August 2, 1967 (20 pages)

as oe F RET Bf #/ */ ¥ he e * , LAL? da He ' VV eV 4 Ue bos The Nugget. August 2, 1967 The Nevada ty Chamber . J of Commerce, during its first six months of active existence, assisted the Overall Economic Development Plan committee obtain approval for federal monies and investigate the possibility of lower freight rates for the Grass Valley-Nevada City area. _ The board of created the chamber Sept. 13. 1966, but concrete action by the chamber and actions and activities listed in the semi-annual report just issued cover the first six months of 1967. Harold Nye is president of the 15-man board of directors, 10 of whom were appointed by the board of supervisors, four selected by local chambers and "Jobh N. Gallegos was selected in January .to head the organization as executive manager, and Mrs. Jean McGregor was hired as full time secretary, according to the report, A budget for the six months [ period of $13,271.45 was approved and the-chamber still had $2,733.72 at the end of the period, it indicated. By law and policies have been established, and the office at 244 Commercial St. Nevada City, is open Mondays through Fridays during the hours of 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. In addition to lower truck transportation rates the chamber says the report has pursued the addition of bus transone to -Tepresent North San portation between Grass Valley and Nevada City. The Chico Transit is the only firm the chamber has found to be interested’ in this venture. More work and investigation of possible federal aid are necessary before results will be known in ‘this matter. ‘The county chamber proposed a fair share plan which local chambers have adopted. This plan calls for the increase of dues to a minimum of $36 with a graduating scale according to the size of a business. A booth will be entered later this year and next in the California State Fair, Los Angeles County Fair, San Francisco Boat Show and Los Angeles Sportsman and Vacation ‘Show. Other items listed in the semiannual report include the num~ County “Chamber Activities in Early Months Reviewed: . ber of newspapers outside the county which have carried publicity submitted by the county office and promotional material which was used in magazines and magazine sections of newspapers, Planned for the office, but'not ‘has been given the recreation commission, The semi-annual report was submitted to the board of supervisors and signed by P. Coy Miller, president for 1966-67, Nye, president for 1967-68, and Gallegos. yet completed are a convention guide, recreational directory and a winter sports brochure in cooperation with Placer County Chamber of Commerce and the North Lake Tahoe Chamber. At present, the report indicates, the chamber is working with two industrial firms which are considering locating ip the county. Assistance also is given to other county offices when requested; the report indicates that information and other help The St. Patrick’s barbecue is fast approaching, sponsors reminded the public today,The event will be held next grounds on McCourtney Road. The meal will be served from 1 p.m, to 6 p.m. Concessions, refreshments and a variety of entertainment will be available for all ages. The ‘‘Funival Fund Ways” for the younger set will be handled by Clete Osterholt and his committee. ,. All chairman are busy completing their arrangements to make this annual benefit successful, sponsors said. Money raised will go toward the parish hall debt. General chairman Gene Hammes and his co-chairman Milt Stackhouse and Chuck Miller are being assisted by many parish committees. Parishioners are reminded to make their returns. The beef dinner and all its trimmings will be handled by veteran chef Frank Gallino and his committee, U.S. Government Top Land Holder in 2nd District By far the largest single land owner in the 19 counties of the. Second Congressional District is the U.S, Government. In many counties, federal ownership extends over three-fourths of all the land in the county. The relationship of Federal payments to local government is, of course, of extreme importance because they constitute a substantial portion of operational and development funds available to local government. For this reason the forthcoming analysis of revenue sharing and payments to local government in lieu of taxes which will be conducted in the months ahead by the Public Land Law Review Commission is of tremendous importance to every area of the Second Congressional District. ie Sunday at Lions Lake picnic} St. Patrick’s Feed Due Sunday TRYING A CAKE recipe for the a nia Ladies Institute cake booth at next Sunday’s barbecue is Mrs. Delbert Hedges. Mark: Miller is ready to take a taste. This analysis in depth will use five (5) California counties for case studies, two (2) of these are counties in the Second _ Congressional District, Nevada and Trinity. The others are: Del Norte, Fresno, and San Bernardino. Nationally there were 50 counties chosen from the more than 3,000 counties in the United States. The case studies will be designed to show the actual influence of major public land ownership upon the financial structures of state and local governmental units, The case studies will give particular attention to the following: 1. Examination of state and local government budgets, sho the proportion represented by receipts from public lands. 