February 7, 1973 (12 pages)

This week fifty years ago Southern Pacific passenger trains were delayed several hours by the derailment of two cars of automobiles near Truckee, at Tamarack snow sheds which were covered by ten feet of snow. No vehicles were damaged, no one was injured. Other passenger runs were held up at Truckee and Blue Canyon until the main line was cleared for traffic. @@@ Four Californians were reported among the ‘‘last thousand” of America’s servicemen home from their years of “occupation of the Rhineland.” Many of these men had married European women and planned to return to Germany, France, Belgium or Holland as soon as Uncle Sam released them. @@@. Motion picture of the week was Irving Cumming’s screen classic, ‘Flesh and Blood’, starring the incomparable Lon Chaney“The man of a thousand faces.” @@@ Proceeding on the theory that vendors of soft drinks should lave a certain period of time in which to balance their cash and close up for the night, the city council of Grass Valley approved a new ordinance fixing time of suspension of business at 11:45 p.m. By midnight, according to the ordinance, all formalities were to be concluded and all patrons out of the involved establishments. * @@@ : Clinch Mercantile Company advertised Frozen Eastern Oysters, 30 per tin, at $1.25; Los Angeles lettuce, .10 head; ripe vomatoes, 3 lbs. for .50;fresh garden peas, .20 lb.; and ‘‘Pure Frankfurters No Cereal” at .25 per Ib. @@@ The Grass Valley Methodist Church presented a ‘‘splendid Lincoln’s Day program”’ which included addresses by Senator Ingram and District Attorney Wright, “whose ancestors were associated with Abraham Lincoln in his years as a young attorney in Illinois”’; violin solos by Mrs. William Bennetts, accompanied by aMrs. J. Pollard and piano solos by the latter. ‘“‘It was a well attended affair quite admirably suited to the dignity of the occasion.” @@@ A $750,000 hotel, as part of a permanent training quarters for the New York Giants and the San Francisco Seals, was to be constructed in the Valley of the Moon near Santa Rosa. The hotel was to be named Sonoma Mission Inn and its equipment was to include a natatorium for hot mineral baths and an 18-hole golf course. @@@.:,; The New York Store, on Mill street in Grass Valley, advertised “Best Flannellette at 8 yards for $1; Comforter Challis, 5 yards for $1; and Huck Towels, 5 for $1, as the ‘‘week’s specials.”’ ‘ @@@ On the classified ad page there appeared the following: ‘‘For Sale: one ranch with house and big barn, 18 cattle, one horse, a few chickens, lots of water, 49 acres, all for $2,600. Contact Mrs. Mastai of Blue Tent Road for details.’’ : Berryhill requests U. s. halt timber exportation State Senator Clare Berryhill announced today that he is coauthoring a Joint Legislative Resolution requesting the willing to pay extremely high prices to exporters to obtain timber from this country and from California in particular,” Berryhill stated. ‘“‘The fact that these nations are buying unsawed logs, not milled lumber, is and will continue to have a very negative effect on this State’s lumber and milling industries. Further compounding. the problem is the fact that thisnation is forced to. import lumber and timber from Canada’ to attempt to meet its building needs : “The resulting timber shortages, especially in California, have resulted in log price increases of as much as 500 per cent,” Berryhill continued, ‘‘and this situation, combined with the possibilities for increased unemployment in the timber industry, will severely hamper California’s efforts to meet its housing and business demands. “This Resolution asks the President and Congress to instruct the Secretary of Commerce to exercise the powers granted to him under the Export Control Act to halt all exportation of logs from the United States until such time as it is determined that the nation’s projected timber needs for the next five years could be entirely satisfied by purely domestic Free clinic set for Feb. 14th The free clinic, held each month by the Nevada County Health Department, will be from 1 to 2 . Feb. 14 in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building. A Nevada City are canceled forthe present, Dr. Bob Roberts, health officer announced. Beale Air Forc A man who began his Air Force career as a physicist at Sandia Base and Los Alamos, N.M., ended it at 4 p.m. January 19 — his 49th birthday ~ with a change of command ceremony in front of base headquarters. Colonel William J. Rand, Beale AFB commander for the past nine months, will be succeeded for a short time by Colonel Bernard R. Simon. Colonel Rand will go on terminal leave and will retire from the Air Force effective April 1. _ The El Paso, Tex., native plans to return to his alma mater, the University of Texas at El