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Thinking
Out Loud
Vol. 12, No. 75.
By H. M. L.
———
When Premier Chamberlain suddenly called off his conference with the
furious fuehrer at Godesburg and
returned to London, he
very = apparently had decided to call the fue
Grant Spear, convicted of riotThe sum of $7,831 is available for Sierra county mines and farmers are
Voters of the
, Nevada Irrigation more water. The new canal in Placer
the Nevada County fair which is beeligible to enter their products for ing on January 20, when 75 or more
district on Wednesday next will decounty will
serve prospective conCIO pickets attempted to block the
ing held in Grass Valley on October exhibition and prizes. .
cide on a financing plan that will
toad
to
the
Murchie
mine
and
presumers
in
the
14-16 and 16. An allotment of $1,district that the presOne priucipal attraction will be
enable the district to construct a
resuming
their
500 has been made for minerals, the the horse show which will be held vent miners from
new water storage dam at Scotts ent system cannot serve lbecause of
eounty being the leading gold proSunday afternoon and evening in the work there, was this morning sentFlat, ditches and
other
new imlack of water. Tentative plans made
ducer in. the state and also receivJames S. Hennessy field at the rear enced to 10 months in _the county
provements for the territory served to serve gravel mines in the Blue
ing awards for other minerals at the of the Hennessy grammar _ school. jail.
by the system. Manager William DurTent area northeast of Nevada City
Judge Raglan Tuttle denied the
last state fair in Sacramento early Tevis Paine of Sacramento is manbrow has stated the new ‘bond issue are also on the program and it will
this month.
Loyle Freeman is in aging the show and will act as masmotion for probation which Spear’s
of $460,000 will.not increase rates provide more.water for the Bear
attorney’s
George
Anderson,
had
charge of the Nevada’ County fair. ter of ceremonies. Horses on exhibit
in land assessments in the district River irrigation system if needed.
The chief class awards
will
be will probably include Time Supply made when Spear was convicted by
as new consumers will take care of The Combe-Ophir canal
will cost
divided into different classes and and Microphone, two famous race jury September 13. In pronouncing
the indebtedness.
about $60,000 and will make use ofare as follows:
horses owned: by Errol MacBoyle, of Sentence Judge Tuttle called attenThis election will decide if the increased storage in the Combe dam
Livestock, $2,655; horse show, $2,the Idaho-Maryland mine corpore tion to the fact*that Spear had not
district shall enter into a contract and prevent diversion of water beonly been convicted of rioting but in
300; poultry,
$317;
agriculture, tion.
with the Federal Public Works Adfore it flows through the Wise pow$246; horticulture, $406; floracultM. C. Mason of Auburn, secretary that the evidence clearly showed he
ministration for a grant of $207,000 er house and serve new consumers ~
ure, $133; domestic science, $124; of the 20th district fair is assisting had jumped on the back of a peace
and a loan of $155,000 or a clnnine to the extent of about $6,000 per
thrown
him to
the
honey, $50; minerals, $1500.
Freeman in completing details of the officer and
year.
‘only of $207,000.
ground, he had also been guilty of
Freeman states both Nevada and Nevada County fair. .
The purpose of the grant and loan
The South Yuba canal that serves
resisting an officers So far as profor $460,000 is to
construct . the Nevada City dnd Grass Valley areas
bation was concerned, the court said
nations on a war footing coses the
two great European democracies a
lot of money, millions of pounds and
francs. Hitler is now having his second thought ond sings much smallakia has taken heart, and the fuehrer’s last demands will undoubtedly
be rejected in toto. The question,
that
now
confronts
the
world is whether Hitler has gone
too far with his own Nazis, to ‘beat
a retreat. If he finds that to retain
the
prestige
of
friendship
of
leadership,
Mussolini,
the
and
the
massed fear of all Europe, war is the
only answer, and we shall see war
next Saturday or Sunday. Our radios
can then
be tuned in
cannon along
the
on booming
Czechoslovakian
border, German, Polish or Hungar
ian. No interpreters necessary. Cannon speak a universal language.
A
great
anxious
many
people
to hear the
have
very
been
latest,
minute by minute, reports by radio
"from
the
European
capitals
yegarding
momentous question being de
LOW GRADE ORES STUDY OF WHITE PINE
BLISTER IN COUNTY
ONCE ABANDONED
NOW PROFITABLE
W.B. Dunshee and partner, who
bated. The press has often been accused
of faking news,
falsifying or
coloring it. But the radio which depends on press services for its news
Pn Gold Center
_MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1938.
