August 24, 1960 (8 pages)

‘NEVADA COUNTY Published Wednesday By ee NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC, 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. : To The . Alfred E. Heller. 00 cc lee wo, Publis Editor R. Dean Thompson. ... . Editor-Manager . Dial 265-2471 Don Fairclough. .. .-. .Circulation Maneger By Jack Miner Clarice Mc Whinney. . . 4. « Aft Editor aes Dear Editor: Margaret Abrahamson ... . . Society Editor I have. been receiving tha Nugget now going on years, and enjoy it ve much. I have been interest ed in the freeway proble and hate to‘see the to split in the middle, so ami sending this clipping. Mrs. Clarence Okime, Ex-Nevada Cityan LaPorte, Indiana ' (€d. Note: Clipping referred to the success of freeway by-passes in Indiana.) Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general Circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No. 12,406 Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00. Three years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. EDITORIAL The Time Is Now! Dear Sir: Thank you very much for the ‘publicity in-your paper and the help given by your For those who do not respond to patriotic staff to make this year’s Inregistration appeals, we would like to dependence Day celebration issue the following reminder: a success. You are to be congratulated on the June 29th issue If you are not registered to vote, you will not be able to vote for the President with the PAST IN PIC .of the United States; Congressman; State TURES. The pictures of the Senator; State Assemblyman. Nor will ‘you be able to vote upon the state water bond issue, or the explosive state senate re-apportionment issue, or county re-districting. The adult citizens of Nevada County have queen candidates did much to promote interest in the Siren of the Sierras contest. The publicity given in your paper before the celebration helped to draw the crowds that lined Nevada City’s streets during the street show and parade. The issue describing the too much at stake in this year of 1960 to events will be kept by many allow their votes to go by default. .to aland shown as history in fulow others to decide the future for them. ture days. Sincerely, The Sept. 15 deadline for registering is Nevada City Chamber of Commerce. less than three weeks from today. Mardin’ E.-Haddy, If you don't know how to register, conPresident. sult the registration information on page dg To The Editor: If youwant to vote, you must be regis tered. If you want to register, the time is now! : Re-Examination The California Olive Industry, for some 30 years, has been penalized by an inadequate tariff which has arrested development of the industry; One ofthe charges levelled against the proposed jC plan of redistricting Nevada County is that it could give control of the which has put A hundred years ago this summer, Nevada City and Grass Valley, in fact the whole of California, seethed with warlike preparations-not for the Civil Was, but for a showdown with the Piutes of the east of the Sierra. bespectacled entleman sitting so peacefully on the porch of his Spring street home, faithful dog at knee, had been one of the most active of all the citizens in those warlike preparations. Hehad been young then and filled with what-it-takes. No streaks of grey had softened his fierce black beard, and his eyes had been keen and strong enough to meet, unaided, the exactitude of his work, The man was Zeno Philosopher Davis, pioneer lock and gun smith with a shop at 40 Braod street, part of today's National Hotel. His residence was on Spring, the house shown in the. photo taken on a peaceful spring afternoon in 1895. But let's go back to the tumult of 1860 and the part Davis played in the warlike preparations, The Comstock Lode had recently been discovered, aid the cluster of shacks straddling it had been named Virginia. Into the Territory had swarmed prospectors and speculators by the thousands, intent on dispossessing the Indians and grabbing for themselves the gold and silver of the Lode. In the brutal process two white scoundrels were killed, and the war was on. The much beloved Nevada City lawyer, young Henry Meredith who had moved to Virginia City to seek his fortune, was killed in one of the battles. It was this that had aroused his California friends to organize a statewide punitive expedition against the Indians, and to bring Meredith's body home for burial on the hill overlooking the town that had loved him. Gunsmith Davis had taken charge of providing the ammunition for the contingent of the Nevada Rifles which, under the command of Captain Van Hagen, were to cross the mountains and seek battle with Chief Winnemucca, reported to have withdrawn his Piutes to Pyramid Lake. Davisrecruited hishelpers, and, for a day and a night, they cast bullets and made cartridges 1200 of them. He wired Sacramento for 1800 percussions caps, and the Wells Fargo messenger, using relays of horses, brought the caps to Davis’ shop within five hours. On June 6, 1960, the Nevada Rifles returned