July 19, 1961 (12 pages)

8 the ' beition i. it in terb % ¥ 4 Eo oe id x Gane NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, Wednesday July 19, 1961 soos Pages NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET . Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St. , Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 Alfred E. Heller. ... «Publisher R. Dean Thompson ... Editor -Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. : Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada Co Superior Court, June 3, 1960 D No. 12,406 2 eas : : ies Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00) Three years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. EDITORIAL Human Marvel Could Profit City The report at a recent Nevada City council meeting that a prominent city employee is in the habit of swimming in the city pool in the mornings before work, so as to "test the chlorine" with his body, which he claims is unusually sensitive, has brought grumblings of "special privlege." Admittedly, the pool is closed to the public at the early morning hour, and it could be said that this official is taking advantage of his position. We donot take this view, however. We can see distinct advantages to Nevada City in having in its employ a sensitive: testing instrument in human form. In fact, the city might wish to lend him out--at a fee--toless fortunate communities which need the chlorine count tested in their pools. For who would want a simple and crude $6 dollar chlorine testing machine when Nevada City has available a calibrated human who can do the job so much more effectively? Perhaps our man could also test the diving boards--at a small extra charge-or the water temperature, or the buoyant quality of the water, as he is floating along. peacefully on his back. Water Project Praised By William E, Warne Director, Department of Water Resources Sacramento, California Great works are the great expressions of great peoples. The Acropolis of Athens, ‘the orations of Cicero, the plays of shakespeare, and thedams of America may each in a way epitomize a memorable achievement, not just of the individuals responsible for creating them, but of the cultures that put them forth as fruit. One has only to observe the large numbers who journey to the Black Canyon of the Colorado River to see Hoover Damto know that the people, themselves, insome unexpressed way sense that the dam epitomizes a fine thing wrought in their name andin whichthey, somehow, participated. "The finest thing that we cando", Ionceheard a man tell his little boy as they stood on the crest of the dam. A man once wrote to me after visiting the dam, saying "If just one dollar; from among all those I have paid out in taxes, went into this dam, I am satisfied”. Californfa#snow engaged in building the State Water Project. Not only in Big Oroville Dam on the Feather River does this project have a great work, but the project itself in its sweep and conception also qualifies. The eyes of informed people everywhere will turn to this project. It will express the genius of California. Born out of travail, amid bickering and sectional jealousies, the great project under the leadership of Governor Edmund G., Brown first won the approval of the voters in the election of November 8, 1960, and then it withstood the sometimes caustic review of the Legislature at the 1961 session, The project came out whole and unscathed. The effect of the legislative review was complete endorsement of the project and of the Metropolitan Water District contract, which will be the pattern for other water service contracts to come. No changes were made in the law underlying the project nor in any law that will necessitate revision of the contract, which may therefore proceed to validation. An exacting 11-year con-" struction schedule is now in motion. We can now pre~ pare to schedule the first sale of the $1.75 billion bonds that were voted, Additional water service contracts will be negotiated and sign: ed, some only after pyro. technic negotiations, of course. : Rights of way will be obtained. The inexarable process of construction will be under way, first in the north, and then after December 31, 1963, when the sizing of the California aqueduct may become final, in the south as well, Water will be delivered and utilized, first in southern Contra Costa Coun-' ty, southern Alameda County, andnorthern Santa Clara. County, andthen elsewhere. Finally the great pumps will bestarted and water will be boosted over the T ehachapis into Southern California. Feather River water should be in the distribution systems in Southern California in 1972, Then the project builders can lay aside their tools. A monumental undertaking will then be finished, I, personally, would like the honor of turning a spigot in San Ysidro at the boundary with Mexico and drawing a cupful of Feather River water to commemorate the occasion, That should be reward enough for anyone: It would be foolhardy, indeed, to dream that the State Water Project or those building it will have smooth sailing from June 17, 1961, when the Legislature, adjourned, to Water Day in 1972, because it is certain that there will be difficulties and perhaps other controversies, Onecan predict, however, thatin this period there will grow an increasing sense of pride on the part of the people of California in this magnificent thing that