February 10, 1971 (12 pages)

Department of Parks land recreation report SACRAMENTO — A development plan for Point Mugu State Recreation Area will be considered by the California Park and Recreation Commission when it meets Thursday, February 11, in Oroville. The meeting will open at 9 a.m, in the Board of Supervisors Chambers in the County Courthouse, and the Mugu plan will be considered at 1:30 p.m. William Penn Mott, Jr., Director of the State Department of Parks and Recreation, noted that five meetings have been held on the Mugu plan, the latest a public discussion February 2 in Santa Monica, "For this reason," Mott said, "public testimony will not be received at the Oroville meeting. We have given everyone an opportunity to comment on the plan, have discussed and considered all suggestions, and have made several modifications to the original plan," The present plan, Mott said, will leave more than 90 per cent of the 6,540-acre Mugu area undeveloped except for riding and hiking trails, will include a 150-acre reserve to protect stands of native grasses valued by botanists, and will protect ae sites identified by UCLA and Department archeolosts Mott outlined the following proposed development for Mugu: La Jolla Valley — consisting of about 1,000 acres, this will contain the major portion of the camping ‘and other ‘overnight facilities, but most of the valley will be kept in open-space, Development will consist of group camping areas, tent camping, trailer and pickup camping, cabins, a camping supply store, group and family picnic areas, a youth hostel, swimming pool, environmental education center, an enclosed shelter for recreational activities and interpretive programs during inclement weather, and an irrigated meadow for fire protection. Dropped from the plan are court facilities for tennis.and other games, anda golf course. Beach — Point Mugu contains about three miles of ocean frontage, and a snackbar concession, Recreational: Vehicle Area — This area is located in the northeastern corner of Point Mugu, is about 100 acres in size, about two air-miles from La Jolla Valley, and is separated from the valley by two intervening ridges, A campground, parking, and five miles of trail are planned, : Big Sycamore Canyon — This will be kept in a natural state, with riding, hiking and bicycle trails, an equestrian center and campground, and trail-side picnic areas. Archery Facility — This will be located at an old quarry off the La Jolla Canyon Road. The Division’ of Highways has informed the Department that plans for a freeway along the coast are indefinite. For this reason, the multistoried parking and motel structure designed to straddle the freeway has been dropped. When fully developed in about 15 years, some 23,000 visitors are expected at Point Mugu on peak days, with threefourths of them at the beach, Mott estimated. To date, the State has invested $16.6 million in acquisition of the site and will spend another $3.2 million for sewer and water lines and road construction planned for this year. Land ‘was purchased with funds from the 1964 State Park Bond Act,which will finance initial development of basic utilities and roads. The Department hopes to have permanent facilities ready for public use in 1974, Meanwhile, a small campground at the mouth of Big Sycamore Canyon, and the beach, will remain open until permanent facilities are ready. In other business the Commission will consider a resolution approving the establishment of four memorial redwood groves, gifts of Save-the-Redwoods League and the four donors, as follows: at Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Alfred J. Stern Memorial Grove, 10 acres valued at $10,000, donor Mrs. Minette Ornstein of San Francisco; Helen and Menhart Stern Memorial grove, 10 acres valued’ at $10,000, bequest of Alfred J. Stern; Ernest L. and Lou R, Adams Memorial _Grove, 20 acres of redwoods and 40 acres of-beach valued at $100,000, donor Mrs. E, L, Adams of Chico; and at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, John Glide Eljiott, Mr. and Mrs, Thornton Williams Elliot Memorial Grove addition, 40 acres valued at $46,890, donor Mrs. Eula Glide Elljott of Berkeley. SACRAMENTO — State Parks and Recreation Director William Penn Mott~Jdr. said today that if the first full month of operation is any indicator, then his department's new computerized campground reservation system isa resounding success, Since January 4, Mott revealed, when the more than 230 . . Ticketron terminals around the state began accepting reservations for campsites at State Park campgrounds, nearly $50,000 in advance sales have been recorded, This amounts to more than 4300 tickets sold to reserve some 15,500 nights of camping. What makes this so remarkable, Mott added, is that this represents sales only through the month of April, since no reservations may be made for more than 90 days in advance, "This is the first year we have had such a limit," Mott said, a few months ahead or early in the year will not be at a disadvantage — they will have as good a chance as anyone else . of getting a campsite in any state park they choose." _,.,,,, yee PLEO SPS RERS LIS EMOTE, Ne ee fees oF. ESS OLY OY a eh Mak at keeIa eae a 4 8S 8 ee "Now, those who cannot plan their vacations more than — irs aa ih 2 . Wednesday, February 10, 1971 the Nevada Couey toggle ae New elevator recalls ‘ups and