September 22, 1950 (8 pages)

WUE 2—Nevada City, California, Friday, September 22, 1950 305 Broad St.—Telephone 36 Published every Friday morning at Nevada City, California. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Member. of California : Newspaper Publishers Association. * ‘KEN WRAY, Publisher AL TRIVELPIECE, News Editor Subscription: $2.60 year; $1.25 six months; 75c three months. Advertising rates on request. . Our Platform: . 1. Better roads in Nevada County. 2. Better transportation facilities, including improved freight service and transcontinental bus service. _ 3. Traffic control lights at Broad and Pine and at the Plaza. : 4. A promotional prograrh inviting new and more industries and new and more residents. 5. Adequate playgrounds for the youngsters of the community. : ie 6. A second elementary school to relieve the congestion in the present school and be prepared for an expanding population of the future. 7. Expansion of U. S. Forest Service sustained-yield program to perpetuate the lumber industry in the county. 8. Construction of an earth-fill dam to form a recreation lake'in Deer creek. é 9. Stocking of crawfish: in Deer creek. 10. Return of Earl Warren to the governor’s chair. IS A GUN LESS LETHAL THAN A CAR? This is not a new idea but it is still a good one— Prospective deer -hunters before being issued a license and deer tags should be forced to take a strict test and administered a solemn oath before they are turned loose in forests they have never seen before with a lethal weapon they. may have never used before. Annually our forests are infested with a wave of pea green hunters who blaze away at waving leaves, snapping twigs, rabbits, parked jeeps, pack horses, and fellow hunters. The annals of screw humorous reading if it were not so serious. ples illustrate the point: 1. A hunter circled the mountain, returned to his own camp and shot his wife who was wearing a leather jacket which, he claimed made her look like a legal deer. 2. Another returned to camp and shot his pack horse. 3. There are many cases of a hunter being shot as he carried out his deer. 4. The mortality rate among deer dogs is very high. Any deer dog, it seems, bears a strong resemblance to a buck deer. : 5. A hunter climbed.a tree to get his bearings. He was shot by a man who claimed he was shooting squirrels. 6. A Modoc hunter was shot several years ago as he slept in an army sleeping bag which resembled, the shooter claimed, a reclining deer. 6. Black and white holstein dairy cows are fresuently mistaken for deer. 7. A coast range hunter told a game warden he had not had a‘ good shot but had had two ‘sound’. shots. Asked what he meant he said a “sound” shot was taken when you could hear a deer but could not see it. The above examples are only a few. Veteran hunters could tell another hundred. In fact, there are few seasoned hunters who have not hada bullet ricochet off a nearby rock, or kick up dust a few feet away or knock the bark off a nearby tree. . ay Such cases are rated as near misses and do not appear in the official records. There is no more reason why the state of California should issue a hunting license to an inexperienced person than a driver's license should be given to a person who had never seen or driven a car. The deer hunting situation has become so dangerous that scores of fishermen, hikers, campers, picnickers and trail riders fold up their tents and get out of the forests the day before deer season opens.—at ball nashamensiie would make A few examYou probably heard about the sot who came home and in his subconscious (>?) groping about staggered into the shower stall;-and in-his-thrashing about-turned open the valve. The noise woke his ever-loving wife, who after taking in the circumstances started to call him every kind of a so-and-so, winding up with a non-too flattering estimate of his past, present and future, ‘‘Thash right,”’ he admitted, ‘‘I’m everything you said. But let me in. It’s raining something. awful out here.” The presidential election of 1948 brought out only one-half of those who are entitled to vote, the real expression of citizenship. Only 60 percent of the graduates of American colleges and universities took the trou-. ble to go to the polls and mark a ballot —Windom, Minn., Reporter. . y : The gal who goes to fortunte tellers to have her palm read has a husband who goes tothe corner bar to get his nose red. Praise. too dearly loved, or warmly sought, enfeebles * all internal strength of thought.