May 13, 1947 (8 pages)

NEVADA CITY EE NUGGET GRASS VALLEY PER MONTH ol, 21, No. 49 The County Seat Paper NEVAD mee aia ‘OWN TALK HOLE wAS TALK OF TOWN \ . sgifS STARTS OP ENING FRIDAY (. THRONG WATCH AS SLOWLY FILLIT UP ‘work ot filling two-way tratfic undermined by thecavity, the mainmoth hole was completed over the week end. ig now permitted over the highway, including the part 'RIDERS PICK GOLD MAROON OUTFITS . GRASS VALLEY: The Gold Tra‘) . Riders met at the Improvement Club . in Grass Valley Friday night to view . a display of riding outfits and to. select a unifom to be used! for par-. ade. purposes ‘by the club: & is ean . was selected and orders were placei. ent, with however the desire thiat parade. ©. L, “Mitch”? Painter tendered his resignation as president, due to pérsonal reasons and Wayne Wainwright vice president took over the chairmanship. It was decided that the new vice president should be elected at the. meeting. Painter announced that the club had received an invitation from Dick J Lostetter of Penn. Valley for all members who desired to meet at his corrals at Casey Corners. in Penn Valley for calf roping on Sunday, May 11. freshments were served by the social committee. SEWAGE 100 CLEAN,SAYS CITY COUNCIL . mately a hundred workmen enploy-{) shirt with white trim and a gold tie! These: a . ager ‘stated the plant would provWee Bt ck parte was left OD-. ably reach full capacity by Septeme riders for the pres-. her, when some 200 men would be they conform as much, as possible. ‘It . was. hoped that the uniforms might ail da , is ri ; g ’ ” . be completed so that the group cong i, tate ee ae tide in the Auburn Gold Rush days. through the mill. Fisher said, Lum At the close of the meeting re= A CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA The Twin Cities Paper TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1947 HUGE CAL-IDA PLANT OPERATING NEAR AUBURN AUBURN: The new Cal-Ida Lumber Company, located on the Grass Valley highway two miles from Auburn, is in operation with approxied at the present time. Construction work is still in progress, E. T. Fisher, secretary, manemployed. Albout 120,000 feet of lumber per st Hill divide and being run ber-is also shipped in from. other sources. } At the present time the molding . department, the planing mill and lumlber. saws are in operation. The company is also operating its own plant. for the.manufacture of saw} blades. ot FGF Other departments which will be completed shortly include a box fac. tory, which is, expected to provide . stock for many local fruit houses, al facture of plastics. A night shift was scheduled to be placed in operation this week in the) molding and milling departments. = . NEVADA CITY: The Nevada City council yesterday issued a warnings thet too much clear water was runsewage disposal when the proposed million dollars when completed, was begun last July. The first milling ee were begun early. MERCHANTS WHIP ROCKLIN NINE nirz through the sewers. If. this baseball team whipped -the Rocklin continues, the council reported, jit nine, 31-7 in Sunday’s game. Ralph willgreatly increase the cost of . 'Childers got six hits out of seven times.at bat. Babe Childers hit 4 for 5 al D sash and door plant, drying kilns . President, and a sawdust plant for the manu-. dent of the A NEVADA CITY: The Merchants the strenuous: activities ahead. iff Danny Crawford has DR. DANIEL HIRSCH GREETS RAY DORER +. Daniel Hirsch, Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce is pictured shaking hands with Ray Dorer, Presiuburn Forty-Niner Association, . Gold Rush Revival plans. Left to executive secretary, chamber of Commerce, Levy, secretary, Dorer, Dr. The construction of the plaat,. Note the forty-niner attire, which will cost approximately a. of the chamber of commerce. Hirsch, and Mrs. Genevieve Short. and the handsome slabwood front — "ee SY «aac. and in charge of Right: Ray J Kronemyer, Mrs. Virginia: WHISKERINOS Scie Cae’ called a meeting for tonight in the Old Brewery Cafe hall. Purpose of the meeting is to get organized ahd set for A regular weekly meeting is tentatively planned. j Friday night, May 16th, the Whiskerinos will hold a dance in western costume. Don Daniels’ 3-piece band pS: Ste Pie Sine a ee eh Ve uence. dO poi. . big hole pictured above is the David Storz, and the lower, a Nugget photo, identified spectator gazing raptly into the hollow. . Nugget photo of the remarkable cavity, see Page 8. ferrioon. Fown Talk took 5 NEVADA