July 26, 1943 (4 pages)

__Page Four ~~ SERGEANT GATES WRITES OF EXPERIENCE IN A The following letter has been reGates: July 6, 1943 North Africa Dae? Dear Mr. Leete: 5 asked me to write something about deavoring to do so. As I remember correctly, rather easily and it so happened it this war over here and now I am en-: BARRAGE jair above us was silent. . whine of traveling shells. { . you were standing near’ the seems impossible,you. can’t ‘SUN bedlam about when it’s fired, yet this rush through two months’ago I was taking things the air makes such a loud sound it cniitetiimian = . the veterans jump, just the 6ame as [Sicilia come 160 kines ral AN, AAIDS [Bev.Boten carincton . ‘the new ones. Once we heard three shells in, the air all at the . time, all headed for us. but after er. iries were pulling back, same ; It wasn’t . ' possible for me to get three times as/. Shells roared over us from every . weak as usual, ceived from Sergeant Norman Ellard point of the compass. I don’t believe ¢rashed safely about a hundred yards }there was ‘a whole minute for the gway, I know I’d have to grunt and . ‘fourteen hours of dayligitt»when'the strain mightily to lift a soda crack-. Between / shots the air. above us was filled they’d until sud-) You couldn’t see the shells unless denly you’re awakened by a heinous! of screaming 88’s mortars, . ;machine guns and air bursts. Here’s wrurchi ,an example of those sudden chang-; Se? es. was one of those days when you sit them. your chin in your hand, and think to here?”’ On that unforgettable day, between 3,000 and 4,000 shells passed over our heads. True, most of them were in transit, en route somewhere else. very somber before the day was over. And just as sidelines there was a baitle going on a couple of hundred yards to one: side, mines blowing up jeeps on the other side, and Jerries machine gun bullets zinging ‘past with annoying persistency. (My outfit was in what is laughingly called ‘reserve’ for the day, but when I hear other soldiers who have been through four big battles say with dead seriousness, ‘‘Brother, this is getting rough,’’ you feel you'd rather be in complete retirement than reserve. All day we were sort of crossroads for shells and bullets. All day guns us. About three eights of the circle was Jerries and about five eights Americans. Our guns were blasting Hun hill positions ahead of us; ‘the Jerries were after our guns behind roared in a complete circle around. down on a roch once an hour, put ‘Some shells whine loudly throughout their flight, others make only . Things had died down late one ;afternoon, and the enemy was said a 4 to be several hills back. I. was wanyourself, “What the hell am I doing tuneless rustle. It’s an indescribable qgering around among some -of my sound. The nearest I can come to itimen, who were sitting or standing . 1 Tunisian is the sound made by pulling a stick . oytside their foxholes ‘rapidly through water. ; Some apparently défective shells . ‘get out of shape and make ‘46 miles an hour up the . \rhythmic knocking sound as though ;turning end over end. We all had to laugh when that one went over. They say you never hear the shell that hits you. Fortunately, I don’t ‘know much about that, but I do know the closer they hit the less ‘time you have to hear them. Those .landing within a hundred yards you have only about a second before they hit. The sound produces a special kind of horror inside you that is some. thing more than mere fright; it’s a confused sort of acute desperation. Each time you are sure this is the one. You can’t help but duck. Whether you shut. your eyes or not, I don’t know. But I do know that you become instantly so weak that your joints feel all gone, and it takes back to queer! man who’s h' But enough were noises. I remember one that sounded intended for us to .make a fellow just like a locomotive puffing about Donner Summit. And another one made a during the ; lull. . Some one. told me about a new! ;so I walked around ’til I found him. ' He was Pvt. Malcolm MHarblin, of (Peru, New York—He’s a 21 year old farmer who’s been in the army only: since June. He is a small, pale fellow, quiet ; as a mouse, wears. silver-rimmed! spectacles and his steel helmet is too big for him. He looks down right poor on the battle field but he’s alright. In his very first battle back at El Guethar, an 88 hit right beside him and a fragment went between his left arm and his chest, tearing his; pieces, but he wasn’t scratched. He! still wears the ragged uniform for. that’s all he has. He was showing one of the holes . and we were talking along nice and' peaceful—like when all of a sudden; here came that noise. And, boy, this’ had all the tags on it. Harblin dived into the foxhole and I was right on' about ten minutes to get normal. us. top of him. But sometimes you don’t hear} SS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY MONTHLY BILL e Cost of Living Still Cheap d ELECTRICITY stem compares the Nation One Item in th + of GAS an with lowest I" Zig Tega ne : Bright Spot in the Rising Cost of Living Rising WARTIME LIVING COSTS have affected nearly every item in the household budget. The outstanding exceptions in this increasing cost of living these days are your dependable gas and electric services. Among newcomers to this part of California, the “low cost for the combined use of gas and electricity has caused widespread comment. This has been particularly true in the San Francisco and Metropolitan East Bay Cities where the cost of gas and electricity in average home use is the lowest of all the twenty-five major cities in the Nation. For example, a war worker coming here from.New York, Newark, Rochester or Boston paid an average monthly gas and electric bill in these cities of more than NINE DOLLARS. In Los Angeles he would have FOUR DOLLARS AND SIXTYTWO CENTS, and in Seattle TEN DOLLARS AND FIFTY-THREE CENTS. In the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area his monthly bill would be FOUR DOLLARS AND TWENTY-NINE CENTS. These figures are taken from the Annual Report of the California Railroad Commission and are based upon the use of 75 Kwh of electricity and 2,780 cubic feet of 1,100 Btu gas or its equivalent. Low gas and electric rates in this area are the re_ sult of six major cuts in the price of Natural Gas since 1930 and six major cuts in the price of electricity Since 1928. Electricity costs no more here than before the them soon enough, and in this casej. we would have been too late, earth the shell was a blessed dud. It hit! the ground about 30 feet ahead of . us, bounced past so close we could} almost have grabbed it, and finally , wound up inert, a hundred yards in back of us. Harblin looked at me and I looked at Harblin, and I just had enough strength to whisper bitterly at him; “You and your damned narrow éscapes.” So till better hunting days, I remain Your friend Sgt. Norman Gates. P. S.—Won’t you join us? CAMP PAHATSI AIDS CHOSEN Camp bulletins have been maileé to nearly. four hundred scouts and leaders of the Tahoe Area Council according to L. H. Reynolds, chairman of the campng and activities committee and Robert H. Frank, scout executive, who will serve. as camp director. All details regarding activities, what to bring, fees and so forth are set out in this literature. ‘Although most scouts are working, they have been urged to get in their registrations and fees as early as possible in order that the camp management can purchase food and work out the fine cooperation that has been put forth by the rationing board. In addition to previous announcement that-Fred Knudsen, scoutmaster of Troop 10, Auburn, and Lester Richards, scoutmaster Troop-22, of Grass Valley, will serve on the staff, R. E. Arp, troop committeeman of. Troop 14 of Roseville, and an old time scouter, will have charge of nature lore, special bird study, hikes etc. Both Leonard Choate and Keith Weideman, junior leaders of Troop 11, Roseville, will serve as_ staff members in charge of the canteen and other assigned duties. : Fees for camp were announced today as $11 per week. Soldiers Aid In Fire Fighting In Trinity . Elwood Stone, chief dispatcher of the Tahoe National Foest, reports that a big fire has been raging west of Weaverville and 250 soldiers from Camp Beale were sent there to fight it. Men have also been sent from Reno to the fire lines. Camp White, near Medford, Oregon, is also reported sending men to GOLD MINES SAYS MINER By ED. C. UREN . . Happy Camp where in the reduction plant. e mine after the . transferred to ‘Geraldton, from which point he supervised the Stray Cattle At Camp milling operations at the Magnet, Tombill ‘and other adjoining properties being operated by the company. The Magnet, a gold producer is (still operating, although most of the aided cattlemen in the western end for with smaller ‘properties are closed lack of man power. In contrast ad a miraculous escape. the enforced closing of the gold former pastures in the Camp Beale’ mines on this side of the border, while we are still buying gold and paying $35 ‘an ounce to foreign countries for it, Canada has given ‘every possible aid to the gold mines . found in the area, presumably killed in order to keep them in production, says ‘Mr. Berger; even offering suggestions on stocking up when apparent shortages were threatened. At the outbreak. of the war