April 13, 1960 (8 pages)

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SP ee be Na Pa PMR .COMBINED WITH THE , Serving the communities of Nevada City, Geass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief ashington, Chicago Park, Wolf, Chcstnas Hill, Liberty Hill Sailor Fee Gen te \ ei evada County Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Blue Tent, LaBarr, Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Bi a Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Nomh.Golus Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Omegz orral, Rou tf Eye, iff Delirium Tremens. “Wol. 34° No. 15 _10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Pu blished Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday, April 13, 1960: Easter Services: Scheduled Holy Week services at the churchesin Nevada City and Grass Valley will build up . through the balance of this week ending with Easter Services at-each of the churches Sunday. Maundy Thursday communion services will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Nevada City Methodist Church and in Grass Valley at the Grace Lutheran, Emanual Episcopal and Grass Valley Methodist churches, Holy Thursday services will be held in Nevada City at St. Canice Catholic Church at 6 p.m. Pwe=nrass esate scheduled at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Grass Valley, at 8 a.m. and at 7:30 p.m. : ° A unified Good Friday service will be held under the sponsorship of the Nevada County Ministerial Society in Grass Valley at the Grass Valley Methodist Church from 1 p.m.to3 p.m. . St. Canice Good Friday serviceswill be held between 2 p.m. and 3p.m., with anotherservice at 6 p.m. Services at St. Patrick's will begin at 12:30 p.m. Holy Saturday services at St. Patrick's will be held at 8 p.m. At St. Canice the service will be held at 7:30 p.m. High Mass Easter morning will beheldat8 a.m. at St. Canice Church, at 10:30 30 p.m. Easter". a.m. at St. Patrick's. Low masses at St. Patrick's will beheld at 8 a.m. andat 9:15 a.m. St. Canice low mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Easter Sunrise Services under the Ministerial Association sponsorship will beheld at 5:30 a.m. at Loma Rica Airport, with Rev. CleoD. Elsberry, Church of Nazarine, as chairman of the 1960 services Rev. Robert W. Findley, Nevada City Meth. odist Church, association president; andRev. Weldon I Bamett, Grass Valley First Baptist Church, association “secretary <treasurer, will alSo participate in the services The Rough and Ready Grange is sponsoring an Easter sunrise service at 5:30 a.m. to be held at the Wayside Chapel in Rough and Ready . TheReverend Harry K. Wagner of the Penn Valley, Community church will deliver the Easter sermon and the music will be furnished by members of the church choir. All protestant churches will hold Easter services, some two or three. Both Grass Valley and Nevada City Methodist churches are holding 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. services. In addition, the Nevada City Methodist Church is holding a Church School Easter program Easter evening at 7: “Festival. of Officials, State Needs More ‘Freeway Land--Hart The state is going to seek an agreement with the city and county to obtain more. right -of-way for the proposed freeway in Nevada City, it was revealed Thursday evening by Alan S. Hart, third district engineer of the division of highways:Hart spoke to the Nevada County,Historical Society at the Hennessy School auditorium in Grass Valley. After his speech he was questioned extensively concerning the freeway in Nevada City. All of those asking questions seemed to be opposed to the present freeway route. The audience numbered 90. Since the freeway agreement was reached several years ago, Hart pointed out , design standards, traffic intensity and other factors have changed, causing the need for more land, “especially at the interchanges." The amount of additional land needed at the Plaza or in other areas was not stated. At the start of the: question period, District Attorney Harold Berliner asked Hart, whether the highway department recognized that there have been other changes beside the need for engineering changes in highway construction. “I mean," said Berliner, “economic changes in this area, such as the loss of the goldindustry and the increased dependence of Nev-~ ada City on income from The Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Apr.6 77 42, aed Apr.7 76 46 26 Apr.8 65 37 -Apr.9 69 38 -° Apr.10 66 34 os Apr.11 66 43 “~ Apr.12 52 30 24 Rain to date. . 40.86 Rain last year. . . . 34.24 Grass Valley Apr.6 78 53 -° Apr.7 177 41 «26 Apr.8 65 43 -Apr.9 170 44 -Apr.10 66 40 -Apr.11 65 42 -Apr.12 54 34 .35 Rain to date. . 