January 7, 1960 (6 pages)

Co. Supervisors _W. W. “Tabe” Bishop of Grass Valley was unanimously relected chairman of the Nevada County Board of Supervisors at the first meeting on. 1960 on Monday. Mosco Smart. of Nevada: City district was elected vice chairman to comply with a new law passed by the State Legislature last session. The board, following its reorganiziaion meeting, went on record as being the 31st. California county to oppose Senate Bill No, 1106, the Kovernor’s $1.75 billion bond project for water development of Southern California, It followei a resolution recently adopte.! by Stanislaus County and will so notify the state supervisor’s association. Nevada County Schools Forest Funds Increase Seven Nevada County school districts will: receive a total of $32,768 from national forest lumber and grazing collection during the current fiseal year. The total, $12;114 more than received during the previous year, was disclosed at a meeting of the Nevada County Board of Education in the offices of Ed Fellerson, county school superintendent. The nioney_goes only to school districts which have acreage within Tahoe National Forest, The principal recipient is Nevada City Elementary District, which will receive $11,265. Nevada Union High School will be given $10,380, and Tahoe-Truckee Joint Unified District at the eastern end of the county will receive $9,737. The balance will go. to: four small rural elementary districts as follows: Blue Tent, $328; Cherokee, $387; North’ San Juan, $253, and Washington, 414. The money is given under a formula in which the number of students and the number of acres within the forest are factors. The board accepted the resignation of Harry Fondiller, representative of the Nevada City area. He recently moved from the community. Forest Fire Loss Totals Huge Sum The forest fire loss in California amounted to. 66,000,000 during the critical 1959 season, one of the worst in 36 years. The United States Forest Service estimates damage losses _in. federally controlled areas at $55,800,000. It said state forest ands suffered $10,100,000 in fire damage. Commerce Group Installation Set For January 19th Marvin Haddy, popular and ac. tive civic and business leader of Nevada Oity, will be installed as president of the ‘Nevada City Chamber of Commerce for 1960 at the annual installations in the Victorian Room of the National Hotel Tuesday evening, January 19, The expected crowd of between 100 and 125 persons will gather at 7 p.m. for cocktails and dinner will be served at 8 o’clock. Speaker for the evening will be William Stinson, past president of the Nevada County Realtor Board. His subject will be the development of Nevada County. of beef or chicken. ‘Plans for the affair were made }at a directors meeting Tuesday noon at the National Hotel: Bert See, outgoing president, was in charge. Mrs, Gwen Anderson ‘is Attending were Marvin Haddy, incoming president; Paul BergeWendell Jones; past president and a past director; David Osborne; Peter Ingram, and Raiph Buchanan. ‘Other directors not present were Dick Worth, Woody Smith, Dick Knee, Emmett Gallagher, and Hal Almquist. will have a choice of prime ribs} Kendrick; Charles Kitts, . Constable of GV Township Harold Hutchison, 57, a native of Nevada City, was appointed ; Aon S County. Clerk. John ‘T. Trauner states shet election of a a constable of Grass Valley MonPaty ore, ist x hi ye day by the board of supervisors. Sedo commit — vill ighlight The appointment was made to pe Stagg et Primary . fill the vacancy caused by the eae 3 .,,; death of Constable Arthur HamWhose: terms will. mond two months ago. It was a expire next January 7 are Mosco. ynanimous vote by the five Smart of Nevada City, W. W. board members. Bishop of Grass Walley, and. Hutchison, who lives with his Henry Loehr. of Truckee. wife on South Auburn Street in Filing dates for: Rination are . Grass Valley, was a Grass Valley SA police officer from 1939. to 1942 and a deputy sheriff of the county. ‘ He has two sons, Harold, Jr., and Eldon, the former mortician in San Francisco and the latter a machinist at Mare Island. Ottle State tion down the hall t liam M. Wilson from thé position of s Robert Paine, manager of the local office of the State Board of Equalization, will.be the masj ter of ceremonies. Installing ofjficer will be Willard Rose, past . director of the chamber and manMarv Haddy was born in Grass Valley and was raised and educated in Nevada City. He has operated a Shell service station here since 1942 and has been active in city administration and Findley, Methodist minister, will give the invocation. « Dinner cost will be $2.85 and Manager Retires Stanley N. McCormick, manager of Pacific Gas and. Electric Company at Downieville since 1949, is retiring today (December 31), according to an announcement by Walter D. Skinner of Auburn, manager