March 6, 1939 (4 pages)

ow ‘stand together for Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. _—_—— evada Ci ty Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists” —Alexander Hamil—_——_ Tune up the great Heweag and give her blast ta call into the Hall of Comparative Ovations the husky and stalwart disciples of St. Vitus, patron saint of the primitive Order of E. Clampus Vitus. Events of portenious dimensions are cooking in the caldron, and presently there willl emerge a brew of which every clamper will be «asked to drink lustily. First event on the agenda is an election of officers, and second, in the next following moon, a great rallying of Clampers from near and far to celebrate the advent of electric light in the dim, kerosene illumined North San Juan; there” also to establish in its pristine Clampagestry, the ancient fellowship of the Brethren.Announcements will be iClamclarioned shortly. ; Governor Olson is apparently getting fed up with the ‘“‘bleat”’ committees. We are singularly pleased with this adjective ¢limpsed in a headline of our local contemporary. The ‘‘bleats’” of hiis labor supporters who now ask mearly everything of him, except to keep. their noses clean, are gradually grinding down the governor’s patience. The ‘two labor factions fostered by Messrs. Green and Lewis for their own personal agrandizement and incidental pickin’s, are constantly putting our ‘New Dealers in an unpleasant spot. We all remember when the President gave utterance ito the Shakespearean curse: ‘A plague on both your houses,’ meaning the House of Lewis and the Mansion of Green. The governor might as readily. quote from the Good Book: “‘A ‘house diveded against itself shall fall.’ Personally we ‘should be glad to ,see all labor unions-freed of tsars. We should like to see’ all workers well organized in democratic fashjon, each vocation in an orderly group, every man with a free vote, and a secret ‘ballot for all voting. In this free country we do not believe that any man ‘should be coereed to join anything.’ At the present. time unions say to inderendent workmen, “join , or. starve.” This is exactly the attitude formerly taken by employers in many instances when they denied a man ‘a job if ‘he joined a union. ‘No man should ‘be forced either to join or refrain from joining. If local workmen’s organizations wish to ido so, they should be free as the air to form state and federal associations, as indeed they have done, and if they wish to make their influence felt in national affairs they should of course unite for political purposes. But what labor needs and for that matter what the nation needs as a whole, is enlightened, unselfish leadership that finds glory in inculeating a friendly spirit among all men, in (promoting harmony and co-operation rather than strife, first among workmen themselves, and second between employers anid employes. When the world is so vexed and burdened with important social and economic problems, it seems as if the course of demogoguery which has fallen upon so many countriés ‘were a straw too much. Tt may be thiat the fires started by egomaniacs are even now slowly dying out. There are signs in Pojand, Hungary, and even CzechoSlovakia, that the Hitler star is waning. It is reported that Franco, having used the Italian armies to whip his Spanish brethren has now asked Mussolini. to remove them. This, if true would he a tough piece of spaghetti for Tl Duce to swallow, but he would probably do eo rather than send more Italians to ‘fight a united Spain and incidentally chance a world war, The Japanese war in China is slowing down. The dack of iwar finances, the vast territory to keep in subjugation,-and the threat of Rusgia, are giving the militarists a pause. They begin to realize perthaps that they are over extended and that any first class power, couud enter the arena now and, give them a terrible beating. It is probable also, that the President’s bold uteerances . coneerning quarantining aggressor nations, with ever and anon a hint that democracies, wpholding the game ideals, should be willing to their maintenance, ‘have helped to cool the war ardor of dictators both east and west. If mere sabre rattling will keep the peace, by all means let Uncle Sam wey his sabre loudest of all. <A big armament appropriation may turn out to be the cheapest insurance to be had’ against 'war. Volta, Nooo. The County Seat Paper . NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MARCH 6, 19: Blackwood’s Insanity Plea Is Withdrawn; Sentence Wednesday Irl Blackwood and his wife, Irene, convicted; last Friday -ofmurder in the first and second degree, respectively, appeared this morning before the jury in the Superior Court with Judge George L. Jones presiding, for their hearing on their plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity.” Following the testimony ‘by Dr. H. F. Benteen of Grass Valley and Dr. Mary Smythe, superintendent of the Stockton state hhospital, to the effect that the 'twowere not insane, and testimony of Mrs. Beth Robinson, mother of Irl Blackwood that members off the family had shown ment2 instability, the insanity plea of ‘the Blackwoods was =wwithdrawn, and time for. sentence was set at 10 o’clock next Wednesday morning. Mrs, \Robinson testified that an uncle of Irl Blackwood had. died by suicide, and that a younger