February 26, 1975 (8 pages)

Leader in its field Litton Engineering __ in an effort to dispel rumors that Litton Engineering Laboratories has closed down and moved to Nevada the Grass Valley firm held an open house Saturday for local business and community leaders. “People around town seem to have gotten the impression that we are no longer operating so we wanted to assure them that this isn’t true,’’ said Charles Litton Jr., one of two brothers who-run the ‘organization. Charles Jr., 28, and Larry, 27, took over the reins when their father Charles Litton Sr. died in 1972. The huge four story Litton building above Nevada County Country Club hasn’t stopped manufacturing machinery for the glass blowing industry but operations have been cut back due to the present economic situation. There are presently 25 full time employes who work an 10-hour, four day work week but only three weeks out of each month. “These are all highly qualified people and we didn’t want to lay any,of them off so we cut back on hours,” explained. It is impossible to determine the value of the plant because many of the machines are one-of-a-kind designed and built by Charles Litton Sr. ‘‘He was a very brilliant man who designed a lot of good machinery,” said employe Gordon Crane. Crane added that there probably isn’t a glass manufacturing plant in the country that doesn’t have a Litton lathe in it. The company is the world-wide leader in its field with few competitors, mainly in Europe. Larry noted that all.of the machines used at Litton were built before he was born which might give you an idea of their quality. A good portion of Litton machinery sold today goes to universitys. ‘The University of California is one of our big customers,” Larry said, adding that they also get a lot of government contracts. _ He theorized that the company, in poor economic times, gets hit after everyone else), ‘“‘Because of the government contracts.we are still going good when other peopleare hurting and then when they are on ged ‘way up we are headed down,”’ he said. The massive building has a sheet metal shop, an aluminum foundry, several machine shops in addition to what is known as the R\& D shop. It is here that special orders are handled. The equipmentiin the R & D shop was moved to Nevada ‘but has since been returned to Grass Valley. Crane said that Litton currently has a. good inventory built up\and that practically any machine can be delivered with one days notice. The story is a bit different with the special orders where it may take up to a year to manufacture something from a sketch. _ Claire W. Griffin is a long time Litton employe who explained why Litton came ’ to Grass Valley in 1953. ‘Charlie was getting fed up with the peninsula with all of the smog and the other manufacturing plants so when he had a chance to buy this property he did. é The Litton building was once intended to be the Grass Valley Memorial Hospital. When sold to Litton in 1953 the hospital had been under construction for 15 years yet only the outer construction was completed. Work had stopped during World War II. It ‘was first destined to become a community hospital through endowments, principally by the late Errol MacBoyle, president and general manager of the Idaho-Maryland Mines Corporation and the late Dr. Carl P. Jones of Grass Valley. The uncompleted building cost $360,000 and was sold to Litton for $135,000 cash. Griffin said that it took several years for the building to be completed, with the work coming in phases.Litton was a 1924 electrical engineering grad of Stanford who established Litton Engineering Laboratory in Redwood City in 1932, the first such development on the San Fran-. cisco peninsula. — He moved to San Carlos in 1946 and at the time he moved to Grass Valley he had 350 employes, 70 of which were in the laboratory itself. The rest were working in the Litton Industries phase which is no longer in the family holdings. The completion of the Litton building cost an additional $250,000 and started with the manufacture of radios, television and microwave equipment. It has 66,000 square feet of space but is currently having problems with leakage. The property consists of 156 acres running from East Main Street on the south to Nevada Union High School on the north. The younger Litton sons say they want to let the community know what they are doing. During the tour Saturday Charles Jr. showed off the new $16,000 computer that: was recently installed. It has an 8,000 word memory and is currently being used for payroll. G Valley City Engineer Tom Leland especially impressed with the computer, to the point of suggesting the city could well use one. He changed his tune a little when Mayor Ed Tellam said the computer would be a good idea because it could replace several employes, including the city engineer. The Litton brothers have taken other steps which they feel will help the firm. during the present economic times. One is ‘the leasing of unused space to other companies. To date Elgen Systems, Inc., Cyan Engineering and Dach Security Systems have offices in the building. Wed., Feb. 26,1975 Folsom plans 19 programs €® Folsom’s service and com+ munity organizations have joined forces to assemble an impressive list of Bicentennial activities in this historic mining town of less than 6,000 inhabitants. Although many of the projects are relatively inexpensive, much of the community will be involved or affected by them. For instance, a series of Bicentennial Sunday Historic Mini-Sermons will be incorporated into church services beginning March, 1975. Ministers will give one-minute sermons each week during ’75 and ’76 relating their churches to national history. The Folsom-Cordova School District and the City of Folsom will plant a grove of Liberty Trees (California Redwoods) in the city park. ” The Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a musical and dramatic pageant depicting the Gold Rush in the Mother Lode. It will be presented during the summers \ of ’76 and ’76. A high school speech. contest with a Bicentennial theme is being sponsored by the Folsom Lions Club. Ina “Living History” project , students will take field trips, camp out and pan for gold. The City of Folsom,. Folsom Cordova School District and the Chamber of Commerce will establish a_ sister city