May 10, 1940 (8 pages)

= Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. i} . evada Cit COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA y Nugget in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for’ justifiable .ends. ton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists —Alexander Hamil(Excerpts from an address before the Nevada City Rotary Club.) “Men of a philosophic mind trend often seek in other realms than in those of their own kind, a key to the enigma of our existence on earth. Since the bees seem to have an unusual organization, resulting in a certain kind of communal government, scientists and philosophers have long been interested in trying to discover’ the laws that govern them. One of the most distinguished of the long line of naturalists who from ancient times have studied bees and published the result of their observation, is Maurice Maeterlinck, a Belgian whose “Life of the Bee’’ was translated“from the French by Alfred Sutro at the turn of the century. Maeterlinck found certain parallels between human kind and the hymenoptera of which the bee family is a member, that even while they may prove more apparent than real, do afford an interesting basis for speculation. Among these parallels or analogies, is the fact that just as all. degrees of. what we call civilization,.is represented among human races, from the lowlyBushmen of Australia, through Polynesian and African cannibal tribes and the semi-barbarians among Arabs and Asiatic Indians, till finally civilization flowers among English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, or the so-called Nordic races, so among the hymenoptera is found the lowly bumble, or huiible bee, in which the cannibal adults attempts to eat the eggs or larva, and the female is forced to fight him to save her progeny, up through the mud daubers, the predatory wasps that belong to insect carnivora, until finally > we come to the highly organized bees which feed upon nectar and store up prodigious quantities of honey and other foods for posterity. Maeterlinck speaks of ‘the “spirit of the hive’’ as the ruling force in the government of bees, but we feel that a more descriptive term would be the ‘‘law of the hive.’’. How-the law, or rather a body of laws is transmitted from one generation of bees to the next, is still a baffling mystery, but this much seems apparent: bees are born with the hereditary knowledge, which commonly goes by the name of instinct, of the laws that govern-them. They exercise, furthermore, a remarkable judgment in applying the laws. If they have more than one choice of action, they will sometimes do one thing and sometimes another. For instance, when a swarm has left the hive for new quarters, and a new queen emerges from the cell in which she has hatched, she immediately seeks to destroy, by stinging to death the-other royal princesses who have not yet emerged from the cells. But the workers may restrain her by forming a living prison around her with the walls composed of their bodies. When they do this however, it will “be only a few days before a second swarm leaves with the new queen to lead them to and to populate the new home. On the other hand if the “law of the hive’’ decrees that there will be no more swarming for sometime to come _ the queen is permitted to murder the young princesses in their cells. ‘Bees are easily studied, because they will proceed with their daily activities in glass hives. It has been observed that while the worker bees, which are sterile females, wait upon and tenderly care for their queen, since she is literally the mother of them all, she is in no sense the ruler of the hive. As noted above, on occasion they will restrain her from an act, which under the “‘law of the hive’’ may jeopardize or injure the colony. The natural endowment of the worker bees is stupendous. The worker bees produce the wax which walls, floors and seals the eells containing the honey, they produce the honey that fills them, they—also--manufacture.__propolis. which they seal up their dwellings and make them weather -proof. In an organ in their heads they secret what is known as royal jelly, a thick milky fluid, which is fed for a short time to the worker nymphs in their cells and for a longer time to the royal princesses ‘during their incubation period. The poison of bee stings is chiefly formic acid, but greatest use made of it is not for stinging enemies, Vol. 14:'No, 38. The Gold Center The County Seat Paper CLOSING DATES OF NEVADA CO. SCHOOLS LISTED In a few weeks Nevada county schools will close with one of the most successful of terms there being no shut-downs for epidemics of any.sort. There are approximately seventy seven to graduate from the rural schools. Closing dates for the schools of the county are as follows: Friday, May 17, Bear River, -Spenceville, Kentucky Flat, Pleasant Valley, Washington and Wolf. Thursday, May 20, Clear Creek. . Wednesday, May 22, Chicago Park; Friday, May 24, Boca and Mariposa schools; Thursday, May 27, Lime Kiln; Friday, May 31, Forest Springs, French Corral, Union Hill, Indian Springs, Mooney Flat, Oakland or Gold Flat; Monday, June 3, Rough and Ready, Truckee, Birchville, North San Juan; Wednesday, June 5, North Bloomfield; Friday, June 7, Cherokee, Floriston. Nevada City, Grass Valley, Tuesday, June 25. Blue Tent; Friday, June 28, ' Graniteville. The Meadow Lake high school at Truckee will close on June 3, There are twenty etght elementary schools in (Nevada county. HIGHWAY CREWS START WORK ON DEPOTHILL AREA Bert Foreman and H. F. Sofge, president and secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, respectively, paid Downieville a ‘‘good will’’ visit Tuesday. They found crews working at various points along the Nevada CityDownieville “highway of many curves.’’ At Depot Hill 20 foot drill holes were being made for a distance of 700 feet*and blasting will be done here to widen the road. South of San Juan a huge steam shovel and bulldozer were cutting off curves, the debris being placed in four dump trucks. Work will also be done north and soutS of the South Fork of the Yuba river. Crews have cut away brush and timber along proposed changes. At the conclusion of this work, the equipment will be moved to the section between here and North San Juan where the remainder of the work will be done. CHURCH TO RISE FROM LUMBER IN ARMORY HALL Six men with their pastor, Rev. Robert Carrington, started tearing down the old Armory Hall yesterday morning. The minister secured the building from Purity Stores for razing it and the group are doing the work as a service to their church. All salvaged lumber will be used in construction of a church in Nevada City. The minister has been trying to secure a lot for some time to build a church on and the lumber is to be stored until a site can be bought. At the rate the men are working the building should be down in two weeks. HIGH SCHOOL PROM WILL BE MAY 17TH The senior class of the Nevada City high school is now working on plans for the senior ball, scheduled for Friday evening, May 17, at the school gymnasium .This. will be the final social event of the school year. William Wagner, class president, and his decoratfon committee are working out a colorful scheme to carry out the theme “Moonlight Ser-enade.’’ It was announced recently that Captain Carter will supply music for the dancing. . Mrs. Eva C. Flewellen is the class adviser. SEVERELY INJURED Jack Greentree — of Glenbrook Heights is in Jones Momerial Hospital with a broken neck which he sustained Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock in the underground workings of the Bullion mine. He was barring down rocks when a sudden shower (Continued on Page Two) of rocks fell on him, LARGEST. TROUT OF SEASON CAUGHT BY GRASS VALLEY MAN A large crowd gathered about the Nugget office late yesterday afternoon to see a splendid catch of large trout brought to town by Ed Lambretch of Grass Valley and Mr: and Mrs. John Miller of Folsom. There were-eleven trout in the lot the largest weighing six pounds. choice trout were caught in Lake Ta. hoe and spinners were used to catch them. Lambrecht is a well known sports man. of Grass Valley, several. years ago he won the Sacramento Bee contest prize for largest trout caught. Yesterday’s catch is believed to be the largest brought in so far this season. HAVEYOUA FLAG TODISPLAY ON HOLIDAYS? Have you an American flag to hang from your porch or store on the coming holidays? Remember there are Decoration Day, May 30, Flag Day, June 14, Independence Day, July 4. If you have not and desire—as a good American citizen—to hang out OLD GLORY over your door on patriotic holidays the Nevada City Nugget will supply you with a flag as a premium on subscriptions paid a year in advance into this office— before July 3rd. The flags are on display in the Nugget window. —~ These flag outfits represent a conservative retail value of $1.50. They consist of the FLAG, three feet wide, five feet long, made of durable cotton bunting, with sewed stripes, and printed stars, a sturdy brass jointed pole six feet long, varnished with a hardwood knob to cap it, a cotton rope and a strong aluminum holder for screwing onto. porch or window sill, the whole packed neatly in a metal cornered shipping board box. HEARING FOR MEN HELD ON ASSAULT CHARGE POSTPONED The preliminary hearing for Delbert Fuller and Walter’ Barnes, charged with assault by means of yrce likely to do great bodily harm, a felony, and resisting a public officer in the discharge of his duties, a misdemeanor, has again been postponed until Monday, May 20, upon request of the defendants. The original hearings was scheduled for April 25,-but was postponed until May 8.Fuller and Barnes asked that another postponement be granted as they have had insufficient time to prepare for a defense. Hearing for two additional charges against Fuller — drunken driving causing great bodily harm, a felony, and driving on the wrong side of the road causing great bodily injury, a misdemeanor, has also been postponed until May 20. TWO MEN ARRESTED ON TRESPASS CHARGE A complaint filed by Mrs. Vesta Young of Nevada City resulted in the arrest this week of John Wheeler and Elton Cross of Cherokee for alleged mining on the property of Mrs. Young near Shady Creek. Deputy Sheriffs Carl Ts Larsen and Fred ‘Williford apprehended the men. The two men pleaded not guilty at their arraignment before the justice of the peace L. W. Wood at Nor. San Juan. They were released on the promise .they would appear before Judge Wood at a later date. Mrs. Young stated the men refused to leave her property after she had attempted several times to halt their activities. LADIES AID SALE NOW IN PROGRESS ON BROAD STREET The ladies Aid Society’s three-day rummage sale is now in its second day in the bitilding