January 10, 1973 (12 pages)

a 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Jan. 10.1973 “Notes off By P. According to maritime rules of the late 1700's, Fletcher Christian was guilty of a crime punishable by death when he led the Bounty mutineers to remote Pitcairn Island, down in the deep South Pacific. And even in that utopian paradise, socalled by several later writers on the subject, the old boy had _his later problems.but how things have changed down there since! Take, ferinstance, the fact that there are now only 84 residents on the little landspit. . Britain’s smallest protectorate lying just 3,500 miles equidistant from Panama and New Zealand.and “believe that all thru 1972 their iny jail ~ was completely empty! Tom: Christian, 35,.-a descendant of Fletcher and the island’s radio officer, reported to his British superiors recently that Pitcairn’s lone policeman has quit and will not be replaced. As Christian told it.‘‘sometimes -there may be a minor dispute over the boundary of a garden, or some. of the young fellows get into a bit of mischief and the police officer is called into the matter.but on the whole, policeman on Pit ,cairn is about as out of place as a ‘camel would be in the Artic!”’ here’s a certain shivery something about having a CHP unit come up behind you with red light on and that old siren splitting the atmosphere. Makes the spine-feel as tho’. it were melting into nothingness -if indeed it hasn’t already. Happened to me the other evening over on I-80.1 wasn’t doing anything wrong, so help me, Ossifer! : Well anyhow.all’s well that ended well.or did the next morning when I could get my rear license plate put back onto the.car. The darned thing had flopped off its bracket when the bolts worked loose and it just flipped thru the air and struck the fender of the CHP unit NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2471 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class po: age paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. ~ Subscription Rates: One Year’. . $3.00 Two Years . $5.00 _ Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . the Cuff” L. Smith “breezing ‘along directly behind me, Of course I had no way of knowing that my plate had decided to part company with my Car.So it was really a shock to be stopped.but a nice one, I hasten to add; and so courteously done. There REALLY IS something about a uniform, isn’t there? “TI know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but.1 am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”’ ‘“‘Now-that’s a fine example of post-Confuciusian philosophy,” sez one friend of mine.nodding his head sagely but, do you know something? He couldn’t even explain what he meant, much less what the quotation really means. It reminds me, however, so much of some utterly facinating bits ofbus depot or railway Station‘ open-booth phone conversations overheard in years gone by. All it took was a reasonably active imagination to conjure up pictures of the “‘perfect crime’”’ or the ‘‘perfect weekend’’.depending on which end of the conversation. you chanced to overhear.plus the state of your mind at the time. Think about it a couple, willya.it grows on one the saying, I mean.really around -next week. 15,190 Nevada County voters Nevada county had 15,190 registered voters as of Dec. 29, County Clerk Théo. A. Kohler Jr. reported in his end-of-year report. : A break-down of:the voters bv political party shows 7,667 Democrats, 6,827 Republicans, 39 American Independents, 23 Peace and Freedom party and 634 who decline to state. There are slightly more Democrats in four of the five supervisorial districts: the second district being the exception. District I has 1,479 Demos and: 1.447 GOPs, District II has -1,528 Demos and 1,606 GOPs, District. III has 1,380 Demos and §,.358 GOPs, District IV has 1,549 Demos and 1,265 GOPs and District V has 1,731 Demos and 1,151 GOPs. Grass Valley also favors the Democrats, 1,385 versus 1,126 Republicans with 102 in the other. categories. Nevada City also leans toward the donkey, 701. Democrats and 596 Republicans. : INSTANT BUVERS By Fay M. Dunbar Contemplation it seems to me is an important part of everyday living. One of my most i1mportant resolutions for the New Year was to find time for a little more of it than this past year has provided. I love to work and have taken on a bit too much. Time has simply run out. There aren't enough hours in the day to accomplish the tasks -Ihave set for myself. Time is the only real value we have in our lives. I like to spend mine wisely. ’ Where to say no is my problem. My husband calls my contemplation just plain old fashioned day dreaming. Well what’s wrong with day dreaming! Now, if I sit down to contemplate a leaf rustling be win or some other lovely interesting thing, I probably wake up a couple of hours later refreshed but no major thinking done. 