—Goldsmith. ONTROLS One of our favorite scenes in the realm of motion pic‘tures is that in which hundreds of beings pour from a . tiny container. . Apparently the administration expects to cure the ills of the inflationary spiral in which we find ourselves by means of the tightening of economic controls of,consumer buying as adopted last Monday. But it appears to be as logical as the exit of countless objects from a ridiculous container. . : j No control applies to outright necessities. How is the housewife, finding soap: products boosted 71/2 percent in wholesale costs, going to offset that because automobile buyers are going to have to pay off unpaid balances in 21 months instead of 30? How is the price of steak and potatoes going to be decreased because riow you can't buy furniture with less than 10 percent down? If the administration has the guts to slap price controls on essentials—on the things that American have to buy to live, it had better get around to doing the job before it is too late. ‘ Credit buying has some influence on the economy but it isn’t as real, immediate and direct as the greed of this and that group of manufacturers who are raising prices on essential products to the maximum the traffic will bear with no regard to any factor other than the desire to make a fat profit as quickly as possible. There is only one way to stop basic inflation—the. inflation that is making your dollar and mine worth less and less each day. The way, is to tell the manufacturer, the distributor, the retailer that goods, food and clothing, and the like, cannot be sold for more than the highest price in the period immediately preceding the Korean The comic cartoon way of trying to control without controls just won't work; it can’t.” A hundred big dogs just won't fit into a tiny dog house. This country of ours is going to find itself in one of the nastiest economic messes it has ever known unless our ‘zovernment gets busy, and right now, to prevent wartime profiteering by preventing price increases from cutting the value of our dollars even lower than it is today. The big boys never did like OPA but it saved the average little fellow, the same guy who needs help now. The question isn’t whether the jah eds doing. It is whether the administration has the guts to control manufacturers’ prices, and, at the same time, wages. & hate to think of what will happen if controls are too late . in coming. NOT OUR GYPSY Gypsy Rose Lee, the young lady who made strip teasing an art, has been accused of Communist sympathies. Now, Communists usually work under cover but we doubt whether Miss Lee can be accused of operating that way. Whether or not Miss Lee has any Red sympathies we don’t know but don't imagine that this unproved charges, as so many of these charges are, will make her any less popular with the public—particularly the men. Not so fortunate, however, was Jean Muir, the prominent radio actress who recently lost her job because she was listed as a Communist sympathizer by a pamphlet published in the east. No proof was offered to substantiate the accusation and Miss Muir vehemently denied it. But she lost her job anyway. In other words she, like many others so accused, is assumed to be guilty: until proved innocent. That's the typical Communist attitude. So, the accusers and the general public follow the Communist technique in dealing with persons accused of such affiliations. How long is this sort of thing to go on? ‘How long shall irresponsible and loose spoken accusers be permitted to blacken the character of others and jeopardize their careers without providing a shred of evidence to substantiate their charges? If the super-patriots detest Communism why do they adopt its methods? Public indifference to this practice is one of the gravest dangers in America today. Many observers felt the government's attack upon bigness might have been stirred up by economic planners whe’ want to scuttle our free enterprise system. The system encourages bigness but only if bigness can be more efficient than smallness and can. win the approval of the consuming public without which, of course, no company can grow. If industries were to be broken up simply on the grounds of bigness, our advance as a nation would be seriously slowed down and our national security critically weakened.—Welch, Okla., Watchman. Those who like the form of government that we inherited from those who founded the United States of America might keep their eyes on the pressure groups.— Lewistown, Pa., Sentinel. : In times of peace and war alike, the iron horse has played an indispensable part in American life . . it's still the backbone of our. transport system.—Syracuse, N. Y., Herald-Journal. Under the farm support program Uncle has to keep on buying products that are already running out of his: ears _. . It costs the government billions to buy the stuff that nobody wants—at the prices being charged. Uncle buys it to keep the prices up so he and everybody else has to pay more. How crazy can we get?