July 1, 1946 (4 pages)

ee The Nugget is delivered to’ your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month \ “God grants liberty only to those who leve it, and are ready si z Nevada City . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA _IN CALIFGRNIA _ ” __ Daniel Webster : — ST i . This 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. cet Vol. 20, No. 32 The County Seat Paper _NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNI4 ‘ The Gold Center MONDAY, JULY J 1946 THINKING OUT LOUD oat By-H. M. 'L. Jr. Today I'm THINKING ABOUT GOLD. Or anyhow, I THINK I’m thinking about it. I’ve just read a very high-falutin’ article on the sulbject by Seth Axley, a San Francisco investment counsel; in the June} isgue of the Mininig World. The article is entitled Clearing Weather for Gold, and its subject matter is WAY UP THERE IN THE STRATOSPHERE of Bretton Woods, international monetary agreements, man= aged curriencies and _ deflationary versus inflationary legislation. HERE IN THE MINING COUNTRY. when we-think about. gold, we usually wish the government would raise the price so all: the mines would open up again and we’d have a boom. Axley in would his article, says that be all wrong, from practically ‘every point of view. He goes to say that gold producers, as soon -as.a little more—time passes upder ithe bridge, will have the SQUBEZE ‘automatically taken off them. on Starting with the assumption that IS iT P COME ON IN. SKINNY. THE WATER’S FINE Att ast, at 1° p. m. Saturday, the «city swimming pool opened with Lifeguard William Pohley on hand to welcome the hilarious throng of youngsters: The small boys aquatic heaven was immediately thronged with the whoopingest, holleringest, running~jum(ping4pushing-+and-divin2est mob of Little America that it has seen for exactly one year. Oh the NOISE! And the PEOPLE! Pool hours are noon Adults are welcome, too. LOT OF FUN ON FOURTH FOR EVERYBODY By Mrs. Evelyn Engell When the -idea started about a Fourth of July 49’er celebration in, Nevada City—the men growing whiskers—and looking right at our ‘bor and looks Hobart Childers’ beard with a toe pe in, started inj we've been . next door neigh-' speaking not because § he} the mines are not much of being now because of the powder, labor, operated high cost . lumber and goes on, to_ point . factors: are ma-. chinery, out how these led. Wages, he “was is popularly ment, the expert control-. claims, are supposed at but got a that not set the mo-. by deaGOOD most of; by labor unions, He’s one mand POINT there are liable to for labor. and forget. In other words, wages are at 4 peak now because of an UNPRE-' CEDENTED DEMAND FOR LABOR. When the proaches normality the demand for labor will theoretically drop off and with it the price of labor. Axley attacks managed economies of all de-. scriptions and points out that the old LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMIAIND is still in there pitching all the time and in the long run ig going to have more permanent and decisive effects than relatively ephemeral government legislation. national economy ap‘He attacks the larger principles of raising the price of gold, and claims that our country’s New Deal price raise in 1933 did untold damage to the monéy structues of other countries. It OMFERED A HIGHER THAN NORMAL price and_ thus sucked gold away from nations which needed it to bolster up their economies. J Raising the price of gold was thought up in the depression as a means of RAISING THE PRICE of farm and industrial products, which thad sunk so low through lack of demand that decent profits and wages could not be made. It didn’t work. According to Axley, it was flying in the face of the law of supply and demand, and it was like trying to . raise Great Salt Lake WITH A DIPPER. He predicts the wildest kind of opposition to any move to raise the price of gold. The almost universal holding of property among. our people gives us a strong bias for sound money. The holding of govenment bonds, life insurance policies and savings accounts is more widespread than ever before Holders of securities comprise a CREDITOR CLASS and they are naturally opposed to thaving the dollars they are owed dewalued by raising the gold price. The SOUNDEST WAY ‘for gold producers to get relief from high rosts, says Axley, is to strive to restore a FREE GOLD MARKET. Efforts in this direction are already being made, we happen to know, and the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce is circulating a petition, to the government, seeking the grantang of export licenses for gold. Well, I’ve given you a resume of what an expert in the field of finance thinks about