January 29, 1969 (12 pages)

4 a ® e ification Voters in western Nevadae county will decide on unification of school districts April 15, the same time they select district trustees, A study of unification will be made and committes of willing citizens will be selected to get the pro-unification story to the people before election. Presumably the anti-unification citizens will have a similar studyogram, There are 13 school districts “involved in western Nevada county, About 5,000 students attend these schools. The local administrators’ association reflected diverse opinabout unification in a remeeting, but here seemed a complete agreement on one thing: The people should According to the Education News. Service, a full-scale study. of decentralization will be recommended to the Legislature by the chairman of the Senate Education Committee. Two bills were the subject of a recent hearing in Los Angeles, the one in favor of splitting the district into smaller ones and the other proposing a federalized decentralization, While the Los Angeles study is expected to take 12 to 18 months, the Nevada county fact gathering will have amuch more limited time. But the prime reason for it--to get the story to the voters--is a good one. School matters usually are so complex the average citizen gets lost probing them. Maybe this study will shed a bit of light on the pros and cons of district unification effecting an informed voter verdict ‘ come April 15, NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage * paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. Decree No, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5.00, 198'7 PRIZE WINNING NEWSPAPEX : of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER a aati, Begone ane nne poate sl sinccinswcnivaning-torD th “ Three stage lines operating Washington-NC in 1896 By Rye Slye John Sheahan today put on a tri-weekly stage line between Washington and Nevada City. "There are now three stage lines on that road." (NCDT, May 18, 1896) ** * From three bill-heads, each printed in a different style of type, from a collection of Mr, Sven Skarr, historian and antique dealer of Nevada City: 1, Hong Chong, (Wash), Nevada City, Nov. 2, 1891, To: Washington & Maybert Express Co., Dr. James Tully, Proprietor. Stages Run To All Points, A General Stage Business. 2, Same name as above. Nevada City, April 14, 1896, Daily. Stages Between Nevada City, Washington, Maybert & Gaston. George & J, B, Grissel, Proprietors. $, May 1, 1904. Same heading as above. S, P. Redmayne is Prop, three "bill-heads" lst items delivered to Mr, Hong Chong in Washington, Example: 1. Box of chicken & Sk, From Yee Lee--.50, An. old account book shows . Mr. Hong Chong's total express bill for March 1900; was $40. Letterhead found in old records in Washington. Dated 1907, Washington and Maybert Express Co, Daily Stages Between Nevada City, Washington, Maybert & Gaston. ** * From---Traveler's Guidebook. Published 1907 by the Nevada City Daily Miner-Transcript. Washington, From N.C., 19 miles; Stage Fare, $2.00.; Elevation, 2650. Ormonde, 22; $2.50.; 3000. Maybert, 28; $3,00.; 3800. Gaston, 26; $3.00; 5000,ee Travel and freighting on the Washington stage line is brisk these. days, This’ morning a large six-horse stage with elev@Q passengers and quite a load of freight left here for the upcountry town. The lively upturn in the traffic shows that times are improving in the Washington District. (NCDT, July 13, 1901)” * * * Grissel Bros, have taken their oe four-horse sleigh up country so as to be ready for stage duty between Washington and Nevada City when the snow flies. (NCDT December 16, 1903) kK The Washington stage got through to Nevada City yesterday after a hard fight with the snow. (NCDT,° April 9, 1907) Letters January 21, 1969 Nevada Count: Nevada City, Calif. Gentlemen: Thank you for printing the newsphoto. of Boreal’s Night Lighting; however, may we be the first to tell you that it is _ upside down. HELEN THORPE Promotion . Ed. Note: Thank you for being ) ag ; BEETLE! iu agEE" 3 gpitt Ate Z a3 E Rg gt SEE : Bl os — R § i i several hours to finish it. You see, after the thing was all up, they started to cover it with clay. But they left a door in it, After that they started to make holes in it all around the wigwam, as I called it. Then a fire was set in it, You know, I sat by that fire all night, I finally fell asleep the sun, I guess I was asleep long time, That was the first last time I watched anyone ake charcoal. But half way down the side of the n I ran across aroad Boe that made in the earlydays, . It is all covered with trees and brush now, and you would never it unless you knew where it was. JACK BASSETT Grass Valley, CALIFORNIA SPEAKS . BISHOP CHARLES F. GOLDEN, head of Calif.