—Cypress, Calif., Enterprise. She shifted her-mind into neutral and let her tongue idle on. Cs 4 OUR CONG ESSMAN REPORTS: Bg. By CLAIRENGLE =~ schools the figelves have indicated an intense interest in the establishment of this special committee, and the hearings which will be held. So far as I know I will be the only congressman in the western U. S. designated to serve on it. YELLOWJACKET BUZZINGS By Darleen Crowley dS House Group Will’ Probe V. A. Program ine-man committee of the house has been named to investigate the administration of the education and training © veterans under, the G. I. bill of rights. I have been appointed a: member of this special subcommittee. The purpose of the 1nvestigation is to determine how the educational program under the G. I. bill was. carried out. This is important not only because ten and a half billion dollars of the taxpeyers’ money was spent in this program, but because we will probably extend the program as the result of the active service of veterans 1n the Korean . war. Many Complaints The operation of the G. I. .education and training program under the G. I. bill of rights brought loud complaints from a great many of the schools, veterans, and veterans’ organizations against the -veterans administration. And, complaints were also registered by veterans’ organizations and civic groups against some of the schools permitted to participate in the program which were obviously flyby-night outfits. In addition, the charge has been made that many schools, some of them highly reputable, made unconscionable profits out of the G. I. educational program. Pattern for Legislation The special subcommittee ap-: pointed by the house will investigate all of these matters for the purpose of making a report to congress on what has actually transpired. As a result of the investigation and report, it is hoped that we will be able to profit in the future from the experience we have had under this type of legislation, which undoubtedly will be a model for treatment of veterans who have been deprived of normal educational opportunities in the Korean conflict or any subsequent ones in which we may be engaged. Both the vetenrans’ organizations and many of the educational Letters to The Editor The views and opinions appearing in this column, Letters to The Editor, are not necessarily those of The Nugget. A special n The first in the series of the national assemblies will be held in the high school auditorium next Wednesday. A short assembly was held last Wednesday afternoon in the high school gym to announce the new yell leaders. They are Dorotha Smart, Germaine Marsh and Lil© were Jean Griggs, Dianna Godfrey, Patsy Humphreys and Irma Steger. — Shirley Baker was chosen leader of the majorettes. Other majorettes will bé announced later, Members of the Girls Athletic Association were elected last week. They are Sue Moore, president; Pat Sturtevant, vice president; Shirley Hoar, secretary; Sandra Pease, treasurer. Miss Helen Chapman is the advisor. Hal Draper gave his general science class a test covering energy. Subjects included how man has learned to use materials and forces of nature, on the properties of matter and on the atom. Tests were also given by Mrs. Margaret Newby in Homemaking I and a short quiz in English. A U. S. history test is scheduled for next Thursday and a bookkeepMiss Chapman’s girls physical education classes are, playing the game of speedball, ‘with a few girls playing tennis. The first Parent-Teachers Association meeting will be. held Monday evening at 8 p.m. at the high school. -Hostesses for the meeting will. be the sophomore mothers, headed by Mrs. T. W. Sigourney. Refreshments of tea and cookies will be served. Dignity We strive and maintain dignity of service to all in their time of need. Last week at Pretoria, Union South Africa, was buried. with full military honors Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts,. South Africa’s greatest soldier and one of the world’s most eminent of statesmen. Leader in three wars, twice the prime minister of the, Union of South Africa, one of the most effective organizers Of the League. of Nations ,,and the United Nations, and instigator of the movement for the creation of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Marshal Smuts had, for three decades, unselfishly and’ patriotically striven for free self government for his own people and democracy throughout the world. His passing will be sincerely mourned by all exponents of a world free of tyranny and oppression. Services are arranged by a staff that has years of experience. You may place full confidence in our mortuary services. “BERGEMANN FUNERAL CHAPEL (formerly Holmes Funeral Home) J. Paul Bergemann 246 Sacramento Street Telephone 203 Nevada City 24-HOUR ? Ambulance Service H.-P: DAVIS. We like The Nugget. We never destroy a copy, but send them to . ’ friends. Several persons have come to Nevada City as a result. Some have invested in property and all have contributed to the good of the community. S. 1. H. PEACE. . OF MIND. nl — Have You A Son orDaughter Going To School This Year? Send The Nugget to yor ‘ your boy or girl away at a or college. We take pi of cniling every eek during the school year. Just like a letter from : home, and relieves o.8 ° 2s you of : . mation to your child. writing impersonal infor $2.00 FOR THE SCHOOL TERM ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES lie Sassamon. Other contestants vy ing test for next Tuesday. ] a

