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June 14, 1937 (4 pages)

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Out Loud COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNI A ‘Vol. 11, No. 47. H. M. L. We have just received a communication from one of our more thoughi The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA eee Nevada City Nu geet Thinking The Nevada City Nugget helps y a cit y and county to grow in population and. prosperity. By subsribi ng to, an advertising in the: Nugget, therefore, you help yourself, 2 The Gold Center TOTAL COUNTY — LARGEST CLASS Learn-tc-Swim Campaign ~ DRIVE— RELIEF COST IN USHERED OUT AT ' at Park Pool Opens June 21 ANNUAL FOR BOY SCOUTS. MARCH, $14.60 OPENS THIS WEEK a MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1937. — ow ew —_ ful readers, in which is recited a brief resume of labor conditions as they are now in California mining communities. Among other things, attention is called to the closing of Learn to swim. See that that boy or girl ef yours registers now for the free swimming lessons three mines since wages were adduring the learn-to-swim campaign that opens at the pool in Pioneers Park. Verl vanced which have thrown over three e Gray, swimming expert and instructor will give lessons every morning duri hundred men out of work. Then the ng the campaign between June 2 1 Total county, state and Horace Curnow, member of the and July federal 3, inclusive, to all those ‘who regis reader asks some interesting queswelfare expenditures of ter now. Tear out the coupon Boar d of Education ‘Mriday night below and hand in your $14,660 in _. The annual drive to raise funds registration t o him today. Don’t delay. The tions: ‘Is it better for a community Nevada county supported classfor the 518 charin the Nevada Theatre at the Comes will be large and you boys and girls who want Nevada City Boy Scouts for to swim now -have an opto have a few men employed at high fty and relief .cases during March, mencement exerc ises handed fiftyportunity to learn if you register now. Sign this coupon and take it to (Mr. another year will open this week. Tt wages than to have large numbers 1937, according to a recently coni‘thre boys aned girls certificates of Gray at once. is proposed to. raise apyroximately working for good wages?” And a secpleted survey by California Taxpaygraduation from the Nevada City $700 in this drive. For three years, ond question: ‘“‘Are we any better off ers’ Association. -Joint state and high school. This is the largest class 1931 to 1933, inclusive, Nevada City now than formerly?’’ ‘Anyone who county aid to needy aged amounte ‘contributed but a very small amount d in Nevada City history. Principal H. will think a little will probably ansto $5,212 for 168 cases, to’ needy E. Kjorlie presented th® class. Rev to Boy Scout maintenance and each wer both questions with a “No.” blind $280 for eight cases, and $685 Father Patriek O’Reilly pron year now some portion of these “bac Dear Mr. Gray: Please enroll me in one of your ounced k learn-to-swim classes. I agree to do my best to carry for 61 unemployable indigerts in the invocation and benedict dues’’ is being raised to reimburse out your instructions and help in ion. The The three mines closed are the addition to aid given every way the campai gn for “water safety,’’ charity cases theatre was filled with ‘parents, rethe Tahoe Regional treasury for the Sliger in El Dorado county, the supported in institutions, the study latives and friends. amounts expended during Nevada Original Amador in Amador county, disclosed. The state’s SERA Scholatship Awards City’s lapse. expend*e and the Old Brunswick, in Nevada itures totalled $2,898 Principal H. E. Kforiie anounced for the 77 casIn the United States crime costs county, Regarding these closings, we es in the county, while tthe federal the awards of the Fred $43,000,000 a day. Folsom and San Bradley think all this talk of the management governme nt, through WPA, cared for Scholarships as Quentin house 23000 young men unfollows: Fill out this coupon and bring it Marian to Mr Verle shutting down the mine because this 87 unemployed, spending $2,948. Mohr, ’35; Margaret Phariss, Gray, life guard and: swimming instructor(do not sénd it) der 24 years of age, and the state ’34; is at the pool in Pioneers Park. or that labor organization dominatHe will exchange this cowpon for a regist Total welfare expenditures in Beryle Godfrey, ’36; William building a new penitentiary in the ration card. Every one enCuled the mines, is rollin g must supremely have a regist Silly. California for all ration card to qualify for free instruc types of relief ver, 18; Robert Proctor, ’37. south to take care of more young tion. Even though the management were reached $12,845,015 There was no award of the Hauand _ assisted criminals. For the care of criminals stupid and prejudiced Work of the swimming instructor Verle Gray enough to 329,130 indigents and unemployed, ber Scholarship this year in charge of the pool in 1936 California budgeted $403,. in Pioneers Park in training youngsters in close down the mines on that acaccordin to the report. Joint' state the arts of handling themselv000. To taxpayers it costs g Special Honors from $600 es in the water should keep them busy when this campaign count, the stockholders, given a litand county aid to needy blind, aged opens. Not to $900 to pass a boy throu The following have earned or béeri tht there gh the is a lack of People ‘who send their children to learn: to swim. tle time, would rebel and force the and orphans totalled $2,750,9 courts and ‘maintain him a year ina 58 for selected ‘by ther schoolmates -for Put everyone should. This summer, we’re going to read the pathetic tales management to resume again, pro100,234 cases. County relief to 44,honors: Robert Proctor, highest of people—youngsters and adults alike—who have lost their lives because correctional institution. vided they could pay the wages and 962 indigents amounted to $1,033,scholars ‘It would therefore hip; Bausch and Lomb Medthey couldn’t swim or they couldn’t swim well enough. seem much Actually everyone should be able to swim a reaso show a profit. If a mine fails to show 864. The state spent $2,299,238 in al; Life Membersh nable distance. And cheaper to aid and encourage boys to ip C. S. F., Editor after he has navigated that distance, he shouldbe able to float a profit for any reason, at the end of SERA relief to 71,243 unemployed, of Quill. long enter the Boy Scouts and give them enough to regain strength to swim some more. Most people could, if they real training an adequate period of. exploration while federal WPA projects. cost Adele Joerschke: Scholarship, Life only would. But in ' good citizenship when tumbled into deep water self posses sion is and development, the only thing it $6,760,955 and gave relief employMembership C. lost, than merely to S. F.: Assistant Busipanic takes hold and the victim is almost invariably doomed. permit them to drift can do it to close. It may close bement to 112,691 during the momth. If swimming instructors did nothing more ness Mafdager of Quill. than to teach folks to lose into habits of idleness, which is the cause its water supply gives out, be“The immensity of tthe problem John Harding: ‘Scholarship; Busitheir fear of water they would have accomplished much. fertile soil of crime. Scouting costs cause the ore is too low grade to be and the huge burden on the public ness Manager of approximately $10 per year per boy Quill; student body worth milling, or be@ause labor costs treasury become apparent when it is president. ‘if the work is done as it should be have made further operation unprorealized that if relief and charity done. In the drive which is about to Special Mention fitable, or because of a combination expenditures continue ‘throughout open Quill managers deserving spec citizens are asked to conrtibute ial of these and other adverse factors. the year at the March, 1937, level, mention: Mary ‘Lou Draper, Art; on the basis of maintaining one scout for one year, for half a year and for the annual expenditures would total Betsy Bennett, Assistant Business LEARN-TO-SWIM CAMPAIGN . JUNE 21 TO JULY 3 AT PIONEERS PARK POOL © In establishing .a high wage scale over $154,000,000,”" the association declared. “This is a per capita bur in the gold mining industry, it is inevitable that properties only the best paying den of $22.68 for:every man, woman will survive. For a mine and child in the state—a burden ot that employs 100 men, for instance, and which profit on is its showing an ore of $50 $90.72 for a family of four.” average a day, or $1500 per month, to raise the wages 50 cents a day, means’ inevitably that the mine must close. People who earn and save and invest in mining shares or in any industry, under our economic and political pect, and insist upon a return for their money. In mining or anything else unless there are returns, suckers if they don’t. So when his class. . SACRAMENTO, June 14. — Reg Evelyn . . ; ional consideration will be given to a provosal to create a state park in the the Kennett Drainage Basin, com stock holders usually quit. They are prising more than 650.000 acres of land, at a meeting of the Sacramen our reader asks: ‘Are to Valley Council of the California State Chamber of Commerce, to be we any better off now than formerheld at the Hotel Senator, Sacramenly?”’ the answer is “of course not.” to, Friday, June 18 at 10 a. m. This A large number of men getting, say. park proposal contemplates the de$5 a day in wages, means much more velopment of a game refuge and cerprosperity than half that number tain other features, and limits some getting $6 a day. However, we be' lieve that an advance in mine wages was inevitable. Wage scales for the country are really made in industrial centers. When Eastern steél types of land use which will entirely change the land management. of the area. The Feather River highway dedi and cation plans will be finally formulatautomobile corporations advance waged .and the invitation lists will be es, prices of automobiles, steel prodeveloped. Communities from the ducts of all kinds must be advanced east side highway will discuss imto cover the advance in wages. In order that ‘miners of Nevada county provement of 99E with particular re ference to the grade separation at can buy refrigerators, washing maRoseville. chines, automobiles, and they need The Agricultural -Committee will them just as much as anybody, they must have higher wages. So the up consider pressing problems of farm labor and will develop a policy reward spiral begins, but in the end garding labor relations in agriculthey are not one whit better off, and ture in the district. in the long run they are usually The Tax Committee will consider worse off than they were when wases were comporatively low and the prices of all commodities were low. re V. Saeltzer, of Redding, Council, will preside over the meet ‘NEPHEW OF FRANK DA VIES IS KILLED IN AIRPLANE Thus we are all caught. in the up ward spiral of ascending wages and Englebright, Loyalty THE GRADUATES Frances Elizabeth Irene Bailey William Graham Bennett Edward Todd Bonner Elizabeth M. Brisebill Harleth Martin Brock Margaret Burgan Matt William Burgan Lillian A. Cole Dorothy Ruth Curnow Veronica ‘May Davies Vernie Arletta Deschwanden Mary Louise Draper Max Gordon Dunlap Harry Jackson Englebright Mamie Katherine Fradelizio Wesley John Fuge Fred Charles Garrison Margaret Mary Gibbs Robert K. Graham Joan Grant John Donald Harding Fred M. Hawke, Jr. in some part responsible for, The young man was an outstanding is something that only time can deter-. athlete and was anterested in wrestmine. . ling. Am@o@dd thing occurred: last Sar eaves Thomas Lacy Jones, Jr. Eugene Joyal Mrs. John Ghidotti is confined to} name over the radio in the news and her bed with illness. Her 1
many . at the mention turned the news. off friends hope for her an early recoy-. as it brought to mind this nephew. ery. Mr. Davies will has in a game with of the higher lakes in the Loch Le group, Sterling and °\Rock permanent basis. Nelson requests going These John Radich Thomas James Rickard Catherine Josephine Stephens Margaret Pauline Stevens Jeanne Tefft Dorothy Katherine Thomas Eloise Hazel Thomas Carl Louis Tobiassen Richard Earle Tuttle It was played in -a lively, sportsmanlike manner, no arguments and plenty of action from start to to put into all that the low fisher elevation early fires may run _ lightly mond was as follows: ' John Allen Widauf Ernest Orval Young Marlin Charles Young Marysville and go fishing . Marshall Giselman, organist of this city, spent last week end in-Sa n Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Jones of this city have as guests Mrs. Jones par fi Nevada City now has 48 boys enrolled in scouting, and 22 in the cub pack. This is a total of 70 boys as compared with 225 boys who are eligible for one or the other of these organizations, SITE CHOSEN FOR SCOUT SUN DIAL this plaque to the Boy Scouts. Lo cally Mr: DeRome cast four bronze Murchie: Ambrose, p; Ungaro; markers and plaques for Hydraulic Davis, Macari, ¢; Hart, Coffman, Sowden, Wasley and Childers. The Parlor, which were placed on two Pioneer Trails. The Indian Medicine Idaho ‘Maryland team was, BoulRock and Sheriff David A. Douglass’ ware, p; O. Boulware, Setner, p; Howdy, Self, Wearne, Miner, ChelMemorial, last fall. He also cast the bronze statue of the Pioneer Monnesky, Affine, p. ment at Donner Lake in 1918. Hy{draulic Parlor, N. S. G. W. is the sponsor of Boy Scouts or » Nevada FOURTH-OF JULY PLANSMAKING City. * The inseription on ; the arenes plaque reads. “Boy Scouts of America, Nevada City, California, January 1, 1937, the slogan is “Time Cannot The Nevada City committee of the Wait, Be Prepared.” and killing trees and shrubs so that Fourth’ of July plans The sundial will be dedicated Sat« will meet at leaves and needles fall off and leave the Chamber of Commer ce at 7:30 urday afternoon just before dedicafire charred branches to, form a serWednesday evening. This committion of Nevada City’s new city hall. ious fire hazard. At Nelson‘s directee, appointed by the Chamber of Officers of the Grand Parlor, N; 9. posted Commerce will ‘arrange for has_ Hodgson tion, ranger floats G. W. Hydraulic Parlor will also smoking stations along most of the and interviewing other participants present the Scouts with a brace of more intensively used trails in the who wish to enter the giant parade flags. National colors and the state Cisco Donner trail area and all hikin Grass Valley. The group has seof bear flag. The program will be ers are urged to smoke only at these cured nine entrant s and*has promise announced in Friday’s Nugget. stations and cooperate in this way of four more when arrangements in holding down and_ preventing have been completed by the respectfires. = ive organizations. The committee consists of P. E. Marshall, chairman, Mrs: Belle Slot machines hurriedly too k to” Dogiass, Bill Cain, Sheriff Carl J. the woods last Thursday following Tobiassen, Howard Penrose, Lloyd mysterious telephone calls to varDudley, Charles Elliott, Mr. Rafferious resorts in which they were bety, U. S. F. S.; . Frank Finnegan, ing operated. In North San Juan Frank Finnegan, Carol Coughlin and slot machines in the morning had At an impressive service Sunday George Calanan. disappeared early in the afternoon. ; The group has been meeting with The forenoon Bishop Noel Porter of Sacdistrict attorney and sheriff of_ ramento confirmed a class into Tringood. response from the different fices had been apprised the attorney © lodges, clubs, business men and ingener al that a survey recently made ity Episcopal church ‘jin tthis city. dividuals, and feel encouraged with in the county showed slot machines There was a good attendance of the enthusiasm shown. in operation in various county towns, members present to hear the fine and ttimber singeing SLOT MACHINES TAKE TO THE WOODS AGAIN BISHOP PORTER PREACHES HERE Richard Frances Wasley three months. finish. There was a good crowd of den, Summit and Frog lakes and the fans out to enjoy the afternoon. A committee consisting of Dr. CG. The Mitirchie team outplayed the Grouse Ridge area should open up W. Chapman, Horace Curnow ané@ about June 14 from present indicaIdaho Maryland boys from the start H. M. Leete went to Pioneers Park tions. Hodgson states that on. the and in the sixth inning the game this aftern oon and selected a site for opening day of the season, 108 inches stood 11 to 0 and three pitchers had the Boy Scouts sundial. Ludwig Netz been placed on the mound by the of snow holding approximately 50 will install the monument and Eninches of water was measured on the Idaho Maryland team. gineer Ed C. Uren will establish The teams presented a neat apdivide immediately above Cisco. locati on so that the dial will register pearance in their unifor ms the Hodgson reports to forest superMurchie being gray with black caps the hours correctly. A natural boulvisor DeWitt Nelson at Nevada City der will be selected and moved to a and sox, while the.IJdaho Maryland that over 600,000 trout were planted site between the pool and Nimrod in the 72 lakes and 140 miles of perboys were in white with black sox street. where the sundial will be ; manent streams in the Cisco-Donner and caps. It is stated the North Star team placed permanently. . Trail area the past season. This Louis DeRome, of the Louis Deof Grass Valley leads the field, and should improve the trout fishing Rome Bronze Factory of Oakland, the Lava Cap boys have won three considerably in the future. A survey who has made all the landmarks for by the Cisco Sports Club, however, and lost two games. Sunday’s lineup on the local diathe Native Sons order, is presenting through brush Ida Mary Pratti noon. Bound lakes, Lola Montez, Van Nor worse than those occurring later: on. Robert Delos Proctor mine Sunday after snow pack, it is expected that some ing up fast*aind that ithere is already some fire danger, and strangely, the early season fires are some times Harry Laurence Odgers Roberta Jean Ostrom William James Pendola Anthony Eloy -Perez Paul Lloyd Phariss the Murchie been delayed because of high water team on Pionee rs Park baseball diaslow melting of last winter’s mond at Nevada City lakes or streams to comply with the fire regulations. Hodgson reports that the lower south slopes are dry . evening when Mrs. Davies heard the Francisco. { general and men Phillip stated in good trout fishing in that area on a Adele Freda Joerschke Cleland fishing fish and a great deal of stream im Clara Henrietta Jacobs Charles Chester Jeffrey y. Mr. Was. good. trout provement work is needed _ John Mills Hoff another sister in while shows that a good many lakes are gradually being over run with rough Frank Davies of Nevada City reto Los Angel es to attend funeral reach the top in a rush, and take ceived word this morning. of the services. ! : another tumble as we did with Hoovdeath of his oldest nephew, Joseph er in 1929, or whether F. D. R. is Leon Taylor, aged“23 years, of Los Glenn Cleland and Jess Moom ey destined to control the present boom, Angeles, who was killed in an airenjoyed a fishing trip at Fullers lake which: undoubtedly he has been plane crash at Glendale yesterday. Sunda commodity priicces. Whether we will} to District ranger, J. R. Hodgson at e Idaho Maryland — baseball Big Bend ranger station states that team wentdown to’a 14 to 1 defeat ven. Bennett Amy Lou McCraney unemployment ing, which will be attended by civic to be reflected in prices. When a leaders and boards of supervisors wage increase is forced for one group representing.19.counties in. the Sacanywhere in the United States, other ramento Valley district. groups are bound to force increases in self dolseeita ls Jackson to the problem, is more acute than of chairman of the Sacramento Valley factor in all commodities and services, an increase in wages is bound and district Oratorical contest. Lacy Jones, assisted by Proctor and Others in arranging stage. lief which, according to many. close problems Dudley Since labor is the principal Joan Grant, First place in county Wylie King, Jr. ; John Allan’ Kron Louise Lillian Lattin the This thas been explained and during the past several years. A summer winter sports meet is stressed by economists and bankers being planned for Mt. Lassen; and so many times that it would seem other travel. matters. will be discusas if the ‘dullest, intelligence in the sed by the publicity committee. world could grasp: it. But perenially Agriculture, labor relations, highthe old delusion plagues the counways, relief, taxation, travel stimutry again. If a man is earning $2 lation, conservation, Central Valley per day and his varied expenses come Water Project, and other important to $2 a day, where does he benefit matters will be before the Council if his wages are raised to $3 and his and Committees for action.living expenses are also raised to $3 a day. Ruth Curnow, Circulation. Fred: Garrison, Catherine J. Stev ens, Editors Search Light, Stud ent accountants and general all arou nd assistance to everybody. NEW STATE PARK ~ BEING DEBATED ex. system Manager; FISHING IN HIGH MURCHIE MINE ALTITUDES SOON DEFEATS IDAHO WILLBE GOOD MARYLAND TEAM address. He also spoke to the Sunday school class of 62 members at 10:30 o'clock. Those receiving corf'irmation rites were, Mr. Lester Gregory, and EVANGELINE CHAPTER Officers of Evangeline Chapter, O. with-43 in Truckee alone. District Attorney Vernon Stoll states that so far as his office is concermed “ E. S, of ‘this city will go to Grass machines are still illegal,” mee Valley this evening to practice for the visiting worthy grand matron Howard Burr and J, I son, Dick Gregory, Frank Ghidotti, who will make her official visit at motor ents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Arnest ed to Reno and Jimmy White, Eric Anderson, Geneva joint join his mothér and of Lower Lake. meeting in Grass Valley Sunday on a business ieve Evans and Mary Libbey. June 30. ; : trip. sat