May 6, 1940 (4 pages)

Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIF ORNIA gget g From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The~ Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for. justifiable ends. ton. —Alexander Hamil-~ : finally follows may find. us only cape the rigors of a still greater If the World war brought to nearly all nations one of the greatest depressions of modern time, what will this war, which may soon be known as the Universal War. bring to the nations? For jthis war already involves as many active belligerents as were in the . last war, and threatens the neutrals far more seriously and fundamentally. To the Western hemisphere-and--especially to the Uni‘ted States, we are like a —house between two other houses, both-of which are on fire. We must guard our peace both in the Atlantic and the Pacific. Our trade domain in both oceans is being blown up and consumed by the fires of war. What kind of an aftermath will there be, as compared with the one in.the 1920s? Any answer must, of course be highly speculative. If we escape participation in war either in the Atlantic or Pacific the peace that the richest man in the world’s poor house, A world impoverished by war, though in extreme need, will have nothing wherewith to use for money. There must needs be a season, perhaps many years, of readjustment, while the energies now directed to war are turned into industrial channels, a healing, not so much of the human wounds, the horrible hatreds that war engenders for generations to come, but the physical repairs to factories, the rehabilitation of peacetime occupations, the manufacture of good and the resumption of commerce. Provided always that the United States by something short of a miracle does escape active participation in,either war, it is conceivable, using our hindsight on. the last war and recognizing with a broader vision than usually endows our political leaders, futtre world needs, that we may -esdépression, that=most of us shudder to contemplate. There are eighteen billion dollars worth of gold, approximately, locked up in Fort Knox and other Federal strong boxes, which no economist or financier has’ the presumption to claim is of any actual use to us: A great deal. of credit may be engendered by that much gold if judiciously lent to nations that have béen bankrupted, materially and spiritually, by war. As long as that gold. lies locked up in vaults it will never do anybody any. good. By landing that gold and re-establishing the industries and agriculture of the nations, both neutrals and former belligerents at war’s end, we will give them the immediate power to buy from us, and our activity in supplying nations close to the borders of starvation, will rebuild . our own economy,.so that we may, ! as recovery of war stricken nations gains ground, be able to buy more and more from them. As a matter of fact’ it would probably be unnecessary to ship abroad even half our gold store. Before this war is over we confidently predict this country will be extending credits to the Allies both for food and munitions. When the war is ended, we will know this time, that we cannot collect these loans in money, or at least and considerable part of them. Just as we did with Germany, after the Versailles peace, so again will we be called upon to advance credits to nations on both sides that have been prostrated by war’s devastation, when peace comes again. The ugly aftermath of. war Is famine, pestilence, and, worst of all, a generation whose childhood has been starved, and. whose mentalities have been cruelly distorted. These grow up into a stunted and half effective manhood and womanhood. To save itself from — the disaster of another depression, if unmoved by any consideration of humanity, of Christian concept, at end of this war, the United States must. be the Good Samaritan. To fill this role, than which there is none finer or nobler, thé United States must remain at peace, By that we do not mean that ‘we shall not aid the Allies by every means short of war to final victory. Our government is doing that now, and will continue to offer them substantial assistance, regardless of which party wins at the polls in November. But it is our profound conviction that our national goal should be, to so conserve our wealth, our energies, our productive facilities, and, probably most important, our sane and practical outlook on life, that we Vol. 14, No. 37. The ee Seat Paper OO NEVADA ea CALIFORNIA, _ The Geld Center ~ MONDAY, MAY 6. 1940. SIERRA FLOOD SUIT HEARINGS END SATURDAY The three day hearing to determine whether or not the State of California can be held liable for the damage caused by the big flood in Downieville in 1937 came to a conclusion Saturday before Referee J. R. Welch of the State Board of Control. The flood carried away the new State bridge across the north fork of the Yuba river at the western end of Downieville. Homes were flooded, damaged and destroyed. State Attorney C. R. Montgomery and State Engineer R. R. Rowe appeared for the state and. Joseph R° Gross, Sacramento engineer, and Ross Taylor of Downieville represented the residents of the Sierra county town. It is the contention of the state that there was no negligence in the construction of the big bridge that backed up the flood waters in that the flood was an unprecedented one, which under ordinary conditions could not have been anticipated. Testimony was given by people of the town regarding the flow of water and what they saw the day’of the