May 27, 1943 (4 pages)

> heal Pe . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’””-—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . This paper .gives your compl coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. % Vol. 17, No. 42. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA _The Gold Center THURSDAY. MAY 27. 1943. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. It is a sellers market nowadays. The buyer may as well become resigned to this condition and govern his’ temper, remember his manners, and conduct himself like a gentleman. Otherwise he will suffer mdignities, affronts, and contumely. An expectant passenger steps wp to a bus driver, and presents his ticket. There is something wrong with the ticket. The passenger begins an argument but doesn’t finish it. The driver does with, “Step aside please,” The passenger steps aside and watches the bus fill until both seats and standing room are gone. He approaches beligerently and says: “Getting tough with me, are yuh?”’ The driver gives him a casual glance, and says: ‘No arguments, please ‘.You can’t ride with me.” And he means it. The belligerent gentleman waits for the next bus. The bus company means it when it advises, the good public, through big advertisements, NOT to patronize the bus lines. The bus drivers ‘are captains of land going ships and they wont stand for nonsense. They can fill their coaches with pleasant and mannerly passengers, some sitting, others standing., If a passenger appears what the worse or liquor, the driver after a fleeting glance hands his ticket back to him with the remark. ‘You are too drunk to ride in my car.” The tipsy one de“But what'll I,do with this murs: ticket?’’ The driver replies ‘,“Take it back to the ticket office and cash it.’’ The driver chooses his passengers and those that are contentious are simply refused a ride. Good manners are always an asset and never more so than today when sellers do not have to sell to all comers because buyers are so many. In the big city markets women wait in line before the meat counter. As a customer approaches tie butcher shoves a piece of meat along the counter toward ther. She protests she doesn’t want that piece of meat but something else. The butcher carelessly tosses the meat aside, and asks her to step aside. She goes to the end of the que and waits for another opportunity or goes. to another market where the same little act is very likely to be staged, unless she changes her mind. Probably before the morning is gone she does just that. As for prices of food and other merchandise. It is much more polite, if the prices are higher than one can afford to pay, to say so quietly and buy something else, not what is wanted, but something that will fill the void .at less money. An air of humility ‘greatly helps the buyer. It is a kind of apypeasement to be sure but there is nothing that pays better dividinds. One must reflect ‘that sellers, generally speaking, for a good many years have been the underdog. They catered to the ‘buyer. Now they cannot get goods enough to supply all the buyers. Their Dusinesses’ are running shorthanded. Some who have not waited on customers in years, are doing it now, and unfortunately they yet it is something of a ‘come down.’ Their difficulties are great. It is a problem for many just to stay in business. And their tempers under these conditions are given a fine razor edge. Effusive welcomes are only for those customers who pay cash, or at least settle once a menth, in full and promptly. 4 It has been quite a shock to many a woman to find as she buys the various things for her household that she must, and she had better, cater to the seller. In the Jarger department stores the hauteur of clerks is something to see and remember. A woman asks for a pair of gloves of a color to match her dress. The clerk merely lifts 4 some_ RECRUITERS FOR WAACS AT CITY HALL FRIDAY Lieutenant Fay Chambers, WAAC recruiting officer, Auxiliaries Helen B. Young and Doroth Ropar; Staff Sergeant Graham Kislingbury and Sergeant Samuel O. ‘Snow of the United States Army, will comprise the WAAC “flying team’ traveling in a “silver bullet’’ streamlined reconnaigdsance car, who will be in Grass Valley and Nevada City tomorrow to interview women for services in the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. The group will be at the city hall, Chamber of ‘Commerce rooms, in Nevada City from 9 a. m. to noon, and will return to Grass Valley to participate in a Main and Mill street rally with the cooperation of the Grass Valley High School band at 12, noon. The recruiting mission will be available at the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce rooms from 2 to 5 p. m. for those desiring to know more of enlistment and service in the. Waacs. GOVERNOR T0 CALL ELECTION IN 2ND DISTRICT Governor Earl Warren announce yesterday he will call a special election to fill the house of representatives vacaney in the second dis-. L. Englebright, Nevada City, and. pseid he will decide on the date within the next few. days. The governor asked Attorney General