February 15, 1967 (16 pages)

a NUGGET? 4. Restore the Old Nevada th 1 3. Enlarged Parking 8, stei. 1 ernment the American way of life. TMS FOR E967 catre ) u. Bus Lines for Local ‘Pransportation 1. Mere Employment bv" Encoaraging siiall Tadustry 4. Develop Recteations Areas to Maximum Potential 6. Advertise and Promote the Best Interest of Nevada County 7, Continuous Campaign for better local Roads 8, Constantly vigilant regarding Taxes and Expense of Gov9, Educate our teen-agers by precept and example concerning lu, Work for the betterment of our community . 11. Improyed highway to Grass Valley, eliminate bottlenecks 12, Encourage more attractions for tourists in area, ‘ .) 2 Government. by Committee yes even our National Government, but on a-scale so large that discussion seems hopeless, At any rate the Nugget appreciates the quick response from "Bill" Thomas Supervisor from “Last week our Editorial entitled "Government by Committee” invoked quite a bit of discussion, Our purpose in this editorial was tohave our people and our Board of Supervisors give some thought to a noticable trend going on now in City, .County and State Government,the Fourth District, We are happy to print it exactly as he presented it, " Supervisor Thomas -Guest Editor A Citizen‘s Committee Yes! or No! : Government By the people, Of the people and For the people has a rather direct implication. One of the major community concerns in 1967 will revolve around whether or not we (The County Board of Supervisors)will form "Citiznes Committees” in the effort to bring bettér government to Nevada County, Thete are those who sav “cit‘ izens committees have not. always worked in the past.’ And they tend to bring pressures on government that are not always positive, " : --This is a legitimate point of view. There aré thosé’ who say: ‘we elect the Supervisors, They should act only as a direct result of their own efforts, Com-mittees are a poor way to run anything, " --This is a legitimate point of view, There are those who echo the above rationale when the real motive is fear that people of our community willdevelop an interest in their government, become knowledgeable and be able to spot the political manipulations for self gain, ---This is not a legitimate point of view, Here is my position; 1. The Board of Supervisors is and shall be totally responsible for its actions. However, the board receivés advice from the county controller and county counsel as well as numerous department heads. I see no conflict in the board receiving advice from a duly appointed citizens committee, 2. Wedo not need a citizens .committee for every new item that comes before the board, However, there are some: major problem areas where a strong recommendation from the community is necessary. Generally these are programs where involvement may mean an expenditure of tax dollars. Here a citizens committee can be of real service, 3. Where a citizens committee is formed tostudy a problem and make recommendations, it can also serve to. provide information to the community, answering neighbors questions and generally explaining what is happening and why! 4, Over a period:of time, as we get.more and more people involved with citizens committees, we should see a decline in the suspicion with which many people now view county government. This of course” assumes we form the committees in good faith, Our county is of asize where we can effectively use the citizens committee, 5. When a citizens committee is to be formed two supervisors should then be available to work with the citizens committee once it is functioning, As you know it takes three supervisors to turn the wheels of county government. ‘In the weeks to come, citizens committees may gain favor with other members of the board. In any event, you the public should make your thoughts known and in the final analysis your desires should prevail, by William E, Thomas Supervisor, Dist, 4 Nevada County Government in Business Instances continually come to light in which local editors in small communities oppose government in business, In many cases, they battle against the full weight of the federal government, as the editor of The Biggs, California, News is doing, There the people have been offered the bait of so-called “lowcost" federal electric power, Biggs is located in sparsely settled Butte County. It is served by the publicly-regulated investor-owned Pacific Gas andElecric Company. This company is a substantial tax-paying citizen of the county and is faced with the prospect of taxexempt federal electric power competition, The editor of The Biggs News has this to say: “Each time we print that the PG&E has paid. . . some $2,7 million a year to the treasury of Butté County, wethink of what the other taxpayers of the county would do if the PG&E were socialized and paid NO TAXES as some far out thinkers would like to have come about. . . the PG&E pays some 30 per cent of the county tax bill. . . without it, it appears each tax bill would be up 30 per cent, . . this would also happen in many other counties of the state if the electric industry was socialized. " The