May 22, 1944 (4 pages)

rom sergeant to staff sergeant. dini graduted from the ‘High School in 1941. Aviation Cadet Clyde Magon Cole r., son of Mr, Clyde Mason Cole, , Washington, completed @ private plane for generals and will be transfer; the™plane goes. Ken‘. three years and is now in Honolulu. He was in the U. S. armed service a year last February. He is an air force engineer. His wife and: ten months old son are now in Kay Junction. Oregon, with her parents. Mellott was home last fall and saw his son for the first and last time. He spends all spare time hunting . sea shells on the beaches in HonoInlu sending. his ‘mother a beautiful cai’s eye shell, a ghell necklace of heads for his wife and sent home lots of sheljs. Ned J. Mellot-— Ned J. Mellott youngest and third son of Mr. and Mrs. George Mellott has been in service since March 1943. He is now an airplane mechanie in England. He works long hourg but seems to be happy. He attended schools in Nevada City. Fabien Joyal— . . Fabien Joyal, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Joyal, is still at ‘Shoemaker waiting to be. assigned to a ship. He finished his. under‘water welding course at Treasure Island. dA. Phil Joyal, with the U. 8. ait forces on the Atlantic seaboard, is on sick leave, recovering from an ‘operation for kidney stones. He expects to go overseas as soon as he is. . well, but hopes to get home a few fj days as he has not seen his parents’ the, in over two years. _ 4 Bill Joyal third son of Mr. and niaiat abe te ca Mrs. Frank Joyal is in New Guinea. Pebas. Hi ik toe He had an arm paralyzed recently 4 ___}when.a thrown base ball bat hit ‘him. He thas had his share of fighting with his plane since landing in ‘the South Pacific. Fahoe NaRonald Joyal, U. 6. Navy— . Ronald Joyal, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Joyal, arrived from the South Pacfic in February and spent his 30 day leave with his patents in ‘San Francisco and friends in Long Beach. Ronald was happy to be home din, He s in Seattle now. ‘Lo complete this group of Joyals, the father ig employed in construcwork in ship yards at Hunters int.’ Mrs: Joyal ‘is a toll ‘adding _. ¢lerk on a comptometer.” Both husband and wife like. their war time obs, in San Francisco. © The Joyal family maintains a ome at the end’of Park avenue and}. Sica dtintta 1 the U. 8, Air Serin England received J. P. Muscardini in that their son, Wilhas been promot: Air Depot. He has ight months and his Calif., has ‘successeee IR: the torest service areas. bly Known here by a and Mrs. Ray Wilde have re‘telling them of his promotion year the 10th of May. Ray Ray B, Wilde; . ‘you Yankees—the ride to Edinburgh with fur coats and modera‘ely styldeep broad ravi-e, neatly lands¢apedwith a big rail.road center. and. station down at the bottom ef it. This runs parallel to Princess Street and on the opposite side rises up a v on which ‘stands historic Edinburgh Castle .with its romantic grey jturrets and battlements. The castle. is at the top of the promontory, which grades gradually down, and there is another . and the castl¢ loomed up out of the 4 3 . low hanging mist that hid the lower. Oe ee ee Oe sista of. tho bill. hs-tremms kgd the buses and occasional cabs had turned on their blackout lights and you could still see the many service men ‘of all nations and the civilians scuttling about in the purplish gloom. The Sir Walter Scott monument, the. >. chiet landmark of the West. Phin_} e@ss street gardens (the park in the. as F approached the Red Cross. it is made of red stone and is the only in‘ever seen!’ Scotland) that I saw in Aberdeen. Foom of this establishment was a huge young man with the beribbon-. ! ed bonnet and plaid pants of some. Scottish regiment. He, seeing that recently. Clarence will bé remembered here as a mechanic in the Bill Williamson garage on Pine Street. He attended the local schools and Was an energetic mechanic. Robert Kistle— A letter was received by members of the Alfred Kistle family that Robert Kistle was safe and well in Enzland. This news came as a great Telief to the family as it had been reported he was missing in action in Italy, the day before Mothers Day. Robert is the son of Alfred Kistle — SS and one of twenty children who was born and reared here. He married a Grass Valley girl three years ago. ] D. * Mrs. Leonard Bennett of upper Boulder. street. received a message ; last week her husband was wounded iff action in New Guinea. He is 4 brother in law of Sam Bedwell, Forest, Alleghany, Nevada City stage driver and Mrs. Bedwell. Mrs. Benstay with her sister until the war is over. the granite buildings and stree About five o’clock Friday I arrived in Glasgow, and immediately canght a train for Edinburgh. The distance betweeh Glasgow and’ Edinburgh is about fifty miles and the fare—in a. first