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COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIF ORNIA
The Nevada: City Nugget helps your
city and county to grow in population —
and prosperity. By subscribing to, and.
ad: ertising in the Nugget, therefore,
you help yourself.
.
I “WelIX,No.121.
(By H. M. L.)
“When Col. Lindbergh took his lit:
tle family and boarded
a
freight
steamer for England, it was not only
“America’s gangsters and* kidnapers
he fled from;~it was from the very
yellow press that hounded him ana
the members of his family day and. '
night. He has always opposed, for
instance, the photographing of little
“3-year-old Jon Lindbergh. Recently
a
big
this
car
forced
little
tot
the
was
car
in
riding
The sale of oe
mine
thug
and
kidnaper
in
replying to a questionnaire sent our
by the association sadi they will use
Lindbergh. This, after the kidnaping
murder
born,
of
the
Sometime
colonel’s
perhaps
a
newspaper advertising in 1936.
first
crease their advertising expenditures
in
1936, approximately 9%
will. de
crease expenditures, and 64 per cent
yellowpress. There is no protection’
will spend as much as they did in
‘now excépt libel laws, and these fail
The
the
case
people
of
Hollywood,
many
movie
of
moments
whom
in
' Growing realization by banks that
they must sell themselves as well as
their
leisure
their
Palm _
Srings,
fact that
spend
swank.
1935.
cited.
cover
wear a
Panama and’‘a
use
woman
for
taxes.
beating
They
the
are
state
laying
out
down the
folk,
small
split
giving
in
the
the
Palm
Indians,
a
rental. There
it
plant
lawns
by.
the
per cent of the banks
least
some
institutional
the
44
ad
year.
per cent will use
64
per
cent,
commercial
and
with
other
and
was
involved
lacer properties in the
recent muddy water case. The power
company
complained the operators
contaminated the. water served: to
Placer county communities for -irridamages to equipment in their power
houses,
HERE’S WORK FOR
JOBLESSWRITERS
SAN re ANCISCO,” Jan.
6.—Jam
Hooper,
State
es
newly.
named
Di
Clerk
begun
R.
the
N.
‘McCormack
registering
Thus far the Federal government has
thousand
backed the movie folks, but the Palm
accordance-with
Nevada
County
the
of
five
voters
in
act
recently
newspaper editors, executives. of historical societies, and other interestparties, to aid in supblying ma
factual
munity
information
and
for
locality
every
in
the
com
United
t States,
Hooper, who expects to have some
868 writers employed on the project
by ‘the end of: this month is asking
that he be informed of points of in:
z
Springers are leaping mad, and are
passed by the last state: legislature. terest, local legends, historical back
deluging Congress with protests. So
By this statute there must be a com
it As still an open question whether
plete re-registration o£ voters.
So
these
very
in
exotics
will
escape
taxes
or .
voter who expects
to
vote
.
not. Truly the tax collector maketh I the
presidential primary in May must
strange bed fellows.
with the county clerk be. Tess
1e
fore prareh 2.1, Ralph-Deeble, deputy
charging Dan McDonald with resisting
Although the forest. fire season in
southern California did' not end until December 20 tWé-bést forest fire
record.since the
national
forests
were established in this state was
hung up this year by-the Forest Ser
ground of every locality in the state,
and
hat
witnesses
s
:
oe ~ 3 eye
A
Ree! Hi ee to oe
season
of 1935, which was approach
ed
in 1930 when 35,000 acres
burned. The average annual acreage
seria
over in the national forests
123,000. This record was made in
ithe of having “1,700 fires in the
is
national forests, which is over 100
more than the average season.
Fores officials attribute their success in forest fire protection this
year to two main causes, favorable
weather conditions and
the
help
of
the CCC. Contrib
ee
officer.
McDonald
viciously
Night . Officer
Brown, -who
was
Howard
placing
hin in: a
cell in the city jail. Had it not been
for the aid of Orlin Dean, who had
been given
a
nights
lodging in the
jail Brown might -have been serious
TOWNSEND PLAN
PRACTICAL SAYS
CLUB OFFICIAL
The following letter has been re
(By KATHERINE BRAITHWAITE)
Last Saturday evening North San
Juan was hostess.to one of the most
brilliant masquerade balls to be giv=
en in Nevada County this season.
From .every town in Nevada and in .
Yuba counties: masked representa
of patrolmen and checkers to aid in
the prevention of fire
on
forests
where travel was greatest, the use of
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Gildersleeve of
Nevada. City
in
strictly
formal
at
tire led the maskers-in an impress
ive grand march.