Robert W. Kenny of the election question. The candidates will have to run,as independents, qualiying for the ballot by petition: Governor "Warren aid he feels (California cannot afford to allow so large an area as the second congressional district including eighteen mountain counties, to go without a representative in the house until the end of 1944, when the Englebright term expires. CANNING SUGAR AVAILABLE NOW Sugar stamps for home canning purposes: Sugar Stamps 15 and 16 jin War Ration Book 1 are good for five pounds of sugar each effective May 24 for home canning purposes only. Blue stamps G, H and J for pur¢hase of processed foods are good through June 7. J, K and L_ Blue Stamps become effective May 24 and are valid until July 1. Under amendment 21 to General Ration Order 5, effective on: May 21 a Group Ill institutional ‘user such as a large summer camp, hotel, restaurant, club, or similar establishment, is eligible to receive a supplemental allotment if he can show an estimated 10 per cent increase in business. Previously, an institutional user had to show an estimated increase of 20 per cent to qualify for a supplemental allotment. Applications for such allotments are made to local war price and rationing boards under Section 11.3 of General Ration Order 5. FOUR NEVADA COUNTY CITIZENS IN JAP CAMPS The War Department has announced more names of American civilians interned by the Japanese in the Philippine Islands. The list included the following from California: (Names of the emergency addresses are listed and their relationship to the internees where available.) W. L. Carter—George R. Carter. brother, Nevada City. J. L. Fleming—Mrs. J. L. Flem(Continued on Page Two) ing, wife, 140 Boulder Street, Nevada City. trict of the late Congressman Harry . to prepare, . him a memorandum on legal aspects) Rev. P. : ‘O'Reilly To Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon The Baccalaureate sermon will ~ delivered Sunday evening at eight o’clock in the court of the Nevad City High School by the Rev. O’Reilly. Invocation and benediction will be pronounced by Rev. Cedric Porter and Rev. David Ralston respectively. Rotary to Bid Farewell to Soldiers Friday The Nevada City Rotary Club will be in charge of the farewell accorded a group of 12 men who leave for service in the armed forces tomorrow morning. This is the only group of service men. to leave the county during May. Memorial Services For Three Congressmen WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.— The house will pay formal tribute in a memorial service today to three of its deceased members, Frank Henry Buck and Harry L. Englebright of California and Philip Allen Bennett of Missouri. Buck died September 17, 1942; Englebright May 13, 1943 and Bennett December 7, 1942. Smoke From Camp . Beale Grass Burning Smoke is rolling over ‘Nevada County but it is not due to _ fires here. At Camp Beale the army authorities are burning off the grass which formerly was pastured pretty close to the ground by this time of Tracer bullets fired in dry the year. practice recently set fires in officials here, iately detailed to burn off areas that presented a fire hazard. . ‘Contract Let in Grass . Valley for Youth Center . The Grass Valley City Council ‘has awarded the contract for renovating and remodeling the Phillips building on Main street to adapt it to the uses of a youth recreation center. The council has taken a two year lease of the building. The Grass Valley fire department has given the contractor, Fred Strang, assistance in hosing down the walls, ceilings and floors of the lation of dust, cobwebs and debris. Soldier of Grass Valley Held by Japs The War Department announced today an additional . list of were not stated. Private Mrs. clude: Fay mother, ley. Tri-County esceumet ill. Speak ai W Civic Club . Mrs. C.-.W. DeCatur, the ic Federation . of digrass, and, according to forest service . soldiers were immed-. building, washing out an accumuWASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.— United States soldiers as prisoners of war. The list named 16: Californians interned by Japan and one by Italy. The locations of the prisoner camps The Californians held by Japan inA. (Perrow, Catherine C. Perrow, 426 Kate Hayes Street, Grass Valpresident of the U. S, ARMY DAILY : PUBLISHES POEM " BY NANCY JONES . Miss Nancy Jones, daughter of, Judge and Mrs.George L. Jones of! this city, serving in the Red Cross in London, recently had one of her poems published in the Stars and Stripes, a daily newspaper published for the U. S. armed forces in London. She wrote the poem just as a large contingent of American boys who came across the Atlantic were, because of physical disabilities about to ®e returned to their homes in this country without a chance to fighi. The poem entitled ‘‘Prayer’ was read by the author to the boys about to leave for home. It follows: . “Oh, God, make safe their voyage home— These men who came to fight and failed. Not theirs the glory of the fire and sword, The pride in danger faced and downed; But invalided out, perhaps because of lungs