September 15, 1950 (8 pages)

x ¥” CITY COUNCIL OKAYS LIGHTS AT BALL FIELD ‘Nevada City council last night . ’ enacted a disaster ordinance, boosted policemen’s salaries, gave the “go ahead’ signal to light the Pioneer park athletic field, and opened studies of a possible new truck route through the city. The emergency ordinance setting up a disaster council headed by Mayor Thomas Taylor was voted unanimdusly after a brief study of the model ordinance recommended by Governor Earl Warren’s state disaster council. Councilman H. J. Ray was} named commander of the organization to act with Mayor Tayjor in making various appointments and setting up units and divisions which would swing into action in-case“of fire, flood, riot, earthquake or damage from enemy action. The organization will also make provisions for transportation and communication services and housing in case of evacuation of residents of metropolitan areas into this section. Mayor Taylor reported the “school board had agreed to join with the city in financing the Pioneer park field up to $4,000. This commitment in addition to a similar amount voted by the city council several months ago . . will adequately finance the anticipated $7, 500 cost of the faciilty. The council also voted Police Chief J. J. Jackson a probationary status of. six.months and. established his salary at $250. Patrolmen now receiving $205 a month were raised to the $225 monthly pay rate. Fred Bush, Pioneer park superintendent was voted a $50 a month pay boost with the understanding he also accept the worl: of testing and treating duties at the sewage disposal plant when . the facility is completed. The council took no action but briefly studied possibility of the routing of trucks off highway 20 onto Uren street thence onto Coyote street to the Plaza. LOCAL NSGW AND NDGW PARLORS PARTCIPATE IN S. F. CENTENNIAL Hydraulic Parlor No. 56, Nevada City, and Quartz Parlor No. 58, Grass Valley of the Native Sons of the Golden West, and Laurel Parlor No. 6, Nevada City; Manzanita Parlor No. 29, Grass Valley, and Columbia Parlor No. 70, French Corral, participated in the California centeninal parade of 100 floats and 50 bands held in San Francisco last Saturday. Most of the floats were constructed by the California centennial committee of San Francisco. The Nevada county float, portraying the Donner party, was built by the committee at a cost of $3,500. Performing in the tableau for Nevada county were Rudy R. Plageman, Elza Kilroy, Hydraulic; Jack Hansen, Neil Whiting, Quartz; Mrs. Adele Browning, Columbia; Mrs. Phoebe Maguire, Laurel; Mrs. Hannahbelle Daley, and Miss Brita Berryman, Manzanita. Nela, daughter of Whiting, and Frances, daughter of Mrs. Gwendolyn Anderson, Laurel, also participated. Earl Covey, Quartz parlor, and Grand Outside Sentinel of California, rode with other grand officers of the lodges in decorated cars in the parade. The centennial celebration was sponsored by the two organizations of California native sons and daughters, MAURICE KOUKEL TO . Maurice Koukel, noted violinist, will present a concert at the first nationalassembly of the Nevada City high school current year next’ Wednesday afternoon at 2:40 o’clock in the school auditorium. Koukel will present a concert of semi-classical music. NID BOARD SITS AS EQUALIZATION TODAY Board of directors of the Nevada -Irrigation District will sit as a biard of equalization today at 1:30 p.m. in the NID officees in Grass Valley, to hear protests of assessment valuations: of NID property owners. Twenty-Third Year, No. 38 Nevada City (Nevada County) California, Friday, September 15, 1950 a major reappraisal program for equalization purposes on the first of October that will, when it is completed, place the county on a continuing and. up-to-date method of assessing property, . cording to Phil G. Scadden, Nevada county assessor. The project is expected to take two years to complete and will cost the county $60,000 to install if the complete recommendations of the California Board of Equalization are executed. The board of supervisors approved a $10,000 expenditure in the current -budget to finance the start of the reappraisal field work. The récommendivicns of the board of equalization will put the assessor’s office on a _recurring annual budget of approximately $23,000 after the initial installation. of _the reappraisal program is completed. < The state office recommended expenditure of $54,586 for the first year of which $33,586 is suggested as installation outlay. A major share of the initial expenditure is budgeted for temporary employees,.; calling for NEVADA COUNTY PICNIC SUNDAY IN OAKLAND Thirty-third annual Nevada county reunion picnic will be held Sunday at Mosswood park, Broadway~and MacArthur boulevard, in Oakland. An invitation is