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November 11, 1959 (8 pages)

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Wednesday, No NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN Wednesday, November 11, 1959 Page 2 a. ei Fool’s Gold c= 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. BE’ A. CHARTER SUBSCRIBER to the i . . . I ‘ . NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN 1 "The Paper with the pictures" i . FREE! ! With every subscription entered) ' NOW--one classified ad (6lines max.) in! i the CITIZEN CLASSIFIED SECTION. Yout . may enter your ad any time before the, expiration of your subscription. % XH ¥ (Please enter my subscription to the! ; Nevada County Citizen for one year.! . THIS WEEK I enclose $2.50. { . . { 1 . . \ . i 1 1 l j . I ) l 1 ! I t (Mail to Nevada County Citizen, 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif .) 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. @ 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. o Sylvia Ba M 2 » \ illigan ~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. 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