February 28, 1973 (12 pages)

>> PENLIDICALS SECTION (5-16-73 CAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95914 NEVADA COUNTY NUE Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog. Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Hill, Liberty Hill, Saitor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchvill Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, # York, Cherokee. Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville. Gold Bar, Lowell Hill. Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol. Quaker Hill, e, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. NUMBER 102 VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Wed. Feb. 28, 1973 Drugs blamed Mont for many felony arrests Drivers involved with nar‘cotics and dangerous drugs were a factor in over half of the felony arrests made _ by California Highway Patrol officers last year. Of the. 13,890 felony arrests made, 8,803 involved drugs or narcotics, CHP Commissioner Walter Pudinski said. Other arrests made by patrol officers throughout the state included . 3,932 for auto theft, 604 receiving stolen’ property, 555 for possession of a dangerous weapon, 276 robberies, 238 burglars, 33 kidnapping, 31 merderers and 24 rapists. Vehicular manslaughter was the charge in 237 arrests. More unusual categories included the arrest of 15 escaped _ prisoners and 29 individuals who counterfeited motor vehicle registration papers. The number of felony arrests in 1972 was an alltime high for the patrol. FOR THE LATEST AND GREATEST RECREATIONAL VEHICLES We Are Your WESTERN NEVADA COUNTY HEADQUARTERS We offer the practical solution for your vacation travel requirements — at the lowest possible prices! MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. Grass Valley — 273-9535 S Despite lack of canneries By PHYLLIS L. SMITH It’s “‘Cannery Row” in name only now. That fabled street down in old Monterey — made internationally famous by John Steinbeck’s novel of several decades ago — is now totally bereft of the 78-year-old industry. The last fish was canned there early in February and the machinery at Portola Packing Co., the last remaining on the row, was shut down and dismantled for removal. Thus did the canning industry, best known for sardine packing, draw to a close. At its peak, the sardine industry dominated Monterey’s economy with 16 canngries operating there and employing thousands. The next fish to be packed by. Portola Packing Col, will be at their new Moss Landing plant when squid appear offshore in May or June. Monterey’s canning industry actually began in 1895, when a man named F. E. Booth came down from Sacramento bringing equipment from his Sacramento River Cannery to a location next to Fisherman’s Wharf. There, he began canning salmon and later became interested in the silvery pilchards — true sardine — which filled Monterey Bay. First season’s pack amounted to 300 cases of sardines, but by 1902 The second cannery was constructed in 1909, the first on ‘what was later called ‘Cannery Row.” World War I brought a new demand for canned sar‘dines as‘a cheap, nutritious and tasty food which could easily be . shipped overseas. By the end of 1919, nine plants had been built on the row, and were producing 1.4 million cases of sardines per season. Following the Armistice the industry fell into a recession and some canneries .went bankrupt while others changed hands. The industry was also marked by problems ranging from strikes to arson. MON. thru SAT. 8 to 6 : : mq One of the largest canners was # his plant was producing 3,000 © ‘cases per season. Knute Hovden, ‘‘the giant of Cannery Row’’, who came from his homeland — Norway — in 1905. He was first associated with the early Booth. Hovden and Booth were responsible for a number of improvements in methods used, but after a series of disagreements, Hovden started another cannery, in 1914. This plant was burned by arsonists in 1921. Hovden later rebuilt and then established the purse seiner fleet which became _the backbone of the sardine fishing industry. Despite the depression of the 30s, the row continued to grow, with a World War II boom which Saw, in 1945, sixteen fullproduction plants with 14 reduction plants for the manufacture of fish meal owned by the various companies. By war’s end there were more than 4,000 workers on union rolls and non-union volunteers by the MAYOR JERRY BRUST (center) presented certificates of appreciation to Milton Randolph (left), Department Commander of American Legion and Jj Kootstra, Nevada County Veterans’ Officer, for the ‘‘outstanding work” they have accomplished for veterans in the Grass Valley area. hundreds could be counted. The year 1945 was the peak season — with almost 235,000 tons brought in by the fishing fleet. The picture changed, however, in the next two years, after a disasterous 1947, when only 27,000 tons was brought in for processing — it was generally agreed that the “sardine has disappeared.”’ The canneries limped: along after that, with anchovy, mackeral, albacore and tuna coming up from Southern California waters. Five major companies closed their doors permanently in 1952, shipping equipment to South America and South Africa. A number of spectacular fires took care of a -number of other companies and that wrote ‘‘finis’”’ to a large chapter in the area’s history. The California Packing Corp., one of the last to give up, moved its plant to Puerto Rico in 1962. erey’s Cannery Row is interesting 25th reunion for GVHS The 1948 graduation class of Grass Valley High School will hold its 25th reunion soon. Committee members are searching for the present addresses of the following classmates. Anyone knowing. their present address is asked to call 273-2221; Loyd Baker, Leo Boyle, Betty Campbell, Dorris Colby, Jo Loney Erickson, Harlan Fawcett, Virginia Fisher, Irene George, Mavis Masters Green, Wayne Kendall, Fred Letner, Marjorie Smith Miller, Gloria Pricer, Jack Stine, Clyde Shippard, Henry Thrasher, Al Wagner, Gene Watson, Carl Webber, June Wood and Bob Yocum.

