February 13, 1963 (12 pages)

NEVADA COUNTY “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES” Published Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday Pabruary 13, 1963 Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Wagi Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Sumnut City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Sailor Fiat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly i4ll, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scokeh Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, (uaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport,. Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens;land, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, mas Hill, Hill, Liberty Hill, North Columbia, «Columbia Hill, Rough and Ready, Graniteville. Malakoff Walk An Invitation. . .tohealthy men and women of Nevada County to join us in an "“endur-. ance" walk from the National Hotel in Nevada City to Malakof* Diggings, site of the proposed Malakoff-North Bloomfield (Humbug) State Park, via Edwards Crossing, Kennebec House, and Lake City. A Challenge . tothe city editor of the Grass Valley Union, Pete Ingram, to form a team from the editorial and advertising staff of the Grass Valley Union to meet the Nevada County Nugget in this modest test of physical fitness. (No ringers, please.) The Date .Friday, February 22, 6a.m.,, rain or shine The Sendoff.Ne vada City Councilman Arch McPherson, famous bagpiper, will lead the procession out of town to the tune of an appropriate air. . Arrangements are being The Welcome made towelcome the hikers to North Bloomfield with first aid and refreshments, in that order. Transportation home should be arranged before departure. Signed, NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Dean Thompson Stu Flansburg Alf Heller John Hodge Nugget Staff Issues Challenge--Rah Rah NEVADA CIT Y.---A team of four Nevada County Nugget staff members today challenged the Grass Valley Union to produce a similar team to join in an “endurance walk’ from Nevada City to Malakoff Diggings-North Bloomfield, site of a proposed state park. (See notice on this page.) The four are Stu Flansburg, John Hodge, Alf Heller, and Dean Thompson. Their mottois "If Bob Paine Did It, SoCan We." Paine, Nugget columnist, isreputedtohave walked from Nevada City to Lake City many times when he was eight or nine years old, to visit his uncles who ville, treasurer. Sales Tax Ordinance NEVADA CIT Y---The Nevada City Council held its first reading of a sales tax ordinance which willraise the city's portion of taxes collected in the city from 70 to 85 per cent effective July 1. The ordinance resulted froma request of the county to hold off until July 1 on the matter after the city had laid plans last year to boost its share effective Jan. 1. Last year's ordinance, however, called for an 8020 split of the city’s sales tax pie. When the council agreed tohold off onthe tax matter, it informed the county the ordinance would be written totake the 85 per cent split. Officers Chosen ROCKLIN -The spring semester officers chosen by the Life Science group were Gary Burton, Auburn, _president; Richard Leijonflycht, Penn Valley, vice president; Dixie. Senter, Auburn, secretary; and Betty Armstrong; Roseconducted mining operations there. Lake City is about ten miles from Nevada City, and some three miles short of the spectacular hydraulic diggings. Flansburg, team spokesman, said the walk would take place on Friday, February 22, (Washington's birthday), regardless<of the weather, beginning promptly at 6 a.m. in front of the National Hotel. Nevada City Councilman Arch McPherson will be on hand for the departure, playing a suitably inspiring air on his renowned bagpipes. McPherson said he nay just go along on the bike, too. In addition to challenging Pete Ingram, Union city editor, to field a walking team, Flansburg invited any and all “healthy” men and ‘women ofthe area to join in the trak, which will follow a historic route across the South Yuba at Edwards Crossing, site of an old roll bridge, stage robberies, and murder; past the site of Kennebec House, a stage stop; and Lake City. Participants should arrange return transportation and refreshments prior to their departure. Expected time of -arrival at North Bloomfield is high noon, burg. He said he was going to ask Sven Skaar, local historian, to have his ancient horse -drawn hearse, a mainstay of Nevada City Independence Day parades, on hand at North Bloomfield, stocked with a repast of Cornish pasties, beverages, andband .aids. "Maybe some of us will feel like going home in it too,“ Flansburg said. Flansburg saidthe 13 mile trek wasa Compromise. The 50 miles required of Marines was trimmedto13 as a result of concern for the Press ex-. pressed by Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President John F. Kennedy, according to Flans-' Koster Gets Water Post SACRAMENTO --The governor's office today confirmed the appointment of Edwin Koster, manager of the Nevada Irrigation District, to a post on the California W ater Commission. commission while retaining his NID post. Koster will act onthe] GV .Officers At Sierra ‘ROCKLIN ---The stoned tivated International club last week chose Suzanne Jackson of Auburn as spring semester president of the group, succeeding Joann Griffith. Other officers elected by the language and international relations group “vice president; Wanda Eddy, Grass Valley, secretary; “treasurer; and Stanley Lake, Grass Valley, sergeant at arms, were Mary Butler, Auburn, Dennis Ringer, Auburn, . . Governor Declares The Water Was This High. Storm Disaster SACRAMENTO Nevada, Sierra and Placer Counties are three of six counties declared as a disaster area by Governor Edmund G, Brown last week as the result of recent storms. The proclamation also includes Orange, Alpine and Plumas Counties. The governor telephoned President Lohn F. Kennedy requesting aid tothe counties under Federal Disaster Act, law 875. The governor's office said counties can apply for Federal relief money for damage to public property. There are no provisions for relief to private property owners for home damage underthe law, . but. businessmen and some © householders can qualify for low interest loans from the — Small Business “Administra~ : tion. The. Nevada Irrigation District will join counties in applying for aid under theFederal law, reports from Grass Valley.’ according to Anestimated $25,000 damage was done to NID water transmission facilities. State Senator Ronald G. Cameron and Assemblyman PaulJ. Lunardi gave the following information relative to assistance programs which are available to eligible applicants. The American National ‘Red Cross offers help to individuals and families in the form of grants, medicines, food and other consumable items. The legislators urged disaster victims to contact their local chapter for information. They said the nearest office of the S mall Business Administration is at 525 Market St., San Francisco (Phone YUkon 6-3111), for those individuals and busi‘ness concerns who desire to restore or rehabilitate damaged or destroyed property. ON THE WIRE---The manin the picture éyiho is over six feet tall) points to brush left on a phone cable after the-flood waters of the North Yuba River fell after last week's disasterous flood in Downieville. : (Other disaster flood pictures on pages 2, 3, & 12) EVADA CITY ---Preliminary plans for a 5,000 acre state park at Malakoff Diggings were presented to the county planning commission Monday night, with representatives of the board of supervisors in attendance. Bob Hatch, supervisor of advance planning for the potential. “ He said the park acquisition and development depended upon the availability of money. The Governor is expected to request the legislature for funding arrangements soon, he added. If these can be worked out, some $20 million might be freed for expansion of the state park system, inthe near future. The Malakoff, Hatch said, is “definitely in our program. We want it and we want it badly." Hecalled it the most spectacular of California's hydraulic diggings. The park would undergo an initial development of 400 camp.units and other facilities costing $1.3 million, Hatch said. This sum would be exclusive of land costs, which he said he could Use Permit For Gravel NEVADA CIT Y---Alan Wolff and Theodore Mitchell received a use permit from the ‘county planning commission: Monday night to operate a gravel excavating operation on the Buck property, south of Grass Valley adjacent to highway 49. The applicant, Wolff, agreed to abide by conditions requested by the. state department of fish and game, ‘and also agreedto keep operations at least 500 feet away ‘from the highway right-ofway. Clarence Martz Is Acting Chief NEVADA CITY ---Clarence Martz became Nevada City's acting police chief with council approval Monday night. Police Chief Jay Jackson is under doctor's orders to avoid work for a month or more,Protest Rejection NEVADA CITY---Nevada City Councilman Jack Bricpt Department over their reported rejection of a Mother Lode Bank application for a Nevada City branch. { Without mentioning the . Mother Lode application by name, Brickell “earnestly requested that due consideration be