March 26, 1945 (4 pages)

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to bie evada City Nu _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN C ALIFORNIA guard and defend it. ”__Daniel Webster saeegriaaama = This paper gives you complete 7 coverage of all local happenings. 2 “4 e { If you want to read about’ your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. 24 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Goid Center oo ae ENCOURAGES MINING By EDW. C. UREN Not once in a score of moons do we see the old bewhiskered sourdough and his shaggy burro: plodding along the road with a pan or two and his small stock of bacon, flour and beans. ‘ He has practically passed out of the picture along with the horse and buggy, probably figuring that it was too. hard on his nervous system to be trying to mix two mile and fortymile traffic with the ever present danger of having his jack’s crupper shoved up through his collar. And then again, it is so much more serene to settle down in good old California with a pension and _let the chickens do your prospecting. The rising generation practically no prospectors because the youth of today doesn’t care to get beyond honking: distance of his car and the road. And yet practically every mine of importance in the country owes its discovery to one of these old geezers.and his four legged companion which, as a helpmate, did about everything but the cookin’ without costin’ anything, and with. out any naggin.’ It was Kellogg’s jack, call, that got away and Kellogg when they pecting in the Couer led them a merry finally found him on grazing entranced at dazzling reflection of sunlight exposed galena of the now Hill and Sullivan animal the because it property of and Peck, interest in the discovery and Judge Notman Buck of the District Court of Idaho ruled that the lode was discovered by the--jackass;--O’ Rourke and Kellogg and awarded the owners of the jack a one half interest. I often saw an oil painting of this ‘produces if -you O'Rourke were .Dros. d’Alenes and . until they . standing an} the on the famous} from chase outcrop Bunker This famed lode. afterward became dollar actually the named Cooper brought as four million jackass was parties who suit for an i ally BLISTER RUST re-. eradication DIGGING UP PILF MENACES SUGAR PINE STANDS A field survey made last summer by the Bureau of Entomogogy discovered that white pine blister rust: has made considerable headway recently on the Tahoe forest announced Supervisor Ellis. Scouting revealed that a general long distance spread of blister rust occured in the Tahoe forest .in the North Fork, Middle Fork and South Fork of the Yuba River and_ the North and Middle Forks of the American River. { There are valuable stands of sugar pine in these infected areas. It 1s very important that action be taken to eradicate the blister: rust in the near future to. protect this timber. The loss of this valuable resource by this timber disease would. seriously effect the future economic development of this section Ellis pointed out. Blister rust eradication requires man power and money. It is .practicimpossible, due to the present man power shortage to start the program necessary to protect the timber. In the early post war period it) is-very important that-an-appropria. tion be secured so that an adequate program can be undertaken before it is too late. BOY SCOUTS 30y Scouts of Grass Valley, Ne-. vada City, and other communities in. the Tahpe area, are: winding up an intensive campaign for waste paper which promises to.-bring awards several of them of the coveted BHisen. hower.medal. homely animal hanging in Dutch Jake’s combined hotel, gambling} house and theatre in Spokane, for Spokane was a wide open town in 1902. If this unlovely burro was capable of doing any thinking, he must have appreciated the life of luxury and contentment he led ever after, and it is said that no ordinary burro ever had such gorgeous funeral, This discovery was made way back in 1885—-sixty years ago— when he-men got their nourishment from a bottle of Old Grandad and were able to walk without fortifying themselves with Dr. Guzzlem’s vitamin pills. While this country as a whole, and particularly the Washington bureaucrats, pays no attention to mining, and apparently cares less, Canada considers mining one of her principal industries. ‘ j With increasing ‘interest she is now proposing to train returning service men in‘mineralogy, to back them with government funds, grant them cheap transportation and reward them with an interest in whatever mineral discoveries they may make. The Canadian government takes the view that the old time prospector was generally an elderly man with scant funds, or perhaps grubstaked mostly as a matter of charity, who usually sought nothing but gold because whenever he found that he knew he_had a ready market. The base metals, if they were encountered, received but scant attention. Canada, unlike this country during the war, has never completely closed down its gold mines, for I have before me a list of some 77 active, producing companies which have been continuing their dividend payments whenever possible. The Broulan Porcupine, paying 12 per cent, being the most prominent. grits Columbia for many years prior to the beginning of the war, had been sending field men throughout its entire area to prospect for minerals and coal. A former resident of Nevada City often spent his summers in that way. A government, plane equipped ,with pontoons for lake landing kept in close tough with