of the PGE Drum Division. McCormick was a_ guest of) honor at a retirement party held Friday night, December 18, at the conclusion ‘of the annual children’s Christmas party of the Pacifie Service Employees~ Association at the Downieville Community Hall. L. R. Farrell of Grass Valley, manager of the Nevada District of the company, presented him with a gift from his fellow employees, a deep sea fishing outfit. Mr. and Mrs. McCormick have bought a home at Pacific Grove, but they will continue to live in Downieville, where Mrs. McCormick is Sierra County clerk, auditor and recordr; Born in Lafaytt, Contra Costa]. County, McCormick attended school in Sacramento, and from 1915 to 1928 engaged in mining. He was variously a millman, mill} foreman or carpenter at the Plumbago, Tightner, Eagle Bird and Sixteen to. One mines at Alleghany and for three years prospected for himself. World War I he used his skill with tools as a machiniest’s mate in the Navy. In 1929 he began rewiring homes in Downieville and installing meters for PGE. He continued to work part time in the electrical departient of the company between 1931 and 1949 while serving as chief deputy in the i of Highways officials” at the Marysville district office. proposed Grass Valley Nevada City freeway. Both buildings will be open for inspection January 8 from 10 a.m. until time of sale. They must be removed by March 10. on their respective premises in the following order: Empire. Street, formerly owned by Rolla N. 7 acceptable bid, $60. gallon E civic affairs, serving as a city illness forced him to curtail some of his activities. He was instrumental in forming the Nevada City baseball club and is also secretary of the Placerevada Baseball League. He also k an active part in the delopment of Pioneer Park and baseball diamond there. He and his wife Marge have two daughters, Nyla, 12, and Marla, 9. E Marv is a member of the Elks Lodge, Nevada City Lions Olub, and the fire department. To Auction Houses A public auction for the sale and removal of two ‘houses in Grass Valley has been set for tomorrow (January 8) at 10:30 a.m., according to. State Division The land has been acquired by the state as right-of-way for the The hduses will be auctioned Frame house and garage at 234 Johnson, Minimum Frame house, garage, and 50oil. ‘storage tank at 220 accepted on tems selling for more than $100. Purchase price or deposits must “The constable’s job pays $2,000 are those which had exact propon which little other paper is required. cessary for the government to de. selling . termine exact boundariés on other parcels, DeMun said, since lands were offered on a “more.or less” acreage quotation. Exact limits will have to be determined in} cases where lands adjoin federal power or base reservations. & year plus fees for serving legal papers, The board also accepted the resignation of A, T. Parsons, . county planning commission con‘. sultant for the past seven. years. Parsons told the board” thatthe; work load of the part time position was becoming too heavy due to the large number of subdivisions being started and widespread consideration of zoning. He said the job in the future will require a full time consultant or county planner. After lengthy debate as to whether the county should. buy a rock crusher or have the crushing done by private industry the board voted in favor Lof purchasing a crusher unit from the Edward R. Bacon Company of Sacramento for $62.520. US Winds Up Beale AFB Land Sales John R. DeMun, acquisition and disposal officer of the general services administration, reported last week from San ’ Francisco his,agency has begun paper work to close out sales of land to high bidders in the December 21 auction of surplus lands at Beale Air Force Base. DeMun said letters ‘have been sent to nine individuals decelaring their sales are ready to be closed. The. next step for these buyers is to pay the total price or add 10 per cent of the bid price and assume a contract payable over 8 to 10 years at § per cent interest. DeMun stated processing on all 105 parcels included in the sale will proceed as rapidly as posing at the end of the 1960 calendar year for Earl . icka 2 tteemmen, 21 for €ach party, will be chosen at the primary. Registered voters may file for nomination, each name appearing on the ballot, between March 9 and April 8, or be elected by write-in. The 21 persons receiving the highest vote will be elected. 