September 22, 1950 (8 pages)

‘e BALDWIN ESTATE “WORLD ENOUGH AND SCADDEN CALLS PROPOSITION ONE LUCKY ON TAHOE OFFERED TO TIME” AT LIBRARY TO END PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX U. S. FOREST SERVICE A SHAM TO HOODWINK THE PUBLIC Among the new books received . last month at the Nevada City. “Lucky” Baldwin’s estate at library is the significant new . Nevada oS California, Friday. September 22, 1950—3 Lake Tahoe, ineluding beach work of Robert Penn Warren: . front on Tahoe and Fallen Leaf “World Enough and Time,” ac-. Trenton, capitol of New Jerlakes. and. moest--ef-the.%emaining cording to Mrs. Iva. Williamson’s sey, is named after William Trent Proposition No. 1 on the Nov. 7 general election ballot, appears virgin timber in Lake Tahoe basregular report to the trustees. at first glance, a boon to non-property owners, but in reality is only in, has been offered to the U. S. who bought the city’s site in 1714, Other books received at the loa sham to hoodwink the public into believing it is a measure to help forest service ‘in exchange for cal library in August were “The “Nobody knows where the cost the fellow who owns no real property, declared Phil G. Scadden, national forest timber: on. condiCase of the Musical Cow,” Erle Nevada county assessor, yesterday. Nothing is further from the tion the land be devoted to nonStanley Gardner; “White Witch of Proposition No. 1 would-> fall, but if the assessors adopted the truth he stated. commercial public use. : Doctor,’ Louise. A. Stinetorf; device of increasing valuations Proposition No. 1 will eliminate all personal property from Millard M. Barnum, assistant “Night at the Mocking Widow,” to meet the crisis which passage Hi taxation. In Nevada county, this would amount to a loss of assessed regional forester, said the 2500Carter Dickson; “Once on an Isof the measure would cause, real valuation on the public utility roll of approximately $3,000,000, or acre area extends from the south land,” Sara Sloane; “Southern property owners in Nevada about one-third of their total assessed value, and a loss to the end of Lake Tahoe to Fallen Star,’ Mary Douglas Warren; county might face an increase of county assessment roll of $864,390 or approximately six percent Leaf lake, about one and one“Boot Hill,” Weston Clay; ‘An28 percent in the assessed value of the county roll assessed valuation. half miles. It includes 6,500 feet gels Come in Pairs,” Marjorie of their property, “California It is obvious, Scadden pointed out, that if this proposition beshore line on Fallen Leaf lake Bayley; ‘(Cayuse Courier,’ Chuck Taxpayer’s association said, urgcomes a law that the large public utilities will beneft by a decrease and virgin forest with about 28 Stanley; ne Game,” Richard ing defeat of Proposition No. 1 of 33 percent in assessed valuation, while the home pwners, ranchers, million board-feet of timber. Y¢ Powell. at the Nov. 7 election. businessmen and all owners of private property would only benefit “Edge of Panic,” Henry Kane; Both lakes are popular for Proposition No. 1 proposes to by a reduction’of six percent in the assessed valuation of their boating swimming, fishing, and “A Murder Is Announced,” Agaexempt all personal property property. camping. The nearby Desolation tha Christie; “The Survivors,” from taxation, the association exThe assessment roll in Nevada county, including utilities, as Valley Wilderness Area in EldorHammond Innes; “Stolen Goods,” plained. well as county assessments for the year 1950-51 is $25,181,090. The ado national forest offers hiking, Clarence B. Kelland; “Two If by present base tax rate is $2.30. The average overall rate, including fishing and camping in the high Sea,” Roger Bax; ‘Compliments San Francisco is the only city schools, fire, cemeteries and other taxes for the county is $3.43 on Sierra. of a Fiend,” Fredric Brown; ‘The in the U. S. which includes ‘an the $100 assessed valuation. On the basis of the 1950 assessment Most of Lake Tahoe’s shore line Woman Under the Mountain,” item in its tax rate for support roll if proposition Number 1 becomes a law in November, the PE is privately owned, said Barnum, Roman McDougal; “Hunt With of its symphony: orchestra. present county rate for 1950 would have been: approximately $4.05 the Hounds,” Mignon Eberhart; instead