May 10, 1937 (6 pages)

Vt aot Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. Two business men of this vicinity have returned from a tour of the desert country of Southern Nevada and parts of California Asked what they had seen that especially impressed them one replied: ‘‘The Lost City’ The other answered: “The onyx lined toilets in Boulder Dam”’. Interesting is human interest. One, an _ artist, found the abandoned mining town in the ‘desert a picturesque feature of the landscape. A whole town, in which the houses and stores were vacated when the boom subsided. The other a hard headed business man, impressed both by the magnificence and waste of taxpayers money in such accessories of the monumental Boulder Dam, as toilets walled in beautiful, polished onyx. We admit a sympathetic understanding of ‘the artist’s pleasure in the sadly forlorn spectacle of a town, reminiscent in its sentiment of the “Elegy,’’ empty of its human _ content. Where once rang the shout of laughter, and rose the songs of a robust race, where kindly neighbors ministered to the needs of neighbors, where greed or ambition towered, is now only the habitation of pigmy owls, pack rats; lizards and prowling desert creatures. In other words the artist views the scene with the inner eye. The uncouth and ugly shacks left on the strand of reced.ing fortune are invested with a spiritual charm, as the spirit in a scrawled letter is-read between the lines. But the onyx lined toilets are something to give the common American tax payer pause. Why, he may well ask, down in the bowels of this mammoth barrier, against whiich the great Colorado river strikes and recoils, should these humdrum convenienves of man be so expensively adorned. We have the witness’ word for it, that. they are far more splendid than anything the proud hostelries of New York and the great cit‘jes of earth afford. The tombs of the the diversity of Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA city and « The Nevada City Nugget helps your advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. and county to grow in population prosperity. By subsribing to, and Vol. 11, No. 38. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MAY 10, 1937. TD JUMPING FROGS LEAP IN ANGELS CAMP MAY 1516 ANGELS CAMP, May 10. — The town of the old Mother Lode, not only have gone ona “sit down” strike, but have turned back more than 60 years in preparation for the town’s ninth annual Jumping Frog Jubilee, set for Saturday and Sunday, May 15-16, in commemoration of Mark Twain’s famous story. ‘‘The Jumping Frog of Calaveras.’’ The whole’ town has been transformed into a replica of the early days, with swarthy miners in red shirts and flowing beards, carrying old-fashioned six-guns. The feminine population has donned pantaloons and the hoopskirts, together with . . old-fashioned bustles. Pedigreed frogs from all parts of the nation are beginning to arrive in buckets, fur-lined bath tubs, bird cages and every conceivable contraption, to participate in the world’s championship contest held in connection with the most unique celebration in the world. An additional feature of this year’s celebration will be a whole afternoon devoted to horse racing, stage coach races and pony express races on Saturday, May 15, in the town’s reconstructed race track, which has been dormant for more than 50 years. The track is a half mile course and is situated just outside the city limits. It was constructed more than 60 years ago. One of the ‘interesting side lights of the frog contest will be a grudge match of frogs owned by Bob Burns home-spun movie comedian, and Bing Crosby, radio crooner. Burns recently wagered a tidy sum with Crosby ‘that a frog from the mudflats of Van Buren, Arkansas, could out jump any-sunkist hopper, raised clocks in Angels Camp, picturesque . BOTTLE USED IN DEBATE SMASHES STORE WINDOW Bill Torpey, war veteran while strolling up and down Broad street Saturday evening, according to Chief Garfield Robson had a little debate with a negro and made a pass at his head with a whiskey bottle in front of Hit¢chens Shoe Store. The bottle slipped and smashed through the plate glass window ‘in the store. Chief Robson filed a charge against Torpey and locked him up. He plead guilty this morning to disturbing the peace and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. The sentence was suspended provided he would pay for the window. Torpey promised to do so. SEAWELL FIGHTS ICKES’ CURB ON PROSPECTING May 10, 1937. Nevada City Nugget Dear Mr. Leete: I am attaching copy of Senate Joint Resolution Number 21,-introduced by me, memorializing Congress and several federal offices against removing the right to prospect federal lands for mineral deposits, and substituting leasing provisions in lieu thereof, as: proposed by Secretary Ickes. Should Mr. Ickes proposal be enacted it would do more to endanger mineral developEXPERTSAYS MOULTON SIGNED ment inthis state than anything that has been proposed in many years. ™ I thought this information might be of interest to your readers, particularly those who are engaged in mineral development. Very truly yours, JERROLD L. SEAWELL. MOST AFFIDAVITS Reports of those who have attended thé: trial of W. H. Moulton and B. Wi : Hills, charged with violating the 1934 Gold Reserve Act in the Federal Court of San Francisco are to the affect that the handwriting expert’s testimony is most important. This witness testified that 80 per cent of the names signed to affidavits submitted by W.