January 16, 1974 (8 pages)

. Nikolai Lenine, Russia’s bolshevik leader of world renown, died suddenly at his villa in the village‘of Gorki, about 20 miles Melvin H. Bemis, captor of General Edward Johnston of the Confederate Army at the battle of Fredericksburg, died in ‘Sacramento at the age of 82. Bemis commanded the noted 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers during the entire Civil War. ‘The State Mining Bureau estimated the total mineral “production for California in 1923 to have been $270,472,000. Gold production was estimated at $13,350,000; silver, $2,771,000 and copper, $3,942,000, out of the more than 50 mineral substances tallied in the State. A. P. Giannini, for 20 years president of the Bank of Italy (now Bank of America), announced his plans to retire in October of 1924, “to make room at the top for others.’ ‘Edward C. Uren had returned from a business trip to Butte, Montana, and was telling friends about the rigors of 30-degree below zero weather which he had encountered in and around Butte. What was declared to be the most complete equipment for the manufacture of illicit liquor ever confiscated in Sierra County, was taken from an old and apparently deserted cabin near Pike City. The haul included a 30-gallon still, 3,000 pounds of sugar, a vat of mash, fruits in quantity, corn and rye in substantial amounts. After 40 years of constant use, the big scales at the entrance to Empire Market on Main Street, Grass Valley, were removed to a rear location to make room for modernization of the building. The scales had been installed by one Theodore Wilhelm, who opened the market about 1884. During those four decades, an average of 12 head of beef cattle were weighed on the scales every week. A total of better than 24,900 head in that period of time. An old timer told a local reporter that ‘‘there’s not a man alive in Grass Valley now (1924) who has money enough to buy that much beef.” Thomas W. Noell, native and long-time resident of Grass Valley, died of tuberculosis at his home in Oakland. He was about 50 years of age at time of death. Noell operated grocery store in Hill’s Flat before removing to Oroville in about 1912. Several years later, he moved to Oakland to a permanent residence and opened another grocery; which was being operated by his mother at thetime of his death. Movie of the week in Nevada City was ‘“The Spider and The Rose’’ a story of. Mission life in California during the period of Mexican rule under Emperor Maximillan I. Cast included such favorites as Alice Lake, Noah Beery and Louise Fazenda. The double bill featured Harold Lloyd in a hilarious comedy, ‘‘AmongThose Present.”’ . Raymond Shine completes course He received a comprehensive introduction to the ordinance mission of developing, supplying completed a nine week orand maintaining the Army’s j i ic course at Combat vehicles, as_ well as pcs 9 igen g tn ele extensive training in leadership First Lieutenant Raymond E. Shine, 25, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earll Shine of Grass Valley Center and School at the 2nd other phases of troop Aberdeen Proving Ground in. Command duty. _ Maryland. Y BUSINESS BILLBOARD Sit back and let eieg len Gilbert INSU sified ads do the sell. farMeRsS NCE GROUP for you. 111 W. Main P.O Box 1034 ing, renting or buying . ‘HerrREN mn Oben 0 Grass Valley. Ca. 265-6166 irene CLASSIFIED ADS LITTLE OLD . BAKE SHOP . -! 429 E. Ridge Rd., Grass Valle PRaie ¢ < ee : 6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed.,'Jan. 16,1974 . THIS MERMAID is far from the sea but seems to be swimming never the less. Rose Land of South Auburn Street made the mermaid in a few hours, more interesting than the normal carrot-nosed snowman. Californian on policy panel . SACRAMENTO (Capitol) — Steep stairways, high curbs, heavy revolving doors, pay phone booths and drinking fountains do not present a problem for most of us. They are built to accommodate the height and weight of the average human being, and assume that each individual has the normal physical ability to deal with them. But what if you’re handicapped? What if your view of the world is from a wheelchair that cannot be safely operated up or down stairs, over curbs, or cannot fit through narrow doorways, or is not high enough for eaching pay phones and drinking _ fountains? And what about public toilet facilities that do not admit wheelchairs or have no accommodations. for the handicapped? . A meeting is scheduled in Washington D.C. next week to Youth ordered to mental hygiene Mark James Ranker, 21, of Grass Valley has been sent: to the State Department of Mental Hygiene. Ranker appeared in superior court Friday for a hearing and was found to be “a mentally disordered sex offender.” Judge Harold F. Wolters ordered Ranker sent to the state hospital at Atascadero. Ranker and a 14-year-old boy were arrested by Grass Valley police in mid-October charged with burglarizing a Grass Valley home. discuss solutions to problems presented to the handicapped by architectural barriers. Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, the National Easter Seal Society and the President’s Committee on Employment for the Handicapped, the 45-member panel has been called upon ~te. establish a national policy for elimination of such barriers. “This conference will really tackle better methods of implementing and enforcing the new national policy on eliminating architectural barriers for the handicapped,” said Richard C. Wooten of the State Department of Rehabilitation, only Californian tabbed to participate. California is considered a leader in this area. ~ Brad Ellsworth county bar association leader Bradford E. Ellsworth was elected as the 1974 president of the Nevada County Bar Association. Ellsworth and other new officers were elected at a recent business session held at the National Hotel.’ District Attorney Ronald MacMillen is the outgoing president. Others elected are Edmund J. Dunning, vice president and Richard Ellers, secretarytreasurer . Ellsworth is a native of Nevada county and practices aw with the firm of Hunt and lisworth. Dunning came to this area from San Francisco in 1968 where he served as assistant district attorney andfor17 years as counsel for the Central Valley Bank. Ellers practices in Nevada City where his wife, ‘Marcie, has many family ties. The primary purpose of the bar association is to provide a forum whereby attorneys practicing in Nevada county may exchange ideas and information so that they might better serve and provide for the legal needs of the residents of the county. The major event of the year for the Nevada County Bar Association is the Law Day Program. Richard J. Schneider is chairman of the program which is scheduled for the first week in May. This year the Nevada County Bar Association plans an evening dinner program, featuring a speaker from the State Supreme Court. Future details will be made available to all individuals and agencies concerned with law or law enforcement in the near future. _ The Legal Aid Screening Committee. will be headed by Charles White of Nevada City and Patricia E. Kepler of Grass Valley. This committee is charged with the responsibility of interviewing those deserving legal aid and referring those qualifying to members of the bar for assistance.

. Nikolai Lenine, Russia’s bolshevik leader of world renown, died suddenly at his villa in the village‘of Gorki, about 20 miles Melvin H. Bemis, captor of General Edward Johnston of the Confederate Army at the battle of Fredericksburg, died in ‘Sacramento at the age of 82. Bemis commanded the noted 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers during the entire Civil War. ‘The State Mining Bureau estimated the total mineral “production for California in 1923 to have been $270,472,000. Gold production was estimated at $13,350,000; silver, $2,771,000 and copper, $3,942,000, out of the more than 50 mineral substances tallied in the State. A. P. Giannini, for 20 years president of the Bank of Italy (now Bank of America), announced his plans to retire in October of 1924, “to make room at the top for others.’ ‘Edward C. Uren had returned from a business trip to Butte, Montana, and was telling friends about the rigors of 30-degree below zero weather which he had encountered in and around Butte. What was declared to be the most complete equipment for the manufacture of illicit liquor ever confiscated in Sierra County, was taken from an old and apparently deserted cabin near Pike City. The haul included a 30-gallon still, 3,000 pounds of sugar, a vat of mash, fruits in quantity, corn and rye in substantial amounts. After 40 years of constant use, the big scales at the entrance to Empire Market on Main Street, Grass Valley, were removed to a rear location to make room for modernization of the building. The scales had been installed by one Theodore Wilhelm, who opened the market about 1884. During those four decades, an average of 12 head of beef cattle were weighed on the scales every week. A total of better than 24,900 head in that period of time. An old timer told a local reporter that ‘‘there’s not a man alive in Grass Valley now (1924) who has money enough to buy that much beef.” Thomas W. Noell, native and long-time resident of Grass Valley, died of tuberculosis at his home in Oakland. He was about 50 years of age at time of death. Noell operated grocery store in Hill’s Flat before removing to Oroville in about 1912. Several years later, he moved to Oakland to a permanent residence and opened another grocery; which was being operated by his mother at thetime of his death. Movie of the week in Nevada City was ‘“The Spider and The Rose’’ a story of. Mission life in California during the period of Mexican rule under Emperor Maximillan I. Cast included such favorites as Alice Lake, Noah Beery and Louise Fazenda. The double bill featured Harold Lloyd in a hilarious comedy, ‘‘AmongThose Present.”’ . Raymond Shine completes course He received a comprehensive introduction to the ordinance mission of developing, supplying completed a nine week orand maintaining the Army’s j i ic course at Combat vehicles, as_ well as pcs 9 igen g tn ele extensive training in leadership First Lieutenant Raymond E. Shine, 25, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Earll Shine of Grass Valley Center and School at the 2nd other phases of troop Aberdeen Proving Ground in. Command duty. _ Maryland. Y BUSINESS BILLBOARD Sit back and let eieg len Gilbert INSU sified ads do the sell. farMeRsS NCE GROUP for you. 111 W. Main P.O Box 1034 ing, renting or buying . ‘HerrREN mn Oben 0 Grass Valley. Ca. 265-6166 irene CLASSIFIED ADS LITTLE OLD . BAKE SHOP . -! 429 E. Ridge Rd., Grass Valle PRaie ¢ < ee : 6 The Nevada County Nugget Wed.,'Jan. 16,1974 . THIS MERMAID is far from the sea but seems to be swimming never the less. Rose Land of South Auburn Street made the mermaid in a few hours, more interesting than the normal carrot-nosed snowman. Californian on policy panel . SACRAMENTO (Capitol) — Steep stairways, high curbs, heavy revolving doors, pay phone booths and drinking fountains do not present a problem for most of us. They are built to accommodate the height and weight of the average human being, and assume that each individual has the normal physical ability to deal with them. But what if you’re handicapped? What if your view of the world is from a wheelchair that cannot be safely operated up or down stairs, over curbs, or cannot fit through narrow doorways, or is not high enough for eaching pay phones and drinking _ fountains? And what about public toilet facilities that do not admit wheelchairs or have no accommodations. for the handicapped? . A meeting is scheduled in Washington D.C. next week to Youth ordered to

mental hygiene Mark James Ranker, 21, of Grass Valley has been sent: to the State Department of Mental Hygiene. Ranker appeared in superior court Friday for a hearing and was found to be “a mentally disordered sex offender.” Judge Harold F. Wolters ordered Ranker sent to the state hospital at Atascadero. Ranker and a 14-year-old boy were arrested by Grass Valley police in mid-October charged with burglarizing a Grass Valley home. discuss solutions to problems presented to the handicapped by architectural barriers. Sponsored by the American Institute of Architects, the National Easter Seal Society and the President’s Committee on Employment for the Handicapped, the 45-member panel has been called upon ~te. establish a national policy for elimination of such barriers. “This conference will really tackle better methods of implementing and enforcing the new national policy on eliminating architectural barriers for the handicapped,” said Richard C. Wooten of the State Department of Rehabilitation, only Californian tabbed to participate. California is considered a leader in this area. ~ Brad Ellsworth county bar association leader Bradford E. Ellsworth was elected as the 1974 president of the Nevada County Bar Association. Ellsworth and other new officers were elected at a recent business session held at the National Hotel.’ District Attorney Ronald MacMillen is the outgoing president. Others elected are Edmund J. Dunning, vice president and Richard Ellers, secretarytreasurer . Ellsworth is a native of Nevada county and practices aw with the firm of Hunt and lisworth. Dunning came to this area from San Francisco in 1968 where he served as assistant district attorney andfor17 years as counsel for the Central Valley Bank. Ellers practices in Nevada City where his wife, ‘Marcie, has many family ties. The primary purpose of the bar association is to provide a forum whereby attorneys practicing in Nevada county may exchange ideas and information so that they might better serve and provide for the legal needs of the residents of the county. The major event of the year for the Nevada County Bar Association is the Law Day Program. Richard J. Schneider is chairman of the program which is scheduled for the first week in May. This year the Nevada County Bar Association plans an evening dinner program, featuring a speaker from the State Supreme Court. Future details will be made available to all individuals and agencies concerned with law or law enforcement in the near future. _ The Legal Aid Screening Committee. will be headed by Charles White of Nevada City and Patricia E. Kepler of Grass Valley. This committee is charged with the responsibility of interviewing those deserving legal aid and referring those qualifying to members of the bar for assistance.