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~ Then they pitch in with the real work. Hough places great de» ployment.—Contributed.
NEVADA CITY NUGGET THURSDAY, JULY 10. 1941. © AGE TWO
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Nevada City Nugget
305 Broad Street. Phone 36.
A Legal Newspaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published
at Nevada City.
H. M. LEETE : : Editor and Publisher
Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Thursday
at Nevada City, California, and entered as mail
inaiter of the second class in the postoffice at
Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3,
1879.
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It all started with a small but unusual newspaper advertisement: ‘
“WANTED—Machinists, lathe and. shaper hands,
55 years of age and over.”
Back of that classified ad lies another dramatic story of
national defense—a tale of special ski!ls and abilities recaptured and put to work serving the national welfare in an hour
when all our available strength and cunning is needed for the
tasks that lie ahead.
The story begins with the problems of a man named
Clayton Hough, who as manager of a large rivet-manufacturing company was faced with the problem of handling heavy
army, navy, and marine corps contracts. But the supply of
available skilled workers was running short. So Hough went
looking for men who had served industry well in the past, and
who were now in retirement. And they have responded to his
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At the present time, Hough’s company turns out more
than two million rivets and 500,000 metal stampings daily.
Helping with this work for national defense are 20 per cent of
all his employees who are in the latter part of middle age. One
of the men is 72 years of age and was a machinist during the
Spanish-American War. A number of others did similar work
in the World War.
The company gives the men a “‘brushing-up period”
while they do simple jobs to get the feel of the work again.
pendence upon theza. “‘! think these old fellows will stay with
me longer than young men.” he says. ““Young men are restless, want new experiences. These fellows look permanent.
The picture of older workmen, pensioners, peeling off
their “smoking jackets’ and putting on a pair of overalls because the country needs their services is another inspiring example of how a free country goes about doing a big job. As
long as the American fibre proves as though and adaptable as
this, we can have little fear that the nation’s defenses will not
remain secure!—Contributed.
NATIONAL DEFENSE BLUNDERING
After two months of secret investigation, the House
Military Affairs Committee has submitted a blistering report
to Congress, charging short-sightedness, costly blundering,
lack of capacity and lack of coordination in the handling of the
national defense program—and urging the appointment of a
single “responsible. head’’—to bring order out of chaos.
The caustic report spares no one. It raps the President.
Congress, the Defense Advisory Commission and the Office
of Production Management with equal vigor. It criticizes the
Army, Navy, Treasury, Maritime Commission and the State
Department and it takes an unusually heavy slap at Secretary
of Interior Ickes for spending his time “‘hating”’ business, instead of cooperating with it to speed production.
“It was painfully apparent throughout the testimony
given before this committee,’’ said the report, “‘that a lack of
coordination and absence of a responsible head with authority
and power to fix responsibility has been largely responsible
for the deficiencies-we are now experiencing all along the line.
The Administration has been too prone when difficult problems arose, to dispose easily of them by creating another board
only to add to the confusion of the assortment of agencies we
now have. All of this has resulted in a deadly consuming of
time and in the end we still have a divided authority.”
In another chapter, the report charged that emphasis over
the past few years has been put on social reform rather than
national security, and warned: ‘‘As a nation we seem to have
forgotten that without national sécurity, social reform might
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"THERE 1S AN OLD LEGEND OF A SPECTRE SHIP :
CONDEMNED FOREVER TO SAIL THE SEAS wiTHouT . . .
HELM OR STEERSMAN.”
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UNBELIEVABLE, BUT TRUE—THE 5-DAY MONTH
to most readers. But sometimes in the course of interpreting
rows of uninteresting figures, one runs onto the most vital and
significant facts.
In the following fieures may lie the answer to the greatest peacetime bottleneck that ever side-tracked this nation
from a main-line job involving its own security. With locomotive engineers. firemen, conductors and brakemen’s unions
demerdine a 30 ner cent wage increase. here is what the figvrec char: A naceencer locomotive engineer_on_a California
railwav is now paid $8.67 an hour. However. his union so restricts the mileage he may run that he works only 43 hours a
month—or 60 day a year — for which he receives $373 a
month—or $4.476 a year.
The recuested advance would increase his hourly pay to
$11.27; his monthly pay to $485 and his annual pa to $4,&8?0—for working. remember, 43 hours. or about 5 days a
month!
Now pending is the withdrawal of the union’s _ restrictions: if accented. the engineer—if he preferred—could work
20 ordinary 8-hour days a month instead of 5. With his hourlv nav check still at the reauested $11.27. hic monthly earnings would total $1,801—his arrval ircome $21,624!
To the average man those figures tell an astonishing
‘tor end reed no emvbellishment. We quote them from Railway Age” because thev illustrate the current disregard for
‘common sense seen in demands made on many vital defense
industries in a period of national extremity—in the plane
plants, shipyards, munitions factories, freight yards, docks
and machine shops.
