February 20, 1963 (10 pages)

io Reideryits lees ba ben Ao j i . { j . hein _ Serving the communities of Nevada City, ¢ ~ Graniteville, North San Juan, North E Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, ‘Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, ‘Newtown, Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Tal, Gleabrok, Lite ou, Cheats, Relief Hill, "W: Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit Cit Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch it SailoeF Lake City, Selby Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Flat, Bridgeport, Birchvlle, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony a eee eet Mooney Mat, Sweetland, Alpha, C ss RES ah YS See PURE EM Bis ae brane route wea remrtemee parr gg — 10 Cents a Copy / /*THE PAPER WITH = PICTURES" February 20, 1963. Volume 38 No. 8 A SPECIAL NUGGET REPORT / j Kentucky Flat School WW Will Close Doors KENTUCKY FLAT---The one-room schoolhouse of the Kentucky Flat School District will close its doors to students Monday after serving this rural area north of Deer Creek and east of Ponderosa Way for nearly a century. The school has been operating since Jan. 22 with a substitute teacher while the school board vainly sought a permanent teacher to replace Douglas Wheeler who resigned, But the problem of finding a teacher is only one phase of. the problem of operating the Kentucky Flat School District. A district with $390, 000 assessed valuation, the district has nearly 50 students residing within its boundaries, Only 22 of these have been attending classes at Kentucky Flat's one room schoolhouse. The Nevada City Elementary School District, in a survey preparatory to its recent override election, found 18 students attending Nevada City schools who were residents of the Kentucky Flat district. In addition,.two.or.three Kentucky Flat district students have been attending school-at Pleasant Valley, another single-room schoolhouse. Six additional district students have been attending Grass Valley schools. As a result of its survey, the Nevada City district petitioned the Nevada County Superintendent of Schools office seeking a change in boundaries to reflect school attendance along a portion of Newtown Rd, County Superintendent Ed. Fellersen received the petition and will present it to the board of supervisors with the. suggestion that a hearing be set late in-April or early in May. : After such a hearing the supervisors can determine whether to grant the boun< dary change petition, or the board can call for an election on the issue. In the meantime, Kentucky Flat trustee James DeMartini has filed with Fellersen a petition signed by 26 parents of the district asking for annexation of the entire district to. the Nevada City School District. The county superintendent says he finds there are 46 parents in the district, and that the 26 who signed the petition are the majority necessary to call for an election on the issue. Therefore, Kentucky Flat voters will decide April 16 whether they should annex their district toNevada City's. If they do not annex, the boundary change machinery will still be in motion and will come before the supervisors, Opposition to the Nevada City annexation has been voiced by Kentucky Flat trustee Mrs. Vernita Personeni, who feels the district should annex to the Grass Valley Elementary School District. Until the boundary and teacher problems began to plague the district, Kentucky Flat was fighting valiantly to keep its school in ~ Operation. But 46 students cannot be adequately educated ina one room school, Fellersen estimates thas the district needs two, p%Ssibly three rooms, to #0 the necessary educatioxal job. And the district h«s a bonding capacity of $14,000 to $20, 000---far stort of funds that would pé necessary to construcran adequate structure. _ Logic would seem to indicate that the district should annex---part of it to Nevada’ City, and part of it to Grass Valley. Fellersen explains this . { would be possible by annexation to Nevada City, followed by a petition for boun. dary change to place in the }j Grass Valley district that area of Kentucky Flat's district which can best be served via Bitney‘s corner. This same method could be used, in the event the April annexation measure fails, by the proposed boun. } dary change followed by annexation to Grass Valley of . the remaining of the Kentucky Flat district. This, however, would necessarily have to be followed by further boundary . changes adjacent to the presently proposed areato make the Grass Valley district boundaries consistent with efficient transportation requirements. The boundary problem is complex because the Nevada City boundary petition took as small a bite of the Kentucky Flat district as possible in order not to damage that district's assessed valuation. The annexation route, followed by negotiated boundaries between the Grass Valley and Nevada City districts is by far the simplest answer. There is precedent for this move. The former Gold Flat $chool District annexed to the Nevada City district, and then the area of Gold Flat’s district beyond T own Talk was nroved by a boundary change intothe Grass Valley district, Fellersen said. In the meantime, Ken: tucky Flat School's 22 students will attend Grass Valley schools. Published Wednesdays MAILAKOFF..This oil painting of Malakoff Diggings has triple news value: itis timely because of current state plans to acquire 5000 acres as soon as money is available; because a walk to Malakoff will take place Friday morning; and because the artist, Beverly Hackett and her husband, Richard, will be featured in a showing of their paintings to celebrate the first anniversary ofthe Art Rental Gallery in Nevada City (see page 3). » . . Employes Retirement System READY AND WAITING..These boots are waiting to be filled by members of the Nugget staff Friday morning. At 6a.m. members ofthe Nugget staff, members of the Union staff, and residents of the area will begin a walk to Malakoff. Due March 1 Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall Feb. 13 52 40 1,48 14 52 Sa ae 15-52 30 00 16 54 31 .00 it OS 38 07 18 °54 36 .00 19 57 34 .00 Rainfall to date 44,70 Rainfall last year 41.04 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Feb. 18 54 42 1.47 1g 63 639 00 Rainfall to date Rainfall last year 14 54 36 .00 15 S56 34 41 16 57. 35 . 00: 17 +57. 35 . 00; 18 57 40 .00 43.63, 40. 30: Museum Plans Studied GRASS VALLEY ---The Nevada County Historical Soci. ety, Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, and Grass Valley city officials are all working on various phases of plans for building of a museum on the Mill St. Pelton wheel site, it was revealed this. week. Gilbert T. Tennis, presi_ dent of the historical society which chose the site for a Grass Valley. museum, said he plans to ask California Division of Beaches and Parks Officials if help is available in planning the museum and site development. He will meet with society directors in the near future to talk over problems conthe site, ‘nected with construction of the building and use ofthe site. City officials are checking the foundations and walls at a victim of fire in 1959. It ishoped that the remaining stone structure is strong enough to: use as the nucleus for the museum. Funds to buildthe museum are the major stumbling block at this time, Tennis said. A chamber of commerce committee is working toward some form of a fund raising program. The museum will be cityowned, but the historical society will operate the facility when completed. -on the measure, ' until March 1 at Blake's reNevada City, , HUMBUG Madmen Meet For Malakoff March NEVADA CITY---Get out y our walking shoes, we're going to take a “Walking Tour® tothe ‘proposed Malakoff State se This was the invitation ex‘tended to residents of western Nevada County by "team" members of the Nevada County Nugget (Humbug Hornets) and the Grass Valley Union (Lizzie Glotzmeier Athletic .Club), The hike, variously estimated at from 13 to 18 miles, will start at the National Hotel at 6 a.m. Fri= day. An unexpectedly large group is reportedly ready to accompany the two endurance "teams". The walk is the result of a Nugget staff challengeto the news and advertising staff of the Union. Numerous other residents of Nevada County have indicated they will join in the walk. The Nugget team of Dean ‘Thompson, Stu Flansburg, captain, Alf Heller and John ' Hodge will be matched Retirement Program NEVADA CITY ---The Nevada County Board of Supervisors appeared ready to move to a decision on a retirement system for county employes last week, but at the request of Supervisor Don Blake held off until the March. 1 meeting. Participation by the county in the California State will cost the county $79, 628. 08 during its first year of operation if it is put into effect July 1, according to audit figures. Of this total, $58,385,75 will come from county taxes, while $21, 242.33 willcome from state subventionsto the county road department. Consideration of the ordinance which would establish the retirement program was protested by Dr, Walter Lotz, Nevada County Farm Bureau and Nevada County Taxpayers Association observer, Dr. Lotz suggested the board hold a public hearing Chairman Henry Loehr put off action on the ordinance quest, but he said there would be no public hearing on the measure at that time. Loehr also said the initial payment to the program wouldtake the place of normal salary increases for the 1963-64 fiscal year. against the Union team of Pete Ingram, Dick Caddy, Charles Buck, Judy Johnson, and Tillie Hoagland (husband Don is rumored to be under pressure to walk, too). In addition, the Union is ‘expected to bring an additional foursome or so to add to the festive walkathon. room of the newspaper and from an engineering fraternity that has long desired to survey the Malakoff freeway route. Ina vain attempt to match the size of the Union delegation, the Nugget has received "regrets" (ha, ha) ‘from summer journalist Jim Shock who offered the use of his Marine Corps boots and ‘advice relative to liquid refreshment: “That much touted ‘bubbly is flattened and soured in the new aluminum canteens, and with this in mind I recommend retention of the original containers for the short jaunt upon which you soon will venture. " In the spirit of friendliness, the Nugget staff decided today to make this'advice available to the Union team and others who are planning to