-Nevada Methodist Conference— “We believe the time is ripe for a new exciting venture of faith. and involvement. of the church in the world.” CLARK KERR, ex-pres. ; UC—“The circumstances under which I assumed the presand those under identical. I was fired with enthusiasm.” SO WHAT’S NEWP In the afterglow of the Apollo 8 achievement a few people with long memories, including the National Observer, aré having fun saying “So what’s new about that?” They then recall the novel written by Jules Verne more than a century ago, in 1865, “From the Earth to the Moon”. In his story, Verne sent three men to the moon in a spaceship 12 feet high. Apollo 8’s command module was 12 feet high, carried three men. ~ Verne’sship weighed 12,231 pounds, Apollo 8 161 pounds more. . The novelist’s spacecraft was shot into the air at a point on the Florida coast 100 miles from what is now Cape Kennedy, on December 11. bed It achieved a speed of 25,544 miles per hour. Apollo ' 8 at one time hit 24,200 mph. Verne’s ship went into a 25-mile high moon orbit then splashed down in the Pacific. One of its passengers was named Andan; one of Apollo 8’s was Anders. Nature, is has been said, imitates art. Now Science is doing it. Post Mortem Ben Franklin’s seemingly impregnable position as one of America’s true geniuses in many fields has been tarnished. He couldn’t invent a way to keep the magazine he founded in operation more than 147 years. : Many Americans in that untrustworthy age bracket over 30 will recall with considerable nostalgia the delights of the old Saturday Evening Post. An amalgam of attention getting fiction, informative articles, delightful humor, and _ fascinating advertisements, it was.an American tradition. Now it is dead. Dead, they say, in great part at the hands of a scientific revolution in which Ben himself played a considerable part — electronics. Television, with its instant intrusion into millions of homes, drained away many advertising dollars. Booming newspaper lineage captured many more. The picture magazines which in their way kept pace with TV’s visual appeal ate into circulation. e temper of the times, changed vastly by instantaneous communication, made it impossible for the old Post, unlike the more flexible press, to change its image sufficiently to hold the attention of a new generation. It was a nice try, Ben. A century and a half isn’t bad; afterall, you don’t have to worry about what you'll do for an encore. WEATHER. NEVADA CITY -_Max Min. R Jan, 22 49 32 2.380. Jan, 23 36 29. 14 Jan, 24 37 2B 24 Jan, 25 47. 33: 1,95 Jan, 26 50. 37 .2.79-. Jan, 27 40 31 53 Jan, 28 $5 = 31 37 Rainfall to date 51,15 Rainfall last year 19,77 GRASS VALLEY Max Min R Jan, 22 49 « 3 1,7 Jan, 23 37 907: .t Jan, 2% = 39 30 40 Jan, 25 49 36 1.56 Jah, 26 «51 «=, 382.59 Jan, 27 41 $2 16. Jan, 28 3 482. .29 Rainfall to date 48,64 Rainfall last year 21.05 ° a He may be right _A Cook County, Dlinois judge reportedly has come out infavor of legalized prostitution to cut down sex crimes and reduce the criminal calendar. A.wire service story quotes Judge Ben Edelstein, who presides over women's court: "With legalized prostitution you would eliminate the situation in which somebody with a desire grabs a young girl on the street." He reportedly blames the "affluent society” and "pleasure seekers with more money to spend" for the increase in prostitution,"" and said legalizing it would "cut down on the venereal disease rate," : Judge’ Edelstein's opinion probably shocks a sizable segment of the nation's population, and this is a feat in itself in these "'unshockable '60s,"' But for those who can weather the shock, his arguments appear to have much merit, Should they catch on nationally, it would not be surprising to learn that Nevada City's "Spring Street Girls" might return,

