July 13, 1966 (20 pages)

ee rice nncep Dee lig eters Stee ET Ne RG SOLD TEE e * “2 . Nevada County Nugget. .July 13, 1966: NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Siaghette ae. EDITORIAL THIS 1S NO TIME TO REST The Grass Valley segment of the freeway, which local officials were told a few months ago could not possibly start before 1970, has suddenly been advanced to next year. Credit for this rapid change in the situation must go to Governor Brown, who made a committment in Nevada City to do something about the Grass Valley freeway and to Senator Paul J. LunardiandAssemblyman Gene Chappie who both worked to push the project. But most of the credit must go to the local people who took the time to do the phoning, write the letters, see the people and do the yelling that made the state step back from what what justa little while ago seemed like an unmovable position. Now would seem like a good time to sit back, feel good about how much had been accomplished and take a rest from the tiring job of knocking heads together in Sacramento. But nothing could be more wrong. This is the time that many of the same people who worked to get the Grass Valley end of the job moving must start again to yell about the middle section of this three part project. For while much has been accomplished in Nevada City and things now look brighter for Grass Valley, the county residents still have to face the fact that they will still have a freeway to nowhere until the two ends are connected to the middle. While the Grass Valley segment will be an enormous help in funneling the tremendous traffic load off Auburn and Main Streets, the freeway is just going to funnel it all somewhere else to get all jammed up again until all three parts are connected. The success of the campaign to advance the Grass Valley end of the project only proves that the state can be moved if enough people go after the right people in the right places. Now it is up to the residents in the Twin Cities area to start the process all over again and get things moving on the middle section of the road. This prospect of advancing construction of that project seems as remote now as did the job of getting the Grass Valley end going just a few weeks ago. We know from experience that if enough people yell loud enough and long enough the state always seems to be able to come up with some more money and another time table. — * Lake Olympia in the Old Days LETTER TO THE EDITOR Mr. Editor: Iwould like to write about the Chinese upthere. As a kidI hada lot of fun with them. You see in them days they still had their pig tails or ques. Now I know they smoked opium but no one bothered them at that time, There were several hundred of them up there. A lot of them were prospectors and a lot ofthemwere in business in grocery stores and in laundrys, A lot of them were cooks in the National Hotel. Those were the days you could get a darn good meal for 50 cents. But what us kids liked the most is when they used to make apple pies and put them on a long board just outside of the window. We would grab 4 or 5 of them andrun. We never did get caught. We would hide in the National woodshed and eat the pies while the Marshall was looking around town for the kids eating apple pies. I would like to get there for the 4th of July and maybe march in the parade as father time but I guess that is out of the question, P.S. I,am not saying anything about the council this time, So Long, Jack Bassett IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN THE GATEWAY TO THE NEW PARK We took a ride Sunday up to the Malakoff and were surprised and pleased with what we found, In the past few months, the dream of a large group of county residents to preserve the hydraulic mining area and the town of North Bloomfield by including it in a state park is finally becoming a reality. ; Under the direction of Ranger Eric Leffingwell, roads have been pushed through the woods beyond the town and local members of the Neighborhood Youth Corps and State Park Aides are being ay to construct the first family and group camp units at the park, One temporary picnic area had already been completed just inside the town of North Bloomfield and is already seeing use. But this is just the beginning of the building and the beginning of the recreation pressure that will be drawn through Nevada County by the ‘new historical park facility. The official dedication of the new park is tentatively scheduled for early next month, Once the word is out that the facility is open, the visitors will really start pouring in. It isnone too early for the Nevada City government and city merchants to start thinking about and promoting the city as the gateway to the new park, Nevada City couldreap many benefits from the new park, but this will only happen if the people who stand to gain, start doing something to make people want to use Nevada City as the gateway city. y eeeee THE HENNESS PASS Highway Association, which has always been in the unique position of being a highway association without a highway, may get a road after all, if