home with Henry Meredith's body. Today, you may see his grave in the old Pioneer Cemetery Hill at the head of Broad street. The inscription onthetall, marble column, standing like a sentinel over him, reads; ~ HENRY MEREDITH Brave, Gifted, Generous and Faithful He closed a Life of Usefulness and most of the American olive Purity by a Death of Honor oil plants out of business; which has effected the living standard of the California farmer; which has, in the world. Why = should porary business of bolstername of good relations with American labor go back ing the free nations through county to Grass Valley. friendly nations penalized ward 30 years to adjust itannual handouts. That gets This is a serious charge and should be one segment of American self to world-wide condineither permanent results agriculture to the benefit tions? nor friends.” We agree with considered. of America as a whole, and There is much discussion In establishing districts within a county now with further reduction given to minimnm wage. If the President. However, eight years later, we are for supervisorial representation, the chief being considered by the U. they are going to legislate still in the give-away busiS. Tariff Commission, can goal is to assure representation for the inundate America with the minimum wage scales, then ness: this time through conAmerican industries must cessionary tariff measures various segments of the county. A good product of Mediterranean secure more money for their at the expense of a strong countries, with the promeasure of success in theory is to end up duct of Mediterranean labor products to create a better farmer, strong laborer and living standard. You cannot with equality of population and equality with the product of lower increase the minimum wage a prosperous consumer. In many areas, our strong of area in each district. These are means living standards, actually and reduce tariffs at the farmers are growing weakimport “unemployed Amerisame time and expect to er. The backbone of Ameriof achieving the primary goal of represencans’”’, operate‘in the black. To intative government. In looking at the JC redistricting plan, it is obvious that it offers near equality in population. It is obvious that it offers near equality in area distribution of the county districts. What, then, is the reasoning behind the charges of Grass Valley domination? To put it plainly, under the plan three supervisors could be elected to the board fromthe Grass Valley area. That in itself is a majority. In other words, the JC plan has suc ceeded is splitting the population and the area of the county, but the resulting elections can easily leave large numbers of people and large areas of land without ANY representation. Equality of population and equality of area are merely means to full county representation. In themselves they have no value if in the process they destroy the ° goal of a democratic county. This reasoning seems to be the basis of current objections to the JC redistricting plan. We are appealing. farmer sure’ better wages, necesto farmer, laborer to laborsary protection in the form er, American to American, of an equitable tariff must manufacturer to manufactbe afforded American inurer, for assistance. be it in dustry. the form of public ire and On August 23rd, the Olive objection as manifested Industry intends to make through letters, or other known the peril point has means, to ccnvey to the already ‘been reached; that seek support prices. We will President and the Vice the growth of the industry take care of our own. if the President, the U. S. Tariff has been arrested, and that ‘Government does not lower Commission, Senators, Conwe need a higher tariff to the barrier ta inundate gressmen, the objection by maintain a rightful place America with that which friends of the California for the California industry can put the small farmer Olive Industry, to lowering and not sacrifice it in the and processor out of busithe tariff of olives. The name of reciprocity. ness, In the olive Industry, American standard of living The Olive Industry symif there is a surplus the is the highest in the world. pathizes with the steel inOne sure way to break this dustry, and the fact that Government does not take care of this problem: the down is to import the conimports have caused some farmer takes it on the chin. cept of ‘production in Eu56.000 people their jobs in rope, Sale in the United America in the steel inDaryl Hutchins, Manager States’ with the chief weadustry alone, because we Olive Advisory Board pen for economic murder have given money to subSan Francisco being the gun of labor cost sidize foreign countries’ prodifferential: “Pay less in duction, which would have One of the major monumenEurope for labor; sell for employed 65.000 American tal sites of the Arab world, more in America.” The word workmen. Where is reciPetra, the rose-red city half as ‘less’ encompassing nothing old as time, lies deep within mcre or less than labor in procity when trade barriers the Jordanian desert