MONTHS IN JAIL
hrer’s bluff. France has readily fal
len in with his plans. To put ‘their
er than a few days ago. Czechoslov
NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA
The ‘County Seat Paper
The inthe industry
dus ue in this. country has long
since
skimmed.
the
grades
ore
are
scouting
on
white
rust
control
in
the
pine
blister
Camptonville
area, were in Nevada City today for
a
time to confer with Superintend
if Spear had; knowing well his own
of the press, but the additional and
fault
of
handing
out
old news over the mike. We listened Sunday to
several
radio
reports
problem
of
working
which a generation ago would have
been
considered
almost
and heard nothing at all that had not The ingenuity and
already
been
evening’s
or
printed
Sunday
in
Saturday
morning’s
pers. AS a news reporter
the
pa
radio
worthless.
inventiveness de
manded by this decline in ore grades
has brought about
great
improve
ments in mining techniques: In spite
of decreasing ‘metal content per ton
is a flop.
of
a
of
ore, technical
We advise all our readers to keep
sharp
for all major metals.
eye
on
Washington.
This
rising
progress
duced a
output
per
has
pro
worker
Corrington Gill, Assistant. Admin
country demands peace regardless of
come down from the Buck Lake area
in Plumas national forest where they
more lenient consideration. But since
he had chosen to stand trial he must
take
the consequences.
Attorney
;
Anderson,
before.
the
Judge pronounced sentence, surrendered his client into custody and exonerated
the
bail.
Bail
was
set
at
motion
to
far
no
rust
has
been
found
in
the
. white and sugar pines in the Camp
tonville district.
Dunshee stated the rust was found
in the Indian Creek district in the
Klamath
national
'ago
had jumped a>distance of
and
park
two
years
. {180 miles in coming into the Plumas
peace regardless of whether it brings
istrator in charge of all research of.
. forest. The blister rust was brought
the WPA, states that the declining!
depression
grade of ore ‘‘has been a persistent
what happens
in
Europe.
We
want
jail.
Anderson
also made
a
have been working to eradicate the vacate the order of the court perdread disease that attacks five needtaining to the bail and fines in the
le pines or white and sugar pines. So
Flat dam
and reservoir, five
miles east of Nevada City,
and
is
taxed
to its
full capacity
in
the
the
eases
of
three
of
the
defendants
among the five convicted in June of
Flat will be below the present dam
and made larger in order to retain
owners
and
many
small
sub-divis
ions in the district.
TEACHERS HOLD JURY CHOSEN IN
INSTITUTE THIS TRIAL OF SUIT
WEEK, SEP. 28, 29 AGAINST P. G. E.
The trial of the damage suit inThe Nevada County teachers instituted by residents of Indian Flat°
stityte will be held at the Hennessy
and adjacent areas against the Pa
school in Grass Valley on Wednescifie Gas and Electric company opday,
Thusday. On Friday there will ened today in the superior
court,
ed used to pay the fines assessed,
amounting to $600 for each of three be no institute session but the teachJudge Raglan Tuttle presiding. Atdefendants. In this case Anderson ers ‘will visit school wherever they torneys representing the group: of
plaintiffs consist of the legal firm
had neglected
to
surrender
his wish.
‘CCounty Superintendent, Ella M. of Jones and Finnegan and James
clients into custody before asking
that bail be exonerated. As a result Austin has planned a very fine proSnell. Attorneys for the defense are
of this oversight he was later obliggram for the .two days session and W. E. Wright, Thomas J. Straub,
County teachers
are Fred Searls (son of Robert Searls)
ed to petition the Third District Ap-. the Nevada
rioting. Bail money had been order
British Columbia in
shipment of
small pelate court for a writ of review. Aflooking forward to participation with and John J. Braire.
nothing to-do with the various cris-: stimulua to the mining te¢hnician.
white pines were brought from Euter some weeks the Appellate court eagerness.
