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August 15, 1962 (8 pages)

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-~ =Ss SS VS ee anaes” —_— Vol. 37 No. 35.10¢ A Copy "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekly Nevada CityWednesday, August 15, 1962 _. QUAKER SCHOOLTO OPEN Pm . NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Gleenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omeg . French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. BOARDING SCHOOL WILL START IN ’63 GRASS VALLEY ---The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) will open a boarding school near Grass Valley in the fall of 1963. To be known as the John Woolman School, it will be the first Quaker boarding school on the West Coast. The site chosen, after months of search in Nevada County and other areas in northern California, is the Melborne Hedrick ranch on Jones Bar Rd., six miles northeast of Grass Valley. Arrangements for purchase ofthe property have been Don E. Smith Resident Manager made by the College Park Friends Educational Association, a non-profit corporation, which represents Quaker groups in Monterey, Sacramento, San Francisco, the Peninsula, the East Bay, the Delta, and San Jose. The school will start with an enrollment of about 3d, according toDon Elton Smith, resident manager, whohas movedto Grass Valley with his wife and two children, Future enrollment will climb to about 120, As presently planned, the coeducational school will include the 10th, 11lthand 12th grades, A Friends summer school is now in progress at the future school site. The academic director of the school should be chosen by the end of this year, Smith said, The school will offer "a sound college preparatory program,“ according to its statement of purpose, "along with opportunity in the arts and real work experience, " The student work program will include helping with a modest farm operation centered around a stock barn and 19 acres of irrigated pasture. Some. eggs, beef, and milk are expected to be produced for the school. Students will also help to maintain buildings and grounds, and work in the kitchen and office. Among improvements contemplated at the 110 acre ranch site are conversion of Jacks. Play-off For Title NEVADA CIT Y---The Nevada City Lumberjacks will meet either Placerville or Oroville for the championship of the Placer-Nevada League. Placerville outhit the Roseville Railroaders and won their playoff game by the score of 15-11 Saturday night. At the same time the Oroville Olives outscored the Lincoln Potters by a two run margin, Final score 5-3, Tonight the Placerville Outlaws will meet the Olives in Placerville to force the decision on which will challenge the first half winning Lumberjacks, In the first half of league play, the Nevada City team ‘defeated both of the possible challenging teams but lost to both of them in the second half of the season, T he final series will be two.out of three for the league crown. First game of the championship play -off best-ofthree series will be held Sunday at Pioneer Park at 2:30 p. mM. GVFD Tops In State GRASS VALLEY’---Firechief Doug Toy received word last night that Grass Valley was rated first in the state in the least amount of fire damage for the year, In a letter from Glen D. Vance, State Fire Marshall, the department was praised for its outstanding work, Vance said that Grass Valley wasrated number one in the state and sixth in national standings forcities of the same size. Current population is 4876. the hay barntoa gymnasiumrecreation hall-theater, A kitchen-dining room;laundry building will be builtbefore the school opens, and living quarters for students and staff must be provided. A capital outlay of about $140,000 is anticipated for the year, Smith said. Officers of the College Park Educational Associ. ation, founders of the Wool. ! man School, are Marshall Palley, chairman; Robert . Beloof, secretary; and Flea. nor Myers, treasurer., Palley and Beloof are faculty menr bers of the University of California. "The Quaker approach of . openness totruth will be impressed on students through a life which everyday expresses that spirit, " according the organizers’ statement of policy, John Woolman, after whom the school willbe named, was a 17th century New Jersey Quaker noted for his unselfish support of human rights. His influence was instrumental in inducing Quakers in the South to give up their slaves a hundred years before the Civil War. . . . . . Weather a NEVADA CITY Max. Min, Rainfall Aug. 8 77 45 .00 9. 