July 16, 1941 (6 pages)

The Nugget is slay vs: to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month Nevada sity Nugget . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Cie ._The coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, paper gives you complete neighbors, read your Nugget. — ) Vol. 15, No. 55. _The Casrity = Paper NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold oe east THURSDAY, JULY 10 10, 1941. ®thas now been done. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. a This column, if memory serves, has always commended the sen“ments expressed by the President in his public utterances, and seldom his public actions. His words and actions rarely have anything to do with each other. Occasionally they do. Sometime since he talked of taking appropriate measures to make Iceland a defense outpost ‘for this country. It is with great relief we learn that this We hope he will go the whole distance, obtain by lease if possible or by some sort of agreement the use of the Azores and the Cape Verde _ Islands, for the same purpose, U. S. defenses. Along the same line, we hope that the noble sentiments expressed about New World . solidarity HELM KJORLE TAKES REINS OF ROTARY CLUB At the Rotary Cilub’s luncheon in the National Hotel today President Walter Carlson became past-president, and Helm Kjorlie began his term as the new president. Members of the program committee were in charge of the ceremony. The outgoing president was heartily excoriated by several members, but the last speaker delivered a eulogy and presented Carlson with a past president’s pin. iH, E. Kjorlie, who was today seated as president of the Nevada City Rotary Club, has announced his committees for the 1941-42 year. The directors are: Kjorlie, Walter Carlson, Art Innis, B. W. Hummelt, Guerdon Ellis, Lambert Thomas and Frank Finnegan. The committees are: Aims and Objects—Helm Kjorlie, After a 15 hour hunt, State Lion * Hunter Charles Ledshaw and a group of Nevada City sportsmen bagged a female lion which had been creating havoc among deer north of Nevada City. The lion was treed by Ledshaw’s dogs near Marsh’s Mill. The hunt for the lion began after Russell Farley, inspector for the state board of ‘equalization, sighted it while he was enroute from Nevada City to Truckee. Farley returned to Nevada City Hunters Bag Lion and informed Ledshaw. Farley, Herbert Skeahan, Captain A. H. Willard of the Fish and Game Patrol, John Tognarelli and Ray Arbogast joined Ledshaw in the hunt. The lion was the ninth killed this year by State Lion Hunter Ledshaw. Another of the beasts is believed to be still in the area. It has been sighted several times but Ledshaw’s dogs have not yet been able to pick up the trail. Preserve) Our Historic Buildings (EDITORIAL) In the May issue of Sunset Magazine appears a picture of the old firehouse on Main Street with its gay little belfry, and its “‘elegant’’ old gingerbread work on balcony and porch railings. The building is of wood. last many years longer unless something is done to preserve it. Sunset’s editor says we that who live today and It will not A WALKOUT OF MEN THIRDS OF THE MEN HAV was scheduled to arrive to take for increased wages. The organ EF. Daley, who caused so much strike in Grass Valley. “ Men Walkout for Higher Wages at Local Sawmill CONSUMERS LUMBER COMPANY PLANT IN. GLENBROOK ‘HALTED WORK FOR A SHORT TIME BUT MANAGER L. S. FOWLER REPORTED TODAY TWOAND OTHER MEN NECESSARY TO CARRY ON THE WORK HAVE BEEN OBTAINED. The men who refused to return to. work reportedly have contacted the American Federation of Labor and an organizer AT THE BUILDERS AND ~« E RETURNED TO WORK charge of the workers’ battle izer is understood to be Chas. trouble in the recent mine It was indicated as soon as the men who are continuing to Labor Difficulties At Almquist Sawmill refuse to go to. work are organized a picket line will be estabwill find realization in practical arrangements. We hope that credPresident. Fred Garrison, secretary, enjoy its picturesque facade and its historical chayacter, Walt Carlson, club service, Guerdon have our choice. We can keep it from utter decay by a 4) e it of a businesslike kind can be ex. Ellis, community service. Father tended to the Latin American . Pateman, international service, Hal. j. little care now, or we can ‘‘restore’’ it as well as we can Reported To Be Settled . a a ie plant. as countries, that U. S. capital can be'. Draper, vocational service. (which is never very well) after it has tumbled down. The Labor difficulties at the Géneimera Laaver eis oe safely invested in South America Club Service— Walt Carlson, last i is the hard way. Lambert Almquist Sawinlll : pany sawto develop its potential wealth in