given to a bank for a branch in the county seat of Nevada County. " More than 100 names were attached to support the councilman's letter. Numerous Broad St. merchants were represented in the signatures, Brickell pointed out that the department's recent granting of a permit to Wells Fargo Bank of permission to open a branch in Grass Valley would mean five banks (including one savings and loan association branch) in that city. Nevada City has one bank, a branch Bank of America. The councilman said, “We here do an overwhelming percentage of the business that comes from Northern Nevada County, eastern Yuba County, and Sierra County. This alone should indicate that Nevada City should support another bank. In addition, according to the -Pacifie Gas and Electric Company, in a publication ,sent to public officials, we may expecta population increase inthe immediate ‘Nevada City area. All upcountry roads lead through Nevada City," Weather ope Is Expressed or Site Funds ‘In Near Future’ not predict at this time. NC Bank ' kell today sent a letter of : ovester the State Banking” He estimated that 450, 000 people would. visit the park in the first year. Noting that the Malakoff Park proposal was first made by many Nevada County organizations, Hatch indicated that continuing local interest in the project would state Division of Beaches and be helpful. He said that if Parks, called the proposed the money becomes avail~ park area “exceptionally able, “we have to be ready attractive, with tremendous to move.” The commission passed a .resolution-endorsing and supporting state planning for the park, and urging the state to include the NorthBloomfield townsite in the park boundaries. Hatch said the Division favored the inclusion of North Bloomfield, and he outlined various ways in which the interests of local land owners could be protected. One of these could be the granting of tenancy to residents, following purchase of the land. Concessions under long-term leases, financed by private capital, w ould also be appropriate, he said. But uncontrolled development of the town would be “tragic,” he added. Access roads to the proposed park could createa problem, he said, and the county or other agencies might be interested in improving them. However, he thought the condition of the roads would not deter people from coming to the park. The park: w ould include the major hydraulic excavations of the area, which have at various times been called a man-made Grand Canyon or Bryce Canyon, It would also extend down portion of. the South Yuba River. Adjacent U.S, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management properties would also be used in conjunction with the park, in effect extending its total area by thousands of acres. County supervisors Gene Ricker and Tabe Bishop attended the meeting. Commission members present were chairman Cecil Edmunds, Melva Hillier, John Looser, Alfred Heller, and ‘Robert McWhinney. Engineer To Study Freeway NEVADA CIT Y---Councilman Arch McPherson reported to the Nevada City Council Monday night that he has engaged a consulting engineer who is now in cooperation with state highway engineers in Sacramento in the state review of the Nevada City freeway plans. McPherson reported that thereview is expected to be complete within ten days. The consulting engineer, Robert Conradt, spent two days in Nevada City prior to contacting state engineers now conducting the review. McPherson said the city has a responsibility to show that ithas made every effort to get a good freeway design. Contadt is a member of De Leuw, Cather& Co., an eny ) a NEVADA CITY gineering firm that has ; Max, Min. Rainfall . worked on freeway design in Feb.6 66 42 -00 . Las Vegas, Sydney, Austral1 64 38 -00 . fa, and in the Sacramento 8 68 38 -00 . area onthe Arcade Freeway, . 9 5ST 939 .07 . as well as in other areas. 10: COS «19 Sacramento engineers: of li 2 SS -02 . the Division of Highways 12 56. 37. .00}) haveexpresseda high regard Rainfall to date 43.104 . of Conradt and his firm and Rainfall last year 31.07 . were pleased with their participation in the design reGRASS VALLEY view, McPherson said today. Max. Min. Rainfall] McPherson also reported Feb. 6 71 48 -00 . to the council on a recent 1 0 & -00} planning conference and — 8 73 45 .00] warned the city that unless — 9 61 44 trace] local planning is pursued the 10 56 43 .20] the state intends to do it for 11 57 40 03] the local governing bodies. 12 61 40 -00] He urged increased activity Rainfall to date 41.75°. by the city planning ¢ Rainfall last year = 31.76} mission, == 2 AIBIQTT e3899 7 UT ioes S PeoT re Humbug Creek to include a_ “at ‘6, oquenea

NEVADA COUNTY “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES” Published Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday Pabruary 13, 1963 Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Wagi Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Sumnut City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Sailor Fiat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly i4ll, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scokeh Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, (uaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport,. Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens;land, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, mas Hill, Hill, Liberty Hill, North Columbia, «Columbia Hill, Rough and Ready, Graniteville. Malakoff Walk An Invitation. . .tohealthy men and women of Nevada County to join us in an "“endur-. ance" walk from the National Hotel in Nevada City to Malakof* Diggings, site of the proposed Malakoff-North Bloomfield (Humbug) State Park, via Edwards Crossing, Kennebec House, and Lake City. A Challenge . tothe city editor of the Grass Valley Union, Pete Ingram, to form a team from the editorial and advertising staff of the Grass Valley Union to meet the Nevada County Nugget in this modest test of physical fitness. (No ringers, please.) The Date .Friday, February 22, 6a.m.,, rain or shine The Sendoff..Ne vada City Councilman Arch McPherson, famous bagpiper, will lead the procession out of town to the tune of an appropriate air. . Arrangements are being The Welcome made towelcome the hikers to North Bloomfield with first aid and refreshments, in that order. Transportation home should be arranged before departure. Signed, NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Dean Thompson Stu Flansburg Alf Heller John Hodge Nugget Staff Issues Challenge--Rah Rah NEVADA CIT Y.---A team of four Nevada County Nugget staff members today challenged the Grass Valley Union to produce a similar team to join in an “endurance walk’ from Nevada City to Malakoff Diggings-North Bloomfield, site of a proposed state park. (See notice on this page.) The four are Stu Flansburg, John Hodge, Alf Heller, and Dean Thompson. Their mottois "If Bob Paine Did It, SoCan We." Paine, Nugget columnist, isreputedtohave walked from Nevada City to Lake City many times when he was eight or nine years old, to visit his uncles who ville, treasurer. Sales Tax Ordinance NEVADA CIT Y---The Nevada City Council held its first reading of a sales tax ordinance which willraise the city's portion of taxes collected in the city from 70 to 85 per cent effective July 1. The ordinance resulted froma request of the county to hold off until July 1 on the matter after the city had laid plans last year to boost its share effective Jan. 1. Last year's ordinance, however, called for an 8020 split of the city’s sales tax pie. When the council agreed tohold off onthe tax matter, it informed the county the ordinance would be written totake the 85 per cent split. Officers Chosen ROCKLIN -The spring semester officers chosen by the Life Science group were Gary Burton, Auburn, _president; Richard Leijonflycht, Penn Valley, vice president; Dixie. Senter, Auburn, secretary; and Betty Armstrong; Roseconducted mining operations there. Lake City is about ten miles from Nevada City, and some three miles short of the spectacular hydraulic diggings. Flansburg, team spokesman, said the walk would take place on Friday, February 22, (Washington's birthday), regardless<of the weather, beginning promptly at 6 a.m. in front of the National Hotel. Nevada City Councilman Arch McPherson will be on hand for the departure, playing a suitably inspiring air on his renowned bagpipes. McPherson said he nay just go along on the bike, too. In addition to challenging Pete Ingram, Union city editor, to field a walking team, Flansburg invited any and all “healthy” men and ‘women ofthe area to join in the trak, which will follow a historic route across the South Yuba at Edwards Crossing, site of an old roll bridge, stage robberies, and murder; past the site of Kennebec House, a stage stop; and Lake City. Participants should arrange return transportation and refreshments prior to their departure. Expected time of -arrival at North Bloomfield is high noon, burg. He said he was going to ask Sven Skaar, local historian, to have his ancient horse -drawn hearse, a mainstay of Nevada City Independence Day parades, on hand at North Bloomfield, stocked with a repast of Cornish pasties, beverages, andband .aids. "Maybe some of us will feel like going home in it too,“ Flansburg