December 12, 1962 (10 pages)

Sie . A. —_ ALES SAAB LARSEN ERA AEA EERE CRESSLER SEIT TET te _ t~— 7 + -% ANGLES WE ole COUNTY Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Li Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney fiat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, berty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, ‘Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Volumn 37 No. 52 ° 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Wednesdays Nevada City, December 12, 1962 HI THERE KIDS ! !----Aboard " ” ig Red" (Nevada City's bid fire truck) this red clad old gentleman from the Northern regions of the world arrived in Nevada City Thursday night to "offically" open the’ Yuletide season. and to "sing in" the holdiay season. HOT CHOCOLATE---More than forty: HAVE HEARD ON HIGH---Thes * “from Seven Hills School were on hand to welcome Santa Claus lanes > Aid young carolers warmed e student carolers ied up with hot chocolate at the Ponderosa after their songfest Thursday night. Senator Cameron's Wife Lost In Fire CLIPPER GAP---Thewife of State Senator Ronald G. Cameron died Saturday night ina firethat gutted the Cameron home and severely burned one of the legislator's two daughters. Sparks from a fireplace log were blamed for the blaze. Senator Cameron was awakened in the night when his daughter, Laurie, 8, Boosters Endorse NC Scenic Plan NEVADA CIT Y---The Nevada City Boosters Friday, by 12 to 3 vote, endorsed the scenic freeway plan of Coun~ cilman Arch McPherson and urgedthe city council to act favorably on it. Boosters cited parking areas, park-like development in the freeway right of way and preservation of historic sites as reasons for backing the plan, Also noted by the Boosters is an intersection which the group says will become congested under current state plans for the freeway~---the intersection of traffic at Commercial, Main, Goyote, and Union Sts. Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min, Rainfall Dec. 5) 5d: -32 . 00 6 #£0= 33 . 00 7 59 =. 33 . 00 § 59. 33 . 00 Ge $8. 2°32 . 00 10. 59. St . 00 it: 68). ap .00 Rainfall to date: 26.61 Rainfall last year 11.00 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Dec. 5 67 41 . 00 6 710 43 . 00 7 GT: 42 . 00 8 67. 242 .00 9 10 45 . 00 10 68 44 . 00 11 69 45 .00 Rainfall to date 26.58 10,75 Rainfall last year screamed as she tried to beat out the flames devouring her pajamas, The legislator doused her in a bathroom shower, then dropped the girl tothe ground through a window. The girl suffered severe facial and back burns. Senator Cameron found his second daughter, Jane, 9, unconscious at the doorway toher bedroom. He dropped her to safety, then looked forhis wife, Irene, who had agreed to sleep with Jane Saturday night. Theshocked Cameron returned to the bedroom but couldnot find his wife there or nearby, As the walls cracked from the heat, he hurried from the house to determine whether she had made her way out. Senator Cameron, in a state of shock, was restrained from re-entering the flameengulfedhouseto look again for his wife. Firemen found her body on the bathroom floor after the fire subsided. For Freeway, Officials NEVADA CITY---Nevada City's council Monday night informed representatives of the Division of Highways that the city would like to have the state hire an impartial consultant to aid in design1 ing the projected freeway ithrough Nevada City. On ' Nov. 13 the council had made a similar request, asking in a resolution that the state “cooperate with representatives ofthe Nev_ ada City Council and qualified design and landscape consultants to create a true scenic highway in Nevada City." “~The freeway two years i;hence may, asa result of ithese council actions, beicome the first section of the i presently proposed scenic -highway system with scenic ‘ design. A resolution introduced ‘Monday night by Council:manBen Barry and seconded iby Mayor Robert Carr which w ould have reaffirmed the city's freeway agreement was 'defeated by a 3-2 vote. Passage of the resolution would have given the Highway Division a go-ahead on the basis of current design and landscaping plans. But defeat of the resolution . inno way changes the city's ifreeway agreement with the state. There is no controversy between the official bodies over the route. consultant came after the reading of two letters from Governor Edmund G, Brown pledging a state desire to coOperate in scenic treatment of the Nevada City highway. Brown's letters were in.response to the council's Nov. i 13 resolution, There will be no delay in theconstruction of the freeway, scheduled to begin in 1964, CouncilmanJack Brickell assured the council of this, quoting as his source of information Assistant State Highway Engineer Alan Hart. The fact that scenic design work can be done within the state's current time schedule was also emphasized by Terry Feil, legislative advocate of the Califomia Freeway Association, ‘. who said he had specifically questionedJ.A, Legarra, Assistant State Highway Engineer in Sacramento, about the design schedule and had been assured that sufficient time remained for full consideration of scenic potential