July 1, 1970 (12 pages)

10 The Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, July 1, 1970 Irrigation District engineer Jim 4 Brady told the Board of Direcon tors Wednesday. Brady said "the clearing of the new water line is close to finished and benching is in progress," The district is doing its own construction work after bids were rejected. Brady told the directors the cost of excavating the dirt is $1.12 a yard. "This is far below the engineers’ estimate of 4? $2.57 a yard, But, we are doing Fi the easy-portion of the.construction first. Later the cost will rise as we hit the rock and steeper area," Brady said. the Bureau of Reclamation Public Law-984 which will bring ” covered water from the Deer * Creek Powerhouse to the bles but they were ironed out." -Chairman Alex Ferraira questioned Clendenen on the progress of bringing treated # Good progress on NID iz work at Scoftt’s Flat ‘4 . Work is progressingsmoothly' the contractor did a good job, 4 in the Scotts Flat area, Nevada There were some minor trouFerreira said "we must get our justification line out, a probefore. the election in November if we are going to carry on our construction and bring a. complete treated domestic water system to Nevada county." Director James McAdams “questioned ''I have reservations if this is the time to push for a loan.” McAdams pointed out the economic situation wasn't too sharp, Clendenen said "I will put together a package on this and have it ready for the next meeting. I will sound out the ee ee ee en D>, y George Treatment Plant on Bureau of Reclamation regard3 Banner Mountain, — ing a further loan," NID crews are replacing the Ferreira said “let's start wooden flume with a concrete, bench flume. _ + In other business the board accepted a certificate of com“=pletion for the installation of “pipe for the new treatment system. ig _W.-M. Lyles was the contraca tor’ and head engineer Keith _-Sauers told the board "we feel building a program; we need to continue our construction program," -The board agreed to put in a new water line in the Auburn Greens area. The present line cuts through the center of the large development. The developer will pay its portion of thercost, f SEDD receives first ; service career grant The. Sierra Economic Demillion but approved only $4.6 velopment District received for the 50 states. Notification public service careers program of the grant to SEDD came to grant number one for $120,000 the Grass. Valley office on just 35 days after the grant was Tuesday with the board of SEDD requested. due to vote its acceptance Mon-= . The federal government reday evening. wa ceived requests totaling $10 The money will cover training for new and: upgrading present employes of any public entity (tax supported agency) within Three receive the four counties of SEDD: Nevada, Placer, El Dorado and scholarships Sierra, The $120,000 covers DAVIS Two students from trainin is Grass Valley and one from Nesce a vada City hay received schol-arships to continue the'> studThe request for the grant was ies this fall at the University sent by SEDD to the U. S. Deof California, Davis. partment of Commerce, EcoBobbie Jean Hasselbring, nomic Development Administradaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack tion on May 17, The goal of Berry of 185 Squirrel Creek the program is to “assist in f Road, Grass Valley, has reimplementing the hiring and at ceived a Lakenan Scholarship. training of disadvantaged perShe is a graduate of Nevada sons for budgeted positions in Union High School and is a selected non-federal public insophomore at Davis with an stitutions within the jurisundeclared major. dictions of" economic and detar of Mr, aul Men dowerd. tp maplonseatnd meieoee eee. er am s. How m necesL, Wilcox of 120 Silva Ave, sary for se eae ee ST ECEP Sen ES EET E ; She is a graduate of Nevada ~ Union High School and at Davis Phase one of the program, is a junior child development which will begin early next : major. “4 month executive director Betty ~» Stephen F,. ' » son of George told The Union, entails ra Mr, and Mrs, A, Tasprocedures for recruitsone water to western Nevada county. . gram going to show the people. __ The ladies are preparing a bazaar for the early fall. 273-2934 If you find I'm out of step with some of the recent happenings in the world it's because I haven't read my mail or the newspapers for a couple of weeks. I may even end up in debtors