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NEVADA CITY.
Wed. Feb.
UGGETSERVING THE NEVADA COUNTY COMMUNITIES OF NEVADA CITY, GRASS VALLEY, RED DOG, YOU BET, TOWN TALK, GLENBROOK, LITTLE YORK, CHEROKEE, SW;
28, 1973 The Nevada County Nugget 5
AND, ALPHA,
OMEGA, FRENCH CORRAL, ROUGH AND READY, GRANITEVILLE, NORTH SAN JUAN, NORTH BLOOMFIELD, HUMBUG. RELIEF HILL, WASHINGTON. BLUE TENT. LaBARR MEADOWS,
CEDAR RIDGE, UNION HILL, PEARDALE, SUMMIT CITY, WALLOUPA, GOUGE EYE, LIME KILN, CHICAGO PARK, WOLF. CHRISTMAS HILL, LIBERTY HILL, SAILOR FLAT. LAKE CITY
SELBY FLAT, GRIZZLY HILL, GOLD FLAT, SOGGSVILLE, GOLD BAR, LOWELL HILL, BOURBON HILL, SCOTCH HILL, NORTH COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA HILL, BRANDY FLAT, SEBASTOPOL.
QUAKER HILL, WILLOW VALLEY, NEWTOWN, INDIAN FLAT, BRIDGEPORT, BIRCHVILLE, MOORE’S FLAT, ORLEANS FLAT, REMINGTON HILL, ANTHONY HOUSE, DELIRIUM TREMENS.
Volume 27, No. Nevada City, Nevada County, California, Thursday, April 16, 1953 Price Five Cents
John True's arrest on Saturday, allegedly for
murder of a hapless old lady, in Burbank, points
up the educational value to detectives of comic strips
ind grade B movies. If they carefully follow Dick
Tracy and take in the movies once a week, they apparently learn all a detective needs to know.
Here is a synopsis of the movements of the five
law officers (some from Burbank, some possibly
from L.A ):
They arrived in this area (according to the most
reliable reports) on Friday. They did not report in
to either Grass Valley or Nevada City police officials, or, as is more customary in a case of this kind,
to the Nevada County Sheriff's office. Instead they
went undercover in the home of a Grass Valley resident, formerly affiliated with the Burbank ° police
department.
They were first shotted by eye witnesses about
7 p.m. parked in two klack Ford sedans on the Grass
Valley-Nevada City highway, across from George's
Market at Glenbrook Heights.
They were back again at the same old standing
ground the following day at 1:45 p.m. At that time,
they were busily engaged in making collect telephone calls to Reno. Exactly where they were calling in that city is a’ mystery, but it is presumed they
were making progress reports to a Reno law enforcement agency.
At 2 p.m. that day they made a visit to True’s
temporary residence in a residential development
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COPS REALLY BIG TIME OPERATORS
outside of Cedar Grove. As a youthful witness said.
“One was large and smoked a cigar, one wore elasses
and one was small” They attempted at this time to
gain entrance to the house. Whether they succeeded
or not is another mystery.
Anyhow, they journeyed back to Apple Street to
make the pinch.
They conducted this in the following manner and
tinder the following. circumstances:
Mr.-.Seth Terry (at whose home the arrest was
made) ‘had left one of his children in charge of
baby sitter while he went on an errand. In this in
terval, the two cops burst in the front door. Accord
ing to the baby sitter, they did not state they were
officers. They asked for Mr. True.
He is taking a bath,” the girl replied.
One of the men went down the hall ,entered the
bathroom and talked to True. In the meanwhile, the
others poked around the front room. They tipped
pictures on the wall, looking for mysterious things.
(Later, Terry said all they might find is dust, since
his wife has been ill in a San Francisco hospital, and
he’s been in charge of the house. )
The baby sitter went back into the kitchen to
finish the noon dishes. One of the gorillas then came
in, opening the back door, saying, “There's a man
here and we didn't want him to frighten you.” Another gorilla entered
They waited in the living room while True
a
lressed. One of them admired’a picture on the wall
of one of Terry's children
“Low old is he?”
sf Two years now, a
The cop replied, “Tle mitst have been about one
year when the picture was taken.”
then came out. Pell Mr. berry three guys
cacie and vot me,” he told the baly sitter. ble added:
Please call this number and tell her . won't be able
to make it.”’
(He referred to a date he had in Reno that night
Into the darkness,-and ostensibly toward Burbank,
the mysterious entourage then disappeared. Mr.
Terry returning home, hearing the story, naturally
became alarmed, notified the Nevada County
Sheriff's office. That started the now much-publicized case of John True.
But how simple it would have been if these socalled officers had proceeded through proper channels, notifying Sheriff Brown of their intentions.
Brown had this to say: “If they had identified
themselves, given notice of their intent, this would
have been an open and shut matter. But they seemingly went out of their way to add an unnecessary
burden to our office.”
