October 2, 1933 (4 pages)

. This is Nevada’ JONLY Hometown scribe for it? News‘. paper. It supports things worth while. Do you subcity's] — evada City Nu Pen City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper Publishers Association get Your Hometown Newspaper helps build your community. Readers and . advertisers make good builder. it a Vol. VII, No. 96 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, OCT. 2, 1933 _ STATE FACES BIG PBOBLEM IN CARE OF “TRANSIENTS NRA Regulations Make Relief for 75,000 Men on the Road, Difficult _ RAMBNTO, Oct. 2—(uP)— 2, What's to be done about Califorwile’ annual winter “transients” this year is a problem furrowing the brow _ these days of Emergency Relief Ad“Ministrator C. E. Brannion. Brannion takes his job of relieving the state’s needy and unemployed seriously, and he sees staring him in MOUNTAIN LIONS HARD HIT BY DEPRESSION SACRAMENTO, Oct. 2.—(UP)—The depression also has hit at California’s famed mo untain lions! = Department of Resources Director Dan H. Blood reported 23 -lion hides sent in for the bounty —$30 for females and $20 for males—during August., The average for the nope is ‘about a dozen. Blood reported 195 killed this year, or 25 more than the average for the preceding five vears, and that despite the reports of hunters that the lion population has been decreasing in California. The department of natural re“the face an anonymous _ situation, ; Yirtually prohibits much state suppert for the labor camps that last! winter dotted the state’s mountain country. Last year the camps kept a fairly. ‘Constant population of some 7,000 “trangients,”” knights of the road who frequently were simply specimens of normally employed citizens ‘upon whom evil times had fallen. ‘There are just as tiany such «in California today as last year. and when winter comes there doubtediss will be the usual seasonal invasion by new hordes. Brannion said a count September 1 by every relief, ‘welfare and social service agency in the state co-operating with the state highway patrol showed 54,000 tabuTated “transients” in California. “From the various counts made, we estimated about 75,000 were in California that day,” Brannion said. ‘The catches—tlere are two of them—in the plan for keeping the “transients” off the streets and high ways this winter are found in the: NRA code and the state’s standards for relief of its own destitute citizens. “The NRA code requires minimur wages of 30 cents an hour,” Bran. nion pointed. out. “And with six . hours work five days a week, comes to $9.’ He explained. the maximum.«.ductable wbhuld be $3.50 weekly, the approximately exact cost of caring for the men. “And that,” he said, “would leave a man $32 cash at the end of four weeks in'camp. And $22 is approsi‘mately the amount the state is willing to spend to care: for one of its own real citizens who has a family to provide for—$22 a month. “Well,”’ Brannion said pugnaciously, “I’m certainly not going to give one of those labor camp men a surthat . plus big enough to care for a California family—not with state money as long as there’s a. California fam. ily to care for.” Brannion said he had hope of solv. ing the problem with federal money ! but would. not know until he has conferred with Pierce Williams, western field represn{atig§ of the ‘federal emergency relief administration. Williams is expected here before October 6, . forests the U. WOMAN SEARCHES FOR HUSBAND IN NEVADA CO.’ Mrs. Kate John is searching the’ Mother Lode for her husband, Henry .John, who’ has been missing for 14, months. He left home _ without means of any kind, on foot, leaving . his wife and little daughter in Grant’s Pass, Oregon,\.where’ the family then resided. Mrs. John believes that her husband sought enployment and perhaps, obtained it, in one of the. towns along the Mother Lode. She has asked the Nevada: City Nugget to appeal to anyone who may know her husband, to communieate with her, Mrs. Kate John, Los Angeles, general delivery. CELEBRATION MARKS CARSON HILL OPENING ‘Howard W. Bray, dealer in imported steel and mining machinery, is a visitor in Nevada City renewing old acquaintences. He reports that at the opening of the Carson Hill mine at Malones, more than 4000. peopte celebrated the event on the ground. The 30 stamp mill of the property has been closed for five years. L. Monte Verdi is superintendent of the property. Melones is six miles from Angeles Camp. Mr. and Mrs. Harry McKee, Jr., of sources officials estimate each lion killed represents a saving of 50 or more deer yearly, plus the ‘Highway Goal, 50,000 By MELVIN LORD SACRAMENTO, Oct. 2.