next to the Armory Hall, formerly occupied by the ‘Noyes Electrical Shop. Sales commence each morning at 11 o’clock with. many interesting things .on display at reasonable pric. es. Anyone having articles that’ they do not want are asked by the society to offer them for sale. They will be called for by calling Nevada City These~ Census Takers Miss Best Known Citizen of This Community The census has been taken in Nevada City and the census takers have not caught up with Max Solaro, city fire truck driver, although the city hall was headquarters for the enumerator and Max lives upstairs in the city hall. Quite an oversight of the most popular person in town. _ Max is he first person called on. for everything—and yet the government failed to include him in the nose-counting. To illustrate this: when some lady leaves an electric iron on her ironing board and it gets on fire, or any other fire breaks out, who is thought of? Max Solaro. When the police are busy, who do those in trouble think of? Max Solaro. When old Armory Hall needed wiring, who was thought of? Max Solaro. When the electrical fire alarm system gets out of order; who is thought of? Max Solaro. Yet the census takers did not count Max. If they have caught up with him at this date, the reporter apologizes. COUNTY SCHOOL SUPT. ISSPEAKER AT TRUCKEE Walter A. Carlson, county superintendent of schools, in a. Public Schools Week program in Truckee recently recited the following facts concerning ‘Nevada county schools: 1—There are 28 elementary schools with a total enrollment of 2175 students and three high schools with a total enrollment of 910 students in this county. 4 2.—Almost one half of the elementary pupils and two thirds of the high school students are in Grass Valley. 3—There are 118 teachers employed in the county. 4—-Surveys made by the state show 70 per cent of the_ school buildings classrooms, equipment, water and toilet facilities are unsatsifactory. 5—-During the past five years new buildings have been erected in Nevada City, Grass Valley, Truckee and Union Hill. Carlson declared that the average cost per year for an elementary pupil in Truckee is $92.58 and for the high school $337.8U. The average: high school student unit cost is $148.19 and the average for the elementary’ schools is $88.67. While this may sound high at first, our tax rate shows a different picture. The comparative rates were given as follows: Truckee elementary 18 Nevada City elementary 62 Grass Valley elementary 80 M. L. U. High (Truckee) 24 Grass Valley high 45 cents Nevada City high 64 cents Carlson discussed the full time health nurse service inaugurated and urged formation of a Rural Teachers Club and told of the need of improvement in teachers in service. He strongly emphasized a need for a count library for benefit of adults and children alike. cents cents cents cents EXPECTED AT HOGE MINE FROM STRIKE Leasers, mining and developing at the Hoge mine near Sugar Loaf in the Nevada City district, are reported to have struck a two _ foot quartz vein showing free gold this week. Considerable activity is expected to result from the strike, if-it is as extensive as preliminary surveys indicate. Arthur W. Hoge and his son, Arthur W. Hoge, Jr., have operated the Hoge Development Company since 1928. It is reported that over $600,000 have been taken from the mine since that time, CASHIN FIELD REPAIRED The city crew aided by members of the Nevada City baseball team, this’ week graded Cashin’s Field, in answer to the demand for a_ suitable diamond for the local squad to play on. Ses : A home plate was made by Cliff Robbins and the field will be lined, dragged and _ finished in the:near 340. future. NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, OWNERS TO OBTAIN Chief of Police Garfield Robson recently issued another warning to dog owners of the city to have their dogs tagged this year. The new 1940 tags are waiting for new customers. Robson also’stated that the polite department is building a new pound near the city dump and dogs that are picked up ‘on the streets and placed in the pound will be left there at the Owner’s expense. SEN, SEAWELL OFFERS PRIZE TO HI STUDENTS Nevada City Nugget Nevada City, Calif. Dear Mr. Leete: For some time I have been trying to develop a program in our high schools that -would stimulate interest in school debates, and at the Same time prove educational to the students. : Recognizing the fact that our state government is not generally understood by adults, much less by students of high school age, I am offering a trophy to be contested for by the ‘several high. schools in my senatorial district which consists of the counties of Placer, Nevada, and Sierra. The subject of the debate between these schools is to be on any problem relating directly to the state government of California. This trophy will be contested for first during the school year starting next September, and will be a circulating trophy with space provided for the name of the school that wins it and the team representing that school to be inscribed upon it. Any school winning it three times will become the permanent possessor of the same, and a new trophy will then be ‘presented. Mr. J. W. Hanson of the’ Roseville Union high school, has kindly consented to act as chairman for the debating contest, and the schools located in this district, through their priucipals, have agreed to contest for the same. I believe