on the Nevada City freeway. Feil, introduced by Councilman Arch McPherson, told the council of the possibility of state and federal funds to aid in construction of scenic features being considered for the freeway. He emphasized the ad= vantages of an in-city RoadsideRest. The Roadside Rest program is being accelerated by the Highway Division. Feil indicated that state funds could provide the roadside rest, as well as parking areas within the right of way, and some park treatment, under a scenic design such as has been proposed by Councilman McPherson. He cited state traffic figures which he said shows Nevada City ‘as a terminus rather than a through traffic area. P, C, Sheridan and H.F, Sherwood attended the council meeting representing the Division of Highways, pregyenting anew map of the state’s freeway plan. Sheridan reviewed the district's viewpoint of the scenic sketch presented to the council recently by McPherson. The-council request for a. He objected to the use of two lanes east of Sacramento St. as the freeway goes through town, saying that the Division of Highways had to look ahead to 1985 traffic needs, Sheridan also quoted from a letter sent the council by Alan Hart, objecting to the McPherson plan which would route Nevada City traffic over Sacramento St. to the plaza. Hart called the street which isnow a part of Highways 20-49 narrow and inadequate as a city street. Hart's letter also objected to the retention of historic structures on the right of way because this would require retaining walls to be built. The same reason was given for not attempting to save the community sequoia tree . T he letter and presentation closed with a summary of the advantages of the state's plan. New concepts in the state plan include tourist view points on Sacramento and Spring Sts, overlooking Deer Creek and the 320-foot freeway right of way, and the placing of "planter boxes” in the freeway divider strip. The planned slope of freeway embankment has been altered to decrease by half the necessary retaining walls. The state plan now also includes two small parking apyasone-at the plaza, the. other high on Coyote St., benches anda foot path area near Deer Creek, Sheridan described the freeway plans of the state as "fitting like a glove” the traffic of Nevada City. Feil answered the objections to a two-lane stretch through the city by pointing out that passing lanes could be constructed if necessary, and said the two-lane highway would enhance the beauty of the community and therefore be of economic value. Feil said that engineering objections to off ramps in MePherson's plan were understandable since the plan was not drawn by an engineer, but he said that the Highway Division engineers were capable of correcting errors in the plan which was intended merely to be a starting point in scenic considerations for the local freeway. McPherson's comment on the state plan was that the new map presented Monday night seemed to indicate no See No Construction Delay change except the drawing . [™ NC Asks Design Consultant 1é in of some bushes and trees. © Councilman Craig Davies asked the width of the center . strip in the state's plan for the freeway. He was told the center strip width is planned as 16¢ : feet, less than the 22 feet the state now considers minimum, Davies explained he-was wondering whether the width . of the scar couldn't be cut atBroadSt. inorder to make possible parking areas and other benefits. Brickell, saying that tour. ists are probably the biggest business the city has, commented that getting people to come into the city is of prime importance. If the . HISTORIAN DIES. ~ . cm. PP. Davis; 64, i historian of local and national repute, died . Monday night at Nevada County Hospital. two-lane plan is feasible at . at this time, it would be a big help to the town, he said. Dr. Jack Rector emphasized the importance of tourism to Nevada City. He cited the lack of industry, the faltering lumber business, and said that already recreation and tourism are the city 'snumber one indus-~try. "You'll kill the fatted calf," he said, if the city and state construct the fourlane current state plan. Davies observed that Nev ada City is awfully small and California awfully big, but cited the Sacramento Cut. as anh example of thé city getting an improvement without cost to the city. Originally the Division of Highways had askedfor City participation of $12,000 in the street improvement, but Davies and other councilmen objected and the city refused to approve the joint project. The state after several months delay put in the improvement without cost to the city. Feil summarized the starting point for future freeway discussions. Two groups of people have looked at the same problem fromtwodifferent views, he told the council. The Highway Division has been interested in moving traffic, the other group has been interested in preserving and improving Nevada City. Mayor Carr asked McPherson and otherinterested councilmen to continue design discussions with the state. A crowd of about 50 attended the meeting. H. P. Davis Dies NEVADA'CIT Y---H, P, Davis, affectionately known as “Horse Power” to his many friends throughout