July 19, 1945 (4 pages)

Rae Se = & Come depends on Uncle Sam, will apeyoung man: The Nugget is delivered to your home twice.a week for only 30 cents per ae month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster “ Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ooet pri . This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. ran The County Seat ‘Pane NEVADA city, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1945. THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. ‘We do-not believe that the people of this country are going to approve a measure which will force every young man to take a year out of his life for military training, alone, under the U. S. Army management and direction. In time of war we have no choice, young men must be trained and must fight. In time of peace we do have a choice and you can bet your bottom dollar we are not going to hand over our young men to the Army or Navy for a year, or any other period. But we do think that most American citizens, now realizing how much the peace of the world in years to prove a year out of the lives of every young man, and perhaps of every young woman,-now that all wars are total wars provided they can do it through agencies already in being and which we have for more than a hundred years approved. These agencies are the univer. sities which normally train thousands of young men each year in military science, and the National Guard which trans other thousands through the land year'in and year out. We hand over our boys to the Army and Navy in peace time because wemust. But, while we do believe that every should have mittary drilling and be -given a thorough training in peace time for the emer-. gency of war, we prefer, in each . state to do it ourselves. In peace time the National Guard is a voluntary organization. To provide every boy with military training, and perhaps every girl in certain activities, we should be obliged, if: universal training were adopted, to make service compulsory in the! National Guard. However, it would ‘be under the overall direction of the Army and Navy, but we would, in each state insist that the officers immediately in charge would be those that we the people have chosen for the job. RETIRED PLACER» YIELDS QUARTER . ture of his chest was taken and there MINER PASSES IN GRASS VALLEY Funeral services were. held yesterday morning in the Hooper .and Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley for Everett Darwin Wolbert who died Monday while visiting his daughter (Mrs. Edith Dennis. In charge of the service was Rev. Jesse Rudking, pastor of the Methodist Church. Interment was in the Elm Ridge Cemetery. The deceased was one of the first oil well drillers in California and in later years become. interested in ‘placer mining in this vicinity. He lived in Grass .Valley several years ago but at the time of his death his home was in San Mateo. He was a native of Wisconsin, aged 78 years. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Emma D. Wolbert and the following children: Leslie Wolbert of San Rafael, Mrs. Edith Dennis of Grass Valley, Mrs. Gladys Cunningham of San Bruno, C.D. and Merle Wolbert: of San Francisco, Mrs. Davis Boldt of Palo Alto, Virgil Wolbert of San’ Bruni, Mrs. Zelma Stovall of Madera, Mrs. ! Nadine Morton of San Mateo and 11 grand children and 12 great grandchildren. SMALL BOY'S AESOPHAGUS Hummelt yesterday Lome a o withdrawn a silver quarter from.the aesophagus of Billy Frank, three and half years old, the son of Mr, and Mrs. William Frank of Rough and Ready. The parents declared that the child must have swallowed the quarter on July 4th. Dr. Hummelt said the parents ‘brought the > child to him several days ago, Satter ing from cough and lack of appetite. A casual exa'mination revealed nothing wrong, but believeing the child migSt have incipient tuberculosis a fluroscope. picwas plainly revealed the quarter. A long pliable forceps was trust down ‘Under such a system, each metropolis, ‘would. military establishment or mea Hach village would have its companies, one or more. Each on would have its’ regiment, and each metropolis would have its army div-. ision, or divisions. Just as the youth of California ~ is now compelled to go to school until sixteen years of age so each boy, and probably, sth, ‘would receive training needed in event of another It would be conscription, yes, but every night every boy and girl would be home with their folks. And. the people themselves could and would keep an eagle eye on the kind of training the ehildren were receiving, because it would be given right there at none: each town, have its war. — event any’ young man aienianes a talent for leadership, he would be sent on to a university, and be given the full four years of education at government expense, to graduate as a reserve ofificer in Army or Navy. That, almost, ig what happens now It is.a system we have long been accustomed to. Young men entering the University of California, for instance, are all given military training. These wo do well in it take advanced courses in military science and graduate as reserve officers. They do not receive their expenses under the present system, but in order to encourage young men wiih} leadership albility, we believe it! would be the most economical means of maintaining a great bedy of reserve officers, who could be called to the colors the moment international trouble started. Such a system, would not interfere in any way with the military establishments at West Point and Annapolis. They would still