March 3, 1942 (4 pages)

I id nd ce. ch Ss tf lig — Fe 4 \ . . . . : settee _Nevada City Nugget — Thursday, March 5, 1942. Page Three > TIS NEEDED * even when * ibudget is limited a Market DAVE RICHARDS, Prop. =— 213 Commercial Street Phone 67 Nevada City We supply our patrons with the meat from the best cattle, sheep arid hogs that money can buy. We have built our reputation on service and_ quality and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us. They will tell you. jand reported in; was Keystone) C S Gillette Shaving Cream— Regular 25¢ ... NOW 19c Medford Double Edge Razor Blades ... oes 25 for 25c Italian Balm — Regular 50c PWG: TOF ah ee 49c Halo Shampoo — Regular 50c PPO AOR 5 a ee Bic Jergens Toilet Soap 10e Size— AO oo ES eae ee acs, BAC 50c Jergens Face Cream FREE with 89¢ Jergens Lotion. FRESH Stocks Germaine and Mandeville-King Flower and Vegetable Seeds R. E. HARRIS THE REXALL DRUG STORE TOMLEGG TELLS OF LIFEINNAVY The following le‘ter was by Mr, and Mrs. Gere> their son Tom now. in the naval . training station at San Diego: Dear Folks Well I iust bad dinner-and have some free time so thought®I had hbettor wri'e. You . probably, want to know 2ll 0 eee 0 . start from San Francisco and 2:39 p. m. Friday Feb. 16 and try to give ‘you the best picture I can of what has . happened since. Arrived .in San. Francis-o at 2:30 given a meal i ticket and told to report S2ck at 6 p. . m. so had dinner (on the navy) and . that killed the af‘ernoon for me. Re'ported in at 6 and after i hour’s delay approximately 230 of us. y were loaded into 7 Key System bus-. . ses and taken over to Oakland where . . we boarded a,Santa Fe train “which . Dulled out at 8 p. m. for Bakersfield. 'On the bus going over I met a nice! . fellow named Fred S‘aver and we hit . it off well. When we ' special train I found much to my sur. prisé it was all Pullmans and. al-. . ready--half the beds were made up ‘and by 9 the rest were. made up too boarded the, so we either had to goto bed or stand on the platform betaveen ears, ; whch Fred and I did un*il about 11 “p.m. ,course had to take an upper. Did not . Sleep However as the train was old . and very jerky and sent half the . time on sidings. I went to bed then and of We were all kicked out of bed at 4 a. m. in Bakersfield where we had . breakfast about 5. (There is a lot of waiting in this man’s navy). For breakfast we were split into two groups half eating at the Fred Harvey House at the station and half “ONLY -A PINT (Uncludes Excise Tax) 86 PROOF. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CORPORATION, N.Y.C. Legg from! about an. ; to breakfast. . various articles put on at pe the diner that had deen put ina . the train during the night. I ate on . the diner and the breakfast was ex‘cellent; orange juice, scrambled eggs, ‘bacon, toast, and coffee all very good. . Alfter breakfast we were .loaded on . 7 more busses and taken to Los Ani yeles where we arrived 10 a. m. Fred and I had a drink at the har at 10 a. m. and then at 11 we had lunch at the Harvey House at the Union Station. Lunch was also good and served quickly and efficiently. At noon we boarded another train for San Diego, this was one of the regular runs with just five special cars for the navy added to it and as it} was one of the diesel siream liners . was very easy riding and luxurious.’ rom Los} Angeles to San Diego as the rest ane the side and with canvas curtain: ¢ I really enjoyed the trip the riding had been rough and tir some. We arrived in San Diego at 3:30 and boarded more special busses . rived about 4:10. The first thing done to us when; we arrived was a lecture on what we} could and could not have in our pos-} . = . ; Overcoat and the fact that ' session. Then everybody was made, ‘to unload forbidden articles I had; , to give wp my pocket knife and some . life-savers and gum I had. After this : se te Thursday morning which is our reguwe had oa first meal at the station which cop‘sisted of ample quantities of plain ‘performance was over food cooked well but not tae you . na. ized and the balance of our