join the trek. All participants are urged to make their own arrange~ ments for food at the North Bloomfield School and for transportation home after the walk, Hopes of the Nugget staff that Sven Skaar would have -his historic hearse available inthe event of tragedy were dashed this week when Skaar expressed complete "confidence in the youth of our Whoopee At The Nevada City Elks Charity Ball Roaring 20’s Dress Shimmers Yt Shakes Doorkeeper: Manuel Pelayo Ken and Berniece Hogan * A picture review of Saturday night's annual Elks Charity Ball Bill and De Mautino Theseasecruits are rumored. ‘to be from the composing . area’, andrefused to remove his hearse from the 49er Museum at the National Hotel. He said he would be on hand at his Blue Tent Rd. home to offer sugar cubes’t 0 the walkers. A disquieting note was sounded when Skaar commented thatthe whole thing was probably the idea of some mercenary undertaker. Be that as it may, the walk will beginto the strains of the bag -pipe as played by Nevada City Councilman Arch McPherson. Dr. McPherson is ready to pipe the tune, but as of todayhe hasn't decided which tune will be the marching melody of the day. His choice has narrowed to two: "Barren Rocks of ‘ Aden” or "“T enth Battalion Highland Light Infantry Crossing the Rhine. " The Malakoff walk will take place rain or shine. Meanwhile other groups in the area are joining the walking craze. A small from Mt. St, Marys School hikedto Sacramento last weekend. A larger group of Episcopal y outh from both Nevada City and Grass Val‘ ley areslatedto do the same this weekend. And the North San Juan Teenagers have challenged all other young groups to a hike to Granite~ ville and backs eo 2 NUHS Tax Meet Set GRASS VALLEY---Community leaders have been invited by Weston Brunker, chairman of the Nevada Union High School District board, to attend a meeting Monday night to discuss the district's needs for an override tax. The public meeting will be held at 8 p.m. at the Nevada Union High School. Board members will pre\sent their reasons for putting ,an override issue onthe April trustee election ballot. A question and answer . period will be planned. Three Enter. Race For NC School Posts NEVADA CITY---A threecornered race for two seats on thé Nevada City Elementary Sahea) Nistrier-beatd of trustees has developed with the filing of papers by Alton Davies, Mrs. Sue Jensen and Mrs, Jeanne Roese, Malakoff Park Discussion Set NEVADA CITY~--Nevada County supervisors have in‘vited Robert Hatch, Division of Beaches and Parks, to attend the mid-March meeting of the board to discuss the proposed Malakoff State: Park.

io Reideryits lees ba ben Ao j i . { j . hein _ Serving the communities of Nevada City, ¢ ~ Graniteville, North San Juan, North E Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, ‘Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, ‘Newtown, Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Tal, Gleabrok, Lite ou, Cheats, Relief Hill, "W: Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit Cit Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch it SailoeF Lake City, Selby Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Flat, Bridgeport, Birchvlle, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony a eee eet Mooney Mat, Sweetland, Alpha, C ss RES ah YS See PURE EM Bis ae brane route wea remrtemee parr gg — 10 Cents a Copy / /*THE PAPER WITH = PICTURES" February 20, 1963. Volume 38 No. 8 A SPECIAL NUGGET REPORT / j Kentucky Flat School WW Will Close Doors KENTUCKY FLAT---The one-room schoolhouse of the Kentucky Flat School District will close its doors to students Monday after serving this rural area north of Deer Creek and east of Ponderosa Way for nearly a century. The school has been operating since Jan. 22 with a substitute teacher while the school board vainly sought a permanent teacher to replace Douglas Wheeler who resigned, But the problem of finding a teacher is only one phase of. the problem of operating the Kentucky Flat School District. A district with $390, 000 assessed valuation, the district has nearly 50 students residing within its boundaries, Only 22 of these have been attending classes at Kentucky Flat's one room schoolhouse. The Nevada City Elementary School District, in a survey preparatory to its recent override election, found 18 students attending Nevada City schools who were residents of the Kentucky Flat district. In addition,..two.or.three Kentucky Flat district students have been attending school-at Pleasant Valley, another single-room schoolhouse. Six additional district students have been attending Grass Valley schools. As a result of its survey, the Nevada City district petitioned the Nevada County Superintendent of Schools office seeking a change in boundaries to reflect school attendance along a portion of Newtown Rd, County Superintendent Ed. Fellersen received the petition and will present it to the board of supervisors with the. suggestion that a hearing be set late in-April or early in May. : After such a hearing the supervisors can determine whether to grant the boun< dary change petition, or the board can call for an election on the issue. In the meantime, Kentucky Flat trustee James DeMartini has filed