August 26, 1970 (12 pages)

a, Nevada county's intent to try voting machines at the November General Election is being opposed by one local group. Colfax Highway Association wrote a letter to the board of supervisors this. week statin that "we most emphatically favor retention of the present system based upon people rather than machines,” The letter: notes that the machines would "replace all but 89 of the 650 citizen-clerks who now supervise e ‘andtally belies as deputy election officiHere is a rundown of the reasons listed by the association for its stand: 1.) HONEST IN ELECTIONS. { To the best of our knowledge, in Nevada County today votes are honestly entered and tabulated. The deputy part-time clerks in the polling places are our neighbors, people we know. have shown they are doing a phenomenally accurate job, This is not the case in other parts of the country where voting machines are now in use, 2.) THE COST AND WHERE THE MONEY GOES, I is our considered opinion that any possible infinitesimal savings in election costs which the machines’ makers claim might occur after the ten year purchase agreement is fullfilled could quickly evaporate in service and repair charges, And whois tosay that in another ten years a different Board of Supervisors might not. decide that newer, 4 a improved machines were needed, thus voiding any possiblility of a saving. Money now paid to temporary election officials stays in Nevada County and helps just that much to bolster our sagging local economy. All payments made on voting machines leave. the Recounts in recent elections county. 3.) CITIZEN PARTICIPATION INCREASES INTEREST _IN ELECTIONS, With our neighbors and fellow. citizens working at polling places.in every neighborhood or community center, elections become much more imporOF BUILDING MATERIALS 1 the Nevada County Nugge!, Wed., August 26, 1970 one local tant i ain en be if we allhad to drive many miles and stand inline before an imperson‘al machine to cast our ballots. The small check that these people earn at every election € often helps greatly, too, in balancing family budgets. ° -Those of us who have come here from metropolitan centers are amazed at how much more interest is shown in the right and privilege of voting in our adopted home than was the case in the big cities from which, thank God, we escaped. Let's keep it that way. Speed in tabulation of ballots we feel to be of almost no importance, since most officials elected do not assume office for months after the election. Kiwanians tour Nevada General Members of the Grass Valley Nevada City Kiwanis Club lunched at and toured Nevada General Hospital as the guest of Bob Costley, hospital administrator and a member of Kiwanis, The group toured the newly renovated portions, the kitchen, x-ray room, medical center, diagnostic center, physical therapy facility, LVN classroom, operating room, intensive care facilities and central nursing station. The Kiwanians also saw the almost completed Lou Hartman patio which lacks a few umbrella tables and chairs. Local Lions to man eye unit at Cal Expo — In an effort. to find the one in 40 local residents who is suffering from hidden glaucoma, District 4C5 Lions Clubs are bringing the Eyemobile Screening Unit to the State Fair at Cal-Expo on Aug. 28, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m, -Lion Craig Norton, Sight Con' Grass Valley Lions, said that 46 District 4C5 Clubs will participate in this project including ' the local clubs of Grass Valley, Termed 2 "thief" by eye doctors, glaucoma may present no . symptoms to its victim; but, will ’ steal sight if not detected and treated in time. training clusters to serve this purpose. 273-2934 “Orchids ry “the Rough and Ready Grange, At their regular wieating last Friday night he membership voted to restore the old front porch to its original condition of 113 years ago. Rough. and Ready has a wonderful old mining heritage and people of the community are beginning to hold on to the few remaining bits of this heritage. This old building dates back to 1854: : group of the towns citizens got together to organize Mountain Rose Lodge #26 IOOF, The lodgewon its Charter in 1855 and completed its hall in 1857, The main hall remains today very much as it was originally built. ‘The proch, which has been in almost unusable condition for the last 10 years, is not only a historical landmark but provies the most beautiful wew of the surrounding countryside that I have seen around, Eagle Peak, the stamping grounds of Bret Harte, is plainly visible, Much of the lower valleys can be seen from this vantage point, Everytime I think of this becmoing a closed: storage room I just shiver. This change in the Grange plans means they will be enlarging the storage space under the hall and sometime in the future will undoubtedly mean a trap door and a stairway down. This meeting was a pot luck dinner meeting designated as honoring: Past Masters Night. Other activities included obligating Mrs. Constance Baer to membership and Clara and Charles Deardorf, and Earle Harper were the only Past Masters present. Willis Perry was unable to attend. Charles Kent the granges first master and Flynn Carlson no longer live in the area, Evelyn Frank who organized Rough and Ready. Grange in 1956 and served two terms as its Master and Eldon B, Gage of Gold Hill‘ 2 who acted as its founder, are both dead, There were guests from Loomis Grange, Golden Empire Grange and Hambolt Grange to help celebrate Past Masters’ Night. . . 