December 13, 1972 (12 pages)

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday Dec. 13, 19/2 “Notes off the Cuff” By P. L. Smith ! In Januray of 1343 B.C, a handsome 19-year-old man died in a faraway and fabled land, after a kingly reign of one brief decade, He was born ''Tutankhten". was crowned as ''Nebkheprure" .«.was married to a daughter ofthat early sex-symbol, the strikingly beautiful Nefertiti. A King, yes; but important? Not so very until 3,274 years after the magnificent funeral tendered him by the dictates of an ancient court protocol, under which he had lived an uneventful, short life. When Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon uncovered his remains, just 50 years ago, the discovery made him the most famous pharaoh of all Egyptian history! It took experts more than ten years to remove, identify and catalog the more than 2,000 objects found in "King Tut's Tomb". His coffin alone was eye-popping.and is presently valued at almost two million dollars. The newspaper headlines of the 1920's made much of a socalled curse which, inlegendary fashion, was supposed to doom all who had any part inthe discovery of his burial place. One might, however, question the rash of strange deaths.22 in all, among the persons connected with the "Tut Treasures." Today, visitors to the British’ Museum in London one of the ‘world's most outstanding among such establishments may view exactly 50 of the most precious pieces of the funeral art being exhibited.in an overwhelmingly elaborate setting..on the 50th Anniversary of their discovery in the "Valley Of The Kings" in the Land of the Nile. More than a million persons have visited this once-in-alifetime display to date.at the rate of more than 2,000 daily. I envy every one of them for the "King Tut" story was one of my favorites as a teenager. The press coverage was terrificand the suspense almost unbear301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2471 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 CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET . PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION able when word Carnavon died. after a mosquito bite in 1923and everyone began speculation on the strength of the "Curse of Tut"'.asking themselves and others "Who will die next". And, 21 others did die.some quite mysteriously, others from obviously natural causes.a: couple from suspected foul play. Whether the youthful king's curse had anything at all to do with any of these unfortunate events is still a point of discussion in some segments of international society today. Many a "fortune teller" has feathered a comfortable nest from the gulibility of their clients,.through ominous reference to the "Tut" curse by threatening to evoke it, or some other reputedly equally potent fate; if these persons did not continue to seek his or her services to “insure a peaceful, tranquil life without fear" « €tC, The human mind sometimes does play tricks.and, knowing that, several governments have outlawed all forms of "voodoo" practice in their countries; while still others have scretley supported these "'voodoo priests" in their ugly workto rid themselves of enemies! * ok Ok Have a happy day.and let nothing you dismay. Christmas is coming.it's only 12 days away! Bonde named as master of GV Masons Richard A, Bonde was elected worshipful master of the Grass Valley Masons at their annual election of officers hed recently in the Masonic Temple. Other officers are: Senior warden Joseph R. Blake; junior warden Benjamin F, Hannebrink; treasurer Joseph C. Pefferle; and Paul E, Russell as secretary. Others elected include: Sid R. Martin, senior deacon; Wade N. Patterson, P.M., . marshal; W. J. Ray, senior steward; Timothy R. McCullough, junior steward; Howard Lath, organist; and Walter J. Wieger, P.M., tiler. The trustees for 1973 are Edward Farley, P.M.; Walter J. Wieger, P.M. and Victor L, Montre. Temple Association officers are Herbert L. Rhodehamel, P. M.; John T, Trauner and Dale R. Boothby. Special music at Sierra library A special program of religious and ethnec music is available in the Sierra College library for headphone listening through Dec, 15. A variety of music from cultures of the world and Christmas season music has been ‘scheduled. Each daily program will feature one particular religious or ethnic recording. The presentations will begin on the hour from 8 a.m, to 4 p.m. By Fay M. Dunbar training period. LT a Ger as a 273-2934 December 4th, BBS-before the big storm, the Rough and Ready Fire Dept. Aux. held its Annual Christmas Party at the Grange Hall, All women of the community are members and for this time husbands and families were included. The Grange Dining Hall was full. That really isn't such an unexpected crowd if you consider that everyone in the community should have attended. kk was a very jolly crowd, The party started with Potluck Dinner at 6:30. The Newcomers Lyric Ensemble of Nevada County provided a program of lovely Christmas music and led the group in Carols to conclude the evening. Mrs. Joseph (Mary) Lee, 1973 Chairman, invited the ladies to attend all meetings of the Aux and summarized the Aux. activities for 1972. Mr. Don Litchfield, Chairman of our Fire Dist. Commission also reported 1972 progress, especially the Recussitator which the ladies purchased, and its use. He also announced that the District has now complied with certain requirements and we are all eligible for a reduction in our Fire Insurance Premiums, This new rating will become