December 24, 1964 (24 pages)

Norman Sage Is PG & E Spends $ 275 Million On Construction Honored By The — . U.S. Air Force ‘Airman First Class Norman C. Sage, son of Mr, and Mrs, Clarance F, Sage of Nevada City, has been selected Outstanding Maintenance Man of the Month in his the existing Alberta -Calitornia gas line, The Alberta provincial government has given its approval, and the application is now before the Canadian government for action, Half the increase is for delivery beginning in 1966 and the remainder beginning in 1967. With gas available from California fields, Canada, southwestem states and PG&E storage facilities, the company now is capable of a 24-hour peak day send-out approaching 3 billion cubic feet of gas, Gerdes said. LIVE CN the CASTBE NOW RENTING consisting of four dams, 10 miles of tunnels, three power plants and related works in Shasta County. In San Francisco, a 210,000 kilowatt steam-electric unit will be completed at the Potrero Power Plant. Work will continue throughout the year on three other projects. One is the biggest single block of new electric genetating capacity PG&E has ever undertaken, a 1,500,000 kilowatt addition to Moss Landing Power Plant on Monterey Bay. Two new power units of 750,000 kilowatts each will be the largest and most efficient on the company's system. Another project in progress is installation of a thd geothermal steamunit, utilizing natural purchase the power produced by steam from the earth, at The the agencies. .Geysers Power Plant in Sonoma Scheduled for completion by County. Its capacity of 27,500 PG&E in 1965 is the 330,000kilowatts will be more than area in population, industry, agriculture and trade,” Gerdes said. “The new facilities will provide increased supplies of gas and electric energy to take care of the growing needs of our customers. " Major power installations totalling 2,112,500’ kilowatts are under construction,:.Of this total, 540, 000 kilowatts will beplaced in service by the end of 1965. The company's power resources also will be increased by 337, 200 kilowatts to be produced at water conservation projects under construction by the Nevada IrrigationDistrict, the Placer County Water Agency and the Merced Irrigation District. These projects are being financed under partnership agree~ ments by which the company will Pacific Gas and Electric Company President Robert H. Gerdes announced the largest construction expenditure for a single year in PG&E history, an estimated $275 million to be invested in few facilities in 1965. . The expenditure will have a . substantial effect on the business activity of Northern and Central California next year, Gerdes said. In employment it will support an average 7,600 construction jobs every working day of the year. Payrolls and purchases of materials and equipment will stimulate local trade. The investment in new plants, power lines, substations, gas pipe lines and related facilities also will enlarge the tax base for support of local government and schools in many localities, “This expansion reflects the a RE MI FR AE PIGT ‘HS Joquisdeq** *10B8nN Ayunop epeAon’** S Norman C. Sage Strategic Air Command squadron at Blytheville AFB, Ark. Airman Sage, a nuclear weapons specialist, was chosen for the honor in recognition of his exemplary conduct and duty performance. He is assigned to the 65th Munitions Maintenance Squadron which supports the SAC mission of keeping the nation's intercontinental missiles and jet bombers on constant alert. The airman, a graduate of Placer Union High School, Auburn, entered the Air Force in February 1961, 0. 0. Bizz Johnson Donates Books To Libraries Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson representing the 2nd, mountain-valley counties, district, has donated copies of the Central Valley Project Documents tocounty libraries throughout the Second Congressional District. The documents were collected and published by the late Senator Clair Engle while he was Chairman of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Congressman Johnson said that he felt these documents would prove to be excellent reference sources for the citizens and students of the District because of the Central Valley Project's importance to all of Northern California. magnitude of the continuing annual growth of PG&E's service kilowatt McCloud-Pit Project Maritime Academy Tests Set Young men interested in careers at sea will have the opportunity of taking an entrance examination to be given by the California Maritime Academy at Vallejo on Saturday, January 2, 1965, at 9 a.m. Nofees, appointments or other prior arrangements are necessary to take the test. This is the first examination to be given to select candidates for the next entering ctass, Additional examinations will be given at the academy on the first Saturday of each month through the month of May, as wellas in anumber of other areas throughout the state during this period, See your school counselor for date, place and time. High school graduates, including those who will graduate this year, are eligible to take the examination. Upon admission, on August 9, 1965, candidates must be at least 17 years of age but not yet 22 andnever have been married. The California Maritime Academy, under the State Department of Education, prepares young men for future careers of leadership in the maritime industry. The course requires three years and includes three training cruises to foreign and domestic ports. A graduate receives a bachelor of science degree and earns a license as third mate or third assistant engineer in the Merchant Marine. He is also eligible to apply for a commission Sane CLOSED December 21 January 6 Lye Fucks Leer Creek IitttBANNER MOUNTAIN ROAD as.an ensign in the naval reserve. Anyone desiring further information about the program of education andtraining and regarding expenses should write to the Dean,» California Maritime Academy, P.O.Box 1392, Vallejo, 94591. Thomas Kuchel Does Homework Kuchel, the assistant Republican leader, willspend the month before convening of the 89th Congress in California conferring on a variety of matters of significance to the State expected to receive consideration at the 1965 session. double the power of the first two units there. In Placer County, work will continue on the 45, 000. kilowatt Drum Powerhouse No. 2, . ’ which is being built by PG&E in conjunction with Nevada Irrigation District's water project. For further gas supplies PG&E, through affiliated companies, is seeking authorization to import from Canada an additional 200 2 STUDIOS AND Il'ONE BEDROOM APART MENT IN NEVADA CITY'S HISTORIC RED CAST LE $70.00 AND UP Call 265 -5135wcekends: GAKLAND OL 3-76ll weekdays, or write J. W. SCHAAR 628 E 22nd St, Oakland RONDO IRON DR OMIU Der million cubic feet a gay through INSULATE OR REINSULATE YOUR HOME Weather Control Company ~ U.S. Senator Phomast.4 =~ ss == ~ INSULATION AND WEATHER STRIPPING P.O. BOX 746, Free Estimates PHONE PENN VALLEY 213 1642 Bank Terms \easonis (cyPeelings to all of our customers and friends

Norman Sage Is PG & E Spends $ 275 Million On Construction Honored By The — . U.S. Air Force ‘Airman First Class Norman C. Sage, son of Mr, and Mrs, Clarance F, Sage of Nevada City, has been selected Outstanding Maintenance Man of the Month in his the existing Alberta -Calitornia gas line, The Alberta provincial government has given its approval, and the application is now before the Canadian government for action, Half the increase is for delivery beginning in 1966 and the remainder beginning in 1967. With gas available from California fields, Canada, southwestem states and PG&E storage facilities, the company now is capable of a 24-hour peak day send-out approaching 3 billion cubic feet of gas, Gerdes said. LIVE CN the CASTBE NOW RENTING consisting of four dams, 10 miles of tunnels, three power plants and related works in Shasta County. In San Francisco, a 210,000 kilowatt steam-electric unit will be completed at the Potrero Power Plant. Work will continue throughout the year on three other projects. One is the biggest single block of new electric genetating capacity PG&E has ever undertaken, a 1,500,000 kilowatt addition to Moss Landing Power Plant on Monterey Bay. Two new power units of 750,000 kilowatts each will be the largest and most efficient on the company's system. Another project in progress is installation of a thd geothermal steamunit, utilizing natural purchase the power produced by steam from the earth, at The the agencies. .Geysers Power Plant in Sonoma Scheduled for completion by County. Its capacity of 27,500 PG&E in 1965 is the 330,000kilowatts will be more than area in population, industry, agriculture and trade,” Gerdes said. “The new facilities will provide increased supplies of gas and electric energy to take care of the growing needs of our customers. " Major power installations totalling 2,112,500’ kilowatts are under construction,:.Of this total, 540, 000 kilowatts will beplaced in service by the end of 1965. The company's power resources also will be increased by 337, 200 kilowatts to be produced at water conservation projects under construction by the Nevada IrrigationDistrict, the Placer County Water Agency and the Merced Irrigation District. These projects are being financed under partnership agree~ ments by which the company will Pacific Gas and Electric Company