rubber, manganese, tin, copper, and the precious metals. We surmise ,that Henry Ford in ‘devéloping his great rubber plantation in Brazil is doing more of a practical good neighbor turn than. all the honeyed words our diplomats lavish on that great country. While we love to listen: to sweet words, in time they cloy. The American people have the reputation of being practical, but our diplomatic relations with other countries and our domestic policies for a long time, or so it seems, have been governed by idealistic if not visionary considerations. Planting defense outposts in the Carribean, in Nova Scotia, in Greenland and now Iceland, revives hope that at jeast in defense preparation our government proposes to adopt practical businesslike methods. On the other hand our foreign policy as expressed in our relation to Japan.has been so sentimental-as ‘to’ appear almost fantatic. We have provided the Japanese with the means to murder our friends the Chinese. Some of our great oil companies have been greatly. enriched thereby. preferred a bolder course, one that might have given all the predatory nations pau'se. If we had slammed shut the trade door to Japan when that nation began its Chinese adveutnre, it might have had a salutary effect on the European dictators. There has never heen any thing for Americans to fear in the Pacific. The Japenese will not now nor ever would, dream of actually challenging us on the sea. We thoroughly disapprove of encouraging the Finns, the French, the Greeks, the YugoslavsS, and mow the Russians, to think that so long as they battle against the Germans, we will give tem substantial assistance. In no!case have we been prepared to do so. In these demonstrations there’ has ‘beén too much palaver and promise ,and too little performance, even though we have yearned to believe what the Pressident says. In preliminary steps toward definite foreign policies we do like _ prudence and caution. These are good Yankee traits. But after the preliminaries are over a bold, confident course, such,as Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt followed, is the traditional American way. Prudence and caution can quickly degenerate to hesitancy and indecision, to bluff and half measures that do nothing but aggravate a bad condition, By the Gallup and Fortune ‘polls it is apparent that the American people do not yet believe it. necessary to intervene in the European war. Neither the Wheejers and Lindberghs, nor the Peppers and Knoxes have more than a minority following. The great majority of the people still'hope that we shall avoid an active, ‘“‘shooting part’ in, the war. The President clearly perceives this basic condition but though he is being harried by extremists on both sides, he is not being hurried. For that let us all be thankful. Hitler chooses his time to make war. If to war we finally go, let us choose gur time. Enjoys Visit Here— Don Mayhew of San Jose spent the past weekend visiting with fiends here. g We would have : chairman, Art Innis, Carrol Coughlan, Clyde Gwin, Harley Leete, Lambert Thomas. ‘Classification and Menwbebellic — Andy Holmes, chairman, Dick Worth, Chester Scheemer. Fellowship and Attendance— Bill Tamblyn, chairman, Charles Elliott, Bob Adamson. Rotary Information — Leete. Public Information—Fred . Garrison, ‘Community Service—Guerdon Ellis, chairman, Beryl Robinson, Bern Hum melt.: Youth Service —Frank Finnegan, chairman (Charity). Horace Curnow, vice chairman. Andy. Larsen Boy Scouts. Bern Hummelt (Crippled Children). Walt Hawkins, (dental eare). Harley Leete, (student loan fund). Rural-Urban. Acquaintances—Nye Harley Johnson, chairman, Bob Tamblyn, Bob Adamson. International Service — Father Pateman, chairman, Bill Home, Carl Libbey. Vocational Service—Hal Draper, chairman, Roy Zimmerman, Curren Heath, Harrison Randall. Song leader, Carl Libbey. Pianist, Mrs. Thomas White. Sergeant at arms, Bob Tamblyn. Sickness, Anniversaries, birthdays, Secretary. PLACERVILLE WILLBEN.C. OPPONENTS The Nevada City baseball squad will travel all the way to PY¥cerville Sunday for a scheduled game with the Placerville nine in the Foothill League. The local nine has one victory and one defeat so far in the second half and hopes to better its chances for the second half flag by downing the ‘Placerville squad. .'Manager Richard Biggs will probably start Bill Livesay on the mound with Ainsley ‘Fouyer’ behind the plate, Hobart Childers, James Shirley and Fouyer are expected to provide the batting: punch for the locals. FOOTHILL LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Pet: POO) 3 19 b nh) bean real ana p 2 0 £1000 Georgetown «--.--.--:------a hese . .500 Nevada City. 3. <4.4-2:.-062 a Ge 500 PUG COMVINIG® 56.2023. ch 5070s 1 at .500 ROCKIN se eee 1 ah 500 Grass Vialley :...