RAISING THE PRICE OF GOLD. What do I THINK about it?, I wish I kmew. All TI can way is that I warned you at the beithe j trunks i what tif it *. most . ple—t} . featest iva Ribs ginning of the column that we twould take a short trip GOLDEN STRATOSPHERE. into the! different. dust .is Very flying in being. different. And the attic old opened—to see wear. “J are there is to Will: fit??’ the The 1 whole ‘wonder And now Fourth of NVE EARME NVE i AR a, MER community i A ADS A pir OAT? planning into the = FOURTH OF, JULY FOR Ni paw Mi A 73 g NINER CHILEBRATION Ne BLN i City has ever Just festivities start the second. That be a lot of fun. to wear July i here. the committees miles around have and -work and vada a ay : uw AS a Wael known. To Nye A 5 Street, fully this season, -a pound brown, 22 inches lorie Farmer of the landing «the one day isn’t enough. the: ey The ening of : goes honor of will : : biggest really is going +o five Everyone is supposed “something cowbey or ladies old fashioned . The are Farmer was fishing from a high: fly . baited The brown . lake depths or miner outfits. planning what going to put in that box— will ‘bring a good price, and their . favorite companion. No, not Just . sandwiches. This box supper is going to have fried chicken, and home made pie or cake—and it will be a real food surprise. The men will bid pay and enjoy it—-with the women. Who created the box and fixed the food—— they paid so well for. It will he held-in the Grammar School Elementary Auditorium at seven, o’clock .the second of July. Everybody be there. Then the evening of the third—j the town will ‘be all dressed up— windows gay and interesting and then the music will start and there will be a street dance. Everyone will be in a festive mood and be merry on the eve of the Fourth. for that’s going to be a great day in Nevada City. At 10: a.m. on the Fourth the parade starts. It's’ going to be a big ‘parade, anid from that time on until evening there will be something doing every single minute. Games of skill and foolishness. The judging of the costumes and the whiskerinos. Wiater sports, and contests ‘of every description. Lots of prizes, At 1:30 the dedication of the Memorial Plaque will take place at Pioneer Park. and the music under the direction of the Grass Valley band. This will be followed by baseball. Sincere efforts and good hard work has gone into these days of the “forty niner’’ celebration to make it the most successful holiday time this community has ever known. Eiveryone, young and old, from here and far away are invited to participate and enjoy this old time holiday, Everyone will meet everyone at Nevada City at the Fourth of July 49’er celebration beginning the evening of the second and ending the evening of the 4th. bank on Lake Bowman with a 14 hook with a single salmon egg. xrOliath the and swallowed the bait and off. The slim fly rod bent double . but curbed his angry lunges. . (Calling to a friend further along . the shore, Farmer played the fish . expertly until his friend could get . boat and paddle out net. Farmer gave the big little leeway and the net covered; his head. He was fat and round and very saucy: Farmer gave the huge trout to a neighboring family of twelve who dined off it handsomely. WEATHER BUREAU SEEKS OBSERVER FOR THIS AREA The U. S. Weather seeking a weather work of of 245 that hal a century. The bureau is interested in find-, ing another public spirited citize . who will carry of the splendid work of Mrs. Preston. who has resigned the post due to illness. are ‘ : : i 5 they casting rod and No. they hope . rose from into a with a} . fellow aj; Bureau is observer, who Mrs. Jennie Boulder, who “has capacity for almost take up, the Preston acted in A letter, written by Floyd E. Hug, acting: official in charge. of the U. S. Weather Bureau in Sacramento, states there is no pay attached to the daily task and that the only reward is that of being a member of one of the largest groups unpaid public servants in the world, the Weather Bureau Cooperative Observers. Applicants are asked to Hug at the weather ‘bureau indicating their willingness to accept the post. Flying-Singing Commercials Can’t say this ‘community isn't up to date! Townspeople were treated, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, to flying-singing commercials! A slow, low-flying Cub monoplane Gold Trai! Riders To Join Fourth Parade The Gold Trail Ridere, a club of men and women who love horses, Met yesterday at Bree’s Dam on the Dog Bar Road and completed plans for lazily circled the city, broadcasting participation in the Nevada Cityadvertisements for ja nearby lake re-. Grass Valley celebration of the 4th