November 11, 1959 (8 pages)

NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN Wednesday, November Oroville Batters Fumbling Miners 38O in Season’s Last Game 1959 NEVADA UNION HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM Left toright: First row, 48-Dale Bagley, 65-Don Barringer, 36-Harold Cox, 42-Alan Hutsinpiller, 60Prank Mellor, 47-Dick Cline, 19-Ken Crowder; Second row, 62-Gary Goerz, 50-Arvin Roberts, 22-King Lowe, 30-Roger 27-John Shadburne, 28-John Hodge; Third row, 13-Jack Hayes, 5l-John Woods, 39-Don Wood, 57-Sam White, 32-Ray Rankin, 33-R. Gullickson, 38-Glenn Smith, 11-Bill Freitas: Fourth row. 2634-Marvin Paul; Mock, 20-Dave Willis, 16-John Paye, TO. <3 a ear « * Art Manchester, 31-L. Hafelfinger, 63-John Yates, Mann, 17-Rich Boehme, i 95-Jack Yelton; Fifth row, 15-JimBagley, 41-Bill McClain, 93-Art Luper, 35-Mike Lemich, 18-Wally Castles, 14-RichardIvie, 21-Mike Peregrine, 12-Rick Miller; Lastrow, Coach John Valentino, Managers Don Duncan, Jay Snider, Victor Engstrom and Allan Haley, Assistant Coach Jim Solberg. Photo by Barbara Snow 40-Gary 52-Bob Hutson, 43-Gary Swinney, ___ Pelton Wheel Continued from page . Thorsen. "The wheel would be a fine thing forthe kids, and we want that park to be for the kids." However, Thorsen was doubtful city funds could be made available. "We have too many other things to pay tor," he said. City Councilman John Hodge suggested GENERATORS ARE LOWERED the wheel could be set up on the stream that runs through the Condon Tract and made to operate, thus becoming a dramatic and informative‘exhibit of the county's past. Chamber of Commerce President, Leonard Prisk Jr., has been looking into some of the problems connected with acquiring the wheel. He also would like to see it saved, but sees no easy and quick solution. And that is whatis needed. According to workmen now blastin g away at the North Star Mine power plant, where the wheel is located, their boss, Joe Perucca of the Machinery Salvage Company of Gilroy, intends to dismantle the wheel this week if no acceptable sale can be negotiated. He will then either sell it for scrap or install it ata resort he operates between Gilroy and Morgan Hill. The name of his resort is Oakdale Park. Dr. Elbridge J. Best, President of the Nevada County Historical Society, expressed doubt that the giant North Star wheel is of "real historical interest." He said, "It is notatypical Pelton wheel. Its main significance is an innovation of Mr. Foote. (Arthur B. Foote of Grass Valley), who mounted the wheel onacompressor which was used to pump THIS ALSO WAITS Smaller Wheel Also Doomed two weeks ago and revealed it to view. It is located at the end of Mill Street in Grass Valley, past the McCourtney Road JOHN PAYE WINS SFL RUSHING, SCORING TITLES "It's just one of those things you can't explain," said Nevada Union High School Football Coach John Valentino after Orville battered! the Miners 38-0 in the final game of the season for the locals. "Placer beat Oroville 31-0 and they had a tough time against us (winning 24-20), And Yuba City, which looked sogood against us, looked bad against Marysville which looked bad against us." All of this might not constitute epic prose but does pretty wellexplain the football season which bowed out with the Miners taking their worst licking of the season from a team past records indicated they should have stomped, In losing, the Miners evened up theirseason-record at four wins and four defeats and closed the lid on Sierra Foothills League play with a 3-2 mark and possession of third place. Undefeated Placer High won the league championship and victorious Oroville moved past the Miners into second. However, if the team won no titles, Miner halfback John Paye partially made up for this by nailing down two of them--the league rushing and scoring championships. 