October 21, 1959 (8 pages)

& Vol. 1'No. 2 me WELCOME ANDREWS ie. 10¢ A Copy THE PAPER AND CRESTVIEW, © IT’S ABOUT TIME Western Nevada County, once the far-sighted leader in telephone communications, willtake a big stride toward catching up with the times next summer, George Hutchins, district managerfor the Pacific Telephone Company, announced yesterday that dial prefixes will go into effect in Grass Valley and Nevada City by midsummer, The Grass V alley prefix will be CRestview 3, while Nevada City’s will be ANdrews 5, Cost ofthe installation willbe $1,605,900, acaorting to Hutchins, When Western Nevada Countians get dial phones they will be getting a modern and efficient service that all surrounding areas have had for some time, Grass Valley and Nevada + City have been islands of obsolescence in an area where every other community has dial service. All of Placer County is on dial hookups, Downieville, Marysville and even North San Juan subscribers have been able to use the telephone without going through an operator, This is a far cry from the 19th Century when Western Nevada County moved several years ahead of the rest of the world by establishing the world's first~long -distance telephone line, Built by the Ridge Telephone Company, the line went into operation in 1878 and stretched 60 miles from French Corral to Milton in Sierra County. Althoughthe American Telephone and Telegraph Company claims the first long distance line went into operation between Boston and Providence in 1880, the local service had been going strong for two years by that time and continued doing business long after the eastern experiment had gone bankrupt. One reason the Nevada County application of Alexander Graham Bell's inven-. tion was such a success may have been the strict rules placed by the Ridge Company on its use, Built to connect various gold mining operations, the Ridge Company's long-distance installation was operated more like a telegraph line. Telephones themselves were used only by "those in charge of offices. " Others wishing tosenda message wrote it out and . handed it tothe operator who relayed it through the telephone to another operator who copied it down and delivered it to the intended recipient, Rates for the service were on the handsome side, According to an old printed list of Ridge Company rules, users of the service sending messages to the North San main terminus--paid 50 cents for the first 20 words and 25 cents for each additional 20 words. T hose messages originafor a quarter with each addi-. tional two words adding adother two-bits to the bill, ! Persons in charge of offices’ will be allowed to use the line for their own business free of charge, but as use of the line exhausts the battery power, it isnottobe used for idle talking." Profane or obscene lang~ uage was “strictly prohibited," Then we led the world, Now, 79 years later we're just about ready to catch up. How times have changed, Honor, Honor Who Deserves the Honor? It sounded like a variaticu ofthe old Alphonse and Gaston routine, but it happened at theGrass Valley City Hall i Sor< oi Uuling a City Cuuicis meet~ ing. Playing the parts made famous by the two ultracourteous Frenchmen were Marvin Kitts, historian for Hague Thomas Haggerty Post 130, American Legion, and Grass Valley Fire Chief Ray Hartung. The ocassion was the announcement by the post that ithadwonthe Cecil R, Gehr Trophy for its fire prevention program for the second year in a row, Speaking for the Legion, Kitts --who was introduced at . the meeting by Post Commander Rudy Yalenich--said that although Post 130 was receiving credit for the pro. gram that won the trophy, it had actually been earned by . -Chief Hartung. "The fire chief preached \ fire prevention" all over the _j. county, Kitts told the Council, adding, “Gentlemen, he done one helluva job--if you ladies will pardon the W expression, "Ray Hartung wonthe trophy for us, " Hartung then rose to tell the Council that Kittswas, being overly generous--that most of the work inthe award-winning program. Kitts then tried tohand the glory back to Hartung, who again declared it belonged 1 to Post 130, Both agreedthat, whoever “8 was responsible for it, the THE COWBOY LIVES ON /Turn to Pages 2A-3A ALSO ON THE INSIDE M Citizens of the Week ......Page 2 Society.....Page 3 SPOFS..icsccccceresseninPAGe . rophy was nicetohave since Post 130 hadto beat out over ‘800 California Legion posts for it. Earlierinthe m Hartung informed the Councilthat the Gpass Valley Fire! Department had recently been placed in full charge of. fire inspections inside the: city and city fire codes would’ prevail in all cases. “The fire marshal. will just be here to give us assistance! from now on," said Hartung. . Before, the fire marshal was the top fire inspection \Official in Grass Valley. and state fire code took precedence over these ofthe citp; Juan office--the phone line's ting from North San Juan at the rate of 10 words or less § The rules stipuiated that. the post itselfhad really done . : . NOTICE-~ Subscribers in Guass. Malley and Nevada City who do not breceive their Citizen by . . 1479 or N.C, 126. 