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October 13, 1947 (4 pages)

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THE. NUGGET “gst COUNTY IN He UNITED STATES * VALLEY pe PER MONTH. , AND WORTH A LOT MORE — i a}-No. 92 The Twin Cities Paper. NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA The County Seat Paper ccna — E FOR THURMAN p Thurman, our legislator of these’ Sierra foothills, med his promotion to the state senate during his nine » service in the assembly, the traditional proving ground senators gain their right to a seat in the higher house. . jn a political campaign, it is usually possible to line up andidates, in order-of weakness, by the amount of mud s throw. The weak candidate will The strong candidates point to their record. is what Thurman has done. seek to divert attention from jnilty of his claim for office by a frantic display of mudg energy. Or, in some instances, weak candidates . sort to untruth, in which case they are out on a limb Have to climb back in a humiliating hurry. the mud-throwing This happened in the case of the $30,000 for an Assemsin” blurb, which the Nugget was fortunate in being able is ineffective, as. it must be % ‘aman of proven character, like Thurman, the opposihay resort to playing the tune of petty county jealousy. Wwhave even gone so far as to portray the voters of Nevada aty.as slaves ““enshackled”’ by the legislator from Colfax, : emiles outside the boundary of Nevada County. ‘The tune of petty. jealousy sounds poorly to ears listening cts to guide them as to who is the best man. That is pAssemblyman Scoop Thurman has gained in stature as . And that is why the great majority of Nevada County UG its will turn out today, to vote for Assemblyman Scoop e beseech you, in your own interest, to vote today, vote for the man who will insure you good government gh calibre he has provided in nine years of earnest, service—H. M.L., Jr. ~ IFUL WORD-PICTURE PAINTED (MED-OF NATIONAL PARK . By VAL -D. BAIMA’ » story of the National Gold ioe Banner Mountain has just ‘hope is that by the cenof 1949, the year which mie to De'kpown as the California ; ; this: proposéd -scenic and will be’ a diwing: reality “all national parks ,and miients is a long and grueling one. Roe we know will prove to. be aly in faith in ithe people ill ever work day and night crowns our efforts. ¢Baiher Mt, National Gold Park i t0 do these things in bisef: reatefor the -people —of this rthern California a national it will be the means of preall of the finest history of the fornia Gold Rush days. At t there is no such place to safeithe best of that great Ameridrama. By the park’s creaitself we will have built a mument to. the. pioneers— i the thousands. of miners enriched our nation with tld their hands have produced. ; “the area in the park -will 4 and preserve for future genot, trees, plants, wild-life and the val beauties of the mountain S iep and new interest in gold oe the historical interest will oped by such a great park. . 7’ Man, woman. and child in wheal of northern California, as Wtitizens of other states will Hew recreational area and not <. @ to g0 to Tahoe or wait ‘Yearly State fairs to view nuguartz specimens. __ Gold Park will be a sevdollar project, Many men yment for several ; bless our towns. as = Cone. before. A beautiful unity and harmony will be to life by the project. Be“Rot be for one town, or m8, but for all the towns conWith gold in northern CaliThis cooperation. will _be & best of success. The fertainiy be national in this is what the CaliTush was. Nothing else @ do justice to that The main attraction will be a stone tower of true beauty on top of Banner Mt. peak. This will be the observation tower. Will be seen for miles /-and miles. We will need a good water system to bring wate ll over. park_area. This will. be an electric pump: plant with reservoirs. And Jast } we will have a néw net work of scenic road ways. The greatest thing in the park will be the rugged jewel called the museum. This will be built. also of native stone, cement and steel. A really beautiful temple, fire-proof and capable of guarding the treasures for ages. Gold nuggets, high grade quartz, relics, mining exhibits and a dozen other things will be there. It will be the finest museum of its kind in the entire world. No gold collece tion in the “raw” will equal it. A heroic statue of the gold: miner willbe also a wonderful attraction there. ~ This will be one of the art gems of the world. We have all the material to build this. park. Everything! Many fountains will grace the landscape on one of the knolls of Banner, for this will be the place to build the musuem, Lawn, trees, flowers will be in themselves a wonder to behold. We can even have a large swimming: pool All in all it will be a great project. Time does not permit me to go into