December 18, 1968 (12 pages)

By ROBERT M. SMALLEY The new President, and to a lesser extent the new Congress, probably will dominate the news early in 1969 — but the third branch of government, the Supreme Court, ceraes will carve out a few headlines of its own. Perhaps the first major item on its docket is the matter of ‘the Chief Justiceship itself. Does Chief Justice Warren consider that his qualified resignation, submitted to Presient Johnson, still stands for President Nixon to act upon? Or does he consider it revoked in the wake of the Senate’s refusal to confirm Justice Fortas as his successor? And if revoked, how soon might he plan to submit another resignation to the new man in the White House? According to which newsaper you read, Warren has nm quoted variously as answering each of the Rrst two questions in the affirmative, and indicating: 1) that he will give President Nixon the opportunity to appoint a successor early in the year, or 2) that he will continue to serve on the bench, thereby denying such an opportunity to the new chief executive: Or will Lyndon Johnson render the whole question moot by securing Senate confirmation, before Inauguration Day, of a nominee for Chief Justice less controversial than Abe Fortas—i.e., a respected member of the Senate itself, Michigan Democrat Phi Hart? Whatever the outcome. of the Warren puzzle, the Court also has committed itself to come up with decisions on a wide range of major substantive matters which could very well sustain its role as a center of controversy in the new year. It has agreed, for example, to consider whether the U.S. House of Representatives acted constitutionally when it barred Adam Clayton Powell from taking his seat in the 90th Congress. This could provoke a major clash between Congress and the Court, for Congress is fiercely jealous of its prerogatives as an independent branch of government, and has insisted historically that the courts have no jurisdiction to sit in judgment on its internal affairs. Mr. Powell, now elected to a new seat in the 91st Congress, wants to regain all the rquisites of his 22-year senority in the House. But Conional leaders have hinted roadly that they might ignore any judicial order or decision which ran contrary to their own judgments in the matter —and so the stage is set for a bruising confrontation between the two, beginning probably in February and continuing through May or June. . __Add to this the Court’s own poe to rule whether its ghly controversial Miranda decision in 1966 (banning the use of confessions unless specified conditions have been met) should be broadened, and 1969 looks pyle f indeed for the high tribunal. Santa was lit up like a Christmas Tree in 1896 By Rye Checking material from 1857 to 1907, it appeared the oldtimers viewed Christmas as just another day. One mention of Christmas was the following from the Nevada City Daily Transcript, December 26, 1896: "At the Christmas. exercises in Washington Thursday evening, Charles Fisk was Santa Claus. While he was taking off the presents the cotton with which his coat was covered, was set on fire from one of the candles, and in an instant he was all a-blaze. Before the fire could be ‘put out his hands and face were severely burned." Imagine trying to get people today to believe they used touse burning candles on Christmas trees! ** * A telephone line is to be immediately built from Chases's Hotel, Omega, to Towle Bros. upper sawmill at the head of steep Hollow, a distance of four miles. Funds have been raised for the purpose and the line will be in operation within ten days. (Nevada City Daily Transcript, June 29, 1885.) ** * The poles for the telephone line from Omega to Towle Bros, mill were finished Monday afternoon, , Tuesday morning the stretching of the wire began and will be completed by Thursday. When it is finished Mine Host Chase of Omega Hotel agrees to set up for the boys the best drinks he has on hand. Now if the people of Washington have any enterprise about them they will extend the wires to that place and get communication with the outwide world without going on snow shoes or horseback, (N.C.D.T., July 10, 1885.) * * While it is a fact that the first long distance telephone line, built by the Ridge Telephone Company between French Corral and French Lake, near Bowman Dam, in the world, 58 miles long, ran along the ridge between the middle and the south forks of the Yuba River, and was in service in June 1878; only five months after the first commercial telephone exchange was opened in San Francisco, the town of Washington did not have telephone service until January, 1898, * * * Dr. Walters and several other men in Washington are working hard to raise money to build a in patronizing the basket social 125 to be given at Washington Christmas night to raise funds with which to construct a telephone line to connect the two 100 places, Nevada City gets a good deal of business from the people on the South Yuba River. (N.C.D.T., December 18, 