July 23, 1934 (8 pages)

a ry Behe EY er ba + Tax Schemes To Meet Huge Deficit N worth while. Do you subscribe for it? a This is) Nevada City's) ONLYHometown Newspaper. It supports things Nevada C VOL. VII, NO. 73 Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspap ity er The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA ugget Publishers Association ‘WE 00 OUR PART { Your Hometown News-— paper helps build ‘your community. Readers and ‘. advertisers make it a . good: builder. ) \ i a The GOLD Center MONDAY, July 23,1934. 4 the superior court by Judge Raglan Tuttle on the charge of atBy RALPH TAYLOR . eent to ea any professions and! ‘¢mpted burglary of the dry Caught in a veritable labyrinth of . busin: vex mpt from -the . Howse ay the ide ho-Marylatia mini new-horn schemes, curealls Nad ache: $24 . This would apply to . at sitet pak cia 23, District Athastily-conceived panaceas for fin-. dentists, dociors, barbers and many! ‘0'ney W. E. Wright and Deputy ancial disability, California’s taxother crafts and profesions and} District Attorney R. W. Tharp payers and lawmkers fce_ baffling would, in effect, operate as a gross . 2Ppeared for the prosecution and problem, in the months just head, ix 'DRY HOUSE BURGLAR Galore 1 . income tax-on these groups. TRIED, CONVICTED AND . SENTENCED 16’* MINUTES Lee Wyatt Was tried Friday in E. H. Armstrong and Willian Casi , ee ii settari +r the > dant. Fr: K their-sereh for the ~road-—baek-to . +-——-TFhe—so-called._‘ single—tax';*s Htari-for the-defendant. I oy solvency. broposal, designated to replace—the : oe an --testifued fo ve *Perhaps the greatest danger in{sales tax and place the entire cost The defendant. testified any period of financial emergency is the constant. threat that attractive. } of government erty tax-payer. on _ the common propImproveg and unimin his-own behalf. The trial last‘ . ! i i } } !" people. . j ; ed . 16% minutes and the defenda ee LOS ANGELES, July hiking and women whos portunity of their ful maintenance and credit toward thei transportation —~home at governmen earning workshops established by the Fed eral Transient Service today by H. A: R. FEDERAL AID FOR OMEN HIKERS 23—Hitch. wanderings have stranded them in California are now offered the op-. ! ne ee ee ee et e Everybody heard aman bites a dog, it is news. has Bigelow, National Forest 1 “ . {. a raging forest fire over in Antelope CCC Boys Win Again ~ In Antelope Valley Fire ~ tells the story. It happened last Sat=3 urday when 102 men were fighting . “ = So slow himself. This lad led his ° ;companions by a hundred yards or such matter, and actually overtook ;a jackrabbit, casually stepped on it and kiled—it,-and-sped-on without losing his. stride. in various : ; : cities of the state, it.was announced the fire crew setting a line for tire Carleton, state suddent; . Valley near Loyalton. . Biglow was going on ahead crew to follow. The wind Olja ees ; ; Pt Peele Oe veered and evrybody, including . gas , 2 f° ent was .four guilty f secona director of the org: Zé ta ‘ ly-baited but unsound tax proposals, proved properties would be taxed ; : red, eound ality 0 oe Seas ee Bigelow, had to run for their lives ae, hota Satin oe ri } degree’ burglary. Judgement was At the.same time, the work cen: Freee ee hurriedly enacted under the spur o alike. . ‘d pes / gos ter t ; 1 They made good time because the P ! A é — 3 e Made o imprisonment in the ers are turning é i Ss : Gr = Naha? . Pee a ar, Comwneate, the Dre ee worrert of Tom sit healed : jail f : Aft msti tie] Tee. Ss rps eas flames were coming along through mgt Fi Ee . j os Pere :. county jail for one year. er Ne nstic articles or istri i c er : ees Bee ee eee blem, instead of relieving it. {000 to $133,000,000 to-be met bas: J Bm y 8 : : coedbutign. £0 the tree tops like stampeding race Bea . : ae 3 Rae ., . serves Sixty days of this sentence needy non-resident families includes : fi aie & rac And it is this danger—far more . ed on the’ present cash shortage, ans lod i z oni ; horses: Deer rabbits; birds and k bie i ! 1e 1S. to be parolec anc mus* ing everything wey abies’ 1qvSees ‘ i sid 7 ainsi serious than the state deficit— plus the gap between present income} . 1 os ; tH ei ee ilt = i babies’ 1a; beasts of every kind were also on » . } 1e@ave le county ermanently. elles to quilts <= le é c Ss. Se f i a“ " which confronts voters as well as ‘and outgo projected. over the com. : es : is I hee ; = shetirti the move : : fe gated ta : i ——%———______ n UC ion to extending ai i legislators in the present tax crisis.;ing two years, many other plans . eae ; i : extending aid ONS Mad fering” Phe Oe ; ‘ f ‘ > ; ‘ough 1e wor rojects y kis che , California farm organizations, to-! are under consideration. i BEER AND WINE TAXES jeue a eat ere Ue aay companion was gome sprinter, acgether with taxpayers’ groups and Most reeently suggested is a proplies ‘ ee be girl, woman, . Ci f r Ee or family w is wi ¢ other civic and public bodies, can! posal to delay the return of utility . : y 0 1s without means of do no more important’ work in tlie to make a next few months than careful and impartial study of every suggested tax change. Both voteis and lawmakers owe it to themselves : ——and the taxpayers’ pocketbooks —-to ‘make haste slowly” in their search for the answer to the tax dilemma, : Among the myriad already suggested, which major* changes and most careful scrutiny, lowing: 5 1.— A state advalorem, or state property tax, projected as a means of offsetting state revenue losses through transfer, next year, of utility property to county tax rolls. A maximum ad valorem tax (25% of the state budget) would have the effect of canceling the further relief intended for.local taxpayers by the shift of utility property to local rolls. : * 2.