—(UP)— California is in no danger of having its $16,000,000 federal road construction allocation withdrawn, despite reports from Washington. This ‘assurance was given to Earl Lee Kelly, state director of public works, by Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the United States bureau of} public roads in-a long distnace telePhone conversation. California was mistakenly listed as being “dilatory” in starting. its road program, when actually more than $8;000,000 of the federal funds are contracted for. saving in livestock to cattlemen. WORTH RESIGNS CITY COUNCIL Fred C. Worth, owing to ill health and the press of business affairs, on Friday, handed in his resignation as city councilman. The city council’ regretfully accepted Mr. Worth’s resignation andappointed Bénjamin Hall to the vacancy. At this session of the council a letter from the State Highway Commission was read, asking the city to set asidé as a part of the state high‘way system certain streets which will thereafter be highway system. The following are the portions of the streets named by the commis; Sion: Commencing at Broad and York streets; thence north along York to Coyote street; thence ‘north on Coyote to. Washington street; thence maintained by the ,north on Washington street to the northerly limits of the ‘city, a disvance of .65 of a mile. “Commencing at the south limits off Nevada City; thence along Pine to Broad street;"thence along Broad to the corner of Broad and Pine sta 2 distance of .79 of a mile. This would include the Gault bridge — which would be kept in repair by the state. Commencing at Broad and York streets, thence westerly along Broad street to the Downieville highway; thence along the Downieville highway to the westerly limits of the city, a distance of .56 of a mile. The council deferred action on this matter until the regular October meeting of the council. FOREST CAMPS NOW TOTAL 151 In addition to the 89 C.C. CG. win: ter camps in the California national S. Ferest Service will establish 34 additional camps under N. R. A. appropriations: for the improvement and development of the forest resources, according to S. B. Show, Regional Forester. Most of these, camps will be in operation by October 15 or sooner. The principal work will be the. construction and maintenance of secondary roads in the nationa! forests. Distribution of the N. R. A. camps by. national forests is: Angeles. 1, Eldorado 1, 4, Lassen 2, Mendocino 3, Modoc 2; Plumas 2, San Bernardino 1, Santa Barbara 4, Sequoia 8, Shasta 3, Sierra 2, Stanislaus 1, Tahoe 1, ity 4. Latest reports from the office Robert Fechner give California a total of 151 C. C. C. winter camps, Trine report. These will be distribut follows: National forests 89, Divisiom ‘o fFores{ry 38, park 10, and State parks 14.-Present locations for 93 camps are approved for winter work and the necessary . alterations will be made to make} them suitable for cold w eather. Fifty-eight new camps will have to be built. 10 million feet of lumber besides other huilding material. All winter camps will be equipped with electire lighting systems. Mr. and Mrs. son, Charles and wife of Graniteville __San Francisco spent this week end -in Nevada City. . were business-visitors in ragerey ay today, Klamath! an increase of 27 over the previous og fa! We : national Alterations and new con-. struction will require approximately , Tom Staples andj As a part of its program to speed up-—the --state highway. program, awards totaling $363,429 were made this ‘week, and bids were opened for other contracts amounting to approximately $600,000. The department’s motto is “50,000 men at work by Chiristmas.” State officers are united in the ba lief that repeal of the 2% per cent sales tax would be disastrous. at this time. According to Rolland A. Vandegrift, state director of finance and no warm friend of the tax, repeal would. throw the state more than $120,000,000 in debt. Such a huge deficit would be difficult to wipe out no matter what tax was chosen to replace the sales levy. An immediate special session of the legislature would-be -neeessary in event of re) peal. «A. A. Brock, state director of agriculture, is planning a trip to Florida in an attempt to heal a “sore spot”’ between the two citrus-profucing states. His program may pave the way for a modification of the California quarantine against Flordia grapefruit, it is believed. On ocesion arrest is Francis Cochran, Governor Rolph’s assistant secretary, recently drove, through the new. Ridge Route cutFAMED “CASTLE IS NOW “INTERNATIONAL HOUSE" “The Castle’ an old brick mansion, built on Prospect Hill 75 years ago by Judge Wallace Williams, who practiced law in Nevada City at that time, has at last apparently become the headquarters for the California branch of the League of Nations, . now situated at Geneva. Switzerland. . welcome. The old brick building now houses, one Frenchman, two Italians, one . Swede, one Austrian; one Hollander, two Greeks and three Americans. Judge W. Williams, original owner, so the story goes, made his for-. tune in panning gold in Deer Creek . sand bars at the place where W. B. Celio’s building, the Plaza Grocery, now stands. According to W. V. Tamblyn, local theatre man, Mr. Williams took out $500 in gold in one pan. Judge Williams owned 16 store . buildings in Nevada City at one time and the fire of ’63 destroyed them all. Each eveving at sundown as Judge Williams returned home from his office, he climbéd to the fourth story of his home-and walked out on the topmost baleony, where he played his cornet, rain or shij ne, year in and . year out, until if ebecame: a fixed ; event in Nevada City. “The Castle’ is now. the property of Mr. and. Mrs. Edd Addington. Judge Williams, a noted attorney, ‘years when Niles Searls, A. C. Niles ,and Judge Wilson; also prominent ' lawyers, lived here. AUNTERS BAGS BUCK NOTED FOR CLU Charles Erway, who who is ompeaed at ; the Murchie mine, went hurting near North Columbia~yesterday and kill; ed a large six point buck that weighed 160 pounds when dressed. It took Mr .Erway and his father, George ; Erway, three hours to carry the big ‘deer into camp. This big buck had a club foot and had been seen in the North Columbia district for the last five or six years, '. Joe Sbaffi received a new Ply“on osurd his 21. birthday, , hin. ' sheriff. ing, . Center Fi practiced law in Nevada City in the of; which occurred last Thursday. In Jobs By Christmas off to Los Angeles. The road ig not open to the public and Frank was Stopped by the watchman on the south end. The watchman could not be convinced. So Cochran phoned the Los Angeles Sheriff’s office. His car Was released. when officers arrested Frank’s father is a deputy Governor Rolph has returned to his office in the capitol, but his work in the future must be ona modified seale. A bit thinner, but cheerful, Rolph plans to spend only a few hours each day to permit him to re-. ver fully from recent illness. Physicians have ordered a fuli rest each night, instead of his customary occasional ‘cat naps.”’ The state board of equalization has warned all. merchants that returns on the sales tax must be made between October 1 and 15. Retailers are subject to a heavy penalty if the tax is not paid within the required time limit. MERCHANT SALES TAX REPORT DUE By MELVIN LORD SACRAMENTO, Oct. 1—(UP)— Retailers must be prepared to make réturns on the first-quarter sales tax between October 1 and October 15, the state board of equalization warned today. “Under the tax law the reports of Sales are due October 1, and delinquent after October 15. Penalties will be assessedagainst merchants who fail tod make returns by the latter date together with payments covering 2% per cent of all sales made sinee*the “law became’ effective Au«t gust 1. In order to facilitate the making ‘out of returns, the board announced that all retailers subject to the tax may.obtainaid--by calling at the nearest branch office. The employes of.the board will be at the branch office, the announcement said, daily from 8:30 a 5 p. m. The sales tax administrators and the branch offites include the following: 2 Burnett Sheehan, 111 State building, San Francisco; Clarence Shearold high school building, RedHarry Mosher, 315 Financial building, Oakland; WS: Freeland, 841 Van Ness avenue, Fresno; Roy K. Wheeler, 204 Commercial building, 28 No. 1st street, San Jose; W. Shackleton, county court house, Santa Rosa; L. C. Maire, 941 Seyenth avenue, San Diego; H. P. Kerrigan, 101, Hart building, Fourth street, Marysville; H. B. Hoffman, 140 No. Hunter street, Stockton; Ed. T. Keiser, 306 State building, Los Angeles; W. C. Shay, 303. Central building, San Bernardino, and O. L. Good, 19 La Arcada building, Santa Barbara. No matter what method was’ used in collecting the sales tax, the merchants must make the return on the basis of 2% per cent of their gross retail of merchandise subject to the levy. NEV. CITY C. C. C. CAMP MOVES TO LAKE COUNTY One hundred and twenty-three C. C. C. camp boys of the Nevada City camp will go to Company 572 at Upper Lake, California. tomorrow morning, while eight men, with all their camp equipment, will leave for Fort Knox, Kentucky on October 5th. A camp Wetail of one officer, Lieutenant N.P. Zink, and 15 men will remain. at. canip at Nevada City for a few daysto collect all unserviceable property and clean up the camp site before it is turned back to the state of California for a winter unemployment camp. It is expected that within a short time the state will place a number of unemployed men. in this camp and they will be given work as they were last winter. m., to ding; Sonoma Room 9 23 oO 0 Mrs. Charles Wodell has been . quite ill since. the death of her sister, the late Miss Nellie Pascoe. . (employing caaliiedianniaten . NOT A SINGLE CACKLE “OROVILLE, Oct. 2—(UP)— Rapid turnover doesn’t always produce‘a profit, in the opinion of Guy Kilkerson, Wyandotte disiriet rancher. One of Kilkerson’s farming activities consists of poultry raising. Actual count at lockup time showed he had 1,100 laying hens, he told the sheriff. When he visited the chicken yards next morning, Kilkerson ‘LEFT OF 1100 HENS . ICCC. BOYS SHOW LONG RECORD OF WORK WELL DONE Twenty Camps Accomplish Miles of Improvements in Calif. National Forests -SACRAMBNTO, Oct. 2—(UP)— Actual accomplishments of .thousands said he found thieves had stolen the_entire flock.< JOINT FUNERAL HELD FOR TWO AGED FRIENDS “Dust to dust; ashes to ashes.’’ Two old friends residents of the county hosiptal for many years, passed away within a’few hours of each other, Saturday. This afternoon a joint funeral service under the auspices of the Holmes Funeral Hime was held, after which the two agéd! comrades were carried to rest in the Pine Grove cemetery. The two friends were. James Pritchard, 103 years of age, and Joseph E. Kimball, 81 years old. — : James Pritchard had resided in Nevada county for 63 years, coming to this state from Ohio where he was born. For many years he engaged in farming in the Rough and Ready He leaves no known an district. tives. Joseph E. Kimball was formerly a resident of Truckee-and had been in California for 23 years. Both men were much attached to each other and made few friendships . among the other residents of the county hospital. The Rev. H. H. ‘Buckner condtieted the séfvices which were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. MRS. HUGH MURCHIE Mrs. Hugh Murchie, who sold her home on Prospect Hill, left late Saturday evening for Fresno, where she will.reside. motored up from Fresno and returned With her mother, who will reside nearby. It was with a sad heart that Mrs. Murchie bade goodbye to her life she will return to vist with them often. Mrs. Murchie’ s health has not been . good and she felt that the lower altitude and warmer benefit her. She and her husband, Murchie, lives and this city. The family that bought the Murchie home moved into the house Sunday. winters would! the late H. spent practically all their reared two daughters in TO LIVE IN FRESNO: Her daughter, Mrs. Mildred Elliott . long friends last week and they hope! of young men in 22 C. C. C. camps ‘Dan H. Blood, director of the dea comprehensive report showing precisely what these boys, aged between 18 and 25, have been doing’ during the summer months. Here’s what was done : to September 1: Telephone lines, 56.15 miles. Fire breaks, 49.93 miles. Removal of fire hazards, 529.29 miles. Roadside clearing (fire~ tion, 172.49 miles. Truck trails, 37.18 miles. Minor highway maintenance, 20.00 miles. } State highway maintenance, miles. ' Foot trails, 2.0 miles. Bridges for vehicles, 15. Foot bridges, 4. Rodent control, Cattle guards, 2. “At present, camps are somewhat disrupted,” Blood said, ‘‘due to the fact that many boys are returning to their homes. It will be about a month before the camps are brqughe back to full shave pds ” N.C.GRIDDERS _ INGAME BATTLE — One touch back -. in sire aaedies quarter saved the Nevada City lads from a goose egg score Saturday at preven3 i 40,040 acres. to 2 in favor of the Placerville lads, who aggregated more tonnage than the local boys. The Nevada City gridders, lighter and in some respects friskier than their opponents, put up a game detheir territory. stated that he felt much encouraged with the manner in which his lambs comported themselves ‘and believes . that their game defensive’ battle augurs well for the season: He states ; that Pierce will be back on his old . job this week and that will help. . Placerville’ kicked off Saturday jand during the first quarter Bob . Tamblyn’ s end runs and the dogged tackling. of Doolittlé and Doyle did much to prevent a touch down by Placerville. Once in this quarter, Placerville sueceeded in passing over Nevada City’s goal line but the receiver fumbled the ball after he was * tackled. Nevada City was given the ball and kept it until the end oF the. half. At the beginning of the secondTROMMEL SYSTEM USED . BY FRENCH CORRAL MINE The French Corea. gravel mine is} six men. including the; partner owners. Ben A. Wise, one of th epartners, is manager. The trommel systenr is used. The cem-,; ented gravel is fed into the 30tank: trommel by a bull dozer caterpillar. . The high banks, some Of them 100 feet high are blasted down, and as! the gravel is. sifted through the} trommel, it. drops into a sluice box . , and is carried off over riffles. 8) separate power plant -operates the! trommel. Water used for washing the gravel was pumped from the “glory hole’ of the Taggerit ranch, until it got low, and new connections have been made now with the Esperon property. Plenty ef water is available oO 0 Mr. Karl Kopp, : proprietor of Kopp’s Bakery, has returned home much improved in health from sevoO . Marfin Dellea, mining man and a huge tonnage is: being worked. . . eral weeks stay atWallan Sorings. oe half Placerville kicked to Tamblyn who ran back with the ball. The Nevada City lads made little headway — and finally lost the ball to their opponents, who then began a march down the field, that ended with a , dogged stand on Nevada City’s two yard line that yielded eventually to a touch down against them. Placerville neatly converted. When Placerville Doyle ran the ball back, and this was followed by a Spectaetilar pass from Doyle to Tamblyn that gained about — thirty yards for Nevada City. The ball. was then on. Placerville’s’ Mgt yard line and Ahis constituted “the ; local gridders’ chief bid for a touehdown, Tamblyn bucked’ the Hine cording to the sharps on the. lines, but ee into the a Quaker: Hill. district, spent end in Nearés ue Bin: partment of natural resources, issuedCashin field, with the final score 7 . fensive battle throughout the four .quarters with most of the playing in , Coach Bev Barron this ‘morning * kicked again ‘lestablished in California have been _— J,;{ brought to light for the frist time.

