August 27, 1975 (8 pages)

California Kristi BROKEN PROMISE “That Roy Curry is a rogue © and a scamp, no doubt,” said Miss Mary Van Buren tearfully. “But he promised to marry me and if I can’t have him then no one will.” She was in the chambers of Justice Lampton of Woodland, and before she left, she had signed a complaint charging Curry with seduction. Later that day an officer learned that Curry had been in Colusa inquiring about a license to marry a Woodland girl, not Miss Van Buren, but a Miss Mabel Moe. He also learned that Curry had returned to Woodland to pick up his bride and a letter of permission fram her mother, for the bride-to-be was under age. Curry was arrested April 3, 1910, as he applied for the license. He was escorted back to Woodland and confined to a cell while the Van Burens were notified. The next day the couple apSteber . peared in Judge Lamipiati's office. But instead of hearing a trial on seduction, the judge performed a marriage ceremony between the two. It seemed that shortly after his arrest, Curry had been called upon by Miss Van Buren’s father and brothers. Given the choice between jail or marriage, Curry quickly chose the latter. Anything’s better than jail, he figured The blissful newlyweds spent their wedding night at the home of the bride’s parents. Early the next day Curry left for Colusa, claiming he had to pick up some personal belongings. up some personal belongings. “I just know he isn’t coming back,” Mrs. Van Buren told a reporter from the Sacramento Bee. ‘That no good bum is going to abandon his wife, but you put in your paper that she will be better off without him.” The new Mrs. Curry refused to comment. CHP safety tips The Grass Valley area California Highway Patrol Department has noted a significant increase recently in the number of hit and run accidents. Any person witnessing a hit and run collision should write down the license number of the responsible vehicle and if possible, attempt to get a look at the driver for future identification, then notify the local police or CHP office. The driver of any vehicle having an accident that causes damage to any property, including a vehicle, must stop and locate and notify the owner or person in charge of the property or vehicle involved. If this is impossible, the driver must leave a written NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY "WEDNESDAY BY ~NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. 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 _. Member of notice on the damaged property or vehicle, giving the name and address of the driver and owner of the vehicle involved and a statement of the circumstances of the accident. The driver must also, without unnecessary delay, notify the city police department, or the CHP if the accident occurred in~an unincorporated area. Drivers failing to comply with these requirements are guilty of a misdemeanor and if convicted, can be punished by a jail term of up to six months or a fine not to exceed $500. The clock quit ticking The old clock hanging on the courthouse wall has flipped its hands and is no longer a reliable time source for . Nevada City. Symptoms of __ erratic behavior were noted last week when Barbara Bennette, building and grounds . Superintendent and guardian of the county time piece, began receiving calls of ‘Did’ you know your clock isn’t . working?” A technician attempted first aid but the clock hands failed ’ to respond and experts were A diagnosis of vital parts of the clock, located in the supervisors’ executive suite off the board room on the third : floor of the courthouse, is underway. An accurate record of county employment has not been located but Mrs. Ben"9. nette. believes the clock has 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Aug. 27, 1975 Country . } Rough and Ready News By Fay Dunbar -“§chool days, school days, dear old golden rule days.”’ Now, that the Fair is over, we must get on with our daily routine. School days begin on Tuesday September 2 for Ready Springs. Hopefully you registered yesterday or today August 27, but if you didn’t better hurry, so you can get in on the year’s fun. 5 Registration for Nevada Union began at 8 this morning and will continue until noon Thursday. Registration is scheduled alphabetically. Check your proper time. You won’t wait so long and everyone will be happier. There is an interesting list of evening classes being offered by Sierra College at NUHS. School begins September 10. Registration will be in NUHS cafeteria from 6-9 p.m. August 25 through 28, again September 1011, and Sept. 15-18. We Senior Citizens are extra lucky. There is no charge for us. If you do not take your selected course for credit there are no prerequisites. One of the interesting things, and there were so many, I observed at the Fair was. Fimer Stevens and his pleasure when he found one of hisfather’s old paychecks. The Historical Society booth had a number of cancelled checks available. Some from the Union Hill mine dated 1918 and some from the Idaho Maryland dated 1924 and 1939. I found one for Wm. Ghidotti, one for Sacramento Mayor Merriott, and three for local friends. I will combine them with several other interesting old papers in a sort of ‘‘gold country history” picture for framing. A County activity now pending, that is of interest to us all, is a new County map. The Board of Supervisors has requested the county’s four Chambers of Commerce to prepare such a map. The Chambers have met on the question and hope