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pee Rea Rv aby SUF
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“God grants liberty énly to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it. ”—Daniel Webster
—,
The Nugget is delivered to
your home twice a week
for only 30 cents per
month
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Nevada City Nu
nn
Vol. 17, No. 20.
ae
It is notable that congress, with
down
the
ing those within military age limits and otherwise eligible, a greater asset to the country by putting
them in the armed forces.
There is also a trend
in
ward
reducing
which
bureaucracy
the
con
far, to
funds
lives
upon
and
has
(Congress fortunately,
No Help—No Cotton—
-No Parachutes
even in the days of New Deal debasement, never quite relinquished
its grip on the purse strings of the
Thus we can note a two-pronged
attack on the bane of bureaucracy.
First put a lot of the younger men
into a real service to their country, and, second, cut off in so far
as necessary the flow of money in
to the bureaus. Bureaucracy doesn’t
need to live a day longer than the
tax payers decree. We should all
remember that when-we-next vote
for congressmen. The candidate for
congress who declares he will, God
and
might
help him, strive with
main to reduce the numbers and
meddlesome functions of the bureaucrats, and whose word in the
past has been as good as his bond,
should be elected.
was reached that the state cannot afDean of Instruction, to supervise the
Here are additional contributions
ford to wait for action by the federal tests.
received by the Red Cross commitgovernment.
'
Chastain also announced that high tee since the last published list in the
One concrete suggestion from the school students from Placerville, ‘Nugget. R. J. Bennetts says the camconference was for appointment of! Roseville, Grass Valley; Nevada City paign is going forward but that it is
a director of food, who would work and Lincoln will be permitted to ride going to take considerable digging to
through the counties in efforts to on the junior céllege busses that day meet the Nevada City quota of $5,coordinate the allocation of labor and if they desire to come to Auburn to 100.
farm machinery throughout the state. take the tests.
‘Another suggestion was for a farm
ADDITIONAL RED CROSS
Only the following
groups ~are
J labor coordinator to do similar work eligible:
DONATIONS
PHOENIX, (Ariz.)—Used for forin the djstribution of workers in the
age instead of parachute and balloon
nation.
THURSDAY. MARCH 11.
J 3943
The little hamlet of Graniteville, perched 5000 feet up in
tallest part of Nevada County, leads the entire county in.
average contribution to the Red Cross War Fund. There are
‘Number 1 problem for the main sesschool graduates and.
college
stusion.of the California legislature.
dents. Tests are set at Room 51 of six people up there within hollerin’ distance of each other and
Food problems were brought to the the college Friday, April 2.
they contributed an average of $3.00 each or a total of $18. 00
fore in a meeting of farm and food
Dean Harold C. Chastain has namfor Graniteville. That should spur
those who still linger in a
distribution groups which met in the ed Barl Crabbe, armed services repcontrov
ersy
with
their
conscie
nces,
to give up and give.
capitol Friday, at which agreement resentative, and S. M. Barooshian,
number of federal employes, now
totaling close to 3,000,000 by mak
gress, only a trend thus
The Gold Center
——
By LLOYD LAPHAM
Placer Junior College of Auburn
SACRAMENTO, March 11.—(UP) has been named as a testing place
_
~——Relief from acute food and farm for the Navy’s new V-12 program. the
labor shortages loomed today as the open to high school seniors, high
its many new Republican
faces,
is much more anxious than in former years to meet the responsibility imposed upon it by the Constitution. There is a marked disthere to cut
NEVADA CITY,CALIF ORNIA
—E
RELIEF SOUGHT PLACER JR. COL. Graniteville Leads All the
the
FOR FOOD AND TO GIVE NAVY
Rest in Average Red
LABOR SHORTAGE TEST APRIL 2
Cross Donations
By H. M. L.
its being.
_friends, your neighbors, read
The Nugget.
~
a
in
re
The County Seat Paper
Thinking
Out Loud
position
.
Ga, t
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COVERS RICHEST GOLD zsAREA IN CALIFORNIA
Se
.
This paper gives your complete
coverage of all local happenings.
If f you want te read about your
material is this Phoenix, Arizona cotton field because lack of harvest help
forced owner to plow the crop under.
W. E. Meason and Keith Taylor (left
to right), Phoenix ginners, ruefully
survey the useless long staple cotton.
President Roosevelt has approved a
plan calling for release of army units
state.
(a)
High school
and
preparatory
school graduates who will have at
ger, A Friend, Mrs. Browning, John
Phelan, Cary Weldon, Iva Foreman,
Mrs. D. C. Johnston, Mrs. Jack Taylor, W. S. Nichols, Earl Phelps, Mrs.