'Tis said napping mends the raveled sleeve of.care or something like that. Perhaps it does but if yousleep in a chair you probably end up with a neck that needs mending. You a]so end up with all the animals hungry, including husband, the housework not done, and the latest meeting notes not typed. In last year’s schedule contemplation had to go but this year there will be more time and next year. . ! When I achieve that goal I will know I am again makingproper use of my time. Hope your New Year’s resolutions will be easier to keep than mine. R&R Speaking of time, next week’s calendar is a terror! We've already missed this month’s 4-H meeting. You can get any necessary information from the community club leader Mrs. George Small on Randolph Lane. I hope you made the fire auxiliary meeting last Monday. If you didn’t and you would like to keep in touch there will bea fire commission meeting Monday January 15 * at 8 p.m. at the firehouse. It’s probably too late to make the Grange Public Party tonight but there is another one the fourth Safurday, January 27, at 8 p.m. at the hall. They have lots of fun, refreshments, and prizes. If you can be satisfied with only one card your evening will only cost you 50 cents. Pokie me I can only keep up with one card but I like to play the extra special games. Really big Rough and Readyevent of the week is the Chamber of Commerce installation dinner coming Saturday January 13. Open House, hosted by the chamber, starts at 7 p.m. with a chicken dinner to be catered by the ladies of the grange at 8 p.m. Reservations are required. Rough and Ready Grange meets at-2 p.m. Sunday January 14 to plan its year’s activities. The grange ladies meet Tuesday January 16 at 12 noon for luncheon together. A brief business session will be called at 1 by new chairman Thelma Lehman. The regular grange meeting is Friday January 19 at 8 p.m. preceded by a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m: My calendar also includes the official organization meeting of your county democratic central committee at 1:30 p.m. at the county court house. Hope you will always remember I am your representative for this area and want to know what you think of issues facing us. That same evening a meetinghas been called for the Liberal Arts Commission at the old theater in Nevada City at 8 pim. They will be discussing revisions to their by-laws. I feel its a very important meeting for the old «theater. Everyone is welcome at either of these meetings. R&R My calendar also includes sing practice with the Nevada County Newcomers Lyric Ensemble both Wednesdays. We need lots more voices in this group. It meets at the Elks Hall in Grass Valley and its director is one of our. Rough and Ready ladies, Mrs. Helen Beatie. On Wednesday, January 17 we are going to sing for the guests at Spring Hill Manor. That day also includes luncheon with a very ‘eager beaver’ group of civic minded ladies at the National } 273-2934 Hotel in Nevada City. You are welcome to join them also but must have reservations. R&R Phil Kelly of Sacramento, son-in-law of Lisetta Scheave and very enthusiastic Rough and Ready booster, came by to show us his Christmas gift. His daughter Gretchen and son Casey are almost as interested in Rough and Ready and they came too. The Christmas gift : was from Mrs. Scheave’s granddaughter-in-law, Mrs. ‘Mike Kelly also of Sacramento. It is a watercolor all in browns of the old Blacksmith Shop. Lisetta had told me about,it and I think I told you but seeing is something else. Young Mrs.Kelley likes details. This picture is. a beauty. It even shows knot holes and warped and cracked boards. Phil prizes it highly. That young lady can have’ a future if she really decides to work at it. Of course we talked about Rough and Ready history. Casey is especially interested but Gretchen, who recently returned from a year in Germany is looking at other distant fields to conquer. She loves our American Indian lore and artifacts. Mrs. Jacqueline Kelly and Lisetta were busy with