October 14, 1959 (14 pages)

Se pees Vol. 1 No. 1 10¢ A Copy = { President of Heritage Society COUNTY MUST ACT NOW__ TO PRESERVE HERITAGE SAYS S.F. ARCHITECT California's Mother Lode heritage is doomed unless the _ people of this area act immediately to preserve it. This, at least, is the opinion of John Campbell, a partner in the well-known San Francisco architectural firm of Campbell and Wond, and president of the California Heritage Society. Interviewed last weekend . by The Citizen while he was in Nevada City, Campbell Said the last 10 years have seen the greatest ravages . against the historic sites in the state's gold-mining. areas, The next decade will be even more destructive, he said, unless something is done now. to safeguard what is left. Campbell said it is much more important for Nevada County to protect what remains of its Forty-Niner heritage than it is for most parts of California for the Simple reason that we have more left that is worth sav ing. < : Campbellsingled out Nevada City's Piety Hill and Tennis Club Sets Match Schedule The Grass Valley Tennis Club will meet theSouth Hills Tennis Club of Sdtramento Sunday in Lincoln Park Courts in the first of five NorthernCalifornia Tennis Association interclub competition matches scheduled by the localteam. Play will begin at 9 a.m. Grass Valley, South Hills, Sutter Lawn and Arden. Hills, all of Sacramento, Vallejo and Stockton comprise the Valley League ofthe Northern California Ténnis Association, The public is invited to all matches. There is no admission charge. Shady Knolls Ranch on Jones . in groups of five, he envisions downtown areas as places that shouldbe kept as nearly intact as possible. The homes on Piety Hill, hesaid, are unique architecturally in the West. He calledthe Nevada City business section "a beautiful and irreplaceable complex of historic buildings” that gives the town most of the charm for which it is famous. Talking about the importance of saving landmarks like the Piety Hill homes, the National Hotel, Ott's Assa-y Office and others,. Campbell said: "We have started museums all over to save fans, vases and other paraphernalia, while the buildings--the teally important things --are. abandoned and forgotten, " The only way tosave these buildings, according to Retirement Community Planned Plans to start a retirement community here have been announced by James Finnegan, a former Los Angeles resident who moved to Nevada County last May. ~ Finnegan, who bought the Bar Road, sdid he Will convert part of theranch into sites for the retirement bungalows he proposes to build. Although he willconstruct the 18 by 28 foot bungalows as many as 300 ofthe structures. on his 536 acre property before he-is finished. : Underhis plan, the people who move into the community will not own the home they live in. “They will," hesaid, " pay $1, 500 membership fee upon signing up for residence and after that $50 a month plus utilities. The rent willbe $55 a month if they want a What's Going on Here? To find out, turn to Page 5. fireplace, " the wooden planks. on Pine . ing wide-eyed.goblins Campbell, is through concerted civic action, And the time to take this action, he added, isnow--not after efforts are begun to raze them. He used: Auburn as an example of what too little, too late can do to a town. An oil company, he recalled, bought a block of Gold Rush era buildings in that Placer County com~ munity a short time ago and began to tear them down to make room for a new service station. Then a group of Auburn citizens protested. The oil company, he said, proved completely cooperative and offeredtosellthe block back at a reasonable cost. However, the protesting group was unable to raise the needed money. Nor could they arouse any financial support from other Auburn or Placer County residents. So, today there is a new service station where a few, years ago there had been one of the state's best preserved . blocks of Forty -Niner buildings. As his own personal conHeritage Society's effort to save and restore what remains of the Mother Lode tradition, Campbell has completely repaired a home in Mokolumne Hillin Calaveras County, and bought a hotel there. The hotel purchase was responsible for his tripto Nevada County. The Citizen caught him in a Nevada City antique shop '},where he had come to buy furniture for the hotel. ~ Putting in a plug for the organization he heads, Campbell said the California Heritage Society is hoping to obtain memberships "from every areain the state." He said it is particularly anxious to open new chapters in “places like Nevada County ' where the people would have a specific reason for interest in the organization." The society's biggest curTent project, hesaid, is saving Portsmouth Square in San Francisco--one of the most significant areas in the city, tribution to the California historically, Today is an October day, not just any October day, for today seems brighter. . . different. MThetrees upon Banner Mountain. .all red, yellow and green, The lawn painted with the leaves that are a myriad of color. The school girls in their many ruffled petticoats. . . peeking out from under many hued skirts, The boys wearing their bravado like shining armor. .the football season has started. The artistsitting on Commercial Street sketching the old fire house. . . trying to conjur up a vision of the old horse drawn engine --.as it used to clatter up Street. Not realizing that in a few short months all willbe changed withthe freeway running like a silver ribbon through Nevada City, when allthe charm of yesteryear will fade like a ghost in the night. The stores opéning up for . another busy day. another . dime-another-dollar. . .The aerie upon the hill wearily} unbuckling his holster after’ standing watch all night. . The windows in the stores , hesitantly showing trick -ortreats. .the little ones gazsoon. The coffee shops open. serving breakfast for the fellow who lets his wife sleep in, or just plain doesn't have , awife.the9toSgirls put. ting on their lipstick before . going to work after their . morning coffee. e . The corner of the street }} empty this early.the pensioners not yet out onthe. street fortheir daily round of gossip and reminiscing. The benches empty in the little park beside Alpha. Now.the quiet is broken, deputy sheriff who sits in his . . ! . David's writings found their . vada County life will be a the lumber trucks are round. r ¢ d ’ Whore their hoses to meet the hungty tank ofsome tourist who is leaving our town after spending the night in the peace and quiet of a neverto-be-forgotten place where he was allowed to enjoy a little of our beauty. It's too late now. .the morning is backin place and the hustle and bustle of another day is raging. The . BOY REPORTER By DAVID TAIT Age Be 10 GIRLS COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES David's Idea of Mt. St. Mary's Girls (EDITOR'S NOTE: With this week's first issue of The Citizen, an old favorite of Nevada County readers returns to the printed page-DavidT ait. In the past. only Way into publication. But he . is also an artist--as you can . plainly see. David's pictures, and his word pictures, of Neegular feature of The are some of the reasons for wearing uniforms: The girls have a hat which they need to go into the chapel or to church. It is easier for the mothers to get their clothes ready in the morning because they know what dress jto put on them. The girls are in competition with their friends tosee who could dress the prettiest and the most expensive. terest will be best served; 6 : > am Piteg. 2 THE HISTORIC OLD OTT ASS. AY OFFICE IN NEVADA C ITY. From an Old Building, the Newest of Newspapers A Statement of Policy A newspaper is not a pulpy Minerva, emering fullyarmed from the head of its publisher. It has a slow birth, attended by hard work, a few prayers, and a clear sense of purpose. In the case of the Citizen. our purpose may be simply stated: We feel there is a need for a new! weekly paper in Nevada County, one utiliz-ing the newest of editorial, advertising, and mechanical techniques in order to serve the community. We hope to fill that need by providing: @ Pictures and more pictures reporting all the color of Nevada County life @ Clear, accurate coverage of events and personalities ®@ Informed editorial content ®@ For advertisers, a controlled circulation guarantee, great flexibility in layout,’ and unlimited opportunities for the use of pictures. We have no editorial axes to grind, but we will speak, out when the editor and publisher feel the community inand here we have a precedent and a guide. Our office is located down by Ott's Assay Office in Nevada City; in the honorable spirit of this assay office, we will always attempt to distinguish the genuine neighbor--a citizen worthy of. the name. One of the characteristics, we believe, ofagood citizen, is a healthy respect: for the land in which he lives. Be— cause’ we believe this to be an area particularly endowed with natural beauty we will never hesitate to speak whenever efforts are made to despoil this God-given heritage --no matter how unpopular our stand might be at the moment. For what nature takes millions of years to create, man can destroy indays. And once this oeauty is destroyed, nature again must step in to restore it--a process measured in centuries, eons and geological periods. We believe this to be an area supremely endowed by man as -well as nature. And this legacy, too, we hold dear: The Forty-Niners; Bret Harte; Mark Twain and LolaMontez; fast-living fortune-seekers and slow-dying Donner expedition; the incredible hydraulic diggings and deep quartz mines; Meadow Lake and the narrow gauge; countless lost towns, lost lives, lost enterprises. We will resist any attempts to erase anything , that remains from our fabled ecu . Past unless it can be proved ing the bend with their loads . . Citizen--"The Paper with] . The uniforms come in article from the phony, the ee the benefits far outweigh of logs and cut lumber, . . the . ] the Pictures, ") . . . manysizes--small, medium,. yajyable from the worthless, . g ALSO ON THE INSIDE ° siren ofthe ambulance . : ’ ~ . . large and inbetween sizes. ths on sad true ethieén fro the drawbacks. ? . . Gis Chuck tears up the road tol, 7c umformsin the Gath~ . . some girls are fat and some : ‘fick . . But make no mistake--The a the hospital. . , is it anew life. . UC school in Grass Valley . . are skinny andso they had. the false and selfish. } The CITIZEN of the Week..Page 2 : ea arenice checkereduniforms, . . : tighten their uniforms or. __ Citizen does believe in pro; . -. or an old one wearing out? 1 ito tig eir unl But then all of us at the! . : The gas pumps stretching . . ) 2© Children started wear. . ietthe seams out alittle bit. gress in which everything from Lost TE ciicescsschicmcesbsinic Page 3 cme pam: ing them October 5, 19598.'. . s ome girls like them ‘and. CITIZEN are residents of Ne’ AALS Net everybedy is warring . . some girls don't, It is pretty hs Cats haye nine lives--man them butsoon will, Thebeys . jhard for some of the bots to . . don ‘t have to wear uniforms . : ye know whether they like them yada County, and we know an easier way of stating our purpose: we aim to be a good the past worth saving is carr--See POLICY, Page 2. Football sroseosesncssssecoresereceecsierse PAG@ 6 but one. Isn‘t this the'cat's mew? we ay \

Se pees Vol. 1 No. 1 10¢ A Copy = { President of Heritage Society COUNTY MUST ACT NOW__ TO PRESERVE HERITAGE SAYS S.F. ARCHITECT California's Mother Lode heritage is doomed unless the _ people of this area act immediately to preserve it. This, at least, is the opinion of John Campbell, a partner in the well-known San Francisco architectural firm of Campbell and Wond, and president of the California Heritage Society. Interviewed last weekend . by The Citizen while he was in Nevada City, Campbell Said the last 10 years have seen the greatest ravages . against the historic sites in the state's gold-mining. areas, The next decade will be even more destructive, he said, unless something is done now. to safeguard what is left. Campbell said it is much more important for Nevada County to protect what remains of its Forty-Niner heritage than it is for most parts of California for the Simple reason that we have more left that is worth sav ing. < : Campbellsingled out Nevada City's Piety Hill and Tennis Club Sets Match Schedule The Grass Valley Tennis Club will meet theSouth Hills Tennis Club of Sdtramento Sunday in Lincoln Park Courts in the first of five NorthernCalifornia Tennis Association interclub competition matches scheduled by the localteam. Play will begin at 9 a.m. Grass Valley, South Hills, Sutter Lawn and Arden. Hills, all of Sacramento, Vallejo and Stockton comprise the Valley League ofthe Northern California Ténnis Association, The public is invited to all matches. There is no admission charge. Shady Knolls Ranch on Jones . in groups of five, he envisions downtown areas as places that shouldbe kept as nearly intact as possible. The homes on Piety Hill, hesaid, are unique architecturally in the West. He calledthe Nevada City business section "a beautiful and irreplaceable complex of historic buildings” that gives the town most of the charm for which it is famous. Talking about the importance of saving landmarks like the Piety Hill homes, the National Hotel, Ott's Assa-y Office and others,. Campbell said: "We have started museums all over to save fans, vases and other paraphernalia, while the buildings--the teally important things --are. abandoned and forgotten, " The only way tosave these buildings, according to Retirement Community