1897.) * * The projectors of the telephone line from Nevada City to so Washington propose to put it through by way of Blue Tent and Relief Hill. This will keep the line below the deep snow line and at the same time securing financial aid from those localities. Length would be from 16 to 17 miles, Cost of construction will not exceed $500, $400 is already assured. It is believed the line will continue through to Sierra City, a distance of 22 and 1/2 miles further. It will pass Gaston and Graniteville, which are respectfully 6 and 1/2 and 10 and 1/2 miles above Washington. Graniteville is 12 miles from Sierra City. (N.C.D.T., December 20, 1897.) * * * The telephone line between Nevada City and Washington will be completed this week. The promoters of the linehave collected $125 less than the cost of construction, A charge of twenty-five cents per message will be made after the first of the month to make up this difference, A dance is to be held at the McKee's Hotel in Washington Saturday night to celebrate the completing of the line. (N.C.D.T., January 26, 1898.) * * * The telephone line from Wash_ ington to North Bloomfield will be completed by Saturday night. (N.C.D.T., March 1, 1898.) * * * The Chinese miners of Omega are planning to run a telephone line from Washington to Omega. (N.C.D.T., March 1, 1898.) The project of running a telephone line to the California Mine (Gaston) from Washington has been abandoned, Instead the wire will be run up the Yuba to the Eagle Bird Mine, (N.C.D. T., April 14, 1898.) Bums away Sonny Liston, who bombed out Amos "Big Train" Lincoln last week, wants to regain the heavyweight boxing title and "put boxing back on its right feet." And well he should put it back. In two fights with Cassius Clay he knocked boxing off its pins, His showing in the second match, if that's the right word, still smells. So maybe Mr. Liston is trying to make amends, and maybe he's just talking to build up future gates, Whichever way it is, this corner thinks the fight game can get along without Mr. Liston's efforts to right it, and so far as the heavyweight division goes, we say let it stay prone long after the 10-count. 75 Wy CALIFORNIA HOUSING STARTS i a Be 1966 1969 THOUSANDS OF UNITS 225 200 . F Slye EN + ton and Nevada ciy.OV.C.D.T.,. . k~SEASONALLY ADMUSTED a November 18, 1897.) ANNUAL R \.A \ : The business men of Nevada 4 a7 a City can well afford to be liberal 4Ld 3 MONTH oe MOVING AVERAGE . _ LULL ITI EEE LELILII LL I Et J J 1966 1967 J 1968 SOURCE: ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, BANK OF AMERICA HOUSING STARTS in California continued at a high rate during October, according to figures released today by Bank of America, The bank's chart shows that housing starts reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 160,000 for October, only a slight decrease from September's 166,000, the year's high point, and a 20 per cent increase over the October 1967 figure. Bank of American economists emphasized that the figures represent actual housing starts as opposed to number of units authorized by building permits, unique data provided by the bank in cooperation with the U.S, Bureau of the Census. During-October some easing in apartment construction tended to offset strength in singlefamily homes. The actual number of housing starts in California for the first ten months of 1968 was 123,892, as compared to 82,908 for the same period last year. Only 65 Years? In these days of supersonic planes and mass aerial transportation it seems almost incredible that the air age really began in the lifetimes of a very great many of our somewhat senior citizens. It was 65 years ago, December 17, 1903, that Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first powered airplane flight at Kittyhawk, North Carolina. That “flight” wouldn’t have taken the little, kite-like plane from wingtip to wingtip of a modNUGGET WEATHER NEVADA CITY MAX MIN. R Dec, 11 54 322,12 Dec. 12 = 38 24 02 Dec, 13 40 24 Dec, 14 52 29 1,55 Dec. 15 47 39 18 Dec, 16 46 30. =—-:1,58 Dec, 17 42 25 Rainfall to date Rainfall last year 19,60 14,45 GRASS VALLEY MAX. MIN, R. Dec, 11 66 = 34. 2.06 Dec, 12 40 26 ~=s «02 Dec. 1347 27 Dec, 14 55 331,33 Dec. 15 48 40 17 Dec. 16 47 30. 1,15 Dec.17 49 27 Rainfall to date — Rainfall last year 19,32 13,19 ern jet liner, but it was gigantic in import. With it, man leaped from his earthen bonds and became a living, not legendary, Icarus. There are doubtless many thousands of moments when airline passengers, stacked up over a fogged-in airport, might well wish the Wright Brothers had let well enough alone. But they didn’t, and the world has changed because of their achievement. PUBLISHEI EVERY WEDNESD.Y BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 1 Broad Street ada City, Ca. 96959 ; Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Coust , Juce 3, 1960. 