January 17, 1962 (12 pages)

TRUCKEE ---Stevens Pass, Judah Pass, Greenwood Pass, New Donner Pass Highway -~-these are some of the names which have been suggested for the new east-west freeway which will be open for traffic within a year or more. The new pass will cross the Sierra Crest about two miles north of the present Donner Summit. _When complete, the new highway will be one of the great mountain road engineering achievements of the world, a complete recasting of the most famous and historic continental link between east and west. Cecil Edmunds, chairman of a special Truckee Chamber of Commerce committee formed to look into the naming of the highway, says his group wants to make sure that the name that is finally adopted does credit to the new toad, tothe pioneers who blazed the trail some 115 years ago, and to Nevada County, "We have written to every historical group we could © think of, "Edmunds said, "We have a lot of suggestions, but we could use a lot more," According to Edmunds, the state division of highways has given an official go-ahead to his efforts to find a name for the pass. A letter written to Edmunds by dis—— trict engineer Alan S, Hart states: "We would be pleased to eventually sign this summit with a name that is agreed upon by as many official or non-official organizations as possible, We would be glad to hear from you in this regard,” "I know most history buffs would give their eye teeth tobe able to name an important new pass like this one, Now they have their opportunity, " Edmunds said, The name that has cropped up most often to date, according to Edmunds, is Stevens Pass, Elisha Stevens was the leader of an immigrant party which successfully pioneered the Donner Pass route in 1844, two years before the more famous Donner Party met a less happy fate in the snow. The name Stevens Pass has been suggested by, among others, V. Aubrey Neasham, President of Western Heritage, Inc, of Sacramentoand former historian of the division of beaches and parks, “Mrs, ClaraS, Beatty, director of the Nevada Historical Society of Reno has suggested two names: Greenwood Pass, and Judah Pass, Caleb Greenwood, pre-gold era scout and trapper, served as scout of the Stevens party, Theodore Judah, chief engineer of the Central Pacific NEVADA COUNTY NU T FREEWAY NEEDS NA Railroad, surveyed much of the northern Sierra preliminary to the building in the ‘60s of the transcontinental railroad, The Nevada County Historical Society has offered "New Donner Pass Highway, " but Edmunds was not enthusiastic about this suggestion, He said: "The old Donner Pass will still be there, and it will be used for skiers and summer recreation, We need a more distinctive name that will distinguish one pass from the other, Also, the new highway will probably open up a new ski area which should have a name of its own to avoid confusion.” Edmunds said that all suggestions received by his group would be forwarded to the state division of highways, for final decision. WHAT IS YOUR SUGGESTION OF A NAME FOR THE NEW TRANS-SIERRA FREEWAY . NORTH OF THE PRESENT DONNER PASS? All.suggestions mailed to the Nugget will be forwardedto Cecil Edmunds' committee and to the State Division of Highways. Suggested Name: Signed (Optional) Address MAIL TO NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, NEVADA CITY “y Cié 7 i“ 4 Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweétland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington. , Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Vol. 377 No. 3 10 Cents A Copy "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday, January 17, 1962 VOTE JR. COLLEGE AN AWARD NIGHT..Cross Country, Jayvee and Varsity Football awards were presented to outstanding Nevada Union High School athletes last Monday night. Varsity back Cope Hutchins (L) received the Most Valuable Player award while Varsity Quarterback Richard Smith (R) was given the Jim Brown Memorial Award. Others in the picture (second form left) Head Football Coach Jim Guinn and Stan. Halls. donated the trophies which were presented the athletes. Halls NID Directors To Report Friday HIGGINS CORNER ---The directors ‘of the Nevada Irrigation District will meet Friday with the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Yuba-Bear River Project to opment. brief the group on the progress of the district's proposed hydro-electric develDistrict officials and staff will meet with the citizens eA paces Gerth Sk APPOINTED.Craig Moore was appointed Monday tothe position of sales and finance manager for Wilmar Homes Grass Valley