April 12, 1961 (12 pages)

_ Page 8.Wednesday, April 12, 1961, NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET eee e IREVADA COUNTY NUGGET ‘Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 182 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 Alfed E. Heller. . 1.555. . Publisher R. Dean Thompson. ... Editor-Manager Clarice Mc Wihiniey. . ..5%%% Art Editor ‘Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated.a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12, 406 Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00 years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis,“Nevada City. EDITORIAL Supervisors Provide Great Planning Opportunity By.a unanimous vote last week, the board of supervisors placed Nevada County squarely inthe frontrank of those counties which are willing andready to make sound, board plans for the wise and efficient use of their lands. By creating the full-time post of planning director, the supervisors handed to the planning commission a great opportunity. However, it will be up to the commission and the new planning director and the people, working with the supervisors, to see that the opportunity is fulfilled. We hope that the commission will exercise great care in selecting Nevada County's first planning director. We hope that the department of city and regional planning at the University of California in Berkeley will be approached for any useful advise that it could provide; also the state office of planning in Sacramento might be consulted, as well as the planning directors of Placer and El Dorado counties, menwho know first-hand the problems of planning in areas such as ours. The new planning director must be not only a man well-grounded in his field, but also a practical-minded person who can cooperate witha variety of groups: real estate men, businessman, lumber and mining people, recreation and conservation-minded citizens, county and city officials, building and construction groups, land-owners and taxpayers. Once he is on the job, the new planning director, backedup by an adequate budget such as the $16,000 proposed to the supervisors, should be able to formulate the long-hoped-for subdivision zoning ordinance and in due course a master landuse plan.In addition, he should be able to expedite the increasingly burdensome routine business which now so needlessly occupies hour upon hour of the commission's time. Most important, he will be devoting his efforts to obtaining sound land-use practices whichat the same time insure the long-range prosperity of beautiTHE LIFE & TIME OF LON PAINE (In two parts) Father of. the author of this column The worn reins were half-hitched around the stage whipstock; the phantom horses dozed in reward of rest; therun wasover. Throughthe shadows, leading down the Long Road, Lon Paine went on peacefully, alone. Earl Caddy pennedthose words in 1945. Earl headed his story: DEATH CLAIMS LON PAINE ONE OF THE WEST'S GREAT STAGE DRIVERSFortunate was I to have a father who became a legendinhistime! As he drove the mountain stages to Washington, Graniteville, Alleghany, Camptonville, Smartsville, Rough and Ready and many other places he made hundreds of friends with his passengers who remember him to this day. He was a living legend along every stage route in Northern California and Nevada. To recount each chapter marking the vibrant life of my father would bethe penning of a thick volumné, rich infrequent tang of gun smoke; of passengers in crinoline and bearded hardys in rough woolens; of new gold towns bom ovemight; of a young West that was tough and two fisted and whose men were bred of courage and daring. His wasa generation never to be forgotten a time that will live forever in western movie and nightly TV fare. My father represented a true figure of the men responsible for converting more or less unchartered areas of California in today’s wide stretches of productive industry and settled law-abiding communities. Born in Spenceville, Nevada County, my father was a natural born lover of horses. He was endowed with ability as a horseman and it was normal that the truly’ facinating life of a stage driver should be his chosen occupation. From the first morning in-1885 when he picked up the stage coach ribbons in a firm young hand and-sent his