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Wednesday, No NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN Wednesday, November 11, 1959
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BY MAK NIRR/S
NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN AND CITIZEN ADVERTISER
Published every Wednesday, 132 Main St., Nevada City,
California, by Nevada County Citizen, Inc.
Phone Grass Valley or Nevada City 126
Alfred E. Heller Publisher
Max Norris? ¢ 3° .2.cbe)a2s ' ee a OP
Don Fairclough: ,. . 4k 2 Circulation Manager
Clarice .Mc Whinney . .. 0.. 2:8 es ©» Art Editor
Christmas comes but once a year while
payday arrives 52 times during that span,
This startling bit of information is just
in advance.
Single copy price, 10 cents.
One year, $2.50;two years, $4.50; three years, $6.00.
Postal regulations require that all subscriptions be paid
Margaret Abrahamson. .... . . Society Editor
Subscription prices:
EDITORIAL
Bombs or Cap Pistols?
The East-West nuclear disarmament talks are reopening
The Sierra foothills are a log way from
Geneva, but we prefer to think
that the people here,
at Geneva.
still,
as elsement," Russia's approach to
disarmament, and nuclear
disarmament in particular, is
it seems to us, being
made on a propaganda level.
There is little indication that
where, are not insensitive to
the proceedings in Europe.
The denizens of Red Dog,
Alleghany, andSmartville are,
after all, as much bound up
with the fate of mankind as
arethe diplomats in the great
cities of the world.
We hope for the best at
but we are not very
confident oftheresults.
Geneva,
Why ?
--Because at the very time
when negotiators of West and
East are sitting down to discuss nuclear disarmament,
one of the big three of the
General De
Gaulle's France, is making
feverish preparations to set
nuclear bomb in
the Algerian desert.
has declared its intention not
to detonate further bombs unless the western powers doso.
If France sets off a bomb--and
there is nothing to indicate
she will not--she could easily
undermine the Geneva talks.
--Because for all Khrushchev's proclaimed desire for
"complete and total disarmawestern side,
off its first
There have been two fires
lately. Both have been forest fires, One‘on Highway 40
andthe otheron Highway 49.
The Highway which had
its fire one mile away from
Camptonville was on Highway 49. Six California government trucks went through
Nevada City to fight the fire.
Even women were driving
supply trucks to the fire volunteers. Such as food
shovels, fire sprayers
other supplies, etc.
A lot of very nice Christ_ mas trees burned down
tiation.
Russia is ready to give up the
grand gesture and attend to
the small details which comprise the bulk of honest nego--Because inrefusing to
move toward some sort of
realistic relationship with Red
China, the United States is
serving to rule out an effective nuclear disarmament
sleeve?
Russia
nels.
pistol,
Highway 40, was closed and
the trucks and-cars had to go
through Nevada City and
Grass Valley bumper-tobumper until 11 o'clock at
night.
On Halloweenthere were
lots of evacuees around from
Camptonville.
On Halloween night people
saw lots of teen-agers putting the air out of tires.
The police were busy taking care of the evacuees, so
they couldn't control the
teen-agers.
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agreement.
the world would throw away
its atomic bombs without
assurance that China did not
have some hidden up its
would be
all Russia.
hope to come to an agreement
at Geneva while it declines
even to speak to Red China,
except through the most difficult and roundabout chanWhat nationin
None would. None
so foolish, least of
The U.S. cannot
So we look to Geneva with
hope, but without much confidence. Formanstilltoys with
The Bomb as if it were a cap
and waits to see if it
will explode in his face.
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The Editor
Nevada County Citizen
NevadaiCity, Calif.
Dear Sirs:
The article in your paper,
accompanying my picture
was very nice.
May I call your attention
to a little misprint inthe
date of year 1 came to California, it was 1898 instead
of .1892.
Thanking you,
Very truly yours,
Gertrude E. Blum
Dear Editor:
We received our tax bill
andthe explanation of where
“the money goes”.
I note .40 forthe Hospital
Fund. Abou one-third of the
budgeted cost of the Hospital
is collected and returned.
This should reduce the re‘ported cost‘of the Hospital but
the money goes into the General Fund and is used by alls
the Departments,
Thetaxpayer is left thinking the’ Hospital cost .40 of
his basic $1.89.
Esther M. Hingston
IN HISTORY
10¥$--Eric leifsen, aNorwegian sailor came back
tohis homelandto report that
by sailing due west for
month hehad come across
land ofheavy vegetation and
Strange people with redskins.
The officialNorwegian
court psychiatrist, Dr. Sigmund Swensen, declared
Leifsen insane and ordered
him cast in the sea, thereby
introducing the shock treatment to the field of mental
therapy.
A Patient’s Eye View of Oscar Lang, Family Doctor
THE CITIZEN OF THE WEEK
This has been a golden year
for Dr, Osear F, Lang.