43.25 Rain last year. 34.02 J say Office, we do not feel tourists, which might call for a complete re-study of the freeway route." Hartreplied, “Wetake that into account. But if. you are taking about saving the Asjustified in moving the highway to avoid it." To avoid the Assay Office, he said the freeway would have to take out an additional “five homes and a church.” However, no one in the audience including Berliner , asked specifically about the Assay Office, and subsequent questions showed instead a general concern with the disfiguring effect of the freeway on the Plaza area and the entiretown. Hart said a highway department artist is now drawing up a sketch of what sthe freeway will look like in Nevada City. ’ Other points made by Hart inresponse to questions con. Continued on page 4 Sunday. Historical ‘Society ‘Romeria’. Brings 207 to Area Over 200 spirited members of the California Historical Society Spring Romeria tour filled the Veterans Building dining room in Grass Valley. Saturday night for their "Gala Mother Lode Banques". Superior Court judge Thomsa Coakley of Mariposa spoke on “Early California Law, with a Few Vignettes of the Mother Lode. ” Society. Director Donald Biggs introduced a long list of distinguished guests and Those from this area taking bows at the speakers table included Elza Kilroy, president of the Neada County Historical Society, and Mrs. Kilroy; John E. Nettell, vice-president of the Nevada County society; Gwen Anderson of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce; Miss Bernice Glasson; and Mr. and Mrs. Downey Clinch. The meal was catered by Faup's Cafe of Nevada City . The burgundy wine which accompanied the roast beef meal was provided by state historical society member Louis Benoist, from his Almaden Vinyards. Sunday they split into two . groups for breakfast and tours in each of the host cities. Both Grass Valley and Nevada City chambers of commerce reported the visit the most biggest success ever. Indeed, it seemed by luncheontimein Nevada City Sunday that the only complaints were those of people who wished they could have been on each city's tour rather than having to choose between the two. Merchants in the twin cities were sorry the group did not arrive earlier Saturday, but antique shops and others open Sundays reported a brisk bus: iness. GOLD HILL Monument, where gold was first discovered in quartz, and the North Star Mine, (now inactive) were only two of the many historic sites visited by the Society last Lost In The Maze: try = * _ —l ve s nih hal A Nig . You know, Ch long! . “ & -A WAVE OF INDIGNATION . ‘(A serfes of articles recounting for the first time the’ full story of how and. why an agreement was reached eight years ago to route a four-lane freeway through Nevada City. Mr. Comstock’s factual sources. include the files of the Nugget andthe Union, minutes of meetings, and interviews with some of the people involved with the freeway at the time .) A wave of indignation swept through many quar-. ters of Nevada City when first word was received in August, 1951, of the proposed multi-lane freeway designed to bisect the city’s historic Plaza. Numerous residents of Nevada City were appalled at visiens of a maze of concrete overpass supports and an elevated. “wye” leadi Hil into Broad Street. Shortly after, Kenneth Wray, then president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, invited citizens to.a meeting on Tuesday, August 14, 1951, to express their views on the question: “Where should the proposed freeway from Grass Valley ‘touch Nevada City?” “Seyeral possible routes for the freeway had been surveyed by State Highway Division engineers,” Wray said, not down Sacramento sentiment. “We don’t want . our city split by a freeway which our children would have to cross to and from school, and we don’t want the city put to the expense of building access lanes to the multiple-lane road.” The unanimity was surprising; not one person present favored laying the proposed highway through the city. The outcome of this meeting was to instruct Secretary H. F. (Si) Sofge to write to the State Division of Highways for information gs to its route plans, informing it that a multipleJane road is wanted, but not across town. The following day, members of a state survey party appeared on “Sacramento Street and painted new markings on fhe roadway and in adjacent Jots. Immediately, alarmed ‘householders and store own-. ers began talk of going before the City Council to see if something could be done to prevent obliteration of some of the city’s most picturesque and historic spots. Meanwhile, at a luncheon meeting of the Nevada Rotary Club on Thursday, August 16, the matter of the proposed freeway came under considerable discussion. Then Mayor Thomas H. Taylor (who was secretary of the club at that time) informed the members that anyone who wished to state his sentiments on the subject would be welcomed at the regular session of the City Council on Friday, August 17. ; A delegation of Nevada City. residents called on the City Council at this Aygust 17 meeting to protest the crossing of fown by the proposed