relationship with a community in one of the original 13 colonies. Exchanges of students, pen pals and visitors will be encouraged. Folsom also has-a number of costlier projects, such as the \reconstruction and dedication of the town’s Wells Fargo Building. But its low-budget ideas may be of greater value to other small cities which want to take the Bicentennial to the people in spite of limited funds. The Nevada County Nugget 3 3 AMY NELSON is one of the many students that received dental exams last week at school. As part of the Dental Health Week program, 1,300 elementary school children received exams by participating dentists of the Mother Lode Dental Group. The exams were for the purpose of diagnosing serious and obvious dental problems and were not a replacement for a detailed office visit. Grand Jury probes NUHS administration The Grand Jury of Nevada County has filed an interim report on an investigation of the administration of Nevada Union High School and made several recommendations. The report was filed February 4. Several. of the recommendations of the Grand Jury have implemented by the Nevada Union High School Board of Trustees and the Grand Jury commended the Trustees for taking certain actions. The highest priority on the Grand Jury list was hiring a campus security person, an action which recently was approved by the school board. The second. recommendation was maintaining control of persons and vehicles on the campus, particularly in the parking lots. The report. asked for designated speed limits, no parking areas, closed campus, no trespassing and other similar regulations for the campus. The Grand Jury felt that many areas of the campus had not established policies, vaguely defined policies, or unenforced policies and recommended the following: ; (a) Acampus dress code clear to both faculty and students. (b) Expulsion of students policy making grounds of expulsion clearly understood by pupils, parents, administration and faculty. (c) Truancy at the campus was termed unacceptable. (d) Enforcing a no smoking on campus policy. The Grand Jury stated if the law was strictly enforced and the students understood it would be, the smoking on the campus problém would be eliminated. The Grand Jury felt that insufficient investigation in the past on teacher’s qualifications and suitability had been accomplished prior to granting tenure. It recommended greater consideration be given to the evaluation of teachers. The report was concerned with the continuing reduction in the number of semester units required for graduation. The report felt that it would be better to have students strive harder to achieve the goal of receiving a ‘diploma. With the continuing competition in.the job market for the positions requiring a_ college diploma, the report recommended that greater effort be made to establish more career education classes for students who do not go to college. The Grand Jury recommended strongly that the office of the Superintendent of Nevada Union be located on the school — campus, feeling the superintendent would be available to observe the conditions existing on the campus, and would be more accessible to the facility.

Leader in its field Litton Engineering __ in an effort to dispel rumors that Litton Engineering Laboratories has closed down and moved to Nevada the Grass Valley firm held an open house Saturday for local business and community leaders. “People around town seem to have gotten the impression that we are no longer operating so we wanted to assure them that this isn’t true,’’ said Charles Litton Jr., one of two brothers who-run the ‘organization. Charles Jr., 28, and Larry, 27, took over the reins when their father Charles Litton Sr. died in 1972. The huge four story Litton building above Nevada County Country Club hasn’t stopped manufacturing machinery for the glass blowing industry but operations have been cut back due to the present economic situation. There are presently 25 full time employes who work an 10-hour, four day work week but only three weeks out of each month. “These are all highly qualified people and we didn’t want to lay any,of them off so we cut back on hours,” explained. It is impossible to determine the value of the plant because many of the machines are one-of-a-kind designed and built by Charles Litton Sr. ‘‘He was a very brilliant man who designed a lot of good machinery,” said employe Gordon Crane. Crane added that there probably isn’t a glass manufacturing plant in the country that doesn’t have a Litton lathe in it. The company is the world-wide leader in its field with few competitors, mainly in Europe. Larry noted that all.of the machines used at Litton were built before he was born which might give you an idea of their quality. A good portion of Litton machinery sold today goes to universitys. ‘The University of California is one of our big customers,” Larry said, adding that they also get a lot of government contracts. _ He theorized that the company, in poor economic times, gets hit after everyone else), ‘“‘Because of the government contracts.we are still going good when other peopleare hurting and then when they are on ged ‘way up we are headed down,”’ he said. The massive building has a sheet metal shop, an aluminum foundry, several machine shops in addition to what is known as the R\& D shop. It is here that special orders are handled. The equipmentiin the R & D shop was moved to Nevada ‘but has since been returned to Grass Valley. Crane said that Litton currently has a. good inventory built up\and that practically any machine can be delivered with one days notice. The story is a bit different with the special orders where it may take up to a year to manufacture something from a sketch. _ Claire W. Griffin is a long time Litton employe who explained why Litton came ’ to Grass Valley in 1953. ‘Charlie was getting fed up with the peninsula with all of the smog and the other manufacturing plants so when he had a chance to buy this property he did. é The Litton building was once intended to be the Grass Valley Memorial Hospital. When sold to Litton in 1953 the hospital had been under construction for 15 years yet only the outer construction was completed. Work had stopped during World War II. It ‘was first destined to become a community hospital through endowments, principally