November 21, 1946 (8 pages)

NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY NUGGET THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, } L 1 1946 Ta PAGE TWO a Nevada City-Grass Valley Nugget . 305 Broad Street, Nevada City, Telephone 36 : A Legal pew spaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City, California Owner and Publisher Editor HARLEY M. LEETE hic LEETE, Jr. :"Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Thursday at Nevada City, California, and entered as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (in advance) ...2..-.-.-.$3.00 CONG THOMEN 6a a Ae 30 cents RAIN Rain we have plenty of as these typewriter kéys click out the editorial of the day. Ordinarily we would prefer to write about some deerer problem, but at the moment the water in the open court in back of the Nugget office is, due to a clogged drain. quite deep enough to be a fitting subject. The wet stuff is running down Broad Street, a greasy gray river. Everyone in town is sniffling and when you see them on the street. which is rare, they are covered from crown to toe with more or (mostly) less waterproof material. It is, as the saying goes, good for the farmers. But up here we aren't farmers. and it certainly is not prolonging operations ‘in our beautiful-lumbering industry. The boys who drive those lumbering cats straight up the sides of steep hills just can’t do it when the ground turns to an oozing mass of slimy red clav. Lots of books have been written about what sort of thing people have been driven to, to entertain themselves when rained in. The best naturally, is the long short story by Somerset Maugham entitled. quaint!v. ‘Rain.’ "We heartily recommend ——that-you read this classic about a reformist minister and a naughtv youns woman who wore white leather boots. Please do not follow its example, just read it. As we draw this soggy prose sonnet to a sodden ivi, we wish to report that it is still coming down in hundreds of millions of unpleasant wet drops. H. M. L. Jr. VENTROSER-COLMAN NUPT [ALS GRASS VALLEY: Quietly married in the parsonage of the Methodist (Church on Fridiay afte November 15th, were: Pauline Venitroser of this city of Remo. Several friends of tended the ceremony. Clessie Moore and Stanley Moore Jr. were witnesses. Rev. Jesse R. Rudkin read: the service. RICHARD WERNER SPEAKER GRASS VATE Y: Guest speaker atthe mecting of the Grass: Valley, Rotary Club in Bret Harte Inn: Monwas Richard J. Wer of Siacmamager of the California Advisory Board. late war the U/S. Army. He ome of his experiences in moon, Vow hery a dae and Burdette K. Coleman ramento, Dairy Industry Werner as a colomel in the couple aldescribed Europe with special reference to the food. situation. He was introduced by Kenneth Stevenson, program . chairman. marriage going to stir better up a horget, a long pole. If’ you’re net's nest, —_ eee OO Report to people who are waiting for telephone service Despite severe shortages of materials, we have added telees at a record this year. So far, more than 305,000 ve gone into service. Still, there is a tremendous job to do before we can catch up with the Pacific Coast’s spectacular growth and provide service for everyone who wants it. Millions of dollars worth ' of additional sort must be manufactured and installed to take care of the orders on hand and new applications which continue to pour in every day. You may be certain that we are doing everything we can to hurry the day we bring your telephone to you. ~~ Thank you for your patience and understanding. — _ The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph ©. 114 WEST MAIN STREET GRASS VALLEY TELEPHONE 600 ARMY and NAVY MART . — ARMY SURPLUS— CLOTHING HARDWARE . 222 Mill Street Sees Valor, California . MAGIC BLANKET BROAD STREET Harley M. Leete, Jr. A TRIP VIA I woke up this morning and. peered out the window. It was a pretty poor peer, because a sheet of water I could see was a landscape black as the ace of spadios and wet as the bottom of the ocean. “My God,” I groaned, falling back into the bed and turning my electric blanket dial a notch higher. “I wish I was back in North Africa.” I never should have said it. My flapping, for the next thing I knew, I WAS back in Africa. The two of us, thé gunnery officer and I, climbed down the rope ladder into the dinghy that lay quiet on the glassy jade green waters of Mers-El-Kebir, Oran’s outer harbor, on the coast of Algeria. A sailor, ‘dressed in sea-bag fresh whites, was waiting for us with a couple of oar-handles in his hands. He was not exactly delighted with the rank hath its privilege seat up, but nionetheless, glad for an excuse +o get ashore. : Mars-El-Kebir is a small round tuorquoise bay that lies urder a towering brown mountain. It shores once held a gay French resort, but the-bright pastels-of-the-stireco beach buildings were stained and sad, for France and her cplonies had como upon poor days. Dirty arabs now lived in the rococo villas. The Arab men wore dirty dungarees and no shoes. The Arab women wore The Arab children wore nothing under the\khot yellow sun and no shoes Judging from smell and there were NO facilities. little Arab. kidis acted as they never heard of them. off-white sheets and no shoes apovearances Th had sanitary . } that gleamed from both the bright “immaculate blade and walked on, was cascading down the pane andi all]. evil spirit must have been standing . . next to the bed with his big ears . . U. S. Outmaneuvering Russia Two Recent Events Indicate Warren Austin — or abroad.” decline. prices. e bd national meetings, ment, We got out of the dinghy and started walking toward Oran, a mile and a half away. First thing was an} incipient riot. The raggedest soldier . I ever saw was standing off a group . of drunken Amercian merchant mavine petty officers. ese colonial, garbed in a blue dun: . garee uniform, more ragged than any cloth used as clothing could possibly be. His face was dark black, stained . deeper than his natural color by a particularly villianous, snarl that exposed a mouthful of. strong white . tusks. In his hands was a carbine . and on its end a bayonet sharpened till it gilittered ominously in the sun blade and the needle sharp point. At the moment, the bayonet was illustrating a point in the Sudanese’s argument. He was gesturing menacingly at the boozed up merchant mariners. The Americans, it seemed demanded entrance to the filthy four story slum in front of which the sentry was posted. We gathered. that the government of Algeria has Placed him there to prohibit entry. PeoPle who entered this resort, we heard later, came out with their health impaired. : The sentry, naturally, didn’t understand English. He looked as if he Probably didn’t understand anything except gorilla. The merchant marine delegation seemed interested in getting us to take their part in the lop sided dispute, but the gunnery officer and I after a short conversations, decided there was nothing in navy regs or international law that could outalk such an unusually sharp bayonet. We skirted the raggedy soldier and his under the blistering late afternoon sun, to Oran. The number anid variety of smells of that peculiar city are hard to describe almost everything’ “is filthy and pungent. After much searching, we found a bar that looked reasonably clean. A war time shortage narrowed our chloice of potions to Creme deAnise, a colorless liquid, which, tastes like Meorice and turns milky when you dilute it with water, which you had better. Ensign G. and I drank a number of these and I remember distinctly remarking how much more attractive the Anisette looked whem clear, and He was a Sudan-. ° ok bea water. Just after that I was startled . by the roar of thunder and patter of rain on the roof, on that ‘blistering hot day in July. I peered into my glass of anisette, which suddenly turned milky, then milkier, and became all of a sudden, the plastic dial of my electric blanket. T saw that I had turned the durn thing on to top heat. When my feet hit the cold, cold floor, I said to myself, “I wish I was back in North Africa.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH the Christian Science lesson sermon for Sunday November 24, for which the golden text is taken from Romans: I beseech you therefore, brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sgcri.fiee holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasoniable serviee. The following citations are taken from the sermon: Psalms 73:26: My flesh and ny heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. Science and Health with key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Whoever ts incompetent to explain soul wouldi be wise not to undetake the explaniticm -o ody. Life is always has been and ever will be independent of matter; for life is God and man ‘is the idea of Glod niot formed materially but spiritually and not Subject to decay and dust. Ohristian. Science Society of Nevada City holds services every Sunday in their church 114 Boulder St. at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. A Wednesday evening testimonial meeting is held on the firgt Wednesday of each monith at eight o’clock. Our reading room is now located in the church edifice at 114 Boulder Street and days, Wednesdays and Fridiays, holidays excepted from 2 to 4 p. m. The publie is cordially invoted to attend our services and visit the reading room. PTA PARTY DECEMBER 9 GRASS VALLEY: The Grass Valley Parent Teachers Association has completed arrangements: for a card ‘party in the auditorium of the James S. Hennessy School on December 9th. The public will de cordially iavited to attend, The proceeds will be used for building up the milk fund of the PTA. not turned cloudy sid the addition of . — Soul and Body is the subject of ' is open Mon-: WASHINGTON Growers Not Badly Hurt by Drastié Cotton Price Break Special to Central Press @. WASHINGTON—Some Washington ‘observers note a disposition on the part of the United States government in recent events to outmaneuver Russia and turn Moscow's propaganda to American use. Two recent incidents seem to indicate this trend which, some experts believe, is in line with the government's intention to be firm with Russia on the matter of foreign policy. One is the State Department's policy enunciated by Secretary James Byrnes that the United States does not feel it should grant credits or loans to countries that think America is trying” to enslave them. The other is the statement made by former Senator Warren Austin, America’s chief delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. When Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov. -ealled for world disarmament, Austin went him one better. He suggested that Russia’s proposed inventory of Allied troops in non-enemy countries “all mobilized forces, whether at howe @ THE UPROAR OVER THE BREAK in the cotton price would indicate that southern cotton farmers were suffering severe losses, As a matter of. fact, the decline for the most part has simply, erased gains made in the last few months. Cotton has been selling at above parity, despite the break. And parity means a price on an equality with the prices of farm machinery and other products which the farm has to buy. Therefore, as long as the cotton farmer is getting more than parity, he is getting a better than even break in relation to industrial prices. : To help the cotton farmer, there are only certain things the gov‘ernment can do. One is to have the Commodity Credit Corporation buy cotton at parity, or to make loans on it at 92% per cent of parity. Neither operation would bolster the cotton price so long as it was above parity. At most,. it would only put a aed under the Some southern members of Congress are putting pressure on the administration—to—forece-removal of OPA priceceilings-on_ cotton ‘textiles in an effort to bring about a cotton price recovery. This would mean higher = for ctotiing. @ LIFPING OF PRICE CONTROLS on shoes will bring. footwear back to the retail trade in substantial amounts. However,.do not look for it to happen immediately. Reason—virtually no hides were cured during the period after removal of price controls on livestock because hides were still on the control list. i : This made it unprofitable for tanners to operate and caused the sharp drop in shoe production. Sole leather was the chief problem.’ Now that ceilings are off both hides and the finished shoes, dustry sourcés have ‘the green light for full production. It will take several months to get the leather output back to requirements, not so long as to make the shoes when manufacturers get the materials. . Some industry sources predict a 15 to 20 per cent boost in shoe, in@® PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S four-motored DC-54, “The Sacred Cow.” which has churned its way to most of the recent important intere is not the popular plane which many people believe. Its luxurious fittings and equippilots say, make it more difficult to handle than ordinary planes of the same type. Topping all the cumbersome fittings, the metal elevator Constructed to enable the late President £ Roosevelt to enter the plane, still remains in the tail to give it added weight. Just seems no one has gotten around to taking it out. Mr. Roosevelt never liked the plane, considered it as extravagance in war-time, and only used it once on the persuasion of Secretary Presidential Plane Hard, To Handle GEIST TALKS ON SCHOOL UNIFICATION GRASS.VALLEY: Lloyd Geist, principal of the Nevada City Elementary School, spoke Tuesday evening as a guest of the Laymeth Club in Wesley Hall. Geist’s topi dealt with the proposed merger of Grasiz Valley and Nevada City high school in a new school plant to be located between the two towns. The plans ‘for this consolidation are still tentative. The overcrowding in elementary grades in both communities, Geist reports, could be relieved by building a common high school plant and releasing the two present high schools for upper grammar grades. UNIVERSITY WOMEN MEET NEVADA CITY: Mrs. William L. Tamblyn of 4513 Sacramento Street was hostess last Monday evening, November 18th, to the bridge players of the Nevada County Branch of ithe American Association of University Women. Beginners as well as seagoned players were welcomed to the meeting. Food that the flappers of 1917 gave to their sons caused physical deficiencies, says a national: vicepresident of Parent Teacher Assoclations. Let’s see, wasn’t that about the time spinach and carrots wer2 firet reported to have food value? FUNERAL FOR HENRY KLIE GRASS VALLEY: Fumeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10. o’clock in the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary for August Henry Klie whio died in a Nevada City hospital Sunday night. Rev. W. W. Turner conducted the service. The body wag sent to Rock Island, Ill. for burial. The deceased was born 78 years ago in Berlin, Germany. He had lived at 136 Conway Avenue for the past three years. A painter ‘by trade he had enjoyed good health until a few hours before he was stricken with a heart attalck. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. ‘Lillian McGill of Berkeley and Mrs. Viola Nelsom of Rick Island, Ill. and a son, George Klie of Canada. Thera are three grandchildren and two great grand children. “ Propertv Vahiec Assessed 9 Per Cent Higher Assessed value of taxalble property in Nevada counity increased 9.2 per cent during the war years amountinz to $19,824,750 for the present year compared with $18,161,975 for 1942 California taxpayers association sald today, making public its study of valuations in California counties. Assessed value of taxable property throughout California increased 23.8 per cent during the war years, this years valuation amounting to $9,100,823,858 compared twith $7,350,926,865 for 1942. CIVIC CLUB MEETS AT BONEBRAKE HOME NEVADA CITY: Mrs. D.°S. Bonebriaake was hostess to the Nevada City (Civie Club at her home, 541 North Pine Street, on Wedinesdiay afternoon, Novemiber 20th. , Mrs. Merle Morrison, president, presided over the business meeting, and social meeting. can We carry the Best Meats i obtainable. It is our pride to serve our patrons with good meat at good values. KEYSTONE MARKET Nevada City Telephone 67 Advertisement From where I sit. 4y Joe Marsh, Folks weren’t surprised when Bert Childers won first prize for. his corn at the county fair. Yet the judges admit it wasn’t just. because Bert had the finest ears of corn. He knew how to dis_ play them: neatly arranged, with the husks cleanly trimmed, and the booth white and spotless, “Trimmings” sure make a difference no matter what you're offering—as Andy Botkin, keeper of the Garden Tavern, well knows. Andy . doesn’t just sell good beer. He sells it in a place that’s clean and attractive.in nice surroundings that cork! ‘Why Bert Won First Prize belong with the enjoyment of a : wholesome beverage of moderation. And Andy, of course, is a wholehearted supporter of “Self Regulation.” That’s the system by which the Brewers and tavern keepers themselves make sure that taverns selling beer are clean and orderly. From where I sit, people like Andy also rate a “First prize.” Not just for the quality of the product —but for the “trimmings” too, Copyright, 1946, United States Brewers Foundation ' which was followed ‘by refreshments

NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY NUGGET THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, } L 1 1946 Ta PAGE TWO a Nevada City-Grass Valley Nugget . 305 Broad Street, Nevada City, Telephone 36 : A Legal pew spaper, as defined by statute. Printed and Published at Nevada City, California Owner and Publisher Editor HARLEY M. LEETE hic LEETE, Jr. :"Published Semi-Weekly, Monday and Thursday at Nevada City, California, and entered as matter of the second class in the postoffice at Nevada City under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year (in advance) ......2....-.-.-..$3.00 CONG THOMEN 6a a Ae 30 cents RAIN Rain we have plenty of as these typewriter kéys click out the editorial of the day. Ordinarily we would prefer to write about some deerer problem, but at the moment the water in the open court in back of the Nugget office is, due to a clogged drain. quite deep enough to be a fitting subject. The wet stuff is running down Broad Street, a greasy gray river. Everyone in town is sniffling and when you see them on the street. which is rare, they are covered from crown to toe with more or (mostly) less waterproof material. It is, as the saying goes, good for the farmers. But up here we aren't farmers. and it certainly is not prolonging operations ‘in our beautiful-lumbering industry. The boys who drive those lumbering cats straight up the sides of steep hills just can’t do it when the ground turns to an oozing mass of slimy red clav. Lots of books have been written about what sort of thing people have been driven to, to entertain themselves when rained in. The best naturally, is the long short story by Somerset Maugham entitled. quaint!v. ‘Rain.’ "We heartily recommend ——that-you read this classic about a reformist minister and a naughtv youns woman who wore white leather boots. Please do not follow its example, just read it. As we draw this soggy prose sonnet to a sodden ivi, we wish to report that it is still coming down in hundreds of millions of unpleasant wet drops. H. M. L. Jr. VENTROSER-COLMAN NUPT [ALS GRASS VALLEY: Quietly married in the parsonage of the Methodist (Church on Fridiay afte November 15th, were: Pauline Venitroser of this city of Remo. Several friends of tended the ceremony. Clessie Moore and Stanley Moore Jr. were witnesses. Rev. Jesse R. Rudkin read: the service. RICHARD WERNER SPEAKER GRASS VATE Y: Guest speaker atthe mecting of the Grass: Valley, Rotary Club in Bret Harte Inn: Monwas Richard J. Wer of Siacmamager of the California Advisory Board. late war the U/S. Army. He ome of his experiences in moon, Vow hery a dae and Burdette K. Coleman ramento, Dairy Industry Werner as a colomel in the couple aldescribed Europe with special reference to the food. situation. He was introduced by Kenneth Stevenson, program . chairman. marriage going to stir better up a horget, a long pole. If’ you’re net's nest, —_ eee OO Report to people who are waiting for telephone service Despite severe shortages of materials, we have added telees at a record this year. So far, more than 305,000 ve gone into service. Still, there is a tremendous job to do before we can catch up with the Pacific Coast’s spectacular growth and provide service for everyone who wants it. Millions of dollars worth ' of additional sort must be manufactured and installed to take care of the orders on hand and new applications which continue to pour in every day. You may be certain that we are doing everything we can to hurry the day we bring your telephone to you. ~~ Thank you for your patience and understanding. — _ The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph ©. 114 WEST MAIN STREET GRASS VALLEY TELEPHONE 600 ARMY and NAVY MART . — ARMY SURPLUS— CLOTHING HARDWARE . 222 Mill Street Sees Valor, California . MAGIC BLANKET BROAD STREET Harley M. Leete, Jr. A TRIP VIA I woke up this morning and. peered out the window. It was a pretty poor peer, because a sheet of water I could see was a landscape black as the ace of spadios and wet as the bottom of the ocean. “My God,” I groaned, falling back into the bed and turning my electric blanket dial a notch higher. “I wish I was back in North Africa.” I never should have said it. My flapping, for the next thing I knew, I WAS back in Africa. The two of us, thé gunnery officer and I, climbed down the rope ladder into the dinghy that lay quiet on the glassy jade green waters of Mers-El-Kebir, Oran’s outer harbor, on the coast of Algeria. A sailor, ‘dressed in sea-bag fresh whites, was waiting for us with a couple of oar-handles in his hands. He was not exactly delighted with the rank hath its privilege seat up, but nionetheless, glad for an excuse +o get ashore. : Mars-El-Kebir is a small round tuorquoise bay that lies urder a towering brown mountain. It shores once held a gay French resort, but the-bright pastels-of-the-stireco beach buildings were stained and sad, for France and her cplonies had como upon poor days. Dirty arabs now lived in the rococo villas. The Arab men wore dirty dungarees and no shoes. The Arab women wore The Arab children wore nothing under the\khot yellow sun and no shoes Judging from smell and there were NO facilities. little Arab. kidis acted as they never heard of them. off-white sheets and no shoes apovearances Th had sanitary . } that gleamed from both the bright “immaculate blade and walked on, was cascading down the pane andi all]. evil spirit must have been standing . . next to the bed with his big ears . . U. S. Outmaneuvering Russia Two Recent Events Indicate Warren Austin — or abroad.” decline. prices. e bd national meetings, ment, We got out of the dinghy and started walking toward Oran, a mile and a half away. First thing was an} incipient riot. The raggedest soldier . I ever saw was standing off a group . of drunken Amercian merchant mavine petty officers. ese colonial, garbed in a blue dun: . garee uniform, more ragged than any cloth used as clothing could possibly be. His face was dark black, stained . deeper than his natural color by a particularly villianous, snarl that exposed a mouthful of. strong white . tusks. In his hands was a carbine . and on its end a bayonet sharpened till it gilittered ominously in the sun blade and the needle sharp point. At the moment, the bayonet was illustrating a point in the Sudanese’s argument. He was gesturing menacingly at the boozed up merchant mariners. The Americans, it seemed demanded entrance to the filthy four story slum in front of which the sentry was posted. We gathered. that the government of Algeria has Placed him there to prohibit entry. PeoPle who entered this resort, we heard later, came out with their health impaired. : The sentry, naturally, didn’t understand English. He looked as if he Probably didn’t understand anything except gorilla. The merchant marine delegation seemed interested in getting us to take their part in the lop sided dispute, but the gunnery officer and I after a short conversations, decided there was nothing in navy regs or international law that could outalk such an unusually sharp bayonet. We skirted the raggedy soldier and his under the blistering late afternoon sun, to Oran. The number anid variety of smells of that peculiar city are hard to describe almost everything’ “is filthy and pungent. After much searching, we found a bar that looked reasonably clean. A war time shortage narrowed our chloice of potions to Creme deAnise, a colorless liquid, which, tastes like Meorice and turns milky when you dilute it with water, which you had better. Ensign G. and I drank a number of these and I remember distinctly remarking how much more attractive the Anisette looked whem clear, and He was a Sudan-. ° ok bea water. Just after that I was startled . by the roar of thunder and patter of rain on the roof, on that ‘blistering hot day in July. I peered into my glass of anisette, which suddenly turned milky, then milkier, and became all of a sudden,

the plastic dial of my electric blanket. T saw that I had turned the durn thing on to top heat. When my feet hit the cold, cold floor, I said to myself, “I wish I was back in North Africa.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH the Christian Science lesson sermon for Sunday November 24, for which the golden text is taken from Romans: I beseech you therefore, brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sgcri.fiee holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasoniable serviee. The following citations are taken from the sermon: Psalms 73:26: My flesh and ny heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. Science and Health with key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Whoever ts incompetent to explain soul wouldi be wise not to undetake the explaniticm -o ody. Life is always has been and ever will be independent of matter; for life is God and man ‘is the idea of Glod niot formed materially but spiritually and not Subject to decay and dust. Ohristian. Science Society of Nevada City holds services every Sunday in their church 114 Boulder St. at 11 o'clock. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. A Wednesday evening testimonial meeting is held on the firgt Wednesday of each monith at eight o’clock. Our reading room is now located in the church edifice at 114 Boulder Street and days, Wednesdays and Fridiays, holidays excepted from 2 to 4 p. m. The publie is cordially invoted to attend our services and visit the reading room. PTA PARTY DECEMBER 9 GRASS VALLEY: The Grass Valley Parent Teachers Association has completed arrangements: for a card ‘party in the auditorium of the James S. Hennessy School on December 9th. The public will de cordially iavited to attend, The proceeds will be used for building up the milk fund of the PTA. not turned cloudy sid the addition of . — Soul and Body is the subject of ' is open Mon-: WASHINGTON Growers Not Badly Hurt by Drastié Cotton Price Break Special to Central Press @. WASHINGTON—Some Washington ‘observers note a disposition on the part of the United States government in recent events to outmaneuver Russia and turn Moscow's propaganda to American use. Two recent incidents seem to indicate this trend which, some experts believe, is in line with the government's intention to be firm with Russia on the matter of foreign policy. One is the State Department's policy enunciated by Secretary James Byrnes that the United States does not feel it should grant credits or loans to countries that think America is trying” to enslave them. The other is the statement made by former Senator Warren Austin, America’s chief delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. When Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov. -ealled for world disarmament, Austin went him one better. He suggested that Russia’s proposed inventory of Allied troops in non-enemy countries “all mobilized forces, whether at howe @ THE UPROAR OVER THE BREAK in the cotton price would indicate that southern cotton farmers were suffering severe losses, As a matter of. fact, the decline for the most part has simply, erased gains made in the last few months. Cotton has been selling at above parity, despite the break. And parity means a price on an equality with the prices of farm machinery and other products which the farm has to buy. Therefore, as long as the cotton farmer is getting more than parity, he is getting a better than even break in relation to industrial prices. : To help the cotton farmer, there are only certain things the gov‘ernment can do. One is to have the Commodity Credit Corporation buy cotton at parity, or to make loans on it at 92% per cent of parity. Neither operation would bolster the cotton price so long as it was above parity. At most,. it would only put a aed under the Some southern members of Congress are putting pressure on the administration—to—forece-removal of OPA priceceilings-on_ cotton ‘textiles in an effort to bring about a cotton price recovery. This would mean higher = for ctotiing. @ LIFPING OF PRICE CONTROLS on shoes will bring. footwear back to the retail trade in substantial amounts. However,.do not look for it to happen immediately. Reason—virtually no hides were cured during the period after removal of price controls on livestock because hides were still on the control list. i : This made it unprofitable for tanners to operate and caused the sharp drop in shoe production. Sole leather was the chief problem.’ Now that ceilings are off both hides and the finished shoes, dustry sourcés have ‘the green light for full production. It will take several months to get the leather output back to requirements, not so long as to make the shoes when manufacturers get the materials. . Some industry sources predict a 15 to 20 per cent boost in shoe, in@® PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S four-motored DC-54, “The Sacred Cow.” which has churned its way to most of the recent important intere is not the popular plane which many people believe. Its luxurious fittings and equippilots say, make it more difficult to handle than ordinary planes of the same type. Topping all the cumbersome fittings, the metal elevator Constructed to enable the late President £ Roosevelt to enter the plane, still remains in the tail to give it added weight. Just seems no one has gotten around to taking it out. Mr. Roosevelt never liked the plane, considered it as extravagance in war-time, and only used it once on the persuasion of Secretary Presidential Plane Hard, To Handle GEIST TALKS ON SCHOOL UNIFICATION GRASS.VALLEY: Lloyd Geist, principal of the Nevada City Elementary School, spoke Tuesday evening as a guest of the Laymeth Club in Wesley Hall. Geist’s topi dealt with the proposed merger of Grasiz Valley and Nevada City high school in a new school plant to be located between the two towns. The plans ‘for this consolidation are still tentative. The overcrowding in elementary grades in both communities, Geist reports, could be relieved by building a common high school plant and releasing the two present high schools for upper grammar grades. UNIVERSITY WOMEN MEET NEVADA CITY: Mrs. William L. Tamblyn of 4513 Sacramento Street was hostess last Monday evening, November 18th, to the bridge players of the Nevada County Branch of ithe American Association of University Women. Beginners as well as seagoned players were welcomed to the meeting. Food that the flappers of 1917 gave to their sons caused physical deficiencies, says a national: vicepresident of Parent Teacher Assoclations. Let’s see, wasn’t that about the time spinach and carrots wer2 firet reported to have food value? FUNERAL FOR HENRY KLIE GRASS VALLEY: Fumeral services were held Tuesday morning at 10. o’clock in the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary for August Henry Klie whio died in a Nevada City hospital Sunday night. Rev. W. W. Turner conducted the service. The body wag sent to Rock Island, Ill. for burial. The deceased was born 78 years ago in Berlin, Germany. He had lived at 136 Conway Avenue for the past three years. A painter ‘by trade he had enjoyed good health until a few hours before he was stricken with a heart attalck. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. ‘Lillian McGill of Berkeley and Mrs. Viola Nelsom of Rick Island, Ill. and a son, George Klie of Canada. Thera are three grandchildren and two great grand children. “ Propertv Vahiec Assessed 9 Per Cent Higher Assessed value of taxalble property in Nevada counity increased 9.2 per cent during the war years amountinz to $19,824,750 for the present year compared with $18,161,975 for 1942 California taxpayers association sald today, making public its study of valuations in California counties. Assessed value of taxable property throughout California increased 23.8 per cent during the war years, this years valuation amounting to $9,100,823,858 compared twith $7,350,926,865 for 1942. CIVIC CLUB MEETS AT BONEBRAKE HOME NEVADA CITY: Mrs. D.°S. Bonebriaake was hostess to the Nevada City (Civie Club at her home, 541 North Pine Street, on Wedinesdiay afternoon, Novemiber 20th. , Mrs. Merle Morrison, president, presided over the business meeting, and social meeting. can We carry the Best Meats i obtainable. It is our pride to serve our patrons with good meat at good values. KEYSTONE MARKET Nevada City Telephone 67 Advertisement From where I sit.. 4y Joe Marsh, Folks weren’t surprised when Bert Childers won first prize for. his corn at the county fair. Yet the judges admit it wasn’t just. because Bert had the finest ears of corn. He knew how to dis_ play them: neatly arranged, with the husks cleanly trimmed, and the booth white and spotless, “Trimmings” sure make a difference no matter what you're offering—as Andy Botkin, keeper of the Garden Tavern, well knows. Andy . doesn’t just sell good beer. He sells it in a place that’s clean and attractive..in nice surroundings that cork! ‘Why Bert Won First Prize belong with the enjoyment of a : wholesome beverage of moderation. And Andy, of course, is a wholehearted supporter of “Self Regulation.” That’s the system by which the Brewers and tavern keepers themselves make sure that taverns selling beer are clean and orderly. From where I sit, people like Andy also rate a “First prize.” Not just for the quality of the product —but for the “trimmings” too, Copyright, 1946, United States Brewers Foundation ' which was followed ‘by refreshments