September 17, 1945 (4 pages)

anes oe iS The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants ae only to those who love it, and aré ready to guard and defend it.””-—Daniel Webster : = Ne de pee aanenesianaal . This paper gives you complete ada City Nugget . _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19,1 No. 4 _ The County Seat Paper NEVADA. CITY, CALIFORNIA ~. The Gold Center THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. We note that a strike is pending among some thousands of CIO workers of Detroit’s automobile industry. They demand a 30 per cent increase in wages. Apparently the workers ‘believe that with the people of the Uniited States clamoring for new cars, now is the time. to strike for more pay, and run the price of cars up on the. literally, miltions-of ‘buyers. We expect that other labor unions will adopt the same reasoning about other goods and commodities. e If the. trend toward higher wages continues we shall have such -inflation and resultant depression, that the hard times ‘of the early 1930s will seem relatively affluent. We have inflation, now, of couse, but it it a regulated inflation in which an attempt has been made’to hold down both wages and prices. It hag succeeded fairly well, The labor unions are, in fact, even counting their dependents, a small minority’ of population. They are the tail that tries to wag the dog. By organization they wield an influence in congress and state legislative ‘bodies that is altogether disproportionate to their mumbers. Tf we must line up in a struggle with this pressure group developed under the auspices of the visionarjes in power for the past 12 years, let us do so with a will. Who may ‘be counted on to fight on First there are farmers, second, the war veterans, and third the small fbusiness interests and the white collar workers'of the country. If these are properly organized into one big our side? defensive group we shall outweight . the labor unions who have become 60 accustomed to the special privileges granted.them over the past decade that they now consider themselves competent to force their demands upon the rest of us. ‘“‘Special privileges” is the phrase. They have all the rights of big corporations with none, practically none, of corporation responsibilities under the law. Inch by inch they have wrested from congress rights that the rest of us, who are unorganized, do not enjoy. No contract made with their leaders ‘but can be abrogated if expediency dictates. The contracts themselves are _ so drawn as to protect the weak = sisters of the union, the ne’er do wells, and the wastrels. Fire a man for failing to earn even a tithe of his wag-. es, and the union walks out. We have heard many songs sung in praise of labor’s performance in war industries, and we will concede much of the praise was deserved. But for almost every month during the war there were strikes. The total man hours lost runs ‘into staggering figures. The uledge of ‘‘no strikes’”’ was kept in the breach. The unions alienated and antagonized our fighting men and the full repercussions of this _seifish and shortsighted policy are still to be felt. The AFL charges that the CIO is communist controlled by an aggress-. jive small group that bores from within. We here in Nevada. City recall too well just how these small minorities work and fight. The tail tried to wag dog here, and failed. Seven of their fanatics were sentenced-to jail. This business of minorities seizing the government which succeeded s0 well in the Russia, will not succeed in this country. The American ‘»eople are not Russians, even though all of us will grant that the Russjans, generally speaking, are better off under the dictatorship of a small communist party, than they were under the dictatorship of the czars. And it is notable that the Russians are gradually restoring the rewards that aecrue to diligence and infelligence. The: possessors of better brains are better fed, better housed and better paid. Gradually Russia is adoptaug the system that made the United States the most powerful and enlightened nation on earth, that made Britain, the great civilizing influence in global affairs that it has been for a hundred years or more. But to withstand this rising plague ‘officials, ‘of military plans. MYSTERY BULLET HITS HUNTER B. F. Leonard of Geyserville, was the first hunting casualty of the deer season. in Nevada County. He suffered a bullet wound in the left jar. His wife who was camping with him near Webber Lake brought Truckee whehe he was aid. A Hooper and Weaver amuwhblance ‘brought: him into the county hospital here late last’ evening. Coroner Alvah Hooper reported that the bullet’ entered below the lift jaw and emerged under the left eye, shattering Leonard’s plate and apparently fracturing the jaw, (Leonard reported this morning that the shot apparently came from automobile on the Lake ‘Webber Road and that immediately aftertward the car sped away. (Leonard is 61 years old, a veteran of the Spanish American War. He was formerly a baker, but is now retired. WAR CHEST HAS BIG PEACE TIME JOB T0 D0 SAN FRAINCISCO, Sept. 17—Foilowing meetings with army and navy USO today called upon its volunteeers, staff workers and mem‘ber agencies to carry through to completion its responsibilities to the armed forces which are expected to