prison for non-payment of bills, Ihave been in Secession Day limbo, I'm sure you've all worked on some big projects that pushed éverydaythingsto one side and know the feeling of total collapse when it's over. Tonight it's like coming back from another world for me. I'm not sure I can make the transition, It's been total Secession around here for several weeks. I hope many of you saw our play, Saga of the Rough and Ready Pioneers, I thought it and all the people in it were beautiful but I could be prejudiced being the author-director. Aside from Mac's moustache slipping and other similar incidents (which really helped a lot) it went well, Mac was our Scotch miner who used the old Chinese one man rocker method instead of a pan for his mining because it produced more gold for him, Mac was portrayed by Ron LaVelle. His wife Bridie Riddle was done by Margaret Brown. Besides being the first woman in Rogh and Ready in the 1850s, she had a beautiful 70 year old sunbonnet. Bridie was a miner too. She -worked the rocker each day while her husband ate lunch, Othere miners were Will Fippin (really it was Asa) who found the almost famous half of a huge nugget which bore pick marks from having been cut in two on the previous days workings. He was done by Stanley Baer. Incidentally it was young Stanley who amde the mining cradle which was really a beauty. Our other miner was the rancher, Per! "Hank" Ladd who kicked up the beautiful kidney shaped nugget with his toe while he was out hunting a cow on his ranch on Squirrel Creek, He was portrayed by Jon Pharis, The final miner we had in our cast was the Reverend James S, Dunleavy. He had picked up a couple of fine nuggets that morning in the new earth at graveside. The reverend was done by William Bursill. He portrayed the towns first minister, who had a whiskey shop on the side, to perfiection, I could go on and on. They were all wonderful — but I don't want to tell you all our story. You will be seeing the play again at other Rough and . Ready functions if our cast holds together. Ireally can't quit ‘tho without mentioning the Reverend's wife Abigail, Winifred Schuster. She holds the absent minded Reverend together, and the play, too, with the skill of a real actress, ‘tho she says she is strictly amateur. : Our play went on at 12:30 and we were lucky. The other play which was set 3:00 ended just as the first drops of that horrible shower hit Rough and Ready. You could say Secession Day ended in a blaze of glory. i surely was a wet blaze, however. I don't have the cast of the other play yet, but I'll have it for you next week. I think everyone had fun. Hope you can ali make it year wven if I don't know where the town could have put even one more person, Every organization had some particular project. The Grange did their very popular public party. The 4=H had a fireworks booth, The Chamber had liquid refreshments and souveniers besides the entertainment and the chuck wagon breakfast. The Fire Department supplied food all day. Everyone I haven't included will be angry with me I guess. Perhpas I should mention that most of our citizens were in Pioneer. costumes. The two outstanding cosutmes were Helene Hurlbut in the most beautiful; Sunday afternoon in the Park, circa 1900, dress I have ever seen and De Etta Marinelli with the most gorgeous shoes and hat (she had a complete costume of course) for a day intown inthat era that you could possibly imagine. Big John brought the Mountain Men to town. They certainly livened things up but I can't tell you a thing about them until I get some details. They were a complete surprise to me. I was too busy to get details so will have to tell you about the Mayors' race andthe Artists' Paint-In, which I barely got a glimps of next week. Chairman for the event this year was Bill Thomas. He was ably assisted by a committee: members were: Doris Bradley on publicity, Bill Cramer, Orin Brown, and Chamber President Don Long. : ees Ou blacksmith shop committee which was granted permission to be a part of the big event were very successful with the Gold Poke. The proceeds from the drawing are to continue work on the shops restoration, Betty Lloyd of Grass Valley was the lucky winner. She is on vacation and doesn't know it yet. It was a beautifully framed poke with lots of gold nuggets and those of you who weren't lucky enough to win it have won the privilege of driving a square nail in the blacksmith shop or