March 10, 1950 (8 pages)

5 NR EEL PRTG fe PSE. 7 Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street — Nevada City, California _ Telephone 36 ° J. WILSON McKENNEY and KENNETH W. WRAY : Editors and Publishers © Member California Newspaper .Publishers Association Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as second class matter in the postoffice at Ne‘vada City under act of Congress March 3, 1879. Sub-. scription-rates: one year outside county $3; one year in county $2.50; four months $1 (invariably paid in ad-~~. vance). Advertising rates on request. j RECALL OF CARL J. TOBIASSEN Machinery has been set in motion for the recall of the local supervisor, Carl J. Tobiassen, native born and for many a year servant of the-county. We view with pessimism this recall movement. We feel it is to the best interests of the county government to remove Tobiassen from office—he is wholly unfit for administering an office that controls two and a half million dollars annually. But we do not feel that-this recall will remove Tobiassen from office. Recalls seldom succeed. o _ Tobiassen will go before the people mouthing phrases of his 24 years. of being on the public payroll, drawing sympathy votes because of illness and economic condition, and gathering ‘‘martyr”’ votes. , Despite our feeling that the recall cannot win, and in the: full knowledge that Tobiassen’s subsequent admin-. istration of his office will be more arrogant and prejudicial after he has won “endorsement and a mandate from the voters’’ we heartily endorse the recall and will strive to the utmost to aid in its accomplishment. Too many public officials have lost sight of the fact they are servants of the people and attempt to use their office:to make the people their slaves and servants. California county administration as a whole has deteriorated into mass inefficiency, and as in other flagrant cases of misuse of county governmental power, recalls have been often tried but rarely successful. Too often the subject of recall has no other visible means of support, and too many kinfolk create a sympathy vote that keep men in office long after they have lost their efficiency. ‘We are newcomers to Nevada county and are not too well acquainted with the past history of the man’s service to his county, but we have had many persons tell us Tobiassen started out with an excellent record as sheriff: But we have been here for all but the inaugural month of Tobiassen’s incumbency as supervisor and consider him. guilty of all charges made against him: by the recall petitioners. — v¥ The “Nugget charges Tobiassen with conducting his office with prejudice, personal rancour and bias. We know of no single action by Tobiassen as a supervisor that was based on considered judgment. The writer of this editorial, Ken Wray, probably more so than any other person in the county, has felt the weight of prejudice and rancour from Tobiassen. Last April we appeared before the board of supervisors and pointed out the failure to publish the proceedings of the board. In September when the attorney general supported your editor's stand and verified the board of supervisors had been violating the state law for many years, Ken Wray was the object of a string of foul fourletter words of abuse from Tobiassen and other members of the board. Tobiassen went so far as to say, because of our revelation of the board’s dereliction of office, “A little of this --doesn’t go a long way with me. . . won't take much more of this (criticism). I'll-do something personally.”’ The Nugget charges Tobiassen with prejudice to the Nevada County Bar Association by refusing to consider a request for-payment of court-appointed public defenders because the request was presented by Attorney Crofford W. Bridges. Such action is with prejudice. . The Nugget charges Tobiassen with prejudice toward Walter Barrett, publisher of the Truckee Sun. When Supervisor Henry Loehr made a motion in a board meeting to have a legal published in the Sun Tobiassen objected with “I wouldn't give Barrett anything. He campaigned against me when . ran for sheriff.’ Such action is with prejudice.—kww. : The bone in some folks’ spinal columns is often a lump at the top. _ Futility—trying to turn a night owl into a homing pigeon. 3 ! Extraordinary afflictions. are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary grates—M. Henry. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred who will stand adversity.