Fred Searls is a representative of
;
es that come and go in Europe. We; His inventions, required to offset inor -prosperity.
want
(under a Democratcreasing physical difficulties in min
had our lesson
ic
We
president). in »keeping.theworld.dng..have changed the course of out
safe for Democracy’ twenty years ago, put of metal per man.
lto Vancouver,
1910 when a
Scotts
height of the irrigation season. The
guilt, come into court, made a clean
Combe-Ophir canal near Auburn. It new Scotts Flat dam will take ample
breast of it, pleaded guilty, he could
is ‘beelieved the new dam at Scotts care of the demands of new home
have expected and received much
“cream’’ of mist of the rich mineral ent DeWitt Nelson of the Tahoe Na$2,000 cash or $4,000 bond. Pendreports not only has all the faults
tional forest.
The two men have ing deposit of bail Spear went to
deposits “and is now faced with the
unforgiveable
in the right to publish the Truth, —
‘with good motives and for -just©
ifiable ends. — Alexander amine:
ton
Nev. County Dist. Fair GRANT SPEAR IS . Bond Issue For N.I.D.
SENTENCED
T0
10
Prizes Total $7,831)
Up For Vote Wednes.
iWe suspect that Aloph Hitler has
thrown one hysterical fit too many.
of course,
gget
COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA
March 15, 1848:
The Liberty of the Press consists’
rope.
It
has
done
a
great
deal
of
damage as it has spread farther in
held that the writ of review was not
the
proper
proceeding.
to Canada and down into thé United . jis still pending.
The
matter
The
first session
will open Wed
the
third
generation
‘of
pioneer
nesday morning at 9:30 and the first
Searls family to practice in the Ne
half hour will be a
vada County superior court.
musical
pro
_
into
Washington,
Oregon,
A jury was completed this afterJudge Tuttle denied the motion to gram composed of solo numbers and
“Despite improvements in techand, we believe, that lesson is still .
Montana and Idaho. Blister rust convacate the order and Anderson askgroup singing.
noon
and hearing of testimony was
fresh enough in American minds, to. nique, however, there comes a time
trol has been practiced in California ed the court reporter
begun.
to
make
a
At
ten
o’clock
the
general
session
remind us that we ean
serve
no, in the life of every mine when the
since 1926.
Gooseberdy and black transcript of the court records bearwill open with a thirty minute talk
The jury consists of the followworthy purpose by throwing in our, yields of valuable content per ton
currant ‘bushes are being killed out ing on this matter. Anderson filed: on “School Legislation in Califoring:
lot with one of the belligerents. In . of ore continuously fails to return.a
as the disease is a two cycle disease. notice of appeal.
Elmer Herneisen, Bessie Widauf,
nia’’ by Mr. Roy Cloud, executive
the last war we gained nothing but . profit; the mine then ceases to be an
It has to start from a currant or
Ethel
Zoceca, Albert J. Ahearn, John
secretary
of
California
Teachers
‘Asan enormous debt. We lost some. employer of labor and leaves in its
gooseberry. and goes to pine, it canT.
McAdam,
Alonzo LeDuc, Edward
sociation.
f
thing like 175,000 lives directly in. wage the half-abandoned camps that
not pass from one pine to another,
This talk will be followed by a J. Pollard, Irwin J. Fowler, Paul J.
the war, lives of young men far more . are found in many of the older minprecious
than
all
other
losses.
We) ing district.
States
Some of the effects of
did NOT make the world safe for, this depletion are found in the heavy
Democracy,
the war’s
ive, as Hitler,
have
curred
amply
Mussolini
and
demonstrated.
the enmity
nations that ran
object-. relief rolls of many western mining
chief
of a
Stalin. areas where early vigor has waned,
We _
half
in
in
the
changing
geographical
dis
dozen; tribution of employment opportunit
in debt to us and . ies
for
mine
workers
as
mining
welched on their debts. We incurred
shifts to new localities, and in the
enormous sums
modified
for
pensions
and
bonuses for our veterans, sums that
skills
required
by
‘mass
mining’ of low grade deposits with
will hang like a millstone around new varieties of equipment,
Uncle Sam’s neck for generations to
“Also, when
adverse
economic
come. Let us keep our eyes peeled conditions force reduced production,
on Washington and see to it that no employment is sharply affected as
political fortunes are mended by efforts are made to raise the yield
plunging this nation into an _ overby the selective mining of small tonseas war again.
