January 15, 1969 (12 pages)

Ce eT Balad: cl ah al ast wo * Mp P * * is t * ve yy a 4abgtase it “7 Biles a) The Revede County Nugget gre D Sh BAt A al: ¢ <reks Wednesday, January 15, 1969 NID adopts remap . The Citizens League for Effective Action Now (CLEAN) recommendation for reapportionment of Nevada Irrigation District was approved Thursday by a 3-1 vote of NID directors with Ross McBurney dissenting and Bruce McDonald abstaining. The attempt to comply with the "one man, one vote" principle was effected by transferring Alta Hill, Oaks and Empire 1 precincts from Division 1 to Division 5 and Empire 2 precinct from Division 1 to Divisfon 2, a shift of about 1,500 voters. R. Peter Ingram, Nevada county chairman of CLEAN, said the committee's plan had as its basic goal the changing of the least number “of boundaries. of the district to satisfy the government code and the Nevada county grand jury committee. The proposal was done with the realization that further redistricting will be required following the 1970 U. S. census. McDonald, who headed the NID committee on reapportionment, had submitted a somewhat different plan some months ago. This was the one McBurney favored Thursday. McBurney and Ingram sparred verbally at times during the discussion, but finally the vote favored the CLEAN recommendation, one endorsed by Dist. Atty. Haroid Berliner and the grand jury committee. Roy McDowell of Bear River Pines, long active in NID affairs, also supported the McDonald committee, (McDonald and Director Vernon Vineyard) recommendation for redistricting. He argued that "'the people will be more satisfied with the McDonald proposal than with CLEAN's," ; The realignment cut Division 1 (McBurney's) from 41,7 to 25.8 per cent of the district's 10,580 voters, boosted Division 2 (McDonald's) from 20,8 to 25.3 per ‘cent, left Division 3 (Ferreira's) at 21 per cent, also left Division 4 (Vernon Vineyard's) at 4.4 per cent. and hiked Division 5 (Mel Brown's) from 12 to 23.5 per cent, Divisions 3 and 4 are in Placer, while 1, 2 and 5 are in Nevada county. The district revamping in the main changed lines only in the populated areas around Grass Valley and did not affect NID divisions in Placer county, Before the vote was cast in favor of CLEAN's plan. on recommendation of ‘McDonald, he pointed out that at a previous SIMPIICITY wene . The New BERGEMANN & SON Funeral Chapel ready to serve yeu day or night call 265-2421 Bost Ave. off Lower Grass Valley Rd, . Nevada City: ~~ meeting he had made the same recommendation. However, many people criticized him later for agreeing that Vineyard's Division 4 with its mere 4.4 per cent of registered boters should remain the same, But, he said, he had gone on record for the ‘CLEAN proposal and he would have to support it. McDonald said the CLEAN plan would cause trouble and NID might as well remain unchanged. Ingram said the proposal "is the least you can do, and qualify" according to law. McBurney charged that every board member favored McDonald's. plan and he couldn't understand the switch to CLEAN's. He said Vineyard had. recommended a vote for the McDonald plan some time ago and "now he wants to follow CLEAN's" proposal, ; McBurney feels "people also are willing to go along with McDonald's first proposal and not with his recommendation today." He also charged that the directors’ obligation is to do what they think is right rather than what a citizens' committee and the district attorney want. (Dist. Atty. Harold Berliner had declared McDonald's proposal unacceptable because, Ingram said, the land. area changes suggested were out of proportion.) Failure to change the makeup of the two divisions in Placer county caused a rumpus, McDonald, referring to himself as "the two-pronged hypocrite”, said instead of reapportioning the entire district "we reapportion one county and not the other." He said the revamping should be done on a district, not a county, basis. McDowell, an active booster for NID, -said that the Colfax Highway Association does not like the CLEAN plan. He said he wanted all of the directors to represent the entire district and an end to the differences existing between domestic and » raw water users. He said changing Division 4 would allow Vineyard to represent domestic and raw water users, not just the latter as is the case now. Vineyard said that "it's going to be a guess no matter whatyou do," And McBurney was amazed "that you people can't vote your conscience." Brown replied that he wasn't voting against his conscience. When McBurney accused chairman Alex Ferreira of wanting "to keep two directors in Placer county," Ferreira denied the charge. He said he hoped that sometime the district line would go through the