August 1, 1973 (12 pages)

So —— NEVADA CiTy Oe SERVING THE NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY. GRASS VALLEY. RED DOG. OMEGA, FRENCH CORRAL, ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, NORTH SAN CEDAR RIDGE, UNION HILL, PEARDALE, SUMMIT CITY, WALLOUPA, GOUGE SELBY FLAT, GRIZZLY HILL, GOLD FLAT, SOGGSVILLE, GOLD BAR. LOWELL QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN, INDIAN FLAT, —— See EYE, YOU BET, TOWN TALK. GLENRROOK, LITTLE YORK, JUAN. NORTH BLOOMFIELD, HUMBUG, RELIEF LIME KILN, HILL, BOURBON HILL, SCOTCH HILL, NORTH C ‘BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVILLE, MOORE’S FLAT, ORLEANS FLAT, REMINGTON HILL. ANTHONY CHEROKEE, SWEETLAND. ALPHA, HILL, WASHINGTON, BLUE TENT, LaBARR MEADOWS, TMAS HILL, LIBERTY HILL, SAILOR FLAT, LAKE CPTY, OLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLATESEBASTOPOL, HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS, Volume 27; No. 3! aS Nevada City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, July 30, 1933 Price-E ive Cents HYDRACAPERS OPE Pageant, Parade, Money Scramble, Cart Race And Dances Scheduled Celebrants Will Honor the Memory of Edward E. Matteson, First Hydraulicker Nevada City’s Hydraulic Centennial, hailedas northern Calilornia’s gayest celebration, swings into action Friday night when Verle “Puss’ Gray and his” Hydramaids! stage the Hydracapers of 1953, a water ballet at Pioneer Park podl. The event will usher in a series of entertainment features which will end Sunday night with the second: showing of “A Night in Barker's Exchange,” a_ historic pageant of the incidents and characters of a Nevada County a century ago. Hose Cart Race Headline attractions. of the celebration will be the Northern Calhfornia hose cart race, a demmstration of a monitor at the Plaza, a gold show, a folk dance lestival, a money scramble for the youngsters, a Parade. of Fun in Horribles, a tall story con-. } est. a night: street dance and ther ploneer ateractlons. and DaLuimes. tiarold Berliner, general chair maa for the attair, said today that Program Chairman Bob Paine, had prepared a schedule 4 broad appeal to all ages and both sexes The Nevada wit) honor City celebration memory of -Edwad E. Matteson, a placer miner cmployed by Dr. A. B. Caldwell, the founder of Nevada City and t's first storekeeper. Wceoden Nozzle tthe Spring of 1853 Matteson connected a tlume. on American Hit, and a crude wooden nozzle with a lengtn of canvas hose. The incident is acknowledged by most historians as the first use the . Centennial which will honor the of tne hydraulic mining industry. . Lespite his head start industry which grew to multimijiion dollar proportions, Mattesen failed to obtain any great} amount of wealth. vada County Hospital, after spending the latter portion of his life as a mine watchman, and a peddler of books and kitchen utensils. His body lies in an unmarked grave in Pine Grove Cemetery. There is no monument of marble or bronze to mark his final resting place. point out that the fluted column and spires of the great Malakoff Diggins near North Bloomfield wiil stand forever as a monumert to Matteson. = Hilarious Event One of the most hilarious} events of the celebration is the Fun and Horror Parade in which talented youngsters and youthful adults will unleash their assorted monstrosities for a whooping march down Broad Street. The event, entitled “A Parade of Fun and Horribles,” is a re-enactment of the hilarious Horribles parades held here nearly a century ago. (Continued on page 6) in an! . Christian Science Leader . Lectures in Nevada City George Channing of San Fran. a member of The Board of . cisco, Lectureship of The Mother} Church, The First Church of Christ. Scientist, in Boston, Mass., . lectured on _“Christian Science, Its Secret. Prayer and Open Revard ata meting in Nevada Cites; July: 28 = Tne speaker was-introduced by Mre E. Shotwell Wood A full context of the lecture 4s published on page 2 of the Nug. County to see Haley’s water can. . stroyed by the Sawyer Decision He died penniless in the Ne-' y mi a eee . . draulickers from dumping their . ! . . . . . \ HYDRAULIC MONITOR TO BE IN ACTION DURING CELEBRATION. From the Fifties through the . Gay, Nineties hundreds of hy-. © draulic monitors blasted their . powerful jets of water against the gold bearing*gravel banks ‘of! Nevada County; but there arc thousands of Nevada County citizens who have never been a monitor in action. 