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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

July 16, 1941 (6 pages)

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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 + oe + . 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (in Advance) One Month BACK IN HARNESS La Belg Petes Naame en $3.00 . 30 cents + 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 CAH 6 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 Sa, aa a Nai wwe gp a oe "THE FLYING DUTCHMAN™ ——— —— —$——— . 2S— = == —==— "THERE 1S AN OLD LEGEND OF A SPECTRE SHIP : CONDEMNED FOREVER TO SAIL THE SEAS wiTHouT . . . HELM OR STEERSMAN.” J 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!) -~> . — Funeral Held Today For Ridge Native and Former Nevada City Resident, . oESS . . 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. 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