April 17, 1963 (4 pages)

. fire break construction , Serving the communities of Nevada Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, North Quaker Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little Y: Cherokee, Mooney Relief Hill, Washingtoo, Bine Tene, LaBarr Meadors, Colas Ridge Ulice : Hat, Sweetland, Al French Corral, Rouglt Thill Peardal Peardale, * it Cn, Wallou Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill,-Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Gouge Eye, LiméKiln, orth Columbia, Columbia 4 ¥ Volume 38. No. 10 10 Cents a Copy "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Wednesdays Nevada City, en 6, 1963. VOTERS PAS BIRT H DAY CELEBRATION---Frank Gunther, Nevada City (1) cuts his 90th birthday cake last week\at a party given in his honor by the Hydraulic Parlor, NSGW in Nevada City. Gunther . a past officer and long-time treasurer of the lodge joined the organization in 1891 and has been active\since that time. Others inthe picture are: Clarence Martz, Nevada City. police officer and Fred Butz, North San Juan rancher. Council Members Accused GRASS VALLEY---The campaign for election to the Grass V alley City Council warmed up in the last week with candidate Margarette Brown Meggs charging the current council with holding open a job for four months so that a recently resigned city council member could be appointed to the post. Mrs. Megg’s said she is merely letting the people know what is common gossip, She says that former Councilman Richard Heather resigned his post April 2 at the conclusion of the council meeting so that he would be eligible for appointment to the position of park superintendent. The job, Mrs, Meggs says, pays $400 monthly plus a residence and utilities, The council candidate charges that the council four months ago held examinations for candidates to fill the job. She says that two . out of five applicants passed the examination, and were told that the city needed three persons to choose from so that another examination would be held, ee Mrs. Meggssaidthe councilhas been “holding this job for four months", and that she believes Heather applied for the job while he was a Youth Corps Plans Laid In Tahoe NEVADA CIT Y---T ahoe National Forest has submitted a list of possible camp locations and number of persons it could utilize in the event the Youth Conservation Corps program passes Congress,. it was revealed here today by T ahoe Forest Super-. visor Henry Branagh, The Y outh Conservation Corps program drew heavy local support in a questionnaire recently mailedto area residents by Congressman Harold T. Johnson. With six per cent undedided, 71 per cent of the returns showed favorable reaction to the program, now in Congress, Branagh, in an interview, said the T ahoe National Forest has been asked three months agoto prepare information for use in the event the program was established, He declined to specify the number-who could be expected tobe delegated to the forest, saying the program isnot yetin a form where he could make an accurate estimate, Contemplated use of personnel under the program would include timber stand improvement, trail construction and improvement, building of heli-spots for landings, and fuel break work, The program, if adopted, would call for youths be-~ tween 16 and 22 signing up for six month hitches, but the program would be a yearround activity. In the T ahoe National Forest, Branagh said, the program would probably be run from camps at the lower elevations, with ‘task force’ crews at upper levels in the forest during months of good MALAKOFF MISSING NEVADA CITY---Nevada County officials are mystified by yesterday's release of a proposed list of state park acquisitions that did not include the Malakoff Diggins Project. The list accompanied a message to the legislature from Governor Edmund G, Brown asking for $19 million for park land acquisition and for a $150 million bond issue to be placed before the public in 1964. It presumably included only those parks which wouldbe immediately eligible for purchase under the $19 million request. But local leaders had been ject rated high on the list of projects “as soon ‘as money is available”. . Ed Doldef, head of the California Divisionof Beaches and Parks, was in a meeting this morning and not available for comment, Robert B. Hatch, supervisor