March 5, 1945 (4 pages)

oe Geeiaee The Nugget is delivered to: your home twice a week for only 30 cents per. month “God grants libcety only to those who ines it, and are ready to guard and’ defend it.’ ’—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ae Sse This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. Vol. 19, No. 18. The County ‘ey Paper NEVADA -CIFY,.CALIFORNIA. The Goid Center ~ MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1945A NEVADA CHEY RED” CROSS GIRL VISITS THE RIVIERA IN FRANCE Dr. C. W. Chapman consented to thé has France. The letter is human interest. It follows: By HELEN CHAPMAN Cannes, France, February 11, 1945 Dear Poppy: Many is the time I have jokingly said, ‘I think I’ll go to the Rieviera for my vacation this year.’’ Well, here I am and I’m not kidding. I have a very nice hotel room: with windows opening out on to the blue Mediterranean Sea. For six days I can dream there is no war. That is if I shut by eyes when other uniforms pass or when I come across wrecked pill boxes along the beach, or a few bomber buildings, or barbed. wire entanglements not yet removed. On the whole, however, everything here looks peaceful and damage is _very slight. Five of us from ‘Group C started out last. Wednesday to come downa« here for six. days leave not counting traveling time. Marty Stengal, Bunny Ronalds, Maggie Woods, Libby Woodell and myself are in the bunch. We tried to travel light but we managed to fill up most of the space in the back end—of our-little truck which resembles a station wagon. We drove (all but Maggie). in that down to Paris where we stopped over . plete plan for developing night and then On our saw a number of interesting places. The whole trip was a-process of passing alternately the proceeded by train. from ridiculous . to the sublime and back again. Hap-. . tives of five California organizati ne, . eran and a business man with lowe . pily the end of the trip down ‘is. the sublime. We thoraue hly enjoyed the . whole thing however, even fh darkest moments which as you will . kindly publication of a letter just received from his daughter, Miss Helen Chapman, who writes of her vation on the Riviera in packed with FEB, RAINS IN Precipitation_at—the—Truekee—Ran= ger station totaled seven and fifty eight hundredths inches, or three and three tenths inches over normal for the month of February, réports District Ranger H. I. Snider. ‘The total snowfall for February was thirty three inches but the snow depth at the ranger station is now only twenty six iriches. since thet warm rains the first part of February melted a great deal of the previous snow pack and heavy run off occurred during the rain, especially below the six thousand foot level where the snow pack is now very shallow and mostly confined to partly shaded areas,: Snider states. The total precipitation at °Truckee since last September 1, is now twenty and four tenths” inches or three and eighty one hundredths inches above normal. STAT PREPARES TRUCKEEHEAVY OFFICERS DENIED .ceive the same raise TO REVAMP. HIGHWAY SYSTEM ‘To meet Californik’s unquestioned . . . . the . of see later was the act of boarding the! irain at Marsailles. Between Germany/‘and Paris the Journey was really the roughest be-. cause we were driving and the roads! are not in the best of repair. Of interest was Liege, one of the worst buzz bombed cities in Europe. and quite a wreck. It was having a rest, I hope permanently at this time. We traveled along the Meuse River and passed through the town of Dinant. It was as if the Middle Ages had returned too. meet us.there. It is ia ,8ray stone city against a gray stone cliff with the river running along jin front of it. The cathedral there looks as if it were carved out of the cliff. On top of the cliff is a gray citadel which has been’ guarding Dinant for many centuries. We continued through the countryside of France until we came to the lovely city of Soissons, famous as a bloody battleground in World War-1I. We went on to Loan where one of the largest cathedrals in France stands. This town was severely damaged. All these places are rich in the history of Europe from the time of ‘(Charlemagne to the present. When dusk arrived came one of our darker moments literally and figuratively for we discovered our car had its lights permanently blacked out and we were still two hours from Paris. Fortune was with us ‘because’ w2 were helped by the army just as we were faced with utter darkness. The army is always very kind to us and in this case spent t'wo hours rigging up a light so we could carry on. We waited in a nice warm room and had some food. We arrived in Paris quite late but there is a special service which takes care of getting quarters for vice people and we were put up, at a Red Cross hotel. It wasn’t the very best. The sheets weren’t clean, no heat, (a general states in Paris) and no hot water, but we stayed only one night. The bed was very very soft, however. I met a friend, Gizzie Simons, there, who had been with Madeline Himes in England. She invited me to stay in her room, which I did in preference to waking up a total stranger ine the middle of the night. I discovered that Gizzie was the guest of some other girl and as there ‘was only two beds I was taking a chance of being kicked out. Luckily the hostess didn’t come home. I spent that day in Paris, chiefly getting my money changed into French francs and along: with the others getting travel aceommodations. We left that evening on a firat md ser(Continued on Page Four) Be . yproportion that its need for system, modernizin its highway . following the \war, a com! some 3300) ;miles of California major ‘tate high. : . w to limited access spedifications . 