December 7, 1960 (8 pages)

% ¢ @ i, Pe *,. ty % ss OM. KS the Re Fate ae Hill, Flat, Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, H Relief Hill; W: cago Par, Wolf, Cees Hl, Libery Hill Slo Quaker Hill, Willow. Valley, Newtown, Miia a pul ABEL ROSS bee Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Moore’s Pom Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweétland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wallou Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bes, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Eye, Lime Kiln, orth Columbia, Columbia Volume 35 No. 49 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday, December He 1960 Fitzgerald Trial.On Murder Charge Opens The trial of William Stanley Fitzgerald on charges ot murdering and robbiuig one of two drinking companivas aear’ Truckee Aug. 3 began this week with the selection of a jury. Attorneys were able to agree ona jury by noon yesterday. A panel of 85 persons was available. A second drinking companion is recovering from injuries in a Reno hospital allegedly suffered at the iands of Fitzgerald. The accused murderer and Weather Max. Min. Rain Nov. 30 50 32 .08 Dec. 1 56 42 .14 Dec. 2 51 39 1.55 Dec. 3 42 28 .20 Dec. 4 44 26 -Dec. 5 43 23 -. Dec. 6 46 19 -Rain to date. . 12.69 Rain last year. . 4.78 Grass Valley Nov. 30 51 37 .10 Dec. 1 57 44 .06 Dec. 2 58 38 1.36 Dec. 3 43 30 .10 Dec. 4 50 29 -Dec. 5 48 29 -Dec. 6 50 26 -Rain to date. . 12.34 ‘Rain last year. . 4.07 four other prisoners escaped from the county jail in Ne. vada City and set offa search . in western states for nearly a week until they were retaken on Highway 20 heading toward Marysville after holding up in the Dobbins area after the escape. . Fitzgerald is accused of killing George Bonn and wounding Milton Young at Woodchopper Springs near Truckee. ; District Attorney (Harold A. Berliner said he will present 20 or more witnesses. The trial is expected to require two weeks. The defense attorney is Robert Fugazzi of Truckee. Fitzgerald was arrested in Portland, Ore., three weeks after the slaying by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, According to the police, Fitzgerald met Bonn and Young in a San Francisco saloon where the three decidedtodriveto Reno, Nev. They stopped in Truckee, purchased a bottle of liquor and drove to Woodchopper Springs. Young told officers that after they drank, Fitzgerald ordered Young and Bonn to hand over their money, approximately $800, and remove their clothing. Young said a scuffle followed in which Bonn was killed and] Young was wounded. o Indian Rock Offered To Chamber Marv Haddy, president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, announced yesterday the chamber has been given permission to make better use of Indian Rock within the city. Owners of the property on which the rock is located, Bob and Kay Vance, wrote Haddy from their present home in Portland after reading in the Nevada County Nugget of the chamber president's interest in attracting tourists. IndianRock, 621 East Broad Street, is noted for its grooves on top of the rock where indians used to used to sun themselves to cure iHness. It is also known asIndian Medicine Rock and has a plaque atthe property edge. Haddy. didnot say whether may Promotion the chamber might come up withideas which would make the rock a more attractive tourist sight. He did express thanks tothe Vances for their interest in the future of Nevada City, saying they were showing the type of cooperation that can help make the city's future a bright one. The Vances reported in their letter that while living at the Broad Street home between 1955 and 1959, one out of each ten cars passing would stop, read the plaque, and take pictures. Many asked to climb on top, but the Vances pointed out that climbing the rock was dangerous and could not be allowed. The couple congratulated Haddy on his idea of a wagon display in the Plaza. 2 * . ? me — f # a = ANNUAL MEETING..Responsibility for guiding the Nevada County Historical society passed from retiring President: Elza Kilroy (center) ta Newly Installed President John E. Nettell at the end of the 1960 annual meeting of the society Thursday night at the Victorian Room of the National Hotel in Nevada City. Speaker of the evening was Wendell T. Robie, (right) Auburn historian of the gold rush era. Robie and Kilroy share a deep interest in history, but they e¢:ch admitted that their love of history does not include the oil lamps shown on the head table. atmospheric but somewhat dim lamp. .especially since each had to read his speech with only the aid of the NUGGET Photo by: Prentiss Studio = BILLBOARD ORDINANCE MEETING SCHEDULED MONDAY NIGHT Persons interested in the proposed ban of billboards are urged to attend a meeting of the Nevada County Planning Commission Monday night at7:30 p.m. in the Supervisors chambers of the county courthouse. Two sections have bé&en dropped from the tentative interim ordinance which is the basis of study by the commission. A section prohibiting any billboard along a freeway or parkway, anda section mak-ing existing billboards subject toremoval within a year have both been dropped from consideration in the interim ordinance. The billboard ordinance under consideration would be.an emergency action to halt new construction pending the study and adoption of a permanent ordinance relativeto outdoor advertising. Under the emergency ordinance being considered, the following signs would be permitted subject to the securing of a use permit; ae Hee NEVADA CITY'S NEWEST «ee++ shown getting “the word" from Police Chief Jay Jackson is Nevada City's newest patrolman, “Jim Moon. Moon, a graduate of Nevada Union High School, officially went towork for the city Dec. 1. He replaces Harold Kne@x on the force. Knox joined the sherrif's office staff also on-Dec. 1. Signs displaying the name of the property. Signs advertising the sale of a subdivision on the land or adjacent to it. Directional or informational signs erected and maintained by any official body. Signs appurtenant to any use premitted inthe district, on the building or land where such use is conducted. Directional signs to resorts or institutions ofan educational, religious, charitable or civic nature. Regulations of the ordinance do not apply to the Man Dies In Fall Off Trail Leonard A. Wallace, 56, a prospector on the South Yuba River nine miles north of Nevada City, apparently lost his footing on a trail near Highway 49 and plunged to his death on the rocks below. His body was discovered Sunday by three youths hiking along the foot trail leadingtoWallace’scabin. According to reports he apparently fell Saturday after. . moved from the steep canyon » Squad. NG Lion's ‘Doll Dance tending the dance will take _. home a three-foot doll, ideal] } . for making some youngster'’s 4 Christmas complete. : Committee chairmen for. noon while carrying a load of groceries to his canyon home. . Wallace's body was reby the Nevada City Rescue Dec.17 The annual Nevada City Lions Club doll dance will be held Dec. 17 at Seaman’s Lodge, it was announced this week by Dance Chairman Len Gilbert. As is usual, someone atthe affair include: Refreshments. Mrs. LeRoy Chenoweth and Herb Dodini; decorations, Jerry Christie, and orchestra, Marv Haddy and Dean Thompson. Tickets will be on. sale from Lions Club members, as well as.at the door, on following: Official notices of a public body. Notices posted by a public officer or byaperson giving legal notice. Directional, warning or information signs or structures required or authorized by law or governmental units. Bulletin boards located 6n the premises of public, charitable or religious institutions, with certain restrictions. Signs on the premise advertising it for sale, etd. Construction signs while work on a premise in under way. B ooks Ends Grid Play Wayne Brooks played his final football game with ithe Sacramento State College Hornets last month to complete an _ outstanding record of grid _ activity which began at Nevada Unjon High School. Brooks was voted to the All Sierra Foothill League team in 1955. He. was voted Sacramento City College’s most valuable player in 1956. In 1958, while playing for Sierra.College, Brooks was voted to the All Golden Valley Conference team. Last year he was voted to the second team All Far Western Conference on the basis of his defenSive play. During the past season, Brooks was one of the few players to be on both the offensive and _ defensive teams. , For the Hornets in 1960, Brooks caught 20 passes for & net yardage of. 157, including two touchdowns. —_<~+ Dec. 17. Art Fair Gross Of $4000 The 9th annual Artists Christmas Fair held last weekend in Nevada City took accounting indicated. This exceeds last year's record sum by $1,000. The best day in the history ofthe fair was Friday, which saw hundreds of visitors enter the gallery at 312 Commercial Street. All but 10% of the proceeds go directly to the participating artists, The 10% is retained