— A gross’ transactions tax. recently put forward under the name ot Syncrotax, levying 2 per cent on all transactions and designed to supplant all. other tax moeasures. The danger in this tax is that it would ‘“‘pyramid’’, a tax being programs involve require the are the follevied on each turn-over, and that large corporations might be’ favored at the expense of the individual operator. 3.— A “service tax’’ of’ 2% -per state revenue sources can be We aceovdine an oped. This would prevent the 15% additianal tax relief for ee oawiend. wiciben cut payers scheduled next year ET Te capa Ot Pcalnianan the Riley-Stewart Plan. j 4 And ,aggravating the the problem js will come to Sacramento next January pledged to amendment of the sales tax to exempt foodstuffs and other ‘‘necessities’’. which would . reduce income under the sales levy more than 30 per cent. Still other legislative candidates, according to -reports, are being quietly pledged to oppose a state fincome tax, while others—especi-' j ally in‘farming areas—are pledged to support an income levy. Considered as a whole, the pro; blem calls for intelligent, careful appraisal, without too many hastily-given and: binding pledges which might make it impossible to reach an agreement on a just°and proper solution. ; The most serious’ tax crisis in _California’s history requires, above by $60,359.66, or 83.8 per cent. circumstance does not comparison between much as might be supposed. “Beer consumption subject 3,600,629.5 gallons with 5,627,404 gallons last month lons or 56.3 per cent.’ IN JUNE TOTAL $132,372 per gallon amounted to $132,372.29 announcement made \here today by Fred E. Stewart, of State “Assessments just completed by ‘ the Board,” said Stewart, “show the possibility that many sopisiatore . at the revenue from this source for the past month will exceed the , corresponding taxes for June, 1932 “While it is true that practically no wine was sold during the same period last year, due to federa] restrictions on alcoholic content, this affect the tax yields as + to tax in June, 1933 amounted to only ‘aS contrasted marking a gain of 2,026,774.5 galIn spite of the marked increase over beer sales of a year ago, tax‘able distributions by local breweries and imports of beer produced elseProperty to the counties, saving onecti cae California, the Federaj this 265,000,000 in revenues for! SACRAMENTO july 2%——June Ss SESS ee waked aston: the state temporarily until new! trort: to rturh as many of these Persons as possible to their aomes, according to Carleton. Mi Similar work centers for itinerany men who are disqualified by reason of age or infirmity from enlistment at the regular transient work camps in the mountains and national forests, have also been established in a number of California Cities. Girls’ and womens’ work projects have been started to date at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno, San Jose and San Diegu. where were less last month than in May when they reached a record total of 5,877,506 gallons. There has been some slackening in gales of both domestic and imported brews. Wine business, on. the other hand, showed some improvement over the past month. The total taxable wine sales showed some improvement over the past month. The total taxable wine sales for June were fixed at 991,206 gallons ag . With 955,269 gallons in May. ‘all else, a new order of howiesty and sincerity on the part of all publie . officials, and candidates for public office—a sincerity which will refuse to trade away California's financial security for personal advantage. ELECTRICAL DEALERS TO WORK OUT CODE The Electrical. Dealers and Contractors Association county met at the Chamber of Commerce building in Grass Valley last Thursday night. The mee:ing was called ‘to ordér by C.-J. (Jim) Brown, resident, and the perfection. of a bid depository der N. R. A. laws and regulations Was established. Under the new of Nevada unsetup all persons firms securing competitive bid: for electrical work must set a date and time for bids to be onvened. A committee of three was this work and all bids will opened atsthe bid depository, which will be the Chamber of Commerce building in Grass” Vally, by these three members the association, The committee consists of Mr. Ik. O. .E, Klipphahn, J. R. Fredricks . and C, J. Brown. « : This association has been estab. lished through the N. R. A. and all contractors in this busines will he governed by the by-laws and electrical code as etablished by the Prsident of the United States. or = appointed for LG of * The, members , present at this meting were as follows: Cc. J. Brown,. president; Fred ’ Foote, _vice . president; E. O. E. Klipphahn, secretary and ‘treasurer J. R. Fredricks, and. A. B. Kenny. Me. PICNIC AT TAHOE i A happy . pienic. and ‘automobile trip enjoyed by a group of Nevada City people was made last Sunday. They motored to Lake Tahoe at their delicious lunch and then journied on to Carson City, Reno, Truckee and home. All were delighted with the trip. Those in the party were, Misses Jennie Britland, Alice and Claire Randall, Harrison Randall, Laurence Peterson, Mrs. Tom Randall and mother, Mrs. Ogden, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Erickson. . % . Billie ,Muscardini is spending al vaction with friends at North j Bloomfield. ; : Organization Placer Mining district county, California, been contemplated, . FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. ‘WADE ARMSTRONG Many friends gathered to pay the last tribute’ to the memory of the late Mrs. Wade Armstrong, funeral services for whom were held Satutday morning at the Armstrong residence on Nevada street. The service was conducted by the Rey. Charles brought The district is the formed under the — Placer Distriet law. passed by the California . legislature in 1933, and the mining Washburn. Mrs. Lyda Talbot Sans industry