August 29, 1973 (12 pages)

annem, SERVING THE NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY, GRASS VALLEY, RED DOG, YOU BET, TOWN TALK, GLENBROOK, LITTLE OMEGA, FRENCH CORRAL. ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, NORTH SAN JUAN, NORTH BLOOMFIELD. HUMBUG, RELIEF HILL, WASHINGTON, BLUE TENT, LaBARR MEADOWS, CEDAR RIDGE, UNION HILL, PEARDALE, SUMMIT CITY, WALLOUPA, GOUGE EYE, LIME KILN. GHICAGO PARK, WOLF. CHRISTMAS HILL. LIBERTY HILL. SAILOR FLAT, LAKE CITy SELBY FLAT, GRIZZLY HILL, GOLD FLAT, SOGGSVILLE GOLD BAR, LOWELL HILL, BOURBON HILL, SCOTCH HILL, NORTH COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLAT. SEBASTOPOL, QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN, INDIAN FLAT, BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVILLE. MOORE'S FLAT, ORLEANS PLAT, REMINGTON HILL, ANTHONY HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS, YORK, CHEROKEE, SWEETLAND, ALPHA, Volume 27, Number 35 Nevada City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, August 27 A SS Price Five Cents Display County's Wealth As 11th Annual Nevada County Fair Opens Gates $100,000 Gold Exhibit and Gorveous slower Show Are Features of the Fair -ounty s agricuiturdi n ineral ana rece. AWIOMAL ealtt vvis placed on aisplay today with the opening of inival Nevada County Fair. oF the county exposition swung™open today ‘niguard ot 21,00) a ére are iarger fairs than none cun exceed the in spacious meadows, } of pines and firs and} over omfort for the spec-. tators. Ae deep eioves veiture of the fair will be. > nightly vaudeville show on} the large open air stage. For! those who love the old time . vaudeville routines of tumblers, dancers, song and dance acts, . 4m chorus numbers, this show! wil be a treat. Judging in the various competitive departments will open at 10 a.m. daily, + General admission to the grounds is 10 cents for adults and childen. Special admissions have been set for the night show and Sunday horse show. Continuous entertainment will be provided by the Gold Coast . ’ Shows midway. There are plenty of rides for the kiddies and many concessions. Among the outstanding displays are the flower show, featuring a wonderful arrangement of orchids, and the gold show. Upwards of $100,000 worth of gold specimens and other minerals.is being shown. Several hundred head of some of the finest cattle in northern California will be on. exhibit. This year will mark the first use of the new cattle sheds. The main exhibit building will house displays in gold and other minerals, agriculture, horticulture, paintings, photography, ceramics, feature booths and commercial. In the home economics building will be exhibits of clothing, baked goods, and canned goods. The smaller of the buildings will be devoted to 4-H displays in food preservation, clothing, canned goods, electrical projects and feature booths. ‘ On Sunday afternoon the Grass Valley Concert Band will play. 4 Feature event on Sunday will be the horse show, starting at 1:30 p.m. Event for adults will include: stock horses, speed and handiness, trail horses, pleasure horses, parade. horses, family groups, matched pairs, relay race, ring spearing and stake race. Children’s events include: musica] chairs, pleasure horses, relay race and stake race. TAX DELINQUENCY GOES DOWN IN NEVADA COUNTY The Percentage of tax delinquency in Nevada County continued downward with the announcement that the 1952-53 dequency shows 2.831 per cent for the past fiscal year. During the 1950-51 fiscal year it reached a high of 3.273 per cent and dropped to 3.145 in the following year. The figures were disclosed by Miss Elma Hecker, Nevada County tax collector who said -the figures were compiled each year. bv H. W. Mvers, tax collector of Fresno County,who annually makes a. study of tax delinquencies of all California counthe Nevada County exposities. White-Face Bull Stirs Up Furor in Grass Valley Grass Valley has always boasted of its traditional western flavor but the flavor became a little too strong Saturday night when a white faced Hereford bull rampaged down Mill. Street; bellowing and pawing the pavement and frightening pedestrians into fleeing to safety. The bull, an escapee from a slaughter house’at Hills Flat, was finally roped* and coaxed into a cattle truck but not until after he gave Grass Valley police’ and pedestrians a bad half hour. Meanwhile at Hills Flat, six other beef animals frolizked through the neighborhood. Being, oustide the Grass Valley city limits, this roundup was assigned to the sheriff's office. Undersheriff Frank Gallino, a former dairy operato: and the closest the office could Produce as a qualified cowboy, took over. With the aid of highway patrolmen and fearless citizens, the animals were herded back into the corral. Sheriff Wayne Brown said: "If this is a publicity stunt -for the livestock show at the county fair this week, they are carrying things too far.” DAUGHTER OF PIONEER LIME KILN RANCH FAMILY IS CALLED Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Florence Cunningham, 84, a native of the Lime iXiln district South of Grass Valley, were held f Monday in the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary chapel. Rev. Rhys Miner of the First Congregational Church officiated. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Smith, one of the first ranch families to settle in western Nevada County. She was the mother of Earl and Roy Cunningham, and Mrs. Lilian Thorndike,@all of Grass Valley and Mabel Durham of Irvington; grandmother of Mrs. Mildred Foster of Irvington and Craig Benbow of Grass Walley, and sister of Mrs. Vina Gilham also of Grass Valley. GRASS VALLEY HOLDS TAX RATE TO $2; HEALTH BOARD NAMED The Grass Valley city council this week set a tax rate of $2.00 for the coming year, the same as the rate in effect during the past fiscal year. The 1953-54 budget was set at $322832, slightly above the budget for the fiscal year ending July \. The\council also appointed a city health board consisting of Drs. Barton Powell, Vernon Padgett and W. L. Weaver and R. T. Ingram, newspaper publisher and Kenneth Manuel, city public works superintendent. a crowd expected to exceed the’! ttendance figure of last year i = TT MASON ~ KAHN. DANS The Mason-Kahn Dancers will enliven stege revue to be produced nightly“tonight and each night at the Nevada County Fair, August 27-28-29-30. There will be seven other top-flight acts. DISTRICTS SPLIT ON VOTE FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PLAN Whether Nevada City: High School buildings, recently rnade a part of Nevada Union: High’ School, will be opened as a junior high school serving the seventh, eight and ninth grade‘students of western Nevada County, will depend upon a¢tion taken by the elementary s¢hool districts during the coming two weeks. Information disclosed by the office of the: union high school district indicates that eight school boards favor’ the plan but four boards have; made no decision, two are against the plan and two other boards} believe the matter should be submitted to vote. Under the proposed union high school plan, sophomores, juniors, and seniors of the district will attend the Grass Valley branch of Nevada Union High School while seventh and eight grade students and freshmen will be quartered at the Nevada City plant. School boards favoring the plan are Clear Creek, Ready Springs, Grass Valley, Nevada City, Washington, North San Juan and Wolf. Boards making no decisions to date are Blue Tent, Birchville, Cherokee. and Oakland. Boards which have Voted opPosition to the program are Kentucky Flat and Lime Kiln while Chicago Park and Union Hill trustees favor ,a public electio to decide the issue. ‘ The Nevada Union High School trustees have }also favored the plan. Under the prppo junior high plan all elementaryschools will continue full elementary services.and parents will‘be given a choice of sending their children to Nevada City for seventh and eighth grade training or place them in the district school in which they reside. NEVADA COUNTY BUDGET UP; TAX RATE DOWN Supervisors Approve High Budget But Set Tax Rate at $2.10 A record colinty budget of $2,304,004 has been adopted by Nevada County supervisors. But despite the record sized budget supervisors made _ lastminute fiscal maneuvers which permitted cutting the basic county tax rate from $2.13, the rate per $100 of assessed valuation during the past fiscal year, to $2.10. After setting the tax rate the board voted to borrow $175,000 for the period from September 10 to December 10 to tide over the county until taxes started coming in. Bids for the loan will be called by advertisement. The Nevada City Branch of the Bank of America has granted similar loans during the past years. CHLORINATED WATER FOR NEVADA CITY WITHIN YEAR City Manager H. J. Ray stated this week that chlorination of the municipal water supply will commence within a year. The official said the new city budget contains an appropriation of $6,000 for the water purification program. Ray said the work will be accomplished in three stages. This coming fall city crews. will build roads in to the places where chlorination plants will be located. Later the buildings will be constructed and in the Spring the clorination equipment will be purchased and put into action. Gold Display Featured at County Fair A $100,000 display of gold ore and other minerals will be a highlight of the 11th annual Nevada County Fair which opened today. Earnest Hampton, a member of ! the Idaho-Maryland mines, is in; charge of the display which will feature ore from most of the mines of Nevada and Sierra counties. A feature of the display is a $30,000 layout of jewelry gold milling ore and tungsten from the Idaho-Maryland mine. Tony Lovezola of Downieville, Sierra County, has placed $5,000 work of