WUE 2—Nevada City, California, Friday, September 22, 1950 305 Broad St.—Telephone 36 Published every Friday morning at Nevada City, California. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Nevada City, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Member. of California : Newspaper Publishers Association. * ‘KEN WRAY, Publisher AL TRIVELPIECE, News Editor Subscription: $2.60 year; $1.25 six months; 75c three months. Advertising rates on request. . Our Platform: . 1. Better roads in Nevada County. 2. Better transportation facilities, including improved freight service and transcontinental bus service. _ 3. Traffic control lights at Broad and Pine and at the Plaza. : 4. A promotional prograrh inviting new and more industries and new and more residents. 5. Adequate playgrounds for the youngsters of the community. : ie 6. A second elementary school to relieve the congestion in the present school and be prepared for an expanding population of the future. 7. Expansion of U. S. Forest Service sustained-yield program to perpetuate the lumber industry in the county. 8. Construction of an earth-fill dam to form a recreation lake'in Deer creek. é 9. Stocking of crawfish: in Deer creek. 10. Return of Earl Warren to the governor’s chair. IS A GUN LESS LETHAL THAN A CAR? This is not a new idea but it is still a good one— Prospective deer -hunters before being issued a license and deer tags should be forced to take a strict test and administered a solemn oath before they are turned loose in forests they have never seen before with a lethal weapon they. may have never used before. Annually our forests are infested with a wave of pea green hunters who blaze away at waving leaves, snapping twigs, rabbits, parked jeeps, pack horses, and fellow hunters. The annals of screw humorous reading if it were not so serious. ples illustrate the point: 1. A hunter circled the mountain, returned to his own camp and shot his wife who was wearing a leather jacket which, he claimed made her look like a legal deer. 2. Another returned to camp and shot his pack horse. 3. There are many cases of a hunter being shot as he carried out his deer. 4. The mortality rate among deer dogs is very high. Any deer dog, it seems, bears a strong resemblance to a buck deer. : 5. A hunter climbed.a tree to get his bearings. He was shot by a man who claimed he was shooting squirrels. 6. A Modoc hunter was shot several years ago as he slept in an army sleeping bag which resembled, the shooter claimed, a reclining deer. 6. Black and white holstein dairy cows are fresuently mistaken for deer. 7. A coast range hunter told a game warden he had not had a‘ good shot but had had two ‘sound’. shots. Asked what he meant he said a “sound” shot was taken when you could hear a deer but could not see it. The above examples are only a few. Veteran hunters could tell another hundred. In fact, there are few seasoned hunters who have not hada bullet ricochet off a nearby rock, or kick up dust a few feet away or knock the bark off a nearby tree. . ay Such cases are rated as near misses and do not appear in the official records. There is no more reason why the state of California should issue a hunting license to an inexperienced person than a driver's license should be given to a person who had never seen or driven a car. The deer hunting situation has become so dangerous that scores of fishermen, hikers, campers, picnickers and trail riders fold up their tents and get out of the forests the day before deer season opens.—at ball nashamensiie would make A few examYou probably heard about the sot who came home and in his subconscious (>?) groping about staggered into the shower stall;-and in-his-thrashing about-turned open the valve. The noise woke his ever-loving wife, who after taking in the circumstances started to call him every kind of a so-and-so, winding up with a non-too flattering estimate of his past, present and future, ‘‘Thash right,”’ he admitted, ‘‘I’m everything you said. But let me in. It’s raining something. awful out here.” The presidential election of 1948 brought out only one-half of those who are entitled to vote, the real expression of citizenship. Only 60 percent of the graduates of American colleges and universities took the trou-. ble to go to the polls and mark a ballot —Windom, Minn., Reporter. . y : The gal who goes to fortunte tellers to have her palm read has a husband who goes tothe corner bar to get his nose red. Praise. too dearly loved, or warmly sought, enfeebles * all internal strength of thought.