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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