January 2, 1974 (8 pages)

This week fifty years ago} Wed., Jan. 2,1974 The Nevada County Nugget 3. Local music lovers were planning to invade Sacramento to hear Lieutenant Commander John Phillip Sousa and his famous . band in a program including many of his own compositions.The only wireless station on the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, was being installed at the news office of the Republican in Santa Rosa. The call letters assigned were KFHQ and the newspaper planned to broadcast music and news bulletins daily between 2-4 p.m. and for the same length of time on two nights per week. The temperature hit a new low between Grass Valley and Nevada City when it recorded a very chilly four degrees above zero. A light snowfall, coupled with freezing ‘‘spells” created hazardous walking and driving conditions. The Grass Valley Nevada City electric cars were stopped on their tracks by the storm and snow drifts. Thus the service became only a memory and those who had planned a farewell ride over the line were disappointed. The operation had lasted 22 years and had been a fairly profitable one. A motor bus service was to be instituted within a matter of days between the Twin Cities, according to newspaper reports at that time. “An experience I wouldn’t repeat for $50,000” was the way C. G. Hanson, justice of the peace for the community of Manhattan, Nevada, described being snowed-in for the best part of a week in the Yuba Pass wilderness. His fine new Buick automobile was left behind, probably remaining there until the snow and ice thawed that later spring. Hanson had just purchased the car in San Francisco and was attempting to reach Reno when the storm eneded his journey so miserably. Stumbling over four miles to Bassetts Station afoot, he and a young male companion who had been hired as his driver reached cover in a state of shock and with badly frozen feet, Hanson later reported to family and friends. to become a ‘full time’ mother. Seated with her in the dining room is her mother Maxine Solaro, center, and her husband, Allen. MAXINE GAINES, left, was the guest of -honor at a luncheon Friday at the National Hotel. Maxine is retiring as deputy clerk of the board of supervisors Editorial Comment of the week: ‘Women in politics will be prominent in the 1924 campaigns. They will be strongly represented in management of the national canvass. The vote of women is a decisive factor in our national politics and a matter not to be lightly viewed.” ‘S. A. Dorman gets highway promotion S. A. Dorman of Marysville has been promoted to Senior Highway Superintendent with the California Department of Transportation by District Director Sam Helwer. The promotion from highway superintendent is in line with increased responsibility for Dorman who has spent 25 years in a state road maintenance career beginning as a laborer. He supervises a crew of 70 persons who perform specialized work in the 11 counties’ of Transportation District 3. This includes highway striping, maintaining highway lighting, keeping electrical signals operative, tree and roadside spraying. All of this work is done in moving traffic. and proof of the safety precautions practiced by his crews is an award earned last month” fora” total of “300,000 continuous man-hours on the job without injury causing time lost at work. Dorman will get a plaque for this on behalf of his crew some time in the near future. He has been promoted five times before this. He worked four years in the Stockton area when he first began, was advanced to equipment operator and spent six years at that work. In 1959 he was promoted to highway foreman and for three years helped to maintain San Francisco area freeways. Another raise in grade put him in Placerville area and in 1963 he was appointed superintendent in charge of the specialty crews he now heads. His staff has increased nearly 50 per cent in the past 10 years because of expansion of many highways to freeways. His annual budget is in excess of $2 million. ; Dorman has_ submitted several ideas for improving work procedures and in the early 1960’s won a cash award for devising a special support which prolonged the useful life of street sweepers. He and his wife, \Mary Jane, live at 722 East 21st Street. They have a-daughter, Mary, and a son, David, Assistant Manager ‘of a savings and loan firm in Yuba City. Social Security office in Auburn Anew Social Security Office to serve people of Nevada and Sierra counties and northern Placer county has been opened at 250 Elm Street in Auburn. Congressman ~ Harold _T. (Bizz) Johnson, representing northern California, announced the opening of the office today. William C. Schaffer is the branch manager. The telephone number is 885-3741. Hours will be from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Deputy clerk retires for motherhood career Salute! the gobléts clicked this week to milestones’ in arithemetic -a career-motherhood. And it all was for Maxine Gaines (affectionately known as Max) who was-promoted from deputy clerk of the board of supervisors to full time motherhood. Mrs. Gaines earlier had announced her decision to quit her 10 year career as clerk to the board to become full time mother to her little son, and with the coming of the new year she will assume her new position. ‘‘Max” was the honored guest at two surprise luncheons this week. Supervisors Wednesday adopted a resolution citing her for her 10 years of detailed deyotion to duties. Special note was made of the new agenda procedure initiated by Mrs. Gaines. There was a wish for “many happy years of motherhood.” The clerk was the board’s special guest at a luncheon Wednesday in the Owl Tavern when spéeches were made; and she was given a laminated copy of the resolution in behalf of the county, and a plaque by the board members with individual names listed. Sharon Boivin, acting planning director, was master of ceremonies at a luncheon Friday. Representatives of allcounty departments filled the main dining room of the National Hotel to help ‘‘Max”’ celebrate her promotion. The mood was gay and there were many ‘“‘in jokes.” Supervisor Bob Long, as chairman, expressed the board’s and his own appreciation for her dedicated service to the supervisors and the county. John Trauner, auditor controller fiscal director, was Mrs. Gaine’s “first boss”, when she was a new county employe and he was clerk-recorder. He claimed there have me changes since she came unty as a “shy, naive and-gullible girl.” Perhaps “Max” could have used a kleenex tissue when she expressed her appreciation and promised, to become ‘‘an uncomplaining and unde: taxpayer” from now into forever. She introduced Janet Hillman, who will fill her position. : County personnel presented Mrs. Gaines with a make-up mirror which Santa Claus (husband Allan Gaines) forgot to leave under the Christmas tree. She also received a picture of a board of supervisors meeting as’ “it was” with all supervisors, department headsand others in their proper . places. John Hart, Union photographer, took the picture in which an unsuspecting “Max” is seen. It could be that she has retained some of her ‘“naiveness’’ because’ she believed the ‘‘whopper’’ she was told when the picture was snapped. Among those sitting at the head table with the guest of honor were. her husband; Maxine Solaro, her mother, and the chairman of the board. 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This week fifty years ago} Wed., Jan. 2,1974 The Nevada County Nugget 3. Local music lovers were planning to invade Sacramento to hear Lieutenant Commander John Phillip Sousa and his famous . band in a program including many of his own compositions.The only wireless station on the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, was being installed at the news office of the Republican in Santa Rosa. The call letters assigned were KFHQ and the newspaper planned to broadcast music and news bulletins daily between 2-4 p.m. and for the same length of time on two nights per week. The temperature hit a new low between Grass Valley and Nevada City when it recorded a very chilly four degrees above zero. A light snowfall, coupled with freezing ‘‘spells” created hazardous walking and driving conditions. The Grass Valley Nevada City electric cars were stopped on their tracks by the storm and snow drifts. Thus the service became only a memory and those who had planned a farewell ride over the line were disappointed. The operation had lasted 22 years and had been a fairly profitable one. A motor bus service was to be instituted within a matter of days between the Twin Cities, according to newspaper reports at that time. “An experience I wouldn’t repeat for $50,000” was the way C. G. Hanson, justice of the peace for the community of Manhattan, Nevada, described being snowed-in for the best part of a week in the Yuba Pass wilderness. His fine new Buick automobile was left behind, probably remaining there until the snow and ice thawed that later spring. Hanson had just purchased the car in San Francisco and was attempting to reach Reno when the storm eneded his journey so miserably. Stumbling over four miles to Bassetts Station afoot, he and a young male companion who had been hired as his driver reached cover in a state of shock and with badly frozen feet, Hanson later reported to family and friends. to become a ‘full time’ mother. Seated with her in the dining room is her mother Maxine Solaro, center, and her husband, Allen. MAXINE GAINES, left, was the guest of -honor at a luncheon Friday at the National Hotel. Maxine is retiring as deputy clerk of the board of supervisors Editorial Comment of the week: ‘Women in politics will be prominent in the 1924 campaigns. They will be strongly represented in management of the national canvass. The vote of women is a decisive factor in our national politics and a matter not to be lightly viewed.” ‘S. A. Dorman gets highway promotion S. A. Dorman of