2. Extent to which the public lands cause financial obligations for each state and local government, including such obligations as schools, roads, police and fire protection, water, sewage and other utilities, and public recreation facilities. 3. Description of Federal aid programs specifically related to public lands, such as federal highway and impacted school aid grants. 4. Comparison of revenue sharing receipts with payments in lieu of taxes. 5. Listing of services or facilities provided by Federal government on the public lands and adjacent non-Federal lands. 6. Comparison of total Federal payments and contributions with tax ' payments if public lands were in private ownership. Galligan Gets Highway Post Earl F. Galligan of Marysville has been promoted to assistant district engineer in charge of. the -advance. planning department for Highway District 3 in Marysville, California. Division of Highways. The appointment was made by District Engineer W. L. Warren and is effective Aug. 1. Galligan will replace Assistant District Engineer H. F. Sherwood who is retiring after 37 years. Galligan.is now in charge of advance planning for the Sacramento area. He has also worked as design engineer supervising preparation of engineering plans for $70 million of freeway projects in El Dorado and Sacramento counties. In his new post he will be heading a staff of 125 in four departments; planning, location, traffic and hydraulics. A lifelong resident of Marysville, Galligan graduated from Marysville High Schoo, Yuba Junior College and attended the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former commercial airline pilot and flew bombers during World War Il. He began work in District 3, headquarters for all highways in 11 counties, in 1947 asa senior engineering aid and has steadily advanced through six promotions to his present post. He is a member of a technical advisory committee for the Sacramento Regional Area Planning Commission, American Society of Civil Engineers and is currently serving as secretary of the Yuba County Grand Jury. He is past president of the Marysville Kiwanis Club and belongs to Elks Lodge No. 783 in Marysville. Galligan and his wife, Alice, veterans’ service officer for Yuba and Sutter Counties, Jive at 1906 Boulton Way. Manager of VA Office Receives US Career Award J. Glenn Corbitt, manager of the veteran’s administration office in San Francisco, received the distinguished career award, one of the federal government’s highest awards yesterday. The ‘honor comes as he retires Aug. 31 after 47 years of federal service. Cryil Brickfield, deputy administrator of Veterans Affairs, who made the presentation, _ stated that this award, together with VA’s exceptional service award, is the highest that fhe administrator of ven affairs can make, The award reads: “This certificate is awarded to J.-Glenn Corbitt in recognition and appreciation of a distinguished career in the Veterans Administration. His work has been characterized by outstanding efficiency, integrity, dedication and loyalty. The high standards of performance exhibited throughout his 47 years of employment have set an example for others to follow. His achievements brought great credit to himself, the Veterans Administration and the United States Government.” The honor carries with it a gold medal and lapel pin. For the past 13 years Corbitt San Francisco Regional Office, which administers benefits for more than a million veterans in ‘Northern and Central California, ‘He began his federal service in 1920 with the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, a distant predecessor of the VA. He served through various reorganizations of the old Veteans Bureau and finally headed VAs Foreign Relation Service in Washington. Corbitt was a lieutenant com‘mander in World War II. He is married, has one son and resides in San Fancisco. Area Seaman on Convoy Exercise USS JENKINS -Seaman Tommie Fullerton, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Fullerton of Grass Valley, Calif., is participating in a 16-day anti-submarine and convoy protection exercise named “Sea Dog” off the coast of Thailand, as a crew member aboard the destroyer USS Je oe A 36-ship armada six Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) countries will face air and submarine attacks by an “enemy” who is attempting to cut off supplies to a combat area.

