April 5, 1961 (10 pages)

inne a a RR ON RR Ti NEVADA COUNTY see Sie et RAE ola Serving the communities of _ Graniteville, No: Chicago Park, Wol Hill, Brandy Flat, Nevada City, Grass Valley, San Juan, North Bloomfield, Hum Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzl topol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, bug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Moon Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridg y Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, ey Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, e, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, ‘Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Volume 36 No. 14 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekly Nevada City, April 5, 1961 Coaches Contracts Held Up Alumni pressures made themselves felt Monday night at a meeting of the Nevada Union High School District board. Allteachers, except three who had resigned, were offered new contracts for the 1961-62 school year with two notable exceptions: Ursal Sanpp andJames Guinn, football coaches. Granting of tenure and authorizing the:contracts was held up until the end of the board: meeting in order to allow board members to have a personnel meeting, at the request of member Jack Brickell, Tenure was then granted all who qualified, and all but the two contracts were authorized. — . The board is understood to have desired to have a further discussion on the two noted contracts. Since both aretenure teachers, it is assured that the subject of idscussion is the sports program at the high school-probable football. _ And witha poor record last year, the high school coaches presumable are "on the pan" for their team record. Coaching assignments are a part of teaching contracts and carry. additional pay for work done. The board apparently is_ considering whether to withhold coaching assignment from one or both of the teachers, ~ NC Property Owners Contacted On PaintUp Property owners in downtown Nevada City are being contactedto get permission of owners to have the buildings in the Operation PaintUp program lined up for this year. For City He In Printing Map Nevada City Chamber of Commerce directors are hoping they can get city help in producing much needed maps of the city. Committee Chairman Earl Erickson reported to the directors Monday that preliminary work in preparing the map would cost about $100 . Printing costs of the map would be in addition to the one-time preparation fee. Chamber President Dean Thompson will approach the Nevada City Council to see if the city will budget promotional fundsto aid in the printing of the maps. Hiway 40 Paving Job Goes To Bid; The State Division of Highways will open bids May 3 for the resurfacing of another nie miles of highways at three locations in Nevada and Placer counties, according to officials at the Marysville district office. A total of $83, 000 has been budgeted for the improvement which will include } paving the existing highways with a one-inch blanket of asphalt concrete. The job announced today}! calls for 1) repaving 2.5 miles of US 40.in Nevada County, from the junction with State Sign Route 20 east tothe Placer County line; 2) from Soda Springs to Donner Summit, also on US 40, a total of 3.8 miles; and 3) State Sign Route 28 from the junction with SSR98 in Tahoe Cityto2.8 miles east at the Dollar Gradenear Lake Forest on the Tahoe north} shore. x FIFTY EIGHT YEARS .FROM BRUSH TO CAMERA.Mrs. Juliet Cox, Nevada County Historical Society's "Citizen of the year. 1961" sits beside her portrait painted in New York City in 1903 by Irving Wiles. stage actress Julia Marlowe. Wiles became famous for his portrait of the Mrs. Cox, who will be 80 in June, has completed more than 50 years of service with the AmericanRedCross. This service spans two World Wars. During World War I, Mrs. Cox served as Motor Corps Chairman in New York City, andhas served in many volunteer capacities since. See story page 3. NUGGET Photo by Prentiss Studio al * pA WITHIN A GNATS EYELASH.Or should we more correctly say, “within a beavers eyelash" of falling. This 8" tree cut by beaver tooth powered saws is almostready to topple. The logs will be used in the dams.and houses, the bark and leaves for food. / ‘As Busy As Beavers’ Thedictionary tells us that, “an amphibious rodent of the genus Castor, valued for its fur and---noted for its ingenuity indamming streams with trees, branches, stones, mud, etc. ---" is called a beaver. : Our children can tell us that they have been "as busy as beavers" all afternoon and that's why they didn't do their homework! If we remember our history, the beaver hat was quite the fashion a hundred » years ago. Western Nevada County . ] residents need only drive a . short way past the County f Hospital on Willow Valley Road to see what the dictionary describes. The local Deer Creek Weather’ . Nevada City Max. Min. jRain Mar. 29 56-29 Bes Mar. 30 67 32 =4 Mar, 31 66 . OF -Apr. 1 64 37 -Apr. 2 74 41 -< Apr. 95 79. 44 -Apr. 4 81 45 -Rain.to date. . 31.69 Rain last year . . . . 40.36 Grass Valley Mar. 29 59 37 -Mar. 30 69 40 -Mar. 31 67 43 -An. 3 66 43 mee Apr. 715 39 -2 Apr. 3 1G 405 ce Apr. 4 84 53 ae Rain to date. . .32,42 Rain last year =~. 