October 21, 1959 (8 pages)

Pt THE NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN YY Alfred E. Heller Max Norris , , , Don Fairclough , in advance. Phone Grass Clarice Mc Whinney Margaret Abrahamson. ,. 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 NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN AND CITIZEN ADVERTISER Published every Wednesday, 132 Main St., Nevada City, California, by Nevada County Citizen, Inc. Valley or Nevada City 126 e one ° x e@ ° a 64 e e e e . e e e e e . . Circulation Manager Subscription prices: Publisher Editor eo :@ @& “e +@ . . Art Editor . society Editor EDITORIAL SeGrow'h NotA Niumbers Game step, but the day wears better if some plans have been made to accommodate him. In many places in caieeeael the lack of planning has been. near-disastrous not only for. individual families, but for! whole communities. way of thinking the San Francisco peninsula is a fine example of community disaster. There was atime when San) Franciscans used to call the Anew sport seems to be gaining a great deal of favor in Nevada County. This is the sport of congratulating ourselves onthe county's To be sure, signs of economic and population growth are:on every hand. We have evidence of the large numbers of property transfers. The Post Offices are handling ‘increased volumes of mail; Sales tax collections -are a fifth higher than last year. Dialtelephones are coming in. Building and real estate activities are apparent to the casual observer. schools, new highways, new businesses, new faces have joined the community. as in any growth area, weare seeing our share of schemers and dreamers with dollar signs "growth". in their eyes. We are growing all right. And there is’ every reason to believe we shall continue to do.so.j Harrison Brown, a Caltech geophysicist, recently estimated that in 50 years the states of California, Washington and Oregon will contain not less than 87 million perAnd "new urban areas willin all likelihood equal in area the. present city of Los Angeles multiplied fifteenNo-doubt large numbers of this prolific urban population will be looking to the foothills, as well as other places, for breathing room. Although the county will be more than happy to welcome these people we mustnot waste too much time congratulating ourselves on their arInstead we might well wonder what changes can be expected inthe life and econsons. -fold." rival. omy of the county. enough evidence in our private lives to tell us that it is nice to find a visitor on our doorPeninsula New And, space so our land Nevada "growth W There is day you won't find much "country" between San Francisco and San Jose. the urban sprawl is such that along that 50 mile bay strip there is little untrammeled land, or open space--no Park . worthy of thé name. Not that Nevada County is destined forthe intensive development of thé Bay area “. And we won't have to WOITy . ‘about lack of nearby open forest. But there are enough warning signs posted right in some pause: on Donner Lake; the beer cans . and turf-destroying jeep tracks at Grouse Ridge; the encroachments of business establishments in residential neighborhoods; roadparking-traffic problems, sewage problems, water pollution and sanitation difficulties; crowded classrooms; dangerously over-crowded public swimming facilities-all of these we have right now in some degree. Andthe problems will increase with our’ To our . "the country". ToIn fact, long as so much of is federally-owned County to give us The layer of dust It would be well, we believe, to temper our enthusiasm for quanity--the numerical story of our growth--and look instead to quality, the very quality of Nevada County life itself. Councilman Pepper Watchdog Of Grass Valley Treasury Councilman Arthur Pepper is a man who doesn't like to spend the taxpayer's money unless he kpows exactly where it’s going and what. it's doing, ( At last week's meeting of the Grass Valley Council, . Pepper turned an eagle eye on all the checks that had. been submitted to the coun-. cil for approval and signing. He questioned each and. every one, "What's this?" he said, turning to City Clerk Lois Goldsberry after spotting a! check for membership dues in a national organization for toany ofthese meetings and. getting anything out of this organization? Or is this just another $10 being spent for nothing? "You know it only takes 10, . of these $10 checks to add up .to a dollar--I mean $100," When informed that. the, /city clerk was not attending, . the organization's upcoming meeting because it was in. iFlorida, Pepper asked her if /she had attenied any of thej 4 ‘nearer meetings, She gaid oghe hadn't, i Then Pepperturned his attention tothe League of American Cities, another group that Grass Valley is affiliated with. "That is about the finest organization of its kind and -we belong. And they hada. meeting last week in Marys-. ville--and we could learn a lot from meetings like that. Did anyone attend?” When Mayor Amold Thor. sen said no one had, Pepper declared that membership dues were