February 3, 1966 (16 pages)

Town Talk Teale Will Return.Another . Candidate.Paper Tiger.Signs Senator Stephen Teale of commission. Now, while Grass Calaveras County, Democratic Valley and Nevada City talk candidate for the state senate, will make his first official political appearance in Nevada County on T hursday » March 17, St, Patricks Day, for the annual corn beef and cabbage dinner of the Gold Quartz Democratic Club. The public is invited. eeeessSpeaking of politics. . the latest talk is that accountant Herb Dodini will run for the post of county auditor-controller, against incumbent John Trauner. The State Health Department seems tohave forgotten its stringent demands for immediate chlorination of NID water, The department now seems to be satisfied with the district's longrange plans for water purification, Oh well, a paper tiger is better than no tiger at all. e@eees2s Too often it seems that while Western Nevada County talks and talks about what it is going to do, Eastern Nevada County and Truckee take action. The Truckee area created its recreation district long before the county created its recreation about community beautification, we read the following item in Walt Barrett's Sierra Sun: “The Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce is inaugurating a program, long delayed, which proposes to enhance the attractiveness of the immediate community through a projected remodernization program, “Under the plan, which will be carried out over a period of years, businesses and home owners will be requested to change the ap-~pearance of their establishments and dwellings to meet the general esthetic character of the region. “This, according to the plan of newly elected president, Daven Morey, does not mean just a cleanup and paintup program, such as is carried on each year through sponsorship of the chamber, but a thorough change in the appearance of the community. “Store fronts, sidewalks, streets, and yards can be altered at minimum cost over a period of several years to make Truckee a more attractive town, pleasing to the thousands of visitors who come here each year to enjoy the atmosphere and the many natural assets available, ” eeesess The effectiveness of the old adage of hitting them when they are off balance was demonstrated recently at a meeting of the Nevada City Council. -W. L. Warren, district engineer for the Division of Highways, had appeared at the session to bring the council the unsettling news that the freeway contractor had instituted bankruptcy proceedings and that the future of the Nevada City segment of the freeway was a matter of some speculation at that point. Both Mr. Warren and the members of the city council were very unhappy with the news, , Then Councilwoman Carole Friedrich piped up and suggested that since the city was not going to get a freeway or a bridge to open up the main business section to traffic, perhaps the state could provide some signs to show where the business section was located. About turee days later, two huge “Business District" signs were erected at the intersection of Main and Coyote Streets by © state crews, CRAYON CORNER "The Supermarket" by Kerry George Mrs. Hibernation Is “How do you like the weather we're having?" I asked a neighbor the other day, just by way of making: conversation, “I don't like it at all,” he retorted. “I wish I could just hibernate through the winter, as the woodchucks do, andnot come out ‘till spring, " If you have ever had such thoughts at times when the weather is rough there is good news foryou. Dr, Leonard Axelrod of the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education in San Antonio, Texas, has conducted experiments which indicatethat some day, with the help of the family doctor, we humans may be able to do just . that: hibernate likethe marmots. By administering to laboratory animals injections of a substance removed from the brains of squirrels and chipmunks he has induced a state of hibernation in animals which do not normally sleep through the winter. This deep-sleep hormone goes to work at once, lowering body tempera-~ ture, slowing the heart beat and reducing breathing to a bare minimum, Not until the warmth of a synthetic spring is applied do the animals waken from their artificial hibernation. Bennetts' First Grade, Bell Hill School The Answer Perhaps in later years when space travel becomes common-~ place there will be a practical _ use forthis discovery, Astronauts could slumber through most of the long journey to Mars or Venus or whatever their destination, with a spaceage alarm clock to trigger the necessary heating mechanism in time for them to prepare for their landing. Otherwise, I personally have no desire to sleep through winter. I don't want to miss the fairy world of snow, the infinite variety of winter skies, the patterns in bare trunks and branches, If I were todo any hibernating at all I should choose midsummer when the tourist invasion is at its peak and so many jobs are-crying to bedonethatI scarcely have time to look around, The scientists might store me in a refrigerator and rouse me with the first hearth-fire of autumn. Of course, winter or summer, most of us have jobs to go to every day, bills to pay on the first of the month and other obligations to fulfill which we cannot simply forget while we sleep, sountil someone also finds. a way to establish a moratorium on these things it looks to me as if we will just have to postpone this new experience, CAROUSEL February 3 --»A photographic tour of the historic homes in the Twin Cities area will be presented during the meeting of the Nevada County Historical Society at 7:45 p.m. in the theater of the Junior High School in Grass Valley, Refreshments willbe served andthe public is invited, February 4 eeetThe Sacramento-Tahoe Chapter of the Society of American Foresters will meet for dinner in the Smorgy Boys in Roseville Square, Roseville. Charles Stewart, manager of Keyes Fibre Co., will be the speaker. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. February 5 ---T he Vienna Choir Boys will present a concert in the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, The program, which will include religious music, folk songs from around the world and a Viennese opera based on the music of Johann Strauss, will start at 8:15 p.m. February 8 ++.The Bishop's Company will present Henrik Ibsen's “An Enemy of the People" in Trinity Episcopal Church in Nevada City. Curtain time will be 8 p.m. February 8 through 24 --»An exhibit of 30 Leonardo da Vinci invention models will be open tothe public in the auditorium of-the. Chico State College Aymer Jay Hamilton laboratory school, The exhibit will be open from 8 a.m. to4 p.m, 2000 08 02 OCH OOF OOSS OSE DS OHCH OG SECS SEE COS 12 Ckatbthine moss 9961 ‘¢ Areniqoj°**3033nN AyuNn0D epeAon®*

Town Talk Teale Will Return..Another . Candidate..Paper Tiger..Signs Senator Stephen Teale of commission. Now, while Grass Calaveras County, Democratic Valley and Nevada City talk candidate for the state senate, will make his first official political appearance in Nevada County on T hursday » March 17, St, Patricks Day, for the annual corn beef and cabbage dinner of the Gold Quartz Democratic Club. The public is invited. eeeessSpeaking of politics. . the latest talk is that accountant Herb Dodini will run for the post of county auditor-controller, against incumbent John Trauner. The State Health Department seems tohave forgotten its stringent demands for immediate chlorination of NID water, The department now seems to be satisfied with the district's longrange plans for water purification, Oh well, a paper tiger is better than no tiger at all. e@eees2s Too often it seems that while Western Nevada County talks and talks about what it is going to do, Eastern Nevada County and Truckee take action. The Truckee area created its recreation district long before the county created its recreation about community beautification, we read the following item in Walt Barrett's Sierra Sun: “The Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce is inaugurating a program, long delayed, which proposes to enhance the attractiveness of the immediate community through a projected remodernization program, “Under the plan, which will be carried out over a period of years, businesses and home owners will be requested to change the ap-~pearance of their establishments and dwellings to meet the general esthetic character of the region. “This, according to the plan of newly elected president, Daven Morey, does not mean just a cleanup and paintup program, such as is carried on each year through sponsorship of the chamber, but a thorough change in the appearance of the community. “Store fronts, sidewalks, streets, and yards can be altered at minimum cost over a period of several years to make Truckee a more attractive town, pleasing to the thousands of visitors who come here each year to enjoy the atmosphere and the many natural assets available, ” eeesess The effectiveness of the old adage of hitting them when they are off balance was demonstrated recently at a meeting of the Nevada City Council. -W. L. Warren, district engineer for the Division of Highways, had appeared at the session to bring the council the unsettling news that the freeway contractor had instituted bankruptcy proceedings and that the future of the Nevada City segment of the freeway was a matter of some speculation at that point. Both Mr. Warren and the members of the city council were very unhappy with the news, , Then Councilwoman Carole Friedrich piped up and suggested that since the city was not going to get a freeway or a bridge to open up the main business section to traffic, perhaps the state could provide some signs to show where the business section was located. About turee days later, two huge “Business District" signs were erected at the intersection of Main and Coyote Streets by © state crews, CRAYON CORNER "The Supermarket" by Kerry George Mrs. Hibernation Is “How do you like the weather we're having?" I asked a neighbor the other day, just by way of making: conversation, “I don't like it at all,” he retorted. “I wish I could just hibernate through the winter, as the woodchucks do, andnot come out ‘till spring, " If you have ever had such thoughts at times when the weather is rough there is good

news foryou. Dr, Leonard Axelrod of the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education in San Antonio, Texas, has conducted experiments which indicatethat some day, with the help of the family doctor, we humans may be able to do just . that: hibernate likethe marmots. By administering to laboratory animals injections of a substance removed from the brains of squirrels and chipmunks he has induced a state of hibernation in animals which do not normally sleep through the winter. This deep-sleep hormone goes to work at once, lowering body tempera-~ ture, slowing the heart beat and reducing breathing to a bare minimum, Not until the warmth of a synthetic spring is applied do the animals waken from their artificial hibernation. Bennetts' First Grade, Bell Hill School The Answer Perhaps in later years when space travel becomes common-~ place there will be a practical _ use forthis discovery, Astronauts could slumber through most of the long journey to Mars or Venus or whatever their destination, with a spaceage alarm clock to trigger the necessary heating mechanism in time for them to prepare for their landing. Otherwise, I personally have no desire to sleep through winter. I don't want to miss the fairy world of snow, the infinite variety of winter skies, the patterns in bare trunks and branches, If I were todo any hibernating at all I should choose midsummer when the tourist invasion is at its peak and so many jobs are-crying to bedonethatI scarcely have time to look around, The scientists might store me in a refrigerator and rouse me with the first hearth-fire of autumn. Of course, winter or summer, most of us have jobs to go to every day, bills to pay on the first of the month and other obligations to fulfill which we cannot simply forget while we sleep, sountil someone also finds. a way to establish a moratorium on these things it looks to me as if we will just have to postpone this new experience, CAROUSEL February 3 --»A photographic tour of the historic homes in the Twin Cities area will be presented during the meeting of the Nevada County Historical Society at 7:45 p.m. in the theater of the Junior High School in Grass Valley, Refreshments willbe served andthe public is invited, February 4 eeetThe Sacramento-Tahoe Chapter of the Society of American Foresters will meet for dinner in the Smorgy Boys in Roseville Square, Roseville. Charles Stewart, manager of Keyes Fibre Co., will be the speaker. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. February 5 ---T he Vienna Choir Boys will present a concert in the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, The program, which will include religious music, folk songs from around the world and a Viennese opera based on the music of Johann Strauss, will start at 8:15 p.m. February 8 ++.The Bishop's Company will present Henrik Ibsen's “An Enemy of the People" in Trinity Episcopal Church in Nevada City. Curtain time will be 8 p.m. February 8 through 24 --»An exhibit of 30 Leonardo da Vinci invention models will be open tothe public in the auditorium of-the. Chico State College Aymer Jay Hamilton laboratory school, The exhibit will be open from 8 a.m. to4 p.m, 2000 08 02 OCH OOF OOSS OSE DS OHCH OG SECS SEE COS 12 Ckatbthine moss 9961 ‘¢ Areniqoj°**3033nN AyuNn0D epeAon®*