February 18, 1965 (20 pages)

February 18, 1965..Nevada County Nugget.. bo NUGGET FEATURES DBOe ¢60S3e 6s Oe & DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE ©9608 0°®OseG0@ CRAYON CORWER ol (Yatne FOOL’S GOLD As Happy Charlie Would Say, Gung Hay Fat Chow Sadly the Chinatowns of Nevada City and Grass Valley are no more, Were they here in 1965 (Anno 4668) The Year of The Snake there would have been great jubilation among the local Chinese on their New Years Celebration and the entire local population would have shared with its Chinese friends a day of great joy. For on this day was chosen the priest of the Joss House for the coming year. AH LOUIE KEEPER OF THE JOSS HOUSE The famous GV Joss House is now housed in the Nevada County Historical Museum on Main St. NC and is visited by over 5000 tourists each year, My memory of the NC Chinese New Years is faint but I do remember.the Chinese Band blaring forth even in decreasing numbers as Chinatown started to disappear during WW1. There was the annual scramble for the little packages thrown into the air from specially prepared bombs. My 4th grade friend was Charlie On and the peddlers were the ever popular Happy Charlie and Old Yellow Bean with his cue and dangling baskets going door to door. And after the public show with their white friends the Chinese would go to the Joss House to beat the gong (wake up Buddha) or beat the drum (go away evilspirit). As Happy Charlie would say "GUNG HAY FAT CHOY" Happy Year of the Snake to You! IKK KK KK 1K KK KF Thisrare never before published photo from the Downey Clinch col‘lection is of one of the neglected heroes of the Nevada State silver ‘rush the assayer Melville Atwood, It was he who confirmed what appeared atthe time to be a ridiculous assay by E.J.N. Ott $3500 per ton. True said chemist Atwood for a secret assay by George Hearst (SF Examiner and San Simeon) who left his cabin at Chimney Rock (Town Talk) NC borrowed a few hundred dollars over the National Hotel (NC) bar, and left by mule for Virginia City with his Ott-Atwood information to buy the Ophir Mine for a mere _ $400 and to become the first miblionaire-of-the Comstock. he nets GATHERING MOSS Alas, Only Seven Days. Time? Is There Ever EnoughTime Anywhere Hal Boyle, whose AP column we enjoy, devotes a day now and then toa recitation of things which people are tired of hearing. We always want to add one of our own, one which otherrural dwellers must be as bored as we: “Whatever do you dowith all your time, way out herein the country?” After 17 years of country living we are more than ever flabbergasted when somebody springs this one on us and wish we could think of a really devastating answer. Time? Is there ever enough time anywhere? Country days are no longer -than city days, alas, and we too have only seven days in a week. Obviously, we must spend alltoo much of the precious time remaining to us in such mundane occupations as earning a livCAROUSEL Through March 5 ..Anexhibit of the paintings of Loana Beeson of Nevada City is being shown at The Gallery on Commercial Street in Nevada City. The Gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1:30 to 4 p.m. : Through February . . Forty prints of Old Masters will be on exhibit in the Humanities Gallery at First and Salem Streets at Chico State Callege. Painters whose works are shown include: Da Viner, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bellini, Tintoretto, Fra Filippo Lippi, Breughel, Holbein, Van der Weyden, Van Eck, Vermeer, Gainsborough and Constable, February 16-26 .. Mozart's sparkling opera "The Marriage of Figaro” will be presented on the stage of the Sacramento State College Little Theater at 6000 J Street on Feb. 16, 18,20,22,24 and 26. Curtain time is 8 p.m. March 11 through 16 .»The department of dramatic art and speech of the University of California at Davis will present Jean Anouilh's play "Colombe’s in the East Hall Studio on campus. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. February 24 ..A rare concert of lute songs will be presented by the Belgian; duo of Christiane Van Acker and Michel Podolski in the Wyatt Pavilion Theater on the Davis Campus of the University of California. The performance will begin at 8:15 p.m. February 26 and 27 ..The Department of Dramatic Art and Speech atthe University of California at Davis will present a faculty reading of Shaw's “Don Juan in Hell" at8:15 p.m, inthe Wyatt Pavilion Theater on cam~ pus, The public is invited. ing, keeping house, performing the usual chores of any householder, either urban or rural, Whenever we can spare a few hours from these duties we are eager to pursue our hobby of photography, or to explore the beautiful world around us, delve into the colorful history of the area, collect all sorts of things, hike in the forest and observe the native fauna and flora, visit or entertain our many friends, So far we have not found time even to start on such intriguing things as studying insects through a microscope, observing the heavenly bodies with a telescope, learning mineralogy. And every day more and more new interests open up. Time? What do we do with our time? Perhaps what they mean is, “How do we manage to fill our hours when we do not have access to theaters, nightclubs and all the ‘cultural advantages’ of the city?” These we can live without, and are only too happy to spend evenings at home listening tothe world's finest music on our own sound system or broadening our horizons with good books. Ah, music and books. A lifetime is not long enough for these neverfailing delights. Werustics are not such strange birds, Our way of life is not unique merely because we live ona country road, Time’ What do we do with our time? And how long is.a piece of string?

