January 7, 1965 (16 pages)

January 7, 1965.Nevada County Nugget. Ei Dee 6096 02.90 & DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE ©9086 00 @ee050 Alex Hunt Added Color To Nevada City Journalism In this picture story of the newspapers of Nevada City we are saluting the staff in the backrooms that put the paper to-gether the composers the artists the printers and to record the story of my favorite printer in Nevada City: One Alex Hunt, Alex worked on every paper in Nevada City at one time or another. He was a strong, powerful man, brave and generous, and often he would get drunk, as good printers have done before and since. He was rated as the best printer on the New York Herald, had been seduced by the excitement of gold and the reputation of? Nevada City and became a real NC character. Among his eccentricities was his sleeping habits, He procured a coffin of suitable dimensions, used it as a bed, sleeping in it at night. His home was wherever he could find room to store his funeral habitation. Frequently he would engage four pall bearers to carry him through the streets in funeral procession. Up and down Broad Street would be carried Alex, with the numerous saloons emptying themselves to salute Alex’ most recent demise. He would lie in the coffin with all the gravity becoming the chief actor in a funeral, and other times he would bolt upright and gaze upon the curious spectators. One night he found a hearse that had been left in the street, into it stowed his sepulchral dwelling and retired to rest, In the morning some strange Cousin Jacks from Grass Valley, unaware of NC humor were quite agitated to find that the body was very much alive, 8 A favorite habit of Alex was that of blacking one boot and white washing the other. It was his style of war paint, and when-he appeared in that costume it was well understood that he was on the war path and would be thoroughly drunk before night. Everyone in NC loved Alex he became temperate gave up printing in.his.advaneed years and earned his room and board by i odd = at the Union Hotel. . secwrere=y ce bacasusas (peeeagegey i TRI-WEEKLY HERALD. NEVADA City ,NevaDA 62.Cac. ia sare, . erm This five inches by 16 inches Nevada Transcript Extra is not only the smallest extra ever published in NC but is the only original in existence. It was printed on Commercial Street late in the afternoon of Sept. 6, 1901. -From the Paine Collection. CBub Bae FOOL’S GOLD DWILY TRANSCRIPT EXTRA, b President’s Life Will Bo Save New York, Septemb<r 6, 4 Pp. M——Mark Hanna says that President McKintey’s life can be saved One of the bullets lodged in the abdumen, and has not been extracted. The other lo¢ged in the breast=bone, and was taken out The President was eatending his hand to the man The latter fired two skots. Copyright, 2900, by Obarles A. Gray. PRESIDENT M’KINLEY. BuFEALO, Sept. 6, 5 Pp. M—The physicians say that the Prisident will live. He fell Jato the arms of Secretary Co: elyou when the sh-ts were fired. Vice President Roosevelt will arrive here at seven p. m. The city is wildly excited. A large :rowd «~rrounds the jail in which the would-be essassin is confined. tails. BuFFALO, Sept. 6—The latest reports are to the effect that the President has regained consciousness and is resting easier, The first bullet, which was thought to have been fatal fortunately lodged against the breast bone. The man’s name woo fired the shots is Fred Neiman He is a Polish anarchist and has been living at Buffalo one week. He covered the pistol] with a handkerchief when he sl ook hands with the President. It is: strongly guarded by Police dehele ERING MOSS Kennedy’s Peace Corps A Success Itisa.pity that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, today, is remembered more for his failures and frustrations than for his accomplishments. The Bay of Pigs fisaco, The refusal of a Congress dominated by his own party to go along with his program of social and economic reforms. His very life snuffed out so tragically before he had finished even one term in the White House, And yet, as we look.at the world picture at the close of 1964, we find that John Kennedy's dream of promoting world peace and combating communism through a peace corps of dedicated young Americans is very definitely a success. It has been so effective that several other nations are now forming peace corps of their own. This grassroots approach to international understanding may in fact go down in history as the most important social and moral movement ever undertaken, Until now most Peace Corps recruits have been college students or graduates, but as more and more workers with practical, manual skills are needed, recruiters have been canvassing the nation's big industrial plants, factories and contracting firms. Many of the skilled blue-collar workers who have answered this appeal are in their thirties and forties, Some are married to women. who also have skills needed in Peace Corps projects so that married couples can serve together. All are giving up well paid jobs.to serve two years or more for what is probably the smallest pay received by any employees of the United States > Government. Too often in past decades the only Americans that people of other countries ever saw answered quite well the description of the “Ugly American” as drawn by Lederer and Burdick in their best selling book. The overbearing, contemptuous, superior attitude of many of our tourists and some “of our diplomats was sowing il} will for America and creating a receptive audience for communist propaganda. Our Peace Corps representatives speak the language of the people withwhom they work. They live among them, eat their food, sing their songs, dance their dances, respect their religious and moral customs, When they introduce to these people better ways of farming, transportation or public health it is done as neighbor to neighbor, not as a superior race bestowing bounty on savages. “It has been a well thought out program, carried out wisely and well, Let's give credit to John Kennedy and his able lieutenant Sargent Shriver .for a movement that may do more than the United Nations to keep the peace.

