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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada County Nugget

July 13, 1960 (12 pages)

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sonoed from Page 1) aation, as $ well as general pointers on use of the dial em and DDD, are being istributed tohomes and " businésses here. In a last minute reminder to subscribers before the new, _ $1,600, 000 dial system goes to work, Hutchins emphasized the importance of lis“ : tening for the "hum" or dial tonebefore dialing. If dialLy ing is started before the dial tone comes on; the equip* ment will not be able to + complete the connection. Other points vital to proper completion of dialed calls Starting Sunday include: 1) making sure to get the new dial number out of the special directory before calling, and 2) dialing carefully andcompletely. Hutchins said that subscribers will notice from their new directories that all Grass Valley numbers start with the same three numerals---273. Nevada City numbers all have 265. These are the central office codes and enable long distance switching equipment to pick out the town and dial building a call 2 is going to. These three-digit codes are . * followed by the four numerals * *) ofthe individual phone's Nevada City's new dial central office building at South Pine and Spring Streets. bi a » a \ County Valuation — In Jump Nevada County’s assessed valuation ofproperty insreased $1,150,990 this year to a record $24,739,930. County Assessor Charles Kitts in his report to the Board of Supervisors said this is an increasé 6f 4.879 © per cent. Kitts stated the annual in» crease has been.about $1,000,000 a year since 1956. . But he said there still are “areas which could be reevaluated if the assessor had more field help. He asked for four additional men this year and was given two. In 1957 the assessed valuA familiar sightto many Grass Valley and Nevada City subScribers isthe interior of Pacific Telephone's business office at 149 South Auburn Street. Serving these and four adjoining ation jumped $1.221,000 but $500,000 was lost when the; mines shut down and heavy . equipment was moved ot of the county. Kitts explained the latest . increase reflects new con. struction and improvements. . exchanges are the following members of the company's commercial staff: (left group, front to back) Mrs. MayGrothe, Mrs. Deanna~Hoffman and (standing) Mrs. Teddy Ali; (right group, front to back) Mrs. Harrye Defilippi, Mrs. Edy Bennett, Mrs. Betty Townsend and Manager George Hutchins. — number, So, atypical Grass ~ Valley dial phone number looks like this "273-1999". To call this number, listen for the dial tone, then dial "2-7-3-1-9-9-9". Hutchins said that a sam4 ple of a DDD call to San Francisco, YUkon 2-5997, would go like this: first dial "112" tosendthe call to the DDD equipment; then the code number for the area in which San Francisco is located--"415", and, finally, the seven digits of the San Francisco phone number-"Y-U-2-5-9-9-7". BNC Water Agreement Discussed Nevada City councilmen Monday night informally directed City Manager James (Admiral) Ray to continue negotiations with the Nevada Irrigation District in an at; tempt to join the city and NID linestogether at a point on Zion Street. The proposed connection would cost the city about $5000, but it would make available to residents of Brock Road and Reward Street a much higher water pressure. The councilmen heard a report by the city manager that NID had offered a connection on the new Ridge Road water main, Cost to the city would be $12,000, with a contract over a five or ten year period calling for purchase of water by the city at 50 cents per miner's inch, Councilman Bill Mullis expressed the opinion it is not feasible for the city to turn loose of its water rights and switch to the Banner Mountain line for allits water supplies, Mullis saidthe city should be interested in the plan if NID will allow use of the connections on a need basis by the city. Butif the city were to buy all its water through the proposed line, city water costs would double, as pointed out by City Manager Ray. “a light circuit. At the signal, service will take but a short time, according to Hutchins, It will be carried out with clockwork precision. As the zero hour of 12:01 » a.m., Sunday, approaches, any calls in progress will be interrupted by the operator who will come on the line and say, "This is the operator, We are about to convert to dial operation. Will you please hang up and place your call after 12:01 a.m., using your dial telephone and the new directory.” Any emergency calls in progress will be completed, then, when the switchboard iscleared, the signal will be given to telephone men in the present manual office to take the old equipment out of service. Heat coils will be pulled from the subscriber’s lines behind the switchboard. These heat coils are small fuses that protect telephone equipment like fuses protect cords arranged behind the coils will be pulled, knocking out all the coils at once. And the old manual service will pass into history. Almost