high-wheeler thundering away from the livery to the authoritative crack of the whip there was none perhaps, but himself, who realized that this was his chosentrade a profession he was to follow through thirty years of life. The namevof driver Lon Paine was known whereever stage men gathered for shop talk in the pale glow of evening oil lamps. He had driven all major stage lines out of Marysville, through the foothills east of Nevada City; ful Nevada Counity. As Verne Jones, retiring executive secretary of the planning commission, stated this week, "If the county wants the benefit of good planning, $16,000 isa cheap price to pay for it." PETALUMA INN . . * Sparkling New * Singles, Doubles, Suites * * Wall-to-wall Carpeting = * Individually-controlled Heat _* Phones, TV in all Rooms Heated, Year-round Swim Pool: Credit Cards Honored Hwy. 101 at Washington St. P.O, Box"1017 : PETALUMA, SAUFORNIA FREE! 1) Write for new TRAVEL GUIDE listing fine motels from coast to coast, inspected and approved by estas of Motor Hotels.: IPRENTISS STUDIO. O4irce! Bhack ¢ white PROCESSING S eea gg ee ee 310 BROAD STREET ON YOUR DIAI His passenger listings with pounding of hooves and creaking leather; the not fg t * yb NEVADA CITY & HAL 265-4128 . Sallie ak uaaang sings aE Tenaga ad AAA to Nevada, the great boom days of Goldfield, his strong box, with its raw gold treasure, was hoisted to the boot by two men-and rode solidly between driver Paine and his trigger-quick shotgun messenger. While hold-up chances lurked at every turn of the high_ Wayman-infested road, Lon Paine's good fortune rode _ with him and his stage was never molested. But-with his uncanny skill with the reins, the plunging coach, rattling at breakneck speed, suffered no serious accident. He traveled the Nevada run during the appaling "black pneumonia". His experiences were many and varied, ranked with the gold-bent runaway youth from the east to fine ladies and gentlemen of high places in society and government. — _ Runaways, not infrequent with stages, eo =U THE REAL WEST “were experienced too, by this veteran. While many were of a minor nature one he frequently recalled was the mad dash of his team down the tortuous South Yuba River grade. Symbolic of his inexhaustive dry and pithy wit, myfather, in recounting the experience climaxed it with his great relief at “reaching the canyon bottom the same time the horses did". He always announced as his stage approached Edwards Crossing, a passenger toll station (10¢ per passenger) that any Scotsman could save the toll by getting . off the stage and: swimming across the Yuba. Lon reported that many did. The stage drivers of my father's time were patient, long suffering skillful horsemen. Able mechanics, they were capable ofrepairing anything from a broken hameString to a worn out thorough-brace. More than this, their profession called for extraordinary tact and judgement of human nature and ability to enforce their decesion impartially but unflinchingly. George Cory Franklin, in a pamphlet ° called the Western Diplomat dedicated to my father after many trips with him, stated the stage drivers position very well: The tidal wave of adventure that swept the west after the Civil War often carried on its crest high-spirited men and women who were unaccustomed to taking orders from those considered beneath them in the social scale. But, no matter how they felt SE “FOR EVENING HOSPITALITY IN NEVADA COUNTY i about it, they were compelled to yield to _ the quiet voiced, sharp eyed man who drove the stage. Position, wealth, political power meant less than nothing to the stage driver. A tip was an insult to him, and the man whowas foolishenoughto hint that he was the friend of some high official was certain to get the worst of it in choice of seats. When the stage stopped in front of the hotel to take on six or eight passengers , utter strangers to each other, who for the next many hours and sometimes days, would share an adventurous journey, the decisions of the driver were instant and astonishingly accurate. _ A few paragraphs on Lon Paine next week as recorded by his passengers. Last Stages From Nevada City An Era Ends Picture taken in front of the National Hotel in 1915. The day after this picture was taken, autos replaced the horses. In the picture are Lon Paine, with his passenger Free Woodman. Onthe street is Jim DolanandS Lee Leiter. The large original of this photo is on permanent display in the National Hotel Bar. Cc) fy ETOH S Cemented tig . a4 nh) FROM ELEGANCE TO MULLIGAN STEW 2 Featuring IRISH COFFEE BLACK BARTS. IRISH COFFEE Hills Flat, Grass Vailey. 