18 bt 37 a0 ees 2 Ce .O1 17 -+82:) +48 .00 12 86 48 .00 13 88 47 .00 144 92 49 .00 Rainfall this year ,38 Rainfall last year .09 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Aug. 8 15 51 00 e299 54 44 10 714 51 trace 2 84 56 00 1.. 89. 58 .00. 13 83 60 .00 14 95 64, 00 Rainfall this year 44 Rainfall last year 18 SCHOOL SITE...The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) will construct a boarding school on this site at the former Melborne Hedrick ranch on Jones Bar Rd. It will open for Fallclasses in 1963. (See Page 4 for photos of summer camp) — Udall To Dedicate Donner Site, State Officials Due, Too TRUCKEE---A four day celebration will be climaxed Sept. 9 with the dedication of the Emigrant Trail Museum and Donner Memorial State Park asa National Historic Site by Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, The Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce last week released its program for the dedication celebration, Other dignitaries who will participate inthe dedication ceremonies include Charles DeTurk, director of the California Department of Parks and Recreation; and Joseph Houghteling, chairman of the California State Park Commission, For three days prior to the Sept 9 dedication, the chamber has slated a program of events which includes a Horsemen's Wagon T rain, dinner and parade, with two camp-outs; aE Clampus Vitus assembly and initiation; and a street dance. The morning of the dedication willfind a public breakfast at Donner Camp on Alder Creek at 8a.m.; a square dancing exhibition at 10 a.m.; and a parade from downtown Truckee to Donner Memorial State Park along Emigrant Way beginning at 1 p.m, At 2:45 p.m. a memorial service by Truckee Donner Horsemenwill honor Pioneer emigrants. The main dedication ceremonies will follow at 3 p.m, Nugget columnist Robert Paine will be master of ceremonies for the dedication ceremonies; invocation will be given by Father Patrick
Coffey; a band selection by the Stead AirForceBand will be followed by the presentation of colors by the Stead _AFB color guard. Following the official National Historic Site dedication by Udall, a brief historical background will be voiced by historical author George Stewart. 4; DeTurk will dedicate the Emigrant Trail Museum, and Houghteling will dedicate the Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson room honoring Congressman Johnson. Benediction will be given by Rev. Sidney C. Smith, Inspection of the museum and grounds will follow a final musical selection by the Stead AFB band, } ‘Avenue Of Trees’ Endorsed For System NEVADA CIT Y-=-=A resolution asking that the Nevada County portion of state Highway 20, The Avenue of Trees, be included in the proposed state-wide Scenic Highway System was: passed by the county planning commission Monday night. The commission noted in the resolution that Highway 20 was “unexplainably” omitted from preliminary scenic highway proposals. Last week the NUGGET reported east of Nevada City as one of the scenic highlights of the county, and would like to see it kept that way. Planning Director Bill Roberts was instructed to present the resolution at a workshop meeting of the citizens . advisory committee on the scenic highway program at Marysville Sept. 25, The) Marysville session is one of several tobe held inthe state, to obtain local opinion regarding the proposed system, The extent of the system, design standards and control regulations will probably be under discussion by the state legislature next spring. None . have been adopted or determined as yet. Other Nevada County highways fared better under the proposed program. Highway 40, state Highway 25 from Colfax to Grass Valley, Highway 49 from Grass Valley to Sierra County. Johnson Sponsors Bill For Agency To Buy Gold WASHINGT ONLegislation has been introduced calling for the establishment of a gold procurement and sales agency which would handle sales and purchases of all domestically produced gold, and which would permit the Secretary of the Interior to pay up to $105 per ounce for the gold. t Congressman HaroldT., Johnson, sponsor of the legislation, said, "This legislation was drafted after several months of thorough consideration of the gold problem, The mines and mining subcommittee of the House andthe Senate have held extensive hearings on this gold problem.” Johnson said the House committee had visited California tosee the “once-rich gold producing industry now Legion Meeting GRASS VA LLEY ---Delegates Of Area No, 1, American Legion, from 26 