-H:-Moulton along with the gold shipped to the San Francisco mint were in his own handwriting. Since’ he shipped, according to the mint report, $200,000 worth of gold in 19365 mostly in small amounts, the handwriting expert’s testimony carries a good deal of weight, Affidavits accompanying consignments must state the name of the original seller and the place from which the gold is taken. The , gold pharaohs cannot match these palatial closets lined with gorgeous black onyx. History holds no story of such magnificance even among the ancfient Medes and Persians, or Rome in bright lights. {May Té., in in the shadows settled at Angels Camp on Sunday, fictitious, and that in the great proof movieland’s government claims that in some inThe argument will beStances both names and places were ¢ portion of affidavits sent in by (Moulton, he himself had signed the its glory of world supremacy. Well might tthe common American citizen, tin can tourist, or even the gilded patrician hesitate to enter and occupy the splendid throne. It is described 'as overpowering, celestial, and removed in eons of time, from that lowly cubicle in the back garden covered with luxuriant honeysuckle of which James Whitcomb Filey sang so feelingly. The reveries induced by such lavish expenditures, however, are of the practical American kind. Why, asks the thoughtful tax payer, are we mulchted for useless magnificence? As he leaves this small chamber of overwhelming grandeur, he proceeds through larger rooms that honeycomb the base of Boulder Dam. This, he reflects, was built in the Hoover, regime. There are solid bronze doors that must have cost up to $500 each. And, reminiscent of former Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, there are also doors of solid and polished aluminum. It is a series of high and spacious apartments of royal proportions and adornment, all empty like the deserted town on the desert. How many millions were spent under the Hoover regime to fouild inside this great stone barrier, a dark palace illumined by gorgeous lighting (fixtures, massive metal doors, and sombre splendor. If our various governments must spend money with a prodigal hand, perhaps after all, the methods of waste make little difference. Perhaps the Roosevelt way of squandering money on relief, 65 cents of every dollar going to actual relief and 35 cents to the brass hats admiinistering it, is preferable to spending vast sums on bronze and aluminum doors and onyx walled water closets. Mrs. John Werry and daughter, Mrs. William Hosken of the bay district, attended the funeral of Mrs. Werry’s late brother in law, James Cremin in Marysville Wednesday and came on to Nevada City to visit many former friends. Mrs. Werry also visited her brother, Mr. Butler in Grass Valley and then drove on to Sierra county where she is visiting a son, Frank Werry and family. ‘Dolph Verlod of Grass Valley, a member of the Nevada County Nar. row Gauge railroad staff for several years has been promoted to agent at the Nevada City depot, office of the company. ‘the reasons for the increased approMrs. Katherine Braithwaite of North San Juan, correspondent for the Nugget, was a Nevada City visitor Friday. affidavits. Added to this téStimony was that of a detective that he had sold to he gold buyers, gold _ for which he provided no affidavit. SEAWELL SLAPS BUDGET BILL RAILROADING May 10, 1937. Nevada City Nugget Nevada. City, California. Dear Editor: T Senate of California of Thursay Ahe 29th passed the Governor’s budget, as it came from the assembly, without any amendments and without any consideration of the same on the floor of the senate. The press of California lists me as one of three senators voting against the budget but in many instances failed to state my reasons for this action. I believe the people of my district are entitled to know my Dosition and my _ reasons for voting against the same. The budget contains total expenditures of four hundred and thirty-eight millions of dollars. It has always been the practice for the Director of Finance to appear before the state senate, sitting as a committee of the whole, and explain the items contained in the budget and priations or the reasons for decreasing existing expense items. By. following this procedure, the senate could study the budget items intelligently and offer amendments: to the same as desired, or necessary, at the time the expense item was under discussion This procedure was not followed this session, although I vigorously opposed this method of railroading the budget through the state senate without proper consideration. The assembly took sixty days to pass judgment upon the same, yet, the senate of California passed the budget without any explanation and only ten minutes consideration. I cannot subscribe to this method of legislating expenditures involving the sum of money contained in the state budget. By voting against the COUNTY GRANTS OLD AGE RELIEF TO 185 PERSONS Federal and state auditors visited the office of County Clerk H. N. McCormack today, checking old age relief roles. There are now 185 persons on relief in Nevada County. For each one of these the Federal government pays $15. For whatever remains the state and county share the cost. If, for instance the amount of relief for any one individual amounts to $35, the Federal government contributes $15, and. the