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COVERS
“God grants liberty only to those we love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’’—Daniel Webster
evada City Nugget
RICHEST GOLD AREA IN C CALIFORNIA
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. 19, No. 19. _the County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Geld Center THURS? 1945
~ WHAT NOW?
By ROY G. OWENS
Engineer-Economist
Sons of Toil
Should men work with
object of
want doing——or should men be bent
with noses eternally to the grindstone merely in devotional obedience
to the “‘god’’ of work? To be employed or not to. be employed—that
seems to ‘be the question. It’s a national issue—no less.
s
the sole
How much work wants doing?—
who is to do what wants doing ?—
and—how long will it take how
many people to do what it fakes
to deliver all that’s wanted? Such
inquiries spring from that ‘‘wisdom
of man which is foolishness’’ with
the ‘‘gods’”’ of work.
And go the matter resolvés itself
into contriving “a series of sanctified
treadmills—some under “free’’ enterprise and the rest under government auspices—with job accommodations aplenty so that every citizen
may be “free” to exercise the “right
‘to work.”’ i
Thus fully employed until crip-.
getting things done that)
OLD TIMECAMP .
. AT WASHINGTON
Sanctified Treadmills For the!
CALIFORNIA
FARMERS FACE
HECTIC YEAR
By RALPH H. TAYLOR
This year, 1945, according to reGETS ELECTRICITY
The construction of the sawmill
across the South Yuba River from’
Washington, old time mining campj cent reports from Washington, is)
17 miles from this city, has resulted! designated as “transition year’ for
in bringing electricity. not only _ farmers—the year when food de-.
the sawmill ‘but will also make it) mands of our allies and the liber-'
available to some 26 houses’ that
now constitute the village. when the epidemic of food crises on
N. Schwalenberg, -constructiow} the home front will start to wane,
foreman, and George Van Epps, electrical foreman for. the Pacific Gas
and Electric Company now have a
crew of twenty men engaged in
bringing a power line down from the
Spanish Mine to both town and S8awmill: Transformers are now being
installed near “the ‘town to serve
both. The line from the Spanish
Mine to Washington is three and a
half miles. The installation work is
now practically completed.
The new sawmill at Washington is
being built by the State Box Com.
pany of Sacramento. It was the mill,
formerly operated by the Tahoe Sugar Pine Company. at Graniteville,
Nevada County, elevation5,000 feet .
\and reerected at Washing
in terms of post war etabilization.
That, we hasten to repeat, is an
appraisal from the national capital,
but many of Washington’s earlier .
forecasts of the farm situation have
undergone radical
conditions fluctuated.
revision when
The sevagatitiial vista may be
shifting in some sections of the United. States, but California farmers,
as yet, certainly have not noted any
indications of the transition which
is reported the offing.
Here, ‘at the western
nation’s food production
in
line, closeand when agriculture can begin to
catch its breath and start thinking!
end of the}
CALIDA LUMBER
COMPANY BEGINS
SAWING AGAIN
Following winter shut down due
. £0 unseasonal storms last November
and December the Calida Lumber
. Mill near Indian Valley, fourteen
miles west of Downieville, started
. production of lumber Tuesday, Mar
. partnership consisting of E. T. Fis. cher and Alfred F. Baumhoff, for-;}
,mer mining operators and formerly
of Boise. Idaho started construction
of their new mill in August, 1943.
. and completed it last fall in time to
ee approximately three million
board feet of lumber ‘before the
; heavy winter storms set in.
The company was the
lber consisting of
board
nine million feet
measure of ponderosa pine
. five million feet of sugar pine, ten
million feet of douglas fir and three
. million feet of white fir, on an area
ot approximately 1700 acres o£ the
. 3randy City virgin timber unit, in
the Downieville district of the Ta. hoe national forest.
To start their seasonal cut, the
company had approximately
million feet of logs in the
three
mill pond
and decked adjacent to the mill,
. which should provide thirty days
sawing before spring. logging operations start, During the * past winter
1 new re-saw was installed, which is
imated will increase the daily cut
) approximately 100,000 board. feet
lumber per eight hour shift: The
945.‘ season’s cut is estimated «at
y millic board feet of lumber,
states district: ranger De aney. The
Jalida Lumber Compeat has made
rangements with the Stockton*Bo
Company of ockton, for them to
buy ahd handle all litmber as it
eaches the green chain. In handling
this lumber from the green chain to
the lumber piles in ihe yard and
from the dry lumber piles to the
trucks which haul it to Stockton,
purchaser will employ from 20-to 22
me nunder the supervision
the
of Forepled or worn out—the presumption . on at an] st of all the ravenous needs’of the!
