December 30, 1965 (20 pages)

tata etaatetetie AT HOME IN THE COUNTRY ¢:0t:0#etzat 0 ** . Grace Skaar, whose exhibit of Christmas card designs ends at the Gallery in Nevada City this week, is not only one of the nation’s top Christmas card deSigners; she is also the author and GRACE SKAAR, AT WORK at her studio on the Blue Tent Road in illustrator of several books for small children, which are minor classics, Mrs, Skaar designs her Christmas cards for the highly exclusive, expensive Fayette line, produced Nevada City. Photo by Bob Wolden, At Home In Another Country Eleven Inches Of Fighting Centipede Escape Under Bed (EDITOR'S NOTE--Steve Ayala, former Nevada Union High School student, is serving with the Peace Corps in Ecuador, ‘This article concludes an account of his explorations on the Galapagos Islands, ) Of what insects there are on the islands, there seems to be no great variety, but they are often remarkable, On Baltra, Santa Cruz, Isabella and Floriana we found huge grasshoppers; very colorful beasts by the thousands some 5 or 6 inches long. Bright grasshoppers and bright butterflies add much color to the black lava setting. Another arthropod, and without doubt thé most terrifying onthe islands, is the gigantic centipede, I personally measured some over a foot long and three inches from leg tip to leg tip (across) as they walk, I brought one such beast back to Catholic University for the collection, but after experiences with a second decided to collect them no more, for a while at least. The centipedes are practically machines: machines for eating and defense. What is not needed for those two purposes has been discarded, and what is useful thereto amplifiedtoa frightening extent: jaws, legs and pincher tail, Well, I was using a set of 18 inch tweezers to catch the machines, This one I caught right behind the head, leaving some 11 inches of unafraid revenge there hanging. Toa defense machine, material not in use at any given moment is excess baggage--so 11 inches of centipede swing up to attack the tweezers (and try for my hand). Worried enough to keep the grip tightly closed, I got everything back to my room and the wide mouth jar of cyanide which kills most arthropodes, To the Jar. He escaped! Around the room we went, my heart going almost as fast as his legs. Under the bed and under the mattress, around the chair and under the desk, Well, I won, but that was it as far as centipedes go. Most of the fauna, however, is peaceful and friendly as far as H. Sapiens goes, The gigantic tortoises, the friendly little garde snakes, little black lava lizards, and an attractive 21/2 inch gecko with big appealing eyes--these make up the reptile colonists of the Galapagos, The tortoises (or galapagos, as they are known here) have been very hardto find since the days of the whalers and the hunters of galapagos oil. A few are kept ina many-acre enclosure near the Station, and word is out that any found on fishing boats will insure the owner a heavy fine and confiscation of his catch. Still, it is estimated that more live in ZOOS, etc., outside the islands than on them. I took a picture of one beside a Nestle candy bar which it could have swallowed had it been a candivore, Airman Goes To Meditterranean Airman Apprentice Jerry L, Watson, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs, William F. Watson of 226 Park Ave., Nevada City, has departed Norfolk, Va., aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS America for her first deployment with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, in Chicago, She tries tocomplete two cards per month, and guarantees the company 15 a year, The designs must be completed wellin advance, Mrs, Skaar says. “Next year's cards have already been produced,” she adds, "I have Christmas on the mind the year around, " The designing of Christmas cards requires much technical know ledge as well as artistic skill, Mrs, Skaar began to acquire this knowledge at art school in Los Angeles and as art director for Chryson's of Hollywood, one of the pioneers of "better" Christmas cards. In her Hollywood work she learned the allimportant production techniques which must be considered by any successful artist. “Production costs continue to rise and it is essentialto design with the technical side in mind, " she Says. Her first children's book, “All About Dogs,” published in 1947 by Young/Scott, is still bringing in royalties, Other books, about cats, and horses and other animals, are equally popular, One of them, about horses, was _used by Parents Magazine Book Club as a premium. It was also produced in an English version, with western saddles converted A Nevada City Artist Who Is Master Of Her Trade to English saddles, All of the children's books have simple, lively illustrations and text, andthereis usually a lesson to be learned in each of them, Although Mrs, Skaar thinks making books is more fun, she concentrates on the Christmas cards, because of the guarantee which she promises for a number of cardseach year. “And anyway," shesays, “it's difficult to divide oneself up. " She lives and works at her home on the Blue Tent Rd, in Nevada City. Her husband Sven is an historian, and owner of the Pioneer shop on Broad St, Exhibit At Nevada City Gallery Will Feature Nugget Cartoonist Dan O'Neill The Gallery, 312 Commercial St., Nevada City, is showing the Cartoons “Odd Bodkins" by Dan O'Neill from January 2 thru January 28. The artist writes of himself as follows: My biography starts with my being born in April 1942, in Norfolk, Virginia, Where my biography ends, I haven't been informed, I first started cartooning in the first grade, as a direct result of being unable to relate to oo andJaneand Spot. This diversi from my studies didn't pay well and cost mea year of school, Repeating the first grade was great. I was now the natural leader of my classmates. I was bigger. So I was tagged by my teachers as “great potential, but needs to be prodded into performing scholastically," This affliction followed me throughout my academic career and was responsible, for large lumps of misery. My cartooning erupted again in the fifth grade in a serialized satire adventure strip called “Captain Cosmo" After being found responsible for a short flurry of stink bombs, I found myself at St. Joseph's High School, Alameda, In my junior year I became the editorial cartoonist for the Berkeley Review, a weekly offset newspaper published by Orr Kelly, Upon graduation from St, Joseph's, I enrolled at the University of San Francisco which fortunately is located in San Francisco because it would feel silly if it was in Oakland, At USF, I spent all my time in the campus newspaper Offices, Tommy's Joynt and asleep in my, Dan O'Neill room, thereby proving that old saw, “Early tobed, early to rise, makes Johnny a dull boy,” I was the most interesting student to be tossed out of school that year, Returning to my mother's comforting arms, I was told to get a job or cutthe lawn. As the lawn on the homestead covered £3 + . oe A TRUE GOLDEN GALA. Ninety-two year old Clifford Wiley and his wife Hazel of Nevada City celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Christmas Day ata dinner gathering at the Victorian Room of.the National Hotel, an acre, I joined the Forest Service and disappeared into the wilds of North Bloomfield, California. I found myself walking through the great outdoorsy one day with my little brass badge on my little chest, It seems I was now a Government Scaler, which meant that I measured trees, It also meant that I measured trees out where the stupid things were being cut down, Up until now, my only experience with logging had been Paul Bunyan and His Big Blue OX; Babe. When Paul Bunyan cut down a tree, he hollered “TIMBURR!" The loggers don't do that any more, If a tree is going to fall down the hill, the logger yells "Down the hill!" He couldalso yell, “Up the hill” or “Side hill", depending on which way he drops the thing. So I didn't know this, and when Iwas walking down the road, and the logger yelled, “Down the hill!" I yelled back “Everything is fine!" and kept walking. Until the tree fell on my toe, Disillusioned with Smokey the Bear, I returned to college, Sometime during my Forest Ser~ vice stint, the Nevada County Nugget had started publishing my latest cartooning effort, Odd Bodkins, It ran for two years in the Nugget, and then through some rather manic machinations on my part achieved syndication through the San Francisco Chroni‘cle, Chronicle Feature Syndicate, Since then I have become the breadwinner fora wife, two children and a large hungry Irish Setter, Ialsohave had some rather nasty lessons about this business rammed down my throat, I leamed the hard way, through cancellations, that one should not make fun of idiotic politicians, Politics and cartoons are hardto mix when your editors are opposed to your views, So from now on I am forced to expound on less controversial subjects such as religion and sex, The cartoons to be shown at the Gallery are the originals andall works are for sale, A reception will be held for the artist Sunday, January 2 from 2 to 4 p.m, ° ° Zz @ < & Q. > ¢) i=] f=) ot < a ga oq @ in e e © Q @ 3 log o iv) oO _ e&O for) ao

