January 18, 1961 (8 pages)

Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Volume 36 No. 3 Published Weekly ‘Nevada City, Wednesday, January 18, s 1961Elks Set Conference On Youth The first annual Youth Problem Conference under the sponsorship of the Nevada City Elks Youth Activities Committee will be held Jan. } Elks Hall on Pine Street. Exalted Ruler H.L. Childers saidthe conference will take . the form of around table dis. cussion, with representation . from school administrators ; \law enforcement agencies and the courts. ! erator will be Stockton Police . : Chief Jack O'Keefe, a rec‘ognized authority on youth problems. 28 at noon in the Nevada City . TEENAGE PROBLEMS CONCERN GROWS . 75 Discuss Juvenile Problems At PTA An overflow crowd of 75 members ofthe Nevada Union High School PTA attended a meeting Monday night at the Nevada City Junior High to discuss law enfotcement and the juvenile. Mrs. Goldie Frisch, PTA president, conducted the meeting which featured a talk by Harold A. Berliner, district attorney on cooperation between parents and law enforcement agencies. Sheriff Wayne Brown and other civic leaders participated in the ensuing discussion, Berliner stated that teen-ager's problems with the law in Nevada County were the exception, not the rule, and no cause for sudden alarm. However, he added, there wasreason for concern, and long range planning for cooperative effort to keép local difficulties to a minimum. Questions and opinions from the audience were asked by Mr. Berlinef on a number of related subjects, and . discussion on these lasted for more than an hour. Principal speaker and mod. First topic discussed was the curfew, and Berliner told of the difficulty of enforcement, and the lack of uniformity in administering it. Although the County Ordidinance provides all young people under age 18 must be athome by 10:30, exception is regularly made for those Branagh To Speak At C of C About 80 Nevada County residents are expected to at-. . tend tne installation of 1961 Nevada City Chamber of . Commerce officers Monday nignt at the Victorian Room of the National Hotel. Featured speaker will be Henry Branagh, supervisor of the T ahoe National Forest. Branagh will speak on maximum use of national forest lands and the part the com. munity plays in tne forest . program. Tanoe National Forest neadquarters are in tne Town Talk section outside Nevada City. An honored guest at the affair will be George Sawyer, new manager of the Sacramento ValleyDistrict Chamber-of ‘Commerce. Dinner will be served at 8 p.m. following a fe llowship hour. INSTALLATION.Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce leaders, 1960 tion ceremonies held Saturday at the Gold Center Club. Left, andClete Osterholt, 1960 president and vice president. Earl Covey, seated, and vice-president, Willia envenratne San A suggestion that Loma _ Rica Airport be used as an . alternate landing strip py ; commercial airlines serving ' Sacramento when the valley cityis fogged in stirred a _ kettle of comment over the i past weekend. The suggestion was made by ‘newly elected Nevada City Chamber of Commerce . president Dean Thompson in ‘an interview witn Stan At'kinson, Sacramento radio and television newscaster. . Loma Rica airport nas a ; 4000 foot runway, 3000 feet ; Of which is paved. Airport . Manager Robert Stevenson said the field is capable of landing aircraft of the DC3 j 1 { ' * type. Thompson estimates tnat ‘about half of tne commercial traffic into Sacramento b air is in aircraft tnat could use Loma Rica as an alternate. He said a letter nas HUMBUG.New Grand Noble Humbug of the William Morris Steward chapter E. ~Clampus Vitus\is Robert Wyckoff. He was installed last week at a meeting of the order at Hazel's in Nevada City. —_= Use Of Loma Rica As Fog Alternate, Stirs Comment been sent to tne Federal Aeronautics Agency requesting information about Loma Rica's qualifications for commercial airline landings and takeoffs. The suggestion met with local approval, and has been taken under advisement by airline officialsin San Francisco, according to Sacramento sources, Initial objections to tne move were based on transportation problems involved ae == between Loma Rica and Sacramento and on the possibility that airline personnel to bestationed . i Earl Covey, installed is ‘Informal Probation’ might have at Loma Rica, The chamber