a big wedding at the chapel. R&R Phil commented that he liked my column best when it had history-type items. I wish all of you would let me know what you like best. It ‘would ‘help in doing the historical society bulletin about Rough and Ready if I knew what you like most to hear about. I must have any material you want included, by the middle of February. Editor Clint Lee has asked for the bulletin in time for an April 1 release. Sure wish Maud Calvert were still here. She knew Rough and Ready first hand in its early years. At 90 years her memory was sharp and clear. She had a marvelous sense of humor. She could have written a zinger. I have some pictures not usually seen but would be glad to have any you may have, taken off, and the picture returned to you. So fill in some ‘interesting’ stories. R&R When opportunity knocks at your door grab it quick. All 6fthe marvelous interesting stage coaches and stage coach building tools including harness tools that the late Phillip Parry used in his stage coach building hobby are gone. Only the big empty shop remains as a reminder of the interesting work he did there. Thank goodness I visited when it was a dream working. Mrs. Mary Parry has decided to remain with us for a while at least. She says Rough and Ready is her home and she loves it. She doesn’t hear too well on the telephone so I suggest a care or brief visit if you want to make her decision a happy one. R&R—\ . Mrs. Alice Perry is home from the hospital. but still required to be very quiet and stay mostly in bed. The doctor says it will be about three weeks before she can be about again. She tires easily but her days-are tediously long. Many friends telephone. She has a phone beside her bed. g R&R My birthday calendar for January has 42 dates to remember. Your community calendar shows Maciel Filer and Hugh Dunbar Jan. 2 (oops, use a belated), Laurence Mader Jan. 9, Helene Hurlbut Jan. 11, Bill Bursill Sr. Jan. 15, (Jr. is doing some extra degree work at school in the east), Joyce Thomas Jan. 16, Karen Sorenson Jan. 23, Jon Pharis Jan. 25, Don Burkard Jan. 27, and Florence Jennings and Jack Bursill on Jan. 30. Hope your list gets better Altention than mine does. &

a 2 The Nevada County Nugget Wed., Jan. 10.1973 “Notes off By P. According to maritime rules of the late 1700's, Fletcher Christian was guilty of a crime punishable by death when he led the Bounty mutineers to remote Pitcairn Island, down in the deep South Pacific. And even in that utopian paradise, socalled by several later writers on the subject, the old boy had _his later problems..but how things have changed down there since! Take, ferinstance, the fact that there are now only 84 residents on the little landspit.. . Britain’s smallest protectorate lying just 3,500 miles equidistant from Panama and New Zealand..and “believe that all thru 1972 their iny jail ~ was completely empty! Tom: Christian, 35,.-a descendant of Fletcher and the island’s radio officer, reported to his British superiors recently that Pitcairn’s lone policeman has quit and will not be replaced. As Christian told it..‘‘sometimes -there may be a minor dispute over the boundary of a garden, or some. of the young fellows get into a bit of mischief and the police officer is called into the matter..but on the whole, policeman on Pit ,cairn is about as out of place as a ‘camel would be in the Artic!”’ here’s a certain shivery something about having a CHP unit come up behind you with red light on and that old siren splitting the atmosphere. Makes the spine-feel as tho’. it were melting into nothingness -if indeed it hasn’t already. Happened to me the other evening over on I-80..1 wasn’t doing anything wrong, so help me, Ossifer! : Well anyhow..all’s well that ended well..or did the next morning when I could get my rear license plate put back onto the.car. The darned thing had flopped off its bracket when the bolts worked loose and it just flipped thru the air and struck the fender of the CHP unit NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET 301 Broad Street Nevada City, Ca. 95959 Telephone 265-2471 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO. Second class po: age paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court, June 3, 1960. Decree No. 12,406. ~ Subscription Rates: One Year’.. . $3.00 Two Years .. $5.00 _ Member of CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION . the Cuff” L. Smith “breezing ‘along directly behind