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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

February 27, 1974 (8 pages)

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6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Feb. 27,1974 Antique show in Yuba City — . Rough and Ready News By. Fay Dunbar seems to consider ly has its « certain strictly half-baked, ed that many conceiv idea What mings. shortco years ago doesn’t have some problems with our world today. Its common sense bare bones always shows through tho’. With some help it may keep this county headed in the right direction. One of the ideas of the State Transportation Department seems to be to get local details ahead of time for future Last Saturday was a lovely lazy day. One of ‘plan, which “I know best” the most relaxing days I have spent in a long time. They say the ebb and flo of the tides are physically relaxing in a manner we are not usually aware of. Maybe that was it or perhaps it was the influence of a strange City. We spent A 14h Annual Antique Show artifacts, dolls and toys will also and Sale will be held March 1, 2 be displayed. and 3 at the Yuba-Sutter Fair Chinese antiques at the show will include ceramics from 800 Grounds in Yuba City. Reputable antique dealers, 25 to 1,000 years old. in number, will set up ‘‘shop” in _ Depression glass will be the Main Exhibit Building and featured along with English display’ a wide variety of brass and -copper and a merchandise for display and for collection of hat pins. the day in San Francisco. We dashed away from An identification booth will be sale. The event is sponsored by the Mary Aaron Museum available for guests to identify their treasures and there will be Association. Most people should be_ inbooks and magazines on the terested in the show which will restoration of antiques and display items from carnival information for new collectors. The antique show and sale will © glass to sparkling cut glass, “<) stately walnut furniture, sturdy be open from noon until 9 p.m. oak and simple mellow pine. on Friday and Saturday and Antique clocks, watches and from noon until 6 p.m. Sunday. dolls will be featured as well as Lunch and dinner will be served gleaming silver, jewelry, coins, each day for the antiques lover . paper items and books. Indian who wishes to. browse. here at 6 a.m. in order to make our appointment at 10. The first real blow of the energy crisis. We just didn’t dare take a chance on getting gas to get home on so we drove to Sacramento. We couldn’t get a bus any closer that would get us development of a nation wide connecting system. These facts men like our ‘‘I know best” ‘well there by 10. Maybe that too helped with the don’t have at their fingertips unless we d it supplie sly previou have ” citizens oned intenti than relaxing. It’s a lot easier to drive 120 miles, 300, in one day. Our business was finished by 2 p.m. After a bit of shopping we took a cable car, just for the fun of it, and ended up at Fisherman’s Wharf. It was an absolutely perfect -day. The ocean always unravels me anyway and it did an extra good job on Saturday. We enjoyed just watching the cable cars and their passengers. Every one was in a festive mood to them. Another aspect of this Commission that “T know best” doesn’t seem to have grasped is that the plans actually are being put together by a group of experts in their fields. We “well intentioned citizens” advisory committee only provide little ideas and details from our own areas fer the real commission to implement with . engineering, financial, knowleagable abilities. forgotten about the crowds of the big city. We should feel better. We certainly do need buses I and I think everyone was there. I sure had With all that unkindness out of my system heard and saw lots of street players. Some were in this county. Look at the fiasco involved in Postal rates quite good. We watched the kites being tossed getting from here to San Francisco at an hour in care about the sky. As Robert Louis Stevenson said of the morning that makes it possible to take the in night a spend to having blew without of business the wind, ‘‘It tossed the kites on high and need also we opinion’ humble my In city. big some flying were They the birds about the sky”. special kind of silver kites that looked like huge wide enough roads that people left on foot don’t snakes dipping and darting about the sky. There get killed trying to get to the grocery for a “‘loaf were lots of boats in the area and even a big oil of bread’. Sorry “I know what’s best’ you tanker came in while we were watching. It was either don’t know or you are busy taking care of jump Saturday an altogether lovely afternoon. Must really have someone else. Postmasters Robert E. Lee of Grass Valley and Cliff Ramos of Nevada City today reminded U. S. Postal Service customers that new postage rates will go into effect Saturday. —R&R— been the beautiful weather that made it_so Before I quit I have one more irritant to get enjoyable because we surely did nothing exciting. We had brown bag lunches prepared by out of my system. It’s too late now to complain Peter Alioto, a cousin of the mayor’s. You about big subdividers ruining our county. Our wouldn’t believe how good it tasted. Dinner was county has already wised up to them. However a real experience. Charlotte’s daughter took us it’s still wise for all of us to think what goes on to a quite out of the way place right out over the when builders promote these things for their water. The fish was real gourmet. Again there own selfish betterment: Our county is never was an enormous crowd. When we left, about going to get out of the debt it has already taken 8:30 p.m. the crowd was just as big as it had on itself to provide the ‘necessary capitol been at 6. We had an hour wait. I heard one improvement costs” required to handle these citizen Individual of growth. couple complain of waiting almost two hours. types cent, depending on weight and distance.