as oe F RET Bf #/ */ ¥ he e * , LAL? da He ' VV eV 4 Ue bos The Nugget.. August 2, 1967 The Nevada ty Chamber . J of Commerce, during its first six months of active existence, assisted the Overall Economic Development Plan committee obtain approval for federal monies and investigate the possibility of lower freight rates for the Grass Valley-Nevada City area. _ The board of created the chamber Sept. 13. 1966, but concrete action by the chamber and actions and activities listed in the semi-annual report just issued cover the first six months of 1967. Harold Nye is president of the 15-man board of directors, 10 of whom were appointed by the board of supervisors, four selected by local chambers and "Jobh N. Gallegos was selected in January .to head the organization as executive manager, and Mrs. Jean McGregor was hired as full time secretary, according to the report, A budget for the six months [ period of $13,271.45 was approved and the-chamber still had $2,733.72 at the end of the period, it indicated. By law and policies have been established, and the office at 244 Commercial St. Nevada City, is open Mondays through Fridays during the hours of 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. In addition to lower truck transportation rates the chamber says the report has pursued the addition of bus transone to -Tepresent North San portation between Grass Valley and Nevada City. The Chico Transit is the only firm the chamber has found to be interested’ in this venture. More work and investigation of possible federal aid are necessary before results will be known in ‘this matter. ‘The county chamber proposed a fair share plan which local chambers have adopted. This plan calls for the increase of dues to a minimum of $36 with a graduating scale according to the size of a business. A booth will be entered later this year and next in the California State Fair, Los Angeles County Fair, San Francisco Boat Show and Los Angeles Sportsman and Vacation ‘Show. Other items listed in the semiannual report include the num~ County “Chamber Activities in Early Months Reviewed: . ber of newspapers outside the county which have carried publicity submitted by the county office and promotional material which was used in magazines and magazine sections of newspapers, Planned for the office, but'not ‘has been given the recreation commission, The semi-annual report was submitted to the board of supervisors and signed by P. Coy Miller, president for 1966-67, Nye, president for 1967-68, and Gallegos. yet completed are a convention guide, recreational directory and a winter sports brochure in cooperation with Placer County Chamber of Commerce and the North Lake Tahoe Chamber. At present, the report indicates, the chamber is working with two industrial firms which are considering locating ip the county. Assistance also is given to other county offices when requested; the report indicates that information and other help The St. Patrick’s barbecue is fast approaching, sponsors reminded the public today,The event will be held next grounds on McCourtney Road. The meal will be served from 1 p.m, to 6 p.m. Concessions, refreshments and a variety of entertainment will be available for all ages. The ‘‘Funival Fund Ways” for the younger set will be handled by Clete Osterholt and his committee. ,. All chairman are busy completing their arrangements to make this annual benefit successful, sponsors said. Money raised will go toward the parish hall debt. General chairman Gene Hammes and his co-chairman Milt Stackhouse and Chuck Miller are being assisted by many parish committees. Parishioners are reminded to make their returns. The beef dinner and all its trimmings will be handled by veteran chef Frank Gallino and his committee, U.S. Government Top Land Holder in 2nd District By far the largest single land owner in the 19 counties of the. Second Congressional District is the U.S, Government. In many counties, federal ownership extends over three-fourths of all the land in the county. The relationship of Federal payments to local government is, of course, of extreme importance because they constitute a substantial portion of operational and development funds available to local government. For this reason the forthcoming analysis of revenue sharing and payments to local government in lieu of taxes which will be conducted in the months ahead by the Public Land Law Review Commission is of tremendous importance to every area of the Second Congressional District. ie Sunday at Lions Lake picnic} St. Patrick’s Feed Due Sunday TRYING A CAKE recipe for the a nia Ladies Institute cake booth at next Sunday’s barbecue is Mrs. Delbert Hedges. Mark: Miller is ready to take a taste. This analysis in depth will use five (5) California counties for case studies, two (2) of these are counties in the Second _ Congressional District, Nevada and Trinity. The others are: Del Norte, Fresno, and San