with Fellersen a petition signed by 26 parents of the district asking for annexation of the entire district to. the Nevada City School District. The county superintendent says he finds there are 46 parents in the district, and that the 26 who signed the petition are the majority necessary to call for an election on the issue. Therefore, Kentucky Flat voters will decide April 16 whether they should annex their district toNevada City's. If they do not annex, the boundary change machinery will still be in motion and will come before the supervisors, Opposition to the Nevada City annexation has been voiced by Kentucky Flat trustee Mrs. Vernita Personeni, who feels the district should annex to the Grass Valley Elementary School District. Until the boundary and teacher problems began to plague the district, Kentucky Flat was fighting valiantly to keep its school in ~ Operation. But 46 students cannot be adequately educated ina one room school, Fellersen estimates thas the district needs two, p%Ssibly three rooms, to #0 the necessary educatioxal job. And the district h«s a bonding capacity of $14,000 to $20, 000---far stort of funds that would pé necessary to construcran adequate structure. _ Logic would seem to indicate that the district should annex---part of it to Nevada’ City, and part of it to Grass Valley. Fellersen explains this . { would be possible by annexation to Nevada City, followed by a petition for boun. dary change to place in the }j Grass Valley district that area of Kentucky Flat's district which can best be served via Bitney‘s corner. This same method could be used, in the event the April annexation measure fails, by the proposed boun. } dary change followed by annexation to Grass Valley of . the remaining of the Kentucky Flat district. This, however, would necessarily have to be followed by further boundary . changes adjacent to the presently proposed areato make the Grass Valley district boundaries consistent with efficient transportation requirements. The boundary problem is complex because the Nevada City boundary petition took as small a bite of the Kentucky Flat district as possible in order not to damage that district's assessed valuation. The annexation route, followed by negotiated boundaries between the Grass Valley and Nevada City districts is by far the simplest answer. There is precedent for this move. The former Gold Flat $chool District annexed to the Nevada City district, and then the area of Gold Flat’s district beyond T own Talk was nroved by a boundary change intothe Grass Valley district, Fellersen said. In the meantime, Ken: tucky Flat School's 22 students will attend Grass Valley schools. Published Wednesdays MAILAKOFF...This oil painting of Malakoff Diggings has triple news value: itis timely because of current state plans to acquire 5000 acres as soon as money is available; because a walk to Malakoff will take place Friday morning; and because the artist, Beverly Hackett and her husband, Richard, will be featured in a showing of their paintings to celebrate the first anniversary ofthe Art Rental Gallery in Nevada City (see page 3). » . . Employes Retirement System READY AND WAITING...These boots are waiting to be filled by members of the Nugget staff Friday morning. At 6a.m. members ofthe Nugget staff, members of the Union staff, and residents of the area will begin a walk to Malakoff. Due March 1 Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall Feb. 13 52 40 1,48 14 52 Sa ae 15-52 30 00 16 54 31 .00 it OS 38 07 18 °54 36 .00 19 57 34 .00 Rainfall to date 44,70 Rainfall last year 41.04 GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Feb. 18 54 42 1.47 1g 63 639 00 Rainfall to date Rainfall last year 14 54 36 .00 15 S56 34 41 16 57. 35 . 00: 17 +57. 35 . 00; 18 57 40 .00 43.63, 40. 30: Museum Plans Studied GRASS VALLEY ---The Nevada County Historical Soci. ety, Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce, and Grass Valley city officials are all working on various phases of plans for building of a museum on the Mill St. Pelton wheel site, it was revealed this. week. Gilbert T. Tennis, presi_ dent of the historical society which chose the site for a

Grass Valley. museum, said he plans to ask California Division of Beaches and Parks Officials if help is available in planning the museum and site development. He will meet with society directors in the near future to talk over problems conthe site, ‘nected with construction of the building and use ofthe site. City officials are checking the foundations and walls at a victim of fire in 1959. It ishoped that the remaining stone structure is strong enough to: use as the nucleus for the museum. Funds to buildthe museum are the major stumbling block at this time, Tennis said. A chamber of commerce committee is working toward some form of a fund raising program. The museum will be cityowned, but the historical society will operate the facility when completed. -on the measure, ' until March 1 at Blake's reNevada City, , HUMBUG Madmen Meet For Malakoff March NEVADA CITY---Get out y our walking shoes, we're going to take a “Walking Tour® tothe ‘proposed Malakoff State se This was the invitation ex‘tended to residents of western Nevada County by "team" members