Paso, to teach physics. Colonel Rand came to Beale in April of last year from a position as vice wing commander of the 319th. Bombardment. Wing at Grand Forks AFB, N.D. The colonel, who has more than 29 years of continuous service, was a physics major at the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy (now University . ofTexas at El Paso). Under the Air Force Institute of Technology resident program, he was graduated with a bachelor of science degree in physics from Syracuse University, N.Y., in 1947 and began work on his masters degree. ’ In August 1943, Colonel Rand entered the Army Aviation Cadet Program, receiving his pilot wings and commission as a second lieutenant at Napier Field, Dothan, Ala., Feb. 1. Following a temporary duty assignment in England flying P01 Mustang fighters, he was assigned as a flying instructor at Gunther Field, Ala. In 1946 he became an instructor on the faculty of Air Command and St ee ce i “at Amarillo AFB, Tex., in 1966 for. the 746th Bombardment year of operation, teaching new. developments in _ aviation technology. With the nuclear energy~ program growing rapidly in the Air Force, he was assigned. in “Light duty an: Southoust Asx. June 1949 to Sandia Base in Albuquerque, N.M., for two years as a nuclear physicist. He also worked at Los Almos, N.M., where refinement work was being done on the atomic bomb. In1951 Colonel Rand was transferred to Fairchild AFB, — Wash., to work as nuclear, officer for the giant B-36-equipped 92nd Bomb Wing. Two years later he was transferred again to. Strategic Air Command ‘headquarters where he continued to work on the atomic energy program.The colonel was then transferred to Waco, Tex., and the now closed James Connally AFB for navigator-bombardier training on the B-47 Stratojet. He became a B-47_ aircraft commander at Homestead AFB, Fla. He began flying the B-52 _<<_Stratofortress at Westover AFB, The clinics previously held the first Tuesdays of the month in~ Mass., in 1959 while serving in the 99th Bomb Wing and at Headquarters Eighth Air Force. Dating back to a part-time job as a radio announcer to defray ft a weekly television program on a local station in Springfield, Mass.A public service feature, “Westover Presents’’ acquainted the civilian populace with Air Force life and included interviews with the senior commanders at Westover. He became operations officer Squadron in SAC’s 461st Bom‘-bardment Wing. He was lead ship airborne commander when the wing took its B-52s on Arc It has just been decided that part of the bombing operations would be flown from U-Tapao, Thailand, and Colonel Rand was: the launch control officer on duty at the new Arc Light’ base when the first B-52 landed. After a brief time back in the states and as commander of the 746th Bomb Squadron; the 416th Bomb Wing inactivated and the then lieutenant colonel returned to Thailand as assistant deputy commander for operations. He flew an additional 152 combat missions, promoted to colonel. and received orders to the 22nd’ Bomb Wing at March AFB, Calif. in January 1969. Among his decorations are the Bronze Star with one oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal with sevel oak leaf clusters and the Air Force’ Commendation Medal. Colonel Rand had nfore than 6,000 flying hours as an Air Force aviator. Wed. Feb. .7,1973 The Nevada County Nugget 9 * e Commander retires BASE-COMMANDER RETIRES Colonel William J. . Rand poses with his wife, Lillian, after change of command and retirement ceremonies held here January 19. Colonel Rand holds the U-S. Flag that was presented to him upon his retirement. His career spanned nearly 30°years of continuous active military service. (U.S. Air Force Photo) UOP fund drive leader is ° from GV. Dale Boothby of Grass Valley . has been named toa third term as fund chairman for the School. of Pharmacy. alumni at University of the Pacific in Stockton. His reappointmént to the voluntary position was announced by Lester Tiscornia of Saint Joseph, Michigan, who is serving his fourth year as national chairman of the Alumni Annual Fund at Pacific. Boothby, manager-partner of Grass Valley Drug sine 1966, is a 1964 graduate of the UOP School of Pharmacy. As fund chairman for the school, Boothby leads @ program that encourages university support by School of Pharmacy alumbni. Boothby, whose _ wife Margaret is a 1963 Pacific graduate, is active in civic and community affairs in the Grass Valley area. He graduated from Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley in 1959. Last year fund-raising efforts at UOP resulted in more than $2 million for all purposes. This year in addition to funds for restricted purposes, the university has an unrestricted. gifts and grants goal of $800,000 for general support of its many _ educational programs.

This week fifty years ago Southern Pacific passenger trains were delayed several hours by the derailment of two cars of automobiles near Truckee, at Tamarack snow sheds which were covered by ten feet of snow. No vehicles were damaged, no one was injured. Other passenger runs were held up at Truckee and Blue Canyon until the main line was cleared for traffic. @@@ Four Californians were reported among the ‘‘last thousand” of America’s servicemen home from their years of “occupation of the Rhineland.” Many of these men had married European women and planned to return to Germany, France, Belgium or Holland as soon as Uncle Sam released them. @@@. Motion picture of the week was Irving Cumming’s screen classic, ‘Flesh and Blood’, starring the incomparable Lon Chaney“The man of a thousand faces.” @@@ Proceeding on the theory that vendors of soft drinks should lave a certain period of time in which to balance their cash and close up for the night, the city council of Grass Valley approved a new ordinance fixing time of suspension of business at 11:45 p.m. By midnight, according to the ordinance, all formalities were to be concluded and all patrons out of the involved establishments. * @@@ : Clinch Mercantile Company advertised Frozen Eastern Oysters, 30 per tin, at $1.25; Los Angeles lettuce, .10 head; ripe vomatoes, 3 lbs. for .50;fresh garden peas, .20 lb.; and ‘‘Pure Frankfurters No Cereal” at .25 per Ib. @@@ The Grass Valley Methodist Church presented a ‘‘splendid Lincoln’s Day program”’ which included addresses by Senator Ingram and District Attorney Wright, “whose ancestors were associated with Abraham Lincoln in his years as a young attorney in Illinois”’; violin solos by Mrs. William Bennetts, accompanied by aMrs. J. Pollard and piano solos by the latter. ‘“‘It was a well attended affair quite admirably suited to the dignity of the occasion.” @@@ A $750,000 hotel, as part of a permanent training quarters for the New York Giants and the San Francisco Seals, was to be constructed in the Valley of the Moon near Santa Rosa. The hotel was to be named Sonoma Mission Inn and its equipment was to include a natatorium for hot mineral baths and an 18-hole golf course. @@@.:,; The New York Store, on Mill street in Grass Valley, advertised “Best Flannellette at 8 yards for $1; Comforter Challis, 5 yards for $1; and Huck Towels, 5 for $1, as the ‘‘week’s specials.”’ ‘ @@@ On the classified ad page there appeared the following: ‘‘For Sale: one ranch with house and big barn, 18 cattle, one horse, a few chickens, lots of water, 49 acres, all for $2,600. Contact Mrs. Mastai of Blue Tent Road for details.’’ : Berryhill requests U. s. halt timber exportation State Senator Clare Berryhill announced today that he is coauthoring a Joint Legislative Resolution requesting the willing to pay extremely high prices to exporters to obtain timber from this country and from California in particular,” Berryhill stated. ‘“‘The fact that these nations are buying unsawed logs, not milled lumber, is and will continue to have a very negative effect on this State’s lumber and milling industries. Further compounding. the problem is the fact that thisnation is forced to. import lumber and timber from Canada’ to attempt to meet its building needs : “The resulting timber shortages, especially in California, have resulted in log price increases of as much as 500 per cent,” Berryhill continued, ‘‘and this situation, combined with the possibilities for increased unemployment in the timber industry, will severely hamper California’s efforts to meet its housing and business demands. “This Resolution asks the President and Congress to instruct the Secretary of Commerce to exercise the powers granted to him under the Export Control Act to halt all exportation of logs from the United States until such time as it is determined that the nation’s projected timber needs for the next five years could be entirely satisfied by purely domestic Free clinic set for Feb. 14th The free clinic, held each month by the Nevada County Health Department, will be from 1 to 2 . Feb. 14 in the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building. A Nevada City are canceled forthe present, Dr. Bob Roberts, health officer announced. Beale Air Forc A man who began his Air Force career as a physicist at Sandia Base and Los Alamos, N.M., ended it at 4 p.m. January 19 — his 49th birthday ~ with a change of command ceremony in front of base headquarters. Colonel William J. Rand, Beale AFB commander for the past nine months, will be succeeded for a short time by Colonel Bernard R. Simon. Colonel Rand will go on terminal leave and will retire from the Air Force effective April 1. _ The El Paso, Tex., native plans to return to his alma mater, the University of Texas at El Paso, to teach physics. Colonel Rand came to Beale in April of last year from a position as vice wing commander of the 319th. Bombardment. Wing at Grand Forks AFB, N.D. The colonel, who has more than 29 years of continuous service, was a physics major at the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy (now University . ofTexas at El Paso). Under the Air Force Institute of Technology resident program, he was graduated with a bachelor of science degree in physics from Syracuse University, N.Y., in 1947 and began work on his masters degree. ’ In August 1943, Colonel Rand entered the Army Aviation

Cadet Program, receiving his pilot wings and commission as a second lieutenant at Napier Field, Dothan, Ala., Feb. 1. Following a temporary duty assignment in England flying P01 Mustang fighters, he was assigned as a flying instructor at Gunther Field, Ala. In 1946 he became an instructor on the faculty of Air Command and St ee ce i “at Amarillo AFB, Tex., in 1966 for. the 746th Bombardment year of operation, teaching new. developments in _ aviation technology. With the nuclear energy~ program growing rapidly in the Air Force, he was assigned. in “Light duty an: Southoust Asx. June 1949 to Sandia Base in Albuquerque, N.M., for two years as a nuclear physicist. He also worked at Los Almos, N.M., where refinement work was being done on the atomic bomb. In1951 Colonel Rand was transferred to Fairchild AFB, — Wash., to work as nuclear, officer for the giant B-36-equipped 92nd Bomb Wing. Two years later he was transferred again to. Strategic Air Command ‘headquarters where he continued to work on the atomic energy program.The colonel was then transferred to Waco, Tex., and the now closed James Connally AFB for navigator-bombardier training on the B-47 Stratojet. He became a B-47_ aircraft commander at Homestead AFB, Fla. He began flying the B-52 _<<_Stratofortress at Westover AFB, The clinics previously held the first Tuesdays of the month in~ Mass., in 1959 while serving in the 99th Bomb Wing and at Headquarters Eighth Air Force. Dating back to a part-time job as a radio announcer to defray ft a weekly television program on a local station in Springfield, Mass.A public service feature, “Westover Presents’’ acquainted the civilian populace with Air Force life and included interviews with the senior commanders at Westover. He became operations officer Squadron in SAC’s 461st Bom‘-bardment Wing. He was lead ship airborne commander when the wing took its B-52s on Arc It has just been decided that part of the bombing operations would be flown from U-Tapao, Thailand, and Colonel Rand was: the launch control officer on duty at the new Arc Light’ base when the first B-52 landed. After a brief time back in the states and as commander of the 746th Bomb Squadron; the 416th Bomb Wing inactivated and the then lieutenant colonel returned to Thailand as assistant deputy commander for operations. He flew an additional 152 combat missions, promoted to colonel. and received orders to the 22nd’ Bomb Wing at March AFB, Calif. in January 1969. Among his decorations are the Bronze Star with one oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal with sevel oak leaf clusters and the Air Force’ Commendation Medal. Colonel Rand had nfore than 6,000 flying hours as an Air Force aviator. Wed. Feb. .7,1973 The Nevada County Nugget 9 * e Commander retires BASE-COMMANDER RETIRES Colonel William J. . Rand poses with his wife, Lillian, after change of command and retirement ceremonies held here January 19. Colonel Rand holds the U-S. Flag that was presented to him upon his retirement. His career spanned nearly 30°years of continuous active military service. (U.S. Air Force Photo) UOP fund drive leader is ° from GV. Dale Boothby of Grass Valley . has been named toa third term as fund chairman for the School. of Pharmacy. alumni at University of the Pacific in Stockton. His reappointmént to the voluntary position was announced by Lester Tiscornia of Saint Joseph, Michigan, who is serving his fourth year as national chairman of the Alumni Annual Fund at Pacific. Boothby, manager-partner of Grass Valley Drug sine 1966, is a 1964 graduate of the UOP School of Pharmacy. As fund chairman for the school, Boothby leads @ program that encourages university support by School of Pharmacy alumbni. Boothby, whose _ wife Margaret is a 1963 Pacific graduate, is active in civic and community affairs in the Grass Valley area. He graduated from Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley in 1959. Last year fund-raising efforts at UOP resulted in more than $2 million for all purposes. This year in addition to funds for restricted purposes, the university has an unrestricted. gifts and grants goal of $800,000 for general support of its many _ educational programs.