remain the school for professional army and navy training, though in our opinjon it is high timie both army and navy established the counterparts of those famous colleges on the Pacific Coast. We would still need them ifor the men who enter the service of their country on a_ professional basis. . the child’s throat and the coin reWe admit frankly that this system of conscription is not likely’ to , Vice to their country. moved. mediately. His appetite improved imBRIDF’S FATHER TES NUPTIAL KNOT Miss Helen Rudkin and Cpl. Frank L. Fausel were married Tuesday afternoon in the Grass Valley Methodist Church at 4 o'clock. The bride’s father, Rev. Jesse Rudkin pastor of the church, read the service. Mrs. Fausel attended Placer Junior College and for several years has been employed in federal and state positions. The bridegroom is:the son of Mrs. Mary Fausel of Placerville, El Doarod Clounty, where he graduated from high school, and later engaged in the grocery business with his brother, George. He entered the army in May, 1942, and served in the C. I. B. theatre with 51st Medical Battalion. ag (Miss Oveta Fausel, sister of the bridegroom was brides maid, and Lt. Arthur Moore of Placerville, ‘was best man. Only immediate members of the family were present. A wedding supper was served at the parsonage and the couple left for a honeymoon at Lake Tahoe. please the brass hats in Washington, where every thought and effort is bent on Gentralizing power in the federal government. But it is a syétem, faulty though it may be, in which the people themselves can continue to control in a large degree, the upbringing of -their children, without having them taken from their homes and herded in various cantonments over the land and placed under the rigid discipline of military martinets, Moreover there are a number of things that a great many young people need along with military training. They need lessons in courtesy, they need drill often .after they are through with the public schools, in the three R’s, they need vocational guidance, and_ often elementary training in the work they will do in the world. These things might easily be combined with military training during their year of peace time serMISS GRACE ‘countrées, .Publie Opinion. EDDY SUCCUMBS Miss Grace Edidy, 70--years ago, died early yesterday morning in a Stockton hospital. Funeral services will be held in the Holmes Funeral Mome Saturday at 4 p. m. Rev. David Ralston, pastor. of the Methodist Church of which Miss Eiddy was a life time member, will conduct the service. Interment will be in the Pine Grove Cémetery. The deceased was a sister of the late -supervisor, Richard Eddy, and one of the arliest members of Rebekah Neva Lodge of this city. THOUSANDS OF WOMEN HOURS FOR RED CROSS The diligent, capable and unse!fish women of the Nevada City Chapter ARC production corps under their chairman Mrs. Louise Polglase completed and shipped during the months born in this city of May and June: Sewed and knitted articles 392; kit bags 644; miscellaneous articles 145. Total Awe. ae Home workers 101. Room workers 96. Total 197. Hours given 4277 or the equivalent of 534 -eight hour days. This is but a two month notation of what has been a steady ard loyal service of this patriotic group. The products have gone to hospitals, service men of all branches, refugees, and also to the needy of. foreign From various such. sources have been received letters of sinlcere’ thanks and appreciation. This is a letter received by Nevada City Chapter, American Red Cross, in appreciation of supplies sent to France. (Transslation.) Institution: Notre ance, Saint Nazaire. I have received with ure, the clothing, chemises, pants, shirts, dresses, ete, that the charitable ladies of America have sent to our organization. I appreciate most the thoughts that prompted the sending of these things. that are practically impossible to get here. It pleases us to merit your &ympathy and to havé it indi¢ated in -titis way by your gracious generosity. I address my thanks from the committee of the United French and more especially to the women of Nevada City Red Cross who contributed directly to our well being. (Signed) M. LIED. MILITARY TRAINING FOR YOUTH APPROVED Pulblic apyroval by a large cote for the continuation of Selective Service for peace time military training is indicated by a recent survey conducted by the American Institute of Dame D’Espermuch pleasAnnouncing the results of ‘a survey made last month George Gallup, director of the institute asserts: “Tf public openion for a large post ‘war army and navy continues to be as overwhelming after the Wa as it is now, the issue of ‘whether Wwe should have a peace time military draft may largely settle itself.” ' He cites the results of four surveys made by the institute since last Septemiber as indicating the trend of sentiment on the question: After the war is over do you think every able bodied young man should be erquired to take military or naval training for one year? Sept. 1944—Yes 63%. No. 23%. Undecided 14%. Dec. 1944—Yes 70%. No 25% Undecided 3%’. Feb. 1945—Yes 69%. No 22%. Undecided 9%. May 1945—-Yes 70%. No 34% Undecided 6%. These tests of opinion Director Gallup declares shéw that the average American favors a large post war army and navy as protection against possibility of unprovoked attack. Lightning Fires Keep Ranger Busy Ranger Hobart I. Snider of the Tahoe natonal forest station at Truckee, reports that four lightning fires. started in the region of Mt. Pluto and Mt. Watson during a-recent electrical