February 15, 1961 (8 pages)

I a ag ay aha noe ane RO SO SL IO tag Dla eed * :Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney tae Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, i i Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, ill, and Ready, iLime Kiln re. MNQRNR Published Weekly Nevattr-G+e* ebruary 15, 1961 Volume 36 No.7 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" GRAND JURY KNOCKS PROBATION OFFICE, SURVEYING CONTRACT Nevada County Grand Jury, 1960 A FOOTBALL HERO..Ted Connelly, football hero of the San Francisco 49ers, hands the ball to Gary Sharpe, football hero of the future, as Exalted Ruler, Babe Childers and Youth Activities Co-chairman Judge Verle Gray (right) look on at ceremonies during the Nevada City Elks Club annual father-sons night. NUGGET Photo by Prentiss Portraits, WET ROAD HOT WIRE.Fred Rosco, 37, Nevada City, and employee of a Grass Valley restaurant, died on the hot wire at the lower right corner of this photo about ten minutes after he. skidded his car into the pole across the highway Monday morning. Roscoe, told California Highway Partolmen he had swerved to avoid an eastbound car on a curve on the cutoff ‘from Town alk to the Gold Nugget Inn. He was told to stay in his car-until flares. could be set:out and emergency: vehicles called. But Roscoe, apparently in a state of. shock, got out of his car, crossed over or under the wire hanging between the two raod edges. He must hot have seen the short end of hot wire that lay in the mud where he stepped, where he fell atop*its 4000 volts. Artifical respiration could not remedy instantaneous death. : : NUGGET Photo by Prentiss Portrait ‘County Reported . TheNevada County Grand : Jury released its annual re' port yesterday afternoon, a . report of accomplishment : within the county in most ' fields. . The report's recom: controller be established. in auditor's posthas already been given approval by supervisors, The recommendation that thedistrict attorney be placed on a full-time basis has been a pproved by the supervisors and is before the legislature for action. A sprinkler system requested . for the Nevada County Hos. pital to reduce fire hazards inthe building is in the process of being furnished. The . fecommendation of the 1959 1960 Grand Jury also requested action on this item. An automatic ice making machine was donated to the hospital by one member of ‘ theGrand Jury, Gordon True, , toreplace an old wooden box in which ice had been kept in the past---termed a potéiitial sanitation and health hazard. termite condition at the Nevada City Elementary School be remedied immediately wastaken by the elementary school board and assurances given that the work would be done this year rather than w aiting for the new fiscal year budget. Most county agencies received a pat on the back for efficient operation. The 1960 Grand Jury was under the chairmanship of Larry B. Quimby, foreman. members: Eleanor B. Tremoureaux , Cecil Edmunds, Robert Ross , Jr., Grace Rader, Robert H. Chesney, Lucille M. Sahl, Herbert O. Pingree, C.A. Bourland, James C. Phelan. ClarenceE, Gassaway, Donald Donahue, Sibyl Leutenecker, H. VerneJones, Edith Bradshaw, Don C. Billick. GordonH. True, Jr., Marian Ghidotti, and Margaret McGowan. Gold Quartz Meet A meeting of the Gold Quartz Democratic Club will . beheld at the Alta Hill Fire. hhouse Thurs. at8 p.m., ac. ;cording to club President Ed . Nygard. Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Feb, 8 53 30: .12 mep. 9 856. 44: ~.61 Feb. 10 51 46 1.10 Feb. 11 57 41 .88 Feb. 12 45 36 =. 67 Feb. 13 47 30.03 Feb, 14° 44 $1.5 .01 ain to date. . 5 22.67 Rain last year . . . .31.65 Grass Valley Feb. 8 54 $6. OT Feb. 9 49 Al ,16 Feb. 10. 51 45 1.20 Feb. 11° 57 40 .90 Feb. 12 57 36 =. 55 Feb. 13° 49 31-502 Feb. 14 44 35 =.02 Rain to date. .:. 23,52 Rain last year. 33.17 mendation that the office of ! . by Foreman Larry B Quimby, . ; conjunction with the county . Grand Jury originally, the . A recommendation that a ; It included the following ; The Nevada County Board of Supervisors, the former ; county surveyor, and the ; Probation Department of the county all came in for criticism in the annual repprt of the 1960 Grand Jury , released yesterday afternoon . “We are very displeased ; with the Juvenile Probation ; Probation. Department, " the . report states. "Juveniles are : being put on probation with; Out anyone seeing. that the . terms of probationare-being ; Met. It seems to be a well . known fact among the juwenile population that they jhave nothing to fear from . probation. In many cases, ‘being on probation is taken , 48 quite a joke. Some of this . we find partly due to the at. tude of some parents.” The Grand Jury suggested ithat the Sheriff and Police : Departments be given the op. portunity to be of more iservice in enforcing proba. tion terms, . Thereport pointed out that ‘individual card records are ‘Not maintained on juveniles . ‘One card is maintained with ‘all juveniles under probation listed on it. The report showed that as of Dec: 30, 1960, there were 161 adults and 80 juveniles on probation within the county. T hey quoted Probation. officer Floyd Pond as saying his staff was not large enough for him to provide time to perform "follow up" work on probationers. The Grand Jury recommended an increase in staff of one man for work in the field. Pond was quoted by thereport as saying that approximately 50 per cent of probaitioners fail to report -to his office as required by law. The GrandJury said the probation officer has discretion whether or not he should exert a major effort to apprehend probation violations. The supervisors and former Lack Of Juvenile Control, Progress (Map Irregularities Draw Ire Of County Panel County Surveyor Carlos Mc Guire jointly were the target of Grand Jury criticism: "The Grand Jury considers the awarding of the original parcelling system contract to Carlos McGuire and Sons, by the board of supervisors to be highly irregular and at variance with sound, efficient government paractices," The Grand Jury stressed that 1. the contract should have been*put out to bid; 2. the funds allocated should have gone through the assessor’s office in order to retain some degree of control; 3. the awarding of a contract to a county employe was illegal. "It was with great reluctance that the Grand Jury voted to allow McGuire to complete parcelling program---,." the report stated. "The decision to permit McGuire to.complete parcelling maps was arrived at solely on the basis of saving the county approximately $41,000 and of expediting the completion of the badly needed parcelling maps, " TheGrand Jury singled out . McGuire's practices and proi . . cedures in fulfilling the con. tract as"extremely unsatisfactory and undésire. able." The report said: 1, The work was performed on a hit or miss basis--pursued with vigor during school vacation when Mc Guire employed "six or eight of his relatives, several of whom were of school age." 2. McGuire's method of invoicing the county---was extremely irregular. Some of the invoices covered work done before the effective date of the contract. 3. McGuire's salary scale for his relatives and other officehelp employed on the job ranged from $1.25 to $2 per hour. The county was charged $6.25 per hour. Planning Director Sought Planning commission members of Nevada County are looking forward to Friday night's meeting with Consultant Dick Wilkinson with hopes he willreport the availability of a qualified full-time consultant for the commission. Supervisors have given the green light to the commission to allow the hiring of a consultant or planning director for the county at a maximum salary of $600 per month. The commission will interview applicants as soon as possible. An expected heavier work load as county building expands along with the dire need for a subdivision ordinance are the basis reasons for the hiring of a person to head the county's planning organization. Executive Secretary Verne Jones, the only planning staff member now, recommended to the commission the hiring of a trained planner.He explains that even now planning commission work would~benefit greatly from the full-time services of a trained man. Jones turned in his resignation to the supervisors effective May 1 "or sooner" in . the event a full-time planner ; can be employed before that time. Contrary to some reports , Jones has no plans to leave the area. He will go ona trip in May, but will return to Nevada County pending his decision as to future employment. Jones said the commission has invited representatives of several organizations to sit in on Wilkinson's meeting with the commission Friday night in the Supervisor's Room of the courthouse. He extended the invitation to any citizen interested in planning. ON DISPLAY.The original water colors of Elise De Celles Beaton, member of the Carmel Art Association andthe Society of Western Artists, have been placed on display for an indefinite period inthe Victorian Room of the National Hotel. The water colors are all ofthe Mother Lode area, featuring many from the Nevada City area. Mrs. Beaton, a Carmel resident, recently finisheda showing in the Amador County Museum in Jackson. She is showing Mrs. HaroldAlmquist of the Victorian Room one water’ color of The Nevada City Espiscopal Church. NUGGET Photo by Prentiss Portrait. Online ic Mla

I a ag ay aha noe ane RO SO SL IO tag Dla eed * :Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney tae Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, i i Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, ill, and Ready, iLime Kiln re. MNQRNR Published Weekly Nevattr-G+e* ebruary 15, 1961 Volume 36 No.7 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" GRAND JURY KNOCKS PROBATION OFFICE, SURVEYING CONTRACT Nevada County Grand Jury, 1960 A FOOTBALL HERO...Ted Connelly, football hero of the San Francisco 49ers, hands the ball to Gary Sharpe, football hero of the future, as Exalted Ruler, Babe Childers and Youth Activities Co-chairman Judge Verle Gray (right) look on at ceremonies during the Nevada City Elks Club annual father-sons night. NUGGET Photo by Prentiss Portraits, WET ROAD HOT WIRE..Fred Rosco, 37, Nevada City, and employee of a Grass Valley restaurant, died on the hot wire at the lower right corner of this photo about ten minutes after he. skidded his car into the pole across the highway Monday morning. Roscoe, told California Highway Partolmen he had swerved to avoid an eastbound car on a curve on the cutoff ‘from Town alk to the Gold Nugget Inn. He was told to stay in his car-until flares. could be set:out and emergency: vehicles called. But Roscoe, apparently in a state of. shock, got out of his car, crossed over or under the wire hanging between the two raod edges. He must hot have seen the short end of hot wire that lay in the mud where he stepped, where he fell atop*its 4000 volts. Artifical respiration could not remedy instantaneous death. : : NUGGET Photo by Prentiss Portrait ‘County Reported . TheNevada County Grand : Jury released its annual re' port yesterday afternoon, a . report of accomplishment : within the county in most ' fields. . The report's recom: controller be established. in auditor's posthas already been given approval by supervisors, The recommendation that thedistrict attorney be placed on a full-time basis has been a pproved by the supervisors and is before the legislature for action. A sprinkler system requested . for the Nevada County Hos. pital to reduce fire hazards inthe building is in the process of being furnished. The . fecommendation of the 1959 1960 Grand Jury also requested action on this item. An automatic ice making machine was donated to the hospital by one member of ‘ theGrand Jury, Gordon True, , toreplace an old wooden box in which ice had been kept in the past---termed a potéiitial sanitation and health hazard. termite condition at the Nevada City Elementary School be remedied immediately wastaken by the elementary school board and assurances given that the work would be done this year rather than w aiting for the new fiscal year budget. Most county agencies received a pat on the back for efficient operation. The 1960 Grand Jury was under the chairmanship of Larry B. Quimby, foreman. members: Eleanor B. Tremoureaux , Cecil Edmunds, Robert Ross , Jr., Grace Rader, Robert H. Chesney, Lucille M. Sahl, Herbert O. Pingree, C.A. Bourland, James C. Phelan. ClarenceE, Gassaway, Donald Donahue, Sibyl Leutenecker, H. VerneJones, Edith Bradshaw, Don C. Billick. GordonH. True, Jr., Marian Ghidotti, and Margaret McGowan. Gold Quartz Meet A meeting of the Gold Quartz Democratic Club will . beheld at the Alta Hill Fire. hhouse Thurs. at8 p.m., ac. ;cording to club President Ed . Nygard. Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Feb, 8 53 30: .12 mep. 9 856. 44: ~.61 Feb. 10 51 46 1.10 Feb. 11 57 41 .88 Feb. 12 45 36 =. 67 Feb. 13 47 30.03 Feb, 14° 44 $1.5 .01 ain to date.. . 5 22.67 Rain last year . . . .31.65 Grass Valley Feb. 8 54 $6.. OT Feb. 9 49 Al ,16 Feb. 10. 51 45 1.20 Feb. 11° 57 40 .90 Feb. 12 57 36 =. 55 Feb. 13° 49 31-502 Feb. 14 44 35 =.02 Rain to date. .:. 23,52 Rain last year. 33.17 mendation that the office of ! . by Foreman Larry B Quimby, . ; conjunction with the county . Grand Jury originally, the . A recommendation that a ; It included the following ; The Nevada County Board of Supervisors, the former ; county surveyor, and the ; Probation Department of the county all came in for criticism in the annual repprt of the 1960 Grand Jury , released yesterday afternoon . “We are very displeased ; with the Juvenile Probation ; Probation. Department, " the . report states. "Juveniles are : being put on probation with; Out anyone seeing. that the . terms of probationare-being ; Met. It seems to be a well . known fact among the juwenile population that they jhave nothing to fear from . probation. In many cases, ‘being on probation is taken , 48 quite a joke. Some of this . we find partly due to the at. tude of some parents.” The Grand Jury suggested ithat the Sheriff and Police : Departments be given the op. portunity to be of more iservice in enforcing proba. tion terms, . Thereport pointed out that

‘individual card records are ‘Not maintained on juveniles . ‘One card is maintained with ‘all juveniles under probation listed on it. The report showed that as of Dec: 30, 1960, there were 161 adults and 80 juveniles on probation within the county. T hey quoted Probation. officer Floyd Pond as saying his staff was not large enough for him to provide time to perform "follow up" work on probationers. The Grand Jury recommended an increase in staff of one man for work in the field. Pond was quoted by thereport as saying that approximately 50 per cent of probaitioners fail to report -to his office as required by law. The GrandJury said the probation officer has discretion whether or not he should exert a major effort to apprehend probation violations. The supervisors and former Lack Of Juvenile Control, Progress (Map Irregularities Draw Ire Of County Panel County Surveyor Carlos Mc Guire jointly were the target of Grand Jury criticism: "The Grand Jury considers the awarding of the original parcelling system contract to Carlos McGuire and Sons, by the board of supervisors to be highly irregular and at variance with sound, efficient government paractices," The Grand Jury stressed that 1. the contract should have been*put out to bid; 2. the funds allocated should have gone through the assessor’s office in order to retain some degree of control; 3. the awarding of a contract to a county employe was illegal. "It was with great reluctance that the Grand Jury voted to allow McGuire to complete parcelling program---,." the report stated. "The decision to permit McGuire to.complete parcelling maps was arrived at solely on the basis of saving the county approximately $41,000 and of expediting the completion of the badly needed parcelling maps, " TheGrand Jury singled out . McGuire's practices and proi . . cedures in fulfilling the con. tract as"extremely unsatisfactory and undésire. able." The report said: 1, The work was performed on a hit or miss basis--pursued with vigor during school vacation when Mc Guire employed "six or eight of his relatives, several of whom were of school age." 2. McGuire's method of invoicing the county---was extremely irregular. Some of the invoices covered work done before the effective date of the contract. 3. McGuire's salary scale for his relatives and other officehelp employed on the job ranged from $1.25 to $2 per hour. The county was charged $6.25 per hour. Planning Director Sought Planning commission members of Nevada County are looking forward to Friday night's meeting with Consultant Dick Wilkinson with hopes he willreport the availability of a qualified full-time consultant for the commission. Supervisors have given the green light to the commission to allow the hiring of a consultant or planning director for the county at a maximum salary of $600 per month. The commission will interview applicants as soon as possible. An expected heavier work load as county building expands along with the dire need for a subdivision ordinance are the basis reasons for the hiring of a person to head the county's planning organization. Executive Secretary Verne Jones, the only planning staff member now, recommended to the commission the hiring of a trained planner.He explains that even now planning commission work would~benefit greatly from the full-time services of a trained man. Jones turned in his resignation to the supervisors effective May 1 "or sooner" in . the event a full-time planner ; can be employed before that time. Contrary to some reports , Jones has no plans to leave the area. He will go ona trip in May, but will return to Nevada County pending his decision as to future employment. Jones said the commission has invited representatives of several organizations to sit in on Wilkinson's meeting with the commission Friday night in the Supervisor's Room of the courthouse. He extended the invitation to any citizen interested in planning. ON DISPLAY..The original water colors of Elise De Celles Beaton, member of the Carmel Art Association andthe Society of Western Artists, have been placed on display for an indefinite period inthe Victorian Room of the National Hotel. The water colors are all ofthe Mother Lode area, featuring many from the Nevada City area. Mrs. Beaton, a Carmel resident, recently finisheda showing in the Amador County Museum in Jackson. She is showing Mrs. HaroldAlmquist of the Victorian Room one water’ color of The Nevada City Espiscopal Church. NUGGET Photo by Prentiss Portrait. Online ic Mla