May 31, 1940 (6 pages)

() Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City N ugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton. from the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists —Alexander HamilSince this is the season of Comall we take mencements in kinds of schools, grades and this occasion to offer in lieu of the writer’s own thoughts in this those of John E. Brown of University, upon education. column, Brown's the subject of Dr. Brown states clearly and succiently the problems, ‘not only of youth’s future in t he United States, but the problem of the nation itself. We give the in full because we _ belie worth thinking about. his address, ‘‘Startling Fac they are startling. says: address ve it is He heads ts’’ and Here is what he By JOHN E. BROWN The American population is tapering off, and for years the best "blood of the nation has bee out. n dying America has 1,600,000 féwer children today under ten years of age than five years ago, and the ‘sad fact is that this dying tion is found amongst the populabest families of the nation. One of our leading periodicals, warns according to cold-blooded tics, higher education is race annihilation. America ting up twice as us that statisspelling is putmuch dog food today as baby food, and in one apartment house to my knowledge ‘where there are 178 couple are 17 children and 148 s, there dogs. Fourteen million women are on the payrolls of the nation. with millions of men out o Since 1930, f work, 2,740,000 women have been plac‘ed on the payroll of the Six million girls today ha nation. ve jobs ‘that boys once had and are working for a half to two-thirds the wages boys once got. Nearl million young men of able age are not married a y seven marriagend cannot marry because they cannot getwork to support themselves, much less a family. Millions of men are nét marrying and rearing families, because th not been trained to work a lions of girls are not marry young are not ey have nd miling and not becoming mothers because they have work. America could easily support a population of 500,000,000 people, and that her population is tapering off and her best blood is dying out is chargeable to the fact that with a school program costing ten billion do puild, $2,500,000,000 a yea erate, and with 1,500,000 llars to r to optrained workers, we are taking thirty million children and young people to train them for a world th not exist or only in heartache and trage According to a survey r it was estimated that completed, in 1935 we had in the States 1,50,000 major crim the average was nineteen years! crime in America The today at does a world that exists dy. ecently United es, and age of the criminal cost of reaches the staggering total of somewhere between fifteen lions of dollars a year. In t and eighteen his survey the discovery was made that none of these young criminals had had ever been taught a trade. In a world of specialization and an age of industry, cent of our population m where eighty-five perust be trained out to and up to motherhood ‘and home-making and the aristrocracy, of constructive labor, it was estimated two that only two’ girls out of dred were definitely train year s ago a huning for the highest office to which God ever called a human—that of building 4 home and peretpuating the race—and that not mo re than three men out of a hundred were training out to skilled The average age of the cal the bricklayer, past fifty; the plumber, past fifty; the mechanic past fifty. With milis past fift years; lions of young men in the lines or headed that way, ly across the nation industry. rpenter breadliteralindustry is ealling for millions of young men with trained hands, and those young.men cannot be found. Not alone is it true that mill jobs are available today fo ed hands, but jobs create ions of r trainjobs; and when once young women train to be mothers again and young people are started once toward the high goal for which God o them, then they will begin ing again and _ building rdained marryhomes again and start rearing children again. We can raise all the we want to raise for relief, billions but this nation will never be placed on the highway of prosperity and permanency until we get back to the fundamental, essential, and potential agencies that made America great. The schools are, not wholly to blame for the tragic state to which America has plunged. For twenty five years the the last average (Continued on Page Two) it The sr Seat Paper Val 14. Wo. eS _NEVADA CITY, CALIF vdieo The Gold Conte ee FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940. PETITIONS TOBE CIRCULATED HERE TO IMPROVE ROAD Petitions are being circulated in Grass Valley, and probably will be circulated in Nevada City shortly, requesting the Nevada County Board of Supervisors appropriate $1,600. to improve the road into Bowman Lake recreational area. The petition states the federal government and the local private and cooperative organizations interested in the improve-: ment of the Bowman Lake road have instigated, organized and formulated a project for the improvement of the road and the $1,600 is needed from the. supervisors to complete proper financing of the project. The petition sets forth the Works Progress Administration and the Nevada Irrigation District have jointly offered labor, equipment and materials valued at $10,500; the Nevada Irrigation District has offered additional labor, equipment and materials