also wasted in this case, a Upon learning that other! members ofthe council were for retaining membership in these organizations regardless of whether anyone’ at-! tended their meetings or not, Pepper said: “Well, I°ll go along with the council's wishes and sign the thing so we can throw away another $10," Another matter considered was a drain that is to be installed in the gutter on Main Street nearthe west daeund~ary of the city wherea stretch of sidewalk is being laid. Although both Assist-. ant City Engineer C,T, Mc . Guire and Director of Public . Works W.K, (Ken) Manuell . recommended a pipe drain, . . the council voted 3-2 for a three-by~four foot grating i feeding into anexisting . In other action, thet council; y hy bette eek . iS sy bred re ha i ! : a as, oo %yet Pa zs Me ” AGN, La eae Gey ae Saree Sat. “ ee ee CITIZEN.OF THE WEEK TIPPY MAKES HIS. DAILY ROUNDS Sticking Close to the Heels of his Master, Jimmy Davis . THE CITIZENS OF” Tippy and Pinky have many things incommon: — . are dogs of ques. tionable background and ancestry, ~~Both-turned ‘their backs on the canine tradition that Says dogs ‘and mail carriers . are born enemies and forsook . the families that reared them to follow in the steps of the letter deliverymen, ~-Both divide their days between walking or riding routes with the Nevada City carriers or protecting the inside of the Post Office from . intruding strangers, --Both have, in the words of Nevada City Postmaster . Bill Wasley, “solved our! dog-biting problem pretty J . couple of years, well," The veteran of the two mail mutts is Tippy who has . been pounding a letter beat . for over séven years to The . best recollection of the Post . } Office crew. . Tippy was the property of that has since moved from . Nevada County, but he took to leaving the family hearth during the daylight hours to _escort carrier Harold Larsen. Later, when Jimmy Davis inherited Larsen's beathe also inherited Tippy. The Kirkpatrick's finally gave up on their wandering cha rg =] and gave him to Davis. Now in his dotage and fisore of foot from too much pavement pounding, Tippy . still follows Davis each day . and neither sleet, nor snow, nor dark of night canstay . him from his self-appointed rounds. However, sickness . has kept Tippy from "de. livering the mail" on several . occasions, during the past The younger of the twa "Citizens of the Week" from the a of bothage . and postal service is Pinky, a man namedHoward Doyle whose business kept him a family named Kirkpatrick a away from home during the Pinky was the property of] [HE WEEK. day. Pinky took it into his head to occupy these hours delivering the mails. When the Post Office closed up for the night at 6 p.m., he would return to his rightfulhome and master, Then Doyle died and Pinky found himself with a daytime home but no place to spend thenight. Unlike Tippy, he didn't move in with a mail carrier, For reasons that he feels no compunction to explain, . Pinky adopted theCabin . Street home of Lou Pelligrini . as his new abode, But he has . proven to be a demanding -According to Pelligrini, Pinky will eat naught but . meat. Pelligrini has. proved ito be a good host--feeding . Own table is set with more. ‘humble provender,Pinky is more independent than Tippy in yet another . Davis and his walking beat, =I ‘Pinky deserted the pave'Ments as soon as he discovered the Nevada City Post ‘Office had a mounted route, "He's ne dumbell, that one,” says Wasley, who goes ‘ontotellone more anecdote about his younger four-footed assistant, “Every morning about 8 a.m., when it’s almost time for the mounted truck ma to leave," says the postWHILE FELLOW CITIZEN PINKY RESTS and Protects. Pos t Office Interior master, "weheara knock on the side door. We know it's Pinky reporting for work,” "Yes," adds Larsen, "and he always acts sort of sheepish when he’s late. I don’t know how he knows he's late , ~~but he always does and you , can tell he knows, " Tippy and Pinky--just two {more proofs of the old saw ‘about dog being (mail) man's best friend. : . albeit nonpaying-boarder, . . his guest meat even when his’ way: While Tippy sticks to . . BE A CHARTER SUBSCRIBER to the ‘NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN FREE! ! With every "The Paper with the pictures" subscription entered NOW--one classified ad (6 lines max.) in ditch, the CITIZEN CLASSIFIED SECTION. You --Heard King Crosno, who . expiration of your subscription. tepresents the firm opening the new shopping center for Safeway, theBank of America and others, express his } thanks to the council for its co-operation, ~-Turea down a request! . from Mrs, Emest Daniels,. . 