in the advance planning depart ment of the Division of Beaches and Parks, was out of town and could not be reached, The governor's proposal is now before the legislature, Local leaders are expressing the hope that the Malakoff Project will be included in any appropriation bill the legislature adopts. councilman. Heather, contacted t oday, doesn’t want to have anything to say about the charges, "Stilltongue, wise head, " he commented, Name Auctioneer NEVADA CIT Y---Bill Moranville will be Nevada City Chamber of Commerce auctioneer May 4 when the. \chamber holds its fund raising auction between Commercial and Broad Sts. on Pine St. Dress Revue Set GRASS VALLEY ---Plans are just about complete for the annual 4H Dress Reyue to be held Saturday night at8 p. m, at the Nevada Union Junior High Schoolin Grass Valley, according to Mrs, David Conley, chairman. County Plans Dog Leashing NEVADA CIT Y---This mountain community will soon become an island of freedom in the midst of a county that will regard dogs running at large asa “nuisance and a menace", Under pressure from the State Department of Health andthe State Attorney General's office, Nevada County Supervisors yesterday considered a dog licensing ordinance that will. meet the requirements of state statutes, Although the supervisors held action on the measure over until May 1, they did so only because of administrative problems which might be created by passage of the ordinance yesterday. The consensus of their opinion indicates that May 1 will find the passage of the ordinance, andJan. 1, 1964, will be the date upon which each dog in the county and each kennel must have a license. Fee for male and spayed dogs will be $2 per year, unspayed females $4 per year, and kennels $5 per. year. The ordinance also calls for vaccination of dogs after four months of age, and each year or two thereafter. The county will set up a pound and appoint a poundmaster in the near future to carry out the dictates of the ordinance, Under the ordinance it shall be illegalto allow dogs to run at large. weather. a told that the Malakoff ProEXTINCTION? ---The Twin Cities are faced with the possible curtailment of public bus transportation by the end of this month according to Joe Spence, franchise holder for the inter-urban bus line. Spence said that no negotiations forthe sale of his business are pending and that without some public or private aid he may be Z unable to operate after April 26. school election. VOTING..Inspector Lena Lopez (above left) is shown with voter Mrs. James Harding at Alta-Oaks-Sunset in yesterday's Nevada City School polling is shown below. man Paul J, Lunardi announced today he has introduced legislation that would send the subject material from Proposition No, 4 to a joint committee for interim study “My intention is to have this complicated subject, assessment of agricultural land on a use basis, spelled out and returned tothe ;people in 1964", -declared Lunardi, In reviewing the defeated measure, Lunardi explained lonardi Plans New Agriculture Tax. Law SACRA MENTO---Assembly-: Weather NEVADA CITY. Max,, Min, Rainfall Aprilll 42 81 25 12 53 39 . 00 13 60. 38 00 14.67 48 1.38 15 52 36 13.86 16 45 31 21 17 41 «21 .03 ‘Rainfall to date 63.70 Rainfall last year 50. 63 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. .Rainfall April1l 44. .32 23 a 34. 88 .00 13: 63 42 trace 14 68 47 1,22 15. 62 “44 32 16 46 = 29 .19 ee ee aon Rainfall to date 65.33 Rainfall last year 49.09 ‘cation in writing to the As‘ment procedure; “land which qualifies; tocon-those relative to the agricul‘that Proposition Four was designed to provide an equitable assessment procedure which would preclude taxes from forcing a farmer to sell his land and still insure that, when farmland is converted to a higher land use, it returns to the local community taxes proportionate to the communities’ contribution to the increased value. The Assemblyman went on to say that Proposition Four would have specifically provided the following: (1)The law would not have become operative in any county or city unless the local governing body, by ordinance, made it operative; (2) This would have provided a different method of assessing land which is used exclusively for agricultural purposes; (3) The land must have been so used for the last two successive years; « (4) This