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May 14, 1937 (8 pages)

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sr ‘ FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937. NEVADA CITY NUGGET PAGE FOUR ASSEMBLY SHOWS ~ CURIOUSREGARD FOR ECONOMY SACRAMENTO, May 13. — After making a great “splurge about economy in dealing with Governor Merriam’s budget, the Democratic controlled ways and means committee of the assembly’ laid in a stock «af peanuts and launched on a spending spree, recent events at the capital show. “Peanut politics’? was never more aptly applied to the maneuvering of men in public office. Several of the committee men brought the peanuts to the committee meeting and between answering ‘“‘aye’’ on appropriation bills they munched the gubers or threw them at one another. The Democratic majority, it will be recalled, made a big fuss about lopping some $8,000,000 from Merriam’s $446,000,000. But at the same time they sent out word that they would send out special appropriation Mills to cover about $4,000,000, of eare of increases asked by state departments. And ever since then this Bourbon controlled ways and means committee has been sending out with favorable recommendations bills totaling some $74,006,000. The biggest item was the bill by Pelletier of Los Angeles proposing to increase the old age pension in California from $35 ‘per month to $50 and cut the age limit from 65 years to 60 years. This would cost the state about $47,000,000 for the biennium above present old age pension costs. The boys shoved that one out of committee the night they were throwing the peanuts around. As one observer remarked, the peanuts are not the only thing in that committee room: the squirrels would chase if they ever saw them walking alone in Cnapitol park. “Sure, have a peanut and help yourself to $47,000,000—the state ‘will pay it—the taxpayers will have to pay it—-sure, have a peanut.” The night the $47,000,000 bill was voted ‘out of committee the Democrats almost got into a row amongs themselves. It looked for a time ‘in up for a vote. Some of the Democrats backing the bill threatened to vote no’? on every other bill until the Pelletier bill was called up. Not only ‘have the Democrats recommended for passage more than $74,000,000 in special appropriation the eight million dollar cut to take . all the disorder and peanut tossing } that Pelletier’s bill would not come. crease of 2,718 over the same period nan . Jusr WonDERIN I wonder if Old Timer ghosts Who prowl about at night, Regard us and our modern world : With terror or delight; And do they sometimes stand in groups To gibber blame and praise And wish they could perform their stunts In these amazing days? I wonder how history would record old dramas of fact and fancy had they been enacted in a mechanized age like our own. Let’s imagine. Columbus led his mighty squadron into New York Harbor, gaped at the city’s skyline and exclaimed: “Por Dios, So this is America!”’ The Pilgrims ‘‘came acroés” in the Queen Mary, multiplied and over populated the entire land with destendants. Washington crossed the Deleware in a sub-marine. A certain chromo which depicts him standing in an open boat has been thoroughly debunked and removed from circulation. Paul Revere’s police car roared down the highway, throttle wide open, siren screaming racuously. Later, invading redcoats were met and repulsed by an aroused citizenry, armed to the teeth with machine guns and tear gas bombs. Sheridan hopped off in a huge bombing plane and land-! ed on the field of action before the nick of time had a chance to wind up. A notable poem commemorative of this event contains these lines:“Here's to the plane that saved the day By winging Sheridan into the fight from Winchester, twenty miles away.” Barbara Fritchie waved a flag above her chic bobbed coiffure; S. Jackson started, smirked and then shouted: “Who touches a curl of yon red-head, Is a lucky dog—an’ I mean what . said!” Mr. Muller bought a buck rake and kept Maud in the house where she belonged. The judge drove up in his new touring car, sipped a cocktail or two, admired Maud’s trim silken clad ankles and went his lonely way. “‘It might have been, but alas it wasn't.” And over seas: ,The good news were carried to Ghent by air mail or radiogram. Historians differ sharply upon this point, but after all what does it matter? Lady Godiva entered her stream lined coupe, drew the satin curtains, lit a cigarette and drove modestly down the village street. Evading the curious eyes of Peeping Tom, she returned home in ample time to collect her election bets and dress for dinner. —A. MERRIAM CONNER. Alpine 0; Amador 0; Butte 1; Calaveras 0; Colusa 0; Contra Costa 5; Del Norte 0; El Dorado 0; Fresno 6; Glenn 0; Humboldt 4; Imperial driving. Los Angeles county tops the list with 530. Applications for licenses for the month were given as 98,475, an inAIRPLANE PARTS. USED TO BRACE BROKEN BONES SAN . FRANCISCO, ‘May 13.