June 10, 1943 (4 pages)

} . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ORERTIE:S This:paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read _ The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 46. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _ The Gold Center_ THURSDAY. TUNE 10. E10. 1328 Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Probably never before: in the history of this country thave our people taken a greater interest in world affairs, a keen, vital interest, that carries with it conviction that what happens in any part of the world has an immediate bearing upon our own welfare. It. is quite true that this interest in the world outside the United States was aroused to some degree in the first world war. In that conflict, however, the interest was largely confined to France, for the reason that the great majority of our troops were there. In this war we have troops in the South Sea islands, Australia, New Guinea, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Alaska, North Africa, ‘China, Ireland, England and other spots on the wide-world battle front. These troops are our sons, brothers and husbands. We clamor for all the information possible about them, and ‘their environment, the conditions under which the live. If the Arabs are friendly to our boys in Tunisia and treat them well, we have a friendly feeling for the Arabs. This is true of our thought regarding the kinky haired nat. ives of the Solomon Islands who have been so serviceable and kind . to our boys there. What the Brit. ish and the North. Ireland people . do for our troops in the way of making life ‘pleasanter for them, kindles our interest and appreciation of the English and Irish peoples. This gratitude toward other peoples and races, when the war ends should help us to a feeling that we are one with them in everything that concerns their “life, liberty, and pursuit of hap. piness.”’ suffer That they ought not to what we proudly refuse to suffer. The Good Book in essence is a plea for the brotherhged of man. Looking at the world today it seems a distant and blurred vision. But this war which forces us, practically, to take dnto account the conditions governing the lives and aspirations of other races and other populations, may result in a few short hesitant steps in that direction. It’ will depend largely upon how much we are willing to give up, when war ends, in taxes, in how long we will consent to ration our own food in order that some such humane expedient as LendtLease may be continued when peace comes, in order to raise prostrate nations, the millions who are war’s victims, to their feet. — And ‘by this we don’t mean anyas a world WPA. We mean merely that this procedure, :of whatever } kind, to help the ruined millions to regain their hold on life, will be a great many ‘billions of dollars : cheaper for us, than it will be to . let the world go hang, as we did after the last world war, and presently find ourselves forced to take part in extinguishing another hellish world canflagration. If we ean’t learn from experience, soonor later this republic will become extinct. The dodo perished beeause it could not change fast enough in a changing world. This is why we think it so important that candidates for legislative and administrative office should give sharp attention to the plans for peace. We really doubt whether altruism need enter into such plans at all. All that is needed a long range plan—50 years long—that will commend itself fo us Yankee folks as a sound busi. \ ness investment in the ‘world’s goodwill. Will it pay us. to invest 50 billion dollars, say, in medicine and medical service, in food, in tools and machinery, and in a police force to maintain order in war stricken countries? pen To our mind such questions as this are far more important to us, rightly answered, than those immediately confronting us in county, district or state. Unless someone comes forth with a right answer to the peace problem, which looms ever larger on the horizon, thing so silly, futile and expensive . GOVT. COST LAX CONTROL IS CITY AND COUNTY SHOWS BIG RISE ' (State Controller Harry B. Riley announced in Sacramento today that the combined cost of city and county government in California has _ increased nearly four fold in the past 25 years. Riley said that expenditures of the state’s 284 ycities, including San (Francisco, and 57 counties, last year exceeded those of the World War I year of 1917 by 387 per cent. The figures were revealed with the release of the controller’s annual report on financial transactions of the gities and counties. County government last year cost $391,452,073, an increase of $323,591,348 or 477% over the 1917 costs. City costs rose 267% in the 25 year period following 1917 to a total of $187,888,959 in 1942, Riley said. \Combined bonded indebtedness of i\California’s igovernmental agencies, including the state, totaled $849,302,498 last year, an increase of '$611,354,035 or 257% since 1917. An increase of 134% was recorded in the assessed valuations of the counties in the period between 1917 and 1942 Riley reported. Last year the values totaled $6,848,148,115 as compared with $2,924,836,032 25 years arlier. 10 AID HARVEST FOUND IN U.S. \ PEninty jagencies render lect . prise, ‘ance their operations, yet themselv‘for use of this money. CORPORATIONS Tine 10-4) and . WASHINGTON, D. C. two federal corporations no accounting what-} ever to the General Accounting Of-: Many gov-! ifice of the United States. ,ernment corporations operate in dirwith private enter-. Fy . money to fin-. competition using taxpayer . nor interest . Some, a time . y to! es, pay neither taxes though limited in life at the of their creation, have authorit establish subsidiary corporations or agencies of unlimited life. Many account only to themselves. These; and many other points of, econsderable significance for Ameri-, can taxpayers, are revealed in a re-. port-—“Government (Corpoirations— The No Man’s Land of Federal: Finance’’—issued today by the Citizens National Committee. Product of an exhaustive analytical study of the use of the corporate device by the federal government, the report admits the subject is obscure and states frankly that many pertinent facts and figures cannot be obtained. It states: “So far as is known there is no one in the government of the United States, and no one office which is cognizant of the scope, ramification, powers, and controls of these agencies.”’: Government corporations, the report concludes, vitally affect ‘‘at least three contemporary problems, namely: 1 (Unflation. 2 Present and future costs of government. 3 Displacement of private enterprise by subsidized government ‘entenprise.” The report gives the basic anguments both for and against the use of the corporate device by government, and seeks primarily to clarify this ‘fifth anm of government’’ which may threaten the future solvency of the nation. NEW CONSTABLE SWORN IN Arthur E. Hammond has been sworn into office as constable of Grass Valley Township. Hammond was appointed by the Nevada County Board of Supervisors last week to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Constable Bert Paynter. — it wont matter much how near-athand problems are solved. If we were to lose the war it.would not matter much whether our. gold mines were open or closed. This is equally true, if we lose the peace. And who are we to look to for. a solution of the peace problem; if not to those we elect to legislative and administrative (farm . workers, . standing of the ‘great extent upon the success of this posts? FIRE CREWS OFF TO STATIONS Guerdon Ellis, Tahoe National Forest supervisor, yesterday. stated that fire suppression crews were being dispatched to eight stations in the forest. There arei five men ta each crew and the stations to which they are assigned are Downieville, (Camptonville,, ‘North ‘Bloomfield, White Cloud, Blue Canyon, Truckee, Lake Tahoe and. Sierraville. At Forest Hill, the ninth station, is located a camp of 17 boys in Civilian Public Strvice. Among the eight crews are 18 high school lads, 17 years old. Supervisor Ellis also announced the appointment of seven fire control assistants: Leo Chatfield to Camptonville, Yuba County, William Nelson to Downieville, Sierra County, E. R. Conover to North Bloomfield, Clarence Martz to Fortst Hill, Placer County, Charles Fox to Big Bend, Nelson Stone to Truckee and Samuel Dickey to Sierraville. Fire dispatchers appointed are Carl Ross to Downieville, E. H. Bevis to Camptonville, Mrs. E. R. Conover to North Bloomfield; Stephen ‘Martin to Big Bend, (Mrs. Louis Hughes to Forest Hill, William Curran to Truckee. CITY DWELLERS FRANCISCO, General June 10.——AtKenny’s ruling that camps need not offer all the luxuries of hotels will probably be tae ney <—-ee DEAD LINE FOR RATION BOOK APPLICATIONS Tonight at midnight is the zero ‘hour for the filing of applications for Ration Book No. 3. These applications were placed in the mails about two weeks ago, and most people have received them. Those who have not should apply at the post office, get them and fill them out in accordance with the _ instructions printed on them. The applications should be filled out by the head of each family and the stub on the top of the application should be retained as a receipt. It is expected that the new books will be received by applicants about July 21st. Failure to have applications in the post office later than midnight. today will mean that they will not be processed before August 1st. Ration officials warn the publie not to surrender ration books Nos. 1 and 2 under any circumstances. It is stated that replacement books will not go into effect until late summer. Books Nos. 1 and 2 will be used. The new books’ will.contain stamps for coffee, sugar, shoes, canned goods, meats and fats. RANGER DELANEY READY TQ MEET FIRE SEASON followed by city folks’ discovery that farm work does not offer all the ad-. vantages of vacations. . Nevertheless, the District Forest Ranger Frank B. . Delaney of the Downieville District lof the Tahoe National Forest, announces that preparations are comdiscovery need) not come to city people as a shock) ‘nor do we believe it will, for city . folk, have, for the most. part, given . jevery indication of knowing what is} them this year and of . eing determined to do their part.} Such urban organizations as the . Fresno Harvest Council and the San Francisco Wartime Harvest Council) nd other similar groups, moreover, . ;are doing a bang-up job of preparing . city people for the task, signing up locating and staffing the camps, and in general making ready for the peak harvest. expected of b The San Francisco Harvest Council has gone so far as to issue a leaflet giving urban volunteers an underconditions under which they may expect to work and live in the fields. “Remember,” says the council, “there will be hard work ahead of all those who go. Before volunteering you should decide whether you want to work the full required time or whether you just want to go, believing it will be a. nice outing. If you are merely vacation minded, don’t go.”’ Such a warning will not deter the city dweller who knows that his food supply next winter will depend to a falls’ harvest. On the contrary, it is realism that should contribute to the efficiency of the harvest — and to city-country understanding as well. CAMPAIGN TO RAISE FOURTH OF JULY FUNDS Bert Chegwidden, chairman of the joint Grass WValley-Nevada City Fourth of July committee, has ecalled a general meeting for tomorrow night. He stated that an officer representing the Camp Beale commanding officer will be present to discuss the participation of Camp Beale personnel in the celebration which is to take place in Grass Valley on Monday, July 5th. A campaign is now going forward to raise $1,200 to defray the expenses of the event. The goal is considerably less than in former years when the mines of the county were running at capacity and the population was perhaps 2:5 per cent greater. The sports committee on Friday night will present an estimate of the money needed to make the program interesting to all who visit Grass Valley on that day, young and old. . plete and that this district organization is ready for the beginning of the 19438 fire season. The Memorial Day storm brough: much needed moisture, but spheric conditions since have been . such as to reduce the moisture content of the ground and cover in the forest. As a result an early opening of the ‘‘fire hazard’’ season is. expected. Fire Control Assistant Wm. A. Nelson has met a most favorable reaction from residents of the communities and the more isolated plac-$ es in the district in his quest volunteer fire fighting personnel, and has enlisted a volunteer force which will be able to cope most satisfactorily with any condition that may arise on this district the coming season of hazard. Ranger Delaney expressed his appreciation to the public for their fine cooperation given so freely during Past seasons, and~ gave assurance that every resource of the Tahoe National Forest will be used to subdue any fire that may break this season. The two lookouts, Henry Fischer and Sam Kasper, will be back at their posts on Saddleback Lookout and the Sierra Buttes Lookout, respectively. These veterans of many seasons of fire watching have become so familiar with the view of tthe mountains and gorges from their lofty stations that it is possible for them to instantly spot a ‘‘smoke”’ and: with such unfailing accuracy that many precious minutes and miles are saved the fire fighters in. their first, or initial attack—-minutes that more often than not spell the difference between an incipient and a major fire, and the saving of many acres of valuable timber ,and cover growth from destruction. Western Historian Visits Nevada City Albert Dressler, western historian who visited this city amd purchased three stage coaches 16 years ago, is again a visitor here. He is especially interested in western history and has* written some 15 books on -the sulbject. On the occasion of his last visit he bought the stage coaches of John B. Grissel, former stage line operator and driver. One of the coaches he gave to Miss Louise Fazenda, a movie actress, the other two he sold to William Clift, proprietor of the ‘Clift Hotel in San Francisco. These two were later presented by Clift to the City of Santa Barbara. where they appeared in parades for many years, sométimes flower bedecked in the annual La Fiesta de las Flores. atmo. tar Ginss Valley Oneniiies: Food Preservation Classes Classes in food preservation, canning, dehydration, freezing, bottling, cheese making, butter making, meat curing and pickling, were opened in the James S. Hennessy School’ in Grass Valley yesterday afternoon with Mrs. Leone Brown in charge. Instruction will be given on Fridays and Wednesdays. For those mothers with young children who enroll,,a day nursery will be available at the Grant School. Red Cross Instructor To Give Swimming Lessons Perry Levitt, of the American Red . Cross Field Staff, will give swim. ming lessons to boys and girls of Ne-. vada City beginning next Monday at . the municipal pool in Pioneers Park. (Children who desire to take these! free lessons are requested by him to sign up this evening at the city hall. . Their parents must sign their applications. The lessons will last two'! weeks and during that period the pool will be ¢losed to the public. The Nevada City council will this evening receive applications for the post of life guard at the pool. CHMA Will Meet In Auburn Sunday W. W: Esterly, secretary of he . California Hydraulic, Miners Assoc-. iation has notified members that the! next meeting will be held Sunday, iJune 13th,,in the Freeman Hotel at Auburn, Placer-County. reneral Hannum, Colonel Hunter ;and Colonel Anderson, all members) of the California Debris Commission; . the secretary states, are expected to ibe present. The usual luncheon for ;members’ and officers who wish to attend will be served at 1 p. m. The meeting will poen at 2 p. m. 4 Grass Valley Council Adopts . Anti-Jap Resolution The Grass Valley City Counct) . Tuesday evening adopted a resolu,tion, proposed by the American Legion, national organization, to bar re‘turn of Japanese. to the Pacific Coast, and embodying the sevenpoint program of the legion. Legionnaire Matt DePauli submitted the program to the city council, asking for its support. The resolu‘tion was adopted unanimously and will be included in the portfolio of! [resolutions sent back to Washing-. jton D. C. headquarters by Hague-. Thomas-Hegarty Post. Fire Chief Ltroy Bond asked and received the peermission of the council to stage two Fourth of July fire hose water fights. One with a picked team from Camp Beale and the other with their traditional antagonists the members of the Nevada City Fire Department. Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Howe ' Celebrate 65th Anniversary Benjamin F. Howe and his wife, Mrs. Euphemia Burton Howe, Tuesday celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in their home on Nimrod’ street. They were married June 7, 1878, in the village of Aima, Arkansas. Howe was the first lookout on ‘Banner Mountain to keep watch against fires in all the region around Nevada City. Later he was transferred to Mount Howell in the vicinity of Colfax, Placer County, where he continued in service until retirement many years ago. The couple made their home on a little farm just outside this city until. recent years when they removed to a comfortable residence on Nimrod street. Flowers, gifts and congratulations poured into the Home home yesterday afternoon when scores of friends and old time neighbors called :o0 wish the venerable couple more years of happiness. GEORGE WILLARD NOW AERIAL GUNNER George M. Willard, according to advices received by Captain A. H. Willard of»the California Fish and Game Commission staff, has graduated from the Harlingen Army. Air Field in Texas and now wears the silver wings of a turret or tail gunner on an American bomber. Willard entered the armed forces from Nevada County nearly a year ago. In the meantime his parents, Captain and Mrs. Willard have removed-toRocklin, Placer County. Lee jlations just ; Bureau specialty crops are now irrigated in \. \California : moe CALIFORNIA FARM CO-OPS LEAD NATION ‘By RALPH H. TAYLOR California farm co-ops, always. anfong the strongest in the country, led the entire. nation last year in dollar volume of business, according to a report recently released by the Farm Credit Administration. oh: This state’s 461 agricultural co-’ operatives, with 86,690 members, did a gross business for 1942, the report; said, of $289,170,000. Minnesota ranked second, with her 1,414 co-ops doing a business or $263,830,000. New York was 3rd ‘in line, with 366 cooperatives reporting a business of $222,770,000; Illinois was fourth, with 606 co-ops grossing $196,945,000, and Wisconsin was fifth, with 1,115 cooperatives and a gross of $164,275,000. The tremendous strength of the farm cooperative movement in the country as a whole was indicated by the announcement that there are 10,550 co-ops in the nation, with a total membership of 3,600,000 a gain . of 200,000 farmer members over the — preceding year. The FCA report stated that the farm cooperatives did a gross business of $2,740,000,000 for the year,lan increase of more than $560,000,'000 over 1941. Volume of business was up in every section of the country. California has checked up many firsts in agriculture—and new tabureleased by the Census reveal that while farm--and prattically every state in the Union, still holds commanding with 5,069,568* acres unirrigation. leadershp, der ‘Colorado. is second, with 3,220,685 irrigated acres; Idaho third with 2,277,857 acres, while Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon and Texas follow in that order, each irrigating — more than 1,000,000 acres. erage unit or parcel 48.8 acres. The avirrigated was Capital invested in irrigation works in the western states averaged $34.36 per acre. The census bureau report indicated that an average of three acre feet of water, per acre, was applied to lands irrigated in the west at an average cost of $3.28 per acre. In addition to 127,534 miles of earth canals and lined ditches, the report stated that there are 28,585 miles of concrete, steel, wood, and other kinds of pipe used to distribute thie water. ‘More than 2,500,000 acres of land according to the census, were wholly irrigated from pumped wells. The turbine type of pump is most extensively used for lifting water from wells, while electric motors for driving pumps are increasing in use and exceed interial combustion engines in most localities. America’s experiment with collective farming, launched under the. former administration of Dr. Rex. ford Guy Tugwell, who is now havying a stormy time of it as governor — of Puerto Rico, has failed and is to be liquidated as rapidly as possible. That admission came a short time i ago from Farm Security Administrator C. B. Baldwin, who testified be-_ fore the House Agricultural Committee that regardless of what he may have thought in the past of collective farming, he is now for the principle of full ownership and ‘“‘the Amie erican way.’ ee There are 13 of these collective . farms, involving 450 families and some 63,410 acres, which were sup-_ posed to be farmed as’ community — cooperative operations, testified Baldwin, but they should be put down as just another ‘‘noble experiment” that failed and are liquidated by the ASA without. tu ther ado, he said. cer The federal government ‘seems 0 lave learned its lésson a littl If it had taken the troub starting the projects, . to. inv, California’s experience years with the Durham and Delhi co which did not go to t) these collectivist farms. have spared itself saved the ares

} . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ORERTIE:S This:paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read _ The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 46. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _ The Gold Center_ THURSDAY. TUNE 10. E10. 1328 Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Probably never before: in the history of this country thave our people taken a greater interest in world affairs, a keen, vital interest, that carries with it conviction that what happens in any part of the world has an immediate bearing upon our own welfare. It. is quite true that this interest in the world outside the United States was aroused to some degree in the first world war. In that conflict, however, the interest was largely confined to France, for the reason that the great majority of our troops were there. In this war we have troops in the South Sea islands, Australia, New Guinea, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Alaska, North Africa, ‘China, Ireland, England and other spots on the wide-world battle front. These troops are our sons, brothers and husbands. We clamor for all the information possible about them, and ‘their environment, the conditions under which the live. If the Arabs are friendly to our boys in Tunisia and treat them well, we have a friendly feeling for the Arabs. This is true of our thought regarding the kinky haired nat. ives of the Solomon Islands who have been so serviceable and kind . to our boys there. What the Brit. ish and the North. Ireland people . do for our troops in the way of making life ‘pleasanter for them, kindles our interest and appreciation of the English and Irish peoples. This gratitude toward other peoples and races, when the war ends should help us to a feeling that we are one with them in everything that concerns their “life, liberty, and pursuit of hap. piness.”’ suffer That they ought not to what we proudly refuse to suffer. The Good Book in essence is a plea for the brotherhged of man. Looking at the world today it seems a distant and blurred vision. But this war which forces us, practically, to take dnto account the conditions governing the lives and aspirations of other races and other populations, may result in a few short hesitant steps in that direction. It’ will depend largely upon how much we are willing to give up, when war ends, in taxes, in how long we will consent to ration our own food in order that some such humane expedient as LendtLease may be continued when peace comes, in order to raise prostrate nations, the millions who are war’s victims, to their feet. — And ‘by this we don’t mean anyas a world WPA. We mean merely that this procedure, :of whatever } kind, to help the ruined millions to regain their hold on life, will be a great many ‘billions of dollars : cheaper for us, than it will be to . let the world go hang, as we did after the last world war, and presently find ourselves forced to take part in extinguishing another hellish world canflagration. If we ean’t learn from experience, soonor later this republic will become extinct. The dodo perished beeause it could not change fast enough in a changing world. This is why we think it so important that candidates for legislative and administrative office should give sharp attention to the plans for peace. We really doubt whether altruism need enter into such plans at all. All that is needed a long range plan—50 years long—that will commend itself fo us Yankee folks as a sound busi. \ ness investment in the ‘world’s goodwill. Will it pay us. to invest 50 billion dollars, say, in medicine and medical service, in food, in tools and machinery, and in a police force to maintain order in war stricken countries? pen To our mind such questions as this are far more important to us, rightly answered, than those immediately confronting us in county, district or state. Unless someone comes forth with a right answer to the peace problem, which looms ever larger on the horizon, thing so silly, futile and expensive . GOVT. COST LAX CONTROL IS CITY AND COUNTY SHOWS BIG RISE ' (State Controller Harry B. Riley announced in Sacramento today that the combined cost of city and county government in California has _ increased nearly four fold in the past 25 years. Riley said that expenditures of the state’s 284 ycities, including San (Francisco, and 57 counties, last year exceeded those of the World War I year of 1917 by 387 per cent. The figures were revealed with the release of the controller’s annual report on financial transactions of the gities and counties. County government last year cost $391,452,073, an increase of $323,591,348 or 477% over the 1917 costs. City costs rose 267% in the 25 year period following 1917 to a total of $187,888,959 in 1942, Riley said. \Combined bonded indebtedness of i\California’s igovernmental agencies, including the state, totaled $849,302,498 last year, an increase of '$611,354,035 or 257% since 1917. An increase of 134% was recorded in the assessed valuations of the counties in the period between 1917 and 1942 Riley reported. Last year the values totaled $6,848,148,115 as compared with $2,924,836,032 25 years arlier. 10 AID HARVEST FOUND IN U.S. \ PEninty jagencies render lect . prise, ‘ance their operations, yet themselv‘for use of this money. CORPORATIONS Tine 10-4) and . WASHINGTON, D. C. two federal corporations no accounting what-} ever to the General Accounting Of-: Many gov-! ifice of the United States. ,ernment corporations operate in dirwith private enter-. Fy . money to fin-. competition using taxpayer . nor interest . Some, a time . y to! es, pay neither taxes though limited in life at the of their creation, have authorit establish subsidiary corporations or agencies of unlimited life. Many account only to themselves. These; and many other points of, econsderable significance for Ameri-, can taxpayers, are revealed in a re-. port-—“Government (Corpoirations— The No Man’s Land of Federal: Finance’’—issued today by the Citizens National Committee. Product of an exhaustive analytical study of the use of the corporate device by the federal government, the report admits the subject is obscure and states frankly that many pertinent facts and figures cannot be obtained. It states: “So far as is known there is no one in the government of the United States, and no one office which is cognizant of the scope, ramification, powers, and controls of these agencies.”’: Government corporations, the report concludes, vitally affect ‘‘at least three contemporary problems, namely: 1 (Unflation. 2 Present and future costs of government. 3 Displacement of private enterprise by subsidized government ‘entenprise.” The report gives the basic anguments both for and against the use of the corporate device by government, and seeks primarily to clarify this ‘fifth anm of government’’ which may threaten the future solvency of the nation. NEW CONSTABLE SWORN IN Arthur E. Hammond has been sworn into office as constable of Grass Valley Township. Hammond was appointed by the Nevada County Board of Supervisors last week to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Constable Bert Paynter. — it wont matter much how near-athand problems are solved. If we were to lose the war it.would not matter much whether our. gold mines were open or closed. This is equally true, if we lose the peace. And who are we to look to for. a solution of the peace problem; if not to those we elect to legislative and administrative (farm . workers, . standing of the ‘great extent upon the success of this posts? FIRE CREWS OFF TO STATIONS Guerdon Ellis, Tahoe National Forest supervisor, yesterday. stated that fire suppression crews were being dispatched to eight stations in the forest. There arei five men ta each crew and the stations to which they are assigned are Downieville, (Camptonville,, ‘North ‘Bloomfield, White Cloud, Blue Canyon, Truckee, Lake Tahoe and. Sierraville. At Forest Hill, the ninth station, is located a camp of 17 boys in Civilian Public Strvice. Among the eight crews are 18 high school lads, 17 years old. Supervisor Ellis also announced the appointment of seven fire control assistants: Leo Chatfield to Camptonville, Yuba County, William Nelson to Downieville, Sierra County, E. R. Conover to North Bloomfield, Clarence Martz to Fortst Hill, Placer County, Charles Fox to Big Bend, Nelson Stone to Truckee and Samuel Dickey to Sierraville. Fire dispatchers appointed are Carl Ross to Downieville, E. H. Bevis to Camptonville, Mrs. E. R. Conover to North Bloomfield; Stephen ‘Martin to Big Bend, (Mrs. Louis Hughes to Forest Hill, William Curran to Truckee. CITY DWELLERS FRANCISCO, General June 10.——AtKenny’s ruling that camps need not offer all the luxuries of hotels will probably be tae ney <—-ee DEAD LINE FOR RATION BOOK APPLICATIONS Tonight at midnight is the zero ‘hour for the filing of applications for Ration Book No. 3. These applications were placed in the mails about two weeks ago, and most people have received them. Those who have not should apply at the post office, get them and fill them out in accordance with the _ instructions printed on them. The applications should be filled out by the head of each family and the stub on the top of the application should be retained as a receipt. It is expected that the new books will be received by applicants about July 21st. Failure to have applications in the post office later than midnight. today will mean that they will not be processed before August 1st. Ration officials warn the publie not to surrender ration books Nos. 1 and 2 under any circumstances. It is stated that replacement books will not go into effect until late summer. Books Nos. 1 and 2 will be used. The new books’ will.contain stamps for coffee, sugar, shoes, canned goods, meats and fats. RANGER DELANEY READY TQ MEET FIRE SEASON followed by city folks’ discovery that farm work does not offer all the ad-. vantages of vacations. . Nevertheless, the District Forest Ranger Frank B. . Delaney of the Downieville District lof the Tahoe National Forest, announces that preparations are comdiscovery need) not come to city people as a shock) ‘nor do we believe it will, for city . folk, have, for the most. part, given . jevery indication of knowing what is} them this year and of . eing determined to do their part.} Such urban organizations as the .

Fresno Harvest Council and the San Francisco Wartime Harvest Council) nd other similar groups, moreover, . ;are doing a bang-up job of preparing . city people for the task, signing up locating and staffing the camps, and in general making ready for the peak harvest. expected of b The San Francisco Harvest Council has gone so far as to issue a leaflet giving urban volunteers an underconditions under which they may expect to work and live in the fields. “Remember,” says the council, “there will be hard work ahead of all those who go. Before volunteering you should decide whether you want to work the full required time or whether you just want to go, believing it will be a. nice outing. If you are merely vacation minded, don’t go.”’ Such a warning will not deter the city dweller who knows that his food supply next winter will depend to a falls’ harvest. On the contrary, it is realism that should contribute to the efficiency of the harvest — and to city-country understanding as well. CAMPAIGN TO RAISE FOURTH OF JULY FUNDS Bert Chegwidden, chairman of the joint Grass WValley-Nevada City Fourth of July committee, has ecalled a general meeting for tomorrow night. He stated that an officer representing the Camp Beale commanding officer will be present to discuss the participation of Camp Beale personnel in the celebration which is to take place in Grass Valley on Monday, July 5th. A campaign is now going forward to raise $1,200 to defray the expenses of the event. The goal is considerably less than in former years when the mines of the county were running at capacity and the population was perhaps 2:5 per cent greater. The sports committee on Friday night will present an estimate of the money needed to make the program interesting to all who visit Grass Valley on that day, young and old. . plete and that this district organization is ready for the beginning of the 19438 fire season. The Memorial Day storm brough: much needed moisture, but spheric conditions since have been . such as to reduce the moisture content of the ground and cover in the forest. As a result an early opening of the ‘‘fire hazard’’ season is. expected. Fire Control Assistant Wm. A. Nelson has met a most favorable reaction from residents of the communities and the more isolated plac-$ es in the district in his quest volunteer fire fighting personnel, and has enlisted a volunteer force which will be able to cope most satisfactorily with any condition that may arise on this district the coming season of hazard. Ranger Delaney expressed his appreciation to the public for their fine cooperation given so freely during Past seasons, and~ gave assurance that every resource of the Tahoe National Forest will be used to subdue any fire that may break this season. The two lookouts, Henry Fischer and Sam Kasper, will be back at their posts on Saddleback Lookout and the Sierra Buttes Lookout, respectively. These veterans of many seasons of fire watching have become so familiar with the view of tthe mountains and gorges from their lofty stations that it is possible for them to instantly spot a ‘‘smoke”’ and: with such unfailing accuracy that many precious minutes and miles are saved the fire fighters in. their first, or initial attack—-minutes that more often than not spell the difference between an incipient and a major fire, and the saving of many acres of valuable timber ,and cover growth from destruction. Western Historian Visits Nevada City Albert Dressler, western historian who visited this city amd purchased three stage coaches 16 years ago, is again a visitor here. He is especially interested in western history and has* written some 15 books on -the sulbject. On the occasion of his last visit he bought the stage coaches of John B. Grissel, former stage line operator and driver. One of the coaches he gave to Miss Louise Fazenda, a movie actress, the other two he sold to William Clift, proprietor of the ‘Clift Hotel in San Francisco. These two were later presented by Clift to the City of Santa Barbara. where they appeared in parades for many years, sométimes flower bedecked in the annual La Fiesta de las Flores. atmo. tar Ginss Valley Oneniiies: Food Preservation Classes Classes in food preservation, canning, dehydration, freezing, bottling, cheese making, butter making, meat curing and pickling, were opened in the James S. Hennessy School’ in Grass Valley yesterday afternoon with Mrs. Leone Brown in charge. Instruction will be given on Fridays and Wednesdays. For those mothers with young children who enroll,,a day nursery will be available at the Grant School. Red Cross Instructor To Give Swimming Lessons Perry Levitt, of the American Red . Cross Field Staff, will give swim. ming lessons to boys and girls of Ne-. vada City beginning next Monday at . the municipal pool in Pioneers Park. (Children who desire to take these! free lessons are requested by him to sign up this evening at the city hall. . Their parents must sign their applications. The lessons will last two'! weeks and during that period the pool will be ¢losed to the public. The Nevada City council will this evening receive applications for the post of life guard at the pool. CHMA Will Meet In Auburn Sunday W. W: Esterly, secretary of he . California Hydraulic, Miners Assoc-. iation has notified members that the! next meeting will be held Sunday, iJune 13th,,in the Freeman Hotel at Auburn, Placer-County. reneral Hannum, Colonel Hunter ;and Colonel Anderson, all members) of the California Debris Commission; . the secretary states, are expected to ibe present. The usual luncheon for ;members’ and officers who wish to attend will be served at 1 p. m. The meeting will poen at 2 p. m. 4 Grass Valley Council Adopts . Anti-Jap Resolution The Grass Valley City Counct) . Tuesday evening adopted a resolu,tion, proposed by the American Legion, national organization, to bar re‘turn of Japanese. to the Pacific Coast, and embodying the sevenpoint program of the legion. Legionnaire Matt DePauli submitted the program to the city council, asking for its support. The resolu‘tion was adopted unanimously and will be included in the portfolio of! [resolutions sent back to Washing-. jton D. C. headquarters by Hague-. Thomas-Hegarty Post. Fire Chief Ltroy Bond asked and received the peermission of the council to stage two Fourth of July fire hose water fights. One with a picked team from Camp Beale and the other with their traditional antagonists the members of the Nevada City Fire Department. Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Howe ' Celebrate 65th Anniversary Benjamin F. Howe and his wife, Mrs. Euphemia Burton Howe, Tuesday celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in their home on Nimrod’ street. They were married June 7, 1878, in the village of Aima, Arkansas. Howe was the first lookout on ‘Banner Mountain to keep watch against fires in all the region around Nevada City. Later he was transferred to Mount Howell in the vicinity of Colfax, Placer County, where he continued in service until retirement many years ago. The couple made their home on a little farm just outside this city until. recent years when they removed to a comfortable residence on Nimrod street. Flowers, gifts and congratulations poured into the Home home yesterday afternoon when scores of friends and old time neighbors called :o0 wish the venerable couple more years of happiness. GEORGE WILLARD NOW AERIAL GUNNER George M. Willard, according to advices received by Captain A. H. Willard of»the California Fish and Game Commission staff, has graduated from the Harlingen Army. Air Field in Texas and now wears the silver wings of a turret or tail gunner on an American bomber. Willard entered the armed forces from Nevada County nearly a year ago. In the meantime his parents, Captain and Mrs. Willard have removed-toRocklin, Placer County. Lee jlations just ; Bureau specialty crops are now irrigated in \. \California : moe CALIFORNIA FARM CO-OPS LEAD NATION ‘By RALPH H. TAYLOR California farm co-ops, always. anfong the strongest in the country, led the entire. nation last year in dollar volume of business, according to a report recently released by the Farm Credit Administration. oh: This state’s 461 agricultural co-’ operatives, with 86,690 members, did a gross business for 1942, the report; said, of $289,170,000. Minnesota ranked second, with her 1,414 co-ops doing a business or $263,830,000. New York was 3rd ‘in line, with 366 cooperatives reporting a business of $222,770,000; Illinois was fourth, with 606 co-ops grossing $196,945,000, and Wisconsin was fifth, with 1,115 cooperatives and a gross of $164,275,000. The tremendous strength of the farm cooperative movement in the country as a whole was indicated by the announcement that there are 10,550 co-ops in the nation, with a total membership of 3,600,000 a gain . of 200,000 farmer members over the — preceding year. The FCA report stated that the farm cooperatives did a gross business of $2,740,000,000 for the year,lan increase of more than $560,000,'000 over 1941. Volume of business was up in every section of the country. California has checked up many firsts in agriculture—and new tabureleased by the Census reveal that while farm--and prattically every state in the Union, still holds commanding with 5,069,568* acres unirrigation. leadershp, der ‘Colorado. is second, with 3,220,685 irrigated acres; Idaho third with 2,277,857 acres, while Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon and Texas follow in that order, each irrigating — more than 1,000,000 acres. erage unit or parcel 48.8 acres. The avirrigated was Capital invested in irrigation works in the western states averaged $34.36 per acre. The census bureau report indicated that an average of three acre feet of water, per acre, was applied to lands irrigated in the west at an average cost of $3.28 per acre. In addition to 127,534 miles of earth canals and lined ditches, the report stated that there are 28,585 miles of concrete, steel, wood, and other kinds of pipe used to distribute thie water. ‘More than 2,500,000 acres of land according to the census, were wholly irrigated from pumped wells. The turbine type of pump is most extensively used for lifting water from wells, while electric motors for driving pumps are increasing in use and exceed interial combustion engines in most localities. America’s experiment with collective farming, launched under the. former administration of Dr. Rex. ford Guy Tugwell, who is now havying a stormy time of it as governor — of Puerto Rico, has failed and is to be liquidated as rapidly as possible. That admission came a short time i ago from Farm Security Administrator C. B. Baldwin, who testified be-_ fore the House Agricultural Committee that regardless of what he may have thought in the past of collective farming, he is now for the principle of full ownership and ‘“‘the Amie erican way.’ ee There are 13 of these collective . farms, involving 450 families and some 63,410 acres, which were sup-_ posed to be farmed as’ community — cooperative operations, testified Baldwin, but they should be put down as just another ‘‘noble experiment” that failed and are liquidated by the ASA without. tu ther ado, he said. cer The federal government ‘seems 0 lave learned its lésson a littl If it had taken the troub starting the projects, . to. inv, California’s experience years with the Durham and Delhi co which did not go to t) these collectivist farms. have spared itself saved the ares