3ut Saturday and Sunday thcy' will have an opportunity to sce! one of the devices in operation at the Plaza under the direction of Ted Sigourney and members of the fire department Hendy Model i The monitor, a Josuah Henry Model, complete, with reflector and rock box. counterbalance, was loaned to the celebration committee H. M. “Mike’’ Haley of the Nevada City Hot Mill The demonstration will be one ot the highlights of the Hydraulic memory of Edward E. Matteson, a Nevada City placer miner who first used a crude monitor on an American Hill claim at the northern edge of the city. Big Business Hydraulic mining, a $100,000,000 industry, was virtually deThe rollicking decade between , 1850 and 1860 when gold and fun . .were the chief objectives of Nevada City citizens, will come to life Saturday and Sunday nights with the production of “A Night : me : in Barker's Exchange,” a oe ree — eicuaaepal toric pageant in which the great Valley . characters of the era step out of : the pages of history. of 1884 which restrained the hy-. Only One Left Hydraulic mining, however,’ did not die easily. For many Music, dancing, history and fun are combined in the production ; : ; years it continued on a bootleg; directed by John Douglas Conse . basis. Operators prepared ingeni-. W@Y‘ Romantic historians, however, . Glis. knee dneee AHEGIE which . The Grass Valley Gold Miners could be dismantled and hidden. Chorus and the Goldenaires in a short time if a report was. Quartet will headline the vocal heard that an anti-debris spy was! groups and Ardis O’Neel will on his way up from the valley. . present “She Is More To Be In later years efforts were made; Pitied Than Censured” with at debris control and huge aa Dorothy Kitts as accompanist. taining dams were built on the} The orchestral music will be Yuba and American rivers. But! by Franc Luschen and a string the change came too late. A few . ensemble. mines tried it and found the) Lola's Spider Dance operation unprofitable. : . Dance numbers include Bobbie Today the only operating hy-. white of Colfax who will redraulic mine in action in 25] enact Lola Montez’ celebrated fornia is the Paragon near For-! spider Dance. Little Linda Mcesthill, Placer County, where} Combs of Grass Valley will play William Wilson is cutting the) the role of Lotta Crabtree when bank with a seven-inch nozzle] che started her theatrical career under a 340-foot head of water.! with Lola aq her instructor. Celebration Chairman Harold} Nancy Kilker 1s dance director Berliner urged all of Nevada) for the show non in action Saturday or Sun-' Piet Thame Danes chance to see a device which may day, because it may be their last soon be a museum piece, in actual operation. PAGEANT TICKETS Tickéts: for *“A Night in Barker's’ Exchange” went off sale in business houses in Nevada City Five Grass Valley girls have been practicing three weeks on the Can-Can Dance, best described as the theme dance of the frontier. Numbers to: be sung by the quartet are ‘When You Wore A Tulip,” “The Voice in the Old Village Choir,” and “California, . last night Here I Come.” The price is 50 cents and inThe lead rele of Jim Barker, cludes tax the gemal proprietor of Barker's Fhere is one admission price, Exchange on the Plaza. will t for‘chtidren and adults alike played by Dick Looser, wella his-. ead 2 90 mine oT ae a , in ‘A Night in Barker's Exchange’ known Grass Valley actor and director. David Haley of Nevada: City will portray the part of Edward) E. Matteson, who first used the hydraulic mining process but failed to take advantage of his discovery. The roles of Nevada City’s four most. distinguished sons— Nues Searls, William Stewart, Lorenzo Sawyer and Aaron Sargent —will be played by Thomas Taylor, William Tobiassen, Alvin Molen and Robert Petérson. Dow Alexander of Town Talk will play the part of Henry Plummer, sharp-shooting Nevada City marshall who wound up his career on a Montana gibbet. Edwin Gibbs, also of Nevada City, will enact the role of James J. Ott, whose assay of minerals brought from the Washoe desert, started the Comstock Rush. The script for the show was written by Al Trivelpiece, Nevada City newspapersman and a director of the Nevada County Historical Society. DEATH CAR DRIVER FACES MANSLAUGHTERGeorge Sage, 26 of Oakland, will be tried in the Nevada Superior Court on a charge of manslaughter resulting from a car crash June 17 in which Richard Haddy, 46, of Sacramento, was killed Frank Terrill, also of Sacramento, was driver of the car in which Haddy was .a passenger Terrill has been under threatment in the Tahoe Forest Hosvital since the crash. Sage