of $3.43; in other words, it:would have been necessary to and only a few thousand feet of “The Gentle Hangman,” James levy a rate sufficient to secure the same amount of taxes on an apusuable shoreline is available for M. Fix; “Who Is. Who, 1950,” That is in proximate $21,006,000 reduced valuation, as the county now received publis recreation. Adam and Charles Black; ‘““SSomeon the present $25,181,090 assessed valuation. The total overall Bliss State Park, Eldorado county thing About Midnight,” D. B. Olpublic campground anda few loss in assessed valuation in Nevada county, Scadden added, would “The Stubborn Heart,” small campgrounds maintained sen; be 20 percent of the present valuation. These figures do not include by the forest service. These are Frank G. Slaughter; ‘‘The Unthe usual 10 percent allowance for deliquency. heard Music,” Eleanor Cameron; overcrowded in season. “Do not let proposition Number 1 lull you into the belief that “Mischief,” Charlotte Armstrong. “the elimination of personal property for purposes of taxation will . The mining boom in old days Mrs. Frank: Bell contributed reduce your taxes,’ Scadden warned. “The only taxpayers who will took much timber from around “Came aCavalier,” Francis P. Lake Tahoe. Elisia J. “Lucky” benefit from proposition number 1 are the public utility companies, Keyes; “Great Son,” Edna Ferlarge chain organizations, manufacturers’ stocks and supplies; the Baldwin opposed the heavy cutber; “The King’s General,” Daphting, and purchased his’ land to livestock industries; equipment and appliance companies; the timne Du Maurier,’ and “Five ber and'lumber industries after the timber has been cut in the save some of the virgin timber. O’Clock Dinner,” Josephine The price asked is $750,000, forests, and all other industries and individuals who do not own TAXES LOST BY PROP. 1 WOULD FALL ELSEWHERE 7 If you need cash, remember. 1000 times a day ¥ : someone gets a :my ersaral lan at i bank i America! Why? Because it’s $0 edsy fo arrange real property in the state of California.” “This is not a poor man’s nor a private property owner’s bill, ‘but a bill solely. for the benefit of the various industries listed above,” Sadden asserted. A study of the facts indicate that if proposition number 1.was passed in November, public utilities would be relieved of approximately forty percent of their tax payments to cities; counties, school districts, and the state on a state-wide basis,-the Nevada county’ assessor pointed out. “IT honestly believe,” Scadden said, “that proposition Number 1 is so dangerous to our tax structure and so discriminatory, unfair and unequitable and destructive to the future welfare of the property owners in the state of California, that I am sure that it is my Pinckney. Barnum said, ‘‘The forest service Mrs. Muriel Fletcher contribdoes not have the funds for immediate — purchase. However, uted “Herself Surprised” by under an act of congress we can Joyce Cary. exchange national forest timber Fiction continued to dominate to acquire this land. The Baldthe 998 books borrowed from the win __heirs.and.the. Eldorado library during August, with 1770. county. supervisors have approvJuvenile books accounted for 166 ed such a plan, and we are proand 67 non-fiction books were ceeding with the acquisition. We borrowed. hope to -have the land ‘available Average daily attendance was for public use’ next summer.” 55 persons. The estate is one patented by Elisia J. “Lucky” Baldwin and owned for three generations by DENIED DAMAGES the Baldwin family. The Tallac Merrill Lee Cummings was dehotel, built there by Lucky Baldnied damages by a Nevada coun‘win, was an early day landmark. ty superior court jury before It was torn down by his daughJudge James Snell: Cummings ter, Anita M. Baldwin, and since filed action asking $26,250 damabout 1924 the only use of the esages from Mr. and Mrs. Carol E. tate. has been by the family and Hoadley as the result of a twoguests for summer vacation. ear collision near Hobart Mills The family, in attempting to last summer. liquidate the holdings which in duty to do everything possible to enlighten the taxpayers as to the facts outlined herewith.” The County Supervisors Association of California and the State Association of County Assessors have gone on record as 100 percent