flood. Expert testimony was also given by the engineers. No specific claims for damages were presented at the hearing. Those according to ‘the referee, will-be a matter for future consideration, if the Board of Control, after reading the evidence presented, should decide there was negligence in the building of the bridge. If that should be affirmatively decided then evidence of the damage will be taken, and the amount thereof determined. ALPHA STORES TO SPONSOR WELDING, CUTTING EXHIBITION Alpha Stores, Ltd., announced tast week that there will be a welding and cutting demonstration next Wednesday night. May 8 at 8 o’clock p. m, in the Service Garage building, corner of Pine and Spring streets, Nevada City. H. W. Saunders, manager of the Air Reduction Sales Company of Oakland, will be in charge and will be assisted by. Walter Graham, Wilson Electric Welder specialist, and . C. E. Grant, manager of the Acetylene Welding Department. Alpha Stores of this city and Grass Valley are distributors for Air Reduction actelylene and oxygen, weld-_ ing apparatus and also for Wilson Electric Welders. This demonstration will appeal to all local mechanics and. welders as the Air Redu@tion Company has spent thousands of dollars in the development of the latest methods in welding and will have many interesting new processes and short-cuts in welding ‘with aceteylene and also with the electric .arc. ABSENTEE BALLOTS HAD NO EFFECT ON SCHOOL ELECTIONS Absentee baliela numbering 11, counted Saturday, -did not alter the results of the election of members to the ‘Board of Education of the Nevada City Unified School District. The votes were distributed as follows: ~ DYANOr: eo a ees 2 od ee Se Pk eset ne ere 8 MeCraney 3 7 PANG WAN 2.2 as 10 SONGE: 6 4 MOURA yr ee. 1 Bell McCraney and Finnegan were chosen by the electors to serve on the board. Picnic at Chico— A group of Nevada City people enjoyed a motor _trip-andpicnic to Chico Sunday where Mr. and Mrs. Jack Carney, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Martin and Glen Cleland. They saw the Hooker oak in Bidwell’s park considered the largest in California. may the more efficiently lead in the healing and rehabilitation of . mutilated and destitute peoples. As has so often been said, with very little done about it, we must first place our house in order. It is imperative need, if our help abroad, when the time comes, is to be effective. Sue CREWS. MOVE SNOW. FROM UPPER ROADS The local state division of highways had to send out crews to.move snow off the highways in the upper eountry last. Friday night. The usual rule is to disconnects snow plows from their equipment May 1. One plow remained at Downieville:and it was sent to the Yuba Pass district where there was six inches of new snow. The plow was also taken over the summit to clear a short strip of highway in the other district as the plows were disconnected. Three inches of snow fell in the vicinity of Steep Hollow on the .Tahoe Ukiah highway and logs were rigged up to machinery to clear the road, PIONEERS DANCE AT FAREWELL TO ARMORY AFFAIR In a short address at Armory. Hall Saturday evening James F. Dolan, retired pioneer telephone man, stated he came to Nevada City on a three month’s foreman job. with his company thirty eight years ago and has been here ever since. He is a native of San Francisco and has traveled all over the United States but stated he had never seen any place he liked better than Nevada City and he intended to spend the rest of his life here. He danced several dances remaining until among the last. Christian Petersen, who came to Nevada City fifty eight years ago from Denmark, stated he had danced in the old Armory Hall fifty four years ago. He enjoyed two dances with Mrs. Belle Douglass, esteemed pioneer who gave a splendid sketch of the history of the hall. . Mr. and Mrs. John Eden, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steger, Sr., pioneer residents of Nevada City enjoyed the farewell program and were among the first to step out to dance the waltz, “Over the Waves’? popular dance tune.of 40 years ago. a? STANFORD HONORS NEVADA CITY LAD STANFORD UNIVERSITY, May 6 —wWilliam N. Snell, of Nevada City, is one of four Stanford Law School seniors who have been elected to the Order of the Coif, legal honor society, it was announced _ today. Only the highest ten per cent of the graduating class are admtited to the order, which represents the highest honor to which law students may aspire. Elected with “Snell were Harold H. Fulkerson, Ukiah; Francis Price, Santa Barbara, and William D. Mitchell, Salt ake City. SALMON SALVAGE PLAN CONSIDERED BY GOVERNMENT SACRAMENTO, May 6.—(UP)— A resettlement project for salmon to be cut off from their natural spawning grounds by the completion of Shasta Dam was proposed today by the U. S. department of the interior. The bureau of fisheries and the bureau of reclamation conducted a two year survey of plans for salvaging the salmon run of the Sacramento-San Joaquin river systems, valued at $300,000 a year. The report of the investigation concluded that installation of fish ladders—which are being) successfully operated at Bonnieville dam on the Columbia river—would be impracticical because of the far greater height of Shasta dam. Salvaging the salmon by tranfer to other stregms or by hatchery operations, rather than passing them over the dam, was advanced as the best solution. Financed by the bureau of recClamation. which is directing the construction of Shasta dam, located on the Sacramento river 12° miles above Redding, the survey was carried on under the supervision of the Stanford University office of the bureau of fisheries with the California division of fish and game cooperating. Trout Limits— ‘ Ed Berger and Frank Ghidotti returned yesterday afternoon with two limits of fine trout all measuring twelve to fourteen inches each. This is the second limit for Ghidotti since May 1. Dick Lane also reports two limits, MRS, COUGHLAN LAID TO REST THIS MORNING Funeral services-for the late Mrs. Lena Maud Coughlan were held this . morning at 10 a. m. at the family residence on Silva street followed, by a solemn mass at 10:30 at St.! Canice Catholie church, conducted . by the Rev. Father O’Reilly. Inte ment was in the family plot on Wes t} Broad street under auspices of Laurel Parlor No. 6 . D. G.W. She died Saturday morning in a local hospital as the result of an acute attack of appendicitis. An emergency operation was performed a week ago and it was found her ap. pendix had burst, resulting in peritOnitis. She was the youngest daughter cf the late Mr;, and Mrs. Antone Silva, pioneer residents of Nevada City, born near the present Coughlan residence in this city on January 14, 1868. She attended the local schools and graduated from the Nevada City high school with the class of 1886. . She was married on June 11, 1893 to William S. Coughlan. To. this union was born one daughter and three sons. Surviving her are her husband, William SCoughlan, and the following children: Darrell Coughlan, Alameda; Mrs. Clarence H. King and Lorrin (Ted) Coughlan, San Francisco; and George Coughlan, Auburn. Mrs. Mary Ogden, Nevada City; Mrs. Margaret LaFerrera, Alameda and Mrs. Sara McClure, Oakland, are surviving sisters, GOLD EXHIBIT ATFAIR BETTER THAN LAST YEAR _It glitters and it’s gold! Two hundred -thousand dollars worth of the precious metal will be on display on Treasure Island. Closely guarded behind steel bars and heavily insured, it will be exhibited in the Sacramento-Tahoe Region Building of the State-Counties Group, according to Robert England, superintendent of the building. The gold represents—valuable exhibits loaned by various counties represented in the building, and -by individuals and commercial institutions. Included are many rare and unusual specimens of wire gold, the high grade ore and nuggets. Some of the specimens were exhibited last year but many more have been added, according to England, greatly augmenting both the beauty and value of the display. “Central exhibit in this building is a scale model of Lake Tahoe built on a basis of 10 inches to a_ mile. This exhibit is dramatically lighted by a central skylight in the form of a giant wagon wheel, symbolical of the early covered wagon. Innovation this year will be a constant exhibition of fruits and vegetable products in season, which will be ket fresh by means of refrigeration. END SESSION The board of supervisors ended its May session Saturday with an all-day meeting in which propositions submitted to them in the last three days were considered. On the board’s agenda were proposals for a county library, a country farm adviser and a request for $250 for trout planting in the Truckee river. TO RAZE ARMORY Mr, Younger of. the Younger Bros. firm, arrived in Nevada City today and is making plans for tearing down Armory Hall for the Purity Stores firm -which purchased the property some time ago. FINED $100 L. E. Tucker was arrested on Pine street by Officer Lin Davies yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock on a drunken driving charge and locked up in the city jail. He appeared be-}. fore City Judge Miles Coughlin this forenoon and was fined $100. Recovers From Illness— Mrs, Jessie Costa, who was in the (Nevada City Sanitarium several days last week ,has returned to her home ‘on Wet Hill, where she its slowly re. covering. With the passing of the old Acmory 4 Armory ‘Mrs. Belle Douglass Outlines History Of Famed Old Landmark Hall, Nevada City will lose one ‘or its few remaining historic structures—a monument to the brave women . Our community, Mrs. doomed landmark. N. C. BASEBALL TEAM IN NEED OF GOOD FIELD Nevada City’s baseball team played Rocklin at Cashin’s Field south of Nevada City’s southern limit yesterday the local team losing to Rocklin by a 19 to 11 score. Pitcher Live: say was in four innings and left the game in the fourth inning with Nevada City leading by a 11 to 8 score. but Rocklin hit Stintson for 16 runs. There was very few errors by either team and Nevada City knocked two Rocklin pitchers out of the box in the first inning. Next Sunday Nevada City’s team plays Forest Hill at Nevada City the ‘team they defeated recently in a practice game by six to seven. Alex McKenzie, junior college pitcher, will be with Nevada City at Cashin Field next Sunday. McKenzie pitched a school game and won by a score of one to nothing in San Francisco last Saturday. Nevada (City’s lineup is as follows: Younman, 1-B; Brown, R. F.; Bloomquist, 2-B.; Costa, C. F.; Franz, C. Gibson and Robbins, L. F.; Sullivan -3,-B.; Livesay and Stintsor, pitchers, Will Clark is captain of the Nevada City team and is enthusiastic about his fine team’ which he feels will make a splendid showing in the league this season. In an interview with the captain of the Nevada City team, Will Clark, it was found that the local team is lost without a suitable baseball diamond and fear is expressed if they do not secure a suitable site in the cit they will have to cancel their games with the league. In previous years every ball gamie in this part of the county was held in Grass Valley as Nevada City ‘had no suitable diamond. In 1935 Paul Piscevich, a Lava Cap pitcher, was Playing with the Grass Valley Miners-and-the Braves. Another pitcher, Jack Kennedy, was the with Braves. “Males” White played with Colfax, Fred Schroeder and Barney Ruggles employed by Ernest Schreiber, always played with Grass Valley. When Grass Valley can supply two good diamonds surely Nevada City can supply one. Nevada City high school plays at Cashin Field outside the city limits. Why not get together and do a little something for Nevada City. SCOTTS FLAT SRA __ WORKER HELD FOR CCC TRUCK THEFT Loyde Maxson. SR/ SRA worker from Seotts Flat dam, is in the Nevada City jail facing charges of drunk driving, and automobile-theft—after he had assertedly stolen :a CCC truck Saturday night, according to the police department. Maxson was arrested “ officer Lionel Davies only a few minutes after he had ‘been notified by the California Highway Patrol at Hills Flat that the truck was missing. He apprehended Maxson on Sacramento street near the depot, The truck was stolen from the Kilpatric parking lot in Grass Valley shortly before 10 p. m. CCC enrollees reported they saw a man prowling around the truck and when they returned, the truck was missing. They checked with the CCC ported out, notified the California Highway Patrol. The broadcast resulted in recovery of the-truck less than a half hour later. Feeling Better—George Casci, who has spent the ‘past two months near Colfax for his health returned to his home on Cottage street today. He is about. the business district greeting his many friends and _feeling much better. — ee: and pioneer men of an earlier generation who supplied the foundation for Belle Douglass, has written the following sketch outlining the colorful esteemed historian of Nevada City, history , of the The date 1863 which has until now adorned the front of this , building was not date of the building but date of the organization of the Nevada Light Guard. Prior to 1870 there were some small shacks on the site of this prop. erty one of which housed the Military Company. The land was owned by James Munro who had a butcher shop across the street. About 1870 a skating rink was in full swing at Temperance Hall which was a three story building about where the Corticello property is. Skating had such a hold on the community that the hall could not accommodate the sport loving citizens and a group of men consisting of Dr. R. M. Hunt, Attorney A. C. Niles, M. L. & D. Marsh Company and G. M. Hughes decided to build a larger more commodious room, éither to provide amusement for the younger generation or to amass a fortune from the craze. George F. Jacobs furnished the money for skates and Birdseye Bullard managed the enterprise. Mr. Bullard, whom our older citizens will fondly recall was a_ graceful skater and held the rollers for many years, opening a rink whenever the camp—and—when the truck was re-. craze struck town, which was period-. ical as in all sports, George’ E. Turner took a long lease on the basement for a pipe shop and maintained a tar vat in the rear yard which was a bane to the neighbors but quite necessary for a mining community and a business that, sold large hydraulic pipe. Oftimes the hot tar would cause a. fire and the department would be called out, to combat the blaze. Mothers were fearful of the safety of their children who delighted in walking in the tar when in the cooling stage. Mrs. Brand often told of the antics of her young son Herman, who dressed in his white Sunday suit had a wonderful time in the tar vat in his trek home accumulated so much dirt on his stocky shoes that the weight of his feet prevented unseen entrance to his home and the services of the entire household were called into action to remove the evidence of a days-pleasure. Young Men’s Social club on May 4, 1870 by a fine ball with admission charge of $2.50. The dance floor was managed by W. P. Evans, C. H. Mallen, A. W. Lester, A.-R. Lord, W.-W. Cross and lL. P. Dorsey. According to newspaper reports it was a select af. fair. Members of the Young Mens Social Club were the. high social lights of the day. Accounts of the event stated that if the young men were to grow old, get married or do any other queer act they would be pardoned by the: atonement of this occasion. However as one of the rules forbade marriage the club was criticized for leading men into temptation by encouraging the presence of so many charming ladies lavishly attired in the latest fashions. At the close of the dedication the rink was opened in proper order by the introduction of Miss Carrie Moore, champion lady skater of Am-. erica. for a three day attraction. Miss Moore was attired in a short searlet skirt with blue over blouse trimmed in ermine and wore a turban to match. She handled the rollers so skillfully that she seemed to tread on air. The price of skating was set at 50 cents for gents and 25 cents for ladies, in the evening but a limit was placed on the time allotted as there were not enough skates to go around. “be seated and: skates removed for the next customer. Many bought their own skates if financially able ‘and their admission was reduced to half price. There were season rates of $7 for gentlmen and $4 for ladies with a 40 cent admission, Ed Moore, later Nevada City Enemy No. 1 was considered the finest gentleman skater and Miss Me tie The building was dedicated by the ——-—__— When the whistle blew all had to .

Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIF ORNIA gget g From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The~ Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for. justifiable ends. ton. —Alexander Hamil-~ : finally follows may find. us only cape the rigors of a still greater If the World war brought to nearly all nations one of the greatest depressions of modern time, what will this war, which may soon be known as the Universal War. bring to the nations? For jthis war already involves as many active belligerents as were in the . last war, and threatens the neutrals far more seriously and fundamentally. To the Western hemisphere-and--especially to the Uni‘ted States, we are like a —house between two other houses, both-of which are on fire. We must guard our peace both in the Atlantic and the Pacific. Our trade domain in both oceans is being blown up and consumed by the fires of war. What kind of an aftermath will there be, as compared with the one in.the 1920s? Any answer must, of course be highly speculative. If we escape participation in war either in the Atlantic or Pacific the peace that the richest man in the world’s poor house, A world impoverished by war, though in extreme need, will have nothing wherewith to use for money. There must needs be a season, perhaps many years, of readjustment, while the energies now directed to war are turned into industrial channels, a healing, not so much of the human wounds, the horrible hatreds that war engenders for generations to come, but the physical repairs to factories, the rehabilitation of peacetime occupations, the manufacture of good and the resumption of commerce. Provided always that the United States by something short of a miracle does escape active participation in,either war, it is conceivable, using our hindsight on. the last war and recognizing with a broader vision than usually endows our political leaders, futtre world needs, that we may -esdépression, that=most of us shudder to contemplate. There are eighteen billion dollars worth of gold, approximately, locked up in Fort Knox and other Federal strong boxes, which no economist or financier has’ the presumption to claim is of any actual use to us: A great deal. of credit may be engendered by that much gold if judiciously lent to nations that have béen bankrupted, materially and spiritually, by war. As long as that gold. lies locked up in vaults it will never do anybody any. good. By landing that gold and re-establishing the industries and agriculture of the nations, both neutrals and former belligerents at war’s end, we will give them the immediate power to buy from us, and our activity in supplying nations close to the borders of starvation, will rebuild . our own economy,.so that we may, ! as recovery of war stricken nations gains ground, be able to buy more and more from them. As a matter of fact’ it would probably be unnecessary to ship abroad even half our gold store. Before this war is over we confidently predict this country will be extending credits to the Allies both for food and munitions. When the war is ended, we will know this time, that we cannot collect these loans in money, or at least and considerable part of them. Just as we did with Germany, after the Versailles peace, so again will we be called upon to advance credits to nations on both sides that have been prostrated by war’s devastation, when peace comes again. The ugly aftermath of. war Is famine, pestilence, and, worst of all, a generation whose childhood has been starved, and. whose mentalities have been cruelly distorted. These grow up into a stunted and half effective manhood and womanhood. To save itself from — the disaster of another depression, if unmoved by any consideration of humanity, of Christian concept, at end of this war, the United States must. be the Good Samaritan. To fill this role, than which there is none finer or nobler, thé United States must remain at peace, By that we do not mean that ‘we shall not aid the Allies by every means short of war to final victory. Our government is doing that now, and will continue to offer them substantial assistance, regardless of which party wins at the polls in November. But it is our profound conviction that our national goal should be, to so conserve our wealth, our energies, our productive facilities, and, probably most important, our sane and practical outlook on life, that we Vol. 14, No. 37. The ee Seat Paper OO NEVADA ea CALIFORNIA, _ The Geld Center ~ MONDAY, MAY 6. 1940. SIERRA FLOOD SUIT HEARINGS END SATURDAY The three day hearing to determine whether or not the State of California can be held liable for the damage caused by the big flood in Downieville in 1937 came to a conclusion Saturday before Referee J. R. Welch of the State Board of Control. The flood carried away the new State bridge across the north fork of the Yuba river at the western end of Downieville. Homes were flooded, damaged and destroyed. State Attorney C. R. Montgomery and State Engineer R. R. Rowe appeared for the state and. Joseph R° Gross, Sacramento engineer, and Ross Taylor of Downieville represented the residents of the Sierra county town. It is the contention of the state that there was no negligence in the construction of the big bridge that backed up the flood waters in that the flood was an unprecedented one, which under ordinary conditions could not have been anticipated. Testimony was given by people of the town regarding the flow of water and what they saw the day’of the flood. Expert testimony was also given by the engineers. No specific claims for damages were presented at the hearing. Those according to ‘the referee, will-be a matter for future consideration, if the Board of Control, after reading the evidence presented, should decide there was negligence in the building of the bridge. If that should be affirmatively decided then evidence of the damage will be taken, and the amount thereof determined. ALPHA STORES TO SPONSOR WELDING, CUTTING EXHIBITION Alpha Stores, Ltd., announced tast week that there will be a welding and cutting demonstration next Wednesday night. May 8 at 8 o’clock p. m, in the Service Garage building, corner of Pine and Spring streets, Nevada City. H. W. Saunders, manager of the Air Reduction Sales Company of Oakland, will be in charge and will be assisted by. Walter Graham, Wilson Electric Welder specialist, and . C. E. Grant, manager of the Acetylene Welding Department. Alpha Stores of this city and Grass Valley are distributors for Air Reduction actelylene and oxygen, weld-_ ing apparatus and also for Wilson Electric Welders. This demonstration will appeal to all local mechanics and. welders as the Air Redu@tion Company has spent thousands of dollars in the development of the latest methods in welding and will have many interesting new processes and short-cuts in welding ‘with aceteylene and also with the electric .arc. ABSENTEE BALLOTS HAD NO EFFECT ON SCHOOL ELECTIONS Absentee baliela numbering 11, counted Saturday, -did not alter the results of the election of members to the ‘Board of Education of the Nevada City Unified School District. The votes were distributed as follows: ~ DYANOr: eo a ees 2 od ee Se Pk eset ne ere 8 MeCraney 3 7 PANG WAN 2.2 as 10 SONGE: 6 4 MOURA yr ee. 1 Bell McCraney and Finnegan were chosen by the electors to serve on the board. Picnic at Chico— A group of Nevada City people enjoyed a motor _trip-andpicnic to Chico Sunday where Mr. and Mrs. Jack Carney, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Martin and Glen Cleland. They saw the Hooker oak in Bidwell’s park considered the largest in California. may the more efficiently lead in the healing and rehabilitation of . mutilated and destitute peoples. As has so often been said, with very little done about it, we must first place our house in order. It is imperative need, if our help abroad, when the time comes, is to be effective. Sue CREWS. MOVE SNOW. FROM UPPER ROADS The local state division of highways had to send out crews to.move snow off the highways in the upper eountry last. Friday night. The usual rule is to disconnects snow plows from their equipment May 1. One plow remained at Downieville:and it was sent to the Yuba Pass district where there was six inches of new snow. The plow was also taken over the summit to clear a short strip of highway in the other district as the plows were disconnected. Three inches of snow fell in the vicinity of Steep Hollow on the .Tahoe Ukiah highway and logs were rigged up to machinery to clear the road, PIONEERS DANCE AT FAREWELL TO ARMORY AFFAIR In a short address at Armory. Hall Saturday evening James F. Dolan, retired pioneer telephone man, stated he came to Nevada City on a three month’s foreman job. with his company thirty eight years ago and has been here ever since. He is a native of San Francisco and has traveled all over the United States but stated he had never seen any place he liked better than Nevada City and he intended to spend the rest of his life here. He danced several dances remaining until among the last. Christian Petersen, who came to Nevada City fifty eight years ago from Denmark, stated he had danced in the old Armory Hall fifty four years ago. He enjoyed two dances with Mrs. Belle Douglass, esteemed pioneer who gave a splendid sketch of the history of the hall. . Mr. and Mrs. John Eden, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Steger, Sr., pioneer residents of Nevada City enjoyed the farewell program and were among the first to step out to dance the waltz, “Over the Waves’? popular dance tune.of 40 years ago. a? STANFORD HONORS NEVADA CITY LAD STANFORD UNIVERSITY, May 6 —wWilliam N. Snell, of Nevada City, is one of four Stanford Law School seniors who have been elected to the Order of the Coif, legal honor society, it was announced _ today. Only the highest ten per cent of the graduating class are admtited to the order, which represents the highest honor to which law students may aspire. Elected with “Snell were Harold H. Fulkerson, Ukiah; Francis Price, Santa Barbara, and William D. Mitchell, Salt ake City. SALMON SALVAGE PLAN CONSIDERED BY GOVERNMENT SACRAMENTO, May 6.—(UP)— A resettlement project for salmon to be cut off from their natural spawning grounds by the completion of Shasta Dam was proposed today by the U. S. department of the interior. The bureau of fisheries and the bureau of reclamation conducted a two year survey of plans for salvaging the salmon run of the Sacramento-San Joaquin river systems, valued at $300,000 a year. The report of the investigation concluded that installation of fish ladders—which are being) successfully operated at Bonnieville dam on the Columbia river—would be impracticical because of the far greater height of Shasta dam. Salvaging the salmon by tranfer to other stregms or by hatchery operations, rather than passing them over the dam, was advanced as the best solution. Financed by the bureau of recClamation. which is directing the

construction of Shasta dam, located on the Sacramento river 12° miles above Redding, the survey was carried on under the supervision of the Stanford University office of the bureau of fisheries with the California division of fish and game cooperating. Trout Limits— ‘ Ed Berger and Frank Ghidotti returned yesterday afternoon with two limits of fine trout all measuring twelve to fourteen inches each. This is the second limit for Ghidotti since May 1. Dick Lane also reports two limits, MRS, COUGHLAN LAID TO REST THIS MORNING Funeral services-for the late Mrs. Lena Maud Coughlan were held this . morning at 10 a. m. at the family residence on Silva street followed, by a solemn mass at 10:30 at St.! Canice Catholie church, conducted . by the Rev. Father O’Reilly. Inte ment was in the family plot on Wes t} Broad street under auspices of Laurel Parlor No. 6 . D. G.W. She died Saturday morning in a local hospital as the result of an acute attack of appendicitis. An emergency operation was performed a week ago and it was found her ap. pendix had burst, resulting in peritOnitis. She was the youngest daughter cf the late Mr;, and Mrs. Antone Silva, pioneer residents of Nevada City, born near the present Coughlan residence in this city on January 14, 1868. She attended the local schools and graduated from the Nevada City high school with the class of 1886. . She was married on June 11, 1893 to William S. Coughlan. To. this union was born one daughter and three sons. Surviving her are her husband, William SCoughlan, and the following children: Darrell Coughlan, Alameda; Mrs. Clarence H. King and Lorrin (Ted) Coughlan, San Francisco; and George Coughlan, Auburn. Mrs. Mary Ogden, Nevada City; Mrs. Margaret LaFerrera, Alameda and Mrs. Sara McClure, Oakland, are surviving sisters, GOLD EXHIBIT ATFAIR BETTER THAN LAST YEAR _It glitters and it’s gold! Two hundred -thousand dollars worth of the precious metal will be on display on Treasure Island. Closely guarded behind steel bars and heavily insured, it will be exhibited in the Sacramento-Tahoe Region Building of the State-Counties Group, according to Robert England, superintendent of the building. The gold represents—valuable exhibits loaned by various counties represented in the building, and -by individuals and commercial institutions. Included are many rare and unusual specimens of wire gold, the high grade ore and nuggets. Some of the specimens were exhibited last year but many more have been added, according to England, greatly augmenting both the beauty and value of the display. “Central exhibit in this building is a scale model of Lake Tahoe built on a basis of 10 inches to a_ mile. This exhibit is dramatically lighted by a central skylight in the form of a giant wagon wheel, symbolical of the early covered wagon. Innovation this year will be a constant exhibition of fruits and vegetable products in season, which will be ket fresh by means of refrigeration. END SESSION The board of supervisors ended its May session Saturday with an all-day meeting in which propositions submitted to them in the last three days were considered. On the board’s agenda were proposals for a county library, a country farm adviser and a request for $250 for trout planting in the Truckee river. TO RAZE ARMORY Mr, Younger of. the Younger Bros. firm, arrived in Nevada City today and is making plans for tearing down Armory Hall for the Purity Stores firm -which purchased the property some time ago. FINED $100 L. E. Tucker was arrested on Pine street by Officer Lin Davies yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock on a drunken driving charge and locked up in the city jail. He appeared be-}. fore City Judge Miles Coughlin this forenoon and was fined $100. Recovers From Illness— Mrs, Jessie Costa, who was in the (Nevada City Sanitarium several days last week ,has returned to her home ‘on Wet Hill, where she its slowly re. covering. With the passing of the old Acmory 4 Armory ‘Mrs. Belle Douglass Outlines History Of Famed Old Landmark Hall, Nevada City will lose one ‘or its few remaining historic structures—a monument to the brave women . Our community, Mrs. doomed landmark. N. C. BASEBALL TEAM IN NEED OF GOOD FIELD Nevada City’s baseball team played Rocklin at Cashin’s Field south of Nevada City’s southern limit yesterday the local team losing to Rocklin by a 19 to 11 score. Pitcher Live: say was in four innings and left the game in the fourth inning with Nevada City leading by a 11 to 8 score. but Rocklin hit Stintson for 16 runs. There was very few errors by either team and Nevada City knocked two Rocklin pitchers out of the box in the first inning. Next Sunday Nevada City’s team plays Forest Hill at Nevada City the ‘team they defeated recently in a practice game by six to seven. Alex McKenzie, junior college pitcher, will be with Nevada City at Cashin Field next Sunday. McKenzie pitched a school game and won by a score of one to nothing in San Francisco last Saturday. Nevada (City’s lineup is as follows: Younman, 1-B; Brown, R. F.; Bloomquist, 2-B.; Costa, C. F.; Franz, C. Gibson and Robbins, L. F.; Sullivan -3,-B.; Livesay and Stintsor, pitchers, Will Clark is captain of the Nevada City team and is enthusiastic about his fine team’ which he feels will make a splendid showing in the league this season. In an interview with the captain of the Nevada City team, Will Clark, it was found that the local team is lost without a suitable baseball diamond and fear is expressed if they do not secure a suitable site in the cit they will have to cancel their games with the league. In previous years every ball gamie in this part of the county was held in Grass Valley as Nevada City ‘had no suitable diamond. In 1935 Paul Piscevich, a Lava Cap pitcher, was Playing with the Grass Valley Miners-and-the Braves. Another pitcher, Jack Kennedy, was the with Braves. “Males” White played with Colfax, Fred Schroeder and Barney Ruggles employed by Ernest Schreiber, always played with Grass Valley. When Grass Valley can supply two good diamonds surely Nevada City can supply one. Nevada City high school plays at Cashin Field outside the city limits. Why not get together and do a little something for Nevada City. SCOTTS FLAT SRA __ WORKER HELD FOR CCC TRUCK THEFT Loyde Maxson. SR/ SRA worker from Seotts Flat dam, is in the Nevada City jail facing charges of drunk driving, and automobile-theft—after he had assertedly stolen :a CCC truck Saturday night, according to the police department. Maxson was arrested “ officer Lionel Davies only a few minutes after he had ‘been notified by the California Highway Patrol at Hills Flat that the truck was missing. He apprehended Maxson on Sacramento street near the depot, The truck was stolen from the Kilpatric parking lot in Grass Valley shortly before 10 p. m. CCC enrollees reported they saw a man prowling around the truck and when they returned, the truck was missing. They checked with the CCC ported out, notified the California Highway Patrol. The broadcast resulted in recovery of the-truck less than a half hour later. Feeling Better—George Casci, who has spent the ‘past two months near Colfax for his health returned to his home on Cottage street today. He is about. the business district greeting his many friends and _feeling much better. — ee: and pioneer men of an earlier generation who supplied the foundation for Belle Douglass, has written the following sketch outlining the colorful esteemed historian of Nevada City, history , of the The date 1863 which has until now adorned the front of this , building was not date of the building but date of the organization of the Nevada Light Guard. Prior to 1870 there were some small shacks on the site of this prop. erty one of which housed the Military Company. The land was owned by James Munro who had a butcher shop across the street. About 1870 a skating rink was in full swing at Temperance Hall which was a three story building about where the Corticello property is. Skating had such a hold on the community that the hall could not accommodate the sport loving citizens and a group of men consisting of Dr. R. M. Hunt, Attorney A. C. Niles, M. L. & D. Marsh Company and G. M. Hughes decided to build a larger more commodious room, éither to provide amusement for the younger generation or to amass a fortune from the craze. George F. Jacobs furnished the money for skates and Birdseye Bullard managed the enterprise. Mr. Bullard, whom our older citizens will fondly recall was a_ graceful skater and held the rollers for many years, opening a rink whenever the camp—and—when the truck was re-. craze struck town, which was period-. ical as in all sports, George’ E. Turner took a long lease on the basement for a pipe shop and maintained a tar vat in the rear yard which was a bane to the neighbors but quite necessary for a mining community and a business that, sold large hydraulic pipe. Oftimes the hot tar would cause a. fire and the department would be called out, to combat the blaze. Mothers were fearful of the safety of their children who delighted in walking in the tar when in the cooling stage. Mrs. Brand often told of the antics of her young son Herman, who dressed in his white Sunday suit had a wonderful time in the tar vat in his trek home accumulated so much dirt on his stocky shoes that the weight of his feet prevented unseen entrance to his home and the services of the entire household were called into action to remove the evidence of a days-pleasure. Young Men’s Social club on May 4, 1870 by a fine ball with admission charge of $2.50. The dance floor was managed by W. P. Evans, C. H. Mallen, A. W. Lester, A.-R. Lord, W.-W. Cross and lL. P. Dorsey. According to newspaper reports it was a select af. fair. Members of the Young Mens Social Club were the. high social lights of the day. Accounts of the event stated that if the young men were to grow old, get married or do any other queer act they would be pardoned by the: atonement of this occasion. However as one of the rules forbade marriage the club was criticized for leading men into temptation by encouraging the presence of so many charming ladies lavishly attired in the latest fashions. At the close of the dedication the rink was opened in proper order by the introduction of Miss Carrie Moore, champion lady skater of Am-. erica. for a three day attraction. Miss Moore was attired in a short searlet skirt with blue over blouse trimmed in ermine and wore a turban to match. She handled the rollers so skillfully that she seemed to tread on air. The price of skating was set at 50 cents for gents and 25 cents for ladies, in the evening but a limit was placed on the time allotted as there were not enough skates to go around. “be seated and: skates removed for the next customer. Many bought their own skates if financially able ‘and their admission was reduced to half price. There were season rates of $7 for gentlmen and $4 for ladies with a 40 cent admission, Ed Moore, later Nevada City Enemy No. 1 was considered the finest gentleman skater and Miss Me tie The building was dedicated by the ——-—__— When the whistle blew all had to .