some 95 are erected in foreign countthe Mediterranean area, miles south of Jerusalem. working for a dollar a day, ries and have lowered ours? The gateway to Petra is the whereas California pays 22 What is the reason behind little village of El Ji where to 35 times that amount this economic fallacy and people still toil in fields terwhere will it lead us? for its labor. raced with walls which date ‘Is it conceivable, where Many American industback to the Ist century B.C. an American laborer wishes ries are now in a position The “gate” to Petra, a tremensimilar to that of the olive to keep up wage rates and ‘dous cleft in the face of El American industry wishes industry’s predicament the Habis mountain, is thought to last 30 years. It is just comto have satisfactory workhave been made when Moses Srought forth water from the ing to the attention of the ing arrangements with lastones. American public at this bor, that this concept can Petra was settled by stone time; that American industbe advanced against tarcutters who carved huge, fanries are faced with econoiff practices that completely tastic dwellings and temples mic “Delirium Tremens’”, nullify growth for so many into the solid face of the mounwith delirum between taxes industries, wherein we protain: cliffs. One of the most orand tariffs, where on the vide the wherewithal] in the nate of these was the Pharaoh’s one hand, the taxpayer pays name. of foreign aid for treasury building. It is the reto the limit to provide forother countries, and yet do flection of the sun off the rose eign aid, which many times not allow sufficient writecolored rock out of which this off to replace obsolete turns up in the form of a building was carved that probfactory in a foreign country, equipment here in America? ably causes the soft red glow manufacturing goods’ exThe laboreres and industry which gives’ the city its title. heyday. sometime in the 8th or dustrious~ American _ busiwith the world labor pool, a because labor is paid less. ment. Wei in the Industry. feel On the other hand, the tariff, in the name of reciprothat the 30c a gallon tariff, \city, unilateral in many as,initated in 1930, reprerespects, American labor sents a little more than one ably refers to the huge crag standard of living against third the orginal intended tts cheap counterpart; he amount. In the words of either works for less or has the President: “Certainly. I a tariff wall between himknow we must find a subself and cther labor around stitute for the purely tem ‘ The ancient city was in its 9th century B.C. In the days, of the Edomites, Petra was largely a place of refuge and the “Rock” . hessmen, and selling for less which is thirty years beAmerican advancebecause the gocds cost less, hind a KEY TO SYMBOLS — (6?) PONDEROSA PINE =NP DOUGLAS [DO WHITEFIR PINE ©® LODGEPOLE PINE WESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION LO INCENSE CEDAR REDCEDAR ° ©) ENGELMANN SPRUCE LARCH 8 WHITE FI2 HEMLOCK WHERE THE WEST’S TREES GROW—Western United States has commercial forests totaling 117,000,000 acres containing 114 trillion board feet of sawtimber. The western pine region covers 87,300,000 of these acres and contains 620 billion board feet of sawtimber. Map above shows where major species of region grow. Large circles symbolize predominant tree species within surrounding dotted area. Other trees are indicated where they grow in important volume. Petra, the Rose-Red City. r pressly designed to sell in are operating with one hand the United States, in a martied behind their backs; ket originally created by inand yet. have to compete ¥ ca, the man and wife, the farmers. who are long on determination and short on cash are becoming a passing memory. We must be realistic about tariffs. Our industry does not seek payments for not growing their product and it dees not * * mentioned in the Bible prob known today as Umm el-Biyara. It was here that Amaziah came and defeated his southern-most neighbors sometime in the 8th century B.C. In recent years efforts have been made to resurrect the community of the ancient Edomites in order to learn more about: this important civiliza Near the dawn of history, the rose-red city, referred to as “the Rock” in the Bible, was a place of refuge for its early inhabitants. tion. The Jordanian Department of Antiquities began preservation operations in the area in 1954. The next summer a small party from the American School of Oriental Research conducted individual projects on. the site. From various projects conducted in the area came the Anglo-American expedition which took place last summer. Out of the work of this expe-, dition, long-range plans have been set up for the complete restoration: and rebuilding of Petra. — If this-dream is realized, students, sightseers, and scholars will-eventually be able to walk along Petra the Roman Street of and see the markets, ‘shops, temples, and public buildings rising again from the sand in the full majesty that was theirs at the height.of the splendor of the rose-red city half as old as time. ;