“is that the laborers are worthy of} elevation of 21500 feet. ‘This: will per=. thundering Pacific -.war — theatres, .
their hire—at minimum waxesr. 7 the company PG PORaey for ®! Galifornia, instead of experiencing
without ‘layoffs, but minus taxede Yee" = et Teast’ nine months a8 any slump in food requirements, is
and ‘‘free’’ enterprise ° is supposed . @84inst ais HOMERS Bt THO, OFF 10. oxperiencing one crisis. after anothto wave its, arms and: shout “Hal-j. oath Soe in home front shortages.
, Jelujah, ain’t this grand.” i How many of these shortages ‘in
Now this is not supposed to be} RIVE VEA PAL . the consumer market are dite. =to
the column of a humorist—but can A “AA, . actual shortages: in production—and
‘ anybody think of anything funnier? t Tl D Wy . how many are a result of bungled! !
—or more ridiculous? RN y NAl 07a) \4 [ V . price controls and mismanagement
People pawing carpets in an ecae ta AN hw BA . of rationing——it is difficult to deterstacy engendered by the entrancing . my EQ ny ATTY . mine. But at any raee, few consumperfume of the’ smoking incense of 43 IQSES DE, Am Oe . ers in California’s war crowded cit“ism’’ and job nonsense. The right: S¥s°-\o m Jel ok crt jies would agree that theré is as yet
to work indeed. Paddy Brady,°5. narrowly escaped. any indication: of a return to normfen have a right to live inj death at the family home three miles . alcy.
inherent right. And uhder the mean-. from this city on the Lake Vera . The transition period. for Califoring of the word “civilized’’—the. Road Tuesday afternoon, when the . nia farmers, due to-the fact that the
right to live carries with it—not.the. house caught fire while his mother. Pacific war is expected to continue"
right but the obligation to work . was absent a few minutes. She had. long after peace comes. in» Huron,
just as faithfully and just as long{ gone to pick up three older ohincan . mar be many months behind, or
as it takes to produee the wanted in her car at the school ‘bus” stop. even a year behind, the period of
things that make life worth living.; When she left the house Paddy was. transition in eastern and middle wesSuch are nature’s laws. And na-. sound asleep. ~ x . tern states. That, incidentally, rep-.
ture—believe it or not—-imposes a While she was-:away her husband . resents one of the gravest problems
still further obligation—‘‘get this
job and tht job
.in the easiest possible way, with the
Jeast possible labor in the shortest
possible time.”’
Work is a limited obligation
every But the man. obligation
Hillman can’t alter that "tact.
and all jobs done . flames.
returned and found the house in . confronting farmers in this state,
He smashed a window with. for every farmer is alert to the great
a stick of wood and was able-to. danger that agriculture will ‘be
reach the terrified youngster whoj;caught with a critical over produchad rolled himself tightly in blank-j. tion problem, once the abnormal
on. lets. To get him out the father ‘haul-: needs of war disappear.
is;ed the small bed through the winUnder the circumstances, even
limited. Definitely limited. Even Syd . dow. This proved to be the only art-. though the headlines in California
;icle saved from destruction. Thej are still concerned with shortages,
Look out for the poet, the philosopher or the politician’ who thinks
it’s his endless mission to glorify
the “right”? to work. The man: with}.
the hoe is not a fool. He doesn’t
want his muscle thumping job glorified—he wants it annihilated. That’s
‘why he takes off his hat to the man
who invented the eaterpillar but is
never quite sure whether to let the
senator kiss his baby or not. He
knows what to expect from:the caterpillar.
And wh&t became of the hefty!
shoulders of the village blacksmith
under chestnut trees—and the bulging chests of artists and craftsmen
Who once upon a time were glorified
glass blowers? That was before Corn‘ing—Owenslllinois/Febreglass Libbey Owens Ford sent them home to
sit it out while hot wheels and the
gears went on with glass making.
@ Even the expeht steel roller—the
jabor artistocrat and the highest
‘paid of all toilers—has seen his job
and his personal skill move off into
the pages of antiquity and a tireless machine do a better job than
he, and faster than any ‘but a few
thought possible.