extended to all Nevada county residents, past and present, to attend the outing. They are~ asked to bringtheir own picnic lunches. Coffee may be obtained at the park. A trio of Welsh singers, led by Oliver Jones, will. provide entertainment. Jones is well known for unique programs in Eastbay musical circles. ._ Mrs. George C. Carson, who is largely responsible for the continuance of the reunions, has been confined to Peralta hospital, but hopes to attend the picnic Sunday. Officers of the Nevada County Reunion club are Will H. Doidge, president; Mrs. Alma McCormick Zembsch, vice president; Miss Florence Curnow, financial secretary and treasurer, and Charles Temby, recording secretary. $27,700 IN BUILDING PERMITS ARE ISSUED Nevada County’s assessor’s office issued permits this week for $27,700 worth of new -constructien, all but $1,000 of it being for buildings in the eastern end of the county. Rex E. Reid, Truckee contractor, applied for four permits for construction in the Donner Pines and Donner Villa tracts. They include a $3,000 frame home for Walter J. Smith of Truckee; a $3,000 frame home for Jack Melugin, Truckee, and a $7,500 three-cottage rental unit for himself, all in the Donner Pines development. Reid also applied for a permit to build a $3,200 frame home for Robert L. Renton, Detroit, Mich., in Donner Villa tract. Ernest Tschopp, Soda Springs, asked for a permit to build a $10,000 garage and service station at Kingvale. Ervon J. Cox, Grass Valley, was issued a permit to build a $1,000 workshop on the IdahoMaryland road, edst of Grass j . Valley. ’ ¥ The Weather he Fred Bush, Observer : Max. Min. Friday, Sept. 8 79 51 Saturday, Sept. 9 . 78 45 Sunday, Sept. 10 .. 73 47 Monday, Sept. 11 .:. 77 48 Tuesday, Sept. 12 . 80, 47 Wednesday, Sept. 13 78 46 Thursday, Sept. 14 . 78 42 ‘Rain; Sept. 8, trace. ac. REAPPRAISAL PROGRAM STARTS INOCTOBER BY ASSESSOR’S OFFICE TO ESTABLISH CONTINUING POLICY Nevada county will embark ongfour appraisers for field work, two map draftsmen, calculating machine operator, and_ typistclerk. The second year recommendations call for an expenditure of $25,990 for the temporary employees. Once the _ initial reappraisal survey is completed the continuing operations of the office can be performed by the present staff comprising the assessor, appraiser, assessment clerk and account clerk, with part-time help of a seasonal appraiser for 117 days, and a part-time clerk for 90 days. The office recommendation ; increased salaries for the office, suggesting $6,000 for the assessor ($3,820), $3,900 for appraiser ($2,880), $2,904 for assessment. clerk ($2,520), and $2,520 for account clerk ($2,190). Figures in: parentheses are 195051 salaries. The assessor’s office expended $21,005.77 for plat and map bars the past two years, and has budgeted $2,500 this year to complete that phase of the project. Other physical installations required for the reappraisal project are appraisal record : forms, master property record cards, drafting equipment, and office equipment and supplies. The reappraisal survey calls for the physical evaluating of 14,570 units of real property, 8,350 units of improvement replacement, 855 units of personal property of industrial and professional accounts, 7,144 units of personal property on farms and residences, and 15 airplanes. The project is estimated to require 2,720 man-days by appraisers. The Nevada county 1949 assessment rolls listed 10 large buildings, 49 hotels and apartments, 52 industrial plants, 72 service stations, 394 farms, 524 commercial properties, 1,066 special properties, and 5,529 residential and unclassified properties on the improved property list. .Land appraisals on the 1949 rolls listed 52 industrial sites, 394 farms, 606 commercial parcels, and 10,737 residential and unclassified. Improvement appraisals listed 59 hotels, apartments and large ‘buildings, 95 industrial plants, 596 commercial sites, 788 farms and 6,812 residential and miscellaneous. Personal property and fixtures were listed as 15 airplanes, 75 professional and service, 394 farms, 780 commercial and industrial, and 6,750 residential. Exemptions in 1949 totalled (Continued in page six) $5,000 LOCAL PROJECT UNDERWAY BY PG&E A’$5,000 reconstructiin project to improve wire clearances on power line poles of the Pacific Gas & Electric company in Nevada City, according to Larry Farrel, local manager.Crews of the power company are busy this week making the improvements on Broad street. Farrell said improvements will also be made in various spots in Nevada City. Work at the sub-station is also included in the project. NEVADA COUNTY WINS 22 FIRSTS IN MINERALS AT CALIFORNIA FAIR Despite the winning of 22 firsts in minerals and mining exhibits in the Calfornia state fair held in Sacramento last week, Nevada