sort, interspersed with jazz music.) jn Nevada City. The plane’s public address system Riders brought their own lunchwas a jittle weak, but sharp-eared . es anid coffee was supplied by Owen listeners were able to get the whole Leary, president, and his committee. message. Several members brought their swim What next? suits and etjoyed water sports. either turkey down or peach fuzz. . streét dance was held at . to ACH FUZZ? Ray Spickelmier, Chief Whiskerino, carefully examines reading glass and decides it is Sacramento Bee Photo . . . . Quéen f waiting Edna to be the Whiskerino th Fourth. Ladies in Mrs, Fouyer and The ehosen wer Mrs. Jones Dolores Smith, Mrs. were Ainsley Irene four chosen ‘by secret ' ballot. started . Following the election, a Broad street: kerettes tumes Whiskerinos and Whisdressed in old-time the last cendances and cosreminiscent of tury, danced square round dantes with enthusiastic verve tunes broadeast by a powerful public address system. WHOLE BUS LOAD OF LAWBREAKERS CROWDS JAIL A bus petty load of misdeameanors men charged with to felonies arrived at the county jail Wednesday afternoon. There 3: im -the party arrested by Deputy Sheriff Tom Dolley in Truckee Nebus charterwere and to vada City in a school ed for the occasion. In charge of the prisoners the majority of whom were Negroes, was deputy constable Charles Brunk who also doubles as driver of the school bus and Dick Atkins, assistant. Most of the bus load were workers employed by the Southern Pacific. They had ben arrested by Dolley during the morning. Tiwo charged with burglary Virsal Skellern and George Miller, Negroes. They are accused of having robbed the Fontana sent Laundry Wednesday of approximat-'. ely $1000 worth of clothing and mis'cellaneous articles. Dolley in a _ report to the sheriff’s office here stated that the stolen items had been recovered. : Charged with petty misdemeanors such as drunkenness, were Edward J. Redford, Marion Smiley, Joseph (Marin, Joseph T. Garcia, Andrew J. Delgadillo, Jake Hensley, Sever Stromberg, Tony Shaw, Flimsen, Rand, Harold Howard and Volley Bradshaw. In his telephone report Dolley. stated he was still rounding up of fenders yesterday afternoon and asked to send the 13 down to Nevada City to relieve ‘the overload on the Truckee jail. Si’ Sofge looked like a real oldtimer Thursday when he put on top hat and tails taken. Miners Gain Wage Increase, kmpire Star To Close Mine owners and operators have: ete. agreed to the request of the — We will stand the toss. This will orkers Protective League for probably not require more than an in-; . 49*er. the foot of} to have ‘his picture) crease of 18 1-2 cents an hour in wages, and Secretary Ed. J. Jones has announced that the pact was rati. fied at the meeting of the Léague . Thursday night . Although a strike was scheduled . to hegin Monday at the three mines . named with which.the league . contracts, no one cognizant of the ' long of friendly league and mine really expected it to occur. The pay ‘boost of W81-2 added to the present base $5.76,. means base pay $7.25 per eight hours cents,, retoined in the contract, collar to to the. stopes, two miles underground makes! day's for a 40 hour .74 se time and a half for time. The pay approximately Comin history ibetiween relations owners, cenits, pay of} o raised, day, plus 501 to pay . from some} times the $7 pay week . overincreases will affect . 400 g ,close mine workers. on the‘ heels ine owner's 18 1-2 ter was agreement to. advanre! ages eents per hour received by Ed. J Mine Work from Ire Jones of the Pro» League i Star ¢ eption of { maintefiance m ained in order to keep them in dry and.in workable In effect, have fewer the closure condition. the men Empire employed than the L-208 gold ordered: The le case when mii was tter follows: Gentlemen: This will acknowledge your letter of June 15th . his company. that the. League had! rejected of 1, 1-2 cents . per increase in pay and serving! . notice tha a strike would be called days from date of your letter. We regretfully accept the decision thus taken and hereby withdraw our offer. There will be no necessity of aj strike, as we shall not attempt to operate in view of your decision. This company has been operating at a heavy los ssince October 1942.) The operating loss in 1943 $'2'6'2,372, in 1944, $252,748, 1945, $33'2,491. There is nothing fictitious about these losses incured, in the vain hope that post war mit have, advising . our offer hour { was and in . condtiions would per-; resumption of operation. each year, been duly audited,. by a well known “firm of chartered . accountants and teported officially . to our share-holders. The loss in the