4 a ® e ification Voters in western Nevadae county will decide on unification of school districts April 15, the same time they select district trustees, A study of unification will be made and committes of willing citizens will be selected to get the pro-unification story to the people before election. Presumably the anti-unification citizens will have a similar studyogram, There are 13 school districts “involved in western Nevada county, About 5,000 students attend these schools. The local administrators’ association reflected diverse opinabout unification in a remeeting, but here seemed a complete agreement on one thing: The people should According to the Education News. Service, a full-scale study. of decentralization will be recommended to the Legislature by the chairman of the Senate Education Committee. Two bills were the subject of a recent hearing in Los Angeles, the one in favor of splitting the district into smaller ones and the other proposing a federalized decentralization, While the Los Angeles study is expected to take 12 to 18 months, the Nevada county fact gathering will have amuch more limited time. But the prime reason for it--to get the story to the voters--is a good one. School matters usually are so complex the average citizen gets lost probing them. Maybe this study will shed a bit of light on the pros and cons of district unification effecting an informed voter verdict ‘ come April 15, NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY NEVADA COUNTY PUBLISHING CO, 318 Broad Street, Telephone 265-2471 Second class postage * paid at Nevada City, California. Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada County Superior Court , Juce 3, 1960. Decree No, 12, 406, Subscription Rates: one year, $3.00; two years, $5.00, 198'7 PRIZE WINNING NEWSPAPEX : of the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER a aati, Begone ane nne poate sl sinccinswcnivaning-torD th “ Three stage lines operating Washington-NC in 1896 By Rye Slye John Sheahan today put on a tri-weekly stage line between Washington and Nevada City. "There are now three stage lines on that road." (NCDT, May 18, 1896) ** * From three bill-heads, each printed in a different style of type, from a collection of Mr, Sven Skarr, historian and antique dealer of Nevada City: 1, Hong Chong, (Wash), Nevada City, Nov. 2, 1891, To: Washington & Maybert Express Co., Dr. James Tully, Proprietor. Stages Run To All Points, A General Stage Business. 2, Same name as above. Nevada City, April 14, 1896, Daily. Stages Between Nevada City, Washington, Maybert & Gaston. George & J, B, Grissel, Proprietors. $, May 1, 1904. Same heading as above. S, P. Redmayne is Prop, three "bill-heads" lst items delivered to Mr, Hong Chong in Washington, Example: 1. Box of chicken & Sk, From Yee Lee--.50, An. old account book shows . Mr. Hong Chong's total express bill for March 1900; was $40. Letterhead found in old records in Washington. Dated 1907, Washington and Maybert Express Co, Daily Stages Between Nevada City, Washington, Maybert & Gaston. ** * From---Traveler's Guidebook. Published 1907 by the Nevada City Daily Miner-Transcript. Washington, From N.C., 19 miles; Stage Fare, $2.00.; Elevation, 2650. Ormonde, 22; $2.50.; 3000. Maybert, 28; $3,00.; 3800. Gaston, 26; $3.00; 5000,ee Travel and freighting on the Washington stage line is brisk these. days, This’ morning a large six-horse stage with elev@Q passengers and quite a load of freight left here for the upcountry town. The lively upturn in the traffic shows that times are improving in the Washington District. (NCDT, July 13, 1901)” * * * Grissel Bros, have taken their oe four-horse sleigh up country so as to be ready for stage duty between Washington and Nevada City when the snow flies. (NCDT December 16, 1903) kK The Washington stage got through to Nevada City yesterday after a hard fight with the snow. (NCDT,° April 9, 1907) Letters January 21, 1969 Nevada Count: Nevada City, Calif. Gentlemen: Thank you for printing the newsphoto. of Boreal’s Night Lighting; however, may we be the first to tell you that it is _ upside down. HELEN THORPE Promotion . Ed. Note: Thank you for being ) ag ; BEETLE! iu agEE" 3 gpitt Ate Z a3 E Rg gt