Planned Plans to start a retirement community here have been announced by James Finnegan, a former Los Angeles resident who moved to Nevada County last May. ~ Finnegan, who bought the Bar Road, sdid he Will convert part of theranch into sites for the retirement bungalows he proposes to build. Although he willconstruct the 18 by 28 foot bungalows as many as 300 ofthe structures. on his 536 acre property before he-is finished. : Underhis plan, the people who move into the community will not own the home they live in. “They will," hesaid, " pay $1, 500 membership fee upon signing up for residence and after that $50 a month plus utilities. The rent willbe $55 a month if they want a What's Going on Here? To find out, turn to Page 5. fireplace, " the wooden planks. on Pine . ing wide-eyed..goblins Campbell, is through concerted civic action, And the time to take this action, he added, isnow--not after efforts are begun to raze them. He used: Auburn as an example of what too little, too late can do to a town. An oil company, he recalled, bought a block of Gold Rush era buildings in that Placer County com~ munity a short time ago and began to tear them down to make room for a new service station. Then a group of Auburn citizens protested. The oil company, he said, proved completely cooperative and offeredtosellthe block back at a reasonable cost. However, the protesting group was unable to raise the needed money. Nor could they arouse any financial support from other Auburn or Placer County residents. So, today there is a new service station where a few, years ago there had been one of the state's best preserved . blocks of Forty -Niner buildings. As his own personal conHeritage Society's effort to save and restore what remains of the Mother Lode tradition, Campbell has completely repaired a home in Mokolumne Hillin Calaveras County, and bought a hotel there. The hotel purchase was responsible for his tripto Nevada County. The Citizen caught him in a Nevada City antique shop '},where he had come to buy furniture for the hotel. ~ Putting in a plug for the organization he heads, Campbell said the California Heritage Society is hoping to obtain memberships "from every areain the state." He said it is particularly anxious to open new chapters in “places like Nevada County ' where the people would have a specific reason for interest in the organization." The society's biggest curTent project, hesaid, is saving Portsmouth Square in San Francisco--one of the most significant areas in the city, tribution to the California historically, Today is an October day, not just any October day, for today seems brighter. . . different. MThetrees upon Banner Mountain. .all red, yellow and green, The lawn painted with the leaves that

are a myriad of color. The school girls in their many ruffled petticoats. . . peeking out from under many hued skirts, The boys wearing their bravado like shining armor. .the football season has started. The artistsitting on Commercial Street sketching the old fire house. . . trying to conjur up a vision of the old horse drawn engine --.as it used to clatter up Street. Not realizing that in a few short months all willbe changed withthe freeway running like a silver ribbon through Nevada City, when allthe charm of yesteryear will fade like a ghost in the night. The stores opéning up for . another busy day.. another . dime-another-dollar. . .The aerie upon the hill wearily} unbuckling his holster after’ standing watch all night.. . The windows in the stores , hesitantly showing trick -ortreats. .the little ones gazsoon. The coffee shops open.. serving breakfast for the fellow who lets his wife sleep in, or just plain doesn't have , awife..the9toSgirls put. ting on their lipstick before . going to work after their . morning coffee. e . The corner of the street }} empty this early..the pensioners not yet out onthe. street fortheir daily round of gossip and reminiscing.. The benches empty in the little park beside Alpha.. Now..the quiet is broken, deputy sheriff who sits in his . . ! . David's writings found their . vada County life will be a the lumber trucks are round. r ¢ d ’ Whore their hoses to meet the hungty tank ofsome tourist who is leaving our town after spending the night in the peace and quiet of a neverto-be-forgotten place where he was allowed to enjoy a little of our beauty.. It's too late now. .the morning is backin place and the hustle and bustle of another day is raging.. The . BOY REPORTER By DAVID TAIT Age Be 10 GIRLS COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES David's Idea of Mt. St. Mary's Girls (EDITOR'S NOTE: With this week's first issue of The Citizen, an old favorite of Nevada County readers returns to the printed page-DavidT ait. In the past. only Way into publication. But he . is also an artist--as you can . plainly see. David's pictures, and his word pictures, of Neegular feature of The are some of the reasons for wearing uniforms: The girls have a hat which they need to go into the chapel or to church. It is easier for the mothers to get their clothes ready in the morning because they know what dress jto put on them. The girls are in competition with their friends tosee who could dress the prettiest and the most expensive. terest will be best served; 6 : > am Piteg. 2 THE HISTORIC OLD OTT ASS. AY OFFICE IN NEVADA C ITY. From an Old Building, the Newest of Newspapers A Statement of Policy A newspaper is not a pulpy Minerva, emering fullyarmed from the head of its publisher. It has a slow birth, attended by hard work, a few prayers, and a clear sense of purpose. In the case of the Citizen. our purpose may be simply stated: We feel there is a need for a new! weekly paper in Nevada County, one utiliz-ing the newest of editorial, advertising, and mechanical techniques in order to serve the community. We hope to fill that need by providing: @ Pictures and more pictures reporting all the color of Nevada County life @ Clear, accurate coverage of events and personalities ®@ Informed editorial content ®@ For advertisers, a controlled circulation guarantee, great flexibility in layout,’ and unlimited opportunities for the use of pictures. We have no editorial axes to grind, but we will speak, out when the editor and publisher feel the community inand here we have a precedent and a guide. Our office is located down by Ott's Assay Office in Nevada City; in the honorable spirit of this assay office, we will always attempt to distinguish the genuine neighbor--a citizen worthy of. the name. One of the characteristics, we believe, ofagood citizen, is a healthy respect: for the land in which he lives. Be— cause’ we believe this to be an area particularly endowed with natural beauty we will never hesitate to speak whenever efforts are made to despoil this God-given heritage --no matter how unpopular our stand might be at the moment. For what nature takes millions of years to create, man can destroy indays. And once this oeauty is destroyed, nature again must step in to restore it--a process measured in centuries, eons and geological periods. We believe this to be an area supremely endowed by man as -well as nature. And this legacy, too, we hold dear: The Forty-Niners; Bret Harte; Mark Twain and LolaMontez; fast-living fortune-seekers and slow-dying Donner expedition; the incredible hydraulic diggings and deep quartz mines; Meadow Lake and the narrow gauge; countless lost towns, lost lives, lost enterprises. We will resist any attempts to erase anything , that remains from our fabled ecu . Past unless it can be proved ing the bend with their loads . . Citizen--"The Paper with] . The uniforms come in article from the phony, the ee the benefits far outweigh of logs and cut lumber, . . the . ] the Pictures, ") . . . manysizes--small, medium,. yajyable from the worthless, . g ALSO ON THE INSIDE ° siren ofthe ambulance . : ’ ~ . . large and inbetween sizes. ths on sad true ethieén fro the drawbacks. ? . . Gis Chuck tears up the road tol, 7c umformsin the Gath~ . . some girls are fat and some : ‘fick . . But make no mistake--The a the hospital. . , is it anew life. . UC school in Grass Valley . . are skinny andso they had. the false and selfish. } The CITIZEN of the Week...Page 2 : ea arenice checkereduniforms, . . : tighten their uniforms or. __ Citizen does believe in pro; . -. or an old one wearing out? 1 ito tig eir unl But then all of us at the! . : The gas pumps stretching . . ) 2© Children started wear. . ietthe seams out alittle bit. gress in which everything from Lost TE ciicescsschicmcesbsinic Page 3 cme pam: ing them October 5, 19598.'. . s ome girls like them ‘and. CITIZEN are residents of Ne’ AALS Net everybedy is warring . . some girls don't, It is pretty hs Cats haye nine lives--man them butsoon will, Thebeys . jhard for some of the bots to . . don ‘t have to wear uniforms . : ye know whether they like them yada County, and we know an easier way of stating our purpose: we aim to be a good the past worth saving is carr--See POLICY, Page 2. Football sroseosesncssssecoresereceecsierse PAG@ 6 but one. Isn‘t this the'cat's mew? we ay \