January 25, 1967 (20 pages)

if PEXEUUELALS SECTIOM CAL ST LIBRARY 5 j SACTO CAL 95814 r ing the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valey, Hombug, Relief Hi . North21 Blobmepelddetains Byiray Ser hateCy,Sl ‘ Juan, : Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Flat; Sweetland, Al; Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North e, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, W alloupa, G: ia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, ee es Gold Ber. Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, C: Blue Tene LeBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, ington: ® port, Birche M i Moore's Flat, Un pe l yi ouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas. Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Voie 425 umber 2 10 Cents a Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada‘ City, January 25_ 1967 ROSS Assessors set Ratios at 25 Percent County Supervisors met in regular session at the courthouse Tuesday and revamped the County, Planning Agency. The The newly elected Nevada County Assessor, Elton A, Tobi the Board of Supervisors and the Assessor's Office, old County Planning Commis assen, informed the Nevada County Board of Supervisors at their meeting of January 24, 1967 that he had announced his The many facets of this new law will be made available to sion was dissolved and under the new title of Planning Agency the following were named as the public by the Assessor's Office through public relations, members of the body: Wesley Moore from the 3rd. news items, radio coverage and assessment ratio for the 196768 year to be 25% of full cash material in the office. Resumes value. This announcement is ” in booklet form of the new AB the result of mary changes in 80 Tax Reform Law explaining assessment laws as quoted.in the changes by which the AssesAssembly Bill 80 Tax Reform sor, the Board of Supervisors, and the taxpayers must comply Law, will be mailéd by the Assessor's. As 80 wentinto effect on October 6, 1966 and requires that county assessors announce their ratio of from 20% to 25% on or before the third Monday in January, This was done by the Assessor on Monday, January 16, 1967. Bye Tobiassen stated that due to District. the 1st. District. 5th. District and Thomas L. Turner from District 2, The forenamed appointments will serve terms to concur with the supervisor who named them, The. following were named by the Supervisors as members of the Agency. at large: John Looser, for the short term, Roy ~ Placer County Frank R. Chilton, Jr., County Assesser has informed the Placer County Supervisors that the 1967 1968 Assessment Ratio for the County will be 25 percent of market value. Chilton told the supervisors that Peterson for the longer term. AB 80: there:are many changes withregard to assessment practices, deadline dates and various requirements which must. be -this ratio would not change the accomplished to conform with Picture, tax wise, for Placer Cothe law. He further stated: that untyproperty owners. According ee a total of ag momar ed to the Assessor this is the -same 3, 000 assessments in Nevac ratio that has been in effect pri County -there has as about. or £0 taday's notice. 7,900 reappraisals made in the: Pome te wisions of the Cal~ last few years. By 1972 all 1 for ministrative Code, de properties within the county must be assessed at 25% of full cash value and the Assessor states that every effort will be put forth to accomplish this goal which can be done with the co aling with Public Revenues, each nounce the uniform ratio of full is assessing property. “This ratio Chilton said, may be set at any operation of the property owners, Percentage between 20 and 25%, KBE “RQ The Agency members will serve under the direction of William.Roberts who was re named County Planning Director for the term beginning February 3rd. aE Under the new state law the localplanning agency now conformsintitle as well as organization with the requirements of the State of California. Other business at the busy ses County Assessor must publicly an cash (market) value at which he Lawrence Personeni, from the 4th. District, Frances Longo from the Office to anyone requesting this information, Bert Livingston from sion was the filing of Supervisor Thomas* Civil Defense body in NevadaCounty. He made recommendations that a 15 man civilian committee be appointed from cognizant organizations in the county to study and make recommendation for a permanBOs <AQSP> <hOQ se <i ent plan for adequate civil Twin City Mayors Proclaim defense to qualify for state and Federal help, January 28th. peared before the Board and gave a brief outline of his pro "Barber of Seville Day” Mayor Arch McPherson of Nevada City and Mayor John Hodge of Grass Valley, have issued proclamations designating Sat. urday January 28th, , as “Barber of Seville Day” in their