freeway, and. found Mayor Taylor and the majority. of the councilmen in full agreement with them. The council at this time consisted of Mayor Thomas H. Taylor and _ Councilmen Frank Wright, Marvin Haddy, William Mullis, and H, J. Ray. After some ‘discussion it was agreed that more information should be sought, to be followed by a,formalprotest only if information was not provided by the State Division of Highways, or if it was unfavorable, John Sbaffi, operator of the Plaza Grocery, observed: “A city does not get business from a freeway running through it. This has been found true time and time again.” The opinion of those present was that the cost to Nevada City in building approaches to the freeway would« be considerable; it would also constitute a dangerous hazard for school children and old people with the fast traffic and heavy trucks passing through, to say nothing of destroying much of Nevada City’s historic value, and a lot of its beauty. Councilman H. J. Ray raised the question: “Was the proposesd highway designed to connect the two cities, or was its purpose to speed traffic between points beyond the two cities?” This point was later answered by the Division of Highways which informed residents’ that. because a survey had shown that more than 80 per cent of the traffic between Grass Valley and Nevada City was made up of ‘twixt-town travelers, the primary purpose of the highway was to serve this end. Highway engineers that if even as little as 40 per cent were to be through traffic, the ‘state from its point of view would consider. by-passing the town. ‘Their feelings in the matter were, however, that motoraA oe The Freeway--'Fact And Friction. » war constec ists would not use a freeway which they had drive a mile to get onto for a mere four-mile trip to their sister city. Mayor Taylor telephoned. Charles Whitmore, division district engineer at Marysville, on Friday, August 24, 1951, on behalf of the Nevada City Rotary Club inviting him to speak at a luncheon,. meeting. © Whitmore informed Mayor Taylor that he was not yet ready to discuss the route, and when ready would not-~ ify the city, possibly in abotit four weeks, oe R. C. Kennedy, public information man for the State Department of PubHc Works, accepted an invitation to address the Nevada City Rotary Club Thursday noon, August 30, on the subject of “freeways.” Memrbers of the . City Council were invited to attend. Vis-itors present .at this. meetClair ‘Engle, for this district, and Shir-

Be ee ig Ie PeRpaode. SP ee be Na Pa PMR .COMBINED WITH THE , Serving the communities of Nevada City, Geass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief ashington, Chicago Park, Wolf, Chcstnas Hill, Liberty Hill Sailor Fee Gen te \ ei evada County Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Blue Tent, LaBarr, Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Bi a Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Nomh.Golus Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Omegz orral, Rou tf Eye, iff Delirium Tremens. “Wol. 34° No. 15 _10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Pu blished Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday, April 13, 1960: Easter Services: Scheduled Holy Week services at the churchesin Nevada City and Grass Valley will build up . through the balance of this week ending with Easter Services at-each of the churches Sunday. Maundy Thursday communion services will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Nevada City Methodist Church and in Grass Valley at the Grace Lutheran, Emanual Episcopal and Grass Valley Methodist churches, Holy Thursday services will be held in Nevada City at St. Canice Catholic Church at 6 p.m.. Pwe=nrass esate scheduled at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Grass Valley, at 8 a.m. and at 7:30 p.m. : ° A unified Good Friday service will be held under the sponsorship of the Nevada County Ministerial Society in Grass Valley at the Grass Valley Methodist Church from 1 p.m.to3 p.m. . St. Canice Good Friday serviceswill be held between 2 p.m. and 3p.m., with anotherservice at 6 p.m. Services at St. Patrick's will begin at 12:30 p.m. Holy Saturday services at St. Patrick's will be held at 8 p.m. At St. Canice the service will be held at 7:30 p.m. High Mass Easter morning will beheldat8 a.m. at St. Canice Church, at 10:30 30 p.m. Easter". a.m. at St. Patrick's. Low masses at St. Patrick's will beheld at 8 a.m. andat 9:15 a.m. St. Canice low mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Easter Sunrise Services under the Ministerial Association sponsorship will beheld at 5:30 a.m. at Loma Rica Airport, with Rev. CleoD. Elsberry, Church of Nazarine, as chairman of the 1960 services Rev. Robert W. Findley, Nevada City Meth. odist Church, association president; andRev. Weldon I Bamett, Grass Valley First Baptist Church, association “secretary <treasurer, will alSo participate in the