--.phases .000 Results Yesterday Georgetown 6, Placerville 2. Rocklin 15, Nevada City 9. Auburn 9, Grass Valley 0 feit.) (forGames Sunday Nevada City in Placerville, Rocklin in Grass Valley. Auburn in Georgetown. Ed Sandin, Reported Missing, Is Safe Ed. Sandin is safe. Reports here were to the effect . Sandin, manager of the Nevada City Airport since the death of Darl De Neal, had been missing for several days after leaving the local airport in a plane. It developed, however, that Sandin and Mrs. Sandin went to Gridley for a short visit with relatives. naut lived, sung ited or lived. We suggest that a past. Both this fire house and the tall brick fire house\on Broad Street should be kept and preserved as precious souvenirs of those days when Bret Harte, Mark Twain, William Stewart, and many another great hearted Argog, wrote deathless prose or voices in stirring oratory, to mold their times, inspire the youth of these golden years, and to leave the stamp of their characters upon the communities in which they visjoint committee of representatives from the city council, civic clubs and fraternities be. formed to take enetegtic and effective measures to preserve and guard our historical buildings, especially those that are public property. No doubt from a practical standpoint it will pay well. Let us do it for purely sentimental reasons. Let us do it because we wish to preserve children some of the heirlooms of the city’s illustrious lifted their for -our Debris Storage Behind Dam At Narrows Reduced Through Sale Of Power The following telegram’ from Congressman Harry LL. Englebright, announcing a reduction in the cost of storing debris behind the Yuba Narrows dam to. 2.2 cents per cubic yard, was received yesterday. The telegram follows: Harley M. Leete, Nevada City Nugget. Federal Power.Commission_just took final and faverable action _on application Sacramento Valley Utility Company for construction powerhouse below the Narrows Dam, The sale of water by hyhydraulic miners for development Facilities of power or other purposes is authorized under laws [ have succeeded in having passed by congress for the resumption and rehabilitation of the hydraulic mining industry. It will save miners approximately one million dollars on cost of the dam. The income : fromthe hydroelectric plant at the Narrows Dam will make possible a tax of approximately only two and two tenths cents per cubic yard. Work on the power house will be Started as soon as possible. HARRY L. ENGLEBRIGHT, M. C was assessed last year at $150,000. subject to approval by the board of equalization has been set at $8,091,060, giving the total assessed $18,161,975. The total last year 080. municipalities of Nevada City and! Grass Valley was $3,336,520, less, $1943,45 church and war veterans exemption. The largest assessed valuation was; outside the municipalities, It totaled) $6,588,370, less $166,075 church and. war veterans exemption. The huge valuation outside the municipalities is due to the fact all the valuable gold mines are outside the city limits. The increase this year marks more than 20 years of assessed valuation growth in Nevada. County. Near Completion— The new living quarters being constructed on the second story of the city hall for Chief of Police and Mrs. Max Solaro is nearing completion. Chief and Mrs. Solaro will have a nice view from a-porch, = faces Spring Street. The public utility assessment roll,* state valuation of property in the county . ner, Assessed Valuation Of County Increases By Half Million Assessment of Nevada County property for 1941 increased $474,895 over the 1940 assessment roll, County Assessor John M. Hammill’s figures presented to the board of supervisors this week, This gain was despite the removal from the county of equipment used in the construction of the Upper Narrows Debris Dam. show. That equipment ‘Three College Youths Named was $17,687, FOr Training The assessed valuation inside the. ” Military training will. start for three Nevada County college students on July 21st. The three, Robert Charles SchiffShirley Haywood Brattin and John Keefe Wogan, were named to \fill Nevada County’s quota for that date. All had been attending college. Yesterday nine left the courthouse here for Sacramento, where they were inducted into service and assigned training camps. They were Mose Adam Ferguson, Julius John Mazzanti, John Leatham Marks, Thomas Elmo Brooks, Halsey Dustin Ward, Harry Cecil McKown, Johann Karl Hissong, Volney Earl Sparks and Raymond Ernest Yarborough. Mine Superintendent— S. S. Chatfield, well known mining man of Nevada County, is now superintendent of the Big Bear Mines, at Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino County, California. near Scotts Flat on Deér Creek caused a short shutdown of opevations there this week. The dispute has _ reportedly been settled, however, and the men have resumed work. Neither the Almquist Sawmill dispute or the labor tronble at the Builders and Consumers plant at Glenbrook were reported to the authorities, . vacation trip to Alaska. The local couple enjoyed the jour-. ney very much. They travelled 2 1050 miles by automobile and 2,150 mii-; es by boat. The couple took the boat at Seattle. Y The Nves said Alaska is a very beautiful country. It was their first trip to Alaska, Good weather was encountered most of the way. MINER DROPS DEAD WHILE SEEKING WORK Funeral services will be ‘held in Grass Valley for Robert S. LeMaster, 36, Nevada County miner, who dropped dead yesterday after walking just a few feet inside the main gate at the Todd-California shipyard, where he planned to seek work. The authorities notified the sheriff’s office here to locate’ LeMaster’s wife but later the local office was informed the wife was found in the LeMaster car nearby. In the car Mrs. LeHaster and the couple’s two children, Carroll, 6, and Marilyn 5, had waited patiently for three hours ‘for the return of the husband and father. Business Women’s Club Starts Plans For Miniature Carnival Plans for a miniature carnival July 23rd at White Cloud were discussed at a meeting of the Nevada City Business and Professional Women’s Club here last night. The carnival will be for BP'WC members and guests. — It was reported last night the semi annual membership drive has started. ~ A report on;the recent card party given by the BPIWC to raise funds . to carry on dental work for children was made.The sum of. $75 was netted on the card party. Betty Pierce was chairman of last Fowler the. boost, and told could get higher ‘mill. Nyes Horiaens ae . 3 Vacation In Alaska AMARN GIVES Councilman and Mrs. Robert nve COM) FOR STATE have retturned from a three toes ‘ have charge of the county’s booth at the state fair. An allocation of $900 was made for the display at the fair. . Supervisor Frank Rowe, appropriated $1,000 for road from Graniteville to Jackson Meadows. It is believed the improved road _ will tionists into the area. tion dividing gas tax money equally between the five road districts in the county but the resolution passed. “The Man Who Lost Himself”? Opens Here Saturday road which started when he was cast as Gloria Jean’s uncle in “A Little Bit of Heaven’’ Charles be seen in Universal’s Who Lost Himself,’ Saturday to the Nevada. Theatre. boy”’ years ago, virtually retired from the screen after he picture enterprises. Recently he has been accepting roles in an endeavor to establish himself once more as a screen player. supports the stars, Kay Francis, adapted from H. DeVere Stacpoole’s duced by Lawrence W. Fox, and directed by Edward Ludwig. of Sacramento, former Nevada City . residents, were recent visitors at the J. F. Dolan home on Boulder Street. mill occurred Monday afternoon. said two thirds of the men are continuing to work. He said the men demanded an increase in wages: but he informed them he could not afford to pay them them if they wages elsewhere they were welcome to-leave. The men reportedly asked for an increase of twelve and one half cents per hour. Normally, 18 men are employed at the lumber yard and sawCAIREYHIBIT eae Nevada County Board of Supervisors this week appointed L. G. Lageson, county agricultural commissioner, and Loylé Freeman to The board, over the objection of the improvement of the attract many recreaRowe ‘also objected to a resolu‘Continuing along the come back Ray, old-. ime star of the silent screen, will “The Man which comes. Ray, famous for his ‘country characterizations not so many lost a fortune in “The Man Who Lost Himself’ he Brian Aherne and in a screen comedy famous novel, The comedy was proVisits With Dolans— Mr. and ‘Mrs. George Von Hatton night’s meeting. She was assisted by Azelia Burns and Marian Jones. Venire Drawn For . Watt Will Contest Trial Here July 21 A jury will hear the contest of the will’ of the late Mrs, Allison Watt in the superior court here on July. 21. The jury venire has been drawn. Those on the venire are: Michael Cartoscelli, William Earl Mullis, Jdmes E. Oliver, Greba Terrell, Minnie L, Laity, David H. Zink, Ruth BE. Roesner, Fred Sweeney, Howard M. Edwards, Fred Carroll, Vio-} la Van Dyke, Steven J. Cocking, Bert Davidson, William Englehart and F. A. Wilson. San Franciscan Visits Lola Montez Home, Where He Was Born In the house of Lola Montez, ‘Grass Valley, a register of visitors is kept. Recorded in that register during the holiday . week end was the name of “Charles 24, 1861.” Mr. Bosworth now Cen i heed eee!

