December 26, 1963 (22 pages)

Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Vi feld, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, , Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, R ‘arr Meadows, Cedar. Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon, Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. : Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas “ Queker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Volume 38, Number 52 10 Cents A Copy Published Thursdays, Nevada City December 26, 1963 BEALE AIRLIFTS DONATION DAY Christmas Story AND THE PLACES THAT KNEW THEM SHALL KNOW THEM NO MORE By Grace Himes This very real and heart-rending story first appeared in the Nugget at Christmas time several years ago. With the kind permission of the author, Grace Himes, former librarian of the Nevada City Public Library, it isreprinted here. Set in a long-gone era in the Browns Valley near Marysville, asaremany of Mrs. Hime: ‘Tstorie’; “it is, She says, “alii a * ii at a See nat geen diabetes Fa Gk Ge CS Set a es ae ’ sisted wigoe ES re i a eer Down the Marysville highway, twenty miles or so below Grass Valley lies the old mining town of Browns Valley. Once one of the most ‘turbulent, disorderly, Gold Rush camps in California-adjunct tothe notorious Wild Hog Glory country--it now draws its skirts of neat white houses closely about it and like a kindly old woman whose past is best forgotten, dreams quietly in the sun. The people who live there now are busy with the problems of today, and most of the oldsters are gone; but, oh! if the old cemetery on the hill could come to life--if those adventurers of other days who so long have lain under summer's heat and winter's cold could speak again--what tales they could tell! Al Mann: his time and followers; Mrs. Soames and her Chinese sweetheart; oldKit, beautiful Kitty of another world, drunk and out on the town singing in a whiskeyroughened voice ashalf clad, she ~ rode her horse down the rough plank walk, singing, “The Old Rugged Cross. “ Saloons and saloons --jampacked and noisy. The steady roar of falling stamps as the Pennsyl' vania and. Dunnebrogue poured more gold into the coffers of their already wealthy owners. Mine whistles, shrill and authoritative; boarding house bells and the clump of miners‘ boots. And “Old Kit” quiet at last . soft brown curls hiding the bullet wound that dripped and dripped. on the scuffed old rug. Weary of life at 25 years. (Continued on Page 6) =f food-wereGrass Valley, SAC Base In Donations Friday was Donation Day in Upper Heyford, England, too. In Grass Valley, the 80th annual Donation Day was hampered by rain that caused the cancellation of the traditional parade of hundreds of schoolchildren through the downtown area---rain that caused a transportation prob. lem. Future Farmers of America and other ag students at Nevada Union High School, under the direction of instructor Jerry Davis, solved Grass Valley's problem of collect}--ing the food donations from each ~sehool and transporting them to the Veterans Memorial Building where more than 100 boxes of portation ‘p “1000 Beale Air: Force Base came to the rescue, and preliminary reports from England indicate that “Donation Day" was a huge success there, too. Beale airmen played their part in “Donation Day” by airlifting more than 300 pounds of clothing to Spain. From there it was shipped to England. Upper Heyford, to be more precise. It all began when a request came from the infotmation officer at the Strategic Air Command combat support group at the Royal Air Force Station at Upper Heyford, He wrote that as part of the base's Christmas program, squadrons would adopt local orphanages. At the parties given for the orphans, presents were to be distributed. @ “Clothing would make fine gifts,” he said. A1C John Svendsen, stationed at Upper Heyford, wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.H, Svendsen, in Cotati, Calif. Aided by others in Cotati, the Svendsens: easons CSreeth ngs from the Nugget staff Church---15th century German woodcut Printed by Berliner & McGinnis, Nevada City Evergreen Card line designed by Osborn/Woods "gathered together about 330 pounds of clothing.The problemthen became transportation. Several Air Force Bases were contacted. None had available flights. Travis AFB contacted Beale AFB, and with the luck of Christmastime found the 903rd Air Refueling Squadron had a KC135 flying to Spain. Svendsen arranged for transpor‘(Continued on Page 2) —* ZIT BO $6 OFUEMBAeS £avagyy ©3898 *331 89 UOTZOeS BL BOT POTIed

Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Vi feld, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, , Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, R ‘arr Meadows, Cedar. Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon, Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. : Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas “ Queker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Volume 38, Number 52 10 Cents A Copy Published Thursdays, Nevada City December 26, 1963 BEALE AIRLIFTS DONATION DAY Christmas Story AND THE PLACES THAT KNEW THEM SHALL KNOW THEM NO MORE By Grace Himes This very real and heart-rending story first appeared in the Nugget at Christmas time several years ago. With the kind permission of the author, Grace Himes, former librarian of the Nevada City Public Library, it isreprinted here. Set in a long-gone era in the Browns Valley near Marysville, asaremany of Mrs. Hime: ‘Tstorie’; “it is, She says, “alii a * ii at a See nat geen diabetes Fa Gk Ge CS Set a es ae ’ sisted wigoe ES re i a eer Down the Marysville highway, twenty miles or so below Grass Valley lies the old mining town of Browns Valley. Once one of the most ‘turbulent, disorderly, Gold Rush camps in California-adjunct tothe notorious Wild Hog Glory country--it now draws its skirts of neat white houses closely about it and like a kindly old woman whose past is best forgotten, dreams quietly in the sun. The people who live there now are busy with the problems of today, and most of the oldsters are gone; but, oh! if the old cemetery on the hill could come to life--if those adventurers of other days who so long have lain under summer's heat and winter's cold could speak again--what tales they could tell! Al Mann: his time and followers; Mrs. Soames and her Chinese sweetheart; oldKit, beautiful Kitty of another world, drunk and out on the town singing in a whiskeyroughened voice ashalf clad, she ~ rode her horse down the rough plank walk, singing, “The Old Rugged Cross. “ Saloons and saloons --jampacked and noisy. The steady roar of falling stamps as the Pennsyl' vania and. Dunnebrogue poured more gold into the coffers of their already wealthy owners. Mine whistles, shrill and authoritative; boarding house bells and the clump of miners‘ boots. And “Old Kit” quiet at last .. soft brown curls hiding the bullet

wound that dripped and dripped. on the scuffed old rug. Weary of life at 25 years. (Continued on Page 6) =f food-wereGrass Valley, SAC Base In Donations Friday was Donation Day in Upper Heyford, England, too. In Grass Valley, the 80th annual Donation Day was hampered by rain that caused the cancellation of the traditional parade of hundreds of schoolchildren through the downtown area---rain that caused a transportation prob. lem. Future Farmers of America and other ag students at Nevada Union High School, under the direction of instructor Jerry Davis, solved Grass Valley's problem of collect}--ing the food donations from each ~sehool and transporting them to the Veterans Memorial Building where more than 100 boxes of portation ‘p “1000 Beale Air: Force Base came to the rescue, and preliminary reports from England indicate that “Donation Day" was a huge success there, too. Beale airmen played their part in “Donation Day” by airlifting more than 300 pounds of clothing to Spain. From there it was shipped to England. Upper Heyford, to be more precise. It all began when a request came from the infotmation officer at the Strategic Air Command combat support group at the Royal Air Force Station at Upper Heyford, He wrote that as part of the base's Christmas program, squadrons would adopt local orphanages. At the parties given for the orphans, presents were to be distributed. @ “Clothing would make fine gifts,” he said. A1C John Svendsen, stationed at Upper Heyford, wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.H, Svendsen, in Cotati, Calif. Aided by others in Cotati, the Svendsens: easons CSreeth ngs from the Nugget staff Church---15th century German woodcut Printed by Berliner & McGinnis, Nevada City Evergreen Card line designed by Osborn/Woods "gathered together about 330 pounds of clothing.The problemthen became transportation. Several Air Force Bases were contacted. None had available flights. Travis AFB contacted Beale AFB, and with the luck of Christmastime found the 903rd Air Refueling Squadron had a KC135 flying to Spain. Svendsen arranged for transpor‘(Continued on Page 2) —* ZIT BO $6 OFUEMBAeS £avagyy ©3898 *331 89 UOTZOeS BL BOT POTIed