respective Cities. The action was taken to properly observe the presentation of the Opera of that nameinthe Veterans Memorial: Auditorium at8 P,M, Saturday evening January 28th. The Opera is being presented by the Twin Cities Concert Association, County Assessor Robiasson ap tickets are still available. They may be purchased at Osborn & Woods in Nevada City or Sanders Music Center in Grass Valley. “This performance of the Opera’ in our Cities marks the highlight’ of the Opera Premier weekend of the San Francisco Opera and we cordially invite music lovers to join with us in celebrating. the coming of Opera to our area, " said Mrs. Stevenson, with Mrs, Kimary Stevenson as President, A limited number of CAMPBELL Tire Chain "SALE 1:00-14 6:40-15 6:50-15 1;35-14 & 15 $108 1:50-14 6;70-15 1:50-13 1:75-14 $4459 SPD. . of Body of GV Man Found ‘ The body of Rudy F. Malies,a ‘well known Grass Valley ‘con gram to reassess some 16, 000 pieces of property in the County. He stated that the tax ratio was now set by him, according to law, at 25%of the actual market value of property. He stated that he had only 6 junior Appraisers in his office now,. and that he would need additional help with the ap pointment of senior appraisers, Some of these would come from the Assessor insolving the prob léms of procedure and personnel in the Assessors office. H. Curt Hammit, District of Land Management appeared before the board with schedules of how that agency wishes to Public lands in the county. Some 20, 400 acres are now under Public domain. 5,900 acres have been appropriated leaving 14,500 to be resched uled. The County Planning Agency will work with the Federal Department tostbmit a study of recommendations and a General Plan for Federal lands to be reclassified. Important in these lands will be areas for recreation and Salvage dumps forrefuse. The Supervisors will meet nexton January 31st at 10 , Nevada County Projects in. es Budget Congressman "Bizz" Johnson, called the Nugget from Washington today, (Tuesday) and informed us that in the Budget submitted by the President to Congress was.the following importarit items which effected Nevada County: Approved they will be included in the 1968 Budget which begins on July 1st . this year: $4,615,000. 00 for continued construction on thie Stampede Dam by the bureau of reclam ation. : $685,000, 00 Loan for Nevada Irrigation District. This is the first installment of a $4, 950, 000, 00loan to NID for the construction of an adequate distribution system, $700, 000.00 to Army Engineers for flood control Yuba River project. This project will total $4, 910, 000, 00 when completed, Nugget Weather Report.tts all Wet Nevada County, this week is wallowing in the heaviest storm season of the year. During the past week 10.36 inches of rain fell on the Nevada City area. This brought the season total to 37. 19, compared with 27.00 inches to this date last year. The Grass Valley total was a fraction under that of Nevada City, Some snow fell. upon high ground points in Nevada City Monday night and the end of the current storm is not yet in sight. TruckeeDonner received a heavy fall of new snow which brought the supply in that area way up and gave Ski devotees a lot of happiness, but gave misery to motorists who were stranded during the height of the downpour. Here is the detailed weather summation as furnished by local weat tractor was found Tuesday in the cab of his truck. lies « had been ora from ho: her’ authorities. since last Thursday when he left a note to his wife telling Nevada City her that he was going away.on Max -Min R a long journey. He had parkJan 18 52 4 his truck: in an isolated spot 19° 51 26 and fashioned a hose which 20 54 SF. carried exhaust fumes from the. 21 46 38 4.40 exhaust pipe into the cab. 22 46 31 ° 4,48 An intensive search had been 23 41 23 carried on for several days by 24 40 34 54 the Sheriff's Department, Hooper= Weaver Mortuary is in Total rainfall to date charge of local’ arrangements, Rainfall last year Grass Valley Max Min Jan 18 59 28 59 29 65 30 46 39 46 31 47 25 44 26 33, 91 26, 34 R search: ; the opening day of the new Congress (Jan. 10th) were those sponsored by the veteran Calif_ornia legislator; Manager of the Federal Bureau A.M. gress there is hope for action to bring real stimulus to Gold As the 90th Congress opened, Representative Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson of the 2nd, mountainvalley counties, District resumed his campaign to restore new. life into the gold mining industry and toprotect thexights of special use permit holders on National Forests, Among the bills introduced’on Promoting those who had already served as Junior Appraisers for a time to qualify them for the promotions, Supervisors Thomas and Hartman were appointed to work with reclassify The following stories from Washington indicate that interestin Government assistance to the