213-9847 @ ROUGH & READY DINNER HOUSE ¢BREAKFAST SANDWICHES * LUNCH e FRIED CHICKEN ¢ DINNER e STEAKS-CHILI BEANS 7 Asm. to lt poms 7 Days a Week = eo oa "FOODS THAT 9 asey S MAKE FRIENDS" CHARCOAL BROILER 11:30 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. CLOSED MONDAY. 202 Mill St., Grass Valley 273-6654 OLD BREWERY INN . DINING ROOM:COCKTAIL LOUNGE} FEATURING @ FINE CHINESE & AMERICAN FOODS @ _Also Orders To Take Out Phone 265-4632.NEVADA CITY’. . Closed Mondays RS Ee oe IE . EMPIRE WOTEL 935 MILL dg ar cc VALLEY MEXICAN-ITALIAN-AMERICAN DISHES COCKTAILS]. 5:00 Weekdays eesee 2: 00 Sundays CLOSED TUESDAYS Gold Nugget Inn _ UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT PETE YURETICK, Manager BILL CHAMBERS, Chef CHARCOAL BROILER BANQUETS OUR SPECIALTY CALL 273-9881 Dancing Every Saturday. Bud Foote WHIMPY-Joe Tamietti, AT THE ORGAN 2 ss CEDAR ROOM ven 5 p.m. daily,Closed Wed. ©@ SPECIAL BROILED STEAKS © SURF ROOM — COCKTAILS Live Music Saturdays 02 RICHARDSON STREET*GRASS VALLEY : FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 273-9852 . . . ' In Grass VaTley It's Utos Pizzaria COCOREFROCOO Home Of The Pizza King Dial 273-7016 215 W. Main St., Grass Valley HAZEL’S ITALIAN DINNERS RESTAURANT Oph. 265-4028 216 Broad Street Nevada City, Closed Wednesday Bill Sherwood Greets His Friends At The NUGGET COCKTAIL LOUNGE BRET HARTE INN Open 4 P.M,.7 Days A Week GOLD CENTER) Ph, 273-6946 HWY. 20&49-BETWEEN G.V. & N.C. Featuring CHARCOAL BROILED STEAKS. COCKTAILS—BANQUETS—PARTIES WHEN BETTER FOOD IS LOLA’S GROTTO ¢ SERVED LOLA WILL-SERVE IT 145 Ss, AUBURN @ GRASS VALLEY @ CLOSED’ THURS. Ei Ea Dancing Mel Davis Trio Sat.:Nite § Di bie 2m *%* * Closed Tuesdays * * * Clarence Dowd ms 1S YOUR HOST AT THE ° SPARE ROOM BOWLING, ..ses00e0s SANDWICHES 115. Bank St,, Grass Valley _. Phone 273-9901 aac & 6 SS: ee ee oe ee

_ Page 8..Wednesday, April 12, 1961, NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET eee e IREVADA COUNTY NUGGET ‘Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 182 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 Alfed E. Heller. .. 1.555. . Publisher R. Dean Thompson. ..... Editor-Manager Clarice Mc Wihiniey. . ....5%%% Art Editor ‘Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated.a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No, 12, 406 Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00 years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis,“Nevada City. EDITORIAL Supervisors Provide Great Planning Opportunity By.a unanimous vote last week, the board of supervisors placed Nevada County squarely inthe frontrank of those counties which are willing andready to make sound, board plans for the wise and efficient use of their lands. By creating the full-time post of planning director, the supervisors handed to the planning commission a great opportunity. However, it will be up to the commission and the new planning director and the people, working with the supervisors, to see that the opportunity is fulfilled. We hope that the commission will exercise great care in selecting Nevada County's first planning director. We hope that the department of city and regional planning at the University of California in Berkeley will be approached for any useful advise that it could provide; also the state office of planning in Sacramento might be consulted, as well as the planning directors of Placer and El Dorado counties, menwho know first-hand the problems of planning in areas such as ours. The new planning director must be not only a man well-grounded in his field, but also a practical-minded person who can cooperate witha variety of groups: real estate men, businessman, lumber and mining people, recreation and conservation-minded citizens, county and city officials, building and construction groups, land-owners and taxpayers. Once he is on the job, the new planning director, backedup by an adequate budget such as the $16,000 proposed to the supervisors, should be able to formulate