Behind them
in
stately demeanor came Mr. and Mrs.
Don Willock -as old fashioned girl
and ‘beau. A pair of penguins in their
stately stride were the third couple. oa
The fourth was Gordon Woods as an
advertising
clown
and
at
his
side”
ceived from an official of the North
Miss Alice: O’Hannesian as a win
San’ Juan Townsend
club
some Chinese maid.
the Townsend Plan.
It follows:
defending
1
North San
ial attack on fires, the employment
Juan,
ive
Jan. 5th, 1936.
group
presented
Dear. Editor:
answer
to
of Spanish
dancers. Mrs.
your
article
from
a
mercantile
company.
She was one.of the outstanding char~ Ja
thé Scottish Rite News Bureau, dat
acters and.fvas rewarded a five dol¢
ed January 3rd, 1936.
lar cash prize by the WiHow Springs
the fire lines, and more effective law
enforcemeént against forest incendiar
Townsend Plan?
ies.
Figures
on
damage
to
grazing,
watershed and recréational
lands have not been finally ecomputed but it is expected that they will
be.small in proportion to the acreage burned.
1924
také
the
compiled
by
barn
of
first
colorful
parade
nurses,
He states that the national income
many
clever
individual
1929
in
that
to
The judges were .Mrs. Deasley, Mrs.
Townsend
Alfred Kneebone of Bridgeport, and
Mr. W. N. Baker of French Corral
of age.
and
and
characters.
billion dollars, ana
the
comparatively
ing
dancing
was 83
old
age
who awarded the first-cash prize to —
per cent of this income.
years
of
cowboys,
pay
May I point out ‘that our leading
insurance companies tell
us
.that
acres
a
clowns,
26
551,300
was
girls,
the analyst you quote:
the
when
general store for her unique ability.
The remainder of the long train
figures
for
Osta was+only “A Te
apes
asts
as¢ only
& -over. 1717,00
acres. The low humidiitic
acres.
Tl
7
diities andey
high
;
winds occurring in southern Califoé r
is
To
$200 monthly pension would require
Up to the 16th of
October
acreage burned in the national
record
Why not tell the truth about the
timber,
out
few
“people
are
even
of
the
past 60
self-support
ones
who
are
self-supporting and still eligible for
the old-age pension very few of them
‘Mr. and Mrs. Gildersleeve and the
second
to
Miss Gladys Cunningham .
and Miss Ruth Beason who imitated
the penguins.
Three prizes were eaftled off during the
evening: The
principal
one
of these was donated by Mrs. W. EH.
ae
:
oe
were burned over in’
a
pittance
and Moulton of French Corral. A huge
the . national make more than
es
A
Si.
COOMDEL forests _of California.
therefore
contribute
very
©
little
to fruit cake shehad -bakedherself
Prior
to
the}
NGOxS,
Coples
of
Los Atigeles or its
old
environs
will. nanie on the rolls,-rezistering as a
newspapers,
:
=
:
. the purchasing power of the nation, . . Won by Mrs: Kern Fogarty of North
i
establishment of: the nation
al.for
ests
.
hooks,
deeds
come an idea, a cornucopia of bless. Republican:
to
land, are asked for!
:
5 ieak wia:
:
:
:
‘
In SORE
1905-no accurate record
And (to use your own figures) the San, Juan.
s were
SO inal
writers: cai
ingc, a vision of Utopia come. true.
.
€ assigned
ti
:
pee
ee
ita
aie
availab
Townsend
le
as
Plan would put 9,600,00b
to
the
extent
. /To complete ‘the “perfect enjoyof
large)
‘the job of cataloging thera and draw-, fires
“But we surmise this dream of shari
{
“Sometime we believe .that out of
poor Lo’s
tax
exempt
county clerk, was the fimst to get his
blanket
will prove nothing but a pipe dream. .
Dr. Townsend ‘and Epic Sinclair are . ,
brothers undér the skin
to
these
movie folk. They all run to the spec.
tacular and
. samething
balminess
impractical,
There
about
Los
or
proximity
its
is
Angeles,—-its
to
the
yeasty ocean, that breeds crack pots.
According to statistical sharps the
national debt now stands at $30,500.000,000, and during 1935 unemploy
ment decreased from 11,000,000 to
9,000,000.
At
that rate,
how
many
more. billion will it require to eliminate
unemployment?
Let
some
astronomer figure it out, As a mat
ter
of
fact.
-all--figures
—above—one
million are suspect, so far as we are
concerned, Statisticians and politicians, the ins and the out, this year
will juggle and scramble millions and
billions until the common run of us
are addled.
,.The President spoke
feelingly. the
other evening of bal
ancing the budget. We would like to
see
him do
it,
and
do
it
and
not asa jonguleur
properly,
balances a
broomstick on the énd of his nose.
Like the weather, there has been a
lot of talk about balancing the budget, but no one in the administration
has ‘yet
made
a
start
toward
doing it.
We are fond of good oratory and
we did enjoy the Roosevelt address
on the “state of the Union’ Friday
night. We think that some of his hot
jabs ‘at the predatory men of great
wealth were neatly done. His rapier
found the button.
Yet withal we
were disappointed. We would have
liked him to outline as nearly as he
is able, his plans for the next few
mouths, To) adjure Congress to ad
ANDREW TERSELICH
SUMMONED BY REAPE
but. the
ing
factual
and
tion
from
them
Gide
’
Mr.
Andrew
Teerselich,.
a
farmer
aged 66 years, passed away in Grass
Valley at
1:15
a.m.
this
morning.
He was a native of Austria arrd had
lived
at
Grass
Valley
nine
years,
farming a property southeast of the
city.
He leaves to. mowrn his passing a
wife, Mrs.
Grace
Terselich,
three
daughters, one of whoem--is-Mrs. Louise Grich of Grass Valley, and a son.
The remains are at Holmes Hooper
funeral Home-in Grass Valley and
funeral arrangements are to be made
later.
EIGHT MEN TRASFERRED
TO PIPE LINE PROJECT
Through a misunderstanding eight
men appeared for work at the county hospital
this morning, but were
Lm.
:
essential
informa
“fof
America?
Pe
bs
:
the
eee
nee
the
ce
more people.on.the pay roll with in
wa
:
California’
Board of.
Forestry, 1886) comes ,of $2400 per year which As
;
OC
‘
to 1892 and the old files of: newsnearly 3 times as much as the $861
papers give accounts of very. large your analyst quotes_as the national
*
The héad' of
the Writers’. Project fires which covered
hundreds
of . per. capita income.
also is asking that editors of papers. .
:
=
ne
litors
of
paper:
Multiplying the 9,600,000 by three
throughout the state infédrm their thousands of acres annually. In 1872
readers of this move and suggest that a fire of 102,000, acres was reported we get, in effect something over [28,in Siskiyou county on the Klamath 000,000 million more Peoots on the
the readers communicate with him
if .
river
and one of 150,000 atres the pay roll.
they have information-of value that!
Our Dept. of Labor estimate becan be borrowed for the American same year on the:Pit and McCloud .
rivers that destroyed one and a half tween 40 and 45 million workers in
Guide.
million board feet of .timber.
the U: S. A. so it can readily be seen
RELI
EF LOAD SLASHED
Faced with the nevessity of oper
ating
under, a drastically reduced
direct relief budget during the early
part of 1936 State Relief Administration officials this week moved to
pare.
California’s
relief
load
to
the
minimum.
One of the most substantial reductions is expected to result from
a
new arrangement
authorized
by.
Frank Y. McLaughlin, State SRA and
WPA administrator, which will permit the, placement of several thous
and unattached county resident men
that to-increase the number. by-28,
ment of the entire
evening
Eddie
Meltz of Auburn and his five piece
orchestra. furnished delightful dance
music. A public dance, to be a-success,
must
able
of
have
providing
an
orchestra
popular.
cap
a
ing
danee ~
music and rhythm. Mr. Meltz and his”
‘tCrooning Lady’’
leader have what
ti takes
to keep a hall full of dancers satisfied, and North San Juan is
fortunate in that it has secured this
well balanced orchestra for the entire winter.
ART ASSN. INVITESALL
GRASS VALLEY CCC
1928 peak of 88 billions
INTERESTED TO JOIN tofrom135thebillions.
CLOSES FOR FEW DAYS
600,000
would
be to increase the
amount of income by 60 per cent, or
Those
interested
in
art
lessons,
talks on art appreciationsor in promoting this community’s as a possible art center are cordially invited to attend the next meeting of the
Twin Cities Art Club to be hel@ at
the Goldsmith home,
304
Nevada
street, Nevada City on Friday evening; January 10 at 7:30 o’clock. At
To illustrate this, our A. B. C’s, of
economics ‘teach us that a nation’s
income can be no greater than its
production, and
that its production
is based upon the ability of the peo
ple to buy and consume,
in
words,
that
purchasing
power,
other
the
turnover and circulation of money
and commodities are what create na
tional wealth, that
Grass Valley CCC
CCC ““camp is cloneur a
and between 180 and 190 boys from
the state of Pennsylvania who have
been here for ‘their enecampment ~
period, are packing up to return
home. All foremen have been laid
off temporarily. The camp will be
vacated by Thursday, January ninth.