downs’ of area history When an elevator is installed in the 107-year old Nevada City Masonic Hall, the latest chapter in the literal "ups and downs" of county history can be recorded. _ Work has begun onthe installation which Masonic officials anticipate will cost $20,000. It represents years of planning to accommodate members who are physically unable to climb stairs to the second floor lodge rooms. Because of the secrecy of the organization, the order at one time required that meetings be held on second floors to avoid eavesdroppers. Masons say that restriction has been lifted in recent yeas, The new "lift" in Nevada City inspired this reporter to make an elevator hunt to discover existing ones in the Golden Empire. A hydraulic elevator in the 110-year old Plaza Grocery building in Nevada City is the most unusual. It is so "unusual" that state inspectors "scratch their heads in disbelief," said John Sbaffi, long time owner-operator of the store. The inspectors claim that it is the only one of its kind in California and often call in their superiors to look at it, Sbaffi said. The store owner "thinks" the hydraulic elevator is about 80-years old and was “dreamed up" by Cap Nihel, whom he said many "old timers" remember. The water powered and hand pullied equipment is do»me, for it has only 4 1/2 years to go before it must be replaced © by one powered by electricity, per state law. The antique which now shuttles up and down three floors hauling groceries and people (clerks at the store) can handle more than 1,000 pounds. An elevator of.somewhat ancient vintage is in semi-operative condition in the former Jones Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley. The LeRoy.Geist family has converted. the hospital into a family home. There are those who recall flights toward surgery in this elevator. When. it catered to the ill, it showed some signs of instability. One victim enroute to an appendectomy remembers it stopping in mid-flight. For the nonce terror of entrapment superseded terror of the surgeon's knife. The patient matched wits Ansel Adams NU students to to lecture at see ‘This Atomic World’ lecture The Atomic Energy Com‘ will present Atomic World" to students at Nevada Union High School TuesSierra JC Ansel Adams, a world reknown photographer, will present a mission creative photography forum Feb, 18 at the Sierra College Campus Center, : day. Adams is best known for his National Park and the Grand Second Tetons. He is the Sierra Club interested in Yosemite at the moment. ; nounced, E ESTIMATES The traveling program will firie art photographs of Yosemite visit other high schools in the Mountain-Valley Congressional District during Febphotographer and isparticularly ruary and March, Congressman Harold (Bizz) Johnson anand strength with a hospital attendant and the trip and the operation had a satisfactory conclusion, Mrs. Geist admitted to being "spooked" ' by the elevator as it appears to havea will of its own, As an example she cited an unauthorized flight it made to the second floor. "Absolutely no one pushed a button" and the "lift" of its own volition delivered some furniture stored within the cage to the floor where it was destined to goeventually. There was no "earthly" reason why it should have taken off. Confidentially, the lady. of the house suspects ghosts or. tommyknockers, The county maintains two elevators -one in the courthouse and another in the annex, The 4l-year old courthouse equipment has become old and crochety with advancing years, confided Barbara Bennette, one of its keepers. Mrs. Bennette works for the buildings and grounds department. It's unfortunate that its "off days" often coincide with planning commission or board of supervisors' meetings, she complained. Those who huff and puff to the third floor meeting room also complain. An alarm button installed to summon help is in plain sight, but trapped victims sometimes overlook the safety device. Maxine Gaines, clerk for the board of supervisors, failed to press the "panic button" when she spent an uncomfortable 10 minutes as. its prisoner. Her shouts and pounding brought help and she was assisted in climbing to safety. Two Union newspaper delivery boys probably long. will remember their "joy ride" in the courthouse. They whiled away ~ two hours playing a portable radio before they punched the correct button. The 6-year old elevator serving the annex is well behaved. Itdeliversprisoners ~ and supplies to the second floor jail. Passenger unable to walk the stairs also hitch a ride on it. There are several elevators in private homes in the Golden Empire. The R. J. Berggren family uses a self operated one daily in their home on Broad street in Nevada City, Amechanical chair powered’ by _ electricity lifts passengers from the first to second floor in the former Grass Valley family of the late Berneice Glasson Keegan, "This eral liens, 7; notices of sane, 410. $5,454 income in recordings The. county recorder listeda total of 1,155 recordings, col-. lecticn of $5,454.90 in transfer tax, 21 births, 15 deaths and six marriage licenses issued during the month of January. Recordings were divided as follows: deeds, 355; trust deeds, 197; reconveyances, 132; fedcompletion, 6; discharges, 14; survey maps, 7; parcel maps, 26; . assessment maps, 1; miscelTHE BEST MOVE} YOU EVER MADE 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE Phone 2732206

Department of Parks land recreation report SACRAMENTO — A development plan for Point Mugu State Recreation Area will be considered by the California Park and Recreation Commission when it meets Thursday, February 11, in Oroville. The meeting will open at 9 a.m, in the Board of Supervisors Chambers in the County Courthouse, and the Mugu plan will be considered at 1:30 p.m. William Penn Mott, Jr., Director of the State Department of Parks and Recreation, noted that five meetings have been held on the Mugu plan, the latest a public discussion February 2 in Santa Monica, "For this reason," Mott said, "public testimony will not be received at the Oroville meeting. We have given everyone an opportunity to comment on the plan, have discussed and considered all suggestions, and have made several modifications to the original plan," The present plan, Mott said, will leave more than 90 per cent of the 6,540-acre Mugu area undeveloped except for riding and hiking trails, will include a 150-acre reserve to protect stands of native grasses valued by botanists, and will protect ae sites identified by UCLA and Department archeolosts Mott outlined the following proposed development for Mugu: La Jolla Valley — consisting of about 1,000 acres, this will contain the major portion of the camping ‘and other ‘overnight facilities, but most of the valley will be kept in open-space, Development will consist of group camping areas, tent camping, trailer and pickup camping, cabins, a camping supply store, group and family picnic areas, a youth hostel, swimming pool, environmental education center, an enclosed shelter for recreational activities and interpretive programs during inclement weather, and an irrigated meadow for fire protection. Dropped from the plan are court facilities for tennis.and other games, anda golf course. Beach — Point Mugu contains about three miles of ocean frontage, and a snackbar concession, Recreational: Vehicle Area — This area is located in the northeastern corner of Point Mugu, is about 100 acres in size, about two air-miles from La Jolla Valley, and is separated from the valley by two intervening ridges, A campground, parking, and five miles of trail are planned, : Big Sycamore Canyon — This will be kept in a natural state, with riding, hiking and bicycle trails, an equestrian center and campground, and trail-side picnic areas. Archery Facility — This will be located at an old quarry off the La Jolla Canyon Road. The Division’ of Highways has informed the Department that plans for a freeway along the coast are indefinite. For this reason, the multistoried parking and motel structure designed to straddle the freeway has been dropped. When fully developed in about 15 years, some 23,000 visitors are expected at Point Mugu on peak days, with threefourths of them at the beach, Mott estimated. To date, the State has invested $16.6 million in acquisition of the site and will spend another $3.2 million for sewer and water lines and road construction planned for this year. Land ‘was purchased with funds from the 1964 State Park Bond Act,which will finance initial development of basic utilities and roads. The Department hopes to have permanent facilities ready for public use in 1974, Meanwhile, a small campground at the mouth of Big Sycamore Canyon, and the beach, will remain open until permanent facilities are ready. In other business the Commission will consider a resolution approving the establishment of four memorial redwood groves, gifts of Save-the-Redwoods League and the four donors, as follows: at Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Alfred J. Stern Memorial Grove, 10 acres valued at $10,000, donor Mrs. Minette Ornstein of San Francisco; Helen and Menhart Stern Memorial grove, 10 acres valued’ at $10,000, bequest of Alfred J. Stern; Ernest L. and Lou R, Adams Memorial _Grove, 20 acres of redwoods and 40 acres of-beach valued at $100,000, donor Mrs. E, L, Adams of Chico; and at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, John Glide Eljiott, Mr. and Mrs, Thornton Williams Elliot Memorial Grove addition, 40 acres valued at $46,890, donor Mrs. Eula Glide Elljott of Berkeley. SACRAMENTO — State Parks and Recreation Director William Penn Mott~Jdr. said today that if the first full month of operation is any indicator, then his department's new computerized campground reservation system isa resounding success, Since January 4, Mott revealed, when the more than 230 . . Ticketron terminals around the state began accepting reservations for campsites at State Park campgrounds, nearly $50,000 in advance sales have been recorded, This amounts to more than 4300 tickets sold to reserve some 15,500 nights of camping. What makes this so remarkable, Mott added, is that this represents sales only through the month of April, since no reservations may be made for more than 90 days in advance, "This is the first year we have had such a limit," Mott said, a few months ahead or early in the year will not be at a disadvantage — they will have as good a chance as anyone else . of getting a campsite in any state park they choose." _,.,,,, yee PLEO SPS RERS LIS EMOTE, Ne ee fees oF. ESS OLY OY a eh Mak at keeIa eae a 4 8S 8 ee "Now, those who cannot plan their vacations more than — irs aa ih 2 . Wednesday, February 10, 1971 the Nevada Couey toggle ae New elevator recalls ‘ups and downs’ of area