125 Mill:Street, for a con-. . crete retaining wall to be i built between her property \ and the Library because: (1) There was no money budgeted for such work: (2) Ma. Daniels refused to pay half . : the cost although the City Attomey said it would have to be a share project since the wall would protect the Daniels property as much as I . . it would the Library, i =-V ot €d to pay all Sep! (Mail to Nevada County Citizen, tember bills, _ # *#% Please enter my subscription to the I enclose $2.50. Name Nevada County Citizen for one year. Address City State i t pu es . WHAT? me read The Citizen [may enter your ad any time before they ps oY . For those who want ito be vulgar, there’s a handy blank here if 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif .) Fool's Gold == : : By MAX NOR R/S Every time I see Ott's Assay. Office’ (which just happens to be The Citizen office), I get sadder than Bill Rigney. It's not just because Ionly see it when é Icometo work. Although this is enough _ to make anyone sad. No, a lot of my momentary melancoly stems from the knowledge that the State of California has big eyes forthis building and several others in Nevada City that I have grown fond of. Like the National Hotel. Or, more specifically, The National Hotel Annex, Sometimes when people live with something all their lives, they grow so used to it that they fail to recognize its virtues. This may be the case with Nevada Countians and the old buildings they live among. Everyone talks aboutthe waythe county is growing. -But how many have stopped to think how much these old landmarks have contributed to this growth. a Buildings Biggest Attraction ~ In my own conversations with newcomers to the area and tourists,the quaintness of the old buildings is the thing they mention most frequently when asked what attracted them to Nevada County. Job opportunities are never mentioned. And for goodreason. In this very important category, Nevada Countyrates pretty far down the ladder when compared with the rest of this exploding state of California. : KH anyone doubts the value of these picturesque old buildings as tourist at-tractions, let him comeand spend a day in the Citizen Office. Looking through the windows onto Main Street, the doubter could watch a constant parade of people with cameras or sketch pads coming to record the Assay Office. What they've recorded will later be shown to friends andneighbors as one of the highlights of their trip. st And because of this many of these friends and neighbors will include Nevada County in their future vacation plans. . And what holds true of the Assay Office holds equally true of the National Hotel, the County Historical Museum, the Lola Montez home.just to name a few. These are the county's greatest assets now that the gold mines have stopped operating. Yet, toomany people seem willing to let them be defaced or destroyed. And they call this willingness ‘to condone destruction."progressive thinking." ‘ Progress is fine. But newness is not always progress--any more than bigness is. Freeways are fine, Freeways, that is, — that perform the purposeful function of moving large amounts of vehicular traffic from somewhere to somewhere else swiftly and safely. But just how much traffic is there to and from Nevada City? Is it enough to justify destruction or mutilation of the very scenic delights that draw a large percentage of that traffic , Somehow, building a super highway that dead ends at Nevada City makes about as much sense to me as sending snow plows to the Sahara. Thinking is fine. Some day, ought to try it. "Remember the Assay Office." somebody ‘ SO HELP ME, it happened in Nevada City. A young mother shopping around for a house to rent came across one owned by a little oldlady who's spending the year in Europe. The real estate agent handling the property explained tothe young mother that the landlady's cat came with the house and anyonerenting the place would have to care for the pet. "Oh yes," said the agent, “one more thing. After the cat's eaten you'll have to chase him up a tree. His owner says he needs exercise," * Aree Cartwric Ceremo The Methodist Ch Grass Valley was the sé for the October third w rites of Selma Allen wright and Regina Leighton, Reverend E. Lewis performed ceremony, Thebride was attend her sister Sherry Staix, acted as her matron of h with Betty Leighton, sis the groom, and Mary P Nevada City, as by maids. The groom'sb was best man, Roger Th¢ son, Skip Brust and. Beaver, all of Grass V were ushers. i Thecolorsselected b new Mrs, Leighton were pink and white. The b gown was full length pink lace over white sl satin with an illusion edged in pink seed pe held by atiara of white pearls. Her flowers white carnations surroun a white orchid, The bri maids were attired in m ing pink satin gowns, ba ina length, made in pri style. The mother of the b MR wore with silk irrides green, black accessories Vig ers ? 4 i* .MR. AND MRS Eileen Mc Mrs. Jose ' The wedding of Ei Rose McCauley and Jo Bruce Collier . was ized in St, Patrick's Ch Grass Valley, October during evening rites ‘formed by Father O'Sulli The bride selected Collier, a sistero groom, for herma honor, while the groo brother, Maynard (B Collier attended him at altar, The bride wore a balle length gown of French and carried a white p book with a white orchid stephanotis for her boua The maid of honor we ballerina length bouff §Own of apple green with matching picture and shoes, Her flowes _ Styled in a nesegay,