Canada at once placed a ceiling on produce and on wages. The law is strictly enforced, with the result that the cost of living has been held to the lowest Dossible limit. It is claimed shirt, undershirt, and packet all tO!that the wage earner, although geting far less than those in the States is enabled to*§$ave more money in consequence. ; H. V. Kaltenborn, tthe commentator, is authority for stating that the cost of living has gone up 26 per cent since 1940; while wages have increased 93 per cent. Yet labor leaders insist that wages must be increased in order for the laboring man to live. LOOK 24): with JOSEPHINE HUDDLESTON When it comes to color, Joseph’s coat had nothing on the multi-colored patchwork designs created by ~ the case-making clothes moth when it spins the portable case in which Paige practically all its larvae ife. “Prolonged study of the habits of this case-making clothes moth reveals it to be a first class dressmaker, being able to enlarge its case by the insertion of little gores as it becomes plump on our bright sweaters or fine furs. “Without leaving its case the larva makes a slit halfway down one side and inserts “a triangular gore of new material, possibly from little Johnny’s red sweater. A similar insertion is made on the opposite side. If the larva is restless and moves from Johnny’s red sweater to your yellow one, this gore will be a different color. Still without leaving its case, the larva reverses itself and makes corresponding slits and additions in the other half. The case in lengthened by successive additions to either end.”* The case-making clothes moth doesn’t actually do its tailoring with needle and thread. But, left where it can nibble on them, it will use threads from your precious woolens for making the cocoon or portable case in which it spends most of its larvae life. All of which reminds us of some facts about the safe storage properties o* cedar chests—and_a misconception about “moth-killing.” 1) Cedar chests do not kill adult moths. However, moths don’t like the odor of cedar and it’s practically impossible to get them into a cedar chest.! 2) Moths don’t eat fabrics: Instead, it is the moth larvae, or moth children in their early stages, that cause fabric damage. It is to prevent even a minimum larvae-grazing period after hatching that cedar chest manufacturers urge that all garments’ and articles be cleaned or brushed thoroughly and aired before being stored in vedar chests, Once freed from all eggs. or larvav—and placed in a cedar chest sefore being exposed to egg deposits asarn-—such things are safe! Pac's taken trom Farmer's Redlerr) .s Livestock and livestock products accounted for 33 per cent of California’s farm income in 1492. Five billion . Edwin O. Berger “has . returned . 4S elected pastor of the St. Helena , Sometimes the enemey fire would . : ‘here from the Gray Eagle Mine at . Church, of this denomination, headSeveral people from home have with the inter-mixed rustle and the quiet down and you think the Jerthe has been engaged for.the past several months} Berger was employed at the Newmont ; took the property over and was later. Ontario _ Nevada City Nugget — Monday, July 26, 1943 Elected To Napa Post “Rev. Robert Carrington, former pastor of the Bethany Church on the highway between Grass Valley and Nevada City has been elected. president of the Northern California-Ne. vada Christ Ambassadors, a youth . organization. At the same time he . quarters for the in ‘Napa County. organization . *Rev. Carrington preached a farewell sermon yesterday before mov‘ing with his wife and infant son to St. Helena. \Beale Are Rounded Up Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and his jPosse of 30 mounted men yeserday jot Nevada County to round up stray animals that had returned to their larea. The round-up took place under an arrangement with army officers. ; It had been reported to the sher\iff that a few dead steers have been by stray bullets fired in rifle practice. The stockmen met on the Frank Poole, Empire and Austin ranches and at Spenceville. Cattle recovered were driven to the Guy Robinson, Coughlan and Magonigal ranches. H. F. Sofge Reappointed On State Chamber Committee H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, yesterday received a letter from George Pollock, chairman’ of the REV. ROBERT CARRINGTON —o IN SOUTH PACIFIC A letter from Ray Wilde, Jr.; who is on a South Pacific island, stated he had found four youths from Nevada City in the same area. It seems the men in the United States servides register by states at camp and in this way there are many reunions of friends and relatives. Ray found those from Nevada City in the camp to be Ainsley Fouyer and Bob James, marines, Melvin Clark and Al Unhgaro. Wilde wrote that he went out with Ungaro almost every night. 