January 6, 1945 (4 pages)

= tthe Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week . nly 30 cents per’ month “God grants Eherty only to those who love it, and: are ready to pate ‘ad defend it.”—Daniel Webster da City COVERS RICHEST GOLD. AREA IN CALIFORNIA Nev U oget = ae paper gives you complete . coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read’ about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. a Vol. 19, No. 2. The County. Seat Paper { NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Goid Center Frere _MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1945 _ CO-OPS AID FARM BUYING POWER By RALPH. H. TAYLOR One dominant factor, more than any other, bulwarked and sustained California agriculture during the difficult farm depression years—and kept California farmers in the market, buying the products of in. dustry. That was the strength and wellknitorganization of California farm cooperatives, which kept money rolling into California from the markets] both of this country and ‘of the world by means of their efficient distribution and selling of the icine products of this state. When supply far outstripped demand, California farm co-ops developed. new ways to use the products they had to sell and found new ways to make the public want and buy them. And as bad as times were, that meant far qmore money coming into California, to be. spent in California, than would have been the case had the same products been sold in a depressed, usrfeited market for ever the purchaser pay. This augmented purchasing power was reflected in more business for the town and city.merchant, lawyer and business mah of every kind, so that every section of California. and people _-benefited., might care to It is well to recall hie major contribution’ of the “farm. cooperatives associations .at this particular time, for in the eastern and middle western states there has been a -recent outbreak-of propaganda to.the effect that farmers’ cooperatives aré not in évery walk of Mie were . . paying taxes which their competitors . : pay. The charges are wholly untrue, but so that the public should not be misled the true facts should be made known. These. the. facets: cooperatives do pay tee es—the same as any other person or corporation. They pay on the property they own, on’ their buildings and equipment, on the supplies on hand when tax day rolls around, just . as every. other taxpayer pays. Does anyone think that farm coops escape’ paying corporation franchise taxes? If anyone has any such idea, he is mistaken—for farmers’ co-operatives pay this tax, .too,' just vlike any corporate organization. Does ‘anyone think that farm cosare Farmers’ operatives do not pay income taxes. whe nthey make a profit, If anyone does~ he is Wrong again—for if the farm co-opeatves makes a profit, it pays an income tax to both federal and state governments, just as any other business pays. The farm cooperative, to be sure, does not usually make a profit, since " it' is. designed to operate on a nonprofit bassi. But the farmer, who makes the profit because his farm co-op returned him a better price, does pay.an.income tax. For example, a farmer might sell _his products in the eastern market through a private ageney’ which re' thrned-him $100 for the product he shipped, and the agency might make a $10 profit which it pocketed. On this $10 it would pay an income tax. In another case, a farmer might sell through his cooperative association. If the association, instead of keeping $10 for profit, returned ‘it to the farmer a’ong with the $100 the association would not make any profit, but the farmer who did make the extra $16 profit would pay an in‘¢ome tax on it. The tax would be paid just the same—by the man or agency making the profit. And that is ag it should be. If the private. agency which made the $10 profit from the sale’of*the farmers products decided at the end of the year it wanted to. be generous and return it to the farmer, then the private agency would not pay the tax.on the profit, but the : rmer would, So the ,tax is not ided; it*is simply a question of who -made the profit on which the tax is paid. x The people of California, coopefative member’ and” non-cooperative member alike, if they have the welfare of their 6tate and-the farming industry at heart, should be in ested in haying the extra $10. returned to the farmer here where it will be spent here, not,once but many _times, enriching the state and ite. people as it turns over and over in ? ~. Wag not up to California standarde. ; that Nevada City went well over the ED CAREY ONE TIME STAGE DRIVER PASSES * Funeral services were held this morning for the late. Edward P, Carey who died yesterday morning in a local hospital. The obsequies took ‘place at 10 o’clock in St. Canice Catholic Church wnder direction of the Holmes Funeral Home. Interment will be in the Catholic Cemetery. ‘(Carey was aged 73 years, and wa® a native of Cherokee, Nevada County. His active years were spent asa stage driver and teamster. One of his feats of driving was to turn a twenty horse team wagon and trailer around at the Pine and SBroad streets interrestion in this city. For several years he drove the stage that plied between Nevada City and Washington, 17 miles east of here. In early days he drove freight wagons loaded with garden produce from North San Juan, Nevada County, to Virginia City, Nevada. He was . ’ the son of the late Mr. afid Mrs. John ‘Carey who came to Nevada County what-!. jin fifties. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Peterson of Sacramento, and several . nephews and nieces. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WILL BE DISCUSSED Rev. Kate . ’ Cedric: Porter, rector of Trin. ity Episcopal-Church and president . iof the Nevada City Rotary Club, nounced’ yesterday that Februarv Ist, an Institute of International Understanding under. the} sponsorship of ‘the club and Nevada City Unified School District, will) open here. j There will be four meetings and speakers and their. topics follow: New China in the New Pacific, Mrs. Geraldine Fitch; Russia’s position east and west, Thomas L. Harris; The Role of the (North American Continent, Allen D. Albert; and Australia, New Zealand andthe Islands of the Pacific, Archibald Gilchrist. The general topic of the institute is New Forces in World Affairs. Mrs. Fitch, the first speaker will make her address in the auditorium of the elementary school. NEW PAINT STORE TO OPEN HERE Don L. Bluxobe has bought the old bank building on Broad. street and is preparing to open a paint store and cabinet shop and furniture refinishing establishment about the first of February. Bluxome will also make all sorts of lawn furniture and do repair work. The shop will. do spray painting. The newly purchased building is being repainted, repapered and linoleum will be laid on the floor to give it an up to date appearance: Bluxome is no etranger to this city as he operated the Long John’s Tavern successfully. the past seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Bluxome own an attractiye home on Reward street in this ated ; Nevada City Fails To Buy E Bond Quota ‘Curren Heath, chairman of the 6th: War Loan committee, reports an-. beginning . top in its bend selling drive with $204,145.70, as compared with Nevada City’s quota of $185,000. However, Heath called attention to the fact that the community failed to buy its EF bond quota of $53,000 purchasing but $38, 170.75 in this sereis. the course of business, .‘ °) .That was what kept California agriculture out of the lowest depths of the depression—and to a large extent, kept the whole state from being as hard hit as other farm states where-the cooperative movement And California farm co-ops in all likelihood will have the same vital role to play in helping this state to weather ‘the post war readustment “period. !of War i view of saving taxpayers money. . was en and the bag limit is 15 per day. CHAMBER FAVORS SCHOOL DISTRICT At a meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce the proposal to change the boundaries of the Bloomfield~Washington School District, recently united by the board of supervisors, so as to include in the Nevada City Unified School District an area cantaining $3,000,000 of assessible public uitility property, was unanimously endorsed. : George (Calanan, chairman of a committee which is supporting this proposal, stated that the projected boundary change in the two school districts will add to the Nevada District an assessment roll of $5,000,000 for the support of from 500 to 800 school children, but will still leave. the Bloomfield-Washington District more than $1,250,000 to the care for the needs of its seven to 15 school children. FRED SEARLS, JR. ON BYNES STAFF Although Fred Searls Jr. notified friends here that: he had resigned last February -as assistant to Justice James F. Byrnes; director of Office of War Mobilization, on count of political disunity, it is evident that. Byrnes holds him in high regard for Searls is again one of the ive leading members: of his staff. Searls has spent months in as an envoy fot) the U. S. Army.-Air-Foree,s—but now back on the job with Byrnes. the acthe past several England ts . established I'll. get better service. ‘News Week has this to say of him: “As a special assistant in the Offire. Mobilization, Searls seanned . production: program with a Ie . is ¢redited with having saved several} milion dollars, He served at the. War Production Board too when: he assistant to Ferdinand Ehkerstadt, who resigned in February, 1943, when the military lost one of the first battles for closer control of the home front: effort.’’ It is known that Searls has great respect and admination for Justice Byrnes and it evident that Byrnes is now out to make the home front a little more .war conscious than it has been in the past. -This is indicated by his new order affecting horse racing and more restrictions on rationing of vital foods: and materials. There is no question but that a great many people have become’ too lethargic and must: he made to realize that the war situation is still very serious and will require a lot of effort on our ‘part before it is won. OPEN SEASON FOR PISMO CLAMS SAIN FRAINCISCO, Jan. 8—Wardens of the State Division\of Fish and Game report that Pismo clams are plentiful at the present time, and that diggers have been quite successful in.obtaining these mollusks. Low tides starting January 11 will allow further_parsuit of these delectable bivalves. No Pismo clams less than five inches in‘ diameter may legally be takthe war An angling license is required. Low tides will also give abalone fishermen. some sport before the close of this season on January 14. Miss Larraine Pike Weds Elmer Haug Miss Lorraine Pike and Elmer H. Haug were married Sunday afternoon, December 31st in the Methodist Church of Grass Valley by Rev. Mark Pike father of the bride. Mice Patricia Pike wag maid of -henor and Cadet Chester Haug was best man. The, bride was dressed in a two piece sut of blue trimmed with gold sequins. Her corsage waso orchids. The ceremony took place before a lighted. Christmas tree. A reception was held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Lang for the relatives-and the friends of the* happy pair. : The bridegroom the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Haug of Tacoma, Washington, is a, mining engineer employed by the American Smelting: and Refining Company in Salt Lake City. where the couple will _niake their home. 1000 gifts “THIS MAY BE JERRY’S LAST Helen Chapman in: charge of a Red Cross clubmobile near the Holland front writes her father Dr. © We viewpoint of the Heprins front. She writes: Dear Poppy: It looks as if Jerry is making a desperate splurge. I hope it is his last breath. The soldiers are very war ‘weary, Many have been fighting since North Africa. They do not like to hear about production of ammunition ‘and have -shells rationed, nor stories 6f strikes and black markeiing, and everybody having a whale of a time. It makes some cynical, some’sad and a few don‘t care. Take care of yourself and keep well. Your loving daughter, Helen. Holland, Dec. 1944, Poppy: 14, Dear Still no mail,, still hoping everything is all right with you. I am still in the same place and probably will be for somé time. It looks ag if the’ war will last until next summer at least. The work I am doing is enjoyable, but I get homesick when I_ ehink how far away I am and no mail even to let me know how: every body is. Maybe when my new APO number is My back me before mail should Christmas. reach We are planning to distribute 10. to GIs on Christmas day! and have Christmas dinner some of them. Then we’ll have our own Christmas dinner at night. We'll have Christmas treeg on the clubmobiles. There are some very pretty ones ‘near here in Germany. Ornaments are easy to find in captured cities. a Time seems to pass quite quickly ‘because there are so many people around all the time.A few weeks ago we were all living’atthe home of a Dutch doctor for awhile. The doctor and his family had a party for us, and it was there I met George Forsyyhe a lieutenant colonel who had been in the 30th infantry regiment with Buzz. Buzz -was his company commander at the time. He told me about other friends of Buzz inthe Ninth Army. Practically all of them are. It is too bad Buzz couldn’t be here, too, except I don’t like the looks of things for the boys at the front. There is going to come a day when there will be a terrific fight to a icles down. Well, a couple of nights later I met Laurie Dickie; who comes. to visit one of the girls here now and then. And then Al Martin, came to see me for a few minutes the following night. *He is a major and probably soon will be-a Lt. Col. Dickie is a major too. Both of them had recent letters from Buzz.° Yesterday while I was serving, I almost met Louis Butz, an ex-student and son of the family burned out last summer. He is the only Nevada City boy I know of in this section. He happened to be out when I stopped by his outfit in Germany. A few nightg ago I went to a party with George Hodges and Colonel Miller. We have a ten o’clock curfew so the party didn’t last long for me; but I had a good time. There are quite a few parties here because the troops coming out of the lines like to have them just’ to be merry for awhile, I attend some of them. Did you get the stamps I sent you? I have a few German cancelled ones: Maybe later I’ll be able to get more. It is hard to keep track of days here. They are very much alike. I am working on the clubmobile ’‘‘Rio Grande” for awhile until two crew members get back from leave. I hada very interesting day yesterday with a field artillery unit: A very kind commander showed ue how a mission was carried out, how the target is found, the guns elevated ahd sighted, the while works. Some of our guns make a terrfic noise. I was just interrupted by a boy named Jansen from Lincoln, Calif. His father is a furniture! dealer. Thought you might know him. Hoping te-get mail soon. Your loving daughter, Helen. ‘ial fishermen. W. Chapman of the fighting man’s]: +lumne river . ville on the Columbia with . of Oregon and Washington. LARGE RUN OF KING SALMONSAIN: FRAINEISCO, Jan. fortis salmon landings an 1944 throughout October have been the largest since 1920, when 10,204,--pounds were brought in by commerc8—-CaliThe gill net catches in the Sacramento. river district totalled 3,189,000 pounds, the remainder the catch was taken by trollers off the coast. The heavy catch this year is associated with the largest ruins of salmon “ever recorded for the central valleys area. Over 150,000 fish entered the area above the ‘Table Mountain dam site on the main-Sacramento river for spawning and a heavy run was also counted into Battle Creek. The run on the American river of spring and fall salmon was approximately 20,000 and over 130000 salmon have spawned in the Tuoabove Modesto. In. the San ‘Joaquin river a heavy spring run of salmon that was headed for the area‘below ‘Friant .dam was blocked by a-‘dam near Dos Palos. This block was Temedied, but due to the shallow water tremendous losses were inflicted on this run by the spear fishefmen. As a result of these losses and this block only 5000 of the estimated 15,000 salman reached the upper San Joaquin} river. . ‘It is interesting to note that. while the Columbia river is considered to be the principal salmon river on the coast, the king salmon.runs-inthe central valleys streams: are as large or larger ‘than those Bon‘the states passing in FORMER SAILOR ADMITS: THEFT Raymond Turnipg, a discharged sailor from ia ee S.'