would require the legal owner to make applisessor if he wished tobe covered by this niew assess(5) The assessor would be required, in assessing such sider no factors other than f tural use; (6) The assessor would also be required to determine (Continued On Page 2.) *“ItTBO ‘6 oquewes! e £ABAQET 04 L One Race Hangs On Absentee NEVADA CITY+--Nevada County school district voters ’ approved over-ride taxes for Nevada City Schools and for the Nevada Union High School; elected 24 school trustees; approved trustee district changes in the high school district and Sierra College district; and rejected an annexation of Kentucky Flat to the Nevada City School District. Although results are unofficial, pending a canvass of the votes and counting of absentee ballots, in most instances the results seem conclusive. One trustee race appears in doubt. In North San Juan, Marie Young received 56 votes for a short-term seat on the board. A write-in candidate, Pearl Miller, is credited with 55 votes, and one absentee ballot remains uncounted, The Nevada City over-ride was victorious by a 641 to 532 count, with 19 absentee ballots to be counted, The Nevada Union High ‘School District over-ride vote was even closer, win"ning 1818 to 1731 with 48 absentees still uncounted. The high school trustee . districting measure won 2121 to 913; and the Sierra College trustee area boundary change won 2136 to 843 (this measure must also be approved by other voters in the college district). Re-elected to the board in Nevada City, Alton Davies led a field of four candidates with 640 votes SueJensen alsowona seat on the board with 520 votes. Other candidates, Jeanne Roese, 434; and Ralph Zeledon, 399, Winners in Grass Valley were Brian A, Bennallack, 920, and Lou Kennedy, 899. Leo T odd received 671 votes, Marvin D, Wadley, 351. Nevada Union High School District voters re-elected Harold George Sr., 2176, and Weston W. Brunker, 2077. Leo W, Hamilton was unsuccessful, but close with 1862 votes, In other contested races: Union Hill, Arnold L, Price, 107, beat E.V. Borgnis, 36; Ready Springs, Roy T. Phillips, 165, Norma D. Meade, 134, and Barbara Sailor, 118, all won seats. John-H. McLachlin Jr. received 84 votes. Kentucky Flat, Verita Personeni, 52 votes, beat Marian Bonnell, 21 votes; the annexation of Nevada City School District failed 52 to 25. Unopposed candidates won in all other races. County Sales Jump Up SAN FRANCISCO ---Nevada County increased its general. merchandise ‘retail sales by _ 155.6 per cent in the.p 1950-61, itwasrevealedthis week'by the California State Chamber of Commerce, — The state asawhole showed a 92.8 per cént gain in the same period, the re= ws '3 af abd ae S BOTH TAX ISSUES — A j

. fire break construction , Serving the communities of Nevada Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, North Quaker Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little Y: Cherokee, Mooney Relief Hill, Washingtoo, Bine Tene, LaBarr Meadors, Colas Ridge Ulice : Hat, Sweetland, Al French Corral, Rouglt Thill Peardal Peardale, * it Cn, Wallou Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill,-Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Gouge Eye, LiméKiln, orth Columbia, Columbia 4 ¥ Volume 38. No. 10 10 Cents a Copy "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Wednesdays Nevada City, en 6, 1963. VOTERS PAS BIRT H DAY CELEBRATION---Frank Gunther, Nevada City (1) cuts his 90th birthday cake last week\at a party given in his honor by the Hydraulic Parlor, NSGW in Nevada City. Gunther . a past officer and long-time treasurer of the lodge joined the organization in 1891 and has been active\since that time. Others inthe picture are: Clarence Martz, Nevada City. police officer and Fred Butz, North San Juan rancher. Council Members Accused GRASS VALLEY---The campaign for election to the Grass V alley City Council warmed up in the last week with candidate Margarette Brown Meggs charging the current council with holding open a job for four months so that a recently resigned city council member could be appointed to the post. Mrs. Megg’s said she is merely letting the people know what is common gossip, She says that former Councilman Richard Heather resigned his post April 2 at the conclusion of the council meeting so that he would be eligible for appointment to the position of