May 21, 1945 (4 pages)

NEVADA CITY NUGGET MONDAY, MAY 21, i f ; a Page Four Seb testedesbetenteteafesh stecttocieteeiateeate doar teste RA MINE ve 3 ee . ; ; + i rae + WITH OUR = A 7. Gi Pe o ocbeeseeeesoeseceeses Se of ates PEAR BLIGHT—Five field meeta + TC AND % ings for farmers were held last week + B \ ( Pp g = by H. E-. Catlin, county agent, at * Sasa » Which contrel-of dear blight was re© ssnesees ate teste rte stesteatestestentente seen? a viewed and demonsirated. It was fe te : : : ae A IN Gi OBAL Wi AR ~ emphasized that blight appears only : = where it ‘is allowed to live over the RA 2! * eas i Soceostetesfengecestectatectecttistatedtetesteatitestetetied . in tar somewhere within a half mile Dan Ungaro— iof the orchard. The source of infecLieut. Dan Ungaro, son of Mrs./tion is most often found in pear Frank Guscetti of Nevada’ Street left ; trees in. or next door to the orchard recently for overseas duty in thej,iteelf; but it frequently can be found South Paeiie, where he will serve j in nearby apples, quinces, loquats, as a bomibardier maintenance offic-, pryacantha, cotoneaster, toyon and er. Just horne, where it may live over . moted to Ist Lieutentna. He was staunnoticed. tioned at Midland Bombardier Control should be directed at once Sdhool for 21 months as an dessa Co ee the blleht that ean: be foathed from the ground without a lad‘der. First remove only twigs and the . ae : ; branches which show blight 18 inUniversity OF . hee of less from the main branchdial om les. Cut out a patch of bark around ——— pony tthe stub and disinfect. After cover{ing the orchard in this way, next _cut out other blighted parts that can he reached from the ground. Lastly teat the upper parts of the trees in RUCSES: Bt the’ same way from a ladder. Make ree ‘euts 12 to 18 inches beyond the last sign of blight. Disinfect tools and cut surfaces. The formula. for makjing a disinifectant may. be obtained ie before leaving he was pt “a hawt or,. Ungaro is a graduate of the Nevada City High School. He attended junior college in Sacramento and graduated from. the California and later was of the Sylvan grammar Roseville. His wife. the former Miss Treva Knavp of San Jose accomuanied by, her sister ‘Mrs. Elizabeth Giovanetti of San Francisco are now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guscetti. James . S. Clifford— ‘By direction of the president; under the provisions of Art. 600-45, at the Agricultural Extension Ser22 September 1943, as amended, the . ica office, 55 Court Strest.< AuPurple Heart is awarded to Pfc. urn. Chfford. Company 1, 413th Infantry, . U. S.’Army, for wounlds received as, Supplementary important measur a result of enemy action on 13 Apr. . @8 for control are: 1—later inspec1945, in Germany. Clifford entered! tion of the main branches where the t Military -service from. Nevada City. . bark has been cut out; 2—fall and} Lieut. Jackson Eneglebright— ' . winter inspection for cankers above: ground; 3—one or more sprays of 1-4 1-4 50 to protect blossoms from infection; and Jackson Engle-' 2nd below ' Bordeaux ‘Lieut. and Mrs. bright ave glebright, officer, night. many visiting Mrs. Grace Enmother of the young naval They arrived Saturday Lieut: Enelebrigcht wears 2'yY to induce a quick blooming. Prevent Mildew——Grape growers . gardeners who had al-. applied sulphur for mildew prevention should repeat this operation following the recent rains. . C. BE. Scott specialist in plant path-. ology Agricultural Extension Serpea Grand Matron. OES vice. warns that recen} annlications . sulphur including . :h,,and victory ready campaign ribbons the one signifying liheration also the purple heart for wounds suffered in action. Philippines, and Four Chapters Honor d Dutch of OFS. met ‘in joint ses-;Dy the rains and another appli uburn, Penrvn, Colfax a Flat Chant sien Friday nicht at Av or Lillian W. Podesta, (Matron of the Those Chapter we Polvlase glase, sation is necessary because moisture iduces mildew at -thig.season of the California. This applies also to some victory from Evangeline crops peas. Home: re Worthy. Matron Louise. Sardeners have trouble Worthy Piste) Alber; Po} With ornamentals such as roses and Martin: delphiniume. Doris Foley, Lavina! Immediate applicationg of sulphur Myrtle St. Hilaire, Lavina Will prevent much trouble from miland Mary German. dew. Insect burn to honWorthy Grand state of such as ‘ tard attending Saraen also may Josie June Hawke, Skeahan., Rickard Evelyn Young, : Enemies From Abroad— Buck return-;Tremendous increase in air born after spending commerce expected after the war Mr. and -Mrs. Victor ed home Thursday several days at their leans Flat. : ;ception of foreign insects and plant THE DRIVE IS ON! AON wy ye pili, STEP UP BOND BUYING NOW! HELP KNOCK OUT JAPANI This war in the Pacific is stepping up in fury. There are millions of tough, brutal Japs to lick. Every American soldier, sailor and Marine knows there is bloody, costly battling ahead in the assault on the inner core of Jap militarism. It will take billions of dollars to buy the staggering amounts of equipment and supplies needed to smash the Jap war machine. That is why the 7th War Loan is bigger in quota and calls for a step-up in the buying of War Bonds.more Bonds, BIGGER Bonds to finish the Big Job faster. “SAIPAN OKINAWA GUADALCANAL PHILIPPINES f P-G-eadE> PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY There will by only two Wer Bond drives in '45 Buy BIGGER BONDS NOW and Hold Them! ‘;ure and flovar. 