July 31, 1939 (4 pages)

q ‘s Be a iat gu eS he ssa Thinking Out Loud ; By H. M. L. } COVERS RICHEST GOLD: Nevada City Nu AREA IN CALIFORNIA ag = ooet in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton. * FKronrthe Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists. i —Alexander HamilCoercion and _ intimidation of workers on the part of the CIO communists, arrests, imprisonment and bail raising, frantic appeals to “the governor, to the courts, and busy little Herbert Resner running to and fro, directing the actors and putting on another show— how well we in Nevada County know all the moves in this game? In the meantime Congress is engaged in a few last minute precautions to preserve the country so that the country can preserve Congress. Apparently some of our representatives have been reading the testimony in Bridges’ hearing. The House passed its fifth set of alien restrictions Saturday. The new act, ready now for Senate action, provides outlawry for those attempting to undermine loyalty of naval and military forces, .adds several new categories of crimes to make aliens eligible for deportation, calls for the deportation of any alien who ever belonged for a minute to any anarchistic organization, compels finger printing of aliens before they board ship for this country, and makes an outlaw of anyone advocating overthrow of our a rrreuer by force or violence. : Even Ma Perkins has put her foot down on stoppage of work by longshéremen in San Pedro because of a “sympathizer” strike. ‘She upholds her labor arbiter as against the Bridges gang that broke its contract with the waterfront employers. Longshoremen who quit work are penalized a week’s work. The arbiter, having been blessed, will now grant-a re‘hearing to the longshoremen. The pendulum is swinging away from radicalism. Perhaps nothing is more signifieant than Secretary Perkins’ change of heart. Out here in California, to’-which thousands have come from other states, some because’ natural catastrophies have uprooted them, others because’old age pensions are higher, and others for the adventure that communism offers here, “we have a large element that forms @ social pus, whenever employe and employer relations cause irritation. Oregon has taken curative measures to reduce temperature and swelling in labor disputes. fornia probably will offer another measure on the general ballot come November, 1940. This time with further experience in CIO communist activities throughout the state, it Stands a good chance of being approved. The Associated Farmers of California, who are the bright and shining targets for radicals, in that their year’s profits are depend& end on a harvest season of sometimes less than a month, will undoubtedly seek ‘to place in the statutes by popular vote a measure that will effectively curb, not picketing in its legitimate aspects, but mass coercion. While the passing of such a law might have a good psychological effect, actually, we have always believed we have . Street in Nevada City and. the retail Cali. Vol. 13, No. 61. The oy Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, JULY Ea l Undersecretary of Agriculture, M. L. Wilson, the man who ranks next to Sécretary of Agriculture Wallace, with a party of forty, including Department of Agriculture experts, bureau and divisional chiefs and engineers, yesterday visited Nevada City. Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson was their host. In the party were Howard. Tolley, director of the bureau of agricultural economics, Roy Hendrickson, head of the Personnel Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, and representatives of the Soil Conservation Service, Farm Extension, Agricultural Expernment service, and other officials. Dean Hutchinson, of the Davis College of Agriculture was a guest. While in Nevada City nomberk of the party were shown the site which the Forest Service has purchased next . to Alpha Stores, and they then were shown the eramped quarters whith the service now occupies in the Elks building. They were much interested in the’ maps, including the huge relief map of Tahoe National Forest. Undersecretary Wilson and his party came to Nevada City from Undersecreta ry of Agriculture and Party Of 40 Visit Nev. City ‘Marysville. The Bureau of Agricul-. water. tural Economics is making a study of the economic use of land, that is to Say, are seeking methods of making land produce the highest possible income, by various means, not so much as regards individual farms, though that is a factor, but of areas and regions which. may be economically complimentary, such as this ‘section of the Sierras, which is an economic auxiliary of the Sacramento Valley in so far as water, timber and grazing resources are concerned. The .group made a thorough and painstaking study of Yuba county, which was selected some years ago as a area which could be used for an*experiment of this kind. From Nevada City the party, headed by DeWitt Nelson and Undersecretary Wilson went ‘to Lake Tahoe, lunched at the State Line Inn, and from there visited the Nevada State 4-H Club camp on the lake shore. Supervisor DeWitt Nelson provided Mr. Wilson with a statement of the resources, dependencies and the business of the Tahoe National Forest, showing among other things that seven acres of