details. This is just an outline of the project. Our Gold Rush days Cavaleade can have a natural outdoor’ theater’ on Banner. Many places can be found on the lower slopes. for such a natural theater. Them our 49ers days will become national and our towns will never, never die. We must do something NOW before too long or else we will. yet see gold mining towns turn: into ghost towns. This is very serious’ that we help ourselves NOW while we. can. Several million. dolJars revenué will.come to. these towns every year. We want you and you—all, of you,. to sign your name to one ofthe many petitions im both Grass Valley and Nevada’ City. Do it today. We already have three to four thousand signers. “We “want 10,000. county is far ahead of this county in support. This is something we should be ashamed of: ~ Scoop Thurman is behind. this project with. both Colfax Record and Placer Herald. . An ‘automobile Engell, local real wud One driyen by James: e: © of Grass Valley, coloo. * Town Talk at 11:30 . Engell had as pasautomobile his young + and Jerry. _ hgelis,and Bryant and 4Sers, were all slightly 4ins, bruises and con~ ighway Patrol, Hills *.Teported that Bryant t with peckless drivFOR FRANCIS JOHNSON "NEVADA CITY: Funeral services were held yesterday at 2 p. m. at Hooper-Weaver Mortuary for Fran: cis Marion Johnson, 38,* who died at 12:15 a, m, October 10, at his home in Glebnrook. Rev. Donald A. Ghetty of the Methodist church officiated. Johnson had lived 24 years in Nevadacounty. He was @ native of Douglas, Arizona. = The deceased ‘leaves a wife, Mrs. Eva Johnson of Grass Valley; a mother, Mrs, Etta, Sutton, Grass Valley: father, J. M._Johnson,: Smartsville; sister,"Mrs. Walter Huson, Grass Valley; a sister, Mrs. Florence Eurell of Grass Valley; Lloyd C. Johnson, 4 of Hareld T. (Bizz) Johnson Name New Senator . ts “Alice Monahan Williams Placer. DEER SEASON WILL END THIS WEDNESDAY SACRAMENTO: Deer season ends in all of Calfiornia next Wednesday; October 15, at sundown. According to incomplete returns, it promises to have resulted in the heavjest kill ever recorded im the state. A heavier concentration ‘on the mule deer herds of the Sierra-Nevada range was noted by . Division of. Fish
and Game. statisticians. The coast range deer, smaller but with a twobuck bag limit was slightly above normal in the.take; But the one-buck mule deer districts are giving up the greatest toll in history. : Deer kill, in the late season, from September 16 to and including October 2, totaled 13,627. Fresno county leads with 1605, andthe next four counties are Siskiyou, 1,285; Lassen, 4,235; Modoc, 1,169; and Sierra, 847. Affiperial county, so far, has only reported six killed, while Sacramento Peounty had only séveh tags returned. Experience has proved that about 80 per cent of the total kill is. made durirfg the first week of each open. season, with hunting effort spread over the balance of the season to account for the remaining total score. ‘FUN HORSEBACK’ GRASS VALLEY: The Gold Trail Riders “Fun on Horseback” show Sun-. day was a big success. The program was as follows: ee z Grand entry at 2:30 p. m., judging for best groomed horse, youngest rider, and colt in hand. Then -followed various horseback gamesy .in. cluding: Musical’ chairs; a balloon contest, old clothes race, junior horsemanship event, amateur roping, eggfrying race; stock horse event, run, ride and lead, rescue race, experienced roping, stock horse race, and resaddle race, CAR RUNS OFF ROAD, _ WOMAN BREAKS ARM GRASS VALLEY: Mrs. Mollie Sanchel of this city suffered a broken right arm and wrecked her automo+eurve It-was in avoiding a collision TRAILER UPSET GRASS VALLEY: A truck and trailer loaded with finished lumber got out of control on the way into Grass Valley last night and at 6:45 p. m, the trailer turned over in front of Dave’s Inn. The trailer sideswiped two parked automobiles. Much of the lumber was thrown through the window; of Dave’s Inn’ just across the road from Helbach Motors, Only minor injuries were reported. One woman suffered scalp .wounds from flying glass. Ray Baxter, Los. Angeles, was driving the truck and semi-trailer, which belonged to H. S, Quirin, also of Los Angeles. A black Chrysler sedam parked in front of Dave’s Inn was _§ seriously damaged. The lumber lay strewn over the highway at the scene of ‘the actident. \Cause of the accident was failure ofthe air. brakes of the trailer as the truck came.downm the grade into Hills Flat. The driver blinked his lights as warning, and several cars got out of his’ ‘way before hereached the with another car on the road, turning ‘too short for the speed of the vehicles, that the crash occurred. *; "Phe. truck continued to the California Inn, ‘before it was able.to stop. HISTORIANS GRASS VALLEY: Doris Foley, president of the Nevada County Historical