brother had committed suicide with a gun. The jury brought: in a verdict Fri-+ day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, finding Irl Blackwood guilty of murder in the first degree &s a result of his killing James Roots on New Years Day in a dispute over an old tin outhouse. He was found guilty of second degree murder for the killing of Arthur Levailey at the same time. Mrs. Blackwood was found guilty on two counts of second degree murder. The jury recommended life imprisonment for Irl Blackwood. In this own behalf, testifying on his insanity plea, Blackwood stated that on the last day he worked as WPA foreman, he had lead his crew employed on a ditch near Smartville, three miles out of their way in returning to their truck after their work was finished. He said he had lost ‘his mind during that time. SALES TO U.S. GOVERNMENTNOW MUST BE TAXED Retailers throughout California today were notified by the State Board of Equalization that, effective April 1, California’s retail sales tax will apply to all sales made to United States government agencies. In keeping with recent court decisions to the effect that, in legal contemplation, the tax is on the retailer although it may be passed on to the purchaser as a part of the price of the goods, the board has adopted the following ruling: “The tax applies to receipts from sales of tangible personal property to the United States government. Sales to such departments as the Treasury, Interior, Agriculture, War, Navy, Post office are sales to the United States government.’’ The hoard iannouncement pointed out that the ruling is not retroactive but applies only to transactions occurring on or after April 1. GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS =; CONSERVATION WEEK) The fifth annual observance of California Conservation Week ‘was in progress this morning and will continue through March 14. During the week, schools and club programs and \pulbllic meetings will feature ediucational efiforts directed toward the conservation of the state’s natural resources. Governor Culbert L. ‘Olson, Honorlary Chairmian of the 1939” Conservation Week, inaugurated the observance with the announcement: “The great state of California has been blessed with an abundance of natural resources ‘which hlave added greatly to her wealth and scenic beauty. “Tt tis dowobiiatn that California set aside a week each year to be known as ‘Conservation Week.’ extolling the wonders of her natural resources, and unging that these resources be guarded and, preserved against unlawful encroachment and wastage. “Tt is also appropriate that Conservation Week be observed this year during the week beginning March 6, during which fall Arbor Day and Luther Burbank’s birthday, -and I call upon all California’s citizens to unite in a policy of observing our conservation Jaws this week and every week throughout the year. “ro thisend, now, therefore, I, Culbert L. Olson;governor of California, do thereby proclaim-the week beginning March 6, 1939, as Conservation Week in California, and I urge widespread observance and participation ‘by ‘all citizens.” Mr. and Mrs. ‘Roland Wright of Sacramenito spent the week end in Nevada (City and Willow Valley vis-. . iting the Wright and Genasci families. Harry Stephens, who is undergoing treatment for ‘dnjuries ‘sustainnd in a truck accident several months ago, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Wright ‘to ‘Nev: 1 (City and spent the week end with his parents ‘Morest Ranger Frank Meggers, Mr. and Mrs. R. Stephens, LATE E. J. HAVERSTOCK BURIED IN GLENDALE Funeral services ‘were held in Glendale, Calif., on Saturday for the late E. J. Haverstock who passed away on Thursday in that city. Interment was in Cypress Lawn cemietery, Glendale. Deceased was a resident of Washington for the past fifteen years and was the genial host of the hotel there. He also ‘held the mail contract between Nevada City and Washington for ia number of years. Through his illness was brief he had been in poor health for some 'time. He was a memiber of the Masonic fraternity. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Haverstock and a sister in Pennsylvania, ST. PATRICK’S DANCE. PROGRAM ARMORY HALL This year the annual St. Patrick’s Dance will be held in Nevada City. It is the custom ifor the dance to, be . held alternately in Grass Valley and Nevada City. It is sponsored by the parishioners of St. Canice and will be held at Armory Hall, wiurday, March 18. There will be a fine orchestra for dance music and also, a good program. All interested persons are urged to attend, the proreeds of the affair will. be used for the needs of the parish. CAMPTONVILILE, March 6.