county’s. booth had to be satisfied with second prize in display of mineral exhibits. Amador took first place and Calaveras was in third place. Nevada county placed first in placer gold display; gold ore specimens showing not less than one-third of volume of specimen to be gold not necessarily from active mines; most important new gold find; gold bearing gravels; free milling lode; gold bearing sulfide ores; precious metals sweepstakes; chrome; iron; lead; manganese; silver; tungsten; mill products (gold); metals and ores Sweepstakes; barite; graphite; magnesite; cut and polished gem materials; uncut gem materials; petrified wood, natural specimen; sweepstakes, gems -and jewelers materials. Nevada county won. secohd prizes in gold ore specimens — showing not less than one-third of volume of specimen to be gold; antimony; molybdenum; petrified . wood, polished specimens: Nevada county’s only third award in minerals was for optical and electric quartz. Nevada county took second in plate exhibit of pears, and also second in Comice pears. Nevada county won firsts in apples in golden delicious, red _ delicious, and Arkansas black varieties. Second prizes were won for delicious, Spitzenberg, Alexander, King David and Red Rome varities of applies. Third prizes were won in Roman beauty, yellow Newton pippin and winesaps. CAPITAL FIRM LOW Jenkins and Jensen, Sacramento construction contractors, were the low bidders on the Nevada City National Guard armory with a bid of $89,400, according to an announcement by the state division of architecture Wednesday. 1856 HISTORY OF NEVADA COUNTY BY AARON A. SARGENT INCLUDED DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS HOUSES This is the first installment of the 1856 Directory of Nevada County, a publication which included a history of Nevada City, Grass Valley and Nevada County written by Aaron A. Sargent, one of Nevada Cty % most prominent early day residents. Brown and Dallison’s ) _ NEVADA, GRASS VALLEY AND.ROUGH AND READY _ .DIRECTORY For the Year Commencing January 1, 1856 Embracing a GENERAL DIRECTORY OF CITIZENS WITH A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NEVADA COUNTY By A. A. Sargent, Esq. And an Appendix of General lafompstion ' Appertaining to These Towns AN -ALMANAC FOR 1856 ‘Compiled and Published by NAT P. BROWN and JOHN K. DALLISON Printed at the Town Talk Office 149 Washington Street San Francisco 1856 : NEVADA M. Michelson, Nevada Literary and Main Streets. A. J. Hagan, banker, Davis Brick. Block, 54 Broad Street. Williamson & Dawley, bankers, 30 Main Street. F. Schotte, smelter and assayer, 30 Main Street. Metropolis ‘Hotel, 35 Main Street, D. W. Aldrich, proprietor. Dr. W. G. Alban, druggist; Burke and Bowden, dentists, “torner Broad and Pine Streets. 21 Commercial Street. A. Block & Co., 41 Commercial Street, dealers in clothing. (Continued on page eight) Depot, Junction Washington FORMER PRIEST OF ST. CANICE Is CALLED TO REST Funeral services and interment will be held this morning for Rev. Father Patrick O’Reilly, for 33 years. pastor of St. Canice Catholic church here, who died Saturday morning in Mercy hospital, Sacramento. Requiem high mass will take place at 10 a.m. in the church sanctuary. Diocese officers will be in charge. Burial will take place in the priests’ section of the Grass Valley. Catholic ceme-, tery. Rosary was held” last night at 8 o’clock. Father O’Reilly, 73, was born in Ireland where he was ordained a.priesf. He came to California in 1906 and served a year in the Sacramento cathedral. For three years he was assistant pastor at Colusa and in 1906 he was appointed pastor of the Downieville Catholic church. He became pastor of St. Canice church in 1911, where he served as pastor until 1944 when he was transferred to St. Patrick’s Catholic church in Grass Valley. One of Father O’Reilly’s best friends among the laymen of Nevada City will prepare an obituary and eulogy, which The Nugget will publish in next week’s issue. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE DESTROYS FIVE SLOT MACHINES HERE Five slot machines seized at a Donner Summit resort in February by agents of Attorney, General Frederick N. Houser, were destroyed in the sheriff’s office here late Wednesday and the $196 in the coin boxes turned over to -'the county treasurer. Undersheriff. Otis Hardt who disposed of the demolished. machines yesterday said the sheriff's office here had no knowledge of the seizure and did not know specifically the name of the establishmer: except that it was near the Donner summit on U. S. highway 40. The machines varied in denomination from five cents to 50 cent. They were brought here Wednesday from Sacramento. DEAD MAN IN CAR TWO DAYS ON BUSY HIGHWAY The body of Private Norman R. Hoffman, 23, Oak Park, IIL, lay in the car in which