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sity
1 of
lice
on,
aul in California has so increased over the past 10
years that today voluntary,
admissions constitute onethird of all who receive
state hospital treatment.
. This trend was disclosed,
by Dr. Daniel Blain, direc‘tor of the State Department
of Mental Hygiene, wha .
hailed it as the best indication we could have that out-.
moded attitudes about mental illnéss are changing, and,
that people are realizing the
need for early treatment.
The Arctic Ocean is 14,150
feet deep at the North Pole.
CARLTON G. THOMAS.
INVESTMENT and ry
INSURANCE BROKER
129 Mill Street
Phones 1229 and 1035
Grass Valley
Jim Heather
Phone 370
FLOOR COVERING
Exclusive Dealer In
Nevada County For
MOHAWK CARPETING
The world’s largest maker!
of Carpets and Rugs.
MOHAWK
One of the oldest carpet manufacturers and a name to be
relied upon. ,
WE HAVE A-FULL RANGE
OF COLORS AND TEXTURES
AT PRICES RANGING FROM
VISCOSE AT $5.95 A SQ,
YARD TO 100% WOOL
STARTING AT $7.95 UP TO
$13.50 A SQ. YARD.
Wewill be pleased to have
youcome in and let us show
you our samples, or cail and
we will call at your home
with them.
Also we make free estimates. We areconfident you
will find something to suit
your need,
233 Mill Street
Local PGE Taxes
Part Of Record
Pacific Gas and Electric
Company made final payments last week on its 1959.
60 tax bill, including $455,765 in Nevada County and
$3,095 .in the city of Nevada
City.
The payments are part of
a total of $65.6 million—the
largest single property tax
ever paid in Northern and
Central. California.
The record total is being
distributed among 200 California cities, 49 of the state’s
Grass Valley} 58 counties, and more than
/ 3,400 towns, school districts
YOU'LL FEEL LIKE A
FLIGHT 492..took off from Loma Rica
Airport April 5 with a manifést holding
local names of Thelma Bond, Secretary
tor the GV Chamber of Commerce, A.J.
Overton, A.L. Thorson, Mr, and Mrs.
Bert Burns,
PO Se peters ak ge a ot
holders of the first tickets
boutht from TSA and D. Maltman, Captain Ted W. Hunt, and L.L. Hayes with
Liz Tiley comprised the crew of the DeHaviland Dove bound for San Francisco.
and special assessment districts.
Nearly half the money,
$32 million, goes to schools.
Counties receive $26. million, cities $3.9 million and
assessment districts $3.7 million.
$60,251,041.
PG&E is paying $5 million more in property taxes .
than it did a year ago. The
1958-59 fiscal year total was
LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Notice, is hereby giyenthat the Nevada Union. High
School District of Nevada County, California, will :receive bids for material. and installation in connection
with Science Equipment to be installed in the Science
Classrooms; Gymnasium Equipmenht;; and Gymnasium
and miscellaneous Metal Lockers; all for the new Nevada Union High School to be located on Ridge Road
approximately one and one-half miles North of the
Grass .Valley city limits, in said Nevada Union High
‘School District of Nevada County, California, said bids
to be in accordance with the Drawings and Specifications, and all other documents comprising the Contract
Documents, now on file at the office of the ARCHITECT, Gordon Stafford, 1024% J Street, Sacramento,
i$ INSURED
WITH ti
CURNOW HALLS insurance
316 Broad St. Phone N. C. 633
FIGHT CANCER WITH A
CHECKUP AND A CHECK
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
CANCER
CURE-RATE
RISING
ONLY 1 CANCER PATIENT
-OUT OF 4 WAS SAVED
1959
1 CANCER PATIENT OUT OF
“3 WAS SAVED,
HALF OF ALL CANCER PATIENTS COULD BE SAVED,
IF DIAGNOSED EARLY AND
TREATED PROPERLY
DEPENDS ON RESEARCH
AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TOIT.SEND YOUR .
GIFT TO CANCER, C/O
YOUR LOCAL POST
OFFICE.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
California. Copies may be obtained upon the deposit
of $25.00 a set—Science Equipment; $10.00 a set each—
Gymnasium Equipment and Metal Lockers, which deposit will be refunded on return of such copies within
10 days after the bids are opened.
Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to the statutes of the State of California, or local law thereto applicable, the said Nevada Union High School District
of Nevada County, California, has ascertained the
general prevailing rate of per diem wages and rates
for holidays and overtime work in the locality in-which
' this work is to be performed, for each craft classifica
tion or type of workman or mechanic needed to execute the contract which will be awarded the successful bidder.
It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom
a contract is awarded and upon all subcontractors under
him to pay not less than said general prevailing rates
of per diem wages to all workmen employed in the
execution of the contract,
The prevailing rates so detremined are as set forth
below and to which reference is particularly made:
Craft Rate Per RatePer Overtime
Classification Hour Diem Per Hour
Carpenters $3.58 $28.64
Electricians 4.295 34.36 on.so
Plumbers 4.20 33.60 8.40
Laborers—General 2.865 22.92 +9
OVERTIME: Any additional time worked after the
regular work day, Saturdays, Sundays, and_ holidays,
shall be considered overtime and paid for at double the
straight time rate unless otherwise specified herein.
*For the first four hours after the regular work day,
overtime shall be paid for at the rate of time and onehalf. All additional time worked up to 8:00 A.M. and
on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays shall be paid for
at the rate of double time.
**Time and .one-half, except Sundays and holidays
which are double the straight time rates.