‘NEVADA COUNTY Published Wednesday By ee NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC, 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. : To The . Alfred E. Heller.. 00 cc lee wo, Publis Editor R. Dean Thompson. ..... . Editor-Manager . Dial 265-2471 Don Fairclough.. ... .-. .Circulation Maneger By Jack Miner Clarice Mc Whinney.. .. .. 4.. « Aft Editor aes Dear Editor: Margaret Abrahamson ..... . . Society Editor I have. been receiving tha Nugget now going on years, and enjoy it ve much. I have been interest ed in the freeway proble and hate to‘see the to split in the middle, so ami sending this clipping. Mrs. Clarence Okime, Ex-Nevada Cityan LaPorte, Indiana ' (€d. Note: Clipping referred to the success of freeway by-passes in Indiana.) Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general Circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No. 12,406 Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00. Three years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. EDITORIAL The Time Is Now! Dear Sir: Thank you very much for the ‘publicity in-your paper and the help given by your For those who do not respond to patriotic staff to make this year’s Inregistration appeals, we would like to dependence Day celebration issue the following reminder: a success. You are to be congratulated on the June 29th issue If you are not registered to vote, you will not be able to vote for the President with the PAST IN PIC .of the United States; Congressman; State TURES. The pictures of the Senator; State Assemblyman. Nor will ‘you be able to vote upon the state water bond issue, or the explosive state senate re-apportionment issue, or county re-districting. The adult citizens of Nevada County have queen candidates did much to promote interest in the Siren of the Sierras contest. The publicity given in your paper before the celebration helped to draw the crowds that lined Nevada City’s streets during the street show and parade. The issue describing the too much at stake in this year of 1960 to events will be kept by many allow their votes to go by default. .to aland shown as history in fulow others to decide the future for them. ture days. Sincerely, The Sept. 15 deadline for registering is Nevada City Chamber of Commerce. less than three weeks from today. Mardin’ E.-Haddy, If you don't know how to register, conPresident. sult the registration information on page dg To The Editor: If youwant to vote, you must be regis tered. If you want to register, the time is now! : Re-Examination The California Olive Industry, for some 30 years, has been penalized by an inadequate tariff which has arrested development of the industry; One ofthe charges levelled against the proposed jC plan of redistricting Nevada County is that it could give control of the which has put A hundred years ago this summer, Nevada City and Grass Valley, in fact the whole of California, seethed with warlike preparations-not for the Civil Was, but for a showdown with the Piutes of the east of the Sierra. bespectacled entleman sitting so peacefully on the porch of his Spring street home, faithful dog at knee, had been one of the most active of all the citizens in those warlike preparations. Hehad been young then and filled with what-it-takes. No streaks of grey had softened his fierce black beard, and his eyes had been keen and strong enough to meet, unaided, the exactitude of his work, The man was Zeno Philosopher Davis, pioneer lock and gun smith with a shop at 40 Braod street, part of today's National Hotel. His residence was on Spring, the house shown in the. photo taken on a peaceful spring afternoon in 1895. But let's go back to the tumult of 1860 and the part Davis played in the warlike preparations, The Comstock Lode had recently been discovered, aid the cluster of shacks straddling it had been named Virginia. Into the Territory had swarmed prospectors and speculators by the thousands, intent on dispossessing the Indians and grabbing for themselves the gold and silver of the Lode. In the brutal process two white scoundrels were killed, and the war was on. The much beloved Nevada City lawyer, young Henry Meredith who had moved to Virginia City to seek his fortune, was killed in one of the battles. It was this that had aroused his California friends to organize a statewide punitive expedition against the Indians, and to bring Meredith's body home for burial on the hill overlooking the town that had loved him. Gunsmith Davis had taken charge of providing the ammunition for the contingent of the Nevada Rifles which, under the command of Captain Van Hagen, were to cross the mountains and seek battle with Chief Winnemucca, reported to have withdrawn his Piutes to Pyramid Lake. Davisrecruited hishelpers, and, for a day and a night, they cast bullets and made cartridges 1200 of them. He wired Sacramento for 1800 percussions caps, and the Wells Fargo messenger, using relays of horses, brought the caps to Davis’ shop within five hours. On June 6, 1960, the Nevada Rifles returned home