Gold Mining Industry is on the rise and there are indications that during this session of Con Supervisors Reform Planning Agency Nevada and Placer County New Life for Gold Mining Industry Proposed Special Use Permits -The legislation would provide that summer cabin owners and others who hold special use permits on National Forest land would ob=tain a possessory interest which would protect them should the improvements have to be re.moved for higher and greater use of the property. "This is the same type of consideration which has been given to the concessioners on National Parks, ” Congressman Johnson explained, “and I believe that the summer home owners and others who have invested in ,; improvements on National Forest lands should be similarly protected, " j The Congressman pointed out that many counties.in which summer cabins are permitted on National Forest lands already assess and tax the "possessory interest" in the land as well as the value of the cabin and other improvements, The bill specifically provides that actual title to the property would temain with the United States, This means that if the government decides to recover the property for higher public use it can do so; however, the overnment would have to pay or damage to the improve ments, As it now stands the permittee must bear the entire burden of moving or destroying his improvements, Gold -The gold legislation introduced by Congressman Johnson is known formally as the “Gold Mine Assistance Act of 1967", “This legislation won the approval of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee last year, " said. Congressman Johnson “We must continue the effort torestore the gold industry toits rightful place in the economy of the state. and the nation,” Representative Johnson pointed out that with the demand for the metal increasing constantly in all of its varied uses in science, research, ‘defense and industry, gold cannot be produced domes tically as “long as we shackle the industry with arbitrarilyestablished prices which have not been increased since the depths of the depression of the 1930s, ” Congressman Johnson's bill, which during the 89th Congress moved further along the legis lative road to success than has -62 44.06 44,18 3144 any piece of gold iegislation in more than a score of years, would stabilize the gold mining industry and stimulate the mining business through establishment of assistance payments to operating mines and also to (Continued on Page 2) * ieehwinlakinaniicmtino ee .

if PEXEUUELALS SECTIOM CAL ST LIBRARY 5 j SACTO CAL 95814 r ing the communities of Nevada City, Grass Valey, Hombug, Relief Hi . North21 Blobmepelddetains Byiray Ser hateCy,Sl ‘ Juan, : Red Dog, Town Talk, Glenbrook. Little York, Cherokee, Flat; Sweetland, Al; Omega, French Corral, Rough and Ready, Graniteville, North e, Union Hill, Peardale, Summit City, W alloupa, G: ia Hill, Brandy Flat, Sebastopol, Quaker Hill, ee es Gold Ber. Lowell Hill, Bourbon Hill, Scotch Hill, North Columbia, C: Blue Tene LeBarr Meadows, Cedar Ridge, ington: ® port, Birche M i Moore's Flat, Un pe l yi ouge Eye, Lime Kiln, Chicago Park, Wolf, Christmas. Flat, Remington Hill, Anthony House, Delirium Tremens. Voie 425 umber 2 10 Cents a Copy Published Wednesdays, Nevada‘ City, January 25_ 1967 ROSS Assessors set Ratios at 25 Percent County Supervisors met in regular session at the courthouse Tuesday and revamped the County, Planning Agency. The The newly elected Nevada County Assessor, Elton A, Tobi the Board of Supervisors and the Assessor's Office, old County Planning Commis assen, informed the Nevada County Board of Supervisors at their meeting of January 24, 1967 that he had announced his The many facets of this new law will be made available to sion was dissolved and under the new title of Planning Agency the following were named as the public by the Assessor's Office through public relations, members of the body: Wesley Moore from the 3rd. news items, radio coverage and assessment ratio for the 196768 year to be 25% of full cash material in the office. Resumes value. This announcement is ” in booklet form of the new AB the result of mary changes in 80 Tax Reform Law explaining assessment laws as quoted.in the changes by which the AssesAssembly Bill 80 Tax Reform sor, the Board of Supervisors, and the taxpayers must comply Law, will be mailéd by the Assessor's. As 80 wentinto effect on October 6, 1966 and requires that county assessors announce their ratio of from 20% to 25% on or before the third Monday in January, This was done by the Assessor on Monday, January 16, 1967. Bye Tobiassen stated that due to District. the 1st. District. 