said. Flansburg saidthe 13 mile trek wasa Compromise. The 50 miles required of Marines was trimmedto13 as a result of concern for the Press ex-. pressed by Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President John F. Kennedy, according to Flans-' Koster Gets Water Post SACRAMENTO --The governor's office today confirmed the appointment of Edwin Koster, manager of the Nevada Irrigation District, to a post on the California W ater Commission. commission while retaining his NID post. Koster will act onthe] GV .Officers At Sierra ‘ROCKLIN ---The stoned tivated International club last week chose Suzanne Jackson of Auburn as spring semester president of the group, succeeding Joann Griffith. Other officers elected by the language and international relations group “vice president; Wanda Eddy, Grass Valley, secretary; “treasurer; and Stanley Lake, Grass Valley, sergeant at arms, were Mary Butler, Auburn, Dennis Ringer, Auburn, . . Governor Declares The Water Was This High.. Storm Disaster SACRAMENTO Nevada, Sierra and Placer Counties are three of six counties declared as a disaster area by Governor Edmund G, Brown last week as the result of recent storms. The proclamation also includes Orange, Alpine and Plumas Counties. The governor telephoned President Lohn F. Kennedy requesting aid tothe counties under Federal Disaster Act, law 875. The governor's office said counties can apply for Federal relief money for damage to public property. There are no provisions for relief to private property owners for home damage underthe law, . but. businessmen and some © householders can qualify for low interest loans from the — Small Business “Administra~ : tion. The. Nevada Irrigation District will join counties in applying for aid under theFederal law, reports from Grass Valley.’ according to Anestimated $25,000 damage was done to NID water transmission facilities. State Senator Ronald G. Cameron and Assemblyman PaulJ. Lunardi gave the following information relative to assistance programs which are available to eligible applicants. The American National ‘Red Cross offers help to individuals and families in the form of grants, medicines, food and other consumable items. The legislators urged disaster victims to contact their local chapter for information.

They said the nearest office of the S mall Business Administration is at 525 Market St., San Francisco (Phone YUkon 6-3111), for those individuals and busi‘ness concerns who desire to restore or rehabilitate damaged or destroyed property. ON THE WIRE---The manin the picture éyiho is over six feet tall) points to brush left on a phone cable after the-flood waters of the North Yuba River fell after last week's disasterous flood in Downieville. : (Other disaster flood pictures on pages 2, 3, & 12) EVADA CITY ---Preliminary plans for a 5,000 acre state park at Malakoff Diggings were presented to the county planning commission Monday night, with representatives of the board of supervisors in attendance. Bob Hatch, supervisor of advance planning for the potential. “ He said the park acquisition and development depended upon the availability of money. The Governor is expected to request the legislature for funding arrangements soon, he added. If these can be worked out, some $20 million might be freed for expansion of the state park system, inthe near future. The Malakoff, Hatch said, is “definitely in our program. We want it and we want it badly." Hecalled it the most spectacular of California's hydraulic diggings. The park would undergo an initial development of 400 camp.units and other facilities costing $1.3 million, Hatch said. This sum would be exclusive of land costs, which he said he could Use Permit For Gravel NEVADA CIT Y---Alan Wolff and Theodore Mitchell received a use permit from the ‘county planning commission: Monday night to operate a gravel excavating operation on the Buck property, south of Grass Valley adjacent to highway 49. The applicant, Wolff, agreed to abide by conditions requested by the. state department of fish and game, ‘and also agreedto keep operations at least 500 feet away ‘from the highway right-ofway. Clarence Martz Is Acting Chief NEVADA CITY ---Clarence Martz became Nevada City's acting police chief with council approval Monday night. Police Chief Jay Jackson is under doctor's orders to avoid work for a month or more,Protest Rejection NEVADA CITY---Nevada City Councilman Jack Bricpt Department over their reported rejection of a Mother Lode Bank application for a Nevada City branch. { Without mentioning the . Mother Lode application by name, Brickell “earnestly requested that due consideration be given to a bank