storm were all extinguished with trifling damage. During the storm fire details were sent to the Sierraville and Downieville districts, both in Sierra County, and several Tahoe forest officers and crews have lately been assigned to aid in stamping out lightning fires in the Klamath national forest. TO PLANT BEAVER NAVY TODEPEND MANY INITIATIVES IN TAHOE FOREST DURING AUGUST Arthur L. Hensley in charge of ‘beaver planting for the California Fish and Game Commission with his assistant, Williatii, Pollard have just completed a surevy of sites for establishing more beaver colonies in Tahoe national forest. Accompanying the two specialists on their trip was Harry Camp resource manager in the Tahoe forest headquarters here, and Robert 1. Snider ranger for the Truckee district. Hensley stated he was impressed with the favorable conditions «for beaver on Sage Hen, Juniper, Alder and Martis Creeks. In August he proposes to transplant beaver from their present colonies in Plumas national forest to at least two of the locations approved, All the creeks mentioned are in the Truckee district. Hensley reports that wherever beaver are established, trout apparently are: better able to propagate and increase naturally. DOMESTIC WATER RATES GIVEN BOOST BY NIN The Nevada Irrigation District has established new and graduated rates for the domestic water users, and bills now going out will reflect more nearly the actual use of water than has been. the case, according to a ‘bulletin sent out with the bills. Old rates were flat rates that took no account of the size of the house or the garden served. The new rates take these factors into account and while’ the charges for some classes of users are lower than formerly, the majority will pay more. The new rates do not effect contracts, which have several years (co run with the two municipalities. Nevad City and Grass Valleye. ‘civiltan ON RESERVE OFFICERS The United States Navy will depend upon reserve officers in peace as well as it does now during the war, said Artemus L, Gates, UnderSecretary. of the Navy, at graduation exercises of the U. S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School, University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana recently. He estimated that the peace time Navy will need, in.addition to its regular line officers, and this year’s and next yéar’s graduates of naval acodemy, 30,0000 other ers. the offic‘of the reserves,’’ he said. Pointing out there are now approximately 350,000 officers.in the navy,-he said that less than four per cent, 11,350 are graduates of the naval academy. All the rest, ‘more than 300,000 are reserves. “In short, the navy which 6 fighting this war and winning it is a navy,’ said the under-secretary. Gold Flat Dump Bought by Selby’s es = ; {the people for ratification, These will come'from the ranks Due to a need of a flux the Selby . Smelting bay, are purchasing tailings from an} Works on. San Francisco . old abandoned chlorination dump ‘n. Gold Flat on the lower Grass Valley . road -a“half mile outside this city. gaged in Tremining which under the treatment given by TO GO ON NEXT STATE BALLOT By Clem Whitaker With 14 measures already qualified for submission to the voters next year by reason of legislative action, and with the likelihood that ‘petitions will be cireulated for seyeral initiative acts. California’s 1946 ballot may approach pre war propetions both in length.and controvers sial content. a A $50,000,000 veterans bond issued to aid service men in buying farms and homes, was given legislative approval and is slated to go to in addition to 13 constitutional amendment proposed by the legislautre. The new Veterans Farm and Home Purchase Act bond issue would augment 2 $30,000,000 bond authorization for the same purpose voted in 1944. Three headline initiative acts, ‘which are expected to reach tre ballot by petition and-which are bound to stir up bitter controversy are: 1—A CTO sponsored fealth insurance act, similar to the several state medicine proposals defeat in the legislature. : 2—A* new ham and [praiosal, 3——A veterans right endment guaranteeing service men an absolute right to employment without requirement of union memeges pension to work am. bership. . M. Jordan and J. Cléfinan are en-. tional amendments, the old dump,! Among the 13 proposed constituperhaps the two ACA 10, provmost important are l'iding for annual instead of biennial Selby yields$ 11 in gold and 71 cents . legislative sessions, and ACA 37, auin silver. It is however as a flux that the smelter is taking this ancient dump, which it is estimated will yield 4500 tons. Mayor Ben Hall owns the land on which the dump reposes, The plant was known as the Maltman Works a half century ago.and miners with small tonnages of gold ore took, the output there for reduction. “EVERY VETERAN WILL NOT NEED AID, BUT THOSE WHO DO, MUST GET IT” By Lewis B. Hershey Director of : Selective Service Up to and through the first part of this year, the major task of Sel-} ective Service was to bring the nation’s armed forces up to authorized strength—to provide the basic manpower our military leaders required for victory. That job has been well done. It has been accomplished with out disruption of vital war production or unnecessary interference with essential civilian activities. It has been truly said that our local boards have shown the world that democracy can. operate as efficiently in war as during peace. And I have the utmost confidence that they will continue to function with fairness and efficiency in