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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

March 1, 1940 (6 pages)

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Ae SRP ETT ATE SORE TITRREN SE PEE RE HIT TG EINYE eeDe GE Sh ET RIESE NIA ACOA ANT Ne See ASE SPRITE PAGE SIX. NEVADA CITY NUGGET x s ‘FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1940. a ——— hk.. ©. -RIRINGTON IS ELECTED CHAIRMAN ‘OF CH URCH GROUPS ton of Herads City wds eles ‘tas ohairman of the Christ Ambassadors, or young people’s organization of. the Assemblies of God churches of the United States in twelve, cities. His district will comprise the cities from Bacramento north as far-as Colusa and Winters to Nevada City. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Garrison came up from Woodland Tuesday and remained until Wednesday on business and visited with their son, Fred Garrison. IN YOUR )OLD WATCH in that old watch now! You will be ~ given a libera! allowance on an up-to-date GRUEN. Yellow gold $24.75 CHIEF .. (5 jewels. filled, Guildite back . .s. . . 15 jewels. Yellow gold $29.75 ERNA. filled. Guildite back.. USE YOUR CREDIT! HAKRTUNC’» Dependable Jewelers (Since 1875) 306 Broad St. 124 Mill St. Nevada City. Grass Valley . CHINA STRUGGLES TO KEEP UP WITH SCIENTIFIC WORK BERKBLEY, March 1.—Despite ha fact that it is suffering from the widespread destruction of a major m’litary invasion, the Republic of China is pressing: the work of nonmilitary scientific investigation and. research with new vigor. Although a number of its major educational in:titutions are closing up under the yersuasion of shell fire, they are reopening under emergency conditions elsewhere and significant new diseoveries in the field of paleontology and other of the sciences are being constantly reported. Proof of this is offered by Professor Ralph ‘W. Chaney of the department of paleontology in the University of California, in the ano°-neement that the National Geological Survey, a department of the “hinese republican government, is to jssue the second section of a vol/umé& on the paleontology of China : through. the agency of the Carnegie ‘Institution of Washington, D. C., in hich Professor Chaney is a_ research associate. Funds already have seen received from the survey for the printing and paper stock, and, in order to guarantee the least possible delay, the textual material is being sent to Professor Chaney for assembling and final preparation. Foremost in this work is Dr. HsenHsu Hu,-a-graduate of the University of California with the class of 1916, and a student of Professor William A. Setchell, former man of the department of botany, . HIGH SCHOOL NOTES \ By BARBARA PHARISS . —By BARBARA PHARISS The play for the yearly senior farce has been chosen, and tryouts for the eleven parts were held Wednesday and Thursday. The characters have not yet been decided upon. ' Miss Ruiter will have charge of the farce this year. ‘GIRLS LEAGUE The Girls League called a meeting Tuesday noon to nominate dele-. gates for the Older Girls’ Conference to be held on March 6 and 7. MargaretOdegaard, president, presided. Out of a list of junior and_= senior girls, seven seniors wnd three juniors were chosen. The teachers will have the final vote and choose seven girls. The conference is held at ‘Richardson Springs. SKI CLUB The ski club, with Mr. Hobbie as advisor, is very active this year. They have made several trips to the snow, the-week end. There are some fine skiiers,.in the club, and several have entered ‘in the Auburn ski club meet. A group of forty of the chorus chair. members were scheduled to sing over KFBK Wednesday night, but because and now retired from active univer. of flood conditions were not able to sity work. As director of the Fan Memorial Institute of Pekin, Dr. Hu has had direct charge of the collection of the vital scientific information in China, and is transportation to the United States. In the summer of 1937 Dr Chaney worked with him in Pekin. j The volume now being completed here is an exhaustive description of the fossil flora of the Miocene per‘iod of 25,000,000 years ago, and fi i has developed the important findtng _ that this flora and that of the North vnerican continent were identical in . ; many respects. Ben F. Waite. who-resides on the old home place west of Nevada City, was.a business visitor in this city Wednesday. Qaurtz.and Piacer claim location notice blanks at the Nugget Office. ‘go. It was a disappointment for the students, but Mrs. Libbey announced that the program was only postponed until a later date. BASEBALL PLAYERS GET WORK BENEFITS in the benefit York and Flaws were found recently unemployment insurance laws of two states. New . Missouri. In New York it was. found that no provision keeps unemployed persons who give up their jobs voiuntarily from receiving immediately full benefits under the unemployment law, while in Missouri professional baseball players, some _ of whom earn large salaries each year, are receiving unemployment benefits during the period they are not actually engaged in their profession. Several from the St. Louis AmeriLUUE: the Mew Wiay/ SAVES YOU TIME, FOOD and MONEY What’s new ini the