February 13, 1964 (26 pages)

ri i i] . I a RS AEE NEVADA COUNTY NGG CEES Sen Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, T A 1g, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Al 0. French Corral, pny rere rn thdiy eee Pes tee ug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Rid, e, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit Cin: Wcllenon, Coa iberty Sailor Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, C: Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. h and Ready, Graniteville, North Eye, Lime e Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas mbia Hill, Brandy Flat, ‘Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Volume 39, Number7 10CentsACopy PublishedThursdays, Nevada City February 13, 1964 MERIT AWARD. ‘General Excellence’ .Nevada County Nugget’ editor Dean Thompson (left) accepts the congratulations of Governor Edmund G. Brown at Coronado Saturday after the governor presented the Nugget witha California Newspaper Publisher's Association Merit Award for General Excellence. Publishers Honor Nugget A Merit Award for General Excellence was presented to the Nevada County Nugget Saturday in Coronado, Calif., as a part of the annual California Newspaper Publisher's Association Better Newspaper Contest. The Merit Award was the second most prized award given to weekly newspapers at the convention. The General Excellence Trophy, top prize for a weekly, was won.by the Menlo Park Recorder and Gazette, a metropolitan newspaper with 15,500 circulation. MenloPark's population is 27 , 233. General Excellence awards were also. won by the Van Nuys News, andthe San Fernando Valley Shin, both newspapers that publish more than once a week; and by the Lodi News-Sentinel, Roseville Daily Press-Tribune, the Riverside Daily Enterprise, andthe San Jose Mercury, all daily newspapers in two separate circulation classifications. Nevada County Nugget editor Dean Thompson, who with his wife, Vee, attended the CNPA convention and accepted the award, said, "In view of the other general excellence awards to weekly newspapers all going to newspapers that are situated in metropolitan areas, we of the Nugget staff accept this award to mean that our publication is ac(Continued on Page 21) i Parking Is Indefinite Officials ‘Hedge’ — On Landscape Plan By Dean Thompson Representatives of the California Division of Highways met with the Nevada City Council Monday night and councilmen learned: 1. The freeway construction program has been delayed, with current plans calling for the let~ ting of the Nevada City freeway contracttobid in “late summer" Gold Flat ‘C Zone . Approved The county planning commissionhas recommended to the board of supervisors that 25 of 42 acres proposed for a new C-Commercial zone in Gold Flat be so zoned, The application of Robert Graham forthe zoning was supported at Monday night's commission meeting by Neil Hennessy and Wally Brunker, representing GraVada Enterprises, which will develop the property. Brunker explained that the proposed shopping center would be architect-designed. A sketch of possible facilities, drawn by Forrest Duranceau, Yuba City architect, was displayed. Morgan Ford Sales is expected to occupy a comer of the property along Gold Flat Rd. adjacent tothe projected freeway. Brunker saidthe southerly portion of the proposed zone might be developed for multiple or single dwellings. The commis-~sion saw no reason to include this area.in the C zone. Atentative map for a 137 unit subdivision on 67 acres abutting the north shore of lower Scotts Flat reservoir was not approved, due to lack of provisions for fire protection, pollutioncontrol, erosion control, utility easements, safety setbacks from the lake, ‘and adequate roads. A letter from EdBrowning, superintendent of the Nevada City School District, recommended denial due to lack of school bus access. after completion of rights of way acquisition in “mid-summer”. 2. The division has obtained approval of the sale to the city after completion of the freeway of a strip of property north of Ott's Assay Office for development by the city of an off-street parking facility. 3. There will not be a freeway: landscaping plan presented for an indefinite time, although the division welcomes an opportunity to: meet with representatives of local organizations interested in voicing an opinion on the type of landscaping desired in Nevada City. 4, There will be nolandscaping at all unless the council adopts abillboard ordinance which gets the approval of the division. The meeting was in the nature J of a report by division regional representative Bill Sherwood and landscape architect Dana Bowers Neither mentioned the loss of the sequoia tree to the council---a loss which wasreported later in the meeting to the council by a letter from assistant state highway engineer Alan Hart. The report left in the air some statements made by Hart to the council early in December. At that time the engineer said that although the state will do what the city wants in landscaping, the state will start out by presenting a plan, a suggestion. Hart in December said that parking and freeway beautification are