continue for at least another full year. into given first The problem of sustaining morale of members of the armed forces is much more difficult today than it was before the war ended, Ray Johns of New York, national director of USO operations, declared in stressing the need of maintaining USO work, ‘which is supported through War Chest contributions. The California War Chest ‘Victory Drive’ will be conducted October 1 to October 29. Johns, in San Francisco to_ instruct USO western regional personnel on their future activities and to confer with California War Chest officials, declared ‘there is still a big job is to be done. With the, war over, the boys are anxious get back home. There are still a million and a half men in Europe and most of them are bored to death. Moreover, General MacArthur is askng for a big program of entertainment in the Pacific. We are meeting that request just as fast as we can.” “The end of the war with Japan ean produce no quick change:in the entertainment requirements in Europe because it will be many months before all service personnel will get home. In the Pacific, before the war ended, military authorities requested maximum service from USO and approved a program. for establishment of 255 to 50 clubs by the end of 1945. There will be some decrease in this program, ‘but the full extent will not be known until completion We are establishing 10 to 15 big clubs in the Philippines alone. “USO Camp Shows has been requested to provide entertainment for all isolated island garrisons in the Pacific and the armies of occupation. “In this country, services to the troops in transsit and members of their families are not likely to he curtailed ‘with in the next months.”’ Indicating the vast scope of USO work, Johns reported that 24,000,000 people visit clubs and other ‘USO units‘in the continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii each month and that more than 10 million service men attended USO Camp Shows last year. of socialized property, or*seizure of governments by minorities, vicious (pressure groups, and fanatics banded together to destroy our way of life. just as hatefully as either nazis or the fascists, whom externally we have conquered, we must organize. These dissident elements of the na-. on tion can be beaten if all those great groups in the country which oppose them, will organize and do it. 12 BULL ABOUT TO DIEINABATTOIR UPSETS ROUTINE No, the man didn’t bite the dog, but a bull about to be slaughtered did manage to discharge a .22 rifle and the bullet sent a slaughter house employe to the hospital. Joe Gliko member of Glikd and Son who operate a slaughter house just outside Grass Valley, was trying to kill a bull Saturday, in the killing chute. The bull, restive and suspicious, brushed Gliko aside and his gun was discharged .The bullét passed through a: door into an aéjoining room where Tom Osborne was at work flensing a carcass. It hit spine, missing bones and arteries. Osborne was removed. to — the Miners Hosuital in Nevada (City where he is under care of Dr. George A. Foster. He will recover. SPECIAL STAMP MARKS TOKYO SURRENDER and Mrs. L. B. Gregory feceived a letter this week from their son Dick, who is an Electrician’s Mate 2-c on the USS Missouri. The letter was stamped with the special stamp—Japanese Formal Surrender —USS--Missouri, Toklo— Bay, used only on letters mailed from the ship on September 2nd. This stamp will ibe one of the prized Historic stamps of the future. The famed ship was anchored in Tokyo Bay from which the shore line, showing pill boxes and other fortifications was clearly visible, The Yokoshuka Navy Base could also be ‘discerned. Dick also Mr. jiyama: REGISTRATION IN PRIMARY CLASS. SHARPLY GAINS Vice Principal Lloyd Geist of the grammar school reported -yesterday that enrollment totals 40'5 pupils for the first week of school, which is 35 more than last year after the opening. The biggest gain is in the number of first graders of whom there are 73. The next largest enrollment was in the seventh grade with 59 pupils. In the high school 183 are registered, which is 47 more than the poening in 1944. With 171 first grade pupils registering in the Grass Valley schools, an all time high for that grade, the school department has been obliged to form a fifth class for the beginners. Total registration in. the Grass Valley grammar schools is 1034 students, a figure considerably higher than last year. HIGHER SPEED LIMIT BOOSTS BUS SERVICE Lifting of the 35 mile speed limit will have virtually the same effect as a substantia] increase in the iber of highway: buses serving west’s transportation needs. This was the assertion today of F. W. Aeckerman, vice president of Pacific Greyhound Lines, the bus system that provides local and long distance service. in seven western states over a network of highways. The bus executive stated that Greyhound is revising schedules on the time saving basis,now permitted by the ODT. “When the wartime speed limit was reduced to 35 miles per hour in Septemlber 1942’? Ackerman explained, “it meant a marked decrease in the number of trips a bus could make, and a corresponding decrease in the number of passengers each bus couid car. in a given period. The effect 4 es transportation twas much the same as though a part of our total number of buses was withdrawn: from service.”’ numthe 4 him in the back and lodged near his. had a good view of the volcano Fu-. as well as those recently dischargMURRAY FULL EMPLOYMENT BILL OPPOSED Vigorous opposition to the Murray Full Employment Bill, S. 380, was voiced today by the California State Chamber of Commerce on the ground that it would commit the government to responsibilities and guarantees impossible of fulfilment without extending controls over the national economy to the point of destroying free enterprise, which the bill purports to aid. “Careful study of the measure shows its provisions are not only impracticable but dangerous, far reaching and inimicable to the principles upon which America has developed,’ James Mussatti, general manager: of the State Chamber, stated. ‘‘The position of California State Chamber of Commerce on Senate Bill 380 has fbeen transmitted to the California’s two United States Senators: Downey and Knowland.”’ _The position of the State Chamber , is outlined as follows: The California State Chamber of. Commerce, Agriculture and Industry, recommends vigorous opposition to S. 380, the so called ‘‘full emplyoment” bill now pending in congress, because its basic declarations would permit our ment to assume responsibilities and guarantees which it can never fulfill without extending controls over labor and wages, capital and investments, and production and prices to a point which would destroy the.system of free enterprise which the measure purports to aid. NAVY RECRUITING ™. DRIVE OPENS Navy recruiting stations all over the country are initiating an all out drive for voluntary enlistments, particularly in the regular navy, among men in the age group of 17 to 39, nelusive, who are now eligbile to volunteer. The navy’s recruiting drive, announces Lieut. Comdr. L. R. Ridout. Jr.,-offieer in charge of navy recruiting and induction for northern and Central California, is designed to speed demobilization of men with long war service, to reduce the navy’s calls through selective seervice and at the same time to enable the navy to fulfill its extensive responsibilities through the tranesitoin ee and beyond. During August, the navy enlisted more than 16,000 men in the 17 year. age group, with parental consent. Of this number 6300 joined the regular navy and the balance entered the naval reserve. Now that the bars are raised permtiting men of: draft age to volunteer the navy is endeavoring at least to triple the August figure in coming months. Men who have not been in uniform ed throughg army and navy demobilization are sought through this reeruiting drive. Already a number of World War II veterans are ‘signing for the regular navy and it is anticipated this number will greatly inerease as demobilization progresses. The term of enlistment in the regular navy has been reduced from six to four years. Physical standards have been lowered inthe light of war experience. Men changing to the regular navy from the reserve and men re-enlisting in the regular navy not only retain their rights to mustering out pay, but are enttled to full credit for pagt active duty, a cash re-enlistment bonus, and up to 60 days leave at home. INTOIUCATED DRIVER FINED Driving while intoxicated, John J. Frawley of Forest Springs, crashed through a fence into the garden of George Thompson, South Auburn Street, and on pleading guilty paid a fine in Justice of the Peace Charles (Morehouse’s court. His license to drive was also taken up. The fence was shattered, the lawn gouged and the automobile badly damaged. A passenger in the ear disappeared before the police arrived. national govern-. ‘DEER HUNTERS EXPECTED T0 BREAK RECORDS ‘A record ‘breaking number hunters expected in the ike district of the Tahoe national forest on the opening of deer hunting season yesterday, since many hunters have not been able to partake of their favorite sport during the war, due to gas rationing and work pressure and many others are planning to take their delayed vacations now, believes District Ranger H. I. Snider who has noticed that many hunters are already coming in and locating their camps for the ‘épening of the 6eason. 4 While the presence of deer.in numbers seems to be normal and are in good condition the distribution of the kill to hunters should be more even this year due to the one buck limit and hunters should remember that only one buck regardless’ of point numbers of two or more may be killed in the area east of the highway running along the west side of Lake Tahoe to Tahoe City, along the highway to Truckee, Hobart Mills, Sierraville, Sattley and Beckwith and east of that highway Hunters should notice that the B tag must be used in the one buck limit. We are expecting the usual good cooperation from hunters in not smoking while walking or being in any inflammable veketation area and to make sure their campfires are ‘built where camprifes are allowed and that they are-thoroughly put out before leaving camp at any time, as we do not want any fires to spoil the hunt, states Snider. FINED FOR CARELESSNESS R. L. Jones welder paid ten dollars fine to Justice C. E. Smith, Truckee, last week for welding without a permit in dry vegetation and causing a fire four miles east of Truckee on August 2/6, according to District Ranger H. J. Snider. The forest as well as the machine on which Jones was welding