was driver of a car which >d with Terrill’s col2 Sree = Sera . , cas Six Nevada City Hydramaids, pupils of Verle “‘Puss Gray, demonstrate the water star as they rehearse for the opening performance of the Hydracapers at Pioneer Park pool. The six are Charlene Bryant, Dorene McConnell, Sue Bedwell, Mary Mields, Mary Oprisko and Madeline Giani. The show Friday will officially open Nevada City’s observance of the centennial of hydraulic mining: In the scene below the Hydramaids show how to form the “arch of ankles,” always a popular ac: with water sport fans. —Prentice photos GOP LEADERS OF ZND DISTRICT TO MEET AUGUST STH Northern California Republicans may have a candidate to compete with Congressman Clare Engle (D) of Red Bluff, after a meeting Sunday, August 9, in the Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley. The gathering of GOP power will include representatives of the Republican Central Committees of California but particular emphasis will be placed on a search to unseat Engle representing the far-flung Second Congressional District which covers 19 counties spread over a terri. tory which extends from the Oregon line to Mono County on the south. . {= Ia his j club activities he HYDRAULIC CENTENNIAL Beautiful Hydramaids RALPH PIERCE ELECTED CITY FIRE CHIEE Succeeds Ed Frantz: , Carr Named to Post of Assistant Chief Ralph-Pierce, city councilms.: and a representative of a Placer County wholesale distributor, was elected chief of the Nevada. . City Fire Department at the ar-: nual out-of-door steak dinner at . Pioneer Park. Monday night. He . succeeds Edward A. Frantz, high . school principal who expressed a . hope that Pierce will have “very few fires and lots of help.” Pierce was elevated to chief. dom from the post of assistant fire chief under a right of succession~plan which has been followed by the local department since 1861. Carr Is Assistant Robert Carr. in turn, was elected to succeed Pierce as assistant chief More than 80 firemen from the local department, the Grass Va ley department, the State Division of Forestry aad the Taho* National Forest took part in the long evening of good fellowsh:, and good food. Oldest Member Dr. C. W. Chapman, a forme. fire chief and the oldest active member of the Nevada City d2‘partment, was on hand for tne . affair A portion of the evening wa> devoted to an inspection of fire apparatus from the Civil Defense Administration. Plenty To Eat The dinner menu included 4 steak, baked potato, cucumbec and tomato salad, rolls, olives, onions, and cantaloupe and ice cream.-A cocktail hour preceded ; the dinner. DISTRICT GOVERNOR ‘VISITS ROTARY . The service of Rotary Club to the community in which it performs was the subject of a talk by Edwin D. Witter, district governor of Rotary, speaking before the Nevada City club. Witter is a Sacramento investment banker.c His appearance here was his first in his new capacity as a district offical of . California District No. .164. recommendations for specificallsJule Gearhart of Chico, chair-. U'8ed @ strong blood bank .proman of the Second District GOP Committee, will take part in they and inkeaduced the sueaken, EL ' mer Oates was welcomed as 4 confab. Arrangements .for the luncheon session are directed by Mfrs. Cecile Shoemaker of Grass Valley. Tall Story Contest Centennial Feature Tall stor: telling, sometimes described as the art of magnifi. . gram. 1 President Elza Kilroy presided new member. of the club. . Dow Alexander Plays . Role of Sharpshooter For a chilly thrill-during the Hydraulic Centennial see the scene in the pageant in which Dow Alexander, playing the role of sharp-shooting Henry Plumcent prevarication, will have its; Mer, shoots a soda cracker out of part in the Hydraulic Centennial this weekend. Guerdon Ellis, who can tell a pretty fancy story in his own right, will read the submissions sent in. The winner will receive a five dollar cash prize and a pair of .ron water wings The story reading wii! be conducted on the centennial stage in front of the Elks Building at 7:30 p.m. with Ross Taylor of Downie ville, also among the fanciest tale spinners of these parts, heading the Judging committee. ' the fingers of Dick Looser, wh»? . portrays Jim Barker, who operated a gold exchange in Nevada City Ranch Worker Admits ‘Taking Gun and Food Harold -Martin, ranch worker accused of burglarizing the Babcockhome on Willow Broo Ranch and taking rifles and foo1 fre the place, pleaded guilty a= ch before Superior Judg2 James Snell The sentencing date was set for ugust 7 when a probation re-