for a branch in the county seat of Nevada County. " More than 100 names were attached to support the councilman's letter. Numerous Broad St. merchants were represented in the signatures, Brickell pointed out that the department's recent granting of a permit to Wells Fargo Bank of permission to open a branch in Grass Valley would mean five banks (including one savings and loan association branch) in that city. Nevada City has one bank, a branch Bank of America. The councilman said, “We here do an overwhelming percentage of the business that comes from Northern Nevada County, eastern Yuba County, and Sierra County. This alone should indicate that Nevada City should support another bank. In addition, according to the -Pacifie Gas and Electric Company, in a publication ,sent to public officials, we may expecta population increase inthe immediate ‘Nevada City area. All upcountry roads lead through Nevada City," Weather ope Is Expressed or Site Funds ‘In Near Future’ not predict at this time. NC Bank ' kell today sent a letter of : ovester the State Banking” He estimated that 450, 000 people would. visit the park in the first year. Noting that the Malakoff Park proposal was first made by many Nevada County organizations, Hatch indicated that continuing local interest in the project would state Division of Beaches and be helpful. He said that if Parks, called the proposed the money becomes avail~ park area “exceptionally able, “we have to be ready attractive, with tremendous to move.” The commission passed a .resolution-endorsing and supporting state planning for the park, and urging the state to include the NorthBloomfield townsite in the park boundaries. Hatch said the Division favored the inclusion of North Bloomfield, and he outlined various ways in which the interests of local land owners could be protected. One of these could be the granting of tenancy to residents, following purchase of the land. Concessions under long-term leases, financed by private capital, w ould also be appropriate, he said. But uncontrolled development of the town would be “tragic,” he added. Access roads to the proposed park could createa problem, he said, and the county or other agencies might be interested in improving them. However, he thought the condition of the roads would not deter people from coming to the park. The park: w ould include the major hydraulic excavations of the area, which have at various times been called a man-made Grand Canyon or Bryce Canyon, It would also extend down portion of. the South Yuba River. Adjacent U.S, Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management properties would also be used in conjunction with the park, in effect extending its total area by thousands of acres. County supervisors Gene Ricker and Tabe Bishop attended the meeting. Commission members present were chairman Cecil Edmunds, Melva Hillier, John Looser, Alfred Heller, and ‘Robert McWhinney. Engineer To Study Freeway NEVADA CIT Y---Councilman Arch McPherson reported to the Nevada City Council Monday night that he has engaged a consulting engineer who is now in cooperation with state highway engineers in Sacramento in the state review of the Nevada City freeway plans. McPherson reported that thereview is expected to be complete within ten days. The consulting engineer, Robert Conradt, spent two days in Nevada City prior to contacting state engineers now conducting the review. McPherson said the city has a responsibility to show that ithas made every effort to get a good freeway design. Contadt is a member of De Leuw, Cather& Co., an eny ) a NEVADA CITY gineering firm that has ; Max, Min. Rainfall . worked on freeway design in Feb.6 66 42 -00 . Las Vegas, Sydney, Austral1 64 38 -00 . fa, and in the Sacramento 8 68 38 -00 . area onthe Arcade Freeway, . 9 5ST 939 .07 . as well as in other areas. 10: COS «19 Sacramento engineers: of li 2 SS -02 . the Division of Highways 12 56. 37. .00}) haveexpresseda high regard Rainfall to date 43.104 . of Conradt and his firm and Rainfall last year 31.07 . were pleased with their participation in the design reGRASS VALLEY view, McPherson said today. Max. Min. Rainfall] McPherson also reported Feb. 6 71 48 -00 . to the council on a recent 1 0 & -00} planning conference and — 8 73 45 .00] warned the city that unless — 9 61 44 trace] local planning is pursued the 10 56 43 .20] the state intends to do it for 11 57 40 03] the local governing bodies. 12 61 40 -00] He urged increased activity Rainfall to date 41.75°. by the city planning ¢ Rainfall last year = 31.76} mission, == 2 AIBIQTT e3899 7 UT ioes S PeoT re Humbug Creek to include a_ “at ‘6, oquenea