first half of 1946 . has been comparable to that vailing since 1942. Our offer of an . increase in pay in the face of these} losses was made with the faint hope} that we could keep going until a} rise in the price of newly mined gold, . or. permission to export it. afford some relief to all of us, The increase in pay being generally made in the copper, lead and zine mines of the United States has been ‘made possible: only because the gov-} ernment subsidizes the production of these metals. That is to say, it j uses money obtained from the tax. payers—ineluding your membership and our shareholders—to pay producerg of these metals, a nrice' over and above the prices paid by . consumers. There is no such premium available to gold miners, who . are required to sell their production . They . pre. might to to. the government at its price fixed . in 1933. The Idaho Maryland Company has! advised us. that itis prepared, to; agree to an increase in wages some. what beyond the 11 1-2 cents per hour which we have ofered, and you have rejected we have no information as to their operation conditions fbut assume that they are able to obtain higher grade ore, or better costs, than are available to us. .If you are able to reach a mutually acceptable wage agreement wiht that company we will be willing .to sign a contract with you or not to exceed one. year on a wage scale you and they agree upon to an increase . of 18 1-2 cents per hour, which will . cover a limited number of men rehae . iand we . gotiations wtih . ninety jimy jest . League . past . President, . tical . the assemlbling the . E. Knuckey of the . Police Department, . Steulber, Soto, deputy sherif. ; my thirty five men necessary to keep the mines dry to some further period in the hope of either a rise in the price of gold or a drop in the present inflated costs of living and operation. This may preserve an opportunity of future employment of your members. As above stated, we will make no effort for production after July Ist, sincerely hope ‘that your ne+ the Idaho Maryland permit continued op‘of the in the members .can employment there: I should like to record my personjal regret at the closing of the Em;pire. and North Star mines after five years of operation, and appreciation: of the frank, honand friendly relationship tha has been maintained between the and this company for the. years: : Company. will eration of one and that satisfactory mines camp find your Very truly yours, (Signed) FRED Empire SEARLS, Jr. Co. Star Mines, Ltd. ~ POLICE SCHOOL vi 2 WEEK COURSE “1S CONCLUDED The training school for ‘ee. enforcement. sponsored by Willian French, of the Tahoe National Forest, staff, and conducted by four . special agents from the San Fran,cisco office of the Federal Bureau of . Investigation, iweeks term yesterday. concluded its tweStudied by the class of 24 peace . officers who attended were training in the use of fire arms, occupying the first week, scientific investigation technique and defensive and offnsiv technique in hand to hand encounters, largely covered by the word judo, The last two days of the school were occupied ‘by solving a hypotheDurglary, arresting suspects, evidence, andé itaking the case into, court to a con. viction. An association, as yet unnamed, of law enforcement officers was or. ganized Friday night. William . French was elected president, Frank Grass Valley vice president; ; Henry Strick also of the Grass: Valley police, secretary Henry highway patrolman, range treasury;; master. All officers are directors and added to the directorate were Carl Kitits, highway patrolman, and George De Grass Valley Lions Hear Lt. Col. Hansen of Camp Beale Lt. Col. John Hansen personnel and administrative officer for Camp Beale, addressed a recent meeting 1of the Lion’, Club upon the subject of the permanence of the camp. Camp Beale, he said, is rated as a \permanent military installation and classified 1-A under the recent Sixth reorganization. Present plans call for a total of 22,000 army personnel there. Hansen has been a resident of Grass Valley since April While overseas he jutant General with the Cross of Lorraine (79th) Division. He contradicted rumors that the Camip was scheduled to close July 1. The capacity of this military —installation is 33,000 and the army plans to train a full division there. Possbile reductions in the civiliam staff at Beale will be scaled in accordance with number of military personnel stationed there. Bill Tobiassen is to sing at Col cises. Sheriff and Mrs. Carl J. Tobiassen are going to Steckton to see quired to operate our pumps, hoists,jhim graduate. oh { » served as Ad-~ lege of the Pacific graduation exerTiS Mp ae CNN