6 p.m., please call G.V.' WITH Nevada Coun ty Citizen THE PICTURES Nevada City, Calif., Wednesday, October 21, 1959 Waiting to Enter Last Friday's Game. For More Pictures and Story, SeePage 4. ’ THIS TOO, IS FOOTBALL Coaches John Valentino, Left, and Jim Solberg Talk to Miner Players Moneys For N.I.D.s Problems It wouldtake a bond issue covering more than the assessed valuation of all the property in Nevada County to bring the Nevada Irrigation District up to the standards its directors would like to see it reach, However, the N.I.D. is not about to put a lien against the property of everyone in the county to achieve its ultimate aims, Speaking at last week’s ;Grass Valley Chamber of !'Commerce, Ed Koster, organization was looking overthe water prablem from the standpoint of solving it overthe long haul rather than in one expensive step, He admitted after the meeting this means waiting a good many years before the water delivered through the system to area homes ,would meet State Board of Health standards, He.said the system would not meetstate standards unjtil it was delivered all the way from its sources to the customers by underground or: enclosed pipes and had passed through filtration and chlorination plants, Kester thinks these items wouldcost morethan anyone inthe county would be will-: ing to pay. However, Koster is far from allgloom in-regards to the N,1,D,‘s future. He, dwelt far more with the good ;points than the bad in his talk to the Chamber at its \dinner meeting at the Bret Harte Inn, . said Koster, is tied directly totwothings: Electricity and water, against county property. He listed theN,1,D.3 current $30 te $40 million’ expansion and moterization program as an example of how this interde-. ‘N.ILD, manager, saidhis. ; The future of the county, . . Cure pendence works for the taxpayers. The Pacific Gas and ‘Electric Company, Koster said, is ever inneed of more water to generate electricity for this area. The revenue they will ‘pay to the N,I.D. for this increased amount ef w ater power will furnish a large share of the money i needed to pay off the reve. nue certificate issue being soldto pay for the water system's improvement and expansion, Revenue certificates are securities that are paid off by the profits arising from the . project they were sold to fi/Mance, They donot use tax money nor do they constitute a lien against private property. The multi-million dollar expansion program now in its final planning stages ‘ould put a control’dam on the Yuba River at Jackson Meadows or Bowman, boostthe storage Capacity of the .presacre feet, eliminatethe hazardous flume system in the mountain areas and replace them with concrete pipes,. serve a newPG&E hydro-electric plant at Dutch F lat and open anew reservior ‘in the Grass Valley area-possibly near Bitney's Corn. CTS. . It would also pay for en. largement and improvement . of other existing facilities, _pedupthewholeN, I, D. sit. uation in thé opening minute . of his talk when he said: “have the money to doit with." And these, he said, are DT tied to each other, MISCONCEPTION The fact that water and. Contrary to pepular opinelectrical power areso inter. ion, Kangaroos.are not good dependent, &€aentin—. jumpers--theyhavevery reued, will enable N.I.D, to} silientifeet that enable them gradually make te sy ae Ito bounce very well, everything that it sheuld } without levyiignewtaxes. § TRICKSTERS Science has leaned: that Amobeas do not split as was ‘long believed--they create . use of mirrors, -ant dam at Milton to 65,000. All-in-all, Koster wrap' “We Can do anything.if we. this impression through the New Safeway Store Opens Today Grass Valley's new Safeway Supermarket is scheduled to open for business today. Situated behind the former Safeway market location on S. Auburn Street, the new }and much largerst.ore is slated to be the first unit in a new shopping and business ‘complex, ers adjacent to the supermarket are the Bank of America and a beauty parlor, Other business quarters may be built later, Television Station Wants Pictures . Of Nevada City Nevada City is about to go ‘Hontelevision, Station KVIE, Sacramento (Channel 6 on ’ your dial), has written the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce asking for pictures or some landmark or famous local building. The station management said in the letter that it intended to produce programs from time to time dealing with various communities in its broadcast area and planned on including Nevada City among them. The Chamberhas decided o send the station pictures of Ott's Assay Office (which is also The Citizen's publication site) and the National Hotel, ‘Both of these buildings have long been favorites of artists and photographers and both have great historic significance, Station KVIE gave no indication of when they would mention Nevada City or other Nevada County locales on the air. Nor did they make any specific mention jlof what type of mention they would give the community. . FONT OF CULTURE Place Pigalle in Paris is a street noted fer its churches, museums and quiet cultural jatmosphere, Alsoslatedto build quart~' Nevada City C of C Plans tor Christmas It's not yet