nages of high grade ore. For example, the report points out that MichHaving won the Democratic nomigan copper mines reduced their out‘ination for governor, Culbert Olson put of ore by 68 per cent between
discovers he has ‘been assisted by 1931 and 1932, and raised the yield
$7
200 loaned by Pete McDonough by 45 per cent by means of selective
who has long been the rotten spot in mining. This did not-greatly change
San Francisco’s apple. Olson having the output of copper per man but it
crossed over a bridge of which this resulted in sharp changes in employ$7,200 was one of the piers, can now ment since the man-hours: worked
afford to burn the bridge or at least underground were cut 72 per. cent.”
that part of it. All of which is very
The study goes into the subject of
amusing.
the general decline of ore grades,
prefaced by a brief description of
Of course Olson was assisted to
early ““bonanza”’ mining when a pick
his discovery by Justus
Craemer,
Republican leader, who first made
and shovel were the principal items
of equipment,
and
discusses’
the
the berry bushes being hosts to the
blister.
Mr.
next
Dunshee
stated
that in
the!
few years
blister
rust
be
will
the greatest menace to forests as it
works all the year around. It starts
on the needles killing them fihst and
then works on down to kill the trees.
He
compared
it
by
stating
it
is
a
of.
the
pointed
District
Deputy
Great
Sac
thoughtful voters will not remove hem Lee Day. A large attendance of
the taint from Candidate Olson. It enthusiastic members were present.
helped him to the nomination and At the conclusion of the meeting a
served its—purpose.
banquet prepared by “‘chef”’ George
Falmbigl, famed for famous recipes
¥ é
The
public
is
invited
by the
foreign disease and the pines are not
Woman’s Civic club
able to resist it, as when white men
meeting
first went
auditorium tonight at which Edward Fennon, representing the State
Chamber of Commerce, will discuss
into
foreign
isles
where
the poor natives died helplessly from
small pox and other dread contagious diseases.
The blister rust control work will
continue until snow flies or the decidious trees loose their leaves.
LOST MAN FOUND
BY SHEEPHERDER
A well-dressed man of about sixty, and giving the name of Morris
K. Smith, was discovered Wednesday on the shores of Lake Van Norden near Donner Summit, in an emaciated and half starved condition,
accordin to a report from DeWitt
Nelson, forest supervisor at Nevada
City. He was discovered by a sheepherder working for John Sherritt
the McDonough contribution known.
technical advances which have made
If Craemer had not revealed the dopossible the profitable working of
nation, the question arises of whethlow grade ores.
er Olson would have ever mentionand who reported the-discovery to
ed it. As for anyone believing that
the
office of District Ranger John
WYOMING TRIBE RECEPTION
Olson was utterly without knowledge
R. Hodgson at Big Bend ranger staof a contribution this size, he asks
Wyoming Tribe No. 49. Improved tion. Hodgsen made arrangements
a great deal of California’s credulOrder of Red Men held a reception and transported him to the county
ity. Returning the tainted money -to Friday evening for their newly aphospital at Awburn. Smith did not
Pete McDonough in minds
PUBLICTO HEAR
TALK ON SINGLE
TAX PROPOSAL
in
the
to attend
elementary
the
school
the state-wide calamity that will en
sue if the single tax initiative measure and sales tax repeal should be
adopted by a majority of the voters
on November 8.
Owing to the danger that the proposed
constitutional
amendment,
though five times defeated in past
general elections of the state,. may
possibly be adopted this time due to
its being bound up with sales tax
repeal, twenty eight different statewide organizations are carrying on a
determined battle against it. It has
been established that if the sales tax
is repealed, the schools, now supported by the sales tax would be forced
to close, and if the single tax is
adopted, such a burden will be placed on all real estate, that in a short
time owners of land would soon be
obliged to forfeit it to the state.
talk
-on
‘‘Democracy
in
Education,
Ferguson,
Lynn
J.
Wright,
Jone
1938” by Dr. Lloyd B. Bernard,.pro
Bone, George W.
Brown.
fessor of education, Chico college.
There will then be-a short recess and
The plaintiffs, who allege that the
Pacific Gas and Electric company
there will be an elementary session
was negligent in keeping the right
Mr.
of way of its power line, traversing
O’Rourke will speak on Some Phas
Indian Flat, cleared of fire hazards
with
Mr.
Cecil
Klee
chairman.
and that the disastrous fire which
es of
Education
in
feb cepa’
raged through that district in the
Schools.