4 If more than two persons contest a position and one is not elected by majority vote at the primary he must run off against the next highest vote received to theNovember 8 general election. make immediate closures, with property available to purchasers within a week, absolutely rules out the chances of Aerojet-General. Corporation of Sacramento to acquire land for rocket testing. . Aerojet for the highest bidder when the 40,585 acres were bid ina single unit, at a price of $45 per acre. Much of the area is subject to decontamination from buried munitions, the question of mineral rights. still held by owners prior to the federal government is’ unsettled and nobody has yet determined the ownership of former county roads. DeMun said his office has received no complanits other than that of Alvin Long of Mill Valley, Marin County, who asked to negotiate a lawer price. Long ,as high bidder, was contested at the sale by William Peckham, the latter claiming he had submitted the top. bid of $37 per acre on his former ranch. With Long claiming to have submitted the same high bid the sale was reopened on the 80 acre parcel and Long finallytopped Pecklam’s last offer at $57 per acre. said he could not change the final price. a h sible. Parcels readied for closing erty descriptions availaable and work Some survey work will be neL phoned support of some 140 additional _ persons, Leon Sanford, spokesman for the group. Many of. those present were teachers. which the board was asked to give the public its reasons for not rehiring Mr. Wilson, Albert Casey, retired lawyer and board president, told the crowd that the board members did not have to give any reasons as they were elected by the people to make decisions and were justified in whatever they did. He said he did not consider the 925 signatures Plus the 140 additional phone calls as any indication of the feelings of the y. Allan Library : & ZEHIRIUM TREMENS. SOs eewewseesee onder eseneeewe el a te ewewecenesces sees eegeteesen oe hemeeenerese ORS Bea ae Se reset Pean:-6 25. 50 630 pore Rain to date..:.. 7.79 Rain last year.... 9.05 Planned WILSON FIRING CONTROVERSY Irate Grou In ‘Arbitra A group of an Union high school to bring about the recall of the who had just flatly refused to which he has held since 1951. Wilson has been in the school system of Nevada County for 30 years and holds tenure, so he will not be out of a job if he wishes to stay in another capacity. But the board failed to rénew his contract recently, thus setting off the chain of events which led up to this week’s public display on Wilson’s behalf. About 180 persons, armed with Oust Three Members Casey Says 925 Names On Petition ‘Not Indicative’ Of Public’s Wishes gry citizens stalked out of the Nevada board meeting Monday night, walked o room 13’ and formed an or p Forms To ry’ Action ganization to try three school board members reconsider the firing of Wilk chool superintendent, and thought he had a lot of abil-’ity. But their personal views failed to change their vote from “no” to “aye.” Following the polling of the board all but about 10 people left the gymnasium, where the meeting was held. Over half. of. those leaving went home, but about 80 met in’ room 13 under the temporary chairmanship of triet, appeared at Monday’s meeting. They also brought the teleaccording to After some discussion, during some 10,000 registered of 925"persons in the ister ae tam forced to withhold the ne ment of a new superintendent until after the recall election could be held. No decision was reached on this, although one man said he thought that a writ of mandamus could be obtained from the Superior Court to stop the appointment if necessary. The group will seek legal council on this and other points. nance, legal opinion, area form the “Nevada Union High — School District Recall Committee” to try to bring about the’recall of. Casey, Paine and Bricks ell as soon as possible. There was some discussion ag to whether or not the present board could be persuated and/or: Committees for publicity, fi. chdirvoters in the union district. groan of angry protest from the audience. teacher and now a board member, gave his views of the cor troversy when he said that reasons given him for Wilson’s dismissal as superintendént were the most ridiculous and childish that he had ever run across in member, said he felt the same way as Mr. George and said further that especially in view of the petitions, phone calls to him. self and opinion he had gathered around town recently convinced public wanted to retain Mr. Wilson “as shperintendent; and he felt it was therefore the duty of the board to go along with what the people wanted. He moved that Mr. Wilson be ‘hired, and’ the motion was seconded by = Mr. George. apparently, and the other three members voted. “no.” from Nevada Gity, told the audiman, workers and nomination were appointed. * The. organization will meet again next Monday night at 8 o’clock in room 13 of the high schoo] and plans a similar meeting shortly thereafter at the Novada Junior High School. Leon’. Sanford was named permanent chairman by acclamation. Mrs. . William Lynch was named to the finance committee and collected $195.91 as .initial contribuVohas 8 The organization has six months in which to effect. a