they are doing together. No great water project in the past has been noncontroversial at the outset, and none has been controversial in the end, in a great work worthy of Californians are engaged their State, Bob Paine is on his vacation. This week's guest columnist is the Broad Street photographer, Bob Wyckoff. "You press the button, we do the rest". This old slogan of the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, N.Y. which referred to the first Brownie box cameras, is as true today as it was at the turn of the century. Two exceptions, however1. The Brownie box camera has given way to the Brownie movie camera, 2. Black andwhite film is losing ground rapidly to its cousin, color film. The number of people taking home movies inthe United States has more than tripled since the end of World War II. A person withthe patience to study and learn some of the tricks of movie making could turn the hobby into a paying proposition. Fifteen years ago Stan Halls; Nevada City insurance broker, became infected with "home movieitis". This disease is not too rare and is usually brought on by the desire of the} victim to show his family and friends moving pictures of themselves. However in Halls" case there was no cure. The disease progressed into the second stage which compels the victim to take pictures of landscapes, news events, buildings and practically anything else that falls within sight of the camera lense. Near the end of the second stage the victim is really "hooked", By thistime his first inexpensive movie camera has given way to something just a little bit better and fancier, Hallsneverrecovered, in fact he is now in the gtip of the very dangerous third stage for which there is no known cure: STAN TURNED PROFESSIONAL!! You may ask, "So?" or "Being a professional means you make money doesn't it?" I asked Stan Halis if the Internal Revenue Department in Washington was having an easier time making ends meet since he turned pro. "Confidentially I lost $41.00 making movies in 1960,” Halls said, Dropping levity, let's look at Stan's operation in the field of movie making. i Hallsisinvolvedin two movie production companies. Stanley Halls Films and Caldwell-Halls Productions. The first Stan runs by himself, the second he operates withJohn Caldwell (no relation to the Caldwell's Upper Store Caldwells) of Hollywood. Caldwell has been for thirty years a special effects cinematographer for Paramount Studios and does the editing of the films shot by both ‘companies. Stan has filmed in color and sound ten movies. The most recent "Magic of The Land, "narrated by Fred Forsman. "Magic" is a thirty five minute travelog of Nevada County. "Tears From The Sun," another of Halls' films is being distributed by Classroom Film Distributors of Los Angeles and is a documentary on gold production. (These films can be obtained for~a~fee for club showings; write Stanley Halls Films, Nevada City.) How long does it take to film a story or travel film? "We spent three years on ‘Tears’ just working weekends and in our spare time,” answered Halls. Running timetwenty minutes! The cost to Caldwell-Halls Productions for such a film is in the neighborhood of $3,000,00. This figure doesn't include any of the expensive camera equipment needed to-make a professional Tnovie. STAN HALLS "Ihave $2800. 00 invested in my Bell and Howell four lense motor driven 16 millimeter camera alone,” said Halls, Stan doesn't make movies entirely for his own companies. His TV credits are quite impressive, He filmed the recent E, Clampus Vitus parade for KCRA-TV. The background material for-"Gangbusters" story of the Elmer Oates kidnapping was filmed by Stan, Thirty four million TV viewers on 174 stations thrilled to his Squaw Valley Olympic footage film for Harrah'sClub, Halls worked on assignment for four separate Clients at the 1960 Winter Olympics. Four thousand feet of color film was shot by Halls for a German-Austrian company. The optomistic Hallstsent the exposed film to Eastman Kodak for processing. A week later he received a polite letter from the Kodak people expressing regret and suggesting that possibly the film had been exposed to moisture! os What about physical risk? Stan has had, his share of bumps and bruises. In 1955] In Oct. 1855 Brooklyn during the Yuba City-Marysville flood Halls was aimost washed out to sea! Halls in the company of Downey Clinch and Bill Briggs was filming huge trees being washed across the flats into the Yuba River when he was struck bya limb. His camera, still turning, was knocked inthe air and Stan in the water. Clinch and Briggs pulled Stan out but it wasn't until spring that the camera was recovered. Lodge # 46, Independent Order of Odd Fellows was organized in the booming mining town of Red Dog, . Calif, The optimistic organizers ‘of the chapter had a movement afoot to change the name ofthe town to. Brooklyn, hence the naming of the chapter. However, in November of jthe same year they were dealt a great blow. The United States Government established a Post Office withthe official designation --Red Dog, California. So ended Brooklyn as a place name in California. 