And Mr Terry, a substantial, civic-minded citizen,
might have been spared a lot of unnecessary worry:
only the metropolitan newspapers, *who broke the
story, benefited by the Dick Tracy tactics.
e
True
PUIL SCADDEN, CIVIC LEADER, EX-ASSESSOR,
NAMED AS NEVADA COUNTY'S MAN OF YEAR
Everybody knows Phillip Seaden. retired Nevada County Assessor, who can't keep from coming downtown quite a few times
4 week and who can smile come
‘air weather or bad.
Because Phil's public service
ietals more than 90 years, he will
iw honored as Nevada County’s
Man of the Year at a public din‘er next month. The Nevada
County Historical Society, the
tiks, the city council, post office
mployees,Native Sons and
ther groups awill have their
share) in sponsoring the — big
ent.
3orn in the Boston Ravine secton of Grass Valley in, 1874.
Seadden comes from a_ pioncer
amily who ran one of the first
reweries In) Nevada County.
If you: look up. his record of
vouli that he was
thhie service '
Nevada City ceuncilman, — fire . PHIL aCRHDES
ef, postmaster, member of the . Man of the Year
tv. hibrary board. and county re
“sessor and that isn’t the whole LIKE BAND MUSIC?
t
Retiring from his assessor's job CONCERT TOMORROW
sn years ago, Scadden was rewlaced by Bill Tamblyn, who is AT HIGH SCHOOL
‘airman of the Scadden Day i pra
ac Siegfrie rill Tomorrow night the Nevada mmittee. Jack Siegfried wi ! Shei Gund eth
“© master of ceremonies. Union High Schoo yan ‘
a ". present;a gala concert, the first
in a series called the Annual Proposed Prison Here
Drawing Big Support
Considrable enthusiasm © has
been generated towards making
a strong pitch to the State to
locate the proposed $8,000,000 rehabilitation prison in this area.
The Nevada City and Grass
Valley Chambers of Commerce
both have endorsed the project.
Last night the Nevada City Lions
Club. went on record as strongly
favoring it.
Experts point to the fact that
the prison would offer the much
needed payroll here. They also
say that since it would be a rehabilitation center,-not housing
dangerous convicts, possibilities
of anyone attempting to escape
are nil.
ATTEND APPRECIATION DAY
NEVADA CITY
4 pum. — Every Wednesday
Band Frolic. at the Nevada. City
auditorium, starting at 8 o'clock.
_. To make things even better,
there will be a variety show following the concert. Entitled
“Mark Twain 13,” it will be presented by high school entertainers
Numbers to: be heard on the
concert include:
Champions on Parade, Hummel: Prelude in C Sharp Minor,
Rachmaninoff; Ave Maria, Schubert; Dream of Olwen, Williams
(Koreen Buster, piona soloist.)
Light Calvary Overture, von
Suppe; The Three Bears, Long;
Ode to Music, Chopin; Trumpeter’s Lullaby, Anderson (Dick
Smith, trumpet soloist); Washington Post March, Sousa.
Contribute to tis
1953 Red Cross Campaign
‘TOBY’ TOBIASSEN,
LONG-TIME ELK, DIES
'OF HEART TROUBLE
Another oldtimer died this
week. Theodore “Toby Tobiasseh, for 26 vears manager of the
Nevada City Elks Club, passed
6-3-3 PLAN LOOKS —
GOOD TO MEETING
OF SCHOOL OFFICIALS
School talk is in the air. A sizin 1885, went to school here and! night ine Grass Valles
to the troubles of others and
keeping their confidence. At
any hour of the day or night,
he was always ready to help a
fellow Elk. “He lived up to the
best traditions of the lodge,”
several members said.
He is survived by two brothers,
Car] J. Tobiassen of Nevada City
and Andrew N. Tobiassen ' of
Grass Valley: two sisters. Mrs.
Ida Magonigal of Nevada City
Napa schools athletic director:
Earl Sams, Jack Rannells, and
Verne Hall, all representing
the state department of education.
THE PROPOSAL
that the current four-year
SUGGESTS .
high 4
High School District located in
Nevada City and Grass Valley
be revamped to emerge as junior
ings would cost about $800,000
and would take care of nearly .
1,000 junior high school students.
They say, too, that by taking the
seventh and eighth graders out
of the present elementary schools
there won't be any more overcrowding.
tensen. Burial will be in the family plot at Pine Grove Cemetery.
GET THOSE PERMITS!
Fire permits are now needed,
Chief Ed Frantz notified Nevada
City residents this week. Joe
Gonzales: at the firehouse will
issue them.
Nevada City Elks
“Spring Tonic” Saturday Night
Contribute to the
1953 Red Cross Campaign
school units of the Nevada Union .
‘BURBANK JAIL SAYS JOHN TRUE NOW RELEASED
-———.