soon to have something to present for approval. It will be mailable and hopefully filled with interesting ’ information about our County and what it has to offer as well as a general map, with more detailed maps of specific areas. A local area project ready for you on Thursday September 4 will be the Rough and: Ready Grange Annual Fall Rummage Sale. The Ladies have an especially large assortment of clothing and the gardeners of the group have a nice selection of plants for your approval. Three postponed meetings will be held today, Wednesday August 27. ‘The Nevada County Newcomers have their summer Picnic meeting at the home of General Chairman Violett Jean. AARP will hold its regular meeting at the G.V. Veterans . Hall with blood pressure readings available to all members. The Commission meeting on Aging-will be at the HEW building immediately following the AARP meeting. Probably not too many of you will remember the balance of the School Days couplets. They were parts of a song. This couplet continued-“‘reading and writing and ’rithmatic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick.’’ I don’t approve of the hickory stick. A very red hand is better and then only at home. On the other hand I don’t approve of the complete lack of discipline that encourages the unhibited egos of today’s children. I want it all based on ‘‘do unto others-.’’ That should be my thought of the day. I have two young grandnieces visiting me. They are definitely products of today’s schools. Their writing is illegible, they can’t spell, and their reading is a totally uninteresting struggle for them. They don’t pronounce and then spell. Seems as if they just look at the whole mess and try to unravel it. Each word is kind of a problem. One is 13 years and the other is ten. They have always attended Los Angeles schools. On the other hand these two young ladies ors aré:‘at home’ in any-situation. I .am-sure they'.”. would meet:the President ‘of our United States with complete calm. They play games that are unbelievably ingenious. They are extremely clever at spending money and avoiding work. Today’s children! Three young men from Rough and Ready have received honors for the spring term at Yuba College. Anthony Kopyszko, Patrick Williams, and David Siegfried were commended for grade averages above average. I do not know Anthony Kopyszko nor Patrick Williams but I hope to rectify that error soon. David is one of the young men of our community who has helped me during his growing up years. David had a grade average of 3.50 or above. His mother tells me he had all A’s except one-a B+. David has been accepted at Brigham Young University for next semester. That too is an honor not easy to come by. His major is Electrical Engineering. I have been asked what the 14 vegetables included in the Colonial Bicentennial gardens were. Earl Aronson of the AP News refers to them as beans, pickling-type cucumbers, cabbage, beets, carrots, kidney beans, onions, parsnips, white marrow fat beans, leeks, pole beans, cucumbers, hyssop, parsley and chives. I know! That adds to 15. I thought hyssop, parsley, and chives were herbs. Maybe Mr. Aronson meant us to include them in the Herb garden. Some of the kinds of beans and cucumbers seem to overlap. At least we havesome things we should include in our bicentennial Kitchen gardens. My mother, while not exactly: a colonial, always had peas, irish potatoes, and sweet potatoes in her garden. The potatoes are both natives of South America and may not have ~ migrated this far at that time so. Peas however came from the Mediterranean area of Europe and were known to England in the Middle Ages. Must have been accidentally left out. Mr. Aronson mentions 44 perennials in Colonial gardens but only named nine of them. Perhaps herbs were thought of as perennials. Perhaps, too, he just felt it would be boring to list them all. \ Some gardens, such as the Washington Irving home, blended their gardens with nature in soft patterns. The Van Cortlandt and Phillipsburg gardens place emphasis on precise geometric forms with even their orchards espaliered. Field crops such as Indian corn, fiber flax, southern wood (a fast growing tree grown: specifically for poles), and some orchards were grown behind the hand split pole fences. ‘ We surely all believe in the greatness of.the American school system and want to see it continued. Study your recently published school ‘budgets. I hope you will spot some ways to cut costs, in the right places, so the system may not be crushed under its own costs. Transportation is not education and could be cut without harm but how? I can’t imagine! No one walks with safety on highways. Ready Springs district will be paying $85, for each student, for the coming year for transportation. Doesn’t sound like much but $25,000. would provide quite a few school books. It will be greater next year and probably each year thereafter. My thought for the week—wouldn’t roadside walking trails be wonderful! According to doctors, feet and bodies both, improve with walking. MONEY YOU CAN FEEL Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., has introduced a bill to provide for paper money of the United States to be embossed to indicate the denomination. “We all remark at the ability of some blind people to correctly distinguish between denominations ofpaper money,”’ says Hartke. “‘But what about those biind who cannot do this, who ahs could be, the helpless prey of the un. .'. $eruptlous? ‘This bill is designed to help — . them.’”.’ + Dee ee ene

