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“The Original Wild Oats” Will : Ply For
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Teen Dance At The Fair On Thursday
During the early planning of
the Nevada County District Fair,
Secretary -Manager Malcolm E,
Hammill w as approached by a
group of teen ~agers asking about
having a dance on the slab the
first night of the 1966 fair.
After several discussions it was
left up tothe group to select the
band they would like to have and
after several months, checking
on bands they came up with the
one that they thought was the
most popular locally and in
several northern counties, “The
inal Wild Oats” and they
will provide the music for the
Teen dance Thursday night
August 25, opening night of the
Fair to’be held on the dance
slab starting at 8:30 p.m.
“The Wild Oats” a Grass Valley group has played at various
colleges, high schools and night
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VIOLA KEISTER, (left) Claudia
Mr, and Mrs, Stan Sanders,
Dr, and Mrs, Leland Lewis, of
Nevada City, and Sisters Superior Mary Paulette and Sister
Mary Jonavella of Mount St,
Mary's Academy of Grass Valley, were among those present
last weekend in Georgetown to
see the Gold Pan Players present
"Patches, The Pride of Blue
Canyon" or “An Orphan of The
Gold Rush”,
There will be six more performances, each Friday and Saturday evening through September
clubs ranging from Lake Tahoe
to San Francisco,
"The Wild Oats” was awarded
a recording session with “Golden State Records” after being
chosen out of many auditioning
northern California bands,
Members of the band include
Art Deluca, drummer and head
vocalist, Art is a graduate of
Sierra College and is now working at Nevada County Title
Company. His brother John, is
lead guitarist and attends Nevada
Union High School, Ron Ray,
bass guitarist, is a graduate of
Sierra College and is now a
psychology major at Chico
State. His brother, Len, is the
organist and is also a graduate
of Sierra. Len is a pre-med '
major at Chico State, Rounding
off the group is Dave Tucker,
rhythm guitar, Dave attends
The play, a melodrama was
written over a century ago and
is adapted, directed and produced by Margaret Douglas
Chamberlin,a native of the
area and an American Melodrama Specialist.
The four act play is complete
with heroine, hero and villianand has been well received by
fun loving audiences for the past
six performances,
The Bloomer Girls are back in
the Olio, more of them and all
sizes, The wee ones have captured the hearts of the viewers,
gon, via Seattle, Washington.
Nevada Union High School, ;
This isa clean cut, intelligent group of fine young musicians and fronrall the favorable
comment being received by the
“teens” daily at the fairgrounds
this will be one of the highlights in entertainment of the
entire fair.
Mrs Boyd Atwell
Entertains Guests
Mr, and Mrs, John B, Atwell
and family were guests recently
atthe home of Mr, Atwell's
mother, Mrs. J. Boyd Atwell.
They were enroute totheir home
in Menlo Park after a vacation
trip that took them to Montana,
Calgary, Canada, Lake Louise,
Baniff and on to Portland, OreMurchie and Charles Orgibet are shown
in their costumes for parts in "Patches" being presented by the Gold
Pan Players through September 3 in Georgetown.
Georgetowns Gold Pan Players Are
Presenting “Patches” In Old Balsar House
Many other specialities are
planned for the Olio, to add to
thenow “thrillers” and interesting acts,
The production is held in the
108 year old Balsar House on the
corner of Highway 193 and Main
Street, Georgetown, Curtain
time is 8:15 p.m. Reservations
are available at Irene's, P.O.
Box 308, Georgetown, There
will-be some tickets available
atthe door. A portion of the
receipts will be used to help
restore the Balsar House,
By Fay M. Dunbar
Etough And Ready NWews . .
273 2934
The Rough and Ready Fire Dept.
is operational again. We hope
it wont be needed, but if it is,
Fire Chief Dale Haines, has the
truck ready to go. Insurance is
covered for 30 days. Now if we
can just get some daytime help,
so that we don't have to plan
our fires for after the men get
home from work, it will be
nice. Of course, we will continue to need money to keep up
the insurance.