coun-. ty line and McBurney asked why he didn't take steps right then to bring this about. When Vineyard said, "Actually, I can't see an advantage in doing anything now," Ingram said, "Only to keep faith with the public." There seemed to be unanimous agreement on one aspect of the reapportionment: Unlike many board decisions, this one can be corrected if proved wrong. High accident rate in supermarket jobs SAN FRANCISCO To the shopper the neighborhood supermarket appears as a Safe, well-lighted, well-ventilated place to work, Yet. the job injury rate in retail food stores is higher than the average rate for the State's manufacturing plants, and has been rising, Albert C. Beeson, Director of Industrial Relations, reported today. Each year some 4,700 California supermarket employees are injured seriously enough at work to lose time from their job, Although working in a supermarket is not generally thought of as risking one's life, in the past decade 37 supermarket workers met their death on the job, Nearly a third of those who died were the victims of assailants, usually in robCOMPLETE SUPPLY OF BUILDING MATERIAL > PABCO PAINT LUMBER CO. Town Talk G,V. _ 265-4521 Downieville Yard” 289-3351 “YUBA RIVER . bery attempts. Beeson noted that one-third of all lost-time supermarket injuries occur in the meat de, partment and are mostly caused by contact with sharp or jagged objects, As. one would expect, knives are the most frequent source of injury to butchers. Annually, more than 600 retail meat cut-ters in the State’s supermarkets suffer lost-time injuries in handling knives or in using electric saws, While knives cause more injuries, band saws generally inflict severer wounds, including a substantial number of finger amputations. Outside the meat department, supermarket. employees in all classifications from box boy to store manager are most often injured in lifting, stacking, or boxing merchandise. One third of all lost-time injuries involving such Piper vache are back strains. In industry generally, back strains account for about one-fifth of the lost-time injuries. Additional information on work-connected injuries in California's supermarkets is summarized in the most recent quarterly report, Work Injuries in California, released this week by the Division of Labor Statistics and Research, "There are few foods that approach milk in. its. overall nutritional value," says Dr. Fredrick Stare, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University. Western tree farms assuring — ~~ “perpetual forest production PORTLAND, Ore.,-More than 8 million acres of private, taxpaying lands in the 12 western states are now producing perpetual forest crops ontreefarms certified by the Western Wood Products Association. This is roughly 2.5 times the total land area of Connecticut. WWPA encourages cultivation of trees as a crop under its certified tree farm program. An additional 8 million acres are similarly certified by other forest-oriented agencies in the West. To enter the program, alandowner_must make a commit‘ment to manage his private forest according to modern scientific practices. WWPA then issues a certificate to the landowner and provides management counsel through its staff of professional foresters, Both large and small. tree farmers vartivipate in the program, and new certification during the year was given for as few as 20 acres of managed forest land. At the end of December, 1968, there were 1,551 tree farms totaling 8,100,493 acres’ under WWPA certification. The acreage by states follows: Arizona, 70,849; California, 2,282,771; Colorado, 82,625; Idaho, 1,112, 151; Montana, 1 ,043, 282; Nevada 15,744; New Mexico, 328.839: Oregon, 2,049,255; South Dakota, 41,759; Utah, 9,803; Washington, 1,020,840; and Wyoming 42,575, WWPA is a lumber trade association serving manufacturers in the 12 Western states with grading, technical, forestry, promotion, traffic’ and other services, Its members produce 40 per cent of the nation's softwood lumber. Check Social Security account periodically If you have a bank account, you probably check from time to time to make certain that you have proper credit for all your deposits, In spite of the most careful safeguards a bank can make a mistake. If you call their attention to an error, they will correct it. "Your Social Security Account can be even more important," said Bert Paulsen, branch manager of the Marysville social security office today. "The amount of benefits payable to you or to your dependents is determined. by the earnings posted to your record," Most employers report wages, paid to their workers, at the end of each calendar quarter. Farm’ employers report the wages paid to their employees ‘once a year. These