opposed to proposition No. 1. Scadden and Assessor-Elect William L. Tamblyn and Mrs. Tam. blyn will leave Sunday for Santa Cruz to attend the annual conference of the State Association of County Assessors. Proposition No. 1 will be a principal subject of the conference® according to Scadden. The Tamblyns will return to Nevada City Wednesday evening, but Scadden plans to spend the balance of the week attending an clude 6500 feet of beach on Lake Elks conference in Sacramento before returning home. Tahoe and 18,000 feet of shore HUNDREDS PAY FINAL RESPECTS TO FATHER PATRICK J. O'REILLY William Horgan, Placerville, and interested in Rev. Patrick McTague, McCloud. public use. Hundreds of Nevada City, the San Juan Ridge, and Grass Valley parishioners who were served by Father Patrick J. O’Reilly during his more than forty years in the three parishes, paid their final respects Friday morning to the beloved priest of the Roman Catholic church. services and many formed choir Interment was in the Catholic cemetery, Grass Valley. More than sixty priests of. the Sacramento diocees attended the San Juan Ridge; Rev. it put to 435 Zion Street Phone 564J NEVADA CITY Nevada City was twice incor-. porated, in 1853 and 1856. 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Range was small and very feeble; Kiddies know they have a mother, Who likes fun as much as they! Dealer said “Why it's a shame. Board of Fire Delegates at a meeting of the said < Board to be held commencing at 8 P. M. on Monday, September 25, 1950, at the Firemen’s Room in the City Hall. Salary to be $250 per month, hours 24 per day six days a week, one day a week off and two weeks vacation with substitute furnished. The above have been approved by the City Council. Vimeplan Department. a %%) timber any branch. Ask for the ics Ohr. 7 lie es not. Come in.or phone ‘Phone Grass Valley 1050 ishPEliey © on your Car— paid for or N.C.-G.V. Highway, Glenbrook cese of the bishop, Rt. Rev. Robert J. Armstrong, Sacramento. : ervice i$ quick, insulate the average home for Monsignor Thomas Horgan of Marysville, repersented the dio °‘<_=> a Zimeplan loan! cozy on chilly days.» You can “They know cookies are baking in my new electric range!” at the ‘was assisted by Rev. Virgil Gacribbing and rocking on the probrielle, having for .the high mass, with Richard Hales, Jr., Grass Valley, organ. ° Shaft and road work:is continFuneral services were held in uing under pressure at the Yelthe newly dedicated church’ in lowjacket mine, Alleghany, unGrass Valley, where Father der contract. One switchback has O’Reilly completed his career. A been cut on a steep hillside and requiem high mass was sung by another is in process of construc Rev. John McGarry, Colusa, and DR. WALTER MULLIS DENTIST 1 line on Fallen Leaf lake, has been INSULATE FOR YEAR-’ROUND COMFORT! Applicants will send written applications, addressed to the undersigned, giving name, residence, age, and general qualifications. You should do electric cooking! It's so easy, thrifty, clean! Heat's controlled and gutomatic Always perfect, on the beam!” How-to Make Cooking a Joy Instead of a Job . . . check the 7 wonder advantages of a new electric range! 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‘e BALDWIN ESTATE “WORLD ENOUGH AND SCADDEN CALLS PROPOSITION ONE LUCKY ON TAHOE OFFERED TO TIME” AT LIBRARY TO END PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX U. S. FOREST SERVICE A SHAM TO HOODWINK THE PUBLIC Among the new books received . last month at the Nevada City. “Lucky” Baldwin’s estate at library is the significant new . Nevada oS California, Friday. September 22, 1950—3 Lake Tahoe, ineluding beach work of Robert Penn Warren: . front on Tahoe and Fallen Leaf “World Enough and Time,” ac-. Trenton, capitol of New Jerlakes. and. moest--ef-the.