4—an oil spray the middle of Janu-~. ‘have been washed away year. . ranch at Or-jiwill increase the problem of inter-! diseases which may slip into this mpage d by airplane. Many of these nsects crep enemies from = abroad sears never been able to survive . the long ocean voyage in ships may withstand the shorter travel periods in airplanes. Plant Quarantine inspectors inter. cepted -1200 foreign insects and the plant diseases coming to this country by .airplane during the past two years, difficult program of ways and crops when devising means of the war. BETTER BUTTER — Witn most farm-homes well supplied atthis. ‘time of the year with ample amounts of milk and cream, many. families /would find it profitable to make up extra cream into butter to be stored . for later use. . The first requisite for good ut. ter is, of course, good quality, clean flavored milk. In addition certain other factors influence the quality of butter obtained. Proper churning temperature, which varies with the season, long enough churning time, and sufficient washing ahd working of the butter will improve its textPasteurizing the F. for 30 minutes will destroy many ‘of the ° strong flavors insure fresh, or kept in freezing storage for eral months without changes in flav. or. Detailed directions for pasteuriz-. ing the cream, as well as for methods pickling and storing butter, = obtained from the Agricultur al . Extension Service, 135 Court Street, . . Auburn. TAY RATE DROPS IN NEY. COUNTY Nevada county’s $1.40 per $100 ; tax rate for general couniy purposes . . . or ‘this fiscal year shows a decrease . of 10 cents from the $1.50 rate, Cali. fornia taxpayers association stated, . analyzing tax rate changes on study iof the budgets of the jthe current fiseal year. counties for . The amount budgeted for salaries. jand wages in the cotinty made the ‘lo'eal county tax rate pt D 2 cents: for reserves, up 1 cents. Carryover . cents. Change in valuation caused a} decrease of 2 cents. Other expenditures items aiffect{ing the tax rate include aid to the neddy aged and other welfare aid, provisions for maintenance and operation, and bond requirements. In addition, nontax revenues, including subventions from the state and federal governments, as well as provisions for tax delinquency also cause quired to finance the general coun‘y government. showed reductions in their property tax rate for general county purposes. The tax ratte was reduced in fifty counties, mainly because of the increase in the amount of aid to the needy aged provided by the atate. The county tax rate will not be finally fixed until the first of Sep‘ttemlber and the tax bill will get to the local property owner the first of November but the decisions which: will increase or decrease the tax rate and the resultant tax bill are in the making now. How much the county plans to spend for salaries and wages, for capital outlays, for maintenance and operation, how much it gets aside for reserves, how much is left this year for. carrypover surplus, how much it plans to provide for welfare purposes, each of these has a direct effect on the tax rate and the tax bill. Local property owners should be an guard today for their interests mext fall.’ Gas Tax Receipts Are Increasing SACRAMENTO, May 21—March assessments of oil companies for California gasoline taxes are $305-' 069 more. than they were for the same month a year ago, a gain of 7.43 per cent. The State Board of Equalization made this comparison today when the board completed its review of March tax returns recently filed, showing distribution of 147,982,863 gallons of gasoline on which a tax of $4,413, 215 was assessed. The. March 1945, tax returns show an increase of 12.9 ‘per cent over those of February. At the same time it was reported that California use-fuel taxes asse Sstrucks and buses vielded a gain of 21.5 per cent over assoasments for the same month a year . 