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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

April 8, 1970 (12 pages)

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6 the Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, April 8, 1970 Rough & Ready post office bids sought WASHINGTON — The Post: Office Department is seeking competitive bids to build and lease the new main post office at. Rough and Ready, Postmaster General Winton M. Blount has announced, Competitive bidding encourages, the most attractive and economical offer to the government, Blount contended. This will help the department to improve postal service while keep ing expenditures low, he added. Under a lease construction program, the site located on State Highway 20 will be assigned to the successful bidder who will control the property, construct the building to department specifications and lease it to the department for a basic period of 10 years and options of 20 years. The land and building will remain on local tax \ rolls, The building will contain 1,000 square feet. The department's capital in i vestment will be limited substantially to postal’ equipment. THE WEATHER for Bidding documents this early in the year is warm. To attest to this at the South Fork of the Yuba Sunday, on Highway 49, we have a resemblence of the middle of.summer. Scattered on rocks below are sun bathers, The water is still cold, North Church street heads resurface list Masons designate April 20 24 as Public Schools Week may be obtained from Sam Fraser, Real Estate Officer, Room 112, Federal Building, 805 Eye Street, Sacramento, CA 95814. The Real Estate Officer will supply bid ding forms, building specificaThe week of April 20 24 essays in each of the three tions, lease provisions and other ‘ has been designated Public grades will receive a cash prize information. Bids must be submitted to the Schools Week by Chester R. and aliand-lettered papyrus cerMcPhee, Grand Master of the tificate. The prizes will be preReal Estate Officer by May 14, California Masonic Fraternity. sented on “open house night", 1970, at-2:30 p.m. The theme this year is "The April 21 in the gymnasium. The North Church Street headed given the number nine priority. the list as Grass Valley City "The patches outnumber the Public Schools — Informationthree first place winners will Education-Responsibility". This read their essays as part of Council Tuesday determined road,"" Hendersen said. is the golden anniversary of the program. Listed 10th was Berryman which streets would be resurthe "Public Schools Week" proStreet, Buena Vista was 11th, faced soon, Open: house~ at Nevada City City Engineer Tom Leland Hill Street 12th and Jenkins gram since it was inaugerated Elementary will be held the in 1920 by the Masons of Calitold the council $30,000 is Street was 13th. evening of April 20. Nevada fornia, It has spread to nearly According to the engineers’ available for this purpose. He Lodge No. 13 is sponsoring a all 50 states. More than 700 estimate, the cutoff point was was careful to explain the moDon Pinaglia was elected nies would be used for resurafter Buena Vista. The $30,000 Masonic Lodges in California contest to see which room can president of North San Juan may be used up then, “but it will be sponsoring various prohave the most adult visitors Ridge Riders at a recent elecfacing only. in the local publicregister for this occasion, The "The roads séincind have to depends on the contractors’ grams winning room will be presented tion, schools. bids" Leland pointed out. be conditioned to take resurOthers elected are Betty RaAt Seven Hills, Nevada Lodge a suitable prize, which will be If the bid is .lower, these
facing so the newly paved roads mey, secretary; Evelyn Dahle, selected by the teacher and stuwill last. Funds are not. availadditional streets could be reNo. 13 is sponsoring an essay treasurer, Vickie Jones, asable to do any major construcsurfaced. If the bid is high, contest. The theme selected by ‘dents, In the past Nevada Lodge sistant secretary; Frank Miltidn, and it's no use wasting less resurfacing would be acthe teachers for the contest is has presented two aquariums, hous, vice president and Red. "Responsibility A Product .of two globes, one record player, money by resurfacing a road complished. Ramey, rangler. Membersof the _Another item on which the Education", The students are two. large dictionaries, twentyfood committee are Phyllis Milthat needs more construction." is the reurged to get ideas from their four. weaving looms and twentyhous, Claudette Milhous, Genny Councilman Jack Henderson city will seek bids paving of the parking lot at parents and other adults but four individual first grade dicGeorgia and Evelyn Dahle. summed up the feeling concernMemorial Park across the road each must write his own essay. tionaries to various winners in ing North Church by saying the Fred Butz was installing ofThose writing the three best this contest. condition “is terrible." The from the softball field, ficer for the ceremony held Leland told the council money councilmen agreed unanimousWednesday. Refreshments were was not budgeted for this proly it should head the list. served and gift certificates were The number one and two ject, but $5,500 is available presented to the outgoing offipriorities went to North Church in the park department budget. cers, in two sections — Richardson The $5,500 was budgeted for Street to Doris and Doris to the Race Street. tennis court Retail sales in Nevada county able business among the counresurfacing. The cost of this the city limits. Third on the list is Chester project turned out to be over and. the two cities are expected ties range from four to 14 per to climb six per cent in the 1970cent. Ventura leads the larger Street which will be resurfaced $11,000, so was not done. 71 fiscal year, member Paul counties with a 14 per cent Bids: will be advertised imfrom Maiden Lane to North AuLeake of the State Board of _gain, with Orange at 13 and sevmediately and will be opened burn Street. Mayor Jerry Brust The Grass Valley summer commented “it's nothing but a at the April 14 council meetEqualization announced: today. eral other major couties at 10 school and the successful bond The local tax on the anticipated or 11 per cent. ing at 8 p.m. pile of rocks." Grass Valley can anticipate sale will be discussed Wednessales will mean an estimated Maiden Lane, from Chester $441,900 for the coffers of the $198,050 in local sales taxes day evening by trustees of the to Richardson received the numNevada City School District. and $25, 190 in cigarette taxes county and its cities. ber four spot. "The lower end President Carl Early will call The forecast, largely based in the 1970-71 fiscal year. Neof this street is mostly rocks," the pe Sang order at 7:30 Rice's Crossing Road from on Department of Finance figvada City can anticipate $65,300 p.m. Brust said. mentary School. in Fifth on the list is a portion the French Corral Road to the ures, is for a statewide gain of in local sales tax and $9,340 The trustees will alsodiscuss _ of Walsh Street, from ColumYuba River will be impassable almost. seven per cent in the cigarette taxes. the open house for Nevada City Leake cautioned that the esWednesday through April 17. year which ends June 30, 1971. bia to South School. schools during Public Schools Nevada county and its cities timates are advisory only for The California Division of Henderson Street is listed Week, also may expect to share local budget -planners and by sixth and Chapel Street was a Forestry made the announceSupt. Dan Woodard told The unanimous choice for the numment today. A spokesman ex$61,680 in cigarette tax reventheir very nature cannot conUnion Friday that the last of ber seven spot. Neal Street was plained that the CDF is planues, the result of a 30 per cent sider such things as boundary $95,000 in school bonds -had ning construction work on the split with the state of the 10changes or plant relocations been sold, paving the way for listed eighth, that maysoccur cet: Bark 15, Pleasant Street from Dalton fire pont pormally open to the cont~per-peck tax. construction of the new Seven «Increases in estimates of tax-: Street to the north end was". Hills School: Pinaglia new president of Ridge Riders '€ q 4 (ay Pt t 6 per cent growth seen in county’s retail sales NC trustees will discuss summer school Fire road to be closed