. This is Nevada’ JONLY Hometown scribe for it? News‘. paper. It supports things worth while. Do you subcity's] — evada City Nu Pen City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper Publishers Association get Your Hometown Newspaper helps build your community. Readers and . advertisers make good builder. it a Vol. VII, No. 96 The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, OCT. 2, 1933 _ STATE FACES BIG PBOBLEM IN CARE OF “TRANSIENTS NRA Regulations Make Relief for 75,000 Men on the Road, Difficult _ RAMBNTO, Oct. 2—(uP)— 2, What's to be done about Califorwile’ annual winter “transients” this year is a problem furrowing the brow _ these days of Emergency Relief Ad“Ministrator C. E. Brannion. Brannion takes his job of relieving the state’s needy and unemployed seriously, and he sees staring him in MOUNTAIN LIONS HARD HIT BY DEPRESSION SACRAMENTO, Oct. 2.—(UP)—The depression also has hit at California’s famed mo untain lions! = Department of Resources Director Dan H. Blood reported 23 -lion hides sent in for the bounty —$30 for females and $20 for males—during August., The average for the nope is ‘about a dozen. Blood reported 195 killed this year, or 25 more than the average for the preceding five vears, and that despite the reports of hunters that the lion population has been decreasing in California. The department of natural re“the face an anonymous _ situation, ; Yirtually prohibits much state suppert for the labor camps that last! winter dotted the state’s mountain country. Last year the camps kept a fairly. ‘Constant population of some 7,000 “trangients,”” knights of the road who frequently were simply specimens of normally employed citizens ‘upon whom evil times had fallen. ‘There are just as tiany such «in California today as last year. and when winter comes there doubtediss will be the usual seasonal invasion by new hordes. Brannion said a count September 1 by every relief, ‘welfare and social service agency in the state co-operating with the state highway patrol showed 54,000 tabuTated “transients” in California. “From the various counts made, we estimated about 75,000 were in California that day,” Brannion said. ‘The catches—tlere are two of them—in the plan for keeping the “transients” off the streets and high ways this winter are found in the: NRA code and the state’s standards for relief of its own destitute citizens. “The NRA code requires minimur wages of 30 cents an hour,” Bran. nion pointed. out. “And with six . hours work five days a week, comes to $9.’ He explained. the maximum.«.ductable wbhuld be $3.50 weekly, the approximately exact cost of caring for the men. “And that,” he said, “would leave a man $32 cash at the end of four weeks in'camp. And $22 is approsi‘mately the amount the state is willing to spend to care: for one of its own real citizens who has a family to provide for—$22 a month. “Well,”’ Brannion said pugnaciously, “I’m certainly not going to give one of those labor camp men a surthat . plus big enough to care for a California family—not with state money as long as there’s a. California fam. ily to care for.” Brannion said he had hope of solv. ing the problem with federal money ! but would. not know until he has conferred with Pierce Williams, western field represn{atig§ of the ‘federal emergency relief administration. Williams is expected here before October 6, . forests the U. WOMAN SEARCHES FOR HUSBAND IN NEVADA CO.’ Mrs. Kate John is searching the’ Mother Lode for her husband, Henry .John, who’ has been missing for 14, months. He left home _ without means of any kind, on foot, leaving . his wife and little daughter in Grant’s Pass, Oregon,\.where’ the family then resided. Mrs. John believes that her husband sought enployment and perhaps, obtained it, in one of the. towns along the Mother Lode. She has asked the Nevada: City Nugget to appeal to anyone who may know her husband, to communieate with her, Mrs. Kate John, Los Angeles, general delivery. CELEBRATION MARKS CARSON HILL OPENING ‘Howard W. Bray, dealer in imported steel and mining machinery, is a visitor in Nevada City renewing old acquaintences. He reports that at the opening of the Carson Hill mine at Malones, more than 4000. peopte celebrated the event on the ground. The 30 stamp mill of the property has been closed for five years. L. Monte Verdi is superintendent of the property. Melones is six miles from Angeles Camp. Mr. and Mrs. Harry McKee, Jr., of sources officials estimate each lion killed represents a saving of 50 or more deer yearly, plus the ‘Highway Goal, 50,000 By MELVIN LORD SACRAMENTO, Oct. 2.