November 15, 1943 (4 pages)

. Sea and the . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week 1 ~=—s for only 30 cents per .month j “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are,ready to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster. Nevada City Nu COVERS;RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA BSe . This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 90. The County Seat Raper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _The:Gold Center ‘ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1943. Thinking Out Loud. By H. M. L. ~ (Continued From Last Issue) ‘ah } Sometimes the spirit of ‘reverse lend-lease was slightly strained, as in the mase of airfields. The RAF had hung up an enviable record in the Battle of Britain and in the bombing of the continent. It had developed bases from scratch. Its repair shops were staffed by experienced civilian crews who knew what to do with bashed up Airacobras and Douglas and Lockheed bombers as well as Spits and Hurricanes atid the big Lancasters and: Sterling bombers. Then the Americans moved in. Anything they liked they got. Major General Ira Baker’s Highth Air Force pushed the RAF out of field after field. If expansion was called for, skilled English civilians were yanked off other jobs without question and set to building new barracks, extending and strengthening runways. If the Wighth needed a field where there was no field, it was built according to U. S. specifications. Sometimes it meant moving whole rural communities and tearing up.farm land. ‘The demands were never questioned. But until USAAF proved itself in_ battle, there was many a British airman who thought, with good cause, that he had been shoved around. Even heating no longer irritates the average Britisher, In England fuel is hard to get. King George ordered a line five inches fron? the bottom drawn around his bath tub to limit the use of hot water. The rest of the nation followed suit. Parliament itself is poorly heated. Hot water is a luxury available in some places one or two hours’a day. In many places the water runs hot once a week. British army barracks are heated to 60 degrees and most homes in Britain (last winter anyway) were unusually colder than that. But the U. S. Army demanded a minimum temperature of 65 dezrees in its barracks. Withoui question coal to maintain that heat was delivered. A more tangible aspect of reverse lend-lease can ‘be seen floating over California shipyards. They are the ugly rubber cows, the barrage balloons that hang over war * plants up and down U. S. coasts to prevent any sneak raiders from coming in low for a good run on the target. : Today they may look a little silly to Ameticans, who have yet to feel or see the effects of en fo planes, but immediately after Pearl Harbor they were welcome additions to our. defenses. Despite the fact that Britain was a hot spot and could ill spare balloons she sent over 5000 plus some = antiaircraft guns. American pilots for unexplained reason like British goggles better than U. §S. made equipment ,so Britain supplies the Righth Air Force with goggles. The list of supplies to the Highth is virtually endless—675 aircraft (mostly Spitfires), radio telephonic equipment, de-icing fluid and some yet de-icing paste for propellers, din-. ghies, electrically heated flying suits. The whole Eagle Squadron the Americans who flew to Britain until the U. S. went to war, was transferred intact to the USAAIF. Their field, Spitfires and quarters were all handed , over. Whenever one of their planes is damaged it is still replaced by a Spit—on the British government. The RAF’s list of supplies for General Ira Elaker’s forces run down to the crisp, «official note: “Over 8,000,000 clay pigeons. This quantity is much in excess of the number used by the Metropolitan Air Force but we understand the requisition was justified on the ground that the U. S. personnel are not yet good shots as the RAF.” “ It is the same at sea. The travels of U.S. and British merchantmen by this time are pretty much of a jumble. They carry cargoes that need carrying wherever they need to go and whether they sali with a British crew or American _-and the crew often changes— doesn’t matter: Early in the war. the Royal Navy lent a fleet of ships, complete with officers and men, to the U. S. navy to. escort American tankers down the Atlantic coast. They flew the British flag and the crew was paid by the British. But they. were operated by the es: Navy, ate American food and drank their own tea and rum. The tankers carried U. S. oil and gasoline which might conceivably find its way as lend-lease to Britain. there to be requisitioned by U. S. Forces as. reciprocal lendlease. It is easy to see why the books on: reciprocal lend-lease are not too earefully kept. (Corvettes ,destroyers and antisubmarine trawlers, all Britishmanned, still patrol the Caribbean Atlantic seaboard. They carry the latest equipment, including Britain’s Bren (ack-ack): crews put in at the Panama Canal Zone they see British donated anguns . And when British © The opinion was expressed at the meeting that the State Highway Commission will be willing to make improvements in the road provided, the new hazards” arising from’ umber traffic over the road are clearly unmenacing when the Calida Lumber (Company, now preparing to cut some 4,000,000 board feet in the virgin timber stand at Brandy City, begin to move 120,000 feet on ten to -twelve trucks and trailers daily over Highway 49. It was pointed out that even under present conditions the road is hazardous for; ordinary travel, due to sharp turns, steep grades and narrow width. Since the lumber to be hauled is vitally needed by war industries and for war housing, it is believed money will be provided to qnake the road safe. Attending the meeting from Nevada City were H. F. Soofge, secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, Rev. Cedric Porter, Curren Heath’, Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of Tahoe Nation4l Forest, and George Calanan, clerk of Nevada City. EK. O. Carvin, supervisor of Sierra ‘County, presided. Sierra County rep-resentation included Frank Delaney, Downieville district ranger, District Attorney Alfred -H. Lowey; George Mitchell, engineer for ‘the Calida Lumber Company, Judge McIntosh, George Thompson of the Sacramento Box Company, which has timber holdings on the proposed Yuba Pass cutoff was present. H. F. Sofge was asked by Chairman Carvin to organize a committee in Nevada County:to confer with the supervisors there, while Carvin will name a committee to work with the Sierra County supervisors. By this means it is hoped to gain the support of both boards for an appeal . for funds to the state highway commission. ARTHUR HOGE SERIOUSLY ILL Arthur W. Hoge, mine operator for many years in this section, is ertically ill at his home on Pine street. His son, Arthur M. Hoge, and wife came up from the bay region to visit over.the week end. Mr. Hoze developed and mined .the Penn-California in Willow Valley, Hoge Development Company property in Blue Tent section for many years, and known latterly as the Great Northern ‘Mining Corporation, BOUNTIES ON 19 LIONS CLAIMED SAIN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15.—A total of 19 lion skins have been turned into the State Division of Fish and Game for payment of bounty during October. Nine of these were males, and ten females. Shasta County was the high county of kill, accounting for eight lions. Seven of these were killed by State Lion hunter F. W. Keeler. To the end of October 126. lions were reported killed during 1943; twenty less than for the same period last year. H. A. Berkenbine, bridge engineer for the Tahoe National forest, and Mrs. Berkenbine left the latter part of. last week for the Klamath Forest where he is to be employed for a time: tiaircraft guns, sent there early in the war to protect our mutual supply -line. When aU. S. warship touches a British port she is treated as though she were a British warship. If she needs repairs, she is repaired and the bill goes to the British Admiralty, (Britain even pays docking, servicing. and steveidoring expenses. Warships include transports (Britain lend-leased us the Queen Mary and Quneen BElizabeth), tankers,and: supply ships. American officers have the run of British naval clubs, schools ‘and technical information. Even Mer: chant Marine gunners can go to ’ British gunnery schools. ; (To Be Continued) SIERRA HIGHWAY ASSN. TAKES FIRST STEP TO IMPROVE ROAD DOWNIEVILLE, Nov. 15.—The Sierra Highway Association meeting here Thursday evening named committees to wait upon the board of supervisors of Nevada and Sierra Counties and enlist their support in a campaign to improve Highway No. 49 between North San Juan, Nevada County, and Indian Valley, Sierra County. derstood. These hazards will become}: > r aw. I T . taymond . post CHMA TALKS OVER POST WAR WATER STORAGE The California Hydraulic Miners Association held its November meeting. yesterday in the National Hotel and engaged in a round-table discussion of post war plans in which President George Hallock was moderator and William E. Wilson of Forest Hill, owner’ of the Paragon placer mine, and Claud Clark, general manager of the Relief Hill placer mine were the chief speakers. Hallock declared that it was time to take some définite step toward aiding in .a post war plan for water storage. He mentioned especially two dams on the Middle Fork of the Yuba River, which'he believed would not ‘only decrease the tremendous flood waters in’ the stream, but would.also provide a considerable flow of water ‘for hydraulic operations in Relief Hill, the Malakoff Diggings near North Bloomfield and the immense deposits of gold bearing gravel along the San Juan Ridge in Nevada County. Wilson said that to present any war plan of water storage it would be necessary to veys and costs, and an benefits to be‘derived. It was pointed out that the principal would be the agricultural interests in the. Sacramento Valley, since they would have: the-use of stored water for irrigation and the. power produced at dams. Claud Clark stated that this plan would ‘have to have the approval of the majority in all those areas which the dams would aid. He declared “hat he would fight any proposal to build gravel dams, because’ these would inevitably go out in years of heavy rainfall and the cause of hydraulic mining would be irreparably injured. He expressed his eonviction that with the close of the war gold will become the. universal medium of exchange, and even though the United States has an estimated 21 billions of gold stored in Fort Knox, the world will need all the gold that can be produced. DEATH CALLS EBENK. SMART Eben K. Smart passed away shortly after midnight yesterday morning in the Jones Memorial Hospital following a heart attack. He was a past commander of the Hague-ThomasHegarty Post of the American Legjon. a gfaduate of the Grass Valley schools and of the University of California, and for many years had been civic leader in Grass Valley. Smart was born in Dutch Flat 45 years ago. His father, Eben Smart Sr. was a well known, lumberman and business man, Hig mother, Mrs. Mary Smart survives, residing with her son and family at 143 Race Street. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Minnie Smart, a son, Eben Smart, high school athlete and football player, and a) young daughter, a brother Eugene of Oakland, and two_ sisters, (Mrs. Arthur Weston of Sacramento, and Mrs. Dorothy McGilvray of Santa Barbara County. j Smart was formerly a Grass Valley School Board member. He had been grand ‘trustee of the ‘Native Sons of the Golden West, he was an Elk and took a prominent part in the Grass Valley Lions Club. In recent years he had been employed as an exestimate of aminer for the California Highway Patrol. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Hooper agd Weaver Mortuary. Carle Ross, dispatcher for the Tahoe National Forest at Downieville the past summer, spent several days in Nevada’ City. He is plauning td reside in San Francisco the. coming winter. hea, er present. sur. beneficiaries . ENGLE APPOINTED ON PUBLIC LANDS COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 15.— Rep. Clair_Engle of the California second district has been appointed to the important committee on Public Lands. The congressman, who recently was named on the committee on ‘Mines and Mining now has two of the most vital committees held by the late Harry Englebright. Engle is also serving on the committee on World War Veterans legislation. ‘Commenting on his latest appointment, Engle ‘said: ‘““The committee on public lands has jurisdiction over one of the most important problems now faced by county governments in the second district. “This problem involves tremendous tracts of land now in federal ownership which is tax exempt, thus destroying the tax base of each county. “Appointment to the committee will enable me to work on this problem directly, and to support in the committee the program of the Public Lands Counties association, headed by District Attorney Ed Regan of Trinity county, which is striving to secure federal relief for the taxpayers in the district.’ It was pointed out that as much as 75 per cent of the land in at least one county is under federal ownership. “Other counties are seriously affected thus creating an unfair burden on the taxpayers.’ Engle assertbelieve the federal government should. give financial. aid to these couhties in lieu of taxes which cannot be collected on_ federallyywned lands.’’ BUTTER ROLL. BACK HITS — EVERYBODY George Prouse, well known owner of the Drive In Market on the Nevada City Grass Valley Highway, just outside the city limits, is like a good many other citizens who’ do not believe in roll backs. “Take the butter roll back, for instance,” says George. ‘‘We ‘have had this roll back in force, now for about two weeks. The price of butter before the roll back was 56 cents a pound, now its 51 cents. Who pays that five cents. I’ll tell you, .it is mostly paid by the millions of people who can’t buy butter because they can’t afford to pay the. ration points, 16° of them, for a pound of butter. Millions of farmers who keep a cow or two and make their own butter, are paying this roll back tax on butter. Many more millions who have been forced to buy nucoa, or oleomargarine, because they could pay the ration points for buter, are also burdened with the roll back tax. “Now I want to know,’ said Prouse, ’*why all us should pay a tax to keep the price of butter down for the small minority in the country who have points enough to buy but‘ter. This hits everybody, rich or poor, because there are plenty of people with the money to buy all the butter they want, who can’t .buy it, because its ration points value is so high. “It will cost some millions of dollars to roll back the butter price, and the money paid to butter makers wont tell the story by half, if our experience with the New Deal is any criterion, There are thousands of new federal bureaucrats looking after the butter roll back. The way to reduce the use of butter on American tables and thereby reduce the price,-if that is desired, is to keep on lifting the price in ration points, The ration points, unless the entire rationing system is at fault, should govern the price. But the government, our New Deal government, does not like to do that because it would antagonize the farming element still more. The cost of the roll back will be greatly augmented by what it eosts to hire a lot of new officials to look after its administration. No wonder congress is trying with might and main to put an end to these roll back subsidies.” ° Carol Choir of ne Valley Begins Rehearsals The Grass Valley Carol Choir met last evening; following church services, to begin rehearsals for the Christmas holidays) The choir has already received an invitation. to sing at Camp Beale ‘during the yuletide festival. There is doubt whether they‘ will sing this year from underground in one of the mines, as war conditions make such an event difficult. However, it is stated, this will not preclude a broadcast of their carols. : Soldier Home From War With Shattered Hand Ross Wehe, soldier,son of Mrs. Roy L. Terrell 456 South Auburn street, Grass Valley, is in Letterman Hospital in San Francisco, having been wounded in action on Arundel Island in the South Pacific. His mother had been notified by the War Department that he had been wounded in battle, but until, she heard his voice on the long distance telephone she did not know had badly he was injured. He stated that his right hand had been shattered and that he had lost three fingers. Warren Davis Weds Mrs. Letha Moritz Arthur Warren Davis, of Blue Tent, Nevada County, was married to Mrs. Letha Moritz Tuesday in Reno.Rev. Osborne of the Reno Methodist Church read the service. Davis is the son of Mrs. Katurah Davis of Blue Tent and a nephew of Supervisor Cary Arbogast. His wife was formerly a resident of San Jose, but has been a visitor in Nevada City and has many friends here. The couiple will make their home in Blue Tent, where Davis has a machinist shop on the Bloomfield Road. Overnight Housing Problem In Grass Valley At a luncheon. meeting of the Harold Robinson, chairman of the overnight housing committee déclared there was a need of 500 rooms in the city to accommodate visitors from the armed forces. ,He stated that approximately -1,000 soldiers, sailors and flyers visit the city each week and that about half this number find sleeping accommodations while the rest have to trek back lo their camps. Owing to rough sections of the Tahoe Ukiah highway west of Grass Valley, it was reported that a number: of army families have had to seek: homes in areas nearer Camp Beale. Some officers’ have stated that tires are too precious to be chewed up by bad roads. Attempts at repairs have been made, but accirding to chamber members these have’ not kept pace with the heavy travel of civilian and army vehicles. ; State Balance In:Bank Now $103,141,460 SAICRIAMEINTO, Nov. 15. — State ‘Controller Harry B. Riley today announced that the state’s General fund cash excess over current obligations was $103,141,460 at the end of October, 1943, as compared with an excess of $99,105,543 at the end of the preceding month and an excess of $60,075,972 on October 31, 194:2. General fund revenues deposited in the state treasury during the first four months. of the present fiscal year ended October 31, 1943, totaled $85,841,277, a decrease of $1,548,510 or 1.77% under those of the same period last year. A major decrease in revenue occurred in the retail sales and use tax; which decreased $11,618,980° under the same period last year. This decrease said Riléy, was due in part to the legislative cut in tax rate from 3% to 2 1-2% effective July 1, 1943 and in*part to earmarking by the 1943 legislature 20% of this revenue for a reserve for post war construction projects. This and other minor decreases were offset by increases, in other revenues, resulting in a net total decrease of only $1,548/510 from all sources . GRASS VALLEY WAR CHEST Early reports, incomplete, indicate that thus far $2,257.50 have béen contributed to Grass Valley’s War Chest quota of $12,000. No reports are yet available of sums’ contributed in the residential districts. It was noted that 13 Chinese Americans had contributed $680 of the amount reported. ‘ : . The Grass Valley Chamber of Commeree, . 671,200 are classified as wage earnLers, CITY LIBRARY . REPORT MADEBY — MRS. WILLIAMSON Mrs. Iva™.Williamson, city. librarian has rendered a report for October. It follows: Books borrowed in October for home use were 1091} fiction 898; juvenile 96; miscellaneous 97. Visitors to the reading rooms 1,236; men 237; women 268; boys 373; girls 358; number of borrowers 552; total attendance 17883 daily attendance 69. Cards issued 23 adult and 10 juvenile; cards canceled 9 adult and 5 juvenile; a gain of 19 and our present registration 922. ‘Books purchiaserd 16; discarded 6. 439. We received from Walter Bradley of the State Department of Natural Resources, a copy of Bulletin No. 118 Geologic Formations and Economié development of’ the Oil, and Gas Fields of California, prepared under the direction of Olaf P: Jenkins. Thirty books were taken from the rent shelf and put in the general circulation. IN FOUR YEARS WAGE EARNERS IN STATE DOUBLES “SAIN FRAINCISCO, Nov. 15.—Average employment in California manufacturing industries has risen from a total of 371,000 in the prewar year, 1939, to 856,000 in 1942. Of the 1942 total 174,000 are classified as clerical, technical, sales, executive, and professional personnel, remaining employees, totaling aap donated 7; Present accession 12,and of. theSe 565,000 are men and 105,700 women. Increasing participation in war production by women workers is indicated by the fact that the. number of women wage earners, has increas from 65,300 in 1919to 105,700 for the last year. (California's: huge production of war materials has brought about a notable increase in the number of persons employed in durable goods industries, according to an economic survey report released by the research department of the California State Chamber of Commerce. In the. durable goods industries which include iron and steel products, transportation equipment, electrical machinery, and similar items, employment for last year totaled 495,600 as compared with 274,200 during the preceding year. In the non-durable goods \industries, such as clothing, paper, chemicals and petroleum pro-ducts, there was an incréase from 168,600 employees for 1941 to 175,600 last year. QUAIL SEASON IS OPEN TODAY SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15.—Quail season opens in California today, and according to reports of wardens of the State Division of Fish and Game, hunters may expect good shooting ‘on that day. With very few exceptions, there is an abundance of quail in all districts. However, storms and heavy. rains prior to opening daywould drive the birds into the heavy brush, in which event shooting would be not so good. The bag limit on quail is ten per . day, 10 in possession and 20 per calendar week. All hunters are required to have a state hunting license, and this includes“members of the armed forces. : Upon the recommendation of the Fish and Game Commission, and — special order of the Director of Nat. _ ural Resources, Inyo and Mono counties will be closed to quail hunting to and including November 27. Under the same provisions, quail shoot_ ing will only be permitted in Lassen oe ‘County to coincide with the pheasant season—November 28 to December 12. a Ket. Mrs. Matilda An Stein of field, Mass., arrived Thurs¢ will enjoy an extended vis B. L. Syms home on Bo

. Sea and the . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week 1 ~=—s for only 30 cents per .month j “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are,ready to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster. Nevada City Nu COVERS;RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA BSe . This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 90. The County Seat Raper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _The:Gold Center ‘ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1943. Thinking Out Loud.. By H. M. L. ~ (Continued From Last Issue) ‘ah } Sometimes the spirit of ‘reverse lend-lease was slightly strained, as in the mase of airfields. The RAF had hung up an enviable record in the Battle of Britain and in the bombing of the continent. It had developed bases from scratch. Its repair shops were staffed by experienced civilian crews who knew what to do with bashed up Airacobras and Douglas and Lockheed bombers as well as Spits and Hurricanes atid the big Lancasters and: Sterling bombers. Then the Americans moved in. Anything they liked they got. Major General Ira Baker’s Highth Air Force pushed the RAF out of field after field. If expansion was called for, skilled English civilians were yanked off other jobs without question and set to building new barracks, extending and strengthening runways. If the Wighth needed a field where there was no field, it was built according to U. S. specifications. Sometimes it meant moving whole rural communities and tearing up.farm land. ‘The demands were never questioned. But until USAAF proved itself in_ battle, there was many a British airman who thought, with good cause, that he had been shoved around. Even heating no longer irritates the average Britisher, In England fuel is hard to get. King George ordered a line five inches fron? the bottom drawn around his bath tub to limit the use of hot water. The rest of the nation followed suit. Parliament itself is poorly heated. Hot water is a luxury available in some places one or two hours’a day. In many places the water runs hot once a week. British army barracks are heated to 60 degrees and most homes in Britain (last winter anyway) were unusually colder than that. But the U. S. Army demanded a minimum temperature of 65 dezrees in its barracks. Withoui question coal to maintain that heat was delivered. A more tangible aspect of reverse lend-lease can ‘be seen floating over California shipyards. They are the ugly rubber cows, the barrage balloons that hang over war * plants up and down U. S. coasts to prevent any sneak raiders from coming in low for a good run on the target. : Today they may look a little silly to Ameticans, who have yet to feel or see the effects of en fo planes, but immediately after Pearl Harbor they were welcome additions to our. defenses. Despite the fact that Britain was a hot spot and could ill spare balloons she sent over 5000 plus some = antiaircraft guns. American pilots for unexplained reason like British goggles better than U. §S. made equipment ,so Britain supplies the Righth Air Force with goggles. The list of supplies to the Highth is virtually endless—675 aircraft (mostly Spitfires), radio telephonic equipment, de-icing fluid and some yet de-icing paste for propellers, din-. ghies, electrically heated flying suits. The whole Eagle Squadron the Americans who flew to Britain until the U. S. went to war, was transferred intact to the USAAIF. Their field, Spitfires and quarters were all handed , over. Whenever one of their planes is damaged it is still replaced by a Spit—on the British government. The RAF’s list of supplies for General Ira Elaker’s forces run down to the crisp, «official note: “Over 8,000,000 clay pigeons. This quantity is much in excess of the number used by the Metropolitan Air Force but we understand the requisition was justified on the ground that the U. S. personnel are not yet good shots as the RAF.” “ It is the same at sea. The travels of U.S. and British merchantmen by this time are pretty much of a jumble. They carry cargoes that need carrying wherever they need to go and whether they sali with a British crew or American _-and the crew often changes— doesn’t matter: Early in the war. the Royal Navy lent a fleet of ships, complete with officers and men, to the U. S. navy to. escort American tankers down the Atlantic coast. They flew the British flag and the crew was paid by the British. But they. were operated by the es: Navy, ate American food and drank their own tea and rum. The tankers carried U. S. oil and gasoline which might conceivably find its way as lend-lease to Britain. there to be requisitioned by U. S. Forces as. reciprocal lendlease. It is easy to see why the books on: reciprocal lend-lease are not too earefully kept. (Corvettes ,destroyers and antisubmarine trawlers, all Britishmanned, still patrol the Caribbean Atlantic seaboard. They carry the latest equipment, including Britain’s Bren (ack-ack): crews put in at the Panama Canal Zone they see British donated anguns . And when British © The opinion was expressed at the meeting that the State Highway Commission will be willing to make improvements in the road provided, the new hazards” arising from’ umber traffic over the road are clearly unmenacing when the Calida Lumber (Company, now preparing to cut some 4,000,000 board feet in the virgin timber stand at Brandy City, begin to move 120,000 feet on ten to -twelve trucks and trailers daily over Highway 49. It was pointed out that even under present conditions the road is hazardous for; ordinary travel, due to sharp turns, steep grades and narrow width. Since the lumber to be hauled is vitally needed by war industries and for war housing, it is believed money will be provided to qnake the road safe. Attending the meeting from Nevada City were H. F. Soofge, secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, Rev. Cedric Porter, Curren Heath’, Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of Tahoe Nation4l Forest, and George Calanan, clerk of Nevada City. EK. O. Carvin, supervisor of Sierra ‘County, presided. Sierra County rep-resentation included Frank Delaney, Downieville district ranger, District Attorney Alfred -H. Lowey; George Mitchell, engineer for ‘the Calida Lumber Company, Judge McIntosh, George Thompson of the Sacramento Box Company, which has timber holdings on the proposed Yuba Pass cutoff was present. H. F. Sofge was asked by Chairman Carvin to organize a committee in Nevada County:to confer with the supervisors there, while Carvin will name a committee to work with the Sierra County supervisors. By this means it is hoped to gain the support of both boards for an appeal . for funds to the state highway commission. ARTHUR HOGE SERIOUSLY ILL Arthur W. Hoge, mine operator for many years in this section, is ertically ill at his home on Pine street. His son, Arthur M. Hoge, and wife came up from the bay region to visit over.the week end. Mr. Hoze developed and mined .the Penn-California in Willow Valley, Hoge Development Company property in Blue Tent section for many years, and known latterly as the Great Northern ‘Mining Corporation, BOUNTIES ON 19 LIONS CLAIMED SAIN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15.—A total of 19 lion skins have been turned into the State Division of Fish and Game for payment of bounty during October. Nine of these were males, and ten females. Shasta County was the high county of kill, accounting for eight lions. Seven of these were killed by State Lion hunter F. W. Keeler. To the end of October 126. lions were reported killed during 1943; twenty less than for the same period last year. H. A. Berkenbine, bridge engineer for the Tahoe National forest, and Mrs. Berkenbine left the latter part of. last week for the Klamath Forest where he is to be employed for a time: tiaircraft guns, sent there early in the war to protect our mutual supply -line. When aU. S. warship touches a British port she is treated as though she were a British warship. If she needs repairs, she is repaired and the bill goes to the British Admiralty, (Britain even pays docking, servicing. and steveidoring expenses. Warships include transports (Britain lend-leased us the Queen Mary and Quneen BElizabeth), tankers,and: supply ships. American officers have the run of British naval clubs, schools ‘and technical information. Even Mer: chant Marine gunners can go to ’ British gunnery schools. ; (To Be Continued) SIERRA HIGHWAY ASSN. TAKES FIRST STEP TO IMPROVE ROAD DOWNIEVILLE, Nov. 15.—The Sierra Highway Association meeting here Thursday evening named committees to wait upon the board of supervisors of Nevada and Sierra Counties and enlist their support in a campaign to improve Highway No. 49 between North San Juan, Nevada County, and Indian Valley, Sierra County. derstood. These hazards will become}: > r aw. I T . taymond . post CHMA TALKS OVER POST WAR WATER STORAGE The California Hydraulic Miners Association held its November meeting. yesterday in the National Hotel and engaged in a round-table discussion of post war plans in which President George Hallock was moderator and William E. Wilson of Forest Hill, owner’ of the Paragon placer mine, and Claud Clark, general manager of the Relief Hill placer mine were the chief speakers. Hallock declared that it was time to take some définite step toward aiding in .a post war plan for water storage. He mentioned especially two dams on the Middle Fork of the Yuba River, which'he believed would not ‘only decrease the tremendous flood waters in’ the stream, but would.also provide a considerable flow of water ‘for hydraulic operations in Relief Hill, the Malakoff Diggings near North Bloomfield and the immense deposits of gold bearing gravel along the San Juan Ridge in Nevada County. Wilson said that to present any war plan of water storage it would be necessary to veys and costs, and an benefits to be‘derived. It was pointed out that the principal would be the agricultural interests in the. Sacramento Valley, since they would have: the-use of stored water for irrigation and the. power produced at dams. Claud Clark stated that this plan would ‘have to have the approval of the majority in all those areas which the dams would aid. He declared “hat he would fight any proposal to build gravel dams, because’ these would inevitably go out in years of heavy rainfall and the cause of hydraulic mining would be irreparably injured. He expressed his eonviction that with the close of the war gold will become the. universal medium of exchange, and even though the United States has an estimated 21 billions of gold stored in Fort Knox, the world will need all the gold that can be produced. DEATH CALLS EBENK. SMART Eben K. Smart passed away shortly after midnight yesterday morning in the Jones Memorial Hospital following a heart attack. He was a past commander of the Hague-ThomasHegarty Post of the American Legjon. a gfaduate of the Grass Valley schools and of the University of California, and for many years had been civic leader in Grass Valley. Smart was born in Dutch Flat 45 years ago. His father, Eben Smart Sr. was a well known, lumberman and business man, Hig mother, Mrs. Mary Smart survives, residing with her son and family at 143 Race Street. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Minnie Smart, a son, Eben Smart, high school athlete and football player, and a) young daughter, a brother Eugene of Oakland, and two_ sisters,

(Mrs. Arthur Weston of Sacramento, and Mrs. Dorothy McGilvray of Santa Barbara County. j Smart was formerly a Grass Valley School Board member. He had been grand ‘trustee of the ‘Native Sons of the Golden West, he was an Elk and took a prominent part in the Grass Valley Lions Club. In recent years he had been employed as an exestimate of aminer for the California Highway Patrol. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Hooper agd Weaver Mortuary. Carle Ross, dispatcher for the Tahoe National Forest at Downieville the past summer, spent several days in Nevada’ City. He is plauning td reside in San Francisco the. coming winter. hea, er present. sur. beneficiaries . ENGLE APPOINTED ON PUBLIC LANDS COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 15.— Rep. Clair_Engle of the California second district has been appointed to the important committee on Public Lands. The congressman, who recently was named on the committee on ‘Mines and Mining now has two of the most vital committees held by the late Harry Englebright. Engle is also serving on the committee on World War Veterans legislation. ‘Commenting on his latest appointment, Engle ‘said: ‘““The committee on public lands has jurisdiction over one of the most important problems now faced by county governments in the second district. “This problem involves tremendous tracts of land now in federal ownership which is tax exempt, thus destroying the tax base of each county. “Appointment to the committee will enable me to work on this problem directly, and to support in the committee the program of the Public Lands Counties association, headed by District Attorney Ed Regan of Trinity county, which is striving to secure federal relief for the taxpayers in the district.’ It was pointed out that as much as 75 per cent of the land in at least one county is under federal ownership. “Other counties are seriously affected thus creating an unfair burden on the taxpayers.’ Engle assertbelieve the federal government should. give financial. aid to these couhties in lieu of taxes which cannot be collected on_ federallyywned lands.’’ BUTTER ROLL. BACK HITS — EVERYBODY George Prouse, well known owner of the Drive In Market on the Nevada City Grass Valley Highway, just outside the city limits, is like a good many other citizens who’ do not believe in roll backs. “Take the butter roll back, for instance,” says George. ‘‘We ‘have had this roll back in force, now for about two weeks. The price of butter before the roll back was 56 cents a pound, now its 51 cents. Who pays that five cents. I’ll tell you, .it is mostly paid by the millions of people who can’t buy butter because they can’t afford to pay the. ration points, 16° of them, for a pound of butter. Millions of farmers who keep a cow or two and make their own butter, are paying this roll back tax on butter. Many more millions who have been forced to buy nucoa, or oleomargarine, because they could pay the ration points for buter, are also burdened with the roll back tax. “Now I want to know,’ said Prouse, ’*why all us should pay a tax to keep the price of butter down for the small minority in the country who have points enough to buy but‘ter. This hits everybody, rich or poor, because there are plenty of people with the money to buy all the butter they want, who can’t .buy it, because its ration points value is so high. “It will cost some millions of dollars to roll back the butter price, and the money paid to butter makers wont tell the story by half, if our experience with the New Deal is any criterion, There are thousands of new federal bureaucrats looking after the butter roll back. The way to reduce the use of butter on American tables and thereby reduce the price,-if that is desired, is to keep on lifting the price in ration points, The ration points, unless the entire rationing system is at fault, should govern the price. But the government, our New Deal government, does not like to do that because it would antagonize the farming element still more. The cost of the roll back will be greatly augmented by what it eosts to hire a lot of new officials to look after its administration. No wonder congress is trying with might and main to put an end to these roll back subsidies.” ° Carol Choir of ne Valley Begins Rehearsals The Grass Valley Carol Choir met last evening; following church services, to begin rehearsals for the Christmas holidays) The choir has already received an invitation. to sing at Camp Beale ‘during the yuletide festival. There is doubt whether they‘ will sing this year from underground in one of the mines, as war conditions make such an event difficult. However, it is stated, this will not preclude a broadcast of their carols. : Soldier Home From War With Shattered Hand Ross Wehe, soldier,son of Mrs. Roy L. Terrell 456 South Auburn street, Grass Valley, is in Letterman Hospital in San Francisco, having been wounded in action on Arundel Island in the South Pacific. His mother had been notified by the War Department that he had been wounded in battle, but until, she heard his voice on the long distance telephone she did not know had badly he was injured. He stated that his right hand had been shattered and that he had lost three fingers. Warren Davis Weds Mrs. Letha Moritz Arthur Warren Davis, of Blue Tent, Nevada County, was married to Mrs. Letha Moritz Tuesday in Reno.Rev. Osborne of the Reno Methodist Church read the service. Davis is the son of Mrs. Katurah Davis of Blue Tent and a nephew of Supervisor Cary Arbogast. His wife was formerly a resident of San Jose, but has been a visitor in Nevada City and has many friends here. The couiple will make their home in Blue Tent, where Davis has a machinist shop on the Bloomfield Road. Overnight Housing Problem In Grass Valley At a luncheon. meeting of the Harold Robinson, chairman of the overnight housing committee déclared there was a need of 500 rooms in the city to accommodate visitors from the armed forces. ,He stated that approximately -1,000 soldiers, sailors and flyers visit the city each week and that about half this number find sleeping accommodations while the rest have to trek back lo their camps. Owing to rough sections of the Tahoe Ukiah highway west of Grass Valley, it was reported that a number: of army families have had to seek: homes in areas nearer Camp Beale. Some officers’ have stated that tires are too precious to be chewed up by bad roads. Attempts at repairs have been made, but accirding to chamber members these have’ not kept pace with the heavy travel of civilian and army vehicles. ; State Balance In:Bank Now $103,141,460 SAICRIAMEINTO, Nov. 15. — State ‘Controller Harry B. Riley today announced that the state’s General fund cash excess over current obligations was $103,141,460 at the end of October, 1943, as compared with an excess of $99,105,543 at the end of the preceding month and an excess of $60,075,972 on October 31, 194:2. General fund revenues deposited in the state treasury during the first four months. of the present fiscal year ended October 31, 1943, totaled $85,841,277, a decrease of $1,548,510 or 1.77% under those of the same period last year. A major decrease in revenue occurred in the retail sales and use tax; which decreased $11,618,980° under the same period last year. This decrease said Riléy, was due in part to the legislative cut in tax rate from 3% to 2 1-2% effective July 1, 1943 and in*part to earmarking by the 1943 legislature 20% of this revenue for a reserve for post war construction projects. This and other minor decreases were offset by increases, in other revenues, resulting in a net total decrease of only $1,548/510 from all sources . GRASS VALLEY WAR CHEST Early reports, incomplete, indicate that thus far $2,257.50 have béen contributed to Grass Valley’s War Chest quota of $12,000. No reports are yet available of sums’ contributed in the residential districts. It was noted that 13 Chinese Americans had contributed $680 of the amount reported. ‘ : . The Grass Valley Chamber of Commeree, . 671,200 are classified as wage earnLers, CITY LIBRARY . REPORT MADEBY — MRS. WILLIAMSON Mrs. Iva™.Williamson, city. librarian has rendered a report for October. It follows: Books borrowed in October for home use were 1091} fiction 898; juvenile 96; miscellaneous 97. Visitors to the reading rooms 1,236; men 237; women 268; boys 373; girls 358; number of borrowers 552; total attendance 17883 daily attendance 69. Cards issued 23 adult and 10 juvenile; cards canceled 9 adult and 5 juvenile; a gain of 19 and our present registration 922. ‘Books purchiaserd 16; discarded 6. 439. We received from Walter Bradley of the State Department of Natural Resources, a copy of Bulletin No. 118 Geologic Formations and Economié development of’ the Oil, and Gas Fields of California, prepared under the direction of Olaf P: Jenkins. Thirty books were taken from the rent shelf and put in the general circulation. IN FOUR YEARS WAGE EARNERS IN STATE DOUBLES “SAIN FRAINCISCO, Nov. 15.—Average employment in California manufacturing industries has risen from a total of 371,000 in the prewar year, 1939, to 856,000 in 1942. Of the 1942 total 174,000 are classified as clerical, technical, sales, executive, and professional personnel, remaining employees, totaling aap donated 7; Present accession 12,and of. theSe 565,000 are men and 105,700 women. Increasing participation in war production by women workers is indicated by the fact that the. number of women wage earners, has increas from 65,300 in 1919to 105,700 for the last year. (California's: huge production of war materials has brought about a notable increase in the number of persons employed in durable goods industries, according to an economic survey report released by the research department of the California State Chamber of Commerce. In the. durable goods industries which include iron and steel products, transportation equipment, electrical machinery, and similar items, employment for last year totaled 495,600 as compared with 274,200 during the preceding year. In the non-durable goods \industries, such as clothing, paper, chemicals and petroleum pro-ducts, there was an incréase from 168,600 employees for 1941 to 175,600 last year. QUAIL SEASON IS OPEN TODAY SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15.—Quail season opens in California today, and according to reports of wardens of the State Division of Fish and Game, hunters may expect good shooting ‘on that day. With very few exceptions, there is an abundance of quail in all districts. However, storms and heavy. rains prior to opening daywould drive the birds into the heavy brush, in which event shooting would be not so good. The bag limit on quail is ten per . day, 10 in possession and 20 per calendar week. All hunters are required to have a state hunting license, and this includes“members of the armed forces. : Upon the recommendation of the Fish and Game Commission, and — special order of the Director of Nat. _ ural Resources, Inyo and Mono counties will be closed to quail hunting to and including November 27. Under the same provisions, quail shoot_ ing will only be permitted in Lassen oe ‘County to coincide with the pheasant season—November 28 to December 12. a Ket. Mrs. Matilda An Stein of field, Mass., arrived Thurs¢ will enjoy an extended vis B. L. Syms home on Bo