April 18, 1973 (12 pages)

9 The Nevada County Nugget-Wed. April 18, 1973? “Notes off the Cuff”By P. L. It had been years since my last previous sight of the Mother Lode and Northern Mines country when I landed in these parts for a hopefully permanent stay. . . back in the late Fall of 1970. ‘changes, many new sights and places to fill my leisure hours, but there was one thing I wasn’t really ‘‘ready for,’’ in the broadest sense of the phrase. One wonderful Sunday I decided to widen my circle of travels hither and yon,so I crossed Interstate 80 into Auburn and began meandering around that community and its fringes, zigging and zagging from one inviting view point to another. From one high hill somewhat east of Auburn I sat in my car and began a “‘sector-by-sector”’ survey of what lay below my vantage point. Suddenly my eyes lit on a surprising sight, down there, on what appeared to be a side street of the city, what ould come into view but a emendous statue of a figure hat seemed to be looking heavenward! I started down the mountain in ‘search of that amazing bit of sculpture; and after about 15 minutes of hit and miss circling of the area where it might be I found myself staring at a 40-ton cement: sculpture of Claude Chana! That is, I later learned the identity of the subject of the statue from from townsfolk who were obviously as impressed by the work as I was. This gigantic sculpture of Chana was the creation of Auburn dentist Dr. Kenneth Fox, who began his work on the larger-than-life figure in 1966. Chana, an adventurer, barrelmaker and_ pioneer foothill rancher, found gold in a creek called Auburn Ravine in 1848. This discovery triggered the settlement of a mining camp which eventually became the ] NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad StreetNevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City,’ California. 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 Yeors .. $5.00 _ Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Smith City of Auburn. On May 18-19-20, there will be a spectacular ~— three-day celebration held there to mark the 125th anniversary of that discovery and the founding of I knew I’d find a lot of the city. A feature attraction of the big parade will be the movement through the streets of our historic neighbor city of that same 40-ton statue. “Gold Discovery Days’’ is being sponsored by the Auburn 49er Association, and will feature parades, antique shows and sale, a 4H Fair and carnival, championship gold panning, whiskerino barbecue and Helldorado, gold displays and several art shows. It sounds like a mighty interesting three days over there and I’m planthing to, barring accident or incident ‘or foul weather, ‘‘be among those present.” Who knows, maybe Chana’s ghost will be there to safeguard his statue through that line of march! ~Po Scene at a supermarket. . . last weekend I chanced to stop at one of our local supermarkets for a bit of stocking-up (no, I didn’t buy any beef!) and witnessed a touching little by-play on life. Two very small girls, probably about six years old, had a cardboard carton full of tiny, squirming kittens with their eyes barely opened yet, marked for sale for $1 each. The cats were not old enough to be away from their mother; were hungry and very cold. A lady, who obviously knew the little girls, jumped out of a hastily parked station wagon and rushed over to their location. “Your mother will just about half kill you for this, give me those kittens so I can take them back to their mother!”. She started to hustle kids and kittens into her vehicle when a big yellow sedan roared into the parking lot and screeched to a stop next to the station wagon. Out jumped a very irate young woman, hair in curlers atop her ‘freshly washed head, and isecreaming “Ellie and Betty, ‘what do you think you are doing? You will kill those cats ‘yet, do you hear. Now you come home with me and we'll see what your father thinks about ‘this business. She pulled the ‘girls out of the station wagon, . grabbed the box of kittens and drove off so fast it made my head spin. The lady’ in the station wagon just sat there momentarily, shaking her head ‘and laughing quietly to herself, and finally she, too, drove off down the street. Fraud suit Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Righton have filed a Superior Court breach of contract, fraud and damage action against Nevada county, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Deeble and an insurance and an indemnity ‘ company. “The Rightons contend they agreed to purchase a house Deeble was building on Gayle Lane. 4h. =. Me «<= & IBy Fay M. Dunbar The David Webbs of Rough and Ready Road have just returned from a visit to Hawaii. One of their daughters lives on Maui just 27 minutes, by air, from Honolulu. Their two other daughters were honeymooning there. One of the newlyweds lives in San Francisco and the other makes her home in Scottsdale, Arizona. They all flew home together which added to the trip home for the Webbs. Josephine’s biggest thrill, based on her own story of it, must have been the Boat Tour they took one evening along the island’s shoreline. It was beautiful she says and the most breathtaking sight of all was the full moon just rising back of Diamond Head. They didn’t have time for everything but one other thing she especially enjoyed was a hedge of Epyphyllum. You gardeners who know the hazards and the thrills of one Epyphyllum blossom will surely think I misused the word hedge but Josephine says there was actually a hedge of them. They also saw