president , editor of tne Nugget, said transportation could be arranged and termed tne representation by airlines at the airport a technical problem that would be no real obStacle if all otner factors were favorable. INSTRUCTOR.Tom Pagenhart, instructor of a Sacramento State College extension class ingeography for teachers , is shown at the final class meeting of the group Monday night. Classes were held at Hennessy School. Some 40 teachers and residents took part in the extension course. A gala Democratic Victory Dinner and dance will take place Friday, Jan. 27, at theGold Center Club. Sponsored by the Nevada County Dem; ocratic Central Committee ’ in conjunction with the Gold +: Cuartz Democratic Club, theevent willfeaturea ' cocktail hour at 7, followed by dinner at 8, and dancing. According to Sylvester Fuller, co-chairman with Leo Todd, a large ts is expected tocelebrate the victories of John F. Kennedy tothe Presidency, Harold T . "Bizz" Johnson to Congress Democrats Plan Dinner and Assemblyman PaulJ. Lunardi and Sen. Ronald G. Cameron to the state legislature. Fuller said that the affair was open tothe public , and he emphasized that the many local Democratic workers in the past campaign would be especially welcome, including those who worked in individual compaigns and in the Dollars-* for-Democrats and registration drives. Reservations may be had by calling Mrs. Elmer Lewis at 273-3044, or Sy Fuller at 273-4995, seated and standing are Scot Barrow . They are congratulating incoming president, mW. Esterly. A large crowd attended. . j and 1961, are shown at installa. . Covey . i . ‘ } ‘ “Heads Chamber . president of the Grass Valley. . Chamberof Commerce Saturday night, forecast; growth in population and in-, . dustry in Grass Valley during the current year. . Nearly 100 persons attended . . installation ceremonies at . the Gold Center Club, paying . ' tribute to newly elected of. ficers and out-going Presi. dent Scott Barrow. Covey called for adrive to} bring light industry to Grass: Valley, a start on the Grass . Valley-Nevada.City section . of the Highway 20 freeway “ development of the Condon . Memorial Park, a Fourth of ! July program that can attract . , thousands of visitors, an increase in chamber membership, axquisition of the Lola Montez home as a historial site, expanded chamber of: fices,.and a selection of a . "Manofthe Year" for cham; ber recognition, Featured speaker of the evening was Dr. Harold W eaver, Sierra College president, who emphasized theneed for education leading toemployment, He stressed the need for long range planning in communities such as Grass Valley. Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Jan. 11 60 28 Jan. 12 61 26 Jan. 13 55 25 Jan. 14 53 26 Jan, 15 57 26 Jan. 16 58 25 Rain to date. . 14, Rain last year. . 2. Representatives of the California Highway Patrol, the California Youth Authroity , and the FBI have been invited-to attend. District Attorney Harold ; Berliner willact as toastMaster ata lunch which will precede the conference. Guests will be introduced by Sheriff Wayne Brown, while a welcome will be given by Superior Court Judge Vernon Stoll, Nevada City Elks Club coichairmen of the Youth Acitivities Committee Jack . Brickell and Judge Verl Gray have arranged the con: ference. ficult ordinanceto enforce, When asked for a show at the. 10:30 curfew. Unanimous approval was children and observed. Sheriff Brown stated that this was the policy of his office, ; 2nd prompt notification was , given the parents of everyithing butthesmallest Given 13 Youths Thirteen youths who purchased stolen property from members of the juvenile "gang" late last year were given informal probation by Judge Vernon Stoll Friday. The boys will be required to go directly home after school, pay full retail price to the stores fromwhich merchandise was stolen for items they bought ata "bargain" fromthe burglars, and comply with’all school rules. The Nevada Union High School district imposed sanctionsnearly astough as those given by the court. None of the offenders will be allowed to participate in any student: body activities, including athletics and social activities. In another court action, Judge Stoll sentenced 16year-old Dwayne Wright to the California Youth Authority for his part in the atreturning from legitimate entertainment. Sheriff Wayne Brown commented that this was a difalthough it had its uses; that he had been against the notion when it went into effect about ten years ago, but that he now thought it helpful. Members of the PTA expressed a wide range of opinions, from belief that it should be abandoned to the feeling that it should be strictly and impartially enforced. of hands about half of those present indicated they favored full enforcement at the given to the proposition that parents should be informed by the police of every infraction committed by their, offenses. Berliner next asked the views of the parents on drinking, and for suggestions to curbit. There were many ideas as to the chief sources of youngsters’ supply of al-coholic beverages but few ideas on how it could be stopped, other than by present methods. All agreed stern punishment should be given bar owners who served minors and adults buying liquor for minors. It was generally felt that parents should take more responsibility in this area. Punishments and probation were also,discussed, All parents thought that punishment would go with probation, but carefully given in each particular case. Some though it should be "sharp and short", Some thought it tempted burglary of Sierra Truck and Motor office in; Grass Valley. should not deprive students of athletic privileges and other school offices and some thought it should. When asked why some students were deprived of such privileges, Berliner replied that he believed the school did this to show that offenders would not be left in positions of leadership and respect of the other students; and also that the offenders were asmall minority in the school, and that the nonoffenders should be able to see that being good citizens brought rewards which were forfeited by those who broke the law. General discussion followed, and Sheriff Wayne Brown siiggested that another important problem was young. people and their automobiles. Much comment followed onthis, and Brown suggested that a law restricting licenses to 18 year olds should be considered, Gold Emissary Mrs. Katherine Loney, Penn Valley, enroute to the Grass Valley Jan. 11 61 26 Jan. 12 55 25 Jan. 13 53 26 -Jan. 14 53 26 ee Jan. 15 58 ‘25Jan. 16 58 25Rain to date. .-. 14,08 Rain last year 11,54 FULL HOUSE.With ‘Weal Hennessy as supervisor, the board is at full complement since the death last fall of Jay Coughlan. vada City resident. presidential inauguration inWashington, D.C., will present Lady Bird Johnson. witha gold nugget gift fron. the chambers of commerce in Gtass Valley and Nevada City and fromthe Grass V'alley Junior'Chamber of Com: meree. Mrs. Loney isknown the appointment of Hennessy is a Ne! Bird's husband, vice-president elect Lynden B. Jonnsen., as “MissKatie™ by Lady;

Serving the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valley, Red Dog, You Bet, Town Talk, Glenbrook, Little York, Volume 36 No. 3 Published Weekly ‘Nevada City, Wednesday, January 18, s 1961Elks Set Conference On Youth The first annual Youth Problem Conference under the sponsorship of the Nevada City Elks Youth Activities Committee will be held Jan. } Elks Hall on Pine Street. Exalted Ruler H.L. Childers saidthe conference will take . the form of around table dis. cussion, with representation . from school administrators ; \law enforcement agencies and the courts. ! erator will be Stockton Police . : Chief Jack O'Keefe, a rec‘ognized authority on youth problems. 28 at noon in the Nevada City . TEENAGE PROBLEMS CONCERN GROWS . 75 Discuss Juvenile Problems At PTA An overflow crowd of 75 members ofthe Nevada Union High School PTA attended a meeting Monday night at the Nevada City Junior High to discuss law enfotcement and the juvenile. Mrs. Goldie Frisch, PTA president, conducted the meeting which featured a talk by Harold A. Berliner, district attorney on cooperation between parents and law enforcement agencies. Sheriff Wayne Brown and other civic leaders participated in the ensuing discussion, Berliner stated that teen-ager's problems with the law in Nevada County were the exception, not the rule, and no cause for sudden alarm. However, he added, there wasreason for concern, and long range planning for cooperative effort to keép local difficulties to a minimum. Questions and opinions from the audience were asked by Mr. Berlinef on a number of related subjects, and . discussion on these lasted for more than an hour. Principal