—This community expects. to have a Red Cross Emergency First Aid Station established. ‘This will consist of the necessary equipment to dispense first aid in an emengency and will be the only place between Nevada City and Downieville, at present there being no provisions for emergencies. With the establishment of the station the Red ‘Cross Chapter at Marysville will furnish an instructor and give a 20hour training course to fit those necessary to represent such station. The training is free and anyone interested ‘may take it. ‘Anyone interested in this matter should contact or Judge A. M. Cleveland. COON FEASTS POPULAR The latter part of last week Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and Victor Gates and Sheriff Dewey Johnson anid Deputy Sheriff ‘Chester Butz of Sierra county, enjoyed a coon hunt on the Idaho-Maryland mine and Loma Rica-ranch properties. They succeeded in killing—one lange coon which was taken home by the Sierra county officers for a feast. Coonsare vegetarians and are ‘considered quite} delicious eating. James Daniels and wife of Tacoma, Washington, came by Nevada City last week en route home from a most enjoyable time in San Francisco and on Treasure Island. Mr. Daniels is a brother in law of Robert Allen of Boulder street and a for mer Nevada City resident. HOTEL MAN SAWS OFF LIMB WHILE STANDING ON IT! ' Gus Dimmen, owner of the Sierra Hotel on Spring sitréet suffered bruises and shock ‘this forenoon when he either accidentally or absent mindedly sawed off a walnut limb on which he was standing and Téll to the ground ‘with it. He was clearing the limbs away preparatory ‘to rebuilding a section of his building torn away several years aigo, Mr. Dimmen was sawing this rather large limb below him evidently not noticing it was the one he was standing on. Several local citizens were standing along ‘the street watching Dimmen working when the mishap occurred, COUNTY CLERKS TO MEET IN SAN FRANCISCO county lane and 3 and Mrs. R. N. MeCormack will go to San Francisco this week where he will attend the county clerks convention on the 9, 10 and 11. The clerks will study the bills presenited to the legislature and make any recommendations felt necessary in improving or eliminating unsatisfactory legislation pertaining to their work. NOW SEEKS NEW Aghast at tthe estimated cost of the proposed Yuba river low level highway between Downieville and Marysville, connecting the Mae West highway at the Indian Valley bridge afid the Tahoe-Ukiah at tthe Parks Bar bridge, the directors of Joint Highway district 24 and Yuba and Sierra county supporters comprised in an agreeing to ask a cost estimate on lithe Willow Creek route at the dis: trict highway meeting which held at Marysville Thursday. The bélieved excessive cost of the low level highway and the fact that the Willow Creek route between the Indian Valley bridge and Bullards Bar Dam would also serve Camptonwas build and shorter in-length, agreemenit was reached to ask the Division of Highways to prepare a cost estimate and survey the new route. Wording of the resolution was left to Director Victor Hallock and Engineer Ross Taylor, both of Sierra county, ‘the seme of the meeting being that a road that will suit Sierra county will besit suit Yuba county. Sierra countyans who attended the meeting were: Margaret Lambert, county ‘treasurer; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Motini, Victor Hallock, supervisor, who recently started a new agi'tation for the ‘highway route; Editor Vic Cassidy of the Mountain (Messenger; Frank Turner, county clerk; M. F. Lusk, Norman L. Costa, Bill Robbins, Frank Turner, Ross Taylor count,y surveyor; Tiny Lavezolla of the St. Chiaarles Hotel; Ray Herrera, Alton Cook, Steve Dondero and Ear] Turner; all of Downieville; Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Holzworth, E. M. Innes, Geo. Willis and Eric Ostrom, all of Sierra City. Harry Parsons, ex-Spanish ‘war veteran, returned today from a five months stay at. Yountville. He was critically ill while there but looks in better health now itthan he has been in many years. He said the sunshine was warm and = spring’ flowers were out making it beautiful at Yountville. Mr. Parsons will gpend this spring and summer in his small home out on the Downieville highway. George Chaney of -Nevada . City talked over the Sacramento Bee radio station yesterday in a short program telling of the notrious high wayman Black Bart. The Wells Fargo strong box jwhich is in the museum at Timbucktoo, Nevada County ‘was also taken to the radio station. It was one.that Black Bart ‘had broken open when ‘he-robbed a stagecoach of gold dust, nuggets and bullion, Constable William Boetcher of Truckee was a business visitor in Nevada City today. Mr. Boeticher has served Truckee as constable about 21 years. ville, Alleghany and: other commu n. ities and would be less expemsive to. North Bloomfield today on a Eto for, Murchie To Cross-Cut, Depending on whether or not the state legislature now.in session for the second thalf of its-term, refrains from imposing further taxes, labor reguiations, and other tharessments of a legislatuve character upon the mining industry, tthe Murchie mine management is prepared to expend $100,000 or more, in running a footwall cross cut from the 400 foot level in its shaft for 6,000 feet toward. Mt. Banner. The purpose of ‘this crosscut would be to explore an area which gives some promise of ore deévelopment under the slopes of that mountain. It has ‘been determined ‘to use this method of exploring the area adjoining the Lava Cap holdings to the east, rather than to sink a new exploratory shaft on Mt. Banner. Costing $100,000, IfStart New Mile Long, The preiintary work is shortly to . begin and will be vigorously prosecu-_ ted once the management is assured of no further restrictive or hampering legislation, It will 'be necessary to straighten — and condition drifts and tunn ithe immediate vicinity of my of: chie shaft so as to give the. proposed