for Highway 40 improvement, was saved from serious damage by the quick action of Patrolman Lowell Graltney with his pick up tank truck, as the fire was detected shortly after it started during one of the reguar patrol trips. GAS TAX FUND RISES IN JULY SACRAMENTO, Sept! -14 — The State Board of Equalization, announced today gasoline tax assessments of California oil companies for July based on distribution of 163982,625 gallons amounted to $4,919,478. This is a gain of 14.78 per cent over the same month in 1944. The revenue for July exceeds by 4.48 per cent that of June and is greater by 7.43 per cent than that collected during May. Commenting on the returns, the board found: “While the month of July reflects the increase allowed by the OPA to A and B card holders from 4 to 6 gallons as of June 1045, it is also the. seventh consecutive month that collections have shown increase over the corresponding months of 1944. “The end of the war in the Pacific area, and the elimination of gasoline rationing as of August 16th will undoubtely be reflected by increased consumption of fuel by the average citizen. This merease cannot be ascertained until returns for the first full month are available in November. The inability of many motorists to secure first grade tires except for essential driving will likewise have an effect on normal gas tax revenues. Until all those prohibitions are removed, future estimates are more or less conjectural.”’ Downieville Resident Called by Grim Reaper DOWNIEVILLE, Sept. 15——-Louis (Charles Fortier died here Friday morning at the age of 83 years most of which he spent in farming. Fortier was born in Forest, Sierra County. Surviving him is his sister, Mrs. Celine Pew of Downieville. Funeral services under the direction of Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada City were held in the Catholic Church yesterday aftefnoon at two o’clock with Rev. Virgil Gabrielle in charge. Interment followed in the Downieville Cemetery. SALVATION ARMY ‘OFFICER COMING thence; 4 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER. VW, 1945_ ‘by the. Japanese during the occup‘Citizens of Grass Valley and Nevada City will be privileged on October 5ith to hear one of the outstanding leaders of the Salvation Army in the person of Commissioner W. A. McIntyre of Chicago who opens a western Speaking tour at that time. (McIntyre, former territorial commander of the central states, is now retired. In addition to the speaking tour; which will cover some 14 cities of the west, McIntyre plans to closef¥ study conditions throughout the west, that he may return to Chicago prepared to cope with the many critical problems which the past war period will present. Commissioner Mejfintyre is ably qualified to conduct this particular survey in view of his outstanding career as a member of the Salvation _ Army. He first joined the army in 1882, when he was just 16 years old, and the intervening years of service have been studded with success. The commissioner is a man of boundless enthusiasm, and according to his associates posseses rare type of optimism that looks full into— the face of pessimistic things and shames them by the radiance of his own spirit. The meeting will be held at the Salvation Army Hall 134 S. Auburn” Street, Grass Valley, Friday. October 5th. LAGESON HEADS APPLE WEEK COMMITTEE Leonard Lageson, county agricultural commissioner, has been named ‘by the Nevada City ‘Chamber of Commerce to head a committee which will restore one of the county’s former gala events, Apple Week,. which ‘is set for October 13th to 19. Tageson reminded members of the chamber at their meeting that for many years Nevada County carried away cups and blue ribbons for its exhibits of apples and pears in the state fair. Aiding Lageson in reviving interest in the county’s apple-crop and public appreciation of the fine fruit grown here, are Rev. Cedric Porter, Byron Brock and Lloyd Geist. R. J. Bennetts, chairman of the chamber’s airport committee gave a report on the proposed joint airport between Nevada City and Grass Valley. Attention was called to the high cost such a project would entail. Tt was decided to send delegates to the next meeting of the Grass Valley chamber to discuss the possibility of expanding Nevada City’s airport. State Officers to Visit BFWC : Three prominent state officers wilt address the Grass Valley business and Professional Women’s Club Wednesday evening( September 19, when it meets for dinner Bret Harte Inn. : The speakers, all of Sacramento, are District Deputy Dorothy Patter son, (District Emblem ‘Chairman (Marie Green and State Legislative ‘Chairman Helen Matlock. Miss’ Betty Eldredge will be program chairman and the president, (Mrs. Veda ‘Meeger. will preside. There of the evening will be Women in the Postwar World. Rev. Moore Will be Laymeth Club Speaker Rev. Joseph W. Moore, pastor of the Methodist Church here, will address the Laymeth Club at a dinner meeting in Wesley Hall, Grass Valley this evening. His topic will be a phrase coined ancy of Manila. It was, Spiritual Guerillas of the Philippines Campaign. It was applied to Christians who sabotaged the Jap effort to induce the Filipinos to make Christians support the co-prosperity sphere, Rev. Moore and his family were interned by the Japs for almost three years in Santa Tomas University, Manila, . 2