Marysville has been promoted to Senior Highway Superintendent with the California Department of Transportation by District Director Sam Helwer. The promotion from highway superintendent is in line with increased responsibility for Dorman who has spent 25 years in a state road maintenance career beginning as a laborer. He supervises a crew of 70 persons who perform specialized work in the 11 counties’ of Transportation District 3. This includes highway striping, maintaining highway lighting, keeping electrical signals operative, tree and roadside spraying. All of this work is done in moving traffic. and proof of the safety precautions practiced by his crews is an award earned last month” fora” total of “300,000 continuous man-hours on the job without injury causing time lost at work. Dorman will get a plaque for this on behalf of his crew some time in the near future. He has been promoted five times before this. He worked four years in the Stockton area when he first began, was advanced to equipment operator and spent six years at that work. In 1959 he was promoted to highway foreman and for three years helped to maintain San Francisco area freeways. Another raise in grade put him in Placerville area and in 1963 he was appointed superintendent in charge of the specialty crews he now heads. His staff has increased nearly 50 per cent in the past 10 years because of expansion of many highways to freeways. His annual budget is in excess of $2 million. ; Dorman has_ submitted several ideas for improving work procedures and in the early 1960’s won a cash award for devising a special support which prolonged the useful life of street sweepers. He and his wife, \Mary Jane, live at 722 East 21st Street. They have a-daughter, Mary, and a son, David, Assistant Manager ‘of a savings and loan firm in Yuba City. Social Security office in Auburn Anew Social Security Office to serve people of Nevada and Sierra counties and northern Placer county has been opened

at 250 Elm Street in Auburn. Congressman ~ Harold _T. (Bizz) Johnson, representing northern California, announced the opening of the office today. William C. Schaffer is the branch manager. The telephone number is 885-3741. Hours will be from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Deputy clerk retires for motherhood career Salute! the gobléts clicked this week to milestones’ in arithemetic -a career-motherhood. And it all was for Maxine Gaines (affectionately known as Max) who was-promoted from deputy clerk of the board of supervisors to full time motherhood. Mrs. Gaines earlier had announced her decision to quit her 10 year career as clerk to the board to become full time mother to her little son, and with the coming of the new year she will assume her new position. ‘‘Max” was the honored guest at two surprise luncheons this week. Supervisors Wednesday adopted a resolution citing her for her 10 years of detailed deyotion to duties. Special note was made of the new agenda procedure initiated by Mrs. Gaines. There was a wish for “many happy years of motherhood.” The clerk was the board’s special guest at a luncheon Wednesday in the Owl Tavern when spéeches were made; and she was given a laminated copy of the resolution in behalf of the county, and a plaque by the board members with individual names listed. Sharon Boivin, acting planning director, was master of ceremonies at a luncheon Friday. Representatives of allcounty departments filled the main dining room of the National Hotel to help ‘‘Max”’ celebrate her promotion. The mood was gay and there were many ‘“‘in jokes.” Supervisor Bob Long, as chairman, expressed the board’s and his own appreciation for her dedicated service to the supervisors and the county. John Trauner, auditor controller fiscal director, was Mrs. Gaine’s “first boss”, when she was a new county employe and he was clerk-recorder. He claimed there have me changes since she came unty as a “shy, naive and-gullible girl.” Perhaps “Max” could have used a kleenex tissue when she expressed her appreciation and promised, to become ‘‘an uncomplaining and unde: taxpayer” from now into forever. She introduced Janet Hillman, who will fill her position. : County personnel presented Mrs. Gaines with a make-up mirror which Santa Claus (husband Allan Gaines) forgot to leave under the Christmas tree. She also received a picture of a board of supervisors meeting as’ “it was” with all supervisors, department headsand others in their proper . places. John Hart, Union photographer, took the picture in which an unsuspecting “Max” is seen. It could be that she has retained some of her ‘“naiveness’’ because’ she believed the ‘‘whopper’’ she was told when the picture was snapped. Among those sitting at the head table with the guest of honor were. her husband; Maxine Solaro, her mother, and the chairman of the board. Gene Will Align Wheels $9.95 Rotate & Balance All Four Tires $4.00 Additional. RECAPPING SERVICE PLAZA TIRE CO., INC. BEHIND SPD 265-4642