280. and an inerease of 18 per cent over those for February. Plant quarantine men face the} future protecting our. airplanes start carrying . hitchhiking pests from abroad after . cream, by holding it at 150 degrees) sometimes . found in home made butter and will . sweet tasting butter, . ;even after,months of storage. Butter . that has been made from pasteurized. petition. cream can be pickled in a salt brine . Bev. ean . surplus kept the tax rate down 47) changes in the tax rate which is re-. i { Twenty four California counties . ed for March against diesel operated . $145,474 . LE ORTNG hid dada D by GEORGE S$. BENSON Presideut--Harding College Svarty, Arkansas Competition About 25 years ago people in all w alks of life began to notice and talk ab out competition between industries. It was new then and and firms in the same industry— . merchant vs. merchant, railroad vs. railroad, sawmill vs. sawmill, etc. . But after World War I it was a changed ‘business world, plain to . see. Among the modest newcomers in that remote era was.a product called rayon, It was manufactured in the form of yarn, like wool and cotton yarns. The price to weavers was $2.80 a pound against.50¢ for cotton yarn. Last year 55¢ a pound was the price of both rayon and cotton yarns, and rayon was on the market as a fibre, very much like cotton fibre, but less expensive. Rayon Has Grown Back in 1919 the American people bought less than 2% as*much rayon as cotton. Last year the ratio was 20% and rayon had: captured ‘quite a Slice of cotton’s export demand. Europeans earn less than Americans and they pay more attention to a low price. If it were not for can produce rayon ,would: probably be giving cotton some tough comindustries are faced with a.stru ggle for sales in world markets: It is anybody’s guess now how the strugnot. licked. The cotton industry is still much bigger; still employs more peovle. than any other Amer‘ican industry. “Besides, smart. cotton men understand how rayon . made its remarkable gains. . Volume and Wages Rayon started out the American . . . way. It had relatively large investments in machinery. With good tools it turned out large volumes of rayon per worker. On a basis of big results from their day’s work . the menwho sés. At the same time large outputs of rayon per man every day made it possible for prices to go lower and lower each year, sales to become big Working p America have a right to li . When they earn good wages they do live well. Money they spend is the very life . biood of national prosperity: But) have to turn out lots of merchanaise per worker. the war using up ail both industries . gle will turn out, but King Cotton is . { . : ‘imi j; the giant flying boat Mars, . airplane in the world, — no inter. wings westward from San Francisco esting. Before that, competition was . on her passenger cargo run to Pearl understood to exist between people . praryor—whic . worked drew good . BWINGS SPEED MARS’ GREAT EASTWARD SAN FRANCISCO, May sight to San Franciseans, largest h she completed with;out incident 136 times. The station to begin service as a training ship for crews who will man 28 new Mars. type skyliners now rolling offf the assembly lines at the Glenn Martin Aircraft plants. During her record breaking war time career, the Mars established a number of aviation milestones: The longest over water flight in history, from: Maryland #0 Natal, Brazil, a non stou trip of 4375 miles; great. est air cargo ever carried, 35,000 pounds, on a 1233 mile flight; heave iest load ever lifted by an airplane, 148,500 pounds. During her San Francisco-Pearl Harbor “tour of duty’ the performed air feats for the Naval Air Transport Service that will only be equalled by the new Mars type flying boats coming off the production lines. On her 136 regular trips, to the Pacific bastion the Mars car‘eargo and more than 2000 passengers. The giant Mars requires a 16-man crew and two of the crew are from Northern California. They are It. Ronald A.‘ Dumont, .USNR, from Fresno, and B. B. Blomberg. Aviation Cheif Machinist’s Mate, Calif. The. ship is commanded by Lt. Com. -William E. Coney, USNR, Galtimore, Md. The Mars is powered by four huge ‘Wrigiht engines, of the type later . /used so successfully in the Army’s 29 Superforts. From her entranee into_the Navy—serviee, the Mars has . been ‘testing’ many flight’ prinples and proving the commercial and economic skyfreighters and skyliners to come when the war is won. of even larger \ Women’s Civic ‘Club: And in order to . before they can carn good pay they . Hostess to Tri-County Meet The Nevada City Women’s -Civic produce goods in volume they must Club was hostess yesterday to the have good tools. . cotton. It Costs Something People say there is a practical cotton picker ready for introduction after the war. It will cost a lot ’more than one big sack and a string for each member of a share-cropper’s family ; it will likewise pick more cotton in a day than they can for capital investment. laying out money, but efficient tools are worth it. People say we will see many mechanical cotton choppers after the war. It is not impossible. of cotton per worker; yield per day for every man. The picker and the chopper will create high wages and good living for a lot of people. But rayon can win its war with cotton if cotton tries to stay in the field armed with hoes and gunny-sacks. AVERAGE AGE OF CARS 8 YEARS With prospects bright for more ‘gasoline and tires for California motorists shortly, Gordon H. Garland, Director of Motor. Vehicles today urged car owners to have thorough inspections made of their vehicles with special emphasis on brakes. Garland’s request followed = announcement by Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes that slight increases in A and B card rations may be made in from 30 to 90 days and, that more tires will be available for civilian driving. It was also concurrent with findrol that approximately 12 per cent of 22,000 vehicles checked in the current brake emphasis program in California—are being operated with brakes that do not meet requriements of the vehicle code. “The average age of cars on our highways is now 8 1-2 years,” he said. “This means many of them have reached the danger point and .shioould be checked periodically to avoid accidents. driving additional equipment.” observed in for the by worn H . returns received by Chief E. R. Cato from all portiohs of the Only ears stopped for other traffic viola. tions Were checked. state. It was a successful ; Tri-County plan with rayon and it will work with . This . will increase the number of acres . make more . ings by the California Highway Pat. concention of clubs in Nevada, counties. Placer and “Yuba The gathering was held im the! Elementary ening at 10 o'clock and a dinner was served at 12:15 p. m. Mrs. N. A. Merriam of Chico, chairman of the California Federation “of . pick in a week. Efficient tools call . Women’s Clubs, It means i during the session. Was chief speaker DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED O. Hensley, pleading guilty when arraigned ‘before Justice of the Peace Charles Morehouse, to driving wihile intoxicated, was fined $100 and his driving license was suspended. 21—Long . longer . Mars . has flown to an east coast naval air: Mars . Alameda, . value and possibilities . mu women’s; School Auditorium, op-. 1945 PERSONALS Tony . Yada Buck .a patient at the Ne= City Sanitorium is ; some improvement. Mrs. Nellie ;} Sacramento this week end to iplete the sale of her Willow Valley. . Frank Holbrooke, a veteran o9f . World War I who has been at Livershowing Davis was up from comproperty in . more for several months, {iting relatives. . Waldo Smith, ) Siskiyou County in Nevada City With Mrs. ig here visclerk olf spent a few hours Saturday visiting Ida Guenther. county Northern California Peace Officers Meet . : The Northern California Peace Officers Assclciation met Friday in the Veterans Memorial Building and heard Edward Fisk, old time member of the U. S. Secret Service, give an. illuminating talk on countefeit money. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen of Nevada County was host, introducing E. R. Cato, heief of the California Highway Patrol, Fritz Kaminsky, ; assistant chief of police in Sacra;mento, Alva W. Kimerer, sheriff of Sutter County, president of the as. Sociation, who presided, and others. Illustrating Fisk’s talk on counterfeiting was a movie, showinlg the dif. ference be When the war ends these two big . ried more than 2,000,000 pounds »f. ™Oney, th devices of counterfeiters . anid their \methods phoney curresey Fisk told of the first couuterfeiting records, beginning in 1700, when printed money ‘was more easily imitated than now. About 60 were present at the luncheon which was prepared and served by the American Legion Aux. iliary. of distributing NEVADA CITY WOMAN GUEST SPEAKER Mrs. Maude Nearpass of Nevada City was the guest Friday evening at the meeting of the Tinion Hill Parent Tea hers Association. He topic was Summer Reading for Chrildren . Mrs. Dorothy Summers provided a . musteal program for the gathering. . Retresaments wer ryed at the ' close M: ARRI AGE LIC E NSE WAGENHOPER-TEST'A — In Nevada City, Nevada County,,May 17, 1945, Paul F. Wagenhofer Jr., 34, ‘and Helen A. Testa, 3 both of weno. . California ‘Leads All ‘States in Cow Testing BERKELEY, May 21—California has the largest numlber of sows under test of any state in the nation, according to a report of the Bureau of Dairy Indu'stry, it was revealed today. California with 111,523 cows on test as of Janpary 1, maintained its leadership for the 17th consecutive yedr. Gordon declared. Pennslyvania in second place had 60,055 cows on test: Wisconsin in, third place reported 54,883. Speed should be. held down and extra care should he; to compensate . hazards created . The estimate of the highway fpat-; rol on defective brakes was based on . b . . } ase Boulder Street HEAT PAT. OFF. Phone’ 88 Grass Valley MORE * FOR YOUR MONEY Every drop of Standard Furnace Oil fairly bulges with heat (many exaeting tests see to that). Every drop burns completely—goes farther. Keeps your burner clean and at peak per formance—saves you mone, Standard Furnace Oil outsells all others in the West because it delivers the maximum value for your fuel.dollar. Alpha Stores, Ltd. Phone 5 Nevada City —~ NEVADA COUNTY “THE PLONEER BUILDING i . ail LUMBER COMPANY Telephone 500 LUMBER YARD" MATERIALS Nevada City, Calif. Sas. Sn RTE Terie inte cme Ro EE

NEVADA CITY NUGGET MONDAY, MAY 21, i f ; a Page Four Seb testedesbetenteteafesh stecttocieteeiateeate doar teste RA MINE ve 3 ee . ; ; + i rae + WITH OUR = A 7. Gi Pe o ocbeeseeeesoeseceeses Se of ates PEAR BLIGHT—Five field meeta + TC AND % ings for farmers were held last week + B \ ( Pp g = by H. E-. Catlin, county agent, at * Sasa » Which contrel-of dear blight was re© ssnesees ate teste rte stesteatestestentente seen? a viewed and demonsirated. It was fe te : : : ae A IN Gi OBAL Wi AR ~ emphasized that blight appears only : = where it ‘is allowed to live over the RA 2! * eas i Soceostetesfengecestectatectecttistatedtetesteatitestetetied . in tar somewhere within a half mile Dan Ungaro— iof the orchard. The source of infecLieut. Dan Ungaro, son of Mrs./tion is most often found in pear Frank Guscetti of Nevada’ Street left ; trees in. or next door to the orchard recently for overseas duty in thej,iteelf; but it frequently can be found South Paeiie, where he will serve j in nearby apples, quinces, loquats, as a bomibardier maintenance offic-, pryacantha, cotoneaster, toyon and er. Just horne, where it may live over . moted to Ist Lieutentna. He was staunnoticed. tioned at Midland Bombardier Control should be directed at once Sdhool for 21 months as an dessa Co ee the blleht that ean: be foathed from the ground without a lad‘der. First remove only twigs and the . ae : ; branches which show blight 18 inUniversity OF . hee of less from the main branchdial om les. Cut out a patch of bark around ——— pony tthe stub and disinfect. After cover{ing the orchard in this way, next _cut out other blighted parts that can he reached from the ground. Lastly teat the upper parts of the trees in RUCSES: Bt the’ same way from a ladder. Make ree ‘euts 12 to 18 inches beyond the last sign of blight. Disinfect tools and cut surfaces. The formula. for makjing a disinifectant may. be obtained ie before leaving he was pt “a hawt or,. Ungaro is a graduate of the Nevada City High School. He attended junior college in Sacramento and graduated from. the California and later was of the Sylvan grammar Roseville. His wife. the former Miss Treva Knavp of San Jose accomuanied by, her sister ‘Mrs. Elizabeth Giovanetti of San Francisco are now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guscetti. James . S. Clifford— ‘By direction of the president; under the provisions of Art. 600-45, at the Agricultural Extension Ser22 September 1943, as amended, the . ica office, 55 Court Strest.< AuPurple Heart is awarded to Pfc. urn. Chfford. Company 1, 413th Infantry, . U. S.’Army, for wounlds received as, Supplementary important measur a result of enemy action on 13 Apr. . @8 for control are: 1—later inspec1945, in Germany. Clifford entered! tion of the main branches where the t Military -service from. Nevada City. . bark has been cut out; 2—fall and} Lieut. Jackson Eneglebright— ' . winter inspection for cankers above: ground; 3—one or more sprays of 1-4 1-4 50 to protect blossoms from infection; and Jackson Engle-' 2nd below ' Bordeaux ‘Lieut. and Mrs. bright ave glebright, officer, night. many visiting Mrs. Grace Enmother of the young naval They arrived Saturday Lieut: Enelebrigcht wears 2'yY to induce a quick blooming. Prevent Mildew——Grape growers . gardeners who had al-. applied sulphur for mildew prevention should repeat this operation following the recent rains. . C. BE. Scott specialist in plant path-. ology Agricultural Extension Serpea Grand Matron. OES vice. warns that recen} annlications . sulphur including . :h,,and victory ready campaign ribbons the one signifying liheration also the purple heart for wounds suffered in action. Philippines, and Four Chapters Honor d Dutch of OFS. met ‘in joint ses-;Dy the rains and another appli uburn, Penrvn, Colfax a Flat Chant sien Friday nicht at Av or Lillian W. Podesta, (Matron of the Those Chapter we Polvlase glase, sation is necessary because moisture iduces mildew at -thig.season of the California. This applies also to some victory from Evangeline crops peas. Home: re Worthy. Matron Louise. Sardeners have trouble Worthy Piste) Alber; Po} With ornamentals such as roses and Martin: delphiniume. Doris Foley, Lavina! Immediate applicationg of sulphur Myrtle St. Hilaire, Lavina Will prevent much trouble from miland Mary German. dew. Insect burn to honWorthy Grand state of such as ‘ tard attending Saraen also may Josie June Hawke, Skeahan., Rickard Evelyn Young, : Enemies From Abroad— Buck return-;Tremendous increase in air born after spending commerce expected after the war Mr. and -Mrs. Victor ed home Thursday several days at their leans Flat. : ;ception of foreign insects and plant THE DRIVE IS ON! AON wy ye pili, STEP UP BOND BUYING NOW! HELP KNOCK OUT JAPANI This war in the Pacific is stepping up in fury. There are millions of tough, brutal Japs to lick. Every American soldier, sailor and Marine knows there is bloody, costly battling ahead in the assault on the inner core of Jap militarism. It will take billions of dollars to buy the staggering amounts of equipment and supplies needed to smash the Jap war machine. That is why the 7th War Loan is bigger in quota and calls for a step-up in the buying of War Bonds..more Bonds, BIGGER Bonds to finish the Big Job faster. “SAIPAN OKINAWA GUADALCANAL PHILIPPINES f P-G-eadE> PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY There will by only two Wer Bond drives in '45 Buy BIGGER BONDS NOW and Hold Them! ‘;ure and flovar. 4—an oil spray the middle of Janu-~. ‘have been washed away year. . ranch at Or-jiwill increase the problem of inter-! diseases which may slip into this mpage d by airplane. Many of these nsects crep enemies from = abroad sears never been able to survive . the long ocean voyage in ships may withstand the shorter travel periods in airplanes. Plant Quarantine inspectors inter. cepted -1200 foreign insects and the plant diseases coming to this country by .airplane during the past two years, difficult program of ways and crops when devising means of the war. BETTER BUTTER — Witn most farm-homes well supplied atthis. ‘time of the year with ample amounts of milk and cream, many. families /would find it profitable to make up extra cream into butter to be stored . for later use. . The first requisite for good ut. ter is, of course, good quality, clean flavored milk. In addition certain other factors influence the quality of butter obtained. Proper churning temperature, which varies with the season, long enough churning time, and sufficient washing ahd working of the butter will improve its textPasteurizing the F. for 30 minutes will destroy many ‘of the ° strong flavors insure fresh, or kept in freezing storage for eral months without changes in flav. or. Detailed directions for pasteuriz-. ing the cream, as well as for methods pickling and storing butter, = obtained from the Agricultur al . Extension Service, 135 Court Street, . . Auburn. TAY RATE DROPS IN NEY. COUNTY Nevada county’s $1.40 per $100 ; tax rate for general couniy purposes . . . or ‘this fiscal year shows a decrease . of 10 cents from the $1.50 rate, Cali. fornia taxpayers association stated, . analyzing tax rate changes on study iof the budgets of the jthe current fiseal year. counties for . The amount budgeted for salaries. jand wages in the cotinty made the ‘lo'eal county tax rate pt D 2 cents: for reserves, up 1 cents. Carryover . cents. Change in valuation caused a} decrease of 2 cents. Other expenditures items aiffect{ing the tax rate include aid to the neddy aged and other welfare aid, provisions for maintenance and operation, and bond requirements. In addition, nontax revenues, including subventions from the state and federal governments, as well as provisions for tax delinquency also cause quired to finance the general coun‘y government. showed reductions in their property tax rate for general county purposes. The tax ratte was reduced in fifty counties, mainly because of the increase in the amount of aid to the needy aged provided by the atate. The county tax rate will not be finally fixed until the first of Sep‘ttemlber and the tax bill will get to the local property owner the first of November but the decisions which: will increase or decrease the tax rate and the resultant tax bill are in the making now. How much the county plans to spend for salaries and wages, for capital outlays, for maintenance and operation, how much it gets aside for reserves, how much is left this year for. carrypover surplus, how much it plans to provide for welfare purposes, each of these has a direct effect on the tax rate and the tax bill. Local property owners should be an guard today for their interests mext fall.’ Gas Tax Receipts Are Increasing SACRAMENTO, May 21—March assessments of oil companies for California gasoline taxes are $305-' 069 more. than they were for the same month a year ago, a gain of 7.43 per cent. The State Board of Equalization made this comparison today when the board completed its review of March tax returns recently filed, showing distribution of 147,982,863 gallons of gasoline on which a tax of $4,413, 215 was assessed. The. March 1945, tax returns show an increase of 12.9 ‘per cent over those of February. At the same time it was reported that California use-fuel taxes asse Sstrucks and buses vielded a gain of 21.5 per cent over assoasments for the same month a year . 280. and an inerease of 18 per cent over those for February. Plant quarantine men face the} future protecting our. airplanes start carrying . hitchhiking pests from abroad after . cream, by holding it at 150 degrees) sometimes . found in home made butter and will . sweet tasting butter, . ;even after,months of storage. Butter . that has been made from pasteurized. petition. cream can be pickled in a salt brine . Bev. ean . surplus kept the tax rate down 47) changes in the tax rate which is re-. i { Twenty four California counties . ed for March against diesel operated . $145,474 . LE ORTNG hid dada D by GEORGE S$. BENSON Presideut--Harding College Svarty, Arkansas Competition About 25 years ago people in all w alks of life began to notice and talk ab out competition between industries. It was new then and and firms in the same industry— . merchant vs. merchant, railroad vs. railroad, sawmill vs. sawmill, etc. . But after World War I it was a changed ‘business world, plain to . see. Among the modest newcomers in that remote era was.a product called

rayon, It was manufactured in the form of yarn, like wool and cotton yarns. The price to weavers was $2.80 a pound against.50¢ for cotton yarn. Last year 55¢ a pound was the price of both rayon and cotton yarns, and rayon was on the market as a fibre, very much like cotton fibre, but less expensive. Rayon Has Grown Back in 1919 the American people bought less than 2% as*much rayon as cotton. Last year the ratio was 20% and rayon had: captured ‘quite a Slice of cotton’s export demand. Europeans earn less than Americans and they pay more attention to a low price. If it were not for can produce rayon ,would: probably be giving cotton some tough comindustries are faced with a.stru ggle for sales in world markets: It is anybody’s guess now how the strugnot. licked. The cotton industry is still much bigger; still employs more peovle. than any other Amer‘ican industry. “Besides, smart. cotton men understand how rayon . made its remarkable gains. . Volume and Wages Rayon started out the American . . . way. It had relatively large investments in machinery. With good tools it turned out large volumes of rayon per worker. On a basis of big results from their day’s work . the menwho sés. At the same time large outputs of rayon per man every day made it possible for prices to go lower and lower each year, sales to become big Working p America have a right to li . When they earn good wages they do live well. Money they spend is the very life . biood of national prosperity: But) have to turn out lots of merchanaise per worker. the war using up ail both industries . gle will turn out, but King Cotton is . { . : ‘imi j; the giant flying boat Mars, . airplane in the world, — no inter. wings westward from San Francisco esting. Before that, competition was . on her passenger cargo run to Pearl understood to exist between people . praryor—whic . worked drew good . BWINGS SPEED MARS’ GREAT EASTWARD SAN FRANCISCO, May sight to San Franciseans, largest h she completed with;out incident 136 times. The station to begin service as a training ship for crews who will man 28 new Mars. type skyliners now rolling offf the assembly lines at the Glenn Martin Aircraft plants. During her record breaking war time career, the Mars established a number of aviation milestones: The longest over water flight in history, from: Maryland #0 Natal, Brazil, a non stou trip of 4375 miles; great. est air cargo ever carried, 35,000 pounds, on a 1233 mile flight; heave iest load ever lifted by an airplane, 148,500 pounds. During her San Francisco-Pearl Harbor “tour of duty’ the performed air feats for the Naval Air Transport Service that will only be equalled by the new Mars type flying boats coming off the production lines. On her 136 regular trips, to the Pacific bastion the Mars car‘eargo and more than 2000 passengers. The giant Mars requires a 16-man crew and two of the crew are from Northern California. They are It. Ronald A.‘ Dumont, .USNR, from Fresno, and B. B. Blomberg. Aviation Cheif Machinist’s Mate, Calif. The. ship is commanded by Lt. Com. -William E. Coney, USNR, Galtimore, Md. The Mars is powered by four huge ‘Wrigiht engines, of the type later . /used so successfully in the Army’s 29 Superforts. From her entranee into_the Navy—serviee, the Mars has . been ‘testing’ many flight’ prinples and proving the commercial and economic skyfreighters and skyliners to come when the war is won. of even larger \ Women’s Civic ‘Club: And in order to . before they can carn good pay they . Hostess to Tri-County Meet The Nevada City Women’s -Civic produce goods in volume they must Club was hostess yesterday to the have good tools. . cotton. It Costs Something People say there is a practical cotton picker ready for introduction after the war. It will cost a lot ’more than one big sack and a string for each member of a share-cropper’s family ; it will likewise pick more cotton in a day than they can for capital investment. laying out money, but efficient tools are worth it. People say we will see many mechanical cotton choppers after the war. It is not impossible. of cotton per worker; yield per day for every man. The picker and the chopper will create high wages and good living for a lot of people. But rayon can win its war with cotton if cotton tries to stay in the field armed with hoes and gunny-sacks. AVERAGE AGE OF CARS 8 YEARS With prospects bright for more ‘gasoline and tires for California motorists shortly, Gordon H. Garland, Director of Motor. Vehicles today urged car owners to have thorough inspections made of their vehicles with special emphasis on brakes. Garland’s request followed = announcement by Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes that slight increases in A and B card rations may be made in from 30 to 90 days and, that more tires will be available for civilian driving. It was also concurrent with findrol that approximately 12 per cent of 22,000 vehicles checked in the current brake emphasis program in California—are being operated with brakes that do not meet requriements of the vehicle code. “The average age of cars on our highways is now 8 1-2 years,” he said. “This means many of them have reached the danger point and .shioould be checked periodically to avoid accidents. driving additional equipment.” observed in for the by worn H . returns received by Chief E. R. Cato from all portiohs of the Only ears stopped for other traffic viola. tions Were checked. state. It was a successful ; Tri-County plan with rayon and it will work with . This . will increase the number of acres . make more . ings by the California Highway Pat. concention of clubs in Nevada, counties. Placer and “Yuba The gathering was held im the! Elementary ening at 10 o'clock and a dinner was served at 12:15 p. m. Mrs. N. A. Merriam of Chico, chairman of the California Federation “of . pick in a week. Efficient tools call . Women’s Clubs, It means i during the session. Was chief speaker DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED O. Hensley, pleading guilty when arraigned ‘before Justice of the Peace Charles Morehouse, to driving wihile intoxicated, was fined $100 and his driving license was suspended. 21—Long . longer . Mars . has flown to an east coast naval air: Mars . Alameda, . value and possibilities . mu women’s; School Auditorium, op-. 1945 PERSONALS Tony . Yada Buck .a patient at the Ne= City Sanitorium is ; some improvement. Mrs. Nellie ;} Sacramento this week end to iplete the sale of her Willow Valley. . Frank Holbrooke, a veteran o9f . World War I who has been at Livershowing Davis was up from comproperty in . more for several months, {iting relatives. . Waldo Smith, ) Siskiyou County in Nevada City With Mrs. ig here visclerk olf spent a few hours Saturday visiting Ida Guenther. county Northern California Peace Officers Meet . : The Northern California Peace Officers Assclciation met Friday in the Veterans Memorial Building and heard Edward Fisk, old time member of the U. S. Secret Service, give an. illuminating talk on countefeit money. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen of Nevada County was host, introducing E. R. Cato, heief of the California Highway Patrol, Fritz Kaminsky, ; assistant chief of police in Sacra;mento, Alva W. Kimerer, sheriff of Sutter County, president of the as. Sociation, who presided, and others. Illustrating Fisk’s talk on counterfeiting was a movie, showinlg the dif. ference be When the war ends these two big . ried more than 2,000,000 pounds »f. ™Oney, th devices of counterfeiters . anid their \methods phoney curresey Fisk told of the first couuterfeiting records, beginning in 1700, when printed money ‘was more easily imitated than now. About 60 were present at the luncheon which was prepared and served by the American Legion Aux. iliary. of distributing NEVADA CITY WOMAN GUEST SPEAKER Mrs. Maude Nearpass of Nevada City was the guest Friday evening at the meeting of the Tinion Hill Parent Tea hers Association. He topic was Summer Reading for Chrildren . Mrs. Dorothy Summers provided a . musteal program for the gathering. . Retresaments wer ryed at the ' close M: ARRI AGE LIC E NSE WAGENHOPER-TEST'A — In Nevada City, Nevada County,,May 17, 1945, Paul F. Wagenhofer Jr., 34, ‘and Helen A. Testa, 3 both of weno. . 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