watershed provides one acre of farm land with irrigation The Diamond Match Company has purchased the Tahoe Sugar Pine Products retail yard on Spring lumber, yard in Auburn. The Diamond Match Company will take possession of the yards tomorrow, August 1. Invoice is being made of the stock in the local: yard. E. L. ‘Marsh stated business ‘will be conducted from the Diamond Match Co. Buys Tahoe Sugar Pine Yards local yard as usual. E. L. Marsh is .president of the Tahoe Sugar Pine Products company. He.is interested in the, mill-at Graniteville and planing plant at EmiLIFE SAVING CAMPAIGN IS STARTED INN. C., R. C. Turner, Field Representative of the Red Cross has started the Red Cross Learn to Swim and Life Saving program at Pioneer Park under the sponsorship of the Nevada City Co-ordinating Committee and _ the Nevada City Red Cross. With the opening of the Nevada City Red Cross Swimming and Life adults alike are taking part in the Red Cross world wide training plan to make water recreation not only “fun” but ‘“‘safe fun’’. Between classes today, C. E. Turner, Red Cross Field Instructor in Swimming, and life saving explained the various awards which may be earned during the training course. ‘New swimmers work toward the “beginners”’ certificate, awarded following the successful completion of the course and the passing of tests which inelude fifty foot swims, and. other jwater safety skills. In this course emphasis is placed on floating, gliding, breathing, easily, and being at “home” in the water. During the first lesson all of the beginners enrolled learned to float and glide. The next step in becoming a swimmer, consists in learning various strokes, and making progress easily in the water. This group learns side‘stroke, elementary back stroke, and breast stroke, and the rudiments of the crawl. They develop a five minute swimming ability and learn the plain front dive. For these skills the “intermediate swimmer’ certificate is awarded. To earn a “swimmer” certificate the student continues training in the various strokes to develop ease of swimming. The maximum swim required is ten minutes and senior, junior life saving under the new plan gives trdining not only in rescue but in water safety practices, under the theory that it is better for a swim‘her ‘to keep out of danger than to be rescued. grant Gap. Marsh took over the yard two years ago. Bert Foreman of Nevada City has had charge of the Nevada City yard during that time. WINNERS IN AIR PLANE CONTEST RECEIVE AWARDS Awards were made Saturday for the best flying airplanes built by lothe 10 cents, 25 cents and the 50 cent or $1.00 classes. Each boy won a Remington Boy Scout knife, and winners were the following boys: Class A—Ed Berger; Class B—Jim McCraney; .Class C~—Dave Jefferies. The second contest starts this week and will be completed next Saturday. Awards will be made at Pioneers Park at 10 a. m. cal boys. The planes were to be in LOCAL TAX LEVY PER CAPITA IN COUNTY $21.3 Tax levies by the governmental units in Nevada county totalled $401,326 for the year 1938-39, an average of $21.93 for each and every man, woman and child in the county atcording to a study of tax levies in California counties, recently completed by California Taxpayers’ associaThe local chapter of the . Red Cross, under the chairmanship of Thomas McCraney is furnishing modern rescue equipment in thé form of life rings, can ‘buoys, boats and canoes for training purposes. An innovation to be used in this campaign is the use of kick boards in the teaching of correct leg and arm strokes for both life saving and_ general swimming. “Nevada City is to be complimented,” said Mr. Turner today —. ‘not only for the interest in water safety which has led.to swimming and life saving instruction, but for the fine water recreation facilities provided in the community.’ (Mr. Turner comes to Nevada City from a two weeks campaign at White Sulphur Springs and will conduct a similar training course in Crescent City following two weeks in Nevada Saving campaign ‘today, youth and: Mrs. Belle Douglas, secretary of the local Red Cross chapter, announces that beginning this week Red Cross swimming and life saving classes will meet every morning at the municipal swimming pool in Pioneers Park as follows: Advanced swimmers will meet at § o’clock; intermediates at 9:45; beginners, 5 to 8 years old at 11:15; beginners 9 to 16 years old 10:30; junior life saving class, 3 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon; adult classes men and women, 2 to 3 p. m. At the pool this morning Mrs. Douglas signed up a large number of youngsters for these classes. They were given cards which their parents are expected to sign. Mrs. Douglas will be at the pool tomorrow morning to receive them after they have been signed. The date for the annual water carnival at the pool has been set for Thursday night, August 10, it was announced this morning by Del Henrich, playgropnd director. The following events are scheduled for the Red Cross SwimmingLessons Open; Water Carnival Set, Aug. 1 Boys 50-yard free -for all. Boys diving. Boys 50-yard dog-paddle. Water polo game. Boy Scout contest demonstrating live saving. Boys 50-yard side stroke. Girls diving. © Girls 50-yard free style. Log jousting. Barrel rolling. Greased pole contest. Exhibition in diving and stunts. The recreation program for this week at Seaman’s lodge, Henrich an, nounces, is as follows: Cooking, Tuesday ,boys at 1 o’clock p. m., girls at 2 p. m. Handicraft, boys Wednesday at 1 p. m. Story telling, Thursday at 1 p.m. Thursday, boys, boxing 10 to 12 a. m. Wednesday, morning scavenger hunt. Thursday morning, sign-up for carnival; girls hike, Friday morning, tennis lessons at high school courts. Saturday overnight hike for boys. Friday afternoon there will be a nature study class and in the evenin, the dance i carnival. the lodge. TWO CAR COLLISIONS TAKE PLACE SUNDAY While IM. J. Kampo of Alleghany was coming toward Nevada City last night his Chrysler sedan went off the grade and rolled 400 feet before it stopped. Shebley’s AAA service] brought the car to Nevada City this morning., It is stated that those riding in the car were badly shaken up but not injured. ~A ear'reigstered to Daryl Kitts of Grass Valley was in an accident on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway near the Lone Grave late yesterday afternoon, Another car with a flat tire collided with the Kitts car. This car was also towed in by AAA service and is in the Shebley repair shop. The AAA service was kept rather busy Sunday with calls for gas, repairs and tow service due to heavy traffic over local roads as thousands of people were going and returning from cool places in the Sierra Nevada mountains or tourists. Mr. Shebley stated it was quite noticeable the new steel tops and shatter proof glass on cars are saving many persons from serious injury and death. NEV. COUNTY HAS 675 ON RELIEF Nevada County has a total welfare reds sist Ranger Frost. * IOWA HILL FIRE SET BY FIRE BUG The forest service reports that the fire which swept over 500 to 600 acres between Iowa Hill and North Fork of the American River, was deItberately started by a fire bug, whose course could be, and was, traced by the matches he threw into the inflammable dried grass and forest litter. The fire'is now under contrél and the fire crews have been releas~ The CCC enrollees were sent out from Camp Forbes, under Ranger Alvin Frost and a crew of CCC men came from the Pine Grove near Jackson, making about 65 enrollees on the fire lines. E. Lamberton, chief dispatcher, sent three rangers to as— The last three or four days twee three light electrical fires have brok— en out mostly on the east side of the Sierras. Sunday morning the Forest Service plane from Oakland piloted by L. S. Smith flew as an observer © of electrical storms covering the = west side of the forest. The party landed at Beckwith near Portola and picked up a Pulmas National Forest man. The group then covered forest areas in the Plumas forest south and ; west of Quincy and then returned to the Loma Rica last evening. a Today a plane flew from the Loma Rica field to Truckee and picked : case load of 675 in May, 1939, according to a study of relief in California counties, recently completed by California Taxpayers’ association. The county’s welfare load was made up of 440 aged, 147 children cases, 18 blind, and 70 indigent cases. There were 246 cases receiving SRA aid in the county ‘in April, 1939, the Donald Bean and Harold Booth. This group will leave the Truckee district and go to the south over the Mono forest looking for lightning fires. This evening when the plane returns from the southern trip the Truckee and Sierraville district and east side of Plumas forest will be viewed for fires. In the mean time tleetrical tion. City. Included in the $401,326 taxes levied were $253,720 for general county purposes, $93,938 for schooi purposes, $13,743 for school bonds, $5,192 in special district taxes, and $34,733 in city taxes, the association stated. A sample of the boys work can be Seen in the Nugget office display window some of the winning the much coveted prizes. sufficient laws already in force, to deal with most of the pernicious activities of radicals. Nevada County supervisors, following the disturbances of last year, adopted an anti-picketiug ordinance, but as a matter of fact, the rioters of the Red Dog road were dealt with unNEVADA CITY MAPS H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce states the maps of this city are proving quite interesting. Letters have been received from Los Angeles, Sacramento and Reno and many visitors PLEADS NOT GUILTY Russel Haddy, charged with indecent exposure, after being arrested “ ) der laws that have long been on the statute books. Counties which can confidently be expected to vote for such eurb on communism, are Los Angeles, San Joaquin, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Butte, Sutter, Sonoma, Shasta, Tehama, Lassen, El Dorado, Placer, and Nevada. Whether San Francisco and Aalameda will give a majority to such an enactment will depend somewhat on what happens to Harry Bridges and whether or not the Golden Gate is again slammed shut by his red army. If the port is again closed, and another exodus of business, manufacturing and workers takes place, San Francisco, may, like Aguinaldo, when General Funston was chasing him around the Philippines, yell “Nuff.” So far as our “liberal” state administration is concerned, we feel hopeful that it has shot its arrow. It has earned the cordial dislike of all agricultural elements, all mining communites, and a large fraction of the industrial population. Governor Olson’s tendency to reward subservient legislators with judicial posts, despite legalrestrictions to appointments of oo urday afternoon. last evening by Frank Misner, night watchman, who is substituting while James Allen is on vacation, this afternoon pleaded not guilty in the city Police court. Judge Miles Coughlin set August 10 for the date of the trial. ‘ Mrs. Otto Schiffner and party, Miss Mary Béfinett, Mrs. Etta Los Kamp and Mrs. F. A. Siegfried, returned Saturday from a delightful motor trip through Washington, and Oregon and to Varicouver, Canada. Cecil Schiffner, of Seattle, Washington, who had a few ‘days furlough from the navy, accompanied the party. A ieee Oe Jackson, operator of the Hot Water mine at Graniteville, Mrs, ‘Tillie Phelps and Mrs. Gardner, were ‘business, visitors in Nevada City Satthis kind, has aroused disgust among all intelligent citizens. The appointment of Hugo Black to the United States Supreme Court is only a little “more ‘requgnant to believers in democracy, than is the , Course the governor is noW pursuing in rewarding his. legislative aids with posts in the state’s cadet iary. The county ranked 56th from the highest”*in amount of taxes levied per capita by counties, the ‘association found. The five counties with the lowest levies per capita were Mono, $19,95; Imperial $20.50; Nevada $21.93; Trinity $25.41; and Siskiyou $25.43. The five counties in which total local taxes per capita were highest were Kern $62.04; San Luis Obispo $53.58; Orange $53.19; San Francisco $50.90; and Ventura $47.73. Pointing out that local tax levies have been increasing steadily since the last major change in California's tax syStem, the total having risen 28 per cent within ‘the last four years to a grand total local property tax burden in the state of $291,828,784 in 1938,39 the Taxpayers’ association urged attention by local. taxpayers to their county and _ school budgets, which are being’ completed early in August. ghe public hearing on the school budget, the association Stated, must be held early in August. and the school budget adopted not later than August 10, while the public hearing on the county budget is held on or before August 20 and that budget is adopted by August 30. Local levies-for the counties and the school districts accounted for 74 per call for them. Loeal citizens are securing the maps and sketching their homes and sending them to friends. Others mark historical spots and send them to friends. About half of the 2000 maps printed have been taken and the demand keeps up. .Mrs. Elizabeth Dashbaugh has as guests this week Mr. and Mrs. George Gann of Phoenix, Arizona. They have made several trips to Nevada City to visit Mrs. Lashbaugh, close friend for many years. Mr, and Mrs. Harry EB, Bolton and children, Miss Alberta Bolton, and Tommy Bolton of this city and Mr. Bolton’s niece, Miss Bunice Cobbledick of Grass Valley, returned Saturday from a week’s vacation at Dillon’s Beach on the coast. It was fosSy on the beach néarly all the time they were there but the party had a splendid trip. iar and George Carey, who have extensive mining interests in the Mt. Oro district east of Nevada City, were in this city today taking in supplies. They are doing considerable development work. Fi latest month for whieh _ statistics were available, the association found. Throughout the state there were 213,680 cases’ receiving county welfare aid in May and 98,424 cases receiving SRA aid in April, the association stated. A case, the association pointed out, may be one or several persons, Indigent and children cases especially comprise all the indigents or children in a family. Of the total of 213,000 cases receiving aid, 130,832 were aged, 38, 114 yere children, 6.393 were blind; and 38,341 were indigent, it was found. E penditures for charities and corrections, under which the county’s welfare case load . payments fal, amounted to 45 per cent of Nevada county’s expenditures for 1937-38, the association stated, pointing out that great care in determining eligibility for relief: must’ be exercised. In determining eligibility for aid, a careful case worker will investigate responsible relatives, roomers or the boarders, cash on hand,’ bank de Dosits, securities, personal property (including automobile), erty. lodge benefit, military a P employment of members the counties for 1938-39 the associa-— tion declared. cent of the total taxes levied in all ; ‘ho laws regarding failure to provide, . a>d federal assistance, such bed ccc 5, storms continue. ee Inn. The fire crews extinguished t and a half acres. This fire was of in cendiary orogin. It was set in different spots. : CCC BOYS ENJOY COLD situation of the OCC enrollees at H bart Mills camp, according to foi officials at Nevada City. It is report registered 26 degrees above zero ‘Plame mine : real prop‘pressor will be -+household, possibility of sitet . Sunday afternoon a fire broke out between Camptonville and Log Cabin blaze after it had covered about NIGHTS AT HOBART M Residents of the valley Oe ing. this weather can well envy. a pa ed that the thermometer it is not uncommon for water treeze during the nights.: ORO FLAME HOIST : A truck load of mine eq the principal part being ‘ passed through Nevada Cit) day afternoon enroute

q ‘s Be a iat gu eS he ssa Thinking Out Loud ; By H. M. L. } COVERS RICHEST GOLD: Nevada City Nu AREA IN CALIFORNIA ag = ooet in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton. * FKronrthe Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists. i —Alexander HamilCoercion and _ intimidation of workers on the part of the CIO communists, arrests, imprisonment and bail raising, frantic appeals to “the governor, to the courts, and busy little Herbert Resner running to and fro, directing the actors and putting on another show— how well we in Nevada County know all the moves in this game? In the meantime Congress is engaged in a few last minute precautions to preserve the country so that the country can preserve Congress. Apparently some of our representatives have been reading the testimony in Bridges’ hearing. The House passed its fifth set of alien restrictions Saturday. The new act, ready now for Senate action, provides outlawry for those attempting to undermine loyalty of naval and military forces, .adds several new categories of crimes to make aliens eligible for deportation, calls for the deportation of any alien who ever belonged for a minute to any anarchistic organization, compels finger printing of aliens before they board ship for this country, and makes an outlaw of anyone advocating overthrow of our a rrreuer by force or violence. : Even Ma Perkins has put her foot down on stoppage of work by longshéremen in San Pedro because of a “sympathizer” strike. ‘She upholds her labor arbiter as against the Bridges gang that broke its contract with the waterfront employers. Longshoremen who quit work are penalized a week’s work. The arbiter, having been blessed, will now grant-a re‘hearing to the longshoremen. The pendulum is swinging away from radicalism. Perhaps nothing is more signifieant than Secretary Perkins’ change of heart. Out here in California, to’-which thousands have come from other states, some because’ natural catastrophies have uprooted them, others because’old age pensions are higher, and others for the adventure that communism offers here, “we have a large element that forms @ social pus, whenever employe and employer relations cause irritation. Oregon has taken curative measures to reduce temperature and swelling in labor disputes. fornia probably will offer another measure on the general ballot come November, 1940. This time with further experience in CIO communist activities throughout the state, it Stands a good chance of being approved. The Associated Farmers of California, who are the bright and shining targets for radicals, in that their year’s profits are depend& end on a harvest season of sometimes less than a month, will undoubtedly seek ‘to place in the statutes by popular vote a measure that will effectively curb, not picketing in its legitimate aspects, but mass coercion. While the passing of such a law might have a good psychological effect, actually, we have always believed we have . Street in Nevada City and. the retail Cali. Vol. 13, No. 61. The oy Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, JULY Ea l Undersecretary of Agriculture, M. L. Wilson, the man who ranks next to Sécretary of Agriculture Wallace, with a party of forty, including Department of Agriculture experts, bureau and divisional chiefs and engineers, yesterday visited Nevada City. Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson was their host. In the party were Howard. Tolley, director of the bureau of agricultural economics, Roy Hendrickson, head of the Personnel Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, and representatives of the Soil Conservation Service, Farm Extension, Agricultural Expernment service, and other officials. Dean Hutchinson, of the Davis College of Agriculture was a guest. While in Nevada City nomberk of the party were shown the site which the Forest Service has purchased next . to Alpha Stores, and they then were shown the eramped quarters whith the service now occupies in the Elks building. They were much interested in the’ maps, including the huge relief map of Tahoe National Forest. Undersecretary Wilson and his party came to Nevada City from Undersecreta ry of Agriculture and Party Of 40 Visit Nev. City ‘Marysville. The Bureau of Agricul-. water. tural Economics is making a study of the economic use of land, that is to Say, are seeking methods of making land produce the highest possible income, by various means, not so much as regards individual farms, though that is a factor, but of areas and regions which. may be economically complimentary, such as this ‘section of the Sierras, which is an economic auxiliary of the Sacramento Valley in so far as water, timber and grazing resources are concerned. The .group made a thorough and painstaking study of Yuba county, which was selected some years ago as a area which could be used for an*experiment of this kind. From Nevada City the party, headed by DeWitt Nelson and Undersecretary Wilson went ‘to Lake Tahoe, lunched at the State Line Inn, and from there visited the Nevada State 4-H Club camp on the lake shore. Supervisor DeWitt Nelson provided Mr. Wilson with a statement of the resources, dependencies and the business of the Tahoe National Forest, showing among other things that seven acres of watershed provides one acre of farm land with irrigation The Diamond Match Company has purchased the Tahoe Sugar Pine Products retail yard on Spring lumber, yard in Auburn. The Diamond Match Company will take possession of the yards tomorrow, August 1. Invoice is being made of the stock in the local: yard. E. L. ‘Marsh stated business ‘will be conducted from the Diamond Match Co. Buys Tahoe Sugar Pine Yards local yard as usual. E. L. Marsh is .president of the Tahoe Sugar Pine Products company. He.is interested in the, mill-at Graniteville and planing plant at EmiLIFE SAVING CAMPAIGN IS STARTED INN. C., R. C. Turner, Field Representative of the Red Cross has started the Red Cross Learn to Swim and Life Saving program at Pioneer Park under the sponsorship of the Nevada City Co-ordinating Committee and _ the Nevada City Red Cross. With the opening of the Nevada City Red Cross Swimming and Life adults alike are taking part in the Red Cross world wide training plan to make water recreation not only “fun” but ‘“‘safe fun’’. Between classes today, C. E. Turner, Red Cross Field Instructor in Swimming, and life saving explained the various awards which may be earned during the training course. ‘New swimmers work toward the “beginners”’ certificate, awarded following the successful completion of the course and the passing of tests which inelude fifty foot swims, and. other jwater safety skills. In this course emphasis is placed on floating, gliding, breathing, easily, and being at “home” in the water. During the first lesson all of the beginners enrolled learned to float and glide. The next step in becoming a swimmer, consists in learning various strokes, and making progress easily in the water. This group learns side‘stroke, elementary back stroke, and breast stroke, and the rudiments of the crawl. They develop a five minute swimming ability and learn the plain front dive. For these skills the “intermediate swimmer’ certificate is awarded. To earn a “swimmer” certificate the student continues training in the various strokes to develop ease of swimming. The maximum swim required is ten minutes and senior, junior life saving under the new plan gives trdining not only in rescue but in water safety practices, under the theory that it is better for a swim‘her ‘to keep out of danger than to be rescued. grant Gap. Marsh took over the yard two years ago. Bert Foreman of Nevada City has had charge of the Nevada City yard during that time. WINNERS IN AIR PLANE CONTEST RECEIVE AWARDS Awards were made Saturday for the best flying airplanes built by lothe 10 cents, 25 cents and the 50 cent or $1.00 classes. Each boy won a Remington Boy Scout knife, and winners were the following boys: Class A—Ed Berger; Class B—Jim McCraney; .Class C~—Dave Jefferies. The second contest starts this week and will be completed next Saturday. Awards will be made at Pioneers Park at 10 a. m. cal boys. The planes were to be in LOCAL TAX LEVY PER CAPITA IN COUNTY $21.3 Tax levies by the governmental units in Nevada county totalled $401,326 for the year 1938-39, an average of $21.93 for each and every man, woman and child in the county atcording to a study of tax levies in California counties, recently completed by California Taxpayers’ associaThe local chapter of the . Red Cross, under the chairmanship of Thomas McCraney is furnishing modern rescue equipment in thé form of life rings, can ‘buoys, boats and canoes for training purposes. An innovation to be used in this campaign is the use of kick boards in the teaching of correct leg and arm strokes for both life saving and_ general swimming. “Nevada City is to be complimented,” said Mr. Turner today —. ‘not only for the interest in water safety which has led.to swimming and life saving instruction, but for the fine water recreation facilities provided in the community.’ (Mr. Turner comes to Nevada City from a two weeks campaign at White Sulphur Springs and will conduct a similar training course in Crescent City following two weeks in Nevada Saving campaign ‘today, youth and: Mrs. Belle Douglas, secretary of the local Red Cross chapter, announces that beginning this week Red Cross swimming and life saving classes will meet every morning at the municipal swimming pool in Pioneers Park as follows: Advanced swimmers will meet at § o’clock; intermediates at 9:45; beginners, 5 to 8 years old at 11:15; beginners 9 to 16 years old 10:30; junior life saving class, 3 to 5 o’clock in the afternoon; adult classes men and women, 2 to 3 p. m. At the pool this morning Mrs. Douglas signed up a large number of youngsters for these classes. They were given cards which their parents are expected to sign. Mrs. Douglas will be at the pool tomorrow morning to receive them after they have been signed. The date for the annual water carnival at the pool has been set for Thursday night, August 10, it was announced this morning by Del Henrich, playgropnd director. The following events are scheduled for the Red Cross SwimmingLessons Open; Water Carnival Set, Aug. 1 Boys 50-yard free -for all. Boys diving. Boys 50-yard dog-paddle. Water polo game. Boy Scout contest demonstrating live saving. Boys 50-yard side stroke. Girls diving. © Girls 50-yard free style. Log jousting. Barrel rolling. Greased pole contest. Exhibition in diving and stunts. The recreation program for this week at Seaman’s lodge, Henrich an, nounces, is as follows: Cooking, Tuesday ,boys at 1 o’clock p. m., girls at 2 p. m. Handicraft, boys Wednesday at 1 p. m. Story telling,

Thursday at 1 p.m. Thursday, boys, boxing 10 to 12 a. m. Wednesday, morning scavenger hunt. Thursday morning, sign-up for carnival; girls hike, Friday morning, tennis lessons at high school courts. Saturday overnight hike for boys. Friday afternoon there will be a nature study class and in the evenin, the dance i carnival. the lodge. TWO CAR COLLISIONS TAKE PLACE SUNDAY While IM. J. Kampo of Alleghany was coming toward Nevada City last night his Chrysler sedan went off the grade and rolled 400 feet before it stopped. Shebley’s AAA service] brought the car to Nevada City this morning., It is stated that those riding in the car were badly shaken up but not injured. ~A ear'reigstered to Daryl Kitts of Grass Valley was in an accident on the Tahoe-Ukiah highway near the Lone Grave late yesterday afternoon, Another car with a flat tire collided with the Kitts car. This car was also towed in by AAA service and is in the Shebley repair shop. The AAA service was kept rather busy Sunday with calls for gas, repairs and tow service due to heavy traffic over local roads as thousands of people were going and returning from cool places in the Sierra Nevada mountains or tourists. Mr. Shebley stated it was quite noticeable the new steel tops and shatter proof glass on cars are saving many persons from serious injury and death. NEV. COUNTY HAS 675 ON RELIEF Nevada County has a total welfare reds sist Ranger Frost. * IOWA HILL FIRE SET BY FIRE BUG The forest service reports that the fire which swept over 500 to 600 acres between Iowa Hill and North Fork of the American River, was deItberately started by a fire bug, whose course could be, and was, traced by the matches he threw into the inflammable dried grass and forest litter. The fire'is now under contrél and the fire crews have been releas~ The CCC enrollees were sent out from Camp Forbes, under Ranger Alvin Frost and a crew of CCC men came from the Pine Grove near Jackson, making about 65 enrollees on the fire lines. E. Lamberton, chief dispatcher, sent three rangers to as— The last three or four days twee three light electrical fires have brok— en out mostly on the east side of the Sierras. Sunday morning the Forest Service plane from Oakland piloted by L. S. Smith flew as an observer © of electrical storms covering the = west side of the forest. The party landed at Beckwith near Portola and picked up a Pulmas National Forest man. The group then covered forest areas in the Plumas forest south and ; west of Quincy and then returned to the Loma Rica last evening. a Today a plane flew from the Loma Rica field to Truckee and picked : case load of 675 in May, 1939, according to a study of relief in California counties, recently completed by California Taxpayers’ association. The county’s welfare load was made up of 440 aged, 147 children cases, 18 blind, and 70 indigent cases. There were 246 cases receiving SRA aid in the county ‘in April, 1939, the Donald Bean and Harold Booth. This group will leave the Truckee district and go to the south over the Mono forest looking for lightning fires. This evening when the plane returns from the southern trip the Truckee and Sierraville district and east side of Plumas forest will be viewed for fires. In the mean time tleetrical tion. City. Included in the $401,326 taxes levied were $253,720 for general county purposes, $93,938 for schooi purposes, $13,743 for school bonds, $5,192 in special district taxes, and $34,733 in city taxes, the association stated. A sample of the boys work can be Seen in the Nugget office display window some of the winning the much coveted prizes. sufficient laws already in force, to deal with most of the pernicious activities of radicals. Nevada County supervisors, following the disturbances of last year, adopted an anti-picketiug ordinance, but as a matter of fact, the rioters of the Red Dog road were dealt with unNEVADA CITY MAPS H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce states the maps of this city are proving quite interesting. Letters have been received from Los Angeles, Sacramento and Reno and many visitors PLEADS NOT GUILTY Russel Haddy, charged with indecent exposure, after being arrested “ ) der laws that have long been on the statute books. Counties which can confidently be expected to vote for such eurb on communism, are Los Angeles, San Joaquin, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Butte, Sutter, Sonoma, Shasta, Tehama, Lassen, El Dorado, Placer, and Nevada. Whether San Francisco and Aalameda will give a majority to such an enactment will depend somewhat on what happens to Harry Bridges and whether or not the Golden Gate is again slammed shut by his red army. If the port is again closed, and another exodus of business, manufacturing and workers takes place, San Francisco, may, like Aguinaldo, when General Funston was chasing him around the Philippines, yell “Nuff.” So far as our “liberal” state administration is concerned, we feel hopeful that it has shot its arrow. It has earned the cordial dislike of all agricultural elements, all mining communites, and a large fraction of the industrial population. Governor Olson’s tendency to reward subservient legislators with judicial posts, despite legalrestrictions to appointments of oo urday afternoon. last evening by Frank Misner, night watchman, who is substituting while James Allen is on vacation, this afternoon pleaded not guilty in the city Police court. Judge Miles Coughlin set August 10 for the date of the trial. ‘ Mrs. Otto Schiffner and party, Miss Mary Béfinett, Mrs. Etta Los Kamp and Mrs. F. A. Siegfried, returned Saturday from a delightful motor trip through Washington, and Oregon and to Varicouver, Canada. Cecil Schiffner, of Seattle, Washington, who had a few ‘days furlough from the navy, accompanied the party. A ieee Oe Jackson, operator of the Hot Water mine at Graniteville, Mrs, ‘Tillie Phelps and Mrs. Gardner, were ‘business, visitors in Nevada City Satthis kind, has aroused disgust among all intelligent citizens. The appointment of Hugo Black to the United States Supreme Court is only a little “more ‘requgnant to believers in democracy, than is the , Course the governor is noW pursuing in rewarding his. legislative aids with posts in the state’s cadet iary. The county ranked 56th from the highest”*in amount of taxes levied per capita by counties, the ‘association found. The five counties with the lowest levies per capita were Mono, $19,95; Imperial $20.50; Nevada $21.93; Trinity $25.41; and Siskiyou $25.43. The five counties in which total local taxes per capita were highest were Kern $62.04; San Luis Obispo $53.58; Orange $53.19; San Francisco $50.90; and Ventura $47.73. Pointing out that local tax levies have been increasing steadily since the last major change in California's tax syStem, the total having risen 28 per cent within ‘the last four years to a grand total local property tax burden in the state of $291,828,784 in 1938,39 the Taxpayers’ association urged attention by local. taxpayers to their county and _ school budgets, which are being’ completed early in August. ghe public hearing on the school budget, the association Stated, must be held early in August. and the school budget adopted not later than August 10, while the public hearing on the county budget is held on or before August 20 and that budget is adopted by August 30. Local levies-for the counties and the school districts accounted for 74 per call for them. Loeal citizens are securing the maps and sketching their homes and sending them to friends. Others mark historical spots and send them to friends. About half of the 2000 maps printed have been taken and the demand keeps up. .Mrs. Elizabeth Dashbaugh has as guests this week Mr. and Mrs. George Gann of Phoenix, Arizona. They have made several trips to Nevada City to visit Mrs. Lashbaugh, close friend for many years. Mr, and Mrs. Harry EB, Bolton and children, Miss Alberta Bolton, and Tommy Bolton of this city and Mr. Bolton’s niece, Miss Bunice Cobbledick of Grass Valley, returned Saturday from a week’s vacation at Dillon’s Beach on the coast. It was fosSy on the beach néarly all the time they were there but the party had a splendid trip. iar and George Carey, who have extensive mining interests in the Mt. Oro district east of Nevada City, were in this city today taking in supplies. They are doing considerable development work. Fi latest month for whieh _ statistics were available, the association found. Throughout the state there were 213,680 cases’ receiving county welfare aid in May and 98,424 cases receiving SRA aid in April, the association stated. A case, the association pointed out, may be one or several persons, Indigent and children cases especially comprise all the indigents or children in a family. Of the total of 213,000 cases receiving aid, 130,832 were aged, 38, 114 yere children, 6.393 were blind; and 38,341 were indigent, it was found. E penditures for charities and corrections, under which the county’s welfare case load . payments fal, amounted to 45 per cent of Nevada county’s expenditures for 1937-38, the association stated, pointing out that great care in determining eligibility for relief: must’ be exercised. In determining eligibility for aid, a careful case worker will investigate responsible relatives, roomers or the boarders, cash on hand,’ bank de Dosits, securities, personal property (including automobile), erty. lodge benefit, military a P employment of members the counties for 1938-39 the associa-— tion declared. cent of the total taxes levied in all ; ‘ho laws regarding failure to provide, . a>d federal assistance, such bed ccc 5, storms continue. ee Inn. The fire crews extinguished t and a half acres. This fire was of in cendiary orogin. It was set in different spots. : CCC BOYS ENJOY COLD situation of the OCC enrollees at H bart Mills camp, according to foi officials at Nevada City. It is report registered 26 degrees above zero ‘Plame mine : real prop‘pressor will be -+household, possibility of sitet . Sunday afternoon a fire broke out between Camptonville and Log Cabin blaze after it had covered about NIGHTS AT HOBART M Residents of the valley Oe ing. this weather can well envy. a pa ed that the thermometer it is not uncommon for water treeze during the nights.: ORO FLAME HOIST : A truck load of mine eq the principal part being ‘ passed through Nevada Cit) day afternoon enroute