! Navy is in the Nevada County jail, facing trial for grand theft and forgery, and an FBI accusation of illegally wearing a naval uniform. Turning’s companion in an alleged robbery of checks and cash in Grass Valley is assertedly William T.-Dillon, U. S. Navy seaman, AWOL from Marg Island. Dillon is beiiig held by ‘the navy shore patrol and probably will not ’ be © prosecuted here. Grass Valley police report that Turning and Dillon were guests of Mrs. Joyce BE. Pederson of 125 Ocean Avenue on Wednesday and apparently learned then where ste kept her cash. They returned Thursday while she was absent and stole checks and cash. On Friday the police on tips received learned there had been a robbery. Residents of Empire street hadnoted that the two sailors had hidden’ something beneath a rock. Investigation revealed the checks which apparenely the two wished to discard. The Grass Valley police were notified and had identified the two, ‘knew there had been a robbery, but it remained for Mrs. Pederson to discover her loss and report ti Friday. A description of /the two wag sent to Sacramento police’ who arrested the pair, Dillon in Hotel (Clunie oat urning at the Giant Spot Cafe where he was a cook. Policemen Henry Strick and Frank Knuckey went to Sacramento\where they assisted the Sacramento \police in questioning them, They returned with Turning. Turning arraigned in the Grass Valley township court Saturday afternoon confessed his guilt and was held to answer on a charge of grand theft. He admitted he-had endorsed and cashed a $100 insurance check belonging to Mrs. Pederson in Montgomery Wards store in Auburn. SNOW ACCUMULATES Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of Tahoe national forest reports that at Soda Springs on Highway 40 there is a snow pack 26 inches deep with powder snow on top of 12 inches. At Cisc was 19 jinches deep with powdered snow of 10-inches. At. Truckee eight inches of variable snow covered a snow pack of 15 inches. Tahoe 2» Citys snow pack was 14 inches with 7 in. . variable snow covering. . of} { . nd Big Bend the snow pack . SALE OF HOME — CANNED FOODS IS PROHIBITED Sale of home canned low acid e foods is a violation of the state cannery inspection act. Dr. Wilton L. Halverson, director state department of public health, warned today. The department of foods drug inshpectors have ‘reported that such foods are being offered for sale at roadside stands, grocery stores, and church bazaars, as well as being sérved to restaurant patrons. Dr. Hal verson said: Only commercially packed low acid foods, packed in lic; ensed canneries under supervision can be sold in California, he : ized. All home cooked non acid foods which are not processed in a steam pressure cooker according: to "the directions of the University of California, are potential sources of botulism a highly fatal food poisoning, Halverson stated. In 1944 eleven cases of botluism poisoning with seven deaths, which were caused by improperly home canned foods such a6 corn, beets; asparagus, string beans and pigs feet, occurred. in the state he reported. Boiling home canned non acid. fqods for 15 minutes before tasting even tiny amounts is the only safe guard against botulism. Non acid foods include all vegetables except tomatoes and rhubarb, olives, meats, fish and poultry. U. C. BOTANIST: TO WRITE OF ANDES FLORA BERKELEY, Jan. 8—A California scientist. will be one of the writers for a new Argentine journaf, Dr. T. H.Geodspeed, professar of botany’ on the Berkeley campus of the University of California has been invited to become a collaborator of the new publication Eincia eInvestigacion, , The journal edited by a group of Argentine scientists, has just begun. publication in Buenog Aires. It is to. become the South American, equivalent ‘of the well known United States journal, Science and the English one called Nature. In addition to special articles on ~major scientific ~problems, it, will contain reports on research achievements, scijentifie ev-. ents, personalities, articles” on the teaching of science and book reviews. ‘ Goodspeed has been invited to furnish material on botantical . matters in the Uniited States and special articles in Spanish on the orogin of tobacco and other cultivated planta, ' and upon the flora of the Andes. In a letter to Dr., Goodspeed, Dr. Eduardo Braun Meneudae, chairman, of the board of editors of the new. journal expresses the hope that. Hincia e Investigacion will point : to’ the international quality of scientific research in which scientists finds a comnron-~ basis ar mutual wnderstanding.’’ New Navy Hossital’ Course Offered’ At U: C. BERKELEY, Jan. 8—A course for hospital corps officers in the havy, a special,training course in sanitation the first. ‘of its type ever” offered, is being given by the School . of Public Health on the Berkeley” campus of the University’ of California, according to Dr. Walter > H. Brown, acting dean of the school. . Twenty five hospital® corps offic of Captain Albert P. Krueger, ¢ Donene officer of the Unitéd sity. and lecturer in bacteriology is in charge of the course; Instruction began J Bigess* billets as waniidddan officers have charge posal of. wastes, a pubtic health where the is 'a contributing will be when another -. ,will be enrolleg

