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liked his rugged individualism, knew
‘umns, is of course, true. But as a
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Vol. 12, No. 59. The County: Seat Paper_ _NEVADA CH YCALIFORNIA” The Geld “Center FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1938.
By H. M. I. Sore: GSES
on
There was a Kansas editor, whose FIRE FIGHTING FOREST
community unfortunately
bad news. Some of the news perNEW CITY SIGNS
tained to county officials who had
grown careless in their service to the ae
public, other news to ultra pious Max Solaro, city fire truck driv
citizens whose frailties . hiad
them out, and still other
part of fiduciary officers in
tor, being a
ently found
~ hero among
himself ‘an
What seemed to a
ful majority of his community.
vertisers -who were shown
light, dear
unpo}
wd in a
disparaging subscibers .
who figured unpleasantly in the head .
lines, local influence
and potentates of
caught in a jam,
editor and
tions with
severed busi relahim. Finally
who found the straight
path carpeted with
a fbit quernlous and
cojumn line across his front page:
J¥ YOU DON’T LIKE THE NEWS
THIS PAPER, DON’T MAKE
ness
scorpions, grew
ran a seven
IN
“Ox casionally of an editor
miakes news which he fails to report
in his paper, not because of modesty,
but he hates sully the
sood name
course
because to
of the press,
he has proved himself a black sheep.
Eventually, however,
the
pose,
record in their columns. So he migh:
well have been “first with the}
news.’’ We recall the tragie event of .
some months ago-inModoc
where the son of one: publisher shot
the rival publisher. The news appeared locally first in the columns of
the jate publisher, whose widow ‘“«-ried on.’’ Aldmittedly, however,
pulblisher father of the son who
a drunken humor committed
der, was in a cruel
judge who sentenced his own
after conviction of the crime,
not_vacked by greater torture.
and there follows an
Which brother
trail ex-'
as
county,
tne
in
murThe
son,
‘was
dilemna.
There is vast difference between
the practice metropolitan editors
and those in rural districts in regard
to news treatment. Your country
produced
what seemed an interminable run of
found
items that
revealed derelictions of trust on the
charge
of public’and private funds. The ediconscientious egg, presular
sin-.
Adlamibasted the .
even though}
the sheriff or!
some hard boiled peace officer takes .
journelists drly .
VANDALS STEAL
with a routing machine and install
ners.
the signs.
Civic minded persons felt
keeping to put these rustic
about the city since the Tahoe Na
tional
it
Forest
the
ar
headquarters are
Service and Forest is
. simil
{
jest roads.
Thursday morning Solaro
souvenir collectors
to. put
sumably by
; decided not
these
stolen,
to put ornate signs and
. _them Anyone
off the posts must practically tear
them apart,
‘fastened. He has
three
as they ate
heen
weeks,
the
them for
caught will
be arrested for malicious mismolesting signs
course
. chief,
Chief Garfield of Police
which carries a
fine of $500,
county jail or
However,
penalty
six months
both.
work is going
large rustic signs the
to be, “Welcome
They will
in
i
. on three lew
. tering
. City.
. tity-Grass Valley highway,
Ukiah highway, northeast,
Downieville highway.
The City Council recently ordered
signs for no. parking zones -and
weight limits signs for bridges at the
Plaza. New estimates give a seven)
ton carrying weight for the bridge .
from the Plaza up Broad street and .
tons tor the ‘bridge crossing
from the Plaza-toMain-street.-Three
and the
ten
regulation
placed on
Plaza to
ordered by
Boulder street from the
Park avenue. They
the council recently
editor frequently has
the character of those who “make .
news.” Is is not of course always bad .
news. Much of the news is‘ really of .
the kind celebrated in Grey’s Elegy. '
But even with bad
the family of the
srace, and remembering the frailty
of human kind, instinctively he}
writes his report with a little of the!
Salt that savors. The big city Sisal
however, hews to the line. He nover
knows where. the chips are falling.
In the great mass, advertisers and
subscribers are+lost. If he loses by!
one report he gains by another. A .
resentful community never to .
defend its fallen heroes as it will
sometimes in a rural district, where
@ man’s good and bad traits are carefully weighed, and he is condemned or commended on the preponderance of one or the other.
news, knowing
one fallen from . !
all
. pines,
.
rises
Brutus never is justified in the
small town. His murder of Caesar
for the social good overlooks the fact
that Caesar’s friends and neighbors
him trom a boy upward and, in fact
had made him Caesar knowing his
weaknesses but valuing above them
his character and ability to get things
done. No maudlin sentiment in the
village saves Brutus from the noose,
The truth assumes a myriad form
depending wpon the eyes that see it.