%emaining cording to Mrs. Iva. Williamson’s sey, is named after William Trent Proposition No. 1 on the Nov. 7 general election ballot, appears virgin timber in Lake Tahoe basregular report to the trustees. at first glance, a boon to non-property owners, but in reality is only in, has been offered to the U. S. who bought the city’s site in 1714, Other books received at the loa sham to hoodwink the public into believing it is a measure to help forest service ‘in exchange for cal library in August were “The “Nobody knows where the cost the fellow who owns no real property, declared Phil G. Scadden, national forest timber: on. condiCase of the Musical Cow,” Erle Nevada county assessor, yesterday. Nothing is further from the tion the land be devoted to nonStanley Gardner; “White Witch of Proposition No. 1 would-> fall, but if the assessors adopted the truth he stated. commercial public use. : Doctor,’ Louise. A. Stinetorf; device of increasing valuations Proposition No. 1 will eliminate all personal property from Millard M. Barnum, assistant “Night at the Mocking Widow,” to meet the crisis which passage Hi taxation. In Nevada county, this would amount to a loss of assessed regional forester, said the 2500Carter Dickson; “Once on an Isof the measure would cause, real valuation on the public utility roll of approximately $3,000,000, or acre area extends from the south land,” Sara Sloane; “Southern property owners in Nevada about one-third of their total assessed value, and a loss to the end of Lake Tahoe to Fallen Star,’ Mary Douglas Warren; county might face an increase of county assessment roll of $864,390 or approximately six percent Leaf lake, about one and one“Boot Hill,” Weston Clay; ‘An28 percent in the assessed value of the county roll assessed valuation. half miles. It includes 6,500 feet gels Come in Pairs,” Marjorie of their property, “California It is obvious, Scadden pointed out, that if this proposition beshore line on Fallen Leaf lake Bayley; ‘(Cayuse Courier,’ Chuck Taxpayer’s association said, urgcomes a law that the large public utilities will beneft by a decrease and virgin forest with about 28 Stanley; ne Game,” Richard ing defeat of Proposition No. 1 of 33 percent in assessed valuation, while the home pwners, ranchers, million board-feet of timber. Y¢ Powell. at the Nov. 7 election. businessmen and all owners of private property would only benefit “Edge of Panic,” Henry Kane; Both lakes are popular for Proposition No. 1 proposes to by a reduction’of six percent in the assessed valuation of their boating swimming, fishing, and “A Murder Is Announced,” Agaexempt all personal property property. camping. The nearby Desolation tha Christie; “The Survivors,” from taxation, the association exThe assessment roll in Nevada county, including utilities, as Valley Wilderness Area in EldorHammond Innes; “Stolen Goods,” plained. well as county assessments for the year 1950-51 is $25,181,090. The ado national forest offers hiking, Clarence B. Kelland; “Two If by present base tax rate is $2.30. The average overall rate, including fishing and camping in the high Sea,” Roger Bax; ‘Compliments San Francisco is the only city schools, fire, cemeteries and other taxes for the county is $3.43 on Sierra. of a Fiend,” Fredric Brown; ‘The in the U. S. which includes ‘an the $100 assessed valuation. On the basis of the 1950 assessment Most of Lake Tahoe’s shore line Woman Under the Mountain,” item in its tax rate for support roll if proposition Number 1 becomes a law in November, the PE is privately owned, said Barnum, Roman McDougal; “Hunt With of its symphony: orchestra. present county rate for 1950 would have been: approximately $4.05 the Hounds,” Mignon Eberhart; instead of $3.43; in other words, it:would have been necessary to and only a few thousand feet of “The Gentle Hangman,” James levy a rate sufficient to secure the same amount of taxes on an apusuable shoreline is available for M. Fix; “Who Is. Who, 1950,” That is in proximate $21,006,000 reduced valuation, as the county now received publis recreation. Adam and Charles Black; ‘““SSomeon the present $25,181,090 assessed valuation. The total overall Bliss State Park, Eldorado county thing About Midnight,” D. B. Olpublic campground anda few loss in assessed valuation in Nevada county, Scadden added, would “The Stubborn Heart,” small campgrounds maintained sen; be 20 percent of the present valuation. These figures do not include by the forest service. These are Frank G. Slaughter; ‘‘The Unthe usual 10 percent allowance for deliquency. heard Music,” Eleanor Cameron; overcrowded in season. “Do not let proposition Number 1 lull you into the belief that “Mischief,” Charlotte Armstrong. “the elimination of personal property for purposes of taxation will . The mining boom in old days Mrs. Frank: Bell contributed reduce your taxes,’ Scadden warned. “The only taxpayers who will took much timber from around “Came aCavalier,” Francis P. Lake Tahoe. Elisia J. “Lucky” benefit from proposition number 1 are the public utility companies, Keyes; “Great Son,” Edna Ferlarge chain organizations, manufacturers’ stocks and supplies; the Baldwin opposed the heavy cutber; “The King’s General,” Daphting, and purchased his’ land to livestock industries; equipment and appliance companies; the timne Du Maurier,’ and “Five ber and'lumber industries after the timber has been cut in the save some of the virgin timber. O’Clock Dinner,” Josephine The price asked is $750,000, forests, and all other industries and individuals who do not own TAXES LOST BY PROP. 1 WOULD FALL ELSEWHERE 7 If you need cash, remember.. 1000 times a day ¥ : someone gets a :my ersaral lan at i bank i America! Why? Because it’s $0 edsy fo arrange real property in the state of California.” “This is not a poor man’s nor a private property owner’s bill, ‘but a bill solely. for the benefit of the various industries listed above,” Sadden asserted. A study of the facts indicate that if proposition number 1.was passed in November, public utilities would be relieved of approximately forty percent of their tax payments to cities; counties, school districts, and the state on a state-wide basis,-the Nevada county’ assessor pointed out. “IT honestly believe,” Scadden said, “that proposition Number 1 is so dangerous to our tax structure and so discriminatory, unfair and unequitable and destructive to the future welfare of the property owners in the state of California, that I am sure that it is my Pinckney. Barnum said, ‘‘The forest service Mrs. Muriel Fletcher contribdoes not have the funds for immediate — purchase. However, uted “Herself Surprised” by under an act of congress we can Joyce Cary. exchange national forest timber Fiction continued to dominate to acquire this land. The Baldthe 998 books borrowed from the win __heirs..and..the.. Eldorado library during August, with 1770. county. supervisors have approvJuvenile books accounted for 166 ed such a plan, and we are proand 67 non-fiction books were ceeding with the acquisition. We borrowed. hope to -have the land ‘available Average daily attendance was for public use’ next summer.” 55 persons. The estate is one patented by Elisia J. “Lucky” Baldwin and owned for three generations by DENIED DAMAGES the Baldwin family. The Tallac Merrill Lee Cummings was dehotel, built there by Lucky Baldnied damages by a Nevada coun‘win, was an early day landmark. ty superior court jury before It was torn down by his daughJudge James Snell: Cummings ter, Anita M. Baldwin, and since filed action asking $26,250 damabout 1924 the only use of the esages from Mr. and Mrs. Carol E. tate. has been by the family and Hoadley as the result of a twoguests for summer vacation. ear collision near Hobart Mills The family, in attempting to last summer. liquidate the holdings which in duty to do everything possible to enlighten the taxpayers as to the facts outlined herewith.” The County Supervisors Association of California and the State Association of County Assessors have gone on record as 100 percent opposed to proposition No. 1. Scadden and Assessor-Elect William L. Tamblyn and Mrs. Tam. blyn will leave Sunday for Santa Cruz to attend the annual conference of the State Association of County Assessors. Proposition No. 1 will be a principal subject of the conference® according to Scadden. The Tamblyns will return to Nevada City Wednesday evening, but Scadden plans to spend the balance of the week attending an clude 6500 feet of beach on Lake Elks conference in Sacramento before returning home. Tahoe and 18,000 feet of shore HUNDREDS PAY FINAL RESPECTS TO FATHER PATRICK J. O'REILLY William Horgan, Placerville, and interested in Rev. Patrick McTague, McCloud. public use. Hundreds of Nevada City, the San Juan Ridge, and Grass Valley parishioners who were served by Father Patrick J. O’Reilly during his more than forty years in the three parishes, paid their final respects Friday morning to the beloved priest of the Roman Catholic church. services and many formed choir Interment was in the Catholic cemetery, Grass Valley. More than sixty priests of. the Sacramento diocees attended the San Juan Ridge; Rev. it put to 435 Zion Street Phone 564J

