November 30, 1936 (6 pages)

5 } & tf Thinking }Out Loud evada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA } adv you The Nevada City) Nugget helps your . city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and ertising in the Nugget, help yourself. therefore, H. M. L. Chanving Pollock in the November ‘‘Mercury’’, under the title: ; “America Doesn’t Give a Damn,” utters a severe indictment of the _ American people. When the Titanic, safe, beautiful, modern ship of its day (1912) went down in a collisjon with an iceberg, it did so after pours of radio warnings, her engines at full speed, her band playing, and her passengers’ dancing. Pollock sees the great ship of Colu going down from the crestea sea of civilization, down, down, to the primal ooze of barbarism, while its people are singing “The Music Goes Round and Round,” are playing golf or the stock market, are entertaining one another with ‘Knock, Knock,’”’ or-engaging in contests at social gatherings to see which one a sit most comfortably on an upurned milk bottle. Politics, government, taxes, frequire thought, endeavor, organization, exertion of one kind or another. The people, according to Pollock, refuse to think, its too tiring, too wearing for the modern day American. As a sample of thinking done he «ites the following arguments Ih the recent presidential election: (a) Roosevelt is more convincing on the radio; (b) Landon’ made_ the grade ‘by himself; (c) the New Deal gav.e my sister-in-law a job; (d) why shouldn’t the rich share some of their wealth? (e) there would have been a revolution; (f) Roosevelt does things. (g) Hoover didn’t; (h) Landon don’t and (i) from both sides, you can’t beat $5,000,000,000. As for the death and destruction which looms ahead, laments Pollock, few are much concerned. America plays ‘bridge, or “Handies,”’ struggles for more money and less work, or both; wears paper caps at banquets, blows tin horns on weekend cruises, drinks too much, gets terribly excited about Mrs. Wallis Simpson and the Dionne quintuplets, while across the ocean whole nations revert to barbarism, liberty disappears from thé face of the earth, while civilization crumbles. Every people satisfied with bread amd ciscuses, says Pollock, have *Vtaien into the hands of a Caligula, . ““’ Mussolini, a Hitler or a Stalin. Apathy is the universal symptom of pirgsical, mental and national breakdown. High standards of living, the author implies, have: brought low standards of morals. Courtesy, alty, courage and what was known as common decency are vanishing. Our national supremacy in crime, is due primarily to public sympathy with the criminal. By implication, when sinning to satisfy desires becomes a common attrikute those caught in the meshes law ‘by so doing should receive pub> once lic sympathy. It is a brilliant article and will pay any thoughtful person to read it. But we in this little corner of America still insist that while there are sixteen million people .who refuse to vote more governmental largess for persons that refuse to swork, who refuse to believe that the founders of this Republic were group of rural nincompoops, who did not know what they were doing when they wrote the Constitution, who -refuse ‘‘to be apple dumplings sd for every cheap demagogue and a every expensive vote buyer;” there is hope for America. We have still a backlog, ‘so to see perspeak, of the people who can further than their noses, who, haps will keep the home fires burning.-These are people who today are heeding the warning everywhere apparent to “Stop, look and listen.” Pollock “states that few democracjes have survived more than 200 years. This democracy, of the United States, by that measure, is now entering into its old-age, for we are 160 years old. There are only two first class democracies left in the world. The rest of the world is most‘Jy in the hands of dictators, who, for obvious reasons, hate democracjes, Can we survive in a world so Miianic or will we go down, like the’ fitanic with bands playing, and the people dancing. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pratt of San Francisco . visited relatives and friends in Nevada City Sunday. Mrs. Pratt was the former Miss Clara Angiolini. Her husband is connected with the Bank of America. Mrs. E. T. Leiter of ‘Oakland, a oe of Charles Leiter is a guest at the Leiter home on Briad street. loy-} of the} Vol. 10, No. 109. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA bio Gola Center "MONDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 30, 1936. NEVADA COUNTY POPULATION IS REPORTED 17,600 Nevada county will have a population of 17,600 on January 1, 1937 according to. an estimate of the population of California counties just completed by California Taxpayers’ Assocfation. Population of the county on January 1, 1936, was 16,780 the association estimated. According to the Federal census, Nevada county‘s population was 10,596 on April 1, 1930, so that the Taxpayers’ Association estimate shows an increase of about 7,000 by January 1, 1937. The total population of California, the association estimated, will pe 6,790,000 on January 1, 1937, an increase of approximately 1,112,000 over the census population of 5,677,251 as of April 1, 1930. Changes in population come from two general sources, the association stated. The first is the excess or shortage of births over deaths; the second, the increase or decrease caused by migration. The