November 8, 1943 (4 pages)

IN GLOBAL WAR MEDALS TEACH BATTLE PILOTS ‘ The headlines tell a_ gratifying Bs Will Baird, U. S. M. C.— Bill Baird, who enlisted in the United States marine corps about ten months ago, is now in the South Pacifie after completing his trajning, in Southern. California. His nethee . Mrs. Paul Jurkovich, had a letter from her son recently and his descriptions gave her to understand where he was. Ray Wilde, Jr., also! in the South Pacific, wrote to his parents here recently’ stating hefound Bill Laird sitting on his bed when he returned to camp, much to his surprise and pleasure. Edmond Kan— Edmond Kan, who enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve and has_ beer ’ spending a three week sick leave at his home left Saturday for his school ae san Maeto. He is now midshipman of the U. S. Naval Reserve. edith Jones— Cledith Jones,-who is in the 4tn _ Corps Engineers, at Ft. Lewis, arrived Friday and is enjoying a visit with his wife and grandmother, Mrs. Rose Jones, and many friends. He plans to visit his mother at Napa, before returning to camp. His brother Don Jones, is in army camp at Monterey. Ed Steele— Chief Warrant Officer Ed Steeie, United States Marine: Corps, manager of the Grass Valley office of the “United States Employment Service for several years and was also a member of the Grass Valley Lions Club, has returned to this city, accompanied by Mrs. Steele to spend a 15 day furlough. Steele, who had 24 vears of Marine experience before accepting inactive service and locating here, was ealled shortly after the outbreak of war. FeThe Marine warrant officer arrived at San Francisco early this week from the Solomon = Islands, where he had spent censiderable months and among the mail awaiting for him was the commission from the president, appointing him Chief Warrant Officer. Steele had previously been rated as ‘Chief Gunner’s Mate. : ‘Junior Red Cross Grass Valley. In Membershiv Drive Mrs. Elizabeth Keagy, field representative of the Junior Red Cross yesterday visited Grass Valley schools accompanied by Mrs. Margaret Stev‘ens, Junior Red Cross chairman of the local chapter. The next two weeks will be devoted to enrolling a. 100 per cent membership among Grass Valley boys and _ girls. All members are expected to prepare Christmas gift boxes for children in foreign countries, including pencils, used but serviceable toys, crayons, pads and other aticles. These gifts will be packed and wrapped at the ehapter house on ‘South Auburn street following the Armistice Day parade and football game. story of how our Army Air Forces are ripping the Axis apart. There is another part of the story, also gratifying but not told in the headlines. \Its setting is on the other end of the Ht aiken route to Berlin and /or Tokyo. The heroes of this story wear no ;medals and get precious little pub\lic recognition. But without them j our aerial offensive would have been . delayed many months—-meaning the iloss of thousands of American and {allied lives before we were in a posi‘tion to give more punishment than were receiving. These heroes are the hundreds of civilian instructors in the primary flying schools of the AAF Training Command. The primary schools, in which aviation cadets first learn to get airplanes off the ground, are run by civilians on contract with the government. The civilian’ operators retain and pay the instructors, who are also civilians. Not until they get into the more “‘military’’ type of flying in the basic,-or secondary, stage . struction from Army pilots. ‘Civilian instructors have suffered a number of major and minor annoyances because they were not tech-. nically ‘‘in the army.’’ Many a local draft board has apparently been puzzled by this phrase. Often an instructor was forced to leave his duties and travel hundreds of miles to explain that even though he was not “in the army’’ he was doing a job for which the army—and the country—could never really repay him. Finally, this difficulty was solved by! placing the instructors in ‘the enlisted reserve corps where they are actually members of an army component ; but not on active army duty. Countless times an instructor has resisted the urge to ehoke an old friend who. asked, ‘‘Aren’t. you a flier? Why aren’t you in the army?” Grass Valley Club To Hold Community Dinner A program, which members believe of wide community interest, is being sponsored by the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women Club for the evening of November 17th. It will be a dinner meeting at the Bret Harte Inn and will provide ‘the annual. community organization program. The chairman of the . Post-War Study Group of the club, Mrs. Arletta Douglas, will preside at the meeting. She states that the speakers will be L. J. Brundige, state chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Edward M. ‘Fennon, Sacramento Valley distrigt chairman of the State Chamber of Commerce, and Arthur S. Dudley, executive secretary of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, William Durbrow, Nevada County member of the state committee for economic development, assisted in preparing the program. E » into “‘super-delux”’ performance! GIVE YOURSELF A “NEW” REFRIGERATOR FOR ONLY $5.85 REFIG-O-MASTER, sensational accessory ‘‘converts"’ all refrigerators “SAVES YOUR REFIGERATOR—Adds years to life. Outs of grr "expenses ae much ae 25-50%, Provents costly breakdowns and repair STORES, Ltd. GRASS VALLEY — PHONE 88 of training do the cadets receive .in-, lersonal Mr. and Mrs. C. BE. Clark of North Bloomfield were Nevada City visit-, ors over the past week end. He is in eharge of the Relief Hill gravel mine near North Bloomfield. Archie Campbell of East Broad street broke his right arm Friday while stacking wood in a shed at his home. A pile of wood fell striking Campbell. Miss Gertrude Wilde, employed by the Inter County Title company in Sacramento spent the past week end in Nevada City with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilde. XG Kittie Kimball returned Wedn faday evening from a_ two week’s visit in the bay disrtict with her daughter and many friends. Mrs. Hal P. Davis left Thursday morning for a two week‘s visit with her friends, Commander and Mrs. H. Burford of San Francisco. Commander Burford ‘is stationed on Yerba Buena Island. “Buck” Williams of Bouler street returned the latter ‘part of last week from a visit with his daughter and family, Mr .and Mrs. W. Lyons and children of Camptonville. Mrs. Lyons is now conducting the hotel in Camptonville. Supervisor Tony: Pezzolo of thei second district of Sierra county,: attended the roads meeting in the National Hitel in Nevada City Wednesday evening and also enjoyed visiting relatives in. this city Supervisor Tony Iavezzola was also in the group {that attended the meeting coming down from Downieville with several . Tahoe National Forest service officjials. TAX REDUCTIONS DRATSIC NEED The city of Nevada City with a city tax rate for 1943-44 and the same rate for 1942-43, is one of 136 California cities in which the tax rate showed no change this year, California Taxpayers association stated *taday, making public its study of the tax rates of California’s 284 cities. City tax rates went down in seventy thnee California cities, went up in forty seven and showed no change in 136. Twenty eight cities did not nies the association stated. Urging close control of city expenditures throughout the remainder of the 1943-44 fiscal year, the association said: “Tax rate reduction by all the local governments in California—the cities, counties, school districts, and other district—will be a vital necessity for 1944145. “The only sound way to reduce taxes is by reducing public spending. “As federal taxes to pay for the war become even more burdensome the local governments in California have both the privilege and the duty to give the people of California a ‘breather’ in the form of reduced local taxes.” LETTER FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. By CONGRESSMAN CLAIR ENGLE What is the difference between zero and relative zero? That is the question some of the congressmen thought was: involved in the bill to repeal the Chinese Exelusion Act. Under the act the number of Chinese permitted to enter the country is zero. Under-the repealing act it would be 105 a year. There are some 350,000,000 Chinese and around 140,000,000 Americans. Most congressmen couldn’t get too exeited over the claims of the opponents of the repealing act who thought that permitting this handful of Chinese to enter would break down our immigration barriers. However, there aré a number’ of bills now pending before the Committee on Immigration which it is claimed would make this country a haven (or dumping ground, whichever you prefer) for all of the malcontented masses of Hurope. If any of the bills get to ‘the floor of the House there will be a real free-forall. The raising of allotments for the dependents of our fighting men on the eve of wholesale induction of fathers was a matter of simple justice. What wife and child could live on $76 a month. It is going to be tough going ‘on $90, particularly in the big cities. You have heard a lot about the cloak rooms of congress. They are located on the north side of the House chamber under the balcony. Debates in the cloak room are usuwally a lot better than those on the House floor. The talk on the floor . often is pretty dull, but in the cloak rooms the congressmen really let e ‘ their hair down. The other day several got into an argument over whether the Anierican’ public had been given the facts, 1on the war soon enough and often enough, both before and since Pearl Harbor. It was a treat to hear some of the most powerful men in the House shout and argue, sometimes all at once, with all the fire and good humored vigor of a country store “debating society.”’ Like all such debates the result' was inconclusive, and no opinions were. altered, but I thought the critics of our news handling had a little the best of ,it. Paul Chesebro Will Undergo Surgery Supervisor Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest reports that Ranger Barnes of the Big Bend. District is: being detailed to the Nevada City office for a month as acting executive asssistant in place of Paul Chesebro who will be incapacitated by surgery for that period. Barnes assumes his duties on November 5. Fire Control Assistant Fox of the Big Bend District will be in Barnes’ experience with the U. S. Forest Service has-been varied and _ weil suits him for his present detail. Before his transfer to the Big Bend District last March, he was employed as a ranger on the Shasta National Forest. Previous to ‘this -he was on the Prairie States Forestry Project at Lincoln, Nebraska, where he had widely varied administrative duties in connection with tree planiing in the plains region. Barnes graduated in forestry from the University of California.” Two Nevada City ‘Nurses To Attend Meet Attending the convention of the (CaliforniaState Nurses Association in San Francisco next Monday will be Mrs. Isabelle WHefelfinger and ‘Mrs. Emily Lagerquist of this city. Among the major features of the program to be discussed will be recruiting more nurses for the armed services, spreading nursing care equitably among the civilian population, and a continuing campaign to attract student nurses to professional training. Nevada County Company Wants To Sell For $30,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8.—The Nevada County Truck Company asked the state railroad commission for approval of a plan to sell its rights and properties to the Pacific Motor Truck Company for $30,000. CAMPTONVILLE, Nov. 8. — Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hanson left a few days ago for their: home in the state of Washington after a short visit with his brother Fred Hanson. Mr. and Mrs. Antone Lavezolla of Downieville passed through town Tuesday from Nevada City enroute to their home at the Sierra county seat. Supervisor Andrew J. Modglin of Gibsonville was in town Tuesday from Downieville, where he had attended a meeting of the board, enroute ‘to his home. ; e Mrs. H. Burr Given Surprise Party ‘Mrs. Howard Burr was given a surprise farewell party Thursday afternoon by several friends, the event also honoring her birthday, which ocrurred on Sunday. A handkerchief shower was given her by the group with a guest prize going to her and second prize going to Mrs. Minnie Young in a drawing contest. Mrs3. HEH SSO Ket Rose, Jones told fortunes in oe cups causing much merriment. Mrs. Minnie Young and Mrs. Edna Martine were cohostesses and those invited to attend: the party were, Mrs. Annie Browning, Mrs. Marie Maguire, Mrs. Al Williams, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Nance James, Mrs. Annie Godfrey, Mrs. Esther Tremaine, the honored guest and her son, Raphael Hanahan. .After a most pleasant social time refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Burr are selling their home in Nevada City after residing here thirteen years. Their many friends regret seeing them leave. Mrs. Burr has taken an active part in lodge affairs in the twin cities and is widely known for her work in the Red Cross. MARRIAGE LICENSE BLAKE-PETERSON — In Nevada (City, Nevada County, November 4, 1948, to Arnold Eugene Blake, 25, and Annabel Mae Peterson, 20, both of Grass Valley. BOND-BARDIERS. KWor Bonds are not only the best investment you can make today—an investment which pays good interest—but they are as essential as anything in your personal or family budget. So whatever your salary, whatever your wages, whatever your income, after you have set aside the amount you need for essentials, invest the rest—every cent of it—in War Bonds. INVEST THE REST IN WAR BONDS! Dank of America TRUST AND NATIONAL TRYST 82 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation * Member Federal Reserve System COPYRIGHT, 1943, BANK OF AMERICA N. T. &'S. A. ASSOCIATION t © Borden Co. Slate aay? enough to cat! We'll CIS have about 75% QM of all the ‘Help your grocer fight with food!” Remember, A it’s > you know, is just as important a' weapon as. j DEF must come first! But don’t think, folks, that we at home Aiisp, won't be getting pinta ge

IN GLOBAL WAR MEDALS TEACH BATTLE PILOTS ‘ The headlines tell a_ gratifying Bs Will Baird, U. S. M. C.— Bill Baird, who enlisted in the United States marine corps about ten months ago, is now in the South Pacifie after completing his trajning, in Southern. California. His nethee . Mrs. Paul Jurkovich, had a letter from her son recently and his descriptions gave her to understand where he was. Ray Wilde, Jr., also! in the South Pacific, wrote to his parents here recently’ stating hefound Bill Laird sitting on his bed when he returned to camp, much to his surprise and pleasure. Edmond Kan— Edmond Kan, who enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve and has_ beer ’ spending a three week sick leave at his home left Saturday for his school ae san Maeto. He is now midshipman of the U. S. Naval Reserve. edith Jones— Cledith Jones,-who is in the 4tn _ Corps Engineers, at Ft. Lewis, arrived Friday and is enjoying a visit with his wife and grandmother, Mrs. Rose Jones, and many friends. He plans to visit his mother at Napa, before returning to camp. His brother Don Jones, is in army camp at Monterey. Ed Steele— Chief Warrant Officer Ed Steeie, United States Marine: Corps, manager of the Grass Valley office of the “United States Employment Service for several years and was also a member of the Grass Valley Lions Club, has returned to this city, accompanied by Mrs. Steele to spend a 15 day furlough. Steele, who had 24 vears of Marine experience before accepting inactive service and locating here, was ealled shortly after the outbreak of war. FeThe Marine warrant officer arrived at San Francisco early this week from the Solomon = Islands, where he had spent censiderable months and among the mail awaiting for him was the commission from the president, appointing him Chief Warrant Officer. Steele had previously been rated as ‘Chief Gunner’s Mate. : ‘Junior Red Cross Grass Valley. In Membershiv Drive Mrs. Elizabeth Keagy, field representative of the Junior Red Cross yesterday visited Grass Valley schools accompanied by Mrs. Margaret Stev‘ens, Junior Red Cross chairman of the local chapter. The next two weeks will be devoted to enrolling a. 100 per cent membership among Grass Valley boys and _ girls. All members are expected to prepare Christmas gift boxes for children in foreign countries, including pencils, used but serviceable toys, crayons, pads and other aticles. These gifts will be packed and wrapped at the ehapter house on ‘South Auburn street following the Armistice Day parade and football game. story of how our Army Air Forces are ripping the Axis apart. There is another part of the story, also gratifying but not told in the headlines. \Its setting is on the other end of the Ht aiken route to Berlin and /or Tokyo. The heroes of this story wear no ;medals and get precious little pub\lic recognition. But without them j our aerial offensive would have been . delayed many months—-meaning the iloss of thousands of American and {allied lives before we were in a posi‘tion to give more punishment than were receiving. These heroes are the hundreds of civilian instructors in the primary flying schools of the AAF Training Command. The primary schools, in which aviation cadets first learn to get airplanes off the ground, are run by civilians on contract with the government. The civilian’ operators retain and pay the instructors, who are also civilians. Not until they get into the more “‘military’’ type of flying in the basic,-or secondary, stage . struction from Army pilots. ‘Civilian instructors have suffered a number of major and minor annoyances because they were not tech-. nically ‘‘in the army.’’ Many a local draft board has apparently been puzzled by this phrase. Often an instructor was forced to leave his duties and travel hundreds of miles to explain that even though he was not “in the army’’ he was doing a job for which the army—and the country—could never really repay him. Finally, this difficulty was solved by! placing the instructors in ‘the enlisted reserve corps where they are actually members of an army component ; but not on active army duty. Countless times an instructor has resisted the urge to ehoke an old friend who. asked, ‘‘Aren’t. you a flier? Why aren’t you in the army?” Grass Valley Club To Hold Community Dinner A program, which members believe of wide community interest, is being sponsored by the Grass Valley Business and Professional Women Club for the evening of November 17th. It will be a dinner meeting at the Bret Harte Inn and will provide ‘the annual. community organization program. The chairman of the . Post-War Study Group of the club, Mrs. Arletta Douglas, will preside at the meeting. She states that the speakers will be L. J. Brundige, state chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Edward M. ‘Fennon, Sacramento Valley distrigt chairman of the State Chamber of Commerce, and Arthur S. Dudley, executive secretary of the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, William Durbrow, Nevada County member of the state committee for economic development, assisted in preparing the program. E » into “‘super-delux”’ performance! GIVE YOURSELF A “NEW” REFRIGERATOR FOR ONLY $5.85 REFIG-O-MASTER, sensational accessory ‘‘converts"’ all refrigerators “SAVES YOUR REFIGERATOR—Adds years to life. Outs of grr "expenses ae much ae 25-50%, Provents costly breakdowns and repair STORES, Ltd. GRASS VALLEY — PHONE 88 of training do the cadets receive .in-, lersonal Mr. and Mrs. C. BE. Clark of North Bloomfield were Nevada City visit-, ors over the past week end. He is in eharge of the Relief Hill gravel mine near North Bloomfield. Archie Campbell of East Broad street broke his right arm Friday while stacking wood in a shed at his home. A pile of wood fell striking Campbell. Miss Gertrude Wilde, employed by the Inter County Title company in Sacramento spent the past week end in Nevada City with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilde. XG Kittie Kimball returned Wedn faday evening from a_ two week’s visit in the bay disrtict with her daughter and many friends. Mrs. Hal P. Davis left Thursday morning for a two week‘s visit with her friends, Commander and Mrs. H. Burford of San Francisco. Commander Burford ‘is stationed on Yerba Buena Island. “Buck” Williams of Bouler street returned the latter ‘part of last week from a visit with his daughter and family, Mr .and Mrs. W. Lyons and children of Camptonville. Mrs. Lyons is now conducting the hotel in Camptonville. Supervisor Tony: Pezzolo of thei second district of Sierra county,: attended the roads meeting in the National Hitel in Nevada City Wednesday evening and also enjoyed visiting relatives in. this city Supervisor Tony Iavezzola was also in the group {that attended the meeting coming down from Downieville with several . Tahoe National Forest service officjials. TAX REDUCTIONS DRATSIC NEED The city of Nevada City with a city tax rate for 1943-44 and the same rate for 1942-43, is one of 136 California cities in which the tax rate showed no change this year, California Taxpayers association stated *taday, making public its study of the tax rates of California’s 284 cities.

City tax rates went down in seventy thnee California cities, went up in forty seven and showed no change in 136. Twenty eight cities did not nies the association stated. Urging close control of city expenditures throughout the remainder of the 1943-44 fiscal year, the association said: “Tax rate reduction by all the local governments in California—the cities, counties, school districts, and other district—will be a vital necessity for 1944145. “The only sound way to reduce taxes is by reducing public spending. “As federal taxes to pay for the war become even more burdensome the local governments in California have both the privilege and the duty to give the people of California a ‘breather’ in the form of reduced local taxes.” LETTER FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. By CONGRESSMAN CLAIR ENGLE What is the difference between zero and relative zero? That is the question some of the congressmen thought was: involved in the bill to repeal the Chinese Exelusion Act. Under the act the number of Chinese permitted to enter the country is zero. Under-the repealing act it would be 105 a year. There are some 350,000,000 Chinese and around 140,000,000 Americans. Most congressmen couldn’t get too exeited over the claims of the opponents of the repealing act who thought that permitting this handful of Chinese to enter would break down our immigration barriers. However, there aré a number’ of bills now pending before the Committee on Immigration which it is claimed would make this country a haven (or dumping ground, whichever you prefer) for all of the malcontented masses of Hurope. If any of the bills get to ‘the floor of the House there will be a real free-forall. The raising of allotments for the dependents of our fighting men on the eve of wholesale induction of fathers was a matter of simple justice. What wife and child could live on $76 a month. It is going to be tough going ‘on $90, particularly in the big cities. You have heard a lot about the cloak rooms of congress. They are located on the north side of the House chamber under the balcony. Debates in the cloak room are usuwally a lot better than those on the House floor. The talk on the floor . often is pretty dull, but in the cloak rooms the congressmen really let e ‘ their hair down. The other day several got into an argument over whether the Anierican’ public had been given the facts, 1on the war soon enough and often enough, both before and since Pearl Harbor. It was a treat to hear some of the most powerful men in the House shout and argue, sometimes all at once, with all the fire and good humored vigor of a country store “debating society.”’ Like all such debates the result' was inconclusive, and no opinions were. altered, but I thought the critics of our news handling had a little the best of ,it. Paul Chesebro Will Undergo Surgery Supervisor Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest reports that Ranger Barnes of the Big Bend. District is: being detailed to the Nevada City office for a month as acting executive asssistant in place of Paul Chesebro who will be incapacitated by surgery for that period. Barnes assumes his duties on November 5. Fire Control Assistant Fox of the Big Bend District will be in Barnes’ experience with the U. S. Forest Service has-been varied and _ weil suits him for his present detail. Before his transfer to the Big Bend District last March, he was employed as a ranger on the Shasta National Forest. Previous to ‘this -he was on the Prairie States Forestry Project at Lincoln, Nebraska, where he had widely varied administrative duties in connection with tree planiing in the plains region. Barnes graduated in forestry from the University of California.” Two Nevada City ‘Nurses To Attend Meet Attending the convention of the (CaliforniaState Nurses Association in San Francisco next Monday will be Mrs. Isabelle WHefelfinger and ‘Mrs. Emily Lagerquist of this city. Among the major features of the program to be discussed will be recruiting more nurses for the armed services, spreading nursing care equitably among the civilian population, and a continuing campaign to attract student nurses to professional training. Nevada County Company Wants To Sell For $30,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8.—The Nevada County Truck Company asked the state railroad commission for approval of a plan to sell its rights and properties to the Pacific Motor Truck Company for $30,000. CAMPTONVILLE, Nov. 8. — Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Hanson left a few days ago for their: home in the state of Washington after a short visit with his brother Fred Hanson. Mr. and Mrs. Antone Lavezolla of Downieville passed through town Tuesday from Nevada City enroute to their home at the Sierra county seat. Supervisor Andrew J. Modglin of Gibsonville was in town Tuesday from Downieville, where he had attended a meeting of the board, enroute ‘to his home. ; e Mrs. H. Burr Given Surprise Party ‘Mrs. Howard Burr was given a surprise farewell party Thursday afternoon by several friends, the event also honoring her birthday, which ocrurred on Sunday. A handkerchief shower was given her by the group with a guest prize going to her and second prize going to Mrs. Minnie Young in a drawing contest. Mrs3. HEH SSO Ket Rose, Jones told fortunes in oe cups causing much merriment. Mrs. Minnie Young and Mrs. Edna Martine were cohostesses and those invited to attend: the party were, Mrs. Annie Browning, Mrs. Marie Maguire, Mrs. Al Williams, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Nance James, Mrs. Annie Godfrey, Mrs. Esther Tremaine, the honored guest and her son, Raphael Hanahan. .After a most pleasant social time refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Burr are selling their home in Nevada City after residing here thirteen years. Their many friends regret seeing them leave. Mrs. Burr has taken an active part in lodge affairs in the twin cities and is widely known for her work in the Red Cross. MARRIAGE LICENSE BLAKE-PETERSON — In Nevada (City, Nevada County, November 4, 1948, to Arnold Eugene Blake, 25, and Annabel Mae Peterson, 20, both of Grass Valley. BOND-BARDIERS. KWor Bonds are not only the best investment you can make today—an investment which pays good interest—but they are as essential as anything in your personal or family budget. So whatever your salary, whatever your wages, whatever your income, after you have set aside the amount you need for essentials, invest the rest—every cent of it—in War Bonds. INVEST THE REST IN WAR BONDS! Dank of America TRUST AND NATIONAL TRYST 82 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation * Member Federal Reserve System COPYRIGHT, 1943, BANK OF AMERICA N. T. &'S. A. ASSOCIATION t © Borden Co. Slate aay? enough to cat! We'll CIS have about 75% QM of all the ‘Help your grocer fight with food!” Remember, A it’s > you know, is just as important a' weapon as. j DEF must come first! But don’t think, folks, that we at home Aiisp, won't be getting pinta ge