me, Of course I had no way of knowing that my plate had decided to part company with my Car..So it was really a shock to be stopped..but a nice one, I hasten to add; and so courteously done. There REALLY IS something about a uniform, isn’t there? “TI know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but..1 am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”’ ‘“‘Now-that’s a fine example of post-Confuciusian philosophy,” sez one friend of mine..nodding his head sagely but, do you know something? He couldn’t even explain what he meant, much less what the quotation really means. It reminds me, however, so much of some utterly facinating bits ofbus depot or railway Station‘ open-booth phone conversations overheard in years gone by. All it took was a reasonably active imagination to conjure up pictures of the “‘perfect crime’”’ or the ‘‘perfect weekend’’..depending on which end of the conversation. you chanced to overhear..plus the state of your mind at the time. Think about it a couple, willya..it grows on one the saying, I mean..really around -next week. 15,190 Nevada County voters Nevada county had 15,190 registered voters as of Dec. 29, County Clerk Théo. A. Kohler Jr. reported in his end-of-year report. : A break-down of:the voters bv political party shows 7,667 Democrats, 6,827 Republicans, 39 American Independents, 23 Peace and Freedom party and 634 who decline to state. There are slightly more Democrats in four of the five supervisorial districts: the second district being the exception. District I has 1,479 Demos and: 1.447 GOPs, District II has -1,528 Demos and 1,606 GOPs, District. III has 1,380 Demos and §,.358 GOPs, District IV has 1,549 Demos and 1,265 GOPs and District V has 1,731 Demos and 1,151 GOPs. Grass Valley also favors the Democrats, 1,385 versus 1,126 Republicans with 102 in the other. categories. Nevada City also leans toward the donkey, 701. Democrats and 596 Republicans. : INSTANT BUVERS

By Fay M. Dunbar Contemplation it seems to me is an important part of everyday living. One of my most i1mportant resolutions for the New Year was to find time for a little more of it than this past year has provided. I love to work and have taken on a bit too much. Time has simply run out. There aren't enough hours in the day to accomplish the tasks -Ihave set for myself. Time is the only real value we have in our lives. I like to spend mine wisely. ’ Where to say no is my problem. My husband calls my contemplation just plain old fashioned day dreaming. Well what’s wrong with day dreaming! Now, if I sit down to contemplate a leaf rustling be win or some other lovely interesting thing, I probably wake up a couple of hours later refreshed but no major thinking done. 'Tis said napping mends the raveled sleeve of.care or something like that. Perhaps it does but if yousleep in a chair you probably end up with a neck that needs mending. You a]so end up with all the animals hungry, including husband, the housework not done, and the latest meeting notes not typed. In last year’s schedule contemplation had to go but this year there will be more time and next year.. . ! When I achieve that goal I will know I am again makingproper use of my time. Hope your New Year’s resolutions will be easier to keep than mine. R&R Speaking of time, next week’s calendar is a terror! We've already missed this month’s 4-H meeting. You can get any necessary information from the community club leader Mrs. George Small on Randolph Lane. I hope you made the fire auxiliary meeting last Monday. If you didn’t and you would like to keep in touch there will bea fire commission meeting Monday January 15 * at 8 p.m. at the firehouse. It’s probably too late to make the Grange Public Party tonight but there is another one the fourth Safurday, January 27, at 8 p.m. at the hall. They have lots of fun, refreshments, and prizes. If you can be satisfied with only one card your evening will only cost you 50 cents. Pokie me I can only keep up with one card but I like to play the extra special games. Really big Rough and Readyevent of the week is the Chamber of Commerce installation dinner coming Saturday January 13. Open House, hosted by the chamber, starts at 7 p.m. with a chicken dinner to be catered by the ladies of the grange at 8 p.m. Reservations are required. Rough and Ready Grange meets at-2 p.m. Sunday January 14 to plan its year’s activities. The grange ladies meet Tuesday January 16 at 12 noon for luncheon