= tthe Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week . nly 30 cents per’ month “God grants Eherty only to those who love it, and: are ready to pate ‘ad defend it.”—Daniel Webster da City COVERS RICHEST GOLD. AREA IN CALIFORNIA Nev U oget = ae paper gives you complete . coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read’ about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. a Vol. 19, No. 2. The County. Seat Paper { NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Goid Center Frere _MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1945 _ CO-OPS AID FARM BUYING POWER By RALPH. H. TAYLOR One dominant factor, more than any other, bulwarked and sustained California agriculture during the difficult farm depression years—and kept California farmers in the market, buying the products of in. dustry. That was the strength and wellknitorganization of California farm cooperatives, which kept money rolling into California from the markets] both of this country and ‘of the world by means of their efficient distribution and selling of the icine products of this state. When supply far outstripped demand, California farm co-ops developed. new ways to use the products they had to sell and found new ways to make the public want and buy them. And as bad as times were, that meant far qmore money coming into California, to be. spent in California, than would have been the case had the same products been sold in a depressed, usrfeited market for ever the purchaser pay. This augmented purchasing power was reflected in more business for the town and city.merchant, lawyer and business mah of every kind, so that every section of California. and people _-benefited., might care to It is well to recall hie major contribution’ of the “farm. cooperatives associations .at this particular time, for in the eastern and middle western states there has been a -recent outbreak-of propaganda to.the effect that farmers’ cooperatives aré not in évery walk of Mie were . . paying taxes which their competitors . : pay. The charges are wholly untrue, but so that the public should not be misled the true facts should be made known. These. the. facets: cooperatives do pay tee es—the same as any other person or corporation. They pay on the property they own, on’ their buildings and equipment, on the supplies on hand when tax day rolls around, just . as every. other taxpayer pays. Does anyone think that farm coops escape’ paying corporation franchise taxes? If anyone has any such idea, he is mistaken—for farmers’ co-operatives pay this tax, .too,' just vlike any corporate organization. Does ‘anyone think that farm cosare Farmers’ operatives do not pay income taxes. whe nthey make a profit, If anyone does~ he is Wrong again—for if the farm co-opeatves makes a profit, it pays an income tax to both federal and state governments, just as any other business pays. The farm cooperative, to be sure, does not usually make a profit, since " it' is. designed to operate on a nonprofit bassi. But the farmer, who makes the profit because his farm co-op returned him a better price, does pay.an.income tax. For example, a farmer might sell _his products in the eastern market through a private ageney’ which re' thrned-him $100 for the product he shipped, and the agency might make a $10 profit which it pocketed. On this $10 it would pay an income tax. In another case, a farmer might sell through his cooperative association. If the association, instead of keeping $10 for profit, returned ‘it to the farmer a’ong with the $100 the association would not make any profit, but the farmer who did make the extra $16 profit would pay an in‘¢ome tax on it. The tax would be paid just the same—by the man or agency making the profit. And that is ag it should be. If the private. agency which made the $10 profit from the sale’of*the farmers products decided at the end of the year it wanted to. be generous and return it to the farmer, then the private agency would not pay the tax.on the profit, but the : rmer would, So the ,tax is not ided; it*is simply a question of who -made the profit on which the tax is paid. x The people of California, coopefative member’ and” non-cooperative member alike, if they have the welfare of their 6tate and-the farming industry at heart, should be in ested in haying the extra $10. returned to the farmer here where it will be spent here, not,once but many _times, enriching the state and ite. people as it turns over and over in ? ~. Wag not up to California standarde. ; that Nevada City went well over the ED CAREY ONE TIME STAGE DRIVER PASSES * Funeral services were held this morning for the late. Edward P, Carey who died yesterday morning in a local hospital. The obsequies took ‘place at 10 o’clock in St. Canice Catholic Church wnder direction of the Holmes Funeral Home. Interment will be in the Catholic Cemetery. ‘(Carey was aged 73 years, and wa® a native of Cherokee, Nevada County. His active years were spent asa stage driver and teamster. One of his feats of driving was to turn a twenty horse team wagon and trailer around at the Pine and SBroad streets interrestion in this city. For several years he drove the stage that plied between Nevada City and Washington, 17 miles east of here. In early days he drove freight wagons loaded with garden produce from North San Juan, Nevada County, to Virginia City, Nevada. He was . ’ the son of the late Mr. afid Mrs. John ‘Carey who came to Nevada County what-!. jin fifties. Surviving are a sister, Mrs. Peterson of Sacramento, and several . nephews and nieces. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WILL BE DISCUSSED Rev. Kate . ’ Cedric: Porter, rector of Trin. ity Episcopal-Church and president . iof the Nevada City Rotary Club, nounced’ yesterday that Februarv Ist, an Institute of International Understanding under. the} sponsorship of ‘the club and Nevada City Unified School District, will) open here. j There will be four meetings and speakers and their. topics follow: New China in the New Pacific, Mrs. Geraldine Fitch; Russia’s position east and west, Thomas L. Harris; The Role of the (North American Continent, Allen D. Albert; and Australia, New Zealand andthe Islands of the Pacific, Archibald Gilchrist. The general topic of the institute is New Forces in World Affairs. Mrs. Fitch, the first speaker will make her address in the auditorium of the elementary school. NEW PAINT STORE TO OPEN HERE Don L. Bluxobe has bought the old bank building on Broad. street and is preparing to open a paint store and cabinet shop and furniture refinishing establishment about the first of February. Bluxome will also make all sorts of lawn furniture and do repair work. The shop will. do spray painting. The newly purchased building is being repainted, repapered and linoleum will be laid on the floor to give it an up to date appearance: Bluxome is no etranger to this city as he operated the Long John’s Tavern successfully. the past seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Bluxome own an attractiye home on Reward street in this ated ; Nevada City Fails To Buy E Bond Quota ‘Curren Heath, chairman of the 6th: War Loan committee, reports an-. beginning . top in its bend selling drive with $204,145.70, as compared with Nevada City’s quota of $185,000. However, Heath called attention to the fact that the community failed to buy its EF bond quota of $53,000 purchasing but $38, 170.75 in this sereis. the course of business, .‘ °) .That was what kept California agriculture out of the lowest depths of the depression—and to a large extent, kept the whole state from being as hard hit as other farm states where-the cooperative movement And California farm co-ops in all likelihood will have the same vital role to play in helping this state to weather ‘the post war readustment “period. !of War i view of saving taxpayers money. . was en and the bag limit is 15 per day. CHAMBER FAVORS SCHOOL DISTRICT At a meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce the proposal to change the boundaries of the Bloomfield~Washington School District, recently united by the board of supervisors, so as to include in the Nevada City Unified School District an area cantaining $3,000,000 of assessible public uitility property, was unanimously endorsed. : George (Calanan, chairman of a committee which is supporting this proposal, stated that the projected boundary change in the two school districts will add to the Nevada District an assessment roll of $5,000,000 for the support of from 500 to 800 school children, but will still leave. the Bloomfield-Washington District more than $1,250,000 to the care for the needs of its seven to 15 school children. FRED SEARLS, JR. ON BYNES STAFF Although Fred Searls Jr. notified friends here that: he had resigned last February -as assistant to Justice James F. Byrnes; director of Office of War Mobilization, on count of political disunity, it is evident that. Byrnes holds him in high regard for Searls is again one of the ive leading members: of his staff. Searls has spent months in as an envoy fot) the U. S. Army.-Air-Foree,s—but now back on the job with Byrnes. the acthe past several England ts . established I'll. get better service. ‘News Week has this to say of him: “As a special assistant in the Offire. Mobilization, Searls seanned . production: program with a Ie . is ¢redited with having saved several} milion dollars, He served at the. War Production Board too when: he assistant to Ferdinand Ehkerstadt, who resigned in February, 1943, when the military lost one of the first battles for closer control of the home front: effort.’’ It is known that Searls has great respect and admination for Justice Byrnes and it evident that Byrnes is now out to make the home front a little more .war conscious than it has been in the past. -This is indicated by his new order affecting horse racing and more restrictions on rationing of vital foods: and materials. There is no question but that a great many people have become’ too lethargic and must: he made to realize that the war situation is still very serious and will require a lot of effort on our ‘part before it is won. OPEN SEASON FOR PISMO CLAMS SAIN FRAINCISCO, Jan. 8—Wardens of the State Division\of Fish and Game report that Pismo clams are plentiful at the present time, and that diggers have been quite successful in.obtaining these mollusks. Low tides starting January 11 will allow further_parsuit of these delectable bivalves. No Pismo clams less than five inches in‘ diameter may legally be takthe war An angling license is required. Low tides will also give abalone fishermen. some sport before the close of this season on January 14. Miss Larraine Pike Weds Elmer Haug Miss Lorraine Pike and Elmer H. Haug were married Sunday afternoon, December 31st in the Methodist Church of Grass Valley by Rev. Mark Pike father of the bride. Mice