services The Rough and Ready Grange is sponsoring an Easter sunrise service at 5:30 a.m. to be held at the Wayside Chapel in Rough and Ready . TheReverend Harry K. Wagner of the Penn Valley, Community church will deliver the Easter sermon and the music will be furnished by members of the church choir. All protestant churches will hold Easter services, some two or three. Both Grass Valley and Nevada City Methodist churches are holding 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. services. In addition, the Nevada City Methodist Church is holding a Church School Easter program Easter evening at 7: “Festival. of Officials, State Needs More ‘Freeway Land--Hart The state is going to seek an agreement with the city and county to obtain more. right -of-way for the proposed freeway in Nevada City, it was revealed Thursday evening by Alan S. Hart, third district engineer of the division of highways:Hart spoke to the Nevada County,Historical Society at the Hennessy School auditorium in Grass Valley. After his speech he was questioned extensively concerning the freeway in Nevada City. All of those asking questions seemed to be opposed to the present freeway route. The audience numbered 90. Since the freeway agreement was reached several years ago, Hart pointed out , design standards, traffic intensity and other factors have changed, causing the need for more land, “especially at the interchanges." The amount of additional land needed at the Plaza or in other areas was not stated. At the start of the: question period, District Attorney Harold Berliner asked Hart, whether the highway department recognized that there have been other changes beside the need for engineering changes in highway construction. “I mean," said Berliner, “economic changes in this area, such as the loss of the goldindustry and the increased dependence of Nev-~ ada City on income from The Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Apr.6 77 42, aed Apr.7 76 46 26 Apr.8 65 37 -Apr.9 69 38 -° Apr.10 66 34 os Apr.11 66 43 “~ Apr.12 52 30 24 Rain to date. .. 40.86 Rain last year. . . . 34.24 Grass Valley Apr.6 78 53 -° Apr.7 177 41 «26 Apr.8 65 43 -Apr.9 170 44 -Apr.10 66 40 -Apr.11 65 42 -Apr.12 54 34 .35 Rain to date. .. 43.25 Rain last year. 34.02 J say Office, we do not feel tourists, which might call for a complete re-study of the freeway route." Hartreplied, “Wetake that into account. But if. you are taking about saving the Asjustified in moving the highway to avoid it." To avoid the Assay Office, he said the freeway would have to take out an additional “five homes and a church.” However, no one in the audience including Berliner , asked specifically about the Assay Office, and subsequent questions showed instead a general concern with the disfiguring effect of the freeway on the Plaza area and the entiretown. Hart said a highway department artist is now drawing up a sketch of what sthe freeway will look like in Nevada City. ’ Other points made by Hart inresponse to questions con. Continued on page 4 Sunday. Historical ‘Society ‘Romeria’. Brings 207 to Area Over 200 spirited members of the California Historical Society Spring Romeria tour filled the Veterans Building dining room in Grass Valley. Saturday night for their "Gala Mother Lode Banques". Superior Court judge Thomsa Coakley of Mariposa spoke on “Early California Law, with a Few Vignettes of the Mother Lode. ” Society. Director Donald Biggs introduced a long list of distinguished guests and Those from this area taking bows at the speakers table included Elza Kilroy, president of the Neada County Historical Society, and Mrs. Kilroy;

John E. Nettell, vice-president of the Nevada County society; Gwen Anderson of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce; Miss Bernice Glasson; and Mr. and Mrs. Downey Clinch. The meal was catered by Faup's Cafe of Nevada City . The burgundy wine which accompanied the roast beef meal was provided by state historical society member Louis Benoist, from his Almaden Vinyards. Sunday they split into two . groups for breakfast and tours in each of the host cities. Both Grass Valley and Nevada City chambers of commerce reported the visit the most biggest success ever. Indeed, it seemed by luncheontimein Nevada City Sunday that the only complaints were those of people who wished they could have been on each city's tour rather than having to choose between the two. Merchants in the twin cities were sorry the group did not arrive earlier Saturday, but antique shops and others open Sundays reported a brisk bus: iness. GOLD HILL Monument, where gold was first discovered in quartz, and the North Star Mine, (now inactive) were only two of the many historic sites visited by the Society last Lost In The Maze: try = * _ —l ve s nih hal A Nig . You know, Ch long! . “ & -A WAVE OF INDIGNATION . ‘(A serfes of articles recounting for the first time the’ full story of how and. why an agreement