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By ROBERT M. SMALLEY The new President, and to a lesser extent the new Congress, probably will dominate the news early in 1969 — but the third branch of government, the Supreme Court, ceraes will carve out a few headlines of its own. Perhaps the first major item on its docket is the matter of ‘the Chief Justiceship itself. Does Chief Justice Warren consider that his qualified resignation, submitted to Presient Johnson, still stands for President Nixon to act upon? Or does he consider it revoked in the wake of the Senate’s refusal to confirm Justice Fortas as his successor? And if revoked, how soon might he plan to submit another resignation to the new man in the White House? According to which newsaper you read, Warren has nm quoted variously as answering each of the Rrst two questions in the affirmative, and indicating: 1) that he will give President Nixon the opportunity to appoint a successor early in the year, or 2) that he will continue to serve on the bench, thereby denying such an opportunity to the new chief executive: Or will Lyndon Johnson render the whole question moot by securing Senate confirmation, before Inauguration Day, of a nominee for Chief Justice less controversial than Abe Fortas—i.e., a respected member of the Senate itself, Michigan Democrat Phi Hart? Whatever the outcome. of the Warren puzzle, the Court also has committed itself to come up with decisions on a wide range of major substantive matters which could very well sustain its role as a center of controversy in the new year. It has agreed, for example, to consider whether the U.S. House of Representatives acted constitutionally when it barred Adam Clayton Powell from taking his seat in the 90th Congress. This could provoke a major clash between Congress and the Court, for Congress is fiercely jealous of its prerogatives as an independent branch of government, and has insisted historically that the courts have no jurisdiction to sit in judgment on its internal affairs. Mr. Powell, now elected to a new seat in the 91st Congress, wants to regain all the rquisites of his 22-year senority in the House. But Conional leaders have hinted roadly that they might ignore any judicial order or decision which ran contrary to their own judgments in the matter —and so the stage is set for a bruising confrontation between the two, beginning probably in February and continuing through May or June. . __Add to this the Court’s own poe to rule whether its ghly controversial Miranda decision in 1966 (banning the use of confessions unless specified conditions have been met) should be broadened, and 1969 looks pyle f indeed for the high tribunal. Santa was lit up like a Christmas Tree in 1896 By Rye Checking material from 1857 to 1907, it appeared the oldtimers viewed Christmas as just another day. One mention of Christmas was the following from the Nevada City Daily Transcript, December 26, 1896: "At the Christmas. exercises in Washington Thursday evening, Charles Fisk was Santa Claus. While he was taking off the presents the cotton with which his coat was covered, was set on fire from one of the candles, and in an instant he was all a-blaze. Before the fire could be ‘put out his hands and face were severely burned." Imagine trying to get people today to believe they used touse burning candles on Christmas trees! ** * A telephone line is to be immediately built from Chases's Hotel, Omega, to Towle Bros. upper sawmill at the head of steep Hollow, a distance of four miles. Funds have been raised for the purpose and the line will be in operation within ten days. (Nevada City Daily Transcript, June 29, 1885.) ** * The poles for the telephone line from Omega to Towle Bros, mill were finished Monday afternoon, , Tuesday morning the stretching of the wire began and will be completed by Thursday. When it is finished Mine Host Chase of Omega Hotel agrees to set up for the boys the best drinks he has on hand. Now if the people of Washington have any enterprise about them they will extend the wires to that place and get communication with the outwide world without going on snow shoes or horseback, (N.C.D.T., July 10, 1885.) * * While it is a fact that the first long distance telephone line, built by the Ridge Telephone Company between French Corral and French Lake, near Bowman Dam, in the world, 58 miles long, ran along the ridge between the middle and the south forks of the Yuba River, and was in service in June 1878; only five months after the first commercial telephone exchange was opened in San Francisco, the town of Washington did not have telephone service until January, 1898, * * * Dr. Walters and several other men in Washington are working hard to raise money to build a in patronizing the basket social 125 to be given at Washington Christmas night to raise funds with which to construct a telephone line to connect the two 100 places, Nevada City gets a good deal of business from the people on the South Yuba River. (N.C.D.T., December 18, 1897.) * * The projectors of the telephone line from Nevada City to so Washington propose to put it through by way of Blue Tent and Relief Hill. This will keep the line below the deep snow line and at the same time securing financial aid from those localities. Length would be from 16 to 17 miles, Cost of construction will not exceed $500, $400 is already assured. It is believed the line will continue through to Sierra City, a distance of 22 and 1/2 miles further. It will pass Gaston and Graniteville, which are respectfully 6 and 1/2 and 10 and 1/2 miles above Washington. Graniteville is 12 miles from Sierra City. (N.C.D.T., December 20, 1897.) * * * The telephone line between Nevada City and Washington will