3 Last. week's news carried the comment _that the Don Long's were celebrating 72 years of married bliss. Thank goodness the Longs’ thought that it was humorous, It should have been . 22 (twenty-two) years, I better clean the type on my machine before I really get myself in trouble. Mr, and Mrs, Bud Gc ce Ss ‘secs eal Ted Shain Sas ed Wace tes on grown so fast and so big the last few years that they find Rough and Ready a refreshing way to get away from it all as well as visit Mother. ; : 5 Baby girls are certainly one fi God's nicest gifts and nearly always get lots of tender loving care but baby Dawn. Marie Frazer, born July 28, weighing in at 7 Ibs. and 14 ounces, and blessed __ with blue eyes and brown hair is really getting a big share of TLC, Besides her thrilled and happy . parents, Mr. and Mrs, Ernest (Vicki) Frazer, she has grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, Van (Dorothy, Johnson who are bursting with pride over their very beautiful first grandchild. The Frazers, who live in Victorville and Dawn Marie who will soon be a month old have been visiting family and friends in Rough gnd Ready. < z ij a Raleigh Hobie son of Marguerite ‘Spaite of Rough and Ready attended the opening ‘of the new Bank of America in Nevada City last week. Mr. DeBow is one of the official family rep resenting the bank's head offices in San Francisco. c j * Mr, and Ws Lloyd Wax are eS and visiting friends and relatives in Oregon and the Trinity. Alps country. Mr. Wax is an avid fisherman. Before.they left on their trip they took Alice Perry who is also a fishing buff, to Sacramento and helped her select new fishing gear. Mr. Wax instructed her in its use. Mrs, Perry really put her new skill to work. She spent one day last week fishing at Scotts Flat Lake. and brought. home five trout. The largest was 11 inches and the smallest was nine inches. Mr, Wax ‘will surely be proud of his new pupil. . September is coming with its rush of activities. The lovely lazy days of summer are just about gone. When the fair is over and school gets under. way fall's feverish activities begin. This year Rough and Ready's Grange Ladies aren't waiting. Their annual Fall Rummage Sale will be held Friday, September 4 at 9 a.m. Work day for the ladies will be September 3, On Tuesday, Sept. 8, the day after. Labor Day, the ladies play host ot Pomona CWA at 10:30 a.m. The Rough and Ready ladies will serve luncheon to the group at:noon. There is a small chatge for the luncheon and all Grange ladies are welcome, The needlework entries for the Pomona Area will be judged during the day. The program portion of the Pomona meeting will follow luncheon, The ladies district meeting will be held at American River Grange on Saturday, Sept, 12. The Rough and Ready Grange will have its Community Open House meeting on —! 12 beginning with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. . r ‘ * Helen ae of Riverside arrived last Tuesday for a holiday with her sister Olyve Simmons of Rough and Ready. On Wednesday, while the ladies were shopping, Mrs. Blake twisted an ankle and fell breaking her knee cap. After two days at Sierra Memorial where she picked up a new cast, she spent a couple of days with her sister before being taken home to her own doctor, Her condition is much improved and her dente says H-will probably be:six:wetke hettte die:can do any corrective surgery. : . Six members and the community leader of the Rough and Ready 4-H Club attended the conference at Davis last week: The leader forum delegate was Lolomae Tinsley. All-star attending was Meg Sailor. Merit Award representative was Cinthia Tinsley, County special delegates were Frank Sears, John Prochaska, Cecelia Small and Ron Small, Keynote of the conference this.year was developing team leadership. The conference included separate, oe * * Winifred Schuster and Fay Dunbar attended the Christian Women's Luncheon at the Alta Sierra CC on Aug. 20. Among our friends there we found two neighbors, Margery Freestone and Leslie Justice. Mrs, Justice played some lovely pianonumbers for the prelude and offeratory musrangements for the tales and for display and stressed the timeliness of the subject since so much material is available just now. The days special nih aes ai ath amr mer aan cad for the cqming mouth. 2 m2 Se The deadline for registering. for the November elections ug Dactababiee 18 8 pen kab anyone who is unable to bet to the County Clerk's office or his own area Deputy Registrar, please a ‘call on me. Mr. Kohler ‘says the REG Fe WEE CHAS nies Work SHE ENE Bee Ni a missed. :

