April 23, 1964 (24 pages)

a Snow measurements taken at Sardine Flat and Church Meadow snow courses April 6.areé much lower than the 10-year average, according to Downieville District Ranger Kenneth Chilman. This could inci@ate an early fire season unless in, Scag ge occurs in the next few weeks, . The Sardine Flat sn located at Salmon Creek Campground just off theGold Lake highway. The ChuregMeadow = wgourse is: snow coursé.is located near the Gold Lake highway summit about a mile from Snag Lake. Walt Schlumpf, Wally Simning, and Dick Lund took the snow measurements hiking over six miles.each way in and back out in one day. This was possible because the snow isnow hard packed and most of the trip was made without need of skis or snowshoes. Ordinarily an overnight stay at a small cabin near Church Meadow Mofo Boho WORLD PRESS DISPATCHES US And USSR Say They'll Cut Production. Of Nuclear Explosives In MOSCOW and NEW YORK the Soviet Union and the U.S. simultaneously announced plans tocut down the production of nuclear explosive materials in an effort to ease the atomic arms race. Speaking before an Associated Press luncheon, President Johnson said, "We think we will reduce tension while we maintain all necessary power.” Premier Khrushchev in a statement reported in the Russian newspaper Tass said the cutback was “an opportunity for improving mutual understanding with other states on the necessity of avoiding a nuclear war." ++ +++ In WASHINGTON; Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara released figures on U.S. military superiority to counteract Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay's contention that the Russians are catching up to the U.S. in nuclear. strength and that the U.S. should build a 100 megaton bomb and more stretegic bombers. According to the Pentagon figures, the U.S. has 750 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles ready to launch, 540 SAC bombers on constant alert, and 192 Polaris submarine missiles ready to launch while submerged. Russia has 187 ICBM's, 270 bombers and “substantially fewer" sublaunched missiles. ++ +++ In MOSCOW, Premier Khrushchev told a Soviet -Polish friend-’ ship raily that hewasnow in “open contlict™ with Chinese leaders. He accused Peking of “subversive activities" aimed at dividing and conquering the world Communist movement. He said that the Chinese were advocating a revolutionary course which "NEVADA COUNT Y NUGGET Published every Thursday by NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, NC. , 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Second class postage paid at Nev ada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 écree No. 12,406. Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years, $8. ome Berio would lead to war, but “what do their people want--war or rice? I think they want rice." Later in the week friendly words were ex~changed between Peking and Russia on the occasion of Khrushchev's 70th birthday. ++ 444+ TheU.S, delegate atthe GENEVA disarmament conference proposed a plan to freeze the present number of nuclear mis~ siles and bombers of the major powers without waiting for a disarmament agreement, which was promptly attacked by Soviet delegate Tsarapkin as “controls without disarmament", Earlier in the week, Tsarapkin told reporters that the one area in which the U.S. and Russia were close to agreement was onthe bomber burning idea in which major nations would scrap obsolete bombers. +++ + +4 _.President Johnson in WASHINGTON ordereda one-year study of military manpower policiesin order to see if the draft could be eliminated in favor of voluntary enlistment in the 1970s. ++ t+ + + Senator Barry Goldwater won in the ILLINOIS presidential preference primary. Senator Margaret Chase Smith gained over 100,000 votes in a surprising show of strength. Charles H. Percy, who didnot favor Goldwater, won the Republican nomination for govemor. +++ 4+ Byron Beckwith was released on bail after a jury failed to reach agreement in his second trial for the killing of Medgar Evers in MISSISSIPPI. +++ ++ A hiring agreement between SAN FRANCISCO autom obile agencies and minority groups ended civil rig hts demonstrations on automobile row. ++ +++ Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, a book criticizing the indiscriminate use of pesticides, died in MARYLAND of cancer this week, onthe eve of congressional hearings by the Ribicoff Committee into the massive fish kills on the lower Mississippi River. +++ 4+ + The situation in LAOS remained confused after a right-wing coup placed Premier Souvanna Phouma under house arrest. The U.S., Russia, France, and Britain strongly oppose the coup and are demanding the reinstatement of Phouma. Snow Level Below Average is necessary. There was an average of 36.4 inches of snow recorded for the ten measurements at Sardine Flat. The ten-year average for this course is 42. 