NEVADA CITY Nevada City was twice incor-. porated, in 1853 and 1856. Enjoy evenly balanced indoor temperatures throughout the year by insulating your home with dependable Fiberglas! Insulation shuts out temperature extremes, keeps you cool and fresh in the warmest weather, snug and confidential, friendly. Loans from $50 to $1500; or if per month! you like, you can borrow as low as $6 down and $2.49 BUILDERS AND CONSUMERS LUMBER COMPANY tion. Steepness forces ject. -_—_—S ” FS.. oN ~ me 3 4 é BERGEMANN wis, * umm FUNERAL CHAPEL Phone . 203 The Bergemann Funeral Chapel service is priced within the means of all. Ambulance service at all hours. ‘) > by d Nudist FIRE TRUCK DRIVER needn't bother reading this ad, since their dry cleaning problems are negligible! Applications for position of Fire Truck Driver for the Nevada City Fire Department and general maintenance for city hall and equipment shop will be received for consideration by the Happy ending to my story! Always cooking! Never finished! Every day was just the same. Wholé meals cook while I'm away. Range was small and very feeble; Kiddies know they have a mother, Who likes fun as much as they! Dealer said “Why it's a shame.. Board of Fire Delegates at a meeting of the said < Board to be held commencing at 8 P. M. on Monday, September 25, 1950, at the Firemen’s Room in the City Hall. Salary to be $250 per month, hours 24 per day six days a week, one day a week off and two weeks vacation with substitute furnished. The above have been approved by the City Council. Vimeplan Department. a %%) timber any branch. Ask for the ics Ohr. 7 lie es not. Come in..or phone ‘Phone Grass Valley 1050 ishPEliey © on your Car— paid for or N.C.-G.V. Highway, Glenbrook cese of the bishop, Rt. Rev. Robert J. Armstrong, Sacramento. : ervice i$ quick, insulate the average home for Monsignor Thomas Horgan of Marysville, repersented the dio °‘<_=> a Zimeplan loan! cozy on chilly days.» You can “They know cookies are baking in my new electric range!” at the ‘was assisted by Rev. Virgil Gacribbing and rocking on the probrielle, having for .the high mass, with Richard Hales, Jr., Grass Valley, organ. ° Shaft and road work:is continFuneral services were held in uing under pressure at the Yelthe newly dedicated church’ in lowjacket mine, Alleghany, unGrass Valley, where Father der contract. One switchback has O’Reilly completed his career. A been cut on a steep hillside and requiem high mass was sung by another is in process of construc Rev. John McGarry, Colusa, and DR. WALTER MULLIS DENTIST 1 line on Fallen Leaf lake, has been INSULATE FOR YEAR-’ROUND COMFORT! Applicants will send written applications, addressed to the undersigned, giving name, residence, age, and general qualifications. You should do electric cooking! It's so easy, thrifty, clean! Heat's controlled and gutomatic Always perfect, on the beam!” How-to Make Cooking a Joy Instead of a Job . . . check the 7 wonder advantages of a new electric range! Automatic, clean, cool, thrifty, fast, accurate and efficient. You can oven-cook an entire dinner automatically without watching or worrying! Broil a steak perfectly in a smokeless broiler! Cook thrifty stews, soups, meats in the deep well cooker! Get quick, measured heat for surface boiling or frying! Bake feather-light cakes by accurate temperature control! Best of all, count on-thrifty operation. With P. G. and E. rates among the lowest in the nation, 7¢ a day is the average cost of operating a handsome new electric range with all these advantages! Rates drop still more if there's also an electric water. heater in your home! See your dealer soon! :elf JOHN M. GRAHAM, Chief, Nevada City Fire Department P-G-E: PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY . ~ However.. It happens to be the case for most of us that we wear some clothes! In fact, we take great delight in choosing and wearing them. With one of the biggest pl in the area; with the very latest equipment and with years of experience, we can and do give your clothes the best of gentle care. They'll come back sparkling clean and sterilized. TRY US, AND YOU'LL BE CONVINCED! GRASS VALLEY LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANERS 111 Bennett Street Grass Valley