Halloween, but the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce--a far-sighted organization--is already looking ahead to Christmas ;and next Fourth of July. At its Monday meeting the Chamber devoted much of the time to the subject of . Christmas lighting and dec. . : oration for downtown Nevada City. . Dick Knee, Chamber vice president and presiding offjicer at the session, told di‘rectors the existing Christ‘mas light strings were in good condition and couldbe strung up this year at no cost to the organization, He alsosuggested that Broad Street merchants be enlisted in a window dressing campaign with a uniform jtheme--perhaps a decorated and lightedtree in each store, Christmas music will also jbe broadcast in the business section again this year with Knee suggesting some new records being added to the collection as "I'ma little tired of hearing some of them . over and over, " . The Fourth of July, 1960, ‘came into the meeting with ithe treading of a letter from \Fire Chief Norman Kopp saying his group wouldnot sponsor the Independence Day Parade because of other’ conflicting programs and committments, Kopp, gpwever, promised for public dances and could iia. with some slight extra work, be flooded in the . Winter and used as a skating . rink, TeacherDinner Next Week The new teachers in the Grass V alley-Nevada City schoolsystems will be officially welcomed into the county. at a special dinner Oct, 27 at the Elks Hall in Nevada City. * Sponsored jointly by the . Grass Valley and Nevada City Chambers of Commerce, the dinner will be served at 8 p.m, following acocktail hour that starts at 7 p.m. : Twenty-six teachers, new to the school systems in the two cities this year, have been invited as guests, Tickets arenow being sold ito businesses in both comAnunities at $5 per couple with each merchant being asked tobuy another $5 to pay. for a teacher guest. Steaks are onthe menu for the evening. i Co-chairmen of the annual WelcomeT eachers Dinner are Kay Gallino, Grass Valley, and W oody Smith, Nevada City. the Chamber full co-operation in thestaging of the parade and told them they could still feature the fact that 1960 will mark the Fire Department's 100th anniversary. The directors decided to forget the Fourth of July untilafter New Years, then begin a search for another sponsor. In other action the directors endorsed the Nevada City Lions Club's effort to buite a circular concrete slab in Pioneer Park for use of model airplane and car enthusiasts. iThe slab could also be used MISNOMER DON’T WRITE! Lake Erie isn't especially, Citizen Clippings

& Vol. 1'No. 2 me WELCOME ANDREWS ie. 10¢ A Copy THE PAPER AND CRESTVIEW, © IT’S ABOUT TIME Western Nevada County, once the far-sighted leader in telephone communications, willtake a big stride toward catching up with the times next summer, George Hutchins, district managerfor the Pacific Telephone Company, announced yesterday that dial prefixes will go into effect in Grass Valley and Nevada City by midsummer, The Grass V alley prefix will be CRestview 3, while Nevada City’s will be ANdrews 5, Cost ofthe installation willbe $1,605,900, acaorting to Hutchins, When Western Nevada Countians get dial phones they will be getting a modern and efficient service that all surrounding areas have had for some time, Grass Valley and Nevada + City have been islands of obsolescence in an area where every other community has dial service. All of Placer County is on dial hookups, Downieville, Marysville and even North San Juan subscribers have been able to use the telephone without going through an operator, This is a far cry from the 19th Century when Western Nevada County moved several years ahead of the rest of the world by establishing the world's first~long -distance telephone line, Built by the Ridge Telephone Company, the line went into operation in 1878 and stretched 60 miles from French Corral to Milton in Sierra County. Althoughthe American Telephone and Telegraph Company claims the first long distance line went into operation between Boston and Providence in 1880, the local service had been going strong for two years by that time and continued doing business long after the eastern experiment had gone bankrupt. One reason the Nevada County application of Alexander Graham Bell's inven-. tion was such a success may have been the strict rules placed by the Ridge Company on its use, Built to connect various gold mining operations, the Ridge Company's long-distance installation was operated more like a telegraph line. Telephones themselves were used only by "those in charge of offices. " Others wishing tosenda message wrote it out and . handed it tothe operator who relayed it through the telephone to another operator who copied it down and delivered it to the intended recipient, Rates for the service were on the handsome side, According to an old printed list of Ridge Company rules, users of the service sending messages to the North San main terminus--paid 50 cents for the first 20 words and 25 cents for each additional 20 words. T hose messages originafor a quarter with each addi-. tional two words adding adother two-bits to the bill, ! Persons