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NEVADA ,COUNTY CITIZEN AND CITIZEN ADVERTISER
. Published every Wednesday, 132-MainSt., Nevada City,
California, by Nevada County Citizen, Inc.
Phone Grass Valley or Nevada City 126
Alfred E. Heller ‘Publisher
Max Nowis2°52 (oe aes. ew cas Se
Don Fairclough, ., ... . Circulation Manager
Clarice Mc Whinney ....... Art Editor
Margaret Abrahamson. ..... Society Editor
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--POLICY (Continued from Page 1)
ied.into the futureto augment.
and enhance thosé good things
which are new.
We are for those industries
that will bring payrolls, people
and economic stability to Ne—
vada County so long as they .
can accomplish these things
without destroying the beauties of our land or the charac. ter of our communities.
We are for more people, more
homes and more business-and this is hardly altruistic,
since these are the lifeblood
ofa newspaper's existence-but we are against abominable
mass housing developments
such as at Hillsdale near Sacramento or Westgate or Daly
EDITORIAL .
We Welcome The Deadly Titan
The recent Defense Department an—
nouncement that Camp Beale and the surrounding areas has been chosen ag the
site for a $42 million dollar Titan ICBM
launching center has much significance
for Nevada County. The construction
phase of this project will undoubtedly
provide numerous jobs; both skilled and
unskilled, for workers inthis area. In
addition, it is likely that many of the 700
Air Force Personnel scheduled for permanent assignment:.to this emplacement will
make their homes in Grass Valley and Nevada City.
Por the promise of new jobs, new wealth, new neighbors, new homes we are
grateful. We do not begrudge any man a
good: job. Nor do we begrudge the Defense Department its legimate needs.
But we could not help thinking, when we
read of the elaborate Beale development,
of other things that $42 million of public
money could buy: Freeways, fire trails,
parks andrecreation areas , libraries,
new-planted forests, farm research, mec
icalresearch; School improvement—to
name onlyafew. .
Furthermore, it is unfortunatethata
veritable working army of decent-minded
Americans should devote its priceless
skills and good-will] energy, to construction, much of itin underground caverns, of
platforms serving one end: ultimate destruction. Forthese Beale Titans, if they
are ever fired, will be fired only incase
of all-out atomic war. And if they are
not fired, and serve as they are no doubt
City outside San Francisco.
And, for good measure, we
are for good schools, good
libraries ,, good government-and against sin.
Most of all, though, we are =
for you--the reader andthe
only true citizen. Our eyes
and ears are open, our everpresent cameras~are focused,
to the end that you will find
on our pages the, Nevada
County you know and love.
t bo
Alfred E. Heller
Publisher
It is the candid opinion
of Miss Matie Luther, an
extremely; candid person,,
that Miss) Matie Luther is
no fit subject to be The
Citizen's first "Citizen of
the Week."
"Why," she gays, "I
could think of at least a
half dozen other people
who would be much more
interesting than Iam. I'm
just another old maid
schoolteacher.” ;
Then after swearing that
she's led a very. humdrum
existence and is, therefore, a very humdrum person, Miss Luther goes on
to prove otherwise.
Asked about herfirst
name, Griich hymg with,
Katie) the 63-year: Po re-~
tired schoolmarm says ,"I
don't know where it came
from--I'ye never run across it. Many people
Pronounce it Mattie. But
Idon't like Mattie as much
asI like Matie, much as I
don’t like that.”
One thing about her name
she does know--it's not a
nickname or a contraction.
Matie it is, complete and
unabridged. ;
Born inthe silver mining
town of Aspen, Colorado,
she came to Grass Valley
-with her miner father and
family in 1912 when
Aspen's silver deposits
were worked out,
Not long after that she
began her teaching career
in Mariposa at the magnificent salary of 860 a month
for a nine month working
year.
In 1922 she turned to
molding the minds of Grass
Valley's youth--a calling
she followed until 1957
when she retired "on my
Own accord--not because
I had to."
In History
for a person who constantly refers to herself as "an
old maid schoolteacher, "
very surprising.
When asked what she
planned to do in the future,
shéreplied quickly, "I think I'll take another jet’
plane ride just as soonas
possible."
Miss Luther; it turned
out, had flown to New York
and back last summer ona
jet airliner and found the
experience one of the highlights of her life.
It: reminded her of her
first plane ride--back in
1922 when she hopped.a
board a frail biplane made
of wood, wire and .cloth
and*t0ok off from a Gras
Valley pasture to ‘survey
her hometown.
"I liked it so much, "she
recalls; “that I spent $25
for two flights within the
week. I had to borrow the
money for the second one,
but I thought it was worth .
atthetime, she againwent . i
aloft ina small plane a few
years ago and decided to
restrict her future flying to i
airliners.
While waiting for her .
next jet hop, Miss . Luther
occupies her time working
inthe kitchen or the flower
garden of her comfortable
home at 154 Race Street,
Grass Valley, or helps with
local charity campaigns or
civic projects.
For instance, she was ff
This Week
From the Citizen Files:
1958--Thorton Schmerda
Se
Wednesday, October 14, 1959
MATIE' LUTHER FINDS RETIREMENT INTERESTING, ACTIVE
Her Flower Garden is Just One of Her Activities
THE CITIZEN OF THE WEEK
chairman of this year's
“Mother's March of Dimes"
polio campaign.
"Imagine," she says,
chuckling, "me an old maid
schoolteacher, leading the
Mother's March of Dimes."
Miss Matie Luther,
according to Miss Matie
Luther, never did,an inter
esting thing in her life.
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still poured many lifetimes of honest sweat
and labor down an unproductive hold. All
on account of man's suspicion of his
fellows. How much more pride a man
would have in himself and his nation if he
knew he was building steel and concrete
bridges of peace instead of steel and concrete platforms of war! ᐀
But the $42 million are committed out of
national necessity, andwe are reconciled
to being situated in the backyard of what
will surely be one of the prime targets of
any American enemy. We can only hope,
in all sincerity, that the nations of the
world, especially Russia and the United
States, move into high gear and begin to
Practice what they preach about taking
definite and effective steps towards disarmament. It is only after the practical
fact of disarmament; not aftera discussion
of it, that we will be able to divert-these
millions of hard-earned American dollars
away from the dark launching pits to sunlit projects of continuing benefit to all of
us.
In the meantime, we welcome the deadly Titan for the economic benefit it will
bring our community.
She is quick to admit the
last two years have been
a ball.
"I'mreally glad I did it, "
she says. "It hasn't been
dull by any means and it's
so nice not to have to run
when you hear a bell ring
after all those years."
‘Lest anyone exercise
theirconclus ion-=jumping muscles by thinking
Miss Luther's love of retirement stems from a lack
fession, she says:
"All I ever thought of
was teaching. And that's
what I did.
"It's been so interest—
ing over the years, having
these boys and girls coming into your classrooms.,
then watching them go out
into the world.
"Some of them, you'd
tell yourself, were going
to run into trouble in the
world--and you'd see this
come true.
"And then there were always the surprises. And
they were the most interyesting of al l~-especially
he ones who made good
when: you-hadn't expected
them to." d
-Herinterests are many
@nd varied. And sometimes,
of love of the teaching pro. .
ley, a man who thought fo
himself, became irked witl
the Viceroy advertisement:
and switched to anothe
brand.
Schmerdley, an embalmler's apprentice who made
intercontinental ballistic missiles as a hobby,
tried to vent his spleer
against the Viceroy people
by firing his latest mode]
missile atthe cigaret plant.
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ENVELOPES or WRITING PAPER.
Think the State Legislature is a temple of dignity
and solemnity where sage
solons devote all-their time
to sonorous discussions of
naught but the weightiest of
Think again.
Speaking before the
Professional Women Club's
dinner a week ago Monday:
at.the fair grounds, Seventh
District State Senator Ronald
Cameron told the following
legislature.
"At the opening of each
session of the Legislature
there are a bunch of bills
that nobody objects to that
are quickly passed after a
perfunctory reading and gotlegislators can get downto
more serious andcontraversial matters.
"Now, generally a Senator
stands up with a stack of
these non-contraversial
bills and summarizes them
Since the other Senators
know the gist of the bill,
‘they talk and-walk around
the chamber, never listening
to the reading.
'. "Well, when it came my
turn, I got up and began to
read a summary of this bill
that was being passed to
help Nevada County car
dealers cut some of the red
tape from the business dealings.
‘As I started toreada hush
fell over the chamber and all
the senators feturned totheir
seats and listened as intently as if lwere reading a major
piece of legislation.
"Now [thought Iwas doing
a pretty good job ofreading--but I hardly expected a
reaction like this.
“Well, [had hardly finished when one ofthe senators
rose to say, ‘Now Senator
problems that face our state?
Nevada County Business and
tale of his first day in the
ten out of the way, so the]
as rapidly as _ possible,. :
lsolons Not Always
‘Serious-Minded
‘Cameron, you did a mighty
fine job of rea. ing that bil!
--but would. } yOu please te!)
ime just whgt.it means.' .
‘It took about three or four
minutes @&plaining the
bill--whith was very complicated--and asked the
senator if that satisfied him.
"Thén another senator
arose to say, ‘Senator, on
page four you mentioned
section 2013 of the State
‘Motor Vehicle Code. Could
you tell me just what that
section says?'
"Well," Cameron toid the
dinner audience, "I began
to wonder what was happen‘ing to me. I had expected
‘no opposition tothis bill and
now it looked like the thing
was going to be defeated.
. #Then the senators began
‘to laugh and Ifoundour
they'd cooked the whol.
thing up as sort of ay
initiation cermony for a new
senator."
The bill, incidentl,
passed.
The dinner, which was
held by the Grass Valley ani
Nevada City Women's Clubs
to. celebrate National Business Women's Week, drew
about 200 persons.
State Senator Cameron,
the evening's main speaker,
devoted most of his talk to
the future of this’ district,
He sees the main hope for
this and the district's other
two counties in the recreation industry.
"Recreation dollars wil]
start this area's.second gold
rush," he said, adding that
the recreational dollar was
the "cleanest, easiest and
the soundest dollar" available because areas that
cateredto tourists and
sportsmen didn't have to
furnish schools, welfare or
other public facilities and
care for these people.
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