July 13, 1946 (4 pages)

art ur ur nt be ve he >h ip @: nd ns1Cisriaed. sate nadir ‘council favors meters, and they meet The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week t for only 30 cents per ‘month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA to guaré and defend it.’””-—Daniel Webster ee gget . —= = 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. Vol. 20, No. 56 he County Seat Paper NEVADA ¢ TY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, JULY 15 194 THINKING OUT © LOUD —s a By H. M. \L. Jr. PARKING METERS FOR NEVADA CITY: . Citizens who have definite ideas, pro and con, on the subject of parkimg meters had ‘better make their opinions known pronto. The city Wednesday to negotiate with L. F. Krusi, salesman for the meter manufacturer. Krusi is to bring a contract for 200 meters, already signed by the president and secretary of his wompany, the Taper Tube Pole Company. This outfit makes a streamlined, cast aluminum gadget that does everything but shake a scolding finger at the offending parker. And, come to thing of it. I’m not so sure it doesn’t do that. When the time you paid for runs out, the black dial and hand pop down and up pops an acfcusing red blob labeled ‘‘Violation.” It’s enough to scare a person into forking out hard cold cash and that’s exactly what it’s intended to do. You can read about the details of the gadget and the council’s discussion of it in the news columns. Right here we can air a few pros and cons. This. writer has seen the meters at work in various California towns. The main thing you notice in a town monitored by these silent policemen iis that there’s always plenty of park-. ing room. . Another important factor to con-} sider is that these meters are re. ported to render a great deal of rev-. enue to the city. ed money, it’s ours, what with necessity of erecting a sewage disposal plant and our eagerness to develop our maintain and improve our won't give the salesmian’s estimate of how much the meters should bring . in to the town. His estimate was . enormous, as salesman’s often are. But if the meters brought in even a fraction of that figure, they would pay for themselves very quickly and return a healthy annual profit. If ever a city need-, our! and . streets: 1} ainport, -city park It has been reported that the first reaction of any community to this proposition is unfavorable. Peomle are always against paying something that’s been free before. Further, they feel that having to pay for parking on a public street is an infringement of their liberty. This is the initial attitude. Later on, when people get over being mad at baving to play a nickel an hour for parking in the business section, they begin toe realize the practical benefits. Our streets our picturesque, and as I’ve said before, I like them the way they are. But they’ were made before every man jack in this part of the country drove his car, whether he’s a fuzzy faced kid or a nonagenarian albout ready to fall into his grave. The streets are narrow, and they’re crowded. At a busy hour, all, the parking places are taken. A shopMer wants to go into a Store for a minute, but there’s no place to park. Bo he or she double parks. Likely as mot ther’s another double parked across the street. So traffic tries to get up or down the streets, but it’s} aiserable going. Parking meters may cure all this and they may not. But the city has the opportunity to try them for six tmonths to see if they work, at a minimum cost if the project is later abandoned. What can we lose? Poneeal’ ne Mrs. Kohler Of G. 'V. To Be Held Mondav Funeral services for Mrs. Annie A. Kohler will be held Monday afternoon in the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary with Rev. David Ralston offficjating. Survivors are: her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Charles Kuhfeld; two sons Theodore A.: Kohler, Jr.,, and Arthur Trebilcox; and a-sister in law Stella Dunstan of Oakland. Mrs. Kohler a native of Grass Valley, was 71 years old. She died Friday morning at 10:20. She was a member of Aurora Chapter No. 40, Order of Eastern Star, and of Manzanita Parlor No. 29, Native Daughters of the Gold. the associated . Barnes . ; Work. ‘which feats of diving, en West. PAHATSI OPENS ON JULY 21ST On tthe over Sunday, July Tahoe area scouts from sone will ‘take Camp Pahatisi for a two week period. July 15 is the deadline da:e for the first series and July the second session. The camp staff will be headed again by Robert H. Frank scout executive and 25 year veteran in scouting who has had eleven years professional experience and served as camp director on the summer staff of several other scout councils. Harold E. Chastain a 30 year veteran in the movement and possessor of a rich scouting background will again serve as associate camp director. He is superintendent of the Ptacer high-school and college, Fred Knudsen, silver beaver and veteran scoutmaster of Aulburn Troop 10 will again head up the waterfront activvities; Ray Arp Roseville union high school teacher committeeman wf Troop 11, Roseville, and who has served on former camp etaffs will serve as nature lore director;; W. Scroggins Se Oakland, scouter who has won the affection of Pahatsi scouts and scouters wi!l again serve as advanicement director; Dr. Paul D. Barnes of Loomis, council health and safety chairman will ibe responsible for the health and the . safety of scouts and scouters. J. M. ‘Warner Troop 3° Auburn scoutmaster Jas. will serve as camp the first camp during second week has not as