a, Nevada county's intent to try voting machines at the November General Election is being opposed by one local group. Colfax Highway Association wrote a letter to the board of supervisors this. week statin that "we most emphatically favor retention of the present system based upon people rather than machines,” The letter: notes that the machines would "replace all but 89 of the 650 citizen-clerks who now supervise e ‘andtally belies as deputy election officiHere is a rundown of the reasons listed by the association for its stand: 1.) HONEST IN ELECTIONS. { To the best of our knowledge, in Nevada County today votes are honestly entered and tabulated. The deputy part-time clerks in the polling places are our neighbors, people we know. have shown they are doing a phenomenally accurate job, This is not the case in other parts of the country where voting machines are now in use, 2.) THE COST AND WHERE THE MONEY GOES, I is our considered opinion that any possible infinitesimal savings in election costs which the machines’ makers claim might occur after the ten year purchase agreement is fullfilled could quickly evaporate in service and repair charges, And whois tosay that in another ten years a different Board of Supervisors might not. decide that newer, 4 a improved machines were needed, thus voiding any possiblility of a saving. Money now paid to temporary election officials stays in Nevada County and helps just that much to bolster our sagging local economy. All payments made on voting machines leave. the Recounts in recent elections county. 3.) CITIZEN PARTICIPATION INCREASES INTEREST _IN ELECTIONS, With our neighbors and fellow. citizens working at polling places.in every neighborhood or community center, elections become much more imporOF BUILDING MATERIALS 1 the Nevada County Nugge!, Wed., August 26, 1970 one local tant i ain en be if we allhad to drive many miles and stand inline before an imperson‘al machine to cast our ballots. The small check that these people earn at every election € often helps greatly, too, in balancing family budgets. ° -Those of us who have come here from metropolitan centers are amazed at how much more interest is shown in the right and privilege of voting in our adopted home than was the case in the big cities from which, thank God, we escaped. Let's keep it that way. Speed in tabulation of ballots we feel to be of almost no importance, since most officials elected do not assume office for months after the election. Kiwanians tour Nevada General Members of the Grass Valley Nevada City Kiwanis Club lunched at and toured Nevada General Hospital as the guest of Bob Costley, hospital administrator and a member of Kiwanis, The group toured the newly renovated portions, the kitchen, x-ray room, medical center, diagnostic center, physical therapy facility, LVN classroom, operating room, intensive care facilities and central nursing station. The Kiwanians also saw the almost completed Lou Hartman patio which lacks a few umbrella tables and chairs. Local Lions to man eye unit at Cal Expo — In an effort. to find the one in

40 local residents who is suffering from hidden glaucoma, District 4C5 Lions Clubs are bringing the Eyemobile Screening Unit to the State Fair at Cal-Expo on Aug. 28, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m, -Lion Craig Norton, Sight Con' Grass Valley Lions, said that 46 District 4C5 Clubs will participate in this project including ' the local clubs of Grass Valley, Termed 2 "thief" by eye doctors, glaucoma may present no . symptoms to its victim; but, will ’ steal sight if not detected and treated in time. training clusters to serve this purpose. 273-2934 “Orchids ry “the Rough and Ready Grange, At their regular wieating last Friday night he membership voted to restore the old front porch to its original condition of 113 years ago. Rough. and Ready has a wonderful old mining heritage and people of the community are beginning to hold on to the few remaining bits of this heritage. This old building dates back to 1854: : group of the towns citizens got together to organize Mountain Rose Lodge #26 IOOF, The lodgewon its Charter in 1855 and completed its hall in 1857, The main hall remains today very much as it was originally built. ‘The proch, which has been in almost unusable condition for the last 10 years, is not only a historical landmark but provies the most beautiful wew of the surrounding countryside that I have seen around, Eagle Peak, the stamping grounds of Bret Harte, is plainly visible, Much of the lower valleys can be seen from this vantage point, Everytime I think of this becmoing a closed: storage room I just shiver. This change in the Grange plans means they will be enlarging the storage space under the hall and sometime in the future will undoubtedly mean a trap door and a stairway down. This meeting was a pot luck dinner meeting designated as honoring: Past Masters Night. Other activities included obligating Mrs. Constance Baer to membership and Clara and Charles Deardorf, and Earle Harper were the only Past Masters present. Willis Perry was unable to attend. Charles Kent the granges first master and Flynn Carlson no longer live in the area, Evelyn Frank who organized Rough and Ready. Grange in 1956 and served two terms as its Master and Eldon B, Gage of Gold Hill‘ 2 who acted as its founder, are both dead, There were guests from Loomis Grange, Golden Empire Grange and Hambolt Grange to help celebrate Past Masters’ Night. . . 