Pt THE NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN YY Alfred E. Heller Max Norris , , , Don Fairclough , in advance. Phone Grass Clarice Mc Whinney Margaret Abrahamson. ,.. 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 NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN AND CITIZEN ADVERTISER Published every Wednesday, 132 Main St., Nevada City, California, by Nevada County Citizen, Inc. Valley or Nevada City 126 e one ° x e@ ° a 64 e e e e . e e e e e . . Circulation Manager Subscription prices: Publisher Editor eo :@ @& “e +@ . . Art Editor . society Editor EDITORIAL SeGrow'h NotA Niumbers Game step, but the day wears better if some plans have been made to accommodate him. In many places in caieeeael the lack of planning has been. near-disastrous not only for. individual families, but for! whole communities. way of thinking the San Francisco peninsula is a fine example of community disaster. There was atime when San) Franciscans used to call the Anew sport seems to be gaining a great deal of favor in Nevada County. This is the sport of congratulating ourselves onthe county's To be sure, signs of economic and population growth are:on every hand. We have evidence of the large numbers of property transfers. The Post Offices are handling ‘increased volumes of mail; Sales tax collections -are a fifth higher than last year. Dialtelephones are coming in. Building and real estate activities are apparent to the casual observer. schools, new highways, new businesses, new faces have joined the community. as in any growth area, weare seeing our share of schemers and dreamers with dollar signs "growth". in their eyes. We are growing all right. And there is’ every reason to believe we shall continue to do.so.j Harrison Brown, a Caltech geophysicist, recently estimated that in 50 years the states of California, Washington and Oregon will contain not less than 87 million perAnd "new urban areas willin all likelihood equal in area the. present city of Los Angeles multiplied fifteenNo-doubt large numbers of this prolific urban population will be looking to the foothills, as well as other places, for breathing room. Although the county will be more than happy to welcome these people we mustnot waste too much time congratulating ourselves on their arInstead we might well wonder what changes can be expected inthe life and econsons. -fold." rival. omy of the county. enough evidence in our private lives to tell us that it is nice to find a visitor on our doorPeninsula New And, space so our land Nevada "growth W There is day you won't find much "country" between San Francisco and San Jose. the urban sprawl is such that along that 50 mile bay strip there is little untrammeled land, or open space--no Park . worthy of thé name. Not that Nevada County is destined forthe intensive development of thé Bay area “. And we won't have to WOITy . ‘about lack of nearby open forest. But there are enough warning signs posted right in some pause: on Donner Lake; the beer cans . and turf-destroying jeep tracks at Grouse Ridge; the encroachments of business establishments in residential neighborhoods; roadparking-traffic problems, sewage problems, water pollution and sanitation difficulties; crowded classrooms; dangerously over-crowded public swimming facilities-all of these we have right now in some degree. Andthe problems will increase with our’ To our . "the country". ToIn fact, long as so much of is federally-owned County to give us The layer of dust It would be well, we believe, to temper our enthusiasm for quanity--the numerical story of our growth--and look instead to quality, the very quality of Nevada County life itself. Councilman Pepper Watchdog Of Grass Valley Treasury Councilman Arthur Pepper is a man who doesn't like to spend the taxpayer's money unless he kpows exactly where it’s going and what. it's doing, ( At last week's meeting of the Grass Valley Council, . Pepper turned an eagle eye on all the checks that had. been submitted to the coun-. cil for approval and signing. He questioned each and. every one, "What's this?" he said, turning to City Clerk Lois Goldsberry after spotting a! check for membership dues in a national organization for toany ofthese meetings and. getting anything out of this organization? Or is this just another $10 being spent for nothing? "You know it only takes 10, . of these $10 checks to add up .to a dollar--I mean $100," When informed that. the, /city clerk was not attending, . the organization's upcoming meeting because it was in. iFlorida, Pepper asked her if /she had attenied any of thej 4 ‘nearer meetings, She gaid oghe hadn't, i Then Pepperturned his attention tothe League of American Cities, another group that Grass Valley is affiliated with. "That is about the finest organization of its kind and -we belong. And they hada. meeting last week in Marys-. ville--and we could learn a lot from meetings like that. Did anyone attend?” When Mayor Amold Thor. sen said no one had, Pepper declared that membership dues were