together. A brief business session will be called at 1 by new chairman Thelma Lehman. The regular grange meeting is Friday January 19 at 8 p.m. preceded by a potluck dinner at 6:30 p.m: My calendar also includes the official organization meeting of your county democratic central committee at 1:30 p.m. at the county court house. Hope you will always remember I am your representative for this area and want to know what you think of issues facing us. That same evening a meetinghas been called for the Liberal Arts Commission at the old theater in Nevada City at 8 pim. They will be discussing revisions to their by-laws. I feel its a very important meeting for the old «theater. Everyone is welcome at either of these meetings. R&R My calendar also includes sing practice with the Nevada County Newcomers Lyric Ensemble both Wednesdays. We need lots more voices in this group. It meets at the Elks Hall in Grass Valley and its director is one of our. Rough and Ready ladies, Mrs. Helen Beatie. On Wednesday, January 17 we are going to sing for the guests at Spring Hill Manor. That day also includes luncheon with a very ‘eager beaver’ group of civic minded ladies at the National } 273-2934 Hotel in Nevada City. You are welcome to join them also but must have reservations. R&R Phil Kelly of Sacramento, son-in-law of Lisetta Scheave and very enthusiastic Rough and Ready booster, came by to show us his Christmas gift. His daughter Gretchen and son Casey are almost as interested in Rough and Ready and they came too. The Christmas gift : was from Mrs. Scheave’s granddaughter-in-law, Mrs. ‘Mike Kelly also of Sacramento. It is a watercolor all in browns of the old Blacksmith Shop. Lisetta had told me about,it and I think I told you but seeing is something else. Young Mrs.Kelley likes details. This picture is. a beauty. It even shows knot holes and warped and cracked boards. Phil prizes it highly. That young lady can have’ a future if she really decides to work at it. Of course we talked about Rough and Ready history. Casey is especially interested but Gretchen, who recently returned from a year in Germany is looking at other distant fields to conquer. She loves our American Indian lore and artifacts. Mrs. Jacqueline Kelly and Lisetta were busy with a big wedding at the chapel. R&R Phil commented that he liked my column best when it had history-type items. I wish all of you would let me know what you like best. It ‘would ‘help in doing the historical society bulletin about Rough and Ready if I knew what you like most to hear about. I must have any material you want included, by the middle of February. Editor Clint Lee has asked for the bulletin in time for an April 1 release. Sure wish Maud Calvert were still here. She knew Rough and Ready first hand in its early years. At 90 years her memory was sharp and clear. She had a marvelous sense of humor. She could have written a zinger. I have some pictures not usually seen but would be glad to have any you may have, taken off, and the picture returned to you. So fill in some ‘interesting’ stories. R&R When opportunity knocks at your door grab it quick. All 6fthe marvelous interesting stage coaches and stage coach building tools including harness tools that the late Phillip Parry used in his stage coach building hobby are gone. Only the big empty shop remains as a reminder of the interesting work he did there. Thank goodness I visited when it was a dream working. Mrs. Mary Parry has decided to remain with us for a while at least. She says Rough and Ready is her home and she loves it. She doesn’t hear too well on the telephone so I suggest a care or brief visit if you want to make her decision a happy one. R&R—\ . Mrs. Alice Perry is home from the hospital. but still required to be very quiet and stay mostly in bed. The doctor says it will be about three weeks before she can be about again. She tires easily but her days-are tediously long. Many friends telephone. She has a phone beside her bed. g R&R My birthday calendar for January has 42 dates to remember. Your community calendar shows Maciel Filer and Hugh Dunbar Jan. 2 (oops, use a belated), Laurence Mader Jan. 9, Helene Hurlbut Jan. 11, Bill Bursill Sr. Jan. 15, (Jr. is doing some extra degree work at school in the east), Joyce Thomas Jan. 16, Karen Sorenson Jan. 23, Jon Pharis Jan. 25, Don Burkard Jan. 27, and Florence Jennings and Jack Bursill on Jan. 30. Hope your list gets better Altention than mine does. &