4 ‘FIRE DEPARTMENT ELECTION The annual election of the Nevada City Fire Deartment to elect a chief and assistant chief will be held at the Nevada City Hall on July 26th, 1943, between the hours of 6 and Spe om, , Election Officers — Clerks: Miles {Sacramento District Council of the State Chamber of Commerce, that! he had been reappointed a member of the State Chamber’s Highway and’ Transportation Committee. Coughlin and Carl Larsen; Judges: Al Bates and Vernon Sandow. (Signed) CARL STEGER, Fire Chief, Nevada City Fire Depp. 'July 15, 19, 22, 26. 4 % 4 @ The choice of *%& 2 y ' Z wise home-owners ase ae ONCE throughout the West. ~ zg 0 ALPHA STORES, Ltd. Nevada City—Phone 5 Grass Valley—Phone 88 Hotel Clunie UNDER NEW. MANAGEMENT IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP AND COCKTAIL BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP Excellent Service—Best Food 8TH AND K STREET, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA TOY AND JACOBS. JACK BRUNO, er Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eee ee NEVADA CITY ASSAY AND REFINING OFFICEPractical mining tests from 75 to 1000 pounds, giving the tree gold percentages of sup nurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. s Mail ord : Se "war. Gas actually costs less. ‘ this fire. It was burning in the Klamath National Forest, and was reVital in War Production are not rationed ” cand TE): PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY Ses ss . 29X-w.743 ported to have started from lightning storms. : Stone said that the fire was not what would be termed a big one, but the forest service took no chances, and fought it before it spread into the big timber of that section. grasshoppers e found concentrated on 6000 sfegoos grass and brush land near Tyle ke recently. It is estimated that there are now 20,000,000 victory gardens in the United Statés. A total of 12,545,610 patients were admitted to American hospitals sanitariums and related institutions . . during 1942. check work promptly attended to. Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Agent tor New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Delaware Underwriters Insurance Companies, Automobile Insurance ELMORE ee a

__Page Four ~~ SERGEANT GATES WRITES OF EXPERIENCE IN A The following letter has been reGates: July 6, 1943 North Africa Dae? Dear Mr. Leete: 5 asked me to write something about deavoring to do so. As I remember correctly, rather easily and it so happened it this war over here and now I am en-: BARRAGE jair above us was silent. . whine of traveling shells. { . you were standing near’ the seems impossible,you. can’t ‘SUN bedlam about when it’s fired, yet this rush through two months’ago I was taking things the air makes such a loud sound it cniitetiimian = . the veterans jump, just the 6ame as [Sicilia come 160 kines ral AN, AAIDS [Bev.Boten carincton . ‘the new ones. Once we heard three shells in, the air all at the . time, all headed for us. but after er. iries were pulling back, same ; It wasn’t . ' possible for me to get three times as/. Shells roared over us from every . weak as usual, ceived from Sergeant Norman Ellard point of the compass. I don’t believe ¢rashed safely about a hundred yards }there was ‘a whole minute for the gway, I know I’d have to grunt and . ‘fourteen hours of dayligitt»when'the strain mightily to lift a soda crack-. Between / shots the air. above us was filled they’d until sud-) You couldn’t see the shells unless denly you’re awakened by a heinous! of screaming 88’s mortars, . ;machine guns and air bursts. Here’s wrurchi ,an example of those sudden chang-; Se? es. was one of those days when you sit them. your chin in your hand, and think to here?”’ On that unforgettable day, between 3,000 and 4,000 shells passed over our heads. True, most of them were in transit, en route somewhere else. very somber before the day was over. And just as sidelines there was a baitle going on a couple of hundred yards to one: side, mines blowing up jeeps on the other side, and Jerries machine gun bullets zinging ‘past with annoying persistency. (My outfit was in what is laughingly called ‘reserve’ for the day, but when I hear other soldiers who have been through four big battles say with dead seriousness, ‘‘Brother, this is getting rough,’’ you feel you'd rather be in complete retirement than reserve. All day we were sort of crossroads for shells and bullets. All day guns us. About three eights of the circle was Jerries and about five eights Americans. Our guns were blasting Hun hill positions ahead of us; ‘the Jerries were after our guns behind roared in a complete circle around. down on a roch once an hour, put ‘Some shells whine loudly throughout their flight, others make only . Things had died down late one ;afternoon, and the enemy was said a 4 to be several hills back. I. was wanyourself, “What the hell am I doing tuneless rustle. It’s an indescribable qgering around among some -of my sound. The nearest I can come to itimen, who were sitting or standing . 