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AT THE MUSEU M---This photo of Ellen
Hall Moon and her son Francis is shown
as displayed at the Nevada County Historical Society museum at, Commercial and
Main Sts, Nevada City. Mrs. Moon, .born
in North San Juan, died in Napa recently,
85 years of age.
North San Juan
Pioneer Dies, 85
NAPA---Ellen Hall Moon,
85, daughter of a pioneer
North San Juan immigrant
family from China, died
March 22 in a Napa nursing
home after an extended illness,
Mrs, Moon, for many years
a resident of Vallejo, until
her retirement a year ago
was active in business and
Civic affairs.
She was born in 1878, the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ho
Mow. Dr. Mow and his wife
moved fromthe Orient at the
behest of placer mine operators, to treat Chinese mine
workers. He founded in North
San Juan one of the first Chinese hospitals in California.
Mrs. Moon was the widow
of the late Wong Lung Moon
who died in 1924. Mr. Moon
Member Added
NEVADA CIT Y---The quorum-plagued Nevada County
Planning Commission has a
new member and renewed
hopes that the next meeting
will find a quorum present.
Planning Director Bill Roberts reported to the Nevada
County Board of Supervisors
that the commission has
lacked a quorum at its last
meeting and at two meetings
scheduled after that date.
Roberts said that illness and
stormy weather had left the
commission short of available members.
At the recommendation of
Supervisor Gene Ricker, the
board appointed Marvin
Wadley, Chicago Park ranch
owner, to the commission.
was a merchant in Nevada
City. He later operated a
general mercantile store in
North San Juan.
After transferring his business intereststo Vallejo, Mr.
Moon taught the Chinese
language there.
Until the time of her re.tirement, Mrs. Moon operateda chain of dry cleaning
and tailoring establishments.
She was an active member
of the Vallejo Chinese Community Center.
She was an active member
of the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Regular Veterans Association
of Vallejo, her sons and
grandsons having served in
U.S. Armed Forces during
wartime. Memorial services
were conducted by members
of this auxiliary March 29.
Surviving her are four of
her eight children; two-sons,
Francis J. Moon, Oakland,
andRolandV. Moon, Vallejo; and two daughters, Mrs.
AnnJung, Oakland, and Mrs,
Merle E. Evans, Napa.
Twelve grandchildren and
24 greatgrandchildren also
survive.
Funeral services were held
at the First Methodist Church
in Vallejo March 30 under
the auspices of the J.J. Mc
Donald Mortuary. Interment
was at Sunrise Memorial
Cemetery, Vallejo.
The Moon family was
highly esteemed in Nevada
County, and the children of
Mr, and Mrs. Moon continue
to be leaders and prominent
members of the California
community of Americans of
Chinese descent.
“THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES"
Published Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday April 3, 1963:
Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook,
land, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bl
Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye
mas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly i411, Gold Flat, $
Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, C
Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony: House, Delirium Trémens,
Se ae
oggsville, Gol
uaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown,
loads of students, some with
wives and children (75 of
them from 20 countries) will
arrive Saturday from the
University of California at
Davis to spend the weekend
with local families.
This is the third annual
foreign-student weekend
sponsored by the Concord
Group. This year members
of the local chapter of the
American Association of
University Women are helping with refreshments.
The entire group will be
joined by their host families
for a big picnic lunch Sunday noon inthe multipurpose
room of the Nevada Union
High School.
The following countries
are represented by the Davis
students who have signed to
come: Australia, Austria,
Ceylon, China, Colombia,
Cyprus, England, Greece,
India, Indonesia, Iran,
Italy, Japan, Mexico, New
Zealand, Pakistan, South
Africa, Syria, Taiwan, and
United Arab Republic.
end is the same asEisenhower’s “People to People”
program--"to promote international understanding
through direct personal contacts, "
Co-chairmen for the weekPend are Mrs. Melville HedThe purpose of the week-*
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Early Mine
Gravel To
Oroville
NEVADA CITY---Gravel
from one of the earliest
placer mining sites in Nevada
County will be a part of the
first concrete placed at the
core of the Oroville dam.
Nevada County sand and
gravel will be joined with
sand and gravel from 57 other
California counties as a symbol of “the historic importance of Oroville Dam and
its significance for the entire
state,” in the words of
Governor Edmund G. Brown.
The local gravel, fromthe
Portuguese Mining Claim site
patented in 1862, was pickea
up today by the State Department of Water Resources
from Nevada County Clerk
John T-. Trauner.