Captain Ben Irving has
been in
if all the money
the last meeting Mrs. C E. Parsons
in the U. S. A.
were
divided
R. E. Arne, assistant SRA adminiswas elected preside
it charge of the camp. It is understood
nt and Mrs. GoldWPA work at the hospital calls for
would make less than $50 per capita. the officials of the Tahoe National
trator.
smith, secretary and treasurer. Draw60 hours each two weeks or
120
Hence, If A pays B $1 and B pays
In a bulletin dispatched to County ing material
Forest will be pleased to retain him
will be on hand and
hours per month. The two week or}
C
the’Same $1 and C pays the $1 to to);manage the incoming -group of
Relief Directors throughout the
Mr.
Warner
state
will give his first art
60 hour period has been completed
D and so on until the $1 has passed. boys.
Arne, requested that the state
[ay oewass mee
Nea
a
office lesson. to active members.
at the county hospital and work will
through 100 peoples hands it has _ Another consignment of youths, —
be advised as to the number of unAs
there
be resumed on January 13. William
are also several im portpayed $100 worth
of bills thereby from another: area outside of this
attached resident men receiving
reant matters to decide,
S. May is foreman of construction
both’ active increasing itself 100 times.
lief on the local rolls, who are
district, which is the Ninth Corps
éligand associate members are urged
at the Nevada County hospital with
to
So it can be seen that by the ctrible for placement on WPA.
Area is expected to arpire around
camp
be present. Any man, womah or high
Robert Steger, Jr., as superintendculating of one dollar, even assum-propjects. At the same time he
January 15.
iy
inschool student of Nevada ‘City
ent.
or ing a profit taken each time it turns
structed the county directors that
Grass Valley is most welcome.
over, we actually get the pu a means more inflations and more: defor the present no attempt shoul
d be:
pressions,
sui
power of several dollars.
made to place these men in state or although the heaviest cuts fell to.
exIt
is
a
well
known
fact
that
all
transient camps.
ecutives receivipg salaries in the
Out of the $861 per capita nabusiness
and
corporations
include
Men employed on the projects will higher brackets.
tional
income
in
1929,
much of it did
.
receive from $15 to $25 per mont
not circulate many times, but. besuch things as taxes along with the
The new schedule follows:
h,
Washington Grammar School P. plus
subsistence and medical care.
came frozen assets, in
banks and insurance, rentals and other opera
Salaries up to $1,320 per annum,
T. A. is holding their first regular Wages will
ing expenses before figuring a pr.
vary in accordance with
stock corporations.
:
no change.
meeting of the new year this afterthe
fit
rate, so in the final analysis i
employment
classifications,
Our Dept. of Labor tells us that
Salaries up to $1,380 to $1,740, innoon, at 2 o’clock in the sewing, room When
the worker and producer who pays
the program is fully
transferred to 4ue pipe line job. The
on WPA camp projects, according to
‘GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
‘P. T. A. MEETING TODAY
vance ‘and not retreat is just a bit
of
sketchy. Advance, yes. But to what
be. of great interest to parents and
the building.
This
program
will
under
way it is expected to have
between
40 and 50 camps operating o
e
the average per capita was less than’
clusive 5 per cent.
$300 and that more than 9.0 per cent all taxes and supports the nation
And in closing-may I add: that
$2,900 . of our people belong to this
class, so
“new goals? Advance, to be sure it the public and all are urged to at: out the state.
the
form of taxation provided for
it can readily be seen that if 90
is a good rallying cry, peculiarly aptend.
the
Townsend Plan .does not.
WPA
Salarie
SAL
s
up
ARI
to
$3,000
ES
to $4,400 inper cent of our people spending $300
REDUCED ®
_ pealing to the American people, But
Apyroxitately” 1,000 admi
‘clusive
1214
per
cent.
per
nistraare about to say regarding the Agricapita per year can produce a
in what direction? The President
tive employees of the State Work
Salaries up to $4,500 and over 15 national income of $83,000,000,000
cultural Adjustment Act, the Social
s
didn’t say.
What he
did
imply
received per cent.
Security Act, the Wagner Labor DisProgress ~'Administration
—if we add 9,600,000 people at inthroughout his address, was: ’’the
putes Act, and other acts, which consalary reductions ‘ranging from 5 to
comes
8 times greater we are inef.
McLaug
hlin
said the reductions
time to dig in is here“.
Which is stitute a large
15 per cent as the result of new
part
fect
eco@vere necessary in order
of
adding
the
the purchasing power il
“ad
that
all
something quite different from adimportant jaune
vance.” As between what the wise nomy measures ordered by Frank Y. svattabie federal
72,000,000 and again we arrive at
fundsmight
be
conVarad
with.
providing :
McLa
ughl
in,
State WPA Adminisserved
old gentlemen say, and what adminfor their original purpose of a 60 per cent increase in: our. “pur-"
trato
r.
providing ‘destitute ‘persons
= As we were saying we do admire istration spokesmen say, we regard .
with chasing power which is our consumthe sayings of the nine wise men as}: ‘The reductions, which became efjobs.
ing power and which of course our. oratory and listen to it, with much
\
:
fective January 1, will result
the more important.
in «
production makes possible..
>
:
the same pleasure that we listen to
saving of approximately $10,000
Mrs. Max Nelson, ‘who. has been
per
As
to
the
“The Bohemian Girl.” But just ‘now
poorer
people™
carrying
—
Mrs. Ralph Meredith returned from month, said McLaughlin.Ever
y state. visiting her ‘daughter, Mrs; ‘Frank . the load of this taxation;
we have our ear cocked
we
can
fi r what
an Francisco and will remain for a and district administrati
ve‘employee Chapman, and Mjaor Chapman of only produce what
nine: old gentlemen who-‘live in the time with her parents, Mr. and
we consume ‘and.
Mrs. of the WPA receiving $1, 380 or more this? city. is spendin
g soins, ‘time, in maintain a balanced f
&
. William Maguire,_of this city.
mer per year’ was abaipe’ by theorder, kcoy ange
Salaries up to. $1,800
inclusive 10 per cent.
to
. ment. Te diyerge: from
&
.
Maggie. Brown of Camptonville re
Nevada City Nugget,
In
Mrs. Kitty Kim-°
ble, Mrs. Nellie Coulter, Mr. Roland
Waugh, and Mr. -E. Goering.of.Ne-.
vada City were an unusually attract_
radio at the forefront of going fires
to: facilitate the handling of men on
ie
mG
i
;
. aa
that date altered
commun
recicate
with
him
atate
Room >
palit ‘ord aiter
considerably. The worst the
year or
a z ee : shee
an
attacked
ly. injured.
vice, according to a report by. U.S:
McDonald had _ been ‘arrested on)}
Regional Forester : ‘S.B. Show. Man. tives poured in.and joined the merry
a charge of housebreaking. He broke
caused fires ‘were reduced over pre. throng that swirled from early eveninto the home of Frank’ Vigilanti on
ceding years amd an all time low of
ing until early morhing in Twamley
Sacramento street.
20,600 acres was burned inthe fire.
Hall.
SE:
uting to the recora
_the
Writers’
Project,
. was mére’ intensive training by forest
Works Progress Administration; this
officers
of the erews assigned to initweek issued a call
to
California
of
terial for the American Guide. The
County
field Robson swere out a coniplaint
postpon
Guide is a book to be written Dy unemployed: writers and
nswapaperMen which will contain local eolor.
historical material
and
essential
no--taxes-has
pay
MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1936.
ee Friday. “Chief. of Police Cae .
sold
der wills. Loans,of all kinds, includ
palms, and with thumb to nose twidreservations
gravel
ing FHA loans, will be heavily stressed.
dle finvers at the tax collector. For
Indian
\watershed
rector
ALL VOTERS MUST
REGISTER THIS YEAR
was proposed to erect palacés, build
boulevards and.
river
loans 71 per cent executorships un/ed
Springs. These are sub-leased to the
movie
at
counts;
Promoters have obtained
a 99 year
lease on 50 square. miles of ‘the Inadjoining
evidenced
educational advertising. Fifty five
per cent ‘will:.advertise savings ac
with redman. Briefly the plan is this:
reservation
80
is
In addition,
of
white man’s birden ‘by moving in
dian.
services
vertising during
can get a natural tan, have hit on a
plan
been
a judgment of $126,908 obtained by
the P. G. &_E. -Company. The mine
is one of the properties. in: the Bear
answering the questionnaire plan to
“where in the dead of winter a man
can
Bet
have
Almost 27% of the banks will in-. gation and domestic use and caused
decent
people will enact laws to protect citizens_.againstthe—insolence of the
completely to
You
to,
Friday, January. third was
Ninety eight per cent of the banks
the
country can now identify little Jon
and
was
ed to February fourth. by oral proclamation at the request of the Pa
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