Each bid shall be sealed and accompanied by a certified check or bidder’s bond for ten per cent (10%) of
the amount of the bid, made payable to the said Nevada
Union High School District of Nevada County, California, and will be received by the Clerk of the Governing Board of.said Nevada Union High School District of Nevada County, California, in Room 13 at the
existing Senior High School, 340 Buena Vista, Grass
Valley, California,-in said Nevada Union High School
District of Nevada County, California, up to the hour
of 8:00 P.M. on the 19th day of April, 1960, and will be
publicly opened and read at the hour of 8:00 o’clock
P.M. on said 19th day of April, 1960, in Room 13 at the
existing Senior High School in said Nevada Union High
School District of Nevada County, California,
‘The above-mentioned certified check or bidder’s bond
shall be given as a guarantee that the bidder will enter
into a contract if awarded the work; and will be declared forfeited if the successful bidder refuses to enter
into said contract after being requested to do so by the
Governing Board of said Nevada Union High School
District of Nevada County, California, —
‘The successful bidder will be required to furnish .
a@ Labor and Material Bond in an amount equal to Fifty .
Percent (50%) of the contract price, and a Faithful Performance Bond in an amount equal to One Hundred
ercent (100%) of the contract price, said bonds to be
tisfactory to the Governing Board of said School DisThe said Governing Board of said Nevada Union High
School District of Nevada County, California, reserves
the right to reject any or all bids and/or waive any
irregularity in any bid. 2
Dated this 30th day of March, 1960.
NEVADA UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT,
WILLIAM W. WILSON,
‘Secretary of the Governing Board.
_ Publish: April 6, 13, 1960.
Equipment
Firemen’s Ball set for May 7,
tails, and beginning a conare offered by all Nevada
City volunteer firemen.
Funds raised by the Volunteers gotoward equipment to
increase the efficiency and
usefulness of the-fire departPersonal
Income
Growth
The California
growth in the
growth of personal incomes,
personal incomes. This
group was topped by Neita personal income of which
more than doubled during
the past two decades.
“This was quite an accom;
plishment,” said Johnson,
“And Nevada County was
the only one in California,
to achieve it.”
The average for the
mountain counties was an
increase of 48.8 per cent in
incomes. This is 2 per cent
greater than the state avers
age.
JEWELRY
Our GOLD NUGGET
and
QUARTZ JEWELRY
Makes lasting gifts and
apprepriate souvenirs of
the Gold Country.
DIAMONDS.
WATCHES
CLOCKS
And Many Other Gifts
SILVERWARE
EXPERT WATCH AND
JEWELRY REPAIRING
With the 100th Anniversary
Nevada City Volunteer Firemen are now working out decerted ticket drive. Tickets
State
Chamber of Commerce has.
supplied Congressman Harold T. Johnson with figures
that reflect a tremendous
district’s
eccnomy'in the last score
of years. In most instances,
Second District counties are
well above average in the
Fifteen mountain counties
proved to be the fastest
growing California area in
a comparison of per capite
vada County, the per capg
Ball Funds To Purchase
ment. During the past few
years alone, Firemen's Ball
proceedshave bought a specially-built body for the Rescue Car, and an Army Jeep
which is used in inaccessible
terrain during rescue work
and doubles as a Fire Chief's
car.
Reviewing the department's
service to Nevada City, Secretary Ted Sigourney points
out the record shows:
YEAR AND CALLS RESPQNDED TO:
FIRE
1959 87
1958 15
1957 59
MUTUAL AID
1959 ; 17
1958 5
1957 2
FALSE ALARMS
1959 7
1958 2
1957 1
TOTAL FIRE LOSSES:
1959 $18, 637.00
1958 $12, 124.00
1957 $18,026.20
"These figures", says Sigourney, “show that no matter how hard we try, we can
not save them all--but they
also show that we lost only
one out of each twenty-eight
fire calls..not a bad average."
county service.
The underground ballistic
testing range at the Naval
Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md., is large
enough to serve as a bomb .
shelter for 3,000 persons,
lowers Oe
for All Occasioris b ve
Nevada City G oust
NADINE GUSTAFSON, Proe.
230 COMMERCIAL ST.
' .
PHONE 116 NEVADA CITY
BEAUTY SHOP
308 BROAD STREET ye
Phone bi
Nevada City 376 =
Golden Arrow Ranch
. Guest Ranch and Resort Motel
GOLD RUN, CALIFORNIA
~
Complete Dinners Served Daily
WEEK-DAYS 5 P.M. TO 8 P.M.
SUNDAYS 2 P.M. TO 8 P.M.
New York Steake oo.. cecccceccescensctcesecseceteeseess
Fried Chicken _......
Dinner Steak
Spring Lamb Chops 5
Dinner Franks and Sauer Kraut....:.. anemia $2.00
JOHN V. and HELEN HARTMIRE, Owners
Phone ALTA 5352
Exit Freeway at Gold Run, turn right cn Magra Road,
“Old 40." 46 Mile West
A Waslaon of Warne’ Comey ie as JUNE 7, 1960.
.In business 20 years prior to entering
. A devoted family man; Wife, Victoria;
Sons, Ray Smart, Nev. Co. rancher, and
Lee Smart, Army officer; Daughter, Mrs.
Twyla Furano, Nev. Co, housewife,
. + Community Leader
Past Exalted Ruler, Nevada City Elks #518
Past Commander, Nevada City V.F.W. Post 2655"
Past President, Grass Valley Eagles
Past President, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce
(Parade chairman, 1958) :
E, Clampys-Vitus :
American Legion Post 130, Grass Valley
Chairman 1960 July 4th ‘Celebration s
VOTE FOR 7
MOSCO
SMART
Incumbent
SUPERVISOR
FIRST DISTRICT
a