>> PENLIDICALS SECTION (5-16-73 CAL. ST. LIBRARY SACTO. CAL. 95914 NEVADA COUNTY NUE Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog. Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington, Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Hill, Liberty Hill, Saitor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchvill Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, # York, Cherokee. Mooney Flat, Sweetland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North alloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville. Gold Bar, Lowell Hill. Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol. Quaker Hill, e, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. NUMBER 102 VOLUME 49 10 Cents A Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada City Wed. Feb. 28, 1973 Drugs blamed Mont for many felony arrests Drivers involved with nar‘cotics and dangerous drugs were a factor in over half of the felony arrests made _ by California Highway Patrol officers last year. Of the. 13,890 felony arrests made, 8,803 involved drugs or narcotics, CHP Commissioner Walter Pudinski said. Other arrests made by patrol officers throughout the state included . 3,932 for auto theft, 604 receiving stolen’ property, 555 for possession of a dangerous weapon, 276 robberies, 238 burglars, 33 kidnapping, 31 merderers and 24 rapists. Vehicular manslaughter was the charge in 237 arrests. More unusual categories included the arrest of 15 escaped _ prisoners and 29 individuals who counterfeited motor vehicle registration papers. The number of felony arrests in 1972 was an alltime high for the patrol. FOR THE LATEST AND GREATEST RECREATIONAL VEHICLES We Are Your WESTERN NEVADA COUNTY HEADQUARTERS We offer the practical solution for your vacation travel requirements — at the lowest possible prices! MEIER Chev.-Olds Hiway 49 at Brunswick Rd. Grass Valley — 273-9535 S Despite lack of canneries By PHYLLIS L. SMITH It’s “‘Cannery Row” in name only now. That fabled street down in old Monterey — made internationally famous by John Steinbeck’s novel of several decades ago — is now totally bereft of the 78-year-old industry. The last fish was canned there early in February and the machinery at Portola Packing Co., the last remaining on the row, was shut down and dismantled for removal. Thus did the canning industry, best known for sardine packing, draw to a close. At its peak, the sardine industry dominated Monterey’s economy with 16 canngries operating there and employing thousands. The next fish to be packed by. Portola Packing Col, will be at their new Moss Landing plant when squid appear offshore in May or June. Monterey’s canning industry actually began in 1895, when a man named F. E. Booth came down from Sacramento bringing equipment from his Sacramento River Cannery to a location next to Fisherman’s Wharf. There, he began canning salmon and later became interested in the silvery pilchards — true sardine — which filled Monterey Bay. First season’s pack amounted to 300 cases of sardines, but by 1902 The second cannery was

constructed in 1909, the first on ‘what was later called ‘Cannery Row.” World War I brought a new demand for canned sar‘dines as‘a cheap, nutritious and tasty food which could easily be . shipped overseas. By the end of 1919, nine plants had been built on the row, and were producing 1.4 million cases of sardines per season. Following the Armistice the industry fell into a recession and some canneries .went bankrupt while others changed hands. The industry was also marked by problems ranging from strikes to arson. MON. thru SAT. 8 to 6 : : mq One of the largest canners was # his plant was producing 3,000 © ‘cases per season. Knute Hovden, ‘‘the giant of Cannery Row’’, who came from his homeland — Norway — in 1905. He was first associated with the early Booth. Hovden and Booth were responsible for a number of improvements in methods used, but after a series of disagreements, Hovden started another cannery, in 1914. This plant was burned by arsonists in 1921. Hovden later rebuilt and then established the purse seiner fleet which became _the backbone of the sardine fishing industry. Despite the depression of the 30s, the row continued to grow, with a World War II boom which Saw, in 1945, sixteen fullproduction plants with 14 reduction plants for the manufacture of fish meal owned by the various companies. By war’s end there were more than 4,000 workers on union rolls and non-union volunteers by the MAYOR JERRY BRUST (center) presented certificates of appreciation to Milton Randolph (left), Department Commander of American Legion and Jj Kootstra, Nevada County Veterans’ Officer, for the ‘‘outstanding work” they have accomplished for veterans in the Grass Valley area. hundreds could be counted. The year 1945 was the peak season — with almost 235,000 tons brought in by the fishing fleet. The picture changed, however, in the next two years, after a disasterous 1947, when only 27,000 tons was brought in for processing — it was generally agreed that the “sardine has disappeared.”’ The canneries limped: along after that, with anchovy, mackeral, albacore and tuna coming up from Southern California waters. Five major companies closed their doors permanently in 1952, shipping equipment to South America and South Africa. A number of spectacular fires took care of a -number of other companies and that wrote ‘‘finis’”’ to a large chapter in the area’s history. The California Packing Corp., one of the last to give up, moved its plant to Puerto Rico in 1962. erey’s Cannery Row is interesting 25th reunion for GVHS The 1948 graduation class of Grass Valley High School will hold its 25th reunion soon. Committee members are searching for the present addresses of the following classmates. Anyone knowing. their present address is asked to call 273-2221; Loyd Baker, Leo Boyle, Betty Campbell, Dorris Colby, Jo Loney Erickson, Harlan Fawcett, Virginia Fisher, Irene George, Mavis Masters Green, Wayne Kendall, Fred Letner, Marjorie Smith Miller, Gloria Pricer, Jack Stine, Clyde Shippard, Henry Thrasher, Al Wagner, Gene Watson, Carl Webber, June Wood and Bob Yocum.