—Goldsmith. ONTROLS One of our favorite scenes in the realm of motion pic‘tures is that in which hundreds of beings pour from a . tiny container. . Apparently the administration expects to cure the ills of the inflationary spiral in which we find ourselves by means of the tightening of economic controls of,consumer buying as adopted last Monday. But it appears to be as logical as the exit of countless objects from a ridiculous container. . : j No control applies to outright necessities. How is the housewife, finding soap: products boosted 71/2 percent in wholesale costs, going to offset that because automobile buyers are going to have to pay off unpaid balances in 21 months instead of 30? How is the price of steak and potatoes going to be decreased because riow you can't buy furniture with less than 10 percent down? If the administration has the guts to slap price controls on essentials—on the things that American have to buy to live, it had better get around to doing the job before it is too late. ‘ Credit buying has some influence on the economy but it isn’t as real, immediate and direct as the greed of this and that group of manufacturers who are raising prices on essential products to the maximum the traffic will bear with no regard to any factor other than the desire to make a fat profit as quickly as possible. There is only one way to stop basic inflation—the. inflation that is making your dollar and mine worth less and less each day. The way, is to tell the manufacturer, the distributor, the retailer that goods, food and clothing, and the like, cannot be sold for more than the highest price in the period immediately preceding the Korean The comic cartoon way of trying to control without controls just won't work; it can’t.” A hundred big dogs just won't fit into a tiny dog house. This country of ours is going to find itself in one of the nastiest economic messes it has ever known unless our ‘zovernment gets busy, and right now, to prevent wartime profiteering by preventing price increases from cutting the value of our dollars even lower than it is today. The big boys never did like OPA but it saved the average little fellow, the same guy who needs help now. The question isn’t whether the jah eds doing. It is whether the administration has the guts to control manufacturers’ prices, and, at the same time, wages. & hate to think of what will happen if controls are too late . in coming. NOT OUR GYPSY Gypsy Rose Lee, the young lady who made strip teasing an art, has been accused of Communist sympathies. Now, Communists usually work under cover but we doubt whether Miss Lee can be accused of operating that way. Whether or not Miss Lee has any Red sympathies we don’t know but don't imagine that this unproved charges, as so many of these charges are, will make her any less popular with the public—particularly the men. Not so fortunate, however, was Jean Muir, the prominent radio actress who recently lost her job because she was listed as a Communist sympathizer by a pamphlet published in the east. No proof was offered to substantiate the accusation and Miss Muir vehemently denied it. But she lost her job anyway. In other words she, like many others so accused, is assumed to be guilty: until proved innocent. That's the typical Communist attitude. So, the accusers and the general public follow the Communist technique in dealing with persons accused of such affiliations. How long is this sort of thing to go on? ‘How long shall irresponsible and loose spoken accusers be permitted to blacken the character of others and jeopardize their careers without providing a shred of evidence to substantiate their charges? If the super-patriots detest Communism why do they adopt its methods? Public indifference to this practice is one of the gravest dangers in America today. Many observers felt the government's attack upon bigness might have been stirred up by economic planners whe’ want to scuttle our free enterprise system. The system encourages bigness but only if bigness can be more efficient than smallness and can. win the approval of the consuming public without which, of course, no company can grow. If industries were to be broken up simply on the grounds of bigness, our advance as a nation would be seriously slowed down and our national security critically weakened.—Welch, Okla., Watchman. Those who like the form of government that we inherited from those who founded the United States of America might keep their eyes on the pressure groups.— Lewistown, Pa., Sentinel. : In times of peace and war alike, the iron horse has played an indispensable part in American life . . it's

still the backbone of our. transport system.—Syracuse, N. Y., Herald-Journal. Under the farm support program Uncle has to keep on buying products that are already running out of his: ears _. . It costs the government billions to buy the stuff that nobody wants—at the prices being charged. Uncle buys it to keep the prices up so he and everybody else has to pay more. How crazy can we get?