speaker and mod. First topic discussed was the curfew, and Berliner told of the difficulty of enforcement, and the lack of uniformity in administering it. Although the County Ordidinance provides all young people under age 18 must be athome by 10:30, exception is regularly made for those Branagh To Speak At C of C About 80 Nevada County residents are expected to at-. . tend tne installation of 1961 Nevada City Chamber of . Commerce officers Monday nignt at the Victorian Room of the National Hotel. Featured speaker will be Henry Branagh, supervisor of the T ahoe National Forest. Branagh will speak on maximum use of national forest lands and the part the com. munity plays in tne forest . program. Tanoe National Forest neadquarters are in tne Town Talk section outside Nevada City. An honored guest at the affair will be George Sawyer, new manager of the Sacramento ValleyDistrict Chamber-of ‘Commerce. Dinner will be served at 8 p.m. following a fe llowship hour. INSTALLATION..Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce leaders, 1960 tion ceremonies held Saturday at the Gold Center Club. Left, andClete Osterholt, 1960 president and vice president. Earl Covey, seated, and vice-president, Willia envenratne San A suggestion that Loma _ Rica Airport be used as an . alternate landing strip py ; commercial airlines serving ' Sacramento when the valley cityis fogged in stirred a _ kettle of comment over the i past weekend. The suggestion was made by ‘newly elected Nevada City Chamber of Commerce . president Dean Thompson in ‘an interview witn Stan At'kinson, Sacramento radio and television newscaster. . Loma Rica airport nas a ; 4000 foot runway, 3000 feet ; Of which is paved. Airport . Manager Robert Stevenson said the field is capable of landing aircraft of the DC3 j 1 { ' * type. Thompson estimates tnat ‘about half of tne commercial traffic into Sacramento b air is in aircraft tnat could use Loma Rica as an alternate. He said a letter nas HUMBUG..New Grand Noble Humbug of the William Morris Steward chapter E. ~Clampus Vitus\is Robert Wyckoff. He was installed last week at a meeting of the order at Hazel's in Nevada City. —_= Use Of Loma Rica As Fog Alternate, Stirs Comment been sent to tne Federal Aeronautics Agency requesting information about Loma Rica's qualifications for commercial airline landings and takeoffs. The suggestion met with local approval, and has been taken under advisement by airline officialsin San Francisco, according to Sacramento sources, Initial objections to tne move were based on transportation problems involved ae == between Loma Rica and Sacramento and on the possibility that airline personnel to bestationed . i Earl Covey, installed is ‘Informal Probation’ might have at Loma Rica, The chamber president , editor of tne Nugget, said transportation could be arranged and termed tne representation by airlines at the airport a technical problem that would be no real obStacle if all otner factors were favorable. INSTRUCTOR..Tom Pagenhart, instructor of a Sacramento State College extension class ingeography for teachers , is shown at the final class meeting of the group Monday night. Classes were held at Hennessy School. Some 40 teachers and residents took part in the extension course. A gala Democratic Victory Dinner and dance will take place Friday, Jan. 27, at theGold Center Club. Sponsored by the Nevada County Dem; ocratic Central Committee ’ in conjunction with the Gold +: Cuartz Democratic Club, theevent willfeaturea ' cocktail hour at 7, followed by dinner at 8, and dancing. According to Sylvester Fuller, co-chairman with Leo Todd, a large ts is expected tocelebrate the victories of John F. Kennedy tothe Presidency, Harold T . "Bizz" Johnson to Congress Democrats Plan Dinner and Assemblyman PaulJ. Lunardi and Sen. Ronald G. Cameron to the state legislature. Fuller said that the affair was open tothe public , and he emphasized that the many local Democratic workers in the past campaign would be especially welcome, including those who worked in individual compaigns and in the Dollars-* for-Democrats and registration drives. Reservations may be had by calling Mrs. Elmer Lewis at 273-3044, or Sy Fuller at 273-4995, seated and standing are Scot Barrow . They are congratulating incoming president, mW. Esterly. A large crowd attended. . j and 1961, are shown at installa. . Covey . i .