the pineapple fields and sugar plantations on Oahu which they found very interesting. All of Hawaii must be a gardeners dream. They didn’t even see the garden island of Kauai. Josephine was disappointed at so many huge buildings. Their hotel had 40 floors. R&R Last week while I was talking to Mrs. Webb about our new barn babies she was called hurriedly from the telephone by husband David. They are anxiously awaiting the arrival of a new foal. That’s a baby horse if you didn’t know. With so many new babies arriving everywhere itreally must be Spring. The Jack Bixlers just had a nice garden spot plowed so that cinches it. Spring is here! R&R, Mr. John Elliott of the Perry Realty Organization just brought another famous neighbor to our area. The Elliotts had met Norman Nelson and heard him sing previously so when he was scheduled to appear in Sacramento they made a trip down to hear and say hello. Nelson has sung in vast arenas and before millions of people and in the private chambers of our Presidents. He has a rich tenor voice. You can hear him on your radio if you check a bit. He has just recently been reassigned as Singing Ambassador for the Overseas’ Crusades. He and his wife and five children were looking for a place with a little peace and quiet to establish a home base. There will be a little time now and again between trips throughout the countries of the world to settle down. They just finished seven years in foreign service. Mr. Elliott showed them Nevada County. That did it. New neighbors! R&R. Some of the things to remember this week besides Easter and walks in our green hills, are the last half of the April birthdays. We left off with Mary Sailor on April 16. Fortunately Mary was able to be home from the hospital for her celebration. Young Bill Bursill and Sharon Mader celebrate April 20. Bill is away at school in the East but you could get his address from the Bursills. I wish you all could-have known Manuel Frank. He would have been 87 years young on April 20. He was a real pioneer and a a oe Sogo He used to tell us some of le greatest stories about early days here. His two children, Mr. William geet Mrs. Doris Trauner, still maintain a portion of the original John Frank Ranch purchased from rancher Perl Ladd way back in 1867. Marguerite DeBow has her annual anniversary on April 21. Mark Tinsley will celebrate April 23 and Sara Wright on April 25. Evelyn Doolan is last for this month on April 28. : sae -. . 273-2934 R&R, The Grange meeting on Friday, April 20 and the Grange Easter Breakfast following Sunrise Services Easter morning are the community activities of the week. Services have been arranged by Lecturer Alice Licht and will start at 6:30 a.m. on the Grange Hill. The Reverend Ben Fike of Placerville will conduct. His message will be ‘He Lives’. Music will be provided by the Teenage Acapella Choir of the Church of Christ of Placerville. The choir will alsd lead the congregation in the ever popular old Easter Hymns. Grange Master Ola Lee Hale is Breakfast Chairman. Breakfast, at $1.50, will consist of ham or bacon and eggs and will be served with plenty of hotcakes. It will be served immediately following services. Spring flowers are the theme for Decorations Chairman Clara Deardorf. R&R. The ladies of the Fire Auxiliary were pleased at the success of their White Elephant Auction at the April meeting. Together with the Stanley Party of March they have been able to add almost $50. to their treasury. The ladies use these funds to add to the efficiency of the fire truck or supply some necessity at the firehouse. Highlight of the evening was the quilts for the Secession Day Raffle. Mrs. Lillian Blakely displayed and donated a hand quilted beauty done in soft green and peach. The individual blocks were appliqued and embroidered with a Sunbonnet Girl before quilting. The group as a whole is also making a quilt for the Secession Day Raffle. Hostesses for the evening: were Noreen Harwood and ’Becky O’Banion. They provided spring flowers, lots of homemade cookies, coffee, and punch. Next month’s hostesses will be Wyn Schuster and Pat Litchfield. The meeting will be Monday, May 14. A program excluding any moneymaking project is being planned advises Mrs. Joe (Mary) Lee, Auxiliary President. R&R Mrs. Etta Ettleman, Rough and Ready’s former Postmaster, returned home from the hospital last Thursday. She was there, this trip, with pneumonia. Bill Ettleman says she is glad to be home even if they do have to have someone live in to take care of her until she gets well again. R&R Mrs. Dora Grieme had a quick trip to the hospital after her recent accident. It was raining and the car ahead of Dora stopped without warning. She ran her car into a bank to avoid hurting anyone and wound up with a broken rib and a very badly bruised rib area where she was thrown against the steering post. Dora, too, worked in our Post Office until recently. R&R If you want a night on the town try the opera, La Traviata, which is being presented by the Western Opera Company at the Old Nevada Theater tonight. Or take in the performance there on Friday of the new performing group on the local scene, The Victorian Repertory Company. Their presentation is the classic farce ‘The Importance of Being Ernest’. The group is spearheaded by Bob Gamage of NUHS. All part of the program, to bring cultural and educational features to Nevada County, being conducted by the Liberal Arts Group. Many of you must be members of this group. I am your representative on the Board of Directors. We hope these features will please.