Patricia Pike wag maid of -henor and Cadet Chester Haug was best man. The, bride was dressed in a two piece sut of blue trimmed with gold sequins. Her corsage waso orchids. The ceremony took place before a lighted. Christmas tree. A reception was held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Lang for the relatives-and the friends of the* happy pair. : The bridegroom the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Haug of Tacoma, Washington, is a, mining engineer employed by the American Smelting: and Refining Company in Salt Lake City. where the couple will _niake their home. 1000 gifts “THIS MAY BE JERRY’S LAST Helen Chapman in: charge of a Red Cross clubmobile near the Holland front writes her father Dr. © We viewpoint of the Heprins front. She writes: Dear Poppy: It looks as if Jerry is making a desperate splurge. I hope it is his last breath. The soldiers are very war ‘weary, Many have been fighting since North Africa. They do not like to hear about production of ammunition ‘and have -shells rationed, nor stories 6f strikes and black markeiing, and everybody having a whale of a time. It makes some cynical, some’sad and a few don‘t care. Take care of yourself and keep well. Your loving daughter, Helen. Holland, Dec. 1944, Poppy: 14, Dear Still no mail,, still hoping everything is all right with you. I am still in the same place and probably will be for somé time. It looks ag if the’ war will last until next summer at least. The work I am doing is enjoyable, but I get homesick when I_ ehink how far away I am and no mail even to let me know how: every body is. Maybe when my new APO number is My back me before mail should Christmas. reach We are planning to distribute 10. to GIs on Christmas day! and have Christmas dinner some of them. Then we’ll have our own Christmas dinner at night. We'll have Christmas treeg on the clubmobiles. There are some very pretty ones ‘near here in Germany. Ornaments are easy to find in captured cities. a Time seems to pass quite quickly ‘because there are so many people around all the time.A few weeks ago we were all living’atthe home of a Dutch doctor for awhile. The doctor and his family had a party for us, and it was there I met George Forsyyhe a lieutenant colonel who had been in the 30th infantry regiment with Buzz. Buzz -was his company commander at the time. He told me about other friends of Buzz inthe Ninth Army. Practically all of them are. It is too bad Buzz couldn’t be here, too, except I don’t like the looks of things for the boys at the front. There is going to come a day when there will be a terrific fight to a icles down. Well, a couple of nights later I met Laurie Dickie; who comes. to visit one of the girls here now and then. And then Al Martin, came to see me for a few minutes the following night. *He is a major and probably soon will be-a Lt. Col. Dickie is a major too. Both of them had recent letters from Buzz.° Yesterday while I was serving, I almost met Louis Butz, an ex-student and son of the family burned out last summer. He is the only Nevada City boy I know of in this section. He happened to be out when I stopped by his outfit in Germany. A few nightg ago I went to a party with George Hodges and Colonel Miller. We have a ten o’clock curfew so the party didn’t last long for me; but I had a good time. There are quite a few parties here because the troops coming out of the lines like to have them just’ to be merry for awhile, I attend some of them. Did you get the stamps I sent you? I have a few German cancelled ones: Maybe later I’ll be able to get more. It is hard to keep track of days here. They are very much alike. I am working on the clubmobile ’‘‘Rio Grande” for awhile until two crew members get back from leave. I hada very interesting day yesterday with a field artillery unit: A very kind commander showed ue how a mission was carried out, how the target is found, the guns elevated ahd sighted, the while works. Some of our guns make a terrfic noise. I was just interrupted by a boy named Jansen from Lincoln, Calif. His father is a furniture! dealer. Thought you might know him. Hoping te-get mail soon. Your loving daughter, Helen. ‘ial fishermen. W. Chapman of the fighting man’s]: +lumne river . ville on the Columbia with . of Oregon and Washington. LARGE RUN OF KING SALMONSAIN: FRAINEISCO, Jan. fortis salmon landings an 1944 throughout October have been the largest since 1920, when 10,204,--pounds were brought in by commerc8—-CaliThe gill net catches in the Sacramento. river district totalled 3,189,000 pounds, the remainder the catch was taken by trollers off the coast. The heavy catch this year is associated with the largest ruins of salmon “ever recorded for the central valleys area. Over 150,000 fish entered the area above the ‘Table Mountain dam site on the main-Sacramento river for spawning and a heavy run was also counted into Battle Creek. The run on the American river of spring and fall salmon was approximately 20,000 and over 130000 salmon have spawned in the Tuoabove Modesto. In. the San ‘Joaquin river a heavy spring run of salmon that was headed for the area‘below ‘Friant .dam was blocked by a-‘dam near Dos Palos. This block was Temedied, but due to the shallow water tremendous losses were inflicted on this run by the spear fishefmen. As a result of these losses and this block only 5000 of the estimated 15,000 salman reached the upper San Joaquin} river. . ‘It is interesting to note that. while the Columbia river is considered to be the principal salmon river on the coast, the king salmon.runs-inthe central valleys streams: are as large or larger ‘than those Bon‘the states passing in FORMER SAILOR ADMITS: THEFT Raymond Turnipg, a discharged sailor from ia ee S.'