also wasted in this case, a Upon learning that other! members ofthe council were for retaining membership in these organizations regardless of whether anyone’ at-! tended their meetings or not, Pepper said: “Well, I°ll go along with the council's wishes and sign the thing so we can throw away another $10," Another matter considered was a drain that is to be installed in the gutter on Main Street nearthe west daeund~ary of the city wherea stretch of sidewalk is being laid. Although both Assist-. ant City Engineer C,T, Mc . Guire and Director of Public . Works W.K, (Ken) Manuell . recommended a pipe drain, . . the council voted 3-2 for a three-by~four foot grating i feeding into anexisting . In other action, thet council; y hy bette eek . iS sy bred re ha i ! : a as, oo %yet Pa zs Me ” AGN, La eae Gey ae Saree Sat. “ ee ee CITIZEN.OF THE WEEK TIPPY MAKES HIS. DAILY ROUNDS Sticking Close to the Heels of his Master, Jimmy Davis . THE CITIZENS OF” Tippy and Pinky have many things incommon: — . are dogs of ques. tionable background and ancestry, ~~Both-turned ‘their backs on the canine tradition that Says dogs ‘and mail carriers . are born enemies and forsook . the families that reared them to follow in the steps of the letter deliverymen, ~-Both divide their days between walking or riding routes with the Nevada City carriers or protecting the inside of the Post Office from . intruding strangers, --Both have, in the words of Nevada City Postmaster . Bill Wasley, “solved our! dog-biting problem pretty J . couple of years, well," The veteran of the two mail mutts is Tippy who has . been pounding a letter beat . for over séven years to The . best recollection of the Post . } Office crew. . Tippy was the property of that has since moved from . Nevada County, but he took to leaving the family hearth during the daylight hours to _escort carrier Harold Larsen. Later, when Jimmy Davis inherited Larsen's beathe also inherited Tippy. The Kirkpatrick's finally gave up on their wandering cha rg =] and gave him to Davis. Now in his dotage and fisore of foot from too much pavement pounding, Tippy . still follows Davis each day . and neither sleet, nor snow, nor dark of night canstay . him from his self-appointed rounds. However, sickness . has kept Tippy from "de. livering the mail" on several . occasions, during the past The younger of the twa "Citizens of the Week" from the a of bothage . and postal service is Pinky,

a man namedHoward Doyle whose business kept him a family named Kirkpatrick a away from home during the Pinky was the property of] [HE WEEK. day. Pinky took it into his head to occupy these hours delivering the mails. When the Post Office closed up for the night at 6 p.m., he would return to his rightfulhome and master, Then Doyle died and Pinky found himself with a daytime home but no place to spend thenight. Unlike Tippy, he didn't move in with a mail carrier, For reasons that he feels no compunction to explain, . Pinky adopted theCabin . Street home of Lou Pelligrini . as his new abode, But he has . proven to be a demanding -According to Pelligrini, Pinky will eat naught but . meat. Pelligrini has. proved ito be a good host--feeding . Own table is set with more. ‘humble provender,Pinky is more independent than Tippy in yet another . Davis and his walking beat, =I ‘Pinky deserted the pave'Ments as soon as he discovered the Nevada City Post ‘Office had a mounted route, "He's ne dumbell, that one,” says Wasley, who goes ‘ontotellone more anecdote about his younger four-footed assistant, “Every morning about 8 a.m., when it’s almost time for the mounted truck ma to leave," says the postWHILE FELLOW CITIZEN PINKY RESTS and Protects. Pos t Office Interior master, "weheara knock on the side door. We know it's Pinky reporting for work,” "Yes," adds Larsen, "and he always acts sort of sheepish when he’s late. I don’t know how he knows he's late , ~~but he always does and you , can tell he knows, " Tippy and Pinky--just two {more proofs of the old saw ‘about dog being (mail) man's best friend. : . albeit nonpaying-boarder, . . his guest meat even when his’ way: While Tippy sticks to . . BE A CHARTER SUBSCRIBER to the ‘NEVADA COUNTY CITIZEN FREE! ! With every "The Paper with the pictures" subscription entered NOW--one classified ad (6 lines max.) in ditch, the CITIZEN CLASSIFIED SECTION. You --Heard King Crosno, who . expiration of your subscription. tepresents the firm opening the new shopping center for Safeway, theBank of America and others, express his } thanks to the council for its co-operation, ~-Turea down a request! . from Mrs, Emest Daniels,. . 125 Mill:Street, for a con-. . crete retaining wall to be i built between her property \ and the Library because: (1) There was no money budgeted for such work: (2) Ma. Daniels refused to pay half . : the cost although the City Attomey said it would have to be a share project since the wall would protect the Daniels property as much as I . . it would the Library, i =-V ot €d to pay all Sep! (Mail to Nevada County Citizen, tember bills, _ # *#% Please enter my subscription to the I enclose $2.50. Name Nevada County Citizen for one year. Address City State i t pu es . WHAT? me read The Citizen [may enter your ad any time before they ps oY . For those who want ito be vulgar, there’s a handy blank here if 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif .) Fool's Gold == : : By MAX NOR R/S Every time I see Ott's Assay. Office’ (which just happens to be The Citizen office), I get sadder than Bill Rigney. It's not just because Ionly see it when é Icometo work. Although this is enough _ to make anyone sad. No, a lot of my momentary melancoly stems from the knowledge that the State of California has big eyes forthis building and several others in Nevada City that I have grown fond of. Like the National Hotel. Or, more specifically, The National Hotel Annex, Sometimes when people live with something all their lives, they grow so used to it that they fail to recognize its virtues. This may be the case with Nevada Countians and the old buildings they live among. Everyone talks aboutthe waythe county is growing. -But how many have stopped to think how much these old landmarks have contributed to this growth. a Buildings Biggest Attraction ~ In my own conversations with newcomers to the area and tourists,the quaintness of the old buildings is the thing they mention most frequently when asked what attracted them to Nevada County. Job opportunities are never mentioned. And for goodreason. In this very important category, Nevada Countyrates pretty far down the ladder when compared with the rest of this exploding state of California. : KH anyone doubts the value of these picturesque old buildings as tourist at-tractions, let him comeand spend a day in the Citizen Office. Looking through the windows onto Main Street, the doubter could watch a constant parade of people with cameras or sketch pads coming to record the Assay Office. What they've recorded will later be shown to friends andneighbors as one of the highlights of their trip. st And because of this many of these friends and neighbors will include Nevada County in their future vacation plans. . And what holds true of the Assay Office holds equally true of the National Hotel, the County Historical Museum, the Lola Montez home..just to name a few. These are the county's greatest assets now that the gold mines have stopped operating. Yet, toomany people seem willing to let them be defaced or destroyed. And they call this willingness ‘to condone destruction."progressive thinking." ‘ Progress is fine. But newness is not always progress--any more than bigness is. Freeways are fine, Freeways, that is, — that perform the purposeful function of moving large amounts of vehicular traffic from somewhere to somewhere else swiftly and safely. But just how much traffic is there to and from Nevada City? Is it enough to justify destruction or mutilation of the very scenic delights that draw a large percentage of that traffic , Somehow, building a super highway that dead ends at Nevada City makes about as much sense to me as sending snow plows to the Sahara. Thinking is fine. Some day, ought to try it. "Remember the Assay Office." somebody ‘ SO HELP ME, it happened in Nevada City. A young mother shopping around for a house to rent came across one owned by a little oldlady who's spending the year in Europe. The real estate agent handling the property explained tothe young mother that the landlady's cat came with the house and anyonerenting the place would have to care for the pet. "Oh yes," said the agent, “one more thing. After the cat's eaten you'll have to chase him up a tree. His owner says he needs exercise," * Aree Cartwric Ceremo The Methodist Ch Grass Valley was the sé for the October third w rites of Selma Allen wright and Regina Leighton, Reverend E. Lewis performed ceremony, Thebride was attend her sister Sherry Staix, acted as her matron of h with Betty Leighton, sis the groom, and Mary P Nevada City, as by maids. The groom'sb was best man, Roger Th¢ son, Skip Brust and. Beaver, all of Grass V were ushers. i Thecolorsselected b new Mrs, Leighton were pink and white. The b gown was full length pink lace over white sl satin with an illusion edged in pink seed pe held by atiara of white pearls. Her flowers white carnations surroun a white orchid, The bri maids were attired in m ing pink satin gowns, ba ina length, made in pri style. The mother of the b MR wore with silk irrides green, black accessories Vig ers ? 4 i* .MR. AND MRS Eileen Mc Mrs. Jose ' The wedding of Ei Rose McCauley and Jo Bruce Collier . was ized in St, Patrick's Ch Grass Valley, October during evening rites ‘formed by Father O'Sulli The bride selected Collier, a sistero groom, for herma honor, while the groo brother, Maynard (B Collier attended him at altar, The bride wore a balle length gown of French and carried a white p book with a white orchid stephanotis for her boua The maid of honor we ballerina length bouff §Own of apple green with matching picture and shoes, Her flowes _ Styled in a nesegay,