anes oe iS The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants ae only to those who love it, and aré ready to guard and defend it.””-—Daniel Webster : = Ne de pee aanenesianaal . This paper gives you complete ada City Nugget . _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19,1 No. 4 _ The County Seat Paper NEVADA. CITY, CALIFORNIA ~. The Gold Center THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. We note that a strike is pending among some thousands of CIO workers of Detroit’s automobile industry. They demand a 30 per cent increase in wages. Apparently the workers ‘believe that with the people of the Uniited States clamoring for new cars, now is the time. to strike for more pay, and run the price of cars up on the. literally, miltions-of ‘buyers. We expect that other labor unions will adopt the same reasoning about other goods and commodities. e If the. trend toward higher wages continues we shall have such -inflation and resultant depression, that the hard times ‘of the early 1930s will seem relatively affluent. We have inflation, now, of couse, but it it a regulated inflation in which an attempt has been made’to hold down both wages and prices. It hag succeeded fairly well, The labor unions are, in fact, even counting their dependents, a small minority’ of population. They are the tail that tries to wag the dog. By organization they wield an influence in congress and state legislative ‘bodies that is altogether disproportionate to their mumbers. Tf we must line up in a struggle with this pressure group developed under the auspices of the visionarjes in power for the past 12 years, let us do so with a will. Who may ‘be counted on to fight on First there are farmers, second, the war veterans, and third the small fbusiness interests and the white collar workers'of the country. If these are properly organized into one big our side? defensive group we shall outweight . the labor unions who have become 60 accustomed to the special privileges granted.them over the past decade that they now consider themselves competent to force their demands upon the rest of us. ‘“‘Special privileges” is the phrase. They have all the rights of big corporations with none, practically none, of corporation responsibilities under the law. Inch by inch they have wrested from congress rights that the rest of us, who are unorganized, do not enjoy. No contract made with their leaders ‘but can be abrogated if expediency dictates. The contracts themselves are _ so drawn as to protect the weak = sisters of the union, the ne’er do wells, and the wastrels. Fire a man for failing to earn even a tithe of his wag-. es, and the union walks out. We have heard many songs sung in praise of labor’s performance in war industries, and we will concede much of the praise was deserved. But for almost every month during the war there were strikes. The total man hours lost runs ‘into staggering figures. The uledge of ‘‘no strikes’”’ was kept in the breach. The unions alienated and antagonized our fighting men and the full repercussions of this _seifish and shortsighted policy are still to be felt. The AFL charges that the CIO is communist controlled by an aggress-. jive small group that bores from within. We here in Nevada. City recall too well just how these small minorities work and fight. The tail tried to wag dog here, and failed. Seven of their fanatics were sentenced-to jail. This business of minorities seizing the government which succeeded s0 well in the Russia, will not succeed in this country. The American ‘»eople are not Russians, even though all of us will grant that the Russjans, generally speaking, are better off under the dictatorship of a small communist party, than they were under the dictatorship of the czars. And it is notable that the Russians are gradually restoring the rewards that aecrue to diligence and infelligence. The: possessors of better brains are better fed, better housed and better paid. Gradually Russia is adoptaug the system that made the United States the most powerful and enlightened nation on earth, that made Britain, the great civilizing influence in global affairs that it has been for a hundred years or more. But to withstand this rising plague ‘officials, ‘of military plans. MYSTERY BULLET HITS HUNTER B. F. Leonard of Geyserville, was the first hunting casualty of the deer season. in Nevada County. He suffered a bullet wound in the left jar. His wife who was camping with him near Webber Lake brought Truckee whehe he was aid. A Hooper and Weaver amuwhblance ‘brought: him into the county hospital here late last’ evening. Coroner Alvah Hooper reported that the bullet’ entered below the lift jaw and emerged under the left eye, shattering Leonard’s plate and apparently fracturing the jaw, (Leonard reported this morning that the shot apparently came from automobile on the Lake ‘Webber Road and that immediately aftertward the car sped away. (Leonard is 61 years old, a veteran of the Spanish American War. He was formerly a baker, but is now retired. WAR CHEST HAS BIG PEACE TIME JOB T0 D0 SAN FRAINCISCO, Sept. 17—Foilowing meetings with army and navy USO today called upon its volunteeers, staff workers and mem‘ber agencies to carry through to completion its responsibilities to the armed forces which are expected to continue for at