Julia Walker, Mrs. Cordoni, Mrs. Podurug,
Betty
Malcolm,
‘Mrs.
Vera
Walker, Noel Weldon.
NOTE: An additional list of Red
Cross donors’ will appear in the Nevada City Nugget on Monday.
$50—Mrs. Betty Martin West.
$25___ Women’s Civi¢ Improvem3nt
CHMA MEETS IN
AUBURN SUNDAY
William D. Hadler, executive sec tained their 17th but not their 20th
Club.
retary of the California retail merbirthdays by July 1, 1943, regardless
$10.00—Nevada City
BElementar?
chants and grocers association, deof whether they are now attending
School
PTA.
Belle
M.
Tickell,
Nevada
clared that the food shortage now is college.
(City Garage, Fred Anderson, Mrs.
one only of “‘items’’ but that there
(b) High school and preparatory
is great danger of a genuine, overschool seniors who will be graduated Betting Haley, A Friend, Native Sons
to assist the farmers in harvesting all shortage within a month or two’ by July 1, 1943, provided they will. lof Golden West, Victor E. Buck.
The next meeting of the California
‘1943 crops. The troops assigned to unless the labor distribution prob$5.00—Jennie Hosking, ‘Mrs. Anhave attained their 17th
but
not
Hydraulic Mining Association will be
the. Arizona cotton fields will go to
nie
T.
Shurman,
Mary
Doolittle,
Mrs.
their 20th birthdays by that date.
work the week of March first, and lem is solved.
held at Auburn in the Auburn Hotel
Martin Vanberg, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Turning to food rationing, Hadler
will be bivouacked near their work.
(c) Students who will have attainnext Sunday at 2 p. m. A luncheon
MAYOR HANSEN,
GRASS VALLEY
MAYOR, RESIGNS
said
that the point
system
would ed their 17th but not
20th
birth
make thé feeding of Mexican labor days by July 1, 19438, who do not
particularly “difficult. He said the hold certificates of graduation from
average Mexican
worker
normally a secondary school but who are now!.
Coan,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
John
Alice Moore, Mrs. E. H.
Herboth,
at 1 p. m. will preceed the meeting
Gailey, <Al
to which officers and members are
vin Walthers.
$3.50—Mr. and. Mrs. Otis Brown.
$3.00—Susan J. Carr, Mr. Pohley,
invited.
eats about ten pounds of beans a continuing their education in an acMr. and Mrs. Long, Mrs. M. Colomj}month, but that under point rationcredited college or university. ©
. bo, Harry Wong.
.
ing could get only about six pounds
Furthermore, to be eligible
for
$2:50—iMr. -and Mrs. QO. E. Betta month, and then only at the exselection each applicant must:
cher, Charle Williams, Mr. and Mrs.
pense of sacrificing all other vege
'Garden Club to Aid
Camp Beale Planting
(a) Be a male citizen ‘of the Uni
tables.
ted States.
A. E.
Boreham, Mr. and Mrs. EB. GC.
The Nevada City Garden ‘Club
meeting at the heme of Mrs, Arthur
(Meachum, Frances Hawke.
Hoge elected new officers:
Mrs.
Mayor John H. Hansen, at a meetEffects of wartime shortages also
(b) Be morally
and
physically
$2.00—-Mrs. H. Blodgett, A Friend, Hoge, president; Mrs. Mare Edmonds,
ing of the Grass Valley city council showed up during the week in anqualified for this program, including
Tuesday evening, resigned as member other, less; important field—that of a minimum uncorrected visual acuity ‘M. N. Robinson, Blanche. Beck, M. J.!; viee -president; Mrs. Lloyd Hiscox,
Baxter, Mrs. Isabel Harry, Mr. and’, Secretary; Mrs. R. B. Champie, treasbut
their
aries of $10,000 a year,
of the council and as mayor of Grass liquor. The state board of equaliza of 18 /20 for each eye.
(Mrs.
Price, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Wae-. urer.
draw
tion
usually
reported
Valley.
es
that
He
‘black’ market”
had been a member of
wives and relativ
(c) Be unmarried, and agree to
chter,
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Robinson, .
various
for
The club is going to collect shrubs,
the
council
$5,000,
liquor
operations
apparently
were
r
for
six
years
anothe
remain
and
unmarried until commissiondown
had
Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Paul Chesebro, W. , perennials and flats of annual plants.
been mayor for a yearvand a half.
starting because of the duration ban ed, unless sooner
services, which makes the family
released by
the
J. Tickell, Mr. and°*(Mrs:~
Martens;' to help beautify the ground at Camp
The reason for his resignation was on the production of spirits.