recall élection. To obtain an election must obtain signatures of 20cent of the registered voters in. __ the district. ae Harold Cox, county Sanatarian, was named coordinator for the organization: Nevada County Gives Citizenship To 3 Persons . Christmas Eve gifts in the form of citizenship were presented to three Nevada County residents . in naturalization ceremonies con© This statement brought a loud Harold George, Sr., a former ee ll of his experience. W. W. Brunkef, another board im that the majority of the But the tide had not changed, Robert Paine, board member a i Loca] real estate men report} ence the board was not bound to} Miesen of Grass Valley, a native _ the Forest Service loss esti-. Sierra County sheriff and tax sonal checks cannot be accepted. DeMun also disclosed the total on among some successful . give any reasons for firing Wil-}. of Germany: Renate Helene Giles mates covered t emidbertroysm . cojlector’s office. The balance, if any, and a faith-. aggregate bid of $2,248,647 did . highbidders. Many stated they] son He intimated very pointedly . of Nevada City, anative of Gere mates covered timber destroyed During hislong Downieville. ful performance surety bond of. not meet the government’s total . have been unable to locate ‘their . that giving reasons would ‘only . Many, and Daphne. Joyce Stark eo and watershed damage. It said. residence McCormick has served $500 for each item are due within . estimated value, although it came. land and some of those who. embarrass Mr. Wilson and hurt. 0f Gress Valley, a native of Eng-_ enough -prime timber to build/ as presiderit and a director of the ; found their parcels expressed dis-. his future. This did not agreefland. ts 40,000 new homes was burned in . Sierra Chamber. of Commerce, Satisfaction with surface hardpan, . with what Mr. George had said Judge eo ; ;. President of the Downieville . btai prock . oppings ,and lack of/earlier, pointed out some of the C. Bray The Forest Service said danger} Lions Club, president of the Na. wa In som toads. Bridges that once existed . spectators. RE x will not be over until. major tive Sons of the Golden West, and 6Herw $501, nok toe : a : is “The fifth member of,the board Toneeat ae nec ayaot California's . home service chairman of the Red) ——— DeMun said, it has ". Jack Brickell, member from Ne-. longest dry seasons. . He is a-charter member. GRASS VALEYAN'S WAR =. azency’s policy to ne ; I sipsge cr,

Co. Supervisors _W. W. “Tabe” Bishop of Grass Valley was unanimously relected chairman of the Nevada County Board of Supervisors at the first meeting on. 1960 on Monday. Mosco Smart. of Nevada: City district was elected vice chairman to comply with a new law passed by the State Legislature last session. The board, following its reorganiziaion meeting, went on record as being the 31st. California county to oppose Senate Bill No, 1106, the Kovernor’s $1.75 billion bond project for water development of Southern California, It followei a resolution recently adopte.! by Stanislaus County and will so notify the state supervisor’s association. Nevada County Schools Forest Funds Increase Seven Nevada County school districts will: receive a total of $32,768 from national forest lumber and grazing collection during the current fiseal year. The total, $12;114 more than received during the previous year, was disclosed at a meeting of the Nevada County Board of Education in the offices of Ed Fellerson, county school superintendent. The nioney_goes only to school districts which have acreage within Tahoe National Forest, The principal recipient is Nevada City Elementary District, which will receive $11,265. Nevada Union High School will be given $10,380, and Tahoe-Truckee Joint Unified District at the eastern end of the county will receive $9,737. The balance will go. to: four small rural elementary districts as follows: Blue Tent, $328; Cherokee, $387; North’ San Juan, $253, and Washington, 414. The money is given under a formula in which the number of students and the number of acres within the forest are factors. The board accepted the resignation of Harry Fondiller, representative of the Nevada City area. He recently moved from the community. Forest Fire Loss Totals Huge Sum The forest fire loss in California amounted to. 66,000,000 during the critical 1959 season, one of the worst in 36 years. The United States Forest Service estimates damage losses _in. federally controlled areas at $55,800,000. It said state forest ands suffered $10,100,000 in fire damage. Commerce Group Installation Set For January 19th Marvin Haddy, popular and ac. tive civic and business leader of Nevada Oity, will be installed as president of the ‘Nevada City Chamber of Commerce for 1960 at the annual installations in the Victorian Room of the National Hotel Tuesday evening, January 19, The expected crowd of between 