TheOroville Dam, on the
Feather River, is a key part
of the State Water Project.
The sand and gravel from
California counties will be
mixed during a ceremony at
Oroville during mid-April.
THROW DOWN THE BOX! !---Thecry of the highwayman of old
is brought to mind by the Wells, Fargo and Company strong
box held by Jim Henwood, retired Grass Valley express agent.
Henwood, a 46 year veteran of the express business, will
speak tothe Nevada County Historical Society tomorrow night
at8 p.m. in the auditorium of the Nevada City Elementary
School. The public is invited.
Foreign Students
Will Visit Area
For Weekend Fete
NEVADA CIT Y---Two busrick and Mrs. Tyler Micoleau. The housing committee consists of Mrs. Alfred
Heller, Mrs. Edward Frantz,
Mrs. Dwight Webster, and
Miss Helen Bontecou.
George Burcham is planning
the program, and Mrs. William Wetherall is handling
information to host families.
Supervisors
Back State
Park Plans
NEVADA CITY---Nevada
County Supervisors by resolution Monday urged the
California Division of
Beaches and Parks to acquire
the Malakoff Diggings area
including the North Bloomfield townsite for use as a
state park.
Supervisors also urged life
tenacy for present North
Bloomfield residents.
The action makes official
county support of the Malakoff Diggins Project of the
Division of Beaches and
Parks, a50Q0 acre park plan
that calls for acquisition as
soon as funds are available.
The supervisors also:
Appointed Arnold Stunkel
and Oscar Myrenius to the
board of directors of the Gold
Flat Fire District.
Issued a minute order to
Graham to proceed with the
construction of an access
road to the count y-owned
Chicago Park townsite.
Adopted a resolution for
the establishment of the TriCounty Compact for access
roads and crossings in the
Nevada -Yuba -Placer County
junction area.
Malakoff
Windows
NEVADA CIT Y---More than
a half-dozen Nevada City
store windows will be decorated with a Malakoff Park
theme this weekend and for
the next week.
Nevada City artist Richard
Hackett, in cooperation with
the Nevada City Chamber of
Commerce, is arranging the
displays, which will also
feature relics of hydraulicking days.
Hackett said that paintings
of Malakoff by at least three
local artists will be included
in the displays.
Road Commissioner Robert4a
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RAILROAD TOUR--More than 350 members of the California-Nevada Railroad ‘Historical Society lunched inthe National Hotel Sunday. The group arrived by special
train at Colfax and were brought by buses to Nevada City. Other photos, Page 2.
Hail, Snow, The Gang’s All Here..
360 Historians Visit Nevada City .
NEVADA CITY ---It snowed,
it rained, and it hailed; but
in spite of it all, some 360
California-Nevada Railroad
Historical Society tour
members thoroughly enjoyed
their “Gold Rush Special”
trip to Nevada City Sunday.
» And.for the Sturni-Haley
Guide Service there were
plaudits and publicity for
their first venture into the
field of local guided tours.
The tourists arrived by the
Southern Pacific "Gold Rush
Special", a 15-car special
train that picked up its passengers in San Francisco and
Sacramento, at the Colfax
railroad station. From there
they transferred into'ten
Greyhound contracted buses
and the Sierra foothills.
The snow changed some
plans, for a few of the buses
were not equipped with
chains and dared not venture
up Scenic Highway 20 or
fortheir trip to Nevada City.
Highway 40 beyond Baxter.
Andthere was one busload
_Pherson, and a program on
the Nevada County Narrow
of tourists that went away Gauge Railroad during the
hungry, for the tour timeluncheon period featuring
table became ensnared in Bob Paine).
weather conditions that
proved bothersome even for
the local mountain folk.
Few of the visitors wandered about town. Most of
them weren't dressed for the
But. guides.on-the tour.re~.-.cool,.wet.weather,.preferport there werenumerous ‘ring instead the warm welthanks expressed for the welcome of the National Hotel
come in Nevada City(a and Townsman Cafe.
brass band led by Bill Mac
Sems, a “glad to have you"
from Vice-Mayor Arch Mc
Television Channel 3 was
on hand to record the opening
tour of a pair of high school
County Faces Parking Lot Problem
NEVADA CIT Y---With contracts awarded for-construction of the new county courthouse building in Truckee,
worry about parking space
GRASS VALLEY---A head-on
accident Saturday afternoon
in the Red Hat-Lime Kiln
area of Highway 49 hospitalized four area residents, but
all are reported on their way
to recovery,
The crash took place when
] Mrs, Edith Chalmers, Grass
Valley, apparently blacked jf
out, hercar reportedly cros=
sing over the center line into
one driven by Stan Roeseler,
Grass Valley.
