February 22, 1961 (8 pages)

a a i a me Publish ery Wednesday By my NEVADA TY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 ~~ mea COUNTY NUGGET Alfred E. Heller. . 2 na 6 5 we os. Publisher R. Dean Thompson. .. + os. . Editor-Manager ~ Clarice Mc Whinney. .. 2. . Art Editor Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif: Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County, Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Dectee No, 12,406 Subscription Rates; One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00 Three-years, $7.00. : Printed by Berliner.& Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. 7 EDITORIAL Bizz Johnson On Interior Committee The news that Congressman Harold T. Johnson of this second district has been appointedto the house committee on interior and insular affairs is of great importance to Nevada County and the other 'I8 counties of the district. It should be noted that U.S. Senator Clair Engle, when he represented this district in Congress, came to prominence there in great part due to his activities onthis very same committee, which has a prime interest in legislation concerning America's natural resources. . On the influential interior committee, Johnson may be expected to support liberal legislationaimed at the wise use-of natural resources such as may be found in Nevada County, in ourforests, mineral deposits, recreation areas, watersheds and grazing lands. We hope in particular that Johnson will vote to support the Wilderness Billin a form similar to legislation introduced in the Senate by Sen. Clinton Anderson of New Mexico (s.174). For if we do not protect our present few wilderness areas as this bill proposes todo, the “Multiple Use" principle of forest administration as supported by Johnson in legislation last year could lose all meaning except as a bywordof special interests. SIE RRA BYWAYS BY DEAN THOMPSON MORE TROUBLES.Dick and Amber Knee, whose -home was burglarized before Christmas---all/the Christmas presents were taken from under the tree, and whose business has seen transistor radios walk out the front door without payment (young juveniles), recently had another loss. While visiting in Albany, Calif., the Knees auto was broken{nto~--in addition to lousing upthe power window operation, the burglars got several jewelry’items the Knee'shad picked upinS.F. to fill specific orders. About $100 in merchandise was lost, TRIPPING AROUND.Ray Jacobusandhis wife are on a visitto Lowelland Vera Washburn and brother Wayne in San Deigo. Jacobus sold a ranch to the Washburns. . The Jacobus real estate office remains open during their trip.Back from his European trip of the past summer, Grass Valley publisher Robert T. Ingram is now entertaining various groups around the Gold Dust Twin Cities with showings of his extensive slide collection. As did Fulbright Exchange teacher Elmer Stevens when he returned from Norway. Caught Ingram's slides at a recent GV Lions meeting---they are excellent. co 8 8 © 8 8 AT THE KEYHOLE.Those who expected the Nevada City Airport to die after the recent disastrous fire can expect to be disappointed. The airport will be rebuilt, bigger and better, and with a new idea as the basis for building according to behind the scenes talking. . . Channel 4 in San Francisco is planning a half hour or hour show on the gold mining situation with Ott's Assay and other local seenes.Photog. Dale Immel of KRON staff escorted around the area by Stan Halls after a period of shooting in the up country. Scheduled to be shown in S.F. only fornow, Friday night on public service time. Controversy over gold, etc. the nifty nine-fifty A-Hi JU ON YOUR DIAL Any Longer? Except for the picture.of loading concentrates outside Ott's Assay Office, for shipment to the Selby Refinery "down by the Bay", today's photos were taken by Lloyd Ullberg , historian-photographer of San Francisco. The first is a detail of the scroll work crowning the counter partition behind which father and son Ott studied and reported on practically every gold mine in California over a period of one hundred years. The second picture shows the gas fixtures that James “Ott installed when the first gas-works began operating in Nevada City---it was located on the lot above the office building. ; Lloyd Ullberg took many pictures before the contents were taken out and stored, of the walls, the scales--the most famous scales in all of California and featured by Life Magazine in 1948; of the furnaces, the work rooms, the crushing room with its little two-stamp highgrade mill; office fixtures a hundred years old, everything in fact was photographed so that the items might be put back in the original order should the opportunity to do so ever present itself. Some of the town's people say the sooner we get rid of this historic building, the better; it is a detriment to progress. Let the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, the