placer gold on exhibit. Other major exhibits are from Fred Cassidy of Nevada City, specimens from Sierra County; Byron Eastman, placer gold from the Middle Yuba; Berneice Carter, place and jewelry gold. —+———— A NIGHTLY ATTRACTION AT THE FAIR se tsa 2 NATIONAL MARKET IS BOUGHT BY CHARLES MONTY’ MONTANARI One of the Nevada County’s oldest businesses—the National Meat Market—changed ownership Monday with the announcement that Lee V. Michell had sold the business to Charles Montanari, Grass Vallcy businessman. . The business, was founded in the 1890's by Paul W. Michell, Lee’s father, and a brother, who at one time operated meat markets in Grass Valley, Nevada City and Colfax. Lee virtually grew up in the meat business. Montanari had experience in meat sales in Madera before World War II. After the war he worked with E. L. Kyle in the butcher shop in the Cardinal Building. q Since 1933, Lee Michell has operated the business, which has maintained a reputation for courtesy and reasonable prices for high quality mechandise. Montanari said today he plans to maintain all of the good practices of the Michell regime which has prevailed for 20 years. Charles Hilpert, popular Nevada City meat cutter, will be back of the counter under Montanari’s management. The establishment henceforth will be known as_ Monty's Market. KIDNAP ARRAIGNMENT SET FOR SEPTEMBER 4 Judge Bertram Janes from Plumas County, sitting for Superior Judge James Snell on the Superior Court bench, has taken under adyisement the motion to transfer the cases of two East Bay youths and a San Francisco girl to the juvenile court. The motion was offered Saturdays by attorneys for Albert Gervais, John Pearman and June Wood, all 18 years old. The three are accused of nine counts of kidnapping, robbery and car theft during a hectic two days during July when three peace officer here were kidnapped and one of them taken into the South Yuba Canyon on an attempted get-away which proved to be more of an endurance ordeal for the accused than the officer. A posse of 200 searched the area. The araignment and the hearing on the motion was. continued to September 4 at 9:30 a.m. Last week Judge Charles Morehouse of the Grass Valley Judicial Court, sitting for Judge George Gildersleeve of Nevada City, heard the vreliminary. LUSCHEN PLANS TO ORGANIZE RASS BAND Instructor Believes City Will Welcome a Reguiar Program of Band Music ve Ost pecpi Ssnouid have: mye osea preliminary veek for th Huschen said it was unlikely . that such a program could be put { into effect th j mer, but the . jaunched in the Spring and be S late in the sumproject could be ready for the Summer and Fall ; season of 1954. Many Musicians He said there were scores of local men and women who have had band or orchestra experience who would welcome such a project. : Luschen believes that several Promotion groups and _ service clubs here would contribute either funds or labor or both. The business area was believed to have certain advantages over Pioneer Park as the scene of such a project. It has been suggested that the lot next to the Alpha Hardware building might be a good location for the municipal band shell. Good Publicity It has been pointed out that the Miners’. Band of Angels, Camp, Calaveras County, has brought widespread publicity to the community. Thig band, clad in red shirts, blue. jeans and miners’ caps equipped with carbide lamps, has won-high honors as it tootled its way along the line of march. In the era before and after World War I band concerts in mountain communities were a regular weekly performance, and there are many who believe the scheme could be revived. A quick survey of more than 20 Nevada City residents disclosed that they were 100 per cent in favor of such a program. The next step is to find some person or organization willing to spearhead the job ahd get it under way. ° : OFFICERS’ NIGHT Appointive Officers Nights was observed with a program of entertainment and refreshments at a meeting of Aurora Chapter No. 40 ,Order of Eastern, in Grass Valley. General chairman for the affair was Winifred Martin, past matron, aided by Elizabeth Hooper. THE MAN AT THE KEYHOLE _ By OPERATIVE WB People in low salary brackets are in for an unpleasant surprise. Tax experts report that even though federal incomes taxes will be reduced on January 1, take-home pay will be less because of a schedule larger increase in social security taxes. Shades of the rainbow! Up until 1948, manufactures report, 25 per cent of all ‘néw.cars were black. In the last five years, new black cars have slipped to 12 per cent of the total produced. Washington observers predict that when, as, and if Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is removed from President Eisenhowers’s cabinet he will be replaced by either General Walter Bedell Smith or John J. McCloy — two former Truman Administration appointees—with McCloy having the inside track.

annem, SERVING THE NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY, GRASS VALLEY, RED DOG, YOU BET, TOWN TALK, GLENBROOK, LITTLE OMEGA, FRENCH CORRAL. ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, NORTH SAN JUAN, NORTH BLOOMFIELD. HUMBUG, RELIEF HILL, WASHINGTON, BLUE TENT, LaBARR MEADOWS, CEDAR RIDGE, UNION HILL, PEARDALE, SUMMIT CITY, WALLOUPA, GOUGE EYE, LIME KILN. GHICAGO PARK, WOLF. CHRISTMAS HILL. LIBERTY HILL. SAILOR FLAT, LAKE CITy SELBY FLAT, GRIZZLY HILL, GOLD FLAT, SOGGSVILLE GOLD BAR, LOWELL HILL, BOURBON HILL, SCOTCH HILL, NORTH COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLAT. SEBASTOPOL, QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN, INDIAN FLAT, BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVILLE. MOORE'S FLAT, ORLEANS PLAT, REMINGTON HILL, ANTHONY HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS, YORK, CHEROKEE, SWEETLAND, ALPHA, Volume 27, Number 35 Nevada City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, August 27 A SS Price Five Cents Display County's Wealth As 11th Annual Nevada County Fair Opens Gates $100,000 Gold Exhibit and Gorveous slower Show Are Features of the Fair -ounty s agricuiturdi n ineral ana rece. AWIOMAL ealtt vvis placed on aisplay today with the opening of inival Nevada County Fair. oF the county exposition swung™open today ‘niguard ot 21,00) a ére are iarger fairs than none cun exceed the in spacious meadows, } of pines and firs and} over omfort for the spec-. tators. Ae deep eioves veiture of the fair will be. > nightly vaudeville show on} the large open air stage. For! those who love the old time . vaudeville routines of tumblers, dancers, song and dance acts, . 4m chorus numbers, this show! wil be a treat. Judging in the various competitive departments will open at 10 a.m. daily, + General admission to the grounds is 10 cents for adults and childen. Special admissions have been set for the night show and Sunday horse show. Continuous entertainment will be provided by the Gold Coast . ’ Shows midway. There are plenty of rides for the kiddies and many concessions. Among the outstanding displays are the flower show, featuring a wonderful arrangement of orchids, and the gold show. Upwards of $100,000 worth of gold specimens and other minerals.is being shown. Several hundred head of some of the finest cattle in northern California will be on. exhibit. This year will mark the first use of the new cattle sheds. The main exhibit building will house displays in gold and other minerals, agriculture, horticulture, paintings, photography, ceramics, feature booths and commercial. In the home economics building will be exhibits of clothing, baked goods, and canned goods. The smaller of the buildings will be devoted to 4-H displays in food preservation, clothing, canned goods, electrical projects and feature booths. ‘ On Sunday afternoon the Grass Valley Concert Band will play. 4 Feature event on Sunday will be the horse show, starting at 1:30 p.m. Event for adults will include: stock horses, speed and handiness, trail horses, pleasure horses, parade. horses, family groups, matched pairs, relay race, ring spearing and stake race. Children’s events include: musica] chairs, pleasure horses, relay race and stake race. TAX DELINQUENCY GOES DOWN IN NEVADA COUNTY The Percentage of tax delinquency in Nevada County continued downward with the announcement that the 1952-53 dequency shows 2.831 per cent for the past fiscal year. During the 1950-51 fiscal year it reached a high of 3.273 per cent and dropped to 3.145 in the following year. The figures were disclosed by Miss Elma Hecker, Nevada County tax collector who said -the figures were compiled each year. bv H. W. Mvers, tax collector of Fresno County,who annually makes a. study of tax delinquencies of all California counthe Nevada County exposities. White-Face Bull Stirs Up Furor in Grass Valley Grass Valley has always boasted of its traditional western flavor but the flavor became a little too strong Saturday night when a white faced Hereford bull rampaged down Mill. Street; bellowing and pawing the pavement and frightening pedestrians into fleeing to safety. The bull, an escapee from a slaughter house’at Hills Flat, was finally roped* and coaxed into a cattle truck but not until after he gave Grass Valley police’ and pedestrians a bad half hour. Meanwhile at Hills Flat, six other beef animals frolizked through the neighborhood. Being, oustide the Grass Valley city limits, this roundup was assigned to the sheriff's office. Undersheriff Frank Gallino, a former dairy operato: and the closest the office could Produce as a qualified cowboy, took over. With the aid of highway patrolmen and fearless citizens, the animals were herded back into the corral. Sheriff Wayne Brown said: "If this is a publicity stunt -for the livestock show at the county fair this week, they are carrying things too far.” DAUGHTER OF PIONEER LIME KILN RANCH FAMILY IS CALLED Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Florence Cunningham, 84, a native of the Lime iXiln district South of Grass Valley, were held f Monday in the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary chapel. Rev. Rhys Miner of the First Congregational Church officiated. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Smith, one of the first ranch families to settle in western Nevada County. She was the mother of Earl and Roy Cunningham, and Mrs. Lilian Thorndike,@all of Grass Valley and Mabel Durham of Irvington; grandmother of Mrs. Mildred Foster of Irvington and Craig Benbow of Grass Walley, and sister of Mrs. Vina Gilham also of Grass Valley. GRASS VALLEY HOLDS TAX RATE TO $2; HEALTH BOARD NAMED The Grass Valley city council this week set a tax rate of $2.00 for the coming year, the same as the rate in effect during the past fiscal year. The 1953-54 budget was set at $322832, slightly above the budget for the fiscal year ending July \. The\council also appointed a city health board consisting of Drs. Barton Powell, Vernon Padgett and W. L. Weaver and R. T. Ingram, newspaper publisher and Kenneth Manuel, city public works superintendent. a crowd expected to exceed the’! ttendance figure of last year i = TT MASON ~ KAHN. DANS The Mason-Kahn Dancers will enliven stege revue to be produced nightly“tonight and each night at the Nevada County Fair, August 27-28-29-30. There will be seven other top-flight acts. DISTRICTS SPLIT ON VOTE FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL PLAN Whether Nevada City: High School buildings, recently rnade a part of Nevada Union: High’ School, will be opened as a junior high school serving the seventh, eight and ninth grade‘students of western Nevada County, will depend upon a¢tion taken by the elementary s¢hool districts during the coming two weeks. Information disclosed by the office of the: union high school district indicates that eight school boards favor’ the plan but four boards have; made no decision, two are against the plan and two other boards} believe the matter should be submitted to vote. Under the proposed union high school plan, sophomores, juniors, and seniors of the district will attend the Grass Valley branch of Nevada Union High School while seventh and eight grade students and freshmen will be quartered at the Nevada City plant. School boards favoring the plan are Clear Creek, Ready Springs, Grass Valley, Nevada City, Washington, North San Juan and Wolf. Boards making no decisions to date are Blue Tent, Birchville, Cherokee. and Oakland. Boards which have Voted opPosition to the program are Kentucky Flat and Lime Kiln while Chicago Park and Union Hill trustees favor ,a public electio to decide the issue. ‘ The Nevada Union High School trustees have }also favored the plan. Under the prppo junior high plan all elementaryschools will continue full elementary services.and parents will‘be given a choice of sending their children

to Nevada City for seventh and eighth grade training or place them in the district school in which they reside. NEVADA COUNTY BUDGET UP; TAX RATE DOWN Supervisors Approve High Budget But Set Tax Rate at $2.10 A record colinty budget of $2,304,004 has been adopted by Nevada County supervisors. But despite the record sized budget supervisors made _ lastminute fiscal maneuvers which permitted cutting the basic county tax rate from $2.13, the rate per $100 of assessed valuation during the past fiscal year, to $2.10. After setting the tax rate the board voted to borrow $175,000 for the period from September 10 to December 10 to tide over the county until taxes started coming in. Bids for the loan will be called by advertisement. The Nevada City Branch of the Bank of America has granted similar loans during the past years. CHLORINATED WATER FOR NEVADA CITY WITHIN YEAR City Manager H. J. Ray stated this week that chlorination of the municipal water supply will commence within a year. The official said the new city budget contains an appropriation of $6,000 for the water purification program. Ray said the work will be accomplished in three stages. This coming fall city crews. will build roads in to the places where chlorination plants will be located. Later the buildings will be constructed and in the Spring the clorination equipment will be purchased and put into action. Gold Display Featured at County Fair A $100,000 display of gold ore and other minerals will be a highlight of the 11th annual Nevada County Fair which opened today. Earnest Hampton, a member of ! the Idaho-Maryland mines, is in; charge of the display which will feature ore from most of the mines of Nevada and Sierra counties. A feature of the display is a $30,000 layout of jewelry gold milling ore and tungsten from the Idaho-Maryland mine. Tony Lovezola of Downieville, Sierra County, has placed $5,000 work of placer gold on exhibit. Other major exhibits are from Fred Cassidy of Nevada City, specimens from Sierra County; Byron Eastman, placer gold from the Middle Yuba; Berneice Carter, place and jewelry gold. —+———— A NIGHTLY ATTRACTION AT THE FAIR se tsa 2 NATIONAL MARKET IS BOUGHT BY CHARLES MONTY’ MONTANARI One of the Nevada County’s oldest businesses—the National Meat Market—changed ownership Monday with the announcement that Lee V. Michell had sold the business to Charles Montanari, Grass Vallcy businessman. .. The business, was founded in the 1890's by Paul W. Michell, Lee’s father, and a brother, who at one time operated meat markets in Grass Valley, Nevada City and Colfax. Lee virtually grew up in the meat business. Montanari had experience in meat sales in Madera before World War II. After the war he worked with E. L. Kyle in the butcher shop in the Cardinal Building. q Since 1933, Lee Michell has operated the business, which has maintained a reputation for courtesy and reasonable prices for high quality mechandise. Montanari said today he plans to maintain all of the good practices of the Michell regime which has prevailed for 20 years. Charles Hilpert, popular Nevada City meat cutter, will be back of the counter under Montanari’s management. The establishment henceforth will be known as_ Monty's Market. KIDNAP ARRAIGNMENT SET FOR SEPTEMBER 4 Judge Bertram Janes from Plumas County, sitting for Superior Judge James Snell on the Superior Court bench, has taken under adyisement the motion to transfer the cases of two East Bay youths and a San Francisco girl to the juvenile court. The motion was offered Saturdays by attorneys for Albert Gervais, John Pearman and June Wood, all 18 years old. The three are accused of nine counts of kidnapping, robbery and car theft during a hectic two days during July when three peace officer here were kidnapped and one of them taken into the South Yuba Canyon on an attempted get-away which proved to be more of an endurance ordeal for the accused than the officer. A posse of 200 searched the area. The araignment and the hearing on the motion was. continued to September 4 at 9:30 a.m. Last week Judge Charles Morehouse of the Grass Valley Judicial Court, sitting for Judge George Gildersleeve of Nevada City, heard the vreliminary. LUSCHEN PLANS TO ORGANIZE RASS BAND Instructor Believes City Will Welcome a Reguiar Program of Band Music ve Ost pecpi Ssnouid have: mye osea preliminary veek for th Huschen said it was unlikely . that such a program could be put { into effect th j mer, but the . jaunched in the Spring and be S late in the sumproject could be ready for the Summer and Fall ; season of 1954. Many Musicians He said there were scores of local men and women who have had band or orchestra experience who would welcome such a project. : Luschen believes that several Promotion groups and _ service clubs here would contribute either funds or labor or both. The business area was believed to have certain advantages over Pioneer Park as the scene of such a project. It has been suggested that the lot next to the Alpha Hardware building might be a good location for the municipal band shell. Good Publicity It has been pointed out that the Miners’. Band of Angels, Camp, Calaveras County, has brought widespread publicity to the community. Thig band, clad in red shirts, blue. jeans and miners’ caps equipped with carbide lamps, has won-high honors as it tootled its way along the line of march. In the era before and after World War I band concerts in mountain communities were a regular weekly performance, and there are many who believe the scheme could be revived. A quick survey of more than 20 Nevada City residents disclosed that they were 100 per cent in favor of such a program. The next step is to find some person or organization willing to spearhead the job ahd get it under way. ° : OFFICERS’ NIGHT Appointive Officers Nights was observed with a program of entertainment and refreshments at a meeting of Aurora Chapter No. 40 ,Order of Eastern, in Grass Valley. General chairman for the affair was Winifred Martin, past matron, aided by Elizabeth Hooper. THE MAN AT THE KEYHOLE _ By OPERATIVE WB People in low salary brackets are in for an unpleasant surprise. Tax experts report that even though federal incomes taxes will be reduced on January 1, take-home pay will be less because of a schedule larger increase in social security taxes. Shades of the rainbow! Up until 1948, manufactures report, 25 per cent of all ‘néw.cars were black. In the last five years, new black cars have slipped to 12 per cent of the total produced. Washington observers predict that when, as, and if Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is removed from President Eisenhowers’s cabinet he will be replaced by either General Walter Bedell Smith or John J. McCloy — two former Truman Administration appointees—with McCloy having the inside track.