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_COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA
IN CALIFORNIA
ee
Out Loud
we are substituting today the
‘ghoughts of the editor of the
"Journal of Forestry, issued by
the Society of American Forest“en.
We think that his suggestion that, after this war living
haver
d their lives would
be
far better than the usual statu
exercises in the Nevada City
High
eni ng, June 9th, a class of 25
will
is about one half the nu
mber graduated
in normal times.
Three members of the
class
have
been
‘Donald Miller will
chosen
graduating
‘to
speak.
discuss the ques
Chastain Heads Junior
College Association
tion, Can We Meet
the Challenge?
‘Betty Rore will spe
ak on Science in
Harold E. Chastain, Dean of the
the Future, anid Wil
liam Tobiassen Placer Junior College and
supéerinwill talk on Vocati
onal Opportunitendent of the Placer
Union Hig h
of all local happenings.
f you want to read about your
friends, your neighbors; read
The Nugget.
ow
NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA
1 auditorium Friday ev
This paper gives your complete 4
co verage
'
econ
SSE
Le
At commencement
Laer RST
ster
TWENTY FIVEHIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS TO GRADUATE FRIDAY HOUSE MINE
ee
Thinking
smorials to those who
ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Web
evada City Nu eset
The County Seat Paper
Nol. 18, No. 45.
to those who love it, and are
Lommel
“God grants liberty only
. The Nugget is delivered to
your home twice a week
for only 30 cents per
month
The Gold Center
MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1944.
TOM LEGG, DECORATED FOR
NAVY SERVICE. NOW IN ENGLAND
2 SaaS
SUB-COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 5—In
a move designed to render greater
assistance to the mining industry,
the House Committee on Mines and
Mining has been divided into perManent sub-committees, Rep. Joe L.
Smith; of West Virginia, Chairman,
EORSINEE.
STATE HIGHWAY
COMMISSIONERS
PAUSE IN . C
.
ey
Tom Legg, graduate of the Nevada
City High School, U. C. student, and
business man, now sound man on 4n
up-to-the-minute new destroyer, hag
had much more than the usual Odys="
sey of the sailor, according to a record kept by his parents, Mr. and Mra.
George A. Legg, of this city.
Young Legg was engaged in the
veterans in
S
FOURTH OF JULY
COMMITTEE TO
HAVE MANY AIDS
INTENTION TO
HOLD MUST BE
FILED
nough
RYAN AERO. CORP. JUNE7 TO 10.
OFFICIAL T0 BE
ENGLE APPOINTS GUEST IN GY
on
:
Ei
Momer Brown and George McCoy butane gas business on his own,
announced.
’
‘gry, murals, and monuments, is
ties in the Post) War Wo
membe
rs of the
California
Scho
Of
rld.
partic
ol district, was elected presiState when he entered the navy. Tests re-.
ular
import
ance
;
to
the
in© gp excellent one, adaptable to
Rev. Cedric Porter
will pronounce dent of the Northern Californ
dustry in California is the sub-comHighway Commission, called on the vealed that he was of
rare hum—
ia Jun‘gimost any locality in the counthe invocation
Nevada
ans
County
and Rev.
who
could
Board
call
mittee
ior
the
of
: * fty. The editorial fol
Supervisors
true sound
Coll
onPrecio
ege
Patrick
us Metals and MinAssociation at a recent
lows:
O'Reilly, the benedicti
on. The gradumeeting ‘of the Organization in San erals, of which Rep.:Clair Engle of in session yesterday in the court pitch. The navy immedaitely gave
ation class will be
him training in sound devices. From —
the California Second Congressional house.
presented
by Francisco.
MEMORIAL FOR WAR Charles F, Par
San
Diego he was rushed to Pearl
sons, vice Principal,
Distric
t
War
has
d
been
Aust
named
in
Chairman.
was
named
go
viceThe two. commissioners were acHEROES
and diplomas will be ha
Harbor the latter part of May, 1942.
nded out by President, and Misg Kathleen SeaOther members of this committee are comanied by
State Right-of-way En“Within. a few days he was in one
: «Att reach "war that the United Dr. Hal Draper, a member of the graves was named secretary-treasurRepresentatives John
Murdock of gineer. Fred Haselwood,
District Enof the Navy's
school board. Presentat
Arizona; Compton
historic battles, at
ion of awards er.
