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June 15, 1942 (4 pages)

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This paper gives you complete . coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget is delivered to 4. your home_ twice a week for only 30 cents per month ‘vada City Nugget : COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . The Nugget. ; Vol 16, No. 48. oo ne County Seat Paper NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA The Gold C a MONDAY, JUNE. 15, 1942 . Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. AFL May Take Case MUNICIPAL POOL OPENED TODAY The Nevada City municipal swimLava Cap Announces Pay Boost Of 8c Hour Caught in the " ‘ Ne ming pool opened at noon today and wo any there were a good numlber of chilThe management of the Lava Cap Gold Mining CorRiftles PRs _ "The amount of publicity materO our S dren ready to take their first dip °f) poration on Friday, June 12, met with its employees and adial that comes to the editors of the year desipite the rather cool wea-. ,,; d th hat beoinn: : d ieee : vised them that beginning with the second half of June wages small country newspapers from Th C Vall Gold Mi «. ther. will be raised Bc per h f ll 1 ; Thi blish Dan Ungaro went to Sylvan: Corgovernment agencies is colossal: e rass alley (e) : inLocal children were especially Pp our for all employees. is establishes a ners today to resign his goeiiion on (No other word will do. Added to . ers Union of the American. anxious for the pool to open Saturbase rate for miners of $6.48 and muckers at $6.00 with time principal of that eaten Ungato ? this is a huge weight of sami Feéderation of Labor announce ae yésterday because the weather . and a half for all hours worked over 40. hours per week. soon expects to leave for military from professional organizations, l ill babl be . really was warm but preparations for nears : ; ; an appeal wi roba e . : ‘ : ele service,, . . Charles Parsons and Ed ‘ whose ethics forbids them to adPP ws. P y its opening could not be completed The Lava Cap Gild Mining pie local Hick , : oe made to the state courts to}; ,, C Bg raltz, local High echee! eae x vertise, from great corporations, 1 h Idaho-M lund in time. Corporation 1s in a different are working for the forest service : who, for a minimum of—advertiscompe t e ano-lViaryian category from the other fold mines this. summer. Several Grass Valley ing seek a maximum of free pubCorporation to recognize the Sat in this district insofar as it is classii male teaches are working at the licity in the press, and, in election . AFT, union as bargaining agent CAPT BLAKE T0 fied by the War Production Board as NAMED HEAD OF eantonment. Art Hooper G. V. high , years, from candidates. It is dif. for the employees of the min° a a Getenek SHGMSITY, (he semieas Obie school coach, is working this sum. ficult even in these times to save ing corporation. J : Te) i strategic mineral producers, which mer for Hooper and Weaver Mort‘all this waste paper and make an a aommites of the APL which ' is due to the fact that the concenuary—digging graves! i honest penny by bailing it and . conferred with Idaho-Maryland Min: Cee er ecuise oo one COMuwny SFC : % shipping it. As matters. stand it . e, Corporation officials Saturday afa ee shipped to the Selby Lead Smelter,. The California Hydraulic Mining} District Attorney Vernon Stoll and , constitutes a vast river of waste. . iternoon informed the mining com10 SAVE TIRES where they are absolutely necessary. Association, at its meeting held yes-. H. Ward Sheldon, Nevada City at4 Soin pany officers that William Green, , as a diluent and flux in the lead. terday afternoon in Grass Valley,. tormey, have both announced their — This material sent to editors in . the hope that they will publish it, for nothing, is a three+way waste. Tt wastes first of all the material, which multiplied by the number of newspapers throughout the country runs into thousands of tons of paper worth approximately $100 wastes the time and’ energies of private enterprises, plus ‘wasted time of editors who peruse stuff throw it alway. This three-way waste of these ‘seekers of something for nothing the ~, president of the American Federation of Labor, has authorized the appropriation of funds. to carry the case of the Gold Miners Union to the courts. The committee which conferred with the Idaho4Maryland officials included Homer Owens, president, Jess The Gold Miners Union offered to ho-Maryland Conporation ‘but the company officials decided to stand with the Protective League, which holds a bargaining agency contract until June 30, 1943. The statement that the case may ihe taken to the state courts was made .The State Highway Traffic Advisory Committee of the War Department announced today that the Hastman program designed to conserve tires on automobiles and secure. the maximum use of mass transportation facilities will be administered in Nevada County by Inspector H. E. which the local .officials received indetermine whether hours of work in ‘offices, industrial plants, and schools can tbe staggered effectively to provide greater use of rail and bus facilities and whether it will be possible to put into effect neighborhood riding on the ‘‘share your car’’ basis. smelting process. In addition to this, about 30 tons of arsenic are shipped monthly in these concentrates, which now is a very important requirement in the war effort. The increase in pay ‘was made necessary to comipete with other strategic mineral’ producers in their bid for miners and has for-its pursecure additional miners so that production can be ‘brought to a maxiand. vice president, has just returned from the east where he has been in eonference with the board of directors of his corporation and it is the attitude of these gentlemen that since the success of our arms is inelected George Hallock of Alleghany and Nevada City to the position of president, an office he occupied for two previous years. Hallock succeeds C. W. Haffey of Colfax, who had succeeded Hallock for one year term. Fred Harvey of Galt was reelected vice president, W. W. Esterly of Grass Valley secretary and Mrs. Edna per ton, Second it wastes an enor . Johnson, secretary, Elisha Curtis,. Blackwell and Captain J. E. Blake. Sis) £6 SALGAH CLLSe. SAHIOM ALAE co Baie GO arabe has that Nevada City really has bakery mous sum in postage, many times . Otville Karr and A. H. Peterson, or-}. This decision is the result of a 3sense ie hae a ck roa Paes ie nt ee ks stores. It took strikes in three bakthe worth of the paper. And last it ganizer. day conference in Los Angeles at. P 2 hat iad MaKe ; i : Be elected include! eries in Sacramento, where most of George McAuley of Auburn, Haffey, George Duffey of Forest Hill, Super: : : f i at. s i i ; r . Inspector of ; Stes : thousands of press agents, public. (Prove with membership cards that. structions in the program : : nae : : “. to bring that to their attention. ity hounds, and public relations dethe AFL union represented a major-. Blackwell states that an immediate. ™um in ne interest of our successbd Judge George L. Jones of Nevada artments in government and in . ity of the men employed by the Ida-. survey will be made in this area to ful prosecution of the war. ‘City, I. EB. Rose of Iowa Hill, Frank; The local bakeries were swamped 1D Mr. Schiffner, general manager. Bonner of Piedmont, L. R. Brundige. ‘with bread customers and Saturday of Sacramento, Robert. Dahlberg of Auburn, W. H. Taylor of San Francisco. The officers will be seated at the next meeting, which will be held in candidacies for the D. A. post but Jim Snell will not run. Not that Snell wouldn’t like to get into the race but his wife strenuously objects to it. “And after all,” Snell says, “T have to live with her.”’ A great many local residents actually learned during the ‘weekend the bread consumed here comes from, at noon, every loaf in town was sold. Louis Kopp had anticipated a rush for bread and had baked 1200 loaves, using all the flour he had in his Auburn in July. war. Highway Engineer C. H. Purcell store. Pease’s Bakery continued their bread baking all day Saturday and ; mounts into millions of dollars an. when the mining company officers The district highway engineer who. Volved, this corporation should do = . many SUSLOM SEs were sold loaves fs nually, that had much better be . informed the committee from the. has jurisdiction over this county will. eVverything possible to supply the STATE ENGINEERS . steaming hot out of the ovens. * directed into war ‘work. Nine. AL that neither the NURB or. the. act as the coordinating officer to as-. Necessary concentrates. to re Selby 1 Waa A heavy Sunday rush for bread us tenths of the matter submitted to . war Labor Board had jurisdiction in. sist Inspector Blackwell and Captain) Plant to the full capacity of its abil: wasn’t expected but Kopp baked 600 4 editors is advertising, some of it . the gold mining industry. Bleké in carrying out the program. . ity to, produce them. TEAVE HIGHWAYS loaves anyway. Yesterday by noon ‘a cleverly disguised to be sure, but . It will ‘be of interest to note that. 0,879 every loaf was sold! firmly embedded in’ the verbiage. . 2 the employees of this corporation are ; An observing voter remarked that ; The other tenth is ‘usually songs of in exactly the same status as if they TN . . ) Nevada Countyans cannot go wrong ! praise for whatever corporation or OQ Ou ant ourt were employed in any other defense] (U9 .9q in the coming election; that every k government = agency. puts.it out. pire industry and are contributing ‘in pa as ae candidate ‘so far to announce for ofAll corporations are Utopian. All 4 . e every way to our success in the war. iin sence bons le June 15.—(UP) . fice is well qualified for the position \ candidates are pure. All profess. eX he ? Tie: mare ekbarsdue of highways is/she or he seeks . . There is some ] jonal groups who cannot sully e e fa 10n ere: having its troubles because of the! talk that a 50 cent per day wage intheir fair escutcheons with paid advertising, are nobly disposed toward humanity, ‘with never a thought of fees.’ The government ministering angels hard put to it to find readable material for their newspapers. At a meeting held in the evening it was decided to call realize there will be no time to wait for a meeting of your organization, therefore ‘we must urgently request city council chambers — Friday a meeting of representatives from’ all organizations in NevadaCity to decide whether or not dications our citizens desire a cele\bration— but it must be inexpensive and. patriotic.” ALLEN CHAPMAN AGAIN PROMOTED was a captain in the army. Major Chapman is working under General Arnold, in the newly creatrevealed that 205. engineers had gone into federal services since the start of the war and more than 400 highway workers have been laid off gencies are ; ; ; eased whose services the planet . there should be a Fourth of July celebration this year. Allen Chapman, son of Dr. andj. from minor repair work for which! Bob"Tamblyn this week will go to
would soar off into the cold winds “This is a‘ very important meet-' Mrs. C. W. Chapman, has been prothere were neither funds nor prior-. work at Bethlehem Steel plant as a ‘ that ‘blow between the stars. All . ing,”’ Secretary H. F, Sofge of the. solicitation of money from the mer-. moted to the rank of major by the HAG : ; : welder’s helper. Eddie Powell plans : of them have a mistaken notion . 'Chamber of Commerce said, ‘‘and. chants. The program calls for a par-. United States Army. : : see be ae when gasoline ration-)to work at Mare Island until he rethat néwspaper publishers . are . Your organization should begrepres-. ade; possibly a picnic at Pioneer. This happy news was received ;ing is introduced in Caltfornia, ex-/ceives his call into military service. ented by one of your officers. Wel. Park, and a speaker. From all in-. here this week. Chapman formerly perts predict that the revenue from) Life long residents are leaving right the gasoline tax would drop 40 per cent immediately. It was expected such a curtailment in gas _ taxes crease is forthcoming to employees of Nevada County mines, other than the Lava Cap, where a 64 cent per day boost has already been announced. Time will tell.. and left but its surprising how many new people come into town to ‘re(place them. Nobody does anything about . iyo) you or your representative, at-. “If for any reason the. various. ed branch of the army air corps, Dirwould bring. a resulting 50 per cent —— drying wp this river of waste, DUt . +o4q this meeting, for iipon the de-. civic and fraternal bodies do not. ectorate of Flyin Safety. slagh \in highway” activities, singe; ‘The romance ead sasiiy of (te occasionally someone in a Hig) . cision to be made at this time will. send a representative to this meet-. In the letter to his parents, Major} Costs of materials are going up and . days of '49 are evidenced by the place of authority with some . 4.jend on whether or not the cele-. ing it will mean they do not wish a. Chapman said he is working hard to becoming scarcer. names the forty niners bestowed on knowledge of the newspaper business does speak out to executives whose exchequers are the source of. this river. Yandell C. Cline, writing in a publication that many corporations receive, offers advice for company officials who want news of their plant activities reéported truthfully and not interpret ed nor colored to the comipany’s disadvantage. But it is excellent advice as well for anybody with apublicity problem-——whether busi“Unless you've had training in newspaper work,’’ says Mr. Cline, “don’t submit an article to the papers and get mad when it doesn't /. , appear as you wrote it.74 , ‘ ’ attempt to write a few Ce ' ay hosdiinas for your story. Those receiving their citizenship Nevada City, will have charge of the Home. ers at 5c a pound, or, of couxse,. Wild Goose Flat, Whiskey Bar, Griz¢ ste papers are: . farewell for the men. may be donated if patriotism dictat-. zley Flat,’Groundhog Glory. “Wr ds is an art, and the : : h cality and queniity of news on a . . Axel Alfred Jolnson native of/ ‘ose leaving are: NEVADA COUNTY a '. Valtey. Helté Delight. (eumae particu ie: . OTe? ic ree eons Bweet. Jamos Annie ton ble Albert Vur-. SHARE IN GAS . Slide, Henroost Camp, Hog’s Digs, particular day determines kind of display your item will get.” “Don’t” Mr. Cline pleads, ‘‘presume to instruct the editor where bration will be held. “Will you kindly phone Sam Hooper at the city hall—Phone 27-W-‘whether your group will be represented at this meéting. A tentative program was discussed at the Friday meeting. This program involves no ject will. be abandoned.”’ “This is how important you should attend. mediately to Mr. Hooper, Fourth of EIGHT IN COUNTY NATURALIZED granted citizenship following naturalization hearing conducted in the superior court here Friday. Judge George L. Jones presided and _ reminded the new citizens of their responsilbilities. native of Russia, Victor Gustafson native of Finland, Madeline Veronica Jackson native of Canada, Elli Ollik\kala native of Finland, Magnus MaINNEXT CALL ness, personal, political—or socpeep : Sega Si conservation, announced a nation-. er, Brandy Gulch, Koyote Hill, Cenial. ¢ Hight Nevada ‘Countyans were ARE ANNOUNCED . uy bedi tag ae nan 4 hae wide campaign to save grease for. tipede Hollow, Chickenthief Fiat, Harris Drug Store here. vital ele-. Christian Flat, Deadman’s Bar, Dead Clerk Merle Morrison has nounced the names of the next group of men to leave Nevada County for military service. ‘Laurel ‘Parlor No. Daughters of the Golden 6, Native West of gara, Carleton BHugene Wilson, Donald T. Tuxford, Jacob Isador Fox, Carl Whiting, James Eleon Pruett, Edward Jezeski, Arleigh Alderman celebration of any kind, and the pro“Please iphohe your aeéeptance im-] . July committee of the city council.” . " puild up the organization. a 2 . Bdward C. Lamb, 69, father of iMrs. Clem Whitaker, died at the Whitaker home on Washington Street yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb came to Nevada City from Orland two weeks} ago to visit with the Whitaker famThe deceased, a plasterer by trade, was a native of Indiana. The body was taken yesterday to Orland, where funeral rites and burial will take place. Local arrangements were handled by the Holmes. Funeral TAX IS $16,919 State Controller Harry B. Riley today apportioned $16,919.59 of gasoline tax money to Nevada County for . For Explosive Manfacture Highway activity for the duration of war will ibe restricted to defense road construction and maintenance, regardless of rationing. Ham, Bacon Fat Valuable ‘Nevada Countyans will be told by the war productinn ‘board to. eat Plenty of ham and bacon—but save the fat. Joseph F. iscoarentey, salvage chief for WPB’s bureau of industrial conversion into glycerin ment in manufacture of ‘explosives. He said a camipaign will be\ conduct‘ed to acquaint housewives, ‘restaurant owners with the necessity for saving kitchen fat. x The fats may ‘be sold to meat dealSAM BEDWELL locallties in which they resided. Mrs. Belle Douglass, local historpian, uncovered interesting information from an early day Sacramento Union on the names of various towns and districts, many of them in this area. Picturesque names of towns, well known to old timers, but many no longer in éxistence, include: American Hollow, Barefoot Diggins, Bloomer Hill, Blue Belly Ravine, Bob Ridley Flat, Bogus ThundMule Canyon, Deadwood, Devil's Basin, Devil's Elbow, Gas Hill, Gitup-and-git, Gopher Flat, Gospel Gulch, Gouge-eye, Graveyard Canyon, Sulky Flat, Greaser’s Camp, Gheenhorn Canyon, Gridiron Bar, ins, Horsetown, Humbug Canyon, ngry Camp, Jackass Gulch, Jim Craw Canyon, Last Chance, Lazy Man‘s Canyon, Liberty Hill, Loafer } ee ve oma tor thison native of ONN AY, Raymond} y,aird, Lester Richard Merrifield, the quarter ended March 31. The alMAIL CONTRAC . Hill, afer’s Retreat, Rattlesnake it or not. And after all, it’s his COR Drugrt, mative of France atin George Goudge, Floyd Tremaine. jotment was made on the basis of a ‘ Bar, Long Town, Lousy Ravine, Love newspaper.” Nh Oat eeee WAY Eo rne Stenger, Clifford Merrifield, Clarence. motor vehicle registration of 6,158}: VITA. Letter Camp, Mad Canyon, Miller's The following were granted repat-/Tane, John Rushing, Clyde Joseph. for this county. q Defeat, Mount Zion, Murderer’s Bar, Don’t expect the editor to print jriation. Annie Hooper, Delina Joseph-. Fisk, Lea Edward Tucker, Samuel Ruley.aaid’ the apportionment waala. Hea aN felts The nail Way Red), Nigger Hill, Na “puff” material in your behalf. . ine Paoppera, Julia Festi, Laura An-. Riley Shuler and Dale Russell Meeds. part of a total dfstribution of $14.-. oniract Re ou AG asa Cainp, One Eye, Palotane a That's advertising and advertising {na Anargus, Ruth Bernice Lindvall, 283,707 of gasoline tax revenue. Of. morest and ice te nan {eake Ravine) P ip hea revenue is what keeps papers alive. . Carrie May Alexander. she total he apportioned $4,761,236 mcd thet Gk or ehsho wai wade Flat, Piety H free Pugh rhox Go \Confine yourself to facts. When “GETTING ALONG FINE” to California's fifty eight gounties: for the. service, has’ been accepted. Gulch, Poker Fla Poodletown, a reporter calls to induire about ak ead cleoe Mrs. E. J. Ott, who underwent an. the balance of $9,522,471 he depositThe other bidder was Frank Davies, Man’s Creek, Fo! Wine, iy 7 ‘the fire at your house or the acciemergency operation at the Jones}ed in the state highway fund for whose bid was about $1200 less than Hill, Puppytown, Push Coach © dent at our.plage of business, don’t . Superior Judge George L. Jones. Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley. highway construction and mainten-. po qwelt’s, Quack Hil, Ragtow try to influence him to “keep it out of the paper.” His job is to get . the news. If he thinks you’’re ‘‘covering up;’—-he’ll start digging. left here Saturday for San Francisco on a business trip. Last Thursday Judge Jones. presided in the superior“court’in Placer County. Friday, is was reported today. Mrs. “getting along fine’’, it Beatrice Hoge, a daughter, is here from the bay area until Mrs. Ott récovers. ance. Of the latter amount $2,380,618 will be apportioned later to cities for highway work to be done either by Ay the cities_ themselves ‘or by the Division of Highways on thoroughfares within cities. dine, Seventy-six, Shaz bone Peak, Shirttail flint, Skunk Gulch,