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Volume 052-3 - July 1998 (6 pages)
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Page: of 6
items donated by Camp Beale. (The existing dining tables
were from Camp Beale.)
em The contractor on the job was Paul Jenks. The area under
the main auditorium was excavated with buckets, shovels,
picks and wheelbarrows, and new beams were installed to
provide for a large dining area and a 4-lane bowling alley.
John Kootstra, who first came to Grass Valley as one of the
“Dutch Fliers” entertained here during World War II, was
one of those pick & shovel men. The kitchen was added, as
well as the downstairs lounge. The meeting area was moved
from the front of the building to a newly renovated room
behind the stage. The Grass Valley Justice Court and the
Farm Advisor moved into the two rooms in the front of the
building, and the Veterans Service Office, Emergency Services, and the Home Adviser were located downstairs. The
American Legion building committee still handled day-today operations, with Tavio Battista as manager.
To celebrate completion of the remodeling, the American
Legion held an open house that included a tour of the building, stage entertainment and dancing. The show consisted
of local talent arranged by Howard C. Bennetts. Frank
Gallino reported that he served 2500 sandwiches and 1000
cups of coffee. The dancing lasted until 1 a.m.
The four spanking-new bowling alleys were officially
“broken in” when a team of Legion keglers defeated a
om Brunswick team from San Francisco in an exhibition threegame tourney. The local bowlers were Jim Tamietti, Tom
Hoskins, Jim Henwood, Dr. O. F. Lang and Gil Cramer.
In the 1960s the County of Nevada formed a buildings
(Continued on page 6)
NCHS Bulletin July 1998
Looking across the
dance floor to the
gallery, where 500
people sat and
watched 750 couples
dance at the grand
opening of the
Veterans Memorial
Building on April 23,
1932.
(Photo by
Bedford Lampkin)
PRIVATE WILLIAM C. HEGARTY
Born April 29, 1897, Lake City
Died August 18, 1918, France
William Hegarty was born in Lake City in Nevada County
and then lived in Moores Flat until the age of 12, when the
family moved to Nevada City. His father had developed
several mining properties in Nevada County. He had four
younger brothers.
Hegarty enlisted in Company D of the California National Guard on April 29, 1917. He trained at Camp Kearny,
where he was promoted to corporal in the U.S. Army. In
June of 1918 he applied for a transfer to a unit that would
soon see active service. Upon being informed that noncommissioned officers were not permitted to transfer from
one unit to the other, he resigned as a corporal and went as
a private to the fighting front, where he was attached to
Company T of the 109th Infantry, which at that time was
engaged in heavy fighting in the second Marne offensive.
On August 17, 1918, while battling in Artillery Valley
near Choen he was wounded by a high explosive shell and
was removed to a hospital in the church at Choen. He died
of his wounds on August 18, 1918 and was buried in the
little churchyard of that French town.
William Hegarty’s body was returned to Nevada City for
burial and on January 4, 1919, lay in state at the Nevada
City American Legion headquarters in the National Guard
Armory before being reburied in the Catholic cemetery at
Nevada City. The Hegarty Post 134 of Nevada City had
been named in his honor in November 1918.