Society, has announced that the first fall meeting of the organization will be held Saturday evening, October 18th, at “Indian Mountain ranch. : “Cornish Night” is to be the theme. Ernest Hocking of Grass Valley is general chairman for the program, which will consist of music Cornish stories, and historical ~information: abeut the’ Cornish miner. » Joseph R. Knowland, publisher of bile when it ran off highway 49 at 1 p. m. Thursday, the Oakland. Tribune, will be an honored guest. ae William W,. Esterly MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1947 Allén Gi. (Seesp) Thurman _NEVADA CITY: ‘Fhe polls will be open from % a. 0, to 7 p. m. today as the citizens of three counties, Nevada, Sierra and Placer make their choice for state senator to fill the seventh senatorial district seat vacated by the resignation of Jerrold Seawell. to assume his present office as a member of the State Board of Equalization. ee: In Nevada county, votes mately 43 precincts. will be tabulated in dpproxiTotal of voters eligible to cast their ballot in this election in the three counties approximates __ 22,500. Estimates of the vote which will actually be cast vary from 7,000. to 9,000. A heavier voie is expected in Placer county than in Nevada and Sierra counties, since Placer has on its ballot a bond issue for a ‘soil conserva. : tion district, as well as the senatorial election. 3 Four of the five candidates are pic» + tured above. (Ed. Note: Unfortu‘nately no picture was available of Elton O, (Spec) Carvin, popular and able chairman of the Sierra county board’ of .supervisors.) . First --candidate. to announee that he was rinning, was William W. Es“‘terly, Grass Valley real estate man. His campaign was. conducted. primarily on the appeal to Nevada county , FUNERAL MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR US ROLLINS NEVADA CITY: Funeral for Cyrus Rollins of this city were held yesterday afternoon at 2 p. m, at Holmes Funeral Home, under the direction of officers of Banner Mountain Post No. 2655, Veterans of Foreign Wars. ~ Following the service, the body was taken. to Santa Rosa, for interment in. the family plot.. Rollins, a timber faller, was injured, when a log-rolled on ‘him about a year ago resulting ina seridtis head. injury. He had: been in poor. health since,.and during part.of the time. was a patient in a local hospital. He died at 3:30 a. m. Saturday, ee OE The deceased is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ora V. Rollins, three sons, NEVADA CITY: Mr. and Mrs. Ott celebrated their « golden wedding ariniversary a week ago Sunday, October 5th, pated in the origi . party, except for the organist, wh the complese ceremony on Potent Br ~ The ¢ They are all of Nevada City~ Rollins was a World War-I veteran: In}: addition to lumbering, he had worked . as a relief police officer for the local force, Before living in, Nevada City, he’ and his family resided for several years in Camptonville. “ The Veterans of Foreign Wars of: ficers, were headed by Past Commander’ Fred Charles Garrison, acting . as commander; Commander. William Barl. Mullis, acting as, vice-commander; Chaplain William W. Esterly; Officer of the Day Olaf Bjornstal; color bearers, AI Wharff and Gordon Tryon, and Joseph W. Day and Max Rev. Paul Lewis: and Rev. Horne of the Nazarene church conducted the service of that faith. Mrs. Lewis and services . voters to put one of their own citizens in the senate. ; ‘ Assemblymdp, ‘Allen. G. (Scoop) ‘Thurman has been in. the legislature. for 9 years. Herald, weekly mewspapers in Colfaz and Auburn. Thurman's canes ee ‘has been ‘based: “upon his legislative highways, agriculture; miningand vethe has represented, ‘and it is: these factors to which Thurman’s campaign has directed attention. be ae oe _ Mayor-Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson of Roseville has waged his bid for a senate seat, principally om the basis of his successful installation of public ownership of utilities in Roseville. years a member and chairman of the Sierra county board of supervisors, has pointed with pride during the ter highways to Sierra county, Mrs. Alice Monahan Williams of paign, the importance of Having a at, present an group. ~ The political lively one, with various newspapers” beating the drums for their candidate. As far as is known, the. Auburn Journal, Downieville “Mountain fune took no active. part in the elec‘tion. However, the Nevada-City Grasse. . Valley Nugget, the Sierra: Sun, the . battle has. been a= He is the pYblisher of” lithe Colfax Record and the Placer _ iber ofthe. lower — erans affairs in the 10-county district: = Elton: (Spee) Carvin, for ‘many ‘campaign to his work in bringing bet©» Loomis has emphasized, im her cam — woman representative in the senate,. entirely masculine~: 4. “Messenger, and© Roseville ‘Press-Trib-