1 r ‘ way from Germany we. pss bedi j Agriculture to be a ihas been recommended by the CGali-. fornia major highway committee, composed of . development} representa-. The plan calls for the develok-. ment of twenty seven hundred miles) inter state routes. consisting in. the main of the two existing north-. south arteries; or. east-west laterals to’ connect with iranscontinental routes. The? plan further provides for six hundred: miles of urban: freéways to be constructed in California’s seven metropolitan centers, thus providing an intergrated system of urban. and rural free flowing traffic routes, into which will be incorporated all recognized safety devices. Companion bills authorizing the construction of such a system were introduced in'the state legislature on January 2'5. Under these measures, the state department of public works, is vested with the responsibility of acquiring the necessary rights of way, and designing, constructing and maintaining the system of limited access highways. Responsibility for determining the routes for the 600 miles of freeways in the metropolitan districts is placed with the state highway commission, but the commission is-required to hold public hearings and receive the recommendations 92f local authorities and other interested agencies before final action is taken to determine such locations. To finance the construction of the freeway system, legislation hag also been introduced calling for an increase in the motor vehicle fuel tax of 1 1-2 cents per gallon; the revenue from the added tax to be deposited in’ a special limited access highway fund. The department of public works, in addition is instructed to devote as much as can be legally earned in the way of federal aid funds, together with state matching money, to the limited. access system. The funds are to be’ expeneded in each county of the state in the motor registration bears to the total motor vehicle registration of the state. In counties where allocations from the limited access highway fund exceed the amount necessary for construction of the limited access system within that county, the state highway commission is authorized to allocate the excess funds ‘for acquisition, construction, maintenance and improvement of primary and secondary state highways. In counties where no limited access highway 1s to be built, under the master plan, the funds can also be used for improvement and construction of secondary and primary state highways. Funds which remain unexpended at the end of any annual future construction of authorized projects, whether they are freeways or state highway projects. 1 iHis commissi : . Lae and five present maj-) &¢ /of the city council. years aS mayor and,as city council‘army in October, rminer residing in Grass Valley! ; ELECTED COUNTY PAY INCREASES By a three to two vote the Nevada County Board of Supervisors turned down the request of the county's elected officials for an increase of 20 per cent in salaries, but the board did grant Several increases in the Salaraies of deputies. . The board gave one deputy county auditor an increase of $300 a year making her salary $1800. Two deputy county assessors will each rein remuneration. The salary of a deputy county treasurer will be based on 12. ihstead of nine month year, to stand at $125 per menth. By a vote of three for and two against,“ an increase in the pay of deputy sheriffs, from $150 to. $165 per month was. granted. The county superintendent of schools will be per mitted one deputy at $1500 a year. FARL COVEY . ‘APPOINTED TO IMPORTANT POST: Earl Covey, past commander of . the Hague-Thomas s-Heearty the American Legion, commissioned by the been Secretary of member of the . Agricultural Loans Com-. Nevada ‘County. Cov ay] was named because he is both a verhas just Veterans mittee for experience in financial transactions. . on extends to 1947. AYOR OF GRASS Richakd Trathen, mayor and city councilman of Grass Valley last. week at a specially called meeting of the city council\ presented his resignation. No reason for his resignation Was stated. Councilman John, Re Thomas was elected mayor to take office immediat ly in -“Trathen's stead. The city cot non will appoint a new member to serve to fill the: vacancy on the boakd. Announcement of the appointment will probably be made at the next meeting i Councilman J. Stennett declared thig morning that the board had always acted in harmony and that no reason for Trathen’s resignation had been stated. Trathen had served two man for eight years. He was origina ly appointed to office following the retirement of former .Mayor Jack Harris" GRASS VALLEY PARATROOPER The War Department has _ telegraphed Mrs. Floris Henderson of Hills Mat, that her husband, Cpl. Roy J, Henderson, paratrooper, was killed in action over Germany on February 14th. Henderson was employed at the Empire Mine prior to entering the 1942. He had been overseas 16 months, had been wounded on D-day during the Normandy! invasion, and had received the purple heart and a presidential citation for gallantry in action. Word also has been received that his younger brother, Joseph E. Henderson, serving in the U, S. Navy, had died of an appendectomy in the Pacific treatre on February 18th. Besides his wife, Cpl. Henderson leaves an infant son, Donnell, , his mother, Mrs. Dora lL. Sas eran: brothers, Earl and Ernest Hender-. son, and a sister, Joanne Henderson all of Ogden, Utah. FOR INVESTIGATION Melvin John Ronan, 44, was lodged in. the county jail Friday for investigation. Ronan. wag wearing a U. S. Air Corps uniform. He is a Post of . ; . been grected by permitees in the disHELEN CHAPMAN — HEARD ON AIR radio broadcast over KERC nibasnatiene Saturday from somewhere in Germany interviewed a Red Cross Mobile Unit and girls from several places in the United ‘States were questioned. One of the questions was ‘“‘Who Do You Most Admire?’’ As the answers came in the fourth stood out clear in the minds of many Nevada City and Grass Valley residents. ‘‘I am Helen Chapman, Nevada City, California, I most admire the infantrymen,’’ In the ‘15 minute broadcast many girls said they most admired their dad, Bisenhauer, Churchill, Roosevelt, etc., but several had ‘the same: feeling\as Miss Chapman in expressing their preference. Immediately Dr. Chapman was called by friends from Nevada City and Grass Valley and/§ they told him of hearing his daughter’s voice. Mrs. Harry Davey, whose daughter married Miss Chapman’s brother, Muller Chapman, was listening and heard (Miss Chapman clearly. TELTS OF MANY District Ranger H. I. Snider in charge of the Truckee district of the . Tahoe national forest, has just completed’ his 20th year on this district, . thus realizing his desire to live andi work in-the “high (Sierra Nevada . ¢ . mountains! He is. celebrating the! event b¥Y completing land use plans . whereby it is hoped area will be the number In 1942 Snider recalls, the Tahoe the Lake Tahoe . one recrea-. tion area in. the national forests of . = California. . . Bank of America Check To Red Cross, $47.40 Bank of America has delivered a check for $47.40 to Nevada (City Chapter—of the American Red Cross as its 1945 local contribution to the national Red Cross drive. This is thé chapter’s proportionate share of Bank of America’s state wide gift of ‘$110,000 based upon the local quota as assigned by national Red Cross ‘headquarters, ° wr » Telephone Company Gives $50 to Red Cross E. R. Ingalls, manager of The Pacific Teléphone and ‘Telegraph Company, has presented check for $50 to the Nevada City Chapter, American Red Cross. Again this year the company is contributing to the various Red Cross chapters throughout the Pacific Coast territory in which it operates. The total of. this year’s contribution to all chapters. amounts to $130,000. Mrs. Sturevant Heads Elementary School PTA Mrs. Howard Sturtivant was Seated as president Friday afternoon of the Nevada City Elementary Parent Teabers Association, Installing ofwas ‘Mrs. George C. Huber of first vice president of the Third District of the association. Frane gave a. 20 ficer Sacramento Luschen, music director, minute program of miusiecal numbers played by the student orchestra. H. E. Kjorlie, snuperintendent_of the Nevada City Unified School District, discussion of the elementaty budget. Be served by Ford's second graders. Sturtivant suceeds Mrs; retiring president. led a school reshments were Miss Savory Mrs. Sauer, Matt complaints pee Thomas O’Dea Dismissed District. Attornéy H. Ward She -. Company, STATE CHAMBER — AID IN PROJECTS SACRAMENTO, March 5—Reaffirming its support of the state tax reduction program, the Sacramento Valley Council of the. California State Chamber of ‘Commerce has adopted a recommendation that the State chamber urge the legislature to cénsider allocating a portion of the state surplus to cities and counties for postwar construction projects. The council also went on record as favoring the voluntary principle for health insurance and oppesing the compulsory principle in several proposals now before the state. legislature. The council considered a large number of other legislative proposals at its meeting in the Hotel Senator which was presided over by George G: Pollock, regional vice president of the state chamber. The council’s recommendations will -be reviewed. by the cham‘ber’s appyipriate state ~ wide committees and its board of directors before the chamber takes a final position on any of them. The council’s action on health insurance followed a. debate between Beach Vasey, Governor Warren’s secretary and opponents of compulsory health insurance. Dr.: Frank MacDonald, Sacramento physician and surgeon, who represented the California Medical Association, and ro, J. Lacy, president of the Califor{nia Western States Life Insurance spoke against compulsory Dr. MacDonald asserted ithat if given time voluntary programg . Will substantially meet the problems . . involved, . . The council’s action with refer, ence to continued tax reduction and ate aid to cities and counties was oe after Richard Graves, execut. insurance. ,. forest had only the Lake Tahoe cama t don yestertlay filed a formal aaa oe ee which had been forest, cround, the and‘there was only one building on the Trickee district. the Martis.Peak lookout which was. built . in 1912 with the aid of the CrownWilliamette Paper Company. ‘The other two field guards on the district { at that time lived in tents. The Truckee ranger station wag a rented building which quartered two fire guards, fire fighting equipment, office and the ranger and his family. The only forest service equipment consisted of a model T truck, a relic of World War I. Snider stated he rented a house to live in when he arrived and by 1928 managed to have cabins built for three field guards by raising cooperative funds and salvaging