White,
ia fought a grateful citizeng
Idaho; gineer Howard Reamer,
chairman of Midway,
and scholarships will
with
Robert Rockwell, Colorado and Hara
ringside seat,” his.
The Northern California
be made by H.
gy has commemorated its heroes and
Junior
the regional transportation and the
B. Kjorlie, principal
father relates. “He saw a destroyer,
and
district College Association is composed of ris Ellsworth of Oregon.
statutary and monuhighway committee of the California
superintendent,
tied. alongside the Carrier Yorktown.
Engle, who is scheduled to call his
the public and private junior
ments. The motives -behind these
colChamber of Commerce, John Luther
Officers of the class of
‘evaporate’ when a Jap torpedo hit"
commi
ttee
leges
into
situated between Salinas and
its first session in of the highw
1944 are,
memorials spring from a source ‘of
ay department, and EdStanley Foreman, presid
» State Con.
it.
Then he saw the carrier sink.
the
near
Susan
future
ville
,
said
in Northern California. It
that one of the ward M. Fennon,
ent, William
patriotism typically American. Unmanager
of
the Since the: sound man
Wasley, vice president
chief
object
incl
on a destroyer
ives
udes
of
the
all
Bet
;
group will be Sacramento distri
the junior colleges o f
ty Ruth
fortunately, the results—aestheticct for
the
state is located next to
Burns, secretary; Ernest
to
consid
the
er
the
ttorney for
San
skipper’s cab-legisla
Fran
tion
cisc
design
Colombo,
o Bay and Sacraed to chamber.
ally speaking—-have often been of
treasurer. The
in,
his
vantag
protec
e
t
point
ment
and
grad
for
o
assist
seeing what
» Kelly for
uate
area
produc
s.
s,
ers
besides
of gold,
doubtful taste if not actually hideous.
these, are Ruth
happen
silver
s
in
Cary
battle
and
Befo
could
other
Arbog
clude Jer.
re
not
Glor
ast,
be betprecio
bein
ia
chair
us
g
man
Ber
elec
metals
of the
nard,
ted,
,
‘There is hardly a city park,
a
Chastain
Parsons, gourthouse square, a state capitol, a (Martha. Virginia Bonebrake, Donald served for two years on the board of both now and in the post war perboard of supervisors, outlined the ter.
a
a
Austin Boreham, Helen
“His ship, then the U. S. Benham,
major,road problems of the county.
iod.
.directors of the organization.
Marion §
Jos
eph
ine
jillage green in the whole wide and
Butz, Joseph
“The gold mine closing order (LThe commissioners
teson -eni F beautiful land that is not disfigu
declared that picked up 600 survivors of the York—
rmonds, Wil B. Day, Marion a208) has created a serious problem nothing could be done until the war town, though its capacity rating was
liam Merritt Hallett, Er‘ed by military monuments. Who has nest
anny
Charles Helme, Robert Aibert
in connection with the rehabilitation ended. H. E. Sofge, secretary of the only 400. After the battle was 6ver,'
not seen them and shuddered? Gencca ery
(Molthen, June Belle Moore,
of
the industry. ‘That situation plus Nevada City Chamber of Commerce; the Benham was ordered to Pearl
George
trals on prancing steeds which not
Albert Nelson, Roberta Rut
the
post war position of gold as a asked Commissioner McCoy whether Harbor. Most of the ships engaged —
h
Rob. only violate all canons of art but
erts, Betty Jane Rore, Rose Mar
asic
metal of our monetary system the $10,000 once allocated for imthere had been badly hammered. —
ie
_ which defy laws of equine anatomy
Santinelli, Alfred M. Sauer,
“Shortly after arriving at Pearl .
will
be
among the primary considerprovement of--the grade on the Tasagan
a well! Or the thousands of equesRuth Smithson, William Elwood
ations of the sub-committee,” Engle hoe Ukiah Highway that leads into Harbor, Tom wrote that they we
Totrian statues in America, how many
going out again ‘on business,’ and
biassen, Lotus Fern Wales, and
‘Bear Valley was still available.
said.
:
RobMcare thuly beautiful? Psuedo-classic
Engle, who is the only California Coy stated that it was, but that it business it was. The line of destroyert Earl Wulf.
columns surmounted by Winged VicRepresentatives from all civic and representative on the House CGomcould not be expended until the war ers, of which the Benham was one,
tories and. guarded four square at
fraterial organizations of the city mittee on Mines and Mining, hag alends. The same reply was made rewas ordered into the night battle
the base by effigies of soldiers and
The destroyer in
have been named by the committee so been named a member of a subgarding the’ hazards in the Tahoe off Savo Island.
sailors
so discolored by the elements
committee on Non-Ferrous Minerals Ukiah in vicinity of ‘Rough = and front of the Benham and one in the
in
charge
of
the
Meurth
of
July
celeand birdlime that they more resembration here to assist in planning the and Metals. Minerals and metals in Ready, and as regards. the surfacing rear were sunk with heavy loss
ble caricatures than heroes! Bronze,
life. The Benham received a
parade and patriotic exercises for the. non-ferrous classification
mo
inof the Downieville approach to Nestanite, and marble piles whose obwound
vada
elude
but stayed afloat long e
City,
chrome
which
,
tungst
was
en, manganese,
the morning, afternoon and evening
completed two
. srity, neglect and consequent ugliyears ago but never surfaced.
to save all the crew.
copper, lead, zine and aluminum,
cle eee
of Indepeddence Day.
tess defeat the very
purpose
for
“Fishe
Rep.
d
Smith
out
of
said
the
shark
that
infested
the
At a meeting of the committee,
Chair. which they were intended—solemn,
water,
man
Tom
of
amd
each
the
sub-co
rest
mmitte
consist
of
e
erew
will
ing
of Justice of the Peace
be
_ ‘itiistic; “timeless memorials to our
Jack ~ Nettell, county. recorder,
were
charge
sent
d
first
with
to
the
the
Fijis
respon
t
sibili
George
ty
Gilders
of
leeve, Sheriff Carl J.
_ honored heroes!
states that owners of
unpatented
Noumea in the Caledonians, w
handling problems
relative to. his
“Wot all’such statuary, of course, mining claims in Nevada County, Tobiassen, Mrs.: Marian, Libbey, Anparticular
for a few days Tom drove a true
group. Recommendations
_ § bad. Eminent, but all too few, exmust file an ‘intention to hold’’ such tone Rore and Mrs. Howard Sturtefor
The
cargo was steel ‘mats for landing
final
action on legislative matters
vant, it was determined
that
the
. amples are those typified by Daniel claims in his office by July 1st.
will
.
fields.
be
consid
ered by the Mines and
celebration will follow’ the same
Chester French’s ‘The Minute Man”
The “intention to. hold” is filed in
“His assignments carried
~h
lines as in former years, a parade in Minin'g Committee ag a whole.
made for the centenary of the battle lieu of the “proofs of labor’ for unNew
Zealand, Australia and
the morning, an afternoon of games,
. Concord in 1875 and known to patented claims in accordance with
an island port. He was ordered h
sports, including a contest between
_ ery person who has bought a war the requirements of the mining asin December 1942, and
in Jami
firemen of Grass Valley and Nevada
. ‘ings stamp. But much of the outsessment moratorium for the durawent to Bremerton Navyyard, w
City, armed with fire hose, and an
_ tor’ war statuary in America, is not tion of the war. However, Nettell
ing camp of the Tahoe National Forhe joined the ‘crew of a brand new
evening program of music. The last
wulptur
e so much as assembly line said, those who have completed the will
be in charge of Mrs. Libbey.
. Meeorative “ant” differing not in oriassessment work may file the cus. sinality, @ut only in cost, from the tomar ‘proofs of labor.’’
cheap chromos 80ld by itinerant ped
lets throughout the land during the ticipate.
} Met century.
‘Expressed in its simplest terms,
“Within a year after the close of be thing for which the
the present, conflict, ‘municipalities, America is fighting and
youth
of
dying
“is
TWO BOYS FROM
tivle bodies, ‘patriotic organizations, home. What is home?
It is not a
. ad veterans” groups will launch a house, a third floor apartment, a
‘tousand projects in a thousand hotel bedroom.
:
est will be held at Hall’s Ranch near destroyer.
ees
“Ba
ck
to
San
Franc
isco
‘and thi
of
Downieville during June 7° to 10, on to San Diego for drill and 1
historic old Brandy
The Grass
‘City
west
announces (Forest Supervisor Ellis practiee. Tom then sailed
Nevada City. The training proPanama Canal to New York. He
in
‘Valley’ Chamber
of gram will be under the general suptwo trips to ‘Casablanca, on.,, one€
Commerce has
arranged a special ervision of Engineering Fire Cont
rol
dinner meeting for June 14th, at Officer D. G.
MacBean, assisted by
whih he states, his destroer con
ed a U-boat into a bit of
which “time a representative of the District Ranger Warr
en Barnes of wreckage. Next he turned _
Ryan
Aeronautical Corporation will the Big Bend Distr
ict and Fire ConLondonderry, North Ireland, bu
be a guest. The dinner will be given trol Assistant Nelson
Atl:
Stone of the Presently back on the
Representative Clair Engle
towns’ and tities to erect victory
has under the auspices of the aviation Camptonville District. .
on duty between Portland, Main
“Home is an elm-shaded New Eng. Monuments. In fact, were it not for land village. Home is Central Park, notified Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Incommittee of the chamber’ leaded
Norfolk, Virginia. The mn
Training, states Bilis, © will be South America, then back,
© of manpower, scaffolding Home is moss draped live oaks along gram of Grass Valley, that their son, by Dr. 0. F. Lang, in Bret Harte
scheduled to meet the
. r mounments would already be gothe Gulf
problems of ton, where
he called
us. up.
Coast. Home is the wind‘Robert Peter Ingram is now a prinInn.
j ite up. Were it not for scarcity of break on a Dakota farm. It is cpttoncipal appointee’ to West Point MiliThe chamber hag recently been national forest fire prevention and_ apartment of
Lieut
.
Dick
Uetals, casting of statuary would woods along a prairie creek. It is the tary.Academy. Young Ingram was an notified that the Ryan corporation suppression during war time manson of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton }
Powe
r
shor
tage
. Women .who serve] of this city, .
alternate, but due to the failure of has placed Grass Valley on the list
ae
redwoods. It is outdoor America.
sen
on fire lookout towers will be given
both
principal
and
alternate
in
one
of
commu
nitie
“Now we know he is
s
to
be
served
afier
“Thus
it is timely for all. Ameri‘
o
“The governor who creates a new
n
t
training
in detection of fires. Several again, and we gue
of the two vacancies in the district, the war with a feeder line.
‘ang, who Wish to make this land a. state forest
ss,
his bu
or
. wild life sanctuary in he was given a principal appointwom
en
who
serve as cletk-dispatchalong the English Channel.
Bert Chegwidden, L. R. Jefford
ftlter place in which to live, to}honor of the state's war veterans) .
At
B
Me and reflect.
and. Dan Stewart were appointed a ers in ranger headquarters will be rate his last letter stated
‘}will honor his administration also.
he
wa
Ingram has spent the past year in committee to name a chairman to given instruction in fire ‘control and
“Do we want another plague of The mayor who plants shade trees
the
Reserve Officers School of the serve with the Fourth of July comoffice practices. .
fees
» another blight of monuon his city streets or who designs a
mitte
Texas
A.
and
M.
College,
as
an
ene
of
Nevad
a City, in arrange‘© result in more municipal park system as a war memorial will
Training. officers ‘tram: nean
by
= estion » for the next century? demonstrate that America was worth gineering. student. He has already Ment for celebration in that city.
army camps will. be guests, view
ing
passed the entrance and
physical
The chamber approved a report by fire figh
ting methods which will
answers itself. Fortun-. fighting for. The borough fathers
be
Eugen
examinations
to
the
academy.
e Ingalls, calling for the pubtaught
His
nH honor: our war heroes who plant their municipal waterto troops who will assi
ing to have a front seat at 4
©
st the.
of a street map of Grass rangers
committing civic mutilashed with trees or who establish a appointment takes effect June 30. lication
in fighting fires whenever]
(Fred Denton, of Grass. Valley, son Valley for publicity purposes.
local manpower gources are not
“honor them—not. with town forest will make their comsutof Mr. and Mrs. Fred Denton, has
‘William Durbrow, local
-0r lifeless metal — but munity a more ‘attractive
place in
The president
of a
which to live.
é
more appropriate than Liblumber company or paper mill who
®8 and Victory Groves? What sets aside a tree farm or experiment¥ to keep forever fresh in al forest. will. commemorate his em_,
5 Of Americans the heroployees’ war service for all time.
™ of Colin Kelley than a commun“Most. foresters are socially convest? What greater testimonial scious and civic minded. They. are
» the Sacrifice of Commander Buckmemblers of service ‘clubs, lodges,
r than a tree-lined parkway?
churches, patriotic bodies,: war vet
€ memorials.
been notified of his appointment to
the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Denton has spent the last
year at preparatory school in Wash
pend for employment, must depend
ment will be give
n. The climax of
ington, D. C. He, too, was moved up largely upon the ability of mining the day’
s activities will be an afte
r
from alternate to first place.
He corporations to jresume
will leave-for Annapolis June 14th. ' when the war ends.
QUEEN OF JOB’S DAUGHTERS
Miss
Jackie
Knight
has
been
4 garden club will seek to erans’ organizations,
sportsmen’s chosen Queen of Bethel No.
!
102,
r
Some Army, Navy, or Red le agues. In short, they participate in Job’s Daughters Grass Valley to suc'Murse who gave her life on a al 1 those educational, social, civic, ceed Miss beVerne Hocking, whose
0 beachhead. They will seek and religious institutions whose comterm expired.
‘0 find a better way than my ‘bi ned influence has made the aver
chairman ficient to effect’ cont
rol: ‘The busy} ™'
for the Committte on economic Deday
of the program will be visitor'
s
velopment, a national organization, day,
Friday, the 9th, when spec
ial}
stated that postwar plans must dedem
onstrations of fire control equi
p
Other officers chosen were
Con
operations dinner program put
on by Ranger
Hobart Snider of Truckee,
Dr, Carl P. Jones, coun
who will
referee a Forester-Visitor
ball game, officer has notified George
ROWE WILL FILED
The will of Harry Rowé, who died followed by a camp-fire program health officer of Nevada —
featuring introductions, spee
ches and Dr. E. M. Roesner,
of a gunshot wound, self inflicted,
Grasg
moving pictures.
health officer, that
:
on May 29th, was filed Friday for
unps
probate by his wife, Mrs. Alice MaTwo visitors will be outstanding, Romano, Dolce, Réeleme “al
moisture Jack cheeses, mus
rie Rowe.
as they are veteran members of
the pounded and
held for.
The estate valued at $10,000: was Tahoe officia) fami
ly, on military
8. order
bequeathed to wife, the sole
furlough to
“ng in her name the roadside age American town and city a symstance Crispin, senior princess; Narheir
followed
the armed services
reof typhoid
sto their city,
bol worth living for, and, if necesnara Brown, junior princess; Helen named in the instrument.
fever in.
ei
turned from overseas duty with’
the the state, whic
Possibilities for suitable mesary worth dying. for.
h was traced
Holmes, Guide;and Tootsie Gaddy,
SeaBees; Chief Petty Officer
Joe ies of cheese
BASS FISHING
“To their eternal honor, foresters Marshall. Installation. of officers will
(
Forestner, ex-foreman of the
Neva
da.
‘Bass fishing in the San Francisco (Cit
“whether one-room counlike “to get behind movements” and take place June 17th in the Masonic
y shops, bock trom the ‘South fornia. ~
Bay region continues disappointing,
°F great universities—de“to push causes.” Working through Temple.
Seas, and
according to Fish and Game Warden A. Nichols,Petty Officer 24 class Wm,.
for‘honor the war service of and by their local organizations,
ex-fire control assistant
Frank Ghidotti, manager of the Kenneth Hooker.
°F faculty can plant the esters now have an opportunity to
At the present of the Forest Hill
rict, home from ‘as opened in Grass
Valley
tec'or establish extensive plant certain seeds of suggestion. It local Cardinal store, is spending his time, even fishing in the lower secthe Aleutians. WitDist
h some 50 of our
~©0s.
Churches and lodge, seris not too: early to begin now to enannual vacation, a portion of which tions of the. Mokelumne is poor, men in the
services, states Ellis, it guard
in temporary ch
4nd business establishment list support for living memorials for ‘will be spent fishing in the higher whereas a week or so ago limits is truly a
trea
t to. have these tw‘9; tendance was. not
,
:
were
:
being
larg
mountains.
s.”
taken.
heroe
.
war
s
popular.‘boys home on. furlough
metropolis—all can parth eir community’
‘&
.
af
Memorial Park’ swim
tot“
~
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