the Northern Mines area, died in the Nevada County Hospital Monday night. Funeral services are scheduled tomorrow at 2 p.m, at the Bergemann Funeral Chapel. Interment w ill follow at Forest View Cemetery. His death came while he was completing a history of Nevada City and the surrounding area, Mrs. McGee To Head Chamber NEVADA CIT Y---Alice Mc! Gee, owner of the Style Shop on BroadSt., was elected president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce for 1963 at an election meeting yesterday noon. Elected vice-president was John Knutson, official at the Nevada City branch Bank of America. Directors elected at the noon meeting included Rita Hutchinson, Dickerman Drug; Dick Knee, Knee's; Gerald Christie, Rotary Oil; Dean Thompson, Nevada County Nugget; Demar Dundas, heating firm owner; Earl Erickson, Inter-County Title; and WilliamC. Briggs, Alpha. With hold-over directors, ThomasC, Yost, as ! past-president of the chamber, will become the elev‘ enth director. Hewasan engincering consultant, historian and author. He served as Associated Press correspondent in Haiti for many years and later represented the United States Chamber of Commerce in the Caribbean. His book concerning Haiti, entitled Black Democracy, is a textbook in many colleges. He was a native of Bangor, Maine, 84 years of age, Since coming to Nevada City years agohe devoted himself + Lo.the-.study.and .writing-of history concerning Nevada County and the Northern Mines area, His wife, Helena, who preceeded nim in death, was the author of The Year is a ‘Round Thing, a child's book. ' He wasthe brother of Owen ‘Davis, well known playwright, and Will Davis, government official under F.D. Roosevelt. Mr. Davis had been bothered with acute arthritis .in recent years, but the elderly gentlemennever lost his wit. His favorite answer to, “How are you today, Mr. ‘ Davis," was, “Miscrable. ” Whether leaning onhis ‘cane or shuffling up Broad . St. without it, he was a well . known manintown, one who demanded the respect of : those who knew him, ' His chief delight was to find tourists who were inter: ested in the history of Nev. ada.City. He would pour forth stories about the town , and its past, many of which he never found time to putin ‘ his proposed book. FREEWAY BANTER.During a recess in Monday night's Nevada City Council meeting, these officals gathered to talk about the city's freeway plans. Pictured are (clockwise) Councilman Ben Barry, H. F. Sherwood, P. C. Sheridan, Councilman Arch McPherson, and Mayor Robert Carr. *3T1BO ‘6 OCQUeURuDRE . AAVAQFT 8389S °311 8D uoygoeeac SI BOTPoetua?

Sie . A. —_ ALES SAAB LARSEN ERA AEA EERE CRESSLER SEIT TET te _ t~— 7 + -% ANGLES WE ole COUNTY Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Li Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney fiat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, berty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, ‘Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Volumn 37 No. 52 ° 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Wednesdays Nevada City, December 12, 1962 HI THERE KIDS ! !----Aboard " ” ig Red" (Nevada City's bid fire truck) this red clad old gentleman from the Northern regions of the world arrived in Nevada City Thursday night to "offically" open the’ Yuletide season. and to "sing in" the holdiay season. HOT CHOCOLATE---More than forty: HAVE HEARD ON HIGH---Thes * “from Seven Hills School were on hand to welcome Santa Claus lanes > Aid young carolers warmed e student carolers ied up with hot chocolate at the Ponderosa after their songfest Thursday night. Senator Cameron's Wife Lost In Fire CLIPPER GAP---Thewife of State Senator Ronald G. Cameron died Saturday night ina firethat gutted the Cameron home and severely burned one of the legislator's two daughters. Sparks from a fireplace log were blamed for the blaze. Senator Cameron was awakened in the night when his daughter, Laurie, 8, Boosters Endorse NC Scenic Plan NEVADA CIT Y---The Nevada City Boosters Friday, by 12 to 3 vote, endorsed the scenic freeway plan of Coun~ cilman Arch McPherson and urgedthe city council to act favorably on it. Boosters cited parking areas, park-like development in the freeway right of way and preservation of historic sites as reasons for backing the plan, Also noted by the Boosters is an intersection which the group says will become congested under current state plans for the freeway~---the intersection of traffic at Commercial, Main, Goyote, and Union Sts. Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min, Rainfall Dec. 5) 5d: -32 . 00 6 #£0= 33 . 00 7 59 =. 33 . 00 § 59. 33 . 00 Ge $8. 2°32 . 00 10. 59. St . 00 it: 68). ap .00 Rainfall to date: 26.61 Rainfall last year 11.00 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Dec. 5 67 41 . 00 6 710 43 . 00 7 GT: 42 . 00 8 67. 242 .00 9 10 45 . 00 10 68 44 . 