company could call good or tasty. Now fun began; we were marched ee and told to shed our coats and shirts ; and trip to the waist, there were only about 120 of us that got in on this! and here for the first time Fred St2ver and I were separated and I have not seen him sinice. We were then vaccinated for smallpox then marched inside. where we shoes and sox and then sat on the floor of a long hall to fill out some papers. (‘Screwy,, nes we had to leave our coats af'd shirts outside where they had been shed) then we ‘were marched upstairs where the rest of our clothes came off and we were put through another physical examination having ~— blood ;and a_blood classification and then 'two shots in our right arm one for . typhoid and one for Yellow Fever or . Tetanus I do not know which. These shots were all given by apprentices ‘in the hospital corps and they fre. quently broke needles off in our arms /and had to jab one poor fellow five times before finding the vein to get the ‘blood. I was lucky and had none j; of this happen to me, We were then . told to gather our clothes and travel. ing kits which by the time we final. ly stripped were scattered from _ hell After getting dressed, various ;HELP YOU Make Your Car last for the duration. Factory Specified uigine TuneUp and Steering and Front End Alignment, Equipment SERVICE GARAGE W. S.WILLIAMSON, Prop. Pd or. Pine and Spring. Phone 106 FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ms DRIVE IN ‘. . FOOD PALACE Groceries, Fruit and Vegetables Beer and Wine cor. YORK AND COMMERCIAL STREETS NEVADA CITY, PHONE 308 \ IT PAYS Grass Valley Laundry and to Have Your Clothes CLEANED and PRESSED REGULARLY Dry Cleaners 111 BENNETT STREET Phone 108 GRASS VALLEY GOOD With plain figures always We believe that our practice of marking all stock in plain figures _ is one which could well be copied by all members of our profession. before one, he has no_ difficulty inmaking selections suited to his financial circumstances. POLICY 24 HOUR AMBULANCE SERV Nevada City, 246 Sacramento St. Phone 203 t Holmes Funeral Home ANDY HOLMES, Owner “DISTINCTIVE FUNERAL SERVICE” ICE AT REASONABLE PRICES Grass Valley, 150 S. Auburn St. Phone 56 SAFE AND LOCKSMITH Keys Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel ‘Tapes, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machines, Electric hrons, Stoves, Etc. Repaired. SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, LSCISSORS, ETC., SHARPENED " Gunsmith, Light Welding RAY’S FIXIT SHOP 109 West Main St.,, Phone oo2 GRASS VALLEY ~ IS FOR STRENGTH That all kids get ~~: From drinking Bret Hart Dairy’s The best milk yet!Growing children need the vita -mins and health building proper-ties of milk. They need it for strong bodies, happy dispositions Give them Bret Harte Dairy Milk. . —it’s pure. 5 taken ‘out in. Sunday we got up at the rezufrom our left arm for a Wasserman: af Ay pe sites : }lar time 4:45 and after breakfas: a! places we were reassembled, assigned to a company, and given a <se3 bag. This bag has billet number and decides where we are to sleep as e2cn bunk is numbered, We were then marched outside and by this time it was 9 o’clock and turning cold and all our arms were beginning to aché from the shots; outside we again grouped for some final orde=s were before retiring were told to sieep ful-} ly clothed as there was going to be a Diackout that night and we were told what to do during the blackout. We were then marched to the hut assigned to our bunks which had two blankets folded at the foot of cath and left on our-own. These huts are «7 course temporary and are about fourteen feet square boarded uv half wav that roll down completely close them at néght. They have a 40 watt lamn. in the center. and a small electric . to the traning station where we ar. heater that will throw a mild warnith aaa 6 inches. There are 14 men in . my hut so you can see that.room i at a premium. I made up my bed and turned in and with the hedp of my T slept ; with my clothes spent a fairly warm \if not eomfortablenight, We were awakened at 4:45 on . lar time to get up and after washing up were marched into ‘breakfast. . Tuesday was spent in getting organ. taking their shots. A good many of ‘the fellows could not raise their right 'arms Thursday and mine was pretty ‘sore. We were also issued our clothes on Thursday -and that took prac. ‘get in the . tically the entire day as after getting iefem they had to have our name and company number stenciled on each = . article, As an example of the time we took. off our! : any ‘spend just waiting I spent from 10: a.m. until 3 p. m. (time out for lunch) waiting to get into the store-, room where the clothes were issued. Friday we got our hair cut short and were given a little drilling, Saturday morning we had captains’ inspection and the afternoon off which’ means a breather to get things straightened went to church. It is compu'‘sory, and after church we had Sunday dinner which was very good, chicken, and the rest of the day off until 6:50 when I went to some entertainment at the auditorium then to a smovrer outside where I caught a cold and 30 have been feeling a iittle low today but I am sure I will be alright. I forgot to tell you that Saturday . half: a block. . lers here usé . scooters afternoon I went <o the sdecaicanns that is given each Saturday from 3 . to 3:30 p.m. over the Mutual Network KFRIC and originates right at the station here; if you should care to listen ‘some time you will hear the} kind of entertainment we get. I im-. agine it sounds better over the a‘r} than it really is here. Today we had feet_are sure tired. The work here is. i and we spend hany hours each day . just waiting and of course we are on /our feet most of the time and there . is an awful lot of walking because . Place and you know the} it is a large government doesn’t approve of its enlisted men hopping in a car-to go However the messengbicycles and to get around on. This is really an immense plant, . Our first three weeks are spent in; the detention unit and maybe more, if we dont know our stuff by then. . Just like school, you are dropped back to a company and stay there until you do} and there are no liberties until-you . get out of detention. Do you know the difference between leave and liberty? We do not get any leave any-. unless some-' more due to the war, thing comes up or we get back from an active cruise, but from the training.station we get liberties or anywhere from 4 to 14 hours but are limited to San. Diego, on leave youl have several days and can take a trip. My chances of getting home in the near future are slim. I found out today that I may not branch of the service I signed wp forbecause what I was not told in San Francisco was that J was just expressing a preferen'ce and the choice is made from competition examinations of which about ten to 25% pass and not ail of those are accepted. If I dont get sent to a trainEvenings by Appointment /our first really serious drill and nv . fergan & Powell Bick. *heue 297 . DOCTORS — (not hard but. it is-tiresome at. times . motor . if. you dont get it] newer; $$ ee an PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY DENTISTS DR. JOHN R. BELL . DENTIST Office Hours: 8:30: to 5:30 B. W. HUMMELT, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 400 Broad Street {fice Hours: 10-12 a. m.; “venings 7-8. Phone 395 ~W. W. REED, M. DB. . PHYSIC aan AND SURGEON . Nevada City, Calif. Office 418 Broad Street 1 to: 3. aid 7 to S pm. teside: ive Phone 2. Office Phane gh2 2-5 p. m, X-RAY _ ATTORNE YS HARRY M. McKEE ATTORNEY AT LAW Pine St., oppe ite courthouse Nevada City. Calif. . 