by the late Errol MacBoyle, president and general manager of the Idaho-Maryland Mines Corporation and the late Dr. Carl P. Jones of Grass Valley. The uncompleted building cost $360,000 and was sold to Litton for $135,000 cash. Griffin said that it took several years for the building to be completed, with the work coming in phases.Litton was a 1924 electrical engineering grad of Stanford who established Litton Engineering Laboratory in Redwood City in 1932, the first such development on the San Fran-. cisco peninsula. — He moved to San Carlos in 1946 and at the time he moved to Grass Valley he had 350 employes, 70 of which were in the laboratory itself. The rest were working in the Litton Industries phase which is no longer in the family holdings. The completion of the Litton building cost an additional $250,000 and started with the manufacture of radios, television and microwave equipment. It has 66,000 square feet of space but is currently having problems with leakage. The property consists of 156 acres running from East Main Street on the south to Nevada Union High School on the north. The younger Litton sons say they want to let the community know what they are doing. During the tour Saturday Charles Jr. showed off the new $16,000 computer that: was recently installed. It has an 8,000 word memory and is currently being used for payroll. G Valley City Engineer Tom Leland especially impressed with the computer, to the point of suggesting the city could well use one. He changed his tune a little when Mayor Ed Tellam said the computer would be a good idea because it could replace several employes, including the city engineer. The Litton brothers have taken other steps which they feel will help the firm. during the present economic times. One is ‘the leasing of unused space to other companies. To date Elgen Systems, Inc., Cyan Engineering and Dach Security Systems have offices in the building. Wed., Feb. 26,1975 Folsom plans 19 programs €® Folsom’s service and com+ munity organizations have joined forces to assemble an

impressive list of Bicentennial activities in this historic mining town of less than 6,000 inhabitants. Although many of the projects are relatively inexpensive, much of the community will be involved or affected by them. For instance, a series of Bicentennial Sunday Historic Mini-Sermons will be incorporated into church services beginning March, 1975. Ministers will give one-minute sermons each week during ’75 and ’76 relating their churches to national history. The Folsom-Cordova School District and the City of Folsom will plant a grove of Liberty Trees (California Redwoods) in the city park. ” The Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a musical and dramatic pageant depicting the Gold Rush in the Mother Lode. It will be presented during the summers \ of ’76 and ’76. A high school speech. contest with a Bicentennial theme is being sponsored by the Folsom Lions Club. Ina “Living History” project , students will take field trips, camp out and pan for gold. The City of Folsom,. Folsom Cordova School District and the Chamber of Commerce will establish a_ sister city relationship with a community in one of the original 13 colonies. Exchanges of students, pen pals and visitors will be encouraged. Folsom also has-a number of costlier projects, such as the \reconstruction and dedication of the town’s Wells Fargo Building. But its low-budget ideas may be of greater value to other small cities which want to take the Bicentennial to the people in spite of limited funds. The Nevada County Nugget 3 3 AMY NELSON is one of the many students that received dental exams last week at school. As part of the Dental Health Week program, 1,300 elementary school children received exams by participating dentists of the Mother Lode Dental Group. The exams were for the purpose of diagnosing serious and obvious dental problems and were not a replacement for a detailed office visit. Grand Jury probes NUHS administration The Grand Jury of Nevada County has filed an interim report on an investigation of the administration of Nevada Union High School and made several recommendations. The report was filed February 4. Several. of the recommendations of the Grand Jury have implemented by the Nevada Union High School Board of Trustees and the Grand Jury commended the Trustees for taking certain actions. The highest priority on the Grand Jury list was hiring a campus security person, an action which recently was approved by the school board. The second. recommendation was maintaining control of persons and vehicles on the campus, particularly in the parking lots. The report. asked for designated speed limits, no parking areas, closed campus, no trespassing and other similar regulations for the campus. The Grand Jury felt that many areas of the campus had not established policies, vaguely defined policies, or unenforced policies and recommended the following: ; (a) Acampus dress code clear to both faculty and students. (b) Expulsion of students policy making grounds of expulsion clearly understood by pupils, parents, administration and faculty. (c) Truancy at the campus was termed unacceptable. (d) Enforcing a no smoking on campus policy. The Grand Jury stated if the law was strictly enforced and the students understood it would be, the smoking on the campus problém would be eliminated. The Grand Jury felt that insufficient investigation in the past on teacher’s qualifications and suitability had been accomplished prior to granting tenure. It recommended greater consideration be given to the evaluation of teachers. The report was concerned with the continuing reduction in the number of semester units required for graduation. The report felt that it would be better to have students strive harder to achieve the goal of receiving a ‘diploma. With the continuing competition in.the job market for the positions requiring a_ college diploma, the report recommended that greater effort be made to establish more career education classes for students who do not go to college. The Grand Jury recommended strongly that the office of the Superintendent of Nevada Union be located on the school — campus, feeling the superintendent would be available to observe the conditions existing on the campus, and would be more accessible to the facility.