December 4, 1974 (8 pages)

pe : 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Dec. 4.1974 oe _ . Notes co ee By P-L. A really great lady of S. A ter, memories _ writer:.memories of her appearance opposite Rudolph Valentino in ‘‘Stolen Moments” made in the early 1920’s; and of her exciting performance in a opera ‘{Carmen’’.in 1932,.entitled “Gypsy Blood”. On November career in Cleveland, Ohio as a child prodigy pianist at the age of seven. When she was 15, her mother. recognized the fact that her gifted daughter could ‘also sing very well. As a student of the famed de Reszke, “‘Namara’’ went onto — the opera stage as Marguerite in ‘“Faust’’.the youngest prima _donna ever to sing the role, Her opera debut took place at. the Teatro Politeama in Genoa while she was still just a -. She continued her operatic career in Boston and Chicago and later became a star at the Opera Comique in Paris. Between 1910 and 1917 she went ona series of concert tours with such musical luminaries as Caruso, _ Amato and Godowsky; and it was for ‘“‘Namara’’ that Franz Lehar wrote the operetta ‘‘Alone At Last” in 1917. oe ‘She devoted leisure time to painting lessons in Paris. Her instructor was her next-door neighbor, Claude Monet. Her exhibits later. in the famous galleries of Paris, Rome and New York elicited high praise from critics of the art. Other engagements of note were those with the Shuberts on Broadway; in vehicles by ‘Gilbert and Sullivan and she also sang and danced with Isadora Duncan -on a Russian tour. This was followed by her saan a NNSA SESE IR OT [ NEVADA COUNTT NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 . Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, ‘California. Adjudicated — a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. . Decree No. 12,406. Subscription: Rates: One Year . $3.00 Two Years . $5.00 ae Member of . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER L_PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 4, Marguerite McNamara Hoy died in Spain at-.upon. reading this ‘Off The Cuff Smith ce film debut in the her appearing on such divergent stages as that in Carnegie Hall and in Army barracks during “much in demand as a singing and-voice coach in a number of Hollywood's . largest ‘studios..and at the age of 80, in. 1968, she was still making recordings for the Fassett Recording Company of on! ~-Namara is survived by her devoted husband, Georg Hoy, whom she first met in Chicago in 1918. _He was the © staff photographer for the Chicago Opera Company at that time. They were married in 1936. At= the time of her death the couple was on an extended vacation. 2 “ ‘Some of you who are now reading these words will journey out into that sea of dead ships, missing planes, doomed men and destroyed hopes and vanish.forever lost!’ ”’ That’s the jacket<‘blurb’’ on a paperback book that’s held me to its terrific pages for the past couple of evenings. ‘‘The Devil’s Triangle” by Richard Winer is calculated to keep you on the edge of your seat; as you strain to. catch up with some of the wildest tales printed anywhere in a good long time. It is described as . ‘‘the astonishing, baffling, fullydocumented, true-life mystery of the, hundreds of . helpless victim men and machinesincluding the incredible U.S.S. Clyclops, lost in a dreaded sector of the savage sea known as the Atlantic Ocean.” The description is a fair appraisal of stories that literally ‘“‘beggar description” as. you will learn fascinating Norman Cousins said this: “The tragedy of life is not death but what dies inside a man while he lives.” Sierra ski team rated ‘powerful’ ' Sierra College’s powerful ski team is being regarded as one of this year’s ieading ‘contenders for top honors in the upcoming Pacific Coast Ski Conference. . <The Sierra team, under the coaching of Lewis Fellows, is currently rated first in the twoyear institutions and second only to Reno in overall PCC competition. Offering strong support’ to the team this year ’ will be Mitch Frazier, Jimmy Manetta, Doug Heridricks, John Hyche, Fred Clough, Carey Mook and Guy. Tomlinson. PCC is comprised of teams from four-year and two-year schools ‘including University of Nevada; Reno; U.D., Berkeley; © Stanford, U.C., Davis; Columbia Junior College; Feather River College; College of the Siskiyous; Menlo College and Sierra. 53 ‘gee bas . picture ees i crowed at exactly. 5:30 a.m. I could see the clock but how could he tell it was morning? Snug and: warm in bed in my dark room I could hardly find lay there comfortably, hating to get up but I suppose he hopped right out to get the ‘early worm’. The Abbotts have the same problem with their farm that I do. All their animals become almost part of the family. They have a darling little goat that is-recovering from extensive surgery. They have a beautiful white turkey that: miraculously survived Thanksgiving. He looks for them when they. open the back door, He knows where his bread and butter is coming from. When I lived in the city I were dumb. z “ Was talking to Malcolm Hammill the other morning. He tells me that his grandfather James Hammill came here from Cornwall in 1853. He came from the tin mines to become foreman at the Idaho-Maryland Mine. Malcolm considers himself a citizen of Rough.and Ready. He was born in the family ranch home just at the foot of the Rough and Ready grade. Their next door neighbors were the James Ennors. The Ennors came here from Wales in 1849. They purchased their ranch in 1852. Penn Valley was ranch country then. Just had a lovely letter from Mrs. Asa (Emma Wheaton) Fippin. She was home in .Smartville when she wrote but she spends most of her time visiting her daughter, Julia Tremewan, of Santa Clara. She also visits daughter, Nellie Driggs in Washington, and a grandson, Robert, of Auburn, Jess of Sacramento is the only other Fippin of the older generation still living. Ruby Nobles was telling me just last night that she had been reading some material for the Nevada Theatre concerning Lotta Crabtree. It contained a reference to the Fippin family blacksmith shop. “Lotta Crabtree made her first appearance at the old Fippin Blacksmith shop.” it The city of Grass Valley sponsored a tea last Sunday at the Holbrooke for Her Majesty’s Consul, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Brookfield. It was a delightful occasion. The Brookfields seem to be feeling quite at home in Grass Valley now. Mrs, Brookfield said she enjoyed riding in one of the antique automobiles for the parade more than walking as they did last year. Of course, they are diplomats but they did seem to enjoy both the tea and dinner after the parade. Their suite at the Holbrooke provided comfortable and convenient accommodations. The County “Historical Society prepared the list of pioneer families for the invitations and provided Cornish refreshments for tea, Fay Dunbar served as chairman. Pouring was a family affair. Mrs. rilie (Sibley) Hansen helped her mother Mrs. “ W. Bennallack; Mrs. John (Marian) Tremewan helped her mother Mrs, William F. Thomas; Sue Hansen gave her mother and grandmother a helping hand. Historical society ‘members on the job were Gwen Anderson, Conne Baer, Louise Dudley, Marguerite Gen‘. tilli, Harriettt Jacobs, Lawrie Lowden, Rebecca Miller, and Francis Wright. I liked Lint Baler Pat Jones emphatic correction of Grass Valley when it was referred to as Graff Valley. In the 1874 National Hotel (at that time National Exchange Hotel) register recently obtained for the historical society, it appears many times as Graf or Graff Valley. I assume people were careless with pronunciation in those days as now. There was certainly a map somewhere but not handy and people passed the name ‘along by word of mouth. History says it was a very grassy valley originally and a most fitting name. It would be interesting to’know for thought animals — Rough and Ready News oe ES as in Fay Dunbar : 3 3 Our neighbors on the north side are Aaron _sure if it was a pronunciatidn error. pilgrim Edward Winslow wrote to a friend in England shortly after the Plymouth Colony celebrated its first Thanksgiving. ‘‘Our Harvest ~ being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors, The four in one day killed as-much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many ‘of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some 90 men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted and they went out and killed five deer, ‘which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.” Isn’t that a beautiful description of the true spirit of Thanksgiving. Finally, in 1863, President Lincoln succombed to the 20-year campaign of Sarah Hale and proclaimed the final Thursday in November to be set aside as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer. Everything good is born of travail and it was so with Thanksgiving. Its problems went on for many years. Even now! But it is good. The day after Thanksgiving seems to burst into Christmas. On the Sunday following, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church was out Christmas caroling for their worldwide healing ministry. I could not become a Seventh-Day Adventist but I think their theme ‘‘Love is’’“caring enough to do something” is right on! Rough and Ready is to get its Christmas look says the chamber of commerce on Dec. 15. It’s fun to help! : Iam aretired telephone company employe. I love their efforts to keep me (all re employes) brainwashed. The most recent effort , was very interesting. Most of their material is well thought out and is usually interesting. This was reprinted by special permission from Wendlinger-Matthews, ‘‘How to Eliminate Sexist Language from Your Organization’s Writing.” It was from ‘Affirmative Action for Women’ by Jongeward-Scott. There were four closely. written pages in the item. but some paragraphs stand out as thought provokers. _ . Like this one: “Men who wish to test the effects of linguistic exclusion on their own personalities may try using only she, her, and woman when the generic he, his, or man has . been used and a person of either sex seems to, be intended.” Try it sometime. Change the quote “Man works to utilize his skills to the fullest extent. He takes pride in his accomplishments” to ‘‘Woman works to utilize her skills to. the fullest extent. She takes pride in her accomplishments’’. Shocker isn’t it. Now try it “People work to utilize their skills to the fullest extent. They. take pride in their accomplishments’’, Better isn’t it? But it’s going to be difficult. According to Ma Bell’s. informant “the very fabric of.our language reinforces male supremacy, ‘‘It is unjust to be forced to think in a language that denies or limits human existence;—’”’. Also it’s downright Unamerican. Ma Bell goes further; she instructs her. management personnel to find substitutes for instructions with men suffix or prefix. Workman should become worker. Manpower’ should become workforce, etc. She faces the fact that in the generic sense man can be used to signify both sexes, But says historian Mary Beard: ‘Men who discuss human affairs frequently do so with an ambiguity amounting to double talk or half talk, or talk so vague that I cannot be sure in every case whether they are referring to men only or to both men and women. This gives them a peculiar advantage-”. So Ma Bell is right as usual. We must substitute people. . ay re . S See e at ot bt Ee CNR Pt ran ~* eh ee eee

pe : 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Dec. 4.1974 oe _ . Notes co ee By P-L. A really great lady of S. A ter, memories _ writer:.memories of her appearance opposite Rudolph Valentino in ‘‘Stolen Moments” made in the early 1920’s; and of her exciting performance in a opera ‘{Carmen’’..in 1932,.entitled “Gypsy Blood”. On November career in Cleveland, Ohio as a child prodigy pianist at the age of seven. When she was 15, her mother. recognized the fact that her gifted daughter could ‘also sing very well. As a student of the famed de Reszke, “‘Namara’’ went onto — the opera stage as Marguerite in ‘“Faust’’..the youngest prima _donna ever to sing the role, Her opera debut took place at. the Teatro Politeama in Genoa while she was still just a -. She continued her operatic career in Boston and Chicago and later became a star at the Opera Comique in Paris. Between 1910 and 1917 she went ona series of concert tours with such musical luminaries as Caruso, _ Amato and Godowsky; and it was for ‘“‘Namara’’ that Franz Lehar wrote the operetta ‘‘Alone At Last” in 1917. oe ‘She devoted leisure time to painting lessons in Paris. Her instructor was her next-door neighbor, Claude Monet. Her exhibits later. in the famous galleries of Paris, Rome and New York elicited high praise from critics of the art. Other engagements of note were those with the Shuberts on Broadway; in vehicles by ‘Gilbert and Sullivan and she also sang and danced with Isadora Duncan -on a Russian tour. This was followed by her saan a NNSA SESE IR OT [ NEVADA COUNTT NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 . Telephone 265-2559 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class postage paid at Nevada City, ‘California. Adjudicated — a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. . Decree No. 12,406. Subscription: Rates: One Year .. $3.00 Two Years .. $5.00 ae Member of . CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER L_PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 4, Marguerite McNamara Hoy died in Spain at-.upon. reading this ‘Off The Cuff Smith ce film debut in the her appearing on such divergent stages as that in Carnegie Hall and in Army barracks during “much in demand as a singing and-voice coach in a number of Hollywood's . largest ‘studios...and at the age of 80, in. 1968, she was still making recordings for the Fassett Recording Company of on! ~-Namara is survived by her devoted husband, Georg Hoy, whom she first met in Chicago in 1918. _He was the © staff photographer for the Chicago Opera Company at that time. They were married in 1936. At= the time of her death the couple was on an extended vacation. 2 “ ‘Some of you who are now reading these words will journey out into that sea of dead ships, missing planes, doomed men and destroyed hopes and vanish..forever lost!’ ”’ That’s the jacket<‘blurb’’ on a paperback book that’s held me to its terrific pages for the past couple of evenings. ‘‘The Devil’s Triangle” by Richard Winer is calculated to keep you on the edge of your seat; as you strain to. catch up with some of the wildest tales printed anywhere in a good long time. It is described as . ‘‘the astonishing, baffling, fullydocumented, true-life mystery of the, hundreds of . helpless victim men and machinesincluding the incredible U.S.S. Clyclops, lost in a dreaded sector of the savage sea known as the Atlantic Ocean.” The description is a fair appraisal of stories that literally ‘“‘beggar description” as. you will learn fascinating Norman Cousins said this: “The tragedy of life is not death but what dies inside a man while he lives.” Sierra ski team rated ‘powerful’ ' Sierra College’s powerful ski team is being regarded as one of this year’s ieading ‘contenders for top honors in the upcoming Pacific Coast Ski Conference. . <The Sierra team, under the coaching of Lewis Fellows, is currently rated first in the twoyear institutions and second only to Reno in overall PCC competition. Offering strong support’ to the team this year ’ will be Mitch Frazier, Jimmy Manetta, Doug Heridricks, John Hyche, Fred Clough, Carey Mook and Guy. Tomlinson. PCC is comprised of teams from four-year and two-year schools ‘including University of Nevada; Reno; U.D., Berkeley; © Stanford, U.C., Davis; Columbia Junior College; Feather River College; College of the Siskiyous; Menlo College and Sierra. 53 ‘gee bas . picture ees i crowed at exactly. 5:30 a.m. I could see the clock but how could he tell it was morning? Snug and: warm in bed in my dark room I could hardly find

lay there comfortably, hating to get up but I suppose he hopped right out to get the ‘early worm’. The Abbotts have the same problem with their farm that I do. All their animals become almost part of the family. They have a darling little goat that is-recovering from extensive surgery. They have a beautiful white turkey that: miraculously survived Thanksgiving. He looks for them when they. open the back door, He knows where his bread and butter is coming from. When I lived in the city I were dumb. z “ Was talking to Malcolm Hammill the other morning. He tells me that his grandfather James Hammill came here from Cornwall in 1853. He came from the tin mines to become foreman at the Idaho-Maryland Mine. Malcolm considers himself a citizen of Rough.and Ready. He was born in the family ranch home just at the foot of the Rough and Ready grade. Their next door neighbors were the James Ennors. The Ennors came here from Wales in 1849. They purchased their ranch in 1852. Penn Valley was ranch country then. Just had a lovely letter from Mrs. Asa (Emma Wheaton) Fippin. She was home in .Smartville when she wrote but she spends most of her time visiting her daughter, Julia Tremewan, of Santa Clara. She also visits daughter, Nellie Driggs in Washington, and a grandson, Robert, of Auburn, Jess of Sacramento is the only other Fippin of the older generation still living. Ruby Nobles was telling me just last night that she had been reading some material for the Nevada Theatre concerning Lotta Crabtree. It contained a reference to the Fippin family blacksmith shop. “Lotta Crabtree made her first appearance at the old Fippin Blacksmith shop.” it The city of Grass Valley sponsored a tea last Sunday at the Holbrooke for Her Majesty’s Consul, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Brookfield. It was a delightful occasion. The Brookfields seem to be feeling quite at home in Grass Valley now. Mrs, Brookfield said she enjoyed riding in one of the antique automobiles for the parade more than walking as they did last year. Of course, they are diplomats but they did seem to enjoy both the tea and dinner after the parade. Their suite at the Holbrooke provided comfortable and convenient accommodations. The County “Historical Society prepared the list of pioneer families for the invitations and provided Cornish refreshments for tea, Fay Dunbar served as chairman. Pouring was a family affair. Mrs. rilie (Sibley) Hansen helped her mother Mrs. “ W. Bennallack; Mrs. John (Marian) Tremewan helped her mother Mrs, William F. Thomas; Sue Hansen gave her mother and grandmother a helping hand. Historical society ‘members on the job were Gwen Anderson, Conne Baer, Louise Dudley, Marguerite Gen‘. tilli, Harriettt Jacobs, Lawrie Lowden, Rebecca Miller, and Francis Wright. I liked Lint Baler Pat Jones emphatic correction of Grass Valley when it was referred to as Graff Valley. In the 1874 National Hotel (at that time National Exchange Hotel) register recently obtained for the historical society, it appears many times as Graf or Graff Valley. I assume people were careless with pronunciation in those days as now. There was certainly a map somewhere but not handy and people passed the name ‘along by word of mouth. History says it was a very grassy valley originally and a most fitting name. It would be interesting to’know for thought animals — Rough and Ready News oe ES as in Fay Dunbar : 3 3 Our neighbors on the north side are Aaron _sure if it was a pronunciatidn error. pilgrim Edward Winslow wrote to a friend in England shortly after the Plymouth Colony celebrated its first Thanksgiving. ‘‘Our Harvest ~ being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors, The four in one day killed as-much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many ‘of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some 90 men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted and they went out and killed five deer, ‘which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.” Isn’t that a beautiful description of the true spirit of Thanksgiving. Finally, in 1863, President Lincoln succombed to the 20-year campaign of Sarah Hale and proclaimed the final Thursday in November to be set aside as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer. Everything good is born of travail and it was so with Thanksgiving. Its problems went on for many years. Even now! But it is good. The day after Thanksgiving seems to burst into Christmas. On the Sunday following, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church was out Christmas caroling for their worldwide healing ministry. I could not become a Seventh-Day Adventist but I think their theme ‘‘Love is’’“caring enough to do something” is right on! Rough and Ready is to get its Christmas look says the chamber of commerce on Dec. 15. It’s fun to help! : Iam aretired telephone company employe. I love their efforts to keep me (all re employes) brainwashed. The most recent effort , was very interesting. Most of their material is well thought out and is usually interesting. This was reprinted by special permission from Wendlinger-Matthews, ‘‘How to Eliminate Sexist Language from Your Organization’s Writing.” It was from ‘Affirmative Action for Women’ by Jongeward-Scott. There were four closely. written pages in the item. but some paragraphs stand out as thought provokers. _ . Like this one: “Men who wish to test the effects of linguistic exclusion on their own personalities may try using only she, her, and woman when the generic he, his, or man has . been used and a person of either sex seems to, be intended.” Try it sometime. Change the quote “Man works to utilize his skills to the fullest extent. He takes pride in his accomplishments” to ‘‘Woman works to utilize her skills to. the fullest extent. She takes pride in her accomplishments’’. Shocker isn’t it. Now try it “People work to utilize their skills to the fullest extent. They. take pride in their accomplishments’’, Better isn’t it? But it’s going to be difficult. According to Ma Bell’s. informant “the very fabric of.our language reinforces male supremacy, ‘‘It is unjust to be forced to think in a language that denies or limits human existence;—’”’. Also it’s downright Unamerican. Ma Bell goes further; she instructs her. management personnel to find substitutes for instructions with men suffix or prefix. Workman should become worker. Manpower’ should become workforce, etc. She faces the fact that in the generic sense man can be used to signify both sexes, But says historian Mary Beard: ‘Men who discuss human affairs frequently do so with an ambiguity amounting to double talk or half talk, or talk so vague that I cannot be sure in every case whether they are referring to men only or to both men and women. This gives them a peculiar advantage-”. So Ma Bell is right as usual. We must substitute people. . ay re . S See e at ot bt Ee CNR Pt ran ~* eh ee eee