least another full year. into given first The problem of sustaining morale of members of the armed forces is much more difficult today than it was before the war ended, Ray Johns of New York, national director of USO operations, declared in stressing the need of maintaining USO work, ‘which is supported through War Chest contributions. The California War Chest ‘Victory Drive’ will be conducted October 1 to October 29. Johns, in San Francisco to_ instruct USO western regional personnel on their future activities and to confer with California War Chest officials, declared ‘there is still a big job is to be done. With the, war over, the boys are anxious get back home. There are still a million and a half men in Europe and most of them are bored to death. Moreover, General MacArthur is askng for a big program of entertainment in the Pacific. We are meeting that request just as fast as we can.” “The end of the war with Japan ean produce no quick change:in the entertainment requirements in Europe because it will be many months before all service personnel will get home. In the Pacific, before the war ended, military authorities requested maximum service from USO and approved a program. for establishment of 255 to 50 clubs by the end of 1945. There will be some decrease in this program, ‘but the full extent will not be known until completion We are establishing 10 to 15 big clubs in the Philippines alone. “USO Camp Shows has been requested to provide entertainment for all isolated island garrisons in the Pacific and the armies of occupation. “In this country, services to the troops in transsit and members of their families are not likely to he curtailed ‘with in the next months.”’ Indicating the vast scope of USO work, Johns reported that 24,000,000 people visit clubs and other ‘USO units‘in the continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii each month and that more than 10 million service men attended USO Camp Shows last year. of socialized property, or*seizure of governments by minorities, vicious (pressure groups, and fanatics banded together to destroy our way of life. just as hatefully as either nazis or the fascists, whom externally we have conquered, we must organize. These dissident elements of the na-. on tion can be beaten if all those great groups in the country which oppose them, will organize and do it. 12 BULL ABOUT TO DIEINABATTOIR UPSETS ROUTINE No, the man didn’t bite the dog, but a bull about to be slaughtered did manage to discharge a .22 rifle and the bullet sent a slaughter house employe to the hospital. Joe Gliko member of Glikd and Son who operate a slaughter house just outside Grass Valley, was trying to kill a bull Saturday, in the killing chute. The bull, restive and suspicious, brushed Gliko aside and his gun was discharged .The bullét passed through a: door into an aéjoining room where Tom Osborne was at work flensing a carcass. It hit spine, missing bones and arteries. Osborne was removed. to — the Miners Hosuital in Nevada (City where he is under care of Dr. George A. Foster. He will recover. SPECIAL STAMP MARKS TOKYO SURRENDER and Mrs. L. B. Gregory feceived a letter this week from their son Dick, who is an Electrician’s Mate 2-c on the USS Missouri. The letter was stamped with the special stamp—Japanese Formal Surrender —USS--Missouri, Toklo— Bay, used only on letters mailed from the ship on September 2nd. This stamp will ibe one of the prized Historic stamps of the future. The famed ship was anchored in Tokyo Bay from which the shore line, showing pill boxes and other fortifications was clearly visible, The Yokoshuka Navy Base could also be ‘discerned. Dick also Mr. jiyama: REGISTRATION IN PRIMARY CLASS. SHARPLY GAINS Vice Principal Lloyd Geist of the grammar school reported -yesterday that enrollment totals 40'5 pupils for the first week of school, which is 35 more than last year after the opening. The biggest gain is in the number of first graders of whom there are 73. The next largest enrollment was in the seventh grade with 59 pupils. In the high school 183 are registered, which is 47 more than the poening in 1944. With 171 first grade pupils registering in the Grass Valley schools, an all time high for that grade, the school department has been obliged to form a fifth class for the beginners. Total registration in. the Grass Valley grammar schools is 1034 students, a figure considerably higher than last year. HIGHER SPEED LIMIT BOOSTS BUS SERVICE Lifting of the 35 mile speed limit will have virtually the same effect as a substantia] increase in the iber of highway: buses serving west’s transportation needs. This was the assertion today of F. W. Aeckerman, vice president of Pacific Greyhound Lines, the bus system that provides local and long distance service. in seven western states over a network of highways. The bus executive stated that Greyhound is revising schedules on the time saving basis,now permitted by the ODT. “When the wartime speed limit was reduced to 35 miles per hour in Septemlber 1942’? Ackerman explained, “it meant a marked decrease in the number of trips a bus could make, and a corresponding decrease in the number of passengers each bus couid