1,018 Yards The slippery junior added 44 vards to his total Friday to give him 1,018 yards for the year. This is an average of just over 127 yards a game, a figure which puts Paye in thesame class as the Cleveland Browns' great Jim Brown --even if not in the same league. -~ Like the Los Angeles Rams Sunday, the Miners were prey to an epidemic of fumblitis, loging the ballto the victorious Tigers six times in the course of a very black Friday. Dave Willis tipped the Miner hand on the game's first play from scrimmage when he bobbled the pigskin on his own 26, However, the NU defenSive players fared better on their first effort then they did the rest of the night pushing the Tigers back to the 35 and forcing them ta kick. After stopping the Miner offensiv-e.unit, the Tigers took an NU punt on their own 48 and marched to the evenings first score with Nick Miles doing the honors from ll-yards out. Doug Post ran for the extra point. Big Moment The ensuing Tiger kickoff gave Miner fans their one big moment as Paye eluded the entire enemy team ina sprint that carried allthe way. The first of what was tobe a series of big disappointments for NU rooters followed when.the apparent score was nullified by officials who insisted Paye had stepped out of bounds on the Tiger 40. Just after his “touchdown” was voided, "hero", Paye became a goat as he fumbled the ball to Oroville on the Tiger 26. The Tigers were held at bay until a pass was accidently tipped into the hands of the intended receiver bya Miner defender attempting to bat it down. The pass put the Tigers onthe NU 11-yard line and it took them four plays to score from there with Miles again going over. The extra point pass try was unsuccessful and the score stood 13-0. Two plays after the next kickoff, Paye again dost the ball--this time on his own 471. Four plays later Post rambled 28 yards for the touchdown and Miles ran the extra point to make it 20-0. And that's the way it was when the half ended. More of Same Ifthe Miners expected the Tigers to relax inthe last half because of their substantial lead, hopes in this direction were shattered in short order as the big cats took the sec~ ondhalf kickoff and plodded relentlessly down field in a 17 play, 80-yard march that consumed two-thirds of the third-stanza, Again a pass attempt for the extra point failed but the Tigers led 26-0 as the game entered the feurth period, The boys from Oroville got their fifth touchdown ona 56-yard sojourn by Miles on the first play of the last stanza. Again the PAT try fizzled, but it was now 32-0 and even the shouting was over. It was just anti-climax afew minutes later when NU quarterback Roger Mock was hit behind the line of derimmage and the. ball squirted out of his grasp to be caught onthe Miner three by center Jim Davidson who stepped easily into the end zone to wrap up the scoring. The Nuggets did nothing to make Valentino think things would be better next year as they were shutout 25-0 bythe ° Oroville Kittens in theJayvee game that preceded the varsity drag. Season's Worst The effort was undoubtedly the worst of the Autumn for ‘the gold diggers, who violated the oldest rule in show business by not savi ng the best for the last. An aggregation that has moved wellall year, even if they sometimes halted themselves short of the goal line with inopportune infractions ofthe rules, the Miners.were never ableto mount a serious threat Friday. Their deepest penetration of enemy territory was to the 26, And they came out as badly in the battle of statistics with the winners out~distancing them for the night 315 yards to 107. The loss was es pecially disappointing considering the steady improvement shown by the squad after their defeat by Placer in the Sierra Foothills season opener. After that four-point loss, the Miners drubbed Marysville and edged Yuba City in a game that would have been won by a comfortable margin except for penaltiés--all deserved but still painful. A win Friday would have left the Miners in second place in the league. And at game time few doubted the NU team would prevail over an Oroville team that Placer had tromped early inthe season, But, if disappointed with their finalgame, Coach Valentino was not down on his team. "They dida good job," he said after the game. "They‘re a good bunch of boys," out the mines." CLASSIFIE ADS CLASSIFIED AD RA Per “o in first issue, . Per line in