available at your next renewal date so be sure and remind your Agent that your District has qualified for a new rating. It could save you $10 or $15. My husband immediately wanted to know just what this important step was. Leave it to me Inever remember to get such trivial details. I was too busy spending the $10, Our Firehouse is so far back in the hinterlands that I really never see it. When I do get back there on some errand or other the place is always locked up tight and so I can't see what goes on. Somehow this diminished my interest. I do know that besides the added protection of the Recussitator our Firemen have a well rounded training program, Thanks to Fire Chief Al Moniz, We do have two Fire engines now which also helps. If you don't even know where the Fire house is, which I find many people don't, just drive back Rough and Ready Road about a mile. You can't miss it. It was located there because the property was available and inexpensive and because geographically it is the center of our Fire District. It really is very nice. You are paying 78 cents on each hundred dollars of your tax assessment for it so it behooves you to keep aboard. You could learn quite a lot by attending meetings. The Womeas Auxiliary is always working on a added protections for us. They plan to meet every second Monday. Probably in someones home. The Commission discussed improvements and upkeep (expenses) and elections of Commissioners etc. They meet at the Fire house every third Monday. The Firemen work every 2nd and 4th Tuesday. KOK KK KK KOK : One of the cutest visitors, andthe only very small one, at the party was Miss Teal Tiphereth Harwood, just 2 years old next March. She is the granddaughter of the Marion Harwoods, She was a little bundle of Christmas joy and energy in red tunic and trousers. Her mother Cynthia is training to be an LVN, Grandmother Noreen Harwood has taken over the care of Teal for the KOKO KOR OK KOK OK Last Tuesday evening, Dec. 5, the Scott Lichts home had a fire. The Lichts are only about a block from the Fire house. Also they live on the road next to Prospector Road where the Fire Chief lives, It's no wonder Alice Licht was so impressed with their efficiency and consideration. It was a difficult and tricky fire but not too awfully big. It was in the insulation in the roof and broke out twice after the Lichts thought it was under control. Mrs, Licht, her sister Mrs. David Webb, and Mrs. Conne Baer spent the day in Sacramento shopping and when the storm began to threaten Mr. Licht built up a big fire in their Franklin stove. He wanted a nice warm house for the ladies to come home to, It did get warm. Evidently there was not sufficient insulation around the chimney at the roof line. They spent a completely miserable night. Hf you recall it started to snow about 9:30 p.m. Alice Licht loved the snow. We are both from So. California so I know how she feels but I wonder if under the circumstances I could have enjoyed it as much, KOK KK KK OK OK *K Tragedies never come singly. Oa Friday the Lichts received word that a very close friend in So, California was dead, suddenly and unexpectedly, of a coronary. His wife, as the already knew, is suffering from terminal cancer. They left immediately. The funeral was scheduled for Monday and they expect to be home late Tuesday. * KOK K KOK KOK KOK The Don Litchfields will be visiting the southland come Thursday. They plan to visit friends and relatives from Apple Valley to San Bernardino. Pat Litchfields mother is recuperating from a broken hip and Pat is hoping they may be able to bring her back home with them. Pat and Mrs. Twyla Lemargie spent Monday in Sacramento finishing up their Christmas Shopping. OK KOK KOK OK OK OK The weather is the real topic of interest right now. Can anyone explain why hot water pipes freeze first. Threedifferent times our hot water has just not been there, So far we haven't had broken pipes but I guess it isn't too late yet. We do get hot water later in the day. Everyone tells me they too are having the same problems. Alice Perry says both their hot and cold water were frozen one day. We can nearly always get NID water from the barn but just now that water is frozen in the ditch. Our house never suffers from the cold tho'. A fireplace may be a wood eater and dirty too but oh what heavenly warmth and relaxation. I too am reminded of the old fashioned peom Snowbound by Whittier that Idabel Covert of No. San Juan mentioned last week. I too am an old fogie Idabel. I love Snowbound. It's long and slow but every word is beautiful and as the swingers say very pragmatic. I just get goosebumps reading it. The First Snow Fall by Lowell has some equally beautiful phrases: "Every pine and fir and hemlock wore ermine too dear for an Eart ----The stiff rails softened to swandsown---I stood and watched by the window the noiseless work of the sky," but they aren't nearly as thrilling to me as Snowbound. I learned both poems in a little old one room frame schoolhouse near Goodnight OkJahoma when schools were for learning. I venture to say very few swingers can en‘ov such things as much as Idabel and I do. % OK OK OK OK Ok OK OK OK The Grange Christmas Party was cancelled due to the storm. It will be rescheduled at the . Tegular meeting on Friday, Grange Master Ola Lee Hale kind of favors Sunday Dec, 17. She says it's easier than night time in this storm. KOK K ROR OK ROK OK The Newcomers Christmas Party has been rescheduled for Wednesday Dec, 20. Callers will . call again for reservations or you may vall me,