history When an elevator is installed in the 107-year old Nevada City Masonic Hall, the latest chapter in the literal "ups and downs" of county history can be recorded. _ Work has begun onthe installation which Masonic officials anticipate will cost $20,000. It represents years of planning to accommodate members who are physically unable to climb stairs to the second floor lodge rooms. Because of the secrecy of the organization, the order at one time required that meetings be held on second floors to avoid eavesdroppers. Masons say that restriction has been lifted in recent yeas, The new "lift" in Nevada City inspired this reporter to make an elevator hunt to discover existing ones in the Golden Empire. A hydraulic elevator in the 110-year old Plaza Grocery building in Nevada City is the most unusual. It is so "unusual" that state inspectors "scratch their heads in disbelief," said John Sbaffi, long time owner-operator of the store. The inspectors claim that it is the only

one of its kind in California and often call in their superiors to look at it, Sbaffi said. The store owner "thinks" the hydraulic elevator is about 80-years old and was “dreamed up" by Cap Nihel, whom he said many "old timers" remember. The water powered and hand pullied equipment is do»me, for it has only 4 1/2 years to go before it must be replaced © by one powered by electricity, per state law. The antique which now shuttles up and down three floors hauling groceries and people (clerks at the store) can handle more than 1,000 pounds. An elevator of.somewhat ancient vintage is in semi-operative condition in the former Jones Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley. The LeRoy.Geist family has converted. the hospital into a family home. There are those who recall flights toward surgery in this elevator. When. it catered to the ill, it showed some signs of instability. One victim enroute to an appendectomy remembers it stopping in mid-flight. For the nonce terror of entrapment superseded terror of the surgeon's knife. The patient matched wits Ansel Adams NU students to to lecture at see ‘This Atomic World’ lecture The Atomic Energy Com‘ will present Atomic World" to students at Nevada Union High School TuesSierra JC Ansel Adams, a world reknown photographer, will present a mission creative photography forum Feb, 18 at the Sierra College Campus Center, : day. Adams is best known for his National Park and the Grand Second Tetons. He is the Sierra Club interested in Yosemite at the moment. ; nounced, E ESTIMATES The traveling program will firie art photographs of Yosemite visit other high schools in the Mountain-Valley Congressional District during Febphotographer and isparticularly ruary and March, Congressman Harold (Bizz) Johnson anand strength with a hospital attendant and the trip and the operation had a satisfactory conclusion, Mrs. Geist admitted to being "spooked" ' by the elevator as it appears to havea will of its own, As an example she cited an unauthorized flight it made to the second floor. "Absolutely no one pushed a button" and the "lift" of its own volition delivered some furniture stored within the cage to the floor where it was destined to goeventually. There was no "earthly" reason why it should have taken off. Confidentially, the lady. of the house suspects ghosts or. tommyknockers, The county maintains two elevators -one in the courthouse and another in the annex, The 4l-year old courthouse equipment has become old and crochety with advancing years, confided Barbara Bennette, one of its keepers. Mrs. Bennette works for the buildings and grounds department. It's unfortunate that its "off days" often coincide with planning commission or board of supervisors' meetings, she complained. Those who huff and puff to the third floor meeting room also complain. An alarm button installed to summon help is in plain sight, but trapped victims sometimes overlook the safety device. Maxine Gaines, clerk for the board of supervisors, failed to press the "panic button" when she spent an uncomfortable 10 minutes as. its prisoner. Her shouts and pounding brought help and she was assisted in climbing to safety. Two Union newspaper delivery boys probably long. will remember their "joy ride" in the courthouse. They whiled away ~ two hours playing a portable radio before they punched the correct button. The 6-year old elevator serving the annex is well behaved. Itdeliversprisoners ~ and supplies to the second floor jail. Passenger unable to walk the stairs also hitch a ride on it. There are several elevators in private homes in the Golden Empire. The R. J. Berggren family uses a self operated one daily in their home on Broad street in Nevada City, Amechanical chair powered’ by _ electricity lifts passengers from the first to second floor in the former Grass Valley family of the late Berneice Glasson Keegan, "This eral liens, 7; notices of sane, 410. $5,454 income in recordings The. county recorder listeda total of 1,155 recordings, col-. lecticn of $5,454.90 in transfer tax, 21 births, 15 deaths and six marriage licenses issued during the month of January. Recordings were divided as follows: deeds, 355; trust deeds, 197; reconveyances, 132; fedcompletion, 6; discharges, 14; survey maps, 7; parcel maps, 26; . assessment maps, 1; miscelTHE BEST MOVE} YOU EVER MADE 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE Phone 2732206