9 inches of snow. An average depth of 58.7 inches of snow was recorded at Church ‘Meadows. The ten-year average there is 68.9 inches. These low snow depths are correlated by precipitation measurements taken at Downieville Rapger Station which total approximately 13 inches less to date this year than the 52-year average of 55 inches, Camptonville 4H Club Plants 400 Trees The Camptonville 4H Club recently completed a small reforestation project on the Camptonville Ranger District of the Tahoe National Forest. The members planted almost 400 trees as part of the training they receive in forestry. Club members are receiving instructionin forestry practices from Vincent A. Letko, Fire Prevention’ Technician on the Camptonville Ranger District. Members are given instruction in fire prevention, map reading, and reforestation. They are also collecting and identifying common forest plants. According to District Ranger Lynn A. Horton, the reforestation work was done on a Forest Service timber sale area. Ranger Horton pointed out that a portion of the sale receipts were set aside for reforestation work after the sale is completed. This money is used to prepare the ground for planting, purchase, and plant the trees. This work is part of a 365 acre project scheduled for completion this spring on the Camptonville Ranger District. MAKE AND BREAK..Dale Hahn, Nevada City student at UC Davis, couples a nozzle to firehose in practice for a meet with student-firemen from Stanford University Saturday in Modesto. The event is humorously billed as the "International Collegiate Student-Firemen's Make-andBreak Contest". Hahnis the sonof Mr. and Mrs. Allan W. Hahn, 425 Nimrod St., Nevada City. Nuggets In The News The Mountain Counties Water Resources Association met Wednedsay at Grass Valley's Bret Harte Inn it was announced by Association President John D ‘Agostini, Supervisor of El Dorado County. Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall April16 78 38 .00 17 6Q = SE .00 18 63 31 00 19 62 30 00 20. 59 34 . 00 21. 88 34 .00 22 64 35 . 00 Rainfall to date 33. 66 Rainfall last year 65.81 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall April16 80 46 .00 17.71 «$8 .00 8 Tl. S45 00 19 64 35 .00 20 62 37 .00 21 63 39 00 20.67 40 00 Rainfall to date 40.09 Rainfall last year 67.64 Clampers of western Nevada County will honor Hamilton Smith, early hydraulic mining engineer, with the dedication of a plaqué May 10 at the site of Smith's North Bloomfield tunnel which drained the Malakoff Diggings basin. Dedicate Glasson , Way The access road to the SierraNevada Memorial Hospital has been dedicated as Glasson Way, in memory of Miss Bernice Glasson's mother and father, and in honor of Miss Glasson's service to the hospital and the community. Dedication ceremonies were held Friday afternoon. Director Named Nevada County Clerk John T. Traunerhas been chosen a director of the County Clerks Association of California, Regional Conference Agricultural, industrial, travel andrecreation issues will be considered tomorrow ata regional conference of the California State Chamber of Commerce in the Hotel Senator in Sacramento. Linda Vernon Travels Linda Vernon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Vernon, Grass Valley, is a member of the Brigham Y oung University International Folk Dancers, scheduled to travel to Europe to participate in the International Folk Dance Festival Clampers To Honor Engineer in Varde, Denmark, June 24-29. It is the first time an American group has been invited to participate in the festival which is held each four years. Cramer Gets Emblem William V. Cramer, Grass Valley area distributor for Tidewater Oil Company, has been awarded a three year service emblem. PG&E Taxes Are Up Property tax payments in Norther California by Pacific Gas and Electric Company reached an all-time high last week when final installments were paid by the company. Nevada City received $3,372, Nevada County, $584, 144 in 1963-64 taxes from the company. Placer Hires Coach Placer Union High School district hired Charles Walker, graduate student at the University of Nevada and freshman football and basketball coach there, as head head football coach, it was announced last week. In three years of varsity coaching experience at Winnemucca High School, Walker had a win-loss record of 18-9. Attend Law Program Bill Bagley and Arlen Cartwright, patrolmen with the local California Division of Forestry office, attended an advanced law enforcement training program given to 20 Mother Lode county CDF employees at Sonora. “7 ose . "PO6I ‘ES INdy***1088nN ay’ Z o8eg"’ dl Page 3 The Nugget. 1064) Anril 92 Rian &

