February 12, 1975 (8 pages)

6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Feb. 12, 1975 ‘Lovely people’ : Herbert Gibboney is smiling today. Herbert Gibboney is smiling today. A week ago he didn’t look capable of a smile. That was when his wife spent everyday in pain and he was offering an eye for sale to buy her way into a hospital. ‘‘Mama is all taken care of now,” he ‘‘Mama”’, Mrs. Jean Gibboney, is now resting in Pioneer Community Hospital, Placerville, where doctors will operate on her Friday. to remove a tumor from her lower intestine, Gobboney said. In addition to that, an oral surgeon has volunteered said his services to rebuild Mrs. Gibboney’s . jaw, which has disintegrated since surgery two years ago. “There are some lovely people in the world,” Gibboney said, referring not only to the hospital officials and doctors who have donated their facilities and services but to all those’ who have written and called with help and advice. When Gibboney’s plight was made known through a story in The Union it quickly spread across the nation. Letters and phone calls continue to pour in from all over the country. Most of his mail is simply addressed to Herbert Gibboney, Grass Valley, no more is needed. Among those calling Gibboney was his ex-employer in Springfield, Ohio, W. W. Kupp, who had read of his problem. in a local paper. Gibboney had worked in Kupp’s service station more than 10 years ago. . Another phone call came from a rabbi: in Philadelphia who offered financial assistance and the prayers of «his congregation. Yet another was from a doctor in Mexico City who offered his services for Mrs. Gibboney. “Before I can get the receiver down the phone rings again,” he said, “I finally had to leave the house to get some rest.” At the post office he is greeted by a myriad of letters with advice, prayers and donations from individuals and organizations. Most donations carry no names, just requests that he keep his eye. All money goes into a newly opened Savings account to assure all future medical care for Mrs. Gibboney, he said. “I have to break down and cry when I Towing junks costs the taxpayers $26 The California Highway Patrol paid out $26 cash each time a car, truck or bus was towed off to the junkyard last year as part of the CHP’s abandoned vehicle program. Actual expenses were considerably higher but offset by the $1,752,000 worth of scrap metal recovered from the 38,227 hulks. ‘‘When the program began two years ago we ’ estimated the state’s ghost car population to be about 200,000 Strong,’’ missioner Dan Lanza, “so in 1974 we eliminated almost 20 per cent of the problem.” Although retrieving the wrecks is a CHP program most . Of the work is done on a reimbursable basis by local government. The CHP does step in when circumstances make it difficult for a local agency to said CHP Comclean out a particular location. They used helicopters to remove.72 cars that had been dumped at the ocean’s edge near Palos Verdes. Choppers were also required to hoist 127 derelicts from Contra Costa county parklands. Another 175 were removed from the Salinas River in Monterey county. Removal of cars abandoned on city streets, rural roads or similar public thoroughfares are not included in the program. It concentrates: instead on those found on river banks, sea shores, parks and public lands. Both the CHP and _ local government may, however, as part of the program, remove a vehicle from private property if it is a public eyesore and the owner refuses to remove or conceal it. read some of these letters,” Gibboney said. One, in a child’s handwriting said only ‘I love you’’. Enclosed was a one dollar bill. Another contained a donation from a woman who said she was partially blind and wanted Gibboney to continue to see the beauty of northern California with both eyes. “T would like to thank all these people ‘but most gave no names or addresses,”’ he said. . CHP safety tips Habits are a part of the way you live and certainly very much a part of the way you drive — and this fact could lead to trouble because all driving habits are not good ones. ; An unsafe driving habit usually starts intentionally but many times ends up causing an accident according to the California Highway Patrol. If each time a driver did something unsafe, it Golden Health Council skeptical of national health planning law TheGolden Sierra Health Planning Council has expressed some skepticism concerning the implications of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. Local health planning council members Thursday asked that the Golden Empire Comprehensive Council of Sacramento provide a detailed report of the legislation and Golden Empire’s request for endorsement to serve as the health service area for Nevada and five other northern California counties. _ Marguerite Crose, health planner for Golden Empire, briefed the local council on the. complicated act at its meeting Thursday. She said the legislation covers “‘every piece of land in the United States.” It’. calls for restructuring of the current nationwide programs in comprehensive health planning. It also calls for the designation of health service areas throughout the country and a network of health systems agencies to provide necessary services. In response to this new legislation, and in recognition of its past accomplishments in health planning, Golden Empire is seeking to be designated health service area for El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, ( BUSINESS. ) BILLBOARD THE GIPSON'S 273-2561 LITTLE OLD BAKE SHOP " 429 E, Ridge Rd., Grass Valley —s Len Gilbert FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP HEFFREN INSURANCE AGENCY 111 W. Main P.O Box 1034 Grass Valley Ca 265-6166 Sacramento, Sierra and Yolo, the counties it now serves. Because the subject is so complicated local council members will study it further before making recommendations to the county supervisors. Individual