Knave and the preservers of American history have the “ugly, old, brick pile™ that is Ott's Assay Office. + Who gives a damn any longer? % y/ AY \ Banks, schools, government offices, and stores are closed in every American metropolis and hamlet to-day, Wednesday, Feb 22, 1961, in honor of George Washington, our first President. That is inevery American metropolis except Nevada City. Here, tis true that the WillardRose lending emporium, Jim Ray's Citadel, and Alan Poteete's 3 R's are closed---but not to do honor to the ancient birthdate-of George but because its the living birthdate ofour very own Mayor Robert Carr! My wife, Ruth, danced with Abraham Lincoln, Patience, please, before you reach for the phone to inquire what Max Factor embalming fluid Ruth has been using all these years. Wehad boarded the comfortable coaches of the narrow gauge White Pass & Yukon RR at Skagway, Alaska, the home of the northwind. Our purpose was a pilgrimage to ride again on a train still using old Nevada County NGRR flatcars and oiltanks. Up, up we rolled on the cliff-hanging RR deep in Yukon Territory to Whitehorse, Canada, On to Fairbanks, Then in a cargo-passenger plane passengers on one side of the aisle potatoes, canned milk and outboard motors strapped on the other side --toNomeand beyond the Artic Circle to the Eskimo village of Kotzebue, todance with Abraham Lincoln, We-found Mr, & Mr. Lincoln in their homemade cabin. A mud like mortar filledthe crevices of the crudely built wooden structure, For sale, nailed to the outside of the cabin, two white wolf skins. Graciously these kind ly Eskimos asked us in.and told us of how many, many midnight suns ago the Presbyterians had brought the Bible to Kotzebue and the wife of the missionary, unable to pronouce the Eskimo family names, renamed the entire village with famous American historical names. Later in the afternoon we visited the tiny cemetery and found George and Martha Washington, side by side. That evening, Mr. Lincoln said he would lead the villagers in a centuries old.tribal dance, Would Mrs, Paine care to practice a few steps so she could join the tom-tom rhythm dancers? So that night, in the Land of the Midnight Sun, Ruth danced with Abraham Lincoln. Banner Mountain sub-dividers are asking and getting $4,000 to $5,000 for view lots of an acre and acre and 1/4 size. These are bargain prices to former city dwellers. who can now have a home in the pines--in the fresh Nevada Count y air---among friendly neighbors and only minutes and hours away from Sacramento and San Francisco. The freeways and rapid transit are quickly changing the twin cities in the pines. This may come asa shock to Hazel Haddy, Harriet Farmer andH, P, Davis whocame to NC from the eastern seaboard of the US quite some time ago: Nevada City now Who Gives A Damn has the official Hollywood designation of being a typical Color slided of ourchurches, homes New England town. and street scenes sent ot Jose Ferrer of 20th Century Fox " Films brought this movie location classification about . Could be very valuable should any future on location film with a New England locale be needed. RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE was almost filmed here and probably would haveljbeen had not script changes keeping jit in Hollywood been made. For years the only place you could buy bananas inNC was at Foley's Ice Cream Parlor. It was Humanitarian Alvin S. Trivelpiece,-Sacramento Bee reporter that first concerned himself and his paper with serious unem ploy ment problem of the Tommyknockers when the mines shut down.The unusual displacement problem came to the attention of Bee readers Louis Huelsdonk and Dick Bennett, still with operating gold minesin Sierra County. They could and would hire as many of the ynemployed Tommyknockers as they , their shafts, tunnels and drifts could accomodate. All went well until a year ago when labor trouble broke out among the Tommyknockers at the Best Mines as they sought additional fringe benefits that they were used to at the Empire but not available in Downieville. The strike was called during the Lord Larry Pearl Putney murder case in the Sierra. county seat. One nation-wide front page story is enough, decreed Mr. Messenger Editor Gene Stowe, who asked the visiting press not to put the Tommyknocker strike on the wire. Now all is happiness among the Tommyknockers in Sierra County. They won their point. They are back to work. Every Monday morning 5 dozen saffron buns from McCauley's bakery , are taken by the Grass Valley Laundry truck to Sierra County Chapter Local No 1 of the Tommyknockers International, Thank you Bob Creume, SF, for telling Fool's Goldthat you have been spending your vacations the last three years in N C---and that you first read about us in "OFF THE BEATEN PATH" by Norman D. Ford in his "Where to Vacation and Stay Awhile in America's Own Bargain Paradises".andI quote from Bob Creume's clipping torn