Let poetry now be
glorify the endless:
to
to live-—
written
right
TS FREE COMES
not the right to endless work. Let!
the philosopher teach the
obligations of toil and the constant
opportunity to limit that obligation
still further by shifting the load to
wheels and motors. And above all
—let the politician catch ups with ehe
century. ;
I am sure the lady was sincere,
put lacking in perception, when she
said ‘‘work is the most interesting
thing I know. No one finds the joy
in leisure that they do—in~honest
ton?”
I don’t know the lady—but I’ll
be one of E. V. Durling’s stogies
that her house is lighted, by electricity-cleaned by a vacuum cleaner—has a gas or electric kitchen
and every other labor killing contraption that can be afforded—and
eu . and advised her that she may send a
limited .
it.”
house burned to the ground. Brady,} it
a wood cutter, his wife and _ four
children are: destitute.
Mrs. Hal D. Draper, chairman )f
the Red Cross Home Service Unit,
this morning stated that immediate
steps are being taken’to rehabilitate
the family, providing clothes, bedding and furniture.
NEWS HUSBAND
is practical and provident ‘+o
weigh new national forecasts which
are emphasizing the post war problem of surpluses. ~
Fortune Magazine recently reported: ‘Washington announces’ that
danger of a food crisis is past, (that
sounds odd out here), and the enormous 1944 harvest of feedstuffs,
coupled with the curtailment of livestock numbers, indicates the feed
crisis likewise is past,’’ Proceeding
from that premise, Fortune lists the
following reasons why farmers may
wisely scale down their 1945 production:
1—Orccupied eoaieicn (now liberated, or soon to be liberated) will
not need so much of our agricultural
products as once believed. UNRRA,
accordingly, is reducing its estimates.
2—Returning soldiers will not
need nor want in civilian pursuits,
the average 4000) daily calories they
are getting in the service. ‘
38—Civilian ¢onsumption, which
has been abnormal, during the war
years, standing 7 per cent higher
than in 1935-39, is due to drop, too.
4—-When plants shut down
and returning soldiers increase the?
farm labor supply, and when
farm equipment is available,
TO MRS. FLEMING
Mrs. Joseph LaMar Fleming Monday afternoon received a message
from the War Department stating
that an official report has been received from Manila, announcing that
her husband, a mining engineer employed in the Philippines for many
years, has been rescued from a Jananese prison camp at Los Banos, 40
miles from Manila.
Mrs. Fleming and her acs,
Mary LaMar Fleming, have not seen
husband and father, respectively,
for seven years. The telegram stated
that his, physical condition was fair
war
‘more
agri& eultural production ma reak all
meséage free to him. The telegram fede I y prea
was signed by Provost Marshal Gen. ; ;
Sonal 5-——If government continues to
“hold prices firm’’; there will be a
continued, artificial incentiye to farmers to cash in while they can.
Though this may be the year of
agricultural transition to government ‘‘farm experts’’, viewing the
scene from desks in Washington, to
California farmers it gives promise
of-being-one of the most hectic of all
‘the war years, with sudden poultry
shortages making mor® acute the
continuing meat shortages, with war
'orders for certain products abruptly
doubled, so that the supply for civilian consumers dwindles to the vanishing point, and with no let up what
‘ever in the demand for more and
Jerry Fuller earetaker for’ the
Tahoe national forest at (North
Bloomfield ranger station this winter, and Mrs. Fuller were business
visitors here’ yesterday.
that-any-gadget;that even-leoks-tikeit might increase the opportunity for
more leisure and more freedom from
toil can find a ready market in her
home— if she has the price.
Abraham Lincoln is reported to.
have said: ‘‘My father taught nie to
work; he did not each me to love
man Claude Harrison.
employ
ion
The mill wil
under the supervisof George Erlandson, mill sup-!
erintendent. The logging will be
done by the Ross Logging Company, .
consisting of two brothers. C. T. and
Larry Ross who will employ 30 men
in. the woods operations and in the
delivery of logs to the mill pond.
All logging will be done under
ernment supervision and
yield management for furnishing
timber to support this community
and the local lumber industry.. This
government timber sale will be under the general supervision of district ranger F. B. Delaney in’ charge
of the Downieville district. Ivan A.
Cuff will be the forest officer in direct charge of the sale and the scaling will be done by F. T. Rixey.
SPRING MEETING
OF RANGERS
30 men
sustained
here.
Bend, Frank Meggers
ey and William Nelson
and Leo Chatfield of Truckee.
Cage, ranger
trict.
dena. but his assistant,
over is present.
gov-!
The annual spring meeting of the
rangers and their assistants of Tahoe national forest is now convened
It usually lasts three or four
days and problems of each ranger
district, and plans for the coming
summer are discussed.
Attending the meeting are Warren Barnes and Charles Fox of Big
and Nelson
Stone of Camptonville, Frank Delan.
of Downie.
, Ville, Joe Ely and Clarence Martz of .
Forest Hill, F. A. Land and*=Samuel } j People of California are already payDickey of Sierraville, Hobart Snider
Paul
for the Bloomfield “disleft last week on a hew assignment in flood control work at PasaDarwin Conmore ‘production.
Looking ahead toward the
when perhaps he can relax,
jer is determined to bring to pass. ~
day
however, the California farmer is doing
what post war planning he can. And
without doubt his greatest hope for
that day ahead is that the tangled
government controls which have continuously hampered the job of production and distribution during four
years of war will be dissolved when
the war is done. That: is onevital
Phase of transition which the farm/CHMA To Meet
ated countries will narrow doen, . 6. The Calida Lumber Company, _ . Sunday, Colfax
W. W. Esterly, secretary of the
tion, yesterday notified
'that the March meeting will be held
in Colfax; Placer County, in-the Colfax Hotel Sunday. There will be Ne
cussion following.
Topics will be the prospect of a
legislation affecting mining.
communities are asked to cooperate .
wit hlocal salvage conimittees.
“CONSERVATION.
WFFK (PENS IN
PIBLIC SCHOOLS
Walter Carlson county superintendent of schools, states the conservation week programs began today in
the schools of Nevada City and Grass
Valley, and next’ week will be continued in the rural schools until
March 14th. Conservation Week' runs
from March 7th to 14th.
The programs this year consist of
quizes covering a wide field in conserving the natural resources of this
county with stress upon forest resources. Prizes will be awarded publie school students for the best records of answers to the questions. AsTahoe national forest staff.
TAX LOAD NOW
35 CENTS TOA
DOLLAR INCOME
SACRAMENTO, March 8 — The
ing such large sums for the support
of government that they should not
be burdened with additional state
taxes not needed’ to meet budgee requirements.
H. Harold Leavey of Sinremects:
chairman of the Sacramento Valley
Regional Tax Committee of —the
California State Chamber of Commerce, made this statement today in
endorsing Gov. Warren’s program
now before the state legislature to
tax reduction program enacted in
1943.
Leavey said. “The combined
9
California Hydraulic Mining Associa-f
memibers
usual luncheon at 1 o'clock and dis-}
‘higher prjge for gold and pending)
successful .
GEN, EISENHOWER
30, and scouts andleaders in various .
sisting Carlson in these programs are .
Will French and Gordon Vance of the
continue for another two years the
“As, recently as 1936-37 combined federal, state and local taxes took
sixteen cents out of every dollar of
the public’s income in California”
tax
burden was thirty five cents out of
AY, MARCH 8,
Nevada City Contributes
Generously To
. Red Cross
‘Nevada City’s Red Crosg drive, according to a report made by Mra.
Richard R. Goyne, secretary of the
local Red Cross Chapter is almost to
tieehalfway mark of the quota of
$8,100. A total of $3,952.35 ‘he
been collected in the first. week of
Ene drive,
The following ‘donations
been made:
have
.
.
. Pre drive subscriptions $1885.00.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
. $75.00.
.
.
$50.00
i Pacific Tel. and Tel. Co., Tiltons
iPhoto Studio, Mr. and Mrs. John
i Hecker, Dru and Mrs. W. J. Hawkins,
Bank of: America $47.40.
$30 OR MORE
PAPER DRIVE Purity Stores, Inc.,.Mr. and Mrs.
Pea Bot ‘ 4 \L. S. Fowler, Save More Variety
{ Store.
A nationwide Boy Scout-General . $25.00
. Eisenhower collection for waste palisley’s Dress Shop Mr. aad ieee
pees Vee Wer ee ner Seer oe Sear Scheemer, Mr. and Mrs. Beryl
ei ite Pave Paen pene 0 collect . eobinson; Shamrock Cafe, Mr. and
200,000,000 . Retnda e000) TO0e. Mrs Rensat Schreier aide ue
eeVEry CMe BOUL, “OF Seridy ScOUt CCl ive. 5 Ty Moran 8 pea ee
rorting &. thousand pounds OF ure Mrs. Ray, Murchie, Nevada County
will receive the handsome General pe ae Ga :
Eisenhower medal, and ev ry pack, « $20.00
LON OF slg Bite, COllecins an Mrs. Ethel Heether, Pease Bakaverage of 1000: pounds per pay I ery, Tamblyn’s Insurance Co., Bosmembership will receive the General . eee ee igo .
Eisenhower shell case trophy. This is is Ge oman ee moe eat apa
another Boy Scout “‘good turn” and Calan: Ne ae ae pe ae
scouts ‘in,most communities throughMi and Mire: f & Gubeaign.
out the Tahoe area are¥already at} $15.00
“. work. As has been pointed out, the . Nevada. City Chamber of Gem
Escoute S66. leaders enOme. aot lose . merce, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Mullis,
sight of the “good turn?’ which S. eke Brothers; Oriesfis. Mat. Cas
_fundamertal in scouting, and that . ginal Song”
,even. though they. will receive funds as $10.00
i' from the paper collected, this should ‘ at r
imot be the ultimate objective. "This a ee
waste paper collection is from Mar. Carl Ivey, Mr.ahd Mrs. Dave Rich1st and will continue until April
ards, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Holbrook,
George Crocby, Paint Shop, Nevada
City Nugget, Mrs. L. Shields, E. L.
Fischer, Mr. and Mrs.Harry Bolton,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Leong, Bowmans
Beauty Shop, Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Veale, Mr. and Mrs. Edson Fox, Miss
Laura Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. John
Darke, Mr. and Mrs. H. ©. Deeter,
Ella S. Ramsey, Jack Shebley, Gus
Dimmen.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Morrison, Mr.
and Mrs. R.,N. MeCormack, Mrs. H.
D. Casey, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mprchie,
Mr and Mrs. T.S. Scribner, National
Meat Market, M. F. Van Giesen, Mr.
and Mfs. Carey Arbogast, Mrs. ‘a
Litke, G. H. Thurn M,r. and ‘Mrs.
Peter Giretto, Greg and Mary Altenhofen, Col. and Mrs. J. Vincent. Gola
Center Club.: Mr. and Mrs. G. L.
House. 6
$6.00 ASS ie
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Muscardini,
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Colman, Rainbow
Tavern. Mr. and Mrs. Max Weiss.
$5.00
Mrs. Arlene Headley, Mr. and Mrs.
Reuben Norton, Mr. and Mrs. R. Ball,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert’ Stedger, ‘Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. MeCulloch, Bt. and
Mrs. A. L. Tower, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Harbour, Mr, and Mrs. Otis
Otis Hardt, W. R. Martin, Mr. ana
Mrs. W. Crase, Mr. and Mrs. George
Hitchens, George Day, R. J. Berggrep, William Young, Central Food
Co., Mr. and: Mrs. Fred Pitz, Andrew
Larsen, Margaret Coughlan, Clarence
Gray, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Osborne,
Mr. and Mrs. Smart, Mr. and Mrs.
Russell :-Farley, Mr. and Mrs. W. IX
Woodside, Mr. and Mrs. Barch, G.
K. Roscoe, Mr. and Mrs. John
O’Neill, Mrs. A. C. Iarsen, Mr. andMrs. Milton Kiefer, Mr. and Mrs. C.
Christensen, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Wright, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wharff,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wagner, Mr. and
Mrs. E. H, LaRue, Mr. and Mrs. Jaek
MeMichel, Mr and Mrs. L. B. Syms,
Mrs. A. W. Hoge, ‘Mrs. Elizabeth
Trathen, A Friend, A Friend, Mra.
Grace Englebright, Mrs. GSurratt,
Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, Mrs. Marion
Libbey, Garfield Robson, Causurie
Book Club, G. EB. Barton, Mrs. Aus,
tin Boreham, T. L. Larson, A. A.
Johnson, Mrs. Douglas ‘Farmer, Mrs.
Hazel Whitford, Mary Davies, Mr.
and Mrs. Cliff Dodge, Mr. and Mrs.
Cc. T. Worthley, Mr. and Mrs. Cassamatta, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dennis,
every dollar of income in 1943-44.” (Continued on