+ : : While the full increases for airmail, first class, third class and parcel post matter will take effect on March 2, the rate in“‘Beginning March 2,” they creases for second class mail, newspapers and said, ‘first class mail will be 10 (i.e. magazines) and a special fourth cents per ounce, airmail will be 13 cents and post cards eight class rate for educational materials, will be spread out cents.” Because of the shortage of over varying periods, through Probably Saturday night in San Francisco is developments for a home for their family and paper for printing and the mid-1982. future does cost something, too. It is small always that way. Love Nevada County! Second class rates are commammoth logistics job of enough to handle in an orderly fashion. In —R&R— providing official Postal Service puted on several different bases, As soon as we got home I checked the barn. studies of best land use no one has been able to stamps-by-mail order blanks to reflecting advertising content of It was about 12 and there were two more wee come up with a plan that does not result in a some 42,000 post offices, the new the periodicals involved and babies just being born. The makes five now in NET COST to the taxpayer for big subdivisions. order forms may not be distance mailed. juststhree days. It was 2 by the time I got their We can’t stop people but we sure don’t need to Mailed books and records will available at all locations in time heat lamp rigged and watched them eat and subsidize.any more builders in this county than rise from 16 to 18 cents for the ~ for the rate change. settle down in the warm straw. Josephine’s we have now. If someone asked the question The average local citizen will first pound, with the cost of each babies have finally learned to eat. I had to bottle right now “‘do you believe in birth control” it be interested only in the first additional pound 8 cents, the feed about 2 days. It really isn’t Josephine’s sure would be hard to answer no. class and airmail rate changes same as presently charged. —R&R— fault. She loves her babies but her milk bottle International rates will rise by noted above. Local businesses touches the floor. The long’ almost it big so gets 20 percent. Mail rates to Canada will be concerned as well by Faye Dean, my caller for Christian Women, kneed babies just can’t find the changes in the rates of other and Mexico will be the same as . legged wobbly knows our new neighbors. It really is a small they when relieved is Everyone “faucets at first. the higher domestic rates in classes of mail. world isn’t it! She knows Mrs. Mary Richardson. do. It’s an ordeal for Josephine, too. Third class mail rates, mostly most categories. Mary is the mother of Mrs. Eugenia Frye. Fr. —R&R— for advertising material, will Cost of mailing a one-ounce Last week I suggested that “the Shaft” and Mrs. Frye have a new home on Rocker rise by 1.3 cents per piece, international surface letter will place the blame for lack of progress for bus Road. Mr. Frye loves to garden. He is getting his putting the rate at 6.1 cents for rise from 15 to 18 cents. Air mail .transportation for our county on the plot ready now for spring vegetables. You know each of the first 250,000 pieces letter rates to Western governmental agencies who must provide the that stuff people need for spring gardens that mailed and 6.3 cents for each Hemisphere countries from 21 to service instead of the commission who cannot. comes out of barns. My barn had plenty of that. additional piece. 26 cents for each half ounce, up As you have been reading in the papers Kenneth and Leona Wright have been laying in ’ Fourth’ class mail rates, to two ounces. Surface and air about their spring supply, also. My barn is almost mainly for parcel post, will parcel rates will rise about 15 _ everyone else seemed to get the same idea t I clean. Mrs. Dean also knows our other new constituen ‘dear our the same time, except increase an average of six per percent. neighbors, Aaron and Kathryn Abbott of Tahoe. Every r”. superviso you for best what’s know time he open his mouth he puts his foot in it. He The Abbotts live right next to us on the north. also has a talent for insulting the intelligence of They have not been able fo move down yet, Mr. every citizen of the county. His statement that Abbott visited my husband several times last no matter how well intentioned ‘‘citizens can summer. He will know they did have good FOURTEENTH ANNUAL only go so far” could just as well have been said neighbors once. Mrs. Olyve Simmons knows kindly. He could have said without all the tools, Mrs. Frye. I had to call for help. Eugenia is not YUBA-SUTTER FAIRGROUNDS = YUBACITY FRIDAY MARCH 1 b 12 Noon to 9 p, m. SATURDAY MARCH 2 SUNDAY MARCH 3 12 Noon to 9 p. m. 12 Noon to 6 p. m.4 MEALS and TEA SHOP Open to the Public Daily Door Prizes Donation $1.00 Sponso red by the Mary Aaron Museum Association ! the complete information and authority as we an easy name to remember. Of course, our supervisors have, ‘‘citizens can only go so far’’. conversation got-around to the big thing in my I’m afraid he means it as he said it tho’. I really . life just now. Olyve grew up in Hawaii. She gave think he believes that we citizens are a different me a lesson in pronunciation. Honolulu must be breed than men like himself. I wonder if he even pronounced with the o’s sounding like the o in Ho knows that this problem is being attacked all of Don Ho. Don must be his Americanized name. over the state. In most counties it is by a state The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters. Their agency not by a county commission as in this vowel sounds predominate. They are always ’ county. I haven’t heard of any great problems pronounced the same. Each vowel has its very © being solved by them either. Our county elected broadest sound. Now .if someone would just to go at the job this way. Probably because we teach me the hula I would really be well do seem to have unique problems. The general