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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
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and charge
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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
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gasoline in the
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