August 29, 1963 (16 pages)

Te ee a morlemoRS (A summary of significant reports fromthe U.S. metropolitan press and national periodicals. ) +++ +t Dr. Harold Brown, director of defense research and engineering for the Pentagon, and former head of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations, Defense and Atomic Energy Committees in WASHINGTON on Aug. 21 to testify on the nuclear test ban treaty. Disagreeing with his former colleague, Dr. Edward Teller, he said he doubted that an effective anti-missile system could be developed, but that if it could, the problems to be solved did not require nuclear testing, either atmospheric or underground. +++++ A teport presented by the St. Louis Citizens’ Committee for Nuclear Information to the Joint Congressional AtomicEnergy Committee in WASHINGTON stated that over the last 12 years, several thousand children in Nevada and Utah have received dangerous doses of fallout from nuclear testing in Nevada, including fallout produced by the venting of at least 7 underground tests. : +++++ A ST, LOUIS Public Health Service re port stated that milk from poorly managed dairy farms contained much higher levels of Skaar Moves Fur nishings To Assay Office * t ees Ga Se a oi a . oe “ TO OPEN SATURDAY? ..Sven Skaar, local historian and owner of the Pioneer antique shop in the Yuba Canal and Water Company building, hopes to have Ott's Assay Office opened by Saturday as a museum Con taining the original furnishings . Skaar (left) Compares pictures of the old assay office with his current arrangement of furnishings in order to be sure thatthe multitude of items are put back in the proper place as much as _is possible. He stands in front of Ott's largest scale. A stamp mill (right) was housed in the rear of the assay office building. Skaar has moved it into the front building, saved under the compromise agreement. Ott's Assay Office is one of the most famous buildings in Nevada City, the Comstock Lode being first assayed there. freeway 40,000 See County Fair More than 40,000 persons, a new record, attended the four day Nevada County Fair. The 1963 fait was also a recordbreaker in the number of exhibitors participating, an increase of 12 percent over last year'srecord. Fair attendance hit 40, 123, up from the 1962 record of 37,227. Valand Lilly Belle Baima continued their winning streak in the agricultural sw eepstakes, winning forthe 16th consecutive year and setting a new fair, state and national sweepstakes record in the process, They scored 586 points to win the sweepstakes, a national . fair high. First-time visitors to the fair commented on the setting of the fair and the beauty of fairground flowers. Their observations added to the local claim that Nevada County has the most beautiful fairgrounds in the nation. Town Sold? Has Relief Hill been sold? The rumor that the town of Relief Hill had been or was to be sold was checked out today. "No," answered owner Thomas H. Taylor, area certified public accountant who owns the town. Taylor reaffirmed his interest in preserving the town, and said ‘the rumor probably began as the result of a “joke” in which he strontium 90 and cesium 131 than milk from farms with “optimal fertilization of the land”. +++++ The government of SOUTH VIETNAM was denounced by the U.S.A. for sacking Buddhist temples and carting off hundreds of priests and nuns in a crackdown against Buddhist opposition to the Diem government. In Saigon the government imposed martial law and a curfew, South Vietnam's ambassadoe to the U.S., Tran Van Chuong, father of Mrs. Dinh Nhu, his wife, and Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau allresigned their posts in protest against their government's policies. On Aug. 25 troops and police arrested at least 600 students who called a protest strike. One girl was reported killed. On Aug. 29 the new U.S. ambassador, Henry Cabot Lodge, presented his credentials. ++++ + JERUSALEM reported a flareup of border fighting between Israel and Syria last week. Each nation made a formal protest to the United Nations Security Council. +++++ In WASHINGTON Republican leaders combined with Southern Democrats in the House last week to cut Pres. Kennedy's foreign aid bill by $1 billion before sending it to the Senate. Pres. Kennedy called a press conference