June 2, 1950 (8 pages)

Gateway’ to the Finest We Lead! Fishing in California Others Follow! evada City Nugget Nevada City (Nevada County) California, june. 2;-1950 Sdeioik Year $2. 50; Single Copy 5c Twenty-Third -Year, No. 22> Look obey ay nd Adve); AI Around oe OH, It is the habit of newspapermen to study candidates and 1ssues prior to elections and to discuss personalities and issues with outright impersonal recommendations to voters. Actually, those recommendations are nothing more than one man’s opinion and as such should not be cloaked in anonimity. They may have value to the reader in that the newspaperman has a better opportunity to meet candidates and study issues than the average voter. This is the way I shall vote next Tuesday, with some brief reasons for these conclusions: WARREN FOR GOVERNOR. Earl Warren has been one of the UNPREDICTABLE 7 ATHLETICS DROP 7 BARTLETTS 9 9 Almost every possible play in baseball was dished up to the fans here last Sunday when the Nevada City Athletics thoroughly boxed the Bartletts of Placerville 9 to 5 in Pioneer park. Every type-of hitting from a home run to a sacrifice and fanning the breeze to every type of fielding play: except a run down and a triple play was presented during the game, and of course, best of all the home town prides won. A three-run outburst in the first inning put the home boys in front to stay. Although Fireman Fisher had to fog them in after the seventh inning to save the game for starting pitcher Lynn Roath. Jones, lead off man for the Athleties, has got on base in every league game save one this year and scored each of those times except one when he was forced at home plate against Colfax. Jones drew a walk, was sacrificed to second, reached third best governors in the nation, a leader of liberal conscience and constructive realism. His only serious threat is from an unemployed insurance salesman who “happens to bear a famous name, . a glib, newcomer to the state with no governing experience but a willingness to promise everything. We have enjoyed sound government and state-wide prosperity under Warren; let’s keep it that way. KNIGHT FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. If you go for Warren, Knight is of course, the only choice as a running mate. KUCHEL should remain as the state controller. It is a profound mystery why heavy ~ financial support should boost Bittner for this position, which usually does not create a fight. Tom Kuchel has served well and he should be returned to office. PAT BROWN looks like the best bet for state attorney general. San Francisco’s fighting district attorney has a reputation for cleaning things up. Certainly F. Napoleon Howser should be removed* from the _ office on which he has brought distrust and suspicion. NIXON FOR SENATE. While my personal prejudices lean toward Manchester Boddy, the Los Angeles newspaper publisher, I remember too well the freakish ideas he espoused during the depression. I believe Boddy’is an , opportunist, that in the final test Helicopter Helen wif] steal the Democratic nomination from him. If Nixon can get the Republication nomination by the skin of his teeth, he will still have a hard fight against the Democrat in Novembed. I like Nixon’s record, his energy, and his right thinking. At least, he is going to have my vote. FRANCIS LINDSAY, in a long chat the other day, did more to put me right. on conservation, water rights, and power potentials in the sixth assembly district than anyone I have met: in} five months residence in the county. The Republican assemblyman, who has served one term is a leading opponent of bureau of reclamation control of the central valley project. He believes the people of California would be better served by handling the water and power development on their own, financing it through self-liquidating revenue _bonds. He believes in and practices soil and water conservation, exerts a tremendout’ state-wide influence in this field. Daniel Higgins of Auburn, his opponent, has received endorsements of labor and may show strength in the polling booth. But I’m sold on Lindsay, believe that he should have an opportunity to use his valuable experience and influence for another term. On the local scene there is a strange and foreboding absence of contest. For nine incumbents in county and judicial offices wé either vote for them er ignore them. And there’s no point in ‘failing to put your X on the line. Contests do appear, however, for ‘sheriff, coroner, and constable. RICHARD W. HOSKINS, our incumbent sheriff, has introduced (Continued on page 8) on an error, and scampered home in front of Jake Goldsberry’s hit. Carpender balked, putting two of the locals in scoring position and Steady Stack singled them home for a 3-0 lead. Wojack singled in the second, was sacrificed to second and was scored by Seay’s double. The Barts made it 4 to 2 in the third frame on two hits and three errors. Fouyer lofted a home run into the creek beyond left field in the sixth but the Barts settled down and retired the side with a fast double play. Buhlert tripled home Bedetti who had singled for the Bartlett third run in the seventh inning. Seay opened the home half of the seventh with a single, Childers duplicated with a crazily bounding hopper to third. Goldsberry trying to sacrifice made a scratch single when Leavitt fell trying to field the ball. Seay scored on the play. Stack singled to load’ the bases and Fouyer was walked to force in Childers. Haddy skied to center and Goldsberry on the tag-up. Stack made the final home team score on a fielder’s choice when the Barts tried a double play that didn’t quite click. The Athletics play the powerful Roseville Merchants tomorrow night in Roseville, the: game scheduled to start at 8:30 p.m. The team will leave from Eddie’s Place at 5 p.m. Box score: Placerville Wentz, 2b 6 Bernard, 3b-rf E McGahan, cf Rossi, rf Bedetti, 3b . Brunello, ss . T Carpender lf Buhlert, lf . West, lb Leavitt, c J Carpender, p L McGahan, p abr h po.a Orr CooCcCOorCOOFF CORR EP RB ONHKONE HE SCOoOMeUNCOCONOWHN COwoococorocore Totals Nevada City Jones, lf Seay, rf Childers, 1b . Goldsberry, ss Stack, : cf Fouyer, c Haddy, 2b Wojack, 3b . Roath, p Fisher, Totals Score by innings: Placerville 002 000 120—5 Nevada City .310 001 40*—9 Summary: IP: Carpender 7, McGahan 1, Roath 73%, Fisher 14%;°WP: Roath; LP: Carpender: SO: by Carpender 8, McGahan 1, Roath 3, Fisher 1; BOB: off Carpender 4, McGahan 2, Roath 4; HR: Fouyer; 3B: Buhlert, E. McGahan; 2B: Seay, Bernard: Sac: Bernard, J. Carpender, Seay, Jones; SB: West, Stack, Seay; RBI: E. McGahan 3, Buhlert, J. Carpender, Seay, Goldsberry 2, Stack 2, Fouyer 2, Haddy, Wojack; DP: J. Carpender to Wentz to West; LOB: Placerville 12, Nevada City 8; umpires: Neves and . Lewis; time: 2:09. 40 ACRES BURNIN FIRST FIRE OF SEASON Forty acres of ground were on fire Monday in the first .major 1950 blaze on the Tahoe national . forest. The fire started Mendes) morning in the vicinity of Cole’s mill in the Camptonville district and was brought under. control about 7 p.m. that same day, according to Gordon Lawlor, . dispatcher at the local forest headquarters. PLAYGROUND T0 BE INSTALLED :::. HERE SUNDAY Members of the Nevada City Junior Chamber of Commerce and other interested persons, are scheduled to meet at the playground site at Pioneer park Sunday to install equipment which has been constructed by the industrial arts class of the Nevada City high school. The equipment includes teetertotters, swings, monkey bars and a merry-go-round and was designed and built by the school shop under the direction of Albert L. Wood, industrial arts instructor. STAN WRIGHT CHOSEN HEAD OF LOCAL LIONS Stan Wright was elected president of the Nevada City Lions . club at a dinner meeting here ee ee Other oficers named KEEP TWO SHIFTS The Brandy City saw mill of. vice pendant: Allen Clapp, secthe Cal-Ida Lumber seri ad 1S. retary; William Mullis, treasurer; on a two-shift daily basis, 'Gordon Lawlor, Lion. Tamer; and . cording to an anonuncement Kis . Kenneth Zurfeuh, tail twister. week -hy tompany_ officials. ! Don Knowlton .and . Grady Cal-Ida plans to have 160 men) Campbell were named directors. employed at the: mili in all operations. Falling and hauling has been proceeding for some time, the company announced. Cal-Ida anticipates a production of 20, 000, 000 board oes ea TO EIGHT TONITE railway property in Sierra coun-. ty. Eight independent loggers Graduation exercises will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in the will operate on this land. Timber eut from forest service land_ will . be handled by company crews. . The mill’-has been handling 110,000 board feet of pine and. Gold Flat elementary school for four boys and four girls, graduates of the school. James Snell, judge of the Nevada county superior court, will award the diDouglas white fir and cedar and the double shift-is expected to plomas and give an address to the graduates. jump production to about 200,000 board feet daily. Rough milled at Brandy City, the lumber is hauled to the CalIda mill between Grass Valley. The graduates are: and Auburn and reprocessed for} Ladene Henderson, Suzie Setzer. Connie Field. Martha March. Wayne Nelson. retailing. Charles Arbaugh. BRANDY CITY TO The company estimates a payroll of approximately $40,000 per month not including independent loggers and operators. GOLD FLAT WILL George Halstead, work day chairman, announced the work will get underway at 9 a.m. »Pot-luck luncheon will be a feature of the day. The junior chamber will provide soft drinks. Other improvements scheduled in the long-range park program include surfacing of the playground area, construction of a barbecue pit, installation of picnic tables and benches, filtering and warming water at the pool and lighting the athletic field. GENERAL COLLINS’ GRAVE FOUND IN TANGLED WEED PATCH IN PINE GROVE CEMETERY SATURDAY Amidst the tangled grass. and weeds of the growth of many years in the more or less forgotten plots of the pioneers of Nevada county in Pine Grove cemetery lies the untended grave of a general of the United States. Saturday while the Masonic lodge and the Veterans of Foreign Wars post were preparing graves for decoration on Memorial day, workers came across a weatherbeaten granite slab stating simply: “In memory of Brig. Gen. J. Collins, died Sept. 18, 1864.” General Collins held that rank as commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Fourth Division of the°California militia at the time of his death. He was also serving as treasurer of Nevada county at the time. To quote the Nevada Daily Transcript of Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1864: “General Collins died of a stroke of apoplexy and his death is thought, by competent medical authority, to have been instantaneous and probably without a pang. Monday the general was in more than usual good spirits. He conversed with his friends cheerfully during the day, and at the armory in the evening related with zest the incidents of his campaign in Mexico. The evening was spent with great apparent pleasure to himself and ‘to the great edification and enjoyment of his friends who listened to his modest and amiable discourse. Mrs. Collins discovered his absence at an early iorning hour. At about the same time a near neighbor found him lying in the corner of the lot occupied by the general and dead. He lay in an easy posture as if taking a pleasant rest; the countenance was that of a peaceful slumberer. Death met him, but the oJd soldier was not frightened at the coming of the King of Terrors.” Gen. Collins, 62 years old at theme of his death, was born Feb. 8, 1802, in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. At an early age he went to Ohio where he grew to manhood. In 1825 he emigrated to Springfield, Ill., where he married the following yen He and his wife had no children except by adoption. He fought. his first campaign at the battle of Bad Axe, in the Black Hawk War, as a colonel under Gen. Henry. He later served for six years as a member of the council of the territory of Wis: consin. Although the Transcript did not so. state, it hardly seems possible that General Collins could live so many years in Springfield as a contemporary of Abraham Lincoln, and to have served in Baccaaureate services for the graduating class of Nevada City high school will be held, Sunday at 8 p.m. in the court yard of the school. Invocation will be pronounced by Rev. John MacDonald.The high school chorus will render severa numbers. The baccalaureate address will be delivered by Rev. George Pearson, the Methodist pastor. Benediction: by Rev. MacDonald will close the service. ‘. the Black Hawk War without being a friend of the Great Emancipator. Lincoln was not.a favorite of the Transcript and the great wave of millions of 19th century Americans who were friends of “the martyr president did not become manifest until after his assassination. When the Mexican war broke out Collins raised a regiment of Illinois volunteers and served as its colonel under Gen. Winfield Scott in that doughty chieftain’s*campaign from the beachhead at Vera Cruz to the Halls of Montezuma. Upon his return to Illinois at war’s end the state legislature voted him-a splendid sword as a token of its appreciation of his gallant conduct in the war. The sword was purchased by the California militia from his widow and The Nugget’s last word on the whereabouts of the sword was that it was taken to Marysville in the fall of 1864. The Nugget is instigating a search for the present whereabouts of. the sword. The warrior left his home in Illinois on the last day of February, 1849, to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California and came to‘ Nevada county where he remained the final 15 years of his life. Collins was elected to the state assembly by the Whig party in 1860 and re-elected the following session. It was:said of Collins that he never tasted “ardent” spirits of any kind, an andmaly of that day for a politician and a soldier. Melvin Boreham. Randy Gray. Most of the graduates have attended the Gold Flat school for most of: their elementary education. The graduating class has contributed generously to the March of Dimes, the Red Cross and other organizations. Through the Red Cross they have exchanged a book with a school in France, telling each other of their various learnings and activities. Their sixth and seventh grade classmates recently honored them with a party and refreshments, and with the assistance of the school’s Parent-Teacher association, gave each boy a brand new ball bat-and-each-girl-a box of colored pencils. Monday a preview wire recording was made of tonight’s exercises and the class song by Mrs. Doris Foley, county supervisor, and the children had the pleasure of hearing their own graduation program. HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO MEET IN N. SAN JUAN Nevada County Historical Society will hold a meeting Sunday at North San Juan with a picnic supper at 6:30 slated to start the evening’s ° activities. ‘The ladies of North San Juan will serve hot coffee at Twamley hall, but all persons attending are to bring their own picnic supper. Historical sites and buildings will be marked for the information of visitors. The cemetery at North San Juan is of special historical interest. At 7:30 p.m. there will be meetings of the executive board and standing committee in the hall to determine the finances to be needed for the next year and to submit a report to Robert Paine, finance chairman. A short business meeting will take place at the hall at 8 p.m., with Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger, the ‘president of the society, presiding. . North San Juan members will present a program. Committee in charge of the evening. includes R. C, Hill, Mrs. Amelia Cunningham, Mrs. A. W. Atchinson and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kohler. A bus will leave Grass Valley terminal at 4:30 p.m. and from the Museum here at 5 p.m. Round trip fare will be 75 cents. TRUCKEE HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH DIES IN SCUFFLE Death of Robert Eccleston, 15, Truckee high school student, who died Wednesday afternoon during. a‘ scuffle with a classmate, was caused by an enlarged thymus gland, according to an autopsy performed by Dr. L. D. Nelson of Truckee. Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, who investigated, said no charges had been filed. Nevada County Historica: . , TAXABLE SALES IN COUNTY SHOW IMPROVEMENT Taxable sales in Nevada eounty for the fourth quarter of 1949, according to the fourteenth re. port of the state board of equa. . lization released this week, relveals a» decided improvement’ over the thirteenth report. Ne. vada county zoomed to 24th in . rank among the 58 counties of the state. Nevada county’s percentage of change was a .96 percent decrease. On the previous list released in January Nevada county ranked 45th. with a deécrease of 10.39 percent, and on the 12th report ranked 56th with a decrease of 10.56 percent. Taxable sales in. Nevada county for the fourth quarter of 1949 totaled $3,825,000 \from 777 licensed establishments, a decline of 18 for the calendar year. It was the first decline in the number of licensed since 1848. in Nevada county since 1943. Taxable sales all over the state declined 4.3 percent over the alltime record quarter for the corresponding period_ of \1948. The sales do not represent expenditures for gasoline and food, major. exemptions from the retail sales tax. \ Fourth quarter per capita taxable sales in Nevada county totaled' $193.01 compared to $271 state-wide. In a breakdown of how Mr. Nevada County) spent his ‘taxable sales dollar during the fourth quarter of 1949 the biggest share, 23 cents, went to. ward his automobile and accessories purchases (not including fuel). For his stomach, both eating and drinking, he spent 19% cents (not including foodstuffs purchased from grocery stores). Other expenditures include: jewelry;~ -7--of-a cent; clothing,—6 cents; drugs, 3 cents; furniture and .appliances; 3 cents; fuel, 4 cents; homes and building, 12 cents; and hardware, 6 cents. Breakdown .of volume of faxable sales by types of business for the fourth quarter of 1949: apparel, $223,000; general merchandise, $313,000; jewelry, $28,000;~—-specialties, $68,000; “food stores, $240,000; package liquor stores, $88,000; eating and drinkimg places, $406,000; candy and tobacco, $10,000; drug stores, $128,000; home furnishings, $74,000; appliance dealers, $55,000; farm and garden stores;.$32,000; fuel dealers, $169,000; building materials, $288,000; hardware stores, $210,000; motor vehicle dealers, $588,000; auto supplies, $223,000; itinerants and mail order, $5,000; hotels and resorts, $141,000; garages, $66,000; photographers, $10,000; repair and service shops, $50,000; contractors, $181,000; miscellaneous, $229,000. Appliance and car dealers enjoyed the biggest increase in sales volume, followed by second hand and grocery stores, and repair and personal service shops. Service stations took the biggest rap in decreased business, followed closely by farm implement dealers, photographers and fuel dealers. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. SOLARO HELD Funeral services were held at St. Canice Catholic church yesterday morning for Mrs. Teresa Solaro, 73, native of Italy, and a resident of, Nevada City since 1904. Interment was in the family plot-of the Catholic cemetery. Mrs. Solaro: died Tuesday at the Miners’ hospital where she had been a patient for about two months. Her husband, Philino, to whom she was married in 1905, preceaed her in death. She is survived by three sons, Max, chief of police of Nevada City; James, also of Nevada City; and John, of Reno, Nev. Six grandchildren also survive. The Weather Fred Bush; observer

Gateway’ to the Finest We Lead! Fishing in California Others Follow! evada City Nugget Nevada City (Nevada County) California, june. 2;-1950 Sdeioik Year $2. 50; Single Copy 5c Twenty-Third -Year, No. 22> Look obey ay nd Adve); AI Around oe OH, It is the habit of newspapermen to study candidates and 1ssues prior to elections and to discuss personalities and issues with outright impersonal recommendations to voters. Actually, those recommendations are nothing more than one man’s opinion and as such should not be cloaked in anonimity. They may have value to the reader in that the newspaperman has a better opportunity to meet candidates and study issues than the average voter. This is the way I shall vote next Tuesday, with some brief reasons for these conclusions: WARREN FOR GOVERNOR. Earl Warren has been one of the UNPREDICTABLE 7 ATHLETICS DROP 7 BARTLETTS 9 9 Almost every possible play in baseball was dished up to the fans here last Sunday when the Nevada City Athletics thoroughly boxed the Bartletts of Placerville 9 to 5 in Pioneer park. Every type-of hitting from a home run to a sacrifice and fanning the breeze to every type of fielding play: except a run down and a triple play was presented during the game, and of course, best of all the home town prides won. A three-run outburst in the first inning put the home boys in front to stay. Although Fireman Fisher had to fog them in after the seventh inning to save the game for starting pitcher Lynn Roath. Jones, lead off man for the Athleties, has got on base in every league game save one this year and scored each of those times except one when he was forced at home plate against Colfax. Jones drew a walk, was sacrificed to second, reached third best governors in the nation, a leader of liberal conscience and constructive realism. His only serious threat is from an unemployed insurance salesman who “happens to bear a famous name, . a glib, newcomer to the state with no governing experience but a willingness to promise everything. We have enjoyed sound government and state-wide prosperity under Warren; let’s keep it that way. KNIGHT FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. If you go for Warren, Knight is of course, the only choice as a running mate. KUCHEL should remain as the state controller. It is a profound mystery why heavy ~ financial support should boost Bittner for this position, which usually does not create a fight. Tom Kuchel has served well and he should be returned to office. PAT BROWN looks like the best bet for state attorney general. San Francisco’s fighting district attorney has a reputation for cleaning things up. Certainly F. Napoleon Howser should be removed* from the _ office on which he has brought distrust and suspicion. NIXON FOR SENATE. While my personal prejudices lean toward Manchester Boddy, the Los Angeles newspaper publisher, I remember too well the freakish ideas he espoused during the depression. I believe Boddy’is an , opportunist, that in the final test Helicopter Helen wif] steal the Democratic nomination from him. If Nixon can get the Republication nomination by the skin of his teeth, he will still have a hard fight against the Democrat in Novembed. I like Nixon’s record, his energy, and his right thinking. At least, he is going to have my vote. FRANCIS LINDSAY, in a long chat the other day, did more to put me right. on conservation, water rights, and power potentials in the sixth assembly district than anyone I have met: in} five months residence in the county. The Republican assemblyman, who has served one term is a leading opponent of bureau of reclamation control of the central valley project. He believes the people of California would be better served by handling the water and power development on their own, financing it through self-liquidating revenue _bonds. He believes in and practices soil and water conservation, exerts a tremendout’ state-wide influence in this field. Daniel Higgins of Auburn, his opponent, has received endorsements of labor and may show strength in the polling booth. But I’m sold on Lindsay, believe that he should have an opportunity to use his valuable experience and influence for another term. On the local scene there is a strange and foreboding absence of contest. For nine incumbents in county and judicial offices wé either vote for them er ignore them. And there’s no point in ‘failing to put your X on the line. Contests do appear, however, for ‘sheriff, coroner, and constable. RICHARD W. HOSKINS, our incumbent sheriff, has introduced (Continued on page 8) on an error, and scampered home in front of Jake Goldsberry’s hit. Carpender balked, putting two of the locals in scoring position and Steady Stack singled them home for a 3-0 lead. Wojack singled in the second, was sacrificed to second and was scored by Seay’s double. The Barts made it 4 to 2 in the third frame on two hits and three errors. Fouyer lofted a home run into the creek beyond left field in the sixth but the Barts settled down and retired the side with a fast double play. Buhlert tripled home Bedetti who had singled for the Bartlett third run in the seventh inning. Seay opened the home half of the seventh with a single, Childers duplicated with a crazily bounding hopper to third. Goldsberry trying to sacrifice made a scratch single when Leavitt fell trying to field the ball. Seay scored on the play. Stack singled to load’ the bases and Fouyer was walked to force in Childers. Haddy skied to center and Goldsberry on the tag-up. Stack made the final home team score on a fielder’s choice when the Barts tried a double play that didn’t quite click. The Athletics play the powerful Roseville Merchants tomorrow night in Roseville, the: game scheduled to start at 8:30 p.m. The team will leave from Eddie’s Place at 5 p.m. Box score: Placerville Wentz, 2b 6 Bernard, 3b-rf E McGahan, cf Rossi, rf Bedetti, 3b .. Brunello, ss .. T Carpender lf Buhlert, lf .. West, lb Leavitt, c J Carpender, p L McGahan, p abr h po.a Orr CooCcCOorCOOFF CORR EP RB ONHKONE HE SCOoOMeUNCOCONOWHN COwoococorocore Totals Nevada City Jones, lf Seay, rf Childers, 1b .. Goldsberry, ss Stack, : cf Fouyer, c Haddy, 2b Wojack, 3b .. Roath, p Fisher, Totals Score by innings: Placerville 002 000 120—5 Nevada City ..310 001 40*—9 Summary: IP: Carpender 7, McGahan 1, Roath 73%, Fisher 14%;°WP: Roath; LP: Carpender: SO: by Carpender 8, McGahan 1, Roath 3, Fisher 1; BOB: off Carpender 4, McGahan 2, Roath 4; HR: Fouyer; 3B: Buhlert, E. McGahan; 2B: Seay, Bernard: Sac: Bernard, J. Carpender, Seay, Jones; SB: West, Stack, Seay; RBI: E. McGahan 3, Buhlert, J. Carpender, Seay, Goldsberry 2, Stack 2, Fouyer 2, Haddy, Wojack; DP: J. Carpender to Wentz to West; LOB: Placerville 12, Nevada City 8; umpires: Neves and . Lewis; time: 2:09. 40 ACRES BURNIN FIRST FIRE OF SEASON Forty acres of ground were on fire Monday in the first .major 1950 blaze on the Tahoe national . forest. The fire started Mendes) morning in the vicinity of Cole’s mill in the Camptonville district and was brought under. control about 7 p.m. that same day, according to Gordon Lawlor, . dispatcher at the local forest headquarters. PLAYGROUND T0 BE INSTALLED :::. HERE SUNDAY Members of the Nevada City Junior Chamber of Commerce and other interested persons, are scheduled to meet at the playground site at Pioneer park Sunday to install equipment which has been constructed by the industrial arts class of the Nevada City high school. The equipment includes teetertotters, swings, monkey bars and a merry-go-round and was designed and built by the school shop under the direction of Albert L. Wood, industrial arts instructor. STAN WRIGHT CHOSEN HEAD OF LOCAL LIONS Stan Wright was elected president of the Nevada City Lions . club at a dinner meeting here ee ee Other oficers named KEEP TWO SHIFTS The Brandy City saw mill of. vice pendant: Allen Clapp, secthe Cal-Ida Lumber seri ad 1S. retary; William Mullis, treasurer; on a two-shift daily basis, 'Gordon Lawlor, Lion. Tamer; and . cording to an anonuncement Kis . Kenneth Zurfeuh, tail twister. week -hy tompany_ officials. ! Don Knowlton .and . Grady Cal-Ida plans to have 160 men) Campbell were named directors. employed at the: mili in all operations. Falling and hauling has been proceeding for some time, the company announced. Cal-Ida anticipates a production of 20, 000, 000 board oes ea TO EIGHT TONITE railway property in Sierra coun-. ty. Eight independent loggers Graduation exercises will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in the will operate on this land. Timber

eut from forest service land_ will . be handled by company crews. . The mill’-has been handling 110,000 board feet of pine and. Gold Flat elementary school for four boys and four girls, graduates of the school. James Snell, judge of the Nevada county superior court, will award the diDouglas white fir and cedar and the double shift-is expected to plomas and give an address to the graduates. jump production to about 200,000 board feet daily. Rough milled at Brandy City, the lumber is hauled to the CalIda mill between Grass Valley. The graduates are: and Auburn and reprocessed for} Ladene Henderson, Suzie Setzer. Connie Field. Martha March. Wayne Nelson. retailing. Charles Arbaugh. BRANDY CITY TO The company estimates a payroll of approximately $40,000 per month not including independent loggers and operators. GOLD FLAT WILL George Halstead, work day chairman, announced the work will get underway at 9 a.m. »Pot-luck luncheon will be a feature of the day. The junior chamber will provide soft drinks. Other improvements scheduled in the long-range park program include surfacing of the playground area, construction of a barbecue pit, installation of picnic tables and benches, filtering and warming water at the pool and lighting the athletic field. GENERAL COLLINS’ GRAVE FOUND IN TANGLED WEED PATCH IN PINE GROVE CEMETERY SATURDAY Amidst the tangled grass. and weeds of the growth of many years in the more or less forgotten plots of the pioneers of Nevada county in Pine Grove cemetery lies the untended grave of a general of the United States. Saturday while the Masonic lodge and the Veterans of Foreign Wars post were preparing graves for decoration on Memorial day, workers came across a weatherbeaten granite slab stating simply: “In memory of Brig. Gen. J. Collins, died Sept. 18, 1864.” General Collins held that rank as commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Fourth Division of the°California militia at the time of his death. He was also serving as treasurer of Nevada county at the time. To quote the Nevada Daily Transcript of Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1864: “General Collins died of a stroke of apoplexy and his death is thought, by competent medical authority, to have been instantaneous and probably without a pang. Monday the general was in more than usual good spirits. He conversed with his friends cheerfully during the day, and at the armory in the evening related with zest the incidents of his campaign in Mexico. The evening was spent with great apparent pleasure to himself and ‘to the great edification and enjoyment of his friends who listened to his modest and amiable discourse. Mrs. Collins discovered his absence at an early iorning hour. At about the same time a near neighbor found him lying in the corner of the lot occupied by the general and dead. He lay in an easy posture as if taking a pleasant rest; the countenance was that of a peaceful slumberer. Death met him, but the oJd soldier was not frightened at the coming of the King of Terrors.” Gen. Collins, 62 years old at theme of his death, was born Feb. 8, 1802, in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. At an early age he went to Ohio where he grew to manhood. In 1825 he emigrated to Springfield, Ill., where he married the following yen He and his wife had no children except by adoption. He fought. his first campaign at the battle of Bad Axe, in the Black Hawk War, as a colonel under Gen. Henry. He later served for six years as a member of the council of the territory of Wis: consin. Although the Transcript did not so. state, it hardly seems possible that General Collins could live so many years in Springfield as a contemporary of Abraham Lincoln, and to have served in Baccaaureate services for the graduating class of Nevada City high school will be held, Sunday at 8 p.m. in the court yard of the school. Invocation will be pronounced by Rev. John MacDonald.The high school chorus will render severa numbers. The baccalaureate address will be delivered by Rev. George Pearson, the Methodist pastor. Benediction: by Rev. MacDonald will close the service. ‘. the Black Hawk War without being a friend of the Great Emancipator. Lincoln was not.a favorite of the Transcript and the great wave of millions of 19th century Americans who were friends of “the martyr president did not become manifest until after his assassination. When the Mexican war broke out Collins raised a regiment of Illinois volunteers and served as its colonel under Gen. Winfield Scott in that doughty chieftain’s*campaign from the beachhead at Vera Cruz to the Halls of Montezuma. Upon his return to Illinois at war’s end the state legislature voted him-a splendid sword as a token of its appreciation of his gallant conduct in the war. The sword was purchased by the California militia from his widow and The Nugget’s last word on the whereabouts of the sword was that it was taken to Marysville in the fall of 1864. The Nugget is instigating a search for the present whereabouts of. the sword. The warrior left his home in Illinois on the last day of February, 1849, to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California and came to‘ Nevada county where he remained the final 15 years of his life. Collins was elected to the state assembly by the Whig party in 1860 and re-elected the following session. It was:said of Collins that he never tasted “ardent” spirits of any kind, an andmaly of that day for a politician and a soldier. Melvin Boreham. Randy Gray. Most of the graduates have attended the Gold Flat school for most of: their elementary education. The graduating class has contributed generously to the March of Dimes, the Red Cross and other organizations. Through the Red Cross they have exchanged a book with a school in France, telling each other of their various learnings and activities. Their sixth and seventh grade classmates recently honored them with a party and refreshments, and with the assistance of the school’s Parent-Teacher association, gave each boy a brand new ball bat-and-each-girl-a box of colored pencils. Monday a preview wire recording was made of tonight’s exercises and the class song by Mrs. Doris Foley, county supervisor, and the children had the pleasure of hearing their own graduation program. HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO MEET IN N. SAN JUAN Nevada County Historical Society will hold a meeting Sunday at North San Juan with a picnic supper at 6:30 slated to start the evening’s ° activities. ‘The ladies of North San Juan will serve hot coffee at Twamley hall, but all persons attending are to bring their own picnic supper. Historical sites and buildings will be marked for the information of visitors. The cemetery at North San Juan is of special historical interest. At 7:30 p.m. there will be meetings of the executive board and standing committee in the hall to determine the finances to be needed for the next year and to submit a report to Robert Paine, finance chairman. A short business meeting will take place at the hall at 8 p.m., with Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger, the ‘president of the society, presiding. . North San Juan members will present a program. Committee in charge of the evening. includes R. C, Hill, Mrs. Amelia Cunningham, Mrs. A. W. Atchinson and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kohler. A bus will leave Grass Valley terminal at 4:30 p.m. and from the Museum here at 5 p.m. Round trip fare will be 75 cents. TRUCKEE HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH DIES IN SCUFFLE Death of Robert Eccleston, 15, Truckee high school student, who died Wednesday afternoon during. a‘ scuffle with a classmate, was caused by an enlarged thymus gland, according to an autopsy performed by Dr. L. D. Nelson of Truckee. Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins, who investigated, said no charges had been filed. Nevada County Historica: . , TAXABLE SALES IN COUNTY SHOW IMPROVEMENT Taxable sales in Nevada eounty for the fourth quarter of 1949, according to the fourteenth re. port of the state board of equa. . lization released this week, relveals a» decided improvement’ over the thirteenth report. Ne. vada county zoomed to 24th in . rank among the 58 counties of the state. Nevada county’s percentage of change was a .96 percent decrease. On the previous list released in January Nevada county ranked 45th. with a deécrease of 10.39 percent, and on the 12th report ranked 56th with a decrease of 10.56 percent. Taxable sales in. Nevada county for the fourth quarter of 1949 totaled $3,825,000 \from 777 licensed establishments, a decline of 18 for the calendar year. It was the first decline in the number of licensed since 1848. in Nevada county since 1943. Taxable sales all over the state declined 4.3 percent over the alltime record quarter for the corresponding period_ of \1948. The sales do not represent expenditures for gasoline and food, major. exemptions from the retail sales tax. \ Fourth quarter per capita taxable sales in Nevada county totaled' $193.01 compared to $271 state-wide. In a breakdown of how Mr. Nevada County) spent his ‘taxable sales dollar during the fourth quarter of 1949 the biggest share, 23 cents, went to. ward his automobile and accessories purchases (not including fuel). For his stomach, both eating and drinking, he spent 19% cents (not including foodstuffs purchased from grocery stores). Other expenditures include: jewelry;~ -7--of-a cent; clothing,—6 cents; drugs, 3 cents; furniture and .appliances; 3 cents; fuel, 4 cents; homes and building, 12 cents; and hardware, 6 cents. Breakdown .of volume of faxable sales by types of business for the fourth quarter of 1949: apparel, $223,000; general merchandise, $313,000; jewelry, $28,000;~—-specialties, $68,000; “food stores, $240,000; package liquor stores, $88,000; eating and drinkimg places, $406,000; candy and tobacco, $10,000; drug stores, $128,000; home furnishings, $74,000; appliance dealers, $55,000; farm and garden stores;.$32,000; fuel dealers, $169,000; building materials, $288,000; hardware stores, $210,000; motor vehicle dealers, $588,000; auto supplies, $223,000; itinerants and mail order, $5,000; hotels and resorts, $141,000; garages, $66,000; photographers, $10,000; repair and service shops, $50,000; contractors, $181,000; miscellaneous, $229,000. Appliance and car dealers enjoyed the biggest increase in sales volume, followed by second hand and grocery stores, and repair and personal service shops. Service stations took the biggest rap in decreased business, followed closely by farm implement dealers, photographers and fuel dealers. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. SOLARO HELD Funeral services were held at St. Canice Catholic church yesterday morning for Mrs. Teresa Solaro, 73, native of Italy, and a resident of, Nevada City since 1904. Interment was in the family plot-of the Catholic cemetery. Mrs. Solaro: died Tuesday at the Miners’ hospital where she had been a patient for about two months. Her husband, Philino, to whom she was married in 1905, preceaed her in death. She is survived by three sons, Max, chief of police of Nevada City; James, also of Nevada City; and John, of Reno, Nev. Six grandchildren also survive. The Weather Fred Bush; observer