Neighborhood Lauppe yet ‘been commissioner Charles director and registrar during the first week, Robert Loughlin will be in charge of maintenance and util-' ities and will have Lowell L. Sparks} with him. Eagle scout D. head up the handicraft Eagle scout Richard Pryor will in the canteen. Leroy will be kitchen steward. will assist Ronald Brill will serve as sanitation director sociate waterfront directar, terly ward. The scouts well will also serve balanced diet for the cooking ‘will be in charge of Mrs. Clara Hatchett who directs the Placer high school cafeteria. She will be assisted by Mrs. Dorithy Thompson. CAMPFIRE GIRLS STAGE CARNIVAL IN LAKE VERA Camip Augusta of Piedmont campfire girls was hostess yesterday at ‘Lake Vera to the entire girl population of the lake numbering 450 with their.camp directors and assistants. The occasion was the annual intercamp water gports meet in swimming, ‘canoeing and stunts in the water are featured. Joining with Camp “Augusta, were Camp Celio of Oakland, Gold Hollow of Vallejo and Camp Minaluta of Sacramento. Judges for the day were the waterfront directors Mrs. Ethan Amaurie of Piedmont, Miss Ginny Rhoads of Oakland, ‘Miss Janet Lloyd of Sacramento and Mrs. Grace Gilspcie of Vallejo. [Preceding the many swimming and canoe races ‘were demonstrations put on by groups from the several camps. While Crystle Thompson (played a concertina eight 12 year olds swam to dance music, performing charming figures in the water, for the Sacramento Girl’ Scouts. To the beating of tom-toms a group of girl scouts representing Camp Celio of Oakland, dressed as Indians plunged in single file off the diving board and joined in star, circle and square figures in the water, swimming through the several evolutions to the music with precise rhythm. . Following the demonstrations were races, using the crawl, baskstroke, side stroke and breast stroke in which each camp group enthusiastically cheered their champions. There was a balloon race, an obstacle race, a dressing relay race and a special event, a free style race for girls under 12 years. Three girls from each camp vied for diving horors. There was finally the ¢anoe race in which the course was laid from 22 for; veteran ; scoutmaster of} week, . secoutmaster. appointed. . of Roseville will be canteen . Duncan . Eagle scout . , Layland Friberg will be as-/. Dick Es-! L . as kitchen stewill be assured of a! . Prime topic at the city council; meeting at 8 p. m. Thursday night was the advisalbility of installing 200! parking meters. L. F. Drusi, sales-. man for the Taper Tube Pole Co. of . San Francisco: displayed an automatic dual type parking meter and explained its functioning. His proposal was tentatively approved and he was advised to pre‘pare a contract to place before the city council when they meet next Wednesday to make a final decision. The meters would cost $68 each, installed and wowld be paid for out of income which the meters themselves produce. They are installed by the company for a trial period of 6 months, during which the city is subjected to.no change save maintainentce. At the end of that time, if a majority of the city council votes against the meters they are removed with no cost. \ Exhaustive surveys of other towns Cand cities, said Drusi, revealed that . ; only 18 per cent of downtown parkare shoppers. Another 20 per consists of people doing business in doctors and dentists offices. the city } ers . cent { . The remaining 62 per cent are . “deadheads.”’ He stated past experience had shown that after period. no city had had the parking meters removed. The meter is a complicated made out of cast gadget . Installed . it stands on a pillar-so as to be 40) the sidewalk. A “violation’’ fed to it at the 12 minutes, An parking would cost five cents. Wien the parking puts i . money, the red hand jumps down out of sight and a meter which a aluminum. inches above red hand reading sticks until up. coins rate of. hour’s one cent for person jumps up, upon pointer shows how much time has been paid for. In case where the parker comes out and finds himself getting a ticket and claims he was only one minute overtime, a second red hand indicates just how much overtime he was up to 12 minAfter 12 minutes he hypothetically pays his dollar fine. Members of the ‘council ed Drusi utes. questionregarding details of park-' ing meter operation and maintenance. He stated that his company provided an expert, maintainence man to instruct the city employee who was to have charge of meter maintenance ‘for a period of weeks. The cost of this instruction was included in the $68 charge per meter A delegation of residents of Martin St., near the old turpentine millt, came to complain to the countil of their need for work on streets, light and water. Memibers of the delegation were Mr. and Mrs. John H. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Frank Stewart and Mrs. Walling. They stated that water pressure in their area was 60 low that at times they are unable to get enough for cooking and that an inch and a half} pipe originally put in for two families now served nine. The delegation was also worried about the fire hazard due to lack of water in that neighborhood. City Clerk George Calanan explained that the fire trucks carried a supply of several hundred gallons of water. Mayor Seaman stated that council memibers ‘would make an inspection olf the Martin St. area in order cio find the most practical method vf improving the situation there. . Councitman Charles Veale* reported that J. S. Siegfried had measured the grade at the ainport and found it to be 1 per cent considered close to perfect, and a remarkable im-. provement over the former hump. . Plans for -oilimg the landing strip . were discussed. A week of watering . and rolling was deseribed—as a prerequisite, and the quality of oil, SE-1 or SE-2 was debated) briefly. Plans approved for raising the rate back to $2 per and collection an irrigation . . two were irnmigation month, Camp Augusta’s water front to the Turtle ‘back a flat rock now submerged in the middle of the lake and. ‘back again, followed by a canoe re. race the most the day. e lay exciting event of. the 6 months trial! COUNCIL FAVORS _ PARKING METERS FOR BUS. DISTRICT tax average $3 from residents using unusually large amounts of water. These regulations were to go into effect in the near future and to be retroactive. The. city budget was. discussed. Salaries have recently been raised to a total increase of $3600 per year, including raises to: policemen, $30 per month, street workers, $20 per month, bill ‘collector, $15, libririans $10. Raising business licenses was discussed, as well as raising assessments, it being considered that the prime need of the city at this time is more money. Councilman Charles Veale spoke on the possibility.of putting a fulltime caretaker in Pioneers Park as a necessary step before going. ahead with improvements of the park, for which there is a general demand among people of the:town. It was decided to receive applications for the job or caretaker. The state of water the city streets and departments was discussed at length. SCHOOL BOARD RESIGNS AND IS REAPPOINTED At the last meetine of the govern ing board of the Nev School District iftom District an opinion was read Attorney H. Ward Sheldon concerning the set-up of the district. Recent information has. disclosed that the original statute ‘creat. ing the Nevada School District repealed by was the state legislature tin 1943 without any notice to the loca! school board. District Attorney advised the memlbers elected under the former law to resign. County Superintendent of Schools Walter A. Carlson was present at the meeting and accepted the resigna. . tions. He then appointed Albert S:. Bates, Charles P. Elliott, Dr. B. W. Hummelt; J. Howard Penrose: and Howard A. Sturtevant as members of a board of trustees under the general unified—sehool district law. M. D. Coughlin was elected secretary to the new -board of trustees. Albert S. Bates was chosen as president of the newly constituted board. . BUDGET The board completed its study of ‘the proposed budget of receipts and exipenditures for the 1946-47 school year and this will be submitted to the county superintendent of schools for his review. TEACHERS A letter was received from Miss Solveig Ronning, one of last year’s first grade teachers. Miss Ronning is at present in Norway. She tendered her resignation in the letter, stating that she had enjoyed her work here during the past year but would not return. to Nevada City in time for the next school year. She had been re-elected by the board as a teacher. There are two or three vacancies in the faculties of the two schools. As soon as all the places are filled a complete list of the teachers in each school will be published. PLAYGROUND Plans were made for the further improvement of the playground at the elementary school. A concrete re-. taining wall is to be built along Sehool Street so that grading may be done so that the level portion of the play field can! be increased. Three Pees sted For Fire Law Violations William Forest law enforeementofficer fire laws: James T. McWilliam of Tahoe Pines, burning without a permit; M. C. Jacobs, Pines pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace of Truckee Evelyn Pls to the same charge and paid a %°5 fine; H. Brady of Tahoe City f33)ing.to yield right of way to an ergency vehicle, paid a $15 vada City Unified . additional . French, Tahoe National) has reported the following violations of . also of Tahoe . GOVE CELIO IS CALLED TO REST Funeral for Gove. Celio. . who died yesterday morning at the} Miners Hospital after several weeks of acute illness, have been ienaety. ely set for Wednesday, the Holmes Funeral Home. services It is expected that his son, Colonel Gove Celio Jr., now serving with DU. S. Army Air Force in Germany will arrive here by plane in time for the services. B. Celio, who, in memory of his late wife made a grant of land on Lake Vera. for the use of Camp Fire Girls and Girl Seouts, was born on the Celio ranch, in Willow Valley, 53 years ago. He was an ardent man isherman and hunter in a beautiul grove, just off the TasportsThe house he built of logs was designed and for the most part, built iby himself. He was the owner of several store and office ‘Nevada City’s business district. For erated a long period Gove Celio opa bus line from Nevada City to the Lava Cap Mine during its peak years. Later he sold the bus line to George Carter and devoted most of his time to his business interests in . Nevada City. : He leaves his wife, besides his-son, a Mrs. Celio, daughter, Katherine Celio Gibson. CITY TO BUILD SEWAGE PLANT JINNEAR FUTURE { The City of Nevada, : information obtained from City . Ed City . prospect of taking immediate action . l to provide the city with a sewage disposal plant. and . Mrs. according to En-. and . gineer Uren teason for the urgency of this questiof®’ is the fact that in order to receive its share of the so-called “Christmas tree’’ fund from surplus funds, the city’s tem must be passed State Board of Health. Dumping of braw sewage into Deer Creek method of sewage disposal unsatisGeorge Calanan is faced with factory to the state. When Nevada City does erect the sewage disposal plant it will become eligible for an estimated $22,000 of state funds. It is reported that the city has until next July to prepare plans. When the plans are prepared and approved, state funds will be made available to match money raised by the city. Lowest estimate of the cost of erecting a modern sawage disposal plant for Nevada City is $40,000, half of which would ‘be simplified by the state. The city at present owns $14,000 in ‘bonds which may be used for this purpose. The present bond issue for street works will be paid out in January 1947 and it will probably be necessary to put out another bond issue to raise money for the _ disposal state sewage sysupon by the the plant. At its meeting last Thursday night the city council decided to make trips to inspect the sewage plants of Placerville and Jackson. The state government’s ‘basic objection to antiquated methods of sewage disposal is because of stream pollution. Cities in the valley such as Sacramento are forced to go to enormous expense to obtain pure drinking water because . of extreme pollution caused by . ; dumping raw sewage. . The city council was layine plans for a sewage disposal plant just be. fore the war, but they were interrupted by the suden onset of noe ities. Taw Enforcement Assoc. Py-afts Constitution. Full time law enforcement officers of Nevada, Placer and Sierra counties met Thursday night at the . highway patrol offices to complete . work on the constitution and byof their new organization, to . be called the Gold Quartz Law Eneement Association. iP nh is chairman and Henry Stricksecretary. © association plans Thursday of every laws month. buildings in. Clerk: is a‘ William . . . . } . . July 17 at. and lived} hoe Ukiah highway outside this city. . . cently Gove Celio, the son of the late W. DEWITT NELSONANNOUNCES INVESTIGATIONS State forester DeWitt Nelson formerly of Nevada City today an-nounced that every man caused fire occurring on forest and watershed lands protected ‘by the Division of . ‘Forestry will be investigated for possible criminal or civil infraction of law. This action is a part of the readopted law enforcement policy of the State Board of Forestry whose members, Nelson stated are . conscientiously and constructively attacking the increasing fire occurrence ._problem in California. Land owners and tenants of our forests, grass, and watershed lands must realize he said that it is their responsibility independent of state effort, to control fires burning on their lands and in cases where our educational prevention work fails with people a well executed law en= forcement program is necessary. Each year the state forester con. tinued thousands of dollars of public funds are expended. to supprese fires wilfully or negligently caused by man the representative of the California people in forest. problems on lands of statewide interest the division of forestry will as provided by.law attempt to collect from the responsible individuals the public funds expended fighting fires when the investigation show conclusively the fires were started either wilfully, negligently or in violation of law. The board of forestry feels he added that there will be fewer fires in California when people realize they not only can be convicted for violating the law and made liable to other land owners for damage caused but that they can be charged with the expense of fighting the fires. _G. V. Legior Elects Oscar Shamberger Bldg. Chairman Hague-Thomas-Hegarty Post No. 130, American Legion, at a recent meeting elected a committee to administer the post’s large memorial hall on South Auburn street for the mext fiscal year. Oscar Shamberger is chairman, assisted by Harry Morton, Ed Bawden, R. N. MeCormack, Jr., BabeTamietti, Matt DePauli, Jr. and W. H. Carey: : Council To St As As Equalization Board City Clerk George Calanan yesterday reported that the assessed evaluation of Nevada City as of June 1, stands at $1,401,095 or '$130,009 more than last year. The city council will meet as a board of equalization on August 12. The city tax rate for the fiscal year, closing June 30, was $1.30 per $100 assesed value. Calanan states that there are no indications that the council change ‘this rate. 5700 Documents Filed ' With County Recorder Almost 5700 documents have been recorded in the fiscal year ending June 30 in the County Recorder’a office, acgording to a statement by John E. Nettell. Several hundred armed services discharges have added to the unusual bulk of work. Asistin'g Nettell are Mrs. Anna C. Tucker and Miss Betty Carey, deputies. G. 'V. Council Takes Sie On increase in Water Use The city council has announced that in view of the tremendous increase of water usage in June, restrictions on the use of water will be instituted if July shows a -comparable advance. The city water bill increased from $923 in May to $1200 ‘in June. It was recommended that in order to avaid restrictions in August citizens should not any waste of water. Fires Total 31-In— Tahoe National Forest. Four recent fires brought the sea-. son total for the Tahoe National Forest to 31. Tuesday afternoon a railroad caused fire in the Casaloma district burned 3 acres. It was suppressed by the forestry crew and a crew . from Blue Canyon. Three small truck to meet the . fires were reported, caused respectively by debris burning, hot ashes and spontaneous combustion.

art ur ur nt be ve he >h ip @: nd ns1Cisriaed. sate nadir ‘council favors meters, and they meet The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week t for only 30 cents per ‘month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA to guaré and defend it.’””-—Daniel Webster ee gget . —= = 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. Vol. 20, No. 56 he County Seat Paper NEVADA ¢ TY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, JULY 15 194 THINKING OUT © LOUD —s a By H. M. \L. Jr. PARKING METERS FOR NEVADA CITY: . Citizens who have definite ideas, pro and con, on the subject of parkimg meters had ‘better make their opinions known pronto. The city Wednesday to negotiate with L. F. Krusi, salesman for the meter manufacturer. Krusi is to bring a contract for 200 meters, already signed by the president and secretary of his wompany, the Taper Tube Pole Company. This outfit makes a streamlined, cast aluminum gadget that does everything but shake a scolding finger at the offending parker. And, come to thing of it. I’m not so sure it doesn’t do that. When the time you paid for runs out, the black dial and hand pop down and up pops an acfcusing red blob labeled ‘‘Violation.” It’s enough to scare a person into forking out hard cold cash and that’s exactly what it’s intended to do. You can read about the details of the gadget and the council’s discussion of it in the news columns. Right here we can air a few pros and cons. This. writer has seen the meters at work in various California towns. The main thing you notice in a town monitored by these silent policemen iis that there’s always plenty of park-. ing room. . Another important factor to con-} sider is that these meters are re. ported to render a great deal of rev-. enue to the city. ed money, it’s ours, what with necessity of erecting a sewage disposal plant and our eagerness to develop our maintain and improve our won't give the salesmian’s estimate of how much the meters should bring . in to the town. His estimate was . enormous, as salesman’s often are. But if the meters brought in even a fraction of that figure, they would pay for themselves very quickly and return a healthy annual profit. If ever a city need-, our! and . streets: 1} ainport, -city park It has been reported that the first reaction of any community to this proposition is unfavorable. Peomle are always against paying something that’s been free before. Further, they feel that having to pay for parking on a public street is an infringement of their liberty. This is the initial attitude. Later on, when people get over being mad at baving to play a nickel an hour for parking in the business section, they begin toe realize the practical benefits. Our streets our picturesque, and as I’ve said before, I like them the way they are. But they’ were made before every man jack in this part of the country drove his car, whether he’s a fuzzy faced kid or a nonagenarian albout ready to fall into his grave. The streets are narrow, and they’re crowded. At a busy hour, all, the parking places are taken. A shopMer wants to go into a Store for a minute, but there’s no place to park. Bo he or she double parks. Likely as mot ther’s another double parked across the street. So traffic tries to get up or down the streets, but it’s} aiserable going. Parking meters may cure all this and they may not. But the city has the opportunity to try them for six tmonths to see if they work, at a minimum cost if the project is later abandoned. What can we lose? Poneeal’ ne Mrs. Kohler Of G. 'V. To Be Held Mondav Funeral services for Mrs. Annie A. Kohler will be held Monday afternoon in the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary with Rev. David Ralston offficjating. Survivors are: her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Charles Kuhfeld; two sons Theodore A.: Kohler, Jr.,, and Arthur Trebilcox; and a-sister in law Stella Dunstan of Oakland. Mrs. Kohler a native of Grass Valley, was 71 years old. She died Friday morning at 10:20. She was a member of Aurora Chapter No. 40, Order of Eastern Star, and of Manzanita Parlor No. 29, Native Daughters of the Gold. the associated . Barnes . ; Work. ‘which feats of diving, en West. PAHATSI OPENS ON JULY 21ST On tthe over Sunday, July Tahoe area scouts from sone will ‘take Camp Pahatisi for a two week period. July 15 is the deadline da:e for the first series and July the second session. The camp staff will be headed again by Robert H. Frank scout executive and 25 year veteran in scouting who has had eleven years professional experience and served as camp director on the summer staff of several other scout councils. Harold E. Chastain a 30 year veteran in the movement and possessor of a rich scouting background will again serve as associate camp director. He is superintendent of the Ptacer high-school and college, Fred Knudsen, silver beaver and veteran scoutmaster of Aulburn Troop 10 will again head up the waterfront activvities; Ray Arp Roseville union high school teacher committeeman wf Troop 11, Roseville, and who has served on former camp etaffs will serve as nature lore director;; W. Scroggins Se Oakland, scouter who has won the affection of Pahatsi scouts and scouters wi!l again serve as advanicement director; Dr. Paul D. Barnes of Loomis, council health and safety chairman will ibe responsible for the health and the . safety of scouts and scouters. J. M. ‘Warner Troop 3° Auburn scoutmaster Jas. will serve as camp the first camp during second week has not as Neighborhood Lauppe yet ‘been commissioner Charles director and registrar during the first week, Robert Loughlin will be in charge of maintenance and util-' ities and will have Lowell L. Sparks} with him. Eagle scout D. head up the handicraft Eagle scout Richard Pryor will in the canteen. Leroy will be kitchen steward. will assist Ronald Brill will serve as sanitation director sociate waterfront directar, terly ward. The scouts well will also serve balanced diet for the cooking ‘will be in charge of Mrs. Clara Hatchett who directs the Placer high school cafeteria.. She will be assisted by Mrs. Dorithy Thompson. CAMPFIRE GIRLS STAGE CARNIVAL IN LAKE VERA Camip Augusta of Piedmont campfire girls was hostess yesterday at ‘Lake Vera to the entire girl population of the lake numbering 450 with their.camp directors and assistants. The occasion was the annual intercamp water gports meet in swimming, ‘canoeing and stunts in the water are featured. Joining with Camp “Augusta, were Camp Celio of Oakland, Gold Hollow of Vallejo and Camp Minaluta of Sacramento. Judges for the day were the waterfront directors Mrs. Ethan Amaurie of Piedmont, Miss Ginny Rhoads of Oakland, ‘Miss Janet Lloyd of Sacramento and Mrs. Grace Gilspcie of Vallejo. [Preceding the many swimming and canoe races ‘were demonstrations put on by groups from the several camps. While Crystle Thompson (played a concertina eight 12 year olds swam to dance music, performing charming figures in the water, for the Sacramento Girl’ Scouts. To the beating of tom-toms a group of girl scouts representing Camp Celio of Oakland, dressed as Indians plunged in single file off the diving board and joined in star, circle and square figures in the water, swimming through the several evolutions to the music with precise rhythm. . Following the demonstrations were races, using the crawl, baskstroke, side stroke and breast stroke in which each camp group enthusiastically cheered their champions. There was a balloon race, an obstacle race, a dressing relay race and a special event, a free style race for girls under 12 years. Three girls from each camp vied for diving horors. There was finally the ¢anoe race in which the course was laid from 22 for; veteran ; scoutmaster of} week, . secoutmaster. appointed. . of Roseville will be canteen . Duncan . Eagle scout . , Layland Friberg will be as-/. Dick Es-! L . as kitchen stewill be assured of a! . Prime topic at the city council; meeting at 8 p. m. Thursday night was the advisalbility of installing 200! parking meters. L. F. Drusi, sales-. man for the Taper Tube Pole Co. of . San Francisco: displayed an automatic dual type parking meter and explained its functioning. His proposal was tentatively approved and he was advised to pre‘pare a contract to place before the city council when they meet next Wednesday to make a final decision. The meters would cost $68 each, installed and wowld be paid for out of income which the meters themselves produce. They are installed by the company for a trial period of 6 months, during which the city is subjected to.no change save maintainentce. At the end of that time, if a majority of the city council votes against the meters they are removed with no cost. \ Exhaustive surveys of other towns Cand cities, said Drusi, revealed that . ; only 18 per cent of downtown parkare shoppers. Another 20 per consists of people doing business in doctors and dentists offices. the city } ers . cent { . The remaining 62 per cent are . “deadheads.”’ He stated past experience had shown that after period. no city had had the parking meters removed. The meter is a complicated made out of cast gadget . Installed . it stands on a pillar-so as to be 40) the sidewalk. A “violation’’ fed to it at the 12 minutes, An parking would cost five cents. Wien the parking puts i . money, the red hand jumps down out of sight and a meter which a aluminum. inches above red hand reading sticks until up. coins rate of. hour’s one cent for person jumps up, upon pointer shows how much time has been paid for. In case where the parker comes out and finds himself getting a ticket and claims he was only one minute overtime, a second red hand indicates just how much overtime he was up to 12 minAfter 12 minutes he hypothetically pays his dollar fine. Members of the ‘council ed Drusi utes. questionregarding details of park-' ing meter operation and maintenance. He stated that his company provided an expert, maintainence man to instruct the city employee who was to have charge of meter maintenance ‘for a period of weeks. The cost of this instruction was included in the $68 charge per meter A delegation of residents of Martin St., near the old turpentine millt, came to complain to the countil of their need for work on streets, light and water. Memibers of the delegation were Mr. and Mrs. John H. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Frank Stewart and Mrs. Walling. They stated that water pressure in their area was 60 low that at times they are unable to get enough for cooking and that an inch and a half} pipe originally put in for two families now served nine. The delegation was also worried about the fire hazard due to lack of water in that neighborhood. City Clerk George Calanan explained that the fire trucks carried a supply of several hundred