If this is the kind of stupid resistance that is unbalancing
the wheels of necessary defense activities: if this is a sample
of the demands the Ameircan workman would fling at his
country’s vital machinery at so critical a time as the present:
if this is a taste of the unAmerican selfishness-of leaders who
would prevent the nation’s arming for defense—then something is very wrong with the caliber of America’s workmen
and America’s leaders, in labor and in government, who permit such wanton sabotage of all that is America!—Contributed.
Funeral rites were held at the Front End Alignment
Hooper-Weaver Mortuary in “Grass Equipment
Valley today for Mrs. Irene Deacon,
82, North San Juan.Ridge pioneer, @
who died Tuesday night in a Nevada STUDEBAKER
City hospital. TIAC
Mrs. Deacon was boin at Shady saat: S ‘
. Creex on April 23, 1859. She spent Sales and Service
the early years of her life on the oo
;ridge and received her education in
Statistics are just about as dry to most editors ag they are . .
New Collars are Crocheted
well prove meaningless.”
The House Committee has rendered a splendid service to .
the people of the United States in airing the facts regarding the .
confusion. buck-passing and lack of direction inthe defense
program. And it is to be hoped that the President and Congress will take speedy action to put our house in order before
it is too:late. The era of social experimentation has ended; it
is time to prove that America hasn't gone soft—that we are
still the greatest industrial nation on the face of the globe, as
well as the most enlightened democracy. It is time to get to
work !—Contributed.
JOBS—NOT DOLES!
“More jobs are available in California industry and agriculture than there are employable persons to fill them!’’
That statement, issued by Assemblyman Gerald C. Kepple and Frederick Houser, and subscribed to by six state senators and 15 other assemblymen, would seem to indicate that
no great injustice should result from the fact that the legislature adjourned without appropriating funds for continuance .
of the SRA.
As a matter of fact, the number of cases on SRA had .
dwindled to 26,000 and was dropping at the rate of six per .
cent a week at the time aid was withdrawn. And there is con.
siderable evidence to support the contention that many of .
those who were still on the SRA rolls would have continued .
to live on the state’s bounty as long as it was _ available, re-.
gardless of the fact that jobs are available. The dole is gone, .
but jobs are opening up in every line of endeavor, and it's .
time that every employable got back into gainful, pride!) -~> .
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Funeral Held Today
For Ridge Native and
Former Nevada City Resident,
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. Factory Specified Engine
Tune-Up and Steering and
Nevada City schools, where her family resided for many years. Service Gara ge
In 1911 the deceased married i
Charles Deacon of Grass Valley, who W. S. Williamson, Prop,
survives, : Cor. Pine and Spring Phone 106
Other relatives include a cousin,
Daniel Treanor of Nevada City. a a
DIVORCE DECREES
Superior Judge George L. Jones PROFESSIONAL
during the ast week awarded final DIRECTORY
decrees of divorce to Lee Robert
". Evans against Audrey Virginia Ev—
ans; Mary Thomas against Robert A. NEVADA CITY
Thomas; Velma Merrifield against
Clifford Merrifield. Camile M. DyDENTISTS
mond was given an interlocutory decree of divorce from William R, DyDR. JOHN R. BELL
ow: DENTIST
Office Hours: 8:30 to 5:30
Evenings by Appointment
Morgan & Powell Bldg. Phene 321
DOCTORS
Back Home—
Mr. H. E. Kjorlie have and Mrs
returned to tyéir home here after an
extended vacation trip.
Popular Sheet Music. The Harmony Shop, Grass Valley. PHYSICIAN AND’ SURGEON
400 Broad Street
ffice Hours: 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 p. m.
@venings 7-8. Phone 395 X-RAY
W. W. REED, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Nevada City, Calif.
Office 418 Broad Street
Hours: 1 to 3 and 7 to 8 p. m.
Residence Phone 2. Office Phone 362
: ATTORNEYS
HARRY M. McKEE
ATTORNEY .AT. LAW
05. Pine St. opposite courthouse
Nevada City, Calif.
FRANK G. FINNEGAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW :
207 North’ Pine Street
Nevada City, California
Telephone 273
THOMAS O. McCRANEY
FOR RENT — Attractive furnished
apartment, 5 rooms, large porch,
‘big lot, with trees and_ shade.
$32.50. Located 123 Nivens Lane.
Apply to Biggs Realty Co., Grass
Valley. 7-102tp ATTORNEY AT LAW
Seen eae Ty Masonic Building
FOR RENT—8 room furnished or 102% Pine Street, Nevaaa City
Telephone 165
H. WARD SHELDON
unfurnished cottage with bath and
garage. Modern, near golf course.
Call at 207 So. School St.,Grass
aa . ATTORNEY AT LAW
Valley. 7-32t¢ Union Building Broad Street
LORD Ea evada City’ Telephone 28
FOR SALE -— 1940 Dodge DeLuxe
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
HOLMES FUNERAL HOM
Sedan with radio and heater, Low
mileage, good rubber. Call Earl L.
-Covey, Chrysler-Plymouth Dealer
at Partridge Garage, Grass Val-. The Holmes Funeral Home serley. 7-32tc. Vice is priced within the means of
all. Ambulance service at all hours.
‘ Phone 203
246 Sacramento St.
FOR SALE — 1941 New Plymouth
Deluxe Sedan. See it today. Ear]
L. Covey, Chrysler-Plymouth Dealer, at Partridge Garage, Grass
Valley. 7-32te
Nevada City
: ASSAYER _
HAL D. DRAPER, Ph. D.
ASSAYER AND. CONSULTING
CHEMIST
Nevada City, California
EXPERT RADIO REPAIRING —
Loud Speaker Systems for Rent or
Sale. Authorized Philco Auto Radig. Phones: Office 364." Home 246-.
Service. ART’S RADIO HOSPITAL . — Box 743
—Speciali pecialists in Radio Iils, 113 MUSIC
South Church Street, Grass Valley. . Phone 984, 2-19tf
GLADYS WILSON
TEACHER OF PIANO
Nevada City hy
$58 Alexander St. Phone 434-J
Grass Valley —
129 Henderson St. °
WATCHES CLEANED, $1.00. Mainsprings, $1.00. Watch Chrystals,
round, 25c, fancy, 50c. All work
guaranteed. J. M. Bertsche, Watch
and Clock repairing. With Ray's
Fixit Shop, New location, 109 West
Main Street, Grass Valley. 12-1tf
CRUSHED ROAD ROCK
Concrete Material j
Pea Gravel
Brick
Building Rock
Fill Material
Grass Valley Rock and Sand
Phone 444
MINING ENGINEERS
J. F. O°CONNOR
Mining and Civi: Engineer
United States Mineral Surveying
Licensed Surveyor
203 West Main St. Grass Valley
GRASS VALLEY
trass Valley Phone 45 a DENTISTS
~ FRATERNAL AND
CLUB DIRECTORY
X-RAY Facilities Available
Hours: 9:00-5:00. Evening appointments. 120% Mill Street. Phone 77
Grass Valley, Calif.
SS DR. H. H. KEENE
WOMEN’S CIVIC CLUB ; DENTAL SURGEON
Regular meetings the 2nd and . . Hours: 1 to 5. Sundays and Eve4th Tuesdays of the month, at the nings by appointment
Chamber of Commerce 2:30 p. m. 2 ; ~
MRS. W. P. SAWYER, Pree. . . ? Mil a frass Valley, Calif.
MRS. RICHARD GOYNE, Secy. ue $28
NEVADA CuTY LODGE, No. 518 . . CARL POWER JONES MD . P. 0. ELKS ‘ , M.
Meets every Thursday evening Oftine Roe AND) SURGEON
in Elks Home, Pine St. Phone 108, . . . © “g Ours: tT to-S; 2 to Sp. m.
Visiting Elks welcome. Sundays 11:30 to 12:30
129 South Auburn St., Grass Valley
S. F. TOBIAS, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND su RGEON
J. C. SCHEEMER,
Exalted Ruler,
ANDALL, See HARRISON R
214 Neal St., Grass Valley
Office Hors: 12-3 and 7-8
Phone: Office 429. Residence 1042
DANIEL L. HIRSCH, M. D
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Offices ang Receiving Hospital. 118
Bush St. Hours: 10-12; 2-5, evenings
HYDRAULIC PARLOR NO. 56,
N. S. G. W.
Meets every Tuesday evening at
Pythian Castle, 232 Broad Street
Visiting Native Sons welcome,
ROBERT TUCKER, ‘Pres
DR. C. W. ) ry . . Cc. W CHARMAN, Ree. Sec’y . 7-8 P. M. Day or night phone 71.
A PERKY Pierrette collar, with cuffs to match, which you can crochet
yourself in the twinkling of an eye. Frilly, feminine -neckwear is
making important fashion news this season, and this starched, lacy ruff
in mercerized crochet cotton will make a simple, dark dress look very
special. You can crochet it for less than fifty cents, and it will launder
well and always retain its crisp, sparkling air. Directions for making the
set may be obtained bv sendine a2 st mpe4, o-fnAa-eeced etve's52 to
sue Metdiework Detrricc.. ce. 4 . Raper, snecifyine Desien +2422,
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Oustomah Lodge, No. 16, I.0.0.F,
Meets every Tuesday evening
at 7:30, Odd Fellows Hall.
HERMAN CLENDENEN, N. G
JONATHAN PASCOB, Rec. Sec’y
JOHN W, DALIK Vin. See'y
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