was reached eight years ago to route a four-lane freeway through Nevada City. Mr. Comstock’s factual sources. include the files of the Nugget andthe Union, minutes of meetings, and interviews with some of the people involved with the freeway at the time .) A wave of indignation swept through many quar-. ters of Nevada City when first word was received in August, 1951, of the proposed multi-lane freeway designed to bisect the city’s historic Plaza. Numerous residents of Nevada City were appalled at visiens of a maze of concrete overpass supports and an elevated. “wye” leadi Hil into Broad Street. Shortly after, Kenneth Wray, then president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, invited citizens to.a meeting on Tuesday, August 14, 1951, to express their views on the question: “Where should the proposed freeway from Grass Valley ‘touch Nevada City?” “Seyeral possible routes for the freeway had been surveyed by State Highway Division engineers,” Wray said, not down Sacramento sentiment. “We don’t want . our city split by a freeway which our children would have to cross to and from school, and we don’t want the city put to the expense of building access lanes to the multiple-lane road.” The unanimity was surprising; not one person present favored laying the proposed highway through the city. The outcome of this meeting was to instruct Secretary H. F. (Si) Sofge to write to the State Division of Highways for information gs to its route plans, informing it that a multipleJane road is wanted, but not across town. The following day, members of a state survey party appeared on “Sacramento Street and painted new markings on fhe roadway and in adjacent Jots. Immediately, alarmed ‘householders and store own-. ers began talk of going before the City Council to see if something could be done to prevent obliteration of some of the city’s most picturesque and historic spots. Meanwhile, at a luncheon meeting of the Nevada Rotary Club on Thursday, August 16, the matter of the proposed freeway came under considerable discussion. Then Mayor Thomas H. Taylor (who was secretary of the club at that time) informed the members that anyone who wished to state his sentiments on the subject would be welcomed at the regular session of the City Council on Friday, August 17. ; A delegation of Nevada City. residents called on the City Council at this Aygust 17 meeting to protest the crossing of fown by the proposed freeway, and. found Mayor Taylor and the majority. of the councilmen in full agreement with them. The council at this time consisted of Mayor Thomas H. Taylor and _ Councilmen Frank Wright, Marvin Haddy, William Mullis, and H, J. Ray. After some ‘discussion it was agreed that more information should be sought, to be followed by a,formalprotest only if information was not provided by the State Division of Highways, or if it was unfavorable, John Sbaffi, operator of the Plaza Grocery, observed: “A city does not get business from a freeway running through it. This has been found true time and time again.” The opinion of those present was that the cost to Nevada City in building approaches to the freeway would« be considerable; it would also constitute a dangerous hazard for school children and old people with the fast traffic and heavy trucks passing through, to say nothing of destroying much of Nevada City’s historic value, and a lot of its beauty. Councilman H. J. Ray raised the question: “Was the proposesd highway designed to connect the two cities, or was its purpose to speed traffic between points beyond the two cities?” This point was later answered by the Division of Highways which informed residents’ that. because a survey had shown that more than 80 per cent of the traffic between Grass Valley and Nevada City was made up of ‘twixt-town travelers, the primary purpose of the highway was to serve this end. Highway engineers that if even as little as 40 per cent were to be through traffic, the ‘state from its point of view would consider. by-passing the town. ‘Their feelings in the matter were, however, that motoraA oe The Freeway--'Fact And Friction. » war constec ists would not use a freeway which they had drive a mile to get onto for a mere four-mile trip to their sister city. Mayor Taylor telephoned. Charles Whitmore, division district engineer at Marysville, on Friday, August 24, 1951, on behalf of the Nevada City Rotary Club inviting him to speak at a luncheon,. meeting. © Whitmore informed Mayor Taylor that he was not yet ready to discuss the route, and when ready would not-~ ify the city, possibly in abotit four weeks, oe R. C. Kennedy, public information man for the State Department of PubHc Works, accepted an invitation to address the Nevada City Rotary Club Thursday noon, August 30, on the subject of “freeways.” Memrbers of the . City Council were invited to attend. Vis-itors present .at this. meetClair ‘Engle, for this district, and Shir-