office. Moore, youngest of Wilmar's managers, is being trained by Ed Murray of the main Wilmar office. group for anoon luncheon at Lindley'sRed Wagon restaurant. The Citizens Advisory Committee is a lay group composed of appointees from each of the NID's five divisions in Nevada and Placer Counties, The group was formed several months ago for liaison between the Board of Directors and the public on the proposed project. The NID staff has scheduled a meeting today with officials of Pacific Gas& Electric Co, in San Francisco to discuss PG&E's recent offer to purchase the power to be generated by water from the Yuba-Bear project. The directors and staff will report on these talks and outline other current developments of the project at the Friday meeting. Puzzle NEVADA CIT Y---Nevada County Clerk John Trauner is puzzled. The voice on the telephone asked, "Can you tell me where I vote?” "Did you receive a sample ballot?" Trauner asked to verify that the woman was a registered voter. “Ye.” "Where do you live?" "Well, if you don't want totell mewhereto vote, all right." And she hung up. Two Districts Get NID Approval GRASS VALLEY ----The N evada Irrigation District gave the go ahead signal Friday for two improvement districts off Highway 49 south of Grass Valley. The board of directors held the final public hearing on formation of Improvement District No, 4 located west of Highway 49 about two miles south of Grass Valley. A total of 14 parcels of land owned by 24 parties are involved, Cost of the water distribution system is estimated at $45, 980, No one appeared to oppose formation of the district and the directors passed final order for the formation of the district, The next step will be the drawing of the final design and calling for construction bids on the water system, The directors also called for preparation of specifications and estimate of assessments for Improvement District No, 5 in the Cherry Creek Acresarea. The proposed district ise ast of Highway 49 about 12 miles south of Grass Valley, The district takes in more than 88 acres of landinvolving 67 owners, 3 Tol ‘Margin In Vote NEVADA CITY---Voters of the Nevada Union High School District yesterday voted to annex the district boundaries into the Sierra College District, 1343 to "434, Ina light turnout of voters, the measure had a 238 vote edge over the two-thirds vote necessary to annex and acceptthe new area's share of the bonded indebtedness of the junior college district. Sierra College president Harold Weaver was in Nevada City last night to check theelection returns and expressed pleasure that the vo. ters moved to join the district. The measure saw a better i then three to one margin . pileupwiththe returns from . Grass Valley. Because of the . bonded indebtedness assumption, a two to one margin was necessary. In spite of the wide margin of victory forthe annexation, 238 additional "no" votes would have defeated the measure. The vote total showed a turnout of 18,5 per cent of the 9580 registered voters in the district. County Clerk John Trauner had estimated a 20 per cent turnout. The vote by elementary school districts: District Yes No Blue Tent 7 5 Cherokee 14 1 Chicago Park 37 16 Clear Creek 17 13 Grass Valley 327 718 (inside city) GrassValley 284 65 (outside city) Kentucky Flat 37 2 NevadaCity 216 78 (inside city) NevadaCity 179 713 (outside city) NorthSanJuan 17 12 PleasantRidge 89 13 Pleasant Valley 13 11 Ready Springs 30 42 Union Hill 66 21 Washington 9 1 Absentee a TOTAL 1343 434 Koster To Talk At Users Meeting HIGGINS CORNER ---Edwin Koster, manager of the Nevada Irrigation District, will speak at a meeting of the NID Water Users Association Monday evening at 8 p.m, inthe California State Forestry building here. Pot luck refreshments will j follow the meeting. i Welcome For USFS NEVADA CIT Y---Nevada City Chamber of Commerce officers for 1962 will be installed Saturday night at a dinner officially termed a welcometo Tahoe National Forest headquarters. Sunday afternoon between 1 and 5 p.m., the forest headquarters building on Highway 49 at the Coyote Street intersection will be open for inspection, Forest service personnel will be on handto answer questions for visitors, Tom Yost will be installed as the new chamber president at the Saturday Veterans Memorial Building dinner meeting which will feature a speech by Charles Connaughton, regional forester with the National Forest Service in San Francisco, Chamber officials expect former supervisors of the T ahoe National Forest to be in attendance, and have gearedthe evening program to short illustration rites and limited speeches by particiOpen House, REVERT Rw tie eet NhWELCOME..Nevada City officially welcomes Tahoe National Forest personnel X . to the new headquarters building Saturday, and the headquarters staffreturns the welcome by holding open house Sunday afternoon between 1 and 5 p.m. TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST hs FOREST SUPERVISOR Planners To Meet 12 Jaycees Journey To pating members. Weather GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Jan, 10 73-36 00 Tt 262.2" 27 00 12.252 .<27 02 13 38 28 220 14.42 25 00 15. 46.7204 .00 16. 50 28 .00 Rainfall this year 14,02 Rainfall last year 14,08 NEVADA CITY Max. Min, Rainfall Jan.10 68 29 00 11 662 . 26 00 12° 82 2 02 10 0T 96 25 14 39 -18 00 15 40 20 -00 1460 0 40~—Ss«<d19 00 Rainfall this year 13,82 Rainfall last year 14, 27 Southland GRASS VALLEY ---A dozen Grass Valley Jaycees will travel to Santa Monica to act as co-hosts withthe Santa Monica Jaycees at the ceremonies to name the ten outstanding young men of the nation during 1961. The Grass Valley group will travel “western” in levi's, and will show. their 180 slides of Nevada County to all who will watch, In addition they will pass out acounty booklet and an industrial park brochure. Thetripis being partially financed by contributions from local businesses, Among those who contributed w ere the Nevada County Nugget, Gold Center Club, Black Bart’s, Wilmar Homes, Members ofthe Nevada County Real Estate Board, James Grocery and Wilshire Oil Company, Monday NEVADA CITY..The county planning commission will hold a regular meeting Monday night, Jan. 22, at 7:30 p,m, in the supervisors chambers, Further discussion of the proposed subdivision. or dinanceison the agenda, Although not a public hearing, this-meeting is open to the public, as are all meetings of official county agencies. Fallout Book Now Available GRASS VALLEY -The recent government publication on “Fall Out Protection" is currently available at the Civil Defense office, 255 S, Auburn St,, Grass Valley, © free of charge,

TRUCKEE ---Stevens Pass, Judah Pass, Greenwood Pass, New Donner Pass Highway -~-these are some of the names which have been suggested for the new east-west freeway which will be open for traffic within a year or more. The new pass will cross the Sierra Crest about two miles north of the present Donner Summit. _When complete, the new highway will be one of the great mountain road engineering achievements of the world, a complete recasting of the most famous and historic continental link between east and west. Cecil Edmunds, chairman of a special Truckee Chamber of Commerce committee formed to look into the naming of the highway, says his group wants to make sure that the name that is finally adopted does credit to the new toad, tothe pioneers who blazed the trail some 115 years ago, and to Nevada County, "We have written to every historical group we could © think of, "Edmunds said, "We have a lot of suggestions, but we could use a lot more," According to Edmunds, the state division of highways has given an official go-ahead to his efforts to find a name for the pass. A letter written to Edmunds by dis—— trict engineer Alan S, Hart states: "We would be pleased to eventually sign this summit with a name that is agreed upon by as many official or non-official organizations as possible, We would be glad to hear from you in this regard,” "I know most history buffs would give their eye teeth tobe able to name an important new pass like this one, Now they have their opportunity, " Edmunds said, The name that has cropped up most often to date, according to Edmunds, is Stevens Pass, Elisha Stevens was the leader of an immigrant party which successfully pioneered the Donner Pass route in 1844, two years before the more famous Donner Party met a less happy fate in the snow. The name Stevens Pass has been suggested by, among others, V. Aubrey Neasham, President of Western Heritage, Inc, of Sacramentoand former historian of the division of beaches and parks, “Mrs, ClaraS, Beatty, director of the Nevada Historical Society of Reno has suggested two names: Greenwood Pass, and Judah Pass, Caleb Greenwood, pre-gold era scout and trapper, served as scout of the Stevens party, Theodore Judah, chief engineer of the Central Pacific NEVADA COUNTY NU T FREEWAY NEEDS NA Railroad, surveyed much of the northern Sierra preliminary to the building in the ‘60s of the transcontinental railroad, The Nevada County Historical Society has offered "New Donner Pass Highway, " but Edmunds was not enthusiastic about this suggestion, He said: "The old Donner Pass will still be there, and it will be used for skiers and summer recreation, We need a more distinctive name that will distinguish one pass from the other, Also, the new highway will probably open up a new ski area which should have a name of its own to avoid confusion.” Edmunds said that all suggestions received by his group would be forwarded to the state division of highways, for final decision. WHAT IS YOUR SUGGESTION OF A NAME FOR THE NEW TRANS-SIERRA FREEWAY . NORTH OF THE PRESENT DONNER PASS? All.suggestions mailed to the Nugget will be forwardedto Cecil Edmunds' committee and to the State Division of Highways. Suggested Name: Signed (Optional) Address MAIL TO NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, NEVADA CITY “y Cié 7 i“ 4 Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Cherokee, Mooney Flat, Sweétland, Alpha, Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North San Juan, North Bloomfield, Humbug, Relief Hill, Washington. , Blue Tent, LaBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, Walloupa, Gouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas Hill, Liberty Hill, Sailor Flat, Lake City, Selby Flat, Grizzly Hill, Gold Flat, Soggsville, Gold Bar, Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, Columbia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, Willow Valley, Newtown, Indian Flat, Bridgeport, Birchville, Moore's Flat, Orleans Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Vol. 377 No. 3 10 Cents A Copy "THE PAPER WITH THE PICTURES" Published Weekly Nevada City, Wednesday, January 17, 1962 VOTE JR. COLLEGE AN AWARD NIGHT...Cross Country, Jayvee and Varsity Football awards were presented to outstanding Nevada Union High School athletes last Monday night. Varsity back Cope Hutchins (L) received the Most Valuable Player award while Varsity Quarterback Richard Smith (R) was given the Jim Brown Memorial Award. Others in the picture (second form left) Head Football Coach Jim Guinn and Stan. Halls. donated the trophies which were presented the athletes. Halls NID Directors To Report Friday HIGGINS CORNER ---The directors ‘of the Nevada Irrigation District will meet Friday with the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Yuba-Bear River Project to opment. brief the group on the progress of the district's proposed hydro-electric develDistrict officials and staff will meet with the citizens eA paces Gerth Sk APPOINTED..Craig Moore was appointed Monday tothe position of sales and finance manager for Wilmar Homes Grass Valley office. Moore, youngest of Wilmar's managers, is being trained by Ed Murray of the main Wilmar office. group for anoon luncheon at Lindley'sRed Wagon restaurant. The Citizens Advisory Committee is a lay group composed of appointees from each of the NID's five divisions in Nevada and Placer Counties, The group was formed several months ago for liaison between the Board of Directors and the public on the proposed project. The NID staff has scheduled a meeting today with officials of Pacific Gas& Electric Co, in San Francisco to discuss PG&E's recent offer to purchase the power to be generated by water from the Yuba-Bear project. The directors and staff will report on these talks and outline other current developments of the project at the Friday meeting. Puzzle NEVADA CIT Y---Nevada County Clerk John Trauner is puzzled. The voice on the telephone asked, "Can you tell me where I vote?” "Did you receive a sample ballot?" Trauner asked to verify that the woman was a registered voter. “Ye.” "Where do you live?" "Well, if you don't want totell mewhereto vote, all right.." And she hung up. Two Districts Get NID Approval GRASS VALLEY ----The N evada Irrigation District gave the go ahead signal Friday for two improvement districts off Highway 49 south of Grass Valley. The board of directors held the final public hearing on formation of Improvement District No, 4 located west of Highway 49 about two miles south of Grass Valley. A total of 14 parcels of land owned by 24 parties are involved, Cost of the water distribution system is estimated at $45, 980, No one appeared to oppose formation of the district and the directors passed final order for the formation of the district, The next step will be the drawing of the final design and calling for construction bids on the water system, The directors also called for preparation of specifications and estimate of assessments for Improvement District No, 5 in the Cherry Creek Acresarea. The proposed district ise ast of Highway 49 about 12 miles south of Grass Valley, The district takes in more than 88 acres of landinvolving 67 owners, 3 Tol ‘Margin In Vote NEVADA CITY---Voters of the Nevada Union High School District yesterday voted to annex the district boundaries into the Sierra College District, 1343 to "434, Ina light turnout of voters, the measure had a 238 vote edge over the two-thirds vote necessary to annex and acceptthe new area's share of