42.74 beaver tribe is well prepared for the coming spring run-off. Their dams are in excellent repair and their spillways clear of debris. Beavers usually build their log and mud houses in the lakes which form behind the dams Our Deer Creek friends seem to prefer burrowing in the lake bank where they dig long tunnels which serve as living quarters and also as store houses for food. FORESTRY DIVISION PLANS — BANNER MT. EXPANSION Ex pansion plans for the California Division of Forestry facilities atop Banner Mountain were revealed this week by State Forester Robert Burns, head of the-Nevada-Yuba forestry facilities. The F orestry Division is negotiating with the NID, Herb Nile, and the Keystone Copper Corporation which Owns the former Lava Cap mine property in order to increase the size of forestry holdings on the mountain top from one acre to eight. Upon completion of the immediate expansion, Burns saidthe mountain top would then be enhanced to provide expanded and improved picnic facilities. Burns said the Division of Highways has budgeted for the paving of the road leading up the Banner Mountain crest from the You. Bet road junction, and that the paving will likely be completed by Reef Site Considered The Gold Reef mining claim situated north of Highway 49 is under consideration as a site for the new U.S. Forest Service headquarters. This wasrevealed Monday at a meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce by a representative of acommittee acting for the City of Nevada . Herbert Nile said he, M. C. Aney and Al Merrill had been asked by the city to prepare an estimate of the property'svalue. This estimate of value was to guide the council in arriving at a fair price in dealing with a representative of The Auburn Co.’ The principal beaver food is bark and leaves from the trees they have felled. Not much is wasted, The logs are used for dams and houses and the bark and leaves for food. Saturday members of the Stockton Corral of Westemers, a historical group, will tour the Nevada City area. One of the places they will visitis Beaver Creek--oops, I mean Deer Creek. June. Burns said there is $17, 000 budgeted for construction of a communications building , residence, and property acquisition. The Division of Forestry is in the process of erecting a pre-fab communications center which will place under one roof all existing facilities there now. In addition it will expand radio relay facilities for the Forestry Division, the Division of Highways, the Fish and Game Division, the Water Resources Board, and the California Highway Patrol. Other governmental agencies are expected to join in the use of the relay Station, Burns Said. A 12KV standby generator will be installed at the facility in order to assure continous operation in the event of a power failure. About. half of the budget is for the construction of a residence for the use of the person assigned to maintain the facility. The county has recently laid fresh gravel on the You Betroad extension of Banner Mountain Road beyond the Lava Cap intersection, and Burns said when funds are available the county plans to extend the pavement to join withthe proposed state paving job. THE GRAND CANAL OF DEER CREEK. .Well, not quite. In the left center is one of the main intake canals tothe beaver built lake. The canal drains surrounding land and also serves as a waterway to transport logs (cut to short lengths) to the dam site. LAKE, DAM, SPILLWAYS AND CREEK.In the right foreground is one of the bypass spillways built by beavers to allow water to re-enter the creek below-the dam. These spillways as well as the canals are built to.help maintain the level of the lake which { behind the dam, in the center of the picture.

inne a a RR ON RR Ti NEVADA COUNTY see Sie et RAE ola Serving the communities of _ Graniteville, No: Chicago Park, Wol Hill, Brandy Flat, Nevada City, Grass Valley, San Juan, North Bloomfield, Hum Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzl topol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, bug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Moon Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridg y Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, ey Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, e, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, ‘Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Volume 36 No. 14 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekly Nevada City, April 5, 1961 Coaches Contracts Held Up Alumni pressures made themselves felt Monday night at a meeting of the Nevada Union High School District board. Allteachers, except three who had resigned, were offered new contracts for the 1961-62 school year with two notable exceptions: Ursal Sanpp andJames Guinn, football coaches. Granting of tenure and authorizing the:contracts was held up until the end of the board: meeting in order to allow board members to have a personnel meeting, at the request of member Jack Brickell, Tenure was then granted all who qualified, and all but the two contracts were authorized. — . The board is understood to have desired to have a further discussion on the two noted contracts. Since both aretenure teachers, it is assured that the subject of idscussion is the sports program at the high school-probable football. _ And witha poor record last year, the high school coaches presumable are "on the pan" for their team record. Coaching assignments are a part of teaching contracts and carry. additional pay for work done. The board apparently is_ considering whether to withhold coaching assignment from one or both of the teachers, ~ NC Property Owners Contacted On PaintUp Property owners in downtown Nevada City are being contactedto get permission of owners to have the buildings in the Operation PaintUp program lined up for this year. For City He In Printing Map Nevada City Chamber of Commerce directors are hoping they can get city help in producing much needed maps of the city. Committee Chairman Earl Erickson reported to the directors Monday that preliminary work in preparing the map would cost about $100 . Printing costs of the map would be in addition to the one-time preparation fee. Chamber President Dean Thompson will approach the Nevada City Council to see if the city will budget promotional fundsto aid in the printing of the maps. Hiway 40 Paving Job Goes To Bid; The State Division of Highways will open bids May 3 for the resurfacing of another nie miles of highways at three locations in Nevada and Placer counties, according to officials at the Marysville district office. A total of $83, 000 has been budgeted for the improvement which will include } paving the existing highways with a one-inch blanket of asphalt concrete. The job announced today}! calls for 1) repaving 2.5 miles of US 40.in Nevada County, from the junction with State Sign Route 20 east tothe Placer County line; 2) from Soda Springs to Donner Summit, also on US 40, a total of 3.8 miles; and 3) State Sign Route 28 from the junction with SSR98 in Tahoe Cityto2.8 miles east at the Dollar Gradenear Lake Forest on the Tahoe north} shore. x FIFTY EIGHT YEARS .FROM BRUSH TO CAMERA..Mrs. Juliet Cox, Nevada County Historical Society's "Citizen of the year. 1961" sits beside her portrait painted in New York City in 1903 by Irving Wiles. stage actress Julia Marlowe. Wiles became famous for his portrait of the Mrs. Cox, who will be 80 in June, has completed more than 50 years of service with the AmericanRedCross. This service spans two World Wars. During World War I, Mrs. Cox served as Motor Corps Chairman in New York City, andhas served in many volunteer capacities since. See story page 3. NUGGET Photo by Prentiss Studio al * pA WITHIN A GNATS EYELASH.Or should we more correctly say, “within a beavers eyelash" of falling. This 8" tree cut by beaver tooth powered saws is almostready to topple. The logs will be used in the dams.and houses, the bark and leaves for food. / ‘As Busy As Beavers’ Thedictionary tells us that, “an amphibious rodent of the genus Castor, valued for its fur and---noted for its ingenuity indamming streams with trees, branches, stones, mud, etc. ---" is called a beaver. :

Our children can tell us that they have been "as busy as beavers" all afternoon and that's why they didn't do their homework! If we remember our history, the beaver hat was quite the fashion a hundred » years ago. Western Nevada County . ] residents need only drive a . short way past the County f Hospital on Willow Valley Road to see what the dictionary describes. The local Deer Creek Weather’ . Nevada City Max. Min. jRain Mar. 29 56-29 Bes Mar. 30 67 32 =4 Mar, 31 66 . OF -Apr. 1 64 37 -Apr. 2 74 41 -< Apr. 95 79. 44 -Apr. 4 81 45 -Rain.to date.. . 31.69 Rain last year . . . . 40.36 Grass Valley Mar. 29 59 37 -Mar. 30 69 40 -Mar. 31 67 43 -An. 3 66 43 mee Apr. 715 39 -2 Apr. 3 1G 405 ce Apr. 4 84 53 ae Rain to date.. . .32,42 Rain last year =~. 42.74 beaver tribe is well prepared for the coming spring run-off. Their dams are in excellent repair and their spillways clear of debris. Beavers usually build their log and mud houses in the lakes which form behind the dams Our Deer Creek friends seem to prefer burrowing in the lake bank where they dig long tunnels which serve as living quarters and also as store houses for food. FORESTRY DIVISION PLANS — BANNER MT. EXPANSION Ex pansion plans for the California Division of Forestry facilities atop Banner Mountain were revealed this week by State Forester Robert Burns, head of the-Nevada-Yuba forestry facilities. The F orestry Division is negotiating with the NID, Herb Nile, and the Keystone Copper Corporation which Owns the former Lava Cap mine property in order to increase the size of forestry holdings on the mountain top from one acre to eight. Upon completion of the immediate expansion, Burns saidthe mountain top would then be enhanced to provide expanded and improved picnic facilities. Burns said the Division of Highways has budgeted for the paving of the road leading up the Banner Mountain crest from the You. Bet road junction, and that the paving will likely be completed by Reef Site Considered The Gold Reef mining claim situated north of Highway 49 is under consideration as a site for the new U.S. Forest Service headquarters. This wasrevealed Monday at a meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce by a representative of acommittee acting for the City of Nevada . Herbert Nile said he, M. C. Aney and Al Merrill had been asked by the city to prepare an estimate of the property'svalue. This estimate of value was to guide the council in arriving at a fair price in dealing with a representative of The Auburn Co.’ The principal beaver food is bark and leaves from the trees they have felled. Not much is wasted, The logs are used for dams and houses and the bark and leaves for food. Saturday members of the Stockton Corral of Westemers, a historical group, will tour the Nevada City area. One of the places they will visitis Beaver Creek--oops, I mean Deer Creek.. June. Burns said there is $17, 000 budgeted for construction of a communications building , residence, and property acquisition. The Division of Forestry is in the process of erecting a pre-fab communications center which will place under one roof all existing facilities there now. In addition it will expand radio relay facilities for the Forestry Division, the Division of Highways, the Fish and Game Division, the Water Resources Board, and the California Highway Patrol. Other governmental agencies are expected to join in the use of the relay Station, Burns Said. A 12KV standby generator will be installed at the facility in order to assure continous operation in the event of a power failure. About. half of the budget is for the construction of a residence for the use of the person assigned to maintain the facility. The county has recently laid fresh gravel on the You Betroad extension of Banner Mountain Road beyond the Lava Cap intersection, and Burns said when funds are available the county plans to extend the pavement to join withthe proposed state paving job. THE GRAND CANAL OF DEER CREEK. .Well, not quite. In the left center is one of the main intake canals tothe beaver built lake. The canal drains surrounding land and also serves as a waterway to transport logs (cut to short lengths) to the dam site. LAKE, DAM, SPILLWAYS AND CREEK..In the right foreground is one of the bypass spillways built by beavers to allow water to re-enter the creek below-the dam. These spillways as well as the canals are built to.help maintain the level of the lake which { behind the dam, in the center of the picture.