That could not stand the damp, or heart That proved itself -too weak, or mind That torn so far from home could not survive. No glory theirs. But God, the will to serve. The choice was not with them to stay or go. !Then bless them, hunted sea Protect them from the foe they have not fought. ‘Their need of You is great. God take them safely home.” NID ELECTION PROPOSITIONS WIN 10701 The two propositions submitted to the Nevada Irrigation District carried by a 10 to 1 vote in Tuesday’s election. The first proposition, whe‘ther or not to ratify the refunding modification plan, which carried with it approval of a new contract with the P. G: and E. Co., won by a vote of 333.to 34. The second. proposition, whether or not to issue new ‘bonds in the amount of $1,500,000, was carried by a vote of 3:28 to 37. William Durbrow, manager of the district, who took over the job many years ago, when the district was practically insolvent, was much gratified by the election results. He statthey had Lord, and on that ifornia now had a higher rating than the Nevada Irrigation district. He said that one step now remains and that is to secure the consent’ of holders of bonds up to 75 per cent of the total bonds outstanding. Already 80 per cent of the 75 per cent have given consent to the ed that no irrigation district in CalSEEKS ELECTION TOCONGRESS . Mrs. Grace Jackson Englebright yesterday announced her decision to run for congress, as candidate for) representative of the Second Con. gressional District to succeed to the . unexpired term of her late husband, Representative Harry lL. Englebright. Governor Earl Warren stated yes-. terda jin Sacramento that he would! call a special election in the Second Congressional District within the . next few days. He said that the Second District was too large to be without representation in Congress until the next general election. FOUR FREEDOMS ENDORSED BY PTA CONCLAVE . Pledging themselves to make the {four freedoms of the Atlantic Char-. . ter “the heritage of children every-! . where,” 500 members of the Third! District Congress of Parent-Teacher Association ended a two day confer-' ence here Wednesday. “We rededicate ourselves’’, a con: 3 . ; vention resolution declared ‘,‘to! those services which we hope will achieve a world freed from want, ' freed from fear, allow full freedom of speech and of worship.” The organzations, which is headed by iMrs. O. T. Illerich of Sacra-, mento as president, also adopted a resolution asking that “stringent measures be taken to safeguard the, youth in communities, training camps and defense areas from the evil ef-. fects of all forms of commercialized vice,’ and calling upon state and local government agencies to give “more effective enforcement of the liquor control laws.”’ On the manpower situation, ‘the congress. urged that present child labor laws be ‘zealously enforced’’ and that all possible sources of labor be exhausted before demands. are young children to join the labor forces. The first responsibility of a moth er of young children is their care, the delegates agreed, and such care ghould be given in the home. If employment is necessary for mothers, the convention declared, they should work hours which would cause the least possible disruption {to home life. Other resolutions favored: Adjustment of teachers’ salaries as a means of recruiting and maintaining qualified school personnel. Adoption-of post war plans to Brush Creek . Mine Potentially Rich Producer wae Peace Comes lie 27.—The Brush Creek ‘ent, miner, mucker, truck driver and . proved highly satisfactory. ably the richest producer in the Uni. but a number of extremely rich poe. kets have been found in Brush Creek j;and this made for youth or the mothers ot: Northern Women’s federated clubs will be the guest speaker at the May meeting of the Nevada City Woman’s Civic club in the grammar : ti school auditorium on tomorrow at on will consent. proposed change. He states there is no, doubt that owners of remaining bond holdings necessary to ratificaprovide educational for all young people. (Creation of a vocational . guidance and advisory service for young people. \ 2 o’clock. Reports will be given by the delegates from the Nevada City club who attended the state convention in Fresno last week. Important ‘business will be discussed and all members are urged to attend. Marine -Reservists . Wins Block Letters AUBURN, May 27.