President Robert H. Gerdes announced the largest construction expenditure for a single year in PG&E history, an estimated $275 million to be invested in few facilities in 1965. . The expenditure will have a . substantial effect on the business activity of Northern and Central California next year, Gerdes said. In employment it will support an average 7,600 construction jobs every working day of the year. Payrolls and purchases of materials and equipment will stimulate local trade. The investment in new plants, power lines, substations, gas pipe lines and related facilities also will enlarge the tax base for support of local government and schools in many localities, “This expansion reflects the a RE MI FR AE PIGT ‘HS Joquisdeq** *10B8nN Ayunop epeAon’** S Norman C. Sage Strategic Air Command squadron at Blytheville AFB, Ark. Airman Sage, a nuclear weapons specialist, was chosen for the honor in recognition of his exemplary conduct and duty performance. He is assigned to the 65th Munitions Maintenance Squadron which supports the SAC mission of keeping the nation's intercontinental missiles and jet bombers on constant alert. The airman, a graduate of Placer Union High School, Auburn, entered the Air Force in February 1961, 0. 0.. Bizz Johnson Donates Books To Libraries Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson representing the 2nd, mountain-valley counties, district, has donated copies of the Central Valley Project Documents tocounty libraries throughout the Second Congressional District.

The documents were collected and published by the late Senator Clair Engle while he was Chairman of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Congressman Johnson said that he felt these documents would prove to be excellent reference sources for the citizens and students of the District because of the Central Valley Project's importance to all of Northern California. magnitude of the continuing annual growth of PG&E's service kilowatt McCloud-Pit Project Maritime Academy Tests Set Young men interested in careers at sea will have the opportunity of taking an entrance examination to be given by the California Maritime Academy at Vallejo on Saturday, January 2, 1965, at 9 a.m. Nofees, appointments or other prior arrangements are necessary to take the test. This is the first examination to be given to select candidates for the next entering ctass, Additional examinations will be given at the academy on the first Saturday of each month through the month of May, as wellas in anumber of other areas throughout the state during this period, See your school counselor for date, place and time. High school graduates, including those who will graduate this year, are eligible to take the examination. Upon admission, on August 9, 1965, candidates must be at least 17 years of age but not yet 22 andnever have been married. The California Maritime Academy, under the State Department of Education, prepares young men for future careers of leadership in the maritime industry. The course requires three years and includes three training cruises to foreign and domestic ports. A graduate receives a bachelor of science degree and earns a license as third mate or third assistant engineer in the Merchant Marine. He is also eligible to apply for a commission Sane CLOSED December 21 January 6 Lye Fucks Leer Creek IitttBANNER MOUNTAIN ROAD as.an ensign in the naval reserve. Anyone desiring further information about the program of education andtraining and regarding expenses should write to the Dean,» California Maritime Academy, P.O.Box 1392, Vallejo, 94591. Thomas Kuchel Does Homework Kuchel, the assistant Republican leader, willspend the month before convening of the 89th Congress in California conferring on a variety of matters of significance to the State expected to receive consideration at the 1965 session. double the power of the first two units there. In Placer County, work will continue on the 45, 000. kilowatt Drum Powerhouse No. 2, . ’ which is being built by PG&E in conjunction with Nevada Irrigation District's water project. For further gas supplies PG&E, through affiliated companies, is seeking authorization to import from Canada an additional 200 2 STUDIOS AND Il'ONE BEDROOM APART MENT IN NEVADA CITY'S HISTORIC RED CAST LE $70.00 AND UP Call 265 -5135wcekends: GAKLAND OL 3-76ll weekdays, or write J. W. SCHAAR 628 E 22nd St, Oakland RONDO IRON DR OMIU Der million cubic feet a gay through INSULATE OR REINSULATE YOUR HOME Weather Control Company ~ U.S. Senator Phomast.4 =~ ss == ~ INSULATION AND WEATHER STRIPPING P.O. BOX 746, Free Estimates PHONE PENN VALLEY 213 1642 Bank Terms \easonis (cyPeelings to all of our customers and friends