now has a public servant: rights through condemnation, con®"4 Storage vault for articies too . over 1933. : Cia the hymn, “Face toFace”. Masses' comparable to-the water, reclama-' struct dams, ‘canals and other works, PU!KY for ordinary gafe deposit June Was ane pith badibeietip ie of flowers were mute witness to the} tion, and irrigation districts which! and to apportion the use of water } POxes. ; ie bare pile a oe love in which the departed was hled. . for a long time have been servins. and other facilities of the district . The lobby and working quarters of the Twelfth Federal Reserve DisPall bearers were R. R. Goyne, J. F. l agriculture and other industries. among the land owners. It is thus. Will be of liberal dimensions, an@. trict have shown an increase over Colley, J. F. Stenger, P. G. Seadden, jThe Black Rock district has been . possible’ to undertake. scale develop-. Will be. artistically decorated in . Ene corresponding “period of ile tT. W Rich.ards and T. Lacy Jones. !formed by the hydraulic mining ‘n-. ments in the common g00d which . ™0dern style. The coin vault and . ighty-five Gene weet RrOren Te The funeral was directed by the terests of Yuba Basin to solve the! would be impracticable’ from the]! * afety deposit equipment will be of . this' area reported theiy gales, last clmes funeral Home. water development and debris storstandpofht of the individual op-he most up to date type, designea. month to’ be 1.2 per cent higher : ag problems. : . erator. to afford the maximum of protec-. than a year ago. In adopting the Placer Mining District Act (approved by the governor June 12, 1933) the state Tegislaturé finally gave mining land owners the right to organize public TWO ALLEGHANY MINERS DIE IN DEATH PACT’ Charles Smith, 60 years old, and “d Brown, 50 died early Sunday > : ; : : é : Rh agencies wth taxing, bonding, eniimorning in Alleghany, of suicidal é: A é ae z nent donrain and other powers, for poisining. The men, both miners, the purpose of earryig out cooperawere fast friends and had been. en% ; ; tive enterprises on the same basis First Placer Mining District Organized Under New Law of the Black Rock property owners within the district . in Nevada/ are qualified to vote. If a majority which has just; vote favorably the board of super-. into! visors declares the district duly orlarge ornamental windows on each being anw kind of public agnecy, . ganized and henceforth the’ affairs writes Frank E. Bonner in the Wes. tern Mining News of San Francisey. . first to be Mininf . ally completed and an election held on Apri] 30, 1934. The vote of thu . . . are in the hands of a_ board of di-, rectors elected by the Jand owners. [oF the district. Under the law a district has the. . power to levy tax assessments, is-! ' i ; sue bonds, acquire lang and water. The first steps toward formation 'of the Black Rock district were started in the fall of 1933. All proceedings before the Nevada County Board of Supervisors were eventnland owners was unanimous in favor of organization and by resolutoin of May 9 the board of supervicontrasted . j . forced concrete . 1 j ae . peed freee The frie covered 400 acres along ridge bordering Antelope Valley. It started at 2:30 o'clock Friday . afternoon and was out by Saturday morning at 9 a. mM. Supervisor Bigelow states that it was one of the . hottest he experienced. Th wind_carried it continually along : the ridge ‘and then. down into the “3 valley. Origin of the conflagration is attributed to some smoker who forgot. Mr. Bigelow states a splendid stand of second growth’ timber was completely destroyed. fires ever HANDSOME BANK BUILDING TO START Wrecking of the buildings at the corner of Pine and Broaq’ streets, to make way for the new -Bank of America building is well under way. . The former Shamrock cafe, the. store rooms occupied by the dress goods shop and the beer and gambling emporium are being steadily demolished. E. M. Rector, vice president of the local Bank of America »branen, reports that the wrecking contract has been let to H. F. Keckely, J. R, H«nter, and C. E. Pierce of Grass Valley, and by the end of this week it is expected to have the corner nearly ready for the builders DY Saturday. The contract for the new Pank . building has been let to H. H. Larson and Company, general ¢ortractors, San Francisco, . who will pro. ceed with the project immediately . upon completion of the wrecking, Th specifications ~ of the new . quarters eall for a one story, reé-instructure, chirty eight feet wide on Broad Strect, by 70 feet deep on Pine. The building will be devoted entirely to banking purposes with the exception of a store on Broad. Street, located on the upper side,next to the building of A. Hartung. The main entrance to the Bank will be in the iaiddle of the Broad Street facade, flanked by camp at White Cloud, but new enof 220 men by the end of the month. Most of the boys there are from the valley, county. Mr. Bigelow states that theyare a fine lot of boys and are doing a great work. CCC BOYS BUSIED qi IN’ BUILDING ROADS The boys at CCC camp at White Cloud on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway, when not fighting fires, are busy building new roads and improving old ones. Forest Supervisor R. L. P. Bigelow yesterday outlined the work that is now going forward. The new stretch of the Omega road from the highway down to the . old Omega road is now practically 3 completed and a crew is. busily engaged in building a road from Omega to Diamond Springs. A second crew from te CCC camp is engaged in widening, and building turnouts along the Washington and Relief Hill road and in improying the Graniteville-Relief Hill road. f : A third crew is doing maintainance work on the Quaker Hill roads which inelude Chalk Bluff, Remington Hill and Buckeye roads. A similar crew is at work clearing roadsides and building fire trails. There are now 160 men in the rollies are expected to bring the number at camp up to the standard many of them from Colusa side; windows. of the ‘Same general architectural design are eontinued plenty of light and ventilation. A basement of ample proportions will be devoted to the Bank’s stationery and storage, central heating system, tion both to the gtored valuabtes of the public and the cash and seeuri. 1 ties of the Bank: I Altogether,Nevada City is assured a banking structure of which it, . @ and the Bank of America, may well feel proud. year months of this year, the gain was on the Pine Street side, affordi: g. 32 per cent on the, ba8is of the 1933 comparison. Out of 24 major industries reporting, crease in their freight car require~ ments for the third quarter of 1934 same 24.6 of 1933. ago, and for the first six 19 forecast an inAbout : 24.8 per cbnt more emloyes were on California industrial ayrolls during June than -in the month a year ago, Total of weekly payrolls was per cent -higher than-in June amount ral BANK REPORTS JUNE Western cities fell below 1933 levels during the first Building activity in eight far half of this year zagd i holic drinking for a s 5 gagdin alcoho é Q as that enjoyed by farm land ownmat-ter of three weeks. They had Gre for-many years: tn hany wire apparently entered upon a death} © A eee ikl is pact. Brown was found dead: in the street early Sunday morning, and Smith a short time later. He died a few moments after he was found. Funeral services, under direction sors declared the district organized. At the first meeting of the board of directors on May 14, Wiliam H. Taylor of Western Gold, Inec., Russ Building San Francisco, was made president of the Board and Arthur the law is patterned after the irriga tion district act which has been so extensively used in constructing and operating the notable irrigation enterprises of the state. GAIIN IN EMPLOYMENT Despite factors adverse to indusbut business activity as reflected by bank debits in 27 cities last month gained 10: per cent over June of last. year. try on the Pacific Coast during the: last two months, Far Western busi Pike, suffered a ,days ago when qa gasoline iron took ‘Gilmore, who lives nearby, answered . Organization of a district is first initiated by petition filed with the of the Holmes-Hooper firm, were held this morning at Alleghany, ae Mai ae county board of ‘supervisors. After GASOLINE IRON CAUSES FIRE ; public hearings are held by the CAMPTONVILLE, July 21—The . board of »supervisors on the petihome of Mrs, Minnie Rathjen, of, tion, and if all requirements are small fire a few Properly complied with, an invesiigation and report by the county engineer is ordered. When completed, the report on all features of proposed district is made available for public inpection and: 2 ‘final hearing duly advertsed. The final hearing is for the purpose of considering ihe feasibility of th proposed develop« ments and receiving; protests. concerning land included in the district. When these matters are Satisiactorily adjusted the board adopts a resolutienestablishing the district and: orders an election for the purpose of determining whether or not fire. She endeavored to extinguish the flames, but it. got the best of . her’and she called for help. Arthur! the call, and the fire was finally put out, after considerable damage had been done in the kitchen. Mrs. Rathjen carries insurance in the] Acton M. Cleveland agency, and the damage is taken eare of. *: Mr. and Mrs. David R. Hutchison and sons, Richard and Bruce, of San Francisco are visiting Mr. and: Mrs, J._H. Hutchison. 2 W. Hoge of Nevada City. vice-president. oOther directors elected were Albert Lachman, Frank C. Hoge, and C. E. Clark. In anticipation of final formation of the district detaileq engineering surveys and investigations had been under way for some time and on May 16 application was filed with the United States land office at! Sacramento for right of Way necessary for the Black Rock dam, which the district plans to build in South Yuba canyon. This structure will provide suffi. cient capacity to meet the require. ments of the district until storage space is available in the large rethe . river for whcih final surveys are} now being. made by the United States War Department.—The Minthedistrict shall be formed. Only ing Review. . ‘. gained slightly during the month . carloadings, electric power produce: » 21 : . loadings brought about by the tying servoir at the narrows of the Yuba. . .up of three Coast Waterfronts. ing June gained about 24 per cent .g! over the corresponding Month a} ness not only held its own but even. of June, the Bark monthly index shows. The preliminary index for June stood at 65, which was three-tenths of a point ahead of May and an increase of 7.6 per cent over June, 1933. A decline in June business as compared with May of this year was generally -anticipated. ' The index, which is based upon of America’s tiom and bank debits, is now almost . *t per cent above the depression iow of March, 1933. The slight gain of June over May is explicable in part by the influence of heavier cars Carloadings. in» California, Nevada,» New Mexico and Arizona dur-' basic products 93.8 per cent of the June 1915 level, the highest. point:since December 1930. <-' Campfire girls enjoyed a picnic a Brisbells _pond on Wednesday, Jul y 18. This group. plans one : upon a Picnic’ for July. ‘They’ big: lunch-watermelon and then played games and Jean Jacobs, Mildred’ Tobiassen, Dore Anderson, Joan Grant, . Rore, The general leve] of prices received by farmers in’ California for 24 during June Was . July 1920-65 . " ? : GIRLS IN NEW The Bluebird group of junior ime for each month and for 4d wim, : ‘ ¥ In the happy group wer Maidna M Mrs, Nat Jacks 1 4 ; eo? } Rore.