by the Nevada City Art Association to cover expenses. This arrangement is one of the main reasons. for the growing success of the fair, as it attracts outstanding artists who are assured of a return that is more than fair. Cancer Film The Nevada County branch society has arranged for two showings of a film for women -on cancer, ; Thefilm, "Timeand Two to women. Grass Valley showing will be Monday at School. The same film will School auditorium. acquaint all women with the life-saving potential of the cell examination for uterine cancer. Uterine cancer, which annually takes the lives of 100 women in California, could be virtually eliminated if women followed the film's advice. ENGLE APPOINT MENT in over $4,000, preliminary Santa Arrives Saturday To Open Season The Christmas Season is at slatedto play holiday music hand. beginning at 1:30 p.m. Santa arrives in both Grass _— Sure, there'll be music and Valley and Nevada City Sat-candy but best of all, urday, pulled by the Mule,there'll be SANTA. teers under the lenses of. ——$—$— television cameras. But the pressure of shoppHaddy Asks Blend of Old, New ing days left untii Christmas Nevada City Chamber of will find merchants in the cities open Friday night, even before Santa's arrival. They will also be open the following Friday night and every night thereafter in Grass Valley. Nevada City stores will be open the final two Saturday night, as well a . Commerce President Marv Thursday and Friday night Haddy predicted last week the week before Christmas. at a Nevada City fiions Club meeting that the city will open up with the coming of the Grass Valley-Nevada City -freeway, ‘ He called for a blending of the modern with the historical, citing the interest and frosty mornings. in Knott's _Berry Farm as Although some in Grass bes cee _that aoe Valley are looking to Santa's ;@re Interested in seeing the Givin with lifted eyebrow , » "oat of the Mother Lode. remembering his usual aracy switcied the wins . leben . . position of a speaker by rival via firetruck, most resiasking all present to indidents of the city expect the . cate the one thing each perchildren tobe even moreim. son thought most important pressed that he chose a mule ; for restoration within Netrain this year. vada City. The children will also be The answers included the tréated to some miule rides -opening-of a mine for tourWith street decorations in place, the festive holiday spirit is expected to boom local Christmas shopping. It has been spotty the past two weeks, hampered by storm initial welcoming . ‘St inspection, with head a cot eiaa 8 frame, shops, etc. Others oe . added to the suggestion Santa is due in Grass Valley at 10 a.m. He will arrive in Nevada City at 2 p.m. The Nevada City Elementary School band will be on hand w greet Santa with song, serenading him from the balcony of the old New York Hotel Building. The band is GV Elks Initiate Grass Valley Lodge 538 BPO Elks will initiate new members tonight. Next week the club will ho!d its annual Christmas party. Final event of 1960 will be the annual New Years' Eve ance, , with a mining museum, possibly a water driven: hoist and a stamp mill. Other suggestions included.the painting and resoring of places in the past that have F sghoornor value (with specific emphasis on the Red Castle); keeping the historical museum open all year; the printing of a place year; the printing of a places-of-interest map; the coordination. of ideas and promotion in Nevada City and Nevada County. Haddy emphasized the need for concerted action in preparing for tourists and promoting Nevada City as a tourist center. To Be Shdwe of the American Cancer . jeaaamee Women", willbe shown only @& 7:30 p.m. in Hennessy , be shown in Nevada City. . Tuesday at7:30 p.m. in the . Nevada City Elementary . ‘he film is intended to Senator Clair Engle to-' ment of Charles E. Bosley j of Walnut Creek, California, ; as executive secretary in his ; Washington office. Bosley will have particular responsibility for press, television and radio, Senator : Engle said. day announced the appoint; PETUNIAS. .Robert Paine last week resigned from the Nevada County Airport — Commission effective Dec. 31 in a letter — forwarded toCounty Clerk JohnH, Trauner. . Paine said he has a personal desire to divorce himself from all community activ-_ ities. He expressed pleasure for the p the commission played in developmen the airport. The future? “I plan to dev my declining years to my wife and a petunias" he said. NUGGET Photo by; Prentiss 4

% ¢ @ i, Pe *,. ty % ss OM. KS the Re Fate ae Hill, Flat, Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, H Relief Hill; W: cago Par, Wolf, Cees Hl, Libery Hill Slo Quaker Hill, Willow. Valley, Newtown, Miia a pul ABEL ROSS bee Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Moore’s Pom Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweétland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Wallou Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bes, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, Eye, Lime Kiln, orth Columbia, Columbia Volume 35 No. 49 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday, December He 1960 Fitzgerald Trial.On Murder Charge Opens The trial of William Stanley Fitzgerald on charges ot murdering and robbiuig one of two drinking companivas aear’ Truckee Aug. 3 began this week with the selection of a jury. Attorneys were able to agree ona jury by noon yesterday. A panel of 85 persons was available. A second drinking companion is recovering from injuries in a Reno hospital allegedly suffered at the iands of Fitzgerald. The accused murderer and Weather Max. Min. Rain Nov. 30 50 32 .08 Dec. 1 56 42 .14 Dec.. 2 51 39 1.55 Dec. 3 42 28 .20 Dec. 4 44 26 -Dec. 5 43 23 -. Dec. 6 46 19 -Rain to date. .. 12.69 Rain last year. .. 4.78 Grass Valley Nov. 30 51 37 .10 Dec. 1 57 44 .06 Dec. 2 58 38 1.36 Dec. 3 43 30 .10 Dec. 4 50 29 -Dec. 5 48 29 -Dec. 6 50 26 -Rain to date.. . 12.34 ‘Rain last year. .. 4.07 four other prisoners escaped from the county jail in Ne. vada City and set offa search . in western states for nearly a week until they were retaken on Highway 20 heading toward Marysville after holding up in the Dobbins area after the escape. . Fitzgerald is accused of killing George Bonn and wounding Milton Young at Woodchopper Springs near Truckee. ; District Attorney (Harold A. Berliner said he will present 20 or more witnesses. The trial is expected to require two weeks. The defense attorney is Robert Fugazzi of Truckee. Fitzgerald was arrested in Portland, Ore., three weeks after the slaying by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, According to the police, Fitzgerald met Bonn and Young in a San Francisco saloon where the three decidedtodriveto Reno, Nev. They stopped in Truckee, purchased a bottle of liquor and drove to Woodchopper Springs. Young told officers that after they drank, Fitzgerald ordered Young and Bonn to hand over their money, approximately $800, and remove their clothing. Young said a scuffle followed in which Bonn was killed and] Young was wounded. o Indian Rock Offered To Chamber Marv Haddy, president of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, announced yesterday the chamber has been given permission to make better use of Indian Rock within the city. Owners of the property on which the rock is located, Bob and Kay Vance, wrote Haddy from their present home in Portland after reading in the Nevada County Nugget of the chamber president's interest in attracting tourists. IndianRock, 621 East Broad Street, is noted for its grooves on top of the rock where indians used to used to sun themselves to cure iHness. It is also known asIndian Medicine Rock and has a plaque atthe property edge. Haddy. didnot say whether may Promotion the chamber might come up withideas which would make the rock a more attractive tourist sight. He did express thanks tothe Vances for their interest in the future of Nevada City, saying they were showing the type of cooperation that can help make the city's future a bright one. The Vances reported in their letter that while living at the Broad Street home between 1955 and 1959, one out of each ten cars passing would stop, read the plaque, and take pictures. Many asked to climb on top, but the Vances pointed out that climbing the rock was dangerous and could not be allowed. The couple congratulated Haddy on his idea of a wagon display in the Plaza. 2 * . ? me — f # a = ANNUAL MEETING...Responsibility for guiding the Nevada County Historical society passed from retiring President: Elza Kilroy (center) ta Newly Installed President John E. Nettell at the end of the 1960 annual meeting of the society Thursday night at the Victorian Room of the National Hotel in Nevada City. Speaker of the evening was Wendell T. Robie, (right) Auburn historian of the gold rush era. Robie and Kilroy share a deep interest in history, but they e¢:ch admitted that their love of history does not include the oil lamps shown on the head table.. atmospheric but somewhat dim lamp. .especially since each had to read his speech with only the aid of the NUGGET Photo by: Prentiss Studio = BILLBOARD ORDINANCE MEETING SCHEDULED MONDAY NIGHT Persons interested in the proposed ban of billboards are urged to attend a meeting of the Nevada County Planning Commission Monday night at7:30 p.m. in the Supervisors chambers of the county courthouse. Two sections have bé&en dropped from the tentative interim ordinance which is the basis of study by the commission. A section prohibiting any billboard along a freeway or parkway, anda section mak-ing existing billboards subject toremoval within a year have both been dropped from consideration in the interim ordinance. The billboard ordinance under consideration would be.an emergency action to halt new construction pending the study and adoption of a permanent ordinance relativeto outdoor advertising. Under the emergency ordinance being considered, the following signs would be permitted subject to the securing of a use permit; ae Hee NEVADA CITY'S NEWEST «ee++ shown getting “the word" from Police Chief Jay Jackson is Nevada City's newest patrolman, “Jim Moon. Moon, a graduate of Nevada Union High School, officially went towork for the city Dec. 1. He replaces Harold Kne@x on the force. Knox joined the sherrif's office staff also on-Dec. 1. Signs displaying the name of the property. Signs advertising the sale of a subdivision on the land or adjacent to it. Directional or informational signs erected and maintained by any official body. Signs appurtenant to any use premitted inthe district, on the building or land where such use is conducted. Directional signs to resorts or institutions ofan educational, religious, charitable or civic nature. Regulations of the ordinance do not apply to the Man Dies In Fall Off Trail Leonard A. Wallace, 56, a prospector on the South Yuba River nine miles north of Nevada City, apparently lost his footing on a trail near Highway 49 and plunged to his death on the rocks below. His body was discovered

Sunday by three youths hiking along the foot trail leadingtoWallace’scabin. According to reports he apparently fell Saturday after. . moved from the steep canyon » Squad. NG Lion's ‘Doll Dance tending the dance will take _. home a three-foot doll, ideal] } . for making some youngster'’s 4 Christmas complete. : Committee chairmen for. noon while carrying a load of groceries to his canyon home. . Wallace's body was reby the Nevada City Rescue Dec.17 The annual Nevada City Lions Club doll dance will be held Dec. 17 at Seaman’s Lodge, it was announced this week by Dance Chairman Len Gilbert. As is usual, someone atthe affair include: Refreshments. Mrs. LeRoy Chenoweth and Herb Dodini; decorations, Jerry Christie, and orchestra, Marv Haddy and Dean Thompson. Tickets will be on. sale from Lions Club members, as well as.at the door, on following: Official notices of a public body. Notices posted by a public officer or byaperson giving legal notice. Directional, warning or information signs or structures required or authorized by law or governmental units. Bulletin boards located 6n the premises of public, charitable or religious institutions, with certain restrictions. Signs on the premise advertising it for sale, etd. Construction signs while work on a premise in under way. B ooks Ends Grid Play Wayne Brooks played his final football game with ithe Sacramento State College Hornets last month to complete an _ outstanding record of grid _ activity which began at Nevada Unjon High School. Brooks was voted to the All Sierra Foothill League team in 1955. He. was voted Sacramento City College’s most valuable player in 1956. In 1958, while playing for Sierra.College, Brooks was voted to the All Golden Valley Conference team. Last year he was voted to the second team All Far Western Conference on the basis of his defenSive play. During the past season, Brooks was one of the few players to be on both the offensive and _ defensive teams. , For the Hornets in 1960, Brooks caught 20 passes for & net yardage of. 157, including two touchdowns. —_<~+ Dec. 17. Art Fair Gross Of $4000 The 9th annual Artists Christmas Fair held last weekend in Nevada City took accounting indicated. This exceeds last year's record sum by $1,000. The best day in the history ofthe fair was Friday, which saw hundreds of visitors enter the gallery at 312 Commercial Street. All but 10% of the proceeds go directly to the participating artists, The 10% is retained by the