June 1, 1944 (4 pages)

STOLEN e looking olen from r she had 1 at 10:30 mably the h_ her ear belonging ig avenue, ced along. ‘om Mr, So ee ee et er ‘ The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per N “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster evada City Nu This paper gives — complete coverage of allJocal happenings. If you want to read about your month friends, your neighbors? read — eS atone : The Nugget. —_—_—_— ili COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA te Vol. 18, op te The 1¢ County Seat 45 ea __NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center__ Reflecting on the achievement of the American arms thus far in ‘ «his war, no patriotic and thinkingcitizen can be proud. We are pitted against two of the most martial garth, nations with and a practical training for war. Both Japan and Germany for ten years of more prepared carefully for this great effort control. Yet in. a brief two and a half years we have overtaken and defeated them. The story of Africa, Sicily, Italy has bee in the Pacific. Burma. It is quite true in tanean theatre we have had val-: int aid from British, _ dian and Polish troops. But in the main it hag been the hard working, and hard fighting American doughboys who haye driven relentlessly forward whenever sufficient arms Were They have been pitte iN after all is said, it is tle to the ‘goal. Our boys are like t men here at home ha aaginst the enemy] T bd, it would seem “ports: : in” doing a Job, pitas: it over as speedily as * possible, and getting home. One ‘could’ wish at times that young Americans, planted in fag out_Posts around the globe, could feel ‘at home there, and when the war is over return there, to live in and to leven the countries of adoption. We believe notable: opportunities men with a little capital in South America, in parts of Africa, and 2s‘Peclally in China, but we doubt whether more than a handful of our boys can overcome that homesickness 0 eegenacoaanal of our troops abroad. Whije Ro one can foretell D-day, when our American army undertakes to batter the walls of Forttes Burope, We can rs adherent pow iene Behe to When one reflects expenditures ite ‘there is ‘solid ma “ga that of Germany, of war, that : ’ War in Russia. ; OSS sates it that. way. boar the f®uropean phase of hg is concluded — hold upon has not yet = me It th er nat would mean Thinki Out Loud By H. M. L. A great drive is now slowly getting under way in best soldiers Germany can muster, ‘and still they. march ahead. For preme courage that wins victories. it is the determination, and everlasting , perseverance that counts heavily in the scales. speaking our American boys are trained in those qualities. wont stop-for tea and a breathing spell every. two hours. They grind onward: through the gruelling bat) no consuming passion mplete as can be reasonably ¢ expected, the invasion will airpower has shown every evidence of sharp ‘deteriorand no longer is dreaded as the thought that we are . bY spending money for the 4fmament, munitions and im‘of England and America We contrast this policy of Russia, which had no te but to offer millions. of Young men on the altar of cad armor makers could not ¥e pace with the swift strides casualty We trust our commanders be Japan to defeat. We begin hand ithis is not quite so easy first estimated. Japan is conits Manchurian possesse islands of Japan were it is still doubhtful wheof Jap armies on ‘Mainland. With their unbeing other ~ than nations on a tradition to seize world m duplicated the MediterFrench, Ingiven them. d against the not only supGenerally They heir countryte war. They hey are confrom all reworkmanlike their these are for young feel confidon the trein this war comfort in saving the finest and especRelatively list is there -will China. and . been chalthe capiluthe PREINVASION BROADCASTS OF ENGLAND’S BBC tion of 400,000 ,000 in Germany and in enemy occupied countries extending from the coast of France to Russia’s western borders. Twenty eight languages are employed in these broadcasts, to give operational warn ings anddetailed instructions to listenerg in all. the occupied regions and to ericourage and Suide the underground front, according to a booklet just issued by the British Broadcasting Corporation under the British transmitters. are radioing 163 bulletins every day to a populaCOUNTY TAX RATIO, PER CAPITA HIGHER Property tax levies in county for 1043-44 averaged $31.08 for each of the 15,500 people in the county at January 1, 1944, compared with the average levy of $29.22 for each of the 17,000 people in the county at January 1, 1943, California Taxpayers association stated today making. public its study of property tax levies in California counties, Included in the levy are the taxes for the county, and the cities, schoo! districts, and special districts in the county. Total property tax levy in Nevada RATIONS EXPIRE Gilbert McNeil; Sacramento district OPA rationing executive, today warned motorists that the old type ’B-2 and C-2 will become ‘invalid on Pons War Employment Plan . and after June 1 but he pointed out By ARTHUR B.‘ FOOTE they may be exchanged for new serially. numbered B-3 and C-3 coupons at their local OPA boards. MoNeil said the bulk of the B-2 and C-2 coupens are unusued rafollows a ployment tion of the twage system To present a plan to prevent unemployment that t terms must be defined and the canse of war, determined. This can be facilitated by ia brief ¢ and the use of money. tions issuéd before March 1 and renewable before June 1. These may be exchanged or the board may evaluate the motorists needs and issue coupons sufficient for the remainder of the ration period, but not in NEVADA CITY THURSDAY. TUNE 1. 1944 Man has' nothing but musele 4 brains with which to supply . mi jneeds of existence for himse an family. Instead of each ‘person ° viding every item of his needs title "Voice of Britain.” transmission poin ts ropean broadcasts as a whole, . ent wavelengths are in use. “jamming” techniques upon the B, Gestapo from listening to casts from Britain. BBC in its broadcasts to the underground resistance movements, {to listeners in key positions on how . to neutralize German “jamming” devices. Messages to key methbers of the underground are regularly transmitted by Morse code, which has been found to reliably resist ordinary “jamming” methods. Slow speed dictation from London permits preinvasion instructions to be_ written down and afterwards circulated in the clandestine press of the occupied countries. EATING MEAL IN HER KITCHEN Mrs. Eva Dohring, owner of Skyline Lodge on Highway 40, arose rather late Saturday morning to find a strange man cooking his breakfast in the lodge kitchen. He refused to answer any questions save to say he was hungry and would like breakfast. Mrs. Dohring hospitablyhelped him to coffee and toast. He was cooking eggs when discovered. After breakfast he displayed no desire to leave. He wandered into the bar room, played with’ poker chips, shuffled cards and otherwise amused himself. Mrs. Doliring finally called the sheriff’s office: in Newada City. Undersheriff William Woods responded and placed the man under arrest. He gave his name as Joe Smith, and his address as New Jersey and his age as 37. He is being held in the county jail pending an investigation by the MBI. He had no draft, registration card.’ lievably low standards of living, and ruthless starvation of the (Chinese, they would still present a formidable force in China. Once we are in a position. to supply modern arms to the Chinese, however, this picture can rapidly change. ‘ But Nimitz and MacArthur are . making tremendous gains in the Pacific. The Japs’ carefully fortified island loot they gained in the first, fierce onrush, is rapidly crumbling. It would not be surprising, at the present rate, to find Japan’s power confined to the mainiand, by the time the Germans have tossed in the towell. sil Sega SSS We cannot yet see the end of the war, but we can and do know how it will end. And when it is over, let us not begrudge a small part of the money this war has cost, in insuring this nation against another war during, say, the next century. In the name of those who are dging the fighting, this would seem to be a reasonB. B. C. facilities also are used ‘o Pick up the official] pre-invasion proétams short waved from American and to relay them on the medium wavelengths most readily heard in: the European countries. Four major transmission networks are employed in these Euin close coordination with the Military Plans for invasion. Over 30 differAlthough German engineers have for years concentrated their varied B. C European broadcasts, there is ample evidence that they have failed to prevent listeners who defy the broadincludes instructions DOGWOOD GROUP GIRL SCOUTS Street, met for their last urday. A feature of the affair was a quarters. They made use of a gift) of dishes recently presented them by 767. compared with $496,659 1942-43. Property tax levy” per capita stated. Changes in population ita tax levies, the association stated, pointing out that real reduction in tion in public expenditures. “Rigid economy, including courageous refusal of the many proposals for further increases in salaries of . public employees, is the only way the actual burden-on the taxpayer can be reduced,’’ the Taxpayers ‘organization declared. “If the local budgets for 1944-45 now being made up in many California communities, are held to wartime necessities, real reductions in property taxes for the coming fiscal year can result.” FARMERS CUT ‘WAY JEEPS . Farmers of San Diego county, many of ‘whom have indicated through a national survey their desire to own a jeep after the war, can save approximately $3,928,650 for post war rehabilitation if they take advantage of the scout car’s foursided erry ete a recent study _reveals. ’ This figure is based on the difference betwéen the estimated price of a post war jeep ‘and the total cost of the four farm units which, according to extensive research and experimentation it ¢an: replace. Recent tests by accredited farm experts, incliding officials of the Department .of -Agpiculture, reveal that the jeep has “a great deal of farm blood in’ its mechanical veins,” according to Ward M. Canaday, the president of Willys-Overland Motors whe. said "his company’s engineers have proven “on the soil” that the scout car can be used as an effective’ four purpose substitute for the horse and the tractor, the independent power unit and the light truck. In the Department of Agriculture’s report on its recent experiments with the vehicle, issued by R. B. Grey, head of the Farm Equipment and Research Division, the jeep was described as “highly udeful in plowing, harrowing and other field work.” First findings in the continuing jeep studies being’ made by the agricultural engineering departments of Washington State College and Ohio State University demonstrate that the vehicle, in its present military form serves many all around purposes effectively, especially for the small farm. Nineteen Girl Scouts ofthe Dogwood Troop, which has recently taken over quarters in the upper story of the old brick fire house on Broad meeting before the summer vacation last Satmeal prepared and served by the girls for the first time in the new the county for 1948-44 was $481,for Througnout the state, the average for 1943-44 was $39.12, compared with $40.64 for 1942-43. Total proptrey taxes levied by all the local goveriments in the state were $313,475,145 for. 1943-44 compared with $316 780,015 for 1942,43, the nencotntita increases or decreases in’ expenditures and increases or decreases in aids from the state and federal governments. are all parts of the changes in per captax burden comes only from reducsouthern California will converge at San Francisco airport, joining transcontinental and transpacific airlines Mt. St. “ran OE Takes Place June 5th : its 78th graduation exercises in St. Cecelia’s Auditorium, Grass Valley on, the evening of June 5th. graduates will include both who have completed academic training in the high school and business training in commercial courses. bishop of Sacramento, commencement honors. mencement programs will be distributed by the students. GIRL SOOUTER GUEST SPEAKER field executive addressed the luncheon meeting of the Nevada City Rotary Club .tomorrow. Rotary officials had invited all Girl Scout couneillors of this city, and friends of the excess of the coupons surrendered. arate gummed sheets, or to exchange them tory co til June 20 to deposit these pons in their ration bank accounts. ial numbers and looked like any ing covers were torn off. ‘McNeil warned motorists Must still write their car licenses and state of registration on each coupon to make them Valid for gasoline. He urged drivers to sign their coupons as soon as they receive them to prevent illegal use by persons not entitled to extra gasoline. 2 they St. Agnes Guild of © the Trinity Episcipal Church’ Saturday will hold a bazaar, in which booths representing the countries of the United Nations will be a feature. “Mood and merchandise, characteristic of Russia, China, England, Mexico, the United States and the Pacific area will be offered’ for sale: The booths will be located on the lawns at the side of the church. A program of entertainment, in charge of Mrs, Charles Elliott, will be given, WAR DEPT. TO SPEND BIG SUM ONS.F. AIRPORT. » June 1 — Deans war ane oe shortages a “$10, 000,-] 000 program of improvements at San Francis¢o’ airport, paid for by the federal: government in exchange for Treasure Island has been officially approved. Construction work costing. $2,395,000, including filling of tidelands for a new landing strip, inStallation of a drainage system, and building of a large parking apron hag been authorized iby me war department. In the post war period feeder airlines from northern, central and there, Mt. St. Mary’s Academy will hold The those Rev. Robert Armstrong, D. D., will confer The comMiss Norma Northberg, Gir] Scout able prayer. the Girl Scout Council. organization to attend. Service stations which have received B-2 and C-2 coupons bofore June 1 have until June 10 to either turn them in to their suppliers, using sept their local boards for invenpons. Distributors have uncouThe OPA executive said the new supplemental gasoline coupons are expected to help solve the counterfeit coupon problem because the #rial numbers give permanent identity to each coupon, which can be identified as stolen wherever it turns up. B-2 and €-2 coupons had no serother coupons as soon as the identfyto the Pacific to. supply future as the largest and. mostimportant