February 6, 1964 (20 pages)

Boho Boho WORLD PRESS DISPATCHES, In PARIS in one of his rare news conference, President de Gaulle suggested that problems in the Far, East be solved by the neutraliza~ tion of Southeast Asia hy agreement withRed China. He said that France was establishing diplo’ matic relations with C ommunist China while maintaining recognition of Nationalist China because the Peking government has ‘for more than 15 years been the effective government of the Chinese mainland and Russia cannot be considered to speak for China because of the Moscow -Peking break. +++ +4 In WASHINGTON an official spokesman for. the State Depart~ment indicated thatthe U.S. will not be in favor of neutralization of South Vietnam. +++ + + At the disarmament conference inGENEVA, Russia proposed that the U.S. and Russia and other nations scrap all manned bombers, including all planes which carry nuclear weapons, as asteptowards disarmament. The U.S. had proposed earlier that obsolete U.S. B-47 bombers and Russian Badger bombers be destroyed sothat they would not fall intothe hands of smaller nations. +++ ++ SaturnI was launched at CAPE KENNEDY, The 19 ton rocket outweighed by three times the heaviest Russian rocket yet sent into space. Later in the week a Ranger rocket failed in its mission totake pictures of the moon, but reached its target satisfactorily. ++ +++ Major General Nguyen Khanh seized power in a bloodless coup in SOUTH VIETNAM, becoming chairman of the ruling military junta. He claimed that his forces won out over a plot to make South Vietnam neutral andhe urged the people to close ranks to bring a quick end to the war against the Viet Cong. ++ +++ In EAST GERMANY a U.S. jet trainer plane was brought down after it strayed over the border. All three crewmen aboard were killed: +++ + + In WASHINGTON President Johnson sent a special farm message to Congress, asking for an extension for the Food for Peace program for five years, for the placing of the domestic food stamp program on a permanent basis, and for helping farm income by increasing the price supports on wheat, cotton, potatoes, sugar and dairy products. + tet + + NEVADA COUNT Y NUGGET Published every Thursday by NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. , 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Second class postage paid at Neva da City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No. 12,406, Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years, $8.4 Chamber Program Adopted Directors of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, installed at an entertaining annual meeting Saturday night, got down to work Tuesday night. The directors reaffirmed the chamber's plans to sponsor the annual Fourth of July Celebration, and chairman Ralph Friedrich said there have been four suggestions astotheme. Plans for the celebration are already being investigated. The directors also reaffirmed the chamber's plans to sponsor the Fourth Annual Tour of Nevada City bicycle race Fathers Day, It was indicated that a member of thechamber will be appointed at the next meeting, Feb. 17. The directors laid over until Feb. 17 a decision on whether to co-sponsor this year's junior rodeo, but indications are that the answer will be affirmative. In addition, directors set May asthe month for a chamber dinner to honér Mothers Day. Plans for the event will be finalized in the near future. The chamber also will seek the aid of Tahoe National Forest and Washington Ridge Conservation Camp forthe location and clearing of riding and hiking trails which could be easily accessible from Nevada City. Directors laid aside for two weeks a discussion of parking problems in the city, but indicated that the chamber and merchants should begin immediately to find ways and means to improve the local parking situation. President John Reed and the directors commended Thelma Nelson for offering to assist the group in office work. Others who desire to help are asked to contact office manager Al Donnells. Reed andhis directors were installed at the annual meeting Saturday at the Elks Lodge. More than 90 were in attendance. All (Continued on Page 17). Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall Jan. 30 42 28 . 06 S149) > 25 .00 Feb=—1---bh-< 26 .00 ©. 3665.0 26 . 00 3050" 26 .00 y. Sites Seat .00 tea 93 Weaserteg .00 27, 20 42.76 Rainfall to date Rainfall last year GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Jan. 30 49 34 04 a: $431 00 Feb. 1 97 33 ~00 2 59 39 .00. 3°69 86 .00 4 62 32 . 00 5.. 62. 33 .00 Rainfall to date 28. 87 Rainfall last year 41.52 LAST BUILDING REMAINING...The safe ing at the northern edge of Alpha's Commercia of the building formerly occupied by Inter-County Title Company is the only structure still stand1 St. expansion. Hardware department salesman Dallas Barker is seen after he took a look at the sturdy "hardware" on the safe's door. Nevada City Expansion Told (Continued From Page 1) house will be “adobe tan” with white trim. aoe The warehouse will be located on the western end of the property, at right anglesto Commercial St. The office building, to be built of concrete block, will adjoin the northwest corner of the present main building. The new office and warehouse space wil e occupied mainly by the Alpha Industrial Supply division, which provides major wholesale servicing in three departments: logging and sawmill supply, construction supply, and the new chemical supply. Added pace and improved facilities will then be available -for-garden, hardware, and all other retail sales, and for parking. Site preparation for the new construction is being handled by HansenBros., while construction will be the responsibility of Spanda/Industrial of Sacramento. The site preparation job isa major one involving the removal of existing foundations, cutting through solid outcroppings at the rear of the Inter-County property, relocating a city sewer line and bridging a city drain which flows through the property, and a considerable amount of leveling. Clinch noted that other aspects of Alpha's operation were being modernized--namely, the bookkeeping unit, which has entered the electronic age with the use of punch-tapes. Data on accounts payable and receivable will be punched ontape at the Alpha office on special machines, and handed to accountant Thomas Taylor for translation via computer into recognizable Alpha statements and checks, Alpha took over its present Nevada City site from Hennessy livery stables in 1917. (In those days, an 1894 30.6 rifle could be 4 Years To (Continued from Page 1) she said. If the investigation show ed the person was not entitled to the aid, the program benefits could then be cut off to that person. Restitution, however, is not called for under the law, AB59. The county has four years in which to upgrade its welfare department to fully comply with the law, although this must be done according to an approved plan. County estimates as to the increased cost of the program range to $200,000 per year. Included in the program is aid to the unemployed parents of the needy children, It is under this section that the four applications have been made. The advisory committee reported its unanimous and unalterable opposition to the program, which, however, is law. Boost Relief The committee called it "so poorly drafted, so difficult of interpretation, and so onerous of application that the financial ability of this county could very well be placed in jeopardy should the board permit the Nevada County Welfare Director to take affirmative action thereunder. " It is unlikely, however, that the board of supervisors will direct Mrs. Worth NOT to follow the law, for the supervisors are (as indeed the whole county form of government is) an agent of the state government, If the supervisors elected to violate state law, 1. The Attorney General's office could prosecute the supervisors and upon conviction they could be removed from office, thereby allowing the governor to appoint replacements; or 2, As in the case of Merced (Continued on Page 6) bought for $16.55.) The store can trace a continuous operation back to 1878, when George Turner and Tom Legg took over a failing business. Three years later Legg was joined in partnership by George Shaw. while Turner re~ tired, Legg andShaw Company, with headquarters at Main and Union, became Alpha Hardware and Supply Co. on consolidation with Brady and Cassidy, a Grass Valley se ho firm, in 1906. Trough various purchases, new installations, and consolidations, the company over the years oper~ ated branches at one time or an~ other in Gaston, Alleghany, For= rest, Auburn, Grass Valley, and Nevada City. The Grass Valley retail store and the Nevada City headquarters now comprise the centralized operation, which has supplied mining, industria + hardware and homeware needs of several generations of Northern Mines area customers. 2 The present management took over the company in 1946. "1088nN oy L** "Zs a8eg P96T ‘9 Areniqeq"* g o8eg'** & .Page 3 . The Nugget. . February 6, 1964. Page 3.

Boho Boho WORLD PRESS DISPATCHES, In PARIS in one of his rare news conference, President de Gaulle suggested that problems in the Far, East be solved by the neutraliza~ tion of Southeast Asia hy agreement withRed China. He said that France was establishing diplo’ matic relations with C ommunist China while maintaining recognition of Nationalist China because the Peking government has ‘for more than 15 years been the effective government of the Chinese mainland and Russia cannot be considered to speak for China because of the Moscow -Peking break. +++ +4 In WASHINGTON an official spokesman for. the State Depart~ment indicated thatthe U.S. will not be in favor of neutralization of South Vietnam. +++ + + At the disarmament conference inGENEVA, Russia proposed that the U.S. and Russia and other nations scrap all manned bombers, including all planes which carry nuclear weapons, as asteptowards disarmament. The U.S. had proposed earlier that obsolete U.S. B-47 bombers and Russian Badger bombers be destroyed sothat they would not fall intothe hands of smaller nations. +++ ++ SaturnI was launched at CAPE KENNEDY, The 19 ton rocket outweighed by three times the heaviest Russian rocket yet sent into space. Later in the week a Ranger rocket failed in its mission totake pictures of the moon, but reached its target satisfactorily. ++ +++ Major General Nguyen Khanh seized power in a bloodless coup in SOUTH VIETNAM, becoming chairman of the ruling military junta. He claimed that his forces won out over a plot to make South Vietnam neutral andhe urged the people to close ranks to bring a quick end to the war against the Viet Cong. ++ +++ In EAST GERMANY a U.S. jet trainer plane was brought down after it strayed over the border. All three crewmen aboard were killed: +++ + + In WASHINGTON President Johnson sent a special farm message to Congress, asking for an extension for the Food for Peace program for five years, for the placing of the domestic food stamp program on a permanent basis, and for helping farm income by increasing the price supports on wheat, cotton, potatoes, sugar and dairy products. + tet + + NEVADA COUNT Y NUGGET Published every Thursday by NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. , 318 Broad Street, Nevada City, Calif. Second class postage paid at Neva da City, Calif. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960 Decree No. 12,406, Subscription rates: One year, $4; Two years, $6; Three years, $8.4 Chamber Program Adopted Directors of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce, installed at an entertaining annual meeting Saturday night, got down to work Tuesday night. The directors reaffirmed the chamber's plans to sponsor the annual Fourth of July Celebration, and chairman Ralph Friedrich said there have been four suggestions astotheme. Plans for the celebration are already being investigated. The directors also reaffirmed the chamber's plans to sponsor the Fourth Annual Tour of Nevada City bicycle race Fathers Day, It was indicated that a member of thechamber will be appointed at the next meeting, Feb. 17. The directors laid over until Feb. 17 a decision on whether to co-sponsor this year's junior rodeo, but indications are that the answer will be affirmative. In addition, directors set May asthe month for a chamber dinner to honér Mothers Day. Plans for the event will be finalized in the near future. The chamber also will seek the aid of Tahoe National Forest and Washington Ridge Conservation Camp forthe location and clearing of riding and hiking trails which could be easily accessible from Nevada City. Directors laid aside for two weeks a discussion of parking problems in the city, but indicated that the chamber and merchants should begin immediately to find ways and means to improve the local parking situation. President John Reed and the directors commended Thelma Nelson for offering to assist the group in office work. Others who desire to help are asked to contact office manager Al Donnells. Reed andhis directors were installed at the annual meeting Saturday at the Elks Lodge. More than 90 were in attendance. All (Continued on Page 17). Weather NEVADA CITY Max. Min. Rainfall Jan. 30 42 28 . 06 S149) > 25 .00 Feb=—1---bh-< 26 .00 ©. 3665.0 26 . 00 3050" 26 .00 y. Sites Seat .00 tea 93 Weaserteg .00 27, 20 42.76 Rainfall to date Rainfall last year GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Jan. 30 49 34 04 a: $431 00 Feb. 1 97 33 ~00

2 59 39 .00. 3°69 86 .00 4 62 32 . 00 5... 62. 33 .00 Rainfall to date 28. 87 Rainfall last year 41.52 LAST BUILDING REMAINING.....The safe ing at the northern edge of Alpha's Commercia of the building formerly occupied by Inter-County Title Company is the only structure still stand1 St. expansion. Hardware department salesman Dallas Barker is seen after he took a look at the sturdy "hardware" on the safe's door. Nevada City Expansion Told (Continued From Page 1) house will be “adobe tan” with white trim. aoe The warehouse will be located on the western end of the property, at right anglesto Commercial St. The office building, to be built of concrete block, will adjoin the northwest corner of the present main building. The new office and warehouse space wil e occupied mainly by the Alpha Industrial Supply division, which provides major wholesale servicing in three departments: logging and sawmill supply, construction supply, and the new chemical supply. Added pace and improved facilities will then be available -for-garden, hardware, and all other retail sales, and for parking. Site preparation for the new construction is being handled by HansenBros., while construction will be the responsibility of Spanda/Industrial of Sacramento. The site preparation job isa major one involving the removal of existing foundations, cutting through solid outcroppings at the rear of the Inter-County property, relocating a city sewer line and bridging a city drain which flows through the property, and a considerable amount of leveling. Clinch noted that other aspects of Alpha's operation were being modernized--namely, the bookkeeping unit, which has entered the electronic age with the use of punch-tapes. Data on accounts payable and receivable will be punched ontape at the Alpha office on special machines, and handed to accountant Thomas Taylor for translation via computer into recognizable Alpha statements and checks, Alpha took over its present Nevada City site from Hennessy livery stables in 1917. (In those days, an 1894 30.6 rifle could be 4 Years To (Continued from Page 1) she said. If the investigation show ed the person was not entitled to the aid, the program benefits could then be cut off to that person. Restitution, however, is not called for under the law, AB59. The county has four years in which to upgrade its welfare department to fully comply with the law, although this must be done according to an approved plan. County estimates as to the increased cost of the program range to $200,000 per year. Included in the program is aid to the unemployed parents of the needy children, It is under this section that the four applications have been made. The advisory committee reported its unanimous and unalterable opposition to the program, which, however, is law. Boost Relief The committee called it "so poorly drafted, so difficult of interpretation, and so onerous of application that the financial ability of this county could very well be placed in jeopardy should the board permit the Nevada County Welfare Director to take affirmative action thereunder. " It is unlikely, however, that the board of supervisors will direct Mrs. Worth NOT to follow the law, for the supervisors are (as indeed the whole county form of government is) an agent of the state government, If the supervisors elected to violate state law, 1. The Attorney General's office could prosecute the supervisors and upon conviction they could be removed from office, thereby allowing the governor to appoint replacements; or 2, As in the case of Merced (Continued on Page 6) bought for $16.55.) The store can trace a continuous operation back to 1878, when George Turner and Tom Legg took over a failing business. Three years later Legg was joined in partnership by George Shaw. while Turner re~ tired, Legg andShaw Company, with headquarters at Main and Union, became Alpha Hardware and Supply Co. on consolidation with Brady and Cassidy, a Grass Valley se ho firm, in 1906. Trough various purchases, new installations, and consolidations, the company over the years oper~ ated branches at one time or an~ other in Gaston, Alleghany, For= rest, Auburn, Grass Valley, and Nevada City. The Grass Valley retail store and the Nevada City headquarters now comprise the centralized operation, which has supplied mining, industria + hardware and homeware needs of several generations of Northern Mines area customers. 2 The present management took over the company in 1946. "1088nN oy L** "Zs a8eg P96T ‘9 Areniqeq"* g o8eg'** & ..Page 3 . The Nugget. .. February 6, 1964.. Page 3.