100 and 125 persons will gather at 7 p.m. for cocktails and dinner will be served at 8 o’clock. Speaker for the evening will be William Stinson, past president of the Nevada County Realtor Board. His subject will be the development of Nevada County. of beef or chicken. ‘Plans for the affair were made }at a directors meeting Tuesday noon at the National Hotel: Bert See, outgoing president, was in charge. Mrs, Gwen Anderson ‘is Attending were Marvin Haddy, incoming president; Paul BergeWendell Jones; past president and a past director; David Osborne; Peter Ingram, and Raiph Buchanan. ‘Other directors not present were Dick Worth, Woody Smith, Dick Knee, Emmett Gallagher, and Hal Almquist. will have a choice of prime ribs} Kendrick; Charles Kitts, . Constable of GV Township Harold Hutchison, 57, a native of Nevada City, was appointed ; Aon S County. Clerk. John ‘T. Trauner states shet election of a a constable of Grass Valley MonPaty ore, ist x hi ye day by the board of supervisors. Sedo commit — vill ighlight The appointment was made to pe Stagg et Primary . fill the vacancy caused by the eae 3 .,,; death of Constable Arthur HamWhose: terms will. mond two months ago. It was a expire next January 7 are Mosco. ynanimous vote by the five Smart of Nevada City, W. W. board members. Bishop of Grass Walley, and. Hutchison, who lives with his Henry Loehr. of Truckee. wife on South Auburn Street in Filing dates for: Rination are . Grass Valley, was a Grass Valley SA police officer from 1939. to 1942 and a deputy sheriff of the county. ‘ He has two sons, Harold, Jr., and Eldon, the former mortician in San Francisco and the latter a machinist at Mare Island. Ottle State tion down the hall t liam M. Wilson from thé position of s Robert Paine, manager of the local office of the State Board of Equalization, will.be the masj ter of ceremonies. Installing ofjficer will be Willard Rose, past . director of the chamber and manMarv Haddy was born in Grass Valley and was raised and educated in Nevada City. He has operated a Shell service station here since 1942 and has been active in city administration and Findley, Methodist minister, will give the invocation. « Dinner cost will be $2.85 and Manager Retires Stanley N. McCormick, manager of Pacific Gas and. Electric Company at Downieville since 1949, is retiring today (December 31), according to an announcement by Walter D. Skinner of Auburn, manager of the PGE Drum Division. McCormick was a_ guest of) honor at a retirement party held Friday night, December 18, at the conclusion ‘of the annual children’s Christmas party of the Pacifie Service Employees~ Association at the Downieville Community Hall. L. R. Farrell of Grass Valley, manager of the Nevada District of the company, presented him with a gift from his fellow employees, a deep sea fishing outfit. Mr. and Mrs. McCormick have bought a home at Pacific Grove, but they will continue to live in Downieville, where Mrs. McCormick is Sierra County clerk, auditor and recordr; Born in Lafaytt, Contra Costa]. County, McCormick attended school in Sacramento, and from 1915 to 1928 engaged in mining. He was variously a millman, mill} foreman or carpenter at the Plumbago, Tightner, Eagle Bird and Sixteen to. One mines at Alleghany and for three years prospected for himself. World War I he used his skill with tools as a machiniest’s mate in the Navy. In 1929 he began rewiring homes in Downieville and installing meters for PGE. He continued to work part time in the electrical departient of the company between 1931 and 1949 while serving as chief deputy in the i of Highways officials” at the Marysville district office. proposed Grass Valley Nevada City freeway. Both buildings will be open for inspection January 8 from 10 a.m. until time of sale. They must be removed by March 10. on their respective premises in the following order: Empire. Street, formerly owned by Rolla N. 7 acceptable bid, $60. gallon E civic affairs, serving as a city illness forced him to curtail some of his activities. He was instrumental in forming the Nevada City baseball club and is also secretary of the Placerevada Baseball League. He also k an active part in the delopment of Pioneer Park and baseball diamond there. He and his wife Marge have two daughters, Nyla, 12, and Marla, 9. E Marv is a member of the Elks Lodge, Nevada City Lions Olub, and the fire department. To Auction Houses A public auction for the sale and removal of two ‘houses in Grass Valley has been set for tomorrow (January 8) at 10:30 a.m., according to. State Division The land has been acquired by the state as right-of-way for the The hduses will be auctioned Frame house and garage at 234 Johnson, Minimum Frame house, garage, and 50oil. ‘storage tank at 220 accepted on tems selling for more than $100. Purchase price or deposits must “The constable’s job pays $2,000 are