Thereistobe another meeting
at7:30 p.m. on Tuesday August
30 at the Grange Hall. The
investigating committee will
make its report andwecan make
plans for the future. For the
safety of your home and family,
be there,
e@eeese
The Willis Perrys of Rough and
Ready Road have twonew neighbors, The John Tinsley and the
Vernon Jones families are building new homes,
Mr, and Mrs, John A. Tinsley
and their twoteenage youngsters,
a son and a daughter are living
here while they build their home,
They are from Pleasant Hill
where Tinsley is working. He
expects to be transferred here by
the first of the year,
Mr, and Mrs, Vernon Jones
and their son are still living in
Concord where Jones, a retired
Army Major, has an interior
decorating business. They work
on their home on the weekends,
eesees
TheRough andReady Chamber
of Commerce has appointed Bill
Thomas to act as Rough and
Ready °s representative to the
new County Chamber of Commerce, Thomas will report on
our questions at the next Rough
and Ready Chamber meeting
which is planned for early in
September,
Thechamber had six members:
and 16 guests present at the
meeting called for this appointment,. Lén Gilbert of Grass
Valley and Ken Casper of Wolf
Creek Road are County Chamber
representatives for this district,
The group felt proper representation for Rough and Ready was
slipping away from us, Five of
the guests joined the Chamber
and there will probably be more,
e@eee9#es
The ladies of the Rough and
Ready Grange are always so busy
making money to maintain their
various service projects that they
seldom have time to play. Last
week they met for luncheon at
The Office before their regular
August meeting, The meeting
was held in the garden of Marguerite Abbott’s home on Alta
Vista Ave,
Gladys Kelley
Wins First Prize
At Odd Fellows
Mrs, Gladys Kelley of Grass
Valley was the first prize win‘ner at the monthly public party
held Saturday night in the Odd
Fellows Hall of Grass Valley,
The prize given was two dinners
at the Alta Sierra Country Club,
An unusually large crowd atténded this party which is sponsored by the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows Lodge No, 12,
and is held each month in the
hall at 110 1/2 Mil11 Street,
Grass Valley,
It was fun. We hope to do it
again soon. The September 20
meeting will be at the home of
La Netta Hyatt on Spenceville
Road,
The current big project is a
new kitchen for the historic old
hall which is used by so many
organizationst hroughout the
area,
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Rough and Ready is still spreading out.over the hills, Mr. and
Mrs. Graham Balch and their two
teenage sons from Travis Air
Force Base are planning a new
home here. They have purchased property at the top of a
nearby hill at the end of Rough
and Ready Road,
eeesees
The Earl Treadways of Rough
and Ready Road have sold their
home and some acreage to Mr.
and Mrs, Bert A. Spaits of Oakland, Spaitsis a retired dentist.
The Spaits are on vacation in
Hawaii, but expect to move
here early in September. We
hope the Treadways will build
their new home here very soon,
eeeees
T he Rough and Ready Dinner
House is under new management,
Mrs. Hazel Worden, who has
been in the cafe business near
Nevada City for the last five
Years, is the new manager, The
cafe has a regular breakfast,
lunch and dinner menu and is
open from 6:00 a. m. to 8:00
7 Pe m,
Be sure and see the Rough and
Ready Grange booths at the
District Fair, Mrs, Olyve Simmons of Rough and Ready Road
is chairman of the feature booth,
It has been set up in a calf barn
where everyone has been working on it this past month, Ed
Beam and Russel Abbott have
proven they are real builders,
You sure learn to do some
strange things, I am chairman
of the garden display booth,
Rosa Christensen has been decorating garbage can lids for it.
Russell Abbott is out along the
creeks and ditches now hunting
some bracken fern for it. Its
lots of work, I have two bits of
news for you that will have to
wait until next week. The fair
booth won't, I'm on my way
there now,
L. G. Humphreys
Retires After 30
Years.Of Service
Leonard G, Humphreys, 351
Alexander St., Nevada City,
has retired from state service
after a 30-year career asa
Maintenance Man II with the
California Division of Highways,
He was assigned to the Nevada
City maintenance territory
headquarters operating heavy
equipment under Superintendent
Jack Snider,
Early in his career he devised
a splashshield to protect motors
on heavy graders from the corrosive effects of salt, sand and
moisture,
He and his wife, Edith, have
a daughter, Mrs, Patricia Rua
also of Nevada City, and two
grandchildren,