the even more difficult task presented by increasing demobilization that must be synchronized with continuing demobilization. Today, Selective Service has a threefold task: First, to supply the men needed ‘by the armed forces to replace those lost in combat and those who are being released after long and difficult service; second, to select men for induction so ag to cause a minimum of disturbance to industry, transportation, and agriculture; and third, to restore the serviceman discharged under honorable conditions: to his former job or to aid him when necessary in finding new employment, To dischange the first two of pnORe . responsibilitse we have not only smoothly working machinery but also the benefit of more than four years, of experience in recruitment. For. the third, we have the plan already in operation, the earnest desire. to function smoothly and efficiently and the determination to gain betterment from experience. Our responsibility to the veteran —placed upon us by the Selective Service Training and Service Act—is to, see that the men we selected for military service who serve satisfacfactorily and return to civilian life, are reinstated therein to their own and the nation’s best interests. It ts the duty of seeing that the veteran is promptly replaced in his old job if he so desires. It is the obligation j to assist him in finding new employment if he so desires.Of course, every veteran will not need our assistance, The great majority of employers will welcome the serviceman back to his job, But it is our duty and our desire to aid the veteran in obtaining every benefit to which he is entitled under the Selective Training and Service Act and the GI Bill, particularly in the field of employment. Selective Service is prepared for this task and can carry on the work without interrupting ,the orderly processes of induction. Each local board constitutes a Veterans Information Center. Each board has attached to it reem!ployment committeemen, government appeal agents, medical advisers, and other qualified persons available to aid the veteran. The entire local board personnel compensated and uncompensated, is fully acquainted’ with the plan and operation of the Veterans’ Assistance Program. Each serviceman upon being discharged is instructed at the point of separation to report to his local ‘board, within ten days after separation to receive a new classification card and registration certificate to replace those he surrendered upon his induction. At that time if he indicateS that he desires assistance in getting his old job back or in ob-; taining new employment it is. the, local board’s responsibility to aid} . him in every way possible. The men we selected for military service are discharging their patriotic duty with valor and efficiency. But they also are looking ahead—in incréasing numbers—to their return to civilian life, many with a feeling of uncertainty. It is our responsib ility to help those men, if they feel that they need help. And they, in turn look primarily to the men who sent them into military service to guide them in their readjustments to civilian life. We must give to those men who fought to preserve the democratic way of life for all of us the aid thay will need to obtain their share in it. We must give to the utmost, for that is how they have earned it. for its value! thorizing state loans to returning war veterans to start them in business or to obtain supplies, tools or machinery. There are five school measures in the list of constitutional amendments, providing briefly as: follows: SCIA II, which would allocate all state school appropriations from the general fund, instead of two separate funds; SCA 16, setting up provisions for the qualifications and election of memlbers of county boards of education; AGA 17, authorizing the legislature prescribe the qualifications and fix the salaries-of county superintendents of schools, ACA 28 repeating an old, never used, constitutional provision permittng the levy of an. annual educational poll tax and ACA 36, empowering the. state board of education on nomination by the state superintendent of public instruction to appoint one deputy state superintendent and three associate superintendenits all for four year terms. Other ‘proposed constitutional amendments include: SCA 13, changing the state railroad commission to a state public utilities commission; SCA 17, submitting to the people for ratification all legislative changes in the alien land act; ACA 4, revising the law of succession to the governorship, placing after the governor and lieutenant governor the last dulyelected president-pro tem of the senate and speaker of the assembly, A CA 35, permitting the-legislature to increase thé salary of the governor, and ACA 39, creating a three member state court of tax appeals. OLD NARROW GATIGE STATION CHANGES HANDS The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad property on which is located the abandoned terminal station of the dismantled railroad, it was announced yesterday, has been sold to Mr. and Mrs .Edward W. LaRue of 218 Boulder Street. The building will be used for freight and storage and an office for the trucking business which Mr. and Mrs. LaRue will conduct. They have purchased three large trucks with — trailers, having .recently returned — from Yakima, Washington, where. they took factory delivery of the equipment. : LaRrue has been engaged in hauling here since last November, chief-~ ly in freighting barite from the — Spanish Mine at Washington, Nevada County. Six men are now employ crew to 10.