During 1959 the Grass
Valley general practicioner
celebrated the 50th anniversaries of his graduation from
Northwestern University
College of Medicine, his
Start as a physician and his
marriage.
During those 50 years Dr.
Lang has traveled to Europe
three times, South America
once and around the world
once. In between these
peregrinations he managed to
deliver enough babies to populate Nevada City with
enough left over to fill the
proposed SanFrancisco
Hilton, father three sons and
become a grandfather seven
times,
Most ‘79-year-olds with a
background like this would
consider their life a full one
and sit back to relax through
the rest of it. But Dr. Lang
has no such plans,
Instead of talking retirement, Dr, Lang is just getting used to new quarters in
a medical center he and his
dentist son, Dwight, recently
finished on Auburn Street,
Dr. Lang puffs with pride
when he talks about the new
building whichhe and his son
share with two other physicians and a dentist and lets
it be known that he's planning a long professional occupancy there,
A man who wears two hats,
Dr. Lang can usually be found
at the Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital when he's not
in his office. He is chief of
staff there,
Other Skills
And his skills are not confined entirely to medicine,
Nevada Countians who have
no first hand knowledge of
his healing abilities know Dr,
Lang-as an ardent bowler and
a fine golfer,
He won't talk about his
bowling, but his reputation
at the Nevada County Country Club is such that even his
natural modesty could not
prevent him from admitting
heusually travels 18 holes in
80 to 84 strokes,
This whirlwind who refuses
to admit that nearly 80 years
_add upto old age got his start
in life in Falls City, Nebraska, where he lived until
moving to Grass Valley 20
years ago this month,
He got off to a fast start,
not even waiting until he was
through medical school before making contributions to
the nation's welfare,
A yellowed clipping from
the Chicago American, circa
1908, tells of knw Oscar
Lang, a senior at the Northwestern University College of
Medicine and four other volunteers formed what was
known as “the Northwestern
Poison Squad" to testthe
effects of benzoate of soda
on the human body.
Atthat time Dr. H.W.
Wiley, a government chemist, and President Theodore
Roosevelt were at loggerheads over how much of the
food preservative the human
system could absorb without
illeffects. Teddy was for
allowing the food industry a
great deal of Benzoate; Dr,
Wiley for restricting them to
very small quantities,
The poison squads were
formed atseveral ofthe
nation's medical, schools to
test both theories through the
simple but potentially dangerous method of eating foods
containing various amounts
of the chemical,
Oscar Lang, according to
the ChicagoAmerican,
nearly became a martyr to
science in proving Dr, Wiley
was right and the President
wrong. The newspaper's report on the experiment says
young Lang and one other
member of the Northwestern
squad collapsed from the
effects of benzoate,
Dr, .Lang says this made
very interesting reading and
undoubtedly helped the
American sell papers--but
‘twasn't so.
Felt Fine
"Actually I never felt bet=_
terin my life," he says, recalling the great experiment
of 51 years ago. “They did
findthat I had a slightly enlarged liver as.a result of the
test, Buttnere were no other
effects, I didn't collapse."
Big man that he was, adds
Dr. Lang, redoubtable Teddy
admitted his error andthe
amount of benzoate of soda
used for food preservat on has
been strictly controlled in
this country ever since,
One of the other members
of the poison squad, incidentally, anda roommate of
Dr. Lang's at Northwestern,
was Dr. Herman Bundersen,
author of a column on health
that runs in many ofthe
nation's: newspapers.
After Dr, Lang finished
medical school he returned
to Falls City and started his
career as a family doctor.
This career was interrupted
long enough for him to serve
in the Army during World
War Land he has maintained
his association with the military ever since, presently
holding a commission as
a major inthe Army Reserve.
Dr. Lang would probably
still be delivering babies and
swabbing sore throats in Falls
City if his mother, brother,
and sister had not moved to
Beverlev Hills. When you
have relatives somewhere, you just have to visit
them and the only way to
visit Beverley Hills is to come
‘to Califorma,
“You know what they say
about California," says Dr.
Lang. “Three trips here and
you're hooked,
“Well, after I'd made my
quota of visits I was hooked,
"A doctor friend of mine
who lived in Oakland--he's
since died--suggested by
mail that 1 might like Grass
Valley,"
His wife came in here to
finish out thetale. "We
came here," she said, "and
saw the sign of the Landis
Hospital and Clinic and decided this was for us."
New Cure
Dr, Lang believes he has
brought to Grass Valley one
thing that is offered nowhere
else inthe United States--an
injection method of treating
arthritis,
He says he learned the
method, which involves the
use of a drug called Iralgin,
in Switzerland in 1952 and
has been using it ever since
except for a brief period when
he was unableto get the drug.