with Henry Meredith's body. Today, you may see his grave in the old Pioneer Cemetery Hill at the head of Broad street. The inscription onthetall, marble column, standing like a sentinel over him, reads; ~ HENRY MEREDITH Brave, Gifted, Generous and Faithful He closed a Life of Usefulness and most of the American olive Purity by a Death of Honor oil plants out of business; which has effected the living standard of the California farmer; which has, in the world. Why = should porary business of bolstername of good relations with American labor go back ing the free nations through county to Grass Valley. friendly nations penalized ward 30 years to adjust itannual handouts. That gets This is a serious charge and should be one segment of American self to world-wide condineither permanent results agriculture to the benefit tions? nor friends.” We agree with considered. of America as a whole, and There is much discussion In establishing districts within a county now with further reduction given to minimnm wage. If the President. However, eight years later, we are for supervisorial representation, the chief being considered by the U. they are going to legislate still in the give-away busiS. Tariff Commission, can goal is to assure representation for the inundate America with the minimum wage scales, then ness: this time through conAmerican industries must cessionary tariff measures various segments of the county. A good product of Mediterranean secure more money for their at the expense of a strong countries, with the promeasure of success in theory is to end up duct of Mediterranean labor products to create a better farmer, strong laborer and living standard. You cannot with equality of population and equality with the product of lower increase the minimum wage a prosperous consumer. In many areas, our strong of area in each district. These are means living standards, actually and reduce tariffs at the farmers are growing weakimport “unemployed Amerisame time and expect to er. The backbone of Ameriof achieving the primary goal of represencans’”’, operate‘in the black. To intative government. In looking at the JC redistricting plan, it is obvious that it offers near equality in population. It is obvious that it offers near equality in area distribution of the county districts. What, then, is the reasoning behind the charges of Grass Valley domination? To put it plainly, under the plan three supervisors could be elected to the board fromthe Grass Valley area. That in itself is a majority. In other words, the JC plan has suc ceeded is splitting the population and the area of the county, but the resulting elections can easily leave large numbers of people and large areas of land without ANY representation. Equality of population and equality of area are merely means to full county representation. In themselves they have no value if in the process they destroy the ° goal of a democratic county.

This reasoning seems to be the basis of current objections to the JC redistricting plan. We are appealing. farmer sure’ better wages, necesto farmer, laborer to laborsary protection in the form er, American to American, of an equitable tariff must manufacturer to manufactbe afforded American inurer, for assistance. be it in dustry. the form of public ire and On August 23rd, the Olive objection as manifested Industry intends to make through letters, or other known the peril point has means, to ccnvey to the already ‘been reached; that seek support prices. We will President and the Vice the growth of the industry take care of our own. if the President, the U. S. Tariff has been arrested, and that ‘Government does not lower Commission, Senators, Conwe need a higher tariff to the barrier ta inundate gressmen, the objection by maintain a rightful place America with that which friends of the California for the California industry can put the small farmer Olive Industry, to lowering and not sacrifice it in the and processor out of busithe tariff of olives. The name of reciprocity. ness, In the olive Industry, American standard of living The Olive Industry symif there is a surplus the is the highest in the world. pathizes with the steel inOne sure way to break this dustry, and the fact that Government does not take care of this problem: the down is to import the conimports have caused some farmer takes it on the chin. cept of ‘production in Eu56.000 people their jobs in rope, Sale in the United America in the steel inDaryl Hutchins, Manager States’ with the chief weadustry alone, because we Olive Advisory Board pen for economic murder have given money to subSan Francisco being the gun of labor cost sidize foreign countries’ prodifferential: “Pay less in duction, which would have One of the major monumenEurope for labor; sell for employed 65.000 American tal sites of the Arab world, more in America.” The word workmen. Where is reciPetra, the rose-red city half as ‘less’ encompassing nothing old as time, lies deep within mcre or less than labor in procity when trade barriers the Jordanian desert some 95 