December 24, 1964 (24 pages)

Soa Het communities of Nevada Ci umbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue fa Gold Flat, a Gold Bar, Lowell Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium T: ramen Volume 38 Number 52 Project Payment Is Held Up Nevada Irrigation District board of directors had meetings scheduled for all of this week in the hopes that financial difficulties of the project contractor would be settled. The district board has been adjourning from day to day since Dec. 14 when the directors put a hold on the project payment to contractor Paul Hardeman, Inc. The action was taken after the district received requests for pay— ment from several local suppliers and sub-contractors, District officials met with officials of Hardeman and the bonding company and, with agreement of the.firm and the bond . Continued On Page 3) $2,000 Taken In Grass Valley Bank Holdup A man walked into the Mill Street Branch of the Bank of A m'efica in Grass Valley early Monday afternoon and robbed the bank of approximately $2,000 in cash." According to Grass Valley Police Chief Frank Knuckey, the man entered the bank at about 12:40 p.m. and went to the window of teller Thelma Frye of Grass Valley. The man reportedly placed a black revolver and a bag on the counter and told Mrs. Frye to fillthe bag with bills of large denominations. The teller filled the bag with several bundles of bills and the man picked up his bag and gun and walked out of the bank. Knuckey said there seemed to be no car near the bank, but one witness said they saw a man answ ering the description of the robber walking up Bank Alley toward the direction of the city parking lot. A check of the bank indicated that the man carried away about $2,000. Police had an all points bulletin out for the robber who was described as about age 50, five feet 10 inches tall, of light complexion with squinty, bloodshot eyes and wearing a tan rain hat and coat. _ <r , Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, arr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, fill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brendy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, SS aciaceeimeniia 10 Cents A Copy North br Juan, North Bloom, Selby Flat, Grizzly s Flat, Orleans Flat, December 24, 1964 Published Thursdays, Nevada City re a. & by, eS os, Nevada is =/ Transp PUBLISHED BY #4 BROWN & CALKINS, #% Nevada City, California. PRICE 50 CENTS. . > \ a4 ts READERS of the Nevada City Transcript 80 years ago received the above paper during Christmas week. The Nugget is using this colorful old page this week to send holiday greetings and best wishes to its readers. Historic "Zoning Is > Considered Nevada City is going’ to look into the: possibility of passing an ordinance to protect selected historic buildings near the proposed freeway. This was one of the results of a special meeting of the council and state highway officials called lastweek to discuss freeway problems. District Engineer W. L. Warren, Gilbert Muleahy of the state rights-of-way division, and freeway project engineer Charles Chappelle attended the session. The matter of preservation of buildings centered around the question of the Hot Mill property on Main and Union Streets. Severalweeks-ago owner Mike Haley asked the council to take the position that they had no interest in acquiring the property. Haley said he understood the state was starting condemnation proceedings at the urging of thecity, The council at that time said they had previously gone on record as being opposed to the des~truction of the building and did notcare to take further action at that time, At the meeting of Dec. 14a resolution was introduced and passed declaring the Hot Mill, Ott's Assay Office and the National Hotel, Annex as monuments of the city and noting that it was the wish of the council that they not be destroyed or mater~ ially altered on the exterior. During the session last Thursday night the state officials explained that there were three alternatives open on the question of the Hot Mill, Thestate could acquire the entire property and level the building, the state could acquire corners of the structure on two sides required for the highway construction and leave the remainder in Haley's ownership, or the state could buy the entire property and offer it to the city. Itwas quickly pointed out that the council had gone on record many times as being opposed to destruction of the byilding. At the same time it was noted that the city was in no position to purchase the structure, So the second alternative of leaving the building in the hands of the owner after it had been (Continued On Page 2) *IT1BD '6 OfUdMesces AMVIQTY OF"ys *s114v7 UOT3¢3¢9 fT Yr: 3 1 * by . yy

Soa Het communities of Nevada Ci umbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue fa Gold Flat, a Gold Bar, Lowell Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium T: ramen Volume 38 Number 52 Project Payment Is Held Up Nevada Irrigation District board of directors had meetings scheduled for all of this week in the hopes that financial difficulties of the project contractor would be settled. The district board has been adjourning from day to day since Dec. 14 when the directors put a hold on the project payment to contractor Paul Hardeman, Inc. The action was taken after the district received requests for pay— ment from several local suppliers and sub-contractors, District officials met with officials of Hardeman and the bonding company and, with agreement of the.firm and the bond . Continued On Page 3) $2,000 Taken In Grass Valley Bank Holdup A man walked into the Mill Street Branch of the Bank of A m'efica in Grass Valley early Monday afternoon and robbed the bank of approximately $2,000 in cash." According to Grass Valley Police Chief Frank Knuckey, the man entered the bank at about 12:40 p.m. and went to the window of teller Thelma Frye of Grass Valley. The man reportedly placed a black revolver and a bag on the counter and told Mrs. Frye to fillthe bag with bills of large denominations. The teller filled the bag with several bundles of bills and the man picked up his bag and gun and walked out of the bank. Knuckey said there seemed to be no car near the bank, but one witness said they saw a man answ ering the description of the robber walking up Bank Alley toward the direction of the city parking lot. A check of the bank indicated that the man carried away about $2,000. Police had an all points bulletin out for the robber who was described as about age 50, five feet 10 inches tall, of light complexion with squinty, bloodshot eyes and wearing a tan rain hat and coat. _ <r , Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, arr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, fill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brendy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, SS aciaceeimeniia 10 Cents A Copy North br Juan, North Bloom, Selby Flat, Grizzly s Flat, Orleans Flat, December 24, 1964 Published Thursdays, Nevada City re a. & by, eS os, Nevada is =/ Transp PUBLISHED BY #4 BROWN & CALKINS, #%

Nevada City, California. PRICE 50 CENTS. . > \ a4 ts READERS of the Nevada City Transcript 80 years ago received the above paper during Christmas week. The Nugget is using this colorful old page this week to send holiday greetings and best wishes to its readers. Historic "Zoning Is > Considered Nevada City is going’ to look into the: possibility of passing an ordinance to protect selected historic buildings near the proposed freeway. This was one of the results of a special meeting of the council and state highway officials called lastweek to discuss freeway problems. District Engineer W. L. Warren, Gilbert Muleahy of the state rights-of-way division, and freeway project engineer Charles Chappelle attended the session. The matter of preservation of buildings centered around the question of the Hot Mill property on Main and Union Streets. Severalweeks-ago owner Mike Haley asked the council to take the position that they had no interest in acquiring the property. Haley said he understood the state was starting condemnation proceedings at the urging of thecity, The council at that time said they had previously gone on record as being opposed to the des~truction of the building and did notcare to take further action at that time, At the meeting of Dec. 14a resolution was introduced and passed declaring the Hot Mill, Ott's Assay Office and the National Hotel, Annex as monuments of the city and noting that it was the wish of the council that they not be destroyed or mater~ ially altered on the exterior. During the session last Thursday night the state officials explained that there were three alternatives open on the question of the Hot Mill, Thestate could acquire the entire property and level the building, the state could acquire corners of the structure on two sides required for the highway construction and leave the remainder in Haley's ownership, or the state could buy the entire property and offer it to the city. Itwas quickly pointed out that the council had gone on record many times as being opposed to destruction of the byilding. At the same time it was noted that the city was in no position to purchase the structure, So the second alternative of leaving the building in the hands of the owner after it had been (Continued On Page 2) *IT1BD '6 OfUdMesces AMVIQTY OF"ys *s114v7 UOT3¢3¢9 fT Yr: 3 1 * by . yy