California Kristi BROKEN PROMISE “That Roy Curry is a rogue © and a scamp, no doubt,” said Miss Mary Van Buren tearfully. “But he promised to marry me and if I can’t have him then no one will.” She was in the chambers of Justice Lampton of Woodland, and before she left, she had signed a complaint charging Curry with seduction. Later that day an officer learned that Curry had been in Colusa inquiring about a license to marry a Woodland girl, not Miss Van Buren, but a Miss Mabel Moe. He also learned that Curry had returned to Woodland to pick up his bride and a letter of permission fram her mother, for the bride-to-be was under age. Curry was arrested April 3, 1910, as he applied for the license. He was escorted back to Woodland and confined to a cell while the Van Burens were notified. The next day the couple apSteber . peared in Judge Lamipiati's office. But instead of hearing a trial on seduction, the judge performed a marriage ceremony between the two. It seemed that shortly after his arrest, Curry had been called upon by Miss Van Buren’s father and brothers. Given the choice between jail or marriage, Curry quickly chose the latter. Anything’s better than jail, he figured The blissful newlyweds spent their wedding night at the home of the bride’s parents. Early the next day Curry left for Colusa, claiming he had to pick up some personal belongings. up some personal belongings. “I just know he isn’t coming back,” Mrs. Van Buren told a reporter from the Sacramento Bee. ‘That no good bum is going to abandon his wife, but you put in your paper that she will be better off without him.” The new Mrs. Curry refused to comment. CHP safety tips The Grass Valley area California Highway Patrol Department has noted a significant increase recently in the number of hit and run accidents. Any person witnessing a hit and run collision should write down the license number of the responsible vehicle and if possible, attempt to get a look at the driver for future identification, then notify the local police or CHP office. The driver of any vehicle having an accident that causes damage to any property, including a vehicle, must stop and locate and notify the owner or person in charge of the property or vehicle involved. If this is impossible, the driver must leave a written NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY "WEDNESDAY BY ~NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. 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 _. Member of notice on the damaged property or vehicle, giving the name and address of the driver and owner of the vehicle involved and a statement of the circumstances of the accident. The driver must also, without unnecessary delay, notify the city police department, or the CHP if the accident occurred in~an unincorporated area. Drivers failing to comply with these requirements are guilty of a misdemeanor and if convicted, can be punished by a jail term of up to six months or a fine not to exceed $500. The clock quit ticking The old clock hanging on the courthouse wall has flipped its hands and is no longer a reliable time source for . Nevada City. Symptoms of __ erratic behavior were noted last week when Barbara Bennette, building and grounds . Superintendent and guardian of the county time piece, began receiving calls of ‘Did’ you know your clock isn’t . working?” A technician attempted first aid but the clock hands failed ’ to respond and experts were A diagnosis of vital parts of the clock, located in the supervisors’ executive suite off the board room on the third : floor of the courthouse, is underway. An accurate record of county employment has not been located but Mrs. Ben"9. nette. believes the clock has 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Aug. 27, 1975 Country . } Rough and Ready News By Fay Dunbar -“§chool days, school days, dear old golden rule days.”’ Now, that the Fair is over, we must get on with our daily routine. School days begin on Tuesday September 2 for Ready Springs. Hopefully you registered yesterday or today August 27, but if you didn’t better hurry, so you can get in on the year’s fun. 5 Registration for Nevada Union began at 8 this morning and will continue until noon Thursday. Registration is scheduled

alphabetically. Check your proper time. You won’t wait so long and everyone will be happier. There is an interesting list of evening classes being offered by Sierra College at NUHS. School begins September 10. Registration will be in NUHS cafeteria from 6-9 p.m. August 25 through 28, again September 1011, and Sept. 15-18. We Senior Citizens are extra lucky. There is no charge for us. If you do not take your selected course for credit there are no prerequisites. One of the interesting things, and there were so many, I observed at the Fair was. Fimer Stevens and his pleasure when he found one of hisfather’s old paychecks. The Historical Society booth had a number of cancelled checks available. Some from the Union Hill mine dated 1918 and some from the Idaho Maryland dated 1924 and 1939. I found one for Wm. Ghidotti, one for Sacramento Mayor Merriott, and three for local friends. I will combine them with several other interesting old papers in a sort of ‘‘gold country history” picture for framing. A County activity now pending, that is of interest to us all, is a new County map. The Board of Supervisors has requested the county’s four Chambers of Commerce to prepare such a map. The Chambers have met on the question and hope soon to have something to present for approval. It will be mailable and hopefully filled with interesting ’ information about our County and what it has to offer as well as a general map, with more detailed maps of specific areas. A local area project ready for you on Thursday September 4 will be the Rough and: Ready Grange Annual Fall Rummage Sale. The Ladies have an especially large assortment of clothing and the gardeners of the group have a nice selection of plants for your approval. Three postponed meetings will be held today, Wednesday August 27. ‘The Nevada County Newcomers have their summer Picnic meeting at the home of General Chairman Violett Jean. AARP will hold its regular meeting at the G.V. Veterans . Hall with blood pressure readings available to all members. The Commission meeting on Aging-will be at the HEW building immediately following the AARP meeting. Probably not too many of you will remember the balance of the School Days couplets. They were parts of a song. This couplet continued-“‘reading and writing and ’rithmatic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick.’’ I don’t approve of the hickory stick. A very red hand is better and then only at home. On the other hand I don’t approve of the complete lack of discipline that encourages the unhibited egos of today’s children. I want it all based on ‘‘do unto others-.’’ That should be my thought of the day. I have two young grandnieces visiting me. They are definitely products of today’s schools. Their writing is illegible, they can’t spell, and their reading is a totally uninteresting struggle for them. They don’t pronounce and then spell. Seems as if they just look at the whole mess and try to unravel it. Each word is kind of a problem. One is 13 years and the other is ten. They have always attended Los Angeles schools. On the other hand these two young ladies ors aré:‘at home’ in any-situation. I .am-sure they'.”. would meet:the President ‘of our United States with complete calm. They play games that are unbelievably ingenious. They are extremely clever at spending money and avoiding work. Today’s children! Three young men from Rough and Ready have received honors for the spring term at Yuba College. Anthony Kopyszko, Patrick Williams, and David Siegfried were commended for grade averages above average. I do not know Anthony Kopyszko nor Patrick Williams but I hope to rectify that error soon. David is one of the young men of our community who has helped me during his growing up years. David had a grade average of 3.50 or above. His mother tells me he had all A’s except one-a B+. David has been accepted at Brigham Young University for next semester. That too is an honor not easy to come by. His major is Electrical Engineering. I have been asked what the 14 vegetables included in the Colonial Bicentennial gardens were. Earl Aronson of the AP News refers to them as beans, pickling-type cucumbers, cabbage, beets, carrots, kidney beans, onions, parsnips, white marrow fat beans, leeks, pole beans, cucumbers, hyssop, parsley and chives. I know! That adds to 15. I thought hyssop, parsley, and chives were herbs. Maybe Mr. Aronson meant us to include them in the Herb garden. Some of the kinds of beans and cucumbers seem to overlap. At least we havesome things we should include in our bicentennial Kitchen gardens. My mother, while not exactly: a colonial, always had peas, irish potatoes, and sweet potatoes in her garden. The potatoes are both natives of South America and may not have ~ migrated this far at that time so. Peas however came from the Mediterranean area of Europe and were known to England in the Middle Ages. Must have been accidentally left out. Mr. Aronson mentions 44 perennials in Colonial gardens but only named nine of them. Perhaps herbs were thought of as perennials. Perhaps, too, he just felt it would be boring to list them all. \ Some gardens, such as the Washington Irving home, blended their gardens with nature in soft patterns. The Van Cortlandt and Phillipsburg gardens place emphasis on precise geometric forms with even their orchards espaliered. Field crops such as Indian corn, fiber flax, southern wood (a fast growing tree grown: specifically for poles), and some orchards were grown behind the hand split pole fences. ‘ We surely all believe in the greatness of.the American school system and want to see it continued. Study your recently published school ‘budgets. I hope you will spot some ways to cut costs, in the right places, so the system may not be crushed under its own costs. Transportation is not education and could be cut without harm but how? I can’t imagine! No one walks with safety on highways. Ready Springs district will be paying $85, for each student, for the coming year for transportation. Doesn’t sound like much but $25,000. would provide quite a few school books. It will be greater next year and probably each year thereafter. My thought for the week—wouldn’t roadside walking trails be wonderful! According to doctors, feet and bodies both, improve with walking. MONEY YOU CAN FEEL Sen. Vance Hartke, D-Ind., has introduced a bill to provide for paper money of the United States to be embossed to indicate the denomination. “We all remark at the ability of some blind people to correctly distinguish between denominations ofpaper money,”’ says Hartke. “‘But what about those biind who cannot do this, who ahs could be, the helpless prey of the un. .'. $eruptlous? ‘This bill is designed to help — . them.’”.’ + Dee ee ene