The Nugget is slay vs: to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month Nevada sity Nugget . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Cie ._The coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, paper gives you complete neighbors, read your Nugget. — ) Vol. 15, No. 55. _The Casrity = Paper NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold oe east THURSDAY, JULY 10 10, 1941. ®thas now been done. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. a This column, if memory serves, has always commended the sen“ments expressed by the President in his public utterances, and seldom his public actions. His words and actions rarely have anything to do with each other. Occasionally they do. Sometime since he talked of taking appropriate measures to make Iceland a defense outpost ‘for this country. It is with great relief we learn that this We hope he will go the whole distance, obtain by lease if possible or by some sort of agreement the use of the Azores and the Cape Verde _ Islands, for the same purpose, U. S. defenses. Along the same line, we hope that the noble sentiments expressed about New World . solidarity HELM KJORLE TAKES REINS OF ROTARY CLUB At the Rotary Cilub’s luncheon in the National Hotel today President Walter Carlson became past-president, and Helm Kjorlie began his term as the new president. Members of the program committee were in charge of the ceremony. The outgoing president was heartily excoriated by several members, but the last speaker delivered a eulogy and presented Carlson with a past president’s pin. iH, E. Kjorlie, who was today seated as president of the Nevada City Rotary Club, has announced his committees for the 1941-42 year. The directors are: Kjorlie, Walter Carlson, Art Innis, B. W. Hummelt, Guerdon Ellis, Lambert Thomas and Frank Finnegan. The committees are: Aims and Objects—Helm Kjorlie, After a 15 hour hunt, State Lion * Hunter Charles Ledshaw and a group of Nevada City sportsmen bagged a female lion which had been creating havoc among deer north of Nevada City. The lion was treed by Ledshaw’s dogs near Marsh’s Mill. The hunt for the lion began after Russell Farley, inspector for the state board of ‘equalization, sighted it while he was enroute from Nevada City to Truckee. Farley returned to Nevada City Hunters Bag Lion and informed Ledshaw. Farley, Herbert Skeahan, Captain A. H. Willard of the Fish and Game Patrol, John Tognarelli and Ray Arbogast joined Ledshaw in the hunt. The lion was the ninth killed this year by State Lion Hunter Ledshaw. Another of the beasts is believed to be still in the area. It has been sighted several times but Ledshaw’s dogs have not yet been able to pick up the trail. Preserve) Our Historic Buildings (EDITORIAL) In the May issue of Sunset Magazine appears a picture of the old firehouse on Main Street with its gay little belfry, and its “‘elegant’’ old gingerbread work on balcony and porch railings. The building is of wood. last many years longer unless something is done to preserve it. Sunset’s editor says we that who live today and It will not A WALKOUT OF MEN THIRDS OF THE MEN HAV was scheduled to arrive to take for increased wages. The organ EF. Daley, who caused so much strike in Grass Valley. “ Men Walkout for Higher Wages at Local Sawmill CONSUMERS LUMBER COMPANY PLANT IN. GLENBROOK ‘HALTED WORK FOR A SHORT TIME BUT MANAGER L. S. FOWLER REPORTED TODAY TWOAND OTHER MEN NECESSARY TO CARRY ON THE WORK HAVE BEEN OBTAINED. The men who refused to return to. work reportedly have contacted the American Federation of Labor and an organizer AT THE BUILDERS AND ~« E RETURNED TO WORK charge of the workers’ battle izer is understood to be Chas. trouble in the recent mine It was indicated as soon as the men who are continuing to Labor Difficulties At Almquist Sawmill refuse to go to. work are organized a picket line will be estabwill find realization in practical arrangements. We hope that credPresident. Fred Garrison, secretary, enjoy its picturesque facade and its historical chayacter, Walt Carlson, club service, Guerdon have our choice. We can keep it from utter decay by a 4) e it of a businesslike kind can be ex. Ellis, community service. Father tended to the Latin American . Pateman, international service, Hal. j. little care now, or we can ‘‘restore’’ it as well as we can Reported To Be Settled . a a ie plant. as countries, that U. S. capital can be'. Draper, vocational service. (which is never very well) after it has tumbled down. The Labor difficulties at the Géneimera Laaver eis oe safely invested in South America Club Service— Walt Carlson, last i is the hard way. Lambert Almquist Sawinlll : pany sawto develop its potential wealth in rubber, manganese, tin, copper, and the precious metals. We surmise ,that Henry Ford in ‘devéloping his great rubber plantation in Brazil is doing more of a practical good neighbor turn than. all the honeyed words our diplomats lavish on that great country. While we love to listen: to sweet words, in time they cloy. The American people have the reputation of being practical, but our diplomatic relations with other countries and our domestic policies for a long time, or so it seems, have been governed by idealistic if not visionary considerations. Planting defense outposts in the Carribean, in Nova Scotia, in Greenland and now Iceland, revives hope that at jeast in defense preparation our government proposes to adopt practical businesslike methods. On the other hand our foreign policy as expressed in our relation to Japan.has been so sentimental-as ‘to’ appear almost fantatic. We have provided the Japanese with the means to murder our friends the Chinese. Some of our great oil companies have been greatly. enriched thereby. preferred a bolder course, one that might have given all the predatory nations pau'se. If we had slammed shut the trade door to Japan when that nation began its Chinese adveutnre, it might have had a salutary effect on the European dictators. There has never heen any thing for Americans to fear in the Pacific. The Japenese will not now nor ever would, dream of actually challenging us on the sea. We thoroughly disapprove of encouraging the Finns, the French, the Greeks, the YugoslavsS, and mow the Russians, to think that so long as they battle against the Germans, we will give tem substantial assistance. In no!case have we been prepared to do so. In these demonstrations there’ has ‘beén too much palaver and promise ,and too little performance, even though we have yearned to believe what the Pressident says. In preliminary steps toward definite foreign policies we do like _ prudence and caution. These are good Yankee traits. But after the preliminaries are over a bold, confident course, such,as Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt followed, is the traditional American way. Prudence and caution can quickly degenerate to hesitancy and indecision, to bluff and half measures that do nothing but aggravate a bad condition, By the Gallup and Fortune ‘polls it is apparent that the American people do not yet believe it. necessary to intervene in the European war. Neither the Wheejers and Lindberghs, nor the Peppers and Knoxes have more than a minority following. The great majority of the people still'hope that we shall avoid an active, ‘“‘shooting part’ in, the war. The President clearly perceives this basic condition but though he is being harried by extremists on both sides, he is not being hurried. For that let us all be thankful. Hitler chooses his time to make war. If to war we finally go, let us choose gur time. Enjoys Visit Here— Don Mayhew of San Jose spent the past weekend visiting with fiends here. g We would have : chairman, Art Innis, Carrol Coughlan, Clyde Gwin, Harley Leete, Lambert Thomas. ‘Classification and Menwbebellic — Andy Holmes, chairman, Dick Worth, Chester Scheemer. Fellowship and Attendance— Bill Tamblyn, chairman, Charles Elliott, Bob Adamson. Rotary Information — Leete. Public Information—Fred . Garrison, ‘Community Service—Guerdon Ellis, chairman, Beryl Robinson, Bern Hum melt.: Youth Service —Frank Finnegan, chairman (Charity). Horace Curnow, vice chairman. Andy. Larsen Boy Scouts. Bern Hummelt (Crippled Children). Walt Hawkins, (dental eare). Harley Leete, (student loan fund). Rural-Urban. Acquaintances—Nye Harley Johnson, chairman, Bob Tamblyn, Bob Adamson. International Service — Father Pateman, chairman, Bill Home, Carl Libbey. Vocational Service—Hal Draper, chairman, Roy Zimmerman, Curren Heath, Harrison Randall. Song leader, Carl Libbey. Pianist, Mrs. Thomas White. Sergeant at arms, Bob Tamblyn. Sickness, Anniversaries, birthdays, Secretary. PLACERVILLE WILLBEN.C. OPPONENTS The Nevada City baseball squad will travel all the way to PY¥cerville Sunday for a scheduled game with the Placerville nine in the Foothill League. The local nine has one victory and one defeat so far in the second half and hopes to better its chances for the second half flag by downing the ‘Placerville squad. .'Manager Richard Biggs will probably start Bill Livesay on the mound with Ainsley ‘Fouyer’ behind the plate, Hobart Childers, James Shirley and Fouyer are expected to provide the batting: punch for the locals. FOOTHILL LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Pet: POO) 3 19 b nh) bean real ana p 2 0 £1000 Georgetown «--.--.--:------a hese . .500 Nevada City. 3. <4.4-2:.-062 a Ge 500 PUG COMVINIG® 56.2023. ch 5070s 1 at .500 ROCKIN se eee 1 ah 500 Grass Vialley :.....--..phases .000 Results Yesterday Georgetown 6, Placerville 2. Rocklin 15, Nevada City 9. Auburn 9, Grass Valley 0 feit.) (forGames Sunday Nevada City in Placerville, Rocklin in Grass Valley. Auburn in Georgetown. Ed Sandin, Reported Missing, Is Safe Ed. Sandin is safe. Reports here were to the effect . Sandin, manager of the Nevada City Airport since the death of Darl De

Neal, had been missing for several days after leaving the local airport in a plane. It developed, however, that Sandin and Mrs. Sandin went to Gridley for a short visit with relatives. naut lived, sung ited or lived. We suggest that a past. Both this fire house and the tall brick fire house\on Broad Street should be kept and preserved as precious souvenirs of those days when Bret Harte, Mark Twain, William Stewart, and many another great hearted Argog, wrote deathless prose or voices in stirring oratory, to mold their times, inspire the youth of these golden years, and to leave the stamp of their characters upon the communities in which they visjoint committee of representatives from the city council, civic clubs and fraternities be. formed to take enetegtic and effective measures to preserve and guard our historical buildings, especially those that are public property. No doubt from a practical standpoint it will pay well. Let us do it for purely sentimental reasons. Let us do it because we wish to preserve children some of the heirlooms of the city’s illustrious lifted their for -our Debris Storage Behind Dam At Narrows Reduced Through Sale Of Power The following telegram’ from Congressman Harry LL. Englebright, announcing a reduction in the cost of storing debris behind the Yuba Narrows dam to. 2.2 cents per cubic yard, was received yesterday. The telegram follows: Harley M. Leete, Nevada City Nugget. Federal Power.Commission_just took final and faverable action _on application Sacramento Valley Utility Company for construction powerhouse below the Narrows Dam, The sale of water by hyhydraulic miners for development Facilities of power or other purposes is authorized under laws [ have succeeded in having passed by congress for the resumption and rehabilitation of the hydraulic mining industry. It will save miners approximately one million dollars on cost of the dam. The income : fromthe hydroelectric plant at the Narrows Dam will make possible a tax of approximately only two and two tenths cents per cubic yard. Work on the power house will be Started as soon as possible. HARRY L. ENGLEBRIGHT, M. C was assessed last year at $150,000. subject to approval by the board of equalization has been set at $8,091,060, giving the total assessed $18,161,975. The total last year 080. municipalities of Nevada City and! Grass Valley was $3,336,520, less, $1943,45 church and war veterans exemption. The largest assessed valuation was; outside the municipalities, It totaled) $6,588,370, less $166,075 church and. war veterans exemption. The huge valuation outside the municipalities is due to the fact all the valuable gold mines are outside the city limits. The increase this year marks more than 20 years of assessed valuation growth in Nevada. County. Near Completion— The new living quarters being constructed on the second story of the city hall for Chief of Police and Mrs. Max Solaro is nearing completion. Chief and Mrs. Solaro will have a nice view from a-porch, = faces Spring Street. The public utility assessment roll,* state valuation of property in the county . ner, Assessed Valuation Of County Increases By Half Million Assessment of Nevada County property for 1941 increased $474,895 over the 1940 assessment roll, County Assessor John M. Hammill’s figures presented to the board of supervisors this week, This gain was despite the removal from the county of equipment used in the construction of the Upper Narrows Debris Dam. show. That equipment ‘Three College Youths Named was $17,687, FOr Training The assessed valuation inside the. ” Military training will. start for three Nevada County college students on July 21st. The three, Robert Charles SchiffShirley Haywood Brattin and John Keefe Wogan, were named to \fill Nevada County’s quota for that date. All had been attending college. Yesterday nine left the courthouse here for Sacramento, where they were inducted into service and assigned training camps. They were Mose Adam Ferguson, Julius John Mazzanti, John Leatham Marks, Thomas Elmo Brooks, Halsey Dustin Ward, Harry Cecil McKown, Johann Karl Hissong, Volney Earl Sparks and Raymond Ernest Yarborough. Mine Superintendent— S. S. Chatfield, well known mining man of Nevada County, is now superintendent of the Big Bear Mines, at Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino County, California. near Scotts Flat on Deér Creek caused a short shutdown of opevations there this week. The dispute has _ reportedly been settled, however, and the men have resumed work. Neither the Almquist Sawmill dispute or the labor tronble at the Builders and Consumers plant at Glenbrook were reported to the authorities, . vacation trip to Alaska. The local couple enjoyed the jour-. ney very much. They travelled 2 1050 miles by automobile and 2,150 mii-; es by boat. The couple took the boat at Seattle. Y The Nves said Alaska is a very beautiful country. It was their first trip to Alaska, Good weather was encountered most of the way. MINER DROPS DEAD WHILE SEEKING WORK Funeral services will be ‘held in Grass Valley for Robert S. LeMaster, 36, Nevada County miner, who dropped dead yesterday after walking just a few feet inside the main gate at the Todd-California shipyard, where he planned to seek work. The authorities notified the sheriff’s office here to locate’ LeMaster’s wife but later the local office was informed the wife was found in the LeMaster car nearby. In the car Mrs. LeHaster and the couple’s two children, Carroll, 6, and Marilyn 5, had waited patiently for three hours ‘for the return of the husband and father. Business Women’s Club Starts Plans For Miniature Carnival Plans for a miniature carnival July 23rd at White Cloud were discussed at a meeting of the Nevada City Business and Professional Women’s Club here last night. The carnival will be for BP'WC members and guests. — It was reported last night the semi annual membership drive has started. ~ A report on;the recent card party given by the BPIWC to raise funds . to carry on dental work for children was made.The sum of. $75 was netted on the card party. Betty Pierce was chairman of last Fowler the. boost, and told could get higher ‘mill. Nyes Horiaens ae . 3 Vacation In Alaska AMARN GIVES Councilman and Mrs. Robert nve COM) FOR STATE have retturned from a three toes ‘ have charge of the county’s booth at the state fair. An allocation of $900 was made for the display at the fair. . Supervisor Frank Rowe, appropriated $1,000 for road from Graniteville to Jackson Meadows. It is believed the improved road _ will tionists into the area. tion dividing gas tax money equally between the five road districts in the county but the resolution passed. “The Man Who Lost Himself”? Opens Here Saturday road which started when he was cast as Gloria Jean’s uncle in “A Little Bit of Heaven’’ Charles be seen in Universal’s Who Lost Himself,’ Saturday to the Nevada. Theatre. boy”’ years ago, virtually retired from the screen after he picture enterprises. Recently he has been accepting roles in an endeavor to establish himself once more as a screen player. supports the stars, Kay Francis, adapted from H. DeVere Stacpoole’s duced by Lawrence W. Fox, and directed by Edward Ludwig. of Sacramento, former Nevada City . residents, were recent visitors at the J. F. Dolan home on Boulder Street. mill occurred Monday afternoon. said two thirds of the men are continuing to work. He said the men demanded an increase in wages: but he informed them he could not afford to pay them them if they wages elsewhere they were welcome to-leave. The men reportedly asked for an increase of twelve and one half cents per hour. Normally, 18 men are employed at the lumber yard and sawCAIREYHIBIT eae Nevada County Board of Supervisors this week appointed L. G. Lageson, county agricultural commissioner, and Loylé Freeman to The board, over the objection of the improvement of the attract many recreaRowe ‘also objected to a resolu‘Continuing along the come back Ray, old-. ime star of the silent screen, will “The Man which comes. Ray, famous for his ‘country characterizations not so many lost a fortune in “The Man Who Lost Himself’ he Brian Aherne and in a screen comedy famous novel, The comedy was proVisits With Dolans— Mr. and ‘Mrs. George Von Hatton night’s meeting. She was assisted by Azelia Burns and Marian Jones. Venire Drawn For . Watt Will Contest Trial Here July 21 A jury will hear the contest of the will’ of the late Mrs, Allison Watt in the superior court here on July. 21. The jury venire has been drawn. Those on the venire are: Michael Cartoscelli, William Earl Mullis, Jdmes E. Oliver, Greba Terrell, Minnie L, Laity, David H. Zink, Ruth BE. Roesner, Fred Sweeney, Howard M. Edwards, Fred Carroll, Vio-} la Van Dyke, Steven J. Cocking, Bert Davidson, William Englehart and F. A. Wilson. San Franciscan Visits Lola Montez Home, Where He Was Born In the house of Lola Montez, ‘Grass Valley, a register of visitors is kept. Recorded in that register during the holiday . week end was the name of “Charles 24, 1861.” Mr. Bosworth now Cen i heed eee!