—A great many people use airplanes to fly around in, but August Kern, bracemaker in the University of California Médieal School, uses them for an entirely different purpose. Within the past few months he has been able to fashion a number of braces and other hospital gadgets out of the fine metal and_ tubing from discarded airplanes, and there has been a wide demand for his products on the part of both doctors and patients. Within the past few days his effort with airplanes reached something of a climax with the completion of a fracture-setting apparatus that not only holds the limb in place but lengthens it at the same time, if lengthening is necessary. The new apparatus, constructed entirely of ariplane tubing, is now being tried in some of the wards of the University Hospital, and if successful, it promises to do away with the overhead rods, pulleys and other gear that must be used to hold fracture-treated limbs in proper position. Kern has found that airplane tubing, because of its light weight and high tensile strength, makes particularly satisfactory, braces. His working quarters are an odd assortment of vises, punching machines, emery wheels and air blowers, but they also contain many fine tools that Kern ean handle with a watchmaker’s precision. The bracemaker is himself a graduate physician, havfing obtained his M. D. from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He practiced for a short time, but found that his skill in the making of surgical able demand, and he applied himself thereafter solely to the mechanical side of medical development. It is his hope to return to Germany some time and display some of his many successful appliances before’ the scientific societies there. 0; Lassen 3; Los Angeles 175; Madera 1; Marin 3; Mariposa 1; Mendocino 0; Merced 2; Modoc 0; Mono 0; Monterey 1; Napa 1; Nevada 0; Orange 6; Placer 2; Plumas 2; Riv-erside 6; Sacramento 11; San Ben4 in 1936. Licenses issued were 88,nyo 0; Kern 4; Kings 0; Lake ito 1; San Bernardino 6; San Diego 644, or 264 fewer than the “1936 total. Applicants. who failed to pass the tests were 4,990, Mason said, and 532 were definitely refused license’. During. the month fifty nine perappliamces and casts was in consider-" bills at this writing, but there is leg-. sons were cated in for yre-examinajslation on the files to cut state rev-/tion, following reports that they enues by some $37,00,000. The big-. were physically unfit to drive. Regest single cut would come by way) examination’ of those previously orof cutting the state income tax from . dered in resulted in five having 3 per cent to 2 1-2 per cent. The as-. strictions placed on their sembly passed this bill, by Assemblynine had their licenses revoked; one. man Williamson, but it lies on the . table in the senate. Eliminating the . reyoluntarily surrendered his licenses: and eight were suspended for not licenses; uppose you wanted 10; n Francisco 10; San Joaquin 1; San Luis Obispo 1; San Mateo 3; Santa Barbara 3; Senta Cruz 5; Sarta Clara 8; Shasta 0; Sierra 0; Siskiyou 1; Solano 0; Sonoma 5; Stanislaus 3; Sutter 0; Tehema 1; Trinity 0; Tulare 2; Tuolumne 1; Ventura 0; Yolo 3; Yuba 0. Total 325. MARYSVILLE TO STAGE STAMPEDE MARYSVILLE, May 13. — The Fifth Annual California Stampede and Fair conducted by the 13th Distriet Agricultural Society, will be held in Marysville on Sunday and Monday, May 30 and 31. The program includes the rodeo, horse show, horse races, stock fair, and industrial exhibits. With purses in all rodeo events increased thiis year the top cowboys of America will be here to compete in the various events which will include steer wrestling. Brahma bull riding, steer roping, bucking horse contest, calf roping, trick riding, bareback brone riding and trick roping. In addition to the rodeo horse show, a fine thoroughbred running race program has ‘been arranged for both days with purses large enough to attract horses from Tanforan, Bay Meadows, Pleasanton and Sacramento. The livestock fair will also be held at the fair grounds, with horticultural and other exhibits in Memorial Auditorium in’ Marysville. As a preceding event the Marysville Merchants will stage a gala
parade and frolic to include fireworks anda grand ball on.the evening of May 29. A ana CCC SUMMER CAMP CCC boys, a company of about 174 men and officers: will be moved from the Grass Valley winter camp to their summer camp, Tahoe Ukiah, east of Nevada City on June first. NEW TRAIN TO. CUT TIME FOR PORTLAND RUN Effecting substantial in running times between San Franreductions cisco, Portland and Seattle, a new all-Pullman ‘‘Cascade” train will be by-the Company, it was placed in service June 13 Southern Pacific announced today. One hour and fifteen minutes will be lopped from the San Francisco to Portland schedule, and two hours and 10 minutes from the San Fransieco to Seattle run. Southbound, the new train will cut two hours from the Portland to San Francisco run. The present Cascade will be continued in service as the . “Oregonian,’’ operating over the same route, via Klamath Falls, on the fast schedule now in effect, according to Felix S. McGinnis, vice president in charge of system passenger traffic for the company. An outstanding feature of the new Cascade’s equipment will be its bedroom space, a type of accomodation not provided in trains now connect-ing San Francisco with the Northwest, it was pointed out, Drawingrooms and compartments, along with sections, will also be furnished. COUNTY HOSPITAL IMPROVEMENTS Work on. the new wing at the county hospital is progressing nice= ly. Superintendent Rodda stated that the women’s quarters will be completed in about a week. The women are now temporarily domiciled in the sitting room. The kitchen is at present ‘being plastered. A portion of this work was done under a WPA project. OF THE WELCOME! JANE. BARTON’S HOMECRAFT INSTITUTE It will interest every woman a. ll BIGGEST VALUES sales tax from food sold in restaurants and from drugs and supplies are other proposed means of cutting revenue. see s surplus of $20,000,00 in the mext two years. And it will, if the peanut munchers and tax eating schemes are throttled. __ MANY DRIVERS IN STATE PT OSETLICENSES IN MARCH SACRAMENTO, May 13.—Driving privileges of 1561 persons were revoked, cancelled or suspended by the Division of Drivers’ Lisenses during March, Paul Mason, chief announced today. Of this number 1236 were for drunken driving. Only one of these was from Nevada county. Four mountain counties Nevada, Glenn, Mariposa and Glen counties, each had only one liceuse rescinded in March. Yolo county also had only one. These were for that it is booze, not mountain roads, that is the hazard. However this is a good record compared to many other counties. Inyo county with about the “game population as Nevada county Jost six licenses due to drunken medical . Governor Merriam :told the legis: lature if the present tax ‘structure!yado 5; Fresno 21; Glenn 1; Humwere let alone and no great ApPTO-. holdt 2;; Imperial 36; Inyo 6; Kern priation bills were passed and if his; 93; Kings 3; Lake 2; Lassen 0: Le? budget were let alone the state might . Angeles 530; Madera 4; Marin Marivosa 1; Mendocino 6; Merced . drunken driving so it would seem) . Alameda 79; Apline obeying the re-examination order. drunken = driving Q,; Amador. 0; Butte 14; Calaveras 2; Colusa. 9%; Contra‘Costa 14; Del Norte 4; El) DoArising from Modoc 0; Mono 0; Monterey AT . Nevada 1; Orange 28; Plac30: San Ber90) San San 13; Napa 7; er 8: Plumas Vy" ramento 16; San Benito 4; nardino 36; San Diego Franciseo 25; San Joaquin TO: Luis Obispo 9; San Mateo 8; Santa SacRiverside Shasta 5; Sierra Sonoma Santa Clara 31; 0; Siskiyou Solano 25; Stanislaus 9; Sutter 9; Tehema 6; Trinity 0; Tulare 16;+ Tuolumne 2; Ventura 16;: Yolo, 1; Yuba 4. Total 1236. : From other causes. Alameda 26; : only for those who use the bridge oD. 99. Fs “as ‘ and charge ? NEVADA CITY SANITARIUM flizabeth McD. Watson, Prop. . Open to all reputable Physicians and Surgeons Se He He Hey ste te ste site he Oe aie ihe lie ie le i ae Practical mining tests from 25 percentage of sulphurets, Capital of California NEVADA CITY ASSAY & REFINING OFFICE to:1000 pounds, giving. the free gold value of sulphurets and tailings. Assays made for gold, silver, lead and copper. Mail order check work promptly attended to. Agent for New York-California Underwriters, Westchester and Fire Insurance Companies. _ AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE’ E. J. N. OTT, Proprietor. Mee > teloloinies es a bridge: Would you borrow millions of ' dollars and pay interest on the money for 20 years in order to buy a bridge . . Or would you honor a contract that gives you the bridge in 11 years absolutely free? every buyer of State of California through the 7 gasoline tax . Or would you say:“I will wait. The bridge will belong to me absolutely free..and I won’t . be taking gas tax maintenance funds away from roads and bridges that are badly in need } of repairs and are endangering ' the lives of motorists today’’? LET CALIFORNIA KEEP FAITH! Published by a committee representing the 3530 Owners of the Carquinez and Antioch Bridges a the difference to gasoline in the PROTECT THE GASOLINE TAX FUNDS! Pr ahesteste dfeatertesteateatert a a a a ali sea i ESR ca 1937 REFRIGERATOR: ONLY A WEEK Buys A Kelvinator fu /, fhe new Kelvinator is PlusPowered. it has as much as double the cooling capacity of other well-known refrigerators of equal size. The new Kelvinator runs only half as many minutes per day — during the rest of the time it maintains low temper-atures using no current at all. 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