county and state officials heed the current stumping for a Sierra parkway from Highway 20 to 89, The Henness Pass group was ostensibly formed to push the old mountain freight route as the most feasible all weather transsierra highway. They never did win their argument, but have had a good time these past 12 years on the annual jeep trip to the mountains, Now it hasbeen proposed that a scenic parkway be created through the Nevada and Sierra County lake country to give tourist access to the new and old lakes. If such a road is created, portions of it would probably cross or be on the route of the old Henness Pass Highway and the Highway Association, after all these years, would finally have a highway. -»-Don Hoagland ‘AT OLYMPIA PAR NUGGET PARAGRAPHS FROM THE PAST Dick Knee, progressive Nevada City businessman, announced he has.formally changed the name of his business to Knee's Radio Electric. The change from Nevada City Radio Electric, he said, was to avoid public confusion with the name of another establishment on Broad Street. ---March 3, 1950 ++ + + + Meeting of representatives of city councils of Nevada City and Grass Valley, county board of supervisors ;chambers of com~ merce and public to discuss the problems relative tothe proposed improvement of the highway between Nevada City and Grass Valley has been requested for early date by the division of highways. ---March3, 1950 ++ + + + Acting on telegraphic advices from E.C. Bonner of the Modoc County Development Board of Alturas, president E.J.N. Ott has called a special meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce to be held at its quarters in the Elks building tonight to be concerted action on the part of the community behind the project of securing a government building here to house the post office and the T ahoe National Forest headquarters, ---Jan. 24, 1927 ++ + + + A letter outlining laxity in administrative policy of the Nevada Irrigation District and recommending several basic changes was read by Charles Kitts, secretary of the Nevada Irrigation District Water Users Association at the NID board meeting Friday morning, precipitating controversy which continued through the week. While one group represented by William Vogt, association president, and Kitts sharply criticized certain asserted lax practices in the use of antiquated equipment and employment of unfit persons, another group led by C,O, Armstrong, president of the Farm Bureau Federation of Nevada County, sought to defend the board and management with a vigorous “vote of confidence, " ---March 3, 1950

ee rice nncep Dee lig eters Stee ET Ne RG SOLD TEE e * “2 .. Nevada County Nugget. ..July 13, 1966: NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET Siaghette ae. EDITORIAL THIS 1S NO TIME TO REST The Grass Valley segment of the freeway, which local officials were told a few months ago could not possibly start before 1970, has suddenly been advanced to next year. Credit for this rapid change in the situation must go to Governor Brown, who made a committment in Nevada City to do something about the Grass Valley freeway and to Senator Paul J. LunardiandAssemblyman Gene Chappie who both worked to push the project. But most of the credit must go to the local people who took the time to do the phoning, write the letters, see the people and do the yelling that made the state step back from what what justa little while ago seemed like an unmovable position. Now would seem like a good time to sit back, feel good about how much had been accomplished and take a rest from the tiring job of knocking heads together in Sacramento. But nothing could be more wrong. This is the time that many of the same people who worked to get the Grass Valley end of the job moving must start again to yell about the middle section of this three part project. For while much has been accomplished in Nevada City and things now look brighter for Grass Valley, the county residents still have to face the fact that they will still have a freeway to nowhere until the two ends are connected to the middle. While the Grass Valley segment will be an enormous help in funneling the tremendous traffic load off Auburn and Main Streets, the freeway is just going to funnel it all somewhere else to get all jammed up again until all three parts are connected. The success of the campaign to advance the Grass Valley end of the project only proves that the state can be moved if enough people go after the right people in the right places. Now it is up to the residents in the Twin Cities area to start the process all over again and get things moving on the middle section of the road. This prospect of advancing construction of that project seems as remote now as did the job of getting the Grass Valley end going just a few weeks ago. We know from experience that if enough people yell loud enough and long enough the state always seems to be able to come up with some more money and another time table. — * Lake Olympia in the Old Days LETTER TO THE EDITOR Mr. Editor: Iwould like to write about the Chinese upthere. As a kidI hada lot