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July 31, 1939 (4 pages)

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NEVADA CITY NUGGET “MONDAY, JULY 31, 1939 Nevada City Nugget Newspaper, as defined by s-atute. Printed and Published & at Nevada City. A Legal H. M. LEETE ~ Editor and Publisher Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Friday at Nevada City. California, and entered as mail matter of the second class in the @ostoffice at Nevada City. under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (In Advance) Pa sto ste strat atas”: teat Se ate sfest 5 id THE POCKETBOOK ¢ KNOWLEDGE :. . The New Deal Debt Is Yours no taxes. known. Unfortunately this is not true. Everybody pays taxes. per cent of every dollar of that income. For example, if you make $150 a month the year around—and that is pretty good mately $230 a year out of that salary in taxes. This, to repeat the tax burden as high as 30 per cent. Below is a bird's-eye view of how some of these taxes figure in every day purchases. The New Deal gets the part of the price labeled “‘tax. Tax Included Article Normal Price in Price oN Cotton Dress $7.85 $2.85 “Electric light bill 3.00 50 . ‘\. Telephone bill 2.50 AlCigarettes (two packages) £2 A Give gallons gasoline .90 30 Loaf of bread 10 .O1 Computed from figures in N. Y. Herald-Tribune Magazine by A. A. Ballantine, former Undersecre-; tary.of the Treasury. The American working man must remember that onlv a little over two-fifths of the money received by the govern _ ment through taxation comes from income taxes. . The balance comes from the wide variety of miscellaneous and large ly hidden taxes. The sad truth of the matter, however. is the present taxes do not come anywhere near paying the bills th“New Deal is running up. ys _ By the time the New Deal is through, the tax burden or the American worker is going to be substantially higher thar that on the British worker, despite the fact that we are being told in dulcet tones these days that we are fortunate in not having to pay British taxes. We all pay, indeed. Possibly we don’t mind paying, but it is well to know that we are.—ConLabor Plays With Fire Not from any “reactionary tory’’—as left-wing radicals term most tax-payine. payroll-maintaining farmers and busi nessmen—but from Norman Thomas, leader of the Socialist Party, comes this statement: “A great danger lies in the present attitude of labor against which a reactionary wave is setting in. Labor is playing with fire by its civil warfare.” By dramatic coincidence, Socialist Thomas voiced his warning in San Francisco, the seaport that has had more than _ its share of labor wars, with costly port tieups, loss of ship_ ping, impairment of busines, and increase in unemployment _ The condition ha caused state-wide concern, for a serious loss on any major front must affect the entire state. " Fortunately, with labor disputes somewhat at a minimum. San Francisco is reporting better times. Waterfront tonnage is up 20 per cent over a year ago, carloadings up 10 per cent. * Literally hundreds of thousands of hard working Americans go tranquilly about their daily lives falsely secure in a mistaken belief that because they pay no income tax, they pay Doubtless many. smile with satisfaction that the money of the rich is being spent for public good. They have ‘been told that is so by the most persuasive the world has ever You pay taxes every time you buy anything. The most conservative of estimates places the tax burden on every individual drawing a small income at . 2 if you make it the year around these days—you pay approxiis a very conservative estimate. Other estimates have placed ERY 9 oe COUNT! Si THERE Ree NEARLY FOR THE _N FOR EVE oo. TRY. : IN THE INDU “WATT? THe word WE USE TO SIGNIFY AN ELECTRICAL POWER UNIT '6 THE NAME OF A MAN — JAMES WATT, $¢c7H ~ ENGINEER 6-819) >) WHO WAS -1RST TO YL DISCOVER STEAM PN POWER POSSIBILITIES oo bi CS ‘ Na Ae, BUT NEVER MADE AN ELECTRICAL DISCOVERY IN Ig LIFE ; IN. SOME PARTS OF ENGLAND, INSTEAD. OF ROLLING EGGS ON EASTER, THE CHILDREN SCRAMBLE FOR PIES) AN INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH LABORATORY HAS PRODUCED A METHOD FOR TREATING WET HAY WHICH PERMITS STORAGE WITHOUT DRYING AND WITHOUT HAZARD OF FIRE hij i» ~ PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY . *hone* Office 429. 229 South Auburn St., Grass Valley S. F. TOBIAS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 214 Neal St., Grass Valley , Office Hours: 12-3 and 7-8. Residence 311-3 DR. ROBT. W. DETTNER DENTIST . X-RAY Facilities’ Available fours: 9:00-5:00. Evenifig appoint-: ieuts. 120% Mill Street. Phone 77 trass Valley, Calif. that the publicity “‘may chase little privacy.” goods to “‘share’’ with the unf the thousands of Californians driven from the state he loves —Contributed. end with, Mr. Steinbeck recently entered a hospital to rest and to escape the bombardment of visits, phone calls and letters regarding ‘his book. And Mrs. Steinbeck ruefully remarked If Novelist Steinbeck, who has far more of this world’s it would be ironic, indeed. Then, perhaps, his compassion -for the migrants might be tempered with compassion for the state that must find a way to house’and support the unfortunates. us out of the country to get a ortunate migrants than most of he so bitterly assails, should be by his own “‘Grapes of Wrath” LAST RITES FOR JOHN BARBIERI Funeral services were held at Si. Canice Catholic church at 10 o’clock ‘his forenoon for the late John Bar‘ieri: who passed away last Wednesday. Father J. P. O’Reilly officiated and Holmes Funeral Home conducted jrrangements, interment being made in the Catholic cemetery. Pall bearers were Louie Monfre, Vir :il Giani, Joseph Moscatelli, Albert Pratti, Charles Graham, James Conta. Beautiful floral offerings attested to esteem in which the late John Barbieri was held. Many relatives and friends attended the services. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Garrison have irchased the R, Nichols property on Sacramento street across from the former home’of Judge Raglan Tuttie. Contractors have started remodeling the interior of the dwelling on A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY EARNED the property. Amedeo Barbieri, of Sparks, Nevada, was in Nevdda City to attend the funeral of his brother, the late ‘ohn Barbieri this morning. Amedeo lived in Nevada City from 1912 to 1918. He conducted the Hydraulic Saloon on Main street. LUMBER 2x4 1x12 Surfaced Four Sides Thoroughly Dry $14 M HILLS FLAT LUMBER CO. Phone 699 ° DANIEL L. HIRSCH, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Iffices and Receiving Hospital, 118 Bush St. Hours: 10-12; 2-5, evenings 7-8 P. M. Day or night phone 71. BURT SPICER. PHONE G. V. 918. FURNITURE REFINSHING SPECIAL RATES FOR SPRING— Any color or tone. Waterproof. 20 year’s experience. Homes, offices, apartments, hospitals. Colfax Highway, Cedar Ridge. ~ Walley Grill _WELCOMES YOU Whenever you are in GRASS VALLEY We specialize in a 50 cent Sunday Dinner {Excellent Meals at all times Pose MILL ST., GRASS VALLEY GRASS VALLEY NEVADA CITY SARL POWER JONES, M. D. DENTISTS sttice Hours: 1 to 8, ° 7 to 8 p.m. . DR. WALTER J. HAWKINS Sundays 11:30 to 12:30 DENTIST 312 Broad Street. Hours 9:00 a. m. to 6:00 p. m. Byenings by appointment. Complete X-Ray Service. Phone 95 ; DR. JOHN R. BELL
DENTIST Office Hours 8:30 to 5:30 Evenings by Appointment Morgan & Powell Bldg. Phone 821 DOCTORS B. W. HUMMELT, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 400. Broad Street Office Hours: 10-12 a. m.; 2-5 p. m. Evenings 7-8. Phone 395 X-RAY W. W. REED, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Nevada City, Calif. Office 418 Broad Street Hours: 1 te $ and 7 to 8 p. m. Residence Phone 2. Office Phone 362 J. R. TOPIC, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 312 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Hours: 10-12 a. m. 2-5 p. m. Evenings 7-8 Phone 23 Res. Phone 3. FUNERAL DIRECTORS HOLMES FUNERAL HOME The Holmes Funeral Home service is priced within the means ef alJ. Ambulance service at all hours, Phone 203 246 Sacramento Street, Nevada City MINING ENGINEERS J. F. O°; CONNOR Mining and Civil Engineer United States Mineral Surveying Licensed Surveyor 203 West Main St Grass Valley ATTORNEYS YARRYM.McKEE _ ATTORNEY AT LAW Nevada City, Calif. FRANK G. FINNEGAN : ATTORNEY AT LAW 207 North Pine Street, . Nevada City, California. Telephone 273. SAFE AND LOCKSMITH KEYS Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel Tapes, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machines, Electric Irons Stoves, Etc. Repaired SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, SCISSORS, ETC., SHARPENED Gunsmith, Light Welding RAY’S FIXIT SHOP 220 East Main St., Phone .602 GRASS VALLEY H. WARD SHELDON ATTORNEY AT LAW Union Building, Broad Street. Nevada City Telephone 28 THOMAS O. McCRANEY ATTORNEY AT LAW Masonic Building 108% Pine Street, Nevada City. Telephone 165 ASSAYER HAL D. DRAPER. Ph. D. ASSAYER AND CONSULTING CHEMIST Nevada City, California "hones: Office: 364-W. Home 246-J Box 748 new industries up 39 per cent. ; . Mr. Thomas knows that better business in a major port _ is good news for the state. He knows the “‘reactionary wave setting in” is an angry reactionagainst attempts of alien agitators to bend labor to its will, to rip to shreds the economic fabrics of great cities and vast farm areas in order to gain their ulti-. mate objective; destruction of the American system of free ‘enterprise in business. ; ‘i . Responsible labor leaders, and responsible rank-and-file inionists, will do well to heed Mr. Thomas advice. In flirting with that element of leadership whose banner is-red, a large number of misguided American workers have endangered. ]} much of the solid and justified progress of the labor movement this country.—Contributed. . oat “Grapes of Wrath” r. John Steinbeck, literary artist and radical propaganda predicament that has its element of ironic humor. th he wrote “Grapes of Wrath,” a best seller novel coriated Californians who have objected to unx of destitute migrants from other states. To f3 ‘Service. with the lower rates. You “eral weeks in a row, Balance Your Budget Those extra pennies that you spend in. other directions can be Saved in using this better laundry will have no idea of the satisfactory difference until. you try sevHill's Flat Feed and Fuel. DAIRY and POULTRY FEEDS. HAY . COAL, KINDLING by load or by . Service, WEEKLY TRIPS TO SAC: . Phone 521 SHOE REPATRING—See James Wilson in new shop on Commercial Street near Pine, Best of materials, new machinery, reasonable prices. 7-31-1tp FOR SALE—Two placer claims with house near North San Juan. Good prospect. Box 906, Nevada City, Calif. 7-3-9tp GRAIN and} MANURD. WOOD, New Deal Under Management of Pauline and Johnnie 108 W. Main Street. Grass Valley BEER WINES, LIQUORS Delicious Mixed Drinks to Please Every Taste . ECTORY WOMAN'S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and . 4th Tuesdays of the month, at the ; Chamber of Commerce, 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Chas. Elliott, Pres, Mrs. Everett Robinson, Secy, x NEVADA CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE A FEW DAYS MORE . ! ‘CLIFFORD MERRIAM, NEVADA CITY LODGE, No, 518' B. P. O, Elks ; Meets second and fourth Friday, evenings in Elks home, Pine Street. Phone 108. Visiting Elks ' welcome, Exalted Ruler. JOHN FORTIER, Secretary, HYDRAULIC PARLOR NO. 56, “ ON. S. G.W. Meets every Tuesday evening at Pythian Castle, 282 Broad Street Visiting Native Sons welcome, CLARENCE RB. MARTZ, Pres. DK, C. W. CHAPMAN, Rec, Sec'y. the sack, FURNITURE CAREFULLY MOVED in state or out of state. GENERAL HAULING all kinds. Reasonable rates, prompt RAMENTO, MARYSVILLE, LIN_ COLN. Phone 698. W. R. BOWER. “REAL ESTATE WALTER H. DANIELS LICENSED BROKER P.O. BOX 501 Nevada City . WE USE IVORY: SOAP EXCLUSIVELY GRASS VALLEY LAUNDRY ‘111 BENNETT STREET .. PHONE 108 ° \ GRASS VALLEY evada City QUALITY WORK SKILLFULLY YOU WILL BE aera righ No. 16, 1.0.0.F. every Tuesday evening at 7:30, Odd Fellows Hall. " ROMAN ROZYNSKI, N. G. JONATHAN PASCOR, Rec. Sec’y. PLEASED JOHN wW. DARKE, Fin, Sec’y, WITH OUR Subscribe for The Nugget COFFEE SHOP ie NATIONAL HOTEL AND COFFEE SHOP NEVADA CITY t ‘Clarence R. Gray 520 Coyote Strees Phone 16 FINB WATCH REPAIRING Radio Service and REPAIRING Work Called tor and Delivered ‘ CALIFORNIA DONE BY HAND All, our work is priced right, OB PRINTING. ? GET YOURS AT Phone 577 niet City For VENETIAN BLINDS and LATEST PATTERNS IN WALL PAPER SEE W. Darke John MUQQET 100-3 205 Pine St., opposite courthouseLed