a ry Behe EY er ba + Tax Schemes To Meet Huge Deficit N worth while. Do you subscribe for it? a This is) Nevada City's) ONLYHometown Newspaper. It supports things Nevada C VOL. VII, NO. 73 Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspap ity er The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA ugget Publishers Association ‘WE 00 OUR PART { Your Hometown News-— paper helps build ‘your community. Readers and ‘. advertisers make it a . good: builder. ) \ i a The GOLD Center MONDAY, July 23,1934. 4 the superior court by Judge Raglan Tuttle on the charge of atBy RALPH TAYLOR . eent to ea any professions and! ‘¢mpted burglary of the dry Caught in a veritable labyrinth of . busin: vex mpt from -the . Howse ay the ide ho-Marylatia mini new-horn schemes, curealls Nad ache: $24 . This would apply to . at sitet pak cia 23, District Athastily-conceived panaceas for fin-. dentists, dociors, barbers and many! ‘0'ney W. E. Wright and Deputy ancial disability, California’s taxother crafts and profesions and} District Attorney R. W. Tharp payers and lawmkers fce_ baffling would, in effect, operate as a gross . 2Ppeared for the prosecution and problem, in the months just head, ix 'DRY HOUSE BURGLAR Galore 1 . income tax-on these groups. TRIED, CONVICTED AND . SENTENCED 16’* MINUTES Lee Wyatt Was tried Friday in E. H. Armstrong and Willian Casi , ee ii settari +r the > dant. Fr: K their-sereh for the ~road-—baek-to . +-——-TFhe—so-called._‘ single—tax';*s Htari-for the-defendant. I oy solvency. broposal, designated to replace—the : oe an --testifued fo ve *Perhaps the greatest danger in{sales tax and place the entire cost The defendant. testified any period of financial emergency is the constant. threat that attractive. } of government erty tax-payer. on _ the common propImproveg and unimin his-own behalf. The trial last‘ . ! i i } } !" people. . j ; ed . 16% minutes and the defenda ee LOS ANGELES, July hiking and women whos portunity of their ful maintenance and credit toward thei transportation —~home at governmen earning workshops established by the Fed eral Transient Service today by H. A: R. FEDERAL AID FOR OMEN HIKERS 23—Hitch. wanderings have stranded them in California are now offered the op-. ! ne ee ee ee et e Everybody heard aman bites a dog, it is news. has Bigelow, National Forest 1 “ . {. a raging forest fire over in Antelope CCC Boys Win Again ~ In Antelope Valley Fire ~ tells the story. It happened last Sat=3 urday when 102 men were fighting . “ = So slow himself. This lad led his ° ;companions by a hundred yards or such matter, and actually overtook ;a jackrabbit, casually stepped on it and kiled—it,-and-sped-on without losing his. stride. in various : ; : cities of the state, it.was announced the fire crew setting a line for tire Carleton, state suddent; . Valley near Loyalton. . Biglow was going on ahead crew to follow. The wind Olja ees ; ; Pt Peele Oe veered and evrybody, including . gas , 2 f° ent was .four guilty f secona director of the org: Zé ta ‘ ly-baited but unsound tax proposals, proved properties would be taxed ; : red, eound ality 0 oe Seas ee Bigelow, had to run for their lives ae, hota Satin oe ri } degree’ burglary. Judgement was At the.same time, the work cen: Freee ee hurriedly enacted under the spur o alike. . ‘d pes / gos ter t ; 1 They made good time because the P ! A é — 3 e Made o imprisonment in the ers are turning é i Ss : Gr = Naha? . Pee a ar, Comwneate, the Dre ee worrert of Tom sit healed : jail f : Aft msti tie] Tee. Ss rps eas flames were coming along through mgt Fi Ee . j os Pere :. county jail for one year. er Ne nstic articles or istri i c er : ees Bee ee eee blem, instead of relieving it. {000 to $133,000,000 to-be met bas: J Bm y 8 : : coedbutign. £0 the tree tops like stampeding race Bea . : ae 3 Rae ., . serves Sixty days of this sentence needy non-resident families includes : fi aie & rac And it is this danger—far more . ed on the’ present cash shortage, ans lod i z oni ; horses: Deer rabbits; birds and k bie i ! 1e 1S. to be parolec anc mus* ing everything wey abies’ 1qvSees ‘ i sid 7 ainsi serious than the state deficit— plus the gap between present income} . 1 os ; tH ei ee ilt = i babies’ 1a; beasts of every kind were also on » . } 1e@ave le county ermanently. elles to quilts <= le é c Ss. Se f i a“ " which confronts voters as well as ‘and outgo projected. over the com. : es : is I hee ; = shetirti the move : : fe gated ta : i ——%———______ n UC ion to extending ai i legislators in the present tax crisis.;ing two years, many other plans . eae ; i : extending aid ONS Mad fering” Phe Oe ; ‘ f ‘ > ; ‘ough 1e wor rojects y kis che , California farm organizations, to-! are under consideration. i BEER AND WINE TAXES jeue a eat ere Ue aay companion was gome sprinter, acgether with taxpayers’ groups and Most reeently suggested is a proplies ‘ ee be girl, woman, . Ci f r Ee or family w is wi ¢ other civic and public bodies, can! posal to delay the return of utility . : y 0 1s without means of do no more important’ work in tlie to make a next few months than careful and impartial study of every suggested tax change. Both voteis and lawmakers owe it to themselves : ——and the taxpayers’ pocketbooks —-to ‘make haste slowly” in their search for the answer to the tax dilemma, : Among the myriad already suggested, which major* changes and most careful scrutiny, lowing: 5 1.— A state advalorem, or state property tax, projected as a means of offsetting state revenue losses through transfer, next year, of utility property to county tax rolls. A maximum ad valorem tax (25% of the state budget) would have the effect of canceling the further relief intended for.local taxpayers by the shift of utility property to local rolls. : * 2.