CITY: A great hole, feet deep opened early Friday morning ~ Talk Market and in the middle of the old County Town Talk. . Examination revealed that the Old Narrow ‘ nel under Town Talk, a mile west of his city, had oe ‘water atte em to sheared y the pressure flowed out Road of falling earth and 3 F* i was closed. A gas line was also a & el i Narrow Gauge Rai Valley-Nevada City Highway. ribe . all filled up now. It was a ‘while it lasted, from early Friday morning to Sunon the air of a county fair and tte grocery store did a thriving business in ice’ cream soft drinks. The top picture is an aerial photo taken by showing an unFor another 50 feet across end 40 in front of the Town on the Nevada Irrigation District rocks, and of either end of the tunnel, until a gate Valley Turnpike Road which antedates Y age Railroad, lies beside the relatdisposal plant is built during tie coming year. : t Sewage engineers declared . that hl the sewers now discharging inte Deer’ Creek, apparently carried far too much clear water indicating that many householders do not repair their leaking fawcets. : ‘ Charles Halstead made a tentative proposal that Nevavda City join Grass Valley and the county in operating a police radio. He stated that KAPI, the California: highway short wave radio station may presently close: down. The council decided to consult with Grass Valley’s city council and the county poard of supervisors. The memkers of the new park commission, consisting of E. R. Hewston, Freda C. Garrison, Marvin Shock and W. D. Percy were formally sworn in. GOLD FLAT POTLUCK DINNER BIG SUCCESS NBVADA CITY: The potluck dinner held for the new Scout Troop 15 at Deschwanden Hall was.a great success. Mirs. Deschwanden acted a6 chairman .of the dinner while the mothers of the scout troop sewed. presented the new troop with a fleg and Dr. March, chairman of the troop committee presented badges to the following: Elmer Caster, Polter, Tenderfoot; Hugh Scribe, f @éolare that the ing to were warned ago that the narrow gauge trepkload Which runs deneath ta a precarious conrotting timbers and aince the Narrow Gauge abandoned and all rails Ruipment sold during the wat. i * Epes Ah f 45 gt his home from delivering 2 of honey to the railroad Tenderfoot; Sonny Zwingman, Ten@ertoot; Dogias Akins, Tenderfoot; David Huson, Deschwanden, ‘Henley, Sooutmaster. , Behe in diameter pes — -_—* came a menacing abyss. Flares wore POWER LINES FOR home on the night of the burglary. PMs cities ware carves (Ove, Cae Se Wood burned off the number on a P the cavity, vlocked off. — n _ tire and put om his car. The rest of SNES ‘winitinn Grams Walter . errs came 6 se oe SIERRA COUNTY his share of loot he dumped into the ee we & large part of ita = od watohed filling operations pace Bear River. Other stolen items were Mater nearly a hundred Saturday mg oN GRASS VALLEY: L. R. Farrell,. found buried in Norris lot, back of ‘ as airplanes tlew overhead to ph smart tennager st Uae Pacifie Gas . his house on Banner Road. pgp ss . and Electric Company, stated YS . cup HEALTH CMECKUP rigation employed . terday that a pepe to urge Grass -Valiey . with equipment will be assembled fires ya gus-. near Dowaleville by the end of Tht \ Same of the season. Tendertoot; Richard . Second Class; Bud First Class. Robert . removing a small truk load of per5. including a home run with two on base. The entire squad saw action. Third Baseman Stroh amd~ first “baseman Childers made some neat plays. i Nevada City’s battery was Radley, Anderson, Amos and Fouyer. For Rocklin: Hendrickson, Black, Hebuck, Rodas, Nassi, Jarvis, Sanchez, and Davis pitched. The local team got 35 ‘ite. to Rocklin’s ten and made four. errors to Rodklin’s 9. Sunday the, Merchants play the (Colfax team here, for the. first home NEVADA CITY: Solon D. Wood, charged with receiving stolen goods from the burglary of the Floyd Pond storage ‘barn, was yesterday granted one year’s probation by Judge James. Gnell. But T. L. Norris who confessea to second degree burglary in the removing articles from the barn, was jail and placed on probation for three cadi re John Lanyon, third party involved in the burglary, wlio also confessed, was atraigned yesterday. He pleaded. guilty and asked for probation. “The probation was directed to report Friday.