205 { FRANK G. FINNEGAN ATTORNEY AT LAW 207 North Pine Street Nevada City, California Telephone 273 H. WARD SHELDON ATTORNEY AT. LAW , Union Building Broad Street Nevada City Telephone 2% FUNERAL DIRECTORS HOLMES FUNERAL HOME The Holmes Funeral Home service is priced within the means of all. Ambulance service at all hours. Phone 203 246 Sacramento St. Nevada City ASSAYER HAL . D. DRAPER, Ph. oD: ASSAYER AND CONSULTING CHEMIST e ing school I will go direct to active duty from here. If I do, it is a 16 . week period before being sent out. . NOTE: Some days subsequent to. this letter, Tom Legg took epee and other tests, and passed No. 14 in) group of 30 which had been finadly . selected from 1,000 candidates for . service in sound Cetecting and radio deviecs. OF the 1,000, 150. were ead en tests from which the final 30 suc-) i cecsful appl cants were chosen. Legg +4 row be given special training in’, the vocation which he chose on enlisting in the Navy. When _ shopping inenton n the City Negget ads Nevada ; 358 Alexander St. ; United States Mineral Surveying. -°03°West Main St. Nevada City, California Office 364. Home 246-. Box 743 MUSIC GLADYS WILSON TEACHER OF PIANO Nevada City Phones: Phone 434-f: Grass Valley © {29 Henderson St. Phone 444 ~ MIS ING ENGINEERS J. F. O°;CONNORMining and Civir Engineer Licensed Surveyor Grass Valley How to Blackout.. and still have LIGHT for safety and comfort! Civilian Defense Authorities advise: 1 Select one or more rooms where the family may assemble during a blackout. Consider size of room, adequacy of furnishings and access to kitchen, bathrooms and halls. 2 Arrange installations for complete blacking out of all windows, transoms and skylights in the selected room, employing one of the officially approved methods recommended by Civilian Defense Authorities. fe) Provide your blackout space with ample lighting facilities so that family activities may continue. _and other diversions for the adults. Light and occupation help banish fear. 4 Simple, easy to use blackout devices are preferable. Build them so that they can be quickly utilized or applied. In the absence of air raid alarms, live as you are accustomed to live. mo games for the children, reading RECOMMENDED BLACKOUT METHODS at window edges. (RIGHT) Roll shad (LEFT) Drapes of opaque materials, made extremely full with ample overlap on all edges. Attach firmly on sides to prevent light ait 3 (LEFT) Removable frames or panels of opaque material fitted to window space. Where sach panels are used they should be hung on flexible shattering effect of concussion. ? H ~ of windows. fixtures to swing freely inward and thus escape shades of opaque material. Provide Satrens or or other means to prevent escape of light at sides * * RECOMMENDED BLACKOUT MATERIALS * * REINFORCED BUILDING PAPER 6r other BLACK TWILL BLACK SALICIA AWNING FABRIC OR DUCK CLOTH COMPOSITION-TREATED CLOTH BLACK COTTON FLANNEL Use only tested qualities of these materials, fully light proof. ASK FOR HANDBOOK Ask at any P. G. & E. office for handbook of plans*and re cc for blackout preparation of your home. bs 5 pletely opaque paper, fibreboard or cardboard. “ BLACK SATEEN rs JEAN CLOTH é DENIM all your local HARRISON RANDALL, Sec oT 2 GRASS VALLEY _ DENTISTS DR. ROBT: W. DETTNER DENTIST . X-RAY Facilities Available Hours: 9:60-5:00. Evening appointments. 120% Mill Street. Phone 77 Grass Valley, Calif. DR. H. H. KEENE DENTAL SURGEON Ve 1 to 5. Sundays and Evenings by appointment. 143% Mill St., Grass Valley, Calit. Phone 996 DOCTORS CARL POWER JONES, M.D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 1 to 3; 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays 11:39%:to 12:30 129 South Auburn St., Grass Valley S. F. TOBIAS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 214 Neal St., Grass Valley Office Hours: 12-2 and 7-8 Phone: Office 429. Residence 1048 DANIEI L. HIRSCH, M. D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offices and Receiving Hospital, 118 Bush St. Hours: 10-12; 2-5, evenings 7*8 P. M. Day or night phone 71. NEVADA CITY FRATERNAL AND CLUB DIRECTORY Hours: . WOMEN’S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, at the Methodist Church Hall, 2:30 p. m. MRS. W. P. SAWYER, Pres. MRS. RICHARD GOYNE, Secy: NEVADA CITY ee, No. 518 B. P. O. ELKS Meets every ThurSday evening in Elks Home, Pine St. Phone 108 Visiting Elks welcome. J. C. SCHEEMER, Exalted Ruler. HYDRAULIC PARLOR NO. 56, N. 8S. GW. . _ Meets every Tuesday evening at Pythian Castle, 232 Broad Street f Visiting Native Sons welcome, ~ ROBERT TUCKER, Pres DR. C. W. CHAPMAN, Re ‘See’y . . sox