county and state $10 each. . Old age relief now constitutes a formidable share of the tax burden. In many counties it is second to the fund spent for education. When the relief recipient is obliged to pay rent out of the money granted, $35 is paid, when rent is provided the amount may be $30 or less depending on whether or not he or she has any other resources. Most applicants for ald age relief strenuously -object to giving the county a lien on any little property they may possess before an application for relief is granted. The 185 receiving’ relief ‘in Nevada county is exclusive of those provided for at the county hospital, or the allowance made to those who are blind. regard for the peoples interest and the states welfare. Sincerely yours, JERROLD L. SEAWELL. D. Dillingham, wife and son, Denny, former Nevada City residents who left here about three years ago for South America have just returned and are visiting Mrs. Dillingham’s mother Mrs. McKnight in Los Angeles. They are to leave this week for the Philippine Islands ‘where Mr. Dillinger will take charge of a gold mine, (Mrs. Dillingham . and Mrs. Lamar Fleming are sisters. and tbudget I registered my protest in opposition to this bhigh-handed dishave many friends here. i The resolution follows:. . WHEREAS, Recent press reports carry the announcement of a proposal, on the part of the Secretary of the Interior, that the present United States mining laws, under which location and discovery iis the basis of the right to develop and to acquire ownership to mining claims, be abandoned, and a Federal leasing. system substituted therefor; and WHEREAS, This proposal gives much concern to the states whose mining activities owe their beginnings, and in lange part their growth to the prospector, who, urged by the promise of a rich strike and_ the right to become owner of his land, braved the danger and endured the hardship of the hills; and WHEREAS, The prospector is still an important, if not indispensable factor in the discovery -of minerals, and will continue, if the incentive for his efforts be not withdrawn, to ply his arduous and perilous, but effective calling; and WHEREAS, The entihusiasm the investor, tune on a prospect willingly when he knows that title can be secured to such prospect, would be seriously impaired, if not destroyed, if a leasing system were substituted, and it is strongly believed that interest in mining development would suffer a severe blow; and e WHERAS, Under a long distance leasing system the annoyances . of submitting leases to Federal control, costs incident to surveying, drawing of leases and the like, would tend to discourage the transfer of mining claims, to persons interested in their development, thus retarding development of the industry, likeise the lure of a rich reward to the. prospector would be seriously dulled by the proposed change; now, therefore, be it of RESOLVED, by the Senate and Assembly of the State of California, jointly, that the Congress of the United States is hereby memoralized to refuse to abandon the present plan under which mineral development has progressed satisfactorily, or to change the present laws relating to discovery and location of lode mining claims; and be further RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the President and the Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the Secretary of the Interior, and to the Senators and Representatives of the State of California in Congress. STORK BRINGS DAUGHTER Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Dudley at Mercy Hospital in Sacramento; “April.28,.1937,.a.daughter, Mary Frances. Mrs. Dudley was. the former Miss Adele Cunningham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cunningham. North San Juan merchants. She was fiesta queen at San Juan. about three years ago. The tiny babe is named for three great grand-. mothers, one on the maternal side being Mrs. Mary A. Lutz, of this city; a great aunt and great greataunt, the latter being Mrs. C. F. Posten of Nevada City. SEASONS FIRST RATTLER It seems considerable rivalry exists between Nevada City and North San Juan over killing the first rattlesnake of the season. Nevada City has always claimed the honors but word came today that Joseph M, Swazey of North San Juankilled a big rattler Sunday with nine rattles) also, who risks his for{. Among the many. nations which have contributed their finer recipes to the gracious culinary secrets which are the common heritage of every California housewife, Jane Barton points out!that an important partwas played by the Russians during their short stay in California. About 1836 the beautiful Princess Helena Gargaren lived with her husband at Fort Ross, headquarters of 4the Russian settlement in California. That was just 100 years ago. Contrary to popular legend as typified in a recent motion picture, Princess Helena was a lovely and gracious lady about whom no slightest breath of scandal has ever appeared. Instead she was. famous along the entire Pacific Coast for her complete mastery of the culinary art.Her vegetable garden so attracted John Sutter, himself a Swiss with a European’s natural interest in’ cookery, that he begged from her many seeds for his own extensive plantations at Sacramento. The accomplished and popular beauty was also famed for' her wonderful dinners. She often entertained such distinguished ,.Californians.as.General Vallejo, John Sutter, Governor Michel Torena, Senor (Martinez and their wives. Many of her delightful recipes were given to these colorful pioneer women and ‘they have gradually spread throughout the state so that they shave a distinct influence on California cookery today Jane Barton at California’s Homecraft Institute will discuss the influence of this array of California today and will include one of these old Russian recipes in her program. MANY TOPICS DISCUSSED The Homecraft Institute covers great many move subjects than cookery alone. Jane Barton, herself a homemaker, has carefully tested her program from a practical point of. view. Simplicity, economy, and the making the most out of what is available are cardinal points in Jane Barton’s program. hi But the Homecraft Institute covers every field of home economics. Here are some of the subjects Mrs. Barton will discuss: . How should a living room be arranged? Jane Barton to Tell . of Foreign Influence on California Cookery Modern methods of home laundering. California parties and games—reeipes for hilarity. Flower arrangements in California homes. Luscious dishes from leftovers. Time saving ideas that really save. . MENU CONTEST Every homemaker . is invited to take part ‘in the menu contest which will be explained by Jane Barton in detail at the first session. Prizes will be awarded at the end of this series of Homecraft Institutes to those California housewives submitting the most typical California menu featuring Califonnia products and based on simplicity and reasonable ecenomy. The prize winr€ing menus will be tested in the Homeeraft Department of the _ Pacific Rural Press for their dietetic value and ease of preparation. Every California housewife attending Jane Barton’s Homecraft Institute will have an opportunity to take part in this contest. Jane Barton also invites everyone in her audience who has @ special personal home _ economics problem.to.talk.with her after any.of the sessions of the Institute by coming up on the platform and meeting her in person. Every session of the Institute will begin at 2 o’clock and end promptly at 4:30 so that home-. makers can return to their residences in time to prepare the evening. meals. Every session of the Institute is absolutely free. The California Homecraft Institute has a really homelike atmosphere. The things Jane Barton suggests are the helpful, wholesome things every good homemaker would wish in her own home. The Institute will be held in Nevada Theatre, May 19, 30, and 21 under the joint auspices of the Nevada City Nugget and the Pacific Rural Press. Plan now to attend during the three afternoons. Each session will start promptly at 2p. m. and close soon enough so that homemakers will have ample time to attend to the preparation of the evening meal. Every session is absolutely free. For a better appreciation of the importance of modern methods in homemaking, come to every session as our guests. WASHINGTON ROAD MUST WAIT The Washington sida. coal will have to wait. That is the conclusion reached at a conference Friday between E. B. Dudley, chairman of the board of supervisors, Supervisor Joe Frank, W. H. Griffiths, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce secretary, George H. Calanan, represeting . the chamber, W. A. Erwin andW. P. Mitchell of the WPA. Despite : fear expressed at the chamber meeting last Tuesday that the WPA project on Washington road might be abandoned, Enwin stated that it would be continued, but would have to wait until such time as the county could do its stipulated part in the way of providing machinery and expert powder and jackhammer operators and drivers of the ‘road machinery. REV. BUCKNER RECEIVES WORD OF MOTHER'S DEATH Rev. H. H. Buckner received word last evening that his mother, aged 84 years had just passed away at her home in Haywards after many weeks of illness. He has gone to Sierra City today to conduct a funeral and . will leave tomorrow for the bay region to attend his mother’s funeral which is being held at Yountville, Wednesday forenoon, interment will be made beside her late husband. Throughout her recent illness her son has made a number of a to see her. Harley Leete, Jr. ef the University of California spent the mas ont with and a button. his parents. NOR.SANJUAN TO HOLD ANNUAL CHERRY FIESTA North San Juan, mining town north of Nevada City, which has survived since 49’er days is again. giving an annual cherry carnival on June 19. and 20. Promise is for lots of cherries for this big yearly event which is looked forward to so eagerly by old and young. It is also a time of reunions of old time friends many driving from Sacramento, the bay region, and even southern California to attend the delightful affair. There will be concessions and ball, games, dances Saturday night and Sunday, besides other features are being planned to keep the crowd interested throughout both days. OLDEST AND YOUNGEST — MOTHERS ARE HONORED . A beautiful service ' was held in the Methodist chureh in Nevada City Sunday morning. The Sunday school presented bouquets first to the old-— est mother, Mrs. Clarence Shurtleff; the mother with largest number of. children present, Mrs. M. Smart; and youngest mother, Mrs. Beryl Robinson. Bouquets of carnations were also presented the superintendoe ent E. J. Hamilton, who gave the morning sermon.e + Mr. and Mrs. Hany Atkinson and son and Mrs. L, Robins of © Nevada, passed through Nevada and Grass Valley Sunde ins is a former Nevada

Vt aot Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. Two business men of this vicinity have returned from a tour of the desert country of Southern Nevada and parts of California Asked what they had seen that especially impressed them one replied: ‘‘The Lost City’ The other answered: “The onyx lined toilets in Boulder Dam”’. Interesting is human interest. One, an _ artist, found the abandoned mining town in the ‘desert a picturesque feature of the landscape. A whole town, in which the houses and stores were vacated when the boom subsided. The other a hard headed business man, impressed both by the magnificence and waste of taxpayers money in such accessories of the monumental Boulder Dam, as toilets walled in beautiful, polished onyx. We admit a sympathetic understanding of ‘the artist’s pleasure in the sadly forlorn spectacle of a town, reminiscent in its sentiment of the “Elegy,’’ empty of its human _ content. Where once rang the shout of laughter, and rose the songs of a robust race, where kindly neighbors ministered to the needs of neighbors, where greed or ambition towered, is now only the habitation of pigmy owls, pack rats; lizards and prowling desert creatures. In other words the artist views the scene with the inner eye. The uncouth and ugly shacks left on the strand of reced.ing fortune are invested with a spiritual charm, as the spirit in a scrawled letter is-read between the lines. But the onyx lined toilets are something to give the common American tax payer pause. Why, he may well ask, down in the bowels of this mammoth barrier, against whiich the great Colorado river strikes and recoils, should these humdrum convenienves of man be so expensively adorned. We have the witness’ word for it, that. they are far more splendid than anything the proud hostelries of New York and the great cit‘jes of earth afford. The tombs of the the diversity of Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA city and « The Nevada City Nugget helps your advertising in the Nugget, therefore, you help yourself. and county to grow in population prosperity. By subsribing to, and Vol. 11, No. 38. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MAY 10, 1937. TD JUMPING FROGS LEAP IN ANGELS CAMP MAY 1516 ANGELS CAMP, May 10. — The town of the old Mother Lode, not only have gone ona “sit down” strike, but have turned back more than 60 years in preparation for the town’s ninth annual Jumping Frog Jubilee, set for Saturday and Sunday, May 15-16, in commemoration of Mark Twain’s famous story. ‘‘The Jumping Frog of Calaveras.’’ The whole’ town has been transformed into a replica of the early days, with swarthy miners in red shirts and flowing beards, carrying old-fashioned six-guns. The feminine population has donned pantaloons and the hoopskirts, together with . . old-fashioned bustles. Pedigreed frogs from all parts of the nation are beginning to arrive in buckets, fur-lined bath tubs, bird cages and every conceivable contraption, to participate in the world’s championship contest held in connection with the most unique celebration in the world. An additional feature of this year’s celebration will be a whole afternoon devoted to horse racing, stage coach races and pony express races on Saturday, May 15, in the town’s reconstructed race track, which has been dormant for more than 50 years. The track is a half mile course and is situated just outside the city limits. It was constructed more than 60 years ago. One of the ‘interesting side lights of the frog contest will be a grudge match of frogs owned by Bob Burns home-spun movie comedian, and Bing Crosby, radio crooner. Burns recently wagered a tidy sum with Crosby ‘that a frog from the mudflats of Van Buren, Arkansas, could out jump any-sunkist hopper, raised clocks in Angels Camp, picturesque . BOTTLE USED IN DEBATE SMASHES STORE WINDOW Bill Torpey, war veteran while strolling up and down Broad street Saturday evening, according to Chief Garfield Robson had a little debate with a negro and made a pass at his head with a whiskey bottle in front of Hit¢chens Shoe Store. The bottle slipped and smashed through the plate glass window ‘in the store. Chief Robson filed a charge against Torpey and locked him up. He plead guilty this morning to disturbing the peace and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. The sentence was suspended provided he would pay for the window. Torpey promised to do so. SEAWELL FIGHTS ICKES’ CURB ON PROSPECTING May 10, 1937. Nevada City Nugget Dear Mr. Leete: I am attaching copy of Senate Joint Resolution Number 21,-introduced by me, memorializing Congress and several federal offices against removing the right to prospect federal lands for mineral deposits, and substituting leasing provisions in lieu thereof, as: proposed by Secretary Ickes. Should Mr. Ickes proposal be enacted it would do more to endanger mineral developEXPERTSAYS MOULTON SIGNED ment inthis state than anything that has been proposed in many years. ™ I thought this information might be of interest to your readers, particularly those who are engaged in mineral development. Very truly yours, JERROLD L. SEAWELL. MOST AFFIDAVITS Reports of those who have attended thé: trial of W. H. Moulton and B. Wi : Hills, charged with violating the 1934 Gold Reserve Act in the Federal Court of San Francisco are to the affect that the handwriting expert’s testimony is most important. This witness testified that 80 per cent of the names signed to affidavits submitted by W.-H:-Moulton along with the gold shipped to the San Francisco mint were in his own handwriting. Since’ he shipped, according to the mint report, $200,000 worth of gold in 19365 mostly in small amounts, the handwriting expert’s testimony carries a good deal of weight, Affidavits accompanying consignments must state the name of the original seller and the place from which the gold is taken. The , gold pharaohs cannot match these palatial closets lined with gorgeous black onyx. History holds no story of such magnificance even among the ancfient Medes and Persians, or Rome in bright lights. {May Té., in in the shadows settled at Angels Camp on Sunday, fictitious, and that in the great proof movieland’s government claims that in some inThe argument will beStances both names and places were ¢ portion of affidavits sent in by (Moulton, he himself had signed the its glory of world supremacy. Well might tthe common American citizen, tin can tourist, or even the gilded patrician hesitate to enter and occupy the splendid throne. It is described 'as overpowering, celestial, and removed in eons of time, from that lowly cubicle in the back garden covered with luxuriant honeysuckle of which James Whitcomb Filey sang so feelingly. The reveries induced by such lavish expenditures, however, are of the practical American kind. Why, asks the thoughtful tax payer, are we mulchted for useless magnificence? As he leaves this small chamber of overwhelming grandeur, he proceeds through larger rooms that honeycomb the base of Boulder Dam. This, he reflects, was built in the Hoover, regime. There are solid bronze doors that must have cost up to $500 each. And, reminiscent of former Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, there are also doors of solid and polished aluminum. It is a series of high and spacious apartments of royal proportions and adornment, all empty like the deserted town on the desert. How many millions were spent under the Hoover regime to fouild inside this great stone barrier, a dark palace illumined by gorgeous lighting (fixtures, massive metal doors, and sombre splendor. If our various governments must spend money with a prodigal hand, perhaps after all, the methods of waste make little difference. Perhaps the Roosevelt way of squandering money on relief, 65 cents of every dollar going to actual relief and 35 cents to the brass hats admiinistering it, is preferable to spending vast sums on bronze and aluminum doors and onyx walled water closets. Mrs. John Werry and daughter, Mrs. William Hosken of the bay district, attended the funeral of Mrs. Werry’s late brother in law, James Cremin in Marysville Wednesday and came on to Nevada City to visit many former friends. Mrs. Werry also visited her brother, Mr. Butler in Grass Valley and then drove on to Sierra county where she is visiting a son, Frank Werry and family. ‘Dolph Verlod of Grass Valley, a member of the Nevada County Nar. row Gauge railroad staff for several years has been promoted to agent at the Nevada City depot, office of the company. ‘the reasons for the increased approMrs. Katherine Braithwaite of North San Juan, correspondent for the Nugget, was a Nevada City visitor Friday. affidavits. Added to this téStimony was that of a detective that he had sold to he gold buyers, gold _ for which he provided no affidavit. SEAWELL SLAPS BUDGET BILL RAILROADING May 10, 1937. Nevada City Nugget Nevada. City, California. Dear Editor: T Senate of California of Thursay Ahe 29th passed the Governor’s budget, as it came from the assembly, without any amendments and without any consideration of the same on the floor of the senate. The press of California lists me as one of three senators voting against the budget but in many instances failed to state my reasons for this action. I believe the people of my district are entitled to know my Dosition and my _ reasons for voting against the same. The budget contains total expenditures of four hundred and thirty-eight millions of dollars. It has always been the practice for the Director of Finance to appear before the state senate, sitting as a committee of the whole, and explain the items contained in the budget and priations or the reasons for decreasing existing expense items. By. following this procedure, the senate could study the budget items intelligently and offer amendments: to the same as desired, or necessary, at the time the expense item was under discussion This procedure was not followed this session, although I vigorously opposed this method of railroading the budget through the state senate without proper consideration. The assembly took sixty days to pass judgment upon the same, yet, the senate of California passed the budget without any explanation and only ten minutes consideration. I cannot subscribe to this method of legislating expenditures involving the sum of money contained in the state budget. By voting against the COUNTY GRANTS OLD AGE RELIEF TO 185 PERSONS Federal and state auditors visited the office of County Clerk H. N. McCormack today, checking old age relief roles. There are now 185 persons on relief in Nevada County. For each one of these the Federal government pays $15. For whatever remains the state and county share the cost. If, for instance the amount of relief for any one individual amounts to $35, the Federal government contributes $15, and. the county and state $10 each. .

Old age relief now constitutes a formidable share of the tax burden. In many counties it is second to the fund spent for education. When the relief recipient is obliged to pay rent out of the money granted, $35 is paid, when rent is provided the amount may be $30 or less depending on whether or not he or she has any other resources. Most applicants for ald age relief strenuously -object to giving the county a lien on any little property they may possess before an application for relief is granted. The 185 receiving’ relief ‘in Nevada county is exclusive of those provided for at the county hospital, or the allowance made to those who are blind. regard for the peoples interest and the states welfare. Sincerely yours, JERROLD L. SEAWELL. D. Dillingham, wife and son, Denny, former Nevada City residents who left here about three years ago for South America have just returned and are visiting Mrs. Dillingham’s mother Mrs. McKnight in Los Angeles. They are to leave this week for the Philippine Islands ‘where Mr. Dillinger will take charge of a gold mine, (Mrs. Dillingham . and Mrs. Lamar Fleming are sisters. and tbudget I registered my protest in opposition to this bhigh-handed dishave many friends here. i The resolution follows:. . WHEREAS, Recent press reports carry the announcement of a proposal, on the part of the Secretary of the Interior, that the present United States mining laws, under which location and discovery iis the basis of the right to develop and to acquire ownership to mining claims, be abandoned, and a Federal leasing. system substituted therefor; and WHEREAS, This proposal gives much concern to the states whose mining activities owe their beginnings, and in lange part their growth to the prospector, who, urged by the promise of a rich strike and_ the right to become owner of his land, braved the danger and endured the hardship of the hills; and WHEREAS, The prospector is still an important, if not indispensable factor in the discovery -of minerals, and will continue, if the incentive for his efforts be not withdrawn, to ply his arduous and perilous, but effective calling; and WHEREAS, The entihusiasm the investor, tune on a prospect willingly when he knows that title can be secured to such prospect, would be seriously impaired, if not destroyed, if a leasing system were substituted, and it is strongly believed that interest in mining development would suffer a severe blow; and e WHERAS, Under a long distance leasing system the annoyances . of submitting leases to Federal control, costs incident to surveying, drawing of leases and the like, would tend to discourage the transfer of mining claims, to persons interested in their development, thus retarding development of the industry, likeise the lure of a rich reward to the. prospector would be seriously dulled by the proposed change; now, therefore, be it of RESOLVED, by the Senate and Assembly of the State of California, jointly, that the Congress of the United States is hereby memoralized to refuse to abandon the present plan under which mineral development has progressed satisfactorily, or to change the present laws relating to discovery and location of lode mining claims; and be further RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the President and the Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to the Secretary of the Interior, and to the Senators and Representatives of the State of California in Congress. STORK BRINGS DAUGHTER Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Dudley at Mercy Hospital in Sacramento; “April.28,.1937,.a.daughter, Mary Frances. Mrs. Dudley was. the former Miss Adele Cunningham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cunningham. North San Juan merchants. She was fiesta queen at San Juan. about three years ago. The tiny babe is named for three great grand-. mothers, one on the maternal side being Mrs. Mary A. Lutz, of this city; a great aunt and great greataunt, the latter being Mrs. C. F. Posten of Nevada City. SEASONS FIRST RATTLER It seems considerable rivalry exists between Nevada City and North San Juan over killing the first rattlesnake of the season. Nevada City has always claimed the honors but word came today that Joseph M, Swazey of North San Juankilled a big rattler Sunday with nine rattles) also, who risks his for{. Among the many. nations which have contributed their finer recipes to the gracious culinary secrets which are the common heritage of every California housewife, Jane Barton points out!that an important partwas played by the Russians during their short stay in California. About 1836 the beautiful Princess Helena Gargaren lived with her husband at Fort Ross, headquarters of 4the Russian settlement in California. That was just 100 years ago. Contrary to popular legend as typified in a recent motion picture, Princess Helena was a lovely and gracious lady about whom no slightest breath of scandal has ever appeared. Instead she was. famous along the entire Pacific Coast for her complete mastery of the culinary art.Her vegetable garden so attracted John Sutter, himself a Swiss with a European’s natural interest in’ cookery, that he begged from her many seeds for his own extensive plantations at Sacramento. The accomplished and popular beauty was also famed for' her wonderful dinners. She often entertained such distinguished ,.Californians.as.General Vallejo, John Sutter, Governor Michel Torena, Senor (Martinez and their wives. Many of her delightful recipes were given to these colorful pioneer women and ‘they have gradually spread throughout the state so that they shave a distinct influence on California cookery today Jane Barton at California’s Homecraft Institute will discuss the influence of this array of California today and will include one of these old Russian recipes in her program. MANY TOPICS DISCUSSED The Homecraft Institute covers great many move subjects than cookery alone. Jane Barton, herself a homemaker, has carefully tested her program from a practical point of. view. Simplicity, economy, and the making the most out of what is available are cardinal points in Jane Barton’s program. hi But the Homecraft Institute covers every field of home economics. Here are some of the subjects Mrs. Barton will discuss: . How should a living room be arranged? Jane Barton to Tell . of Foreign Influence on California Cookery Modern methods of home laundering. California parties and games—reeipes for hilarity. Flower arrangements in California homes. Luscious dishes from leftovers. Time saving ideas that really save. . MENU CONTEST Every homemaker . is invited to take part ‘in the menu contest which will be explained by Jane Barton in detail at the first session. Prizes will be awarded at the end of this series of Homecraft Institutes to those California housewives submitting the most typical California menu featuring Califonnia products and based on simplicity and reasonable ecenomy. The prize winr€ing menus will be tested in the Homeeraft Department of the _ Pacific Rural Press for their dietetic value and ease of preparation. Every California housewife attending Jane Barton’s Homecraft Institute will have an opportunity to take part in this contest. Jane Barton also invites everyone in her audience who has @ special personal home _ economics problem.to.talk.with her after any.of the sessions of the Institute by coming up on the platform and meeting her in person. Every session of the Institute will begin at 2 o’clock and end promptly at 4:30 so that home-. makers can return to their residences in time to prepare the evening. meals. Every session of the Institute is absolutely free. The California Homecraft Institute has a really homelike atmosphere. The things Jane Barton suggests are the helpful, wholesome things every good homemaker would wish in her own home. The Institute will be held in Nevada Theatre, May 19, 30, and 21 under the joint auspices of the Nevada City Nugget and the Pacific Rural Press. Plan now to attend during the three afternoons. Each session will start promptly at 2p. m. and close soon enough so that homemakers will have ample time to attend to the preparation of the evening meal. Every session is absolutely free. For a better appreciation of the importance of modern methods in homemaking, come to every session as our guests. WASHINGTON ROAD MUST WAIT The Washington sida. coal will have to wait. That is the conclusion reached at a conference Friday between E. B. Dudley, chairman of the board of supervisors, Supervisor Joe Frank, W. H. Griffiths, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce secretary, George H. Calanan, represeting . the chamber, W. A. Erwin andW. P. Mitchell of the WPA. Despite : fear expressed at the chamber meeting last Tuesday that the WPA project on Washington road might be abandoned, Enwin stated that it would be continued, but would have to wait until such time as the county could do its stipulated part in the way of providing machinery and expert powder and jackhammer operators and drivers of the ‘road machinery. REV. BUCKNER RECEIVES WORD OF MOTHER'S DEATH Rev. H. H. Buckner received word last evening that his mother, aged 84 years had just passed away at her home in Haywards after many weeks of illness. He has gone to Sierra City today to conduct a funeral and . will leave tomorrow for the bay region to attend his mother’s funeral which is being held at Yountville, Wednesday forenoon, interment will be made beside her late husband. Throughout her recent illness her son has made a number of a to see her. Harley Leete, Jr. ef the University of California spent the mas ont with and a button. his parents. NOR.SANJUAN TO HOLD ANNUAL CHERRY FIESTA North San Juan, mining town north of Nevada City, which has survived since 49’er days is again. giving an annual cherry carnival on June 19. and 20. Promise is for lots of cherries for this big yearly event which is looked forward to so eagerly by old and young. It is also a time of reunions of old time friends many driving from Sacramento, the bay region, and even southern California to attend the delightful affair. There will be concessions and ball, games, dances Saturday night and Sunday, besides other features are being planned to keep the crowd interested throughout both days. OLDEST AND YOUNGEST — MOTHERS ARE HONORED . A beautiful service ' was held in the Methodist chureh in Nevada City Sunday morning. The Sunday school presented bouquets first to the old-— est mother, Mrs. Clarence Shurtleff; the mother with largest number of. children present, Mrs. M. Smart; and youngest mother, Mrs. Beryl Robinson. Bouquets of carnations were also presented the superintendoe ent E. J. Hamilton, who gave the morning sermon.e + Mr. and Mrs. Hany Atkinson and son and Mrs. L, Robins of © Nevada, passed through Nevada and Grass Valley Sunde ins is a former Nevada