reports show the name of the worker, his social security accountnumber, and the amount of wages paid nea the re-pert period. In spite of the most modern accounting methods, errors can and do happen, If the name and number do not agree, the earnings .can not be posted to the account, If the error is not corrected, the worker will not have credit for the wages paid. It is easy for any worker, or self-employed person, to check up on his record to see that he has full credit for the earnings during his working life, A post card from "Request for Statement of Earnings", can be obtained from any social Security office of post office, When this card is completed and mailed to the record keeping office in Baltimore, Maryland, a complete record of the account will be sent to the worker. It will advise him of the total since 1937 and the past few years will be shown by year. If any earnings are missing from the record, the worker should contact his Hearest social security office," Paulsen stated. "We will investigate the ie and take steps to correct Paulsen stressed that this chéck: of the record should be done at least every two or three years, It is difficult to correct a mistake after three years have passed. In some cases, the law may not permit a change in the record after three years have elapsed. "If a person waits too long before reporting an error, it may be impossible to obtain proof that the wages were paid to the worker," Paulsen pointed out. "Employers do lose or ‘ misplace records, and they are sometimes destroyed after afew years have passed, Since these records are the basic evidence of wages paid, the worker should report an error in his account while employer records should still be available," , DFG reports on air fish plant The Department of Fish. and Game reported today that. 4,100,600 trout were planted in back country waters by the DFG's aircraft during 1968, The DFG's twin Beechcraft made 93 planting flights during the year, totalling 146 hours of flying time, A total of 871 lakes were planted, mostly with fingerlings, Plantings included 1,288,400 kokanee salmon fry, 1,656,607 rainbow and kamloops: trout, 497,942 eastern brook trout, 567,000 golden trout, 25,150 browns, 12,000 eagle lake trout and 53,500 cutthroat, Three out of every ten jobs in private empleyment are related to agriculture. WINNER, AAA TRAFFIC SAFETY POSTER CONTEST

Ce eT Balad: cl ah al ast wo * Mp P * * is t * ve yy a 4abgtase it “7 Biles a) The Revede County Nugget gre D Sh BAt A al: ¢ <reks Wednesday, January 15, 1969 NID adopts remap . The Citizens League for Effective Action Now (CLEAN) recommendation for reapportionment of Nevada Irrigation District was approved Thursday by a 3-1 vote of NID directors with Ross McBurney dissenting and Bruce McDonald abstaining. The attempt to comply with the "one man, one vote" principle was effected by transferring Alta Hill, Oaks and Empire 1 precincts from Division 1 to Division 5 and Empire 2 precinct from Division 1 to Divisfon 2, a shift of about 1,500 voters. R. Peter Ingram, Nevada county chairman of CLEAN, said the committee's plan had as its basic goal the changing of the least number “of boundaries. of the district to satisfy the government code and the Nevada county grand jury committee. The proposal was done with the realization that further redistricting will be required following the 1970 U. S. census. McDonald, who headed the NID committee on reapportionment, had submitted a somewhat different plan some months ago. This was the one McBurney favored Thursday. McBurney and Ingram sparred verbally at times during the discussion, but finally the vote favored the CLEAN recommendation, one endorsed by Dist. Atty. Haroid Berliner and the grand jury committee. Roy McDowell of Bear River Pines, long active in NID affairs, also supported the McDonald committee, (McDonald and Director Vernon Vineyard) recommendation for redistricting. He argued that "'the people will be more satisfied with the McDonald proposal than with CLEAN's," ; The realignment cut Division 1 (McBurney's) from 41,7 to 25.8 per cent of the district's 10,580 voters, boosted Division 2 (McDonald's) from 20,8 to 25.3 per ‘cent, left Division 3 (Ferreira's) at 21 per cent, also left Division 4 (Vernon Vineyard's) at 4.4 per cent. and hiked Division 5 (Mel Brown's) from 12 to 23.5 per cent, Divisions 3 and 4 are in Placer, while 1, 2 and 5 are in Nevada county. The district revamping in the main changed lines only in the populated areas around Grass Valley and did not affect NID divisions in Placer county, Before the vote was cast in favor of CLEAN's plan. on recommendation of ‘McDonald, he pointed out that at a previous SIMPIICITY wene . The New BERGEMANN & SON Funeral Chapel ready to serve yeu day or night call 265-2421 Bost Ave. off Lower Grass Valley Rd, . Nevada City: ~~ meeting he had made the same recommendation. However, many people criticized him later for agreeing that Vineyard's Division 4 with its mere 4.4 per cent of registered boters should remain the same, But, he said, he had gone on record for the ‘CLEAN proposal and he would have to support it. McDonald said the CLEAN plan would cause trouble and NID might as well remain unchanged. Ingram said the proposal "is the least you can do, and qualify" according to law. McBurney charged that every board member favored McDonald's. plan and he couldn't understand the switch to CLEAN's. He said Vineyard had. recommended a vote for the McDonald plan some time ago and "now he wants to follow CLEAN's" proposal, ; McBurney feels "people also are willing to go along with McDonald's first proposal and not with his recommendation today." He also charged that the directors’ obligation is to do what they think is right rather than what a citizens' committee and the district attorney want. (Dist. Atty. Harold Berliner had declared McDonald's proposal unacceptable because, Ingram said, the land. area changes suggested were out of proportion.) Failure to change the makeup of the two divisions in Placer county caused a rumpus, McDonald, referring to himself as "the two-pronged hypocrite”, said instead of reapportioning the entire district "we reapportion one county and not the other." He said the revamping should be done on a district, not a county, basis. McDowell, an active booster for NID, -said that the Colfax Highway Association does not like the CLEAN plan. He said he wanted all of the directors to represent the entire district and an end to the differences existing between domestic and » raw water users. He said changing Division 4 would allow Vineyard to represent domestic and raw water users, not just the latter as is the case now. Vineyard said that "it's going to be a guess no matter whatyou do," And McBurney was amazed "that you people can't vote your conscience." Brown replied that he wasn't voting against his conscience. When McBurney accused chairman Alex Ferreira of wanting "to keep two directors in Placer county," Ferreira denied the charge. He said he hoped that sometime the district line would go through the coun-. ty line and McBurney asked why he didn't take steps right then to bring this about. When Vineyard said, "Actually, I can't see an advantage in doing anything now," Ingram said, "Only to keep faith with the public." There seemed to be unanimous agreement on one aspect of the reapportionment: Unlike many board decisions, this one can be corrected if proved wrong. High accident rate in supermarket jobs SAN FRANCISCO To the shopper the neighborhood supermarket appears as a Safe, well-lighted, well-ventilated place to work, Yet. the job injury rate in retail food stores is higher than the average rate for the State's manufacturing plants, and has been rising, Albert C. Beeson, Director of Industrial Relations, reported today. Each year some 4,700 California supermarket employees are injured seriously enough at work to lose time from their job, Although working in a supermarket is not generally thought of as risking one's life, in the past decade 37 supermarket workers met their death on the job, Nearly a third of those who died were the victims of assailants, usually in robCOMPLETE SUPPLY OF BUILDING MATERIAL >

PABCO PAINT LUMBER CO. Town Talk G,V. _ 265-4521 Downieville Yard” 289-3351 “YUBA RIVER . bery attempts. Beeson noted that one-third of all lost-time supermarket injuries occur in the meat de, partment and are mostly caused by contact with sharp or jagged objects, As. one would expect, knives are the most frequent source of injury to butchers. Annually, more than 600 retail meat cut-ters in the State’s supermarkets suffer lost-time injuries in handling knives or in using electric saws, While knives cause more injuries, band saws generally inflict severer wounds, including a substantial number of finger amputations. Outside the meat department, supermarket. employees in all classifications from box boy to store manager are most often injured in lifting, stacking, or boxing merchandise. One third of all lost-time injuries involving such Piper vache are back strains. In industry generally, back strains account for about one-fifth of the lost-time injuries. Additional information on work-connected injuries in California's supermarkets is summarized in the most recent quarterly report, Work Injuries in California, released this week by the Division of Labor Statistics and Research, "There are few foods that approach milk