in charge of offices’ will be allowed to use the line for their own business free of charge, but as use of the line exhausts the battery power, it isnottobe used for idle talking." Profane or obscene lang~ uage was “strictly prohibited," Then we led the world, Now, 79 years later we're just about ready to catch up. How times have changed, Honor, Honor Who Deserves the Honor? It sounded like a variaticu ofthe old Alphonse and Gaston routine, but it happened at theGrass Valley City Hall i Sor< oi Uuling a City Cuuicis meet~ ing. Playing the parts made famous by the two ultracourteous Frenchmen were Marvin Kitts, historian for Hague Thomas Haggerty Post 130, American Legion, and Grass Valley Fire Chief Ray Hartung. The ocassion was the announcement by the post that ithadwonthe Cecil R, Gehr Trophy for its fire prevention program for the second year in a row, Speaking for the Legion, Kitts --who was introduced at . the meeting by Post Commander Rudy Yalenich--said that although Post 130 was receiving credit for the pro. gram that won the trophy, it had actually been earned by . -Chief Hartung. "The fire chief preached \ fire prevention" all over the _j. county, Kitts told the Council, adding, “Gentlemen, he done one helluva job--if you ladies will pardon the W expression, "Ray Hartung wonthe trophy for us, " Hartung then rose to tell the Council that Kittswas, being overly generous--that most of the work inthe award-winning program. Kitts then tried tohand the glory back to Hartung, who again declared it belonged 1 to Post 130, Both agreedthat, whoever “8 was responsible for it, the THE COWBOY LIVES ON /Turn to Pages 2A-3A ALSO ON THE INSIDE M Citizens of the Week ...........Page 2 Society.........Page 3 SPOFS...icsccccceresseninPAGe . rophy was nicetohave since Post 130 hadto beat out over ‘800 California Legion posts for it. Earlierinthe m Hartung informed the Councilthat the Gpass Valley Fire! Department had recently been placed in full charge of. fire inspections inside the: city and city fire codes would’ prevail in all cases. “The fire marshal. will just be here to give us assistance! from now on," said Hartung. . Before, the fire marshal was the top fire inspection \Official in Grass Valley. and state fire code took precedence over these ofthe citp; Juan office--the phone line's ting from North San Juan at the rate of 10 words or less § The rules stipuiated that. the post itselfhad really done . : . NOTICE-~ Subscribers in Guass. Malley and Nevada City who do not breceive their Citizen by . . 1479 or N.C, 126. 6 p.m., please call G.V.' WITH Nevada Coun ty Citizen THE PICTURES Nevada City, Calif., Wednesday, October 21, 1959 Waiting to Enter Last Friday's Game. For More Pictures and Story, SeePage 4. ’ THIS TOO, IS FOOTBALL Coaches John Valentino, Left, and Jim Solberg Talk to Miner Players Moneys For N.I.D.s Problems It wouldtake a bond issue covering more than the assessed valuation of all the property in Nevada County to bring the Nevada Irrigation District up to the standards its directors would like to see it reach, However, the N.I.D. is not about to put a lien against the property of everyone in the county to achieve its ultimate aims, Speaking at last week’s ;Grass Valley Chamber of !'Commerce, Ed Koster, organization was looking overthe water prablem from the standpoint of solving it overthe long haul rather than in one expensive step, He admitted after the meeting this means waiting a good many years before the water delivered through the system to area homes ,would meet State Board of Health standards, He.said the system would not meetstate standards unjtil it was delivered all the way from its sources to the customers by underground or:

enclosed pipes and had passed through filtration and chlorination plants, Kester thinks these items wouldcost morethan anyone inthe county would be will-: ing to pay. However, Koster is far from allgloom in-regards to the N,1,D,‘s future. He, dwelt far more with the good ;points than the bad in his talk to the Chamber at its \dinner meeting at the Bret Harte Inn, . said Koster, is tied directly totwothings: Electricity and water, against county property. He listed theN,1,D.3 current $30 te $40 million’ expansion and moterization program as an example of how this interde-. ‘N.ILD, manager, saidhis. ; The future of the county, . . Cure pendence works for the taxpayers. The Pacific Gas and ‘Electric Company, Koster said, is ever inneed of more water to generate electricity for this area. The revenue they will ‘pay to the N,I.D. for this increased amount ef w ater power will furnish a large share of the money i needed to pay off the reve. nue certificate issue being soldto pay for the water system's improvement and expansion, Revenue certificates are securities that are paid off by the profits arising from the . project they were sold to fi/Mance, They donot use tax money nor do they constitute a lien against private property. The multi-million dollar expansion program now in its final planning stages ‘ould put a control’dam on the Yuba River at Jackson Meadows or Bowman, boostthe storage Capacity of the .presacre feet, eliminatethe hazardous flume system in the mountain areas and replace them with concrete pipes,. serve a newPG&E hydro-electric plant at Dutch F lat and open anew reservior ‘in the Grass Valley area-possibly near Bitney's Corn. CTS. . It would also pay for en. largement and improvement . of other existing facilities, _pedupthewholeN, I, D. sit. uation in thé opening minute . of his talk when he said: “have the money to doit with." And these, he said, are DT tied to each other, MISCONCEPTION The fact that water and. Contrary to pepular opinelectrical power areso inter. ion, Kangaroos.are not good dependent, &€aentin—. jumpers--theyhavevery reued, will enable N.I.D, to} silientifeet that enable them gradually make te sy ae Ito bounce very well, everything that it sheuld } without levyiignewtaxes. § TRICKSTERS Science has leaned: that Amobeas do not split as was ‘long believed--they create . use of mirrors, -ant dam at Milton to 65,000. All-in-all, Koster wrap' “We Can do anything.if we. this impression through the New Safeway Store Opens Today Grass Valley's new Safeway Supermarket is scheduled to open for business today. Situated behind the former Safeway market location on S. Auburn Street, the new }and much largerst.ore is slated to be the first unit in a new shopping and business ‘complex, ers adjacent to the supermarket are the Bank of America and a beauty parlor, Other business quarters may be built later, Television Station Wants Pictures . Of Nevada City Nevada City is about to go ‘Hontelevision, Station KVIE, Sacramento (Channel 6 on ’ your dial), has written the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce asking for pictures or some landmark or famous local building. The station management said in the letter that it intended to produce programs from time to time dealing with various communities in its broadcast area and planned on including Nevada City among them. The Chamberhas decided o send the station pictures of Ott's Assay Office (which is also The Citizen's publication site) and the National Hotel, ‘Both of these buildings have long been favorites of artists and photographers and both have great historic significance, Station KVIE gave no indication of when they would mention Nevada City or other Nevada County locales on the air. Nor did they make any specific mention jlof what type of mention they would give the community. . FONT OF CULTURE Place Pigalle in Paris is a street noted fer its churches, museums and quiet cultural jatmosphere, Alsoslatedto build quart~' Nevada City C of C Plans tor Christmas It's not yet Halloween, but the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce--a far-sighted organization--is already looking ahead to Christmas ;and next Fourth of July. At its Monday meeting the Chamber devoted much of the time to the subject of . Christmas lighting and dec. . : oration for downtown Nevada City. . Dick Knee, Chamber vice president and presiding offjicer at the session, told di‘rectors the existing Christ‘mas light strings were in good condition and couldbe strung up this year at no cost to the organization, He alsosuggested that Broad Street merchants be enlisted in a window dressing campaign with a uniform jtheme--perhaps a decorated and lightedtree in each store, Christmas music will also jbe broadcast in the business section again this year with Knee suggesting some new records being added to the collection as "I'ma little tired of hearing some of them . over and over, " . The Fourth of July, 1960, ‘came into the meeting with ithe treading of a letter from \Fire Chief Norman Kopp saying his group wouldnot sponsor the Independence Day Parade because of other’ conflicting programs and committments, Kopp, gpwever, promised for public dances and could iia. with some slight extra work, be flooded in the . Winter and used as a skating . rink, TeacherDinner Next Week The new teachers in the Grass V alley-Nevada City schoolsystems will be officially welcomed into the county. at a special dinner Oct, 27 at the Elks Hall in Nevada City. * Sponsored jointly by the . Grass Valley and Nevada City Chambers of Commerce, the dinner will be served at 8 p.m, following acocktail hour that starts at 7 p.m. : Twenty-six teachers, new to the school systems in the two cities this year, have been invited as guests, Tickets arenow being sold ito businesses in both comAnunities at $5 per couple with each merchant being asked tobuy another $5 to pay. for a teacher guest. Steaks are onthe menu for the evening. i Co-chairmen of the annual WelcomeT eachers Dinner are Kay Gallino, Grass Valley, and W oody Smith, Nevada City. the Chamber full co-operation in thestaging of the parade and told them they could still feature the fact that 1960 will mark the Fire Department's 100th anniversary. The directors decided to forget the Fourth of July untilafter New Years, then begin a search for another sponsor. In other action the directors endorsed the Nevada City Lions Club's effort to buite a circular concrete slab in Pioneer Park for use of model airplane and car enthusiasts. iThe slab could also be used MISNOMER DON’T WRITE! Lake Erie isn't especially, Citizen Clippings