members viewed the legislation with Lawrence referred to a frontpage story. of the life of an exconvict, ex-alcoholic and exdrug addict, as told to Don Qualls, who wrote it in newspaper style. She said.it had resulted in increased attention to programs which are available Dr. Mansdoerfer reported on the Nevada County Emergency Medical Care Committee and on the Western Sierra-Sacramento Valley Emergency Medical Service Project, to which he is a representative. Art Richards reported on proposals to utilize $7,800 in Title III funds for medical and other essential transportation for the elderly. He is a member of the Area 4 Commission on Aging. He emphasized that none of the proposals he described have been finalized. Want ads Pay resulted in an accident, it is doubtful there would be driving. any unsafe All too often, however, a driver gets away with an unsafe ‘practice, so it is done again and if nothing happens, it is not long before an unsafe driving practice becomes a habit. Good driving practices can also be habit forming. Do things the right way often enough and it will soon be a habit and a good one. The best way to get rid of bad habits is esa them with good habits. Don’t just get behind the wheel: start off right. start right off — Make it a point to check your vehicle-before you begin your driving day. Forming good driving habits doesn’t mean driving the same way all the time; driving conditions change and you’ve got to change with them. Anything that cuts down your vision — darkness, rain, fog or snow — should warn you to cut down your speed. Adjusting to changing conditions results in good driving habits which means Dargie honored The Nevada County Resource Conservation District is making plans to enter the 28th annual Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s conservation awards program.. The program is sponsored by the Goodyear Co. in cooperation with the National Association of Conservation Districts, (NACD). Awards will be presented for conservation management accomplishments during the period January 1, ‘1974 through December 31, 1974. The competition is conducted nationwide among ‘the 3100 conservation districts in 53 states and territories. The purpose of the Goodyear Conservation Awards Program is to provide recognition and incentive ‘to the nation’s conservation districts and to promote among landowners a fuller realization of their responsibilities in the stewardship of our resources. The program is also an effective evaluation of performance on the basis of planning, organization, and service to individual, landowners, organizations, and units of local government within the District. It also recognizes the landowner who is selected by the competing district as its outstanding conservationist-landowners of the year. Tom Dargie, a rancher on McCourtney Road was selected . by the Nevada County Resource Conservation District as’ its Outstanding conservationistit cooperator for 1974. hoa

6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Feb. 12, 1975 ‘Lovely people’ : Herbert Gibboney is smiling today. Herbert Gibboney is smiling today. A week ago he didn’t look capable of a smile. That was when his wife spent everyday in pain and he was offering an eye for sale to buy her way into a hospital. ‘‘Mama is all taken care of now,” he ‘‘Mama”’, Mrs. Jean Gibboney, is now resting in Pioneer Community Hospital, Placerville, where doctors will operate on her Friday. to remove a tumor from her lower intestine, Gobboney said. In addition to that, an oral surgeon has volunteered said his services to rebuild Mrs. Gibboney’s . jaw, which has disintegrated since surgery two years ago. “There are some lovely people in the world,” Gibboney said, referring not only to the hospital officials and doctors who have donated their facilities and services but to all those’ who have written and called with help and advice. When Gibboney’s plight was made known through a story in The Union it quickly spread across the nation. Letters and phone calls continue to pour in from all over the country.. Most of his mail is simply addressed to Herbert Gibboney, Grass Valley, no more is needed. Among those calling Gibboney was his ex-employer in Springfield, Ohio, W. W. Kupp, who had read of his problem. in a local paper. Gibboney had worked in Kupp’s service station more than 10 years ago. . Another phone call came from a rabbi: in Philadelphia who offered financial assistance and the prayers of «his congregation. Yet another was from a doctor in Mexico City who offered his services for Mrs. Gibboney. “Before I can get the receiver down the phone rings again,” he said, “I finally had to leave the house to get some rest.” At the post office he is greeted by a myriad of letters with advice, prayers and donations from individuals and organizations. Most donations carry no names, just requests that he keep his eye. All money goes into a newly opened Savings account to assure all future medical care for Mrs. Gibboney, he said. “I have to break down and cry when I Towing junks costs the taxpayers $26 The California Highway Patrol paid out $26 cash each time a car, truck or bus was towed off to the junkyard last year as part of the CHP’s abandoned vehicle program. Actual expenses were considerably higher but offset by the $1,752,000 worth of scrap metal recovered from the 38,227 hulks. ‘‘When the program began two years ago we ’ estimated the state’s ghost car population to be about 200,000 Strong,’’ missioner Dan Lanza, “so in 1974 we eliminated almost 20 per cent of the problem.” Although retrieving the wrecks is a CHP program most . Of the work is done on a reimbursable basis by local government. The CHP does step in when circumstances make it difficult for a local agency to said CHP Comclean out a particular location. They used helicopters to remove..72 cars that had been dumped at the ocean’s edge near Palos Verdes. Choppers