in. its. overall nutritional value," says Dr. Fredrick Stare, Department of Nutrition, Harvard University. Western tree farms assuring — ~~ “perpetual forest production PORTLAND, Ore.,-More than 8 million acres of private, taxpaying lands in the 12 western states are now producing perpetual forest crops ontreefarms certified by the Western Wood Products Association. This is roughly 2.5 times the total land area of Connecticut. WWPA encourages cultivation of trees as a crop under its certified tree farm program. An additional 8 million acres are similarly certified by other forest-oriented agencies in the West. To enter the program, alandowner_must make a commit‘ment to manage his private forest according to modern scientific practices. WWPA then issues a certificate to the landowner and provides management counsel through its staff of professional foresters, Both large and small. tree farmers vartivipate in the program, and new certification during the year was given for as few as 20 acres of managed forest land. At the end of December, 1968, there were 1,551 tree farms totaling 8,100,493 acres’ under WWPA certification. The acreage by states follows: Arizona, 70,849; California, 2,282,771; Colorado, 82,625; Idaho, 1,112, 151; Montana, 1 ,043, 282; Nevada 15,744; New Mexico, 328.839: Oregon, 2,049,255; South Dakota, 41,759; Utah, 9,803; Washington, 1,020,840; and Wyoming 42,575, WWPA is a lumber trade association serving manufacturers in the 12 Western states with grading, technical, forestry, promotion, traffic’ and other services, Its members produce 40 per cent of the nation's softwood lumber. Check Social Security account periodically If you have a bank account, you probably check from time to time to make certain that you have proper credit for all your deposits, In spite of the most careful safeguards a bank can make a mistake. If you call their attention to an error, they will correct it. "Your Social Security Account can be even more important," said Bert Paulsen, branch manager of the Marysville social security office today. "The amount of benefits payable to you or to your dependents is determined. by the earnings posted to your record," Most employers report wages, paid to their workers, at the end of each calendar quarter. Farm’ employers report the wages paid to their employees ‘once a year. These reports show the name of the worker, his social security accountnumber, and the amount of wages paid nea the re-pert period. In spite of the most modern accounting methods, errors can and do happen, If the name and number do not agree, the earnings .can not be posted to the account, If the error is not corrected, the worker will not have credit for the wages paid. It is easy for any worker, or self-employed person, to check up on his record to see that he has full credit for the earnings during his working life, A post card from "Request for Statement of Earnings", can be obtained from any social Security office of post office, When this card is completed and mailed to the record keeping office in Baltimore, Maryland, a complete record of the account will be sent to the worker. It will advise him of the total since 1937 and the past few years will be shown by year. If any earnings are missing from the record, the worker should contact his Hearest social security office," Paulsen stated. "We will investigate the ie and take steps to correct Paulsen stressed that this chéck: of the record should be done at least every two or three years, It is difficult to correct a mistake after three years have passed. In some cases, the law may not permit a change in the record after three years have elapsed. "If a person waits too long before reporting an error, it may be impossible to obtain proof that the wages were paid to the worker," Paulsen pointed out. "Employers do lose or ‘ misplace records, and they are sometimes destroyed after afew years have passed, Since these records are the basic evidence of wages paid, the worker should report an error in his account while employer records should still be available," , DFG reports on air fish plant The Department of Fish. and Game reported today that. 4,100,600 trout were planted in back country waters by the DFG's aircraft during 1968, The DFG's twin Beechcraft made 93 planting flights during the year, totalling 146 hours of flying time, A total of 871 lakes were planted, mostly with fingerlings, Plantings included 1,288,400 kokanee salmon fry, 1,656,607 rainbow and kamloops: trout, 497,942 eastern brook trout, 567,000 golden trout, 25,150 browns, 12,000 eagle lake trout and 53,500 cutthroat, Three out of every ten jobs in private empleyment are related to agriculture. WINNER, AAA TRAFFIC SAFETY POSTER CONTEST