‘ } ‘ “Heads Chamber . president of the Grass Valley. . Chamberof Commerce Saturday night, forecast; growth in population and in-, . dustry in Grass Valley during the current year. . Nearly 100 persons attended . . installation ceremonies at . the Gold Center Club, paying . ' tribute to newly elected of. ficers and out-going Presi. dent Scott Barrow. Covey called for adrive to} bring light industry to Grass: Valley, a start on the Grass . Valley-Nevada.City section . of the Highway 20 freeway “ development of the Condon . Memorial Park, a Fourth of ! July program that can attract . , thousands of visitors, an increase in chamber membership, axquisition of the Lola Montez home as a historial site, expanded chamber of: fices,.and a selection of a . "Manofthe Year" for cham; ber recognition, Featured speaker of the evening was Dr. Harold W eaver, Sierra College president, who emphasized theneed for education leading toemployment, He stressed the need for long range planning in communities such as Grass Valley. Weather Nevada City Max. Min. Rain Jan. 11 60 28 Jan. 12 61 26 Jan. 13 55 25 Jan. 14 53 26 Jan, 15 57 26 Jan. 16 58 25 Rain to date. .. 14, Rain last year. . 2. Representatives of the California Highway Patrol, the California Youth Authroity , and the FBI have been invited-to attend. District Attorney Harold ; Berliner willact as toastMaster ata lunch which will precede the conference. Guests will be introduced by Sheriff Wayne Brown, while a welcome will be given by Superior Court Judge Vernon Stoll, Nevada City Elks Club coichairmen of the Youth Acitivities Committee Jack . Brickell and Judge Verl Gray have arranged the con: ference. ficult ordinanceto enforce, When asked for a show at the. 10:30 curfew. Unanimous approval was children and observed. Sheriff Brown stated that this was the policy of his office, ; 2nd prompt notification was , given the parents of everyithing butthesmallest Given 13 Youths Thirteen youths who purchased stolen property from members of the juvenile "gang" late last year were given informal probation by Judge Vernon Stoll Friday. The boys will be required to go directly home after school, pay full retail price to the stores fromwhich merchandise was stolen for items they bought ata "bargain" fromthe burglars, and comply with’all school rules. The Nevada Union High School district imposed sanctionsnearly astough as those given by the court. None of the offenders will be allowed to participate in any student: body activities, including athletics and social activities. In another court action, Judge Stoll sentenced 16year-old Dwayne Wright to the California Youth Authority for his part in the atreturning from legitimate entertainment. Sheriff Wayne Brown commented that this was a difalthough it had its uses; that he had been against the notion when it went into effect about ten years ago, but that he now thought it helpful. Members of the PTA expressed a wide range of opinions, from belief that it should be abandoned to the feeling that it should be strictly and impartially enforced. of hands about half of those present indicated they favored full enforcement at the given to the proposition that parents should be informed by the police of every infraction committed by their, offenses. Berliner next asked the views of the parents on drinking, and for suggestions to curbit. There were many ideas as to the chief sources of youngsters’ supply of al-coholic beverages but few ideas on how it could be stopped, other than by present methods. All agreed stern punishment should be given bar owners who served minors and adults buying liquor for minors. It was generally felt that parents should take more responsibility in this area. Punishments and probation were also,discussed, All parents thought that punishment would go with probation, but carefully given in each particular case. Some though it should be "sharp and short", Some thought it tempted burglary of Sierra Truck and Motor office in; Grass Valley. should not deprive students of athletic privileges and other school offices and some thought it should. When asked why some students were deprived of such privileges, Berliner replied that he believed the school did this to show that offenders would not be left in positions of leadership and respect of the other students; and also that the offenders were asmall minority in the school, and that the nonoffenders should be able to see that being good citizens brought rewards which were forfeited by those who broke the law. General discussion followed, and Sheriff Wayne Brown siiggested that another important problem was young. people and their automobiles. Much comment followed onthis, and Brown suggested that a law restricting licenses to 18 year olds should be considered, Gold Emissary Mrs. Katherine Loney, Penn Valley, enroute to the Grass Valley Jan. 11 61 26 Jan. 12 55 25 Jan. 13 53 26 -Jan. 14 53 26 ee Jan. 15 58 ‘25Jan. 16 58 25Rain to date. ..-. 14,08 Rain last year 11,54 FULL HOUSE..With ‘Weal Hennessy as supervisor, the board is at full complement since the death last fall of Jay Coughlan. vada City resident. presidential inauguration inWashington, D.C., will present Lady Bird Johnson. witha gold nugget gift fron. the chambers of commerce in Gtass Valley and Nevada City and fromthe Grass V'alley Junior'Chamber of Com: meree. Mrs. Loney isknown the appointment of Hennessy is a Ne! Bird's husband, vice-president elect Lynden B. Jonnsen., as “MissKatie™ by Lady;