January 7, 1965..Nevada County Nugget.. Ei Dee 6096 02.90 & DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE ©9086 00 @ee050 Alex Hunt Added Color To Nevada City Journalism In this picture story of the newspapers of Nevada City we are saluting the staff in the backrooms that put the paper to-gether the composers the artists the printers and to record the story of my favorite printer in Nevada City: One Alex Hunt, Alex worked on every paper in Nevada City at one time or another. He was a strong, powerful man, brave and generous, and often he would get drunk, as good printers have done before and since. He was rated as the best printer on the New York Herald, had been seduced by the excitement of gold and the reputation of? Nevada City and became a real NC character. Among his eccentricities was his sleeping habits, He procured a coffin of suitable dimensions, used it as a bed, sleeping in it at night. His home was wherever he could find room to store his funeral habitation. Frequently he would engage four pall bearers to carry him through the streets in funeral procession. Up and down Broad Street would be carried Alex, with the numerous saloons emptying themselves to salute Alex’ most recent demise. He would lie in the coffin with all the gravity becoming the chief actor in a funeral, and other times he would bolt upright and gaze upon the curious spectators. One night he found a hearse that had been left in the street, into it stowed his sepulchral dwelling and retired to rest, In the morning some strange Cousin Jacks from Grass Valley, unaware of NC humor were quite agitated to find that the body was very much alive, 8 A favorite habit of Alex was that of blacking one boot and white washing the other. It was his style of war paint, and when-he appeared in that costume it was well understood that he was on the war path and would be thoroughly drunk before night. Everyone in NC loved Alex he became temperate gave up printing in.his.advaneed years and earned his room and board by i odd = at the Union Hotel. . secwrere=y ce bacasusas (peeeagegey i TRI-WEEKLY HERALD. NEVADA City ,NevaDA 62.Cac. ia sare, . erm This five inches by 16 inches Nevada Transcript Extra is not only the smallest extra ever published in NC but is the only original in existence. It was printed on Commercial Street late in the afternoon of Sept. 6, 1901. -From the Paine Collection. CBub Bae FOOL’S GOLD DWILY TRANSCRIPT EXTRA, b President’s Life Will Bo Save New York, Septemb<r 6, 4 Pp. M——Mark Hanna says that President McKintey’s life can be saved One of the bullets lodged in the abdumen, and has not been extracted. The other lo¢ged in the breast=bone, and was taken out The President was eatending his hand to the man The latter fired two skots. Copyright, 2900, by Obarles A. Gray. PRESIDENT M’KINLEY. BuFEALO, Sept. 6, 5 Pp. M—The physicians say that the Prisident will live. He fell Jato the arms of Secretary Co: elyou when the sh-ts were fired. Vice President Roosevelt will arrive here at seven p. m. The city is wildly excited. A large :rowd «~rrounds the jail in which the would-be essassin is confined. tails. BuFFALO, Sept. 6—The latest reports are to the effect that the President has regained consciousness and is resting easier, The first bullet, which was thought to have been fatal fortunately lodged against the breast bone. The man’s name woo fired the shots is Fred Neiman He is a Polish anarchist and has been living at Buffalo one week. He covered the pistol] with a handkerchief when he sl ook hands with the President. It is: strongly guarded by Police dehele ERING MOSS Kennedy’s Peace

Corps A Success Itisa.pity that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, today, is remembered more for his failures and frustrations than for his accomplishments. The Bay of Pigs fisaco, The refusal of a Congress dominated by his own party to go along with his program of social and economic reforms. His very life snuffed out so tragically before he had finished even one term in the White House, And yet, as we look.at the world picture at the close of 1964, we find that John Kennedy's dream of promoting world peace and combating communism through a peace corps of dedicated young Americans is very definitely a success. It has been so effective that several other nations are now forming peace corps of their own. This grassroots approach to international understanding may in fact go down in history as the most important social and moral movement ever undertaken, Until now most Peace Corps recruits have been college students or graduates, but as more and more workers with practical, manual skills are needed, recruiters have been canvassing the nation's big industrial plants, factories and contracting firms. Many of the skilled blue-collar workers who have answered this appeal are in their thirties and forties, Some are married to women. who also have skills needed in Peace Corps projects so that married couples can serve together. All are giving up well paid jobs.to serve two years or more for what is probably the smallest pay received by any employees of the United States > Government. Too often in past decades the only Americans that people of other countries ever saw answered quite well the description of the “Ugly American” as drawn by Lederer and Burdick in their best selling book. The overbearing, contemptuous, superior attitude of many of our tourists and some “of our diplomats was sowing il} will for America and creating a receptive audience for communist propaganda. Our Peace Corps representatives speak the language of the people withwhom they work. They live among them, eat their food, sing their songs, dance their dances, respect their religious and moral customs, When they introduce to these people better ways of farming, transportation or public health it is done as neighbor to neighbor, not as a superior race bestowing bounty on savages. “It has been a well thought out program, carried out wisely and well, Let's give credit to John Kennedy and his able lieutenant Sargent Shriver .for a movement that may do more than the United Nations to keep the peace.