additional i (no changes) Minimum charge HELP WANTED WANTED, Someone to small garden. Call 507'M, after 2:00 p.m FOR SALE FOR SALE--COWS; CA! goats, pigs and chick Phone G.V, 42] 3. OTHERS GIVE A JEWELRY PART ‘your friends. (Custom by Lucille Moore). F Camptonville AVenue 8; or write P, O, Box 464, Subscribers in Grass V and Nevada City who d receive their Citizer 6 p.m., please call 1479 or N.C, 126, Subscribe to "The Paper the Pictures, " bring: you the Citize> fé weeks, Free with each scription, one free ad in section (6 lines.maximu 2 PO 32,50 ‘New Owner The Boyt=Litio job p ing shop at Cedar Ridge! a new owner this week, is M,.E, Nicoson, who 1 in this area for four yea the 1940's and always wa to return.: “The next t they. get me away from h they're going tohaveto c me Out ina pine box," N son commented. \ Virgil Boyt, former ov and. founder of the firn going to devote his tim mining. He is superinten of the Nevada City GoldN ing Co,,. which is opera the Depot Hill Placer Min * Camptonville; Yuba Cou TOYS Select and Lay-A-Way Today Grass Ve Nevada. SHAW’S SHOP 210 MAIN ST. NEVADA CITY . Wanted . ANTIQUES and OLD JEWELRY PHONE NEVADA CITY 3 And Attached to Wheel Shaft But many Nevada County historians would disagree with Dr. Best. One is Sven Skaar, noted historian of Nevada City, who told The Citizen, "The wheel is a magnificent. monument to Nevada County's past and should definitely be preserved as such." . One thing is certain. Local interest inthe wheel has mounted steadily since its saleattherecent Empire Mine auction, and workmen at the scene report a growing stream of visitors has come to inspect it since its housing burned down turnoff. Meanwhile, time is running out, and if the community does not mobilize to save the wheel immediately, there will be anoldstory to tell: too Ifttle and too late. Will You Help Save The Wheel? Contact the Grass Valley C of C uGha JiB Rzxtynun KulirUG TacfGLK mWXTR nasT im (Translation). don read THE CITIZEN i kant reed WW int \ STEELE Terminal Wa HARDWARE McCULLOC VICTO oO THOR PO\ JO PROTO HAN D

NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN Wednesday, November Oroville Batters Fumbling Miners 38O in Season’s Last Game 1959 NEVADA UNION HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAM Left toright: First row, 48-Dale Bagley, 65-Don Barringer, 36-Harold Cox, 42-Alan Hutsinpiller, 60Prank Mellor, 47-Dick Cline, 19-Ken Crowder; Second row, 62-Gary Goerz, 50-Arvin Roberts, 22-King Lowe, 30-Roger 27-John Shadburne, 28-John Hodge; Third row, 13-Jack Hayes, 5l-John Woods, 39-Don Wood, 57-Sam White, 32-Ray Rankin, 33-R. Gullickson, 38-Glenn Smith, 11-Bill Freitas: Fourth row. 2634-Marvin Paul; Mock, 20-Dave Willis, 16-John Paye, TO. <3 a ear « * Art Manchester, 31-L. Hafelfinger, 63-John Yates, Mann, 17-Rich Boehme, i 95-Jack Yelton; Fifth row, 15-JimBagley, 41-Bill McClain, 93-Art Luper, 35-Mike Lemich, 18-Wally Castles, 14-RichardIvie, 21-Mike Peregrine, 12-Rick Miller; Lastrow, Coach John Valentino, Managers Don Duncan, Jay Snider, Victor Engstrom and Allan Haley, Assistant Coach Jim Solberg. Photo by Barbara Snow 40-Gary 52-Bob Hutson, 43-Gary Swinney, ___ Pelton Wheel Continued from page . Thorsen. "The wheel would be a fine thing forthe kids, and we want that park to be for the kids." However, Thorsen was doubtful city funds could be made available. "We have too many other things to pay tor," he said. City Councilman John Hodge suggested GENERATORS ARE LOWERED the wheel could be set up on the stream that runs through the Condon Tract and made to operate, thus becoming a dramatic and informative‘exhibit of the county's past. Chamber of Commerce President, Leonard Prisk Jr., has been looking into some of the problems connected with acquiring the wheel. He also would like to see it saved, but sees no easy and quick solution. And that is whatis needed. According to workmen now blastin g away at the North Star Mine power plant, where the wheel is located, their boss, Joe Perucca of the Machinery Salvage Company of Gilroy, intends to dismantle the wheel this week if no acceptable sale can be