the long-hoped-for subdivision zoning ordinance and in due course a master landuse plan.In addition, he should be able to expedite the increasingly burdensome routine business which now so needlessly occupies hour upon hour of the commission's time. Most important, he will be devoting his efforts to obtaining sound land-use practices whichat the same time insure the long-range prosperity of beautiTHE LIFE & TIME OF LON PAINE (In two parts) Father of. the author of this column The worn reins were half-hitched around the stage whipstock; the phantom horses dozed in reward of rest; therun wasover. Throughthe shadows, leading down the Long Road, Lon Paine went on peacefully, alone. Earl Caddy pennedthose words in 1945. Earl headed his story: DEATH CLAIMS LON PAINE ONE OF THE WEST'S GREAT STAGE DRIVERSFortunate was I to have a father who became a legendinhistime! As he drove the mountain stages to Washington, Graniteville, Alleghany, Camptonville, Smartsville, Rough and Ready and many other places he made hundreds of friends with his passengers who remember him to this day. He was a living legend along every stage route in Northern California and Nevada. To recount each chapter marking the vibrant life of my father would bethe penning of a thick volumné, rich infrequent tang of gun smoke; of passengers in crinoline and bearded hardys in rough woolens; of new gold towns bom ovemight; of a young West that was tough and two fisted and whose men were bred of courage and daring. His wasa generation never to be forgotten a time that will live forever in western movie and nightly TV fare. My father represented a true figure of the men responsible for converting more or less unchartered areas of California in today’s wide stretches of productive industry and settled law-abiding communities. Born in Spenceville, Nevada County, my father was a natural born lover of horses. He was endowed with ability as a horseman and it was normal that the truly’ facinating life of a stage driver should be his chosen occupation. From the first morning in-1885 when he picked up the stage coach ribbons in a firm young hand and-sent his high-wheeler thundering away from the livery to the authoritative crack of the whip there was none perhaps, but himself, who realized that this was his chosentrade a profession he was to follow through thirty years of life. The namevof driver Lon Paine was known whereever stage men gathered for shop talk in the pale glow of evening oil lamps. He had driven all major stage lines out of Marysville, through the foothills east of Nevada City; ful Nevada Counity. As Verne Jones, retiring executive secretary of the planning commission, stated this week, "If the county wants the benefit of good planning, $16,000 isa cheap price to pay for it." PETALUMA INN . . * Sparkling New * Singles, Doubles, Suites * * Wall-to-wall Carpeting = * Individually-controlled Heat _* Phones, TV in all Rooms Heated, Year-round Swim Pool: Credit Cards Honored Hwy. 101 at Washington St. P.O, Box"1017 : PETALUMA, SAUFORNIA FREE! 1) Write for new TRAVEL GUIDE listing fine motels from coast to coast, inspected and approved by estas of Motor Hotels.: IPRENTISS STUDIO. O4irce! Bhack ¢ white PROCESSING S eea gg ee ee 310 BROAD STREET ON YOUR DIAI His passenger listings with pounding of hooves and creaking leather; the not fg t * yb NEVADA CITY & HAL 265-4128 . Sallie ak uaaang sings aE Tenaga ad AAA to Nevada, the great boom days of Goldfield, his strong box, with its raw gold treasure, was hoisted to the boot by two men-and rode solidly between driver Paine and his trigger-quick shotgun messenger. While hold-up chances lurked at every turn of the high_ Wayman-infested road, Lon Paine's good fortune rode _ with him and his stage was never molested. But-with his uncanny skill with the reins, the plunging coach, rattling at breakneck speed, suffered no serious accident. He traveled the Nevada run during the appaling "black pneumonia". His experiences were many and varied,

ranked with the gold-bent runaway youth from the east to fine ladies and gentlemen of high places in society and government. — _ Runaways, not infrequent with stages, eo =U THE REAL WEST “were experienced too, by this veteran. While many were of a minor nature one he frequently recalled was the mad dash of his team down the tortuous South Yuba River grade. Symbolic of his inexhaustive dry and pithy wit, myfather, in recounting the experience climaxed it with his great relief at “reaching the canyon bottom the same time the horses did". He always announced as his stage approached Edwards Crossing, a passenger toll station (10¢ per passenger) that any Scotsman could save the toll by getting . off the stage and: swimming across the Yuba. Lon reported that many did. The stage drivers of my father's time were patient, long suffering skillful horsemen. Able mechanics, they were capable ofrepairing anything from a broken hameString to a worn out thorough-brace. More than this, their profession called for extraordinary tact and judgement of human nature and ability to enforce their decesion impartially but unflinchingly. George Cory Franklin, in a pamphlet ° called the Western Diplomat dedicated to my father after many trips with him, stated the stage drivers position very well: The tidal wave of adventure that swept the west after the Civil War often carried on its crest high-spirited men and women who were unaccustomed to taking orders from those considered beneath them in the social scale. But, no matter how they felt SE “FOR EVENING HOSPITALITY IN NEVADA COUNTY i about it, they were compelled to yield to _ the quiet voiced, sharp eyed man who drove the stage. Position, wealth, political power meant less than nothing to the stage driver. A tip was an insult to him, and the man whowas foolishenoughto hint that he was the friend of some high official was certain to get the worst of it in choice of seats. When the stage stopped in front of the hotel to take on six or eight passengers , utter strangers to each other, who for the next many hours and sometimes days, would share an adventurous journey, the decisions of the driver were instant and astonishingly accurate. _ A few paragraphs on Lon Paine next week as recorded by his passengers. Last Stages From Nevada City An Era Ends Picture taken in front of the National Hotel in 1915. The day after this picture was taken, autos replaced the horses. In the picture are Lon Paine, with his passenger Free Woodman. Onthe street is Jim DolanandS Lee Leiter. The large original of this photo is on permanent display in the National Hotel Bar. Cc) fy ETOH S Cemented tig . a4 nh) FROM ELEGANCE TO MULLIGAN STEW 2 Featuring IRISH COFFEE BLACK BARTS. IRISH COFFEE Hills Flat, Grass Vailey. 213-9847 @ ROUGH & READY DINNER HOUSE ¢BREAKFAST SANDWICHES * LUNCH e FRIED CHICKEN ¢ DINNER e STEAKS-CHILI BEANS 7 Asm. to lt poms 7 Days a Week = eo oa "FOODS THAT 9 asey S MAKE FRIENDS" CHARCOAL BROILER 11:30 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. CLOSED MONDAY. 202 Mill St., Grass Valley 273-6654 OLD BREWERY INN . DINING ROOM:COCKTAIL LOUNGE} FEATURING @ FINE CHINESE & AMERICAN FOODS @ _Also Orders To Take Out Phone 265-4632.NEVADA CITY’. . Closed Mondays RS Ee oe IE . EMPIRE WOTEL 935 MILL dg ar cc VALLEY MEXICAN-ITALIAN-AMERICAN DISHES COCKTAILS]. 5:00 Weekdays eesee 2: 00 Sundays CLOSED TUESDAYS Gold Nugget Inn _ UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT PETE YURETICK, Manager BILL CHAMBERS, Chef CHARCOAL BROILER BANQUETS OUR SPECIALTY CALL 273-9881 Dancing Every Saturday.. Bud Foote WHIMPY-Joe Tamietti, AT THE ORGAN 2 ss CEDAR ROOM ven 5 p.m. daily,Closed Wed. ©@ SPECIAL BROILED STEAKS © SURF ROOM — COCKTAILS Live Music Saturdays 02 RICHARDSON STREET*GRASS VALLEY : FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 273-9852 . . . ' In Grass VaTley It's Utos Pizzaria COCOREFROCOO Home Of The Pizza King Dial 273-7016 215 W. Main St., Grass Valley HAZEL’S ITALIAN DINNERS RESTAURANT Oph. 265-4028 216 Broad Street Nevada City, Closed Wednesday Bill Sherwood Greets His Friends At The NUGGET COCKTAIL LOUNGE BRET HARTE INN Open 4 P.M,..7 Days A Week GOLD CENTER) Ph, 273-6946 HWY. 20&49-BETWEEN G.V. & N.C. Featuring CHARCOAL BROILED STEAKS. COCKTAILS—BANQUETS—PARTIES WHEN BETTER FOOD IS LOLA’S GROTTO ¢ SERVED LOLA WILL-SERVE IT 145 Ss, AUBURN @ GRASS VALLEY @ CLOSED’ THURS. Ei Ea Dancing Mel Davis Trio Sat.:Nite § Di bie 2m *%* * Closed Tuesdays * * * Clarence Dowd ms 1S YOUR HOST AT THE ° SPARE ROOM BOWLING, ...ses00e0s SANDWICHES 115. Bank St,, Grass Valley _. Phone 273-9901 aac & 6 SS: ee ee oe ee