class compartment for’ a service man is three shillings, sixpence; or about eighty cents to was most uninteresting. It was’ six o’clock when I arrived, and as I planned to stay there Friday night I went to the two leading hotels, the Royal British and the _North -British, only to find that both of them. were completely ‘‘booked” for. the night. My next move was to hit the American Red Cross. right there; on Princess Street, ‘for they almost alWays have some rooms up their sleeve. They did — the only thii¢ they had was a bed in an officer's hostel on Royal Circle. So that suited me all right and I departed to stoW my. gear, planing to return and eat dinner at. say the Royal British, after having a noggin or two in one of their intensely. modern ‘bars: It seems to me that I’ve told you about Edinburgh before,’ but it really is an elegent city, The main. street is a regular little, Fifth Avenue, ish women in abundance. There ig a ery steep almost cliff like hill. ufbusiness section on that ~ Tt was dusk wh en.I arrived, there, ravine) loomed out of the darkness teresting looking monument I have Wallace (the Protector , 4 . . . the usual sub-high school orchestra. So I strolled into a tiny, quite modern bar—crowded with ‘rather sharp looking characters and somewhat dopy looking ‘babes. Presetitly, the best looking character camé along, @ See wearing a sharp Harris tweed gray flannel combination. 'I could tell Just: by looking at him that he ‘Was an officer of some description . @nd it turned out that he was a’ lieu: ‘tenant in the Canadia Malls. It was a pleasure to talk to {48 Spoke in the states in Edinburgh jthat he was waiting for his buddy, [. was to arrive at 8. (British officers "}iate permitted to doff their uniforms clothes—a noble custom, I must say) in the n Navy from just across from Niagara who spoke English as she most conversation falls be‘the two schools of the brau and the broad a. It developed Canadian naval officer who 4 Pabout the country on the east coast stew quite chummy towards the end arrived at Aberdeen, they dropped. “time off at my hotel (I'd reserved a! 5 ieigpialine pe ae . . The hotel was very nice—the of. . fice was in. kind of a {been the only American navy officer a AMERICAN SAILOR SEES _ . EDINBURGH AN) ABERDEEN Lieut. (jg) Harley M. Leete Jr. writes of his second visit to Edinburgh and of an overnight stay in Aberdeen where he 1 notes the grandeur of the highland scenery-and the solidity of ts and ers the hospitality of an Aberdeen doctor and his wife. a bicycle trip through Scotlond and while on leave. They ‘had been up in Alberdeen a couple of days before. It appeared that the dining room at“the hotel was. so crowded that they were admitting only residents and their guests — so naturally I went right in to dinner with my two new friends. We had quite a merry dinner, and about ten I blew and hit the sack in my hoStel early. Saturday morning I got up early enough to. eat breakfast and tea at the hosHie ee It was about eleven when I left, so+l went immediately to the railroad station to see about getting a train‘for Aberdeen, a city in the north or Scotland (only 122 miles ‘from Bergen, Norway) that I was 80 anxious to see. So I got my ticket and found that the train was slated to leave in a couple of hours ‘at two Pp. m. ‘In some cafe or other on Princess Street Had tea and the noonday -meal—mashed, potatoes and sausage. After that I sallied out and walked up Princess Street, looking at all the people, the moderately good looking ‘and the soldiers and sailors of countries. At-about two, I clambered into‘ ‘my first class compartment. ¥ had . bought a very detailed map of my routes to Aberdeen in one of: the ‘hopelessly dull British book stores, and so as the journey progressed I knew just where I was at every minute. I liked that. There were assorted characters in the compartment—-five others besides myself, of course: One was a major in the British army——a doctor . —-who had just been repatriated af-. ter spending three and one half years in a. German prison camp. He was, very handsome and urbane, and looked none the worse for. wear. ‘There was an elderly couple, a doc-. tor and, his wife who was a captain in the British Red Cross. They took rather a-parenttal interest in me, for some reason or andther and. kept quite busy keeping me informed many of Scotland that we were passing through, and telling about what to look for in Aberdeen! There were. a couple of Wrens (British Waves) country girls, and at one time there was a Cockney sailor; very brash; who made himself hideously unPopular with’ the three ladies in thé compartment by guessing. their ages with a little system of cards. that. he. had. . However,” he left quite od much ‘to everyone's relief. The: ‘elderly doctor and his wife: of the four hour ‘trip, and