cross-cut a proper grade and dimensions for discharging a vast amout of waste While it is not stated authorit-— atively how many men the construc tion of this cross-cut over @ mile long, will employ, it is probable that at least as many men as now employ-_ ed will be required. The Murchfe — now employs 130 men and sothe of the work in which the are now engaged will undobutely be continued. SNOW PLOWS BACK TO WORK. ROADS CLEARED After many days of fair weather the state division of ‘highways report that four inches of new snow has fallen at Steep Hollow, on the Tahoe Ukiah highway east of Nevada City and ‘was continuing to come down. Two snow plows have been the road ‘clear. Through the Tahoe National Forest headquarters it was learned that there were five inches of new snow at Big Bend and eight inches at Soda Springs, and it still is coming down. Snow plows are working on route 40, automobiles are going over tthe Donned Summit and roads are in good shape. Considerable interest regions as skiing sand other snow sports would have been curtailed to some extent if it had not stormed. Skiing was poor during the we end as snow had melted in many places and in others it was too soft. ASSESSOR HAS OFFICE IN G. V. FOR TWO WEEKS Tomorrow County Assessor, John M. Hammill and staff will be domiciled on ithe second floor in the city hall in Grass Valley and will be ready for ‘business at 9 a, m. They will remain in the Grass Valley quarters for two weeks. All persons who own _ personal property not secured by real estate are requested to call and*make payment of the taxes thereon. Owners of real estate should call anid list their property holdings, real and personal. War veterans wishing to claim the exemption of $1000 allowed by the law should call at the office with their honorable discharge papers and make the necessary alfifidavits. Office hours will be maintained from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m Property owners become liable to assessment of all property owned on the first Monday in March. Mrs, Clara Scarfe, who was called to Los. Angeles on account of the serious iliness of her son George, returned to her home yesterday evening. Her son was taken from the hospital to his home yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Krough were recent visitors at Fort Miley and San. Francisco. J. E. Roberts of Sacramento is spending a vacation with his sister and brother in‘ilaw, and Mrs. Dave Richards of Boulder street. Lieutenant Commander E, F. McCarcin came up from San Francisco and spent Sunday visiting his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Parsons. ' When Game Warden Earl Hiscox came from Truckee and surrounding territory early yesterday morning he put chains on his automobile to come over Donner Summit where there was eight inches of new snow. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gregory and son, Dick, spent the week end in Sacramento visiting a sister of Mrs. Gregory. down from the Lucky Jane mine at ness -trip.__ Robert Tucker; “who is University of California’ ahaa lege chum spent ithe week end in } vada City with his mother, ‘ ‘ County: Lannania:) Anna out on the highway all day keeping! is be-. ing shown in the snow in the upper} ,hold services at 11 a. m. in Trinity Mr. and Mrs, ©. ‘E Clark. came . ; BIDSONHIGH SCHOOL ADDITION. ‘ARE 700 HIGH The lowest bid on*the new. addition to the Nevada City high school, — opened by the Unified District board was $4,000 hikher than the amount of money provided ($20,000) in the bonid issue. This bid was submitted by Paul Jenks of Grass Valley. Aifter some discussion the board. decided 'to apply ito the WPA for a ~ loan, hoping to: obtain enough not . only for the construction of a stage © to the gymnasium-auditorium, and — ¢raft class rooms beneath it, as contemplated in tthe plans for enlarge— ment, but also enough to purchase ‘ much needed pero i for is new adiditions. aE ola a REV. BORELL TO PREACH IN TRINITY SUNDAY” Bishop Noel Porter of the Sacramento Diocese has announced that Eldon W. Borell of Berkeley will be in Nevada City Sunday, March 12 to church, Mr. Borell will also visit with the Sunday school ait 10 a. m. Yesterday, Miss Elma Hecker, superintendent, treated all the Sunday — school ‘children to candy suckers in honor of her.recent birthday, all those not being present will recet their candy this coming Sunday. — On Wednesday evening, March 8 at 7:30 will be the litany service and a short reading, followed by Cho practice. The choir under the aires. tion of Mrs. Marian Libbey are work. ing on the Easter music for Paster Sunday, April ninth. . Forest Supervisor DeWitt Deas: in San Francisico. Mrs. Martha Dillon, who has . quite ill for several weeks, is in ing which will be good news to many friends. . ? hall Friday afternoon by appo delegates from the various civic ganizations of Nevada City “Youth Delinquency”’ as tthe 1 of discussion. The group hop soon form a coordinating coum help solve this problem fn this trict. Their aim will be preven delinquency. Kenneth Beam, executive 20 of the ‘(Community (Coordina council throughout the state f ito promote “service counicils”, in various cities met with the . Mrs. E. T. Bonner of Ne was elected to head ~ council. 4 Delegates’ were ‘pcb. Rotary Club (who init ent discussions), the Professional Women’s and habe school P. ip te