from the book: "Nevada City, a peaceful little town on sevenhills among beautiful trees, teems with gold mining history. Landmarks include Stewart Mansion on Piety Hill and the Red Castle on steep Prospect Hill. The bricks of the gracious old National Hotel have housed many of the West's most colorful characters and you'll still find tradional mountain hospitality in its high ceiling rooms and lobby furnished with antiques. Rates are $3-4 dollars a day W/O bath and $5.00 up with bath. Famous Bridal Suite shouldnotbe missed. At 2,5000 ft, fog-free and dry, romantic Nevada City is one of California's most attractive reye . tirement townS.c.cicececee The Misfits with Marilyn Monroe Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. Ruth Cardin, Evelyn Vailey and the Movie Committee can relax on this hot film; this is a self-policed theater picture with the marquee lights: For Adults Only. This is no film for children or the un-sophisticated, according to this reviewer. It has Gable & Monroe at their very best. Don't miss it, My employment takes me into the wild mustang country of Wadsworth, Pyramid Lake and Dayton, Nevada where this movie was filmed. On the screen the sad real life Marilyn comes through and it's the last picture that Gable made, The story starts in Reno, where a new divorcee, Monroe, stirs the excitable mechanic and pilot Eli Wallach. Wallach introduces Monroe to Gable, a cowboy who captures wildhorses for dogfood. A romance develops between Monroe and Gable. Into the group moves a third cowboy, Clift. All are Misfits, running away in one way or another from the sense and hurt of failure form previous personal attachments. Parties , gambling, rodeos follow. The roundup of the wild horses terrifies Marilyn who screams her protests and the film reaches its climax in changes ‘in all three men. Letter To The Editor Dear Editor; Y Our area is a photographers heaven. Mrs. Dorothy Sanders letter was very interesting and . she is certainly right, This area should be kept unspoiled. It is different, and before saw it last year, I didn‘tknow you could still find such places away from tracts and traffic andtension, where you can enjoy tranquility. Away from modem , box like houses, and man made landscaping, that can't compare with superb natural beauty like this. Sincerely, Mrs. Bernard Wills Nevada City CENTRAL CALIFORNIA Feperat Savincs and Loan Association MAXIMUM SECURITY Cwrrert Rate L % per annum

a a i a me Publish ery Wednesday By my NEVADA TY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St., Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 ~~ mea COUNTY NUGGET Alfred E. Heller. .. 2 na 6 5 we os. Publisher R. Dean Thompson. ... + os. . Editor-Manager ~ Clarice Mc Whinney. .... 2.. . Art Editor Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif: Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County, Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Dectee No, 12,406 Subscription Rates; One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00 Three-years, $7.00. : Printed by Berliner.& Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. 7 EDITORIAL Bizz Johnson On Interior Committee The news that Congressman Harold T. Johnson of this second district has been appointedto the house committee on interior and insular affairs is of great importance to Nevada County and the other 'I8 counties of the district. It should be noted that U.S. Senator Clair Engle, when he represented this district in Congress, came to prominence there in great part due to his activities onthis very same committee, which has a prime interest in legislation concerning America's natural resources. . On the influential interior committee, Johnson may be expected to support liberal legislationaimed at the wise use-of natural resources such as may be found in Nevada County, in ourforests, mineral deposits, recreation areas, watersheds and grazing lands. We hope in particular that Johnson will vote to support the Wilderness Billin a form similar to legislation introduced in the Senate by Sen. Clinton Anderson of New Mexico (s.174). For if we do not protect our present few wilderness areas as this bill proposes todo, the “Multiple Use" principle of forest administration as supported by Johnson in legislation last year could lose all meaning except as a bywordof special interests. SIE RRA BYWAYS BY DEAN THOMPSON MORE TROUBLES..Dick and Amber Knee, whose -home was burglarized before Christmas---all/the Christmas presents were taken from under the tree, and whose business has seen transistor radios walk out the front door without payment (young juveniles), recently had another loss. While visiting in Albany, Calif., the Knees auto was broken{nto~--in addition to lousing upthe power window operation, the burglars got several jewelry’items the Knee'shad picked upinS.F. to fill specific orders. About $100 in merchandise was lost, TRIPPING AROUND..Ray Jacobusandhis