of fun with them. You see in them days they still had their pig tails or ques. Now I know they smoked opium but no one bothered them at that time, There were several hundred of them up there. A lot of them were prospectors and a lot ofthemwere in business in grocery stores and in laundrys, A lot of them were cooks in the National Hotel. Those were the days you could get a darn good meal for 50 cents. But what us kids liked the most is when they used to make apple pies and put them on a long board just outside of the window. We would grab 4 or 5 of them andrun. We never did get caught. We would hide in the National woodshed and eat the pies while the Marshall was looking around town for the kids eating apple pies. I would like to get there for the 4th of July and maybe march in the parade as father time but I guess that is out of the question, P.S. I,am not saying anything about the council this time, So Long, Jack Bassett IN THE FOOTHILLS VEIN THE GATEWAY TO THE NEW PARK We took a ride Sunday up to the Malakoff and were surprised and pleased with what we found, In the past few months, the dream of a large group of county residents to preserve the hydraulic mining area and the town of

North Bloomfield by including it in a state park is finally becoming a reality. ; Under the direction of Ranger Eric Leffingwell, roads have been pushed through the woods beyond the town and local members of the Neighborhood Youth Corps and State Park Aides are being ay to construct the first family and group camp units at the park, One temporary picnic area had already been completed just inside the town of North Bloomfield and is already seeing use. But this is just the beginning of the building and the beginning of the recreation pressure that will be drawn through Nevada County by the ‘new historical park facility. The official dedication of the new park is tentatively scheduled for early next month, Once the word is out that the facility is open, the visitors will really start pouring in. It isnone too early for the Nevada City government and city merchants to start thinking about and promoting the city as the gateway to the new park, Nevada City couldreap many benefits from the new park, but this will only happen if the people who stand to gain, start doing something to make people want to use Nevada City as the gateway city. y eeeee THE HENNESS PASS Highway Association, which has always been in the unique position of being a highway association without a highway, may get a road after all, if county and state officials heed the current stumping for a Sierra parkway from Highway 20 to 89, The Henness Pass group was ostensibly formed to push the old mountain freight route as the most feasible all weather transsierra highway. They never did win their argument, but have had a good time these past 12 years on the annual jeep trip to the mountains, Now it hasbeen proposed that a scenic parkway be created through the Nevada and Sierra County lake country to give tourist access to the new and old lakes. If such a road is created, portions of it would probably cross or be on the route of the old Henness Pass Highway and the Highway Association, after all these years, would finally have a highway. -»-Don Hoagland ‘AT OLYMPIA PAR NUGGET PARAGRAPHS FROM THE PAST Dick Knee, progressive Nevada City businessman, announced he has.formally changed the name of his business to Knee's Radio Electric. The change from Nevada City Radio Electric, he said, was to avoid public confusion with the name of another establishment on Broad Street. ---March 3, 1950 ++ + + + Meeting of representatives of city councils of Nevada City and Grass Valley, county board of supervisors ;chambers of com~ merce and public to discuss the problems relative tothe proposed improvement of the highway between Nevada City and Grass Valley has been requested for early date by the division of highways. ---March3, 1950 ++ + + + Acting on telegraphic advices from E.C. Bonner of the Modoc County Development Board of Alturas, president E.J.N. Ott has called a special meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce to be held at its quarters in the Elks building tonight to be concerted action on the part of the community behind the project of securing a government building here to house the post office and the T ahoe National Forest headquarters, ---Jan. 24, 1927 ++ + + + A letter outlining laxity in administrative policy of the Nevada Irrigation District and recommending several basic changes was read by Charles Kitts, secretary of the Nevada Irrigation District Water Users Association at the NID board meeting Friday morning, precipitating controversy which continued through the week. While one group represented by William Vogt, association president, and Kitts sharply criticized certain asserted lax practices in the use of antiquated equipment and employment of unfit persons, another group led by C,O, Armstrong, president of the Farm Bureau Federation of Nevada County, sought to defend the board and management with a vigorous “vote of confidence, " ---March 3, 1950