I id nd ce. ch Ss tf lig — Fe 4 \ . . . . : settee _Nevada City Nugget — Thursday, March 5, 1942. Page Three > TIS NEEDED * even when * ibudget is limited a Market DAVE RICHARDS, Prop. =— 213 Commercial Street Phone 67 Nevada City We supply our patrons with the meat from the best cattle, sheep arid hogs that money can buy. We have built our reputation on service and_ quality and reasonable prices. Ask your neighbors about us. They will tell you. jand reported in; was Keystone) C S Gillette Shaving Cream— Regular 25¢ ...... NOW 19c Medford Double Edge Razor Blades ..... oes 25 for 25c Italian Balm — Regular 50c PWG: TOF ah ee 49c Halo Shampoo — Regular 50c PPO AOR 5 a ee Bic Jergens Toilet Soap 10e Size— AO oo ES eae ee acs, BAC 50c Jergens Face Cream FREE with 89¢ Jergens Lotion. FRESH Stocks Germaine and Mandeville-King Flower and Vegetable Seeds R. E. HARRIS THE REXALL DRUG STORE TOMLEGG TELLS OF LIFEINNAVY The following le‘ter was by Mr, and Mrs. Gere> their son Tom now. in the naval . training station at San Diego: Dear Folks Well I iust bad dinner-and have some free time so thought®I had hbettor wri'e. You . probably, want to know 2ll 0 eee 0 . start from San Francisco and 2:39 p. m. Friday Feb. 16 and try to give ‘you the best picture I can of what has . happened since. Arrived .in San. Francis-o at 2:30 given a meal i ticket and told to report S2ck at 6 p. . m. so had dinner (on the navy) and . that killed the af‘ernoon for me. Re'ported in at 6 and after i hour’s delay approximately 230 of us. y were loaded into 7 Key System bus-. . ses and taken over to Oakland where . . we boarded a,Santa Fe train “which . Dulled out at 8 p. m. for Bakersfield. 'On the bus going over I met a nice! . fellow named Fred S‘aver and we hit . it off well. When we ' special train I found much to my sur. prisé it was all Pullmans and. al-. . ready--half the beds were made up ‘and by 9 the rest were. made up too boarded the, so we either had to goto bed or stand on the platform betaveen ears, ; whch Fred and I did un*il about 11 “p.m. ,course had to take an upper. Did not . Sleep However as the train was old . and very jerky and sent half the . time on sidings. I went to bed then and of We were all kicked out of bed at 4 a. m. in Bakersfield where we had . breakfast about 5. (There is a lot of waiting in this man’s navy). For breakfast we were split into two groups half eating at the Fred Harvey House at the station and half “ONLY -A PINT (Uncludes Excise Tax) 86 PROOF. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. SCHENLEY DISTILLERS CORPORATION, N.Y.C. Legg from! about an. ; to breakfast. . various articles put on at pe the diner that had deen put ina . the train during the night. I ate on . the diner and the breakfast was ex‘cellent; orange juice, scrambled eggs, ‘bacon, toast, and coffee all very good. . Alfter breakfast we were .loaded on . 7 more busses and taken to Los Ani yeles where we arrived 10 a. m. Fred and I had a drink at the har at 10 a. m. and then at 11 we had lunch at the Harvey House at the Union Station. Lunch was also good and served quickly and efficiently. At noon we boarded another train for San Diego, this was one of the regular runs with just five special cars for the navy added to it and as it} was one of the diesel siream liners . was very easy riding and luxurious.’ rom Los} Angeles to San Diego as the rest ane the side and with canvas curtain: ¢ I really enjoyed the trip the riding had been rough and tir some. We arrived in San Diego at 3:30 and boarded more special busses . rived about 4:10. The first thing done to us when; we arrived was a lecture on what we} could and could not have in our pos-} . = . ; Overcoat and the fact that ' session. Then everybody was made, ‘to unload forbidden articles I had; , to give wp my pocket knife and some . life-savers and gum I had. After this : se te Thursday morning which is our reguwe had oa first meal at the station which cop‘sisted of ample quantities of plain ‘performance was over food cooked well but not tae you . na. ized and the balance of our company could call good or tasty. Now fun began; we were marched ee and told to shed our coats and shirts ; and trip to the waist, there were only about 120 of us that got in on this! and here for the first time Fred St2ver and I were separated and I have not seen him sinice. We were then vaccinated for smallpox then marched inside. where we shoes and sox and then sat on the floor of a long hall to fill out some papers. (‘Screwy,, nes we had to leave our coats af'd shirts outside where they had been shed) then we ‘were marched upstairs where the rest of our clothes came off and we were put through another physical examination having ~— blood ;and a_blood classification and then 'two shots in our right arm one for . typhoid and one for Yellow Fever or . Tetanus I do not know which. These shots were all given by apprentices ‘in the hospital corps and they fre. quently broke needles off in our arms /and had to jab one poor fellow five times before finding the vein to get the ‘blood. I was lucky and had none j; of this happen to me, We were then . told to gather our clothes and travel. ing kits which by the time we final. ly stripped were scattered from _ hell After getting dressed, various ;HELP YOU Make Your Car last for the duration. Factory Specified uigine TuneUp and Steering and Front End Alignment, Equipment SERVICE GARAGE W. S.WILLIAMSON, Prop. Pd or. Pine and Spring. Phone 106 FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE ms DRIVE IN ‘. . FOOD PALACE Groceries, Fruit and Vegetables Beer and Wine cor. YORK AND COMMERCIAL STREETS NEVADA CITY, PHONE 308 \ IT PAYS Grass Valley Laundry and to Have Your Clothes CLEANED and PRESSED REGULARLY Dry Cleaners 111 BENNETT STREET Phone 108 GRASS VALLEY GOOD With plain figures always We believe that our practice of marking all stock in plain figures _ is one which could well be copied by all members of our profession. before one, he has no_ difficulty inmaking selections suited to his financial circumstances. POLICY 24 HOUR AMBULANCE SERV Nevada City, 246 Sacramento St. Phone 203 t Holmes Funeral Home ANDY HOLMES, Owner “DISTINCTIVE FUNERAL SERVICE” ICE AT REASONABLE PRICES Grass Valley, 150 S. Auburn St. Phone 56 SAFE AND LOCKSMITH Keys Made While You Wait Bicycles, Steel ‘Tapes, Vacuum Cleaners, Washing Machines, Electric hrons, Stoves, Etc. Repaired. SAWS, AXES, KNIVES, LSCISSORS, ETC., SHARPENED " Gunsmith, Light Welding RAY’S FIXIT SHOP 109 West Main St.,, Phone oo2 GRASS VALLEY ~ IS FOR STRENGTH That all kids get ~~: From drinking Bret Hart Dairy’s The best milk yet!Growing children need the vita -mins and health building proper-ties of milk. They need it for strong bodies, happy dispositions Give them Bret Harte Dairy Milk. . —it’s pure. 5 taken ‘out in. Sunday we got up at the rezufrom our left arm for a Wasserman: af Ay pe sites : }lar time 4:45 and after breakfas: a! places we were reassembled, assigned to a company, and given a <se3 bag. This bag has billet number and decides where we are to sleep as e2cn bunk is numbered, We were then marched outside and by this time it was 9 o’clock and turning cold and all our arms were beginning to aché from the shots; outside we again grouped for some final orde=s were before retiring were told to sieep ful-} ly clothed as there was going to be a Diackout that night and we were told what to do during the blackout. We were then marched to the hut assigned to our bunks which had two blankets folded at the foot of cath and left on our-own. These huts are «7 course temporary and are about fourteen feet square boarded uv half wav that roll down completely close them at néght. They have a 40 watt lamn. in the center. and a small electric . to the traning station where we ar. heater that will throw a mild warnith aaa 6 inches. There are 14 men in . my hut so you can see that.room i at a premium. I made up my bed and turned in and with the hedp of my T slept ; with my clothes spent a fairly warm \if not eomfortablenight,

We were awakened at 4:45 on . lar time to get up and after washing up were marched into ‘breakfast. . Tuesday was spent in getting organ. taking their shots. A good many of ‘the fellows could not raise their right 'arms Thursday and mine was pretty ‘sore. We were also issued our clothes on Thursday -and that took prac. ‘get in the . tically the entire day as after getting iefem they had to have our name and company number stenciled on each = . article, As an example of the time we took. off our! : any ‘spend just waiting I spent from 10: a.m. until 3 p. m. (time out for lunch) waiting to get into the store-, room where the clothes were issued. Friday we got our hair cut short and were given a little drilling, Saturday morning we had captains’ inspection and the afternoon off which’ means a breather to get things straightened went to church. It is compu'‘sory, and after church we had Sunday dinner which was very good, chicken, and the rest of the day off until 6:50 when I went to some entertainment at the auditorium then to a smovrer outside where I caught a cold and 30 have been feeling a iittle low today but I am sure I will be alright. I forgot to tell you that Saturday . half: a block. . lers here usé . scooters afternoon I went <o the sdecaicanns that is given each Saturday from 3 . to 3:30 p.m. over the Mutual Network KFRIC and originates right at the station here; if you should care to listen ‘some time you will hear the} kind of entertainment we get. I im-. agine it sounds better over the a‘r} than it really is here. Today we had feet_are sure tired. The work here is. i and we spend hany hours each day . just waiting and of course we are on /our feet most of the time and there . is an awful lot of walking because . Place and you know the} it is a large government doesn’t approve of its enlisted men hopping in a car-to go However the messengbicycles and to get around on. This is really an immense plant, . Our first three weeks are spent in; the detention unit and maybe more, if we dont know our stuff by then. . Just like school, you are dropped back to a company and stay there until you do} and there are no liberties until-you . get out of detention. Do you know the difference between leave and liberty? We do not get any leave any-. unless some-' more due to the war, thing comes up or we get back from an active cruise, but from the training.station we get liberties or anywhere from 4 to 14 hours but are limited to San. Diego, on leave youl have several days and can take a trip. My chances of getting home in the near future are slim. I found out today that I may not branch of the service I signed wp forbecause what I was not told in San Francisco was that J was just expressing a preferen'ce and the choice is made from competition examinations of which about ten to 25% pass and not ail of those are accepted. If I dont get sent to a trainEvenings by Appointment /our first really serious drill and nv . fergan & Powell Bick. *heue 297 . DOCTORS — (not hard but. it is-tiresome at. times . motor . if. you dont get it] newer; $$ ee an PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY DENTISTS DR. JOHN R. BELL . DENTIST Office Hours: 8:30: to 5:30 B. W. HUMMELT, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 400 Broad Street {fice Hours: 10-12 a. m.; “venings 7-8. Phone 395 ~W. W. REED, M. DB. . PHYSIC aan AND SURGEON . Nevada City, Calif. Office 418 Broad Street 1 to: 3. aid 7 to S pm. teside: ive Phone 2. Office Phane gh2 2-5 p. m, X-RAY _ ATTORNE YS HARRY M. McKEE ATTORNEY AT LAW Pine St., oppe ite courthouse Nevada City. Calif. . 205 { FRANK G. FINNEGAN ATTORNEY AT LAW 207 North Pine Street Nevada City, California Telephone 273 H. WARD SHELDON ATTORNEY AT. LAW , Union Building Broad Street Nevada City Telephone 2% FUNERAL DIRECTORS HOLMES FUNERAL HOME The Holmes Funeral Home service is priced within the means of all. Ambulance service at all hours. Phone 203 246 Sacramento St. Nevada City ASSAYER HAL . D. DRAPER, Ph. oD: ASSAYER AND CONSULTING CHEMIST e ing school I will go direct to active duty from here. If I do, it is a 16 . week period before being sent out. . NOTE: Some days subsequent to. this letter, Tom Legg took epee and other tests, and passed No. 14 in) group of 30 which had been finadly . selected from 1,000 candidates for . service in sound Cetecting and radio deviecs. OF the 1,000, 150. were ead en tests from which the final 30 suc-) i cecsful appl cants were chosen. Legg +4 row be given special training in’, the vocation which he chose on enlisting in the Navy. When _ shopping inenton n the City Negget ads Nevada ; 358 Alexander St. ; United States Mineral Surveying. -°03°West Main St. Nevada City, California Office 364. Home 246-. Box 743 MUSIC GLADYS WILSON TEACHER OF PIANO Nevada City Phones: Phone 434-f: Grass Valley © {29 Henderson St. Phone 444 ~ MIS ING ENGINEERS J. F. O°;CONNORMining and Civir Engineer Licensed Surveyor Grass Valley How to Blackout... and still have LIGHT for safety and comfort! Civilian Defense Authorities advise: 1 Select one or more rooms where the family may assemble during a blackout. Consider size of room, adequacy of furnishings and access to kitchen, bathrooms and halls. 2 Arrange installations for complete blacking out of all windows, transoms and skylights in the selected room, employing one of the officially approved methods recommended by Civilian Defense Authorities. fe) Provide your blackout space with ample lighting facilities so that family activities may continue.. _and other diversions for the adults. Light and occupation help banish fear. 4 Simple, easy to use blackout devices are preferable. Build them so that they can be quickly utilized or applied. In the absence of air raid alarms, live as you are accustomed to live. mo games for the children, reading RECOMMENDED BLACKOUT METHODS at window edges. (RIGHT) Roll shad (LEFT) Drapes of opaque materials, made extremely full with ample overlap on all edges. Attach firmly on sides to prevent light ait 3 (LEFT) Removable frames or panels of opaque material fitted to window space. Where sach panels are used they should be hung on flexible shattering effect of concussion. ? H ~ of windows. fixtures to swing freely inward and thus escape shades of opaque material. Provide Satrens or or other means to prevent escape of light at sides * * RECOMMENDED BLACKOUT MATERIALS * * REINFORCED BUILDING PAPER 6r other BLACK TWILL BLACK SALICIA AWNING FABRIC OR DUCK CLOTH COMPOSITION-TREATED CLOTH BLACK COTTON FLANNEL Use only tested qualities of these materials, fully light proof. ASK FOR HANDBOOK Ask at any P. G. & E. office for handbook of plans*and re cc for blackout preparation of your home. bs 5 pletely opaque paper, fibreboard or cardboard. “ BLACK SATEEN rs JEAN CLOTH é DENIM all your local HARRISON RANDALL, Sec oT 2 GRASS VALLEY _ DENTISTS DR. ROBT: W. DETTNER DENTIST . X-RAY Facilities Available Hours: 9:60-5:00. Evening appointments. 120% Mill Street. Phone 77 Grass Valley, Calif. DR. H. H. KEENE DENTAL SURGEON Ve 1 to 5. Sundays and Evenings by appointment. 143% Mill St., Grass Valley, Calit. Phone 996 DOCTORS CARL POWER JONES, M.D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours: 1 to 3; 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays 11:39%:to 12:30 129 South Auburn St., Grass Valley S. F. TOBIAS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 214 Neal St., Grass Valley Office Hours: 12-2 and 7-8 Phone: Office 429. Residence 1048 DANIEI L. HIRSCH, M. D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offices and Receiving Hospital, 118 Bush St. Hours: 10-12; 2-5, evenings 7*8 P. M. Day or night phone 71. NEVADA CITY FRATERNAL AND CLUB DIRECTORY Hours: . WOMEN’S CIVIC CLUB Regular meetings the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month, at the Methodist Church Hall, 2:30 p. m. MRS. W. P. SAWYER, Pres. MRS. RICHARD GOYNE, Secy: NEVADA CITY ee, No. 518 B. P. O. ELKS Meets every ThurSday evening in Elks Home, Pine St. Phone 108 Visiting Elks welcome. J. C. SCHEEMER, Exalted Ruler. HYDRAULIC PARLOR NO. 56, N. 8S. GW. . _ Meets every Tuesday evening at Pythian Castle, 232 Broad Street f Visiting Native Sons welcome, ~ ROBERT TUCKER, Pres DR. C. W. CHAPMAN, Re ‘See’y . . sox