wife are on a visitto Lowelland Vera Washburn and brother Wayne in San Deigo.. Jacobus sold a ranch to the Washburns. . The Jacobus real estate office remains open during their trip..Back from his European trip of the past summer, Grass Valley publisher Robert T. Ingram is now entertaining various groups around the Gold Dust Twin Cities with showings of his extensive slide collection.. As did Fulbright Exchange teacher Elmer Stevens when he returned from Norway.. Caught Ingram's slides at a recent GV Lions meeting---they are excellent. co 8 8 © 8 8 AT THE KEYHOLE..Those who expected the Nevada City Airport to die after the recent disastrous fire can expect to be disappointed. The airport will be rebuilt, bigger and better, and with a new idea as the basis for building according to behind the scenes talking. . . Channel 4 in San Francisco is planning a half hour or hour show on the gold mining situation with Ott's Assay and other local seenes..Photog. Dale Immel of KRON staff escorted around the area by Stan Halls after a period of shooting in the up country.. Scheduled to be shown in S.F. only fornow, Friday night on public service time.. Controversy over gold, etc. the nifty nine-fifty A-Hi JU ON YOUR DIAL Any Longer? Except for the picture.of loading concentrates outside Ott's Assay Office, for shipment to the Selby Refinery "down by the Bay", today's photos were taken by Lloyd Ullberg , historian-photographer of San Francisco. The first is a detail of the scroll work crowning the counter partition behind which father and son Ott studied and reported on practically every gold mine in California over a period of one hundred years. The second picture shows the gas fixtures that James “Ott installed when the first gas-works began operating in Nevada City---it was located on the lot above the office building. ; Lloyd Ullberg took many pictures before the contents were taken out and stored, of the walls, the scales--the most famous scales in all of California and featured by Life Magazine in 1948; of the furnaces, the work rooms, the crushing room with its little two-stamp highgrade mill; office fixtures a hundred years old, everything in fact was photographed so that the items might be put back in the original order should the opportunity to do so ever present itself. Some of the town's people say the sooner we get rid of this historic building, the better; it is a detriment to progress. Let the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, the Knave and the preservers of American history have the “ugly, old, brick pile™ that is Ott's Assay Office. + Who gives a damn any longer? % y/ AY \ Banks, schools, government offices, and stores are closed in every American metropolis and hamlet to-day, Wednesday, Feb 22, 1961, in honor of George Washington, our first President. That is inevery American metropolis except Nevada City. Here, tis true that the WillardRose lending emporium, Jim Ray's Citadel, and Alan Poteete's 3 R's are closed---but not to do honor to the ancient birthdate-of George but because its the living birthdate ofour very own Mayor Robert Carr! My wife, Ruth, danced with Abraham Lincoln, Patience, please, before you reach for the phone to inquire what Max Factor embalming fluid Ruth has been using all these years. Wehad boarded the comfortable coaches of the narrow gauge White Pass & Yukon RR at Skagway, Alaska, the home of the northwind. Our purpose was a pilgrimage to ride again on a train still using old Nevada County NGRR flatcars and oiltanks. Up, up we rolled on the cliff-hanging RR deep in Yukon Territory to Whitehorse, Canada, On to Fairbanks, Then in a cargo-passenger plane passengers on one side of the aisle potatoes, canned milk and outboard motors strapped on the other

side --toNomeand beyond the Artic Circle to the Eskimo village of Kotzebue, todance with Abraham Lincoln, We-found Mr, & Mr. Lincoln in their homemade cabin. A mud like mortar filledthe crevices of the crudely built wooden structure, For sale, nailed to the outside of the cabin, two white wolf skins. Graciously these kind ly Eskimos asked us in..and told us of how many, many midnight suns ago the Presbyterians had brought the Bible to Kotzebue and the wife of the missionary, unable to pronouce the Eskimo family names, renamed the entire village with famous American historical names. Later in the afternoon we visited the tiny cemetery and found George and Martha Washington, side by side. That evening, Mr. Lincoln said he would lead the villagers in a centuries old.tribal dance, Would Mrs, Paine care to practice a few steps so she could join the tom-tom rhythm dancers? So that night, in the Land of the Midnight Sun, Ruth danced with Abraham Lincoln. Banner Mountain sub-dividers are asking and getting $4,000 to $5,000 for view lots of an acre and acre and 1/4 size. These are bargain prices to former city dwellers. who can now have a home in the pines--in the fresh