SEE : Bl os — R § i i several hours to finish it. You see, after the thing was all up, they started to cover it with clay. But they left a door in it, After that they started to make holes in it all around the wigwam, as I called it. Then a fire was set in it, You know, I sat by that fire all night, I finally fell asleep the sun, I guess I was asleep long time, That was the first last time I watched anyone ake charcoal. But half way down the side of the n I ran across aroad Boe that made in the earlydays, . It is all covered with trees and brush now, and you would never it unless you knew where it was. JACK BASSETT Grass Valley, CALIFORNIA SPEAKS . BISHOP CHARLES F. GOLDEN, head of Calif.-Nevada Methodist Conference— “We believe the time is ripe for a new exciting venture of faith. and involvement. of the church in the world.” CLARK KERR, ex-pres. ; UC—“The circumstances under which I assumed the presand those under identical. I was fired with enthusiasm.” SO WHAT’S NEWP In the afterglow of the Apollo 8 achievement a few people with long memories, including the National Observer, aré having fun saying “So what’s new about that?” They then recall the novel written by Jules Verne more than a century ago, in 1865, “From the Earth to the Moon”. In his story, Verne sent three men to the moon in a spaceship 12 feet high. Apollo 8’s command module was 12 feet high, carried three men. ~ Verne’sship weighed 12,231 pounds, Apollo 8 161 pounds more. . The novelist’s spacecraft was shot into the air at a point on the Florida coast 100 miles from what is now Cape Kennedy, on December 11. bed It achieved a speed of 25,544 miles per hour. Apollo ' 8 at one time hit 24,200 mph. Verne’s ship went into a 25-mile high moon orbit then splashed down in the Pacific. One of its passengers was named Andan; one of Apollo 8’s was Anders. Nature, is has been said, imitates art. Now Science is doing it. Post Mortem Ben Franklin’s seemingly impregnable position as one of America’s true geniuses in many fields has been tarnished. He couldn’t invent a way to keep the magazine he founded in operation more than 147 years. : Many Americans in that untrustworthy age bracket over 30 will recall with considerable nostalgia the delights of the old Saturday Evening Post. An amalgam of attention getting fiction, informative articles, delightful humor, and _ fascinating advertisements, it was.an American tradition. Now it is dead. Dead, they say, in great part at the hands of a scientific revolution in which Ben himself played a considerable part — electronics. Television, with its instant intrusion into millions of homes, drained away many advertising dollars. Booming newspaper lineage captured many more. The picture magazines which in their way kept pace with TV’s visual appeal ate into circulation. e temper of the times, changed vastly by instantaneous communication, made it impossible for the old Post, unlike the more flexible press, to change its image sufficiently to hold the attention of a new generation. It was a nice try, Ben. A century and a half isn’t bad; afterall, you don’t have to worry about what you'll do for an encore. WEATHER. NEVADA CITY -_Max Min. R Jan, 22 49 32 2.380. Jan, 23 36 29. 14 Jan, 24 37 2B 24 Jan, 25 47. 33: 1,95 Jan, 26 50. 37 .2.79-. Jan, 27 40 31 53 Jan, 28 $5 = 31 37 Rainfall to date 51,15 Rainfall last year 19,77 GRASS VALLEY Max Min R Jan, 22 49 « 3 1,7 Jan, 23 37 907: .t Jan, 2% = 39 30 40 Jan, 25 49 36 1.56 Jah, 26 «51 «=, 382.59 Jan, 27 41 $2 16. Jan, 28 3 482.. .29 Rainfall to date 48,64 Rainfall last year 21.05 ° a He may be right _A Cook County, Dlinois judge reportedly has come out infavor of legalized prostitution to cut down sex crimes and reduce the criminal calendar. A.wire service story quotes Judge Ben Edelstein, who presides over women's court: "With legalized prostitution you would eliminate the situation in which somebody with a desire grabs a young girl on the street." He reportedly blames the "affluent society” and "pleasure seekers with more money to spend" for the increase in prostitution,"" and said legalizing it would "cut down on the venereal disease rate," : Judge’ Edelstein's opinion probably shocks a sizable segment of the nation's population, and this is a feat in itself in these "'unshockable '60s,"' But for those who can weather the shock, his arguments appear to have much merit, Should they catch on nationally, it would not be surprising to learn that Nevada City's "Spring Street Girls" might return,