2 The Nevada County Nugget Wednesday Dec. 13, 19/2 “Notes off the Cuff” By P. L. Smith ! In Januray of 1343 B.C, a handsome 19-year-old man died in a faraway and fabled land, after a kingly reign of one brief decade, He was born ''Tutankhten".. was crowned as ''Nebkheprure" .«.was married to a daughter ofthat early sex-symbol, the strikingly beautiful Nefertiti. A King, yes; but important? Not so very until 3,274 years after the magnificent funeral tendered him by the dictates of an ancient court protocol, under which he had lived an uneventful, short life. When Howard Carter and Lord Carnavon uncovered his remains, just 50 years ago, the discovery made him the most famous pharaoh of all Egyptian history! It took experts more than ten years to remove, identify and catalog the more than 2,000 objects found in "King Tut's Tomb". His coffin alone was eye-popping..and is presently valued at almost two million dollars. The newspaper headlines of the 1920's made much of a socalled curse which, inlegendary fashion, was supposed to doom all who had any part inthe discovery of his burial place. One might, however, question the rash of strange deaths..22 in all, among the persons connected with the "Tut Treasures." Today, visitors to the British’ Museum in London one of the ‘world's most outstanding among such establishments may view exactly 50 of the most precious pieces of the funeral art being exhibited..in an overwhelmingly elaborate setting...on the 50th Anniversary of their discovery in the "Valley Of The Kings" in the Land of the Nile. More than a million persons have visited this once-in-alifetime display to date..at the rate of more than 2,000 daily. I envy every one of them for the "King Tut" story was one of my favorites as a teenager. The press coverage was terrificand the suspense almost unbear301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2471 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 CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET . PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION able when word Carnavon died. after a mosquito bite in 1923and everyone began speculation on the strength of the "Curse of Tut"'..asking themselves and others "Who will die next". And, 21 others did die..some quite mysteriously, others from obviously natural causes..a: couple from suspected foul play. Whether the youthful king's curse had anything at all to do with any of these unfortunate events is still a point of discussion in some segments of international society today. Many a "fortune teller" has feathered a comfortable nest from the gulibility of their clients,.through ominous reference to the "Tut" curse by threatening to evoke it, or some other reputedly equally potent fate; if these persons did not continue to seek his or her services to “insure a peaceful, tranquil life without fear" « €tC, The human mind sometimes does play tricks..and, knowing that, several governments have outlawed all forms of "voodoo" practice in their countries; while still others have scretley supported these "'voodoo priests" in their ugly workto rid themselves of enemies! * ok Ok Have a happy day..and let nothing you dismay. Christmas is coming..it's only 12 days away! Bonde named as master of

GV Masons Richard A, Bonde was elected worshipful master of the Grass Valley Masons at their annual election of officers hed recently in the Masonic Temple. Other officers are: Senior warden Joseph R. Blake; junior warden Benjamin F, Hannebrink; treasurer Joseph C. Pefferle; and Paul E, Russell as secretary. Others elected include: Sid R. Martin, senior deacon; Wade N. Patterson, P.M., . marshal; W. J. Ray, senior steward; Timothy R. McCullough, junior steward; Howard Lath, organist; and Walter J. Wieger, P.M., tiler. The trustees for 1973 are Edward Farley, P.M.; Walter J. Wieger, P.M. and Victor L, Montre. Temple Association officers are Herbert L. Rhodehamel, P. M.; John T, Trauner and Dale R. Boothby. Special music at Sierra library A special program of religious and ethnec music is available in the Sierra College library for headphone listening through Dec, 15. A variety of music from cultures of the world and Christmas season music has been ‘scheduled. Each daily program will feature one particular religious or ethnic recording. The presentations will begin on the hour from 8 a.m, to 4 p.m. By Fay M. Dunbar training period. LT a Ger as a 273-2934 December 4th, BBS-before the big storm, the Rough and Ready Fire Dept. Aux. held its Annual Christmas Party at the Grange Hall, All women of the community are members and for this time husbands and families were included. The Grange Dining Hall was full. That really isn't such an unexpected crowd if you consider that everyone in the community should have attended. kk was a very jolly crowd, The party started with Potluck Dinner at 6:30. The Newcomers Lyric Ensemble of Nevada County provided a program of lovely Christmas music and led the group in Carols to conclude the evening. Mrs. Joseph (Mary) Lee, 1973 Chairman, invited the ladies to attend all meetings of the Aux and summarized the Aux. activities for 1972. Mr. Don Litchfield, Chairman of our Fire Dist. Commission also reported 1972 progress, especially the Recussitator which the ladies purchased, and its use. He also announced that the District has now complied with certain requirements and we are all eligible for a reduction in our Fire Insurance Premiums, This new rating will become available at your next