Northern . California counties will con_ . vene in Grass Valley Saturi day and Sunday. Hague Thomas Hegarty , Post of western Nevada coun. ty will be the host organiz. ation. . ‘Registration will start at 2 . PM Saturday in the Veterans . Memorial Building. There ‘will be a dinner dance Saturday night for Legionnaires, ‘auxiliary, members and guests. The first area in. cludes 144 posts of which most . commanders will be present. . Sunday at10a.m, the area . meeting will be conducted in . the veterans building. Cliff . . Betts of Redding, Shasta . County, area vice comman. der, will preside. A lunch. eon will be served by the . Grass Valley Auxiliary. . John Koostra of Grass Val. ley, past commander of the sixth district, is in charge of arrangements, Weekend 'GV Holds Off On Sales Tax Split GRASS VALLEY---The pro— posed revision of the sales tax cut between the county of Nevada andthe city was discussed briefly at the city . council meeting last night. Thecouncilfeelsthat' another meeting should be scheduled between the Nev. ada City council, the Grass Valley council, the County Board of Supervisors, and a member of the State Board of Equalization. ~ LJ = » *% z PLAY REHEARSAL----Cast members of "Never Come, Never Go" pause during re hearsals to discuss the show's songs with musical Director Bill MacSems (seated). Other members ‘(L to R) Verle Gray, Stu Flansburg, Molly McCord, Tony Burille and Mike Ellison. The play will be given August 17 and 18, and again on August 24. Tickets are on sale at the Nevada County Nugget and Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce. The play will be given at the old ice house in Nevada City. largely idled by ‘constantly rising costs and an unrealistic artificially stable price of gold." He said that key gold industry spokesmen and Western Senators and Congressmen had met and discussed the plight ofthe gold mining industry with Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon, Further talks were held with Lewis L. Huelsdonk, member of the California Mining Board, and DeWitt Nelson, director of the California Department of Conservation, "Asa result of this series of conferences, the decision was made to proceed in this direction, Johnson explained. "We must do something to help the gold mining industry, Not only because it is sorely depressedbecause Of conditions over which it has absolutely nocontrol, . but because of the continue. ing outflow of gold from out . reserves. , "Last month our Treasury . stocks of gold were drained to ithe tune of $287 million. . This will continue as long as we do not produce our own . domestic gold and as long as 'we are dependent upon im. ports for our basic gold sup. plies, " Johnson -said. $4 Water Rate Voted By Counail NEVADA CITY----Residen. tial water rates in Nevada 1 City will be boosted to $4 . per month beginning Oct. 1, . the Nevada City Council dir/ected at its Monday night . meeting. The council is in the pro,cess of studying increased . -commercial water rates, too, . But the residential rate boost ‘will become effective Oct. . 1 even if the commercial . rate hike is not ready for that i time, : . In addition, water meters ‘are being considered for . commercial establishments ‘inthe city. City Manager . Charles Smith informed the . council that the cost of an . installed meter is approxi. mately $40, The council also indicated that residents in the residenjtial area who object to the water rate hike will be put on a meter to determine their precise water usage, and charged accordingly. 80 20 Sales Tax Split Set NEVADA CITY ~--The Nev. ada City Council Monday night gavenotice that it will take a larger slice of the sales . tax pie beginning in 1963, i By a 4-0 vote, Council. man Craig Davies being ab. sent, the council directed iCity Attorney William Weatheral to prepare a sales tax ordinance calling for the city to recieve 80 per cent of all sales tax collected in the city. Thecity-county split currently is 70-30 per cent. It is estimated that the ten per cent increase will mean an additional $3000 to the city treasury each year, During this fiscal year, it will net the city an additional $1500. Nevada Coumy, if they refuse to accept the new 80-20 percent split, has the option of scrapping the entire sales tax ordinance withinthe county, Otherwise, supervisors must accept the split. Nevada City councilmen feel the county will accept the split, since county sales tax receipts total about ,$175, 000 per year, } I *34189 ‘6 oqueuess es kaeagyy 8389s “yT1 89 uotqoas ST BOT FO Ted