Bernardino. Nationally there were 50 counties chosen from the more than 3,000 counties in the United States. The case studies will be designed to show the actual influence of major public land ownership upon the financial structures of state and local governmental units, The case studies will give particular attention to the following: 1. Examination of state and local government budgets, sho the proportion represented by receipts from public lands. 2. Extent to which the public lands cause financial obligations for each state and local government, including such obligations as schools, roads, police and fire protection, water, sewage and other utilities, and public recreation facilities. 3. Description of Federal aid programs specifically related to public lands, such as federal highway and impacted school aid grants. 4. Comparison of revenue sharing receipts with payments in lieu of taxes. 5. Listing of services or facilities provided by Federal government on the public lands and adjacent non-Federal lands. 6. Comparison of total Federal payments and contributions with tax ' payments if public lands were in private ownership. Galligan Gets Highway Post Earl F. Galligan of Marysville has been promoted to assistant district engineer in charge of. the -advance. planning department for Highway District 3 in Marysville, California. Division of Highways. The appointment was made by District Engineer W. L. Warren and is effective Aug. 1. Galligan will replace Assistant District Engineer H. F. Sherwood who is retiring after 37 years. Galligan.is now in charge of advance planning for the Sacramento area. He has also worked as design engineer supervising preparation of engineering plans for $70 million of freeway projects in El Dorado and Sacramento counties. In his new post he will be heading a staff of 125 in four departments; planning, location, traffic and hydraulics. A lifelong resident of Marysville, Galligan graduated from Marysville High Schoo, Yuba Junior College and attended the University of California at Berkeley. He is a former commercial airline pilot and flew bombers during World War Il. He began work in District 3, headquarters for all highways in 11 counties, in 1947 asa senior engineering aid and has steadily advanced through six promotions to his present post. He is a member of a technical advisory committee for the Sacramento Regional Area Planning Commission, American Society of Civil Engineers and is currently serving as secretary of the Yuba County Grand Jury. He is past president of the Marysville Kiwanis Club and belongs to Elks Lodge No. 783 in Marysville. Galligan and his wife, Alice, veterans’ service officer for Yuba and Sutter Counties, Jive at 1906 Boulton Way. Manager of VA Office Receives US Career Award J. Glenn Corbitt, manager of the veteran’s administration office in San Francisco, received the distinguished career award, one of the federal government’s highest awards yesterday. The ‘honor comes as he retires Aug. 31 after 47 years of federal service. Cryil Brickfield, deputy administrator of Veterans Affairs, who made the presentation, _ stated that this award, together with VA’s exceptional service award, is the highest that fhe administrator of ven affairs can make, The award reads: “This certificate is awarded to J.-Glenn Corbitt in recognition and appreciation of a distinguished career in the Veterans Administration. His work has been characterized by outstanding efficiency, integrity, dedication and loyalty. The high standards of performance exhibited throughout his 47 years of employment have set an example for others to follow. His achievements brought great credit to himself, the Veterans Administration and the United States Government.” The honor carries with it a gold medal and lapel pin. For the past 13 years Corbitt San Francisco Regional Office, which administers benefits for more than a million veterans in ‘Northern and Central California, ‘He began his federal service in 1920 with the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, a distant predecessor of the VA. He served through various reorganizations of the old Veteans Bureau and finally headed VAs Foreign Relation Service in Washington. Corbitt was a lieutenant com‘mander in World War II. He is married, has one son and resides in San Fancisco. Area Seaman on Convoy Exercise USS JENKINS -Seaman Tommie Fullerton, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Fullerton of Grass Valley, Calif., is participating in a 16-day anti-submarine and convoy protection exercise named “Sea Dog” off the coast of Thailand, as a crew member aboard the destroyer USS Je oe A 36-ship armada six Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) countries will face air and submarine attacks by an “enemy” who is attempting to cut off supplies to a combat area.