(anyon and Norris confessed ‘to sonal propety belong to Pond. Some of these items Such as a tire and canned fruit were taken to Wood's NEVADA CITY: Preschool health exam¥mations of children took place Monday and Tuesday. Dr. Norbert Frey was in charge Monday and Dr. ‘B. W. Hummelt was in charge yesterday. The Blementary Parent sentenced to 60 days im the county) Teachers annual a3 The, description given the ‘immediately. recaptured, is still at large. The sheriff stated able to find anyone;, except . GET $417 $16 per ton. The funds each of the troop members will. entertain. Free sandwiches and coffee will be served. Admission will be free-to ah holders of "Wihiskerino: SHERIFF SEEKS mrs CITY: Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins reported yesterday that he had spent Sunday afternoon investigating a report he had received from Washington on. the South Fork of the Yuba River, chopathic patient, who escaped from Lettermon General Hospital in San Francisco had been seen wanderring along Scotchman’s Creek, a. smail. stream that runs into the South Yuba at the town’s out skirts. that the psycorresponded ‘to the one received by the sheriff immediately. after three). patents from the psychopathic ward . of Letterman’s escaped. Two were . but one along ‘with a young orderly taken . » with them, presumably as a hostage, . the two elderly people who phoned in the in-j — though he searched the country 9&3 oP ig ‘far along the South Yuba as the NEVADA CITY: Nevada City and}, Grase Valley Boy Scout troops per-. ticipating in the paper drive of April) : POPULARITY CONTEST GRASS VALLEY: William Stin-_ son, general chairman of. the Grase ValleytNevada City Fourth. of July. = Celebration which this year will. take place in Grass Valley, announced the appointment. of a committee yesterday to inaugurate a popularity contest. ; a ce Ges The committee consists of Det Powell, chairman, William Valdom, Jerry Brust, Mel Lewis and Claytom ‘Radcliff. a ad MARYSVILLE: The board. of rectors.of' the (Marysville. dist ‘chamber of commerce is gen favor of doing everything possible, to salvage all or part of Camp ‘Beale. for the ‘nse of local groups or com‘panies,, Warren: Shingle, ‘president, ~ At a board meeting held in the — local offiece,, directors expressed the — belief that ‘the recent publication of — a brochure and survey compiled by — ‘Shingle and Pat Shaniton wae appre— priately timed inasmuch as somefour troops a vacation at Camp Pa-

NEVADA CITY EE NUGGET GRASS VALLEY PER MONTH ol, 21, No. 49 The County Seat Paper NEVAD mee aia ‘OWN TALK HOLE wAS TALK OF TOWN \ . sgifS STARTS OP ENING FRIDAY (. THRONG WATCH AS SLOWLY FILLIT UP ‘work ot filling two-way tratfic undermined by thecavity, the mainmoth hole was completed over the week end. ig now permitted over the highway, including the part 'RIDERS PICK GOLD MAROON OUTFITS . GRASS VALLEY: The Gold Tra‘) . Riders met at the Improvement Club . in Grass Valley Friday night to view . a display of riding outfits and to. select a unifom to be used! for par-. ade. purposes ‘by the club: & is ean . was selected and orders were placei. ent, with however the desire thiat parade. ©. L, “Mitch”? Painter tendered his resignation as president, due to pérsonal reasons and Wayne Wainwright vice president took over the chairmanship. It was decided that the new vice president should be elected at the. meeting. Painter announced that the club had received an invitation from Dick J Lostetter of Penn. Valley for all members who desired to meet at his corrals at Casey Corners. in Penn Valley for calf roping on Sunday, May 11. freshments were served by the social committee. SEWAGE 100 CLEAN,SAYS CITY COUNCIL . mately a hundred workmen enploy-{) shirt with white trim and a gold tie! These: a . ager ‘stated the plant would provWee Bt ck parte was left OD-. ably reach full capacity by Septeme riders for the pres-. her, when some 200 men would be they conform as much, as possible. ‘It . was. hoped that the uniforms might ail da , is ri ; g ’ ” . be completed so that the group cong i, tate ee ae tide in the Auburn Gold Rush days. through the mill. Fisher said, Lum At the close of the meeting re= A CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA The Twin Cities Paper TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1947 HUGE CAL-IDA PLANT OPERATING NEAR AUBURN AUBURN: The new Cal-Ida Lumber Company, located on the Grass Valley highway two miles from Auburn, is in operation with approxied at the present time. Construction work is still in progress, E. T. Fisher, secretary, manemployed. Albout 120,000 feet of lumber per st Hill divide and being run ber-is also shipped in from. other sources. } At the present time the molding . department, the planing mill and lumlber. saws are in operation. The company is also operating its own plant. for the.manufacture of saw} blades. ot FGF Other departments which will be completed shortly include a box fac. tory, which is, expected to provide . stock for many local fruit houses, al facture of plastics. A night shift was scheduled to be placed in operation this week in the) molding and milling departments. = . NEVADA CITY: The Nevada City council yesterday issued a warnings thet too much clear water was runsewage disposal when the proposed million dollars when completed, was begun last July. The first milling ee were begun early. MERCHANTS WHIP ROCKLIN NINE nirz through the sewers.. If. this baseball team whipped -the Rocklin continues, the council reported, jit nine, 31-7 in Sunday’s game. Ralph willgreatly increase the cost of . 'Childers got six hits out of seven times.at bat. Babe Childers hit 4 for 5 al D sash and door plant, drying kilns . President, and a sawdust plant for the manu-. dent of the A NEVADA CITY: The Merchants the strenuous: activities ahead. iff Danny Crawford has DR. DANIEL HIRSCH GREETS RAY DORER +. Daniel Hirsch, Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce is pictured shaking hands with Ray Dorer, Presiuburn Forty-Niner Association, . Gold Rush Revival plans. Left to executive secretary, chamber of Commerce, Levy, secretary, Dorer, Dr. The construction of the plaat,. Note the forty-niner attire, which will cost approximately a. of the chamber of commerce. Hirsch, and Mrs. Genevieve Short. and the handsome slabwood front — "ee SY «aac. and in charge of Right: Ray J Kronemyer, Mrs. Virginia: WHISKERINOS Scie Cae’ called a meeting for tonight in the Old Brewery Cafe hall. Purpose of the meeting is to get organized ahd set for A regular weekly meeting is tentatively planned. j Friday night, May 16th, the Whiskerinos will hold a dance in western costume. Don Daniels’ 3-piece band pS: Ste Pie Sine a ee eh Ve uence. dO poi. . big hole pictured above is the David Storz, and the lower, a Nugget photo, identified spectator gazing raptly into the hollow. . Nugget photo of the remarkable cavity, see Page 8. ferrioon. Fown Talk took 5 NEVADA CITY: A great hole, feet deep opened early Friday morning ~ Talk Market and in the middle of the old County Town Talk. . Examination revealed that the Old Narrow ‘ nel under Town Talk, a mile west of his city, had oe ‘water atte em to sheared y the pressure flowed out Road of falling earth and 3 F* i was closed. A gas line was also a & el i Narrow Gauge Rai Valley-Nevada City Highway. ribe . all filled up now. It was a ‘while it lasted, from early Friday morning to Sunon the air of a county fair and tte grocery store did a thriving business in ice’ cream soft drinks. The top picture is an aerial photo taken by showing an unFor another 50 feet across end 40 in front of the Town on the Nevada Irrigation District rocks, and of either end of the tunnel, until a gate Valley Turnpike Road which antedates Y age Railroad, lies beside the relatdisposal plant is built during tie coming year. : t Sewage engineers declared . that hl the sewers now discharging inte Deer’ Creek, apparently carried far too much clear water indicating that many householders do not repair their leaking fawcets. : ‘

Charles Halstead made a tentative proposal that Nevavda City join Grass Valley and the county in operating a police radio. He stated that KAPI, the California: highway short wave radio station may presently close: down. The council decided to consult with Grass Valley’s city council and the county poard of supervisors. The memkers of the new park commission, consisting of E. R. Hewston, Freda C. Garrison, Marvin Shock and W. D. Percy were formally sworn in. GOLD FLAT POTLUCK DINNER BIG SUCCESS NBVADA CITY: The potluck dinner held for the new Scout Troop 15 at Deschwanden Hall was.a great success. Mirs. Deschwanden acted a6 chairman .of the dinner while the mothers of the scout troop sewed. presented the new troop with a fleg and Dr. March, chairman of the troop committee presented badges to the following: Elmer Caster, Polter, Tenderfoot; Hugh Scribe, f @éolare that the ing to were warned ago that the narrow gauge trepkload Which runs deneath ta a precarious conrotting timbers and aince the Narrow Gauge abandoned and all rails Ruipment sold during the wat. i * Epes Ah f 45 gt his home from delivering 2 of honey to the railroad Tenderfoot; Sonny Zwingman, Ten@ertoot; Dogias Akins, Tenderfoot; David Huson, Deschwanden, ‘Henley, Sooutmaster. , Behe in diameter pes — -_—* came a menacing abyss. Flares wore POWER LINES FOR home on the night of the burglary. PMs cities ware carves (Ove, Cae Se Wood burned off the number on a P the cavity, vlocked off. — n _ tire and put om his car. The rest of SNES ‘winitinn Grams Walter . errs came 6 se oe SIERRA COUNTY his share of loot he dumped into the ee we & large part of ita = od watohed filling operations pace Bear River. Other stolen items were Mater nearly a hundred Saturday mg oN GRASS VALLEY: L. R. Farrell,. found buried in Norris lot, back of ‘ as airplanes tlew overhead to ph smart tennager st Uae Pacifie Gas . his house on Banner Road. pgp ss . and Electric Company, stated YS . cup HEALTH CMECKUP rigation employed . terday that a pepe to urge Grass -Valiey . with equipment will be assembled fires ya gus-. near Dowaleville by the end of Tht \ Same of the season. Tendertoot; Richard . Second Class; Bud First Class. Robert . removing a small truk load of per5. including a home run with two on base. The entire squad saw action. Third Baseman Stroh amd~ first “baseman Childers made some neat plays. i Nevada City’s battery was Radley, Anderson, Amos and Fouyer. For Rocklin: Hendrickson, Black, Hebuck, Rodas, Nassi, Jarvis, Sanchez, and Davis pitched. The local team got 35 ‘ite. to Rocklin’s ten and made four. errors to Rodklin’s 9. Sunday the, Merchants play the (Colfax team here, for the. first home NEVADA CITY: Solon D. Wood, charged with receiving stolen goods from the burglary of the Floyd Pond storage ‘barn, was yesterday granted one year’s probation by Judge James. Gnell. But T. L. Norris who confessea to second degree burglary in the removing articles from the barn, was jail and placed on probation for three cadi re John Lanyon, third party involved in the burglary, wlio also confessed, was atraigned yesterday. He pleaded. guilty and asked for probation. “The probation was directed to report Friday.(anyon and Norris confessed ‘to sonal propety belong to Pond. Some of these items Such as a tire and canned fruit were taken to Wood's NEVADA CITY: Preschool health exam¥mations of children took place Monday and Tuesday. Dr. Norbert Frey was in charge Monday and Dr. ‘B. W. Hummelt was in charge yesterday. The Blementary Parent sentenced to 60 days im the county) Teachers annual a3 The, description given the ‘immediately. recaptured, is still at large. The sheriff stated able to find anyone;, except . GET $417 $16 per ton.. The funds each of the troop members will. entertain. Free sandwiches and coffee will be served. Admission will be free-to ah holders of "Wihiskerino: SHERIFF SEEKS mrs CITY: Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins reported yesterday that he had spent Sunday afternoon investigating a report he had received from Washington on. the South Fork of the Yuba River, chopathic patient, who escaped from Lettermon General Hospital in San Francisco had been seen wanderring along Scotchman’s Creek, a. smail. stream that runs into the South Yuba at the town’s out skirts. that the psycorresponded ‘to the one received by the sheriff immediately. after three). patents from the psychopathic ward . of Letterman’s escaped. Two were . but one along ‘with a young orderly taken . » with them, presumably as a hostage, . the two elderly people who phoned in the in-j — though he searched the country 9&3 oP ig ‘far along the South Yuba as the NEVADA CITY: Nevada City and}, Grase Valley Boy Scout troops per-. ticipating in the paper drive of April) : POPULARITY CONTEST GRASS VALLEY: William Stin-_ son, general chairman of. the Grase ValleytNevada City Fourth. of July. = Celebration which this year will. take place in Grass Valley, announced the appointment. of a committee yesterday to inaugurate a popularity contest. ; a ce Ges The committee consists of Det Powell, chairman, William Valdom, Jerry Brust, Mel Lewis and Claytom ‘Radcliff. a ad MARYSVILLE: The board. of rectors.of' the (Marysville. dist ‘chamber of commerce is gen favor of doing everything possible, to salvage all or part of Camp ‘Beale. for the ‘nse of local groups or com‘panies,, Warren: Shingle, ‘president, ~ At a board meeting held in the — local offiece,, directors expressed the — belief that ‘the recent publication of — a brochure and survey compiled by — ‘Shingle and Pat Shaniton wae appre— priately timed inasmuch as somefour troops a vacation at Camp Pa-