! Navy is in the Nevada County jail, facing trial for grand theft and forgery, and an FBI accusation of illegally wearing a naval uniform. Turning’s companion in an alleged robbery of checks and cash in Grass Valley is assertedly William T.-Dillon, U. S. Navy seaman, AWOL from Marg Island. Dillon is beiiig held by ‘the navy shore patrol and probably will not ’ be © prosecuted here. Grass Valley police report that Turning and Dillon were guests of Mrs. Joyce BE. Pederson of 125 Ocean Avenue on Wednesday and apparently learned then where ste kept her cash. They returned Thursday while she was absent and stole checks and cash. On Friday the police on tips received learned there had been a robbery. Residents of Empire street hadnoted that the two sailors had hidden’ something beneath a rock. Investigation revealed the checks which apparenely the two wished to discard. The Grass Valley police were notified and had identified the two, ‘knew there had been a robbery, but it remained for Mrs. Pederson to discover her loss and report ti Friday. A description of /the two wag sent to Sacramento police’ who arrested the pair, Dillon in Hotel (Clunie oat urning at the Giant Spot Cafe where he was a cook. Policemen Henry Strick and Frank Knuckey went to Sacramento\where they assisted the Sacramento \police in questioning them, They returned with Turning. Turning arraigned in the Grass Valley township court Saturday afternoon confessed his guilt and was held to answer on a charge of grand theft. He admitted he-had endorsed and cashed a $100 insurance check belonging to Mrs. Pederson in Montgomery Wards store in Auburn. SNOW ACCUMULATES Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of Tahoe national forest reports that at Soda Springs on Highway 40 there is a snow pack 26 inches deep with powder snow on top of 12 inches. At Cisc was 19 jinches deep with powdered snow of 10-inches. At. Truckee eight inches of variable snow covered a snow pack of 15 inches. Tahoe 2» Citys snow pack was 14 inches with 7 in. . variable snow covering. . of} { . nd Big Bend the snow pack . SALE OF HOME — CANNED FOODS IS PROHIBITED Sale of home canned low acid e foods is a violation of the state cannery inspection act. Dr. Wilton L. Halverson, director state department of public health, warned today. The department of foods drug inshpectors have ‘reported that such foods are being offered for sale at roadside stands, grocery stores, and church bazaars, as well as being sérved to restaurant patrons. Dr. Hal verson said: Only commercially packed low acid foods, packed in lic; ensed canneries under supervision can be sold in California, he : ized. All home cooked non acid foods which are not processed in a steam pressure cooker according: to "the directions of the University of California, are potential sources of botulism a highly fatal food poisoning, Halverson stated. In 1944 eleven cases of botluism poisoning with seven deaths, which were caused by improperly home canned foods such a6 corn, beets; asparagus, string beans and pigs feet, occurred. in the state he reported. Boiling home canned non acid. fqods for 15 minutes before tasting even tiny amounts is the only safe guard against botulism. Non acid foods include all vegetables except tomatoes and rhubarb, olives, meats, fish and poultry. U. C. BOTANIST: TO WRITE OF ANDES FLORA BERKELEY, Jan. 8—A California scientist. will be one of the writers for a new Argentine journaf, Dr. T. H.Geodspeed, professar of botany’ on the Berkeley campus of the University of California has been invited to become a collaborator of the new publication Eincia eInvestigacion, , The journal edited by a group of Argentine scientists, has just begun. publication in Buenog Aires. It is to. become the South American, equivalent ‘of the well known United States journal, Science and the English one called Nature. In addition to special articles on ~major scientific ~problems, it, will contain reports on research achievements, scijentifie ev-. ents, personalities, articles” on the teaching of science and book reviews. ‘ Goodspeed has been invited to furnish material on botantical . matters in the Uniited States and special articles in Spanish on the orogin of tobacco and other cultivated planta, ' and upon the flora of the Andes. In a letter to Dr., Goodspeed, Dr. Eduardo Braun Meneudae, chairman, of the board of editors of the new. journal expresses the hope that. Hincia e Investigacion will point : to’ the international quality of scientific research in which scientists finds a comnron-~ basis ar mutual wnderstanding.’’ New Navy Hossital’ Course Offered’ At U: C. BERKELEY, Jan. 8—A course for hospital corps officers in the havy, a special,training course in sanitation the first. ‘of its type ever” offered, is being given by the School . of Public Health on the Berkeley” campus of the University’ of California, according to Dr. Walter > H. Brown, acting dean of the school. . Twenty five hospital® corps offic of Captain Albert P. Krueger, ¢ Donene officer of the Unitéd sity. and lecturer in bacteriology is in charge of the course; Instruction began J Bigess* billets as waniidddan officers have charge posal of. wastes, a pubtic health where the is 'a contributing will be when another -. ,will be enrolleg