simultaneously , word will be flashed to technicians in the dial offices who will pull on a web of cords to remove the myriad blocking tools which hold the dialrelays inactive. And the new dial system will come to life. When the dial system goes into operation, Grass Valley and Nevada City willbe served by one switchboard in Grass Valley 'snew telephone building instead of by the present boards in each exchange. This switchboard will furnish subscribers with some long distance and miscellaneous operator services. The new 12-position board will be managed by Chief Operator Mrs. Geraldine Church, present chief in Grass Valley. NevadaCity's chief operator, Mrs. Jane Sommers, will become evening chief in the new office. The new switchboard will bestaffed by 30 Grass Valley operators. Nevada City operators have been offered the opportunity to continue their. telephone careers by transferring to openings in other exchanges, at company expense. Four operators have elected to transfer: two to Auburn, one to Sacramento and one to Chico. Two other operators have expressed an interest in retiring on a Bell System pension. water so much asit is storage --and altitude, Councilman Craig Davies added. In other action, council: Heard the city manager report that titles will be ready for property owners in the GoldReef Patent in eight months to a year. Warned the city is not in rubbish collection business and that unless the dumping of garden clippings and other rubbish into city streets is ceased the council will order strict enforcement of its ordinances which forbid such astion. Accepted low gasoline bid of 23, 1 cents per gallon from Richfield Oil Co. Ordered payment to’ city employestwice a month instead of monthly. the city Authorized use of the city . The actual change to dial The Grass Valley Super. The city manager pointed BY DEAN. THOMPSON The new fiscal year has begun for political subdivisions within Nevada County and problems that seemed distant now loom on the horizon, At county level, the supervisors now seem ready to move on redistricting. Behind the scenes activity indicates they are ready to attempt to head off a Grass Valley Junior Chamber of Cdmmerce petition to put a redistricting plan on the November ballot by initiative processes. The: supervisors now realize that a successful initiative would femove redisiricting responsibilities and powers from, the courthouse forever. In other words, if an initiative changed the districis it would then in future years require a vote of the electorate to again change districts in the county. Other problems that will keep county officials hop.
ping this year include a dispute over water rights in the Truckee River (involving El Dorado, Placer, and Nevada Counties and the State of Nevada). .. Interestingly, it is not the three counties versus the state; rather it is each governmental body for itself—and water is becoming increasingly valuable, . . . County buildings and their inadequacy to house expanding facilities and personnel. . . . Highway maintenance of the old portion of Highway 40 that the state turned over to the county, little used and costly to keep clear in the wintér. . . And on the list goes, But lock at thee political subdivisions within the county: Grass Valley with its water problem, its development of Condon Memorial Park, its traffic and parking problems; Nevada City and the freeway route, the city’s need for expansion, its:problem of breaking water mains; NID with increasing pressure likely for domestic water as the county grows; Nevada Union High School District and the new school it is building, and the decision it must make in ccnjunction with Nevada City and Grass Valley Elementary districts about the future of the 7th and 8th grades. The list is by no means complete, so we can see it will be another busy year. ee *¢ 8 HB If you are an Ice Follies fan, you will be interested to note that Frick, the Swiss comic who skates in a near horizontal plane, is back with this year’s summer run in San Francisco, Frick, 46, says his age hasn’t slowed him down in his tricks—‘“‘but I must take a little more time between them.” Tickets? Winterland, Post and Steiner Streets, San Francisio. *_*e e+ * ee D “From time to time I have done some advertising in your fine paper and intend to do so again. Therefore, I was somewhat surprised to learn that you might refuse to run a news item of the sale I made last week of two pieces of property in Placer County merely because the sale was not of Nevada County land. Can this be true?.. Yes, it’s true! . This letter was received recently, What better time to explain that our news columns must of necessity be filled with items judged to be newsworthy. by the news staff of the Nugget. Advertising, too, is news—news of special interest to the advertiser. It is a function of the newspaper to make space available for purchase by advertisers to spread their particular type of news (services and merchandise for sale. etc.). On occasion the news staff will feel that the news value cf an advertiser’s message warrants use in the news columns alsc. Theat is a news decision based on an estimate of the subscriber’s interest in the item above and beyond the interest of the advertiser, Only in this way can a newspaper best serve its subscribers—and by so doing, best serve its advertisers. aes #38 2 8 The above mentioned real estate item involved two sales out of ccunty with a total involved of $67,500. Meanwhile, the Nugget news staff is “sitting” on an in-county sale of $200,000 that has been delayed due to death in a family. Camptonville News By IRENE STOOPS Albert Rogers was home on leave from San Diego over the 4th. before being shipped to Japan about August Ist. Wayne Stoddard, former Camptonville resident now living in Southern California, came up with Albert to visit old friends. es *e * @ Joan Skoverski was up from San Francisco for the 4th. and John Skoverski, Jr., was home on leave from Hamilton Field. Telephone directories at The King Stevens family were Marysville visitors on June 30, coming back by way of Grass Valley, e*v he & Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Horten were Oroville visitors on July Ist. **e * 8 We are sorry to hear Ruby Pritchard was called to Scuthern California the first of July because of the death of her uncle. ** € @ visorial District, No. 2, has . S.D.A. Church . Author Has, . Cox Wins the highest. valuation, $7,out the city’s problem is not jail by the county for housMr. and Mrs. Harold Price the San Francisco Interna‘and baby were visitors at Offers Free Bible School Although started only last, year, the Seventh-day Ad-. ventist daily vacation Bible school was -such an outstanding success that it is being held again this year, starting last Monday with an excellent enrollment of children, Children from many denominations and some from no denomination were very enthusiastic about the songs, stories, games ‘and crafts. So expert were some of those teaching crafts, they were asked to go as far as Modesto to teach others to help out in, other vacation ~Bibte schools. Again a unique feature of the Adventist Bible School will be the free bus for both Grass Valley and Nevada City. The bus schedule is as follows: ‘Starbright Acres 8 a.m. Oaks Super Market 8:05, Cedar Ridge Postoffice 8:20, Grass Valley Postoffice 8:30, Pick and Pan store §.8:40, New Book Nevada City author Otis Gaylord's latest book has just been published and is available on local news racks. The book is called " Yancey,” by PeterDawson. Peter Dawson is Gaylord's “ name. “Yancey” isGaylord' Bite Peter Dawson book to be published. Like the other two, this one is a western. It is published by Bantam Books, Gaylord’s books are noted for their fast action and careful attention to authentic western detail. The Peter Dawson pseudonym has become one of the two or three top narfes in the western field. Glenbrook Heights 8:50, and Nevada City Purity store 8:55. _The vacation Bible schoo] will be held at 447 Alta Street in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Cooler Tom Cox, 220 Bennett Street, Grass Valley, has been cool ever since the Fourth of Joly celebration in Nevada City. Cox won the cooler offered by the Nevada County Real Estate Board in one of the 400 balloons that dropped to Broad Street from the National Hotel balcony, The promotion made 75. others one dollar richer. It was conducted by Realtors Dick Esterley, Bill Stinson, Bob Helena, Joseph Day and Ed Crookshanks. DAVID SZLOCH TO BE BLUEJACKET David E. Szloch, son of Mr. and Mrs. — Adalbert Szloch of 132 Chester Street, GrassValley,ends training July 15 at the San Diego Naval Training Center. The graduation exercises, marking the end of the nine 501,770. It also had the larg. est increase, $429,220. The largest percentage increase was in the Truckee area, district No. 5, with $323,630, 8.97 per cent. District No. 4 increased 6.32 per cent, $137,970; the Nevada City area, districtNo. I, gained 4.36 per cent, $119,540, and district No. 3 went down $47,460 for a de. crease of 5.52 per cent, The City of Grass Valley . went up from $4,888.270 to $4,971,180, and Nevada City from ameeae to. $2,347,Teckel 5 Nuggets Roseville, July 27-31—Placer County Fair. Sacramento, Aug. 31-Sept. 11—California State Fair. Sacramento, July 17—19th annual 25mileNational “Championship motorcycle weeks of “boot camp,” will yace 2:30 p.m., State Fairinclude a full dress paradej grounds mile dirt track. PREPARED. . .tocover the Democratic conconvention. ing of women prisoners. tional Airport wear out so fast that some have to be changed as. often as two times a week. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Acton Cleveland for the July 4th holiday. vention, Stan Atkinson (right) of Channel 3 checks over last minute plans with Alfred Heller, Nugget publisher who is helping the video station with convention newsgathering. Atkinson and his wife visited the Nugget ‘office prior to leaving for the B. cis Summer Skirts °25,7-4 { soy's Summer Shirts -BARGAINS Infants Dresses Sosa $339 & $399 Were $4.98 to $5.98 Now 328 & 53" $3.49 & $4.49 ‘Short Sleeves Sizes 8 16 ‘We give 1. 49 om YOUNG TEEN S an Broad St., Nevada City