June 12, 1933 (4 pages)

& student, NEVADA CITY Where Climate, Good Water and Gold Invite the World. . . . evada City Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press ugge } { . ° Nevada City Nugget A LIVE NEWSPAPER pubi lished in a live town. . Vol. VII; No. 65 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1933 ‘Herbert Hoover Visits House Where He Lived As a Mining Student On the occasion of his visit to Nevada City, while he was the Nation’s Chief Magistrate, Congressman H. L. Englebright, presented President Hoover with a piece of ore from the mine in which he worker while he was a student in Stanford University. former President, Herbert . Theodore Herbert Hoover, secompanied by his: son, Hoover Jr., his. brother Hoover, Standford professor, and IF. } Nobs of Grass Valley, with whomyhe was an over-night guest>Friday, visNevada City called later ited Saturday. mornins Judge RagNevada old Mr. Hoover lau on Tuttle and visited business district renewing acquaintances,.He. stepped in tire news stand of Mrs. Jennie Preston, the branch office of the Grass Valley Union: in the city, and then visited the house where he lived while working in the mines here toga } practical experience which Stanhe was a the mining which ford University, in required in en 2ineering courses, ™ GOODYEAR BAR MINES ACTIVE With the opening of the spring season ,mining activity around Goodyear’s Bar has been resumed. C. L. Thomas whe has a lease on the Higgins property of 160 acres on Goodyears Creek, located three miles north of Goodyear’s Bar, is being opened up and developed by a “roap of Los Angeles men. They have now opened a large old channel and are finding some heavy gold, some of the nuggets running about an ounce in size. A slide of rock and earth on the road to the mine held up work for a time this spring and was cleaned out, but another slide occurred, and this again being cleared by the Supervisor and crew of men in that section of Sierra county. The men are compelled to walk to and from the mine which makes work slow. Mr. Thomas stated'that at present they are moving about 100 yards of gravel a day and expect to take out 500 yards a little later on. They haye an abundance of water for all their operations. The Eureka gravel property above Goodyear's Bar has just-been opened up and they are washing gravel house where the former president lived in his student days stands lon . The 3oulder sstreet, and his former . host was Joe Ileming sometime since deceased. It now belongs tw: two sons’ of the late owner, Since Marh 4, President Hoover has turned his attention to mining, on which his fortune was founded. Only a short time since he yvisitea . the Comstock Lode, Ogden Mills, While Treasury. with Secretary of the in Nevada City Saturday he in-company former visited’ the Murchie mine. In 1930 President Hoover visited Nevada City and was photographed with Congressman Harry Englebright, who handed him a piece of from the mine in which Hoover worked while a Sanford student. ore withn the last few days. Mr. Wnrod, who is operating a quartz property northeast of Goodyear’s Bar, is busily engaged at the present opening up a ledge on Saddle Back. W. J. Casserly and wife are sluicing gravel on a large bar just above the little town of Goodyear’s Bar. In the early days the gravel bars, creeks and old channels yielded large quantities of the precious yellow metal. PREMIER MINE STILL SINKING WORK SHAFT The Grass Valley Premier mine in the Newtown district is still sinking in the Working shaft. Within a few days it is expected to start crosscutting at-the bottom of the shaft toward a good vein that shows up on the surface. This was followed for many operations. feet in sinikng M. B. Rapp, formerly of Cripple Creek and now residing in Santa Monica, is a guest of the National Hotel in this city. Mr. Rapp is here to examine two mining properties which Have been submitted to him. ral 0 Why. Not Subcribe for the Nugget? "PREJUDICE AGAINST . BURGLARS NO BAR TO . AUBURN, June . Holding a prejudice against bur. Slars isn’t any bar to jury duty in Placer county. . Summoned as a . burglary Forbes, talesman in a here, Allen Loomis jtold SuJudge Thompdidn't should . His recently had been.burglarized, he said, and consequently ~he prejudice trial Edgar editor George H. think perior son he he rve. office felt’ a Sainst’ burglars, The judge, however, held the ‘<cuSe invalid, declaring all good citizens