January 22, 1969 (12 pages)

Conservation grasses and . legumes in new handbook Whether you're at the seashore, the desert or on a high mountain plain, you can find a suitable grass or legume for conservation listed and described in a new Soil Conservation Service publication. : The USDA agency has just issued Grasses and Legumes for Soil Conservation in the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin States, Agriculture Handbook No. 339. It summeraizes the knowledge and know-how of grasses and legumes for conservation in six states gained over the last 32 years. Recommendations cover all of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Nevada ‘and northern and northeastern California, In the center of the handbook are five pages of colored maps showing agricultural zones which aid determination of plant adaptation and use. The zones are based on interrelations of soil, elevation, rainfall, length of growing season and other factors. People involved in recreation, highway construction and maintenance, farming, education and other land use concerns will find this new booklet a ready guide to the conservation use of grasses and legumes, They will find precise recommendations on seeding, cultivation and management, Farmers and .rancers will find information on forage and hay production of the-various species, ‘When the Soil Conservation Service and the national movement to halt erosion of land were born in the 1930s, adapted grasses and legumes were lacking for some conservation jobs, SCS set up plant materials centers to screen and test plants for the job. The first .was at Pullman, Wash, followed by Aberdeen, Idaho; Pleasanton, Calif.; Corvallis, Ore, and Bellingham, Wash. A key factor has been the close working relationship with State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Soil Conservation Districts, SCS plant materials centers assemble, eValuate, select and increase grasses and legumes and specialists determine reUSDA yearbook is now ready Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson of the Second, mountainvalley counties, today announced that the Department of Agriculture has its Agricultural Statistical Yeafbook for 1968, The publication, with 14 chapters and more than 600 pages, provides detailed information on agricultural production, prices, supplies, workers, and food consumption, There are also statistics on weather, fisheries, forestry, world crops, and foreign trade. “New tables in this issue include Commodity Credit Corporation quarterly investment in price support operations, data on the Cropland Adjustment and Cropland Conversion Programs, and nutritive value of food used in homes, "Agricultural Statistics, 1968" is available for $2.75 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C, 20402, liable cultural and management methods. More than 15,000 accessions of plants have been screened for potential use in conservation, Highly helpful to plant recognition are 31 drawings of key species by a well-known illustrator and botanist, Lucretia Hamilton. Further information and copies of the handbook will be available through the local SCS office. Call’ or contact the SCS office at 654 Nevada City Highway, Grass Valley. Appaloosa Assn. elects Drury and Heilmann . A local resident and a frequent visitor were elected to two-year terms on the board of directors of the Cal-Western Appaloosa Association at the convention held-at Norwalk. Robert Heilmann, a resident of rural Grass Valley is one of the eight new directors and James Drury, star of "The Vir. ginian" and a landowner. in Nevada county was also elected. Drury was appointed advisor for the new statewide youth program and another new director, Mrs, Suzanne Koch of Stevinson, was appointed chairman, King Lear show DAVIS — Two additional performances of King Lear have been scheduled at the University of California, Davis. The play, opening February 5, will now run through February 11, announced the director, Alfred Rossi. The play is being performed in the Main Theater of the Dramatic Art Building and presented by the dramatic art department's Professional Resident Theatre in cooperation with the campus Committee for Arts and Lectures, ~~ General admission is $3.50 students $1, and tickets are on sale in advance at the Memorial Union. box office on the campus, open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4p.m.,, at the Civic Theater box office (11:30 a.m, 5:30 p.m. except Sundays) at 15th and H streets in Sacramento and_at its suburban outlets in Sacramento, and at the Sacramento State College Little Theatre box office on the Sacramento State College campus, 9 a,m.-4 p.m. Bank report The Mother Lode Bank of Placerville reports 1968 net operating income of $367,644, a 15.7% gain over 1967 and a per share earnings of $1.56, a 15.6% increase, Assets up 11.4% to.48.4 million. Deposits up 10.7% to ‘43.7 million and loans up 8.7%, CANCELED The following message came from Sierra College: 'We are sorry to report that, due to scheduling problems, James Mosely, Expert on Flying Saucers, has been canceled on January. 16, We hope to be able to, present this program. later in the spring semester." Still can't depend on that space travel, eh? ea Saas Wednesday, January 22, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget 9 GEORGE BROOKS' eyes watered -a little Wednesday afternoon when he was presented an award as Kiwanian of the Year by the Grass Valley-Nevada City Club. Brooks, at right, was presented his award by Past. President Frank Van Vliet. Brooks' biggest single activity for the club was beginning and running the Kiwanians' Annual Tour of the Mines, an event that has brought hundreds of people to the area the past two falls, $508,100 grant to SNMH from Hill-Harris funds _ More than half a million dollars to help expand Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital was granted by a state advisory group Wednesday afternoon, The Grass Valley-Nevada City hospital will receive $508,100 to help finance construction of a second building and modernization of the present plant. The