the bonded indebtedness of the junior college district. Sierra College president Harold Weaver was in Nevada City last night to check theelection returns and expressed pleasure that the vo. ters moved to join the district. The measure saw a better i then three to one margin . pileupwiththe returns from . Grass Valley. Because of the . bonded indebtedness assumption, a two to one margin was necessary. In spite of the wide margin of victory forthe annexation, 238 additional "no" votes would have defeated the measure. The vote total showed a turnout of 18,5 per cent of the 9580 registered voters in the district. County Clerk John Trauner had estimated a 20 per cent turnout. The vote by elementary school districts: District Yes No Blue Tent 7 5 Cherokee 14 1 Chicago Park 37 16 Clear Creek 17 13 Grass Valley 327 718 (inside city) GrassValley 284 65 (outside city) Kentucky Flat 37 2 NevadaCity 216 78 (inside city) NevadaCity 179 713 (outside city) NorthSanJuan 17 12 PleasantRidge 89 13 Pleasant Valley 13 11 Ready Springs 30 42 Union Hill 66 21 Washington 9 1 Absentee a TOTAL 1343 434 Koster To Talk At Users Meeting HIGGINS CORNER ---Edwin Koster, manager of the Nevada Irrigation District, will speak at a meeting of the NID Water Users Association Monday evening at 8 p.m, inthe California State Forestry building here. Pot luck refreshments will j follow the meeting. i Welcome For USFS NEVADA CIT Y---Nevada City Chamber of Commerce officers for 1962 will be installed Saturday night at a dinner officially termed a welcometo Tahoe National Forest headquarters. Sunday afternoon between 1 and 5 p.m., the forest headquarters building on Highway 49 at the Coyote Street intersection will be open for inspection, Forest service personnel will be on handto answer questions for visitors, Tom Yost will be installed as the new chamber president at the Saturday Veterans Memorial Building dinner meeting which will feature a speech by Charles Connaughton, regional forester with the National Forest Service in San Francisco, Chamber officials expect former supervisors of the T ahoe National Forest to be in attendance, and have gearedthe evening program to short illustration rites and limited speeches by particiOpen House, REVERT Rw tie eet NhWELCOME...Nevada City officially welcomes Tahoe National Forest personnel X . to the new headquarters building Saturday, and the headquarters staffreturns the welcome by holding open house Sunday afternoon between 1 and 5 p.m. TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST hs FOREST SUPERVISOR Planners To Meet 12 Jaycees Journey To pating members. Weather GRASS VALLEY Max. Min. Rainfall Jan, 10 73-36 00 Tt 262.2" 27 00 12.252 .<27 02 13 38 28 220 14.42 25 00 15. 46.7204 .00 16. 50 28 .00 Rainfall this year 14,02 Rainfall last year 14,08 NEVADA CITY Max. Min, Rainfall Jan.10 68 29 00 11 662 . 26 00 12° 82 2 02 10 0T 96 25 14 39 -18 00 15 40 20 -00 1460 0 40~—Ss«<d19 00 Rainfall this year 13,82 Rainfall last year 14, 27 Southland GRASS VALLEY ---A dozen Grass Valley Jaycees will travel to Santa Monica to act as co-hosts withthe Santa Monica Jaycees at the ceremonies to name the ten outstanding young men of the nation during 1961. The Grass Valley group will travel “western” in levi's, and will show. their 180 slides of Nevada County to all who will watch, In addition they will pass out acounty booklet and an industrial park brochure. Thetripis being partially financed by contributions from local businesses, Among those who contributed w ere the Nevada County Nugget, Gold Center Club, Black Bart’s, Wilmar Homes, Members ofthe Nevada County Real Estate Board, James Grocery and Wilshire Oil Company, Monday NEVADA CITY...The county planning commission will hold a regular meeting Monday night, Jan. 22, at 7:30 p,m, in the supervisors chambers, Further discussion of the proposed subdivision. or dinanceison the agenda, Although not a public hearing, this-meeting is open to the public, as are all meetings of official county agencies. Fallout Book Now Available GRASS VALLEY -The recent government publication on “Fall Out Protection" is currently available at the Civil Defense office, 255 S, Auburn St,, Grass Valley, © free of charge,