of the Nevada County Nugget (Humbug Hornets) and the Grass Valley Union (Lizzie Glotzmeier Athletic .Club), The hike, variously estimated at from 13 to 18 miles, will start at the National Hotel at 6 a.m. Fri= day. An unexpectedly large group is reportedly ready to accompany the two endurance "teams". The walk is the result of a Nugget staff challengeto the news and advertising staff of the Union. Numerous other residents of Nevada County have indicated they will join in the walk. The Nugget team of Dean ‘Thompson, Stu Flansburg, captain, Alf Heller and John ' Hodge will be matched Retirement Program NEVADA CITY ---The Nevada County Board of Supervisors appeared ready to move to a decision on a retirement system for county employes last week, but at the request of Supervisor Don Blake held off until the March. 1 meeting. Participation by the county in the California State will cost the county $79, 628. 08 during its first year of operation if it is put into effect July 1, according to audit figures. Of this total, $58,385,75 will come from county taxes, while $21, 242.33 willcome from state subventionsto the county road department. Consideration of the ordinance which would establish the retirement program was protested by Dr, Walter Lotz, Nevada County Farm Bureau and Nevada County Taxpayers Association observer, Dr. Lotz suggested the board hold a public hearing Chairman Henry Loehr put off action on the ordinance quest, but he said there would be no public hearing on the measure at that time. Loehr also said the initial payment to the program wouldtake the place of normal salary increases for the 1963-64 fiscal year. against the Union team of Pete Ingram, Dick Caddy, Charles Buck, Judy Johnson, and Tillie Hoagland (husband Don is rumored to be under pressure to walk, too). In addition, the Union is ‘expected to bring an additional foursome or so to add to the festive walkathon. room of the newspaper and from an engineering fraternity that has long desired to survey the Malakoff freeway route. Ina vain attempt to match the size of the Union delegation, the Nugget has received "regrets" (ha, ha) ‘from summer journalist Jim Shock who offered the use of his Marine Corps boots and ‘advice relative to liquid refreshment: “That much touted ‘bubbly is flattened and soured in the new aluminum canteens, and with this in mind I recommend retention of the original containers for the short jaunt upon which you soon will venture. " In the spirit of friendliness, the Nugget staff decided today to make this'advice available to the Union team and others who are planning to join the trek. All participants are urged to make their own arrange~ ments for food at the North Bloomfield School and for transportation home after the walk, Hopes of the Nugget staff that Sven Skaar would have -his historic hearse available inthe event of tragedy were dashed this week when Skaar expressed complete "confidence in the youth of our Whoopee At The Nevada City Elks Charity Ball Roaring 20’s Dress Shimmers Yt Shakes Doorkeeper: Manuel Pelayo Ken and Berniece Hogan * A picture review of Saturday night's annual Elks Charity Ball Bill and De Mautino Theseasecruits are rumored.. ‘to be from the composing . area’, andrefused to remove his hearse from the 49er Museum at the National Hotel. He said he would be on hand at his Blue Tent Rd. home to offer sugar cubes’t 0 the walkers. A disquieting note was sounded when Skaar commented thatthe whole thing was probably the idea of some mercenary undertaker. Be that as it may, the walk will beginto the strains of the bag -pipe as played by Nevada City Councilman Arch McPherson. Dr. McPherson is ready to pipe the tune, but as of todayhe hasn't decided which tune will be the marching melody of the day. His choice has narrowed to two: "Barren Rocks of ‘ Aden” or "“T enth Battalion Highland Light Infantry Crossing the Rhine. " The Malakoff walk will take place rain or shine. Meanwhile other groups in the area are joining the walking craze. A small from Mt. St, Marys School hikedto Sacramento last weekend. A larger group of Episcopal y outh from both Nevada City and Grass Val‘ ley areslatedto do the same this weekend. And the North San Juan Teenagers have challenged all other young groups to a hike to Granite~ ville and backs eo 2 NUHS Tax Meet Set GRASS VALLEY---Community leaders have been invited by Weston Brunker, chairman of the Nevada Union High School District board, to attend a meeting Monday night to discuss the district's needs for an override tax. The public meeting will be held at 8 p.m. at the Nevada Union High School. Board members will pre\sent their reasons for putting ,an override issue onthe April trustee election ballot. A question and answer . period will be planned. Three Enter. Race For NC School Posts NEVADA CITY---A threecornered race for two seats on thé Nevada City Elementary Sahea) Nistrier-beatd of trustees has developed with the filing of papers by Alton Davies, Mrs. Sue Jensen and Mrs, Jeanne Roese, Malakoff Park Discussion Set NEVADA CITY~--Nevada County supervisors have in‘vited Robert Hatch, Division of Beaches and Parks, to attend the mid-March meeting of the board to discuss the proposed Malakoff State: Park.