President of, the United States, in his State of the Union Message, has asked for a substantial tax increase, while sub‘mitting a federal budget of well over $130 billion, ’ The electric industry is one of the biggest taxpayers--both federal and locai,, When government devours its own sources of tax revenue, it is practicing a kind of cannibalism, When it runs out of victims, the true price of socialiam (government in business) will stand revealed, a Senior Ci . Burton Bill Introduction of the Burton Bill for a National Minimum Retirement Income of $242 a month for America's elderly, blind,and disabled citizens ‘was the the topic of a meeting of the California League of Senior Citizens, Monday, February 13th, at 2:00 p,m,, at Veterand Memorial Hall, 255 South Auburn in Grass Valley. Refreshments follow meeting, The Bill, H:R, 335, was introduced in the opening day of the 90th Congress by Rep, Phillip Burton (D-S, F,) and is expected tocome before the House Ways and Means Committee for hearingssoon,. It calls for a National Minimum Retirement Income equal to the Federal Minimum Wage for all Americans of 62 years or older, plus the blind, and the disabled, The measure provides for payments to be made through the Social Security system, with retirement checks mailed directly to recipients from Washington, D, C, Once in operation, the plan would eliminate most existing welfare programs and relieve taxpayers of billions of dollars in costly state and local welfare administration expenses, At thesame meeting, oldsters ‘heard ‘about how the Old Folks Lobby is back-stopping its Washington, D.C, effort with a major campaign at the State level, to Pass on up to $5 in Social Security increases to old age pensioners,: This is embodied in a bill, A.B. 136, by Assemblyman Edward Elliott of Los Angeles, and. co-authored by more than 25 other Assemblymen, WEATHER NEVADA CITY Max, Min, Rainfall Feb, 8 62 30 9 61 30 10 59 31 ll 68 33 12 66 34 13°: 65 "34 14 62 31 . 20 Rainfall to date: 44, 12 “last year 32,.73 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min, Rainfall Feb, 8 69 33 9 67 34 10 65 34 ll 74 36 12:9) 37 13 70 37 14.64 30 «15 Rainfall to date: 42, 33 "last year ; 32.45 eSeee eee Alpha Annovaces $1000 Winner. FLASHMrs, Joseph E, Hardison who lives on McCourtney Road_ in Grass Valley, held the winning ticket in the drawing at the local Alpha Hardware Stores this week and was awarded the Mmajor Cash prize of $1000, 00, the store announced today. Charity begins at home, if and when it begins, ese2 8 8 The average student takes too long to learn too little, see ¢ @ ‘ The choice of clothes is important but not all-important, se*# es @ 8 Big words fool a lot of people but not as many as some think, a ess Asarule, the bigger the talker the smaller the brain, e*e¢e8e¢es “MEMORIES OF NE The Nugget. . February 15, = 3 Mra Edivots ggg I have been asked to repeat the story of we will call peg leg Billie. Now Billie was a funny little guy; he had one leg and the other was cut off above the knee, Billie used to get mad when anybody would ask him how he lost his lég, One day he got so mad that I think he would shoot him if he had a gun, He was swearing a blue streak when I came around the corner I said whoa! Billie what is wrong and he pointed at a man and started to swear again, I told the man he better beat it before Billie got mad. Now Billie liked his little drink so I told him what to tell the next man asked him how he lost his leg. . When I told him what to say he looked at me and bust-. out laughing sohard I was afraidhe. would get astroke. And then he said boy you area character, ' Here is what I told Billie to tell anybody asked about his leg.After, he had a drink or two he told anybody who asked him how he lost his leg. Here it is he said thathe was driving stage and going up the Yuba Grade to San Juan his horses shied and broke away from the stage and lefthim there holding the lines. The horses ran up the grade a little way and stopped, Billie got down from the seat to see what scared the horses and he seen a big Rattle snake, The snake started for Billie but he jumped on the tongue of the stage the snake bit the tongue of the stage before Billie killed it, Wellhe got off of the tongue to the ground, You know the tongue of the stage swelled so big it broke off falling on his leg that he had to shoot the leg off to keep from. starving to death. Bye this time a crowd had gathered around to see how the story came out, When Billie got through it was quiet for a second and the roar of laughter that broke you can bet nobody would ask Billie how he lost his leg. . After a while he got kind of sore at me you see the drinks stopped. The: story about Billie is true but not the tongue part. THE EDITOR Dear Editor: : Ionly know one person in Nevada City, but this does not matter, I am sending enclosed a money order for $5, 00 -$3. 00 for a 1 year subscription and $2.00 to help on the old theatre would donate more but is not possible at this time. But sincerely hope this will help out because I have a great admirance for old theatres, Thank you Henry J, Crump 801 So, Lincoln St, Santa Maria, Calif. ‘ 93454 VADA a Ae # i. % ei This morning I took a walk out on what they call now Railroad Ave. to look at our old ghomestead,. I went out as far ‘as Jenkins Flat. What is wrong cant you think of a dam fool name you can give to it, Well what the Free Way has done to it. you could not think Of a name that would fit it now, Do you know at one time that fifty thousand bucks was supposed to be burried on the flat, In fact you ought to have. seen the holes that were dug bye the people: of both N.C, and G. V. ‘but nothing was ever found. The man who burried the stolen money was locked up in jail they never even learned what his name was, All they knew: about him is in his hat was stamped the name Omar but while he was there a lady came . to see him he said it was his wife well maybe but she left after a few days I think she got the loot and was never seen — again. He was a three time looser and he knew if he went to the pen he would never get out, You ask me how I know so much theré is a hell of a lot more I know but that is my secret and when I leave this immortal toil the all go with me, Ihope the Free Way put the rock wall that they tore down in front of our little home on Railroad Ave, But why talk about it what do they care about the little people that they hurt, If you don't sell them anything that is close to their right of way they get it condemed and they give you what they please. Look what they are doing to Nevada City they are killing itbye slow degrees it is about halfdead now look at the empty places on Commericial St, right now. Tear the empty places down and you will have a little more room to park, You are boosting the town to high heaven and you don't have a laundry or a tailor or a shoe maker in town, You think I am the only one who sees the marking on the wall ask your business men who wanted the Free Way to go through the middle of town thinking that it would bring a lot of money in town, Wake up brother you have been dreaming. So Long Jack Bassett PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NUGGET PUBLISHING CO,, INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City California 95959 George R, Kane, Publisher Johm L, Clark, Editor and general manager George O, Brooks, Adv. manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated.alegal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decree No, 12,406, Subscription Rates; one year, $3.00; two ‘years, $5, 00: AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER » . Ret er cee: aotearoa SER eee heme oe, 5

a NUGGET? 4. Restore the Old Nevada th 1 3. Enlarged Parking 8, stei. 1 ernment the American way of life. TMS FOR E967 catre ) u. Bus Lines for Local ‘Pransportation 1. Mere Employment bv" Encoaraging siiall Tadustry 4. Develop Recteations Areas to Maximum Potential 6. Advertise and Promote the Best Interest of Nevada County 7, Continuous Campaign for better local Roads 8, Constantly vigilant regarding Taxes and Expense of Gov9, Educate our teen-agers by precept and example concerning lu, Work for the betterment of our community . 11. Improyed highway to Grass Valley, eliminate bottlenecks 12, Encourage more attractions for tourists in area, ‘ .) 2 Government. by Committee yes even our National Government, but on a-scale so large that discussion seems hopeless, At any rate the Nugget appreciates the quick response from "Bill" Thomas Supervisor from “Last week our Editorial entitled "Government by Committee” invoked quite a bit of discussion, Our purpose in this editorial was tohave our people and our Board of Supervisors give some thought to a noticable trend going on now in City, .County and State Government,the Fourth District, We are happy to print it exactly as he presented it, " Supervisor Thomas -Guest Editor A Citizen‘s Committee Yes! or No! : Government By the people, Of the people and For the people has a rather direct implication. One of the major community concerns in 1967 will revolve around whether or not we (The County Board of Supervisors)will form "Citiznes Committees” in the effort to bring bettér government to Nevada County, Thete are those who sav “cit‘ izens committees have not. always worked in the past.’ And they tend to bring pressures on government that are not always positive, " : --This is a legitimate point of view. There aré thosé’ who say: ‘we elect the Supervisors, They should act only as a direct result of their own efforts, Com-mittees are a poor way to run anything, " --This is a legitimate point of view, There are those who echo the above rationale when the real motive is fear that people of our community willdevelop an interest in their government, become knowledgeable and be able to spot the political manipulations for self gain, ---This is not a legitimate point of view, Here is my position; 1. The Board of Supervisors is and shall be totally responsible for its actions. However, the board receivés advice from the county controller and county counsel as well as numerous department heads. I see no conflict in the board receiving advice from a duly appointed citizens committee, 2. Wedo not need a citizens .committee for every new item that comes before the board, However, there are some: major problem areas where a strong recommendation from the community is necessary. Generally these are programs where involvement may mean an expenditure of tax dollars. Here a citizens committee can be of real service, 3. Where a citizens committee is formed tostudy a problem and make recommendations, it can also serve to. provide information to the community, answering neighbors questions and generally explaining what is happening and why! 4, Over a period:of time, as we get.more and more people involved with citizens committees, we should see a decline in the suspicion with which many people now view county government. This of course” assumes we form the committees in good faith, Our county is of asize where we can effectively use the citizens committee, 5. When a citizens committee is to be formed two supervisors should then be available to work with the citizens committee once it is functioning, As you know it takes three supervisors to turn the wheels of county government. ‘In the weeks to come, citizens committees may gain favor with other members of the board. In any event, you the public should make your thoughts known and in the final analysis your desires should prevail, by William E, Thomas Supervisor, Dist, 4 Nevada County Government in Business Instances continually come to light in which local editors in small communities oppose government in business, In many cases, they battle against the full weight of the federal government, as the editor of The Biggs, California, News is doing, There the people have been offered the bait of so-called “lowcost" federal electric power, Biggs is located in sparsely settled Butte County. It is served by the publicly-regulated investor-owned Pacific Gas andElecric Company. This company is a substantial tax-paying citizen of the county and is faced with the prospect of taxexempt federal electric power competition, The editor of The Biggs News has this to say: “Each time we print that the PG&E has paid. . . some $2,7 million a year to the treasury of Butté County, wethink of what the other taxpayers of the county would do if the PG&E were socialized and paid NO TAXES as some far out thinkers would like to have come about. . . the PG&E pays some 30 per cent of the county tax bill. . . without it, it appears each tax bill would be up 30 per cent, . . this would also happen in many other counties of the state if the electric industry was socialized.. " The President of, the United States, in his State of the Union Message, has asked for a substantial tax increase, while sub‘mitting a federal budget of well over $130 billion, ’ The electric industry is one of the biggest taxpayers--both federal and locai,, When government devours its own sources of tax revenue, it is practicing a kind of cannibalism, When it runs out of victims, the true price of socialiam (government in business) will stand revealed, a Senior Ci . Burton Bill Introduction of the Burton Bill for a National Minimum Retirement Income of $242 a month for America's elderly, blind,and disabled citizens ‘was the the topic of a meeting of the California League of Senior Citizens, Monday, February 13th, at 2:00 p,m,, at Veterand Memorial Hall, 255 South Auburn in Grass Valley. Refreshments follow meeting, The Bill, H:R, 335, was introduced in the opening day of the 90th Congress by Rep, Phillip Burton (D-S, F,) and is expected tocome before the House Ways and Means Committee for hearingssoon,. It calls for a National Minimum Retirement Income equal to the Federal Minimum Wage for all Americans of 62 years or older, plus the blind, and the disabled, The measure provides for payments to be made through the Social Security system, with retirement checks mailed directly to recipients from Washington, D, C, Once in operation, the plan would eliminate most existing welfare programs and relieve taxpayers of billions of dollars in costly state and local welfare administration expenses, At thesame meeting, oldsters ‘heard ‘about how the Old Folks Lobby is back-stopping its Washington, D.C, effort with a major campaign at the State level, to Pass on up to $5 in Social Security increases to old age pensioners,: This is embodied in a bill, A.B. 136, by Assemblyman Edward Elliott of Los Angeles, and. co-authored by more than 25 other Assemblymen, WEATHER NEVADA CITY Max, Min, Rainfall Feb, 8 62 30 9 61 30 10 59 31 ll 68 33 12 66 34 13°: 65 "34 14 62 31 . 20 Rainfall to date: 44, 12 “last year 32,.73 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min, Rainfall Feb, 8 69 33 9 67 34 10 65 34 ll 74 36 12:9) 37 13 70 37 14.64 30 «15 Rainfall to date: 42, 33 "last year ; 32.45 eSeee eee Alpha Annovaces $1000 Winner. FLASHMrs, Joseph E, Hardison who

lives on McCourtney Road_ in Grass Valley, held the winning ticket in the drawing at the local Alpha Hardware Stores this week and was awarded the Mmajor Cash prize of $1000, 00, the store announced today. Charity begins at home, if and when it begins, ese2 8 8 The average student takes too long to learn too little, see ¢ @ ‘ The choice of clothes is important but not all-important, se*# es @ 8 Big words fool a lot of people but not as many as some think, a ess Asarule, the bigger the talker the smaller the brain, e*e¢e8e¢es “MEMORIES OF NE The Nugget. . February 15, = 3 Mra Edivots ggg I have been asked to repeat the story of we will call peg leg Billie. Now Billie was a funny little guy; he had one leg and the other was cut off above the knee, Billie used to get mad when anybody would ask him how he lost his lég, One day he got so mad that I think he would shoot him if he had a gun, He was swearing a blue streak when I came around the corner I said whoa! Billie what is wrong and he pointed at a man and started to swear again, I told the man he better beat it before Billie got mad. Now Billie liked his little drink so I told him what to tell the next man asked him how he lost his leg. . When I told him what to say he looked at me and bust-. out laughing sohard I was afraidhe. would get astroke. And then he said boy you area character, ' Here is what I told Billie to tell anybody asked about his leg.After, he had a drink or two he told anybody who asked him how he lost his leg. Here it is he said thathe was driving stage and going up the Yuba Grade to San Juan his horses shied and broke away from the stage and lefthim there holding the lines. The horses ran up the grade a little way and stopped, Billie got down from the seat to see what scared the horses and he seen a big Rattle snake, The snake started for Billie but he jumped on the tongue of the stage the snake bit the tongue of the stage before Billie killed it, Wellhe got off of the tongue to the ground, You know the tongue of the stage swelled so big it broke off falling on his leg that he had to shoot the leg off to keep from. starving to death. Bye this time a crowd had gathered around to see how the story came out, When Billie got through it was quiet for a second and the roar of laughter that broke you can bet nobody would ask Billie how he lost his leg. . After a while he got kind of sore at me you see the drinks stopped. The: story about Billie is true but not the tongue part. THE EDITOR Dear Editor: : Ionly know one person in Nevada City, but this does not matter, I am sending enclosed a money order for $5, 00 -$3. 00 for a 1 year subscription and $2.00 to help on the old theatre would donate more but is not possible at this time. But sincerely hope this will help out because I have a great admirance for old theatres, Thank you Henry J, Crump 801 So, Lincoln St, Santa Maria, Calif. ‘ 93454 VADA a Ae # i. % ei This morning I took a walk out on what they call now Railroad Ave. to look at our old ghomestead,. I went out as far ‘as Jenkins Flat. What is wrong cant you think of a dam fool name you can give to it, Well what the Free Way has done to it. you could not think Of a name that would fit it now, Do you know at one time that fifty thousand bucks was supposed to be burried on the flat, In fact you ought to have. seen the holes that were dug bye the people: of both N.C, and G. V. ‘but nothing was ever found. The man who burried the stolen money was locked up in jail they never even learned what his name was, All they knew: about him is in his hat was stamped the name Omar but while he was there a lady came . to see him he said it was his wife well maybe but she left after a few days I think she got the loot and was never seen — again. He was a three time looser and he knew if he went to the pen he would never get out, You ask me how I know so much theré is a hell of a lot more I know but that is my secret and when I leave this immortal toil the all go with me, Ihope the Free Way put the rock wall that they tore down in front of our little home on Railroad Ave, But why talk about it what do they care about the little people that they hurt, If you don't sell them anything that is close to their right of way they get it condemed and they give you what they please. Look what they are doing to Nevada City they are killing itbye slow degrees it is about halfdead now look at the empty places on Commericial St, right now. Tear the empty places down and you will have a little more room to park, You are boosting the town to high heaven and you don't have a laundry or a tailor or a shoe maker in town, You think I am the only one who sees the marking on the wall ask your business men who wanted the Free Way to go through the middle of town thinking that it would bring a lot of money in town, Wake up brother you have been dreaming. So Long Jack Bassett PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NUGGET PUBLISHING CO,, INC, 318 Broad Street, Nevada City California 95959 George R, Kane, Publisher Johm L, Clark, Editor and general manager George O, Brooks, Adv. manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, California, Adjudicated.alegal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960, Decree No, 12,406, Subscription Rates; one year, $3.00; two ‘years, $5, 00: AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER » . Ret er cee: aotearoa SER eee heme oe, 5