February 5, 1975 (8 pages)

Sierra movie course Sierra College is offering western Nevada countyans an opportunity to learn to make their own home movies during the 1975 Spring Semester Evening School which begins Feb. 5 in Nevada Union High School.Stanley H. Halls, a well known Nevada City. amateur movie maker, will instruct the class known as Motion Picture Photography 20 AE from 7 to 10 Monday nights in Room D-3 in NUHS. Photography is among the 50 courses being offered for credits during the spring semester. It carries two credits when the course is completed satisfactorily. ° ¢ Availability of a camera is the only prerequisite, Halls said. The college will furnish all other necessary material with = exception of film. Students who failed to acter during the Jan. 20-23 sign up period may register between 6 and 9 p.m. Feb. 5-13 in the school library. ° ‘‘Weather’’ a short documentary will be the class project in which all the students will be involved. “For over a half century people of the world have been going to the movies. For the last two decades many of them have tried their hand at shooting their own films. For county schools Attendance review Many of these amateur producers, after investing in cameras and equipment, have given up the hobby because they have become disallusioned with the results,’’ Halls said. He explained that Sierra College is offering the course to help amateurs promote. proficiency. The instructor’s. chief goal is to give the students knowledge “ of the cinema as a communications tool; and to help them make better movies and understand the relationship between motion pictures and communication. Halls has considerable background experience and has produced short pictures for schools and television. board established Wheels were set in motion to establish a county school attendance review board (SARB) at Wednesday’s meeting of the Nevada County Board of _ Education. SB 1742, sponsored by Senator Albert Rodda, became law on Jan. 1. It “establishes in each county, a-county school attendarice’ review board to include, but not be limited to, a , parent and representatives of school’ districts; county probation department, county welfare department and county superintendent’s department.” The bill also. ‘‘includes designated members of school attendance ‘review boards within the categories of persons to whom access to written records of pupils is permitted without judicial = process.’’ Districts were given three options — to do nothing, to establish ‘ their own board, or join the county board, According to Asst. Superintendent of Instruction Jerome Hund, “‘All expressed an interest to join the county.” The bill will include the type of pupils subject to assignment to opportunity schools, classes and programs; pupils who are “in danger of becoming, as well as pupils who are, habitually truant, irregular in attendance, or insubordinate or disorderly during instruction.” It requires “referral of any pupil assigned Cigarette taxes are distributed Cigarette tax apportionments to Nevada county in January totaled $7,204.67. Grass Valley received $3,076.97 and Nevada City $1,177.34. The distribution represents 30 per cent of the revenue deposited in the cigarette tax fund during the month of December, less the state’s administrative costs of $24,896. “and to Dr. to an opportunity school, class, or program who is a habitual truant from, or irregular in attendance at, or insubordinate or disorderly during _ attendance, to a school attendance review board, rather than requesting a petition in juvenile court.”’ In addition it “requires the SARB, if it determines. that available community services cannot resolve such pupil’s problem, to direct the county school superintendent to request a petition in juvenile court.” Board member Walt Sady was appointed to represent the county board; Chief Probation Officer William Heafey, also a board member, will represent his department; and letters will be sent to Eugene Newman of the Social Services department, Robert Smith, director of Sierra View Mental ‘Health Clinic, regarding appointments from their departments to the SARB._ as Establishment of a county SARB is mandated and its membership shall include, in addition to those mentioned, a parent — appointed by the county board; school districts, nominated by districts and appointed by George Bryant, county superintendent; and grouprepresentatives, (possibilities include law enforcement, cies, and private agencies) —also appointed by the county board. Size of the board will be determined by them. “Let’s have a workable-sized’ com: mittee,” Heafey suggested, rat Ny least until we see how activ SARB will be.” Board members unanimously approved the formation of a county-wide ‘‘challenged materials committee’ which will be a lay committee to study any material which is thought to be objectionable by citizens. It community agen-will consist of representatives from the county board and the school districts, who will draft a form for complaints, will review the grievance and report back to the county board for action. A recent controversy . at ‘Nevada City School District, over supplemental teaching material, prompted the action,since that district had to refer the book ‘‘T.A. For Tots’’, to the Early Childhood Education Committee. Review of material is not part of the ECE committee’s duties. According to Bryant the committee should be kept to about six people and will be county-wide with the exclusion of Tahoe-Truckee In other action, the board: --Unanimously approved a resolution indicating their commitment to instituting a master plan for _ special education. It is a pilot program te be implemented over the next three years and will include Nevada, Placer and Sierra counties, Accepted a revised county school service fund budget. Bryant said “The budget is in excellent shape,’’ -however money transfers have to be made from the contingency fund to allow for the salary of newlyhired Esther Unkel, who is supervisor of special education and instruction for the county. -Approved a resolution .to participate in. a ‘pool _purchasing plan” for school supplies. This means Nevada county can purchase supplies from a pool, along with Placer, Sacramento, El Dorado and Sierra counties. \, --Granted temporary certificates to’ Ellen Plantenga, elementary substitute and to Marge Chamberlain, long-term substitute at Clear Creek School. Classified ads work STANLEY H. HALLS, a Nevada City photographer and movie maker, will instruct @ night class in Photography during Sierra College's Spring Semester Evening Schoool in Nevada Union High School. The spring classes open February 5. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Mullis Walter and Vera Mullis to serve in Honduras The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention nas called Dr. Walter and Vera Mullis to Honduras for six weeks of dental service; they will be leaving Friday. The couple applied-for this volunteer work over a year ago through the efforts of the Women’s Missionary Union. Medical missionary, Dr. David Harms, contacted them recently by ham radio to confifm their appointment. A great deal of their work will center around the capital city of Tegucigalpa with Dr. Harms. They will have to travel to remote villages by air or pack mule and the schedule is to work their way to the eastern border near E] Salvadore. Dr. Mullis has been in practice in Nevada City for 28-years; ° Mrs. Mullis is his assistant. They are members of the First Baptist Church of Grass Valley where the Rev. Robert L. Roy is pastor. State energy surcharge. tax on electric bills A state-imposed ‘‘energy surcharge’ tax will be included on many Pacific Gas and Electric Company bills in February and will be reflected on most electric bills in March, the utility said today. The additional charge of one one-hundredth of a cent per kilowatt-hour is the resultof California legislation passed in 1974 that established—the-State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, effective January 7. The surcharge to finance the new state agency will mean an additional five cents a month on the bill of an average PG&E household customer using 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity. The surcharge amount will not be listed separately, but will be included in the total electric bill, said PG&E. Revenue to the state from the surchage paid by PG&E customers will amount to approximately $8 million annually. Electric customers of all suppliers in the state are affected by the legislation. ~ Funds collected through the surcharge will be applied to new state programs involving energy conservation, power plant siting and _ related subjects. The amount of the surcharge is subject to redetermination annually by the State Board of Equalization. 2

Sierra movie course Sierra College is offering western Nevada countyans an opportunity to learn to make their own home movies during the 1975 Spring Semester Evening School which begins Feb. 5 in Nevada Union High School.Stanley H. Halls, a well known Nevada City. amateur movie maker, will instruct the class known as Motion Picture Photography 20 AE from 7 to 10 Monday nights in Room D-3 in NUHS. Photography is among the 50 courses being offered for credits during the spring semester. It carries two credits when the course is completed satisfactorily. ° ¢ Availability of a camera is the only prerequisite, Halls said. The college will furnish all other necessary material with = exception of film. Students who failed to acter during the Jan. 20-23 sign up period may register between 6 and 9 p.m. Feb. 5-13 in the school library. ° ‘‘Weather’’ a short documentary will be the class project in which all the students will be involved. “For over a half century people of the world have been going to the movies. For the last two decades many of them have tried their hand at shooting their own films. For county schools Attendance review Many of these amateur producers, after investing in cameras and equipment, have given up the hobby because they have become disallusioned with the results,’’ Halls said. He explained that Sierra College is offering the course to help amateurs promote. proficiency. The instructor’s. chief goal is to give the students knowledge “ of the cinema as a communications tool; and to help them make better movies and understand the relationship between motion pictures and communication. Halls has considerable background experience and has produced short pictures for schools and television. board established Wheels were set in motion to establish a county school attendance review board (SARB) at Wednesday’s meeting of the Nevada County Board of _ Education. SB 1742, sponsored by Senator Albert Rodda, became law on Jan. 1. It “establishes in each county, a-county school attendarice’ review board to include, but not be limited to, a , parent and representatives of school’ districts; county probation department, county welfare department and county superintendent’s department.” The bill also. ‘‘includes designated members of school attendance ‘review boards within the categories of persons to whom access to written records of pupils is permitted without judicial = process.’’ Districts were given three options — to do nothing, to establish ‘ their own board, or join the county board, According to Asst. Superintendent of Instruction Jerome Hund, “‘All expressed an interest to join the county.” The bill will include the type of pupils subject to assignment to opportunity schools, classes and programs; pupils who are “in danger of becoming, as well as pupils who are, habitually truant, irregular in attendance, or insubordinate or disorderly during instruction.” It requires “referral of any pupil assigned Cigarette taxes are distributed Cigarette tax apportionments to Nevada county in January totaled $7,204.67. Grass Valley received $3,076.97 and Nevada City $1,177.34. The distribution represents 30 per cent of the revenue deposited in the cigarette tax fund during the month of December, less the state’s administrative costs of $24,896. “and to Dr. to an opportunity school, class, or program who is a habitual truant from, or irregular in attendance at, or insubordinate or disorderly during _ attendance, to a school attendance review board, rather than requesting a petition in juvenile court.”’ In addition it “requires the SARB, if it determines. that available community services cannot resolve such pupil’s problem, to direct the county school superintendent to request a petition in juvenile court.” Board member Walt Sady was appointed to represent the county board; Chief Probation Officer William Heafey, also a board member, will represent his department; and letters will be sent to Eugene Newman of the Social Services department, Robert Smith, director of Sierra View Mental ‘Health Clinic, regarding appointments from their departments to the SARB._ as Establishment of a county SARB is mandated and its

membership shall include, in addition to those mentioned, a parent — appointed by the county board; school districts, nominated by districts and appointed by George Bryant, county superintendent; and grouprepresentatives, (possibilities include law enforcement, cies, and private agencies) —also appointed by the county board. Size of the board will be determined by them. “Let’s have a workable-sized’ com: mittee,” Heafey suggested, rat Ny least until we see how activ SARB will be.” Board members unanimously approved the formation of a county-wide ‘‘challenged materials committee’ which will be a lay committee to study any material which is thought to be objectionable by citizens. It community agen-will consist of representatives from the county board and the school districts, who will draft a form for complaints, will review the grievance and report back to the county board for action. A recent controversy . at ‘Nevada City School District, over supplemental teaching material, prompted the action,since that district had to refer the book ‘‘T.A. For Tots’’, to the Early Childhood Education Committee. Review of material is not part of the ECE committee’s duties. According to Bryant the committee should be kept to about six people and will be county-wide with the exclusion of Tahoe-Truckee In other action, the board: --Unanimously approved a resolution indicating their commitment to instituting a master plan for _ special education. It is a pilot program te be implemented over the next three years and will include Nevada, Placer and Sierra counties, Accepted a revised county school service fund budget. Bryant said “The budget is in excellent shape,’’ -however money transfers have to be made from the contingency fund to allow for the salary of newlyhired Esther Unkel, who is supervisor of special education and instruction for the county. -Approved a resolution .to participate in. a ‘pool _purchasing plan” for school supplies. This means Nevada county can purchase supplies from a pool, along with Placer, Sacramento, El Dorado and Sierra counties. \, --Granted temporary certificates to’ Ellen Plantenga, elementary substitute and to Marge Chamberlain, long-term substitute at Clear Creek School. Classified ads work STANLEY H. HALLS, a Nevada City photographer and movie maker, will instruct @ night class in Photography during Sierra College's Spring Semester Evening Schoool in Nevada Union High School. The spring classes open February 5. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Mullis Walter and Vera Mullis to serve in Honduras The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention nas called Dr. Walter and Vera Mullis to Honduras for six weeks of dental service; they will be leaving Friday. The couple applied-for this volunteer work over a year ago through the efforts of the Women’s Missionary Union. Medical missionary, Dr. David Harms, contacted them recently by ham radio to confifm their appointment. A great deal of their work will center around the capital city of Tegucigalpa with Dr. Harms. They will have to travel to remote villages by air or pack mule and the schedule is to work their way to the eastern border near E] Salvadore. Dr. Mullis has been in practice in Nevada City for 28-years; ° Mrs. Mullis is his assistant. They are members of the First Baptist Church of Grass Valley where the Rev. Robert L. Roy is pastor. State energy surcharge. tax on electric bills A state-imposed ‘‘energy surcharge’ tax will be included on many Pacific Gas and Electric Company bills in February and will be reflected on most electric bills in March, the utility said today. The additional charge of one one-hundredth of a cent per kilowatt-hour is the resultof California legislation passed in 1974 that established—the-State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, effective January 7. The surcharge to finance the new state agency will mean an additional five cents a month on the bill of an average PG&E household customer using 500 kilowatt-hours of electricity. The surcharge amount will not be listed separately, but will be included in the total electric bill, said PG&E. Revenue to the state from the surchage paid by PG&E customers will amount to approximately $8 million annually. Electric customers of all suppliers in the state are affected by the legislation. ~ Funds collected through the surcharge will be applied to new state programs involving energy conservation, power plant siting and _ related subjects. The amount of the surcharge is subject to redetermination annually by the State Board of Equalization. 2