July 14, 1950 (6 pages)

Me . j : Ve Poe Recommended Reading: Editorial on Consolidation of Nevada City and Grass Valley : jie Be a Hardy Californian Pian to Accompany the Nevada County Historical _ Society Tour July 23, 1950 Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c Nevada City (Nevada County) California, July +4, 1950 Twenty-Third Year, No. 28 Ase Ae Z 2Qo Z ne YU); Ss Our 70-mile scouting trip to Lake City, Moore’s Flat, Graniteville and Washington last Sunday didn’t exactly time-machine us backward a century but we feel we have touched the spirit of the early days. Bob Paine, Ken Wray and I jeeped the overnight trip, leaving Nevada City Saturday afternoon and returning home ‘Sunday noon. We laid our sleeping bags on the banks of the Middle Yuba in Gold canyon—but that’s getting ahead of the story. Our primary purpose was to -bring Bob up-to-date on roads and:landmarks in preparation for the annual trek of the Nevada County Historical. Society, scheduled for Sunday; July 23.-Bob was raised in that country and once knew it intimately but he hadn’t visited Moore’s Flat in 25 E years. We’ drove out the Blue. Tent road via Edward’s Crossing, and reached the site of Lake City about ten miles from home. Once a busy village of 600 or more, Lake City apparently boasts only one permanent resident now. A bronzed and wrinkled old fellow rocked comfortably as we scuffed through the dust to his shady porch. Name of Carter, he said, but no kin to the Carters who used to own the ranch. Been there since 1902 he recollectea. ‘Things weren’t so good any more. Strangers steal things, chickens all gone now. Hasn’t been good around here since they cut the water off the ridge. Bob took us over to see the ruins of the old Paine _ hotel, which his father and grandfather once operated. Only a rotted floor remains. Hand-forged iron nails loosely hold ancient planks to hand-hewn floor joists. Across the road massive gray. timbers still stand gaunt against the sky, marking the place where stables once sheltered the horses used on the stage lines. Here is an impressive example of craftsmanship in wood; every great timber was neatly joined by mortise and tenon, carefully shaped by hand tools. Lake City stands at the junction of a three-prong fork, the right branch going on to North Bloomfield, the left to North Columbia. We chose the center roadwhich winds up the hill because Old Man Carter said it was the best route to Moore’s Flat. Traveling in an open jeep, we were soon covered with.a heavy coat of dust. Our mothers would not have recognized us. Probably half the distance we _ traveled from here on we were accompanied by a swirling brown fog of pulverized earth. At the “backbone” we dropped sharply over onto the Middle Fork watershed, got our first glimpse of a vast forest, partly bared by a great fire in 1924. We left behind the spectacular erosion of the famous Malakoff Diggings, which we had circled to the north. By following the road signs it is not difficult to find the site of Moore’s Flat but you must take a little-used trail into the pines to find the best ruin: the irondoored brick building of Hegar. . ty’s Emporium. Built to. resist fire, the old structure could not resist the ravages of time. Two years ago the roof caved in, taking the floor with it into the deep basement. One of the four-tiered red brick walls has fallen out and the great rusted doors hang loosely on their battered hinges. In one corner’ the old safe is about ready to fall on its face. Within 100 yards we found three safes. One tightly sealed iron monster stands beside the road as a landmark for the turn into Vizzard’s ranch. In the yara of the mayor’s house we found century-old whiskey bottles, (Answers on page six) FRANK WRIGHT NAMED COUNCILMAN; NEW FIRE TRUCK ORDERED Councilman Marvin Haddy announced at city council meeting last night that Life Guard Verle “Puss” Gray expected to resign his position at the municipal pool effective Aug. 1 in order to ac. cept a position in San Francisco. Frank Wright, 548 E. Broad, Broad, was appointed city councilman last. night to fill vacancy created by. resignation of H. F. Sofge. Wright, cost accountant at: the Idaho-Maryland Mine, is married and:a native of Nevada City. He formerly was city water collector. Wright :-will be sworn in this week by City Clerk George H. Calanan. The couneil accepted a ‘bid otf $15,133.41 for a four-wheel drive Pacific fire truck to be delivered approximately Nov. 15. The bid, fob factory at Clintonville, Wis., was not the lowest bid of. five submitted, but was the lowest to meet specifications of the fire department for a four-wheel drive. Annexation of a large area to the south of the city was discuss‘ed at last week’s meeting of the council The area includes. about three-quarters of a mile and over 150 homes and businesses with assessed value at more than a million dollars. Byron Brock started the discussion when he appeared before the council and urged extension of the city sewage system to the area. The proposed addition would extend along the highway almost to Town Talk and would include’ a portion of the Ridge road district. The council voted unanimously for a raise of domestic garbage rates from 50 cents to 75 cents a month and instructed City Attorney John L. Larue to prepare an ordinance to provide for the increased rates. Arthur and Enrico Gagliard, operators of ‘the garbage collection service, appeared before the council and declared the 50 cent rate did not return them a profit. TRUCK DRIVER DIES OF INJURIES IN LOG MISHAP Robert A. Douglass, 24, Grass Valley, died Tuesday morning at Miners hospital of internal injuries sustained Saturday afternoon when he was caught between a load of lumber and the trailer of his truck and trailer rig while loading at the Omega mine near Washington. Funeral services were conducted yesterday morning at Holmes Funeral Home, with interment in Elm Ridge Lawn _ cemetery, Grass Valley. A native of Oakland, and veteran of World War II, he had lived in Grass Valley four years. He is. survived by his mother, Mrs. Adeline Douglass, Grass Valley; -brother, George; uncle, Louis Perry, Los Angeles, and aunt, Mrs. Kitty LaSalle, Colorado. At the time of the accident he was transferring a load of lumber from the truck to.the trailer. He had loosened a binding cable when the load rolled backward and pinned him between the load and the trailer. $29,302.07 DAMAGES ASKED FOR ACCIDENT Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Dart of Grass Valley and Mr. and Mrs. Julius Self of Nevada City, filed damage. actions for $29,302.07 against Ralph Winslow, Grass Valley, as result of a freak accident. on the Nevada City-Grass Valley highway on Nov. 4, 1949. The complaint charges Winslow. with negligence ‘in not securing baled hay that fell from the defendant’s truck at the Gold Nugget Inn, and crushed an automobile driven by Mrs. Dart, who was passing the truck at the time of the accident. BIDS ASKED State division of architecture is advertising for bids for installation of sewer, water and gas services at the fairgrounds of the Seventeenth District Agricultural association, Nevada county. Weather Fred Bush, observer Max. Min. Friday, July 7 94 51 Saturday, July 8 . 92 52 Sunday, July 9 ..: 89 50 Monday, July 10 .. 87 59 Tuesday, July 11 .' 80 51 Wednesday, July 12 87 51 Thursday, July 13 . 91 54 Rain: July 10, GRAND. JURY SUGGESTS D. A MAINTAIN OFFICE IN THE COURTHOUSE Recommendations that the district attorney maintain an office in the courthouse and add a second deputy to his staff was made in an-interim report of the grand jury, filed Friday morning. William Cassettari, Grass Valley, is the only deputy at present to District Attorney Vernon Stoll. Cassettari receives $1,200 a year at present. The report recommended the first deputy receive $2,000 a year and the second deputy $1,500 a year. The grand jury also recommended the office of the district attorney be open during business hours. In another action the grand jury recommended the Veterans Memorial building, Grass Valley, be returned to a building manager system. The jury pointed out that cost to the county for operating the building under a committee was more than double .the cost. under a building manager. The report récommended the manager handle all activities and rentals and be responsible only to the board of supervisors. The jury recommended “that the sum_of $397.60 shown in the records as expended for refinishing American Legion furniture in 1947-48 be returned immediately to the county.” The jury also recommended a proper maintenance of the Veterans Memorial building § in Truckee be placed in the hands of a custodian. SLOT MACHINES BEING REMOVED FROM CITY Slot machines are being removed from Nevada: City this week in preparation for tomorrow when the new state antislot: machine law becomes effective. The new law makes mere possession of a slot machine illegal. A spokesman for the Nevada City Tavern Owners association, said all machines will probably be removed by noon today. The spokesman said ine tavern owners will not risk the loss of their liquor licenses for the machines. The representative declined to say whether the machines were being removed into Nevada state or not. Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins declined an offer hy Attorney General Frederick N. Howser to help enforce the new law when it becomes effective tomorrow. Hoskins said he believed his staff is capable of enforcing the law. FISH LEAVES UNA ED FIRE State division of forestry suppression crew from Nevada City Monday extinguished an_ unattended campfire on the southern shore of Scott’s Flat reservoir. The fire was reported to Tahoe national forest by a fisherman late Sunday but rangers and fire suppression crewmen were unable to locate the fire until. Monday.® ENLISTING U. S. air force: Gerald R. Little, North San Juan, holder: of distinguished flying cross and air medal with four oak leaf clusters; Norman R. Brott, Nevada City; and William F. Carter, of North San Juan. NID BOARD MEETING Board of directors of Nevada Irrigation District meet today at 10 am. in board room of NID building, Grass Valley. ) M. Cahill, DRAFT BOARD OFFICE . IS RE-ESTABLISHED IN NEVADA CITY The Neyada county draft board has_ re-established headquarters in Nevada City, and expects to start processing men next wéek. The three-man board, consisting of William Durbrow, Town Talk; John J. Looser, Grass Valley, and Ray N. Brett, Downieville, i located at 246 Commercial street, the former. location of the state department of social welfare. Mrs. Dorothy Stevens, Grass Valley, clerk ofsthe board, began work this morning. The selective service board had been inactive since draft headquarters for this area had been centered at Yuba City to serve Nevada, Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Glenn and Sierra counties. , Action in reestablishing the local draft-office--ispart of the statewide action in returning the California system to ‘its status prior to 1948. Miss Ethel Bryner, clerk of the Yuba City office, said she could not say how many potential draftees there are in the district. The local boards have been operating in routine fashion since there -have been no draft calls during the past 18 months. Registration of 18 year olds has continued under selective service during .the no-draftperiod. DAMAGE SUIT WILL GO TO JURY THIS MORNING The $350,000. personal damage suit of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith of Truckee against the Silvey Livestock Transportation company is expected to go to the jury “thismorning following -completion of presentation of testimony yesterday afternoon in Nevada county superior court. Smith asks $175,000 for fractured arms, ribs and skull. His wife; Vivian, asks the same sum for a fractured hand, two fractures of one leg and a fractured ankle. Archibald McDougall, Sacramento, attorney for the defense, called only one witness, Chester Scandia, Kans., to the stand. Cahill related he followed the Silvey truck, operated by M. J. Abreau, from the Donner summit to the scene of the collision west of Truckee on the night of Jan. 19. Cahill said the truck was traveling at about 30 miles an hour and as it approached the curve the trailer suddenly slid across the road and struck the Smith automobile. Dr. Kenneth Maclean, who attended the couple shortly after the collision testified that in his opinion Mrs. Smith would never be able to walk unaided and an injury to a knee virtually constitutes a deformity. Also injured in the accident was Carl Cross, owner of TahoeTruckee Lumber company. His suit. will start. Monday. LIVE OAK MAN ADMITS CATTLE RUSTLING Oscar Davidson, Live Oak, who is in custody of Yuba county officials, admitted the killing and butchering of a calf found near Smartville Sunday night. -The arrest was made by Deputy Sheriff Richard Williams and Undersheriff John Murphy of Yuba county, and Game Wardens Ed Dennett and Ross Wagner. The FBI was called in and the case turned over to the federal government after an interpretation from the attorney general ruled that as the crime had been committeed” on a government reservation it did not come within the jurisdiction of county or state law enforcement officers. Deputy Sheriff Percy Watters was.called Monday to take pictures of the. carcass. PROWL CAR HIT Nevada City police patrol car was slightly damaged Sunday when it was struck while parked in front of the city hall by a car driven by William M. Stapleton, 35, Grass Valley. Stapleton said he stopped at Broad coming in from York street, and turned to look at a child in the rear seat and let out the clutch. DEMURRERS OVER-RULED Judge James Snell. of Nevada county superior court over-ruled two demurrers this week. One sought dismissal of $30,605 =dam. age action brought by H. S. Foreman against Mrs. Ghetta Roscoe, former owner of. the Union hotel. The.second demurrer was filed by attorneys representing the. Pacific States Savings ‘and Loan company and the Bank of America who are being sued by . Fred J. Fossa for collection of! $800 for a check which the defendant alleges was forged. BLACKSMITH BELLOWS PRESENTED TO COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: George Mathis, noted commercial artist-of Nevada City, who is building a home on the Murchie road, uncovered a relic of blacksmithing days in the form of a huge bellows. He has presented it to the Nevada county historical museum. Blacksmith shops were as necessary as station stops on the main road in the county during the era of horse-drawn vehicles. Horseshoeing and wagon repairing were carried on by the blacksmith. Near his forge was a bellows made of wood, and canvas, and used to blow air on the hot coals, keeping them alive to heat iron that was to be hammered into any desired shape. Miss Alma Popp,:Grass Valley librarian, presented the museum with a bell and slate used by Miss Agnes Curtis at the Bell Hill -school, about 1870. John O’Donnell, Grass Valley, gave a set of old stereopticon views of early Nevada City, that residents will find very interesting. These are being copied to a larger size. The museum, located at 214 Main street, Nevada City, will be open this Saturday and Sunday, from 10 am. to 4 p.m. Elmer Stevens will be in charge Sunday. Seventy-two persons. visited the museum last weekend. Former residents included Anton and Lou Boardman, sons of an early day editor of the Nevada Transcript, and Mrs. Walter W. Smith, Puente, the granddaughter of Edwin P. Marsellus, who discovered the Manzanita mine in 1864. _ Out-of-sfate visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson, of Medford, Ore.; George F. Andis, Ashley, Pa.; and Mr. and Mrs. Jay Carpenter, Reno, Nev. Carpenter is director of the Nevada state bureau of mines. ENTERTAINMENT SERIES DISCUSSED BY CHAMBER Plans for a series of entertainments sponsored by merchants of Nevada City to bring people to town and to finance purchase of about 5,000 feet of rails for construction of a miniature railroad at Pioneer park were discussed Tuesday evening at a meeting of the Nevada City chamber -of commerce at city hall. The locomotive for the railway has been built by Max Solaro, chief of police, who conceived the plan for a park railroad. Solaro has the rails lined up, and only needs: the do-re-mi to acquire the rails, lay the roadbed and track. o Frank Stewart appeared before the chamber and suggested the entertainment days as a means of financing the project. Stewart and Ray Spickelmier, president of the chamber, are canvassing the town to get the reaction of the merchants to the program. Saturday, July 29, and Saturday, Aug. 26, have been set as tentative dates for the first two programs to be patterned after the variety show and street dance held during the Fourth of July Centennial celebration. The August date tentatively calls for a “back-to-school bargain day.” Three officers of the chamber, three representatives of the press and Stewart attended the meeting. I. L. Nicholson filed suit in supefior court Wednesday against Clyde W. Smith, asking $15,399.50 damages as result of altercation on streets of Colfax last Aug. 22. leather . COUNTY IS CALLED CRADLE OF COMSTOCK BY JAY CARPENTER Nevada City. and Grass Valley were described as the “cradle of the Comstock” in a talk before the California Hydraulic Mining association Sunday by Jay T. Carpenter, director of the Nevada bureau of mines and director of the Mackay school of mines at the University of Nevada. Carpenter spoke before the CHMA at.a picnic meeting at a Flat reservoir. Carpenter traced the early history of the Comstock when samples of high grade silver ore were brought to local assayers. The resulting assay reports of $1,000 in gold and $3,000 in silver per yard. brought on the great Comstock . rush of 1859 and overnight Virginia--City mushroomed into. a large city. Carpenter described new methods and equipment being used in central Nevada that is’ enabling operators to show a profit on 30cent ore. Huge mechanical hands scratch gravel from a bank and it is shoveled. onto a conveyor belt which transports it to wash" ing equipment. ~The operation does not require the huge volume of water necessary in hydraulic ’ methods. In a discussion toltow ites Carpenter’s talk, E. A. Bailey, retired official of the bureau of water resources, suggested similar operations might be applied. to some of the diggings in Ne-~ vada county, and particularly the: Malakoff. George W. Hallock, Grass Valley, president of the CHMA, said. the isrgest gold bearing gravel deposits in the world are in Nevada county and that some day methods will be devised to extract the hundreds of millions of dollars of gold still remaining in the tertiary streams without violating the debris laws. On behalf of the CHMA, Hallock thanked the Nevada Irrigation District for providing the picnic facilities at the reservoir. HANLEY ACCEPTS POST IN SONOMA COUNTY Robert E. Hanley, secretary of the Nevada county farm bureau. for the past,two and a half years, announced he has accepted a position as secretary of the Sonoma county farm bureau at Santa. Rosa, effective Friday, Sept. 1. Hanley submitted his resignation last week and. will become effective as soon as a replacement can be found. Hanley also announced he is resigning asa trustee of the Oakland school board. Hanley has been a’ strong proponent of a union high school for Nevada City and Grass Valley. Hanley is attending a staff con-. ference of state farm bureau sec-. retaries being. held this week at Camp Sylvester in Tuolumne county. MISSING YOUTH FOUND AFTER 45-HOUR SEARCH Donald Price, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Price, Nevada City, was found Saturday“ morning after a 45-hour search by Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, deputies and posse members. Price, who recently had psy-chiatric treatment at the’ University of California hospital, was. reported missing Thursday morning at.10 o’clock and was found. in a barn on the Schwartz ranch.in the Bridgeport area at 7:30, a.m. Saturday. He was. held. in the barn by two ranchers, Joe Saunders‘and Theodore Schwartz. until Hoskins arrived to return, him to Nevada City. INJURED ON HIWAY 40 Mr. and Mrs. Piera Weldon, Nevada City, were injured early *.;Monday when a car driven by . Virgil L. Weldon, also of Nevada City, hit a telephone pole on U.S. highway 40, one mile east of ‘Colfax. According to the highway patrol the vehicle skidded on a” slick spot on the pavement. . Pid

Me . j : Ve Poe Recommended Reading: Editorial on Consolidation of Nevada City and Grass Valley : jie Be a Hardy Californian Pian to Accompany the Nevada County Historical _ Society Tour July 23, 1950 Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c Nevada City (Nevada County) California, July +4, 1950 Twenty-Third Year, No. 28 Ase Ae Z 2Qo Z ne YU); Ss Our 70-mile scouting trip to Lake City, Moore’s Flat, Graniteville and Washington last Sunday didn’t exactly time-machine us backward a century but we feel we have touched the spirit of the early days. Bob Paine, Ken Wray and I jeeped the overnight trip, leaving Nevada City Saturday afternoon and returning home ‘Sunday noon. We laid our sleeping bags on the banks of the Middle Yuba in Gold canyon—but that’s getting ahead of the story. Our primary purpose was to -bring Bob up-to-date on roads and:landmarks in preparation for the annual trek of the Nevada County Historical. Society, scheduled for Sunday; July 23.-Bob was raised in that country and once knew it intimately but he hadn’t visited Moore’s Flat in 25 E years. We’ drove out the Blue. Tent road via Edward’s Crossing, and reached the site of Lake City about ten miles from home. Once a busy village of 600 or more, Lake City apparently boasts only one permanent resident now. A bronzed and wrinkled old fellow rocked comfortably as we scuffed through the dust to his shady porch. Name of Carter, he said, but no kin to the Carters who used to own the ranch. Been there since 1902 he recollectea. ‘Things weren’t so good any more. Strangers steal things, chickens all gone now. Hasn’t been good around here since they cut the water off the ridge. Bob took us over to see the ruins of the old Paine _ hotel, which his father and grandfather once operated. Only a rotted floor remains. Hand-forged iron nails loosely hold ancient planks to hand-hewn floor joists. Across the road massive gray. timbers still stand gaunt against the sky, marking the place where stables once sheltered the horses used on the stage lines. Here is an impressive example of craftsmanship in wood; every great timber was neatly joined by mortise and tenon, carefully shaped by hand tools. Lake City stands at the junction of a three-prong fork, the right branch going on to North Bloomfield, the left to North Columbia. We chose the center roadwhich winds up the hill because Old Man Carter said it was the best route to Moore’s Flat. Traveling in an open jeep, we were soon covered with.a heavy coat of dust. Our mothers would not have recognized us. Probably half the distance we _ traveled from here on we were accompanied by a swirling brown fog of pulverized earth. At the “backbone” we dropped sharply over onto the Middle Fork watershed, got our first glimpse of a vast forest, partly bared by a great fire in 1924. We left behind the spectacular erosion of the famous Malakoff Diggings, which we had circled to the north. By following the road signs it is not difficult to find the site of Moore’s Flat but you must take a little-used trail into the pines to find the best ruin: the irondoored brick building of Hegar. . ty’s Emporium. Built to. resist fire, the old structure could not resist the ravages of time. Two years ago the roof caved in, taking the floor with it into the deep basement. One of the four-tiered red brick walls has fallen out and the great rusted doors hang loosely on their battered hinges. In one corner’ the old safe is about ready to fall on its face. Within 100 yards we found three safes. One tightly sealed iron monster stands beside the road as a landmark for the turn into Vizzard’s ranch. In the yara of the mayor’s house we found century-old whiskey bottles, (Answers on page six) FRANK WRIGHT NAMED COUNCILMAN; NEW FIRE TRUCK ORDERED Councilman Marvin Haddy announced at city council meeting last night that Life Guard Verle “Puss” Gray expected to resign his position at the municipal pool effective Aug. 1 in order to ac. cept a position in San Francisco. Frank Wright, 548 E. Broad, Broad, was appointed city councilman last. night to fill vacancy created by. resignation of H. F. Sofge. Wright, cost accountant at: the Idaho-Maryland Mine, is married and:a native of Nevada City. He formerly was city water collector. Wright :-will be sworn in this week by City Clerk George H. Calanan. The couneil accepted a ‘bid otf $15,133.41 for a four-wheel drive Pacific fire truck to be delivered approximately Nov. 15. The bid, fob factory at Clintonville, Wis., was not the lowest bid of. five submitted, but was the lowest to meet specifications of the fire department for a four-wheel drive. Annexation of a large area to the south of the city was discuss‘ed at last week’s meeting of the council The area includes. about three-quarters of a mile and over 150 homes and businesses with assessed value at more than a million dollars. Byron Brock started the discussion when he appeared before the council and urged extension of the city sewage system to the area. The proposed addition would extend along the highway almost to Town Talk and would include’ a portion of the Ridge road district. The council voted unanimously for a raise of domestic garbage rates from 50 cents to 75 cents a month and instructed City Attorney John L. Larue to prepare an ordinance to provide for the increased rates. Arthur and Enrico Gagliard, operators of ‘the garbage collection service, appeared before the council and declared the 50 cent rate did not return them a profit. TRUCK DRIVER DIES OF INJURIES IN LOG MISHAP Robert A. Douglass, 24, Grass Valley, died Tuesday morning at Miners hospital of internal injuries sustained Saturday afternoon when he was caught between a load of lumber and the trailer of his truck and trailer rig while loading at the Omega mine near Washington. Funeral services were conducted yesterday morning at Holmes Funeral Home, with interment in Elm Ridge Lawn _ cemetery, Grass Valley. A native of Oakland, and veteran of World War II, he had lived in Grass Valley four years. He is. survived by his mother, Mrs. Adeline Douglass, Grass Valley; -brother, George; uncle, Louis Perry, Los Angeles, and aunt, Mrs. Kitty LaSalle, Colorado. At the time of the accident he was transferring a load of lumber from the truck to.the trailer. He had loosened a binding cable when the load rolled backward and pinned him between the load and the trailer. $29,302.07 DAMAGES ASKED FOR ACCIDENT Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Dart of Grass Valley and Mr. and Mrs. Julius Self of Nevada City, filed damage. actions for $29,302.07 against Ralph Winslow, Grass Valley, as result of a freak accident. on the Nevada City-Grass Valley highway on Nov. 4, 1949. The complaint charges Winslow. with negligence ‘in not securing baled hay that fell from the defendant’s truck at the Gold Nugget Inn, and crushed an automobile driven by Mrs. Dart, who was passing the truck at the time of the accident. BIDS ASKED State division of architecture is advertising for bids for installation of sewer, water and gas services at the fairgrounds of the Seventeenth District Agricultural association, Nevada county. Weather Fred Bush, observer Max. Min. Friday, July 7 94 51 Saturday, July 8 .. 92 52 Sunday, July 9 ....: 89 50 Monday, July 10 ... 87 59 Tuesday, July 11 ..' 80 51 Wednesday, July 12 87 51 Thursday, July 13 . 91 54 Rain: July 10, GRAND. JURY SUGGESTS D. A MAINTAIN OFFICE IN THE COURTHOUSE Recommendations that the district attorney maintain an office in the courthouse and add a second deputy to his staff was made in an-interim report of the grand jury, filed Friday morning. William Cassettari, Grass Valley, is the only deputy at present to District Attorney Vernon Stoll. Cassettari receives $1,200 a year at present. The report recommended the first deputy receive $2,000 a year and the second deputy $1,500 a year. The grand jury also recommended the office of the district attorney be open during business hours. In another action the grand jury recommended the Veterans Memorial building, Grass Valley, be returned to a building manager system. The jury pointed out that cost to the county for operating the building under a committee was more than double .the cost. under a building manager. The report récommended the manager handle all activities and rentals and be responsible only to the board of supervisors. The jury recommended “that the sum_of $397.60 shown in the records as expended for refinishing American Legion furniture in 1947-48 be returned immediately to the county.” The jury also recommended a proper maintenance of the Veterans Memorial building § in Truckee be placed in the hands of a custodian. SLOT MACHINES BEING REMOVED FROM CITY Slot machines are being removed from Nevada: City this week in preparation for tomorrow when the new state antislot: machine law becomes effective. The new law makes mere possession of a slot machine illegal. A spokesman for the Nevada City Tavern Owners association, said all machines will probably be removed by noon today. The spokesman said ine tavern owners will not risk the loss of their liquor licenses for the machines. The representative declined to say whether the machines were being removed into Nevada state or not. Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins declined an offer hy Attorney General Frederick N. Howser to help enforce the new law when it becomes effective tomorrow. Hoskins said he believed his staff is capable of enforcing the law. FISH LEAVES UNA ED FIRE State division of forestry suppression crew from Nevada City Monday extinguished an_ unattended campfire on the southern shore of Scott’s Flat reservoir. The fire was reported to Tahoe national forest by a fisherman late Sunday but rangers and fire suppression crewmen were unable to locate the fire until. Monday.® ENLISTING U. S. air force: Gerald R. Little, North San Juan, holder: of distinguished flying cross and air medal with four oak leaf clusters; Norman R. Brott, Nevada City; and William F. Carter, of North San Juan. NID BOARD MEETING Board of directors of Nevada

Irrigation District meet today at 10 am. in board room of NID building, Grass Valley. ) M. Cahill, DRAFT BOARD OFFICE . IS RE-ESTABLISHED IN NEVADA CITY The Neyada county draft board has_ re-established headquarters in Nevada City, and expects to start processing men next wéek. The three-man board, consisting of William Durbrow, Town Talk; John J. Looser, Grass Valley, and Ray N. Brett, Downieville, i located at 246 Commercial street, the former. location of the state department of social welfare. Mrs.. Dorothy Stevens, Grass Valley, clerk ofsthe board, began work this morning. The selective service board had been inactive since draft headquarters for this area had been centered at Yuba City to serve Nevada, Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Glenn and Sierra counties. , Action in reestablishing the local draft-office--ispart of the statewide action in returning the California system to ‘its status prior to 1948. Miss Ethel Bryner, clerk of the Yuba City office, said she could not say how many potential draftees there are in the district. The local boards have been operating in routine fashion since there -have been no draft calls during the past 18 months. Registration of 18 year olds has continued under selective service during .the no-draftperiod. DAMAGE SUIT WILL GO TO JURY THIS MORNING The $350,000. personal damage suit of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith of Truckee against the Silvey Livestock Transportation company is expected to go to the jury “thismorning following -completion of presentation of testimony yesterday afternoon in Nevada county superior court. Smith asks $175,000 for fractured arms, ribs and skull. His wife; Vivian, asks the same sum for a fractured hand, two fractures of one leg and a fractured ankle. Archibald McDougall, Sacramento, attorney for the defense, called only one witness, Chester Scandia, Kans., to the stand. Cahill related he followed the Silvey truck, operated by M. J. Abreau, from the Donner summit to the scene of the collision west of Truckee on the night of Jan. 19. Cahill said the truck was traveling at about 30 miles an hour and as it approached the curve the trailer suddenly slid across the road and struck the Smith automobile. Dr. Kenneth Maclean, who attended the couple shortly after the collision testified that in his opinion Mrs. Smith would never be able to walk unaided and an injury to a knee virtually constitutes a deformity. Also injured in the accident was Carl Cross, owner of TahoeTruckee Lumber company. His suit. will start. Monday. LIVE OAK MAN ADMITS CATTLE RUSTLING Oscar Davidson, Live Oak, who is in custody of Yuba county officials, admitted the killing and butchering of a calf found near Smartville Sunday night. -The arrest was made by Deputy Sheriff Richard Williams and Undersheriff John Murphy of Yuba county, and Game Wardens Ed Dennett and Ross Wagner. The FBI was called in and the case turned over to the federal government after an interpretation from the attorney general ruled that as the crime had been committeed” on a government reservation it did not come within the jurisdiction of county or state law enforcement officers. Deputy Sheriff Percy Watters was.called Monday to take pictures of the. carcass. PROWL CAR HIT Nevada City police patrol car was slightly damaged Sunday when it was struck while parked in front of the city hall by a car driven by William M. Stapleton, 35, Grass Valley. Stapleton said he stopped at Broad coming in from York street, and turned to look at a child in the rear seat and let out the clutch. DEMURRERS OVER-RULED Judge James Snell. of Nevada county superior court over-ruled two demurrers this week. One sought dismissal of $30,605 =dam. age action brought by H. S. Foreman against Mrs. Ghetta Roscoe, former owner of. the Union hotel. The.second demurrer was filed by attorneys representing the. Pacific States Savings ‘and Loan company and the Bank of America who are being sued by . Fred J. Fossa for collection of! $800 for a check which the defendant alleges was forged. BLACKSMITH BELLOWS PRESENTED TO COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: George Mathis, noted commercial artist-of Nevada City, who is building a home on the Murchie road, uncovered a relic of blacksmithing days in the form of a huge bellows. He has presented it to the Nevada county historical museum. Blacksmith shops were as necessary as station stops on the main road in the county during the era of horse-drawn vehicles. Horseshoeing and wagon repairing were carried on by the blacksmith. Near his forge was a bellows made of wood, and canvas, and used to blow air on the hot coals, keeping them alive to heat iron that was to be hammered into any desired shape. Miss Alma Popp,:Grass Valley librarian, presented the museum with a bell and slate used by Miss Agnes Curtis at the Bell Hill -school, about 1870. John O’Donnell, Grass Valley, gave a set of old stereopticon views of early Nevada City, that residents will find very interesting. These are being copied to a larger size. The museum, located at 214 Main street, Nevada City, will be open this Saturday and Sunday, from 10 am. to 4 p.m. Elmer Stevens will be in charge Sunday. Seventy-two persons. visited the museum last weekend. Former residents included Anton and Lou Boardman, sons of an early day editor of the Nevada Transcript, and Mrs. Walter W. Smith, Puente, the granddaughter of Edwin P. Marsellus, who discovered the Manzanita mine in 1864. _ Out-of-sfate visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thompson, of Medford, Ore.; George F. Andis, Ashley, Pa.; and Mr. and Mrs. Jay Carpenter, Reno, Nev. Carpenter is director of the Nevada state bureau of mines. ENTERTAINMENT SERIES DISCUSSED BY CHAMBER Plans for a series of entertainments sponsored by merchants of Nevada City to bring people to town and to finance purchase of about 5,000 feet of rails for construction of a miniature railroad at Pioneer park were discussed Tuesday evening at a meeting of the Nevada City chamber -of commerce at city hall. The locomotive for the railway has been built by Max Solaro, chief of police, who conceived the plan for a park railroad. Solaro has the rails lined up, and only needs: the do-re-mi to acquire the rails, lay the roadbed and track. o Frank Stewart appeared before the chamber and suggested the entertainment days as a means of financing the project. Stewart and Ray Spickelmier, president of the chamber, are canvassing the town to get the reaction of the merchants to the program. Saturday, July 29, and Saturday, Aug. 26, have been set as tentative dates for the first two programs to be patterned after the variety show and street dance held during the Fourth of July Centennial celebration. The August date tentatively calls for a “back-to-school bargain day.” Three officers of the chamber, three representatives of the press and Stewart attended the meeting. I. L. Nicholson filed suit in supefior court Wednesday against Clyde W. Smith, asking $15,399.50 damages as result of altercation on streets of Colfax last Aug. 22. leather . COUNTY IS CALLED CRADLE OF COMSTOCK BY JAY CARPENTER Nevada City. and Grass Valley were described as the “cradle of the Comstock” in a talk before the California Hydraulic Mining association Sunday by Jay T. Carpenter, director of the Nevada bureau of mines and director of the Mackay school of mines at the University of Nevada. Carpenter spoke before the CHMA at.a picnic meeting at a Flat reservoir. Carpenter traced the early history of the Comstock when samples of high grade silver ore were brought to local assayers. The resulting assay reports of $1,000 in gold and $3,000 in silver per yard. brought on the great Comstock . rush of 1859 and overnight Virginia--City mushroomed into. a large city. Carpenter described new methods and equipment being used in central Nevada that is’ enabling operators to show a profit on 30cent ore. Huge mechanical hands scratch gravel from a bank and it is shoveled. onto a conveyor belt which transports it to wash" ing equipment. ~The operation does not require the huge volume of water necessary in hydraulic ’ methods. In a discussion toltow ites Carpenter’s talk, E. A. Bailey, retired official of the bureau of water resources, suggested similar operations might be applied. to some of the diggings in Ne-~ vada county, and particularly the: Malakoff. George W. Hallock, Grass Valley, president of the CHMA, said. the isrgest gold bearing gravel deposits in the world are in Nevada county and that some day methods will be devised to extract the hundreds of millions of dollars of gold still remaining in the tertiary streams without violating the debris laws. On behalf of the CHMA, Hallock thanked the Nevada Irrigation District for providing the picnic facilities at the reservoir. HANLEY ACCEPTS POST IN SONOMA COUNTY Robert E. Hanley, secretary of the Nevada county farm bureau. for the past,two and a half years, announced he has accepted a position as secretary of the Sonoma county farm bureau at Santa. Rosa, effective Friday, Sept. 1. Hanley submitted his resignation last week and. will become effective as soon as a replacement can be found. Hanley also announced he is resigning asa trustee of the Oakland school board. Hanley has been a’ strong proponent of a union high school for Nevada City and Grass Valley. Hanley is attending a staff con-. ference of state farm bureau sec-. retaries being. held this week at Camp Sylvester in Tuolumne county. MISSING YOUTH FOUND AFTER 45-HOUR SEARCH Donald Price, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Price, Nevada City, was found Saturday“ morning after a 45-hour search by Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, deputies and posse members. Price, who recently had psy-chiatric treatment at the’ University of California hospital, was. reported missing Thursday morning at.10 o’clock and was found. in a barn on the Schwartz ranch.in the Bridgeport area at 7:30, a.m. Saturday. He was. held. in the barn by two ranchers, Joe Saunders‘and Theodore Schwartz. until Hoskins arrived to return, him to Nevada City. INJURED ON HIWAY 40 Mr. and Mrs. Piera Weldon, Nevada City, were injured early *.;Monday when a car driven by . Virgil L. Weldon, also of Nevada City, hit a telephone pole on U.S. highway 40, one mile east of ‘Colfax. According to the highway patrol the vehicle skidded on a” slick spot on the pavement. . Pid