him constantly. bringing mail and provisions. Canadian gold. producers have been getting $38.50 for their gold on account of the ten per cent preTo win the medal collect at paper. a Boy Scout must least 1000 pounds of waste The medal is of bronze bearing a likeness of General Eisenhower, suspended. by a red and white ribbon with an inscription: “War Servéie, 1945” Any troop. of scouts. cubs or senior scout unit that collects: 1000 pounds will receive a genuine shell case from a European battlefield. J. A. Krug, chairman of the War Production Board, has called on the 1,866,356 cubs and boy scouts of the nation to collect 150,000 tons of waste paper. f NEWMONT DIVIDEND The Newmont Mining Corporation has declared a dividend of 37 1-2 cents a share on the company’s capital stock payable March 15, to stockholders of record on February 23. The company paid similar dividend for the corresponding period of 1944. Charles F. Ayer, 14 Wall -Street, New York 5, is resident of the Newmont Mining Corporation. mium on U. S. funds. But they too are looking forward to a considerable increase in price after the war ends. Besides gold British Columbia produces an enormous amount of the basic metals. The Copsolidated Mine at Kimberley, which is 110 miles north of Spokane, is one of the largest producers of lead and zine in the world. We are quiee well acquainted with this property, having spent a year there in modeling it for development purposes. Its remarkable ore bodies are in places more than a hundred feet thick.and will average 40 feet. In 1929 the ore was being mined at the rate of 6000 tons daily. An ore . containing about 16 per cent lead and ziné, with $3 per ton in silver. Nine million ounces of silver were produced last year and 380,000 tons} of combined lead and zine. The ore contains much sulphur and 270,000 tons of sulphuric acid was the vear's yield. Cadmun, a by product used in annealing copper wire, as an alloy, and in rust proofing steel is also an important item of income, This:company is now being paid by the British government 3.32 cents per pount for its lead and 4 cents \for zinc, while your profligate Uncle Sam is paying an average price of 7.65 cents for dead and 10.50 cents for zinc, or about. two and a ~ half times as much. RESTRICTIONS ON BEAR FLAG AT UNEMPLOYMENT FUND ADVOCATED SAICRAMEINTO, March 26—4An eight point program designed to pfevent the state unemployment insurance system from being broken down by a heavier burden of claims than it can carry if a serious unemployment situation should develop during the post war traisition period has been adopted by the Califormia State Chamber of Commerce, it was announced here today by George G. Pollock, Sacramento Valley Regional Vice President of the .State Chamber. In general, Pollock said, the state chamber’s. policies favor a _ tightening of unemployment insurance regulations and oppose proposed’ liberalization of benefit payments. “Although-it leoms large now, under an avalanche of claims the $700,000,000 reserve in the unemploxment insurance fund could be melted ‘almost as quickly ag a snowball, especially if the way is opened. for the multiplication of the kind of demands which may be made upon it.’’ Pollock said. the many worthy workers who have contributed to the fund is to be there if and when they need it, must be ‘gafeguarded by the reserve against possible raids unseruplous or unworthy use for purposif at all unemployment.’”’ persons and against es connected only with remotely, involuntary ied “If the money paid by} had . fornia . fair The state chamber opposes in prin-. . ciple— OF WASTE PAPER Any increase in the amount of th behefit mow provided ak the Cail. fornia unemployment ineurance act: Any extension in the duration of benefits now provided by the act. Payment of unemployment insurance to workers employment in publie expense. being re-trained for new accupations*ae Any change in the waiting period required paid under benefits are present terms of the aet. before The state chamber favors in principle—Amendments to the act to assure that an individual claiming the benefits be required to demonstrate that he is aCinely seeking employment. Clarification and the definition of ‘suitable employment’’ in line with the principle that unemployment insurance is intended to provide protection only against involuntary separation from employment, to promote the orderly transfer of workers now in wartime activity into available peace time employment after the war. Adequate provision for limitation of benefits payments to seasonal workers to prevent unemployment insurance from becoming an _ outright wage subsidy to certain groups at the expense of other workers. Full time, non partisan administration of unemployment insurance, including appeals, with separation of the tax collection and benefit payment functions. The state chamber also favors in priuciple, appropriate state and federal legislation designed to effect an adequate state administered system of unemployment insurance for the merchant seamen. strengthening of Crew of Seven Employed at You Bet A crew of seven men is employed at the old: You Bet gravel mine located near Nevada City. It is reported that the new operators have installed a dredge capable of handling 1000 cubic yards of gravel per eight hour’ shift.:-‘The dredge is by a diesel unit and that it can be operated at a much lower cost than hydraulic equipment, used by former operators. The material will be hauled by trucks from the dredge to the washing plant. The You Bet .comprises