present estimates are supported by actual sch@l enrollment figures for 1935 and current school enrollments reported by California school administrators. They also reflect the increasing immigration into the state which has been in evidence since the census. STUDENTS TODAY GO BACK TO SCHOOL Students, both elementary and high school, will trudge back to their deat school today to’ resume their studies, which were interrupted by the Thankgiving vacation. Many of the students visited the bay region and saw the CaliforniaStanford “big game’’ during the holidays. The high have taken a beating, occupied from early . till late as possible in the If lights were on the courts, would probably ‘be occupied till midnight. The next vacation will be the usual Christmas vacation. CCC i HURT courts been ry 1ing a tennis having the mor evening. they school in CAMPTONV IDLE, . of the most disagreeable the the on . Nov. -One forest fires ; Sunday . ranch above; A miners cabin burning } of season took place near Lavezzola Downieville. down started it, and with this unusual dry season it soon spread in. to the forest. . On first call the local Missouri) boys responded and remained on the . lines until Wednesday evening. It was in a very mountainous and rugged country whieh made it difficult to fight. Several of the boys caped being trapped by the flames. Another, Wesley Hazel, was badly hurt by a falling rock. At the top of the mountain some timber was holding up rock taken from a mine. The . fire burned away the supports and the rock pile came flying down the hill, The boys dodged as best they could, but Hazel was unable to miss a rock about eight inches in diameter which struck him in the = side knocking him unconscious. He was brought back here Monday night and taken to the hospital at Nevada City Tuesday. : George Strodman, another of the boys almost collapsed due to exertion and strain. They were relieved Wednesday by another crew from Tahoe Ukiah, and came home a pretty tired bunch of boys. While they were gone, Foreman Varden had his crew standing by here in case any other fire would break out. This is the longest and worst fire season ever recorded in the activities of the local forest service. The dryness continues with no SPpATHRy sign of storm. esnarrowly RECOVERING FROM INJURIES Charles Miller and Arthur Rolls whose machine went through the guard rail at Town Talk and down the steep emlbankment to the Narrow Gauge right of way have recovered enough from the various. injuries and abrasions received to leave . LeDuc WINTER MONTHS SEASON OF RHEUMATIC INFECTION} A hint that the people of northern Californfa shaquld take extra precautions to guard their health during December, January and February, to help prevent or overcome rhemuatic diseases, is contained in a report by Dr. Amos Christie, instructor in pediatrics and medicine in the University of California Medical School. At the same time, Dr. Christie states. ‘‘we are dealing with a benign type of rhemuatic infection, comparable with that of other cegmapsammaneni disease in California.” . Thie study made by Dr. Christie revealed “an unusually high hospitfal incidence and a low genexal incidence”’ Of rheumatic fever in the northern California. A study of 116 eases in San Francisco indicates that the incidence of carditis, or inflammation of the heart, in combination with other rheumatic manifestations is correspondingly low. The ‘igh hosfital incidence of rheumatic disease in San Francisco is strikingly in contrast with the low general incidence, according to Dr. Christie. One reason advaniced is that many people migrate to California for their health and seek the hospitals of the big cities for the treatment of rheumatic ailments, but this reason is not fully borne out by the showing made by hospita!s in other populous centers of the state. The low incidence of rheumatic fever among school children in San Francisco may also be attributed to the possibility that the disease hecomes benign for long periods after its typical onset, although this is also a matter of considerable speculation. : But the fact remains, according to Dr. Christie that in San Francisco “we deal with a relatively benign type of rheumatim infection, when measured in terms of cardiaie—damage resulting from the rhemuatic infection.” Dr. —Christie’e report appears in the current issue of The American Heart Journal. PAST PRESIDENTS WILL BRING XMAS CHEER of the No. 6, The sinin Howell pa eiy Past Presidents Association, N. D. G. W. will be held on December 18 at the Womens ward of the Candies, jellies, and the gift for each past presidents will alprogram which is alenjoyed the old county hospital. an apron will inmate. The so present a greatly be ways by ladies at the hospital. At the meeting of the past presidents Friday night a followed the business which cards the Prizes were won ‘by Minerva Wright and Adeline O’Conrer. Mrs. Mary won the mystery box. social session meeting diversion. at were DEAD LINE FOR TAXES §$ NEAR The dead fine ts for i: ahs first installment of taxes is Saturday at noon, December 5. County Treasurer Frank Steel calls attention to the fact that after that date a penalty will be assessed for delinquency and urges ali tax payers to get their first installment paid before the dead line. WELL BABY CONFERENCE HERE ON WEDNESDAY A well baby conference will be held in the primary room of the Methodist. church on Wednesday, December 2. The conference is spon: gored by the P. T. A. and is in charge of .Dr. Emmaline Banks of the state department of child = hygiene. Dr. Banks will be assisted by Mrs. Heffelfinger, county § school nurse. Parents are invited to bring infants or children up to six years ot] age for examination and _ advice about their health and care. Children who have had colds or contagious illness during the fourteen days preceding. the conference are asked not to come. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Welsh and three children spent Thanksgiving in Sacramento with Mrs. Welsh’s the hospital. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis. ALL NEVADA CO. GOVERNMENTS COST $565,313 Nevada county local governments had a total income of $565,313, or $35.82 per capita in 19934-35, according to findings of California Taxpayers’ association. The local governments include the county, the cities, the schools, and other districts. Compared with other California counties, Nevada county’s local governments income per capita was 57th from the highest. The average for the state as a whole was $57.47. Income in the county from local taxes levied by the county, cities and schools was $240,861. or $15.26 per capita; other districts collected $10,022 or 64 cents per capita, apportionments from. the state amounted to $250,507, or $15.87 per capita, while miscellaneous local income amounted to $63,923, or $4, 05 per capita, the. association stated. The income of all the local governments of California, including the fifty eight counties, the cities, schools, and other disiricts, amounted to $365,696,000 in 1934-34, more than a milloon dollars a day, the Taxpayers association found. This million dollars a day is the price the people of California pay for the services and regulations known as local government, and does not include the equally varied and costly functions carried on by the state and federal governments. The income of the local governments comes from three major sources, about 63 per cent from: the common property: tax on real estate, buildings, and persinal property, 29 per ‘cent from the state in the form ofapportionments for schools, roads, old age aid, etc., and about 8 per cent from miscellaneous fees, fines, and charges locally. “In the. broad view, of local governmental of less importance than the total amount,’’ the Taxpayers’ association stated. “By whatever name this income is ealled,; it represents a load ‘which every citizen must shore in approximate proportion to _ his wealth or wages. Whether it is collected by the state, city or county and regardless of the form of taxation used, the only ultimate source from which it can come is the dividual, It behooves him to see that he gets his money’s worth. the revenues are sources ’ inCUBSCOUTS TO BE REORGANIZED arrangements completed to With use Seaman’s Lodge for the Gub scouts, the Nevada City active troop of Cubs will hold a reorganization meeting at the lodge at 7. o'clock Wednesday evening. Cub Master Clifford B. Merriam has called the meeting and invites Cubs and their parents-as well as. interested into attend. Mr. Ricksecker, scout commissioner for the Tahoe area council, will be at.the.meeting to address the Cubs and their guests. The Cub group has been handicapped recently ‘because it has not had meeting place but Merriam hopes that his Cubs will now take a new lease on the life of their organization and ‘become important in scout affairs. a WILL SPEND WINTER AT MINF and Mrs. Ed Addington are to leave for Feather Falls in about ten days to spend the winter on mining ground Mr, Addington is developing. A house, hoist house, and hoist have been put up ahd timbers cut for winter work. The property is two miles from the town of Feather Falls and they will have electricity and running water. In shaft development Addington states he has found a two foot pay chute in.an eight foot ledge that carries high assays. Mr. GABLES SUES HEIDELBERG An damage suit is coming up in the Nevada County Superior Court in Nevada. City at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning in which R. J. Bean is plaintiff and Aline Ellis is defendant. Bean is owner of the Gables, and Mrs. Ellis owns the Heidelberg Inn and adjacent property. Both are in the Glenbrook district between Nevada City and’ Grass Valley. boys between the ages of 9 and 12° CCC FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS ENJOY DELAYED FEAST The fire near Downieville last week kept CCC men at work over Thursday and caused them to miss their Thanksgiving dinner. But turkeys and other delicacies were kept on ice at the camp at White Cloud until the enrollees could return. The fire, seemingly dead by Thursday afternoon, broke out in; the brush during the night but was discovered by one of the forestry foremen in time for men to check its progress. Members of company 3711 were able to return to their camp by Friday morning and to make ready for the big dinner at _ four o’clock. The mess hall tables were covered with white tablecloths and full plates of food. tableware used at the camp is siiverplated, bears the navy crest, and it made quite a handsome showing. At the officers table, headed by Captain Beujamin B. Irving, were the army and camp officers, forestry officials, and their guests. Besides mess sergeant Fred Broderick, there were assisting him in the kitchen two first cooks, enrollees, who have learned all of their cooking under the CCC. Boys in white ducks and aprons.served at the tables. Fhe unusual quiet that overcame the boys as they ate proved that the food was good and that they were getting all they wanted. They finished early and only, those at the officers table remained late over desserts and cigarettes. Probably no less happy over the feast than the.company and its officers were the company dogs. There are five. of these dogs, that have become unofficially attached to company 8711 in their months at White Cloud. The last of these is a part-coyote lady with six pups, the newly acquired name.of Simone Simon. Guardians of the dogs saw -to it that the choice leavings from the tables were set aside for their ‘‘best friends.’’ Saturday the camp began its move to Valley where will spend the winter. THOMAS HADDY BORNE TO REST Funeral services were held at the Holmes. Funeral Home in Grass Valley with Rev. Charles Washburn officiating for the late Thomas Haddy who passed away at the home of Grass it meetings of : his son Alfred Haddy, on Park avenue on Thursday morning. Deceased was born in Liskard, England, 86 years ago. In, 1920 he came to Grass Valley and worked 11: the North Star mine. Later he -was engaged as care taker in Pine Grove ‘cemetery and held that til 1935. Mr. Haddy is survived by by two sons, Thomas and Alfred Haddy of Nevada City; a nephew, George Haddy of Sacramento and five grandsons, Russel, Dick, Bill, Lloyd and Marvin Haddy ,of Nevada City. He has a brother, John Haddy ‘in New Zeland and a_ sister, Bessie Haddy in Southampton, land. Interment was in cemetery in Grass Valley. UNIVERSITY PRESS Year’s day. publishing agency papers in the Series first printed. Since then from highly lar publications Mueh of. the: position un-. Miss EngRed Men's CELEBRATES. BIRTHDAY BERKELEY, No. 30——Distinguished as’ a contributor to human knowledge since 1893, the University of California Press will open the forty fifth year of its existence on New The Press began to function as a when the initial in Bdueation and in the Geological Sciences were it has grown:.in scope and volume. until the books published in its plant represent a wide variety of subjects— specialized. scientific] and scholarly material to semi-popudesigned. to ac-. . Four Forest Fires Rage In High Wind The high northwest wind today fanned four forest fires-into roaring conflagrations over wide fronts. The first one noted from Nevada City started from rubbish burning by Ivan Dow on his farm on the Tahoe Ukiah highway. It got away in the wind and began to climb the brush and timber slope back of the place toward the: summit. of Harmony Ridge. 3 About the same time this‘ fire started, another blaze sprang up on the Kirkham place a mile south of the South Yuba river not far from Lake Vera. Both those fires are in the department of State Fire Warden Bill Sharp and he had proceeded to the ‘Kirkham place before the alarm from the Dow ranch came in. DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor, called 38 CCC boys to take care of the Dow fire, and sent other fire fighting battalions to new fires as fast as they were reported. It de; velopes that since November 1, Fire . Warden Sharp has had no fire crew,. all the men having been dimsissed at that time, and the Forest Service has been assisting Sharp. Forty two CCC boys are fighting the fire on the Kirkham ranch. From last reports, before going to press, the Kirkham fire was going strong in the high wind with nine hundred acres already burned over. In deep gorges along the river, which act as chimneys, the boys are having’an especially hard battle. Assisting in this fire are Ranger Frank McCaslan of North Bloomfield. The fire on the Dow ranch destroyed the barn and other buildings and at 4 o'clock. had reached the crest of ./armony Ridge, burning through « thick brush and scattered timber above the Manzanita Diggings. A third fire has been reported one mile north of Edwards’ Bridge. Twenty five CCC boys are waging a battle there. This fire is threatening the Tahoe National Forest service telephone right of way, which would destroy telephone communication to lookouts to the north. The fourth fire is reported late in the afternoon from Camptonville. The Tahoe National Forest Service headquarters in this city is moving ‘CCC boys from Camp Bradley today ‘to the Grass Valley camp and will make Camp Grass Valley headquarters for the winter. LANDMARK HOME Cc. C. Bennetts, owner of: mining eround and the old Edwards house 4 at Edward's Bridge, lost his home and entire contents Thanksgiving day. It is reported he tried in vain to put out the fire glone. A passing motorist brought the news to WNevada City late Thursday evening and turned it into Mr. Williams, nightwatchman and Officer Chas. Ninnis, who notified State Ranger William F. Sharp: He responded at once as: there is a heavy growth of pine tiraber on the property and ‘if it had spread would have been serious. The house was an early day landmark built in the 50’s and was a hotel for teamsters and gold seekers. The bridge across the South Yuba. river, at this point was a toll bridge for many years. Many amusing, pathetic and interesting stories were told of this old bridge owned and operated by the late owner and wife. quaint the reading public with the sciences, arts, and literature. ai Its publishing activities are divided into two categories. 