ee The Nugget is delivered to’ your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month \ “God grants liberty only to those who leve it, and are ready si z Nevada City . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA _IN CALIFGRNIA _ ” __ Daniel Webster : — ST i . This 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. cet Vol. 20, No. 32 The County Seat Paper _NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNI4 ‘ The Gold Center MONDAY, JULY J 1946 THINKING OUT LOUD oat By-H. M. 'L. Jr. Today I'm THINKING ABOUT GOLD. Or anyhow, I THINK I’m thinking about it. I’ve just read a very high-falutin’ article on the sulbject by Seth Axley, a San Francisco investment counsel; in the June} isgue of the Mininig World. The article is entitled Clearing Weather for Gold, and its subject matter is WAY UP THERE IN THE STRATOSPHERE of Bretton Woods, international monetary agreements, man= aged curriencies and _ deflationary versus inflationary legislation. HERE IN THE MINING COUNTRY. when we-think about. gold, we usually wish the government would raise the price so all: the mines would open up again and we’d have a boom. Axley in would his article, says that be all wrong, from practically ‘every point of view. He goes to say that gold producers, as soon -as.a little more—time passes upder ithe bridge, will have the SQUBEZE ‘automatically taken off them. on Starting with the assumption that IS iT P COME ON IN. SKINNY. THE WATER’S FINE Att ast, at 1° p. m. Saturday, the «city swimming pool opened with Lifeguard William Pohley on hand to welcome the hilarious throng of youngsters: The small boys aquatic heaven was immediately thronged with the whoopingest, holleringest, running~jum(ping4pushing-+and-divin2est mob of Little America that it has seen for exactly one year. Oh the NOISE! And the PEOPLE! Pool hours are noon Adults are welcome, too. LOT OF FUN ON FOURTH FOR EVERYBODY By Mrs. Evelyn Engell When the -idea started about a Fourth of July 49’er celebration in, Nevada City—the men growing whiskers—and looking right at our ‘bor and looks Hobart Childers’ beard with a toe pe in, started inj we've been . next door neigh-' speaking not because § he} the mines are not much of being now because of the powder, labor, operated high cost . lumber and goes on, to_ point . factors: are ma-. chinery, out how these led. Wages, he “was is popularly ment, the expert control-. claims, are supposed at but got a that not set the mo-. by deaGOOD most of; by labor unions, He’s one mand POINT there are liable to for labor. and forget. In other words, wages are at 4 peak now because of an UNPRE-' CEDENTED DEMAND FOR LABOR. When the proaches normality the demand for labor will theoretically drop off and with it the price of labor. Axley attacks managed economies of all de-. scriptions and points out that the old LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMIAIND is still in there pitching all the time and in the long run ig going to have more permanent and decisive effects than relatively ephemeral government legislation. national economy ap‘He attacks the larger principles of raising the price of gold, and claims that our country’s New Deal price raise in 1933 did untold damage to the monéy structues of other countries. It OMFERED A HIGHER THAN NORMAL price and_ thus sucked gold away from nations which needed it to bolster up their economies. J Raising the price of gold was thought up in the depression as a means of RAISING THE PRICE of farm and industrial products, which thad sunk so low through lack of demand that decent profits and wages could not be made. It didn’t work. According to Axley, it was flying in the face of the law of supply and demand, and it was like trying to . raise Great Salt Lake WITH A DIPPER. He predicts the wildest kind of opposition to any move to raise the price of gold. The almost universal holding of property among. our people gives us a strong bias for sound money. The holding of govenment bonds, life insurance policies and savings accounts is more widespread than ever before Holders of securities comprise a CREDITOR CLASS and they are naturally opposed to thaving the dollars they are owed dewalued by raising the gold price. The SOUNDEST WAY ‘for gold producers to get relief from high rosts, says Axley, is to strive to restore a FREE GOLD MARKET. Efforts in this direction are already being made, we happen to know, and the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce is circulating a petition, to the government, seeking the grantang of export licenses for gold. Well, I’ve given you a resume of what an expert in the field of finance thinks about RAISING THE