he committed suicide for two days on busy highway 20 just above the Drum canal crossing in Bear valley east of here. The ‘body was discovered by Ed Hodgson, truck driver, who had a piece of disabled equipment parked in the same area, after he noticed the car had been unmoved for two days. The body was in the trunk of the car. The defroster tube had been attached to the exhaust. A scribbled note in Hoffman’ s . pocket, assigned to Suisun-Fairfield air base, asked that his body be cremated. J. J. JACKSON NAMED CHIEF OF POLICE J.J. Jackson, native of Nevada City and member of a pioneer family, veteran of ten years on the Nevada.City police department, and treasurer of the Ne-. . vada City Athletic club, was appointed chief of police if Nevada City at a special session of the city council Friday morning. . Mayor Thomas H. Taylor made the announcement of the ores tonary appointnient. Jackson replaces Max Solaro, ‘ who recently resigned to accept employment with the Grizzly Creek Lumber company. Ray M. Ruiz, 35, rancher in the Bear river section, was electrocuted Monday afternoon while Jwiring a pumping plant at his ranch. f é JUNIOR HIGH TO: BE STUDIED FOR CONGESTION AID Study of the Possibility of the establishment of a junior high school to relieve congested condi‘tion of the Nevada City élementary school was ordered by? the. board of trustees of Nevada. City unified school district at its. ERE: ular meeting Monday night at — the elementary school. Lloyd Geist, principal of the school, was instructed to study the possibility of establishing the junior high school at the Nevada City high school plant. Ed A. Frantz, principal of the high school, said two rooms at the high school plant can be made available for the program and added that eighth grade pupils could be given a broad -curriculum. : Frantz estimated it would re--: quire hiring of two additional seal structors. Geist reported to the board the first grade is divided into two 40-pupil classes, and that under_ such crowded conditions a teacher cannot properly instruct the children. He suggested the board hire an additional teacher and conduct a half-day session for the first graders in the kindergarten building. In another action the board unanimously agreed to aid the city in financing installation of lights at the athletic field in Pioneer park:The board would: stand~ 50 percent of: the eer cost up to $4,000. : * Mayor Thomas H. Taylor outlined the advantages of having a lighted athletic field to the board members. Dr. Bernard W. Hummelt, the board chairman said, “I personally am in favor of the school helping to provide lights for the park. It will be an asset to the community and school.” The board agreed an early start on the project should be made while necessary equipment and material can be obtained. Trustee John L. Larue, who is to represent the district at the Wednesday meeting of the aug-. mented committee on school district organization at -the Nevada City high school, was instructed to vote “yes” on the proposition to submit a-plan to form a union high school district for western Nevada county to the electorate. The trustees also moved to ask the city street department to surface the elementary school playground after no bids were received by private contractors. Herb Hallett, city street superintendent, said a week will be required to complete the project. Tentatively approved was plan , to erect @ quonset hut as shower . and rest rooms at Pioneer park’ by the students of the manual . training class of the high school. The board authorized Geist to purchase an AF-FM radio for the elementary school at a cost of $229 plus an estimated $30 for installation of an FM antenna. Request by Company E, 184th . Infantry Regiment, California National Guard to use the high school gymnasium three nights a week for training in event the unit is alerted was approved. Frantz was authorized to establish night school classes in folk dancing, shop, sewing, upholstery and mental health. : AUTO ACCIDENT DELAYS: JOURNEY TO ALTAR © Failure to yield right of way at.the intersection of Pine and Sacramento streets Saturday and the. resultant collision delayed a wedding trip to Reno for R. J. Ritter, Billy ‘Ritter, Rosalie Collins and Larita Rowe, all of Live Oak. According ti Police Chief z 5. Jackson, the aecident occurred when Billy Ritter turned left off Sacramento and onto South Pine a into the path of a truck driven by Mosco Smart, local distributor. Ritter was cited for failure. to yield right of way. ELECTRIC ORGAN TO BE INSTALLED IN CHURCH A Hammond electric organ was. ordered this week for installation at St. Canice Catholic church within the next two or three _ weeks. Father William Daly, pastor of , the church, said the instrument cost opererimately $1,400. +, . DeMattei is church Ye