were also required to hoist 127 derelicts from Contra Costa county parklands. Another 175 were removed from the Salinas River in Monterey county. Removal of cars abandoned on city streets, rural roads or similar public thoroughfares are not included in the program. It concentrates: instead on those found on river banks, sea shores, parks and public lands. Both the CHP and _ local government may, however, as part of the program, remove a vehicle from private property if it is a public eyesore and the owner refuses to remove or conceal it. read some of these letters,” Gibboney said. One, in a child’s handwriting said only ‘I love you’’. Enclosed was a one dollar bill. Another contained a donation from a woman who said she was partially blind and wanted Gibboney to continue to see the beauty of northern California with both eyes. “T would like to thank all these people ‘but most gave no names or addresses,”’ he said. . CHP safety tips Habits are a part of the way you live and certainly very much a part of the way you drive — and this fact could lead to trouble because all driving habits are not good ones. ; An unsafe driving habit usually starts intentionally but many times ends up causing an accident according to the California Highway Patrol. If each time a driver did something unsafe, it Golden Health Council skeptical of national health planning law TheGolden Sierra Health Planning Council has expressed some skepticism concerning the implications of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. Local health planning council members Thursday asked that the Golden Empire Comprehensive Council of Sacramento provide a detailed

report of the legislation and Golden Empire’s request for endorsement to serve as the health service area for Nevada and five other northern California counties. _ Marguerite Crose, health planner for Golden Empire, briefed the local council on the. complicated act at its meeting Thursday. She said the legislation covers “‘every piece of land in the United States.” It’. calls for restructuring of the current nationwide programs in comprehensive health planning. It also calls for the designation of health service areas throughout the country and a network of health systems agencies to provide necessary services. In response to this new legislation, and in recognition of its past accomplishments in health planning, Golden Empire is seeking to be designated health service area for El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, ( BUSINESS. ) BILLBOARD THE GIPSON'S 273-2561 LITTLE OLD BAKE SHOP " 429 E, Ridge Rd., Grass Valley —s Len Gilbert FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP HEFFREN INSURANCE AGENCY 111 W. Main P.O Box 1034 Grass Valley Ca 265-6166 Sacramento, Sierra and Yolo, the counties it now serves. Because the subject is so complicated local council members will study it further before making recommendations to the county supervisors. Individual members viewed the legislation with Lawrence referred to a frontpage story. of the life of an exconvict, ex-alcoholic and exdrug addict, as told to Don Qualls, who wrote it in newspaper style. She said.it had resulted in increased attention to programs which are available Dr. Mansdoerfer reported on the Nevada County Emergency Medical Care Committee and on the Western Sierra-Sacramento Valley Emergency Medical Service Project, to which he is a representative. Art Richards reported on proposals to utilize $7,800 in Title III funds for medical and other essential transportation for the elderly. He is a member of the Area 4 Commission on Aging. He emphasized that none of the proposals he described have been finalized. Want ads Pay resulted in an accident, it is doubtful there would be driving. any unsafe All too often, however, a driver gets away with an unsafe ‘practice, so it is done again and if nothing happens, it is not long before an unsafe driving practice becomes a habit. Good driving practices can also be habit forming. Do things the right way often enough and it will soon be a habit and a good one. The best way to get rid of bad habits is esa them with good habits. Don’t just get behind the wheel: start off right. start right off — Make it a point to check your vehicle-before you begin your driving day. Forming good driving habits doesn’t mean driving the same way all the time; driving conditions change and you’ve got to change with them. Anything that cuts down your vision — darkness, rain, fog or snow — should warn you to cut down your speed. Adjusting to changing conditions results in good driving habits which means Dargie honored The Nevada County Resource Conservation District is making plans to enter the 28th annual Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company’s conservation awards program... The program is sponsored by the Goodyear Co. in cooperation with the National Association of Conservation Districts, (NACD). Awards will be presented for conservation management accomplishments during the period January 1, ‘1974 through December 31, 1974. The competition is conducted nationwide among ‘the 3100 conservation districts in 53 states and territories. The purpose of the Goodyear Conservation Awards Program is to provide recognition and incentive ‘to the nation’s conservation districts and to promote among landowners a fuller realization of their responsibilities in the stewardship of our resources. The program is also an effective evaluation of performance on the basis of planning, organization, and service to individual, landowners, organizations, and units of local government within the District. It also recognizes the landowner who is selected by the competing district as its outstanding conservationist-landowners of the year. Tom Dargie, a rancher on McCourtney Road was selected . by the Nevada County Resource Conservation District as’ its Outstanding conservationistit cooperator for 1974. hoa