1 Tunisian is the sound made by pulling a stick . oytside their foxholes ‘rapidly through water. ; Some apparently défective shells . ‘get out of shape and make ‘46 miles an hour up the . \rhythmic knocking sound as though ;turning end over end. We all had to laugh when that one went over. They say you never hear the shell that hits you. Fortunately, I don’t ‘know much about that, but I do know the closer they hit the less ‘time you have to hear them. Those .landing within a hundred yards you have only about a second before they hit. The sound produces a special kind of horror inside you that is some. thing more than mere fright; it’s a confused sort of acute desperation. Each time you are sure this is the one. You can’t help but duck. Whether you shut. your eyes or not, I don’t know. But I do know that you become instantly so weak that your joints feel all gone, and it takes back to queer! man who’s h' But enough were noises. I remember one that sounded intended for us to .make a fellow just like a locomotive puffing about Donner Summit. And another one made a during the ; lull. . Some one. told me about a new! ;so I walked around ’til I found him. ' He was Pvt. Malcolm MHarblin, of (Peru, New York—He’s a 21 year old farmer who’s been in the army only: since June. He is a small, pale fellow, quiet ; as a mouse, wears. silver-rimmed! spectacles and his steel helmet is too big for him. He looks down right poor on the battle field but he’s alright. In his very first battle back at El Guethar, an 88 hit right beside him and a fragment went between his left arm and his chest, tearing his; pieces, but he wasn’t scratched. He! still wears the ragged uniform for. that’s all he has. He was showing one of the holes . and we were talking along nice and' peaceful—like when all of a sudden; here came that noise. And, boy, this’ had all the tags on it. Harblin dived into the foxhole and I was right on' about ten minutes to get normal. us. top of him. But sometimes you don’t hear} SS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY MONTHLY BILL e Cost of Living Still Cheap d ELECTRICITY stem compares the Nation One Item in th + of GAS an with lowest I" Zig Tega ne : Bright Spot in the Rising Cost of Living Rising WARTIME LIVING COSTS have affected nearly every item in the household budget. The outstanding exceptions in this increasing cost of living these days are your dependable gas and electric services. Among newcomers to this part of California, the “low cost for the combined use of gas and electricity has caused widespread comment. This has been particularly true in the San Francisco and Metropolitan East Bay Cities where the cost of gas and electricity in average home use is the lowest of all the twenty-five major cities in the Nation. For example, a war worker coming here from.New York, Newark, Rochester or Boston paid an average monthly gas and electric bill in these cities of more than NINE DOLLARS. In Los Angeles he would have FOUR DOLLARS AND SIXTYTWO CENTS, and in Seattle TEN DOLLARS AND FIFTY-THREE CENTS. In the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area his monthly bill would be FOUR DOLLARS AND TWENTY-NINE CENTS. These figures are taken from the Annual Report of the California Railroad Commission and are based upon the use of 75 Kwh of electricity and 2,780 cubic feet of 1,100 Btu gas or its equivalent. Low gas and electric rates in this area are the re_ sult of six major cuts in the price of Natural Gas since 1930 and six major cuts in the price of electricity Since 1928. Electricity costs no more here than before the them soon enough, and in this casej. we would have been too late, earth the shell was a blessed dud. It hit! the ground about 30 feet ahead of . us, bounced past so close we could} almost have grabbed it, and finally , wound up inert, a hundred yards in back of us. Harblin looked at me and I looked at Harblin, and I just had enough strength to whisper bitterly at him; “You and your damned narrow éscapes.” So till better hunting days, I remain Your friend Sgt. Norman Gates. P. S.—Won’t you join us? CAMP PAHATSI AIDS CHOSEN Camp bulletins have been maileé to nearly. four hundred scouts and leaders of the Tahoe Area Council according to L. H. Reynolds, chairman of the campng and activities committee and Robert H. Frank, scout executive, who will serve. as camp director. All details regarding activities, what to bring, fees and so forth are set out in this literature. ‘Although most scouts are working, they have been urged to get in their registrations and fees as early as possible in order that the camp management can purchase food and work out the fine cooperation that has been put forth by the rationing board. In addition to previous announcement that-Fred Knudsen, scoutmaster of Troop 10, Auburn, and Lester Richards, scoutmaster Troop-22, of Grass Valley, will serve on the staff, R. E. Arp, troop committeeman of. Troop 14 of Roseville, and an old time scouter, will have charge of nature lore, special bird study, hikes etc. Both Leonard Choate and Keith Weideman, junior leaders of Troop 11, Roseville, will serve as_ staff members in charge of the canteen and other assigned duties. :

Fees for camp were announced today as $11 per week. Soldiers Aid In Fire Fighting In Trinity . Elwood Stone, chief dispatcher of the Tahoe National Foest, reports that a big fire has been raging west of Weaverville and 250 soldiers from Camp Beale were sent there to fight it. Men have also been sent from Reno to the fire lines. Camp White, near Medford, Oregon, is also reported sending men to GOLD MINES SAYS MINER By ED. C. UREN . . Happy Camp where in the reduction plant. e mine after the . transferred to ‘Geraldton, from which point he supervised the Stray Cattle At Camp milling operations at the Magnet, Tombill ‘and other adjoining properties being operated by the company. The Magnet, a gold producer is (still operating, although most of the aided cattlemen in the western end for with smaller ‘properties are closed lack of man power. In contrast ad a miraculous escape. the enforced closing of the gold former pastures in the Camp Beale’ mines on this side of the border, while we are still buying gold and paying $35 ‘an ounce to foreign countries for it, Canada has given ‘every possible aid to the gold mines . found in the area, presumably killed in order to keep them in production, says ‘Mr. Berger; even offering suggestions on stocking up when apparent shortages were threatened. At the outbreak. of the war Canada at once placed a ceiling on produce and on wages. The law is strictly enforced, with the result that the cost of living has been held to the lowest Dossible limit. It is claimed shirt, undershirt, and packet all tO!that the wage earner, although geting far less than those in the States is enabled to*§$ave more money in consequence. ; H. V. Kaltenborn, tthe commentator, is authority for stating that the cost of living has gone up 26 per cent since 1940; while wages have increased 93 per cent. Yet labor leaders insist that wages must be increased in order for the laboring man to live. LOOK 24): with JOSEPHINE HUDDLESTON When it comes to color, Joseph’s coat had nothing on the multi-colored patchwork designs created by ~ the case-making clothes moth when it spins the portable case in which Paige practically all its larvae ife. “Prolonged study of the habits of this case-making clothes moth reveals it to be a first class dressmaker, being able to enlarge its case by the insertion of little gores as it becomes plump on our bright sweaters or fine furs. “Without leaving its case the larva makes a slit halfway down one side and inserts “a triangular gore of new material, possibly from little Johnny’s red sweater. A similar insertion is made on the opposite side. If the larva is restless and moves from Johnny’s red sweater to your yellow one, this gore will be a different color. Still without leaving its case, the larva reverses itself and makes corresponding slits and additions in the other half. The case in lengthened by successive additions to either end.”* The case-making clothes moth doesn’t actually do its tailoring with needle and thread. But, left where it can nibble on them, it will use threads from your precious woolens for making the cocoon or portable case in which it spends most of its larvae life. All of which reminds us of some facts about the safe storage properties o* cedar chests—and_a misconception about “moth-killing.” 1) Cedar chests do not kill adult moths. However, moths don’t like the odor of cedar and it’s practically impossible to get them into a cedar chest.! 2) Moths don’t eat fabrics: Instead, it is the moth larvae, or moth children in their early stages, that cause fabric damage. It is to prevent even a minimum larvae-grazing period after hatching that cedar chest manufacturers urge that all garments’ and articles be cleaned or brushed thoroughly and aired before being stored in vedar chests, Once freed from all eggs. or larvav—and placed in a cedar chest sefore being exposed to egg deposits asarn-—such things are safe! Pac's taken trom Farmer's Redlerr) .s Livestock and livestock products accounted for 33 per cent of California’s farm income in 1492. Five billion . Edwin O. Berger “has . returned . 4S elected pastor of the St. Helena , Sometimes the enemey fire would . : ‘here from the Gray Eagle Mine at . Church, of this denomination, headSeveral people from home have with the inter-mixed rustle and the quiet down and you think the Jerthe has been engaged for.the past several months} Berger was employed at the Newmont ; took the property over and was later. Ontario _ Nevada City Nugget — Monday, July 26, 1943 Elected To Napa Post “Rev. Robert Carrington, former pastor of the Bethany Church on the highway between Grass Valley and Nevada City has been elected. president of the Northern California-Ne. vada Christ Ambassadors, a youth . organization. At the same time he . quarters for the in ‘Napa County. organization . *Rev. Carrington preached a farewell sermon yesterday before mov‘ing with his wife and infant son to St. Helena. \Beale Are Rounded Up Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and his jPosse of 30 mounted men yeserday jot Nevada County to round up stray animals that had returned to their larea. The round-up took place under an arrangement with army officers. ; It had been reported to the sher\iff that a few dead steers have been by stray bullets fired in rifle practice. The stockmen met on the Frank Poole, Empire and Austin ranches and at Spenceville. Cattle recovered were driven to the Guy Robinson, Coughlan and Magonigal ranches. H. F. Sofge Reappointed On State Chamber Committee H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, yesterday received a letter from George Pollock, chairman’ of the REV. ROBERT CARRINGTON —o IN SOUTH PACIFIC A letter from Ray Wilde, Jr.; who is on a South Pacific island, stated he had found four youths from Nevada City in the same area. It seems the men in the United States servides register by states at camp and in this way there are many reunions of friends and relatives. Ray found those from Nevada City in the camp to be Ainsley Fouyer and Bob James, marines, Melvin Clark and Al Unhgaro. Wilde wrote that he went out with Ungaro almost every night. 4 ‘FIRE DEPARTMENT ELECTION The annual election of the Nevada City Fire Deartment to elect a chief and assistant chief will be held at the Nevada City Hall on July 26th, 1943, between the hours of 6 and Spe om, , Election Officers — Clerks: Miles {Sacramento District Council of the State Chamber of Commerce, that! he had been reappointed a member of the State Chamber’s Highway and’ Transportation Committee. Coughlin and Carl Larsen; Judges: Al Bates and Vernon Sandow. (Signed) CARL STEGER, Fire Chief, Nevada City Fire Depp. 'July 15, 19, 22, 26. 4 % 4 @ The choice of *%& 2 y ' Z wise home-owners ase ae ONCE throughout the West. ~ zg 0 ALPHA STORES, Ltd. Nevada City—Phone 5 Grass Valley—Phone 88 Hotel Clunie UNDER NEW. MANAGEMENT IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP AND COCKTAIL BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP Excellent Service—Best Food 8TH AND K STREET, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA TOY AND JACOBS. JACK BRUNO, er Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eee ee NEVADA CITY ASSAY AND REFINING OFFICEPractical mining tests from 75 to 1000 pounds, giving the tree gold percentages of sup nurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. s Mail ord : Se "war. Gas actually costs less. ‘ this fire. It was burning in the Klamath National Forest, and was reVital in War Production are not rationed ” cand TE): PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY Ses ss . 29X-w.743 ported to have started from lightning storms. : Stone said that the fire was not what would be termed a big one, but the forest service took no chances, and fought it before it spread into the big timber of that section. grasshoppers e found concentrated on 6000 sfegoos grass and brush land near Tyle ke recently. It is estimated that there are now 20,000,000 victory gardens in the United Statés. A total of 12,545,610 patients were admitted to American hospitals sanitariums and related institutions . . during 1942. check work promptly attended to. Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Agent tor New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Delaware Underwriters Insurance Companies, Automobile Insurance ELMORE ee a