city on the Pacific Coast and the city should become me world’s largest shipping port. that San Francisco ranked second only to New York in nuniber of ship operating companies and port operations. FORESTER FAMILY TO " ARRIVE of the Tahoe National Forest expects. his family to arrive in Nevada City very shortly. They will occupy the house formerly the home of Mr. and. : 'Mrs. .Mare Edmonds on Zion street. just. graduated from‘ the ‘Willows: high school. A son, Harlow Wood, has just rye, a iy grammar . . All teachers in sich elementary and high schools, have been. reelected for the coming year, H. E. Kjorlie superintendent of the Nevada City Unified School District, yesterday stated. Kjorlie-also announced that the graduation of eighth graders will take place June 8th in the auditorium of the Nevada City Elementary School, and commencement exercises for the high school will take: place the following night, June-9th in the high school auditorium. Speakers chosen from among the graduates of Nevada City high school are Betty Rore and William Tobiassen WAR HOUSING FOR JAP TOWN VICTEES SAN FRANCISCO, June 1,—Opening of Japtown’s new “Sutter Courts’ here merged completion of the nation’s first combination. slum clearance and war housing project. Occupants of the new, 48. family unit have been certified by federal agencies to be war workers and by the city as evictees of condemned’ slums which are being boarded up and padilocked. Chief Administrative Officer T. A. ‘Brooks announced that all authority of ithe city and . state health codes, backed by health inspectors and police, will be used to close down slums as fast as war workers . are moved to new housing. Eddy Courts, also in Japtown, was to open this week and a third unit will, open in the Mission district in 60 days. Federal funds amounting to $600,000 were sranted for the projects. ment and manning for the War Shipping Administration declared, in 3 recent announcement of manpower needs and extent of victory. ‘merchant fleet to the used -in the © “Pacific push.” “We have iucslend authorization to greatly expand our organization in San Francisco and the ‘Pacific Coast to be ready to handle*the vast victory merchant ship fleet, now on ithe, Atlantic, which. will be shifted . . the _ war against Japan. — Successful handling of this huge trade will insure San~Francisco’s a a Early in. May the WGA a announced Harlow Wood, executive assistant A daughter, Barbara Wood, has Ww tem ‘of borrowing and i it would ‘be plainly e person’s production» services is that person‘s er, and the same-is tt tion' as &@ whole, no matt wages and prices in’ therefore . / wages. paid ‘them must be paid in borrowed fr years until the extra t developing. labor duce it. value and medium of it were not for . NCESCO, June ‘tin ivin hard Shei a vrenalbcl should become the world’s! jos, “Of wages or. the largest shipping port, Andrew -G. production in dollars. It Wilson, regional director of>cercuit‘ual goods and services their value in money, that es the. Prosperity of a nat nd prices will contin f wages paid in bort has been spent and ‘the ; civilian. goods has been This period lasted 10-years. last war, but. it was pro s tensive selling on credit ably will not last as long ; war becatise the credit. tion will ‘be strained to Then. will come she ee es and wages MUST a level determined by comely mand in order to: increase merchants must sell below-< they forget the extra pro . school. hen price rose. bite himself, each produces what’ he -i best-able to and, exchanges hig . pr duction for that of others., Since beginning of history, man -has saving ; which enable him to produce the nec essities of existence with less labor thus allowing him to devote more: his time to the production of luxu les. Civilized man owes all the ¢ cumulated wealth and . knowle handed down from his ancestors’ the development of labor saving devices. Wealth is the fruit of the more wealth produced by man or a thousand the more w for all, and to those who, in ‘the 7 produced more than they consumed we owe all the accumulated knowledge and wealth of civilization c value of any product of labor, an thing that can be bought or sold determined by the supply and mand'-for the labor required ‘to For convenience in exthangie 2 production’ of people all world, gold is used. as a standard this country, if a miner can. re one seventh of an olince of day after paying the cost of m he can earn his living, and this. termines the value of gold in of labor. The value of £00) service is determined, by — cost in money, and is mei terms of gold by the price of in dollars. franes or ; whnareeee for money: ; Each person exchanges tion for money, and this ig. ed for the production of ot] incentive to make this to save labor, each party \of what he wants we: less: than if he produced: it . this is true even when. th ies igs in different co over exchange eee