Rae Se = & Come depends on Uncle Sam, will apeyoung man: The Nugget is delivered to your home twice.a week for only 30 cents per ae month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster “ Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ooet pri . This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. ran The County Seat ‘Pane NEVADA city, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1945. THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. ‘We do-not believe that the people of this country are going to approve a measure which will force every young man to take a year out of his life for military training, alone, under the U. S. Army management and direction. In time of war we have no choice, young men must be trained and must fight. In time of peace we do have a choice and you can bet your bottom dollar we are not going to hand over our young men to the Army or Navy for a year, or any other period. But we do think that most American citizens, now realizing how much the peace of the world in years to prove a year out of the lives of every young man, and perhaps of every young woman,-now that all wars are total wars provided they can do it through agencies already in being and which we have for more than a hundred years approved. These agencies are the univer. sities which normally train thousands of young men each year in military science, and the National Guard which trans other thousands through the land year'in and year out. We hand over our boys to the Army and Navy in peace time because wemust. But, while we do believe that every should have mittary drilling and be -given a thorough training in peace time for the emer-. gency of war, we prefer, in each . state to do it ourselves. In peace time the National Guard is a voluntary organization. To provide every boy with military training, and perhaps every girl in certain activities, we should be obliged, if: universal training were adopted, to make service compulsory in the! National Guard. However, it would ‘be under the overall direction of the Army and Navy, but we would, in each state insist that the officers immediately in charge would be those that we the people have chosen for the job. RETIRED PLACER» YIELDS QUARTER . ture of his chest was taken and there MINER PASSES IN GRASS VALLEY Funeral services were. held yesterday morning in the Hooper .and Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley for Everett Darwin Wolbert who died Monday while visiting his daughter (Mrs. Edith Dennis. In charge of the service was Rev. Jesse Rudking, pastor of the Methodist Church. Interment was in the Elm Ridge Cemetery. The deceased was one of the first oil well drillers in California and in later years become. interested in ‘placer mining in this vicinity. He lived in Grass .Valley several years ago but at the time of his death his home was in San Mateo. He was a native of Wisconsin, aged 78 years. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Emma D. Wolbert and the following children: Leslie Wolbert of San Rafael, Mrs. Edith Dennis of Grass Valley, Mrs. Gladys Cunningham of San Bruno, C.D. and Merle Wolbert: of San Francisco, Mrs. Davis Boldt of Palo Alto, Virgil Wolbert of San’ Bruni, Mrs. Zelma Stovall of Madera, Mrs. ! Nadine Morton of San Mateo and 11 grand children and 12 great grandchildren. SMALL BOY'S AESOPHAGUS Hummelt yesterday Lome a o withdrawn a silver quarter from.the aesophagus of Billy Frank, three and half years old, the son of Mr, and Mrs. William Frank of Rough and Ready. The parents declared that the child must have swallowed the quarter on July 4th. Dr. Hummelt said the parents ‘brought the > child to him several days ago, Satter ing from cough and lack of appetite. A casual exa'mination revealed nothing wrong, but believeing the child migSt have incipient tuberculosis a fluroscope. picwas plainly revealed the quarter. A long pliable forceps was trust down ‘Under such a system, each metropolis, ‘would. military establishment or mea Hach village would have its companies, one or more. Each on would have its’ regiment, and each metropolis would have its army div-. ision, or divisions. Just as the youth of California ~ is now compelled to go to school until sixteen years of age so each boy, and probably, sth, ‘would receive training needed in event of another It would be conscription, yes, but every night every boy and girl would be home with their folks. And. the people themselves could and would keep an eagle eye on the kind of training the ehildren were receiving, because it would be given right there at none: each town, have its war. — event any’ young man aienianes a talent for leadership, he would be sent on to a university, and be given the full four years of education at government expense, to graduate as a reserve ofificer in Army or Navy. That, almost, ig what happens now It is.a system we have long been accustomed to. Young men entering the University of California, for instance, are all given military training. These wo do well in it take advanced courses in military science and graduate as reserve officers. They do not receive their expenses under the present system, but in order to encourage young men wiih} leadership albility, we believe it! would be the most economical means of maintaining a great bedy of reserve officers, who could be called to the colors the moment international trouble started. Such a system, would not interfere in any way with the military establishments at West Point and Annapolis. They would still