a Snow measurements taken at Sardine Flat and Church Meadow snow courses April 6.areé much lower than the 10-year average, according to Downieville District Ranger Kenneth Chilman. This could inci@ate an early fire season unless in, Scag ge occurs in the next few weeks, . The Sardine Flat sn located at Salmon Creek Campground just off theGold Lake highway. The ChuregMeadow = wgourse is: snow coursé.is located near the Gold Lake highway summit about a mile from Snag Lake. Walt Schlumpf, Wally Simning, and Dick Lund took the snow measurements hiking over six miles.each way in and back out in one day. This was possible because the snow isnow hard packed and most of the trip was made without need of skis or snowshoes. Ordinarily an overnight stay at a small cabin near Church Meadow Mofo Boho WORLD PRESS DISPATCHES US And USSR Say They'll Cut Production. Of Nuclear Explosives In MOSCOW and NEW YORK the Soviet Union and the U.S. simultaneously announced plans tocut down the production of nuclear explosive materials in an effort to ease the atomic arms race. Speaking before an Associated Press luncheon, President Johnson said, "We think we will reduce tension while we maintain all necessary power.” Premier Khrushchev in a statement reported in the Russian newspaper Tass said the cutback was “an opportunity for improving mutual understanding with other states on the necessity of avoiding a nuclear war." ++ +++ In WASHINGTON; Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara released figures on U.S. military superiority to counteract Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay's contention that the Russians are catching up to the U.S. in nuclear. strength and that the U.S. should build a 100 megaton bomb and more stretegic bombers. According to the Pentagon figures, the U.S. has 750 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles ready to launch, 540 SAC bombers on constant alert, and 192 Polaris submarine missiles ready to launch while submerged. Russia has 187 ICBM's, 270 bombers and “substantially fewer" sublaunched missiles. ++ +++ In MOSCOW, Premier Khrushchev told a Soviet -Polish friend-’ ship raily that hewasnow in “open contlict™ with Chinese leaders. He accused Peking of “subversive activities" aimed at dividing and conquering the world Communist movement. He said that the Chinese were advocating a revolutionary course which "NEVADA COUNT Y NUGGET Published every Thursday by NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, NC. , 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Second class postage paid at Nev ada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 écree No. 12,406. Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years, $8. ome Berio would lead to war, but “what do their people want--war or rice? I think they want rice." Later in the week friendly words were ex~changed between Peking and Russia on the occasion of Khrushchev's 70th birthday. ++ 444+ TheU.S, delegate atthe GENEVA disarmament conference proposed a plan to freeze the present number of nuclear mis~ siles and bombers of the major powers without waiting for a disarmament agreement, which was promptly attacked by Soviet delegate Tsarapkin as “controls without disarmament", Earlier in the week, Tsarapkin told reporters that the one area in which the U.S. and Russia were close to agreement was onthe bomber burning idea in which major nations would scrap obsolete bombers. +++ + +4 _.President Johnson in WASHINGTON ordereda one-year study of military manpower policiesin order to see if the draft could be eliminated in favor of voluntary enlistment in the 1970s. ++ t+ + + Senator Barry Goldwater won in the ILLINOIS presidential preference primary. Senator Margaret Chase Smith gained over 100,000 votes in a surprising show of strength. Charles H. Percy, who didnot favor Goldwater, won the Republican nomination for govemor. +++ 4+ Byron Beckwith was released on bail after a jury failed to reach agreement in his second trial for the killing of Medgar Evers in MISSISSIPPI. +++ ++ A hiring agreement between SAN FRANCISCO autom obile agencies and minority groups ended civil rig hts demonstrations on automobile row. ++ +++ Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, a book criticizing the indiscriminate use of pesticides, died in MARYLAND of cancer this week, onthe eve of congressional hearings by the Ribicoff Committee into the massive fish kills on the lower Mississippi River. +++ 4+ + The situation in LAOS remained confused after a right-wing coup placed Premier Souvanna Phouma under house arrest. The U.S., Russia, France, and Britain strongly oppose the coup and are demanding the reinstatement of Phouma. Snow Level Below Average is necessary. There was an average of 36.4

inches of snow recorded for the ten measurements at Sardine Flat. The ten-year average for this course is 42. 9 inches of snow. An average depth of 58.7 inches of snow was recorded at Church ‘Meadows. The ten-year average there is 68.9 inches. These low snow depths are correlated by precipitation measurements taken at Downieville Rapger Station which total approximately 13 inches less to date this year than the 52-year average of 55 inches, Camptonville 4H Club Plants 400 Trees The Camptonville 4H Club recently completed a small reforestation project on the Camptonville Ranger District of the Tahoe National Forest. The members planted almost 400 trees as part of the training they receive in forestry. Club members are receiving instructionin forestry practices from Vincent A. Letko, Fire Prevention’ Technician on the Camptonville Ranger District. Members are given instruction in fire prevention, map reading, and reforestation. They are also collecting and identifying common forest plants. According to District Ranger Lynn A. Horton, the reforestation work was done on a Forest Service timber sale area. Ranger Horton pointed out that a portion of the sale receipts were set aside for reforestation work after the sale is completed. This money is used to prepare the ground for planting, purchase, and plant the trees. This work is part of a 365 acre project scheduled for completion this spring on the Camptonville Ranger District. MAKE AND BREAK...Dale Hahn, Nevada City student at UC Davis, couples a nozzle to firehose in practice for a meet with student-firemen from Stanford University Saturday in Modesto. The event is humorously billed as the "International Collegiate Student-Firemen's Make-andBreak Contest". Hahnis the sonof Mr. and Mrs. Allan W. Hahn, 425 Nimrod St., Nevada City. Nuggets In The News The Mountain Counties Water Resources Association met Wednedsay at Grass Valley's Bret Harte Inn it was announced by Association President John D ‘Agostini, Supervisor of El Dorado County. Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall April16 78 38 .00 17 6Q = SE .00 18 63 31 00 19 62 30 00 20. 59 34 . 00 21. 88 34 .00 22 64 35 . 00 Rainfall to date 33. 66 Rainfall last year 65.81 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall April16 80 46 .00 17.71 «$8 .00 8 Tl. S45 00 19 64 35 .00 20 62 37 .00 21 63 39 00 20.67 40 00 Rainfall to date 40.09 Rainfall last year 67.64 Clampers of western Nevada County will honor Hamilton Smith, early hydraulic mining engineer, with the dedication of a plaqué May 10 at the site of Smith's North Bloomfield tunnel which drained the Malakoff Diggings basin. Dedicate Glasson , Way The access road to the SierraNevada Memorial Hospital has been dedicated as Glasson Way, in memory of Miss Bernice Glasson's mother and father, and in honor of Miss Glasson's service to the hospital and the community. Dedication ceremonies were held Friday afternoon. Director Named Nevada County Clerk John T. Traunerhas been chosen a director of the County Clerks Association of California, Regional Conference Agricultural, industrial, travel andrecreation issues will be considered tomorrow ata regional conference of the California State Chamber of Commerce in the Hotel Senator in Sacramento. Linda Vernon Travels Linda Vernon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Vernon, Grass Valley, is a member of the Brigham Y oung University International Folk Dancers, scheduled to travel to Europe to participate in the International Folk Dance Festival Clampers To Honor Engineer in Varde, Denmark, June 24-29. It is the first time an American group has been invited to participate in the festival which is held each four years. Cramer Gets Emblem William V. Cramer, Grass Valley area distributor for Tidewater Oil Company, has been awarded a three year service emblem. PG&E Taxes Are Up Property tax payments in Norther California by Pacific Gas and Electric Company reached an all-time high last week when final installments were paid by the company. Nevada City received $3,372, Nevada County, $584, 144 in 1963-64 taxes from the company. Placer Hires Coach Placer Union High School district hired Charles Walker, graduate student at the University of Nevada and freshman football and basketball coach there, as head head football coach, it was announced last week. In three years of varsity coaching experience at Winnemucca High School, Walker had a win-loss record of 18-9. Attend Law Program Bill Bagley and Arlen Cartwright, patrolmen with the local California Division of Forestry office, attended an advanced law enforcement training program given to 20 Mother Lode county CDF employees at Sonora. “7 ose . "PO6I ‘ES INdy***1088nN ay’ Z o8eg"’ dl Page 3 The Nugget. 1064) Anril 92 Rian &