park superintendent. The job, Mrs, Meggs says, pays $400 monthly plus a residence and utilities, The council candidate charges that the council four months ago held examinations for candidates to fill the job. She says that two . out of five applicants passed the examination, and were told that the city needed three persons to choose from so that another examination would be held, ee Mrs. Meggssaidthe councilhas been “holding this job for four months", and that she believes Heather applied for the job while he was a Youth Corps Plans Laid In Tahoe NEVADA CIT Y---T ahoe National Forest has submitted a list of possible camp locations and number of persons it could utilize in the event the Youth Conservation Corps program passes Congress,. it was revealed here today by T ahoe Forest Super-. visor Henry Branagh, The Y outh Conservation Corps program drew heavy local support in a questionnaire recently mailedto area residents by Congressman Harold T. Johnson. With six per cent undedided, 71 per cent of the returns showed favorable reaction to the program, now in Congress, Branagh, in an interview, said the T ahoe National Forest has been asked three months agoto prepare information for use in the event the program was established, He declined to specify the number-who could be expected tobe delegated to the forest, saying the program isnot yetin a form where he could make an accurate estimate, Contemplated use of personnel under the program would include timber stand improvement, trail construction and improvement, building of heli-spots for landings, and fuel break work, The program, if adopted, would call for youths be-~ tween 16 and 22 signing up for six month hitches, but the program would be a yearround activity. In the T ahoe National Forest, Branagh said, the program would probably be run from camps at the lower elevations, with ‘task force’ crews at upper levels in the forest during months of good MALAKOFF MISSING NEVADA CITY---Nevada County officials are mystified by yesterday's release of a proposed list of state park acquisitions that did not include the Malakoff Diggins Project. The list accompanied a message to the legislature from Governor Edmund G, Brown asking for $19 million for park land acquisition and for a $150 million bond issue to be placed before the public in 1964. It presumably included only those parks which wouldbe immediately eligible for purchase under the $19 million request. But local leaders had been ject rated high on the list of projects “as soon ‘as money is available”. . Ed Doldef, head of the California Divisionof Beaches and Parks, was in a meeting this morning and not available for comment, Robert B. Hatch, supervisor in the advance planning depart ment of the Division of Beaches and Parks, was out of town and could not be reached, The governor's proposal is now before the legislature, Local leaders are expressing the hope that the Malakoff Project will be included in any appropriation bill the legislature adopts. councilman. Heather, contacted t oday, doesn’t want to have anything to say about the charges, "Stilltongue, wise head, " he commented, Name Auctioneer NEVADA CIT Y---Bill Moranville will be Nevada City Chamber of Commerce auctioneer May 4 when the. \chamber holds its fund raising auction between Commercial and Broad Sts. on Pine St. Dress Revue Set GRASS VALLEY ---Plans are just about complete for the annual 4H Dress Reyue to be held Saturday night at8 p. m, at the Nevada Union Junior High Schoolin Grass Valley, according to Mrs, David Conley, chairman. County Plans Dog Leashing NEVADA CIT Y---This mountain community will soon become an island of freedom in the midst of a county that will regard dogs running at large asa “nuisance and a menace", Under pressure from the State Department of Health andthe State Attorney General's office, Nevada County Supervisors yesterday considered a dog licensing ordinance that will. meet the requirements of state statutes, Although the supervisors held action on the measure over until May 1, they did so only because of administrative problems which might be created by passage of the ordinance yesterday. The consensus of their opinion indicates that May 1 will find the passage of the ordinance, andJan. 1, 1964, will be the date upon which each dog in the county and each kennel must have a license.