5th. District and Thomas L. Turner from District 2, The forenamed appointments will serve terms to concur with the supervisor who named them, The. following were named by the Supervisors as members of the Agency. at large: John Looser, for the short term, Roy ~ Placer County Frank R. Chilton, Jr., County Assesser has informed the Placer County Supervisors that the 1967 1968 Assessment Ratio for the County will be 25 percent of market value. Chilton told the supervisors that Peterson for the longer term. AB 80: there:are many changes withregard to assessment practices, deadline dates and various requirements which must. be -this ratio would not change the accomplished to conform with Picture, tax wise, for Placer Cothe law. He further stated: that untyproperty owners. According ee a total of ag momar ed to the Assessor this is the -same 3, 000 assessments in Nevac ratio that has been in effect pri County -there has as about.. or £0 taday's notice. 7,900 reappraisals made in the: Pome te wisions of the Cal~ last few years. By 1972 all 1 for ministrative Code, de properties within the county must be assessed at 25% of full cash value and the Assessor states that every effort will be put forth to accomplish this goal which can be done with the co aling with Public Revenues, each nounce the uniform ratio of full is assessing property. “This ratio Chilton said, may be set at any operation of the property owners, Percentage between 20 and 25%, KBE “RQ The Agency members will serve under the direction of William.Roberts who was re named County Planning Director for the term beginning February 3rd. aE Under the new state law the localplanning agency now conformsintitle as well as organization with the requirements of the State of California. Other business at the busy ses County Assessor must publicly an cash (market) value at which he Lawrence Personeni, from the 4th. District, Frances Longo from the Office to anyone requesting this information, Bert Livingston from sion was the filing of Supervisor Thomas* Civil Defense body in NevadaCounty. He made recommendations that a 15 man civilian committee be appointed from cognizant organizations in the county to study and make recommendation for a permanBOs <AQSP> <hOQ se <i ent plan for adequate civil Twin City Mayors Proclaim defense to qualify for state and Federal help, January 28th. peared before the Board and gave a brief outline of his pro "Barber of Seville Day” Mayor Arch McPherson of Nevada City and Mayor John Hodge of Grass Valley, have issued proclamations designating Sat. urday January 28th, , as “Barber of Seville Day” in their respective Cities. The action was taken to properly observe the presentation of the Opera of that nameinthe Veterans Memorial: Auditorium at8 P,M, Saturday evening January 28th. The Opera is being presented by the Twin Cities Concert Association, County Assessor Robiasson ap tickets are still available. They may be purchased at Osborn & Woods in Nevada City or Sanders Music Center in Grass Valley. “This performance of the Opera’ in our Cities marks the highlight’ of the Opera Premier weekend of the San Francisco Opera and we cordially invite music lovers to join with us in celebrating. the coming of Opera to our area, " said Mrs. Stevenson, with Mrs, Kimary Stevenson as President, A limited number of CAMPBELL Tire Chain "SALE 1:00-14 6:40-15 6:50-15 1;35-14 & 15 $108 1:50-14 6;70-15 1:50-13 1:75-14 $4459 SPD. . of Body of GV Man Found ‘ The body of Rudy F. Malies,a ‘well known Grass Valley ‘con gram to reassess some 16, 000 pieces of property in the County. He stated that the tax ratio was now set by him, according to law, at 25%of the actual market value of property. He stated that he had only 6 junior Appraisers in his office now,. and that he would need additional help with the ap

pointment of senior appraisers, Some of these would come from the Assessor insolving the prob léms of procedure and personnel in the Assessors office. H. Curt Hammit, District of Land Management appeared before the board with schedules of how that agency wishes to Public lands in the county. Some 20, 400 acres are now under Public domain. 5,900 acres have been appropriated leaving 14,500 to be resched uled. The County Planning Agency will work with the Federal Department tostbmit a study of recommendations and a General Plan for Federal lands to be reclassified. Important in these lands will be areas for recreation and Salvage dumps forrefuse. The Supervisors will meet nexton January 31st at 10 , Nevada County Projects in. es Budget Congressman "Bizz" Johnson, called the Nugget from Washington today, (Tuesday) and informed us that in the Budget submitted by the President to Congress was.the following importarit items which effected Nevada County: Approved they will be included in the 1968 Budget which begins on July 1st . this year: $4,615,000. 