valued att $1,180; ‘the United States forest service has offered equipment, materials, supervisory costs and services valued at $2,465; the Placer county board of supervisors has given assurance of financial aid to the extent of $1,000; the local representative of the Pacific Gas and Electric company has indicated . in writing that his organization will contribute their proportionate share; and the two local sportsmen’s clubs, The Grass Valley Rifle, Rod and Gun Club and ithe Sportsmen’s club of Grass Valley have offered $100 each. Proponents of the plan to improve the road claim it is.vital. for the proper commercial and recreational development of that portion of Nevada county between Bear Valley and Jackson Meadows. SEN. JOHNSON OPENS CAMPAIGN IN THIS COUNTY Hiram W. Johnson’s campaign for re-election to the United States Senate got under way this week in Nevada County. Testimonial committees .for the veteran senator were announced in ‘all counties north of the Tehachapi. . “These testimonial committes show, the widespread non-partisan support that exists for Senator Johnson,’’ declared Robert E. (‘Girvin, San Francisco, campaign manager for Northern and Central. California. “We intend to have active working . organizations in every county in the state.’’ Senator Johnson announced several months ago he would seek both the Republican and Democratic nominations at the August.27 primaries. Nevada testimonial * committee members are: Paul Ullrich, Chicago Park; Thomas Barrett, T. W. Benallack, Ralph Deeble, Elton Williams, all of Grass Valley; Dave Cabona, Walter Barrett Truckee. . county MOTHERS OF SCOUTS TO GIVE FOOD SALE AT ALPHA STORE morning, the this On this Saturday mothers of the boy scouts of ‘. city will hold a cooking sale for the benefti of Camp Pahatsi. The mothers have banded together to put on this cooking sale for the benefit of their sons in the Nevada City troops. The proceeds will be used to buy utensils for the kitchen at the camp. The present implements are in very bad condition, and the need for a renewal of the kitchen ware is one that can be understood by anyone who has been up at the camp recently. The sale is to include the usual tasty variety of food sale dishes, with each mother cooking her own speciality. The townspeople are invited to support this worthy cause. At the same ‘time, they will be able to benefit from the usual advantage . of buying tasty, read-cooked goodies and dishes at the usual prices. > MERCHANDISE EXCHANGE REOPENS The Merchandise Exchange is reopened at 210 Main street. Furniture, hand tools and household goods will be bought, sold or traded. A stock of new household merchandise will also be offered. WINS HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP Robert Mitchell. hi high school junwhich was completed at the Nevada} : ior, won the boy's tennis tournament . City high school on Monday. A group . of the high school boys entered in the inter-class competition over a several month period and Mitchell won highest scores. The [Nevada City tennis team entered the county championships at Grass Valley and Mitchell was the only local boy to win the semi-finals but the other boys made good showings. Rialph Smith trained the players. The winners of the high school tournament are as follows: Bob Mitchell. Kirk Martin, Leroy Leonard, Hal Draper, Jr., Jack Neal, Donald Odgers, Robert Carr, John McCarthy, Bob Bonner, Bob Morrison, Gene (Marshall and Paul Snyder. ATTENDANCE IN SCHOOLS DOUBLES IN SEVEN YEARS There were 466 “children in average attendance reported for the Nevada City Unified elementar school district last. vear, 1938-39, while in 1931-32 there were 242 children in average attendance, according tn state apportionment reports, says California Taxpayers’ association. Of the 466 in attendance in 1938-39, 9 are from a district not in the union in 1931-32. The average daily attendance figures locally contrast with the downward trend of public school enrollments in the state, the association declared, First grade enrollments :n California public schools have declined almost steadily since the peak first grade enrollment of 142,385 in 1927-28—-when the large post-war crop of babies born.in 1921 entered the first grade, the association said. This large class of children, as they progressed through the school system, have swelled total day school enrollments throughout the decade just completed and in 1938-39 made up the largest twelfth grade, enroilment, 68,937 in the history of the state. However, despite the large increases in population in the state which have occurred, enrollments in the first grade have declined until ‘n 1938-39 there were only 112,021 children ‘enrolled in the first grade —30,000 fewer children than there were in 1927-28. The 131,543 children who entered the first grade in 1931-32, together with those of school age who were added to school enrollments because of migration into the state, resulted in the 97,880 enrolled in the eighth grade, in 1938-39. In 1932-33 there were 121,179 children enrolled in the first grade in California’s public schools; these children resulted in the 96,394 children in the seventh grade in 1938-39 and will progress to an estimated 95,665 enrollment in the eighth grade in the current year and to a 76,220 enrollment in the twelfth grade in 1943-44. Tine association’s forecast of enrollment assumes the same rate of total population growth during the next six years as prevailed in the preceding six years. { Declines in. school enrollments, the association stated, reflect the de~ clining birth rate over. the United States a's a whole. They are not primarily related to the depression or the war in Europe; they started in 1922. PEACE OFFICERS TO DINE. DANCE The Nevada and Sierra County Peace Officers Association will meet this evening at the Log Cabin Inn on the Marysville road. This will be a dinner dance event. with Charles Rich, secret service operative, giving a talk on counterfeit money, illustrated by a moving picture. This afternoon at 2 o’clock, the Sacramento Rifle and Pistol club, will hold a shoot on the new range of the peace officers association just outside the city limits. To Tour East— : Miss. Bettsy Bennett, student at Dominican college in San Rafael, left Monday on a trip through the east-and southern United States. She will travel through parts of Canada also. a J . RED CROSS TO RAISE FUNDS IN FLAG DAY DRIVE Ways and means of collecting Nevada City’s quota of $400 assigned to it by the Red Cross were discussed by members of the local chapter Wednesday evening, and it was decided to make a house-to-house canvas on Flag Day, June 14, on which day all citnzens will be urged to display the national colors. -~ A committee to take charge of. the campaign was appointed as. follows: Carroll Coughlin, Mrs. Elza Kilroy, Mrs. E, ©. Uren, Mrs. Arnold Jackson, Mr. R. R. Goyne, Mrs.: M. E. Jones, Mrs. Don Billick and Miss Phyllis Horn. Directors of the Nevada City chapter are members ex-officio of ‘the committee, and.all are expected to attend the meeting of the chapter next Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock in-the-National Hotel. PINE GROVE CEMETERY GRAVES DECORATED Coroner A. M. Holmes had four men employed for several days ‘this week in his annual cleanup of Pine Grove cemetery. Vacant lots and the few neglected graves wee cleared of weeds and bushes and placed in neat shape for the Memorial services. SENIORS HONOR MRS. FLEWELLEN The Nevada City hi high school seniors affectionately honored Mrs. Eva Flewellen, retiring vice principal, as their advisor, teacher and _ dear friend, in their thirty seventh Quill which has just been published. The Quill was dedicated to Mrs. Flewellen. The work on the 1940 edition of The Quill, except for photographs and ‘binding, was done by the students. It is a mimeograph form, filied with pictures of class and student activitiies. (Commencement exercises have been set for Friday, June 7, at the high school auditorium. ‘The ban“duet for the graduates will be held Wednesday, June 5 and the Baccalaureate sermon will be preached on Sunda afternoon at 2:30, June 2, with Rev. Thomas Pateman speaking. TRAFFIC OFFICER MAY RECOVER FROM INJURIES Traffic Officer lores Richards, who was critically injured last Sunday when he had an accident with his motorcycle near Smartyille, is showing decided improvement. He is still in Jones Memorial hospital. One or two of the highway patrol officers were permitted to visit him Wednesday and he was able to read newspapers during the afternoon. SIERRA PLUMAS ASSN. WILL HOLD REUNION The Sierra-Plumas Association ‘are holding their thirtieth reunion June 9. at the Golden Gate International Exposition. Headquarters will be in the Alta California building and exercises. will be conducted in the ballroom of the California building on Treasure Island. Officials of the organization, all former Sierra County residents are B. O’Rourke, president; Mrs. C. Meroux, vice president; John (Masson, treasurer; Miss Marie Latreille, secretary. FUNERAL SERVICE FOR LATE MRS. PHILLIPS Largely attended funeral services were held Wednesday for the late (Mrs. Louise Phillips, wife of Edgar Phillips in the Holmes Funeral Home chapel. Rev. David Ralston conducted the services. Pall bearers were ‘Fred Evely, Walter Rashleigh, Claude Ryan, Al Herring, Chester Clemo and Malcolm Andrews. Interment was made in Pine Grove cemetery. Holiday at Lava Cap Mine— The miners at the Lava Cap mine southeast of Nevada City enjoyed a holiday over. Memorial Day, ae COURT OF HONOR FOR SCOUT CUBS This evening at 7:30 o’clock the final Cub Scout Court of Honor will be held at ‘Pioneers . Park play ground. An Indian ceremonial will precede the court and a large number of Cubs will have their rank conferred on them for the coming year. All parents are urged ‘to attend this meeting so they may see the important work carried out by the Cub Scouts. It is requested the. boys get to the park at 7:15 o’clock or before the court opens. ASSEMBLY SEAT SOUGHT AGAIN BY PUBLISHER Assemblyman Allan G. (Scoop) Thurman, mewspaper publisher of Colfax, filed his nomination papers Wednesday the first day of filing, on both Democrat and Republican tickets, for reelection. Thurman’s district emlbraces ten counties in Northern California, including Nevada County. The nomination papers were filed in Placer county,: Thurman’s home county, Thurman has won an enviable record in his first term of office, battling fearlessly for what he felt was right. He has consistently opposed the Olson administration in its efforts to spend millions on relief and has been a member of the assembly bloc lined up against radicalism in the state government. The assemblyman has the backing of almost all interests in his district except the Ham and Eggs interests and Workers Alliance. Thurman stated Wednesday that the Olson administration may attempt to secure opposition to him in this district in an effort to purge him from the assembly ranks. RED CROSS SWIMMING TEACHER HERE JULY 8 Cc. E. Turner, who conducted the Red Cross swimming campaign at the municipal pool last season with such suecess. will be here this season from July 8 and the following fortnight for this annual event. Mr. Turner accomplished a great deal .n the way of teaching children and several adults to swim last year, and many parents are looking forward with pleasure to another two weeks of instruction for their children. ARMORY HALL RAZING NEARS COMPLETION Rev. Bob Carrington and members of his church tore down. the small building owned by the city next to Hings Grocery Store yesterday. The old Armory Hall building flooring is being removed and in a short time the lot will be clear of lumber an4 debris. The .lumber is being stored temporarily on the lot belonging to the Trevethick family just back of the Miners Foundry. When a lot suitable for a church has been found members of Bethel Church will erect a building for their own use. MANY AT GRADUATION IN DOMINICAN CONVENT Miss Catherine Tognarelli graduated from Dominican Convent at San Rafael Tuesda, May 28 and sixteen relatives and friends attended the impressive services. The graduates wore sprays of bouvardia in their hair and’ were dressed in plain tan costumes. They carried hand bouquets of gardenias, white sveet peas and light blue delphiniums. After the service Miss Tognarelli wore orchids. She received many gifts and flowers. ‘Those attending the graduation exercises were Father P. O'Reilly, Mrs. George Fortier, Mrs. Dave Richards, Mrs. Frank Chapman, Mrs. Alaria, Mrs. Ellen Ramsey, Mrs. Gene Barberi and daughter, and. niece, Miss Ida Pratti, Marlin Young, all of Nevada City; Mr. and Mrs. Bacci Ratto and son, Lawrence, of Ben Lomond. Soldier Dead Honored On Memorial Day Banner Mountain Post, V. F. W. and Auxiliary Hague-Thomas-Hegarty ‘Post, of the American Legion and Auxiliary, Grass Valley and Nevada City high school bands and Nevada City elementary and high school students participated in an impressive parade in Nevada City yesterday despite showery weather. The parade started in front of the Methodist church went down Broad street to the Plaza, out Main streét and turned into Commercial going’ as far as Pine and thence out this strret to the high school instead of Pine Grove cemetery. Rev. Thomas Pateman of the Episcopal church spoke feelingly on our country and the adulence. which nearly filled the auditorium enjoyed this splendid talk. After the exercises in.the high school the veterans and auxiliary members went to Pine Grove cemetery and conducted rites for the dead comrades. Commander Howard Bennetts and Mrs. Minnie Young, president of the auxiliary, from. Banner Mountain Post, taking prominent parts in this work. Several members of the auxiliary assisted in placing a marker on the grave of Mrs. White, auxiliary member from the state of INevada, The marker was sent here for the service. The group went to the Catholic cemetery where Mrs. Young and assistants rendered services over the grave of Thomas Hegarty. The elementary and high school children carried bouquets of flowers which were taken to. the graves of soldier dead as it was too stormy for them to go to the cemetery. Many members who made the trip to the cemeteries were thoroughly soaked with rain which came down rather heavily after the services were well under way. ‘ In observance of Memorial Day all business houses, banks, post office, county offices and schogls were closed yesterday. The schools will remain closed until Monday. For several days many persons have been cleaning and decorating the graves of loved ones in Pine Grove, Odd ‘Fellows and Catholic cemeteries in preparation for Memorial Day. Yesterday throngs came from far and near to place flowers on the graves, and also to visit relatives and friends in Nevada City. The cemeteries are a beautiful sight with the great profusion of flowers on the graves, WALTER HALLETT IS LIFE GUARD At a special meeting of Pioneers Park commission Tuesday evening Walter Hallett was named life guard for the swimming pool for the summer season. Hallett listed in his qualifications that he had passed life saving and other Red Cross and first aid tests. His wife will assist him at the pool. Other applicants were Allan D. Dorsey, Irvin Anderson, Howard Carey, Grass Valley; Robert Schmidt. and. Verle Gray; Neveda City. Chairman Tony Rore, of the park commission, announces that -he opening of the swimming pool has been postponed to June 8 due to the stormy weather. NEW BRUNSWICK MINE HAS NEW MACHINERY New Brunswick mine on the IdahoMaryland property. near Grass Valley, a new surface plant is being built to replace the old one. The machinery for the mine began arriving last week and a portion of it consists of two hoists, one a 60 horse powsr double drum and the other 480 single-drum. A new headframe and compressor house will also be built. The mill at the New Brunswick has been treatng about 1,000 tons of ore per month. i Dead Rattler Wriggles— A ‘good sized’ rattlesnake, with head and rattlés gone, but still wiggling was found on the Plaza shortly after the Memorial Day. parade passed along yesteerday. Graves Decorated— (Miss Elizabeth Richards and sister, Mary, of San Francisco, visited in Nevada City Thursday and decorated graves of loved ones. in local —. teries.

() Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City N ugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton. from the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists —Alexander HamilSince this is the season of Comall we take mencements in kinds of schools, grades and this occasion to offer in lieu of the writer’s own thoughts in this those of John E. Brown of University, upon education. column, Brown's the subject of Dr. Brown states clearly and succiently the problems, ‘not only of youth’s future in t he United States, but the problem of the nation itself. We give the in full because we _ belie worth thinking about. his address, ‘‘Startling Fac they are startling. says: address ve it is He heads ts’’ and Here is what he By JOHN E. BROWN The American population is tapering off, and for years the best "blood of the nation has bee out. n dying America has 1,600,000 féwer children today under ten years of age than five years ago, and the ‘sad fact is that this dying tion is found amongst the populabest families of the nation. One of our leading periodicals, warns according to cold-blooded tics, higher education is race annihilation. America ting up twice as us that statisspelling is putmuch dog food today as baby food, and in one apartment house to my knowledge ‘where there are 178 couple are 17 children and 148 s, there dogs. Fourteen million women are on the payrolls of the nation. with millions of men out o Since 1930, f work, 2,740,000 women have been plac‘ed on the payroll of the Six million girls today ha nation. ve jobs ‘that boys once had and are working for a half to two-thirds the wages boys once got. Nearl million young men of able age are not married a y seven marriagend cannot marry because they cannot getwork to support themselves, much less a family. Millions of men are nét marrying and rearing families, because th not been trained to work a lions of girls are not marry young are not ey have nd miling and not becoming mothers because they have work. America could easily support a population of 500,000,000 people, and that her population is tapering off and her best blood is dying out is chargeable to the fact that with a school program costing ten billion do puild, $2,500,000,000 a yea erate, and with 1,500,000 llars to r to optrained workers, we are taking thirty million children and young people to train them for a world th not exist or only in heartache and trage According to a survey r it was estimated that completed, in 1935 we had in the States 1,50,000 major crim the average was nineteen years! crime in America The today at does a world that exists dy. ecently United es, and age of the criminal cost of reaches the staggering total of somewhere between fifteen lions of dollars a year. In t and eighteen his survey the discovery was made that none of these young criminals had had ever been taught a trade. In a world of specialization and an age of industry, cent of our population m where eighty-five perust be trained out to and up to motherhood ‘and home-making and the aristrocracy, of constructive labor, it was estimated two that only two’ girls out of dred were definitely train year s ago a huning for the highest office to which God ever called a human—that of building 4 home and peretpuating the race—and that not mo re than three men out of a hundred were training out to skilled The average age of the cal the bricklayer, past fifty; the plumber, past fifty; the mechanic past fifty. With milis past fift years; lions of young men in the lines or headed that way, ly across the nation industry. rpenter breadliteralindustry is ealling for millions of young men with trained hands, and those young.men cannot be found. Not alone is it true that mill jobs are available today fo ed hands, but jobs create ions of r trainjobs; and when once young women train to be mothers again and young people are started once toward the high goal for which God o them, then they will begin ing again and _ building rdained marryhomes again and start rearing children again. We can raise all the we want to raise for relief, billions but this nation will never be placed on the highway of prosperity and permanency until we get back to the fundamental, essential, and potential agencies that made America great. The schools are, not wholly to blame for the tragic state to which America has plunged. For twenty five years the the last average (Continued on Page Two) it The sr Seat Paper Val 14. Wo. eS _NEVADA CITY, CALIF vdieo The Gold Conte ee FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940. PETITIONS TOBE CIRCULATED HERE TO IMPROVE ROAD Petitions are being circulated in Grass Valley, and probably will be circulated in Nevada City shortly, requesting the Nevada County Board of Supervisors appropriate $1,600. to improve the road into Bowman Lake recreational area. The petition states the federal government and the local private and cooperative organizations interested in the improve-: ment of the Bowman Lake road have instigated, organized and formulated a project for the improvement of the road and the $1,600 is needed from the. supervisors to complete proper financing of the project. The petition sets forth the Works Progress Administration and the Nevada Irrigation District have jointly offered labor, equipment and materials valued at $10,500; the Nevada Irrigation District has offered additional labor, equipment and materials valued att $1,180; ‘the United States forest service has offered equipment, materials, supervisory costs and services valued at $2,465; the Placer county board of supervisors has given assurance of financial aid to the extent of $1,000; the local representative of the Pacific Gas and Electric company has indicated . in writing that his organization will contribute their proportionate share; and the two local sportsmen’s clubs, The Grass Valley Rifle, Rod and Gun Club and ithe Sportsmen’s club of Grass Valley have offered $100 each. Proponents of the plan to improve the road claim it is.vital. for the proper commercial and recreational development of that portion of Nevada county between Bear Valley and Jackson Meadows. SEN. JOHNSON OPENS CAMPAIGN IN THIS COUNTY Hiram W. Johnson’s campaign for re-election to the United States Senate got under way this week in Nevada County. Testimonial committees .for the veteran senator were announced in ‘all counties north of the Tehachapi. . “These testimonial committes show, the widespread non-partisan support that exists for Senator Johnson,’’ declared Robert E. (‘Girvin, San Francisco, campaign manager for Northern and Central. California. “We intend to have active working . organizations in every county in the state.’’ Senator Johnson announced several months ago he would seek both the Republican and Democratic nominations at the August.27 primaries. Nevada testimonial * committee members are: Paul Ullrich, Chicago Park; Thomas Barrett, T. W. Benallack, Ralph Deeble, Elton Williams, all of Grass Valley; Dave Cabona, Walter Barrett Truckee. . county MOTHERS OF SCOUTS TO GIVE FOOD SALE AT ALPHA STORE morning, the this On this Saturday mothers of the boy scouts of ‘. city will hold a cooking sale for the benefti of Camp Pahatsi. The mothers have banded together to put on this cooking sale for the benefit of their sons in the Nevada City troops. The proceeds will be used to buy utensils for the kitchen at the camp. The present implements are in very bad condition, and the need for a renewal of the kitchen ware is one that can be understood by anyone who has been up at the camp recently. The sale is to include the usual tasty variety of food sale dishes, with each mother cooking her own speciality. The townspeople are invited to support this worthy cause. At the same ‘time, they will be able to benefit from the usual advantage . of buying tasty, read-cooked goodies and dishes at the usual prices. > MERCHANDISE EXCHANGE REOPENS The Merchandise Exchange is reopened at 210 Main street. Furniture, hand tools and household goods will be bought, sold or traded. A stock of new household merchandise will also be offered. WINS HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP Robert Mitchell. hi high school junwhich was completed at the Nevada} : ior, won the boy's tennis tournament . City high school on Monday. A group . of the high school boys entered in the inter-class competition over a several month period and Mitchell won highest scores. The [Nevada City tennis team entered the county championships at Grass Valley and Mitchell was the only local boy to win the semi-finals but the other boys made good showings. Rialph Smith trained the players. The winners of the high school tournament are as follows: Bob Mitchell. Kirk Martin, Leroy Leonard, Hal Draper, Jr., Jack Neal, Donald Odgers, Robert Carr, John McCarthy, Bob Bonner, Bob Morrison, Gene (Marshall and Paul Snyder. ATTENDANCE IN SCHOOLS DOUBLES IN SEVEN YEARS There were 466 “children in average attendance reported for the Nevada City Unified elementar school district last. vear, 1938-39, while in 1931-32 there were 242 children in average attendance, according tn state apportionment reports, says California Taxpayers’ association. Of the 466 in attendance in 1938-39, 9 are from a district not in the union in 1931-32. The average daily attendance figures locally contrast with the downward trend of public school enrollments in the state, the association declared, First grade enrollments :n California public schools have declined almost steadily since the peak first grade enrollment of 142,385 in 1927-28—-when the large post-war crop of babies born.in 1921 entered

the first grade, the association said. This large class of children, as they progressed through the school system, have swelled total day school enrollments throughout the decade just completed and in 1938-39 made up the largest twelfth grade, enroilment, 68,937 in the history of the state. However, despite the large increases in population in the state which have occurred, enrollments in the first grade have declined until ‘n 1938-39 there were only 112,021 children ‘enrolled in the first grade —30,000 fewer children than there were in 1927-28. The 131,543 children who entered the first grade in 1931-32, together with those of school age who were added to school enrollments because of migration into the state, resulted in the 97,880 enrolled in the eighth grade, in 1938-39. In 1932-33 there were 121,179 children enrolled in the first grade in California’s public schools; these children resulted in the 96,394 children in the seventh grade in 1938-39 and will progress to an estimated 95,665 enrollment in the eighth grade in the current year and to a 76,220 enrollment in the twelfth grade in 1943-44. Tine association’s forecast of enrollment assumes the same rate of total population growth during the next six years as prevailed in the preceding six years. { Declines in. school enrollments, the association stated, reflect the de~ clining birth rate over. the United States a's a whole. They are not primarily related to the depression or the war in Europe; they started in 1922. PEACE OFFICERS TO DINE. DANCE The Nevada and Sierra County Peace Officers Association will meet this evening at the Log Cabin Inn on the Marysville road. This will be a dinner dance event. with Charles Rich, secret service operative, giving a talk on counterfeit money, illustrated by a moving picture. This afternoon at 2 o’clock, the Sacramento Rifle and Pistol club, will hold a shoot on the new range of the peace officers association just outside the city limits. To Tour East— : Miss. Bettsy Bennett, student at Dominican college in San Rafael, left Monday on a trip through the east-and southern United States. She will travel through parts of Canada also. a J . RED CROSS TO RAISE FUNDS IN FLAG DAY DRIVE Ways and means of collecting Nevada City’s quota of $400 assigned to it by the Red Cross were discussed by members of the local chapter Wednesday evening, and it was decided to make a house-to-house canvas on Flag Day, June 14, on which day all citnzens will be urged to display the national colors. -~ A committee to take charge of. the campaign was appointed as. follows: Carroll Coughlin, Mrs. Elza Kilroy, Mrs. E, ©. Uren, Mrs. Arnold Jackson, Mr. R. R. Goyne, Mrs.: M. E. Jones, Mrs. Don Billick and Miss Phyllis Horn. Directors of the Nevada City chapter are members ex-officio of ‘the committee, and.all are expected to attend the meeting of the chapter next Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock in-the-National Hotel. PINE GROVE CEMETERY GRAVES DECORATED Coroner A. M. Holmes had four men employed for several days ‘this week in his annual cleanup of Pine Grove cemetery. Vacant lots and the few neglected graves wee cleared of weeds and bushes and placed in neat shape for the Memorial services. SENIORS HONOR MRS. FLEWELLEN The Nevada City hi high school seniors affectionately honored Mrs. Eva Flewellen, retiring vice principal, as their advisor, teacher and _ dear friend, in their thirty seventh Quill which has just been published. The Quill was dedicated to Mrs. Flewellen. The work on the 1940 edition of The Quill, except for photographs and ‘binding, was done by the students. It is a mimeograph form, filied with pictures of class and student activitiies. (Commencement exercises have been set for Friday, June 7, at the high school auditorium. ‘The ban“duet for the graduates will be held Wednesday, June 5 and the Baccalaureate sermon will be preached on Sunda afternoon at 2:30, June 2, with Rev. Thomas Pateman speaking. TRAFFIC OFFICER MAY RECOVER FROM INJURIES Traffic Officer lores Richards, who was critically injured last Sunday when he had an accident with his motorcycle near Smartyille, is showing decided improvement. He is still in Jones Memorial hospital. One or two of the highway patrol officers were permitted to visit him Wednesday and he was able to read newspapers during the afternoon. SIERRA PLUMAS ASSN. WILL HOLD REUNION The Sierra-Plumas Association ‘are holding their thirtieth reunion June 9. at the Golden Gate International Exposition. Headquarters will be in the Alta California building and exercises. will be conducted in the ballroom of the California building on Treasure Island. Officials of the organization, all former Sierra County residents are B. O’Rourke, president; Mrs. C. Meroux, vice president; John (Masson, treasurer; Miss Marie Latreille, secretary. FUNERAL SERVICE FOR LATE MRS. PHILLIPS Largely attended funeral services were held Wednesday for the late (Mrs. Louise Phillips, wife of Edgar Phillips in the Holmes Funeral Home chapel. Rev. David Ralston conducted the services. Pall bearers were ‘Fred Evely, Walter Rashleigh, Claude Ryan, Al Herring, Chester Clemo and Malcolm Andrews. Interment was made in Pine Grove cemetery. Holiday at Lava Cap Mine— The miners at the Lava Cap mine southeast of Nevada City enjoyed a holiday over. Memorial Day, ae COURT OF HONOR FOR SCOUT CUBS This evening at 7:30 o’clock the final Cub Scout Court of Honor will be held at ‘Pioneers . Park play ground. An Indian ceremonial will precede the court and a large number of Cubs will have their rank conferred on them for the coming year. All parents are urged ‘to attend this meeting so they may see the important work carried out by the Cub Scouts. It is requested the. boys get to the park at 7:15 o’clock or before the court opens. ASSEMBLY SEAT SOUGHT AGAIN BY PUBLISHER Assemblyman Allan G. (Scoop) Thurman, mewspaper publisher of Colfax, filed his nomination papers Wednesday the first day of filing, on both Democrat and Republican tickets, for reelection. Thurman’s district emlbraces ten counties in Northern California, including Nevada County. The nomination papers were filed in Placer county,: Thurman’s home county, Thurman has won an enviable record in his first term of office, battling fearlessly for what he felt was right. He has consistently opposed the Olson administration in its efforts to spend millions on relief and has been a member of the assembly bloc lined up against radicalism in the state government. The assemblyman has the backing of almost all interests in his district except the Ham and Eggs interests and Workers Alliance. Thurman stated Wednesday that the Olson administration may attempt to secure opposition to him in this district in an effort to purge him from the assembly ranks. RED CROSS SWIMMING TEACHER HERE JULY 8 Cc. E. Turner, who conducted the Red Cross swimming campaign at the municipal pool last season with such suecess. will be here this season from July 8 and the following fortnight for this annual event. Mr. Turner accomplished a great deal .n the way of teaching children and several adults to swim last year, and many parents are looking forward with pleasure to another two weeks of instruction for their children. ARMORY HALL RAZING NEARS COMPLETION Rev. Bob Carrington and members of his church tore down. the small building owned by the city next to Hings Grocery Store yesterday. The old Armory Hall building flooring is being removed and in a short time the lot will be clear of lumber an4 debris. The .lumber is being stored temporarily on the lot belonging to the Trevethick family just back of the Miners Foundry. When a lot suitable for a church has been found members of Bethel Church will erect a building for their own use. MANY AT GRADUATION IN DOMINICAN CONVENT Miss Catherine Tognarelli graduated from Dominican Convent at San Rafael Tuesda, May 28 and sixteen relatives and friends attended the impressive services. The graduates wore sprays of bouvardia in their hair and’ were dressed in plain tan costumes. They carried hand bouquets of gardenias, white sveet peas and light blue delphiniums. After the service Miss Tognarelli wore orchids. She received many gifts and flowers. ‘Those attending the graduation exercises were Father P. O'Reilly, Mrs. George Fortier, Mrs. Dave Richards, Mrs. Frank Chapman, Mrs. Alaria, Mrs. Ellen Ramsey, Mrs. Gene Barberi and daughter, and. niece, Miss Ida Pratti, Marlin Young, all of Nevada City; Mr. and Mrs. Bacci Ratto and son, Lawrence, of Ben Lomond. Soldier Dead Honored On Memorial Day Banner Mountain Post, V. F. W. and Auxiliary Hague-Thomas-Hegarty ‘Post, of the American Legion and Auxiliary, Grass Valley and Nevada City high school bands and Nevada City elementary and high school students participated in an impressive parade in Nevada City yesterday despite showery weather. The parade started in front of the Methodist church went down Broad street to the Plaza, out Main streét and turned into Commercial going’ as far as Pine and thence out this strret to the high school instead of Pine Grove cemetery. Rev. Thomas Pateman of the Episcopal church spoke feelingly on our country and the adulence. which nearly filled the auditorium enjoyed this splendid talk. After the exercises in..the high school the veterans and auxiliary members went to Pine Grove cemetery and conducted rites for the dead comrades. Commander Howard Bennetts and Mrs. Minnie Young, president of the auxiliary, from. Banner Mountain Post, taking prominent parts in this work. Several members of the auxiliary assisted in placing a marker on the grave of Mrs. White, auxiliary member from the state of INevada, The marker was sent here for the service. The group went to the Catholic cemetery where Mrs. Young and assistants rendered services over the grave of Thomas Hegarty. The elementary and high school children carried bouquets of flowers which were taken to. the graves of soldier dead as it was too stormy for them to go to the cemetery. Many members who made the trip to the cemeteries were thoroughly soaked with rain which came down rather heavily after the services were well under way. ‘ In observance of Memorial Day all business houses, banks, post office, county offices and schogls were closed yesterday. The schools will remain closed until Monday. For several days many persons have been cleaning and decorating the graves of loved ones in Pine Grove, Odd ‘Fellows and Catholic cemeteries in preparation for Memorial Day. Yesterday throngs came from far and near to place flowers on the graves, and also to visit relatives and friends in Nevada City. The cemeteries are a beautiful sight with the great profusion of flowers on the graves, WALTER HALLETT IS LIFE GUARD At a special meeting of Pioneers Park commission Tuesday evening Walter Hallett was named life guard for the swimming pool for the summer season. Hallett listed in his qualifications that he had passed life saving and other Red Cross and first aid tests. His wife will assist him at the pool. Other applicants were Allan D. Dorsey, Irvin Anderson, Howard Carey, Grass Valley; Robert Schmidt. and. Verle Gray; Neveda City. Chairman Tony Rore, of the park commission, announces that -he opening of the swimming pool has been postponed to June 8 due to the stormy weather. NEW BRUNSWICK MINE HAS NEW MACHINERY New Brunswick mine on the IdahoMaryland property. near Grass Valley, a new surface plant is being built to replace the old one. The machinery for the mine began arriving last week and a portion of it consists of two hoists, one a 60 horse powsr double drum and the other 480 single-drum. A new headframe and compressor house will also be built. The mill at the New Brunswick has been treatng about 1,000 tons of ore per month. i Dead Rattler Wriggles— A ‘good sized’ rattlesnake, with head and rattlés gone, but still wiggling was found on the Plaza shortly after the Memorial Day. parade passed along yesteerday. Graves Decorated— (Miss Elizabeth Richards and sister, Mary, of San Francisco, visited in Nevada City Thursday and decorated graves of loved ones. in local —. teries.