3 Last. week's news carried the comment _that the Don Long's were celebrating 72 years of married bliss. Thank goodness the Longs’ thought that it was humorous, It should have been . 22 (twenty-two) years, I better clean the type on my machine before I really get myself in trouble. Mr, and Mrs, Bud Gc ce Ss ‘secs eal Ted Shain Sas ed Wace tes on grown so fast and so big the last few years that they find Rough and Ready a refreshing way to get away from it all as well as visit Mother. ; : 5 Baby girls are certainly one fi God's nicest gifts and nearly always get lots of tender loving care but baby Dawn. Marie Frazer, born July 28, weighing in at 7 Ibs. and 14 ounces, and blessed __ with blue eyes and brown hair is really getting a big share of TLC, Besides her thrilled and happy . parents, Mr. and Mrs, Ernest (Vicki) Frazer, she has grandparents, Mr. and Mrs, Van (Dorothy, Johnson who are bursting with pride over their very beautiful first grandchild. The Frazers, who live in Victorville and Dawn Marie who will soon be a month old have been visiting family and friends in Rough gnd Ready. < z ij a Raleigh Hobie son of Marguerite ‘Spaite of Rough and Ready attended the opening ‘of the new Bank of America in Nevada City last week. Mr. DeBow is one of the official family rep resenting the bank's head offices in San Francisco. c j * Mr, and Ws Lloyd Wax are eS and visiting friends and relatives in Oregon and the Trinity. Alps country. Mr. Wax is an avid fisherman. Before.they left on their trip they took Alice Perry who is also a fishing buff, to Sacramento and helped her select new fishing gear. Mr. Wax instructed her in its use. Mrs, Perry really put her new skill to work. She spent one day last week fishing at Scotts Flat Lake. and brought. home five trout. The largest was 11 inches and the smallest was nine inches. Mr, Wax ‘will surely be proud of his new pupil. . September is coming with its rush of activities. The lovely lazy days of summer are just about gone. When the fair is over and school gets under. way fall's feverish activities begin. This year Rough and Ready's Grange Ladies aren't waiting. Their annual Fall Rummage Sale will be held Friday, September 4 at 9 a.m. Work day for the ladies will be September 3, On Tuesday, Sept. 8, the day after. Labor Day, the ladies play host ot Pomona CWA at 10:30 a.m. The Rough and Ready ladies will serve luncheon to the group at:noon. There is a small chatge for the luncheon and all Grange ladies are welcome, The needlework entries for the Pomona Area will be judged during the day. The program portion of the Pomona meeting will follow luncheon, The ladies district meeting will be held at American River Grange on Saturday, Sept, 12. The Rough and Ready Grange will have its Community Open House meeting on —! 12 beginning with a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m. . r ‘ * Helen ae of Riverside arrived last Tuesday for a holiday with her sister Olyve Simmons of Rough and Ready. On Wednesday, while the ladies were shopping, Mrs. Blake twisted an ankle and fell breaking her knee cap. After two days at Sierra Memorial where she picked up a new cast, she spent a couple of days with her sister before being taken home to her own doctor, Her condition is much improved and her dente says H-will probably be:six:wetke hettte die:can do any corrective surgery. : . Six members and the community leader of the Rough and Ready 4-H Club attended the conference at Davis last week: The leader forum delegate was Lolomae Tinsley. All-star attending was Meg Sailor. Merit Award representative was Cinthia Tinsley, County special delegates were Frank Sears, John Prochaska, Cecelia Small and Ron Small, Keynote of the conference this..year was developing team leadership. The conference included separate, oe * * Winifred Schuster and Fay Dunbar attended the Christian Women's Luncheon at the Alta Sierra CC on Aug. 20. Among our friends there we found two neighbors, Margery Freestone and Leslie Justice. Mrs, Justice played some lovely pianonumbers for the prelude and offeratory musrangements for the tales and for display and stressed the timeliness of the subject since so much material is available just now. The days special nih aes ai ath amr mer aan cad for the cqming mouth. 2 m2 Se The deadline for registering. for the November elections ug Dactababiee 18 8 pen kab anyone who is unable to bet to the County Clerk's office or his own area Deputy Registrar, please a ‘call on me. Mr. Kohler ‘says the REG Fe WEE CHAS nies Work SHE ENE Bee Ni a missed. :