The federal government,
he says, frowns on the importation of foreign drugs and
his only reliable method of
obtaining the Swiss medicine
has been to travel to Switzerland and carry quantities of
it back into the United States,
So interested in the treatment of arthritis is Dr, Lang
that he also journeyed to
Germany once to visit a
clinic near Hamburg that is
considered by some-=including Dr. Lang-~as the world's
finest treatment center for
this crippling and painful
‘disease.
Although he brought a good
supply of Iraligin back with
him from his round-the
world tour, Dr, Lang is
doubtless already planning his next trip to Switzerland,
Andhis reasons are not altogether unselfish,
"ifI had to leave California," he says, “I'd move to
Switzerland,"
He has another,reason for
looking forward to his next
trip--rest. :
Says his wife, "Whenever
he tries to take any time off
from work the phone always
rings and it's always someone
who needs the doctor,
"He just doesn't get any
rest without running away,
So every so often we just run
away."
another of The Citizen's free public services. '
The one service this paper can't offer
is asure fire system on how you can save
énough from thosé 52 paydays to cover
the costs of that one Christmas.
But things could be worse. We could
have 52 Christmases and one payday.
Enough sad thoughts for one week.
Horsepower Race
H.P.Davis, the Grand Old Man of the
National Hotel and last week's Citizen
ofthe Week, is known to his own family
as ."Horsepower".
According to an article Fortune magazine ran on the Davis family during
World War II, this title was well-earned.
Members. of the clan Davis-~a group
of eight siblings that included three
authors, a government official, a major
industrial figure and an army
officer of some rank--told Fortune that
H.P. was really the high-powered one of
the brood.
And, although the machine has run up
a lot of mileage, anyone who spends an
afternoon with H.P. will know there's
still plenty of horsepower remaining in
"Horsepower".
H.P., incidentally, thinks Nevada
County's gold-mining days are over and
its future lies in its ability to attract
tourists, artistic types and retired
people. F
For those whothink this constitutes no
future atall, Ican onlyrecommenda
quick trip to the Monterey-Carmel area
or Sausilito. %
Incase you didn'tread about H.P. last
week--the initials really stand for Harold
Palmer.
Those of you fool enough to read this
column may have planned a trip to San
Francisco around an item printed here
last week. If so, cancel the trip. Ella
Pitzgeraldwas inthe Bay City last week.
You'll just have to continue suffering
through Ricky Nelson--aformoftorture
that Hitlerat his worst would never have
inflicted on the human race.
The delinquency rate among juveniles
doesn't worry me as much as their frightening lack of taste. A well-aimed boot
toe might help the former but only time
can cure the latter. And I fear that I
haven't that much time.
Overheard in Grass Valley:
cametothis town, there have;been three
pedestrians hit by cars that I know of.
And all of them were standing in cross~
walks at the time".
The person who saidthis, incidentally,
is infavor of the city's recentlyenacted
jaywalking ordinance, but he just
couldn't help being amused by the irony
of events.
A Buck Misspent
Bob Paine does a bit of talking out of
school about Stan Halls, the insurance
man who takes movies as a hobby that
are of the quality that Hollywood takes
for money:
"Stan was making a film on the history
of gold-miningin this area and he needed a shot of a man panning.
"So he got a guy to dress up like a
49er_and drove. off toa suitably remote
stream on the edge of a woods and set
up for the shot.
"Just as Stan started to film, a deer
walked out of the woods and came up to
the miner and started sniffing the pan as
if it were filled with food.
"Stan quickly stopped the camera and
went up and chased-the deer away and
startedto shoot all over again. The best
scene in the movie--and it was a good
film--and he wrecked it."
Stan confirmedthis and admits it still
gives him occasional nightmares.
"As soon as I booted that deer inits
most prominent target area and started
back to the camera," post-mortems
Halls, "I suddenly ‘realized what I had
done. You couldn't print the things I
called myself."
MR. AND MRS.
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~November first wa
date »chosen for the wed
of Sylvia Gloria Barbier
Ronald Lee Milligan o
vada City. The cere
took place at the Elks L
with Judge Verle Gray
forming the rites.
The bride was attende
Margaret Pello, mai
honor, and Sharon Pelle
Emma Jean Collin
Marysville, bridesmaids
The groom had as his
man Jack Woerner, Ne
City, and Bob Danos and
Miller, Marysville, ser
as ushers,
The bride was attired
gown of white satin w
sabrina neckline an
back, long sleeves w
buttoned cuff and a cl
lengthtrain. Herveil, .
by her new mother-in
was of shoulder length
sion held by a crown of
pearls. Her bouquet
w hite orchid surroundd
pink and white carne
with satin ribbons.
The maid of honor an
bridesmaids wore cham
coloredsatin, fashioned
low necklines, atight b
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