So —— NEVADA CiTy Oe SERVING THE NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY. GRASS VALLEY. RED DOG. OMEGA, FRENCH CORRAL, ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, NORTH SAN CEDAR RIDGE, UNION HILL, PEARDALE, SUMMIT CITY, WALLOUPA, GOUGE SELBY FLAT, GRIZZLY HILL, GOLD FLAT, SOGGSVILLE, GOLD BAR. LOWELL QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN, INDIAN FLAT, —— See EYE, YOU BET, TOWN TALK. GLENRROOK, LITTLE YORK, JUAN. NORTH BLOOMFIELD, HUMBUG, RELIEF LIME KILN, HILL, BOURBON HILL, SCOTCH HILL, NORTH C ‘BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVILLE, MOORE’S FLAT, ORLEANS FLAT, REMINGTON HILL. ANTHONY CHEROKEE, SWEETLAND. ALPHA, HILL, WASHINGTON, BLUE TENT, LaBARR MEADOWS, TMAS HILL, LIBERTY HILL, SAILOR FLAT, LAKE CPTY, OLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLATESEBASTOPOL, HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS, Volume 27; No. 3! aS Nevada City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, July 30, 1933 Price-E ive Cents HYDRACAPERS OPE Pageant, Parade, Money Scramble, Cart Race And Dances Scheduled Celebrants Will Honor the Memory of Edward E. Matteson, First Hydraulicker Nevada City’s Hydraulic Centennial, hailedas northern Calilornia’s gayest celebration, swings into action Friday night when Verle “Puss’ Gray and his” Hydramaids! stage the Hydracapers of 1953, a water ballet at Pioneer Park podl. The event will usher in a series of entertainment features which will end Sunday night with the second: showing of “A Night in Barker's Exchange,” a_ historic pageant of the incidents and characters of a Nevada County a century ago. Hose Cart Race Headline attractions. of the celebration will be the Northern Calhfornia hose cart race, a demmstration of a monitor at the Plaza, a gold show, a folk dance lestival, a money scramble for the youngsters, a Parade. of Fun in Horribles, a tall story con-. } est. a night: street dance and ther ploneer ateractlons. and DaLuimes. tiarold Berliner, general chair maa for the attair, said today that Program Chairman Bob Paine, had prepared a schedule 4 broad appeal to all ages and both sexes The Nevada wit) honor City celebration memory of -Edwad E. Matteson, a placer miner cmployed by Dr. A. B. Caldwell, the founder of Nevada City and t's first storekeeper. Wceoden Nozzle tthe Spring of 1853 Matteson connected a tlume. on American Hit, and a crude wooden nozzle with a lengtn of canvas hose. The incident is acknowledged by most historians as the first use the . Centennial which will honor the of tne hydraulic mining industry. . Lespite his head start industry which grew to multimijiion dollar proportions, Mattesen failed to obtain any great} amount of wealth. vada County Hospital, after spending the latter portion of his life as a mine watchman, and a peddler of books and kitchen utensils. His body lies in an unmarked grave in Pine Grove Cemetery. There is no monument of marble or bronze to mark his final resting place. point out that the fluted column and spires of the great Malakoff Diggins near North Bloomfield wiil stand forever as a monumert to Matteson. = Hilarious Event One of the most hilarious} events of the celebration is the Fun and Horror Parade in which talented youngsters and youthful adults will unleash their assorted monstrosities for a whooping march down Broad Street. The event, entitled “A Parade of Fun and Horribles,” is a re-enactment of the hilarious Horribles parades held here nearly a century ago. (Continued on page 6) in an! . Christian Science Leader . Lectures in Nevada City George Channing of San Fran. a member of The Board of . cisco, Lectureship of The Mother} Church, The First Church of Christ. Scientist, in Boston, Mass., . lectured on _“Christian Science, Its Secret. Prayer and Open Revard ata meting in Nevada Cites; July: 28 = Tne speaker was-introduced by Mre E. Shotwell Wood A full context of the lecture 4s published on page 2 of the Nug. County to see Haley’s water can. . stroyed by the Sawyer Decision He died penniless in the Ne-' y mi a eee . . draulickers from dumping their . ! . . . . . \ HYDRAULIC MONITOR TO BE IN ACTION DURING CELEBRATION. From the Fifties through the . Gay, Nineties hundreds of hy-. © draulic monitors blasted their . powerful jets of water against the gold bearing*gravel banks ‘of! Nevada County; but there arc thousands of Nevada County citizens who have never been a monitor in action. 3ut Saturday and Sunday thcy' will have an opportunity to sce! one of the devices in operation at the Plaza under the direction of Ted Sigourney and members of the fire department Hendy Model i The monitor, a Josuah Henry Model, complete, with reflector and rock box. counterbalance, was loaned to the celebration committee H. M. “Mike’’ Haley of the Nevada City Hot Mill The demonstration will be one ot the highlights of the Hydraulic memory of Edward E. Matteson, a Nevada City placer miner who first used a crude monitor on an American Hill claim at the northern edge of the city. Big Business Hydraulic mining, a $100,000,000 industry, was virtually deThe rollicking decade between , 1850 and 1860 when gold and fun . .were the chief objectives of Nevada City citizens, will come to life Saturday and Sunday nights with the production of “A Night : me : in Barker's Exchange,” a oe ree — eicuaaepal toric pageant in which the great Valley . characters of the era step out of : the pages of history. of 1884 which restrained the hy-. Only One Left Hydraulic mining, however,’ did not die easily. For many Music, dancing, history and fun are combined in the production ; : ; years it continued on a bootleg; directed by John Douglas Conse . basis. Operators prepared ingeni-. W@Y‘ Romantic historians, however, . Glis. knee dneee AHEGIE which . The Grass Valley Gold Miners could be dismantled and hidden. Chorus and the Goldenaires in a short time if a report was. Quartet will headline the vocal heard that an anti-debris spy was! groups and Ardis O’Neel will on his way up from the valley. . present “She Is More To Be In later years efforts were made; Pitied Than Censured” with at debris control and huge aa Dorothy Kitts as accompanist. taining dams were built on the} The orchestral music will be Yuba and American rivers. But! by Franc Luschen and a string the change came too late. A few . ensemble. mines tried it and found the) Lola's Spider Dance operation unprofitable. : . Dance numbers include Bobbie Today the only operating hy-. white of Colfax who will redraulic mine in action in 25] enact Lola Montez’ celebrated fornia is the Paragon near For-! spider Dance. Little Linda Mcesthill, Placer County, where} Combs of Grass Valley will play William Wilson is cutting the) the role of Lotta Crabtree when bank with a seven-inch nozzle] che started her theatrical career under a 340-foot head of water.! with Lola aq her instructor. Celebration Chairman Harold} Nancy Kilker 1s dance director Berliner urged all of Nevada) for the show non in action Saturday or Sun-' Piet Thame Danes chance to see a device which may day, because it may be their last soon be a museum piece, in actual operation.

PAGEANT TICKETS Tickéts: for *“A Night in Barker's’ Exchange” went off sale in business houses in Nevada City Five Grass Valley girls have been practicing three weeks on the Can-Can Dance, best described as the theme dance of the frontier. Numbers to: be sung by the quartet are ‘When You Wore A Tulip,” “The Voice in the Old Village Choir,” and “California, . last night Here I Come.” The price is 50 cents and inThe lead rele of Jim Barker, cludes tax the gemal proprietor of Barker's Fhere is one admission price, Exchange on the Plaza. will t for‘chtidren and adults alike played by Dick Looser, wella his-. ead 2 90 mine oT ae a , in ‘A Night in Barker's Exchange’ known Grass Valley actor and director. David Haley of Nevada: City will portray the part of Edward) E. Matteson, who first used the hydraulic mining process but failed to take advantage of his discovery. The roles of Nevada City’s four most. distinguished sons— Nues Searls, William Stewart, Lorenzo Sawyer and Aaron Sargent —will be played by Thomas Taylor, William Tobiassen, Alvin Molen and Robert Petérson. Dow Alexander of Town Talk will play the part of Henry Plummer, sharp-shooting Nevada City marshall who wound up his career on a Montana gibbet. Edwin Gibbs, also of Nevada City, will enact the role of James J. Ott, whose assay of minerals brought from the Washoe desert, started the Comstock Rush. The script for the show was written by Al Trivelpiece, Nevada City newspapersman and a director of the Nevada County Historical Society. DEATH CAR DRIVER FACES MANSLAUGHTERGeorge Sage, 26 of Oakland, will be tried in the Nevada Superior Court on a charge of manslaughter resulting from a car crash June 17 in which Richard Haddy, 46, of Sacramento, was killed Frank Terrill, also of Sacramento, was driver of the car in which Haddy was .a passenger Terrill has been under threatment in the Tahoe Forest Hosvital since the crash. Sage was driver of