1857 saw the ranks and treasury of the lodge swell New week's guest columnist: Otis Gaylord, author of western novels and TV scripts. to a point.that the loft over the blacksmiths shop was no longer a fitting place to conduct meetings, Innovation Noted In Private medical facilities will, for the first time, be state mental hospital system, it was announced today by the State Department of Mental Hygiene. Under the new plan, approved in the 1961-62 budget, the state will provide a subsidy for the use of private medical facilities by 100 mentally retarded patients who are on waiting lists for admission to state hospitals for the retarded. The subsidy will be based on the prevailing cost of treatmentin state hospitals of $2500 a year. "Thisisan important new direction in the over-all care of the psychiatric patient in California,” Dr. Daniel Blain, mental hygiene director said, "It will serve two important needs, It will reduce the immediate pressure for additional capital outlay for hospital beds, and at the same time will provide relief for families whose children are on waiting lists for placement in a state hospital. "If this "partnership" with private facilities is successful, we hopeto expand it to solve some of the problems we are facing in providing good treatment for other types of patients, " Private psychiatric facilities have for many years existed as an alternative to hospitalization in a state hospital, but this marks the first time that a plan has been evolved for private institutions to treat patients under the care of the De\ partment of Mental Hygiene, California has an unusually high number of these facilities, compared with other states. About 365 of them are now licensed by the Department of Mental Hygiene and they provide nearly 10,000 beds. It was when it was noted that many of these beds were empty--as compared with long waiting lists for admission to state hospitals for the retarded--that the plan was evolved. ‘Mental Care ee used to relieve the strain on . WITH ADDITIONS.Tin roof, shingled roof a little here and © there make this proud old structure usable today. OUT OFTHE PAST.Here yesterday, still active today is the Brooklyn Lodge Hall of the I.O0.0O.F. Serving the new generations of the community as a meeting place. WEATHERBEATEN.104 years have passed since the saw bit into the huge log which’ produced this siding. A Proud Building 104 Years Young By Bob Wyckoff It was decided a hall would be built suitable for the important functions of the order, An imposing two story edifice complete with wall-towall carpeting ‘was built. Red Dog boasted the newest and most modern lodge hall in the Northern Mines. What to dowith the downstairs? The prudent and civic minded brothers decided to rent the lower part to the school district. Red Dog now had both the newest lodge hall and school building to be foundin the Mines, The great fire of 1863 almost wiped out Red Dog. Thel.O,O,F, hall survived thanks to the foresight of the planners who dictated the lodge be built somewhat removed from the main part of town. By 1870 mining activity in Red Dog had come to a stand-still, and lodge brothers voted to move the hall to the still active nearby town of You Bet. In the doing the upper floor was removed and the lodge became a single story building. Once again fire struck but once again foresight paid off. The hall had been erected on the outskirts and was spared. With the passing of strict mining laws hydraulicking was doomed, and You Bet slid into oblivion. Most of the members of the once large and powerful Brooklyn Lodge now resided in Nevada City and consolidation with Oustomah Lodge#16 was effected in 1904. Now any self-respecting 47 year old building should figure it had served its occupants well and allow itself to be torn down---not the proudold Brooklyn 1,0,0,F, hall! Eleven years later it re. ceived a new lease on life. In 1915 it was again moved this time toits present place of business. It stands today 104 years later, asthe Peardale Community Farm Center. State Survey Crew At Work In Grass Valley GRASS VALLEY---StateDimation for use of the design vision of Highways officials have announced that a survey party is currently at work along Wolf Creek and other location in Grass Valley. Purpose of the survey is to obtain supplemental infordepartment. The five-men crew under the direction of Charles Winona, Marysville, will be active in the area for approximately one month. Burning Permits Suspended SACRAMENTO --State Forester Francis Raymond has * suspended burning permits in the mountain areas of all counties of the State lying north of the Tehachapi Mountains. The suspension became effective at 12 noon July 11, and will continue until rescinded by the State Forester. Present forest fire conditions and predicted fire weather, conditions make this permit suspension necessary. During the last five days well over 100 forest fires have burned in excess of 25,000 acres, SinceJuly 1, more than 45, 000 acres have burned over, Three dry seasons with their accumulative effects have created a forest fire potential in California which may set the stage for the toughest fire season ever faced by forest firefighters. Hundreds of thousands of acres of watershed cover including brush, timber and woodland have been killed by prolonged drought or ex=. cessive heat. Many more . thousands of acres of wildland vegetation, while not quite dead, has dried to the point where it presents an explosive forest fire potential. In announcing the suspen ‘ sion of burning permits, State Forester Raymond urged all Californians to use extreme caution in any action which might cause fire.

8 the ' beition i. it in terb % ¥ 4 Eo oe id x Gane NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, Wednesday July 19, 1961 soos Pages NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET . Published Every Wednesday By NEVADA COUNTY NUGGET, INC. 132 Main St. , Nevada City, Calif. Dial 265-2471 Alfred E. Heller.. ...... «Publisher R. Dean Thompson ..... Editor -Manager Second class postage paid at Nevada City, Calif. : Adjudicated a legal newspaper of general circulation by the Nevada Co Superior Court, June 3, 1960 D No. 12,406 2 eas : : ies Subscription Rates: One year, $3.00; Two years, $5.00) Three years, $7.00. Printed by Berliner & Mc Ginnis, Nevada City. EDITORIAL Human Marvel Could Profit City The report at a recent Nevada City council meeting that a prominent city employee is in the habit of swimming in the city pool in the mornings before work, so as to "test the chlorine" with his body, which he claims is unusually sensitive, has brought grumblings of "special privlege." Admittedly, the pool is closed to the public at the early morning hour, and it could be said that this official is taking advantage of his position. We donot take this view, however. We can see distinct advantages to Nevada City in having in its employ a sensitive: testing instrument in human form. In fact, the city might wish to lend him out--at a fee--toless fortunate communities which need the chlorine count tested in their pools. For who would want a simple and crude $6 dollar chlorine testing machine when Nevada City has available a calibrated human who can do the job so much more effectively? Perhaps our man could also test the diving boards--at a small extra charge-or the water temperature, or the buoyant quality of the water, as he is floating along. peacefully on his back. Water Project Praised By William E, Warne Director, Department of Water Resources Sacramento, California Great works are the great expressions of great peoples. The Acropolis of Athens, ‘the orations of Cicero, the plays of shakespeare, and thedams of America may each in a way epitomize a memorable achievement, not just of the individuals responsible for creating them, but of the cultures that put them forth as fruit. One has only to observe the large numbers who journey to the Black Canyon of the Colorado River to see Hoover Damto know that the people, themselves, insome unexpressed way sense that the dam epitomizes a fine thing wrought in their name andin whichthey, somehow, participated. "The finest thing that we cando", Ionceheard a man tell his little boy as they stood on the crest of the dam. A man once wrote to me after visiting the dam, saying "If just one dollar; from among all those I have paid out in taxes, went into this dam, I am satisfied”. Californfa#snow engaged in building the State Water Project. Not only in Big Oroville Dam on the Feather River does this project have a great work, but the project itself in its sweep and conception also qualifies. The eyes of informed people everywhere will turn to this project. It will express the genius of California. Born out of travail, amid bickering and sectional jealousies, the great project under the leadership of Governor Edmund G., Brown first won the approval of the voters in the election of November 8, 1960, and then it withstood the sometimes caustic review of the Legislature at the 1961 session, The project came out whole and unscathed. The effect of the legislative review was complete endorsement of the project and of the Metropolitan Water District contract, which will be the pattern for other water service contracts to come. No changes were made in the law underlying the project nor in any law that will necessitate revision of the contract, which may therefore proceed to validation. An exacting 11-year con-" struction schedule is now in motion. We can now pre~ pare to schedule the first sale of the $1.75 billion bonds that were voted, Additional water service contracts will be negotiated and sign: ed, some only after pyro. technic negotiations, of course. : Rights of way will be obtained. The inexarable process of construction will be under way, first in the north, and then after December 31, 1963, when the sizing of the California aqueduct may become final, in the south as well, Water will be delivered and utilized, first in southern Contra Costa Coun-' ty, southern Alameda County, andnorthern Santa Clara. County, andthen elsewhere. Finally the great pumps will bestarted and water will be boosted over the T ehachapis into Southern California. Feather River water should be in the distribution systems in Southern California in 1972, Then the project builders can lay aside their tools. A monumental undertaking will then be finished, I, personally, would like the honor of turning a spigot in San Ysidro at the boundary with Mexico and drawing a cupful of Feather River water to commemorate the occasion, That should be reward enough for anyone: It would be foolhardy, indeed, to dream that the State Water Project or those building it will have smooth sailing from June 17, 1961, when the Legislature, adjourned, to Water Day in 1972, because it is certain that there will be difficulties and perhaps other controversies, Onecan predict, however, thatin this period there will grow an increasing sense of pride on the part of the people of California in this magnificent thing that they are doing together. No great water project in the past has been noncontroversial at the outset, and none has been controversial in the end, in a great work worthy of Californians are engaged their State, Bob Paine is on his vacation. This week's guest columnist is the Broad Street photographer, Bob Wyckoff. "You press the button, we do the rest". This old slogan of the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, N.Y. which referred to the first Brownie box cameras, is as true today as it was at the turn of the century. Two exceptions, however1. The Brownie box camera has given way to the Brownie movie camera, 2. Black andwhite film is losing ground rapidly to its cousin, color film. The number of people taking home movies inthe United States has more than tripled since the end of World War II. A person withthe patience to study and learn some of the tricks of movie making could turn the hobby into a paying proposition. Fifteen years ago Stan Halls; Nevada City insurance broker, became infected with "home movieitis". This disease is not too rare and is usually brought on by the desire of the} victim to show his family and friends moving pictures of themselves. However in Halls" case there was no cure. The disease progressed into the second stage which compels the victim to take pictures of landscapes, news events, buildings and practically anything else that falls within sight of the camera lense. Near the end of the second stage the victim is really "hooked", By thistime his first inexpensive movie camera has given way to something just a little bit better and fancier, Hallsneverrecovered, in fact he is now in the gtip of the very dangerous third stage for which there is no known cure: STAN TURNED PROFESSIONAL!! You may ask, "So?" or "Being a professional means you make money doesn't it?" I asked Stan Halis if the Internal Revenue Department in Washington was having an easier time making ends meet since he turned pro. "Confidentially I lost $41.00 making movies in 1960,” Halls said, Dropping levity, let's look at Stan's operation in the field of movie making. i Hallsisinvolvedin two movie production companies. Stanley Halls Films and Caldwell-Halls Productions. The first Stan runs by himself, the second he operates withJohn Caldwell (no relation to the Caldwell's Upper Store Caldwells) of Hollywood. Caldwell has been for thirty years a special effects cinematographer for Paramount Studios and does the editing of the films shot by both ‘companies. Stan has filmed in color and sound ten movies. The most recent "Magic of The Land, "narrated by Fred Forsman. "Magic" is a thirty five minute travelog of Nevada County. "Tears From The Sun," another of Halls' films is being distributed by Classroom Film Distributors of Los Angeles and is a documentary on gold production. (These films can be obtained for~a~fee for club showings; write Stanley Halls Films, Nevada City.) How long does it take to film a story or travel film? "We spent three years on ‘Tears’ just working weekends and in our spare time,” answered Halls. Running

timetwenty minutes! The cost to Caldwell-Halls Productions for such a film is in the neighborhood of $3,000,00. This figure doesn't include any of the expensive camera equipment needed to-make a professional Tnovie. STAN HALLS "Ihave $2800. 00 invested in my Bell and Howell four lense motor driven 16 millimeter camera alone,” said Halls, Stan doesn't make movies entirely for his own companies. His TV credits are quite impressive, He filmed the recent E, Clampus Vitus parade for KCRA-TV. The background material for-"Gangbusters" story of the Elmer Oates kidnapping was filmed by Stan, Thirty four million TV viewers on 174 stations thrilled to his Squaw Valley Olympic footage film for Harrah'sClub, Halls worked on assignment for four separate Clients at the 1960 Winter Olympics. Four thousand feet of color film was shot by Halls for a German-Austrian company. The optomistic Hallstsent the exposed film to Eastman Kodak for processing. A week later he received a polite letter from the Kodak people expressing regret and suggesting that possibly the film had been exposed to moisture! os What about physical risk? Stan has had, his share of bumps and bruises. In 1955] In Oct. 1855 Brooklyn during the Yuba City-Marysville flood Halls was aimost washed out to sea! Halls in the company of Downey Clinch and Bill Briggs was filming huge trees being washed across the flats into the Yuba River when he was struck bya limb. His camera, still turning, was knocked inthe air and Stan in the water. Clinch and Briggs pulled Stan out but it wasn't until spring that the camera was recovered. Lodge # 46, Independent Order of Odd Fellows was organized in the booming mining town of Red Dog, . Calif, The optimistic organizers ‘of the chapter had a movement afoot to change the name ofthe town to. Brooklyn, hence the naming of the chapter. However, in November of jthe same year they were dealt a great blow. The United States Government established a Post Office withthe official designation --Red Dog, California. So ended Brooklyn as a place name in California. 1857 saw the ranks and treasury of the lodge swell New week's guest columnist: Otis Gaylord, author of western novels and TV scripts. to a point.that the loft over the blacksmiths shop was no longer a fitting place to conduct meetings, Innovation Noted In Private medical facilities will, for the first time, be state mental hospital system, it was announced today by the State Department of Mental Hygiene. Under the new plan, approved in the 1961-62 budget, the state will provide a subsidy for the use of private medical facilities by 100 mentally retarded patients who are on waiting lists for admission to state hospitals for the retarded. The subsidy will be based on the prevailing cost of treatmentin state hospitals of $2500 a year. "Thisisan important new direction in the over-all care of the psychiatric patient in California,” Dr. Daniel Blain, mental hygiene director said, "It will serve two important needs, It will reduce the immediate pressure for additional capital outlay for hospital beds, and at the same time will provide relief for families whose children are on waiting lists for placement in a state hospital. "If this "partnership" with private facilities is successful, we hopeto expand it to solve some of the problems we are facing in providing good treatment for other types of patients, " Private psychiatric facilities have for many years existed as an alternative to hospitalization in a state hospital, but this marks the first time that a plan has been evolved for private institutions to treat patients under the care of the De\ partment of Mental Hygiene, California has an unusually high number of these facilities, compared with other states. About 365 of them are now licensed by the Department of Mental Hygiene and they provide nearly 10,000 beds. It was when it was noted that many of these beds were empty--as compared with long waiting lists for admission to state hospitals for the retarded--that the plan was evolved. ‘Mental Care ee used to relieve the strain on . WITH ADDITIONS..Tin roof, shingled roof a little here and © there make this proud old structure usable today. OUT OFTHE PAST..Here yesterday, still active today is the Brooklyn Lodge Hall of the I.O0.0O.F. Serving the new generations of the community as a meeting place. WEATHERBEATEN..104 years have passed since the saw bit into the huge log which’ produced this siding. A Proud Building 104 Years Young By Bob Wyckoff It was decided a hall would be built suitable for the important functions of the order, An imposing two story edifice complete with wall-towall carpeting ‘was built. Red Dog boasted the newest and most modern lodge hall in the Northern Mines. What to dowith the downstairs? The prudent and civic minded brothers decided to rent the lower part to the school district. Red Dog now had both the newest lodge hall and school building to be foundin the Mines, The great fire of 1863 almost wiped out Red Dog. Thel.O,O,F, hall survived thanks to the foresight of the planners who dictated the lodge be built somewhat removed from the main part of town. By 1870 mining activity in Red Dog had come to a stand-still, and lodge brothers voted to move the hall to the still active nearby town of You Bet. In the doing the upper floor was removed and the lodge became a single story building. Once again fire struck but once again foresight paid off. The hall had been erected on the outskirts and was spared. With the passing of strict mining laws hydraulicking was doomed, and You Bet slid into oblivion. Most of the members of the once large and powerful Brooklyn Lodge now resided in Nevada City and consolidation with Oustomah Lodge#16 was effected in 1904. Now any self-respecting 47 year old building should figure it had served its occupants well and allow itself to be torn down---not the proudold Brooklyn 1,0,0,F, hall! Eleven years later it re. ceived a new lease on life. In 1915 it was again moved this time toits present place of business. It stands today 104 years later, asthe Peardale Community Farm Center. State Survey Crew At Work In Grass Valley GRASS VALLEY---StateDimation for use of the design vision of Highways officials have announced that a survey party is currently at work along Wolf Creek and other location in Grass Valley. Purpose of the survey is to obtain supplemental infordepartment. The five-men crew under the direction of Charles Winona, Marysville, will be active in the area for approximately one month. Burning Permits Suspended SACRAMENTO --State Forester Francis Raymond has * suspended burning permits in the mountain areas of all counties of the State lying north of the Tehachapi Mountains. The suspension became effective at 12 noon July 11, and will continue until rescinded by the State Forester. Present forest fire conditions and predicted fire weather, conditions make this permit suspension necessary. During the last five days well over 100 forest fires have burned in excess of 25,000 acres, SinceJuly 1, more than 45, 000 acres have burned over, Three dry seasons with their accumulative effects have created a forest fire potential in California which may set the stage for the toughest fire season ever faced by forest firefighters. Hundreds of thousands of acres of watershed cover including brush, timber and woodland have been killed by prolonged drought or ex=. cessive heat. Many more . thousands of acres of wildland vegetation, while not quite dead, has dried to the point where it presents an explosive forest fire potential. In announcing the suspen ‘ sion of burning permits, State Forester Raymond urged all Californians to use extreme caution in any action which might cause fire.