9 The Nevada County Nugget-Wed. April 18, 1973? “Notes off the Cuff”By P. L. It had been years since my last previous sight of the Mother Lode and Northern Mines country when I landed in these parts for a hopefully permanent stay. . . back in the late Fall of 1970. ‘changes, many new sights and places to fill my leisure hours, but there was one thing I wasn’t really ‘‘ready for,’’ in the broadest sense of the phrase. One wonderful Sunday I decided to widen my circle of travels hither and yon,so I crossed Interstate 80 into Auburn and began meandering around that community and its fringes, zigging and zagging from one inviting view point to another. From one high hill somewhat east of Auburn I sat in my car and began a “‘sector-by-sector”’ survey of what lay below my vantage point. Suddenly my eyes lit on a surprising sight, down there, on what appeared to be a side street of the city, what ould come into view but a emendous statue of a figure hat seemed to be looking heavenward! I started down the mountain in ‘search of that amazing bit of sculpture; and after about 15 minutes of hit and miss circling of the area where it might be I found myself staring at a 40-ton cement: sculpture of Claude Chana! That is, I later learned the identity of the subject of the statue from from townsfolk who were obviously as impressed by the work as I was. This gigantic sculpture of Chana was the creation of Auburn dentist Dr. Kenneth Fox, who began his work on the larger-than-life figure in 1966. Chana, an adventurer, barrelmaker and_ pioneer foothill rancher, found gold in a creek called Auburn Ravine in 1848. This discovery triggered the settlement of a mining camp which eventually became the ] NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad StreetNevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City,’ California. 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 Yeors ... $5.00 _ Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Smith City of Auburn. On May 18-19-20, there will be a spectacular ~— three-day celebration held there to mark the 125th anniversary of that discovery and the founding of I knew I’d find a lot of the city. A feature attraction of the big parade will be the movement through the streets of our historic neighbor city of that same 40-ton statue. “Gold Discovery Days’’ is being sponsored by the Auburn 49er Association, and will feature parades, antique shows and sale, a 4H Fair and carnival, championship gold panning, whiskerino barbecue and Helldorado, gold displays and several art shows. It sounds like a mighty interesting three days over there and I’m planthing to, barring accident or incident ‘or foul weather, ‘‘be among those present.” Who knows, maybe Chana’s ghost will be there to safeguard his statue through that line of march! ~Po Scene at a supermarket. . . last weekend I chanced to stop at one of our local supermarkets for a bit of stocking-up (no, I didn’t buy any beef!) and witnessed a touching little by-play on life. Two very small girls, probably about six years old, had a cardboard carton full of tiny, squirming kittens with their eyes barely opened yet, marked for sale for $1 each. The cats were not old enough to be away from their mother; were hungry and very cold. A lady, who obviously knew the little girls, jumped out of a hastily parked station wagon and rushed over to their location. “Your mother will just about half kill you for this, give me those kittens so I can take them back to their mother!”. She started to hustle kids and kittens into her vehicle when a big yellow sedan roared into the parking lot and screeched to a stop next to the station wagon. Out jumped a very irate young woman, hair in curlers atop her ‘freshly washed head, and isecreaming “Ellie and Betty, ‘what do you think you are doing? You will kill those cats ‘yet, do you hear. Now you come home with me and we'll see what your father thinks about ‘this business. She pulled the ‘girls out of the station wagon, . grabbed the box of kittens and drove off so fast it made my head spin. The lady’ in the station wagon just sat there momentarily, shaking her head ‘and laughing quietly to herself, and finally she, too, drove off down the street. Fraud suit Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Righton have filed a Superior Court breach of contract, fraud and damage action against Nevada county, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Deeble and an insurance and an indemnity

‘ company. “The Rightons contend they agreed to purchase a house Deeble was building on Gayle Lane. 4h. =. Me «<= & IBy Fay M. Dunbar The David Webbs of Rough and Ready Road have just returned from a visit to Hawaii. One of their daughters lives on Maui just 27 minutes, by air, from Honolulu. Their two other daughters were honeymooning there. One of the newlyweds lives in San Francisco and the other makes her home in Scottsdale, Arizona. They all flew home together which added to the trip home for the Webbs. Josephine’s biggest thrill, based on her own story of it, must have been the Boat Tour they took one evening along the island’s shoreline. It was beautiful she says and the most breathtaking sight of all was the full moon just rising back of Diamond Head. They didn’t have time for everything but one other thing she especially enjoyed was a hedge of Epyphyllum. You gardeners who know the hazards and the thrills of one Epyphyllum blossom will surely think I misused the word hedge but Josephine says there was actually a hedge of them. They also saw the pineapple