ow ‘stand together for Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. _—_—— evada Ci ty Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists” —Alexander Hamil—_——_ Tune up the great Heweag and give her blast ta call into the Hall of Comparative Ovations the husky and stalwart disciples of St. Vitus, patron saint of the primitive Order of E. Clampus Vitus. Events of portenious dimensions are cooking in the caldron, and presently there willl emerge a brew of which every clamper will be «asked to drink lustily. First event on the agenda is an election of officers, and second, in the next following moon, a great rallying of Clampers from near and far to celebrate the advent of electric light in the dim, kerosene illumined North San Juan; there” also to establish in its pristine Clampagestry, the ancient fellowship of the Brethren.Announcements will be iClamclarioned shortly. ; Governor Olson is apparently getting fed up with the ‘“‘bleat”’ committees. We are singularly pleased with this adjective ¢limpsed in a headline of our local contemporary. The ‘‘bleats’” of hiis labor supporters who now ask mearly everything of him, except to keep. their noses clean, are gradually grinding down the governor’s patience. The ‘two labor factions fostered by Messrs. Green and Lewis for their own personal agrandizement and incidental pickin’s, are constantly putting our ‘New Dealers in an unpleasant spot. We all remember when the President gave utterance ito the Shakespearean curse: ‘A plague on both your houses,’ meaning the House of Lewis and the Mansion of Green. The governor might as readily. quote from the Good Book: “‘A ‘house diveded against itself shall fall.’ Personally we ‘should be glad to ,see all labor unions-freed of tsars. We should like to see’ all workers well organized in democratic fashjon, each vocation in an orderly group, every man with a free vote, and a secret ‘ballot for all voting. In this free country we do not believe that any man ‘should be coereed to join anything.’ At the present. time unions say to inderendent workmen, “join , or. starve.” This is exactly the attitude formerly taken by employers in many instances when they denied a man ‘a job if ‘he joined a union. ‘No man should ‘be forced either to join or refrain from joining. If local workmen’s organizations wish to ido so, they should be free as the air to form state and federal associations, as indeed they have done, and if they wish to make their influence felt in national affairs they should of course unite for political purposes. But what labor needs and for that matter what the nation needs as a whole, is enlightened, unselfish leadership that finds glory in inculeating a friendly spirit among all men, in (promoting harmony and co-operation rather than strife, first among workmen themselves, and second between employers anid employes. When the world is so vexed and burdened with important social and economic problems, it seems as if the course of demogoguery which has fallen upon so many countriés ‘were a straw too much. Tt may be thiat the fires started by egomaniacs are even now slowly dying out. There are signs in Pojand, Hungary, and even CzechoSlovakia, that the Hitler star is waning. It is reported that Franco, having used the Italian armies to whip his Spanish brethren has now asked Mussolini. to remove them. This, if true would he a tough piece of spaghetti for Tl Duce to swallow, but he would probably do eo rather than send more Italians to ‘fight a united Spain and incidentally chance a world war, The Japanese war in China is slowing down. The dack of iwar finances, the vast territory to keep in subjugation,-and the threat of Rusgia, are giving the militarists a pause. They begin to realize perthaps that they are over extended and that any first class power, couud enter the arena now and, give them a terrible beating. It is probable also, that the President’s bold uteerances . coneerning quarantining aggressor nations, with ever and anon a hint that democracies, wpholding the game ideals, should be willing to their maintenance, ‘have helped to cool the war ardor of dictators both east and west. If mere sabre rattling will keep the peace, by all means let Uncle Sam wey his sabre loudest of all. <A big armament appropriation may turn out to be the cheapest insurance to be had’ against 'war. Volta, Nooo. The County Seat Paper . NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MARCH 6, 19: Blackwood’s Insanity Plea Is Withdrawn; Sentence Wednesday Irl Blackwood and his wife, Irene, convicted; last Friday -ofmurder in the first and second degree, respectively, appeared this morning before the jury in the Superior Court with Judge George L. Jones presiding, for their hearing on their plea of “not guilty by reason of insanity.” Following the testimony ‘by Dr. H. F. Benteen of Grass Valley and Dr. Mary Smythe, superintendent of the Stockton state hhospital, to the effect that the 'twowere not insane, and testimony of Mrs. Beth Robinson, mother of Irl Blackwood that members off the family had shown ment2 instability, the insanity plea of ‘the Blackwoods was =wwithdrawn, and time for. sentence was set at 10 o’clock next Wednesday morning. Mrs, \Robinson testified that an uncle of Irl Blackwood had. died by suicide, and that a younger brother had committed suicide with a gun. The jury brought: in a verdict Fri-+ day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, finding Irl Blackwood guilty of murder in the first degree &s a result of his killing James Roots on New Years Day in a dispute over an old tin outhouse. He was found guilty of second degree murder for the killing of Arthur Levailey at the same time. Mrs. Blackwood was found guilty on two counts of second degree murder. The jury recommended life imprisonment for Irl Blackwood. In this own behalf, testifying on his insanity plea, Blackwood stated that on the last day he worked as WPA foreman, he had lead his crew employed on a ditch near Smartville, three miles out of their way in returning to their truck after their work was finished. He said he had lost ‘his mind during that time. SALES TO U.S. GOVERNMENTNOW MUST BE TAXED Retailers throughout California today were notified by the State Board of Equalization that, effective April 1, California’s retail sales tax will apply to all sales made to United States government agencies. In keeping with recent court decisions to the effect that, in legal contemplation, the tax is on the retailer although it may be passed on to the purchaser as a part of the price of the goods, the board has adopted the following ruling: “The tax applies to receipts from sales of tangible personal property to the United States government. Sales to such departments as the Treasury, Interior, Agriculture, War, Navy, Post office are sales to the United States government.’’ The hoard iannouncement pointed out that the ruling is not retroactive but applies only to transactions occurring on or after April 1. GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS =; CONSERVATION WEEK) The fifth annual observance of California Conservation Week ‘was in progress this morning and will continue through March 14. During the week, schools and club programs and \pulbllic meetings will feature ediucational efiforts directed toward the conservation of the state’s natural resources. Governor Culbert L. ‘Olson, Honorlary Chairmian of the 1939” Conservation Week, inaugurated the observance with the announcement: “The great state of California has been blessed with an abundance of natural resources ‘which hlave added greatly to her wealth and scenic beauty. “Tt tis dowobiiatn that California set aside a week each year to be known as ‘Conservation Week.’ extolling the wonders of her natural resources, and unging that these resources be guarded and, preserved against unlawful encroachment and wastage. “Tt is also appropriate that Conservation Week be observed this year during the week beginning March 6, during which fall Arbor Day and Luther Burbank’s birthday, -and I call upon all California’s citizens to unite in a policy of observing our conservation Jaws this week and every week throughout the year. “ro thisend, now, therefore, I, Culbert L. Olson;governor of California, do thereby proclaim-the week beginning March 6, 1939, as Conservation Week in California, and I urge widespread observance and participation ‘by ‘all citizens.” Mr. and Mrs. ‘Roland Wright of Sacramenito spent the week end in Nevada (City and Willow Valley vis-. . iting the Wright and Genasci families. Harry Stephens, who is undergoing treatment for ‘dnjuries ‘sustainnd in a truck accident several months ago, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Wright ‘to ‘Nev: 1 (City and spent the week end with his parents ‘Morest Ranger Frank Meggers, Mr. and Mrs. R. Stephens, LATE E. J. HAVERSTOCK BURIED IN GLENDALE Funeral services ‘were held in Glendale, Calif., on Saturday for the late E. J. Haverstock who passed away on Thursday in that city. Interment was in Cypress Lawn cemietery, Glendale. Deceased was a resident of Washington for the past fifteen years and was the genial host of the hotel there. He also ‘held the mail contract between Nevada City and Washington for ia number of years. Through his illness was brief he had been in poor health for some 'time. He was a memiber of the Masonic fraternity. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Haverstock and a sister in Pennsylvania, ST. PATRICK’S DANCE. PROGRAM ARMORY HALL This year the annual St. Patrick’s Dance will be held in Nevada City. It is the custom ifor the dance to, be . held alternately in Grass Valley and Nevada City. It is sponsored by the parishioners of St. Canice and will be held at Armory Hall, wiurday, March 18. There will be a fine orchestra for dance music and also, a good program. All interested persons are urged to attend, the proreeds of the affair will. be used for the needs of the parish. CAMPTONVILILE, March 6.—This community expects. to have a Red Cross Emergency First Aid Station established. ‘This will consist of the necessary equipment to dispense first aid in an emengency and will be the only place between Nevada City and Downieville, at present there being no provisions for emergencies. With the establishment of the station the Red ‘Cross Chapter at Marysville will furnish an instructor and give a 20hour training course to fit those necessary to represent such station. The training is free and anyone interested ‘may take it. ‘Anyone interested in this matter should contact or Judge A. M. Cleveland. COON FEASTS POPULAR The latter part of last week Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and Victor Gates and Sheriff Dewey Johnson anid Deputy Sheriff ‘Chester Butz of Sierra county, enjoyed a coon hunt on the Idaho-Maryland mine and Loma Rica-ranch properties. They succeeded in killing—one lange coon which was taken home by the Sierra county

officers for a feast. Coonsare vegetarians and are ‘considered quite} delicious eating. James Daniels and wife of Tacoma, Washington, came by Nevada City last week en route home from a most enjoyable time in San Francisco and on Treasure Island. Mr. Daniels is a brother in law of Robert Allen of Boulder street and a for mer Nevada City resident. HOTEL MAN SAWS OFF LIMB WHILE STANDING ON IT! ' Gus Dimmen, owner of the Sierra Hotel on Spring sitréet suffered bruises and shock ‘this forenoon when he either accidentally or absent mindedly sawed off a walnut limb on which he was standing and Téll to the ground ‘with it. He was clearing the limbs away preparatory ‘to rebuilding a section of his building torn away several years aigo, Mr. Dimmen was sawing this rather large limb below him evidently not noticing it was the one he was standing on. Several local citizens were standing along ‘the street watching Dimmen working when the mishap occurred, COUNTY CLERKS TO MEET IN SAN FRANCISCO county lane and 3 and Mrs. R. N. MeCormack will go to San Francisco this week where he will attend the county clerks convention on the 9, 10 and 11. The clerks will study the bills presenited to the legislature and make any recommendations felt necessary in improving or eliminating unsatisfactory legislation pertaining to their work. NOW SEEKS NEW Aghast at tthe estimated cost of the proposed Yuba river low level highway between Downieville and Marysville, connecting the Mae West highway at the Indian Valley bridge afid the Tahoe-Ukiah at tthe Parks Bar bridge, the directors of Joint Highway district 24 and Yuba and Sierra county supporters comprised in an agreeing to ask a cost estimate on lithe Willow Creek route at the dis: trict highway meeting which held at Marysville Thursday. The bélieved excessive cost of the low level highway and the fact that the Willow Creek route between the Indian Valley bridge and Bullards Bar Dam would also serve Camptonwas build and shorter in-length, agreemenit was reached to ask the Division of Highways to prepare a cost estimate and survey the new route. Wording of the resolution was left to Director Victor Hallock and Engineer Ross Taylor, both of Sierra county, ‘the seme of the meeting being that a road that will suit Sierra county will besit suit Yuba county. Sierra countyans who attended the meeting were: Margaret Lambert, county ‘treasurer; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Motini, Victor Hallock, supervisor, who recently started a new agi'tation for the ‘highway route; Editor Vic Cassidy of the Mountain (Messenger; Frank Turner, county clerk; M. F. Lusk, Norman L. Costa, Bill Robbins, Frank Turner, Ross Taylor count,y surveyor; Tiny Lavezolla of the St. Chiaarles Hotel; Ray Herrera, Alton Cook, Steve Dondero and Ear] Turner; all of Downieville; Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Holzworth, E. M. Innes, Geo. Willis and Eric Ostrom, all of Sierra City. Harry Parsons, ex-Spanish ‘war veteran, returned today from a five months stay at. Yountville. He was critically ill while there but looks in better health now itthan he has been in many years. He said the sunshine was warm and = spring’ flowers were out making it beautiful at Yountville. Mr. Parsons will gpend this spring and summer in his small home out on the Downieville highway. George Chaney of -Nevada . City talked over the Sacramento Bee radio station yesterday in a short program telling of the notrious high wayman Black Bart. The Wells Fargo strong box jwhich is in the museum at Timbucktoo, Nevada County ‘was also taken to the radio station. It was one.that Black Bart ‘had broken open when ‘he-robbed a stagecoach of gold dust, nuggets and bullion, Constable William Boetcher of Truckee was a business visitor in Nevada City today. Mr. Boeticher has served Truckee as constable about 21 years. ville, Alleghany and: other commu n. ities and would be less expemsive to. North Bloomfield today on a Eto for, Murchie To Cross-Cut, Depending on whether or not the state legislature now.in session for the second thalf of its-term, refrains from imposing further taxes, labor reguiations, and other tharessments of a legislatuve character upon the mining industry, tthe Murchie mine management is prepared to expend $100,000 or more, in running a footwall cross cut from the 400 foot level in its shaft for 6,000 feet toward. Mt. Banner. The purpose of ‘this crosscut would be to explore an area which gives some promise of ore deévelopment under the slopes of that mountain. It has ‘been determined ‘to use this method of exploring the area adjoining the Lava Cap holdings to the east, rather than to sink a new exploratory shaft on Mt. Banner. Costing $100,000, IfStart New Mile Long, The preiintary work is shortly to . begin and will be vigorously prosecu-_ ted once the management is assured of no further restrictive or hampering legislation, It will 'be necessary to straighten — and condition drifts and tunn ithe immediate vicinity of my of: chie shaft so as to give the. proposed cross-cut a proper grade and dimensions for discharging a vast amout of waste While it is not stated authorit-— atively how many men the construc tion of this cross-cut over @ mile long, will employ, it is probable that at least as many men as now employ-_ ed will be required. The Murchfe — now employs 130 men and sothe of the work in which the are now engaged will undobutely be continued. SNOW PLOWS BACK TO WORK. ROADS CLEARED After many days of fair weather the state division of ‘highways report that four inches of new snow has fallen at Steep Hollow, on the Tahoe Ukiah highway east of Nevada City and ‘was continuing to come down. Two snow plows have been the road ‘clear. Through the Tahoe National Forest headquarters it was learned that there were five inches of new snow at Big Bend and eight inches at Soda Springs, and it still is coming down. Snow plows are working on route 40, automobiles are going over tthe Donned Summit and roads are in good shape. Considerable interest regions as skiing sand other snow sports would have been curtailed to some extent if it had not stormed. Skiing was poor during the we end as snow had melted in many places and in others it was too soft. ASSESSOR HAS OFFICE IN G. V. FOR TWO WEEKS Tomorrow County Assessor, John M. Hammill and staff will be domiciled on ithe second floor in the city hall in Grass Valley and will be ready for ‘business at 9 a, m. They will remain in the Grass Valley quarters for two weeks. All persons who own _ personal property not secured by real estate are requested to call and*make payment of the taxes thereon. Owners of real estate should call anid list their property holdings, real and personal. War veterans wishing to claim the exemption of $1000 allowed by the law should call at the office with their honorable discharge papers and make the necessary alfifidavits. Office hours will be maintained from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m Property owners become liable to assessment of all property owned on the first Monday in March. Mrs, Clara Scarfe, who was called to Los. Angeles on account of the serious iliness of her son George, returned to her home yesterday evening. Her son was taken from the hospital to his home yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Brian Krough were recent visitors at Fort Miley and San. Francisco. J. E. Roberts of Sacramento is spending a vacation with his sister and brother in‘ilaw, and Mrs. Dave Richards of Boulder street. Lieutenant Commander E, F. McCarcin came up from San Francisco and spent Sunday visiting his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Parsons. ' When Game Warden Earl Hiscox came from Truckee and surrounding territory early yesterday morning he put chains on his automobile to come over Donner Summit where there was eight inches of new snow. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gregory and son, Dick, spent the week end in Sacramento visiting a sister of Mrs. Gregory. down from the Lucky Jane mine at ness -trip.__ Robert Tucker; “who is University of California’ ahaa lege chum spent ithe week end in } vada City with his mother, ‘ ‘ County: Lannania:) Anna out on the highway all day keeping! is be-. ing shown in the snow in the upper} ,hold services at 11 a. m. in Trinity Mr. and Mrs, ©. ‘E Clark. came . ; BIDSONHIGH SCHOOL ADDITION. ‘ARE 700 HIGH The lowest bid on*the new. addition to the Nevada City high school, — opened by the Unified District board was $4,000 hikher than the amount of money provided ($20,000) in the bonid issue. This bid was submitted by Paul Jenks of Grass Valley. Aifter some discussion the board. decided 'to apply ito the WPA for a ~ loan, hoping to: obtain enough not . only for the construction of a stage © to the gymnasium-auditorium, and — ¢raft class rooms beneath it, as contemplated in tthe plans for enlarge— ment, but also enough to purchase ‘ much needed pero i for is new adiditions. aE ola a REV. BORELL TO PREACH IN TRINITY SUNDAY” Bishop Noel Porter of the Sacramento Diocese has announced that Eldon W. Borell of Berkeley will be in Nevada City Sunday, March 12 to church, Mr. Borell will also visit with the Sunday school ait 10 a. m. Yesterday, Miss Elma Hecker, superintendent, treated all the Sunday — school ‘children to candy suckers in honor of her.recent birthday, all those not being present will recet their candy this coming Sunday. — On Wednesday evening, March 8 at 7:30 will be the litany service and a short reading, followed by Cho practice. The choir under the aires. tion of Mrs. Marian Libbey are work. ing on the Easter music for Paster Sunday, April ninth. . Forest Supervisor DeWitt Deas: in San Francisico. Mrs. Martha Dillon, who has . quite ill for several weeks, is in ing which will be good news to many friends. . ? hall Friday afternoon by appo delegates from the various civic ganizations of Nevada City “Youth Delinquency”’ as tthe 1 of discussion. The group hop soon form a coordinating coum help solve this problem fn this trict. Their aim will be preven delinquency. Kenneth Beam, executive 20 of the ‘(Community (Coordina council throughout the state f ito promote “service counicils”, in various cities met with the . Mrs. E. T. Bonner of Ne was elected to head ~ council. 4 Delegates’ were ‘pcb. Rotary Club (who init ent discussions), the Professional Women’s and habe school P. ip te