. According to word received in
Nevada City at noon today. John
. Lawson True was “out of jail,”
. apparently meaning the Burbank
. Reclamation Bureau _
. Coming Here for Talk
The Board of Directors of the» police had released him in defer. . Ne vada Irrigation District last . ence to the writ of habeas corpus
. } Friday morning voted unani. filea by Attorney Harold Ber. mously to invite the Bureau of}
. liner.
away at the County hospital} aple group of school trustees and . Reclam¢ Cc 5 : p of school trustees and} Reclamation to Grass Vallev for , :
from heart trouble on Tuesday He ob. woeteri . Nevada (li mneannn : With True’s release, it could
ale NSHcO western Nevac V conference . mean that Nevada County's role
He was born in Nevada City i Younty pot .together Monday GW. Hoffer, 1 presenting the ! Y in the sensational mystery is at
and aired . Nevada County Water Users As-)an end.
worked in Various mines in the eee and cons ie proposed JU) Sogation, reported to the board! Sheriff Wayne Brown indicatarea. pene hieh x hoot program ae I the findings of their meeting the ed today that he thinks that's.
As manager of the Elks, he . would convert the Senn S Bee previous Monday th Purcau! just about right. The-scene now
did a wonderful job of helpeee Boas the, cuuneN yt . officrals has shifted to the widespread
ing members ana guests © to Fas CMO-3-3 Phan Houck they okeved ivitiny, hunt for John Albert Santo and
feel at home in the club. ‘He . THER WASNT ANY. OPEL . tht Buread for talks. the NID. Emmett Perkins.
ware ne noe ans sharin 4 ae action that might, bub an} board were: sleptieal “as tes re Brown, incidentally, had susi said yesterday. Everybody pen forum discussion showed . Salts Winch ean be ebt. pected Santo of being involved
tein him. aoe a Nistor ave ( thosmostinee auers in the Gard Young case inChesAlthough Elks duties took up. ter shortly after that tragic case
. liked the plan or_at ay ast wanted
ay g
C eae lear hae dee bs cee ae cay NEVADA CITY LIONS or he! bbe pa eiag ie
2 ‘ars as pi : 1 en ha riven to Quinc
Melvin Geli: 1aus, he is
y
sheriff Ores ( j Lad Siti i
ree nM ; ae om aa ei rane chairman of the Nevada Coun: NAME COMMITTEES ie neal senaites evidence es, man. i ee a ee sned in é ty Committee for School Distablisning that Santo had been
ae tT by ip actuitie in later . *7i¢t Organization, presided at Comprnttee ctethe 1) ihe area near the nme of) the
ees sd ana partion and . the meeting and got the audiferthcomine Earth age ia
Foe asad. cs 1 id. He had ence acquainted with Dr. H.M. day Calendia immed thi erliner said he expects tha
more around the lodge. He ha . McPherson, Napa City School week by Bruce Foreman. chairTrue will return to Nevada City
the happy faculty of listening Superintendent: Glen DeBois, jman of the project for the Ne. in the next day or so.
vada City Lions Club
Liv Who Will participate are
Team 1: Captain’ Bub Tobiassen, Lions Ainsley Fouver, Aldo
Santinell Leslie, Santinelli.
tHoward Wilcox. Hugh Waldon,
Danny Pollo and Onda Smith.
. Team 2: Captain Clem Henwood. Lions Chuck Hilpert.
Bruce Kuchn. Lawrence Painter.
‘Jumbo Cocogni, Ben Barry, Chet
ms Wh LEFT AS DEAD,
JOHN TRUE PROVES
HES PLENTY TOUGH
John Lawson Truc. aged 38,
carries a reputation as one of the
top deep sea divers on the Pacific
. :
Coast. He has engaged in innuand Mrs. Annie Bowman. of high schools for the seventh. . Shirley and Corky Colkins. merable rescue operations. such
Marysville an aunt. Mrs. Mac) ci¢hth, and ninth grades. The! Team 3: Captain Sum Steas the hospital ship disaster out, Pierce of Sacramento, and sev-. pjan would also include, ‘of . phens, Lions Harey Johnson, side San Francisco Bay two vears
eral nieces. nephews and cousins. . egurse. a brand new senior high 'Chff Mahaffey. Manuel Pelayo,! ago. and holds a high commenFuneral services will be held echoolomidwav betwoen the two John Troutwine, \John Conway, dation from the Navy for his war
at the Bergemann Chapel at 2) cities, 3 Charles Montinar: and Alex work. :
p.m. Thursday. There will be *Advancers of) Ane plan say that : Watson. One story (which several peoElks rites and a regular church] the remodeling. af the two build: Team 4: Captain Cliff Jacabple confirm as accurate) tells of,
service by the Rev. Max Chris. sop, Lions Grady Campbell. True being deep underwater
ndy Clark, Ed Cujati, Don_
eaowttony Keith McDonald, Wal. ter Mullis and Wes Peters.
The project is designed as a
community service; proceeds
from it will go towards complet.
‘ing the Pioneer
. grounds. 3
when a torpedo exploded within
a few feet of him. He was hauled
‘up and stretched out on the deck
of the craft, and considered as
dead; a few moments later he
astounded the crew by getting
Park picnic , uP and walking away.
. ATTEND APPRECIATION DAY *:
! NEVADA CITY
4 p.m. — Every Wednesday
. Nevada City Elks
"Spring Tonic’ Saturdey Night .
ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE