July 18, 1973 (12 pages)

Q The Nevada County Nugget Wed., July 18,1973 This week fifty years ago} County Assessor Henry C. Schroeder presented the assessment rolls for 1923 to the County Board of Supervisors who approved same as follows: Total value of all property in Nevada County was shown to be $9,651,655 or a net gain of $53,070 over the total for 1922. A convention of Pan-American League of Women was thrown into confusion by the socialistic delegation from Yucatan. Those “liberated ladies” brought blushes to the faces of their conferring friends from other countries: with their unhibited, unabashed discussion of birth control, marriage and divorce methods of their country. Federal Judge and Mrs. D. S. Farrington were Grass Valley visitors from Carson City, Nevada. The judge came here as a child from Maine. An aunt, Mrs. Jerry Stone, was said to have been the first woman settler in Grass Valley. Judge Farrington left here in 1876 and this was his first return visit. 3 _ General Francisco (Pancho) Villa, commander of Mexico’s rebel army, was shot and killed by his secretary, Miguel Trillo, at the end of ten stormy years of attacks and counter-attacks against established national forces. The:slaying took place on Villa’s magnificent rancho Canutillo near Chihuahua City, where he had a personal army of 800 men regularly billeted. In a Texas gas war, which had been raging for weeks, some Dallas service stations were reported selling for as low as 11 cents per gallon. Residents of East Broad Street in Nevada City were complaining about loose cattle and horses breaking sidewalks, crashing fences and making a shambles of carefully tended gardens in that part of town. Property owners were threatening to take the law into their own hands if stock owners did not corral their animals properly. In New York City, Benny Leonard .. king of the lightwieghts for six years .. demonstrated his undisputed title to that throne by trouncing Lew Tendler in a bitterly fought 15-rounder at Yankee Stadium before more than 55,000 spectators. Senator Hiram Johnson of California declared that the United States should stay out of the World Court and League of Nations. He was adament that the nation’s foreign policy should be decided at the polls in 1924. Johnson had just returned from extended European travel highlighted by lengthy conferences with many MISS. RETHA DOWNEY, a native of Nevada City, shows off the Certificate of leading statesmen across the Atlantic. Juanita Miller, daughter of the late ‘‘poet of the Sierra,,”’ Joaquin Miller, announced in Los Angeles she was going to attempt to ‘“‘commune with the moon.’”’ Several days earlier, she was defeated in her attempt to ‘‘wed the sun in a tree’’ down there. PG&E research center opens in San Ramon Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Department of Engineering Research has completed moving into the company’s new $4.5 million PG&E Research Center at San Ramon in Contra Costa County, = ~ Align Wheels $9.95 Rotate & Balance All Four Tires $4.00 Additional RECAPPING SERVICE PLAZA TIRE CO., INC. BEHIND SPD 265-4642 Barton W. Shackelford, vice president-Planning and Research, announced today. A staff of 90 persons previously working at PG&E’s Emeryville Research Center ‘now has transferred the utility’s research program to the new facility on the 15-acre site at the end of Crow Canyon Road, east of Highway 680. Since 1926 PG&E’s research programs have been housed in the now outgrown facilities at Emeryville. The PG&E research staff includes men and women . Specialists in such varied fields -as. chemistry, metallurgy, geology, physics, biology and oceanography, as well as in ‘Major engineering disciplines. ‘ These specialists are conducting numerous research projects ranging from study of problems in extra high voltage tran-smission and environmental studies to materials testing and nuclear radiation measurement according to Ray F. Cayot, chief nape of the department. Achievement awarded her by Fireman's Fund Insurance Company for driving her Model "'A" steadily since she bought it, new, in 1931, with no accidents or citations, all the while insured with Fireman's Fund. Henry J. Riechers, Marysville, her insurance agent, and Philip E. Rowland, resident vice president of the Fireman's Fund Sacramento branch, take a look at the inside of the enduring Model "A". Vintage coupe helps keep Nevada It isn’t every day you see someone driving down the street in a 1931 Model A Ford. It’s even rarer when that someone has been driving the same Model A since it was new. Yet that’s just what Miss Retha Downey, a leading citizen of this Sierra foothills hamlet, Nevada City, has done. And so representatives of Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company gratefully presented Miss Downey a certificate attesting to her outstanding achievement. You see, not only did Miss Downey drive the same car for 42 years. She also insured it with Fireman’s Fund for 42 years. And throughout that same 42 years, she’s been able to steer clear of harm for over 200,000 miles, equivalent to eight times around the world, without accident, citation or unfortunate. incident. Granted, Miss Downey doesn’t do much driving nowadays, ‘I haven’t driven very far in the last-1Q years,” she said recently. “‘Now there’s too much traffic. I don’t think people would appreciate me. I used to drive at 55, but now I keep it at 40.” The Nevada City native, who logged many of those 200,000 City woman on roads over 42 years miles collecting dimes and dollars for the Red Cross and attending a dizzying number of civic and social functions, admits her green and black coupe has quite a few new parts. But even though it’s on its second engine and is sporting its fourth coat of paint, Miss Downey figures she’s gotten her original $700 investment out of the Model A. She intends to continue her busy schedule of service and social activities, Miss Downey declares, and she intends to get there in her Model A. Mineral map of Nevada available Publication of a map showing the location of Nevada’s industrial mineral deposits was announced today by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. This million-scale map in two colors shows the locations of 264 industrial mineral deposits in Nevada with present or past productions, or with potential for future production. These deposits include 22 industrial mineral commodities. The map is by Keith G. Papke, industrial mineral specialist for the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. Nevada has long been a major producer of industrial minerals, with production of about 50 ‘million dollars in 1972 of 16 nonmetallic materials. The industrial mineral map, Map 46, can be purchased for two dollars by mail from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89507, or may be purchased at the Bureau’s office, Room 310 in the Scrugham Engineering-Mines Building on the University of Nevada’s Reno campus.

Q The Nevada County Nugget Wed., July 18,1973 This week fifty years ago} County Assessor Henry C. Schroeder presented the assessment rolls for 1923 to the County Board of Supervisors who approved same as follows: Total value of all property in Nevada County was shown to be $9,651,655 or a net gain of $53,070 over the total for 1922. A convention of Pan-American League of Women was thrown into confusion by the socialistic delegation from Yucatan. Those “liberated ladies” brought blushes to the faces of their conferring friends from other countries: with their unhibited, unabashed discussion of birth control, marriage and divorce methods of their country. Federal Judge and Mrs. D. S. Farrington were Grass Valley visitors from Carson City, Nevada. The judge came here as a child from Maine. An aunt, Mrs. Jerry Stone, was said to have been the first woman settler in Grass Valley. Judge Farrington left here in 1876 and this was his first return visit. 3 _ General Francisco (Pancho) Villa, commander of Mexico’s rebel army, was shot and killed by his secretary, Miguel Trillo, at the end of ten stormy years of attacks and counter-attacks against established national forces. The:slaying took place on Villa’s magnificent rancho Canutillo near Chihuahua City, where he had a personal army of 800 men regularly billeted. In a Texas gas war, which had been raging for weeks, some Dallas service stations were reported selling for as low as 11 cents per gallon. Residents of East Broad Street in Nevada City were complaining about loose cattle and horses breaking sidewalks, crashing fences and making a shambles of carefully tended gardens in that part of town. Property owners were threatening to take the law into their own hands if stock owners did not corral their animals properly. In New York City, Benny Leonard ... king of the lightwieghts for six years ... demonstrated his undisputed title to that throne by trouncing Lew Tendler in a bitterly fought 15-rounder at Yankee Stadium before more than 55,000 spectators. Senator Hiram Johnson of California declared that the United States should stay out of the World Court and League of Nations. He was adament that the nation’s foreign policy should be decided at the polls in 1924. Johnson had just returned from extended European travel highlighted by lengthy conferences with many MISS. RETHA DOWNEY, a native of Nevada City, shows off the Certificate of leading statesmen across the Atlantic. Juanita Miller, daughter of the late ‘‘poet of the Sierra,,”’ Joaquin Miller, announced in Los Angeles she was going to attempt to ‘“‘commune with the moon.’”’ Several days earlier, she was defeated in her attempt to ‘‘wed the sun in a tree’’ down there. PG&E research center opens in San Ramon Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Department of Engineering Research has completed moving into the company’s new $4.5 million PG&E Research Center at San Ramon in Contra Costa County, = ~ Align Wheels $9.95 Rotate & Balance All Four Tires $4.00 Additional RECAPPING SERVICE PLAZA TIRE CO., INC. BEHIND SPD 265-4642 Barton W. Shackelford, vice president-Planning and Research, announced today. A staff of 90 persons previously working at PG&E’s Emeryville Research Center ‘now has transferred the utility’s research program to the new facility on the 15-acre site at the end of Crow Canyon Road, east of Highway 680. Since 1926 PG&E’s research programs have been housed in the now outgrown facilities at Emeryville. The PG&E research staff includes men and women . Specialists in such varied fields -as. chemistry, metallurgy, geology, physics, biology and oceanography, as well as in ‘Major engineering disciplines. ‘ These specialists are conducting numerous research projects ranging from study of problems in extra high voltage tran-smission and environmental studies to materials testing and nuclear radiation measurement

according to Ray F. Cayot, chief nape of the department. Achievement awarded her by Fireman's Fund Insurance Company for driving her Model "'A" steadily since she bought it, new, in 1931, with no accidents or citations, all the while insured with Fireman's Fund. Henry J. Riechers, Marysville, her insurance agent, and Philip E. Rowland, resident vice president of the Fireman's Fund Sacramento branch, take a look at the inside of the enduring Model "A". Vintage coupe helps keep Nevada It isn’t every day you see someone driving down the street in a 1931 Model A Ford. It’s even rarer when that someone has been driving the same Model A since it was new. Yet that’s just what Miss Retha Downey, a leading citizen of this Sierra foothills hamlet, Nevada City, has done. And so representatives of Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company gratefully presented Miss Downey a certificate attesting to her outstanding achievement. You see, not only did Miss Downey drive the same car for 42 years. She also insured it with Fireman’s Fund for 42 years. And throughout that same 42 years, she’s been able to steer clear of harm for over 200,000 miles, equivalent to eight times around the world, without accident, citation or unfortunate. incident. Granted, Miss Downey doesn’t do much driving nowadays, ‘I haven’t driven very far in the last-1Q years,” she said recently. “‘Now there’s too much traffic. I don’t think people would appreciate me. I used to drive at 55, but now I keep it at 40.” The Nevada City native, who logged many of those 200,000 City woman on roads over 42 years miles collecting dimes and dollars for the Red Cross and attending a dizzying number of civic and social functions, admits her green and black coupe has quite a few new parts. But even though it’s on its second engine and is sporting its fourth coat of paint, Miss Downey figures she’s gotten her original $700 investment out of the Model A. She intends to continue her busy schedule of service and social activities, Miss Downey declares, and she intends to get there in her Model A. Mineral map of Nevada available Publication of a map showing the location of Nevada’s industrial mineral deposits was announced today by the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. This million-scale map in two colors shows the locations of 264 industrial mineral deposits in Nevada with present or past productions, or with potential for future production. These deposits include 22 industrial mineral commodities. The map is by Keith G. Papke, industrial mineral specialist for the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. Nevada has long been a major producer of industrial minerals, with production of about 50 ‘million dollars in 1972 of 16 nonmetallic materials. The industrial mineral map, Map 46, can be purchased for two dollars by mail from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89507, or may be purchased at the Bureau’s office, Room 310 in the Scrugham Engineering-Mines Building on the University of Nevada’s Reno campus.