negotiated. He will then either sell it for scrap or install it ata resort he operates between Gilroy and Morgan Hill. The name of his resort is Oakdale Park. Dr. Elbridge J. Best, President of the Nevada County Historical Society, expressed doubt that the giant North Star wheel is of "real historical interest." He said, "It is notatypical Pelton wheel. Its main significance is an innovation of Mr. Foote. (Arthur B. Foote of Grass Valley), who mounted the wheel onacompressor which was used to pump THIS ALSO WAITS Smaller Wheel Also Doomed two weeks ago and revealed it to view. It is located at the end of Mill Street in Grass Valley, past the McCourtney Road JOHN PAYE WINS SFL RUSHING, SCORING TITLES "It's just one of those things you can't explain," said Nevada Union High School Football Coach John Valentino after Orville battered! the Miners 38-0 in the final game of the season for the locals. "Placer beat Oroville 31-0 and they had a tough time against us (winning 24-20), And Yuba City, which looked sogood against us, looked bad against Marysville which looked bad against us." All of this might not constitute epic prose but does pretty wellexplain the football season which bowed out with the Miners taking their worst licking of the season from a team past records indicated they should have stomped, In losing, the Miners evened up theirseason-record at four wins and four defeats and closed the lid on Sierra Foothills League play with a 3-2 mark and possession of third place. Undefeated Placer High won the league championship and victorious Oroville moved past the Miners into second. However, if the team won no titles, Miner halfback John Paye partially made up for this by nailing down two of them--the league rushing and scoring championships. 1,018 Yards The slippery junior added 44 vards to his total Friday to give him 1,018 yards for the year. This is an average of just over 127 yards a game, a figure which puts Paye in thesame class as the Cleveland Browns' great Jim Brown --even if not in the same league.. -~ Like the Los Angeles Rams Sunday, the Miners were prey to an epidemic of fumblitis, loging the ballto the victorious Tigers six times in the course of a very black Friday. Dave Willis tipped the Miner hand on the game's first play from scrimmage when he bobbled the pigskin on his own 26, However, the NU defenSive players fared better on their first effort then they did the rest of the night pushing the Tigers back to the 35 and forcing them ta kick. After stopping the Miner offensiv-e.unit, the Tigers took an NU punt on their own 48 and marched to the evenings first score with Nick Miles doing the honors from ll-yards out. Doug Post ran for the extra point. Big Moment The ensuing Tiger kickoff gave Miner fans their one big moment as Paye eluded the entire enemy team ina sprint that carried allthe way. The first of what was tobe a series of big disappointments for NU rooters followed when.the apparent score was nullified by officials who insisted Paye had stepped out of bounds on the Tiger 40. Just after his “touchdown” was voided, "hero", Paye became a goat as he fumbled the ball to Oroville on the Tiger 26. The Tigers were held at bay until a pass was accidently tipped into the hands of the intended receiver bya Miner defender attempting to bat it down. The pass put the Tigers onthe NU 11-yard line and it took them four plays to score from there with Miles again going over. The extra point pass try was unsuccessful and the score stood 13-0. Two plays after the next kickoff, Paye again dost the ball--this time on his own 471. Four plays later Post rambled 28 yards for the touchdown and Miles ran the extra point to make it 20-0. And that's the way it was when the half ended. More of Same Ifthe Miners expected the Tigers to relax inthe last half because of their substantial lead, hopes in this direction were shattered in short order as the big cats took the sec~ ondhalf kickoff and plodded relentlessly down field in a

