May 26, 1950 (8 pages)

_ fort, the spectacle is even more Buy Buddy Poppy Saturday! ‘s Nevada City Nugget . Nevada City } . Welcomes California . Fishermen Today . . Nevada City (Nevada County) California, _ May 26, 1950 Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c Twenty-Third Year, No. 21 Vookd ; Bryc® Canyon is southern Utah is famous as one of Nature’s masterpieces. An example .of tre mendous natural-erosion of pink limestone, its chief charm is in ,the intricate patterns of ‘standing columns and shafts and its delicate coloring in white, salmon and pink. It has. been 18 years since I saw Bryce Canyon but last Sunday I thought for a moment I Was seeing its again. But I wasn’t: it was an abandoned hydraulic mine hardly a dozen miles from Nevada City. The Malakoff Diggings, a mammoth exacavation on the western edge of North Bloomfield, may be a commonplace sight to local residents who have roamed these hills but it is a delightful exper} ience to those who see it for the first time. When we learn that its fluted columns and massive canyons were made by man in only a few years of feverish efimpressive. Perhaps the.most striking similarity of Malakoff to Bryce is the coloring. My memory. may have failed me. but I think the same delicate pastel shades dominate in-either.-case. The Union Pacific and its concessioners have made big business: out of Bryce. But Malakoff is rarely mentioned locally. I’ve mever seen a picture or description in print. With adequate publicity, Malakoff could be as imporiant to Nevada City—in dollar value—as the trout fishing season is. But I’m hot. sure I would want it that way. The isolation imposed by mountain byways and the quaint quiet charm of North Bloomfield would be lost in a cloud of dust if thousands of tourists swarmed the * * * To students of the high school journalism class we are indebted for much of the news writing in this edition. But having a gang of ‘charming girls. (arf, arf) around the shop threw Ken and me off stride. Our editorial page vanished in the mixup. So some of our political conclusions must wait until next week. We hope to discuss reasons for The Nugget’s endorsement of candidates on the June 6 ballot . And, of course, the press would break down this week. But who: wants a soft life? JOURNALISM STUDENTS REPORT LOCAL NEWS The journalism class of Nevada City high school again had the good fortune to work on the Nevada City Nugget. The students collected news and wrote articles for the paper. The class had worked on the Nov. 11,.:1949,. issue and were véry happy when asked to do so again. Students spent Wednesday and Thursday in The Nugget office. JoAnn Waechter was acting editor with her staff consisting of Blanche Silva, Doris Hedges, Jenell Stinchfield, Audrey Foote, Pat Dames and Maxine Ivey. The girls enjoyed“ themselvés immensely besides gaining some valuable experience. Mrs. Margaret Stevens is the class advisor. : The class ‘also visited the office of the Grass Valley Union on Tuesdayof this week. The students were fascinated by the teletype machines and huge flatbed press. Students who visited the “Union were Blanche Silva, Doris Hedges, Jo Waechter, Pat Dames, Maxine Ivey, Abbey Salter, Pat Sturtevant, Jenell Stinchfield, Audrey Foote, Bob Thompson, and Diane Poulsen. Mrs. Stevens accompanied the 41 SENIORS WILL BE GRADUATED AT HIGH SCHOOL Nevada City high school will hold ‘its annual commencement exercises Thursday, June 8, at 8:15 p.m., in the high school auditorium, according to announcement by Ed A. Frantz, principal. Baccalaureate ‘services will be held the preceding Sunday in the school patio. The high school orchestra wilt present the processional and recessional. Miss Madge Nelson and Miss Maxine Ivey, member of the class, will present piano solos. Miss Ivey and Miss Jenell Stinchfield, will be the senior speakers. Frantz will present awards and J. Paul Bergeman, member of the board of school trustees, will present diplomas. Rev. Max Christensen, rector of the Trinity Episcopal church, and Rev. John A. MacDonald, pastor of the Baptist church, will participate in the ceremonies. Members of the class, as announced by Frantz, are: I00F GRAND MASTER WILE BE HERE JUNE 13 Ross R. Rittenhouser, Santa Cruz, Grand Master.of the International Order of Odd Fellows of California, will visit Oustomah Lodge No. 16 in Névada City on Tuesday, June 13, according to an announcement by Peter Cole, Noble Grand. Rittenhouser was elected to the highest state -office of the lodge at a convention in Long Beach earlier this month. —JoAnn Waechter. SCHOOL DESK OF PAPER MAGNATE IS MUSEUM STAR The Nevada County Historical Museum will be open three days this weekend: Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday, Memorial Day. The museum which is bigger and better than ever will be open to the public between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. One