tata etaatetetie AT HOME IN THE COUNTRY ¢:0t:0#etzat 0 ** . Grace Skaar, whose exhibit of Christmas card designs ends at the Gallery in Nevada City this week, is not only one of the nation’s top Christmas card deSigners; she is also the author and GRACE SKAAR, AT WORK at her studio on the Blue Tent Road in illustrator of several books for small children, which are minor classics, Mrs, Skaar designs her Christmas cards for the highly exclusive, expensive Fayette line, produced Nevada City. Photo by Bob Wolden, At Home In Another Country Eleven Inches Of Fighting Centipede Escape Under Bed (EDITOR'S NOTE--Steve Ayala, former Nevada Union High School student, is serving with the Peace Corps in Ecuador, ‘This article concludes an account of his explorations on the Galapagos Islands, ) Of what insects there are on the islands, there seems to be no great variety, but they are often remarkable, On Baltra, Santa Cruz, Isabella and Floriana we found huge grasshoppers; very colorful beasts by the thousands some 5 or 6 inches long. Bright grasshoppers and bright butterflies add much color to the black lava setting. Another arthropod, and without doubt thé most terrifying onthe islands, is the gigantic centipede, I personally measured some over a foot long and three inches from leg tip to leg tip (across) as they walk, I brought one such beast back to Catholic University for the collection, but after experiences with a second decided to collect them no more, for a while at least. The centipedes are practically machines: machines for eating and defense. What is not needed for those two purposes has been discarded, and what is useful thereto amplifiedtoa frightening extent: jaws, legs and pincher tail, Well, I was using a set of 18 inch tweezers to catch the machines, This one I caught right behind the head, leaving some 11 inches of unafraid revenge there hanging. Toa defense machine, material not in use at any given moment is excess baggage--so 11 inches of centipede swing up to attack the tweezers (and try for my hand). Worried enough to keep the grip tightly closed, I got everything back to my room and the wide mouth jar of cyanide which kills most arthropodes, To the Jar. He escaped! Around the room we went, my heart going almost as fast as his legs. Under the bed and under the mattress, around the chair and under the desk, Well, I won, but that was it as far as centipedes go. Most of the fauna, however, is peaceful and friendly as far as H. Sapiens goes, The gigantic tortoises, the friendly little garde snakes, little black lava lizards, and an attractive 21/2 inch gecko with big appealing eyes--these make up the reptile colonists of the Galapagos, The tortoises (or galapagos, as they are known here) have been very hardto find since the days of the whalers and the hunters of galapagos oil. A few are kept ina many-acre enclosure near the Station, and word is out that any found on fishing boats will insure the owner a heavy fine and confiscation of his catch. Still, it is estimated that more live in ZOOS, etc., outside the islands than on them. I took a picture of one beside a Nestle candy bar which it could have swallowed had it been a candivore, Airman Goes To Meditterranean Airman Apprentice Jerry L, Watson, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs, William F. Watson of 226 Park Ave., Nevada City, has departed Norfolk, Va., aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS America for her first deployment with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, in Chicago, She tries tocomplete two cards per month, and guarantees the company 15 a year, The designs must be completed wellin advance, Mrs, Skaar says. “Next year's cards have already been produced,” she adds, "I have Christmas on the mind the year around, " The designing of Christmas cards requires much technical know ledge as well as artistic skill, Mrs, Skaar began to acquire this knowledge at art school in Los Angeles and as art director for Chryson's of Hollywood, one of the pioneers of "better" Christmas cards. In her Hollywood work she learned the allimportant production techniques which must be considered by any successful artist. “Production costs continue to rise and it is essentialto design with the technical side in mind, " she Says. Her first children's book, “All About Dogs,” published in 1947 by Young/Scott, is still bringing in royalties, Other books, about cats, and horses and other animals, are equally popular, One of them, about horses, was _used by Parents Magazine Book Club as a premium. It was also produced in an English version, with western saddles converted A Nevada City Artist Who Is Master Of Her Trade to English saddles, All of the children's books have simple, lively illustrations and text, andthereis usually a lesson to be learned in each of them, Although Mrs, Skaar thinks making books is more fun, she concentrates on the Christmas cards, because of the guarantee which she promises for a number of cardseach year. “And anyway," shesays, “it's difficult to divide oneself up. " She lives and works at her home on the Blue Tent Rd, in Nevada City. Her husband Sven is an historian, and owner of the