17 play, 80-yard march that consumed two-thirds of the third-stanza, Again a pass attempt for the extra point failed but the Tigers led 26-0 as the game entered the feurth period, The boys from Oroville got their fifth touchdown ona 56-yard sojourn by Miles on the first play of the last stanza. Again the PAT try fizzled, but it was now 32-0 and even the shouting was over. It was just anti-climax afew minutes later when NU quarterback Roger Mock was hit behind the line of derimmage and the. ball squirted out of his grasp to be caught onthe Miner three by center Jim Davidson who stepped easily into the end zone to wrap up the scoring. The Nuggets did nothing to make Valentino think things would be better next year as they were shutout 25-0 bythe ° Oroville Kittens in theJayvee game that preceded the varsity drag. Season's Worst The effort was undoubtedly the worst of the Autumn for ‘the gold diggers, who violated the oldest rule in show business by not savi ng the best for the last. An aggregation that has moved wellall year, even if they sometimes halted themselves short of the goal line with inopportune infractions ofthe rules, the Miners.were never ableto mount a serious threat Friday. Their deepest penetration of enemy territory was to the 26, And they came out as badly in the battle of statistics with the winners out~distancing them for the night 315 yards to 107. The loss was es pecially disappointing considering the steady improvement shown by the squad after their defeat by Placer in the Sierra Foothills season opener. After that four-point loss, the Miners drubbed Marysville and edged Yuba City in a game that would have been won by a comfortable margin except for penaltiés--all deserved but still painful. A win Friday would have left the Miners in second place in the league. And at game time few doubted the NU team would prevail over an Oroville team that Placer had tromped early inthe season, But, if disappointed with their finalgame, Coach Valentino was not down on his team. "They dida good job," he said after the game. "They‘re a good bunch of boys," out the mines." CLASSIFIE ADS CLASSIFIED AD RA Per “o in first issue, . Per line in additional i (no changes) Minimum charge HELP WANTED WANTED, Someone to small garden. Call 507'M, after 2:00 p.m FOR SALE FOR SALE--COWS; CA! goats, pigs and chick Phone G.V, 42] 3. OTHERS GIVE A JEWELRY PART ‘your friends. (Custom by Lucille Moore). F Camptonville AVenue 8; or write P, O, Box 464, Subscribers in Grass V and Nevada City who d receive their Citizer 6 p.m., please call 1479 or N.C, 126, Subscribe to "The Paper the Pictures, " bring: you the Citize> fé weeks, Free with each scription, one free ad in section (6 lines.maximu 2 PO 32,50 ‘New Owner The Boyt=Litio job p ing shop at Cedar Ridge! a new owner this week, is M,.E, Nicoson, who 1 in this area for four yea the 1940's and always wa to return.: “The next t they. get me away from h they're going tohaveto c me Out ina pine box," N son commented. \ Virgil Boyt, former ov and. founder of the firn going to devote his tim mining. He is superinten of the Nevada City GoldN ing Co,,. which is opera the Depot Hill Placer Min * Camptonville; Yuba Cou TOYS Select and Lay-A-Way Today Grass Ve Nevada. SHAW’S SHOP 210 MAIN ST. NEVADA CITY . Wanted . ANTIQUES and OLD JEWELRY PHONE NEVADA CITY 3 And Attached to Wheel Shaft But many Nevada County historians would disagree with Dr. Best. One is Sven Skaar, noted historian of Nevada City, who told The Citizen, "The wheel is a magnificent. monument to Nevada County's past and should definitely be preserved as such." . One thing is certain. Local interest inthe wheel has mounted steadily since its saleattherecent Empire Mine auction, and workmen at the scene report a growing stream of visitors has come to inspect it since its housing burned down turnoff. Meanwhile, time is running out, and if the community does not mobilize to save the wheel immediately, there will be anoldstory to tell: too Ifttle and too late. Will You Help Save The Wheel? Contact the Grass Valley C of C uGha JiB Rzxtynun KulirUG TacfGLK mWXTR nasT im (Translation). don read THE CITIZEN i kant reed WW int \ STEELE Terminal Wa HARDWARE McCULLOC VICTO oO THOR PO\ JO PROTO HAN D