fields and sugar plantations on Oahu which they found very interesting. All of Hawaii must be a gardeners dream. They didn’t even see the garden island of Kauai. Josephine was disappointed at so many huge buildings. Their hotel had 40 floors. R&R Last week while I was talking to Mrs. Webb about our new barn babies she was called hurriedly from the telephone by husband David. They are anxiously awaiting the arrival of a new foal. That’s a baby horse if you didn’t know. With so many new babies arriving everywhere itreally must be Spring. The Jack Bixlers just had a nice garden spot plowed so that cinches it. Spring is here! R&R, Mr. John Elliott of the Perry Realty Organization just brought another famous neighbor to our area. The Elliotts had met Norman Nelson and heard him sing previously so when he was scheduled to appear in Sacramento they made a trip down to hear and say hello. Nelson has sung in vast arenas and before millions of people and in the private chambers of our Presidents. He has a rich tenor voice. You can hear him on your radio if you check a bit. He has just recently been reassigned as Singing Ambassador for the Overseas’ Crusades. He and his wife and five children were looking for a place with a little peace and quiet to establish a home base. There will be a little time now and again between trips throughout the countries of the world to settle down. They just finished seven years in foreign service. Mr. Elliott showed them Nevada County. That did it. New neighbors! R&R. Some of the things to remember this week besides Easter and walks in our green hills, are the last half of the April birthdays. We left off with Mary Sailor on April 16. Fortunately Mary was able to be home from the hospital for her celebration. Young Bill Bursill and Sharon Mader celebrate April 20. Bill is away at school in the East but you could get his address from the Bursills. I wish you all could-have known Manuel Frank. He would have been 87 years young on April 20. He was a real pioneer and a a oe Sogo He used to tell us some of le greatest stories about early days here. His two children, Mr. William geet Mrs. Doris Trauner, still maintain a portion of the original John Frank Ranch purchased from rancher Perl Ladd way back in 1867. Marguerite DeBow has her annual anniversary on April 21. Mark Tinsley will celebrate April 23 and Sara Wright on April 25. Evelyn Doolan is last for this month on April 28. : sae -. . 273-2934 R&R, The Grange meeting on Friday, April 20 and the Grange Easter Breakfast following Sunrise Services Easter morning are the community activities of the week. Services have been arranged by Lecturer Alice Licht and will start at 6:30 a.m. on the Grange Hill. The Reverend Ben Fike of Placerville will conduct. His message will be ‘He Lives’. Music will be provided by the Teenage Acapella Choir of the Church of Christ of Placerville. The choir will alsd lead the congregation in the ever popular old Easter Hymns. Grange Master Ola Lee Hale is Breakfast Chairman. Breakfast, at $1.50, will consist of ham or bacon and eggs and will be served with plenty of hotcakes. It will be served immediately following services. Spring flowers are the theme for Decorations Chairman Clara Deardorf. R&R. The ladies of the Fire Auxiliary were pleased at the success of their White Elephant Auction at the April meeting. Together with the Stanley Party of March they have been able to add almost $50. to their treasury. The ladies use these funds to add to the efficiency of the fire truck or supply some necessity at the firehouse. Highlight of the evening was the quilts for the Secession Day Raffle. Mrs. Lillian Blakely displayed and donated a hand quilted beauty done in soft green and peach. The individual blocks were appliqued and embroidered with a Sunbonnet Girl before quilting. The group as a whole is also making a quilt for the Secession Day Raffle. Hostesses for the evening: were Noreen Harwood and ’Becky O’Banion. They provided spring flowers, lots of homemade cookies, coffee, and punch. Next month’s hostesses will be Wyn Schuster and Pat Litchfield. The meeting will be Monday, May 14. A program excluding any moneymaking project is being planned advises Mrs. Joe (Mary) Lee, Auxiliary President. R&R Mrs. Etta Ettleman, Rough and Ready’s former Postmaster, returned home from the hospital last Thursday. She was there, this trip, with pneumonia. Bill Ettleman says she is glad to be home even if they do have to have someone live in to take care of her until she gets well again. R&R Mrs. Dora Grieme had a quick trip to the hospital after her recent accident. It was raining and the car ahead of Dora stopped without warning. She ran her car into a bank to avoid hurting anyone and wound up with a broken rib and a very badly bruised rib area where she was thrown against the steering post. Dora, too, worked in our Post Office until recently. R&R If you want a night on the town try the opera, La Traviata, which is being presented by the Western Opera Company at the Old Nevada Theater tonight. Or take in the performance there on Friday of the new performing group on the local scene, The Victorian Repertory Company. Their presentation is the classic farce ‘The Importance of Being Ernest’. The group is spearheaded by Bob Gamage of NUHS. All part of the program, to bring cultural and educational features to Nevada County, being conducted by the Liberal Arts Group. Many of you must be members of this group. I am your representative on the Board of Directors. We hope these features will please.