problems that go hand in handin planning for construc,tion, and at that time asked for the council's decision on the Coyote St. parking site, adding that the state was working on landscaping for the freeway and would present a landscaping plan for the city's study as soon as it was finished by Dana Bowers. Things have changed since December, and apparently the city will not have a freeway landscape plan until the highway is well into its 18 months of cone struction. "We can't prepare a plan in advance, " Bowerstold the coun(Continued on Page 2) D The 99-year-old sequoia com= munity Christmas tree will f removed during constructi the Nevada City freeway, it'was revealed Monday night. In -a letter to the Nevada City Council, assistant state. pore ay engineer Alan Hart said free~ way contract will include the re moval of the tree. Text of Hart's letter, which was mailedtothe city Feb. 7 sfollowst “Gentlemen: "This isin regard to the s tree which, with the vari torical features, has been the subject of discussion and study as to possible ways and means of preservation, "We have explored the possibilities of saving the tree by. shifting the freeway alignment aw ay from the tree or the con~struction of aretaining wall. The latter alternate appeared the less infeasible, but required a high, costly, retaining wall and it seems certain in spite of the effort thatthe tree would not long sur= vive and additionally if it continued to live with a greatly reduced root system it vrobably, in ahigh wind, would fall across the freeway or Sacramento Street. “Although we appreciate the desirability of preserving the tree we are developing our contract plans on the basis that it must be removed, "Very truly yours, AlanS, Hart.” (Continued on Page 2) City Leaves Vacancy On Council High school teacher Dan O ‘Neill came within one vote of getting a seat on the Nevada City Council Monday night. O'Neill was suggested to fill the. vacant council seat by Councilman Arch McPherson who had high praise for the only man who applied for appointment to the post. Councilman Ben Barry also favored O'Neill filling the post, citing respect he had for the qualifications of O'Neill. But Councilman Craig Davies, later joined by Mayor Bob Carr, suggested that the post be kept open until it is filled at the April 14 city election. Mayor Carr suggested that a "lame duck” councilman be named to fill the seat, one not running for the office, but did (Continued on Page 2) £eg UOTZOeS STBOTPOT LOT AT18O "6 ojueres kavsgy'y &389S *331 89 et ae a rene pacer ae penr Sateen at oar i _

ri i i] . I a RS AEE NEVADA COUNTY NGG CEES Sen Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, T A 1g, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Al 0. French Corral, pny rere rn thdiy eee Pes tee ug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Rid, e, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit Cin: Wcllenon, Coa iberty Sailor Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, C: Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore’s Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. h and Ready, Graniteville, North Eye, Lime e Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas mbia Hill, Brandy Flat, ‘Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Volume 39, Number7 10CentsACopy PublishedThursdays, Nevada City February 13, 1964 MERIT AWARD.. ‘General Excellence’ .Nevada County Nugget’ editor Dean Thompson (left) accepts the congratulations of Governor Edmund G. Brown at Coronado Saturday after the governor presented the Nugget witha California Newspaper Publisher's Association Merit Award for General Excellence. Publishers Honor Nugget A Merit Award for General Excellence was presented to the Nevada County Nugget Saturday in Coronado, Calif., as a part of the annual California Newspaper Publisher's Association Better Newspaper Contest. The Merit Award was the second most prized award given to weekly newspapers at the convention. The General Excellence Trophy, top prize for a weekly, was won.by the Menlo Park Recorder and Gazette, a metropolitan newspaper with 15,500 circulation. MenloPark's population is 27 , 233. General Excellence awards were also. won by the Van Nuys News, andthe San Fernando Valley Shin, both newspapers that publish more than once a week; and by the Lodi News-Sentinel, Roseville Daily Press-Tribune, the Riverside Daily Enterprise, andthe San Jose Mercury, all daily newspapers in two separate circulation classifications. Nevada County Nugget editor Dean Thompson, who with his wife, Vee, attended the CNPA convention and accepted the award, said, "In view of the other general excellence awards to weekly newspapers all going to newspapers that are situated in metropolitan areas, we of the Nugget staff accept this award to mean that our publication is ac(Continued on Page 21) i Parking Is Indefinite Officials ‘Hedge’ — On Landscape Plan By Dean Thompson Representatives of the California Division of Highways met with the Nevada City Council Monday night and councilmen learned: 1. The freeway construction program has been delayed, with current plans calling for the let~ ting of the Nevada City