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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.
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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.
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We are sorry to hear Ruby
Pritchard was called to
Scuthern California the first
of July because of the death
of her uncle.
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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