x ¥” CITY COUNCIL OKAYS LIGHTS AT BALL FIELD ‘Nevada City council last night . ’ enacted a disaster ordinance, boosted policemen’s salaries, gave the “go ahead’ signal to light the Pioneer park athletic field, and opened studies of a possible new truck route through the city. The emergency ordinance setting up a disaster council headed by Mayor Thomas Taylor was voted unanimdusly after a brief study of the model ordinance recommended by Governor Earl Warren’s state disaster council. Councilman H. J. Ray was} named commander of the organization to act with Mayor Tayjor in making various appointments and setting up units and divisions which would swing into action in-case“of fire, flood, riot, earthquake or damage from enemy action. The organization will also make provisions for transportation and communication services and housing in case of evacuation of residents of metropolitan areas into this section. Mayor Taylor reported the “school board had agreed to join with the city in financing the Pioneer park field up to $4,000. This commitment in addition to a similar amount voted by the city council several months ago . . will adequately finance the anticipated $7, 500 cost of the faciilty. The council also voted Police Chief J. J. Jackson a probationary status of. six.months and. established his salary at $250. Patrolmen now receiving $205 a month were raised to the $225 monthly pay rate. Fred Bush, Pioneer park superintendent was voted a $50 a month pay boost with the understanding he also accept the worl: of testing and treating duties at the sewage disposal plant when . the facility is completed. The council took no action but briefly studied possibility of the routing of trucks off highway 20 onto Uren street thence onto Coyote street to the Plaza. LOCAL NSGW AND NDGW PARLORS PARTCIPATE IN S. F. CENTENNIAL Hydraulic Parlor No. 56, Nevada City, and Quartz Parlor No. 58, Grass Valley of the Native Sons of the Golden West, and Laurel Parlor No. 6, Nevada City; Manzanita Parlor No. 29, Grass Valley, and Columbia Parlor No. 70, French Corral, participated in the California centeninal parade of 100 floats and 50 bands held in San Francisco last Saturday. Most of the floats were constructed by the California centennial committee of San Francisco. The Nevada county float, portraying the Donner party, was built by the committee at a cost of $3,500. Performing in the tableau for Nevada county were Rudy R. Plageman, Elza Kilroy, Hydraulic; Jack Hansen, Neil Whiting, Quartz; Mrs. Adele Browning, Columbia; Mrs. Phoebe Maguire, Laurel; Mrs. Hannahbelle Daley, and Miss Brita Berryman, Manzanita. Nela, daughter of Whiting, and Frances, daughter of Mrs. Gwendolyn Anderson, Laurel, also participated. Earl Covey, Quartz parlor, and Grand Outside Sentinel of California, rode with other grand officers of the lodges in decorated cars in the parade. The centennial celebration was sponsored by the two organizations of California native sons and daughters, MAURICE KOUKEL TO . Maurice Koukel, noted violinist, will present a concert at the first nationalassembly of the Nevada City high school current year next’ Wednesday afternoon at 2:40 o’clock in the school auditorium. Koukel will present a concert of semi-classical music. NID BOARD SITS AS EQUALIZATION TODAY Board of directors of the Nevada -Irrigation District will sit as a biard of equalization today at 1:30 p.m. in the NID officees in Grass Valley, to hear protests of assessment valuations: of NID property owners. Twenty-Third Year, No. 38 Nevada City (Nevada County) California, Friday, September 15, 1950 a major reappraisal program for equalization purposes on the first of October that will, when it is completed, place the county on a continuing and. up-to-date method of assessing property, . cording to Phil G. Scadden, Nevada county assessor. The project is expected to take two years to complete and will cost the county $60,000 to install if the complete recommendations of the California Board of Equalization are executed. The board of supervisors approved a $10,000 expenditure in the current -budget to finance the start of the reappraisal field work. The récommendivicns of the board of equalization will put the assessor’s office on a _recurring annual budget of approximately $23,000 after the initial installation. of _the reappraisal program is completed. < The state office recommended expenditure of $54,586 for the first year of which $33,586 is suggested as installation outlay. A major share of the initial expenditure is budgeted for temporary employees,..; calling for NEVADA COUNTY PICNIC SUNDAY IN OAKLAND Thirty-third annual Nevada county reunion picnic will be held Sunday at Mosswood park, Broadway~and MacArthur boulevard, in Oakland. An invitation is extended to all