some 1100 acres in Nevada County, across ‘the line from Gold Run, and was taken over recently by.a partnership composed~of Phil P. Fredericks and A. H. Ferrin, Pacific Diamond Drilling Company, Box 462, Grass Valley. Carl Thomalson president of the powered it is expected . adequate'. .; Jj years experience on COURT HOUSE DISAPPEARS No one has been able to solve the. mystery of who removed the Bear Flag from the flagpole which was built on Church Street a few years ago by Nevada: County. The pole is located in front of the courthouse just outside the sidewalk surrounding the county building. Within the last month someone noticed that while the national solors still floated from the low flagstaff, the State Flag no longer fluttered from its former position beneath the American flag. Inquiry caused a search to made among county paraphernalia for the missing banner but to ‘date it has not been located. The fact that the national flag was at half mast when the absence of the Bear Flag was noticed gave credence to the theory that someone had lowerthe flags so that the California state flag might be taken off, possibly as a souvenir, hy some person . from some foreign state or territory. At any rate, has been the for time ‘but theory exists as to why it disappeared or where it went. law provides that both flag and the flag from every flag: is some nothing the national fly state shall public. building in the day during time weather. and in Inasmuch as the flag code provides that flags shall be taken down at sunset each evening, the flag, if stolen, been taken during the The exact dat must have daytime. e of its disappearance has not been fixed. AID NAMED FOR BLOOMFIELD RANGER DISTRICT Ranger. Warren’ Barnes the Bloomfield district, Tahoe national forest reports that Dick French has been assigned as clerk-dispatcher for the Nevada City office of the Bloomfield district. : French is well qualified to fill the position, states Barnes, having serof ved previously with the State Divis-. ion of. Forestry, and the U. S. forest service. He comes from Middletown, California, where he wag assistant to state ranger Hugo Lindblom. Before this assignment he was in the army on Kauai Island of the Hawaiian group. In 1940 and 41 he served as forest guard on the Redding district of the Shasta national forest. His presence on the’ Bloomfield district should aid materially the fire dispatching as well as the district clerical work. Dick is the’ brother of Bill French, a Tahoe forest prevention officer in the Nevada City forest supervisor’s office. The past week Dick has moved his family to Nevada City from Middletown and is now living at 112 South Pine Street. IVAN CUFF TO DIRECT CALIDA TIMBER SALE Forest Supervisor Guerdon of the Tahoe national forest announced today the appointment of Ivan A. Cuff as forest officer: in charge of the Calida timber sale on the, Downieville ranger district. Cuff is well qualified for this assignment stated Ellis. He has had 32 varied assignments in the forest service. He started in 1910 as a guard on the Trinity national forest, then followed assignments on the Cleveland, Modoc and then back to the Trinity forest. The only time out from forest work was during World War I when he served with the 10th Army Engineers during 1917 and 1918. Cuff replaces William Nelson who was assigned to the sale last sumEllis Thomalson Drifting Corporation, of} mer. Nelson will return to his forOakland, is connected with Freder-. mer duties as fire. control assistant icks and Ferrin. Mine operations are! to Ranger Delaney at Downieville on under the direction of Ferrin the Downieville district. ‘ be missing . and . The . Cali-. SUPERVISORS SUPPORT PLAN FOR FREEWAYS Legislation pnoviding fon postwar development of a state wide system of limited access rural highways and metropolitan freeways has received the approval of the County Supervisors Association of California, it is announced by’ Supervisor Leo C. Hammeet of Stanislaus County, chairman of the supervisors’ special highway committee and member of the California Major Highway Development Committee, which developed the plan for modernizing the state highway system. The endorsemént by the Supervisors Association is based. on consideration being given to the counties in the allocation of the funds for the construction and maintenance of the county roads. as endorsed by the County Superviscalls ‘for standards ‘and east-west interstate routes, 600 .miles of freeways, in nia’s seven ors, and metropolitan areas. . plans call_for incorporating in traffic pustifies, modern safety features, . highways, . as all such as phy. Califor. The} these . Chenoweth. sical barriers between opposing traf-. fie lanes. protection lateral encroachment, grade against , interference and . trolled access, separation con-. . Bagley, structures and other approved safe1 ty features. Bills to catry out this plan -for modernizing California’s highway system are now pending before the state legislature. The measures in=elude Senate Bill 756, by. Senators . Breed. McCormeck, Tenney and . Swing; and. Assembly Bill 1350 py . Assemblymenh Stream, Kraft and . . Mrs. Niehouse. Bills have also been . introduced to finance the _ project . through an increase of 1 1-2 cents per gallon inthe gaseline.tax,. U.S. CITIENS CAN FREELY USE ENEMY PATENTS An exceptional opportunity for United States citizens to reap the profit from millions of dollars of enemy research is presented through the Office of Alien Property Custodian. At the outbreak of the war, some 45,000 