STOLEN e looking olen from r she had 1 at 10:30 mably the h_ her ear belonging ig avenue, ced along. ‘om Mr, So ee ee et er ‘ The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per N “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster evada City Nu This paper gives — complete coverage of allJocal happenings. If you want to read about your month friends, your neighbors? read — eS atone : The Nugget. —_—_—_— ili COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA te Vol. 18, op te The 1¢ County Seat 45 ea __NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center__ Reflecting on the achievement of the American arms thus far in ‘ «his war, no patriotic and thinkingcitizen can be proud. We are pitted against two of the most martial garth, nations with and a practical training for war. Both Japan and Germany for ten years of more prepared carefully for this great effort control. Yet in. a brief two and a half years we have overtaken and defeated them. The story of Africa, Sicily, Italy has bee in the Pacific. Burma. It is quite true in tanean theatre we have had val-: int aid from British, _ dian and Polish troops. But in the main it hag been the hard working, and hard fighting American doughboys who haye driven relentlessly forward whenever sufficient arms Were They have been pitte iN after all is said, it is tle to the ‘goal. Our boys are like t men here at home ha aaginst the enemy] T bd, it would seem “ports: : in” doing a Job, pitas: it over as speedily as * possible, and getting home. One ‘could’ wish at times that young Americans, planted in fag out_Posts around the globe, could feel ‘at home there, and when the war is over return there, to live in and to leven the countries of adoption. We believe notable: opportunities men with a little capital in South America, in parts of Africa, and 2s‘Peclally in China, but we doubt whether more than a handful of our boys can overcome that homesickness 0 eegenacoaanal of our troops abroad. Whije Ro one can foretell D-day, when our American army undertakes to batter the walls of Forttes Burope, We can rs adherent pow iene Behe to When one reflects expenditures ite ‘there is ‘solid ma “ga that of Germany, of war, that : ’ War in Russia. ; OSS sates it that. way. boar the f®uropean phase of hg is concluded — hold upon has not yet = me It th er nat would mean Thinki Out Loud By H. M. L. A great drive is now slowly getting under way in best soldiers Germany can muster, ‘and still they. march ahead. For preme courage that wins victories. it is the determination, and everlasting , perseverance that counts heavily in the scales. speaking our American boys are trained in those qualities. wont stop-for tea and a breathing spell every. two hours. They grind onward: through the gruelling bat) no consuming passion mplete as can be reasonably ¢ expected, the invasion will airpower has shown every evidence of sharp ‘deteriorand no longer is dreaded as the thought that we are . bY spending money for the 4fmament, munitions and im‘of England and America We contrast this policy of Russia, which had no te but to offer millions. of Young men on the altar of cad armor makers could not ¥e pace with the swift strides casualty We trust our commanders be Japan to defeat. We begin hand ithis is not quite so easy first estimated. Japan is conits Manchurian possesse islands of Japan were it is still doubhtful wheof Jap armies on ‘Mainland. With their unbeing other ~ than nations on a tradition to seize world m duplicated the MediterFrench, Ingiven them. d against the not only supGenerally They heir countryte war. They hey are confrom all reworkmanlike their these are for young feel confidon the trein this war comfort in saving the finest and especRelatively list is there -will China. and . been chalthe capiluthe PREINVASION BROADCASTS OF ENGLAND’S BBC tion of 400,000 ,000 in Germany and in enemy occupied countries extending from the coast of France to Russia’s western borders. Twenty eight languages are employed in these broadcasts, to give operational warn ings anddetailed instructions to listenerg in all. the occupied regions and to ericourage and Suide the underground front, according to a booklet just issued by the British Broadcasting Corporation under the British transmitters. are radioing 163 bulletins every day to a populaCOUNTY TAX RATIO, PER CAPITA HIGHER Property tax levies in county for 1043-44 averaged $31.08 for each of the 15,500 people in the county at January 1, 1944, compared with the average levy of $29.22 for each of the 17,000 people in the county at January 1, 1943, California Taxpayers association stated today making. public its study of property tax levies in California counties, Included in the levy are the taxes for the county, and the cities, schoo! districts, and special districts in the county. Total property tax levy in Nevada RATIONS EXPIRE Gilbert McNeil; Sacramento district OPA rationing executive, today warned motorists that the old type ’B-2 and C-2 will become ‘invalid on Pons War Employment Plan . and after June 1 but he pointed out By ARTHUR B.