Some editors present their version
of the truth in pastel shades, others
‘in the stark, primary colors. Some
writers give their facts @ graceful,
attractive form even though the subject be esseritially ugly, others allow the natural ugliness of the fact
to govern their report. In other
words ugliness, as is perhaps the
best method, is revealed in repulsive
nakedness. The plaint of the many
newspaper readers that they never
get the exact truth in she news colmatter of fact they never get albsolute truth anywhere. Even geologists differ widely in reading the
truth in the rocks. The truth is relative. Sifted and scolored it emerges in human expression. Whether
in writing, painting, sculpture, or
acting, it is modified by each one’s
personal view. Nothing illustrates
this so well as the varying stories
of an event told ‘by witnesses when
they give evidence in court after
swearing to tell the truth,
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Norton of Gold
Flat and nephew, Billie Rickard,
. Visited in Marysville yesterday.
knowledge of!
+Auburn,
‘don, candidate for district attorney
read “No Parking Day a
‘MINERS F OUNDRY SEND
ORDERS FAR AFIELD
The Miners Moundry and
company continues to fill many
. ders, some coming from the Philipother states and all over Cali;
fornia.as well as in Nevada County.
Thirty five men have been on the}
Supt sly
or. payroll for many months.
An order of a number of leaching .
. tanks has just been sent to a mine,
at Jimtown, near Sonora; a number.
'of the new jigs made by inventor
Ted Edinger of the firm have been
sold recently, the last one going .to
the Gold Stripe mine at Greenville.
A 100 ton daily capacity mill has
been sent out to the Indian ,Valley
Mining Company at Greenville and
installed by men from the local
shop. _
A 200 ton ore bin was shipped to
the Con Chollar, Gould and Savage
mining company in Nevada state.
Another small shipment of equipment has gone forward to the Prilippine Engineering Corporation in
the Philippine Islands. One of the
last orders filled was an electric locomotive for the Alabama mine near
MINE WORKERS ENJOY *’
“COUSIN JACK” FEAST
The Mine Workers Protective
League enjoyed a “Cousin Jack’’
dinner last evening in their hall in
Grass Valley. The weekly dinner was
composed of beer, and delicious pasties prepared by the Kopp Bakery of
Nevada City. Attorney H. Ward Shelthe for Nevada County, spoke to
large group of miners.
.CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY
S Lee Leiter, who conducts a news
stand on upper Broad street, celebrated his birthday Wednesday and
received many greetings and flowers. Mrs. Zella’ Brown sent a most
exquisite bouttonndire of ferns and
a red carnation.
Mr. Leiter; native of Maryland,
who was chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee of Nevada County many years, had a particularly happy event occur on his.
birthday when he greeted Senator
his W. G. McAdoo. one of
leaders.
party’s
ed them on Nevada City street cor-;
The Nevada City Chamber of .
Jommerce specie i the material for .
in
signs
here
placing
signs along the national for.
found .
. six of his signs had ‘been stolen pre.
the editor)
and narrow . ;
and .
up any more for}
. a time as it is expensive and useless .
have!
taking them)
securely .
working on
Any one!
of .
Robson .
. States that this is wanton vandalism
of either a}
the
forward .
to Nevada .
be placed at the}
. three entrances to the city, Nevada .
Tahoe. !
parking signs have been!
were .
and .
Twelve of-the thirteen men sent
out from the, Tahoe National ica!
Trinity GIVES HISTORY .
. __ SERVICE MEN RETURN
. in to the huge fires
of the thirteen is unreported but no}
I , 1 Ww eee ‘4 . After assuring the Mine Workers that the Board appeal the Cir. 7. Role fright, itle uré r *
fears are felt for his safety as many! ee ae ee . iBeot eed Protective League that the Labor cuit Court of Appeals decision
re § i manager for Nev ounty, e. : : s é
of the men were sent back into the) peed ve) pirates id di bhine Board would hold a vote in the Lava in the Idaho Maryland case was
mountains with ten day rations and SPeaker at Rotary yesterday. Among
. will stay on the fires until they are
. extinguished. Five of the men
—— at Colfax yesterday noon.
