slot machines racket was partially responsible for closing several roadhouses in the county. February 1 is reported to be the deadline, the day on which all gambling devices must be retired * Is It Worth : To Help Heal A Child . Victim of Paralysis? — . Johns, and many other musieal fea~ from use. Wy ee eae snow tame down on them. A Dollar The President’s Birthday Ball tomorrow night marks not so much the annual celebration of the President’s birthday as it does a great national charity, in which, as the slogan of the comniittee expresses it, millions of people dance in order that hundreds of thousands of crippled children may walk. It is as much of a charity as the annual Red Cross contribution or the Christmas stamps for the prevention of tuberculosis, or, in the local field, Donation Day. The President’s Birthday Ball has no partisan significance: whatever. It is purely a charity for children who have been crippled by infantile paralysis, whose parents are unable to ‘give them the medical and surgical care they need. The proceeds of this charity are given, 70 per cent to local sufferers from infantile paralysis, and 30 per cent to the great institution at Warm Springs, Georgia, which makes a specialty of treating this disease. Two typical instances of the help which has been given in this county from funds derived from the annual President’s Birthday Ball, were related to a reporter for the Nevada City Nugget yesterday. A little girl lost her hearing as the result of a severe attack of infantile paralysis. Physicians who examined her locally ‘declared that she would probably never hear again. The local committee in charge of the fund devoted to this purpose took this child to spec: ialists in a large city and now the, little girl hears as well as anybody. Cc. H. Barker, chairman of the Birthday Ball committee, asks: “Isn’t that worth your dollar?” Another instance was that of a little boy—Nevada county boy. He had been terribly crippled by infantile paralysis, so crippled in fact that he had to stay in bed. His spine was curved and weakened. One foot pointed south, the other north. He was given over to specialists and now that boy has a spine, braced with a piece of bone inserted, spliced and growing there, that is’ fairly straight, and legs.and feet that pertmit him to ride a bicycle. On ovcasion he goes hunting. with-his father. And, Mr. Barker asks again: “Wasn’t that worth your dollar?” Well, nobody with any milk of human kindness itn his breast will deny that it is worth a dollar and a lot more besides. These are just two typical instances of help given to children whose parents were not rich enough to pay the fees that physicians and surgeons charge for curing or, in part, correcting the malformations: and disabilities that infantile paralysis leaves in its train. The local infantile paralysis fund, which is replenished each year by 70 per cent of the money raised by the President’s Birthday Ball, is administered by 4 committee of the Grass Valley and Nevada City Rotary clubs which for many years has had as its major activity the relief of crippled children. The big community dance tomorrow (Saturday) night, celebrating the President’s Birthday, will be. held in the Veterans Memorial Hall in Grass Valley. Preceding the dance there will be an excellent vaudeville program: under the _ direction of Christian Anderson. Fortunately inNevada county there are very few citizens who cannot afford to purchase the dollar tickets that mean making life happier and more serviceable for the children crippled by infantile paralysis. Highlights of the program preceding the ball follows: song, Katherine Celio; song, Tiny Ronde; Harold George and his Grass Vafrey Hi orchestra; pageant by the veterans organizations; pianist, Mrs. Oakley tures, vocal and instrumental. HELBACH MOTORS SHED ROOF COLLAPSES The Helbach Motors partly open building adjoining the Alpha Hardware store on the west, collapsed from several inches of snow at 12:1 noon yesterday with a crash that could be heard some distance. Four cars in the building were damaged to some extent when the corruga ed iron roof, timbers and heavy w at A,

Thinking Out Loud d City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA get The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. H. M. L. We who live in the midst of the New Deal often fail of historical perspective. The trees prevent our seeing the forest. It needs a mind to sweep. back over the. country’s history, to weigh other periods of stress and change against this period. There have been other demagogues to rise and shine with a refulgence, offering other remedies for earthly and governmental ills. Only yesterday there was Coughlan, the radiorating priest, there was Huey Long, there were a couple of Smiths, and there was Dr. Townsend who has had his day in the national Spot light. If we thought it important enough we might mention Warl Browder, candidate for President of! _ the communist ticket, or on the Right, the DuPonts and other gentlemen who sponsored the Liberty League. > elie nop In the past we have had the Great Commoner, the Mugwump leaders, the Copperheads, the Silverites, and mightiest of all, the Tee-Total Prohibitionists. Probably all of these have left their vestiges or scars upon the body politic. But we survived them. We shall survive the New Deal, and if the next President shall offer us the New Millenium, we shall survive that. There is a resilience in the American people that withstands the hearty buffetings of politicians and demagogues, Hear this confession of faith in the American people from.the great est cynic of the century, H. L. Menchen: In The American Mercury just out Menchen says: ‘‘We inhabit, indeed, a kind of Utopia, and it would be recognized as such if the preaching of bogus Utopians were not so strident. No other nation in history has been so favorably situated, or enjoyed so long a run of good luck. We are as secure against actual famine as the Mesopotamia of Abraham’s time, and°as safe against’ foreign’invasion as if we inhabited the moon.” Once more he pays his respects to the New Deal. “Were we ridden and roweled by Hopkins and Tugwell, Ickes and Wallace, Ma Perkins and Jim Farley, and a multitude of other such jitney Caesars? Then think of the rulers of Italy, and Germany, Russia and Spain, even France and England! “The New Deal, to be sure, is a colossal nuisance. It itches terribly, and is an affront to human dignity. But so is eczema—yet very few men die of eczema. We have been through much more dangerous calamities, and survived without serious damage. The Civil War would have wrecked any other country on earth but the effect here, save in a narrow area of the South, was hardly worse than that of the annual national drunk on New Year’s Eve.”’ He believes that the vast debt that was rolled up will be paid off during ten years of normalcy; that we are a tough people and are not easily ruined. As a nation, he says, we 20 in for silly things in a big way, but somehow or other we always muddle through. ’’There was a time, at the height of the Anti-Saloon League’s hegemony, when the essentially American scheme of things was far more seriously threatened than it will ever be by Pennslyvania mineguards of Union Square _ orators! And there was another time, as the Ku Klux Klan leaped _ full-bloom from the loins of the American Legion, when it looked to be certain that a real bath of blood was ahead. But today the Zinovieves of the Klan are all in*jail. the Legion has become so tame that its current ‘boss is actually praised by the American Civil Liberties Union, and the. Anti-Saloon League is as dead as.the More Abundant Life will be anon. And as for the New Deal: Johnson is gone, Moley is gone, Peek is gone, and Tugwell has taken a prundent header into a vat of molasses. The rest will fade out gradually, and by April 1, 1941, even Roosevelt Himself. will be only an ex-President, which is to say, only the molted shell of a man, with none so poor to turn on the dial when he croons,”’ His conclusions are: “This imper-jal-Christian-nation,in-pointof fact; is moving toward neither Communism nor Fascism, though it supports and endures trifling minorities who elamor for both. The great bulk its people prefer a sober course the traditional American course, -hallowed by the Fathers. That is to say, they prefer to follow -indigenons mountebanks, bred in the. . native technique, and speaking the. the country is still solvent and even ; working for a direct appro,~iation . native vulgate. of . middle ; colt; Ine 2. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937. Nevada City Red Cross The response of Nevada City to the urgent call for money to relieve the sufferings from flood disaster ‘along the Ohio river and its tribu'taries, has been generous. Nevada City’s quota was $160. A total of contributions reported last evening was $366, or more than twice the formal’ sum asked for by Admiral Cary T. Grayson, national chairman. However, with the imminent approach of flood along the Mississippi in preparation for which, for a thousand miles north of New Orleans, federal soldiers and state militia are evacuating the population for fifty miles on either side of the river, another call for donations to the Red Cross is expected hourly. The following is a partial report of donations received to date: Millions of dollars will be required to meet the needs of the stricken district and contributions will be received gratefully and applied to the best use of Nevada City Chapter. Fifth Grade, Washington School $4; Harry Douglass, Mtrs. Geprge Downey, A Friend, Mrs. Martin LibFRANK CRAMPTON DEFENDS LETTER ONP.G. &E SUIT Los Angeles, January 26, 1937. Mr. H. M. Leete, Editor, Nevada City Nugget, Nevada City, Calif. Dear Mr. Leete: It is with regret that I read the reply of Mr. Uren tod my comments on the hydraulic mining situation on the Bear river. It does not, seem fitting to indulge in: sarcasm in comments on a situation of such vital importance as the future of not only hydraulic but also of placer mining and even possibly lode mining. Although I have been in the Nevada City district only seven years against the fifty of Mr. Uren, it is sometimes true that one can see a pieture more clearly by not having . been too closely associated with it ‘for too long a time. Certainly one imight be inclined to become biased . through close contact. In any event there are always twc sides to any question and to make the statement that my letter to you was an attempt to ‘‘whitewash”’ anything or any organization is entirely aside from the point and without foundation. If the presentation of facts should ‘‘whitewash’’ -that is another matter but my reply was in no way a defense of the P. G. & E. nor was it an indictment of the miners. The purpose of my letter to you was merely to present actual facts relative to the matter under discussion. Mr. Uren has unfortunately again indulged in innuendo in that he says by some special dispensation I am permitted to. continue mining at Remington Hill. As a matter of fact hydraulic mining was abandoned some time early in 1935 as unprofitable and after the injunction drifting operations were resumed under. every condition imposed by that injunction. Dams, restraining walls and a constant flow of water are maintained and the injunction not violated either in fact or intent, and with no impairment to operations which are conducted normally as in any drift mine. So far as being in good standing with the P. G. & E. I doubt if I am in that position, at least there has not been an attempt to secure favors and under no conditions would I place myself in a position where favors from the P. G. & E. were de‘sirable or necessary. se au "Not being an attorney it would be impossible for me to argue the, legal status with Mr. Uren excepting} say that ; to had the law ‘been*so j (Continued on Page Four) 7 . by virtuosi of unparalleled ardor and no visible competence or conscience . . ; prosperous, and the best pickings, as . Doubles Quota And Still Cash Pours In by, Gomer Hopkins, Burdette Getie Risley, $1; Mr, and Mrs. Forest Risley $2; Dr. Ivey $1; Mr. and Mrs. Osborn, A.V. Sauvee, $2.50; Jim Davis 50c; Gus Hoffman, Mrs. J. Jewett, $2.50; Mr. and Mrs. B.L. Syms, $1; Mrs. C. Heffelfinger, $2: W.V. Tamblyn, $10; Mr. and Mrs. O.F. Bettcher, Geo. Falmbigl, Mr. J. Ohgers, $1; Mrs. J. Troan, 50c: Alice Merchie $1; Mrs. Alice Penrose 50c; J.E. Roberts 50c.; Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Stenger, Miss Kate Kinkead, Miss Winney Mulloy, Mrs. Susan Carr, Miss Alice Moore, $1; Dickerman’s Drug Store $2.50; A Friend, 50c.; H.L. Hobson, $5; Mrs. N.A. Ramsey $1; Miss Grace Kimsey, $5; S. C. Hieronimus $1; Arthur Elliott $2.50; George Walling, Miss Gertrude Goyne $1; Mrs. Geo. Calanan $1.50;’ Mr. and Mrs. Ed Murcie $2; Mr. and Mrs. J. Pascoe, B.T. Tocalinin, J.C. Norton $2.50; Mr. and ‘Mrs. Al Heeter $5; Mr. and Mrs. P. Strandberg, Mrs. J. J. Jackson $1; Howard Ross, $1; R.R. Goyne, Fred Conner, Vestaine Goggans, H. S. Foreman, David H. Reeder, John A. McQuay, W. E. Mullis, National Hotel, R.I. Gwin, E. May Dougall, E.E. Miller, H.D. Vanderhoff, Don McGinnis, 50c; Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Harris $5; C. P. Reynolds, W. R. Young, Barber Shop, W. S. Williamson, Jack Woods, P. G. && E., William Cann, C. M. Hing, Lou Kopp, M. J. Preston, Shong Leon, A. C. Larson, N .C. Drug Store, Elma Hecker, Trinity Sunday School, Ella M. Austin, George Sandow,:C. E. Bosworth, H. C. Bolton, Frank Smith, 50c; R. G. Steger $1:; National Market $2; Tom Jennings 50c; Herman Pederson $5;, F. A. Murphy, Percy Carr, 50c; William Holm, $1; Mary Lee and Bobbie Carr $1: Lace House 50c; Flossie Angove 50c; C. E. Mills, Universal Dollar Store, Plaza Garage, Miners Home Barrack, Superior Grocery, Garino Cafe, R. W. Miller, J. W. Shebley, Angiiini & Cicogni, L.:E. Noyes, C. V. Merriam, 50c; Calanan & Richards, $1; Nevada City Grill 50c; Ernest Carnes, Geo. W: Gildersleeve, H. W. Sheldon, Josephine Genasci, L. Dun(Continued on Page Two) ROTARY DONATES $25 TO RED CROSS At their luncheon session yesterday the Rotary club voted $25 to the Red Cross for relief of the flood victims along the Ohio river. Attention was called to the Cot of Honor held by the Boy Scouts in Seaman’s lodge and the scout committee of the club were requested to be present. The chairman of the committee reported that at its meeting last week arrangements had been made to meet with the regular scout troop under Verne Gleason, scout master, and with the applicants for enrollment in scouts among whom a new scout troop is to be formed. Fred Conway of Grass Valley gave an exhibition on the screen of the sports pictures which he had taken with his own mavie camera. He showed views of speéd boating on Lake Tahoe, fishing in Silver Lake, skiing at Cisco, and winter sports at various centers. The club greatly enjoyed the exhibition. BUILDING FOR FOREST SERVICE IS DELAYED; Some delay has been encountered by the Tahoe National Forest service in securing funds for their new building on the lot adjoining the “Atpha Hardware Store “on Broad street. It was intended to make the new building a WPA project. The project was not approved and. the laborquota was reduced in the Nelvada City district, so there would also not be @nopgh men to work ou the different works projects about the city. The Tahoe National Forest is now . ! to erect the new two story vuild‘After four long years of intensive ' usual, are going to the smartest fel. ing. This new building would save and relentless salvation, carried on lows.”’ very: materially in rents and add to {

: per story. CIVIC CLUB THANKS DONORS _ TO XMAS TREE The Nevada City Woman’s Civic club held a meeting at the home of Mrs. Robert Nye on Broad street on Monday afternoon. Routine work was taken care of and a discussion of future work was carried on. This was the first meeting since the community Christmas tree and a report of the finances and donations for the tree was given. An expression of appreciation was made by the ladies for the aid they received for the Christmas’ tree. Thére were twenty four dollars in cash donations, three of them in five dollar bills, one from the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, one from the Washington P. T. A. and one from a friend. The other cash donations came in two dollar, one dollar and fifty cent amounts, all of which were greatly appreciated as they made iit-possible to give the school children candy, nuts and oranges and to add bags of the same to the Christmas boxes sent to the . needy families. New I}ghts and plugs, and wire ‘had to be purchased this year as they were stolen from the tree last year. Many donations from the schoo! children were made in their white packages presented at the tree and from many other benevolent members of the community for which the club ladies wish to express. their thanks. The boy scouts, under the direction of Vern Gleason and EImer Marriott took entire charge of decorating the tree and the forest service furnished the tree. To these, the ladies wish also to express their appreciation. To the J. J. Jackson Grocery, the Plaza Grocery and the Penrose Grocery store for their aid. Mrs. A. W. Hoge, chairman of the library committee gave a complete report. She stated that there was a great need for more shelves in the library to facilitate the proper placement of books. Mrs. Hoge stated that the librarians do the very best that is possible with the present crowded conditions and asked that the club help in providing more shelyes. The ladies took the matter under advisement and asked Mrs. Hoge to make further investigation as to the cost of new shelves and as to the amount of such cost it would be necessary for the club to contribute. Mrs. Hoge also reported that she had paid, from the regularly allotted library fund, for half of the expense of the work of pruning and trimming trees and vines at the library. This work was done about two months ago, The ladies decided to have their annual get-to-gether dinner meeting on Tuesday, February 23. Mrs. Charles Elliott is in charge of plans for the dinner and the program of the evening. The next meeting of the club will be on Monday, February 8. Announcement will be made later as to whether it will be held in the afternoon or evening. If the weather permits it will be held in the evening as is the regular custom. Mondays meeting is the first the club has held since the Christmas tree and so the expression of appreciation from the club is a bit tardy but none the less sincere. METHODIST BISHOP TO PREACH IN GRASS VAL. Members of the Methodist church in Nevada City are invited to hear Bishop George Miller tin an address in the Methodist church in Grass Valley Sunday evening. Rev. H. H. Buckner of the local church states there will be no service in the Nevada City church Sunday evening. Bishop ‘Miller has just returned: from South America and is understood his subject will be & missionary ~talk on this country. He will also speak at Newcastle Monday at 10 o’clock to the assembled Placer-NevadaMinisters association. Ff ¥ convenience of the service. It is stated there are several business houses applying for the space in the Elks building if the forest service moves out. The new building calls for a‘ full basement carrying some space ‘for storage and garage on the first floor. A modern radio room with receiving and sending equipment, to be used about the forest areas, hasbeen planned for the upoffices; HIGHWAY CREW KEEPS ALL SNOW PLOWS BUSY Superintendent Fred Garrison’ of the local division of state highways, states that two feet of new snow fell Wednesday night closing the Tahoe-Ukiah highway at the junction of the Washington and Tahoe-Ukiah all the way to the Auburn highway above Emigrant Gap. He stated crews expected to reopen the road this afternoon. One of the big snow Plows broke down in Bear Valley and was snowed in Wednesday night. A crew is clearing the road with a snow plow to recover the broken plow and repair it for work. The heavy winds. Wednesday night drifted snow into deep cuts_ that have been made by high banks at each side of the road as the snow plows clear the highways, filling the cuts in many places and adding more hard work to the clearing of the roads. The Donner Summit was closed by the new snow Wednesday night and reoponed again Thursday afternoon. The Yuba Pass was closed above: Sierra City in the present storm but crews will endeavor to keep the other roads open until later on when snow plow can be secured from th other division on the Donner Summit, the road will then be reopened. Mr. Garrison stated 18 inches of new snow fell at Camptonville Wednesday night. There are eight snow Plows in the district and the two crews have been working 24 hours a day since December 24. Between three and four inches of new snow fell at Nevada City Wedanesday night accompanied by a high wind. The storm continued off and on throughout Thursday adding new snow to the several inches already on the ground. OATES, ACCUSED OF CAR THEFT, IS IN CUSTODY Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and Jack Thomas, who went to San Jose by car yesterday returned this morning with Walter Oates, auto salesman, arrested by officials in that city and held for the local peace officers. Oates is charged with embezzling a new Pontiac. car and with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was picked up in San Jose alone, no trace being found of Mrs. ‘Pearl Beckendorf, a minor whom Oates allegedly . left Grass Valley with several weeks ago in the a c ear stolen from the Grass Valley garage. In addition to the local charges Oates must face federal officers on several counts including alleged smuggling and violation of federal liquor laws. He is wanted by the United States marshal’s office in Los Angeles and San Franejsco, on allegations of smuggling, and liquor violations. GAMBLING GETS ANOTHER CRIMP In line with a state wide drive against gambling odered some time since by Attorney General U.S. Webb, marble games of various kinds and other gambling devices are being eliminated in Nevada county, whether inside city limits or not. The word has been passed down the Jjine