United States patents and patent applications were geized from enemy aliens and nationals of oceupied countries. Licenses under most of these are now available to United States citizens for an administrative fee of $15 per patent. About 30,000 of the seized patents are of German origin. Many of the remaining are Italian and Japanese. Many of the remaining are Italian and Japanese. They cover practically every field of mechanics, electricity and chemistry. For ease in examination, the 45,000 patents have been divided: into 312 general groups. These groups include aeronautics, amusement devices, bleaching and dyeing, brakes, carbon compounds, formentation, . fertilizers, photography, circuit ‘breakers and conductors, foods and beverages, internal combustion engines, machine elements as well as metal binding, drawing, forging, founding, rolling, working and treatment, These groups cover. also metallurgy, mining and harvesting,-optics, plastics, power plants, refrigeration, ships, telephone and Textiles, valves, vegetable and meat cutters together with woodworking. To help business men still further the chemical patents and patent applications have been summarized and digested. The complete set of 8000 chemical abstracts appropriately indexed is available for $25 through the Office of Alien Property Custodian, Chicago 8, Illinois. In the same manner short descriptions atid drawings of the 37,009 mechanical and electrical patents are being prepared. The first two of Yive volumes are ready now. The remaining three will be ready shortly. These too will be available for $25 per set through the Office of Alien Property Custodian, Chicago 3, Illinois. Copies of the actual patents them selves may be seen at the Office of Megs . . . telegraphy¢}. tion, MONDAY, MARGH 26, 1945 CPL. CHENOWETH WILL BE HONORED AT RECEPTION A publie reception sponsored by the Hague-Thomas-Hegarty Post of the American Legion and other civie and fraternal organizations, will be accorded Corporal Mervyn Chenoweth tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock in Veterans Memorial Building. Chenoweth enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Forces prior to Pearl Harbor and. after participating in the battle of Bataan and Corregidor was. taken prisoner by the Japs. He was released by Filipino guerillas and American, Rangers January 31st from the prison camp at Cabantuan, Luzon Island, and a fortnight ago was returned to California. He is now a day time patient at . DeWitt General Hospital near Au. burn. He spends his nights with his parents, Mr. and: Mrs. 2700 miles of north-south . ley. The program in charge of Mrs. Marie Williford and Howard Bennetts will consist of selections by the Nevada--Countk-“Band,-entertainment numbers and remarks by Corporal Other returned veterans. now in this city will aleo be guests of honor during the two ur reception. It is hoped that among these will be Sgt. Douglas J. Upton, son of Mrs. Betty recenty returned on the to this from a German prison camp and now in Riverside; S4Sst. Ted: Holland and Pfc. Berryman, injured in accidents in and Lieut. Douglas rescued in the sinking escorty carrier; Ommaney Bay. Gripsholm country Lorin Burma, Kramm, of the TWIN CHTTES WILL MEET Grass Valley and Nevada City retail and house furnishings merchants will meet Monday, March, 26, with Office of Price Administration representatives to prepare for the filing of price charts, Gilbert MeNeil, District OPA Director anniounced in Saeramento today. ve Scheduled at:8 p. m. in the Memorial Hall, the meeting will be of an instructive nature and OPA field price specialists will outline procedure to be followed by merchants in compliance with the new clothing and house furnishings regulation, ' “Merchants attending these meetings are urged to bring their bulletin on maximum price regulation 586, the new order, so that they can follow step by step the instructions on what they are to do to meet the requirements of the law,’ Director Me‘Neil said. The bulletin was mailed to over 3200 northern California retailers this week by their local War Price and Rationing Boards. “We are sending out © districte pricing staff into the field as an aid to merchants, all of whom must have two copies of their pricing charts on file with our office by April 20. The charts must list the merchant’s individual markup over net invoice coat for all goods sold or offered for sale on last Monday, March 19, the nationwide base date fo the “markup freeze’’, Director McNeil explained. The effect*on the consumer of the action, he said, will be: on to consumers price reductions at the manufacturer level resulting from aforthcoming maximum averave price regulation which will immediately affect retail prices. (2) To simplify pricing methods so retailers will be better able to enforce it. The final result will bring about more. effective price control for the wide range of apparel and house furnishings covered, he pointed out. The retail merchants havea detailed task before them, McNeal said but once it is accomplished, their: selling and recoord keeping methods will be much simpler, with resulting better public relations and comPliance with pricing regulations. A. D. ChenoThelimited access highway plan, . weth, at the Red Hat Service Stawhieh his parerts-own and opimproving to modern. erate, eight miles west of Grass Vale (1) To pass. Alien Property Custodian, Building Chicago! 120 . Broadway, New York City; 17 Court ‘Street, Boston, Mass.; National ,Press Building, Washington, D. C.; and ouee ian Building, Portland, Oregon. © Field ¥

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to bie evada City Nu _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN C ALIFORNIA guard and defend it. ”__Daniel Webster saeegriaaama = This paper gives you complete 7 coverage of all local happenings. 2 “4 e { If you want to read about’ your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. 24 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Goid Center oo ae ENCOURAGES MINING By EDW. C. UREN Not once in a score of moons do we see the old bewhiskered sourdough and his shaggy burro: plodding along the road with a pan or two and his small stock of bacon, flour and beans. ‘ He has practically passed out of the picture along with the horse and buggy, probably figuring that it was too. hard on his nervous system to be trying to mix two mile and fortymile traffic with the ever present danger of having his jack’s crupper shoved up through his collar. And then again, it is so much more serene to settle down in good old California with a pension and _let the chickens do your prospecting. The rising generation practically no prospectors because the youth of today doesn’t care to get beyond honking: distance of his car and the road. And yet practically every mine of importance in the country owes its discovery to one of these old geezers.and his four legged companion which, as a helpmate, did about everything but the cookin’ without costin’ anything, and with. out any naggin.’ It was Kellogg’s jack, call, that got away and Kellogg when they pecting in the Couer led them a merry finally found him on grazing entranced at dazzling reflection of sunlight exposed galena of the now Hill and Sullivan animal the because it property of and Peck, interest in the discovery and Judge Notman Buck of the District Court of Idaho ruled that the lode was discovered by the--jackass;--O’ Rourke and Kellogg and awarded the owners of the jack a one half interest. I often saw an oil painting of this ‘produces if -you O'Rourke were .Dros. d’Alenes and . until they . standing an} the on the famous} from chase outcrop Bunker This famed lode. afterward became dollar actually the named Cooper brought as four million jackass was parties who suit for an i ally BLISTER RUST re-. eradication DIGGING UP PILF MENACES SUGAR PINE STANDS A field survey made last summer by the Bureau of Entomogogy discovered that white pine blister rust: has made considerable headway recently on the Tahoe forest announced Supervisor Ellis. Scouting revealed that a general long distance spread of blister rust occured in the Tahoe forest .in the North Fork, Middle Fork and South Fork of the Yuba River and_ the North and Middle Forks of the American River. { There are valuable stands of sugar pine in these infected areas. It 1s very important that action be taken to eradicate the blister: rust in the near future to. protect this timber. The loss of this valuable resource by this timber disease would. seriously effect the future economic development of this section Ellis pointed out. Blister rust eradication requires man power and money. It is .practicimpossible, due to the present man power shortage to start the program necessary to protect the timber. In the early post war period it) is-very important that-an-appropria. tion be secured so that an adequate program can be undertaken before it is too late. BOY SCOUTS 30y Scouts of Grass Valley, Ne-. vada City, and other communities in. the Tahpe area, are: winding up an intensive campaign for waste paper which promises to.-bring awards several of them of the coveted BHisen. hower.medal. homely animal hanging in Dutch Jake’s combined hotel, gambling} house and theatre in Spokane, for Spokane was a wide open town in 1902. If this unlovely burro was capable of doing any thinking, he must have appreciated the life of luxury and contentment he led ever after, and it is said that no ordinary burro ever had such gorgeous funeral, This discovery was made way back in 1885—-sixty years ago— when he-men got their nourishment from a bottle of Old Grandad and were able to walk without fortifying themselves with Dr. Guzzlem’s vitamin pills. While this country as a whole, and particularly the Washington bureaucrats, pays no attention to mining, and apparently cares less, Canada considers mining one of her principal industries. ‘ j With increasing ‘interest she is now proposing to train returning service men in‘mineralogy, to back them with government funds, grant them cheap transportation and reward them with an interest in whatever mineral discoveries they may make. The Canadian government takes the view that the old time prospector was generally an elderly man with scant funds, or perhaps grubstaked mostly as a matter of charity, who usually sought nothing but gold because whenever he found that he knew he_had a ready market. The base metals, if they were encountered, received but scant attention. Canada, unlike this country during the war, has never completely closed down its gold mines, for I have before me a list of some 77 active, producing companies which have been continuing their dividend payments whenever possible. The Broulan Porcupine, paying 12 per cent, being the most prominent. grits Columbia for many years prior to the beginning of the war, had been sending field men throughout its entire area to prospect for minerals and coal. A former resident of Nevada City often spent his summers in that way. A government, plane equipped ,with pontoons for lake landing kept in close tough with him constantly. bringing mail and provisions. Canadian gold. producers have been getting $38.50 for their gold on account of the ten per cent preTo win the medal collect at paper. a Boy Scout must least 1000 pounds of waste The medal is of bronze bearing a likeness of General Eisenhower, suspended. by a red and white ribbon with an inscription: “War Servéie, 1945” Any troop. of scouts. cubs or senior scout unit that collects: 1000 pounds will receive a genuine shell case from a European battlefield. J. A. Krug, chairman of the War Production Board, has called on the 1,866,356 cubs and boy scouts of the nation to collect 150,000 tons of waste paper. f NEWMONT DIVIDEND The Newmont Mining Corporation has declared a dividend of 37 1-2 cents a share on the company’s capital stock payable March 15, to stockholders of record on February 23. The company paid similar dividend for the corresponding period of 1944. Charles F. Ayer, 14 Wall -Street, New York 5, is resident of the Newmont Mining Corporation. mium on U. S. funds. But they too are looking forward to a considerable increase in price after the war ends. Besides gold British Columbia produces an enormous amount of the basic metals. The Copsolidated Mine at Kimberley, which is 110 miles north of Spokane, is one of the largest producers of lead and zine in the world. We are quiee well acquainted with this property, having spent a year there in modeling it for development purposes. Its remarkable ore bodies are in places more than a hundred feet thick.and will average 40 feet. In 1929 the ore was being mined at the rate of 6000 tons daily. An ore . containing about 16 per cent lead and ziné, with $3 per ton in silver. Nine million ounces of silver were produced last year and 380,000 tons} of combined lead and zine. The ore contains much sulphur and 270,000 tons of sulphuric acid was the vear's yield. Cadmun, a by product used in annealing copper wire, as an alloy, and in rust proofing steel is also an important item of income, This:company is now being paid by the British government 3.32 cents per pount for its lead and 4 cents \for zinc, while your profligate Uncle Sam is paying an average price of 7.65 cents for dead and 10.50 cents for zinc, or about. two and a ~ half times as much. RESTRICTIONS ON BEAR FLAG AT UNEMPLOYMENT FUND ADVOCATED SAICRAMEINTO, March 26—4An eight point program designed to pfevent the state unemployment insurance system from being broken down by a heavier burden of claims than it can carry if a serious unemployment situation should develop during the post war traisition period has been adopted by the Califormia State Chamber of Commerce, it was announced here today by George G. Pollock, Sacramento Valley Regional Vice President of the .State Chamber. In general, Pollock said, the state chamber’s. policies favor a _ tightening of unemployment insurance regulations and oppose proposed’ liberalization of benefit payments. “Although-it leoms large now, under an avalanche of claims the $700,000,000 reserve in the unemploxment insurance fund could be melted ‘almost as quickly ag a snowball, especially if the way is opened. for the multiplication of the kind of demands which may be made upon it.’’ Pollock said. the many worthy workers who have contributed to the fund is to be there if and when they need it, must be ‘gafeguarded by the reserve against possible raids unseruplous or unworthy use for purposif at all unemployment.’”’ persons and against es connected only with remotely, involuntary ied “If the money paid by} had . fornia . fair The state chamber opposes in prin-. . ciple— OF WASTE PAPER Any increase in the amount of th behefit mow provided ak the Cail. fornia unemployment ineurance act: Any extension in the duration of benefits now provided by the act. Payment of unemployment insurance to workers employment in publie expense. being re-trained for new accupations*ae Any change in the waiting period required paid under benefits are present terms of the aet. before The state chamber favors in principle—Amendments to the act to assure that an individual claiming the benefits be required to demonstrate that he is aCinely seeking employment. Clarification and the definition of ‘suitable employment’’ in line with the principle that unemployment insurance is intended to provide protection only against involuntary separation from employment, to promote the orderly transfer of workers now in wartime activity into available peace time employment after the war. Adequate provision for limitation of benefits payments to seasonal workers to prevent unemployment insurance from becoming an _ outright wage subsidy to certain groups at the expense of other workers. Full time, non partisan administration of unemployment insurance, including appeals, with separation of the tax collection and benefit payment functions. The state chamber also favors in priuciple, appropriate state and federal legislation designed to effect an adequate state administered system of unemployment insurance for the merchant seamen. strengthening of Crew of Seven Employed at You Bet A crew of seven men is employed

at the old: You Bet gravel mine located near Nevada City. It is reported that the new operators have installed a dredge capable of handling 1000 cubic yards of gravel per eight hour’ shift.:-‘The dredge is by a diesel unit and that it can be operated at a much lower cost than hydraulic equipment, used by former operators. The material will be hauled by trucks from the dredge to the washing plant. The You Bet .comprises some 1100 acres in Nevada County, across ‘the line from Gold Run, and was taken over recently by.a partnership composed~of Phil P. Fredericks and A. H. Ferrin, Pacific Diamond Drilling Company, Box 462, Grass Valley. Carl Thomalson president of the powered it is expected . adequate'. .; Jj years experience on COURT HOUSE DISAPPEARS No one has been able to solve the. mystery of who removed the Bear Flag from the flagpole which was built on Church Street a few years ago by Nevada: County. The pole is located in front of the courthouse just outside the sidewalk surrounding the county building. Within the last month someone noticed that while the national solors still floated from the low flagstaff, the State Flag no longer fluttered from its former position beneath the American flag. Inquiry caused a search to made among county paraphernalia for the missing banner but to ‘date it has not been located. The fact that the national flag was at half mast when the absence of the Bear Flag was noticed gave credence to the theory that someone had lowerthe flags so that the California state flag might be taken off, possibly as a souvenir, hy some person . from some foreign state or territory. At any rate, has been the for time ‘but theory exists as to why it disappeared or where it went. law provides that both flag and the flag from every flag: is some nothing the national fly state shall public. building in the day during time weather. and in Inasmuch as the flag code provides that flags shall be taken down at sunset each evening, the flag, if stolen, been taken during the The exact dat must have daytime. e of its disappearance has not been fixed. AID NAMED FOR BLOOMFIELD RANGER DISTRICT Ranger. Warren’ Barnes the Bloomfield district, Tahoe national forest reports that Dick French has been assigned as clerk-dispatcher for the Nevada City office of the Bloomfield district. : French is well qualified to fill the position, states Barnes, having serof ved previously with the State Divis-. ion of. Forestry, and the U. S. forest service. He comes from Middletown, California, where he wag assistant to state ranger Hugo Lindblom. Before this assignment he was in the army on Kauai Island of the Hawaiian group. In 1940 and 41 he served as forest guard on the Redding district of the Shasta national forest. His presence on the’ Bloomfield district should aid materially the fire dispatching as well as the district clerical work. Dick is the’ brother of Bill French, a Tahoe forest prevention officer in the Nevada City forest supervisor’s office. The past week Dick has moved his family to Nevada City from Middletown and is now living at 112 South Pine Street. IVAN CUFF TO DIRECT CALIDA TIMBER SALE Forest Supervisor Guerdon of the Tahoe national forest announced today the appointment of Ivan A. Cuff as forest officer: in charge of the Calida timber sale on the, Downieville ranger district. Cuff is well qualified for this assignment stated Ellis. He has had 32 varied assignments in the forest service. He started in 1910 as a guard on the Trinity national forest, then followed assignments on the Cleveland, Modoc and then back to the Trinity forest. The only time out from forest work was during World War I when he served with the 10th Army Engineers during 1917 and 1918. Cuff replaces William Nelson who was assigned to the sale last sumEllis Thomalson Drifting Corporation, of} mer. Nelson will return to his forOakland, is connected with Freder-. mer duties as fire. control assistant icks and Ferrin. Mine operations are! to Ranger Delaney at Downieville on under the direction of Ferrin the Downieville district. ‘ be missing . and . The . Cali-. SUPERVISORS SUPPORT PLAN FOR FREEWAYS Legislation pnoviding fon postwar development of a state wide system of limited access rural highways and metropolitan freeways has received the approval of the County Supervisors Association of California, it is announced by’ Supervisor Leo C. Hammeet of Stanislaus County, chairman of the supervisors’ special highway committee and member of the California Major Highway Development Committee, which developed the plan for modernizing the state highway system. The endorsemént by the Supervisors Association is based. on consideration being given to the counties in the allocation of the funds for the construction and maintenance of the county roads. as endorsed by the County Superviscalls ‘for standards ‘and east-west interstate routes, 600 .miles of freeways, in nia’s seven ors, and metropolitan areas. . plans call_for incorporating in traffic pustifies, modern safety features, . highways, . as all such as phy. Califor. The} these . Chenoweth. sical barriers between opposing traf-. fie lanes. protection lateral encroachment, grade against , interference and . trolled access, separation con-. . Bagley, structures and other approved safe1 ty features. Bills to catry out this plan -for modernizing California’s highway system are now pending before the state legislature. The measures in=elude Senate Bill 756, by. Senators . Breed. McCormeck, Tenney and . Swing; and. Assembly Bill 1350 py . Assemblymenh Stream, Kraft and . . Mrs. Niehouse. Bills have also been . introduced to finance the _ project . through an increase of 1 1-2 cents per gallon inthe gaseline.tax,. U.S. CITIENS CAN FREELY USE ENEMY PATENTS An exceptional opportunity for United States citizens to reap the profit from millions of dollars of enemy research is presented through the Office of Alien Property Custodian. At the outbreak of the war, some 45,000 United States patents and patent applications were geized from enemy aliens and nationals of oceupied countries. Licenses under most of these are now available to United States citizens for an administrative fee of $15 per patent. About 30,000 of the seized patents are of German origin. Many of the remaining are Italian and Japanese. Many of the remaining are Italian and Japanese. They cover practically every field of mechanics, electricity and chemistry. For ease in examination, the 45,000 patents have been divided: into 312 general groups. These groups include aeronautics, amusement devices, bleaching and dyeing, brakes, carbon compounds, formentation, . fertilizers, photography, circuit ‘breakers and conductors, foods and beverages, internal combustion engines, machine elements as well as metal binding, drawing, forging, founding, rolling, working and treatment, These groups cover. also metallurgy, mining and harvesting,-optics, plastics, power plants, refrigeration, ships, telephone and Textiles, valves, vegetable and meat cutters together with woodworking. To help business men still further the chemical patents and patent applications have been summarized and digested. The complete set of 8000 chemical abstracts appropriately indexed is available for $25 through the Office of Alien Property Custodian, Chicago 8, Illinois. In the same manner short descriptions atid drawings of the 37,009 mechanical and electrical patents are being prepared. The first two of Yive volumes are ready now. The remaining three will be ready shortly. These too will be available for $25 per set through the Office of Alien Property Custodian, Chicago 3, Illinois. Copies of the actual patents them selves may be seen at the Office of Megs . . . telegraphy¢}. tion, MONDAY, MARGH 26, 1945 CPL. CHENOWETH WILL BE HONORED AT RECEPTION A publie reception sponsored by the Hague-Thomas-Hegarty Post of the American Legion and other civie and fraternal organizations, will be accorded Corporal Mervyn Chenoweth tomorrow evening at 8 o’clock in Veterans Memorial Building. Chenoweth enlisted in the U. S. Army Air Forces prior to Pearl Harbor and. after participating in the battle of Bataan and Corregidor was. taken prisoner by the Japs. He was released by Filipino guerillas and American, Rangers January 31st from the prison camp at Cabantuan, Luzon Island, and a fortnight ago was returned to California. He is now a day time patient at . DeWitt General Hospital near Au. burn. He spends his nights with his parents, Mr. and: Mrs. 2700 miles of north-south . ley. The program in charge of Mrs. Marie Williford and Howard Bennetts will consist of selections by the Nevada--Countk-“Band,-entertainment numbers and remarks by Corporal Other returned veterans. now in this city will aleo be guests of honor during the two ur reception. It is hoped that among these will be Sgt. Douglas J. Upton, son of Mrs. Betty recenty returned on the to this from a German prison camp and now in Riverside; S4Sst. Ted: Holland and Pfc. Berryman, injured in accidents in and Lieut. Douglas rescued in the sinking escorty carrier; Ommaney Bay. Gripsholm country Lorin Burma, Kramm, of the TWIN CHTTES WILL MEET Grass Valley and Nevada City retail and house furnishings merchants will meet Monday, March, 26, with Office of Price Administration representatives to prepare for the filing of price charts, Gilbert MeNeil, District OPA Director anniounced in Saeramento today. ve Scheduled at:8 p. m. in the Memorial Hall, the meeting will be of an instructive nature and OPA field price specialists will outline procedure to be followed by merchants in compliance with the new clothing and house furnishings regulation, ' “Merchants attending these meetings are urged to bring their bulletin on maximum price regulation 586, the new order, so that they can follow step by step the instructions on what they are to do to meet the requirements of the law,’ Director Me‘Neil said. The bulletin was mailed to over 3200 northern California retailers this week by their local War Price and Rationing Boards. “We are sending out © districte pricing staff into the field as an aid to merchants, all of whom must have two copies of their pricing charts on file with our office by April 20. The charts must list the merchant’s individual markup over net invoice coat for all goods sold or offered for sale on last Monday, March 19, the nationwide base date fo the “markup freeze’’, Director McNeil explained. The effect*on the consumer of the action, he said, will be: on to consumers price reductions at the manufacturer level resulting from aforthcoming maximum averave price regulation which will immediately affect retail prices. (2) To simplify pricing methods so retailers will be better able to enforce it. The final result will bring about more. effective price control for the wide range of apparel and house furnishings covered, he pointed out. The retail merchants havea detailed task before them, McNeal said but once it is accomplished, their: selling and recoord keeping methods will be much simpler, with resulting better public relations and comPliance with pricing regulations. A. D. ChenoThelimited access highway plan, . weth, at the Red Hat Service Stawhieh his parerts-own and opimproving to modern. erate, eight miles west of Grass Vale (1) To pass. Alien Property Custodian, Building Chicago! 120 . Broadway, New York City; 17 Court ‘Street, Boston, Mass.; National ,Press Building, Washington, D. C.; and ouee ian Building, Portland, Oregon. © Field ¥