‘ FOOTE they may be exchanged for new serially. numbered B-3 and C-3 coupons at their local OPA boards. MoNeil said the bulk of the B-2 and C-2 coupens are unusued rafollows a ployment tion of the twage system To present a plan to prevent unemployment that t terms must be defined and the canse of war, determined. This can be facilitated by ia brief ¢ and the use of money. tions issuéd before March 1 and renewable before June 1. These may be exchanged or the board may evaluate the motorists needs and issue coupons sufficient for the remainder of the ration period, but not in NEVADA CITY THURSDAY. TUNE 1. 1944 Man has' nothing but musele 4 brains with which to supply . mi jneeds of existence for himse an family. Instead of each ‘person ° viding every item of his needs title "Voice of Britain.” transmission poin ts ropean broadcasts as a whole, . ent wavelengths are in use. “jamming” techniques upon the B, Gestapo from listening to casts from Britain. BBC in its broadcasts to the underground resistance movements, {to listeners in key positions on how . to neutralize German “jamming” devices. Messages to key methbers of the underground are regularly transmitted by Morse code, which has been found to reliably resist ordinary “jamming” methods. Slow speed dictation from London permits preinvasion instructions to be_ written down and afterwards circulated in the clandestine press of the occupied countries. EATING MEAL IN HER KITCHEN Mrs. Eva Dohring, owner of Skyline Lodge on Highway 40, arose rather late Saturday morning to find a strange man cooking his breakfast in the lodge kitchen. He refused to answer any questions save to say he was hungry and would like breakfast. Mrs. Dohring hospitablyhelped him to coffee and toast. He was cooking eggs when discovered. After breakfast he displayed no desire to leave. He wandered into the bar room, played with’ poker chips, shuffled cards and otherwise amused himself. Mrs. Doliring finally called the sheriff’s office: in Newada City. Undersheriff William Woods responded and placed the man under arrest. He gave his name as Joe Smith, and his address as New Jersey and his age as 37. He is being held in the county jail pending an investigation by the MBI. He had no draft, registration card.’ lievably low standards of living, and ruthless starvation of the (Chinese, they would still present a formidable force in China. Once we are in a position. to supply modern arms to the Chinese, however, this picture can rapidly change. ‘ But Nimitz and MacArthur are . making tremendous gains in the Pacific. The Japs’ carefully fortified island loot they gained in the first, fierce onrush, is rapidly crumbling. It would not be surprising, at the present rate, to find Japan’s power confined to the mainiand, by the time the Germans have tossed in the towell. sil Sega SSS We cannot yet see the end of the war, but we can and do know how it will end. And when it is over, let us not begrudge a small part of the money this war has cost, in insuring this nation against another war during, say, the next century. In the name of those who are dging the fighting, this would seem to be a reasonB. B. C. facilities also are used ‘o Pick up the official] pre-invasion proétams short waved from American and to relay them on the medium wavelengths most readily heard in: the European countries. Four major transmission networks are employed in these Euin close coordination with the Military Plans for invasion. Over 30 differAlthough German engineers have for years concentrated their varied B. C European broadcasts, there is ample evidence that they have failed to prevent listeners who defy the broadincludes instructions DOGWOOD GROUP GIRL SCOUTS Street, met for their last urday. A feature of the affair was a quarters. They made use of a gift) of dishes recently presented them by 767. compared with $496,659 1942-43. Property tax levy” per capita stated. Changes in population ita tax levies, the association stated,

pointing out that real reduction in tion in public expenditures. “Rigid economy, including courageous refusal of the many proposals for further increases in salaries of . public employees, is the only way the actual burden-on the taxpayer can be reduced,’’ the Taxpayers ‘organization declared. “If the local budgets for 1944-45 now being made up in many California communities, are held to wartime necessities, real reductions in property taxes for the coming fiscal year can result.” FARMERS CUT ‘WAY JEEPS . Farmers of San Diego county, many of ‘whom have indicated through a national survey their desire to own a jeep after the war, can save approximately $3,928,650 for post war rehabilitation if they take advantage of the scout car’s foursided erry ete a recent study _reveals. ’ This figure is based on the difference betwéen the estimated price of a post war jeep ‘and the total cost of the four farm units which, according to extensive research and experimentation it ¢an: replace. Recent tests by accredited farm experts, incliding officials of the Department .of -Agpiculture, reveal that the jeep has “a great deal of farm blood in’ its mechanical veins,” according to Ward M. Canaday, the president of Willys-Overland Motors whe. said "his company’s engineers have proven “on the soil” that the scout car can be used as an effective’ four purpose substitute for the horse and the tractor, the independent power unit and the light truck. In the Department of Agriculture’s report on its recent experiments with the vehicle, issued by R. B. Grey, head of the Farm Equipment and Research Division, the jeep was described as “highly udeful in plowing, harrowing and other field work.” First findings in the continuing jeep studies being’ made by the agricultural engineering departments of Washington State College and Ohio State University demonstrate that the vehicle, in its present military form serves many all around purposes effectively, especially for the small farm. Nineteen Girl Scouts ofthe Dogwood Troop, which has recently taken over quarters in the upper story of the old brick fire house on Broad meeting before the summer vacation last Satmeal prepared and served by the girls for the first time in the new the county for 1948-44 was $481,for Througnout the state, the average for 1943-44 was $39.12, compared with $40.64 for 1942-43. Total proptrey taxes levied by all the local goveriments in the state were $313,475,145 for. 1943-44 compared with $316 780,015 for 1942,43, the nencotntita increases or decreases in’ expenditures and increases or decreases in aids from the state and federal governments. are all parts of the changes in per captax burden comes only from reducsouthern California will converge at San Francisco airport, joining transcontinental and transpacific airlines Mt. St. “ran OE Takes Place June 5th : its 78th graduation exercises in St. Cecelia’s Auditorium, Grass Valley on, the evening of June 5th. graduates will include both who have completed academic training in the high school and business training in commercial courses. bishop of Sacramento, commencement honors. mencement programs will be distributed by the students. GIRL SOOUTER GUEST SPEAKER field executive addressed the luncheon meeting of the Nevada City Rotary Club .tomorrow. Rotary officials had invited all Girl Scout couneillors of this city, and friends of the excess of the coupons surrendered. arate gummed sheets, or to exchange them tory co til June 20 to deposit these pons in their ration bank accounts. ial numbers and looked like any ing covers were torn off. ‘McNeil warned motorists Must still write their car licenses and state of registration on each coupon to make them Valid for gasoline. He urged drivers to sign their coupons as soon as they receive them to prevent illegal use by persons not entitled to extra gasoline. 2 they St. Agnes Guild of © the Trinity Episcipal Church’ Saturday will hold a bazaar, in which booths representing the countries of the United Nations will be a feature. “Mood and merchandise, characteristic of Russia, China, England, Mexico, the United States and the Pacific area will be offered’ for sale: The booths will be located on the lawns at the side of the church. A program of entertainment, in charge of Mrs, Charles Elliott, will be given, WAR DEPT. TO SPEND BIG SUM ONS.F. AIRPORT. » June 1 — Deans war ane oe shortages a “$10, 000,-] 000 program of improvements at San Francis¢o’ airport, paid for by the federal: government in exchange for Treasure Island has been officially approved. Construction work costing. $2,395,000, including filling of tidelands for a new landing strip, inStallation of a drainage system, and building of a large parking apron hag been authorized iby me war department. In the post war period feeder airlines from northern, central and there, Mt. St. Mary’s Academy will hold The those Rev. Robert Armstrong, D. D., will confer The comMiss Norma Northberg, Gir] Scout able prayer. the Girl Scout Council. organization to attend. Service stations which have received B-2 and C-2 coupons bofore June 1 have until June 10 to either turn them in to their suppliers, using sept their local boards for invenpons. Distributors have uncouThe OPA executive said the new supplemental gasoline coupons are expected to help solve the counterfeit coupon problem because the #rial numbers give permanent identity to each coupon, which can be identified as stolen wherever it turns up. B-2 and €-2 coupons had no serother coupons as soon as the identfyto the Pacific to. supply future as the largest and. mostimportant city on the Pacific Coast and the city should become me world’s largest shipping port. that San Francisco ranked second only to New York in nuniber of ship operating companies and port operations. FORESTER FAMILY TO " ARRIVE of the Tahoe National Forest expects. his family to arrive in Nevada City very shortly. They will occupy the house formerly the home of Mr. and. : 'Mrs. .Mare Edmonds on Zion street. just. graduated from‘ the ‘Willows: high school. A son, Harlow Wood, has just rye, a iy grammar . . All teachers in sich elementary and high schools, have been. reelected for the coming year, H. E. Kjorlie superintendent of the Nevada City Unified School District, yesterday stated. Kjorlie-also announced that the graduation of eighth graders will take place June 8th in the auditorium of the Nevada City Elementary School, and commencement exercises for the high school will take: place the following night, June-9th in the high school auditorium. Speakers chosen from among the graduates of Nevada City high school are Betty Rore and William Tobiassen WAR HOUSING FOR JAP TOWN VICTEES SAN FRANCISCO, June 1,—Opening of Japtown’s new “Sutter Courts’ here merged completion of the nation’s first combination. slum clearance and war housing project. Occupants of the new, 48. family unit have been certified by federal agencies to be war workers and by the city as evictees of condemned’ slums which are being boarded up and padilocked. Chief Administrative Officer T. A. ‘Brooks announced that all authority of ithe city and . state health codes, backed by health inspectors and police, will be used to close down slums as fast as war workers . are moved to new housing. Eddy Courts, also in Japtown, was to open this week and a third unit will, open in the Mission district in 60 days. Federal funds amounting to $600,000 were sranted for the projects. ment and manning for the War Shipping Administration declared, in 3 recent announcement of manpower needs and extent of victory. ‘merchant fleet to the used -in the © “Pacific push.” “We have iucslend authorization to greatly expand our organization in San Francisco and the ‘Pacific Coast to be ready to handle*the vast victory merchant ship fleet, now on ithe, Atlantic, which. will be shifted . . the _ war against Japan. — Successful handling of this huge trade will insure San~Francisco’s a a Early in. May the WGA a announced Harlow Wood, executive assistant A daughter, Barbara Wood, has Ww tem ‘of borrowing and i it would ‘be plainly e person’s production» services is that person‘s er, and the same-is tt tion' as &@ whole, no matt wages and prices in’ therefore . / wages. paid ‘them must be paid in borrowed fr years until the extra t developing. labor duce it. value and medium of it were not for . NCESCO, June ‘tin ivin hard Shei a vrenalbcl should become the world’s! jos, “Of wages or. the largest shipping port, Andrew -G. production in dollars. It Wilson, regional director of>cercuit‘ual goods and services their value in money, that es the. Prosperity of a nat nd prices will contin f wages paid in bort has been spent and ‘the ; civilian. goods has been This period lasted 10-years. last war, but. it was pro s tensive selling on credit ably will not last as long ; war becatise the credit. tion will ‘be strained to Then. will come she ee es and wages MUST a level determined by comely mand in order to: increase merchants must sell below-< they forget the extra pro . school. hen price rose. bite himself, each produces what’ he -i best-able to and, exchanges hig . pr duction for that of others., Since beginning of history, man -has saving ; which enable him to produce the nec essities of existence with less labor thus allowing him to devote more: his time to the production of luxu les. Civilized man owes all the ¢ cumulated wealth and . knowle handed down from his ancestors’ the development of labor saving devices. Wealth is the fruit of the more wealth produced by man or a thousand the more w for all, and to those who, in ‘the 7 produced more than they consumed we owe all the accumulated knowledge and wealth of civilization c value of any product of labor, an thing that can be bought or sold determined by the supply and mand'-for the labor required ‘to For convenience in exthangie 2 production’ of people all world, gold is used. as a standard this country, if a miner can. re one seventh of an olince of day after paying the cost of m he can earn his living, and this. termines the value of gold in of labor. The value of £00) service is determined, by — cost in money, and is mei terms of gold by the price of in dollars. franes or ; whnareeee for money: ; Each person exchanges tion for money, and this ig. ed for the production of ot] incentive to make this to save labor, each party \of what he wants we: less: than if he produced: it . this is true even when. th ies igs in different co over exchange eee