—Carlyle. ‘What can't be printed ‘shouldn't have been said or done. Some folks spend a year trying to get the baby to talk and the rest of her life trying to get her to keep quiet. Flattery is telling some one what he thinks of himself. -2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, March 10, 1950] HAVE WE GOT ATOMIC JITTERS? Millions of Americans this week are trying to face the horrible realization that the U. S. is.on the threshold of a war of annihilation with Russia. -A_nationally circulated magazine ‘‘exposed’’ in pictures, graphs, and editorial text just how weak we are and how inevitable is the death struggle ahead. It is a shocking revelation of the failure of five years of diplomatic negotiation with Joe Stalin’s Soviet. It is a bold and depressing declaration that we must prepare ourselves to lose ten million of our citizens when the first H-bomb attack strikes our homeland. We havé seen our psychological warefare change temperature over the last few months as more and more of terms with the Russian bear. cold war. On the peaceful streets of Nevada City and in the quiet hamlets of our county it is difficult to grasp the reality of atomic warfare. It is natural that we should thrust away the disagreeable thought of another war, more terrible than anything the world has ever known before. We are inclined to think there are war-mongers among our leading publicists, that we are being deliberately incited to a belligerent position. It is not healthful for the nation to succumb to a protracted case of nervous jitters:~We must not-close our eyes to the necessity for national preparedness, for maintaining military strength in the face of an openly hostile aggressor. It is possible, even yet, that though our diplomatic representatives have lost every round in dealing We are no longer in a 'with the Russians, Stalin’s gangs will be deterred by a balancing of military power. . The monstrous facts of atomic death must not be hidden and the publicists serve us by shocking us into thinking. But open talk of war should not seriously disrupt our normal planning for the future or demoralize the outlook of youth.—jwm. THE BOND ISSUES A month from tomorrow we go to the polls to elect our city officials and to decide whether.to bond ourselves for $155,000. We will take up the question of city officers in later'editions but today we want to make a plea in favor of the two bonding proposals. The sewage disposal plant is a necessity. The state has notified the city fathers we must install one and discontinue polluting the waters of Deer creek. In the light of the amount of bond issuing being planned in other communities of our size in the state we are obtaining as reasonable a plant as‘is possible. . With Watchdog George Calanan on the job Nevada City need not worry’ whether the city government will get a nickel’s worth of value. received for any nickel expended—it will. The alternative to defeat of the bond issue for. the sewage disposal plant is installation by the state and ‘then payment by the city in direct taxation in three years. And the plant will cost a lot more built by the state of California than one built under the eagle eye of George. _ The fixe department bonding is of equal necessity although we are not under the same pressure from higher government. Nevada City has enjoyed an excellent fire defense record in recent years, but we should not let that record lull us into a false security. «Nevada City has had seven serious fires during its 100 years. Six of them came within the first 13 years, and one of them—the July 19, 1856 fire—was extra serious because. of a false sense of security in the “‘fire-proof”’ buildings of that day. Ten men died in that fire because of a false sense of security. . The seventh fire—in 1922—called for modernization of the fire department, but since then little has been done in keeping the equipment up-to-date beyond mainten‘ance of a very high esprit de-corps of the personnel. HAVE OUR BOND ISSUES AND PREVENT THAT FICHTH FIRE.FROM EVER HAPPENING.—kww. our national leaders abandon hope of ever coming to. . LET'S BE PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY. LET'S Just Wonderin’ I Wonder now as Winter goes And Spring comes with her gifts of grace, With budding trees and fragrant flowers» The signs of Winter to replace, If to our hearts and minds will come The whisperings of a hopeful spring And all the dreams we harbor now To swift fruition bring. hearts of us humans. tasks. refuse that may present a fire menace, and we make garden. : in our hearts. made so crude and threatening. and realize that every life may find its’ spring. their surroundings. television, no automobiles and no movies. never ending amusements, in this day of haste. spring. golden, each heart may find its spring.” : ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. There {s no use in denying that Spring is a season of inspiration and that the awakening observed in the pro-. cesses of nature, has a counterpart in the minds. and Spring comes and we feel the urge to clean up and: Pi fix up. Like the Arkansas