were prejudiced against burglats. Forbes was accepted by both sides and the case proceeded. . ° SERVING ON JURY 2 (0 e) . ‘storm of TWIN CITIES DANCING PAVILION 1S OPENED Cities Pleasure has just been. rebuilt burning about a year ago, was thronged last Saturday evening, the opening night. It was only recently that the hall association, composed. of Hammill, Abbott and Fossa, decided to rebuild and let the contract to Reed and Burton. The for The Twin lion which after Pavipavilion is the air months: of open summer deJanuary and February: when water was at length obtained and turned into this main, one sec‘ion of. the pipe blew out, and fears have been entertained for the cafety of the city’s water The cost: of the and its supply. new pipe line welding SRS SEHON, and PLIES TO V ISIT MOTHER Krough left Friday visit with his mother at More, and will spend mother’s farm, Mrs. Krough and daughter, Lou, motored: to Krough and from there he left on one of the tri-motor passenger planes reaching his destination in 15 hours from the time he left Reno. Brian for a Minn. on his some time Betty Reno with Mr. new Whoosh ! Here Goes A Year’s Tin Can Pile —— es This is Clean-up Week. City Cler H. Calanan, act_ authorization the city council this rnorning announced that beginning tomorrow and for the folfive working days, Sam Trewill cart away the rubbish of householders at the city’s Tin cans, old tires, bish, in anything and k George ing on from lowing vethjck expense. garden rubthat cumbers the gardens, of cost fact the landscape of private mars beauty will be citizens. lots and removed free to the Householders their are asked to have refuse either on the side walk or immediately adjacent to it in such containers that -they can be readily dumped into the garbage truck. For the purpose of making a thoroughly clean sweep of domestic debris that have been accumulating, the city has been divided into sections. which . will be served on days designated belavi: = LAKE VERA SOON SCENE OF CAMP FIRE GIRL JOYS With the first warm days of the season the lodges of the Camp Fire Girls at Lake Vera north da City, are being made in readiness for the several hundred girls and officials that wil! he coming up from the bay region Sacra_ mento. ; of Nevaand Howard Baxter, busines man of Oakland, and one of the leaders in the Camp Fire Girls Association, accompanied by Miss Gladys Snyder, of the Oakland group, are at Camp Celio getting the camp ready for the two sessions of Camp Fire Girls, the first to arrive about June 25. Sixteen business men of different clubs in Oakland also came up Sunday to assist in getting the camp in shape for the first of 110 girls. Thirty councilors came up Sunday to prepare for the girls. The councilors will hold a three day session commencing Thursday. It is the polity of these organizations to patronize local merchants as far as possible. The S. P. railroad company made an attractive offer on rates and they ‘will arrive as usual on the Narrow Gauge and be driven to camp by local busses. Camp Augusta, with Miss Rhea Rupert as executive secretary is arranging for their opening June sixteenth. Camp Sacramento wil] ‘open’ June 25 on the north shores of Lake Vera. Tuesday—Piety Hill and adjacent territory. Wednesday—-Prospect Hill and adjacent territory. Thursday-——Boulder jacent territory. Priday— street and adMain and Coyote streets. Saturday—-Lost Hill and East and West Broad streets. Monday——Pine street. ENGLEBRIGHT IN FIGHT TO SAVE MINING RIGHTS Gee ate oe ec eae = The following telegram received from Harry.L. . Congreessman been Inelebright, rice. vacate has from this dist describing another attempt to the mining laws that now govern ac-> quisition of claims on government land other than in the National For_ This attempt is a repitition of similiar attempts made for the past years to destroy all opportunities for mining men on government Englebright has vigorously resisted these attacks, but is now calling for assistance from the mining interests in Galifornia. His telegram follows: Washington, D. C. June 12, 1933 Administration forces are enests. . twenty lands. deavoring to pass a bill through Congress placing all public lands not in national forests, national parks or Indian reserva‘lons, in grazing districts to be 1*fmed in the various western states and to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior. This bill will practically take away surface rights from mining locations and will place mining operations in such grazing districts under rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior. Bill also poayents from homesteading or settlem @ t of western lands except as prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Am fighting the same and endeavoring to have mining locations and mining develop° ments excluded from the regulations of the measure. Efforts will be made to have same pas\ sed by Congress within next few days. Kindly wire me entering any protest that your association may desiré to make against this measure, Bill is known as H. R. 2835. HARRY L. ENGLEBRIGHT, o Judge F. A. Austin of Alleghany visited in Nevada City Sunday. Council Calls For Bids For Water Pipe Line . Sue : . The. city" council, meeting last stimated a couple of ‘months ago Thursday, evening, took the first. by City Engineer Edwin C. Uren, step toward replacing the redwood] would approximate $3700. i} Pipe line leading down from the Bids will be opened by the city jj Canada Hill reservoir to the junc-. Council Wednesday, June 28. tion with the city mains at Main =a 2S SEIU Saas SE Gv STINE ET and Clay streets, The city clerk oe rn ¥ Latin was authorized ‘to advertise for VANDEGRIFT WO iLD bids for 2900 feet of steél pipe and NC EASE EE ‘TAX the first ‘publication .of the notice ] R f B R to contractors: appears in today’s 10 DOLLAR A BARREL . issue of this newspaper. i i Following the prolonged snow -——i. SACRAMENT 0, ides 12——£UP>-} ye earful the present rate of con~ sumption of tinue, beer will not tolland A. Vandegrift, director of finance, plans to askthe legislature for an increase in the beer tax from 62 cents-to $1 per barrel of 31 gallons. —_._At-the-present-rate the beer tax will bring in $1,400,000 revenue to the state, but Vandeegrift. estimates this will fall to $1,400,000 or less. A $1 per barrel tax would net the state around $2,000,000 per anine constate ALLEGHANY IS NOW REBUILDING ALLEGHANY, Francisco after June 12—Like. San the earthquake and from ashes and ruin. Calling the roll of the it is found that of the fire victims the invincible spirit Argonauts, to and find pelling do and dare, to lose is still the “again, imforee Before quished among them. the embers were William Goggins had. men off Dr." W. BY Hardie’s tot, the former site of the Wardiec apartments. Since the day after the fire a crew of eight men, headed by H. M. Sutcliffe, local contractor, have been busily at work constructing a new building. all extinclearing The building with its fixtures wlll represent 000. It will businasses, a an investment of $3 house three beauty shop, a barber shop and a clubroom. The building will be open for business today, just 11 days after the fire. THREE CONTRACTS LET Three others have contracted with Sutcliffe to rebuild. Mrs. R. M. Nevada City, who lost a andapartment house in will build a $3,000 establishment with Mr. and Mrs. Carl rebuild one of their two houses at a cost of $5,000. Mr. and Mrs. Irve Green, who suffered a $40,000 loss in the Annex were destroyed, will erect a $2 ,900 bungalow. Ponticelia of poal hall the fire, drink quarters soft living above, Johnson. will Jerry Fagan, local carpenter, is leveling the ground to build two cabins at.a cost of $1,500 in his addition to the. southern part of town. Fortunately his properties in Alleghany were all out of the fire zone. TO REBUILD HOME Mr. and Mrs. Rod McDougall have Michael Shea and James Grace, local carpenters, at work clearing the lot of their former home ,in which they spent 2 years of married life. They will rebuild a $3,500 home of two stories. i Frank. Davis & Sons, who lost their store in the fire, will not. rebuild. GARAGE BECOMES STORE Jack Bowden-will remodel the basement of his home into—a lunch counter and tamale parlor at a cost of $1,00. : Ray Hawkins, proprietor of. the Alpha and Red and White Store in . Alleghany, will conduct his business at the Alleghany Garage for some inonths to come. The last few days has been moving his pos D w= fire had raked and ravaged it, Alleghany is beginning to rise again ’ SEN. DEUEL IN FAVOR OF GAS TAX DIVERSION State Senator Charles Deuel of Chice who favors. gas tax. deversion. . . " SACRAMENTO, June 12—(UP)— . Senator Charles Deuel,, Chico, a very ' thoughtful, veteran Jegislator whose guiding principle is “fewer-and bet. ter jlaws,’’ believes California’s vo_ ters would be wise to approve the -called Riley-Stewart tax revision plan and endorse the diversion of gasoline tax fund to the state general fund. Referring to the tax revision plan which wil lappear on the June 27 ballot labelled Senate Constitutional Amendment number 30, Deuel said: ADOPTION FAVORED sey { favor its adoption. Not because [ deem it perfect but because (it is probably the best that can be had at this time and because the present system Has broken down under stress of charged economic conditions and jits own rigidity. “The. proposed amendment is a disappointment in banish mandatory to schools. that it does not provisions relatBut the amendment does promise real property relief, It should lift part of the taxation burden now destroying home, farm and business property values. It should check local government extravagance ‘ through supervised budgets and budget increase limitations.’’ TAX THOSE WHO NOW ESCAPE Senator Deuel said the plan does not provide additional taxes. These should be designed by the legislafall upon those who now escape taxation. ing ture to “Balancing good against bad, 1 believe’ thére is more in this amendment,” good than evil Deuel continued. “As something must be done to rethe state’s fiscal policies, it should be adopted.”’ vise Turning to gas tax diversion Senator Deuel observed: “The people will be asked to advise the legislature whether or not they desire a diversion of gas tax funds from the building and main_ tenance funds of. th ehighway system ,to meet annual payments upon interest and bonds voted to build the primary highways years ago. “This totals $8,000,000 annually. Id adopted it wil lresult in less new highway construction to that extent annually. ROAD BONDS “The bonds were voted before the Sas tax system was evolved. Interest and payments upon principal are now a charge against the general fund. That fund is in a state of collapse. “Proceeds of the bonds went .ta highways alone, which are now a part of the system. So if the diversion is made ,it cannot be truthfully said that gas tax money thus used {has ‘been diverted to something entirely foreign to the object for which it was levied. . “Yet, were it mot for the fact that — the state 18 suffering economic dis_ tress, I would not be in favgd

& student, NEVADA CITY Where Climate, Good Water and Gold Invite the World. . . . evada City Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the United Press ugge } { . ° Nevada City Nugget A LIVE NEWSPAPER pubi lished in a live town. . Vol. VII; No. 65 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1933 ‘Herbert Hoover Visits House Where He Lived As a Mining Student On the occasion of his visit to Nevada City, while he was the Nation’s Chief Magistrate, Congressman H. L. Englebright, presented President Hoover with a piece of ore from the mine in which he worker while he was a student in Stanford University. former President, Herbert . Theodore Herbert Hoover, secompanied by his: son, Hoover Jr., his. brother Hoover, Standford professor, and IF. } Nobs of Grass Valley, with whomyhe was an over-night guest>Friday, visNevada City called later ited Saturday. mornins Judge RagNevada old Mr. Hoover lau on Tuttle and visited business district renewing acquaintances,.He. stepped in tire news stand of Mrs. Jennie Preston, the branch office of the Grass Valley Union: in the city, and then visited the house where he lived while working in the mines here toga } practical experience which Stanhe was a the mining which ford University, in required in en 2ineering courses, ™ GOODYEAR BAR MINES ACTIVE With the opening of the spring season ,mining activity around Goodyear’s Bar has been resumed. C. L. Thomas whe has a lease on the Higgins property of 160 acres on Goodyears Creek, located three miles north of Goodyear’s Bar, is being opened up and developed by a “roap of Los Angeles men. They have now opened a large old channel and are finding some heavy gold, some of the nuggets running about an ounce in size. A slide of rock and earth on the road to the mine held up work for a time this spring and was cleaned out, but another slide occurred, and this again being cleared by the Supervisor and crew of men in that section of Sierra county. The men are compelled to walk to and from the mine which makes work slow. Mr. Thomas stated'that at present they are moving about 100 yards of gravel a day and expect to take out 500 yards a little later on. They haye an abundance of water for all their operations. The Eureka gravel property above Goodyear's Bar has just-been opened up and they are washing gravel house where the former president lived in his student days stands lon . The 3oulder sstreet, and his former . host was Joe Ileming sometime since deceased. It now belongs tw: two sons’ of the late owner, Since Marh 4, President Hoover has turned his attention to mining, on which his fortune was founded. Only a short time since he yvisitea . the Comstock Lode, Ogden Mills, While Treasury. with Secretary of the in Nevada City Saturday he in-company former visited’ the Murchie mine. In 1930 President Hoover visited Nevada City and was photographed with Congressman Harry Englebright, who handed him a piece of from the mine in which Hoover worked while a Sanford student. ore withn the last few days. Mr. Wnrod, who is operating a quartz property northeast of Goodyear’s Bar, is busily engaged at the present opening up a ledge on Saddle Back. W. J. Casserly and wife are sluicing gravel on a large bar just above the little town of Goodyear’s Bar. In the early days the gravel bars, creeks and old channels yielded large quantities of the precious yellow metal. PREMIER MINE STILL SINKING WORK SHAFT The Grass Valley Premier mine in the Newtown district is still sinking in the Working shaft. Within a few days it is expected to start crosscutting at-the bottom of the shaft toward a good vein that shows up on the surface. This was followed for many operations. feet in sinikng M. B. Rapp, formerly of Cripple Creek and now residing in Santa Monica, is a guest of the National Hotel in this city. Mr. Rapp is here to examine two mining properties which Have been submitted to him. ral 0 Why. Not Subcribe for the Nugget? "PREJUDICE AGAINST . BURGLARS NO BAR TO . AUBURN, June . Holding a prejudice against bur. Slars isn’t any bar to jury duty in Placer county. . Summoned as a . burglary Forbes, talesman in a here, Allen Loomis jtold SuJudge Thompdidn't should . His recently had been.burglarized, he said, and consequently ~he prejudice trial Edgar editor George H. think perior son he he rve. office felt’ a Sainst’ burglars, The judge, however, held the ‘<cuSe invalid, declaring all good citizens were prejudiced against burglats. Forbes was accepted by both sides and the case proceeded. . ° SERVING ON JURY 2 (0 e) . ‘storm of TWIN CITIES DANCING PAVILION 1S OPENED Cities Pleasure has just been. rebuilt burning about a year ago, was thronged last Saturday evening, the opening night. It was only recently that the hall association, composed. of Hammill, Abbott and Fossa, decided to rebuild and let the contract to Reed and Burton. The for The Twin lion which after Pavipavilion is the air months: of open summer deJanuary and February: when water was at length obtained and turned into this main, one sec‘ion of. the pipe blew out, and fears have been entertained for the cafety of the city’s water The cost: of the and its supply. new pipe line welding SRS SEHON, and PLIES TO V ISIT MOTHER Krough left Friday visit with his mother at More, and will spend mother’s farm, Mrs. Krough and daughter, Lou, motored: to Krough and from there he left on one of the tri-motor passenger planes reaching his destination in 15 hours from the time he left Reno. Brian for a Minn. on his some time Betty Reno with Mr. new Whoosh ! Here Goes A Year’s Tin Can Pile —— es This is Clean-up Week. City Cler H. Calanan, act_ authorization the city council this rnorning announced that beginning tomorrow and for the folfive working days, Sam Trewill cart away the rubbish of householders at the city’s Tin cans, old tires, bish, in anything and k George ing on from lowing vethjck expense. garden rubthat cumbers the gardens, of cost fact the landscape of private mars beauty will be citizens. lots and removed free to the Householders their are asked to have refuse either on the side walk or immediately adjacent to it in such containers that -they can be readily dumped into the garbage truck. For the purpose of making a thoroughly clean sweep of domestic debris that have been accumulating, the city has been divided into sections. which . will be served on days designated belavi: = LAKE VERA SOON SCENE OF CAMP FIRE GIRL JOYS With the first warm days of the season the lodges of the Camp Fire Girls at Lake Vera north da City, are being made in readiness for the several hundred girls and officials that wil! he coming up from the bay region Sacra_ mento. ; of Nevaand Howard Baxter, busines man of Oakland, and one of the leaders in the Camp Fire Girls Association, accompanied by Miss Gladys Snyder, of the Oakland group, are at Camp Celio getting the camp ready for the two sessions of Camp

Fire Girls, the first to arrive about June 25. Sixteen business men of different clubs in Oakland also came up Sunday to assist in getting the camp in shape for the first of 110 girls. Thirty councilors came up Sunday to prepare for the girls. The councilors will hold a three day session commencing Thursday. It is the polity of these organizations to patronize local merchants as far as possible. The S. P. railroad company made an attractive offer on rates and they ‘will arrive as usual on the Narrow Gauge and be driven to camp by local busses. Camp Augusta, with Miss Rhea Rupert as executive secretary is arranging for their opening June sixteenth. Camp Sacramento wil] ‘open’ June 25 on the north shores of Lake Vera. Tuesday—Piety Hill and adjacent territory. Wednesday—-Prospect Hill and adjacent territory. Thursday-——Boulder jacent territory. Priday— street and adMain and Coyote streets. Saturday—-Lost Hill and East and West Broad streets. Monday——Pine street. ENGLEBRIGHT IN FIGHT TO SAVE MINING RIGHTS Gee ate oe ec eae = The following telegram received from Harry.L. . Congreessman been Inelebright, rice. vacate has from this dist describing another attempt to the mining laws that now govern ac-> quisition of claims on government land other than in the National For_ This attempt is a repitition of similiar attempts made for the past years to destroy all opportunities for mining men on government Englebright has vigorously resisted these attacks, but is now calling for assistance from the mining interests in Galifornia. His telegram follows: Washington, D. C. June 12, 1933 Administration forces are enests. . twenty lands. deavoring to pass a bill through Congress placing all public lands not in national forests, national parks or Indian reserva‘lons, in grazing districts to be 1*fmed in the various western states and to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior. This bill will practically take away surface rights from mining locations and will place mining operations in such grazing districts under rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior. Bill also poayents from homesteading or settlem @ t of western lands except as prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Am fighting the same and endeavoring to have mining locations and mining develop° ments excluded from the regulations of the measure. Efforts will be made to have same pas\ sed by Congress within next few days. Kindly wire me entering any protest that your association may desiré to make against this measure, Bill is known as H. R. 2835. HARRY L. ENGLEBRIGHT, o Judge F. A. Austin of Alleghany visited in Nevada City Sunday. Council Calls For Bids For Water Pipe Line . Sue : . The. city" council, meeting last stimated a couple of ‘months ago Thursday, evening, took the first. by City Engineer Edwin C. Uren, step toward replacing the redwood] would approximate $3700. i} Pipe line leading down from the Bids will be opened by the city jj Canada Hill reservoir to the junc-. Council Wednesday, June 28. tion with the city mains at Main =a 2S SEIU Saas SE Gv STINE ET and Clay streets, The city clerk oe rn ¥ Latin was authorized ‘to advertise for VANDEGRIFT WO iLD bids for 2900 feet of steél pipe and NC EASE EE ‘TAX the first ‘publication .of the notice ] R f B R to contractors: appears in today’s 10 DOLLAR A BARREL . issue of this newspaper. i i Following the prolonged snow -——i. SACRAMENT 0, ides 12——£UP>-} ye earful the present rate of con~ sumption of tinue, beer will not tolland A. Vandegrift, director of finance, plans to askthe legislature for an increase in the beer tax from 62 cents-to $1 per barrel of 31 gallons. —_._At-the-present-rate the beer tax will bring in $1,400,000 revenue to the state, but Vandeegrift. estimates this will fall to $1,400,000 or less. A $1 per barrel tax would net the state around $2,000,000 per anine constate ALLEGHANY IS NOW REBUILDING ALLEGHANY, Francisco after June 12—Like. San the earthquake and from ashes and ruin. Calling the roll of the it is found that of the fire victims the invincible spirit Argonauts, to and find pelling do and dare, to lose is still the “again, imforee Before quished among them. the embers were William Goggins had. men off Dr." W. BY Hardie’s tot, the former site of the Wardiec apartments. Since the day after the fire a crew of eight men, headed by H. M. Sutcliffe, local contractor, have been busily at work constructing a new building. all extinclearing The building with its fixtures wlll represent 000. It will businasses, a an investment of $3 house three beauty shop, a barber shop and a clubroom. The building will be open for business today, just 11 days after the fire. THREE CONTRACTS LET Three others have contracted with Sutcliffe to rebuild. Mrs. R. M. Nevada City, who lost a andapartment house in will build a $3,000 establishment with Mr. and Mrs. Carl rebuild one of their two houses at a cost of $5,000. Mr. and Mrs. Irve Green, who suffered a $40,000 loss in the Annex were destroyed, will erect a $2 ,900 bungalow. Ponticelia of poal hall the fire, drink quarters soft living above, Johnson. will Jerry Fagan, local carpenter, is leveling the ground to build two cabins at.a cost of $1,500 in his addition to the. southern part of town. Fortunately his properties in Alleghany were all out of the fire zone. TO REBUILD HOME Mr. and Mrs. Rod McDougall have Michael Shea and James Grace, local carpenters, at work clearing the lot of their former home ,in which they spent 2 years of married life. They will rebuild a $3,500 home of two stories. i Frank. Davis & Sons, who lost their store in the fire, will not. rebuild. GARAGE BECOMES STORE Jack Bowden-will remodel the basement of his home into—a lunch counter and tamale parlor at a cost of $1,00. : Ray Hawkins, proprietor of. the Alpha and Red and White Store in . Alleghany, will conduct his business at the Alleghany Garage for some inonths to come. The last few days has been moving his pos D w= fire had raked and ravaged it, Alleghany is beginning to rise again ’ SEN. DEUEL IN FAVOR OF GAS TAX DIVERSION State Senator Charles Deuel of Chice who favors. gas tax. deversion. . . " SACRAMENTO, June 12—(UP)— . Senator Charles Deuel,, Chico, a very ' thoughtful, veteran Jegislator whose guiding principle is “fewer-and bet. ter jlaws,’’ believes California’s vo_ ters would be wise to approve the -called Riley-Stewart tax revision plan and endorse the diversion of gasoline tax fund to the state general fund. Referring to the tax revision plan which wil lappear on the June 27 ballot labelled Senate Constitutional Amendment number 30, Deuel said: ADOPTION FAVORED sey { favor its adoption. Not because [ deem it perfect but because (it is probably the best that can be had at this time and because the present system Has broken down under stress of charged economic conditions and jits own rigidity. “The. proposed amendment is a disappointment in banish mandatory to schools. that it does not provisions relatBut the amendment does promise real property relief, It should lift part of the taxation burden now destroying home, farm and business property values. It should check local government extravagance ‘ through supervised budgets and budget increase limitations.’’ TAX THOSE WHO NOW ESCAPE Senator Deuel said the plan does not provide additional taxes. These should be designed by the legislafall upon those who now escape taxation. ing ture to “Balancing good against bad, 1 believe’ thére is more in this amendment,” good than evil Deuel continued. “As something must be done to rethe state’s fiscal policies, it should be adopted.”’ vise Turning to gas tax diversion Senator Deuel observed: “The people will be asked to advise the legislature whether or not they desire a diversion of gas tax funds from the building and main_ tenance funds of. th ehighway system ,to meet annual payments upon interest and bonds voted to build the primary highways years ago. “This totals $8,000,000 annually. Id adopted it wil lresult in less new highway construction to that extent annually. ROAD BONDS “The bonds were voted before the Sas tax system was evolved. Interest and payments upon principal are now a charge against the general fund. That fund is in a state of collapse. “Proceeds of the bonds went .ta highways alone, which are now a part of the system. So if the diversion is made ,it cannot be truthfully said that gas tax money thus used {has ‘been diverted to something entirely foreign to the object for which it was levied. . “Yet, were it mot for the fact that — the state 18 suffering economic dis_ tress, I would not be in favgd