putting on a "shake," when they are delivered, which will probably be about the middle of July. Watch for the date of the dedication of the on shop. Hopefully September. * R Especially interesting visitors on Secession day were some 10 or 12 actors from the play ‘Rough and Ready who did two real cute "bits" for us. We also had Mr. and Mrs, J. L. McPheeters from Stockton who come each year forthe chuch wagon breakfast and to get their wooden nickles, The McPheeters have an extensive wooden nickel collection from all over the states. Mr. and Mrs. Hein of Colfax came with their guests from Fremont, I have forgotten the guests names because I got so excited over my very first request for an autograph, I guess I have finally arrived as a newspaper correspondent. We (the Nugget and I) have readers as far away as Fremont, Returning home for the celebration were the Ray Hicks from Hawthorne, Nevada, and daughter Debbie Littlejohn of Roseville and her new husband, They saw our play and seemed to enjoy themselves, They are visiting friends here and parents, the Charles Hicks of Grass Valley. Terry Stevens was an interesting visitor also, Since Stevens is a citizen of our fair community the special significance attached to his presence was that his foot was in a cast, He slipped on a ladder on Saturday and broke things up a bit. He said it didn't hurt but he was a lot more pale than when I saw him on the job Seturday morning. : R&R * * ok Miss Hele Lofgren was in town last week. I didn't recognizer her of course, It has been several years since the Richard Lofgrens moved from Rough and Ready and Helen has grown into a young lady now. She missed our celebration because she was on her way to Arkansas to meet her boy friend's parents, Serious I suspect, Helen is the niece of postmaster Helen Avery. She recently lost her mother, Mrs, Chrisie Lofgren. sei 7% * * The Nevada County Newcomers Club met at the Grange Hall on June 24. The luncheon meeting was catered by Big John's Cafe. Mrs, Bert Spaite of Rough and Ready chaired her first meeting of the group. The afternoon program was on antiques. Helene Hurlbut spoke and showed some exThe Fire Department Auxiliary will hold their next meeting on Monday, July 6 at 7:30 p.m.

10 The Nevada County Nugget, Wednesday, July 1, 1970 Irrigation District engineer Jim 4 Brady told the Board of Direcon tors Wednesday. Brady said "the clearing of the new water line is close to finished and benching is in progress," The district is doing its own construction work after bids were rejected. Brady told the directors the cost of excavating the dirt is $1.12 a yard. "This is far below the engineers’ estimate of 4? $2.57 a yard, But, we are doing Fi the easy-portion of the.construction first. Later the cost will rise as we hit the rock and steeper area," Brady said. the Bureau of Reclamation Public Law-984 which will bring ” covered water from the Deer * Creek Powerhouse to the bles but they were ironed out." -Chairman Alex Ferraira questioned Clendenen on the progress of bringing treated # Good progress on NID iz work at Scoftt’s Flat ‘4 . Work is progressingsmoothly' the contractor did a good job, 4 in the Scotts Flat area, Nevada There were some minor trouFerreira said "we must get our justification line out, a probefore. the election in November if we are going to carry on our construction and bring a. complete treated domestic water system to Nevada county." Director James McAdams “questioned ''I have reservations if this is the time to push for a loan.” McAdams pointed out the economic situation wasn't too sharp, Clendenen said "I will put together a package on this and have it ready for the next meeting. I will sound out the ee ee ee en D>, y George Treatment Plant on Bureau of Reclamation regard3 Banner Mountain, — ing a further loan," NID crews are replacing the Ferreira said “let's start wooden flume with a concrete, bench flume. _ + In other business the board accepted a certificate of com“=pletion for the installation of “pipe for the new treatment system. ig _W.-M. Lyles was the contraca tor’ and head engineer Keith _-Sauers told the board "we feel building a program; we need to continue our construction program," -The board agreed to put in a new water line in the Auburn Greens area. The present line cuts through the center of the large development. The developer will pay its portion of thercost, f SEDD receives first ; service career grant The. Sierra Economic Demillion but approved only $4.6 velopment District received for the 50 states. Notification public service careers program of the grant to SEDD came to grant number one for $120,000 the Grass. Valley office on just 35 days after the grant was Tuesday with the board of SEDD requested. due to vote its acceptance Mon-= . The federal government reday evening. wa ceived requests totaling $10 The money will cover training for new and: upgrading present employes of any public entity (tax supported agency) within Three receive the four counties of SEDD: Nevada, Placer, El Dorado and scholarships Sierra, The $120,000 covers DAVIS Two students from trainin is Grass Valley and one from Nesce a vada City hay received schol-arships to continue the'> studThe request for the grant was ies this fall at the University sent by SEDD to the U. S. Deof California, Davis. partment of Commerce, EcoBobbie Jean Hasselbring, nomic Development Administradaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack tion on May 17, The goal of Berry of 185 Squirrel Creek the program is to “assist in f Road, Grass Valley, has reimplementing the hiring and at ceived a Lakenan Scholarship. training of disadvantaged perShe is a graduate of Nevada sons for budgeted positions in Union High School and is a selected non-federal public insophomore at Davis with an stitutions within the jurisundeclared major. dictions of" economic and detar of Mr, aul Men dowerd. tp maplonseatnd meieoee eee. er am s. How m necesL, Wilcox of 120 Silva Ave, sary for se eae ee

ST ECEP Sen ES EET E ; She is a graduate of Nevada ~ Union High School and at Davis Phase one of the program, is a junior child development which will begin early next : major.. “4 month executive director Betty ~» Stephen F,. ' » son of George told The Union, entails ra Mr, and Mrs, A, Tasprocedures for recruitsone water to western Nevada county. . gram going to show the people. __ The ladies are preparing a bazaar for the early fall. 273-2934 If you find I'm out of step with some of the recent happenings in the world it's because I haven't read my mail or the newspapers for a couple of weeks. I may even end up in debtors prison for non-payment of bills, Ihave been in Secession Day limbo, I'm sure you've all worked on some big projects that pushed éverydaythingsto one side and know the feeling of total collapse when it's over. Tonight it's like coming back from another world for me. I'm not sure I can make the transition, It's been total Secession around here for several weeks. I hope many of you saw our play, Saga of the Rough and Ready Pioneers, I thought it and all the people in it were beautiful but I could be prejudiced being the author-director. Aside from Mac's moustache slipping and other similar incidents (which really helped a lot) it went well, Mac was our Scotch miner who used the old Chinese one man rocker method instead of a pan for his mining because it produced more gold for him, Mac was portrayed by Ron LaVelle. His wife Bridie Riddle was done by Margaret Brown. Besides being the first woman in Rogh and Ready in the 1850s, she had a beautiful 70 year old sunbonnet. Bridie was a miner too. She -worked the rocker each day while her husband ate lunch, Othere miners were Will Fippin (really it was Asa) who found the almost famous half of a huge nugget which bore pick marks from having been cut in two on the previous days workings. He was done by Stanley Baer. Incidentally it was young Stanley who amde the mining cradle which was really a beauty. Our other miner was the rancher, Per! "Hank" Ladd who kicked up the beautiful kidney shaped nugget with his toe while he was out hunting a cow on his ranch on Squirrel Creek, He was portrayed by Jon Pharis, The final miner we had in our cast was the Reverend James S, Dunleavy. He had picked up a couple of fine nuggets that morning in the new earth at graveside. The reverend was done by William Bursill. He portrayed the towns first minister, who had a whiskey shop on the side, to perfiection, I could go on and on. They were all wonderful — but I don't want to tell you all our story. You will be seeing the play again at other Rough and . Ready functions if our cast holds together. Ireally can't quit ‘tho without mentioning the Reverend's wife Abigail, Winifred Schuster. She holds the absent minded Reverend together, and the play, too, with the skill of a real actress, ‘tho she says she is strictly amateur. : Our play went on at 12:30 and we were lucky. The other play which was set 3:00 ended just as the first drops of that horrible shower hit Rough and Ready. You could say Secession Day ended in a blaze of glory. i surely was a wet blaze, however. I don't have the cast of the other play yet, but I'll have it for you next week. I think everyone had fun. Hope you can ali make it year wven if I don't know where the town could have put even one more person, Every organization had some particular project. The Grange did their very popular public party. The 4=H had a fireworks booth, The Chamber had liquid refreshments and souveniers besides the entertainment and the chuck wagon breakfast. The Fire Department supplied food all day. Everyone I haven't included will be angry with me I guess. Perhpas I should mention that most of our citizens were in Pioneer. costumes. The two outstanding cosutmes were Helene Hurlbut in the most beautiful; Sunday afternoon in the Park, circa 1900, dress I have ever seen and De Etta Marinelli with the most gorgeous shoes and hat (she had a complete costume of course) for a day intown inthat era that you could possibly imagine. Big John brought the Mountain Men to town. They certainly livened things up but I can't tell you a thing about them until I get some details. They were a complete surprise to me. I was too busy to get details so will have to tell you about the Mayors' race andthe Artists' Paint-In, which I barely got a glimps of next week. Chairman for the event this year was Bill Thomas. He was ably assisted by a committee: members were: Doris Bradley on publicity, Bill Cramer, Orin Brown, and Chamber President Don Long. : ees Ou blacksmith shop committee which was granted permission to be a part of the big event were very successful with the Gold Poke. The proceeds from the drawing are to continue work on the shops restoration, Betty Lloyd of Grass Valley was the lucky winner. She is on vacation and doesn't know it yet. It was a beautifully framed poke with lots of gold nuggets and those of you who weren't lucky enough to win it have won the privilege of driving a square nail in the blacksmith shop or putting on a "shake," when they are delivered, which will probably be about the middle of July. Watch for the date of the dedication of the on shop. Hopefully September. * R Especially interesting visitors on Secession day were some 10 or 12 actors from the play ‘Rough and Ready who did two real cute "bits" for us. We also had Mr. and Mrs, J. L. McPheeters from Stockton who come each year forthe chuch wagon breakfast and to get their wooden nickles, The McPheeters have an extensive wooden nickel collection from all over the states. Mr. and Mrs. Hein of Colfax came with their guests from Fremont, I have forgotten the guests names because I got so excited over my very first request for an autograph, I guess I have finally arrived as a newspaper correspondent. We (the Nugget and I) have readers as far away as Fremont, Returning home for the celebration were the Ray Hicks from Hawthorne, Nevada, and daughter Debbie Littlejohn of Roseville and her new husband, They saw our play and seemed to enjoy themselves, They are visiting friends here and parents, the Charles Hicks of Grass Valley. Terry Stevens was an interesting visitor also, Since Stevens is a citizen of our fair community the special significance attached to his presence was that his foot was in a cast, He slipped on a ladder on Saturday and broke things up a bit. He said it didn't hurt but he was a lot more pale than when I saw him on the job Seturday morning. : R&R * * ok Miss Hele Lofgren was in town last week. I didn't recognizer her of course, It has been several years since the Richard Lofgrens moved from Rough and Ready and Helen has grown into a young lady now. She missed our celebration because she was on her way to Arkansas to meet her boy friend's parents, Serious I suspect, Helen is the niece of postmaster Helen Avery. She recently lost her mother, Mrs, Chrisie Lofgren. sei 7% * * The Nevada County Newcomers Club met at the Grange Hall on June 24. The luncheon meeting was catered by Big John's Cafe. Mrs, Bert Spaite of Rough and Ready chaired her first meeting of the group. The afternoon program was on antiques. Helene Hurlbut spoke and showed some exThe Fire Department Auxiliary will hold their next meeting on Monday, July 6 at 7:30 p.m.