November 11, 1959 (8 pages)

hing began at h cocktails and An hour later the dining room. ng addresses by oth chambers, s and more conlining room was Unfortunately, not present to lf known to one Woody Smith, airman. ar broke down p to Sacfamento abletoget back pital in time for e had worked so g about. {es} ast introductions ity singing, the e freeto go back ay world of edading papers and b> the dozens of achers feel obtend. words of the ms" parody: Hay I'll meet St. can't stay, go back for the Vol. 1 No. 5 10¢ A Copy THE PICTURES Nevada City, Wednesday November 11, 1959 ONLY PROMPT LOCAL ACTION AND $2,500 CAN SAVE IT Largest Pelton Wheel About to be Scrapped WHEEL GOES IN at SHAFT ANCHORED By Unidentified Workmen Lowered Through Hole in Roof Part of North Star Mine Power Plant Local efforts to save the giant North Star Mine Pelton wheel, slated for imminent destruction at the hands ofa Gilroy salvage company, gained momentum this week. But it was clear that if no arrangement could be made for its local purchase in the next few days, the Pelton wheel would be dismantled. The wheel measures 24 feet in diameter and is one of the largest in the world, if not the largest. It was installed in 1897. Besides being a dramatic sight to behold, the wheel has great local significance Its inventor, Lester Pelton, was born in Camptonville and lived in Nevada City. His wheel, withits-revolutionary divided cups, marked a significant step forward in mining technique. . . Prime mover inthe local attempt to keep the wheel in-Nevada County has been Mrs. Phoebe Cartwright of Auburn Highway, who feels that the wheel is not only of great local interest, but could serve as a great tourist attraction. She adds, “Too much of the county's past is being hauled out every day, and it is time we made .an effort to keep what belongs to USn” Mrs. Cartwright says many citizens have called her offering to donate toward the purchase of the wheel. Others have Simply offered any help they might bey able to give. ~~ The main stumbling blocks to acquisition of the wheel are its price-reportedly to be in the neighborhood of $2500-and its weight and size, which would make moving it to an acceptable public locan difficult and costly. far, no public agency or private individual has come up with an offer that GOING, GQING, GOING ey 7% } cm 3g: < ot Foe Bhan" VS of é Twenty-Four Foot Pelton Wheel Awaits the Cutting Torch’and Scrap Heap would approach the reported asking price. Many are frankly skeptical that the wheel is worth $2500 as scrap. Estimates of its weight range from ten to fifty tons, depending on how much of the wheel, the huge flywheels which flank it, and the massive mountings are being included in the estimate. Nevertheless, public officials on all who lives ss Valley, ce, 4]126th look over ler. support bf Beale Air rewards in ed to inbase. Until e, suggesuid oxygen Vy wooden ars forthe e Photo) OYS and lay-away _today LY Grass Valley, Nevada City’ AN EDITORIAL Veterans Day, Time for Remembrance and Rededication a, Porty-one years ago today the guns stopped booming in France. Anarmistice had been declared.: The war to end all wars was over and the world was eternally safe for Democracy. ) To honor our more-than. 70,000 war dead and the glorious cause for which they laid down their lives, we declared this a holiday and called it Armistice Day. For 364 days out of the year. we would dedicate ourselves to looking forward to and working for a better future. Onthat one remaining day we would look back, remember our dead and rededicate ourselves to the proposition that they had not died in vain. But within two years after we had made the world safe for Democracy, a left-wing dictatorship had taken over Russia. Inless than 10 years aright-wing dictatorship was in power inItaly. In less than 15 years anotherrightest despot who preached a doctrine DISMANTLING BEGINS of hate, might and conquest ruled Germany. Our glorious dr@am was turning to ashes before our eyes but we still ob'served Armistice Day with the same fervor, the same dedication and the same hope. A hope that was obviously against hope. Twenty-three years and. 26 days after we had ended war for all time, we were again a nation fighting, bleeding and sighing from the pains of our wounds. This time we fought a new war toend all wars; a war that would see all the Earth's peoples guaranteed four basic freedoms: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want and Freedom from Pear. This time 250,000 of Our sons, fathers, brothers and friends didnot liveto hear the thunderous silence of peace decend uponthe battlefield.But now we were not quite so innocent as we had been in 1918 and we weren't surprisedwhen we learned our efforts had not brought the four freedoms to all of the Earth's two billion residents. And ifwe weren't prepared, neither were we very shocked in June, 1950 when again we again sent our youth out to . die--this time for a dusty, distant peninsula many of us had never heard of and few of us knew anything about. Now that World War II and “Korea had come and gone, Armistice Day was no longer an adequate term for the llth day of the 11th month of the year. So we decided to honor. all those--the living as well as the dead--that had fought in all of our wars and it has become Veterans Day. One