when we room from Edinburgh) the’ Caledoné the lobby, the way they oftem are in hotels over here. TI must have’ in Aberdeen, for I didn’t see. any others, and people looked at me like you do an Indian in full triba) TeSalia. I soon noted that the hotel boasted an-American bar full of rather lively looking Canadians, Seotch and a few American soldiers on leave so I put in for a Scotch before dinner.Dinner was delightful—steak and kidney pie—very bountiful with the steaks and gteat big fresh green peas ——the first I’ve had over here about the size of avocadoes—they aren’t starving to. death. in Aberdeen. Before,dinner I had time to walk about the streets in the dusk—it's a city of 180,000 with an amazing number of churches and public monuments, All the buildings and I mean all of them, are ‘built of granite and it’ ig the ‘solidest looking place you can imagine. The. Streets and sidewalks re made of this bright grey granite, teo—the streets from cobbles and the sidewalks from slabs. ec I hit the sack in my nice little Room 309 rather early, got up in and his buddy had been making nett came here from Arkansas to girls with fur coats and. new shoes, slase cupola in. RT MONDAY, MAY 22, 944 —————— NTR or breakfast and ’ t hotel f erdeen’s bes or twom, was twelve shillings, pris The people I’d met in the compartment coming up had asked me to go to their house for lunch, so before lunch I sallied out and went sights of Aberdeen. First there was orate structure built of the brightest granite, with a regular. froth of little spires going up from the top of it—really beautiful looking in a delightfully. gingerbread way. Then I went for a long walk out one of the streets. Amusingly enough, even the rare streets that are straight, in these Scotch cities, change their names about every two blocks. It is as if, going down University Avenue in Berkeley, one started out on University Avenue and after go4ng a couple of blocks, the name on the street changed to Bayview Terrace and then a couple of blocks farther changes to Spenger’s Grotto Lane and so on. In one of the many public squares stands a magnificent iron statue for William Wallace, Protector of Seotland. The inscription on the great granite blocks under this huge statue tells in indignant terms of Wallace’s noble fight against tle king-of England, and of his: persecution and execution at the hands, of the English king. I was standing in front of the statue (and to show you how unknown the American uniform was <-there) when some old highland gée with a moustache as long as a beard, came up and asked me directions in an indeeipherabie brogue. At twelve the doctor’s wife (age fifty) came around and took me to the huge granite quarry on the outskirts of town. There we looked into a hole in solid rock about a hundred yards in diameter and four hundred and sixty five feet deep. A little guy about the size of a flea twas crawling around in the bottom of this strange pit. Presently he clambered onto a steel tray that was attached to a lifting arrangement and cables, and with his hands stuffed nonchalantly in his pockets, swinging precariously back and forth on this steel slab in the middle of the emptiest space I have ever séen he was hoisted up. Mrs. Hendry asiked him as he arrived at the top of his long ascent, if he would be so good as to let me go down and up again. Unfortunately; (gad, what a sigh-of relief I heaved—I was gulping aghast.as a fish out of water) this could not be-arranged. Thence we proceededto the doctor’s home, a. very lovely establishment behind a grim and unostentatious granite facade. I had a glass of sherry with the ‘ doctor © before man spies dropped by parachute in the highlands, and captured by. the alert Scotsmen, ‘before they Zot past of the highlands and of thé beanties of ‘hiking’in the Dee river valley which extends from Aberdeen right up into the heart of the highlands. The city of Aberdeen is hetwixt ‘the Dee and the Don and the river and bridges add a lot to its picturesque qualities. > Luneh was very good, pork being the entree and hot plums, and hot lemon pie with an enormons meringue being. the dessert. The doctor and before the war, Mrs. Hendty ‘used to set over to Paris every summer, and travel on the continent. about every other Year. She must have been fifty but she was a great hiker and. showed me a lot’ of photogra ‘phs of herself standing on utterly unclimbable ‘peaks—taken only a year or two ago. She had lived in Los Ange fans at Mier, Pickford before eel a eee uty known Douglas of years ago, La tea at their house. The degrée of hou these Scotch: characters go. right out of this world. When you 80 into a living room, or a’ dining room, even dimly lit, a million lights strike your eye, because everything is’ polished Within an inch of its life. Mrs. Hendry showed me some of her heirlooms. She had black Wedgewood (really very brown) that was: apparently made in 1700 something. The black WedSewood tea set had white bone handles: I thought it rather more Striking than Pleasing. You would have sotten quite‘a bit more out of seeing her heirlooms than I did for though I tried to Make a mental note of everything I ‘saw for you most of it didn’t register’ with —_ After bidding them a Pleasant farewell. I got the train to Edinburgh thence to Glasgow, ‘spent a quiet to. ag some dark for a long walk, seeing many of the. the Mareschal College, a very elabluneh, and he: talked to me ‘of Ger-. the railroad ‘station’ He also talked his wife were cultured péople, and’ Los “Angeles for '‘a. been a. Very oda’ Well too. A couple: Ashley had had} 2 . MARY K. PAIRSONS, also know! sekeeping that earn snooze in the American Req Croad in Glasgow and then my leay, wal over. Got back at our base Monéy morning. STAY OUT OF J CANAL AND STAY # ALIVE WARNING “Stay out of the Contra Costa canal and stay alive” is the timely warning issued today by 0. q Bo den, construction engineer for th, Bureau of Reclamation at Antiocih, A completed 38 mile section of the canal is in use from the intake g ; Rock Slough, three mileg east’ 9 Oakley, to Walnut Creek ddjacent qucky the town of Walnut Creek and with Roos‘ the coming of warm weather ig it a congr temptation to children and adi ptesid alike to take a dip in the concrete er, ‘ie «was 5! lined canal. Con “It is extremely dangerous swim in the canal,” Boden saia;« the slippery, steeply Pitched sid. kaie it difficult to get out. Water over seven feet deep in some place; and at each of the numerous siphon FP we along the canal there is a strona oso current and undertow against whic jor ax even the best swimmer would 4 Repub helpless. At other places the wate “ plauded sometimes is only one or two feg There deep and swimmers who dive fromm ing that bridges or even from the canal ban tle too in a race to be the first into the was the “De er may smash their skulls againg reminde the bottom of the canal. Alread several persons have died froy oe drowning in the canal.’ mm am Official letters have been writte mange to school officials in the area adi Ou 2 jacent to the Contra Costa Cans ane urging that children be caution gy regarding the hazards of swimmin f in the canal. According to Bodet srservice clubs, parent teacher asso ouglbaa jations, churah groups, womena a elubs, and other organizations in th a area can perform a meritorious pullic -service b spyonsoring a campaigay he ‘s él to discourage, swimming in the cat al Boden said he will coopeate wif ae “Ke all organizations in the service arom teady’ sh of the canal engagingin such a caf =~ » paign if they will write to him oo the U. S. Bureau of Reclamatiogm “@ ‘t Antioch, California, or phone him sf hts i Antioch 278. amet The Bureau of Reclamation h would ha erected fences along the canal 4 fought has installed safety devices at f . fale ts a quent intervals to assist anyone wi bg and accidentally falls in. However, f vet, best precaution for all swimmemmy ~ The --s good or bad, is to stay out of t Foes oy Contra Costa Canal and stay saliva ‘tld : DRIVER ‘FINED $75 the: busi: ‘Lawtence Burton, ‘driving } tty. It is out lights and in an erratic mann@gmy ‘iTeateni was arrested by Police Officer Ot™m™ ‘Werties Hardt. It was found he. had beg fellows h driving for nearly a‘ year without™™ te Harv drivers license. City Judge Mil Slf-rich(Coughlin fined. him $75, which econom is: paid. Burton’s license’ was suspelim™ ‘ackpots ed for 30 days. MY SINCERE . afe ont . erm ee reine sincere thanks to. ‘the voters. of on) Tuesday; May 15. As Super? of ‘this district’ it will be my ean endeavor: topee that this faith ls misplac fg ie AR NO. 4308 ‘IN THE SUPBRIOR COURT STATE: OF © IN ALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF NEVM In the Matter of the @astate ; MARY KATHERINE PARSONS, ceased. % Be Notice is hereby given ery? i day, the 2nd day of June 194 10.o’clock A. M. of said day, #f Court Room of. said Court, at . (Court House, in the City of Neva County of Nevada, has been 4p? ed by me.ag the time and plat proving the Will of said MART PARSONS also known as M “PARISONS, deceased, and for by ing the application of W. B. = Wil. i iT, SONS, also known. as PARSONS, for the issuance of Letters. of Administratiol, ©~ Will Annexed, when -and phi person interested may —_ a contest the same. A prayer 10 ting: the estate aside to abi spouse ‘is included in. sald “ 9th 1944. eons RN. McCORMACE, Cle By R. E. DEBBLE, Deunty Cler LAWRENCE J. SKIRVING, Ochsner Bldg., Sacramento, Attorney for Petitioner. May 15, 22,29. to I ee NEVADA COUNTY “THE PIONEER time for a good sized breakfast. and of course, tea. My bill, in this, AbING MATERIALS. LUMBER COMPANY LUMBER YARD” ry

rom sergeant to staff sergeant. dini graduted from the ‘High School in 1941. Aviation Cadet Clyde Magon Cole r., son of Mr, Clyde Mason Cole, , Washington, completed @ private plane for generals and will be transfer; the™plane goes. Ken‘. three years and is now in Honolulu. He was in the U. S. armed service a year last February. He is an air force engineer. His wife and: ten months old son are now in Kay Junction. Oregon, with her parents. Mellott was home last fall and saw his son for the first and last time. He spends all spare time hunting . sea shells on the beaches in HonoInlu sending. his ‘mother a beautiful cai’s eye shell, a ghell necklace of heads for his wife and sent home lots of sheljs. Ned J. Mellot-— Ned J. Mellott youngest and third son of Mr. and Mrs. George Mellott has been in service since March 1943. He is now an airplane mechanie in England. He works long hourg but seems to be happy. He attended schools in Nevada City. Fabien Joyal— . . Fabien Joyal, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Joyal, is still at ‘Shoemaker waiting to be. assigned to a ship. He finished his. under‘water welding course at Treasure Island. dA. Phil Joyal, with the U. 8. ait forces on the Atlantic seaboard, is on sick leave, recovering from an ‘operation for kidney stones. He expects to go overseas as soon as he is. . well, but hopes to get home a few fj days as he has not seen his parents’ the, in over two years. _ 4 Bill Joyal third son of Mr. and niaiat abe te ca Mrs. Frank Joyal is in New Guinea. Pebas. Hi ik toe He had an arm paralyzed recently 4 ___}when.a thrown base ball bat hit ‘him. He thas had his share of fighting with his plane since landing in ‘the South Pacific. Fahoe NaRonald Joyal, U. 6. Navy— . Ronald Joyal, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Joyal, arrived from the South Pacfic in February and spent his 30 day leave with his patents in ‘San Francisco and friends in Long Beach. Ronald was happy to be home din, He s in Seattle now. ‘Lo complete this group of Joyals, the father ig employed in construcwork in ship yards at Hunters int.’ Mrs: Joyal ‘is a toll ‘adding _. ¢lerk on a comptometer.” Both husband and wife like. their war time obs, in San Francisco. © The Joyal family maintains a ome at the end’of Park avenue and}. Sica dtintta 1 the U. 8, Air Serin England received J. P. Muscardini in that their son, Wilhas been promot: Air Depot. He has ight months and his Calif., has ‘successeee IR: the torest service areas. bly Known here by a and Mrs. Ray Wilde have re‘telling them of his promotion year the 10th of May. Ray Ray B, Wilde; . ‘you Yankees—the ride to Edinburgh with fur coats and modera‘ely styldeep broad ravi-e, neatly lands¢apedwith a big rail.road center. and. station down at the bottom ef it. This runs parallel to Princess Street and on the opposite side rises up a v on which ‘stands historic Edinburgh Castle .with its romantic grey jturrets and battlements. The castle. is at the top of the promontory, which grades gradually down, and there is another . and the castl¢ loomed up out of the 4 3 . low hanging mist that hid the lower. Oe ee ee Oe sista of. tho bill. hs-tremms kgd the buses and occasional cabs had turned on their blackout lights and you could still see the many service men ‘of all nations and the civilians scuttling about in the purplish gloom. The Sir Walter Scott monument, the. >. chiet landmark of the West. Phin_} e@ss street gardens (the park in the. as F approached the Red Cross. it is made of red stone and is the only in‘ever seen!’ Scotland) that I saw in Aberdeen. Foom of this establishment was a huge young man with the beribbon-. ! ed bonnet and plaid pants of some. Scottish regiment. He, seeing that recently. Clarence will bé remembered here as a mechanic in the Bill Williamson garage on Pine Street. He attended the local schools and Was an energetic mechanic. Robert Kistle— A letter was received by members of the Alfred Kistle family that Robert Kistle was safe and well in Enzland. This news came as a great Telief to the family as it had been reported he was missing in action in Italy, the day before Mothers Day. Robert is the son of Alfred Kistle — SS and one of twenty children who was born and reared here. He married a Grass Valley girl three years ago. ] D. * Mrs. Leonard Bennett of upper Boulder. street. received a message ; last week her husband was wounded iff action in New Guinea. He is 4 brother in law of Sam Bedwell, Forest, Alleghany, Nevada City stage driver and Mrs. Bedwell. Mrs. Benstay with her sister until the war is over. the granite buildings and stree About five o’clock Friday I arrived in Glasgow, and immediately canght a train for Edinburgh. The distance betweeh Glasgow and’ Edinburgh is about fifty miles and the fare—in a. first class compartment for’ a service man is three shillings, sixpence; or about eighty cents to was most uninteresting. It was’ six o’clock when I arrived, and as I planned to stay there Friday night I went to the two leading hotels, the Royal British and the _North -British, only to find that both of them. were completely ‘‘booked” for. the night. My next move was to hit the American Red Cross. right there; on Princess Street, ‘for they almost alWays have some rooms up their sleeve. They did — the only thii¢ they had was a bed in an officer's hostel on Royal Circle. So that suited me all right and I departed to stoW my. gear, planing to return and eat dinner at. say the Royal British, after having a noggin or two in one of their intensely. modern ‘bars: It seems to me that I’ve told you about Edinburgh before,’ but it really is an elegent city, The main. street is a regular little, Fifth Avenue, ish women in abundance. There ig a ery steep almost cliff like hill. ufbusiness section on that ~ Tt was dusk wh en.I arrived, there, ravine) loomed out of the darkness teresting looking monument I have Wallace (the Protector , 4 . . . the usual sub-high school orchestra. So I strolled into a tiny, quite modern bar—crowded with ‘rather sharp looking characters and somewhat dopy looking ‘babes. Presetitly, the best looking character camé along, @ See wearing a sharp Harris tweed gray flannel combination. 'I could tell Just: by looking at him that he ‘Was an officer of some description . @nd it turned out that he was a’ lieu: ‘tenant in the Canadia Malls. It was a pleasure to talk to {48 Spoke in the states in Edinburgh jthat he was waiting for his buddy, [. was to arrive at 8. (British officers "}iate permitted to doff their uniforms clothes—a noble custom, I must say) in the n Navy from just across from Niagara who spoke English as she most conversation falls be‘the two schools of the brau and the broad a. It developed Canadian naval officer who 4 Pabout the country on the east coast stew quite chummy towards the end arrived at Aberdeen, they dropped. “time off at my hotel (I'd reserved a! 5 ieigpialine pe ae . . The hotel was very nice—the of. . fice was in. kind of a {been the only American navy officer a AMERICAN SAILOR SEES _ . EDINBURGH AN) ABERDEEN Lieut. (jg) Harley M. Leete Jr. writes of his second visit to Edinburgh and of an overnight stay in Aberdeen where he 1 notes the grandeur of the highland scenery-and the solidity of ts and ers the hospitality of an Aberdeen doctor and his wife. a bicycle trip through Scotlond and while on leave. They ‘had been up in Alberdeen a couple of days before. It appeared that the dining room at“the hotel was. so crowded that they were admitting only residents and their guests — so naturally I went right in to dinner with my two new friends. We had quite a merry dinner, and about ten I blew and hit the sack in my hoStel early. Saturday morning I got up early enough to. eat breakfast and tea at the hosHie ee It was about eleven when I left, so+l went immediately to the railroad station to see about getting a train‘for Aberdeen, a city in the north or Scotland (only 122 miles ‘from Bergen, Norway) that I was 80 anxious to see. So I got my ticket and found that the train was slated to leave in a couple of hours ‘at two Pp. m. ‘In some cafe or other on Princess Street Had tea and the noonday -meal—mashed, potatoes and sausage. After that I sallied out and walked up Princess Street, looking at all the people, the moderately good looking ‘and the soldiers and sailors of countries. At-about two, I clambered into‘ ‘my first class compartment. ¥ had . bought a very detailed map of my routes to Aberdeen in one of: the ‘hopelessly dull British book stores, and so as the journey progressed I knew just where I was at every minute. I liked that. There were assorted characters in the compartment—-five others besides myself, of course: One was a major in the British army——a doctor . —-who had just been repatriated af-. ter spending three and one half years in a. German prison camp. He was, very handsome and urbane, and looked none the worse for. wear. ‘There was an elderly couple, a doc-. tor and, his wife who was a captain in the British Red Cross. They took rather a-parenttal interest in me, for some reason or andther and. kept quite busy keeping me informed many of Scotland that we were passing through, and telling about what to look for in Aberdeen! There were. a couple of Wrens (British Waves) country girls, and at one time there was a Cockney sailor; very brash; who made himself hideously unPopular with’ the three ladies in thé compartment by guessing. their ages with a little system of cards. that. he. had. . However,” he left quite od much ‘to everyone's relief. The: ‘elderly doctor and his wife: of the four hour ‘trip, and when we room from Edinburgh) the’ Caledoné the lobby, the way they oftem are in hotels over here. TI must have’

in Aberdeen, for I didn’t see. any others, and people looked at me like you do an Indian in full triba) TeSalia. I soon noted that the hotel boasted an-American bar full of rather lively looking Canadians, Seotch and a few American soldiers on leave so I put in for a Scotch before dinner.Dinner was delightful—steak and kidney pie—very bountiful with the steaks and gteat big fresh green peas ——the first I’ve had over here about the size of avocadoes—they aren’t starving to. death. in Aberdeen. Before,dinner I had time to walk about the streets in the dusk—it's a city of 180,000 with an amazing number of churches and public monuments, All the buildings and I mean all of them, are ‘built of granite and it’ ig the ‘solidest looking place you can imagine. The. Streets and sidewalks re made of this bright grey granite, teo—the streets from cobbles and the sidewalks from slabs. ec I hit the sack in my nice little Room 309 rather early, got up in and his buddy had been making nett came here from Arkansas to girls with fur coats and. new shoes, slase cupola in. RT MONDAY, MAY 22, 944 —————— NTR or breakfast and ’ t hotel f erdeen’s bes or twom, was twelve shillings, pris The people I’d met in the compartment coming up had asked me to go to their house for lunch, so before lunch I sallied out and went sights of Aberdeen. First there was orate structure built of the brightest granite, with a regular. froth of little spires going up from the top of it—really beautiful looking in a delightfully. gingerbread way. Then I went for a long walk out one of the streets. Amusingly enough, even the rare streets that are straight, in these Scotch cities, change their names about every two blocks. It is as if, going down University Avenue in Berkeley, one started out on University Avenue and after go4ng a couple of blocks, the name on the street changed to Bayview Terrace and then a couple of blocks farther changes to Spenger’s Grotto Lane and so on. In one of the many public squares stands a magnificent iron statue for William Wallace, Protector of Seotland. The inscription on the great granite blocks under this huge statue tells in indignant terms of Wallace’s noble fight against tle king-of England, and of his: persecution and execution at the hands, of the English king. I was standing in front of the statue (and to show you how unknown the American uniform was <-there) when some old highland gée with a moustache as long as a beard, came up and asked me directions in an indeeipherabie brogue. At twelve the doctor’s wife (age fifty) came around and took me to the huge granite quarry on the outskirts of town. There we looked into a hole in solid rock about a hundred yards in diameter and four hundred and sixty five feet deep. A little guy about the size of a flea twas crawling around in the bottom of this strange pit. Presently he clambered onto a steel tray that was attached to a lifting arrangement and cables, and with his hands stuffed nonchalantly in his pockets, swinging precariously back and forth on this steel slab in the middle of the emptiest space I have ever séen he was hoisted up. Mrs. Hendry asiked him as he arrived at the top of his long ascent, if he would be so good as to let me go down and up again. Unfortunately; (gad, what a sigh-of relief I heaved—I was gulping aghast.as a fish out of water) this could not be-arranged. Thence we proceededto the doctor’s home, a. very lovely establishment behind a grim and unostentatious granite facade. I had a glass of sherry with the ‘ doctor © before man spies dropped by parachute in the highlands, and captured by. the alert Scotsmen, ‘before they Zot past of the highlands and of thé beanties of ‘hiking’in the Dee river valley which extends from Aberdeen right up into the heart of the highlands. The city of Aberdeen is hetwixt ‘the Dee and the Don and the river and bridges add a lot to its picturesque qualities. > Luneh was very good, pork being the entree and hot plums, and hot lemon pie with an enormons meringue being. the dessert. The doctor and before the war, Mrs. Hendty ‘used to set over to Paris every summer, and travel on the continent. about every other Year. She must have been fifty but she was a great hiker and. showed me a lot’ of photogra ‘phs of herself standing on utterly unclimbable ‘peaks—taken only a year or two ago. She had lived in Los Ange fans at Mier, Pickford before eel a eee uty known Douglas of years ago, La tea at their house. The degrée of hou these Scotch: characters go. right out of this world. When you 80 into a living room, or a’ dining room, even dimly lit, a million lights strike your eye, because everything is’ polished Within an inch of its life. Mrs. Hendry showed me some of her heirlooms. She had black Wedgewood (really very brown) that was: apparently made in 1700 something. The black WedSewood tea set had white bone handles: I thought it rather more Striking than Pleasing. You would have sotten quite‘a bit more out of seeing her heirlooms than I did for though I tried to Make a mental note of everything I ‘saw for you most of it didn’t register’ with —_ After bidding them a Pleasant farewell. I got the train to Edinburgh thence to Glasgow, ‘spent a quiet to. ag some dark for a long walk, seeing many of the. the Mareschal College, a very elabluneh, and he: talked to me ‘of Ger-. the railroad ‘station’ He also talked his wife were cultured péople, and’ Los “Angeles for '‘a. been a. Very oda’ Well too. A couple: Ashley had had} 2 . MARY K. PAIRSONS, also know! sekeeping that earn snooze in the American Req Croad in Glasgow and then my leay, wal over. Got back at our base Monéy morning. STAY OUT OF J CANAL AND STAY # ALIVE WARNING “Stay out of the Contra Costa canal and stay alive” is the timely warning issued today by 0. q Bo den, construction engineer for th, Bureau of Reclamation at Antiocih, A completed 38 mile section of the canal is in use from the intake g ; Rock Slough, three mileg east’ 9 Oakley, to Walnut Creek ddjacent qucky the town of Walnut Creek and with Roos‘ the coming of warm weather ig it a congr temptation to children and adi ptesid alike to take a dip in the concrete er, ‘ie «was 5! lined canal. Con “It is extremely dangerous swim in the canal,” Boden saia;« the slippery, steeply Pitched sid. kaie it difficult to get out. Water over seven feet deep in some place; and at each of the numerous siphon FP we along the canal there is a strona oso current and undertow against whic jor ax even the best swimmer would 4 Repub helpless. At other places the wate “ plauded sometimes is only one or two feg There deep and swimmers who dive fromm ing that bridges or even from the canal ban tle too in a race to be the first into the was the “De er may smash their skulls againg reminde the bottom of the canal. Alread several persons have died froy oe drowning in the canal.’ mm am Official letters have been writte mange to school officials in the area adi Ou 2 jacent to the Contra Costa Cans ane urging that children be caution gy regarding the hazards of swimmin f in the canal. According to Bodet srservice clubs, parent teacher asso ouglbaa jations, churah groups, womena a elubs, and other organizations in th a area can perform a meritorious pullic -service b spyonsoring a campaigay he ‘s él to discourage, swimming in the cat al Boden said he will coopeate wif ae “Ke all organizations in the service arom teady’ sh of the canal engagingin such a caf =~ » paign if they will write to him oo the U. S. Bureau of Reclamatiogm “@ ‘t Antioch, California, or phone him sf hts i Antioch 278. amet The Bureau of Reclamation h would ha erected fences along the canal 4 fought has installed safety devices at f . fale ts a quent intervals to assist anyone wi bg and accidentally falls in. However, f vet, best precaution for all swimmemmy ~ The --s good or bad, is to stay out of t Foes oy Contra Costa Canal and stay saliva ‘tld : DRIVER ‘FINED $75 the: busi: ‘Lawtence Burton, ‘driving } tty. It is out lights and in an erratic mann@gmy ‘iTeateni was arrested by Police Officer Ot™m™ ‘Werties Hardt. It was found he. had beg fellows h driving for nearly a‘ year without™™ te Harv drivers license. City Judge Mil Slf-rich(Coughlin fined. him $75, which econom is: paid. Burton’s license’ was suspelim™ ‘ackpots ed for 30 days. MY SINCERE . afe ont . erm ee reine sincere thanks to. ‘the voters. of on) Tuesday; May 15. As Super? of ‘this district’ it will be my ean endeavor: topee that this faith ls misplac fg ie AR NO. 4308 ‘IN THE SUPBRIOR COURT STATE: OF © IN ALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF NEVM In the Matter of the @astate ; MARY KATHERINE PARSONS, ceased. % Be Notice is hereby given ery? i day, the 2nd day of June 194 10.o’clock A. M. of said day, #f Court Room of. said Court, at . (Court House, in the City of Neva County of Nevada, has been 4p? ed by me.ag the time and plat proving the Will of said MART PARSONS also known as M “PARISONS, deceased, and for by ing the application of W. B. = Wil. i iT, SONS, also known. as PARSONS, for the issuance of Letters. of Administratiol, ©~ Will Annexed, when -and phi person interested may —_ a contest the same. A prayer 10 ting: the estate aside to abi spouse ‘is included in. sald “ 9th 1944. eons RN. McCORMACE, Cle By R. E. DEBBLE, Deunty Cler LAWRENCE J. SKIRVING, Ochsner Bldg., Sacramento, Attorney for Petitioner. May 15, 22,29. to I ee NEVADA COUNTY “THE PIONEER time for a good sized breakfast. and of course, tea. My bill, in this, AbING MATERIALS. LUMBER COMPANY LUMBER YARD” ry