grant comes from feder-al Hill-Harris hospital funds, but Wednesday's approval inSan Francisco by the California Advisory Hospital Council was required before the local hospital can receive the construction funds, The-next step in the attempt to finance the expansion will be to raise the rest of the approximately $1.3 million estimated total cost. A stipulation of the federal grants requires that financing of the rest be firmed up within four months after the allocation approval is received in writing here. The newly-formed Sierra Nevada Miners Hospitals Foundation will have as its first goal a drive to raise the needed money. Sierra Nevada Memorial officials have been planning an expansion because of the increasingly critical crowded condition there, Beds have been placed in the halls more and more often. lately because all space in the rooms was filled. For example, an unofficial report Wednesday was that there were 48 patients at Sierra Memay ly _FREE ESTIMATES orial. The building has only 42 beds in rooms, The expansion will increase the -hospital's capacity to 71 beds. The addition will be a twolevel concrete building adjacent to the present west wing. It will be constructed to support additional floors. The upper level will contain the nursing unit, drug room, central supply, lobby, lab and business and administrative of¢ fices, The nursing unit will consist of 30 beds for acute care, ineluding six private beds, six in an intensive care-cardiac unit, two four-bed adult wards, a four-bed pediatric ward, one isolation and restraint room and two bedrooms, The lower level will contain emergency, radiology, cast room, dietary, dining room, meeting room and a framed-in .area for future relocation of surgery. There will be two elevators, Remodeling of the present building will provide a recovery room, second labor room, nursery expansion, Cystoscopy room and relocation of several departments, VA announces vet dividend 521,000 California World War I and World War I veterans holding G.I. insurance policies will receive $30,000,000 individends during 1969, Gordon R. Elliott, Manager of VA's Northern California Regional Office, announced today. Beginning January 1, dividends will be paid on the anniversary dates of the policies, Elliott said. : Nationally, VA will <pay out $236 million in dividends in 1969 to approximately 4,250,000 veterans’ holding National Service Life Insurance (NSLI) and United States Government Life Insurance (USGLI) policies. This is $13 million more than the 1968 dividend payment of $223 million, Elliott explained. The VA Regional Office Manager said that the 492,000 Wokld War II veterans in California who hold. NSLI policies will receive $28,000,000 in dividends in 1969, bes Nationally, NSLI dividends in 1969 will-total $218. million, with payments averaging about $53 to 4,100,000 World War I veterans, The dividend to be paid the 30,000 World War I veterans in California who hold USGLI policies will total $2,306,000, PHONE 273-2206 AGE THE BEST MOVE YOU EVER MADE 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE w

Conservation grasses and . legumes in new handbook Whether you're at the seashore, the desert or on a high mountain plain, you can find a suitable grass or legume for conservation listed and described in a new Soil Conservation Service publication. : The USDA agency has just issued Grasses and Legumes for Soil Conservation in the Pacific Northwest and Great Basin States, Agriculture Handbook No. 339. It summeraizes the knowledge and know-how of grasses and legumes for conservation in six states gained over the last 32 years. Recommendations cover all of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Nevada ‘and northern and northeastern California, In the center of the handbook are five pages of colored maps showing agricultural zones which aid determination of plant adaptation and use. The zones are based on interrelations of soil, elevation, rainfall, length of growing season and other factors. People involved in recreation, highway construction and maintenance, farming, education and other land use concerns will find this new booklet a ready guide to the conservation use of grasses and legumes, They will find precise recommendations on seeding, cultivation and management, Farmers and .rancers will find information on forage and hay production of the-various species, ‘When the Soil Conservation Service and the national movement to halt erosion of land were born in the 1930s, adapted grasses and legumes were lacking for some conservation jobs, SCS set up plant materials centers to screen and test plants for the job. The first .was at Pullman, Wash, followed by Aberdeen, Idaho; Pleasanton, Calif.; Corvallis, Ore, and Bellingham, Wash. A key factor has been the close working relationship with State Agricultural Experiment Stations and Soil Conservation Districts, SCS plant materials centers assemble, eValuate, select and increase grasses and legumes and specialists determine reUSDA yearbook is now ready Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson of the Second, mountainvalley counties, today announced that the Department of Agriculture has its Agricultural Statistical Yeafbook for 1968, The publication, with 14 chapters and more than 600 pages, provides detailed information on agricultural production, prices, supplies, workers, and food consumption, There are also statistics on weather, fisheries, forestry, world crops, and foreign trade. “New tables in this issue include Commodity Credit Corporation quarterly investment in price support operations, data on the Cropland Adjustment and Cropland Conversion Programs, and nutritive value of food used in homes, "Agricultural Statistics, 1968" is available for $2.75 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C, 20402, liable cultural and management methods. More than 15,000 accessions of plants have been screened for potential use in conservation, Highly helpful to plant recognition are 31 drawings of key species by a well-known illustrator and botanist, Lucretia Hamilton. Further