modern gas ranges —the C.P. Certified Performance Gas Ranges? First of all, there is new speed from faster, new-type top burners—faster pre-héating ovens and broilers to save cooking time. Then it is possible to save on food with waterless cooking on the new simmer burners that 'prevent vegetables from “boiling away” or from the low temperature ovens that reduce meat shrinkage and tenderize the cooking of less expensive cuts of meats. Fuel costs, too, are less ‘because the new burners use less gas (GAS RANGE WEEK February 29 te March 9 This Save $10 Offer to all makes of Gas Re aon listed below that sell for $119.50 or moré. However, and scientific insulation reduces heat loss from oven and broilers. These are a few of the advantages of the modern C.P. Gas Ranges. You can aged them new in your home. Right now, too, you.can.save-money—._ when you buy your Gas Range. Spruce up your kitchen for. spring. Save Ten Dollars on a new Gas Range. stun OAS APPLIANCE SOCIETY of California C.P. models are not available in all' makes. : BUCK’S ° CHAMBERS ¢ CONTINENTAL * DETROIT JEWEL ° ESTATE ¢ GAPFERS @ SATTLER L& Hl ° MAGIC CHEF * NORGE . OCCIDENTAL ODIN ¢ RORER ° SPARK:* TAPPAN ¢ UNIVERSAL * WEDCEWOOD can League Kansas City the wealihy New item, applied for officials, in both instances, dissuade their players from making applications, though the Missouri State Unemployment Compensation Commission says the request is legal. Donald Barnes, president of the St. Louis club, believes players cannot be considered unemployed = as long as they are under contract to some team, and protested to his players against seeking the $15 a week allowed for compensation. Roy Haney, business manager of the Blues, also. tried to.dissuade his _ players, but six filed applications forrelief. Employers in New York that the set up that allows \persons to quit jobs and ac receive relief is “socially wasteful,” as it caused ‘some to quit gobs because they wanted to get some extra rest, retire, marry \or have a baby. Blues, a farm team in York Yankee syscompensation. Club tried to tice by making persons voluntarily quitting their jobs wait an additional one to nine weeks before they are eligible to receive compensation. In New York, those who quit voluntarily and involuntarily are treated in the same manner. Administrators favor a five week extension of the waiting period for ‘‘voluntary quits.”’ . HIGHWAY PATROL TO DRIVE AGAINST BOTTLE TOSSERS (Motorists who Se tess empty glass bottles on the highways, leaving sharp, jagged pieces which endanger other vehicles and causing needless expense to remove these unsightly objects, are to receive spécial attention from officers of the California Highway Patrol. Chief E.[R. Cato of the patrol pointed out today that Section 601 of the California Vehicle Code makes it a serious offense for any person, to throw or deposit upon any highway any glass bottle, glass, nails,
tacks, hooks, wire, cans, or other such substances likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle on the highway. He also-ealled attention to the fact that operators of vehicles pare—obligated.under. the law to remove such material. from the highway. ‘ “Officers ofthe patrol will give special attention to those motorists who at night imbibe liquor in their cars, and then desregarding the safety of themselves and others, throw the empty containers on the highways,’’ Chief Cato said. i and plan to go to Cisco over; ball club and from the! contend . ! Other states discourage the prac-\ DANCE, PROGRAM BENEFIT AT HIGH SCHOOL TONIGHT By BARBARA PHARISS A big benefit dance and program is scheduled by the Nevada _ City high school band tonight in the local gymnasium. The program begins at 8, and dancing will fdllow immedjthe Atlantis Suite, and ‘Goin’ Home.”’ Members of the senior class will present a one-act play. It consists of an introduction’ by Bill Wagner and Bill Rickard and the skit ‘‘Jessie James.’’ The characters are: Villain Hobart Childers; widow, Bernice Bankus;* hero, Bill Rickard, ~and voice on radio, Bill Wagner. The mixed choruses, led by Mrs: Marion Libbey, will sing Katherine’s Wedding Day, I Dream of Jeanie, Curly Headed Baby, Kentucky Babe, Allah’s Holiday, Pale Moon, Listen ; to the Lambs, and the school hymn. The popular prices are ~%, 25 and 40 cents. The money will be used to pay for school instruments. The music department: hopes to see a large crowd there, townspeople as well as students, as it is their first performance of the year. O. HENRY’S FAMED CISCO K"> RIDES TO QO. Henry’s smiling desperado of the Old Southwest, the Cisco Kid. finds new adventure in Arizona and Lady.’’ This °0th Century Fox picture, opens Saturday at the Nevada Theatre, with plenty of excitement, thrills, laughter and romance making it a rare screen treat. : Handsome Cesar Romero is the new Cisco and a more daring, romantic figure never roamed the Western bad lands. Featured in the cast are Marjorie Weaver, Chris-Pin Martin, George Montgomery, Robert Barrat, Virginia Field and* Harry Green. Herbert I. Leeds directed. In the screen play by Frances Hyland, based on by Stanley. Rauh, the Arizona stagecoach is) robbed, a gold mine is plundered and bad men die right and left of pistol poisoning—-all of which puts the Cisco. Kid in the mood for ee The success of ‘Cisco’s .romantic . eeeenndee is indicated in his boast: “She almost get me shot, she turn me over to the sheriff, she try to get me hang! Caramba, how the lady . love me!” ‘Cisco’s desire to bestow heaven and earth upon the current light of his life plunges him into the series of exciting adventures that make “The Cisco Kid and the Lady” a highlights of Nevada City, coming film fare. He meets Marjorie Weaver quite by accident in a stagecoach {he holds up and never can forget her —until a short time later when he "meets Virginia Field, an entertainer in a western tavern, Having two loves is a situation that doesn’t faze ‘him a bit. As Cisco himself might say, “To rob a bank or stagecoach is play for a child. But to make love to two senoritas—that is work for a man.” RETURN TO SANITY IN GOVT. URGED BY BUSINESS LEADERS National recovery, based on a return to the American system of free enterprise, reorganization of taxation and relief, and modification of the Wagner Labor Relations Act was urged by business and industrial leaders appearing before the _ sixteenth annual conference of the Iron, Steel and Allied Industries of California, at Del Monte. “We, in the United . States, in are fighting to regain our from a power drunk government,” James F. Lincoln, President of the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio, told the conference. ‘"‘We have determined that relief, regulation of industry and labor, and employment, ‘be the responsibility. of government,” Lincoln _ said: “We government without enormously increasing its authority beyond what shortly. We are riding toward chaos very rapidly. We cannot increase our present spending and at the same time reduce the efficiency of our economic set up to produce wealth. Such a policy can only result, as Europe has shown us, in totalitarianism.”’ iately. Footes’ orchestra will play. The band, under the direction of, Mr. Ralph Smith, will play marches, ‘Young Comrades’’ the original story hold up a cannot put this responsibility on the} it is now. The decision must be made }’ NEW MOVIE THRILLS . . deadly danger in a beautiful senorita’s eyes, as he returns to the sereen in “‘The Cisco Kid and the] company with many other nations, . liberty . CALIFORNIA . AGAIN LEADS NATION IN HOME FINANCING California, which has secured 18.2 per cent.of all mortgages accepted for insurance by the Federal Housing Administration since inception of the insured mortgage system, last year maintained national leadership for FHA home financing for the fifth consecutive year. 4 Mortgages amounting to $132,674,550 were accepted for insurance on 31,488 California homes during 1939, it was announced by Federal the . Housing Administrator Stewart Mcand; Donald. This means-that-an-average . “Golden Eagle,” and a selection from, Of more than 86 homes in this state were financed through -FHA each age tatty investment of almost $364,000 in home ownership, made possible by the FHA plan of financing. The commanding lead by California is attestéd by the fact that mortgages accepted fot insurance here exceeded by wide margin the combined totals for the two next nearest states. They are Michigan with 14,204 mortgages for $66,538,270 and New York with 10,889, mortgages amounting to $55,980, 980. Since insured mortgage financing was made available through private lending ‘institutions five years ago, to January 1, this year, the Federal’ Housing Administration had accepted for insurance mortgages on 549,037 homes for a total of $2,208,339,177, of which 95,334 amounting day during the year, with an aver-!to $408,983,446 were in California. ONLY THREE WEEKS "till Easter NOW— is the time to select Your New Outfit. : Our lay-away plan enables you to make your selection while our stock is at its best. Bon Allure News Special Purchase 2 BEAUTIFUL HATS Straws and Felts 1.95 . SILK DRESSES Prices Start At 3.95 SPRING COATS Dress and Tweeds 10.95 IT’S ALWAYS NEW AT . THE BON ALLURE. . WOMEN’S APPAREL, « 141 Mill Street Grass Valley, Calif. Nevada dians won't take it back. With Cesar ‘homers. Over.” The gripping, is acclaimed as his finest role. FRIDAY ON DRESS PARADE The swellest film, the Kids have made. SATURDAY cisco KID & THE LADY Henry’s famous cabellero faces deadly danger in a senorita’s eyes. Also Stuart Erwin in the “The SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY The HUNCHBACK Of NOTRE DAME powerful drama that thrills with its emotional appeal, Charles Laughton’s portrayal of Quasimodo the Hunchback Theat tre When the scraphappy Dead End Kids take over a military school—even the InThe army on his trail, a posse on his heels — O. Honeymoon’s WORK-FREE —any time and every time you want it with Standard Stove Oil in a modern Circulating Heater. Enjoyable! Dependabte! Give us an opportunity to prove it. ~ Nevada City Phone 5 worry-rret WARMTH i! a ALPHA STORES, Ltd. Grass Valley Phone 88 ATTENTION! All dog owners are requested to register at once their dogs for licenses. Atny dog found without such license will be impounded at once. Apply at City Hall. W.G. ROBSON, Chief of Police.