00 11 69 45 .00 Rainfall to date 26.58 10,75 Rainfall last year screamed as she tried to beat out the flames devouring her pajamas, The legislator doused her in a bathroom shower, then dropped the girl tothe ground through a window. The girl suffered severe facial and back burns. Senator Cameron found his second daughter, Jane, 9, unconscious at the doorway toher bedroom. He dropped her to safety, then looked forhis wife, Irene, who had agreed to sleep with Jane Saturday night. Theshocked Cameron returned to the bedroom but couldnot find his wife there or nearby, As the walls cracked from the heat, he hurried from the house to determine whether she had made her way out. Senator Cameron, in a state of shock, was restrained from re-entering the flameengulfedhouseto look again for his wife. Firemen found her body on the bathroom floor after the fire subsided. For Freeway, Officials NEVADA CITY---Nevada City's council Monday night informed representatives of the Division of Highways that the city would like to have the state hire an impartial consultant to aid in design1 ing the projected freeway ithrough Nevada City. On ' Nov. 13 the council had made a similar request, asking in a resolution that the state “cooperate with representatives ofthe Nev_ ada City Council and qualified design and landscape consultants to create a true scenic highway in Nevada City." “~The freeway two years i;hence may, asa result of ithese council actions, beicome the first section of the i presently proposed scenic -highway system with scenic ‘ design. A resolution introduced ‘Monday night by Council:manBen Barry and seconded iby Mayor Robert Carr which w ould have reaffirmed the city's freeway agreement was 'defeated by a 3-2 vote. Passage of the resolution would have given the Highway Division a go-ahead on the basis of current design and landscaping plans. But defeat of the resolution . inno way changes the city's ifreeway agreement with the state. There is no controversy between the official bodies over the route. consultant came after the reading of two letters from Governor Edmund G, Brown pledging a state desire to coOperate in scenic treatment of the Nevada City highway. Brown's letters were in.response to the council's Nov. i 13 resolution, There will be no delay in theconstruction of the freeway, scheduled to begin in 1964, CouncilmanJack Brickell assured the council of this, quoting as his source of information Assistant State Highway Engineer Alan Hart. The fact that scenic design work can be done within the state's current time schedule was also emphasized by Terry Feil, legislative advocate of the Califomia Freeway Association, ‘. who said he had specifically questionedJ.A, Legarra, Assistant State Highway Engineer in Sacramento, about the design schedule and had been assured that sufficient time remained for full consideration of scenic potential on the Nevada City freeway. Feil, introduced by Councilman Arch McPherson, told the council of the possibility of state and federal funds to aid in construction of scenic features being considered for the freeway. He emphasized the ad= vantages of an in-city RoadsideRest. The Roadside Rest program is being accelerated by the Highway Division. Feil indicated that state funds could provide the roadside rest, as well as parking areas within the right of way, and some park treatment, under a scenic design such as has been proposed by Councilman McPherson. He cited state traffic figures which he said shows Nevada City ‘as a terminus rather than a through traffic area. P, C, Sheridan and H.F, Sherwood attended the council meeting representing the Division of Highways, pregyenting anew map of the state’s freeway plan. Sheridan reviewed the district's viewpoint of the scenic sketch presented to the council recently by McPherson. The-council request for a. He objected to the use of two lanes east of Sacramento St. as the freeway goes through town, saying that the Division of Highways had to look ahead to 1985 traffic needs, Sheridan also quoted from a letter sent the council by Alan Hart, objecting to the McPherson plan which would route Nevada City traffic

over Sacramento St. to the plaza. Hart called the street which isnow a part of Highways 20-49 narrow and inadequate as a city street. Hart's letter also objected to the retention of historic structures on the right of way because this would require retaining walls to be built. The same reason was given for not attempting to save the community sequoia tree . T he letter and presentation closed with a summary of the advantages of the state's plan. New concepts in the state plan include tourist view points on Sacramento and Spring Sts, overlooking Deer Creek and the 320-foot freeway right of way, and the placing of "planter boxes” in the freeway divider strip. The planned slope of freeway embankment has been altered to decrease by half the necessary retaining walls. The state plan now also includes two small parking apyasone-at the plaza, the. other high on Coyote St., benches anda foot path area near Deer Creek, Sheridan described the freeway plans of the state as "fitting like a glove” the traffic of Nevada City. Feil answered the objections to a two-lane stretch through the city by pointing out that passing lanes could be constructed if necessary, and said the two-lane highway would enhance the beauty of the community and therefore be of economic value. Feil said that engineering objections to off ramps in MePherson's plan