gallons of water. Mayor Seaman stated that council memibers ‘would make an inspection olf the Martin St. area in order cio find the most practical method vf improving the situation there. . Councitman Charles Veale* reported that J. S. Siegfried had measured the grade at the ainport and found it to be 1 per cent considered close to perfect, and a remarkable im-. provement over the former hump. . Plans for -oilimg the landing strip . were discussed. A week of watering . and rolling was deseribed—as a prerequisite, and the quality of oil, SE-1 or SE-2 was debated) briefly. Plans approved for raising the rate back to $2 per and collection an irrigation . . two were irnmigation month, Camp Augusta’s water front to the Turtle ‘back a flat rock now submerged in the middle of the lake and. ‘back again, followed by a canoe re. race the most the day. e lay exciting event of. the 6 months trial! COUNCIL FAVORS _ PARKING METERS FOR BUS. DISTRICT tax average $3 from residents using unusually large amounts of water. These regulations were to go into effect in the near future and to be retroactive. The. city budget was. discussed. Salaries have recently been raised to a total increase of $3600 per year, including raises to: policemen, $30 per month, street workers, $20 per month, bill ‘collector, $15, libririans $10. Raising business licenses was discussed, as well as raising assessments, it being considered that the prime need of the city at this time is more money. Councilman Charles Veale spoke on the possibility.of putting a fulltime caretaker in Pioneers Park as a necessary step before going. ahead with improvements of the park, for which there is a general demand among people of the:town. It was decided to receive applications for the job or caretaker. The state of water the city streets and departments was discussed at length. SCHOOL BOARD RESIGNS AND IS REAPPOINTED At the last meetine of the govern ing board of the Nev School District iftom District an opinion was read Attorney H. Ward Sheldon concerning the set-up of the district. Recent information has. disclosed that the original statute ‘creat. ing the Nevada School District repealed by was the state legislature tin 1943 without any notice to the loca! school board. District Attorney advised the memlbers elected under the former law to resign. County Superintendent of Schools Walter A. Carlson was present at the meeting and accepted the resigna. . tions. He then appointed Albert S:. Bates, Charles P. Elliott, Dr. B. W. Hummelt; J. Howard Penrose: and Howard A. Sturtevant as members of a board of trustees under the general unified—sehool district law. M. D. Coughlin was elected secretary to the new -board of trustees. Albert S. Bates was chosen as president of the newly constituted board. . BUDGET The board completed its study of ‘the proposed budget of receipts and exipenditures for the 1946-47 school year and this will be submitted to the county superintendent of schools for his review. TEACHERS A letter was received from Miss Solveig Ronning, one of last year’s first grade teachers. Miss Ronning is at present in Norway. She tendered her resignation in the letter, stating that she had enjoyed her work here during the past year but would not return. to Nevada City in time for the next school year. She had been re-elected by the board as a teacher. There are two or three vacancies in the faculties of the two schools. As soon as all the places are filled a complete list of the teachers in each school will be published. PLAYGROUND Plans were made for the further improvement of the playground at the elementary school. A concrete re-. taining wall is to be built along Sehool Street so that grading may be done so that the level portion of the play field can! be increased. Three Pees sted For Fire Law Violations William Forest law enforeementofficer fire laws: James T. McWilliam of Tahoe Pines, burning without a permit; M. C. Jacobs, Pines pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace of Truckee Evelyn Pls to the same charge and paid a %°5 fine; H. Brady of Tahoe City f33)ing.to yield right of way to an ergency vehicle, paid a $15 vada City Unified . additional . French, Tahoe National) has reported the following violations of . also of Tahoe . GOVE CELIO IS CALLED TO REST Funeral for Gove. Celio. . who died yesterday morning at the} Miners Hospital after several weeks of acute illness, have been ienaety. ely set for Wednesday, the Holmes Funeral Home. services It is expected that his son, Colonel Gove Celio Jr., now serving with DU. S. Army Air Force in Germany will arrive here by plane in time for the services. B. Celio, who, in memory of his late wife made a grant of land on Lake Vera. for the use of Camp Fire Girls and Girl Seouts, was born on the Celio ranch, in Willow Valley, 53 years ago. He was an ardent man isherman and hunter in a beautiul grove, just off the TasportsThe house he built of logs was designed and for the most part, built iby himself. He was the owner of several store and office ‘Nevada City’s business district. For erated a long period Gove Celio opa bus line from Nevada City to the Lava Cap Mine during its peak years. Later he sold the bus line to George Carter and devoted most of his time to his business interests in . Nevada City. : He leaves his wife, besides his-son, a Mrs. Celio, daughter, Katherine Celio Gibson. CITY TO BUILD SEWAGE PLANT JINNEAR FUTURE { The City of Nevada, : information obtained from City . Ed City . prospect of taking immediate action . l to provide the city with a sewage disposal plant. and . Mrs. according to En-. and . gineer Uren teason for the urgency of this questiof®’ is the fact that in order to receive its share of the so-called “Christmas tree’’ fund from surplus funds, the city’s tem must be passed State Board of Health. Dumping of braw sewage into Deer Creek method of sewage disposal unsatisGeorge Calanan is faced with factory to the state. When Nevada City does erect the sewage disposal plant it will become eligible for an estimated $22,000 of state funds. It is reported that the city has until next July to prepare plans. When the plans are prepared and approved, state funds will be made available to match money raised by the city. Lowest estimate of the cost of erecting a modern sawage disposal plant for Nevada City is $40,000, half of which would ‘be simplified by the state. The city at present owns $14,000 in ‘bonds which may be used for this purpose. The present bond issue for street works will be paid out in January 1947 and it will probably be necessary to put out another bond issue to raise money for the _ disposal state sewage sysupon by the the plant. At its meeting last Thursday night the city council decided to make trips to inspect the sewage plants of Placerville and Jackson. The state government’s ‘basic objection to antiquated methods of sewage disposal is because of stream pollution. Cities in the valley such as Sacramento are forced to go to enormous expense to obtain pure drinking water because . of extreme pollution caused by . ; dumping raw sewage. . The city council was layine plans for a sewage disposal plant just be. fore the war, but they were interrupted by the suden onset of noe ities. Taw Enforcement Assoc. Py-afts Constitution. Full time law enforcement officers of Nevada, Placer and Sierra counties met Thursday night at the . highway patrol offices to complete . work on the constitution and byof their new organization, to . be called the Gold Quartz Law Eneement Association. iP nh is chairman and Henry Stricksecretary. © association plans Thursday of every laws month. buildings in. Clerk: is a‘ William . . . . } . . July 17 at. and lived} hoe Ukiah highway outside this city. . . cently Gove Celio, the son of the late W. DEWITT NELSONANNOUNCES INVESTIGATIONS State forester DeWitt Nelson formerly of Nevada City today an-nounced that every man caused fire occurring on forest and watershed lands protected ‘by the Division of . ‘Forestry will be investigated for possible criminal or civil infraction of law. This action is a part of the readopted law enforcement policy of the State Board of Forestry whose members, Nelson stated are . conscientiously and constructively attacking the increasing fire occurrence ._problem in California. Land owners and tenants of our forests, grass, and watershed lands must realize he said that it is their responsibility independent of state effort, to control fires burning on their lands and in cases where our educational prevention work fails with people a well executed law en= forcement program is necessary. Each year the state forester con. tinued thousands of dollars of public funds are expended. to supprese fires wilfully or negligently caused by man the representative of the California people in forest. problems on lands of statewide interest the division of forestry will as provided by.law attempt to collect from the responsible individuals the public funds expended fighting fires when the investigation show conclusively the fires were started either wilfully, negligently or in violation of law. The board of forestry feels he added that there will be fewer fires in California when people realize they not only can be convicted for violating the law and made liable to other land owners for damage caused but that they can be charged with the expense of fighting the fires. _G. V. Legior Elects Oscar Shamberger Bldg. Chairman Hague-Thomas-Hegarty Post No. 130, American Legion, at a recent meeting elected a committee to administer the post’s large memorial hall on South Auburn street for the mext fiscal year. Oscar Shamberger is chairman, assisted by Harry Morton, Ed Bawden, R. N. MeCormack, Jr., BabeTamietti, Matt DePauli, Jr. and W. H. Carey: : Council To St As As Equalization Board City Clerk George Calanan yesterday reported that the assessed evaluation of Nevada City as of June 1, stands at $1,401,095 or '$130,009 more than last year. The city council will meet as a board of equalization on August 12. The city tax rate for the fiscal year, closing June 30, was $1.30 per $100 assesed value. Calanan states that there are no indications that the council change ‘this rate. 5700 Documents Filed ' With County Recorder Almost 5700 documents have been recorded in the fiscal year ending June 30 in the County Recorder’a office, acgording to a statement by John E. Nettell. Several hundred armed services discharges have added to the unusual bulk of work. Asistin'g Nettell are Mrs. Anna C. Tucker and Miss Betty Carey, deputies. G. 'V. Council Takes Sie On increase in Water Use The city council has announced that in view of the tremendous increase of water usage in June, restrictions on the use of water will be instituted if July shows a -comparable advance. The city water bill increased from $923 in May to $1200 ‘in June. It was recommended that in order to avaid restrictions in August citizens should not any waste of water. Fires Total 31-In— Tahoe National Forest. Four recent fires brought the sea-. son total for the Tahoe National Forest to 31. Tuesday afternoon a railroad caused fire in the Casaloma district burned 3 acres. It was suppressed by the forestry crew and a crew . from Blue Canyon. Three small truck to meet the . fires were reported, caused respectively by debris burning, hot ashes and spontaneous combustion.