freeway contracttobid in “late summer" Gold Flat ‘C Zone .. Approved The county planning commissionhas recommended to the board of supervisors that 25 of 42 acres proposed for a new C-Commercial zone in Gold Flat be so zoned, The application of Robert Graham forthe zoning was supported at Monday night's commission meeting by Neil Hennessy and Wally Brunker, representing GraVada Enterprises, which will develop the property. Brunker explained that the proposed shopping center would be architect-designed. A sketch of possible facilities, drawn by Forrest Duranceau, Yuba City architect, was displayed. Morgan Ford Sales is expected to occupy a comer of the property along Gold Flat Rd. adjacent tothe projected freeway. Brunker saidthe southerly portion of the proposed zone might be developed for multiple or single dwellings. The commis-~sion saw no reason to include this area.in the C zone. Atentative map for a 137 unit subdivision on 67 acres abutting the north shore of lower Scotts Flat reservoir was not approved, due to lack of provisions for fire protection, pollutioncontrol, erosion control, utility easements, safety setbacks from the lake, ‘and adequate roads. A letter from EdBrowning, superintendent of the Nevada City School District, recommended denial due to lack of school bus access. after completion of rights of way acquisition in “mid-summer”. 2. The division has obtained approval of the sale to the city after completion of the freeway of a strip of property north of Ott's Assay Office for development by the city of an off-street parking facility. 3. There will not be a freeway: landscaping plan presented for an indefinite time, although

the division welcomes an opportunity to: meet with representatives of local organizations interested in voicing an opinion on the type of landscaping desired in Nevada City. 4, There will be nolandscaping at all unless the council adopts abillboard ordinance which gets the approval of the division. The meeting was in the nature J of a report by division regional representative Bill Sherwood and landscape architect Dana Bowers Neither mentioned the loss of the sequoia tree to the council---a loss which wasreported later in the meeting to the council by a letter from assistant state highway engineer Alan Hart. The report left in the air some statements made by Hart to the council early in December. At that time the engineer said that although the state will do what the city wants in landscaping, the state will start out by presenting a plan, a suggestion. Hart in December said that parking and freeway beautification are problems that go hand in handin planning for construc,tion, and at that time asked for the council's decision on the Coyote St. parking site, adding that the state was working on landscaping for the freeway and would present a landscaping plan for the city's study as soon as it was finished by Dana Bowers. Things have changed since December, and apparently the city will not have a freeway landscape plan until the highway is well into its 18 months of cone struction. "We can't prepare a plan in advance, " Bowerstold the coun(Continued on Page 2) D The 99-year-old sequoia com= munity Christmas tree will f removed during constructi the Nevada City freeway, it'was revealed Monday night. In -a letter to the Nevada City Council, assistant state. pore ay engineer Alan Hart said free~ way contract will include the re moval of the tree. Text of Hart's letter, which was mailedtothe city Feb. 7 sfollowst “Gentlemen: "This isin regard to the s tree which, with the vari torical features, has been the subject of discussion and study as to possible ways and means of preservation, "We have explored the possibilities of saving the tree by. shifting the freeway alignment aw ay from the tree or the con~struction of aretaining wall. The latter alternate appeared the less infeasible, but required a high, costly, retaining wall and it seems certain in spite of the effort thatthe tree would not long sur= vive and additionally if it continued to live with a greatly reduced root system it vrobably, in ahigh wind, would fall across the freeway or Sacramento Street. “Although we appreciate the desirability of preserving the tree we are developing our contract plans on the basis that it must be removed, "Very truly yours, AlanS, Hart.” (Continued on Page 2) City Leaves Vacancy On Council High school teacher Dan O ‘Neill came within one vote of getting a seat on the Nevada City Council Monday night. O'Neill was suggested to fill the. vacant council seat by Councilman Arch McPherson who had high praise for the only man who applied for appointment to the post. Councilman Ben Barry also favored O'Neill filling the post, citing respect he had for the qualifications of O'Neill. But Councilman Craig Davies, later joined by Mayor Bob Carr, suggested that the post be kept open until it is filled at the April 14 city election. Mayor Carr suggested that a "lame duck” councilman be named to fill the seat, one not running for the office, but did (Continued on Page 2) £eg UOTZOeS STBOTPOT LOT AT18O "6 ojueres kavsgy'y &389S *331 89 et ae a rene pacer ae penr Sateen at oar i _