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THE. NUGGET
“gst COUNTY IN
He UNITED STATES
* VALLEY
pe
PER MONTH. ,
AND WORTH A LOT
MORE
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a}-No. 92 The Twin Cities Paper. NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA The County Seat Paper
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—
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-