December 11, 1974 (8 pages)

i The California Highway Patrol figuratively ‘laced on enforcement boxing gloves”’ this week for the annual 40-day battle with drunk drivers. . An increase in drinking drivers ‘unfortunately characterizes thé Thanksgivingthrough-New Year’s holiday. period and enforcement necessarily moves up several notches,’’ CHP Commissioner Dan Lanza said. He predicts 25,000 drunk driver arrests over the holiday season. During the first 10 months of 1974, CHP officers arrested 103,874 drunks, : riving party drinking drivers _ about 10,000 per month and _ expect an increase of as much as 25 per cent. ar. ae Lanza said the ‘‘drinking : drivers we catch really are the lucky ones. They’ll spend a few hours. injailsobering -up, be fined $300 or more, perhaps lose their. license for awhile. and probably miss a day’s pay while they’re in court. But eventually they will be driving again. “The ones we-don’t get to in time are the unlucky people. They go to the hospital or the morgue.’’ Cave-in.could cost When all the bills have been paid the tunnel cave-in above the Colgate Powerhouse could cost Pacific Gas and Electric Co. more than $3.2 million. © A section of the five-mile-long tunnel from Bullards Bar Reservoir -to the powerhouse near Dobbins caved in: and the powerhouse was shut down from Aug. 30 to Nov. 16 for repairs, All of the payments haven’t been made to the contractor, but will PG&E $3.2 million total about $1.5 million. To that figure will be added the payments of $22,000 per day PG&E must make to the Yuba County Water Agency under its : ~ power sales contract, regardless of whether anypower is generated. That would total about $1.7 million for the period the powerhouse was shut down and represents only what PG&E must pay the agency, not what it could have sold the ‘power for. ‘3 FIRST GRADERS. at Hennessy School started out the holiday season with a Thanksgiving party récently. Youngsters ate nut bread, drank apple cider and wore hats depicting the day. Left to right in front are Becky Dorville, Chery! Ashcraft, Becky Pratt and Mark Cicogni. In back are Ronald Koo, Peter Croniger, Colette .Harlicker and Steven Bell. aoe # : County families jump up in income brackets In Nevada County, the figures show, both the level of earnings and the distribution are relatively good. How well are Nevada County families managing in these days of high inflation? To what extent have their incomes been moving up to compensate for the rise in the cost of living? _ For most local families, the wage and salary gains have been substantial. As a result, a greater of them are now to be found in the middle and upper income brackets and fewer in the lower. brackets than ever before, according to a nationwide survey of income distribution. There has been a progressive shift upward. The changes are detailed in a report. released by the Standard Rate and Data Service, a marketing publication It lists the percentage of local households in each income category. The survey was designed.to give a better picture of each community’s earning picture and buying power than was efforded by its average income alone. It shows wnetner inere are a small ‘number of families with high incomes balancing out a much larger number with GO aE GO RET g a i il gir aa Nana a em ‘ GRASS VALLEY'S MAYOR Ed Tellam mingled with the large crowd attending Cornish Christmas festivities in Grass Valley. Entertainment is provided, stores are open -until 9 p.m. and lots of food is sold from street hawkers, including pasties, hot apple cider, cakes, cookies and roasted chestnuts. Cornish Christmas. continues Friday Dec. 13, Dec. 20, Saturday the 21st and Monday the 23rd.

i The California Highway Patrol figuratively ‘laced on enforcement boxing gloves”’ this week for the annual 40-day battle with drunk drivers. . An increase in drinking drivers ‘unfortunately characterizes thé Thanksgivingthrough-New Year’s holiday. period and enforcement necessarily moves up several notches,’’ CHP Commissioner Dan Lanza said. He predicts 25,000 drunk driver arrests over the holiday season. During the first 10 months of 1974, CHP officers arrested 103,874 drunks, : riving party drinking drivers _ about 10,000 per month and _ expect an increase of as much as 25 per cent. ar. ae Lanza said the ‘‘drinking : drivers we catch really are the lucky ones. They’ll spend a few hours. injailsobering -up, be fined $300 or more, perhaps lose their. license for awhile. and probably miss a day’s pay while they’re in court. But eventually they will be driving again. “The ones we-don’t get to in time are the unlucky people. They go to the hospital or the morgue.’’ Cave-in..could cost When all the bills have been paid the tunnel cave-in above the Colgate Powerhouse could cost Pacific Gas and Electric Co. more than $3.2 million. © A section of the five-mile-long tunnel from Bullards Bar Reservoir -to the powerhouse near Dobbins caved in: and the powerhouse was shut down from Aug. 30 to Nov. 16 for repairs, All of the payments haven’t been made to the contractor, but will PG&E $3.2 million total about $1.5 million. To that figure will be added the payments of $22,000 per day PG&E must make to the Yuba County Water Agency under its : ~ power sales contract, regardless of whether anypower is

generated. That would total about $1.7 million for the period the powerhouse was shut down and represents only what PG&E must pay the agency, not what it could have sold the ‘power for. ‘3 FIRST GRADERS. at Hennessy School started out the holiday season with a Thanksgiving party récently. Youngsters ate nut bread, drank apple cider and wore hats depicting the day. Left to right in front are Becky Dorville, Chery! Ashcraft, Becky Pratt and Mark Cicogni. In back are Ronald Koo, Peter Croniger, Colette .Harlicker and Steven Bell. aoe # : County families jump up in income brackets In Nevada County, the figures show, both the level of earnings and the distribution are relatively good. How well are Nevada County families managing in these days of high inflation? To what extent have their incomes been moving up to compensate for the rise in the cost of living? _ For most local families, the wage and salary gains have been substantial. As a result, a greater of them are now to be found in the middle and upper income brackets and fewer in the lower. brackets than ever before, according to a nationwide survey of income distribution. There has been a progressive shift upward. The changes are detailed in a report. released by the Standard Rate and Data Service, a marketing publication It lists the percentage of local households in each income category. The survey was designed.to give a better picture of each community’s earning picture and buying power than was efforded by its average income alone. It shows wnetner inere are a small ‘number of families with high incomes balancing out a much larger number with GO aE GO RET g a i il gir aa Nana a em ‘ GRASS VALLEY'S MAYOR Ed Tellam mingled with the large crowd attending Cornish Christmas festivities in Grass Valley. Entertainment is provided, stores are open -until 9 p.m. and lots of food is sold from street hawkers, including pasties, hot apple cider, cakes, cookies and roasted chestnuts. Cornish Christmas. continues Friday Dec. 13, Dec. 20, Saturday the 21st and Monday the 23rd.