Fee for male and spayed dogs will be $2 per year, unspayed females $4 per year, and kennels $5 per. year. The ordinance also calls for vaccination of dogs after four months of age, and each year or two thereafter. The county will set up a pound and appoint a poundmaster in the near future to carry out the dictates of the ordinance, Under the ordinance it shall be illegalto allow dogs to run at large. weather. a told that the Malakoff ProEXTINCTION? ---The Twin Cities are faced with the possible curtailment of public bus transportation by the end of this month according to Joe Spence, franchise holder for the inter-urban bus line. Spence said that no negotiations forthe sale of his business are pending and that without some public or private aid he may be Z unable to operate after April 26. school election. VOTING...Inspector Lena Lopez (above left) is shown with voter Mrs. James Harding at Alta-Oaks-Sunset in yesterday's Nevada City School polling is shown below. man Paul J, Lunardi announced today he has introduced legislation that would send the subject material from Proposition No, 4 to a joint committee for interim study “My intention is to have this complicated subject, assessment of agricultural land on a use basis, spelled out and returned tothe ;people in 1964", -declared Lunardi, In reviewing the defeated measure, Lunardi explained lonardi Plans New Agriculture Tax. Law SACRA MENTO---Assembly-: Weather NEVADA CITY. Max,, Min, Rainfall Aprilll 42 81 25 12 53 39 . 00 13 60. 38 00 14.67 48 1.38 15 52 36 13.86 16 45 31 21 17 41 «21 .03 ‘Rainfall to date 63.70 Rainfall last year 50. 63 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. .Rainfall April1l 44. .32 23 a 34. 88 .00 13: 63 42 trace 14 68 47 1,22 15. 62 “44 32 16 46 = 29 .19 ee ee aon Rainfall to date 65.33 Rainfall last year 49.09 ‘cation in writing to the As‘ment procedure; “land which qualifies; tocon-those relative to the agricul‘that Proposition Four was designed to provide an equitable assessment procedure which would preclude taxes from forcing a farmer to sell his land and still insure that, when farmland is converted to a higher land use, it returns to the local community taxes proportionate to the communities’ contribution to the increased value. The Assemblyman went on to say that Proposition Four would have specifically provided the following: (1)The law would not have become operative in any county or city unless the local governing body, by ordinance, made it operative; (2) This would have provided a different method of assessing land which is used exclusively for agricultural purposes; (3) The land must have been so used for the last two successive years; « (4) This would require the legal owner to make applisessor if he wished tobe covered by this niew assess(5) The assessor would be required, in assessing such sider no factors other than f tural use; (6) The assessor would also be required to determine (Continued On Page 2.) *“ItTBO ‘6 oquewes! e £ABAQET 04 L One Race Hangs On Absentee NEVADA CITY+--Nevada County school district voters ’ approved over-ride taxes for Nevada City Schools and for the Nevada Union High School; elected 24 school trustees; approved trustee district changes in the high school district and Sierra College district; and rejected an annexation of Kentucky Flat to the Nevada City School District. Although results are unofficial, pending a canvass of the votes and counting of absentee ballots, in most instances the results seem conclusive. One trustee race appears in doubt. In North San Juan, Marie Young received 56 votes for a short-term seat on the board. A write-in candidate, Pearl Miller, is credited with 55 votes, and one absentee ballot remains uncounted, The Nevada City over-ride was victorious by a 641 to 532 count, with 19 absentee ballots to be counted, The Nevada Union High ‘School District over-ride vote was even closer, win"ning 1818 to 1731 with 48 absentees still uncounted. The high school trustee . districting measure won 2121 to 913; and the Sierra College trustee area boundary change won 2136 to 843 (this measure must also be approved by other voters in the college district). Re-elected to the board in Nevada City, Alton Davies led a field of four candidates with 640 votes SueJensen alsowona seat on the board with 520 votes. Other candidates, Jeanne Roese, 434; and Ralph Zeledon, 399, Winners in Grass Valley were Brian A, Bennallack, 920, and Lou Kennedy, 899. Leo T odd received 671 votes, Marvin D, Wadley, 351. Nevada Union High School District voters re-elected Harold George Sr., 2176, and Weston W. Brunker, 2077. Leo W, Hamilton was unsuccessful, but close with 1862 votes, In other contested races: Union Hill, Arnold L, Price, 107, beat E.V. Borgnis, 36; Ready Springs, Roy T. Phillips, 165, Norma D. Meade, 134, and Barbara Sailor, 118, all won seats. John-H. McLachlin Jr. received 84 votes. Kentucky Flat, Verita Personeni, 52 votes, beat Marian Bonnell, 21 votes; the annexation of Nevada City School District failed 52 to 25. Unopposed candidates won in all other races. County Sales Jump Up SAN FRANCISCO ---Nevada County increased its general. merchandise ‘retail sales by _ 155.6 per cent in the.p 1950-61, itwasrevealedthis week'by the California State Chamber of Commerce, — The state asawhole showed a 92.8 per cént gain in the same period, the re= ws '3 af abd ae S BOTH TAX ISSUES — A j