Pioneer shop on Broad St, Exhibit At Nevada City Gallery Will Feature Nugget Cartoonist Dan O'Neill The Gallery, 312 Commercial St., Nevada City, is showing the Cartoons “Odd Bodkins" by Dan O'Neill from January 2 thru January 28. The artist writes of himself as follows: My biography starts with my being born in April 1942, in Norfolk, Virginia, Where my biography ends, I haven't been informed, I first started cartooning in the first grade, as a direct result of being unable to relate to oo andJaneand Spot. This diversi from my studies didn't pay well and cost mea year of school, Repeating the first grade was great. I was now the natural leader of my classmates. I was bigger. So I was tagged by my teachers as “great potential, but needs to be prodded into performing scholastically," This affliction followed me throughout my academic career and was responsible, for large lumps of misery. My cartooning erupted again in the fifth grade in a serialized satire adventure strip called “Captain Cosmo" After being found responsible for a short flurry of stink bombs, I found myself at St. Joseph's High School, Alameda, In my junior year I became the editorial cartoonist for the Berkeley Review, a weekly offset newspaper published by Orr Kelly, Upon graduation from St, Joseph's, I enrolled at the University of San Francisco which fortunately is located in San Francisco because it would feel silly if it was in Oakland, At USF, I spent all my time in the campus newspaper Offices, Tommy's Joynt and asleep in my, Dan O'Neill room, thereby proving that old saw, “Early tobed, early to rise, makes Johnny a dull boy,” I was the most interesting student to be tossed out of school that year, Returning to my mother's comforting arms, I was told to get a job or cutthe lawn. As the lawn on the homestead covered £3 + . oe A TRUE GOLDEN GALA.. Ninety-two year old Clifford Wiley and his wife Hazel of Nevada City celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Christmas Day ata dinner gathering at the Victorian Room of.the National Hotel, an acre, I joined the Forest Service and disappeared into the wilds of North Bloomfield, California. I found myself walking through the great outdoorsy one day with my little brass badge on my little chest, It seems I was now a Government Scaler, which meant that I measured trees, It also meant that I measured trees out where the stupid things were being cut down, Up until now, my only experience with logging had been Paul Bunyan and His Big Blue OX; Babe. When Paul Bunyan cut down a tree, he hollered “TIMBURR!" The loggers don't do that any more, If a tree is going to fall down the hill, the logger yells "Down the hill!" He couldalso yell, “Up the hill” or “Side hill", depending on which way he drops the thing. So I didn't know this, and when Iwas walking down the road, and the logger yelled, “Down the hill!" I yelled back “Everything is fine!" and kept walking. Until the tree fell on my toe, Disillusioned with Smokey the Bear, I returned to college, Sometime during my Forest Ser~ vice stint, the Nevada County Nugget had started publishing my latest cartooning effort, Odd Bodkins, It ran for two years in the Nugget, and then through some rather manic machinations on my part achieved syndication through the San Francisco Chroni‘cle, Chronicle Feature Syndicate, Since then I have become the breadwinner fora wife, two children and a large hungry Irish Setter, Ialsohave had some rather nasty lessons about this business rammed down my throat, I leamed the hard way, through cancellations, that one should not make fun of idiotic politicians, Politics and cartoons are hardto mix when your editors are opposed to your views, So from now on I am forced to expound on less controversial subjects such as religion and sex, The cartoons to be shown at the Gallery are the originals andall works are for sale, A reception will be held for the artist Sunday, January 2 from 2 to 4 p.m, ° ° Zz @ < & Q. > ¢) i=] f=) ot < a ga oq @ in e e © Q @ 3 log o iv) oO _ e&O for) ao