Traveller, we may have ne4. clected the leaking roof because “it was raining,” and }. sitting upon the, roof in a pouring rain is not conducive to healthful enjoyment, but unlike him, we go to work on the roof and make its repairing one of our springtime Civic pride causes us to look upon our town with critical eyes and to set a good example to our neighbors and friends by cleaning up the premises and burning trash piles. If we are wise we put the attic and basement in order and discard all accumulations of paper and other a Spring with its returning verdure, its soft balmy breezes and its flowers, teaches us that we too may rejuvenate our minds and bodies and find spring moving This is a time for hope, for dreams and for a firm belief in a-future which shall shame the present and bring peace and order to the world which we have Let us be what we pray to be made; self discipline may tear the weeds from the gardens of our lives and make of them habitations of good thoughts and good deeds. We hear so many dire predictions of future catastrophe, now let us discount all of them that we can, open our hearts to the sunshine, listen to the song of the wildbird ] have spoken before of a dear teacher who did something to his pupils that started them on the road to hfelong learning; for lack of a better name, I have defined that something as making them inquisitively aware of This inquisitive, awareness caused the pupils of this wise master to.observe things that were of every day use, to see beauty when others passed it by, to hear the sermons in stones and the stories told them by babbling brooks and rushing rivers. They saw the beauty and the mystery of man made canyons where men delved for gold and to learn from uncovered strata and river beds the secrets of geology. All this made up for the fact that there were at that time, no radios, no I wonder just how much we have lost in this day of Surely the art*of being inquisitively aware of that which lies about us may be cultivated now that spring is here and we may turn once again to the lessons taught by the trees, the flowers, the earth’s strata and the rustle of Once again . quote, “Open your heart to the sunshine, list to the wild bird sing, each heart hath a gift that is ea Red Cross Campaign Poster for 1950 SUPPORT YOUR 1950 FUND CAMPAIGN This sisnple but fercetel pictare, symbolic of Red Cress service, the work of Stevan Dohanos, noted magazine artist. : ail Be

5 NR EEL PRTG fe PSE. 7 Nevada City Nugget 305 Broad Street — Nevada City, California _ Telephone 36 ° J. WILSON McKENNEY and KENNETH W. WRAY : Editors and Publishers © Member California Newspaper .Publishers Association Published every Friday at Nevada City, California, and entered as second class matter in the postoffice at Ne‘vada City under act of Congress March 3, 1879. Sub-. scription-rates: one year outside county $3; one year in county $2.50; four months $1 (invariably paid in ad-~~. vance). Advertising rates on request. j RECALL OF CARL J. TOBIASSEN Machinery has been set in motion for the recall of the local supervisor, Carl J. Tobiassen, native born and for many a year servant of the-county. We view with pessimism this recall movement. We feel it is to the best interests of the county government to remove Tobiassen from office—he is wholly unfit for administering an office that controls two and a half million dollars annually. But we do not feel that-this recall will remove Tobiassen from office. Recalls seldom succeed. o _ Tobiassen will go before the people mouthing phrases of his 24 years. of being on the public payroll, drawing sympathy votes because of illness and economic condition, and gathering ‘‘martyr”’ votes. , Despite our feeling that the recall cannot win, and in the: full knowledge that Tobiassen’s subsequent admin-. istration of his office will be more arrogant and prejudicial after he has won “endorsement and a mandate from the voters’’ we heartily endorse the recall and will strive to the utmost to aid in its accomplishment. Too many public officials have lost sight of the fact they are servants of the people and attempt to use their office:to make the people their slaves and servants. California county administration as a whole has deteriorated into mass inefficiency, and as in other flagrant cases of misuse of county governmental power, recalls have been often tried but rarely successful. Too often the subject of recall has no other visible means of support, and too many kinfolk create a sympathy vote that keep men in office long after they have lost their efficiency. ‘We are newcomers to Nevada county and are not too well acquainted with the past history of the man’s service to his county, but we have had many persons tell us Tobiassen started out with an excellent record as sheriff: But we have been here for all but the inaugural month of Tobiassen’s incumbency as supervisor and consider him. guilty of all charges made against him: by the recall petitioners. — v¥ The “Nugget charges Tobiassen with conducting his office with prejudice, personal rancour and bias. We know of no single action by Tobiassen as a supervisor that was based on considered judgment. The writer of this editorial, Ken Wray, probably more so than any other person in the county, has felt the weight of prejudice and rancour from Tobiassen. Last April we appeared before the board of supervisors and pointed out the failure to publish the proceedings of the board. In September when the attorney general supported your editor's stand and verified the board of supervisors had been violating the state law for many years, Ken Wray was the object of a string of foul fourletter words of abuse from Tobiassen and other members of the board. Tobiassen went so far as to say, because of our revelation of the board’s dereliction of office, “A little of this --doesn’t go a long way with me. . . won't take much more of this (criticism). I'll-do something personally.”’ The Nugget charges Tobiassen with prejudice to the Nevada County Bar Association by refusing to consider a request for-payment of court-appointed public defenders because the request was presented by Attorney Crofford W. Bridges. Such action is with prejudice. . The Nugget charges Tobiassen with prejudice toward Walter Barrett, publisher of the Truckee Sun. When Supervisor Henry Loehr made a motion in a board meeting to have a legal published in the Sun Tobiassen objected with “I wouldn't give Barrett anything. He campaigned against me when . ran for sheriff.’ Such action is with prejudice.—kww. : The bone in some folks’ spinal columns is often a lump at the top. _ Futility—trying to turn a night owl into a homing pigeon. 3 ! Extraordinary afflictions. are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary grates—M. Henry. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred who will stand adversity.—Carlyle. ‘What can't be printed ‘shouldn't have been said or done. Some folks spend a year trying to get the baby to talk and the rest of her life trying to get her to keep quiet. Flattery is telling some one what he thinks of himself. -2—The Nevada City Nugget, Friday, March 10, 1950] HAVE WE GOT ATOMIC JITTERS? Millions of Americans this week are trying to face the horrible realization that the U. S. is.on the threshold of a war of annihilation with Russia. -A_nationally circulated magazine ‘‘exposed’’ in pictures, graphs, and editorial text just how weak we are and how inevitable is the death struggle ahead. It is a shocking revelation of the failure of five years of diplomatic negotiation with Joe Stalin’s Soviet. It is a bold and depressing declaration that we must prepare ourselves to lose ten million of our citizens when the first H-bomb attack strikes our homeland. We havé seen our psychological warefare change temperature over the last few months as more and more of terms with the Russian bear. cold war. On the peaceful streets of Nevada City and in the quiet hamlets of our county it is difficult to grasp the reality of atomic warfare. It is natural that we should thrust away the disagreeable thought of another war, more terrible than anything the world has ever known before. We are inclined to think there are war-mongers among our leading publicists, that we are being deliberately incited to a belligerent position. It is not healthful for the nation to succumb to a protracted case of nervous jitters:~We must not-close our eyes to the necessity for national preparedness, for maintaining military strength in the face of an openly hostile aggressor. It is possible, even yet, that though our diplomatic representatives have lost every round in dealing We are no longer in a 'with the Russians, Stalin’s gangs will be deterred by a balancing of military power. . The monstrous facts of atomic death must not be hidden and the publicists serve us by shocking us into

thinking. But open talk of war should not seriously disrupt our normal planning for the future or demoralize the outlook of youth.—jwm. THE BOND ISSUES A month from tomorrow we go to the polls to elect our city officials and to decide whether.to bond ourselves for $155,000. We will take up the question of city officers in later'editions but today we want to make a plea in favor of the two bonding proposals. The sewage disposal plant is a necessity. The state has notified the city fathers we must install one and discontinue polluting the waters of Deer creek. In the light of the amount of bond issuing being planned in other communities of our size in the state we are obtaining as reasonable a plant as‘is possible. . With Watchdog George Calanan on the job Nevada City need not worry’ whether the city government will get a nickel’s worth of value. received for any nickel expended—it will. The alternative to defeat of the bond issue for. the sewage disposal plant is installation by the state and ‘then payment by the city in direct taxation in three years. And the plant will cost a lot more built by the state of California than one built under the eagle eye of George. _ The fixe department bonding is of equal necessity although we are not under the same pressure from higher government. Nevada City has enjoyed an excellent fire defense record in recent years, but we should not let that record lull us into a false security. «Nevada City has had seven serious fires during its 100 years. Six of them came within the first 13 years, and one of them—the July 19, 1856 fire—was extra serious because. of a false sense of security in the “‘fire-proof”’ buildings of that day. Ten men died in that fire because of a false sense of security. . The seventh fire—in 1922—called for modernization of the fire department, but since then little has been done in keeping the equipment up-to-date beyond mainten‘ance of a very high esprit de-corps of the personnel. HAVE OUR BOND ISSUES AND PREVENT THAT FICHTH FIRE.FROM EVER HAPPENING.—kww. our national leaders abandon hope of ever coming to. . LET'S BE PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY. LET'S Just Wonderin’ I Wonder now as Winter goes And Spring comes with her gifts of grace, With budding trees and fragrant flowers» The signs of Winter to replace, If to our hearts and minds will come The whisperings of a hopeful spring And all the dreams we harbor now To swift fruition bring. hearts of us humans. tasks. refuse that may present a fire menace, and we make garden. : in our hearts. made so crude and threatening. and realize that every life may find its’ spring. their surroundings. television, no automobiles and no movies. never ending amusements, in this day of haste. spring. golden, each heart may find its spring.” : ADELINE MERRIAM CONNER. There {s no use in denying that Spring is a season of inspiration and that the awakening observed in the pro-. cesses of nature, has a counterpart in the minds. and Spring comes and we feel the urge to clean up and: Pi fix up. Like the Arkansas Traveller, we may have ne4. clected the leaking roof because “it was raining,” and }. sitting upon the, roof in a pouring rain is not conducive to healthful enjoyment, but unlike him, we go to work on the roof and make its repairing one of our springtime Civic pride causes us to look upon our town with critical eyes and to set a good example to our neighbors and friends by cleaning up the premises and burning trash piles. If we are wise we put the attic and basement in order and discard all accumulations of paper and other a Spring with its returning verdure, its soft balmy breezes and its flowers, teaches us that we too may rejuvenate our minds and bodies and find spring moving This is a time for hope, for dreams and for a firm belief in a-future which shall shame the present and bring peace and order to the world which we have Let us be what we pray to be made; self discipline may tear the weeds from the gardens of our lives and make of them habitations of good thoughts and good deeds. We hear so many dire predictions of future catastrophe, now let us discount all of them that we can, open our hearts to the sunshine, listen to the song of the wildbird ] have spoken before of a dear teacher who did something to his pupils that started them on the road to hfelong learning; for lack of a better name, I have defined that something as making them inquisitively aware of This inquisitive, awareness caused the pupils of this wise master to.observe things that were of every day use, to see beauty when others passed it by, to hear the sermons in stones and the stories told them by babbling brooks and rushing rivers. They saw the beauty and the mystery of man made canyons where men delved for gold and to learn from uncovered strata and river beds the secrets of geology. All this made up for the fact that there were at that time, no radios, no I wonder just how much we have lost in this day of Surely the art*of being inquisitively aware of that which lies about us may be cultivated now that spring is here and we may turn once again to the lessons taught by the trees, the flowers, the earth’s strata and the rustle of Once again . quote, “Open your heart to the sunshine, list to the wild bird sing, each heart hath a gift that is ea Red Cross Campaign Poster for 1950 SUPPORT YOUR 1950 FUND CAMPAIGN This sisnple but fercetel pictare, symbolic of Red Cress service, the work of Stevan Dohanos, noted magazine artist. : ail Be