Owner of the Roeselerdriven auto, Mrs. Carmen
another passenger, Mrs,
Wanda Lageson, and Roeseler are in Sierra-Nevada
Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Chalmers is in Jones
Memorial Hospital. :
Head-On Accident .
Puts 4 In Hospital .
Perrencot, T own Talk, and/}j
Special Meeting
GRASS VALLEY ---The trus=
tees of the Nevada Union
High School will hold a special meeting April 19,
Discussion of the April 16
school election; Campton=
ville High School annexation, and other items will
be on the agenda.
Weather
NEVADA CITY
Max. Min, Rainfall
Mar. 28 46 33 3.74
29 46 37 44
30 50. 40 Al
31 82 40 .23
Apr. 1 45 32 . 88
2 45 25 trace
8 80 35 04
Rainfall to date 54.68
Rainfall last year 50.63
GRASS VALLEY
Max. Min. Rainfall
Mar. 28 48 35 3.75
29 46 37 .00
30 54 40 .08
sl be e”—C=—SS
Apr. 1 54 30 .87
2 468 & .o
3. 64 Ma
56.41
49.09
Rainfall to date
Rainfall last year
has movedtothe foreground.
Malcolm Mau of Barnum
and Mau, architects fo: the
project, reported on the
signing of construction c ontracts with Nomellini Company of Stockton for the
annex and with Dorville,
Gallino and Kohler, Grass
Valley, forthe Truckee building.
He then told Nevada
County supervisors that the
courthouse parking problem
would have to be solved as
soon as possible. Despite the
use of the annex site for
parking, and the use of the
Veterans Memorial Building
parking lot, there is still insufficient space for county
parking, he reported,
Parking problems have also
been noted by Nevada City
merchants and the Nevada
City Council in recent
months.
Thecity is contemplating
purchase of the Holbrook
property on Spring St. to aid
city parking problems.
Mau also said that temporary office space will be
needed to house the offices
of the County Road Commissioner and the County
Purchasing office. Both these
offices must be vacated during construction work,
Fire Fighting
Display May 19
NEVADA CIT Y-~-Equipment
and methods of fire fighting
will be demonstrated May 19
at Loma Rica Airport starting
at 11 a.m.
As a part of Fire Service
Day activities, nine area
volunteer fire departments
and the California Division
of Forestry will take part in
the show.
One phase of the demonstration will be the laying of
fire hose by helicopter.
Chairman, of the event isBev Murphy, chief of the
Ophir Hill volunteer department.
The demonstration is sponsored by the County Fire Prevention Association.
FOR AUCTION---First items donated for the May 4 Nevada
City Chamber.of Commerce fund-raising auction were pre=sentedto chamber President Alice McGee (right) this week by
Nevada City Art Association President Vee Thompson. The art
association purchased this painting of a Grass Valley home
from scholarship student Gil Thornally as well as a painting.
by Bill Kirchner for donation to the chamber's auction«.
students, Gary Sturni and
day onthe newscast was good
promotion ‘for the lads and
the city.
Mother's
Day Feed
Is Slated
ROUGH AND READY ---The
annual Mother's Day Dinner
at Rough and Ready will be
held this year May 12, the
local committee announced.
Anevent that has built its
popularity on the warmth of
rural hospitality as well as
on delicious home cooked
food, the affair is sponsored
by the Rough and Ready
Grange and the Rough and
Ready Chamber of Commerce.
Proceeds of the annual
event will be turned -over-tothe Odd Fellows Hall building
fund.
Martina Paull, member of
. the Nevada County Historical Society and the Rough
and Ready Grange, will be
in charge of publications.
This year ‘s menu will center around a roast turkey dinner which will be served from
hoon to4p.m. —
Cooking will be under the
direction of Mae Wilson.
A humber of door prizes
jwill be given during the
‘afternoon.
Chamber Asks
For Auction Items’
NEVADA CITY---The Nev.
ada City Chamber of Com. Merce yesterday issued a
plea for the donation of items
that can be auctioned off by
the group May 4 in a fund
raising campaign.
Alice McGee, president of
the ‘organization, said that
items that are or heavy
will be picked up by KenThe auction will be held
on. Pine St, between Commetcial andBroad Sts. inan
area blocked off forthe —
‘event..
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