be completed this week. The promoters of the linehave collected $125 less than the cost of construction, A charge of twenty-five cents per message will be made after the first of the month to make up this difference, A dance is to be held at the McKee's Hotel in Washington Saturday night to celebrate the completing of the line. (N.C.D.T., January 26, 1898.) * * * The telephone line from Wash_ ington to North Bloomfield will be completed by Saturday night. (N.C.D.T., March 1, 1898.) * * * The Chinese miners of Omega are planning to run a telephone line from Washington to Omega. (N.C.D.T., March 1, 1898.) The project of running a telephone line to the California Mine (Gaston) from Washington has been abandoned, Instead the wire will be run up the Yuba to the Eagle Bird Mine, (N.C.D. T., April 14, 1898.) Bums away Sonny Liston, who bombed out Amos "Big Train" Lincoln last week, wants to regain the heavyweight boxing title and "put boxing back on its right feet." And well he should put it back. In two fights with Cassius Clay he knocked boxing off its pins, His showing in the second match, if that's the right word, still smells. So maybe Mr. Liston is trying to make amends, and maybe he's just talking to build up future gates, Whichever way it is, this corner thinks the fight game can get along without Mr. Liston's efforts to right it, and so far as the heavyweight division goes, we say let it stay prone long after the 10-count. 75 Wy CALIFORNIA HOUSING STARTS i a Be 1966 1969 THOUSANDS OF UNITS 225 200 . F Slye EN + ton and Nevada ciy.OV.C.D.T.,. . k~SEASONALLY ADMUSTED a November 18, 1897.) ANNUAL R \.A \ : The business men of Nevada 4 a7 a City can well afford to be liberal 4Ld 3 MONTH oe MOVING AVERAGE . _ LULL ITI EEE LELILII LL I Et J J 1966 1967 J 1968 SOURCE: ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT, BANK OF AMERICA HOUSING STARTS in California continued at a high rate during October, according to figures released today by Bank of America, The bank's chart shows that housing starts reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 160,000 for October, only a slight decrease from September's 166,000, the year's high point, and a 20 per cent increase over the October 1967 figure. Bank of American economists emphasized that the figures represent actual housing starts as opposed to number of units authorized by building permits, unique data provided by the bank in cooperation with the U.S, Bureau of the Census. During-October some easing in apartment construction tended to offset strength in singlefamily homes. The actual number of housing starts in California for the first ten months of 1968 was 123,892, as compared to 82,908 for the same period last year. Only 65 Years? In these days of supersonic planes and mass aerial transportation it seems almost incredible that the air age really began in the lifetimes of a very great many of our somewhat senior citizens. It was 65 years ago, December 17, 1903, that Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first powered airplane flight at Kittyhawk, North Carolina. That “flight” wouldn’t have taken the little, kite-like plane from wingtip to wingtip of a modNUGGET WEATHER NEVADA CITY MAX MIN. R Dec, 11 54 322,12 Dec. 12 = 38 24 02 Dec, 13 40 24 Dec, 14 52 29 1,55 Dec. 15 47 39 18 Dec, 16 46 30. =—-:1,58 Dec, 17 42 25 Rainfall to date Rainfall last year 19,60 14,45 GRASS VALLEY MAX. MIN, R. Dec, 11 66 = 34. 2.06 Dec, 12 40 26 ~=s «02 Dec. 1347 27 Dec, 14 55 331,33 Dec. 15 48 40 17 Dec. 16 47 30. 1,15 Dec.17 49 27 Rainfall to date — Rainfall last year 19,32 13,19 ern jet liner, but it was gigantic in import. With it, man leaped from his earthen bonds and became a living, not legendary, Icarus. There are doubtless many thousands of moments when airline passengers, stacked up over a fogged-in airport, might well wish the Wright Brothers had let well enough alone. But they didn’t, and the world has changed because of their achievement. PUBLISHEI EVERY WEDNESD.Y BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 1 Broad Street ada City, Ca. 96959 ; Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Coust , Juce 3, 1960. Decree” No, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5, 00, L987 PRIZE-WINMING NEWSPAPER ot the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION COUNT NUGGET i APTS run 4 re ee a a t c e & oad te 1 on On on oS Tee PF ee