thing hasn't changed in those 41 sometimes wonderful, sometimes terriblé years that have passed since they laid down their arms in France--we are still determined that our dead have not died in vain. And even in our most cynical moments, all of us must rea—lize that they haven't. Except for Korea where we fought to a draw, we-were on the winning side in the other wars andthe men who died in each of them purchased with their blood the freedom of the far greater number of us who survived. Anyone who was ever ona battlefield knows that not all these men who died were heroes; but all of them most certainly are dead. And whether willingly or not,they died for us. ‘Now itis for us, the living, to again dedicate ourselves to the propositionthat these men shall be our last war dead. And idealistic slogans or theories have nothing to do with this dedication. For if warcomes again, there will be no Veterans Day to celebrate. Only Survivors Day. Workman Starts to Break Mountings sides urge that the wheel‘be kept in Nevada County. Grass Valley Mayor Arnold Thorsen suggestsa plaace could be set aside for it in the new 6/-acre Condon Tract Park, to be located near Gilmore Field on the Marysville Highway. "We have plenty of space out there," said --See PELTON WHEEL, page 4 Money Already Coming in Money has already started purchase of the wheel as a city : : historical monument. This coming in for the purchase of $112 the world's largest Pelton Comes to te a Wheel, now being destroyed Mrs. Parker hopes enoug along with the North Star Mine others will follow her example power plant building that houthat the wheel can be bought aed it. for the city before salvage Mrs. Alice Parker of BrunsWorkmen have reduced it to wick Drive, Cedar Ridge, saysS©t@P metal. she has already pledged one The Grass Valley paseeanie dollar for each year of Grass°f Commerce may conduct a : d-raising drive in‘a lastValley's history toward the fun 8 ; y y "ditch effort to save the wheel,

hing began at h cocktails and An hour later the dining room. ng addresses by oth chambers, s and more conlining room was Unfortunately, not present to lf known to one Woody Smith, airman. ar broke down p to Sacfamento abletoget back pital in time for e had worked so g about. {es} ast introductions ity singing, the e freeto go back ay world of edading papers and b> the dozens of achers feel obtend. words of the ms" parody: Hay I'll meet St. can't stay, go back for the Vol. 1 No. 5 10¢ A Copy THE PICTURES Nevada City, Wednesday November 11, 1959 ONLY PROMPT LOCAL ACTION AND $2,500 CAN SAVE IT Largest Pelton Wheel About to be Scrapped WHEEL GOES IN at SHAFT ANCHORED By Unidentified Workmen Lowered Through Hole in Roof Part of North Star Mine Power Plant Local efforts to save the giant North Star Mine Pelton wheel, slated for imminent destruction at the hands ofa Gilroy salvage company, gained momentum this week. But it was clear that if no arrangement could be made for its local purchase in the next few days, the Pelton wheel would be dismantled. The wheel measures 24 feet in diameter and is one of the largest in the world, if not the largest. It was installed in 1897. Besides being a dramatic sight to behold, the wheel has great local significance Its inventor, Lester Pelton, was born in Camptonville and lived in Nevada City. His wheel, withits-revolutionary divided cups, marked a significant step forward in mining technique. . . Prime mover inthe local attempt to keep the wheel in-Nevada County has been Mrs. Phoebe Cartwright of Auburn Highway, who feels that the wheel is not only of great local interest, but could serve as a great tourist attraction. She adds, “Too much of the county's past is being hauled out every day, and it is time we made .an effort to keep what belongs to USn” Mrs. Cartwright says many citizens have called her offering to donate toward the purchase of the wheel. Others have Simply offered any help they might bey able to give. ~~ The main stumbling blocks to acquisition of the wheel are its price-reportedly to be in the neighborhood of $2500-and its weight and size, which would make moving it to an acceptable public locan difficult and costly. far, no public agency or private individual has come up with an offer that GOING, GQING, GOING ey 7% } cm 3g: < ot Foe Bhan" VS of é Twenty-Four Foot Pelton Wheel Awaits the Cutting Torch’and Scrap Heap would approach the reported asking price. Many are frankly skeptical that the wheel is worth $2500 as scrap. Estimates of its weight range from ten to fifty tons, depending on how much of the wheel, the huge flywheels which flank it, and the massive mountings are being included in the estimate. Nevertheless, public officials on all who lives ss Valley, ce, 4]126th look over ler. support bf Beale Air rewards in ed to inbase. Until e, suggesuid oxygen Vy wooden ars forthe e Photo) OYS and lay-away _today LY Grass Valley, Nevada City’ AN EDITORIAL Veterans Day, Time for Remembrance and Rededication a, Porty-one years ago today the guns stopped booming in France. Anarmistice had been declared.: The war to end all wars was over and the world was eternally safe for Democracy. ) To honor our more-than. 70,000 war dead and the glorious cause for which they laid down their lives, we declared this a holiday and called it Armistice Day.