were understandable since the plan was not drawn by an engineer, but he said that the Highway Division engineers were capable of correcting errors in the plan which was intended merely to be a starting point in scenic considerations for the local freeway. McPherson's comment on the state plan was that the new map presented Monday night seemed to indicate no See No Construction Delay change except the drawing . [™ NC Asks Design Consultant 1é in of some bushes and trees. © Councilman Craig Davies asked the width of the center . strip in the state's plan for the freeway. He was told the center strip width is planned as 16¢ : feet, less than the 22 feet the state now considers minimum, Davies explained he-was wondering whether the width . of the scar couldn't be cut atBroadSt. inorder to make possible parking areas and other benefits. Brickell, saying that tour. ists are probably the biggest business the city has, commented that getting people to come into the city is of prime importance. If the . HISTORIAN DIES.. ~ . cm. PP. Davis; 64, i historian of local and national repute, died . Monday night at Nevada County Hospital. two-lane plan is feasible at . at this time, it would be a big help to the town, he said. Dr. Jack Rector emphasized the importance of tourism to Nevada City. He cited the lack of industry, the faltering lumber business, and said that already recreation and tourism are the city 'snumber one indus-~try. "You'll kill the fatted calf," he said, if the city and state construct the fourlane current state plan. Davies observed that Nev ada City is awfully small and California awfully big, but cited the Sacramento Cut. as anh example of thé city getting an improvement without cost to the city. Originally the Division of Highways had askedfor City participation of $12,000 in the street improvement, but Davies and other councilmen objected and the city refused to approve the joint project. The state after several months delay put in the improvement without cost to the city. Feil summarized the starting point for future freeway discussions. Two groups of people have looked at the same problem fromtwodifferent views, he told the council. The Highway Division has been interested in moving traffic, the other group has been interested in preserving and improving Nevada City. Mayor Carr asked McPherson and otherinterested councilmen to continue design discussions with the state. A crowd of about 50 attended the meeting. H. P. Davis Dies NEVADA'CIT Y---H, P, Davis, affectionately known as “Horse Power” to his many friends throughout the Northern Mines area, died in the Nevada County Hospital Monday night. Funeral services are scheduled tomorrow at 2 p.m, at the Bergemann Funeral Chapel. Interment w ill follow at Forest View Cemetery. His death came while he was completing a history of Nevada City and the surrounding area, Mrs. McGee To Head Chamber NEVADA CIT Y---Alice Mc! Gee, owner of the Style Shop on BroadSt., was elected president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce for 1963 at an election meeting yesterday noon. Elected vice-president was John Knutson, official at the Nevada City branch Bank of America. Directors elected at the noon meeting included Rita Hutchinson, Dickerman Drug; Dick Knee, Knee's; Gerald Christie, Rotary Oil; Dean Thompson, Nevada County Nugget; Demar Dundas, heating firm owner; Earl Erickson, Inter-County Title; and WilliamC. Briggs, Alpha. With hold-over directors, ThomasC, Yost, as ! past-president of the chamber, will become the elev‘ enth director. Hewasan engincering consultant, historian and author. He served as Associated Press correspondent in Haiti for many years and later represented the United States Chamber of Commerce in the Caribbean. His book concerning Haiti, entitled Black Democracy, is a textbook in many colleges. He was a native of Bangor, Maine, 84 years of age, Since coming to Nevada City years agohe devoted himself + Lo.the-.study.and .writing-of history concerning Nevada County and the Northern Mines area, His wife, Helena, who preceeded nim in death, was the author of The Year is a ‘Round Thing, a child's book. ' He wasthe brother of Owen ‘Davis, well known playwright, and Will Davis, government official under F.D. Roosevelt. Mr. Davis had been bothered with acute arthritis .in recent years, but the elderly gentlemennever lost his wit. His favorite answer to, “How are you today, Mr. ‘ Davis," was, “Miscrable. ” Whether leaning onhis ‘cane or shuffling up Broad . St. without it, he was a well . known manintown, one who demanded the respect of : those who knew him, ' His chief delight was to find tourists who were inter: ested in the history of Nev. ada.City. He would pour forth stories about the town , and its past, many of which he never found time to putin ‘ his proposed book. FREEWAY BANTER..During a recess in Monday night's Nevada City Council meeting, these officals gathered to talk about the city's freeway plans. Pictured are (clockwise) Councilman Ben Barry, H. F. Sherwood, P. C. Sheridan, Councilman Arch McPherson, and Mayor Robert Carr. *3T1BO ‘6 OCQUeURuDRE . 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