Nevada City Art Association to cover expenses. This arrangement is one of the main reasons. for the growing success of the fair, as it attracts outstanding artists who are assured of a return that is more than fair. Cancer Film The Nevada County branch society has arranged for two showings of a film for women -on cancer, ; Thefilm, "Timeand Two to women. Grass Valley showing will be Monday at School. The same film will School auditorium. acquaint all women with the life-saving potential of the cell examination for uterine cancer. Uterine cancer, which annually takes the lives of 100 women in California, could be virtually eliminated if women followed the film's advice. ENGLE APPOINT MENT in over $4,000, preliminary Santa Arrives Saturday To Open Season The Christmas Season is at slatedto play holiday music hand. beginning at 1:30 p.m. Santa arrives in both Grass _— Sure, there'll be music and Valley and Nevada City Sat-candy but best of all, urday, pulled by the Mule,there'll be SANTA. teers under the lenses of. ——$—$— television cameras. But the pressure of shoppHaddy Asks Blend of Old, New ing days left untii Christmas Nevada City Chamber of will find merchants in the cities open Friday night, even before Santa's arrival. They will also be open the following Friday night and every night thereafter in Grass Valley. Nevada City stores will be open the final two Saturday night, as well a . Commerce President Marv Thursday and Friday night Haddy predicted last week the week before Christmas. at a Nevada City fiions Club meeting that the city will open up with the coming of the Grass Valley-Nevada City -freeway, ‘ He called for a blending of the modern with the historical, citing the interest and frosty mornings. in Knott's _Berry Farm as Although some in Grass bes cee _that aoe Valley are looking to Santa's ;@re Interested in seeing the Givin with lifted eyebrow , » "oat of the Mother Lode. remembering his usual aracy switcied the wins . leben . . position of a speaker by rival via firetruck, most resiasking all present to indidents of the city expect the . cate the one thing each perchildren tobe even moreim. son thought most important pressed that he chose a mule ; for restoration within Netrain this year. vada City. The children will also be The answers included the tréated to some miule rides -opening-of a mine for tourWith street decorations in place, the festive holiday spirit is expected to boom local Christmas shopping. It has been spotty the past two weeks, hampered by storm initial welcoming . ‘St inspection, with head a cot eiaa 8 frame, shops, etc. Others oe . added to the suggestion Santa is due in Grass Valley at 10 a.m. He will arrive in Nevada City at 2 p.m. The Nevada City Elementary School band will be on hand w greet Santa with song, serenading him from the balcony of the old New York Hotel Building. The band is GV Elks Initiate Grass Valley Lodge 538 BPO Elks will initiate new members tonight. Next week the club will ho!d its annual Christmas party. Final event of 1960 will be the annual New Years' Eve ance, , with a mining museum, possibly a water driven: hoist and a stamp mill. Other suggestions included.the painting and resoring of places in the past that have F sghoornor value (with specific emphasis on the Red Castle); keeping the historical museum open all year; the printing of a place year; the printing of a places-of-interest map; the coordination. of ideas and promotion in Nevada City and Nevada County. Haddy emphasized the need for concerted action in preparing for tourists and promoting Nevada City as a tourist center. To Be Shdwe of the American Cancer . jeaaamee Women", willbe shown only @& 7:30 p.m. in Hennessy , be shown in Nevada City. . Tuesday at7:30 p.m. in the . Nevada City Elementary . ‘he film is intended to Senator Clair Engle to-' ment of Charles E. Bosley j of Walnut Creek, California, ; as executive secretary in his ; Washington office. Bosley will have particular responsibility for press, television and radio, Senator : Engle said. day announced the appoint; PETUNIAS. ..Robert Paine last week resigned from the Nevada County Airport — Commission effective Dec. 31 in a letter — forwarded toCounty Clerk JohnH, Trauner. . Paine said he has a personal desire to divorce himself from all community activ-_ ities. He expressed pleasure for the p the commission played in developmen the airport. The future? “I plan to dev my declining years to my wife and a petunias" he said. NUGGET Photo by; Prentiss 4