Nevada Count y air---among friendly neighbors and only minutes and hours away from Sacramento and San Francisco. The freeways and rapid transit are quickly changing the twin cities in the pines. This may come asa shock to Hazel Haddy, Harriet Farmer andH, P, Davis whocame to NC from the eastern seaboard of the US quite some time ago: Nevada City now Who Gives A Damn has the official Hollywood designation of being a typical Color slided of ourchurches, homes New England town. and street scenes sent ot Jose Ferrer of 20th Century Fox " Films brought this movie location classification about . Could be very valuable should any future on location film with a New England locale be needed. RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE was almost filmed here and probably would haveljbeen had not script changes keeping jit in Hollywood been made. For years the only place you could buy bananas inNC was at Foley's Ice Cream Parlor. It was Humanitarian Alvin S. Trivelpiece,-Sacramento Bee reporter that first concerned himself and his paper with serious unem ploy ment problem of the Tommyknockers when the mines shut down.The unusual displacement problem came to the attention of Bee readers Louis Huelsdonk and Dick Bennett, still with operating gold minesin Sierra County. They could and would hire as many of the ynemployed Tommyknockers as they , their shafts, tunnels and drifts could accomodate. All went well until a year ago when labor trouble broke out among the Tommyknockers at the Best Mines as they sought additional fringe benefits that they were used to at the Empire but not available in Downieville. The strike was called during the Lord Larry Pearl Putney murder case in the Sierra. county seat. One nation-wide front page story is enough, decreed Mr. Messenger Editor Gene Stowe, who asked the visiting press not to put the Tommyknocker strike on the wire. Now all is happiness among the Tommyknockers in Sierra County. They won their point. They are back to work. Every Monday morning 5 dozen saffron buns from McCauley's bakery , are taken by the Grass Valley Laundry truck to Sierra County Chapter Local No 1 of the Tommyknockers International, Thank you Bob Creume, SF, for telling Fool's Goldthat you have been spending your vacations the last three years in N C---and that you first read about us in "OFF THE BEATEN PATH" by Norman D. Ford in his "Where to Vacation and Stay Awhile in America's Own Bargain Paradises"..andI quote from Bob Creume's clipping torn from the book: "Nevada City, a peaceful little town on sevenhills among beautiful trees, teems with gold mining history. Landmarks include Stewart Mansion on Piety Hill and the Red Castle on steep Prospect Hill. The bricks of the gracious old National Hotel have housed many of the West's most colorful characters and you'll still find tradional mountain hospitality in its high ceiling rooms and lobby furnished with antiques. Rates are $3-4 dollars a day W/O bath and $5.00 up with bath. Famous Bridal Suite shouldnotbe missed. At 2,5000 ft, fog-free and dry, romantic Nevada City is one of California's most attractive reye . tirement townS..c.cicececee The Misfits with Marilyn Monroe Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. Ruth Cardin, Evelyn Vailey and the Movie Committee can relax on this hot film; this is a self-policed theater picture with the marquee lights: For Adults Only. This is no film for children or the un-sophisticated, according to this reviewer. It has Gable & Monroe at their very best. Don't miss it, My employment takes me into the wild mustang country of Wadsworth, Pyramid Lake and Dayton, Nevada where this movie was filmed. On the screen the sad real life Marilyn comes through and it's the last picture that Gable made, The story starts in Reno, where a new divorcee, Monroe, stirs the excitable mechanic and pilot Eli Wallach. Wallach introduces Monroe to Gable, a cowboy who captures wildhorses for dogfood. A romance develops between Monroe and Gable. Into the group moves a third cowboy, Clift. All are Misfits, running away in one way or another from the sense and hurt of failure form previous personal attachments. Parties , gambling, rodeos follow. The roundup of the wild horses terrifies Marilyn who screams her protests and the film reaches its climax in changes ‘in all three men. Letter To The Editor Dear Editor; Y Our area is a photographers heaven. Mrs. Dorothy Sanders letter was very interesting and . she is certainly right, This area should be kept unspoiled. It is different, and before saw it last year, I didn‘tknow you could still find such places away from tracts and traffic andtension, where you can enjoy tranquility. Away from modem , box like houses, and man made landscaping, that can't compare with superb natural beauty like this. Sincerely, Mrs. Bernard Wills Nevada City CENTRAL CALIFORNIA Feperat Savincs and Loan Association MAXIMUM SECURITY Cwrrert Rate L % per annum