a car which >d with Terrill’s col2 Sree = Sera . , cas Six Nevada City Hydramaids, pupils of Verle “‘Puss Gray, demonstrate the water star as they rehearse for the opening performance of the Hydracapers at Pioneer Park pool. The six are Charlene Bryant, Dorene McConnell, Sue Bedwell, Mary Mields, Mary Oprisko and Madeline Giani. The show Friday will officially open Nevada City’s observance of the centennial of hydraulic mining: In the scene below the Hydramaids show how to form the “arch of ankles,” always a popular ac: with water sport fans. —Prentice photos GOP LEADERS OF ZND DISTRICT TO MEET AUGUST STH Northern California Republicans may have a candidate to compete with Congressman Clare Engle (D) of Red Bluff, after a meeting Sunday, August 9, in the Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley. The gathering of GOP power will include representatives of the Republican Central Committees of California but particular emphasis will be placed on a search to unseat Engle representing the far-flung Second Congressional District which covers 19 counties spread over a terri. tory which extends from the Oregon line to Mono County on the south. . {= Ia his j club activities he HYDRAULIC CENTENNIAL Beautiful Hydramaids RALPH PIERCE ELECTED CITY FIRE CHIEE Succeeds Ed Frantz: , Carr Named to Post of Assistant Chief Ralph-Pierce, city councilms.: and a representative of a Placer County wholesale distributor, was elected chief of the Nevada. . City Fire Department at the ar-: nual out-of-door steak dinner at . Pioneer Park. Monday night. He . succeeds Edward A. Frantz, high . school principal who expressed a . hope that Pierce will have “very few fires and lots of help.” Pierce was elevated to chief. dom from the post of assistant fire chief under a right of succession~plan which has been followed by the local department since 1861. Carr Is Assistant Robert Carr. in turn, was elected to succeed Pierce as assistant chief More than 80 firemen from the local department, the Grass Va ley department, the State Division of Forestry aad the Taho* National Forest took part in the long evening of good fellowsh:, and good food. Oldest Member Dr. C. W. Chapman, a forme. fire chief and the oldest active member of the Nevada City d2‘partment, was on hand for tne . affair A portion of the evening wa> devoted to an inspection of fire apparatus from the Civil Defense Administration. Plenty To Eat The dinner menu included 4 steak, baked potato, cucumbec and tomato salad, rolls, olives, onions, and cantaloupe and ice cream.-A cocktail hour preceded ; the dinner. DISTRICT GOVERNOR ‘VISITS ROTARY . The service of Rotary Club to the community in which it performs was the subject of a talk by Edwin D. Witter, district governor of Rotary, speaking before the Nevada City club. Witter is a Sacramento investment banker.c His appearance here was his first in his new capacity as a district offical of . California District No. .164. recommendations for specificallsJule Gearhart of Chico, chair-. U'8ed @ strong blood bank .proman of the Second District GOP Committee, will take part in they and inkeaduced the sueaken, EL ' mer Oates was welcomed as 4 confab. Arrangements .for the luncheon session are directed by Mfrs. Cecile Shoemaker of Grass Valley. Tall Story Contest Centennial Feature Tall stor: telling, sometimes described as the art of magnifi. . gram. 1 President Elza Kilroy presided new member. of the club. . Dow Alexander Plays . Role of Sharpshooter For a chilly thrill-during the Hydraulic Centennial see the scene in the pageant in which Dow Alexander, playing the role of sharp-shooting Henry Plumcent prevarication, will have its; Mer, shoots a soda cracker out of part in the Hydraulic Centennial this weekend. Guerdon Ellis, who can tell a pretty fancy story in his own right, will read the submissions sent in. The winner will receive a five dollar cash prize and a pair of .ron water wings The story reading wii! be conducted on the centennial stage in front of the Elks Building at 7:30 p.m. with Ross Taylor of Downie ville, also among the fanciest tale spinners of these parts, heading the Judging committee. ' the fingers of Dick Looser, wh»? . portrays Jim Barker, who operated a gold exchange in Nevada City Ranch Worker Admits ‘Taking Gun and Food Harold -Martin, ranch worker accused of burglarizing the Babcockhome on Willow Broo Ranch and taking rifles and foo1 fre the place, pleaded guilty a= ch before Superior Judg2 James Snell The sentencing date was set for ugust 7 when a probation re-