—Robert Vrohe man, Marine Corps Reservist at the Placer Junior College, was. awarded a Block P in track this week by the student council. Vroman, a resident of Rough and Ready, Nevada County was a member of the college half mile relay team, and took second in the open 220 yard junior college event at the Modesto Relays. He also competed in the Fresno Relays. According to present plans, he will report for duty. in the Marine ‘Corps Rice er. oy e T.M. Jordan—Mrs. T. M. Jor dan, wife, care of Lionel D. Hargis, RICE BOWL CONTRIBUTIONS TOTALS$1,100 Bowl See Edward Tinloy is chairman, announces that more has been contributed toward China Relief during this drive. amount $435 was collected in Grass Valley and the balance in Courtland, Isleton. Locke and other small communities along the Sacramento rivTinloy explained that Grass Valley (Chinese had always contributed to drives in which the Sacramento River about July,1, 1943. . Vroman is @/communities were interested and. ieve Kent, Mrs. Clyde Rush, Mrs. graduate of the Grass Valley High. tnat this year he had sent his two. Gerald Peard, Mrs. ChristianAnderSchool. assistants to seek their h@Ip in the. son, Mrs. Charles Anson, Mrs. Barl Rice Bowl drive of Nevada County. The two aids who made such an exa cellent showing are Grass Valley Eighth Graders Will Be Guests Approximately 100 graduates of the eighth grade of the James S. Henessy School of Grass Valley will entertain Friday evening, May 28, by the Grass Valley Elementary Parent Teachers Association in the school auditorium. Therewill be a variety of entertainment, including daneing, games, ‘contests, and instrumental and vocal music. Distinctive ribbons of the class colors of the eighth grade will be worn by both boys and girls of the class to designate their status, during the last week of school. The committee of the PTA in charge of the program consists of Mrs. Lionel Sandford, Miss Genevcommittee, of than $1,100 Of this Belding and Mrs. Gilbert Teniis. . Miss Aimee] Building. Preceding the ball will be a big parade through Grass Valley represents. streets beginning at 7 o’clock in the opportunities. ley, of the Tahoe National Duggleby, aunt, Box 823 Grass Val ley. ; Mother-Lode Ranch, Wolf Route . @heung and Arthur Y. Fong. Auburn. The money collected Ann Worthington — Mrs. A. F . sales of tickets to the Rice Bowl ball which will take place Saturday night . ,May 29th, im the Veterans Memorial evening. It is announced that men and+equipment from Camp Beale, = on DOWNIEVILLE (Sierra County) Mine, owned wh the Alpha Hardware and . cording to mining snatheens who have examined the property is one of the best prospects in Sierra Coun~ ty. Fred F. Cassidy, president of the company has immediate charge of operations. At present it is a one-stamp, one~ Man mine and about 100-tons of ore are milled monthly. But the property itself is one of the largest ‘in the county, running for three miles along a big ledge that yields gold values almost anywhere it is sampled. The one man, who is superintendmill man, is Lafayette (Bud) Hutton. Occasionally he has one assistant but even with this crew the mine shows a neat profit. The one stamp that bounces up and down energetcally to gas engine musie is the only one of its kind in the world. It was patented by Arthur B. Foote, former North Star superintendent of Grass Valley, and the ore .feeds through the. hollow center of the stamp. It does the work of four ordinary steel stamps, It is being tried out in the Brush Creek mine mill and thus far has Some engineers familiar with the Original Sixteen-to-Oione Mine at Alleghany, which for its size, is prob-ted States, predict that the Brush (Creek Mine, when peace comes and gold mining is resumed, will equal its record. There is no great similarity in the ores of the two mines, is a characteristic of the Alleghany mine. The most recent “find” was in the creek bed, where several pieces of quartz, interlaced with fine gold were taken out. The bulk of the ore yields $17 to $25 a ton. Some, years ago the former owners’ of Brush Creek exttacted $3,000,000 of ore in one rich’ chute. Prosperity,however, proved unfortunate. The owners fell out among themeslves, litigation followed, un+ til finally the Alpha Hardware and Supply Company reluctantly foreclosed in order to satisfy a bad debt, after waiting a year to give the litigants a chance at reconciliation. Hutton who extracts the _ ore, trucks it a mile and a. half down stream to the mill and keeps the stamp pounding out the ore, has lived for two years at, Goodyears Bar on the North Fork of the Yuba. River. The mine is only a mile from his home. In course of: the past two iy years he has sunk a shaft on the property, run in a tunnel to meet the ‘ shaft, and kept the mill running; on ore that has been extracted in the course of development work. He especially treasures one or two peces of “jewelry” rock from the mine that have been polished and made into gems, the gift of Fred F. Cassidy, president of the Alpha Hardware and Supply Company. Among others who have a jira belief in the future of the Brush Creek Mine is Ranger Frank Delan‘Forest, stationed at Downieville who is ener— getically promoting interest in Sierra (County‘ mineral and timber resourc-. es. ‘ Red Cross Gives Serientine Lessons in Grass. Valley Harold Houser, Red Cross swim-_ ming instructor, has opened classes ee in Grass Valley in Memorial Park pool for boy and girls in the last — three grades of elementary schools and students in the high school. As-— sisting Houser are Arthur Hooper, William George, Verna Greele and Maxine Sleeper. . During the period: of instru tion to school children the pool wi be open to the public, save to at stated periods, who are Red Cross. swimming lessons. will be one of the parade features.

> heal Pe . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’””-—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . This paper .gives your compl coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. % Vol. 17, No. 42. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA _The Gold Center THURSDAY. MAY 27. 1943. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. It is a sellers market nowadays. The buyer may as well become resigned to this condition and govern his’ temper, remember his manners, and conduct himself like a gentleman. Otherwise he will suffer mdignities, affronts, and contumely. An expectant passenger steps wp to a bus driver, and presents his ticket. There is something wrong with the ticket. The passenger begins an argument but doesn’t finish it. The driver does with, “Step aside please,” The passenger steps aside and watches the bus fill until both seats and standing room are gone. He approaches beligerently and says: “Getting tough with me, are yuh?”’ The driver gives him a casual glance, and says: ‘No arguments, please ‘.You can’t ride with me.” And he means it. The belligerent gentleman waits for the next bus. The bus company means it when it advises, the good public, through big advertisements, NOT to patronize the bus lines. The bus drivers ‘are captains of land going ships and they wont stand for nonsense. They can fill their coaches with pleasant and mannerly passengers, some sitting, others standing., If a passenger appears what the worse or liquor, the driver after a fleeting glance hands his ticket back to him with the remark. ‘You are too drunk to ride in my car.” The tipsy one de“But what'll I,do with this murs: ticket?’’ The driver replies ‘,“Take it back to the ticket office and cash it.’’ The driver chooses his passengers and those that are contentious are simply refused a ride. Good manners are always an asset and never more so than today when sellers do not have to sell to all comers because buyers are so many. In the big city markets women wait in line before the meat counter. As a customer approaches tie butcher shoves a piece of meat along the counter toward ther. She protests she doesn’t want that piece of meat but something else. The butcher carelessly tosses the meat aside, and asks her to step aside. She goes to the end of the que and waits for another opportunity or goes. to another market where the same little act is very likely to be staged, unless she changes her mind. Probably before the morning is gone she does just that. As for prices of food and other merchandise. It is much more polite, if the prices are higher than one can afford to pay, to say so quietly and buy something else, not what is wanted, but something that will fill the void .at less money. An air of humility ‘greatly helps the buyer. It is a kind of apypeasement to be sure but there is nothing that pays better dividinds. One must reflect ‘that sellers, generally speaking, for a good many years have been the underdog. They catered to the ‘buyer. Now they cannot get goods enough to supply all the buyers. Their Dusinesses’ are running shorthanded. Some who have not waited on customers in years, are doing it now, and unfortunately they yet it is something of a ‘come down.’ Their difficulties are great. It is a problem for many just to stay in business. And their tempers under these conditions are given a fine razor edge. Effusive welcomes are only for those customers who pay cash, or at least settle once a menth, in full and promptly. 4 It has been quite a shock to many a woman to find as she buys the various things for her household that she must, and she had better, cater to the seller. In the Jarger department stores the hauteur of clerks is something to see and remember. A woman asks for a pair of gloves of a color to match her dress. The clerk merely lifts 4 some_ RECRUITERS FOR WAACS AT CITY HALL FRIDAY Lieutenant Fay Chambers, WAAC recruiting officer, Auxiliaries Helen B. Young and Doroth Ropar; Staff Sergeant Graham Kislingbury and Sergeant Samuel O. ‘Snow of the United States Army, will comprise the WAAC “flying team’ traveling in a “silver bullet’’ streamlined reconnaigdsance car, who will be in Grass Valley and Nevada City tomorrow to interview women for services in the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. The group will be at the city hall, Chamber of ‘Commerce rooms, in Nevada City from 9 a. m. to noon, and will return to Grass Valley to participate in a Main and Mill street rally with the cooperation of the Grass Valley High School band at 12, noon. The recruiting mission will be available at the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce rooms from 2 to 5 p. m. for those desiring to know more of enlistment and service in the. Waacs. GOVERNOR T0 CALL ELECTION IN 2ND DISTRICT Governor Earl Warren announce yesterday he will call a special election to fill the house of representatives vacaney in the second dis-. L. Englebright, Nevada City, and. pseid he will decide on the date within the next few. days. The governor asked Attorney General Robert W. Kenny of the election question. The candidates will have to run,as independents, qualiying for the ballot by petition: Governor "Warren aid he feels (California cannot afford to allow so large an area as the second congressional district including eighteen mountain counties, to go without a representative in the house until the end of 1944, when the Englebright term expires. CANNING SUGAR AVAILABLE NOW Sugar stamps for home canning purposes: Sugar Stamps 15 and 16 jin War Ration Book 1 are good for five pounds of sugar each effective May 24 for home canning purposes only. Blue stamps G, H and J for pur¢hase of processed foods are good through June 7. J, K and L_ Blue Stamps become effective May 24 and are valid until July 1. Under amendment 21 to General Ration Order 5, effective on: May 21 a Group Ill institutional ‘user such as a large summer camp, hotel, restaurant, club, or similar establishment, is eligible to receive a supplemental allotment if he can show an estimated 10 per cent increase in business. Previously, an institutional user had to show an estimated increase of 20 per cent to qualify for a supplemental allotment. Applications for such allotments are made to local war price and rationing boards under Section 11.3 of General Ration Order 5. FOUR NEVADA COUNTY CITIZENS IN JAP CAMPS The War Department has announced more names of American civilians interned by the Japanese in the Philippine Islands. The list included the following from California: (Names of the emergency addresses are listed and their relationship to the internees where available.) W. L. Carter—George R. Carter. brother, Nevada City. J. L. Fleming—Mrs. J. L. Flem(Continued on Page Two) ing, wife, 140 Boulder Street, Nevada City. trict of the late Congressman Harry . to prepare, . him a memorandum on legal aspects) Rev. P. : ‘O'Reilly To Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon The Baccalaureate sermon will ~ delivered Sunday evening at eight o’clock in the court of the Nevad City High School by the Rev. O’Reilly. Invocation and benediction will be pronounced by Rev. Cedric Porter and Rev. David Ralston respectively. Rotary to Bid Farewell to Soldiers Friday The Nevada City Rotary Club will be in charge of the farewell accorded a group of 12 men who leave for service in the armed forces tomorrow morning. This is the only group of service men. to leave the county during May. Memorial Services For Three Congressmen WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.— The house will pay formal tribute in a memorial service today to three of its deceased members, Frank Henry Buck and Harry L. Englebright of California and Philip Allen Bennett of Missouri. Buck died September 17, 1942; Englebright May 13, 1943 and Bennett December 7, 1942. Smoke From Camp . Beale Grass Burning Smoke is rolling over ‘Nevada County but it is not due to _ fires here. At Camp Beale the army authorities are burning off the grass which formerly was pastured pretty close to the ground by this time of Tracer bullets fired in dry the year. practice recently set fires in officials here, iately detailed to burn off areas that presented a fire hazard. . ‘Contract Let in Grass . Valley for Youth Center . The Grass Valley City Council ‘has awarded the contract for renovating and remodeling the Phillips building on Main street to adapt it to the uses of a youth recreation center. The council has taken a two year lease of the building. The Grass Valley fire department has given the contractor, Fred Strang, assistance in hosing down the walls, ceilings and floors of the lation of dust, cobwebs and debris. Soldier of Grass Valley Held by Japs The War Department announced today an additional . list of were not stated. Private Mrs. clude: Fay mother, ley. Tri-County esceumet ill. Speak ai W Civic Club . Mrs. C.-.W. DeCatur, the ic Federation . of digrass, and, according to forest service . soldiers were immed-. building, washing out an accumuWASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.— United States soldiers as prisoners of war. The list named 16: Californians interned by Japan and one by Italy. The locations of the prisoner camps The Californians held by Japan inA. (Perrow, Catherine C. Perrow, 426 Kate Hayes Street, Grass Valpresident of the U. S, ARMY DAILY : PUBLISHES POEM " BY NANCY JONES . Miss Nancy Jones, daughter of, Judge and Mrs.George L. Jones of! this city, serving in the Red Cross in London, recently had one of her poems published in the Stars and Stripes, a daily newspaper published for the U. S. armed forces in London. She wrote the poem just as a large contingent of American boys who came across the Atlantic were, because of physical disabilities about to ®e returned to their homes in this country without a chance to fighi. The poem entitled ‘‘Prayer’ was read by the author to the boys about to leave for home. It follows: . “Oh, God, make safe their voyage home— These men who came to fight and failed.

Not theirs the glory of the fire and sword, The pride in danger faced and downed; But invalided out, perhaps because of lungs That could not stand the damp, or heart That proved itself -too weak, or mind That torn so far from home could not survive. No glory theirs. But God, the will to serve. The choice was not with them to stay or go. !Then bless them, hunted sea Protect them from the foe they have not fought. ‘Their need of You is great. God take them safely home.” NID ELECTION PROPOSITIONS WIN 10701 The two propositions submitted to the Nevada Irrigation District carried by a 10 to 1 vote in Tuesday’s election. The first proposition, whe‘ther or not to ratify the refunding modification plan, which carried with it approval of a new contract with the P. G: and E. Co., won by a vote of 333.to 34. The second. proposition, whether or not to issue new ‘bonds in the amount of $1,500,000, was carried by a vote of 3:28 to 37. William Durbrow, manager of the district, who took over the job many years ago, when the district was practically insolvent, was much gratified by the election results. He statthey had Lord, and on that ifornia now had a higher rating than the Nevada Irrigation district. He said that one step now remains and that is to secure the consent’ of holders of bonds up to 75 per cent of the total bonds outstanding. Already 80 per cent of the 75 per cent have given consent to the ed that no irrigation district in CalSEEKS ELECTION TOCONGRESS . Mrs. Grace Jackson Englebright yesterday announced her decision to run for congress, as candidate for) representative of the Second Con. gressional District to succeed to the . unexpired term of her late husband, Representative Harry lL. Englebright. Governor Earl Warren stated yes-. terda jin Sacramento that he would! call a special election in the Second Congressional District within the . next few days. He said that the Second District was too large to be without representation in Congress until the next general election. FOUR FREEDOMS ENDORSED BY PTA CONCLAVE . Pledging themselves to make the {four freedoms of the Atlantic Char-. . ter “the heritage of children every-! . where,” 500 members of the Third! District Congress of Parent-Teacher Association ended a two day confer-' ence here Wednesday. “We rededicate ourselves’’, a con: 3 . ; vention resolution declared ‘,‘to! those services which we hope will achieve a world freed from want, ' freed from fear, allow full freedom of speech and of worship.” The organzations, which is headed by iMrs. O. T. Illerich of Sacra-, mento as president, also adopted a resolution asking that “stringent measures be taken to safeguard the, youth in communities, training camps and defense areas from the evil ef-. fects of all forms of commercialized vice,’ and calling upon state and local government agencies to give “more effective enforcement of the liquor control laws.”’ On the manpower situation, ‘the congress. urged that present child labor laws be ‘zealously enforced’’ and that all possible sources of labor be exhausted before demands. are young children to join the labor forces. The first responsibility of a moth er of young children is their care, the delegates agreed, and such care ghould be given in the home. If employment is necessary for mothers, the convention declared, they should work hours which would cause the least possible disruption {to home life. Other resolutions favored: Adjustment of teachers’ salaries as a means of recruiting and maintaining qualified school personnel. Adoption-of post war plans to Brush Creek . Mine Potentially Rich Producer wae Peace Comes lie 27.—The Brush Creek ‘ent, miner, mucker, truck driver and . proved highly satisfactory. ably the richest producer in the Uni. but a number of extremely rich poe. kets have been found in Brush Creek j;and this made for youth or the mothers ot: Northern Women’s federated clubs will be the guest speaker at the May meeting of the Nevada City Woman’s Civic club in the grammar : ti school auditorium on tomorrow at on will consent. proposed change. He states there is no, doubt that owners of remaining bond holdings necessary to ratificaprovide educational for all young people. (Creation of a vocational . guidance and advisory service for young people. \ 2 o’clock. Reports will be given by the delegates from the Nevada City club who attended the state convention in Fresno last week. Important ‘business will be discussed and all members are urged to attend. Marine -Reservists . Wins Block Letters AUBURN, May 27.—Robert Vrohe man, Marine Corps Reservist at the Placer Junior College, was. awarded a Block P in track this week by the student council. Vroman, a resident of Rough and Ready, Nevada County was a member of the college half mile relay team, and took second in the open 220 yard junior college event at the Modesto Relays. He also competed in the Fresno Relays. According to present plans, he will report for duty. in the Marine ‘Corps Rice er. oy e T..M. Jordan—Mrs. T. M. Jor dan, wife, care of Lionel D. Hargis, RICE BOWL CONTRIBUTIONS TOTALS$1,100 Bowl See Edward Tinloy is chairman, announces that more has been contributed toward China Relief during this drive. amount $435 was collected in Grass Valley and the balance in Courtland, Isleton. Locke and other small communities along the Sacramento rivTinloy explained that Grass Valley (Chinese had always contributed to drives in which the Sacramento River about July,1, 1943. . Vroman is @/communities were interested and. ieve Kent, Mrs. Clyde Rush, Mrs. graduate of the Grass Valley High. tnat this year he had sent his two. Gerald Peard, Mrs. ChristianAnderSchool. assistants to seek their h@Ip in the. son, Mrs. Charles Anson, Mrs. Barl Rice Bowl drive of Nevada County. The two aids who made such an exa cellent showing are Grass Valley Eighth Graders Will Be Guests Approximately 100 graduates of the eighth grade of the James S. Henessy School of Grass Valley will entertain Friday evening, May 28, by the Grass Valley Elementary Parent Teachers Association in the school auditorium. Therewill be a variety of entertainment, including daneing, games, ‘contests, and instrumental and vocal music. Distinctive ribbons of the class colors of the eighth grade will be worn by both boys and girls of the class to designate their status, during the last week of school. The committee of the PTA in charge of the program consists of Mrs. Lionel Sandford, Miss Genevcommittee, of than $1,100 Of this Belding and Mrs. Gilbert Teniis. . Miss Aimee] Building. Preceding the ball will be a big parade through Grass Valley represents. streets beginning at 7 o’clock in the opportunities. ley, of the Tahoe National Duggleby, aunt, Box 823 Grass Val ley. ; Mother-Lode Ranch, Wolf Route . @heung and Arthur Y. Fong. Auburn. The money collected Ann Worthington — Mrs. A. F . sales of tickets to the Rice Bowl ball which will take place Saturday night . ,May 29th, im the Veterans Memorial evening. It is announced that men and+equipment from Camp Beale, = on DOWNIEVILLE (Sierra County) Mine, owned wh the Alpha Hardware and . cording to mining snatheens who have examined the property is one of the best prospects in Sierra Coun~ ty. Fred F. Cassidy, president of the company has immediate charge of operations. At present it is a one-stamp, one~ Man mine and about 100-tons of ore are milled monthly. But the property itself is one of the largest ‘in the county, running for three miles along a big ledge that yields gold values almost anywhere it is sampled. The one man, who is superintendmill man, is Lafayette (Bud) Hutton. Occasionally he has one assistant but even with this crew the mine shows a neat profit. The one stamp that bounces up and down energetcally to gas engine musie is the only one of its kind in the world. It was patented by Arthur B. Foote, former North Star superintendent of Grass Valley, and the ore .feeds through the. hollow center of the stamp. It does the work of four ordinary steel stamps, It is being tried out in the Brush Creek mine mill and thus far has Some engineers familiar with the Original Sixteen-to-Oione Mine at Alleghany, which for its size, is prob-ted States, predict that the Brush (Creek Mine, when peace comes and gold mining is resumed, will equal its record. There is no great similarity in the ores of the two mines, is a characteristic of the Alleghany mine. The most recent “find” was in the creek bed, where several pieces of quartz, interlaced with fine gold were taken out. The bulk of the ore yields $17 to $25 a ton. Some, years ago the former owners’ of Brush Creek exttacted $3,000,000 of ore in one rich’ chute. Prosperity,however, proved unfortunate. The owners fell out among themeslves, litigation followed, un+ til finally the Alpha Hardware and Supply Company reluctantly foreclosed in order to satisfy a bad debt, after waiting a year to give the litigants a chance at reconciliation. Hutton who extracts the _ ore, trucks it a mile and a. half down stream to the mill and keeps the stamp pounding out the ore, has lived for two years at, Goodyears Bar on the North Fork of the Yuba. River. The mine is only a mile from his home. In course of: the past two iy years he has sunk a shaft on the property, run in a tunnel to meet the ‘ shaft, and kept the mill running; on ore that has been extracted in the course of development work. He especially treasures one or two peces of “jewelry” rock from the mine that have been polished and made into gems, the gift of Fred F. Cassidy, president of the Alpha Hardware and Supply Company. Among others who have a jira belief in the future of the Brush Creek Mine is Ranger Frank Delan‘Forest, stationed at Downieville who is ener— getically promoting interest in Sierra (County‘ mineral and timber resourc-. es. ‘ Red Cross Gives Serientine Lessons in Grass. Valley Harold Houser, Red Cross swim-_ ming instructor, has opened classes ee in Grass Valley in Memorial Park pool for boy and girls in the last — three grades of elementary schools and students in the high school. As-— sisting Houser are Arthur Hooper, William George, Verna Greele and Maxine Sleeper. . During the period: of instru tion to school children the pool wi be open to the public, save to at stated periods, who are Red Cross. swimming lessons. will be one of the parade features.