movie set lumber. In 1929 he built a home for his family. By 1922 a total of 14 new buildings. had been erected, western Nevada, to which fire tion had been extended. A compl&te new telephone communication system had been built, six camp ground and summer home areas had been laid\out and were aperating and many hew summer homes had trict. National Automobile Club. this period of time, the average au tomobile will be good for between 50,000 and 100,000 miles of transportation if given proper care. It, is estimated that 220,000 automobiles are now living on. borrowed time and just barely able to limp along on California highways. Although it was feared that these borderline Cars would be of considerable danger on the highways, it has been found that the majority of accidents is still the result of careless driver and not the fault of the automobile. Mr. and Mrs. John Eden. motored to Lincoln Wednesday and. visited friends. The birthday of one of her friends: was celebrated with a dinner. donated to} , O’Dea’s attorneys, . sheriff’s office al-of a misdemeanor charge>~bat: tery, and felony charge, resisting an officer, pending against Thomas O’Dea, acquitted last week by jury of a battery charge in Grass Valley. Evidence in the two cases just dismissed paralelled the evidence in torney stated that testimony was conflicting and he did'not believe a conviction was probable. O’Dea was arrested November 25th, following a brawl in a Grass Valley cafe. Following his acquittal last week, E. Vayne Miller and Arthur DeB. Carr.of Sacramento, filed a claim for $12,500 against the city of Grass Valley, alleging their client had been injured by rough treatment on the part of Policemen William Sproul and Kenneth Manuel. The Grass Valley city council rejected the claim. John Sturgill Leaves Jair for Hospital Again John Sturgill, county awaiting trial in jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon was in the Nevada County Hospital last week, suffering, according to Sheriff C. J Tobiassen, from hysteria. Albout a month ago Sturgill attempted suicide, slashing his throat and arms with a razor blade. His trial then pending was postponed. It is believed he will not be able to appear Tuesday when his trial is again scheduled. Before his attempt at suicide, Sturgill made a purported confession to Sheriff Tobiassen, indicating that in May 139. he had murdered an intinerant in Alameda County in May, 1939. Investigation by the in Alameda County. failed to verify Sturgill’s statements. Sturgill wag arrested in Truckee in January follawing a stabbine affray in which: William Felder was Ntaahaa. Felder. served 30 days in the county jail for drunkenness. ADDS DOLLS TO COLLECTION Mrs. Miles Coughlan was presented with three foreign dolls to add to her large group by Nevada City men now on the war fronts. One came from Major Warren Chapman and was from the Naples area of Italy and two others were from Bud Keller, former Nevada (City boy, and they also came from ly. One of Mrs. Coughlan’s hobbies is dolls and she ing to periods in the history adding charme to her large collection. the trial last week. The district athas all sizes, from Many countries. Many of the dols are dressed accord. fornia Cities. and Frederic. Alexan< der, executive secretary of the county supervisors association of California, declared that local governments are facing serious employment and construction problems ag the result of population increaseg and war burdens. Elton Sherwin, Sacramento city manager, also spoke in favor of state aid to cities. Other legislative proposals approved in principle by the council cluded: Acquisition of forests by the state, establishment of forest cutting prac-. tice codes, reorganization of the state board of forestry on a staggered term basis, transfer of the LaTour Forest to the State Division of. Forestry to be administered as a state. forest; federal, state, and private land owner cooperation in eradication of the pine bark beetle in California forests; creation of a state advisory flood control board, creation ofa state water authority to deal with the fedetal government, delegation of limited regulatory powers to the State Fish and Gama (Commission, extension of the farm production council and reappropria+, tion of the balances unexpended by the council, creation of a second in-, jury fund under the ‘Workmen’s, (Compensation laws, extension of the mine debt moratorium, extension of the premium quota Plan for the productiion of strategic minerals, repeal of the three per cent gross receipts tax on for hire highway carriers, in« crease in state aid to counties for tuberculosis sanitariums, additional. state aid for control of predatory animals, and creation of a new dairy industry board on a self supporting basis to expand markets for California dairy products, The council opposed all legislation to increase free hunting and fishing licenses and legislation to regulate the. Christmas tree trade, The 1 —-approyed in . principle legislation to enable the State Fish , rand Game Commission to purchase and operate public shooting grounds and to use its own funds for that purpose, but recommended the subject of appropriations from the state in. Post war surplus for that purpose be given study. ; Mr.’and Mrs. Louis poh came up from the bay district. Saturday and are spending a few days in their here and expect to move home the first of the month. He has been ployed in war work. while in the b district the vee bis . ye & home. They have property interests a