PRICE OF GOLD. What do I THINK about it?, I wish I kmew. All TI can way is that I warned you at the beithe j trunks i what tif it *. most . ple—t} . featest iva Ribs ginning of the column that we twould take a short trip GOLDEN STRATOSPHERE. into the! different. dust .is Very flying in being. different. And the attic old opened—to see wear. “J are there is to Will: fit??’ the The 1 whole ‘wonder And now Fourth of NVE EARME NVE i AR a, MER community i A ADS A pir OAT? planning into the = FOURTH OF, JULY FOR Ni paw Mi A 73 g NINER CHILEBRATION Ne BLN i City has ever Just festivities start the second. That be a lot of fun. to wear July i here. the committees miles around have and -work and vada a ay : uw AS a Wael known. To Nye A 5 Street, fully this season, -a pound brown, 22 inches lorie Farmer of the landing «the one day isn’t enough. the: ey The ening of : goes honor of will : : biggest really is going +o five Everyone is supposed “something cowbey or ladies old fashioned . The are Farmer was fishing from a high: fly . baited The brown . lake depths or miner outfits. planning what going to put in that box— will ‘bring a good price, and their . favorite companion. No, not Just . sandwiches. This box supper is going to have fried chicken, and home made pie or cake—and it will be a real food surprise. The men will bid pay and enjoy it—-with the women. Who created the box and fixed the food—— they paid so well for. It will he held-in the Grammar School Elementary Auditorium at seven, o’clock .the second of July. Everybody be there. Then the evening of the third—j the town will ‘be all dressed up— windows gay and interesting and then the music will start and there will be a street dance. Everyone will be in a festive mood and be merry on the eve of the Fourth. for that’s going to be a great day in Nevada City. At 10: a.m. on the Fourth the parade starts. It's’ going to be a big ‘parade, anid from that time on until evening there will be something doing every single minute. Games of skill and foolishness. The judging of the costumes and the whiskerinos. Wiater sports, and contests ‘of every description. Lots of prizes, At 1:30 the dedication of the Memorial Plaque will take place at Pioneer Park. and the music under the direction of the Grass Valley band. This will be followed by baseball. Sincere efforts and good hard work has gone into these days of the “forty niner’’ celebration to make it the most successful holiday time this community has ever known. Eiveryone, young and old, from here and far away are invited to participate and enjoy this old time holiday, Everyone will meet everyone at Nevada City at the Fourth of July 49’er celebration beginning the evening of the second and ending the evening of the 4th. bank on Lake Bowman with a 14 hook with a single salmon egg. xrOliath the and swallowed the bait and off. The slim fly rod bent double . but curbed his angry lunges. . (Calling to a friend further along . the shore, Farmer played the fish . expertly until his friend could get . boat and paddle out net. Farmer gave the big little leeway and the net covered; his head. He was fat and round and very saucy: Farmer gave the huge trout to a neighboring family of twelve who dined off it handsomely. WEATHER BUREAU SEEKS OBSERVER FOR THIS AREA The U. S. Weather seeking a weather work of of 245 that hal a century. The bureau is interested in find-, ing another public spirited citize . who will carry of the splendid work of Mrs. Preston. who has resigned the post due to illness. are ‘ : : i 5 they casting rod and No. they hope . rose from into a with a} . fellow aj; Bureau is observer, who Mrs. Jennie Boulder, who “has capacity for almost take up, the Preston acted in A letter, written by Floyd E. Hug, acting: official in charge. of the U. S. Weather Bureau in Sacramento, states there is no pay attached to the daily task and that the only reward is that of being a member of one of the largest groups unpaid public servants in the world, the Weather Bureau Cooperative Observers. Applicants are asked to Hug at the weather ‘bureau indicating their willingness to accept the post. Flying-Singing Commercials Can’t say this ‘community isn't up to date! Townspeople were treated, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, to flying-singing commercials! A slow, low-flying Cub monoplane Gold Trai! Riders To Join Fourth Parade The Gold Trail Ridere, a club of men and women who love horses, Met yesterday at Bree’s Dam on the Dog Bar Road and completed plans for lazily circled the city, broadcasting participation in the Nevada Cityadvertisements for ja nearby lake re-. Grass Valley celebration of the 4th sort, interspersed with jazz music.) jn Nevada City. The plane’s public address system Riders brought their own lunchwas a jittle weak, but sharp-eared . es anid coffee was supplied by Owen