car. in a given period. The effect 4 es transportation twas much the same as though a part of our total number of buses was withdrawn: from service.”’ numthe 4 him in the back and lodged near his. had a good view of the volcano Fu-. as well as those recently dischargMURRAY FULL EMPLOYMENT BILL OPPOSED Vigorous opposition to the Murray Full Employment Bill, S. 380, was voiced today by the California State Chamber of Commerce on the ground that it would commit the government to responsibilities and guarantees impossible of fulfilment without extending controls over the national economy to the point of destroying free enterprise, which the bill purports to aid. “Careful study of the measure shows its provisions are not only impracticable but dangerous, far reaching and inimicable to the principles upon which America has developed,’ James Mussatti, general manager: of the State Chamber, stated. ‘‘The position of California State Chamber of Commerce on Senate Bill 380 has fbeen transmitted to the California’s two United States Senators: Downey and Knowland.”’ _The position of the State Chamber , is outlined as follows: The California State Chamber of. Commerce, Agriculture and Industry, recommends vigorous opposition to S. 380, the so called ‘‘full emplyoment” bill now pending in congress, because its basic declarations would permit our ment to assume responsibilities and guarantees which it can never fulfill without extending controls over labor and wages, capital and investments, and production and prices to a point which would destroy the.system of free enterprise which the measure purports to aid. NAVY RECRUITING ™. DRIVE OPENS Navy recruiting stations all over the country are initiating an all out drive for voluntary enlistments, particularly in the regular navy, among men in the age group of 17 to 39, nelusive, who are now eligbile to volunteer. The navy’s recruiting drive, announces Lieut. Comdr. L. R. Ridout. Jr.,-offieer in charge of navy recruiting and induction for northern and Central California, is designed to speed demobilization of men with long war service, to reduce the navy’s calls through selective seervice and at the same time to enable the navy to fulfill its extensive responsibilities through the tranesitoin ee and beyond. During August, the navy enlisted more than 16,000 men in the 17 year. age group, with parental consent. Of this number 6300 joined the regular navy and the balance entered the naval reserve. Now that the bars are raised permtiting men of: draft age to volunteer the navy is endeavoring at least to triple the August figure in coming months. Men who have not been in uniform ed throughg army and navy demobilization are sought through this reeruiting drive. Already a number of World War II veterans are ‘signing for the regular navy and it is anticipated this number will greatly inerease as demobilization progresses. The term of enlistment in the regular navy has been reduced from six to four years. Physical standards have been lowered inthe light of war experience. Men changing to the regular navy from the reserve and men re-enlisting in the regular navy not only retain their rights to mustering out pay, but are enttled to full credit for pagt active duty, a cash re-enlistment bonus, and up to 60 days leave at home. INTOIUCATED DRIVER FINED Driving while intoxicated, John J. Frawley of Forest Springs, crashed through a fence into the garden of George Thompson, South Auburn Street, and on pleading guilty paid a fine in Justice of the Peace Charles (Morehouse’s court. His license to drive was also taken up. The fence was shattered, the lawn gouged and the automobile badly damaged. A passenger in the ear disappeared before the police arrived. national govern-. ‘DEER HUNTERS EXPECTED T0 BREAK RECORDS ‘A record ‘breaking number hunters expected in the ike district of the Tahoe national forest on the opening of deer hunting season yesterday, since many hunters have not been able to partake of their favorite sport during the war, due to gas rationing and work pressure and many others are planning to take their delayed vacations now, believes District Ranger H. I. Snider who has noticed that many hunters are already coming in and locating their camps for the ‘épening of the 6eason. 4 While the presence of deer.in numbers seems to be normal and are in good condition the distribution of the kill to hunters should be more even this year due to the one buck limit and hunters should remember that only one buck regardless’ of point numbers of two or more may be killed in the area east of the highway running along the west side of Lake Tahoe to Tahoe City, along the highway to Truckee, Hobart Mills, Sierraville, Sattley and Beckwith and east of that highway Hunters should notice that the B tag must be used in the one buck limit. We are expecting the usual good cooperation from hunters in not smoking while walking or being in any inflammable veketation area and to make sure their campfires are ‘built where camprifes are allowed and that they are-thoroughly put out before leaving camp at any time, as we do not want any fires to spoil the hunt, states Snider. FINED FOR CARELESSNESS R. L. Jones welder paid ten dollars fine to Justice C. E. Smith, Truckee, last week for welding without a permit in dry vegetation and causing a fire four miles east of Truckee on August 2/6, according to District Ranger H. J. Snider. The forest as well as the machine on which Jones was welding for Highway 40 improvement, was saved from serious damage by the quick action of Patrolman Lowell Graltney with his pick up tank truck, as the fire was detected shortly after it started during one of the reguar patrol trips. GAS TAX FUND RISES IN JULY SACRAMENTO, Sept! -14 — The State Board of Equalization, announced today gasoline tax assessments of California oil companies for July based on distribution of 163982,625 gallons amounted to $4,919,478. This is a gain of 14.78 per cent over the same month in 1944. The revenue for July exceeds by 4.48 per cent that of June and is greater by 7.43 per cent than that collected during May. Commenting on the returns, the board found: “While the month of July reflects the increase allowed by the OPA to A and B card holders from 4 to 6 gallons as of June 1045, it is also the. seventh consecutive month that collections have shown increase over the corresponding months of 1944. “The end of the war in the Pacific area, and the elimination of gasoline rationing as of August 16th will undoubtely be reflected by increased consumption of fuel by the average citizen. This merease cannot be ascertained until returns for the first full month are available in November. The inability of many motorists to secure first grade tires except for essential driving will likewise have an effect on normal gas tax revenues. Until all those prohibitions are removed, future estimates are more or less conjectural.”’ Downieville Resident Called by Grim Reaper DOWNIEVILLE, Sept. 15——-Louis (Charles Fortier died here Friday morning at the age of 83 years most of which he spent in farming. Fortier was born in Forest, Sierra County. Surviving him is his sister, Mrs. Celine Pew of Downieville. Funeral services under the direction of Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada City were held in the Catholic Church yesterday aftefnoon at two o’clock with Rev. Virgil Gabrielle in charge. Interment followed in the Downieville Cemetery. SALVATION ARMY ‘OFFICER COMING thence; 4 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER. VW, 1945_ ‘by the. Japanese during the occup‘Citizens of Grass Valley and Nevada City will be privileged on October 5ith to hear one of the outstanding leaders of the Salvation Army in the person of Commissioner W. A. McIntyre of Chicago who opens a western Speaking tour at that time. (McIntyre, former territorial commander of the central states, is now retired. In addition to the speaking tour; which will cover some 14 cities of the west, McIntyre plans to closef¥ study conditions throughout the west, that he may return to Chicago prepared to cope with the many critical problems which the past war period will present. Commissioner Mejfintyre is ably qualified to conduct this particular survey in view of his outstanding career as a member of the Salvation _ Army. He first joined the army in 1882, when he was just 16 years old, and the intervening years of service have been studded with success. The commissioner is a man of boundless enthusiasm, and according to his associates posseses rare type of optimism that looks full into— the face of pessimistic things and shames them by the radiance of his own spirit. The meeting will be held at the Salvation Army Hall 134 S. Auburn” Street, Grass Valley, Friday. October 5th. LAGESON HEADS APPLE WEEK COMMITTEE Leonard Lageson, county agricultural commissioner, has been named ‘by the Nevada City ‘Chamber of Commerce to head a committee which will restore one of the county’s former gala events, Apple Week,. which ‘is set for October 13th to 19. Tageson reminded members of the chamber at their meeting that for many years Nevada County carried away cups and blue ribbons for its exhibits of apples and pears in the state fair. Aiding Lageson in reviving interest in the county’s apple-crop and public appreciation of the fine fruit grown here, are Rev. Cedric Porter, Byron Brock and Lloyd Geist. R. J. Bennetts, chairman of the chamber’s airport committee gave a report on the proposed joint airport between Nevada City and Grass Valley. Attention was called to the high cost such a project would entail. Tt was decided to send delegates to the next meeting of the Grass Valley chamber to discuss the possibility of expanding Nevada City’s airport. State Officers to Visit BFWC : Three prominent state officers wilt address the Grass Valley business and Professional Women’s Club Wednesday evening( September 19, when it meets for dinner Bret Harte Inn. : The speakers, all of Sacramento, are District Deputy Dorothy Patter son, (District Emblem ‘Chairman (Marie Green and State Legislative ‘Chairman Helen Matlock. Miss’ Betty Eldredge will be program chairman and the president, (Mrs. Veda ‘Meeger. will preside. There of the evening will be Women in the Postwar World. Rev. Moore Will be Laymeth Club Speaker Rev. Joseph W. Moore, pastor of the Methodist Church here, will address the Laymeth Club at a dinner meeting in Wesley Hall, Grass Valley this evening. His topic will be a phrase coined ancy of Manila. It was, Spiritual Guerillas of the Philippines Campaign. It was applied to Christians who sabotaged the Jap effort to induce the Filipinos to make Christians support the co-prosperity sphere, Rev. Moore and his family were interned by the Japs for almost three years in Santa Tomas University, Manila, . 2