oe Geeiaee The Nugget is delivered to: your home twice a week for only 30 cents per. month “God grants libcety only to those who ines it, and are ready to guard and’ defend it.’ ’—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ae Sse This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. Vol. 19, No. 18. The County ‘ey Paper NEVADA -CIFY,.CALIFORNIA. The Goid Center ~ MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1945A NEVADA CHEY RED” CROSS GIRL VISITS THE RIVIERA IN FRANCE Dr. C. W. Chapman consented to thé has France. The letter is human interest. It follows: By HELEN CHAPMAN Cannes, France, February 11, 1945 Dear Poppy: Many is the time I have jokingly said, ‘I think I’ll go to the Rieviera for my vacation this year.’’ Well, here I am and I’m not kidding. I have a very nice hotel room: with windows opening out on to the blue Mediterranean Sea. For six days I can dream there is no war. That is if I shut by eyes when other uniforms pass or when I come across wrecked pill boxes along the beach, or a few bomber buildings, or barbed. wire entanglements not yet removed. On the whole, however, everything here looks peaceful and damage is _very slight. Five of us from ‘Group C started out last. Wednesday to come downa« here for six. days leave not counting traveling time. Marty Stengal, Bunny Ronalds, Maggie Woods, Libby Woodell and myself are in the bunch. We tried to travel light but we managed to fill up most of the space in the back end—of our-little truck which resembles a station wagon. We drove (all but Maggie). in that down to Paris where we stopped over . plete plan for developing night and then On our saw a number of interesting places. The whole trip was a-process of passing alternately the proceeded by train. from ridiculous . to the sublime and back again. Hap-. . tives of five California organizati ne, . eran and a business man with lowe . pily the end of the trip down ‘is. the sublime. We thoraue hly enjoyed the . whole thing however, even fh darkest moments which as you will . kindly publication of a letter just received from his daughter, Miss Helen Chapman, who writes of her vation on the Riviera in packed with FEB, RAINS IN Precipitation_at—the—Truekee—Ran= ger station totaled seven and fifty eight hundredths inches, or three and three tenths inches over normal for the month of February, réports District Ranger H. I. Snider. ‘The total snowfall for February was thirty three inches but the snow depth at the ranger station is now only twenty six iriches. since thet warm rains the first part of February melted a great deal of the previous snow pack and heavy run off occurred during the rain, especially below the six thousand foot level where the snow pack is now very shallow and mostly confined to partly shaded areas,: Snider states. The total precipitation at °Truckee since last September 1, is now twenty and four tenths” inches or three and eighty one hundredths inches above normal. STAT PREPARES TRUCKEEHEAVY OFFICERS DENIED .ceive the same raise TO REVAMP. HIGHWAY SYSTEM ‘To meet Californik’s unquestioned . . . . the . of see later was the act of boarding the! irain at Marsailles. Between Germany/‘and Paris the Journey was really the roughest be-. cause we were driving and the roads! are not in the best of repair. Of interest was Liege, one of the worst buzz bombed cities in Europe. and quite a wreck. It was having a rest, I hope permanently at this time. We traveled along the Meuse River and passed through the town of Dinant. It was as if the Middle Ages had returned too. meet us.there. It is ia ,8ray stone city against a gray stone cliff with the river running along jin front of it. The cathedral there looks as if it were carved out of the cliff. On top of the cliff is a gray citadel which has been’ guarding Dinant for many centuries. We continued through the countryside of France until we came to the lovely city of Soissons, famous as a bloody battleground in World War-1I. We went on to Loan where one of the largest cathedrals in France stands. This town was severely damaged. All these places are rich in the history of Europe from the time of ‘(Charlemagne to the present. When dusk arrived came one of our darker moments literally and figuratively for we discovered our car had its lights permanently blacked out and we were still two hours from Paris. Fortune was with us ‘because’ w2 were helped by the army just as we were faced with utter darkness. The army is always very kind to us and in this case spent t'wo hours rigging up a light so we could carry on. We waited in a nice warm room and had some food. We arrived in Paris quite late but there is a special service which takes care of getting quarters for vice people and we were put up, at a Red Cross hotel. It wasn’t the very best. The sheets weren’t clean, no heat, (a general states in Paris) and no hot water, but we stayed only one night. The bed was very very soft, however. I met a friend, Gizzie Simons, there, who had been with Madeline Himes in England. She invited me to stay in her room, which I did in preference to waking up a total stranger ine the middle of the night. I discovered that Gizzie was the guest of some other girl and as there ‘was only two beds I was taking a chance of being kicked out. Luckily the hostess didn’t come home. I spent that day in Paris, chiefly getting my money changed into French francs and along: with the others getting travel aceommodations. We left that evening on a firat md ser(Continued on Page Four) Be . yproportion that its need for system, modernizin its highway . following the \war, a com! some 3300) ;miles of California major ‘tate high. : . w to limited access spedifications . 1 r ‘ way from Germany we. pss bedi j Agriculture to be a ihas been recommended by the CGali-. fornia major highway committee, composed of . development} representa-. The plan calls for the develok-. ment of twenty seven hundred miles) inter state routes. consisting in. the main of the two existing north-. south arteries; or. east-west laterals to’ connect with iranscontinental routes. The? plan further provides for six hundred: miles of urban: freéways to be constructed in California’s seven metropolitan centers, thus providing an intergrated system of urban. and rural free flowing traffic routes, into which will be incorporated all recognized safety devices. Companion bills authorizing the construction of such a system were introduced in'the state legislature on January 2'5. Under these measures, the state department of public works, is vested with the responsibility of acquiring the necessary rights of way, and designing, constructing and maintaining the system of limited access highways. Responsibility for determining the routes for the 600 miles of freeways in the metropolitan districts is placed with the state highway commission, but the commission is-required to hold public hearings and receive the recommendations 92f local authorities and other interested agencies before final action is taken to determine such locations. To finance the construction of the freeway system, legislation hag also been introduced calling for an increase in the motor vehicle fuel tax of 1 1-2 cents per gallon; the revenue from the added tax to be deposited in’ a special limited access highway fund. The department of public works, in addition is instructed to devote as much as can be legally earned in the way of federal aid funds, together with state matching money, to the limited. access system. The funds are to be’ expeneded in each county of the state in the motor registration bears to the total motor vehicle registration of the state. In counties where allocations from the limited access highway fund exceed the amount necessary for construction of the limited access system within that county, the state highway commission is authorized to allocate the excess funds ‘for acquisition, construction, maintenance and improvement of primary and secondary state highways. In counties where no limited access highway 1s to be built, under the master plan, the funds can also be used for improvement and construction of secondary and primary state highways. Funds which remain unexpended at the end of any annual future construction of authorized projects, whether they are freeways or state highway projects. 1 iHis commissi : . Lae and five present maj-) &¢ /of the city council. years aS mayor and,as city council‘army in October, rminer residing in Grass Valley! ; ELECTED COUNTY PAY INCREASES By a three to two vote the Nevada County Board of Supervisors turned down the request of the county's elected officials for an increase of 20 per cent in salaries, but the board did grant Several increases in the Salaraies of deputies. . The board gave one deputy county auditor an increase of $300 a year making her salary $1800. Two deputy county assessors will each rein remuneration. The salary of a deputy county treasurer will be based on 12. ihstead of nine month year, to stand at $125 per menth. By a vote of three for and two against,“ an increase in the pay of deputy sheriffs, from $150 to. $165 per month was. granted. The county superintendent of schools will be per mitted one deputy at $1500 a year. FARL COVEY . ‘APPOINTED TO IMPORTANT POST: Earl Covey, past commander of . the Hague-Thomas s-Heearty the American Legion, commissioned by the been Secretary of member of the . Agricultural Loans Com-. Nevada ‘County. Cov ay] was named because he is both a verhas just Veterans mittee for experience in financial transactions. . on extends to 1947. AYOR OF GRASS Richakd Trathen, mayor and city councilman of Grass Valley last. week at a specially called meeting of the city council\ presented his resignation. No reason for his resignation Was stated. Councilman John, Re Thomas was elected mayor to take office immediat ly in -“Trathen's stead. The city cot non will appoint a new member to serve to fill the: vacancy on the boakd. Announcement of the appointment will probably be made at the next meeting i Councilman J. Stennett declared thig morning that the board had always acted in harmony and that no reason for Trathen’s resignation had been stated. Trathen had served two man for eight years. He was origina ly appointed to office following the retirement of former .Mayor Jack Harris" GRASS VALLEY PARATROOPER The War Department has _ telegraphed Mrs. Floris Henderson of Hills Mat, that her husband, Cpl. Roy J, Henderson, paratrooper, was killed in action over Germany on February 14th. Henderson was employed at the Empire Mine prior to entering the 1942. He had been overseas 16 months, had been wounded on D-day during the Normandy! invasion, and had received the purple heart and a presidential citation for gallantry in action. Word also has been received that his younger brother, Joseph E. Henderson, serving in the U, S. Navy, had died of an appendectomy in the

Pacific treatre on February 18th. Besides his wife, Cpl. Henderson leaves an infant son, Donnell, , his mother, Mrs. Dora lL. Sas eran: brothers, Earl and Ernest Hender-. son, and a sister, Joanne Henderson all of Ogden, Utah. FOR INVESTIGATION Melvin John Ronan, 44, was lodged in. the county jail Friday for investigation. Ronan. wag wearing a U. S. Air Corps uniform. He is a Post of . ; . been grected by permitees in the disHELEN CHAPMAN — HEARD ON AIR radio broadcast over KERC nibasnatiene Saturday from somewhere in Germany interviewed a Red Cross Mobile Unit and girls from several places in the United ‘States were questioned. One of the questions was ‘“‘Who Do You Most Admire?’’ As the answers came in the fourth stood out clear in the minds of many Nevada City and Grass Valley residents. ‘‘I am Helen Chapman, Nevada City, California, I most admire the infantrymen,’’ In the ‘15 minute broadcast many girls said they most admired their dad, Bisenhauer, Churchill, Roosevelt, etc., but several had ‘the same: feeling\as Miss Chapman in expressing their preference. Immediately Dr. Chapman was called by friends from Nevada City and Grass Valley and/§ they told him of hearing his daughter’s voice. Mrs. Harry Davey, whose daughter married Miss Chapman’s brother, Muller Chapman, was listening and heard (Miss Chapman clearly. TELTS OF MANY District Ranger H. I. Snider in charge of the Truckee district of the . Tahoe national forest, has just completed’ his 20th year on this district, . thus realizing his desire to live andi work in-the “high (Sierra Nevada . ¢ . mountains! He is. celebrating the! event b¥Y completing land use plans . whereby it is hoped area will be the number In 1942 Snider recalls, the Tahoe the Lake Tahoe . one recrea-. tion area in. the national forests of . = California. . . Bank of America Check To Red Cross, $47.40 Bank of America has delivered a check for $47.40 to Nevada (City Chapter—of the American Red Cross as its 1945 local contribution to the national Red Cross drive. This is thé chapter’s proportionate share of Bank of America’s state wide gift of ‘$110,000 based upon the local quota as assigned by national Red Cross ‘headquarters, ° wr » Telephone Company Gives $50 to Red Cross E. R. Ingalls, manager of The Pacific Teléphone and ‘Telegraph Company, has presented check for $50 to the Nevada City Chapter, American Red Cross. Again this year the company is contributing to the various Red Cross chapters throughout the Pacific Coast territory in which it operates. The total of. this year’s contribution to all chapters. amounts to $130,000. Mrs. Sturevant Heads Elementary School PTA Mrs. Howard Sturtivant was Seated as president Friday afternoon of the Nevada City Elementary Parent Teabers Association, Installing ofwas ‘Mrs. George C. Huber of first vice president of the Third District of the association. Frane gave a. 20 ficer Sacramento Luschen, music director, minute program of miusiecal numbers played by the student orchestra. H. E. Kjorlie, snuperintendent_of the Nevada City Unified School District, discussion of the elementaty budget. Be served by Ford's second graders. Sturtivant suceeds Mrs; retiring president. led a school reshments were Miss Savory Mrs. Sauer, Matt complaints pee Thomas O’Dea Dismissed District. Attornéy H. Ward She -. Company, STATE CHAMBER — AID IN PROJECTS SACRAMENTO, March 5—Reaffirming its support of the state tax reduction program, the Sacramento Valley Council of the. California State Chamber of ‘Commerce has adopted a recommendation that the State chamber urge the legislature to cénsider allocating a portion of the state surplus to cities and counties for postwar construction projects. The council also went on record as favoring the voluntary principle for health insurance and oppesing the compulsory principle in several proposals now before the state. legislature. The council considered a large number of other legislative proposals at its meeting in the Hotel Senator which was presided over by George G: Pollock, regional vice president of the state chamber. The council’s recommendations will -be reviewed. by the cham‘ber’s appyipriate state ~ wide committees and its board of directors before the chamber takes a final position on any of them. The council’s action on health insurance followed a. debate between Beach Vasey, Governor Warren’s secretary and opponents of compulsory health insurance. Dr.: Frank MacDonald, Sacramento physician and surgeon, who represented the California Medical Association, and ro, J. Lacy, president of the Califor{nia Western States Life Insurance spoke against compulsory Dr. MacDonald asserted ithat if given time voluntary programg . Will substantially meet the problems . . involved, . . The council’s action with refer, ence to continued tax reduction and ate aid to cities and counties was oe after Richard Graves, execut. insurance. ,. forest had only the Lake Tahoe cama t don yestertlay filed a formal aaa oe ee which had been forest, cround, the and‘there was only one building on the Trickee district. the Martis.Peak lookout which was. built . in 1912 with the aid of the CrownWilliamette Paper Company. ‘The other two field guards on the district { at that time lived in tents. The Truckee ranger station wag a rented building which quartered two fire guards, fire fighting equipment, office and the ranger and his family. The only forest service equipment consisted of a model T truck, a relic of World War I. Snider stated he rented a house to live in when he arrived and by 1928 managed to have cabins built for three field guards by raising cooperative funds and salvaging movie set lumber. In 1929 he built a home for his family. By 1922 a total of 14 new buildings. had been erected, western Nevada, to which fire tion had been extended. A compl&te new telephone communication system had been built, six camp ground and summer home areas had been laid\out and were aperating and many hew summer homes had trict. National Automobile Club. this period of time, the average au tomobile will be good for between 50,000 and 100,000 miles of transportation if given proper care. It, is estimated that 220,000 automobiles are now living on. borrowed time and just barely able to limp along on California highways. Although it was feared that these borderline Cars would be of considerable danger on the highways, it has been found that the majority of accidents is still the result of careless driver and not the fault of the automobile. Mr. and Mrs. John Eden. motored to Lincoln Wednesday and. visited friends. The birthday of one of her friends: was celebrated with a dinner. donated to} , O’Dea’s attorneys, . sheriff’s office al-of a misdemeanor charge>~bat: tery, and felony charge, resisting an officer, pending against Thomas O’Dea, acquitted last week by jury of a battery charge in Grass Valley. Evidence in the two cases just dismissed paralelled the evidence in torney stated that testimony was conflicting and he did'not believe a conviction was probable. O’Dea was arrested November 25th, following a brawl in a Grass Valley cafe. Following his acquittal last week, E. Vayne Miller and Arthur DeB. Carr.of Sacramento, filed a claim for $12,500 against the city of Grass Valley, alleging their client had been injured by rough treatment on the part of Policemen William Sproul and Kenneth Manuel. The Grass Valley city council rejected the claim. John Sturgill Leaves Jair for Hospital Again John Sturgill, county awaiting trial in jail on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon was in the Nevada County Hospital last week, suffering, according to Sheriff C. J Tobiassen, from hysteria. Albout a month ago Sturgill attempted suicide, slashing his throat and arms with a razor blade. His trial then pending was postponed. It is believed he will not be able to appear Tuesday when his trial is again scheduled. Before his attempt at suicide, Sturgill made a purported confession to Sheriff Tobiassen, indicating that in May 139. he had murdered an intinerant in Alameda County in May, 1939. Investigation by the in Alameda County. failed to verify Sturgill’s statements. Sturgill wag arrested in Truckee in January follawing a stabbine affray in which: William Felder was Ntaahaa. Felder. served 30 days in the county jail for drunkenness. ADDS DOLLS TO COLLECTION Mrs. Miles Coughlan was presented with three foreign dolls to add to her large group by Nevada City men now on the war fronts. One came from Major Warren Chapman and was from the Naples area of Italy and two others were from Bud Keller, former Nevada (City boy, and they also came from ly. One of Mrs. Coughlan’s hobbies is dolls and she ing to periods in the history adding charme to her large collection. the trial last week. The district athas all sizes, from Many countries. Many of the dols are dressed accord. fornia Cities. and Frederic. Alexan< der, executive secretary of the county supervisors association of California, declared that local governments are facing serious employment and construction problems ag the result of population increaseg and war burdens. Elton Sherwin, Sacramento city manager, also spoke in favor of state aid to cities. Other legislative proposals approved in principle by the council cluded: Acquisition of forests by the state, establishment of forest cutting prac-. tice codes, reorganization of the state board of forestry on a staggered term basis, transfer of the LaTour Forest to the State Division of. Forestry to be administered as a state. forest; federal, state, and private land owner cooperation in eradication of the pine bark beetle in California forests; creation of a state advisory flood control board, creation ofa state water authority to deal with the fedetal government, delegation of limited regulatory powers to the State Fish and Gama (Commission, extension of the farm production council and reappropria+, tion of the balances unexpended by the council, creation of a second in-, jury fund under the ‘Workmen’s, (Compensation laws, extension of the mine debt moratorium, extension of the premium quota Plan for the productiion of strategic minerals, repeal of the three per cent gross receipts tax on for hire highway carriers, in« crease in state aid to counties for tuberculosis sanitariums, additional. state aid for control of predatory animals, and creation of a new dairy industry board on a self supporting basis to expand markets for California dairy products, The council opposed all legislation to increase free hunting and fishing licenses and legislation to regulate the. Christmas tree trade, The 1 —-approyed in . principle legislation to enable the State Fish , rand Game Commission to purchase and operate public shooting grounds and to use its own funds for that purpose, but recommended the subject of appropriations from the state in. Post war surplus for that purpose be given study. ; Mr.’and Mrs. Louis poh came up from the bay district. Saturday and are spending a few days in their here and expect to move home the first of the month. He has been ployed in war work. while in the b district the vee bis . ye & home. They have property interests a