_. }er F. Meggers and. assistant
“led Tuesday. All the men are
. and tired from the hard work,
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ij
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.
the program, was
Rang-, ceremony for Dr. Bernard W. Humreturn-. whose first born, a son, arriv;}ed last Saturday.
The history of realty titles in Callifornia and Nevada county. was
sketched briefly by Roland Wright.
had . It California under Spanish rule all
‘land was, vested in the King of
Spain. Under Mexican rule, following the revolution, when Mexico beindependent, land
to settlers and these were usverbal and therefore indefinwere
melt,
worn
fen.
ing the fire in steep mountedthnus
country.
3 .
The
, Six fires set
Tahoe National
by electrical storms on
and four the day
Nevada county,
kee-Sierraville district,
were small
. short timé,
M. M. Barnum, in charge of land .
acquisition activities in California is
on an Official visit to the Tahoe Na. Sess
tional forest for a few days. He wil] . owner
go to the Lake Tahoe area to study .
; the problem shore ‘line
. being taken over by the national forForest
}
before .
Truc.
fires .
. Wednesday
. .in~ eastern or
All
extinguished
came
made
. ually
ite.
. First
ion
grants were
and ina
evidence of title was posand testimony of the defacto
was usually admitted without
question. When California became a
part of the United States, all land
,not under private ownership at the
ests. The measure to purchase this . time reverted to the United States
shore line was defeated in the House? government which
of Representatives last . .to the state
DeWitt Nelson, and tide lands, that is to say, the}
. the Tahoe National forest, left . lands covered between high and low .
terday for Quincy to attend a Reg-. tide. A huge acreage of land was also
ional Conference of. Northern Cali-. ranted the state as an er:
. fornia Supervisors. Monday and Tues. for schools.
will be spent in San Francisco . None of
by Mr. Nelson, W.-P.-Lee -and~Log.
of the lake
session.
superintendent ol
yes. day the Spanish grants in-}
eluded -any
. ging Engineer E. G.-Goldsmith. They . Mr. Wright stated, though John Sut. will attend a conference on Tahoe . ter claimed all the land, roughly,
. forest transportation system. + jenclosed between Sacramento and
L Marysville and from _ those, two
. points eastward to the crest of the
; Sierras. Sutter’s claims,
. amined by the commission appointed
. to examine land titles in 1859, was
. reduced to the size of the City of
. Sacramento. Most other Mexican
SEN. MC ADOO
AND WIFE VISIT
i TY land grants: were confirmed by the
NEVADA (] . commission and these, in many;
. cou nties where grants were found,
Senator William ( Gibbs Me/ Be Oe to be basic in land titles.
and Mrs. McAdoo were visitors in. The Central Pacific railroad was
.
ed by a group of local Democrats . of land on both sides of the railroad .
senator strolled up and down . fn a 20 mile strip, but the railroad
Broad street and visited the “neW'! title to the right of way of 400 feet
court house. which was begun under, was restricted in that no sale could .
a WPA project and finished under! be made so that in time of war, the
a private contract. He much admired . government might have free and imits modern Mrs. McAdoo was . mediate access to the railroad. Howinvited Judge Tuttle to occupy ever, there have been a considerable
the wool sack in the beautiful court, number of violations of this condroom in order to get a pleasing view . tion, which can now only be rectifiof its convenient and beautiful in-! ed ‘by an act of congress.
. terior. : In 1914 certificates-of title began
. Among the women to be issued, and in 1926 title inwho cordially
. greeted the senator and his wife were} surance came into use in transfer. the
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.
.
.
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lines.
by
. Mrs. Frank Finnegan, Mrs. Walter . ring real estate.
. J. Hawkins, Mrs. R. R. Goyne, Post.
master Betty Martin West, Mrs. ANDREW TOBIASSEN
James Penrose and others.
At the city hall Senator and Mrs.
McAdoo were received (by Mayor
Benj. Hall, City Clerk George Calanan, R. L. P. Bigelow, Chief of Police Garfield Robson, W. H. Grififith, secretary of the chamber of
commerce, and others.
Following their visit here, the
senator and his wife were tendered a
small reception at Bret Harte Inn in
Grass Valley, after which they departed for Auburn.
REPORTED BADLY HURT
Sheriff. Carl . Tobiassen received
word early yesterday morning that
his brother Andrew Tobiassen, Grass
Valley dairyman, had been seriously
injured in an automobile accident
Wednesday evening in Sacramento.
Sheriff Tobiassen left with Mrs, Andrew Tobiassen at 6 o’clock yesterday morning for Sacramento.
The Sacramento Bee reports that
Andrew Tobiassen, 46, is in the. Sacramento Hospital with, a (possible
fracture of the skull he _ suffered
when the car he was driving crashed against the guard rail of the Arcade Bridge on the Auburn. Boulevard.
Tobiassen and Howard Dunton, 22
of Loomis, were taken to the Sae~‘mento Hospital by Highway Patro!man Jack Costa and I C. Kimball.
Jack Reeder, son of Dr. and Mrs.
David Reeder of Nevada City, joined several Grass Valley boys on a
two weeks vacation, the trip to be
through several western national
parks. They went by way of “‘Truckee,»Reno and Carson City. Jack
will leave the boys at Denver to go
to Kansas City_where he will continue his education. . He plans to
study to be a lawyer. Young Reeder i
attended the local high school during Dysten's injuries are not: serious.
ROTARY SPEAKER
Rcesarcarsscecrs st > QF LAND TITLES) er, has made 56 rustic street signs
the special events celebrated before .
a congratulatory
in turn granted!
mineral and swamp land oes
land in Nevada Senie .
when ex-!
. Nevada City Wednesday. Accompani. granted the odd numbered sec tions .
. destined to become the poor house
Cap mine within the next
. regarding what labor
Mrs. Rosseter Delays
~ Vote At Lava Cap
few days,
organization
sent to the Board. I will advise.
you-as soon as I receive a reply.
shal be-the, bargaining agency, Mrs. Very truly yours,
. Alice M. Rosseter, ‘regional labor (Signed)
. Board director, on July 26,wrote ALICE M. -ROSSETER,
Robert J. Harris, secretary of the loRegional ,Director.
cal CfO affiliate in this city, the folThe letter Comes as a great surNowia letter: prise to the Mine Workers Protect“Dear Mr. Harris: ive League who wete led to believe
In reply to your letter. of July that the vote was to be taken this
22nd, I wish to:advise that a week. An ‘examination of the Wagpetition for certification: of rener act.revealsthe fact that when
presentatives at #@he Lava Cap any considerable number of workers
mine has filed with this office in any plant, falling in the interAttached to the petition was a ‘state commerce category as does the
. list of 96 employes -requesting Lava Cap mine, ask for a vote to
that an election be conducted by determine ‘the bargaining ageney,
. the: board. the Labor Board must conduct the
In as much as-your organizavote.
tion ‘will not consent to the The. CIO affiliate has been the
Board’s conducting this election, bargaining election for the last year
nothing further will be done in i following a vote taken’ last spring
the matter of this petition at among the Lava Cap employes. This
this time. agreement expires, it is understood,
A copy of your wire urging on August 1, next Monday.
BANCROFT DRIVE
OPENED BY NEV.
COUNTY GROUP
A Nevada County « organization of
many public spirited men and women, headed by .H. C. Bennetts, Dr.
Carl P. Jones and Frances G. Jones
of Grass Valley, and Richard J.
3ennetts of Nevada City and other
. county leaders, is actively at work on
a campaign organization supporting
/the candidacy of Philip Bancroft of!
' Walnut Creek for the Republican
;homination for U. S. Senator. Out‘spoken with a courageous platform
itor William Gibbs McAdoo and the
. New Deal, Bancroft has made
markable progress in lining up Reprimary; and is now being conceded
the G. O. P. nomination for the November 8 run off,
relief, as administered by governof thousands of erstwhile _ self-respecting and independent Americans
into beggars, and that California is
of the nation if definite intelligent
action is not taken soon, Bancroft reiterated his charges against the na
tional administration of “crack-pot
legislators of crackpot schemes.”
“Those who work and earn the
money that support relief, rather
than those who receive it, should
control its expenditure, and it should
be made a criminal offense to collect CIO union dues out of the money
paid on WPA or other relief. To sew
the communistically controlled Work-:
ers’ Alliance telling the government
officials what they shall and shall
not do, and to see those same public
officials. lie down and take it like
scared puppies, is inconceivable but
true. If you elect me; I'll do my ‘best
to represent the small business man
and the workers who are earning
and paying the fare, instead of toadying to the dead heads who take the
stand that they have a God-given
right to force you to support’ them
at ease out of the real workers’
earnings.
“The worst effect of this aduiiitan:
tration, or rather mis-administra‘ ted Tobiassen
the past two years and has made! Sanieer “Coste reported ‘To
d failed to
many friends here who wish him. *PP@rently fell asleep ene .
make a slight curve approaching the
success in his planned career.
GASOLINE TAXES =
TOTAL $4644 221
California collected $4,644,277 in
state gasoline taxes in June, an increase of 3.35 per cent over the
June, 1937, collection of $4,296,311.
This report was made today by the
state board of equalization which
has charge of the galoline tax collections.
:
In spite 6f the recent business recession the board records show that
gasoline, taxes collected during the
first six months of this year total}
$88,735 above those of the first six
months of last; year. Collections to
date this year were given as $24,997,853.
MAN, 84, RUNS FOR OFFICE
It has been learned that James
Marmion Kitts, 84 years of age, is
seeking the office of Justice of the
Peace in Fallbrook, southern California. Mr. Kitts lived at Town Talk
Many years.and still has a home
there. He is highly esteemed as a
splendid citizen and his many
friends here hope for him success in
his campaign for ‘the office he is
seeking. Mr. Kitts’ son, . Charles
Kitts of Town Talk left, today for
Wallbrok for a ten day Yisit with his
father. ’
Miss Mary Rossen and Mrs. Bradley Legg of the bay district are
spending a few days in Nevada City .
with Mr. and Mrs. George Legg @n/!
Nevada street.
eres t
. ville Wednesday,
tion, of relief is not, however,. the
appalling waste of the taxpayers’
money, bad as that is, but the steady
breaking down ‘of the morale of literally millions of our citizens. Men
and women cannot be encouraged to
go on relief and discouraged from
doing an honest day’s work when
they get: there, without sooner or
later having their American independence and ‘manhood destroyed
And, once lost, this is something
that all the pump priming in the
world can never restore.’
Bancroft is the only Republican
candidate for U. S. Senator -with a
definite platform of revisions and
remedies offered the voters. _ His
principal opponent in the August 30
primary, Ray L. Riley has filed on
the Republican, Democratic, Townsend and Progressive tickets
Probation Officer A> W. McGagin
was an official visitor in Granite. : T ~ ~ .
aimed at the incumbent U: S. Sena-.
re-.
. publican strength for the August 30,
Declaring the present system of,
ment agencies, has turned hundreds .
. the auspices. of the State Employes
. association.
. Stoll opposed the petition.
HALF TON BEEF
FOR NORTH SAN
JUAN BARBECUE
One thousand pounds of the
choicest beef is to be barbecued for
the free entertainment of hundreds
of people who will attend the twaday dance and free entertainment to
be given tomorrow and Sunday by
the State Employes: association. A
‘big crowd from many.. sections of
Northern California is promised and
. }elaborate preparations have been
. made for their entertainment.
Artz famous orchestra will provide the music for the Saturday night
to Sunday morning dance, and Mids
equally famous band will provide the
. music from 6 o’clock Sunday night
until midnight,
Carl J. Tobiassen is scheduled te
act as barbecue chef and a long deep
. pit for barbecuing the beef has been
constructed. The event is expected
/to surpass any celebration which has
. taken place in recent years under
Fred Garrison, state
highway superinténdent for this district is host. to the great throngs
that will begin to arrive tomorrow
noon in historic North San Juan.
JUDGE TUTTLE ASSIGNED
TO COURT OF APPEALS
Judge Raglan Tuttle has been assigned by the State Judicial Council
to act as Justice Pro Tem on the
District Court of Appeals at San
Francisco during the month of August.
APPELATECOURT
The afgument on petition for writ
of review filed by George R. Anderson, attorney for C. E. Circle and
others convicted in the Nevada
County superior court on a charge
of rioting, in which the defendants
sought the return of forfeited bail
money which Judge Raglan Tuttle
ordered applied to payment of their
fines, was ordered submitted on
briefs when it came up for argument Tuesday morniag in the Third
District Court of Appeal at Sacra-—
mento. District Attorney Vernon
When it was called for argument
he and Attorney Geo. Anderson stip.
ulated that the matter be submitted
on briefs.
This is the first time this question
has come before appellate courts.
Thomas Cole, and son, Fred Cole
of Pasadena are making a three
visit in Nevada City. ony are in
Nevada City city limits.
“Mrs. Thomas Moyle and her
‘Ernest and Marlow Young ha
turned from a busy trip to
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. Francisco. ©