—(UP)— California is in no danger of having its $16,000,000 federal road construction allocation withdrawn, despite reports from Washington. This ‘assurance was given to Earl Lee Kelly, state director of public works, by Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the United States bureau of} public roads in-a long distnace telePhone conversation. California was mistakenly listed as being “dilatory” in starting. its road program, when actually more than $8;000,000 of the federal funds are contracted for. saving in livestock to cattlemen. WORTH RESIGNS CITY COUNCIL Fred C. Worth, owing to ill health and the press of business affairs, on Friday, handed in his resignation as city councilman. The city council’ regretfully accepted Mr. Worth’s resignation andappointed Bénjamin Hall to the vacancy. At this session of the council a letter from the State Highway Commission was read, asking the city to set asidé as a part of the state high‘way system certain streets which will thereafter be highway system. The following are the portions of the streets named by the commis; Sion: Commencing at Broad and York streets; thence north along York to Coyote street; thence ‘north on Coyote to. Washington street; thence maintained by the ,north on Washington street to the northerly limits of the ‘city, a disvance of .65 of a mile. “Commencing at the south limits off Nevada City; thence along Pine to Broad street;"thence along Broad to the corner of Broad and Pine sta 2 distance of .79 of a mile. This would include the Gault bridge — which would be kept in repair by the state. Commencing at Broad and York streets, thence westerly along Broad street to the Downieville highway; thence along the Downieville highway to the westerly limits of the city, a distance of .56 of a mile. The council deferred action on this matter until the regular October meeting of the council. FOREST CAMPS NOW TOTAL 151 In addition to the 89 C.C. CG. win: ter camps in the California national S. Ferest Service will establish 34 additional camps under N. R. A. appropriations: for the improvement and development of the forest resources, according to S. B. Show, Regional Forester. Most of these, camps will be in operation by October 15 or sooner. The principal work will be the. construction and maintenance of secondary roads in the nationa! forests. Distribution of the N. R. A. camps by. national forests is: Angeles. 1, Eldorado 1, 4, Lassen 2, Mendocino 3, Modoc 2; Plumas 2, San Bernardino 1, Santa Barbara 4, Sequoia 8, Shasta 3, Sierra 2, Stanislaus 1, Tahoe 1, ity 4. Latest reports from the office Robert Fechner give California a total of 151 C. C. C. winter camps, Trine report. These will be distribut follows: National forests 89, Divisiom ‘o fFores{ry 38, park 10, and State parks 14.-Present locations for 93 camps are approved for winter work and the necessary . alterations will be made to make} them suitable for cold w eather. Fifty-eight new camps will have to be built. 10 million feet of lumber besides other huilding material. All winter camps will be equipped with electire lighting systems. Mr. and Mrs. son, Charles and wife of Graniteville __San Francisco spent this week end -in Nevada City. . were business-visitors in ragerey ay today, Klamath! an increase of 27 over the previous og fa! We : national Alterations and new con-. struction will require approximately , Tom Staples andj As a part of its program to speed up-—the --state highway.. program, awards totaling $363,429 were made this ‘week, and bids were opened for other contracts amounting to approximately $600,000. The department’s motto is “50,000 men at work by Chiristmas.” State officers are united in the ba lief that repeal of the 2% per cent sales tax would be disastrous. at this time. According to Rolland A. Vandegrift, state director of finance and no warm friend of the tax, repeal would. throw the state more than $120,000,000 in debt. Such a huge deficit would be difficult to wipe out no matter what tax was chosen to replace the sales levy. An immediate special session of the legislature would-be -neeessary in event of re) peal. «A. A. Brock, state director of agriculture, is planning a trip to Florida in an attempt to heal a “sore spot”’ between the two citrus-profucing states. His program may pave the way for a modification of the California quarantine against Flordia grapefruit, it is believed. On ocesion arrest is Francis Cochran, Governor Rolph’s assistant secretary, recently drove, through the new. Ridge Route cutFAMED “CASTLE IS NOW “INTERNATIONAL HOUSE" “The Castle’ an old brick mansion, built on Prospect Hill 75 years ago by Judge Wallace Williams, who practiced law in Nevada City at that time, has at last apparently become the headquarters for the California branch of the League of Nations, . now situated at Geneva. Switzerland. . welcome. The old brick building now houses, one Frenchman, two Italians, one . Swede, one Austrian; one Hollander, two Greeks and three Americans. Judge W. Williams, original owner, so the story goes, made his for-. tune in panning gold in Deer Creek . sand bars at the place where W. B. Celio’s building, the Plaza Grocery, now stands. According to W. V. Tamblyn, local theatre man, Mr. Williams took out $500 in gold in one pan. Judge Williams owned 16 store . buildings in Nevada City at one time and the fire of ’63 destroyed them all. Each eveving at sundown as Judge Williams returned home from his office, he climbéd to the fourth story of his home-and walked out on the topmost baleony, where he played his cornet, rain or shij ne, year in and . year out, until if ebecame: a fixed ; event in Nevada City. “The Castle’ is now. the property of Mr. and. Mrs. Edd Addington. Judge Williams, a noted attorney, ‘years when Niles Searls, A. C. Niles ,and Judge Wilson; also prominent ' lawyers, lived here. AUNTERS BAGS BUCK NOTED FOR CLU Charles Erway, who who is ompeaed at ; the Murchie mine, went hurting near North Columbia~yesterday and kill; ed a large six point buck that weighed 160 pounds when dressed. It took Mr .Erway and his father, George ; Erway, three hours to carry the big

‘deer into camp. This big buck had a club foot and had been seen in the North Columbia district for the last five or six years, '. Joe Sbaffi received a new Ply“on osurd his 21. birthday, , hin. ' sheriff. ing, . Center Fi practiced law in Nevada City in the of; which occurred last Thursday. In Jobs By Christmas off to Los Angeles. The road ig not open to the public and Frank was Stopped by the watchman on the south end. The watchman could not be convinced. So Cochran phoned the Los Angeles Sheriff’s office. His car Was released. when officers arrested Frank’s father is a deputy Governor Rolph has returned to his office in the capitol, but his work in the future must be ona modified seale. A bit thinner, but cheerful, Rolph plans to spend only a few hours each day to permit him to re-. ver fully from recent illness. Physicians have ordered a fuli rest each night, instead of his customary occasional ‘cat naps.”’ The state board of equalization has warned all. merchants that returns on the sales tax must be made between October 1 and 15. Retailers are subject to a heavy penalty if the tax is not paid within the required time limit. MERCHANT SALES TAX REPORT DUE By MELVIN LORD SACRAMENTO, Oct. 1—(UP)— Retailers must be prepared to make réturns on the first-quarter sales tax between October 1 and October 15, the state board of equalization warned today. “Under the tax law the reports of Sales are due October 1, and delinquent after October 15. Penalties will be assessedagainst merchants who fail tod make returns by the latter date together with payments covering 2% per cent of all sales made sinee*the “law became’ effective Au«t gust 1. In order to facilitate the making ‘out of returns, the board announced that all retailers subject to the tax may.obtainaid--by calling at the nearest branch office. The employes of.the board will be at the branch office, the announcement said, daily from 8:30 a 5 p. m. The sales tax administrators and the branch offites include the following: 2 Burnett Sheehan, 111 State building, San Francisco; Clarence Shearold high school building, RedHarry Mosher, 315 Financial building, Oakland; WS: Freeland, 841 Van Ness avenue, Fresno; Roy K. Wheeler, 204 Commercial building, 28 No. 1st street, San Jose; W. Shackleton, county court house, Santa Rosa; L. C. Maire, 941 Seyenth avenue, San Diego; H. P. Kerrigan, 101, Hart building, Fourth street, Marysville; H. B. Hoffman, 140 No. Hunter street, Stockton; Ed. T. Keiser, 306 State building, Los Angeles; W. C. Shay, 303. Central building, San Bernardino, and O. L. Good, 19 La Arcada building, Santa Barbara. No matter what method was’ used in collecting the sales tax, the merchants must make the return on the basis of 2% per cent of their gross retail of merchandise subject to the levy. NEV. CITY C. C. C. CAMP MOVES TO LAKE COUNTY One hundred and twenty-three C. C. C. camp boys of the Nevada City camp will go to Company 572 at Upper Lake, California. tomorrow morning, while eight men, with all their camp equipment, will leave for Fort Knox, Kentucky on October 5th. A camp Wetail of one officer, Lieutenant N.P. Zink, and 15 men will remain. at. canip at Nevada City for a few daysto collect all unserviceable property and clean up the camp site before it is turned back to the state of California for a winter unemployment camp. It is expected that within a short time the state will place a number of unemployed men. in this camp and they will be given work as they were last winter. m., to ding; Sonoma Room 9 23 oO 0 Mrs. Charles Wodell has been . quite ill since. the death of her sister, the late Miss Nellie Pascoe. . (employing caaliiedianniaten . NOT A SINGLE CACKLE “OROVILLE, Oct. 2—(UP)— Rapid turnover doesn’t always produce‘a profit, in the opinion of Guy Kilkerson, Wyandotte disiriet rancher. One of Kilkerson’s farming activities consists of poultry raising. Actual count at lockup time showed he had 1,100 laying hens, he told the sheriff. When he visited the chicken yards next morning, Kilkerson ‘LEFT OF 1100 HENS . ICCC. BOYS SHOW LONG RECORD OF WORK WELL DONE Twenty Camps Accomplish Miles of Improvements in Calif. National Forests -SACRAMBNTO, Oct. 2—(UP)— Actual accomplishments of .thousands said he found thieves had stolen the_entire flock.< JOINT FUNERAL HELD FOR TWO AGED FRIENDS “Dust to dust; ashes to ashes.’’ Two old friends residents of the county hosiptal for many years, passed away within a’few hours of each other, Saturday. This afternoon a joint funeral service under the auspices of the Holmes Funeral Hime was held, after which the two agéd! comrades were carried to rest in the Pine Grove cemetery. The two friends were. James Pritchard, 103 years of age, and Joseph E. Kimball, 81 years old. — : James Pritchard had resided in Nevada county for 63 years, coming to this state from Ohio where he was born. For many years he engaged in farming in the Rough and Ready He leaves no known an district. tives. Joseph E. Kimball was formerly a resident of Truckee-and had been in California for 23 years. Both men were much attached to each other and made few friendships . among the other residents of the county hospital. The Rev. H. H. ‘Buckner condtieted the séfvices which were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. MRS. HUGH MURCHIE Mrs. Hugh Murchie, who sold her home on Prospect Hill, left late Saturday evening for Fresno, where she will.reside. motored up from Fresno and returned With her mother, who will reside nearby. It was with a sad heart that Mrs. Murchie bade goodbye to her life she will return to vist with them often. Mrs. Murchie’ s health has not been . good and she felt that the lower altitude and warmer benefit her. She and her husband, Murchie, lives and this city. The family that bought the Murchie home moved into the house Sunday. winters would! the late H. spent practically all their reared two daughters in TO LIVE IN FRESNO: Her daughter, Mrs. Mildred Elliott . long friends last week and they hope! of young men in 22 C. C. C. camps ‘Dan H. Blood, director of the dea comprehensive report showing precisely what these boys, aged between 18 and 25, have been doing’ during the summer months. Here’s what was done : to September 1: Telephone lines, 56.15 miles. Fire breaks, 49.93 miles. Removal of fire hazards, 529.29 miles. Roadside clearing (fire~ tion, 172.49 miles. Truck trails, 37.18 miles. Minor highway maintenance, 20.00 miles. } State highway maintenance, miles. ' Foot trails, 2.0 miles. Bridges for vehicles, 15. Foot bridges, 4. Rodent control, Cattle guards, 2. “At present, camps are somewhat disrupted,” Blood said, ‘‘due to the fact that many boys are returning to their homes. It will be about a month before the camps are brqughe back to full shave pds ” N.C.GRIDDERS _ INGAME BATTLE — One touch back -. in sire aaedies quarter saved the Nevada City lads from a goose egg score Saturday at preven3 i 40,040 acres. to 2 in favor of the Placerville lads, who aggregated more tonnage than the local boys. The Nevada City gridders, lighter and in some respects friskier than their opponents, put up a game detheir territory. stated that he felt much encouraged with the manner in which his lambs comported themselves ‘and believes . that their game defensive’ battle augurs well for the season: He states ; that Pierce will be back on his old . job this week and that will help. . Placerville’ kicked off Saturday jand during the first quarter Bob . Tamblyn’ s end runs and the dogged tackling. of Doolittlé and Doyle did much to prevent a touch down by Placerville. Once in this quarter, Placerville sueceeded in passing over Nevada City’s goal line but the receiver fumbled the ball after he was * tackled. Nevada City was given the ball and kept it until the end oF the. half. At the beginning of the secondTROMMEL SYSTEM USED . BY FRENCH CORRAL MINE The French Corea. gravel mine is} six men. including the; partner owners. Ben A. Wise, one of th epartners, is manager. The trommel systenr is used. The cem-,; ented gravel is fed into the 30tank: trommel by a bull dozer caterpillar. . The high banks, some Of them 100 feet high are blasted down, and as! the gravel is. sifted through the} trommel, it. drops into a sluice box . , and is carried off over riffles. 8) separate power plant -operates the! trommel. Water used for washing the gravel was pumped from the “glory hole’ of the Taggerit ranch, until it got low, and new connections have been made now with the Esperon property. Plenty ef water is available oO 0 Mr. Karl Kopp, : proprietor of Kopp’s Bakery, has returned home much improved in health from sevoO . Marfin Dellea, mining man and a huge tonnage is: being worked. . . eral weeks stay atWallan Sorings. oe half Placerville kicked to Tamblyn who ran back with the ball. The Nevada City lads made little headway — and finally lost the ball to their opponents, who then began a march down the field, that ended with a , dogged stand on Nevada City’s two yard line that yielded eventually to a touch down against them. Placerville neatly converted. When Placerville Doyle ran the ball back, and this was followed by a Spectaetilar pass from Doyle to Tamblyn that gained about — thirty yards for Nevada City. The ball. was then on. Placerville’s’ Mgt yard line and Ahis constituted “the ; local gridders’ chief bid for a touehdown, Tamblyn bucked’ the Hine cording to the sharps on the. lines, but ee into the a Quaker: Hill. district, spent end in Nearés ue Bin: partment of natural resources, issuedCashin field, with the final score 7 . fensive battle throughout the four .quarters with most of the playing in , Coach Bev Barron this ‘morning * kicked again ‘lestablished in California have been _— J,;{ brought to light for the frist time.