this program will have a very salutory effect upon the student! bodies of the school involved and bring about a friendly school rivalry, with the result that the government of this state will. become well discussed in the circles. which bring forth our future citizens. I am giving you this information because I believe the people of this district will be greatly interested in a program of this sort and will recognize the benefits that will, accrue to the children by the same. Sincerely yours, JERROLD L. SEAWELL. TRINITY PARISH MEMBERS HEAR EPISCOPAL MONK The Rev. Father Earle H. Maddux, a monk of the Society of Saint John, the Evangelist, addressed the people of Trinity church during their spring social hour Wednesday evening at the National Hotel. Father Maddux-informed the people as to his work and that of his fellow monks in building up °: the churches in the slum areas of our great cities._He told of his experiences in San Francisco during the past three years and of how he is finishing his work there, since the work is now built up so that a married clergyman can handle it. Father Maddux gave much interesting information upon how the clergy came to be called Fathers, and how monks come to take their vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. He pointed out that they are compelled to undergo several’ months of waiting.and testing to find out whether or not they can stand the work, and they are never allowed to take their final vows until thirty years of age. Father Maddux leaves the West Coast for Cambridge, Mass., next month. As he said, the work is completed so far as he can complete it in San Francisco Episcopal churches, and now he is needed upon another front. On his way east, he will visit ROBSON WARNS DOG is LICENSES FOR PETS. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940. HIGHWAY 20 MAY ‘BE SCENIC ROUTE DECLARES C OF C H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City €hamber of Commerce, has been advised by Fred C. Tatton,of the state chamber, that the Sacramento Valley Council will discuss converting Highway 20 (Ukiah-Tahoe) into the scenic highway of this part of the state at a meeting to be held today. Many changes, including re-routing and major improvements, will be advanced by business and social groups, The following press release from the California State Chamber of Commerce outlines the important subjects that will be submitted, Sofge, and other local chamber members, are expected to attend. SACRAMENTO, May 10. — The submission of a year long study of the State Chamber of Commerce Migrant Committee will be one of the important subjects discussed: at the Sacramento Valley Council meeting ‘COC camp in the justice court . to be held Friday, May 10 at the Hotel Sénator, Sacramento, at 10 a. m. according to Geo. G. Pollock, council chairman. The committee, representing major business and soc. ial groups in California, has developed.a_ series of recommendations which it is hoped will serve as a basis of state and national action ‘ooking towards the solution of the problem, Farm Labor F. T. Robson, Vina, chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the. Council, reports that particular attention will be given to the question of garicultural labor and to legislation affecting farm credit. Pending .unemployment relief legislation and legislative proposala dealing with new taxes and unemployment insurance taxation will be reviewed by the tax committee. The chairman, J. A. Irving, Placerville, reports that several members of the legislature, including Roy J. Nielson, state senator, and Assemblyman Earl Desmond, will be in’ attendance to discuss findings of special legislative committees. Conservation Laws The. conservation committee, un— der the chairmanship of Kenneth Walker, Westwood, will discuss a proposed legislative constitutional amendment providing for the reorganization of the State Board of Forestry, forest insect control funds and fire prevention and protection will also be given consideration by the committee. The highway committee will receive recommendations by counties for construction and reconstruction items for inclusion in the 1941-43 biennial budget, according to Howard Reamer, Clarksburg, chairman of the committee. Delegations will present information regarding the Sacramento, North Sacramento grade separation. : Tourist Attraction : Attraction of tourists to the Saeramento Valley is the principle interest of the travel promotion committee and Kenneth Hammaker, North Sacramento, committee chairman, states that particular attention will be given to the California state fair and the 1940 fair on Treasure Island. Sommunities along the Tahoa. Ukiah highway, Route 20,. will developplans for promotion of travel on this scenic and historic route. CHAMBER SECRETARY THANKS ALL AIDING ARMORY HALL DANCE H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, wishes to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the farewell Armory Hall dance Saturday evening, including Purity Stores who donated the use of the hall and the refreshments. : MAXSON CHARGED WITH CAR THEFT Charges of -unlawfully taking a _ motor vehicle, a’felony, have been — filed against Lloyd Maxson, recently arrested on charges of theft of a CCC truck. The charges were filed by Paul Bellamy of the Grass Valley Grass Valley. es He was taken Wednesday from t city jail by Under Sheriff Ww, . BY CCC OFFICIAL

= Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. i} . evada Cit COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA y Nugget in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for’ justifiable .ends. ton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists —Alexander Hamil(Excerpts from an address before the Nevada City Rotary Club.) “Men of a philosophic mind trend often seek in other realms than in those of their own kind, a key to the enigma of our existence on earth. Since the bees seem to have an unusual organization, resulting in a certain kind of communal government, scientists and philosophers have long been interested in trying to discover’ the laws that govern them. One of the most distinguished of the long line of naturalists who from ancient times have studied bees and published the result of their observation, is Maurice Maeterlinck, a Belgian whose “Life of the Bee’’ was translated“from the French by Alfred Sutro at the turn of the century. Maeterlinck found certain parallels between human kind and the hymenoptera of which the bee family is a member, that even while they may prove more apparent than real, do afford an interesting basis for speculation. Among these parallels or analogies, is the fact that just as all. degrees of. what we call civilization,.is represented among human races, from the lowlyBushmen of Australia, through Polynesian and African cannibal tribes and the semi-barbarians among Arabs and Asiatic Indians, till finally civilization flowers among English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, or the so-called Nordic races, so among the hymenoptera is found the lowly bumble, or huiible bee, in which the cannibal adults attempts to eat the eggs or larva, and the female is forced to fight him to save her progeny, up through the mud daubers, the predatory wasps that belong to insect carnivora, until finally > we come to the highly organized bees which feed upon nectar and store up prodigious quantities of honey and other foods for posterity. Maeterlinck speaks of ‘the “spirit of the hive’’ as the ruling force in the government of bees, but we feel that a more descriptive term would be the ‘‘law of the hive.’’. How-the law, or rather a body of laws is transmitted from one generation of bees to the next, is still a baffling mystery, but this much seems apparent: bees are born with the hereditary knowledge, which commonly goes by the name of instinct, of the laws that govern-them. They exercise, furthermore, a remarkable judgment in applying the laws. If they have more than one choice of action, they will sometimes do one thing and sometimes another. For instance, when a swarm has left the hive for new quarters, and a new queen emerges from the cell in which she has hatched, she immediately seeks to destroy, by stinging to death the-other royal princesses who have not yet emerged from the cells. But the workers may restrain her by forming a living prison around her with the walls composed of their bodies. When they do this however, it will “be only a few days before a second swarm leaves with the new queen to lead them to and to populate the new home. On the other hand if the “law of the hive’’ decrees that there will be no more swarming for sometime to come _ the queen is permitted to murder the young princesses in their cells. ‘Bees are easily studied, because they will proceed with their daily activities in glass hives. It has been observed that while the worker bees, which are sterile females, wait upon and tenderly care for their queen, since she is literally the mother of them all, she is in no sense the ruler of the hive. As noted above, on occasion they will restrain her from an act, which under the “‘law of the hive’’ may jeopardize or injure the colony. The natural endowment of the worker bees is stupendous. The worker bees produce the wax which walls, floors and seals the eells containing the honey, they produce the honey that fills them, they—also--manufacture.__propolis. which they seal up their dwellings and make them weather -proof. In an organ in their heads they secret what is known as royal jelly, a thick milky fluid, which is fed for a short time to the worker nymphs in their cells and for a longer time to the royal princesses ‘during their incubation period. The poison of bee stings is chiefly formic acid, but greatest use made of it is not for stinging enemies, Vol. 14:'No, 38. The Gold Center The County Seat Paper CLOSING DATES OF NEVADA CO. SCHOOLS LISTED In a few weeks Nevada county schools will close with one of the most successful of terms there being no shut-downs for epidemics of any.sort. There are approximately seventy seven to graduate from the rural schools. Closing dates for the schools of the county are as follows: Friday, May 17, Bear River, -Spenceville, Kentucky Flat, Pleasant Valley, Washington and Wolf. Thursday, May 20, Clear Creek. . Wednesday, May 22, Chicago Park; Friday, May 24, Boca and Mariposa schools; Thursday, May 27, Lime Kiln; Friday, May 31, Forest Springs, French Corral, Union Hill, Indian Springs, Mooney Flat, Oakland or Gold Flat; Monday, June 3, Rough and Ready, Truckee, Birchville, North San Juan; Wednesday, June 5, North Bloomfield; Friday, June 7, Cherokee, Floriston. Nevada City, Grass Valley, Tuesday, June 25. Blue Tent; Friday, June 28, ' Graniteville. The Meadow Lake high school at Truckee will close on June 3, There are twenty etght elementary schools in (Nevada county. HIGHWAY CREWS START WORK ON DEPOTHILL AREA Bert Foreman and H. F. Sofge, president and secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, respectively, paid Downieville a ‘‘good will’’ visit Tuesday. They found crews working at various points along the Nevada CityDownieville “highway of many curves.’’ At Depot Hill 20 foot drill holes were being made for a distance of 700 feet*and blasting will be done here to widen the road. South of San Juan a huge steam shovel and bulldozer were cutting off curves, the debris being placed in four dump trucks. Work will also be done north and soutS of the South Fork of the Yuba river. Crews have cut away brush and timber along proposed changes. At the conclusion of this work, the equipment will be moved to the section between here and North San Juan where the remainder of the work will be done. CHURCH TO RISE FROM LUMBER IN ARMORY HALL Six men with their pastor, Rev. Robert Carrington, started tearing down the old Armory Hall yesterday morning. The minister secured the building from Purity Stores for razing it and the group are doing the work as a service to their church. All salvaged lumber will be used in construction of a church in Nevada City. The minister has been trying to secure a lot for some time to build a church on and the lumber is to be stored until a site can be bought. At the rate the men are working the building should be down in two weeks. HIGH SCHOOL PROM WILL BE MAY 17TH The senior class of the Nevada City high school is now working on plans for the senior ball, scheduled for Friday evening, May 17, at the school gymnasium .This. will be the final social event of the school year. William Wagner, class president, and his decoratfon committee are working out a colorful scheme to carry out the theme “Moonlight Ser-enade.’’ It was announced recently that Captain Carter will supply music for the dancing. . Mrs. Eva C. Flewellen is the class adviser. SEVERELY INJURED Jack Greentree — of Glenbrook Heights is in Jones Momerial Hospital with a broken neck which he sustained Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock in the underground workings of the Bullion mine. He was barring down rocks when a sudden shower (Continued on Page Two) of rocks fell on him, LARGEST. TROUT OF SEASON CAUGHT BY GRASS VALLEY MAN A large crowd gathered about the Nugget office late yesterday afternoon to see a splendid catch of large trout brought to town by Ed Lambretch of Grass Valley and Mr: and Mrs. John Miller of Folsom. There were-eleven trout in the lot the largest weighing six pounds. choice trout were caught in Lake Ta. hoe and spinners were used to catch them. Lambrecht is a well known sports man. of Grass Valley, several. years ago he won the Sacramento Bee contest prize for largest trout caught. Yesterday’s catch is believed to be the largest brought in so far this season. HAVEYOUA FLAG TODISPLAY ON HOLIDAYS? Have you an American flag to hang from your porch or store on the coming holidays? Remember there are Decoration Day, May 30, Flag Day, June 14, Independence Day, July 4. If you have not and desire—as a good American citizen—to hang out OLD GLORY over your door on patriotic holidays the Nevada City Nugget will supply you with a flag as a premium on subscriptions paid a year in advance into this office— before July 3rd. The flags are on display in the Nugget window. —~ These flag outfits represent a conservative retail value of $1.50. They consist of the FLAG, three feet wide, five feet long, made of durable cotton bunting, with sewed stripes, and printed stars, a sturdy brass jointed pole six feet long, varnished with a hardwood knob to cap it, a cotton rope and a strong aluminum holder for screwing onto. porch or window sill, the whole packed neatly in a metal cornered shipping board box. HEARING FOR MEN HELD ON ASSAULT CHARGE POSTPONED The preliminary hearing for Delbert Fuller and Walter’ Barnes, charged with assault by means of yrce likely to do great bodily harm, a felony, and resisting a public officer in the discharge of his duties, a misdemeanor, has again been postponed until Monday, May 20, upon request of the defendants. The original hearings was scheduled for April 25,-but was postponed until May 8.Fuller and Barnes asked that another postponement be granted as they have had insufficient time to prepare for a defense. Hearing for two additional charges against Fuller — drunken driving causing great bodily harm, a felony, and driving on the wrong side of the road causing great bodily injury, a misdemeanor, has also been postponed until May 20. TWO MEN ARRESTED ON TRESPASS CHARGE A complaint filed by Mrs. Vesta Young of Nevada City resulted in the arrest this week of John Wheeler and Elton Cross of Cherokee for alleged mining on the property of Mrs. Young near Shady Creek. Deputy Sheriffs Carl Ts Larsen and Fred ‘Williford apprehended the men. The two men pleaded not guilty at their arraignment before the justice of the peace L. W. Wood at Nor. San Juan. They were released on the promise .they would appear before Judge Wood at a later date. Mrs. Young stated the men refused to leave her property after she had attempted several times to halt their activities. LADIES AID SALE NOW IN PROGRESS ON BROAD STREET The ladies Aid Society’s three-day rummage sale is now in its second day in the bitilding next to the Armory Hall, formerly occupied by the

‘Noyes Electrical Shop. Sales commence each morning at 11 o’clock with. many interesting things .on display at reasonable pric. es. Anyone having articles that’ they do not want are asked by the society to offer them for sale. They will be called for by calling Nevada City These~ Census Takers Miss Best Known Citizen of This Community The census has been taken in Nevada City and the census takers have not caught up with Max Solaro, city fire truck driver, although the city hall was headquarters for the enumerator and Max lives upstairs in the city hall. Quite an oversight of the most popular person in town. _ Max is he first person called on. for everything—and yet the government failed to include him in the nose-counting. To illustrate this: when some lady leaves an electric iron on her ironing board and it gets on fire, or any other fire breaks out, who is thought of? Max Solaro. When the police are busy, who do those in trouble think of? Max Solaro. When old Armory Hall needed wiring, who was thought of? Max Solaro. When the electrical fire alarm system gets out of order; who is thought of? Max Solaro. Yet the census takers did not count Max. If they have caught up with him at this date, the reporter apologizes. COUNTY SCHOOL SUPT. ISSPEAKER AT TRUCKEE Walter A. Carlson, county superintendent of schools, in a. Public Schools Week program in Truckee recently recited the following facts concerning ‘Nevada county schools: 1—There are 28 elementary schools with a total enrollment of 2175 students and three high schools with a total enrollment of 910 students in this county. 4 2.—Almost one half of the elementary pupils and two thirds of the high school students are in Grass Valley. 3—There are 118 teachers employed in the county. 4—-Surveys made by the state show 70 per cent of the_ school buildings classrooms, equipment, water and toilet facilities are unsatsifactory. 5—-During the past five years new buildings have been erected in Nevada City, Grass Valley, Truckee and Union Hill. Carlson declared that the average cost per year for an elementary pupil in Truckee is $92.58 and for the high school $337.8U. The average: high school student unit cost is $148.19 and the average for the elementary’ schools is $88.67. While this may sound high at first, our tax rate shows a different picture. The comparative rates were given as follows: Truckee elementary 18 Nevada City elementary 62 Grass Valley elementary 80 M. L. U. High (Truckee) 24 Grass Valley high 45 cents Nevada City high 64 cents Carlson discussed the full time health nurse service inaugurated and urged formation of a Rural Teachers Club and told of the need of improvement in teachers in service. He strongly emphasized a need for a count library for benefit of adults and children alike. cents cents cents cents EXPECTED AT HOGE MINE FROM STRIKE Leasers, mining and developing at the Hoge mine near Sugar Loaf in the Nevada City district, are reported to have struck a two _ foot quartz vein showing free gold this week. Considerable activity is expected to result from the strike, if-it is as extensive as preliminary surveys indicate. Arthur W. Hoge and his son, Arthur W. Hoge, Jr., have operated the Hoge Development Company since 1928. It is reported that over $600,000 have been taken from the mine since that time, CASHIN FIELD REPAIRED The city crew aided by members of the Nevada City baseball team, this’ week graded Cashin’s Field, in answer to the demand for a_ suitable diamond for the local squad to play on. Ses : A home plate was made by Cliff Robbins and the field will be lined, dragged and _ finished in the:near 340. future. NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, OWNERS TO OBTAIN Chief of Police Garfield Robson recently issued another warning to dog owners of the city to have their dogs tagged this year. The new 1940 tags are waiting for new customers. Robson also’stated that the polite department is building a new pound near the city dump and dogs that are picked up ‘on the streets and placed in the pound will be left there at the Owner’s expense. SEN, SEAWELL OFFERS PRIZE TO HI STUDENTS Nevada City Nugget Nevada City, Calif. Dear Mr. Leete: For some time I have been trying to develop a program in our high schools that -would stimulate interest in school debates, and at the Same time prove educational to the students. : Recognizing the fact that our state government is not generally understood by adults, much less by students of high school age, I am offering a trophy to be contested for by the ‘several high. schools in my senatorial district which consists of the counties of Placer, Nevada, and Sierra. The subject of the debate between these schools is to be on any problem relating directly to the state government of California. This trophy will be contested for first during the school year starting next September, and will be a circulating trophy with space provided for the name of the school that wins it and the team representing that school to be inscribed upon it. Any school winning it three times will become the permanent possessor of the same, and a new trophy will then be ‘presented. Mr. J. W. Hanson of the’ Roseville Union high school, has kindly consented to act as chairman for the debating contest, and the schools located in this district, through their priucipals, have agreed to contest for the same. I believe this program will have a very salutory effect upon the student! bodies of the school involved and bring about a friendly school rivalry, with the result that the government of this state will. become well discussed in the circles. which bring forth our future citizens. I am giving you this information because I believe the people of this district will be greatly interested in a program of this sort and will recognize the benefits that will, accrue to the children by the same. Sincerely yours, JERROLD L. SEAWELL. TRINITY PARISH MEMBERS HEAR EPISCOPAL MONK The Rev. Father Earle H. Maddux, a monk of the Society of Saint John, the Evangelist, addressed the people of Trinity church during their spring social hour Wednesday evening at the National Hotel. Father Maddux-informed the people as to his work and that of his fellow monks in building up °: the churches in the slum areas of our great cities._He told of his experiences in San Francisco during the past three years and of how he is finishing his work there, since the work is now built up so that a married clergyman can handle it. Father Maddux gave much interesting information upon how the clergy came to be called Fathers, and how monks come to take their vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. He pointed out that they are compelled to undergo several’ months of waiting.and testing to find out whether or not they can stand the work, and they are never allowed to take their final vows until thirty years of age. Father Maddux leaves the West Coast for Cambridge, Mass., next month. As he said, the work is completed so far as he can complete it in San Francisco Episcopal churches, and now he is needed upon another front. On his way east, he will visit ROBSON WARNS DOG is LICENSES FOR PETS. FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940. HIGHWAY 20 MAY ‘BE SCENIC ROUTE DECLARES C OF C H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City €hamber of Commerce, has been advised by Fred C. Tatton,of the state chamber, that the Sacramento Valley Council will discuss converting Highway 20 (Ukiah-Tahoe) into the scenic highway of this part of the state at a meeting to be held today. Many changes, including re-routing and major improvements, will be advanced by business and social groups, The following press release from the California State Chamber of Commerce outlines the important subjects that will be submitted, Sofge, and other local chamber members, are expected to attend. SACRAMENTO, May 10. — The submission of a year long study of the State Chamber of Commerce Migrant Committee will be one of the important subjects discussed: at the Sacramento Valley Council meeting ‘COC camp in the justice court . to be held Friday, May 10 at the Hotel Sénator, Sacramento, at 10 a. m. according to Geo. G. Pollock, council chairman. The committee, representing major business and soc. ial groups in California, has developed.a_ series of recommendations which it is hoped will serve as a basis of state and national action ‘ooking towards the solution of the problem, Farm Labor F. T. Robson, Vina, chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the. Council, reports that particular attention will be given to the question of garicultural labor and to legislation affecting farm credit. Pending .unemployment relief legislation and legislative proposala dealing with new taxes and unemployment insurance taxation will be reviewed by the tax committee. The chairman, J. A. Irving, Placerville, reports that several members of the legislature, including Roy J. Nielson, state senator, and Assemblyman Earl Desmond, will be in’ attendance to discuss findings of special legislative committees. Conservation Laws The. conservation committee, un— der the chairmanship of Kenneth Walker, Westwood, will discuss a proposed legislative constitutional amendment providing for the reorganization of the State Board of Forestry, forest insect control funds and fire prevention and protection will also be given consideration by the committee. The highway committee will receive recommendations by counties for construction and reconstruction items for inclusion in the 1941-43 biennial budget, according to Howard Reamer, Clarksburg, chairman of the committee. Delegations will present information regarding the Sacramento, North Sacramento grade separation. : Tourist Attraction : Attraction of tourists to the Saeramento Valley is the principle interest of the travel promotion committee and Kenneth Hammaker, North Sacramento, committee chairman, states that particular attention will be given to the California state fair and the 1940 fair on Treasure Island. Sommunities along the Tahoa. Ukiah highway, Route 20,. will developplans for promotion of travel on this scenic and historic route. CHAMBER SECRETARY THANKS ALL AIDING ARMORY HALL DANCE H. F. Sofge, secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, wishes to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the farewell Armory Hall dance Saturday evening, including Purity Stores who donated the use of the hall and the refreshments. : MAXSON CHARGED WITH CAR THEFT Charges of -unlawfully taking a _ motor vehicle, a’felony, have been — filed against Lloyd Maxson, recently arrested on charges of theft of a CCC truck. The charges were filed by Paul Bellamy of the Grass Valley Grass Valley. es He was taken Wednesday from t city jail by Under Sheriff Ww, . BY CCC OFFICIAL