of the features of the display at the museum, which is located on lower Main street in the old fire house, is a desk from the Henry Wright Anderson. William Basso. Georgann Behrbaum. John Cartoscelli. Katherine Cocherell. Ross Eugene Dahl. Patricia Dames. Arthur Day. Githa T. Dorris. Norman Duncan Ellis. Ruth Alexandra Estes. Beverly Friberg. Ed Havey. Elton L. Hippert. Nola Huddleston. Maxine Marilyn Ivey. Ed Johnson. Betty Jeanne Malcolm. Bruce Mehrmann. Villiam Moody. Madge Marie Nelson. Joan Carol Oje. Richard H. Penrose. Gene Pieratt. Joan Florence Peterson. Nick August Pello. Diane Adele Poulsen. John A. Parker. Abbey Delores Salter. Harold Scheave. Peter Ross Scribner. Joann Scott. Blanche Elizabeth Silva. Robert Smithson. Howard A. Snider. Audrey Jenell Stinchfield. Patricia Diane Thomas. Dolores M. Townsend. Jack J. Townsend. Elizabeth Jane Wilson. Mary JoAnn Waechter. — Jo Waechter. CONCERT DRIVE HELD OVER ANOTHER WEEK The drive for membership on the Twin Cities Community Concert association was extended to include this week when a checkup Saturday night revealed the memberships were ‘short 100 of the required number. Lloyd Geist, chairman of the association, said, ‘“Any person who has not been contacted by volunteer workers and wishes to join the drive, write a check payable to the Twin Cities Community Concert and mail to me at 426 Cross street, and a receipt will be sent in the return mail. If it is not convenient to do tnis, telephone me at 98 during the day and in the evening at 533W.” Selections for the concert are made according to the money collected for membership sold .during the drive. The low cost brings the twin cities more top-notch musical value for the money than a member could get in a larger area, however the same artists appear here who are heard in the big city.—Doris M. Hedges. The Weather a. Fred Bush, observer group.—Jo Waechter. Max. Min May—10258.2ssnes 73 37 1.1 ri, SL) eee enn oee 80 41 — TT a cacascstsnasastariccs 85 45 iN, £7. Een 88 45 MSY 28 ici esnceccssnes 86 45 MY 24. ob certo scesse i. 73 44 MOY 20 eases 74 45 in. the present registration is‘a healMoore’s Flat school house during the years 1860 to 1890. The schoo} was attended by Isadore Zellerbach, whose family was among the earliest pioneers of Nevada county. The family started the papér house that has grown into the largest paper distribution firm on the west coast. Other oddities your editor noticed in a hasty observation of the museum included Richard Jeffrey’s first automobile built in Grass Valley in 1900; an 1857 hydraulic_nozzle;_an_ 1846.melodian from Moore’s Flat, county jail locks of 1856, the early day fire equipment, old photographs of} early day pioneers and scenes. DONALD MILLER IS GRADUATE AT NAVAL ACADEMY Donald Charles Miller, Nevada City, will be graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy next Friday, June 2, in Annapolis, Md. SCOUT EXECUTIVE REX MUGAR HERE THURSDAY Rex Mougar, Los Angeles, Regional Deputy Scout Executive, visited here last night and attended a meetifig of Sierra Nevada district committee. Mugar represents the twelfth region covering the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and the Territory of Hawaii. He was accompanied by Raymond J. He is the son of the late Charles Miller, associated with the Lava! Cap mine, and Mrs.Evelyn Mill. er, formerly.of Nevada. City, and now of San Francisco. His grandmother, Mrs. A. C. Kennedy, still lives in Nevada! City. Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Miller ; are in Annapolis to witness grad. uation week exercises of the na-. val academy, having flown there . Wednesday. . Miller attended school at. Grass! Valley and Nevada City, gradu-. ating with honors from Nevada. City high school with. the class of . 1944. . Harry L. Englebright, Nevada! City congressman at that time, . had his attention called to young . Miller’s scholastic achievements and started to secure an appointment to the naval academy. He was’ at Drew Prep school in San Francisco for six months when Englebright died, leaving Miller’s appointment papers on his desk. Miller enlisted in the navy in 1945 and while taking boot training at Great Lakes naval train. ing station, received notification . of his appointment to the acad. emy. Congressman Clair Engle . completed the task started by his predecessor. . Two days atter his graduation,4 Miller will be married to Miss . Being a railroad fan, your editor, of course, was taken by the. early day pictures of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge railway . and being a connoisseur: of wom. en we noticed the pictures of. Lola Montez, Lotta Crabtree and Emma Nevada. We were unsuc-. cessful in finding a picture of Eleanor du Mont. Another_item that struck our. fancy were.three old time geographies of the world, and particularly of California. One was published in 1876 and indicated that Nevada City was the fourth largest city in California at the} time. Two other interesting geographies were of a decade later. MEMORIAL DAY RITES AT SEAMAN’S, GRAVES Memorial day services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Seaman’s Lodge, Pioneer park, with members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, their’ Auxiliaries and Gold Star Mothers, participating, according to Olaf Bjornstal, VFW Post No. 2655 commander, who is in charge of exercises. Following the exercises at the park, the groups will visit all cemeteries where veterans are interred. Commander Bjornstal said rifle squads and color: guards will participate and featuring the following ceremonies will be the playing of “Taps” by Buglers Howard Tryon of the VFW and Roy Berryman of the Legion. The public is cordially invited to the ceremonies, Bjornstal declared.—Doris M. Hedges. ALMOST FIVE MILLION REGISTERED IN STATE California’s largest primary election voter registration was announced by Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan as 4,925,369. Jordan said although e registration was the greatest for any . primary in the state’s history: it . failed by 136,628 to equal the 1948 general eleetion registration of 5,061,997. ; However, Jordan pointed out, thy indication as in January of 1949 there were* 862,168 names stricken from the qualified electors rolls for various reasons, including conviction of a felony, removal from the county, failure to vote, insanity and death. a Ewan, Auburn, scout executive; and Del Raby, Doris M. Hedges. 18 CENSUS OF TRADE LISTS 30 BUSINESS FIRMS Retail, wholesale and service establishments located in Nevada county showed aéé substantial expansion in dollar volume of trade from 1939 to 1948, according to preliminary fissures from the 1948 census of business released this week by the bureau of the census, U. S. department of commerce. The preliminary report-.showed 340 business establishments in Nevada county at the time of the census. . Retail sales in the county during 1948 aggregated $19,800,000, an increase of 125 percent over the $8,800,000 in 1939, when the preceding cemsus of business was taken. Wholesale sales in the county reached a total of $4,100,field executive —}. EXPECTED HERE Nevada county will become the Mecca of thousands of California fishermen at sunup tomorrow morning. If they are not in the county at sunrise for the opening of the trout fishing season, they would have sampled local lakes and streams before the season closes Oct. 31. The summer trout, whitefish, and salmon fishing season closes one hour after sunset, Oct. 31, in all of California except the Colorado river. area, where there is no. closed ‘season. : Fish and game wardens advised anglers to consult the list of stream closures contained in the official abstract of 1950 angling regulations. Copies are available without charge at division of fish and game offices and license agencies. H. I. Snider, district ranger of the Tahoe national forest, said opening Saturday we are expectin the first large group of forest visitors of the 1950 recreation season and this is just a word of caution for them to continue their past good cooperation in not smoking, except in bare spots, or causing any fires in those canyon bottoms, since it is a well known fact the ashes from a large forest fire spells death to the fish.” Snider said local road conditions after last winter’s heavy snows are as follows: The Graniteville road is open only -a short distance above the Margaret Diana Matthews, -of. 000--in 1948 -as compared with Sparks, Md. The ceremony will $1,500,000 in 1939. The service . be performed in Gunpowder . . ges 3 1 Sect 3 th By eS . meeting house in Sparks. Caadianic acta esate paar: ees po age gee Miller will become a second. business recorded receipts total-. lieutenant in the U. S: marine! ing $1,000,000 in 1948 compared . corps upon his graduation. l with $400,000 in 1939. TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST CLOSES TO SMOKING THURSDAY Closure of Tahoe national forest to federal fire regulations becomes effective next Thursday June 1, according to announcement by Guerdon Ellis, supervisor. Regional Forester P. A. Thompson has declared a period of fire hazard and danger exists upon all lands of the U. S. within the Tahoe national forest beginning June 1, and extending to Oct. 31. The regulations prohibit: Building a campfire on those portions of any natonal forest which have, with the approval of the regional forester, been designated by the respective supervisors thereof, without first obtaining a permit from a forest officer. Smoking during periods of fire danger publicly announced by the regional forester upon such areas aS may be designated by him, which may includes roads and trails and improved campgrounds but shall not include improved placed of habitation. The throwing: or placing of a burning cigarette, cigar, match, pipe heel, firecracker, or any ignited substance: in any ‘place where it may start a fire; and the discharging of any kind of fireworks on any portion of a national forest closed by order of the regional forester to the discharging of fireworks. HAROLD BERLINER ELECTED TRUSTEE Harold Berliner, member of Berliner & McGinnis, local printing firm, was elected to the Nevada City unified school district board of trustees Friday by a vote of 412 to 198 for Mrs. Car-, rie Thompson, his only opponent. Berliner will replace Elton W. Kendrick, who is retiring from the board June 30. In a three-way race at North San Juan, Andrew C. Eveler Jr. and Arthur G. Gallez, lead with a tie vote of 33 ballots. : Official returns of all districts will be-announced today by W. A. Carlson, county superintendent of schools. : ciation to each guest. * The book Employment in the county also} rose over the nine-year period) between 1939 and 1948 for the! above trades. Establishments in these trades reported a combined total of 1,081 paid employees for the work week ending nearest Nov. 15, -1948. This compared to a total of 840 employees reported for the week of Nov. 15, 1939. These preliminary figures have been derived from a census report on Newada county, which also includes data for the city of Grass Valley. Final figures, superseding the preliminary data for Nevada county, will be included in a bulletin for the state of California to be issued in several months. Similar data will be made availabe this year in preliminary amd final form for each of the counties of the state. MRS MCKITTRICK T0 HEAD COUNTY TEACHERS rs. Louise McKittrick, Newtown, was elected and installed president of the Nevada County Teachers association. for 1950-51 at a meeting Wednesday evening at the Gold Nugget Inn. Other officers named were Heresa Lambrecht, Grass Valley, vice presidenmt; and Doris Mulcahy, Grass Valley, secretary. Mrs: Hazel Estes presided at the installation. Elmer Stevems, speaker for the evening, assisted in composing the Yearbook, given by the assotold the activities of the year. Gifts were presenting to Miss Genevieve Kent, Miss Elizabeth Garland and Mrs. Mabel Flindt. John Larue, -local attorney, who was a pupil of both Miss Kent and Miss Garland, made the presentations. John Conway, dent, presided for Jo Waechteér. retiring presithe evening:— ANNEXATION TALKED Possible anmmnexation with Nevada City or another school district was discussed at a pot-luck dinner meetins@of the Gold Flat elementary school Parent-Teacher association Friday evening at the school house. ’ Robert Hanley and Mrs. Helen March lead the discussion of annexation. village of Graniteville. The South Yuba road is open to the end or five miles east of Washington. Bowman road is open only via 3ear valley to the upper end of . Bowman lake. Steephollow creek is accessible via Chalk Bluff and Camels Hump approaches. FRENCH CORRAL SCHOOL HOUSE JUBILEE DANCE IS SUCCESSFUL AFFAIR The youthful feet of five generations of school children have worn furrows in the floor of the 91-year-old French Corral school /house but the closely-knit folk of the San Juan ridge gathered 150 stfong in the historic structure Saturday night for a jubilee dance honoring the recent acquisition of the building at a public auction conducted by the board of supervisors of Nevada county. Mrs. Reno Thatcher, Reno, Nev., philanthropist, by whose generosity the ancient building was returned to the community, was the guest-of honor at the jubilee. Mrs. Thatcher was high bidder for the building at $750 “when County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble auctioned the structure Friday, April .14. Mrs. Thatcher immediately donated the building to the ridge community in . perpetuity. Ed J. Kohler, North San Juan, hosted and emceed the. shindig that lasted into the wee sma’ hours of Sunday morning, and repeatedly announced he was not campaigning for supervisor that evening. Eight of the 11 candidates from the fourth district attended the jubilee dance and were introduced to the throng. None made political speeches. The bell, a collector's item which was being repaired and polished. at the time of the sale, was once again in the tower and at frequent intervals pealed forth a joyous tempo in time to the impromptu orchestra and rocking floor and walls’ Kay Vance a pi. anist and composer of note, extracted &xcellent melody from the time-worn piano, to the accompaniment of Frank Stuart on the tympans, young Gene Stuart on the trumpet, Preston Kohler on the banjo, and*Waid Oden on the stringed cat gut. Women.of the community prepared and served a-midnight dinner and two cakes were auctioned off by Supervisor Candidate C. L. “Mitch” Painter. The jubilee dance raised $116 to be applied toward a repair the building. ow INVASION OF FISHERMEN 1S ‘ yesterday, “With fishing season fund. to

_ fort, the spectacle is even more Buy Buddy Poppy Saturday! ‘s Nevada City Nugget . Nevada City } . Welcomes California . Fishermen Today . . Nevada City (Nevada County) California, _ May 26, 1950 Subscription, Year $2.50; Single Copy 5c Twenty-Third Year, No. 21 Vookd ; Bryc® Canyon is southern Utah is famous as one of Nature’s masterpieces. An example .of tre mendous natural-erosion of pink limestone, its chief charm is in ,the intricate patterns of ‘standing columns and shafts and its delicate coloring in white, salmon and pink. It has. been 18 years since I saw Bryce Canyon but last Sunday I thought for a moment I Was seeing its again. But I wasn’t: it was an abandoned hydraulic mine hardly a dozen miles from Nevada City. The Malakoff Diggings, a mammoth exacavation on the western edge of North Bloomfield, may be a commonplace sight to local residents who have roamed these hills but it is a delightful exper} ience to those who see it for the first time. When we learn that its fluted columns and massive canyons were made by man in only a few years of feverish efimpressive. Perhaps the.most striking similarity of Malakoff to Bryce is the coloring. My memory. may have failed me. but I think the same delicate pastel shades dominate in-either.-case. The Union Pacific and its concessioners have made big business: out of Bryce. But Malakoff is rarely mentioned locally. I’ve mever seen a picture or description in print. With adequate publicity, Malakoff could be as imporiant to Nevada City—in dollar value—as the trout fishing season is. But I’m hot. sure I would want it that way. The isolation imposed by mountain byways and the quaint quiet charm of North Bloomfield would be lost in a cloud of dust if thousands of tourists swarmed the * * * To students of the high school journalism class we are indebted for much of the news writing in this edition. But having a gang of ‘charming girls. (arf, arf) around the shop threw Ken and me off stride. Our editorial page vanished in the mixup. So some of our political conclusions must wait until next week. We hope to discuss reasons for The Nugget’s endorsement of candidates on the June 6 ballot .. And, of course, the press would break down this week. But who: wants a soft life? JOURNALISM STUDENTS REPORT LOCAL NEWS The journalism class of Nevada City high school again had the good fortune to work on the Nevada City Nugget. The students collected news and wrote articles for the paper. The class had worked on the Nov. 11,.:1949,. issue and were véry happy when asked to do so again. Students spent Wednesday and Thursday in The Nugget office. JoAnn Waechter was acting editor with her staff consisting of Blanche Silva, Doris Hedges, Jenell Stinchfield, Audrey Foote, Pat Dames and Maxine Ivey. The girls enjoyed“ themselvés immensely besides gaining some valuable experience. Mrs. Margaret Stevens is the class advisor. : The class ‘also visited the office of the Grass Valley Union on Tuesdayof this week. The students were fascinated by the teletype machines and huge flatbed press. Students who visited the “Union were Blanche Silva, Doris Hedges, Jo Waechter, Pat Dames, Maxine Ivey, Abbey Salter, Pat Sturtevant, Jenell Stinchfield, Audrey Foote, Bob Thompson, and Diane Poulsen. Mrs. Stevens accompanied the 41 SENIORS WILL BE GRADUATED AT HIGH SCHOOL Nevada City high school will hold ‘its annual commencement exercises Thursday, June 8, at 8:15 p.m., in the high school auditorium, according to announcement by Ed A. Frantz, principal. Baccalaureate ‘services will be held the preceding Sunday in the school patio. The high school orchestra wilt present the processional and recessional. Miss Madge Nelson and Miss Maxine Ivey, member of the class, will present piano solos. Miss Ivey and Miss Jenell Stinchfield, will be the senior speakers. Frantz will present awards and J. Paul Bergeman, member of the board of school trustees, will present diplomas. Rev. Max Christensen, rector of the Trinity Episcopal church, and Rev. John A. MacDonald, pastor of the Baptist church, will participate in the ceremonies. Members of the class, as announced by Frantz, are: I00F GRAND MASTER WILE BE HERE JUNE 13 Ross R. Rittenhouser, Santa Cruz, Grand Master.of the International Order of Odd Fellows of California, will visit Oustomah Lodge No. 16 in Névada City on Tuesday, June 13, according to an announcement by Peter Cole, Noble Grand. Rittenhouser was elected to the highest state -office of the lodge at a convention in Long Beach earlier this month. —JoAnn Waechter. SCHOOL DESK OF PAPER MAGNATE IS MUSEUM STAR The Nevada County Historical Museum will be open three days this weekend: Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday, Memorial Day. The museum which is bigger and better than ever will be open to the public between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. One of the features of the display at the museum, which is located on lower Main street in the old fire house, is a desk from the Henry Wright Anderson. William Basso. Georgann Behrbaum. John Cartoscelli. Katherine Cocherell. Ross Eugene Dahl. Patricia Dames. Arthur Day. Githa T. Dorris. Norman Duncan Ellis. Ruth Alexandra Estes. Beverly Friberg. Ed Havey. Elton L. Hippert. Nola Huddleston. Maxine Marilyn Ivey. Ed Johnson. Betty Jeanne Malcolm. Bruce Mehrmann. Villiam Moody. Madge Marie Nelson. Joan Carol Oje. Richard H. Penrose. Gene Pieratt. Joan Florence Peterson. Nick August Pello. Diane Adele Poulsen. John A. Parker. Abbey Delores Salter. Harold Scheave. Peter Ross Scribner. Joann Scott. Blanche Elizabeth Silva. Robert Smithson. Howard A. Snider. Audrey Jenell Stinchfield. Patricia Diane Thomas. Dolores M. Townsend. Jack J. Townsend. Elizabeth Jane Wilson. Mary JoAnn Waechter. — Jo Waechter. CONCERT DRIVE HELD OVER ANOTHER WEEK The drive for membership on the Twin Cities Community Concert association was extended to include this week when a checkup Saturday night revealed the memberships were ‘short 100 of the required number. Lloyd Geist, chairman of the association, said, ‘“Any person who has not been contacted by volunteer workers and wishes to join the drive, write a check payable to the Twin Cities Community Concert and mail to me at 426 Cross street, and a receipt will be sent in the return mail. If it is not convenient to do tnis, telephone me at 98 during the day and in the evening at 533W.” Selections for the concert are made according to the money collected for membership sold .during the drive. The low cost brings the twin cities more top-notch musical value for the money than a member could get in a larger area, however the same artists appear here who are heard in the big city.—Doris M. Hedges. The Weather a. Fred Bush, observer group.—Jo Waechter. Max. Min May—10258.2ssnes 73 37 1.1 ri, SL) eee enn oee 80 41 — TT a cacascstsnasastariccs 85 45 iN, £7. Een 88 45 MSY 28 ici esnceccssnes 86 45 MY 24. ob certo scesse i. 73 44 MOY 20 eases 74 45 in. the present registration is‘a healMoore’s Flat school house during the years 1860 to 1890. The schoo} was attended by Isadore Zellerbach, whose family was among the earliest pioneers of Nevada county. The family started the papér house that has grown into the largest paper distribution firm on the west coast. Other oddities your editor noticed in a hasty observation of the museum included Richard Jeffrey’s first automobile built in Grass Valley in 1900; an 1857 hydraulic_nozzle;_an_ 1846.melodian from Moore’s Flat, county jail locks of 1856, the early day fire equipment, old photographs of} early day pioneers and scenes. DONALD MILLER IS GRADUATE AT NAVAL ACADEMY Donald Charles Miller, Nevada City, will be graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy next Friday, June 2, in Annapolis, Md. SCOUT EXECUTIVE REX MUGAR HERE THURSDAY Rex Mougar, Los Angeles, Regional Deputy Scout Executive, visited here last night and attended a meetifig of Sierra Nevada district committee. Mugar represents the twelfth region covering the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and the Territory of Hawaii. He was accompanied by Raymond J. He is the son of the late Charles Miller, associated with the Lava! Cap mine, and Mrs.Evelyn Mill. er, formerly.of Nevada. City, and now of San Francisco. His grandmother, Mrs. A. C. Kennedy, still lives in Nevada! City. Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Miller ; are in Annapolis to witness grad. uation week exercises of the na-. val academy, having flown there . Wednesday. . Miller attended school at. Grass! Valley and Nevada City, gradu-. ating with honors from Nevada. City high school with. the class of . 1944. . Harry L. Englebright, Nevada! City congressman at that time, . had his attention called to young . Miller’s scholastic achievements and started to secure an appointment to the naval academy. He was’ at Drew Prep school in San Francisco for six months when Englebright died, leaving Miller’s appointment papers on his desk. Miller enlisted in the navy in 1945 and while taking boot training at Great Lakes naval train. ing station, received notification . of his appointment to the acad. emy. Congressman Clair Engle . completed the task started by his predecessor. . Two days atter his graduation,4 Miller will be married to Miss . Being a railroad fan, your editor, of course, was taken by the.

early day pictures of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge railway . and being a connoisseur: of wom. en we noticed the pictures of. Lola Montez, Lotta Crabtree and Emma Nevada. We were unsuc-. cessful in finding a picture of Eleanor du Mont. Another_item that struck our. fancy were.three old time geographies of the world, and particularly of California. One was published in 1876 and indicated that Nevada City was the fourth largest city in California at the} time. Two other interesting geographies were of a decade later. MEMORIAL DAY RITES AT SEAMAN’S, GRAVES Memorial day services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Seaman’s Lodge, Pioneer park, with members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, their’ Auxiliaries and Gold Star Mothers, participating, according to Olaf Bjornstal, VFW Post No. 2655 commander, who is in charge of exercises. Following the exercises at the park, the groups will visit all cemeteries where veterans are interred. Commander Bjornstal said rifle squads and color: guards will participate and featuring the following ceremonies will be the playing of “Taps” by Buglers Howard Tryon of the VFW and Roy Berryman of the Legion. The public is cordially invited to the ceremonies, Bjornstal declared.—Doris M. Hedges. ALMOST FIVE MILLION REGISTERED IN STATE California’s largest primary election voter registration was announced by Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan as 4,925,369. Jordan said although e registration was the greatest for any . primary in the state’s history: it . failed by 136,628 to equal the 1948 general eleetion registration of 5,061,997. ; However, Jordan pointed out, thy indication as in January of 1949 there were* 862,168 names stricken from the qualified electors rolls for various reasons, including conviction of a felony, removal from the county, failure to vote, insanity and death. a Ewan, Auburn, scout executive; and Del Raby, Doris M. Hedges. 18 CENSUS OF TRADE LISTS 30 BUSINESS FIRMS Retail, wholesale and service establishments located in Nevada county showed aéé substantial expansion in dollar volume of trade from 1939 to 1948, according to preliminary fissures from the 1948 census of business released this week by the bureau of the census, U. S. department of commerce. The preliminary report-.showed 340 business establishments in Nevada county at the time of the census. . Retail sales in the county during 1948 aggregated $19,800,000, an increase of 125 percent over the $8,800,000 in 1939, when the preceding cemsus of business was taken. Wholesale sales in the county reached a total of $4,100,field executive —}. EXPECTED HERE Nevada county will become the Mecca of thousands of California fishermen at sunup tomorrow morning. If they are not in the county at sunrise for the opening of the trout fishing season, they would have sampled local lakes and streams before the season closes Oct. 31. The summer trout, whitefish, and salmon fishing season closes one hour after sunset, Oct. 31, in all of California except the Colorado river. area, where there is no. closed ‘season. : Fish and game wardens advised anglers to consult the list of stream closures contained in the official abstract of 1950 angling regulations. Copies are available without charge at division of fish and game offices and license agencies. H. I. Snider, district ranger of the Tahoe national forest, said opening Saturday we are expectin the first large group of forest visitors of the 1950 recreation season and this is just a word of caution for them to continue their past good cooperation in not smoking, except in bare spots, or causing any fires in those canyon bottoms, since it is a well known fact the ashes from a large forest fire spells death to the fish.” Snider said local road conditions after last winter’s heavy snows are as follows: The Graniteville road is open only -a short distance above the Margaret Diana Matthews, -of. 000--in 1948 -as compared with Sparks, Md. The ceremony will $1,500,000 in 1939. The service . be performed in Gunpowder . . ges 3 1 Sect 3 th By eS . meeting house in Sparks. Caadianic acta esate paar: ees po age gee Miller will become a second. business recorded receipts total-. lieutenant in the U. S: marine! ing $1,000,000 in 1948 compared . corps upon his graduation. l with $400,000 in 1939. TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST CLOSES TO SMOKING THURSDAY Closure of Tahoe national forest to federal fire regulations becomes effective next Thursday June 1, according to announcement by Guerdon Ellis, supervisor. Regional Forester P. A. Thompson has declared a period of fire hazard and danger exists upon all lands of the U. S. within the Tahoe national forest beginning June 1, and extending to Oct. 31. The regulations prohibit: Building a campfire on those portions of any natonal forest which have, with the approval of the regional forester, been designated by the respective supervisors thereof, without first obtaining a permit from a forest officer. Smoking during periods of fire danger publicly announced by the regional forester upon such areas aS may be designated by him, which may includes roads and trails and improved campgrounds but shall not include improved placed of habitation. The throwing: or placing of a burning cigarette, cigar, match, pipe heel, firecracker, or any ignited substance: in any ‘place where it may start a fire; and the discharging of any kind of fireworks on any portion of a national forest closed by order of the regional forester to the discharging of fireworks. HAROLD BERLINER ELECTED TRUSTEE Harold Berliner, member of Berliner & McGinnis, local printing firm, was elected to the Nevada City unified school district board of trustees Friday by a vote of 412 to 198 for Mrs. Car-, rie Thompson, his only opponent. Berliner will replace Elton W. Kendrick, who is retiring from the board June 30. In a three-way race at North San Juan, Andrew C. Eveler Jr. and Arthur G. Gallez, lead with a tie vote of 33 ballots. : Official returns of all districts will be-announced today by W. A. Carlson, county superintendent of schools. : ciation to each guest. * The book Employment in the county also} rose over the nine-year period) between 1939 and 1948 for the! above trades. Establishments in these trades reported a combined total of 1,081 paid employees for the work week ending nearest Nov. 15, -1948. This compared to a total of 840 employees reported for the week of Nov. 15, 1939. These preliminary figures have been derived from a census report on Newada county, which also includes data for the city of Grass Valley. Final figures, superseding the preliminary data for Nevada county, will be included in a bulletin for the state of California to be issued in several months. Similar data will be made availabe this year in preliminary amd final form for each of the counties of the state. MRS MCKITTRICK T0 HEAD COUNTY TEACHERS rs. Louise McKittrick, Newtown, was elected and installed president of the Nevada County Teachers association. for 1950-51 at a meeting Wednesday evening at the Gold Nugget Inn. Other officers named were Heresa Lambrecht, Grass Valley, vice presidenmt; and Doris Mulcahy, Grass Valley, secretary. Mrs: Hazel Estes presided at the installation. Elmer Stevems, speaker for the evening, assisted in composing the Yearbook, given by the assotold the activities of the year. Gifts were presenting to Miss Genevieve Kent, Miss Elizabeth Garland and Mrs. Mabel Flindt. John Larue, -local attorney, who was a pupil of both Miss Kent and Miss Garland, made the presentations. John Conway, dent, presided for Jo Waechteér. retiring presithe evening:— ANNEXATION TALKED Possible anmmnexation with Nevada City or another school district was discussed at a pot-luck dinner meetins@of the Gold Flat elementary school Parent-Teacher association Friday evening at the school house. ’ Robert Hanley and Mrs. Helen March lead the discussion of annexation. village of Graniteville. The South Yuba road is open to the end or five miles east of Washington. Bowman road is open only via 3ear valley to the upper end of . Bowman lake. Steephollow creek is accessible via Chalk Bluff and Camels Hump approaches. FRENCH CORRAL SCHOOL HOUSE JUBILEE DANCE IS SUCCESSFUL AFFAIR The youthful feet of five generations of school children have worn furrows in the floor of the 91-year-old French Corral school /house but the closely-knit folk of the San Juan ridge gathered 150 stfong in the historic structure Saturday night for a jubilee dance honoring the recent acquisition of the building at a public auction conducted by the board of supervisors of Nevada county. Mrs. Reno Thatcher, Reno, Nev., philanthropist, by whose generosity the ancient building was returned to the community, was the guest-of honor at the jubilee. Mrs. Thatcher was high bidder for the building at $750 “when County Clerk Ralph E. Deeble auctioned the structure Friday, April .14. Mrs. Thatcher immediately donated the building to the ridge community in . perpetuity. Ed J. Kohler, North San Juan, hosted and emceed the. shindig that lasted into the wee sma’ hours of Sunday morning, and repeatedly announced he was not campaigning for supervisor that evening. Eight of the 11 candidates from the fourth district attended the jubilee dance and were introduced to the throng. None made political speeches. The bell, a collector's item which was being repaired and polished. at the time of the sale, was once again in the tower and at frequent intervals pealed forth a joyous tempo in time to the impromptu orchestra and rocking floor and walls’ Kay Vance a pi. anist and composer of note, extracted &xcellent melody from the time-worn piano, to the accompaniment of Frank Stuart on the tympans, young Gene Stuart on the trumpet, Preston Kohler on the banjo, and*Waid Oden on the stringed cat gut. Women.of the community prepared and served a-midnight dinner and two cakes were auctioned off by Supervisor Candidate C. L. “Mitch” Painter. The jubilee dance raised $116 to be applied toward a repair the building. ow INVASION OF FISHERMEN 1S ‘ yesterday, “With fishing season fund. to