February 19, 1969 (12 pages)

EVADA €@ PERIODICALS SECTION CAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95814 Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Bafr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, nae NUMBER 7 Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Baqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hil 1, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. ‘oodw ’ plan entering the Golden Empire Music Festival » and son Club member, took this picture at the high school. OR THE SECOND time recently Highway 49 near Nevada 2 =. City was blocked by a rock and mud slide, The first slide was 7 more severe but the second, on Friday, closed the road for a while. Division of Highways men quickly opened the road to one way traffic. The complete mopping up took. a lot longer. at Sacramento. Here are Dale Brown, Nancy Chris Schuller. Jeff Bunnell was not present when Ken Futterer, photography See Page 9 for the first in a series of editorials reU.S. Great. The series starts with the Truman Administration and concludes with "a discussion of the bright side of the national picture just before the inauguration of th 37th President, Richard M, Nixon." County has some liars Nevada City is looking for a popsicle picking machine toharvest popsicles which grow on a bush alongside candy apple trees within the town. At least this ‘is the way John Phillips, county agricultural commissioner told it in Sacramento Thursday when he was printed from The New York e News entitled What Made The = ste . = one of the five contestants ina tall tale tellers of the west contest, The 20th annual Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference featured the Tall Tale Telling spinner of tales in Nevada county, took top honors in the competition with a whopper about a man born on a rope by 25 flying ducks. Volume 47 10 Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1969 Oversight stymies election The April 15 unification election has been called off because Nevada County School Supt. Edward Fellersen forgot to have it placed on the Yuba County ballot in time to beat the deadline, This was necessary because the Camptonville area of Yuba county was merged into Nevada Union High School District last year and thus would be involved in the unification proposal. Yuba's. county counsel ruled that the election notice there could not be amended after the deadline to id the Nevada county unification measure. That action triggered a decision by Deputy Nevada County Counsel Brian Bishop that the vote here would be illegal because part of the electorate, those at Camptonville, would in effect be disenfranchised. Feluersen said this moraing that his next move will be to consult with members of the County. Committee on School Organization to see if they want to meet and discuss the possibility of setting a unification election for a later date. He also indicated another procedure may be tried--to ask school boards representing a majority of students in the affected area to seek an election at a later date. The area's three largest districts, Grass Valley, Nevada City and Nevada Union, comprise a majority of the students, and if they request an election, one can be held, Fellersen said. The legal problem that ended the attempt to hold a unification election in April was entirely a matter of timing. The county committee met Jan, 23 and deadlocked 4-4 on a Mucion to postpone the election. Thus, a previous action setting the vote for this April 15 stayed in effect. Fellersen said the following day, Jan, 24, was the legal deadline to submit a written notice to the county clerk to put this measure on the April 15 school ballot, This action must be taken 80 days before any election, The superintendent filed the notice with the Nevada county clerk, but forgot about the portion inside Yuba county because it was a new situation,

EVADA €@ PERIODICALS SECTION CAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95814 Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, La Bafr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, nae NUMBER 7 Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Baqurbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hil 1, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. ‘oodw ’ plan entering the Golden Empire Music Festival » and son Club member, took this picture at the high school. OR THE SECOND time recently Highway 49 near Nevada 2 =. City was blocked by a rock and mud slide, The first slide was 7 more severe but the second, on Friday, closed the road for a while. Division of Highways men quickly opened the road to one way traffic. The complete mopping up took. a lot longer. at Sacramento. Here are Dale Brown, Nancy Chris Schuller. Jeff Bunnell was not present when Ken Futterer, photography See Page 9 for the first in a series of editorials reU.S. Great. The series starts with the Truman Administration and concludes with "a discussion of the bright side of the national picture just before the inauguration of th 37th President, Richard M, Nixon." County has some liars Nevada City is looking for a popsicle picking machine toharvest popsicles which grow on a bush alongside candy apple trees within the town. At least this ‘is the way John Phillips, county agricultural commissioner told it in Sacramento Thursday when he was printed from The New York e News entitled What Made The = ste . = one of the five contestants ina tall tale tellers of the west contest, The 20th annual Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference featured the Tall Tale Telling spinner of tales in Nevada county, took top honors in the competition with a whopper about a man born on a rope by 25 flying ducks. Volume 47 10 Cents ACopy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1969 Oversight stymies election The April 15 unification election has been called off because Nevada County School Supt. Edward Fellersen forgot to have it placed on the Yuba County

ballot in time to beat the deadline, This was necessary because the Camptonville area of Yuba county was merged into Nevada Union High School District last year and thus would be involved in the unification proposal. Yuba's. county counsel ruled that the election notice there could not be amended after the deadline to id the Nevada county unification measure. That action triggered a decision by Deputy Nevada County Counsel Brian Bishop that the vote here would be illegal because part of the electorate, those at Camptonville, would in effect be disenfranchised. Feluersen said this moraing that his next move will be to consult with members of the County. Committee on School Organization to see if they want to meet and discuss the possibility of setting a unification election for a later date. He also indicated another procedure may be tried--to ask school boards representing a majority of students in the affected area to seek an election at a later date. The area's three largest districts, Grass Valley, Nevada City and Nevada Union, comprise a majority of the students, and if they request an election, one can be held, Fellersen said. The legal problem that ended the attempt to hold a unification election in April was entirely a matter of timing. The county committee met Jan, 23 and deadlocked 4-4 on a Mucion to postpone the election. Thus, a previous action setting the vote for this April 15 stayed in effect. Fellersen said the following day, Jan, 24, was the legal deadline to submit a written notice to the county clerk to put this measure on the April 15 school ballot, This action must be taken 80 days before any election, The superintendent filed the notice with the Nevada county clerk, but forgot about the portion inside Yuba county because it was a new situation,