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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