renewal date so be sure and remind your Agent that your District has qualified for a new rating. It could save you $10 or $15. My husband immediately wanted to know just what this important step was. Leave it to me Inever remember to get such trivial details. I was too busy spending the $10, Our Firehouse is so far back in the hinterlands that I really never see it. When I do get back there on some errand or other the place is always locked up tight and so I can't see what goes on. Somehow this diminished my interest. I do know that besides the added protection of the Recussitator our Firemen have a well rounded training program, Thanks to Fire Chief Al Moniz, We do have two Fire engines now which also helps. If you don't even know where the Fire house is, which I find many people don't, just drive back Rough and Ready Road about a mile. You can't miss it. It was located there because the property was available and inexpensive and because geographically it is the center of our Fire District. It really is very nice. You are paying 78 cents on each hundred dollars of your tax assessment for it so it behooves you to keep aboard. You could learn quite a lot by attending meetings. The Womeas Auxiliary is always working on a added protections for us. They plan to meet every second Monday. Probably in someones home. The Commission discussed improvements and upkeep (expenses) and elections of Commissioners etc. They meet at the Fire house every third Monday. The Firemen work every 2nd and 4th Tuesday. KOK KK KK KOK : One of the cutest visitors, andthe only very small one, at the party was Miss Teal Tiphereth Harwood, just 2 years old next March. She is the granddaughter of the Marion Harwoods, She was a little bundle of Christmas joy and energy in red tunic and trousers. Her mother Cynthia is training to be an LVN, Grandmother Noreen Harwood has taken over the care of Teal for the KOKO KOR OK KOK OK Last Tuesday evening, Dec. 5, the Scott Lichts home had a fire. The Lichts are only about a block from the Fire house. Also they live on the road next to Prospector Road where the Fire Chief lives, It's no wonder Alice Licht was so impressed with their efficiency and consideration. It was a difficult and tricky fire but not too awfully big. It was in the insulation in the roof and broke out twice after the Lichts thought it was under control. Mrs, Licht, her sister Mrs. David Webb, and Mrs. Conne Baer spent the day in Sacramento shopping and when the storm began to threaten Mr. Licht built up a big fire in their Franklin stove. He wanted a nice warm house for the ladies to come home to, It did get warm. Evidently there was not sufficient insulation around the chimney at the roof line. They spent a completely miserable night. Hf you recall it started to snow about 9:30 p.m. Alice Licht loved the snow. We are both from So. California so I know how she feels but I wonder if under the circumstances I could have enjoyed it as much, KOK KK KK OK OK *K Tragedies never come singly. Oa Friday the Lichts received word that a very close friend in So, California was dead, suddenly and unexpectedly, of a coronary. His wife, as the already knew, is suffering from terminal cancer. They left immediately. The funeral was scheduled for Monday and they expect to be home late Tuesday. * KOK K KOK KOK KOK The Don Litchfields will be visiting the southland come Thursday. They plan to visit friends and relatives from Apple Valley to San Bernardino. Pat Litchfields mother is recuperating from a broken hip and Pat is hoping they may be able to bring her back home with them. Pat and Mrs. Twyla Lemargie spent Monday in Sacramento finishing up their Christmas Shopping. OK KOK KOK OK OK OK The weather is the real topic of interest right now. Can anyone explain why hot water pipes freeze first. Threedifferent times our hot water has just not been there, So far we haven't had broken pipes but I guess it isn't too late yet. We do get hot water later in the day. Everyone tells me they too are having the same problems. Alice Perry says both their hot and cold water were frozen one day. We can nearly always get NID water from the barn but just now that water is frozen in the ditch. Our house never suffers from the cold tho'. A fireplace may be a wood eater and dirty too but oh what heavenly warmth and relaxation. I too am reminded of the old fashioned peom Snowbound by Whittier that Idabel Covert of No. San Juan mentioned last week. I too am an old fogie Idabel. I love Snowbound. It's long and slow but every word is beautiful and as the swingers say very pragmatic. I just get goosebumps reading it. The First Snow Fall by Lowell has some equally beautiful phrases: "Every pine and fir and hemlock wore ermine too dear for an Eart ----The stiff rails softened to swandsown---I stood and watched by the window the noiseless work of the sky," but they aren't nearly as thrilling to me as Snowbound. I learned both poems in a little old one room frame schoolhouse near Goodnight OkJahoma when schools were for learning. I venture to say very few swingers can en‘ov such things as much as Idabel and I do. % OK OK OK OK Ok OK OK OK The Grange Christmas Party was cancelled due to the storm. It will be rescheduled at the . Tegular meeting on Friday, Grange Master Ola Lee Hale kind of favors Sunday Dec, 17. She says it's easier than night time in this storm. KOK K ROR OK ROK OK The Newcomers Christmas Party has been rescheduled for Wednesday Dec, 20. Callers will . call again for reservations or you may vall me,