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i, ‘ nner’s Bodacious
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Initial League
Pictured above is the 1950 Bee team of Nevada
City high school which Tuesday night won the Bee
championship of the Sierra Foothill League by deféating Marysville Papooses .27-13 to climax an undefeated season, marred only by a tie with Placer
‘Bees of Auburn. Front row, left to right: Manager
Ray Dalpez, Gil Larson, Lee Smart, Dave Haley, John
Falconi, Bob Danos, John Williams, Dick Williams,
Don Madrid, Wade Penrose, Hans Ronningen. Second
Tow: Ernie Pello, Bob Phillips, Bill Murphy, Bob
Strach, Wayne Whitlock, Roger Smith, Steve Pieser,
Bill Sturtevant, Grant Hafelfinger, Dog Steger. Back
row: Walt Tanner, Dale Ten. Broeck, Dick Mooers,
Jim Hubbard, Joe Seay, Don Boucher, Ray Kirk, Bill
Behrbaum,, Bruce Walker,
‘Weldon, Coach Bob Bonner.
Larry Williams, Gary
Photo by Prentiss.
NEVADA COUNTY
CALLED RACKET
PAYOFF LOCALE
Nevada county was.named as
the locale of a payoff, from, slot
machine operations to,.a ‘certain
public employee” with ; half .of
the payoff going to logal officials
and half to the atterney general’s office, according to ‘the report of the State Commission on
,Qrganized Crime, appointed by
ernor Earl Warren.
The naming of Nevada county
as the payoff spot was contained
in the final report of: the commission to the governor, The
commission went out of existence
June 30. . ;
“Regular collections” ‘were taken by “a certain public employee
from slot machines operators” in
Nevada county over a considerable period of time, the commission said. ‘Under the representation of the amounts paid, half
was for local officials, half for
the attorney general’s office.”
Evidence of a statewide protection scheme came from 16 of
California’s counties, including
Nevada and Placer counties the
commission reported.
The commission accused Attorthey General Fred N. Howser of
failing to cooperate in its investigations and indeed actively opposing it on occasion.
= “Repeatedly,? the commission
charged, ‘‘the attorney general
sent, to investigate the incidents
reported to him the very investigators whose names had been
mentioned as personally involved.”
“An indulgent jury,” the commission said, in Sonoma county,
acquitted three men whom. the
commission called “participants
in the branded punchboard racket.”
Of their trial the report says:
“The prosecution’s evidence
showed that these three men,
sometimes together and sometimes separately and in many different parts af the state, representd ‘thy had th authority and
th approval of the attorney general’s office in ‘setting up a system of protected operation of the
board’s in return for the payment
of: graft’.
ESCAPES INJURY
Ollie J. Shepherd, Nevada
City, escaped injury when his car
struck a tree head-on on the Cean valley road Sunday night.
e€ was cited by California highway patrol for being drunk on
a public road.
TURPENTINE AND WOOD
PULP. NAMED FUTURE
INDUSTRY POTENTIALS
Turpentine and wood pulp production were cited as two of Nevada county’s: probable future
industries at a meeting of the Nevada county employment council
Tuesday night, in Grass Valley.
‘More than eighty employers
‘and civic leaders of the county
atténded the session devoted to
a study of the development of industry and payroll in the county.
M. F. (Pop) Small, secretary
‘to. Governor Earl Warren took
part in the discussion and proand bureaus in developing industrial activities here.
Possibilities of development of
the turpentine and wood pulp industries here were presented by
Don Knowlton, ranger with the
state division of forestry here.
Knowlton said recent studies
had proven that California turnti was superior to the pro: : ‘ F
eige he aan » 'ker,and Hans Ronnigen will sing
duct from the southern: states
and that a large wood pulp supply centers in this area.
Among the commercial “énterprizes discussed for future development were truck gardening,
poultry raising, recreation, dairying, .apple growing,
and vegetable
prizes.
William Esterly, Grass Valley
realtor and chairman of the
county employment council) presided. :
SUPERVISORS REQUEST
ROBINSON APPOINTMENT
A resolution requesting Guy N.
Robinson, Indian Springs, be appointed to the Nevada caunty
board of supervisors immediately
was adopted by the board which
met Monday morning to canvass
ballotts of the general election.
Robinson was elected supervisor for the fourth district in a
runoff’ with Ed Kohler, North
San Juan.
The board has operated without a representative ‘ from. the
fourth district since the death of
Warren E. Odell, board chairman, Sept. 10.
The resolution asked Gevernor
Earl Warren appoint Robinson to
the post immediately. Under ordinary circumstances Robinson
would take office-Monay, Jan. .
OPERATING PLANT
Norman Oates, Nevada City,
has taken over the Pioneer Propane planf located near the Colfax cemetery and began operations this week. He is assisted by
E. M. Estrem, Colfax.
and fruit, ky Tonkin’.
freezing enter-.
MINSTREL SHOW
TONIGHT AT N.C.
HI GYMNASIUM
Final arrangements for a mintrel show to be held at 8 tonight
in the Nevada City high school
gymnasium have been completed.
Proceeds of the benefit show
will go into a fund to putchase
robes for the high school ‘choir.
The show will include mucisal
and specialty numbers.
Kent Walker will sing “Ol’ Man
mised’ assistance of state agencies . River” and “Under the Bamboo
Tree’; Bud Seeburg will sing
“Where the Sunset Turns the
Ocean’s Blue to Gold” and ‘‘'Come
After Breakfast—Bring All Your
Lunch—and Leave ’fore Suppertime”; Germaine Marsh will tap
dance to “Ida, Sweet As Apple
Cider’: the boy's quintet composed of Gordon Crane, Bud Seeburg, Dean Morrison, Kent Wal“Dry Bones” and “Sweet Kentucky Babe’.
Pat Sturtevant will imitate two
numbers from records, Cass Daley’s. ‘A Good Man Is ‘Hard to
Find” and Thresa Brewer’s ‘“HonBill Kohler, Grass Valley, will
play a banjo specialty, medley of
numbers from the Old South.
Pre-production music as well
as accompaniment for opening
and closing choruses will be furnished by Willard Goerz‘ orchestra class,
Other members of the cast include Gloria .Larson, Lillie Sos.
samon, Dorothy Roberts, Rafaela
Espinosa and Patsy Humphreys.
Wayne Thiessen will be the interlocutor.
Admission to the show is 50
cents for adults and high school
students and 25 cents for children. Tickets may be purchased
from students today or may be
obtained at the door.
This show is under direction
of William Tobiassen, music instructor at Nevada City elemen-.
tary and high schools.
More than $200 for the choir
robe furid were raised at the
Armistice Day game at Grass
Valley: from the sale of pasties
and hot dogs. Students circulating through the crowd at the
double-header’ game sold 750 pasties and more than 1000 hot dogs.
WILLIAM WELCH:
William Welch, 86, native of
Nevada: City and resident of
Oakland for the past 50 years,
died in Oakland Nov. 1. He was
the uncle of Mamie Guild, Oakland and a cousin of Fred and
Harvey Evans of San Francisco.
DAWN TO DUSK DRIVE
BRINGS $2,400 IN FUNDS
Cash collections in Wednesday’s dawn-to-dusk Boy. S¢out
fund raising campaign totaled
$1,669.05 and pledges brotight the
total to more ‘than’. $2;400, ,according to H. J. Ray, chairman of
the fund drive. ae
The,:well prepared campaign
was declared the best organized
and executed drive by.-a‘ group
of “community ‘leadérs he’ had
ever seen by Ray Ewan; Auburn,
scout executive of Tahoe. Area
Council. -. :
Ray was assisted in the ofganization of the campaign: by
Guerdon Ellis and Howard Smith
of the Tahoe national forest office,
The one-day drive opened ‘with
a breakfast at the’ ungodly hour
of "7 a:m. in the parish hall of
the Trinity Episcopal church: attended by 110 team workers and
directors who canvassed prospects given them by the organizers. The workers returned to
the Episcopal church Wednesday
evening to turn in their collections. '
WRAY NOMINATED
CHAMBER PREXY
Ken Wray, while absent and
unable to defend himself, was
nominated president of the Nevada City chamber of commerce
at a meeting Tuesday evening at
city hall.
Milton Anderson, propiretor of
News and Novelty, was nominated for the vice presidency.
Candidates named for the di:
reatorate include R.:J. Spickelmier, Alvin Trivelpiece, George
. Hansen, Sam Strange, William C.
Briggs, Eddie Furano, O. J. Melton, Mosco Smart and Larry
Mayworm.
Election of a new slate of officers to serve the chamber in
1951 will be held Tuesday, Dec.
12, and the new officers installed
at ceremonies in January.
Spickelmier is outgoing president and I. C. Bellis vice president.
SEAWELL TO SPEAK AT
LIQUOR MEN’S DINNER
A dinner meeting has been
called by the owners of all on
sale and uff sale licenses in the
icounties, of Nevada, Sierra and
. Placer,’ in the third district of
‘the state board of. equalization,.
to take place Monday, 6:30 p.m.,
j at the Elks hall, Grass Valley.
Guest speaker ‘for thé\evening
will be Jerrold Seawell, member
of the third district. His speech
to. all licensees is reported to be
of vital interest.
“HANSEL AND GRETEL”
MELTON HEADS
YULE PLAN FOR
NEEDY PERSONS
Special attention will be given
to creating a merry Christmas
for needy families of. the city,
declared O. J. Melton, director of
the Nevada City chamber of
commerce and head of a civic
committee , planning the city’s
Christmas observances. ~ ’
Melton said all civic, fraternal
and service organizations of the
city will ‘be asked to name a
member to the citywide committee leading the Christmas planning.
Max Solaro who annually puts . .
the festoons of Christmas lights
over downtown streets has volunteered to do the job again.
I. C. Bell and William Briggs
are preparing plans for a Christmas party at the Cedar theatre
for all children of the city.
Mrs. Isabel. Hefelfinger, elementary school nurse, will head
a detail preparing Christmas baskets for needy families. The holiday parcels will contain food,
clothing and toys for the children
of the families.
City. maintenance crews this
week will check the colored light
globes and wiring on the 110-foot
redwood tree on Prospect hill.
The tree is one of the highest
living Christmas trees in California.’
SHOWS HERE TODAY
“Hansel and Gretel” a puppet
show will be presented this afternoon at 2 o’clock in the elementary school auditorium, under the auspices of the Nevada
County Branch, American Association of University Women. In
charge of general arrangements
of the show is Mrs. John Larue.
Mrs. Erik Anderson is director of .
the show. The puppets, made by
Mrs. Andersen and her mother,
Mrs. Harold George, will be manipulated by Mrs. Roger Snipe,
Mrs. Leon Sanford and Mrs. Larue. Mrs. William Tamblyn is in
charge of background music.
The show will be for pre-school
children and pupils of the first
four grades.
TO RESTORE GALLOWS
Antone Lavezzola, Downeville,
has been salvaging the pieces of
the old gallows near the Sierra
county court house, which blew
over in the hard wind of Nov.
2. It is a relic of the,days when
sheriffs hanged criminals. ;
‘Championship
In Local School
* Bob Bonner’s bodacious Bees
brought back the bacon by. beating a big bunch of bruisers from
‘Marysville 27-13 Tuesday night
on Hennessy field. !
The team brought Nevada City
high school its first conference.
championship in athletics in’the .
schools 70-year history, andothe:*"
first championship team since the
1917 rugby team won the Nevada
county championship. :
Bonner’s boys won the _championship by defeating the Marysville Papooses to climax an unhdefeated season. Only blot on the
record is a 13-13 tie with Placer
high school of Auburn. .
Coach Art Hooper of Grass
Valley in commenting:on the B
team said the squad can be the
varsity conference champions of
1952. Hooper cited .the, size’ and
ranginess of the ruggéd~B line
that averages: 161. pounds as 15
and 16 year olds. As’1% and 18
year olds, Hooper said they are
going to be big and rough.
Despite the cold and wind the
Hennessy field stands were well
filled when the B game started
as the last and principal attraction of the evening.
Nevada City kicked to the visitors. Mel Castle ran to the right
and in the ensuing scramble the
left end of the Pappooses, Junley
Richey slipped into the protective coloring of the Marysville
bench-warmers and the’ sécond
play of the game saw the oldtime sleeper used. The play was
good to the Nevada City onefoot line from where Halfback
Ruie ‘Newburn plunged for ' six
points. The conversion attempt
failed. :
Unperturbed ‘and. like true
champions the Bees despite ‘the
momentary setback, ground ‘out
a business-like and certain victory.
The first of three Bee touchdowns in the second quarter was
set up by a blocked kick. Right
Guard Larry Williams chested
Castle's kick and rec6vered on .the Papoose30. . E
Steve Pieser passed to Ray
Kirk on the 17 and the énd ran
the rest of the way to tie the
score. Pello plunged but could
not score the extra point.
In a matter of minutes Nevada
City went out in front, climaxing
a 45-yard drive when Halfback
Bill Sturtevant scored from the
three. Pieser went off tackle for
the extra point. .
In’ three plays the Bees. had
their third touchdown. Erie
Pello lofted the kickoff to the
double ‘stripe and Marysville lost
the ball on a fumble on the tackle on the four-yard line. Two
plunges into the line Pello went
over for the TD.Pieser drove for
the extra point.
The half ended with the Bees
on the Marysville one-yard line.
In the third quarter Marysville
fumbled Pieser’s punt on their .
own 41 and Nevada City recovered. Pieser passed to Kirk on
the 16. Bill Sturtevant took it to
the nine. Bill Behrbaum crashed
to the six and Pieser hit/Don
Boucher with dn aerial in the
end zone. Pello ran the extra
point.
Marysville scored in the third
quarter on a 83-yard drive. Castle passed to End Howard Christian in the end zone for the final
17 yards. Fullback Darrell Phillips plowed the extra point.
The Weather
Fred Bush, observer
Max: Min,
Friday, Nov. 3 :.... t75 43,
Saturday, Nov. 4 .. 80 42
Sunday, Nov. 5 ... 75 39
Monday, Nov. 6 ... 72 37
Tuesday, Nov. 7 .. 70: 41
Wednesday, Nov. 8 . 70 37
Thursday, Nov. 9 .. 71 38.
Friday, Nov. 10 .... 69 32
Saturday, Nov. 11 .. 67 33
Sunday, Nov. 12 ... 65 35
Monday, Nov. 13 ... 54 40
Tuesday; Nov. 14 ... 47 39
Wednesday, Nov. 15 497 36
Thursday, Nov. 16.. 50 36
Frost: Nov. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
precipitation: Nov. 13, .30; Nov.
14, .55; Nov. 15, .12; Nov. 16, 2.00;
season, 10.25. Same date, last season, 4 inches.
Bees Bag Bunting