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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

January 17, 1968 (12 pages)

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: 4 The Nevada County Nugget . é ae ) . . Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1968 . Wew ss By Fay M. Dunbar 273-2934 ~ We pve a new Fire District tinue to use the same old inadequate alarm system. We've been lucky. We've had no serious fires. We've had NO alarms, Don't waste the minutes that might save your home calling PEOPLE. Call the Sheriff's Office 265-4511, They -have enough lines and you aren't likely to lose time on a "busy" and they are set up to get your fire truck and the necessary fire fighters properly alerted immediately. These are the conclusions of your Board of Directors who discussed this problem at their last meeting, They are getting a letter out to you in the near future, read it carefully. -In the letter will be a sticker with the proper telephone number-265-45ll to attache to your telephone, If you're like I am, and go blind ; as well as brainless inanemergency just tell your Operator that you're on fire and she will get the proper information out of you . and to the right place. Don't 3 waste vital minutes trying to a contact our fire truck, Call 265-4511. All fire fighting equipment in the area is directed from there. Our own two-way radio is being installed. * KOK Rough and Ready Grange will hold its regular meeting Friday, Jan, 19th, Pot luck dinner will by an officers planning meeting. The regular meeting will convene at 8:00 p.m. * * * Mrs. Effie Howe is at the Nevada General Hospital. She would enjoy hearing from old friends, Check before you go. She is not always able to receive visitors. * * * Miss Regina Marie Gregor, . ‘now nearing her second birthday, has a new baby sister. Rosemary Helen Gregor, born Dec. 30, at Auburn Faith Hospital is doing very well, The girls are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs, John Gregor of Auburn. Mrs, Gregor is the former Kathy Avery, daughter of the Wm, R, Avery's of Rough and Ready. * OK * Rough and Ready Fire Protection Dist, will be hosts to be served 'at 6:30 p.m., followed . the general meeting of the Fire Districts of Western Nevada County on Jan. 17th at the Rough . and Ready Grange Hall at 8:00 p.m. Anyone interested is welcome, ‘ * * * Accidents with horses are not unusual but Rough and Ready has. been having more than its share lately. Jay Cullum of the Rough and Ready Service Station has a badly strained wrist and hand, a result of a fall from a horse last weekend, We only have one horse left at our place and she is 36 (yes thirtysix) years old. She has certainly reached the age of reason but I think T'll take a few extra precautions just the same. * * * ? Due to So much illness around town the Board of, Directors meeting of the ‘Chamber of Commerce regularly held on the second Thursday of the month, was postponed to the 4th Thursday, January 25, and will be held at the Rough and Ready Dinner House at 7:30 p.m, Dinner is served until 7:00 and you are invited to join the group for dinner together before the meeting. Guest speakers will be Mrs. Jaye Burkhard of our Rough and Ready 4-H Club and Mark Jensen of PG&E, The annual installation dinner will be January 26 at 6:30 p.m.,.at the Grange Hall. Ok Mrs. Helene Hurlbut has been confined.to her home for the past week with a very severe attack of the flu. The "bug" had been bothering her for some time but she just wouldn't give up until he really had too much of a head start. She won't be back on the job for a few days yet, but she is reported feeling much better. * * Mrs. Arnold Turner and her family spent Christmas in So. Calif., with her eldest daughter Shirley and her family, especially the little one, granddaughter Sherry. It was a pleasant holiday for Arvetta who is so busy keeping the rest of us well groomed that she seldom gets away. They got home just before the tule fog closed in on the valley. Hea Mr. and Mrs, Roy O. Yost . Ll] ke i . borrowing is easier when you deal with local people at your homeowned, independent bank. Seis veo sei ae wee tee sk Xe ok wow ae ae oe ok ak tk ook OTHER LODE BANK MEMBER F.D.I.C. GRASS VALLEY « NEVADA CITY CALIFORNIA PLACERVILLE « SONORA ° FOLSOM TWAIN: HARTE © ALTAVILLE have purchased the Donald Long home, the old John Fippin home, and are doing extensive outside cleanup work, Mr. Yost is Mrs. Gerald Loveély's brother, They will be back fence neighbors when the Yosts retire here, At the present time Mr. Yost has a business in Sparks, Nevada. The Yosts have two sons, Carl who is going to college in Reno and Mike, who will graduate
from high school in the spring, Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lovely and Mr, and Mrs. L, E, Schnoar, who are the only residents ofthe street, have selected the name they wish proposed as their Rough and Ready street: name. They want to live on Lady Bug Lane. This is extremely appropriate since Schnoar raises lady bugs. These little creatures are great friends of the gardners and Mrs, Lovely is an avid gardner, The lady bugs like aphids consume quantities of them. Another unusual quality they have is the ability to be shipped frozen to their new homes. The Wm. Potters are the front residents on the lane and Mrs. Potter is Rough and Ready'’s newest antique dealer. What a clever address for her advertising, Lady Bug Lane, Rough and Ready, Calif. As you may know, the chamber has been trying for street names pertaining to old mining days but we haven't come up with very many. We would like to propose . our street names before the county puts up any more names like cemetery street. If youhave one you like contact your local merchant or service or call me 2713-2934, Fay M, Dunbar 273-2934, Master Charge Member No Monthly Service Charge on Regular Personal Checking Accounts Maintaining a Minimum Balance of $300 or More. Toyota Unveils — New Land Cruiser Japan's Toyota Motor Company, world's third largest producer of commercial vehicles, last. week unveiled its 1968 model line of the 4-wheel drive Toyota Land Cruisers, The 4-door Toyota Land Cruiser Station Wagon has been comDeposits Insured by { F.D.LC. up to $15,000 © Free Bank by Mail Night Depository Safe Deposit Boxes Headlights Are Costly Dlegal headlights are costing motorists time and money, and creating some problems for the California Highway Patrol. . “More than half of the cars that go through our vehicle inspection lane have faulty headlights," Lt. Allan S, Axton of the patrol's Grass Valley office said today. out of alignment tha you wonder why the driver hadn't realized it and done something about it.” Drivers of vehicles that the inspecting officers find have illegally aimed headlights are directed to have them corrected and then take evidence of that fact to the patrol. "The state law requires headlamp adjusting to be done at an officially licensed station," Lt. Axton said, ‘‘Our officers instruct the motorists about this requirement, but some of them pletely redesigned for 1968 and features a sleeker, more stylish appearance, Probably the most important single factor about the 1968 Land Cruiser line is that Toyota has increased the horsepower of the competition-proven Land: Cruiser engines to 145 from their traditional 135, : The new 1968 Land Cruiser line includes the company's popular 2-door hardtop and 2-door viny} ~ top unit in addition to the new: . 4-door station wagon. oh Although the Land Cruiser lin accounts for but a slight per_centage of Toyota sales in the . United States, it is the model line that established Toyota's reputation for quality of engineering, construction and per. formance, "Many are so far’ forget, or for some other reason don't follow instructions, This causes unhappiness when the motorist comes back to us to "clear" the matter, and we can't do it because he does not have a certificate from an official lamp adjusting station." The CHP official suggested the law, we can't issue tne sticker until corrections have been made," The local CHP passenger vehicle inspection team changes its location daily and selects vehicles to be inspected at random as they pass the inspection site. Signs are posted ahead of the location to inform motorists that they may be directed into the lane, Cancer research specialists predict that 200,000 Americans will be saved from cancer. in 1968, and that another 100,000 could be saved if they would start treatments earlier, Bank e Service pia COMPLETE SUPPLY OF BUILDING MATERIAL Pasco . = PAINT . Pber fn YUBA RIVER LUMBER CO. Town Talk G.V; 265-4521 Downieville Yard 289-3351