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5 } & tf Thinking }Out Loud evada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA } adv you The Nevada City) Nugget helps your . city and county to grow in population and prosperity. By subscribing to, and ertising in the Nugget, help yourself. therefore, H. M. L. Chanving Pollock in the November ‘‘Mercury’’, under the title: ; “America Doesn’t Give a Damn,” utters a severe indictment of the _ American people. When the Titanic, safe, beautiful, modern ship of its day (1912) went down in a collisjon with an iceberg, it did so after pours of radio warnings, her engines at full speed, her band playing, and her passengers’ dancing. Pollock sees the great ship of Colu going down from the crestea sea of civilization, down, down, to the primal ooze of barbarism, while its people are singing “The Music Goes Round and Round,” are playing golf or the stock market, are entertaining one another with ‘Knock, Knock,’”’ or-engaging in contests at social gatherings to see which one a sit most comfortably on an upurned milk bottle. Politics, government, taxes, frequire thought, endeavor, organization, exertion of one kind or another. The people, according to Pollock, refuse to think, its too tiring, too wearing for the modern day American. As a sample of thinking done he «ites the following arguments Ih the recent presidential election: (a) Roosevelt is more convincing on the radio; (b) Landon’ made_ the grade ‘by himself; (c) the New Deal gav.e my sister-in-law a job; (d) why shouldn’t the rich share some of their wealth? (e) there would have been a revolution; (f) Roosevelt does things. (g) Hoover didn’t; (h) Landon don’t and (i) from both sides, you can’t beat $5,000,000,000. As for the death and destruction which looms ahead, laments Pollock, few are much concerned. America plays ‘bridge, or “Handies,”’ struggles for more money and less work, or both; wears paper caps at banquets, blows tin horns on weekend cruises, drinks too much, gets terribly excited about Mrs. Wallis Simpson and the Dionne quintuplets, while across the ocean whole nations revert to barbarism, liberty disappears from thé face of the earth, while civilization crumbles. Every people satisfied with bread amd ciscuses, says Pollock, have *Vtaien into the hands of a Caligula, . ““’ Mussolini, a Hitler or a Stalin. Apathy is the universal symptom of pirgsical, mental and national breakdown. High standards of living, the author implies, have: brought low standards of morals. Courtesy, alty, courage and what was known as common decency are vanishing. Our national supremacy in crime, is due primarily to public sympathy with the criminal. By implication, when sinning to satisfy desires becomes a common attrikute those caught in the meshes law ‘by so doing should receive pub> once lic sympathy. It is a brilliant article and will pay any thoughtful person to read it. But we in this little corner of America still insist that while there are sixteen million people .who refuse to vote more governmental largess for persons that refuse to swork, who refuse to believe that the founders of this Republic were group of rural nincompoops, who did not know what they were doing when they wrote the Constitution, who -refuse ‘‘to be apple dumplings sd for every cheap demagogue and a every expensive vote buyer;” there is hope for America. We have still a backlog, ‘so to see perspeak, of the people who can further than their noses, who, haps will keep the home fires burning.-These are people who today are heeding the warning everywhere apparent to “Stop, look and listen.” Pollock “states that few democracjes have survived more than 200 years. This democracy, of the United States, by that measure, is now entering into its old-age, for we are 160 years old. There are only two first class democracies left in the world. The rest of the world is most‘Jy in the hands of dictators, who, for obvious reasons, hate democracjes, Can we survive in a world so Miianic or will we go down, like the’ fitanic with bands playing, and the people dancing. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pratt of San Francisco . visited relatives and friends in Nevada City Sunday. Mrs. Pratt was the former Miss Clara Angiolini. Her husband is connected with the Bank of America. Mrs. E. T. Leiter of ‘Oakland, a oe of Charles Leiter is a guest at the Leiter home on Briad street. loy-} of the} Vol. 10, No. 109. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA bio Gola Center "MONDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 30, 1936. NEVADA COUNTY POPULATION IS REPORTED 17,600 Nevada county will have a population of 17,600 on January 1, 1937 according to. an estimate of the population of California counties just completed by California Taxpayers’ Assocfation. Population of the county on January 1, 1936, was 16,780 the association estimated. According to the Federal census, Nevada county‘s population was 10,596 on April 1, 1930, so that the Taxpayers’ Association estimate shows an increase of about 7,000 by January 1, 1937. The total population of California, the association estimated, will pe 6,790,000 on January 1, 1937, an increase of approximately 1,112,000 over the census population of 5,677,251 as of April 1, 1930. Changes in population come from two general sources, the association stated. The first is the excess or shortage of births over deaths; the second, the increase or decrease caused by migration. The present estimates are supported by actual sch@l enrollment figures for 1935 and current school enrollments reported by California school administrators. They also reflect the increasing immigration into the state which has been in evidence since the census. STUDENTS TODAY GO BACK TO SCHOOL Students, both elementary and high school, will trudge back to their deat school today to’ resume their studies, which were interrupted by the Thankgiving vacation. Many of the students visited the bay region and saw the CaliforniaStanford “big game’’ during the holidays. The high have taken a beating, occupied from early . till late as possible in the If lights were on the courts, would probably ‘be occupied till midnight. The next vacation will be the usual Christmas vacation. CCC i HURT courts been ry 1ing a tennis having the mor evening. they school in CAMPTONV IDLE, . of the most disagreeable the the on . Nov. -One forest fires ; Sunday . ranch above; A miners cabin burning } of season took place near Lavezzola Downieville. down started it, and with this unusual dry season it soon spread in. to the forest. . On first call the local Missouri) boys responded and remained on the . lines until Wednesday evening. It was in a very mountainous and rugged country whieh made it difficult to fight. Several of the boys caped being trapped by the flames. Another, Wesley Hazel, was badly hurt by a falling rock. At the top of the mountain some timber was holding up rock taken from a mine. The . fire burned away the supports and the rock pile came flying down the hill, The boys dodged as best they could, but Hazel was unable to miss a rock about eight inches in diameter which struck him in the = side knocking him unconscious. He was brought back here Monday night and taken to the hospital at Nevada City Tuesday. : George Strodman, another of the boys almost collapsed due to exertion and strain. They were relieved Wednesday by another crew from Tahoe Ukiah, and came home a pretty tired bunch of boys. While they were gone, Foreman Varden had his crew standing by here in case any other fire would break out. This is the longest and worst fire season ever recorded in the activities of the local forest service. The dryness continues with no SPpATHRy sign of storm. esnarrowly RECOVERING FROM INJURIES Charles Miller and Arthur Rolls whose machine went through the guard rail at Town Talk and down the steep emlbankment to the Narrow Gauge right of way have recovered enough from the various. injuries and abrasions received to leave . LeDuc WINTER MONTHS SEASON OF RHEUMATIC INFECTION} A hint that the people of northern Californfa shaquld take extra precautions to guard their health during December, January and February, to help prevent or overcome rhemuatic diseases, is contained in a report by Dr. Amos Christie, instructor in pediatrics and medicine in the University of California Medical School. At the same time, Dr. Christie states. ‘‘we are dealing with a benign type of rhemuatic infection, comparable with that of other cegmapsammaneni disease in California.” . Thie study made by Dr. Christie revealed “an unusually high hospitfal incidence and a low genexal incidence”’ Of rheumatic fever in the northern California. A study of 116 eases in San Francisco indicates that the incidence of carditis, or inflammation of the heart, in combination with other rheumatic manifestations is correspondingly low. The ‘igh hosfital incidence of rheumatic disease in San Francisco is strikingly in contrast with the low general incidence, according to Dr. Christie. One reason advaniced is that many people migrate to California for their health and seek the hospitals of the big cities for the treatment of rheumatic ailments, but this reason is not fully borne out by the showing made by hospita!s in other populous centers of the state. The low incidence of rheumatic fever among school children in San Francisco may also be attributed to the possibility that the disease hecomes benign for long periods after its typical onset, although this is also a matter of considerable speculation. : But the fact remains, according to Dr. Christie that in San Francisco “we deal with a relatively benign type of rheumatim infection, when measured in terms of cardiaie—damage resulting from the rhemuatic infection.” Dr. —Christie’e report appears in the current issue of The American Heart Journal. PAST PRESIDENTS WILL BRING XMAS CHEER of the No. 6, The sinin Howell pa eiy Past Presidents Association, N. D. G. W. will be held on December 18 at the Womens ward of the Candies, jellies, and the gift for each past presidents will alprogram which is alenjoyed the old county hospital. an apron will inmate. The so present a greatly be ways by ladies at the hospital. At the meeting of the past presidents Friday night a followed the business which cards the Prizes were won ‘by Minerva Wright and Adeline O’Conrer. Mrs. Mary won the mystery box. social session meeting diversion. at were DEAD LINE FOR TAXES §$ NEAR The dead fine ts for i: ahs first installment of taxes is Saturday at noon, December 5. County Treasurer Frank Steel calls attention to the fact that after that date a penalty will be assessed for delinquency and urges ali tax payers to get their first installment paid before the dead line. WELL BABY CONFERENCE HERE ON WEDNESDAY A well baby conference will be held in the primary room of the

Methodist. church on Wednesday, December 2. The conference is spon: gored by the P. T. A.. and is in charge of .Dr. Emmaline Banks of the state department of child = hygiene. Dr. Banks will be assisted by Mrs. Heffelfinger, county § school nurse. Parents are invited to bring infants or children up to six years ot] age for examination and _ advice about their health and care. Children who have had colds or contagious illness during the fourteen days preceding. the conference are asked not to come. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Welsh and three children spent Thanksgiving in Sacramento with Mrs. Welsh’s the hospital. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis. ALL NEVADA CO. GOVERNMENTS COST $565,313 Nevada county local governments had a total income of $565,313, or $35.82 per capita in 19934-35, according to findings of California Taxpayers’ association. The local governments include the county, the cities, the schools, and other districts. Compared with other California counties, Nevada county’s local governments income per capita was 57th from the highest. The average for the state as a whole was $57.47. Income in the county from local taxes levied by the county, cities and schools was $240,861. or $15.26 per capita; other districts collected $10,022 or 64 cents per capita, apportionments from. the state amounted to $250,507, or $15.87 per capita, while miscellaneous local income amounted to $63,923, or $4, 05 per capita, the. association stated. The income of all the local governments of California, including the fifty eight counties, the cities, schools, and other disiricts, amounted to $365,696,000 in 1934-34, more than a milloon dollars a day, the Taxpayers association found. This million dollars a day is the price the people of California pay for the services and regulations known as local government, and does not include the equally varied and costly functions carried on by the state and federal governments. The income of the local governments comes from three major sources, about 63 per cent from: the common property: tax on real estate, buildings, and persinal property, 29 per ‘cent from the state in the form ofapportionments for schools, roads, old age aid, etc., and about 8 per cent from miscellaneous fees, fines, and charges locally. “In the. broad view, of local governmental of less importance than the total amount,’’ the Taxpayers’ association stated. “By whatever name this income is ealled,; it represents a load ‘which every citizen must shore in approximate proportion to _ his wealth or wages. Whether it is collected by the state, city or county and regardless of the form of taxation used, the only ultimate source from which it can come is the dividual, It behooves him to see that he gets his money’s worth. the revenues are sources ’ inCUBSCOUTS TO BE REORGANIZED arrangements completed to With use Seaman’s Lodge for the Gub scouts, the Nevada City active troop of Cubs will hold a reorganization meeting at the lodge at 7. o'clock Wednesday evening. Cub Master Clifford B. Merriam has called the meeting and invites Cubs and their parents-as well as. interested into attend. Mr. Ricksecker, scout commissioner for the Tahoe area council, will be at.the.meeting to address the Cubs and their guests. The Cub group has been handicapped recently ‘because it has not had meeting place but Merriam hopes that his Cubs will now take a new lease on the life of their organization and ‘become important in scout affairs. a WILL SPEND WINTER AT MINF and Mrs. Ed Addington are to leave for Feather Falls in about ten days to spend the winter on mining ground Mr, Addington is developing. A house, hoist house, and hoist have been put up ahd timbers cut for winter work. The property is two miles from the town of Feather Falls and they will have electricity and running water. In shaft development Addington states he has found a two foot pay chute in.an eight foot ledge that carries high assays. Mr. GABLES SUES HEIDELBERG An damage suit is coming up in the Nevada County Superior Court in Nevada. City at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning in which R. J. Bean is plaintiff and Aline Ellis is defendant. Bean is owner of the Gables, and Mrs. Ellis owns the Heidelberg Inn and adjacent property. Both are in the Glenbrook district between Nevada City and’ Grass Valley. boys between the ages of 9 and 12° CCC FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS ENJOY DELAYED FEAST The fire near Downieville last week kept CCC men at work over Thursday and caused them to miss their Thanksgiving dinner. But turkeys and other delicacies were kept on ice at the camp at White Cloud until the enrollees could return. The fire, seemingly dead by Thursday afternoon, broke out in; the brush during the night but was discovered by one of the forestry foremen in time for men to check its progress. Members of company 3711 were able to return to their camp by Friday morning and to make ready for the big dinner at _ four o’clock. The mess hall tables were covered with white tablecloths and full plates of food. tableware used at the camp is siiverplated, bears the navy crest, and it made quite a handsome showing. At the officers table, headed by Captain Beujamin B. Irving, were the army and camp officers, forestry officials, and their guests. Besides mess sergeant Fred Broderick, there were assisting him in the kitchen two first cooks, enrollees, who have learned all of their cooking under the CCC. Boys in white ducks and aprons.served at the tables. Fhe unusual quiet that overcame the boys as they ate proved that the food was good and that they were getting all they wanted. They finished early and only, those at the officers table remained late over desserts and cigarettes. Probably no less happy over the feast than the.company and its officers were the company dogs. There are five. of these dogs, that have become unofficially attached to company 8711 in their months at White Cloud. The last of these is a part-coyote lady with six pups, the newly acquired name.of Simone Simon. Guardians of the dogs saw -to it that the choice leavings from the tables were set aside for their ‘‘best friends.’’ Saturday the camp began its move to Valley where will spend the winter. THOMAS HADDY BORNE TO REST Funeral services were held at the Holmes. Funeral Home in Grass Valley with Rev. Charles Washburn officiating for the late Thomas Haddy who passed away at the home of Grass it meetings of : his son Alfred Haddy, on Park avenue on Thursday morning. Deceased was born in Liskard, England, 86 years ago. In, 1920 he came to Grass Valley and worked 11: the North Star mine. Later he -was engaged as care taker in Pine Grove ‘cemetery and held that til 1935. Mr. Haddy is survived by by two sons, Thomas and Alfred Haddy of Nevada City; a nephew, George Haddy of Sacramento and five grandsons, Russel, Dick, Bill, Lloyd and Marvin Haddy ,of Nevada City. He has a brother, John Haddy ‘in New Zeland and a_ sister, Bessie Haddy in Southampton, land. Interment was in cemetery in Grass Valley. UNIVERSITY PRESS Year’s day. publishing agency papers in the Series first printed. Since then from highly lar publications Mueh of. the: position un-. Miss EngRed Men's CELEBRATES. BIRTHDAY BERKELEY, No. 30——Distinguished as’ a contributor to human knowledge since 1893, the University of California Press will open the forty fifth year of its existence on New The Press began to function as a when the initial in Bdueation and in the Geological Sciences were it has grown:.in scope and volume. until the books published in its plant represent a wide variety of subjects— specialized. scientific] and scholarly material to semi-popudesigned. to ac-. . Four Forest Fires Rage In High Wind The high northwest wind today fanned four forest fires-into roaring conflagrations over wide fronts. The first one noted from Nevada City started from rubbish burning by Ivan Dow on his farm on the Tahoe Ukiah highway. It got away in the wind and began to climb the brush and timber slope back of the place toward the: summit. of Harmony Ridge. 3 About the same time this‘ fire started, another blaze sprang up on the Kirkham place a mile south of the South Yuba river not far from Lake Vera. Both those fires are in the department of State Fire Warden Bill Sharp and he had proceeded to the ‘Kirkham place before the alarm from the Dow ranch came in. DeWitt Nelson, forest supervisor, called 38 CCC boys to take care of the Dow fire, and sent other fire fighting battalions to new fires as fast as they were reported. It de; velopes that since November 1, Fire . Warden Sharp has had no fire crew,. all the men having been dimsissed at that time, and the Forest Service has been assisting Sharp. Forty two CCC boys are fighting the fire on the Kirkham ranch. From last reports, before going to press, the Kirkham fire was going strong in the high wind with nine hundred acres already burned over. In deep gorges along the river, which act as chimneys, the boys are having’an especially hard battle. Assisting in this fire are Ranger Frank McCaslan of North Bloomfield. The fire on the Dow ranch destroyed the barn and other buildings and at 4 o'clock. had reached the crest of ./armony Ridge, burning through « thick brush and scattered timber above the Manzanita Diggings. A third fire has been reported one mile north of Edwards’ Bridge. Twenty five CCC boys are waging a battle there. This fire is threatening the Tahoe National Forest service telephone right of way, which would destroy telephone communication to lookouts to the north. The fourth fire is reported late in the afternoon from Camptonville. The Tahoe National Forest Service headquarters in this city is moving ‘CCC boys from Camp Bradley today ‘to the Grass Valley camp and will make Camp Grass Valley headquarters for the winter. LANDMARK HOME Cc. C. Bennetts, owner of: mining eround and the old Edwards house 4 at Edward's Bridge, lost his home and entire contents Thanksgiving day. It is reported he tried in vain to put out the fire glone. A passing motorist brought the news to WNevada City late Thursday evening and turned it into Mr. Williams, nightwatchman and Officer Chas. Ninnis, who notified State Ranger William F. Sharp: He responded at once as: there is a heavy growth of pine tiraber on the property and ‘if it had spread would have been serious. The house was an early day landmark built in the 50’s and was a hotel for teamsters and gold seekers. The bridge across the South Yuba. river, at this point was a toll bridge for many years. Many amusing, pathetic and interesting stories were told of this old bridge owned and operated by the late owner and wife. quaint the reading public with the sciences, arts, and literature. ai Its publishing activities are divided into two categories. 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