February 18, 1965...Nevada County Nugget... bo NUGGET FEATURES DBOe ¢60S3e 6s Oe & DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE ©9608 0°®OseG0@ CRAYON CORWER ol (Yatne FOOL’S GOLD As Happy Charlie Would Say, Gung Hay Fat Chow Sadly the Chinatowns of Nevada City and Grass Valley are no more, Were they here in 1965 (Anno 4668) The Year of The Snake there would have been great jubilation among the local Chinese on their New Years Celebration and the entire local population would have shared with its Chinese friends a day of great joy. For on this day was chosen the priest of the Joss House for the coming year. AH LOUIE KEEPER OF THE JOSS HOUSE The famous GV Joss House is now housed in the Nevada County Historical Museum on Main St. NC and is visited by over 5000 tourists each year, My memory of the NC Chinese New Years is faint but I do remember.the Chinese Band blaring forth even in decreasing numbers as Chinatown started to disappear during WW1. There was the annual scramble for the little packages thrown into the air from specially prepared bombs. My 4th grade friend was Charlie On and the peddlers were the ever popular Happy Charlie and Old Yellow Bean with his cue and dangling baskets going door to door. And after the public show with their white friends the Chinese would go to the Joss House to beat the gong (wake up Buddha) or beat the drum (go away evilspirit). As Happy Charlie would say "GUNG HAY FAT CHOY" Happy Year of the Snake to You! IKK KK KK 1K KK KF Thisrare never before published photo from the Downey Clinch col‘lection is of one of the neglected heroes of the Nevada State silver ‘rush the assayer Melville Atwood, It was he who confirmed what appeared atthe time to be a ridiculous assay by E.J.N. Ott $3500 per ton. True said chemist Atwood for a secret assay by George Hearst (SF Examiner and San Simeon) who left his cabin at Chimney Rock (Town Talk) NC borrowed a few hundred dollars over the National Hotel (NC) bar, and left by mule for Virginia City with his Ott-Atwood information to buy the Ophir Mine for a mere _ $400 and to become the first miblionaire-of-the Comstock. he nets GATHERING MOSS Alas, Only Seven Days. Time? Is There Ever EnoughTime Anywhere Hal Boyle, whose AP column we enjoy, devotes a day now and then toa recitation of things which people are tired of hearing. We always want to add one of our own, one which otherrural dwellers must be as bored as we: “Whatever do you dowith all your time, way out herein the country?” After 17 years of country living we are more than ever flabbergasted when somebody springs this one on us and wish we could think of a really devastating answer. Time? Is there ever enough time anywhere? Country days are no longer -than city days, alas, and we too have only seven days in a week. Obviously, we must spend alltoo much of the precious time remaining to us in such mundane occupations as earning a livCAROUSEL Through March 5 ...Anexhibit of the paintings of Loana Beeson of Nevada City is being shown at The Gallery on Commercial Street in Nevada City. The Gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1:30 to 4 p.m. : Through February . . Forty prints of Old Masters will

be on exhibit in the Humanities Gallery at First and Salem Streets at Chico State Callege. Painters whose works are shown include: Da Viner, Michelangelo, Raphael, Bellini, Tintoretto, Fra Filippo Lippi, Breughel, Holbein, Van der Weyden, Van Eck, Vermeer, Gainsborough and Constable, February 16-26 ... Mozart's sparkling opera "The Marriage of Figaro” will be presented on the stage of the Sacramento State College Little Theater at 6000 J Street on Feb. 16, 18,20,22,24 and 26. Curtain time is 8 p.m. March 11 through 16 ..»The department of dramatic art and speech of the University of California at Davis will present Jean Anouilh's play "Colombe’s in the East Hall Studio on campus. Curtain time is 8:15 p.m. February 24 ...A rare concert of lute songs will be presented by the Belgian; duo of Christiane Van Acker and Michel Podolski in the Wyatt Pavilion Theater on the Davis Campus of the University of California. The performance will begin at 8:15 p.m. February 26 and 27 ...The Department of Dramatic Art and Speech atthe University of California at Davis will present a faculty reading of Shaw's “Don Juan in Hell" at8:15 p.m, inthe Wyatt Pavilion Theater on cam~ pus, The public is invited. ing, keeping house, performing the usual chores of any householder, either urban or rural, Whenever we can spare a few hours from these duties we are eager to pursue our hobby of photography, or to explore the beautiful world around us, delve into the colorful history of the area, collect all sorts of things, hike in the forest and observe the native fauna and flora, visit or entertain our many friends, So far we have not found time even to start on such intriguing things as studying insects through a microscope, observing the heavenly bodies with a telescope, learning mineralogy. And every day more and more new interests open up. Time? What do we do with our time? Perhaps what they mean is, “How do we manage to fill our hours when we do not have access to theaters, nightclubs and all the ‘cultural advantages’ of the city?” These we can live without, and are only too happy to spend evenings at home listening tothe world's finest music on our own sound system or broadening our horizons with good books. Ah, music and books. A lifetime is not long enough for these neverfailing delights. Werustics are not such strange birds, Our way of life is not unique merely because we live ona country road, Time’ What do we do with our time? And how long is.a piece of string?