— A gross’ transactions tax. recently put forward under the name ot Syncrotax, levying 2 per cent on all transactions and designed to supplant all. other tax moeasures. The danger in this tax is that it would ‘“‘pyramid’’, a tax being programs involve require the are the follevied on each turn-over, and that large corporations might be’ favored at the expense of the individual operator. 3.— A “service tax’’ of’ 2% -per state revenue sources can be We aceovdine an oped. This would prevent the 15% additianal tax relief for ee oawiend. wiciben cut payers scheduled next year ET Te capa Ot Pcalnianan the Riley-Stewart Plan. j 4 And ,aggravating the the problem js will come to Sacramento next January pledged to amendment of the sales tax to exempt foodstuffs and other ‘‘necessities’’. which would . reduce income under the sales levy more than 30 per cent. Still other legislative candidates, according to -reports, are being quietly pledged to oppose a state fincome tax, while others—especi-' j ally in‘farming areas—are pledged to support an income levy. Considered as a whole, the pro; blem calls for intelligent, careful appraisal, without too many hastily-given and: binding pledges which might make it impossible to reach an agreement on a just°and proper solution. ; The most serious’ tax crisis in _California’s history requires, above by $60,359.66, or 83.8 per cent. circumstance does not comparison between much as might be supposed. “Beer consumption subject 3,600,629.5 gallons with 5,627,404 gallons last month lons or 56.3 per cent.’ IN JUNE TOTAL $132,372 per gallon amounted to $132,372.29 announcement made \here today by Fred E. Stewart, of State “Assessments just completed by ‘ the Board,” said Stewart, “show the possibility that many sopisiatore . at the revenue from this source for the past month will exceed the , corresponding taxes for June, 1932 “While it is true that practically no wine was sold during the same period last year, due to federa] restrictions on alcoholic content, this affect the tax yields as + to tax in June, 1933 amounted to only ‘aS contrasted marking a gain of 2,026,774.5 galIn spite of the marked increase over beer sales of a year ago, tax‘able distributions by local breweries and imports of beer produced elseProperty to the counties, saving onecti cae California, the Federaj this 265,000,000 in revenues for! SACRAMENTO july 2%——June Ss SESS ee waked aston: the state temporarily until new! trort: to rturh as many of these Persons as possible to their aomes, according to Carleton. Mi Similar work centers for itinerany men who are disqualified by reason of age or infirmity from enlistment at the regular transient work camps in the mountains and national forests, have also been established in a number of California Cities. Girls’ and womens’ work projects have been started to date at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno, San Jose and San Diegu. where were less last month than in May when they reached a record total of 5,877,506 gallons. There has been some slackening in gales of both domestic and imported brews. Wine business, on. the other hand, showed some improvement over the past month. The total taxable wine sales showed some improvement over the past month. The total taxable wine sales for June were fixed at 991,206 gallons ag . With 955,269 gallons in May. ‘all else, a new order of howiesty and sincerity on the part of all publie . officials, and candidates for public office—a sincerity which will refuse to trade away California's financial security for personal advantage. ELECTRICAL DEALERS TO WORK OUT CODE The Electrical. Dealers and Contractors Association county met at the Chamber of Commerce building in Grass Valley last Thursday night. The mee:ing was called ‘to ordér by C.-J. (Jim) Brown, resident, and the perfection. of a bid depository der N. R. A. laws and regulations Was established. Under the new of Nevada unsetup all persons firms securing competitive bid: for electrical work must set a date and time for bids to be onvened. A committee of three was this work and all bids will opened atsthe bid depository, which will be the Chamber of Commerce building in Grass” Vally, by these three members the association, The committee consists of Mr. Ik. O. .E, Klipphahn, J. R. Fredricks . and C, J. Brown. « : This association has been estab. lished through the N. R. A. and all contractors in this busines will he governed by the by-laws and electrical code as etablished by the Prsident of the United States. or = appointed for LG of * The, members , present at this meting were as follows: Cc. J. Brown,. president; Fred ’ Foote, _vice . president; E. O. E. Klipphahn, secretary and ‘treasurer J. R. Fredricks, and. A. B. Kenny. Me. PICNIC AT TAHOE i A happy . pienic. and ‘automobile trip enjoyed by a group of Nevada City people was made last Sunday. They motored to Lake Tahoe at their delicious lunch and then journied on to Carson City, Reno, Truckee and home. All were delighted with the trip. Those in the party were, Misses Jennie Britland, Alice and Claire Randall, Harrison Randall, Laurence Peterson, Mrs. Tom Randall and mother, Mrs. Ogden, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Erickson. . % . Billie ,Muscardini is spending al vaction with friends at North j Bloomfield. ; : Organization Placer Mining district county, California, been contemplated,

. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. ‘WADE ARMSTRONG Many friends gathered to pay the last tribute’ to the memory of the late Mrs. Wade Armstrong, funeral services for whom were held Satutday morning at the Armstrong residence on Nevada street. The service was conducted by the Rey. Charles brought The district is the formed under the — Placer Distriet law. passed by the California . legislature in 1933, and the mining Washburn. Mrs. Lyda Talbot Sans industry now has a public servant: rights through condemnation, con®"4 Storage vault for articies too . over 1933. : Cia the hymn, “Face toFace”. Masses' comparable to-the water, reclama-' struct dams, ‘canals and other works, PU!KY for ordinary gafe deposit June Was ane pith badibeietip ie of flowers were mute witness to the} tion, and irrigation districts which! and to apportion the use of water } POxes. ; ie bare pile a oe love in which the departed was hled. . for a long time have been servins. and other facilities of the district . The lobby and working quarters of the Twelfth Federal Reserve DisPall bearers were R. R. Goyne, J. F. l agriculture and other industries. among the land owners. It is thus. Will be of liberal dimensions, an@. trict have shown an increase over Colley, J. F. Stenger, P. G. Seadden, jThe Black Rock district has been . possible’ to undertake. scale develop-. Will be. artistically decorated in . Ene corresponding “period of ile tT. W Rich.ards and T. Lacy Jones. !formed by the hydraulic mining ‘n-. ments in the common g00d which . ™0dern style. The coin vault and . ighty-five Gene weet RrOren Te The funeral was directed by the terests of Yuba Basin to solve the! would be impracticable’ from the]! * afety deposit equipment will be of . this' area reported theiy gales, last clmes funeral Home. water development and debris storstandpofht of the individual op-he most up to date type, designea. month to’ be 1.2 per cent higher : ag problems. : . erator. to afford the maximum of protec-. than a year ago. In adopting the Placer Mining District Act (approved by the governor June 12, 1933) the state Tegislaturé finally gave mining land owners the right to organize public TWO ALLEGHANY MINERS DIE IN DEATH PACT’ Charles Smith, 60 years old, and “d Brown, 50 died early Sunday > : ; : : é : Rh agencies wth taxing, bonding, eniimorning in Alleghany, of suicidal é: A é ae z nent donrain and other powers, for poisining. The men, both miners, the purpose of earryig out cooperawere fast friends and had been. en% ; ; tive enterprises on the same basis First Placer Mining District Organized Under New Law of the Black Rock property owners within the district . in Nevada/ are qualified to vote. If a majority which has just; vote favorably the board of super-. into! visors declares the district duly orlarge ornamental windows on each being anw kind of public agnecy, . ganized and henceforth the’ affairs writes Frank E. Bonner in the Wes. tern Mining News of San Francisey. . first to be Mininf . ally completed and an election held on Apri] 30, 1934. The vote of thu . . . are in the hands of a_ board of di-, rectors elected by the Jand owners. [oF the district. Under the law a district has the. . power to levy tax assessments, is-! ' i ; sue bonds, acquire lang and water. The first steps toward formation 'of the Black Rock district were started in the fall of 1933. All proceedings before the Nevada County Board of Supervisors were eventnland owners was unanimous in favor of organization and by resolutoin of May 9 the board of supervicontrasted . j . forced concrete . 1 j ae . peed freee The frie covered 400 acres along ridge bordering Antelope Valley. It started at 2:30 o'clock Friday . afternoon and was out by Saturday morning at 9 a. mM. Supervisor Bigelow states that it was one of the . hottest he experienced. Th wind_carried it continually along : the ridge ‘and then. down into the “3 valley. Origin of the conflagration is attributed to some smoker who forgot. Mr. Bigelow states a splendid stand of second growth’ timber was completely destroyed. fires ever HANDSOME BANK BUILDING TO START Wrecking of the buildings at the corner of Pine and Broaq’ streets, to make way for the new -Bank of America building is well under way. . The former Shamrock cafe, the. store rooms occupied by the dress goods shop and the beer and gambling emporium are being steadily demolished. E. M. Rector, vice president of the local Bank of America »branen, reports that the wrecking contract has been let to H. F. Keckely, J. R, H«nter, and C. E. Pierce of Grass Valley, and by the end of this week it is expected to have the corner nearly ready for the builders DY Saturday. The contract for the new Pank . building has been let to H. H. Larson and Company, general ¢ortractors, San Francisco, . who will pro. ceed with the project immediately . upon completion of the wrecking, Th specifications ~ of the new . quarters eall for a one story, reé-instructure, chirty eight feet wide on Broad Strect, by 70 feet deep on Pine. The building will be devoted entirely to banking purposes with the exception of a store on Broad. Street, located on the upper side,next to the building of A. Hartung. The main entrance to the Bank will be in the iaiddle of the Broad Street facade, flanked by camp at White Cloud, but new enof 220 men by the end of the month. Most of the boys there are from the valley, county. Mr. Bigelow states that theyare a fine lot of boys and are doing a great work. CCC BOYS BUSIED qi IN’ BUILDING ROADS The boys at CCC camp at White Cloud on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway, when not fighting fires, are busy building new roads and improving old ones. Forest Supervisor R. L. P. Bigelow yesterday outlined the work that is now going forward. The new stretch of the Omega road from the highway down to the . old Omega road is now practically 3 completed and a crew is. busily engaged in building a road from Omega to Diamond Springs. A second crew from te CCC camp is engaged in widening, and building turnouts along the Washington and Relief Hill road and in improying the Graniteville-Relief Hill road. f : A third crew is doing maintainance work on the Quaker Hill roads which inelude Chalk Bluff, Remington Hill and Buckeye roads. A similar crew is at work clearing roadsides and building fire trails. There are now 160 men in the rollies are expected to bring the number at camp up to the standard many of them from Colusa side; windows. of the ‘Same general architectural design are eontinued plenty of light and ventilation. A basement of ample proportions will be devoted to the Bank’s stationery and storage, central heating system, tion both to the gtored valuabtes of the public and the cash and seeuri. 1 ties of the Bank: I Altogether,Nevada City is assured a banking structure of which it, . @ and the Bank of America, may well feel proud. year months of this year, the gain was on the Pine Street side, affordi: g. 32 per cent on the, ba8is of the 1933 comparison. Out of 24 major industries reporting, crease in their freight car require~ ments for the third quarter of 1934 same 24.6 of 1933. ago, and for the first six 19 forecast an inAbout : 24.8 per cbnt more emloyes were on California industrial ayrolls during June than -in the month a year ago, Total of weekly payrolls was per cent -higher than-in June amount ral BANK REPORTS JUNE Western cities fell below 1933 levels during the first Building activity in eight far half of this year zagd i holic drinking for a s 5 gagdin alcoho é Q as that enjoyed by farm land ownmat-ter of three weeks. They had Gre for-many years: tn hany wire apparently entered upon a death} © A eee ikl is pact. Brown was found dead: in the street early Sunday morning, and Smith a short time later. He died a few moments after he was found. Funeral services, under direction sors declared the district organized. At the first meeting of the board of directors on May 14, Wiliam H. Taylor of Western Gold, Inec., Russ Building San Francisco, was made president of the Board and Arthur the law is patterned after the irriga tion district act which has been so extensively used in constructing and operating the notable irrigation enterprises of the state. GAIIN IN EMPLOYMENT Despite factors adverse to indusbut business activity as reflected by bank debits in 27 cities last month gained 10: per cent over June of last. year. try on the Pacific Coast during the: last two months, Far Western busi Pike, suffered a ,days ago when qa gasoline iron took ‘Gilmore, who lives nearby, answered . Organization of a district is first initiated by petition filed with the of the Holmes-Hooper firm, were held this morning at Alleghany, ae Mai ae county board of ‘supervisors. After GASOLINE IRON CAUSES FIRE ; public hearings are held by the CAMPTONVILLE, July 21—The . board of »supervisors on the petihome of Mrs, Minnie Rathjen, of, tion, and if all requirements are small fire a few Properly complied with, an invesiigation and report by the county engineer is ordered. When completed, the report on all features of proposed district is made available for public inpection and: 2 ‘final hearing duly advertsed. The final hearing is for the purpose of considering ihe feasibility of th proposed develop« ments and receiving; protests. concerning land included in the district. When these matters are Satisiactorily adjusted the board adopts a resolutienestablishing the district and: orders an election for the purpose of determining whether or not fire. She endeavored to extinguish the flames, but it. got the best of . her’and she called for help. Arthur! the call, and the fire was finally put out, after considerable damage had been done in the kitchen. Mrs. Rathjen carries insurance in the] Acton M. Cleveland agency, and the damage is taken eare of. *: Mr. and Mrs. David R. Hutchison and sons, Richard and Bruce, of San Francisco are visiting Mr. and: Mrs, J._H. Hutchison. 2 W. Hoge of Nevada City. vice-president. oOther directors elected were Albert Lachman, Frank C. Hoge, and C. E. Clark. In anticipation of final formation of the district detaileq engineering surveys and investigations had been under way for some time and on May 16 application was filed with the United States land office at! Sacramento for right of Way necessary for the Black Rock dam, which the district plans to build in South Yuba canyon. This structure will provide suffi. cient capacity to meet the require. ments of the district until storage space is available in the large rethe . river for whcih final surveys are} now being. made by the United States War Department.—The Minthedistrict shall be formed. Only ing Review. . ‘. gained slightly during the month . carloadings, electric power produce: » 21 : . loadings brought about by the tying servoir at the narrows of the Yuba. . .up of three Coast Waterfronts. ing June gained about 24 per cent .g! over the corresponding Month a} ness not only held its own but even. of June, the Bark monthly index shows. The preliminary index for June stood at 65, which was three-tenths of a point ahead of May and an increase of 7.6 per cent over June, 1933. A decline in June business as compared with May of this year was generally -anticipated. ' The index, which is based upon of America’s tiom and bank debits, is now almost . *t per cent above the depression iow of March, 1933. The slight gain of June over May is explicable in part by the influence of heavier cars Carloadings. in» California, Nevada,» New Mexico and Arizona dur-' basic products 93.8 per cent of the June 1915 level, the highest. point:since December 1930. <-' Campfire girls enjoyed a picnic a Brisbells _pond on Wednesday, Jul y 18. This group. plans one : upon a Picnic’ for July. ‘They’ big: lunch-watermelon and then played games and Jean Jacobs, Mildred’ Tobiassen, Dore Anderson, Joan Grant, . Rore, The general leve] of prices received by farmers in’ California for 24 during June Was . July 1920-65 . " ? : GIRLS IN NEW The Bluebird group of junior ime for each month and for 4d wim, : ‘ ¥ In the happy group wer Maidna M Mrs, Nat Jacks 1 4 ; eo? } Rore.