are erected in foreign countthe Mediterranean area, miles south of Jerusalem. working for a dollar a day, ries and have lowered ours? The gateway to Petra is the whereas California pays 22 What is the reason behind little village of El Ji where to 35 times that amount this economic fallacy and people still toil in fields terwhere will it lead us? for its labor. raced with walls which date ‘Is it conceivable, where Many American industback to the Ist century B.C. an American laborer wishes ries are now in a position The “gate” to Petra, a tremensimilar to that of the olive to keep up wage rates and ‘dous cleft in the face of El American industry wishes industry’s predicament the Habis mountain, is thought to last 30 years. It is just comto have satisfactory workhave been made when Moses Srought forth water from the ing to the attention of the ing arrangements with lastones. American public at this bor, that this concept can Petra was settled by stone time; that American industbe advanced against tarcutters who carved huge, fanries are faced with econoiff practices that completely tastic dwellings and temples mic “Delirium Tremens’”, nullify growth for so many into the solid face of the mounwith delirum between taxes industries, wherein we protain: cliffs. One of the most orand tariffs, where on the vide the wherewithal] in the nate of these was the Pharaoh’s one hand, the taxpayer pays name. of foreign aid for treasury building. It is the reto the limit to provide forother countries, and yet do flection of the sun off the rose eign aid, which many times not allow sufficient writecolored rock out of which this off to replace obsolete turns up in the form of a building was carved that probfactory in a foreign country, equipment here in America? ably causes the soft red glow manufacturing goods’ exThe laboreres and industry which gives’ the city its title. heyday. sometime in the 8th or dustrious~ American _ busiwith the world labor pool, a because labor is paid less. ment. Wei in the Industry. feel On the other hand, the tariff, in the name of reciprothat the 30c a gallon tariff, \city, unilateral in many as,initated in 1930, reprerespects, American labor sents a little more than one ably refers to the huge crag standard of living against third the orginal intended tts cheap counterpart; he amount. In the words of either works for less or has the President: “Certainly. I a tariff wall between himknow we must find a subself and cther labor around stitute for the purely tem ‘ The ancient city was in its 9th century B.C. In the days, of the Edomites, Petra was largely a place of refuge and the “Rock” . hessmen, and selling for less which is thirty years beAmerican advancebecause the gocds cost less, hind a KEY TO SYMBOLS — (6?) PONDEROSA PINE =NP DOUGLAS [DO WHITEFIR PINE ©® LODGEPOLE PINE WESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION LO INCENSE CEDAR REDCEDAR ° ©) ENGELMANN SPRUCE LARCH 8 WHITE FI2 HEMLOCK WHERE THE WEST’S TREES GROW—Western United States has commercial forests totaling 117,000,000 acres containing 114 trillion board feet of sawtimber. The western pine region covers 87,300,000 of these acres and contains 620 billion board feet of sawtimber. Map above shows where major species of region grow. Large circles symbolize predominant tree species within surrounding dotted area. Other trees are indicated where they grow in important volume. Petra, the Rose-Red City. r pressly designed to sell in are operating with one hand the United States, in a martied behind their backs; ket originally created by inand yet. have to compete ¥ ca, the man and wife, the farmers. who are long on determination and short on cash are becoming a passing memory. We must be realistic about tariffs. Our industry does not seek payments for not growing their product and it dees not * * mentioned in the Bible prob known today as Umm el-Biyara. It was here that Amaziah came and defeated his southern-most neighbors sometime in the 8th century B.C. In recent years efforts have been made to resurrect the community of the ancient Edomites in order to learn more about: this important civiliza Near the dawn of history, the rose-red city, referred to as “the Rock” in the Bible, was a place of refuge for its early inhabitants. tion. The Jordanian Department of Antiquities began preservation operations in the area in 1954. The next summer a small party from the American School of Oriental Research conducted individual projects on. the site. From various projects conducted in the area came the Anglo-American expedition which took place last summer. Out of the work of this expe-, dition, long-range plans have been set up for the complete restoration: and rebuilding of Petra. — If this-dream is realized, students, sightseers, and scholars will-eventually be able to walk along Petra the Roman Street of and see the markets, ‘shops, temples, and public buildings rising again from the sand in the full majesty that was theirs at the height.of the splendor of the rose-red city half as old as time. ;