and termed the action “a shocking and thoughtless partisan attack on a program which both parties have consistently suppO os Two miners, trapped since Aug. 13 by acavein 308 feet below the surface at SHEPPTON, Pa., were Chamber (Continued From Page 1) seemed to have taded. Original enthusiasm ex pressed by some Grass Valley directors seems to cooled since their last directors’ meeting, she said. Weather yesterday for a 13 day run. State Fair In 13 Day Run One of the country's biggest and most complete shows, the mammoth California State Fair E ition, opened its gates : and Exposition, Op 8 Girl Chorus Line. ; : : Commercial exhibits at the Fai Heading the evening entertainDurante Show which will include Eddie Jackson, Peter Lawford, Bobby Rydell, Sonny King, the Kane Triplets, and the Durante number well over 200 with an Inleased a building in Relief Hill to a friend of the family. zZ o8eg'* S961 ‘6% isnsny* ~1983nN aUuL’’'Z o8eg BBC In Town Cameramen and staff members of the British and Canadian Broadcasting Companies were in Nev~ r' . ada County last week. The crew took several scenes in Nevada City, NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall Aug. 22 83 45 00 23 80 45 .00 24 71 #4240 .00 25 15 40 .00 26 79 41 .00 27 #83 43 .00 28 84 45 .00 Rainfall this year trace Rainfall last year 38 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Aug. 21 89. 54 . 00 92 88° 64 .00 23 83 49 .00 24 78 49 . 00 “5. 79: 4! .00 26 84 52 . 00 7. 7 SS . 00 2 2 . 00 Rainfall this year .02 Rainfall last year 44 NEVADA COUNT Y NUGGET Published EveryThursday by NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC., 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. 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, $4; Two rescued Aug. 27. ears, $6; Three years, $8. GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONIES---The NID Yuba-Bear Project officially got underway last Friday even though the Narrow Gauge Trestle spanning the Bear River refused to fall after three dynamite blasts rocked its foundation. The trestle reluctantly fell Monday morning when construction engineers pulled it to the ground with bulldozers.

Te ee a morlemoRS (A summary of significant reports fromthe U.S. metropolitan press and national periodicals. ) +++ +t Dr. Harold Brown, director of defense research and engineering for the Pentagon, and former head of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations, Defense and Atomic Energy Committees in WASHINGTON on Aug. 21 to testify on the nuclear test ban treaty. Disagreeing with his former colleague, Dr. Edward Teller, he said he doubted that an effective anti-missile system could be developed, but that if it could, the problems to be solved did not require nuclear testing, either atmospheric or underground. +++++ A teport presented by the St. Louis Citizens’ Committee for Nuclear Information to the Joint Congressional AtomicEnergy Committee in WASHINGTON stated that over the last 12 years, several thousand children in Nevada and Utah have received dangerous doses of fallout from nuclear testing in Nevada, including fallout produced by the venting of at least 7 underground tests. : +++++ A ST, LOUIS Public Health Service re port stated that milk from poorly managed dairy farms contained much higher levels of Skaar Moves Fur nishings To Assay Office * t ees Ga Se a oi a . oe “ TO OPEN SATURDAY? ...Sven Skaar, local historian and owner of the Pioneer antique shop in the Yuba Canal and Water Company building, hopes to have Ott's Assay Office opened by Saturday as a museum Con taining the original furnishings . Skaar (left) Compares pictures of the old assay office with his current arrangement of furnishings in order to be sure thatthe multitude of items are put back in the proper place as much as _is possible. He stands in front of Ott's largest scale. A stamp mill (right) was housed in the rear of the assay office building. Skaar has moved it into the front building, saved under the compromise agreement. Ott's Assay Office is one of the most famous buildings in Nevada City, the Comstock Lode being first assayed there. freeway 40,000 See County Fair More than 40,000 persons, a new record, attended the four day Nevada County Fair. The 1963 fait was also a recordbreaker in the number of exhibitors participating, an increase of 12 percent over last year'srecord. Fair attendance hit 40, 123, up from the 1962 record of 37,227. Valand Lilly Belle Baima continued their winning streak in the agricultural sw eepstakes, winning forthe 16th consecutive year and setting a new fair, state and national sweepstakes record in the process, They scored 586 points to win the sweepstakes, a national . fair high. First-time visitors to the fair commented on the setting of the fair and the beauty of fairground flowers. Their observations added to the local claim that Nevada County has the most beautiful fairgrounds in the nation. Town Sold? Has Relief Hill been sold? The rumor that the town of Relief Hill had been or was to be sold was checked out today. "No," answered owner Thomas H. Taylor, area certified public accountant who owns the town. Taylor reaffirmed his interest in preserving the town, and said ‘the rumor probably began as the result of a “joke” in which he strontium 90 and cesium 131 than milk from farms with “optimal fertilization of the land”. +++++ The government of SOUTH VIETNAM was denounced by the U.S.A. for sacking Buddhist temples and carting off hundreds of priests and nuns in a crackdown against Buddhist opposition to the

Diem government. In Saigon the government imposed martial law and a curfew, South Vietnam's ambassadoe to the U.S., Tran Van Chuong, father of Mrs. Dinh Nhu, his wife, and Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau allresigned their posts in protest against their government's policies. On Aug. 25 troops and police arrested at least 600 students who called a protest strike. One girl was reported killed. On Aug. 29 the new U.S. ambassador, Henry Cabot Lodge, presented his credentials. ++++ + JERUSALEM reported a flareup of border fighting between Israel and Syria last week. Each nation made a formal protest to the United Nations Security Council. +++++ In WASHINGTON Republican leaders combined with Southern Democrats in the House last week to cut Pres. Kennedy's foreign aid bill by $1 billion before sending it to the Senate. Pres. Kennedy called a press conference and termed the action “a shocking and thoughtless partisan attack on a program which both parties have consistently suppO os Two miners, trapped since Aug. 13 by acavein 308 feet below the surface at SHEPPTON, Pa., were Chamber (Continued From Page 1) seemed to have taded. Original enthusiasm ex pressed by some Grass Valley directors seems to cooled since their last directors’ meeting, she said. Weather yesterday for a 13 day run. State Fair In 13 Day Run One of the country's biggest and most complete shows, the mammoth California State Fair E ition, opened its gates : and Exposition, Op 8 Girl Chorus Line. ; : : Commercial exhibits at the Fai Heading the evening entertainDurante Show which will include Eddie Jackson, Peter Lawford, Bobby Rydell, Sonny King, the Kane Triplets, and the Durante number well over 200 with an Inleased a building in Relief Hill to a friend of the family. zZ o8eg'* S961 ‘6% isnsny* ~1983nN aUuL’’'Z o8eg BBC In Town Cameramen and staff members of the British and Canadian Broadcasting Companies were in Nev~ r' . ada County last week. The crew took several scenes in Nevada City, NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall Aug. 22 83 45 00 23 80 45 .00 24 71 #4240 .00 25 15 40 .00 26 79 41 .00 27 #83 43 .00 28 84 45 .00 Rainfall this year trace Rainfall last year 38 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Aug. 21 89. 54 . 00 92 88° 64 .00 23 83 49 .00 24 78 49 . 00 “5. 79: 4! .00 26 84 52 . 00 7. 7 SS . 00 2 2 . 00 Rainfall this year .02 Rainfall last year 44 NEVADA COUNT Y NUGGET Published EveryThursday by NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC., 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. 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, $4; Two rescued Aug. 27. ears, $6; Three years, $8. GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONIES---The NID Yuba-Bear Project officially got underway last Friday even though the Narrow Gauge Trestle spanning the Bear River refused to fall after three dynamite blasts rocked its foundation. The trestle reluctantly fell Monday morning when construction engineers pulled it to the ground with bulldozers.