listeners were able to get the whole Leary, president, and his committee. message. Several members brought their swim What next? suits and etjoyed water sports. either turkey down or peach fuzz. . streét dance was held at . to ACH FUZZ? Ray Spickelmier, Chief Whiskerino, carefully examines reading glass and decides it is Sacramento Bee Photo . . . . Quéen f waiting Edna to be the Whiskerino th Fourth. Ladies in Mrs, Fouyer and The ehosen wer Mrs. Jones Dolores Smith, Mrs. were Ainsley Irene four chosen ‘by secret ' ballot. started . Following the election, a Broad street: kerettes tumes Whiskerinos and Whisdressed in old-time the last cendances and cosreminiscent of tury, danced square round dantes with enthusiastic verve tunes broadeast by a powerful public address system. WHOLE BUS LOAD OF LAWBREAKERS CROWDS JAIL A bus petty load of misdeameanors men charged with to felonies arrived at the county jail Wednesday afternoon. There 3: im -the party arrested by Deputy Sheriff Tom Dolley in Truckee Nebus charterwere and to vada City in a school ed for the occasion. In charge of the prisoners the majority of whom were Negroes, was deputy constable Charles Brunk who also doubles as driver of the school bus and Dick Atkins, assistant. Most of the bus load were workers employed by the Southern Pacific. They had ben arrested by Dolley during the morning. Tiwo charged with burglary Virsal Skellern and George Miller, Negroes. They are accused of having robbed the Fontana sent Laundry Wednesday of approximat-'. ely $1000 worth of clothing and mis'cellaneous articles. Dolley in a _ report to the sheriff’s office here stated that the stolen items had been recovered. : Charged with petty misdemeanors such as drunkenness, were Edward J. Redford, Marion Smiley, Joseph (Marin, Joseph T. Garcia, Andrew J. Delgadillo, Jake Hensley, Sever Stromberg, Tony Shaw, Flimsen, Rand, Harold Howard and Volley Bradshaw. In his telephone report Dolley. stated he was still rounding up of fenders yesterday afternoon and asked to send the 13 down to Nevada City to relieve ‘the overload on the Truckee jail. Si’ Sofge looked like a real oldtimer Thursday when he put on top hat and tails taken. Miners Gain Wage Increase, kmpire Star To Close Mine owners and operators have: ete. agreed to the request of the — We will stand the toss. This will orkers Protective League for probably not require more than an in-; . 49*er. the foot of} to have ‘his picture) crease of 18 1-2 cents an hour in wages, and Secretary Ed. J. Jones has announced that the pact was rati. fied at the meeting of the Léague . Thursday night . Although a strike was scheduled . to hegin Monday at the three mines . named with which.the league . contracts, no one cognizant of the ' long of friendly league and mine really expected it to occur. The pay ‘boost of W81-2 added to the present base $5.76,. means base pay $7.25 per eight hours cents,, retoined in the contract, collar to to the. stopes, two miles underground makes! day's for a 40 hour .74 se time and a half for time. The pay approximately Comin history ibetiween relations owners, cenits, pay of} o raised, day, plus 501 to pay . from some} times the $7 pay week . overincreases will affect . 400 g ,close mine workers. on the‘ heels ine owner's 18 1-2 ter was agreement to. advanre! ages eents per hour received by Ed. J Mine Work from Ire Jones of the Pro» League i Star ¢ eption of { maintefiance m ained in order to keep them in dry and.in workable In effect, have fewer the closure condition. the men Empire employed than the L-208 gold ordered: The le case when mii was tter follows: Gentlemen: This will acknowledge your letter of June 15th . his company. that the. League had! rejected of 1, 1-2 cents . per increase in pay and serving! . notice tha a strike would be called days from date of your letter. We regretfully accept the decision thus taken and hereby withdraw our offer. There will be no necessity of aj strike, as we shall not attempt to operate in view of your decision. This company has been operating at a heavy los ssince October 1942.) The operating loss in 1943 $'2'6'2,372, in 1944, $252,748, 1945, $33'2,491. There is nothing fictitious about these losses incured, in the vain hope that post war mit have, advising . our offer hour { was and in . condtiions would per-; resumption of operation. each year, been duly audited,. by a well known “firm of chartered . accountants and teported officially . to our share-holders. The loss in the first half