Navy Department.
mcome about $15,000 a year. None
Mr.
and
Mrs.
W.
E.
Johnston,
Mr. and Beale.
if
up
that
give
The board cited two cases, one .(d) Evidence ‘potential officer
due solely to health. His eyesight was
of them want to
Mrs.
Theodore
Nelson,
Mrs.
Lamar}
are,
they
as
Anyone having any surplus plants
dim
and
his
being
where
a
bar
owner
was
charged
with
hearing
it,
help
had
qualifications, including appearance
become
they can
Fleming, Rowena Uetner, Hazel Forecan communicate with any of the
they
way
steadily
The
more
selling
stolen
whiskey
and
another
difficult.
beings.
The
two
human
reand
scholarship
records.
frail
man, Miss Alice Gomert, Mr. and above officers of the club.
think
maining members of the city counwhere liquor was watered down in
ean earn it, and we don’t
Mrs.
L. F. Whitney, A Friend, O. A
too
is
The date for these plants to be
cil,
year
John
R. Thomas and
Richard wholesale quantities.. Severe penalthe $15,000° a
the
as_
congressmen,
Most of.
refrequently
Merry-Go-Round
minds us, get not only their sal
even
much, is to find out what their,
constituents want and then vote
for it. We doubt if any intelligent
“LIBRARY REPORTS
senna pane AVERAGE DAILY
vioia
Muns, Mr. and Mrs. William Wagcollected has not been set but will
ner, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Polglase, ,be as soon as possible. Word must
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Murchie, Mrs. Helen! be received from Camp Beale as to
Macmillan, Mrs. A. Bates.
‘when they can collect them. A cen
wanted this nation to run 35. bil; city elective officers when vacancies',of Gov.Warren’s $463,000,000 budget
reoccur between elections. The next
lion dollars in debt for various
was underway at week’s end with the
of
election will take plade in 1945.
forms that have had the effect
$1.50—Lt. and’ Mrs. Robert Roark, tral spot will be selected for anyone
constituent of
any
congressman
pauperizing and subsidizing a
large
section of the population.
its part
One factor which plays
today.
rt
effo
in hampering the war
y
-man
t
grea
a
is the fact that
ing
gett
are
le
peop
of
s
thousand
rnment
along comfortably on gove
they
you,
pensions, ‘and, thank
Dedon’t have to get in and dig.
plenty of
spite this fact, there are
crackpots that want to up the
pen
sions of the aged,so that a man
le
who spends his youth and midd
age grasshoppering
can live
as
old
comfortably as an ant in his
can
age. Any one with half an eye
are
observe plenty of old men that
cash
in
e
mor
now getting a lot
in
pensions than they ever paid
.
lives
ss
ftle
thri
r
thei
ng
duri
taxes
ress
We would like to see cong
do something to.
encourage.
the
Trathen, must now choose which one, ties were
shall be mayor. The city: charter protions.
vides that as.long as a mojority of
the
board
exists
they shall appoint
promised
for
such
ATTENDANCE, 73
Mrs. Norman Oates, Mrs. M. A. O’donating plants. The ladies would
Connor, Mrs. Henry Hose, Mrs. Willike for the plants and shrubs to be
assembly ways and means committee
liam Wasley, Mrs: G. H. Crism.
tagged ‘by name if possible to help
Mayor Hansen said that the nermaking a preliminary study of fund
$1.00 —-Mrs. ‘Margaret Weldon, the boys in planning the gardens.
vous strain involved in the consid(Mrs. Iva Williamson, city librarrequests. of state departments.
ian reports that in February books Miss Fanny Holland,’ Frank el
eration of the city’s business aggravThe committee made evident its
‘borrowed for home use totaled 1067; Oliver Charters, Harry Overcracker,.
ated his condition.
His two fellow
determination to stick as closely as
fiction 841;
juvenil
134,
miscel(Mr. Russell, Baby Goree, L. M. DadCamp Beale Chaplain
members of the council voted him an
possible to: cuts made by the governor
laneous
92
Daily
attendance
was
73 son, Mrs. Robert R. Skeahan, Mrs. is Rotary Speaker
honorary member of the council.
and the department of finance in deLloyd Penrose presented the libH. I. Scholefield, Harriett Williams,
"The mayor’s resignation came at
partmental requests, although nearly
At the Rotary meeting today Horrary with a
copy
of:
‘“Anybody’s Phil Hufft;Mrs. Julia Murray, a
the end of a busy
session
of
the
ace Curnow program chairman, preevery agency to appear asked restorJones,
Mrs.
James
iMalcolm,
Mrs.
couneil.
Gold’’ by Joseph Henry Jackson in
ation of the slashes.
Charles
Kitts, sented Chaplain Brown who spoke on
memeory of Mrs. Belle Douglas. It Marvin Hart, Mrs.
A new fire ordinance which was
some of the activities of the
President Robert Gordon Sproul of
13th
will be placed with our California Mrs. W. &. French, Lester Orzalll,
being considered to enlarge the fire
Armored
division
the University of California made a
and
discussed
the
Mrs. R. A. McKnight, Mrs. J. J. Jackbooks.
zone, include the west side of the
strong plea for restoration of at
mission
of
the
armored
forces
in
mod_ We received ‘“‘Miss Billy’’ by Eleason, Jr., Mrs. F. EB, Pierce,
Neal street in.the ‘fire zone, was
least part of more than $3,000,000
$1.00—Virginia White, A Friend, ern warfare.
nor H. Porter: from Marian Wolf.
withdrawn,
pending
an.
attempt
cut:from the school’s budget. He deAs he served in World War No, 1
“The Problems of Lasting Peace,, ‘C. S. Wiley, Mr. and Mrs. James Wilto reach an agreement among the
although
not overseas, he gave some
clared ‘the additional
money
was
by Herbert Hoover and Hugh Gibliams, Mrs. Archie (Malcolm, Mrs.
Board of Fire Delegates, Superininteresting comparisons between the
necessary to maintain thé state’s
Son,
and
Son was presented to us with the auGeary Feagans, Mrs. Hooper
tendent of Utilities John Fontz, and
‘training in this war andthe last.
$55,000,000 investment in plant and
thor’s compliments.
‘Mrs. J. B. McKinney, Mrs. V. A. CarAlvon Jones, one of the owners. of
‘Before entering the army in June
“incalculable” investment in faculty.
‘We received from Senator Jerrold lyle, Julia Ernest, Mrs. E. B. Fields,
the building, burned down at the
1941,
Chaplain Brown was director
Committee members looked with
A.
James
‘C. Seawell a copy of The California iMrs. Lulu ‘McCartney,
‘corner of Mill and Neal streets, that
of the Luther Hospice in Philadelsome disfavor on an ambitious plan
Legislature by Joseph Allen Beck; ‘Campbell, Mrs. Maud IM. Penrose,
was to have been used for a USO
Phia, pastor for the Inner Mission. of the California youth authority for
center.
and we also received Senate Bills andDavid Daniels, Mrs. Jimmie Solaro,
ary Society of the Lutheran Church.
rehabilitation of youthful offenders.
Jones presented a set of, plans for
Resolutions and Assembly Bills and Mrs. Roy Dodge, Mrs. Marjorie HatHe has served at Fort Bragg, N.
The authority proposed to set up)
and Mrs. Al. Sommers, Bill
Resolutions for January 19438. and
a new building which provides for
en, Mr.
C.,
Fort Sill, Okla., Camp Beaurethe Senate and Assembly Semifinal Kilroy, Mrs. Ludwig Netz, Mrs. Rose
gard,
La., prior to coming to Camp
state
farm
for
60
youths
and
a
fory indeJones, Harry Douglas.
History.
living and planning. Ever
Beale.
.
:
estry
camp
in
Shasta
county
for
anthose
Thirty books were taken from the
pendent, goul must loathe
e
Before
ew
he
was
other
100.
James
H.
Phillips,
adminViola
assigned to the 13th
rs.
$1.00—M
entely
rent shelf and placed in the general
tax laws which delibera
n, Elsie Siegfried, Armored Division. he spent a month
istrative
officer
of
the
authority,
deAnderso
BE.
Golden
OF
E
circulation.
courage prodigal living SOR
clared the state’s two reform schools
June Denny, Matha Caplantz, Mrs atthe Chaplains School at re
‘‘AS
says:
young. The Good Book
were
full
because
of
war
time
in
Dettner, ‘Mrs. G. S. English, Mrs. University.
D.
”’ and we city hall for the use ‘of civilian deJ.
D.
Rafferty
Accepted
ye sow, so shall ye reap,
crease
in
juvenile
delinquency
and
Skeahan, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Evaline
good counfense workers who hitherto have been
have an idea that this
that @dditional facilities for detenfor Officers Training
.
Berger,
George
Noyes, lL illian Granpay
day
one
quartered in the police department
will
try of ours
Mrs. New Order to Liquor
tion
of
youths
would
have
to
be
proJames D. (Dick) Rafferty law enholm, Mr. and Mrs. C. Roberts,
President
for
through the nose
Peard,
vided.
Clarence
Mrs.
Rickard,
Levina
e, a spree
forcement officer of the Tahoe NaDealers is Issued
45 years old into
the
fighting
Roosevelt’s spending spre
The authority plans also to place tional. Forest office, has been acceptMrs. Chester Clemo, Mr. and Mrs.
,
ress
cong
of
rity
ranks,
then
withdrawn
them,
let
majo
Supervising liquor control officer,
on which the
some%400 youths in labor camps for ed as a volunteer for officers trainMarvin Kitts , V. Garesio, Mrs. H.F.
acDemocrats,
them leave the army, if they wishRepublicans and
guayule projects in the San Joaquin ing. He is to report for duty on Shaw, D. Wells, Mrs. -J. J. Jackson, Russell B. Farley of the State Board
ed, but now have decided to ‘draft
of Equalization has just received
companied him.
an
Valley, but Phillips said that the fed/March16th.
Sr., Minnie White, ‘Mrs. Cameron
them after all. We mean the Boob
order
from the board effective March.
eral
government
would
pay
for
the
Larsen.
g
rrin
refe
‘Rafferty has been extremely acMcNutt sort of thing. Why should
We are not, of course,
3, 1943, as follows:
:
youth’s services, and the state would
further our
tive in his official duties and also
the tax payer be taxed to support
$1.00—-Mrs. Mary G. Glider, Mrs.
to expenditures which
“(No licensee shall suffer or permit.
realize
a
slight
profit.
t we
as a scout leader of Troop 24 of the Phyllis Smith, Carl Pierce, Mrs. Carl any person to consume
pompous inbecilities. The colonel
war and ultimate victory. Wha
, or possess: ie
The
committee -directed a subBoy Scouts. His wife and family will
open
the
is
d
min
in
ly
blimps that ordered the gold mines
have distinte
Baker, Mr. and Mrs, John Cicogni, for consumption, any olcoholic—
committee
to
investigate
the
possibilirmove to Dunsmuir,where they will iMrs. Bessie Bogle, Mrs. Steve Eden, erage
closed throughout
the
country,
treasury flood gates that still
in any on-sale premises exce’ rf
ity of discontinuing the distribution
pasture,
make their home while Rafferty is E. K. Ernest, Mrs. J. B. Waechter, between the hours
figuring on a-basis of a 1940 cenrigate a lot of peace-time
of 10 a. m.and
of
surplus
commodities
to
school
war sus that they would find at least
in the service.
which ought to be growing
Miss Ada Eden,’J. M. Brown, Mr. and 12:00 p. m. o'clock of the sam
:
children
under
the
free
lunch
pro10.000 copper miners for the war
crops, and not sinecures for New
(Mrs. D. K. Ribble, Mrs. Fannie Eden,
This is in addition to the ru
gram
in
reviewing
the
budget
of
the
The
effort, and got, actually less than
législature to authorize
a relativeiy Ed Holland, Mrs. Mary Orzalli, Mrs. fecting the sale of alcoholic
Deal or any other politicians.
department of social welfare. One
a thousand.
small
but
well
trained
state
guard. Herb Hallett, Mr. and Mrs. L. Cic-. by on-sale licensees between
big wigs that tell us we can. ’t have
committee member pointed owt it
Hays declared the need
of the ogni, Mrs. Pheobe McGuire, Mrs. hours of 10 a. m. and 12 p. m
sliced makars bread and after trywas obvious there no longer were any
Gentle readers we can’t do much
guard would be subordinated to man Nellie Worthington, Ray Clark, Mrs. night) of the same day.
ing it awhi’e change their Olymsurplus food commodities.
about it now.
But let us think
pian minds, after inflicting needpower, materials and food necessary Ed Baker.
Licensees violatin
about the next election ‘and put
for the war effort. However, he de~ Jess cxvense on millions of houseLess than $1.00—Mrs, Yarborough, ‘ing it necessary to fi
men in congress instead of clothes
Brig. Gen. Ray Hays, the adjutclined to indicate the exact size or Mrs. R. L. Hall, Mrs. Jack Bngle, with the board, are
wives. ~The brass hats that” have
thrifty
sood old Yankee traits of
the external fire proofing of a proposed structure.
(City Attorne William Cassettari,
. chairman of the civilian defense committee, requested and was granted
the use of a basement room in the
an agricultural camp on the Napa
;
first ordered mep*between 38 and
horses,
ant general, discloggd ‘he will ask the . cost
Py
of: his recommended guard unit. Thelma. Platt, S. Granger, Mr. Gran‘
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