those which had exact propon which little other paper is required. cessary for the government to de. selling . termine exact boundariés on other parcels, DeMun said, since lands were offered on a “more.or less” acreage quotation. Exact limits will have to be determined in} cases where lands adjoin federal power or base reservations.. & year plus fees for serving legal papers, The board also accepted the resignation of A, T. Parsons, . county planning commission con‘. sultant for the past seven. years. Parsons told the board” thatthe; work load of the part time position was becoming too heavy due to the large number of subdivisions being started and widespread consideration of zoning. He said the job in the future will require a full time consultant or county planner. After lengthy debate as to whether the county should. buy a rock crusher or have the crushing done by private industry the board voted in favor

Lof purchasing a crusher unit from the Edward R. Bacon Company of Sacramento for $62.520. US Winds Up Beale AFB Land Sales John R. DeMun, acquisition and disposal officer of the general services administration, reported last week from San ’ Francisco his,agency has begun paper work to close out sales of land to high bidders in the December 21 auction of surplus lands at Beale Air Force Base. DeMun said letters ‘have been sent to nine individuals decelaring their sales are ready to be closed. The. next step for these buyers is to pay the total price or add 10 per cent of the bid price and assume a contract payable over 8 to 10 years at § per cent interest. DeMun stated processing on all 105 parcels included in the sale will proceed as rapidly as posing at the end of the 1960 calendar year for Earl . icka 2 tteemmen, 21 for €ach party, will be chosen at the primary. Registered voters may file for nomination, each name appearing on the ballot, between March 9 and April 8, or be elected by write-in. The 21 persons receiving the highest vote will be elected. 4 If more than two persons contest a position and one is not elected by majority vote at the primary he must run off against the next highest vote received to theNovember 8 general election. make immediate closures, with property available to purchasers within a week, absolutely rules out the chances of Aerojet-General. Corporation of Sacramento to acquire land for rocket testing. . Aerojet for the highest bidder when the 40,585 acres were bid ina single unit, at a price of $45 per acre. Much of the area is subject to decontamination from buried munitions, the question of mineral rights. still held by owners prior to the federal government is’ unsettled and nobody has yet determined the ownership of former county roads. DeMun said his office has received no complanits other than that of Alvin Long of Mill Valley, Marin County, who asked to negotiate a lawer price. Long ,as high bidder, was contested at the sale by William Peckham, the latter claiming he had submitted the top. bid of $37 per acre on his former ranch. With Long claiming to have submitted the same high bid the sale was reopened on the 80 acre parcel and Long finallytopped Pecklam’s last offer at $57 per acre. said he could not change the final price. a h sible. Parcels readied for closing erty descriptions availaable and work Some survey work will be neL phoned support of some 140 additional _ persons, Leon Sanford, spokesman for the group. Many of. those present were teachers. which the board was asked to give the public its reasons for not rehiring Mr. Wilson, Albert Casey, retired lawyer and board president, told the crowd that the board members did not have to give any reasons as they were elected by the people to make decisions and were justified in whatever they did. He said he did not consider the 925 signatures Plus the 140 additional phone calls as any indication of the feelings of the y. Allan Library : & ZEHIRIUM TREMENS. SOs eewewseesee onder eseneeewe el a te ewewecenesces sees eegeteesen oe hemeeenerese ORS Bea ae Se reset Pean:-6 25. 50 630 pore Rain to date....:.... 7.79 Rain last year....... 9.05 Planned WILSON FIRING CONTROVERSY Irate Grou In ‘Arbitra A group of an Union high school to bring about the recall of the who had just flatly refused to which he has held since 1951. Wilson has been in the school system of Nevada County for 30 years and holds tenure, so he will not be out of a job if he wishes to stay in another capacity. But the board failed to rénew his contract recently, thus setting off the chain of events which led up to this week’s public display on Wilson’s behalf. About 180 persons, armed with Oust Three Members Casey Says 925 Names On Petition ‘Not Indicative’ Of Public’s Wishes gry citizens stalked out of the Nevada board meeting Monday night, walked o room 13’ and formed an or p Forms To ry’ Action ganization to try three school board members reconsider the firing of Wilk chool superintendent, and thought he had a lot of abil-’ity. But their personal views failed to change their vote from “no” to “aye.” Following the polling of the board all but about 10 people left the gymnasium, where the meeting was held. Over half. of. those leaving went home, but about 80 met in’ room 13 under the temporary chairmanship of triet, appeared at Monday’s meeting. They also brought the teleaccording to After some discussion, during some 10,000 registered of 925"persons in the ister ae tam forced to withhold the ne ment of a new superintendent until after the recall election could be held. No decision was reached on this, although one man said he thought that a writ of mandamus could be obtained from the Superior Court to stop the appointment if necessary. The group will seek legal council on this and other points. nance, legal opinion, area form the “Nevada Union High — School District Recall Committee” to try to bring about the’recall of. Casey, Paine and Bricks ell as soon as possible. There was some discussion ag to whether or not the present board could be persuated and/or: Committees for publicity, fi. chdirvoters in the union district. groan of angry protest from the audience. teacher and now a board member, gave his views of the cor troversy when he said that reasons given him for Wilson’s dismissal as superintendént were the most ridiculous and childish that he had ever run across in member, said he felt the same way as Mr. George and said further that especially in view of the petitions, phone calls to him. self and opinion he had gathered around town recently convinced public wanted to retain Mr. Wilson “as shperintendent; and he felt it was therefore the duty of the board to go along with what the people wanted. He moved that Mr. Wilson be ‘hired, and’ the motion was seconded by = Mr. George. apparently, and the other three members voted. “no.” from Nevada Gity, told the audiman, workers and nomination were appointed. * The. organization will meet again next Monday night at 8 o’clock in room 13 of the high schoo] and plans a similar meeting shortly thereafter at the Novada Junior High School. Leon’. Sanford was named permanent chairman by acclamation. Mrs. . William Lynch was named to the finance committee and collected $195.91 as .initial contribuVohas 8 The organization has six months in which to effect. a recall élection. To obtain an election must obtain signatures of 20cent of the registered voters in. __ the district. ae Harold Cox, county Sanatarian, was named coordinator for the organization: Nevada County Gives Citizenship To 3 Persons . Christmas Eve gifts in the form of citizenship were presented to three Nevada County residents . in naturalization ceremonies con© This statement brought a loud Harold George, Sr., a former ee ll of his experience. W. W. Brunkef, another board im that the majority of the But the tide had not changed, Robert Paine, board member a i Loca] real estate men report} ence the board was not bound to} Miesen of Grass Valley, a native _ the Forest Service loss esti-. Sierra County sheriff and tax sonal checks cannot be accepted. DeMun also disclosed the total on among some successful . give any reasons for firing Wil-}. of Germany: Renate Helene Giles mates covered t emidbertroysm . cojlector’s office. The balance, if any, and a faith-. aggregate bid of $2,248,647 did . highbidders. Many stated they] son He intimated very pointedly . of Nevada City, anative of Gere mates covered timber destroyed During hislong Downieville. ful performance surety bond of. not meet the government’s total . have been unable to locate ‘their . that giving reasons would ‘only . Many, and Daphne. Joyce Stark eo and watershed damage. It said. residence McCormick has served $500 for each item are due within . estimated value, although it came. land and some of those who. embarrass Mr. Wilson and hurt. 0f Gress Valley, a native of Eng-_ enough -prime timber to build/ as presiderit and a director of the ; found their parcels expressed dis-. his future. This did not agreefland. ts 40,000 new homes was burned in . Sierra Chamber. of Commerce, Satisfaction with surface hardpan, . with what Mr. George had said Judge eo ; ;. President of the Downieville . btai prock . oppings ,and lack of/earlier, pointed out some of the C. Bray The Forest Service said danger} Lions Club, president of the Na. wa In som toads. Bridges that once existed . spectators. RE x will not be over until. major tive Sons of the Golden West, and 6Herw $501, nok toe : a : is “The fifth member of,the board Toneeat ae nec ayaot California's . home service chairman of the Red) ——— DeMun said, it has ". Jack Brickell, member from Ne-. longest dry seasons. . He is a-charter member. GRASS VALEYAN'S WAR =. azency’s policy to ne ; I sipsge cr,