January 3, 1944 (4 pages)

food resources so that a ‘The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month fi “God grants dots only to those who love it, and are ready Nevada City } COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA to guard il defend it.” —Daniel Webster U gget This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about i friends, your neighbors, read The Nugeet. ES The Corey Back Paper NEVADA _CITY, CALIFORNIA ° The Gold Center 3 ___ MONDAY, JANUARY 3.1944 3, 1944 ee SAN FRANCISCO REPUBLICANS GET QUESTIONNAIRE SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.—Determined to give increasing recognition to rank and file opinions within the party, the Republican County Central Committee of San Francisco has mailed a poll. quéstionnaire to more than 10,000 of the vity‘’s registered Republican voters. Acting for the committee, Chairman Herbert Hanley, asks for a preferénce vote as to the actual presi. dential candidate -favore oak equal distribution is attained than among the following names: or en thas been the case in the past. Dewey, MacArthur, Saltonstall, _ Stassdn, Warren and Willkie. . A tamine anywhere on earth,’ The second questionnaire reads: §m these modern times under nor. “In the event that the” California mal conditions, is a yellow brand . Primary republican field narrows of shame on the brow of civiliza. d@own to two men, Warren and Willet Se do exept such « famine . kie, which man would be your as now afflicts Bengal, for the . ¢choice?’ on that ‘war disrupted tha Final query covers willingness of aisual food sources and distribu-tion the Bengalese normally de: ‘pend upon. The Japs robbed Bur‘ma of the rice that had for many ‘years found a market in Bengal. Thinking Out Loud By ‘1H. M. LL. Ser, We often hear the slogan, “food will win the war and the peace.” We believe it even though we have become exceedingly wary’ ot ‘slogans in this land where a 8 ‘n has more power than “gn army corps. The international tedy which will have power of life and death in its hands after -the war, will be that one which qecks to coordinate the world’s more the nominating petition of their favorite candidate. ~ “This sponsor list,’’Hanley exPlained “will be made available to the candidate or his authorized campaign committee immediately after totalization of the poll.” “The committee is conducting this poll,” {Hanley continued, “because we believe that only by this method an we get a true picture of rank and file sentiment. and thus be consistently representative of party opinion. It is aimed against no one and implies hostility to no candidates. Only those who fear ‘its results and are supersensitive to a’ degree unique in politics can or will regard it as an unfriendly act,”’ _ We'recall many years ago dur‘ing a famine in the Chinese province of Hupeh, that Robert Dollar, who was a great humanist “and philanthropist, hurriedly load‘ed several of his steamships with wheat and rushed it into the ‘@tricken area. To this day we don’t whether ‘he was paid or not; ight have been because the Chinese looked upon him as a i “above .all other occidéntals quite naturally they would ‘want to’see him paid at least the cost of this quick relief. Incident. y the Chinese had a hard time ing to use wheat as a food, . it did save some hundreds of: jusands of them. STATE CHAMBER SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3. — Development and maintenance’ in the ‘postwar period of a stronger ana more adequate American Merchant Marine, under private ownership, is istrongly advocated in a communication forwarded to’ Admiral Emory Ss. Land, chairman of the United States ‘Maritime Commission, ‘by James Mussatti,.general manager of the’ (California state chamber of commerce. “ i Admiral Land is urged by the state chamber to appoint a broadly representative committee whose membership is to be drawn from governmental. agencies concerned, every branch of the shipping industry, and others interested in foreign and domestic water borne commerce. The purpose of the committee would be }to undertake an immediate investigation of postwar shipping problems and to submit, recommendations for the development and maintenance of. a powerful: amecigns ‘Merelant Marine. . “The planning in “respect. to. an American ‘Merchant Marine to meet i postwar needs is a matter of special significance-to. California and the “Pacific Coast,” Mussatti said. “For this reason, the ‘California State chamber offers its full cooperation ‘in any program undertaken to obtain thie. objective. GASOLINE PLANTS NOW NUMBER 34 ‘Pleven more 100octane aviation ‘gasoline plants have been placed in operation during the past three months, bringing the total aviation gasoline projects. now open to 34, Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes has announced. pen the early part of 1944 another 38 plants will go into ore guna with these developments which will result in more and more fuel for the war effort and less for the civilians, the OPA this‘ week took further steps to enlist the help of patriotic citizens in stamping out_ ilsales of* gasoline. oe “easy to emdorse your cou2 __ dat oo ent on the black this “war “is over, it — _do,to depend upon: men of tt Dollar’s character to refamine. The earth isabundable to produce food, not for its present population but greater populations. After a one of. the first requisits, ee, as we See it, is to provide ‘uch a distribution that famwill be impossible: Out: of : and ‘food shortages are -Tevolutions and war. To keep Peace, the world peace, the need is to supply adequate to all earth's children. — a thts connection. we are repd of a letter which recently from one of our ‘boys in ‘Was a civilized nation _ Wngland was, the gtirring the wooden plow drawn by f span about one. gevpopulation is engaged That is -per_ greatest ~ industrial’ — ‘meaning gadgets, 8, automobiles, ships, —on earth. In — our Ms leads us to .the ehanahs our. &reatest contribution to “peace and well being could ties of agricultural miste backward countries, such ly, Greece, all the Near lina, India and parts of If these people could learn Jesson of food production ‘at the cost, it would. release a Many millions of workers for industries, which in the » give us a higher staridRussia in this connection, We might have done so ten © @g0: It is quite obvious that is on: its Way up, with a l. . We will willingly prophesy for a hundred years will: suffer another famine. ) war is over and Russia down to peace time livedict it will become one South America and Aus-' have latent food prothe addressees to sign as sponsors, . . . ing: ‘solder. con 0 [TWO THIRDS OF COUNTY TAXES IN TREASURY An admirable report of taxes ¢ollected for the 1943-44 period fias been compiled by Miss Elma Heck-. * er county treasyrer and tax ¢ollextor. Of unusual note is the fact that approximately two thirds of the éntire county assessment tax was received at the tréasurer’s office i‘. fore the expiration of the December 6 deadline. This period, usually defined as the “first installment” period, witnessed an unusual number of in-full payments. The total tax to be collected in 1943-44 amounts to $432,110.83. Up to and including December 6 the pay ments reached a total of $288, 796.47, leaving a ‘second installment’ balance of but $143,313.86. The second installment payment period becomes delinguent om April 20, 1944. ‘Roy C. Votaw, field representative for the Division of Delinquency Prevention, California Youth Authority, made an inspection of the club:rootis and work of the Grass ‘Valley Recreation Center and later expressed high praise for conduct of the institution and) the interest shown: He highly commended the city council for installing, and maintaining the club, the overseers who contributed their services and the use made of it by the youths of the community, !, of the best I have found anywhere and one of the.comparatively few \Mmaintained in. the. smaller cities.’ Votaw said. “The city authorities and . * the people are to be congratulated upon the step taken. It is an institution to-be proud of” , SAVES PYRAMID OF PURE TIN Tin to coat enough food cans to make a pyramid a city block in size and as high as the Empire State building has been saved by the Gen-/' eral Electric Company. since Pearl Harbor, through a special campaign throughout its numerous war plants. (By reducing the percentage of tin in solders and alloys, the company has saved 850,000 pounds of tin, or enough to coat 825,000,000. cans on both: sides. Before the war solders and alloys were high in'tin content; but a.year before the 1942 ey order ‘limit‘to 30 per cent, General Electric ie ‘oduced a 20 per went general purpose tin solder. Babbit alloys; which formerly contained more than 83 per cent tin, are now restricted to 12 per eent and G.E. has developed such an‘ alloy containing only one per cent tin.’ FIRST ‘SNOW OF YEAR Nevada City’s: first snowfall beban Sunday afternoon, the -huge . flakes melting almost as fast as they fell for a time. During the night another fall of snow added to the white blanket on the ground to give a half inch. Rainfall for the three days of. January amount to 2.07 inches and for the month of December there was a rainfall of 10,62 inches. ‘Total for the period is 12.69 inches. soon hopes to bring home to every motorist. : Simultaneously banks handling ration banking accounts for gasoline distributors are being asked to re‘port suspicious coupons and to refuse to accept for deposit gummed sheets of coupons which are not completely endorsed, ‘Further measures to combat: the transferetice of stolen coupons are being drafted, but OPA insists individual motorists can do the biggest part/of the job of stamping out the «misuse of gasoline which nan a “The Grass Valley center is one vy Veterans in Hospitals officer of the ‘Royal Flying Force, now visiting Cambridge, his own topic. Carol Choir Sings At Hospital The Grass Valley (Carol > hospital. were. heard Sunday. Charles ‘H H. Lambert Dies Of Heart Attack 63 years of age. he resided. 4 : Holmes Funeral Home being made to locate relatives. Funeral Services F The Late Roy joke Roy Jobe, who passed away Stockton Saturday morning. Mark Pike and Adjutant Sainsbury o reside’ in. Stockton. New Type Life Raft Designed For Seam companies Programs, Gifts, ‘Aviitecisted The Laymeth Club meeting” this evening at dinner in Wesley. Hail, will hear Lieut. H. G. von Over, an Dag mado n Grass Valley. Von Oven is a graduate of England. He will. choose Choir visited the Nevada County Hospital Sunday afternoon and gave a concert of Christmas songs for the inmates. Arrangements for this annual event were completed by Harold George director of the choir, and Alvah Walthers, superintendent. of the While the membership of the choir has been affected by war conditions, approximately 30 voices ‘Charles Hugh Lambert, following a severe heart attack in Grass Valley last Wednésday, passed away at a local hospital Saturday afternoon. ‘Lambert was a native of Germany, ‘He came to the United States with his parents at the age of 11. He had been a book‘keeper. most of his life. Little was known of him in Grass Valley where is charge of the.remains. An effort is in Funeral services will be: held this afternoon in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary for the late 8 to five, three, two and one half and Helena the Salvation Army will -j¢onduct the service. Interment will be ‘In the Greeitiwood Cemetery. Jobe was a native of Grass VaHey 38 years of age. He had been ill for four years. For many years he was engaged in plumbing and lived with his family in. Yosemite Valley. He leaves. a wife and five children, who An improved ‘type of Tite ste Taft has been developed by several throughout the country ‘. }for the use of merchant seamen torpedoed, bombed or shelled at sea. The raft carries a sail, berth beds for injured men, fishing tackle and’ may be equipped with a stove ‘for cooking sea food, according to -the BRET HARTE INN NOTED HOSTELRY CHANGES HANDS James C. Tyrrell, on Saturday announced the sale of the Bret Harte Inn in Gress Valley, a hostelry of 78 rooms for an approximate price of $60,000 to Harry Handlery, hotel man ofVallejo. The transfer took place as of midnight, Décember 31st. The hotel, 25 years old, has: been under .Tyrrell’s management since 1929. For the present the management and the personnel that has made ‘the Bret Harte Inn a well known name in the hotel-world will continue to function and as. far as, the generalpublic is concerned there will be but little outward evidence that a transfer has taken place. The idea of a new hotel originated in a meeting of the chamber of commerce in T9317 and a committee was appointed to investigate the situation and make a report. There were several. dynamic men on the board of directors at that time. The committee had among its workers Earl Taylor, Albert Mooser, James (C. Tyrrell and several others who are no longer residents of ‘Grass Valley. or have passed on. They formed a corporation. They engaged an architect, prepared a picture showing what the hotel would. look: like, and then the committee took subscriptions for stock. The largest subscribers. were’ %. W. Starr, C: RE. Clinch, Benj, Hall of H. Taylor. The largest common stock holder did not own more than 26 shares and it went from that to ten; one share. One hundred stockholders in all, and there are about that many -today' who will participate in the distribution when the legal and business details have all ‘been. cleared up. “The stock sold for’ $100" _ ‘tiers: Then’ thé directors borrowed: $40, 000 ito complete the property. Asessments: were levied to pay off the mortgage and in a few years the corporation. was out of debt. ; : The first lessee was Albert BetHotel he sold out to Edward Bedell, then Nevada City, D. E. Morgan and C.) lems of ‘the: ae S.P.TRAFFIC -ATNEWHIGH — FOR 4TH YEAR A new.all time traffic record was rolled up by Southern Pacific im 1943 for the fourth year insucces= _ sion, it was reyealed by President A. T. Mercier’ in 4 review of the company’s activities in the second year of the ‘war. A further increase is ex— Pected in 1944) it wae stated, and the railroad will need more mau power and equipment to handle sone still heavier load, ‘Our personnel met the severest: tests in the company’s history. bat came through victoriously in every undertaking in 19437, Mercier Aeclared. ‘New records were achieved by the nearly 100,000 Southern Pace ific men and women in spite of a growing. manpower shorfage, now around 10,000, ‘and a stringency of © equipment necessitating the most. in; tense nae oF locomotives and With more than . 14,000 former employes now in the armed forces, manpower is Southern Pacific’s greatest problem, according to the ahnouncement. Some 4,000. women were énrolled to do work formerly. performed exclusively by men, and about 7,000. Mexican: track workers. imported, all efforts to reeruit this: labor in. the United ‘States hay = failed. at ‘Heavier loading of tee quick because at terminal ized traffic control to ine a capacity of single track we by Mercier among helpful fac the handling of Southern unprecedented traffic. * But, the tremendous load. in could ‘not haye been carried, ‘without . the’ practical and ‘sus’ cooperation of’ contitercial fase ona and . great: value, the” allroad said.tens, who was then owner of the} = i? ramento. After some years. § AY turn gold out to Chas. Fraser, manramento, The latter did not make a inoseus. ® of the venture and ‘went ° through the directors took over and placed operating the Clunie Hotel, who in. ager of the Senator Hotel at Ok bankruptcy in 1929, in which Jour ™ American Merchant Marine Institute. The ‘raft not only has emergency: rations, but also. carries nearly every type of first aid equipment which might be needed after a’ disaster. The first aid kit includes bandages, compresses, boric acid ointment, tourniquets, forceps, eye dressings, sufnanilamide © crystals, benzedrine and phenobarbital. Instruction for the use of-all are printed’ on’ the Packages . which are. tnclosed in water tight transparent covers. 100 Per Cent Penalty If eaistered by F blue’ ry A gold windshield stickers, denoting payment of 1944 automobile registration fees; will be received from motoriste beginning today’ (January 3) at, offices of the State Department of Motor Vehicles and of the California State Automobile Association. The 1944 fees will be the same as those paid by motorists last year. (Charts for determining fees for those whose 1943 registration certificates do-not show the amount will be on display at service stations, and at auto clubs and motor vehicles department offices. ‘Mailing of ‘application and tees, to save tires, gasoline and car wear, is urged. The 1943 certificate of registration, with correct address shown, constitutes application. : (Midnight, February 4, is the dead line for registering motor vehicles. Starting on. February 5, a 100 per cent penalty is added to the $3.00)° registration’ fee and a 50 per cent areal. is added: to the ‘license tee. “Miss Jane Baunott. “daughter of . « Mr. and Mrs. Elleworth Bennett of}, . Washington, D. C., is spending her vacation at the’ Bennett . home on} hee ” je steer menue 2 Pine street. Jane works for the Kai-. it J. ©. Tyrrell then postmaster, in charge. Under, his management the. , hotel has had a considerable suc-. ee ‘The siiihelae of ‘the adjoining home of Robert Johns was a 'valuable acquisition and it now constitu-. ’ tes the beautiful garden ‘of the ho-. , . tel. The parking lot was made out}. of the Ellis property and the por-]. tion now used as the garage was} formerly the. city jail and, ‘was Ree chased from. the city. + Inn as a local : enterprise has. “passed, management ‘plans several improvements; so that nothing will be lost . . to the community by the change. : The Bret’ “but the new Hatry Handley, the new owner, apie ag owns and operates two, properties. tot Within the last ‘week or two. he purchased the Hotel Woodland, ‘ al BISHOP NEW RURAL Raymond. ‘Monk, -rufal ‘man. carrier( ‘yesterday delivered his . last . ¢ bagful, He has béen a carrier on the Grass Valley postoffice staff for the . ’ ati past 12 years, three of which have. services, been in the rural service. He resigns as of today to accept cand em-. . ployment, -Tabe Bishop, former service etint manager, will fill the vacancy. . ’ ‘a a N. O-G, V. SCHOOLS:

food resources so that a ‘The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month fi “God grants dots only to those who love it, and are ready Nevada City } COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA to guard il defend it.” —Daniel Webster U gget This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about i friends, your neighbors, read The Nugeet. ES The Corey Back Paper NEVADA _CITY, CALIFORNIA ° The Gold Center 3 ___ MONDAY, JANUARY 3.1944 3, 1944 ee SAN FRANCISCO REPUBLICANS GET QUESTIONNAIRE SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.—Determined to give increasing recognition to rank and file opinions within the party, the Republican County Central Committee of San Francisco has mailed a poll. quéstionnaire to more than 10,000 of the vity‘’s registered Republican voters. Acting for the committee, Chairman Herbert Hanley, asks for a preferénce vote as to the actual presi. dential candidate -favore oak equal distribution is attained than among the following names: or en thas been the case in the past. Dewey, MacArthur, Saltonstall, _ Stassdn, Warren and Willkie. . A tamine anywhere on earth,’ The second questionnaire reads: §m these modern times under nor. “In the event that the” California mal conditions, is a yellow brand . Primary republican field narrows of shame on the brow of civiliza. d@own to two men, Warren and Willet Se do exept such « famine . kie, which man would be your as now afflicts Bengal, for the . ¢choice?’ on that ‘war disrupted tha Final query covers willingness of aisual food sources and distribu-tion the Bengalese normally de: ‘pend upon. The Japs robbed Bur‘ma of the rice that had for many ‘years found a market in Bengal. Thinking Out Loud By ‘1H. M. LL. Ser, We often hear the slogan, “food will win the war and the peace.” We believe it even though we have become exceedingly wary’ ot ‘slogans in this land where a 8 ‘n has more power than “gn army corps. The international tedy which will have power of life and death in its hands after -the war, will be that one which qecks to coordinate the world’s more the nominating petition of their favorite candidate. ~ “This sponsor list,’’Hanley exPlained “will be made available to the candidate or his authorized campaign committee immediately after totalization of the poll.” “The committee is conducting this poll,” {Hanley continued, “because we believe that only by this method an we get a true picture of rank and file sentiment. and thus be consistently representative of party opinion. It is aimed against no one and implies hostility to no candidates. Only those who fear ‘its results and are supersensitive to a’ degree unique in politics can or will regard it as an unfriendly act,”’ _ We'recall many years ago dur‘ing a famine in the Chinese province of Hupeh, that Robert Dollar, who was a great humanist “and philanthropist, hurriedly load‘ed several of his steamships with wheat and rushed it into the ‘@tricken area. To this day we don’t whether ‘he was paid or not; ight have been because the Chinese looked upon him as a i “above .all other occidéntals quite naturally they would ‘want to’see him paid at least the cost of this quick relief. Incident. y the Chinese had a hard time ing to use wheat as a food, . it did save some hundreds of: jusands of them. STATE CHAMBER SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3. — Development and maintenance’ in the ‘postwar period of a stronger ana more adequate American Merchant Marine, under private ownership, is istrongly advocated in a communication forwarded to’ Admiral Emory Ss. Land, chairman of the United States ‘Maritime Commission, ‘by James Mussatti,.general manager of the’ (California state chamber of commerce. “ i Admiral Land is urged by the state chamber to appoint a broadly representative committee whose membership is to be drawn from governmental. agencies concerned, every branch of the shipping industry, and others interested in foreign and domestic water borne commerce. The purpose of the committee would be }to undertake an immediate investigation of postwar shipping problems and to submit, recommendations for the development and maintenance of. a powerful: amecigns ‘Merelant Marine. . “The planning in “respect.. to. an American ‘Merchant Marine to meet i postwar needs is a matter of special significance-to. California and the “Pacific Coast,” Mussatti said. “For this reason, the ‘California State chamber offers its full cooperation ‘in any program undertaken to obtain thie. objective. GASOLINE PLANTS NOW NUMBER 34 ‘Pleven more 100octane aviation ‘gasoline plants have been placed in operation during the past three months, bringing the total aviation gasoline projects. now open to 34, Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes has announced. pen the early part of 1944 another 38 plants will go into ore guna with these developments which will result in more and more fuel for the war effort and less for the civilians, the OPA this‘ week took further steps to enlist the help of patriotic citizens in stamping out_ ilsales of* gasoline. oe “easy to emdorse your cou2 __ dat oo ent on the black this “war “is over, it — _do,to depend upon: men of tt Dollar’s character to refamine. The earth isabundable to produce food, not for its present population but greater populations. After a one of. the first requisits, ee, as we See it, is to provide ‘uch a distribution that famwill be impossible: Out: of : and ‘food shortages are -Tevolutions and war. To keep Peace, the world peace, the need is to supply adequate to all earth's children. — a thts connection. we are repd of a letter which recently from one of our ‘boys in ‘Was a civilized nation _ Wngland was, the gtirring the wooden plow drawn by f span about one. gevpopulation is engaged That is -per_ greatest ~ industrial’ — ‘meaning gadgets, 8, automobiles, ships, —on earth. In — our Ms leads us to .the ehanahs our. &reatest contribution to “peace and well being could ties of agricultural miste backward countries, such ly, Greece, all the Near lina, India and parts of If these people could learn Jesson of food production ‘at the cost, it would. release a Many millions of workers for industries, which in the » give us a higher staridRussia in this connection, We might have done so ten © @g0: It is quite obvious that is on: its Way up, with a l. . We will willingly prophesy for a hundred years will: suffer another famine. ) war is over and Russia down to peace time livedict it will become one South America and Aus-' have latent food prothe addressees to sign as sponsors, . . . ing: ‘solder. con 0 [TWO THIRDS OF COUNTY TAXES IN TREASURY An admirable report of taxes ¢ollected for the 1943-44 period fias been compiled by Miss Elma Heck-. * er county treasyrer and tax ¢ollextor. Of unusual note is the fact that approximately two thirds of the éntire county assessment tax was received at the tréasurer’s office i‘. fore the expiration of the December 6 deadline. This period, usually defined as the “first installment” period, witnessed an unusual number of in-full payments. The total tax to be collected in 1943-44 amounts to $432,110.83. Up to and including December 6 the pay ments reached a total of $288, 796.47, leaving a ‘second installment’ balance of but $143,313.86. The second installment payment period becomes delinguent om April 20, 1944. ‘Roy C. Votaw, field representative for the Division of Delinquency Prevention, California Youth Authority, made an inspection of the club:rootis and work of the Grass ‘Valley Recreation Center and later expressed high praise for conduct of the institution and) the interest shown: He highly commended the city council for installing, and maintaining the club, the overseers who contributed their services and the use made of it by the youths of the community, !, of the best I have found anywhere and one of the.comparatively few \Mmaintained in. the. smaller cities.’ Votaw said. “The city authorities and . * the people are to be congratulated upon the step taken. It is an institution to-be proud of” , SAVES PYRAMID OF PURE TIN Tin to coat enough food cans to make a pyramid a city block in size and as high as the Empire State building has been saved by the Gen-/' eral Electric Company. since Pearl Harbor, through a special campaign throughout its numerous war plants. (By reducing the percentage of tin in solders and alloys, the company has saved 850,000 pounds of tin, or enough to coat 825,000,000. cans on both: sides. Before the war solders and alloys were high in'tin content; but a.year before the 1942 ey order ‘limit‘to 30 per cent, General Electric ie ‘oduced a 20 per went general purpose tin solder. Babbit alloys; which formerly contained more than 83 per cent tin, are now restricted to 12 per eent and G.E. has developed such an‘ alloy containing only one per cent tin.’ FIRST ‘SNOW OF YEAR Nevada City’s: first snowfall beban Sunday afternoon, the -huge . flakes melting almost as fast as they fell for a time. During the night another fall of snow added to the white blanket on the ground to give a half inch. Rainfall for the three days of. January amount to 2.07 inches and for the month of December there was a rainfall of 10,62 inches. ‘Total for the period is 12.69 inches. soon hopes to bring home to every motorist. : Simultaneously banks handling ration banking accounts for gasoline distributors are being asked to re‘port suspicious coupons and to refuse to accept for deposit gummed sheets of coupons which are not completely endorsed, ‘Further measures to combat: the transferetice of stolen coupons are being drafted, but OPA insists individual motorists can do the biggest part/of the job of stamping out the «misuse of gasoline which nan a “The Grass Valley center is one

vy Veterans in Hospitals officer of the ‘Royal Flying Force, now visiting Cambridge, his own topic. Carol Choir Sings At Hospital The Grass Valley (Carol > hospital. were. heard Sunday. Charles ‘H H. Lambert Dies Of Heart Attack 63 years of age. he resided. 4 : Holmes Funeral Home being made to locate relatives. Funeral Services F The Late Roy joke Roy Jobe, who passed away Stockton Saturday morning. Mark Pike and Adjutant Sainsbury o reside’ in. Stockton. New Type Life Raft Designed For Seam companies Programs, Gifts, ‘Aviitecisted The Laymeth Club meeting” this evening at dinner in Wesley. Hail, will hear Lieut. H. G. von Over, an Dag mado n Grass Valley. Von Oven is a graduate of England. He will. choose Choir visited the Nevada County Hospital Sunday afternoon and gave a concert of Christmas songs for the inmates. Arrangements for this annual event were completed by Harold George director of the choir, and Alvah Walthers, superintendent. of the While the membership of the choir has been affected by war conditions, approximately 30 voices ‘Charles Hugh Lambert, following a severe heart attack in Grass Valley last Wednésday, passed away at a local hospital Saturday afternoon. ‘Lambert was a native of Germany, ‘He came to the United States with his parents at the age of 11. He had been a book‘keeper. most of his life. Little was known of him in Grass Valley where is charge of the.remains. An effort is in Funeral services will be: held this afternoon in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary for the late 8 to five, three, two and one half and Helena the Salvation Army will -j¢onduct the service. Interment will be ‘In the Greeitiwood Cemetery. Jobe was a native of Grass VaHey 38 years of age. He had been ill for four years. For many years he was engaged in plumbing and lived with his family in. Yosemite Valley. He leaves. a wife and five children, who An improved ‘type of Tite ste Taft has been developed by several throughout the country ‘. }for the use of merchant seamen torpedoed, bombed or shelled at sea. The raft carries a sail, berth beds for injured men, fishing tackle and’ may be equipped with a stove ‘for cooking sea food, according to -the BRET HARTE INN NOTED HOSTELRY CHANGES HANDS James C. Tyrrell, on Saturday announced the sale of the Bret Harte Inn in Gress Valley, a hostelry of 78 rooms for an approximate price of $60,000 to Harry Handlery, hotel man ofVallejo. The transfer took place as of midnight, Décember 31st. The hotel, 25 years old, has: been under .Tyrrell’s management since 1929. For the present the management and the personnel that has made ‘the Bret Harte Inn a well known name in the hotel-world will continue to function and as. far as, the generalpublic is concerned there will be but little outward evidence that a transfer has taken place. The idea of a new hotel originated in a meeting of the chamber of commerce in T9317 and a committee was appointed to investigate the situation and make a report.. There were several. dynamic men on the board of directors at that time. The committee had among its workers Earl Taylor, Albert Mooser, James (C. Tyrrell and several others who are no longer residents of ‘Grass Valley. or have passed on. They formed a corporation. They engaged an architect, prepared a picture showing what the hotel would. look: like, and then the committee took subscriptions for stock. The largest subscribers. were’ %. W. Starr, C: RE. Clinch, Benj, Hall of H. Taylor. The largest common stock holder did not own more than 26 shares and it went from that to ten; one share. One hundred stockholders in all, and there are about that many -today' who will participate in the distribution when the legal and business details have all ‘been. cleared up. “The stock sold for’ $100" _ ‘tiers: Then’ thé directors borrowed: $40, 000 ito complete the property. Asessments: were levied to pay off the mortgage and in a few years the corporation. was out of debt. ; : The first lessee was Albert BetHotel he sold out to Edward Bedell, then Nevada