00 for continued construction on thie Stampede Dam by the bureau of reclam ation. : $685,000, 00 Loan for Nevada Irrigation District. This is the first installment of a $4, 950, 000, 00loan to NID for the construction of an adequate distribution system, $700, 000.00 to Army Engineers for flood control Yuba River project. This project will total $4, 910, 000, 00 when completed, Nugget Weather Report.tts all Wet Nevada County, this week is wallowing in the heaviest storm season of the year. During the past week 10.36 inches of rain fell on the Nevada City area. This brought the season total to 37. 19, compared with 27.00 inches to this date last year. The Grass Valley total was a fraction under that of Nevada City, Some snow fell. upon high ground points in Nevada City Monday night and the end of the current storm is not yet in sight. TruckeeDonner received a heavy fall of new snow which brought the supply in that area way up and gave Ski devotees a lot of happiness, but gave misery to motorists who were stranded during the height of the downpour. Here is the detailed weather summation as furnished by local weat tractor was found Tuesday in the cab of his truck. lies « had been ora from ho: her’ authorities. since last Thursday when he left a note to his wife telling Nevada City her that he was going away.on Max -Min R a long journey. He had parkJan 18 52 4 his truck: in an isolated spot 19° 51 26 and fashioned a hose which 20 54 SF. carried exhaust fumes from the. 21 46 38 4.40 exhaust pipe into the cab. 22 46 31 ° 4,48 An intensive search had been 23 41 23 carried on for several days by 24 40 34 54 the Sheriff's Department, Hooper= Weaver Mortuary is in Total rainfall to date charge of local’ arrangements, Rainfall last year Grass Valley Max Min Jan 18 59 28 59 29 65 30 46 39 46 31 47 25 44 26 33, 91 26, 34 R search: ; the opening day of the new Congress (Jan. 10th) were those sponsored by the veteran Calif_ornia legislator; Manager of the Federal Bureau A.M. gress there is hope for action to bring real stimulus to Gold As the 90th Congress opened, Representative Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson of the 2nd, mountainvalley counties, District resumed his campaign to restore new. life into the gold mining industry and toprotect thexights of special use permit holders on National Forests, Among the bills introduced’on Promoting those who had already served as Junior Appraisers for a time to qualify them for the promotions, Supervisors Thomas and Hartman were appointed to work with reclassify The following stories from Washington indicate that interestin Government assistance to the Gold Mining Industry is on the rise and there are indications that during this session of Con Supervisors Reform Planning Agency Nevada and Placer County New Life for Gold Mining Industry Proposed Special Use Permits -The legislation would provide that summer cabin owners and others who hold special use permits on National Forest land would ob=tain a possessory interest which would protect them should the improvements have to be re.moved for higher and greater use of the property. "This is the same type of consideration which has been given to the concessioners on National Parks, ” Congressman Johnson explained, “and I believe that the summer home owners and others who have invested in ,; improvements on National Forest lands should be similarly protected, " j The Congressman pointed out that many counties.in which summer cabins are permitted on National Forest lands already assess and tax the "possessory interest" in the land as well as the value of the cabin and other improvements, The bill specifically provides that actual title to the property would temain with the United States, This means that if the government decides to recover the property for higher public use it can do so; however, the overnment would have to pay or damage to the improve ments, As it now stands the permittee must bear the entire burden of moving or destroying his improvements, Gold -The gold legislation introduced by Congressman Johnson is known formally as the “Gold Mine Assistance Act of 1967", “This legislation won the approval of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee last year, " said. Congressman Johnson “We must continue the effort torestore the gold industry toits rightful place in the economy of the state. and the nation,” Representative Johnson pointed out that with the demand for the metal increasing constantly in all of its varied uses in science, research, ‘defense and industry, gold cannot be produced domes tically as “long as we shackle the industry with arbitrarilyestablished prices which have not been increased since the depths of the depression of the 1930s, ” Congressman Johnson's bill, which during the 89th Congress moved further along the legis lative road to success than has -62 44.06 44,18 3144 any piece of gold iegislation in more than a score of years, would stabilize the gold mining industry and stimulate the mining business through establishment of assistance payments to operating mines and also to (Continued on Page 2) * ieehwinlakinaniicmtino ee .