remain the school for professional army and navy training, though in our opinjon it is high timie both army and navy established the counterparts of those famous colleges on the Pacific Coast. We would still need them ifor the men who enter the service of their country on a_ professional basis. . the child’s throat and the coin reWe admit frankly that this system of conscription is not likely’ to , Vice to their country. moved. mediately. His appetite improved imBRIDF’S FATHER TES NUPTIAL KNOT Miss Helen Rudkin and Cpl. Frank L. Fausel were married Tuesday afternoon in the Grass Valley Methodist Church at 4 o'clock. The bride’s father, Rev. Jesse Rudkin pastor of the church, read the service. Mrs. Fausel attended Placer Junior College and for several years has been employed in federal and state positions. The bridegroom is:the son of Mrs. Mary Fausel of Placerville, El Doarod Clounty, where he graduated from high school, and later engaged in the grocery business with his brother, George. He entered the army in May, 1942, and served in the C. I. B. theatre with 51st Medical Battalion. ag (Miss Oveta Fausel, sister of the bridegroom was brides maid, and Lt. Arthur Moore of Placerville, ‘was best man. Only immediate members of the family were present. A wedding supper was served at the parsonage and the couple left for a honeymoon at Lake Tahoe. please the brass hats in Washington, where every thought and effort is bent on Gentralizing power in the federal government. But it is a syétem, faulty though it may be, in which the people themselves can continue to control in a large degree, the upbringing of -their children, without having them taken from their homes and herded in various cantonments over the land and placed under the rigid discipline of military martinets, Moreover there are a number of things that a great many young people need along with military training. They need lessons in courtesy, they need drill often .after they are through with the public schools, in the three R’s, they need vocational guidance, and_ often elementary training in the work they will do in the world. These things might easily be combined with military training during their year of peace time serMISS GRACE ‘countrées, .Publie Opinion. EDDY SUCCUMBS Miss Grace Edidy, 70--years ago, died early yesterday morning in a Stockton hospital. Funeral services will be held in the Holmes Funeral Mome Saturday at 4 p. m. Rev. David Ralston, pastor. of the Methodist Church of which Miss Eiddy was a life time member, will conduct the service. Interment will be in the Pine Grove Cémetery. The deceased was a sister of the late -supervisor, Richard Eddy, and one of the arliest members of Rebekah Neva Lodge of this city. THOUSANDS OF WOMEN HOURS FOR RED CROSS The diligent, capable and unse!fish women of the Nevada City Chapter ARC production corps under their chairman Mrs. Louise Polglase completed and shipped during the months born in this city of May and June: Sewed and knitted articles 392; kit bags 644; miscellaneous articles 145. Total Awe. ae Home workers 101. Room workers 96. Total 197. Hours given 4277 or the equivalent of 534 -eight hour days. This is but a two month notation of what has been a steady ard loyal service of this patriotic group. The products have gone to hospitals, service men of all branches, refugees, and also to the needy of. foreign From various such. sources have been received letters of sinlcere’ thanks and appreciation. This is a letter received by Nevada City Chapter, American Red Cross, in appreciation of supplies sent to France. (Transslation.) Institution: Notre ance, Saint Nazaire. I have received with ure, the clothing, chemises, pants, shirts, dresses, ete, that the charitable ladies of America have sent to our organization. I appreciate most the thoughts that prompted the sending of these things. that are practically impossible to get here. It pleases us to merit your &ympathy and to havé it indi¢ated in -titis way by your gracious generosity. I address my thanks from the committee of the United French and more especially to the women of Nevada City Red Cross who contributed directly to our well being. (Signed) M. LIED. MILITARY TRAINING FOR YOUTH APPROVED Pulblic apyroval by a large cote for the continuation of Selective Service for peace time military training is indicated by a recent survey conducted by the American Institute of Dame D’Espermuch pleasAnnouncing the results of ‘a survey made last month George Gallup, director of the institute asserts: “Tf public openion for a large post ‘war army and navy continues to be as overwhelming after the Wa as it is now, the issue of ‘whether Wwe should have a peace time military draft may largely settle itself.” ' He cites the results of four surveys made by the institute since last Septemiber as indicating the trend of sentiment on the question: After the war is over do you think every able bodied young man should be erquired to take military or naval training for one year? Sept. 1944—Yes 63%. No. 23%. Undecided 14%. Dec. 1944—Yes 70%. No 25% Undecided 3%’. Feb. 1945—Yes 69%. No 22%. Undecided 9%. May 1945—-Yes 70%. No 34%

Undecided 6%. These tests of opinion Director Gallup declares shéw that the average American favors a large post war army and navy as protection against possibility of unprovoked attack. Lightning Fires Keep Ranger Busy Ranger Hobart I. Snider of the Tahoe natonal forest station at Truckee, reports that four lightning fires. started in the region of Mt. Pluto and Mt. Watson during a-recent electrical storm were all extinguished with trifling damage. During the storm fire details were sent to the Sierraville and Downieville districts, both in Sierra County, and several Tahoe forest officers and crews have lately been assigned to aid in stamping out lightning fires in the Klamath national forest. TO PLANT BEAVER NAVY TODEPEND MANY INITIATIVES IN TAHOE FOREST DURING AUGUST Arthur L. Hensley in charge of ‘beaver planting for the California Fish and Game Commission with his assistant, Williatii, Pollard have just completed a surevy of sites for establishing more beaver colonies in Tahoe national forest. Accompanying the two specialists on their trip was Harry Camp resource manager in the Tahoe forest headquarters here, and Robert 1. Snider ranger for the Truckee district. Hensley stated he was impressed with the favorable conditions «for beaver on Sage Hen, Juniper, Alder and Martis Creeks. In August he proposes to transplant beaver from their present colonies in Plumas national forest to at least two of the locations approved, All the creeks mentioned are in the Truckee district. Hensley reports that wherever beaver are established, trout apparently are: better able to propagate and increase naturally. DOMESTIC WATER RATES GIVEN BOOST BY NIN The Nevada Irrigation District has established new and graduated rates for the domestic water users, and bills now going out will reflect more nearly the actual use of water than has been. the case, according to a ‘bulletin sent out with the bills. Old rates were flat rates that took no account of the size of the house or the garden served. The new rates take these factors into account and while’ the charges for some classes of users are lower than formerly, the majority will pay more. The new rates do not effect contracts, which have several years (co run with the two municipalities. Nevad City and Grass Valleye. ‘civiltan ON RESERVE OFFICERS The United States Navy will depend upon reserve officers in peace as well as it does now during the war, said Artemus L, Gates, UnderSecretary. of the Navy, at graduation exercises of the U. S. Naval Reserve Midshipmen’s School, University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana recently. He estimated that the peace time Navy will need, in.addition to its regular line officers, and this year’s and next yéar’s graduates of naval acodemy, 30,0000 other ers. the offic‘of the reserves,’’ he said. Pointing out there are now approximately 350,000 officers.in the navy,-he said that less than four per cent, 11,350 are graduates of the naval academy. All the rest, ‘more than 300,000 are reserves. “In short, the navy which 6 fighting this war and winning it is a navy,’ said the under-secretary. Gold Flat Dump Bought by Selby’s es = ; {the people for ratification, These will come'from the ranks Due to a need of a flux the Selby . Smelting bay, are purchasing tailings from an} Works on. San Francisco . old abandoned chlorination dump ‘n. Gold Flat on the lower Grass Valley . road -a“half mile outside this city. gaged in Tremining which under the treatment given by TO GO ON NEXT STATE BALLOT By Clem Whitaker With 14 measures already qualified for submission to the voters next year by reason of legislative action, and with the likelihood that ‘petitions will be cireulated for seyeral initiative acts. California’s 1946 ballot may approach pre war propetions both in length.and controvers sial content. a A $50,000,000 veterans bond issued to aid service men in buying farms and homes, was given legislative approval and is slated to go to in addition to 13 constitutional amendment proposed by the legislautre. The new Veterans Farm and Home Purchase Act bond issue would augment 2 $30,000,000 bond authorization for the same purpose voted in 1944. Three headline initiative acts, ‘which are expected to reach tre ballot by petition and-which are bound to stir up bitter controversy are: 1—A CTO sponsored fealth insurance act, similar to the several state medicine proposals defeat in the legislature. : 2—A* new ham and [praiosal, 3——A veterans right endment guaranteeing service men an absolute right to employment without requirement of union memeges pension to work am. bership. . M. Jordan and J. Cléfinan are en-. tional amendments, the old dump,! Among the 13 proposed constituperhaps the two ACA 10, provmost important are l'iding for annual instead of biennial Selby yields$ 11 in gold and 71 cents . legislative sessions, and ACA 37, auin silver. It is however as a flux that the smelter is taking this ancient dump, which it is estimated will yield 4500 tons. Mayor Ben Hall owns the land on which the dump reposes, The plant was known as the Maltman Works a half century ago.and miners with small tonnages of gold ore took, the output there for reduction. “EVERY VETERAN WILL NOT NEED AID, BUT THOSE WHO DO, MUST GET IT” By Lewis B. Hershey Director of : Selective Service Up to and through the first part of this year, the major task of Sel-} ective Service was to bring the nation’s armed forces up to authorized strength—to provide the basic manpower our military leaders required for victory. That job has been well done. It has been accomplished with out disruption of vital war production or unnecessary interference with essential civilian activities. It has been truly said that our local boards have shown the world that democracy can. operate as efficiently in war as during peace. And I have the utmost confidence that they will continue to function with fairness and efficiency in the even more difficult task presented by increasing demobilization that must be synchronized with continuing demobilization. Today, Selective Service has a threefold task: First, to supply the men needed ‘by the armed forces to replace those lost in combat and those who are being released after long and difficult service; second, to select men for induction so ag to cause a minimum of disturbance to industry, transportation, and agriculture; and third, to restore the serviceman discharged under honorable conditions: to his former job or to aid him when necessary in finding new employment, To dischange the first two of pnORe . responsibilitse we have not only smoothly working machinery but also the benefit of more than four years, of experience in recruitment. For. the third, we have the plan already in operation, the earnest desire. to function smoothly and efficiently and the determination to gain betterment from experience. Our responsibility to the veteran —placed upon us by the Selective Service Training and Service Act—is to, see that the men we selected for military service who serve satisfacfactorily and return to civilian life, are reinstated therein to their own and the nation’s best interests. It ts the duty of seeing that the veteran is promptly replaced in his old job if he so desires. It is the obligation j to assist him in finding new employment if he so desires.Of course, every veteran will not need our assistance, The great majority of employers will welcome the serviceman back to his job, But it is our duty and our desire to aid the veteran in obtaining every benefit to which he is entitled under the Selective Training and Service Act and the GI Bill, particularly in the field of employment. Selective Service is prepared for this task and can carry on the work without interrupting ,the orderly processes of induction. Each local board constitutes a Veterans Information Center. Each board has attached to it reem!ployment committeemen, government appeal agents, medical advisers, and other qualified persons available to aid the veteran. The entire local board personnel compensated and uncompensated, is fully acquainted’ with the plan and operation of the Veterans’ Assistance Program. Each serviceman upon being discharged is instructed at the point of separation to report to his local ‘board, within ten days after separation to receive a new classification card and registration certificate to replace those he surrendered upon his induction. At that time if he indicateS that he desires assistance in getting his old job back or in ob-; taining new employment it is. the, local board’s responsibility to aid} . him in every way possible. The men we selected for military service are discharging their patriotic duty with valor and efficiency. But they also are looking ahead—in incréasing numbers—to their return to civilian life, many with a feeling of uncertainty. It is our responsib ility to help those men, if they feel that they need help. And they, in turn look primarily to the men who sent them into military service to guide them in their readjustments to civilian life. We must give to those men who fought to preserve the democratic way of life for all of us the aid thay will need to obtain their share in it. We must give to the utmost, for that is how they have earned it. for its value! thorizing state loans to returning war veterans to start them in business or to obtain supplies, tools or machinery. There are five school measures in the list of constitutional amendments, providing briefly as: follows: SCIA II, which would allocate all state school appropriations from the general fund, instead of two separate funds; SCA 16, setting up provisions for the qualifications and election of memlbers of county boards of education; AGA 17, authorizing the legislature prescribe the qualifications and fix the salaries-of county superintendents of schools, ACA 28 repeating an old, never used, constitutional provision permittng the levy of an. annual educational poll tax and ACA 36, empowering the. state board of education on nomination by the state superintendent of public instruction to appoint one deputy state superintendent and three associate superintendenits all for four year terms. Other ‘proposed constitutional amendments include: SCA 13, changing the state railroad commission to a state public utilities commission; SCA 17, submitting to the people for ratification all legislative changes in the alien land act; ACA 4, revising the law of succession to the governorship, placing after the governor and lieutenant governor the last dulyelected president-pro tem of the senate and speaker of the assembly, A CA 35, permitting the-legislature to increase thé salary of the governor, and ACA 39, creating a three member state court of tax appeals. OLD NARROW GATIGE STATION CHANGES HANDS The Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad property on which is located the abandoned terminal station of the dismantled railroad, it was announced yesterday, has been sold to Mr. and Mrs .Edward W. LaRue of 218 Boulder Street. The building will be used for freight and storage and an office for the trucking business which Mr. and Mrs. LaRue will conduct. They have purchased three large trucks with — trailers, having .recently returned — from Yakima, Washington, where. they took factory delivery of the equipment. : LaRrue has been engaged in hauling here since last November, chief-~ ly in freighting barite from the — Spanish Mine at Washington, Nevada County. Six men are now employ crew to 10.