July 29, 1943 (4 pages)

The Nugget is delivered to -your home twice a week for only 30 cents per “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu gget This paper gives your complete _ coverage of all local happenings. If you want:to read about your friends, your neighbors, read ¢ Thoung [CANDIDATES ALL LABOR UNION NEVADA COUNTY SEN MAYOSAYS FOREST SERVICE Ou tou’ /QUALIFYFOR — RULESHAMPER REGISTRATION LITTLE BUSINESS PLANTS BEAVER . __"*** _. RACEAUGUST31 FOOD CANNING DOWNTO707 MUSTBESAVED INSIERRA C0, Irving Cobb is quoted in: the current Literary Digest as refuting the common and sometimes bitter complaint that in war time — there is alwas too much red tape in the army. “No, that isn’t so,’ Cobb replied, and then cited a document he had seen at. the Richmond Confederate Memorial Museum. On one side, in the finest of Spenctrian. handwriting, was a formal request for a leave, written by an‘army captain. It was addressed to General Nathan Bedford (Forrest—the man who. said ‘Git thar fustest with the mostest.’’ On the back of that perfect document the General had written. his reply: ‘‘I tol you twict, goddammit. No.’’ However. much the United States Army on ‘the home scene is enmeshed and entangled in its own red tape, of one thing we can be certain. Once soldiers and officers face the enemy there is no more red tape. There is a dicThe three candidates for the office of Representative from the Second ‘Congressional District, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harry L. Englebright one of whom will be chosen at a special election on: Tuesday; August 31, have all qualified. The three candidates are Mrs. Grace Englebright of Nevada (City, State Senator Jesse Mayo of Anfels Camp, and. State Senator Clair Engle of Red Bluff. All candidates who had more than the five per cent of the total vote cast at the election last year, as signers to their petitions are required ‘under. the law to notify them that their names will not tbe officially used. It is expected that all three candidates will devote the month of August to a thorough canvass of the Second District, biggest in the United States. GRANDSON IN By RALPH H. (TAYLOR These are strange days in America —days of super-human effort and magnificent accomplishment on the part of many of our people; days abused them in pre-war days. But these are days also when, with the most critical manpower shortage in our history, we are still Slamming the door in the face of many would-be workers by enforcing union regulations which they can’t honestly subscribe to; when we are’multiplying the book-work on the farm and in the _ business house to such a point that thousands of desperately needed men are taken out of the fields and the production lines to compile reports for government departments; days when our government leaders lack the courage to stop strikes, even. though they know that American boys are dying ‘because of those strikes. These, truly, are strange days! Following a purging of the Nevada ‘County registration, County Clerk R. the special election on August 31, when our business, industrial and. ¥¢M a congressman to fill the vacanle , a agricultural plants are coming to the . °Y ne by the deat of poh rescue of all those who despised and . Cntative arry L. Englebright = ‘Secdnd Congressional District will jbe elected. . The present figure compares with . 10,691 who were entitled to vote in 'the election of 1942, a drop in registration of 3,644 P.arty affiliations of . the present registration follow: Rejpublicans 3,024, Democrats. 3,838, . Socialists 10, Townsendites 19, Pro_gressives 3, refused to state.147. Re‘gardless of' party all registrants are ‘qualified to vote in the August 31st election. DRURY D, EDDS CALLED BY DEATH N. McCormack reports that but 7,;947 persons are entitled to vote at oa ‘Charging that arbitrary OPA price ceilings and federal bureaucracy are pendent business in wholesale lots,” State Senator Jesse M. Mayo, for congress. at the special election August 31. today advocated the’ establisha ceiling price based upon profit as an alternative to,! the present arbitrary : system. In support of his charge, Senator Mayo cites figures to show that almost 40,000 small independent retail outlets in California have been forced to close during the past 18 months and that the rate of closing is exceeding 2000 a month at the present time. “Of course,’’ Senator Mayo stated, “some of the merchants who have “destroying California’s small indecandidate ty. ment by congress of; The Tahoe National Forest, in cooperation with the California Fish atid Game Commission, has planted .@ colony of Idaho beaver in Smithneck Creek in eastern Sierra Coun. Five big, hsuky Idaho beaver from . Rowland Creek on the Plumas forest and shipped to Sierraville. They were Planted by District Ranger F. . A. Land ‘of the United States Forest . Service, and Arthur Hensley of the State Fish and Game Commission. The colony comprised of three ;males and two female will live on willow and quaking aspen trees, and are exected to build a dam which will store water. This water will build up the meadow area alon Smithneck Creek. A similar planting on the Plumas Forest has transformed a small meadow stream into a good fishing stream. EXPERTS DIFFER AFRICA WRITES Drury D. Edds, 71 years of age, passed early this morning at the California has a case in point at this very time—probably many of tator ‘on: top: who carries the: nation’s destiny in his hands. He quit business were natural war casJ be ualties, but a large percentage nave ()N WAR OUTPUT been forced to quit because of the . ; : deals out authority to lesser dictators down the line until each officer, commissigned and noncommissioned receives his portion thereof. Then the army goes into action leaving all red tape behind in headquarters. The result is usually an American victory that makes the folks at home extremely proud of their fighting men. It is not red tape that wins battles, it is the good red blood of well trained lads in khaki. our But we do believe that red tape, especially that concerned with fiscal affairs, costs the taxpayers a lot more than it saves. The official punctillio involved in saving a cent can well run into a mint of money. The ‘‘paper work’’ that keeps thousands of soldiers and non-commissioned officers grub‘bing away on the home front when they should be, and long to be, out there fighting, is an old man of the sea, a dreadful impediment . to action in the armed services and especially in the army. But the armed services are not alone in this tendency to pile up huge files of documents regarding, say, the disability of an army mule to carry the standard army lead. The correspondence involved the okeys necessary to get mule a dose of vermifuge would stun any farm hand. The Treasury Department too is involved and inecardined, one might say, with red tape. A bookkeeper for a local firm made a slight error in reporting the social security tax. . The error was corrected even before it was detected in the San Franeisco office of the Revenue Collector. A letter was.sent in with all details. Months later there appears in the firm’s office a representative of the U. S. Collector to find an explanation of this er-' ror which possibly amounted to one of two dollars. He had heard of the error but the éorrection, like truth trying to overtake a lie, had not yet caught up with him. This . is the kind of small potatoes which costs the taxpayers, in the long run, big money. The reason the American people fear and detest an ever growing Washington ° b.ureaucacy sending its tenacles searching throughout the country into the private business, homes, pockets and lives of the citizenry, is precisely because its authority is clothed, so to speak, in red tape. The official language of documents, questionnaires, declarations, receipts and orders, is involved and legalistic. Some it frightens, others it dazes. Taxpayers gather in groups and use their combined wits to extract the meaning of the stilted wording of the wmissives from the bureaus in Washington, D. C: ‘We forget that these government officials aré servants of ours. That we can, if we wish it ardently enough, compel them to come off their high perch and deal with jof the following TO MRS. KIMBALL Mrs. Kittie Kimball is in receipt letter from her grandson, Corporal Arthur A. Hagist former resident of the bay district and who has visited her here and also enjoyed trips to her gold mine in the Graniteville district. He jis in the U. S. air forces. The letter . follows: Dear Nana: Well, here it is July already and ‘boy are we in a hot place. Tts:: £262: jin the shade and there is no shade in ‘this new field. While we are waiting} we are making ourselves . black . shorts as they are cooler than the white. ones in this climate. All we wear are shorts and shoes. By now you know Sicily has been linvaded and all is going smoothly: It . has taken nine months to get this ‘far so you can guess the rest. This war is going to last longer than some, jpeople think. This is my first year overseas. I went through some blitzath England and the Tunisian pat-:tion on the part of either the unions tles. Did you ever nottGe the dates the troops invaded North Africa? They entered the eleventh month and the eighth day of 1942 and finished on the fifth month and eighth day of 1943. They invaded Sicily the seventh month and ninth 1943. get this far so you can guess the rest. When I get home I hope to buy a good automobile probably a Buick, which it has own since I was “‘knee high to a grass hhopper.”’ Have not heard from you for a long time now, although no mail is eoming in right now. How is old Nevada City getting along? Say hello to everyone I know there. Hoping you are feeling fine and are-in good spirits. love. Babe: Calanan Says Tires Will Be Scarce for Awhile “George Calanan; chairman of the ration board stated yesterday for the next three or four months tires are going to be extremely scarce. In September the quota for civilians will probably be the least of any month since rationing began. Car owners using an A book are not eligible for new -tires unless they use their cars going to and ‘from work. Four good tires is all any car owner is allowed. The spare will have to be one of their old tires. as their collective paymaster. In fact it is high time we asked ourselves, regarding this bureaucratic octopus that we employ: ‘What meat doth this our caesar feed upon that he hath grown + so great” and high faultin’? It is time we seriously asked ourselves whether we wish to be badgered and harrassed for the rest of our lives and leave to.our children the. burden of supporting this New Deal Frankenstein for the span of their lives. For one, we are perfectly willing to reply in the straight from the shoulder words.of Genms as fellow humans, or, if you like ‘when you are fighting for your life day of; It has taken nine months to them, but one that stands out, because it may Seriously interfere with the gigantic task of providing food for our troops and our civilian population. There are thousands of older county hospital. He resided at 119 ‘North Church street, Grass Valley, and had only been in the hospital two days. The deceased was a_ native of Grange, Kéntucky, and so far as price ceilings gard to the ing business. “There is no question but that we must exercise some power to hold imposed without remerchant’s cost of doi P down the cost of living and prevent !workers who cannot stand up to work . known, leaves no relatives. He was! & D in the fields under a blazing sun, but. /a carpenter and followed that voca-. # Wie, Autletion whieh: Would tower who can—and would, if they could —work in the canneries and processjing plants to help out in the war . emergency. But many of the men in this pool of willing and available ‘manpower are balking at the idea of being compelled to join a union to do their bit for Uncle.Sam. And unfortunately, the canneries where the apply for work, without exception, ‘‘closed shops’, where ‘only a man with a union button can work no matter-what the emergency. California, as a consequence, will lose thousands of cannery workers this year, unless union regulations ‘are relaxed. And union men in our great cities may go hungry as a result. But still there is no «disposi. or the government to recognize that you don’t ask the chap next to you whether he¢has union authorization to carry a musket. That is only one small phase of the situation. Business men, farmers and all employers have long been plagued with the problem of government reports —but that problem, today, when the been my ambition to} With tons of. manpower shortage is most acute, has been magnified out of all sensible proportions. In principle, for example, the withholding tax if connection with the federal income tax is sound. The ffarm people generally supported the plan of getting our income tax payments on a current basis. But the elaborate book work involved in the scheme, as congress and the federal departments have set it up, will result in a new and needless waste of manpower at.a time when we simply can’t afford to waste manpower. Farmers, at least in theory, are exempt from._the withholding tax provision. But marketing associations, processors—and ,all the people who handle farm commodities—are not. And the farmer can moye no faster than those who take his produce. There is another strange aspect to the current situation which needs to be trotted out into the. open and talked about. . So successful was the defeatist . propaganda which permeated this . country during the depression-deeade that the word “conservative” is still a term of opprobrium—at a time when‘ the once-despised conser. vatives are doing a job that is literally saving America. tion until comparatively recently. He was a’ member of the Redding . Aerie of Eagles. Funeral arrangements are in charge .of Holmes Funeral Home. . ‘SUPPLEMENTAL GAS FOR FARM WORKERS During the current harvest season supplemental gasoline rations will be issued volunteer farm workers at the time they sign up in Federal Farm Labor Offices, James J. Boyle, dis‘trict director of the OPA, said today. State Director of Agriculture Cecil has warned that 150,000 voluntters from urban communities must volunteer for farm work this summer if one: third of the state’s perishable crops are to be saved. Boyle explained. These volunteers will’ be recruited and assigned to farm work by the 133 Farm. Labor Offices in California, and the OPA will use these same offices for distribution of gasoline to volunteer: workers. The plan involves creation of special gasoline panels as adjuncts to the nearest war price and rationing board but will eliminate the necessity for workers taking thetime to visit their ration boards. “The OPA recognizes ‘the emergency nature of the crop situation in (California, and realizes that the time required to visit ration boards, even if only a few hours, would be: a bar unteers from being dispatched to proper areas. For that reason we have worked out this plan, which we are confident will do much to elieve the problem,’’ Boyle said. WORKMAN FRACTURES LEG ‘Michael Robus, engaged in making repairs on the Gliko slaughter house just outside Grass Valley, is in the Jones Memorial Hospital receiving treatment for a fractured leg resuliing from a fall of about 9 ffeet. Americans who are deceived by the sophistry that to be conservative is to be backward and untrue to ‘the new liberalism.’’ To such we would We need to take an honest look at! this paradoxical situation. Govern-. ment bounty or New Deal depare. ments aren’t building ships and the! planes and producing food and cloth. ing in our time of. desperate bead With a stupendous job of production facing the country, it was the conservative and often traduced system of private enterprise which manned the rampats—and got the guns and food supplies rolling to where they were needed. eral Nathan Bedford Forrest. Yet today there are _ still many } suggest jthat they ask themselves just what has “the new. liberalism”’ produced to save America in its hour of need? This is_an-hour of crisis—a good hour to test our national standards. In view of what happened, and what will happen in the months ahead, perhaps we need to take new stock of our American system. Perhaps we should discard that which has failed and deterred us—and hold fast to that which has upheld us when we ‘the standard of living for people with fixed incomes,’’ he continued, i“but some attention must be given ‘to the, struggling independent merchant who finds thimself caught between the rapidly rising cost of doing ;business and arbitrarily fixed: ceiljings, “We must keep our independent . {merchants in the small towns of California solvent if we are to main;tain an even stability now and durjing the postwar period. The small merchant must be allowed to make a fair and legitimate profit.” Senator Mayo has served in the state legislature for the past ten years, six representing Nevada County in the assembly and is now serving in his fifth year as senator representing Calaveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties. NEW TABLE OF — RATION POINTS READY, AUG 2 Consumer tables of point values for all rationed foods will be distributed to retailers by mail beginning with the table effective Monday, August 2, George H. Calanan, chairman of the Nevada City War Price and Rationing Board said today. The current chart will be twice the size of previous issues and will give the tables governing values of both red and blue stamps on one side of the sheet. Retailers who wish extra copies may secure them at the local rathat would prevent most of the vol-.4i§m board office. . “We suggest that food retailers ;Post the point value charts in a conspicious place,’’ Calanan said. ‘“‘Customers may then tell at a glance the point values of the grocery items and meats beforehand and determine just what items they desire. If the tables are not available, they are obliged to obtain point values from the persons who wait upon them,. with subsequent delays in service.’’ . (Calanan also suggests that meat dealers keep the table of trade point values handy. Some meats sold at retail. are listed on the trade table only and customets should be able to refer to it. In addition, the retailer needs the trade table to check the point value of purchases from the suppliers. The table of trade will continue to be distributed through the local boards for the present but will be mailed with the consumer table as soon as checks have been completed on the registration of dealers. : : point values Se Mrs. E. Beardsley, sister of Mrs. Claude Ferguson has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson for the past week at the Ferguson home at needed a sustaining hand. Town Talk. Mrs. Beardsley’s home: is in Minnesota. : 5 ; bureaucratic red tape and horizontal) By LEONE BAXTER . Latest public question to wrack the experts is one of war production . —-whether it’s up or down—a matter fully as controversial as that or’ Hitler’s and Hirohito’s personal disposition after the war. Those who fear that present allied successes may lead the nation into a dangerous slackening of the war effort warn that the production’ peak necessary to winning the final battle against the Axis has not yet been reached, and that a quickening of pace is needed in every quarter without exception. Other analysts insist that war 'production” has hit the top of. the curve and may safely begin to taper ,off toward the eventual normalcy of civilian production. Only the very ,reckless or those in possession of in'formation yet unknown to the gen‘eral public can subscribe unqualifiedly to that theory. ; With the étakes set at the highest in all history, with victory or annihilat‘on in the balance, it seems to thi» writer that certain over-producti,: is preferable to possible inadequacy. eat it is cheering, meanwhile, to read a significant survey peppared by the California State’ Chamber of Commerce, showing this state still far in the lead in naional war produc~ tion. For the benefit of the layman who prefers round figures to graphe and charts, the eport measures over all war production in the simple terms of workers and wages. California .manufacturers, whose pre war payrolls. of 1939 did not seem at all inconsiderable, lengthened their employe rosters in 1942 te 671,200 according to the record, and their payroHs to a total of $1,473,749,000. The number of employes in« ‘creased 143 per cent, and wages paid. them leaped 303. per cent. The 437,500 workers in metal and metal production industries last year earned $1,079,895,000, with war ‘work. upping employment in that category 455 per cent, and raising wage totals astronomically, 823 per cent! A 297 per cent increase in workers producing lumber, furniture, stone, clay, glass and metal products is shown with a payoll increase of 568 per cent. : , Those figures indicate as clearly as the lengthening lines of ships, the planes and other war tools that California at least, is striving to do ite ifull share in the vital production race. Grass Valley Police Salaries Increased ; The Grass Valle City Council, taking cognizance of the high turnover among the city’s police force and the street crew, has raised their salaries and wages. The salaries of poliee= men are raised fr6m $150 to $160 per month, and the wages of street workers 25 cents a day each to $5.’ and $6.50 a day. ots Harry Stane, public acdou who is auhorized to audit th financial accounts, called tion of councilmen to. turnover and ‘the +

The Nugget is delivered to -your home twice a week for only 30 cents per “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu gget This paper gives your complete _ coverage of all local happenings. If you want:to read about your friends, your neighbors, read ¢ Thoung [CANDIDATES ALL LABOR UNION NEVADA COUNTY SEN MAYOSAYS FOREST SERVICE Ou tou’ /QUALIFYFOR — RULESHAMPER REGISTRATION LITTLE BUSINESS PLANTS BEAVER . __"*** _. RACEAUGUST31 FOOD CANNING DOWNTO707 MUSTBESAVED INSIERRA C0, Irving Cobb is quoted in: the current Literary Digest as refuting the common and sometimes bitter complaint that in war time — there is alwas too much red tape in the army. “No, that isn’t so,’ Cobb replied, and then cited a document he had seen at. the Richmond Confederate Memorial Museum. On one side, in the finest of Spenctrian. handwriting, was a formal request for a leave, written by an‘army captain. It was addressed to General Nathan Bedford (Forrest—the man who. said ‘Git thar fustest with the mostest.’’ On the back of that perfect document the General had written. his reply: ‘‘I tol you twict, goddammit. No.’’ However. much the United States Army on ‘the home scene is enmeshed and entangled in its own red tape, of one thing we can be certain. Once soldiers and officers face the enemy there is no more red tape. There is a dicThe three candidates for the office of Representative from the Second ‘Congressional District, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harry L. Englebright one of whom will be chosen at a special election on: Tuesday; August 31, have all qualified. The three candidates are Mrs. Grace Englebright of Nevada (City, State Senator Jesse Mayo of Anfels Camp, and. State Senator Clair Engle of Red Bluff. All candidates who had more than the five per cent of the total vote cast at the election last year, as signers to their petitions are required ‘under. the law to notify them that their names will not tbe officially used. It is expected that all three candidates will devote the month of August to a thorough canvass of the Second District, biggest in the United States. GRANDSON IN By RALPH H. (TAYLOR These are strange days in America —days of super-human effort and magnificent accomplishment on the part of many of our people; days abused them in pre-war days. But these are days also when, with the most critical manpower shortage in our history, we are still Slamming the door in the face of many would-be workers by enforcing union regulations which they can’t honestly subscribe to; when we are’multiplying the book-work on the farm and in the _ business house to such a point that thousands of desperately needed men are taken out of the fields and the production lines to compile reports for government departments; days when our government leaders lack the courage to stop strikes, even. though they know that American boys are dying ‘because of those strikes. These, truly, are strange days! Following a purging of the Nevada ‘County registration, County Clerk R. the special election on August 31, when our business, industrial and. ¥¢M a congressman to fill the vacanle , a agricultural plants are coming to the . °Y ne by the deat of poh rescue of all those who despised and . Cntative arry L. Englebright = ‘Secdnd Congressional District will jbe elected. . The present figure compares with . 10,691 who were entitled to vote in 'the election of 1942, a drop in registration of 3,644 P.arty affiliations of . the present registration follow: Rejpublicans 3,024, Democrats. 3,838, . Socialists 10, Townsendites 19, Pro_gressives 3, refused to state.147. Re‘gardless of' party all registrants are ‘qualified to vote in the August 31st election. DRURY D, EDDS CALLED BY DEATH N. McCormack reports that but 7,;947 persons are entitled to vote at oa ‘Charging that arbitrary OPA price ceilings and federal bureaucracy are pendent business in wholesale lots,” State Senator Jesse M. Mayo, for congress. at the special election August 31. today advocated the’ establisha ceiling price based upon profit as an alternative to,! the present arbitrary : system. In support of his charge, Senator Mayo cites figures to show that almost 40,000 small independent retail outlets in California have been forced to close during the past 18 months and that the rate of closing is exceeding 2000 a month at the present time. “Of course,’’ Senator Mayo stated, “some of the merchants who have “destroying California’s small indecandidate ty. ment by congress of; The Tahoe National Forest, in cooperation with the California Fish atid Game Commission, has planted .@ colony of Idaho beaver in Smithneck Creek in eastern Sierra Coun. Five big, hsuky Idaho beaver from . Rowland Creek on the Plumas forest and shipped to Sierraville. They were Planted by District Ranger F. . A. Land ‘of the United States Forest . Service, and Arthur Hensley of the State Fish and Game Commission. The colony comprised of three ;males and two female will live on willow and quaking aspen trees, and are exected to build a dam which will store water. This water will build up the meadow area alon Smithneck Creek. A similar planting on the Plumas Forest has transformed a small meadow stream into a good fishing stream. EXPERTS DIFFER AFRICA WRITES Drury D. Edds, 71 years of age, passed early this morning at the California has a case in point at this very time—probably many of tator ‘on: top: who carries the: nation’s destiny in his hands. He quit business were natural war casJ be ualties, but a large percentage nave ()N WAR OUTPUT been forced to quit because of the . ; : deals out authority to lesser dictators down the line until each officer, commissigned and noncommissioned receives his portion thereof. Then the army goes into action leaving all red tape behind in headquarters. The result is usually an American victory that makes the folks at home extremely proud of their fighting men. It is not red tape that wins battles, it is the good red blood of well trained lads in khaki. our But we do believe that red tape, especially that concerned with fiscal affairs, costs the taxpayers a lot more than it saves. The official punctillio involved in saving a cent can well run into a mint of money. The ‘‘paper work’’ that keeps thousands of soldiers and non-commissioned officers grub‘bing away on the home front when they should be, and long to be, out there fighting, is an old man of the sea, a dreadful impediment . to action in the armed services and especially in the army. But the armed services are not alone in this tendency to pile up huge files of documents regarding, say, the disability of an army mule to carry the standard army lead. The correspondence involved the okeys necessary to get mule a dose of vermifuge would stun any farm hand. The Treasury Department too is involved and inecardined, one might say, with red tape. A bookkeeper for a local firm made a slight error in reporting the social security tax. . The error was corrected even before it was detected in the San Franeisco office of the Revenue Collector. A letter was.sent in with all details. Months later there appears in the firm’s office a representative of the U. S. Collector to find an explanation of this er-' ror which possibly amounted to one of two dollars. He had heard of the error but the éorrection, like truth trying to overtake a lie, had not yet caught up with him. This . is the kind of small potatoes which costs the taxpayers, in the long run, big money. The reason the American people fear and detest an ever growing Washington ° b.ureaucacy sending its tenacles searching throughout the country into the private business, homes, pockets and lives of the citizenry, is precisely because its authority is clothed, so to speak, in red tape. The official language of documents, questionnaires, declarations, receipts and orders, is involved and legalistic. Some it frightens, others it dazes. Taxpayers gather in groups and use their combined wits to extract the meaning of the stilted wording of the wmissives from the bureaus in Washington, D. C: ‘We forget that these government officials aré servants of ours. That we can, if we wish it ardently enough, compel them to come off their high perch and deal with jof the following TO MRS. KIMBALL Mrs. Kittie Kimball is in receipt letter from her grandson, Corporal Arthur A. Hagist former resident of the bay district and who has visited her here and also enjoyed trips to her gold mine in the Graniteville district. He jis in the U. S. air forces. The letter . follows: Dear Nana: Well, here it is July already and ‘boy are we in a hot place. Tts:: £262: jin the shade and there is no shade in ‘this new field. While we are waiting} we are making ourselves . black . shorts as they are cooler than the white. ones in this climate. All we wear are shorts and shoes. By now you know Sicily has been linvaded and all is going smoothly: It . has taken nine months to get this ‘far so you can guess the rest. This war is going to last longer than some, jpeople think. This is my first year overseas. I went through some blitzath England and the Tunisian pat-:tion on the part of either the unions tles. Did you ever nottGe the dates the troops invaded North Africa? They entered the eleventh month and the eighth day of 1942 and finished on the fifth month and eighth day of 1943. They invaded Sicily the seventh month and ninth 1943. get this far so you can guess the rest. When I get home I hope to buy a good automobile probably a Buick, which it has own since I was “‘knee high to a grass hhopper.”’ Have not heard from you for a long time now, although no mail is eoming in right now. How is old Nevada City getting along? Say hello to everyone I know there. Hoping you are feeling fine and are-in good spirits. love. Babe: Calanan Says Tires Will Be Scarce for Awhile “George Calanan; chairman of the ration board stated yesterday for the next three or four months tires are going to be extremely scarce. In September the quota for civilians will probably be the least of any month since rationing began. Car owners using an A book are not eligible for new -tires unless they use their cars going to and ‘from work. Four good tires is all any car owner is allowed. The spare will have to be one of their old tires. as their collective paymaster. In fact it is high time we asked ourselves, regarding this bureaucratic octopus that we employ: ‘What meat doth this our caesar feed upon that he hath grown + so great” and high faultin’? It is time we seriously asked ourselves whether we wish to be badgered and harrassed for the rest of our lives and leave to.our children the. burden of supporting this New Deal Frankenstein for the span of their lives. For one, we are perfectly willing to reply in the straight from the shoulder words.of Genms as fellow humans, or, if you like ‘when you are fighting for your life day of;

It has taken nine months to them, but one that stands out, because it may Seriously interfere with the gigantic task of providing food for our troops and our civilian population. There are thousands of older county hospital. He resided at 119 ‘North Church street, Grass Valley, and had only been in the hospital two days. The deceased was a_ native of Grange, Kéntucky, and so far as price ceilings gard to the ing business. “There is no question but that we must exercise some power to hold imposed without remerchant’s cost of doi P down the cost of living and prevent !workers who cannot stand up to work . known, leaves no relatives. He was! & D in the fields under a blazing sun, but. /a carpenter and followed that voca-. # Wie, Autletion whieh: Would tower who can—and would, if they could —work in the canneries and processjing plants to help out in the war . emergency. But many of the men in this pool of willing and available ‘manpower are balking at the idea of being compelled to join a union to do their bit for Uncle.Sam. And unfortunately, the canneries where the apply for work, without exception, ‘‘closed shops’, where ‘only a man with a union button can work no matter-what the emergency. California, as a consequence, will lose thousands of cannery workers this year, unless union regulations ‘are relaxed. And union men in our great cities may go hungry as a result. But still there is no «disposi. or the government to recognize that you don’t ask the chap next to you whether he¢has union authorization to carry a musket. That is only one small phase of the situation. Business men, farmers and all employers have long been plagued with the problem of government reports —but that problem, today, when the been my ambition to} With tons of. manpower shortage is most acute, has been magnified out of all sensible proportions. In principle, for example, the withholding tax if connection with the federal income tax is sound. The ffarm people generally supported the plan of getting our income tax payments on a current basis. But the elaborate book work involved in the scheme, as congress and the federal departments have set it up, will result in a new and needless waste of manpower at.a time when we simply can’t afford to waste manpower. Farmers, at least in theory, are exempt from._the withholding tax provision. But marketing associations, processors—and ,all the people who handle farm commodities—are not. And the farmer can moye no faster than those who take his produce. There is another strange aspect to the current situation which needs to be trotted out into the. open and talked about. . So successful was the defeatist . propaganda which permeated this . country during the depression-deeade that the word “conservative” is still a term of opprobrium—at a time when‘ the once-despised conser. vatives are doing a job that is literally saving America. tion until comparatively recently. He was a’ member of the Redding . Aerie of Eagles. Funeral arrangements are in charge .of Holmes Funeral Home. . ‘SUPPLEMENTAL GAS FOR FARM WORKERS During the current harvest season supplemental gasoline rations will be issued volunteer farm workers at the time they sign up in Federal Farm Labor Offices, James J. Boyle, dis‘trict director of the OPA, said today. State Director of Agriculture Cecil has warned that 150,000 voluntters from urban communities must volunteer for farm work this summer if one: third of the state’s perishable crops are to be saved. Boyle explained. These volunteers will’ be recruited and assigned to farm work by the 133 Farm. Labor Offices in California, and the OPA will use these same offices for distribution of gasoline to volunteer: workers. The plan involves creation of special gasoline panels as adjuncts to the nearest war price and rationing board but will eliminate the necessity for workers taking thetime to visit their ration boards. “The OPA recognizes ‘the emergency nature of the crop situation in (California, and realizes that the time required to visit ration boards, even if only a few hours, would be: a bar unteers from being dispatched to proper areas. For that reason we have worked out this plan, which we are confident will do much to elieve the problem,’’ Boyle said. WORKMAN FRACTURES LEG ‘Michael Robus, engaged in making repairs on the Gliko slaughter house just outside Grass Valley, is in the Jones Memorial Hospital receiving treatment for a fractured leg resuliing from a fall of about 9 ffeet. Americans who are deceived by the sophistry that to be conservative is to be backward and untrue to ‘the new liberalism.’’ To such we would We need to take an honest look at! this paradoxical situation. Govern-. ment bounty or New Deal depare. ments aren’t building ships and the! planes and producing food and cloth. ing in our time of. desperate bead With a stupendous job of production facing the country, it was the conservative and often traduced system of private enterprise which manned the rampats—and got the guns and food supplies rolling to where they were needed. eral Nathan Bedford Forrest. Yet today there are _ still many } suggest jthat they ask themselves just what has “the new. liberalism”’ produced to save America in its hour of need? This is_an-hour of crisis—a good hour to test our national standards. In view of what happened, and what will happen in the months ahead, perhaps we need to take new stock of our American system. Perhaps we should discard that which has failed and deterred us—and hold fast to that which has upheld us when we ‘the standard of living for people with fixed incomes,’’ he continued, i“but some attention must be given ‘to the, struggling independent merchant who finds thimself caught between the rapidly rising cost of doing ;business and arbitrarily fixed: ceiljings, “We must keep our independent . {merchants in the small towns of California solvent if we are to main;tain an even stability now and durjing the postwar period. The small merchant must be allowed to make a fair and legitimate profit.” Senator Mayo has served in the state legislature for the past ten years, six representing Nevada County in the assembly and is now serving in his fifth year as senator representing Calaveras, Mariposa and Tuolumne Counties. NEW TABLE OF — RATION POINTS READY, AUG 2 Consumer tables of point values for all rationed foods will be distributed to retailers by mail beginning with the table effective Monday, August 2, George H. Calanan, chairman of the Nevada City War Price and Rationing Board said today. The current chart will be twice the size of previous issues and will give the tables governing values of both red and blue stamps on one side of the sheet. Retailers who wish extra copies may secure them at the local rathat would prevent most of the vol-.4i§m board office. . “We suggest that food retailers ;Post the point value charts in a conspicious place,’’ Calanan said. ‘“‘Customers may then tell at a glance the point values of the grocery items and meats beforehand and determine just what items they desire. If the tables are not available, they are obliged to obtain point values from the persons who wait upon them,. with subsequent delays in service.’’ . (Calanan also suggests that meat dealers keep the table of trade point values handy. Some meats sold at retail. are listed on the trade table only and customets should be able to refer to it. In addition, the retailer needs the trade table to check the point value of purchases from the suppliers. The table of trade will continue to be distributed through the local boards for the present but will be mailed with the consumer table as soon as checks have been completed on the registration of dealers. : : point values Se Mrs. E. Beardsley, sister of Mrs. Claude Ferguson has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson for the past week at the Ferguson home at needed a sustaining hand. Town Talk. Mrs. Beardsley’s home: is in Minnesota. : 5 ; bureaucratic red tape and horizontal) By LEONE BAXTER . Latest public question to wrack the experts is one of war production . —-whether it’s up or down—a matter fully as controversial as that or’ Hitler’s and Hirohito’s personal disposition after the war. Those who fear that present allied successes may lead the nation into a dangerous slackening of the war effort warn that the production’ peak necessary to winning the final battle against the Axis has not yet been reached, and that a quickening of pace is needed in every quarter without exception. Other analysts insist that war 'production” has hit the top of. the curve and may safely begin to taper ,off toward the eventual normalcy of civilian production. Only the very ,reckless or those in possession of in'formation yet unknown to the gen‘eral public can subscribe unqualifiedly to that theory. ; With the étakes set at the highest in all history, with victory or annihilat‘on in the balance, it seems to thi» writer that certain over-producti,: is preferable to possible inadequacy. eat it is cheering, meanwhile, to read a significant survey peppared by the California State’ Chamber of Commerce, showing this state still far in the lead in naional war produc~ tion. For the benefit of the layman who prefers round figures to graphe and charts, the eport measures over all war production in the simple terms of workers and wages. California .manufacturers, whose pre war payrolls. of 1939 did not seem at all inconsiderable, lengthened their employe rosters in 1942 te 671,200 according to the record, and their payroHs to a total of $1,473,749,000. The number of employes in« ‘creased 143 per cent, and wages paid. them leaped 303. per cent. The 437,500 workers in metal and metal production industries last year earned $1,079,895,000, with war ‘work. upping employment in that category 455 per cent, and raising wage totals astronomically, 823 per cent! A 297 per cent increase in workers producing lumber, furniture, stone, clay, glass and metal products is shown with a payoll increase of 568 per cent. : , Those figures indicate as clearly as the lengthening lines of ships, the planes and other war tools that California at least, is striving to do ite ifull share in the vital production race. Grass Valley Police Salaries Increased ; The Grass Valle City Council, taking cognizance of the high turnover among the city’s police force and the street crew, has raised their salaries and wages. The salaries of poliee= men are raised fr6m $150 to $160 per month, and the wages of street workers 25 cents a day each to $5.’ and $6.50 a day. ots Harry Stane, public acdou who is auhorized to audit th financial accounts, called tion of councilmen to. turnover and ‘the +