information and copies of the handbook will be available through the local SCS office. Call’ or contact the SCS office at 654 Nevada City Highway, Grass Valley. Appaloosa Assn. elects Drury and Heilmann . A local resident and a frequent visitor were elected to two-year terms on the board of directors of the Cal-Western Appaloosa Association at the convention held-at Norwalk. Robert Heilmann, a resident of rural Grass Valley is one of the eight new directors and James Drury, star of "The Vir. ginian" and a landowner. in Nevada county was also elected. Drury was appointed advisor for the new statewide youth program and another new director, Mrs, Suzanne Koch of Stevinson, was appointed chairman, King Lear show DAVIS — Two additional performances of King Lear have been scheduled at the University of California, Davis. The play, opening February 5, will now run through February 11, announced the director, Alfred Rossi. The play is being performed in the Main Theater of the Dramatic Art Building and presented by the dramatic art department's Professional Resident Theatre in cooperation with the campus Committee for Arts and Lectures, ~~ General admission is $3.50 students $1, and tickets are on sale in advance at the Memorial Union. box office on the campus, open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4p.m.,, at the Civic Theater box office (11:30 a.m, 5:30 p.m. except Sundays) at 15th and H streets in Sacramento and_at its suburban outlets in Sacramento, and at the Sacramento State College Little Theatre box office on the Sacramento State College campus, 9 a,m.-4 p.m. Bank report The Mother Lode Bank of

Placerville reports 1968 net operating income of $367,644, a 15.7% gain over 1967 and a per share earnings of $1.56, a 15.6% increase, Assets up 11.4% to.48.4 million. Deposits up 10.7% to ‘43.7 million and loans up 8.7%, CANCELED The following message came from Sierra College: 'We are sorry to report that, due to scheduling problems, James Mosely, Expert on Flying Saucers, has been canceled on January. 16, We hope to be able to, present this program. later in the spring semester." Still can't depend on that space travel, eh? ea Saas Wednesday, January 22, 1969 The Nevada County Nugget 9 GEORGE BROOKS' eyes watered -a little Wednesday afternoon when he was presented an award as Kiwanian of the Year by the Grass Valley-Nevada City Club. Brooks, at right, was presented his award by Past. President Frank Van Vliet. Brooks' biggest single activity for the club was beginning and running the Kiwanians' Annual Tour of the Mines, an event that has brought hundreds of people to the area the past two falls, $508,100 grant to SNMH from Hill-Harris funds _ More than half a million dollars to help expand Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital was granted by a state advisory group Wednesday afternoon, The Grass Valley-Nevada City hospital will receive $508,100 to help finance construction of a second building and modernization of the present plant. The grant comes from feder-al Hill-Harris hospital funds, but Wednesday's approval inSan Francisco by the California Advisory Hospital Council was required before the local hospital can receive the construction funds, The-next step in the attempt to finance the expansion will be to raise the rest of the approximately $1.3 million estimated total cost. A stipulation of the federal grants requires that financing of the rest be firmed up within four months after the allocation approval is received in writing here. The newly-formed Sierra Nevada Miners Hospitals Foundation will have as its first goal a drive to raise the needed money. Sierra Nevada Memorial officials have been planning an expansion because of the increasingly critical crowded condition there, Beds have been placed in the halls more and more often. lately because all space in the rooms was filled. For example, an unofficial report Wednesday was that there were 48 patients at Sierra Memay ly _FREE ESTIMATES orial. The building has only 42 beds in rooms, The expansion will increase the -hospital's capacity to 71 beds. The addition will be a twolevel concrete building adjacent to the present west wing. It will be constructed to support additional floors. The upper level will contain the nursing unit, drug room, central supply, lobby, lab and business and administrative of¢ fices, The nursing unit will consist of 30 beds for acute care, ineluding six private beds, six in an intensive care-cardiac unit, two four-bed adult wards, a four-bed pediatric ward, one isolation and restraint room and two bedrooms, The lower level will contain emergency, radiology, cast room, dietary, dining room, meeting room and a framed-in .area for future relocation of surgery. There will be two elevators, Remodeling of the present building will provide a recovery room, second labor room, nursery expansion, Cystoscopy room and relocation of several departments, VA announces vet dividend 521,000 California World War I and World War I veterans holding G.I. insurance policies will receive $30,000,000 individends during 1969, Gordon R. Elliott, Manager of VA's Northern California Regional Office, announced today. Beginning January 1, dividends will be paid on the anniversary dates of the policies, Elliott said. : Nationally, VA will <pay out $236 million in dividends in 1969 to approximately 4,250,000 veterans’ holding National Service Life Insurance (NSLI) and United States Government Life Insurance (USGLI) policies. This is $13 million more than the 1968 dividend payment of $223 million, Elliott explained. The VA Regional Office Manager said that the 492,000 Wokld War II veterans in California who hold. NSLI policies will receive $28,000,000 in dividends in 1969, bes Nationally, NSLI dividends in 1969 will-total $218. million, with payments averaging about $53 to 4,100,000 World War I veterans, The dividend to be paid the 30,000 World War I veterans in California who hold USGLI policies will total $2,306,000, PHONE 273-2206 AGE THE BEST MOVE YOU EVER MADE 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE w