February 8, 1961 (10 pages)

TH . Jose, and has been an official at several Route of the race was-not . . iy ar eR aT D Se ee Sapen aee aeneenaee . NC Bike Race Set For Ju Ce . Chamber . “NEVADA COUNTY ee 4 Endorses e Big Event TheNevada City Chamber F ,; of Commerce yesterday au. thorized and announced a''40 ' ’ oe mile bicycle race to be held . ; * in Nevada City Sunday afteri noon, Junell, between 12:30 and 3 p.m. The proposal came tothe . chamber of commerce dir. volume 36 No. 6 . 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" , ed W épkly Nevada Cif, February 8, 1961 ectors' meeting with the apRema 2S = Ap nF RE proval of the chamber’s mer, VK? chants committee. _Stpenmeustt:. CAMERON PROPOSES STATE BOND ISSUE . chairmanship and promotion of Charles Allert, 252 Brock BIKE RACE PROMOTER.Charles Allert, Road. He later announced FOR RECREA TIONAL A ND HISTORICA L SITES 252 Brock Road, Nevada City, was given that Bob Wyckoff would be , the backing of the Nevada City Chamber SRST SOE AOS ane Al $75 Million parade which will be held Requested of Commerce in promoting a June 11 bike immediately before the race in Nevada City last year, was a ace. In Bill By Dean Thompson : ; Trophies will be given . Northern California Representative of the youngsters who win the dec=_. Amateur Bicycle League of America and ration contest at the same was director of all racing in the area. He timethat more then $500 helped promote and officiate the 1956 W°!th of plaques and mer: ) chandise prizes are awarded Olympic trials atSan Francisco and San to race winners, State Senator Ronald Cameron yesterday afternoon introduced a bill in the legislature designed to place on the 1962 ballot a $75,000, 000 general obligation bond issue for the acquisition of recreational property and historical monument sites in California. The funds, if approved by the voters,-would be turned overto the State Park Commission. Cameron pointed out that . the price of land keeps going up, and that the state is unable to begin the necessary recreational and historical property acquisition project with current funds, "It isa real sound project, " hesaid. "Wewill be buying for the future, for the generations to come," i Under the proposed Con» . stitutional Amendment, a ~. /maximun of $2,000,000 could be spent for fire pre; ; vention w ork-~---roads, fire DANCING FOR CHARITY.Square and folk dancers participated in a Celebral breaks and fuel breaks. A : ‘ ; maximun of $25, 000, 000 Palsy fund drive dance Sunday in Grass Valley. One of the squares is shown could beapent for the deve): above, twirling with skirts flared. Other pictures on Page 2. opment of sites acquired under the legislation, Most important, however, Wea ther Cameron said that at least $50,000,000 ofthetotal national championships. announced, ‘qlthongh it was said to be over a two mile : (Continued-on Page 4) TAFFY. TOMMYKNOCKER ---Catetaker of Nevada County's Mines Nevada City Feb. 5 60 32 ee Grass Valley Feb. 5 65 40 -. would be reserved for the Max. .Min. Rain Feb. 6 60 33 <s : Feb. 6 60 40 -. purchase of land, Feb. 1. 57 42.59 Feb. 7 50 “0. AG Feb. 1° 50 45 «1 Feb. 7 51 $4.5: 592 Cameron emphasized he Feb. 2 54 $8 583 Feb. 2. 57 42 .48 did not envision a plaque Feb. 3 50 41°" '.29 Rain to date: 2. «s 18,25 = Feb, 8 49° 40: 61 ‘Rain to date. 23s. 20" . type of monument, but Will They Ever Return? Feb. 4 53 31 -Rain last year. . 23.05 Feb. 4 55 37 -Rain last year. . . . 23,31 . rather the historical monument which. includéd land (Continued on Page 4) Bob Paine in his last week's Fool's Gold column predicted that President Kennedy could not long delay some kind of action to prevent the gold outflow from this country. Day before yesterday Mr. Kennedy sent his suggestions to Congress. = Inthe same column, Paine asked what had become of THE Tommyknockers since the mines closeddown. Paydirtagain. This week's (Feb 1l, 1961) Sat. Eve Post carries a full feature illustrated story on the Cornish elves. In Fool's Gold in the Feb 22 Nugget, Paine will review the Gable-Monroe § w Movie The Misfits. tt THE TALE OF THE When the price of gold remained pegged cliffs; but_when John Wesley rode his horse knock on the sills, and he put down his tools been noisy, naughty and fun. And atop the ress the most famous mine in the Northern from one Cornish village ss ’ ggage, Pansy had purred a ode was forced at last to shut down, the were still many who believ ’ ‘ il amily was together again newspaper in Grass Valley asked help for its who crucified ane Lord, de Was the old man just telling a ta story —Oor was wk it. ° ' i Tommyknockers, a dispossessed and refugee their doom forever deep in if : g y had remembered the’ : People without a home. . When the knackers cross¢ s 4 it near the ‘hospital -where : : The Sixteen-to-One and the Best Mines : became Tommyknockers u the mine really haunted by the tiny creatures? sing to fix daddy’s knee. i ‘ said they’d take a few, and men who had with deep. affection. There ome now?” -he*d--askedi : worked at the Golden Fleece in its prime sent Jack who. didn’t heed hi eee wae wassswwam wvsrapansnessi® Ut twas CAssML YUU, — aLlANUUSLY, ECNOEM at once by Patty. “Is that i back word from, the Yellow Jacket, the Ely them a bit of his crust.or his pasty—and they —_ But ‘he ‘won’t. : where-we’re going now? Are we going home?’’ ‘ Witch and even from as far away as Flin Flon still do it. When the mules hauled out the ore “The Tommyknockers were talking,” hel = And John had said yes, in a way. : that the old mine could rest in peace, because and a ‘‘super” berated a miner for a bad say quietly. “And when they talk, lad, I listen.” He’d explained that Grandfather Prescott By MARGARET CRAVEN they’d find room somewhere in their winzes tally, he needed speak only the simple truth: So the Golden Fleece was closed. The yellow ~had been born in this country they were seeing : eae and their stopes for every last one. All night long the Tommyknockers had raised _ leaves of fall mellowed it. The green of spring _for the first time, and at the mine where his 4 The Tommyknockers came to California ell in j weer i babies basil mcchaeceleceeelonenel piscia . : % with the Cornishmen in the latter days of the Gold Rush, and there were those who swore q Copyright 1961 by The Curtis Publis hing Company, Independence Square e : Philoe oe kee Cee ay jadelphia, Pa. PublishedFeb. 11, 1961 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, now 7 ick ee Jon sale, Author: Margaret Craven, Illustrator: Gyo Fujikawa. _ oe anvils with hammers the size of darning needles

TH . Jose, and has been an official at several Route of the race was-not . . iy ar eR aT D Se ee Sapen aee aeneenaee . NC Bike Race Set For Ju Ce . Chamber . “NEVADA COUNTY ee 4 Endorses e Big Event TheNevada City Chamber F ,; of Commerce yesterday au. thorized and announced a''40 ' ’ oe mile bicycle race to be held . ; * in Nevada City Sunday afteri noon, Junell, between 12:30 and 3 p.m. The proposal came tothe . chamber of commerce dir. volume 36 No. 6 . 10 Cents a Copy “THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" , ed W épkly Nevada Cif, February 8, 1961 ectors' meeting with the apRema 2S = Ap nF RE proval of the chamber’s mer, VK? chants committee. _Stpenmeustt:. CAMERON PROPOSES STATE BOND ISSUE . chairmanship and promotion of Charles Allert, 252 Brock BIKE RACE PROMOTER..Charles Allert, Road. He later announced FOR RECREA TIONAL A ND HISTORICA L SITES 252 Brock Road, Nevada City, was given that Bob Wyckoff would be , the backing of the Nevada City Chamber SRST SOE AOS ane Al $75 Million parade which will be held Requested of Commerce in promoting a June 11 bike immediately before the race in Nevada City last year, was a ace. In Bill By Dean Thompson : ; Trophies will be given . Northern California Representative of the youngsters who win the dec=_. Amateur Bicycle League of America and ration contest at the same was director of all racing in the area. He timethat more then $500 helped promote and officiate the 1956 W°!th of plaques and mer: ) chandise prizes are awarded Olympic trials atSan Francisco and San to race winners, State Senator Ronald Cameron yesterday afternoon introduced a bill in the legislature designed to place on the 1962 ballot a $75,000, 000 general obligation bond issue for the acquisition of recreational property and historical monument sites in California. The funds, if approved by the voters,-would be turned overto the State Park Commission. Cameron pointed out that . the price of land keeps going up, and that the state is unable to begin the necessary recreational and historical property acquisition project

with current funds, "It isa real sound project, " hesaid. "Wewill be buying for the future, for the generations to come," i Under the proposed Con» . stitutional Amendment, a ~. /maximun of $2,000,000 could be spent for fire pre; ; vention w ork-~---roads, fire DANCING FOR CHARITY..Square and folk dancers participated in a Celebral breaks and fuel breaks. A : ‘ ; maximun of $25, 000, 000 Palsy fund drive dance Sunday in Grass Valley. One of the squares is shown could beapent for the deve): above, twirling with skirts flared. Other pictures on Page 2. opment of sites acquired under the legislation, Most important, however, Wea ther Cameron said that at least $50,000,000 ofthetotal national championships. announced, ‘qlthongh it was said to be over a two mile : (Continued-on Page 4) TAFFY. TOMMYKNOCKER ---Catetaker of Nevada County's Mines Nevada City Feb. 5 60 32 ee Grass Valley Feb. 5 65 40 -. would be reserved for the Max. .Min. Rain Feb. 6 60 33 <s : Feb. 6 60 40 -. purchase of land, Feb. 1. 57 42.59 Feb. 7 50 “0. AG Feb. 1° 50 45 «1 Feb. 7 51 $4.5: 592 Cameron emphasized he Feb. 2 54 $8 583 Feb. 2. 57 42 .48 did not envision a plaque Feb. 3 50 41°" '.29 Rain to date: 2. «s 18,25 = Feb, 8 49° 40: 61 ‘Rain to date. 23s. 20" . type of monument, but Will They Ever Return? Feb. 4 53 31 -Rain last year.. . 23.05 Feb. 4 55 37 -Rain last year. . . . 23,31 . rather the historical monument which. includéd land (Continued on Page 4) Bob Paine in his last week's Fool's Gold column predicted that President Kennedy could not long delay some kind of action to prevent the gold outflow from this country. Day before yesterday Mr. Kennedy sent his suggestions to Congress. = Inthe same column, Paine asked what had become of THE Tommyknockers since the mines closeddown. Paydirtagain. This week's (Feb 1l, 1961) Sat. Eve Post carries a full feature illustrated story on the Cornish elves. In Fool's Gold in the Feb 22 Nugget, Paine will review the Gable-Monroe § w Movie The Misfits. tt THE TALE OF THE When the price of gold remained pegged cliffs; but_when John Wesley rode his horse knock on the sills, and he put down his tools been noisy, naughty and fun. And atop the ress the most famous mine in the Northern from one Cornish village ss ’ ggage, Pansy had purred a ode was forced at last to shut down, the were still many who believ ’ ‘ il amily was together again newspaper in Grass Valley asked help for its who crucified ane Lord, de Was the old man just telling a ta story —Oor was wk it. ° ' i Tommyknockers, a dispossessed and refugee their doom forever deep in if : g y had remembered the’ : People without a home. . When the knackers cross¢ s 4 it near the ‘hospital -where : : The Sixteen-to-One and the Best Mines : became Tommyknockers u the mine really haunted by the tiny creatures? sing to fix daddy’s knee. i ‘ said they’d take a few, and men who had with deep. affection. There ome now?” -he*d--askedi : worked at the Golden Fleece in its prime sent Jack who. didn’t heed hi eee wae wassswwam wvsrapansnessi® Ut twas CAssML YUU, — aLlANUUSLY, ECNOEM at once by Patty. “Is that i back word from, the Yellow Jacket, the Ely them a bit of his crust.or his pasty—and they —_ But ‘he ‘won’t. : where-we’re going now? Are we going home?’’ ‘ Witch and even from as far away as Flin Flon still do it. When the mules hauled out the ore “The Tommyknockers were talking,” hel = And John had said yes, in a way. : that the old mine could rest in peace, because and a ‘‘super” berated a miner for a bad say quietly. “And when they talk, lad, I listen.” He’d explained that Grandfather Prescott By MARGARET CRAVEN they’d find room somewhere in their winzes tally, he needed speak only the simple truth: So the Golden Fleece was closed. The yellow ~had been born in this country they were seeing : eae and their stopes for every last one. All night long the Tommyknockers had raised _ leaves of fall mellowed it. The green of spring _for the first time, and at the mine where his 4 The Tommyknockers came to California ell in j weer i babies basil mcchaeceleceeelonenel piscia . : % with the Cornishmen in the latter days of the Gold Rush, and there were those who swore q Copyright 1961 by The Curtis Publis hing Company, Independence Square e : Philoe oe kee Cee ay jadelphia, Pa. PublishedFeb. 11, 1961 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, now 7 ick ee Jon sale, Author: Margaret Craven, Illustrator: Gyo Fujikawa. _ oe anvils with hammers the size of darning needles