Nevada county residents, past and present, to attend the outing. They are~ asked to bringtheir own picnic lunches. Coffee may be obtained at the park. A trio of Welsh singers, led by Oliver Jones, will. provide entertainment. Jones is well known for unique programs in Eastbay musical circles. ._ Mrs. George C. Carson, who is largely responsible for the continuance of the reunions, has been confined to Peralta hospital, but hopes to attend the picnic Sunday. Officers of the Nevada County Reunion club are Will H. Doidge, president; Mrs. Alma McCormick Zembsch, vice president; Miss Florence Curnow, financial secretary and treasurer, and Charles Temby, recording secretary. $27,700 IN BUILDING PERMITS ARE ISSUED Nevada County’s assessor’s office issued permits this week for $27,700 worth of new -constructien, all but $1,000 of it being for buildings in the eastern end of the county. Rex E. Reid, Truckee contractor, applied for four permits for construction in the Donner Pines and Donner Villa tracts. They include a $3,000 frame home for Walter J. Smith of Truckee; a $3,000 frame home for Jack Melugin, Truckee, and a $7,500 three-cottage rental unit for himself, all in the Donner Pines development. Reid also applied for a permit to build a $3,200 frame home for Robert L. Renton, Detroit, Mich., in Donner Villa tract. Ernest Tschopp, Soda Springs, asked for a permit to build a $10,000 garage and service station at Kingvale. Ervon J. Cox, Grass Valley, was issued a permit to build a $1,000 workshop on the IdahoMaryland road, edst of Grass j . Valley. ’ ¥ The Weather he Fred Bush, Observer : Max. Min. Friday, Sept. 8 79 51 Saturday, Sept. 9 . 78 45 Sunday, Sept. 10 ... 73 47 Monday, Sept. 11 ..:. 77 48 Tuesday, Sept. 12 .. 80, 47 Wednesday, Sept. 13 78 46 Thursday, Sept. 14 .. 78 42 ‘Rain; Sept. 8, trace. ac. REAPPRAISAL PROGRAM STARTS INOCTOBER BY ASSESSOR’S OFFICE TO ESTABLISH CONTINUING POLICY Nevada county will embark ongfour appraisers for field work, two map draftsmen, calculating machine operator, and_ typistclerk. The second year recommendations call for an expenditure of $25,990 for the temporary employees. Once the _ initial reappraisal survey is completed the continuing operations of the office can be performed by the present staff comprising the assessor, appraiser, assessment clerk and account clerk, with part-time help of a seasonal appraiser for 117 days, and a part-time clerk for 90 days. The office recommendation ; increased salaries for the office, suggesting $6,000 for the assessor ($3,820), $3,900 for appraiser ($2,880), $2,904 for assessment. clerk ($2,520), and $2,520 for account clerk ($2,190). Figures in: parentheses are 195051 salaries. The assessor’s office expended $21,005.77 for plat and map bars the past two years, and has budgeted $2,500 this year to complete that phase of the project. Other physical installations required for the reappraisal project are appraisal record : forms, master property record cards, drafting equipment, and office equipment and supplies. The reappraisal survey calls for the physical evaluating of 14,570 units of real property, 8,350 units of improvement replacement, 855 units of personal property of industrial and professional accounts, 7,144 units of personal property on farms and residences, and 15 airplanes. The project is estimated to require 2,720 man-days by appraisers. The Nevada county 1949 assessment rolls listed 10 large buildings, 49 hotels and apartments, 52 industrial plants, 72 service stations, 394 farms, 524 commercial properties, 1,066 special properties, and 5,529 residential and unclassified properties on the improved property list. .Land appraisals on the 1949 rolls listed 52 industrial sites, 394 farms, 606 commercial parcels, and 10,737 residential and unclassified. Improvement appraisals listed 59 hotels, apartments and large ‘buildings, 95 industrial plants, 596 commercial sites, 788 farms and 6,812 residential and miscellaneous. Personal property and fixtures were listed as 15 airplanes, 75 professional and service, 394 farms, 780 commercial and industrial, and 6,750 residential. Exemptions in 1949 totalled (Continued in page six) $5,000 LOCAL PROJECT UNDERWAY BY PG&E A’$5,000 reconstructiin project to improve wire clearances on power line poles of the Pacific Gas & Electric company in Nevada City, according to Larry Farrel, local manager.Crews of the power company are busy this week making the improvements on Broad street. Farrell said improvements will also be made in various spots in Nevada City.. Work at the sub-station is also included in the project. NEVADA COUNTY WINS 22 FIRSTS IN MINERALS AT CALIFORNIA FAIR Despite the winning of 22 firsts in minerals and mining exhibits in the Calfornia state fair held in Sacramento last week, Nevada county’s. booth had to be satisfied with second prize in display of mineral exhibits. Amador took first place and Calaveras was in third place. Nevada county placed first in placer gold display; gold ore specimens showing not less than one-third of volume of specimen to be gold not necessarily from active mines; most important new gold find; gold bearing gravels; free milling lode; gold bearing sulfide ores; precious metals sweepstakes; chrome; iron; lead; manganese; silver; tungsten; mill products (gold); metals and ores

Sweepstakes; barite; graphite; magnesite; cut and polished gem materials; uncut gem materials; petrified wood, natural specimen; sweepstakes, gems -and jewelers materials. Nevada county won. secohd prizes in gold ore specimens — showing not less than one-third of volume of specimen to be gold; antimony; molybdenum; petrified . wood, polished specimens: Nevada county’s only third award in minerals was for optical and electric quartz. Nevada county took second in plate exhibit of pears, and also second in Comice pears. Nevada county won firsts in apples in golden delicious, red _ delicious, and Arkansas black varieties. Second prizes were won for delicious, Spitzenberg, Alexander, King David and Red Rome varities of applies. Third prizes were won in Roman beauty, yellow Newton pippin and winesaps. CAPITAL FIRM LOW Jenkins and Jensen, Sacramento construction contractors, were the low bidders on the Nevada City National Guard armory with a bid of $89,400, according to an announcement by the state division of architecture Wednesday. 1856 HISTORY OF NEVADA COUNTY BY AARON A. SARGENT INCLUDED DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS HOUSES This is the first installment of the 1856 Directory of Nevada County, a publication which included a history of Nevada City, Grass Valley and Nevada County written by Aaron A. Sargent, one of Nevada Cty % most prominent early day residents. Brown and Dallison’s ) _ NEVADA, GRASS VALLEY AND.ROUGH AND READY _ .DIRECTORY For the Year Commencing January 1, 1856 Embracing a GENERAL DIRECTORY OF CITIZENS WITH A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NEVADA COUNTY By A. A. Sargent, Esq. And an Appendix of General lafompstion ' Appertaining to These Towns AN -ALMANAC FOR 1856 ‘Compiled and Published by NAT P. BROWN and JOHN K. DALLISON Printed at the Town Talk Office 149 Washington Street San Francisco 1856 : NEVADA M. Michelson, Nevada Literary and Main Streets. A. J. Hagan, banker, Davis Brick. Block, 54 Broad Street. Williamson & Dawley, bankers, 30 Main Street. F. Schotte, smelter and assayer, 30 Main Street. Metropolis ‘Hotel, 35 Main Street, D. W. Aldrich, proprietor. Dr. W. G. Alban, druggist; Burke and Bowden, dentists, “torner Broad and Pine Streets. 21 Commercial Street. A. Block & Co., 41 Commercial Street, dealers in clothing. (Continued on page eight) Depot, Junction Washington FORMER PRIEST OF ST. CANICE Is CALLED TO REST Funeral services and interment will be held this morning for Rev. Father Patrick O’Reilly, for 33 years. pastor of St. Canice Catholic church here, who died Saturday morning in Mercy hospital, Sacramento. Requiem high mass will take place at 10 a.m. in the church sanctuary. Diocese officers will be in charge. Burial will take place in the priests’ section of the Grass Valley. Catholic ceme-, tery. Rosary was held” last night at 8 o’clock. Father O’Reilly, 73, was born in Ireland where he was ordained a.priesf. He came to California in 1906 and served a year in the Sacramento cathedral. For three years he was assistant pastor at Colusa and in 1906 he was appointed pastor of the Downieville Catholic church. He became pastor of St. Canice church in 1911, where he served as pastor until 1944 when he was transferred to St. Patrick’s Catholic church in Grass Valley. One of Father O’Reilly’s best friends among the laymen of Nevada City will prepare an obituary and eulogy, which The Nugget will publish in next week’s issue. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE DESTROYS FIVE SLOT MACHINES HERE Five slot machines seized at a Donner Summit resort in February by agents of Attorney, General Frederick N. Houser, were destroyed in the sheriff’s office here late Wednesday and the $196 in the coin boxes turned over to -'the county treasurer. Undersheriff. Otis Hardt who disposed of the demolished. machines yesterday said the sheriff's office here had no knowledge of the seizure and did not know specifically the name of the establishmer: except that it was near the Donner summit on U. S. highway 40. The machines varied in denomination from five cents to 50 cent. They were brought here Wednesday from Sacramento. DEAD MAN IN CAR TWO DAYS ON BUSY HIGHWAY The body of Private Norman R. Hoffman, 23, Oak Park, IIL, lay in the car in which he committed suicide for two days on busy highway 20 just above the Drum canal crossing in Bear valley east of here. The ‘body was discovered by Ed Hodgson, truck driver, who had a piece of disabled equipment parked in the same area, after he noticed the car had been unmoved for two days. The body was in the trunk of the car. The defroster tube had been attached to the exhaust. A scribbled note in Hoffman’ s . pocket, assigned to Suisun-Fairfield air base, asked that his body be cremated. J. J. JACKSON NAMED CHIEF OF POLICE J.J. Jackson, native of Nevada City and member of a pioneer family, veteran of ten years on the Nevada.City police department, and treasurer of the Ne-. . vada City Athletic club, was appointed chief of police if Nevada City at a special session of the city council Friday morning. . Mayor Thomas H. Taylor made the announcement of the ores tonary appointnient. Jackson replaces Max Solaro, ‘ who recently resigned to accept employment with the Grizzly Creek Lumber company. Ray M. Ruiz, 35, rancher in the Bear river section, was electrocuted Monday afternoon while Jwiring a pumping plant at his ranch. f é JUNIOR HIGH TO: BE STUDIED FOR CONGESTION AID Study of the Possibility of the establishment of a junior high school to relieve congested condi‘tion of the Nevada City élementary school was ordered by? the. board of trustees of Nevada. City unified school district at its. ERE: ular meeting Monday night at — the elementary school. Lloyd Geist, principal of the school, was instructed to study the possibility of establishing the junior high school at the Nevada City high school plant. Ed A. Frantz, principal of the high school, said two rooms at the high school plant can be made available for the program and added that eighth grade pupils could be given a broad -curriculum. : Frantz estimated it would re--: quire hiring of two additional seal structors. Geist reported to the board the first grade is divided into two 40-pupil classes, and that under_ such crowded conditions a teacher cannot properly instruct the children. He suggested the board hire an additional teacher and conduct a half-day session for the first graders in the kindergarten building. In another action the board unanimously agreed to aid the city in financing installation of lights at the athletic field in Pioneer park:The board would: stand~ 50 percent of: the eer cost up to $4,000. : * Mayor Thomas H. Taylor outlined the advantages of having a lighted athletic field to the board members. Dr. Bernard W. Hummelt, the board chairman said, “I personally am in favor of the school helping to provide lights for the park. It will be an asset to the community and school.” The board agreed an early start on the project should be made while necessary equipment and material can be obtained. Trustee John L. Larue, who is to represent the district at the Wednesday meeting of the aug-. mented committee on school district organization at -the Nevada City high school, was instructed to vote “yes” on the proposition to submit a-plan to form a union high school district for western Nevada county to the electorate. The trustees also moved to ask the city street department to surface the elementary school playground after no bids were received by private contractors. Herb Hallett, city street superintendent, said a week will be required to complete the project. Tentatively approved was plan , to erect @ quonset hut as shower . and rest rooms at Pioneer park’ by the students of the manual . training class of the high school. The board authorized Geist to purchase an AF-FM radio for the elementary school at a cost of $229 plus an estimated $30 for installation of an FM antenna. Request by Company E, 184th . Infantry Regiment, California National Guard to use the high school gymnasium three nights a week for training in event the unit is alerted was approved. Frantz was authorized to establish night school classes in folk dancing, shop, sewing, upholstery and mental health. : AUTO ACCIDENT DELAYS: JOURNEY TO ALTAR © Failure to yield right of way at.the intersection of Pine and Sacramento streets Saturday and the. resultant collision delayed a wedding trip to Reno for R. J. Ritter, Billy ‘Ritter, Rosalie Collins and Larita Rowe, all of Live Oak. According ti Police Chief z 5. Jackson, the aecident occurred when Billy Ritter turned left off Sacramento and onto South Pine a into the path of a truck driven by Mosco Smart, local distributor. Ritter was cited for failure. to yield right of way. ELECTRIC ORGAN TO BE INSTALLED IN CHURCH A Hammond electric organ was. ordered this week for installation at St. Canice Catholic church within the next two or three _ weeks. Father William Daly, pastor of , the church, said the instrument cost opererimately $1,400. +, . DeMattei is church Ye