Mr. J. W. Hobbie will be chairfall of 1936 twas due to a tree fallman of the secondary session. He ing upon a power [ine, put several
will present Mr. Hugh M. Bell, aswitnesses on the stand.
sociate professor of psychology of
The plaintiffs, who are suing for
Chico state college who will talk on an aggregate of $40,551, are as fol“The Place of Value in Personality lows:
C. J. Tobiassen, Andrew Tobias-—
Development.”’
There will be a noon intermission sen, Mrs. Annie Tobiassen, Willis
and the teachers will re-convene at Green, estate, Thos. N. Coan, Char12:45 p. m. with a fifteen minute les Giovanni, Edward E. and Edward
J. Edwards, Valerio Garesio, Leslie
program of music.
The
afternoon
-general
session, Orzalli,
Mr. E. Phillips, chairman presiding.
Mr. Hugh Bell will talk on ‘‘Psychology of Mental Conflict.’”’ 11:00
Elementary session, chairman, Mr.
Harold L. Houser.
Speaker Dr. Floyd F. Caldwell, associate professor of education, Chico
state college, on
“Mastery of the
Tools of Learning Through Units of
Experience.”’
1:30—Musie.
General _ session,
chairman, Mr. H. R. Spiess. Speaker,
Mr. W. G. Paden, city superintendent of schools, Alameda, Topic announced later.
The secondary Nenalua: Mr. H. EB.
Kjorlie, chairman will present Mr.
Paul D. Edwards, associate profess
J. A. McKinney who now resides
Ventura county, a former resident
of near French Corral, was a visitor
or of physical education andhealth
in Nevada City today. Mr. McKinney
coordinator of Chico college.
His
expects to return to live in Nevada
topic will be “Growth and Health
County as he likes it much better
tell a very coherent story, but claimProblems of Adolescents.’’
here than in Ventura county.
ed that he had a ticket on the bus
Thursday’s program follows:
from San Francisco to the Summit
9:30—Music. 10:00—General ses‘Miss Jeanette Roberts and W. E.
and had evidently wandered away
Frost of Reno, spent the week end sion, chairman, Mr. William Wilson.
from the highway. He claimed to visiting Mrs. Lacey Jones, Mrs. A. Gs Special drill, Miss Luther‘s
class:
have been lost since Labor Day, and Roberts, and Mrs. Mildred ArmSpeaker, Dr. Van Alstyne, on “‘Con
Fred Yost, John
Cieogni,
Nick Pello, Harold Lynes, A. L. Silicano, Mrs: Bertha Gruenwald.
FORMER N.C.RESIDENT _
LAID TO REST TODAY
Funeral services were held this
morning at 10 o’clock at the Holmes
Funeral Home for Harry O, Evans, 62
years of age who passed away in
Stockton Saturday. The body was
brought to Nevada City by the Holmes Funeral Home.
Rev. JH. H. Buckner conducted.
the funeral services and interment
was in Pine Grove cemetery.
Deceased was born in Mayfield,
Santa Clara county and came to Nevada City when a small boy. He attended the Nevada City schools and
then followed mining.
;
He had many friends in. Nevada
City and all»who knew him
exte!
their sympathy to his relatives. ‘He
is survived by an aged mother,
F. E. Evans and five children Jack
and Donald Evans of Auburn,
THREE DAYS SCHOOL VACATION on the Riveria, Monte Carlo was a it was appareht he had been out
strong of Nevada City. Miss Roberts temporary American Foreign Polry Evans and Genevieve Evans
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday delight to all.
about eight or ten days’without food.
is the daughter of Mrs. Roberts and icy.”
Mrs, Grace Parker of Ne
will be vacation time for the school
Nelson states it was difficult to besister of Mrs. Jones.
children. The Nevada County teachMr. and Mrs. Fred Sauvee and lieve he could. be’ really lost, since
turned in time to attend the dedicaRpssell B. Farley, board of
ers institute will be held in the HenMrs. Sauvee’s brother, Ed Clemo and he was Dbrobably within sight and
Walter Carlson, county ‘superintion exercises of the new Masonic
. .
nessy school in Grass Valley on wife, spent last week ‘camping on hearing distance, at all times, of
tendent of schools, elect, has return_hall in Grass Valley last Saturday.
those days, hence vacation for the Fuller Lake where
they
enjoyed Route 40 and the Southern Pacific ed from a short vacation at the home
Mr. Carlson is a past master of Need for mule tail de
children.
fishing.
railroad.
;
of his mother near Arcata. He revada Lodge of Masons of this city.
of friends. —
from Modoc county