For 364 days out of the year. we would dedicate ourselves to looking forward to and working for a better future. Onthat one remaining day we would look back, remember our dead and rededicate ourselves to the proposition that they had not died in vain. But within two years after we had made the world safe for Democracy, a left-wing dictatorship had taken over Russia. Inless than 10 years aright-wing dictatorship was in power inItaly. In less than 15 years anotherrightest despot who preached a doctrine DISMANTLING BEGINS of hate, might and conquest ruled Germany. Our glorious dr@am was turning to ashes before our eyes but we still ob'served Armistice Day with the same fervor, the same dedication and the same hope. A hope that was obviously against hope. Twenty-three years and. 26 days after we had ended war for all time, we were again a nation fighting, bleeding and sighing from the pains of our wounds. This time we fought a new war toend all wars; a war that would see all the Earth's peoples guaranteed four basic freedoms: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want and Freedom from Pear. This time 250,000 of Our sons, fathers, brothers and friends didnot liveto hear the thunderous silence of peace decend uponthe battlefield.But now we were not quite so innocent as we had been in 1918 and we weren't surprisedwhen we learned our efforts had not brought the four freedoms to all of the Earth's two billion residents. And ifwe weren't prepared, neither were we very shocked in June, 1950 when again we again sent our youth out to . die--this time for a dusty, distant peninsula many of us had never heard of and few of us knew anything about. Now that World War II and “Korea had come and gone, Armistice Day was no longer an adequate term for the llth day of the 11th month of the year. So we decided to honor. all those--the living as well as the dead--that had fought in all of our wars and it has become Veterans Day. One thing hasn't changed in those 41 sometimes wonderful, sometimes terriblé years that have passed since they laid down their arms in France--we are still determined that our dead have not died in vain. And even in our most cynical moments, all of us must rea—lize that they haven't. Except for Korea where we fought to a draw, we-were on the winning side in the other wars andthe men who died in each of them purchased with their blood the freedom of the far greater number of us who survived. Anyone who was ever ona battlefield knows that not all these men who died were heroes; but all of them most certainly are dead. And whether willingly or not,they died for us. ‘Now itis for us, the living, to again dedicate ourselves to the propositionthat these men shall be our last war dead. And idealistic slogans or theories have nothing to do with this dedication. For if warcomes again, there will be no Veterans Day to celebrate. Only Survivors Day. Workman Starts to Break Mountings sides urge that the wheel‘be kept in Nevada County. Grass Valley Mayor Arnold Thorsen suggestsa plaace could be set aside for it in the new 6/-acre Condon Tract Park, to be located near Gilmore Field on the Marysville Highway. "We have plenty of space out there," said --See PELTON WHEEL, page 4 Money Already Coming in Money has already started purchase of the wheel as a city : : historical monument. This coming in for the purchase of $112 the world's largest Pelton Comes to te a Wheel, now being destroyed Mrs. Parker hopes enoug along with the North Star Mine others will follow her example power plant building that houthat the wheel can be bought aed it. for the city before salvage Mrs. Alice Parker of BrunsWorkmen have reduced it to wick Drive, Cedar Ridge, saysS©t@P metal. she has already pledged one The Grass Valley paseeanie dollar for each year of Grass°f Commerce may conduct a : d-raising drive in‘a lastValley's history toward the fun 8 ; y y "ditch effort to save the wheel,