that they must go. It is surmis-} ed that District Attorney Stoll, following up his drive on slot machines and the more obvious forms of gambling, is now turning his attention toward any device that violates state laws. At least the district atiorney does not deny that such is the ease. Shutting down the slot machines racket was partially responsible for closing several roadhouses in the county. February 1 is reported to be the deadline, the day on which all gambling devices must be retired * Is It Worth : To Help Heal A Child . Victim of Paralysis? — . Johns, and many other musieal fea~ from use. Wy ee eae snow tame down on them. A Dollar The President’s Birthday Ball tomorrow night marks not so much the annual celebration of the President’s birthday as it does a great national charity, in which, as the slogan of the comniittee expresses it, millions of people dance in order that hundreds of thousands of crippled children may walk. It is as much of a charity as the annual Red Cross contribution or the Christmas stamps for the prevention of tuberculosis, or, in the local field, Donation Day. The President’s Birthday Ball has no partisan significance: whatever. It is purely a charity for children who have been crippled by infantile paralysis, whose parents are unable to ‘give them the medical and surgical care they need. The proceeds of this charity are given, 70 per cent to local sufferers from infantile paralysis, and 30 per cent to the great institution at Warm Springs, Georgia, which makes a specialty of treating this disease. Two typical instances of the help which has been given in this county from funds derived from the annual President’s Birthday Ball, were related to a reporter for the Nevada City Nugget yesterday. A little girl lost her hearing as the result of a severe attack of infantile paralysis. Physicians who examined her locally ‘declared that she would probably never hear again. The local committee in charge of the fund devoted to this purpose took this child to spec: ialists in a large city and now the, little girl hears as well as anybody. Cc. H. Barker, chairman of the Birthday Ball committee, asks: “Isn’t that worth your dollar?” Another instance was that of a little boy—Nevada county boy. He had been terribly crippled by infantile paralysis, so crippled in fact that he had to stay in bed. His spine was curved and weakened. One foot pointed south, the other north. He was given over to specialists and now that boy has a spine, braced with a piece of bone inserted, spliced and growing there, that is’ fairly straight, and legs.and feet that pertmit him to ride a bicycle. On ovcasion he goes hunting. with-his father. And, Mr. Barker asks again: “Wasn’t that worth your dollar?” Well, nobody with any milk of human kindness itn his breast will deny that it is worth a dollar and a lot more besides. These are just two typical instances of help given to children whose parents were not rich enough to pay the fees that physicians and surgeons charge for curing or, in part, correcting the malformations: and disabilities that infantile paralysis leaves in its train. The local infantile paralysis fund, which is replenished each year by 70 per cent of the money raised by the President’s Birthday Ball, is administered by 4 committee of the Grass Valley and Nevada City Rotary clubs which for many years has had as its major activity the relief of crippled children. The big community dance tomorrow (Saturday) night, celebrating the President’s Birthday, will be. held in the Veterans Memorial Hall in Grass Valley. Preceding the dance there will be an excellent vaudeville program: under the _ direction of Christian Anderson. Fortunately inNevada county there are very few citizens who cannot afford to purchase the dollar tickets that mean making life happier and more serviceable for the children crippled by infantile paralysis. Highlights of the program preceding the ball follows: song, Katherine Celio; song, Tiny Ronde; Harold George and his Grass Vafrey Hi orchestra; pageant by the veterans organizations; pianist, Mrs. Oakley tures, vocal and instrumental. HELBACH MOTORS SHED ROOF COLLAPSES The Helbach Motors partly open building adjoining the Alpha Hardware store on the west, collapsed from several inches of snow at 12:1 noon yesterday with a crash that could be heard some distance. Four cars in the building were damaged to some extent when the corruga ed iron roof, timbers and heavy w at A,