City, D. E. Morgan and C.) lems of ‘the: ae S.P.TRAFFIC -ATNEWHIGH — FOR 4TH YEAR A new.all time traffic record was rolled up by Southern Pacific im 1943 for the fourth year insucces= _ sion, it was reyealed by President A. T. Mercier’ in 4 review of the company’s activities in the second year of the ‘war. A further increase is ex— Pected in 1944) it wae stated, and the railroad will need more mau power and equipment to handle sone still heavier load, ‘Our personnel met the severest: tests in the company’s history. bat came through victoriously in every undertaking in 19437, Mercier Aeclared. ‘New records were achieved by the nearly 100,000 Southern Pace ific men and women in spite of a growing. manpower shorfage, now around 10,000, ‘and a stringency of © equipment necessitating the most. in; tense nae oF locomotives and With more than . 14,000 former employes now in the armed forces, manpower is Southern Pacific’s greatest problem, according to the ahnouncement. Some 4,000. women were énrolled to do work formerly. performed exclusively by men, and about 7,000. Mexican: track workers. imported, all efforts to reeruit this: labor in. the United ‘States hay = failed. at ‘Heavier loading of tee quick because at terminal ized traffic control to ine a capacity of single track we by Mercier among helpful fac the handling of Southern unprecedented traffic. * But, the tremendous load. in could ‘not haye been carried, ‘without . the’ practical and ‘sus’ cooperation of’ contitercial fase ona and . great: value, the” allroad said.tens, who was then owner of the} = i? ramento. After some years. § AY turn gold out to Chas. Fraser, manramento, The latter did not make a inoseus. ® of the venture and ‘went ° through the directors took over and placed operating the Clunie Hotel, who in. ager of the Senator Hotel at Ok bankruptcy in 1929, in which Jour ™ American Merchant Marine Institute. The ‘raft not only has emergency: rations, but also. carries nearly every type of first aid equipment which might be needed after a’ disaster. The first aid kit includes bandages, compresses, boric acid ointment, tourniquets, forceps, eye dressings, sufnanilamide © crystals, benzedrine and phenobarbital. Instruction for the use of-all are printed’ on’ the Packages . which are. tnclosed in water tight transparent covers. 100 Per Cent Penalty If eaistered by F blue’ ry A gold windshield stickers, denoting payment of 1944 automobile registration fees; will be received from motoriste beginning today’ (January 3) at, offices of the State Department of Motor Vehicles and of the California State Automobile Association. The 1944 fees will be the same as those paid by motorists last year. (Charts for determining fees for those whose 1943 registration certificates do-not show the amount will be on display at service stations, and at auto clubs and motor vehicles department offices. ‘Mailing of ‘application and tees, to save tires, gasoline and car wear, is urged. The 1943 certificate of registration, with correct address shown, constitutes application. : (Midnight, February 4, is the dead line for registering motor vehicles. Starting on. February 5, a 100 per cent penalty is added to the $3.00)° registration’ fee and a 50 per cent areal. is added: to the ‘license tee. “Miss Jane Baunott. “daughter of . « Mr. and Mrs. Elleworth Bennett of}, . Washington, D. C., is spending her vacation at the’ Bennett . home on} hee ” je steer menue 2 Pine street. Jane works for the Kai-. it J. ©. Tyrrell then postmaster, in charge. Under, his management the. , hotel has had a considerable suc-. ee ‘The siiihelae of ‘the adjoining home of Robert Johns was a 'valuable acquisition and it now constitu-. ’ tes the beautiful garden ‘of the ho-. , . tel. The parking lot was made out}. of the Ellis property and the por-]. tion now used as the garage was} formerly the. city jail and, ‘was Ree chased from. the city. + Inn as a local : enterprise has. “passed, management ‘plans several improvements; so that nothing will be lost . . to the community by the change. : The Bret’ “but the new Hatry Handley, the new owner, apie ag owns and operates two, properties. tot Within the last ‘week or two. he purchased the Hotel Woodland, ‘ al BISHOP NEW RURAL Raymond. ‘Monk, -rufal ‘man. carrier( ‘yesterday delivered his . last . ¢ bagful, He has béen a carrier on the Grass Valley postoffice staff for the . ’ ati past 12 years, three of which have. services, been in the rural service. He resigns as of today to accept cand em-. . ployment, -Tabe Bishop, former service etint manager, will fill the vacancy. . ’ ‘a a N. O-G, V. SCHOOLS: