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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

November 17, 1950 (8 pages)

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v ] i, ‘ nner’s Bodacious ag 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