of 1946 . has been comparable to that vailing since 1942. Our offer of an . increase in pay in the face of these} losses was made with the faint hope} that we could keep going until a} rise in the price of newly mined gold, . or. permission to export it. afford some relief to all of us, The increase in pay being generally made in the copper, lead and zine mines of the United States has been ‘made possible: only because the gov-} ernment subsidizes the production of these metals. That is to say, it j uses money obtained from the tax. payers—ineluding your membership and our shareholders—to pay producerg of these metals, a nrice' over and above the prices paid by . consumers. There is no such premium available to gold miners, who . are required to sell their production . They . pre. might to to. the government at its price fixed . in 1933. The Idaho Maryland Company has! advised us. that itis prepared, to; agree to an increase in wages some. what beyond the 11 1-2 cents per hour which we have ofered, and you have rejected we have no information as to their operation conditions fbut assume that they are able to obtain higher grade ore, or better costs, than are available to us. .If you are able to reach a mutually acceptable wage agreement wiht that company we will be willing .to sign a contract with you or not to exceed one. year on a wage scale you and they agree upon to an increase . of 18 1-2 cents per hour, which will . cover a limited number of men rehae . iand we . gotiations wtih . ninety jimy jest . League . past . President, . tical . the assemlbling the . E. Knuckey of the . Police Department, . Steulber, Soto, deputy sherif. ; my thirty five men necessary to keep the mines dry to some further period in the hope of either a rise in the price of gold or a drop in the present inflated costs of living and operation. This may preserve an opportunity of future employment of your members. As above stated, we will make no effort for production after July Ist, sincerely hope ‘that your ne+ the Idaho Maryland permit continued op‘of the in the members .can employment there: I should like to record my personjal regret at the closing of the Em;pire. and North Star mines after five years of operation, and appreciation: of the frank, honand friendly relationship tha has been maintained between the and this company for the. years: : Company. will eration of one and that satisfactory mines camp find your Very truly yours, (Signed) FRED Empire SEARLS, Jr. Co. Star Mines, Ltd. ~ POLICE SCHOOL vi 2 WEEK COURSE “1S CONCLUDED The training school for ‘ee. enforcement. sponsored by Willian French, of the Tahoe National Forest, staff, and conducted by four . special agents from the San Fran,cisco office of the Federal Bureau of . Investigation, iweeks term yesterday. concluded its tweStudied by the class of 24 peace . officers who attended were training in the use of fire arms, occupying the first week, scientific investigation technique and defensive and offnsiv technique in hand to hand encounters, largely covered by the word judo, The last two days of the school were occupied ‘by solving a hypotheDurglary, arresting suspects, evidence, andé itaking the case into, court to a con. viction. An association, as yet unnamed, of law enforcement officers was or. ganized Friday night. William . French was elected president, Frank Grass Valley vice president; ; Henry Strick also of the Grass: Valley police, secretary Henry highway patrolman, range treasury;; master. All officers are directors and added to the directorate were Carl Kitits, highway patrolman, and George De Grass Valley Lions Hear Lt. Col. Hansen of Camp Beale Lt. Col. John Hansen personnel and administrative officer for Camp Beale, addressed a recent meeting 1of the Lion’, Club upon the subject of the permanence of the camp. Camp Beale, he said, is rated as a \permanent military installation and classified 1-A under the recent Sixth reorganization. Present plans call for a total of 22,000 army personnel there. Hansen has been a resident of Grass Valley since April While overseas he jutant General with the Cross of Lorraine (79th) Division. He contradicted rumors that the Camip was scheduled to close July 1. The capacity of this military —installation is 33,000 and the army plans to train a full division there. Possbile reductions in the civiliam staff at Beale will be scaled in accordance with number of military personnel stationed there. Bill Tobiassen is to sing at Col cises. Sheriff and Mrs. Carl J. Tobiassen are going to Steckton to see quired to operate our pumps, hoists,jhim graduate. oh { » served as Ad-~ lege of the Pacific graduation exerTiS Mp ae CNN