—Cypress, Calif., Enterprise. She shifted her-mind into neutral and let her tongue idle on. Cs 4 OUR CONG ESSMAN REPORTS: Bg. By CLAIRENGLE =~ schools the figelves have indicated an intense interest in the establishment of this special committee, and the hearings which will be held. So far as I know I will be the only congressman in the western U. S. designated to serve on it. YELLOWJACKET BUZZINGS By Darleen Crowley dS House Group Will’ Probe V. A. Program ine-man committee of the house has been named to investigate the administration of the education and training © veterans under, the G. I. bill of rights. I have been appointed a: member of this special subcommittee. The purpose of the 1nvestigation is to determine how the educational program under the G. I. bill was. carried out. This is important not only because ten and a half billion dollars of the taxpeyers’ money was spent in this program, but because we will probably extend the program as the result of the active service of veterans 1n the Korean . war. Many Complaints The operation of the G. I. .education and training program under the G. I. bill of rights brought loud complaints from a great many of the schools, veterans, and veterans’ organizations against the -veterans administration. And, complaints were also registered by veterans’ organizations and civic groups against some of the schools permitted to participate in the program which were obviously flyby-night outfits. In addition, the charge has been made that many schools, some of them highly reputable, made unconscionable profits out of the G. I. educational program. Pattern for Legislation The special subcommittee ap-: pointed by the house will investigate all of these matters for the purpose of making a report to congress on what has actually transpired. As a result of the investigation and report, it is hoped that we will be able to profit in the future from the experience we have had under this type of legislation, which undoubtedly will be a model for treatment of veterans who have been deprived of normal educational opportunities in the Korean conflict or any subsequent ones in which we may be engaged. Both the vetenrans’ organizations and many of the educational Letters to The Editor The views and opinions appearing in this column, Letters to The Editor, are not necessarily those of The Nugget. A special n The first in the series of the national assemblies will be held in the high school auditorium next Wednesday. A short assembly was held last Wednesday afternoon in the high school gym to announce the new yell leaders. They are Dorotha Smart, Germaine Marsh and Lil© were Jean Griggs, Dianna Godfrey, Patsy Humphreys and Irma Steger. — Shirley Baker was chosen leader of the majorettes. Other majorettes will bé announced later, Members of the Girls Athletic Association were elected last week. They are Sue Moore, president; Pat Sturtevant, vice president; Shirley Hoar, secretary; Sandra Pease, treasurer. Miss Helen Chapman is the advisor. Hal Draper gave his general science class a test covering energy. Subjects included how man has learned to use materials and forces of nature, on the properties of matter and on the atom. Tests were also given by Mrs. Margaret Newby in Homemaking I and a short quiz in English. A U. S. history test is scheduled for next Thursday and a bookkeepMiss Chapman’s girls physical education classes are, playing the game of speedball, ‘with a few girls playing tennis. The first Parent-Teachers Association meeting will be. held Monday evening at 8 p.m. at the high school. -Hostesses for the meeting will. be the sophomore mothers, headed by Mrs. T. W. Sigourney. Refreshments of tea and cookies will be served. Dignity We strive and maintain dignity of service to all in their time of need. Last week at Pretoria, Union South Africa, was buried. with full military honors Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts,. South Africa’s greatest soldier and one of the world’s most eminent of statesmen. Leader in three wars, twice the prime minister of the, Union of South Africa, one of the most effective organizers Of the League. of Nations ,,and the United Nations, and instigator of the movement for the creation of the British Commonwealth of Nations, Marshal Smuts had, for three decades, unselfishly and’ patriotically striven for free self government for his own people and democracy throughout the world. His passing will be sincerely mourned by all exponents of a world free of tyranny and oppression. Services are arranged by a staff that has years of experience. You may place full confidence in our mortuary services. “BERGEMANN FUNERAL CHAPEL (formerly Holmes Funeral Home) J. Paul Bergemann 246 Sacramento Street Telephone 203 Nevada City 24-HOUR ? Ambulance Service H.-P: DAVIS. We like The Nugget. We never destroy a copy, but send them to . ’ friends. Several persons have come to Nevada City as a result. Some have invested in property and all have contributed to the good of the community. S. 1. H. PEACE. . OF MIND. nl — Have You A Son orDaughter Going To School This Year? Send The Nugget to yor ‘ your boy or girl away at a or college. We take pi of cniling every eek during the school year. Just like a letter from : home, and relieves o.8 ° 2s you of : . mation to your child. writing impersonal infor $2.00 FOR THE SCHOOL TERM ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES lie Sassamon. Other contestants vy ing test for next Tuesday. ] a